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1. Stowe MS 141

Reference (shelfmark):
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 713

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 713
Title:
Scope & Content:
ENGLISH COATS-OF-ARMS, in colours, with a few in trick, 17th cent. With an index of names (f. 155 b). The volume also contains:- (a) Account of the tempest on 26 Nov. 1703, with a list of Her Majesty's ships lost in it, from the Monthly Mercury. f 1 b;- (b) List of the Commissioners, April, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

3. Stowe MS 819

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 819
Title:
Scope & Content:
"A CHOROGRAHICAL, and Historicall, Description of ye county of Devon and city of Exon, in which is set down ye nature of ye country, of ye people, ye commodities, and goverments thereof, with sundry other things incident and worthy to be known, collected by T[ristram] R[isdon], Gent., for ye lov...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1659
Extent:
1 item

4. Stowe MS 820

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 820
Title:
Scope & Content:
TRANSCRIPT Of statutes and ordinances of the College of Vicars Choral of Exeter Cathedral as drawn up 7 Apr. 1591; including English versions of the statutes of Bishop Edmund Stafford, dated 1403, and of two statutes ordained respectively by "Petrus Primus" [Peter Quivil, Bishop 1280-1291] and T...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item