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House of Lords. The Governor and Company of Undertakers for raising the Thames Water in York-Buildings, and their Creditors, - - - - Appellants. James Ferguson, of Pitfour, Esq; - - Respondent. Case of the Appellants.
York-Buildings Company.Date: 1780]- Books
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Some considerations humbly offer'd to the Honourable the House of Commons, by the tallow-chandlers in and about the cities of London and Westminster.
Company of Tallow-Chandlers (London, England)Date: 1695 - 1711]- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 6
Date: Aug 1901 - Jul 1903Reference: WF/E/01/01/06Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
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The general and particular principles of animal electricity and magnetism, &c. in which are found Dr. Bell's secrets and practice, AS Delivered To His Pupils In Paris, London, Dublin, Bristol, Glocester, Worcester, Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Shrewsbury, Chester, Liverpool, Manchester, &c. &c. Shewing how to Magnetise and Cure different Diseases; to produce Crises, as well as Somnambulism, or Sleep-Walking; and in that State of Sleep to make a Person eat, drink, walk, sing and play upon any Instruments they are used to, &c. to make Apparatus and other Accessaries to produce Magnetical Facts; also to Magnetise Rivers, Rooms, Trees, and other Bodies, animate and inanimate; to raise the Arms, Legs of a Person awake, and to make him rise from his Chair; to raise the Arm of a Person absent from one Room to another; also to treat him at a Distance. All the New Experiments and Phenomena are explained by Monsieur le Docteur Bell, Professor of that Science, And Member of the Philosophical Harmonic Society at Paris, Fellow Correspondent of M. Le Court de Geblin's Museum; and the only Person authorised by Patent from the First Noblemen in France, to teach and practise that Science in England, Ireland, &c. Price Five Shillings.
Bell, John, Professor of Animal Magnetism.Date: 1792- Books
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The common prayer-book, the best companion to prepare communicants for a worthy receiving the Lord's Supper: being a preparatory office, collected out of the liturgy of the Church of England. Containing Every Thing necessary to be known or done on this solemn Occasion: To which are prefixed, three Discourses on the following Subjects: Discourse I. On the dignity of the Holy Sacrament of the Lord's Supper. - The method of receiving it in St. Paul's time. - The reason why so many in the present age neglect the Lord's Supper. - The great danger that those are in, who never come to the Holy Sacrament. Discourse II. Of the mercifulness of God to penitent sinners, evinced from the words of our Saviour. - The qualifications of such as are to receive this mercy and pardon. - The end for which God proposes to give us his pardon. Discourse III. Of the necessity of a due preparation for the Lord's Supper. - The scruple concerning Unworthiness removed. - How a man may be satisfied that he is prepared, according to what God requires of him. Revised and corrected by a clergyman of the Church of England. To the whole of which is added, the Book of Psalms, digested into prayers and Meditations, very useful in conducting us to those best adapted to our present Occasions; and necessary to be added to our other Devotions.
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A key to civil architecture; or the universal British builder. Containing the principles and properties of building clearly demonstrated, with Illustrations and Definitions both Theoretical and Practical; with a Dissertation on the Sciences appertaining thereto, as well as the Kindred Requisites of Strength, Convenience, Propriety, and Beauty. Also, A strict Enquiry into the present Manner of Building and Mode of Finishing, and how far the Taste is consistent with Symmetry and sound Reason: with a new criterion, or universal estimator; In which are considered the Quantity and Quality of Materials adequate for the Execution of any Building; their exact Value wheresoever appropriated; the real and universal Price assigned, proved by the Labour which is required to every Jobb; with practical Remarks on all the different Branches of a Building, especially on Joiners Works; where the most irksome and difficult Parts are considered and reduced to familiar Practice, by the most judicious and approved Methods. The Principles, Properties, and Consequence of all Sorts of Stairs defined, both with respect to Plans and Execution, as well as the Manner of gluing up all Sorts of Hand-Rails. The Manner and Method of measuring all the different Artificers Works, as practised by the most eminent Surveyors, with their Prices to each Work. - Also, the Masters Prices, and a Schedule of Prices for Task-Masters. To which is added, a treatise of arithmetic, Extraction of the Roots, Duodecimals, Mensuration of Superficies and Solids, round and square Timber, &c. with Explanations and Reasons for the Rules. By Thomas Skaife, P. A. Carpenter and Joiner.
