Political Writing

Name Political Writing
Description

Appeal, letter, defence, essay, address, summary, supplement, or reflection relating to society, culture, government. 

Titles

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ID Title Author Firms (City) Date Edition
25194 The repeal of the act against occasional conformity, consider'd. In a letter to a Member of the Honourable House of Commons. E. , D.
 John Clark (London)
Joseph Fox I (London)
1717
25852 The repeal of the act against occasional conformity, consider'd. In a letter to a Member of the Honourable House of Commons. E. , D.
 John Clark (London)
1717
25498 The right of Kings, and duty of subjects: Proving, that it is not lawful for subjects, upon any ground or pretence whatever, to rebel against their lawful King. To which is added, an extract from Dr. Stanhope's translation of the author's celebrated book of wisdom, toucing the miseries and inconveniencies of a crown'd head. Written in French by the Sieur de Charon, and now done into English. Charron , Pierre
 1709
25331 The rights of the subject in electing their own representatives: Containing a compleat history of Parliament; proving their dignity and antiquity from the Saxon, and other eminent historians; and shewing the necessity of the frequency of Parliament, the freedom of elections, and the fatal consequences which have attended those princes who have invaded either. With seasonable instructions to the electors how to conduct themselves in the choice of their representatives: the qualifications requisite for gentlemen to be chosen into so great a trust, and the necessity of freedom of speech in the House of Commons. Unknown ,
John Wilford (London)
Anne Dodd I (London)
1734
15888 The Rioters, or, a Tale of Bad Times. Martineau , Harriet
 Frances Houlston and Son [Wellington] (Wellington)
1827
16968 The rival princes; or, A faithful narrative of facts, relating to Mrs. M.A. Clarke's political acquaintance with Colonel Wardle, Major Dodd, &c. &c. &c. who were concerned in the charges against the Duke of York; : together with a variety of authentic and important letters, and curious and interesting anecdotes of several persons of political notoriety. By Mary Anne Clarke. Two volumes in one. Clarke , Mary Anne
 David Longworth (New York City)
1810
17079 The school of reform, or Seaman's safe pilot to the Cape of Good Hope. By the seaman's friend, H. M. Crocker. Crocker , Hannah Mather
 John Eliot (Boston)
1816
25946 The scotch prophecy: or, the Lord Belhaven's remarkable speech before the union, examin'd and compar'd with the articles afterwards concluded, and now subsisting Wherein The Advantages accruing to Scotland by the Union, are discovered. By Reay Sabourn. Sabourn , Reay
 1737
25594 The secret history of Europe. Part II. Treating of the following particulars: of the D. of Monmouth's reception at the Hague by the states and the Prince of Orange, and of his enterprize afterwards in England. Remarks on father Orleans's history of the revolution. Of the Fr. King's personal hatred to K. William. Some transactions preceding the revolution in Holland and England, with a short account of its progress and accomplishment; shewing, that it was intirely owing to high churchmen, and high-church principles. The conduct of a certain faction, immediately before and after the abdication. K. James's behaviour in Ireland and at St. Germains, proving that he grew worse by his misfortunes, and that a Popish King and protestant subjects are incompatible. The conspiracies form'd by passive-obedience and non-resistance against the religion and liberties of this kingdom, and the life of the king within the compass of two or three years. Of the poisoning the D. of Lorain, and others. The method of bribing, us'd by France in England. The second edition corrected. Oldmixon , John
 Katherine Sanger (London)
1713 The Second Edition, corrected
25084 The secret history of the rebels in Newgate. Giving an account of their daily behaviour, from their commitment to their goal-delivery. Taken from a diary, kept by a gentleman in the same prison. Unknown ,
1717
