Marsh, George (1723- ), Commissioner of the Navy, Director of Greenwich Hospital

Scrapbook, comprising manuscript observations, maxims and poems by Marsh interspersed with newspaper cuttings of poems and anecdotes, chiefly from the Public Advertiser. Notable items include cuttings on recipes against fevers, and gaol fever in particular (p.3); calculations concerning victualling (pp.4-12); newspaper report of Marsh's examination before the House of Lords in 1779 (p.13); statement of the revenue and expense of Greenwich Hospital in 1769 (p.17); calculations concerning victualling men of war (pp.18-20); newspaper cutting of a letter addressed to the agitator Lord George Gordon (1751-1793) in 1781, the aftermath of the Gordon Riots (p.23); an epitaph on Messenger Monsey (1693-1788), physician to Chelsea Hospital (p.28); recipes against the stone and the gravel (pp.29 and 44-45); cutting concerning the right interpretation of the Riot Act, with reference to the Gordon Riots then taking place, 1780 (p.47); rules for a healthy diet (pp.61-71); newspaper report of the trial of Spithead mutineers, 1798 (p.77); newspaper account of a ballon ascent at St. George's Fields, London (p.81); an account of the rules for health followed by Cardinal de Solis of Seville, who died in 1774 aged 110 (p.85); cuttings concerning the madness of George III (pp.92 and 98); a morning pryer for a family (pp.148-151) and a prayer addressed by Marsh to God on his 63rd birthday, 27 January 1786 (pp.152-156).

c.1769-c.1798

156 pp. numerous pages removed at the start of the book, p.1 bearing the original number 58; between pages now numbered 124-25; and at the end of the book; pp.126-144 are blank and the pages following are written from the back of the book. Protective vellum wrapper folded around leather binding.

Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts