Shelfmark
Fo.4.03
Main entry--corporate name
England and Wales Parliament. House of Commons.
Uniform title
[Votes. 1696-1697]
Title
Votes of the House of Commons, in the second session of this present Parliament held at Westminster the 20th day of October, in the eighth year of the reign of King William III. Anno Domini, 1696..
Publication, distribution, etc.
London, : Printed by John Leake for Timonthy Goodwin, against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-Street, and Thomas Cockerill at the Three Leggs in the Poultry,, 1696. [i.e. 1697].
Physical description
[2], 490, [4] p. ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Note
In fact a serial.
Note
Publication date is given according to Lady Day dating.
Note
Final part = number 145.
Note
Session dates: 20 October 1696 - 16 April 1697.
Note
Title within simple double-lined border; title-page ornament.
Note
Issued with a 4 p. speech to Parliament, by the king, bound at end, with separate pagination and register, and an individual title page (included in above collation): His Majesties most gracious speech to both Houses of Parliament, on Friday the sixteenth day of April, 1697. Imprint reads in part: "Printe by Charles Bill, and the executrix of Thomas Newcomb deceas'd; ... 1697".
Citation/references note
Nelson and Seccombe. Brit. Newspapers and periodicals, 1641-1700, 660
Citation/references note
ESTC, P482753
Provenance
Engraved armorial bookplate of Edward Waddington, recording donation to Eton College in 1731. 18th-century engraved armorial bookplate of Eton College.
Binding
Stab-stitched in contemporary stiff vellum covers using ms. waste; printed waste in pastedowns; ms. fore-edge title "Votes [bracketed] 20 8ber: 1696 16 April 1697".
Copy-specific note
Library copy without the 4 p. speech; in its place is bound a scribal copy ([2] p., 31 cm. and folded to fit) of: Barbados. An Act for regulating the exorbitant rates demanded & received by masters of shipps & others for fraight of sugars &c. for Europe.
Copy-specific note
Previously Di.4.16.
Subject
Sugar trade Barbados History Sources Early works to 1800.
Subject
Great Britain History William and Mary, 1689-1702 Sources.
Subject
Barbados History 17th century.
Added entry--name
Goodwin, Timothy, 1670 - 1729 publisher.
Added entry--name
Cockerill, Thomas, fl. 1674 - 1702 publisher.
Added entry--name
Waddington, Edward, 1670 or 71 - 1731 former owner.
Added entry--name
Leake, John, fl. 1673 - 1717 printer.
Added entry--name
Barbados. Council. Act for regulating the exorbitant rates demanded & received by masters of shipps & others for fraight of sugars &c. for Europe.
Added entry--name
Barbados. Council. Act for regulating the exorbitant rates demanded and received by masters of ships and others for freight of sugars etc. for Europe.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B42960