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Letter from John Bright of One Ash, Rochdale, Lancashire to Professor Blackie of Edinburgh, 13 Apr 1885. 'I found your volume [Scottish Highlanders and the Land Laws (c1885)] when I went to London ... The whole story of the past and present of the Crofter class is not a little one of as melancholy character and their future is not easily perceived.'

Autograph, with signature.

Papers created by Alfred Claude Bromhead during his time in Russia, 1916-1917, and a varied collection of miscellany compiled by him, with items dating from 1510 to the 1930s. These include a contemporary illustration of the funeral procession of Anne of Cleves in 1557 and a collection of engravings of the life of the Virgin by Alberto Durer from 1510. There are also volumes of sketches of London and letters and newspaper cuttings, the subjects of which include the history of London, criminology and The Gentlemen's Magazine.

Documents relating to houses in Calle de San Anton, Madrid.

Letters from George Chalmers to Sir Joseph Banks, 1788-1804. Including a letter eulogizing Arthur Young's Example of France a warning to Britain, 26 Feb 1793; and another discussing a publication of [William] Cobbett's, 14 Apr 1802.

Autographs, with signatures.

'Copy of Constiutiones del Real Colegio de Ninas Huerfanas de Santa Isabel Reyna de Hungaria de esta corte y villa de Madrid', promulgated by Philip V of Spain on 7 Oct 1838.

Documents, 1360-1867, concerning the family of de Cusance, of Franche Comté. The documents include letters on the family's expenses, sales, marriage, appointments to offices, a genealogy of the family and a printed fragment announcing a requiem mass. Also contains an inventory of items, made by the Archives Générales de la Noblesse, Paris.

Volume contains "Historia del Duende de Madrid" (77 pages) and "Papeles Curiosos, y Politicos, y Poeticos, Ynutulados el Criticos..." (196 pages). El Duende was also known as Manuel de San Jose.

'La Junta de los vibos y los muertos en el panteon del Escurial'.

Elemens de Finances collection, [1690-1710], comprises an anonymous handwritten treatise dealing with the earnings and expenses of the kingdom - inferred to be France - ("cinq grosses fermes") and its administration. It also deals with financial administration in general.

A volume giving information on the quantity and value of goods imported and exported to and from England, 1696-1701. The volume has the book plate of John Holroyd, Earl of Sheffield.

French revolutionary pamphlets collection comprises pamphlets by the Interior Ministry, the Police Ministry and other official bodies in the French republic. Pamphlet by the Chief of Police Sotin warns citizens that the enemies of the revolution are regrouping (c1794). A pamphlet of 1795 also urges vigilance.

Correspondence and papers of William Alexander Greenhill, 1839-1894, mainly relating to medical biography including notes on Galen; notes on the classification of animals; printed drawings of surgical instruments; notes on Arabic medicine and transcripts of Arabic texts; five engravings of Halle and engraving of A H Francke's Monument; prescriptions; biographical notes on doctors and other eminent men and correspondence, chiefly on his work on Galen.

