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Project / Collection Stowe Collection Place Colchester, Essex Level [40] File

1. Stowe Ch 603

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Stowe Ch 603
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INDULGENCE of 800 days of pardon granted by Thomas [FitzAlan], Archbishop of Canterbury, and Richard [Scrope], Archbishop of York, Papal Legates, Robert [de Braybrooke], Bishop of London, Gye [Guy de Mohun], Bishop of St. David, Walter [de Skirlaw], Bishop of Durham, Henry [Beaufort], Bishop of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1402-1404]
Extent:
1 item

2. Stowe Ch 630

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Stowe Ch 630
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WILL of John Page, of Wolvetts in Peldon [co. Essex], containing bequests to the church of Peldon, "to the mother churche of Pawlis in London," "to the place of Grey fryeris within Colchester," to John his son and to Johan his wife, whom he appoints his executrix. Witn.: Sir Richard Sharples, pa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[6 Jan 1517-5 Feb 1517]
Extent:
1 item

3. Stowe MS 146

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Stowe MS 146
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Royal orders and warrants, 1512-1515
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Collection of original orders and warrants, chiefly by King Henry VIII and Thomas Wolsey, the King’s Almoner. Dating from between 1512 and 1515. Principally addressed to John Daunce, Treasurer for War. Concerning payments to English and foreign merchants for victualling the army in Spain, the s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1512-1515
Extent:
1 volume

4. Stowe MS 150

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Stowe MS 150
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Miscellaneous letters, 1525-1623
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This is a miscellaneous collection of 16th- and early 17th-century correspondence. It incudes one holograph letter of Sir Philip Sidney from Flushing [Vlissingen] in 1586 (ff. 50r-v), and a copy of a letter from the Irish chieftain Florence MacCarthy Reagh [Finian Mac Cárthaigh Riabhach] to Sir ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1525-1623
Extent:
1 volume

5. Stowe MS 153

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Stowe MS 153
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MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS, chiefly political; 1540-1629. 1. " Certaine articles put forth vnto the Bishoppes . . . by the kinges maiestie in Juine, ao Do. 1540 [concerning Sacraments], to make an answeare vnto by ther learninges." See Strype, Cranmer, ed. 1840, i. p. 108, ii. p. 744. f 1. 2. " Th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1540-1629
Extent:
1 item

6. Stowe MS 184

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Stowe MS 184
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Vol. I. (ff. 283). 1628-1651. 1. Message of the King to the House of Commons concerning liberty of speech; [? circ. 1628]. Copy (18th cent.). f. 1. 2. Privy Council to the " Chiefe officers of the Towne of Colchester," commanding them to assist the officers of the Customs at that Port; 3l Ma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1628-1651
Extent:
1 item

7. Stowe MS 185

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Stowe MS 185
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Vol. II. (ff. 226). 1653-1746. 1. Letters and papers relating to the sale of fee-farm rents, 1653- 1655. Included are:-(a) Order from the " Commissioners for removing obstructions in ye Sale of the Honours, etc., of ye late King, Queene and Prince," concerning the purchase of the Honour of Hig...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1653-1746
Extent:
1 item

8. Stowe MS 189

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Stowe MS 189
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LETTERS and papers of the time of the Civil War and Commonwealth; 1641-1660. Included are:- 1. Answers of Charles I. to the Scotch Commissioners at London, as to his visit to Scotland and a conformity of church-government between the two kingdoms; 9, 11 June, 1641. Attested by Sir John Borough...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1641-1660
Extent:
1 item

9. Stowe MS 325

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Stowe MS 325
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PAPERS concerning the revenue, taxes, coinage, royal fisheries, etc.; 1433-1770. Among the contents are:- 1. Extracts from the Rolls of Parliament for 11, 12 Hen. VI., being pp. 431-440 of vol. iv. of the printed edition. ff. 3-7. 2. Account of gold and silver coined from 1558 to 1770. f. 8....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1433-1770
Extent:
1 item

10. Stowe MS 484

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Stowe MS 484
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" RETURNS of His Majesty's Forces "; 2 June, 1762. Included are troops in Germany, in North America, in the East Indies, under orders for Portugal, on an expedition under Lord Albemarle, etc. At f 38, on an inserted card, is a plan, with particulars, of old and new barracks at Colchester. Paper;...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Jun 1762
Extent:
1 item