Great Britain - Registers
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The laws of honour or, a compendious account of the ancient derivation of all titles, dignities, offices, &c. As well spiritual as temporal, civil or military. Shewing the Prerogative of the Crown, Privileges of Peerage, and of Parliament; the true Rank and Precedency of all dignify'd Persons; the most memorable Debates and Cases of Parliament upon Claim of Honours, Precedency, or otherwise. With a compleat and useful table of the Nobility, setting forth their ancient and present Honours, Offices, Employments, Creations, Successions, Consecrations, &c. The whole illustrated with proper Sculptures, engrav'd on Copper Plates. To which is added, an exact list of officers civil and military, in Great Britain, as they properly and distinctly fall under the supream Officers of the Kingdom, or are any Way remarkable in the Dispatch of publick Business.
Date: [1714]- E-books
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Magnæ Britanniæ notitia or, the present state of Great Britain; With diverse remarks upon The Ancient State thereof. By John Chamberlayne, Esq; To which is added, A Compleat List of the Queen's Houshold; as also those of their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, and the Duke of Cumberland; their Highnesses the Princess Emelia, the Princess Carolina, the Princess Mary and Princess Louisa. With His Majesty's Royal Privilege.
Chamberlayne, John, 1666-1723.Date: 1735- E-books
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The Court and city register; or, Gentleman's complete annual calendar, for the year 1791 Containing, I. New and correct lists of both Houses of the seventeenth Parliament of Great Britain, which met for their first session, in November 1790. II. The court register. III. Lists of the army, navy, universities, public offices, hospitals, &c. With many improvements, and the addition of some new lists.
Date: [1791]- E-books
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The establish'd state of the publick offices, under his Majesty King George II. Containing true and exact lists of the Lords of his Majesty's Privy-Council.
Date: [1728]- E-books
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The shopkeeper's and tradesman's assistant being a new and correct alphabetical list of all the stage-coaches, carriers, coasting vessels, &c. containing An Account of the several Inns in London where the Coaches and Carriers put up and go out from; the Days of the Week, and Hours of those Days, when they set out; Also the Counties in which those Places lie, and their Distances in Miles from London. To which is Prefixed, A correct List of all the Mail Coaches; with An Account of the Coasting Vessels, Barges and Boats, with the several Wharfs, Keys and Stairs where they usually lie to take in Goods and Passengers. Likewise a Collection of the most common Shilling and Eighteen Penny Fares for Hackney Coaches, and the Rates of Watermen. Also the Rates paid to Carmen for the Carriage of Goods, together with their Orders and Ordinances, as settled by the Lord Mayor, &c. at a General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, holden for the City of London, at the Guildhall. The Whole being well digested, is designed as a proper Assistant for Shopkeepers, Tradesmen and others, who have Occasion to write or send Goods into the Country.
Date: 1790