Crewe Manuscripts

Inventory list
Identifier Sort ascending Title Level of description Date Digital object
ff. 9–10 ‘A True Table Of Fees Due, or Claimable In any Bishop’s Courts’, etc., transcribed from The Black Non-Conformist, by Edmund Hickeringill (1682), pp. 68–70 Part early 18th c.
ff. 16–17 Notes on the savings made by Sir Robert Walpole by paying off the expenses of ships which had been laid up in harbours since 1696 or 1697, after peace had been concluded between England and France Part early 18th c.
f. 18 Notes on politics, etc. Part early 18th c.
ff. 19–24 Table of subjects for prayers, sermons, lectures, and orations, some listed under the headings ‘Wednesdays’ and ‘Sundays’ Part early 18th c.
ff. 38–9 Tables of subjects for addresses Part early 18th c.
ff. 52–3 Two lists of sermons, by John Henley Part 17 Jan. 1725
ff. 64–5 Scheme for the establishment of a chapel by subjscription, headed ‘Chapters’ Part early 18th c.
f. 67 Lists of residents in Old Bedford Row and New Bedford Row Part early 18th c.
f. 68 Letter from Jonathan Hoddle(?) (to John Henley?) Part c. 1730
ff. 70–3 Responses to objections made by Jews to the claims of Christianity Part early 18th c.
f. 76 List of newspapers and printers Part early 18th c.
ff. 77–8 Sheet marked ‘A Medley-Oratio[n]’, otherwise blank Part early 18th c.
ff. 85–8 ‘Objections in the history of Church and State answ’d’ Part early 18th c.
ff. 107–11 Notes on divinity, etc. Part early 18th c.
f. 127 Notes on human physiology Part early 18th c.
ff. 128–9 Notes on Giulio Alberoni Part early 18th c.
f. 131 Notes on William Cave’s Primitive Christianity (2 vols., 1672) Part early 18th c.
ff. 132–4 Notes on various substances Part early 18th c.
f. 139 Notes on René Aubert Vertot’s History of the Revolutions in Sweden, translated by John Mitchel (1696) Part early 18th c.
ff. 140–5 Notes on botany, spices, and other natural substances Part early 18th c.
ff. 146–9 Notes on architecture Part early 18th c.
ff. 150–9 Tables of books read, books to be read, etc., with notes on the ‘Arts of a Meer Politician’ Part early 18th c.
ff. 15–20 Leaves from Memoirs of the Life of Benjamin Starkey (1818) (pp. iii–iv, 5–14) Part 1818
ff. 22, 24, 26, 28, 31, 33, 35, 37 Autograph memoir of Benjamin Starkey, entitled ‘A Short Account of the Writer of this Narration’, concluding with a letter from him to Mr Humble junior, 14 Nov. 1811 Part 1811
ff. 41r–42r Cuttings from the Every-Day Book (1825), containing a letter to the editor (William Hone) from C. L. (Charles Lamb), headed ‘Captain Starkey’ Part 1825
pp. 42a–b, 43 ‘Altre notizie curiose di Curzio Marigniolli’ Part
pp. 44–53 ‘Vendetta del Signor Niccolò Compagni Gentiluomo Fiorentino l’Anno 1600’ Part
pp. 71–80 ‘Morte di Pietro Paolo Stibbi dalle Pomerancie Seguita il di 29 di Luglio 1634’ Part
pp. 83–103 ‘Vita, e Morte di Vincenzio Serzelli, e di Matteo Santini Seguita in Via Ghibellina [blank] il di [blank] dell’anno 1557’ Part
pp. 105–16 ‘Vita, e Morte della Caterina Canacci, e di Bartolomeo Suo Figliolo Seguita l’Anno 1638 In Firenze’ Part