DOCSLIB.ORG

Pamphlets from Newbattle Abbey 2019

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Pamphlets from Newbattle Abbey 2019 PAMPHLETS FROM NEWBATTLE ABBEY 2019 (+44) 01929 556 656 | [email protected] | www.antiquates.co.uk ANTIQUATES – FINE & RARE BOOKS The following 60 pamphlets were recently dispersed from an accumulation of books at Newbattle Abbey, Midlothian, Scotland. A former Cistercian monastery, Newbattle became the seat of the Kerr family when the son of the commendator of the Abbey, Mark Kerr, was created Lord Newbattle (1591) and Earl Lothian (1606). Later courtesy titles were bestowed upon the same family, including the Earldom of Ancram, and in 1701 the fourth Earl, Robert Kerr, was further ennobled, becoming the first Marquess Lothian. The Abbey remained in the family until it became a College of Education in 1937. The inclusion of presentation copies in this list is unsurprising. The family’s position amongst the British, Scottish and Irish landed gentry, connections with Scotland, England (where several Marquesses were MPs before taking their titles) and Ireland, and the military and constitutional roles of several of the Marquesses ensured access to vast social networks and interest in a wide-range of political events. Topics included in this list therefore include the French Revolution, British radicalism, the Irish Act of Union, various royal and constitutional crises, and even the American Civil War. Recipients of several volumes, and likely earlier owners of the works contained herein include: General William John Kerr, 5th Marquess of Lothian KT (1737-1815) was a British soldier and peer, styled Lord Newbottle until 1767 and the Earl of Ancram from 1767 to 1775, when he succeeded his father as Marquess. William Kerr, 6th Marquess of Lothian, KT, FRSE (1763-1824) was also a soldier, landowner and representative peer between 1817-1824. John William Robert Kerr, 7th Marquess of Lothian PC (1794-1841), styled Lord Newbottle until 1815, and Earl of Ancram 1815- 1824, was a Scottish Tory politician. He briefly served as a government official in Peel’s second ministry. William Schomberg Robert Kerr, 8th Marquess of Lothian (1832-1870). The pamphlets are generally in tremendously unsophisticated state, largely stitched, as issued, and variously with and without wrappers. 2 ANTIQUATES – FINE & RARE BOOKS 1) [ADAIR, Robert, Sir]. A whig's apology for his consistency; in a letter from a member of parliament to his friend in the borough of ****. London. Printed for J. Debrett, 1795. First edition. 8vo. [4], 72, 161-192, 73-160, 193-198pp, [2]. With a half-title and a terminal publisher's advertisement leaf. Several gathering misbound. Uncut, stitched, as issued. Contemporary inked annotation to title- page, inked inscription to head of p.1, gathering 'G' (p.41-48) detached, lightly spotted/dust-soiled, some creasing. The sole edition of Whig politician Sir Robert Adair's (1763-1855) impassioned defence of Charles James Fox (1749-1806) and his opposition to Britain's involvement in the French Revolutionary Wars. ESTC T28306. £ 125 2) BARRUEL, [Augustin]. Lettrer d'un voyageur a l'abbe barruel ou nouveaux documens pour ses memoires, nouvelles decouvertes faites en allemange, anecdotes sur quelques grands personnages de ce pays, chronique de la secte, &c. [London]. Se vend chez A. Dulau et Co. et al., 1800. First edition. 8vo. [2], iv, [2], 191pp, [2]. Uncut and partially unopened, stitched, as issued, in original publisher's plain blue paper wrappers. Extremities lightly spotted, significant loss to spine panel. Short tear to upper margin of leaf L3, some worming to gutter margins throughout. The sole printing of a series of letters on the politics, customs, and prominent figures of the German territories of the late eighteenth-century, that though claiming to be written by a 'Voyageur' to Jesuit priest Augustin Barruel (1741-1820), are likely the work of Barruel himself. The composition of the letters (and the lengthy appendix) would seem to suggest Barruel is more concerned with furthering his own agenda rather than providing an accurate account of the region. In his Memoires pour Servir a l'Histoire du Jacobinisme (1797-99), Barruel set forth his anti-revolutionary conspiracy theory, asserting that the Jacobins, in league with the Bavarian Illuminati and Freemasons, had designs to overthrow Christianity and as such had instigated the French Revolution - ideas that are once more referenced in the present work. ESTC record copies at two locations in the British Isles (BL and Oxford), and a further five worldwide (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Harvard, Philadelphia, Wayne State, and Yale). ESTC T80011. £ 200 3 ANTIQUATES – FINE & RARE BOOKS RISE OF NAPOLEON 3) [BESCHER, Rene-Francois]. Causes de la chute de louis XVIII. A Paris. Chez les Marchands de Nouveautes, [1815]. First edition. 