Votes of the House of Commons, perused and signed to be printed according to the order of the House of Commons, by me William Williams, speaker

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  • Votes of the House of Commons, perused and signed to be printed according to the order of the House of Commons, by me William Williams, speaker
  • Votes. 1680-1681. (London and Oxford ed.)
  • Address of the Commons in Parliament; Address humbly presented to His Majesty; Humble address of the Commons of Parliament; Address of the Commons in Parliament to his Majesty, to remove Sir George Jeffreys no. 19; Address humbly presented to His Majesty from both Houses of Parliament for a day of humiliation no. 22; Humble address of the Commons in Parliament to remove George Earl of Hallifax no. 24; Articles of impeachment against Edward Seymour Esq; no. 25; His Majesties message to the Commons in Parliament, relating to Tangier no. 28
  • Report of the committee, for receiving informations concerning the Popish Plot; Humble address of the House of Commons, presented to his Majesty, upon Tuesday the 21th day of December, 1680; Resolutions of the House of Commons for the impeachment of Sir William Scroggs Knt.; Articles of impeachment of high treason, and other great crimes and misdemeanors against Sir William Scroggs; Report from the committee of the Commons in Parliament ... to consider the petition of Richard Thompson of Bristol
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Imprint
London : printed by the assigns of John Bill, Thomas Newcomb, and Henry Hills, printers to the Kings most excellent Majesty, 1680-[1681]
Publication year
1680-1681
ESTC No.
P2760
Grub Street ID
56333
Description
v. ; 1/2°; 2°.
Note
Preliminary issue and no. 28 have title pages; later issues have caption titles

Titles fluctuate

First issue imprint includes year of publication

Imprint from colophon of second issue; most later imprints undated

Place of publication varies; issues 59-62 [sic], 21-28 Mar. 1681 were published in Oxford

Other imprint names include: John Wright, Richard Chiswell, Gabriel Kunholt, Thomas Snowden, Langley Curtis in London; Leo Lichfield and the widow Beckford in Oxford

Verso of preliminary issue title-page has note appointing Thomas Newcomb and Henry Hills and "no other person" to print the votes, signed: "Wi[lliam]. Williams, Speaker"; later issues have orders-to-print above colophon, except no. 28, which has the order-to-print on a separate leaf

A number of speeches, reports and addresses to the Commons are issued as parts of, or supplements to, the Votes; some are also issued separately. Each of these has continuous pagination and numbering but an individual title

Four issues only filmed at UMI microfilm Early English Books, Tract supplement reel C27: no. 19, 25, 24 and 28. No. 25 is variant numbered '24', corrected in MS. to read "22"

Identified as Wing E2766A on UMI microfilm set "Early English books, 1641-1700", reel 1441.
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