Archive Reference (shelfmark): Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X / Language: English - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A X
Title:
Scope & Content:: TWO TRACTS by Geoffrey Burdon, of Staunton Barnard, co. Wilts. (cf. 7 D. XVI), viz.: 1. 'Humble Meditations vpon a high object'; in favour of the royal power in matters spiritual as well as temporal. The tract itself is addressed to James I, but the present copy is preceded by a dedication to Ch...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1625-1649]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XI
Title:
Scope & Content:: TREATISE 'of the orthographie [and, lib. ii, 'of the congruitie] of the Britan tongue', by Alexander Hume ; with a dedication to James I. The MS. ends with the verse (as an example of a parenthesis): Bless, guyd, advance, preserve, prolong, Lord (if thy pleasur be), Our King & Queen; and ke...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1603-1625]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XII
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'THE KINGGES Curtaine Drawer': petitions to James I and Anne of Denmark by Thomas Skales. The writer, apparently a religious enthusiast, imprisoned in 'his maiesties Bench', complains of Sir George Reynell, the Queen's carver, as the cause of his imprisonment, and of the Lord Chancellor. The dat...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1613-1614
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XIII
Title:
Scope & Content:: PETITION to James I from Leonard Worrall 'in the behalfe of your distressed subjects nowe in pryson and in distres abroad', wherein he puts forward proposals for the relief of debtors and restraint of brokers or usurers, the reformation of criminals, and the employment of the poor and needy to t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1607
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XIV
Title:
Scope & Content:: NOMINA, etymologiae, insignia insigniumque descriptiones singuli uniuscuiusque scuti quibus Lumleyae decoratur Baro': executed for John Lumley, Lord Lumley (d. 1609). The seven quarterings are drawn in colours first separately and then together. A correction on f. 1 is apparently in Lumley's aut...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XIX
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'AN ADMONYSYONE to evarye degrye, showing the right waye to joye and parfyte reste', &c., by Edward Wollaye: a series of poems on the duties of all classes of society, and warnings to evil-doers. Preceded by a dedication, prose preface, and poetical memorial to Queen Elizabeth. At the end (f...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1558-1603]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XL
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'THE KINGS SWORDE ordained of God', &c. : a sermon on Ps. xlv. 3, by William Loe, D.D., preached at Whitehall, 14 Jan. 1622[3] 'being the moneth of his ordinary wayting'. With a dedication to Prince Charles, in which he prays for his prosperous voyage [to Spain] and safe return, At the begin...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1623
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XLI
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'THE COLONIES, beeing the seaventh booke of the second weeke of the noble, learned, and religious Lord of Bartas [Guillaume de Saluste du Bartas], translated by Josuah Sylvester, 1603.' Beg. 'While through the Worldes vnhaunted wildernes'. Preceded by a dedication, in verse, to James I, beg. 'Ou...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1603
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XLII
Title:: Sworne Book of Honorius or Liber iuratus Honorii
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-15r: Sworne Book of Honorius (Liber iuratus Honorii), or Liber Sacer,chapters 1-5 (chapter 4 in Latin, the remainder in English); ff. 15r-23r: A treatise on Suffumigations (mostly in English, final paragraphs in Latin); ff. 23r-27r: Lists of classes of angels and spirits (op...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: Part of Royal MS 17 A XLII-IV

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XLII
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'THE SWORNE BOOKE' of 'Honoryus' (see f. 4 b, 11. 3, 6): a translation of a book of magic, entitled (see Sloane MS. 3854, f. 138 b) 'Liber de vita anime racionalis, qui liber sacer uel liber angelorum vel liber iuratus nuncupatur, quem fecit Honorius magister Thebarum', purporting to be compiled...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

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