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Clerkenwell House of Correction, London: top, the oakum-shed and bottom, the needle-room. Wood engravings after M. Fitzgerald, 1874.
Fitzgerald, Michael, active 1871-1891.Date: 1874Reference: 585000i- Books
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The church of England's complaints to the Parliament and clergy against I. Careless non-residents II. Encroaching pluralities. III. Unconscionable simony. IV. Loose prophaneness. V. Undue ordination. Now reigning among her clergy. To which is added, A List of the Non-Residents in every distinct County of England and Wales: And the Number of young unqualified Persons, that, by a just Computation, are said to be admitted into Holy Orders.
J. B.Date: MDCCXXXVII. [1737]- Books
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Before the Most Noble and Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes. (an Appeal from the Court of Admiralty in England) The Madona, Michael Drosso, Master. Peter Cazalet and William Caske, of London, Merchants, and John Smith, Commander of the private Ship, or Vessel of War called the Tartar, Appellants, Against Messrs. John and Christopher Harris, of Plymouth, in the County of Devon, Merchants, Owners of the Private Ship or Vessel of War called the Viper, Respondents. Appendix to the Appellants' Case.
Great Britain. Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes.Date: 1788?]- Books
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The english traveller: giving a description of those parts of Great-Britain called England and Wales. Containing I. A particular Survey, both Geographical and Historical of every County in the same. II. An Ample and Accurate Account of all the Cities, Boroughs, Market-Towns, Villages, Rivers, Royal-Palaces, Noblemen's and Gentlemen's Seats. III. The Fairs, Trade, Commerce, and Product of each County; of the Rarities both natural and artificial; of the eminent Persons born, or who have resided in them, and of the extraordinary Events that have happened in the same. IV. A map of every County, from the best and latest Observations; wherein are mark'd the Number of measured Miles, and the usual Roads from one Post-Town to another, after the Designs of Herman Moll. V. Of the Isles of Wight, Man, Jersey, Guernsey, and other British Isles, with the Maps of the same. ...
Read, Thomas, Printer.Date: MDCCXLVI. [1746]- Books
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Before the Most Noble and Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes. (An appeal from the High Court of Admiralty of England.) The Madona, Michael Drosso, Master. John Smith, Master or Commander of the Ship or Vessel called the Tartar, and Peter Cazalet and William Cooke, of London, Merchants, Owners of the said Ship or Vessel, Appellants, against Messrs. John and Christopher Harris, of Plymouth, in the County of Devon, Merchants, Owners of the Private Ship or Vessel of War called the Viper, whereof Michael Faulckner was Master, or Commander, Respondents. Case on Behalf of the Appellants.
Great Britain. Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes.Date: 1788?]- Books
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Before the Most Noble and Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes. The Madona, Michael Drosso, Master. John Smith, Master or Commander of the Ship or Vessel called the Tartar, and Peter Cazalet and William Cook, of London, Merchants, Owners of the said Ship or Vessel, - - - - Appellants. Against Messrs. John and Christopher Harris, of Plymouth, in the County of Devon, Merchants, Owners of the Private Ship or Vessel of War called the Viper, whereof Michael Fawckner was Master or Commander, - - - - - - Respondents. On an Appeal from the High Court of Admiralty of England. Case on behalf of the respondents.
Great Britain. Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes.Date: 1788?]- Books
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England delineated; or, a geographical description of every county in England and Wales: with a concise account of its most important products, natural and artificial. For the Use of Young Persons. With Outline Maps of all the Counties.
Aikin, John, 1747-1822.Date: 1800- Books
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The old, old, very old man; or, the age and long life of Thomas Parr, who was born at a Place call'd Winnington, in the Parish of Alberbury, in the County of Salop, in the reign of King Edward the fourth; and liv'd in the reigns of ten Kings and queens; and now lyes interr'd in Westminster-Abby. To which is prefix'd, An Account of his being brought up to Court, out of Shropshire, in the Reign of King Charles the First, in the Year 1635; by the Earl of Arundel and Surry, Earl Marshal of England; being then Aged One hundred fifty-two Years and odd Months. His Way of Living in so long a Pilgrimage, his Marriages, &c. Done from the Edition Printed in his Life Time. Written by John Taylor, the Water-Poet. Dedicated to King Charles the First.
Taylor, John, 1580-1653.Date: [1730?]- Books
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The state plunderer's catechism: or, an instruction to be learn'd by every tax'd county in England, before the plunderes [sic] are brought to be fleec'd by the High Court of Parliament.
Date: 1712?]- Books
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Browne's general law list for the year 1800, With The Names And Residences Of All The Judges and Serjeants, King's Counsel & Barristers Provincial Counsel, Justices under the Police Act Equity-Draetsmen, Special-Pleaders, Conveyancers, Benchers of the Inns of Court Under-Sheriffs and Agents, Certificated Attorneys, from the Rolls, Register and Certificate Books, Public Notaries, Officers of the Law-Courts, Masters In Chancery, and Provincial Extra ditto, Commissioners of Bankrupts Doctors and Proctors, Lord-Mayor, Aldermen, City-Companies, &c. Peers, English and Scots, House of Commons, Qualifications, and Number of Votes. Lords Lieutenants, High-Stewards, County Treasurers, Count. Recievers-General, Clerks Of At The Peace, Coroners, Collec-OF The Excise, Recorders, Town-Clerks. &c. Civil and Law Offices, and Holydays kept at Each, Coffee-Houses, in London, and by whom Kept, London News-Papers, and where Published, &c. &c. English and Welch Circuits, with the Judges, Serjeants, Counsel, &c. Circuits they go, and the Towns where the Assizes are held. A List of Cities, Boroughs, Cinque Ports, Towns, Market Towns and Villages, in England and Wales, Market Days; Distances from London, Postage of Letters, Mail & Stage Coaches, with the times & places they go from.
Date: [1800]- Books
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The Small British atlas: Being a new set of a maps of all the counties of England and Wales: To which is added a general map, with tables of length breadth, area, cities, boroughs and parish in each county. Likewise a Parliamentary, map of England, with tables of the produce of the land tax; also a scheme of the proportion the several counties paid to the three shilling aid 1699 compared with the number of a membres they send to Parliament.
Date: 1762- Books
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Chorographia Britanniae or A set of maps of all the counties in England and Wales: To which are prefix'd the following general maps, viz. I. An accurate chart of the sea coast, exhibiting all the Royal Docks, fortifications, harbours, sands &c. II. A map of England and Wales, as divided into counties, with the names of the cities and county towns; and the length, breadth, and superficial content of the whole, and each county seperately. III. A map of the great roads, from London, to all parts of South Britain; with tables shewing the distance of each city, and town upon the road, from the metropolis, both in computed and measured miles. IV. A map of all the cross roads, from one great town to another, with the distances from town to town, both by computation and measure. With the particular, map of each county, is an account of all the cities, boroughs, market towns, parishes, and rivers therein: the number of members it sends to Parliament, the market and fair days, and in those of Oxford and Cambridge, are the names of all the colleges, and halls, in both Universities, with the dates of their foundations. To the whole is added an alphabetical index, of all the cities, boroughs, & market towns, properly distinguish'd from each other, and in what county they are situate. This collection (conveying a more comprehensive idea of South Britain than any thing hitherto publish'd) was first drawn and complied into a pocket book by order and for the use of his late Majesty King George I. By Thomas Badeslade surveyor and engineer, and now neatly engrav'd by Will: Henry Toms.
Badeslade, Thomas.Date: 1742- Pictures
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Hicks Hall, Session House, Clerkenwell: a man is recognized outside the court. Etching by T. Onwhyn, 1841.
Onwhyn, Thomas, 1811?-1886.Date: [1841]Reference: 35898i- Books
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A sermon preached at the Assizes held at Guildford for the county of Surrey, August 10. 1759. before the Honourable Sir Edward Clive, Knight, One of the Justices of His Majesty's Court of Common Pleas; and the Honourable Sir Sydney Stafford Smythe, Knt. One of the Barons of his Majesty's Court of Exchequer. Published at the unanimous Request of the High Sheriff, and the Gentlemen of the Grand Jury. By William Sellon, Curate of St. James's, Clerkenwell; and Lecturer of St. Giles's in the Fields.
Sellon, William, 1730 or 1731-1790.Date: [1759]- Books
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A complete system of the commercial geography of England; laid down in a plain and concise manner, for the use of schools. With a map of England. In English and French. Containing the geography of the British Islands, general divisions of England, account of the chief towns of each county, the boundaries and extent of the several counties, the Member of Parliament each sends, their navigable rivers, the course they run thro each county, inland naviation and navigable improvements principal sea-ports, principal bays, principal capes, principal islands, principal lakes, principal hot-baths and mineral waters, principal mountains, &c. &c. By Dominique De St. Quintin, M.A. author of A new grammar of the French Language, &c. &c.
St. Quentin, Dominique de.Date: 1794- Books
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The charge delivered by the Right Honourable Sir James Eyre, lord chief justice of His Majesty's Court of Common Plea and one of the commissioners named in a special commission of oyer and terminer, issued under the great seal of Great Britain, To enquire of certain high treasons, and misprisons of treason, within the county of Middlesex, to the grand jury, at the Session House on Clerkenwell Green, on Thursday the 2d day of October, 1794.
Eyre, James, Sir, 1734-1799.Date: 1794- Books
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An Act for the more effectual preventing frivolous and vexatious arrests, and for the more easy recovery of debts and damages in the Courts of Great Sessions in the principality of Wales, and in the Court of Assize in the county palatine of Chester, and for the obviating a doubt which has arisen upon an Act made in the fourth year of His present Majesty's reign, intituled, An Act, that all proceedings in courts of justice, within that part of Great Britain called England, and in the Court of Exchequer in Scotland, shall be in the English language, so far as the same Act doth or may relate to the courts of justice holden within the said principality, and for explaining and amending the said Act.
Great Britain.Date: 1733]- Books
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The divine institution of the Gospel ministry, and the necessity of episcopal ordination, asserted, by proofs from Scripture, and the practice of the primitive and purest ages of the christian church. In a sermon, Preach'd at the Primary Visitation Of the Right Reverend Father in God, Offspring Blackall, Formerly Lord Bishop of Exon. Held at Okehampton in the County of Devon, Aug. 19, 1709. By William Roberts, M. A. late Rector of Jacobstow in Devon. The fourth edition. Published by his Lordship's Command, and at the Request of the Reverend the Clergy. To which is added, a short character of Dr. George Hooper, formerly Bishop of Bath and Wells. By the Reverend Thomas Coney, D. D. late Rector of Bath.
Roberts, William, 1673-Date: [1750]- Ephemera
County of London to wit. : to ... by virtue of a warrant under the hand and seal of Edwin Smith, esquire, one of His Majesty's coroners for the Copunty of London, you are hereby summoned and warned personally to be and appear before him as a juryman, on ... day, the ... day of ... at ... o'clock precisely in the ... noon at the Coroner's Court held at ... then and there to enquire on His Majesty's behalf touching the death of ... / H. Wood, constable.
Date: [1936]- Books
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The court and city medley; or, political shaver; being a curious collection of satirical originals, in prose and verse; adapted to the present times: Containing, among a Variety of other Oddities, I. Fire and Faggot, or the City Mob. II. Newgate Triumphant. III. Liberty Pistol'd. IV. Prison and Pillory. V. The Sons of Gomorrah. VI. The Rich Bastards. Vii. The Picture of Peace. Viii. The Murdered Apple-Tree. IX. Scalping in England. X. Dying Groans of a Devonshire Cyder-Mill. XI. Treason in Town. XII. The Paper Thieves. XIII. An Alphabet suitable to the Times. XIV. An odd Epistle to Ld Bible from the West of England. XV. The Farmer's Prayer, &c. &c. &c. Ornamented with a suitable Copper-Palte. Humbly addressed to the County of Bucks. By Sir Daniel Downright.
Downright, Daniel, Sir.Date: 1764- Books
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Bouleutérion, or, A practical demonstration of county-judicatures : wherein is amply explained the judiciall and ministeriall authority of sheriffs and coroners : together with the original, jurisdiction, and method of keeping all countrey-courts / by Will. Greenwood.
Greenwood, WillDate: 1668- Books
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A digest of the proceedings of the Court Leet and of the manor and liberty of the Savoy, parcel of the Duchy of Lancaster, in the county of middlesex; from the year 1682 to the present time.
Savoy (Middlesex, England: Manor). Court Leet.Date: Printed in the year M.DCC.LXXXIX. [1789]- Books
Water inquiry : report, to the Court of Common Council / from the County Purposes Committee.
Date: [1890?]- Books
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The special report of the committee of visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Colney Hatch as to the action brought against Mr. Daukes : to be presented to Court on the ensuing County-Day / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum].
London (England). County Lunatic Asylum, Colney Hatch.Date: 1859- Books
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The seventeenth report of the committee of visitors of the additional pauper lunatic asylum, and resolutions of the court / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum].
London (England). County Lunatic Asylum, Colney Hatch.Date: 1851