[16], 85, [1] p. ; Errata: p. [1] at end. ; Attributed also to Sir William Petty. Cf. C.H. Hull, The economic writings of Sir William Petty. Cambridge, 1899. ; Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.
1 sheet ([1] p.) ; Order to print dated: Die Martis, 25 Junii, 1650. Signed: Hen: Scobell, Cleric. Parliamenti. ; Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
1 sheet ([1] p.) ; Title from caption and first lines of text. ; Signed: Hen. Elsing Cleric. Parl. Dom. Com. ; An Order of Parliament "that publike thankes be given unto God in all the churches in London, for His great goodnesse in sending to our aid our brethren of Scotland, and in giving a victory unto the Parliament neer Namptwich", with a summary list of the prisoners and slain. ; Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
[16], 202, [8], 203-262, [2]; [12], 28, [8]; [12] p., [1] leaf of plates ; With an additional engraved title page (plate), with title: Mercurius rusticus The countrys complaint recounting the sad events of this unparraleld warr. ; Place of publication from Wing CD; date of publication derived from title page to part 1 which is added to a later issue, but is not present here. ; In 4 parts. Parts 1 and 2, by Bruno Ryves, were originally issued at Oxford as 21 separate newsbooks between 20 May 1643 and 16 March 1644. Part 2, "Mercurius rusticus: or, The countries complaint, of the sacriledges, prophanations, and plundrings, committed by the schismatiques, on the cathedrall churches of this kingdome" has separate title page with imprint "Oxford, printed in the yeare, 1646"; pagination and register are continuouswith part 1. Parts 3 and 4, "Querela Cantabrigiensis" and "Micro-chronicon" each have separate dated title page, pagination, and register. The former is attributed to John Barwick, and the latter to Bruno Ryves. "Querela Cantabrigiensis" was also probably issued separately (Wing B1010), as was "Micro-chronicon" (Wing R2451). ; This issue, the earlier, lacks an 8-page addition signed a which cancels leaf A8. This earlier issue is identified by Madan as 1890b*, one of the issues that constitute the second collected edition of those printed other than at Oxford. ; Signatures: A B-S ² A-C ³A² ³B-G ³H⁶. ; "A generall bill of mortalitie, of the clergy of London" by Matthew Griffin is found on p. 252-260 of part 2. It was first published as a broadside (Wing G2013) and it was not included in earlier editions of "Mercurius rusticus". ; Leaves S8 and ³H6 (the last leaf) are blank. ; Reproduction of original in the Emmanuel College Library. ; Identified by ESTC as Wing (CD-ROM, 1996) R2446.
[3], 36 p. ; BM gives note: [By Chestlin?]. ; Place of publication from NUC pre-1956 imprints. ; Reproduction of original in Union Theological Seminary Library, New York. ; "A general bill of the mortality of the clergy of London . ministers . who have been imprisoned, plundered . and deprived of all livelihood . for their constancy in the Protestant religion . and their loyalty to their soveraign": p. 23-26. ; Marginal notes.
"Thursday the 28th of May, 1657. Ordered by the Parliament, that this narrative be printed and published, with the order of the House for the day of thanksgiving. Hen. Scobell, Clerk of the Parliament." ; Mode of access: Internet.
"Thursday the 28th of May, 1657. Ordered by the Parliament, that this narrative be printed and published, with the order of the House for the day of thanksgiving. Hen: Scobell, Clerk of the Parliament." ; Order of parliament on p. 1 only. Pages 2-5 contain a description of the battle by Robert Blake commander of the English forces. ; Signatures: A-B². ; Wing (2nd ed.) ; Mode of access: Internet. ; MU: Pre-1801 imprint.
