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831. Stowe MS 801

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 801
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Scope & Content:
MINISTERS' ACCOMPTS and muster-rolls for Buckinghamshire; 1593-1649. Among other matters are:- 1. Accompts of William Andrewes, collector of fifteenths and tenths granted by Parliament [22 Mar.] 35 Eliz. [1593], for the hundreds of Newport, Buckingham and Cotteslowe; including (f. 4 b) a royal...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1593-1649
Extent:
1 item

832. Stowe MS 956

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 956
Title:
John Croke, Psalms in English verse
Scope & Content:
A girdle-book containing a collection of thirteen Psalms, translated into English verse and apparently written by the legal official John Croke (b. 1489, d. 1554) in his own hand. Another copy of the text, without the hymn ‘Veni Creator’ but including Psalm 31, is now Add MS 30981, which is al...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c. 1540
Extent:
1 volume

833. Stowe MS 275

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 275
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" AN APOLOGIE of [Robert Devereux] the earle of Essex against those which falsly and malitiously take him to be the onely hinderance of the peace and quietnes of his countrye ": a defence of the policy of war with Spain, addressed to Anthony Bacon in 1598. To this is annexed, in the same hand, a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
Extent:
1 item

834. Stowe MS 91

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 91
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Scope & Content:
"RELATION circonstanciée d'un voyage fait en Ecosse par la compagnie des cadets gentilshoimmes de la marine de France," who sailed from Dunkirk 11 June, 1746, in the brigantine "Bien Trouvé," commanded by Captain Anguier, in quest of the Pretender, Charles Edward. Written by P. J. C. Dupont, one...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
before 1750
Extent:
1 item

835. Stowe MS 810

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 810
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Scope & Content:
Copy of the statutes of Trinity College, Cambridge; drawn up, as appears from the preamble (f. 3) dated 4 Cal. Apr. 2 Eliz. [29 Mar. 1560], by Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury, Sir William Cecil and others, who lately visited the University at the Royal command. Latin. This preamble is q...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

836. Stowe MS 985

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 985
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Scope & Content:
"COLLECTANEA quædam Anglo-Saxonica e codicibus manuscriptis hinc inde congesta," by William Elstob, M.A. (ob. 1715), and Elizabeth Elstob, his sister. The extracts are mostly taken from manuscripts formerly belonging to Francis Junius, and by him bequeathed to the Bodleian Library. They were pro...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1712
Extent:
1 item

837. Stowe MS 891

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 891
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Scope & Content:
Vol. VI. (ff. 185). PROVINCE de Champagne; by [Michel] Larcher and [Jean Baptiste] de Pommereu, Intendants, 1698. In Boulainvilliers (i. p. 190), the article is ascribed to Larcher alone; the latter was, in fact, Intendant in Champagne until 1700, when De Pommereu succeeded him, being transferre...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 item

838. Stowe MS 559

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 559
Title:
Collections relating to Crown regalia and jewels
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–84v: A volume of collections relating to the Crown regalia and jewels, annotated throughout by the antiquarian Thomas Astle (1735–1803). ff. 1r–54v: Extracts from the Patent Rolls, Wardrobe Accompts, and other public records, from the reigns of John to Henry VI, including (ff. 11r–23v) a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume

839. Stowe MS 492

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 492
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Scope & Content:
REGISTER of the Acts of the Privy Council from 31 Jan. 1547 to 4 Oct. 1549. Copy Attached to the cover is a letter from Charles Gray [written in 1750] mentioning that the original Council Book of Edward VI. bad been bought a few years before at a cheesemonger's, for waste paper, by Mr. Guthrey t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

840. Stowe MS 713

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 713
Title:
Scope & Content:
ENGLISH COATS-OF-ARMS, in colours, with a few in trick, 17th cent. With an index of names (f. 155 b). The volume also contains:- (a) Account of the tempest on 26 Nov. 1703, with a list of Her Majesty's ships lost in it, from the Monthly Mercury. f 1 b;- (b) List of the Commissioners, April, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item