247
Grey’s debates
10. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 98. no. 218, as above.
GREY,
Anchitell.
Debates of the House of Commons, from the year 1667 to the year 1694. Collected by the Hon
ble Anchitell Grey, Esq; who was thirty years member for the town of Derby; chairman of several committees; and decyphered Coleman’s letters
for the use of the House. In
ten volumes. Volume I [-X].
London: printed for
D. Henry and
R. Cave, and
J. Emonson,
m dcc lxiii
. [1763.]
J301 .H24
10 vol. 8vo.
Anchitell Grey, d. 1702, of Groby (Leicestershire). He took notes for his own convenience of the Debates, which were eventually published,
and was himself present at nearly all the transactions he describes.
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Parliamentary register. Nov. 1774.--June 1777.
Almon.
7. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 102. no. 222, Parliamentary Register, 1774-7, Almon, 7 v 8vo.
The Parliamentary Register; or history of the proceedings and debates of the House of Commons [--House of Lords]; containing
an account of the most interesting speeches and motions; accurate copies of the most remarkable letters and papers; of the
most material evidence, petitions, &c. laid before, and offered to, the House . . .
London: printed for
J. Almon,
1775-1777.
J301 .H34
7 vol. 8vo. Contains the Debates from the first to the third session of the fourteenth Parliament, both Houses. The Debates
are largely concerned with American affairs.
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Debates of the H. of Commons in 1785.
3. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 96. no. 223, as above.
[
Debates and proceedings of the House of Commons during the second [-third] sessions of the sixteenth Parliament of Great Britain.
London:
John Stockdale,
1785.]
3 vol. 8vo.
Stockdale’s edition is no longer in the Library of Congress.
The Debates are largely concerned with taxation. Among the listed contents are:
Substance of the speech of Mr. Beaufoy on the petition of the merchants of London against smuggling tobacco.
On the Report brought up relative to the American Loyalists.
Mr. Pitt introduces a bill, in addition to the American Intercourse Bill.
Debate on the Intercourse Bill between the Ports of the United States of America and his Majesty’s subjects in the island
of Newfoundland.
Debate on the Newfoundland Intercourse Bill.
Debate on the third reading of the Newfoundland Intercourse Bill.
Account of the gross produce of the stamp duties for ten years.
Account of the imports and exports of tobacco, rice, indigo, rum, and sugar, into and from England for one year.
Account of the imports into Ireland from America for one year.
Account of the exports from Ireland to America for one year.
Mr. Burke calls the attention of the House to the situation of persons sentenced to transportation.
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