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Proceedings at the assizes at Thetford, on the 18th of March, 1786, and the 24th of March, 1787, in the trial of William Hurry, Merchant, Of the Borough of Great Yarmouth, On an Indictment preferred against him by John Watson, Attorney at Law, then Mayor Elect of the said Borough, for wilful and corrupt perjury: and in the action against the said John Watson, Then Mayor of the said Borough, brought by the said William Hurry, for a malicious prosecution of him by the above Indictment: with The Substance of Mr. Partridge's Opening in the first Trial: and The Speeches at large of Mess. Erskine and Hardinge in the last. To which are added A Relation of the Nonsuit in the latter Cause at the Norfolk Assizes in August last; and a Report of the Argument thereupon in the Court of Common Pleas the Michaelmas Term following; and the Judgement of that Court, as delivered by the Lord Chief Justice, when the Nonsuit was set aside, and a new Trial granted.
Hurry, William.Date: [1787]- Books
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A discourse of auxiliary beauty. Or artificiall hansomenesse : In point of conscience between two ladies.
Gauden, John, 1605-1662Date: 1656- Books
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The memoirs of Mrs. Harriot Er-g-n. Containing her amours, intrigues, and tete-a-tetes, with the following well-known characters, viz. Colonel M-n. Colonel T-l-n. Captain Sm-h. Captain Bu-y. Captain R-ts. Captain S-h-y. Captain T-n-d. Sir John L-. Lord D. Sir Peter B-. Hon. Mr. L-x. Rev. Mr. Wa-r. - Mr. B-n. George R-n, Esq; Mr. C-k. Mr. D-ls. Mr. Le. Mr. C-r. Also, coachmen, footmen, Postillions, Butlers, Gardeners, Post-Chaises Boys, Grooms, Foot-Boys, and many Others
Date: [1785?]- Books
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Practical surgery illustrated and improved: being chirurgical observations, with remarks, upon the most extraordinary cases, cures, and dissections, made at St. Thomas's Hospital, Southwark. By William Beckett, Surgeon, F. R. S.
Beckett, William, 1684-1738.Date: MDCCXL. [1740]- Books
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Supplementary to the trial of Hurry against Watson a report of the argument in the Common Pleas, upon a motion for a new trial, in Trinity Term last. In which The Conduct of the Special Jury, in the giving of their Verdict, was agitated, and the Doctrine, respecting the Power of the Court to set aside Verdicts for excessive Damages, fully discussed. Together with a relation of the final issue of this long-contested business.
Hurry, William.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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Fables by John Gay with the life of the author. Embellish'd with seventy elegant engravings. In one volume complete.
Gay, John, 1685-1732.Date: [1800?]- Books
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The seaman's complete daily assistant, and new mariner's compass: being an easy method of keeping a journal at sea. Containing [r]ules for working the case in plane, middle latitude, and mercator's sailing, by the table of difference of latitude and departure. The method to find the latitude, longitude, and variation of the compass; how allowances are to be made for Leeway, variation, heave of the sea, setting of the current, and to correct the dead reckening by an observation, for a single day or many; with all the tables requisite to be used at sea. The whole examplified in journal from the Lizard to the Island of St. Mary's, and every day's work pricked off upon a mercator's chart. To which is prefixed A short and easy treatise on arithmetic: containing the necessary rules of common arithmetic, decimal fractions, the extraction of the square and cube roots, with their use in measuring all kinds of boards, planks, cases, casks, bales and packages, usually taken on board. The guaging of casks, and finding a ship's tonnage, worked by figures, Gunter's scale and logarithms. Likewise the methods of keeping a ship's accounts, disbursements, the forms of cargo-books, receipts for wages, invoice and manisest of goods, bills of parcels and letters of credit. The whole rendered so plain, that any person may gain a sufficient knowledge of the above by their own application, without any other assistance. To this edition is added, The use of Hadley's quadrant, and mercator's chart, with many valuable improvements. By John Hamilton Moore, teacher of Navigation, hydrographer and chart-seller to His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence.
Moore, John Hamilton, -1807.Date: 1792- Books
Lexicon chymicum. : Cum obscuriorum verborum, et rerum Hermeticarum, tum phrasium Paracelsicarum, in scriptis ejus: et aliorum chymicorum, passim occurrentium, planam explicationem continens. / Per Gulielmum Johnsonum chymicum.
Johnson, William, -1665.Date: 1652- Books
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An history of marine architecture. Including an enlarged and progressive view of the nautical regulations and naval history, both civil and military, of all nations, especially of Great Britain; derived chiefly from original manuscripts, as well in private collections as in the great public repositories: and deduced from the earliest period to the present time. In three volumes. ... By John Charnock, Esq. F.S.A.
