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Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. : Appendix Volume XXVI. Documents relating more especially to the administration of charities.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress.Date: 1910- Books
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Final report of Her Majesty's Commissioners appointed to inquire into the operation and administration of the laws relating to the sale of intoxicating liquors.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Liquor Licensing Laws.Date: 1899- Books
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Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. : Appendix Volume XIII. Special reports from the dioceses in England and Wales as to the extent and intensity of poverty and the administration of charitable and Poor Law relief.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress.Date: 1909- Books
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Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. : Appendix Volume XVI. Report by Mr. A.D. Steel-Maitland and Miss Rose E. Squire, H.M. Inspector of Factories, on the relation of industrial and sanitary condtions to pauperism, together with an additional memorandum on certain other points connected with the Poor Law system and its administration.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress.Date: 1909- Books
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A tour through Ireland; wherein the present state of that Kingdom is considered; and the most noted cities, towns, seats, buildings, loughs, &c. described. Interspersed with observations on the Manners, Customs, Antiquitifs, Curiosities, and Natural History of that Country. To which is Prefixed, a General Description of the Kingdom; with The Distances between the Ports, &c. on the Coast of Great - Britain, and those on that of Ireland.
Luckombe, Philip, -1803.Date: M.DCC.LXXX. [1780]- Books
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Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. Appendix.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress.Date: 1909-1913- Archives and manuscripts
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FPIS leaflet allocation system papers
Date: 1989 - 1990Reference: SA/FPA/C/G/1/3/11Part of: Family Planning Association- Books
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Report of Royal Commission upon the Administration and Operation of the Contagious Diseases Acts.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Contagious Diseases Acts.Date: 1871- Books
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The new universal geographical grammar: wherein the situation and extent of the several countries are laid down according to the most exact geographical observations, and the history of all the different kingdoms of the world, is interspersed in such a manner, as to render the study of geography both useful and entertaining. Under these three Heads: I. A Compendious System of Astronomy. II. The Geographical Definitions, Problems, and General Divisions of the Earth, necessary to be understood as an Introduction to this Grammar. III. A particular description of the Countries contained in each quarter of the World; their Cities, chief Towns, respective forms of Government, Forces, Revenues, Taxes, and History. Together with An Account of the Air, Soil, Produce, Traffic, Curiosities, Arms, Religion, Language, Universities, Bishoprics, Manners, Customs, Habits, and Coins, in use in the several Kingdoms and States treated of. Illustrated with a New and Correct Set of Maps of the Countries Described. The whole being an improvement and continuation of Mr. Salmon's grammar. Brought down to the present time by J. Tytler.
Salmon, Thomas, 1679-1767.Date: M.DCC.LXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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An apology for the life of Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew, commonly call'd the King of the beggars; Being an impartial Account of his Life, from his leaving Tiverton School, at the Age of Fifteen, and entering into a Society of Gypsies, to the present Time; wherein the Motives of his Conduct will be explain'd, and the great Number of Characters and Shapes he has appeared in through Great Britain, Ireland, and several other Places of Europe be related; with his Travels twice through great Part of America. A particular Account of the Original, Government Language, Laws and Customs of the Gypsies; their Method of electing their King, &c. And a Parallel drawn after the Manner of Plutarch, between Mr. Bampfylde - Moore Carew and Mr. Thomas Jones.
Goadby, Robert, 1721-1778.Date: [1760?]- Books
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An apology for the life of Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew, commonly call'd the King of the beggars; being an impartial account of his life, from his leaving Tiverton School, at the Age of Fifteen, and entering into a Society of Gypsies, to the present Time; wherein the Motives of his Conduct will be explain'd, and the great Number of Characters and Shapes he has appeared in through Great Britain, Ireland, and several other Places of Europe be related; with his Travels twice through great Part of America. A particular Account of the Original, Government, Language, Laws and Customs of the Gypsies; their Method of electing their King, &c. And a Parallel drawn after the Manner of Plutarch, between Mr. Bampfylde - Moore Carew and Mr. Thomas Jones.
