These items are from the personal collection of Wallace Notestein, class of 1900. Notestein was an internationally known scholar of British literature and social history. Many of the materials in the collection served as primary source material for Notestein's own research. Selected pamphlets, sermons and other texts are on a variety of subjects are included in this digital collection such as "Collection of Civil War Pamphlets" which is a compilation of 34 pamphlets with titles such as "The Answer of Both Houses of Parliament, Presented to His Majestie at Yorks the ninth of May, 1642" and "The Form of Church-Government to be used in the Church of England and Ireland.” There are also pamphlets on alleged witches Margaret Harkett, Elizabeth Fraunces, Elleine Smithe, and Mother Nokes.
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A True and Perfect Relation of the Manner of the Apprehension and Taking of 46. Rebellious Cavalliers at Brackly in Northamptonshire, Under the Command of Sir John Byron Colonell, Who Were Surprised by the Lord Brookes His Regiment, and First Committed to the Goale of Northampton for Ten Dayes Space ... Whereunto Is Annexed the True Coppy of a Letter from Sir John Byron Colonell to Master Clarke
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Collonel Lvnsford His Petition to the Honourable Assemblie of the Knights, Citisens, and Burgesses, in This Present Parliament; Now Going Under Bail by Favour of the ... House of Commons. Also, the Humble Petition of the Maior Iurates, and Committee of the Town and Port of Dover, in the County of Kent, Presented to the ... House of Commons, Feb. 15. 1641
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The True Relation of the Vnparalleld Breach of Parliament ... by His Majesty, on Tuesday the 4 of January 1641. Being Instigated Thereunto by Unadvised Counsells ... Under Pretence of a Legall Proceeding. Together with a Relation of the Hostile Intention upon the House of Commons / by Captaine Hyde, and Those Other Caviliers and Souldiers That Accompanied His Majesty ... and Also a Relation of the Free and Voluntary Offers of the Trayned Bands of the City of London ... to Defend the King and Parliament Against Malignant Councells and Plots of Papists. Likewise How Certaine Multitudes of Countreymen Came to Present Their Humble Petitions to the Parliament
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The Order and Forme for Church Government by Bishops and the Clergie of This Kingdome. Voted in the House of Commons on Friday. Iuly 16. 1641. Whereunto Is Added Mr. Grimstons and Mr. Seldens Arguments Concerning Episcopacie
England and Wales. Parliament (1641). House of Commons; Grimston, Harbottle, 1603-1685; and Selden, John, 1584-1654
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A Declaration of the Lords and Commons in Parliament: With the Additionall Reasons, Last Presented to His Maiestie. Sabbathi 12. Marij, 1641. ... Whereunto Is Annexed His Majesties Speech to the Committee, the 9. of March, 1641. When They Presented the Declaration of Both Houses of Parliament at New-Market
England and Wales. Parliament (1642)
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Two Petitions of the Lords and Commons to His Majestie. Febr. 2. 1641 [1642]. with His Majesties Gracious Answer: Also His Majesties Consent for the Princesse Maries Going to Holland, and Her Majestie to Accompany Her. Together with Her Majesties Answer to a Message of Both Houses
England and Wales. Parliament (1642)
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The Tvvo Last Speeches of Thomas Wentvvorth, Late Earle of Strafford, and Deaputy of Ireland. the One in the Tower, the Other of the Scaffold on Tower-Hill, May the 12th. 1641
Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of, 1593-1641
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Votivae Angliae: Or, the Desires and Wishes of England. Contayned in a Patheticall Discourse, Presented to the King on New-Yeares Day Last. Wherein Are Vnfolded and Represented, Manie Strong Reasons ... to Perswade His Majestie ... for the Restoring of the Pallatynat and Electorat, to His Sonne in Lawe Prince Fredericke, to His Onlie Daughter the Ladie Elizabeth, and Theyr Princelie Issue. Against the Treacherovs Vsvrpation, and Formidable Ambition and Power of the Emperor, the King of Spayne, and the Duke of Bavaria ... Written by S. R. N. I
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A Tongve-Combat, Lately Happening Betvveene Tvvo English Souldiers in the Tilt-Boat of Grauesend, the One Going to Serue the King of Spaine, the Other to Serue the States Generall of the United Prouinces. Wherein the Cause, Course, and Continuance of Those Warres, Is Debated, and Declared.
Henry Hexham
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A Monument of Remembrance, Erected in Albion, in Honor of the Magnificent Departure from Britannie, and Honorable Receiving in Germany, Namely at Heidelberge, of the Two Most Noble Princes Fredericke, First Prince of the Imperiall Blood ... Count Palatine of Rhine, Duke of Bavier ... & Elizabeth Infanta of Albion, Princesse Palatine, and Dutchesse of Bavier ... / by James Maxwell
James Maxwell
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The Argument of Master Nicholas Fuller in the Case of Thomas Lad and Richard Maunsell, His Clients : Wherein It Is Plainely Proved, That the Ecclesiasticall Commissioners Have No Power, by Vertue of Their Commission, to Imprison, to Put to the Oath Ex Officio, or to Fine Any of His Majesties Subjects
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The Seuerall Factes of Witch-Crafte, Approoued and Laid to the Charge of Margaret Harkett, of the Towne of Stanmore, in the Countie of Middlesex, for the Which She Was Arraigned and Condemned at the Sessions House, Before Her Maisties Iustices the 17. of February, and Executed for the Same at Tyborne This 19. of February. 1585