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A state of the proceedings of the Corporation of the governors of the Bounty of Queen Anne, for the augmentation of the maintenance of the poor clergy, Giving a Particular Account of Their Constitution, Benefactions, and Augmentations, with Directions to such as desire to become Benefactors to so Pious and Charitable a Work. The second edition, with a continuation to Christmas, 1720. By Mr. Ecton.
Governors of Queen Anne's Bounty (Great Britain)Date: MDCCXXI. [1721]- 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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A brief justification of the principles of a reputed whigg, together with some few remarks on Dr. Sach- - - - l's late sermon, on the 29th of May. In an epistle to the Tories of the West. By Francis Squire, rector of Exford, Somerset.
Squire, Francis, 1682?-1750.Date: 1714- Books
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The miseries of the poor are a national sin, shame, and charge: but by making them happy, we shall remove that guilt, raise the glory, and double the wealth and strength of Great Britain ; and pay old debts without new taxes. By the Judicious Employment of the Poor (under One New General Law) and Present Taxes (without any Land-Tax) we may Justly and Gradually Discharge (within Twenty Years) All our National Debts: And whilst those Debts and Taxes are thus reducing, we shall farther receive (from the Regular Management of the Poor) much greater Benefits than the Payment of those Fifty Millions. A Due Care of the Poor is an Act of Great Piety towards Almighty God, an Act of the Greatest Humanity among Men, and of great Civil Prudence and Political Wisdom in relation to the State. - As things now are, our Populousness (which might be made the Greatest Blessing a Kingdom can have) becomes a Burden to the Nation; by breeding up whole Races, families, and Generations, in a mere Trade of Idleness, Thieving, and Beggin, and a barbarous kind of Life: which must in time prodigiously increase, and over-run the whole Face of the Kingdom, and Eat Out the very Heart thereof. Lord Chief Justice Hale, in ... upon employing the Poor.
Braddon, Laurence, -1724.Date: M.DCC.XVII. [1717]- Books
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The miserable case of poor old England fairly stated, in a letter to a member of the Honourable House of Commons. Or, the most powerful and convincing reasons, why the E-r, the D-h, the rest of the A-s, the late ministry, and the Low-Church, are against making a general peace with France; and all the main objections in opposition to it fairly answered.
C. D. L.Date: 1712- Books
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The compleat parish-officer ; containing, I. The authority and proceedings of High Constables, Petty Constables, Headboroughs, and Tithingmen, in every Branch of their Duties pursuant to Acts of Parliament: With the High Constables Precepts, Presentments, Warrants, &c. II. Of Church-Wardens, how chosen, their Business in Repairing of Churches, Bells, &c. and Assigning of Seats; the Manner of Passing their Accounts, and the Laws concerning the Church in all Cases; and an Abstract of the Act for building Fifty new Churches in London and Westminster. III. Of Overseers of the Poor, and their Office; their Power in Relieving, Employing, and Settling, &c. of poor Persons; the Laws relating to the Poor, and Settlements, and the Statutes concerning Masters and Servants. IV. Of surveyors of the highways, and Scavengers, how elected, their Business in amending the Ways, &c. and the Duty of others, with the Methods of Taxation, and Laws of the Highways. Together with the statutes relating to hackney coaches and Chairs, &c. The fifth edition, corrected and enlarged. To which is added, The office of constables, written by Sir Francis Bacon, Knt. in the Year 1610. Declaring what Power they have, and how they ought to be cherished in their Office.
Jacob, Giles, 1686-1744.Date: 1729- Books
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A short view of the frauds, abuses, and impositions of parish officers, with some considerations on the laws relating to the poor; Shewing How the Deficiencies therein might be remedied, by fixing a Qualification for the Choice of Church-Wardens and Overseers, by limiting the Sums to be raised by their Rates, and By bringing them to Account properly for the Monies that come into their Hands.
