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591. Stowe MS 950

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Stowe MS 950
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CONFESSIO Amantis, by John Gower. Imperfect, both the beginning and the end being lost, including both passages by which the editions are distinguished. The text begins near the commencement of the 1st book, with the line "He hyde it nought, for yif thou feynest" (Pauli, i. p. 47), and ends in t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st half of 15th century
Extent:
1 item

592. Stowe MS 74

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Stowe MS 74
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GENEALOGICAL HISTORY of the Sovereigns of England, from Egbert, A.D. 801, to Elizabeth. Latin. With arms in trick. Paper; ff. 39. XVIIth cent. At f. 38 the writer has inscribed in the margin "decimo tertio die Novembris anno 1612. hic incipiebam." A note at f. 1 by Sir Isaac Heard, Clarenceux, a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

593. Stowe MS 288

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Stowe MS 288
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" THE DUKE OF LENOX his speeche before his Majestie concerning the warre with Scotland ": apparently addressed to Charles l., dissuading him from the war with Scotland in 1629 and counselling concessions to the Scots. According to Dr. S. R. Gardiner (Hist. of England, vol. viii. 1884, p. 367) a ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1629
Extent:
1 item

594. Stowe MS 72

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Stowe MS 72
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GENEALOGICAL CHRONICLE, in Latin, of the kings of England to Edward IV., tracing their descent from Adam through the Trojan kings; with the genealogy of Christ in a parallel column. Beg. "Veterum cronicoriim de successione regum anglie ordo hic insequitur." An English copy, slightly imperfect, i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

595. Stowe MS 79

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Stowe MS 79
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NOTES on Rapin's History of England by Philip Morant [1700- 1770], the historian of Essex, consisting of references to, and extracts from, the earlier chroniclers illustrating certain passages. In two volumes, bound in one, the first relating to British and Saxon times, the second to the reign o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

596. Stowe MS 34

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Stowe MS 34
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SHORT HOMILIES on the various virtues and vices, in English. The beginning is wanting; the titles of the paragraphs which now stand first are "Of Sorinesse " [Sorrow] and "Of Asolknesse, Unlust" [Sloth]. Vellum; ff. 49. Early XIIIth cent. With a strongly marked change of hand at f. 39. Bound in ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 13th century
Extent:
1 item

597. Stowe MS 78

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Stowe MS 78
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"AN ALPHABETICAL MEMORANDUM-BOOK or Index, whereby several remarkable passages in Rapin's History of England (to the Revolution) may be easily turn'd to. Continued to the end of King William's Reign from another History, etc." With dedication by Charles Gibbon, 1 Mar. 1733 [4], to William, Duke ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1 Mar 1734]
Extent:
1 item

598. Stowe MS 94

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Stowe MS 94
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"COMMENTAIRE ou diurnal de l'expedition de Thunes faicte par le tresauguste et tresvictorieux Empereur Charles cinqiesme": a narrative by an eye-witness of the expedition made by Charles V. in 1535 against Khair al addin Barbarossa, Dey of Algiers, to punish and suppress piracy, in which Tunis w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 item

599. Stowe MS 129

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Stowe MS 129
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PROCEEDINGS of General Assemblies and Synods of the Church of Scotland, 1560-1643 ; extracted from the printed works of Calderwood, Spotiswood, and Burnet. With a table of contents. Paper; ff. 124. xviiith cent. Folio. Kingdom of Scotland: Proceedings of General Assemblies and Synods of the Chu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

600. Stowe MS 881

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Stowe MS 881
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ANTIQUARIAN COLLECTIONS relating to the borough of Ipswich, co. Suffolk, viz.:-(1) Extracts from royal charters from 1199 to 1518; 18th cent. f. 1;-(2) Original accompts of Edward Cage, Borough Treasurer, for the year ending Michaelmas, 1588. f. 5;- (3) Extracts from "a curious and large book ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item