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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B IX
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Scope & Content:: 'A DISCOVERYE of popishe corruption requiringe a Kingely reformation', by William Crashawe, B.D., Preacher at the Temple. Autograph. With a dedication to James I, in which the writer accuses the Roman Catholics of 'falsifijnge of authors, alteringe their bookes, when they be deade, puttinge out ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1603-1625]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B L
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Scope & Content:: TRANSCRIPTS of letters, &c., chiefly connected with Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, circ. 1590-1600, viz.:- 1. 'Verses made by the Earle of Essex in his Trouble'; printed in A. B. Grosart's Miscellanies of the Fuller Worthies Library, iv, p. 97, W. B. Devereux' Lives of the Earls of Es...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B V
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Scope & Content:: ROYAL COMMISSION to John [Whitgift], Archbishop of Canterbury, Sir Thomas Egerton, Knight, Lord, Keeper, Thomas [Sackville], Baron Buckhurst, Lord High Treasurer, Bishops, Privy Councillors, and many others as members of the High Commission for Causes Ecclesiastical, and for carrying out and enf...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B VI
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Scope & Content:: 'TO THE UNITY of Greate Brittayne, Liber 2, siue de Legibus antiquae Britanniae', by George Saltron [al. Saltern], of the Middle Temple (entered from Christ Church, Oxford, in 1590): a discourse chiefly on the spurious letter of Pope Eleutherus to King Lucius (Jaffé- Wattenbach, no. 69). Dedicat...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1603-1625]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B VII
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Scope & Content:: 'A REBUKE to rebellion': a poem in thirty-four ninelined stanzas, by Thomas Churchyard. Begins: 'Myne eyes they wepe, my hart it bledes in brest, My soule doth sobbe, my bodie quakes for feare'. Ends: 'Then shall my mouth, my mynd, my pen and all Be prest to serve, at each good subjects call'...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B VIII
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'A TABLE BOOKE for a Prince, contayninge shorte remembrances for the government of himselfe and his empire. By P[atrick] S[cot].' With a dedication to Prince Charles, afterwards Charles I. Printed, with considerable variations, as A Table-Booke for Princes 1621. Paper; ff. 58. 73/4 in. x 61/4 i...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1603-1625]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B X
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Scope & Content:: PETITION of William Bragge, clothworker, of Eastcheap, for satisfaction of claims against the East India and Summer Islands Companies. The claims, which are partly in the name of the writer's late brother Matthew, who had sailed with Sir Henry Middleton, are set out in letters (18 Aug. 1620-20 A...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1621-1625
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XI
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Scope & Content:: 'OF SUCCESSION to the crowne of England', by Henry Hooke, of Lincoln, 'verbi diuini minister' (f. 3). This tract, written originally in the reign of Elizabeth, while defending the unwillingness of the Queen to name her successor, proceeds (f. 12) to urge the claims of James VI of Scotland agains...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1603-1625]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XII
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'TWO SERMONS of oppression, affliction, and pacyence, preached by Roger Hutchynson' on the epistle for the 2nd Sunday after Easter (1 Pet. ii. 19-25), with dedication to Sir Harry Sydney [al. Sidney], gentleman of the King's privy chamber [afterwards Lord Deputy of Ireland]. Dated, Eton College ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1552
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XIII
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'THE WAY to Weldoeing', by Robert Bradshaw: a tract (very illiterately spelt) in dialogue-form on moral education, addressed to James I, asking for 'such alowanc to this small treatis that I may haue the onellye preferment of the bocks (sic)'. Autograph. From examples on ff. 70, 75 b, 76 (the fi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1616-1625
Extent:: 1 item

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