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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. i. JAN. 29, wie.
HUNTINGDONSHIRE CIVIL WAR TRACTS.
One of the most interesting groups of tracts in a local collection is that connected with the Civil War. These fragile and badly printed little quartos always appeal to one's love of history. The very handling of them has a special attraction; they seem to allure one on, recalling as they so vividly do the past. They are also valuable contemporary records.
Some of our local writers, as Gorham, Kingston, and others, have made use of them in their works. The tracts have lately enlisted more interest, and deeper study has been the result. Perhaps this has been since the publication of the catalogue of Thomason Tracts of the British Museum.
Not long ago I had the opportunity of adding some very scarce ones from Lord Polwarth's library to my Huntingdonshire collection, and these additions make it now a fairly good one. As I have not seen a list specially devoted to this county, I venture to subjoin one, hoping it may be useful.
The very many tracts referring to or written about any of the many Huntingdon- shire families connected with this period I have omitted, as the list might be too lengthy for dear old ' N. & Q.' There were Edward Montague of Hinchingbrooke, the Earl of Manchester of Kimbolton Castle, the Lord Kimbolton, Stephen Marshall of Godman- chester, Philip Nye of Kimbolton, Col. Valentine Walton of Great Staughton, Henry Lawrence of St. Ives, and a host of others, besides the Cromwell family and their connexions. All tracts referring to these I have considered as biographical rather than topographical, and have ex- cluded them.
On looking over the tracts I notice several interesting features. Some have borders to the title-pages, and others have them not. Nos. 10, 12, and 13 have narrow fancy borders, while Nos. 22, 23, and 26 have only two thin lines, and Nos. 6 and 11 a single line. It may be borders were used from stock and also put to other pamphlets. Two of them, Nos. 22 and 23, have woodcuts on the last pages : the first a figure, and the second ships. The tracts are of the usual character and size, and the imprints are, I believe, very well known. I should be glad to hear of any additions to the list. 16-11 [March 15].
1. The | SEVEBALL
of | Both Houses I of
Votes and Resolutions |
PARLIAMENT, | Concern-
ing the Kings last Message, sent | from Huntington
to both Houses, on Wed- | nesday the 16. of
March, 1641. | With his Majestie's Message before
to | both Houses of Parliament, | March 15, 1641.
Printed at London for Rich. Harper and I. G. | 1641.
Dated from " Huntington 15 Martii, 1641."
4 11. A 2, A 3.
[1641 March 17].
2. A | REMONSTRANCE | OF THE GREAT AFFAYRES and | Matters of Consequence betwixt the j King and both Houses of Parliament. | March, 16th, 1641. | TOUCHING THE PRESENT E- j state of these two Kingdomes, En- \ g^and and Ireland. \ With the Votes and Resolutions of both
Houses of Parliament, Concerning the Kings last message from Huntington, March 17, 1641.
[Woodcut device.]
London, Printed for John Thomas, 1641. 4 11. 8 pp. '
1641 [Aug. 27].
3. The | Remonstrance | and | Petition | of the | County of Huntington, the Knights, j Gentle- men, Clergy, Freeholders and | Inhabitants. To the Right Honourable the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, for the Continuance of the Church-government, and DIVINE SERVICES, or Book of | COMMON PRAYER Matth. 21. Vers. 13. | My house shall be called the house of prayer.
Printed in the Year. 1641. B.M. 117 f. 26.
1641.
4. The | Arminian | Nynnery : | or, | A Briefe description | and Relation of the late erected Mo-
| nasticall Place, called the Arminian | Nvnnery at little Gidding in | Hvntington-shire. Humbly recommended to the wise Consideration \ of this present Parliament.
The Foundation is by a Company of Farrars | at Giddding.
[Woodcut.]
Printed for Thomas Underbill MDCXLI. 6 11. 10 pp.
1642 [Jan.].
5. The Fovre | PETITIONS | of | HUNTING- TON SHIRE, NORFOLK | SVFFOLK, and ESSEX. | loyntly concerning the libertie of the Subiects, to the Ho | nourable Assembly of the High Court of | Parliament. | Vnanimously concurring to the rooting out of Papists, | and their Religion from our Kingdome ; and the re- | moving the Popish Lords, and Bishops from their | Votes in the House of Peeres : and that there | may be a Speedy Reformation of Re- | ligion in our Church, according | to the Word of God.
The Petition of Huntington-shire. particularly con- | tabling the behalf e of the Lord Kimbolton. [Small woodblock.]
London,
Printed for lohn Hammond, 1642. 4 11. 7 pp.
The Huntingdonshire portion of this, tract is reprinted in ' Fenland N. & Q.,' art. 167.
[1642, lanuary 17.]
6. Two | ORDINANCES | of the | LORDS arid COMMONS | Assembled in Parliament, | For the Assessing afll men of ability, | within the Counties of Northampton, Leicester, \ Derby, Rut-
