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1. Add MS 4107

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Title:
State papers, 1598-1745, transcribed by Thomas Birch
Scope & Content:
Collection of state papers, 1598-1745, transcribed by Thomas Birch (1705-1766), compiler of histories and biographer. Vol. II. Including transcripts of letters in the hands Thomas Astle, Keeper of the Records, Tower of London (ff. 68r-77v), and transcripts of letters from the Hanover Papers (Sto...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1598-1745
Extent:
1 volume.

2. Add MS 4155

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Title:
English political and diplomatic papers, 1587-1689
Scope & Content:
This is a miscellaneous collection of papers, including Elizabethan political and military matters; the parliamentary politics of the 1620s; and a number of early 17th-century diplomatic letters. There are probably some originals amongst the collection, but it is evidently mainly a collection of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1587-1740
Extent:
1 volume

3. Add MS 4159

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Title:
State papers of John Thurloe, Secretary of State, 1652-1660, with other state papers, c. 1578-1629 and 1661-1692.
Scope & Content:
Many of the documents here formed part of the original collection of John Thurloe (d. 1668), Secretary to the Council of State and subsequently to the two Cromwells, Lord Protectors. They illuminate both the domestic and international politics of the period, as also the scope of Thurloe's intell...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1578-1700
Extent:
1 volume

4. Add MS 22047

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Title:
The Anthony Roll
Scope & Content:
Anthony Anthony, ‘The second Rolle declaryng the Nombre of the Kynges Maiestys owne Galliasses’. A visual record of all the ships in Henry’s navy at the end of his life, interspersed with a list of their seamen and armaments. This roll shows the galleasses (heavily armed three-masted galleys).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1546
Extent:

Parchment roll

5. Add MS 22591

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MISCELLANEOUS historical pieces, of the first half of the XVIIth cent., viz.: 1. "Parte of the liffe of Kinge James of ffamous memorye, with diuers matters of consequence which hapned in his Raigne." Printed in the Somers Tracts (1809), Vol. II., p. 265. f. 3. 2. "The manner of the Sicknes and...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 35304

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Title:
BARROW BEQUEST. Vol. V. Watercolour drawings and printed materials relating to the voyage of H.M.S. North Star to Baffin Bay and Barrow Straits
Scope & Content:
Five watercolour views in Wolstenholme Sound, Baffin Bay, [Greenland], and several smaller sketches and maps illustrating the voyage of H.M.S. North Star (James Saunders, Master-commanding) to Baffin Bay and Barrow Straits, 1849-50. The North Star was intended as a provision-ship for the Frankli...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1849-1850
Extent:
1 volume (19 folios)

7. Add MS 35831

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Title:
State letters and papers (Hardwicke Papers vol. 483)
Scope & Content:
State letters and papers including the correspondence of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, diplomat and Member of Parliament (1515/16-1571) during his time as Ambassador in France, 1561-1564. f. 1 Letter from Mary, Queen of Scots, to Queen Elizabeth I: as Queen Elizabeth I is not satisfied with her pr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1562-1599
Extent:
1 volume

8. Add MS 38823

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Title:
Sir Edward Hoby, Commonplace book
Scope & Content:
Commonplace book of Sir Edward Hoby, politician and diplomat (1560-1617), containing entries on various subjects including America, Parliament, the Isle of Sheppey, the siege of Calais (1346-1347), and Mary, Queen of Scots. ff. i-ii) Remains of two parchment fragments of a 13th-century manuscri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, Latin, and Turkish
Date Range:
c 1582-c 1596
Extent:

1 volume

9. Add MS 42714

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Title:
'MEMOIRS OF THE EARLY LIFE OF JOHN ELLIOTT, of Elliott House, Near Ripon-Yorkshire, Esqre and, Lieut: of the Royal Navy: written by himself, at the request of his Wife, for the use, and amusement of his children only', extending from his birth (11 Jan. 1759) to the Battle of the Saintes (12 Apr. 1782). The most important part of the work is an account (ff. 7b- 45 b) of the second voyage of Captain James Cook, in H.M. S. 'Resolution,' in which Elliott served as a Midshipman, 1772-1775. Elliot...
Scope & Content:
Lieutenant John Elliott, RN; of Elliott House, near Ripon: Memoirs of his early life, early 19th cent: 1759-1782: Autogr. Brenzett, Kent: Deeds and papers rel. to: 1448-1777.: fr. includes: f. i Lieutenant John Elliott, RN; of Elliott House, near Ripon: Signet: n.d. f. 1b Captain James Cook, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 45356

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Title:
'THE GRAND FLEET 1914-1916', by Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Rushworth Jellicoe, G.C.B., O.M., G.C.V.O., 1st Viscount (and 1925) 1st Earl Jellicoe; 1918. Autograph draft.
Scope & Content:
Preceded (ff. i-iii) by notes on the MS. by Admiral Sir Frederic Charles Dreyer, G.B.E., K.C.B., Jellicoe's Flag Captain at Jutland, 29 Apr. 1939. According to the preface (p. vii) to the printed text, the MS. was finished by the early autumn of 1918, but publication was deferred till after the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1918
Extent:
1 item