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Paul Hentzner's travels in England, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, translated by Horace, late Earl of Orford, and first printed by him at Strawberry Hill: to which is now added, Sir Robert Naunton's Fragmenta regalia; Or, Observations on Queen Elizabeth's Times and Favourites; with portraits and views.
Hentzner, Paul, 1558-1623.Date: 1797- Books
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The Trials of Peter Declerk, a Dutch captain, for forging a 20l. Bank of England note. And Thomas Hunter, for a burglary in the House of Miss Elliott, in Queen Ann-Street east, tried and convicted in February sessions, 1798. Ordered for execution on Wednesday, May 9, opposite the Debtor's door, Newgate.
Date: 1798]- Pictures
Queen Mary II. Engraving by J.S. Müller, 1744, after Sir G. Kneller.
Kneller, Godfrey, Sir, 1646-1723.Date: 1744Reference: 2059556i- Pictures
Queen Anne of Great Britain. Engraving by J.S. Müller, 1745, after Sir G. Kneller.
Kneller, Godfrey, Sir, 1646-1723.Date: 1745Reference: 2143685i- Books
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Return to an order of the Honourable the House of Commons, dated 27 February 1893 ; - for, Return "showing the area and population according to the last census of every urban and rural sanitary district in England and Wales, and also showing as regards every such district and every port sanitary district in England and Wales, whether the Sanitary Authority had, on or before the 31st day of December 1892 made special provision for any accommodation of the nature of an islolation hospital (other than in connection with workhouses) for cases of infectious disease arising in their district, and, if so, giving the folliowing further particulars, &c."
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons.Date: 1895- Archives and manuscripts
Queen's Nursing Institute
Queen's Nursing InstituteDate: 1887-1997Reference: SA/QNI- Books
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Articles of union, agreed on the two and twentieth day of July, in the fifth year of the reign of Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Anne, by the Commissioners Nominated on the Behalf of the Kingdom of England, in Pursuance of an Act made in England, and the Commissioners Nominated on the Behalf of the Kingdom of Scotland, under Her Majesties Great Seal of Scotland, Pursuant to an Act made in Scotland. The act (made in the Parliament of Scotland) intituled, Act ratifying and approving the Treaty of Union Two Kingdoms of Scotland and England And also the minutes of the proceeding of the Commissioners of both Kingdoms, Delivered into the House of Peers by Her Majesties Command.
Great Britain. Lords Commissioners for the Union of the Kingdoms of England and Scotland.Date: 1706 [1707]- Pictures
Queen Elizabeth I and the Babington plot. Mezzotint by J.C. Bromley, 1830, after A.W. Devis.
Devis, Arthur William, 1762-1822.Date: March 1st. 1830Reference: 2969773i- Books
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A Copy of a letter wrote to a member of Parliament, after the proposals for reducing the publick debt were rejected at the last General Court of the Bank of England; Wherein is inserted, a copy of the preamble to the act of the 9th of Queen Anne, for reducing the interest of money from 6 to 5 per cent. Very proper to be consider'd by all landed gentlemen, merchants and traders, especially such as are members of the House of Commons.
Date: MDCCL. [1750]- Books
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An Account of the late dreadful earthquake and fire, which destroyed the city of Lisbon, the metropolis of Portugal. In a letter from a merchant resident there, to his friend in England.
Date: M,DCC,LVI. [1756]- Pictures
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40-41 Queen Square, London, immediately before demolition. Watercolour attributed to J. P. Emslie, 1882.
Emslie, John Philipps, 1839-1913.Date: 1882Reference: 38331i- Pictures
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John Dee performing an experiment before Queen Elizabeth I. Oil painting by Henry Gillard Glindoni.
Glindoni, Henry Gillard, 1852-1913.Date: 1800-1899Reference: 47369i- Books
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A catalogue of a choice and valuable collection of books, and curious tracts, chiefly relative to English history, many of them elegantly bound in Morocco, Russia, &c. among them are Chauncy's Herefordshire, Atkin's Gloucester, large paper, Thoroton's Nottingham, Bridges's Northamptonshire, Nash's Worcestershire, Sandford's Genealogical History, Tanner's Notitia Monastica, Chronicles by Fabian and Froissart, best Edition, D'anville's Atlas, Biographica Brittannica, by Dr. Kippis, &c. Memoirs of Queen Elizabeth, illustrated with curious Portraits, Memoirs de Grammont, Lord Orford's Works, large paper, Strutt's Antiquities of England, Archalogia, Vetusta Monumenta, published by the Antiquarian Society. - The Tracts consist chiefly of the Time of Charles I. and the Common-Wealth; many of them with uncommon Wood-Cuts and Portraits, Which will be Sold by Auction, By Mr. Richardson, At his House, No. 31, the Corner of Villier-Street, in the Strand, On Wednesday, January 22, 1800, And the Six following Days, at 12 o'clock.
