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King Charles II at a ball in The Hague on the evening before his return to England, 1660. Engraving by W. Greatbach after G.P. Harding after H. Janssens.
Janssens, Hieronymus, 1624-1693.Date: 1851Reference: 2044140i- Archives and manuscripts
Autograph note, signed, 7 February 1684/5, from Richard Colinge (secretary to the Lord Chamberlain) to Dr. Christian Harrell F.R.C.P., inviting him to the opening of the King's body
Date: 7 February 1685Reference: MS.7295/1Part of: Charles II of England (1630-1685): autopsy- Books
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Vain boastings of Frenchmen. The same in 1386 as in 1798. Being an account of the threatened invasion of England by the French the 10th year of King Richard II. Extracted from ancient chronicles.
Grafton, Richard, -1572?.Date: [1798]- Pictures
King Charles II receiving the first pineapple cultivated in England. Engraving by R. Grave after S. Harding after H. Danckerts.
Danckerts, Hendrick, approximately 1625-1680.Date: May 1, 1823Reference: 2042905i- Archives and manuscripts
Photocopies of pages from a calendar of Treasury payments, listing payments for embalming the King (1684/5)
Date: 1685Reference: MS.7295/3Part of: Charles II of England (1630-1685): autopsy- Archives and manuscripts
Charles II of England and Scotland
Date: c.1631-c.1684Reference: MS.8650- Books
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Three historical essays: Viz. I. Proves the title of the Kings of England to the crown of France; and vacates the law salique. II. Delineates the titles of the Houses of York, and Lancaster, to the crown of England: with the great mischiefs, and chief reasons of the alternate successes of those titles. III. Derives the title of King Henry The Seventh, with his pedigree and issue. The union of the two Houses in him; with the union of the two Kingdoms in King James: how far he proceeded therein to the farther uniting of them: and how far it was profecuted in King Charles The Second's time. Written some years since by Tho. Staveley, Esq;
Staveley, Thomas, 1626-1684.Date: 1703- Archives and manuscripts
Photocopies of warrants concerned with the King's death (1684/5) to various persons, including one to Sir Christopher Wren to prepare a coffin
Date: 1685Reference: MS.7295/2Part of: Charles II of England (1630-1685): autopsy- Books
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The englishman's right: a dialogue between a barrister at law and a juryman; plainly setting forth, I. The antiquity, II. The excellent designed use, III. The office and just privileges of juries, by the law of England. By Sir John Hawles, Knt. Sollicitor-General to the late King William.
Hawles, John, Sir, 1645-1716.Date: MDCCLXIV. [1764]- Books
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The history of England, during the reigns of the Royal House of Stuart. Wherein the errors of late histories are discover'd and corrected; With Proper Reflections, And several Original Letters from King Charles II. King James II. Oliver Cromwell, &c. As also the Lord Saville's Famous Forg'd Letter of Invitation, which brought the Scots into England in the Year 1640, And gave Occasion to the Beginning of the Civil Wars. This Letter being never before publish'd, led the Earl of Clarendon, Bishop Burnet, Mr. Echard, Dr. Welwood, and other Writers, into Egregious Mistakes upon this Head. To all which is Prefix'd, Some Account of the Liberties taken with Clarendon's History before it came to the Press, such Liberties as make it Doubtful, What Part of it is Clarendon's, and what Not. The whole Collected from the most Authentick Memoirs, Manuscript and Printed. By the author of the Critical history of England.
Oldmixon, Mr. (John), 1673-1742.Date: M.DCC.XXX. [1730]- Books
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The antient method of preaching; as delivered in a sermon, no less godly than learned, preach'd at St. Paul's Cross, in the reign of King Richard II. Anno 1389. By R. Wimbledon. Published from the original Mss. found in the Records of the Archbishop of Canterbury. Revised and corrected by a late eminent Preacher: And humbly inscribed to the Clergy of the Church of England.
Wimbledon, Thomas.Date: 1745- Books
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The history of England, as well ecclesiastical as civil. By Mr. De Rapin Thoyras. Vol. IV. Containing I. The history of the reigns of Edward I, Edward II, Edward III, and Richard II. II. A dissertation on the salick-law, and a true state of the controversy between Edward III, and Philip De Valois King of France. III. The state of the church from the year 1272 to 1399. Done into English from the French, with large and useful notes mark'd with an *, by N. Tindal, A.M. vicar of Great Waltham in Essex. Illustrated with maps, genealogical tables, and the heads of the Kings, and of Edward the Black Prince, curiously engrav'd on copper-plates, by Mr. Vertue.
