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The nature and excellency of the duty of alms-giving. A sermon preach'd at the parish church of St. Gile's in the Fields. Sunday, Nov. 17. 1706. on behalf of the charity-schools settled in that Parish; consisting of Eighty Five Boys, and One Hundred Girls. By Sir William Dawes, Baronet, D.D. and Chaplain in Ordinary to Her Majesty. Publish'd at the request of the Trustees, for the said Charity-Schools, and others of the Hearers.
Dawes, William, Sir, 1671-1724.Date: 1707- Books
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Before the Most Noble and Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes. St. Eustatius and its dependencies. No. 11. Claim of John Ingram. John Ingram of Billiter Square, London, Merchant, claimant on behalf of John Campbell the elder, and Co. of Glasgow, in North-Britain, - - - -appellant, against Sir George Brydges (now Lord) Rodney, and the Honourable Major (now Lieutenant) General John Vaughan, the commander in Chief of His Majesty's sea and land forces in an expedition to the island of Saint Eustatius, the captors, - - - - - - respondents case on behalf of the respondents.
Great Britain. Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes.Date: 1786?]- Books
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Before the Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes. Appeal from the High Court of Admiralty. St. Eustatius and its dependencies, John Ingram of Billiter-Square, London, merchant, the claimant of fifty-seven hogsheads of sugar and forty-two pieces of canvas, as the property of John Campbell the elder, and Company of Glasgow, in North Britain, merchants, - - - - - - - appellant. Against the Right Honourable George Lord Rodney, and Major General John Vaughan, the commanders in chief, and the rest of the commanders, officers, mariners, marines, and soldiers, captors of the island of Saint Eustatius, and its dependencies, - - - - - - - - respondents, the appellant's case.
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A candid state of affairs relative to East India shipping; with an appendix; containing, propositions to reconcile the several contending interests of those concerned in that Branch; and to promote future Harmony in Leadenhall Street. Addressed to the proprietors. The second edition. By Sir Richard Hotham.
Hotham, Richard, Sir.Date: M.DCC.LXXV. [1775]- Books
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Before the Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes. San Buena Ventura, Augustin de Butron, master. Thomas Fagg, commander of the private ship of war the Surprise, and Thomas White, commander of the private ship of war the two brothers, - - - - - - appellants, and Augustin de Butron, master and claimant of the said ship and cargo, - - - - respondent. The respondent's further case.
Great Britain. Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes.Date: 1785?]- Books
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Ireland. In the House of Lords. The Right Honorable Morrough, Earl of Inchiquin; the Most Noble William Duke of Leinster; and the Right Honorable Richard Earl of Shannon, appellants. Henry Burnell, gentleman, - - - - respondent. The case of the appellants.
Inchiquin, Morrough O'Brien, Earl of, -1808.Date: 1795]- Books
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House of Lords. John Ambrose, Gentleman, - - - - - - Appellant. And Robert Hodgson, Clerk, and Catherine his Wife, late Catherine Jolland, Spinster, and Catherine Belchier, Spinster, - - - - - Respondents The case of the Respondent, Catherine Belchier. Upon the Appeal against the Decree of the Right Honourable the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, of the 15th Day of July, 1780.
Belchier, Catherine.Date: 1781]- Books
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Between Walter Grossett, who prosecutes as well for the King as himself, plaintiff, and - - - plaintiff in error. And Thomas Ogilvie, of Dundee, merchant, defendant, and - - - defendant in error. Upon a writ of error returnable in Parliament upon a judgment in the Court of Exchequer in Scotland. The case of the defendent in error.
Ogilvie, Thomas.Date: 1753]- Books
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Downpatrick, July 17, 1790. (Sixty-seventh day.) At the close of the poll this day, for Knights of the Shire to represent the county of Down in a Parliament, the numbers stood as follow: Earl of Hillsborough - 352[2] George Matthews, Esq. - 2214 Hon. Robert Stewart - 3100 Majority for the Earl of Hillsborough against Mr. Stewart - 415 gross poll 6445 hasty sketch of what passed the fifteenth and sixteenth instant, upon the Hustings. ...
