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An enquiry into the patriarchal and druidical religion, temples, &c. Being the substance of some letters to Sir Hildebrand Jacob, Bart. Wherein, the primaeval institution and universality of the Christian scheme is manifested; The principles of the patriarchs and druids are laid open and shewn to correspond entirely with each other, and both with the doctrines of Christianity; The earliest antiquities of the British Islands are explained; and an account given of the sacred structures of the druids; Particularly the stupendous works of Abiry, Stonehenge, &c. in Wiltshire, are minutely described. By William Cooke, M. A. Rector of Oldbury and Didmarton in Gloucestershire, Vicar of Enford in Wiltshire, and Chaplain to the Right Honourable the Earl of Suffolk. Illustrated with copper plates.
Cooke, William, -1780.Date: MDCCLV. [1755]- Books
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A letter from a Spaniard in London to his friend at Madrid. Setting forth the happy consequences that must accrue to Spain, from the late conduct of her great friend, at the court of England.
Spaniard in London.Date: 1739- Books
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The true and genuine account of the trial and all the most material transactions respecting the reverend Dr. Dodd, Chaplain to the Earl of Chesterfield, &c. Who was condemn'd at the Old Bailey, on Saturday the 22d. of February, 1777. For Forging, and uttering as true, a counterfeit counterfeit Bond, purporting to be the Bond of the Earl of Chesterfield; with Intent to defraud Messrs. Fletcher and Peach, Esqs. Also The Examination of Messrs. Robinson and Dodd before the Rt. Hon. the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen, for the said Forgeries, and their seperate Defences. To which is added, The convict's address, to his fellow Prisoners, being a Sermon which he preached whilst in Newgate under Condemnation; and the Speech which he made at receiving Sentence; with the prayer which he composed the Night before his Execution, found among his Papers. And some very curious Anecdotes of the reverend Doctor, both in his public and private Life.
Dodd, William, 1729-1777.Date: 1777]- Ephemera
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The Landmark : a centre for people affected by HIV/AIDS.
Date: 1994- Books
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The plans, elevations and sections, of Holkham in Norfolk, the seat of the late Earl of Leicester. To which are added, the cielings and chimney-pieces; and also a descriptive account of the statutes, pictures, and drawings; not in the former edition. By Matthew Brettingham, Architect.
Brettingham, Matthew, 1699-1769.Date: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]- Books
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A new and accurate survey of the cities of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark, with the country about it for nineteen miles in length, and thirteen in depth . In which is Contain'd an exact Description of St. James's, Kensington, Richmond, and Hampton-Court Palaces, all the Main and Cross-Roads, Lanes and Paths, Bye-Ways, Walls, Pales, Hedges, Hills, Vallies, Rivers, Bridges, Ferries, Brooks, Springs, Ponds, Woods, Heaths, Commons, Parks, Avenues, Churches, Houses, Gardens, &c. This Map will be of general Use to all Persons who have Occasion to travel round this Metropolis, for Business, Health or Pleasure, and to all curious Persons at Home or Abroad. Publish'd according to Act of Parliament 1748, in sixteen sheets, price two guineas. By John Rocque, surveyor Begun in 1741, finish'd in 1745, and publish'd in 1746 and 1748, According to Act of Parliament.
Rocque, John, -1762.Date: M,DCC,XLVIII. [1748]- Books
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[A new and accurate survey of the] cities of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark, with the country about it for nineteen miles in length and thirteen in depth, in which is contain'd an exact description of St. James's, Kensington, Richmond, and Hampton-Court palaces, all the main and cross roads, lanes and paths, bye-ways, walls, pales, hedges, hills, vallies, rivers, bridges, ferries, brooks, springs, ponds, woods, heaths, commons, parks, avenues, churches, houses, gardens, &c. This map will be of general use to all persons who have occasion to travel round this metropolis, for business, health or pleasure, and to all curious persons, at home or abroad, published according to act of Parliament 1747; price two guineas in sheets. By John Rocque, surveyor. Begun in 1741, and finished in 1745, and publish'd in 1746, according to act of Parliament. Urbium maxime insignium Londini et Westmonasterii, municipii sudovercencis, regionumque ad decem quasi milliaria circumjacentium, delineatio Ichnographica Anno 1741, incohata 1745, absoluta. A Johanne Rocque, topographo. Carte topographique des villes de Londres, Westminster bourg de Southwark, et deleurs environs. Contenant l'espace de dixneus miles, en longeur et de treize en largeurdans la quelle font compris les palais de St. James's, de Kensington, D'Hampton-Court, tous les chemins, sentiers, rivieres, ruisseaux, bacs, ponts, sources, etangs, collines, bois, bruyeres, communes, pares, avenues, eglises, maisons, jardins, &c. Levee tres exactement sur les lieux, et publiee selon un acte de Parlement, En 1747. Par Jean Rocque.
