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Expand 1 - Classified papers: volume 1 concerning 'Arithmetick, Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry'1 - Classified papers: volume 1 concerning 'Arithmetick, Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry'
Expand 2 - Classified papers: volume 2 concerning 'Surveying, Opticks, Perspective, Sculpture, Painting, Music, Acoustics Mechanicks'2 - Classified papers: volume 2 concerning 'Surveying, Opticks, Perspective, Sculpture, Painting, Music, Acoustics Mechanicks'
Expand 3i - Classified papers: volume 3i concerning 'Mechanicks, Trades, Engineering, Navigation'3i - Classified papers: volume 3i concerning 'Mechanicks, Trades, Engineering, Navigation'
Expand 3ii - Classified papers: volume 3ii concerning 'Mechanicks, Trades'3ii - Classified papers: volume 3ii concerning 'Mechanicks, Trades'
Expand 4i - Classified papers: volume 4i concerning 'Physiology, Meteorology, Pneumaticks' 4i - Classified papers: volume 4i concerning 'Physiology, Meteorology, Pneumaticks'
Expand 4ii - Classified papers: volume 4ii concerning 'Physiology, Meteorology, Pneumaticks'4ii - Classified papers: volume 4ii concerning 'Physiology, Meteorology, Pneumaticks'
Expand 5 - Classified papers: volume 5 concerning 'Weather'5 - Classified papers: volume 5 concerning 'Weather'
Expand 6 - Classified papers: volume 6 concerning 'Staticks, Hydrostaticks, Hydraulicks, Hydrology'6 - Classified papers: volume 6 concerning 'Staticks, Hydrostaticks, Hydraulicks, Hydrology'
Expand 7i - Classified papers: volume 7i concerning 'Architecture, ship-building, geography, navigation, voyages, travels'7i - Classified papers: volume 7i concerning 'Architecture, ship-building, geography, navigation, voyages, travels'
Expand 7ii - Classified papers: volume 7ii concerning 'Architecture, Ship-building, Geography, Navigation, Voyages, Travels'7ii - Classified papers: volume 7ii concerning 'Architecture, Ship-building, Geography, Navigation, Voyages, Travels'
Expand 8i - Classified papers: volume 8i concerning 'Astronomy'8i - Classified papers: volume 8i concerning 'Astronomy'
Expand 8ii - Classified papers: volume 8ii concerning 'Astronomy'8ii - Classified papers: volume 8ii concerning 'Astronomy'
Expand 9i - Classified papers: volume 9i concerning 'Mineralogy, Magneticks'9i - Classified papers: volume 9i concerning 'Mineralogy, Magneticks'
Expand 9ii - Classified papers: volume 9ii concerning 'Mineralogy, Magneticks'9ii - Classified papers: volume 9ii concerning 'Mineralogy, Magneticks'
Expand 10i - Classified papers: volume 10i concerning 'Botany'10i - Classified papers: volume 10i concerning 'Botany'
Expand 10ii - Classified papers: volume 10ii concerning 'Botany'10ii - Classified papers: volume 10ii concerning 'Botany'
Expand 10iii - Classified papers: volume 10iii concerning 'Agriculture'10iii - Classified papers: volume 10iii concerning 'Agriculture'
Expand 11i - Classified papers: volume 11i concerning 'Pharmacy, Chemystry'11i - Classified papers: volume 11i concerning 'Pharmacy, Chemystry'
Expand 11ii - Classified papers: volume 11ii concerning 'Pharmacy, Chemystry'11ii - Classified papers: volume 11ii concerning 'Pharmacy, Chemystry'
Expand 12i - Classified papers: volume 12i concerning 'Anatomy, Surgery'12i - Classified papers: volume 12i concerning 'Anatomy, Surgery'
Expand 12ii - Classified papers: volume 12ii concerning 'Anatomy, Surgery'12ii - Classified papers: volume 12ii concerning 'Anatomy, Surgery'
Expand 13 - Classified papers: volume 13 concerning 'Monsters, Longevity'13 - Classified papers: volume 13 concerning 'Monsters, Longevity'
Expand 14i - Classified papers: volume 14i concerning 'Physick'14i - Classified papers: volume 14i concerning 'Physick'
Expand 14ii - Classified papers: volume 14ii concerning 'Physick'14ii - Classified papers: volume 14ii concerning 'Physick'
Expand 15i - Classified papers: volume 15i concerning 'Zoology'15i - Classified papers: volume 15i concerning 'Zoology'
Expand 15ii - Classified papers: volume 15ii concerning 'Zoology'15ii - Classified papers: volume 15ii concerning 'Zoology'
Expand 16 - Classified papers: volume 16 concerning 'Grammar, Chronology, History, Antiquities'16 - Classified papers: volume 16 concerning 'Grammar, Chronology, History, Antiquities'
Expand 17 - Classified papers: volume 17 concerning 'Miscellaneous Papers'17 - Classified papers: volume 17 concerning 'Miscellaneous Papers'
