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The watermen and lightermen's case, in relation to the bill before this Honourable House, for the explanation of former laws made, touching wherrymen and watermen, and joyning the lightermen to them, and providing one good government for both.
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A guide to the lottery; or, the laws of chance laid down in a plain and intelligible manner, wherein is shewn the probabilities arising from any proposed circumstance of play; applied to the Solution of a Variety of curious Questions relating to Cards, Dice, Lotteries, &c. Likewise The whole Business of insuring Tickets in the State Lottery clearly explained, the several Advantages taken by the Office-Keepers pointed out, and an easy Method given, whereby any Person may compute the Probability of his Success upon purchasing or insuring any particular Number of Tickets, with a Table of the Price of Insurance for every Day's drawing in the ensuing Lottery, another Table, containing the Number of Tickets a Person ought to purchase to make it an equal Chance to have any particular Prize; with several other curious Tables. To which is added a companion for the draught-player, Containing Thirty select Games of Draughts, shewing the Manner of moving the Pieces to the best Advantage; together with several critical Situations to win Games, and fine Strokes, never before published: being the Result of the Practice and Observations of some of the first Players. By W. Painter.
Painter, W.Date: MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]- 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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The bishop of Llandaff's thoughts on the French invasion, originally addressed to the clergy of his diocese*.
Watson, Richard, 1737-1816.Date: [1798]- Books
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British Navy. On the 1st of June, 1794, One Hundred and Forty Leagues from Ushant, Lord Howe captured the Six following French Ships of the Line: Guns La Juste . . . . 80 Sans Pareitle . . 80 Guns. L'america . . . 74 L'achille . . . . 74 Guns. Northumberland . 74 L'impetuex . . . 74 Vengeur . . . . 74 sunk immediately upon being taken possession of. L'jacobin . . . 74 sunk in Action. Not a Man saved. On the fourth oe [sic] June, 1794, Port-au-Prince, in the Island of St. Domingo, was taken by Brigadier-General Whyte, Sent by Sir Charles Grey, (who died the 31st: May.) There were found in the Harbour, 22 Vessels of various Burthen, amounting in the whole to 6,820 Tons, laden chiefly with Sugar and Coffee, and some few with Cotton and Indigo. Sixteen other Vessels in ballast, to the Amount of 5,340 Tons; and Seven old Vessels carreering in the Harbour, making 2,440 Tons more. - Total, 45 Vessels-14,600 Tons. By this glorious Acquisition, The whole Island of St. Domingo, lately belonging to France, is now possessed by the British Forces. - Also every Island in the West Indies, that belonged to the French.
Great Britain. Royal Navy.Date: 1794]- 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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The religion of nature, a short discourse, Delivered before the national assembly at Paris, by Mons. le Curé of - on his resigning the priesthood. With a short address to the jurymen of Great Britain. By Bob Short.
Barbauld, Mrs. (Anna Letitia), 1743-1825.Date: [1793]- Books
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John Bayes and Sophia his wife, - - - plts. Richard Bird and Katharine his wife, Sophia Zouch, an infant, by the said Katharine her mother and guardian, the apppellants, and James Feild, gent. since deceased, (father of the respondent James Feild) and others, - - - - - - defts. Thomas Jervoise and Benjamin Rudyerd, Esqs; - appellants. The said Richard Bird and his wife, - - plts. The said John Bayes and his wife, the said appellants, and James Feild, deceased, and others, defts. The said Sophia Zouch, by her next friend, - plt. The said John Bayes and his wife, the said Richard Bird and his wife, the said appellants, and the said James Feild deceased, and others, - - defts. James Feild, gent. respondent. The attorney-general at the relation of Richard Rogers, and others, - - - - plts. The said John Bayes and his wife, the said Richard Bird and his wife, the said appellants, and the said James Feild, deceased, and others, - - defts. The appellants case.