Goadby, Robert, 1721-1778.Date: [1760?]- Books
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Extracts from the information received by His Majesty's Commissioners, as to the administration and operation of the Poor-Laws. : Published by authority / [By C.J. London [and six others]].
Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress.Date: 1833- Books
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The new British traveller; or, a complete modern universal display of Great-Britain and Ireland: Being a New, Complete, Accurate, and Extensive Tour Through England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, the Isles of Man, Wight, Scilly, Hebrides, Jersey, Sark, Guernsey, Alderney, And other Islands adjoining to and dependent on the Crown of Great-Britain. Comprising all that is worthy of Observation in every County, Shire, &c. And containing a full, ample, and circumstantial Account of every Thing remarkable in the several Cities, Market-Towns, Boroughs, Hundreds, Villages, Hamlets, Parishes, &c. throughout these Kingdoms. Being calculated equally to please the Polite - entertain the Curious - instruct the Uninformed - and direct the Traveller. The Whole Clearly and Accurately Displayed under the Following General Heads: Situation, Etymology, Extent, Roads, Capes, Battles, Sieges, Skirmishes, Civil Commotions, Trading and other Companies, Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Military Offices, Earthquakes, Storms, Inundations, and other singular Occurrences, Rocks, Rivers, Mines, Grottos, Abbey-Lands, Fossils, Caves, Hills, Moors, Springs, Woods, Antiquities-Roman, Danish, and Saxon; Minerals, Plants, Agriculture, Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Insects, Reptiles, Amphibious Creatures, Castles, Manors, Military Ways, Camps, Docks, Harbours, Bays, Havens, Markets, Fairs, Canals, Buildings, Fortifications, Palaces, Seats, Parks, Bridges, Forests, Cathedrals, Collegiate and Parish Churches, Monuments, Ecclesiastical and Civil Jurisdictions, Corporations, Charters, Charitable Foundations, Institutions, &c. Customs, Manners, &c. Handicrafts, Commodities, Military and Naval Exploits, Lives of all such Persons as have done Honor to the Counties, Towns, or Villages in which they were born, whether Kings, Princes, Peers, Generals, Admirals, Divines, Lawyers, Physicians, Poets, Philosophers, Historians, Legislators, &c. Government, Manufactures, Trades, Commerce, Revenues, Forces, Naval and Military, Polity, Power and Prerogative of the King, Laws, Prerogative, and Customs of the House of Lords, Privileges, Prerogative, & Usages of the House of Commons. Nature of the Legislature, and Modes of Proceeding in the various Courts of Justice, ancient and modern, &c. &c. &c. Being Really the Result of An actual and late General Survey, accurately made by a Society of Gentlemen, Each of whom has undertaken that Part for which his Study and Inclination has more immediately qualified him. And Including a Valuable Collection of Landscapes, Views, County-Maps, &c. Which Make an Admirable and Inimitable Groupe of Elegant Copper-Plate Prints. Also, A Complete Book of the Roads, a List of all the Fairs, and a Variety of other useful and entertaining Particulars, Not to be found in any other Work of the Kind, but which are worthy the Notice of Noblemen, Gentlemen, Merchants, Travellers, Traders, and all Ranks of People whatever. The whole published under the immediate inspection of George Augustus Walpoole, Esq. Assisted in the Digest and Arrangement of the Articles respecting Wales, by David Wynne Evans, F. R. S. In those descriptive of Scotland, by Alexander Burnet, L. L. D. And in such as relate to Ireland, &c. by Robert Conway, A. M. And Others, to whom many valuable and curious Circumstances have been communicated (for this Work) by Gentlemen of Rank and Abilities. Embellished with upwards of one hundred and fifty large, grand, and superb views of the principal Cities and Towns in Great-Britain and Ireland; perspective Views of Villages, Gentlemen's Seats, Castles, Ruins, Abbies, Cataracts, Sea Pieces, Landscapes, natural and artificial Curiosities, correct County and other Maps, Charts, Historical Pieces, &c. drawn with critical Exactness by the most capital Painters and Designers of England, Scotland, and Ireland, namely Hamilton, Carter, Griffith, O'Neal, Dodd, Metz, &c. and engraved in the most masterly Manner by the following ingenious Artists, viz. Thornton, Pollard, Lodge, Page, Roberts, Royce, Taylor, Carey, Rennoldson, Wooding, Kitchen, Conder, Hawkins, Walker, Flyn, Simpson, Grainger, Hogg, Myers, Smyth, Clowes, and others, who have distinguished themselves by their great Abilities in the Polite Arts.
