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1361. Stowe MS 743-748

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Stowe MS 743-748
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MISCELLANEOUS ORIGINAL LETTERS on historical, literary, and other subjects; 1570-1759. Six volumes, folio, chronologically arranged. A large proportion of the letters down to 1684 are addressed to Sir Edward Dering, of Surrenden, co. Kent, 1st Bart., M.P. (ob. 1644), and to his son, Sir Edward, 2nd Bart., M.P. (ob. 1684), those to the latter referring more especially to his duties as Commissioner for Claims in Ireland after the Restoration. Another series, of the latter part of the 17th cent...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1570-1759
Extent:
6 items

1362. Stowe MS 743-760

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Stowe MS 743-760
Title:
CLASS XVII. PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
16th century-19th century
Extent:
18 items

1363. Stowe MS 744

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Stowe MS 744
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Scope & Content:
Vol. II. (ff. 172). 1640-1667. 1. [Sir] Richard Skeffington [?aft. 4th Bart., of Fisherwick] to his cousin Sir E. Dering; Coventry, 12 Dec. 1640. f. 1. 2. The Mayor and Jurats of Sandwich to the same, asking him to oppose in Parliament the attempts to levy subsidies on the Cinque Ports from ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1640-1667
Extent:
1 item

1364. Stowe MS 745

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Stowe MS 745
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Scope & Content:
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

1365. Stowe MS 746

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Stowe MS 746
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Scope & Content:
Vol. IV. (ff. 146). 1678-1690. 1. [John Skeffington, 2nd Viscount] Massereene, to Sir E. Dering, on public affairs in Ireland; Dublin, 18 May, 1678. f. 1. 2. William Lodge, the artist, to Henry [Giles]; London, 9 Nov. 1678. f. 3. 3. Jo. Assheton, Henry Marsden, and Tho. Heber, to Lord Fair...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1678-1690
Extent:
1 item

1366. Stowe MS 747

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Stowe MS 747
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Scope & Content:
Vol. V. (ff. 157). 1691-1702. 1. E- E- to Rev.- Banks, of Hull. . . . "Certainely we live among a strange sort of people, for I am told to-day that the Clergy were going to petition the Queen to depose Archbishop Tillottson because he was not a Christian nor in Priest's Orders, so farre does s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1691-1702
Extent:
1 item

1367. Stowe MS 748

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 748
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Scope & Content:
Vol. VI. (ff. 235). 1703-1759. 1. T[homas] M[adox], antiquary, to Edward Floyde [Lhwyd], "at the Museum in Oxford," ending "There is nobody yet appointed Keeper of the Cotton-Library, nor any salary settled on that place,"; London, 18 Feb. 1702 [3]. f. 3. 2. Thomas Kirke, of Cookridge, and J...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1703-1759
Extent:
1 item

1368. Stowe MS 749

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Stowe MS 749
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Scope & Content:
ORIGINAL LETTERS addressed to John Anstis, Garter King of Arms (ob. 1745), on antiquarian subjects, principally heraldic or genealogical; 21 Oct. 1700-19 Mar. 1741/2. The last letter, dated 12 Apr. 1746, must be to John Anstis jun. The names of the writers are given in the index. Among them are:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
21 Oct 1700-19 Mar 1742
Extent:
1 item

1369. Stowe MS 750

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Stowe MS 750
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Scope & Content:
ORIGINAL LETTERS from lawyers, scholars and others addressed for the most part to Thomas Parker, Lord Chief Justice 1710, Baron Parker 1716, Lord Chancellor 1718, Earl of Macclesfield 1721 (ob. 1732); 1704-1739. A few draft replies of Lord Macclesfield are interspersed (ff. 46, 112, 246, 430, 43...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1704-1739
Extent:
1 item

1370. Stowe MS 751

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Stowe MS 751
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Scope & Content:
ORIGINAL LETTERS Of John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, and Sarah his wife, to James Craggs, Sen. [Postmaster-General in 1715], who was acting as financial secretary to the Duchess; 1711-1718. The Duke's letters are twenty-one in number, and with one exception (f l5), dated "Camp before Bouchai...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1711-1718
Extent:
1 item