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1471. Stowe MS 753

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Stowe MS 753
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Vol. II.(ff. 301). LETTERS On various topics; 10 May 1730-13 Dec. 1756. includes: f. 1 'Boulephorus': Letter to C. Lyttelton: 1730. f. 3 Thomas Tanner, Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, afterwards Bishop of St. Asaph: Letter to Dr. C. Lyttelton: 1735. ff. 3, 4, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 75 Dudley fami...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 May 1730-13 Dec 1756
Extent:
1 item

1472. Stowe MS 753-754

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Stowe MS 753-754
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Vols. II., III. (ff. 301, 280). LETTERS On various topics; 10 May 1730-13 Dec. 1756, and 21 Feb. 1757-21 Oct. 1768. (At the end of Vol. III. a letter to Thomas Astle, 4 July, 1797, is inserted.) Among the writers are:- George Ballard, author of the History of Learned Ladies; Thomas Tanner, Bishop of St. Asaph; W. Thomas, author of History of Worcester; Elizabeth Elstob, author of a Saxon Grammar, etc.; Dr. Thomas Birch; Dr. William Stukeley; Daniel Dumaresq, of St. Petersburg; Jeremiah Mil...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 May 1730-4 Jul 1797
Extent:
2 items

1473. Stowe MS 754

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Stowe MS 754
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Vol. III. (ff. 280). LETTERS On various topics; 21 Feb. 1757-21 Oct. 1768. (At the end of Vol. III. a letter to Thomas Astle, 4 July, 1797, is inserted.) includes: ff. 1, 10 Cæsar Ward, of York: Letters to Dr. C. Lyttelton: 1749-1758. ff. 2, 8, 18, 50, 64, 74, 78, 80, 89, 96, 100, 106, 116, 11...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Feb 1757-4 Jul 1797
Extent:
1 item

1474. Stowe MS 755

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Stowe MS 755
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MISCELLANEOUS PRIVATE LETTERS, etc., English and foreign; 1613- 1818:- 1. [Richard Butler, 3rd Viscount] Mountgarrett, to Sir Williain Andrewes, Knt., with a present of a goshawk, etc.; Ballyne, 12 Sept. 1613. f 1. 2. [Henry Percy, 9th Earl of] Northumberland (ob. 1632), to Sir Thomas Fairfa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1613-1818
Extent:
1 item

1475. Stowe MS 756

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Stowe MS 756
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LETTER-BOOK containing copies of letters of a writer whose name is not given, addressed to " Dolly Sqr," her father, John Handley, his cousin, and others, on the subject of his love for the lady, and his desire to make her his wife; St. Albans and London, 6 April, 1725-29 Jan. 1725/6 Paper; ff. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Apr 1725-29 Jan 1726
Extent:
1 item

1476. Stowe MS 757

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Stowe MS 757
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LETTER from N[athaniel] B[rassey] Halhed [author of A Code of Gentoo Laws, 1776, and A Grammar of the Bengal Language, 1778, afterwards M.P. for Lymington 1791-1796] to the Rev. [George] Costard, on the antiquity and character of the Indian language and religion, in reply to a letter published b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1779
Extent:
1 item

1477. Stowe MS 758

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Stowe MS 758
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MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS, Treasury warrants, papers, etc.; 1619- 1818. Amongst them are:- 1. Statement of claims on the Exchequer of Frances, wife of Sir Thomas Savile, and grand-daughter of William, Lord Cobham; circ. 1620. 2. Speech of Algernon Sydney delivered to the Sheriffs on the scaffold...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1619-1818
Extent:
1 item

1478. Stowe MS 759

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Stowe MS 759
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1. EPIT0ME Of Church history, from the birth of Christ to 1612. ff. 3-49 b. Followed (ff. 50-59) by notes, in the same hand, on the Apostles and Evangelists, the early Bishops of Rome, Jerusalem, and Alexandria, and other Fathers of the Church. At ff. 1 b, 2, are memoranda of commercial transact...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

1479. Stowe MS 760

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Stowe MS 760
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1. "FORMULÆ LITERARUM collected out of the most quaint authours in diverse languages." The only English authors mentioned are Sir Henry Wotton and Sir Francis Bacon. f. 2. 2. "Formes of Passeports in Latin, English, French, Italian, etc.," chiefly granted by Heneage Finch, Earl of Winchilsea, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

1480. Stowe MS 761

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Stowe MS 761
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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES of literary, scientific and other persons living, for the most part, in the latter half of the 17th century, arranged in dictionary form. According to a note appended the MS. is in the hand of Thomas Coxeter, of Trinity College, Oxford (ob. 1747). Paper; ff. 26. Late XVIIth ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
1 item

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