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103: 166:. He kept a low profile in Parliament but voted in favour of naturalizing the Palatines in 1709 and for the impeachment of Sacheverell in 1710. This was enough to alienate the High Churchmen of Dorchester, and in 1710 they procured an address from the borough which pointedly condemned ‘republican principles and anti-monarchical notions’. They said they would take care to be represented in future Parliaments by eminently loyal and perspicuously zealous representatives. Churchill was defeated at the poll at the 233: 579: 277:(1744–8 as 2 vols.), are often grouped with Churchill's collection, as reprints of voyages and travels. Locke was involved, and it was stated on the title-page of the third edition that the preliminary essay on the history of navigation was attributed to him, which was later questioned; but it was included in Locke's works in 1812. 488:
A Collection of Voyages and Travels, some now first printed from original MSS., others translated out of foreign languages and now first published in English; in four volumes, with an original preface giving an account of the progress of
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was well known, and was issued to subscribers in 1704. Two more volumes came out in 1732, when the first four volumes were reissued; a "third edition" of the six volumes is dated 1744–6; and another by Thomas Osborne, 1752.
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Churchill was later stationer to William III of England, as the Prince became in 1689, and a leading bookseller of his time. He amassed a fortune, and was able to purchase, in 1704, the manor of
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Churchill died unmarried on 24 April 1728, and his brother John succeeded to his estate. A library at Henbury was formed by the two brothers.
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in 1681. With another brother, John, he then entered into business as booksellers and stationers at the sign of the Black Swan in
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Churchill also managed money and business for Locke. As Locke was dying in 1704 they parted at
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Churchill, Awnsham (1658-1728), of the Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London and Henbury, Dorset
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Secrets of the Kingdom: British Radicals from the Popish Plot to the Revolution of 1688-1689
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In the mid-1680s the Churchill brothers were involved in the opposition to
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of 1689 were published by Churchill, with other works by Locke.
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Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Dorchester
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The Churchill brothers published in 1695 the edition of
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A Collection from the Library of the Earl of Oxford
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Index

Ansham Churchill
Henbury, Dorset
Whig
English
British House of Commons
Dorchester, Dorset
Joshua Churchill
William Churchill
Stationers' Company
Paternoster Row
Samuel Bold
James II of England
Monmouth's Rebellion
Gaspar Fagel
Letter
religious toleration
Prince of Orange
Higher Henbury
Dorset
West Ringstead
Member of Parliament
Dorchester
1705 English general election
John Churchill
Duke of Marlborough
George Churchill
1708 British general election
1710 British general election
1713
John Locke

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