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1. Stowe MS 185

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Stowe MS 185
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Scope & Content:
Vol. II. (ff. 226). 1653-1746. 1. Letters and papers relating to the sale of fee-farm rents, 1653- 1655. Included are:-(a) Order from the " Commissioners for removing obstructions in ye Sale of the Honours, etc., of ye late King, Queene and Prince," concerning the purchase of the Honour of Hig...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1653-1746
Extent:
1 item

2. Stowe MS 361

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Stowe MS 361
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Scope & Content:
SPEECHES in Parliament, etc.; 1558-1695. 1. "Queen Elizabeths speech (a) to her secretary [Sir W. Cecil] and other her Lords," 20 Nov. 1558. In a hand of the 18th cent. f. 1; -(b) to the two Houses, 12 Nov. 1586. f. 2. 2. "Answeres to the first part of the greeuances " presented by the House...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1558-1695
Extent:
1 item

3. Stowe MS 610

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Stowe MS 610
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Scope & Content:
Copy of the Visitation, with arms in trick, of Cornwall, Devon, Somerset and Dorset, taken (in 1530 and 1531) by Thomas Benholt, Clarenceux King of Arms. Imperfect, the first leaf remaining having originally been numbered 32 (cf. Add. MS. 14,315, f. 39 b). At f. 24 b is the first part of a chall...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

4. Stowe MS 629

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Stowe MS 629
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Scope & Content:
PEDIGREES of Somersetshire families, with arms in trick, apparently extracted from the Visitation of 1573 (cf. Harley MS. 1559); also a few of Devon and Wilts families. With an index. Paper; ff. 45. XVIIth cent. Belonged, 18th cent., to John Holland, no. 50. Quarto. County of Somerset: Pedigree...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Stowe MS 725

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Stowe MS 725
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Scope & Content:
ENGLISH AND IRISH ARMS, in colour, finely executed, as follows:- (1) Dukes of Buckingham. f. 1;-(2) Earls of Buckingham [and Buckinghamshire]. f. 2;-(3) Earls of Cornwall. f. 3;- (4) Cornish nobility and gentry. f. 4;-(5) Earls of Devon. f. 7 ; -(6) Nobility and gentry of co. Devon. f. 8;-(7...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Stowe MS 1038

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Stowe MS 1038
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Scope & Content:
Vol. X. (ff. 122). MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS, including:-(a) Extracts from Domesday for the following counties, Bucks, Gloucester, Worcester, Hereford, Huntingdon, Bedford, Suffolk, Essex, York, Wilts, Dorset, Somerset, Salop, and Northampton. f. 21;-(b) Index of "nobiles" mentioned in Domesday,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1718-1745]
Extent:
1 item