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Project / Collection Stowe Collection Place Cheshire, England Level [40] File

1. Stowe MS 141

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 141
Title:
Warrants, official and private letters from the reigns of Henry IV to James VI and I
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–86v: Original papers, warrants, official and private letters, from the reigns of Henry IV to James I and VI. The volume includes several letters from abbots of monasteries before the Dissolution, the reports to the Privy Council of Commissioners appointed to take account of Church goods i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
between 1399-1625
Extent:

1 volume

2. Stowe MS 415

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 415
Title:
Scope & Content:
COLLECTIONS on the Court of (Chancery: a volume very similar in its contents to Hargrave MS. 249, and based largely on the collections of William Lambarde. With an index at the end. The contents are as follows:- 1. " A discourse of the High Courts of Justice in England, and especially of the C...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

3. Stowe MS 424

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 424
Title:
Scope & Content:
MISCELLANIES, legal and political:- 1. Reading of Edward Bagshaw on 25 Edw. III., c. 7, in the Middle Temple, 24 Feb. 1639 [40]; with index. From a MS. belonging to Sir Henry Yelverton. f. 3. 2. Reading of Henry Slierfield on 32 Hen. VIII. c. 1, of Wills, ill Lincoln's Inn, Easter term, 1624...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 item

4. Stowe MS 620

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 620
Title:
Scope & Content:
KENTISH PEDIGREES, evidences, heraldic and genealogical notes taken in churches and private houses, etc, collected in or about the years 1592-1594. The volume also contains, in the same hand:- (a) Notes on Bessarion's work "Adversus calumniatorem Platonis." f. 7 b;-(b) Notes on English land te...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1592-1594
Extent:
1 item

5. Stowe MS 811

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 811
Title:
Scope & Content:
COLLECTIONS for the history of Chester, containing:- 1. "The antiquitie[s] of the most antient and famous cittie of Chester., collected by learned and experienced authors of great antiquity, being here born," etc.; chiefly derived from the collections of Robert Rogers, Archdeacon of Chester (s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century-Early 19th century
Extent:
1 item