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1. Stowe MS 991

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Stowe MS 991
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"IDÆÆ ORATIONUM desumptæ ex disquisitionum politicarum materiis": outlines of speeches and addresses suitable for various occasions in political affairs. Latin. There are 90 in all, the subjects of some being stated in general terms, e.g. "Idæa orationis qua nova vectigalia necessitatis Reipubli...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
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1 item

2. Stowe MS 992

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Stowe MS 992
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"ORIGINAL MEMOIRS of Apparitions and Spirits in Wales": a collection of stories of apparitions of spirits and fairies in various places in Wales, especially in and near the parish of Blaenau Gwent [Aberustryth, al. Aberystwith, co. Monmouth], to which the narrator, who relates several supernatur...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1738
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1 item

3. Stowe MS 1015

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Stowe MS 1015
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COMMONPLACE-BOOK, containing extracts from Caesar's Commentaries and from Sir Clement Edmondes's "Observations" on the same, with shorter quotations from Ovid, Horace, Juvenal, and Persius. Paper; ff. 199. Early XVIIIth cent. The name "Madame Willten" appears on the inside cover. Folio. Madame ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 18th century
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1 item

4. Stowe MS 993

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Stowe MS 993
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ESSAY on the dignity of Trade, showing the high opinion in which it has been held in all ages, and that it is as honourable a pursuit, and as likely to lead to advancement, as any of the learned professions. There are two versions of the essay, in different hands, one having been crossed through...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1747
Extent:
1 item

5. Stowe MS 984

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Stowe MS 984
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"BISHOP Bedle [?William Bedell, Bishop of Kilmore, 1629-42, and Ardagh, 1629-33] his groundes for the lawfullnesse of usury." The tract is not included in the lists of Bedell's works given by his biographers. Paper; ff. 47. XVIIth cent. Belonged, 18th cent., to John Keymer. Duodecimo. Usury: Tr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Stowe MS 1014

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Stowe MS 1014
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COMMONPLACE-BOOK, containing extracts from various authors, by Thomas Astle. On f. 32 is a recipe "to make decay'd letters appear in an old MS." Paper; ff. 32. Circ. 1760. Sm. Quarto. Thomas Astle, ob. 1803: Commonplace-book: circ. 1760. includes: f. 32 Recipes: To revive decayed letters in o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1760
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1 item

7. Stowe MS 987

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Stowe MS 987
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ANAGRAM On the words "Charles the Second by the Grace of God King of England, Scotland, Fraunce, and Irelande, Defender of the Faith," by P[aul] Lorrain; with explanatory treatise, and dedicatory letter to Samuel Pepys, Secretary of the Admiralty, dated 1 Jan. 1684/5. The writer speaks of himsel...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1 Jan 1685]
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1 item

8. Stowe MS 990

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Stowe MS 990
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"DIALECTICA UNIVERSA: tradita a Reverendo D. Domino Vigore de Briois, Religioso Monasterii Sti Vedasti Ordinis Sti Benedicti, Artium Doctore ac Dialecticæ Professore, recepta vero a Richardo Moore, Anglo, 1732"; notes of lectures on Dialectic by Dr. Vigor de Briois, Professor of Dialectic at Dou...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1732
Extent:
1 item

9. Stowe MS 983

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Stowe MS 983
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MORAL TREATISE and texts from Scripture, addressed to [Sir] Allen Cotton, alderman and Lord Mayor of London [1625], by his son-in-law Thomas E[yre]. A note at the end states that it was "begonne and intended for a Newe Yeares guifte on Newe Yeares Day in the Yeare of our Lord Christ 1625, of the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1625
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1 item

10. Stowe MS 989

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Stowe MS 989
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"NOUVEAU DIALOGUE des Morts, ou Entretiens aux Champs Elisez entre Messire Fr. de Fénelon, Arch-duc (sic) de Cambray, et Mre T.B. Bossuet, évêque de Meaux. L'on y fait intervenir Madame Guyon [the Quietist authoress, befriended by Fénelon, but condemned by Bossuet, ob. 1717], femme d'une rare pi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1724
Extent:
1 item