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11. Stowe MS 132-137

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Stowe MS 132-137
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TRANSCRIPTS Of despatches, instructions to ambassadors, negotiations, treaties, etc., chiefly relating to the general history of Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. Six volumes. Vol. II. has on f. 2 an engraved portrait, " W. Delff sculpsit," of Sir Dudley Carleton, Ambassador at Venice and the Hague, etc. (ob. 1632), and on f. 1 the book-plate of Richard, lst Duke of Buckingham and Chandos. All the volumes bear the book-plate, dated 1701, of Algernon Capell, Earl of Essex. Paper; xviith ...
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Treaties: Negotiations, treaties, etc., relating to European history: 14th-17th centt. Records, Public: Transcripts of State papers on the general history of Europe: 16th. -17th centt. Algernon Capell, 2nd Earl of Essex: Book-plates. Bookplates: Capell (Algernon), Earl of Essex: 1701.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
14th century-17th century
Extent:
6 items

12. Stowe MS 286

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Stowe MS 286
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" THE SOVERAIGNTY Of the Seas of England. Proved by record, history and the municipall lawes of the Kingdome. . . . By SI John Burgh [Borough], Knight, Keeper of the Recordes in the Tower of London" [Garter King of Arms, 1633]. Printed in 1651 under the title of The Soveraignty of the British Se...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

13. Stowe MS 256-261

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Stowe MS 256-261
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CORRESPONDENCE and papers, political and private, of Major Richard Phelps, Secretary to the Embassy at Turin, and Under- Secretary of State for the Northern Department; 17 Febr. 1744/5- 16 Febr. 1768. Prefixed are originals and copies of state despatches supplied for his use on entering office, 22 June, 1725-26 Sept. 1757. Phelps's official letters are rough drafts made for the Secretary of State, John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, who has in many instances added to, or even rewritten, the ...
Scope & Content:
Richard Phelps, Under-Secretary for Northern Department: Political correspondence and papers: 1725-1768.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
22 Jun 1725-16 Feb 1768
Extent:
6 items

14. Stowe MS 166-177

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Stowe MS 166-177
Title:
COLLECTION of State Papers and correspondence of Sir Thomas Edmondes, Knt.; 1592-1633. A few earlier and later papers are included in the last volume. Edmondes was English Agent at Paris, 1592-1599; Ambassador at the Archduke Albert's court at Brussels, 1605-1609; Ambassador to France, 1610-1617; Comptroller of the Household, 1616 ; Treasurer of the Household, 1618; and died in 1639. Twelve volumes. Paper. Folio. The collection includes original letters of English ambassadors to France and S...
Scope & Content:
Sir Thomas Edmondes, diplomatist: Correspondence and papers: 1592-1633, with additions 1470-1663.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1592-1633
Extent:
12 items

15. Stowe MS 74

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Stowe MS 74
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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

16. 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

17. Stowe MS 282

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Stowe MS 282
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" DE LIBERA ELECTIONE Regni Bohæmici et de Jure Imperatoris Ferdinandi ad idem Regnum, 1619 ": a Latin treatise in answer to a discourse asserting the right of the Elector Palatine to the crown of Bohemia, the writer declaring the crown not to be elective, and defending the claim of Ferdinand. T...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1620
Extent:
1 item

18. Stowe MS 287

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Stowe MS 287
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" DOMINIUM maris Britannici. . . . per D. Ioannem de Burgo," etc.: a Latin version of the treatise as above, No. 286, with copious marginal references, and a dedication to Charles I. Paper; ff. 24. xviith cent. Small Folio. Political Tracts: "The Soveraignty of the Seas of England ": 17th cent....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

19. Stowe MS 105

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Stowe MS 105
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" HISTORIA ANGLIAE, maxime in iis quae ad ecclesiam spectant": the original MS. of part of the Historia Anglicana Ecclesiastica of Nicholas Harpsfield, Fellow of New College, Oxford, Regius Professor of Greek 1546, Archdeacon of Canterbury 1554, imprisoned under Elizabeth for refusing the oath o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 item

20. Stowe MS 271

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Stowe MS 271
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1. " LEICESTER'S Commonwealth " : the political tract attributed to Robert Parsons, the Jesuit (see No. 270). f. 1b. 2. " Encyclopædia sive tabulæ artium liberalium " : a summary of philosophy, theology, etc., in the form of deductive tables, in Latin and English. f 49. Paper; ff. 79. xviith c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item