Richardson, William, active 1778-1815.Date: 1800]- Books
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An answer to the queries, contained in A letter to Dr. Shebbeare, printed in the Public Ledger, August 10. Together with animadversions on two speeches in defence of the printers of a paper, subscribed a South Briton. The first pronounced by The Right Hon. Thomas Townshend, in the House of Commons, And printed in the London Packet of February 18. The second by The Right Learned Counsellor Lee, in Guildhall, And printed in the Public Ledger of August 12. In the Examination of which a Comparison naturally arises between the public and private Virtues of Their Present Majesties, and those of King William and Queen Mary. The Merits, also, of Roman Catholics, and of Dissenters from the Church of England, respecting Allegiance and Liberty, and their Claims to National Protection, are fairly stated, from their past and present Transactions. By J. Shebbeare, M. D.
Shebbeare, John, 1709-1788.Date: [1775]- Books
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The secret history of Europe. Part IV. and last. Containing, I. An Account of the Correspondence between the Jacobites in England, and those at St. Germains. II. A Conspiracy of the Tories after the Death of Queen Mary, to set aside King William. With a farther Detection of the Lancashire Assassination and Invasion Plots. III. Sir John Fenwick's Tryal and Attainder, with the Debates in the House of Lords, and his Confession to a Minister of State. Taken from an Original Manuscript. IV. A Discovery of the Bribery and Corruption of the Tory Managers in the Reign of King William. V. The Bishops Declaration against Passive-Obedience and Non-Resistance, with Remarks by one of that Reverend Order. VI. An Appendix, Containing the Debates in Parliament in the Case of the Earl of Clarendon's Impeachment, and the Proceedings against him after his Flight.
Oldmixon, Mr. (John), 1673-1742.Date: 1724- Books
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An answer to the queries, contained in A letter to Dr. Shebbeare, printed in the Public Ledger, August 10. Together with animadversions on two speeches in defence of the printers of a paper, subscribed a South Briton. The First pronounced by The Right Hon. Thomas Townshend, in the House of Commons, And printed in the London Packet of February 18. The Second by The Right Learned Counsellor Lee, in Guildhall, And printed in the Public Ledger of August 12. In the Examination of which a Comparison naturally arises between the public and private Virtues of Their Present Majesties, and those of King William and Queen Mary. The Merits, also, of Roman Catholics, and of Dissenters from the Church of England, respecting Allegiance and Liberty, and their Claims to National Protection, are fairly stated, from their past and present Transactions. By J. Shebbeare, M. D.
Shebbeare, John, 1709-1788.Date: [1775]- Books
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The life of His Serene Highness Charles, Prince of Lorrain, Field-Marshal and Commander in Chief of Her Hungarian Majesty's forces. Including, The History of the Illustrious House of Lorrain, with a short Account of the Princes thereof, from Charles the Bold, to His Most August Highness Francis, Grand Duke of Tuscany, now Emperor of Germany, and the Birth of Prince Charles in the Year 1712: Likewise, An Authentic Relation of the Affairs of Germany, Prussia, France, Spain, England, Holland, &c. so far as they have interfered with the Pragmatic Sanction, the Succession of the Queen of Hungary, and the controverted Election of an Emperor. With a Complete Narrative of all the Battles, Sieges, &c. from the Commencement of the War to this Time; exhibiting in a clear View the Rise of the Present Troubles, and the persidious Schemes of the French Court to establish Universal Monarchy upon the Ruins of the Germanic Body, and the Liberties of all Europe.
Date: MDCCXLVI. [1746]- Archives and manuscripts
Later administration and monitoring of UK district nursing
Date: 1927-1996Reference: SA/QNI/TPart of: Queen's Nursing Institute- Books
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Dr Sacheverel's speech upon his impeachment at the bar of the House of Lords, in Westminster-Hall, March 7. 1709/10. With reflections thereupon, paragraph by paragraph. Wherein the charge of the Commons against him is fully justify'd, from his Sermons at St. Paul's, Nov. 5. 1709. and at Derby, Aug. 15. 1709. from his Fast-Sermon before the University of Oxford, June 10. 1702. His Political Union printed there the same Month: His Assize-Sermon preach'd before that University, the Judges, and Grand Jury, March 9, 1703/4 His Character of a Low Churchman, and his Rights of the Church of England. To which are added, Her present Majesty's letter when princess, to the Queen; Prince George's and the Lord Churchil's (now Duke of Marlborough). Letters to K. James; together with the Declaration of the Nobility and Gentry at Nottingham, with whom her present Majesty join'd.
Date: M.DCC.X. [1710]- Books
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The arraignment, tryal, and condemnation, of Capt. John Quelch, And Others of his Company, &c. for sundry piracies, robberies, and murder, committed upon the Subjects of the King of Portugal, Her Majesty's Allie, on the coast of Brasil, &c. who Upon full Evidence, were found guilty, at the Court-House in Boston, on the thirteenth of June, 1704. By Virtue of a Commission, grounded upon the Act of the Eleventh and Twelfth Years of King William, For the more effectual Suppression of Piracy. With the Arguments of the Queen's Council; and Council for the Prisoners upon the said Act. Perused By his Excellency Joseph Dudley, Esq; Captain-General and Commander in Chief in and over Her Majesty's Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, in New-England, in America, &c. To which are also added, some papers that were produc'd at the tryal above said. With An Account of the Ages of the several Prisoners, and the Places where they were Born.
