Engraved by Record from a drawing by [Samuel] Wale. A similar print faces p. 202 of the fourth volume of The Tyburn Chronicle (1768).
(The first part of the letter is dated ‘Tuesday Night ½ a Hour | past 11 o’Clock Novr 19’; the second, ‘Wednsday Night 7 o’Clock’.)
First line: ‘To Mary’s Lips has ancient Rome’. Numbered 28.
First line, 'L'hypocrite avoit dit dans sa fureur sacrie...'
Moyaux.—Informs him of certain robberies. An imminent attack is planned by the Chouans in the department of Eure (in Normandy). Requests permission to bring the armed troops from Lisieux to fight the royalists; to search suspicious places; and to replace the major of the republican troops.
(Dated 11 Ventôse, an 4. Certified as a true copy by Lévêque.)
Pasted face down so beginning of letter unreadable. [Robert Lubbock?] Bensly mentioned.
Numbered 24.
(Undated. Blanchard’s fifty-first ascent took place in 1800.)
(The first part of the letter is dated ‘Tuesday 1 oClock’ (evidently an hour after midnight); the second, ‘Wednsday Morning’.)
Two ballads on one sheet.
First line: ‘We of Oxford the Chancellour, and his Vice-Can:’. The lines are probably addressed to King George I or II.
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Transcript
We of Oxford the Chancellour, and his Vice-Can: {1}
With the Doctours and Masters, Send a poor Servingman
With orders to give you, Sir, to understand,
That a letter Sign’d George is Safe come to hand;
Which having been over and over perus’d,
Your Present was near upon being refus’d.
But after a grave and maturer debate
Came at length to agree (one and all had been better)
To take it, and Seeme thus to thank you by letter.
This done, Sir, we hope you are herewith content;
Since farther then this by us nothing is meant.
Our mind we Speake plain without flattering Preamble
Not Skill’d like our Sister Cambridge to dissemble.
We Scorn to professe the least loyal affection
To one who against our Will gives us protection.
Neither wish we, nor pray we for Princes at home,
Having Sent all our prayers & wishes to Rome.
Assure yourself therefore you always Shall find,
We ever Shall hate you, be you ever So kind.
In token whereof our names we conceal:
But Send you these presents under our Seal.
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A few abbreviations have been expanded.
{1} i.e. vice-cancellarius, vice-chancellor.
The inscription on the placard is ‘LATE RISING ASSOCIATION | Please to make your sleep long. you will thereby benefit a large & suffering portion of the community | Offices of the Association:’. The paper has been trimmed round the outlines of man and his placard.
‘Certandum est. Nulli veniunt sine Morte triumphi, | Et nisi Certanti nulla Corona datur.’ Dated at Tübingen.
Numbered 25.
Caen.—Encloses f. 26.
(Dated 15 Ventôse, an 4. Letter-head of the Commissaire du Directoire Exécutif, près l’Administration Départementale du Calvados.)