Rocque, John, -1762.Date: [1746]- Books
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Paul Hentzner's travels in England, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, translated by Horace, late Earl of Orford, and first printed by him at Strawberry Hill: to which is now added, Sir Robert Naunton's Fragmenta regalia; Or, Observations on Queen Elizabeth's Times and Favourites; with portraits and views.
Hentzner, Paul, 1558-1623.Date: 1797- Books
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Of publick baptism. A sermon preach'd before the Right Honourable the Lord-Mayor, and the Court of Aldermen, at Guild-Hall-Chapel, Sunday, Novemb. 20. 1692. The fourth edition; with a postscript. By Philip Stubs, M. A. Rector of St. James Garlick-Hythe; and Chaplain to the Right Honourable Theophilus, Earl of Huntingdon.
Stubs, Philip, 1665-1738.Date: 1708- Pictures
King Charles I at Titchfield, Hampshire, having escaped from Hampton Court, learns that the governor of the Isle of Wight will betray him to Cromwell. Engraving by B. Baron after P. Angellis.
Angellis, Pieter, 1685-1734.Date: [1728]Reference: 2897017iPart of: Ten curious prints of the most remarkable transactions of the reign of King Charles 1st- Books
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A list of the Society of Antiquaries of London, March 8, MDCCLXXXVIII. His Sacred Majesty King George III. Patron. His Serene Highness the Reigning Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel. The present Council. George Earl of Leicester, F.R.S. President. Mus. Brit. Cur. Heneage Earl of Aylesford, F. R. S. Mus. Brit. Cur. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. Pr. R. S. Brit. Cur. John Brand, M. A. Sec. Owen Salusbury Brereton, Esq; F. R. S. V. P. Peter Calvert, D.LL. Dean of the Arches, F.R.S. Henry Cavendish, Esq; F.R.S. Mus. Brit. Cur. John Lord Bp. of Carlisle, D.D. F.R.S.V.P. Mus. Brit. Cur. Philip Duval, D.D. F.R.S. Sir Hen. Cha. Englefield, Bart.F.R.S. Brownlow Cecil E. of Exeter, F. R. S. Richard Gough, Esq; F. R. S. Director. Michael Lort, D. D. F. R. S. V. P. William Mitford, Esq; Sir William Musgrave,Bt.F.R.S.V.P. Mus. Brit. Cur. William Norris, M. A. Sec. Craven Ord, Esq; Sir Lucas Pepys, M. D. Bart. F.R.S. Sir Alexander Thomson, Knt.F.R.S. Baron of the Court of Exchequer. John Topham, Esq; F. R. S. Treasurer. Ralph Willett, Esq; F.R.S. This Council is to be continued till Saint George's Day, 1788.
Society of Antiquaries of London.Date: 1788]- Books
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The trial, with the whole of the evidence, between the Right Hon. Sir Richard Worsley, Bart. Comptroller of his Majesty's Household, Governor of the Isle of Wight, Member of Parliament for Newport in that island, &c. &c. Plaintiff, and George Maurice Bisset, Esq; defendant, for criminal conversation with the plaintiff's wife. Before the Right Hon. William Earl of Mansfield, and a Special Jury, in His Majesty's Court of King's-Bench, Westminster-Hall, on Thursday the 21st of February, 1782.
