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A new treatise on the laws concerning tithes: containing all the statutes, adjudged cases, resolutions and judgments relative thereto, Under The Following Heads: Chap. I. Definition of Tithes, Parsonage, Vicarage, Impropriation, and Appropriation; and of the Origin, Nature, and several Kinds of Tithes. II. Out of what things Tithes shall be paid; what Lands are subject to Tithes, and the several Statutes for dissolving Abbies, Monasteries, and other Religious Houses, and vesting their Lands in the King; what Lands are discharged from Tithes by these Acts respectively, with a Catalogue of the Monastefies dissolved by Stat. 31 Hen. 8. of the yearly value of 200 l. and upwards; what Order they were of, and the Times of their respective Foundations. III. Of Exemptions from Payment of Tithes; and of Modus, Custom, and Prescription. IV. An Alphabetical Table or Index of Things Titheable, and not Titheable. V. Of setting out, and Taking and Carrying away Tithes. VI. Of the Remedies for recovering Tithes, and the several acts of Parliament made for that Purpose. Vii. Of Suits in the Court of Exchequer concerning Tithes, and the Proceedings in such Suits. Viii. Of Prohibitions in Suits for Tithes. IX. Of Leases of tithes, for lives or years, by ecclesiastical persons. X. Of the Manner of paying Tithes, and the sums payable by the respective parishes in London. XI. Cases concerning Tithes, determined in the Court of King's Bench, by the Earl of Hardwicke, and Lord Mansfield. The second edition, corrected and enlarged, with the addition of several cases never before printed. By a gentleman of the Middle Temple.
Cunningham, Timothy, -1789.Date: M.DCC.LXVI. [1766]- Books
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Sadler's Wells performance. Front seats 1s. ---- Middle seats 6d. ---- Children and servants 3d. By Royal authority. During the time of this fair, in a commodious booth Sieur Rea sen. and sons Just arrived from the Royalty Theatre, London, but last from Oxford, and who had the Honour to exhibit by the express Desire of their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of York, at the Palace in Newmarket, on Thursday the 8th of November, 1792, and is happy to observe, that his performance met with the highest approbation from their Royal Highnesses and their Family, The Philosophical, Mathematical, and Mechanical Amusements, and the Astonishing, Wonderful, Surprizing, and Unparallelled Deceptions and Recreations of the Celebrated Sieur Rea sen. whose Performance repeatedly drew crowded and brilliant Audiences in London, and met with unbounded Applause. His Exhibitions are entirely new, and not to be equalled in Europe, and totally divested of Confederacy, or the assistance of Spring Tables, &c. And for Real Merit, Novelty, Whim, and Humour, are the first upon the List of Candidates for public Inspection. To the above Performance will be added, several Feats of Agility of Body, by the Venetian Youth and Child of Promise, Both from the above Theatre. Which will be exhibited in a Stile superior to any thing performed before. In addition to which, will be exhibited the Mechanical Museum, Which exhibits the following unparallelled Pieces of Clock - Work. 1. The Lilliputian Ringers, Who perform in a beautiful fancy Temple, and ring a complete Peal of 108 Changes of Grandsire Bob on six Bells; likewise several Tunes, being the only piece of Mechanism which can perform the like. II. The King going to St. Paul's Church. Attended by the Lords, Commons, and Respective Nobility, in their Coaches, together with the Life Guards, Body Guards, and the Ringers ringing at the same time, God save the King.
Rea, Sieur (John).Date: 1793?]- Books
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The works of Homer, the celebrated Grecian poet: including new and complete editions of the Iliad, and the Odyssey; Those very celebrated and universally-admited Epic or Heroic Poems. The Iliad-in twenty four Books-Being composed on the Subject of the memorable Siege of Troy-Interspersed with the most beautiful Allegories, and containing a most sublime Description of the Battles between the Greeks and Trojans, during a Ten Years Siege, in which the Great and Valiant Achilles, the principal Hero of the War, after his Reconciliation with Agamemnon, slew Hector with his own Hand, and afterwards dragged the Corpse at his Chariot. Wheels round the Walls of Troy. Comprizing a great Variety of valuable and useful Maxims on Military Discipline, Stratagem, Exploits in Civil Affairs, Politics, Virtue, Resolution, Prudence, Oeconomy, and, in short, respecting all the various Offices and Duties of Human Life; and affording the most important, agreeable, and entertaining Instruction, conveyed in the most lively Manner, to Mankind in general. The Odyssey-Composed also in Twenty-Four Books-And containing, among a Variety of other useful and entertaining Particulars, a most magnificent and delightful Description of the Voyages and Adventures of the wise and venerable Ulysses, King of Ithaca, in Greece, and one of the Princes who conducted the Siege of Troy, during his Absence for Twenty Years from his Queen Penelope. Exhibiting not only a just Picture of the Ancient Grecians, but a beautiful System of Morality, Wisdom, Fortitude, Perseverance, Moderation and Temperance, instructive to all Degrees of Men, and filled with striking Images, Similies, Examples, and