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1381. Stowe MS 760

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Stowe MS 760
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1. "FORMULÆ LITERARUM collected out of the most quaint authours in diverse languages." The only English authors mentioned are Sir Henry Wotton and Sir Francis Bacon. f. 2. 2. "Formes of Passeports in Latin, English, French, Italian, etc.," chiefly granted by Heneage Finch, Earl of Winchilsea, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

1382. Stowe MS 761

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Stowe MS 761
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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES of literary, scientific and other persons living, for the most part, in the latter half of the 17th century, arranged in dictionary form. According to a note appended the MS. is in the hand of Thomas Coxeter, of Trinity College, Oxford (ob. 1747). Paper; ff. 26. Late XVIIth ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
1 item

1383. Stowe MS 761-786

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Stowe MS 761-786
Title:
CLASS XVIII. BIOGRAPHY, AND PERSONAL.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
13th century-18th century
Extent:
26 items

1384. Stowe MS 762

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Stowe MS 762
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LIST of English Authors in rough chronological order, 1598- 1695, with dates when they died or flourished. The names are taken from Wood's Athenæ and Fasti Oxonienses, those from the Fasti having references to the second edition [1721]. At the end (f. 43) are added earlier names from the Catalog...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

1385. Stowe MS 763

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Stowe MS 763
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1. "CARTE SIGILLATE": a collection of copies of charters relating to the families of Berkeley, Sackville, and others, with drawings (some coloured) of the seals, made by Sir Edward Dering (cf. No. 924, below), who has inserted marginal notes concerning the originals. f. 1. 2. Another similar c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

1386. Stowe MS 764

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Stowe MS 764
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ACCOUNT Of the life of Colonel Hume Caldwell, son of Sir John Caldwell, Bart.; who was born in 1735, entered the Austrian service in 1750, and died from a wound at Schweidnitz on 19 Aug. 1762. Followed by copies of letters from Austrian officers and others, bearing testimony to his bravery; and ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1776
Extent:
1 item

1387. Stowe MS 765

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Stowe MS 765
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SURVEY of the estates forming the jointure of Mary, widow of Sir William Cobbe, Knt., in Babingley, Wolverton and Sandringham, co. Norfolk; taken 4 and 9 Mar. 8 James I. [1610/1] and 30 Dec. 9 James I. [1611] Latin. At the end are;- (a) Copy of "The booke of the taske of Wolferton," made 26 Au...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[4 Mar 1610-30 Dec 1611]
Extent:
1 item

1388. Stowe MS 766

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Stowe MS 766
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" ANE ACCOMPT Of What past betwixt the Lords of Justitiarie and Mr John Dick when his sentance was re-intimat to him the nixt day after he was apprehended, which was upon the 4 of March, [16]84." With an account of his execution on the following day in the Grass-market, Edinburgh, including a fu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
1 item

1389. Stowe MS 767

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Stowe MS 767
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Scope & Content:
COLLECTIONS made by John Anstis, Garter King of Arms, for a history of the family of Granvill or Grenville, of co. Cornwall; consisting of extracts from charters and other records, and pedigrees of the family and of families allied with it. Paper; ff. 97. XVIIIth cent. Small Quarto. Grenville f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

1390. Stowe MS 768

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Stowe MS 768
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EXTRACTS from Newspapers, 1643-1657, illustrating, from a Parliamentary point of view, the conduct and character of Sir Richard Grenville, royalist. The newspapers from which the extracts are taken are, A Perfect Diurnal, Mercurius Veridicus, Mercurius Britannicus, Perfect Occurrences, Perfect P...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item