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2. Stowe MS 241-242
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 241-242
- Title:
- STATE PAPERS and Correspondence, originals and copies, 1688 - 1744; collected by Thomas Astle, Keeper of the Records in the Tower, and intended to serve as an appendix to the Hanover Papers (Hargrave MS 222-232). Two volumes. Paper. Large Octavo.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, French, Italian, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1688-1744
- Extent:
- 2 items
3. Stowe MS 132-137
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 132-137
- Title:
- 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 ...
- Scope & Content:
- 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
4. Stowe MS 256-261
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 256-261
- Title:
- 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
5. Stowe MS 166-177
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 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
6. Stowe MS 144
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 144
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
- MISCELLANEOUS historical papers, viz.:- 1. Notes on the early history of France. ff. 1, 2. 2. Examination taken before John Cristmas and George Seyer, " bailliez," and Robert Leche and others, aldermen [of Colchester], of witnesses concerning scurrilous statements made by Nicholas Fox, tailo...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- 15th century-18th century
- Extent:
- 1 item
7. Stowe MS 222-232
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 222-232
- Title:
- HANOVER PAPERS, being the correspondence and papers of J- Robethon, private secretary (1) to William III., (2) to George William, Duke of Zell, and (3) to George Louis, Elector of Hanover, and George I. of England; 2 Oct. 1692-13 Nov. 1719. Eleven volumes. Paper. Folio. Vols. i.-x. have been re-arranged chronologically ; vol. xi., consisting of intercepted Jacobite correspondence, remains unaltered. At Robethon's death the collection passed to his eldest son, Col. Robethon, and after the lat...
- Scope & Content:
- J- Robethon, Private Secretary to William III., and afterwards to George I: Official and private correspondence and papers: 1692-1722.: Fr., Engl., and Germ. James Macpherson, Historian: Transcribed and published extracts from MSS: in 1775. George I of England: Correspondence and papers of J. ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
- Date Range:
- 2 Oct 1692-13 Nov 1719
- Extent:
- 11 items
8. Stowe MS 178
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 178
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
- TRANSCRIPTS from the Edmondes Papers, etc., as follows:- 1. Sir Edward Hoby to Sir Thomas Edmondes; 19 Nov. 1605. f. 1. See above, 168, art. 57. 2. Sir Thomas Edmondes to Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury; Paris, 26 May-S Aug. 1610. ff. 8, 11, 20, 26, 30, 34, 36b. See above, 171, f. 221 seq. ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- 18th century
- Extent:
- 1 item
9. Stowe MS 193
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 193
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
- SECRET ARTICLE between Louis XIV. of France and the Protector, Oliver Cromwell, for the expulsion of Charles II. and others, Royalists, from France and of certain Frenchmen from England within forty days; [3 Nov. 1655]. Latin. On three single sheets of vellum fastened together with yellow silk. ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- [3 Nov 1655]
- Extent:
- 1 item
10. Stowe MS 140
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 140
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
- HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS, chiefly relating to the reigns of Edward III. and Richard II.; copied by a single hand. The contents are: - 1. " De pace Francie et Anglie" : the articles of the peace of Bretigni, as amended at Calais, promulgated by Edward III. and Edward, Prince of Wales, with an addit...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, French, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 16th century
- Extent:
- 1 item