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Military correspondence regarding a battle that took place the day before. This is probably the Battle of the Boyne, fought between supporters of James II (Jacobites, Irish Catholics, French) and supporters of William III (Ulster Protestants, English, Dutch) in 1690.

Includes morning and evening prayers, table prayers, Sabbath prayers, new moon prayers, day of atonement prayers, Hanukkah songs, Psalms, Folk songs, Hebrew prayers. Siddur. Selections German & Hebrew.

[“Loyal Publication Society No. 43: Reply of Messrs. Agenor de Gasparin, Edouard Laboulaye, Henri Martin, Augustin Cochin, and other friends of America in France; to the Loyal National League in New York. New York: Printed by H. Ludwig, 39 Center Street (1863/4)”] Letter regarding the European/French opinion on slavery in the United States. The authors credit slavery as the only cause of the American Civil War and describe themselves as abolitionists. They also praise President Abraham Lincoln for his efforts in preventing the expansion of slavery into the new territories. Loyal Publication Society, No. 43

A supplemental report to Hon. Edwin M. Stanton, secretary of war. By James McKane, Special Commissioner. Published by the Loyal Publication Society New York 1863. Printed by H. Ludwig, 39 Center Street (1863/4). Describes the state of the slave regions in the southern United States (Confederate States of America at the time), and describes at length the slave system in those regions. Written by the US Department of War and released in the northern states. Original in English.

Address on Behalf of the persecuted Protestants. Ordered, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, That an humble Address be presented to His Majesty, "To return His Majesty the Thanks of this House, for the Continuance of His seasonable Interposition, in Conjunction with the other Protestant Powers, on Behalf of the poor persecuted Protestants Abroad; to express the Satisfaction of this House, in the Prospect there is, that, by His Gracious Endeavours, they shall obtain the Redress of their Grievances, and be restored to the Enjoyment of those Rights and Privileges to which they have the justest Title by the most solemn Treaties, and be secured in the future Enjoyment of them; and to assure His Majesty, That this House will support Him with the utmost Vigour in the Prosecution of such Measures, as He, in His Wisdom, shall judge most conducive to so great and good an End.

[“Reasons why His Royal Majesty of Great Britain and Elector of Braunschweig (Brunswick) and Lüneburg is obliged to enter the war against the Crown of Sweden. Year 1715.”] Great Britain (under King George I, born in Hanover, Germany) was allied with a coalition formed by the Russian Tsar Peter the Great; they declared war on Sweden in the summer of 1715. The “Great Northern War” lasted from 1700-1721 and was fought over land disputes between Denmark and Sweden, as well as a Jacobite uprising developing in Sweden.

[“ Letter from a foreign minister in England to Monsieur Pettecum, containing the true reasons of the late changes in the ministry, and of the calling a new Parliament.”] Containing the True Reasons of the late Changes in the Ministry, and of the Calling a New Parliament: and therefore fit to be perus’d by all the Electors. Translated from English, from London on 15th (26th) of September, 1710. Attack on Marlborough's avarice and selfishness in taking away honor from Prince Eugene and the Dutch.

[“Predictions for the Year 1708; Original in English by Isaac Bickerstaff, an English nobleman. Translated into German and printed in the year 1708.”] The first of the "Bickerstaff tracts" in which Swift satirizes astrology and almanacs, in particular the cobbler-astrologer John Partridge. The predictions in his almanac (Merlinus liberatus) were intended to prevent the people of England from being further imposed on by vulgar almanac makers, and to expose the impostor astrologists who claimed knowledge they did not possess. Proceeds to list people believed will die in a specific month and day, predicts an uprising in Dauphine due to the oppression of the people, a storm that will destroy many ships off the coast of France, and other sundry accidents, deaths, and births. “Isaac Bickerstaff” was the pseudonym for Jonathan Swifte; his predictions in this text were intended to “prevent the people of England from being further imposed on by vulgar almanac makers”, and to expose the imposter astrologists who claimed knowledge they did not possess. He then proceeds to list people he believes will die in a specific month and day, he predicts an uprising in Dauphine due to the oppression of the people, a storm that will destroy many ships off the coast of France, and other sundry accidents, deaths, and births.

