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Febrifugum magnum: or, common water the best cure for fevers, and probably for the plague. With a discourse of curing the chin-cough by water. By John Hancocke, D. D. Rector of St. Margaret's Lothbury, London, Prebendary of Canterbury, and Chaplain to his Grace the Duke of Bedford.
Hancocke, John, -1728.Date: [1724]- Books
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Answers for James Hill in Inchmichael, to the petition of James Hunter and John Hill, tutors of Agnes Hill, only child of the deceased Charles Hill in Balrudrie, and of Margaret Hunter, widow of the said Charles Hill, now spouse to Robert Webster, and the said Robert Webster, for his interest.
Hill, James, in Inchmichael.Date: 1765]- Books
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A prospect of oratory: or, the art of speeching, Deduced from the Manner of the Celebrated Serjeant Kite.
Date: Printed in the Year M.DCC.XXXVI. [1736]- Books
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The tears of St. Margaret: also, odes of condolence to the high and mighty musical directors, on their downfall. To which is added, the address to the owl. Likewise, Mrs. Robinson's handkerchief, and Judge Buller's wig; a fable. Also, the churchwarden of Knightsbridge; or, the feast on a child. By Peter Pindar, Esq.
Pindar, Peter, 1738-1819.Date: M.DCC.XCII. [1792]- Books
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Authentic memoirs of the life of Margaret Nicolson, who attempted to stab His Most Gracious Majesty with a knife, as he was Alighting from his carriage At St. James's, on Wednesday, Aug. 2, 1786: Likewise The Whole of her Examination before the Privy Council, on the Motives which induced her to attempt a Crime of so horrible a Nature.
Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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An authentick narrative of the whole proceedings of the court at St. Margaret's Hill, Southwark, in the months of June and July, 1746. Being the trials of the following rebel officers. Viz. Francis Townley, Col. George Fletcher, John Berwick, Thomas Deacon, David Morgan, Charles Deacon, James Dawson, John Saunderson, Thomas Chadwick, Thomas Syddall, James Willding, William Battrah, and Alexander M̀grouther; who were all convicted: And John Hunter and James Stretton, who were acquitted. Together with An Account of Christopher Taylor, Thomas Furnival, Andrew Blood, James Gadd, Alexander Abernethy, James Nicholson, Donald M̀donald, and Walter Ogilvie, who pleaded Guilty. To which are added, at the End of each Trial, The Behaviour, Confessions, and Dying Words of those Nine that were executed on Kennington Common, on Wednesday the 30th of July, 1746.
Date: [1746]- Books
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Margaret Searl, Wife to the late Samuel Searl, Famous for Relieving and Curing deafness, Depending on any External Obstruction Of the Organ of the Ear; Who had Practised This art above Thirty Eight Years past, and Communicated the Secret to me only, who Practis'd it with him, in his Life time, for many Years, after the same Way and Method. Still living in Pye-Corner, over-against the Golden Ball, by West-Smithfield, London; (though it is Reported that I was Dead, by some Pretenders to deceive the World) where I am ready, upon any Occasion of that Nature, to serve such as apply themselves to me: Being the Surviver of my Father Edmund Searl, and late Husband Samuel Searl. Whereas several Servants of my Father Edmund Searl, have put out Bills for Curing of deafness. This is to Certifie, That neither my Father, or Husband, ever Instructed, or Communicated this Secret to any of their Servants, or any Apprentice whatsoever.
Searl, Margaret.Date: 1706- Books
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A method to multiply or divide any number of figures by a like or a less number, so expeditely, that any fifty figures may either be multiplied or divided by any fifty figures, all in one line, in five minutes time. And to facilitate its Practice, A Rule is added, to Multiply as readily by the Reverse, as by the Inverse Order of Multiplication. Invented by Quin Mackenzie-Quin, Esq. At the Eighth Year of his Age.
