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Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 749
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Scope & Content:: ORIGINAL LETTERS addressed to John Anstis, Garter King of Arms (ob. 1745), on antiquarian subjects, principally heraldic or genealogical; 21 Oct. 1700-19 Mar. 1741/2. The last letter, dated 12 Apr. 1746, must be to John Anstis jun. The names of the writers are given in the index. Among them are:...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 21 Oct 1700-19 Mar 1742
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 750
Title:
Scope & Content:: ORIGINAL LETTERS from lawyers, scholars and others addressed for the most part to Thomas Parker, Lord Chief Justice 1710, Baron Parker 1716, Lord Chancellor 1718, Earl of Macclesfield 1721 (ob. 1732); 1704-1739. A few draft replies of Lord Macclesfield are interspersed (ff. 46, 112, 246, 430, 43...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1704-1739
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 751
Title:
Scope & Content:: ORIGINAL LETTERS Of John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, and Sarah his wife, to James Craggs, Sen. [Postmaster-General in 1715], who was acting as financial secretary to the Duchess; 1711-1718. The Duke's letters are twenty-one in number, and with one exception (f l5), dated "Camp before Bouchai...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1711-1718
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 752
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. I. (ff. 240). 1. LETTERS of Smart Lethieullier, of Aldersbrook, co. Essex (ob. 1760), chiefly on Roman and Saxon antiquities, architecture, etc.; 28 Sept. 1743-1 April, 1760. ff. 1-105. Among the special subjects treated are:- The origin of burial in churchyards and inside churches; 1744-1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 28 Sep 1743-1 Apr 1760
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 753
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Scope & Content:: Vol. II.(ff. 301). LETTERS On various topics; 10 May 1730-13 Dec. 1756. includes: f. 1 'Boulephorus': Letter to C. Lyttelton: 1730. f. 3 Thomas Tanner, Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, afterwards Bishop of St. Asaph: Letter to Dr. C. Lyttelton: 1735. ff. 3, 4, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 75 Dudley fami...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 10 May 1730-13 Dec 1756
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 754
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Scope & Content:: Vol. III. (ff. 280). LETTERS On various topics; 21 Feb. 1757-21 Oct. 1768. (At the end of Vol. III. a letter to Thomas Astle, 4 July, 1797, is inserted.) includes: ff. 1, 10 Cæsar Ward, of York: Letters to Dr. C. Lyttelton: 1749-1758. ff. 2, 8, 18, 50, 64, 74, 78, 80, 89, 96, 100, 106, 116, 11...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 21 Feb 1757-4 Jul 1797
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 755
Title:
Scope & Content:: MISCELLANEOUS PRIVATE LETTERS, etc., English and foreign; 1613- 1818:- 1. [Richard Butler, 3rd Viscount] Mountgarrett, to Sir Williain Andrewes, Knt., with a present of a goshawk, etc.; Ballyne, 12 Sept. 1613. f 1. 2. [Henry Percy, 9th Earl of] Northumberland (ob. 1632), to Sir Thomas Fairfa...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1613-1818
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 756
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Scope & Content:: LETTER-BOOK containing copies of letters of a writer whose name is not given, addressed to " Dolly Sqr," her father, John Handley, his cousin, and others, on the subject of his love for the lady, and his desire to make her his wife; St. Albans and London, 6 April, 1725-29 Jan. 1725/6 Paper; ff. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 6 Apr 1725-29 Jan 1726
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 757
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Scope & Content:: LETTER from N[athaniel] B[rassey] Halhed [author of A Code of Gentoo Laws, 1776, and A Grammar of the Bengal Language, 1778, afterwards M.P. for Lymington 1791-1796] to the Rev. [George] Costard, on the antiquity and character of the Indian language and religion, in reply to a letter published b...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1779
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 758
Title:
Scope & Content:: MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS, Treasury warrants, papers, etc.; 1619- 1818. Amongst them are:- 1. Statement of claims on the Exchequer of Frances, wife of Sir Thomas Savile, and grand-daughter of William, Lord Cobham; circ. 1620. 2. Speech of Algernon Sydney delivered to the Sheriffs on the scaffold...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1619-1818
Extent:: 1 item

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