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Record ID 199883

Library: Dumfries Presbytery Library. Register: Issue Book (Type: Professorial). Page: 16

Vol: 2d of Compleat History of England

Borrowed: 1737/5/11 (Saturday).


Borrowers

John Ewart Jas
Gender: Male.
Life dates: d. 1799.
Occupation (normalised): Religion and Clergy > Minister/Priest > Church of Scotland.

William McMillan
Gender: Male. Borrower type: Other.
Life dates: d. 1764.
Occupation (normalised): Religion and Clergy > Minister/Priest > Church of Scotland.


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White Kennett (Male, born 1660, died 1728)
Genre: History
A complete history of England: with the lives of all the kings and queens thereof; from the earliest account of time, to the death of His late Majesty King William III. Containing a faithful relation of all affairs of state ecclesiastical and civil. The whole illustrated with large and useful note, taken from divers manuscripts, and other good authors: and the effigies of the kings and queens from the originals, engraven by the best masters. In three volumes, with alphabetical indexes to each. ...
Classmark: 1.2.7-8-9.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 2

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White Kennett (Male, born 1660, died 1728)
Genre: History
A complete history of England: with the lives of all the kings and queens thereof; from the earliest account of time, to the death of His late Majesty King William III.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1706. Format: folio. Pagination: 3 vols.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 33 times in 25 borrowing records


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White Kennett (Male, born 1660, died 1728)
Genre: History
Complete History of England [White Kennett]

Borrowed: 1737/5/11 (Saturday).

Borrowers: John Ewart Jas, William McMillan

Author: White Kennett (Male, born 1660, died 1728), Genre: History

Complete History of England [White Kennett]

Volumes borrowed: Volume 2

Record ID 199880

Library: Dumfries Presbytery Library. Register: Issue Book (Type: Professorial). Page: 16

Gordon's Geographical Grammar 

Borrowed: 1737/5/11 (Saturday).


Borrower

John Scott
Gender: Male.
Life dates: 1697-1770.
Occupation (normalised): Religion and Clergy > Minister/Priest > Church of Scotland.


Book Holding

Patrick Gordon (Male)
Genre: Education, Genre: Travel
Geography anatomiz’d: or, the compleat geographical grammar. Being a short and exact analysis of the whole body of modern geography, after a new and curious method. Comprehending I. A general view of the terraqueous globe. Being a compendious system of the true fundamental of geography; digested into various definitions, problems, theorems, and paradoxes: with a transient survey of the whole surface of the earthly ball, as it consists of land and water. II. A particular view of the terraqueous globe. Being a clear and pleasant prospect of all remarkable countries upon the face of the whole earth; shewing their situation, extent, division, subdivision, cities, chief towns, name, air, soil, commodities, rarities, archbishopricks, bishopricks, universities, manners, language, government, arms religion. Collected from the best authors, and illustrated with divers maps. The second edition much improv’d and enlarg’d. By Pat. Gordon, M.A. and Fellow of the Royal Society.
Classmark: 6.

Record ID 199877

Library: Dumfries Presbytery Library. Register: Issue Book (Type: Professorial). Page: 16

Borrowed: 1737/5/11 (Saturday).

Borrower: John Scott

Author: Titus Lucretius Carus (Male), Genre: Natural Philosophy, Genre: Poetry

De Rerum Natura

Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2