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Container Reference (shelfmark) Kings MS 1-446

61. Kings MS 75

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Kings MS 75
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TRANSCRIPTS of treaties relating to the supply of foreign auxiliaries for the service of Great Britain abroad; 1702-1755. The contents are:- 1. Convention of Great Britain and the States General of the United Provinces with [Frederick I,] Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel, for the supply of Hessian tro...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

62. Kings MS 76

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Kings MS 76
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TRANSCRIPT of the Barrier Treaty, between the Emperor [Charles VI], Great Britain, and the United Provinces; 15 Nov. 1715. French. Printed in Dumont's Corps Diplomatique, 1731, tom. viii, pt. i, p. 458. Paper; ff. 25. Folio. XVIII cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

63. Kings MS 77-79

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Kings MS 77-79
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ABRIDGEMENTS of parts of the 'Commentaries on the Law of England of William (afterwards Sir William) Blackstone, Vinerian Professor of Law at Oxford. Neatly transcribed, for the most part (all except the first half of 79) in one hand. Taken apparently from the first edition (1765), not from the lectures as delivered at Oxford.. Paper; ff. 23, 27, 50. Quarto. XVIII cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
3 items

64. Kings MS 80-97

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Kings MS 80-97
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'A COURSE OF LECTURES on the English Law', by Robert [afterwards Sir Robert] Chambers, Blackstone's successor as Vinerian Professor at Oxford (1762, Justice in Bengal 1774). Fifty-six lectures in four series, forming eighteen volumes. Copies. The Treatise on Estates and Tenures by the late Sir Robert Chambers, published by his nephew Sir C. H. Chambers in 1824, corresponds to contents of lectures iii-x, xiv, xix-xxi of pt. III, but is apparently taken from a MS. of another recension of the l...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1762-1774
Extent:
18 items

65. Kings MS 98

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Kings MS 98
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'A VINDICATION of Robert the 3d, King of Scotland, from the imputation of bastarday falsly aleadged by some historians', by [George Mackenzie, Viscount] Tarbat, [Earl of Cromartie 1703]; with (f. 2) an introductory signed letter,. addressed to the ' King and Queen', William III and Mary. The edi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1689-1694
Extent:
1 item

66. Kings MS 99

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Kings MS 99
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'MEMOIRE de ce qui c'est passé dans le pays d'Atholl de la derniere rebellion et les Loyalles deffences que sa Grandeur le Duc [John Murray, 1st Duke of Athole] a faites, pour le service du Gouvernement, en l'annéé 1715.' The author, who describes himself as having been five years in the Duke's ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

67. Kings MS 100-103

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Kings MS 100-103
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REPORTS of Maj.-Gen. George Wade to George I and George II on the Highlands of Scotland, the condition of the people, the measures taken for disarming, &c., 1724-1727.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
4 items

68. Kings MS 104

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Kings MS 104
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'THE HIGHLANDS of Scotland described, with some observations concerning the late Rebellion and Scotland in general. Also a scheme for civilizing the disaffected clans, and improving their country, In a letter from a Gentleman at Edinburgh to his Friend in London'; n. d. [the binding is lettered ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1748-1750
Extent:
1 item

69. Kings MS 105

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Kings MS 105
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'AN OECONOMICAL HISTORY of the Hebrides or Western Islands of Scotland', by John Walker, D.D., Professor of Natural History in the University of Edinburgh. According to the author's letter(f.3),which is unsigned and addressed to 'H.M. Commissioners at the Board of Annexed Estates', at whose desi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

70. Kings MS 106-107

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Kings MS 106-107
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'AN ACCOUNT OF IRELAND in 1773', by Sir George Macartney [Earl Macartney 1794], Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant 1769-1772. Two volumes. Printed privately, as 'by a late Chief Secretary', in 1773 (with additional tables), and partly reprinted (the sketch of the political history, vol. i, ff. 7-71) in Sir John Barrow's Life of the Earl of Macartney, 1807 (ii, P. 95). Paper; ff. 107, 67. Quarto. 9 1/2 in. x 7 1/2 in. Circ. A.D. 1773. Green vellum covers.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1773
Extent:
2 items