Reception at Guildhall to welcome the delegates to the British Pharmaceutical Conference monday, 24th July, 1933 ... / Corporation of the City of London.

  • British Pharmaceutical Conference
Date:
1955
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Credit: Reception at Guildhall to welcome the delegates to the British Pharmaceutical Conference monday, 24th July, 1933 ... / Corporation of the City of London. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Hive Pee Rh AIRY AN EXHIBITION OF ANCIENT CITY CHARTERS AND MANUSCRIPTS from the Corporation Record Office and Guildhall Library CHARTERS WILLIAM I—Charter of Liberties. Written in Anglo-Saxon. Undated. (Seal of William I recently discovered.) In the same case is a grant by William I to his man, Deorman, of a hide of land at Gaddesden, co. Herts. Undated. HENRY II —Charter of Liberties. Undated. RICHARD I—Charter of Liberties. 1194. JOHN —Charter of Liberties. 1199. JOHN —Charter granting to the citizens of London the Shrievalty of London and Middlesex. 1199. JOHN —Charter granting to the citizens of London the right to elect their Mayor. 1215. MANUSCRIPTS including Liber De Antiquis Legibus Circa 1274. Contains the text and music of “* The Prisoner’s Prayer,’”’ text in Norman French, with an early English translation : musical notes adapted to the French only. Liber Custumarum—Compiled from the City’s Letter-Books Circa 1324. Liber Albus—Compiled by John Carpenter, Town Clerk, 1419. Liber de Assisa Panis—]3th Century. Carte Antique—|]5th Century. The Chronicles of the Kings of France. 1399. Missal—Formerly belonging to the Church of St. Botolph, Aldersgate. 15th Century. Signature of William Shakespeare—Attached to a deed of purchase of a house in Blackfriars, March 10, 1612-13. Metrical version of the Bible, by Peter de Riga. 13th Century. (This volume formed part of the “‘ Common Library ” at Guildhall founded by Richard Whittington.) A volume containing the autographs of the Lord Mayors of London from the Restoration, with their armorial bearings. Prophylactic against the plague, sent by King Henry VIII to the Lord Mayor, 2nd August, 1543. Accounts for drugs supplied to poor French Protestant Refugees—1694, 1706. The following will also be on view : THE JEWELLED SCEPTRE—Shaft, Anglo-Saxon ; head, 15th Century. Tue City PursE—Its history unknown; possibly Elizabethan or early 17th Century. Tue Sworp oF Honour presented by the Corporation of London to Admiral Lord Nelson in commemoration of the victory of the Nile, 1798.
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