Expand 18i - Classified papers: volume 18i of classified papers concering 'Papin and Hauksbee papers'18i - Classified papers: volume 18i of classified papers concering 'Papin and Hauksbee papers'
Expand 18ii - Classified papers: volume 18ii concerning 'Desaguliers papers'18ii - Classified papers: volume 18ii concerning 'Desaguliers papers'
Expand 19 - Classified papers: volume 19, questions and answers19 - Classified papers: volume 19, questions and answers
Expand 20 - Classified papers: volume 20, Robert Hooke's papers20 - Classified papers: volume 20, Robert Hooke's papers
Expand 21 - Classified papers: volume 21, Edmond Halley's papers21 - Classified papers: volume 21, Edmond Halley's papers
Expand 22i - Classified papers: volume 22i , accounts of books22i - Classified papers: volume 22i , accounts of books
Expand 22ii - Classified papers: volume 22ii, accounts and books22ii - Classified papers: volume 22ii, accounts and books
Expand 23i - Classified papers: volume 23i, inoculations23i - Classified papers: volume 23i, inoculations
Expand 23ii - Classified papers: volume 23ii, inoculations23ii - Classified papers: volume 23ii, inoculations
Expand 24 - Classified papers: volume 24, papers of  John Collins, Henry Oldenburg, Robert Hooke, mathematics24 - Classified papers: volume 24, papers of John Collins, Henry Oldenburg, Robert Hooke, mathematics
Collapse 25 - Classified papers: volume 25 concerning politics and trades25 - Classified papers: volume 25 concerning politics and trades
1 - Account, 'Commissions granted for taking up provisions for the King's house'
2 - Paper, 'Demands made to Parliament by the King touching the service of his house, with estimate of the benefit which he received by compositions and commissions'
3 - Paper, 'Project for easing the ''convey'' in the carriage of provisions from London to the Court and in the 20 carts to be provided for the King's hunting journies'
4 - Note, 'Note of Sheriffs compounded with for the service of (green!) wax'
5 - Paper, 'The Composition of the Spicery for wax'
6 - Petition, 'Touching the service of wax'
7 - Petition, 'Touching the service of wax'
8 - Account, 'Breviate of all the composition provisions received out of the several countries; difference between the compositions and expenses; and a list of the sales made in 12 James I'
9 - Note, 'Note of the Changes of the Bakehouse, Buffery and ''Acatrie'' which Sir Thomas Savage offers to defray hereafter'
10 - Account, 'Expenses of the King's house in the two half-years of 13 James I'
11 - Account, 'Account of the charges, payments and sale of wheat, beeves, muttons and veals'
12 - Account, 'Estimate of the benefit the King receives from the hides, skin and tallow of every ox'
13 - Account, 'Prices allowed for all the beer and ale spent in the King's house'
14 - Paper, 'Conference touching the composition provisions arising from the offer of Sir Thomas Vavasour and the difference between him and the officers of the Greencloth'
15 - Paper, 'Answer to the Explication delivered to the Lords by Sir Thomas Vavasour touching the Commons position Provisions'
16 - Certificate, 'Copy of Certificate to the Lords, touching the offer of Sir Thomas Vavasour'
17 - Paper, 'Answers to the Explication delivered to the Lords by Sir Thomas Vavasour'
18 - Paper, 'Explication of an offer formerly made by Sir Thomas Vavasour'
19 - Account, 'Project for saving £5700 in the expenses of the King's house'
20 - Petition, 'Petition against the abuses of Purveyances'
21 - Paper, 'Questions arising in the country touching the service of the King's household and matters of importance'
22 - Paper, 'Order settled in Essex and sundry other shires, touching the performance of the composition services'
23 - Paper, 'Mr. Duppa's offer concerning the providing of carts for the King's hunting journies'
24 - Account, 'Estimate of charges imposed on every shire to provide carts for the King's removes'
25 - Petition, 'Petition objecting to Mr. Bonner, purveyor of wax at Salisbury'
26 - Paper, 'Information touching the composition sheep and oxen'
27 - Copy letter, 'Touching ''cart-takers''' to the deputy lieutenants and justices of ten counties
28 - Account, 'Account of wheat, beer, wine, meat and other expenses of the King's household'
29 - Paper, 'Act of convention in Scotland against transporting coal thence'
30 - Paper, 'Account of the gains cleared yearly on the form of the imposition and composition of sea coals'