8vo. 15pp, [1].With a half-title. Uncut, stitched, as issued. Lightly dust-soiled, some creasing. The sole edition of a rare pamphlet by French journalist Rene- Francois Bescher (1763-c.1830) recounting the events surrounding the exile of Louis XVIII and the rise of Napoleon following the French Revolution. OCLC records copies at only two locations (BnF and Strasbourg). £ 150 4) BIGOT DE SAINTE-CROIX, L[ouis] C[laude]. Histoire de la conspiration du 10 aout 1792. Londres [i.e. London]. [R. Edwards], [1793]. 8vo. [8], 161pp, [1], vi, [2]. With a half-title and a terminal errata leaf. Uncut, stitched into original publisher's plain blue paper wrappers. Extremities lightly marked. Contemporary inked ownership inscriptions to half-title and title-page, worming to gutter margins throughout. Louis Claude Bigot de Sainte-Croix's (1744-1803) account of the tumultuous events of the Insurrection of 10th August 1792, the decisive blow by the Paris Commune which saw the downfall of the French monarchy. The author had been appointed Foreign Minister just 10 days previously, and as a dedicated Royalist was forced into self-imposed exile. ESTC T6296. £ 100 4 ANTIQUATES – FINE & RARE BOOKS PRESENTATION COPY 5) [BLANE, Gilbert]. Inquiry into the causes and remedies of the late and present scarcity and high price of provisions, in a letter to the Right Hon. Earl Spencer, K. G. first lord of the admiralty &c. &c. &c. London. Printed for J. Wright, 1800. First edition. 8vo. [4], 71pp, [1]. With a half-title. Uncut and partially unopened, stitched, as issued. Lightly creased and spotted, inked correction to text of p.4, small hole to page numbers of leaf E4. Presentation copy, inked inscription to head of half-title; 'To the Countess of Carnarvon / with Dr. Blanes kind compliments.' An inquiry by physician Sir Gilbert Blane (1749-1834) into the cause of food shortages in Britain at the turn of the nineteenth-century. Blane, with extensive reference to Adam Smith’s (1723-1790) The Wealth of Nations (London, 1776), concludes that the scarcity of resources is the result of adverse weather throughout 1799, and subsequent failure for agricultural supply to meet demands, the reduction of imports and increased consumption due to conflict on the Continent during the French Revolutionary Wars, and, less directly, the continued assize of bread - not to be addressed until the Bread Acts of 1822 and 1836. Blane had been directly appointed by Lord Spencer to the service of the Royal Navy as commissioner for sick and wounded seamen, a position he held from 1795 until the treaty of Amiens in 1802. The focus of the letter upon the detrimental effects of the food shortages on military personnel is testament to his devotion to the services which had most clearly be evidenced in his Treatise on the Scurvy (1753) and his instrumental role in the rationing of anti- scorbutic lemon juice to sailors. ESTC T37243. £ 450 PREDICTIONS OF THE FRENCH REVOLLUTION 6) [BONNAY, Charles-Francois, marquis de]. Le prophete jonas. Juillet 1793 par un emigre. A Ninive. [s.n.], [1793]. Seconde edition. 8vo. [2], 38pp. Uncut, stitched into original publisher's drab paper wrappers. Lightly dust-soiled, contemporary inked ownership inscription to upper wrapper; 'Monsieur De la Galailiere / a Moleubeck', likely the Marquis de la Galailiere, state councillor and intendant of justice and finances in Lorraine province. A revised edition of politician Charles-Francois Bonnay's (1750- 1825) predictions on the course of French Revolution, presented in the form of a dialogue between the author and the 'Thinker'. £ 100 5 ANTIQUATES – FINE & RARE BOOKS 7) BRISSOT DE WARVILLE, J[acques] P[ierre]. J. P. brissot, deputy of eure and loire, to his constituents, on the situation of the national convention; on the influence of the anarchists, and the evils it has caused; and on the necessity of annihilating that influence in order to save the republic. London. Printed for John Stockdale, 1794. New edition. 