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The hanover-Spy: or, secret history of St. James's. From the reign of Queen Robin, down to the late misunderstanding in the royal palace. Publish'd by order of that person of honour who detected those Jacobite secrets that furnish'd out Neck or nothing; and consists only of such State Secrets as this Spy was privy to, or can prove by Persons now living at Court. The whole discoveries ascrib'd to that true Englishman and generous patriot, Benjamin Childe, Esq; late High-Sheriff for the County of Berks. By Mr. John Dunton, (author of Neck or Nothing) And is his Tenth successful Attempt to detect the Enemies to King George, and His Illustrious House, at the Hazard of his Life and Fortune, as is prov'd in-A Secret History of Whiggish Ingratitude, Inscrib'd to the King - And in - A Most Humble Petition to His Majesty-That he might be Presently Hang'd or Rewarded. - Both which are prefix'd to these New Discoveries.
Dunton, John, 1659-1733.Date: [1718]- Books
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House of Lords. John Ambrose, Gentleman, - - - - - - Appellant. And Robert Hodgson, Clerk, and Catherine his Wife, late Catherine Jolland, Spinster, - - - Respondents. The Respondents case, Upon the Appeal against the Decree of the Right Honourable the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, of the 15th Day of July, 1780.
Hodgson, Robert, 1741 or 1742-1800.Date: 1780]- Books
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House of Lords. John Ambrose, Gentleman, - - - - - - Appellant. And Robert Hodgson, Clerk, and Catherine his Wife, late Catherine Jolland, Spinster, and Catherine Belchier, Spinster, - - - - - Respondents The case of the Respondent, Catherine Belchier. Upon the Appeal against the Decree of the Right Honourable the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, of the 15th Day of July, 1780.
Belchier, Catherine.Date: 1781]- Books
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House of Lords. John Ambrose, gentleman, contractor for the purchase of the estates after mentioned, - appellant. And Robert Hodgson, clerk, and Catherine his wife, late Catherine Jolland, spinster, - - - respondents. The appellant's case, upon the appeal against the decree o the Right Honourable the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, of the 15th day of July, 1780.
Ambrose, John, active 1780.Date: 1780]- Archives and manuscripts
Company-wide Newsletters & Journals (internal)
Date: 1942 - 2000Reference: WF/M/PB/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
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The irish protest to the ministerial manifesto, contained in the address of the British Parliament to the King. Containing, I. The address. II. Remarks on the address. III. Authentic copy of Mr. Pitt's bill.
Date: 1785- Books
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The humble address of the ... Lords ... presented to His Majesty on Wednesday the twenty eighth day of June, 1727. With His Majesty's most gracious answer. Right Honourable the Spiritual and Temporal, In Parliament Assembled, -
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords.Date: 1727- Pictures
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A patient asking her doctor his political leanings, he retorts that it varies - depending on who he is treating. Wood engraving after A.T. Smith.
Smith, Albert Talbot, 1877-Reference: 15665i- Pictures
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A man suffering from attack by blue devils; representing depression or mental illness. Coloured etching after R. Newton, 1795.
Newton, Richard, 1777-1798.Reference: 11867i- Pictures
A doctor taking the pulse of his patient - convinced that his prescription of a clyster has been successful - unaware that she has eaten the clyster-pipe. Coloured etching by G. Grinagain, 1804.
Grinagain, Giles, active 1804.Date: 2 January 1804Reference: 11831i- Books
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An appeal to the justice and interests of the people of Great Britain, in the present disputes with America. By an old Member of Parliament.
Lee, Arthur, 1740-1792.Date: MDCCLXXV. [1775]- Pictures
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A bailiff (Mr Fixem, centre) calls on an affluent man (left) to enforce payment of a debt, assisted by his assistant (Bung, right). Etching by George Cruikshank.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: [1836]Reference: 32377i- Pictures
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An interior of an affluent apothecary's shop - a wounded young man is being examined. Coloured aquatint attributed to M. Egerton, 1824.
Egerton, M., active 1824-1827.Date: 1824Reference: 15970i- Books
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The humble address of the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, In Parliament Assembled, presented to His Majesty On Wednesday the Eighteenth Day of January, 1726. With His Majesty's most gracious answer.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords.Date: 1726[1727]- Pictures
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A man with an excruciating headache. Coloured etching by H. Cook, 1827, after M. Egerton.
Egerton, M., active 1824-1827.Date: April 1827Reference: 11885i- Pictures
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A fashionable lady asking her doctor what ailments he can invent for her - so that she convince her husband to take her to Cannes. Reproduction of a drawing after B. Prance, 1927.
Prance, Bertram, 1889-Date: 1927Reference: 15478i- Pictures
A phrenologist comparing his own head with a phrenological bust. Oil painting by Albert W. Holden.
Holden, Albert William, 1848-1932.Date: [1900?]Reference: 45152i- Books
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A plan for redeeming two hundred & and thirty millions of the three per cent. funds, and for improving the public revenue more than Three Millions Three Hundred and Forty Two Thousand Pounds A Year, without raising any new taxes, and without diminishing the income of any person. By S. P. - a country gentleman.
S. P.Date: 1798- Books
Tenants : the people on the frontline of Britain's housing emergency / Vicky Spratt.
Spratt, VickyDate: 2022- Books
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The whole proceedings in the House of Peers, upon the indictments against William Earl of Kilmarnock, George Earl of Cromertie, and Arthur Lord Balmerino; for high treason, in levying war against his Majesty: the proceeding in Westminster Hall being begun on Monday the 28th day of July, and continued on Wednesday the 30th of July, and Friday the first of August, 1746: on the last of which days judgment of high treason was given against them. Published by order of the House of Peers.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords.Date: M.DCC.XLVI. [1746]- Books
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A memorial of the proceedings of the late ministery and Lower House of Parliament. With an account of several secret correspondences with foreign ministers of state, Letters and Messages, sent from London to Paris and Utrecht, and from Utrecht and Paris to London; Abstracts of Speeches, Addresses, Answers, &c. with Reflections upon each Head. To which is added, A short History of a Plot to dethrone Queen Anne, and what has been attempted to bring in the Romish Pretender, since the King ascended the Throne. At the end of the Memorial is a Black List of the Names of many of those Persons concern'd in one or both Conspiracies. Also Particulars cast up in it, of Men, Horses, Money, Provisions, Cloaths, Quarters, Arms, Ammunition, &c. promis'd to the Assistance of the Treason. Writ by the author of An inquiry into the miscarriages of the four last years reign The Copic are Counterseit that have not this Coat of Arms on the Title-Page, viz. A Bend engrail'd between Six Cinque - foils, Crest a Griffin's Head out of a Mural Coronet.
Povey, Charles, 1652?-1743.Date: [1715]- Pictures
A staunch magistrate surprised by the apparition of a radical demon. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1835.
Date: 1 August 1835Reference: 12244i- Pictures
An elderly man throwing his head back to swallow some pills and in the process tossing water all over himself. Coloured aquatint after M. Egerton, 1827.
Egerton, M., active 1824-1827.Date: 1827Reference: 11861i- Pictures
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An elderly land-lady taking a warming-pan to put in her lodgers bed, which is already occupied by someone else. Coloured lithograph by H. Heath.
Heath, Henry, active 1824-1850.Reference: 11903iPart of: Notions of the agreeable- Pictures
William Cobbett is joined by six drunkards who applaud his toast of "damnation to the House of Brunswick"; representing British parliamentary reform. Etching by J. Gillray, ca. 1809.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 29 September 1809Reference: 26481iPart of: The life of William Cobbett, - written by himself