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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A XXXI
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Scope & Content:: 'THE ARGUMENT of the Spectacle presented to the Sacred, Maiestys of Great Brittan and Denmark as they passed through London' [31 July, 1606] with the Latin speech of [Sir Henry Montagu] Recorder of London, and the Latin verses spoken at the Pageant, by John Marston, the dramatist (d. 1634). The ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1606
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A XXXII
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Scope & Content:: VERSES (about 400 couplets) against the Spanish match and on other political topics, addressed anonymously to James I. Beg. 'O blessed king, that heares the poore'; ends 'Shall reape in ioye from all their feares'. Paper; ff. 12. Quarto. 73/4 in. x 6 in. Circ. 1618. Not in the old catalogues.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1618
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A XXXIII
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Scope & Content:: 'JANUS TEMPLE shutt and opened': a poem (91 x 6 lines, rhymes ababcc) by Gervaise Scroope [? Sir Gervase Scrope of Cockerington, Sheriff of Lincoln 9 Chas. 1], addressed to James I, preceded by a dedicatory letter. Some anagrams on the names of the author and of the King are added at ff. 2b, 10b...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1603-1625]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A XXXIV
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Scope & Content:: AN ABSTRACT of Frauds of the Officers of the Navy by Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton (d. 1614), addressed to James I (cf. list of the author's works in Works of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, and of Sir Thomas Wyatt, ed. G. F. Nott, 1815, ii, p. 468). A clerk's copy corrected and subscribed by ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1609
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A XXXIX
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Scope & Content:: 'A PARTICULAR of my journey, with those meane obseruations I have collected': anonymous travels, lasting 17 months, through France, Switzerland, Italy, by sea from Venice to Egypt, through Sinai to Jerusalem, where the author arrived 7 Jan. 1607[8] and spent 12 days. He thence passed through Pal...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1607-1608
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A XXXV
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Scope & Content:: MEMORIAL to James I containing proposals for economics in the cost of armour, by 'Jhon Martin', a manufacturer of armour plates, with a comparative table (f. 9) of the price Queen Elizabeth 'paid Sir Thomas Gresham for theis sorts of armors in the first and second yeare of her raigne', the price...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1603-1625]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A XXXVI
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Scope & Content:: PETITION of James Dackombe (cf. 18 A. XXX) to James I, for the relief of imprisoned debtors and the reform of judicial abuses. Paper; ff. 15. Quarto. 73/4 in. x 6 in. Temp. Jas. I. Not in the old catalogues.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1603-1625]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A XXXVII
Title:
Scope & Content:: PROPOSALS to James I by John Lewis [of Llynwene] a barrister formerly practising in the Marches Court, for a history of Britain in ten books, asking for the King's 'incoragement or discoragement' before he proceeds further. The work, in seven books, with dedication to Prince Henry, was printed a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1603-1612
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A XXXVIII
Title:
Scope & Content:: ADDRESS to Henry VIII by 'Johne Eldar, clerk, a Reddshank, to introduce what the author, a native of Caithness, calls a 'plotte of the realme of Scotland' (f. 4), which was to give a description of the country, and advocating a marriage between Prince Edward and Mary, Queen of Scots. The author ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1543
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 B I
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'A RELATION of the State of Polonia and the United Provinces of that Crowne, anno 1598'; including also a summary of Polish history. Anonymous, but the 'author was no doubt George Carew (knt, 1608, d. 1612), who was sent on an embassy to Poland in 1598 (see Dict. Nat. Biogr.), and whose 'relatio...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1600
Extent:: 1 item

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