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Handel & the castrati : the story behind the 18th century superstar singers : 29 March - 1 October 2006 / Handel House Museum.
Date: 2006- Archives and manuscripts
Patient Certificates and Notices
Ticehurst House HospitalDate: late 18th century - mid 20th centuryReference: MSS.6326-6360Part of: Ticehurst House Hospital- Archives and manuscripts
Patient Certificates and Notices: Admission dates 1793-1866.
Ticehurst House HospitalDate: late 18th century - 19th centuryReference: MS.6326Part of: Ticehurst House Hospital- Archives and manuscripts
Patient Certificates and Notices
Ticehurst House HospitalDate: late 18th century - mid 20th centuryReference: MSS.6326-6340Part of: Ticehurst House Hospital- Archives and manuscripts
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English Recipe Book, later 17th - early 18th century
Date: Late 17th century - 18th centuryReference: MS.7822- Archives and manuscripts
Rowland Hill (1744-1833), preacher and supporter of vaccination
Hill, Rowland, 1744-1833.Date: Late 18th century - early 19th centuryReference: MS.8837- Archives and manuscripts
Unsigned paper arguing for lower duties on medicinal plants imported from the East to Great Britain
Date: Late 18th century - early 19th centuryReference: MS.7226/1Part of: Medicinal Plants: miscellany- Archives and manuscripts
William Heberden the elder (1710-1801) and William Heberden the younger (1767-1845), physicians
Heberden, William, 1710-1801Date: late 18th century - early 19th centuryReference: MS.8832- Archives and manuscripts
Personal material
Date: 18th century - 19th centuryReference: MS.6137Part of: Jurin, James (1684-1750), physician and Secretary of the Royal Society- Archives and manuscripts
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Recipe Book, 18th and 19th Century
Date: late 18th century to early 19th centuryReference: MS.7978- Archives and manuscripts
Paxton, Richard (fl. mid 18th century - late 18th century)
Paxton, Richard (fl. mid 18th century - late 18th century)Date: 1799Reference: MS.3820- Books
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A catalogue of a collection of coins and medals, With all the puncheons and dies for striking medals, of the late John Croker, Esq. and John Sigismund Tanner, Esq. Who were successively Chief Gravers of his Majesty's Mint. The above includes a very large and extraordinary Collection of Puncheons and Dies, the private Labour of two very ingenious Artists, whose mere Workmanship, in the original Execution of them, has been estimated at several Thousand Pounds. They have all been been finished in a masterly Manner,-Are still very complete, - mostly in good Preservation, - fit for immediate Use, - and must, in every Sense, be considered as valuable Curiosities. Which (by Order of the Executor) will be sold by auction, By Mr. Gerard, At his House, in Litchfield-Street, St. Anne's, Soho, On Wednesday, the 18th of June, 1783. To be viewed on Monday the 16th, Tuesday the 17th, and till the Time of Sale, which will begin at Half after Eleven O'Clock precisely. Catalogues to be had at Mr Gerard's aforesaid.
Gerard, Mr. (John), -1794.Date: 1783]- Books
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House of Lords. Richard Beckford, Esq. - - - Appellant. William Beckford, Esq. - - - Respondent. The Respondent's case. Upon the Appeal against an Order of the Right Honourable the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, made the 18th of July, 1782.
Beckford, William, 1760-1844.Date: 1783]- Books
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Three addresses, to the proprietors of East-India stock, and the publick, on the subject of the shipping concerns of the Company. With their vouchers and documents. Originally published in 1791, 1792, and 1793. Together with A regular Account of the Proceedings on the Subject in the Courts of Directors, and General Courts, held at the India House. Including The Protests of Mr. Alderman Le Mesurier, Mr. Grant, and Mr. D. Scott. - The Letter of the Rt. Hon. Henry Dundas to the Chairman, in consequence of Mr. Grant's Protest; sundry Letters of Messrs. Devaynes, Henchman, D. Scott, and other Gentlemen. - The Letters and Dissents of Mr. Money, Sir Francis Baring, Mr. Elphinstone, and Mr. Ewer, with Mr. Grant's Reply. - The Speech of Mr. Jackson, at the General Court, held on the 21st of Jan. 1795, when the Directors brought forward the Resolution come to in their Court, on the 18th of November, 1794, in consequence of the reference made them by the Resolution of the General Court, held April 3, 1793. - With Mr. Serjeant Watson's Amendment, disagreeing with the Court of Directors, &c. &c. Likewise An Extract from Mr. Newte's Letter to Mr. Dundas, on the subject of the Company's Shipping. The whole interspersed with a variety of Remarks, Comments, and Observations, published in order to convince the Proprietors and the Publick, how great a pecunia y stake they have in the Question, and to assist its approaching Parliamentary investigation. By Mr. J. Fiott, Merchant, of London.
Fiott, John, -1797.Date: [1795]- Books
The practice of physick / by Alexander Gordon ; transcribed with glossary and notes by Peter Bennett.
Gordon, Alexander, 1752-1799.Date: 2011- Books
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A catalogue of the genuine and curious collection of books of the Right Honourable the Earl of Orford, deceas'd; (brought from his late lodge at Richmond-Park) Mostly large Paper, in fine Condition, and bound in Morocco. Among which are Folio. Journals of the House of Lords - of the House of Commons Rolls of Parliament, 45 vol. Mss. Kalendars to the Journals Rymer's Faedera, 20 vol. Baskett's Bible, 2 vol. two Copies Bayle's Dictionary, 5 vol. large paper Thurloe's State Papers, 7 vol. large pap. Buckley's Thuanus, 7 vol. Collection of Voyages, 6 vol. Hacke's Description of the South Sea of America, MS. bound in Morocco, and finely illuminated. Octavo. Political State, 56 vol. Theobald's Shakespear, 7 vol. large pap. Historical Register, 25 vol. Collection of Treaties, 4 vol. Morocco Gentleman's Magazine, II vol. Swift's Works, 8 vol. Dublin Edit. which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Langford, (by Order of the Executor) on Wednesday the 17th and Thursday the 18th of this instant July 1751. at his house in the Great Piazza, Covent-Garden. The said Books will be exhibited to publick View on Monday the 15th Instant, and every Day after till the Time of Sale; which will begin each Evening at Six O'Clock precisely. Catalogues of which will be deliver'd gratis at Mr. Langford's, in the Great Piazza, aforesaid.
Langford, Mr. (Abraham), 1711-1774.Date: 1751]- Books
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In the House of Lords. Evan Pugh and Samuel Pugh, - plaintiffs in error. Joseph Goodtitle, on demise of Bailey and others, - - - - defendant in error. Case of the plaintiffs in error.
Pugh, Evan, active 18th century.Date: 1787]- Books
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The french family cook: being a complete system of French cookery. Adapted to the Tables not only of the Opulent, but of Persons of moderate Fortune and Condition. Containing Directions for choosing, dressing, and serving up all Sorts of Butcher Meat, Poultry, &c. The different Modes of making all kinds of Soups, Ragouts, Fricandeaus, Creams, Ratafias, Compôts, Preserves, &c. &c. - as well as a great Variety of cheap and elegant Side Dishes, calculated to grace a Table at a small Expence. Instructions for making out Bills of Fare for the four Seasons of the Year, and to furnish a Table with few or any number of Dishes at the most moderate possible Expence. Necessary for Housekeepers, Butlers, Cooks, and all who are concerned in the Superintendence of a Family. Translated from the French.
Menon, active 18th century.Date: M.DCC.XCIII. [1793]- Books
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A letter to the Right Hon. Henry Dundas, M. P. Secretary of State, &c. &c. or, an appeal to the people of Great-Britain, being An answer to some Reflections cast upon ̀̀a Citizen, whose Loyalty (it was said) was ̀̀only confined to his Razor!'' In a debate in the House of Commons, February 21st, 1794, Occasioned by an intercepted Letter, Signed J. Harrison, A Sans Culotte, to which is added, an abstract of A Trial for an Assault committed on the Author, in the Name of ̀̀church and King for Ever.'' By Citizen John Harrison, Sheffield.
Harrison, John, active 18th century.Date: 1794- Books
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A catalogue of all the entire and well-chosen library of the late Mrs. Letitia Wiggett, deceased, At her late Dwelling-House, in St. George's Colgate, Norwich: which will be sold by auction, by Edward Crane, on Wednesday the 28th inst. and two following days: Consisting of an Air Pump, Mathematical, Philosophical, and other Instruments. - Amongst the books are Picart's Religious Ceremonies, 6 vol. Spence's Polymetis, best Edition-Rapin and Continuation, 5 vol. - Montfaucon's Antiquities and Supplement, 7 vol. - Ancient and Modern Universal History, 27 vol. - Hill's Natural History of Fossils-Hook's Micographia, best Edition-Pennant's British Zoology, Elegant-Pitt's Atlas, 4 vol. Catalogues may be had at the Auctioneer's Upholstery Warehouse, White-Lion-Lane, Norwich, at 3d. each, which will be returned to every purchaser to the amount of five shillings. The whole to be viewed on Tuesday next from Eleven O'Clock in the Forenoon 'till Three in the Afternoon. The Sale begins each Morning precisely at Half past Ten.
Crane, Edward, active 18th century.Date: 1790?]- Books
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House of Lords. Evan Pugh and Samuel Pugh, - - - plaintiffs in error. Joseph Goodtitle on demise of Bailey and others, - defendant in error. Case of the defendant in error.
Goodtitle, Joseph.Date: 1787]- Pictures
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A young woman sits and listens with scorn to a man's declarations of love. Mezzotint by James Wilson after C. Troost.
Troost, Cornelis, 1697-1750.Date: 1700-1799Reference: 28055i- Pictures
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A nobleman and an alderman sit at a table neggotiating a marriage settlement between the son of the former and the daughter of the latter. Engraving by Louis Gérard Scotin after William Hogarth, 1745.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: April 1st, 1745Reference: 38350iPart of: Marriage a-la-mode- Pictures
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A nurse gives a man an enema. Colour line engraving by C.J.D. Eisen after himself, 1762.
Eisen, Charles, 1720-1778.Date: [1762]Reference: 15973i- Pictures
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The countess's levee: a barber dresses her hair while she converses with Silvertongue, her lawyer. Engraving by Simon François Ravenet after W. Hogarth, 1745.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: [1745]Reference: 38356iPart of: Marriage a-la-mode