Jervoise, Thomas.Date: 1731]- Books
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J. Todd's catalogue of ancient and modern books, prints, & books of prints, for the year 1791. The Books in general are in good Condition, many of them the best Editions, and in various elegant Bindings' amongst many others equally scarce and curious are the following valuable Articles: -. s. d. Miller's Sexual System of Linnaeus, 2 vol. col. - - 18 18 0 Curtis's Flora Londinensis, 60 No. in 5 vol. col. - - 14 0 0 Fifty Plans of Cities, by Faden and others, col. - - 10 0 0 De L'isle's Atlas, eighty-four Maps, 2 vol. col. - 8 0 0 Camden's Britannia, by Mr. Gough, 3 vol. - - 10 18 0 Chambers's Dict. of Arts and Sciences, by Rees, 5 vol. 12 12 0 Journals of the House of Commons, 40 vol - - 9 9 0 Herbarium. Blackwellianum cura Trew, 3 v. tab. depict. 15 15 0 Montfaucon L'antiquite Expliquee, 15 tom. - - - 14 14 0 Grosse's Antiquities of England and Wales, 8 vol. Cook's Voyages round the Worls, 9 vol. - - - 18 6 0 Latham's General Synopsis of Birds, 7 vol. col. - - - 8 18 6 Lavater's Essays on Physiognomy, 16 Numbers - 10 13 0 -. s. d. Encyclopedic Methodique, 20 Livraisons in 66 tom. 25 0 0 Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica, 11 vol. - - 13 13 0 Archaeologia, Tracts relating to Antiquity, 9 vol. - - 9 9 0 Bp. Warburton's Works 7 v. 6 6 0 Ruffhead's Statutes at Large 11 vol. - - - - - 14 14 0 Dow's Hindostan, 3 vol. - 4 14 6 Schreber Histoire Naturelle des Animaux, 2 tom. col. 6 6 0 Annual Register, with a General Index, 31 vol. - - 10 10 0 Monthly Review, from 1749 to the End of 1739, 83 vol. 25 0 0 Gentleman's Magazine, from 1731 to 1789, 62 vol. - 18 18 0 Statutes at Large, by Picketing, 36 vol. - - - - 14 0 0 Oeuvres de Voltaire, 27 tom. 5 15 6 Johnson's Works of the English Poets, 75 vol. - - 13 15 0 Bell's Poets of Great Britain, 109 vol. in 51 - - - 10 10 0 Bell's Shakespeare, 20 vol. 5 10 0 Which will begin to be sold extremely Cheap, at the Prices printed in the Catalogue, on Tuesday the 7th of December, 1790. By J. Todd, bookseller, stationer, and print-seller, In Stonegate, york. - The full Value for Libraries and Parcels of Books: Also Books exchanged and Libraries catalogued. Catalogues, Price 6d. may be had of Mr. Baldwin, Bookseller, Paternoster-Row, London, and at the Place of Sale.
Todd, John, -1811.Date: 1790]- Books
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A rhapsody on the present system of French politics; on the projected invasion, and the means to defeat it. Illustrated with plans, on three copper plates. By - , a Chelsea pensioner.
Lloyd, Henry, approximately 1720-1783.Date: M,DCC,LXX,IX. [1779]- Books
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The american crisis, and a letter to Sir Guy Carleton, on the murder of Captain Huddy, and the intended retaliation on Captain Asgill, of the Guards. By Thomas Paine, author Of Common sense - Rights of man-age of reason - and The decline and fall of the English system of finance.
