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Author : Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 996 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : HARVARD:32044009570318
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 467 pages
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Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:468945345
Author : Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : LCCN:33004487
Author : Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : OXFORD:N13382205
Author : William Oxenham Hewlett,John Villiers Stuart Townshen Townshend,Great Britain Royal Commission on Histo
Publisher : Arkose Press
Page : 992 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1343498376
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Author : G. B. Historical Manuscripts Commission
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0366715798
Excerpt from The Manuscripts of the Marquess Townshend Poyntz, referring to the extreme want of the French army inso much that in several places their leathern shoes were taken from them in the winter [lest they should eat them, we may suppose the writer means] and locked up till the opening of the campaign, and wooden shoes given them in the meantime and every post we hear of their plundering bakers' shops. One correspondent tells Horatio Walpole in J une 1710 of the late sudden illness called Collero Morbus of his brother Robert, which had nearly put anearly period to the career of the then rising statesman; and another friend J ames Craggs, when with the English army in Spain, (writes to him about the battle of Almenara and other matters. Among other letter writers are the Earl ofpeterborough and Lord Baby, afterwards Earl of Strafi'ord, who succeeded Lord Town: shend as Ambassador at the Hague. After Townshend became Secretary of State in 1715, we find a capital series of despatches from Admiral Sir John Norris, when in command of the expedi tion sent. To the Baltic to protect British commerce, and to demand satisfaction from the King of Sweden for the losses in flicted on our merchants by the confiscation of their ships and cargoes. Other letters of this time in the collection, notably some from Lord Bolingbroke when in Paris, and of Sir Robert Walpole, were allowed to be used by Archdeacon Coxe, and printed in his Memoirs of Sir Robert Walpole. The correspondence for the year 1725 of Horatio Walpole when Minister in Paris, bound in four folio volumes, and many loose letters of his from Paris of earlier and later date were also examined by Coxe. In a long communication dated in J annary 1727, Sir Charles Wager, the Admiral, gives his private opinion of the Russians, and their inclinations towards England. The series of notes which passed between George IL, in his own handwriting, and Lord Townshend, on various public matters between 1728 and 1730, printed in Coxe's Walpole, are still preserved at Raynham. The last diplomatic letter of importance, dated 3rd November 1735, is from Thomas Robinson, afterwards Lord Grantham in it he refers to his six years' residence at the Imperial Court, and earnestly desires to be removed from Vienna. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022671114
Author : Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : Ireland
ISBN : PRNC:32101031517731
Author : Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : IND:30000035038540
First to ninth reports, 1870-1883/84, with appendices giving reports on unpublished manuscripts in private collections; Appendices after v. [15a] pt. 10 issued without general title.
Author : Patrick Griffin
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300231144
The captivating story of two British brothers whose attempts to reform an empire helped to incite rebellion and revolution in America and insurgency and reform in Ireland Patrick Griffin chronicles the attempts of brothers Charles and George Townshend to control the forces of history in the heady days after Britain’s mythic victory over France in the mid-eighteenth century, and the historic and unintended consequences of their efforts. As British chancellor of the exchequer in 1767, Charles Townshend instituted fiscal policy that served as a catalyst for American rebellion against the Crown, while his brother George’s actions at the same moment as lord lieutenant of Ireland politicized the kingdom, leading to Irish legislative independence. This fascinating study is the first to consider as a linked history the influence of two all-but-forgotten brothers, both of whom rose to national prominence in the same year. Griffin vividly reconstructs the many worlds the Townshends moved through and explores how their shared conception of an empire that could harness the wealth of America to the manpower of Ireland initiated an age of revolution.
Author : Baylus C. Brooks
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781329553033
From the author of Blackbeard Reconsidered! James Wimble was best known for his map of the Lower Cape Fear Region in 1733, and especially for his final map of 1738. Wimble saved the fledgling port town of Wilmington, North Carolina from certain ruin. As Alan D. Watson, in Wilmington, North Carolina, to 1861 put it, Wimble "no doubt was the prime instigator of the new town." Londoners would remember him for his exploits as a privateer in the War of Jenkins Ear, in the 1740's. Many of the British local "rags" describe him as taking prizes of great "burthen" and "rich cargo." These exciting times for English readers proved less than exuberant for Wimble, however. What we know of him during that time mostly comes from British records. His wife died, he lost an arm to chain shot in 1742, and later, almost his life while chasing down a Spanish ship through the Florida Keys in a ship that he named "Revenge." In his final days, James Wimble went back to London to engage in the timber trade.
