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• Pett, Peter, Sir, 1630-1699: A discourse concerning liberty of conscience In which are contain'd proposalls, about what liberty in this kind is now politically expedient to be given, and severall reasons to shew how much the peace and welfare of the nation is concern'd therein. By R.T. (London : printed for Nathaniel Brook, and are to be sold at his shop at the Angel in Cornhill, 1661), also by John Dury (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Pett, Peter, Sir, 1630-1699: The happy future state of England, or, A discourse by way of a letter to the late Earl of Anglesey vindicating him from the reflections of an affidavit published by the House of Commons, ao. 1680, by occasion whereof observations are made concerning infamous witnesses : the said discourse likewise contains various political remarks and calculations referring to many parts of Christendom, with observations of the number of the people of England, and of its growth in populousness and trade, the vanity of the late fears and jealousies being shewn, the author doth on the grounds of nature predict the happy future state of the realm : at the end of the discourse there is a casuistical discussion of the obligation to the king, his heirs and successors, wherein many of the moral offices of absolution and unconditional loyalty are asserted : before the discourse is a large preface, giving an account of the whole work, with an index of the principal matters : also, The obligation resulting from the Oath of supremacy to assist and defend the preheminence or prerogative of the dispensative power belonging to the king ... (London printed : [s.n.], MDCLXXXVIII [1688]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Pett, Peter, Sir, 1630-1699: Memoirs of the Right Honourable Arthur, Earl of Anglesey, late lord privy seal intermixt with moral, political and historical observations, by way of discourse in a letter : to which is prefixt a letter written by his Lordship during his retirement from court in the year 1683 / published by Sir Peter Pett, Knight ... (London : Printed for John Dunton ..., 1693), also by Arthur Annesley Anglesey (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Pett, Peter, Sir, 1630-1699: The obligation resulting from the Oath of Supremacy to assist and defend the pre-eminence or prerogative of the dispensative power belonging to the King, his heirs and successors. In the asserting of that power various historical passages occurring in the usurpation after the year 1641. are occasionally mentioned; and an account is given at large of the progress of the power of dispensing as to acts of Parliament about religion since the reformation; and of divers judgments of Parliaments declaring their approbation of the exercise of such power, and particularly in what concerns the punishment of disability, or incapacity. (London : printed for Thomas Dring at the Harrow at Chancery-Lane End in Fleetstreet, William Crook at the Green Dragon without Temple-Bar, and William Rogers at the Sun over against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-street, 1687) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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