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General Correspondence (Sa-Se)
Date: 1948-1983Reference: PP/WDP/B/1/41Part of: Paton, Sir William Drummond Macdonald (1917-1993), Pharmacologist- Books
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The respondents case. Francis Lord Bishop of Rochester, Dean of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster, Michael Evans Clerk, Lawrence Broderick, Rob. Cannon, and Harry Barker, Doctors in Divinity, four of the Prebendaries of the said Collegiate Church, Appnts. Sir Robert Raymond His Majesty's Attorney-General, Nicholas Onley, Thomas Dent, Thomas Lynford, and Edward Gee Doctors in Divinity, and Samuel Lord Bishop of Carlisle, five of the Prebendaries of the Collegiate Church aforesaid, Robert Freind Doctor in Divinity, Master of Westminster School, and William Farrer, Esq.Respnts.
Great Britain. Attorney-General.Date: 1721]- Archives and manuscripts
Lecture notes
Date: 1913-1931Reference: PP/AWD/C/4Part of: Daley, Sir (William) Allen (1887-1969)- Books
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The london cook, or the whole art of cookery made easy and familiar. Containing a great number of approved and practical receipts in every branch of cookery. Viz. Chap. I. Of Soups, Broths and Gravy. II. Of Pancakes, Fritters, Possets, Tanseys, &c. III. Of Fish. IV. Of Boiling. V. Of Roasting. VI. Of Made-Dishes. VII. Of Poultry and Game. VIII. Sauces for Poultry and Game. IX. Sauces for Butcher's Meat, &c. X. Of Puddings. XI. Of Pies, Custards, and Tarts, &c. XII. Of Sausages, Hogs-Puddings, &c. XIII. Of Potting and Collaring XIV. Of Pickles. XV. Of Creams, Jellies, &c. XVI. Of Made Wines. By William Gelleroy, Late Cook to her Grace the Dutchess of Argyle. And now to the Right Hon. Sir Samuel Fludger, Bart. Lord Mayor of the City of London. To which is prefixed, a large copper-plate, representing his Majesty's Table, with its proper Removes, as it was served at Guild-Hall, on the 9th of November last, being the Lord Mayor's Day, when His Majesty, and the Royal Family, did the City the Honour to dine with them, and were highly pleased with their Entertainment.
Gelleroy, William.Date: MDCCLXII. [1762]- Books
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A reply to the observations of Lieut. Gen. Sir William Howe, on a pamphlet, entitled Letters to a nobleman: in which his misrepresentations are detected, and those Letters are supported, by a Variety of New Matter and Argument. To which is added, an appendix, containing, I. A Letter to Sir William Howe upon his Strictures on Mr. Galloway's private Character. II. A Letter from Mr. Kirk to Sir William Howe, and his Answer. III. A Letter from a Committee. to the President. of the Congress, on the State of the Rebel Army at Valley Forge, found among the Papers of Henry Laurens, Esq. By the author of Letters to a nobleman.
Galloway, Joseph, 1731-1803.Date: MDCCLXXX. [1780]- Books
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To the worthy liverymen of the City of London. Gentlemen, Your Poll and Interest are earnestly requested for The Right Hon. Thomas Harley, Lord Mayor, Sir Robert Ladbroke, Knight and Alderman, William Beckford, Esquire and Alderman, and John Paterson, Esquire, To be your Representatives in Parliament, being zealously attached to our happy Establishment both in Church and State.
Date: 1768]- Archives and manuscripts
Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey (1792-1871), President of the Geological Society and the Royal Geographical Society
Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, 1792-1871, President of the Geological Society and the Royal Geographical SocietyDate: 1815-1871Reference: MS.5220- Books
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Myotomia: or The anatomical administration of all the muscles of an humane body : as they arise in dissection. As also an analitical table, reducing each muscle to his use and part. Newly revived with additions, by William Molins Mr. in Chyrurgery. And published for the general good of all practitioners in the said art. Whereunto is added Sir Charls Scarborough's Syllabus musculorum.
Molins, WilliamDate: 1676- Pictures
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British politicians as acrobats at a fair: performances by Lord John Russell balancing on a pole inscribed "Irish corporation billl...", Daniel O'Connell swallowing a sword inscribed "Repeal", and Thomas Spring-Rice balancing on his chin an object with a picture of a church, watched by political onlookers. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1837.
