Crewe Manuscripts

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f. 71r Letter from Mary Doddridge (cousin) to Mercy Doddridge Part 17 Sept. 1766
f. 73r Letter from Mary Doddridge (cousin) to Mercy Doddridge Part 4 Feb. 1776
f. 74r Letter from Mercy Doddridge (daughter) to Mary Doddridge (daughter) Part 13 July 1753
f. 1r Cuttings from the Pontefract Telegraph, containing an article headed ‘Return of the Hon. Mr and Mrs Milnes to Fryston Hall’ Part Sept. 1880
f. 2r Cuttings from the Leeds Mercury, containing an account of R. O. A. Milnes’s address at a demonstration commemorating the opening of the Leeds Liberal Club Part Apr. 1881
f. 2v Cuttings from the Leeds Mercury, containing an account of R. O. A. Milnes’s address at the Co-operative Congress at Leeds Part 8 June 1881
f. 5r Letter from Lord Granville to Lord Houghton Part 5 Aug. 1882
f. 6r Cuttings from the Liverpool Daily Post, containing an account of R. O. A. Milnes’s address at a meeting Part 13 Oct. 1882
f. 7v Cuttings from The Guardian (Crewe), containing an account of the opening of the new schools at Crewe Green by Lord Crewe, and of R. O. A. Milnes’s address on the occasion Part 16 Sept. 1882
f. 8r Cuttings from The Express, containing an account of R. O. A. Milnes’s address at a meeting of constituents addressed by the MPs for Pontefract Part 21 Jan. 1882
f. 9r Cuttings from The Express, containing an account of R. O. A. Milnes’s address at a Liberal meeting at Knottingley Part 7 Apr. 1883
f. 11r Cuttings from the Pontefract Telegraph, containing an account of R. O. A. Milnes’s address at a demonstration in support of the Franchise Bill Part 11 Oct. 1884
ff. 14v–15r Cuttings from the Barnsley Chronicle, containing an account of a ‘Japanese fancy fair’, opened by R. O. A. Milnes Part 25 Apr. 1885
ff. 15v–16r Cuttings from the Barnsley Chronicle, containing a letter from R. O. A. Milnes to W. E. Raley accepting his selection as the Liberal candidate for the division, and an account of the meeting of the Barnsley Liberal '200' at which the selection was made Part 18 Apr. 1885
f. 17r Cuttings from the Barnsley Chronicle, containing a letter to the editor by R. Bury, 19 Apr., headed ‘Mr Bury on the Liberal Candidates, etc.’ Part [25 Apr. 1885]
ff. 17v–19r Cuttings from the Barnsley Chronicle, containing an account of a meeting of Liberals convened in order to introduce R. O. A. Milnes as their new candi-date Part 2 May 1885
f. 19v Cuttings from the Barnsley Chronicle, containing an article commenting on attempts to deselect R. O. A. Milnes at the recent meeting of Liberals Part 2 May 1885
f. 20r Letter from Lord Granville to Lord Houghton Part 8 Feb. 1886
f. 20v Cuttings from the Leeds Mercury, containing a short notice of Lord Houghton’s appointment as Lord-in-Waiting and as a junior whip in the House of Lords Part 20 Feb. 1886
f. 23v Cuttings from the Sheffield Daily Telegraph, containing an account of an amendment moved by Lord Houghton in the Lords in connection with the Dore and Chinley Railway Bill Part 23 Mar. 1886
ff. 23v–24r Cuttings from the Bradford Observer, containing an account of Lord Houghton’s address at the annual soirée of the Bradford Mechanics’ Institute Part 29 Sept. 1886
f. 24v Cuttings from the Leeds Mercury, containing an account of a speech by Lord Houghton [at the annual conference of the National Liberal Federation] Part [4 Nov. 1886?]
loose inside back cover Cutting from a Yorkshire newspaper, containing an account of a speech by Lord Houghton Part [c. 1886]
f, 159r Engraved title-page of a volume of Bell’s British Theatre: Comedies (London, 1776 or later) Part 1776 or later
f. 164r Broadside entitled By the King: A Proclamation forbidding any resort to His Majesties Court for cure of the Kinges-Evill untill Easter next (London, 1634) Part 1634
f. 166r Broadside entitled By the King: A Proclamation appointing the time when His Majesties subjects may approach to the Court for cure of the disease called the Kings Evill (London, 1634), including a woodcut coat of arms and a woodcut initial Part 1634
f. 172r Handbill, including an engraved illustration, advertising The Temple of Flora, A New Edition of the Sexual System of Carolus von Linnaeus, and The Philosophy of Botany, by Robert John Thornton, with a proposal to publish the same in monthly numbers from 1 July 1809 Part 1809
f. 173r Handbill, including a coloured engraved illustration, proposing the publication by subscription of An English Dance of Death, by the author of Doctor Syntax’s Tour (William Combe), in monthly parts, with engravings by Thomas Rowlandson, from 1 April 1814 Part 1814
f. 174r Engraved front cover of the Repository of Arts, Literature, and Fashions, etc., new series, No. 11 (London, Feb. 1816) Part Feb. 1816
f. 176r Woodcut arms of Charles I, perhaps from a printed proclamation Part 17th c.