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The two petitions that were lodg'd against Thomas Coster, Esq; Member of Parliament for the City of Bristol together with the names, professions, and places of abode, of all who sign'd to the said petitions. Likewise distinct lists of those who sign'd the remonstrance, and the recontation.
Date: 1735
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The Petitioners monitor: being a collection of several petitions, &c. To the Honourable House, shortly after the grand meeting, viz. I. The ladies petition. II. The batchelors remonstrance. III. The widows petition. IV. The poets proposal. V. The chaplains petition. VI. An act drawn up by a Committee of Grievances. With a preface, and a catalogue of above forty petitions, ordered to be drawn up and presented to the Honourable House at their next sessions.
Date: [1743]
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Report from the committee upon the petitions relating to the false winding of wool; And the marking of sheep with pitch and tar.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons.Date: Printed in the year M.DCC.LII. [1752]
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The promotion, and the alternative: two poetical petitions to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole. By the author of The sine-cure and Equivalent.
Mitchell, Mr. (Joseph), 1684-1738.Date: 1726
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The rights of the people to petition, and the reasonableness of complying with such petitions: in a letter to a leading great man. A new edition. Recommended to the perusal of the livery of London, the freeholders, and all other electors of Great Britain.
Date: MDCCLXIX. [1769]
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The speeches of John Philpot Curran, George Ponsonby, Michael Smith, and Patrick Duigenan, Esqrs. Before the Privy Council, on the petitions on Alderman James and Alderman Howison[.]
Curran, John Philpot, 1750-1817.Date: M,DCC,XCI. [1791]
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An abridgement of the evidence, delivered at the bar of the House of Commons, in support of the petitions for a repeal of the Excise Tobacco Act.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of CommonsDate: [1790]
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An abridgement of the evidence, delivered at the bar of the House of Commons, in support of the petitions for a repeal of the Excise Tobacco Act.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons.Date: 1790
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The manifesto, or Remonstrance of Hyder Ally Cawn to the rajahs and princes of India; In a letter to Sir Richard S-n, on the Bengal petitions.
Haidar Ali, Nawab of Mysore, approximately 1722-1782.Date: M.DCC.LXXXI. [1781]
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Saint Wilfred (Wilfrid, Wilfrith) the Younger (of York): he petitions King Cædwalla of Wessex to grant him land, at Selsey, which is granted. Engraving by T. King, 1807.
Date: 1807Reference: 7326i
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A letter to the Members of Parliament who have presented petitions to the Honourable House of Commons for the abolition of the slave trade. By a West-India Merchant.
West-India merchant.Date: [1792]
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A reply to the author of the remarks on a letter relative to the late petitions to Parliament for the safety and preservation of His Majesty's person; and for the more effectually preventing seditious meetings and assemblies. By the Author of The letter.
Author of the Letter.Date: 1796
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An act to prevent the election or appointment of unlawful assemblies, under pretence of preparing or presenting public petitions, or other addresses to His Ma[j]esty or the Parliament.
Ireland.Date: 1793
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A representation to Congress covering... petitions, memorials, resolutions, & letters : ... urging compensation for the use of anaesthetics in the Army and Navy. Submitted to the 38th Congress.
Morton Testimonial Association.Date: [1864]
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Action of the trustees of the Boston city hospital upon the petitions for the introduction of homoeopathic treatment and for the admission of medical students to surgical operations and clinical instruction.
Boston City Hospital.Date: Rockwell,
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An address to the sovereign, on the minister's conduct in rejecting the petitions of the lieutenants of the Royal Navy. To which is added, strictures on the late promotion of flag officers.
Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]
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A collection of the several petitions, representations and answers of the states and of the Royal Court of Jersey, relative to political differences, comprehending transactions from the year 1779 to 1788, both included, together with the orders of His Majesty in council issued thereupon, with a few explanatory notes.
Jersey (Channel Islands). Royal Court.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVIII. [1788]
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Mr. Whitworth's report on the proposed canal on the north side of the River Tyne, with observations on that report; together with various publications and petitions for and against that line of canal.
Whitworth, Robert, active 1773-1797.Date: 1797
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Thoughts on the present county petitions, originally written For the information of a Friend in the Country, and now addressed to the Gentlemen, clergy, and freeholders throughout England. By an Old fashioned Whig.
Old Fashioned Whig.Date: MDCCLXXX. [1780]
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Devotions: viz. confessions, petitions, intercessions, and thanksgivings, For all Persons, upon all Occasions whatsoever. By Tho. Bennet, M. A. Rector of St. James's in Colchester, and Fellow of St. John's College in Cambridge.
Bennet, Thomas, 1673-1728.Date: 1701
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An abstract of the whole proceedings of the Honourable House of Commons, relating to the gun-smiths petitions both in the Lord Pembrooke's and Lord Wharton's government, from the original journals of that House.
Ireland. Parliament. House of Commons.Date: 1710?]
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In the matter of bankruptcy. 8th March, 1794. Lord Chancellor. Whereas the presenting and bringing to a hearing petitions for liberty to prove separate debts, under a joint commission of bankrupt, or for the choice of a new assignee or new assignees, upon the death or bankruptcy of an assignee ...
Great Britain. Lord Chancellor's Department.Date: 1794]
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Minutes of the evidence given before the Committee of Privileges, to whom the petition of Dunbar Earl of Selkirk and James Earl of Hopetoun, and also the petitions of several other peers, relative to the return of the peers chosen for Scotland, stand referred.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords.Date: 1791-93]
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The sense of the people: a letter to Edmund Burke, Esq. on his intended motion in the House of Commons, the 11th inst. Containing also, some observations on the petitions now fabricating, and the proposed associations.
Date: MDCCLXXX. [1780]
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Remarks upon several papers and petitions, presented and published against the bill for preventing multiplicity of vexatious suits, and for settling and ascertaining the tyths of lead-ore in the county of Derby, now depending in parliament.
Date: 1701?]

