Journal of a tour through part of France, Flanders, and Holland

book, printed text

  • Author: Stevenson, Seth William, 1784-1853, author.
  • Title: Journal of a tour through part of France, Flanders, and Holland : including a visit to Paris, and a walk over the field of Waterloo: made in the summer of 1816 / by Seth William Stevenson.
  • Publication: Norwich : Printed (not for sale) at the Norfolk Chronicle Press, by Stevenson, Matchett, and Stevenson, 1817.

Catalog Record

82 817St

Acquired May 2021

Catalogue of the books in the library of Bayfield Hall

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  • AuthorBayfield Hall (Norfolk : England)
  • TitleA catalogue of the books in the library of the Bayfield Hall, the seat of Sir Alfred Jodrell, Bart.
  • PublishedNorwich : Stevenson and Co., Market-Place, 1886.

Catalog Record

Quarto 123 B357 886

Acquired September 2016

The trial between William Fawkener … plaintiff, and the Honourable John Townshend

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  • AuthorTownshend, John, Hon.
  • TitleThe trial between William Fawkener … plaintiff, and the Honourable John Townshend … defendant; for criminal conversation with the plaintiff’s wife … Before the Honourable Francis Buller, Esq.; one of the judges of His Majesty’s Court of king’s bench, in Westminster-hall, on Wednesday the 12th of July, 1786. With some interesting particulars relative to the duel between the plaintiff and the defendant.
  • PublishedLondon, M. Smith, 1786.

Catalog Record

523 F27 786

Acquired September 2016

An account of what seemed most remarkable…

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 Issued in 1872 with title: Hogarth’s frolic.

  • Author: Forrest, Ebenezer, active 1774.
  • Title: An account of what seemed most remarkable in the five days peregrination of … Messieurs Tothall, Scott, Hogarth, Thornhill, and Forrest. Begun on Saturday, May 27th, 1732 …
  • Published: London : Printed for R. Livesay, MDCCLXXXII [1782]

Catalog Record

Folio 75 H67 782 Copy 2

Acquired before 2002

Collections relating the hospital at Gretham

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Final [2] p.: “Extracts from the Journals of the House of Commons concerning the Masters of Greetham and Sherborne Hospitals in the County of Durham.”
Also issued as part of: ‘Collectanea ad statum civilem et ecclesiasticum comitatus Dwnelmensis spectantia’ [Darlington, 1780?].
Mostly in Latin, with some parts in English.

  • Author: Gretham Hospital (Gretham, England)
  • Title: Collections relating the hospital at Gretham in the county of Durham : shewing the foundation thereof by Robert Stichehill Bishop of Durham, about the year 1272 … Together with several charters, grants, visitations, inquisitions, rules and ordinances concerning the said hospital and church of Gretham …
  • Published: [Darlington : George Allan, 1770?]

Catalog Record

63 D21 770

Acquired August 2013

Collections relating St. Edmund’s Hospital at Gatesheved

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In: ‘Collectanea ad statum civilem et ecclesiasticum comitatus Dunelmensis spectantia’ [Darlington, 1820′].
In Latin and English.
Frontispiece engraving entitled ‘Goatshead Monastery Durham’ taken from Grose’s Antiquitites.

  • Title: Collections relating St. Edmund’s Hospital at Gatesheved in the County of Durham : shewing the foundation thereof by Nicholas Farnham Bishop of Durham, about the year 1247, and afterwards dissolved by a general act of Parliament 26th, Henry 8th, 1535, but again refounded by King James Ist. 4th January 1610, by the name of King James’s Hospital in Gateside. Together with several charters, grants, &c, concerning the said town and Church of Gateside …
  • Published: [Darlington : Printed [by George Allan] in the year, MDCCLXIX 1769]

Catalog Record

63 D21 769

Acquired August 2013

Remarkable criminals 1713-1767 (spine title)

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Bound with 27 other titles. To view other titles, search Orbis by call number: 521 6. (Local call number)

Spine title: Remarkable criminals 1713-1767. A collection of pamphlets, prints (many from The Tyburn chronicles and The malefactors register), newspapers and newspaper clippings, chapters from books, and other publications, all related to famous crimes.

Bound with: London morning penny post | Genuine history of the inhuman and unparalell’d murders committed on the bodies of Mr. William Galley, a custom-house officer in the port of Southampton, and Mr. Daniel Chater | Eliz. Jeffryes & Jno. Swan condemn’d at Chelmsfod-Assizes for the murder of Mr. Josh Jeffryes | Funeral procession of the celebrated Mr. Jonathan Wild thief-taker General of Great Britain & Ireland | True and genuine account of the life and actions of the late Jonathan Wild |  Several degrees taken by Jonathan Wild | Genuine memoirs of the life of Sir John Dinely Goodere, Bart. who was murder’d by the contrivance of his own brother | True effigies of Captn. Goodere, Matthew Mahony, & Charles White drawn from [the] life by order of the Captn. during their confinement in Newgate at Bristol |Matchless villany, or, A full and authentic narrative of the robbery and murder of John Penny, Esq | Genuine tryal at large of Mary Blandy, spinster, for poisoning her late father Francis Blandy |Miss Blandy now confin’d in Oxford Goal on suspicion of poisoning her father | Miss Molly Blandy who with her own & her sweetheart’s contrivance, is charged wth. barbarously & inhumanly poisoning her own father for his estate | Capt. William Henry Cranstoun with his pompous funeral procession in Flanders | Authentick memoirs of the wicked life and transactions of Elizabeth Jeffryes, spinster : who was executed on Saturday, March 28, 1752 | True effigies of James Hall | Life of Theodore Gardelle, limner and enameller : with a particular description of the murder of Anne King; and the inhumane means taken to conceal the same | Mrs. Elizabeth Brownrigg | Elizabeth Brownrigg, executed Septr 14th, 1761 for [the] murder of Mary Clifford | Genuine and authentic account of the life, tryal and execution, of Elizabeth Brownrigg : who was executed on Monday the 14th of September, 1767, for the barbarous murder of Mary Clifford, her apprentice girl | Richd. Noble stabbing John Sayer, Esqr. in the Mint, Southwark | Tapner & Cobby &c. the smugglers going to hang Chater the Custom House officer in the well | Mills and Rowland, smugglers, whipping Richard Hawkins to death at the Dog on Slendon Common | Inhuman manner in which the smugglers treated Chater the Custom-house officer, in Old Mill’s turf-house | Smugglers breaking open the Kings Custom House at Poole Octr. 7, 1747 | Miss Blandy at the place of execution near Oxford, attended by the Revd. Mr. Swinton | Surgeon Forbes visiting Mr. Jeffries at Walthamstow, who has just before been shot by Jno. Swan | Theodore Gardelle having murder’d Mrs. King, burns some of her body & hides the rest

  • Title: A full account of the case of John Sayer, Esq. :  from the time of his unhappy marriage with his wife, to his death. Including the whole intrigue between Mrs. Sayer and Mr. Noble and the prosecution at large against Noble, as appear’d at the Coroner’s inquest and at Kingston-Assizes.
  • Edition: The second edition, with additions.
  • Published: London : Printed, and sold by A. Baldwin at the Oxford Arms in Warwick-Lane, 1713.

Catalog record

Quarto 521 6

Acquired October 2012