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Place Windsor, England Digitised Content Yes (unavailable) Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. Add MS 11252

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 11252
Title:
Letters of King Charles I to Prince Charles and to the Speaker of the House of Lords, 1646-1648; letters on Scottish politics, 1681-1688; epitaph on Mary Digby (d. 1692); 17th-century cipher keys
Scope & Content:
A miscellaneous collection, including letters between King Charles I and Parliament preliminary to the negotiations at Newport in 1648. A note on the back of f. 15v noted the collection as 'Letters of King Charles I & others'. A not particulary legible note suggests that some of the papers w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher and English
Date Range:
1646-1681
Extent:
1 volume

2. Egerton MS 2642

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2642
Title:
Robert Commaundre's heraldic and historical commonplace book
Scope & Content:
ff. 2r–418v: ‘The Booke of Heraldrye and other thinges togither with the Order of Coronacions’; a commonplace book chiefly of heraldic and historical collections by Robert Commaundre (d. 1613), Rector of Tarporley, Chester, and Chaplain to Sir Henry Sidney (see f. 254r). The book was compiled in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1575-1625
Extent:
1 volume

3. Stowe MS 221

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 221
Title:
Letter of James II to the Grand Vizier Azem, announcing the recall of James Brydges, 8th Baron Chandos, Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire; Windsor, 30 September, 1685
Scope & Content:
Contents: A letter of James II (r. 1685-1688), King of England, Scotland, and Ireland to the Grand Vizier Azem, announcing the recall of James Brydges (b. 1642, d. 1714), 8th Baron Chandos, as English Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, and the appointment of Sir William Soame (b. c. 1645, d. 16...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Sep 1685
Extent:

1 leaf