31 - Notes, 'Touching the several offers proposed for rendering the present lease of the farm of sea-coals'
32 - Account, 'Bond given for good discharge of the place he was holding at Newcastle'
33 - Account, 'Proposition to be made to the writer's partners in the coals'
34 - Advertisements, 'For the deputy at Yarmouth, touching the sea-coals'
35 - Remembrances, 'For the deputy at Yarmouth, touching the sea-coals'
36 - Paper, 'Calculations of ''chalders'' in a square mile'
37 - Note, 'General notes concerning sea-coals'
38 - Paper, 'Affidavit against Thomas Palmer touching coals at Newcastle'
39 - Instructions, 'For investigating the abuses at Newcastle concerning the coal'
40 - Paper, 'On the inconveniences likely to arrive if further impositions were laid on the sea-coal transported by foreigners'
41 - Abstract, 'Of the several quantities of coal shipped yearly from Newcastle to London and other ports'
42 - List, 'List of ships raised in their burdens between 25 December 1629 and 10 July 1630'
43 - Memorandum, 'Memoriall of Newcastle business'
44 - Letter, 'Touching ships and coaling' to Sir Marmaduke Darell, Sir Thomas Bludder, Sir John Trevor and Sir Arthur Lake
45 - List, 'List of ships raised in their burdens'
46 - Paper, 'Answer to the instructions for investigating the abuses at Newcastle'
47 - Letter, 'Concerning the abuses at Newcastle' to Sir Marmaduke Darell, Knight, collector of the King's household
48 - Account, 'Account of the coal trade in Scotland in 1632 and 1633'
49 - Paper, 'Concerning the coal found in Scotland'
50 - Account, 'Account of the coal transported from Scotland in 1631-1633'
51 - Paper, 'Objections to the new impositions on coaling ships trading at Newcastle and in Scotland, 1630 and 1631'
52 - Paper, 'Answer to the instructions given to Sir Thomas Bludder, Sir Arthur Lake and Sir Sampson Darell, with an abstract of the general notes received from (John) Tompkins'
53 - Paper, 'Case against Thomas Ashfield, Esquire, touching the farm of the coal at Newcastle'
54 - Letter, 'Letters patent for the Farmers of sea-coals'
55 - List, 'List of the Ports in England and Wales where the farmers of the imposition upon sea-coals have their deputies (with the names of such deputies)'
56 - Letters, 'Copies of 3 letters - To the speakers of the Parliament; to the Lord Lambert; to the Lord Fleetwood'
57 - Letter, from Ferrybridge to the council of State in Ireland
58 - Address, to General Monke
58a - Paper, 'Review of negotiations between England and the United Provinces'
59 - Instructions, 'Additional General Instructions for Captain Francis Courtney, H.M.S. Happy Returne'
60 - Paper, 'Information pour la tour de Suède'
61 - Paper, 'Tractatus inter Hollandes et Danes [Negotiations between the Dutch and the Danes]'
62 - Paper 'Extract from Treaty of Alliance between Denmark, Norway and the United Provinces'
63 - Letter, 'To the ''Mediatores'''
64 - Paper, 'Translation of preceding letters'
65 - Letter, 'A letter concerning the Treaty'
66 - Paper, 'Tractatus Caesarem inter et ordines generales [Treaty between the Emperor and the General orders]'
67 - Treaty, 'Traitté (sic) d'Alliance entre l'Empereur, le Roy d'Espagne, les Etats des provinces Unies et le Duc de Lorraine [Treaty of alliance between the Emperor, the King of Spain, the States of the United Provinces and the Duke of Lorraine]'
68 - Treaty, 'Traité entre le Roy d'Espagne et les Hollandais [Treaty between the King of Spain and the Dutch]'
69 - Treaty, 'Treaty between England and Spain in 1680'
70 - Paper, 'Reflections sur le Traité entre l'Angleterre et l'Espagne [Reflections on the Treaty between England and Spain]'
71 - Letter, from the Council of Scotland to the King
72 - Letter, to the Duke of Lorrain
73 - Paper, 'Analysis militiae Romanae [Analysis of the Roman military]'
74 - Paper, 'Touching the Enrolment, Oath and Pay of the Legionary Soldyers among the Romans'
75 - Report, 'Report touching the ancient Roman Coyns, the Soldyers pay, theyr vittayle and apparell'
76 - Paper, 'Augustus Caesar's Pedigree'
77 - Paper, 'Race and succession of Roman Emperors to Dominion'
78 - Paper, 'Discourse concerning the trade of France with England'
79 - Paper, 'Old allowance and new allowance: disbursements and receipts in Public Service'
80 - Account, 'Cash account for one year (1674) of Richard Monnteney, Esquire Receiver-Generall and Casherer of Customs, etc.'
81 - Account, 'Sallaries and Incidents of the Outports and of London; and an account of customes in Bondes, Mony, etc.'
