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681. Stowe MS 30

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 30
Title:
Prayer book presented to Queen Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:
Illustrated prayer book, in various languages, dated 1578 and presented to Queen Elizabeth I for New Year. Written in inks of various colours, with illuminated titles and initials. Possibly presented by William Absolon (Lawson, ‘This Remembrance of the New Year’, p. 143). Previously also associ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1578
Extent:
1 volume

682. Stowe MS 421

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 421
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Scope & Content:
" LAW MISCELLANIES " : copy of a volume of legal notes made by Sir Christopher Yelverton [Speaker of the House of Commons, 1597, Justice of the King's Bench, 1602-1612]. In the hand of John Anstis, Garter King of Arms; copied by leave of Talbot Yelverton, Earl of Sussex [1717-1731], in whose pos...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1717-1731]
Extent:
1 item

683. Stowe MS 497

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 497
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Scope & Content:
" INROLLMENTS of Letters Patents and other Instruments of State during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell, of his son Richard, and of the Government of the Persons who stiled themselves Keepers of the Liberties of England, namely from June 24th 1654 to January the 23rd [1659-60] preceding the R...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Jun 1654-[23 Jan 1660]
Extent:
1 item

684. Stowe MS 501

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 501
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Scope & Content:
COPIES of Royal Grants, Commissions, Pardons, Letters-Patent, etc., chiefly of the reigns of Henry VII. and Henry Vlll., with a few of Edward IV. The dates are often omitted, and chronological order is not followed. In the latter part of the volume are several documents of a different character ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[between 1509-1547]
Extent:
1 item

685. Stowe MS 630

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 630
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Scope & Content:
VISITATION of Staffordshire, taken in 1614. A copy "in the handwriting of John Cole, Esq., one of' the Deputy-Registers in Chancery" (ob. 1750): see a note by Philip Morant at f. 1. With an index. Paper; ff. 49. XVIIIth cent. (dated 1731 on a fly-leaf at the beginning). With bookplate of arms of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1731
Extent:
1 item

686. Stowe MS 869

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 869
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Scope & Content:
"LIBER GENERALIS taxationum, tam temporalium quam spiritualium, in com. Norfolk, pro auxilio levando anno 3 Hen. 4ti [1401-2] ad maritandum Blanchiam filiam suam primogenitam." With indexes of hundreds and parishes at ff. 2 b, 193. The title is in a modern hand; and the volume includes numerous ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

687. Stowe MS 952

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 952
Title:
Scope & Content:
THE PILGRIMAGE Of the Life of Man: a translation into English octosyllabic verse of the second recension [1355] of Guillaume de Deguileville's Pèlerinage de la vie humaine. The French poem forms the first book of the author's Trois Pèlerinages, the second being the Pèlerinage de l'ame, and the t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15th century-16th century
Extent:
1 item

688. Stowe MS 556

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 556
Title:
An inventory of jewels and other goods of Queen Elizabeth I, 1596
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-1v: An introduction to Queen Elizabeth I’s inventory of jewels and other goods. It explains that the inventory was made or begun on 20 February 1596 and lists ‘all suche percelles of the Queenes Majesties Jewelles and plate and other stuffe as did remayne [...] in the custodie...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[20 Feb 1596]
Extent:
1 volume

689. Stowe MS 458

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 458
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Scope & Content:
RICHARDS COLLECTIONS. Vol. Xll. (ff. 22). Diary of Jacob Richards, of the artillery train in Flanders, narrating events up to the battle of Landen; 8/18 Apr.- 20/30 Jul)-, 1693. He was present, among other places, at Ghent, Greinbergen, Vilvorde, and Pare Abbey near Louvain, and gives plans of t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1693-1695
Extent:
1 item

690. Stowe MS 323

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 323
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Scope & Content:
MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS Concerning the revenue, coinage, etc. 1381-1734. 1. Extracts from the Rolls of Parliament for 5 Rich. II., being pp. 126, 127, of vol. iii. of the printed edition. f. 1. 2. " Of the erected service called the office of Composicions for Alienacions "; circ. 1595. f. 3. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1381-1734
Extent:
1 item