Papers of co-operator and secularist George Jacob Holyoake, 1831-1985, including correspondence to and from Holyoake regarding various topics at all stages of his career, including press cuttings of correspondence with Dr Kalley and correspondence between Holyoake, Austin Holyoake and Thomas Cooper, 1837-1943; series of engagement diaries kept by Holyoake, including brief handwritten notes on daily events and ephemera, including handbills, press cuttings and letters concerning meetings, lectures and public and political events pasted into pages, 1847-1905; printed material relating to all aspects of Holyoake's career, including handbills for lectures and addresses by Holyoake and meetings of co-operative societies, secularist organisations and other political movements, press cuttings of letters by Holyoake to the national and local press, various articles by Holyoake and others, and reviews of addresses and works, circulars and miscellaneous ephemera produced by Holyoake and supported movements, and various handwritten documents regarding Holyoake's political and personal life, 1831-1978; press cuttings of serialised articles and columns written by Holyoake for various national, local and international newspapers and periodicals, including London Correspondence, Town Talk, Private Correspondence, Our London Letter and other articles produced for the Brighton Guardian, Agricultural Economist, The Sun and the Co-operative News, along with press cuttings regarding the opening of Holyoake House in Manchester and the unveiling of the Holyoake Memorial at Highgate Cemetery, London, 1867-1911; loose press cuttings collected and compiled by Holyoake and relating to his life and work, including cuttings concerning visits to America and Canada, co-operation, co-operative congresses and festivals, co-operative societies, parliamentary reform and other miscellaneous cuttings concerning lectures and letters by Holyoake, secularism, republicanism, atheism and other various topics, 1857-1911; miscellaneous publications and notebooks by Holyoake, including manuscript drafts of works, early notes on lectures and their content, predominantly at the Birmingham Mechanics Institute, log books containing diary notes and thoughts, papers relating to the London Atheistical Society, accounts relating to Fleet Street House, London and press cuttings of letters by Holyoake written under the name `Ion', 1838-1861; miscellaneous manuscripts relating to Holyoake's life and career, co-operation and secularism, along with press cuttings and ephemera, including material relating to mathematics, Brighton, spiritualism, trade unions, grammar, the Newspaper Stamp Abolition Committee, the Social Economist, along with papers relating to Holyoake's arrest in 1842, Fleet Street House, London, the Congress of Social Reformers, Leeds Secular Society, the Thomas Allsop Prize Essay Competition and the Polish Legion, 1839-1978; galley proofs of printed copies of articles by Holyoake on various topics, 1893; press cuttings and extracts from journals concerning biographical details of Holyoake, his life and work, along with articles and obituary material published following his death in 1906, 1875-1917; minute books of the Travelling Tax Abolition Committee, of which Holyoake was Chairman, including handwritten minutes and printed statements, circulars and Committee documents pasted into each volume, along with loose circulars, ephemera and press cuttings concerning the Committee and its work, 1877-1901; minutes and papers of the Garibaldi Special Fund Committee, including Central Committee minutes, muster roll, ephemera, press cuttings and fund certificates recording members of the British Legion of excursionists to Italy, along with more general material relating to Garibaldi, Italian Unification and reaction in England, including cuttings from the Illustrated London News and secondary articles, 1860-1985; circulars, ephemera and press cuttings regarding to the Holyoake Testimonial Fund, including letters to subscribers, fund reports and a programme for a performance by the Victoria Dramatic Club in aid of the Fund, 1853-1889; four photographs of Holyoake taken late in his life, n.d.

Includes correspondence, drafts of articles, teaching notes, notes for "The Later Roman Empire, 284-602".

'Annales o historia de Madrid que hasta el ano de 1658 escrivio D. Antonio de Leon Pinelo'.

