Tag Archives: Lewis Walpole Library December 2016

The trial at large of Mary Heath on an indictment for perjury

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Concerns the perjury trial of Mary Heath, who was employed by Lord Altham, pertaining to whether or not Lady Altham, his wife, bore him a son and test the claim of James Annesley to be the legitimate son of Arthur, Lord Altham.

  • Author: Heath, Mary, defendant.
  • Title: The trial at large of Mary Heath on an indictment for perjury at the Court of King’s-Bench in Ireland before the Right Honourable Thomas Marlay, Esq., Lord Chief Justice … on Friday the 8th day of February, in Hillary-Term, 1744 … / by a gentleman of the law.
  • Published: London : Printed for H. Pemberton … and sold by James Roberts …, 1745.

Catalog Record

Quarto 523 H438 745

Acquired December 2016

A sweep-ing reform among the clergy

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Two policemen are shown arresting chimney sweeps, roughly pulling one by the arm and another pushing an adult chimney sweep away while carrying four little boys on his back or in his arm. Two chimney sweeps on the left and one on the right complain of the crackdown on their trade.

  • Printmaker: Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker.
  • Title: A sweep-ing reform among the clergy [graphic] / C.J.G.
  • Publication: [London] : Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market, [ca. 1833]

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Folio 75 G750 833 Copy 2 (Oversize) no. 55

Acquired December 2016

Interior of an English workhouse* under the new Poor Law Act

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Emaciated and shaven-headed paupers treated as slaves by cruel overseers: adults beating hemp and children picking rope in the foreground, others in the background manacled to the wall or hanging from the ceiling, tied up by their feet and hands; to right, a manager with a scourge seizing an elderly man, and a man pulling a cart, which he says is full of dead infants to be sold to surgeons; to left, a manager turning away the starving poor who beg to be let in.”–British Museum online catalogue.

  • Printmaker: Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker.
  • Title: Interior of an English workhouse* under the new Poor Law Act [graphic].
  • Publication: [London] : Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton-Street, Clare-Market, [ca. 1833]

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Folio 75 G750 833 Copy 2 (Oversize)

Acquired December 2016

A catalogue of that truly superb, and well-known collection of pictures

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  • Author: Desenfans, Noel Joseph, 1745-1807
  • Title: A catalogue of that truly superb, and well-known collection of pictures, of the Roman, Venetian, Spanish, French, Flemish, Dutch and English schools; the intire and genuine property of Monsieur Desenfans. … The whole will be sold on Saturday, April 8, 1786 … by private contract, by a committee appointed by Mons. Desenfans …
  • Published: [London] : [publisher not identified], [1786]

Catalog Record

125 D451 786

Acquired December 2016

Facetiae; being a general collection of the jeux d’esprits

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“A list of new and popular works, published by William Kidd, No. 14, Chandos Street, West Strand”–Following illustrations in Cruikshank v. Agnew; or, A view of Sir Andrew Agnew’s bill for the better observance of the Lord’s day.

  • Title: Facetiae; being a general collection of the jeux d’esprits which have been illustrated by Robert Cruikshank.
  • Published: London, W. Kidd, 1831-[34]

Catalog Record

75 C9 833

Acquired December 2016