ACCOUNT Of the life of Colonel Hume Caldwell, son of Sir John Caldwell, Bart.; who was born in 1735, entered the Austrian service in 1750, and died from a wound at Schweidnitz on 19 Aug. 1762. Followed by copies of letters from Austrian officers and others, bearing testimony to his bravery; and ...
SURVEY of the estates forming the jointure of Mary, widow of Sir William Cobbe, Knt., in Babingley, Wolverton and Sandringham, co. Norfolk; taken 4 and 9 Mar. 8 James I. [1610/1] and 30 Dec. 9 James I. [1611] Latin. At the end are;- (a) Copy of "The booke of the taske of Wolferton," made 26 Au...
" ANE ACCOMPT Of What past betwixt the Lords of Justitiarie and Mr John Dick when his sentance was re-intimat to him the nixt day after he was apprehended, which was upon the 4 of March, [16]84." With an account of his execution on the following day in the Grass-market, Edinburgh, including a fu...
COLLECTIONS made by John Anstis, Garter King of Arms, for a history of the family of Granvill or Grenville, of co. Cornwall; consisting of extracts from charters and other records, and pedigrees of the family and of families allied with it. Paper; ff. 97. XVIIIth cent. Small Quarto. Grenville f...
EXTRACTS from Newspapers, 1643-1657, illustrating, from a Parliamentary point of view, the conduct and character of Sir Richard Grenville, royalist. The newspapers from which the extracts are taken are, A Perfect Diurnal, Mercurius Veridicus, Mercurius Britannicus, Perfect Occurrences, Perfect P...
CATALOGUE of ancient deeds, royal and autograph letters, and other MSS. formerly in the possession of Rev. George Harbin, Nonjuror [fl. 1713], and said (f. 1) to have been purchased at his sale in 1745. With others added (see f. 14). At the end (f. 31) are notes on a grant by Gilbert Tisun to Se...
DIARY of Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon, for the year 1688. Holograph. The earlier part is taken up chiefly with a law-suit brought against him by the Queen Dowager, to whom he had been Treasurer and Receiver-General from 1680 to 1685, arising out of the question of the allowances due to him ...
"A TRUE NARRATIVE of the Principal Transactions" between Lieut. William Lowfeild, R.N., and Elizabeth his wife which led the former to apply for a divorce; "On Board His Majs Ship Marlborough at Sea, Oct. 30th, 1761." Paper; ff. 28. Small Quarto. Lieutenant William Lowfield, RN: Narrative of hi...
LIFE of George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle; by his physician, Thomas Skynner, M.D. From the title-page (f. 3), and from the spaces left for the insertion of portraits (ff. 2 b, 73, 100, 105, 109), this seems to be a fair copy written out for the press ; but the work was not published until 1723...
SCHEDULE of goods and chattels (including pictures) of Hon. George Montagu, deceased, contained in Manchester House, Canons' Row, Westminster, and in Horton House, co. Northampton; attached to a deed of sale of the same by his executors to Edward Mountagu, his son and heir, the use for life bein...