Charnock, John, 1756-1807.Date: MDCCC [1800]- Books
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The beauties of the poets: being a collection of moral and sacred poetry, from the most eminent authors. Compiled by the late Rev. Thomas Janes, Of Bristol.
Date: MDCCXC. [1790]- Books
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The chemical works of Caspar Neumann, M. D. Professor of Chemistry at Berlin, F. R. S. &c. Abridged and methodized. With large additions, containing the later discoveries and improvements made in chemistry and the Arts depending thereon, by William Lewis, M. B. and Fellow of the Royal Society.
Neumann, Caspar, 1683-1737.Date: MDCCLIX. [1759]- Books
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The young wife's guide, in the management of her children. Containing, every thing necessary to be known relative to the nursing of children, from the time of their Birth, to the Age of Seven Years; together with a plain and full account of every Disorder, to which Infants are subject, and a collection of efficacious Remedies, suited to every Disease. By John Theobald, M.D. Author of Medulla Medicinae. Compiled at the Command of His Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland.
Theobald, John, -1760.Date: MDCCLXIV. [1764]- Books
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The general gazetteer: or, compendious geographical dictionary. Containing a description of all the empires, kingdoms, states, republics, provinces, cities, chief towns, forts, fortresses, castles, citadels, seas, harbours, bays, rivers, lakes, mountains, capes. and promontories in the known world; together with the government, policy, Customs, Manners, and Religion of the inhabitants; the Extent, Bounds, and Natural Productions of each Country; and the Trade, Manufactures, and Curiosities, of the Cities and Towns; their Longitude, Latitude, Bearings and Distances in English Miles from remarkable Places; as also, The Sieges they have undergone, and the Battles fought near them. Including An Authentic Account of the Counties, Cities, and Market-Towns in england and wales; as also the Villages, with the Days on which the Fairs are kept. Embellished with nine maps. By R. Brookes, M.D.
Brookes, R. (Richard), active 1721-1763.Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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Clarissa; or, the history of a young lady: comprehending the most important concerns of private life. and particularly shewing the distresses that may attend the misconduct, both of parents and children, in relation to marriage. In eight volumes. ...
Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761.Date: M.DCC.XCII. [1792]- Books
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A new general English dictionary; peculiarly calculated for the use and improvement of such as are unacquainted with the learned languages. In which the words are explained in their different meanings, and accented on their proper syllables, to prevent a vicious pronunciation. Including the several counties, cities, boroughs, and market-towns, in England and Wales; giving a general description of the places, their situations, market-days, government, manufactures, number of representatives sent to Parliament, distance from London, &c. To which is prefixed, a compendious English grammar, with general rules for the ready formation of one part of speech from another; by the due application of which, such as understand English only, may be able to write as correctly and elegantly as those who have been some years conversant in the Latin, Greek, and other languages. Together with a supplement of the proper names of the most noted kingdoms, provinces, cities, towns, rivers, &c. throughout the known world. As also of the most celebrated emperors, kings, queens, priests, poets, philosophers, generals, &c. whether Jewish, Pagan, Mahometan, or Christian; but more especially such as are mentioned either in the old or new testament. Originally begun by the Reverend Thomas Dyche, author of the guide to the English tongue, the Latin vocabulary, &c.
Dyche, Thomas, -approximately 1733.Date: MDCCXCIV. [1794]- Books
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The government of the human body. A tale. Address'd to the freeholders of Great-Britain, not improper to be read before the ensuing election.
Date: M.DCC.XLI. [1741]- Books
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The young gauger's instructor, being the most plain and easy introduction to that art. Wherein are contained, the doctrine of decimal arithmetick; the Method of Extracting the Roots of all Powers, in a New, Easy, and more Expeditious Method than hitherto published: the method of gauging all kinds of vessels, as used by the Officers of Excise: a new, easy and short way of ullaging casks by the pen: the description, Construction and Use of the sliding rule, with several necessary Amendments; as also several useful Tables and Problems, never before published. To which is added, an appendix, of the Gauging of Irregular Bodies, wherein several Errors of all former Writers on this Subject are demonstrated and corrected. By Isaac Overley, Late Officer of Excise. And likewise, a supplement, by the editors: Wherein is shewn a general Method for finding the Areas, or Solid Contents of all Kinds of curvilineal Figures.