p. 747-758: "An act for rendering more effectual the several acts passed for the erecting of hospitals and workhouses within the city of Bristol, for the better employing and maintaining of the poor thereof." ; p. 735-743: "An act for impowering the surviving commissioners and trustees for forfeited estates to execute proper conveyances of the late Lord Widdrington's estate, in the county of Northumberland (contracted for by the York buildings company) to trustees for the creditors of the said company, upon payment of a sum of money therein mentioned into His Majesty's exchequer." ; p. 727-730: "An act for prohibiting the wearing and importation of cambricks and French lawns." ; p. 719-723: "An act for the further regulating and better government of His Majesty's navies, ships of war, and forces by sea; and for regulating the proceedings upon courts martial in the sea service." ; p. 711-716: "An act to explain, amend, and make more effectual the laws in being, to prevent excessive and deceitful gaming; and to restrain and prevent the excessive increase of horse races." ; p. 703-706: "An act to repeal a clause in an act made in the third year of the reign of King William and Queen Mary, relating to carts used by persons inhabiting within the limits of the weekly bills of mortality; and to allow such carts to be drawn with three horses; and to prevent the misbehaviour of the drivers of carts in streets, within the said limits." ; p. 679-698: "An act for continuing, amending, and making more effectual, an act made in the twelfth year of the reign of King George the First, for repairing the roads leading from Birmingham to Edghill, in the county of Warwick." ; p. 667-674: "An act for the more effectual recovering and collecting of certain duties granted towards the support of the Royal hospital at Greenwich; and to oblige agents for prizes, to register their letters of attorney." ; p. 659-662: "An act to amend an act made in the elventh year of the reign of King William the Third, intituled, An act for the more effectual suppression of piracy." ; p. 647-654: "An act for granting further powers to the commissioners for building a bridge cross the river Thames, from the city of Westminster to the opposite shore, in the county of Surrey; and for the better enabling them to finish the said bridge, and to perform the other trusts reposed in them." ; p. 639-643: "An act to indemnify persons who have been guilty of the unlawful importing, landing, or running of prohibited, uncustomed, or other goods or merchandize." ; p. 631-634: "An act for more effectually preventing the stealing of linen, fustian, and cotton goods and wares, in buildings, fields, grounds, and other places used for printing, whitening, bleaching, or drying the same." ; p. 615-626: "An act for repealing the present inland duty of four shillings per pound weight upon all tea sold in Great Britain, and for granting to His Majesty certain other inland duties in lieu thereof; and for better securing the duty upon tea, and other duties of excise; and for pursuing offenders out of one county into another." ; p. 603-610: "An act for allowing certain additional bounties on the exportation of British and Irish linens." ; p. 595-599: "An act for effectually preventing the exportation of foreign linens, under the denomination of British or Irish linens." ; p. 571-591: "An act to repair and widen the road leading from Godmanchester in the county of Huntingdon, through Fen Stanton and Cambridge, to the First Rubbing House on Newmarket Heath in the county of Cambridge." ; p. 551-567: "An act for granting to His Majesty the sum of eight hundred thousand pounds out of the sinking fund; and for granting a sum remaining in the exchequer, arisen by the surplus of the duties upon malt, mum, cyder and perry, for the service of the year One thousand seven hundred and forty five; and for the further appropriating the supplies granted in this session of Parliament; and for giving further time for the payment of duties omitted to be paid for the indentures or contracts of clerks and apprentices, and for further enforcing the payment of the said duties." ; p. 547-548: "An act to continue an act made in the sixth year of the reign of His present Majesty, for the better regulation of lastage and ballastage in the river Thames." ; p. 535-542: "An act to amend and render more effectual an act, passed in the fifth year of His present Majesty's reign, intituled, An act for the further qualification of justices of the peace." ; p. 503-531: "An act for repairing the road from Birmingham, in the county of Warwick (through Elmdon) to a lane leading by the end of Stone-Bridge, in the said county." ; p. 491-498: "An act to explain and amend the laws touching the elections of knights of the shire to serve in Parliament for that part of Great Britain called England." ; p. 483-486: "An act for giving a publick reward to such person or persons, His Majesty's subject or subjects, as shall discover a north west passage through Hudson's Streights, to the western and southern ocean of America." ; p. 455-478: "An act to repair the road leading from Tadcaster Bridge within the county of the city of York, to a place near the said city, called Hobmoor-Lane end." ; p. 431-450: "An act for making the surgeons of London and the barbers of London two separate and distinct corporations." ; p. 423-426: "An act for enlarging the terms and powers granted by several acts of Parliament for repairing the highways between Sheppards Shord and the Devizes, and the top of Ashlington Hill and Rowd Ford, in the county of Wilts." ; p. 411-420: "An act for more effectually cleansing, deepening, widening, and preserving a creek called Beverley Beck, running into the river Hull; and for more effectually repairing the staiths near the said beck, and the roads leading from the said river to the town of Beverley; and for cleansing the streets of the said town; and for regulating the carriages to and from the said