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  A brief (yet full) account of the doctrine of vulgar and decimal fractions, with a specimen on their demonstrations by William Alingham, teacher of the mathematicks.
  Date of publication:
  1698
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
  Description:
  Includes preface by the author on [4]-[5]. Reproduction of original in: Universität Göttingen Bibliothek.
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  A Brief abstract and narrative of the several spoils, depredations, losses and damages, suffered by Sir William Courten, Sir Paul Pyndar, and William Courten Esq.; deceased, annexed to a petition of the proprietors and creditors, depending in Parliament.
  Date of publication:
  1680
  

  Author(s):

  Courten, William, Sir, 1572-1636. ; Pindar, Paul, Sir, 1565 or 6-1650. ; Courten, William, d. 1655.
  Description:
  Caption title. Date of publication suggested by Wing. Reproduction of original in: British Library.
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  A brief abstract of the case concerning the letters patents for reprizals (hereunto annexed) against the States-General and their subjects whereupon Capt. Compton Gwyther, William Coates, Joseph Bullivant, John Baxter, Francis Wansell, Francis Martin, John Gibson, and William Jones, prisoners in the Marshalsea, are to be tryed for their lives, according to the common law of England, on the 18th of February instant, upon the Statute of 28 Henry 8. cap. 15 under the pretence of piracy, for taking a Galliot-Hoy (called the Love of Rotterdam) laden with 160 tun of wine, and prunes, on the 3d of December last, bound from Bourdeaux to Dort / faithfully recollected out of all the originals by Thomas Smith Gent. ; with some remarkable observations both upon the matters of fact, and the law in the whole case.
  Date of publication:
  1681
  

  Author(s):

  Smith, Thomas, Gent.
  Description:
  Caption title. Signed at end: T.S.; dated: Feb. 12. 1680 [i.e. 1681] Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.
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  A Brief abstract of the great oppresions and injuries which the late managers of the East-India-Company have acted on the lives, liberties and estates of their fellow-subjects with a short account of their unjust dealings with the natives in sundry parts of India, which has so much expos'd the honour and interest of the nation, and hazarded the loss of that advantageous trade, humbly presented to the consideration of the honourable, the knights, citizens and burgesses, in Parliament assembled.
  Date of publication:
  1698
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
  Description:
  Caption title. Reproduction of original in the Bodleian Library.
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  A brief accompt of the Turks late expedition, against the kingdome of Hungary, Transylvania, and the hereditary countries of the Emperour together with an exact narrative of the remarquable occurrences at the siege of Nevvhausel. Translated out of the Dutch. Printed with privilege.
  Date of publication:
  1663
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
  Description:
  Dutch original not traced. "The continuation of a discourse, lately printed, and entitled A briefe accompt of the Turks late expedition against the kingdome of Hungary, Transylvania; and the hereditary countries of the ...
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  A brief account concerning several of the agents of New-England, their negotiation at the Court of England with some remarks on the new charter granted to the colony of Massachusets shewing that all things duely considered, greater priviledges than what are therein contained, could not at this time rationally be expected by the people there.
  Date of publication:
  1691
  

  Author(s):

  Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.
  Description:
  Signed: Increase Mather. This item can be found at reels 794:31 and 1531:7. Imperfect: print show-through; copy at reel 1531:7 is stained, with slight loss of print. Reproduction of originals in the Harvard University ...
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  A Brief account of a great engagement which hapned [sic] between the English squadron, under the command of Vice-Admiral Herbert, and the whole French fleet, near the coast of Ireland, on the first of May, 1689
  Date of publication:
  1689
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
  Description:
  Date of publication from Wing.
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  A brief account of a religious scheme, taught and propagated by a number of Europeans, who lately lived in a place called Nisqueunia, in the state of New-York, but now residing in Harvard, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, commonly called, Shaking Quakers. / By Valentine Rathbun, Minister of the Gospel. ; [Two lines from Proverbs] ; To which is added, A dialogue between George the Third of Great-Britain, and his ministers; giving an account of the late London mob, and the original of the sect called Shakers. ; The whole being a discovery of the wicked machinations of the principal enemies of America.
  Date of publication:
  1782
  

  Author(s):

  Rathbun, Valentine, b. 1724.
  Description:
  "A dialogue, between George the Third of Great-Britain, and his ministers ..."--p. [27]-36, with separate title page.
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  A Brief account of Captain William Govan, his last speech and prayers, with a miraculous instance after his death, concerning the bleeding of his hedd
  Date of publication:
  1665
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
  Description:
  Place and date of publication suggested by Wing. Reproduction of original in: British Library. Filmed with: The humble address of the House of Commons to the King. London : Printed for Edward Jones in the Savoy and Timothy ...
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  A Brief account of Charleroy besieged by the French army under the command of the Duke of Luxemburgh.
  Date of publication:
  1693
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
  Description:
  Caption title. Reproduction of original in the Harvard University Library.
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  A Brief account of His Sacred Majesties descent in a true line male from King Ethodius the First who began to reign Anno Christi, 162 / written in a letter to a friend, anno 1681.
  Date of publication:
  1681
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
  Description:
  Reproduction of original in the British Library.
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  A brief account of Mr. Valentine Greatraks, and divers of the strange cures by him lately performed written by himself in a letter addressed to the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq. ; whereunto are annexed the testimonials of several eminent and worthy persons of the chief matters of fact therein related.
  Date of publication:
  1666
  

