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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A XXI
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Scope & Content:: A LETTER from James Kinvyn to the King [James I] asking him and his son, whom he calls his 'ever honored master', to have a speedy trial of some 'rare Ingines of warre' which he has perfected after 40 years' study. On f. 1 is the fragment of another letter ending your ffaithfull servant and subi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1603-1625]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A XXII
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Scope & Content:: POEM addressed to James I on the occasion of the marriage of Princess Elizabeth to Frederick, Elector Palatine, in 1613, by William Vener; preceded by a prose dedicatory letter and lines from 'the author to his booke' and 'the booke to the author'. The poem, which is fulsome in character and of ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1613
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A XXIII
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Scope & Content:: DISCOURSE on the text 'Take away the wicked from the kinge, and his throne shalbe stablished in righteousnes' (Prov. xxv. 5), addressed to King James I by john Norden, the topographer. Followed (at f. 38b) by an autograph address, beg. 'I have presumed (yet in dutie), right gratious Soueraigne, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1603-1605
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A XXIV
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Scope & Content:: 'THE PORTRAIT of a Prince': poem (45 x 6 lines) addressed to James I by John Ferrour, who in a dedicatory letter prefixed alludes to his coming as a messenger to the King a day before Queen Elizabeth's death; cf. also another letter printed by Lodge, Illustrations of British History, 1838, iii, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1603-1606
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A XXIX
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Scope & Content:: SERMON on 'the Oath of Allegiance lately [1606] establisshed by publicque aucthoritie', by an anonymous author, who in his introductory letter to James I states that he was appointed to preach it 'in a Synode or generall meeting of the whole Ministerie at Suthwell in Nottinghamshire'. Paper; ff...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1606
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A XXV
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Scope & Content:: ADDRESS to James I entitled 'Verie necessary Considerations for the weale publique' and advocating the enclosure of common lands, by John Shotbolt [al. Battalion, cf. 17 A. XXXVII]. Signed at the end. Paper; ff. 19. Quarto. 71/4 in. x 51/2, in. Circ. 1611-1625 (see 15 b). Not in the old catalog...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1611-1625
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A XXVI
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Scope & Content:: ADDRESS to James I on the value for military and civil purposes of a secret invention called 'the Merva' by Simon Sturtevant, al. Sturtevante, 'heretofore Student in Christes Colledge in Cambridge together with Doctor [James] Mountacue [Mountague], Deane of your Majesties Chappel' [Bishop of Bat...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A XXVII
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Scope & Content:: POEM against Roman Catholics (50 x 4 lines) entitled 'An Exortac[i]on for all those yt are blinded with Idolitry, they hate ye light and walke in darkness, deceiuing them selues', addressed to James I by Edmund Dee; 12 June, 1603. A few stanzas are printed by Sir E. Brydges in Restituta, 1816, i...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 12 Jun 1603
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A XXVIII
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Scope & Content:: POLITICAL TRACT, in form of a letter addressed to Charles I, by Henry Cock on the fortunate dismissal of Queen Henrietta Maria's French attendants and of 'those who are communely called the fathers of the Oratory, who lately were chapleins to the Queenes Majesty', and on the machinations of 'Fis...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1630
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A XXX
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Scope & Content:: ADDRESS to James I on various political reforms by James Dackombe, dated Little Fountmell [Lit. Fontmell, co. Dorset], 24 June, 1603, but including a memorial originally written from the same place (where Dackombe was attending the King's court as 'a poore suiter'), 8 Apr. 1603, to Thomas [Boyd,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1603
Extent:: 1 item

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