Not listed by Jefferson.
[PRIESTLEY,
Joseph
.]
An Address to Protestant dissenters of all denominations, on the approaching election of members of Parliament, with respect
to the state of public liberty in general, and of American affairs in particular.
London: printed for
Joseph Johnson,
1774. [Price
2d. or 50 copies for
5s.]
First Edition. 12mo. 8 leaves, uncut in the lower margins.
Halkett and Laing, I, 28.
Sabin 65500.
Fulton & Peters, page 4.
This tract was reprinted in various cities in the eastern states. This copy is misbound in this volume, and it is not one
of the tracts of the Society for Constitutional Information. It is not numbered, and not in Jefferson’s list, and may have
been inserted later.
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iii.
Report of the Sub-Committee of Westminster . . . Free Masons Tavern, May 27th, 1780.
Another edition of no. ii. above.
On the first page is written the chapter number, 24, possibly by Jefferson.
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iv.
At a meeting of the Society for Constitutional Information, held at N
o 11, Tavistock-street, Covent-Garden, on Friday, October 29th, 1784, Dr. Jebb in the Chair. Resolved, that 1500 of the two
following tracts, relative to the rights of juries in trials for libels, be published at the expence of the society. Daniel
Adams, Sec.
[
London: for the Society,
1784.]
23 leaves, sig. B-G in fours. Caption title; the first page with Vol. II in the lower margin.
Manuscript marginal note. The chapter number, 24, written on the first page, possibly by Jefferson. See also no. vi below.
Contains:
I.
A Fragment of the constitutional power and duty of juries upon trials for libels.
II.
To Mr. Daniel Adams, Secretary to the Society for Constitutional Information.
III.
A third address from the Society for Constitutional Information to the people of Great Britain and Ireland.
IV.
An extract from the learned Dr. Davenant’s Essay upon the probable methods of making a people gainers in the balance of trade.
V.
The Address of Joshua Grigby, Esquire, to the County of Suffolk, upon the general election in M DCCLXXXIV.
VI.
An extract from Mr. Hume’s Essays on the liberty of th[e] press.
VII.
Extract from a letter to Mr. Daniel Adams, Secretary to the Society for Constitutional Information, recommending a repeal
of the Septennial Act.
VIII.
Extracts from a Fragment of an Original letter on the slavery of the negroes, written in the year 1776, by Thomas Day, Esquire.
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v. [JONES,
Sir William.]
The Principles of government; in a dialogue between a scholar and a peasant. Written by a member of the Society for Constitutional
Information.
[
London:] [Printed and distributed gratis by the
Society for Constitutional Information,
1783.]
8 leaves.
Halkett and Laing IV, 430.
By S
r William Jones
written in ink on the title-page. The chapter number,
24, written on the same page.
Sir William Jones, 1746-1794, orientalist. Other works by him appear in this catalogue.
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vi. [JEBB,
John.]
A letter from Dr. Jebb, with an extract from An historical account of the rights of the Parliament of Scotland. To Mr. Daniel Adams, secretary to
the Society
