LEEDS PAPERS. Vol. LXIII A, B. Papers relating to debts of Peregrine Hyde Osborne, 3rd Duke of Leeds (d. 1731), paid by his son, Thomas Osborne, 4th Duke of Leeds.
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Peregrine Hyde Osborne, Marquess of Carmarthen; 3rd Duke of Leeds 1729: Records of his debts: 1731-1741.
Vol. LXXIII (ff. 45). Library of George William Frederick Osborne, 6th Duke of Leeds, at Kiveton, arranged by format; 22 Dec. 1810. Marked no. '34' on the spine. George William Frederick Osborne, 6th Duke of Leeds d 1838: Catalogue of his library: 1810. Catalogues of Libraries, etc: Libraries ...
LEEDS PAPERS. Vol. LII (ff. 17). The Statutes of the Order of the Garter: presumably the copy written for the 1st Duke of Leeds on his installation as a knight on 19 Apr. 1677. The Statutes are in the form ordained by Henry VIII, as printed by E. Ashmole, The History of the Most Noble Order of t...
LEEDS PAPERS. Vol. XVI (ff. 209). Letters to the 1st Duke of Leeds from Louis Bérard, as tutor to his two grandsons, William Henry, Earl of Danby (d. 1711), and Peregrine Hyde Osborne (3rd Duke of Leeds 1729), during a stay on the Continent, chiefly in the Netherlands and Hanover; 1706-1711. Als...
LEEDS PAPERS. Vol. LIV (ff. iii+127). 'The Epitome of the Civill Warrs of England', by Thomas Hobbes, first printed in 1679. Contemporary copy, in three hands. Included are marginal notes and (ff. 126-127b) an index of subjects. Another copy is in Stowe MS. 77, ff. l-64. Both texts resemble the ...
Vol. LXXI (ff. 26). Library of the 1st Duke of Leeds at Wimbledon, arranged by classes, with a note in his hand, aft. 1705, on f. 1; 1 Oct. 1686. Catalogues of Libraries, etc: Libraries of Dukes of Leeds: 1686-1850.
LEEDS PAPERS. Vol. XLIX (ff. v + 168). 'Weights and Measures collected. . .' [by Colonel Thomas Colepeper]: notes and commonplaces, alphabetically arranged and including some inserted material, relating to weights, measures and other subjects, chiefly historical and legal, together with some per...
Vol. LXXV (ff. 9). Books of Francis Godolphin D'Arcy Osborne, 7th Duke of Leeds, at Hornby Castle, co. York; July 1850. Francis Godolphin D'Arcy Osborne, Marquess of Carmarthen; 7th Duke of Leeds 1838: List of his books: 1850. Catalogues of Libraries, etc: Libraries of Dukes of Leeds: 1686-1850.
LEEDS PAPERS. Vol. LXXVII (ff. i + 173). 'Germanicus: a Tragedy', in verse, by Thomas Cooke, translator of Hesiod; circ. 1731 (see the note by Francis, 5th Duke of Leeds, 1796, on f. i b). Autograph. On ff. 2-3 is a dedication addressed by the author to Thomas, 4th Duke of Leeds. The edition of ...
H. Copy of the petition to Charles II from the lst Duke of Leeds, supported by certain peers, putting his case for bail; 1682. At the foot are the signatures of nineteen peers. See Hist. MSS. Comm., vol. cit., p. 21, where the names of the peers are listed, and Browning, op. cit., i, p. 349, not...