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901. Stowe MS 953

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Stowe MS 953
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NARRATIVE POEM in old English verse relating the revelation to St. Methodius of the history of the world from the Creation to the Day of Judgment. Begins:- "Sum tyme was there a man of state That was clepyd Methodius, An holy byshop, a gret prelate, A man nobyll and gracyous." It summarises th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

902. Stowe MS 550

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Stowe MS 550
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TRANSCRIPTS of records, chiefly relating to Scotland:- 1." Rotulus de superioritate Regis Angliæ in Regnum Scotie, annis 19-23 E. i."; usually called the Great Roll of Scotland. f. 2. This copy does not exactly agree with the text in Rymer's Foedera, vol. i. pt. ii. (London, 1816), p. 762; it ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

903. Stowe MS 911

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Stowe MS 911
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Vol. XXVI. (ff. 223). GOUVERNEMENT de Lyon, contenant les trois Provinces de Lyonnois, Forest et Beaujolois; "par M. Trudaine, Intendant, Année 1698." According to Boulainvilliers (ii. p. 358) the author was [Henri François] Lambert d'Herbigny, who was Intendant at Lyon 1694-1702. Trudaine appea...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 item

904. Stowe MS 776

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Stowe MS 776
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Cartulary of the estates of John de Vaux and his daughter and co-heiress Petronilla de Narford
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This manuscript is a cartulary, containing copies of charters and deeds in Latin, relating to the estates of the English nobleman Sir John de Vaux, alias Vallibus (b. c. 1220, d. 1287), in Norfolk and Suffolk, and particularly the inheritance of his daughter and coheiress Pernel, also known as P...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

905. Stowe MS 268

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Stowe MS 268
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" A BREYFE DISCOURSE in prayse of Kynge Rychard the Thyrd, Kynge of England. . . . . . Said to have been composed by Sir William Cornwallis the younger." With the note (f. 4) by Thomas Astle, " . . . . . transcribed from the original formerly in the library of John Anstis, Esqr., Garter K. at Ar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

906. Stowe MS 850

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Stowe MS 850
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COLLECTIONS relating to Kent and other counties, articles 6-8 having originally formed separate MSS.:- 1. Transcripts of deeds and other documents relating to Canterbury, chiefly tempp. Hen. VII.-Hen. VIII., with a few of earlier date. Lat. and Engl. ff. l b, 45, 115 b. Included among them are...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
15th century-16th century
Extent:
1 item

907. Stowe MS 35

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Stowe MS 35
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DE CORPORE ET SANGUINE DEI: a treatise on the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper by B[aldwin], brother of the Abbey of Ford [in Devonshire, afterwards Abbot of Ford in 1168, Bishop of Worcester in 1180, and Archbishop of Canterbury 1184-1191], dedicated to B[artholomew], Bishop of Exeter [1159-1172]...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 13th century
Extent:
1 item

908. Stowe MS 583

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Stowe MS 583
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Heraldic manuscript, with the order of the christenings of Prince Arthur (1486–1502) and Prince Edward (1537–1553), and pen and ink drawings of processions
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ff. 1r–41r: Heraldic manuscript, with the order of the christenings of Prince Arthur (1486–1502) and Prince Edward (1537–1553), and pen and ink drawings of processions. f. 1r: Contents list in a modern hand, with the note ‘given to me by Mr Bennet. 1768.’ f. 2v: Fragment of a 16th-century rece...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

909. Stowe MS 200-217

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Stowe MS 200-217
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ESSEX PAPERS: Royal warrants, official and private letters and other papers addressed to Arthur Capell, Earl of Essex, while Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, followed by a register of his own letters; 1672-1677. Eighteen volumes. Paper. Folio. The correspondence chiefly relates to appointments to offices in Ireland, grants of lands under the Acts of Settlement and Explanation, pensions, the farming of the revenues, the irregularities in the payment of the forces in Ireland, the disabilities of th...
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Trade: Letters and papers relating to trade in Ireland: 1672-1679. Roman Catholics: Letters relating to, in Ireland: 1672-1677. Revenue: Papers relating to the revenue in Ireland, during the Lord Lieutenancy of Lord Essex: 1672-1677. Richard Jones, 3rd Viscount (1669) and 1st Earl (1674) of R...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1672-1677
Extent:
18 items

910. Stowe MS 262

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Stowe MS 262
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TRANSCRIPTs and extracts of historical letters, etc.; 1748-1774. With a few notes by Thomas Astle. 1. William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, 2nd Son of George II., to John Montagu, Earl of Sandwich, British Plenipotentiary at the Congress of Aix- la-Chapelle, on the situation of affairs in Holl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1748-1774
Extent:
1 item