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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B X
Title:
Scope & Content:: PETITION of William Bragge, clothworker, of Eastcheap, for satisfaction of claims against the East India and Summer Islands Companies. The claims, which are partly in the name of the writer's late brother Matthew, who had sailed with Sir Henry Middleton, are set out in letters (18 Aug. 1620-20 A...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1621-1625
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XI
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'OF SUCCESSION to the crowne of England', by Henry Hooke, of Lincoln, 'verbi diuini minister' (f. 3). This tract, written originally in the reign of Elizabeth, while defending the unwillingness of the Queen to name her successor, proceeds (f. 12) to urge the claims of James VI of Scotland agains...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1603-1625]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XII
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'TWO SERMONS of oppression, affliction, and pacyence, preached by Roger Hutchynson' on the epistle for the 2nd Sunday after Easter (1 Pet. ii. 19-25), with dedication to Sir Harry Sydney [al. Sidney], gentleman of the King's privy chamber [afterwards Lord Deputy of Ireland]. Dated, Eton College ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1552
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XIII
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'THE WAY to Weldoeing', by Robert Bradshaw: a tract (very illiterately spelt) in dialogue-form on moral education, addressed to James I, asking for 'such alowanc to this small treatis that I may haue the onellye preferment of the bocks (sic)'. Autograph. From examples on ff. 70, 75 b, 76 (the fi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1616-1625
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XIV
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'REYMUND SEBUNDIUS. Of the nature of man. Certayne dialogues which shew the knowledg of Christ, and of man himself augmented agayne and faythfully corrected. Translated out of Latin into English by J. R.' The corrected draft of a translation of Raymundus de Sabunde, De natura hominis, 1568. For ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 16th century-Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XIX
Title:
Scope & Content:: SERMON on Ps. cxliv. 10, preached in Canterbury Cathedral, 5 Aug. 1616, by James Cleland, D.D., in commemoration of the King's deliverance from the Gowrie conspiracy in 1600. The preacher, who was chaplain to the Duke of Lenox (see his Monument of Mortalitie, 1624), gives an account of the consp...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1616
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XL
Title:
Scope & Content:: AN EXHORTATION to Queen Mary 'for the reformation of rentes within all [her] realmes and dominions', by Philip Gerrard, yeoman of the Guard (formerly a yeoman of the Chamber, and author of A godly invective, &c., 1547). The writer had in the first instance addressed his exhortation to Edward...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1553
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XLI
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'THE MAYSTER OFF GAME', by Edward, second Duke of York (cf. 17 A. LV, 17 B. II). The present copy has the text in a different order, ch. xii-xxv of the printed text (ed. Baillie-Grohman) following ch. xxxvi, and ch, xxvi being omitted. Vellum; ff. 77. 8 in. x 5 in. Middle of the XV cent. Gather...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XLII
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'THE ABEWSE OF JUSTIS and the curuptione of the lawe, not by reporte but by trewe experience': an address to James I by John Fawset, of New Alresford, co. Southt., 1610, wherein he gives an account of the murder on 25 Mar. 1605, of Alis Lanawaye, of New Alresford, the steps he took to bring the ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1610
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XLIII
Title:
Scope & Content:: SIR JOHN MANDEVILLE'S Travels, bound with other romances, in English, viz.: 1. The Book of John Mandeville, knight, in the defective English version (lacuna from p. 18, 1. 21 to p. 32, 1. 16 of the Roxburghe Club ed., 1889, see f. 20) as given in the majority of the MSS. Besides the above lacun...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

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