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21. Stowe MS 241-242

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 241-242
Title:
STATE PAPERS and Correspondence, originals and copies, 1688 - 1744; collected by Thomas Astle, Keeper of the Records in the Tower, and intended to serve as an appendix to the Hanover Papers (Hargrave MS 222-232). Two volumes. Paper. Large Octavo.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1688-1744
Extent:
2 items

22. Stowe MS 274

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 274
Title:
Scope & Content:
" A LARGE and excellent discourse of the estate of Christiandome, written by an vnknowne author about the yeare of our Lord 1594 . . . conteyning many secret passages and hidden mysteries of the tymes both past and present, with much variety of good matter both historicall and politicall." The a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 item

23. Stowe MS 110

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 110
Title:
Scope & Content:
BRIEF ANALYSIS of Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity, books i.-iv. Paper; ff. 28. xviith cent. Duodecimo. Richard Hooker, Master of the Temple: Ecclesiastical Polity: analysis of books I.-IV.: 18th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

24. Stowe MS 290

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 290
Title:
Scope & Content:
PAMPHLET, in form of a letter to a person unnamed, in reference to the proposed marriage of James, Duke of York, [James II.], urging by historical examples the right of the royal family to arrange its marriages without reference to Parliament, and without taking into consideration the question o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Feb 1679
Extent:
1 item

25. Stowe MS 310

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 310
Title:
Scope & Content:
COLLECTION of engraved political caricatures illustrating the closing years of George II., and more particularly the last Administration of Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle. Among the characters caricatured are the Duke, Robert Darcy, 4th Baron Holdernesse, Philip Yorke, lst Earl of Hardw...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

26. Stowe MS 281

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 281
Title:
Scope & Content:
"VOX POPULI, or News frome Spayne, translated according to the [imaginary] Spanishe coppie": a pamphlet by Thomas Scott against the Spanish Match. Priinted in 1620, and suppressed; included in the Somers Tracts, 1809, vol. ii., p. 508. Paper; ff. 14. xviith cent. Small quarto. Thomas Scott: Vox...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

27. Stowe MS 194-196

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 194-196
Title:
COLLECTION of transcripts of state-papers, warrants, etc., tempp. Charles I.-William III., made for use as precedents. The binding (early 19th cent.) is lettered " Coventry's Papers." This refers either to Henry Coventry, Secretary of State, 1672-1679, or to his younger brother, Sir William Coventry, Secretary to James, Duke of York, 1660-1667, Commissioner of the Treasury, 1667-68, etc.; but they both died in 1686. In three volumes. There is an index of subjects at the end of each volume. P...
Scope & Content:
Records, Public: Transcripts of State papers, for precedents: temp. Chas. II.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[between 1625-1702]
Extent:
3 items

28. Stowe MS 301

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 301
Title:
Scope & Content:
POLITICAL and other tracts, viz.:- 1. Treatise on a war with Spain in the Low Countries, urging the disadvantages of it; beg. "The tyme of the daie is to be considered." f. 2. 2. " The number of Fleetes, 'besides the shippes mayneteyned in the Narrow Seas, that her Majestie set forth from th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Mar 1624
Extent:
1 item

29. Stowe MS 55

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 55
Title:
Scope & Content:
"CHRONOLOGIA tum Sacra tum profana et Romana," from Sulpicius Severus, Justinus, Cornelius Nepos, Florus, Paterculus, etc. It begins with the Creation, and was intended to be carried down to the death of Augustus, but actually ends in B.C. 354, which is given as A.M. 5098, O1. cvi. 3, and A.U.C....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1745-1758]
Extent:
1 item

30. Stowe MS 113

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 113
Title:
Scope & Content:
" THE PREVARICATION of Holy Church Libertyes " : the first part, in twelve chapters, showing " what mischeivous and most deplorable consequences followed and proceeded from the unlawfull marriage of Kinge Henry the 8th with Ann Bulleine, even such as vtterly ruined the Church and her libertyes, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
1 item