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  A proposal for raising a million on a fund of interest by setling one hundred thousand pounds yearly, to pay 8 per cent. for one million two hundred thousand pounds, of which the King to have a million.
  Date of publication:
  1694
  

  Author(s):

  Neale, Thomas, d. 1699?
  Description:
  Caption title. Dated at end: January 29th 1693 [i.e. 1694?]. Reproduction of the original in the University of London.
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  A Proposal for raising one hundred thousand pounds, by laying a duty upon hats.
  Date of publication:
  1698
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
  Description:
  Date and place of publication suggested by Wing. Reproduction of original in: Sutro Library.
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  A proposal for raising sixty thousand pound per annum, without charge of collecting, in a treble benefit to the nation by the payment. / Humbly offered to the Parliament of Great Britain.
  Date of publication:
  1700
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
  Description:
  Imprint suggested by Wing. Reproduction of original in the British Library.
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  A proposal for raising the annual sum of 21666l. 13s. 4d.
  Date of publication:
  1705
  

  Author(s):

  Martin, Hugh, of London.
  Description:
  Signed: Hugh Martin. Dated 1700? by Wing; 1705? by ESTC. With a docket title. Suggesting a duty on seals for woolen cloth. Reproduction of original in the British Library.
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  A proposal for raising the annual sum of 520 000 l. and not touch the prime cost of wrought goods above one farthing in the shilling, nor be at any more charge than two pence in the pound collecting. ... By Samuel Myhill, weaver ...
  Date of publication:
  1705
  

  Author(s):

  Mayhill, Samuel.
  Description:
  Date of publication from Wing (2nd ed.). Reproduction of the original in the Guildhall Library, London.
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  A proposal for raising the publick credit by setting up an office for transferring and discounting tallies.
  Date of publication:
  1697
  

  Author(s):

  Barbon, Nicholas, d. 1698.
  Description:
  Caption title. Signed at end by author: "N.B." -- p. 2. Place and date of publication suggested by Wing (2nd ed.). Reproduction of original in: Sutro Library.
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  A proposal for regulating and advancing the woollen manufacture and to make it more profitable to the merchant and maker, than formerly. Humbly offered, to the honourable, Knights, citizens, and burgesses in Parliament assembled: by one who hath had 30 years experience in that trade, and in importing of wool from Ireland.
  Date of publication:
  1698
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
  Description:
  Place of publication from Wing. Reproduction of original in the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C..
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  A proposal for remeeding [sic] our excessive luxury
  Date of publication:
  1700
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
  Description:
  Caption title. Imprint conjectured by Wing. Reproduction of the original at the British Library.
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  A proposal for supplying His Majesty with twelve hundred thousand pounds, by mending the coin, and yet preserve the ancient standard of the kingdom. / By a Gentleman.
  Date of publication:
  1695
  

  Author(s):

  L. R., gentleman.
  Description:
  Dedication signed: L.R. Reproduction of original in the Glasgow University Library.
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  A proposal for the advancement of trade, upon such principles as must necessarily enforce it.
  Date of publication:
  1676
  

  Author(s):

  Murray, Robert, 1635-1725?
  Description:
  Caption title. "To the Reader" signed: Robert Murray, & Comp. Imprint from colophon. Reproduction of original in the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign Campus). Library.
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  A proposal for the better education of infants.
  Date of publication:
  1687
  

  Author(s):

  England and Wales. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Middlesex)
  Description:
  Imprint suggested by Wing. Reproduction of original in the Bodleian Library.
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  A proposal for the better securing of health. Humbly offered to the consideration of the Honourable Houses of Parliament.
  Date of publication:
  1689
  

  Author(s):

  Chamberlen, Hugh.
  Description:
  Attributed to Hugh Chamberlen by Wing. Caption title. Advertisement at end. Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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  A proposal for the better supplying of churches in our foreign plantations, and for converting the savage Americans to Christianity
  Date of publication:
  1724
  

  Author(s):

  Berkeley, George, 1685-1753.
  Description:
  Anonymous. By George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne. Reproduction of original from the British Library. Keynes, 118 Goldsmiths', 6294 Sabin, 4878 English Short Title Catalog, ESTCT14992. Electronic data. Farmington Hills, Mich. ...
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  A proposal for the erecting of county registers for free-hold lands shewing the great use and benefit of them. By E.B. Esquire.
  Date of publication:
  1697
  

  Author(s):

