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Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 1038
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. X. (ff. 122). MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS, including:-(a) Extracts from Domesday for the following counties, Bucks, Gloucester, Worcester, Hereford, Huntingdon, Bedford, Suffolk, Essex, York, Wilts, Dorset, Somerset, Salop, and Northampton. f. 21;-(b) Index of "nobiles" mentioned in Domesday,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1718-1745]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 1039
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. Xl. (ff. 137). (a) EXTRACTS from Close Rolls, 1-36 Hen. VI., Fines, 3 Hen. VI.-17 Edw. IV., Close and French Rolls, 1-22 Edw. IV. f. 1;-(b) Notes on the genealogy of the Harcourt family. ff. 80, 102, 135b;-(c) Fines, 1-14 Hen. IV. f. 96;- (d) Close Rolls, 1-10 Hen. V. f. 103;-(e) Fines, 4...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1718-1745]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 1040
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. XII. (ff. 98). NOTES chiefly concerning offices of state, including;-(a) Heraldic miscellanea. f. 1;-(b) List of Admirals, 21 Hen. IV.-14 Edw. IV. f. 10;-(c) Constables of Dover and Wardens of the Cinque Ports, 1 Hen. V.-21 Edw. IV. f. 16;-(d) Constables of the Tower, tempp. Hen. II.-Edw. I...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1718-1745]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 1041
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. XIII. (ff. 232). MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION, including:- (a) Elaborate notes on the powers and duties of Executors. f. 2;- (b) Treatise on Vicarages, in 8 chapters. f. 43;- (c) Copies of the correspondence of William Camden with various persons. f. 69;- (d) Extracts from Patent and Clos...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1718-1745]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 1042
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. XIV. (ff. 243). COLLECTIONS on the subject of Judicature in Parliament, including;-(a) Treatise on that subject, quoting authorities. f 3;-(b) Remarks on the Receivers and Triers of Petitions in Parliament. f. 31;-(c) Examples of methods of expressing the assent of Parliament. f. 36;-(d) Mo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1718-1745]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 1043
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. XV. (ff. 312). COLLECTION of papers dealing mostly with questions of ceremonial and precedence, preceded by a "syllabus contentorum." The principal subjects are:-(a) Notes from Cotton MSS. on points of ceremonial, precedence, and ancient offices of state. f. 4;-(b) On surnames in the royal ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1718-1745]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 1044
Title:
Scope & Content:: 1. "AN ANSWERE to the questions proposed by Sir Alexander Hay, Kt, touching the office of Constables, done by Sir Francis Bacon, Knight, his Maiesties Solicitor Generall, anno domini 1608": Chapp. xix., xx. of Cases of Treason, published under Bacon's name, London, 1641 (see his Works, ed. Spedd...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century-18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 1045
Title:
Scope & Content:: 1. COLLECTIONS by Francis Tate, Secretary to the Society of Antiquaries [temp. Eliz.], with reference to various subjects proposed for discussion at the meetings of the Society, 1590-1600. The subjects include the antiquity, etymology, etc., of the various titles of honour in England, of cities,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 16th century-18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 1046
Title:
Scope & Content:: MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS, mostly antiquarian, viz.:- 1. "Origo feodorum," a short treatise on the origin, nature, and value of a knight's fee in England, and on fines for dispensation of knighthood; 17th cent. There are marginal references in another hand to Sprott, Spelman, Selden, etc. f. 1. 2...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 16th century-18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 1047
Title:
Scope & Content:: COMMONPLACE-BOOK of Francis Thynne, Lancaster Herald [1602- 1608], relating to English history and antiquities; consisting of extracts from chronicles, monastic registers, etc., including the following:- 1. "Thinges taken oute of an olde writen frenche cronicle," treating of the relations betw...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 16th century-18th century
Extent:: 1 item

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