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This is a list of the members of the Convention Parliament in 1688.
mssHM 699
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Volume contains a table of contents and transcriptions of orders of decrees by the Commissioners of Sewers pertaining to state projects for the management of fens, marshes, and waterways in King's Lynn, Norfolk, England. These decrees were compiled and are copies. They range in date from approximately 1601 to approximately 1638. In the inside cover is a dead ladybug that was found in the manuscript; it is now encapsulated in mylar.
mssHM 84000
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A manuscript copy of the court proceedings in the 1637 case "R v Hampden, 3 Howell State Trials, 825," in which Buckinghamshire gentleman landowner John Hampden refused to pay ship money levied by Charles I. The case was finally heard by all 12 judges in the Court of Exchequer Chamber; Hampden lost the case, seven judges to five. This copy is in a modern binding with marbled covers; on spine: "Parliamentary Papers. M.S.," spine is damaged and fragile; with modern pencil autograph notes on verso of first page.
mssHM 204
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This is a 17th century copy of a manuscript by Valentin Boltz. The complete title is: "A limning boock, or a book setting forth of lively colours shewing how all sortes of colours are to be made and prepared, necessary and usefull for clarks, painters, and limners and well wishers to the art of painting or limning. Annexed thereunto some new artificiall experiments, never yet published in print." On the title page the author's name reads: "Valentine Poltzen von Rufach."
mssHM 80990
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A battalion orderly book covers Prevost's raid. The first entry, April 27, 1779, was penned when the British forces concentrated at Ebenezer, Ga., about to cross into South Carolina; the last is dated June 15, five days before the British victory of Stono Ferry. The orders cover different aspects of the campaign: logistics; Southern loyalists; numerous Negro slaves who "horly resorts to the army," and particularly "great want of Dissiplen." The orders for May 29 noted that "the Batt[alio]n is now become so notorious for maurauding & plundering White & Negroe women of all Denominations, the men absenting themselves from camp day & night without leave asked or given," that the commanding officer had to call on other officers to "to exert their authority in support of their own character & at least to preserve some part of that character given to Scotsmen on the field."
mssHM 72267
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This certificate certifies that the Steamboat Experiment, owned by Charles Bush and George Lobdell, has had a "thorough examination of the Hull of said Boat" and that it is "sea-worthy, and fit to be used in the Transportation of Freight and passengers." It also certifies that the boat is between three and four years old and was built in Pottsville, Pennsylvania in 1845. It is signed by Thomas Young and Jacob Alrichs at Wilmington, Delaware.
mssHM 75991