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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XXX
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Scope & Content:: TRANSLATION into English of Seneca's Epistles 92 and 18 joined in one, by Henry Parker, 10th Lord Morley (d. 1556). Dedicated to the Lady [afterwards Queen] Mary. Probably the presentation copy and one of a series of new-year's gifts from Lord Morley to the Princess (cf. 17 A. XLVI, 17 C. XII, 1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1509-1547]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XXXI
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Scope & Content:: BRIEF SURVEY of the ordnance, powder, shot, and other munition in the Tower of London, 3 May, 1603, with signed dedication to James I by John Linewraye (knighted 1604), Surveyor General of the Ordnance. Included also are:-(a) Names of ships, pinnaces, galleys, &c., with their ordnance. f. 5 ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 3 May 1603
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XXXII
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Scope & Content:: TRACTS on astrological and medical subjects, in English, viz.:- 1. 'Here begynnyth the Boke of Astronomy and of Philosophie constructe and compilat of the wiseste philosophers and astronomyers that euer were sethe the worlde was bygonne, that is for to sey that in the londe of Grece was an Engl...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XXXIII
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Scope & Content:: CONSTRUCTION and use of the Ring-dial : a tract addressed, probably as a new-year's gift, to Edward VI, circ. 1552/3. At the foot of the last folio appears the name, probably as author, of Ottuel Hollynshed [fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, a cousin of Raphael Holinshed, the chronicler, see...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1552
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XXXIV
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Scope & Content:: 'A KICKSY WINSYE or a lerry cum twang, wherin John Taylor hath satirically suited eight hundred of his bad debtors, that will not pay him for his returne of his jorney from Scotland ' : a satirical poem on debtors, by John Taylor, the Water-poet. Beg. 'You worthy worthyes, of yt liberall tribe'....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1618-1619
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XXXIX
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'ARCHEION, or of the High Courts of justice in Inglande', by William Lambarde. Ends imperfectly at p. 104 of the edition of 1635, with which this copy agrees except at ff. 19 b-20 (cf. pp. 59-67). For other copies see Hargrave MSS. 227, f. 157, 249, f. 163, Add. MS. 32103, f. 96. Paper; ff. 30....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XXXV
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Scope & Content:: 'A LITLE TREATISE agaynst the supremytie of the bishop of Rome.' Anonymous. Beg. 'We may very well se and perceyue '. Paper; ff. 35. 71/4 in. x 51/2 in. XVI cent. Not in the old catalogues.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XXXVI
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Scope & Content:: 'ANE GLASSE for Christiane Subiectis, whairin they may clearlie sie be whome and whairfor Kingis ar set over thame': a dissertation on 1 Peter ii. 13, by David Lindesay, minister of St. Andrews, afterwards suecessively Bishop of Brechin (1619) and of Edinburgh (1634). With an address to James I,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1617
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XXXVII
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'AN APOLOGIE of John Shotbolt [al. Battalion, cf. Stowe MS. 326, f. 24], esquier, William Burnarde, and Adam Moore, his maiesties agentes imployed for the enclosure of Kinges Sedgmoore in the county of Somersett': a treatise in defence of the measure of enclosing King's Sedgmoor. The apology and...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1630-1635
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XXXVIII
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Scope & Content:: 'THE DESCRIPTION and use of his Maiesties Dialls in Whitehall Garden' [by Edmund Gunter, Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College]. Printed, with slight additions, 1624. The dials were destroyed in 1697 (see Dict. Nat. Biogr.). Paper; ff. 20. 7 in. x 51/4 in. Circ. 1623. catalogues.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1623
Extent:: 1 item

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