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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A LVII
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Scope & Content:: 'THE BRITISH INDIA, or a compendious discourse tending to advancement', by Capt. Edward Wynne, Governor of Ferryland, in Newfoundland: a treatise on the advantages of colonizing Newfoundland, with addresses to Charles I and to Sir Kenelm Digby. On the fly-leaves (ff. 1, 2, 2 b, 36 b) are rough p...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1625-1649]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A V
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Scope & Content:: 'THE DESCRIPTION and vse of such lines and circles as are drawne vppon ye stone-Dialls in his Maiesties Garden att Hampton-courte', by John Mar; with a dedication to Charles I. Paper; ff. 75. 53/4 in. x 33/4 in. Circ. 1631. Bound with 17 A. IV. Not in the old catalogues.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1631
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A VI
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Scope & Content:: MAXIMS from the Old and New Testaments, in alpha. betical order, by Christopher Hamonde, of Isleworth, a student of the Inner Temple; with a dedication to the Duchess of Somerset, viz. Anne, daughter of Sir Edward Stanhope, 2nd wife of Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, Lord Protector, who is spo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1547-1552
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A VII
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Scope & Content:: DEVOTIONAL MANUAL, in French, English, and Italian, containing the ten Commandments, the Apostles' Creed, and the Lord's Prayer (both in Fr. verse), a few psalms, &c. ; with a dedication to a 'Treshaulte tresillustre et tresexcellente Dame' (also called 'vostre hautesse'), whose name is not ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A VIII
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Scope & Content:: MEDICAL COLLECTION in English, &c., viz.: 1. '[Here beginnes gode medicines for diuers euill þat men has, for god lechis has drawin þem out of many gode bokes Galien and] Asc[lopus, for þei were þe best lechis] Pat war [in þe werld, and wha so wil] do als þe boke wyll te[che he may be] syker...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 14th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A X
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Scope & Content:: TWO TRACTS by Geoffrey Burdon, of Staunton Barnard, co. Wilts. (cf. 7 D. XVI), viz.: 1. 'Humble Meditations vpon a high object'; in favour of the royal power in matters spiritual as well as temporal. The tract itself is addressed to James I, but the present copy is preceded by a dedication to Ch...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1625-1649]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XI
Title:
Scope & Content:: TREATISE 'of the orthographie [and, lib. ii, 'of the congruitie] of the Britan tongue', by Alexander Hume ; with a dedication to James I. The MS. ends with the verse (as an example of a parenthesis): Bless, guyd, advance, preserve, prolong, Lord (if thy pleasur be), Our King & Queen; and ke...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1603-1625]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XII
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Scope & Content:: 'THE KINGGES Curtaine Drawer': petitions to James I and Anne of Denmark by Thomas Skales. The writer, apparently a religious enthusiast, imprisoned in 'his maiesties Bench', complains of Sir George Reynell, the Queen's carver, as the cause of his imprisonment, and of the Lord Chancellor. The dat...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1613-1614
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XIII
Title:
Scope & Content:: PETITION to James I from Leonard Worrall 'in the behalfe of your distressed subjects nowe in pryson and in distres abroad', wherein he puts forward proposals for the relief of debtors and restraint of brokers or usurers, the reformation of criminals, and the employment of the poor and needy to t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1607
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XIV
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Scope & Content:: NOMINA, etymologiae, insignia insigniumque descriptiones singuli uniuscuiusque scuti quibus Lumleyae decoratur Baro': executed for John Lumley, Lord Lumley (d. 1609). The seven quarterings are drawn in colours first separately and then together. A correction on f. 1 is apparently in Lumley's aut...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

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