Skaife, Thomas.Date: MDCCLXXIV. [1774]- Books
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A key to civil architecture; or, the universal British builder. Containing the principles and properties of building clearly demonstrated, with Illustrations and Definitions, both Theoretical and Practical; and a Dissertation on the Sciences appertaining thereto, as well as the Kindred Requisites of Strength, Convenience, Propriety and Beauty. Also a strict enquiry into the present manner of building and Mode of Finishing, and how far the Taste is consistent with Symmetry and sound Reason: Likewise A New Criterion, or Universal Estimator; In which are considered the Quantity and Quality of Materials adequate to the Execution of any Building; their exact value wherever appropriated; the real and universal Price assigned, proved by the Labour which is required to every Job; and practical Remarks on all the different Branches of a Building, especially on Joiners Works; where the most irksome and difficult Parts are considered and reduced to familiar Practice, by the most judicious and approved methods. The Principles, Properties, and Consequence of all Sorts of Stairs defined, both with respect to Plans and Execution, as well as the Manner of gluing up all Kinds of Hand-Rails. The Manner and Method of Measuring the different Artificers Works, as practised by the most eminent Surveyors, with their Prices to each Work. - Also, the Masters Prices, and a Schedule of Prices for Task-Masters. To which is added A treatise of arithmetick, Extraction of the Roots, Duodecimals, Mensuration of Superficies and Solids, round and square Timber, &c. with Explanations and Reasons for the Rules. The third edition corrected; with the addition of two useful plates on the construction of stair cases. By Thomas Skaife, P.A.
Skaife, Thomas.Date: 1788- Books
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Robert Farr, At his Cheap Bread Manufactory, No 18, St. Martin's Le Grand, begs leave to inform his Customers and the Public in general, that the Shop now opened against him is supported by a set of artful over-grown full price bakers (as they stile themselves), for the sole purpose of stopping any Bread from being Sold under the full Price in that Neighbourhood. - The Names of them will be given in a few Days by a Hand Bill, wherein Rt. Farr will inform the Customers of those Gentlemen where they may have the same Bread at Seven Pence, that they are paying Eightpence-Halfpenny for, being Three Halfpence in the Quartern saving to them. - Now, the Opposition to his Shop having arisen from the Motives above-mentioned, R. F. is convinced that his Customers will not go from him for the triffing Advantage of One Halfpenny in the Quartern, which will cease the Instant they have effected their Purpose, that is, when no Bread can be bought under the full Price. R. F. likewise informs the Public, that he is Building with all speed, Two large Ovens, when he is determined to send Bread Home to Private Families at the same Price, on being Paid on delivery, such advantageous Terms never offered to the Public before.
Farr, Robert.Date: 1790?]- 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 key to civil architecture; or, the universal British builder. Containing the principles and properties of building clearly demonstrated, with Illustrations and Definitions, both Theoretical and Practical; and a Dissertation on the Sciences appertaining thereto, as well as the Kindred Requisites of Strength, Convenience, Propriety and Beauty. Also a strict enquiry into the present manner of building and Mode of Finishing, and how far the Taste is consistent with Symmetry and found Reason: Likewise A New Criterion, or Universal Estimator; In which are considered the Quantity and Quality of Materials adequate to the Execution of any Building; their exact Value wherever appropriated; the real and universal Price assigned, proved by the Labour which is required to every Job; and practical Remarks on all the different Branches of a Building, especially on Joiners Works; where the most irksome and difficult Parts are considered and reduced to familiar Practice, by the most judicious and approved Methods. The Principles, Properties, and Consequence of all Sorts of Stairs defined, both with respect to Plans and Execution, as well as the Manner of gluing up all Kinds of Hand-Rails. The Manner and Method of measuring the different Artificers Works, as practised by the most eminent Surveyors, with their Prices to each Work. - Also, the Masters Prices, and a Schedule of Prices for Task-Masters. To which is added, A treatise of arithmetick, Extraction of the Roots, Duodecimals, Mensuration of Superficies and Solids, round and square Timber, &c. with Explanations and Reasons for the Rules. The second edition, corrected, with the addition of two useful plates on the construction of stair cases. By Thomas Skaife, P.A.
