United States Sanitary Commission, Extracts from a Narrative of Privations and Sufferings of United States Officers & Soldiers, etc [With four photographs], London: Alfred William Bennett, 1865
A charter in Latin and English from King Henry VIII of England, granting Sir Thomas Pope lands and property from dissolved religious houses, 3 June 1540. The great seal is appended: it is bronze-green, with a fair impression of Henry. It has been applied by cords of white and green floss-silk. ...
Admission of Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, afterwards 1st Earl Haig, as Honorary Freeman of the Borough of Kingston-upon-Thames; 1 Aug. 1919.
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English. Printed. Field-Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig: Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey: Admission of Lord Haig to the freedom of the Borough of Kingston-upon-Thames: 1919: Printed.
State papers, 1598-1745, transcribed by Thomas Birch
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Collection of state papers, 1598-1745, transcribed by Thomas Birch (1705-1766), compiler of histories and biographer. Vol. II. Including transcripts of letters in the hands Thomas Astle, Keeper of the Records, Tower of London (ff. 68r-77v), and transcripts of letters from the Hanover Papers (Sto...
English political and diplomatic papers, 1587-1689
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This is a miscellaneous collection of papers, including Elizabethan political and military matters; the parliamentary politics of the 1620s; and a number of early 17th-century diplomatic letters. There are probably some originals amongst the collection, but it is evidently mainly a collection of...
State papers of John Thurloe, Secretary of State, 1650-1658 (especially 1654-1655)
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The documents here formed part of the original collection of John Thurloe (d. 1668), Secretary to the Council of State and subsequently to the two Cromwells, Lord Protectors. They illuminate both the domestic and international politics of the period, as also the scope of Thurloe's intelligence s...
State papers of John Thurloe, Secretary of State, 1655-1657
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The documents here formed part of the original collection of John Thurloe (d. 1668), Secretary to the Council of State and subsequently to the two Cromwells, Lord Protectors. They illuminate both the domestic and international politics of the period, as also the scope of Thurloe's intelligence s...
State papers of John Thurloe, Secretary of State, 1657-1660
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The documents here formed part of the original collection of John Thurloe (d. 1668), Secretary to the Council of State and subsequently to the two Cromwells, Lord Protectors. They illuminate both the domestic and international politics of the period, as also the scope of Thurloe's intelligence s...