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THE
HARLEIAN MISCELLANY;
OR, A
COLLECTION
OF
SCARCE, CURIOUS, AND ENTERTAINING
PAMPHLETS AND TRACTS,
AS WELL IN MANUSCRIPT AS IN PRINT,
FOUND IN THE LATE
EARL OF OXFORD'S LIBRARY,
INTERSPERSED WITH
HISTORICAL, POLITICAL, AND CRITICAL
NOTES.
VOL. XI.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR ROBERT DUTTON, GRACECHURCH-STREET.
DA 300 • H12
1808
T. Plummer, Printer, Seething Lune.
CONTENTS.
AN Inquiry into the Causes of our Naval Miscarriages: With some
Thoughts on the Interest of this Nation, as to a Naval War, and of
the only true Way of manning the Fleet. Dedicated to the Parlia- ment of Great-Britain. From the second Edition in Quarto, con- taining thirty-seven pages, printed at London, 1707
The Character of a Sneaker. London, printed in the year 1705.
Quarto, containing five pages, and the picture of Janus in the
Title-page
Loyalty, attended with great News from Drake's and Raleigh's Ghosts.
Presenting the true Means whereby Britain may be recovered from
her Maladies, and obtain a lasting Happiness, Honour, and Re-
nowil. In an Heroick Poem. London, printed for the Author, in
1705. Quarto, containing sixteen pages
Providence Displayed: Or, a very surprising Account of one Mr. Alex-
ander Selkirk, Master of a Merchant-man, called The Cinque-Ports;
who, dreading that the Ship would soon after be lost, he desired to
be left on a desolate Island in the South Seas, where he lived Four
years and Four months, without seeing the Face of Man, the Ship
being afterwards cast away as he dreamed. Quarto, containing
twelve pages
Page
The Royal Gamesters: Or, the old Cards new shuffled, for a Con-
quering Game. Quarto, containing four pages
Reasons humbly offered to both Houses of Parliament, for Passing a
Bill for Preventing Delays and Expences, in Suits in Law and
Equity. London, printed, and are to be sold by John Morphew,
near Stationers Hall, 1707. Quarto, containing twenty-two pages
A Trip to Dunkirk: Or, a Hue and Cry after the pretended Prince of
Wales. Being a Panegyrick on the Descent. Said to be written by
Dr. Swift. Printed, and sold by the Booksellers of London and
Westminster, 1708
The Mighty Miracle: Or, the Wonder of Wonders at Windmill-Hill.
Being the Invitation of John Lacy, Esq; and the rest of the inspired
Prophets, to all Spectators, to come on Tuesday next, the 25th Day
of this instant May, where, to their exceeding Astonishment, they
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may (without any Prejudice to their Eye-sight) behold Dr. Emms
arise out of his first grave, and dress himself in his usual Habit to
all their View, and with a loud voice relate Matters of Moment,
preaching a Miraculous Sermon, giving a strange Account of past
and future Events; the like never seen or heard in England before,
exceeding any Wonder or Shew that ever was seen on Windmill-
Hill, at any Holiday-time. Licensed according to order. London:
printed for J. Robinson, in Fleet-street, 1708. Folio, containing
one page
Esquire Lacy's Reasons why Doctor Emms was not raised from the
Dead, on the twenty fifth of May, according to the French Prophets
Prediction. London, printed for J. L. in Barbican, 1708. Folio,
containing one page
An Account of the late Scotch Invasion; as it was opened by my Lord
Haversham in the House of Lords, on Friday the twenty-fifth of
February, 1708-9. Printed in the year 1709. Quarto, containing
forty-six pages
The Geography and History of Mons. First written in French for the
Service of an Imperial Officer in the Army about Mons, and now
done into English for the Satisfaction of our British Officers. By
John Mack Gregory, L. L. L. Professor of Geography and History.
Printed at Edinburgh, in the Year 1709. Quarto, containing four
pages
The Geography and History of Tournay: First written in French, for
the Service of Prince Eugene of Savoy, and sent inclosed in a Letter
to him, when he marched to besiege Tournay, and now done into
English for the Satisfaction of our British Gentlemen and Officers.
By John Mack Gregory, L. L. L. Professor of Geography and His-
tory. To which is prefixed, as an Epistle Dedicatory, the Author's
Letter to Prince Eugene. Printed at Edinburgh, 1709. Quarto,
containing forty-four pages
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A Letter to a new Member of the Honourable House of Commons,
touching the Rise of all the Embezzlements and Mismanagements
of the Kingdom's Treasure, from the Beginning of the Revolution
unto this present Parliament. To which is added, an Account of
the National Expences, from November 3, 1640, to November 1659;
and from November 5, 1688, to Michaelmas, 1700. Amsterdam,
Printed in the year 1710. Quarto, containing twenty-eight pages 140
King William's Ghost. From a Half-sheet Folio, printed in 1711
A Representation of the present State of Religion, with Regard to the
late excessive Growth of Infidelity, Heresy, and Profaneness:
Drawn up by the Upper House of Convocation, of the Province of
Canterbury, and transmitted to the Lower House for their Approba-
tion. Folio, containing five pages, printed in 1711
A particular Description of the famous Town and Cittadel of Dunkirk,
with all its Fortifications, viz. Rice-bark forts, Harbour, Peere, the
Bason, the Number of the Ships in the Harbour, and Cannon in
each port, as it is now in the Possession of the Queen of Great-
Britain. Printed 1712. Quarto, containing twenty-one pages
The Br-sh: Ambassadress's Speech to the French King, M. S.
Europe a Slave, when the Empire is in Chains: Shewing the deplor-
able State of Germany, from the Invasion of the French, and the
fatal Consequence of it to us and all Europe
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A Satyr on the Earl of Oxford, Lord Bolingbr-k, Mr. Moor, and Mr.
Prior, M. S. -
Verses spoke to the Lady Henrietta-Cavendish Holles Harley, in the
Library of St John's College, Cambridge, November the 9th Ann.
1719, By Mr. Prior.
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