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71. Add MS 4432-4448

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ROYAL SOCIETY PAPERS Collections relating to the Royal Society (incorporated in 1662) made by Thomas Birch while Secretary of the Society (1752-1765), consisting of letters, articles or communications sent for consideration, many of which were subsequently printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, draft minutes, etc. 1660-1765. Seventeen volumes. Paper. Folio. The chief contents are as follows:-
Scope & Content:
Royal Society: Papers rel. to: 1662-1765.: Engl., Lat., Fr. and Germ.: Partly printed.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, and Spanish
Date Range:
1660-1765
Extent:
17 items

72. Add MS 4468

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EXTRACTS FROM THE PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS OF FRANCIS BACON, as edited by Isaac Gruter, Francisci Baconi Scripta in naturali et universali philosophia . . ., Amsterdam, 1653. The title-page and pages 62-74 of the printed edition (containing Gruter's translation of Sir Thomas Bodley's letter (1607) to...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1653-1799
Extent:
1 item

73. Add MS 4298

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TRANSCRIPTS OF SLOANE CORRESPONDENCE TRANSCRIPTS in Thomas Birch's autograph of selected letters from the correspondence of Sir Hans Sloane (Sloane MSS. 4036-4069). Paper; ff. 150. Quarto. Circa 1750-1757. Sir Hans Sloane, Baronet: Collections of T. Birch rel. to his life: circ. 1753. Thomas ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1750-1757
Extent:
1 item

74. Add MS 4148

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DUDLEY CARLETON CORRESPONDENCE Transcripts of the official correspondence of Dudley Carleton, afterwards Viscount Dorchester, when Ambassador at The Hague, consisting chiefly of letters from him to George Calvert and Sir Edward Conway, Secretaries of State; 28 Dec. 1622-10 Sept. 1624. The volum...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item

75. Add MS 4217

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THE LADY CATHERINE WHETENALL JOURNAL 'The Voyage of the Lady Catherine Whetenall from Brussells into Italy in the holy yeare with the cheif accidents that hath happened therin written in Padua a little before her ladyship fell sick by other of her trayne'; 1650. Written at her request by Richar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1650
Extent:
1 item

76. Add MS 4250

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INDEX to Dr. Conyers Middleton's Free Inquiry into the Miraculous Powers ... in the Christian Church, 1749, made by Thomas Birch; 1748. The entries between 'cave' and 'jewell' are missing. Middleton refers to the index in a letter to Birch dated 15 Dec. 1748 (see Add. MS. 4314, f. 27). Paper; ff...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1748
Extent:
1 item

77. Add MS 4324 A-B

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BIRCH-YORKE LETTERS (Vols. I,II) Letters of Thomas Birch, many of them unaddressed, but some written to Philip Yorke, Viscount Royston, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke 1764, and to other members of the Yorke family. Drafts. Two volumes. Paper; ff. 240, 228. Quarto. 1748-1765.
Scope & Content:
Thomas Birch, d 1766 DD, FRS: Correspondence of: 1726-1766, n.d.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1748-1765
Extent:
2 items

78. Add MS 4108

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TRANSCRIPTS OF LETTERS AND STATE PAPERS from the MS. collections of Francis Bacon, Viscount St. Albans (1621), Lord Chancellor, etc., most of which are printed in Cabala, 1663. Paper; ff. 114. Small folio. XVIII cent. At the beginning are the notes (a) 'Mpts of Lord Bacons bought at the sale of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

79. Add MS 4213

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BILLS OF MORTALITY 'A Collection of the yearly Bills of Mortality from 1657-1757 inclusive: together with several other Bills of an earlier Date', being collections, drafts, etc., prepared by Thomas Birch for his printed edition of the above work in 1759; circa 1757. The four treatises on the s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1757
Extent:
1 item

80. Add MS 4346

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COLLECTION OF SERMONS and notes for sermons, written in one hand. The following indications of authorship, etc. occur, viz.:-(a) 'Canter[bury] March 20 ... for Dr Castle' [Edmund Castell, D.D., Prebendary of Canterbury]. 1669'. f. 7;- (b) 'Mr. Bond at ye Savoy' (John Bond, L1.D., Master of the S...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item