8vo. xl, 121pp, [15]. With a 14pp terminal publisher's advertisement catalogue, ESTC calls for 15 terminal advertisement leaves, but other copies appear to be known as here. Uncut and partially unopened, stitched, as issued. Inked ownership inscription to title-page, else clean and crisp. Jacques Pierre Brissot (1754-1793), was a leading member of the Girondist movement during the French Revolution. He became a leading Abolitionist, and founded in Paris an anti- slavery group Society of the Friends of the Blacks, of which he was president. ESTC T126841. £ 75 8) [BROUGHAM AND VAUX, Henry Brougham, Baron]. Observations on Mr. brougham's bill "for better providing the means of education for his majesty's subjects;" shewing it's inadequacy to the end proposed, and the danger which will arise from it to the causes of religious liberty. London. Printed by T. Bensley, 1821. First edition. 8vo. 30pp, [2]. With half-title. Stitched, as issued. Lightly creased, spotted, and dust-soiled. An anonymous attack of Chancellor Henry Brougham, Baron Brougham and Vaux's (1778-1868) bill of 1820 calling for education to be state- supported. The bill was ultimately unsuccessful, failing due to sectarian religious divisions.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • THE LIFE-BOAT. the Journal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
    THE LIFE-BOAT. The Journal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution. VOL. XXIV.—No. 273.] MAY, 1921. [FRIGB 64. Important Notice. Owing to the continued extraordinarily high cost of all printing, and the need for economy in view of the large capital expenditure with which the Institution is at present faced, THE LIFE-BOAT will not be published in August, and the next issue, therefore, will appear in November. This decision has been taken with less reluctance than would otherwise have been the case in view of the great amount of important and interesting matter appearing in the present issue, which is practically a double number. Annual Meeting. THE Ninety-seventh Annual General j Cameron, Commander Sir Harry Main- Meeting of THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- , waring, Bt., R.N.V.R., Sir Keith Smith, BOAT INSTITUTION was held at the K.B.E., Mr. Harry Hargood, O.B.E., Central Hall, Westminster, on Thurs- Mr. H. P. Hussey, Mr. Andrew T. day, the 28th April, at 3 P.M., His Royal i Taylor, J.P., L.C.C., Mr. R. H. Gillespie, Highness the Prince of Wales, K.G., Pre- ; Mr. W. Fortescue Barratt, Hon. Secre- sident of the Institution, in the Chair. tary of the Civil Service Life-boat Fund, Among those present were:—The Con- | Mr. F. C. A. Coventry, Mr. Richard sul- General for France, the Consul- I White, Chairman of the General Steam General for Denmark the Consul-General I Navigation Company, Lieut.-Comman- for Spain, the Right Hon. the Earl der A. B. T.
    [Show full text]
  • Thesis.Pdf (PDF, 297.83KB)
    Cover Illustrations by the Author after two drawings by François Boucher. i Contents Note on Dates iii. Introduction 1. Chapter I - The Coming of the Dutchman: Prior’s Diplomatic Apprenticeship 7. Chapter II - ‘Mat’s Peace’, the betrayal of the Dutch, and the French friendship 17. Chapter III - The Treaty of Commerce and the Empire of Trade 33. Chapter IV - Matt, Harry, and the Idea of a Patriot King 47. Conclusion - ‘Britannia Rules the Waves’ – A seventy-year legacy 63. Bibliography 67. ii Note on Dates: The dates used in the following are those given in the sources from which each particular reference comes, and do not make any attempt to standardize on the basis of either the Old or New System. It should also be noted that whilst Englishmen used the Old System at home, it was common (and Matthew Prior is no exception) for them to use the New System when on the Continent. iii Introduction It is often the way with historical memory that the man seen by his contemporaries as an important powerbroker is remembered by posterity as little more than a minor figure. As is the case with many men of the late-Seventeenth- and early-Eighteenth-Centuries, Matthew Prior’s (1664-1721) is hardly a household name any longer. Yet in the minds of his contemporaries and in the political life of his country even after his death his importance was, and is, very clear. Since then he has been the subject of three full-length biographies, published in 1914, 1921, and 1939, all now out of print.1 Although of low birth Prior managed to attract the attention of wealthy patrons in both literary and diplomatic circles and was, despite his humble station, blessed with an education that was to be the foundation of his later success.