Doyle, John, 1797-1868.Date: 30 March 1837Reference: 36633iPart of: HB sketches- Books
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A collection of papers and other tracts, written occasionally; Containing, I. An essay on the nature of a publick spirit. II. The citizen. Containing twenty-five discourses on trade, with other practical and moral subjects, tending to encourage and promote both publick and private virtue. III. A dissertation on the liberty of the subject in Great-Britain. IV. An essay on the education of a young British nobleman. V. Observations on the office of an ambassador VI. A discourse on the present state of the British plantations in America, with respect to the interest of Great Britain. VII. A report to the Right Hon. the Lords Commissioners of Trade and Plantations in the year 1718. VIII. A discourse on the medium of commerce. IX. Some useful observations on the consequences of the war with Spain, 1740. By Sir William Keath, bart.
Keith, William, Sir, 1680-1749.Date: MDCCXLIX. [1749]- Books
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A sermon preached before the Trustees (appointed by the High Court of Chancery) for the Charity Schools in the Ward of Portsoken London, Founded by Sir John Cass, Knight, deceased; Late Alderman of the said Ward; upon opening the said schools, September the 17th, 1749: in the Parish Church of St Botolph without Aldgate, London. By William Stephens. LL. D. Vicar of Barking in Essex. Published at the Request of the Trustees. To which is added an appendix, containing some Account of Sir John Cass, and the Estate given by Him for the Support of the said Charity.
Stephens, William, -1751.Date: Printed in the Year MDCCL. [1750]- Books
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Myotomia; or The anatomical administration of all the muscles of an humane body : as they arise in dissection. As also an analitical table, reducing each muscle to its use and part. Reviv'd with additions, by William Molins Mr. in Chyrurgery. And publish'd for the general good of all practitioners in the said art. Whereunto is added Sir Charles Scarborough's Syllabus musculorum.
Molins, WilliamDate: 1680- Books
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The compleat horseman: or, perfect farrier. In two parts. Part I. Discovering the surest Marks of the Beauty' Goodness, Faults, and Imperfections of Horses; the best Method of Breeding and Backing of Colt's, making their Mouths; Buying, Dieting, and otherwise ordering of Horses. The Art of Shoeing, with the several sorts of Shoes, adapted to the various defects of Bad Feet, and the preservation of Good. The Art of Riding and managing the Great Horse, &c. Part II. Contains the Signs and Causes of their Diseases, with the true Method of Curing them. Written in French by the Sieur de Solleysell, Querry to the present King of France, and one of the Royal Accademy of Paris. Abridged from the folio done into English by Sir William Hope. With the addition of several excellent receipts, by our best farriers: With the Addition of several excellent Receipts, by our best Farriers: And Directions to the Buyers and Sellers of Horses.
Solleysel, Jacques de, 1617-1680.Date: 1706- Books
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The compleat horseman: or, perfect farrier. In two parts. Part I. Discovering the surest Marks of the Beauty, Goodness, Faults, and Imperfections of Horses; the best Method of Breeding and Backing of Colt's, making their Mouths; Buying, Dieting, and otherwise ordering of Horses. The Art of Shoeing, with the several sorts of Shoes, adapted to the various defects of Bad Feet, and the preservation of Good. The Art of Riding and managing the Great Horse, &c. Part II. Contains the Signs and Causes of their Diseases, with the true Method of Curing them. Written in French by the Sieur de Solleysell, Querry to the present King of France, and one of the Royal Accademy of Paris. Abridged from the folio done into English by Sir William Hope. With the addition of several excellent receipts, by our best farriers: And Directions to the Buyers and Sellers of Horses. Illustrated with several Copper-Plates.
Solleysel, Jacques de, 1617-1680.Date: 1702- Books
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The political contest; being a continuation of Junius's letters, from the 8th of July last to the present time, in which is included Dr. B----'s postscript on Mr. Wilkes's expulsion, and Junius's answer. Also Sir William Draper's last letter, with Junius's reply. Part II.
