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Westminster Committee. King's Arms Tavern, March 20, 1780. Report of the Sub Committee, appointed to enquire into the state of the representation of this country. Sub Committee, Free Mason's Tavern, March 19, 1780. Resolved, that it appears to this subcommittee that new Parliaments to be holden once in every year were the antient usage, ...
Westminster Committee (London, England : City)Date: 1780]- Books
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Reliquiæ Bodleianæ: or some genuine remains of Sir Thomas Bodley. Containing his life, the first draught of the statutes of the Publick library at Oxford, (in English) and a collection of letters to Dr. James, &c. Published from the originals in the said library.
Bodley, Thomas, Sir, 1545-1613.Date: 1703- Books
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Thirteen sermons on several practical subjects. By John Havett, M.A. and chaplain to the Right Honourable the Lady Ann Francklin.
Havett, John, -1714.Date: MDCCIII. [1703]- Books
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The faithful bride of Granada. A play. As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal In Drury-Lane, By Her Majesty's Servants.
Taverner, Mr. (William), -1731.Date: 1704- Pictures
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A doctor examining a man's tongue in a country tavern. Etching by H. Smith, 1858.
Smith, H., active 1858.Date: 1858Reference: 12095i- Books
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The trade signs of Essex : a popular account of the origin and meanings of the public house & other signs now or formerly found in the county of Essex / by Miller Christy.
Christy, Miller, 1861-Date: 1887- Pictures
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Two men entertain the deaf and dumb in sign language at the Freemason's Tavern. Wood engraving.
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A political rally in a tavern in support of the revolutionary Thomas Paine who is depicted in a frame on the wall alongside a portrait of George III. Etching, ca. 1790.
Date: [1790?]Reference: 585558i- Books
The pub and the people : a worktown study / by Mass-Observation.
Mass-Observation (Firm)Date: 1943- Pictures
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Leamington Spa, Warwickshire: Clemens Street, Blenheim Hotel. Etching, 1822.
Date: 1822Reference: 20190i- Pictures
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Malvern Wells, Great Malvern, Worcestershire. Line engraving.
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A French tavern with men at a table in the open air drinking a toast to good health. Lithograph by F. Noël after L. Boilly, 1826.
Boilly, Louis, 1761-1845.Date: [1827]Reference: 26926i- Pictures
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A guitar player in a dingy tavern with a woman holding a song-sheet and a man with glass by his side. Lithograph after D. Teniers (?).
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Drinkers and mandolin players in a Roman inn, with landscape seen through an open archway. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1820.
Pinelli, Bartolomeo, 1781-1835.Date: 1820Reference: 26920i- Books
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Scarcity of bread. A plan for reducing the high price of this article, in a letter addressed by William Frend, to William Devaynes, Esq. Chairman of the Meeting at the London Tavern July 14, to consider of the present high price of Provisions.
Frend, William, 1757-1841.Date: [1795]- Books
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Drunken Barnaby's four journeys to the north of England. In Latin and English metre. Wittily and merrily (tho' an hundred years ago) compos'd; found among some old musty Books that had lain a long time by in a Corner, and now at last made publick. Together with Bessy Bell.
Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.Date: 1723- Books
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Letters of wit, politicks and morality. Written originally in Italian, by the famous Cardinal Bentivoglio; in Spanish by Signior Don Guevara; in Latin by St. Jerome, Cato Uticensts, Aurelian the Emperor, and Queen Zenobia; and in French by Father Rapin, &c. Also select letters of Gallantry out of the Greek, of Aristænetus; the Spanish of Don Quevedo; the Latin of Petronius; and the French of Count Bussy Rabutin, Madam Maintenon, Mr. Fontenelle, &c. Done into English, by the Honourable H- H- Esq; Tho. Cheek, Esq; Mr. Savage. Mr. Boyer, &c. To which is added a large collection of original letters of love and friendship. Written, by several gentlemen and ladies, particuly, the Honourable Mr. Granville, Tho. Cheek, Esq; Capt. Ayloffe; Dr. G- Mr. B-y; Mr. O-n, Mr. B-r, Mr. G-, Mr. F-r, Mrs. C--l, under the name of Astra; Mrs. W-n under the name of Daphne, &c.
Date: 1701- Pictures
Men sitting by a fireplace in an inn: they drink, smoke, play the bagpipe and make advances on women. Etching after J. Dassonville.
Dassonville, Jacques, approximately 1609-1670.Reference: 2846782i- Pictures
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A dingy tavern with backgammon players and an amorous couple observing a pregnant woman as she drinks. Mezzotint by J. Stolker after J. Steen.
Steen, Jan, 1626-1679.Reference: 26840i- Books
The English alehouse : a social history, 1200-1830 / Peter Clark.
Clark, Peter, 1944-Date: 1983- Books
The diary of Robert Hooke, 1672-1680 / transcribed from the original in the possession of the Corporation of the City of London (Guildhall Library) ; edited by Henry W. Robinson and Walter Adams ; with a foreword by Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins.
Hooke, Robert, 1635-1703.Date: 1968- Pictures
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People playing a game of skittles (bowling) in the garden of an inn, as others sit on the grass drinking, smoking and chatting. Engraving by E. de Ghendt after J. Steen.
Steen, Jan, 1626-1679.Date: 1790-1799Reference: 33171i- Books
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The gentlemans auditor: or a new and easie method for keeping accompts of gentlemens estates as well in relation to their layings-out, as comingsin: With the manner of Anditing and Stating the Accompts of their Cashiers, Stewards, Bailiffs, Rent-Gatherers, and other Servants, through whose Hands any part of their Estate does pass: And transposing them to a Ledger kept after the Italian manner; whereby may at any time be seen what they save or spend, get or lose to a Farthing. Being a Work very useful, both for Gentlemen themselves, and also their Secretaries, Bailiffs, Rent-Gatherers, &c. By T. R.
T. R. (Thomas Richards).Date: 1707- Pictures
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Partly ruined buildings in Ostia identified as a tavern or hot-food shop (thermopolium) from the 3rd century AD: a fresco depicting vegetables, wine and fruit, seen from the front; marble steps descend below. Photograph.
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Partly ruined buildings in Ostia identified as a tavern or hot-food shop (thermopolium) from the 3rd century AD: a fresco depicting vegetables, wine and fruit, seen from the front; marble steps descend below. Photograph after G.E. Chauffourier, 1928.
Chauffourier, Gustave Eugène, 1845-1919.Reference: 36931i