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51. Add MS 4453

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'SICELIDES: a Piscatorie made by Phinees Fletcher and acted in Kings Colledge in Cambridge'. Copy. This pastoral play was written at Cambridge in 1614 to be acted before James I on a visit there, but not being ready it was acted at King's College on a later occasion. It was printed in 1631. Pape...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
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1 item

52. Add MS 4240

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OLDYS MEMOIRS MEMOIRS relating to the family of Oldys, by William Oldys, Norroy King of Arms (d. 1761), including a pedigree of the family from 1366 (f. 14); n.d. Autograph. Paper; ff. 28. Small quarto. XVIII cent. William Oldys, Norroy King of Arms: Memoir of his family and pedigree: 18th cen...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
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1 item

53. Add MS 4264-4267

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CATHARINE COCKBURN PAPERS Collections by Thomas Birch of correspondence and essays, etc., of Catharine Cockburn, née Trotter, dramatist, etc; 1693-1751. Collected for his edition of The Works of Mrs Catharine Cockburn, Theological, Moral, Dramatic and Poetical, 2 vols., 1751, in which most of the articles below are printed in part or in whole. The names of writers of letters are to be found in the Index of the present Catalogue. Paper. Four volumes. Quarto and (Vol. IV) octavo.
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Catharine Cockburn, d 1749 née Trotter; dramatist and philosophical writer: Works and correspondence, 1693-1749, collected by T. Birch: 1751.
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1693-1751
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4 items

54. Add MS 4160-4164

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COLLECTION OF TRANSCRIPTS, chiefly in the handwriting of Birch, of State Papers and letters, from private and public libraries, together with a few original papers; 1425-1728. Five volumes. Quarto. The names of the writers of the original papers are to be found in the Index of the present Catalogue. Included among these papers are:-
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Thomas Birch, d 1766 DD, FRS: Transcripts and abstracts of MSS., etc., made for and by: 18th cent.: Partly autogr.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1425-1728
Extent:
5 items

55. Add MS 4245

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COMMONPLACE BOOKS, viz.:- (1) Commonplace book of Thomas Birch consisting of biographical notes, epitaphs, literary memoranda, etc.; circ. 1765. ff. 2-58. (2) Commonplace book of William Oldys, Norroy King of Arms (d. 1761), containing biographical notes, poetical and literary extracts, apot...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
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1 item

56. Add MS 4327-4332 C

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Sermons written and preached by Thomas Birch, at various places and times: 1732-1766. About 150 in number, they were mostly preached in the churches of St. Michael, Wood Street, or St. Margaret Pattens, of which he was successively Rector, or other city churches, or at Hampstead Chapel. The dates and places are generally noted on the flyleaves of the sermons. Eight volumes, arranged in order of texts as they occur in the Bible. Paper; ff. 215, 199, 220, 213, 203, 196, 201, 102. Quarto. 1732-...
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Sermons: T. Birch: sermons: 1732-1766. Thomas Birch, d 1766 DD, FRS: Sermons by: 1732-1766.: Autogr.
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1732-1766
Extent:
8 items

57. Add MS 4326 A-B

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS OF THOMAS BIRCH. Two volumes. Quarto and folio.
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Thomas Birch, d 1766 DD, FRS: Correspondence of: 1726-1766, n.d. includes: ff. 198-201 William Heberden, MD; FRS: Memoranda by T. Birch of conversations with: 1751.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
[1712-1765]
Extent:
2 items

58. Add MS 4132

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'AN HISTORICAL VIEW OF THE NEGOTIATIONS between the Court of England, France and Brussels from the year 1592 to 1617, Extracted chiefly from the MS. State Papers of Sr Thomas Edmondes, Knt., Embassador in France and at Brussels ... And of Anthony Bacon, Esq.', etc., by Birch, the original autogr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
before 1749
Extent:
1 item

59. Add MS 4248

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LISTS OF STATE PAPERS, etc., relating to affairs between England and Scotland, tempp. Henry VIII-James I, contained in various MSS. now in the British Library; 18th cent. (1) Lists of part of the contents of Harley MSS. 4644-4653; 18th cent. ff. 2-26. (2) Similar lists, in the hand of Patric...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

60. Add MS 4147

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LETTER-BOOK OF HENRY MONTAGU, Viscount Mandeville, afterwards (1626) Earl of Manchester, as Lord High Treasurer, consisting of copies of letters and warrants to farmers and collectors of customs at various ports; 16 Dec. 1620-4 Sept. 1621. Included also are (a) 'Fees and disbursements' on his c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1620-1635
Extent:
1 item