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Container Reference (shelfmark) Lansdowne MS 778

51. Lansdowne MS 778/51

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Lansdowne MS 778/51
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51. Notices a metrical Life of King Hen. V. by Elmham in the hands of Mr. Martin, which, he says, it would, be to no good purpose to publish, as the Life in prose is better and fuller.-The town of Fenney. Stratford displeased with B. Willis.-Remarks on Abbington or Abbendune.-A MS. work by Steph...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Dec 1727
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1 item

52. Lansdowne MS 778/52

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Lansdowne MS 778/52
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52. Thanks Mr. West for a transcript of Wanley's notes about Bury; many of the like nature drawn up by Sir Simonds Dewes.-A register of Bury Abbey in the hands of Dr. Cox Macro.-Mr. Bruce and his tutor Professor Ward. Jan. 12, 1727. fo. 70.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Jan 1727
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1 item

53. Lansdowne MS 778/53

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Lansdowne MS 778/53
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53. Sir Isaac Newton, though a great mathematician, an inferior historian and chronologer.-His chronology, in Hearne's opinion, done merely for diversion, &c. Jan. 13, 1727. fo. 72.
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Jan 1727
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1 item

54. Lansdowne MS 778/54

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Lansdowne MS 778/54
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54. He knows nothing of Palmer, the printer, who had undertaken a History of printing.-His ideas of the necessary qualifications of a person who should undertake such a work. Jan. 26, 1727. fo. 74.
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Jan 1727
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1 item

55. Lansdowne MS 778/55

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Lansdowne MS 778/55
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55. A printed advertisement of the publication of Thomas de Elmham, and a proposal for printing the Liber Niger Scaccarii. Jan. 29, 1727. fo. 76.
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Jan 1727
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1 item

56. Lansdowne MS 778/56

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Lansdowne MS 778/56
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56. Desires Mr. West to send him the inscription on the fine monument in the church of Saint Andrew of Scotland, where the brain of a certain Prince is interred whom he afterwards calls "that most horribly abused and most unjustly abdicated King." Jan. 31, 1727. fo. 77.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Jan 1727
Extent:
1 item

57. Lansdowne MS 778/57

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Lansdowne MS 778/57
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57. Thanks Mr. West for his trouble about the transcript of Rich. II. Life.-Calls William Prynne a writer of the lowest class, and a very mean author.- The Black book of the Exchequer will settle many things about the nobility wherein Dugdale himself mistakes.-That work and Will. of Worcester's ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Feb 1727
Extent:
1 item

58. Lansdowne MS 778/58

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Lansdowne MS 778/58
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58. Another printed advertisement about the publication of Thomas de Elmham, &c. fo. 80.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
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Unspecified
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1 item

59. Lansdowne MS 778/59

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Lansdowne MS 778/59
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59. He is glad to hear of the effigies of Bagford Enquiries after various materials for his Black-book of the Exchequer.-That Mr. Best is about to sell his books.-Hears that Mr. West is about to be "upon the circuit," and supposes that he is therefore become a barrister, of which he wishes him j...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Mar 1727
Extent:
1 item

60. Lansdowne MS 778/60

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Lansdowne MS 778/60
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60. Sends up fragments from a little book on the translations of the Scriptures, and wishes they may be of service to Mr. Granger.-He thinks the Black book not the same with the Red book, Sir W. Dugdale having quoted them as different.-Thinks the original of the Black book is quite lost, and mig...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Mar 1727
Extent:
1 item

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