Lent by Mr. James 64 Petition of Edmund Cartwright, for a Patent fo invention of machinery for dressing, heckling, combin preparing hemp, flax, wool, hair, silk and cotton. at Louth, March 17th, 1790. Signed Edmund Cartw Lent by Mr. James 65 Fox, Charles James. Letter to the Mayor of No ham, declining the Recordership of Nottingham, in of the Duke of Portland. Dated 7th April, 1794, (I in Blackner's History). Lent by Mr. J. W 66 Commission, dated 17th Jan., 1799, appointing S Smith, Esq., Colonel of the Notts. Volunteers. Lent by Mr. Frank 67 Letter from C. G. Byron (Mother of the Poe Hugh Watson, Esq., writer to the Signet, Edin informing him, that she had not received her in With seal. Dated, Newstead Abbey, 28th Nov., 1805 68 Byron (Lord.) Draft in the Poet's handwriting. 1812. Lent by Mr. F. W. D 69 Document, containing signatures of the Nottinghan subscribers to a fund for the Widow's and Orphan's Soldiers, who fell at Waterloo, 1815. Lent by Mr. W. Wal 70 Letter from John Blackner (Historian) to Mr. S (a political prisoner in Northampton County Gaol). Nottingham, 17th Sept., 1816. Lent by Mr. James from Lady Byron (Wife of the Poet), to Mr. E. owne, Vernon Street, Nottingham, relating to the vacant st of schoolmaster at Kirkby. Dated Melbury Terrace, t. 15th, 1839. Lent by Mr. James Ward. from Elizabeth Pigot, friend of Lord Byron, Miss Sutton. Dated March 1st, 1864. Lent by Mr. James Ward. n to the Corporation of Nottingham, signed by er 1,000 Ratepayers, in favour of establishing a Free brary in Nottingham. 1867. Lent by Mr. James Ward. 176 Collection of Book Plates used by Families con with Nottinghamshire. Lent by Mr. James Ward, M Robert Thoroton, Thos. Thoroton, Capt. J. H. Tait, R. N., A. D. Tate, F. S. Tate, James C W. Bell. J. L. Story, Bernal Osborne, W. P. Clay, W. W. P. Clay. J. Smith-Wright (two varieties). Rev. W. Barrow, L.L.D., S.A.S., Su: Duke, 1780, Samuel Duke of St. Albans, C. Snart, R. Blankley, John Mido Robert Lowe. Earl Manvers, John Thomas Becher. John Hutchinson, Sempronius Stretton. John J. Beresford, Charles Hurt, Lord Denman, W. Kend Turton. James Norman, Rev. A. W. Burnside, C. T. Waldo, S Percy J. and Alice G. Cropper. E. Laurence Manning, J. Harrold Herbert, James Wa George Herbert, Thos. Wright Henson, John T. Spaldi varieties). J. P. Briscoe, John T. Godfrey, W. B. Cooke. 3 is the earliest known Nottingham newspaper. ham Mercury, for January 27th, 1716. Printed sold by J. Collyer, in the Long Row. Price, three pence. Lent by Mr. James Ward. ham Mercury, for March 11th, 1724-5. nted by John Collyer, at the Hen Cross. the Committee of the Nottingham Free Public Library. Mercury, for May 6th, 1725. Lent by Mr. George Fellows, J.P. ham Weekly Courant, for May 10th, 1744. Lent by Mr. George Fellows, J.P. I's Nottingham Journal, for August 6th, 3. Lent by Mr. George Fellows, J.P. Tham Newspapers. (Framed). Lent by Mr. F. W. Clements. 1 PAINTINGS IN OILS AND WATER COLOURS. ETC. 188 Countess of Chesterfield, portrait of. By Sir Peter Lely. Born 1618. Died 1680. 189 190 191 Lent by Mr. James Ward. Elizabeth Butler, Countess of Chesterfield, was eldest daughter of James, Duke of Ormond, and second wife to Philip Stanhope, second Earl of Chesterfield. She died in 1665. Portrait of John Stanford Elliott. Lieut-Colonel of the Nottingham Volunteer Infantry, 1798-1808. Lent by the Committee of the Bromley House Library. J. Storer, M.D., F.R.S., portrait of. Painted on China, by W. Corden, 1828. Lent by Mr. James Ward. Dr. Storer was born 1747, and died 1837. He took a leading part in forming the Nottingham General Hospital, of which institution he was appointed consulting physician extraordinary for life. He was the first President of Bromley House Library, Nottingham. 1816-1819. Lord Byron, portrait of. Lent by Mrs. Chaworth Musters. 192 Portraits (2), of Henry Kirke White, and his parents. Lent by Mr. J. Potter Briscoe, F.R.H.S. 193 View of the Old Trent Bridge, Nottingham. Lent by Mr. W. Bradshaw. 194 Snuffbox, painted with landscape. By J. Rawson Walker, native of Nottingham. Born 1796. Died 1873. Lent by Mr. James Ward. 195 Illuminations (3), Historical. Painted by Mr. F. Clements. Lent by Mr. F.Clements. The first gives a concise history of Nottingham Castle, from 1485 to 1650; the second, the Castle in 1700; and the third, St. Mary's Church in the 15th century. 196 Views of "Sneinton Manor," and the "Ferry Inn," Wilford, by Stacey Blake (Pen and Ink). Lent by the Committee of the Nottingbam Free Puhlic Library. |