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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Stowe Ms 1-1085 Level [40] File

271. Stowe MS 271

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 271
Title:
Scope & Content:
1. " LEICESTER'S Commonwealth " : the political tract attributed to Robert Parsons, the Jesuit (see No. 270). f. 1b. 2. " Encyclopædia sive tabulæ artium liberalium " : a summary of philosophy, theology, etc., in the form of deductive tables, in Latin and English. f 49. Paper; ff. 79. xviith c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

272. Stowe MS 272

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 272
Title:
John Leslie, 'A treatise touchinge the right, title, and interest of the moste excellente princesse Marie, Queene of Scotland' (1584); early 17th century devotional poetry and other writings
Scope & Content:
This volume's original vellum cover has been retained, bearing on the front and back the arms and name of Richard St George (1554/5-1635), herald. The cover (f. 1r) also has written on it in a 17th century hand the contents as: 'The Title of Scotland to the Crown of England by John Lisle Bishop...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1584-1635
Extent:
1 volume

273. Stowe MS 273

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 273
Title:
Robert Glover (?), An Answer to John Leslie, Bishop of Ross, 1584-1585
Scope & Content:
This treatise carries a title page in an 18th- or 19th-century hand: 'AN ANSWER to a discourse of John Lesley, Bishop of Rosse, intended to prove that Mary, Queen of Scots, was intitled to the crown of England in preference to Queen Elizabeth, because the Pope had deposed her, and that her son ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1584-1585
Extent:
1 volume

274. Stowe MS 274

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 274
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Scope & Content:
" A LARGE and excellent discourse of the estate of Christiandome, written by an vnknowne author about the yeare of our Lord 1594 . . . conteyning many secret passages and hidden mysteries of the tymes both past and present, with much variety of good matter both historicall and politicall." The a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 item

275. Stowe MS 275

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 275
Title:
Scope & Content:
" AN APOLOGIE of [Robert Devereux] the earle of Essex against those which falsly and malitiously take him to be the onely hinderance of the peace and quietnes of his countrye ": a defence of the policy of war with Spain, addressed to Anthony Bacon in 1598. To this is annexed, in the same hand, a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
Extent:
1 item

276. Stowe MS 276

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 276
Title:
Scope & Content:
1. Copy of the letter of [Robert Devereux], Earl of Essex, to [Henry Wriothesley], Earl of Southampton, written shortly before the execution of the former in 1601. Printed in 1642. f. 3 b. 2. Treatise, " Of the foundacion of a State and the essencial parts that form a Prince." A note in anothe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 item

277. Stowe MS 277

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 277
Title:
Scope & Content:
"DISCOURSE concerning the prerogative of the Crown," by William Camden, beg. "The lawes of England which men call the common lawes." Apparently a draft. Paper; ff. 12. Early xviith cent. Small quarto. Political Tracts: Discourse on the prerogative of the Crown, by W. Camden: early 17th cent. W...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 item

278. Stowe MS 278

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 278
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Scope & Content:
" FRAGMENTA REGALIA, or observacions on Queene Elizabeth, her tymes and favourites," by Sir Robert Naunton, Secretary of State. First printed in 1641. Paper; ff. 69. xviith cent. Small folio. Political Tracts: "Fragmenta Regalia," by Sir R. Naunton: 17th cent. Sir Robert Naunton, Secretary of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

279. Stowe MS 279

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 279
Title:
Scope & Content:
1. " MAXIMS, religious and political, of King James 1. f. 2. Printed, but with variations, in The Prince's Cabala, etc., 1715, under the title of " The Table-Talk of King James I., etc. Collected by Sir Thomas Overbury." 2. " Obseruations upon the state of the 17 Prouinces, as they stood ao 1619...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 item

280. Stowe MS 280

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 280
Title:
Scope & Content:
1."A DISCOURSE, of passages betweene the Earles of Essex, Northampton and Somerset, the Countesse of Somerset, Sir Thomas Overbury and others, with theyre risinge and fall, with diverse other matters acted duringe the late raigne of King James, as alsoe of the Duke of Buckinghams first cominge i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

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