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Political Manuscripts (Brotherton)
1630s-mid 18th century
Collection of political manuscripts, largely dating from the early-mid 18th century. The collection includes essays on English money and foregin trade.
Fanaticism Plot, or the informations, confessions, and examinations, of the persons concerned in the notorious insurrection in Farnley-wood, in the parish of Leedes, in the County of York, on the twelfth day of October M.DC.LXIII.
c.1750
Comprises evidence of the conspiracy in 1663 to seize York and overthrow the government of Charles II, with an alphabetical index of names at the end. The contents of this manuscript differ from those...
An Essay towards finding the Ballance of our whole Trade annually from Christmas 169[9] to Christm[a]s 1717.
c.1717
Comprises an apparently unpublished, extensive, and detailed discussion of England's foreign trade with mainland Europe, Africa, America (tobacco etc.), and the West Indies from 1699 to 1717, based on...
An essay on English money, by John Sharp.
Sharp, John
c. 1760
Also known as:Observations on the coinage of England. Apparently a copy of Sharp's unpublished manuscript work usually known by the title 'Observations on the coinage of England'.
A learned discourse touching popular discontents in all governments: contemporary copy of a political essay by Sir William Temple.
Temple, Sir William
late 17th century or early 18th century
A contemporary copy of a political essay by Sir William Temple, the text of which was most probably circulated in MS for many years before it was printed, in his 'Works' of 1754. Full title: 'A learne...
Fragmenta Regalia or Observations on the late Queene Elizabeth her tymes and XX favourites /|cby Sir Robert Naunton.
mid 1630s
Written in brown ink in a single professional hand, margins ruled in red. Bound in 19th-century calf using the boards of a 16th-century English binding with the arms of Catherine of Aragon and the Roy...