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Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1154-1399

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• Great Britain -- Politics and government

• Studies in the History of the English Feudal Barony (originally published 1943 as Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, series 61 no. 3; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Sidney Painter (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Magna Carta, ed. by Albert Beebe White and Wallace Notestein (HTML at Fordham)
• Magna Carta (exemplification of 1215, with translation) (illustrated HTML with commentary at the British Library)

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• City Regions and Devolution in the UK: The Politics of Representation (Bristol, UK: Bristol University Press, c2021), by David Beel, Martin Jones, and Ian Rees Jones (PDF files at Project MUSE)
• Fabian Tracts, by Fabian Society (Great Britain) (partial serial archives)
• Cobbett's Parliamentary History (36 volumes; London: Printed by T. C. Hansard, 1806-1820), contrib. by William Cobbett (page images at Oxford)
• The Confessions of a Candidate (London: M. Hopkinson, 1925), by Frank Gray (page images at HathiTrust)
• The History of England: A Study in Political Evolution, by A. F. Pollard (Gutenberg text)
• Liberty and Liberalism: A Protest Against the Growing Tendency Toward Undue Interference by the State, with Individual Liberty, Private Enterprise and the Rights of Property (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1887), by Bruce Smith (HTML at econlib.org)
• Political Pamphlets (London: Percival and Co., 1892), ed. by George Saintsbury, contrib. by George Savile Halifax, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Edmund Burke, Sydney Smith, William Cobbett, and Walter Scott (Gutenberg text)
• The English Constitution (second edition, 1873), by Walter Bagehot
  • PDF at McMaster
  • Gutenberg text
• The English Republic (edited selection of articles from Linton's periodical; ca. 1891), by W. J. Linton, ed. by Kineton Parkes
  • illustrated HTML in the UK
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Utopia of Usurers, and Other Essays, by G. K. Chesterton (Gutenberg text)
• The Elements of Reconstruction: A Series of Articles Contributed in July and August 1916 to the Times by "D.P." (third impression; London: Nisbet and Co., 1917), by H. G. Wells
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Past Times and Pastimes (2 volumes; London: Hodder and Stoughton, ca. 1922), by Windham Thomas Wyndham-Quin Dunraven
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Works of Walter Bagehot (with memoirs by Hutton; 5 volumes; Hartford, CT: Travelers Insurance Co., 1889), by Walter Bagehot, ed. by Forrest Morgan, contrib. by Richard Holt Hutton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Gospel of Wealth, and Other Timely Essays (New York: Century Co., 1901), by Andrew Carnegie (multiple formats at archive.org)

• European Background of American History, 1300-1600 (The American Nation, a History, v1), by Edward Potts Cheyney (Gutenberg text)
• European Background of American History, 1300-1600 (The American Nation, a History, v1; New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1904), by Edward Potts Cheyney
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Benedicti Abbatis Petriburgensis, De Vita et Miraculis S. Thomae Cantuar: The Life and Miracles of Saint Thomas of Canterbury (in Latin, with English notes; London: Pub. for the Caxton Society by A. Black, 1850), by Abbot of Peterborough Benedict, ed. by J. A. Giles (multiple formats at Google)

• An Anthology of Chancery English, ed. by John H. Fisher, Malcolm Richardson, and Jane L. Fisher (HTML at Michigan)

• England's Conversion and Reformation Compared: or, The Young Gentleman Directed in the Choice of His Religion; To Which is Premised a Brief Enquiry into the General Grounds of the Catholick Faith, in a Conversation Between a Young Gentleman and His Preceptor (Antwerp: Printed for R. C. and C. F., 1725), by Robert Manning (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The History of the Puritans, or Protestant Nonconformists, From the Reformation in 1517, to the Revolution in 1688: Comprising an Account of Their Principles, Their Attempts for a Farther Reformation in the Church, Their Sufferings, and the Lives and Characters of Their Most Considerable Divines (2 volumes; New York: Harper and Bros., 1855), by Daniel Neal, ed. by John Overton Choules and Joshua Toulmin (page images at HathiTrust)
• European Background of American History, 1300-1600 (The American Nation, a History, v1), by Edward Potts Cheyney (Gutenberg text)
• European Background of American History, 1300-1600 (The American Nation, a History, v1; New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1904), by Edward Potts Cheyney
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey (Boston and New York; Houghton Mifflin and Co., 1905), by George Cavendish, illust. by Hans Holbein (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Life of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury (London: Printed for R. Blamire, 1784), by William Gilpin (multiple formats at Google)

• 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)

• Influence in Early Stuart Elections, 1604-1640 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1981), by John K. Gruenfelder (PDF at Ohio State)