Rapin de Thoyras, M. (Paul), 1661-1725.Date: 1730- Books
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The history of England, as well ecclesiastical as civil. By Mr. De Rapin Thoyras vol. IV. Containing I. The history of the reigns of Edward I, Edward II, Edward III, and Richard II. II. A dissertation on the salick-law, and a true state of the controversy between Edward III, and Philip De Valois King of France. III. The state of the church from the year 1272 to 1399. Done into English from the French, with large and useful notes mark'd with an *, by N. Tindal, A.M. vicar of Great Waltham in Essex. Illustrated with maps, genealogical tables, and the heads of the Kings, and of Edward the Black Prince curiously engraved on copper-plates, by Mr. Vertue.
Rapin de Thoyras, M. (Paul), 1661-1725.Date: 1731- Books
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The oeconomy of His Majesty's Navy-Office. Containing the several duties of the commissioners and principal officers thereof. Being the first rules establish'd for them by His Royal Highness the Duke of York, then Lord High Admiral of England and Ireland, under King Charles II, and continu'd in Force to this Day, with several Letters relating to the same, from His said Royal Highness, to the Navy Board. By an officer of the Navy.
Great Britain. Royal Navy.Date: 1717- Books
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The lord High Steward of England; or an historical dissertation on the origin, antiquity, and functions of that officer: Shewing the Difference between him and the King's Chief Justiciar, and the Steward of the King's Houshold, and explaining the Offices of the two latter: with Remarks on the antient and modern Modes of trying Peers; and an Epitome of some remarkable Tryals in the Reign of Richard II. never before digested and published: To which is added, a catalogue of the High Stewards of England, from the Conquest to the present Time, with the Names, Crimes, and Sentences of the Peers whom they tried. In this Dissertation The Account given by Lord Chief Justice Coke of the Office of High Steward is stated and confuted.
Russell, Sambrook Nicholas, active 18th century.Date: M.DCC.LXXVI. [1776]- Books
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The history of England, as well ecclesiastical as civil. By Mr. De Rapin Thoyras. Vol. IV. Containing I. The History of the Reigns of Edward I. Edwardii, Edward III, and Richard II. II. A Dissertation on the Salick-Law, and a true State of the Controversy between Edward III, and Philip de Valois King of France. III. The State of the Church from the Year 1272 to 1399. Done into English from the French, with large and useful notes mark'd with an *, by N. Tindal, A. M. Vicar of Great-Waltham in Essex. Illustrated with Maps, Genealogical Tables, and the Heads of the Kings, and of Edward the Black Prince, curiously engrav'd on Copper-Plates, by Mr. Vertue.
Rapin de Thoyras, M. (Paul), 1661-1725.Date: 1728- Books
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Bishop Parker's History: or, the tories chronicle, from the restauration of King Charles II. 1660, to the year 1680. In four parts, viz. I. A short View of Affairs at the King's Return; his great Clemency, in the Act of Oblivion, succeeded by continual Conspiracies. The Original of Venner's Heresy, alias, Fifth-Monarchy-Men Their Exploits. The Conduct and Character of Bishop Sheldon. The Act of Uniformity suspended. The Dutch War; Pestilence; and Fire of London. II. The English Fleet treacherously surprized by the Dutch, at the same time they were begging Peace. Characters of the Earls of Scuthampton, Shastesbury, &c. A Tripple. Alliance between England, Sweden and Holland against France. The Seven deadly Sins of the Whig-Faction. The Second Dutch War. The Duke of York's Bravery. Peace between France and Holland. III. Now Differences between the French and Hollanders. Dutch Insurrections. The two De Wits Massacred. Ruptures between the Turks, Muscovites and Hungarians. The surprizing Actions of Sobieski King of Poland. The Plague of Messina King Charles II. discourages all Foreign Rebellions. The great Mischiefs which befel Europe by breaking the Tripple-Alliance. IV. The Third Dutch War. Sectaries abuse the King's Liberty of Conscience. Animositles somented between, his Majesty and the Parliament. Earl of Clarendon Impeached. The Exchequer shut up. Fanaticks endeavour to set aside the Duke of York's Marriage. Warm Debates between the Lords and Commons. Peace again made with the Dutch, &c. Two Original Manuscripts of Sir Richard Granville; never before Published.
Parker, Samuel, 1640-1688.Date: Printed in the Year 1730. 1730- Books
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A general collection of treatys of peace and commerce, renunciations, manifestos, and other publick papers, from the Year 1642, to the End of the Reign of Queen Anne. Vol.III. Containing, Treaty betwixt King Charles I. and the Irish Roman Catholicks, 1646. English Parliament's Manifesto against the Dutch, 1652. Dutch Manifesto, in Answer to it. Their Placaert, forbidding Commerce with England, 1652. Treatys betwixt Oliver Cromwell and the Dutch, 1654. &c. His Treatys with Sweden, Portugal, Denmark, and France, 1654, &c. Richard Cromwell's Treaty with France. Treaty at Oliva betwixt Poland, Sweden, &c. 1660. Several Treatys betwixt K. Charles II. and Brandenburg, Sweden, and Denmark, 1661. Holland, and Spain, 1674, 1677, 1680. His Treatys with Algiers, Tripoli, and Tunis, 1662. His Treaty with the Duke of Courland relating to the Island of Tobago, 1664. His Treaty of Commerce with the Grand Seignior, 1675. His Treaty with some Indian Princes, 1677. Treaty betwixt King James II. and Holland, 1685. Treaty betwixt King William III. Holland, and Savoy, 1690. Treaty betwixt the Emperor, England, and Portugal, 1703. Treatys at Utrecht, betwixt Great Britain, France, and Spain; with several Renunciations; 1713. The Assiento Treaty for the Importation of Negroes by the South-Sea Company, 1713. With many others, to be seen in the Contents.
