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

1. Stowe MS 185

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 185
Title:
Scope & Content:
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

2. Stowe MS 361

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 361
Title:
Scope & Content:
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

3. Stowe MS 610

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 610
Title:
Scope & Content:
Copy of the Visitation, with arms in trick, of Cornwall, Devon, Somerset and Dorset, taken (in 1530 and 1531) by Thomas Benholt, Clarenceux King of Arms. Imperfect, the first leaf remaining having originally been numbered 32 (cf. Add. MS. 14,315, f. 39 b). At f. 24 b is the first part of a chall...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

4. Stowe MS 629

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 629
Title:
Scope & Content:
PEDIGREES of Somersetshire families, with arms in trick, apparently extracted from the Visitation of 1573 (cf. Harley MS. 1559); also a few of Devon and Wilts families. With an index. Paper; ff. 45. XVIIth cent. Belonged, 18th cent., to John Holland, no. 50. Quarto. County of Somerset: Pedigree...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Stowe MS 725

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 725
Title:
Scope & Content:
ENGLISH AND IRISH ARMS, in colour, finely executed, as follows:- (1) Dukes of Buckingham. f. 1;-(2) Earls of Buckingham [and Buckinghamshire]. f. 2;-(3) Earls of Cornwall. f. 3;- (4) Cornish nobility and gentry. f. 4;-(5) Earls of Devon. f. 7 ; -(6) Nobility and gentry of co. Devon. f. 8;-(7...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Stowe MS 1038

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 1038
Title:
Scope & Content:
Vol. X. (ff. 122). MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS, including:-(a) Extracts from Domesday for the following counties, Bucks, Gloucester, Worcester, Hereford, Huntingdon, Bedford, Suffolk, Essex, York, Wilts, Dorset, Somerset, Salop, and Northampton. f. 21;-(b) Index of "nobiles" mentioned in Domesday,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1718-1745]
Extent:
1 item