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An Act for continuing certain duties upon coals and culm, and for establishing certain funds to raise money, as well to proceed in the building of new churches, as also to complete the supply granted to His Majesty, and to reserve the overplus-monies of the said duties for the disposition of Parliament, and for more effectual suppressing private lotteries.
Great Britain.Date: 1719]- Books
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An Act to enable the South-Sea Company to dispose of the effects in their hands by way of lottery and subscription, or to sell part of their fund or annuity payable at the Exchequer, in order to pay the debts of the said Company; and for relief of such who were intended to have the benefits of a late Act touching payment of ten per centum therein mentioned.
Great Britain.Date: 1722]- Books
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An Act for granting to His Majesty the sum of one million out of the sinking fund, for the service of the year one thousand seven hundred and forty nine; and for enabling His Majesty to raise a further sum of one million for the uses and purposes therein mentioned; and for further appropriating the supplies granted in this session of Parliament; and for applying a certain sum for defraying certain charges and allowances to the officers and private gentlemen of the reduced troops of horse guards; and for continuing the bounties on the exportation of British and Irish linnens; and for making forth duplicates of Exchequer bills, lottery tickets, receipts, annuity orders, or other orders lost, burnt, or otherwise destroyed.
Great Britain.Date: 1749]- Books
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An Act for appointing commissioners to examine, state, and report, who of the sufferers in the charitable corporation are objects of compassion, according to the descriptions therein mentioned; and for giving relief to such sufferers; and for enforcing the laws made against foreign lotteries; and for impowering the said commissioners to hear and determine the claims of such creditors and proprietors of the said corporation, as have not made their claims within the time limited by an Act made in the last session of the Parliament, for taking, stating, and determining all the claims and demands of the creditors of the said corporation, and of all the persons claiming any share or interest in the stock or fund of the said corporation.
Great Britain.Date: 1733]- Books
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An abstract of the publick funds granted and continued to the Crown since 1 Wm. & M. and still existing. Viz I. The Revenue of the Civil List. II. Annuity-Funds for Ninety Nine Years. III. Lottery-Funds for Thirty Two Years. IV. Perpetual Funds, Redeemable by Parliament, viz. 1. To the Bank of England. 2. To the East-India Company. 3. To the Bankers in Car. 2. 4. To the South-Sea Company. With an essay for the more speedy redemption of the perpetual funds: An Apology for the same: And an Appendix, for Exchange of a Revenue in Ireland. Written by Mr. Asgill.
Asgill, John, 1659-1738.Date: M.DCC.XV. [1715]- Books
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An abstract of the publick funds granted and continued to the Crown since 1 Wm. & M. and still existing. Viz. I. The Revenue of the Civil List. II. Annuity-Funds for Ninety Nine Years. III. Lottery-Funds for Thirty Two Years. IV. Perpetual Funds, Redeemable by Parliament, viz. 1. To the Bank of England. 2. To the East-India Company. 3. To the Bankers in Car. 2. 4. To the South-Sea Company. With an essay for the more speedy redemption of the perpetual funds: An Apology for the same: And an Appendix, for Exchange of a Revenue in Ireland. Written by Mr. Asgill.
Asgill, John, 1659-1738.Date: M.DCC.XV. [1715]- Books
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An abstract of the publick funds granted and continued to the Crown since I Wm. & M. and still existing. Viz I. The Revenue of the Civil List. II. Annuity-Funds for Ninety Nine Years. III. Lottery-Funds for Thirty Two Years. IV. Perpetual Funds, Redeemable by Parliament, viz. 1. To the Bank of England. 2. To the East-India Company. 3. To the Bankers in Car. 2. 4. To the South-Sea Company. With an essay for the more speedy redemption of the perpetual funds: An Apology for the same: And an appendix, for Exchange of a Revenue in Ireland. Written by Mr. Asgill.
Asgill, John, 1659-1738.Date: M.DCC.XV. [1715]- Books
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An Act for laying additional duties on hides and skins, vellom and parchment, and new duties on starch, coffee, tea, drugs, gilt and silver wire, and policies of insurance, to secure a yearly fund for satisfaction of orders to the contributors of a further sum of one million eight hundred thousand pounds towards Her Majesties supply; and for the better securing the duties on candles; and for obviating doubts concerning certain payments in Scotland; and for suppressing unlawful lotteries, and other devices of the same kind; and concerning cake-sope; and for relief of Mary Ravenall, in relation to an annuity of eighteen pounds per annum; and concerning prize cocoa nuts brought from America; and certain tickets which were intended to be subscribed into the stock of the South-Sea Company; and for appropriating the monies granted in this session of Parliament.