Quin, Quin Mackenzie.Date: MDCCL. [1750]- Books
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A view of London and Westminster: or, The town spy. Containing I. Merry characters of the trades people, Half-Pay Officers, and the Guards at St. Margaret's in Westminster; and of the Quality, and the Secret Practices of their Servants at St. James's. II. The Customs, Manners, &c. of the Inhabitants in St. Anne's Soho, St. Martin's, and St. Giles's in the Fields: Together with a true Description of Drury-Lane, and the New Votes and Schemes of the Irish-Society of Fortune-Hunters. III. Of a Verdict given against a Barrister of the Temple, for p---ssing against a Soldier's Post at Somerset-House; and of the secret Practices of the Undertakers, with the Physicians Servants. IV. Of the Lawyers at St. Clements, and St. Dunstan's, the kept Mistresses at St. Andrew's, the High and Low Church Mobs at St. Brides, the Blackfryers Printers, and the Ludgate Mercers. V. An Account of Jonathan Wilde's Funeral Procession, and of a surprising Specifick for the Cure of Felonious, Fraudulent, and Corrupt Habits, being an Handkerchief dipped in his Blood, very necessary to be used at this time in Great Britain. VI. A character of a city Church-Warden, the Customs of the Citizens on the Sabbath; the Pride, Intrigues, and Degeneracy of the City Wives, of the Band of Petticoat Pensioners begetting young Merchants and Shopkeepers: Also of the Adventures of Nrtn and Rod -igo, two famous Stallions, &c.
Date: [1725]- Books
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A description of some engines and implements used in husbandry, &c. made and sold by William Winlaw, engine-maker, Margaret-Street, Cavendish-Square, London. Also A List Of Sundry Improved Ploughs, Horse-Hoes, &c. used for different Purposes in Agriculture, Which have been repeatedly tried and approved of by the best practical Farmers in this Kingdom.
Winlaw, William.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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The new year's gift: or, Advice to a Nephew about his Choice in Marriage. Containing the following Heads. I. A Prefatory Epistle to the Reader and Bookseller; in which the Author gives some Account of himself, his Nephew Mr. William Tully, and Mrs. Margaret Jewel, a young Lady of Brumpton, whom the Nephew is inclined, thro' the Uncle's Advice, to marry, which occasion'd the Writing and Publishing the following Pieces in Prose and Verse. II. The Character of a Good Mistress of a Family, from the Proverbs of Solomon, with the Commendation thereof by the Authors of the Guardian. III. The same Character made into a Song, which was fashionable in the Days of Queen Elizabeth, and sung by the Maids of Honour; but not published by the Writer till the Year 1612. VI. The same done in modern English Verse. By Mr. Horace Tully, of Gray's Inn, for the Use of his Nephew. Lastly, Margaret and William: Or, The Choice; being a Meditation on Marriage. A Ballad. By Mr. William Tully.
Date: [1730?]- Books
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The works of Michael Drayton, Esq; A Celebrated Poet in the Reigns of Queen Elizabeth, King James I. and Charles I. Containing, I. The Battle of Agincourt. II. The Barons Wars. III. England's Heroical Epistles. IV. The Miseries of Queen Margaret, the Unfortunate Wife of the most Unfortunate King Henry VI. V. Nymphidia: or the Court of Fairy. VI. The Moon-Calf. Vii. The Legends of Robert Duke of Normandy, Matilda the Fair, Pierce Gaveston, and Tho. Cromwell E. of Essex. Viii. The Quest of Cynthia. IX. The Shepherd's Sirena. X. Poly-Olbion, with the Annotations of the learned Selden. XI. Elegies on several Occasions. XII. Ideas. Being all the writings of that celebrated author, now first collected into one volume.
Drayton, Michael, 1563-1631.Date: MDCCXLVIII. [1748]- Books
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The works of Michael Drayton, Esq; A Celebrated Poet in the Reigns of Queen Elizabeth, King James I. and Charles I. Containing, I. The Battle of Agincourt. II. The Barons Wars. III. England's Heroical Epistles. IV. The Miseries of Queen Margaret, the Unfortunate Wife of the most Unfortunate King Henry VI. V. Nymphidia: or the Court of Fairy. VI. The Moon-Calf. Vii. The Legends of Robert Duke of Normandy, Matilda the Fair, Pierce Gaveston, and Tho. Cromwell E. of Essex. Viii. The Quest of Cynthia. IX. The Shepherd's Sirena. X. Poly-Olbion, with the Annotations of the learned Selden. XI. Elegies on several Occasions. XII. Ideas. Being all the writings of that celebrated author, now first collected into one volume.
