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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 C XXV
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Scope & Content:: SERMON on Ezekiel xxxiii. ii, preached at S. Paul's Cross, London [27 Oct. 1584], by Samuel Harsnet, fellow, of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, subsequently Bishop of Chichester (1609) and Norwich (1619), and Archbishop of York (1628). Printed in 1656 (with Three Sermons by Dr. Richard Stuart; 2nd ed....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 C XXVI
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Scope & Content:: 'THE DIVYNE CLOWDE of Unknowynge': a religious treatise on contemplation, in 75 chapters (table, f. 2). Printed in a modernized form by Father H. Collins, The Divine Cloud, 1871 (see also an article by D. M. M'Intyre in The Expositor, Oct. 1907, p. 373). The authorship is unknown, the attributio...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 C XXVII
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Scope & Content:: THE SAME WORK: a late copy, with modernized spelling, possibly from the preceding MS. Paper; ff. 65. Quarto. 83/4 in. x 63/4 in. End of XVI cent. Belonged to [John, Lord] Lumley (autogr. signature, f. 2). Lumley cat. f. 39 ; not in the other old catalogues.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 C XXVIII
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Scope & Content:: SERMON on 2 (4) Kings xviii. 22, directed against the Church of Rome. Paper; ff. 19. Quarto. 83/4 in. x 63/4 in. Early XVII cent. Not in the old catalogues.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 C XXX
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Scope & Content:: 'THE INSTITVTION of a Christen man', otherwise known as the Bishops' Book: a copy of one of the editions printed (cf. B. M. press-mark 3932. e. 30) by Thomas Berthelet in 1537. In the margins and on inserted leaves (some of the printed leaves being cut out) are draft corrections [by the King] co...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1537-1538
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 C XXXI
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Scope & Content:: 'DAUIDS DELIGHTS or A President for a Prince. Entitled to the thryse-noble, vertuous and most hopefull yonge Prince Henry Fredericke, Prince of Wales.' The writer holds up David as an example to the Prince to follow, illustrating his arguments by many quotations from the Scriptures, especially t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1603-1612
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 C XXXII
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Scope & Content:: 'A DISCOUERIE of the true causes whie Ireland was never entirely subdued and brought vnder obedience of the Crowne of England vntill the beginning of his Majesties happie raigne. By [Sir John Davies,] his Majesties Attorney Generall of Ireland'. Printed in 1612. Paper; ff. 91. Quarto. 9 in. x 6...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1603-1625]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 C XXXIII
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Scope & Content:: CLEMENT OF LLANTHONY'S Concordia Evangelistarum, followed by an appendix of other passages of Scripture designed to form an epitome of doctrine. For a discussion of the authorship of the translation, which is intimately connected with the earlier Wycliffite version of the New Testament, see Fors...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 14th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 C XXXIV
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Scope & Content:: 'AN INVECTIVE against Treason': a poem in fifty-two seven-line verses, with reference to the Gunpowder Plot, by Nicholas Breton. With an autograph dedication 'to the highe and moste Noble Lorde the Duke of Lineux' [Ludovic Stuart, 2nd Duke of Lennox, 1583-1624]. Printed first in 1616 as The Hate...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1610
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 C XXXV
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Scope & Content:: 'A DESCRIPTION of the seuerall fireworkes inuented and wrought by his Maiesties Gonners and what is intended to be performed (to the view) in euerie of them': five set-pieces [by john Nodes and Thomas Butler, at the Princess Elizabeth's marriage, 11 Feb. 1613], with illustrative coloured drawing...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1613
Extent:: 1 item

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