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- Archives and manuscripts
Personal papers of Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853-1936)
Date: 1800-1985Reference: WA/HSW- Books
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Statutes and rules to be observed in the management and use of the British Museum, by order of the Trustees.
British Museum.Date: Anno M.DCC.LVII. [1757]- Books
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Statutes and rules to be observed in the management and use of the British Museum, by order of the Trustees.
British Museum.Date: Anno MDCCLVIII. [1758]- Books
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Statutes and rules, relating to the inspection and use of the British Museum. And for the better security, and preservation of the same: by order of the trustees.
British Museum.Date: MDCCLIX. [1759]- Books
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Statutes and rules, relating to the inspection and use of the British Museum. And for the better security and preservation of the same. By order of the Trustees.
British Museum.Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- Books
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A preface and index to the Harleian collection of manuscripts, Published by Order of the trustees of the British Museum.
British Museum.Date: MDCCLXIII. [1763]- Books
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A descriptive catalogue (giving a full explanation) of Rackstrow's Museum: consisting of a large and very valuable collection of most curious anatomical figures, and real preparations; also figures resembling life; with a capital collection of Natural and Artificial Curiosities. To be seen, for 2s. 6d. at No. 197, Fleet-Street, between Chancery-Lane and Temple-Bar, London. Where also is to be seen, for 1s. Clark's optical exhibition of natural magic; Or Wonderful Aerial Appearances, &c. - Both are open from Eight in the Morning till Nine in the Evening.
Rackstrow's Museum.Date: 1794- Books
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A catalogue of the Harleian collection of manuscripts, purchased by authority of Parliament, for the use of the publick; and preserved in the British Museum. Published by order of the Trustees. ...
British Museum.Date: MDCCLIX. [1759]- Books
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Mem. - Lieut. J. Newlands, against Thomas Mercer, &c. A. MʻKenzie, W.S. agent. Menzies, clk. Memorial for Lieutenant John Newlands of Lochead, pursuer; against Thomas Mercer, late writer in Edinburgh, John Wood, Esquire, lately residing at King's-Cramond, now in Edinburgh, Thomas Sivewright, Esquire, of South-house, and others.
Newlands, John.Date: 1791]- Books
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Anno vicesimo septimo Georgii II. regis. An act for making perpetual several laws for punishment of persons destroying turnpikes, locks, or other works erected by authority of parliament; ... and to impower a certain number of the Trustees of the British Museum to do certain acts; ...
Great Britain.Date: 1754?]- Books
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Captain John Stewart, otherwise Colterane, - appellant. William Graham, merchant in Edinburgh, trustee for Mrs. Agnes Stewart, wife of John Hathorn, and others, - - - - - respondents. The respondent's case.
Graham, William, merchant.Date: 1744]- 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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Pet. - David Thomson, against Inner-house interlocutor. Party, agent. P. clerk. Unto the Right Honourable the Lords of Council and Session, the petition of David Thomson writer to the Signet, factor for William Keith accountant in Edinburgh, trustee for the creditors of the deceased John Syme writer to the Signet; ...
Thomson, David, 1763 or 1764-1837.Date: 1800]- Books
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Colonel James Lockhart, otherwise Ross, - - appellant. Alexander Ross of Pitcalny, Esq; and his trustee David Ross writer in Edinburgh, - respondents. The respondents case.
Ross, Alexander, -1787.Date: 1757]- Books
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The nature and excellency of the duty of alms-giving. A sermon preach'd at the parish church of St. Gile's in the Fields. Sunday, Nov. 17. 1706. on behalf of the charity-schools settled in that Parish; consisting of Eighty Five Boys, and One Hundred Girls. By Sir William Dawes, Baronet, D.D. and Chaplain in Ordinary to Her Majesty. Publish'd at the request of the Trustees, for the said Charity-Schools, and others of the Hearers.
Dawes, William, Sir, 1671-1724.Date: 1707- Books
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An act for vesting Montagu-House in trustees and their Heirs, freed and discharged from all the Estates, Uses, and Agreements, to which at present it stands limited and appointed, upon Trust, to convey the same to the Trustees of the British Museum, for a Repository; and upon such other Trusts as therein are mentioned.