Drayton, Michael, 1563-1631.Date: MDCCXLVIII. [1748]- Books
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The works of Michael Drayton, Esq; A celebrated poet in the reigns of Queen Elizabeth, King James I. and Charles I. Containing, I. The battle of Agincourt. II. The barons wars. III. England's Heroical epistles. IV. The miseries of queen Margaret, the unfortunate wife of the most unfortunate king Henry VI. V. Nymphidia: The court of Fairy. VI. The Moon Calf. VII. The legends of Robert Duke of Normandy, Matilda the fair, Pierce Gaveston, and Tho. Cromwell Earl of Essex. VIII. The Quest of Cynthia. IX. The Shepherd's Sirena. X. Poly-olbion, with the annotations of the learned Selden. XI. Elegies on several occasions. XII. Ideas. XIII. The Owl. XIV. The man in the moon. XV. Odes and other Lyrick Poesies. XVI. Pastorals. XVII. The Muses Elysium. XVIII. Noah's Flood. XIX. Moses his birth and miracles. XX. David and Goliah. [sic] In four volumes.
Drayton, Michael, 1563-1631.Date: MDCCLIII. [1753]- Books
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An history of the memorable and extraordinary calamities of Margaret of Anjou, Queen of England; wherein may be seen the inconstancy of fortune, the Changes of Courts, and the Miseries of human Life, to which crowns and sceptres are subject. By the Chevalier Michael Baudier, Gentleman of the King's Houshold, Knight of the Order of St. Michael, Counsellor and Historiographer of his Majesty Louis XIII. King of France. Translated out of the original manuscript, which hath never yet been printed; and is preserved among the Mss. of the late Duke of Coislin, Bishop of Mets, in the Library of the Abbey of St. Germain des Prez at Paris.
Baudier, Michel, 1589?-1645.Date: MDCCXXXVII. [1737]- Books
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Answers for Jean Richardson, wife of James Moffat weaver in Dumfries, one of the daughters of Matthew Richardson younger in Smallholm, procreate betwixt him and Margaret Rae his spouse, to the petition of Janet Richardson, daughter of Matthew Richardson in Oxtart, and David Ker in Oxtart, her husband, for his interest; Doctor James Mounsey, and William Kirkpatrick merchant in Dumfries.
Richardson, Jean, active 1766.Date: 1766]- Books
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A letter from Mrs. Christian Hart, to Mrs. Margaret Caroline Rudd; elucidating several circumstances which did not appear on the trial; refuting particular falsities and Mal-Aspersions asserted by that Notified lady, and relating a Circumstantial Account of her transactions during the time Mrs. Hart lived servant with her. The Whole authenticated by the Affidavit of Mrs. Christian Hart, which is deposited in the Hands of the Publisher, and a Copy of which is annexed.
Hart, Christian, Mrs.Date: [1776]- Books
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The report of the Committee; to whom the petition of the principal inhabitants of the several parishes of St. Martin in the Fields, St. Anne, St. James, St. George Hanover-Square, and St. Margaret, within the liberty of Westminster (so far as it relates to that of St. Marti in the Fields, against their select vestry) in behalf of themselves, ... made to ... the House of Commons, ... on Tuesday the 25th day of May, 1742. ...
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons.Date: 1742- Books
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Answers for Sir Thomas Dundas of Kerse, baronet, to the petition of Thomas Dundas, Esq; of Fingask; Janet Haldane, only child of the marriage betwixt the deceased Bethia Dundas and George Haldane of Gleneagles, Esq; and the said George Haldane, as administrator-in-law for his daughter; John and Thomas Gibsons, only children of the marriage betwixt the deceased Margaret-Bruce Dundas and Alexander Gibson, Esq; of Durie; and the said Alexander Gibson, as administrator-in-law for his said children.
