Sales catalogue: Francis Edwards

Date:
1964
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/5/56
Catalogue details

Licence: In copyright

Credit: Sales catalogue: Francis Edwards. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    16/84 (page 324)
    them, and’to rob the Church, 6+ 78 pages, sm. 4to (stained throughout and some upper margins shaved), T. Rsv for C. st Aa “oe £10 S.T.C. and Bishop 4644. Kress 271. 1782 [CARYL (J.)] PETERS PATERN, or the Perfect Path to Worldly Happiness. As it was Delivered in a Funeral Sermon Preached at the Interrment of Mr. Hugh Peters, lately Deceased, hitle within crude black border, 14 pages, sm. 4to, no printer, 1659 . £15 Wing C.784, four copies only. Peters, independent divine, was executed at Charing Cross as an abettor of the execution of Charles I. 1783 CERTAIN PAPERS FROM SCOTLAND, oF THE LAST PROCGEED- incs and Transactions with the Commissioners of ee Parliament . . . the Proceedings of Col. Jones in his. Late March from Dublin... ‘gio the County of Kildare... a ‘True Accompt is given of Sixteen Garisons taken from the Rebels in one week, tle within type-metal border, 12 pages, sm. 4to, L. Chapman, 1647 i etary £10 Wing C.1721. 1784. [CHAMBERLAYNE (Epwarp)] ENGLANDS WANTS: or, Several Proposals Probably Beneficial for England, humbly offered to the Con- sideration of all Good Patriots in both Houses of Parliament, 38 pages (last soiled), sm. 4to, R. Taylor, 1685 £20 Wing C.1841. Kress 1617. Chamberlayne, one time bed diceteae to the ie Countries, traveller and author, wrote the “‘Present State of England” of which 36 editions were issued. A Utopian scheme, the author suggesting heavy taxes on all luxuries, adornments, pictures, etc. He wanted salaries provided for doctors and surgeons so that they could give their services without charge, a college set up in London to propagate the Christian reformed religion amongst the Americans bordering on the English plantations, all youth to be brought up to some trade or profession, Members of Parliament not to frequent playhouses, taverns or houses of worse repute, all eatables to be sold by weight and the prices to be fixed by the Magistrates, etc. 1785 CHAMBERLEN (Dr. HucGH) PAPERS RELATING TO A BANK OF CREDIT upon Land Security Proposed to the Parliament of Scotland, 8 pages, 4to, no imprint, [Edinburgh, 1693 | £55 ~ Wing C.1877A, British Museum and Harvard only. Kress 1809. Chamberlen, man mid-wife and land bank promoter, published several nwt mt of his ‘‘Design ‘af a Land Bank.”’ The present pamphlet is the first of his Scottish schemes and it contains his proposals, with objections and answers thereto.