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1541. Stowe MS 914

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Stowe MS 914
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Vol. XXIX. (ff. 289). PROVINCE de Languedoc; by [Nicolas Lamoignon] de Basville, Intendant, 1698. The article, however, is dated at the end (f. 286), Montpellier, 31 Dec. 1697. Province of Languedoc: Memoir on: 1697-8.: Fr. Nicolas Lamoignon de Basville, Intendant of Languedoc: Memoire sur Lan...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 item

1542. Stowe MS 915

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Stowe MS 915
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DESCRIPTIVE REMARKS, in French and English, on Amsterdam, Brussels, and other towns in the Low Countries. Preceded (f. 2) by the beginning of a journal, in the same hand, of a tour in the Netherlands, starting from London, in 1710. At f. 1 is an engraved map of Holland, by Pieter Schenk, 1705. P...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
c 1710
Extent:
1 item

1543. Stowe MS 916

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Stowe MS 916
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DESCRIPTION of Flanders, Brabant, Holland, Denmark, Sweden and Germany ; translated from the Voyages de Monsieur Payen, Paris, 1666, and again 1667. Followed (f. 43 b) by a description of Picardy, the Isle of France, and La Beauce, "being the perticuler observations of S.D., 1675." Paper; ff. 91...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1666-1675
Extent:
1 item

1544. Stowe MS 917

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Stowe MS 917
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"Promissio Serenissimi Principis Domini Laurentii Prioli, Inclyti Ducis Venetiarum": the statutes of Venice, with the undertaking of the Doge, Lorenzo Priuli, to observe the same; 14 June, 1556. Latin and Italian. On f. 54 b is written "Presbyter Joannes de Vitalibus scripsit hunc librum, M.D. L...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1558
Extent:
1 item

1545. Stowe MS 918

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Stowe MS 918
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REPORT of the revenues of Malta and Gozo, with remarks on the trade, laws, etc., of those islands. The writer expresses (f. 12 b) his opinion that it would be advisable for the British Government to cede Minorca rather than Malta. This report must therefore have been written between 5 Sept. 1800...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
between 5 Sep 1800-27 Mar 1802
Extent:
1 item

1546. Stowe MS 919

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Stowe MS 919
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ACCOUNT of the churches of San Salvador [Saragossa Cathedral] and Nuestra señora del Pilar at Saragossa. In two hands, one of which, according to an entry at f. 2 b, is that of a Mr. Burch, the other that of Lady Parker Long [Martha, wife of Sir Philip Parkera-Morley-Long, Bart., who d. 1741 ?]....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

1547. Stowe MS 921

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Stowe MS 921
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"ABSTRACT of British West Indian trade and navigation," 1770-1805, by Sir William Young, Bart. On ff. 31 b-32 b are tables showing (a) the "comparative mortality of British troops of the line in each West Indian Island during 4 years of inactive war," viz. 1799-1802;-(b) "Returns of British troo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1770-1805
Extent:
1 item

1548. Stowe MS 922

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Stowe MS 922
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"HISTORICAL, Statistical, and Descriptive Account of the Island of Tobago; to which is added an Essay on the commercial and political importance of the possession. By Sir William Young, Bart., Governor, 1809." Autograph. Finished (see f. 156) on 30 Dec. 1809, and presented by the author to the M...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Dec 1809
Extent:
1 item

1549. Stowe MS 923

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Stowe MS 923
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"AN ALMANACK for the Island of Tobago," for 1810. Printed. With marginal and interleaved notes, and various statistics concerning the island, as well as four water-colour drawings, by Sir William Young Bart., who was Governor from 1807 till his death in 1815. His crest and motto are at f. 1 b, w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1810
Extent:
1 item

1550. Stowe MS 924

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Stowe MS 924
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ABSTRACTS of chartularies of the following Religious Houses, etc., in Latin, made originally by Sir Edward Dering, lst Bart., of Surrenden-Dering, co. Kent (ob. 1644), and afterwards re-written for him in their present form:- 1. Chartulary of Horton (al. Monk's Horton) Priory, co. Kent; from t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item