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George Macartney commonplace book
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Commonplace book. English history: manuscript
Manuscripts
Copies of letters, treatises, and accounts of legal proceedings, chiefly in England, in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, including accounts of the rebellion, trial, and execution of the Earl of Essex, a copy of the "Liber Intrationem [in Camera Stellata tempore Regis Henr. Septimi]", other proceedings in Star Chamber, Sir Henry Wotton on George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, etc.
mssHM 41952
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Commonplace book. Economics: manuscript
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Copies of treatises and records concerning English currency, the wool trade, foreign exchange, the Royal Mint, etc.
mssHM 38340
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Commonplace books of Sarah A. Pierson Walsworth
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The volumes contain short essays on philosophy, literature and religion; essays on the history of Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and India; discussions on origins of American place names; poetry; newspaper clippings; and notable quotations
mssHm 64269-64274
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Commonplace book
Manuscripts
Contains a Historical Dialogue in Scripture, as well as addresses, ballads, epigrams, epitaphs, extracts, poems and verses. The volume also includes works by or about Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift and Sir Robert Walpole, among others. There is a Table of Contents (possibly incomplete) and penciled autograph notes on the flyleaf. Note: page numbering is not consistent.
mssHM 82623
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R. Mathews commonplace book
Manuscripts
Contains accounts of America and the war, observations on the history of England and on current events, lists of English ships, recipes, and other miscellaneous material. Written in London.
mssHM 694
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Commonplace book. English law : manuscript
Manuscripts
A bound manuscript volume, possibly in the hand of George Wither; includes notes on court cases, legal opinions, etc. Half-bound in maroon morocco over cloth with ex-libris of Thomas Brooke, and an unidentified ex-libris; spine reads "Wither's M.S. Note-Book 1650-1660."
mssHM 103