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• For information to all people where to deliver their letters by the penny post the following list is an account of the several houses within the city and liberty of Westminster to Temple-Bar without, and some adjacent parts, appointed by the undertakers for receiving letters and pacquets under a pound weight, to be conveyed to all or any part of the said city : as also of London, and all the weekly bills of mortality. ([London : s.n., 1680]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• An Advertisement of the behalf of William Dockwra, mercht., concerning the penny-post ([S.l. : s.n., 1699]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Friarswood Post-Office, by Charlotte M. Yonge (Gutenberg text)
• Friarswood post-office (D. Appleton and Co., 1860), by Charlotte M. Yonge and American Popular Literature Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Friarswood post-office. (D. Appleton & Co., 1868), by Charlotte M. Yonge (page images at HathiTrust)

• An advertisement from the General Penny-Post-Office ([S.l. : s.n., 1685]), by England and Wales. Post Office (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• By the King, orders decreed vpon for the furtherance of our seruice, asvvell in vvriting, as riding in poste specially set downe, and commanded to be obserued, where our posts are established within our countie of Kent. (Imprinted at London : By Bonham Norton and Iohn Bill ..., 1621), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I) and James 1566-1625 (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A proposal for the better securing of health. Humbly offered to the consideration of the Honourable Houses of Parliament. ([S.l. : s.n., 1689]), by Hugh Chamberlen (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Nonconformist's Memorial: Being an Account of the Ministers, Who Were Ejected or Silenced After the Restoration, Particularly by the Act of Uniformity, Which Took Place on Bartholomew-Day, Aug. 24, 1662 (2 volumes; London: W. Harris, 1775), by Edmund Calamy, ed. by Samuel Palmer
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• Faithful Unto Death: An Account of the Sufferings of the English Franciscans During the 16th and 17th Centuries, From Contemporary Records (London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1892), by J. M. Stone, contrib. by John Morris (page images at HathiTrust)
• The reconstruction of the English church (D. Appleton, 1910), by Roland G. Usher (page images at HathiTrust)
• The England and Holland of the Pilgrims (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1905), by Henry Martyn Dexter and Morton Dexter (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of the English church during the Civil Wars and under the Commonwealth, 1640-1660 (Longmans, Green, 1900), by William Arthur Shaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Thomas Ken, D.D. : deprived bishop of Bath and Wells : viewed in connection with public events, and the spirit of the times, political and religious, in which he lived : including some account of the fortunes of Morley, Bishop of Winchester, his first patron and the friend of Izaak Walton ... / by W.L. Bowles. (J. Murray, 1830), by William Lisle Bowles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life in the English church (1660-1714) (Longmans, Green, 1885), by John H. Overton (page images at HathiTrust)
• How did they get there?, or, The non-conforming ministers of 1662 : a question for those who would celebrate the bi-centenary of St. Bartholomew's Day, 1662 (Wertheim, Macintosh, and Hunt, 1862), by George Venables (page images at HathiTrust)
• Religious pamphlets (K. Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1898), by Percy Dearmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Nonconformist's memorial : being an account of the ministers, who were ejected or silenced after the Restoration, particularly by the Act of Uniformity, which took place on Bartholomew-Day, Aug. 24, 1662 : containing a concise view of their lives and characters ... (Printed for W. Harris ..., 1775), by Edmund Calamy and Samuel Palmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of the Church of England : from the accession of James II to the rise of the Bengorian controversy in 1717 (Bell and Daldy, 1860), by Thomas Debary (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of the Free Churches of England : from A.D. 1688-A.D. 1851 (A. Miall, 1869), by Herbert S. Skeats (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Jesuits loyalty : manifested in three several treatises lately written by them against the oath of allegeance : with a preface, shewing the pernicious consequence of their principles as to civil government : also three other treatises concerning the reasons of the penal laws, viz. I. The execution of justice in England, not for religion, but for treason, II. Important considerations, by the secular priests, III. The Jesuits reasons unreasonable (Printed for R. Royston, bookseller ..., 1677), by John Sergeant, William Watson, William Cecil Burghley, and Edward Stillingfleet (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the English church and of the principal bodies of dissenters with answers to each from the restoration of Charles II to A.D. 1800 (J. Hatchard, 1820), by Johnson Grant (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of the English church during the civil wars and under the Commonwealth, 1640-1660. (Longmans, Green and Co., 1900), by William Arthur Shaw (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A discourse of the state ecclesiasticall of this kingdome, in relation to the civill : considered under three conclusions : with a digression discussing some ordinary exceptions concerning ecclesiasticall officers (Printed by William Turner, and are to be sold by Ed. Forrest, 1634), by Calybute Downing (page images at HathiTrust)
• John Smith, the Se-Baptist, Thomas Helwys and the first Baptist church in England (James Clarke, 1911), by Walter H. Burgess (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dodd's Church history of England, from the commencement of the sixteenth century to the revolution in 1688. With notes, additions (AMS Press, 1971), by Charles Dodd and Mark Aloysius Tierney (page images at HathiTrust)
