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81. Add MS 4233

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CAVENDISH'S LIFE OF WOLSEY The Life of Cardinal Wolsey by George Cavendish (d. 1561?); early 17th cent. A MS. copy, belonging to Thomas Birch. In the latter's account of the author (f. 2) he erroneously ascribes the work to William Cavendish, 2nd son of Thomas Cavendish, Clerk of the Pipe of th...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
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1 item

82. Add MS 4387

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TREATISES, notes, tables, etc., relating to the Art of Dialling. Artt. 1 and 2 are in the hand of Dr. John Pell. They include:- (1) 'Horologiographia. The Art of Dialling', being a MS. copy of the first few chapters of Thomas Fale's work first printed in 1593 'newly corrected and amended ... b...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
17th century
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1 item

83. Add MS 4357

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ADVICE TO A YOUNG MAN, on leaving Oxford University to reside in London, beg. 'My very good friend, I have longe held it for a principle'; temp. James I. Anonymous. The writer quotes, inter alia, the Basilicon Doron of 'our King' (i.e. James I) (f. 22) and De veritate Cbristianae religionis of P...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Early 17th century
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1 item

84. Add MS 4126

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FORBES PAPERS. Forbes Papers. Vol. I. Transcripts of State letters and papers (of which the originals are now in the Public Record Office and are calendared in Calendars of State Papers, Foreign, under their dates) made by, or for, Dr. Patrick Forbes and evidently intended for a continuation of...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
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1 item

85. Add MS 4184

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CALENDAR OF PRIVY SEAL WARRANTS; 9 Feb. 1653/4-4 Dec. 1656. Arranged chronologically, one entry to a page, and against each the note 'From the Register of the Signet-In the possession of William Eyre, of Lincoln's Inn, esquire'. Paper; ff. 212. Folio. 1653/4 - 1656. Privy Seal: Calendar of warr...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1654]-1656
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1 item

86. Add MS 4150-4154

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'LES LETTRES, memoires, actes, instructions, contractz faicts au Traitté de Mariage d'entre Madame Henriette Marie, Soeur du Roy, et Charles premier, Roy de la Grande Bretagne'; 1624, 1625. Five volumes. Vols. I, III-V are consecutive and contain the negotiations of Tannequy le Veneur, Comte de Tillières, Antoine Coeffier Ruzé, Marquis d'Effiat, successive French Ambassadors to England, and others, whereas Vol. II concerns the 'Suitte du marriage d'Angleterre avec L'Ambassade de Mons' [Jean ...
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Charles I of England: Letters and state papers rel. to his marriage with Henrietta Maria: 1624-1626.: Fr.: Copies. Louis XIII of France: Papers rel. to the marriage of Charles I and Henrietta Maria, his daughter: 1624-1626.: Fr.: Copies.
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
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5 items

87. Add MS 4168-4172

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ROE LETTER-BOOKS Letter-books of Sir Thomas Roe, containing copies of his correspondence and papers during his negotiations as Ambassador- Extraordinary to Hamburg, and, afterwards, to Regensburg and Vienna, for the settlement of a general peace, with the plenipotentiaries of the Emperor, France, Sweden and Denmark; 1638-1642. English, French, Italian and Latin. Five volumes. Folio.
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Sir Thomas Roe, diplomatist: Letter-books: 1638-1642. Ferdinand III; Emperor of Germany: Negotiations of Sir T. Roe with: 1638-1642.
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Western Manuscripts
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English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1638-1642
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5 items

88. Add MS 4388

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John Pell: notes on logic, geometry and music.
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Collections relating to music, mainly in the hand of John Pell, mathematician and diplomatist. Preceded by some notes on logic and geometry also in Pell's hand (ff. 1-13). Includes notes, tables, exercises and papers relating to the studies of John Birchensha on music from a mathematical basis a...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Danish and English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume (109 folios)

89. Add MS 4381

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TREATISES on law or logic. Viz.:- (1) 'Joh. Fred. Gronovii Oratio de Lege Regia', delivered to the Academy at Leyden, 8 Feb. 1671. It agrees with, and is probably copied from the printed edition of 1678, but the dedication is here omitted 'brevitatis causâ'. ff. 1-38. (2) Draft treatise on l...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
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1 item

90. Add MS 4203

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VERNON LETTERS Extracts and abstracts of letters to Charles Talbot, Duke of Shrewsbury, Secretary of State, etc., to William III, from James Vernon, at first Secretary to the Duke and subsequently Secretary of State; 29 Oct. 1696- 6 Nov. 1708. Copies by Birch from the 'three large volumes 4 to'...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
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1 item