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Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 280
Title:
Scope & Content:: 1."A DISCOURSE, of passages betweene the Earles of Essex, Northampton and Somerset, the Countesse of Somerset, Sir Thomas Overbury and others, with theyre risinge and fall, with diverse other matters acted duringe the late raigne of King James, as alsoe of the Duke of Buckinghams first cominge i...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 281
Title:
Scope & Content:: "VOX POPULI, or News frome Spayne, translated according to the [imaginary] Spanishe coppie": a pamphlet by Thomas Scott against the Spanish Match. Priinted in 1620, and suppressed; included in the Somers Tracts, 1809, vol. ii., p. 508. Paper; ff. 14. xviith cent. Small quarto. Thomas Scott: Vox...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 282
Title:
Scope & Content:: " DE LIBERA ELECTIONE Regni Bohæmici et de Jure Imperatoris Ferdinandi ad idem Regnum, 1619 ": a Latin treatise in answer to a discourse asserting the right of the Elector Palatine to the crown of Bohemia, the writer declaring the crown not to be elective, and defending the claim of Ferdinand. T...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1620
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 283
Title:
Scope & Content:: " THE PASSAGES and occurrences which happened from the first acceptation of the Crowne of Bohemia by the Palsgrave [Frederic] untill the looseinge of the Palatinate," in 1623, with especial reference to the part taken with regard to the affairs of the Palatinate by James I. In a contemporary han...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1623
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 284
Title:
Scope & Content:: A DISCOURSE of Foreign War, with an account of all the Taxations upon this Kingdom, etc., by Sir Robert Cotton, Bart. Printed in 1690. Paper; ff. 47. Early xviith cent. Belonged, in 1774, to Thomas Astle. Small Quarto. Political Tracts: "Discourse of Foreign War," by Sir R. Cotton: early 17th c...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 285
Title:
Scope & Content:: 1. A DISCOURSE of Court and Courtiers. f. 2. The author's name is not given; but in a copy in Harley MS. 3364 the preface, which is addressed to the Duke of Lenox, is signed by " Edw. Payton " [Sir Edward Peyton, Bart.] and dated " from Isleham, vlt. Martii, 1633." 2. " A discoverye of the Holla...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1630
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 286
Title:
Scope & Content:: " THE SOVERAIGNTY Of the Seas of England. Proved by record, history and the municipall lawes of the Kingdome. . . . By SI John Burgh [Borough], Knight, Keeper of the Recordes in the Tower of London" [Garter King of Arms, 1633]. Printed in 1651 under the title of The Soveraignty of the British Se...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 287
Title:
Scope & Content:: " DOMINIUM maris Britannici. . . . per D. Ioannem de Burgo," etc.: a Latin version of the treatise as above, No. 286, with copious marginal references, and a dedication to Charles I. Paper; ff. 24. xviith cent. Small Folio. Political Tracts: "The Soveraignty of the Seas of England ": 17th cent....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 288
Title:
Scope & Content:: " THE DUKE OF LENOX his speeche before his Majestie concerning the warre with Scotland ": apparently addressed to Charles l., dissuading him from the war with Scotland in 1629 and counselling concessions to the Scots. According to Dr. S. R. Gardiner (Hist. of England, vol. viii. 1884, p. 367) a ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1629
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 289
Title:
Scope & Content:: PARALLEL between Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, and George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, by Sir Henry Wotton, 1641. Printed in Reliquiae Wottonianae, 1672. Paper; ff. 20. xviith cent. Small Folio. Sir Henry Wotton, Ambassador to Venice, and (1623) Provost of Eton: Parallel between the Earl of ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1641
Extent:: 1 item

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