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1601. Royal MS 18 A VIII

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Royal MS 18 A VIII
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SIX PSALMS (xix, lxxii, lxxx, civ, cxxxvii, cxlviii), translated into English metrical verse, by an anonymous author, from the Latin metrical versions of George Buchanan (d. 1582), which are also given. Preceded by the translator's prologue, beg. 'I haue writt what ensues out of my obedience to ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
17th century
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1 item

1602. Royal MS 18 A X

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Royal MS 18 A X
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THEOLOGICAL TREATISES and poems in English, viz.:- 1. Fragment of a treatise in two or more books, imperf at beg. and end. What survives is ch. iii-xi of one book, mainly translated from passages in Hugo de Sancto Victore De arca Noe morali (Migne, Patr. Lat. clxxvii. 620-665 passim), with col...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
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1 item

1603. Royal MS 18 A XI

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Royal MS 18 A XI
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'A TRUE RELATION of ye State of Virginia' : a letter from John Rolf (d. 1622) to the King [James I]. Without date, but doubtless written in England in 1616-1617, Rolf, with his wife Pocahontas, having accompanied Sir Thomas Dale, acting Governor of the Colony, on his return to this country in Ma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1617
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1 item

1604. Royal MS 18 A XII

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Royal MS 18 A XII
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FLAVIUS VEGECIUS RENATUS, De re militari: an English version made for Thomas, 4th Lord Berkeley, in 1408. Other copies are in Lansdowne MS. 285, f. 82, and Sloane MS. 2027 (imperf.). Attributed by Tanner and others (see Higden's Polychronicon, Rolls Series, i, p. lv, note) to John de Trevisa (an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1483-1485
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1 item

1605. Royal MS 18 A XIII

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Royal MS 18 A XIII
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'LIBER BOECII de consolacione philosophie de Latino in Anglicum translatus anno domini millesimo CCCCmo Xo per capellanum Iohannem', i. e. according to the rare printed edition (Tavistock Abbey, 1525, a copy in the Bodleian Library) 'by John Waltionem or Walton, canon of Oseney'. Walton was made...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
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1 item

1606. Royal MS 18 A XIV

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Royal MS 18 A XIV
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POLITICAL TRACT entitled 'Of the Union of Britayne or Conjunction of the Kingdomes of England and Scotland with the bordering Brittish Ilands into one Monarchie, and of the manifold commodities proceeding from that Union. A Dialogue composed in Latin by R. P. (sc. Robert Pont, De Unione Britanni...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1605
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1 item

1607. Royal MS 18 A XIX

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Royal MS 18 A XIX
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'A PETITION DISCOURSORY' to Henry, Prince of Wales, by Henoch Clapham [pastor of an English congregation at Amsterdam 1595-1598, vicar of Northbourne, co. Kent, 1607-1614, cf. Hasted's Kent, iv, p. 156, and Dict. Nat. Biogr.]. Written from prison, where, he says, he has been sent by the Bishop o...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1604
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1 item

1608. Royal MS 18 A XL

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Royal MS 18 A XL
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THEOLOGICAL TREATISE in twenty chapters on the sevenfold form or image of the universe, addressed to Henry VIII by Robert Syngleton. For the author (Dict. Nat. Biogr., s.n. Singleton), a priest who recanted certain heresies in May, 1543, but was executed at Tyburn for high treason 7 March, 1543/...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1521-1544
Extent:
1 item

1609. Royal MS 18 A XLI

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Royal MS 18 A XLI
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'THE APPROVED ORDER of Martiall Discepline', with particulars of the duties of each officer, &c., by G. C., addressed to James I. In his introduction the author states (f. 2 b) that he served the late Queen 'in Irelande, the Lowe Countryes and at sea this 28 yeares'. A treatise with the same...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 item

1610. Royal MS 18 A XLII

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Royal MS 18 A XLII
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'A CLOSET of Cownsell, exhausted and drawne forth of the prudent preceptes of Cato': poem (98 x 8 lines, rhymes ababcdcd) with dedicatory letter to 'the right honorable and vertuous lord Jhon Lumney', i.e. John Lumley, Lord Lumley (d. 1609), by J[ohannes] Philippus, i.e. apparently John Phillip,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 16th century
Extent:
1 item

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