Date: MDCCXLIV. [1744]- Books
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Royal Society of Musicians. Under the patronage, and by command of their Majesties, And under the direction of The Earl of Exeter, Honorary President. The Earl of Sandwich, The Earl of Uxbridge, Sir W. W. Wynn, Bart. and Sir Richard Jebb, Bart. Honorary Vice-Presidents. Will be performed, in Westminster-Abbey, The following selections of sacred music, from Handel's works. On Thursday, June 2d, 1785, Part I. Overture in Esther. Dettingen Te Deum. Part II. Second Hautboy Concerto. Song. Pious Orgies, (judas Macchaboeus.) Select Parts of the Funeral Anthem. Chorus. How excellent is thy Name, O Lord (saul) Part III. Anthem. O come let us sing unto the Lord. Fourth Hautboy Concerto. Coronation Anthem. My Heart is inditing. On Monday, June 6th, Part I. Overture in Joseph. Song. Total Eclipse, Chorus. O first created Beam, Jubilate. (samson) Part II. Fifth Grand Concerto. Song. He was Eyes to the Blind. Anthem. As pants the Hart. Chorus. The Lord shall reign, (israel in Egypt.) Part III. Fifth Hautboy Concerto. Song. Shall I in Mamre's fertile Plain, (joshua.) Chorus. For all these Mercies. Recitative. O clap your Hands together; and Song. O give Thanks. Chorus. Ye Sons of Israel, (joshua.) Coronation Anthem. Zadock the Priest. And on Wednesday, June the 8th, The Sacred Oratorio of The Messiah. The Band will be as numerous, and the Performances on the same Grand Scale as they were last Year, at the Commemoration of Handel. The Profits arising from the several Performances, will be applied to the Fund for Decayed Musicians, the Westminster Hospital, and St. George's Hospital. - Tickets, at One Guinea for each of the Performances, will be delivered on Monday, the 2d, Wednesday the 4th, and Friday the 6th of May, at the St. Alban's-Tavern, St. Alban's-Street, Pall-Mall; and will continue to be delivered, at the same Place, on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday of every Week, 'till the Time of Performance, from Ten in the Morning, to Six in the Evening. It is requested, that those who mean to honor this Celebrity with their Attendance, will be as early in their Application for Tickets, as they conveniently can, as it is intended to stop the Delivery of Tickets, when a sufficient Number has been disposed of, to fill the Places allotted for the Company; for it is proposed, to prevent Confusion, that this Year there shall be no Distinction of Places between Subscribers and Non-Subscribers.
Royal Society of Musicians (Great Britain)Date: [1785]- Books
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An introduction to the English tongue; designed for a spelling book, suited to the tender capacities of children: (adorned with cuts.) Containing, A great Number of instructive Lessons, from the most easy possible, to the hardest; disposed in a Way so facilitating, that Children learn with Pleasure, and are excellently, fitted for the Testament, or any other Book. - Large Tables of Words - Fables. - Extracts from History. - The Church Catechism. - Graces and Prayers. - Rules for Good Behaviour. - An Introduction to Grammar, &c. The sixth edition: By the Rev. C. Marshall, Vicar of Brixworth, Northamptonshire.
Marshall, Charles, -1818.Date: [1785?]- Books
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The compleat parish-officer; containing I. The authority and proceedings of High Constables, Petty-Constables, Headboroughs, and Tithingmen, in every Branch of their Duties, pursuant to Acts of Parliament: with the High Constables Precepts, Presentments, Warrants, &c. II. Of Churchwardens; how chosen, their particular Business in Repairing of Churches, Bells, &c. and Assigning of Seats; the Manner of Passing their Accompts, and the Laws and Statutes concerning the Church in all Cases; and also an Abstract of the Act for building fifty new Churches in London and Westminster, &c. III. Of Overseers of the Poor, and their Office; their Power in Relieving, Employing, and Settling, &c. of poor Persons; the Laws relating to the Poor, and Settlements, and the Statutes concerning Masters and Servants. IV. Of surveyors of the highways and scavengers how elected, their Business in amending the Ways, &c. and the Duty of others; with the Methods of Taxation, Laws of the Highways, &c. Together with the statutes relating to hackney-coaches and Chairs, &c. The third edition: to which is added, The office of constables, written by Sir Francis Bacon, Knt. His then Majesty's Attorney-General, in the Year of our Lord 1610. declaring what Power they have, and how they ought to be cherished in their Office.
Jacob, Giles, 1686-1744.Date: 1723- 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.
Great Britain. Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes.Date: 1785?]- Books
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The safety of the church under the present ministry consider'd, in a letter to - By a clergyman.
