Anniversary meeting of the Guardians of the Asylum

description belowInvitation to a dinner of the Guardians of the Asylum for Female Orphans. At top is a scene of a woman leading three orphan children away to the left, while the bodies of soldiers are taken away to the right; text with the details of the meeting engraved below. The whole is enclosed within a border of leaves.

 

  • Creator: Asylum for Orphan Girls (London, England)
  • Title: Anniversary meeting of the Guardians of the Asylum : at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, Strand, on [blank] May 19th, 179 [blank]. Dinner ticket, price 10s. 6d.
  • Publication: [London] : [publisher not identified], [179-]

Catalog Record

File 66 79- As861

Acquired November 2022

The Graham Charitable Society, instituted Septr. 13th anno 1759

 

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  • Creator: Graham Charitable Society.
  • Title: The Graham Charitable Society, instituted Septr. 13th anno 1759. : His Grace the Duke of Montrose, Patron.
  • Publication: [London] : [publisher not identified], [approximately 1820]

Catalog Record

File 66 820 G739+

Acquired October 2021

Account of the Society of Friends of Foreigners in Distress

title page

  • Author: Society of Friends of Foreigners in Distress.
  • Title: Account of the Society of Friends of Foreigners in Distress : with the nature and views of the institution ; also the plan and regulations, a list of subscribers, and an appendix, containing some of the most interesting cases.
  • Publication: London : Printed for the Society by W. Marchant, Ingram-Court, Fenchurch-Street, 1814.

Catalog record

63 814 So678

Acquired September 2020

 

An account of the signals made use of at Bambrough Castle

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Broadside, with engravings of Bamburgh Castle at head, and caption title

 

  • Author: Lord Crewe’s Charity.
  • Title: An account of the signals made use of at Bambrough Castle in the county of Northumberland in case ships or vessels are perceived in distress, and of the charitable institutions established there for their assistance and relief, now published by the direction of the Trustees of Nathanael late Lord Crewe, with the approbation of the Master, pilots, and seamen of the Trinity-house, in Newcastle upon Tyne.
  • Published: Newcastle upon Tyne : Printed and sold by T. Saint ; and sold by J. Wheble … London, [1771?]

Catalog Record

File 63 771 Ac172++

Acquired September 2020

The nature and use of the Charitable Corporation

title page

  • Author: Britannicus.
  • Uniform Title: [Nature of the Charitable Corporation]
  • Title: The nature and use of the Charitable Corporation, and its relation to trade, consider’d ; in a letter to a Member of Parliament.
  • Published: London : Printed for A. Millar, at Buchanan’s Head, over-against St. Clement’s Church, in the Strand, MDCCXXXII [1732]

Catalog Record

63 732 B86

Acquired October 2019

Anniversary meeting of the Charity Children

An engraved admission ticket with the St. Paul’s Cathedral in a rondel in the center flanked on the left with an figure of a boy in a niche with the words “Naked & ye clothed us” below and on the right a girl, also in a niche, with the words “Ignorance & ye instructed us” below. Above the rondel is engraved in frame: Date et dabitur vobis.

  • Creator: Patrons of the Anniversary of the Charity-Schools (Society)
  • Title: Anniversary meeting of the Charity Children in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, London [graphic].
  • Manufacture: [London] : [Society of Patrons], [1821]
    [London] : Norris & Son, sc. Moorfields, [1821]

Catalog Record 

File 646 821 P314+

Acquired June 2019

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