Item is a book containing a collection of private devotions and prayers printed in London by Richard Yardley and Peter Short for Richard Day. Popularly known as Queen Elizabeth's Prayer Book, the book may originally have been written for her private use before being published for a wider audience. The book is heavily illustrated with historiated woodcut borders, some based on works by Albrecht Durer and Hans Holbein. The illustrations are a veritable catalogue of Christian iconography, depicting subjects including the life of Christ, the five senses, sin, virtue, the Book of Revelation, and memento mori such as the Dance of Death.

Item is a Royalist pamphlet describing in detail one of several Parliamentarian sieges of Basing Castle, a Royalist stronghold in Hampshire, during the English Civil War. Printed by Leonard Lichfield.

Item is volume 2 of 2 of a dictionary covering L-Z.

Item is volume 1 of 2 of a dictionary covering A-K.

Item is a satirical print by Issac Cruikshank after George Moutard Woodward, and published by S.W. Fores. The print pokes fun at English society, and contains eight scenes of English "types" hunting for various things, with lines of dialogue above the characters. An elderly man riding Pegasus pursues an allegorical figure of Fame, who beckons to him; he despairs of overtaking her, even "if my Pegasus was as fleet as the wind." Two cronies engage in "hunting the bottle" (i.e. drinking). An old military officer pursues a pretty young woman. Two bailiff's men with bludgeons pursue a debtor. A solitary poor man has been fruitlessly "hunting after money the whole day." A young and handsome fortune-hunter kneels before a rich elderly harridan. A hunter after company invites himself to crack a bottle with another man. A fat parson, eyes closed, at a set table with a second chair being empty, says: "My worthy friend the Vicar and myself have just killed old care and I am very happy Doctor, to welcome you in at the death.”

Item is a pamphlet in the form of a letter, signed by the anonymous J.P., to a rural friend explaining Parliament's reaction to the Popish Plot.

Item is a comparative examination of ancient and modern architectural elements and techniques originally written by Roland Freart and translated and edited by John Evelyn.

Item is a pamphlet from the beginning of the English Civil War expressing the loyalty of the County of Flint (the former county of Flintshire in northeast Wales) to King Charles I in his dispute with Parliament. Item was printed by A. Norton.

Printed for J. Mawman.

Item is a satirical print about Catholic emancipation in Great Britain. The print is by William Heath, who went by the pseudonym of Paul Pry (a nosy character in an 1825 play). It depicts British politicians John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon, and Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, as brawling London market women. Eldon is referred to as an "ould Orange Woman," in reference to his anti-Catholic beliefs and politics, and Wellington is referred to as “old Mother Baggs” and is shown being cheered on by a ragged, racially-caricatured Irishman, a reference to Wellington's championing of the Catholic Relief Bill. The two opposed one another in Parliament over the Catholic Relief Bill, a piece of ground-breaking legislation in 1829 that restored many rights to Roman Catholics. From 1827-1829, Heath signed his caricatures with the image of a little dandy holding an umbrella, which can be seen in the lower left corner of this print.

Item is an account of the trial and conviction of King Charles I of England with a list of members of the High Court of Justice at end of text.

Item is a detailed defence of King Charles I written by Royalist and Church of England minister Edward Symmons in response to the publication of the "The Kings cabinet opened," which contained Charles' personal correspondence seized by Parliamentarian forces at the Battle of Naseby. According to Symmons, he wrote this text "to vindicate my Soveraigns name and honour". Publisher unknown.

Item is the first volume of Foxe's Book of Martyrs, which describes the sufferings of Protestants in England and Scotland from the founding of the Church until 1508.

Foxe's Book of Martyrs is a Protestant religious history and martyrology first published by John Day in 1563. The book recounts the persecution of Protestants and forerunners of Protestantism by the Catholic Church, particularly in England and Scotland. The work includes a chronology, reprinted letters, transcripts of interrogations, and text of debates, and contains a section on foreign martyrs. Foxe's work was highly influential and helped to shape lasting notions of English nationalism and anti-Catholicism. It is also considered an early, impressive example of biographical writing in post-Reformation Britain.

