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1. Stowe MS 761-786

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 761-786
Title:
CLASS XVIII. BIOGRAPHY, AND PERSONAL.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
13th century-18th century
Extent:
26 items

2. Stowe MS 762

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 762
Title:
Scope & Content:
LIST of English Authors in rough chronological order, 1598- 1695, with dates when they died or flourished. The names are taken from Wood's Athenæ and Fasti Oxonienses, those from the Fasti having references to the second edition [1721]. At the end (f. 43) are added earlier names from the Catalog...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

3. Stowe MS 771

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 771
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Scope & Content:
"A TRUE NARRATIVE of the Principal Transactions" between Lieut. William Lowfeild, R.N., and Elizabeth his wife which led the former to apply for a divorce; "On Board His Majs Ship Marlborough at Sea, Oct. 30th, 1761." Paper; ff. 28. Small Quarto. Lieutenant William Lowfield, RN: Narrative of hi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Oct 1761
Extent:
1 item

4. Stowe MS 778

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 778
Title:
Scope & Content:
"COPIES of Deeds, Charters, and other Muniments," the originals of which are stated on the title-page to have been in 1731 in the possession of James West. The deeds are forty-five in number, and relate to lands in various counties. The earliest is dated in 4 Edw. II., the latest, in 13 James I....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1731
Extent:
1 item

5. Stowe MS 768

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 768
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Scope & Content:
EXTRACTS from Newspapers, 1643-1657, illustrating, from a Parliamentary point of view, the conduct and character of Sir Richard Grenville, royalist. The newspapers from which the extracts are taken are, A Perfect Diurnal, Mercurius Veridicus, Mercurius Britannicus, Perfect Occurrences, Perfect P...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Stowe MS 780-781

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 780-781
Title:
A COLLECTION of English Wills, chiefly copies, with a few originals; 1002-1768. In two volumes, arranged in chronological order. The names of all the testators are given in the Index. The collection was originally arranged by T. Astle in three volumes, and included what are now Stowe charters 622-642. Paper. XVIth-XVIIIth centt. Large Quarto.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
16th century-18th century
Extent:
2 items

7. Stowe MS 766

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 766
Title:
Scope & Content:
" ANE ACCOMPT Of What past betwixt the Lords of Justitiarie and Mr John Dick when his sentance was re-intimat to him the nixt day after he was apprehended, which was upon the 4 of March, [16]84." With an account of his execution on the following day in the Grass-market, Edinburgh, including a fu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
1 item

8. Stowe MS 767

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 767
Title:
Scope & Content:
COLLECTIONS made by John Anstis, Garter King of Arms, for a history of the family of Granvill or Grenville, of co. Cornwall; consisting of extracts from charters and other records, and pedigrees of the family and of families allied with it. Paper; ff. 97. XVIIIth cent. Small Quarto. Grenville f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

9. Stowe MS 779

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 779
Title:
Scope & Content:
"AN INVENTORY Of the Earl of Sussex's goods at Easton Mauditt," co. Northampton, probably taken after the death of George Augustus Yelverton, 2nd Earl, in 1758. Paper; ff. 8. Folio. George Augustus Yelverton, 2nd Earl of Sussex: Inventory of his goods: [1758 ?]. Inventories: Goods of Lord Suss...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1758
Extent:
1 item

10. Stowe MS 764

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 764
Title:
Scope & Content:
ACCOUNT Of the life of Colonel Hume Caldwell, son of Sir John Caldwell, Bart.; who was born in 1735, entered the Austrian service in 1750, and died from a wound at Schweidnitz on 19 Aug. 1762. Followed by copies of letters from Austrian officers and others, bearing testimony to his bravery; and ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1776
Extent:
1 item