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212. Kings MS 212
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Kings MS 212
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- Scope & Content:
- JOURNAL of Lieut. Robert Orme, giving a history of the expedition under Maj.-Gen, Edward Braddock against the French at Fort Du Quesne, in Pennsylvania, in 1755, from the General's arrival at Hampton, in Virginia, 20 Feb., to his defeat on the R. Monongahela 9 July, and his death from wounds, 13...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 18th century
- Extent:
- 1 item
213. Kings MS 213
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Kings MS 213
- Title:
- JOURNAL of an officer [of the 66th Regiment] who travelled over a part of the West Indies and of North America in the course of 1764 and 1765.
- Scope & Content:
- Journal believed to be by Lord Adam Gordon, but not in his hand. The author briefly describes the people, manners, products, government, defences, &c., of the principal places which he visited on his route, which was to Madeira, Antigua, St. Christopher, Jamaica, northward through Yucatan Ch...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 18th century
- Extent:
- 1 item
214. Kings MS 214
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Kings MS 214
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
- 'A MEMOIR relative to the Island of Jamaica, shewing the nature and strength of the country, the situation of the retreats and military posts, together with the dispositions and general plan of defence established in 1782; by Major General Archibald Campbell, Governor and Commander in Chief' [K....
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1782
- Extent:
- 1 item
215. Kings MS 215
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Kings MS 215
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
- THREE TREATISES, in Spanish, relating to Mexico (see Gayangos, Cat. of MSS. in the Spanish Language in the Brit. Museum, 1875-1893, ii, p. 430), as follows:- 1. ' Relazion sumaria y puntual del tumulto y sedizion que hubo en M[exico] los 15 de Henero de 1624 y de las cosas mas notables que le p...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 item
216. Kings MS 216
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Kings MS 216
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
- 'BREVE Y SUMARIA relacion de los senores, manera y diferencias de ellos que havia en la Nueva Espana y otras provincias, sus comarcanas, y de sus leyes, usos y costumbres, y de la forma que tenian en les tributar sus vasallos en tiempo de su gentilidad', &c., by Alonso de Corita [Corita], de...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 18th century
- Extent:
- 1 item
217. Kings MS 217
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Kings MS 217
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
- 'DESCRIPCION y estado del Virreynato de Santa-Fee [Santa Fé de Bogotá, now Bogotá Nuevo Reyno de Granada, y relacion del govierno y mando del exmo senor Bailio Fr. Don Pedro Mesia de la Cerda, Marques de la Vega de Armijo', Viceroy of New Granada, by Dr. Don Francisco Antonio Moreno y Escandon, ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 18th century
- Extent:
- 1 item
218. Kings MS 218
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Kings MS 218
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
- 'RELACION de las Provincias que tiene el Govierno del Perù, los officios que en el se proveen, la hazienda que alli tiene su Magestad, lo que se gasta de ella y le queda libre y otras cosas. con el origen que ha tenido y el estado que al presente tienen', by Francisco Lopez de Caravantes, contad...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 18th century
- Extent:
- 1 item
219. Kings MS 219
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Kings MS 219
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
- COLLECTIONS on South American history (see Gayangos, ii, p. 468), viz.:- 1. 'Articulo xx de Inscripciones, Medallas, Edificios, Templos, Antiguedades y Monumentos' [del Peru] apparently an extract from José Eusebio Llanos y Zapata's Memorias Historico-Physicas, Critico-Apologeticas de la Ameri...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 18th century
- Extent:
- 1 item
220. Kings MS 220
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Kings MS 220
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
- 'COMPENDIO HISTORICO de Chile', from 1600, when Francisco Quinones was (sixteenth) Governor, to 1656, when Antonio de Acuña y Cabrera was (thirty-.third) Governor, being the latter part of Gerónimo de Quiroga's manuscript 'Compendio historico . . . de la Conquista y Guerras del Reyno de Chile' (...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 18th century
- Extent:
- 1 item