RECIPE FOR BARLEY WATER - 1800
Recipe
using "a Pint of Pearl Barley ... pour on it two quarts of boiling water (Spring) the Rhind of two Lemons - the thinner ... the better, half an ounce of Hartshorn Shavings, let it stand till cold ...", 1 side 4to., no place, no date c.
Item Date:
1800
Stock No:
16708
£20
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REES
(David James, Golfer)
Signature on card,
date in another hand, 26th August
Item Date:
1947
Stock No:
18768
£35
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REGENT STREET
Terrific photo showing people and carriages bustling about outside the department store Peter Robinson, 8" x 5", London, c.
Item Date:
1885
Stock No:
26498
£175
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REPORT OF 1733
Fascinating report written in a sort of pidgin English addressed to Sir,
saying that “The reports which have been so frequent of late of ye Rt honble y Lord Chancellor resigning ye seals are again current as also of Mr Talbott ye Solicitor Gennll will succeed his Lordship Mr Rider be made Solicitor Genll & Mr Tustia Reeves Lord Chief Justice of England in room of Lord Raymond Deced. The Colledge or Hospitall which yr Dutchess Dowager of Malburrow has founded at St Albans is roofing in with all expedition. It is a neat Brick building situate in a very healthy soill & a good air & will be ready to receive her Grace’s pensioners about Midsummer next. Yesterday a months provisions were sent from ye Victualling Office on Board ye 2 yachts mentioned in my last which will be ready to Sale for Holland in a few days. Preparacons are makeing for another embarkation to Georgia ye trustees haveing entered last Wensday ye names of more person who were well recommended to them to be sent over. By a Holland maile this day wee have ye following Remarkable Advice. That Prince Wisnowsky’s party being increased to 1000 men & having begun to sign a Confedracy ye 14th - tending to making void ye election of King Stanislaus it was resolved to declare them enemies to their Country & to send a body of ye King’s troops to attach them which being done ye 16th, 200 more over taken & killd but ye rest marched to join the Russian Army which was come within 12 leagues of Warsaw & as y Crown Army was preparing to meet them a battle was soon expected. Meantime ye Saxon miners were orderd out of Warsaw & the Russian Ambr has had a narrown escape for his life a Polander having fired a Pistoll at him throw hsi window ye ball whereof passed between him & ye Emprs Minister. The French have made great rejoicings at Strasburg for King Stanislaw’s Election but are still quiet in Alsace. Some letters mencon yt ye Spanish fleet put to sea ye 7th Inst for Allgier to Demand the Spanish Slaves there and in case of Refuseal to release them to Bombard that City imediately...” 3 sides folio with mathematical calculations on the fourth sheet, London 22nd September
Item Date:
1733
Stock No:
43581
£225
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[RIARIO SFORZA
(Sisto, 1810-1877, Cardinal, from 1845 Archbishop of Naples)]
Document, in Latin with translation, issued in his name,
certifying, after examining two witnesses and searching the records of Sta. Maria in Cosmedin in Naples, that Michele di Lauro, son of the late Giuseppe of the Diocese of Gaeta, resided in Naples "from infancy till the year 1836 ... being free from all impediment and matrimonial bond, and in other respects not prohibited by law from contracting ... marriage", printed with manuscript additions, heading with the Archbishop's titles, his cardinal's hat in red with his arms below, blind papered seal of his Court and stamp of his Archives, signatures include Pro-Archivist Maria Ruffo, V.C. Balzano for the Vicar Ecclesiastic, and Notary Ciarlone, fee 1 ducato 5 grani, 1 side 11¾" x 7¾" and conjugate blank held folded by seal, Naples, 4th June
Item Date:
1846
Stock No:
54553
£325
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