Journals of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts-Bay, 1715

Ford, Worthington Chauncey [editor]. Journals of the House of Representatives of His Majesty's Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, 1715. Boston: Privately Printed, 1902. [10266] Limited Edition. No. 14 of 250 copies printed. Cloth spine with plain gray boards, printed paper title labels to spine & front, 12 7/8 x 8 inches. Front end paper hinge torn, rest fine. Frontispiece is a facsimile plate of a 1713 broadside. xviii., 104 clean pp., some foxing to the rear end papers. Includes an Index. Good. Hardcover. This is a copy of the first printed Journal of the House of Representatives of the Massachusetts-Bay colony. Ford's Introduction says that the House of Representatives and the Governor were often at odds, and the House deemed it expedient to have their Journals published both as a means of swaying public opinion and as a defense against misrepresentations. This book allows one to follow the proceedings of the legislature in 1715 and to gain an understanding of what was happening