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Great Britain - Politics and government - 1702-1714 - Anecdotes

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    A fragment of the history of that illustrious personage John Bull, Esq compiled by that celebrated historian Sir Humphry Polesworth. Lately discovered in the repairs of Grub-Hatch, the ancient seat of the family of the Polesworths; now first published from the original manuscript, by Peregrine Pinfold, of Grub-Hatch, Esq;.

    | Polesworth, Humphry Sir, 18th cent. | Date: 1785
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    The Oxford almanack of 1712 explain'd, or the emblems of it unriddl'd : together with some prefatory account of the emblems of the two preceding years : in a letter to a friend.

    | Date: 1711
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    Tom Double return'd out of the country, or, The true picture of a modern Whig : set forth in a second dialogue between Mr. Whiglove & Mr. Double at the Rummer Tavern in Queen-Street.

    | Davenant, Charles 1656-1714. | Date: 1702

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