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A catalogue of the Lansdowne manuscripts in the British Museum : with indexes of persons, places, and matters.

Charles James Fox holds the right hand of Lord North who points towards Britannia who has been pushed to the ground on to her shield as the Earl of Shelburne pulls her hair and tears her clothes and William Pitt the younger looks on. Engraving, 1783.

Bibliotheca manuscripta Lansdowniana. A catalogue of the entire collection of manuscripts, on paper and vellum, of the late most noble William Marquis of Lansdowne ... Which will be sold by auction by Leigh and S. Sotheby ... in the Spring, 1807 / [William Petty Lansdowne].

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William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne

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Bibliotheca manuscripta Lansdowniana. A catalogue of the entire collection of manuscripts, on paper and vellum, of the late most noble William Marquis of Lansdowne ... Which will be sold by auction by Leigh and S. Sotheby ... in the Spring, 1807 / [William Petty Lansdowne].