Tag Archives: Lewis Walpole Library June 2013

A true and perfect inventory of [the] goods

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Manuscript, in a single hand, dated and signed with the marks of the two appraisers, Samuel Kidsmead and Henry Stephens. The inventory of the deceased weaver includes his apparel and money, looms and tools, books, lumber and bed. The estate totaled £14.12.00.

  • Creator: Kidsmead, Samuel.
  • Title: A true and perfect inventory of [the] goods, shattells, rights and creditts of Sam. Twissell of [the] Parish of Bisley in the county of Gloust.: weaver, late deceased, taken by us whose bnames are herunto subscribed this twenty seventh day of March 1728 … 1728 March 27.

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LWL Mss File 111

Acquired June 2013

Document attesting to the arrest of Ann Darby

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Manuscript, in a single hand, written by Richard Akerman, describing the arrest of Ann Darby for aiding and abetting Frederick Calvert, 6th Lord Baltimore per the authority of the magistrate John Fielding. In 1768, Frederick was accused of abducting and raping Sarah Woodcock, who kept a milliner’s shop. He pleaded not guilty by reason of consent and was acquitted by the jury, but his reputation was ruined. After the trial he left England for the continent and died there in 1771.

  • Creator: Akerman, Richard.
  • Title: Document attesting to the arrest of Ann Darby for aiding and abetting Frederick Clavert in his alleged rape of Sarah Woodcock : London, Newgate gaol, 1767 December 29.

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LWL Mss File 112+

Acquired June 2013

The fatal choice

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Unknown author, but Hannah More was responsible for an estimated half of the titles in the Cheap Repository series.
Woodcut illustration on t.p.: The two youths are shown conversing on the road to London near a milestone.

  • Title: The fatal choice.
  • Published: [London : Printed and sold by John Marshall, at the Cheap-Repository, No. 17, Queen-Street, Cheapside, and No. 4, Aldermary Church-Yard, Bow-Lane, London; and may be had of the booksellers, newsmen, and hawkers, in town and country, 1798]

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61 C41 F252

Acquired June 2013

Pro-Pinchbeck’s answer to the ode

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Sometimes wrongly attributed to William Mason; the work is a Tory answer to his Ode to Mr. Pinchbeck (1776)

  • Author: Pro-Pinchbeck.
  • Title: Pro-Pinchbeck’s answer to the ode from the author of The heroic epistle to Sir William Chambers.
  • Published: London : Printed for J. Ridley, in St. James’s Street, MDCCLXXVI [1776]

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53 P962 776

Acquired June 2013