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• Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- History -- 18th century
• Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- History -- Sources
• Great Britain -- History -- 18th century -- Sources

• Journals of the Board of Trade and Plantations (14 volumes, covering 1704-1782; London: HMSO, 1920-1938), ed. by Great Britain Public Record Office (HTML at British History Online)
• List of reports and representations of the Plantation councils, 1660-1674, the Lords of trade, 1675-1696, and the Board of trade, 1696-1782, in the public record office ([Govt. print. off.], 1915), by Charles McLean Andrews (page images at HathiTrust)
• British Royal Proclamations Relating to America, 1603-1783, by Great Britain. Sovereign, ed. by Clarence S. Brigham (Gutenberg ebook)

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• Colonial Georgia: A Study in British Imperial Policy in the Eighteenth Century (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, c1963), by Trevor Richard Reese (PDF at DjVu at Georgia)
• The Public Life of Joseph Dudley: A Study of the Colonial Policy of the Stuarts in New England, 1660-1715 (Harvard Historical Studies v15; New York et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1911), by Everett Kimball (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Edward Randolph; including his letters and official papers from the New England, middle, and southern colonies in America, with other documents relating chiefly to the vacating of the royal charter of the colony of Massachusetts Bay, 1676-1703. (Printed for The Prince Society by John Wilson & Son, 1898), by Edward Randolph, Alfred Thomas Scrope Goodrick, Robert Noxon Toppan, John Wilson and Son, and Mass.) Prince Society (Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
• The British ministry and the Treaty of Fort Stanwix (State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1909), by Clarence Walworth Alvord (page images at HathiTrust)
• American colonial government 1696-1765; a study of the British board of trade in its relation to the American colonies, political, industrial, administrative (The Arthur H. Clark company, 1912), by O. M. Dickerson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The causes of the war of independence (Houghton Mifflin company, 1922), by Claude Halstead Van Tyne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Phases of royal government in New York, 1691-1719 ... (Press of F. J. Heer, 1905), by Charles Worthen Spencer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Colonial contact with European life in the early eighteenth century as illustrated by the town of Boston (1914), by Lillian Blayney (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Records in the British Public Record Office Relating to South Carolina, contrib. by Great Britain Public Record Office, William Noel Sainsbury, and A. S. Salley (partial serial archives)
• Proceedings and debates of the British parliaments respecting North America (Carnegie institution of Washington, 1924), by Great Britain Parliament, Leo Francis Stock, Ireland. Parliament, and Scotland. Parliament (page images at HathiTrust)
• Records in the British Public Record Office relating to South Carolina : 1663-[1710] (Historical Commission of South Carolina, 1928), by Great Britain Public Record Office, A. S. Salley, and William Noel Sainsbury (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• New commission of the governor of Quebec and other instruments of authority, derived from the crown, relative to America. (J. Almon, 1779), by King of Great Britain George III and Great Britain. Sovereign (1760-1820 : George III) (page images at HathiTrust)

• List of reports and representations of the Plantation councils, 1660-1674, the Lords of trade, 1675-1696, and the Board of trade, 1696-1782, in the public record office ([Govt. print. off.], 1915), by Charles McLean Andrews (page images at HathiTrust)
• British Royal Proclamations Relating to America, 1603-1783, by Great Britain. Sovereign, ed. by Clarence S. Brigham (Gutenberg ebook)

• The life and diary. (H.S. Baynes, 1824), by John Blackader and Andrew Crichton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Wentworth papers, 1705-1739. Selected from the private and family correspondence of Thomas Wentworth, Lord Raby, created in 1711 Earl of Strafford... (Wyman, 1883), by Thomas Wentworth Strafford and James J. Cartwright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report on the manuscripts of Lady Du Cane. (Printed for H. M. Stationery off. by B. Johnson & co., York, 1905), by Great Britain Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, Charles Caylus, Henry Medley, Georgiana Susan Copley Du Cane, and John Knox Laughton (page images at HathiTrust)
• North country diaries (second series) (Pub. for the Society by Andrews & co.; [etc., etc.], 1915), by John Crawford Hodgson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Walpole and Chatham (1714-1760) (G. Bell & sons, ltd., 1912), by Katharine A. Esdaile (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Beauties of the British Senate : taken from the debates of the Lords and Commons, from the beginning of the administration of Sir Robert Walpole, to the end of the second session of the administration of the Right Hon. William Pitt : being an impartial selection of, or faithful extracts from, the most eminent speeches ... , with the names of the members, to whom they are ascribed, annexed thereto : to which is prefixed, the life of Sir Robert Walpole. (Printed for John Stockdale, 1786), by Great Britain Parliament (page images at HathiTrust)
• The works of the late Right Honourable Henry St. John, lord viscount Bolingbroke. (D. Mallet, 1754), by Henry St. John Bolingbroke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Calendar of the Stuart papers belonging to His Majesty the King : preserved at Windsor Ccastle. (Printed for H.M. Stationery Office by Mackie & Co. Ld., 1902), by Great Britain Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, Francis Henry Blackburne Daniell, and Windsor Castle. Royal Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• The manuscripts of the Right Honourable F. J. Savile Foljambe, of Osberton. (Printed for H. M. Stationery off., by Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1897), by Great Britain Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, R. E. G. Kirk, King of England James II, Francis John Savile Foljambe, and Great Britain. Privy Council (page images at HathiTrust)
• The manuscripts of the Earl of Carlisle, preserved at Castle Howard. (Printed for H. M. S. O., by Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1897), by Great Britain Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, R. E. G. Kirk, George Augustus Selwyn, Frederick Howard Carlisle, and George James Howard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The manuscripts and correspondence of James, first Earl of Charlemont. (Printed for H.M. Stationery Off., by Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1891), by James Caulfeild Charlemont, E. Perceval Wright, John Thomas Gilbert, and Royal Irish Academy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Harcourt papers (Printed for private circulation by J. Parker and Co., 1880), by Lewis Harcourt Harcourt and Edward William Harcourt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Letters, including numerous letters now first published from the original manuscripts. (R. Bentley, 1847), by Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield and Philip Henry Stanhope (page images at HathiTrust)
• The manuscripts and correspondence of James, first earl of Charlemont . (Printed for H.M. Stationery off., by Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1891), by Great Britain Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, John Thomas Gilbert, and James Caulfeild Charlemont (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Commonplace book kept by Lord Macartney during his embassy in China, 1792]. (1770), by George Macartney Macartney and John Bell (page images at HathiTrust)
• [A collection comprising sixty-nine original manuscript orders drawn on Messrs. Coutts of London to defray the various expenses of the embassy to China, May 17 to August 30, 1792, signed by Lord Macartney]. (1792), by George Macartney Macartney and Coutts & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Walpole and Chatham (1714-1760), ed. by Katharine Ada Esdaile, Kenneth Bell, and S. E. Winbolt (Gutenberg ebook)

