Crewe Manuscripts

Inventory list
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Identifier Sort ascending Title Level of description Date Digital object
21 Documents relating to copyrights of Jacob Tonson and others Item 18th c.
34 Illustrations, etc., collected by Richard Burton for his Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Medinah and Meccah Item 1853–6
43 History of Charles IX, Books I and II, by Antoine Varillas Item late 17th c.?
45 Chapbooks, prints, and cuttings relating to notable criminals Item 1733–95
46 Visiting book of Robert Burns’s cottage Item 1841–5
49 Transcript of the will of King Henry VII, with an engraving Item c. 1750 and 1622
24A ‘Frontispieceana’, Vol. 1: engravings, woodcuts, etc., mainly from books, 16th–19th c. Item 1816
ff. 5-8 ‘Explication des Estampes suivantes’ Part 1743
f. 13 Print captioned ‘In Place’ Part 1738
ff. 22-5 Printed pamphlet entitled Have At You All: being a proper and distinct reply to three pamphlets just published, intituled ‘What of That?’ , ‘The Weather-Menders’, and ‘They Are Not’, by the author of Yes, They Are (Robert Morris) Part 1740
f. 34 French translation of the first part of ‘A Letter to a Gentleman, occasion’d by his sending a Pamphlet lately published, to his Friend’, printed in the Daily Gazetteer, 15 Jan. 1742 Part c. 1742
f. 40 Printed list of ships abroad in the service of the United East India Company, with a list of ships arrived back in the ports of the Channel since the last year’s list Part 29 Apr. 1740
f. 41 Printed list of ships abroad in the service of the United East India Company, with a list of ships arrived back in the ports of the Channel since the last year’s list Part 29 Apr. 1740
ff. 70-1 Notes, in French, by Étienne de Silhouette, on the importation of tobacco into Europe via England, with a note in Portuguese recording the statement of a Monsieur de Vime on 19 Aug. 1739 Part c. 1739
ff. 72-3 Title of the next item, in French, and a blank leaf Part 1743
f. 99 The Daily Gazetteer Part 15 Jan. 1742
f. 110 Title of the next item, in French Part 1743
f. 133 Description of the next item, in French Part 1743
f. 175 Description of the next item, in French Part 1743
ff. 214-34 French translation of part of A Letter from a Member of the last Parliament to a new Member of the present, concerning the Conduct of the War with Spain (1742) Part c. 1742
f. 240 Description of the next two items, in French Part 1743
ff. 241-6 Printed pamphlet entitled A Report from the Committee of Secrecy appointed to enquire into the Conduct of Robert, Earl of Orford Part 1742
ff. 247-81 Printed pamphlet entitled A Further Report from the Committee of Secresy appointed to enquire into the Conduct of Robert, Earl of Orford Part 1742
ff. 2–10 Transcript of a letter from Jean-Paul Marat to Philippe Rose Roume de Saint Laurent, 20 Nov. 1783 Part c. 10 Feb. 1784
ff. 1–3 An anecdote of the 3rd Duke of Richelieu, in the hand of Thomas Gray Part 18th c.
f. 15 Metaphysical notes, in the hand of Thomas Gray Part 18th c.
f. 46r Print of Lord George Gordon Part c. 1781
f. 47r Print of Lord George Gordon Part 12 Aug. 1783
f. 53r Letter from —— to George Bremmer Part 1780s?
f. 58r Return of the writ on f. 57r, by James Walker, Marshal of the Marshalsea, [Dec. 1787]; endorsed with a direction from Francis Buller committing Gordon to Newgate gaol, 13 Dec. 1787 Part Dec. 1787