Author : Charles Saumarez Smith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1990-03-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0226764036
This book is the first complete study of the circumstances which led to the building of Castle Howard, one of the greatest and best-known English country houses. It describes how and why Charles Howard, third earl of Carlisle, decided to build it; how the architect Sir John Vanbrugh received his first commission; how the building was paid for and where the money came from; what the original interiors looked like; how the gardens and park were laid out; and the decision taken to build the first classical mausoleum in England, designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor. It relates the physical appearance of the architecture to the hopes, desires and personalities of those involved in the building and makes it possible to look at the house in the way that it was intended to be seen by visitors in the eighteenth century. The Building of Castle Howard should appeal to anyone who is interested in eighteenth-century architecture, in the history of gardens, in country houses, and in a historical detective story of a house which Sir John Vanbrugh was determined should be 'the top seat and garden of England.'
Author : Douglas Fordham
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780812242430
Between the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745 and the American Declaration of Independence, London artists transformed themselves from loosely organized professionals into one of the most progressive schools of art in Europe. In British Art and the Seven Years' War Douglas Fordham argues that war and political dissent provided potent catalysts for the creation of a national school of art. Over the course of three tumultuous decades marked by foreign wars and domestic political dissent, metropolitan artists—especially the founding members of the Royal Academy, including Joshua Reynolds, Paul Sandby, Joseph Wilton, Francis Hayman, and Benjamin West—creatively and assiduously placed fine art on a solid footing within an expansive British state. London artists entered into a golden age of art as they established strategic alliances with the state, even while insisting on the autonomy of fine art. The active marginalization of William Hogarth's mercantile aesthetic reflects this sea change as a newer generation sought to represent the British state in a series of guises and genres, including monumental sculpture, history painting, graphic satire, and state portraiture. In these allegories of state formation, artists struggled to give form to shifting notions of national, religious, and political allegiance in the British Empire. These allegiances found provocative expression in the contemporary history paintings of the American-born artists Benjamin West and John Singleton Copley, who managed to carve a patriotic niche out of the apolitical mandate of the Royal Academy of Arts.
Author : Steve Hindle
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2004-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191533853
On the Parish? is a study of the negotiations which took place over the allocation of poor relief in the rural communities of sixteenth, seventeenth and early eighteenth century England. It analyses the relationships between the enduring systems of informal support through which the labouring poor made attempts to survive for themselves; the expanding range of endowed charity encouraged by the late sixteenth century statutes for charitable uses; and the developing system of parish relief co-ordinated under the Elizabethan poor laws. Based on exhaustive research in the archives of the trustees who administered endowments, of the overseers of the poor who assessed rates and distributed pensions, of the magistrates who audited and co-ordinated relief and of the royal judges who played such an important role in interpreting the Elizabethan statutes, the book reconstructs the hierarchy of provision of relief as it was experienced among the poor themselves. It argues that receipt of a parish pension was only the final (and by no means the inevitable) stage in a protracted process of negotiation between prospective pensioners (or 'collectioners', as they came to be called) and parish officers. This running theme is itself reflected in a series of chapters whose sequence seeks to mirror the experience of indigence, moving gradually (and by stages) from the networks of care provided by kin and neighbours into the bureaucracy of the parish relief system, emphasising in particular the importance of labour discipline in the thinking of parish officers. By illuminating the workings of a relief system in which notions of entitlement were both under-developed and contested, On the Parish? provides historical perspective for contemporary debates about the rights and obligations of the poor in a society where the dismantling of the welfare state implies that there is, once again, no right to relief from cradle to grave.
Author : Huw J. Davies
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300217162
A compelling history of the British Army in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries—showing how the military gathered knowledge from campaigns across the globe “Superb analysis.”—William Anthony Hay, Wall Street Journal At the outbreak of the War of Austrian Succession in 1742, the British Army’s military tactics were tired and outdated, stultified after three decades of peace. The army’s leadership was conservative, resistant to change, and unable to match new military techniques developing on the continent. Losses were cataclysmic and the force was in dire need of modernization—both in terms of strategy and in leadership and technology. In this wide-ranging and highly original account, Huw J. Davies traces the British Army’s accumulation of military knowledge across the following century. An essentially global force, British armies and soldiers continually gleaned and synthesized strategy from war zones the world over: from Europe to the Americas, Africa, and Asia. Davies records how the army and its officers put this globally acquired knowledge to use, exchanging information and developing into a remarkable vehicle of innovation—leading to the pinnacle of its military prowess in the nineteenth century.