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Project / Collection Stowe Collection Name Davison, William, diplomat and administrator, d 1608 Level [40] File

1. Stowe MS 145

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Stowe MS 145
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Scope & Content:
COLLECTION Of political tracts, state letters and papers relating to Home and Foreign affairs, chiefly in the reigns of Qu. Elizabeth and James I., many of them having been transeribed from original documents; 1509-1628. Other copies of artt. 2, 3, 10, 12, 13, 15, and 18 are found in Cotton MS. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1509-1628
Extent:
1 item

2. Stowe MS 162

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Stowe MS 162
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Catalogue of state papers (‘Walsingham’s Table Book’)
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Catalogue of manuscripts and state papers in the possession of Sir Francis Walsingham, principal secretary of state (c. 1532-1590). In the hand of Sir Thomas Lake, administrator and politician (bap. 1561, d. 1630), private secretary to Walsingham. Dated 1588 (f. 3v). The papers relate chiefly t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1588
Extent:
1 volume

3. Stowe MS 296

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Stowe MS 296
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TRACTS, political and legal, etc.:- 1. Speech of Sir Walter Mildmay in the Star Chamber, 28 Mar. 1587, " at the censure of Secretary [William] Davison," for despatching the Queen's warrant for the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, her Majestic being alto-ether vnacquainted with the matter., n...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item