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A Display of uncontroverted truths, and an alarm to unsound professors. By - -, a poor labourer in the Lord's Vineyard.
Date: M,DCC,LXXXV. [1785]- Books
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A scene of corruption discover'd; with some particulars of a melancholy place in a letter to the Right Honourable Philip Lord Hardwick, ... By a gentleman in distress.
Philander.Date: [1737]- Books
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Commercial tables . Exhibiting a View of the Weights, Measures, Coins, and Monies of France, compared and equalized with those of Great Britain. Containing Tables of French and English Weights, - of English and French ditto, - of French and English Cloth Measure, - of English and French ditto, - of ditto . . . ditto . . Dry Measure, - of ditto . . . ditto . . Liquid Measure, - of Coins, - of Money. Exchanges; comprehending Eighty-One different Rates, being all the Variations which occur in the practice of Exchange, from 27 to 32 inclusive, from 1 Livre to 30 Thousand; And a General Table from 40 Thousand to 1 Million. A Ready Reckoner in French Money. A General Table of Duties payable on Goods and Merchandize Imported from France. Forms of Bills of Exchange-French and English. To which is added, an ample Extract from the Commercial Treaty concluded with France the 26th of September 1786, in the French and English Languages. By a British merchant, formerly resident in France.
British Merchant.Date: 1790- Books
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Before the Most Noble and Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes. Chinsurah, and its dependencies. Appeal from the High Court of Admiralty of England, on behalf of Thomas Morton, Esq. The said Thomas Morton, Esq. syndic of the United Company of Merchants of England, trading to the East Indies, - - - - - appellant, against Sir Edward Hughes, Knight of the Most Honourable order of the Bath, late commanders in chief of His Majesty's squadron in the East-Indies, and the officers and crew of His Majesty's sloop of war the Nymph, one of the said squadron, and James Heseltine, Esq. His Majesty's procurator-general, - - - - - respondents appeal on the behalf of Sir Edward Hughes. The said Sir Edward Hughes, and the officers and crew of His Majesty's sloop of war the Nymph, - appellants, against the said Thomas Morton, Esq. syndic of the said United Company of Merchants of England, trading to the East-Indies, - - - - respondent. Case on behalf of Sir Edward Hughes, and the officers and crew of His Majesty's sloop of war the Nymph.
Great Britain. Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes.Date: 1792?]- Books
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An appeal from Scotland to the House of Lords. James Chalmers, Merchant in Leith, - Appellant. Alexander Brown, Jeweller in Edinburgh, - Respondent. The Respondent's case.
Brown, Alexander, jeweller in Edinburgh.Date: 1783]- Books
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Considerations on the dispute now depending before the Honourable House of Commons, between the British, southern, and northern plantations in America. In a letter to -
Z----h, A----r.Date: [1731]- Books
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His Majesty's Advocate for Scotland, - - appellant. James Boyd, Esq; commonly called Lord Boyd, Mr. Henry Home, of Kaims, advocate, Mr. William Wallace, of Cairnhill, advocate, Mr. Hew Crawfurd, Clerk to the Signet, and Mr. Robert Paterson, writer in Kilmarnock, - - - - - respondents. The respondents case.
Erroll, James Hay, Earl of, 1726-1778.Date: 1751]- Books
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The military medley, containing the most necessary rules and directions for attaining a competent knowledge of the art: to which is added an explication of military terms, alphabetically digested. By Thomas Simes, Esq; Captain of the Queen's Royal Regiment of Foot.
