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261. Kings MS 428

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Kings MS 428
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PROCEEDINGS of the Court of Oyer and Terminer held at Edinburgh, 5 Sept. 1794, at the trial of David Downie for high treason; from the shorthand report taken by William Blanchard. The report ends with the delivery of the verdict. Printed, with the further proceedings on 6 Sept., in Howell's Stat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Sep 1794
Extent:
1 item

262. Kings MS 330-337

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Kings MS 330-337
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'RECUEIL de chansons choisies en vaudeviles pour seruir a l'Histoire Anecdote' [de France]; 1600-1749. To most of the songs the date and a brief explanation of the political allusions are given in the margin; and at the head of each (except in vol. viii, where the airs are placed together at the end) the music is added. An alphabetical index of the persons and places mentioned is appended to each volume. The same songs mostly appear also in Egerton MSS. 814-817, which are described in detail...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
8 items

263. Kings MS 319

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Kings MS 319
Title:
Librettos of two works described as 'Drama per Musica.', by Attilio Ariosti, and Nicolò Piccini.
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ff. 64. Librettos of two works described as 'Drama per Musica.' 1. 'Il Vespasiano.' [Words by N. Haym, music by Attilio Ariosti, 1724.] Characters: Vespasiano (Giuseppe Boschi), Tito (Senesino), Domiziano (Margarita Durastante), Arricida (Francesca Cuzzoni), Gesilla (Anastasia 'Rombinson,' sc....
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1724-1774
Extent:
1 volume (64 folios)

264. Kings MS 13

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Kings MS 13
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LETTER to Samuel Johnson, LL.D., on the subject of a future state; by John Taylor, LL.D., of Ashbourne, Prebendary of Westminster (d. 1788). Preceded (f. 1) by twelve lines of verse 'to the Reverend Dr. Taylor On his Letter to Dr. Johnson', by Brooke Boothby [6th Bart., 1789]; and followed (ff 3...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 18th century
Extent:
1 item

265. Kings MS 100-103

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Kings MS 100-103
Title:
REPORTS of Maj.-Gen. George Wade to George I and George II on the Highlands of Scotland, the condition of the people, the measures taken for disarming, &c., 1724-1727.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
4 items

266. Kings MS 230

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Kings MS 230
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'JOURNAL du siege de Bergen op Zoom' the siege, 11 July-16 Sept. 1747, transmitted (see another copy in Add. MS. 15884, f. 78 b) to the Dutch Council of War by General Prince Louis Frederic of Sachsen-Hildburghausen. The town was taken by the French under [Ulrik Frederik Woldemar,] Count Lowenda...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mid 18th century
Extent:
1 item

267. Kings MS 239

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Kings MS 239
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'PLANS OF EVOLUTIONS that are of some use for squadrons to practise and officers to know, either for three squadrons, a line of twenty, or more, most humbly offered to His Royal Highness the Duke [? William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, Captain-General 1745- 1757] and submitted to his superior j...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mid 18th century
Extent:
1 item

268. Kings MS 427

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Kings MS 427
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'SOME ACCOUNT of the Life of the late Colonel Hume Caldwell, Col. Commandant of a Regiment of Infantry, Knight of the Order of the Empress Queen [Maria Theresa] ... to which are added authenticated copies of some original papers relative to his family.' Col. Caldwell (b. 1735), third son of Sir ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

269. Kings MS 443

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Kings MS 443
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'THE MASSACRE AT PARIS with the Death of the Duke of Guise': a tragedy by Christopher Marlow, 'as it was plaide by the Right Honourable the Lord a High Admirall his servants' (1593). Copied from the ed. printed by E. A[llde] for E. White [? 1600]. The title-page and ff. 3-8 are perhaps in the ha...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

270. Kings MS 20

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Kings MS 20
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M. TULLIUS CICERO, Orationes Philippicae xiv; followed (f. 168 b) by 'Somnium Scipionis e VI [libro] De republica excerptum', which has the colophon (f. 175) in red 'Haud amplius comperi et utinam librum hunc perfectum haberemus'; and (f. 176) 'M. Cicero Octaviano', the spurious letter to Octavi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item