Archive Reference (shelfmark): Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X / Level: [40] File - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XX
Title:
Scope & Content:: SERMON on Lamentations iv. 20, in commemoration of the King's deliverance from the Gunpowder plot. Beg. 'Of the Author of this book'. The preacher's name does not appear. The sermon is actually by John Donne, and is corrected in his own hand. Paper; ff. 36. Quarto. 8 in, x 6 in. Circ. 1620-1625...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1620-1625
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XXI
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'A DESCRIPTION of the Sone of God', &c.: a sermon on Hebrews i. 3, by J. Hopper (evidently a Scotchman, cf. 16 E. XIX and 18 A. LII), with an address to James I. Autograph. Paper; ff. 19. Quarto. 8 in. x 6 in. Temp. Jas. I. Not in the old catalogues.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1603-1625]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XXII
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'A CATALOGUE of the Bishops of England . . . by F[rancis] G[odwyn] Subdeane of Exceter' (Bishop of Llandaff 1601 and of Hereford 1617). The printed edition of 1601; with marginal notes, a brief table of contents, and an alphabetical table, in MS. At f. 314 is 'A Supplie or Addicion to the Catalo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1608
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XXIII
Title:
Scope & Content:: LEGAL COMMON-PLACE BOOK, consisting of law terms, notes on C. Saint German's The Doctor and the Student, Littleton's Tenures and other legal treatises, and extracts from reports of cases. At f. 9 b is a note of a case argued by [Edward] Henden, Reader [at Gray's Inn], 23 Mar. 1613[4]. Scribbled ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XXIV
Title:
Scope & Content:: CONFESSION by George Bostocke of his connexion with - Bubb and - Ripton in 1621 in matters of sorcery with an account of apparitions to him and of his' imprisonment in Bridewell, followed by long religious dissertations and a poem (f. 35 b) beg. 'Most gratious God, on whom I still doe call'. Pre...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XXIX
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'A BREIFE COLLECTION of the alterations which haue ben made in the monies of this realme sithence ye time of Kinge Edward the first. Together with a discourse towchinge the monies of this realme, and the true value of all the monies coyned sithence ye begininge of the raigne of Queene Elizabeth ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1612
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XXV
Title:
Scope & Content:: SERMON on Ps. xciv. 20, directed against the papal see and preached before James I at Newstead in Sherwood Forest, 17 Aug. 1612, by Dr. Robert Snowden Reader of the Divinity Lecture in the collegiate church of Southwell, afterwards (1616) Bishop of Carlisle. Paper; ff. 19. Quarto. 8 in. x 51/2 i...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1612
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XXVI
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'REYMOND SEBVNDIVS. Of the nature of man: certayne dialouges which shewe the knowledg of Christ and of man himself, augmented agayne and faithfully corrected. Translated out of Latyn into English by J[ohn] R[obertes].' A fair copy of 17 B. XIV. With the same address to the reader. Paper; ff. 24...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 16th century-Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XXVII
Title:
Scope & Content:: LIFE of Sir Thomas More, by his great-grandson Cresacre More. First published circ. 1631 under the title 'The Life and death of Sir Thomas Moore, Lord High Chancellour of England. Written by M. T. M. and dedicated to the Queens most gracious Majestie'. Formerly attributed to Thomas More, a Roman...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XXVIII
Title:: Book of expenses of Princess Mary, with an inventory of her jewels; catalogue of printed books in the Royal Library
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a record of the household expenses of Princess Mary, later Mary I (r. 1553-1558), Queen of England, for the period 1536-1544. The accounts feature marginal notes and corrections written in Mary's hand, and her signature inscribed at the end of each month for the first ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1536-1581
Extent:: 1 volume

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