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A key to the parliamentary debates; being an humble attempt to render them intelligible.

Publisher: London : printed for J. Debrett, [1785?]Availability: Items available for reference: House of Lords Library - Palace Not for loanCall number: 91G (1). : Location(s): Derby Room, Principal Floor Call number: 91G.
Letters from a country gentleman, to a member of Parliament, on the present state of the nation.

Publisher: London : Printed for John Stockdale ..., 1789Availability: Items available for reference: House of Lords Library - Palace Not for loanCall number: VOL.268(5) (1). : Location(s): Librarian's Room, Principal Floor Call number: VOL.268(5).
A plain state of facts; or, the justice and propriety, of a late verdict impartially considered; in a letter to Sir Alexander Leith, Bart.

Publisher: London : printed for J. Cooper, 1779Availability: Items available for reference: House of Lords Library - Palace Not for loanCall number: 91D (1). : Location(s): Derby Room, Principal Floor Call number: 91D.
Administration dissected. In which the grand national culprits, are laid open for the public inspection.

Publisher: London : printed for J. Barker, 1779Availability: Items available for reference: House of Lords Library - Palace Not for loanCall number: 91D (1). : Location(s): Derby Room, Principal Floor Call number: 91D.
The structure of politics at the accession of George III / L.B. Namier.

by Namier, L. B. (Lewis Bernstein), 1888-1960.

Publisher: London : Macmillan, 1929Availability: Items available for loan: House of Lords Library - Palace (1). Location(s): Derby Room, Principal Floor Call number: 62H.
John Wilkes [electronic resource] : a friend to liberty / Peter D.G. Thomas.

by Thomas, Peter David Garner.

Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon, 1996Online access: Oxford scholarship online Availability: Items available for loan: House of Lords Library - Palace (1). Location(s): Online access .
A solemn appeal to the citizens of Great Britain and Ireland, upon the present emergency.

Publisher: London : printed for John Stockdale,..., 1788Availability: Items available for reference: House of Lords Library - Palace Not for loanCall number: VOL.268(16) (1). : Location(s): Librarian's Room, Principal Floor Call number: VOL.268(16).
The history of the late minority. Exhibiting the conduct, principles, and views, of that party, dvring the years 1762, 1763, 1764, and 1765.

by Almon, John, 1737-1805.

Publisher: London : printed in the year MDCCLXV; and reprinted, with some additions, in the year, 1766Availability: Items available for reference: House of Lords Library - Palace Not for loanCall number: 62C (1). : Location(s): Derby Room, Principal Floor Call number: 62C.
The Chathamites : a study in the relationship between personalities and ideas in the second half of the eighteenth century.

by Brown, Peter Douglas, 1925-.

Publisher: London : Macmillan, 1967Availability: Items available for loan: House of Lords Library - Palace (1). Location(s): Dewey Call number: 942.07 BRO.
An address to those citizens who, in their public and private capacity, resisted the claim of the late House of Commons, to nominate the ministers of the crown.

Edition: The third edition.Publisher: London, Printed for J. Debrett,..., 1788Availability: Items available for reference: House of Lords Library - Palace Not for loanCall number: VOL.269(3) (1). : Location(s): Librarian's Room, Principal Floor Call number: VOL.269(3).
Wilkes and liberty : a social study of 1763 to 1774 / George Rudé.

by Rudé, George, 1910-.

Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1962Availability: Items available for loan: House of Lords Library - Palace (1). Location(s): Dewey Call number: 920 WIL.
An Impartial review of the present great question, January 3, 1789.

Publisher: London : Printed for J. Debrett ..., 1789Availability: Items available for reference: House of Lords Library - Palace Not for loanCall number: VOL.269(12) (1). : Location(s): Librarian's Room, Principal Floor Call number: VOL.269(12).
Politics in the House of Lords, 1760-1775 / William Curtis Lowe.

by Lowe, William Curtis.

Publisher: Ann Arbor, Mich. ; London : University Microfilms International, 1981Availability: Items available for loan: House of Lords Library - Palace (1). Location(s): Dewey Call number: 328.421 LOW.
Shelburne and reform / by John Norris.

by Norris, John.

