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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34301
Title:: RENTAL of the manor of Culworth, co. Northampton, 14 Edw. IV. [1474-5], in the lordship of Richard Danvers; with the accompt of " Seint Marye rent" at Culworth, 15 Edw. IV., and various accompts and memoranda concerning the rents of the estate, 14-18 Edw. IV. Originally bound in four vellum leaves (now ff. 13-16), which formed a fragment of a plea-roll, temp. Hen. VI., containing part of a plea relating to Clerkenwell nunnery. The blank sides (ff. 13, 15, 16 b) have been filled with entries ...
Scope & Content:: MSS. dated (to A.D. 1500): : A.D. 1339-40; A.D. 1350-1357; A.D. 1355-56; A.D. 1360-1363; A.D. 1388-1537; A.D. 1391-1484; A.D.1393-1538; A.D. 1402-1516 ; A.D. 1464; A.D. 1473; A.D. 1474-5; A.D. 1477; A.D. 1492; A.D. 1499: Latin and Modern Languages. Richard Danvers: Rental of his manor of Culwor...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, and Latin
Date Range:: [1474-1475]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34308
Title:: CUSTOMS of the town of Northampton, in fifty-eight chapters, the last chapter containing an ordinance made in 1341. Imperfect, beg. in the middle of chap. xxv. French. ff. 3-9. A later MS. in English, containing eighty chapters, is preserved among the archives of the corporation (see Northamptonshire Notes and Queries, vol. i., 1884-6, p. 204). The rest of the volume is filled with additions in later hands, relating to the government of the town, viz.: (a) Oaths of the town clerk, mayor, and...
Scope & Content:: Book-plates: Bateman (Thomas): 19th cent. Bindings ENGLISH: (Northampton). Wooden boards covered with tooled leather: 15th cent. Thomas Bateman, of Middleton Hall, county Derbyshire: Book-plates: 19th cent. includes: ff. 1-2, 26-27 b Town of Northampton: Signatures of mayors and other offici...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 15th century-17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34310-34311
Title:: LETTER-BOOK of Sir Isaac Wake, 1624-1630
Scope & Content:: Containing copies, for the most part autograph, of his letters as Ambassador to Savoy avid Venice, chiefly addressed to the Secretaries of State (Edward Conway, Lord Conway, and Dudley Carleton, Viscount Dorchester), but including a few to [James Hay,] Earl of Carlisle (whom he addresses as " my...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: Jun 1624-Dec 1630
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34311
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. II, ff. 456, 27 July/6 Aug , 1626 - 8/18 Dec. Dec. 1630. Sir Isaac Wake, Ambassador to Savoy and France: Letter-books: 1624-1630.: Autogr. Venice: Letters of Sir I. Wake, English ambassador: 1624-1630. Duchy of Savoy: Charles Emmanuel I. Letters of Sir I. Wake, English ambassador: 1624-1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: Jul 1626-Dec 1630
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34320
Title:: Household book of Queen Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:: Household book of Queen Elizabeth I, with additional material relating to the royal household during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI and Mary I. ff. 1r-1v, 154r-154v Binding material: portions of two leaves from a 14th-century parchment manuscript, containing theological matter. f. 2r Note...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 14th century-1603
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34328
Title:
Scope & Content:: "MEMORIES concernant l'Angleterre," in three parts, viz.:- (a) Memoire historidue concernant les fonds publics." f. 3:- (b) Memoire historique concernant la Banque d'Angleterre." f. 23 b;-(c) " Troisième Memiore," having for its object (see f. 2 b) de faire voir que nous avons en nos mains t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: c 1755-c 1760
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34329
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. I . (ff. 130). 1572-1666. 1. Treaty of commerce between England and Portugal, 2 Feb. 1571 [2] ; with papers relating to the same. Preceded by a reply of Qu. Elizabeth to the demands of [Francisco Giraldi] the Portuguese Ambassador, on the English Trade to Barbary, etc., May, 1574. Copies....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Latin, and Portuguese
Date Range:: 1572-1666
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34329-34335
Title:: STATE-PAPERS, letters, etc., relating to negotiations with Portugal and Spain; l572-1720. Seven volumes. Paper. Folio. The collection was made by Sir Robert Southwell, Clerk to the Privy Council, and (1690) Secretary of State for Ireland. The letters comprise the correspondence of Southwell, when Envoy to Portugal (1665-1669), with the Secretaries of State and others, and, on his return, with Francis Parry, English Resident at Lisbon (1671-1680), and Paul Methuen, Envoy Extraordinary to Lisb...
Scope & Content:: Kingdom of Spain: Negotiations in, by Sir R. Southwell, etc.: 1574-1720. Sir Robert Southwell, Clerk of the Privy Council: State correspondence: 1665-1720. Kingdom of Portugal: Negotiations of Sir R. Southwell and others in: 1574-1720. England General Chronicles and History: Negotiations in S...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, English, French, Latin, Portuguese, and Spanish
Date Range:: 1572-1720
Extent:: 7 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34330
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. II. (ff. 145). 1667-1668. 1. Sir R. Southwell to (a) Thomas Floyd al. Lloyd; Lisbon, 22 Mar. 1667-19 Feb. 1668. ff. 1, 16, 18, 28, 40, 119, 121, 128, 144;-(b) Lord Arlington, Secretary of State; Lisbon, March 26/April 24 [sic], 1667. f. 9;-(c) the Duke of Ormonde; Lisbon, 10/20 June, 10/2...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish
Date Range:: 1667-1668
Extent:: 1 item

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