  Author(s):

  Greatrakes, Valentine, 1629-1683. ; Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
  Description:
  An answer to: Wonders no miracles / by David Lloyd. Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.
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  A brief account of some Lent and other extraordinary processions and ecclesiastical entertainments, seen last year at Lisbon. In four letters to an English friend. / By George Whitefield, late of Pembroke College; and Chaplain to the Right Hon. the Countess of Huntingdon.
  Date of publication:
  1755
  

  Author(s):

  Whitefield, George, 1714-1770.
  Description:
  (Evans-TCP ; no. N05985) Transcribed from: (Readex Archive of Americana ; Early American Imprints, series I ; image set 7590) Images scanned from Readex microprint and microform: (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 7590)
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  A brief account of some of the late and present sufferings of the people called Quakers for meeting together to worship God in spirit and truth, being prosecuted by the statute of the 22th Car. 2. Cap. I., entituled, An act to prevent & supress seditious conventicles, by the prosecution of which act many families have had their estates wholly wasted and ruined, contrary to the law of God, the antient laws of the kingdom, and to nature itself : together with a particular account of such of the above said people who have dyed prisoners, from the year 1660 to 1880, I. for meeting together to worship God, &c., II. for refusing for conscience sake to swear in any case, III. for not going to the parish church, and not paying to the repair of the same, and not paying offering money, small tythes, &c. : humbly presented to the King, Lords & Commons in Parliament assembled.
  Date of publication:
  1680
  

  Author(s):

  Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
  Description:
  Reproduction of original in Huntington Library. Attributed to George Whitehead. cf. NUC pre-1956. Caption title: An account of such as dyed in prison and prisoners for the testimony of truth & a good conscience, p. 85-127.
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  A brief account of some of the late incroachments and depredations of the Dutch upon the English and of a few of those many advantages which by fraud and violence they have made of the British nations since the revolution, and of the means enabling them thereunto.
  Date of publication:
  1645
  

  Author(s):

  Ferguson, Robert, d. 1714.
  Description:
  Caption title. Attributed to Robert Ferguson by Wing and NCU pre-1956 imprints. Imprint suggested by Wing and NUC pre-1956 imprints. Dated at end: Decemb. 28, 1695. Page 26 misnumbered as 20. Errata: p. 71. Imperfect: ...
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  A brief account of some of the late sufferings of several Baptists inhabiting in New-London County in Connecticut Colony in New-England: who for no other cause than going to a meeting of their own society, were taken up on the King's Highway, and cruelly whipt at Norwich, July 26th. 1725. : Being also a reply to a small pamphlet lately put out by Joseph Backus, Esq; as he calls himself: in which pamphlet the author hath industriously laboured to deceive the world, and hide the cruelty of that matter; as also to promote persecution &c. All which deceit and false covering is here discovered, and a true and impartial relation of that matter given. / By John Rogers. ; [One line from Job]
  Date of publication:
  1726
  

  Author(s):

  Rogers, John, 1674-1753.
  Description:
  The pamphlet by Joseph Backus to which this is an answer was printed in 1726, probably at New London. Imprint suggested by Johnson.
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  A brief account of some travels in divers parts of Europe viz Hungaria, Servia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Thessaly, Austria, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, and Friuli : through a great part of Germany, and the Low-Countries : through Marca Trevisana, and Lombardy on both sides of the Po : with some observations on the gold, silver, copper, quick-silver mines, and the baths and mineral waters in those parts : as also, the description of many antiquities, habits, fortifications and remarkable places / by Edward Brown.
  Date of publication:
  1685
  

  Author(s):

  Brown, Edward, 1644-1708.
  Description:
  Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.
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  A Brief account of the behaviour, &c.
  Date of publication:
  1660
  

  Author(s):

  Axtel, Daniel, d. 1660. ; Carew, John, d. 1660. ; Cook, John, d. 1660. ; Hacker, Francis, d. 1660. ; Harrison, Thomas, 1609-1660. ; Jones, John, d. 1660. ; Peters, Hugh, 1598-1660. ; Scott, Thomas, d. 1660. ; Scrope, Adrian, d. 1660.
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  Caption title. Title page lacking? Alternative title information from Wing (2nd ed.). Contains the last speeches of those executed for being concerned in the death of Charles I. Reproduction of original in the Newberry Library.
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  A brief account of the commitment of the Earl of Sh. and the crimes laid to his charge
  Date of publication:
  1681
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
  Description:
  Caption title. Reproduction of original in the Folger Shakespeare Library.
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  A brief account of the deluded Dutartres; extracted from a sermom [sic], preached by the Rev. Mr. Alexander Garden, A.M., at Charlestown, in South-Carolina.
  Date of publication:
  1762
  

  Author(s):

  Garden, Alexander, 1686-1756.
  Description:
  "A narrative of the life, together with the last speech, confession and solemn declaration, of John Lewis ..."--9, [1] p., 2nd count (Evans 9157). "A plain address to the Quakers, Moravians ... on immediate impulses and ...
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