Miscellanea curiosa : collected by Dawson Turner, 1549- 1834.

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Miscellanea curiosa : collected by Dawson Turner, 1549- 1834.

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Vol. II includes original and/or copies of the correspondence of Joseph Ames, William Bohun, Samuel Bold, Josiah Boydell, Thomas Chamberlayne, Charles I, Charles II, Sophia Charlotte, John Clare, Robert Clive, William Culliford, Sir Thomas Delves, Sir William Dugdale, Robert Hall, William Harvey, Gilbert Hill, James I, Charles Jarvis, Sir John Jennings, John Johnson, John Locke, Robert Nesbitt, 2nd Earl of Oxford, Sir Thomas Parkyns, William Peters, Thomas Potter, Sir Walter Raleigh, Edward Reynolds, Edward Villiers Rippingill, William Wynne Ryland, John Sheares, R. Sparrow, Sir James Stuart, John Taylor, and Frans Van Nieris, and an engraving of John Harington. Vol. III includes original and/or copies of lines of verse, religious writings, lists of books, mathematical problems in Italian, sacrament certificate of the Lord's Supper granted by the Church of England, and engravings of Casperius Gevartius and Cornelius Vander Geest. Vol. IV includes original and/or copies of a description of the Duchy of Savoy; William Ambrosia Cowley's "Account of my Voyage round this terestiall Globe of the World, from Virginia to England, and through the Great South Sea, 1683-1686;" letters written by John Dodington and Sir John Harington; and a diary kept by an unidentified traveler in France. Vol. VII includes original and/or copies of a diary kept by an unidentified person traveling in Ireland, lines of verse, and other miscellaneous documents; Vol. VIII contains "Quarter of his Majesty's Forces with the Forts and Garrisons in England (1683)," religious writings, poems, and other miscellaneous documents; Vol. IX contains Turner's botanical notes on Manchester, England, lines of verse, Latin exercises, and seals.

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