Letters and Parliamentary speeches, [1600-1700]; Containing the following items: ff 1-100. A Collection of Divers Arguments and speeches delivered to Kinge James, and propounded to the House of Parliament. Touching the necessitie of calling of parliaments with divers Consideracions of his Majesties Estate, and his Majesties propositions thereof to the Lords of his Councell with the Councells Annswere thereunto, by Robert Cicill late Earle of Salisburie, and Lord Treasurer of England. [The pages containing the King's Propositions and the Council's Answer were evidently lost shortly after the MS. was written: for there are two indexes, the later of which (on f.2 before the original index), in a hand almost contemporary with the original MS., contains only those items which are still present.] ff 103-132. The Fore Runner of Revenge Uppon the Duke of Buckingham For the poysoning of the most potent King James ... And the Lord Marquis Hamilton and others of the Nobilitie. Discovered by Master George Eglisham one of King Jameses Phisitians ... Franckford 1626. [Evidently copied from the first edition of the English translation of "Prodromus Vindictae", which bears this imprint.] ff 134-159. The King's Propositions and the Council's Answer, missing from section (1). ff 161-175. An unhappie view of the whole behaviour of the Lord Duke of Buckingham at the Ile of Ree. [The expedition of 1627] Secretlie discovered by W.F. an unfortunate Comander in that untoward service. ff 177-181. Of Robert Devereux Earl of Essex and George Villiers Duke of Buckingham Some Observations By way of Parallell in the time of there estates and fortunes and measure of favours [By Sir Henry Wotton]. ff 182-203. The Disparitie Between the Earle of Essex and the Duke of Buckingham. [By Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon. This version lacks the last thousand words of so of that printed in the "Reliquiae Wottonianae" 1685] ff 206-237. To Mr. Anthony Bacon. An Apologie of the Earle of Essex against those which falsly jeaslously and maliciously takes tax him to be the only hindrance of the peace and quiet of his Country compiled penned by himselfe Anno Domini 1599 1598. imprinted at lo[ndon] 1603. [The readings between ** are interlinear additions, in a different hand, which continue throughout the text. They correspond with the readings of the 1603 edition. There are occasional marginalia in a third hand, but they have been heavily cropped by the binder.] ff 240-271. A Speech delivered by Robert [Cecil] Earle of Salisburye Lord Treasurer of England by the appoyntment of the Kings Majestie unto the Lords Knights and Burgesses of both houses of Parliament ... [14th February] 1609 [n.s. 1610] Anno regni Regis Jacobi etc Septimo [Some marginalia in a different hand]. ff 272-285. An Apologie upon the death of Sir Robert Cecell knight late Lord Threr [Treasurer] of England written against his libellers and presented to Kinge James. ff 286-301. A Discourse written by Sir John Suckling Knight to the Earle of Dorsett. ["An Account of Religion by Reason". Preceded by an introductory letter. There are considerable annotations at the beginning and end of the text in a different hand; some of the matter is lost by cropping.] ff 302-348. A Collection of divers letters, written at sundry tymes, and upon severall occasions, to many of the Nobilitie and gentrie of this Kingdome, by that famous Councellor at lawe Sir Francis Bacon knight late Lord Chancellor of England. ff 351-390. An answere to Tom-Tell-Troth the Practise of Princes and the Lamentacions of the church. [By George Calvert, Baron Baltimore]. ff 393-403. A True relacion of the Treaty and ratificacion of the mariage concluded ... betweene ... Charles kinge of greate Brittaine ... and the Lady Henrietta Maria Sister to the French Kinge. [Dated 8 May 1625]. ff 407-438. A discoverie of the Hollanders fishing or Trades and their circumventing us therein and the meanes how to make proffit by the fishing with the profit honnour and security that will redound to his Majestie and all sorts of Subiects within his three Kingdomes by it.

Papers of the London History Workshop Centre, including; papers and correspondence regarding the origins and formation of the London History Workshop Centre, 1977-1983; minutes and papers of Annual General Meetings and management meetings, 1983-1992; accounts and financial papers, 1983-1991; papers, correspondence and reports regarding projects and publications, 1981-1991; papers, accounts and promotional material of the London History Workshop Centre Sound and Video Archive, 1986-1991; photographs, prints and illustrations covering the late nineteenth century to the mid 1980s and concerning World War One, World War Two, poverty, transport, (railways, cars, buses, trams and the Underground) housing, entertainment, marches and demonstrations, fashion, working life, immigration, the development of London, entertainment, shops and shopping, education, childhood and other areas, c1910-1985; miscellaneous transcripts of oral history interviews conducted by London Weekend Television for the television series, The Making of Modern London, c1985; correspondence and plates for the book Trafalgar Square: Emblem of Empire, published by Lawrence and Wishart, 1975-1976; card backed photographic reproductions used by the London History Workshop for exhibition purposes, c1975.

Letter from Thomas Babington Macaulay of Holly Lodge, Kensington to Augustus De Morgan, 12 Aug 1858. Inviting him to discuss the meaning of the initials 'P M A C F' [apparently: 'Père Mansuete, A Cordelier (or Capuchin) Friar', Confessor to the Duke of York (afterwards King James II) and author of a broadside account of the death of King Charles II].

Autograph, with signature.

Letter from Thomas Babington Macaulay of Holly Lodge, Kensington to[Augustus De Morgan], 14 Aug 1858. Referring to his interpretation of 'P M A C F' [apparently: 'Père Mansuete, A Cordelier (or Capuchin) Friar', Confessor to the Duke of York (afterwards King James II) and author of a broadside account of the death of King Charles II].

Autograph, with signature.

Letter from Thomas Babington Macaulay to Augustus De Morgan, 2 Jan [1853]. Answering an enquiry about Bishop Burnet. '... whoever wishes to obtain full information must read volume after volume of squibs, and controversial pamphlets. I have myself sermons, tracts and lampoons relating to the honest bishop which would fill a book-shelf.'