    [Show full text]
  • Mundella Papers Scope
    University of Sheffield Library. Special Collections and Archives Ref: MS 6 - 9, MS 22 Title: Mundella Papers Scope: The correspondence and other papers of Anthony John Mundella, Liberal M.P. for Sheffield, including other related correspondence, 1861 to 1932. Dates: 1861-1932 (also Leader Family correspondence 1848-1890) Level: Fonds Extent: 23 boxes Name of creator: Anthony John Mundella Administrative / biographical history: The content of the papers is mainly political, and consists largely of the correspondence of Mundella, a prominent Liberal M.P. of the later 19th century who attained Cabinet rank. Also included in the collection are letters, not involving Mundella, of the family of Robert Leader, acquired by Mundella’s daughter Maria Theresa who intended to write a biography of her father, and transcriptions by Maria Theresa of correspondence between Mundella and Robert Leader, John Daniel Leader and another Sheffield Liberal M.P., Henry Joseph Wilson. The collection does not include any of the business archives of Hine and Mundella. Anthony John Mundella (1825-1897) was born in Leicester of an Italian father and an English mother. After education at a National School he entered the hosiery trade, ultimately becoming a partner in the firm of Hine and Mundella of Nottingham. He became active in the political life of Nottingham, and after giving a series of public lectures in Sheffield was invited to contest the seat in the General Election of 1868. Mundella was Liberal M.P. for Sheffield from 1868 to 1885, and for the Brightside division of the Borough from November 1885 to his death in 1897.
    [Show full text]
  • Biographical Appendix
    Biographical Appendix The following women are mentioned in the text and notes. Abney- Hastings, Flora. 1854–1887. Daughter of 1st Baron Donington and Edith Rawdon- Hastings, Countess of Loudon. Married Henry FitzAlan Howard, 15th Duke of Norfolk, 1877. Acheson, Theodosia. 1882–1977. Daughter of 4th Earl of Gosford and Louisa Montagu (daughter of 7th Duke of Manchester and Luise von Alten). Married Hon. Alexander Cadogan, son of 5th Earl of Cadogan, 1912. Her scrapbook of country house visits is in the British Library, Add. 75295. Alten, Luise von. 1832–1911. Daughter of Karl von Alten. Married William Montagu, 7th Duke of Manchester, 1852. Secondly, married Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire, 1892. Grandmother of Alexandra, Mary, and Theodosia Acheson. Annesley, Katherine. c. 1700–1736. Daughter of 3rd Earl of Anglesey and Catherine Darnley (illegitimate daughter of James II and Catherine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester). Married William Phipps, 1718. Apsley, Isabella. Daughter of Sir Allen Apsley. Married Sir William Wentworth in the late seventeenth century. Arbuthnot, Caroline. b. c. 1802. Daughter of Rt. Hon. Charles Arbuthnot. Stepdaughter of Harriet Fane. She did not marry. Arbuthnot, Marcia. 1804–1878. Daughter of Rt. Hon. Charles Arbuthnot. Stepdaughter of Harriet Fane. Married William Cholmondeley, 3rd Marquess of Cholmondeley, 1825. Aston, Barbara. 1744–1786. Daughter and co- heir of 5th Lord Faston of Forfar. Married Hon. Henry Clifford, son of 3rd Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, 1762. Bannister, Henrietta. d. 1796. Daughter of John Bannister. She married Rev. Hon. Brownlow North, son of 1st Earl of Guilford, 1771. Bassett, Anne. Daughter of Sir John Bassett and Honor Grenville.
