301 results
- Books
- Online
Before the Most Noble and Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes. Appeal from the Vice-Admiralty Court for the island of Jamaica. De Waesmunster, Andries Feigel, master. Elisha Tyler, of the island of Jamaica, merchant, the claimant of the said ship Waesmunster, as the property of Nicholas Kemna, described of Waesmunster in Flanders, a pretended subject of His Imperial Majesty the emperor of Germany, also claimant of sundry goods, wares and merchandizes therein laden, as the property of the said Nicholas Kemna, Andries Feigel, the master of the said ship, and other pretended imperial and neutral subjects, John Cologan of London, merchant, as agent, and on behalf of Francis Bowens, described of Ostend, and Anthony Songa, of London, merchant, claimant of other parts of the cargo, appellants, against, Charles Hotchkys, Esquire, commander of His Majesty's ship of war the Hydra, his officers and mariners, the captors of the said ship and goods, - - - captors and respondents. Appendix to the respondent's case.
Great Britain. Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes.Date: 1785?]- Books
- Online
The cocker : humbly inscribed to those gentlemen who are amateurs of the game cock, that prodigy of British valour. By a gentleman who has been in the habit of breeding these eight and twenty years.
Sketchley, William.Date: [1793]- Books
- Online
Pet, - Messrs Braidwood, &c. J. Gibson, W.S. agent. S. clerk. Unto the Right Honourable the Lords of Council and Session, the petition of Messrs Braidwood and Bruce, upholsterers in Edinburgh, ...
Braidwood and Bruce (Edinburgh, Scotland)Date: 1791]- Books
- Online
Bertie Hopkins and Margaret his wife, which Margaret was executrix of John Monyon senior, and administratrix, with the will annexed, of John Monyon Junior, deceased,- - plaintiffs. Isaac Honywood, executor of Edward Honywood,- defendant. The case of the said Isaac Honywood.
Honywood, Isaac.Date: 1731]- Books
- Online
In error, in Parliament. John Mitchell and John Gay, - - plaintiffs. Sir George Brydges Rodney, bart. (now Lord Rodney), and the Honourable John Vaughan, defendants. The case of the defendants.
Rodney, George Brydges Rodney, Baron, 1727-1811.Date: 1783]- Books
- Online
[Be]fore the Most Noble and Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes. Noord Stiernen, Herman Samsing, of Turnberg in Norway, a subject of His Majesty the King of Denmark, master of the said Danish ship noord stiernen, and the claimant of the said ship, her tackle, apparel, and furniture, for and on behalf of the widow Karen Anker and sons, of Christiana, in Norway aforesaid, merchants, also subjects of His Danish Majesty, the sole owners thereof, and also claimant of the cargo, and his the said master's private adventure on board the said ship at the capture, - - appellant. Richard Hudson, commander of the private ship of war venom, the captor, - - respondent. On an appeal from Barbadoes. The appellant's case.
Great Britain. Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes.Date: 1784]- Books
- Online
The Fox-chace or, The loyal blues. Tune - and a hunting we will go.
Date: 1784]- Books
- Online
Illustration of British zoology. On May 1, 1799, will be published, The first number of an entirely new, complete, and elegant work, designed as a companion to the Natural Histories of British Birds and Insects: the Natural History of British Shells, including figures and descriptions Of all the Species hitherto discovered in Great Britain; systematically arranged in the Linnean Manner, with Scientific and General observations on each. By E. Donovan, F. L. S. Author of the Natural Histories of British Birds, Insects, &c. &c. London: Printed for the Author, and for F. and C. Rivington, No. 62, St. Paul's Church-Yard. Conditions: I. This Work shall be elegantly printed in Octavo, on a fine Wove Royal Paper, and Hot-Pressed. II. Three Plates shall be given in each Number, with Descriptions: they will be printed on Whatman's Drawing Paper, and correctly finished in Colours from perfect Specimens of the Shells - Price 2s. 6d. each Number. III. This Work shall be completed in Sixty Monthly Numbers. An Index for the systematic Arrangement will be given at the End of each Volume, containing Twelve Numbers.
