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Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 2790
Title:: TRANSCRIPTS Of instructions to Ambassadors and other similar state-papers; tempp. Hen. VIII.-Eliz.[between 1509-1603]:- 1. Instructions to Sir Anthony St,. Leger, K.G., Lord Deputy, and others " whome his majestie hath appointed to be of his Highnes privie Councell in . . . Ireland"; July, 1550. f. 1. 2. Instructions to Sir Henry Sidney, K.G., as Lord Deputy of Ireland; 2 Aug. 1575. f. 6. 3. " A brief memoriall of Instructions for Mr. Edmond Tremaine being sent to the L. Deputie of Ire...
Scope & Content:: Bindings GERMAN: Wooden boards covered with stamped vellum: 17th cent. England General Chronicles and History: Instructions to Ambassadors and others: tempp. Hen. VIII.-Eliz.: Copies. includes: f. 1 Sir Anthony St. Leger: Instructions to, as Lord Deputy of Ireland: 1550.ff. 1, 6, 10 Irela...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1509-1603
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 2877
Title:: COMMONPLACE-BOOK of Gilbert Frevile, of Bishop Middleham, co. Durham, containing notes of sermons by Puritan and other divines, miscellancous historical matter, etc. Tables of contents are at ff. 2 b, 188. The date 1591 on the cover is perhaps that of the commencement of the collection. The chief contents are:- 1. Copy of a sundial, with the name of Rob. de Freuyle, 1583. f. 1. 2. Calligraphical design, "Servire deo est regnare." f. 2. 3. Beginning of a compendium of English history, d...
Scope & Content:: London, Parishes. St. Mary Aldermary: Sermons by puritan and other divines,: circ. 1604-1611. Sermons: Notes of sermons by puritans and others, chiefly in London: circ. 1604-1611. Francis Marberry, rector of St: Martin, vintry, and St. Pancras, Soper Lane. Sermons by: circ. 1605-1610. Commonp...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1579-1622
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 2975
Title:: POLITICAL TREATISES by Sir Robert Cotton and others. 1. " The severall opinions of sundrie antiquaries touching the antiquitie, power, order, state, persons, manner and proceedinge of the Highe Courte of Parliament in England ": a composite paper read to the (original) Society of Antiquaries in London. Printed in Thomas Hearne's Collection of Curious Discourses (1771 ed.), p. 292, probably from Harley MS. 305. Other MSS. are Lansdowne 491, f. 22, Stowe 298, f. 143, and 572, f. 8, Add. 2259...
Scope & Content:: Carrington family: Arms of, in bookplate: 19th cent. Bookplates: Arms [? of Carrington]: 19th cent. includes: ff. 1-32 b England; Parliament: Tracts on antiquity of: Jas I.ff. 2-12 b, 16-19 Sir John Doddridge, judge: Treatises on Parliament: circ. 1609.f. 13 Arthur Agard, Deputy Chamber...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1609
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3265
Title:
Scope & Content:: HERTFORD PAPERS. Vol. IX (ff. 35). Letter-book of Rear- Admiral George Murray (K.C.B. 1815), as Commander-in-chief of naval operations in the expedition against Buenos Aires aboard H.M.S. 'Polyphemus'; 10 Nov. 1806-9 July 1807. South America: Letter-book of Rear-Adm. G. Murray in expedition aga...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 10 Nov 1806-9 Jul 1807
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3291 A
Title:
Scope & Content:: (ff. vi + 140). General defence; 1867-1893. Army; England: Papers rel. to expenditure: 1854-1895.: Partly printed. includes: ff. 1-1 9 Ethiopia: Papers rel. to the cost of the British expedition: 1867-1869.: Partly printed.ff. 1-138 passim Navy; England: Papers rel. to expenditure: 1867-1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1867-1893
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3291 B
Title:
Scope & Content:: (ff. 224). Naval defence, mostly relating to the shipbuilding programme under the Naval Defence Act, 1889; 1888-1894. Navy; England: Papers rel. to expenditure: 1867-1894.: Partly printed. includes: ff. 1-10b Herbert Harley Murray, KCB 1895: Correspondence, etc., with Lord Welby: 1888.ff. 1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1888-1894
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3291 C
Title:
Scope & Content:: (ff. 162,). Imperial defence; 1853-July 1888. Colonies British: Papers, etc., rel. to their defence: 1853-1894.: Partly printed. includes: ff. 13-69b Australia: Papers, etc., rel. to its defence: 1885-1892.: Partly printed.ff. 13-69b Navy; England: Papers rel. to expenditure: 1867-1894.: ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1853-Jul 1888
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3319
Title:: JOURNAL of the Rev. John Browne, on board H.M.S. 'Majestic'; 24 May 1798-2 Nov. 1799. The journal begins with the detachment of the 'Majestic' and other ships from Lord St Vincent's fleet in the Mediterranean to join Nelson off Toulon, and includes (ff. 13-18) an account of the battle of the Nile (1-2 Aug. 1798), in which the 'Majestic' suffered severely, losing her commander, Capt. G. B. Westcott, shortly after the action began. There is a crude and inaccurate tinted sketch-map (f. 17b) of ...
Scope & Content:: Reverend John Browne: Journal on board H.M.S. 'Majestic': 1798-1799. Navy; England: Journal of Rev. J. Browne in H.M.S. 'Majestic': 1798-1799. Diaries and Memoranda: Rev. J. Browne, aboard H.M.S. Majestic: 1798-1799. includes: f. 17b Maps and Plans: Disposition of the French fleet at the b...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 24 May 1798-2 Nov 1799
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3341
Title:
Scope & Content:: LEEDS PAPERS. Vol. XVIII (ff. 84). Correspondence and papers, partly copies, of the 1st Duke of Leeds relating to naval affairs; 1668-1696. At f. 22 is a memorial concerning Sir Thomas Littleton, 2nd Bart., Joint Treasurer of the Navy, 1671, printed by Browning, op. cit. i, p. 86, note 2. Accom...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1668-1696
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3342-3343
Title:: LEEDS PAPERS. Vols. XIX, XX. Abstracts of naval accompts, showing payments made by successive Treasurers of the Navy, 1671-1674; compiled circ. 1677. Matching bindings, almost identical, of black morocco with orange and red leather inlays, gilt-tooled, by the Naval binder (see H. M. Nixon, 'English Bookbindings XII; a binding by the Naval binder, c. 1675', The Book Collector, iv, 1955, pp. 45-46, in which the cover of Eg. 3342 is reproduced). Two volumes.
Scope & Content:: Navy; England: Correspondence and papers of Lord Danby rel. to: 1668-1696. Accompts: Osborne family, Dukes of Leeds; official and private accompts: 1671-1835, n.d.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1671-1674
Extent:: 2 items

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