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809.Date: [1796?]- Books
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The life and adventures of Roxana, the fortunate mistress, or, most unhappy wife. In three parts. Containing, I An Account of her Birth in France, and coming to England. - II. Her marriage in London with a Brewer, who run out of his Estate, and left her with five Children. - III. Hercohabiting with her Landlord; their Journey to Paris, where he was robbed and murdered. - IV. Her being fell in Love with by the Prince of-; and seeing her husband in the Gens d'arms Guard. The Prince leaves her, &c. - V. The Dealings she had with a Dutch Merchant and a Jew, the latter of whom wanted to defraud her of a great part of her jewels: her going to Rotterdam, where she sees the Dutch Merchant, to whom she soon after became a Bedfellow. - VI. Her Return to England, where she had the Name of Roxana. Her Marriage with the Dutch Merchant in London, who was naturalized and created a Baronet. The Miseries she and her Maid Amy afterwards fell into. Adorned with a curious Print of Roxana, in her Turkish Dress.
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: 1765- Books
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An humble proposal for relieving, reforming and employing the poor. And herein by vertue of one new general law, instead of near forty statates, relating to the presmises. We may comfortably maintain all th' impotent poor, judiciously employ all the capable poor, probably reform the profligate poor; and gradually sink, and in time, totally discharge all our poor-rates, - And we may further receive, from that new-law, all other political benefits, which populousness, arts, and industry, can possibly produce.
Braddon, Laurence, -1724.Date: 1720- Books
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A new way of breeding canary birds. Without the trouble, that is in the common way of breeding. And, Will Breed As Many Canary Birds Again, as the Common Way of Breeding does. And, How Presently to Cure a Sick Bird. - Also, How to Keep a Canary (or Any Other) Bird in a Gage, for Singing Only, that they may not Die, as they Do. By a person, who has bred canary birds, several years, With Far Greater Success by this New Way, than Ever He Had Before, in the Common Old Troublesome Way of Breeding. Adorned With One, and Twenty Beautyful Neat Prints, Relating to the Breeding, and Keeping Canary (or Other) Birds, Finely Engraved.
Person, who has bred canary birds, several years.Date: [1742]- Books
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The tryal of Robert Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, upon the impeachment of the House of Commons exhibited against him for high treason, and other High Crimes and Misdeameanours. Begun in Westminster - Hall on Monday the 24th day of June 1717, and from thence continued, by several Adjournments, to the First Day of July following. With The Proceedings relating to the said Tryal. Published by order of the House of Peers.
Harley, Robert, Earl of Oxford, 1661-1724.Date: MDCCXVII. [1717]- Books
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A vindication of the antient general assembly, from the false imputations of the Russelites. Being an answer to a pamphlet, stil'd, the Lincoln and Northamptonshire reasons for their separation, &c. Containing also, the learned curcelleus's judgment against unscriptural terms in articles of faith. Remarks on Tho. Monk's book against eutychianism. Remarks on T. Garret's Sermon. Mr. Grantham's letter relating to the Buckinghamshire Creed. The original of the quarrel with Matthew Caffen. Citations out of the Right Reverend Bishop Taylor, concerning hereticks, &c. As likewise out of the preface to the remonstrants confession. To which are added two tracts, viz. An earnest and compassionate suit for forbearance, to the writers of some controversies. By a melancholy stander-by, ... - now a Bishop in Mr. Chillingworth's judgment of the religion of protestants, &c.
Melancholy stander-by.Date: Printed in the year M.DCC.IV. [1704]- Books
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The late dreadful plague at Marseilles compared with that terrible plague in London, in the year 1665. In which died above a Hundred Thousand Persons, and sometimes between 8 and 9000 a Week; Carts continually going about London Streets, to fetch away in Heaps, and by whole Cart Loads the Dead Bodies: The Carmen having a Bell in their Hand, and crying out Bring out your Dead. - Bring out your Dead. Together with the Method of Cure used to those who Recovered in London, not one having Died that used it: And Rules for its Prevention and Cure. Published for the Preservation and Benefit of all Persons who may at any Time be, where this terrible Marseillian Infection may reach. And is proper to be kept in Every Family to be ready at Hand in the Day of Tribulation and Affliction, and Time of Need. In two parts. Dedicated to Dr. Sloane. Enter'd in the Hall-Book. By the author of The practical scheme Part I. This Book is (for the Publick Good) Given Gratis, only Up one Pair of Stairs at the Sign of the Celebrated Anodyne Necklace, recommended by Dr. Chamberlen for Childrens Teeth, near the Rose Tavern without Temple Bar.
