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The artificer's, farmer's, and inland-navigator's, assistant: Shewing, by decimal tables, (at sight) the most useful kinds of admeasurements at any length, breadth, or depth. Likewise an easy and practical method of leveling, surveying, &c. whereby the farmer may survey, level, sough, drain, and float, his land; calculated and set his work by the acre, rood, perch, or yard, &c. instead of the tedious method of working by arithmetic. It will also greatly facilitate the business of the architect, engineer, surveyor, &c., &c. masons, carpenters, navigators, labourers, &c. (who cannot write) may accurately ascertain, to the thousandth part of a yard, foot, &c. the quantity of work in embanking, canal cutting, reservoirs, aqueducts, marlpits, stone quarries, &c., &c. By Samuel Porter, surveyor and engineer to the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal, Henley in Arden, Warwickshire. The instrument for leveling may be had of the author.
Porter, Samuel (Surveyor)Date: 1799- Books
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Four designs for rebuilding Bristol Bridge. (humbly inscrib'd to the Gentlemen appointed Commissioners for building the same) Wherein are Explained I. A Design of three Semicircular Arches on the Old Foundation. II. A Design of three Eliptical Arches (also) on the old Foundation, chiefly calculated to save Expence, &c. III. A Design of five Segment Arches on a new Foundation. IV. A Design of an Arch 130 Feet Cord, and Altitude 29. V. The Properties of the different Quarry Stones used in England, and which are most fit for a Work of this Kind. VI. The Result of a Calculation made on the obstructed Water, occasioned by the great Bulk of the old Pillars, and the Advantage gained by rebuilding the Bridge according to any one of these Designs. Vii. Of Models and their appendant Machines, necessary for building this Bridge, according to the 1st, 2d, and 3d Design. As also a short description of the method and size of the materials (propos'd) to be used in the Course of this Work. By James Bridges, Architect.
Bridges, James (Architect)Date: 1760- Books
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A new treatise on the laws concerning tithes: containing all the statutes, adjudged cases, resolutions and judgments relative thereto, Under the Following Heads: Chap. I. Definition of Tithes, Parsonage, Vicarage, Impropriation, and Appropriation; and of the Origin, Nature, and several Kinds of Tithes. II. Out of what things Tithes shall be paid; what Lands are subject to Tithes, and the several Statutes for dissolving Abbies, Monasteries, and other Religious Houses, and vesting their Lands in the King; what Lands are discharged from Tithes by these Acts respectively, with a Catalogue of the Monsteries dissolved by Sat. 31 Hen. 8. of the yearly value of 200l. and upwards; what Order they were of, and the Times of their respective Foundations. III. Of Exemptions from Payment of Tithes and of Modus, Custom, and Prescription. IV. As Alphabetical Table or Index of Things Titheable, and not Titheable, viz. Acorns, After-Catage, After-Math, After-Pasture, Agistment, Alders, Altarage, Apples, Ash, Asp-Trees, Bark, Barrenland, Beans, Beech, Bees, Bitch, Brick, Broom, Calves, Chalk, Cheese, Cherrytrees, Chickens, Clay, Clover, Coal, Colts, Conies, Copper-Mill, Deer, Dotards, Doves, Eggs, Elms, Fallow, Ferns, Fish, Flax, Forest, Fowl, Fruit, Fuel, Furses, Gardens, Goose, Glass-House, Grass, Gravel, Hasle, Hay, Head-Lands, Heath, Hedge-Poles, Hemp, Herbage, Holly, Honey, Hops, Horses, Houses, Lambs, Lattermath, Lead, Lime, Loppings, Maple, Mast, Milk, Mill, Mines, Nurseries, Oak, Orchards, Osiers, Park, Partridge, Pasture, Pease, Phensante, Pigeons, Pigs, Quarries, Rakings, Roots, Saffron, Salt, Sheep, Slate, Stubble, Sylva Caedua, Tales, Tiles, Trees, Tute, Turkeya, Warren, Waste, Willows, Woad, Wood. V. Of Setting out, and Taking and Carrying away Tithes. VI. Of the Remedies for recovering Tithes, and the several Acts of Parliament made for that Purpose. Vii. Of the Manner of paying Tithes, and the Sums payable by the respective Parishes in London. By a gentleman of the Middle Temple.
Cunningham, Timothy, -1789.Date: MDCCLXV. [1765]- Archives and manuscripts
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[Press-cuttings and ephemera]
Date: 1892-1898Reference: WA/HSW/OR/E.1Part of: Personal papers of Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853-1936)- Archives and manuscripts
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Ticehurst House
Ticehurst House HospitalDate: 1950sReference: MS.6784APart of: Ticehurst House Hospital- Archives and manuscripts
Personal Experience
Date: 1985-1989Reference: SA/MIN/B/87Part of: Mind (The Mental Health Charity): archives- Books
Studies in ancient technology. Vol. VII / by R.J. Forbes.
Forbes, R. J. (Robert James), 1900-1973.Date: 1966- Pictures
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A woman riding side-saddle on a mule converses with a woman encountered among flocks grazing on a mountain pass. Aquatint and etching after N. Berchem.
Berchem, Nicolaas Pietersz, 1620-1683.Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 3087714i- Archives and manuscripts
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Dale, Paul
Date: 4/10/2009Reference: TP1/A/2157Part of: One and Other Project- Archives and manuscripts
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Jones, Esyllt
Date: 12/10/2009Reference: TP1/A/2339Part of: One and Other Project- Books
Human rights and disability advocacy / edited by Maya Sabatello and Marianne Schulze.
Date: [2013], ©2013- Pictures
Inkerman:the valley after the battle of Inkerman. Tinted lithograph by Lady A. Blackwood, 1857.
Blackwood, Alicia, Lady.Date: 1857Reference: 2136658i- Videos
AIDS adverts.
Date: 1987- Books
Medina / Avis A. Townsend.
Townsend, Avis A.Date: [2005], ©2005- Pictures
A man riding on a horse which is pulling a wagon loaded with masonry, while another man attempts to keep the wagon steady. Engraving by S. à Bolswert after Sir Peter Paul Rubens.
Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640.Date: [between 1600 and 1699]Reference: 29903i- Books
Abortion across borders : transnational travel and access to abortion services / edited by Christabelle Sethna & Gayle Davis.
Date: 2019- Pictures
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Blackwell's Island Penitentiary, New York: prisoners in uniform are marching towards the penitentiary after hard labour outside, supervised by armed guards. Wood engraving after G.U. Régamey.
Régamey, Guillaume Urban, 1837-1875.Date: [1876]Reference: 37745i- Archives and manuscripts
Martin, Généviève (1716-1759)
Martin, Généviève, 1732-1759Date: 1753-1759Reference: MS.3468- Videos
The town that caught Tourette's.
Date: 2012- Videos
Family films of Marie Stopes.
Date: 1925- Archives and manuscripts
Ticehurst House Hospital
Ticehurst House HospitalDate: 1787-1975Reference: MSS.6245-6790, 8408-8409, 8591, 8928