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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Stowe Ms 1-1085 Place Colchester, Essex Level [40] File

1. Stowe MS 146

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 146
Title:
Royal orders and warrants, 1512-1515
Scope & Content:
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

2. Stowe MS 150

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 150
Title:
Miscellaneous letters, 1525-1623
Scope & Content:
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

3. Stowe MS 153

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 153
Title:
Scope & Content:
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

4. Stowe MS 184

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 184
Title:
Scope & Content:
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

5. 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

6. Stowe MS 189

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 189
Title:
Scope & Content:
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

7. Stowe MS 325

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 325
Title:
Scope & Content:
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

8. Stowe MS 484

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 484
Title:
Scope & Content:
" 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

9. Stowe MS 831

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 831
Title:
Scope & Content:
TAXATIONS Of Colchester for subsidies, in various years from 1577 to 1596; preceded (ff. 2-39 b) by an undated taxation [temp. Hen. VIII.], and followed (ff. 112-124 b) by portions of two others [temp. Eliz.]. At f. 125 is the taxation for two subsidies, 3 Oct. 15 Charles II. [l663]. With note...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[between 1509-1603]
Extent:
1 item

10. Stowe MS 832

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 832
Title:
Scope & Content:
PAPERS relating to the payment by the borough of Colchester of composition-money for the maintenance of the Royal Household; 1596-1638. Included are;-(a) A complete survey of the borough for the assessment of the tax in 1596, and again in 1599. ff. 7, 25;-(b) Rating of the several parishes for 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1596-1638
Extent:
1 item