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1. Stowe MS 58-83

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Stowe MS 58-83
Title:
SECT. II. — ENGLISH.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
15th century-18th century
Extent:
26 items

2. Stowe MS 70

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Stowe MS 70
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Scope & Content:
CHRONICLE OF THE BRUTE, in English. Has the two introductory paragraphs, beginning "The first inhabityng of þis lande," and proceeds "Some tyme in þe lande of Surre." Ends with the siege of Rouen in 1418-19, but with words slightly different from the usual ones, "and putte þe toun in gouvernaunc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

3. Stowe MS 77

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Stowe MS 77
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Scope & Content:
"BEHEMOTH, or the Epitome of ye Civill Wars of England," 1640-1660; by Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury. At the end (f. 65), in a different band, is an exposition (incomplete) of the statute "22 and 23 Car. 2di cap. 10o , An Act for the better settling of Intestates estates." Paper; ff. 68. Late XVII...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1640-1660
Extent:
1 item

4. Stowe MS 68

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Stowe MS 68
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CHRONICLE OF THE BRUTE, in English. Begins with the rubric "Here may a man here hou England," etc., and proceeds "In the noble lond of Sirrie"; breaks off imperfectly in the year 1356, ending with the words "hit was told and certified to the king." Several leaves are missing just before the last...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Stowe MS 69

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Stowe MS 69
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Scope & Content:
CHRONICLE OF THE BRUTE, in English. Begins with the rubric "Here may a man here," proceeding "In the noble londe of Sirrie." Ends in the middle of the description of the siege of Rouen in 1418-19, with the words " and manfully countred with our Englisch men." At the end (f. 192) are four leaves ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Stowe MS 81

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Stowe MS 81
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THE ANNALS of Ireland in the time of Henry II., by Sir James Ware. With some verbal alterations, the matter agrees with the work first printed in 1705 under the title of The Annals of Ireland from the first Conquest by the English in the reign of King Henry II., etc. Imperfect; ending abruptly w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

7. Stowe MS 74

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Stowe MS 74
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Scope & Content:
GENEALOGICAL HISTORY of the Sovereigns of England, from Egbert, A.D. 801, to Elizabeth. Latin. With arms in trick. Paper; ff. 39. XVIIth cent. At f. 38 the writer has inscribed in the margin "decimo tertio die Novembris anno 1612. hic incipiebam." A note at f. 1 by Sir Isaac Heard, Clarenceux, a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

8. Stowe MS 72

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Stowe MS 72
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GENEALOGICAL CHRONICLE, in Latin, of the kings of England to Edward IV., tracing their descent from Adam through the Trojan kings; with the genealogy of Christ in a parallel column. Beg. "Veterum cronicoriim de successione regum anglie ordo hic insequitur." An English copy, slightly imperfect, i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

9. Stowe MS 79

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Stowe MS 79
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Scope & Content:
NOTES on Rapin's History of England by Philip Morant [1700- 1770], the historian of Essex, consisting of references to, and extracts from, the earlier chroniclers illustrating certain passages. In two volumes, bound in one, the first relating to British and Saxon times, the second to the reign o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

10. Stowe MS 78

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Stowe MS 78
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Scope & Content:
"AN ALPHABETICAL MEMORANDUM-BOOK or Index, whereby several remarkable passages in Rapin's History of England (to the Revolution) may be easily turn'd to. Continued to the end of King William's Reign from another History, etc." With dedication by Charles Gibbon, 1 Mar. 1733 [4], to William, Duke ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1 Mar 1734]
Extent:
1 item