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1631. Royal MS 18 A XXVIII

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Royal MS 18 A XXVIII
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POLITICAL TRACT, in form of a letter addressed to Charles I, by Henry Cock on the fortunate dismissal of Queen Henrietta Maria's French attendants and of 'those who are communely called the fathers of the Oratory, who lately were chapleins to the Queenes Majesty', and on the machinations of 'Fis...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
c 1630
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1 item

1632. Royal MS 18 A XXX

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Royal MS 18 A XXX
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ADDRESS to James I on various political reforms by James Dackombe, dated Little Fountmell [Lit. Fontmell, co. Dorset], 24 June, 1603, but including a memorial originally written from the same place (where Dackombe was attending the King's court as 'a poore suiter'), 8 Apr. 1603, to Thomas [Boyd,...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1603
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1 item

1633. Royal MS 18 A XXXI

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Royal MS 18 A XXXI
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'THE ARGUMENT of the Spectacle presented to the Sacred, Maiestys of Great Brittan and Denmark as they passed through London' [31 July, 1606] with the Latin speech of [Sir Henry Montagu] Recorder of London, and the Latin verses spoken at the Pageant, by John Marston, the dramatist (d. 1634). The ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1606
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1 item

1634. Royal MS 18 A XXXII

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Royal MS 18 A XXXII
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VERSES (about 400 couplets) against the Spanish match and on other political topics, addressed anonymously to James I. Beg. 'O blessed king, that heares the poore'; ends 'Shall reape in ioye from all their feares'. Paper; ff. 12. Quarto. 73/4 in. x 6 in. Circ. 1618. Not in the old catalogues.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1618
Extent:
1 item

1635. Royal MS 18 A XXXIII

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Royal MS 18 A XXXIII
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'JANUS TEMPLE shutt and opened': a poem (91 x 6 lines, rhymes ababcc) by Gervaise Scroope [? Sir Gervase Scrope of Cockerington, Sheriff of Lincoln 9 Chas. 1], addressed to James I, preceded by a dedicatory letter. Some anagrams on the names of the author and of the King are added at ff. 2b, 10b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1603-1625]
Extent:
1 item

1636. Royal MS 18 A XXXIV

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Royal MS 18 A XXXIV
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AN ABSTRACT of Frauds of the Officers of the Navy by Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton (d. 1614), addressed to James I (cf. list of the author's works in Works of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, and of Sir Thomas Wyatt, ed. G. F. Nott, 1815, ii, p. 468). A clerk's copy corrected and subscribed by ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1609
Extent:
1 item

1637. Royal MS 18 A XXXIX

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Royal MS 18 A XXXIX
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'A PARTICULAR of my journey, with those meane obseruations I have collected': anonymous travels, lasting 17 months, through France, Switzerland, Italy, by sea from Venice to Egypt, through Sinai to Jerusalem, where the author arrived 7 Jan. 1607[8] and spent 12 days. He thence passed through Pal...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1607-1608
Extent:
1 item

1638. Royal MS 18 A XXXV

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Royal MS 18 A XXXV
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MEMORIAL to James I containing proposals for economics in the cost of armour, by 'Jhon Martin', a manufacturer of armour plates, with a comparative table (f. 9) of the price Queen Elizabeth 'paid Sir Thomas Gresham for theis sorts of armors in the first and second yeare of her raigne', the price...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1603-1625]
Extent:
1 item

1639. Royal MS 18 A XXXVI

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Royal MS 18 A XXXVI
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PETITION of James Dackombe (cf. 18 A. XXX) to James I, for the relief of imprisoned debtors and the reform of judicial abuses. Paper; ff. 15. Quarto. 73/4 in. x 6 in. Temp. Jas. I. Not in the old catalogues.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1603-1625]
Extent:
1 item

1640. Royal MS 18 A XXXVII

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Royal MS 18 A XXXVII
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PROPOSALS to James I by John Lewis [of Llynwene] a barrister formerly practising in the Marches Court, for a history of Britain in ten books, asking for the King's 'incoragement or discoragement' before he proceeds further. The work, in seven books, with dedication to Prince Henry, was printed a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1603-1612
Extent:
1 item

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