Sykes, Arthur Ashley, 1683 or 1684-1756.Date: [1715]- Books
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The christian's prayer book; or, complete manual of devotions. In four parts Containing Introductory Discourse on the Use and Advantage of Prayer. - Ejaculatious for the Morning, - Family Prayers. - Prayers for Children, for Youth, and for Servants. - Graces before and after Meat. - Instructions for Meditation, and Meditations for every Day in the Week. - Devout Reflections for every Day in the Month. - Heads of Self-Examination. - A Compendium of relative Duties. - Offices for sick Persons, and for the devout Receiving the Holy Communion, &c. &c. &c. With a great Number of Prayers and Meditations, adapted to particular Stations, Persons, and Circumstances. By the Rev. John Fleetwood, Author of The History of the Holy Bible; And Of The Life of Our Blessed Saviour.
Fleetwood, John.Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]- Books
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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
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A scheme for a new lottery for the ladies; or, a husband and coach and six for forty shillings. To which is added, a poem in favour of the said lottery, to encourage Maids, Widows, Single Women, Bachelors, and Widowers, to put in. - Also a Scheme scor'd in Lines, with the several Prizes, where Ladies may direct themselves by pricking Blindfold, to try their Fortunes in the said lottery 'till the Time of drawing.
Date: [1730?]- Books
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Valentine Quin, Esq; - - - - - - appellant. Samuel Langley, an infant, son and heir of Samuel Langley, clerk, deceased, Thomas Cotton, and Elizabeth his wife, since deceased, executors of the said Samuel Langley deceased, and John Johnston, administrator with the will annexed of Deborah Cox, and also administrator De bonis non of Robert Cox deceased, respondents. The case of the respondents Samuel Langley the infant, and Thomas Cotton.
Langley, Samuel, 1719 or 1720-1791.Date: 1739]- Books
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Address to the sovereigns of Europe etc. etc. In two parts. By Obadia Prim. Part second. The first part contains an Appeal to the Sovereigns of Europe, to Proprietors, Merchants and all Well - wishers of social order - with a sketch of the Conduct of the Legislators of France during the Revolution. The second part contains a Letter to Bnonaparte on his Military and Political Conduct - To which are annexed I0 The principles of morality as decreed and acknowledged by the different legislative bodies of France. II0 A summary, in order of dates, of the most remarkable crimes committeed since the beginning of the Revolution - a table of the contributions, requisitions, forced loans etc.
Winsor, F. A. (Frederick Albert), 1763-1830.Date: [1798]- Books
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A catalogue of the collection of pictures of Robert Knight, Esq; (deceas'd,) which will be sold by auction by Mr. Cock, at his house in the Great-Piazza, Covent-Garden, (On Thursday the 7th of this instant February, 1744-5.) The collection may be view'd at the place of sale, on Tuesday the 5th, and every day after till the hour of sale, which will begin at half an hour after eleven. 1 A landskip, the stile of Claude Lorrain 2 A sea port - La mere poussin 3 A holy family - - Titian 4 Our saviour in the garden - Frank. 5 A Turkish palace 6 Its companion 7 A Venus dressing ... 40 A landskip, with architecture La mere Poussin 41 Our Saviour feeding the multitude Blomert 42 A sea port, by moon-light Rosa of Tivoli 43 Our Saviour with Mary Magdalen in the garden 44 Cupid shaving his bow, cooregio 45 Mercury, Venus & cupid, Corregio 46 Jupiter and I,̳ Corregio these four by the regent's copier 47 Bacchus and Riadne - - Romanelli 48 Cardinal fleury, three quartes - Rigand 49 A holy family, with angels - Domenichino 50 A pestilence -- N. Poussin catalogues will be deliver'd gratis, on Saturday the 2d, at the place of sale.
Cock, Mr. (Christopher), active 1720-1749.Date: 1745]- Books
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Before the Most Noble and Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes. La Misericordia, Miguel Pasqual, master. Anthony Calvert, agent and claimant for the private ships of war active, John Inglis commander; carnatic, James Gibbons commander; Tom, William Freadsham commander; and castor, Daniel Brocklebank commander, joint captors with His Majesty's ship leviathan, John Brown Esquire, commander, - - - - - - appellant. The said John Brown, and James Heseltine, Esquire, His Majesty's procurator general, respondents. An appeal from St. Christopher's. The appellant's case.