Donovan, E. (Edward), 1768-1837.Date: 1799]- Books
- Online
Before the Most Noble and Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners for Appeals in Prize Causes. The Waas Munster, Andries Feigel, master. John Cologan, of London, merchant, a subject of Our Sovereign Lord the King, the claimant of fifty bales of cocoa, laden in the above ship at the time of the capture and seizure thereof, appellant. Against Charles Hotchkys, Esq;commander of His Majesty's ship the Hydra, the captor of the said ship and cargo, - - - - - respondent. Case on behalf of John Cologan, one of the appellants.
Great Britain. Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes.Date: 1785?]- Books
- Online
Before the Most Noble and Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes. Appeal from the High Court of Admiralty. Hoogskarpel, - Hermeyer, master. George Johnsione, Esq. commander in chief of a squadron of His Majesty's ships and vessels employed on a certain expedition against the Cape of Good Hope, and its dependencies, and the several commanders, officers, and mariners on board of, and belonging to His Majesty's ships and vessels composing the said squadron, appellants, against Major-General William Medows, and the officers, soldiers, and others of His Majesty's land forces, and the officers, privates,and others of His Majesty's Royal Artillery, with the engineers serving under his command, at the time of the capture and seizure of the said ship Hoogskarpel and her cargo, - - - - respondents. Appendix to the appellants' case.
Great Britain. Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes.Date: 1786?]- Books
- Online
Corrupt parliaments. An extract from Alexander Scott's legacy to his country. (A scarce book) written Anno Domini, 1689. - Page 28.
Scott, Alexander, Republican.Date: [1795?]- Books
- Online
Before the Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes. The America, Charles Van Wysmantel, master. Appeal fom the Vice-Admiralty Court of the island of Barbadoes. Bartholomew songa of Warnford-Court, Throgmorton-Street, London, merchant, the claimant of the said ship, her tackle, apparel and furniture, as the true, lawful and sole property of James Bernhard Standaert of the city of Ghent, in flanders, merchant, a subject of His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Germany, and also claimant of all and singular the goods, wares and merchandizes, laden and on board the said ship at the time of the capture, as the true, lawful and sole property of the said James Bernhard Standaert and others, imperial and neutral subjects, - - - - appellant. Against Robert Sutton, Esquire, commander of His Majesty's ship of war the Dolphin, the captor of the said ship and goods, - respondent. Appendix to the appellant's case.
Great Britain. Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes.Date: 1785?]- Books
- Online
Before the Most Noble and Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes. (On an appeal from the High Court of Admiralty.) Schwalbe, Peter Boysen Smit, master. Peter Boysen Smit, the master and claimant of the Danish Ship Schwalbe, and her cargo, - appellant. William Dobbin, commander of the cutter nimble in the service of His Majesty's customs, and James Heseltine Esquire, His Majesty's procurator-general, - - - - respondents. The appellant's case.
Great Britain. Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes.Date: 1794]- Books
- Online
Before the Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes. De Vrouw Johanna, Willem Blom, master. William Mair, of Broad-Street, London, merchant, claimant of the said ship and cargo generally, and also claimant of freight, damages, demurrage and expences, on behalf of Messrs. Van Vollenhoven & Hoogstraten of Rotterdam, the owners, - - - - appellant, against the Honourable Thomas Lumley, commander of His Majesty's ship Porto, respondent. Appendix to the appellant's case.
