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1671. Royal MS 18 B XXXI

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Royal MS 18 B XXXI
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THE FALL OF PRINCES: poem by John Lydgate in nine books (5140 x 7 + 19 x 8 lines), being his translation of Laurent de Premierfaits French version of Giovanni Boccaccio's Latin prose work De casibus Virorum Illustrium. The divisions between the books are generally only distinguished by a somewha...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

1672. Royal MS 18 C I

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Royal MS 18 C I
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MISCELLANEOUS genealogical, heraldic, and historical collection, possibly by one of the Styward family of Ely, though it does not seem to contain any of the same hands as Add. MS. 15644 or Egerton MSS. 2162, 2599. Included are:- 1. Pedigree (to circ. 1600) of the descendants of Sir William Bran...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 item

1673. Royal MS 18 C III

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Royal MS 18 C III
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'MR. [HUGH] HALLES a priestes discourse of gardeninge applied to a spirituall vnderstandinge'. For the author, whose Christian name is given in the Lumley cat., see Cal. State Papers, Domestic, 1581-1590, pp. 128, 129, 138, 142. In treating of the uses of the ordinary gardening tools, viz. the s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 16th century
Extent:
1 item

1674. Royal MS 18 C IV

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Royal MS 18 C IV
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ANONYMOUS TREATISE to prove 'That Popishe Priestes are not proceeded with or condemned in England bicause they tooke orders or were brought vpp beyonde the seas', &c., but for seditious practices. Preceded (f. 1) by a list of 'The names of the bookes and authors that are hereafter cited', an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1604
Extent:
1 item

1675. Royal MS 18 C IX

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Royal MS 18 C IX
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Vol. ii. bks. 23-25.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 item

1676. Royal MS 18 C V

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Royal MS 18 C V
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'A TREATISE OF TYTHES', advocating the voidance of impropriations, in five chapters, by William Swaddon, D.D., Archdeacon of Worcester (1610, d. 1623). Preceded by an address to James I (f. 2) signed by the author, and a preface 'To the freendlie Reader'. Paper; ff. 55. Folio. 121/2 in. x 73/4 i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1610-1623
Extent:
1 item

1677. Royal MS 18 C VI

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Royal MS 18 C VI
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DRAFT of a proposed Act of Parliament for the employment or punishment of 'strong valiaunt beggers, vacabundes and idle persones' by the institution of public works, as making or repairing havens and harbours, highways, fortresses, &c., such works 'to begyn the first daie of Marche that shal...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1536
Extent:
1 item

1678. Royal MS 18 C VII

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Royal MS 18 C VII
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'THE TRAGOEDY of Cleopatra, Queene of Aegypt' [by Thomas May, see Dict. Nat. Biogr.]. The play was acted in 1626, printed in 1639, and again in 1654. With these editions the MS., with a few verbal exceptions, agrees. On two leaves (113/4 in. x 71/2 in.) at the beginning (ff. 1, 2) is a fragment...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

1679. Royal MS 18 C VIII

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Royal MS 18 C VIII
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Vol. i. bks. 1-22.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 item

1680. Royal MS 18 C VIII-IX

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Royal MS 18 C VIII-IX
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18 C. VIII, IX THE CRONICLE of Polydore Virgil', in 25 books, ending with the death of Richard III in 1485. An anonymous English translation of Polydore Vergil's Latin work 'Cronica Polydori' or 'Anglica Historia', the first printed edition of which (Basel, 1534) went down to 1509 (26 books), and the third edition (Basel, 1555) to 1538 (27 books). Two vols. bound together, vol. i, bks. 1-22, vol. ii, bks. 23-25. of the translation, books 23-25, comprising the history of Henry VI, Edward IV,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
2 items

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