Item is the first volume of a text popularly known as Foxe's Book of Martyrs, a Protestant religious history and martyrology first published by John Day in 1563. The book recounts the persecution of Protestants and forerunners of Protestantism by the Catholic Church, particularly in England and Scotland, up to 1508. The work includes a chronology, reprinted letters, transcripts of interrogations, and text of debates, and contains a section on foreign martyrs. Foxe's work was highly influential and helped to shape lasting notions of English nationalism and anti-Catholicism. It is also considered an early, impressive example of biographical writing in post-Reformation Britain.

Item is a translated account of the events in the Swedish village of Mora that led to the Mora witch trial, which became internationally famous and ended with the first mass execution of the Swedish witch hunt of 1668–1676.

Item is a book written by English minister bishop Francis Hutchinson to discredit the witchcraft trials taking place in England. The book is an analytical and critical account of previous witch trials, and argues strongly against witchcraft prosecution. Shortly after the book was published, Great Britain abolished the hunting of witches with the repeal of the Witchcraft Acts, and instead made it a crime to claim that any human being had magic powers or was guilty of practicing witchcraft, with the passing of the Witchcraft Act 1735. Item was printed for R. Knaplock, at Bishop's Head, and D. Midwinter, at the Three Crowns, in St. Paul's Church-yard, London.

Item is a description of the actions of the parliamentary army, under the command of captain-general Thomas Fairfax. Item includes a large illustration of Thomas Fairfax mounted on a horse, the Fairfax coat of arms, and a table of army troop placements and movements.

Item is the speech of William Howard Stafford, First Viscount of Stafford, prior to his execution for high treason. Stafford was a Royalist supporter who was falsely convicted of participation in the Popish Plot and executed.

Item comprises a collection of frugal recipes from the late 1800s, accompanied by advertisements and unusual food items.

Item is a pamphlet detailing an alleged murder attempt by English Catholics on the life of Judge John Arnold of Monmouthshire. John Arnold was a Protestant politician known for his anti-Catholic beliefs and politics, and his association with the priest Titus Oats, who fabricated the Popish Plot. John Giles of Usk was eventually convicted and fined for the fictitious attempt on Judge Arnold's life.

Series consists of pamphlets, books, and periodicals produced during the English Civil Wars (1642-1652), about the wars' causes, events, political and religious debates, and effects, from the perspective of both Royalists and Parliamentarians.

Item is a satirical print by Scottish painter and caricaturist, Isaac Cruikshank. The print comments on the perceived failures of the recent French Revolution by contrasting "French happiness" - an image of four emaciated French revolutionaries fighting over a frog and surrounded by scenes of brutality, poverty, and death in Revolutionary France - with "English misery" - an image of four corpulent, feasting Englishmen who are surrounded by scenes of ease and prosperity.

Item is a satirical cartoon published by Thomas McLean, possibly created by caricaturist Isaac Robert Cruikshank. Print depicts English conservatives Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington, and Robert Peel as grave diggers in a Hamlet-inspired foreground scene. The back-right depicts a funeral progression for the 1829 constitution and in the back-left shows the Pope celebrating Catholic Emancipation with monks and Irishmen. The print is a commentary on the failures of the Wellington-Peel ministry which over saw the removal of many restrictions on Roman Catholics.

Item is a Puritan religious tract written as a rebuttal to Thomas Pierce's 1655 book: A Correct Copy of Some Notes Concerning Gods Decrees, Especially Of Reprobation. Book was printed by W.H. for G. Sawbridge.

Item is a pamphlet authored by Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Duke of Cumberland, a famous Royalist cavalry commander in the English Civil War. In it, he refutes charges of barbarousness levelled against his troops by Parliamentarians and claims that it was they who were committing atrocities. Printed by Leonard Lichfield.