Great Britain. Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes.Date: 1785?]- Books
- Online
The Universal officer of justice. Containing, the general power and authority by law, of the several officers and ministers following, viz. 1. Of justices of peace. 2. Clerks of the peace. 3. Of custos rotulorum. 4. Of commissioners of hackney-coaches. 5. - - of hawkers and pedlars. 6. - - of the wine licence, &c. 7. Of mayors and bailiffs of towns. 8. Of clerks of markets and tool-takers. 9. Os sheriffs of counties 10. Of under-sheriffs, and their bailiffs, &c. 11. Of coroners. 12. Of constables &c. 13. Of church-wardens and sidesmen. 14. Of vestry-men. 15. Of overseers of the poor. 16. And surveyors of the highways. The whole being collected from all the books our common and statute laws written upon the subjects and render'd generally useful to all sorts of people.
Date: 1731- Books
- Online
The english registry, For the Year of our Lord, 1770; (by John Exshaw, Bookseller,) or, A Collection of English Lists; (much improved and enlarged) containing His Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council; Lords and Commons in Parliament; the Great Officers of State; of the Army, and Navy; of the Law, and Trade; the Deans and Chancellors of the several Dioceses, Heads of Colleges and Professors, with many other Lists. To which are added, I. An Alphabetical List of the Right Hon. the House of Lords, with their Employments, Posts of Honour, &c. II. An Alphabetical List of the Counties, Cities, Boroughs, and Members for each; with their Connections, Employments, and Posts of Honour. III. A correct List of the Peers of Scotland, collated with Douglas's Peerage. IV. The Broker's Guide: or, Monied - Man's Director, for purchasing in the Funds. The Whole compiled and digested from the most authentic Lists extant; carefully corrected at the proper Offices. Fitted to be bound with Watson's Almanack.
Exshaw, John, -1776.Date: MDCCLXX. [1770]- Books
- Online
Before the Most Noble and Right Honorable the Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes. De Margaretha Dorothea and Catharina, Gerrit Springers, master. William Mair and Christopher Court, of London, merchants, the claimants as agents and on behalf of sundry subjects of the states general of the United Provinces, owners and proprietors of divers parts of the cargo of the above ship, - - - - appellants, Nicholas Jesperson, commander of the private ship of war the Hector, the capter, - - - respondent. Case on behalf of the appellants, on the further proof ordered by their Lordships.
Great Britain. Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes.Date: 1791?]- Books
- Online
Before the Most Noble and Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes. De Herman, Joachim Frederick Parlo, master. Henry Lloyd, Esq. late commander of His Majesty's ship of war the Oiseau, and Hugh Baikie, Esq. late commander of His Majesty's ship of war the Ranger, the sole captors, appellants, against Sir George Collier, Knt. late commander of His Majesty's ship of war the Canada, - - - respondent. Appendix to the appellants' case.
Great Britain. Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes.Date: 1785?]- Books
- Online
Before the Most Noble and Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes. An appeal from the High Court of Admiralty of England. Saint Jago Apostol, alias el Aquiles, Don Manuel Calbo master. Sir Andrew Snape Douglas commander of His Majesty's frigate of war the Phaeton, on behalf of himself, his officers and crew, and the rest of a squadron of His majesty's ships under the command of rear-admiral gell, captors of the said ship Saint Jago and cargo, and James Heseltine Esquire, His Majesty's procrator-general, - - - - appellants. Against Don Manuel Calbo the master, and Don Manuel de las Heras agent and consul-general of His Catholic Majesty the King of Spain, claimants of the said ship and cargo, - - - - respondents. Case on behalf of the appellants.
Great Britain. Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes.Date: 1794]- Books
- Online
Before the Most Noble and Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners for Appeals in Prize Causes. St. Eustatius and its dependencies. Samuel Dyson, Sampson Dickenson, Quinton Dick, S. Langston and Joseph Smith, the assignees of the estate of John Hawkins, of London, merchant, a subject of Our Sovereign Lord the King, a bankrupt, the claimant of sundry goods, wares, and merchandizes, seized and taken as prize on the surrender of the said island of St. Eustatius and its dependencies, to His Majesty's sea and land forces, under the command of the Right Hon. Lord Rodney, and Major General John Vaughan, with costs and damages, - - - - - - - appellants. Against the said Right Honourable Lord Rodney, and Major General John Vaughan, the captors, - - - - - - - respondents. Case on behalf of the appellants.
