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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XLIV
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Scope & Content:: 'A TREATISE of the office, power and authoritie off a Soveraigne Christian Magistrate in matters ecclesiasticall': a translation, by I. D., 'one of the preachers to the English forces in the United Provinces, resident in Utrecht', of Tractaet van t'ampt ende authoriteyt eener Hooger-Christelijck...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1625-1649]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XLIX
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Scope & Content:: ADDRESS to the people of the Netherlands to encourage them in resistance to the government of the Archduke Albert and the Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia. The latter part (f. 20 b) is a special warning to Roman Catholics that their religion will be no protection to them against Spain. A briefer f...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1607
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XLV
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Scope & Content:: 'A BRIEFE DECLARATION Of the gouerment of Ireland, opening many corruptions in ye same: discouering ye discontentments of the Irishery and the causes moving theis expected troubles: and showing meanes how to establish quietnes in that kingdome honorably: to your Majesties profit without any encr...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1594-1595
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XLVI
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Scope & Content:: 'A RIGHT GODLY EXHORTACION and treatice tending to obedience': a treatise on the duties of subjects to a king, written shortly after the Gunpowder Plot (see ff. 2, 49 b). Paper; ff. 50. Quarto. 8 in. x 61/2 in. Circ. 1606. Not in the old catalogues.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1606
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XLVII
Title:
Scope & Content:: COLLECTIONS on Dictamen or the art of letter-writing, with legal and other commonplaces, for use in London. One of the compilers seems to have been connected with the northern part of Hampshire, and probably with the family of Leigh of Herriard. Contents:- 1. Poems, viz.:-(a) Dietary, or verse...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1452-1456
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XLVIII
Title:
Scope & Content:: MEDICAL RECIPES, charms, &c., viz. 1. The virtues of divers herbs, which be hot and which be cold, &c.; cf. 17 A. XXXII, art. 2. The contents, however, are not identical. Imperfect. Beg. in the chapter on the poppy and ends with that on the lily, 'for to do awey frekenesse on a mannes v...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XV
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'TRITONS TRUMPET to the twelve monethes husbanded and moralized by John Lane, 1621': a series of poems, two for each month, the first devoted to the husbandry fitting for the season, the second entitled the month's 'moral'. With an address to Prince Charles (afterwards Charles I), followed by a ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1621
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XVI
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Scope & Content:: THE BOOKE of holy philosophy, translated out ot French into English by T[homas] G[lover].' With a dedication to John, Lord Lumley. The translator alludes to kindness shown to his late father [? Robert Glover, the herald, d. 1588]. The authorship of the French original is not stated. Paper; ff. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 16th century-17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XVII
Title:
Scope & Content:: THEOLOGICAL WORKS in prose and verse, chiefly in Northern English, viz.: 1. Poem on the manner of hearing Mass, with rubrics and devotions for the people, in verse (629 lines). f. 3. Begins: 'Þo worthyest þing most of godnesse In al þis world is þo messe'. Ends: 'For of alle in þis world þen ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 14th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XVIII
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'AN HOMILIE or sermon of Basile the great, Archebishopp of Caesaria, vpon the sayeng of Moyses in . . . Deuteronomie [xv. 9], Take hede to thy selfe, etc.' (cf. Migne, Patr. Gr. XXXI. 198). 'Made English out of ye Greke' by 'Mildred Cicill', daughter of Sir Anthony Cooke and 2nd wife (1545) of W...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1550
Extent:: 1 item

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