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 B X
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'A TREW COPPIE of the antient franchisses priuiledges and customes' of the honour of Tutbury [co. Staff.] parcel of the Duchy of Lancaster, in the counties of Stafford and Derby, &c., 'collected by Robert Roworth, his Maiesties poore tennant of Tutbery'. The main part of the volume consists ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1603-1625]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 B XI
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'AN ANSWER to the articles of the commoners of Devonsheir and Cornewall (sc. in the Catholic rising of 1549) declaring to the same howe they haue ben seduced by evell persons, and howe their conscyences may be satysfyed and stayed, consernyng the sayd artycles, sette forth by a countryman of the...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1549
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 B XII
Title:
Scope & Content:: RECKONING TABLE showing for periods from 28 days to one year the 'Proportions of Victualls for 100 men serving either in England, Ireland or at Sea'. Paper; ff. 26. Folio. 115/8 in. x 71/2 in. Early XVII cent. Not in the old catalogues.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 B XIII
Title:
Scope & Content:: LEGAL ARGUMENT for the Archbishop of Canterbury in the controversy known as the Modus decimandi case concerning the right of the Court of Common Pleas to issue prohibitions to ecclesiastical courts. In fifteen chapters. Other copies are in Cotton MS. Faustina D. VI, ff. 93-117 b, Harley MSS. 813...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1609-1611
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 B XIV
Title:
Scope & Content:: PARAPHRASE on the Book of Revelation, by King James VI of Scotland. Autograph. Written, according to James Montagu, Bishop of Winchester, who edited the King's Collected Works in 1616 (Preface to the Reader, sig. d), 'before hee was twenty yeeres of aage' (sc. before 1586). James also in his int...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1586
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 B XIX
Title:
Scope & Content:: ANONYMOUS TREATISE on Church Music, in five chapters, as follows:-(i) 'The praise of Musick', &c. f. 1;-(ii) 'The occasions of the decay of Musick in Cathedral and Colledge Churches at this daye'. f. 5 b;-(iii) 'The iust occasion taken against those that perform the service' unskilfully. f. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1603-1625]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 B XV
Title:: Basilikon Doron, or Book of the Institution of a Prince
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the autograph copy of the Basilikon Doron (The Royal Gift), a treatise on kingship and government written in the form of a private letter by James VI, King of Scotland (r. 1567–1625) and England (r. 1603–1625) for the instruction of his son Prince Henry (b. 1594, d. 1612...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1598
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 B XVI
Title:
Scope & Content:: METRICAL VERSIONS of Psalms, &c., by King James VI, as follows:- 1. Psalms i-vii ix-xxi xxix, xlvii, c, civ, cxxv, cxxviii, cxxxi (two versions), cxxxiii, cxliii, cl. Autograph. Some are signed 'J. D. R. S.', 'D. R. S.', or 'D. J. R. S.' (sc. Jacobus Dominus Rex Scotorum). After Ps. i, ii, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 B XVII
Title:
Scope & Content:: VISION of Piers the Ploughman, with Piers the Ploughman's Creed prefixed, viz.:- 1. Piers the Ploughman's Creed : the alliterative satirical poem, based on the Vision, describing the writer's search for some one to teach him his creed, his ill-success with the friars and final success with the ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 B XVIII
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'A PROIECT for raysinge of a stocke out of the iniquitye, the daingerous proceedinges, and the vnlawfull dealinges of theeuinge Brokers, to supply the vrgent ocasion that the comons daylie haue for loane of mony vpon their pawnes', &c., addressed to James I by Thomas Huniman, of London, merc...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1603-1625]
Extent:: 1 item

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