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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 13 E I
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Scope & Content:: 1. R. HIGDEN, Polychronicon, in 7 books, with no division into chapters. Dates and authorities are given in the margins. Cf. 13 D. I, art. 1. Lib. vi ends (f. 187) 'pro pudore se subtrahere' (cf. Rolls ed., vii, p. 246); the words 'declinato Stigando' are omitted in the first sentence of lib. vi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 14th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 14 B XLIX
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Scope & Content:: DRAFT of a bond for repayment by Sir Christopher Hatton to Queen Elizabeth of £2,300 to be granted him from the bullion taken by Sir Francis Drake, the repayment to take effect after recovery from the King of Spain of Hatton's household goods, seized by the Spaniards at Antwerp. Dat. 10 Apr. (en...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1583
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XXI
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Scope & Content:: 'A DESCRIPTION of the Sone of God', &c.: a sermon on Hebrews i. 3, by J. Hopper (evidently a Scotchman, cf. 16 E. XIX and 18 A. LII), with an address to James I. Autograph. Paper; ff. 19. Quarto. 8 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

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XXV
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Scope & Content:: SERMON on Ps. xciv. 20, directed against the papal see and preached before James I at Newstead in Sherwood Forest, 17 Aug. 1612, by Dr. Robert Snowden Reader of the Divinity Lecture in the collegiate church of Southwell, afterwards (1616) Bishop of Carlisle. Paper; ff. 19. Quarto. 8 in. x 51/2 i...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1612
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 C XXVIII
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Scope & Content:: SERMON on 2 (4) Kings xviii. 22, directed against the Church of Rome. Paper; ff. 19. Quarto. 83/4 in. x 63/4 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 17 D X
Title:
Scope & Content:: PARAPHRASE in verse of Psalms xxi and xlv, by Edmond Skory, with a fulsome dedication in prose to James I. The writer was a son of John Scory, Bishop of Hereford (d. 1585), and another work of his was printed as An extract out of the Historie of the Last .King Henry the fourth, &c., 1610. He...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1603-1625]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 E VI
Title:
Scope & Content:: LEGAL ABRIDGEMENT, based on the Year Books for 1 Edw. III-33 Hen. VI [1455], in French. Additions in another hand to 21 Hen. VII [1505-1506]. Arranged under alphabetical headings, Accompt-Withernam,with a table at the beginning. On the fly-leaves are copies or drafts (ff. 2, 2 b) of two letters...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1455
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 F III
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Scope & Content:: S. AUGUSTINE, De Civitate Dei, libb. i-x, in French; the same translation as in 14 D. I (q. v.). Bound in two volumes. Vellum; ff. 241, 336. 19 in. x 13 1/4 in. A. D. 1473-1483. Gatherings apparently of 8 leaves, but without catchwords. Double columns. See. fol. ' et sur toutes'. Executed, doub...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1473-1483
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A LVI
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Scope & Content:: TRACT on the state of Ireland, addressed to James I by Sir John Dowdall [of Kilfinny, knighted 1594, see Shaw, Knights, ii, p. 90], being an autograph copy of that which he wrote 1 March, 1599 [1600], when he was commander of the Fort of Duncannon for Queen Elizabeth. Frequent references to the ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1603-1625]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 C XXI
Title:
Scope & Content:: OFFICIAL RETURNS of the forces of the Navy and Army of England, in view of the threatened invasion by Spain in 1588. Copies. The contents are as follows:- 1. Navy, viz.:-(a) Copy of 'The Lo. Admiralls [Charles Howard Lord Howard of Effingham] commission for returning to the Seas, August, 1588' ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

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