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Front Page  Titles (by Subject) To the PUBLIC. - A Collection of Tracts, vol. I
To the PUBLIC. - John Trenchard, A Collection of Tracts, vol. I [1751]Edition used:A Collection of Tracts. By the Late John Trenchard, Esq; and Thomas Gordon, Esq; The First Volume. (London: F. Cogan, 1751).
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- To William Hippisley, Esq;
- To the Public.
- A Collection of Tracts.
- Trenchard: an Argument, Shewing That a Standing Army Is Inconsistent With a Free Government, and Absolutely Destructive to the Constitution of the English Monarchy. An. 1697.
- Trenchard: the Second Part of an Argument, Shewing, That a Standing Army Is Inconsistent With a Free Government, and Absolutely Destructive to the Constitution of the English Monarchy. With Remarks On the Late Published List of King Jame S’s Irish
- Trenchard: a Letter From the Author of the Argument Against a Standing Army, to the Author of the Ballancing Letter.
- Trenchard: a Short History of Standing Armies In England. Anno 1698.
- Trenchard: the Thoughts of a Member of the Lower House, In Relation to a Project For Restraining and Limitting the Power of the Crown In the Future Creation of Peers. Anno 1719.
- Trenchard: Some Reflections Upon a Pamphlet, Called, the Old Whig. Anno 1719.
- Gordon: a Modest Aplogy For Parson Alberoni, Governor to King Philip, a Minor, and Universal Curate of the Whole Spanish Monarchy; the Whole Being a Short, But Unanswerable Defence of Priestcraft, and a New Confutation of the Bishop of Bangor.
- Gordon: an Apology For the Danger of the Church, Proving, That the Church Is, and Ought to Be Always In Danger; and That It Would Be Dangerous For Her to Be Out of Danger. Being a Second Part of the Apology For Parson Alberoni. Anno 1719.
- Gordon: a Dedication to a Great Man, Concerning Dedications: Discovering Amongst Other Wonderful Secrets, What Will Be the Present Posture of Affairs a Thousands Years Hence.
- Gordon: a Letter to the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury; Proving, That His Grace Cannot Be the Author of the Letter to an Eminent Presbyterian Clergyman In Swisserland, In Which the Present State of Religion, In England, Is Blackened and Exposed, and
- Gordon: a True Account of a Revelation Lately Discovered to Jeremiah Van Husen, a German Physician. As Be Deliver’d It On Oath Before John Shephered, Esq; One of His Majesty’s Justices of the Peace; Foretelling Many Strange Events; Particularly, the
- Trenchard: a Comparison Between the Proposals of the Bank and the South-sea Company, Wherein Is Shewn, That the Proposals of the First Are Much More Advantageous to the Publick, Than Those of the Latter; If They Do Not Offer Such Terms to the Annuita
- Trenchard: Some Considerations Upon the State of Our Publick Debts In General, and of the Civil List In Particular. Anno 1720.
- Gordon: a Learned Dissertation Upon Old Women, Male and Female, Spiritual and Temporal In All Ages; Whether In Church, State, Or Exchange- Alley. Very Seasonable to Be Read At All Times, But Especially At Particular Times. Anno 1720.
- An Essay Upon the Late Union of the Whig-chiefs.
- Gordon: Considerations Offered Upon the Approaching Peace, and Upon the Importance of Gibraltar to the British Empire, Being the Second Part of the Independant Whig. Anno 1720.
- Gordon: a Letter to a Leading Great Man, Concerning the Rights of the People to Petition, and the Reasonableness of Complying With Such Petitions. Anno 1720.
- Gordon: a Supplement to the London-journal of March 25, 1721; Being the State of the Case Relating to the Surrender of Mr. Knight, Farther Considered. Anno 1728.
- Gordon: the Character of an Independent Whig. Anno 1720.
- Gordon: a Discourse of Standing Armies; Shewing the Folly, Uselesness, and Danger of Standing Armies In Great Britain. Anno 1722.
- Gordon: the Nature and Weight of the Taxes of the Nation: Shewing That, By the Continuance of Heavy Taxes and Impositions, and the Mis-application of Publick Money, Trade Is Destroy’d, the Poor Increased; and the Miseries and Misfortunes of the Whole King
- Trenchard: the Natural History of Superstition.
- This Day Is Published,
To the PUBLIC.
WE have annexed our Authorities for ascribing those Tracts to Mr. Trenchard, which are imputed to Him. Mr. Collins, who was intimate with both him and Mr. Gordon, has, in his Catalogue, ascertained most of the Pieces here inserted; as to the others, we appeal to their surviving Friends for the Truth of our asserting, We know them to be so. | 1. | Argument against Standing Armies, 1st Part, | 1697 | | 2. | Argument, &c. 2d Part | 1697 | | 3. | Answer to the Ballancing Letter, by the Author of the Argument, &c. | 1697 | | 4. | History of Standing Armies, &c. | 1698 | | All these acknowledged to be Mr. Trenchard’s, and several Times printed with his Name. | | 5. | Thoughts of a Member, &c. | 1719 | | 6. | Reflections on the Old Whig | 1719 | | 7. | Comparison of the Proposals, &c. | 1720 | | 8. | Considerations on the Public Debts, &c. | 1720 | | 9. | The Natural History of Superstition | 1709 | | For the Authority of these, see the Article Trenchard in the General Dictionary; likewise Collins’s Catalogue 1st Part; and Mr. Gordon refers to No. 8 as Mr. Trenchard’s in one of his Cato’s Letters. | | 10. | A Letter of Thanks from the Author of the Comparison of the Proposals of the Bank and South-sea Companies, to the Author of the Examination of the South-sea Scheme, &c. |
This is likewise mentioned in the General Dictionary as Mr. Trenchard’s.
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