Date: 1784- Books
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Dengan sale. Part the first; containing the books. A catalogue of the extensive and valuable library, prints, paintings, Statues, Music, Mathematical Instruments And Superb Furniture Of At The Chapel which belonged to the late Right Hon. Earl of Mornington, at Dengan Castle, and which will begin to be sold by auction by R. E. Mercier and Co. at their house, No. 31, Anglesea-Street, Dublin, on Monday 18th May 1795, And The Following Days, Until All Are Sold. The Library consists of near 10,000 Volumes; amongst which are the following: Addison's Works, 4 vols. 410. Fielding's Works, 4 vols. 410. Milton's Works, 4 vols. 410. Pope's Works, 15 vols. 410. Spencer's Fairy Queen, 3 vols. 410. Dives and Pauper, 1493. Hackluyt's Voyages, 3 vols. Purchas's Pilgrims, 5 vols. Arnold's Chronicle, or Customs of London. Fabian, Grasion, Halle, and Holinshed's Chronicles. Anecdotes of Painting, 4 vols. - Strawberry Hill. Willourbby's Ornithology. Morison Plantarum Historia Universalis Oxoniensis, 2 vols large paper. Vitruvius Britannicus, 5 vols. large paper. Hogarth's Works, finest impressions. Darley's Comic Prints. Kip's Britannia Illustrata, 3 vols. Ionian Antiquities. Wood's Palmyra. Montfaucon's Antiquities. Spence's Polymetis, first edition. Evangelium Sanctum Arabice, 1590, Editio Princeps, a splendid copy. Ciceronis Opera, Oliveti, 9 vols. Platonis, Serrani, 2 vols. large paper. Albertus, Magnus, typis Wilhelmum de Mechlinia. Aratus. Editso Princeps. Lucretius, 1486. Editio princeps. Lactantius, 1478. Martialis, 1475. Ovidius, 1486. Valerius Maximus, 1478. Magna Charta, a curious MS. Illustrious Heads, imperial paper.
R. E. Mercier and Co.Date: [1795]- Books
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Instructions for the collectors and other officers employ'd in Her Majesties Customs, &c. in the north-part of Great-Britain; with forms of dispatches, schemes for calculations, and the regular methods of accompting.
Great Britain. Customs Establishment.Date: Anno Dom. 1707- Books
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The grand gazetteer, or topographic dictionary, both general and special, and antient as well as modern, &c. Being A succinct but comprehensive Geographical Description of the various Countries of the habitable known World, in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America; more especially of Great-Britain and Ireland, and all the British Settlements abroad, or where we have Trade, Commerce, or Correspondence. Shewing The situation, Extent, and Boundaries, of all the Empires, Kingdoms, Republicks, Provinces, Cities, Chief Towns, &c. with their several Climates, Soils, Produces, Animals, Plants, Minerals, &c. the Government, Traffick, Arts, Manufactures, Customs, Manners, and Religion, of the divers Nations; and the vast many admirable (some of them stupendous) Curiosities both Natural and Artificial; the most remarkable Events, Accidents, and Revolutions, in all past Ages; &c. &c. Aptly and requisitely interspers'd with many Thousands of uncommon Passages, strange Occurrences, critical Observations (as well sacred as prophane), and proper Relations; which most agreeably surprize, and delightfully inform. Diligently extracted, and as accurately as possible compiled, from the most esteemed Voyagers, Travellers, Geographers, Historians, Criticks, &c. extant. A Work in its Form entirely New, very necessary for Numbers, and serviceable to all Degrees of Readers. - (not excepting the most Learned, and with Libraries best Furnish'd)-Readers not only of News-Papers, Magazines, &c. &c. &c. but of Histories of former Ages or the present, the Classicks, and even the Sacred Writ itself; the Antique Articles being collected either from Original Authors or the best Translators, and divers Learned Commentators on the Bible, &c. &c. By Andrew Brice, of Exeter.
