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Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe Ch 639
Title:
Scope & Content:: WILL of Robert Cobbe, of Earls Colne, co. Essex. Dat. 18 June, 1619. With probate, at Kelvedon [co. Essex], 4 Oct. 1619. Wills: R. Cobbe, of Earl's Colne: 1619. Robert Cobbe, of Earl's Colne, county Essex: Will: 1619.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18 Jun 1619-4 Oct 1619
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe Ch 640
Title:
Scope & Content:: a, b. WILL of Jane Smith, widow, of Much Tey, co. Essex. Dat. 22 Nov. 1672. With probate at Kelvedon [Co. Essex], 16 May, 1673. Wills: J. Smith, of Much Tey: 1672. Jane Smith, of Much Tey, county Essex: Will: 1672.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 22 Nov 1672-16 May 1673
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe Ch 641
Title:
Scope & Content:: WILL of William Everard, of Rivenhall, co. Essex, gent. Dat. 5 Apr. 1687. Wills: W. Everard, of Rivenhall: 1687. William Everard, of Rivenhall, county Essex: Will: 1687.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 5 Apr 1687
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe Ch 642
Title:
Scope & Content:: a, b. WILL of William Ravenscroft, esq. of Pickhill, co. Denbigh. Dat. 18 March, 1692/3. With probate, 24 Nov. 1693. Wills: W. Ravenscroft, of Pickhill: 1693. William Ravenscroft, of Pickhill, county Denbighshire: Will: 1693.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [18 Mar 1693]-24 Nov 1693
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe Ch 643
Title:: Petition by Joan Astley, nurse of Henry VI, for an increase in salary
Scope & Content:: Recto: Petition by Joan, nurse of the king and wife of Thomas Astley, esquire, to Henry VI asking if her letter patent of 28 April 1423 granting her £20 a year could be cancelled in return for a new letter patent granting £40 a year. Dorse: Endorsement noting that Joan’s petition was accepted; ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 1424
Extent:: 1 leaf

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe Ch 644
Title:
Scope & Content:: VALOR. of the possessions in co. Oxon. of the late John Blundell, esq., which on his death on 20 Sept. 1 Eliz. [1559], descended to Elizabeth, Mary, Theodora, Anne and Susan, his daughters and co-heiresses, livery being given on 23 Sept. to Edmund Hougan and to Jerard Crocker, the husbands respe...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1559]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe Ch 645
Title:
Scope & Content:: COMPOTUS of the Bailiff of the Hundred of Knyghtlowe [Knightlow, co. Warw.] and of the leets of Stanley [Stoneleigh] and Bryncklowe [Brinklow] in the same hundred. XVIth cent. Vellum roll. Stoneleigh, Warwickshire: Compotus of the bailiff of the leet of: 16th cent. Brinklow, Warwickshire: Comp...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe Ch 646
Title:
Scope & Content:: COUNTERPART of a lease by Richard Fines, knt. [Fienes, 7th] Baron Say and Sele, to George Greenwood, of the Inner Temple, London, gent., for £500, of pasture called Middle Norton in Weston Underedge, co. Glouc., for 40 years at a pepper-corn rent. Dat. 20 Oct. 2 Jas. 1. [1604]. This charter wa...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [20 Oct 1604]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 1
Title:
Scope & Content:: THE BIBLE, in Latin: Vulgate version. Preceded by the Epistle of Jerome to Paulinus (f. 1, "Frater Ambrosius "), and by his preface to the Pentateuch (f. 3). All the books after the Pentateuch have prefaces prefixed, except Judges, Ruth, Psalms, and Song of Songs, while Job, Joel, Jonah, Matthew...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 13th century
Extent:: 1 item

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