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731. Stowe MS 149

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Stowe MS 149
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TRANSCRIPTS Of letters of Cardinal Wolsey to Richard Pace, Ambassador to the Court of Venice, with instructions for his mission, as well as for his special mission to Switzerland; 1523- 1524. Other copies are found in the two preceding MSS., 147,148. Paper; ff. 59. xviith cent. Folio. Veniee: M...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

732. 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

733. Stowe MS 151

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Stowe MS 151
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TRANSCRIPTS of historical letters, political tracts, and other papers, viz 1. Qu. Anne Boleyn to Henry Vlll.; " From my dolefull Pryson in the Tower," 6 May, [1536]. " Founde amonge Cromwell's Papers." Printed in Cabala, London, 1691, p. 1. f. 1. 2. Sir Thomas Egerton, Lord Keeper, "his letter...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

734. Stowe MS 152

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Stowe MS 152
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COLLECTION Of political and other papers, chiefly contemporary transcripts, with a few originals and modern copies, the majority relating to the events of the 17th cent. Included are:- 1. Petition to Richard II. from Margaret, dau. and heir of the late Thomas de Brotherton, Earl of Norfolk, co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item

735. Stowe MS 153

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Stowe MS 153
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MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS, chiefly political; 1540-1629. 1. " Certaine articles put forth vnto the Bishoppes . . . by the kinges maiestie in Juine, ao Do. 1540 [concerning Sacraments], to make an answeare vnto by ther learninges." See Strype, Cranmer, ed. 1840, i. p. 108, ii. p. 744. f 1. 2. " Th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1540-1629
Extent:
1 item

736. Stowe MS 154

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Stowe MS 154
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TRANSCRIPTS, facsimiles, and drafts of English and Foreign State letters; 1549-1765. A few of them have memoranda in the hand of Thomas Astle, and are copies of letters that have since been acquired by the British Museum. The contents are:- 1. Henry II. of France to, [Con Baccach] O'Neill, Ear...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1549-1765
Extent:
1 item

737. Stowe MS 155

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Stowe MS 155
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COLLECTION of State papers, letters, and miscellaneous documents, many of which relate to the Civil War and the affairs of the Commonwealth; 1564-1760. The letters at the end relate to literature and kindred subjects, and several of them are addressed to Dr. John Hill, Apothecary, etc., who acqu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, and Latin
Date Range:
1564-1760
Extent:
1 item

738. Stowe MS 156

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Stowe MS 156
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TRANSCRIPTS Of State papers and political tracts; circ. 1565-1629. The contents are :- 1. A conference between William Axton, minister of Morton-Corbet, co. Salop, and [Thomas Bentham] Bishop of Lichfield, Thomas Bickley, Chancellor of Lichfield, and others, on the use of the surplice, the pra...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1565-1629
Extent:
1 item

739. Stowe MS 157

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Stowe MS 157
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1. " ORIGINAL LETTERs of Mary, Queen of Scots, to James, Earl of Bothwell " : a transcript of eleven love-letters so entitled, each having a short explanatory introduction. They are not identical, either in number or contents, with the " Casket Letters " generally so called. Letters 1-3 relate t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

740. Stowe MS 158

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Stowe MS 158
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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION Of papers relating to the history of Scotland, and more particularly to the Jacobite risings of 1715 and 1745:- 1. Award "concerning sundry disputes" between William, Bishop of Orkney and Shetland, and Haco Johnson; Kirkwall, F. of St. Urban, Pope [25 May], 1369. Trans...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item