Crewe Manuscripts

Inventory list
Identifier Sort ascending Title Level of description Date Digital object
f. 188r Woodcut decorated initials and other printers’ ornaments Part 17th–18th c.
f. 189r Woodcut decorated initials and a woodcut decorative border Part 17th–18th c.
f. 189r Engraved ornament and dedication from Elizabeth Bentley’s Genuine Poetical Compositions (1791) Part 1791
f. 190r Woodcut decorative border Part 17th or 18th c.
f. 192r Woodcut printer’s ornament A Compleat History of the Life and Raigne of King Charles, by William Sanderson (1658) Part 1658
f. 193r Woodcut decorated initials and other printer's ornaments, with decorative initials from medieval manuscripts Part 14th–18th c.?
f. 197r Woodcut printers’ ornaments Part 17th c.?
f. 16 Law regarding the opening of a national loan for an invasion of England Part 5 Jan. 1798
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. 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15–23 Leaves from The Trial of the Notorious Highwayman Richard Turpin (first edition) Part 1739
f. 4r Print captioned ‘William Page leaving his Phaeton, while he Robs a Gentleman, near Putney' Part 1795
f. 28r Printed sheet, possibly a broadside, headed ‘A Pious Warning to Impenitent Sinners Set forth in the Last Speech and Dying Words of William Dunkan, an House Breaker who was Executed at Tyburn […], on Saturday Aug. 10, 1751’ Part 1751
f. 30v Print of a man and a woman, guarded, surrounded by a crowd, with a gibbet in the background Part 18th c.
ff. 31–2, 34–6, 38–44 Leaves from The Genuine Life, Trial, etc. of John Rann, otherwise Sixteen-Strings Jack Part 1774
f. 46v Print captioned ‘The Burning and Plundering of Newgate and Setting the Felons at Liberty by the Mob’ Part 1 July 1780
f. 47r Cuttings from the London Chronicle, containing an account of the dying testimony of Lord Ferrer’s steward Part 31 Jan.–2 Feb. 1760
f. 47r Cutting from the London Chronicle, containing a report of the presentation to the House of Peers of the bill found against Lord Ferrers Part 18–20 Mar. 1760
f. 47r Cutting from the London Chronicle, containing a report of Lord Ferrers’s examination before the Lords and his committal Part 12–14 Feb. 1760
f. 49r Page from the London Chronicle, containing an account of the trial of Lord Ferrers, headed ‘Letter from a Noble Lord to the Author the Lady’s Museum’ Part 7–10 June 1760
f. 49v Cutting from the London Chronicle, containing a report of the com-mencement of Lord Ferrers’s trial Part 15–17 Apr. 1760
f. 50v Print captioned ‘Lawrence Earl Ferrers, in the Act of Shooting Mr Johnson, his Steward’ Part 1768
f. 53r Print captioned ‘A Perspective View of the Execution of Lord Ferrers at Tyburn May 5th 1760, for the Murder of his Steward’ Part 1760
ff. 73v Frontispiece of The Female Amazon, or, A Genuine Account of … the Life of … Miss Fanny Davies, by Mr Thompson Part 1786
ff. 94–108, 109r Leaves from The Genuine Narrative of the Life and Transactions of Major Maurice Keating (1785) Part 1785
f. 111 Print captioned ‘The Mob assembled to pull down the Bawdy-House kept by Peter Wood in the Strand’ Part 1768
ff. 131–2, 134–47 Leaves from The Genuine Life of William Cox, the Notorious Robber (1773) Part 1773
loose after f. 131 Cutting from the London Evening Post, containing a report of a rape and burglary at the house of Colonel James Des Romains Part 25–27 Oct. 1733
f. 7r Letter from Celia Doddridge to Mercy Doddridge Part 29 Sept. 1767
f. 9r Letter from Celia Doddridge to Mercy Doddridge Part 19 Nov. 1767
f. 11r Letter from Mary Doddridge (daughter) to Mercy Doddridge Part Feb. 1751