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• 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)

• 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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• A philosophical and political history of the British settlements and trade in North America (Printed by C. MacFarquhar :, 1776), by Guillaume Thomas Raynal (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rule and misrule of the English in America (Colburn, 1851), by Thomas Chandler Haliburton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Philosophical and political history of the British settlements and trade in North America (Printed by C. Denovan, sold by the booksellers, 1779), by Guillaume Thomas Raynal (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Making of an Imperial Polity: Civility and America in the Jacobean Metropolis (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, 2020), by Lauren Working (HTML and PDF files at Cambridge University Press)
• Errands into the Metropolis: New England Dissidents in Revolutionary London (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press, University Press of New England, c2009), by Jonathan Beecher Field (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)
• 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)
• 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)
• Phases of royal government in New York, 1691-1719 ... (Press of F. J. Heer, 1905), by Charles Worthen Spencer (page images at HathiTrust)
• English colonial administration under Lord Clarendon, 1660-1667 (Johns Hopkins Press, 1905), by Percy Lewis Kaye (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Making of an Imperial Polity: Civility and America in the Jacobean Metropolis (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, 2020), by Lauren Working (HTML and PDF files at Cambridge University Press)

• 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)

• Euphemia (4 volumes; London: Printed for T. Cadell and J. Evans, 1790), by Charlotte Lennox
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume I: HTML at ECCO TCP
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: HTML at ECCO TCP
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: HTML at ECCO TCP
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org

• Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series, ed. by William Noel Sainsbury, J. W. Fortescue, Cecil Headlam, Arthur Percival Newton, and K. G. Davies, contrib. by Great Britain Public Record Office (full serial archives)
• The Association oath rolls of the British plantations <New York, Virginia, etc.> A.D. 1696, being a contribution to political history (Printed for private distribution by the editor, 1922), by Wallace Gandy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Select documents on British colonial policy, 1830-1860 (The Clarendon press, 1928), by Kenneth Norman Bell and W. P. Morrell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bristol and America, a record of the first settlers in the colonies of North America, 1654-1685 ... more than 10,000 servants to foreign plantations ... (R.S. Glover, 1929), by Bristol (England) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• America and West Indies (Longman, Green, Longman & Roberts, 1660), by Great Britain Public Record Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Pamphlets issued by the Colonial office and other British governmental agencies : concerning the government of the colonies, and various related questions] (H.M. Stationery Off., 1920), by Great Britain Colonial Office (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• East Indies, China and Japan, 1617-1621 (Longman, 1870), by Great Britain Public Record Office and William Noel Sainsbury (page images at HathiTrust)
• A guide to some original manuscript sources of British & colonial family & political history; the Association oath rolls of A.D. 1696. (London, 1921), by Wallace Gandy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Acts of the Privy Council of England. Colonial series. (Printed for H. M. Stationery Off., by Anthony Brothers, 1908), by Great Britain. Privy Council, Andrew Dickson White, Almeric William Fitz Roy, James Mitchell, and W. L. Grant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report on the papers of William Basil Worsfold, writer on South African and Imperial questions, 1858-1939 (Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, 1973), by University of Oxford. Rhodes House Library, P. A. Empson, and Great Britain Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bristol and America, a record of the first settlers in the colonies of North America, 1654-1685, including the names with places origin of more than 10,000 servants to foreign plantations who sailed from the port of Bristol to Virginia, Maryland, and other parts of the Atlantic coast, and also to the West Indies from 1654 to 1685. This list is compiled and published from their records by special permission of the Corporation of the city of Bristol, England. (R. S. Glover, 1929), by Bristol (England), R. Hargreaves-Mawdsley, William Dodgson Bowman, and N. Dermott Harding (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Manuscript collections (Africana and non-Africana) in Rhodes House Library, Oxford : supplementary accessions to the end of 1977, and cumulative index (Bedleian Library, 1978), by Rhodes House Library and Wendy S. Byrne (page images at HathiTrust)

• Papers of Alexander Wilkie, mss Brit. Emp. s 383, kept in Rhodes House Library, Oxford. (The Library, 1971), by Rhodes House Library and University of Oxford. Colonial Records Project (page images at HathiTrust)

• Colonial series (s.n.], 1680), by Great Britain. Privy Council, Almeric William FitzRoy, James Munro, and W. L. Grant (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

• Summary of the administration of the Indian government, from October 1813, to January 1823 (W. Earle, 1824), by Francis Rawdon-Hastings Hastings (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sedition Committee, 1918. Report. (Superintendent Government Printing, 1918), by India. Home Dept. Sedition Committee (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Recollections and reflections (Saint Catherine Press, 1918), by Coles Pasha (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• British royal proclamations relating to America, 1603-1783. (B. Franklin, 1968), by England and Wales. Sovereign, Clarence S. Brigham, and Great Britain. Sovereign (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• British royal proclamations relating to America, 1603-1783. (B. Franklin, 1911), by Great Britain. Sovereigns and Clarence S. Brigham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Catalogo dos manuscriptos da Bibliotheca publica eborense, ordenado pelo bibliotecario Joaquim Heliodoro da Cunha Rivara. (Imprensa Nacional, 1850), by Biblioteca Pública de Evora, Joaquim Antonio de Sousa Telles de Mattos, and Joaquim Heliodoro da Cunha Rivara (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of America before Columbus according to documents and approved authors (J.B. Lippincott, 1900), by Peter De Roo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• British royal proclamations relating to America, 1603-1783. (Burt Franklin, 1964), by Great Britain. Sovereign and Clarence S. Brigham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• British royal proclamations relating to America, 1603-1783. (The Society, 1911), by Great Britain. Sovereign and Clarence S. Brigham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Catalogo dos manuscriptos da Bibliotheca publica eborense, ordenado pelo bibliotecario Joaquim Heliodoro da Cunha Rivara ... (Imprensa Nacional, 1850), by Biblioteca Pública de Evora, Joaquim Antonio de Sousa Telles de Mattos, and Joaquim Heliodoro da Cunha Rivara (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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