Skaife, Thomas.Date: 1776- Books
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A collection for the improvement of husbandry and trade. Consisting of many valuable materials relating to corn, cattle, coals, hops, wool, &c. With a compleat catalogue of the several sorts of earths, and their proper product; the best sorts of manure for each; with the art of draining and flooding of lands; as also full and exact histories of trades, as malting, brewing, &c. the description and structure of instruments for husbandry, and carriages, with the manner of their imrovement; an account of the rivers of England, &c. and how far they may be made navigable; of weights and measures, of woods, cordage, and metals; of building and stowage the vegetation of plants, &c. with many other useful particulars, communicated by several eminent members of the Royal Society, to the collector, John Houghton, F.R.S. Now revised, corrected, and published, with a preface and useful indexes, by Richard Bradley, F.R.S. and professor of botany in the University of Cambridge. In three volumes.
Houghton, John, 1640-1705.Date: M,DCC,XXVII. [i.e. 1727 - 1728]- Books
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A catalogue of near forty thousand volumes of choice books; Containing the Libraries of the late Rev. Dr. T. Winchester, Rector of Appleton, Berks; And the Rev. Dr. Richardson, Rector of St. Anne's, Westminster, And of several other curious Collections; ... D. Halicarnass. Hudsoni, 2 t. Strabo, 2 tom. ch. max. Polybius, Casauboni Caesaris, a Clarke, corio turc. Hist. Script. Romanae, 3 t. cor. russ. Erasmi Opera, 11 tom. ch. max. Hollinshed's Chronicle, 2 v. in russia Catte's Hist. of England. 4 v. Rushworth's Collections, 8 v. Journals, &c. of Lords and Commons, 76 v. State Trials, 11 vol. Blomefreid's Norfolk, 5 vol. ... Sloane's Jamaica, 2 v. in russia Folio, Brown's Jamaica Chauncy's Hertfordshire Thoroton's Nottinghamshire Dictionaries, viz. Biograph. Brit. and Bayle, 12 v. - Richardson's Persian Dict. 2 v. - Chambers, 2 v. - Postlethwayte, 2 v. - Johnson, 2 v. - James, 3 v. - Calmet, 3 v. - Bayle, 5 v. - Ainsworth, 2 v. - Collier. 4 v. - Trevoux, 10 v. - Bayle & Oeuvres, 9 v. - Savary, 5 v. - Richelet, 3 v. - Chaufepe, 4 t. - Martiniere, 10 v. - Espanola. 6 t. - De la Crusca, 6 t. - H. Stephani Thesaur. 5 t. - R. Stephani Thesaur. 4 t. - Hoffmanni Lexicon, 4 t. - Constantine & Scapulae-Hesychii Lex. 2t. -Ducange Gloss. 6 t. - Hickes Thesaur. 3 t. - Dufresne Gloss. & Supple. 10 t. ... De la Jaye Bib. Polyglotta, 10 t. Cooper's Anatomy, l. p. in russia Hippocrates & Galen, 9 t. cor. russ. A compleat and fine Set of Philosoph Transactions at Large, 4to. And many Hundred others equally good, which will be sold, for Ready Money only, this Day, February 1782, and continue on Sale till all are sold, By Thomas Payne and son, booksellers, Next the Mews Gate, in Castle Street. St. Martin's. Catalogues to be had, with Prices printed (price 6d) at Mr. Sewell's, Bookseller, Cornhill; Mr. Owen's, Bookseller, near Temple-Bar, Fleet Street; Mr. Lewis, Bookseller, Russel Street, Covent Garden; Mr. Walter, Bookseller, at Charing Cross; Mr. Ridley, Bookseller, St. James's Street; Mr. Robson, Bookseller, New Bond Street; of the Booksellers at Oxford and Cambridge, and at the Place of Sale. Where may be had the full Value for any Library or Parcel of Books.