Worsley, Richard, Sir, 1751-1805.Date: M,DCC,LXXXII. [1782]- Books
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The trial, with the whole of the evidence, between the Right Hon. Sir Richard Worsley, Bart. Comptroller of his Majesty's Houshold, Governor of the Isle of Wight, Member of Parliament for Newport in that Island, &c. &c. Plaintiff, and George Maurice Bissett, Esq. defendant, for criminal conversation with the plaintiff's wife; Before the Right Hon. William, Earl of mansfield, and a Special Jury, in His Majesty's Court of King's-Bench, Westminster-Hall, on Thursday the 21st of February, 1782. Taken in short hand by Robert Pye Donkin.
Worsley, Richard, Sir, 1751-1805.Date: [1782]- Books
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The trial, with the whole of the evidence, between the Right Hon. Sir Richard Worsley, Bart. Comptroller of his Majesty's Houshold, Governor of the Isle of Wight, Member of Parliament for Newport in that Island, &c. &c. Plaintiff, and George Maurice Bissett, Esq. defendant, for criminal conversation with the plaintiff's wife; Before the Right Hon. William, Earl of mansfield, and a Special Jury, in His Majesty's Court of King's-Bench, Westminster-Hall, on Thursday the 21st of February, 1782. Taken in short hand by Robert Pye Donkin.
Worsley, Richard, Sir, 1751-1805.Date: [1782]- Pictures
Thomas Osborne, Earl of Danby, in conversation with King Charles II, praises the virtue of his Osborne ancestors. Engraving by C. Grignion after S. Wale, 1771.
Wale, Samuel, -1786.Date: [1 September 1771]Reference: 2804610i- Pictures
Jeremiah Dyson, or 'Mungo', sews a gold button on a coat surrounded by a group of tailors above whom is suspended a large hoop petticoat of the Princess of Wales. Engraving, 1770.
Date: [1770]Reference: 583903i- Books
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The trial, with the whole of the evidence, between the Right Hon. Sir Richard Worsley, Bart. Comptroller of his Majesty's Houshold, Governor of the Isle of Wight, Member of Parliament for the Borough of Newport in that Island, one of the Verdurers of the New Forest, Colonel of the South Battalion of the Hampshire Militia, one of his Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, F. R. S. and A. S. - Plaintiff, and George Maurice Bissett, Esq. defendant for criminal conversation with the plaintiff's wife; Before the Right Hon. William, Earl of mansfield, and a Special Jury, in His Majesty's Court of King's-Bench, Westminster-Hall, on Thurday the 21st of February, 1782. Taken in short hand by Robert Pye Donkin, Of the King's-Bench Treasury-Office.
Worsley, Richard, Sir, 1751-1805.Date: M,DCC,LXXXII. [1782]- Books
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The life of James II. late King of England. Containing an account of his birth, education, religion, and enterprizes, both at home and abroad, in peace and war, while in a private and publick capacity, till his dethronement. With the various struggles made since for his restoration; the state of his court at St. Germains; and the particulars of his death. The whole intermix'd with divers original papers, debates, letters, declarations, &c. As the debates and speeches about the Bill of Exclusion; for and against a standing army in his time; about the abdication, &c. Illustrated with several cuts and medals. To which is added, a a [sic] supplement of several curious memoirs; containing the Earl of Peterborough's negotiations in several courts, for a second match for him, when D. of York; and at last effecting it by the interposition of the French King, wit the Princess of Modena; the dowry articles of marriage, &c. writ by the said Earl. A particular account of the Irish alarm, in a letter to a friend: a letter to a member of the convention, by Dr. Sh---k, &c.
Jones, D. (David), active 1676-1720.Date: 1705- Books
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England's black tribunal. Set forth in the tryal of King Charles I. By the pretended High Court of Justice in Westminster-Hall, Jan 20. 1648. Together with His Majesties Speech, on the Scaffold Erected at White-Hall-Gate, Tuesday, Jan. 30. 1648. Also a Perfect Relation of the Sufferings, and Death of divers of the Nobility and Centry, who were Inhumanly Murther'd for their Constant Loyalty to their Sovereign Lord the King Together with their several Dying Speeches: From the Year 1642 to 1658. viz. Earl of Strafford. Arch-Bishop of Canterbury. Duke Hamilton. Earl of Holland. Arthur Lord Capel. James Earl of Derby. Marquess of Montross. Col. William Sybbald. Col. Eusebius Andrews. Col. John Penruddock. Col. Gerrard. Sir Henry Hyde. Sir Henry Slingsby. Col. John Morris. Cor. Blackburne. Cor. Hugh Grove. Dr. John Hewyt. The fourth edition. To which is added, an historical preface, by a true churchman.