beck, and the river Hull." ; p. 395-406: "An act for continuing and enlarging the term and powers granted by an act made in the twelfth year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the First, for repairing the highways from Speenhamland, adjoining the Newbury, in the county of Berks, to Marlborough, in the county of Wilts." ; p. 387-390: "An act to indemnify persons who have omitted to qualify themselves for offices and employments within the time limited by law, and for allowing further time for that purpose." ; p. 363-382: "An act for the speedy and effectual recruiting of His Majesty's regiments of foot serving in Flanders, Minorca, Gibralter, and the plantations, and the regiments of marines." ; p. 323-359: "An act for granting to His Majesty several additional duties upon all wines imported into Great Britain; and for raising a certain sum of money by annuities, and a lottery, in manner therein mentioned, to be charged on the said additional duties." ; p. 291-318: "An act for repairing the high road leading from Boroughbridge in the county of York, through North Allerton in the same county to Crostbridge on the river Tees; and from thence through Darlington in the county of Durham, to the city of Durham." ; p. 251-286: "An act for punishing mutiny and desertion; and for the better payment of the army and their quarters." ; p. 219-247: "An act for repairing the road leading from a gate commonly called Sacred Gate, on the south east side of the town of Hedon, in the East Riding of the county of York, through the said town, to Hull North Bridge." ; p. 195-214: "An act for granting and continuing the duties upon salt, and upon red and white herrings, for the further term of six years; and for declaring that the duties on salt, which arise and are payable in that part of Great Britain called Scotland, shall be subject to the same charges theron, as the same duties were liable to be the act of the fifth year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the First." ; p. 163-190: "An act for repairing the road leading from the town of Kingston upon Hull, to and through the town of Anlaby, and from thence to the town of Kirk-Ella, in the county of the said town of Kingston upon Hull." ; p. 143-158: "An act to enable the parishioners of the parish of Saint Margaret, within the borough of King's-Lynn, in the county of Norfolk, to raise money, by rates upon themselves, for finishing the church of the said parish." ; p. 119-138: "An act for continuing the duties upon malt, mum, cyder, and perry, in that part of Great Britain called England; and for granting to His Majesty certain duties upon malt, mum, cyder, and perry, in that part of Great Britain called Scotland, for the service of the year One thousand seven hundred and forty five." ; p. 3-115: "An act for granting an aid to His Majesty by a land tax, to be raised in Great Britain, for the service of the year One thousand seven hundred and forty five." ; The caption title and paging of each act follow ; Contains 38 acts, each with a duplicate of the t.-p. quoted (nos. 15-38, printed 1745) ; Initials ; Signature K² (blank), p. [407-408], omitted in binding ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Bookplate: Mr. Baron Mure ; Contemporary suède calf binding
p. 599-604: "An act for allowing further time for inrollment of deeds and wills made by papists; and for relief of Protestant purchasers, devisees, and lessees." ; p. [591]-594: "An act for the further punishment of persons who shall aid or assist prisoners to attempt to escape out of lawful custody." ; p. 583-587: "An act to indemnify persons who have omitted to qualify themselves for offices and employment within the time limited by law, and for allowing futher time for that purpose; and also for amending so much of an act made in the twenty fifth year of the reign of King Charles the Second, intituled, An act for preventing dangers which may happen from Popish recusants, as relates to the time for receiving the sacrament of the Lord's supper now limited by the said act." ; p. 579-580: "An act for allowing carts to be drawn with four horses." ; p. 555-574: "An act to make the hamlet of Bethnal Green in the parish of Saint Dunstan, Stepney, in the county of Middlesex, a separate and distinct parish, and for erecting a parish church therein." ; p. 551-552: "An act to continue an act made in the fifth year of the reign of His present Majesty, intituled, An act to prevent the committing of frauds by bankrupts." ; p. 543-548: "An act for continuing several laws relating to the allowance upon the exportation of British made gunpowder; to the importation of naval stores from the British colonies in America; to the additional number of one hundred hackney chairs; and to the powers given for regulating hackney coaches and chairs; for punishing the venders of unstamped newspapers; for allowing the importation of hemp or flax manufactured in Ireland, though not sworn to be of the growth of Ireland; and for the relief of Bryan Blundell, in respect to the duty on some white salt lost in a storm at sea." ; p. 527-539: "An act for granting to His Majesty the sum of one million out of the sinking fund, and for applying a further sum therein mentioned, for the service of the year One thousand seven hundred and forty three; and for the further appropriating the supplies granted in this session of Parliament." ; p. 503-522: "An act for rectifying mistakes in the names of the commissioners for the land tax for the year One thousand seven hundred and forty two, and for the appointing other persons, together with those named for the said year, to put in execution an act of this present session of Parliament, intituled, An act for granting an aid to His Majesty by a land tax to be raised in Great Britain, for the service of the year One thousand seven hundred and forty three." ; p. 483-498: "An act for continuing an act made in the thirteenth year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the