82 - Account, 'Brief account of customs for year ended Michaelmas 1674 and Michaelmas 1676'
83 - List, 'A list of all the Captains names in the H.M. Land army as they are this day in England under the Command of his Grace the Duke of Albemarle'
84 - List, 'Ships and Commanders names, on 7 November 1677'
85 - Paper, 'Articles drawn up between nations abbreviated as to marine trade'
86 - Paper, 'An account of the foreign affairs in the time of Oliver Cromwell and the Usurpers'
87 - Paper, 'Of the Mole of Tanger [Tangier]'
88 - Account, 'Gold and Silver coyned in his Majesties mint within the Tower of London from 1 October 1599 to November 1675'
89 - Paper, 'Guaging [Gauging] Epitomised'
90 - Paper, 'A very small Booke discovering abundance of Popish practices by the Popish Clergie in Ireland'
91 - Paper, 'Hearth mony of Ireland for 5 years to (16)72'
92 - Note, 'A Note concerning the Revenue of Ireland'
93 - Paper, 'Some of the observations made by W.P. upon the trade of Irish Cattel'
94 - Paper, 'Brief directions how to Tame [tan] Leather according to a new Invention by Charles Howard'
95 - Paper, 'A model of Government for the good of the Poor and the Wealth of the Nation'
96 - Paper, 'Linen manufacture, a Proposal'
97 - Paper, 'Some Reasons why the weavers should admit people to take as many apprentices as they will at least for 7 yeares'
98 - Paper, 'A Complaint of divers Livery-Men and other Leige-Master-Weavers against proceedings of the Weavers Company'
99 - Letter, On weaving to 'My Lord'
100 - Letter, 'To the honourable the knights, citizens and burgesses in Parliament assembled the humble petition of the Broad Loom or Engin Loom Weavers'
101 - Paper, 'By the Committee to whom the Petition of the Company of Weavers of London stands refered'
102 - Paper, 'Touching disputes as to Aliens by the Guild or Company of Weavers'
103 - Paper, 'Depositions touching Engine-Loomes'
104 - Petition, 'Humbel Petition to Parliament of'
105 - Paper, 'The Weavers' Case'
106 - Paper, 'The Weavers of London and Canterbury petition against the Bill for wearing of wool Heather'
107 - Petition, 'Weavers' Petition to Lords touching the same Bill'
108 - Letter, 'Touching Prohibition of foreign wrought silk' to Mr Sabin [Sabine]
109 - Paper, 'A new art of preparing flax'
110 - Paper, 'A fair copy of number 109'
111 - Petition, 'Petition to Parliament against the exportation of white clothes'
112 - Paper, 'Proposals for encouraging and carrying on the Linnen manufacture in England'
113 - Minutes, Of a 'Grand Committee about the Linnen manufacture'
114 - Paper, 'Of the fishery and of an excise upon salt' by John Collins
115 - Paper, 'An Abridgement of Divers papers and large Narratives of great concernment to the Trade of the Nation'
116 - Petition, 'A Petition to King and Parliament as to building 500 Busses [ships]'
117 - Petition, 'Petition about Fishery presented at a Court holden at White Hall'
118 - Paper, 'A Proposal about a general Fishery'
119 - Paper, 'A supplement to number 118'
120 - Letter, 'A Letter on making Salt'
121 - Paper, 'Of Salt from Brine'
122 - Paper, 'Reasons that Milled-Sheet-Lead is better and cheaper than Cast-Sheet-Lead'
123 - Accounts, 'Of Tinne, Lead and Iron'
124 - Paper, 'Of lead, etc.'
125 - Paper, 'Christenings (13,653) and burialls (20,691) from 20 December 1681 to 19 December 1682'
126 - Paper, 'Melificium [beekeeping] Carolinum or England's apiaries for the meliorating and increase of honey without the massacre of the honey bee' by John Geddy
127 - Paper, 'Relief of French immigrant Protestants: accounts of £40,000 in the relief of 15,500 persons'
128 - Paper, 'Whether it be lawful to buy men and keep them and their children as servants (or slaves) for ever?'
129 - Paper, 'Receipt [recipe] to make Ultramarine'
130 - Recipe, 'To make Westphalia Bacon'
131 - Paper, 'An Account of the manner of making Butter at Bushey, near Watford in Hertfordshire'
132 - Letter, 'On butter' to John Houghton
133 - Letter, 'On butter' from Richard Greenwood to John Maddocks
134 - Letter, 'On butter, etc' from John Maddocks to Richard Greenwood
135 - Letter, 'On butter' from Henry Smith to Richard Greenwood
136 - Paper, 'On Butter'
137 - Paper, 'On Butter' by Richard Greenwood

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