Crewe Manuscripts

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f. 195r Woodcut printer’s ornament from a book printed for the Society of Stationers (1611) Part 1611
f. 197r Engraving, perhaps from a bill, advertising John Raw, printer, bookseller, and stationer of the Butter Market, Ipswich Part c. 1800
f. 198r Woodcut decorated initials and other printers’ ornaments Part 17th c.?
ff. 2–3 Letter from Pierre-Joseph-Fleury Jubié to the Directory Part 28 Jan. 1798
ff. 4–7 Subscriptions to the loan Part 1798
f. 9 Subscription for ten actions, in an unidentified hand Part 11 Jan. 1798
f. 10 Note from Jacques Defermon to —, with a summary of the reply Part 1798
f. 13 Letter from Jean-Gabriel-Maurice Roques, etc., particular commissioners for the loan against England, to Dominique-Vincent Ramel-Nogaret Part 13 Apr. 1798
ff. 17–25 Extract from the registers of the deliberations of the Directory, containing a proclamation regarding the execution of the law concerning the loan against England Part 11 Jan. 1798
ff. 26–30 Printed leaves from a booklet, headed Departement de la Seine: Emprunt national pour la descente en Angleterre Part c. 1798
f. 31 Printed leaflet, containing a poem entitled ‘La Visite en Angleterre, ou, Le Bal a Londres’ Part 1798
f. 32 Printed leaflet, containing a poem entitled ‘Chant guerrier pour la descente en Angleterre’ Part 1798
f. 33 Poem entitled ‘Vengeance!’, by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle, in a mid-19th c. hand Part c. 1850
**B**, p. 5 ‘Sermon contre les Impies et blasphémateurs, &ca. &ca. Exorde’: an adaption of part of J. H. S. Formey’s preface to L’Anti-Sans-Souci Part
**B**, pp. 6–18 ‘Abrégé du Kode de la Nature Par M. Mirabaud … Londres | 1770’: adapted from Chapter XIV of Baron d’Holbach’s Système de la Nature Part
**B**, pp. 74–8 ‘Discours Eternel’: a verse treatise, in four parts (author unknown) Part
**B**, pp. 114–15 ‘Descripcion de Paris’: part of the fourth canto of Delille’s L’Homme des champs Part
**B**, p. 115 Verses, by an Augustinian friar Part
**B**, pp. 115–23 ‘Lettre. Le Silfe Oromasis, ò Kabaliste Abukibak’: Letter CXXXI of the Marquis d’Argens’ Lettres cabalistiques Part
**B**, pp. 128–41 ‘Lettre 3e. Le Kabaliste Abukibak, ò studieû Ben Kiber’: Letter CXXV of the Marquis d’Argens’ Lettres cabalistiques Part
**B**, pp. 143–68 (There is no writing on these pages, though all but the last have borders.) Part
**C**, pp. 1–3, 3a, 3b, 4–14 ‘Statuts de l’Ordre de l’Annonciation’, by Joseph Grosset(?) Part
f. 2 Print of Thomas Horner and his accomplices in the house of Daniel Clewen Part 1795
loose after f. 4 The Penny London Post Part 9–11 Jan. 1751
f. 25r Cutting from the Whitehall Evening Post, containing a report of the penitence expressed by Théodore Gardelle, now in Newgate Part 7–10 Mar. 1761
f. 25v Cutting from the Whitehall Evening Post, containing a brief account of the inquest into the murder of Mrs King, which Gardelle admits Part 3–5 Mar. 1761
f. 27r Cutting from the Whitehall Evening Post, containing an account of Gardelle’s offer to sign a confession Part 10–12 Mar. 1761
f. 50r Cutting from the London Chronicle, containing details from the printed account of Lord Ferrers’s last day (An Account of the Execution of the late Laurence, Earl Ferrers) Part 13–15 May 1760
ff. 51, 54–6, 58–63, 65, 70 Leaves from Genuine Memoirs of the Life, Family, and Behaviour of Laurence Shirley, Earl of Ferrers Part 1760
f. 93v Print captioned ‘A Perspective View of the temporary Gallows in the Old Bailey’ Part 1784