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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Kings MS 1-446 Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

221. Kings MS 189-190

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Kings MS 189-190
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'An Account of Russia, 1767', written by Sir George Macartney, Envoy Extraordinary to St. Petersburg [cr. Earl Macartney, 1794], as his official report on the historical, political, and economical state of the country (cf letter (f. i) from Joseph Planta, jun., Under Secretary of State, to [Frederick Augusta] Barnard [the King's Librarian], dated Foreign Office, i Nov. i82o); with an introduction addressed to Henry Seymour-Conway, Secretary of State, and numerous tables to illustrate the rep...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
2 items

222. Kings MS 190

Reference (shelfmark):
Kings MS 190
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Scope & Content:
Vol. II, ff. 128, XVIII cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

223. Kings MS 191

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Kings MS 191
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EIGHTEEN coloured drawings illustrating the costumes and manners of Russia, as follows : a Strelit soldier (f. 2), a Strelit officer (f. 3), a drummer (f. 4), a Strelit under-officer or Poltsotneck (f. 5), a travelling sledge (f. 6), a town sledge (f. 7), a peasant of Ukraine (f. 8), a Polack (f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

224. Kings MS 192

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Kings MS 192
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Scope & Content:
'OBSERVATIONS sur l'etat actuel de l'Empire Ottoman en résponse aux informations qui en ont été demandées d'ordre du Roy par [George Montagu-Dunk] le Comte de Halifax cy-devant principal Secretaire d'Etat, le 26 Mars 1765', being the official report by Henry Grenville, Ambassador to Turkey, on t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1766
Extent:
1 item

225. Kings MS 193

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Kings MS 193
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'DECADA PRIMEIRA de Antonio Bocarro, chronista de sua Magestade, do estado da India, dos feitos dos Portugezes no Oriente; dedicada a serenissima Magde de el Rey Phelliphe 40 das Espanhas, e terceiro de Portugal', being a continuation of the work of João de Barros (d. 1570) who wrote Decades i-i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
1 item

226. Kings MS 194

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Kings MS 194
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Scope & Content:
'A Book containing upwards of 4000 miles of Roads in the Carnatick, with tables of the principal stages on the grand roads ... the bearings of places from many of the hills, forts and pagodas, and the latitudes and longitudes of ... cities and places in the Carnatick, by John Pringle, Captain of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1785
Extent:
1 item

227. Kings MS 195

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Kings MS 195
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'An Account of the War in India, written by Captain John Caillaud [Brigadier-General, 1763, d. 1810] in a letter from Colonel Lawrence to Sir John Mordaunt from the beginning of the troubles in 1752 to the cessation of arms in 1754' : narrative, written by, or in the name of, Col. [aft. Maj.-Gen...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

228. Kings MS 196

Reference (shelfmark):
Kings MS 196
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Scope & Content:
AN Account of the Institution for Orphans and Foundlings established in Bengal by the Officers of the East India Company's Bengal Army, drawn up, in form of a letter to George III, by A[rchibald ?] Mitchell, Major of Engineers, E.I.C.S., late Lieut. R. Artillery; dated 4 Oct. 1786. Paper; ff. 6...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1786
Extent:
1 item

229. Kings MS 197

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Kings MS 197
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'VOCABULARY of [Persian and Hindoo] words mostly used in the collection of the Revenues of Bengal.' A note on f. 1 states that it was 'copied from an original of Major Grant's lent by Mr. Dempster, 7 Sept. 1772'. Paper; ff. 25. 73/4 in. x 51/2 in. A.D. 1772. Half-bound.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1772
Extent:
1 item

230. Kings MS 198

Reference (shelfmark):
Kings MS 198
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Scope & Content:
'AN ACCOUNT of the great Pagoda on the Island of Salset [Salsette], near Bombay in the East Indies'; with nine drawings in Indian ink, one of which (f. 1 b) was drawn by John Myngs. In the author's brief account of the island, &c. (f. 2 b), he states that the measurements, &c., were take...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item