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111. Stowe MS 289

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Stowe MS 289
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PARALLEL between Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, and George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, by Sir Henry Wotton, 1641. Printed in Reliquiae Wottonianae, 1672. Paper; ff. 20. xviith cent. Small Folio. Sir Henry Wotton, Ambassador to Venice, and (1623) Provost of Eton: Parallel between the Earl of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1641
Extent:
1 item

112. Stowe MS 192

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Stowe MS 192
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1. TREATY between England and Portugal, dated 10 July, 1654. Followed by:-(1) Powers from King John IV. of Portugal and from Oliver, Protector, to their several commissioners to conclude the treaty; and (2) the ratification of the same by King John, dated Alcantara, 9 May, 1656. Copies. Latin. T...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

113. Stowe MS 73

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Stowe MS 73
Title:
A genealogical chronicle of the kings of England to Edward IV
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A genealogical chronicle, formerly in concertina format, now a codex. Contents: An abbreviated version in English of a genealogical chronicle from Adam to the beginning of the reign of Edward IV, of the type known as the 'Considerans' chronicle, named from the opening words of the Latin prol...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1461-1499
Extent:

1 volume

114. Stowe MS 139

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Stowe MS 139
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" LIST of Treaties between ye severall Princes and States of the World," arranged chronologically under the various countries, as follows:-(1) England, 1442-1681. ff. 19-35b;-(2) France, 1438-1679. ff.36-44,85b-91;-(3)Holland,1441-1678. ff.44b- 61 b;-(4) Sweden, 1614-1681. ff. 62-67;-(5) Germany...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1693
Extent:
1 item

115. Stowe MS 221

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Stowe MS 221
Title:
Letter of James II to the Grand Vizier Azem, announcing the recall of James Brydges, 8th Baron Chandos, Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire; Windsor, 30 September, 1685
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Contents: A letter of James II (r. 1685-1688), King of England, Scotland, and Ireland to the Grand Vizier Azem, announcing the recall of James Brydges (b. 1642, d. 1714), 8th Baron Chandos, as English Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, and the appointment of Sir William Soame (b. c. 1645, d. 16...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Sep 1685
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1 leaf

116. Stowe MS 255

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Stowe MS 255
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" PROCEEDINGS against the Rebels after the Rebellion in 1745," consisting of a complete account of the legal proceedings against the prisoners at York and Carlisle, in Aug. and Sept. 1746, the witnesses' depositions, etc. At the end (f. 91) is added a copy of Queen Anne's Commission for regulati...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1746
Extent:
1 item

117. Stowe MS 59

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Stowe MS 59
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"EXPLANATIO Testamenti Regis Alfredi," and other writings relating to Hyde Abbey, Winchester, in Latin and English, copied "ex libro Abbatiæ de Hyda," sc. from Stowe 58, ff. 23 b-47 b, 53-68. All the documents are included in the Rolls Series edition of the Liber Monasterii de Hyda, 1866. Paper;...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

118. Stowe MS 273

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Stowe MS 273
Title:
Robert Glover (?), An Answer to John Leslie, Bishop of Ross, 1584-1585
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This treatise carries a title page in an 18th- or 19th-century hand: 'AN ANSWER to a discourse of John Lesley, Bishop of Rosse, intended to prove that Mary, Queen of Scots, was intitled to the crown of England in preference to Queen Elizabeth, because the Pope had deposed her, and that her son ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1584-1585
Extent:
1 volume

119. Stowe MS 65

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Stowe MS 65
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THE POLYCHRONICON of Ranulph Higden, translated into English by John Trevisa; in seven books. With three prefaces, the first beg. "Aftir solempne and wi[y]se writeris of artis and sciencis." The text does not agree completely with that of any of the MSS. collated for the edition in the Rolls Ser...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 15th century
Extent:
1 item

120. Stowe MS 284

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Stowe MS 284
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A DISCOURSE of Foreign War, with an account of all the Taxations upon this Kingdom, etc., by Sir Robert Cotton, Bart. Printed in 1690. Paper; ff. 47. Early xviith cent. Belonged, in 1774, to Thomas Astle. Small Quarto. Political Tracts: "Discourse of Foreign War," by Sir R. Cotton: early 17th c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 item