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Project / Collection Stowe Collection Place Devonshire, England Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. Stowe MS 141

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 141
Title:
Warrants, official and private letters from the reigns of Henry IV to James VI and I
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–86v: Original papers, warrants, official and private letters, from the reigns of Henry IV to James I and VI. The volume includes several letters from abbots of monasteries before the Dissolution, the reports to the Privy Council of Commissioners appointed to take account of Church goods i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
between 1399-1625
Extent:

1 volume

2. Stowe MS 610

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 610
Title:
Scope & Content:
Copy of the Visitation, with arms in trick, of Cornwall, Devon, Somerset and Dorset, taken (in 1530 and 1531) by Thomas Benholt, Clarenceux King of Arms. Imperfect, the first leaf remaining having originally been numbered 32 (cf. Add. MS. 14,315, f. 39 b). At f. 24 b is the first part of a chall...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

3. Stowe MS 725

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 725
Title:
Scope & Content:
ENGLISH AND IRISH ARMS, in colour, finely executed, as follows:- (1) Dukes of Buckingham. f. 1;-(2) Earls of Buckingham [and Buckinghamshire]. f. 2;-(3) Earls of Cornwall. f. 3;- (4) Cornish nobility and gentry. f. 4;-(5) Earls of Devon. f. 7 ; -(6) Nobility and gentry of co. Devon. f. 8;-(7...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 item

4. Stowe MS 727

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 727
Title:
Scope & Content:
DEVONSHIRE ARMS, in trick; accompanied in most cases by notes referring to authorities, such as church-monuments, etc., and "olde bookes" and rolls of Mr. Hoker, Mr. Poole, Mr. Tresswell, Mr. Phillippes, and "Mr. Clarenceux Benalte" [sc. Thomas Benholt, Clarenceux, who made a Visitation of the W...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Stowe MS 819

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 819
Title:
Scope & Content:
"A CHOROGRAHICAL, and Historicall, Description of ye county of Devon and city of Exon, in which is set down ye nature of ye country, of ye people, ye commodities, and goverments thereof, with sundry other things incident and worthy to be known, collected by T[ristram] R[isdon], Gent., for ye lov...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1659
Extent:
1 item