September 14, 2007

Item of the Day: Hume’s History of England (1757)

Full Title:  The History of Great Britain.  Vol. II. Containing the Commonwealth, and the Reigns of Charles II. and James II. By David Hume, Esq; London: Printed for A. Millar, opposite Catharine-Street, in the Strand.  M.DCC.LVII.
Chap. VI.
17th of November. 1680.
One of the most innocent artifices, practiced by party-men at this time, was the additional ceremony, [...]