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Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 744
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Scope & Content:: Vol. II. (ff. 172). 1640-1667. 1. [Sir] Richard Skeffington [?aft. 4th Bart., of Fisherwick] to his cousin Sir E. Dering; Coventry, 12 Dec. 1640. f. 1. 2. The Mayor and Jurats of Sandwich to the same, asking him to oppose in Parliament the attempts to levy subsidies on the Cinque Ports from ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1640-1667
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 745
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. III. (ff. 145). 1667-1677. 1. William Lodge, the artist, to his mother, Elizabeth Aldburghe, at Gisborne, co. York; [Cambridge,] 14 Nov. 1667. f. 1. 2. [Patrick Plunkett, 9th Baron] Dunsany, to Sir E. Dering, on his misfortunes: "My sadd and deplorable condition, my weake and aged bedd-...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1667-1677
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 746
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. IV. (ff. 146). 1678-1690. 1. [John Skeffington, 2nd Viscount] Massereene, to Sir E. Dering, on public affairs in Ireland; Dublin, 18 May, 1678. f. 1. 2. William Lodge, the artist, to Henry [Giles]; London, 9 Nov. 1678. f. 3. 3. Jo. Assheton, Henry Marsden, and Tho. Heber, to Lord Fair...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1678-1690
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 747
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. V. (ff. 157). 1691-1702. 1. E- E- to Rev.- Banks, of Hull. . . . "Certainely we live among a strange sort of people, for I am told to-day that the Clergy were going to petition the Queen to depose Archbishop Tillottson because he was not a Christian nor in Priest's Orders, so farre does s...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1691-1702
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 748
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. VI. (ff. 235). 1703-1759. 1. T[homas] M[adox], antiquary, to Edward Floyde [Lhwyd], "at the Museum in Oxford," ending "There is nobody yet appointed Keeper of the Cotton-Library, nor any salary settled on that place,"; London, 18 Feb. 1702 [3]. f. 3. 2. Thomas Kirke, of Cookridge, and J...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1703-1759
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 749
Title:
Scope & Content:: ORIGINAL LETTERS addressed to John Anstis, Garter King of Arms (ob. 1745), on antiquarian subjects, principally heraldic or genealogical; 21 Oct. 1700-19 Mar. 1741/2. The last letter, dated 12 Apr. 1746, must be to John Anstis jun. The names of the writers are given in the index. Among them are:...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 21 Oct 1700-19 Mar 1742
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 750
Title:
Scope & Content:: ORIGINAL LETTERS from lawyers, scholars and others addressed for the most part to Thomas Parker, Lord Chief Justice 1710, Baron Parker 1716, Lord Chancellor 1718, Earl of Macclesfield 1721 (ob. 1732); 1704-1739. A few draft replies of Lord Macclesfield are interspersed (ff. 46, 112, 246, 430, 43...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1704-1739
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 751
Title:
Scope & Content:: ORIGINAL LETTERS Of John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, and Sarah his wife, to James Craggs, Sen. [Postmaster-General in 1715], who was acting as financial secretary to the Duchess; 1711-1718. The Duke's letters are twenty-one in number, and with one exception (f l5), dated "Camp before Bouchai...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1711-1718
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 752
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. I. (ff. 240). 1. LETTERS of Smart Lethieullier, of Aldersbrook, co. Essex (ob. 1760), chiefly on Roman and Saxon antiquities, architecture, etc.; 28 Sept. 1743-1 April, 1760. ff. 1-105. Among the special subjects treated are:- The origin of burial in churchyards and inside churches; 1744-1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 28 Sep 1743-1 Apr 1760
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 752-754
Title:: ORIGINAL LETTERS addressed to Charles Lyttelton, LL.D., Dean of Exeter [1748-1762] and Bishop of Carlisle [1762-1768], President of the Society of Antiquaries [1765], chiefly of literary and antiquarian subjects; 1730-1768. Three volumes. Paper. Folio.
Scope & Content:: Charles Lyttelton, DD; FRS; Bishop of Carlisle: Correspondence of: 1730-1768.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1730-1768
Extent:: 3 items

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