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A plain and succinct narrative of the late riots and disturbances in the cities of London and Westminster, and Borough of Southwark. Containing, particulars of the burning of Newgate, the King's Bench, the Fleet, and New Bridgewell prisons. Also, the houses of Lord Mansfield, Sir John Fielding, Messrs. Langdale, Rainsforth, Cox, Hyde, &c. Romish Chapels, schools, &c. With an account of the commitment of Lord George Gordon to the tower, and anecdotes of his life. To which is prefixed, an abstract of the act lately passed in favour of the Roman Catholics. And an account of the bill, as moved for in Parliament by Sir George Savile, with the observations of Sir George and Mr. Dunning on the papist penal laws. The second edition, corrected: with an appendix. By William Vincent, of Gray's Inn.
Holcroft, Thomas, 1745-1809.Date: M.DCC.LXXX. [1780]- Pictures
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Men attempt to quell the flames of the House of Commons with water piped from fire engines and a rocket attached to a man's back inscribed 'war'. Lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1834.
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852.Date: Oct 27 1834 :Reference: 643195i- Books
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The history and survey of London from its foundation to the present time. In two volumes. Containing. I. The most authentic Accounts of its Origin, Increase, Proceedings, Privileges, Customs, Charters, Acts of Common-Council, Memorable Actions both of the Body corporate and of the most eminent Citizens, And whatever has happened in or near that Metropolis during 1800 Years. II. The Political History of London. With an accurate Survey of The several Wards, Liberties, Precincts, &c. An Account of The several Parishes and Churches; Its Civil, Military, and Ecclesiastical Government, Companies and Commerce, Antiquities, Offices, Societies, State of Learning, and Monuments of Charity and Piety: Including the several Parishes in Westminster, Middlesex, and Surry, within the Bill of Mortality. Illustrated with One Hundred and Twenty-Three Copper-Plates, exhibiting the Plans of the Wards in London, of the City of Westminster, and Parishes adjacent; and Views of the whole City at different Times, and of all the Churches, Palaces, Bridges, Halls, Hospitals, &c. and a Map of the Country ten Miles round this great City. To which is now first added, A Succinct Review of their History, and a Candid Examination of their Defects; also an additional Plate of that beautiful and much-admired Fabric, St. Stephen's Walbroke. The Whole greatly improved by new Materials and authentic Pieces, not in former Editions. By William Maitland, F. R. S. and Others. ... . By the King's Authority.
Maitland, William, 1693?-1757.Date: MDCCLX. [1760]- Ephemera
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The Terrence Higgins Trust, 52-54 Grays inn Road, London WC1X 8BR.
Date: [1992]- Books
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The compleat mineral laws of Derbyshire, taken from the originals. I. The High Peak Laws, with their Customs. II. Stony Middleton and Eame, with a new Article made 1733. III. The Laws of the Manour of Ashforth-I'th'-Water. IV. The Low Peak Articles, with their Laws and Customs. V. The Customs and Laws of the Liberty of Litton. VI. The Laws of the Lordship of Tidswell. And all their Bills of Plaint, Customs, Cross-Bills, Arrests, Plaintiff's Case, or Brief; with all other Forms necessary for all Miners and Maintainers of Mines, within each Manour, Lordship, or Wapentake.
