MIT Museum

Major collection: Hart Nautical
Named collection: Allan Forbes Collection
Object type: document
Maker: Grierson, George
Place made: Ireland, Dublin, Dublin
Date made: 1816
Materials: ink; laid paper; glue
Measurements: 11 in x 7 1/2 in
Nomenclature: historical
Classification: whales

Pages 241-246 from a book, with text describing an Act passed by George III, King of England, for the "reviving and continuing several Laws of Customs relating to the establishing Courts of Judicature in the Island of Newfoundland; [etc.] and to the Encouragement of the Greenland Whale Fisheries [...]" The king's coat of arms is atop the page ("Dieu et Mon Droit"). Pages attached by glue along left margin.

AF-HB-2587