Posted on August 2, 2016 by Lisa Smith -
Magnus Prince to Hans Sloane – October 2, 1732
Item info
Date: October 2, 1732
Author: Magnus Prince
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4052
Folio: f. 192
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Collections, Mail, Patronage, Social, Specimens
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Subjects
Geology, Inoculation, Ireland, Post, Rocks, Smallpox, blue earth
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Date (as written)
October 2, 1732
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Standardised date
October 2, 1732
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Origin (as written)
Belfast
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Others mentioned
Mrs Hamilton Mrs Elsmere Magnus Prince's Nephew
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Patients mentioned
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Transcription
[fol. 192] Sr I had the pleasure of your favour the 28th of Septr, dates the 7th, the packets being detaind by contrary winds, I should be very unworthy, if I had not a gratefull sense of your kindness to my Nephew & the pains you have been at to provide for him. But I should hardly have prevaild with myself to give you so much trouble upon so slender acquaintance, but that the character I had of your benevolence, & the great concern I had for so near a relation in distress, not by his own fault, pusht me on to be so forward, I wish heartyly for an opportunity to convince you that I am not unmindfull of the obligation, I ly under. I have given directions for getting a parcell of the blew earth, to one who hes undertaken to provide it for me, I have not heard of the small pox any where since my last to you, when any are inoculated you shall have the whole process, with my method of treating them, which I take to be something out of the common road. I give my humble respects & sincere good wishes to Mrs Elsmere. & will rejoyce at any good befalls her, I hope soon to Joyne in a letter to her with Mrs Hamilton I am Your most obedient & most obliged servant Magnus Prince Belfast 2d Octr 1732
Magnus Prince was a physician.
Posted on January 28, 2017 by Tracey Cornish -
Wriothesley Russell, 3rd Duke of Bedford was born on 25 May 1708. He was the son of Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford and Elizabeth Howland. He was baptised on 15 June 1708 at Streatham, Surrey, England. He married Lady Anne Egerton, daughter of Scroop Egerton, 1st Duke of Bridgwater and LadyElizabeth Churchill, on 22 April 1725 at Ashbridge, Buckinghamshire, England. He died on 23 October 1732 at age 24 at Corunna, Spain, without issue.1 He was buried on 14 December 1732 at Chenies, Buckinghamshire, England. His will was proven (by probate) in December 1732.
He succeeded to the title of 8th Baron Russell [E., 1539] on 26 May 1711. He succeeded to the title of 7th Earl of Bedford [E., 1550] on 26 May 1711. He succeeded to the title of 3rd Marquess of Tavistock [E., 1694] on 26 May 1711. He succeeded to the title of 3rd Duke of Bedford [E., 1694] on 26 May 1711. He succeeded to the title of 5th Baron Russell of Thornhaugh, co. Northampton [E., 1603] on 26 May 1711. He succeeded to the title of 3rd Baron Howland of Streatham, Surrey [E., 1695] on 26 May 1711.
Reference:
- S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, page 82.
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Posted on January 28, 2017 by Tracey Cornish -
Thomas Tufton, the 6th Earl of Thanet, (1644-1729) was a nobleman and politician. He served as Captain of the Troop of Horse, Member of Parliament for Appelby from 1668 to 1679, and was eventually invested as a Privy Councillor in 1702. He was Lord-Lieutenant of Cumberland from 1712 to 1714.
Reference:
G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, (eds), The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume III, page 297.
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Posted on January 28, 2017 by Tracey Cornish -
Lady Frederica Susanna Schomberg gained the title Countess of Holderness when she married Robert Darcy, 3rd Earl of Holderness. In 1724 she married Hon. Benjamin Mildmay and her married name became Mildmay. Her titles included Countess FitzWalter and 3rd Countess of Mértola
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(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederica_Mildmay,_Countess_FitzWalter).
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Posted on February 7, 2017 by Tracey Cornish -
Jemima de Grey, née Crew, Duchess of Kent and her daughter Lady Jemima Grey, 1705, by Sir Godfrey Kneller. Credit: National Heritage, Wrest Park – Silsoe.
Jemima (nee) Crew (1675-1728) married Henry Grey, 1st and last Duke of Kent, in 1695. Her parents were Thomas Crew, 2nd Baron Crew of Stene, and Anne Armyne.
Reference
‘Hon. Jemima Crew’, The Peerage, http://thepeerage.com/p1408.htm#i14078 (accessed 7 February 2017).
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Posted on September 3, 2017 by Tallulah Pepperell -
Clemina Pemberton wrote letter 4526 to Sloane. No other information is known about her.
Reference:
Clemina Pemberton to Hans Sloane, 1732-07-29, Sloane MS 4052, ff. 153-154, British Library, London
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