First, intituled, An act for amending and repairing the roads from Luton in the county of Bedford, to Westwood-gate in the said county, and for repairing the roads from Luton, to Saint Alban's in the county of Hertford." ; p. 455-478: "An act for repairing the road leading from the town of Cirencester in the county of Gloucester, to a place called the Monument upon Lansdown in the same county." ; p. 439-451: "An act for continuing and making more effectual an act passed in the ninth year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the First, for repairing the highways from the city of Gloucester to the top of Birdlip-hill, being the road to London; and from the foot of the said hill to the top of Crickley-hill, being the road to Oxford." ; p. 431-434: "An act to explain and amend an act passed in the twelfth year of the reign of His present Majesty, for repairing the road from the Dun Cow in Dunchurch, to Hillmorton in the county of Warwick, and from thence to Saint James's End in the town of Northampton." ; p. 423-426: "An act for enlarging the term and powers granted by an act passed in the tenth year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the First, intituled, An act for repairing and amending the highways from the north part of Harlow-bush common in the parish of Harlow, to Woodford in the county of Essex." ; p. 419-420: "An act to empower justices of the peace to act in certain cases, relating to parishes and places, to the rates and taxes of which they are rated or chargeable." ; p. 387-414: "An act for the relief of insolvent debtors." ; p. 375-382: "An act for enlarging the term and powers granted by an act passed in the sixth year of the reign of His present Majesty, intituled, An act for the more effectual repairing the roads leading from Wade's mill in the county of Hertford, to Barley and Royston in the said county." ; p. 371-372: "An act for the more easy and effectual conviction of offenders found at large within the kingdom of Great Britain, after they have been ordered for transportation." ; p. 331-366: "An act for punishing mutiny and desertion; and for the better payment of the army and their quarters." ; p. 299-326: "An act for raising by annuities and a lottery in manner therein mentioned, the sum of one million eight hundred thousand pounds, at three pounds per centum per annum, for the service of the year One thousand seven hundred and forty three." ; p. 283-294: "An act for repealing the several rates and duties upon victuallers and retailers of beer and ale, within the cities of London and Westminster, and the weekly bills of mortality; and for transferring the exchequer bills unsatisfied thereupon, to the duties for licences to sell spirituous liquors and strong waters by retail; and also for enabling His Majesty to raise a certain sum of money for the service of the year One thousand seven hundred and forty three, to be further charged on the said duties for licences." ; p. 259-280: "An act to explain and amend the laws touching the elections of members to serve for the Commons in Parliament, for that part of Great Britain called Scotland, and to restrain the partiality, and regulate the conduct of returning officers at such elections." ; p. 231-254: "An act for repairing the roads leading from Marlborough throught West-Kennet to Shepherds Shord; and from the Hare and Hounds in Beckhampton, to the top of Cherill Hill; and from the town of Avebury to the cross-way at Beckhampton in the county of Wilts." ; p. 215-226: "An act to enable the parishioners of the parish of Saint Botolph without Aldgate, in the city of London, to raise a certain sum of money, for payment of debts already contracted for the relief and maintenance of the poor of the said parish." ; p. 203-210: "An act for repealing certain duties on spirituous liquors, and on licences for retaling the same, and for laying other duties on spirituous liquor and on licences to retale the said liquors." ; p. 179-200: "An act for repairing the high road from Borough-bridge in the county of York, to Catherick in the same county, and from thence to Piers-bridge on the river Tees." ; p. 163-176: "An act to enable the present and future proprietors and inhabitants of the houses in Charterhouse Square, in the county of Middlesex, to make a rate for raising money effectually to inclose pave, watch, clean, and improve the said Square, and to continue the same in repair." ; p. 155-158: "An act for enlarging the term and powers granted by an act passed in the thirteenth year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the First, intituled, An act for reparing the several roads leading from the town of Warminster in the county of Wilts." ; p. 147-150: "An act for enlarging the term and powers granted by an act passed in the first year of the reign of His present Majesty for the more effectual amending the highway between Hockliffe and Woburn in the county of Bedford, and for repairing the road leading through Woburn to Tickford bridge in Newport Pagnel in the county of Bucks." ; p. 123-144: "An act for repairing the road from Bowes in the county of York, to Brough under Stainmore in the county of Westmoreland." ; p. 99-118: "An act for continuing the duties upon malt, mum, cyder, and perry, in that part of Great Britain called Scotland, for the service of the year One thousand seven hundred and forty-three." ; p. 3-96: "An act for granting an aid to His Majesty by a land tax to be raised in Great Britain, for the service of the year One thousand seven hundred and forty three." ; Contains 32 acts, each with a duplicate of the t.-p. quoted. Nos. 20-32 printed 1743. The paging and caption title of each act follow ; Blank leaves, included in signatures and paging, were omitted in binding ; Initials ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Page 591 wrongly numbered 579 ; Numbers 53-56 repeated in paging; nos. 57-60 omitted ; Bookplate: Mr. Baron Mure ; Contemporary suède calf binding