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Project / Collection Additional Manuscripts Name George II, King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1683-1760

1. Add MS 4289

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Vol. IX (ff. 368). W-Z, misc. includes: f. 1 Robert Whatley, Rector of Toft, county Lincolnshire: Letter to P. Desmaizeaux: 1744. f. 4 Woodrow: Letter to Dr. Fraser: 1726.: Copy. ff. 5, 7 Hugh Wrottesley, of Lincoln's Inn; son of Sir W Wrottesley: Letters to P. Desmaizeaux: 18th cent. f. 8 Edw...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1661-1744
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 4326 A

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Vol. I (ff. 184). (1) Revised drafts of portions of the Athenian letters having, in many cases, the initials of the revisers at the end of the letters (Nos. I-LXIII), published in 1741-1743. ff. 1-86. Followed by (a) 'Minutes of the Committee for revising' the same, the members present being '...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1741-1765
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 4326 B

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Vol. II (ff. 216). (1) Original letters addressed to Birch. The names of the writers are to be found in the Index of the present Catalogue. (2) Copies, in Birch's hand (with one exception) chiefly of state papers and letters, among them being (a) Extracts from the dispatches by Matthew Prior...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1712-1751
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 4444

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Vol. XIII (ff. 295). 1663-1765. includes: f. 1 Charles Mason, astronomer: Letter to Lord Macclesfield: 1762.f. 4 Joseph Jérôme Le Français de Lalande, French astronomer: Letter to J. Bevis: 1762.: Fr., with Engl. transl.f. 6 George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield: Letter to the Duke of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1663-1765
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 4456

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Vol. I (ff. 215). (1) Verses, etc., almost entirely by Birch, or addressed to him, some of them apparently written as exercises. They are:— (a) 'Jam tibi perfectum jactare, Britannia, carmen': a version (100 lines) of the Rev. John Nixon's poem on Sir R. Blackmore's Creation, 1712; 1725; follo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 4457

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Vol. II. (ff. 231). (1) 'Ere You Read this now You'll Suppose'; song (8 x 5 lines). f. 1. (2) Epitaph on Mrs. Mary Wynn, beg. 'Stay, reader, and with deep concern'. Two versions. ff. 2-3. (3) The Epilogue to Don Carlos, by T. Otway; 1676. f. 4. (4) 'These smiles bestow'd, these genrous H...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1595-18th century
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 4483

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Vol. V (ff. 130). includes: f. 113 County of Cornwall: List of livings in the gift of the crown: early 18th cent. ff. 118-120 Thomas Madox, d 1727 Historiographer Royal: Accompts for work by, for the Prince of Wales: 1716-1717. ff. 118-120 George II of England: Accounts for copying work done f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1716-1717
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 12099

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AUTOGRAPHS OF MODERN STATESMEN, etc., viz. : Letter from Robert Harley (afterwards Earl of Oxford) to [James Butler] Duke of Ormond, dat. Whitehall, 4 Sept. 1704; attached is a ticket of admission to the Earl's trial in 1717 ;-Letter from the same to the same, dat. Whitehall, 4 March, 170-6/7 ;-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1704-1806
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 14929

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MISCELLANEOUS Papers, Poems in Welsh and English, and Correspondence of Lewis Morris. Among them may be specified the following:- A system of sea and river shells, f. 1 b.;-Letters from David Lewis to L. Morris, relative to British literature and antiquities, 1745-6, ff. 6. 14;- Letters from...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Welsh
Date Range:
1618-1780
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 15599

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AUTOGRAPH COPY Of the message of the Duchess of Queensbury [Lady Catherine Hyde, second daughter of Henry, Earl of Clarendon, and wife of Charles, Third Duke of Queensbury], to the King [George II.], on being forbidden the Court; dat. 27 Feb. 1728/9. Quarto. Presented by a granddaughter of a sister of the Duchess of Queensbury. [ 15,599]
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George II of England: The Duchess of Queensberry's message to the King: 1728. Catherine Douglas, wife of Charles, 3rd Duke of Queensberry: Message to George II. on being forbidden the Court: 1729.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1782
Extent:
1 item