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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34727
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Scope & Content:: WEST PAPERS. Vol. I. (ff. 289). Miscellaneous letters, mostly original, of interest historically or otherwise; 1532-1734. The names of all the writers are given in the index. Among them are:- 1. John Fox, the Martyrologist, to Sir [William] Cecil, Sec. of State, asking licence to print his Tab...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Gaelic, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1532-1734
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34728
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Scope & Content:: WEST PAPERS. Vol. II. (ff. 216). Miscellaneous letters, chiefly addressed to James West, as Secretary to the Treasury, or otherwise; 1742-1794. The names of the writers are given in the index. Among the contents are:- 1. K[atherine Sheffield, widow of John, 1st Duke of] Buckingham- [shire], to...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1742-1794
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34729
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Scope & Content:: WEST PAPERS. Vol. III. (ff. 365). Historical documents, extracts from records, naval and parliamentary papers, etc., many original; 1065-1759. Among them are:- 1. "Homagium Malcolmi [ Malcolm III. Canmore] Regis Scocie et Edwardi filii ejus primogeniti factum Edwardo Confessori Regi Anglie pro...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, and Latin
Date Range:: 1065-1759
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34731
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Scope & Content:: Vol. V. (I., ff. 332). 1738-1751, chiefly at the embassies at Dresden, Berlin, Vienna and Venice. Also included are:-(a) "Character of the Court of Dresden," in a letter "to the Earl of Chesterfield," endorsed "Feb. 1748," being a copy by Steavens of a letter of Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, Env...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1738-1751
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34732
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Scope & Content:: Vol. VI. (II., ff. 311). 1752-1759, chiefly at Venice and Naples. Appended this volume are a few verses addressed to Steavens, and elegies upon his death and that of the Marchesa Catarina Trotti Gabrielli, in Italian and Latin, etc. Thomas Steavens, Secretary to Sir C Hanbury Williams: Correspo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1752-1759
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34738
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Scope & Content:: WEST PAPERS. Vol. XII. (ff. 236). Wills of various persons, 1597-1783, including: (a) Sir Arthur Throkmorton, of Paulersbury, co. Northt., 26 Jan. 1624[5], proved 9 Aug. 1626. Extract. f. 2 b;-b Sir Nicholas Overbury, of Bourton-on-the-Hill, co. Glouc., 1 Sept. 1640, with codicils, 17 Feb. 1641[...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1597-1783
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34739
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Scope & Content:: Vol. XIII. (I., ff. 390). 1419-1684. In f. 12 b, is a compotus of Sir Thomas Lucy of Charlecote, co. Warw. (cf. f. 33), for Allescote [Alscot in Preston-on-Stour, co. Glouc.] and other manors, 1519-1520. He married the widow of George Catesby, ancestor of Robert Catesby, the conspirator, from ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1419-1684
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34774
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Scope & Content:: SOUTHWELL PAPERS. Vol. II. (ff. 162). Correspondence of E. Southwell and W. Blathwayt (continued), with petitions to the Lord-Lieutenant for commissions in the army, etc.; 1703-1711. At ff. 40, 42 are two lists of petitions marked A and C. Phillipps MS. 8562, vol. ii. For these two volumes, see ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1703-1711
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34875
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Scope & Content:: GIBBON PAPERS. Vol. II. "Journal de mon [Edward Gibbon's] voyage dans quelques endroits de la Suisse," at the age of eighteen; 1755. In French. Partly autograph, partly (ff. 18-22) a copy. The first five pages are both in the original and, appended at the end (f. 23), in the copy. The tour laste...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1755
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34881
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Scope & Content:: Miscellancous Works. Vol. II. Contents:- 1. "Principes des Poids, des Monnayes et des Mesures des Anciens, avec des tables construites sur ces principes unfinished drafts of two treatises (the second including medieval Europe) written in 1759, printed in vol. v. p. 66. At the end are additiona...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1759-c 1770
Extent:: 1 item

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