Autograph, with signature.

A collection of documents relating to houses in the Calle de la Paz, Madrid, 1589-1778.

Accounts of the fraternity of shoemakers (apparently the same organisation as reference MS336) for October 1729 and February 1818-March 1854.

A short history of the poor house Hospicio de San Fernando in Madrid and an account of its present (1747) constitution and administration; copies of documents (1734-1738) relating to the administration of the poor house unders its previous Governor, Gaspar de Molina y Oviedo; a letter of 24 October 1748 to Cardinal Infante, Luis Antonio, asking for financial help to meet increased food prices.

Decorated copy of a deed (13 January 1677) amalgamating two church societies of shoemakers and giving revised and clarified rules for the new Fraternities. Another deed (11 September 1731) gives further modifications and clarifications. The scribe gives the date of the folio as 1732.

Libro de acuerdos de los senores. Testamentarios de la Magestad Cesarea la senora Emperatriz dona Maria, tocantes a la fundacion y detacion que mando hazer en el Monasterio Real de las Descalcas de esta villa de Madrid, que fundo la senora Pincesa dona Iuana Ano de 1626.

Documents, including terriers and notarial instruments, relating to the church of Nuestra Senora de Atocha of Madrid.

Demonstrado por Pueblo en Verada, con Noticia de los Vecinos Casas Parroquias y Hermitas qua cada uno tiene.

Copies of deeds and other documents effecting the transfer and redemption of an annuity paid to Dona Catalina Mexia and Dona Ysabel de Castro originally to Anastasia de la Pena and subsequently to the Cofradia de el santissimo sacramento y Nuestra Senora de la Minerva of the parish church of St. Martin, Madrid, 1611-1616.

Traslado autentico de la merced, y Privilejio que concedio a este Real Monasterio de s. Geronimo de Madrid el Senor Rey Don Jenrique Quarto su fundador de las Tercias de Valdemoro, Parla, y Polvoranca. This is a copy (dated 1493) of a grant made in 1470.

Libro de las vissitas desta Iglesia parrochial d' S. Miguel d'los Octoes desde el Ano de 1524 Asta el d'1576. A record of the inspections of the church, its possessions and finances, made every two years by the 'visitator'.

A certification of the nobility of Don Joseph Maltes y Negron, issued by Sebastian Munoz Castblanque, King of Arms, to Philip V of Spain.

Mandate of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella for movement of artillery, May 1499. Given at Madrid.

Papers, notes, tables, etc. relating to Geoffrey John Cusance de Mead's research (for which he was awarded a London PhD in 1954) on the administrative noblesse of France during the eighteenth century, with special reference to the Intendants of the généralités.

Letters patent of Philip II of Spain declaring the nobility of Francisco Mexia de Bargas of the town of Barcience, 21 Feb 1572.

Charter of Henry IV of Castille and Leon permitting Don Juan Pacheco, Marques of Villena and Dona Maria de Puerto Carrerro, his wife, to give the town of Moguer as majorat to their son, Pedro, 1458.

Findings in a suit brought by the monastry of Santa Catalina de Sena (in Madrid) against the Conde de Camarata.

An account of the mutiny in 1766 of the citizens of Madrid against the Marquis de Squilace, minister of King Charles III of Spain.

Research materials compiled by Caroline Frances Oates for her PhD thesis, 'The Trials of Werewolves in Franche-Comte in the Early Modern Period', including photocopies, microfilms and photographs of original documents, with letter regarding the deposit of the material at Senate House Library, University of London (1986-1993). The thesis was published in 1993.