Date: 1703- Pictures
Bartholomew Fair, site of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, pictured in 1721. Aquatint with etching after T. Loggon, c. 1824 (?).
Loggon, T.Date: [1824?]Reference: 23495i- Ephemera
By the King and Queen, a proclamation : Whereas Their Majesties have received information, that the persons herein after particularly named have conspired together, and with divers other disaffected persons, to disturb and destroy their government ... / Marie R.
England and Wales. Sovereign (1689-1694 : William and Mary)Date: 1690- Books
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A catalogue of the manuscripts of the Right Honourable and Right Worshipful Sir Julius Caesar, Knight, Judge of the Admiralty, and one of the Masters of the Court of Requests in the reign of Queen Elizabeth; and in the reign of King James I. Chancellor and Under-Treasurer of the Exchequer, Master of the Rolls, and one of his Majesty's most honourable Privy Council. Consisting of a great variety of authentic records, original letters, and papers of state, relating to the high courts of Parliament, Exchequer, ... the Chapel of the Rolls, ... the kingdoms of Scotland and Ireland, ... Wales, the duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall, and the earldom of Chester; surveys of their Majesties forests, ... Exchequer books, ... patents under the Great Seal, warrants under the Privy Seal ... charters, ... privileges respecting the City of London, ... the last planting of Virginia, ... Original letters in the handwriting of King James I. the Lords High Treasurers Burleigh, ... the Lords High Admirals Howard, Nottingham, ... the Lords High Chancellors Hatton, Ellesmere. ... The Archbishops of Canterbury, and York; the Dukes of Lenox and Buckingham; the Earls of Cumberland, ... Bedford, ... Sir Francis Walsingham, ... Sir Francis Drake, ... Lords, Ladies, Knights, ... as also of several foreign princes, ministers, ambassadors, ... Treaties of peace, &c. Genealogies of great houses, treatises on the history, laws, &c. of these realms. With variety of other matters, ... the whole tending to illustrate our history during those reigns. Which will be sold by auction. At St. Paul's Coffee-House in St. Paul's Church-yard, on Wednesday 23d and Thursday 24th of November 1757 to begin each Evening precisely at six o'clock. The manuscripts may be viewed on Saturday 22d of October, and every day after, (Sundays excepted) to the time of sale.
Paterson, Samuel, 1728-1802.Date: 1757]- Books
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Genuine and impartial memoirs of the life and character of Charles Ratcliffe, Esq; who was beheaded on Tower-Hill, Monday, December 8, 1746. With an Account of his Family, and how far he was concerned in the Rebellion in 1715; the Inducements that occasioned his coming over to England, in 1725; and also the last Time with the Officers of Dillon's Regiment in the French Service. To which is Added, a true Account of his Dying Behaviour and Last Words; Also the Speech of the Earl of Derwentwater his Brother on the Scaffold. To the Whole is prefixed, a full Answer to the Letter inserted in the Daily Advertiser on Saturday, December 6, 1746, relating to these Memoirs. By a gentleman of the family, to prevent the Publick being imposed on by any erroneous or partial Accounts to the Prejudice of this unfortunate Gentleman.
Penrice, Gerard.Date: 1746- Books
63 [i.e. Sixty-three] IPEX catalogue / International Printing Machinery and Allied Trades Exhibition.
International Printing Machinery and Allied Trades Exhibition 1963 : London, England)Date: [1963]- Ephemera
Westminster election : the Porter Brewers, anxious to promote the cause of the brave and valiant Colonel Narcotic, have determined to begin an active fermentation in the flavour of that gentleman.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899]