Showing 1 results

Printed pamphlets and manuscript leaves comprising Latin speeches, including Bishop Robert Morgan's speech at Beaumaris, preambles to letters patent, copies of monumental inscriptions and miscellaneous other papers.
The printed items are: (a) Edmund Smith, Oratio in publicis academiæ oxoniensis scholis, in laudem Clarissimi Doctissimique Viri Thomae Bodleii, ... habita Ab Insignissimo Viro, tam Ingenio quam Doctrina Excellenti ... (London, 1711, ESTC T58649) (ff. 5-15); (b) Richard Hale, Oratio comitiis anniversariis Harveianæ memoriæ sacris in amphitheatro medicorum Londinensium habita ... (London, 1725, ESTC T43318) (ff. 16-30); (c) Joseph Addison, The Reasons which Induced His Majesty to Create Sir Thomas Parker, Kt. (Chief Justice of the King's-Bench), a Peer of Great-Britain; Being the Preamble to his Patent (London, 1716, ESTC T201852) (ff. 31-35); (d) The Reasons which Induced Her Majesty to create Henry St John, Esq., a Peer of Great-Britain. Also the Preambles to the Patents of the Lord Massam, and the Lord Halifax (London, 1712, ESTC N48382) (ff. 36-41); (e) A Collection of Preambles to the Patents of I. Robert Earl of Oxford. II. Simon Lord Harcourt. III. William Lord Dartmouth. IV. Thomas Earl of Strafford. V. Robert Lord Ferrers. VI. Charles Earl of Orrery. VII. James Duke of Hamilton. VIII. George Augustus Duke of Cambridge, &c. With Remarks, 2nd edn (London, 1712, ESTC N28025) (ff. 42-65 verso).