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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4930-4931
Title:: THORESBY PAPERS. 'The Epistle to the Ephesians opened, etc.' by the Rev. Elkanah Wales (d. 1669); 17th cent. Autograph.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4933 A-B
Title:: THORESBY PAPERS. Notes from sermons apparently all preached in the West Riding, in several hands, chiefly that of the Rev. Elkanah Wales, Perpetual Curate of Pudsey, nr. Leeds; circa 1609-1661. The names of the preachers will be found in the Index of the present Catalogue. 4933 A also contains the following:- (a) Arguments against the religion of the Quakers. f. 153. (b) Discussion on Aristotelian propositions; 1615. Latin. Imperfect. ff. 154-161b. (c) Calculation of the date of the coming...
Scope & Content:: Elkanah Wales, nonconformist minister: Sermons by (?): circ. 1610-1661. includes: ff. 171b-172b Reverend Beron, of the W Riding, county Yorkshire: Notes of sermons preached by: 17th cent.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1609-1661
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4934-4935
Title:: Collections relating to the Premonstratensian order in England, divided into 'Generalia' (I, ff. 6-99b), 'Specialia' (I, f. 100 - II, f. 94b), and those concerning Croxton Domesday (II, ff. 95-231b). The greater part of these are included by Cardinal Gasquet in his Collectanea Anglo-Premonstratensia published by the Royal Historical Society in 1904, where the contents are fully indexed. The 'Registrum Premonstratense', from which Peck took most of his transcripts is now in the archives of th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1729-1734
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4958-4975
Title:: Heraldic MSS., of which all except 4959 had been the property of Richard Wallis, painter stainer of London, some having previously belonged to Samuel Waker, another painter stainer, with whom Wallis was closely associated. Many of these MSS. are in the autograph of Waker or Wallis, or both, while others bear their annotations or marks of ownership. Some bear as a frontispiece a form of summons to the Court of Assistants of the Painter Stainers Company, very likely belonging to Wallis, who be...
Scope & Content:: Heraldry: Heraldic collections of Sir S. Stuart: 16th-18th centt.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: [1500-1714]
Extent:: 18 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4978-4982
Title:: CUDWORTH MSS. Writings on Free Will by Dr. Cudworth; late 17th cent. Partly autograph and partly in the hands of amanuenses. In five volumes, of which Vol. I (4978) was published by the Rev. John Allen in 1838 under the title A Treatise of Freewill.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 17th century
Extent:: 5 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4986-4987
Title:: CUDWORTH MSS. Commentary on the Seventy Weeks of Daniel; late 17th cent. Partly autograph. Cf. also 4984, f. 2.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 17th century
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4991 A-B
Title:: WHITELOCKE PAPERS. 'The History of Whitelockes Ambassy from England to Sweden'; a 17th cent. copy of the chiefly autograph MS. of this work contained in Add. MSS. 37346, 37347. Cf. also Add. MS. 4902. 4991 B is imperfect, but the majority of the missing leaves are bound in 4995, ff. 31-53b. 4991 B (rev.) formed originally the second part of a Latin vocabulary, of which very little besides the headings was completed. There is an index to this vocabulary at ff. 212-215b.
Scope & Content:: Christina of Sweden: Journals, etc., of B. Whitelocke, as Ambassador to Sweden: 1653-1654.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 8693-8695
Title:: SACCHETTI CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS, VOLS. I-III: secret dispatches, diplomatic and other letters, and papers of Cardinal Giulio Sacchetti, arranged in three registers; 1624-1626. The recipients of the secret dispatches include: Cardinal Nepote Francesco Barberini, his brother Taddeo Barberini, Cardinal Antonio Barberini, brother of the pope, the Capuchin Father Giacinto da Casale, the papal nuncios Bernardino Spada, Giovanni Francesco Guidi del Bagno, Carlo Carafa, Giovanni Battista Agucchi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Italian, and Spanish
Date Range:: 1624-1626
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 8723-8724
Title:: UBALDINI LETTER-BOOKS. VOLS III, IV. Dispatches of Cardinal Borghese to Ubaldini; 1609, 1612-1614. Italian. Copies. Add. 8723 contains the dispatches relating to the years 1609 and 1613, Add. 8724 the dispatches relating to the years 1612 and 1614. The two MSS. belonged to the same set of volumes as Add. 8727. Armorial bookplates of the Hon. Frederick North, later 5th Earl of Guilford, with shelfmark 'L/19/E' (front pastedowns). '87' in pencil in top left corner of front pastedown of Add. 87...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: 1609-1614
Extent:: 2 items

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