Great Britain. Parliament.Date: 1755]- Books
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Ans. - Syme's creditors, to the pet. - Sir James G. Baird. D. Thomson, W.S. agent. P. clerk. Answers for David Thomson, writer to the Signet, factor appointed by William Keith, accountant in Edinburgh, trustee for the representatives and creditors of the deceased John Syme, writer to the Signet; to the petition of Sir James Gardner Baird of Saughtonhall, baronet.
Thomson, David, 1763 or 1764-1837.Date: 1796]- Books
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Pet. - W. Currie & trustee, against Lord Justice Clerk's interlocutor. J. Scott, W.S. agent. Mr Home, clerk. Unto the Right Honourable the Lords of Council and Session, the petition of William Currie, merchant in Glasgow, and John Tait, writer in Edinburgh, his trustee; ...
Currie, William, merchant in Glasgow.Date: 1792]- Books
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Ans. - Trustees of Andrew Robertson, to pet. - Harry Robertson. A. Youngson, W.S. agent. M. clerk. Answers for Mrs Ramsay Miller, widow of the deceased Andrew Robertson merchant in Glasgow; William Robertson, John Robertson, and Alexander Campbell, junior, merchants in Glasgow, and the Reverend Doctor George Robertson minister of Campbeltoun, acting trustees of the said deceased Andrew Robertson, under a trust-disposition and settlement, dated 8th May 1795; and for Walter Ewing MʻLae of Cathkin, Esq; to the petition of Harry Robertson merchant in Glasgow.
Miller, Ramsay, Mrs.Date: 1798]- Books
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Duplies - David Steuart; to the rep. - James Marshall. John Peat, agent. S. clerk. Duplies for David Steuart, Esq. trustee on the sequestrated estate of James Stein; to the replies for James Marshall, writer to the Signet, a creditor on that estate.
Steuart, David, 1747-1824.Date: 1794]- Books
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Charles Jameson, gentleman, - - - - appellant. Sir Thomas George Skipwith, Bart. and Edward Gibbon, Esq; Executors and Trustees named in the Will of Godfrey Bagnall Clarke, Esq; deceased; Gilbert Clarke, Esq; a Lunatic, Brother, Heir at Law and Devisee of the said Godfrey Bagnall Clarke; Samuel Pole, Esq; Committee of the Estate of the said Gilbert Clarke; Jarvis Cross, an Annuitant under the Will of the said Godfrey Bagnall Clarke; Sarah Clarke, Spinster; Clement Kinnersley and Wenman Samwell, Esqrs; Devisees named in the Will of the said Godfrey Bagnall Clarke, - - - - - - - Respondents. The case of the Respondents Gilbert Clarke, Esq; Lunatic, and Samuel Pole, Esq; his Committee.
Clarke, Gilbert.Date: 1780]- Books
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House of Lords. Appeal from a decretal order of the Court of Chancery in Ireland. Henry Pippard, Esquire, - - - - appellant. The Mayor, Sheriffs, Burgesses, and commons, of the town and county of the town of Drogheda, in the kingdom of Ireland, and Isaac Holroyde, Benjamin Woodward, and William Godley, the heirs of William Ellwood, deceased, formerly one of the trustees for the corporation, and the Survivor of the lessors in the original lease to the Appellant's father, - - - - - Respondents. The Appellant's case.
Pippard, Henry.Date: 1759]- Books
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Ans. - David Steuart, Esq; to the pet. - James Marshall. J. Peat, agent. Clerk. Answers for David Steuart, Esq; trustee on the sequestrated estate of James Stein, to the petition of James Marshall, writer to the Signet, a creditor on that estate to the extent of twent-yfour [sic] pounds sterling.
Steuart, David, 1747-1824.Date: 1794]- Books
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In the House of Lords. John M'dowall of Glasgow, Merchant, One of the Partnership under the Firm of John M'dowall and Company, and the Trustees of the Estates of James Brown, deceased, another of the said Partnership, - - Appellants. Mrs. Jane Ferguson, otherwise M'mikin, - Respondent. The Appellants' case.
McDowall, John.Date: 1783]- Books
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Ans. - Mr C. Lee Lewes, to pet. & comp. - R. Playfair. J Gibson, W.S. agent. Mr Sinclair, clerk. Answers for Mr Charles Lee Lewes, comedian; to the petition & complaint of Robert Playfair, designing himself trustee on the sequestrated estate of John Jackson, late of the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh.
Lewes, Charles Lee, 1740-1803.Date: 1793]