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241. Kings MS 149

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Kings MS 149
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VENETIAN CHRONICLE, in Italian, to A. D. 1422, forming part i of the 'Annalia Veneta' of Pietro Delfino, son of Giorgio da S. Canziano. Imperfect at the end, wanting 16 leaves. Apparently holograph. The author has been confused by Sansovino (Venetia, 1581, f. 255 b), Possevini (Apparet. Sac., i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1487-1505
Extent:
1 item

242. Kings MS 165

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Kings MS 165
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Two SPANISH historical works (see Gayangos Cat. of MSS. in the Span. Language in the Bril. Museum, i, P. 219), viz. :- 1. 'Annales del Emperador Carlos V', by Francisco Lopez de Gomara (d. circ. 1560). Printed from a Madrid MS. collated with the present, with an English translation, by R. B. M...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

243. Kings MS 187

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Kings MS 187
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'LA FORME DU GOVERNEMENT etablie par sa Majeste et par les Etats du Royaume [de Suède], à Stockholm le 2 de May l'an 1720': a translation of the ratification in 1720 of the form of government established in the previous year by Ulrica Eleonora, Queen, and the States of Sweden, on her relinquishi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

244. Kings MS 64-65

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Kings MS 64-65
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PUBLIC REVENUE receipts and issues: 'particular states' for the years 1688-1710. Two volumes. There are many other copies, e. g. Add. MSS. 35902, 35903. Paper; ff. 41, 42. Quarto. 103/4 in.x8 in. Circ. A.D. 1710. Bookplates of arms of George III. Brown calf binding, tooled back, with monogram of George III, gilt edges.
Scope & Content:
Accounts: Receipts and issues of the Revenue: 1688-1715.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1710
Extent:
2 items

245. Kings MS 68

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Kings MS 68
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'AN ACCOUNT of Gold and Silver Monies coyned since the 20th day of July 1660', drawn up in 1751 by Anthony Pollett, Deputy-Comptroller of the Mint, for the Hon. Richard Arundell, Master, 'from the duplicates and attested copies of the Controllment Rolls and other books remayning in the Mint'. Ho...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1751
Extent:
1 item

246. Kings MS 154

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Kings MS 154
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Two copies of a treatise, in Italian, on the constitution of the Venetian Republic, composed towards the end of the 17th cent, and usually attributed to Count Francesco Udalrico della Torre, imperial ambassador to Venice, d. 1695 (see Daru, Hist. de Venise, vii, P. 58; Cigogna, Delle Inscr. Ven....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

247. Kings MS 194

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Kings MS 194
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'A Book containing upwards of 4000 miles of Roads in the Carnatick, with tables of the principal stages on the grand roads ... the bearings of places from many of the hills, forts and pagodas, and the latitudes and longitudes of ... cities and places in the Carnatick, by John Pringle, Captain of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1785
Extent:
1 item

248. Kings MS 228

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Kings MS 228
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'MEMOIRES sur le siege de Furnes [in West Flanders] par M. [Louis Francois de Boufflers,] le Marquis de Bouflers dans l'hyver de 1692 a 1693 ' : transcripts of documents relating chiefly to the recapture by the French, 6 Jan. 1693, of the town, which had been occupied by the English in Sept. pre...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

249. Kings MS 229

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Kings MS 229
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MARCHES faits par les armeés (sic) de sa Majesté de la Grande Brittagne, les campagnes de l'années (sic) 1696 et 1697': copy of the marching orders of the army under William III in Flanders, 18 June-6 Oct. 1696, and 28 May-2 Oct. 1697, the latest orders being for the break-up of the army after t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
1 item

250. Kings MS 269

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Kings MS 269
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'ACCOUNT of the measurement of the base on Hounslow Heath in 1784', by Major-Gen. William Roy, F. R. S. (see nos. 247, 248 above); with five coloured plans. Signed (f. 58 b) by the author, and dated 'June 16th, 1785'. It was read before the Royal Society, 21 Apr. - 16 June, and published in the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1785
Extent:
1 item