English and Latin declamations at Trinity College, Cambridge

Inventory list

Identifier	Title	Level of description	Date
No. 1	‘The Character of Alfred the great is superior to that of the Czar Peter of Russia and his Virtues were more advantageous to his Country’, an English declamation by Joseph Acomb	Part	1804
No. 2	‘The Introduction of [th]e Feudal System into Europe was not attended with beneficial consequences’, an English declamation by H. F. Ainslie	Part	1805
No. 9	‘The death of Richard the third was not to be regretted by the English’, an English declamation by Charles Brown	Part	1800
No. 12	‘Alfred was a greater benefactor to Great Britain than Elizabeth’, an English declamation by C. A. Caldwell	Part	8 Nov. 1803
first flyleaf	Printed Elegy on the Rev. John Jones, B.D., Senior Fellow, and for twenty years Senior Tutor of Trinity College, Cambridge, by Robert Dealtry	Part	c. 1807
No. 3	‘The Misfortunes of Charles the first were more owing to the temper of the Times, than to his own Misconduct’, an English declamation by Lord Althorp	Part	1801
No. 15	‘The civil liberty of England would have been as effectually & as happily secured, as it was by the Revolution of 1688, had the Reformation not previously taken place’, an English declamation by John Carr	Part	1805
No. 4	‘The Institution of Chivalry was generally beneficial to Europe’, an English declamation by W. J. Bankes	Part	1805
No. 7	‘Charles the first was not justified in putting to Death the Earl of Strafford’, an English declamation by Lewis Bowerbank	Part	1801
No. 11	‘Oliver Cromwell would have consulted his interest by accepting the Crown’, an English declamation by James Cairncross	Part	1804
front free endpaper	Index	Part	19th c.
No. 5	‘T. Gracchus de patriâ suâ non bene meruit’, a Latin declamation by J. H. Batten	Part	1798
No. 6	‘The Reign of Henry 5th was more beneficial to England than that of Henry 7th’, an English declamation by William Bolland	Part	1804
No. 8	‘The Persecutions under Mary were more prejudicial to the interests of England than the Fanaticism in the time of Charles the 1st’, an English declamation by J. P. Brandreth	Part	1801
No. 10	‘Charles the 2nd w[oul]d not have been justified in pardoning Algernon Sydney’, an English declamation by George Burges	Part	1805
No. 13	‘Edward the 3d did not consult the Interest of England, in pretending to the Crown of France’, an English declamation by J. B. Cambel	Part	1799
No. 14	‘Cromwel [sic] would not have consulted his interest by accepting the Crown’, an English declamation by Augustus Campbell	Part	1804