Volume 1
3 fragments and 2 tracts bound in sheepskin, a label on the back lettered
Pamphlets /
Political /
English / and a later label with
Vol. 24. One of the fragments initialled by Jefferson at sig. I. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
JA36 .P8 vol. 24
1. ASGILL,
John.
[
Mr. Asgill’s Defence upon his expulsion from the House of Commons of Great Britain in 1707. With an introduction, and a postscript .
. .
London: printed, and sold by
A. Baldwin,
m. dcc. xii
. Price
1 s.] [1712.]
A fragment of 28 leaves, sig. B to H, pages 9 to 64, the first leaf, sig. B
1, mutilated. The complete pamphlet has 44 leaves, sig. A to L, 88 pages.
John Asgill, 1659-1738, English barrister and writer. This
Defence was written after the trouble caused by his treatise entitled:
An argument proving that according to the covenant of eternal life reveal’d in the Scriptures, man may be translated from
hence into that eternal life without passing thro death, altho the human nature of Christ himself could not be thus translated
till he had passed thro death
, which was ordered to be burned by the common hangman.
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2. BULSTRODE,
Whitelocke.
[
The charge of Whitlocke Bulstrode, Esq. to the Grand Jury and other juries in the county of Middlesex . . .
London:
J. Browne,
1718.]
A fragment of 12 leaves only, lacks the title, part of the dedication, and 12 leaves at the end. Numbered 1 in ink on the
first page of text.
Whitelocke Bulstrode, 1650-1724, English controversialist and mystical writer, was prothonotary of the marshal’s court, commissioner of excise,
and a justice of the peace for the county of Middlesex. His charges to the grand and other juries were printed by special
request.
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3.
An unidentified fragment, pages 21 to 70, sig. C-I.
Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I.
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4. [PULTENEY,
William, Earl of Bath.]
[
A review of the excise-scheme; in answer to a pamphlet, intitled The rise and fall of the late projected excise, impartially
considered. With some proper hints to the electors of Great Britain.
London: printed by
H. Haines, at Mr.
Francklin’s in Russel-street,
1733. (Pr.
1 s.)]
Imperfect, 36 leaves only, should be 38, lacks the title and one leaf at the end. Numbered 2 in ink on the first page.
Halkett and Laing V, 112.
Arents 696.
Written by William Pulteney, afterwards Earl of Bath, and published anonymously in December 1733, in answer to the pamphlet,
also published anonymously, written in support of Sir Robert Walpole’s excise scheme.
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5.
Some observations upon a paper, intituled The List. That is, of those who voted for and against the excise-bill.
London: printed for
J. Peele,
1733. (Price
six-pence.)
16 leaves: A-D
4. Numbered 3 in ink on the title-page.
Not in Halkett and Laing.
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