Crewe Manuscripts

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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. 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. 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. 49v Cutting from the London Chronicle, containing a report of the commencement of Lord Ferrers’s trial Part 15–17 Apr. 1760