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1. Stowe Ch 472

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Stowe Ch 472
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ACQUITTANCE from William Brewod, monk and chamberlain of St. Peter's Abbey, Westminster, to the master of Holy Trinity College at Pontefract for a quarterly instalment of annual quitrent from tenements in St. Mary-at-Hill parish [in Billingsgate, London]. Dat. on the Morrow of St. Michael, 4 Hen...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[30 Sep 1488]
Extent:
1 item

2. Stowe Ch 578

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Stowe Ch 578
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NOTARIAL INSTRUMENT made in the parish church of St. Benet Scherhog [Sherehog], London, in the presence of William Walderne, Alderman and Mercer of London, John Neuton, rector of St. Benet, Robert Neuton, chaplain, and John Bristowe, clerk, of London and of the see of Lichfield, by Peter Cherche...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Sep 1412
Extent:
1 item

3. Stowe MS 49

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Stowe MS 49
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LEGENDA AUREA, by Jacobus de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa [1292-1298]. The prologue, "Universum tempus præsentis vitæ," etc., is headed "Incipit prologus super legendas sanctorum quas compilavit frater Jacobus, nacione Januensis, de ordine fratrum prædicatorum," and is followed by a table of co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 14th 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 123

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Stowe MS 123
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" AN EPITOME Of the Registers of the see of Canterbury, preserved in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth ; beginning with the first register called Peckham, which commences A.D. 1279, and ending with that of Archbishop Tennison in 1710." By Edward Rowe Mores, F.S.A. Followed (at f. 228) by a c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Stowe MS 124

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Stowe MS 124
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" CATALOGUS chartarum miscellanearum tredecim voluminibus comprehensarum " : a catalogue of a collection of charters, papers, letters, etc., referring principally to ecclesiastical matters, and preserved in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth (see Todd's Catalogue, 1812, p. 267, "III. Cartæ An...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

7. Stowe MS 138

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Stowe MS 138
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CATALOGUE Of treaties of peace and commerce between England and the various powers of Europe, from the 12th century to 1607, contained in the Chapter House at Westminster. Made in 1611 by Arthur Agard and George Austen, Vice-Chamberlains of the Exchequer, by order of Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisb...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1611
Extent:
1 item

8. Stowe MS 143

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Stowe MS 143
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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of papers, tracts, copies of letters, etc., 15th-18th centt., written in many different hands, as follows:- 1. List of State Papers and Letters relating to England and her dealings with the Netherlands, France, etc., tempp. Hen. VII.- Hon. VIII., contained in Cotton MS...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
15th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item

9. Stowe MS 146

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Stowe MS 146
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Royal orders and warrants, 1512-1515
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Collection of original orders and warrants, chiefly by King Henry VIII and Thomas Wolsey, the King’s Almoner. Dating from between 1512 and 1515. Principally addressed to John Daunce, Treasurer for War. Concerning payments to English and foreign merchants for victualling the army in Spain, the s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1512-1515
Extent:
1 volume

10. 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