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741. Stowe MS 159

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Stowe MS 159
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A COLLECTION Of miscellaneous political and other tracts, etc., in different hands; 1572-1635. 1. Star Chamber cases, viz. :-(a) Judgments against Thomas Howard, Earl of Suffolk, late Lord Treasurer, Catherine, his wife, and Sir John Bingley, for taking bribes, etc.; 12 Nov. 1619. f. 3;- (b)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1572-1635
Extent:
1 item

742. Stowe MS 160

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Stowe MS 160
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LETTERS of the Privy Council of the reign of Elizabeth. Copies. The first part (fF. 3-85) is apparently arranged in chronological order, covering the period from the last months of 1578 to March, 1580; but the exact dates are rarely given. The rest of the volume is not arranged chronologically; ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

743. Stowe MS 161

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Stowe MS 161
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HISTORICAL TRACTS and papers; tempp . Elizabeth and James I. 1. " A coppie of the last instructions which ye Emperour Charles the Vth gave to his sonne Phillipp before his death. Translated out of Spanishe " [by Lord Henry Howard, cr. Earl of Northampton 1604]. This is followed by the translat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[between 1558-1625]
Extent:
1 item

744. Stowe MS 162

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Stowe MS 162
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Catalogue of state papers (‘Walsingham’s Table Book’)
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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

745. Stowe MS 163

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Stowe MS 163
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COLLECTION Of miscellaneous historical, topographical, and other papers; 1360-1807. 1. Proceedings at, and list of princes attending, the Imperial Diet at Augsburg in June-August, 1582. Germ. ff. 1, 3. 2. Edict of Gebhardt, Archbishop Elector of Cologne, granting toleration to the Protestant...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1360-1807
Extent:
1 item

746. Stowe MS 164

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Stowe MS 164
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MISCELLANEOUS historical and other papers; 1588-1721. With a table of contents in the hand of Thomas Astle. 1. Part of the book of the Commissioners for the Sequestration of delinquents' estates in co. Essex; 31 Jan. 1645 [6]-17 Apr. 1646. f 2. Morant, in his Hist. of Essex, i., 1768, p. 421, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch and English
Date Range:
1588-1721
Extent:
1 item

747. Stowe MS 165

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Stowe MS 165
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LIST of contributors in the several counties of England to a loan raised in 1589, for the defence of the realm, by royal warrant (see f 2) dated 16 Jan. 1588 [9]; with the amounts of their respective contributions. Paper; ff. 31. xvith cent. Belonged to T. Astle (see notes by him, ff. 1, 2). Fol...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[16 Jan 1589]
Extent:
1 item

748. Stowe MS 166

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Stowe MS 166
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Papers of Thomas Edmondes, Agent at the French Court, 1592-1596 and n.d., volume 1
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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

749. Stowe MS 166-177

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Stowe MS 166-177
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COLLECTION of State Papers and correspondence of Sir Thomas Edmondes, Knt.; 1592-1633. A few earlier and later papers are included in the last volume. Edmondes was English Agent at Paris, 1592-1599; Ambassador at the Archduke Albert's court at Brussels, 1605-1609; Ambassador to France, 1610-1617; Comptroller of the Household, 1616 ; Treasurer of the Household, 1618; and died in 1639. Twelve volumes. Paper. Folio. The collection includes original letters of English ambassadors to France and S...
Scope & Content:
Sir Thomas Edmondes, diplomatist: Correspondence and papers: 1592-1633, with additions 1470-1663.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1592-1633
Extent:
12 items

750. Stowe MS 167

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Stowe MS 167
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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
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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