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141. Add MS 4472

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BIRCH'S LITERARY DIARY Literary diary of Thomas Birch, 1754-1764, including, besides notes of various books and anecdotes of persons, the following:- (a) Reference to the death of Elizabeth Foster, Milton's grand-daughter and last descendant, 1754. f. 3;- (b) Extracts from Lord Burghley's MS. d...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1754-1764
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1 item

142. Add MS 4462

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CONTRIBUTIONS to 'The Philosopher', etc. Viz:- (1) 'The Philosopher' (nos. 13. 17, 19-21, 31, 36), with corrections in Birch's autograph. ff. 1-44. They include (a) an article by Jean(?) Le Clerc vindicating John Selden from an attack made on him in Samuel Drake's edition, 1729, of Archbishop P...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
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1 item

143. Add MS 4179

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BIRCH'S 'INTRODUCTION', addressed 'To the Right Honble Philip [Yorke] Lord Viscount Royston', of the above 'Historical Letters' (cf. Add. MSS. 4176-4178), dated 29 Sept. 1760, in which he gives biographical notes of some of the principal writers. A note (f. 29) by Birch altering, in the above dr...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1760
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1 item

144. Add MS 4185

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'AN INQUIRY INTO THE SHARE WHICH KING CHARLES I had in the Transactions of [Edward Somerset] the Earl of Glamorgan for bringing over a Body of the Irish Rebels to assist that King in the years 1645 and 1646', with preface and Appendix, being the draft prepared for the press by Birch. It was prin...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
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1 item

145. Add MS 4466

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BOYLE AND CAREW PAPERS Writings by John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork and Orrery, and Sir George Carew, viz:- (1) Short writings by, and chiefly in the autograph of, John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork and Orrery (d. 1762), viz:-(a) An English translation of Cicero's Epistle to Lucceius. ff. 1-6;-(b) 'Tho...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
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1 item

146. Add MS 4214

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MISCELLANEOUS HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL TRACTS; 16th-18th centt. Viz.:- (1) On the government of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, beginning 'The government of the United provinces considered as one republick is called the Government of the Generality', with additional matter by another ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century-18th century
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1 item

147. Add MS 4374

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MISCELLANEOUS LAW PAPERS, as follows:- (1) The proceedings of the House of Lords upon the Bill of Attainder against Sir John Fenwick; 26 Nov. 1696-23 Jan. 1696/7. ff. 1-70. (2) Copies and translations from the originals 'in the hands of Viscount Weymouth. A.D. 1708' of two charters of Edmund...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
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1 item

148. Add MS 4383

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THESES ON LOGIC, and, on the back, a collection of scholastic exercises in prose and verse, to some of which the following names are attached: John Edsawe, Thomas Barker, Edward Burton, Thomas Sherley, Thomas ? Bristowe and Thomas Pollard. From Venn's Alumni Cantabrigienses it appears that these...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
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1 item

149. Add MS 4231

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BIRCH'S LIFE OF RALEGH 'The Life of Sir Walter Ralegh', by Thomas Birch, as prepared for the press; circ. 1751. Prefixed to his edition of the Works, etc., 1751. Autograph. At the beginning (ff. 1-16) are two revised proof-sheets of the Life (signatures 'a' and 'f'). Followed (f. 84) by supplem...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1751
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1 item

150. Add MS 4384

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SPECIMENS of handwriting, notes and tables of mnemonics, etc., as follows:- (1) 'A Coppie booke of the vsuall hands written: sett foorth by Richard Gething, Master in Writinge: ... Anno 1616'. Engraved. It formed the foundation of his Calligraphotechnia, 1652. ff. 3-29. (2) 'The Penmans daily...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item