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  • A Short account of the lives and sufferings of several godly persons, who dy'd in England for the sake of the Gospel, under the reign of King Henry VIII. and Queen Mary.

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    M,DCC,XXX. [1730]
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  • A short account of the late application to Parliament made by the merchants of London upon the neglect of their trade: with the substance of the evidence thereupon; as summed up by Mr. Glover.

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    MDCCLXXIV. [1774]
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  • A Short account of the barbarous murder, committed on Board the Brig, Earl of Sandwich, by P. Mc'Kinlie, G. Gidley, A. Zekerman, and R. St. Quinten. With a particular account of Richard St. Quinten, taken from his own mouth in Newgate, the evening before his execution.

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    1766
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  • A short account of that part of Africa, inhabited by the Negroes. With respect to the fertility of the country, the good disposition of many of the natives, and the manner by which the slave trade is carried on. Extracted from divers authors, in order of shew the iniquity of that trade, and the falsity of the arguments usually advanced in its vindication. With quotations from the writings of several persons of note, viz. George Wallis, Francis Hutcheson, and James Foster, and a large extract from a pamphlet, lately published in London, on the subject of the slave trade.

    • Benezet, Anthony, 1713-1784.
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    MDCCLXVIII. [1768]
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  • A short account of the state of England, when King James design'd to call his second Parliament. Collected chiefly from the third volume of the Reverend Dr. Kennet's History of England.

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    1710?]
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  • A short account of the late expedition to the coast of France, by one who attended the examination at Whitehall.

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    MDCCLVII. [1757]
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  • A Short account of the grievances of the episcopal clergy in Scotland.

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    Printed in the year 1712
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  • An essay on the slavery and commerce of the human species, particularly the African, translated from a Latin dissertation, which was honoured with the first prize, in the University of Cambridge, for the year 1785, with additions. [One line from Livy]

    • Clarkson, Thomas, 1760-1846.
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    MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]
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  • A short account of the late Mrs. Crane, of Preston, in Lancashire; particularly of her Religious Experience, during a long and painful affliction, which issued in her removal from the regions of mortality.

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    1797
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  • A short account of the death of Mary Langson, of Taxall, in Cheshire; who died January the 29th, 1769.

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    MDCCLXXV. [1775]
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