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1. Kings MS 3-4

Reference (shelfmark):
Kings MS 3-4
Title:
BIBLE, in English, authorized version; written for George III 'by Alexr. Weir, student of Divinity, Edinburgh, 1797'. In two volumes: vol. i, Genesis-Job; vol. ii, Psalms-Revelation, with title-page, dated 1798, prefixed to the New Testament (f. 165). At the end (vol. ii, f. 303) are added tables of (a) kindred and affinity, (b) divisions of time, (c) offices and conditions of men, (d) weights and measures, (e) money. Paper; ff. 282, 304. 10 1/2 in. x 8 1/4 in. A.D. 1797, 1798. Double colum...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1797-1798
Extent:
2 items

2. Kings MS 33-35

Reference (shelfmark):
Kings MS 33-35
Title:
DICTATA celeberimi Arnoldi Drakenborgi in antiquitates Romanorum', being Latin lectures delivered at Utrecht in 1724 and 1725 on the Antiquilalum Romanarum brevis descriptio of Peter Burman, sen., whom Drakenborch had succeeded as Professor of History and Rhetoric at Utrecht University in 1716. Three volumes, each volume containing the 'Dictata' on one of the three several Parts of the 'Descriptio'. Mainly in the hand of Alexander Hume Campbell (1708-1770), afterwards Lord Clerk Register, fo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1724-1725
Extent:
3 items

3. Kings MS 36-39

Reference (shelfmark):
Kings MS 36-39
Title:
'DICTATA', or academical lectures in Latin on the 'Historiarum Epitome Horatii Tursellini' [Orazio Torsellini, d. 1599] comprised in ten books, and on the continuation of that work to the year 1650. Neither the name of the lecturer nor that of the University [Utrecht?] is given, but the lectures are introduced by a 'praefamen' on the general study of history, giving an account of 'Auctores necessarii ad Historiam Universalem', the last of those named being the Observationes of C. A. Rupertus...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1723
Extent:
4 items

4. Kings MS 51-52

Reference (shelfmark):
Kings MS 51-52
Title:
ABRIDGEMENT of the Historical Collections of John Rushworth, 1618-1642 (i.e. to the end of pt. iii, vol. i of the original work). Two volumes. Vol. i, 1618-1632; vol. ii, 1633-1642. It does not seem to be connected with the printed work, Mr. Rushworth's Hist. Collections abridg'd and improv'd, 1703. In vol. 1 (f. 1) are transcribed in a formal minuscule hand some very poor verses beginning 'Cloe now absent from mine eyes'. Paper; ff. 163, 190. Quarto. 83/4in.x61/2 in. XVIIIcent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
2 items

5. Kings MS 55-59

Reference (shelfmark):
Kings MS 55-59
Title:
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS, being transcripts of naval instructions and correspondence, laid before the House of Lords by [Thomas Pelham-Holles], Duke of Newcastle, in March, 172 8/9.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
5 items

6. Kings MS 62-63

Reference (shelfmark):
Kings MS 62-63
Title:
ABSTRACT of the Census-returns for England and Wales, 1801, signed by John Rickman. Virtually identical with.the printed Abstract (ordered to be printed 21Dec.1801). Two volumes. Crimson morocco binding, tooled. Paper; ff. 395, 253. Folio. 18 1/2 in.x 13 1/2 in. A.D.1801.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1801
Extent:
2 items

7. Kings MS 64-65

Reference (shelfmark):
Kings MS 64-65
Title:
PUBLIC REVENUE receipts and issues: 'particular states' for the years 1688-1710. Two volumes. There are many other copies, e. g. Add. MSS. 35902, 35903. Paper; ff. 41, 42. Quarto. 103/4 in.x8 in. Circ. A.D. 1710. Bookplates of arms of George III. Brown calf binding, tooled back, with monogram of George III, gilt edges.
Scope & Content:
Accounts: Receipts and issues of the Revenue: 1688-1715.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1710
Extent:
2 items

8. Kings MS 77-79

Reference (shelfmark):
Kings MS 77-79
Title:
ABRIDGEMENTS of parts of the 'Commentaries on the Law of England of William (afterwards Sir William) Blackstone, Vinerian Professor of Law at Oxford. Neatly transcribed, for the most part (all except the first half of 79) in one hand. Taken apparently from the first edition (1765), not from the lectures as delivered at Oxford.. Paper; ff. 23, 27, 50. Quarto. XVIII cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
3 items

9. Kings MS 80-97

Reference (shelfmark):
Kings MS 80-97
Title:
'A COURSE OF LECTURES on the English Law', by Robert [afterwards Sir Robert] Chambers, Blackstone's successor as Vinerian Professor at Oxford (1762, Justice in Bengal 1774). Fifty-six lectures in four series, forming eighteen volumes. Copies. The Treatise on Estates and Tenures by the late Sir Robert Chambers, published by his nephew Sir C. H. Chambers in 1824, corresponds to contents of lectures iii-x, xiv, xix-xxi of pt. III, but is apparently taken from a MS. of another recension of the l...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1762-1774
Extent:
18 items

10. Kings MS 100-103

Reference (shelfmark):
Kings MS 100-103
Title:
REPORTS of Maj.-Gen. George Wade to George I and George II on the Highlands of Scotland, the condition of the people, the measures taken for disarming, &c., 1724-1727.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
4 items

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