A soldierly vindication of his troops by Prince Rupert and an attempt to shift the charge of inhumanity to his adversaries.

Item is a pamphlet written anonymously in defence of King Charles II's decision to appoint his brother, James the Duke of York, as Lord High Commissioner of Scotland despite his refusal to take the Test Oath because he was a Catholic. James later ascended the throne, becoming King James II of England in 1685, before being deposed in 1688 in the Glorious Revolution.

Item is one volume with two parts that consists of a collection of King Charles I's speeches, letters, and religious and political writings. The book was published in support of the Royalist cause after Charles' execution. Printed by Samuel Browne.

Item is a book on witchcraft defending the existence of witches, and attacking those sceptical of witchcraft. Item was printed for A. Bettesworth and J. Batley, W. Mears and J. Hooke.

Series contains satirical prints produced by British printers that comment and poke fun at English society, politics, prominent figures, and international events.

Item is a book about printmaking which includes a mezzotint by Prince Rupert. Item was printed for J. Murray.

Item is a book about artistic aesthetics, printed by J. Reeves for the author William Hogarth.

Item is a book showcasing recipes typical of British cuisine during the 18th century, particularly favored by affluent households. Glasse purposefully employed "plain and easy" language to facilitate instruction for individuals of lower socioeconomic backgrounds in following her recipes.

Item is a guide for Justices of the Peace, which includes sections about witchcraft laws and the investigation and prosecution of suspected witches. Published in London and printed for the Company of Stationers

Item is a comprehensive guide encompassing essential skills and virtues expected of a well-rounded woman in 17th century England. The book covers a wide range of topics including medicine, surgery, cookery, oil extraction, banquet preparation, wine preservation, distillation, perfumery, textile production, household management, and more.

Item is a pamphlet documenting the death bed confession of Captain William Bedlow and the account of Sir Francis North who took the confession. Bedlow was a known fraudster and confidence man who provided testimony supporting the existence of the Popish Plot.

Item contains Elizabeth Raffald's original recipes. The cookbook contains a diverse array of recipes ranging from family dishes to elaborate dining options, showcasing the abundance of ingredients available in the 18th century. Raffald's work is notable for its introduction of confectionery techniques and particularly acclaimed for her practical pickling and preserving recipes.

Item is a satirical caricature of Charles Flower, the Lord Mayor of London created by Thomas Rowlandson and published by Thomas Tegg. The print depicts Flower in a portrait bust at the center of a dying sunflower, rising from a tub of rancid butter and wheels of moldy and rotten cheese. The leaves and stem of the sunflower are inscribed negative qualities such as 'pernicious', 'lecherous', 'odious', and 'narrow minded'. Below the image is an accompanying poem:

The Flow'r of the City, so gaudy and fine
'Midst proud ones the proudest was erst known to shine
It spread its gay leaves, and it shewed its rich clothes
And to all (less in consequence) turn'd up its nose!
Till a blight, a sad blight, from a Democrat wind
Struck the Sensitive Plant both before and behind
It felt the keen blast! all its arrogance fled
And the Flow'r of the City hung, hung down its head!
The Flow'r of the City, thus doom'd to despair
Droops, pines, and with wailing empregnates the air!
Tells its pride and its folly (the cause of its grief)
While the tears of repentance encumber each leaf!
But in vain in its tears, of the fate it bemoans.
The world, the base world, gives but hisses and groans!
For ever! for ever! its proud hopes are fled.
And the Flow'r of the City hangs, hangs, down its head.

Item is a medical book by the German physician Christopher Wirtzung and translated and expanded by Jacob Mosan. The book methodically describes and explains the function of every part of the body, and discussing diseases and treatments. Instructions are given for diagnosing and distinguishing the causes of various conditions, and a wide variety of treatments are recommended and explained. Treatments discussed include Galenical compounds such as decoctions, pills, powers, and syrups, and other therapies such as enemas, baths, bloodletting, cupping, plasters, oils, lifestyle and dietary advice, and animal and mineral based remedies.

