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1. Stowe MS 30

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 30
Title:
Prayer book presented to Queen Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:
Illustrated prayer book, in various languages, dated 1578 and presented to Queen Elizabeth I for New Year. Written in inks of various colours, with illuminated titles and initials. Possibly presented by William Absolon (Lawson, ‘This Remembrance of the New Year’, p. 143). Previously also associ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1578
Extent:
1 volume

2. Stowe MS 73

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 73
Title:
A genealogical chronicle of the kings of England to Edward IV
Scope & Content:
A genealogical chronicle, formerly in concertina format, now a codex. Contents: An abbreviated version in English of a genealogical chronicle from Adam to the beginning of the reign of Edward IV, of the type known as the 'Considerans' chronicle, named from the opening words of the Latin prol...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1461-1499
Extent:

1 volume

3. 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

4. Stowe MS 146

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 146
Title:
Royal orders and warrants, 1512-1515
Scope & Content:
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

5. Stowe MS 150

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 150
Title:
Miscellaneous letters, 1525-1623
Scope & Content:
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

6. Stowe MS 162

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 162
Title:
Catalogue of state papers (‘Walsingham’s Table Book’)
Scope & Content:
Catalogue of manuscripts and state papers in the possession of Sir Francis Walsingham, principal secretary of state (c. 1532-1590). In the hand of Sir Thomas Lake, administrator and politician (bap. 1561, d. 1630), private secretary to Walsingham. Dated 1588 (f. 3v). The papers relate chiefly t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1588
Extent:
1 volume

7. Stowe MS 166

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 166
Title:
Papers of Thomas Edmondes, Agent at the French Court, 1592-1596 and n.d., volume 1
Scope & Content:
Edmonde Papers, vol. 1, 18 June 1592-16 May 1596. This volume includes letters from William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, Sir Robert Cecil and Sir John Norris, commander in Brittany, to Thomas Edmondes. Much of this volume comprises drafts (described on the endorsements as copies or minutes) of t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1592-1601
Extent:
1 volume

8. Stowe MS 167

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 167
Title:
Edmondes Papers, volume 2: English diplomatic correspondence, 1597-1605, including the reports of Thomas Edmondes, Ralph Winwood and Dudley Carleton in France; negotiations with the Spanish Netherlands; and letters of Ralph Winwood as Ambassador to the Dutch Republic
Scope & Content:
Edmondes Papers, volume 2, 26 October 1597-20 March 1605. Thomas Edmondes had been English agent at the French Court from 1592 to 1595 (he was also Secretary there before and after). He had returned to England in May or June 1596, returning to France on special missions in late March and early ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Spanish
Date Range:
26 Oct 1597-10 Mar 1605
Extent:
1 volume

9. Stowe MS 170

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 170
Title:
Papers of Sir Thomas Edmondes, Vol. 5: 28 Mar 1608-23 Mar 1609
Scope & Content:
Papers of Sir Thomas Edmondes (d. 1639), diplomat: Vol. 5: 28 Mar 1608-23 Mar 1609. Edmondes was in this period Ambassador to the Spanish Netherlands, to the Archdukes Albert and Isabella, at Brussels. The great majority of the letters here are originals, with some drafts by Edmondes, usually ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
28 Mar 1608-23 Mar 1609
Extent:
1 volume

10. Stowe MS 174

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 174
Title:
State papers and correspondence of Sir Thomas Edmondes, 1613-1614
Scope & Content:
Volume 9 of the Edmondes Papers (Stowe MS 166-177). State papers and correspondence of Sir Thomas Edmondes (d. 1639), diplomat, during his embassy to France (1610-1617). The correspondence is principally concerned with the negotiations for the marriage of Prince Charles with the Princess Christi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
26 Mar 1613-8 Jul 1614
Extent:
1 volume