Junius, active 18th century.Date: [1769]- Books
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State law: or, the Doctrine of Libels, Discussed and Examined. Shewing, I. Every species of defamatory-writing, what shall be deemed and taken for such; and how far the same are Punishable by the Laws of the Land. II. The Sense of both Civil and Canon Lawyers in this Points with great Variety of Precedents, and Adjudged Cases. Faithfully cited from all our Reports. III. Particular Instances of Printed Libels; with the Proceedings against, 1. H. Carr, for writing The Weekly Packet of Advices from Rome, 31 Car. II. 2. Of S. Johnson and R. Baxter for Libelling King James II. 3. Of Hurt, for printing The Flying Post, 12 Anne. 4. Of Curll, for printing Ker of Kersland's Memoirs, &c. 10 Geo. ... With two remarkable cases: 1. Temp. Hen. 70. of Several Persons executed for a Libel against his Ministry, which was deemed High-Treason. 2. The Case of Sir William Williams, (speaker of the House of Commons) fined 10000l. for a Libel. Also, the opinions of Lord Chief Justice Hale, Holt, and Parker, concerning state-libels.
Date: [1730?]- Books
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Inaccessible glory, or, The impossibility of seeing Gods face whilst we are in the body : delivered in a sermon preached at the funeral of ... Sir Theodore de-Mayerne, in the parish church of St. Martins in the Feilds [sic] on Friday the 30 of March, 1655 / by Thomas Hodges.
Hodges, Thomas, 1599 or 1600-1672Date: 1655- Books
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A sermon occasioned by the death of the Honourable Sir William Pepperrell, Bart. lieutenant-general in His Majesty's service, &c. Who died at his seat in Kittery, July 6th, 1759, aged 63. Preached the next Lord's-Day after his funeral. By Benjamin Stevens, A.M. Pastor of the First Church in Kittery.
Stevens, Benjamin, 1721-1791.Date: M,DCC,LIX. [1759]- Archives and manuscripts
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M0001433: Reproduction of a photograph of the memorial tablet of Sir William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865), English botanist and botanical illustrator, which is located in St. Anne's Church, Kew, London
Date: 21 November 1930Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/13/35Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Books
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Undone again; or, The plot discover'd. Being a detection of the practices of Papists with sectaries, for overthrowing the government, and the national church. Collected from the speeches, letters, and writings, of the Lord Keeper Puckering, Sir Francis Walsingham, Archbishop Bramhall, Sir William Boswell, Mr. Prynne, Mr. Richard Baxter, Bishop Stillingfleet, Archbishop Whitgift, Dr. Sutcliff, Dean of Exon, Mr. Selden, King Charles I. Bishop Saunderson, the politick schemes of the Jesuites Contzen and Campanella, and Dr. Cawdry an eminent Presbyterian minister. Humbly inscrib'd to all the true lovers of old England; and may serve for an answer to all the scandalous pamphlets and reflexions thrown upon Dr. Sacheverell.
Date: printed in the year, 1710- Books
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The history of London from its foundation to the present time: Containing, I. The original Constitution of London: The ancient and present State of its several Wards, Churches, Parishes, Liberties, and Districts: Accounts of all the Religious Foundations in London and its Suburbs, before the Reformation: The Names of all the Streets, Squares, Courts, Lanes, &c. within the City and Suburbs: With curious Calculations touching the Number of its Inhabitants; and Parallels between London and many of the most celebrated ancient and modern Cities; whereby it will appear that the Inhabitants of London, at present, are almost equal in Number to those of the Cities of Paris, Amsterdam, and Rome together, and superior in Number to any one City in the World. II. Historical and particular Accounts of the City Governments, Ecclesiastical, Civil, and Military, in all their Branches: With the several Charters, rendered into English; where in are set forth their many great and valuable Privileges, Immunities, and numerous Benefactions. III. Accounts of the several Incorporations of Merchants and Trades; shewing the Institutions of their respective Companies; with their ancient Rights, Privileges, and Coats of Arms. IV. Accounts of the present State of Learning, and of the Colleges, Schools, Inns of Court, Common-Pleas, King's-Bench, Chancery, Exchequer, High Court of Parliament, &c. V. Full and particular Accounts of all the Hospitals, Alms-Houses, and other Charitable Foundations, within the City and the Parts adjacent. VI. The ancient and present State of the Tower, and of the Curiosities therein contained. Also an Account of Sir Hans Sloane's Collection, lately purchused by Parliament. And Including The several Parishes in Westminster, Middlesex, Southwark, &c. within the Bills of Mortality. By William Maitland, F. R. S. and Others. Illustrated With a Complete Set of the Churches, Palaces, Publick Buildings, Hospitals, Bridges, &c. within and adjacent to this great Metropolis: The Plans of London, exhibiting its Appearance before the Fire; in its Ruins after that Conflagration in 1666; and as it is now rebuilt and extended: And with a large Map of all the Villages and Country within ten Miles Circumference: Exactly drawn, and curiously engraved on One Hundred and Twenty Copper-Plates, by the best Hands, and on so large a Scale, that each Plate could not be sold separate for less than One Shilling. And Improved With a great Variety of Authentick Pieces, relating to the Progressive Alterations it has undergone from its first Foundation, both in its Political, Ecclesiastical, and Commercial State; and describing those Charitable Foundations, and other Additional Buildings, with which it has been lately adorned, and increased to such a prodigious Extent, as to carry the Appearance of a large County in the Number of its Houses and Inhabitants. By which Means All the Defects in the former Edition of this Work, and in other Authors on this Subject, will be supplied, their Errors corrected, and the History brought down, with great Care and Impartiality, to the present Time. In two volumes. Vol. I. By the King's Authority.