    [Show full text]
  • London Metropolitan Archives Jersey Family And
    LONDON METROPOLITAN ARCHIVES Page 1 JERSEY FAMILY AND ESTATE ACC/0510 Reference Description Dates PERSONAL FAMILY RECORDS Letters of Viscount Villiers, later 1st. Earl of Jersey, to Mr. Richard Hill, 1696 - 1704 ACC/0510/001 Letter from Viscount Villiers, English 1696 Item no longer in collection Ambassador at The Hague, to Mr. Richard Hill, Transcript, p. 18-19. Envoy to the Elector of Bavaria who was Governor of the Spanish Netherlands at Brussels. ACC/0510/002 Letter from Viscount Villiers to Mr. Hill. 1696 Item no longer in collection Transcript, p. 21. ACC/0510/003 Letter from Viscount Villiers to Mr. Hill. 1696 Item no longer in collection Transcript, p. 22-23. ACC/0510/004 Letter from Viscount Villiers to Mr. Hill. 1696 Item no longer in collection Transcript, p. 24-25. ACC/0510/005 Letter from Viscount Villiers to Mr. Hill. 1696 Item no longer in collection Transcript, p. 26-27. ACC/0510/006 Letter from Viscount Villiers to Mr. Hill. 1696 Item no longer in collection Transcript, p. 28. ACC/0510/007 Letter from Viscount Villiers to Mr. Hill. 1696 Item no longer in collection Transcript, p. 30. ACC/0510/008 Letter from Viscount Villiers to Mr. Hill. 1696 Item no longer in collection Transcript, p. 31-32. ACC/0510/009 Letter from Viscount Villiers to Mr. Hill. 1696 Item no longer in collection Transcript, p. 33. ACC/0510/010 Letter from Viscount Villiers to Mr. Hill. 1696 Item no longer in collection Transcript, p. 34. LONDON METROPOLITAN ARCHIVES Page 2 JERSEY FAMILY AND ESTATE ACC/0510 Reference Description Dates ACC/0510/011 Letter from Viscount Villiers to Mr.
    [Show full text]
  • James Perry and the Morning Chronicle 179O—I821
    I JAMES PERRY AND THE MORNING CHRONICLE- 179O—I821 By l yon Asquith Thesis submitted for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the University of London 1973 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS Abstract 3 Preface 5 1. 1790-1794 6 2. 1795-1 805 75 3. 1806-1812 (i) ThB Ministry of the Talents 184 (ii) Reform, Radicalism and the War 1808-12 210 (iii) The Whigs arid the Morning Chronicle 269 4. Perry's Advertising Policy 314 Appendix A: Costs of Production 363 Appendix B: Advertising Profits 365 Appendix C: Government Advertisements 367 5. 1813-1821 368 Conclusion 459 Bibliography 467 3 A BSTRACT This thesis is a study of the career of James Perry, editor and proprietor of the Morning Chronicle, from 1790-1821. Based on an examination of the correspondence of whig and radical polit- icians, and of the files of the morning Chronicle, it illustrates the impact which Perry made on the world of politics and journalism. The main questions discussed are how Perry responded, as a Foxite journalist, to the chief political issues of the day; the extent to which the whigs attempted to influence his editorial policy and the degree to which he reconciled his independence with obedience to their wishes4 the difficulties he encountered as the spokesman of an often divided party; his considerable involvement, which was remarkable for a journalist, in party activity and in the social life of whig politicians; and his success as a newspaper proprietor concerned not only with political propaganda, but with conducting a paper which was distinguished for the quality of its miscellaneous features and for its profitability as a business enterprise.
    [Show full text]
  • DU DATE - 76 NOTE 118P
    , DOCUMENT RESUME ED 113 775 CS 501 145, AUTHOR ' Barbour, knon,'Ed. TITLE Free Speech' Yearbook-19:75. =NSTITUTtON. speech Copmunication.Association, Falls Church, . Va. DU DATE - 76 NOTE 118p. AVAILABLE FROM Speech COrimunication association, 5205 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, Virginia 2"2041($3.00 member, $3.50 nonmember) EDPS PPICE MF- $('.76 HC-$5.70 Plus Postage DESCPIPTOPS AnthologieS; *Bibliographies; Commgnication °Thoug Transferl; Debate; *Freedom of Speech; Mass 1edi Publicize; *Speech; *Supreme Court Litigation; *Yearbooks :DENTIFI'PS *First Amendment ABSTRACT / This issue of the "Free Speedh Yearbook" ontainsthe following: "Between Phetoric and Disloyalty: Free Speec Standards for the Sunshire Soldier" by Richard A. Parker; "Will'm A. Rehnquist: ideologist on the Bench" by Peter E. Kane-b1"The First Amendmen-,s,Weakest Link: Government Regulation of,'!ntroversial Advertising" by Patricia Goss: "Gaining Access to rf Media: Some Issues and Cases" by Timothy P. Cline and Rebecc J. Cline; "Depression in Great Britain: 1792-1795" by Jam:,_S. Measell; "The Supreme Court and the First Amendment: 1974-19 " by William A. Linsley; and "Freedom of Speech Bibliography: July 104-June 1975" by , David vshelman. (TS) ******************************************* ************************** Documents ac fired by ERIC include many informal unpubliqhed * * materials not aailable from other sources. ERIC makes every effort * * to obtain the est copy available. Nevertheless, items of marginal * * reprodgcibil-y are often encountered and this affects the quality * ,R of the' micr iche and hardcopy reproductions ERIC makes available * * via the EPC Document Reproduction Service (EDPSf. EDRS is not * * respansibe for the quality of the original document. Peproductions * * suppliedby EDPS are the best thatcan be made from the original.
