Papers of John Foxe concerning persecutions of proto-Protestants and Protestants
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-217v: A large collection of papers of the martyrologist John Foxe concerning persecutions of proto-Protestants (Lollards) and Protestants.
Volume of historical papers, mostly relating to naval matters, collected by Ralph Starkey
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-9r: 'Certaine reasons to approove the menes that fostered and contynued all the abuses Comitted in the office of the Shippes' ff. 9r-10r: 'The forme of a Privy Seale, for tounage of a Nue Shippes at 5s the tonne, to incourage others to builde Shippes of great Burthen'. f. 10...
Notes on churches and colleges in Oxford made by Richard Symonds in 1643-1644
Scope & Content:
Notebook of Richard Symonds written while staying with the King’s troops in Oxford, after fleeing imprisonment in October 1643. Records monumental inscriptions and coats of arms in Oxford churches and colleges and halls of the University, with many sketches, mostly coats of arms. First half of t...
Copy of Visitation of Staffordshire 1583, by John Withie, with some further pedigrees
Scope & Content:
Copy of the Visitation book of Staffordshire made by Robert Glover, Somerset Herald, Marshall and Deputy to William Flower, Norroy, 1583, written and drawn 1621 by John Withie (1593-1678), arms painter. With many additions. The Visitation includes: f. 1r: Names of the Hundreds in Staffordshire...
Motets by English composers of the beginning of the 16th century. Medius part.
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-57 passim. Medius part of some ‘antemns‘ (i.e. Motets) by English composers of the beginning of the 16th century. More than half of them are anonymous. 1. ‘Gaude plurimum.’ By J. Taverner. f. 1. 2. ‘Aue, dei patris filia.’ f. 3b. 3. ‘Adoro te, domine.’ f. 5. 4. ‘Salue, regina, pudi...
Warrants passed under the signet of Charles, Prince of Wales [later Charles I]
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume, containing seemingly the original register of warrants which passed under the signer of Charles, Prince of Wales [later King Charles I of England], from 16 September 1617 to 21 March 1624 [1625].
Correspondence of Simonds D’Ewes on domestic and private business
Scope & Content:
Letters on domestic and private business, including accounts, chiefly to Simonds D’Ewes. Arranged alphabetically by writer, A-Y (Aston-Young), with three preliminary letters from John Henry (ff. 1-3) and two final folios of quotations (ff. 136-137). Many letters copiously annotated by Simonds D’...
A catalogue of publications by King and Parliament, 1640-1667
Scope & Content:
Quarto manuscript volume, by Richard Smith. A Catalogue of such Ordinances, Orders, Remonstrances, Declarations, Proclamations, Articles, Messages, Answers, and other passages which have been printed and published by authority from His Majesty and from either House of Parliament, from the beginni...
Copies of papers relating to the Treaty of Nijmegen
Scope & Content:
Copies of memoranda, letters and other papers relating to the Treaty of Nijmegen, in the hand of Thomas Chudleigh, Secretary to the Ambassadors and the Nijmegen Peace Conference.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Accounts of Sir Robert Mansell, Treasurer of the Navy
Scope & Content:
Account book of Sir Robert Mansell, Treasurer of the Royal Navy, January 1603/4-December 1604. Each page of disbursements signed by Sir Henry Palmer, Sir John Trevor, and Sir Peter Buck, Commissioners of the Navy.