• Papers Relating to the Loss of Minorca in 1756 (London: Printed for the Navy Records Society, 1913), ed. by Herbert W. Richmond (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Private papers of George, second earl Spencer, first lord of the Admiralty, 1794-1801 (Navy Records Society, 1913), by George John Spencer Spencer, Herbert W. Richmond, and Julian Stafford Corbett (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Sailor of King George, by Frederick Hoffman, ed. by A. Beckford Bevan and H. B. Wolryche-Whitmore (Gutenberg ebook)

• Memoirs of the life of Sir John Clerk of Penicuik, baronet, baron of the Exchequer, extracted by himself from his own journals, 1676-1755. (Printed at the University Press by T. and A. Constable for the Scottish history Society, 1892), by John Clerk and John Miller Gray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters of Patrick Grant, Lord Elchies, with memoir, etc. (Milne & Hutchinson, 1927), by Patrick Grant Elchies and H D MacWilliam (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Proceedings relating to the peerage of Scotland : from January 16, 1707, to April 29, 1788 (Bell & Bradfute, 1790), by William Robertson and Great Britain Parliament House of Lords (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Collected Writings of Dougal Graham, "Skellat" Bellman of Glasgow, Vol. 2 of 2, by Dougal Graham, ed. by George Mac Gregor (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Collected Writings of Dougal Graham, "Skellat" Bellman of Glasgow, Vol. 1 of 2, by Dougal Graham, ed. by George Mac Gregor (Gutenberg ebook)

• A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, For the Advancement of Their True and Greatest Interest, In Two Parts, by a Lover of Her Sex (London: Printed for R. Wilkin, 1697), by Mary Astell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Thoughts on the Education of Daughters, with Reflections on Female Conduct in the More Important Duties of Life (London: J. Johnson, 1787), by Mary Wollstonecraft (multiple formats at Google)
• A serious proposal to the Ladies, for the advancement of their true and greatest interest (In Two Parts), by Mary Astell (Gutenberg ebook)

• First report from the Committee appointed to enquire into the state of the British Fisheries, and into the most effectual means for their encouragement and extension : (22nd February 1786). (s.n.], 1786), by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee Appointed to Enquire into the State of the British Fisheries (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Present politics of Ireland consisting of I. The Right Honourable Mr. Hutchinson's letter to his constituents at Cork : II. Parliamentary discussions of the Irish arrangements by Messrs. Connolly, Grattan, and Flood, against them; Fitzgibbon, Mason, Forster, Hutchinson, for them : III. Mr. Laffan's Observations on the relative situation of Great Britain and Ireland (Printed for John Stockdale, 1786), by John Hely-Hutchinson (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Present politics of Ireland consisting of I. The Right Honourable Mr. Hutchinson's letter to his constituents at Cork : II. Parliamentary discussions of the Irish arrangements by Messrs. Connolly, Grattan, and Flood, against them; Fitzgibbon, Mason, Forster, Hutchinson, for them : III. Mr. Laffan's Observations on the relative situation of Great Britain and Ireland (Printed for John Stockdale, 1786), by John Hely-Hutchinson (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, For the Advancement of Their True and Greatest Interest, In Two Parts, by a Lover of Her Sex (London: Printed for R. Wilkin, 1697), by Mary Astell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A serious proposal to the Ladies, for the advancement of their true and greatest interest (In Two Parts), by Mary Astell (Gutenberg ebook)

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