Overley, Isaac.Date: MDCCXLIX. [1749]- Books
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The Royal kalendar: or, Complete and correct annual register for England, Scotland, Ireland, and America. For the year 1795; Including a complete and correct list of the 17th Parliament of Great Britain, summoned to meet for their first session in Norwich, 1790. Upon a new and more extensive plan that any hitherto offered to the public: Containing, England. I. Complete and correct lists of both Houses of Parliament; all the state, law, revenue, and public, offices, at the count, in the city of London, and different pats of the Kingdom; the Army and Navy; baronets, universities, hospitals, &c. &c. Scotland. II. All the peers, baronets: state, law, revenue, and public, offices; universities, physicians, &c. Ireland. III. Both Houses of Parliament; a complete list of the baronets; all the law, state, revenue, and public, offices, bankers, deans, &c. &c. America. IV. Governors, law and revenue officers, &c. &c. Corrected at the respective offices.
Date: [1795]- Books
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An impartial state of the case of the French comedians, actors, players, or strollers, who lately opened a theatre at the Hay-Market. In which Some Notice is taken of another Set, now occupying that Theatre. In a letter from a gentleman in town, to his friend in the country.
Gentleman in town.Date: MDCCL. [1750]- Books
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Two letters concerning the Methodists, one, to the Rt. Rev. the Lord B-----p of M---h. The other to his lordship's V---r G----l. By the Rev. Moore Booker, A.M.
Booker, Moore, 1686 or 1687-Date: MDCCLI. [1751]- Books
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The [R]oyal kalendar; or Complete and correct annual register for England, Scotland, Ireland, and America, for the year 1776; Including a compleat and correct list of the 14th Parliament of Great Britain, summoned to meet for their first session on the 29th of November 1774. [Upo]n a new and more extensive plan than any hitherto offered to the public: Containing, England. I. Complete and correct list of both Houses of Parliament; all the state, law, revenue, and public offices, at the court, in the city of London, and different parts of the Kingdom; the army and navy; baronets, universities, hospitals, &c. &c. Scotland. II. All the peers, baronets, state, law, revenue, and public offices, universities, physicians. &c. Ireland. III. Both House of Parliament, a complete list of the baronets, all the law, state revenue, and public offices, bankers, deans, &c. &c. America. IV. The military and civil establishments; governors law and revenue officers agents, &c. &c. And corrected at the respective offices.
Date: [1775]- Books
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The history of the Arians, and of the Council of Nice, made good by citations from original authors: with a chronological table, containing an abridgment of the principal things in the history, plac'd according to the order of time; and with notes, clearing the difficulties of facts and chronology. Written in French by Mr. Sebastian Lenain de Tillemont, and translated into English by Thomas Deacon.
Le Nain de Tillemont, Louis-Sébastien, 1637-1698.Date: MDCCXXI. [1721]- Pictures
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The torture of William Lithgow in the dungeons of the Inquisition in Malaga in 1620. Line engraving with etching by W. Raddon after Craig.
Craig, William Marshall, 1763 or 1764-1829.Date: 30 July 1814Reference: 43526i- Books
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Mathematical digests. Containing the elements and application of geometry, and plane trigonometry, Whether by Instrumental Construction, or by Calculation, to the Measuring of Heights and Distances, &c. And the Stereographic Projection of Spheric Trigonometry; with numerical Solutions, and the Application thereof to several curious and important Problems in Astronomy, Navigation, and Dialling. With Tables for finding the Place, and Eclipses of the Sun and Moon, according to the last Improvement of the Newtonian Theory; and many practical Problems in each Branch. Design'd for a plain, methodical familiar Course of Instruction in the above-mentioned Parts of mathematical Science; very useful for all Lovers thereof. And Particularly For all Teachers of Mathematics: Being a synthetical Method which the Author has found, by many Years Experence, to be most successful and agreeable to his Pupils. Inscribed to all the Schoolmasters and Teachers of Mathematics in Great Britain and Ireland By Mr. John Dougharty, Author of the General Gauger, and Teacher of the Mathematics at Worcester.
Dougharty, John, 1677-1755.Date: [1747?]- Books
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David's repentance: or, a plain and familiar exposition of the List psalm, first preach'd, and now publish'd, for the benefit of God's church. Wherein every Christian may set before his Eyes the Pattern of unseigned Repentance. Likewise exhorting every Man to labour for Repentance before Sickness and Death seize upon them; for after Death there is no Repentance to be had or expected. Newly revised; by Samuel Smith, late preacher of the word at Prittlewell in Essex; Author of The Great Assize.
Smith, Samuel, 1588-1665.Date: 1735