[“The British Pallas, or the worthy Queen Anne of Great Britain, who has always taken to heart and promoted the well-being and peace of Christian Europe, especially through her generous eagerness and loyalty to the Holy Roman Empire, the House of Austria and Portugal, to which she has brought remarkable advantages, and thereby acquired undying renown. Besides that, the memorable Campaigns and Victories that the chief allies have gloriously and gladly deployed in this Campaign, against their enemies both by land and by sea, most notably in Germany, Spain, and Portugal. (Printed in) Cologne by Peter Marteau, Year 1704.”] British Pallas, or the worthy Queen Anne of Great Britain, who has always taken to heart and promoted the well-being and peace of Christian Europe, especially through her generous eagerness and loyalty to the Holy Roman Empire, the House of Austria and Portugal, to which she has brought remarkable advantages, and thereby acquired undying renown. Besides that, the memorable Campaigns and Victories that the chief allies have gloriously and gladly deployed in this Campaign, against their enemies both by land and by sea, most notably in Germany, Spain, and Portugal. The purported author, Pierre (Peter) Marteau, was actually a fictional publishing house in Cologne, Germany. However, the publications from Marteau were pressed all over Europe (Netherlands, France, other areas of Germany), not in Cologne. This allowed publishing houses not to be identified as having published satirical and other controversial documents.

[“Paradoxes of State, Relating to the Present Juncture of Affairs in England and the Rest of Europe; Chiefly Grounded on His Majesty's Princely, Pious, and Most Gracious Speech; Translated from English, 1702.”] 11 sections: I. That the particular interests of the Court and Country, of Prerogative and Privilege, of the King and People, may be and at this time are actually the same. II. That whatever names may have been formerly coined to distinguish parties here in England, there is at present neither Whig nor Tory, Williamite nor Jacobite, nor any real distinction but between those who are in a French, and those that are in an English interest. III. That the most inveterate enemies to civil liberty, are those who would now act the part of Commonwealthmen; and that the real promoters of a Popish Hierarchy and Spiritual Tyranny, are such as contend for the right of Presbyters against the Episcopal and Metropolitical Authority in the Church. IV. That the favor and indulgence of the present Government towards the Protestant Dissenters (so much envied by a certain party of anti-protestant churchmen) is so far from being disadvantageous to the established Church of England, that it is the surest and only way of regaining all the Dissenters to the National Communion. V. That the spirit of those, who, in the present circumstances of the Nation and Europe, would declare for Peace and against a War, is in reality a Spirit of Sedition, intestin [sic] War, private Revenge and Cruelty; and tends directly to such a War, as must end in the Conquest of these Nations, and in the establishment of a French government in England by the Administration of the pretended Prince of Wales, as it is already in Spain by that of the Duke of Anjou. VI. That France and Spain are as much united at present under two Kings, as ever they can be under one. VII. That whatever may be alleged about the Emperor’s immediate interest to restore his Family, and placing his Son the Arch-Duke on the throne of Spain, which belongs to him of Right; yet it is not true that the Emperor is Principal and we Seconds in this Cause, for England and Holland are and must be Principals in the War as well as He. VIII. That it is not only safer, but easier to fight for all Spain, than a Part; and for the entire Restoration of the House of Austria [Habsburgs], than for what may be called Satisfaction to the Emperor by some new and more fatal Partition Treaty. IX. That it is no Way advantageous, but rather must be fatal to England and Holland, and their united Interests, to attempt the Conquest of the Mines in the Spanish West Indies; and that the possession of Gold or Silver Mines must not only be peculiarly destructive of our English Constitution, but is also necessarily ruinous to the Industry, Manufacture, Trade, Agriculture, Manners, Strength, and Riches, of any People, and this in less Time than one Generation. X. That it is not injurious to the Interest of England, to have a Prince on the Throne who is not a Native of this Realm; and that there could not be greater Advantages expected from any Succession, than this in prospect of the Protestant Family of Hanover. XI. That in this ensuing War for our own Liberty and that of the World, whatever is given in Taxes, is not given to the King, nor any Thing given away from our Selves.