Add MS 74087

Walpole Papers. Vol. cccxviii. ( ff. ). Miscellaneous and outsize material; 1706 - [ 20th cent. ? ] , n.d.:-

1. The London Chronicle, 8 Feb. 1757; edition no. 17, containing the announcement of Walpole's death.

2. Note of the inscription on the Walpole slab in Wickmere Church, co. Norf.; erected aft. 1764, by C.S. Abbott of Aylsham; typewritten; found in Add. MS 73902; n.d. [ 20th cent. ? ].

3. Anon.: Memoire pour Son Altesse Serenissime Monseigneur le duc de Guastalle. Au sujet du Duche de Mantove; printed with a few manuscript corrections; n.d. [ aft. 1718 ].

4. " Reasons transmitted by the Lords of the Council of Ireland for passing the Bill relating to papists "; reasons submitted by the Duke of Grafton and twelve others in support of a bill to strengthen the laws against Roman Catholic clergy, friars, etc., Council Chamber, Dublin; copy; Dec. 1723; see also above, especially Add. MSS 74049, 74066; endorsed in part by Walpole; sent to the latter by Townshend, 5 Jan. 1724.

5. Return of: " Etat des Regimens ... du Roi d' Espagne "; sent to Newcastle by Stanhope, 2 July 1726; together with St. Saphorin, " Etat general des troupes de l' Empereur ..."; enclosed in letter from St. Saphorin, 3 Dec. 1726; see also above; Fr.; 1726.

6. Papers sent with covering letter from Walpole, to the Lord Chancellor, Lord King, 4 Nov. 1729, concerning the French rules and regulations for foundling hospitals; partly printed; 1729; together with paper, The Case of the Apothecaries; a petition to the House of Commons, from some members of the College of Apothecaries, recommending some amendments to a bill to revive, explain and amend the Apothecaries Act of 1722; printed; n.d. [ 1732 ? ].

7. " Proposalls ffor amending 4th Geo. d. Cap. 28th, " concerning frauds by tenants, the recovery of rents and the renewal of leases; n.d. [ aft. 10 June 1731 ].

8. Anon. paper, addressed to Walpole: " Nequid detrimenti capiat Respublica "; Latin title, quotations and concluding sentence, but text in English; 29 Mar. 1732.

9. Two lists of M.Ps: i) " A List of the Nobility & Gentry now sitting in the Scots Parliament, who were for, & against the Union of the two kingdoms "; copied from a list published by A. Banks, Edinburgh, 1706; ii) " Members chose [ sic ] for the ensuing Parliament "; a list of Members, with constituencies, for England and Monmouth; in the cases of Bath and Lincoln ( city ), the full poll results are given; in the case of Leominster the poll for the two candidates returned is recorded; none of these returns are published in Henry Stooks Smith, The Parliaments of England, 3 vols., 1844 - 1850; incomplete; returns for the south - east, the midlands, the south and East Anglia are generally missing; [ 1734 ].

10. Text of a motion in the Commons that the instructions given to George Woodward, minister at Warsaw, in 1729 be put before the House [ of Commons ]; endorsed by Walpole; copy; 25 Jan./5 Feb. 1734.

11. Anon. paper, addressed to Walpole: " Vox Populi Vox Dei "; n.d. [ 1734 - 1739 ].

12. Anon. diplomatic paper [ addressed to Walpole ? ], relating to British and Portuguese Indian interests concerning Mahratta; endorsed by Walpole: " Portugall minister paper "; circa Feb.- Mar. [ 1735 - 1739 ].

13. “ Determinations relating to Charities ", and the effect of receiving charity in money on the right to vote; n.d. [ aft. 26 Jan. 1740 ].

14. List of parliamentary papers delivered into the House of Commons; 4, 10 June 1742.

15. Financial report to the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London; copy; 15 July 1747.

16. Account of supplies granted 1740 - 1748; state of the National Debt 1738 - 1748; and the produce of the Sinking Fund; n.d.

17. Papers rel. to the installation as Knights of the Garter of the Margrave of Anspach and others; 1749, 1750.

18. " Evidence ag[ains]t Murray "; evidence against Alexander Murray, a Jacobite, for riot at the 1750 City of London election; probably taken before the House of Commons; text and corrections in at least three hands; apparently imperf.; the name " Thomas Caffock [ Cassock ? ]", probably a clerk, appears on the back cover; a pamphlet, The Case of the Hon. Alexander Murray Esq., was published in 1751; for Jacobites see also above; n.d. [ circa 1750 - 1751 ].

19. Address by the Sheriff, the returning officer, following the double return of the Members for Oxfordshire; [1754 ].

20. Anon. paper: " A Justification of his Royal Highness the Duke [ of Cumberland] 's Conduct, In regard to his Retreat to Stade, Signing the Convention [ of Kloster Seven ] etc., ..."; differs slightly from another copy in the Astle Papers, Add. MS 34713, f. 89; contemporary copy; n.d. [ aft. 10 Sept. 1757 ].

21. " The case of Duell [ sic ] between M[ess]rs Dalton and Paul "; account by Horatio Paul of the duel of 29 May [ 1751 ], in which Dalton was killed; title in Walpole's hand; aft. 29 May [ 1751 ]; possibly 1765, when Paul was pardoned; see Newcastle Papers, Add. MSS 32967, ff. 342, 344; 33056, f. 60.

22. Poem: " The Long Nosed Fair "; in an unknown hand, with a translation into Latin by Walpole; n.d. [ bef. 1757 ].

23. Anon. MS; outline of a scheme to raise revenues by a tax on inheritances of property; n.d.

24. Notes on scraps of paper by Walpole from [ a work by? ] § Hunne, p. 60, ca: 3: 1614, concerning Scottish clans; n.d. [ aft. 1715? ].

25. Anon. paper: an explanation of the map of Germany on the death of the late Emperor; n.d. [ c. 1740 ?].

26. Notes by Walpole on scraps of paper, rel. to work by [ Arcangelo? ] Lamberti, vol. 6; possibly to the Receuil de voiages au Nord, 7 vols., 1715 or 1731 editions; n.d. [ aft. 1715? ].

27. Two lists rel. to some of the diplomatic papers in the collection; the second also lists cross - references to a series of volumes, possibly one of Walpole's bound series of papers above; n.d. [ aft. 1726, 1727 ].

28. Anon. Address to the Justices of the Peace [ for Norfolk? ], about to begin an enquiry into Inquests and other duties of Justices of the Peace, under 3 Hen. VI c.1.; imperf.; first folio or folios missing; n.d. [ eighteenth - or early nineteenth cent.; ? bef. Sept. 1756 ];

29. Newscutting from The Standard, concerning the alleged baptism of Thomas Cooper, Chartist, Radical and Baptist preacher; 15 June 1859.

30. Extract from The Four Georges by W.M. Thackeray, relating to Sir Robert; printed; n.d. [ 1861? ].

31. Papers rel. to the sale of the property of the Hon. H.F.C. Cavendish in Burlington gardens; printed; 21 May 1874.

32. Frederick Walpole; British Museum Reading Room directions, and tickets for a book and for manuscripts; partly printed; n.d. [ 1835 - 1875 ].

33. Poem by " CCRB ": " Below the Mark. Indisposition at home ". In three sections, the second and third being entitled " At Par. Convalescence at Homberg ", and " Envoie "; Aug. 1876.

34. List, by Frederick Walpole (?), of some of the correspondents and topics found in the collection; n.d. [ bef. 1876 ].

35. Index, referring to some of the above items; imperf.; n.d. [ aft. 1757 ? ].