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The new state of England, under our sovereign, Queen Anne : in three parts.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection DA620 .M5 1707
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miege, Guy, 1644-1718?
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Courts--Great Britain.
- Courts.
- Great Britain--Description and travel.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
- Great Britain--Social life and customs--18th century.
- Manners and customs.
- Great Britain--Politics and government--1702-1714.
- Politics and government.
- Great Britain--Kings and rulers.
- Kings and rulers.
- Penn Provenance:
- Cowper, ----
- Physical Description:
- 8 unnumbered pages, 175 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 71 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 307 pages, 29 unnumbered pages (last page blank) ; 20 cm (8vo)
- Edition:
- The sixth edition, with great alterations, additions, and improvements.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for H. Mortlock and J. Robinson ..., 1707.
- Contents:
- I. An exact and particular description both of England and Wales, through their several counties, with all things remarkable therein, and the best account hitherto of London and Westminster, II. Of the original, temper, genius, language, trade, laws, and religion of the English, of our several orders of men, the nobility, gentry, clergy, and commonalty.
- III. Of the English monarchy in general, its greatness and power, the sovereign's prerogative, dignity, titles and arms, with a compendious history of the kings and queens of England to this time, of the present Queen in particular, her court, forces, and revenues, with the management thereof, of the present princes and princesses of the royal blood, and the succession to the crown as it stands settled in the Protestant line, of the high-court of Parliament, Privy Council, and all courts of judicature : with the newest and exactest lists of Her Majesty's officers in Church and State, and of the present Parliament and Convocation that has been published.
- Notes:
- Written in imitation of Edward Chamberlayne's Angeli notitia, or The present state of England. Attacked by Chamberlayne's son John as a plagiarism of his father's work. Cf. DNB, v. 13, p. 368 and v. 4, p. 8.
- Dedication signed: Guy Miege.
- With engraved frontispiece.
- Includes indexes.
- Advertisements: last 3 pages.
- OCLC:
- 228755186
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