  Bohun, Edmund, 1645-1699.
  Description:
  E.B. = Edmund Bohun. Reproduction of the original in the Goldsmiths' Library, University of London.
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  A proposal for the farming of licence to use no conscience at all
  Date of publication:
  1663
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
  Description:
  A satire. Pages cropped and stained with slight loss of print. Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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  A proposal for the King's supply, and for quieting the people, and to prevent the loss of our wealth to foreigners
  Date of publication:
  1695
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
  Description:
  Imprint from Wing CD-ROM, 1996. Reproduction of original in the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C..
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  A proposal for the more easie advancing to the crown, any fixed sum of mony, to carry on the war against France, and payment of the debts contracted thereby Robert Murray.
  Date of publication:
  1696
  

  Author(s):

  Murray, Robert, 1635-1725?
  Description:
  Reproduction of original in Huntington Library. Caption title.
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  A proposal for the raising the summe of two hundred thousand pounds or more per annum as a fund or security for advancing moneys for the service of the government, with great ease to the subject.
  Date of publication:
  1690
  

  Author(s):

  T. H.
  Description:
  At end of text: By T.H. Imprint from Wing. With docket title: A proposal for raising a supply of two hundred thousand pounds per annum, and upwards, by a certain duty upon hatts. Reproduction of the original in the British ...
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  A proposal for the raising two millions of money, after the rate of fourteen pounds per cent for one life, or leafe of forty years, which shall expire first
  Date of publication:
  1696
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
  Description:
  Caption title. Imprint from colophon. Place and date of publication suggested by Wing (2nd ed.). Reproduction of original in: British Library.
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  A proposal for the sale of several rich Indian goods, by way of ticket or lot to the value of 1500 1. Consisting of fine cabinets and skreens, tables, stands and glasses, tea-tables and stands; chests, trunks, &c. and several other sorts of Japan: several sets of fine china jars; also all sorts of China fine Indian wrought beds and quilts, rich Indian silks, viz. atlasses, cuttanees, and several other sorts of Indian silks, fine Indian fanns, muslins and calicoes and several others too long to incert.
  Date of publication:
  1694
  

  Author(s):

  Rose, Joseph, fl. 1694.
  Description:
  Caption title. Place and date of publication suggested by Wing (2nd ed.). Reproduction of original in: Harvard University. Library.
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  A proposal for the sinking of several deficiences by raising three millions of money, at the rate of 10l. per cent. per annum, for one life, or lease of thirty years, which of them shall first expire. Most humbly offered to the consideration of the House of Commons.
  Date of publication:
  1700
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
  Description:
  Caption title. Imprint from Wing. Copy has annotation: The principal money of the debt of K Charles the second anno 1667 (commonly called his Goldsmith's debt) may be taken for tickets/. Reproduction of the original in the ...
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  A proposal for the speedy enriching both of the King and people
  Date of publication:
  1662
  

  Author(s):

  Burghill, Fran. (Francis)
  Description:
  Dedication signed: F. Burghill. Reproduction of original in the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign Campus). Library.
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  A proposal for the speedy procuring a sufficient quantity of plate, to make 950000 l. of new money, humbly offer'd to the consideration of the Lords and Commons now assembled in Parliament.
  Date of publication:
  1695
  

  Author(s):

  T. E.
  Description:
  Author's initials from Wing. Imprint from Wing. Reproduction of original in the British Library.
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  A proposal for the universal use of Irish manufacture
  Date of publication:
  1735
  

  Author(s):

  Jonathan Swift
  Swift Archive identifier:
  9_2_4
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  A proposal for the universal use of Irish manufacture
  Date of publication:
  1735
  

  Author(s):

  Jonathan Swift
  Swift Archive identifier:
  9_2_2
  Description:
  Works, Faulkner, 1735, iv. 21-33
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  A proposal for translating the duty of excise. From malt-drinks to malt Whereby may be advanced to the crown fifteen millions, for the carrying on the war against France. Together, with some brief notes and observations on the laws and administration, in relation to that duty; and the partiality and inequality thereof. By Robert Murray, gent.
  Date of publication:
  1696
  

  Author(s):

  Murray, Robert, 1635-1725?
  Description:
  Caption title. Imprint suggested by Wing. Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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  A proposal humbly offer'd to the honourable House of Commons, how to raise two hundred thousand pounds per annum.
  Date of publication:
  1696
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
  Description:
  Imprint from Wing. Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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  A proposal humbly offer'd to the Honourable House of Commons; for an additional tax to be paid upon regulating and licensing pawn-brokers; and all manner of persons driving trades or occupations, that have not served apprentiships, or be not free of some city or town corporate. Testimonials also for servants, ... to be licensed by the justices of peace, as retaylers of wine ...
  Date of publication:
  1680
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
  Description:
  Imprint from Wing. Reproduction of original in the British Library.
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  A proposal humbly offered for the farming of liberty of conscience
  Date of publication:
  1663
  