Great Britain. Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes.Date: 1786?]- Books
- Online
A copy of the poll for Knights of the Shire for the County of Hertford, taken at the town of Hertford, October 24, 1774. Sir Abraham Hume, Bart. Sheriff. Candidates. Numbers upon the Poll. William Plumer, Esq; - 2476 Thomas Halsey, Esq; - 1477 The Rt. Hon. Lord Viscount Grimston, 1043
Hertfordshire (England)Date: M.DCC.LXXV. [1775]- Books
- Online
Mineralogia Cornubiensis; a treatise on minerals, mines, and mining: containing the theory and natural history of strata, fissures, and lodes, With The Methods Of Discovering And Working Of Tin, Copper, And Lead Mines, And Of Cleansing And Metalizing Their Products, Shewing Each Particular Process For Dressing, Assaying, And Smelting Of Ores. To Which IS Added, An Explanation of the Terms and Idioms of Miners. By W. Pryce, of Redruth in Cornwall.
Pryce, William, 1725?-1790.Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]- Books
- Online
An impartial enquiry into the importance and present state of the woollen manufactories of Great-Britain: as likewise the improvements they are capable of receiving. In several letters to a member of Parliament. In which are contain'd, The Rise and Progreis of the Woollen Manufactories in England. The most material Laws now extant to encourage the Woollen Manufactories in this Kingdom, and prevent the Illicit Exportation of Wool. A Scheme propos'd, that will effectually answer that Purpose, and save Millions of Money Yearly to the Nation. Remarks on Webber's Scheme, and One offer'd by another Hand, - The Impropriety of granting a Registry in Charter. The Number of Sheep slaughter'd Yearly in London, - of Inhabitants within the Bills of Mortality; as likewise the Number of Both in all England and Wales, and the Quantity of Wool grown Yearly in the Kingdom: The Case of the Irish Consider'd, the Expedrency of granting further Encouragement to their Linnen Manufactories, &c. The fourth edition. To which are added, by way of appendix, three letters never publish'd before. First, Remarks on an Essay upon the Woollen Manufacture in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1741. Secondly, The Graslers Advocate Examin'd, and his Calculations Corrected. Thirdly, A Scheme to prevent the Exportation of Unmanufactur'd Wool, most humbly Submitted to the Right Honourable the Two Houses of Parliament, by Henry Laybourne, M. A. most humbly Shewn to be Good for Nothing, By J. Gee.
Gee, J. (Joseph).Date: [1744]- Books
- Online
The [B]elfast town and country almanack, for the year 1793. (Being the first after leap-year.) Adapted to the new stile: containing, [r]ising and setting; moon's southing for every day ... week, and every month in the year; month & ... days; holidays, & monthly fairs, page 4. to 15. ...lipses of the sun & moon; common notes & move-feasts; -four quarterly terms, - page 16. ... family; royal navy; and army-pay, page 2.... Bristol and Chester, - - page 15. ... abstract of the stamp-duties on bills, receipts, in Britain, which commenced august 1. 1791, p. 3. Likewise, ...histle. A story by Dr Franklin, - - page 10. ... and revolution of the Earth and planets, page3. Improvement for the management of bees, page 3. ... of some of the most considerable towns, with their ... of inhabitants, - - - - page16. ... proclamation for holding a Scots fair, page 14. ... letter to his wife, - - page 4.
Date: 1793?]- Books
- Online
The american crisis, and a letter to Sir Guy Carleton, on the murder of Captain Huddy, and the intended retaliation on Captain Asgill, of the Guards. By Thomas Paine, author Of Common sense - Rights of man-age of reason - and The decline and fall of the English system of finance.
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809.Date: [1796?]