Publisher: London : Macmillan, 1963Availability: Items available for loan: House of Lords Library - Palace (1). Location(s): Dewey Call number: 920 PET.
Detached hints upon the question, in its present posture.

Publisher: London, J. Debrett,..., 1789Availability: Items available for reference: House of Lords Library - Palace Not for loanCall number: VOL.268(1) (1). : Location(s): Librarian's Room, Principal Floor Call number: VOL.268(1).
Answer to the Considerations on the establishment of a regency.

Edition: The fourth edition.Publisher: London : printed for J.Debrett,..., 1788Availability: Items available for reference: House of Lords Library - Palace Not for loanCall number: VOL.268(15) (1). : Location(s): Librarian's Room, Principal Floor Call number: VOL.268(15).
Reflections on the formation of a regency. In a letter to a member of the Lower House of Parliament.

Edition: The second edition.Publisher: London, Printed for J. Debrett,..., 1788Availability: Items available for reference: House of Lords Library - Palace Not for loanCall number: VOL.269(9) (1). : Location(s): Librarian's Room, Principal Floor Call number: VOL.269(9).
The source of the evil: or, the system displayed. Addressed to the gentry, yeomanry, freeholders, and electors of England and Ireland. By a freeholder. In four letters.

by Freeholder.

Publisher: Dublin : Printed by P. Byrne,..., 1784Availability: Items available for reference: House of Lords Library - Palace Not for loanCall number: VOL.181(3) (4). : Location(s): Librarian's Room, Principal Floor Call number: VOL.181(3).
The question solved: or, The right of the Prince of Wales, to be sole, unlimited and immediate regent, demonstrated, from the nature of the constitution, and the law of the land.

Publisher: Edinburgh, Printed for Charles Elliot; and C. Elliot and T. Kay,..., London, 1788Availability: Items available for reference: House of Lords Library - Palace Not for loanCall number: VOL.269(1) (1). : Location(s): Librarian's Room, Principal Floor Call number: VOL.269(1).
The R----l register. With annotations by another hand.

by Combe, William, 1741-1823.

Edition: The third edition.Publisher: London : Printed for J. Bew, 1780-1784Availability: Items available for reference: House of Lords Library - Palace Not for loanCall number: 159E (1). : Location(s): Librarian's Room, Principal Floor Call number: 159E.
Alfred unmasked, or, The new Cataline.

Publisher: [S.l.] : [s.n.], [1789?]Availability: Items available for reference: House of Lords Library - Palace Not for loanCall number: VOL.268(10) (1). : Location(s): Librarian's Room, Principal Floor Call number: VOL.268(10).
The history and proceedings of the Lords and Commons of Great- Britain, in Parliament, with regard to the regency: ... to which are added, the three reports of the physicians; Mr Pitt's letter to the Prince of Wales, with his Royal Highness's answer; the Regency Bill, ... and the speeches of the Lords and Commons of Ireland, on appointing the Prince of Wales Regent without restrictions;...

by Great Britain. Parliament | Ireland. Parliament.

Publisher: London : Printed for John Stockdale, 1789Availability: Items available for reference: House of Lords Library - Palace Not for loanCall number: 85D (1). : Location(s): Derby Room, Principal Floor Call number: 85D.
Anticipation of the speeches intended to have been spoken in the House of Commons, on Friday, May 4, upon the motion of Alderman Newnham, relative to the affairs of the Prince of Wales.

by Newnham, Nathaniel.

Edition: The third edition corrected.Publisher: London : printed for G. Kearsley,..., 1787Availability: Items available for reference: House of Lords Library - Palace Not for loanCall number: VOL.268(13) (1). : Location(s): Librarian's Room, Principal Floor Call number: VOL.268(13).
Arguments concerning the constitutional right of Parliament to appoint a regency.

by Mackintosh, James, Sir, 1765-1832.

Edition: The second edition.Publisher: London, Printed for J. Debrett,..., 1788Availability: Items available for reference: House of Lords Library - Palace Not for loanCall number: VOL.269(10) (1). : Location(s): Librarian's Room, Principal Floor Call number: VOL.269(10).
A free translation of the Preface to Bellendenus; containing animated strictures on the great political characters of the present time.

by Parr, Samuel, 1747-1825 | Bellenden, William, d. 1633?. De statu libri tres | Beloe, William, 1756-1817.

