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Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 80
Title:
Scope & Content:: CATALOGUE, made by Humphrey Wanley (ob. 1726), of those chronicles and histories of England in the Cotton Collection which, at the time this catalogue was made, had not been printed; followed, on f. 25, by a similar list, made by the same, of chronicles already printed. Copy, apparently in the h...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 81
Title:
Scope & Content:: THE ANNALS of Ireland in the time of Henry II., by Sir James Ware. With some verbal alterations, the matter agrees with the work first printed in 1705 under the title of The Annals of Ireland from the first Conquest by the English in the reign of King Henry II., etc. Imperfect; ending abruptly w...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 82
Title:
Scope & Content:: "THE HISTORY Of the Execrable Irish Rebellion., trac'd from many preceding Acts, to the grand Eruption, the 23. of October, 1641, and thence pursued to the Act of Settlement, MDCLXII." The printed work, with its appendices, by Edmund Borlase, M.D., published anonymously in 1680; with numerous au...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 83
Title:
Scope & Content:: "A SHORT VIEW of the State of Ireland from the yeare 1640 to ye yeare 1652": a transcript of a work published in 1719-20 under the title of The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in Ireland, . . . by . . . Edward, Earl of Clarendon. On f. 114b is copied part of a letter (cf. Stowe 82, f. 16...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 84
Title:: Proceedings of the rehabilitation trial of Joan of Arc
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains one of only three official copies made of the Processus justificationis Johanne D'Arc, or proceedings of the rehabilitation trial of Joan of Arc (b. c. 1412, d. 1431). Joan had been put on trial before a Church court headed by Bishop Pierre Cauchon (b. 1371, d. 1442), an...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1455-1456
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 85
Title:
Scope & Content:: Copy of the diplomatic correspondence, with instructions, of Godefroy, Comte d'Estrades, including his missions to England in 1637 and to Holland in 1638-1650, etc.; 1637-1657. With a letter from the Comte to Louis XIV., dated 17 June, 1672. French. The contents agree closely with Egerton 2071, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1637-1672
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 86
Title:
Scope & Content:: "ETAT ACTUEL des affaires généralles concernant les Finances du Royaume de France": a tabular statement of the finances of France, drawn up in or about 1762, and including statements (1) of the ordinary revenue, (2) of the ordinary expenditure, (3) of the extraordinary sums raised in 1755-1762 f...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1762
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 87
Title:
Scope & Content:: "DÉTAIL GÉNÉRAL et spécifique sur toutes les parties des Finances du Royaume de France; seconde partie, 1766": an enumeration and discussion of the taxes and imposts existing in France at this period, ending with an attack on the heaviness of the burdens and the maladministration of the finances...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1766
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 88
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. I. ff. 22. Louis XV of France: Account of the affairs of France from the disgrace of the Duc de Choiseul to the year 1776, perhaps by Lord Holdernesse: 1777. Robert D'Arcy, Earl of Holdernesse; Secretary of State, etc: Account of the affairs of France, ascribed to: 1771-1776. Bindings EN...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1777
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 89
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. II. ff. 55. Louis XV of France: Account of the affairs of France from the disgrace of the Duc de Choiseul to the year 1776, perhaps by Lord Holdernesse: 1777. Robert D'Arcy, Earl of Holdernesse; Secretary of State, etc: Account of the affairs of France, ascribed to: 1771-1776. Bindings E...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1777
Extent:: 1 item

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