Rules how to compose : a facsimile edition of a manuscript from the library of the Earl of Bridgewater (circa 1610) now in the Huntington Library, San Marino, California /

Mode of access: Internet.

A memoir of Charles Mordaunt, Earl of Peterborough and Monmouth : with selections from his correspondence /

Mode of access: Internet.

A Catalogue of the pictures at Weston, belonging to the Earl of Bradford.

Includes index.

The works of Horatio Walpole, earl of Orford ...

The Anecdotes of painting and Catalogue of engravers were compiled from manuscripts of George Vertue.

Elements of a polite education : Carefully selected from the letters of the late Right Honorable Philip Dormer Stanhope, earl of Chesterfield, to his son /

Mode of access: Internet.

Biographical catalogue of the portraits at Weston, the seat of the Earl of Bradford.

Includes index.

The life of Simon de Montfort, earl of Leicester, with special reference to the parliamentary history of his time,

Mode of access: Internet.

The life of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield,

Vol. 3 by W. F. Monypenny and G. E. Buckle; v. 4-6 by G. E. Buckle.

Letters from George Lord Carew to Sir Thomas Roe, ambassador to the court of the Great Mogul. 1615-1617.

Mode of access: Internet.

The works of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield : embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches /

Also issued in an Empire ed. of 1244 sets, and an Earls ed.

Little Jennings and fighting Dick Talbot : a life of the Duke and Duchess of Tyrconnel /

Mode of access: Internet.

The Earl of Derby,

Mode of access: Internet.

Select Document: Sir George Radcliffe’s “Original of Government” (1639) and Absolutist Political Theory in Stuart Ireland

A seventeenth-century manuscript miscellany, which once belonged to Archbishop James Ussher of Armagh, contains a short treatise on the origins of government by Sir George Radcliffe. Radcliffe was legal assistant to Sir Thomas Wentworth, lord deputy of Ireland (from January 1640 earl of Strafford and lord lieutenant). The treatise insisted on the divine origin of all human political power and implied that the best form of government was absolute monarchy, in which the monarch was free of all human law and subject to divine restraint alone. It will be suggested below that the composition of this treatise can be dated to the summer of 1639. This introduction will offer an outline of Radcliffe’s education and political career, explain the genesis of his treatise on government, point out some pertinent aspects of its argument, and finally assess the document’s significance.

The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield, embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches : with a critical introduction /

Title within ornamental border in gold and colors.