Thomas Payne and Son.Date: 1782]- Books
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Military reflections on the attack and defence of the city of London; Proved by the Author to have been the most vulnerable Part of Consequence in the whole Island, in the Situation it was left in the Year 1794. to which is added, reflections on the loss of Plymouth or Harwich, and on the greater safety of Portsmouth. -Desultory Invasions in various Parts. - District where 3000 men may land, occupy, and maintain for a considerable Time against the whole Force of Britain. - That celebrated Officer, General Lloyd's Abilities and System used in the Defence of the Capital, and his general System on the Defence of Rivers applied to the Thames. - Treatise on Floating Batteries and Gallies. - Treatise on Riflemen, Sharp Shooters, Jaegers, and Chasseurs; the Utility of them in all Countries, and the particular Want of them in this Country and the British Army. - Remarks on Landguard and Tilbury Forts, and other Fortifications. - --Reflections on the Dearness of Bread. - --Proposals how the laborious and industrious Poor might be supplied with Bread at a moderate Price in Times of Scarcity. - --Improper Application of His Majesty's generous Donation of one Pound and a Half of Bread per Day to the Soldier, and how it ought to be applied. - --Including general Remarks on the whole Island. By Lieut. Col. George Hanger. Most respectfully addressed to the Right Hon. Thomas Skinner, Lord Mayor of London.
Hanger, George, 1751?-1824.Date: 1795- Books
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The account of the true market-price of wheat, and malt, at Windsor, for 100 years. - Began & publish'd by Wm. Fleetwood Bp. of Ely from 1646. to 1706. And since continued in the same manner.
Fleetwood, William, 1656-1723.Date: 1746?]- Books
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The very best round coals. At Walker's New Coal Repository, Bell-Wharf, near Joiners-Hall, Dowgate, Upper Thames-Street. A Real Advantage of 3 Shillings per Chaldron, is saved by the Purchasers of coals, (for Ready Money) as above With a Certainty of being faithfully Supply'd with Round Coal, of the very best quality, Measured under the Inspection of the Lord Mayor's Sworn Meters. Orders by the Penny-Post, &c. punctually attended to and executed with Dispatch. - One sack extra in every Chaldron, - Mr. Walker returns his most grateful thanks to the several Nobility, Gentry, &c. who are the kind Promoters and Encouragers of his new Plan, for reducing the extortioned price of so necessary an Article, in opposition to Combinators, forming to render this useful Commodity, dear and expensive to the Public. Large Scotch Coal upon the most reasonable Terms, 1775.
Walker's New Coal Repository (London, England)Date: 1775]- Books
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Hand bills, following an Advertisement in the News-Papers, having been circulated, stating Distances, Prices of Carriage, &c. for a New Canal Undertaking, and comparing them with the Price of Carriage paid upon the present Canals. - ----That the Public might not be deceived by spurious Productions, the following is a true State of Facts; the Calculation on the New Scheme is taken from one in Mr. Pratt's own Hand-Writing.
Date: 1785]- Books
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The merchants miscellany, and travellers complete compendium; containing a mercantile state and public view of the county of Bedford for 1785. Being a short description of each market town, list of tradesmen, the conveyances, &c. by John Franklin Henington, auctioneer an printer, at Northampton. Price 6 d.
Henington, John Franklin.Date: [1785]- Books
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A critical review of the public buildings, statues, and ornaments, In and about London and Westminister. Originally written by - Ralphk, architect, and now reprinted with very large additions. The whole being digested into a six days tour, in which every thing worthy the attention of the judicious enquirer, is pointed out and described.
Ralph, James, -1762.Date: 1783- Books
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English state-lottery, 1794. Begins Drawing February 16, 1795. The Scheme of the present Lottery being entirely different from any former one, - Ten Thousand tickets less, - The Public are requested to observe, that Five Hundred Thousand Pounds (the usual Amount of the Prize-Money) is divided amongst 40,000, instead of 50,000 Tickets, and that there are more Prizes than Blanks in this Lottery, when, in most former ones, there have been from Two to Three Blanks to a Prize. And divided into Half, Fourth, Eighth, and Sixteenth, shares, At their Licensed State-Lottery Offices, No. 104, Bank-Buildings, Cornhill, and No. 8, opposite the King's Mews, Charing-Cross.
