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1. Stowe MS 141

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Stowe MS 141
Title:
Warrants, official and private letters from the reigns of Henry IV to James VI and I
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–86v: Original papers, warrants, official and private letters, from the reigns of Henry IV to James I and VI. The volume includes several letters from abbots of monasteries before the Dissolution, the reports to the Privy Council of Commissioners appointed to take account of Church goods i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
between 1399-1625
Extent:

1 volume

2. Stowe MS 142

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Stowe MS 142
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Scope & Content:
MISCELLANEOUS historical letters, etc.; 1375-1810. In two series, English or relating to England and (artt. 87-106) foreign. 1. Andrea Contarini, Doge of Venice, to Edward III. of England, desiring a safe conduct for merchant-ships about to be sent to Flanders; " in nostro ducali Palatio," 5 F...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1375-1810
Extent:
1 item

3. Stowe MS 145

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 145
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Scope & Content:
COLLECTION Of political tracts, state letters and papers relating to Home and Foreign affairs, chiefly in the reigns of Qu. Elizabeth and James I., many of them having been transeribed from original documents; 1509-1628. Other copies of artt. 2, 3, 10, 12, 13, 15, and 18 are found in Cotton MS. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1509-1628
Extent:
1 item

4. Stowe MS 147

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 147
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Scope & Content:
TRANSCRIPTS of English State papers and letters; 1522-1571. They consist chiefly (1) of the correspondence of Cardinal Wolsey with Secretary Pace and the English Ambassadors at the Papal and Imperial Courts during the years 1522-1525, relating to the Cardinal's designs on the Popedom on the deat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1522-1571
Extent:
1 item

5. Stowe MS 280

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 280
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Scope & Content:
1."A DISCOURSE, of passages betweene the Earles of Essex, Northampton and Somerset, the Countesse of Somerset, Sir Thomas Overbury and others, with theyre risinge and fall, with diverse other matters acted duringe the late raigne of King James, as alsoe of the Duke of Buckinghams first cominge i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Stowe MS 322

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 322
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Scope & Content:
MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS relating to the revenue, coinage, etc., tempp. Hen. III.-Geo. I. Among the contents are:- 1. " Extracts from the Statute books concerning the revenues of the Crown, alphabetically digested"; tempp. Hen. III.-Jas. I. f. 1. 2. " Abstract of the penal laws of the customs an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[between 1483-1727]
Extent:
1 item

7. Stowe MS 1054

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 1054
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Scope & Content:
EXTRACTS from various manuscripts, etc., in the Vatican Library, made in 1787 by Rev. Charles O'Conor, D.D. (see his Bibl. MS. Stowensis, vol. i. p. 335). 1. Malediction of Pope Sixtus [V.] on any one who shall steal or ill-use the books in the Vatican Library, being an "Inscription on marble ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Greek, Modern
Date Range:
1787
Extent:
1 item

8. Stowe MS 1083

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 1083
Title:
Composite volume of miscellaneous contents brought together from various volumes in the Stowe Collection, including of: Trials, and Pardons, Deeds, Writs, Council correspondence debating killing, dressing or eating flesh in Lent; Speeches, Execution Declarations, Papers and Verses on the Scottish Rebellion of 1745, Scotch Peer House of Commons rights, Parliamentary Proceedings; observational writings on antiquarian matters; drawings, and engravings of seals, familial Pedigrees and Regencies;...
Scope & Content:
Contents: 1. Vellum leaf of a 13th cent. MS., containing Amos i. 9-13, with commentary (cf. Harley MS. 1700). In the margin is the name of Thomas Burdett, of Purstoun Jacklyne [Purston Jaglin, co. York]; and, with other scribbling of the 16th cent., "The Idol of Winchester Stephen Gardiner [Bis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
13th century-19th century
Extent:
1 volume (135 folios)