Simes, Thomas, active 1757-1780.Date: M,DCC,LXVII. [1767]- Books
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Before the Most Noble and Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes. The Brigantine Triumph, Benjamin Northam, Master. James Graham, of London, Merchant, the Agent for, and Correspondent of, Thomas Ogden and Titus Ogden, and Messieurs John Wright Stanly, Wright Stanly, and James Green, Merchants, all of the Town of Newborn, in the State of North Carolina, one of the United States of America, and Subjects of the said United States, the sole Owners of the said Brigantine and her Cargo at the Time she was taken and seized as Prize, on the twenty-eighth Day of March, One thousand seven hundred and eighty-three, in the Atlantic Ocean, between the thirty-third and thirty-fourth Degrees of Northern Latitude, twenty-five Days after the Cessation of Hostilities between his Majesty and the said United States of America, in the said Atlantic Ocean, and Claimant of the said Brigantine and her Cargo on Behalf of the said Owners, Appellant. William Swiney, Esquire, Commander of his Majesty's Ship of War the Assurance, the Captor, and James Heseltine, Esquire, his Majesty's Procurator General, - - - - Respondents. An Appeal from the Vice-Admiralty Court of East Florida. The appellant's case.
Great Britain. Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes.Date: 1785]- Books
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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
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Recreation for youth: a useful and entertaining epitome of geography and biography. The first part comprising a general view of the several empires, Kingdoms, Republics, States, remarkable Islands, Mountains, Seas, Rivers, and Lakes; with their Situation, Extent, Capitals, Population, Produce, Arts, Religion, and Commerce: Including the Discoveries of Capt. Cook, and others. The second part including the lives of the most eminent men who have flourished in Great-Britain, and its dependencies. By Joh Paterson Service.
Service, John Paterson.Date: [1787]- Books
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Before the Most Noble and Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners for hearing Appeals in Prize Causes. The Pieter and Paulus, Pieter Mahler, master. Emanuel Philip Bize, of London, merchant, a subject of Our Sovereign Lord the King, the claimant of part of the cargo, with costs and damages, - - - - - - appellant. Against Christopher Parker, Esq; commander of His Majesty's ship the Diamond, the captor of the said ship and goods, - - - - - respondent. Case on behalf of the appellant.
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Andrew Scott, deacon, and the other members of the Incorporation of Bakers in Glasgow, - - - - - - appellants. The provost, baillies, and magistrates of Glasgow, - - respondents. The appellants case.
Incorporation of Bakers (Glasgow, Scotland)Date: 1739]- Books
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His Grace Hugh archbishop of Ardmagh, and Nathaniel Whaley, clerk, - plaintiffs. The King by his attorney general - defendant. In a writ of error upon a judgment of reversal given in the Court of King's Bench in England, of a judgment obtained by the plaintiffs in the Court of King's Bench in Ireland, in an action on a quare impedit brought by the King for the Church of Ardmagh in Ireland. The case of the King, who is plaintiff in the action.
Great Britain. Attorney-General.Date: 1729]- Books
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Before the Most Noble and Right Honorable the Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes. Appeal from the High Court of Admiralty of Great-Britain. De Twee Gesusters, Pieter Cooman, master. Mary Chevallier, widow, the relict and administratrix of the goods of Nicholas Chevallier, deceased; late commander of the private ship of war the Stag, a pretended joint chaser and captor of the said ship, - - - - - - - - appellant. And Henry Tozer, commander of the private ship of war the Providence, the actual captor, and Peter Tessier, commander of the private ship of war the Spitfire, a joint chaser and captor of the prize in question, - - - - - respondents. On a second appeal, the said Henry Tozer, commander of the providence, - - - - - - appellant, and the said Peter Tessier, commander of the Spitfire, - - - - - - - respondent. Case on behalf of the Peter Tessier, one of the respondents.
Great Britain. Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes.Date: 1785]- Books
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Before the Most Noble and Right Honorable the Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes. Jonge Juffrouw Anna, Ids Baarends Kuyk, master, James Verco, commander of the private ship of war the Fox, the captor, - - - - appellant. Richard Pentreath, commander of the non-commissioned boat or vessel the Success, (falsely calling himself commander of the private ship of war Success) a pretended joint chaser and captor, - - - - - - - - respondent. Appellant's further case on the question, as to the asserted interest of His Majesty, in his Office of Admiralty.
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