Item is the second edition of a botany book written by John Gerarde and illustrated by John Payne. The second edition was enlarged and amended by Thomas Johnson. The first edition was written in 1597 and was re-printed several times because of its widespread popularity. Item contains descriptions of the characteristics, growing conditions, and uses of plants alongside over 2700 woodcut illustrations. The work is divided into three books:
Book 1: Containing grasses, rushes, reeds, cones, flags, and bulbous or onion-rooted plantes
Book 2: Containing the description, place, time, names, nature, and vertues of all sorts of herbs, for meat, medicine, or sweet-smelling use, & c.
Book 3: Containing the description, place, time, names, nature, and vertues of trees, shrubs, bushes, fruit-bearing plants, rosins, gums, roses, heath, mosses, some Indian plants, and other rare plants not remembered in Proeme to the first book. Also mushrooms, corall, and their seurall kindes, & c.

Item is a contemporary history of the Long Parliament (an English Parliament that lasted from 1640 to 1660) published just after the end of the first English Civil War. Authored by Parliamentary Secretary Thomas May, the history is presented from a parliamentarian viewpoint with a strong bias against Charles I and the House of Stuart. Item was imprinted at London by Moses Bell for George Thomason.

Item is a 1630 edition of the King James Bible bound with the Book of Common Prayer and a psalter, published by Robert Barker and John Bill. Work is illustrated with detailed Biblical genealogy charts from Adam to the Virgin Mary, and musical notations to accompany the psalms. The contents of the book are as follows: Booke of Common Prayer -- Administration of sacraments (communion, baptism, catechism, marriage, anointing of the sick, and burial of the dead) -- Psalmes -- Genealogies – The Old Testament -- The New Testament -- The whole Booke of Psalmes.

Item is a Parliamentarian pamphlet from the English Civil War in two parts. The first part is a request to remove the Royalist Lord William Paget as Lieutenant for the County of Buckingham, and to replace him with the Parliamentarian Lord Philip Wharton. The second part is a letter written by John Busse of Dublin reporting on recent events in the Irish Rebellion of 1641. Printed for Joseph Hunscott and John Wright.

Item is an incomplete copy of a book of Scottish laws including those related to witchcraft. Item was printed by Thomas Brown in Edinburgh.

Item is a single issue of the bi-weekly, government sponsored, periodical, The London Gazette. Item is issue 1707 covering the local news for Monday March 27th to Thursday March 30th 1682.

"Ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament, that the letters taken at Sherborn in Yorkshire, with observations thereupon, be forthwith printed and published. H: Elsynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com". Printed for Edward Husband.

Item is a satirical print by Scottish painter and caricaturist Isaac Cruikshank, as published by S.W. Fores. The print depicts the Duke of Orleans, Philippe Egalite, holding an axe above the head of King Louis XVI of France while Marie Antoinette and the Dauphin kneel pleading for his life. The print is a commentary on Egalite's perceived betrayal of kinship and class by voting in the National Convention to depose and try Louis.

Item is a pamphlet from the English Civil War exhorting the people of England to support Parliament and explaining its conflict with King Charles I. Printed by T. Fawcett.

Item is a pamphlet, compiled by the Committee of Secrecy of the House of Commons, publishing letters and other papers that it claims prove the validity of the plot to take the life of King Charles.

Series consists of pamphlets and one book relating to the fictitious conspiracy known as the "Popish Plot" (1678-1681). The Popish Plot was a fake conspiracy invented by clergyman Titus Oates and spread through polemical pamphlets like these, which alleged that Catholics were conspiring to assassinate Charles II and take control of England. The Plot inspired a wave of anti-Catholic hysteria in England, and numerous prosecutions of accused plotters on false charges, resulting in the executions of at least 22 men and the punishment of many others.