Publisher: London : Printed by Stafford and Davenport for T. Payne and Son,..., L. Davies,..., and J. Debrett,..., and sold by P. Byrne, Dublin, 1788Availability: Items available for reference: House of Lords Library - Palace Not for loanCall number: VOL.253(3) (1). : Location(s): Librarian's Room, Principal Floor Call number: VOL.253(3).
Short observations on the necessity of admitting Dublin to participate in the corn export bounties, in order to remove a present great discouragement to the agriculture and corn trade of Ireland, particularly addressed to the landed interest of the kingdom.

Publisher: Dublin : Printed by Richard Moncrieffe, 1785Availability: Items available for reference: House of Lords Library - Palace Not for loanCall number: VOL.212(3) (1). : Location(s): Librarian's Room, Principal Floor Call number: VOL.212(3).
A letter from a country gentleman, to a member of Parliament,on the present state of public affairs: in which the object of the contending parties, and the following characters are particularly considered; The dukes of Norfolk, Portland, and Northumberland; the houses of Devonshire, and Russel; the Lords Thurlow, Loughborough, and North; Mr. Pitt, ---Mr. Fox, ---Mr. Burke, ---Mr. Sheridan; Mrs. Fitzherbert, and His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.

by Combe, William, 1741-1823.

Edition: The third edition.Publisher: London, Printed at the Logographic Press,and sold by J. Walter...; and W. Richardson..., 1789Availability: Items available for reference: House of Lords Library - Palace Not for loanCall number: VOL.269(11) (1). : Location(s): Librarian's Room, Principal Floor Call number: VOL.269(11).
The Devonshire diary : memoranda on state of affairs 1759-1762 / William Cavendish, fourth Duke of Devonshire ; edited by Peter D. Brown and Karl W. Schweizer.

by Cavendish, William, 4th Duke of Devonshire, 1720-1764 | Brown, Peter Douglas, 1925- | Schweizer, Karl W.

Publisher: London : Royal Historical Society, 1982Availability: Items available for reference: House of Lords Library - Palace Not for loanCall number: CAM(4:27) (1). : Location(s): Westminster Archives Call number: CAM(4:27).
The speech of the Right Honorable W.W. Grenville, Speaker of the House of Commons, in the committee on the state of the nation, January 16, 1789.

by Grenville, William Wyndham, Baron Grenville, 1759-1834 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee on the State of the Nation.

Publisher: London : Printed for John Stockdale ..., 1789Availability: Items available for reference: House of Lords Library - Palace Not for loanCall number: VOL.268(4) (1). : Location(s): Librarian's Room, Principal Floor Call number: VOL.268(4).
The age of oligarchy : pre-industrial Britain : 1722-1783 / by Geoffrey Holmes and Daniel Szechi.

by Holmes, Geoffrey S, 1928- | Szechi, D. (Daniel).

Publisher: London : Longman, 1993Availability: Items available for loan: House of Lords Library - Palace (1). Location(s): Dewey Call number: 942.07 HOL.
Political writings / Samuel Johnson ; edited by Donald J. Greene.

by Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 | Greene, Donald.

Publisher: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 1977Availability: Items available for loan: House of Lords Library - Palace (1). Location(s): Derby Room, Principal Floor Call number: 79I.
The writings and speeches of Edmund Burke. Vol. 3, Party, Parliament, and the American War, 1774-1780 / general editor: Paul Langford ; edited by W. M. Elofson with John A. Woods ; textual editor for the writings, William B. Todd.

by Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797 | Langford, Paul, 1945- | Elofson, Warren M | Woods, John Aubin.

Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon, 1996Availability: Items available for loan: House of Lords Library - Palace (1). Location(s): Dewey Call number: 320 BUR.
Wilkes, Wyvill and reform : the parliamentary reform movement in British politics, 1760-1785 / by Ian R. Christie.

by Christie, Ian R. (Ian Ralph), 1919-.

Publisher: London : Macmillan, 1962Availability: Items available for loan: House of Lords Library - Palace (1). Location(s): Dewey Call number: 941.073 CHR.
A serious answer to Lord George Gordon's letters to the Earl of Shelburne: in which an attempt is made, by fair and ingenuous argument, to give ample satisfaction to his Lordship's doubts; and to relieve him, if possible, from any inquietude for the salvation of the state, considered either in a moral, political, or religious view. [By Felix McCarthy].

by McCarthy, Felix.

