[iv] + 302 pages in all. Page [i] (the main title page) reads: "Historical Collections, Or a brief ACCOUNT Of the � most Remarkable TRANSACTIONS Of The two last PARLIAMENTS Held and � Dissolved AT Westminster and Oxford. LONDON, Printed for Simon Neale, at the three Pidgeons in Bedford-Street in Covent Garden, 1681." Page 1 is headed thus: "HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS O � R, TRANSACTIONS OF THE LATER PARLIAMENT, IN A DIALOGUE BETWEEN � FAME and TRUTH." Page 132 is headed thus: "THE SPEECH OF WILLIAM HOWARD Late Lord Viscount � Stafford,Upon the Scaffoldon Tower-Hill, immediately before his � Execution, Wednesday, Decemb. 29. 1680." Page 189 is headed thus : "Historical Collections, A LIST OF � BOTH HOUSES OF Parliament, Which met at Westminster, upon the � 21st. of October, 1680. and was Dissolv'd on the 18th.of January � following." Page 229 (a subsidiary title page) reads: "Historical � Collections, OR THE CONTINUATION Of the PROCEEDINGS Of the � PARLIAMENT, Begun and Dissolved AT OXFORD, LONDON, Printed in the � YEAR 1681." Page 251 is headed thus: "Historical Collections, A NEW AND TRUE � CATALOGUE OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS, Together with the Knights, � Citizens, Burgesses, and Barons OF THE CINQUE-PORTS; That were � Returned to seve in the Parliament of ENGLAND Assembled at OXFORD � the twenty-first of March 1681." Pages 299-302 are an alphabetical index headed "The � Contents." "Good" condition blue/gilt hardback in � 160 pages; a good tight exemplar; FULLEST DETAILS of contents, condition and size (in both � inches and centimetres) are all clearly shown in the accompanying FULL-SIZED DIGITAL IMAGES. ***** Decent exemplar of a now-scarce work. *****

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