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1. Stowe MS 623

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Stowe MS 623
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Copy of the Visitation of Leicestershire made in 1619 by Sampson Leonard, Blue-mantle, and Augustine Vincent, Rougecroix with arms in colours. At ff. 125, 126 are added pedigrees of Mountney (to 1682) and Grey; and at f. 128 is an index. Paper; ff. 137. XVIIth cent. In brown-calf covers, tooled,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1619
Extent:
1 item

2. Stowe MS 670

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Stowe MS 670
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HERALDIC COLLECTIONS, viz.;- 1. English arms in trick, granted for the most part temp. Eliz.; the, first part (ff. 1-56) copied from a MS. written by Robert Cooke, Clarenceux 1567-1592 (see f. 56). f. 1. 2. Northamptonshire arms in blazon, with a few others. In the same, hand as art. 6. f. 8...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item

3. Stowe MS 745

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Stowe MS 745
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Vol. III. (ff. 145). 1667-1677. 1. William Lodge, the artist, to his mother, Elizabeth Aldburghe, at Gisborne, co. York; [Cambridge,] 14 Nov. 1667. f. 1. 2. [Patrick Plunkett, 9th Baron] Dunsany, to Sir E. Dering, on his misfortunes: "My sadd and deplorable condition, my weake and aged bedd-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1667-1677
Extent:
1 item

4. Stowe MS 859

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Stowe MS 859
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COPIES of the Statutes and ordinances of Wigston's Hospital in Leicester, 1574-1656. The contents, with one exception, viz. an "Abstract of such of the foundation statutes . . . . as may manifest the donor's intention" (ff. 6-11), are included in the account of the Hospital given by Nichols, His...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1700
Extent:
1 item

5. Stowe MS 931

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Stowe MS 931
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CHARTULARY of the College of SS. Mary, Thomas the Martyr, and Edward the Confessor, at Higham-Ferrers, co. Northampton; containing 15 charters, ranging from 1422 (in which year the college was founded by Archbishop Chichele) to 1437. Latin. Followed (f. 76 b) by an ordinance by John [Gynewell], ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1422-1437
Extent:
1 item

6. Stowe MS 1027

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Stowe MS 1027
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Vol. I. (ff. 86). 1. ROMAN ANTIQUITIES and Inscriptions found at Schervey on the wall of Antoninus, Lanchester, co. Durham, Cotterstock, co. Northants (1736), Hovingham, co. York (1745), Weldon, co. Northants (1738), Colchester, co. Essex (1763), Leicester, Devizes, co. Wilts, Checkley, co. Staf...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 18th century
Extent:
1 item

7. Stowe MS 1028

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Stowe MS 1028
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Vol. II. (ff. 105). 1. DRAWINGS of ancient flint implements and other miscellaneous antiquities. ff. 1-6. 2. Drawings and descriptions of the reliquary of St. Ethelbert of Hereford, and of the Croyland and Malmesbury reliquaries, and miscellaneous plates. ff. 5-14. 3. Royal Seals of the king...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 18th century
Extent:
1 item