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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A XI
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Scope & Content:: 'A TRUE RELATION of ye State of Virginia' : a letter from John Rolf (d. 1622) to the King [James I]. Without date, but doubtless written in England in 1616-1617, Rolf, with his wife Pocahontas, having accompanied Sir Thomas Dale, acting Governor of the Colony, on his return to this country in Ma...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1617
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A XII
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Scope & Content:: FLAVIUS VEGECIUS RENATUS, De re militari: an English version made for Thomas, 4th Lord Berkeley, in 1408. Other copies are in Lansdowne MS. 285, f. 82, and Sloane MS. 2027 (imperf.). Attributed by Tanner and others (see Higden's Polychronicon, Rolls Series, i, p. lv, note) to John de Trevisa (an...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1483-1485
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A XIII
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Scope & Content:: 'LIBER BOECII de consolacione philosophie de Latino in Anglicum translatus anno domini millesimo CCCCmo Xo per capellanum Iohannem', i. e. according to the rare printed edition (Tavistock Abbey, 1525, a copy in the Bodleian Library) 'by John Waltionem or Walton, canon of Oseney'. Walton was made...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A XIV
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Scope & Content:: POLITICAL TRACT entitled 'Of the Union of Britayne or Conjunction of the Kingdomes of England and Scotland with the bordering Brittish Ilands into one Monarchie, and of the manifold commodities proceeding from that Union. A Dialogue composed in Latin by R. P. (sc. Robert Pont, De Unione Britanni...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1605
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A XIX
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Scope & Content:: 'A PETITION DISCOURSORY' to Henry, Prince of Wales, by Henoch Clapham [pastor of an English congregation at Amsterdam 1595-1598, vicar of Northbourne, co. Kent, 1607-1614, cf. Hasted's Kent, iv, p. 156, and Dict. Nat. Biogr.]. Written from prison, where, he says, he has been sent by the Bishop o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1604
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A XL
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Scope & Content:: THEOLOGICAL TREATISE in twenty chapters on the sevenfold form or image of the universe, addressed to Henry VIII by Robert Syngleton. For the author (Dict. Nat. Biogr., s.n. Singleton), a priest who recanted certain heresies in May, 1543, but was executed at Tyburn for high treason 7 March, 1543/...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1521-1544
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A XLI
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Scope & Content:: 'THE APPROVED ORDER of Martiall Discepline', with particulars of the duties of each officer, &c., by G. C., addressed to James I. In his introduction the author states (f. 2 b) that he served the late Queen 'in Irelande, the Lowe Countryes and at sea this 28 yeares'. A treatise with the same...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A XLII
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Scope & Content:: 'A CLOSET of Cownsell, exhausted and drawne forth of the prudent preceptes of Cato': poem (98 x 8 lines, rhymes ababcdcd) with dedicatory letter to 'the right honorable and vertuous lord Jhon Lumney', i.e. John Lumley, Lord Lumley (d. 1609), by J[ohannes] Philippus, i.e. apparently John Phillip,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A XLIII
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Scope & Content:: METRICAL ADAPTATION of 'Plutarchi commentarium (sic) in Principe requiri doctrinam' ( perhaps in the Latin version of Erasmus, printed with his Institutio Principis, 1516, &c.), by Thomas Blundeville. Probably identical with 'The Learned Prince', the first of Blundeville's Three Moral Treati...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1558-1603]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A XLIV
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Scope & Content:: ANONYMOUS TRACT addressed to James I, showing the abuses and frauds on the revenue practised by foreign merchants, especially the Dutch, and the inadequacy of the laws to deal with them. In two parts, viz. (a) 'Of the exportation of Treasure', or the buying up and transporting of the best Englis...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1603-1625]
Extent:: 1 item

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