Precepts of Civil and Domestic Life. Including also that other excellent Piece of Homer, entitled The battle of the frogs and mice -in Three Books-A very beautiful, ingenious, satyrical, and interesting Production, replete with Wit, Humour, and Entertainment, allegorically describing the Valour and Intrepidity of those sagacious Animals. Carefully translated from the original Greek. In the Execution of this New and Improved Edition, all former Editors and Commentators on Homer will be carefully consulted and attended to, viz. Eustathius, Dacies, Ogilby, Chapman, Dryden, Parnel, Warburton, &c. particularly that hitherto most esteemed Translation by Alex. Pope, Esq. Illustrated with large and valuable notes, Critical, Historical, Philosophical, Allegorical, Poetical, Scholastic, Political, Moral, Entertaining, Philological, and Explanatory. Comprehending the most salutary Reflections and useful Remarks, with many important References to Ancient Mythology, Geography, and Universal History, &c. &c. - To which will be carefully added, The Arguments at large to every Book or Chapter, and the most Authentic Memoirs of the Life of Homer; as also A New Essay on Homer's Battdes, &c. and a Complete Geographical Table of the Towns, &c. in Homer's Catalogue of Greece. Being the most perfect and beautiful Edition of Homer ever published, and calculated to accommodate and please every Class of Readers. The whole embellished with A most Superb Set of Grand Quarto copper-plates, Designed and engraved by the most Capital Artists: so that these Elegant Engravings will alone be worth more than the Purchase-Money of the whole Work. The whole revised, corrected, and improved by William Henry Melmoth, Esq. Editor of the New and Beautiful Quarto Edition of Telemachus,-The New Abridgment of the Roman History, &c. &c.
Homer.Date: [1780]- Books
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A catalogue of pictures collected abroad by Mr. Edmund Glover, who is going to reside at Oporto, Consisting of several valuable painting by Old Palma, Castiglione, Guerchino, Rembrandt, Dominichino, P. Brill, Vandervelde, D. Teniers, Claude, Solimene, Bott, N. Poussin, &c. Also some curious bronzes: Which will be sold by auction, at Mr. Ford's great room in the Hay-Market, on Tuesday the 16th, Wednesdy the 17th, and Thursday the 18th of this instant March. -And on Friday the 19th, and the following days, - will be sold by auction, at Mr. Ford's, a collection of curious old Japan China, in jars, beakers, bowls, dishes, &c. several pieces of the brown edge, and some exceedings fine dresden. Rare old India Japan, in cabinets, chests, &c. beautiful inlaid tables; soem fashionable plate, jewels, watches, snuff-boxes, mathematical instruments, various curiosities, and rich lace heads of the newest pattern: likewise a chamber organ of an exceeding fine tone, two harpsichords, a chariot, &c. The said collections of pictures, China, &c. may be view'd at Mr. Ford's on Friday the 12th, and the following days till the time of sale, which will begin each day exactly at half on hour after eleven o'clock. Catalogues to be had gartis at Mr. Ford's.
Ford, Mr., active 1741-1757.Date: 1742]- Books
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The history of England, from the Norman conquest to the present time; or, a tragi-comic song, in four parts, to the tune of - When Troy town for ten years war, &c. AN Useful, Instructive, and Diverting Lesson for those who have not Time to read Large Books. He that delights in Hist'ry, soon may find Something to please, and edify the Mind. A true Historic Tale, when rightly told, Will please the Young, and can't displease the Old: Such is my Theme, 'tis founded on the Truth, Meant chiefly to persuade vain thoughtless Youth To let the Hist'ry of strange Lands alone, Till they get thorough Masters of their own: This my Advice -- and he that likes to look At what I've done, pays Three-Pence for this Book; And when he's learn'd the Song through ev'ry Part, And can with Ease repeat it all by Heart, If it should chance to enter in his Thought That its too dear, I'll give him back a Groat. To which is added, the multiplication table in a song. By N. Withy, of Hagley, Worcestershire.
Withy, N. (Nathan).Date: 1785- Books
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A new introduction to trade and business; very useful for the youth of both sexes. Wherein is contained great variety of receipts for money, Goods, &c. promissory notes, bills of exchange, Bills Of AtParcels, And Bills ON Book - Debts. With ample instructions how to Form Them. Also Several Instructive Exercises; Disbursements; Week's Expences, Goods bought at Sales, &c. To which are added, I. Commercial and Epistolary Correspondence, exemplified in various Forms of Business, and Familiar Letters. II. A List of the most common Abbrevations of Words for the Dispatch of Business. III. Arithmetical Tables of Weights and Measures. IV. A new Set of Questions to exercise the Learner in several of the Rules of Arithmetic, by Way of Amusement, as well as Improvdment. V. The Explanation and Use of the Frontispiece or Perpetual Almanac. A new edition, corrected and improved, With the Addition of Four Copper Plates neatly engraved. By Peter Hudson, Author of The New English Introduction to the Latin Tongue, French Scholar's Guide, &c. And other School Masters. Designed for the use of schools, and Youth in General.
Hudson, Peter.Date: MDCCLXI. [1761]