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Year:: 1681
Contributor:: Penn, William, 1644-1718; Clark, Benjamin, active 1674-1698
Subject:: n-us-pa; Pennsylvania > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Imprint 1681.; Netherlands > Amsterdam
Extent:: 31, [1] p. ; 20 cm. (4to)

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Notes:: Aus dem in London gedrucktem und aldar bey Benjamin Clarck, Buchhändlern in George-Yard Lombard-Street befindlichen Englischen übergesetzet. Nebenst beygefügtem eheinaligem in 1675. Jahr gedrucktem Schreiben des oberwehnten Will. Penns.; Virgules replaced by commas in title page transcription.; "Eine Nachricht wegen der Landschafft Pennsilvania in America, unter dem grossen Siegel in Engelland übergeben an William Penn, &c.", p. 3-22, is a translation of the author's Some account of the province of Pennsilvania in America; lately granted under the Great Seal of England to William Penn, &c., printed in London, 1681.; "Ihr haben diese Orten ...", p. 23-28, lacks caption title and is a translation of the author's Christian liberty as it was soberly desired in a letter to certain forreign states upon occasion of their late severity to several of their inhabitants, meerly for their different perswasion and practice in point of faith and worship towards God, first printed London, 1765.; "Eine kurtze Aufzlegung etlicher englischen Wörter, so hierinnen vorkommen, und in einigen andern Derern und Sprachen ungewöhnlich find", p. 29-31, has separate caption title.; Signatures: A-D⁴ (D4 verso blank); Engraved initial.

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Some account of the province of Pennsilvania in America. German:
Christian liberty as it was soberly desired in a letter to certain foreign states upon occasion of their late severity to several of their inhabitants, meerly for their different persuasion and practice in point of faith and worship towards God. German:

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"Eine Nachricht wegen der Landschaft Pennsilvania in America: welche jüngstens unter dem grossen Siegel in Engelland an William Penn, &c. Sambt den Freyheiten und der Macht, so zu behöriger guten Regierung derselben nötig übergeben worden, und zum Unterricht derer, so etwan bereits bewogen, oder noch möchten bewogen werden, ümb sich selbsten darhin zu begeben, oder einige Vediente und Gefinde an diesen Ort zu senden, hiermit Fund gethan wird " (1681). John Carter Brown Library. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:579967/

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