Brice, Andrew, 1690-1773.Date: MDCCLIX. [1759]- Books
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A catalogue for the year 1764, of the libraries of the Rev. Mr. Wood, of the Isle of Wight; the Rev. and learned Dr. Umfrevile; Peter Davall, Esq; late Accomptant-General; William Bussiere, Esq; Surgeon to King William and Queen Mary, Queen Anne, King George the First and Second, and many others, lately deceased; Containing above One Hundred Thousand Volumes, Of the most Scarce and Valuable Books, Manuscripts, Prints, Books of Prints, &c. In all Languages, Arts and Sciences, viz. The Histories, Antiquities, Laws and Customs of the various Nations of the known World, with the most eminent Voyages and Travels; A Capital Collection of Prints and Books of Prints, by the greatest Masters of the Italian, French and Flemish Schools; A Noble Collection of Antient Manuscripts on Vellum; The Pompous Editions of the Greek and Roman Classics, Lexicons and Critics. A Large Collection of Authors on Antiquity, Medals, Mathematicks, Physic, Surgery and Natural History; The Antient and Modern Authors of the Histories and Antiquities of Great Britain and Ireland; Great Numbers of the Fathers and Ecclesiastical Writers; Several Magnificent Bibles in Various Languages; With near a Complete Collection of Common Law. Several of the Books are on large Paper, in Morocco, and other rich Bindings. Which will begin to be sold (the lowest Prices printed in the Catalogue, without any Abatement, for ready Money only) at T. Osborne's, in Gray's Inn, this day, and, for the Conveniency of the Nobility and Gentry who live at a Distance, will continu daily selling to the 1st of January, 1765. Catalogues may be had at all the chief Cities and noted Towns in Europe, and at the Place of Sale; where may be had Money for any Library or Parcel of Books, Prints, Books of Prints and Manuscripts. As the Proprietor has been at great Expence in purchasing these several Libraries, which excels most Collections in the Value and Number of Volumes it contains, he hopes that it deserves a particular Regard from the Learned. - There are likewise to be disposed of, the Manuscript Sermons of the Rev. Mr. Harris of Hornchurch and Rumford, and some other eminent Divines.
Osborne, Thomas, -1767.Date: 1764]- Books
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Instructions by the commissioners for managing and causing to be levyed and collected His Majesty's customs, subsidies, and other duties in England, to [blank] who is established Collector of His Majesty's customs at [blank] in America.
Great Britain. Customs Establishment.Date: 1734?]- Books
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Instructions given by the Commissioners of his Majesty's customs to [blank] waiter and searcher, or preventive officer, at [blank]
Great Britain. Customs Establishment.Date: 1735?]- Books
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The act of tonnage and poundage, and rates of merchandize, with the further subsidy; The ? and ? Subsidies; The Old Impost; The Additional Impost; and all other duties relating to His Majesty's Customs, payable upon any Sort of Merchandize Imported or Exported. Digested into an easie method, Whereby in one View may be found the several Duties upon each particular Commodity specified in the Old Book of Rates, or any other Act of Parliament, and the Nett Duties Payable thereon at Importation, or to be Repaid on Exportation. AS Also The Rules Annext to the Book of Rates; And the Table of Officers Fees. And a collection of such statutes and part of Statutes, relating to His Majesty's Customs, as passed since the Act of tonnage and poundage 12 Car. II. Like Wise, An Abridgment of several Statutes now in Force and Use, which passed before the said Act. And several Acts and parts of Acts relating to the Duties on Salt, which were omitted in their proper Places. AS Also The Ports of Great Britain, the Lawful Keys in the Port of London: With the Tables of Scavage, Package, Balliage, Packers-Porters Duties in the said Port, and the usual Tares and Draughts. With Abstracts of the Duties on Salt, the Duties of Excise, and Inland Duties, Drawbacks of Excise and Salt, and Refined Sugar; Bounty on Exportation of British made Sail-Cloth, British Manufactures of Silk, and British Com; and Praemium on Naval Stores from the Plantations or Scotland; and the Duties on Coal, Culm, and Cynders Coastwise. To which is added by way of Appendix, The several Acts which passed the last Session relating to the Customs, with the Additional Book of Rates of Goods and Merchandizes usually Imported, and not particularly Rated in the Old Book of Rates; Digested in the same Method as the said Old Book of Rates; With Rules, Orders, and Regulations, Signed by the Right Honourable Spencer Compton, Esq; Speaker of the Honourable House of Commons. The Several Duties payable upon Rated Drugs Imported after 24 June, 1725. And A List of several Goods not inserted Alphabetically in the said Books of Rates: With Directions where to find them. AS Also A Catalogue of the several Acts, when Granted, and how long to Continue. Together with, An Alphabetical Index to the Whole.