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The two petitions that were lodg'd against Thomas Coster, Esq; Member of Parliament for the City of Bristol together with the names, professions, and places of abode, of all who sign'd to the said petitions. Likewise distinct lists of those who sign'd the remonstrance, and the recontation.

Report from the committee upon the petitions relating to the false winding of wool; And the marking of sheep with pitch and tar.

The promotion, and the alternative: two poetical petitions to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole. By the author of The sine-cure and Equivalent.

The rights of the people to petition, and the reasonableness of complying with such petitions: in a letter to a leading great man. A new edition. Recommended to the perusal of the livery of London, the freeholders, and all other electors of Great Britain.

The speeches of John Philpot Curran, George Ponsonby, Michael Smith, and Patrick Duigenan, Esqrs. Before the Privy Council, on the petitions on Alderman James and Alderman Howison[.]

An abridgement of the evidence, delivered at the bar of the House of Commons, in support of the petitions for a repeal of the Excise Tobacco Act.

An abridgement of the evidence, delivered at the bar of the House of Commons, in support of the petitions for a repeal of the Excise Tobacco Act.

The manifesto, or Remonstrance of Hyder Ally Cawn to the rajahs and princes of India; In a letter to Sir Richard S-n, on the Bengal petitions.

Saint Wilfred (Wilfrid, Wilfrith) the Younger (of York): he petitions King Cædwalla of Wessex to grant him land, at Selsey, which is granted. Engraving by T. King, 1807.

A letter to the Members of Parliament who have presented petitions to the Honourable House of Commons for the abolition of the slave trade. By a West-India Merchant.

A reply to the author of the remarks on a letter relative to the late petitions to Parliament for the safety and preservation of His Majesty's person; and for the more effectually preventing seditious meetings and assemblies. By the Author of The letter.

An act to prevent the election or appointment of unlawful assemblies, under pretence of preparing or presenting public petitions, or other addresses to His Ma[j]esty or the Parliament.

A representation to Congress covering... petitions, memorials, resolutions, & letters : ... urging compensation for the use of anaesthetics in the Army and Navy. Submitted to the 38th Congress.

Action of the trustees of the Boston city hospital upon the petitions for the introduction of homoeopathic treatment and for the admission of medical students to surgical operations and clinical instruction.

An address to the sovereign, on the minister's conduct in rejecting the petitions of the lieutenants of the Royal Navy. To which is added, strictures on the late promotion of flag officers.

Mr. Whitworth's report on the proposed canal on the north side of the River Tyne, with observations on that report; together with various publications and petitions for and against that line of canal.

Thoughts on the present county petitions, originally written For the information of a Friend in the Country, and now addressed to the Gentlemen, clergy, and freeholders throughout England. By an Old fashioned Whig.

Devotions: viz. confessions, petitions, intercessions, and thanksgivings, For all Persons, upon all Occasions whatsoever. By Tho. Bennet, M. A. Rector of St. James's in Colchester, and Fellow of St. John's College in Cambridge.

An abstract of the whole proceedings of the Honourable House of Commons, relating to the gun-smiths petitions both in the Lord Pembrooke's and Lord Wharton's government, from the original journals of that House.

In the matter of bankruptcy. 8th March, 1794. Lord Chancellor. Whereas the presenting and bringing to a hearing petitions for liberty to prove separate debts, under a joint commission of bankrupt, or for the choice of a new assignee or new assignees, upon the death or bankruptcy of an assignee ...

Minutes of the evidence given before the Committee of Privileges, to whom the petition of Dunbar Earl of Selkirk and James Earl of Hopetoun, and also the petitions of several other peers, relative to the return of the peers chosen for Scotland, stand referred.

The sense of the people: a letter to Edmund Burke, Esq. on his intended motion in the House of Commons, the 11th inst. Containing also, some observations on the petitions now fabricating, and the proposed associations.

Remarks upon several papers and petitions, presented and published against the bill for preventing multiplicity of vexatious suits, and for settling and ascertaining the tyths of lead-ore in the county of Derby, now depending in parliament.