Great Britain. Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes.Date: 1785]- Books
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Virtues of British herbs. With the history, description, and figures of the several kinds; An Account of the Diseases they will cure; The Method of giving them; and Management of the Patients in each Disease: Containing Cures of Head-Achs by Feverfew Tea, with Two Singular Instances. Cures of Consumptions by Coltsfoot Tea, Hectic Fevers by the Daisy, Colics by Leaves of Chamomile, And Agues by its Flowers. A Recommendation of the Bidens Cernua to supply the Place of the Ceylon Acmella, so celebrated in the Gravel; but not to be had with us. And a Case, with all its Circumstances and Symptoms, of the Hooping - Cough, cured by a Tea of the fresh Root of Elecampane. The Whole illustrating that important Truth, That the Plants of our own Country will cure all its Diseases. To which are added, Cautions against the Two Othonnas, destructive of Sheep. A Work intended to be useful to the Sick, and to their Friends; to private Families; and to the Charitable, who would help their Neighbours. No.1. - To be continued occasionally, as new Virtues are discovered in Plants; or neglected, or doubtful ones ascertained by Experience. By John Hill, M. D. Member of the Imperial Academy.
Hill, John, 1714?-1775.Date: M.DCC.LXX. [1770]- Books
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A short treatise on the unfair purchase of the slaves, and their barbarous usage from Africa to the West Indies. Their cruel Treatment in the West Indies. That the slave trade is a disgrace to rational humanity, but more especially to Christianity. That the trade is abolishable only by an Act of Parliament: and As the House of Commons have agreed, it is hoped the House of Lords will concur as soon as Opportunity suits. - To discipline the Slaves to do their Work with little or no Flogging. - That Sugar is dear only from the Greatness of the Consumption; and that if we would have Sugar more cheap and plentiful, the new Plantations in Africa must be properly encouraged.
Date: 1794- Books
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The midnight rambler; or, new nocturnal spy, for the present year. Containing a complete description of the modern transactions of London and Westminster, from the hours of nine in the evening, till six in the morning. Exhibiting Great Variety Of Midnight Scenes and Adventures In Real Life, Both Serious And Comic: Wherein Are Displayed The Various Humours and Transactions of the different Inhabitants of the Metropolis - from the Duke in High, down to the Cobler in Low Life - and from the Dutchess in St. James's, down to the Oyster Woman at Billingsgate, &c. &c. Illustrated With Real Characters, and Whimsical Anecdotes, Of several Votaries of Bacchus and Venus, from the First-Rate Bucks, Bloods, and Filles de Joye, down to those in more Humble Stations; as well as those in more deplorable Conditions, whose utmost Prospects are through the Bars of a Prison. Also the Characters of Gaolers, Round-House Keepers, Mercenary Beadles, Reforming Constables, &c. &c.
Date: [1772?]- Books
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Sunday reading for August, 1795. Hints to all ranks of people on the occasion of the present scarcity.
Date: [1796]- Books
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Two proposals for raising 1,250,000 l. for the current service of the year 1729. And for appropriating the produce of the sinking fund. With A Comparison betwixt the Two Proposals; shewing the Advantages of the One over the Other to the Publick. With a Letter to- - Esq;
T. G.Date: [1729]- Books
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Browne's general law-list; for the year 1782. Being an Alphabetical Register of the Names and Residence of all the Judges Serjeants Counsellors Attornies Officers of all the different Courts Commissioners of Bankrupts Doctors Proctors The Lord-Mayor, Aldermen, Common-Council, and their several Committees Bankers Public Notaries Surveyors Auctioneers, &c. To which are added, A Complete List of the Common and Civil Law-Offices; Hours of Attendance, and Business done at Each:-The English and Welsh Circuits, with the Names of the Serjeants and Council, pointing out the different Circuits they go, and the Towns where the Assizes are held. - A Law Chronology. - A Term and other useful Tables, &c. which, as far as concerns the Law, are much superior to any Court Calendar whatever. The Attornies in the Country have their Names, Places of Abode, and Distances from London, inserted. Also A Correct List of Stage-Coaches, With the Fares, Times and Places from whence they set out.
Date: [1782]