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1781. Royal MS 18 A LXXIV

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Royal MS 18 A LXXIV
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ADDRESS to James I. written (see ff. 1, 14) from [the Fleet] prison, by Arthur Hall (M. P. for Grantham 1571- 1585, see Dict. Nat. Biogr.), the translator of Homer from the French, on 'The principall transportable commodities of the realme of Englande', the inconveniences arising from privileges...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1603-1604
Extent:
1 item

1782. Royal MS 18 A LXXV

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Royal MS 18 A LXXV
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'THIS DISSENTT of the moost victorious and Chrysten prynce kyng Edward the sext, sonne and heire of kyng Henry the viiith, that goeth lynyally to Brute, is true lynage and agreith with the best cronycles in Wales, and was at the true examinacion off the same the abbatt of Llyngewestill, maister ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1547-1553]
Extent:
1 item

1783. Royal MS 18 A LXXVI

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Royal MS 18 A LXXVI
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TWO TREATISES by Jo[hn] Russell, addressed to James I, viz.:- 1. 'Ane treatise of the happie and blissed vnioun betuixt the tua ancient realmes of great Britane, efter thair long trubles', &c. f. 4. 2. 'Ane treatise of the office and deuty of ane Christiane prince in the administratioun o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1603
Extent:
1 item

1784. Royal MS 18 A LXXVII

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Royal MS 18 A LXXVII
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TRANSCRIPTS made probably as precedents for James I, of five charters of Kings of England conferring honours, &c., on their eldest sons, viz.:-(a) Creation by Edward III of his son Edward as Duke of Cornwall; 17 Mar. ao II [1337]. f. 2;-(b) Creation by the same of the same as Prince of Wales...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 item

1785. Royal MS 18 A LXXVIII

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Royal MS 18 A LXXVIII
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MEMORIAL by [Gen. Sir Edward Cecil,] Viscount Wimbledon (cr. 1625, d. 1638), to Charles I, on 'How the coasts of your Majesties Kingedome may bee defended against any enemie, if in case your royall navie should bee otherwise imployed or impeached . . . 1628'. An extract was printed in H. Walpole...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1628
Extent:
1 item

1786. Royal MS 18 A V

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Royal MS 18 A V
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THE PRICK OF CONSCIENCE, commonly, but doubtfully, attributed to Richard Rolle of Hampole (d. 1349); in about 8,000 lines, with rubrics mostly in Latin. The text differs very considerably from that edited by Richard Morris for the Philological Society in 1863, and though among the ten MSS. in th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

1787. Royal MS 18 A VI

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Royal MS 18 A VI
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Medical treatises, chiefly in Middle English
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This manuscript contains medical, herbal, obstetrical and gynaecological treatises and recipes in a variety of hands, dating from the beginning of the 15th century to the 16th century, predominantly in Middle English. It is also notable for the inclusion of 3 large urine diagrams and six full-pa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century-16th century
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A paper and parchment codex.

1788. Royal MS 18 A VII

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Royal MS 18 A VII
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TWO TRANSLATIONS into English, viz.:- 1. 'The book of the governaunce of kyngis and ot pryncis callid the Secrete of Secretes, whiche that Aristotill made to kyng Alexandre': prose version, from a shortened French translation, of the Pseudo- Aristotelian Secreta Secretorum (cf. 9 B. II, art. 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
1 item

1789. Royal MS 18 A VIII

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Royal MS 18 A VIII
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SIX PSALMS (xix, lxxii, lxxx, civ, cxxxvii, cxlviii), translated into English metrical verse, by an anonymous author, from the Latin metrical versions of George Buchanan (d. 1582), which are also given. Preceded by the translator's prologue, beg. 'I haue writt what ensues out of my obedience to ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

1790. Royal MS 18 A X

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Royal MS 18 A X
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THEOLOGICAL TREATISES and poems in English, viz.:- 1. Fragment of a treatise in two or more books, imperf at beg. and end. What survives is ch. iii-xi of one book, mainly translated from passages in Hugo de Sancto Victore De arca Noe morali (Migne, Patr. Lat. clxxvii. 620-665 passim), with col...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

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