Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of about 85 copies of primarily political documents pertaining to events between 1592 and 1632. The volume includes speeches and letters relating to the murder of Thomas Overbury and the trial of Walter Raleigh; a description of voyage to France to aid the Huguenot cause in 1626-7 and seige of La Rochelle; a factual account, with figures, of fighting in Thirty Years' War; "The examinations of the counterfett ghost that came into St James on fryday night the 13 of 9br 1612, beeing that day sennight after Prince Harries death," whose testimony was taken by Sir Thomas Chaloner and Sir John Holles; and the confession of Anne Lady Ross to the Star Chamber declaring that she had perjured herself by "accusing the said Right Honorable Countess of Exeter with an intent & purpose to poison" her. The volume also contains a copy of the will of Holles' father, Thomas Holles of Haughton, dated 17 March 1592 and "written in his owne hand"; and "A prayer wch my deere sister Wentworth did use, coppied from her owne hand, wch I had of my mother 24th Jan. 1631."
Description:
In English, French, and Italian., Arms of the 4th Duke of Newcastle stamped in gold on front cover., and Binding: full parchment. Printed on spine: "Copies of State Papers Etc. 1592 - 1632.
Subject (Geographic):
England., France, Great Britain., Great Britain, and France.
Subject (Name):
Chaloner, Thomas, 1595-1661., Holles, John, Earl of Clare, ca. 1565-1637., Overbury, Thomas, Sir, 1581-1613., and Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618
Subject (Topic):
Huguenots, History, Nobility, Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648, Treason, Trials, Wills, Foreign relations, Politics and government, and Social life and customs
A medley of representations of newspapers, playing cards, and letters (To Mr. Geo. Bickham, engraver & drawing mar. ...). The newspaper ornament includes the figure of Cardinal Fleury who grasps a label "Dunkirk". George II is depicted as the King of Diamonds while his favorite Sophia Walmoden, Countess of Yarmouth is shown as the Queen of Diamonds. Sir Robert Walple's face is shown as the Knave of Diamonds. The creed is in the form of a rebus
Alternative Title:
Champion, or Evening advertiser and His political creed
Description:
Title engraved within image., Title of the medley: His political creed., Date from British Museum catalogue., Original imprint mostly burnished, but legible: "Sold at [the] Blackmoors Head, Strand, Sept. 30 1744.", and With spine title: Caricatures anglaise 1740.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
France, Great Britain., Great Britain, and France.
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, and Fleury, André Hercule de, 1653-1743
An engraving showing the head of Louis XV in the image of the coast of France with the ports of Dunkirk and Boulogne shown. From his mouth come the words: "O! O! O! me d' Pompedour." The French navy is shown towing small forts across the Channel towards England. Flanking the French fleet are three British ships. The to on the left are labelled Anson, and the one on the right is labelled Hawk
Description:
Title from text above design., Publisher at this address: George Bickham., With a verse in two columns at foot of design: "A false creation"., and See Horace Walpole's letter to Mann 23 February 1756, vol. 20, p. 529-535.
Publisher:
Sold in May's Buildings
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and France
Subject (Name):
Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774
Subject (Topic):
Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, Naval operations, Foreign relations, Campaigns & battles, Forts & fortifications, and Ships
A very tall thin gentleman with elongated wig and dour expression sits facing left on a block labelled "Stool of repentance" as he pulls a frog apart by its legs. Strapped to him by a belt around the waist is an old long-haired and bearded man, with bows on his shoes and holding a purse marked "empty". On the right, a sailor stands facing the viewer and holding in his hand a club, as he points towards the two men and smiles. Next to him on the ground lies a bag marked "1000 dollars." Probably a reference to the Bourbon Family Compact wherein Spain allied herself with France to regain Gibraltar
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Spain, France., France, Spain., and Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
National characteristics, French, National characteristics, Spanish, Foreign relations, and Sailors
A fat English military officer resembling George III marches behind a thin French officer also resembling Louis XVI pulling the latter's queue and kicking him in the rear. Possibly a reference to Rodney's 1782 naval victory over the French
Description:
Title from item., Possibly after Thomas Colley., Date conjectured from the print's possible allusion to Rodney's victory over DeGrasse, 12 April 1782., Sheet trimmed., and Mounted to 30 x 38 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, France., France, and Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Foreign relations, Kicking, Military uniforms, British, and French
At the center of the sheet stands John Bull, hands clasped in prayer, as Sheridan and Fox force the bread of liberty into his wide open mouth as they pick his pocket. On either side of the three stands a gallows and the Temple Bar. In each of the four corners in similar scenes, labelled clockwise from upper left, Holland, Savoy, German & Prussia, red-capped French sansculottes try to force the bread of liberty down recognizable national stereotypes from these four nations as they loot the terrfied citizens
Alternative Title:
Sansculottes feeding Europe with the bread of liberty
Description:
Title from text in image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on bottom edge.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 12st [sic], 1793, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Girondists, Sansculottes, Liberty, Liberty cap, Popes, History, and Foreign relations
"Eight puzzle-pictures arranged in two rows, in general of a punning character, e.g., 'Specimens of Poetry', 'A' lying across two walking-sticks (acrostics). The first, however, 'An Obstruction to Peace', is the collar and shoulders of a coat, the blue with red facings of the Windsor uniform, together with the title, indicating the King (or perhaps Pitt), with perhaps the implication that he lacks a head."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Earlier of the two plates with this title published by Fores. See British Museum catalogue, and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials G R below.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 27th, 1797, by S. W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, France., France, and Great Britain.