25918 The shortest way with the King: or, plain English spoke to His Majesty. Being the third part of Neck or nothing; containing, The Secret History of King George's Reign, from the Death of the late Queen, to the Report made in the House of Commons, by the Committee of Secrecy. Introduc'd with the Secret Reign of the Monarchs of Great-Britain, for the last Sixty Years. The whole Discoveries humbly submitted to the Consideration of the Right Honourable James Stanhope, Esq; one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State. By Mr. John Dunton, Author of the First and Second Part of Neck or Nothing. Dunton , John
 1715
25917 The snake in the grass, discover'd; or, observations on a late pamphlet, intituled, Considerations on the present state of the nation, as to publick credit, Stocks, the Landed and Trading Interests; with a Proposal for the Speedy Lessening the Publick Debts, and Restoring Credit, in a Manner consistent with Parliamentary Engagements. 1720
26192 The Soliloquy. Unknown ,
Hannah Humphrey [18 New Bond Street] (London)
1782
22631 The speech of a noble peer: made in the House of Lords in Ireland, when the Priviledge-Bill was in debate there. Unknown , [Man]
 1728
22513 The strange and wonderful predictions of Mr. Christopher Love, minister of the Gospel at Laurence Jury, London: who was beheaded on Tower-hill, in the time of Oliver Cromwell's government of England. Giving an account of Babylon's fall, and in that glorious event, a general reformation over all the world. With a most extraordinary prophecy, of the late revolution in France, and the downfall of the antichristian kingdom, in that country. By M. Peter Jurieu. Also, Nixon's Chesire prophecy. Love , Christopher
Jane , Grey
 1701
1209 The Tendency of Strikes and Sticks to Produce Low Wages, and of Union Between Masters and Men to Ensure Good Wages. By Harriet Martineau. Martineau , Harriet
 John Hardinge Veitch (Durham)
1834
25687 The thoughts of an honest Tory, being an answer to the thoughts of an honest Whig: wherein Mr. Place's examination of the Bishop of Bangor's undisturb'd scheme is re-examin'd in some of its particulars. By a presbyter of the Church of England, lately curate of St. Asaph, now curate of Bangor. Unknown ,
James Roberts [Warwick Lane] (London)
Anne Dodd I (London)
1719
4714 The three warnings, a tale. By Mrs. Thrale. Piozzi , Hester Lynch Thrale
 1792
13581 The trial of John Horne Tooke, for high treason, at the Sessions House in the Old Bailey, on Monday the seventeenth, Tuesday the eighteenth, Wednesday the nineteenth, Thursday the twentieth, Friday the twenty-first, and Saturday the twenty-second of November. Taken in short-hand by Joseph Gurney. Gurney , Joseph
 1795
26194 The Union. Unknown ,
Elizabeth Darchery (London)
1783
295 The Village Disputants; or, A Conversation on the Subject of the Present Times, between Jack Anvil the Blacksmith, and Tom Hod the Mason: submitted to the perusal and consideration of all the mechanics, journeymen, and labourers in Great Britain More , Hannah
 1817
14551 The Village Disputants; or, A Conversation on the Subject of the Present Times, between Jack Anvil the Blacksmith, and Tom Hod the Mason: submitted to the perusal and consideration of all the mechanics, journeymen, and labourers in Great Britain. The seventeenth edition. More , Hannah
 John Hatchard and Son [187 Piccadilly] (London)
1819 The seventeenth edition.
1003 The Warning. Recommended to the Serious Attention of all Christians, and Lovers of their Country Coltman , Elizabeth
 1805
22088 The whole art of war: Or, A military dictionary. Containing an explication of the terms, and an account of the things signified thereby in fortification, gunnery, &c. The method of encamping an army, besieging of towns, &c. With the qualifications necessary to make a general or commander in chief, to a private centinel. Written by an officer who serv'd in all the wars of the Late King William and Queen Anne. Unknown ,
Ebenezer Rider (Dublin)
1741
13578 The whole proceedings on the trial of an information exhibited ex officio by the king’s attorney-general against Thomas Paine for a libel upon the revolution and settlement of the crown and regal government as by law established; and also upon the bill of rights, the legislature, government, laws, and Parliament of this Kingdom, and upon the King. Tried by a Special Jury in the Court of King's Bench, Guild-hall, on Tuesday, the 18th of December, 1792. Before the right Honourable Lord Kenyon. Taken in Short-Hand by Joseph Gurney. Gurney , Joseph
 1793

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