Parliamentary speeches and copies of letters by Francis Bacon, Sir Robert Cotton, Robert Earl of Salisbury, Oliver St. John, Sir John Eliott, Sir Francis Seymour, Sir Benjamin Rudiard and Sir Philip Sidney, 1607-1640, containing the following: ff 1-29. A Declaration how Kinges of England have from tyme to tyme supported and repared their estates. Collected out of the records remaining in the Tower of London by Sir Robert Cotton Knight and Baronett 9[superscript zero] Jacobi Regis [March 1611-March 1612] ff 30-52. Consideracions uppon his Majesties estate, by Roberte late Earle of Salisburye [1610], with the Proposicions made by his Majestie To the Lordes of his Councell, And the Councells humble Annswere and Advise Thereunto. ff 55-72. The Coppye of a Letter written to the Lower House of Parliamente Touchinge dyvers Inconveniencyes and grievaunces of State, etc. ff 73-76. A letter of Oliver St. Johns touching and against the Benevolence demaunded [by James I in 1615] after dissolving of Parliament. ff 77-87. Sir John Eliott his speech in the Commons house of Parliament Jaun [i.e. June] 3, 1628. ff 88-93. To the Kings most Excellent Majestie The Humble peticion of Sir John Eliott Knight, Prisoner in the Gatehouse London 1627. ff 95-180. Divers speeches in Parliament Anno 1640. ff 183-202. A Speeche Delivered by Sir Frauncis Bacon in the Lower House of Parliamente, Quinto Jacobi [March 1607-1608]. The speech was in fact delivered on Feb. 17, 1607] Concerninge the Article of generall Naturalizacion of the Scottishe Nation. ff 204-206. Sir Frauncis Seymors Speeche [in the House of Commons, November 1640]. ff 208-214. Sir Beniamin Rudiardes speech in the house of Commons the 21 January 1640. [And another in April 1640]. ff 216-227. The Polliticke Survey of A Kingdome. ff 230-243. The Coppye of a Letter written by Sir Phillipp Sidnye to Queene Elizabeth Touchinge hir Marryage with Mounsieur [i.e. Francois de France, duc d'Anjou]. ff 245-249. A submissive and Petitionary Letter subscribed To the Right honourable the Lordes of the Parliament in the upper house of Parlieament Assembled, and Intituled The humble submission and suplication of the Lord Chancellor of England. [Bacon's general admission of the charges made against him, and resignation from the Chancellor-ship. 22 April, 1621]. ff 251-254. The State of a Secretaryes Place and the Perill, wrytten by the Right honnorable Roberte late Earle of Salisburye. ff 254b-256. A Relation of the manner of the Proceedinge, with Sir Thomas Mouson, uppon the Pleadinge of his Pardon, in the Courte of the Kinges Bench, the xii[superscript zero] of Februarii 1616. ff 260-271. An Unhappie viewe of the whole behaviour of my Lord Duke of Buckingham att the French Island [Ile de Re, off La Rochelle. The expedition of 1627] Secretlie discovered by W.F. an unfortunate Comnader in that untoward service. ff 273-281. A Relation of The Proceedings against Ambassadors whoe have miscaried themselvs and exceeded their Commission ... written by Sir Robert Cotton 27 April 1624 by expresse Comaund from the Duke of Buckingham.

Estados de la casa real de Espana y demas ramos. Y Nueua planta empezada a practicarse el ano de 1719 en el Ministerio del Cardenal Alveroni. Y en la Yntendencia gen. de Don Joachin de Barrenechea.

Privileges for Madrid including transcript of letters of Alfonso IX of Castile, dated 31 January 1214.

Prose and verse passages including Historica de el duende de Madrid (1757); breve explicacion de la doctrina de Patino por preguntas y respuestas entre Dr. Josef Rodrogo y los muchachos de la cobachuela; el duende politico que la cuenta de los presentes negocios y anuncia los futuros de esta monarchia a 8 de Diciembre de 1735; Melchor de Fonseca - Maxyms de Bacalini recogidas en un romance yntitulado El Sueno Politico...sobre el rreynado de Don Phelippe IV.

Volume containing material relating to the life and execution (in 1621) of Rodrigo Calderon; the Aragon conspiracy of 1648; and the expulsion of the Jesuits by Charles III in 1667. The latter includes copies of letters exchanged between Charles III and Pope Clement XIII.

Reconfirmation by Henry III of Castille of a grant made originally by Henry II and confirmed by John I, of the town of Astudillo to Ferrando de Sanches de Tovar, 15 Dec 1393.

Letters patent of Charles II of Spain declaring the nobility of Francisco Sanz de Vellidas, 21 Nov 1668.

Thirty Years War: Copie de la Declaration de Guerre Contre la Couronne de France faicte en Espagne, au nom de Roy; Declaration de son Alteze Touchant la Guerre Contre la Couranne de France.

Regla de los hermanos del hospital de senor sant benito el viejo.