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Container Reference (shelfmark) Stowe MS 761-786 Level [40] File

1. Stowe MS 761

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Stowe MS 761
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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES of literary, scientific and other persons living, for the most part, in the latter half of the 17th century, arranged in dictionary form. According to a note appended the MS. is in the hand of Thomas Coxeter, of Trinity College, Oxford (ob. 1747). Paper; ff. 26. Late XVIIth ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 17th century
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1 item

2. Stowe MS 762

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Stowe MS 762
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LIST of English Authors in rough chronological order, 1598- 1695, with dates when they died or flourished. The names are taken from Wood's Athenæ and Fasti Oxonienses, those from the Fasti having references to the second edition [1721]. At the end (f. 43) are added earlier names from the Catalog...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

3. Stowe MS 763

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Stowe MS 763
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1. "CARTE SIGILLATE": a collection of copies of charters relating to the families of Berkeley, Sackville, and others, with drawings (some coloured) of the seals, made by Sir Edward Dering (cf. No. 924, below), who has inserted marginal notes concerning the originals. f. 1. 2. Another similar c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

4. Stowe MS 764

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Stowe MS 764
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ACCOUNT Of the life of Colonel Hume Caldwell, son of Sir John Caldwell, Bart.; who was born in 1735, entered the Austrian service in 1750, and died from a wound at Schweidnitz on 19 Aug. 1762. Followed by copies of letters from Austrian officers and others, bearing testimony to his bravery; and ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1776
Extent:
1 item

5. Stowe MS 765

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Stowe MS 765
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SURVEY of the estates forming the jointure of Mary, widow of Sir William Cobbe, Knt., in Babingley, Wolverton and Sandringham, co. Norfolk; taken 4 and 9 Mar. 8 James I. [1610/1] and 30 Dec. 9 James I. [1611] Latin. At the end are;- (a) Copy of "The booke of the taske of Wolferton," made 26 Au...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[4 Mar 1610-30 Dec 1611]
Extent:
1 item

6. Stowe MS 766

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Stowe MS 766
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" ANE ACCOMPT Of What past betwixt the Lords of Justitiarie and Mr John Dick when his sentance was re-intimat to him the nixt day after he was apprehended, which was upon the 4 of March, [16]84." With an account of his execution on the following day in the Grass-market, Edinburgh, including a fu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
1 item

7. Stowe MS 767

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Stowe MS 767
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COLLECTIONS made by John Anstis, Garter King of Arms, for a history of the family of Granvill or Grenville, of co. Cornwall; consisting of extracts from charters and other records, and pedigrees of the family and of families allied with it. Paper; ff. 97. XVIIIth cent. Small Quarto. Grenville f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

8. Stowe MS 768

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Stowe MS 768
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EXTRACTS from Newspapers, 1643-1657, illustrating, from a Parliamentary point of view, the conduct and character of Sir Richard Grenville, royalist. The newspapers from which the extracts are taken are, A Perfect Diurnal, Mercurius Veridicus, Mercurius Britannicus, Perfect Occurrences, Perfect P...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

9. Stowe MS 769

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Stowe MS 769
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CATALOGUE of ancient deeds, royal and autograph letters, and other MSS. formerly in the possession of Rev. George Harbin, Nonjuror [fl. 1713], and said (f. 1) to have been purchased at his sale in 1745. With others added (see f. 14). At the end (f. 31) are notes on a grant by Gilbert Tisun to Se...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

10. Stowe MS 770

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Stowe MS 770
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DIARY of Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon, for the year 1688. Holograph. The earlier part is taken up chiefly with a law-suit brought against him by the Queen Dowager, to whom he had been Treasurer and Receiver-General from 1680 to 1685, arising out of the question of the allowances due to him ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1688
Extent:
1 item