Scope and Contents The journal covers the period 6 November 1790 - 28 July 1792, just before Moore's departure for France, and 26 September - 3 November 1795. It includes (1791) reactions to Burke's Reflections on the French Revolution; the convention signed between Britain and Spain; the question of Warren Hastings' impeachment; Pitt's political difficulties; the defeat of Wilberforce's motion for the abolition of the slave trade; the fleet at Spithead ready to sail against Russia; the flight of the King and...

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Collections of notes and references on theologians and theology.

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Collected with a view to the publication of his book Transubstantiation no Doctrine of the primitive Fathers, London, 1687; 'Notes out of J. Crasset's Book called La Veritable Devotion envers la S. Vierge etablie et defendue' (published Paris, 1679); Reflexions on the Devotions of the Roman Church, Part II [three parts announced when Part I was published in 1674, but Parts II and III were never printed.]; 'Dr Jo. Patricks MSS relating to the Church of Rome', c. 1708. Part autograph.

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The dispute, won by the Quaker, turns chiefly upon water-baptism and the resurrection of the body. At the end is a list of names of those present. fo. 1: 'S', '585'. (pencil) hiatus between fos. 10 and 12.

Scope and Contents The larger part of the collection dates from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, chronicling William Smith's personal and political career, as well as illustrating the lives of his wife Frances and their children. The collection includes letters from Smith's friends, among them Charles James Fox, William Wilberforce and Sir Francis Burdett. The papers also chronicle Smith's time in Paris in 1790, where he witnessed and recorded his reactions to the 14th July celebrations. The...