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COLLECTION

OF

SCARCE AND VALUABLE

TRACTS,

ON THE MOST

INTERESTING AND ENTERTAINING SUBJECTS:

BUT CHIEFLY SUCH AS RELATE TO THE

HISTORY AND CONSTITUTION

OF

THESE KINGDOMS.

SELECTED FROM AN INFINITE NUMBER IN PRINT AND MANUSCRIPT, IN THE ROYAL,
COTTON, SION, AND OTHER PUBLIC, AS WELL AS PRIVATE, LIBRARIES;

PARTICULARLY

THAT OF THE LATE LORD SOMERS.

THE SECOND EDITION,

REVISED, AUGMENTED, AND ARRANGED,

BY

WALTER SCOTT, Esq.

VOLUME THIRTEENTH.

The bent and genius of the age is best known, in a free country, by the pamphlets and papers that come daily out,
PREFACE TO KENNET'S REGISTER.
as the sense of parties, and sometimes the voice of the nation.

Judex qui aliquid statuit, una parte audita tantum et inaudita altera, licet æquum statuerit, haud æquus fuerit.
LD. COOK & JUST. INST.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR T. CADELL AND W. DAVIES, STRAND;

R. H. EVANS, PALL-MALL; WHITE AND COCHRANE, FLEET-STREET;

AND

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET.

1815.

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The History of the Peace, from the Arrival of Mr Mesnager, Sept. 18, 1711, to the Return of the
Earl of Strafford from Utrecht, May 15, 1712,

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