(Engraved by Thomas Prattent from a drawing by J. Bowring. Engraving published 1796.)
(Dated ‘oct [th]e [blank] 1767. Docketed ‘Oct | 25 1767’.)
‘Est Deus cui et ego curæ sum.’ Dated at Dresden. The writer’s title is ‘Elect[oris] Sax[onici] Eccles[iastes] Aulicus.’ Cf. f. 53r (i).
(Signed ‘Cleora’. Mary is addressed as ‘Roselinda’. Dated ‘october [th]e 10’. Marked ‘No 8’.)
(Signed ‘Cleora’. The salutation is ‘To my amiable Roselinda’. Marked ‘No. 7’.)
(Engraving published 1 Aug. 1791.)
Two inscriptions on one slip, (i) on the recto, (ii) on the verso. (i) ‘Est Deus cui et ego curæ sum.’ ‘Symb: Prudens simplicitas.’ Dated at Leipzig. Addressed to [Balthasar Friedrich] Saltzmann. Cf. f. 54r. (ii) ‘Non dubitari potest, quin omnes spes vitæ ac salutis in sola Dei religione posita sit.’ (Lactantius, Epitome.) Dated at Ulm, where Müller was rector between 1671 and 1674. See E. E. von Georgii-Georgenau, Biographische-genealogische Blätter aus und über Schwaben (1879), p. 624.
Undated, but presumably published in 1760.
(Place of writing not indicated.)—Lord George Gordon is sorry to learn that Bremmer is in trouble and in ‘this horrid Bastile’. ‘A little trifle’ is enclosed, and he will assist him further when it is convenient. Encloses a newspaper containing a letter from the writer in French, which Mr Bass, another debtor, will explain to his fellow-prisoners.
(Dated Saturday night. Directed to ‘Mr George Bremmer, Debtor, Newgate.’)
‘IsraëL saLVatUs est In DoMInô saLUte æternâ.’ (Isaiah, xlv. 17.) ‘Symb. Matts. V. | [Arabic words] | Mites Gaudebunt.’ (Matthew, v. 5.) Cf. E. Geissner, Disputatio de symbolis von Denck- oder Leibsprüchen (1674), sigs. B2v, B3v, C3r. Dated at Dresden. The chronogram indicates the year MDCLXVIII.
(Undated. The date on the docket, ‘March 1747’, probably represents March 1748 according to the modern reckoning. Cf. the letters on ff. 10r and 55r.)
Below the caption is a paragraph in Dutch.
(Engraved by Henrik Eland from a drawing by Jan Goerce.)
‘Non potest malè mori, qui bene vixit: et vix bene moritur, qui malè vixit.’ (Augustine.) Dated ‘Dom. 1. post Trinit. 93.’ Probably written at Wittenberg. The writer’s title is ‘in Acad[emia] Witt[enbergensi] Pr[ofessor] P[ublicus].’
Drawn by O’Neil. Engraved by H. Roberts. Published on 10 July 1781 by P. Mitchell, North Audley Street, Grosvenor Square, and J. Fielding, 23 Pater Noster Row.
Engraved by Record. Removed from a copy of the fourth volume of The Tyburn Chronicle (1768), where this illustration faces p. 125.
(Dated ‘Jan[ua]ry [blank] 1775’. Docketed ‘Jan[ua]r[y] 21 | 1775’.)