Author of The practical scheme.Date: 1721- Books
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Observations arising from the declaration of war against Spain, with considerations relating to the future management of it on the part of Great-Britain; and the Consistency of the M-y, and their Advocates. In a letter to - By the author of The letters to Sir G- C-, and The conduct of the livery, &c.
Author of The letter to Sir G- C-.Date: 1739- 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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Dictionaire oeconomique: or, the family dictionary. Containing, the most experienced methods of improving estates and of preserving health, with many approved Remedies for most Distempers of the Body of Man, Cattle and other Creatures, and the best Means for attaining long Life. The most advantageous Ways of Breeding, Feeding and Ordering of Domestick Animals, as Horses, Kine, Sheep, Swine, Poultry, Bees, Silkworms, &c. The different Kinds of Nets, Snares and Engines, for taking most Sorts of Fish, Birds, and other Game. Great Variety of Rules, Directions, and new Discoveries, relating to Gardening, Husbandry, Soils and Manures of all Sorts: The Planting and Culture of Vines, Fruit-Trees, Forest-Trees, Underwoods, Shrubs, Flowers, and their several Uses: The Knowledge of Foreign Drugs, Dies, Domestick and Exotick Plants and Herbs, with their specifick Qualities and medicinal Virtues. The best and cheapest Ways of providing and improving all manner of Meats and Drinks; of preparing several Sorts of Wines, Waters and Liquors for every Season, both by Distillation and otherwise: Of preserving all kind of Fruits as well dry as liquid, and making divers Sweetmeats and Works of Sugar, and other profitable Curiosities, both in the Confectionary and Culinary Arts of Housewifery. Means of making the most Advantages of the Manufactures of Soap, Starch, Spinning, Cotton, Thread, &c. The Methods to take or destroy Vermin, and other Animals injurious to Gardening, Husbandry, and rural Oeconomy; with a Description of Garden and other Country Tools and Utensils. An Account of the several Weights, Measures, &c. of Metals and Minerals, with their Preparations and Uses. All sorts of rural sports and exercises, conducing to the Benefit and innocent Enjoyments of Life; as also Painting in Miniature, and divers other Arts and Ternis of Art explain'd, for the Entertainment and Amusement of Gentlemen, Ladies, &c. The whole illustrated throughout with very great Variety of Figures, for the readier understanding and practising of those things to which they belong. Done into English from the second edition, lately printed at Paris, in two Volumes, Folio, written by M Chomell. With considerable alterations and improvements. Revised and recommended by Mr. R. Bradley, Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge, and F. R. S. In two volumes. Vol. I. From A - to - H.
Chomel, Noel, 1632-1712.Date: MDCCLVIII. [1758]- Books
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Bibliotheca elegans. A catalogue of the entire and valuable library of Sir Robert Baylis, Knt. and Alderman, deceas'd. Containing a fine Collection of the best Editions of the Classics, printed by the most celebrated Printers; also the most approved Authors relating to the History and Antiquities of divers Nations, particularly Great-Britain and Ireland. And a curious Collection of Voyages and Travels. Which will be sold by auction, at the Rose Tavern near Temple-Bar, on Monday, November 20, 1749. and the Eleven following Evenings, (sunday excepted) beginning each Evening at Five O'Clock. N. B. The Books are very fine Copies, and most of them elegantly bound. Among many other valuable Articles are, Folio. De Bry's East and West Indies, 25 Parts, 12 vol. compleat Antiquite expliquee, par Montfaucon, 15 vol. 1st Impr. R. P. finely bound Dr. Clarke's Caesar, fine Prints Cicero, by Vascosan 70 vol. 410 - C. Steph. 2 v. beautiful Copy - Manutius, 4 vol. folio Dugdale Monasticon Angl. 3 vol. Plato, Serrani, 3 vol. exemp. elegans Overbeeke's Antiq. of Rome Purchas's Pilgrims, 5 vol. fine Copy Hakluyt's Voyages, 3 vol. Churchill's Voyages, 4 vol. Stukeley's Itinerary Madox's History of the Exchequer Somner's Saxon Dictionary. Octavo. Classics, notis variorum, 34 vol. Elzevir Classics, 35 v. very fair and neat Hearne's Antiquities, 24 vol. Together with some curious single Prints, and eight handsome Book Cases with Glass Doors; which will be Sold in the 12th Days Sale at Noon. Catalogues may be had of Mr. Whiston in Fleetstreet, Mr. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, Mr. Millar in the Strand, Mr. Clarke under the Royal Exchange, Messrs. Thurlbourn and Merril at Cambridge, Mr. Fletcher in the Turl, Oxford, And at the Place of Sale. - The Books may be viewed on Thursday, November 16, Friday 17, and Saturday the 18th.