Great Britain.Date: 1728- Books
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The act of tonnage and poundage, and rates of merchandize, with the further subsidy; The ? and ? Subsidies; The Old Impost; The Additional Impost; and all other duties relating to His Majesty's Customs, payable upon any Sort of Merchandize Imported or Exported. Digested into an easie method, Whereby in one View may be found the several Duties upon each particular Commodity specified in the Old Book of Rates, or any other Act of Parliament, and the Nett Duties Payable thereon at Importation, or to be Repaid on Exportation. As also The Rules Annext to the Book of Rates; And the Table of Officers Fees. And a collection of such statutes and part of Statutes, relating to His Majesty's Customs, as passed since the Act of tonnage and poundage 12 Car. II. Likewise, An Abridgment of several Statutes now in Force and Use, which passed before the said Act. And Several Acts and parts of Acts relating to the Duties on Salt, which were omitted to their proper Places. As also The Ports of Great Britain, the Lawful Keys in the Port of London: With the Tables of Scavage, Package, Balliage, Packers-Porters Duties in the said Port, and the usual Tares and Draughts. With Abstracts of the Duties on Salt, the Duties of Excise, and Inland Duties, Drawbacks of Excise and Salt, and Refined Sugar; Bounty on Exportation of British made Sail-Cloth, British Manufactures of Silk, and British Corn; and Praemium on Naval Stores from the Plantations or Scotland; and the Duties on Coal, Culm, and Cynders Coastwise. To which is added by way of Appendix, The several Acts which passed the last Session relating to the Customs, with the Additional Book of Rates of Goods and Merchandizes usually Imported, and not particularly Rated in the Old Book of Rates; Digested in the same Method as the said Old Book of Rates; With Rules, Orders, and Regulations, Signed by the Right Honourable Spencer Compton, Esq; Speaker of the Honourable House of Commons. The Several Duties payable upon Rated Drugs Imported after 24 June, 1725. And A List of several Goods not inserted Alphabetically in the said Books of Rates: With Directions where to find them. As also A Catalogue of the several Acts, when Granted, and how long to Continue. Together with An Alphabetical Index to the Whole.
Great Britain.Date: MDCCXXVI. [1726]- Books
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Instructions by the Commissioners of His Majesty's Customs in America, to [blank] who is appointed [blank] of the Customs at the port of [blank] in America.
Great Britain. Commissioners of Customs in America.Date: 1768?]- Books
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Instructions for tide-waiters, and coast officers, in the Kingdom of Ireland. Custom-House Dublin, the [blank] day of [blank]
Ireland. Customs Establishment.Date: 1731?]- Archives and manuscripts
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Date: February - July 1895Reference: WF/E/11/02Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
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The merchants clerk: or, the business at the Custom-House made easy, with respect to the method of reporting and clearing ships Inwards and Outwards, and entering goods on Importation and Exportation, Foreign, Coastwise, and Land-Carriage. Also forms of the several dispatches or clearances given by the Officers of the Customs to the Masters of Vessels, &c. By William Hunter, Of the Long-Room, Custom-House, London.
Hunter, William, of the Custom House, London.Date: MDCCLXVI. [1766]