Great Britain.Date: 1718- Books
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The ruine of the Bank of England, and all publick-credit, inevitable: and The Necessity, in a short Time, of Stopping the Payments upon the several Funds to the Bank, South-Sea Company, Lotteries, &c. if the Honourable House of Commons will not themselves be Judges of the Means that may be Offer'd to prevent it.
Holland, John, -1722.Date: Printed in the Year MDCCXV. [1715]- Books
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Every man his own broker: or, a guide to Exchange-Alley. In which the nature of the several funds, vulgarly called the stocks, is clearly explained; and The Mystery and Iniquity of Stock-Jobbing laid before the Public in a New and Impartial Light. Also The Method of Transferring Stock, of Buying and Selling India Bonds, Lottery Tickets, Life Annuities, and other Government Securities, without the Assistance of a Broker, is made intelligible to the meanest Capacity. To which is added, New Tables of Interest, calculated at 5 per Cent. for the Use of the present Proprietors of India Bonds; and Directions how to avoid the Losses that are frequently sustained by the Destruction of Bank Notes, India Bonds, &c. by Fires and other Accidents. By Philanthropos.
Mortimer, Thomas, 1730-1810.Date: M.DCCLXI. [1761]- Ephemera
Haemophilia and sickle cell ephemera. Box 1.
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Every man his own broker: or, a guide to Exchange-Alley. In which the nature of the several funds, vulgarly called the stocks, is clearly explained; And The Mystery and Iniquity of Stock-Jobbing laid before the Public in a New and Impartial Light; in which is introduced a Comic Scene at J-'s. Also The Method of Transferring Stock, of Buying and Selling India Bonds, Lottery Tickets, Life Annuities, and other Government Securities, without the Assistance of a Broker, is made intelligible to the meanest Capacity; and an Account is given of the Laws in Force relative to Brokers, Clerks at the Bank, &c. To which is added, New Tables of Interest, calculated at 5 per Cent. for the Use of the present Proprietors of India Bonds; and Directions how to avoid the Losses that are frequently sustained by the Destruction of Bank Notes, India Bonds, &c. by Fires and other Accidents; and an Appendix, giving some Account of banking, and of the sinking Fund. Quid faciunt leges, ubi sola pecunia regnat.
Mortimer, Thomas, 1730-1810.Date: MDCCLXI. [1761]- Ephemera
Hospital associations etc. ephemera. Box 1.
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Welfare and orphanages ephemera. Box 1.
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Every man his own broker: or, a guide to Exchange-Alley. In which the nature of the several funds, vulgarly called the stocks, is clearly explained, and accurate Computations are formed of the Average Value of East India Stocks for several Years, from the current Year. The Mystery and Iniquity of Stock-Jobbing is laid before the Public in a New and Impartial Light. The Method of Transferring Stock, and of Buying and Selling the several Government Securtiies, without the Assistance of a Broker, is made intelligible to the meanest Capacity; and an Account is given of the Laws in force relative to Brokers, Clerks at the Bank, &c. With Directions how to avoid the Losses that are freqnently sustained by the Destruction of Bank Notes, India Bonds, &c. by Fire and other Accidents. Also, An Historical Account of the Origin, Progress, and present State of Public Credit, Banking, and the Sinking-Fund; and Advice to Adventurers in the State-Lotteries. To which is added a supplement, containing Rules for forming a Judgment of the real Causes of the Rise or Fall of the Stocks; and several useful tables of Interest, &c. The ninth edition, revised and enlarged. By Thomas Mortimer, Esq. Esq. Author of the Elements of Commerce, Politics, and Finances.
Mortimer, Thomas, 1730-1810.Date: 1782- Books
Mind your head / Juno Dawson ; with advice from Dr. Olivia Hewitt ; illustrated by Gemma Correll.
Dawson, JunoDate: 2016- Books
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Mad/e / [Facilitated by large editors gobscure and Lindsay Nicholson].
GobscureDate: 2022- Ephemera
Hospitals ephemera. Box 5.
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Sport ephemera : swimming. Box 2.
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Benjamin Harrison, the autocratic treasurer of Guy's hospital, receiving tributes from Sir Astley Cooper and his associates. Coloured lithograph attributed to R. Cruikshank, ca. 1830.
Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856.Date: 1830Reference: 11400i- Archives and manuscripts
Family Planning Association
Family Planning AssociationDate: c.1930-c.2000sReference: SA/FPA- Archives and manuscripts
Fell, Dame Honor Bridget (1900-1986)
Fell, Dame Honor Bridget, 1900-1986Date: 1919-1988Reference: PP/HBF- Archives and manuscripts
Strangeways Research Laboratory
Strangeways, T.S.P., 1866-1926.Date: c.1901-1999Reference: SA/SRL