Quelch, John, approximately 1665-1704.Date: 1705 [1704]- Books
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A Brief history of the poor palatine refugees, lately arrived in England. Containing I. A full answer to all objections made against receiving them; and plain and convincing proofs, that the accession of foreigners is a manifest advantage to Great Britain, and no detriment to any of Her Majesty's native subjects. II. A relation of their dep'orable condition; and how they came to be reduced to such extremities. III. A description of the country from whence they came. IV. An account of their numbers. V. By What methods they have been subsisted. VI. How they may be disposed of, to the honour and service of the Queen's Majesty, the glory and profit of this kingdom, and the advantage of themselves and posterities. And VII. An exact list of the names of the commissioners and trustees appointed by Her Majesty, for receiving and disposing of the money to be collected for the subsistance and settlement of the said palatines. In a letter to a friend in the country.
Date: 1709- Pictures
Victor Albert Francis Charles Spencer, Viscount Churchill. Colour lithograph by L. Ward (Spy), 1904.
Ward, Leslie, Sir, 1851-1922.Date: Jan.y 21st 1904Reference: 824010iPart of: Vanity fair (London, England : 1868)- Books
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The history of Charles the Vth Emperor and King of Spain, the Great Hero of the House of Austria: containing The most Remarkable Occurrences that happen'd in the World for the space of 56 Years, all Nations being in a greater or less measure engag'd in the Contests and Confusions of those Times; and giving an Account I. How the House of Austria first came to the Crown of Spain, and whence the present Contests between the Emperor and King of France had their original. II. Of the Rebellion of the Commons of Spain, and the true Causes and Success of it. III. Of the Wars with France, and taking that King Prisoner. IV. Of the Sacking of Rome. V. Of the Reformation, and Wars which ensu'd on that account. VI. Of the Revolutions and Troubles in Denmark and Sweden, on account of Religion. VII. Of the Affairs of England, and Marriage of King Philip and Mary Queen of England. VIII. Of the Wars with the Turks. IX. Of the taking of Tunis, and other Places on the Coast of Africk, with the unfortunate Expedition of [Algiers] X. Of the Conquest of the vast Kingdoms of Peru, and Mexico, in America. And Lastly, Of the most Heroick Action of that Emperor's Life, his voluntary resigning up all his vast Dominions, and retiring to a Monastery. Written in Spanish by D. F. Prudencio de Sandoval, Bishop of Pamplona, and Historiographer to King Philip III. of Spain; made English By Capt. John Stevens.
Sandoval, Prudencio de, approximately 1560-1620.Date: MDCCIII. [1703]- Books
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An answer to the queries, contained in a letter to Dr. Shebbeare, printed in the Public Ledger, August 10. Together with animadversions on two speeches in defence of the printers of a paper, subscribed a South Briton. The first pronounced by the Right Hon. Thomas Townshend, in the House of Commons, And printed in the London Packet of February 18. The second by the Right Learned Counsellor Lee, in Guildhall, And printed in the Public Ledgere of August 12. In the Examination of which a Comparison naturally arises between the public and private Virtues of Their Present Majesties, and those of King William and Queen Mary. The Merits, also, of Roman Catholics, and of Dissenters from the Church of England, respecting Allegiance and Liberty, and their Claims to National Protection, are fairly stated, from their past and present Transactions. By J. Shebbeare, M. D.
Shebbeare, John, 1709-1788.Date: MDCCLXXV. [1775]- Books
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Old stories, which were the fore-runners of the revolution in eighty-eight, reviv'd, viz. I. A dialogue between F. Peters, and Dr. Busby. II. The Hollanders story of the penal laws and test. III. William Penn holding forth among the Quakers. IV. Several stories about the birth of the pretender. V. Queries about the invitation. VI. The French were to re-establish popery here. VII. The bishops feign'd service to King James. VIII. The Scotch woman's coming to St. Margarets Westminster. IX. K. James his sending the broad seal to the French King. X. The queen's sending away the crown jewels. XI. The Londoners loyalty. XII. The story of Captain Tom. XIII. That of St. Mary Magdalen's. XIV. Of the Marquess of Albevile, and Lord Sunderland. XV. Queen Dowager's great colour XVI. About the Lord Sunderland turning papist. XVII. That of the Banquetting House. XVIII. That of cauldrons, grid irons, knives, &c. XIX. That the P. of O. had muster'd 20000 men at Exeter. XX. Another of the Lord Lovelace XXI. That the King had sent the Lord Dartmouth with our fleet to France. XXII. That 40000 French and Irish were coming to England. XXIII. That Admiral Herbert has taken three millions of mon... of the French King. XXIV. That Queen Mary did give the Princess Ann a box on th[e] ear, which caus'd her to miscarry. With 500 more stories of the like tendency. To which is added in a post script. The truest account that ever was yet, publish'd of the pretended lrish Massacre, which went through England and Scotland in one night. With a discovery of the manager of that and another intrigue, never before made publick.
Date: [1720?]