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University Arms - Herewith WW 'will receive Bishop Mansel's armorial bearings. It appears, that there is some doubt, which I am unable to resolve, about the proper colours'.

Thanks for his congratulations, pleased that Monks life of Bentley is still progressing

Biographical sketch; copy of a letter from George III to William Pitt regarding the nomination of Mansel as Master of Trinity, 13 May 1793; notes on Mansel's children; copy of a letter from Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester, to Isabella Mansel on the death of her father, 5 July 1820; anecdotes about, and epigrams by, Mansel.

Commonplace book with verses (including "Gray's Elegy parodied by W. Benwell") and epigrams (from Porson and Mansel). At the front of the book is A New Common-Place Book, in which the plan recommended and practised by John Locke, Esq. is enlarged and improved, by a Gentleman of the University of Cambridge, Second Edition. Cambridge, 1777.

(Attribution from the National Portrait Gallery Collection, reference NPG D22584.)