Crewe Manuscripts

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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. 1r Receipt from Theophilus Rowe to Thomas Worrall Part 21 Mar. 1729
f. 1r Receipt from Aaron Ward, on behalf of ‘the Castle-Conger’ (an association of booksellers), to Jacob Tonson III and Richard Tonson, Part 21 Apr. 1741
f. 1v Receipt from Daniel Browne to Jacob Tonson II Part 18 Aug. 1714
f. 4r (i) ‘Promissory note’ from Jacob Tonson I to John Philips, 24 Nov. 1707, endorsed with (ii) a receipt from Robert Philips to Jacob Tonson II, 9 Jan. 1709 Part 24 Nov. 1707
f. 8 (i) Articles of agreement between (A) Jacob Tonson III and Richard Tonson and (B) Samuel Dyer, 10 Mar. 1756, bearing (ii) six receipts from Dyer, 18 Mar. 1756–29 July 1758 Part 10 Mar. 1756–29 July 1758
f. 12 Agreement between (A) Richard Butler, MD, and (B) Jacob Tonson I Part 11 Mar. 1723
f. 16 Assignment from (A) Daniel Midwinter, Richard Ware, Charles Rivington, Aaron Ward, John Knapton, Paul Knapton, Thomas Longman, Richard Hett, Charles Hitch, Stephen Austen, John Wood, Charles Woodward, and John Pemberton to (B) Jacob Tonson III and Richard Tonson of a third share in the copyright of Isaac Barrow’s Works (3 vols.) Part 5 May 1741
f. 32 Account of Mr (William?) Bowyer with Robert Knaplock, Jacob Tonson I, and William Innys regarding the delivery of copies of ‘Newtons Myotomia’ [Sir Isaac Newton’s revision of Cowper’s Myotomia Reformata] Part 1723–5
f. 37 Assignment from (A) Temple Stanyan to (B) Jacob and Richard Tonson of the copyrights of books by Stanyan Part 17 Apr. 1739
f. 39 Acknowledgement by Henry Lintot Part 6 June 1744
f. 49v Cutting from the London Chronicle, containing a report of the commencement of Lord Ferrers’s trial Part 15–17 Apr. 1760