Baker, Samuel, approximately 1711-1778.Date: 1749]- Books
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Bibliotheca Gordoniana: or, a catalogue of valuable and scarce books, chiefly collected by Mr. Gordon, in his Travels through France, Italy, &c. with some curious Manuscripts. To which is Added, The Library of a Student at Cambridge (both Deceas'd.) Many curiously bound in French, &c. binding; all gilt Back or Letter'd. Among many valuable ones are the following, viz. Folio's. Antoniana Margarita, par Peireiram Corio Tursico, Lib. rariss. 2 tom. Postelli de Concordia. Buxtorf's Heb. Bible, 2 vol. Baronii Annales & Ozovio Continuatio, 17 vol. Religious Ceremonies, 4 vol. with fine Cuts, royal Paper, finely bound. Purchas's Pilgrims, 5 vol. compleat. Whitby, Burkitt, Burnet, Barrow, &c. Works. D'achery Spicelegium, 3 vol. Several of the Byzantine Historians, Paris Edit. Antonio Bib. Vetus Hispana, 2 tom. Mattair's Marmora - Oxon. Reyneri de Antiquitate Benedictionorum in Anglia. Father Montsaucon's Antiq. 10 vol. in French, royal Paper, finely bound. Voyages de la Motraye, 2 Tom. grand & petit Papier, avec fig. Sandford's Coronation of K. James II. with the Cuts, beautifully colour'd. Capt. Johnson's Hist. of all the Pyrates Highwaymen, Murderers, Street-Robbers, &c. with 26 curious Cuts. Quarto. Albin's Spiders and Insects, colour'd. Six Volumes of Manuscripts wrote by the famous Comte de Boullainvilliers (author of the Etat de la France, 3 vol. Fol.) very fairly wrote, well preserv'd, and bound exceeding neat. Six Vols. of Mss. relating to Magick, raising the Devil, &c. &c. &c. well preserv'd, suppos'd to have belong'd to the K. of France's Library. Which will begin to be sold very cheap, on Wednesday the 8th of this instant Sept. and to continue till all are sold. by Olive Payne, Bookseller, At Horace's Head, in Round-Court, in the Strand, opposite York-Buildings. Catalogues to be had gratis, with the Prices printed, at the Place of Sale. Where may be had most Money for any Library or Parcel of Books, particularly Foreign, in any Language.
Payne, Olive, active 1731-1739.Date: 1736]- Archives and manuscripts
Mellanby, Sir Edward
Mellanby, Edward, Sir, b. 1884.Date: 1896-1974Reference: PP/MEL- Archives and manuscripts
Wellcome Foundation Ltd
Wellcome Foundation LtdDate: c.1860-c.1995Reference: WF- Archives and manuscripts
Monthly Memoranda (points for propaganda)
Date: 1922-1923Reference: WF/M/GB/30/02Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd