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Project / Collection Stowe Collection Name Digby, John, 1st Earl of Bristol, diplomat, 1580-1653 Level [40] File

1. Stowe MS 145

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Stowe MS 145
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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 151

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Stowe MS 151
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TRANSCRIPTS of historical letters, political tracts, and other papers, viz 1. Qu. Anne Boleyn to Henry Vlll.; " From my dolefull Pryson in the Tower," 6 May, [1536]. " Founde amonge Cromwell's Papers." Printed in Cabala, London, 1691, p. 1. f. 1. 2. Sir Thomas Egerton, Lord Keeper, "his letter...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
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1 item

3. Stowe MS 156

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Stowe MS 156
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TRANSCRIPTS Of State papers and political tracts; circ. 1565-1629. The contents are :- 1. A conference between William Axton, minister of Morton-Corbet, co. Salop, and [Thomas Bentham] Bishop of Lichfield, Thomas Bickley, Chancellor of Lichfield, and others, on the use of the surplice, the pra...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1565-1629
Extent:
1 item

4. Stowe MS 164

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Stowe MS 164
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MISCELLANEOUS historical and other papers; 1588-1721. With a table of contents in the hand of Thomas Astle. 1. Part of the book of the Commissioners for the Sequestration of delinquents' estates in co. Essex; 31 Jan. 1645 [6]-17 Apr. 1646. f 2. Morant, in his Hist. of Essex, i., 1768, p. 421, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch and English
Date Range:
1588-1721
Extent:
1 item

5. Stowe MS 172

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Stowe MS 172
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EDMONDES PAPERS. Vol. VII. (ff. 321). 26 March, 1611-30 June, 1612. During this period affairs connected with the succession of Cleves were quiet. The two Electors were content, after Juliers had been recaptured, to renew their engagement to continue joint rulers of the disputed Duchies; while t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
26 Mar 1611-30 Jun 1612
Extent:
1 item

6. Stowe MS 173

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Stowe MS 173
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EDMONDES PAPERS. Vol. VIII. (ff. 311). 1 July, 1612-24 March, 1612 [3]. Edmondes's drafts are very numerous in this volume, and are addressed to the King and to Robert Carr, Viscount Rochester. They give a very particular account of the dissensions in the French Court. James I. took great intere...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Spanish
Date Range:
1 Jul 1612-24 Mar 1613
Extent:
1 item

7. Stowe MS 175

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Stowe MS 175
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EDMONDES PAPERS. Vol. X. (ff. 389). 16 July, 1614-24 Mar. 1615 [6]. The volume opens with the instructions of James I. to Edmondes on his return to France. The latter continues to give full details of the dissensions in the French Court, which lasted through 1614 and 1615 and resulted in the Con...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
16 Jul 1614-24 Mar 1616
Extent:
1 item

8. Stowe MS 181

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Stowe MS 181
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HISTORY Of the negotiations of [John Digby] Earl of Bristol for the Spanish match between Prince Charles and the Infanta, 1611- 1626; together with an account of the charges afterwards brought against the Earl in respect of the same. Transcripts of the following particular documents, etc., are i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1611-1626
Extent:
1 item

9. Stowe MS 183

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Stowe MS 183
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" A BOOKE of the coppies of letters, speeches, and papers"; Nov. 1622-Aug. 1625. In a nearly contemporary hand. 1. Letter from James I. to the Elector Palatine, 10 Nov. 1622, respecting the negotiations for his restoration to the Palatinate; with the Elector's answer, 30 Dec. [N.S.]. ff. 3, 4....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Nov 1622-Aug 1625
Extent:
1 item

10. Stowe MS 361

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Stowe MS 361
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SPEECHES in Parliament, etc.; 1558-1695. 1. "Queen Elizabeths speech (a) to her secretary [Sir W. Cecil] and other her Lords," 20 Nov. 1558. In a hand of the 18th cent. f. 1; -(b) to the two Houses, 12 Nov. 1586. f. 2. 2. "Answeres to the first part of the greeuances " presented by the House...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1558-1695
Extent:
1 item