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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 C I
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Scope & Content:: MISCELLANEOUS genealogical, heraldic, and historical collection, possibly by one of the Styward family of Ely, though it does not seem to contain any of the same hands as Add. MS. 15644 or Egerton MSS. 2162, 2599. Included are:- 1. Pedigree (to circ. 1600) of the descendants of Sir William Bran...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 C II
Title:: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. i recto: A fragment of two inquisitions post-mortem of Elizabeth, wife of John Neville, 3rd Baron Neville de Raby, written in Latin, the second dated 7 August, 1 Hen [IV, i.e. 1400]. f. 1r: 'Counsels of Prudence', an 8-line extract from John Lydgate's Troy Book (Bk. II, ll. 1849-...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 C III
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Scope & Content:: 'MR. [HUGH] HALLES a priestes discourse of gardeninge applied to a spirituall vnderstandinge'. For the author, whose Christian name is given in the Lumley cat., see Cal. State Papers, Domestic, 1581-1590, pp. 128, 129, 138, 142. In treating of the uses of the ordinary gardening tools, viz. the s...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 C IV
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Scope & Content:: ANONYMOUS TREATISE to prove 'That Popishe Priestes are not proceeded with or condemned in England bicause they tooke orders or were brought vpp beyonde the seas', &c., but for seditious practices. Preceded (f. 1) by a list of 'The names of the bookes and authors that are hereafter cited', an...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1604
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 C V
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Scope & Content:: 'A TREATISE OF TYTHES', advocating the voidance of impropriations, in five chapters, by William Swaddon, D.D., Archdeacon of Worcester (1610, d. 1623). Preceded by an address to James I (f. 2) signed by the author, and a preface 'To the freendlie Reader'. Paper; ff. 55. Folio. 121/2 in. x 73/4 i...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1610-1623
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 C VI
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Scope & Content:: DRAFT of a proposed Act of Parliament for the employment or punishment of 'strong valiaunt beggers, vacabundes and idle persones' by the institution of public works, as making or repairing havens and harbours, highways, fortresses, &c., such works 'to begyn the first daie of Marche that shal...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1536
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 C VII
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Scope & Content:: 'THE TRAGOEDY of Cleopatra, Queene of Aegypt' [by Thomas May, see Dict. Nat. Biogr.]. The play was acted in 1626, printed in 1639, and again in 1654. With these editions the MS., with a few verbal exceptions, agrees. On two leaves (113/4 in. x 71/2 in.) at the beginning (ff. 1, 2) is a fragment...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 C X
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Scope & Content:: MIRROR of the Life of Christ, an English version of the Speculum (or Meditationes) vitae Christi commonly attributed to S. Bonaventura, but more probably by Johannes de Caulibus of San Gemignano in Tuscany (cf. 7 A. I, art. 5, 7 D. XVII, art. 1). Printed by Carton, 1488 (?), &c. The name of ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

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