  Author(s):

  Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680. and B. G.
  Description:
  Reproduction of original in Huntington Library. Signed at end: B.G. Attributed to Samuel Butler. cf. NUC pre-1956.
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  A proposal humbly offered to the honourable House of Commons for raising 5310063. 12s.
  Date of publication:
  1695
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
  Description:
  Imprint from Wing. Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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  A proposal humbly offered to the honourable the Commons in Parliament assembled, to raise five hundred thousand pound present mony for the King, and to pay the Irish transport debt by encouraging the exportation-trade of coals, and laying but 18 d. per chaldron in the out-ports, and 20 d. per chaldron on the port of London, instead of 5s. per chaldron, according to a bill brought in for the said purpose.
  Date of publication:
  1695
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
  Description:
  Caption title. Place and dated of publication taken from Wing (2nd ed.). Reproduction of originals in: British Library and Lincoln's Inn (London, England) Library.
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  A proposal humbly offered to the King and Parliament, for raising a considerable sum of mony yearly to His Majesty. By James Lord Mordington, B. Whitelocke Esq; and Rich. Cotton cloth-worker.
  Date of publication:
  1695
  

  Author(s):

  Mordington, James Douglas, Lord, b. 1651. ; Whitelocke, Bulstrode, b. 1647. and Cotton, Rich., cloth-worker.
  Description:
  Imprint from Wing. Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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  A proposal humbly offered to the Parliament, for suppressing of popery
  Date of publication:
  1680
  

  Author(s):

  J. B.
  Description:
  Reproduction of original in Huntington Library. Caption title. Attributed to J.B. cf. BM. Publication information taken from colophon. Signed: J.B.
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  A proposal humbly offered to this honorable House of Commons, by John Horne upholsterer, London, to change both the good and bad moneys of this Kingdom, and to make out the want of weight in the right coin, and in so doing to raise the King, near two millions of money; and also to cause a free and open trade amongst ourselves, and that every person shall make use as well of his bad moneys as his good, until his bad money hath wasted it self quite away ...
  Date of publication:
  1717
  

  Author(s):

  Horne, John, upholsterer.
  Description:
  (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A44500) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 38688) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1926:17)
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  A proposal humbly presented to the Right Honourable the House of Commons, by which it is reasonable to suppose a million may be raised (and as it is hoped much more) without oppressing any person, every one being at their liberty to pay, or not to pay
  Date of publication:
  1697
  

  Author(s):

  Malkin, G. (Gilbert)
  Description:
  Signed: Gilbert Malkin. A proposal to sell licences to wear foreign apparel. Imprint from Wing. Reproduction of the original at the British Library.
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  A proposal of a plain and ready way to raise a very great sum of monies, by a tax, or poll upon quick stock, which was never yet charged nor assessed.
  Date of publication:
  1697
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
  Description:
  Caption title. Place and date of publication suggested by Wing (2nd ed.). Reproduction of original in: Columbia University Library.
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  A proposal of special advantage to this nation and posterity
  Date of publication:
  1672
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
  Description:
  Caption title. Imprint from colophon. A theory concerning the value of credit and the use of money. Cropped at head, affecting pagination. Reproduction of the original in the Cambridge University Library.
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  A Proposal of the poets to raise Their Majesties a sum of money humbly recommended to the consideration of the Honourable House.
  Date of publication:
  1693
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
  Description:
  Caption title. Reproduction of original in the Harvard University Library.
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  A proposal of union amongst Protestants, from the last-will of the most Reverend Doctor Sands sometime Archbishop of York (as the sentiment of the first reformers) humbly presented to the Parliament.
  Date of publication:
  1679
  

  Author(s):

  Sandys, Edwin, 1516?-1588.
  Description:
  Reproduction of original in Huntington Library. Caption title.
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  A proposal offered to the committee of the honourable House of Commons appointed to consider of ways for the better providing for the poor and setting them on work, and now under their consideration.
  Date of publication:
  1700
  

  Author(s):

  Cary, John, d. 1720?
  Description:
  Caption title. Signed: John Cary. Imprint suggested by Wing. Reproduction of original in the Christ Church Library, Oxford University.
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