Votes of the House of Commons

All titles
  • Votes of the House of Commons
  • Votes. 1680-1681. (London and Oxford ed.)
  • Address of the Commons in Parliament; Address humbly presented to His Majesty; Humble address of the Commons of Parliament; Address of the Commons in Parliament to his Majesty, to remove Sir George Jeffreys no. 19; Address humbly presented to His Majesty from both Houses of Parliament for a day of humiliation no. 22; Humble address of the Commons in Parliament to remove George Earl of Hallifax no. 24; Articles of impeachment against Edward Seymour Esq; no. 25; His Majesties message to the Commons in Parliament, relating to Tangier no. 28
  • Report of the committee, for receiving informations concerning the Popish Plot; Humble address of the House of Commons, presented to his Majesty, upon Tuesday the 21th day of December, 1680; Resolutions of the House of Commons for the impeachment of Sir William Scroggs Knt.; Articles of impeachment of high treason, and other great crimes and misdemeanors against Sir William Scroggs; Report from the committee of the Commons in Parliament ... to consider the petition of Richard Thompson of Bristol
People / Organizations
Imprint
London [England] : printed by the assigns of John Bill, Thomas Newcomb, and Henry Hills, printers to the Kings most excellent Majesty, 1680-[1681]
Publication year
1689
ESTC No.
P469586
Grub Street ID
56860
Description
v. ; 1/2°; 2°.
Note
Preliminary issue and no. 28 have title pages; later issues have caption titles

Titles fluctuate

First issue imprint includes year of publication

Imprint from colophon of second issue; most later imprints undated

Place of publication varies; issues 59-62 [sic], 21-28 Mar. 1681 were published in Oxford

Other imprint names include: John Wright, Richard Chiswell, Gabriel Kunholt, Thomas Snowden, Langley Curtis in London; Leo Lichfield and the widow Beckford in Oxford

Verso of preliminary issue title-page has note appointing Thomas Newcomb and Henry Hills and "no other person" to print the votes, signed: "Wi[lliam]. Williams, Speaker"; later issues have orders-to-print above colophon, except no. 28, which has the order-to-print on a separate leaf

A number of speeches, reports and addresses to the Commons are issued as parts of, or supplements to, the Votes; some are also issued separately. Each of these has continuous pagination and numbering but an individual title.