Dundas of Aske, Thomas Dundas, Baron, 1741-1820.Date: 1783]- Books
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The proceedings on the King's special commission of oyer and terminer for the county of Surry, held at St. Margaret's-Hill, On Monday the 10th of July, 1780, and the following Days; before The Right Hon. Alexander Lord Loughborough, Chief Justice of his Majesty's Court of Common Pleas; The Hon. Sir Henry Gould, Knight, one of the Justices of his Majesty's Court of Common Pleas; The Hon. Sir James Eyre, Knight, one of the Barons of his Majesty's Court of Exchequer; and The Hon. Francis Buller, one of the Justices of his Majesty's Court of King's Bench. Taken in short-hand (with Permission of the Court) By Joseph Gurney, Short-Hand-Writer at the Session in the Old Bailey. Part I.
Great Britain. Assizes (Surrey, England)Date: M.DCC.LXXX. [1780]- Books
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The particulars of a valuable freehold estate, situate in the parishes of Margaret Roothing and Abbott's Roothing, and easy distances from Chipping Ongar, Dunmow, and Chelmsford, in the county of Essex; consisting of the manor of Olives or Garnetts, or Garnish Hall, with the manor farm, and Demesne Lands, containing Two Hundred and Eighty-Nine Acres One Rood and Thirty-Seven Perches; in the occupation of the trustees: also, two tenements, a Blacksmith's shop, &c. Let to Tenants at Will: which will be peremptorily sold by auction, by Mess. Skinner, Dyke, & Skinner, on Tuesday the 20th of March, 1798, At Twelve O'Clock, At Garraway's Coffee House, 'change Alley, London. In two lots. By order of the trustees, pursuant to the will of the late Mr. Wm. Forster, deceased.
Skinner, Dyke, and Skinner (London, England)Date: 1798]- Books
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Answers for Janet Miller and George Barclay merchant in Lanerk, her husband, Isabel, Jean and Janet Aikmans, daughters, and only children procreate betwixt the deceased Andrew Aikman surgeon in Biggar, and the also deceased Margaret Millar his spouse, and Andrew Forrest, merchant in Edinburgh, husband to the said Jean Aikman; to the petition of Mary Dickson, relict of the deceased George Muirhead of Whitecastle, now wife to Mr John Noble minister of the gospel at Libertoun, and of him for his interest.
Miller, Janet.Date: 1765]- Books
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The female parricide: or, the history of Mary-Margaret D'Aubray, Marchioness of Brinvillier, who was beheaded and burnt at Paris, for poisoning her father, her two brothers, and attempting to kill her sister in the same manner. Wherein are contained the learned Pleadings of her Counsel at her Trial before the Parliament of Paris; and a particular Account of her Behaviour from her Sentence to her Execution. Translated from the French. With a preface by the translator, in which a parallel is drawn between the Marchioness and Miss Blandy.
Date: MDCCLII. [1752]- Books
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The history of the two impostors Lambert Simnel and Perkin Warbeck, who, (in the reign of King Henry Vii) were pretenders to the crown of England;set up by Margaret Duchess of Burgundy; chiefly supported by the Kings of France and Scotland; much favour'd by Maximilian King of the Romans; by Philip his Son, the Duke of Burgundy; by the King of Portugal, &c. And acknowledged as Lawful Sovereigns in Flanders, Ireland and England. But were at last detected, defeated, and so deserted by their Adherents, that the One was made a Turn-Spit in the King's Kitchen, and the Other set in the Stocks and Pillory, both in London and Westminster, and then hang'd at Tyburn. With an appendix, shewing the intrigue of the Jesuits at Rome to impose another sham prince upon Great-Britain, in the year 1688.
S. W.Date: [1745]- Books
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A reply to Dr. Gray's three answers to a written paper, entitled, Mr. Worger's case. By Christopher Packe, M.D.
Packe, Christopher, 1686-1749.Date: [1727]