BLENHEIM PAPERS. Vol. DCII C (ff. 23).'A Dialogue between A. and B. Two Oxford-Scholars', a political pamphlet; circ. 1716-March 1718. Quarto. Political Tracts: 'A Dialogue between... Two Oxford Scholars': circ. 1716-1718.: Copy.
BLENHEIM PAPERS. Vol. DCIII (ff. ii+42). 'Methodus Medendi à celeberrimo Doctore Branthwait [John Branthwait, M.D., F.R.C.P.; d. 1716] in Praxi suâ usitata. . .', a series of medical receipts arranged by diseases, partly written (ff. 42b-30) reversing the volume; bef. 1716. Latin. Autograph. Duo...
BLENHEIM PAPERS. Vol. DCIV (ff. 23). 'A Letter to the Freeholders Occasioned by The Loss of the Peerage-Bill'; aft. Dec. 1719. Draft, apparently in the same hand as Add. MS. 61702 C above, with some corrections in another hand. Quarto. Political Tracts: 'A Letter to the Free-holders', on loss o...
BLENHEIM PAPERS. Vol. DCV (ff. ii+44). 'The Criterion: or Certain Tests to judge of the Designs of Private Men in Censuring Publick Persons & Measures. With Remarks on The Character of an Independent Whig. . .'; aft. 1719. Draft, in the same hand as Add. MS. 61704, with a revised passage (f....
BLENHEIM PAPERS. Vol. DCVI (ff. i+88). 'Relation Secrette de la Cour Imperiale', by François Louis de Pesme, Seigneur de Saint- Saphorin, including (ff. 86-87) a contents table; 6 June 1721. French. Copy. See T. Gehling, Ein europäischer Diplomat am Kaiserhof zu Wien, Bonn, 1964, and H. Hantsch,...
BLENHEIM PAPERS. Vol. DCVII (ff. ii+77). 'Anti-Cato. Or the political Letters in the London Jounal Examin'd. . .'; aft. 6 May [1721?]. Fair copy, with some corrections, additions and deletions. Quarto. Bound to match Add. MS. 61705 above. Cato; pseudonym, i.e., Thomas Gordon and John Trenchard:...
BLENHEIM PAPERS. Vol. DCVIII (ff. 12+i). Memorandum book relating to the Sunderland (?) library; 18th cent. Copy by Rev. Vaughan Thomas, 19th cent. According to note on f. 1b, the original was 'in the handwriting of the Bishop of St Davids', apparently a reference to Nicholas Clagett, Bishop of ...
BLENHEIM PAPERS. Vol. DCIX (ff. 31). 'Dialogues between two Gentlemen French and Italian in London'; aft. 8 July 1779. Including (ff. 21-22b) an account of the death of the composer, Thomas Linley the younger, 5 Aug. 1778. ff. 23b-31 are in pencil, apparently in a different hand, but ff. 24-30 h...
BLENHEIM PAPERS. Vol. DCX A (ff. 22). List by Coxe of manuscripts found at Blenheim Palace in 1815, 'subsequent to the arrangement of the large collection' (f 2), and numbered by him in bundles, I-XIX; renumbered by Stuart J. Reid, circ. 1889 (f 18) as the 'G' section of the alphabetical classif...
BLENHEIM PAPERS. Vol. DCX B (ff. 91). Annotated wrappers, dockets, etc., mostly relating to Coxes arrangement of the Blenheim Papers, including a few earlier and later annotations; 18th-20th cent.