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181. Add MS 4370

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CLARKE AND DAILLON PAPERS Miscellaneous theological collection, the first part of which (ff. 1-48) consists of copies of correspondence of Samuel Clarke, D.D., of Caius College, Cambridge, and sometime Rector of St. James, Westminster (d. 1729); 1706-1728. The latter part (ff. 49-101) comprises...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
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1 item

182. Add MS 4226

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PIERRE BAYLE LETTERS Collection of original letters (with some copies) chiefly of Pierre Bayle, author of La Dictionnaire Historique et Critique, to various French, Dutch and Swiss literary persons, among them being Pierre Des Maizeaux, Abbé Claude Nicaise, Bernard de la Monnoye, Jean LeClerc, ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1670-c 1739
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1 item

183. Add MS 4478 B

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BIRCH MISCELLANEA. Miscellaneous papers, mainly copies of letters and other writings (in Birch's autograph with the exception of artt. 1-3, and 12), viz.:- (1) A preface in defence of Moses being the first to use alphabetical characters in writing; in a very shaky hand, attributed in the tabl...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
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1 item

184. Add MS 4295

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TOLAND PAPERS Collection of papers, letters, etc., relating to the life and writings of John Toland, deist (d. l722), consisting of agreements with publishers and printers, title-pages of his works, answers to critics, etc., with a few original letters addressed to him, and drafts of his own le...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item

185. Add MS 4193

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STATE PAPERS RELATING TO EUROPEAN AFFAIRS as affected in many cases by the Quadruple Alliance in 1718, with a few earlier documents; 1653-1730. The principal contents are as follows:- (1) Drafts, etc., of a treaty between George I as 'Electeur de Brunswick' and Frederick William, King of Prussi...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1653-1730
Extent:
1 item

186. Add MS 4205

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TRANSCRIPTS BY BIRCH of state letters and papers. The principal contents are:- (1) 'Memorabilia in the Earl of Strafford's letters', being brief notes of the contents of the two volumes of Letters of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, printed in 1740 by Dr. William Knowler from the origi...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
18th century
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1 item

187. Add MS 4244

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MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHICAL AND LITERARY MEMORANDA by Thomas Birch; 18th cent. Latin, French and English. Included are:-(a) notes and lists of learned women. ff. 21-24;- (b) abstract of observations by Philip Yorke on the State Paper Office; 1746. ff. 31-36;- (c) notes and lists of works of Cat...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

188. Add MS 4297

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MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS TRANSCRIBED CHIEFLY BY THOMAS BIRCH; 17th-18th centt. The names of the writers are to be found in the Index of the present Catalogue. Included are originals and copies of letters from (a) Elizabeth Carter, poetess, to Edward Cave, and others; 1739. ff. 49, 57-61;- (b) Dr. W...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item

189. Add MS 4460

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RALPH THORESBY TRANSCRIPTS Transcripts in the autograph of Ralph Thoresby, antiquary (d. 1725). Purchased at the sale of his museum, 7 March 1764, by Thomas Birch (see note in Birch's autograph on f. lb). For other Thoresby MSS. purchased by Birch see Add. MSS. 4212 ,4214, 4274-4277, 4385. Viz....
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1707
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1 item

190. Add MS 4455

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COMMONPLACE-BOOK OF JOHN BENNET, of Hart Hall, Oxford (see note on f. 3 'Sum e libris Johannis Bennet ex aula Cervina, Sept. 29, 1672, pret. 6 [d]'). The parts of the MS. left blank by Bennet were later used as a commonplace book by the Rev. John King (1652-1732), of Exeter College, Oxford, D.D....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1672-1725
Extent:
1 item