Item is a Parliamentarian pamphlet explaining why the counties of Buckingham, Hartford, Bedford, and Cambridge supported Parliament in opposition to King Charles I at the outbreak of the English Civil War. Printed by L. N. and R. C. for F. Eaglesfield.

Item is an English civil war pamphlet that was disbound from a larger work. The Royall Apologie was written in response to the pamphlet "A Declaration of the Commons of England", which resulted in parliament halting communications with Charles and essentially overthrowing the monarchy. The Royall Apologie is often attributed to Sir Kenelm Digby, although authorship has also been attributed to George Digby, the second Earl of Bristol.

Item is the second volume of Foxe's Book of Martyrs, which describes the sufferings of Protestants in England and Scotland from the reign of King Henry VIII up until the start of the reign of Queen Mary.

Foxe's Book of Martyrs is a Protestant religious history and martyrology first published by John Day in 1563. The book recounts the persecution of Protestants and forerunners of Protestantism by the Catholic Church, particularly in England and Scotland. The work includes a chronology, reprinted letters, transcripts of interrogations, and text of debates, and contains a section on foreign martyrs. Foxe's work was highly influential and helped to shape lasting notions of English nationalism and anti-Catholicism. It is also considered an early, impressive example of biographical writing in post-Reformation Britain.

Item consists of issues of the influential daily London periodical The Spectator, which was originally published by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele in 1711-1712. This volume contains issues number 252 (December 19, 1711) to 321 (March 8, [1712]). Published by J. Tonson.

Item consists of issues of the influential daily London periodical The Spectator, which was originally published by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele in 1711-1712. This volume contains issues number 395 (June 3, 1712) through 473 (September 2, [1712]). Published by J. Tonson.

Item is the third volume of Foxe's Book of Martyrs, which describes the sufferings of Protestants in England and Scotland during the reigns of Queen Mary, Elizabeth I, and the beginning of the reign of Charles I.

Foxe's Book of Martyrs is a Protestant religious history and martyrology first published by John Day in 1563. The book recounts the persecution of Protestants and forerunners of Protestantism by the Catholic Church, particularly in England and Scotland. The work includes a chronology, reprinted letters, transcripts of interrogations, and text of debates, and contains a section on foreign martyrs. Foxe's work was highly influential and helped to shape lasting notions of English nationalism and anti-Catholicism. It is also considered an early, impressive example of biographical writing in post-Reformation Britain.

An account of the trials of Richard Hathaway, Thomas Wellyn, Elizabeth Wellyn, and Elizabeth Willoughby. Printed for R. Griffiths.

Item is a transcript from the trial of William Staley, who was convicted of high treason.

Item is a full account of the trial and conviction of William Howard Stafford, First Viscount of Stafford. Stafford was a Royalist supporter who was falsely accused of conspiring to replace King Charles II with his Catholic brother, James, as part of the Popish Plot. Stafford was found guilty and executed for high treason.

Item is a transcript from the trial of Richard Langhorn, who was falsely convicted of treason against the King as part of the Popish Plot.

Item is a transcript from the murder trial of Robert Green, Henry Berry, and Lawrence Hill. Green, Berry, and Hill were falsely accused and convicted of murdering Edmond-bury Godfrey, a justice of the peace, as part of the Popish Plot conspiracy. Their trial and execution contributed to anti-Catholic sentiments in England.

Item is a transcript of the murder trials of William Ireland, Thomas Pickering, and John Grove, who were falsely convicted of plotting to murder the king as part of the Popish Plot.

Item is a book of the collected works of Geoffrey Chaucer, edited by Thomas Speght and printed in London by Adam Islip. Item includes the Canterbury tales, the romaunt of the rose by Chaucer, "the story of Thebes" by John Lydgate, and a biography of Chaucer by Speght.

Series contains books and pamphlets about witchcraft, laws relating to witchcraft and other issues, and the witch trials in England, Scotland, and some other parts of Europe.