Publisher: [London] : Printed for Hookham..., 1782Availability: Items available for reference: House of Lords Library - Palace Not for loanCall number: VOL.149(4) (1). : Location(s): Librarian's Room, Principal Floor Call number: VOL.149(4).
The proposed system of trade with Ireland explained.

by Rose, George, 1744-1818.

Publisher: Dublin : Printed for Messrs. Byrne, White, and Marchbank , 1785Availability: Items available for reference: House of Lords Library - Palace Not for loanCall number: VOL.212(2) (1). : Location(s): Librarian's Room, Principal Floor Call number: VOL.212(2).
A letter from Lieut. Gen. Burgoyne to his constituents, upon his late resignation; with the correspondences between the Secretaries of War and him, relative to his return to America.

by Burgoyne, John, 1722-1792 | Barrington, William Wildman, 2nd Viscount Barrington | Jenkinson, Charles, 1st Earl of Liverpool.

Edition: The third edition.Publisher: London : printed for J. Almon, 1779Availability: Items available for reference: House of Lords Library - Palace Not for loanCall number: 91D (1). : Location(s): Derby Room, Principal Floor Call number: 91D.
Thoughts on the present proceedings of the House of Commons.

by Private citizen | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons.

Edition: The second edition.Publisher: London : Printed J. Debrett ..., 1788Availability: Items available for reference: House of Lords Library - Palace Not for loanCall number: VOL.269(2) (1). : Location(s): Librarian's Room, Principal Floor Call number: VOL.269(2).
Lord North : the noble Lord in the blue ribbon / by John Cannon.

by Cannon, John Ashton | Historical Association (Great Britain).

Publisher: London : Historical Association, 1970Availability: Items available for loan: Offsite (1). Location(s): Offsite Deepstore Call number: PAM 2012/161.
The history of the proceedings and debates of the House of Commons in the sixth session of the sixteenth Parliament of Great Britain, appointed to be holden at Westminster on Tuesday the 18th of May, 1784.

by Great Britain. Parliament.

Publisher: [London ?]: [s.n.], [1788]Availability: Items available for reference: House of Lords Library - Palace Not for loanCall number: VOL.269(7) (1). : Location(s): Librarian's Room, Principal Floor Call number: VOL.269(7).
John Wilkes : a friend to liberty / Peter D.G. Thomas.

by Thomas, Peter David Garner.

Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1996Availability: Items available for loan: House of Lords Library - Palace (1). Location(s): Dewey Call number: 920 WIL.
Pitt the elder : man of war / Edward Pearce.

by Pearce, Edward.

Publisher: London : Bodley Head, 2010Availability: Items available for loan: House of Lords Library - Palace (1). Location(s): Dewey Call number: 920 PIT.
John Wilkes : the scandalous father of civil liberty / Arthur H. Cash.

by Cash, Arthur H. (Arthur Hill), 1922-.

Publisher: New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, 2006Availability: Items available for loan: House of Lords Library - Palace (1). Location(s): Dewey Call number: 920 WIL.
Radicalism and revolution in Britain, 1775-1848 : essays in honour of Malcolm I. Thomis / edited by Michael T. Davis.

by Davis, Michael T.

Publisher: Basingstoke : Macmillan, 1999Availability: Items available for loan: House of Lords Library - Palace (1). Location(s): Dewey Call number: 941.073 RAD.
Alfred or A narrative of the daring and illegal measures to suppress a pamphlet intituled, Strictures on the declaration of Horne Tooke, Esq. respecting "Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales," commonly called Mrs. Fitzherbert. With interesting remarks on a regency; proving, on principles of law and common sense, that a certain illustrious personage is not eligible to the important trust.

by Withers, Philip, d. 1790.

Edition: Third edition.Publisher: London : Printed for the author, ..., 1789Availability: Items available for reference: House of Lords Library - Palace Not for loanCall number: VOL.268(9) (1). : Location(s): Librarian's Room, Principal Floor Call number: VOL.268(9).
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