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

1. Stowe MS 141

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 141
Title:
Warrants, official and private letters from the reigns of Henry IV to James VI and I
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–86v: Original papers, warrants, official and private letters, from the reigns of Henry IV to James I and VI. The volume includes several letters from abbots of monasteries before the Dissolution, the reports to the Privy Council of Commissioners appointed to take account of Church goods i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
between 1399-1625
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 413

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 413
Title:
Scope & Content:
LAW PRECEDENTS: a collection of specimens of deeds of various kinds, dated between 1719 and 1758, and chiefly relating to persons and places of the county of Stafford. Paper; ff. 54. Late xviiith cent. Folio. County of Stafford: Deeds relating to persons and places in: 1719-1758. Law OF ENGLAN...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1719-1758
Extent:
1 item

4. Stowe MS 621

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 621
Title:
Scope & Content:
1. ORIGINAL PEDIGREES. Of Kentish families to 1663 (in which year Bysshe made a Visitation of the county), with the signatures of members of the several families. f 2. 2. Pedigrees and arms of the families of (a) Reresby, of Thribergh, co. York, down to Sir John, 2nd Bart., succ. 1646. f. 12b;...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Stowe MS 630

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 630
Title:
Scope & Content:
VISITATION of Staffordshire, taken in 1614. A copy "in the handwriting of John Cole, Esq., one of' the Deputy-Registers in Chancery" (ob. 1750): see a note by Philip Morant at f. 1. With an index. Paper; ff. 49. XVIIIth cent. (dated 1731 on a fly-leaf at the beginning). With bookplate of arms of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1731
Extent:
1 item

6. Stowe MS 631

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 631
Title:
Scope & Content:
PEDIGREES of Staffordshire families, from the Visitation made in 1614 by Richard St. George, Norroy King of Arms (cf. Harley MS. 1439, also Harley MS. 1173, ff. 112-133) With arms in trick, and a few in colours. Paper; ff. 33. XVIIth cent. With bookplate, 18th cent., of John Holland, no. 69. Sma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1614
Extent:
1 item

7. Stowe MS 876

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 876
Title:
Scope & Content:
"LIBER CENSUALIS Gulielmi Primi pro Statfordscire"; or Domesday Book for Staffordshire, transcribed by Edward Vernon, D.D., in 1754 (cf. No. 816 above). At the end is an alphabetical list of the modern names of places. Paper; ff. 26. Belonged, in 1764, to Thomas Astle. Folio. Edward Vernon, DD,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1754
Extent:
1 item

8. Stowe MS 877

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 877
Title:
Scope & Content:
"A SURVEY of Staffordshire," by Sampson Erdeswicke. The printed edition of 1723, interleaved, with numerous additions in the hand of Edward Vernon, D.D. (cf. No. 816 above). Between the introduction and the first page of the "Survey" (f. 13) is inserted a printed "Scheme or Proposal for making a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1717-1723
Extent:
1 item

9. Stowe MS 878

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 878
Title:
Scope & Content:
"THE PAROCHIAL ANTIQUITIES of Staffordshire"; written about 1745 (see f. 6) by Thomas Loxdale, Rector of Tixall. With an index and a few notes added by Edward Vernon, D.D. The work is noticed in Sir Thomas Clifford's Description of Tixall, Paris, 1817, p. 74; and a brief account of the author, t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1745
Extent:
1 item

10. Stowe MS 880

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 880
Title:
Scope & Content:
MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of papers relating to Needwood Chase, co. Staff.; interspersed with which are sundry papers relating to other parts of the county. Among them are:- 1. Assessment of the county for a tenth and fifteenth; 29 Hen. VI. [1450-1]. f. 1. 2. Rental of Alrewas; Mich. 15 Edw. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
15th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item