Date: 1734- Books
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The history of London from its foundation to the present time: Containing I. The original Constitution of London: The ancient and present State of its several Wards, Churches, Parishes, Liberties, and Districts: Accounts of all the Religious Foundations in London and its Suburbs, before the Reformation: The Names of all the Streets, Squares, Courts, Lanes, &c. within the City and Suburbs: With curious Calculations touching the Number of its Inhabitants; and Parallels between London and many of the most celebrated ancient and modern Cities; whereby it will appear that the Inhabitants of London, at present, are almost equal in Number to those of the Cities of Paris, Amsterdam, and Rome together, and superior in Number to any one City in the World. II. Historical and particular Accounts of the City Governments, Ecclesiastical, Civil, and Military, in all their Branches: With the several Charters, rendered into English; wherein are set forth their many great and valuable Privileges, Immunities, and numerous Benefactions. III. Accounts of the several Incorporations of Merchants and Trades; shewing the Institutions of their respective Companies; with their ancient Rights, Privileges, and Coats of Arms. IV. Accounts of the present State of Learning, and of the Colleges, Schools, Inns of Court, Common-Pleas, King's-Bench, Chancery, Exchequer, High Court of Parliament, &c. V. Full and particular Accounts of all the Hospitals, Alms-Houses, and other Charitable Foundations, within the City and the Parts adjacent. VI. The ancient and present State of the Tower, and of the Curiosities therein contained. Also an Account of Sir Hans Sloane's Collection, lately purchased by Parliament. And Including The several Parishes in Westminster, Middlesex, Southwark, &c. within the Bill of Mortality. By William Maitland, F. R. S. and Others. Illustrated With a Complete Set of the Churches, Palaces, Publick Buildings, Hospitals, Bridges, &c. within and adjacent to this great Metropolis: The Plans of London, exhibiting its Appearance before the Fire; in its Ruins after that Conflagration in 1666; and as it is now rebuilt and extended: And a Map of all the Villages and Country within ten Miles Circumference: Exactly drawn, and curiously engraved on One Hundred and Twenty Copper-Plates, by the best Hands, and on so large a Scale, that each Plate could not be sold separate for less than One Shilling. And Improved With a great Variety of Authentick Pieces, relating to the Progressive Alterations it has undergone from its first Foundation, both in its Political, Ecclesiastical, and Commercial State; and describing those Charitable Foundations, and other Additional Buildings, with which it has been lately adorned, and increased to such a prodigious Extent. By which Means All the Defects in the former Edition of this Work, and in other Authors on this Subject, are supplied, their Errors corrected, and the History brought down, with great Care and Impartiality, to the present Time. In two volumes. Vol. I.
Maitland, William, 1693?-1757.Date: MDCCLVI. [1756]- Videos
Fire in the blood.
Date: 2013- Videos
The age of AIDS. Part 2.
Date: 2006- Books
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Lex vadiorum. The law of mortgages. Wherein is treated, the nature of mortgages, either by deed absolute, and the several sorts of proviso's therein; Or by Defeazance, Demise and Redemise, Covenant, or otherwise: With special Clauses, Conditions, &c. Illustrated by many Presidents and adjudged Cases. Also Of Payment of Mortgage Money, by whom and to whom; and several Cases and Rules of Tender, &c. Likewise of Assignments of Mortgages; and the Manner of Transferring, Accounting, &c. With proper Presidents thereof. And Further, Of the Equity of Redemption, and the Nature of it, and by what Rules 'tis govern'd, and of Releases thereof, and how Transferrable or Extinguishable: With the Niceties of buying in Precedent Incumbrances, &c. with Presidents of Bills, Answers, Pleas, &c. The second edition; with the addition of modern cases of mortgages, Pawns, Pledges, &c. lately adjudged at Common Law, and in Equity. By Samuel Carter of the Inner-Temple, Esq;
S. C. (Samuel Carter), of the Inner-Temple, Esquire.Date: 1728- Books
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A plain and succinct narrative of the late riots and disturbances in the cities of London and Westminster, and borough of Southwark. Containing, particulars of the burning of Newgate, the King's Bench, the Fleet, and New Bridewell Prisons. Also, the Houses of Lord Mansfield, Sir John Fielding, Messrs. Langdale, Rainsforth, Cox, Hyde, &c. Romish Chapels, Schools, &c. with an account of the commitment of Lord George Gordon to the Tower, And Anecdotes Of His Life. To Which IS Prefixed, An Abstract of the Act lately passed in Favour of the Roman Catholics. And an Account of the Bill, as moved for in Parliament by Sir George Savile, with the Observations of Sir George and Mr. Dunning on the Papist penal Laws. By William Vincent, of Gray's Inn.
