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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A IX
Title:
Scope & Content:: THE LIFE of Henry FitzAlan, Earl of Arundel (d. 1580), written probably by a member of his household shortly after his death. Printed from this MS. by J. Gough Nichols, Gentleman's Magazine, ciii, 1833, pt. ii, pp. 11, 118, 210; see also Dict. Nat. Biogr. xix, p. 88. Paper; ff. 37. 8vo. 6 in. x...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A L
Title:
Scope & Content:: SUGGESTIONS and plans for the better ordering of the trained bands of the county of Sussex and for the keeping of them in continual readiness, by James Colbrond [father of Sir John Colbrand, 1st Bart. ?]; addressed to the Lord High Treasurer [Thomas Sackville, Baron Buckhurst, Earl of Dorset 160...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1600
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A LI
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'AN OVERTHROW of the cardinall sea of Rome, or Decisione of the controversie concerning the laufulnes of byssops, presbyters and ministers of the holy communione' : the title, dedication to James I, and table of contents of a treatise impugning the validity of the election of Pope Alexander III ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1606
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A LII
Title:
Scope & Content:: SERMON on Acts iii. 26 by John Millwarde (d. 1609, see Dict. Nat. Biogr.), preceded by an address in Latin to James I, to whom he was chaplain. Autograph. Paper; ff. 14. 71/2 in. x 53/4 in. Circ. 1603. The preface and a motto (from the Scala Claustralium) at the end are calligraphically written,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1603
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A LIII-LIV
Title:: 17 A. LIII, LIV 'A NEW FORME of greate artillerie, invented by the master of th' ordenaunce' [George Carew, Baron Carew 1605, and Earl of Totnes 1626]: description designed to accompany a copper model of a new plan for casting ordnance in sections instead of in one mould. Two copies. At the beginning and end of the second copy are two notes by Carew relative to the proving of these new pieces, once at S. James's about the beginning of March, 1610[11] and on 7 May, 1612, at the house of Henr...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1610-1612
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A LV
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'THE BOOKE of Hunting called The Maister of the Game, dedicated to Henrie the Fifth, then Prince of Wales': the Master of Game by Edward, second Duke of York, Master of the Game to Henry IV. Printed, from the 15th cent. Cotton MS. Vesp. B. XII, by W. A. and F. Baillie-Grohman, 1904 (smaller ed. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1603-1625]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A LVI
Title:
Scope & Content:: 1. 'THE ARGUMENT of Sir Francis Bacon, Knight, his Maiestes Sollicitor generall, in the case of the Postnati of Scotland in the Exchequer Chamber, before the Lord Chauncellor and all the judges of England', delivered before Easter term, 1608. With a few minute corrections by Bacon himself accord...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A LVII
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'THE BRITISH INDIA, or a compendious discourse tending to advancement', by Capt. Edward Wynne, Governor of Ferryland, in Newfoundland: a treatise on the advantages of colonizing Newfoundland, with addresses to Charles I and to Sir Kenelm Digby. On the fly-leaves (ff. 1, 2, 2 b, 36 b) are rough p...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1625-1649]
Extent:: 1 item

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