Date: M.DCC.XXXII. [1732]- Books
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A letter sent to Mr. James Shepheard, Whilst Prisoner in Newgate, Persuading him to repent of His Design to murder the King. Shewing, I. By a short Essay upon the Original Nature and Progress of Civil Government, That his Majesty's Title to the Monarchy of Britain, is agreeable to the very End of Government it self; to the Right of the Davidical Line in that Government, which was more immediately established by God Himself; to the Notions of the Primitive Christians in the first Christian Empire of the World; to the Constitution of Old England, and most Christian and other Polite Governments in the Universe. II. From the Instances of Saul and Ishbosheth, and from many other Texts of Scripture, That the Persons of Sovereign Princes are guarded by the express Laws of God, from the Insults of all private Persons whatever, whether their own Subjects or others. III. That the Oath of Allegiance taken to any former King or Queen of England, binds the Conscience of him that took it, to perform the Contents thereof to his present Majesty King George. By Capt. Richard Dunning, of Sampford-Courtney in Devon, Author of the Sentiments of the Western Tortes, publish'd at the Beginning of the late Rebellion.
Dunning, Richard, Capt.Date: [1718?]- Books
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The congratulations of several kings and princes of Europe to King James the II. on the Birth of the Prince of Wales, who was born on the 10th of June 1688. Collected out of the gazettes from the 10th of June to the 7th of November, 1688. As also a list of the Names of those worthy Persons of the two Universities, that writ the Congratulary Poems in Latin and English, on the Birth of the Prince of Wales, in the Year 1688. Together with a Collection of several material Passages in the Addresses presented to Richard Cromwel, formerly biled [sic] Protector of the Common-Wealth of England, taken out of the Diurnals of those times. 1658.
Date: printed in the year, 1701- Books
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A review of the history of England, as far as it relates to the titles and pretensions of our several Kings, and their respective characters from the conquest to the revolution. With an account of such of the transactions in each reign, as may tend to evince the justice, or partiality, of most historians in these particulars. Containing the form of deposing King Richard II. With the arguments then used for and against the deposing doctrine, and the proceedings in Parliament upon the Duke of York's claim to the crown against Henry VI. Taken from the original records. As also the steps whereby the revolution was effected, and the debates at large in the convention concerning the abdication and vacancy of the throne. By Mr. Salmon.
Salmon, Thomas, 1679-1767.Date: 1722- Books
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A collection of the state papers of John Thurloe, Esq; secretary, first, to the Council of State, and afterwards to the two Protectors, Oliver and Richard Cromwell. In seven volumes. containing authentic memorials of the English affairs from the year 1638, to the restoration of King Charles II. Published from the originals, formerly in the library of John Lord Somers, Lord High Chancellor of England; and since in that of Sir Joseph Jekyll, Knt. late Master of the Rolls. Including also a considerable number of original letters and papers, communicated by His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury from the library at Lambeth, the Right Honourable the Earl of Shelburn, and other hands. The whole digested into an exact order of time. To which is prefixed, the life of Mr. Thurloe: with a complete index to each volume. By Thomas Birch, M. A. F. R. S. ... Containing papers from the year MDCXXXVIII to MDCLIII.
Thurloe, John, 1616-1668.Date: MDCCXLII. [1742]- Books
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On gunshot wounds of the thorax : and the treatment pursued for them in the Crimea, contrasted with that which was followed in former campaigns / by George Lawson.
Lawson, George, 1831-1903.Date: [1858]- Books
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The tragedie of King Richard the Second : with new additions of the Parliament Sceane, and the deposing of King Richard. As it hath been lately acted by the Kings Maiesties seruantes, at the Globe. By William Shake-speare.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616Date: 1608- Books
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Historia vitæ et regni Ricardi II. Angliæ Regis, A Monacho quodam de Evesham consignata. Accesserunt, Praeter Alia, Joannis Rossi Historiola de comitibus warwicensibus; Joannis Berebloci Commentarii De rebus gestis Oxoniae, ibidem commorante Elizabetha Regina; Et D. Ricardi Wynni, Baronetti, Narratio Historica de Caroli, Walliae Principis, Famulorum in Hispaniam Itinere A. D. MDCXXIII. E Codicibus Mss. nunc primus edidit Tho. Hearnius.
Date: MDCCXXIX. [1729]