Catalogue of the Pamphlets, Books, Newspapers, and Manuscripts Relating to the Civil War, the Commonwealth, and Restoration: Catalogue of the collection, 1640-1652

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order of the Trustees ; sold at the British Museum ; and Longmans & Company ; Bernard Quaritch ; Ashers & Company ; and Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1908 - English newspapers

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Page 723 - The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates PROVING THAT IT IS LAWFUL, AND HATH BEEN HELD SO THROUGH ALL AGES, FOR ANY WHO HAVE THE POWER TO CALL TO ACCOUNT A TYRANT, OR WICKED KING, AND AFTER DUE CONVICTION TO DEPOSE AND PUT HIM TO DEATH, IF THE ORDINARY MAGISTRATE HAVE NEGLECTED OR DENIED TO DO IT.
Page 490 - mend his native country, lamentably tattered, both in the upper-leather and sole, with all the honest stitches he can take.
Page 286 - A solemn League and Covenant for reformation and defence of religion, the honour and happiness of the King, and the peace and safety of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
Page xv - To prevent the discovery of them, when the army was northwards, he packed them up in several trunks, and by one or two in a week, sent them to a trusty friend in Surry, who safely preserved them ; and when the army was westward, and fearing their return...
Page xx - They are called the King's Pamphlets; and in value, I believe, the whole world could not parallel them. If you were to take all the collections of works on the Civil War, of which I have ever heard notice, I believe you would not get a set of works so valuable as those.
Page 278 - The Souldiers Pocket Bible ; containing the most (if not all) those places contained in holy Scripture which doe shew the qualifications of his inner man, that is a fit Souldier to fight the Lords Battels, both before he fight, in the fight, and after the fight...
Page 777 - Plantagenets Tragicall Story. Or, the Death of King Edward the Fourth; with the unnaturall Voyage of Richard the Third through the Red Sea of his Nephews innocent blood, to his usurped Crowne, by TW , Gent.
Page 786 - The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates ; proving that it is lawfull to call to account a tyrant or wicked king,
Page 662 - A list of the names of the members of the House of commons. Observing which are officers of the army, contrary to the self-denying ordinance...
Page 406 - Truth, its Manifest; or, a Short and True Relation of divers main passages of things (in some whereof the Scots are particularly concerned;, from the very first beginning of these unhappy Troubles to this day.

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