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 18 A LXII
Title:
Scope & Content:: TRANSLATION by Henry Parker, 10th Lord Morley (cf. 17 A. XXX, &c.), of no. 49 of the fifty novels in the Novellzino of Masuccio of Salemo (first printed 1476, ed. 1535, p. 197). Printed from this MS. by F. Brie, Die erste Übersetzung einer ital. Novelle ins Englische, Brunswick, 1910 (Archiv...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1540-1547
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A LXIII
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'A DISCOURSE of the beseiginge, defendinge and releeuinge of the towne of Bergen vp Zome in the year 1622', by an anonymous author; introduced by two ten-line stanzas addressed 'To the Prince his Highnes' [Charles, Prince of Wales], beg. 'Vnto your Hignes humbly I present This poore discourse, w...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1622
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A LXIV
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'A COPIE of diuers and sundry verses as well in Latin as in Englishe deuised and made partely by Jhon Leland and partely by Nicholas Vuedale' (Leland's are all Latin) on the occasion of the coronation of Queen Anne Boleyn at the pageants exhibited by the Mayor and Citizens of London on Whitsun E...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1533
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A LXIX
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'A CHRISTIAN REFORMACION of Nosce teipsum': a poem (with a prose appendix, ff. 18-20 b), dedicated to James 1, by Robert Chambers, being a criticism of Sir John Davies' Nosce Teipsum, which was written in 1592 (see Add. MS. 25304), but first published in 1599. The fuller title (f. 3) runs 'A sec...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1603-1625]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A LXV
Title:
Scope & Content:: ADDRESS to James I by Richard Spert, containing a scheme for increasing the revenues and customs of Ireland by letting to tenants, and forming into parishes, all lands there which may be found on a survey to accrue to the Crown by 'attainder, concealement, forfeyture or agreement', and by develo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1603-1625]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A LXVI
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'ROBINSONS Eupolemia, Archippus and Panoplia': a strange medley addressed to James I (but originally begun in 1602 for Queen Elizabeth) by Richard Robinson, a London skinner (see Dict. Nat. Biogr.), with Latin verses (ff. 3, 4) addressed to both sovereigns. In three parts, viz.:- 1. Eupolemia; ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1602-1603
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A LXVII
Title:
Scope & Content:: ADDRESS to Charles, Prince of Wales, on the 'discoverie and reformacion of a great and grosse abuse of the state, lawe and subiect by the Brokers registringe of stolne goods' in London, by Thomas Hunniman, perhaps the Thomas Honeyman who is mentioned as 'solicitor to the brokers' in Cal. State P...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1612-1625
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A LXVIII
Title:
Scope & Content:: ADDRESS to Queen Elizabeth in favour of determining the succession to the Crown [by Peter Wentworth, M.P. for Northampton 1592/3, a prisoner in the Tower till his death in 1596]. Printed as A Pithie Exhortation to her Maiestie, &c., 1598 (see Dict. Nat. Biogr.). Another copy, with letters re...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1593
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A LXX
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'THE THEATER OF APOLLO': a masque by an anonymous author, prepared originally for King James I [not before the conclusion of the French match, Nov. 1624], and now presented to the roiall handes of . . . King Charles'. Beg. 'And now the goulden Charriot of the Sunne'. Paper; ff. 12. Folio. 111/2...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1625
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A LXXI
Title:
Scope & Content:: TWO ADDRESSES to Charles I by an anonymous Englishman, concerning the promotion of historical studies, medalling, &c., viz.:- 1. 'The Cabanet Royal, with the chief prouisions which constitute and furnish it for the seruice of Civil Wisdome and Civil Glorie', &c.; 23 Oct. 1627. Imperfect...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1626
Extent:: 1 item

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