Holcroft, Thomas, 1745-1809.Date: M.DCC.LXXX. [1780]- Books
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A catalogue of books. Consisting of a curious collection of the most eminent English authors, in divinity, history, travels, miscellanies, lives, physick, mathameticks, poetry, &c. which will begin to be sold by auction on Thursday Octob. the 24th, at the Marine Coffee-House in Birchin-Lane, Cornhill, from four to eight in the evening, and will continue daily till all are sold. By Edmund Curll, bookseller, at the peacock without Temple-Bar, where catelogues are deliver'd. And by Charles Smith, at the Buck between the two Temple-Gates in Fleet street; Mr. Hartley against Grays Inn in Holbourn; Mr. Wale, at the Angel in St. Paul's Church-Yard; Mr. Parkhurst, in Cheapside; Mr. Keble, at the Black-Bill in Cornhill, and at the place of sale.
Halsey, R.Date: 1706]- Books
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Select trials at the Sessions-House in the Old-Bailey, for murder, robberies, rapes, sodomy, coining, Frauds, Bigamy, and other Offences. To which are added, genuine accounts of the lives, behaviour, confessions and dying speeches of the most eminent convicts. In Four Volumes. From the year 1720, to this time. ... . From December 1720, to October 1723. Amongst a great many other remarkable Trials are, For Murder. James Hall, Sarah Malcomb, T. Billings, T. Wood, and Catherine Hayes, Capt. John Jayne, Richard Savage, James Clough, Lewis Houssart, Major J. Oneby, Burnworth, Blewit, and their Gang, T. Athoe, and his Son, &c. &c. &c. For the Highway. W. Gorden, W. Wreathock, and his Gang, T. Carr, and E. Adams, Mary Young alias Jenny Diver, James Dalton, &c. &c. &c. For Forgery. Richard Brabant, Parson Kinnersley, and W. Hales, &c. &c. &c. For Rapes and Attempts to Ravish. Arthur Gray, Samuel Street, Col. Charteris, William West, &c. &c. &c. For receiving stolen Goods. J. Barthelmi, Jonathan Wild, &c. &c. &c. For Burglary. John Sheppard, Edgworth Bess, &c. &c. &c. For Sodomy and Sodomitical Practices. Margaret Clap, Charles Hitchin, &c. &c. &c.
Date: M.DCC.XLII. [1742]- Pictures
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A diseased penis. Watercolour by C. D'Alton, 18--.
D'Alton, Christopher, active 1847-1871.Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 574771i- Archives and manuscripts
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Miscellaneous papers collected by Dr. H. Morley Fletcher, FRCP
Date: 1695-1864Reference: RAMC/205Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection- Archives and manuscripts
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Correspondence relating to the purchase of land and the financing, design and building of the Retreat
Date: 1793-1796Reference: RET/2/2/1/1Part of: The Retreat Archive- Archives and manuscripts
Joan Cole, Chairman's Secretary, 1949-1977
Date: 31 Aug 2001Reference: WF/M/AV/O/02/38Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Letters of condolence, etc, to Max Fordham
Date: 1995Reference: PP/FOR/A.11Part of: Michael Fordham- Archives and manuscripts
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Correspondence: G
Date: 1990-1991Reference: PP/CRI/J/1/3/6/1Part of: Francis Crick (1916-2004): archives- Archives and manuscripts
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Correspondence: G
Date: 1994-1995Reference: PP/CRI/J/1/4/7Part of: Francis Crick (1916-2004): archives- Archives and manuscripts
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Book of Memory: draft entries
Date: 20th centuryReference: SA/MWF/C.245Part of: Medical Women's Federation- Archives and manuscripts
Sir John Vane, Director of Research 1973-1985
Date: 7 Aug 2001Reference: WF/M/AV/O/02/33Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Pictures
Joseph Ritson, the antiquarian, stands at his desk writing in a large open book within a room filled with folios and vegetables. Aquatint by J. Sayers, 1803.
Sayers, James, 1748-1823.Date: 22 March 1803Reference: 589427i- Archives and manuscripts
Seminar. 'Research in General Practice'
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 1996-1998Reference: GC/253/A/2/2Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars- Archives and manuscripts
Gallop, John Winston (b.1910)
Gallop, John Winston, b.1910.Date: 1949-1980Reference: GC/160- Archives and manuscripts
'Dartford Museum' - Prints
Date: 1888-1975Reference: WF/M/I/DM/02Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd