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Before the Most Noble and Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes. St. Eustatius and its Dependencies. Benjamin Mee of London, Merchant, Claimant and - - Appellant. Admiral Lord Rodney and Major General John Vaughan, and James Heseltine Esq. his Majesty's Procurator General, - - Respondents. On an appeal from the High Court of Admiralty of Great Britain. The Appellant's case.
Great Britain. Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes.Date: 1787]- Books
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The new annual register, or general repository of history, politics, and literature, for the year 1798. To which is prefixed, the history of knowledge, learning, and taste, in Great Britain, during the reign of King Charles II. - Part II.
Date: MDCCXCIX. [1799]- Books
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The new annual register, or general repository of history, politics, and literature, for the year 1799. To which is prefixed, the history of knowledge, learning, and taste, in Great Britain, during the reign of King Charles II. - Part III.
Date: MDCCC. [1800]- Books
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Publications printed at the expence of the Society for preserving Liberty and Property against Republicans and Levellers. Number I. Containing, Mr. Justice Ashhurst's charge to the grand jury, for the county of Middlesex: - A word in season to the traders and manufactures of Great-Britain.
Association for Preserving Liberty and Property against Republicans and Levellers (London, England)Date: [1793]- Books
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Before the Most Noble and Right Honorable the Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes. Appeal from the High Court of Admiralty of Great-Britain. De Twee Gesusters, Pieter Cooman, master. Mary Chevallier, widow, the relict and administratrix of the goods of Nicholas Chevallier, deceased; late commander of the private ship of war the Stag, a pretended joint chaser and captor of the said ship, - - - - - - - - appellant. And Henry Tozer, commander of the private ship of war the Providence, the actual captor, and Peter Tessier, commander of the private ship of war the Spitfire, a joint chaser and captor of the prize in question, - - - - - respondents. On a second appeal, the said Henry Tozer, commander of the providence, - - - - - - appellant, and the said Peter Tessier, commander of the Spitfire, - - - - - - - respondent. Case on behalf of the Peter Tessier, one of the respondents.
Great Britain. Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes.Date: 1785]- Books
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The court kalendar. 1740. Containing I. The Births of all the Sovereign Princes now living, with the Time of the first Founding of all the Kingdoms, &c. now in Europe, p. 5. II. A List of the Cardinals, with the Time of their Births and Promotions, p. 9. III. The Deaths of all the Princes since 1720, p. 21. IV. Remarks Historical and Chronological concerning the Age of the World, p. 26. V. Of the Names of the Months, p. 27. VI. A List of the Privy Council, p. 28. VII. List of the Knight[s] of the Garter, p. 30. VIII. - of those of the Bath, p. 31. IX. - of those of the Thistle, p. 32. X A List of the Foreign Ministers now residing at the Court of Great Britain, and of the English Ministers Abroad, p. 32. XI. A List of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council, p. 34. XII. Rates of the Hackney Coachmen and Watermen, p. 39. XIII. Memorable events since 1688, p. 42. Suited to bind up with Rider's Almanack, a List of the present Parliament, and a List of the Publick Offices.
Date: MDCCXL. [1740]- Books
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The court kalendar: 1737. Containing I. The Births of all the Sovereign Princes now living, with the Time of the first Founding of all the Kingdoms, &c. now in Europe, p. 5. II. A List of the Cardinals, with the Time of their Births and Promotions, p. 11. III. The Deaths of all the Princes since 1720, p. 34. IV. Remarks Historical, &c. concerning the Age of the World, p. 42. V. Of the Names of the Months, p. 43. VI. A List of the Pr. Council, p. 45. Vii. A List of the Knights of the Garver p. 48. Viii. - of those of the Bath, p. 50. IX. - of those of the Thistle, p. 52. X. A List of the Foreign Ministers now residing at the Court of Great Britain, p. 53. and of English Ministers Abroad, p. 54. XI. A List of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, &c. p. 56. XII. Rates of the Coachmen and Watermen, p. 62. XIII. Memorable Events since 1688, p. 68. Suited to bind up with Rider's Almanack, a List of the present Parliament, and a List of the Publick Offices.
Date: [1737]- Books
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Yorkshire, (to wit) The delivery of the goal of our sovereign lord the King, of his County of York, held at the Castle of York, in and for the said County, on Monday the Seventh Day of March, in the Twenty first Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second, now King of Great Britain, &c. - Before Sir William Lee, Knight, Lord Chief Justice of His Majesty's Court of King's-Bench, and Sir Thomas Abney, Knight, one of his Majesty's Justices of his Court of Common-Pleas, Justices of our said Lord the King, assigned to deliver his Goal there of the Prisoners therein being, &c.
Yorkshire (England)Date: 1748]- Books
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The hanover-Spy: or, secret history of St. James's. From the reign of Queen Robin, down to the late misunderstanding in the royal palace. Publish'd by order of that person of honour who detected those Jacobite secrets that furnish'd out Neck or nothing; and consists only of such State Secrets as this Spy was privy to, or can prove by Persons now living at Court. The whole discoveries ascrib'd to that true Englishman and generous patriot, Benjamin Childe, Esq; late High-Sheriff for the County of Berks. By Mr. John Dunton, (author of Neck or Nothing) And is his Tenth successful Attempt to detect the Enemies to King George, and His Illustrious House, at the Hazard of his Life and Fortune, as is prov'd in-A Secret History of Whiggish Ingratitude, Inscrib'd to the King - And in - A Most Humble Petition to His Majesty-That he might be Presently Hang'd or Rewarded. - Both which are prefix'd to these New Discoveries.
Dunton, John, 1659-1733.Date: [1718]- Books
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A vindication of the hereditary right of his present Majesty, King George II. to the Crown of Great Britain, &c. Most humbly Inscrib'd to His Royal highness frederick augustus, Prince of Wales, &c. By George Ballantyne, Esq; Being a full Answer to all the Arguments of the nonjurors, and others disaffected to the present Happy Establishment, in their Own Way, and upon their Own Principles. Pro Rege & Patria, sunt semper mea Arma parata.
Ballantyne, George.Date: M,DCC,XLIII. [1743]- Books
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An historical list of horse-matches, plates and prizes, ran for in Great-Britain and Ireland, in the year 1770. Containing, I. The names of the owners of the horses that have run as above, and the names and colours of the horses also. II. The winner distinguished of every match, plate, prize, or stakes. III. The conditions of running, as to weights, age, &c. and the places in which the losing horses have come in. IV. A Table of weights that horses are to carry for give-and-take plates, from twelve to fifteen hands high. V. A List of stallions who covered in 1770. VI. A List of stallions to cover in 1771. Vii. A List of the principal cock - matches of the present year, and who were the winners and losers of them, &c. &c. &c. With an Index to the whole. By B. Walker. Vol.II.
Walker, B., active 1770.Date: M,DCC,LXXI. [1771]- Books
The Tudor kitchen : what the Tudors ate & drank / Terry Breverton.
Breverton, Terry, 1946-Date: [2015]- Books
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Kemmish's Annual-Harmonist; or, the British Apollo; being a complete lyric repository and banquet of amusement: containing the whims of the night and day: with all the monstrous good, and convivial songs catches, glees, duets, &c. sung this season, in the Prisoner, Just in time, Hartford bridge, Pirates, at Vauxhall, Bermondsey Spa, And various other polite Assemblies. Likewise, the president's companion; or, compleat toast-master. For the better encouragement of this work, W. K. offers for the best song, that comes to hand by September, 1793, a silver medal, Value 1d. 1s. - --Second Best, an Annual Harmonist bound in Morocco. - -- Third Best in Calf.
Date: [1793]- Books
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The present influence and conduct of Great-Britain impartially considered. In a letter from a foreign minister at the Hague, to Count - residing at the court of London. Faithfully translated from the original French.
Foreign minister at the Hague.Date: [1741]- Archives and manuscripts
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Date: 1942 - 2000Reference: WF/M/PB/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
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The genuine tryal of Admiral Byng, on board the St. George in Portsmouth Harbour; for an enquiry into his conduct while he commanded the Fleet in the Mediterranean, and particularly in the engagement on the 20th of May 1756, off Minorca. With the admiral's defence and sentence of death, as pronounced by the President of the court-martial. And also, An Account of his Behaviour after Sentence was passed upon him, and at the Time of Execution. - With some Account of his Family, and the brave Actions done by his Father, Lord Viscount Torrington, Rear Admiral of Great-Britain. To which are added, the most perfect account of the whole siege, noble defence and surrender of St. Philip's Fort, in the island of Minorca, by the brave General Blakeney, that has yet been Published;-With a Description of the Island, and its great Importance and Loss to Great-Britain.
Byng, John, 1704-1757.Date: MDCCLVII. [1757]- Books
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The court of Atalantis. Containing, a four years history of that famous island, political and gallant; intermixt with fables and epistles in verse and prose. By several hands.
Date: MDCCXIV. [1714]- Archives and manuscripts
Private Letter Book
Date: October 1894 - February 1895- Archives and manuscripts
Private Letter Book
Date: October 1894 - February 1895Reference: WF/E/11/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Private Letter Book
Date: October 1894 - February 1895- Archives and manuscripts
Private Letter Book
Date: October 1894 - February 1895- Pictures
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A trio of quack doctors attending to Britannia: the Earl of Bute with an ass's head blindfolds a woman who is vomiting into a bowl held by Louis XV as a baboon: Tobias Smollett takes her pulse;while Henry Fox approaches her with a clyster-pipe; representing the loss of British assets to France in the Treaty of Paris. Etching attributed to Paul Sandby, 1762.
Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809.Date: [1762]Reference: 12163i- Books
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The new way of selling places at Court. In a letter from a small courtier to a great stock-jobber.
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.Date: 1712- Books
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The new way of selling places at Court. In a letter from a small courtier to a great stock-jobber.
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.Date: 1712- Books
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Birth-Day conversation, anticipated; or, a peep into the drawing-room, on the 18th of January.
Date: M,DCC,LXXXV. [1785]