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1. Stowe MS 81

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Stowe MS 81
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THE ANNALS of Ireland in the time of Henry II., by Sir James Ware. With some verbal alterations, the matter agrees with the work first printed in 1705 under the title of The Annals of Ireland from the first Conquest by the English in the reign of King Henry II., etc. Imperfect; ending abruptly w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

2. Stowe MS 82

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Stowe MS 82
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"THE HISTORY Of the Execrable Irish Rebellion., trac'd from many preceding Acts, to the grand Eruption, the 23. of October, 1641, and thence pursued to the Act of Settlement, MDCLXII." The printed work, with its appendices, by Edmund Borlase, M.D., published anonymously in 1680; with numerous au...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
1 item

3. Stowe MS 83

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Stowe MS 83
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"A SHORT VIEW of the State of Ireland from the yeare 1640 to ye yeare 1652": a transcript of a work published in 1719-20 under the title of The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in Ireland, . . . by . . . Edward, Earl of Clarendon. On f. 114b is copied part of a letter (cf. Stowe 82, f. 16...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
1 item

4. Stowe MS 119

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Stowe MS 119
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MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS, chiefly relating to ecclesiastical matters, 1. "Extract of what past between the Greeks and Latins at the Councils of Ferrara and Florence held in the year 1438," etc. f. 1. 2. " A breif note of such matters as weare agreed vpon by the Kinges Majestie his Lordes of the Co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Stowe MS 141

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Stowe MS 141
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Warrants, official and private letters from the reigns of Henry IV to James VI and I
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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

6. Stowe MS 150

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Stowe MS 150
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Miscellaneous letters, 1525-1623
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This is a miscellaneous collection of 16th- and early 17th-century correspondence. It incudes one holograph letter of Sir Philip Sidney from Flushing [Vlissingen] in 1586 (ff. 50r-v), and a copy of a letter from the Irish chieftain Florence MacCarthy Reagh [Finian Mac Cárthaigh Riabhach] to Sir ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1525-1623
Extent:
1 volume

7. Stowe MS 151

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Stowe MS 151
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TRANSCRIPTS of historical letters, political tracts, and other papers, viz 1. Qu. Anne Boleyn to Henry Vlll.; " From my dolefull Pryson in the Tower," 6 May, [1536]. " Founde amonge Cromwell's Papers." Printed in Cabala, London, 1691, p. 1. f. 1. 2. Sir Thomas Egerton, Lord Keeper, "his letter...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

8. Stowe MS 152

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Stowe MS 152
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COLLECTION Of political and other papers, chiefly contemporary transcripts, with a few originals and modern copies, the majority relating to the events of the 17th cent. Included are:- 1. Petition to Richard II. from Margaret, dau. and heir of the late Thomas de Brotherton, Earl of Norfolk, co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item

9. Stowe MS 155

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Stowe MS 155
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COLLECTION of State papers, letters, and miscellaneous documents, many of which relate to the Civil War and the affairs of the Commonwealth; 1564-1760. The letters at the end relate to literature and kindred subjects, and several of them are addressed to Dr. John Hill, Apothecary, etc., who acqu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, and Latin
Date Range:
1564-1760
Extent:
1 item

10. Stowe MS 158

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Stowe MS 158
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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION Of papers relating to the history of Scotland, and more particularly to the Jacobite risings of 1715 and 1745:- 1. Award "concerning sundry disputes" between William, Bishop of Orkney and Shetland, and Haco Johnson; Kirkwall, F. of St. Urban, Pope [25 May], 1369. Trans...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item