    [Show full text]
  • List of Freemasons from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia Jump To: Navigation , Search
    List of Freemasons From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search Part of a series on Masonic youth organizations Freemasonry DeMolay • A.J.E.F. • Job's Daughters International Order of the Rainbow for Girls Core articles Views of Masonry Freemasonry • Grand Lodge • Masonic • Lodge • Anti-Masonry • Anti-Masonic Party • Masonic Lodge Officers • Grand Master • Prince Hall Anti-Freemason Exhibition • Freemasonry • Regular Masonic jurisdictions • Opposition to Freemasonry within • Christianity • Continental Freemasonry Suppression of Freemasonry • History Masonic conspiracy theories • History of Freemasonry • Liberté chérie • Papal ban of Freemasonry • Taxil hoax • Masonic manuscripts • People and places Masonic bodies Masonic Temple • James Anderson • Masonic Albert Mackey • Albert Pike • Prince Hall • Masonic bodies • York Rite • Order of Mark Master John the Evangelist • John the Baptist • Masons • Holy Royal Arch • Royal Arch Masonry • William Schaw • Elizabeth Aldworth • List of Cryptic Masonry • Knights Templar • Red Cross of Freemasons • Lodge Mother Kilwinning • Constantine • Freemasons' Hall, London • House of the Temple • Scottish Rite • Knight Kadosh • The Shrine • Royal Solomon's Temple • Detroit Masonic Temple • List of Order of Jesters • Tall Cedars of Lebanon • The Grotto • Masonic buildings Societas Rosicruciana • Grand College of Rites • Other related articles Swedish Rite • Order of St. Thomas of Acon • Royal Great Architect of the Universe • Square and Compasses Order of Scotland • Order of Knight Masons • Research • Pigpen cipher • Lodge • Corks Eye of Providence • Hiram Abiff • Masonic groups for women Sprig of Acacia • Masonic Landmarks • Women and Freemasonry • Order of the Amaranth • Pike's Morals and Dogma • Propaganda Due • Dermott's Order of the Eastern Star • Co-Freemasonry • DeMolay • Ahiman Rezon • A.J.E.F.
    [Show full text]
  • The English Alien Acts, 1793-1826
    W&M ScholarWorks Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects Theses, Dissertations, & Master Projects 1978 The English Alien Acts, 1793-1826 David LuVerne Ferch College of William & Mary - Arts & Sciences Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd Part of the European History Commons Recommended Citation Ferch, David LuVerne, "The English Alien Acts, 1793-1826" (1978). Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects. Paper 1539625034. https://dx.doi.org/doi:10.21220/s2-jrbe-hr82 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Theses, Dissertations, & Master Projects at W&M ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects by an authorized administrator of W&M ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE ENGLISH ALIEN ACTS 1793 - 1826? A Thesis Presented to The Faculty of the.Department of History The College of William and Mary in Virginia In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts by David Ferch 1978 APPROVAL SHEET This thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts Author Approved, August 1978 aAies N . McCord Dale E. Hoak o Thomas F. Sheppard 11 692 4 2 9 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page ABSTRACT iv INTRODUCTION 2 CHAPTER I. THE ORIGIN OF THE FIRST ALIEN ACT, 1792-93 6 CHAPTER II. WAR AND THE REGULATION OF ALIENS, 1793-98 30 CHAPTER III. THE ALIENS PROBLEM, 1798-1814 58 CHAPTER IV. ALIENS LEGISLATION IN TIME OF PEACE, 1814-26 80 CONCLUSION 119 BIBLIOGRAPHY 135 iii ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to examine the English Alien Acts in the context of the political and social history of England* In a series of acts passed between 1793 and 1826, Parliament granted the executive government broad powers of regulation over the nation's resident foreign population.
