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

351. Kings MS 308

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Kings MS 308
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'CATALOGUE of all the English Plays in Her Royal Highness' [Caroline, Princess of Wales] Library, 1722'; arranged alphabetically. Includes about 700 plays, with a list (f. 1 b) of the collections in which they are printed. No plays in MS. are mentioned. Paper ; ff. 18. Folio. 121/2 in. x 8 in. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

352. Kings MS 309

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Kings MS 309
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'CATALOGUE of [David] Garrick's plays', so described on the back: a list of about 1,300 plays, arranged in alphabetical order. The collection was bequeathed by Garrick to the British Museum, by will dat. 24 Sept. 1778. Paper; ff. 11. Quarto. 9 in. x 71/4 in. XVIII cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

353. Kings MS 310

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Kings MS 310
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'THE LAY-MANS LAMENTACION, vpon the civill death of ye late Laboure[r]s in ye Lords vineyard, carryed on by way of Diologue betwixt ye Proud Prelate and poore Professour' : a satire in verse, apparently referring (f. 5 b) to the Act of Uniformity of 1662. Beg. 'You muses nine, or rather spirits ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

354. Kings MS 311

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Kings MS 311
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SATIRICAL POEM ON James Stuart, the Pretender, with allusions to his marriage (1719) with the Princess Maria Clementina Sobieski. Beg. 'Bright sons of Bacchus, and Apollo'. In thirty-two eight-line stanzas, with explanatory notes in the margins. Imperfect, stanza 32 ending at the foot of f. 4 b,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

355. Kings MS 312

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Kings MS 312
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'HENRY AND EMMA, or the Nut-brown Maid', by Matthew Prior, written in blue and gold by H[enrietta] L[ouisa, wife of Thomas Fermor, Earl of] Pomfret (cr. 1721), for 'Her Royal Highness Princess Caroline' [Caroline Elizabeth, dau. of George II, b. 1713, d. 1757]. On the title-page are five lines b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1722-1732
Extent:
1 item

356. Kings MS 313

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Kings MS 313
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LATIN VERSES by Eton and Westminster scholars in honour of Queen Caroline, wife of George II, when in retirement at Richmond, in 1732, Viz. : (I) 'In literatum Carolinae rusticantis secessum sylvæ Etonenses', 1732. f. 1 ;-(2) 'Solitudo regia a Musis Westmonasteriensibus adumbrata', 1732; accompa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1732
Extent:
1 item

357. Kings MS 314

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Kings MS 314
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'FAME, a vision, humbly inscrib'd to the Queen': a poem in praise of Queen Caroline, wife of George II, when in retirement at Richmond. In rhymed heroic couplets, beg. 'Beneath a spreading shade at ease reclin'd'. Paper; ff. 6. Quarto. 85/8 in. x 73/8 in. A. D. 1732 (? cf. no. 313). On f. 1 b, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1732?
Extent:
1 item

358. Kings MS 315

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Kings MS 315
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'EXERCITIA Etonæ habita in solenni Scholarium Electione, quum interesse dignaretur, quâ est erga literatos omnes voluntate, Wilhelmus, maximæ spei Princeps, Cumberlandiæ Dux.' Latin and English pieces in prose and verse declaimed at an election of scholars at Eton in presence of William, Duke ot...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1734-1736
Extent:
1 item

359. Kings MS 316

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Kings MS 316
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'ODE ... on the Campaign, 1782, by Mr Copland', in three parts, each containing three stanzas, of unequal length. The principal events alluded to are Rodney'S defeat of the French fleet under Count de Grasse in the West Indies and the defence of Gibraltar by Gen. George Augustus Eliott. Paper ; ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1782
Extent:
1 item

360. Kings MS 317

Reference (shelfmark):
Kings MS 317
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George Frederick Handel: Three concertos for organ, HWV 290, 291 and 292.
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Paper; ff. 37. Quarto. 113/4 in. x 91/8. in. A.D. 1735. In score. Autograph, signed at the end 'G. F. H. March 25, 1735'. Published by Walsh in 1738 as numbers two to four of the Six concertos for organ, opus 4. ff. 1-10 Organ concerto opus 4 number 2, HWV 290 ff. 11-20 Organ concerto opus...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1735
Extent:
1 item