A concise account of the rise, progress, and present state of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, instituted at London, anno MDCCLIV / Compiled from the original papers ... and from other authentic records. By a member of the said Society [i.e. T. Mortimer].

  • Mortimer, Thomas, 1730-1810
Date:
1763
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Credit: A concise account of the rise, progress, and present state of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, instituted at London, anno MDCCLIV / Compiled from the original papers ... and from other authentic records. By a member of the said Society [i.e. T. Mortimer]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    copy of that relation to the Antiqua¬ rian Society: the original manufcript, in the hand writing of Mr. Theobald; the editor has perilled on the prefent occaffon, and finding that it con¬ tained fome anecdotes concerning the private affairs of Mr. Shipley which were foreign to his purpofe, he hasfup- prefied them, and has infer ted in the following pages fome interefting cir- cumffances which are not to be found in Mr. Theobald’s manufcript, but have lately been communicated to him by Mr. Shipl ey, and fome other gentlemen, and are as well at- tefted as any of the faffs contained in the manufcript depofited in the An¬ tiquarian Society. It may perhaps be fuggefted that this performance is premature, be- caufe i