Maitland, William, 1693?-1757.Date: MDCCLXIX. [1769]- Books
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Plan of the Surrey Dispensary, in Montague-Close, near St. Saviour's Church, for administering advice and medicines to the poor inhabitants of the Borough of Southwark, and places adjacent, at the dispensary, or at their own habitations. Instituted in the year 1777.
Surrey Dispensary.Date: 1782- Books
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A list of the Committee of Almoners of Christ's Hospital. Philip Scarth, Esq; treasurer. Zachariah Foxall, Esq; Bloomsbury-square. Mr George Dottin, at Mr. Penny's in Brick-lane, Spital-fields. Mr Hugh Bonfoy, Highgate. Mr. John Markham, Paternoster-row. William Wynne, Esq; Essex-street, in the Strand. Mr Thomas Moore, Richmond. Deputy Samuel Ballard, Little-Britain. Mr. Thomas Salter, Cornbill. Mr Thomas Bigg, Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. Thomas Rawstorn, Esq; James-street, Bedford-row. Mr Robert Cranmer, Christ's Hospital. Deputy Joseph Ayliffe, Bread-street-hill. Mr. Richard Bridgman, without Aldgate. Mr. John Turner, Fleet-street. Deputy Robert Pycrost, Minories. Charles Boehm, at Mr. Boehm's in Sikes-Lane. Miles Man, Esq; Guild-Hall. Sir Thomas Hankey, Knt, Lime-street. Mr Barnaby Backwell, Norfolk-street in the Strand. Mr John Lancashire, Bow-Lane. Mr Benjamin Cleeve, near St Michael's-Church, Wood-street. Mr. Philip Bromfield, Lombard-street. Deputy James Hodges, London-Bridge. Peter Du Cane, Esq; St James's-square. Charles savage, Esq; Mark-Lane. Mr. Daniel Webb, Lothbury. Mr John Townsend, Cullum-street. Mr William Innys, Pater-noster-row. Mr. Thomas Hardwich, Draper's-Hall. To the Right Worshipful the President, the Worshipful treasurer, and Governors of Christ's Hospital. Sir, your worship's vote and interest are most humbly desired for Richard Reily, printer, (citizen and stationer) that he may succeed Mr John Wright, deceas'd, as printer to Christ's-Hospital. And your petitioner as in duty bound, shall ever pray. N.B. your petitioner has been tenant to the said hospital thirty years.
Christ's Hospital (London, England). Committee of Almoners.Date: 1754]- Books
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Mathematical elements of natural philosophy, confirm'd by experiments: or, an introduction to Sir Isaac Newton's philosophy. ... . Written in Latin by William-James 's Gravesande, Doctor of Laws and Philosophy, Professor of Mathematicks and Astronomy at Leyden, and Fellow of the Royal Society of London. Translated into English by J. T. Desaguliers, LL. D. Fellow of the Royal Society, and Chaplain to his Grace the Duke of Chandos.
Gravesande, Willem Jacob 's, 1688-1742.Date: MDCCXXXVII. [1737]- Digital Images
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Plan of the Surrey Dispensary, in Montague-Close, near St. Saviour's Church, for administering advice and medicines to the poor inhabitants of the Borough of Southwark, and places adjacent, at the dispensary, or at their own habitations. Instituted in the year 1777.