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the most valuable set of documents connected with
English history; greatly preferable to all the sheepskins in the Tower and other places, for informing the English what the English were in former times; I believe the whole secret of the seventeenth century is involved in that hideous mass of rubbish
112:. Between 1660 and 1664 Barlow offered the tracts, together with two copies of a manuscript catalogue to the university for £4,000 but the sale was not agreed. Thomason remained hopeful that they would be sold, and in his will dated 1664, he charged his three executors (Barlow, Thomas Lockey, and
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in London, methodically collected and preserved the works over two decades. The tracts consist of a broad range of writings, including sermons, songs, political speeches, debates, opinions, jokes, gossip, news reports, descriptions of the trial and execution of
Charles I, accounts of Civil War
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battles, reports from
Parliament, and several regularly appearing publications that historians consider the forebears of modern newspapers. Thomason's collection represents approximately 80 percent of the published works released in England during this period.
222:. Because of their rarity and fragile condition, the originals are not available to general researchers. However, the library maintains paper facsimiles in its rare books collection, and in 1977 University Microfilms International released a set of 256
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Many of the publications that comprise the collection are exceedingly rare. In fact, some are not known to exist anywhere else. The tracts are bound into some 2,000 volumes and housed at the
British Library's main building at
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in May 1684 to dispose of them on her family's behalf. Over the next four decades various members of the Sisson family (descendants of Samuel Mearne) endeavoured to sell the collection on numerous occasions to
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Thomason frequently made handwritten annotations on the tracts, providing such information as publication dates and the authorship of anonymous works. During the turbulent years of the Civil War and
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Catalogue of pamphlets, books, newspapers, and manuscripts relating to the Civil War, the
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consists of more than 22,000 pamphlets, broadsides, manuscripts, books, and news sheets, most of which were printed and distributed in
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reels containing the entire collection. The microfilms are available at research libraries around the world.
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Stoker, David (1992), "Disposing of George
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Collection of Civil War Tracts: History of the Collection and its Collector
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British Government Documents in the Microform Reading Room
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from 1640 to 1661. The collection represents a major
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Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer
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123:on behalf of the Royal Library at the
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822:Imperial War Museum stamp collection
142:Thomas Thynne, 1st Viscount Weymouth
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732:Contributions Agency Collection
952:Turner Collection of Forgeries
947:Treasury Excise Correspondence
812:Harrison & Sons Collection
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195:Significance of the collection
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852:Landmark Trust Lundy Archive
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551:Leyden Medical Dissertations
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382:(2 volumes ed.), London
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318:"Thomason, George"
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158:"Honest Tom" Martin
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