Richardson, Goodluck, and Co.Date: 1794]- Archives and manuscripts
Corporate photography shoots C0010149 - C0012901
Date: c.2000-c.2002Reference: WT/B/11/1/36Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Books
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At play-house prices. At the Theatre-Royal in Drury Lane On Friday next, March 3, 1786. Will be performed Messiah. A sacred oratorio. Set to Music by Mr. Handel. The Principal vocal parts by Mr. Reinhold, Mr. Arrowsmith, Mr. Carter, Master Prinn, Mrs. Forster, and Miss George. - Tickets to be had and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr Fosbrook, at the Stage-Door of the Theatre, Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. First Gallery 2s. Second Gallery 1s. The Doors to be opened at Half past Five O'Clock. To begin at Half past Six. Vivant Rex & Regina. On Wednesday, the 8th of March, will be performed The Prodigal Son.
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (London, England)Date: 1786]- Books
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Bibliotheca Askeviana. Sive catalogus librorum rarissimorum Antonii Askew, M.D. Quorum auctio fiet apud S. Baker & G. Leigh, In Vico dicto York Street, Covent Garden, Londini, die Lunae 13 Februarii MDCCLXXV. & in undeviginti sequentes Dies. Catalogi venundantur apud Londini Bibliopolas; Baker & Leigh, York-Street, Covent-Garden; Dodsley, Pall-Mall; Robson, Bond-Street; Walter, Charing-Cross; Owen, Temple-Bar; Brotherton & Sewell, Cornhill; & a Paris chez J. B. Gibert, Hotel de Cluny, Rue des Mathurins, St. Jaques; & Amsterdam chez Marc Michel Rey. (price One Shilling and Six-Pence.) - There are a few Copies printed on Royal Paper. Price Four Shillings.
S. Baker and G. Leigh (London, England)Date: 1774]- Books
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A catalogue of several libraries and parcels of books lately purchased; The whole containing ten thousand volumes, In all Arts and Sciences, and in most Languages. Which will begin to be sold very reasonable. The lowest Price printed in the Catalogue, By S. Baker and G. Leigh, Booksellers, At their House in York Street, Covent-Garden. On Tuesday, March the 31st, 1767, And to continue every Day. Catalogues to be had gratis of the following Booksellers, Mr. Dodsley's, Pall Mall; Mr. Robson's, Bond street; Mr. Walter's, Charing Cross; Mr. Brotherton's, Cornhill; Mr. Owen's, and Mr. Hingeston's, Temple-Bar; and at the Place of Sale. - Where is given to the full Value for any Library.
S. Baker and G. Leigh (London, England)Date: 1767]- Books
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A catalogue of books for 1783; containing a Variety of scarce Articles in every Branch of Literature; Which will be sold at the Prices printed in the Catalogue, for Ready Money only, By John Marsom, No. 187, opposite the Windsor Castle, High Holborn. The full Value given for any Library, or Parcel of Books - or Books Exchanged. - To prevent Mistakes, Gentlemen are desired to send the First Word of the Article they want, with the Number. Catalogues may be had at the Place of Sale, and of the following Booksellers, Messrs. Denis and Son, No. 2, New Bridge Street, near the Obelisk, Fleet Street; Mr. Law, St. Martin's Church Yard; Mr. Coad, No. 12, Silver Street, Golden Square; and Mr. Barker, Russell Court, Covent Garden.
Marsom.Date: 1783]- Books
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At play-house prices. At the Theatre-Royal in Drury Lane To-Morrow, Friday, March 10, 1786. Will be performed Redemption. A sacred oratorio. Selected from the Great and Favourite works of Mr. Haneel, That were performed at his commemoration In Westminster-Abbey, And at the Pantheon, The Prinipal Vocal Parts by Mr. Bellamy, Mr. Arrowsmith, Mr Negus, Master Pring Mrs. Forster, and Miss George. First Violin by Mr. Shaw. - Tickets to be had and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Fosbrook, at the Stage door of the Theatre, Boxes 5s Pit 3s. First Gallery 2s. Second Gallery 1s. Books of the Performance to be had at the Theatre only. The Doors to be opened at Half past Five O'Clock. To begin at Half past Six. Vivant Rex & Regina.
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (London, England)Date: 1786]