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Ward (Samuel). The Happinesse of Practice, printed for John Marriot, and John Grismand, 1622, 4 unnumbered preliminary leaves, including integral blank before title, 48 pages of text (mis-numbered 1-24, 27-42, 41-46), with final leaf (Postcript) unnumbered, disbound without covers, small slim 8vo, together with Williams (John). A Sermon of perservering in Patience, Repentance, and Humiliation, in time of Afflications, preached before the Lords of the Parliament, at the last generall Fast, upon Ash-wednesday the 18. day of February 1628. At the Collegiat Church of S. Peter in Westminster, 1st edition, printed by John Bill printer to the King's most excellent Maiestie, 1628, printed title, blank leaf, A-G4, H1, extensive early annotations to title verso and blank leaf in brown ink, both with some soiling and marks, text leaves occasionally cropped at head, with partial loss of page numbers (one or two with page number no longer visible), disbound without covers, small slim 4to, plus [Ward, Edward]. The Secret History of the Calves-Head Club: or, The Republican Unmasqu'd. Wherein is fully shewn the religion of the Calves-Head Heroes in their Anniversary Thanksgiving Songs on the Thirtieth of January, by them called Anthems; For the Years 1693, 1694, 1695, 1696, 1697. Now published, to demonstrate the restless, implacable spirit of a certain party still among us..., 2nd edition, printed, and sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster, 1703, A-D4 (including integral blank at end), 22 pp., plus blank leaf at end, untrimmed, stitched as issued, light soiling to first and last leaf, slim 4to, and two other early 18th century pamphlets: Legion's Humble Address to the Lords, Answer'd Paragraph by Paragraph, [London, 1704], 8 pp., some fraying to margins, trimmed to lower margin with loss of some words (a reply to Daniel Defoe's Humble Address, Moore 74), and The Visions of Sir Heister Ryley: with other entertainments, volume I, number 80, Wednesday February 21, 1710, 4 pp., pages numbered 317-320, both disbound without covers, slim 4to (Qty: 5) STC 25045 for the first work. STC 25727 for the second work. ESTC T105975 (a pamphlet exposing the blasphemous Calves'-Head Club, consisting of 'Independants and Anabaptists' which met on the anniversary of the death of King Charles I in order to ridicule his memory, and drink a health to Oliver Cromwell).