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Container Reference (shelfmark) Kings MS 1-446

41. Kings MS 48

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Kings MS 48
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'THE PRESENT STATE of Guernsey with a short accompt of Iersey and the Forts belonging to the said Islands, by Colnll George Legge [Baron Dartmouth, 1682], Lieutenant-General of His Maties; Ordnance', 1680, with elaborately-coloured title-page enclosing, at the head, the royal arms and, at the fo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1680-1681
Extent:
1 item

42. Kings MS 49

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Kings MS 49
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'CÆSARIA': a description of the bays and landingplaces of Jersey, Guernsey, and Sark, with coloured drawings and a map of Sark. Paper; ff. 14. 8 1/4 in. x 103/4 in. Late XVII cent. Bound in red morocco, tooled.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
1 item

43. Kings MS 50

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Kings MS 50
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'A DESCRIPTION of an ancient picture in Windsor Castle, representing the interview between King Henry VIII and Francis the First, King of France, together with a short account of the history and occasion of that extraordinary triumph. By Sir Joseph Ayloffe, Bart. Read at the Society of Antiquari...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1770
Extent:
1 item

44. Kings MS 51-52

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Kings MS 51-52
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ABRIDGEMENT of the Historical Collections of John Rushworth, 1618-1642 (i.e. to the end of pt. iii, vol. i of the original work). Two volumes. Vol. i, 1618-1632; vol. ii, 1633-1642. It does not seem to be connected with the printed work, Mr. Rushworth's Hist. Collections abridg'd and improv'd, 1703. In vol. 1 (f. 1) are transcribed in a formal minuscule hand some very poor verses beginning 'Cloe now absent from mine eyes'. Paper; ff. 163, 190. Quarto. 83/4in.x61/2 in. XVIIIcent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
2 items

45. Kings MS 53

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Kings MS 53
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'AN EFFECTUAL way of making of privat and vnexpected descents on the French King, by Capt. Anthony Stampe', being a project for surprising the ports of Dunkirk, Brest, and Toulon submitted, in form of a letter, to William III. As he alludes to the descent on Brest by 'the late Lt. Generall [Thom...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

46. Kings MS 54

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Kings MS 54
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'MANIFEST van Prince van Walles voor syn recht tot de croone van Engelant': a Dutch translation of the manifesto of James Francis Edward Stuart issued as James III of England at Plombières, 29 Aug. 1714 (see Add. MS. 35164). Paper; ff. 4. Octavo. 8 in. x 5 1/4 in. XVIII cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

47. Kings MS 55-59

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Kings MS 55-59
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PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS, being transcripts of naval instructions and correspondence, laid before the House of Lords by [Thomas Pelham-Holles], Duke of Newcastle, in March, 172 8/9.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
5 items

48. Kings MS 60

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Kings MS 60
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PLAN and proposed regulations for the establishment of a register and fellowship of seamen so as to secure a ' volunteer attention' in substitution for the pressgang, by John Green, preceded by a letter submitting the same to the King [George III]; n. d. (the date 1779 occurs in an example, f. 2...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 18th century
Extent:
1 item

49. Kings MS 61

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Kings MS 61
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KING's 6i 'REMARKS on the nature of treatment of British subjects prisoners of war in France', with especial reference to the prisoners landed at Brest 'after the defeat of the French Fleet in I794', addressed 'to the People of Great Britain and Ireland'. Followed (f. is) by remarks 'on the defe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
1 item

50. Kings MS 62-63

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Kings MS 62-63
Title:
ABSTRACT of the Census-returns for England and Wales, 1801, signed by John Rickman. Virtually identical with.the printed Abstract (ordered to be printed 21Dec.1801). Two volumes. Crimson morocco binding, tooled. Paper; ff. 395, 253. Folio. 18 1/2 in.x 13 1/2 in. A.D.1801.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1801
Extent:
2 items