• The England and Holland of the Pilgrims (A. Constable ;, 1906), by Henry Martyn Dexter and Morton Dexter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dissent in England : two lectures (Rivingtons, 1900), by Hensley Henson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An account of the ministers, lecturers, masters, and fellows of colleges and schoolmasters : who were ejected or silenced after the Restoration in 1660, by or before, the Act of Uniformity ; design'd for the preserving to posterity the memory of their names, characters, writings, and sufferings (London : Printed for J. Lawrence, 1713., 1713), by Edmund Calamy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The nonconformist's Memorial : being an account of the lives, sufferings, and printed works of the two thousand ministers ejected from the Church of England, chiefly by the Act of Uniformity, Aug. 24, 1666 (Printed for J. Harris, 1775), by Edmund Calamy and Samuel Miller Library Collection (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Questions propounded to the professors of the chuch-assemblies [sic] of England ([Amsterdam? : s.n., ca. 1608]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Lord Digbies designe to betray Abingdon : carryed on for divers vveeks by an intercourse of letters, which are here published for the satisfaction of all men (Printed for Laurence Blaiklock, and are to be sold at the signe of the Sugar-loaf at Temple-Bar, 1645), by Richard Browne, George Digby, and George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Case of the commoners of the mannor of Epworth in the isle of Axhelme in the county of Lincoln ([London? : s.n., 169-?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A Full and true relation of the death and slaughter of a man and his son at plough, together with four horses, in the parish of Cookham in the county of Berks, Sept. 2, 1680 slain by the thunder and lightning that then and there happened, as may fully be testified by credible persons whose names are hereunto adjoyned : likewise the same day happened another sad accident near Norwich, eight persons, being struck dead in a church porch by thunder / published for prevention of false reports. (London : Printed for John Harding ..., 1680) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The sad and lamentable cry of oppression and cruelty in the city of Bristol. Relating to the prosecution of certain dissenting-Protestants in some passages most notorious to the grieved inhabitants of the said city. (London : printed for John Alexander, MDCLXXXII. [1682]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A True account of what past at the election of knights of the shire for the county of Bucks correcting several falsities and mistakes in a late pamphlet entituled A letter from a free-holder of Buckinghamshire to a friend in London &c. in another letter from an assured hand, 1679. ([London : s.n., 1679]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Mr. Rotherham's case at the committee of elections and priviledges, the eighth of December concerning the election of St. Edmunds-bury. ([London : s.n., 1680?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• An ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, for the inabling of Sir William Brereton, Baronet, one of the members of the House of Commons, speedily to put in execution the ordinances for the sequestration of the estates of papists and delinquents : the fifth and twentieth part, weekly assessement, and all other ordinances of Parliament within the county of Chester, and county and city of Chester : and to take subscriptions for the better supply and maintenance of the forces under his command, for security of the said places and preventing the accesse of the Irish forces into those parts : also allowing unto the said Sir William Brereton the personall estates of all papists and delinquents in and about London and within 20 miles thereof as are not yet sequestred or discovered for the service aforesaid. (Printed for John Wright ..., 1644), by England and Wales and John Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eye-salve for England, or, The grand trappan detected in a plain and faithful narrative of the horrid and unheard-of designs of some justices and deputy-lieutenants in Lancashire treacherously to ensnare the lives and estates of many persons of quality in that county, as also, in the counties of York and Chester / by Evan Price ... (London : [s.n.], 1667), by Evan Price (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Late dreadful and most admired calamity of a parcel of land and many great oaks, and other trees sunk many yards under ground into so deep a water that the tops of the highest oaks are not to be seen, together with a great quantity of land and other trees that are daily falling ... neer unto the parish of Bulkley, about nine miles from Chester, it being part of the land of the Lord Cholmley : this strange accident hapned on the 8 day of Iuly 1657. (London : Printed for Tho. Vere and William Gilbertson ..., 1657) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• An Account of the noble reception of His Grace the D. of Monmouth, by the citizens of the cit[y] of Chichester on the 15 of this instant February in a letter to a person of quality in London. (London : Printed for Roger Evans, 1682) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The humble petition of the inhabitants of the county of Dorset presented to His Maiesty at Ragland the 8th of July, 1645, with His Majesties gratious answer thereunto. (Oxford : Printed by Leonard Lichfield ..., 1645) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• To the ministers and church-wardens of [blank] a copie of His Maiesties letters directed to the most reverend father in God, the Lord Archbishop of Cant. of the tenoure that ensueth. ([London : s.n., Anno 1618]), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I), George Abbot, King of England James I, and John Overall (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Case of the commoners of the mannor of Epworth in the isle of Axhelme in the county of Lincoln ([London? : s.n., 169-?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Reflections upon that act of the Gloucester Common-Council which occasioned Dr. Fowler's printing his Discourse of offences : together with A short reply to the late scandalous queries offered to the Reverend Dean of Canterbury. (London : Printed for Henry Mortlock ..., 1683) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The story of the "Grafton" portrait of William Shakespeare : with an account of the sack and destruction of the manor house of Grafton Regis by the parliamentary forces on Christmas Eve, 1643 (S.W. Partridge, 1915), by Thomas Kay (page images at HathiTrust)

• His Majesties speech to the gentlemen of Yorkshire on Thursday the fourth of August, 1642. (A. Norton, 1642), by King of England Charles. I and Alice Warren (page images at HathiTrust)
• His Maiesties ansvver to the declaration of both Hovses concerning Hull. (S. E., 1642), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I) and King Charles I of England (page images at HathiTrust)
• Judgment of God on divers cavaleers for their damnable oaths. ([London] : August 2. Printed for Thomas Baley, [August 2] 1642) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A declaration of the several proceedings of both houses of Parliament : with those in the county of Kent now in arms against the authority of Parliament. (E. Husband, 1648), by England and Wales Parliament, Henry Elsynge, and Edward Husband (page images at HathiTrust)
• A most true and exact relation of that as honourable as unfortunate expedition of Kent, Essex, and Colchester by M.C., a loyall actor in that engagement, Anno Dom. 1648. ([London : s.n.], 1650), by Matthew Carter (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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