    [Show full text]
  • The Canterbury Association
    The Canterbury Association (1848-1852): A Study of Its Members’ Connections By the Reverend Michael Blain Note: This is a revised edition prepared during 2019, of material included in the book published in 2000 by the archives committee of the Anglican diocese of Christchurch to mark the 150th anniversary of the Canterbury settlement. In 1850 the first Canterbury Association ships sailed into the new settlement of Lyttelton, New Zealand. From that fulcrum year I have examined the lives of the eighty-four members of the Canterbury Association. Backwards into their origins, and forwards in their subsequent careers. I looked for connections. The story of the Association’s plans and the settlement of colonial Canterbury has been told often enough. (For instance, see A History of Canterbury volume 1, pp135-233, edited James Hight and CR Straubel.) Names and titles of many of these men still feature in the Canterbury landscape as mountains, lakes, and rivers. But who were the people? What brought these eighty-four together between the initial meeting on 27 March 1848 and the close of their operations in September 1852? What were the connections between them? In November 1847 Edward Gibbon Wakefield had convinced an idealistic young Irishman John Robert Godley that in partnership they could put together the best of all emigration plans. Wakefield’s experience, and Godley’s contacts brought together an association to promote a special colony in New Zealand, an English society free of industrial slums and revolutionary spirit, an ideal English society sustained by an ideal church of England. Each member of these eighty-four members has his biographical entry.
    [Show full text]
  • Victor Albert George Child-Villiers, Earl of Jersey
    17 Victor Albert George Child-Villiers, Earl of Jersey (15 January 1891 – 2 March 1893) Geoffrey Bolton Another aristocratic Governor Lord Carrington’s success and popularity seemed to vindicate the policy of sending rising members of the House of Lords to serve as Governors of one of the major self governing British colonies before resuming their careers at Westminster.1 The appointment of Lord Hopetoun to Victoria and Lord Onslow to New Zealand, both in 1889, confirmed this trend, and it was seen as important to consolidate the good impression that Carrington had made in New South Wales. Some months before his term ended Sir Henry Ponsonby, Queen Victoria’s experienced Private Sec- retary, told him that “the general opinion was that you had done so well that it would be very hard to find anyone who could replace you”.2 Lord Knutsford, Secretary of State for Colonies, took soundings among his Cabinet colleagues. The first name considered was the Mar- quess of Lothian, who was about to retire as Secretary of State for Scot- land. Lothian declined, but the prospect of New South Wales must have appealed to his son and heir Lord Ancram, as he later agreed to go to Syd- ney as ADC to the new Governor. This was the 45 year old Earl of Jersey, who held the minor office of Paymaster General and spokesman for the Home Office in the House of Lords. In this role, Knutsford told Carrington: He … has done his work well. There are no two more popular persons in Society than Lord and Lady Jersey, and if speaking by a Lady at Hospital openings, etc, is wanted, she is really one of the best speakers I have met.3 Victor Albert George Child-Villiers, seventh Earl of Jersey was born on 20 March 1845.
    [Show full text]
  • Historical Documents, Autographs & Ephemera
    Historical Documents, Autographs & Ephemera Thursday 15 April 2010 10:30 Mullock's Specialist Auctioneers The Old Shippon Wall Under Heywood Church Stretton SY6 7DS Mullock's Specialist Auctioneers (Historical Documents, Autographs & Ephemera) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com Lot: 1 Jeune, discussing a play which he had written: '...I went over it London Gazette approximately 10 issues of the London carefully again & the next day sent it to Mr Comyns Carr - the Gazette 1886/7, together with a copy of the will of David Poole rest is silence so far but every time the door bell rings I prepare of Knottingley, Yorks dated 1776 to receive a certain square parcel...however I am well started Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00 on my new story...' Estimate: £70.00 - £100.00 Lot: 2 Autographs - Ballet album page containing the signatures of Lot: 7 Marie Rambert, Lionel Bradley, John Gilpin, Walter Gore, Cholera interesting letter to Hercules Scott, Professor of Moral Annette Chappell, Sally Gilmour, Brander Hamlyn, Stanley Philosophy at King's College, Aberdeen, dated Newby, Margaret Scott and Belinda Wright - all members of the 1832commenting that the incidents of cholera in the kingdom Ballet Rambert, together with an album page signed by Alicia appeared to have ceased but adding : '...I do not believe that all Markova and a letter from Lady Diana Cooper concerning a the cases reported were real cholera - the medical Gentlemen fund for the relief of Nijinsky in his final illness differ on the subject Estimate: £20.00 - £30.00 Estimate: £30.00
    [Show full text]