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1. Add Ch 26400

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Virginia: Assignments by J. Forward of his debts and tobacco trade in: 1719, 1747. Province of Maryland, N. America: Assignment by J. Forward of his debts in: 1719. John Goodwin, of London: Assignment to, by J. Forward, of trade debts in Virginia: 1719. Jonathan Forward, Tobacco merchant, of ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1719-1747
Extent:
1 item

2. Add Ch 26404

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Virginia: Assignments by J. Forward of his debts and tobacco trade in: 1719, 1747. Jonathan Sydenham: Assignment to, of tobacco business in Virginia: 1747. Thomas Hodgson: Assignment to, of a tobacco business in Virginia: 1747. Jonathan Forward, Tobacco merchant, of London: Assignments of deb...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1719-1747
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 4159

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State papers of John Thurloe, Secretary of State, 1652-1660, with other state papers, c. 1578-1629 and 1661-1692.
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Many of the documents here formed part of the original collection of John Thurloe (d. 1668), Secretary to the Council of State and subsequently to the two Cromwells, Lord Protectors. They illuminate both the domestic and international politics of the period, as also the scope of Thurloe's intell...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1578-1700
Extent:
1 volume

4. Add MS 4166

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Letters of John Thurloe. Secretary of State, to Henry Cromwell, Major-General of the Forces in Ireland, 1655-1657; other state papers and cipher-keys from the 1650s; letter of Anne Thurloe, widow of John Thurloe, 1668
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The bulk of this collection is made up of two main series. There are forty letters from John Thurloe, Secretary of State, to Henry Cromwell, Major-General of the Forces in Ireland, between June 1655 and July 1657. There are about thirty cipher-codes which were evidently in Thurloe's office ('abo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher and English
Date Range:
1655-1668
Extent:
1 volume

5. Add MS 4432

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ROYAL SOCIETY PAPERS. Vol. I. (ff. 392). (1) 'Dr [William] Croon's account of the weight of a Carp'; 1663. f. 1. (2) 'Remarks on the Journal of [Thomas] Batts and [Robert] Fallam, in their Discovery of the Western Parts of Virginia in 1671', by John Mitchell, M.D., F.R.S.; aft. 1755. The jour...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1663-1755
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 4437

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ROYAL SOCIETY PAPERS. Vol. VI (ff. 285). (1) François de Brémond, M.D., to Dr. C. Mortimer concerning a file rendered magnetical by lightning; Paris, 4 June 1740. English translation. Cf. Phil. Trans., xli, 614. ff. 1-2b. (2) 'Some Reflexions on Generation and on Monsters', by Daniel de Super...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1740-1742
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 15317

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Copy of the Proceedings in the General Court of the colony of Virginia, between John Hita and others, plaintiffs, and Thomas, Lord Fairfax, and others, defendants, relative to certain lands there, illustrated with plans and surveys; attested by Benjamin Waller, Clerk of the Court, and certified by John, Earl of Dunmore, Governor-General of the colony of Virginia, 1771 ; with various other papers relating to the same. Folio. [15,317.]
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Benjamin Waller, Clerk of the General Court in Virginia: Signature: 1771. Virginia: Proceedings relating to lands there: 1771. John Murray, Earl of Dunmore; Governor General of Virginia: Signature: 1771. John Hita: Suit with Lord Fairfax relative to lands in Virginia: 1771. Thomas Fairfax, 6...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1771
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 17018

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Vol. I.-Copies of documents and papers, with a few originals, relating to the Conferences at Nimeguen, the Popish Plot, etc., 1675-1685, in the following order:-Letters between Charles II. and various European Princes, Commissions of plein-pouvoir given by Louis XIV. to his Ambassadors, and Extr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1675-1728
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 18556

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VOL. VII. Notes relating to Blenheim, f. 1; Skipton Castle, f. 3; Jarrow Church, f. 4; Gateshead, co. Durham, f. 5; Waldershare, co. Kent, f. 6; Norfolk College, Greenwich, and Greenwich Hospital, f. 7 ; Brasted, Kent, f. 11; Virginia, f. 13; Ireland, f. 13 b; Harrow School, f. 22; High Wycombe,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century- Early 19th century
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 29975

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OFFICIAL and political papers:- 1. Extracts, with notes, from Acts relating to monastic lands and the Court of Augmentations; 26-37 Hen. VIII. f. 1. 2. ',The Queenes ... oration in the Parliament howse, Marcii, 1576." f. 3. 3. The justices of Dorset to the Cofferer of the Household, on the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
Extent:
1 item