• Schemes and Undertakings: A Study of English Politics in the Seventeenth Century (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1985), by Clayton Roberts (PDF at Ohio State)
• Cottoni Posthuma: Divers Choice Pieces of that Renowned Antiquary, Sir Robert Cotton, Knight and Baronet (4 volumes in 1; set did not get to all items in volume 1's projected table of contents; Edinburgh: Privately printed, 1884-1888), by Robert Cotton, ed. by Edmund Goldsmid, contrib. by James Howell
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The History of the Puritans, or Protestant Nonconformists, From the Reformation in 1517, to the Revolution in 1688: Comprising an Account of Their Principles, Their Attempts for a Farther Reformation in the Church, Their Sufferings, and the Lives and Characters of Their Most Considerable Divines (2 volumes; New York: Harper and Bros., 1855), by Daniel Neal, ed. by John Overton Choules and Joshua Toulmin (page images at HathiTrust)

• His Majesties Declaration to Both Houses of Parliament, Martii 21, 1641: Which He Likewise Recommends to the Consideration of All His Loving Subjects, in Answer to That Presented to Him at New-Market the 9. of March 1641 (York: Printed by R. Barker et al., 1642), by King Charles I of England (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Briefe Discourse Concerning the Powers of the Peeres, by John Selden (HTML at McMaster)
• The First Duke and Duchess of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1910), by Thomas Longueville (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Mistris Parliament Brought to Bed of a Monstrous Childe of Reformation (1648), by Mercurius Melancholicus
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Radicalism and Reverence: The Political Thought of Gerrard Winstanley (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by George M. Shulman (HTML at UC Press)

• A Brief Description of the Future History of Europe, from Anno 1650 to An. 1710 (London, 1650), contrib. by Paul Grebner
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at EEBO TCP
• Diary of Thomas Burton, Esq. (4 volumes), by Thomas Burton, ed. by John Towill Rutt, contrib. by Guibon Goddard (HTML at British History Online)

• Orations of Divers Sorts Accommodated to Divers Places (London, 1662), by Margaret Cavendish Newcastle (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Plato Redivivus: or, A Dialogue Concerning Government (second edition, 1681), by Henry Neville (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Plato Redivivus, or, A Dialogue Concerning Government: Wherein, By Observations Drawn From Other Kingdoms and States Both Ancient and Modern, an Endeavour is Used to Discover the Present Politick Distemper of Our Own, With the Causes, and Remedies (London: Printed for S.I., 1681), by Henry Neville
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Chain of Facts in the Reign of King James the Second, With a Particular Account of His Design (in Conjunction with Lewis the XIVth of France) to Establish a Popish Successor to the Throne of England (London: Printed for M. Cooper, 1747), by Robert Wilkins (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Lives of Sir Matthew Hale and John Earl of Rochester (London: Printed for W. Pickering, 1820), by Gilbert Burnet (multiple formats at Google)
• A Treatise of Taxes and Contributions, by William Petty (text at McMaster)

• Lady Rachel Russell: "One of the Best of Women" (originally published 1988; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Lois G. Schwoerer (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• A Life of Gilbert Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury (Cambridge: At the University Press. 1907), by Thomas Elliot Simpson Clarke and H. C. Foxcroft, contrib. by C. H. Firth (multiple formats at archive.org)
• William Blathwayt, a Late Seventeenth Century English Administrator (New Haven: Yale University Press; London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1932), by Gertrude Ann Jacobsen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Essays Upon Peace at Home and War Abroad ("in two parts", but no more apparently published; London: Printed for J. Knapton, 1704), by Charles Davenant (page images at Gallica)
• The Interest of the English Nation Under the Happy Government of King William III, Once More Asserted in Answer to the Challenge of a Jacobite: Wherein is Proved that the Law Which Forbids Taking up Arms Against the King Upon any Pretence Whatsoever is Consistent with the Late Revolution (London: E. Whitlock, 1696), by Philo-kalo-basileos (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Present State of Jacobitism in England: A Second Part, in Answer to the First (attributed to Burnet by Mansell; London, 1702), by Gilbert Burnet (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Character of a Jacobite, by What Name or Title Soever Dignifyed or Distinguish'd (London: Printed for the author, 1690), by A Person of quality (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Second Modest Enquiry into the Causes of the Present Disasters in England, and Who They Are That Brought the French Fleet into the English Channel Described: Being a Farther Discovery of the Jacobite Plot (London: Printed for J. Dunton and J. Harris, 1690) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Dryden in Revolutionary England (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by David Bywaters (HTML at UC Press)
• The Case Fairly Stated, in a Dialogue Between Moderation and Constitution (London: Printed by T. Warren for T. Bennet, 1702) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Collection of the Debates and Proceedings in Parliament in 1694 and 1695, Upon the Inquiry into the Late Briberies and Corrupt Practices (London, 1695), by England and Wales Parliament
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• An Essay Concerning the Laws of Nations, and the Rights of Soveraigns (London: Printed for R. Baldwin, 1694), by Matthew Tindal (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The True-Born Englishman (based on an 1889 annotated version of Defoe's 1703 edition), by Daniel Defoe, ed. by Henry Morley (HTML at luminarium.org)
• The True-Born Englishman: A Satire (based on an 1855 modernized spelling edition), by Daniel Defoe (Gutenberg text)

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