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71. Add MS 89259/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 89259/1
Title:
Correspondence of John Fisher, Bishop of Salisbury
Scope & Content:
Six autograph letters signed by John Fisher to his fiancée, Dorothea Scrivener of Exmouth. Windsor and elsewhere, April to July [1787]: Letter from John Fisher to Dorothea Scrivener. St James’s Palace, undated. Letter from John Fisher to Dorothea Scrivener. Windsor, 10 April 1787. Letter from Jo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1787-1849
Extent:
5 files

72. Cotton Ch XI 71

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton Ch XI 71
Title:
Grant by Anne of Bohemia, Queen of England, to Robert Westende, purveyor of the queen’s coaches, of an annuity of 40s.
Scope & Content:
Anne of Bohemia (b. 1366, d. 1394), Queen of England and wife of Richard II (r. 1377-1399), grants to Robert Westende, purveyor of the Queen’s coaches, an annuity of 40s from the issues of the manor of Cosham, Wiltshire; given at Windsor, 6 May 1394 [17 Richard II]. Affixed with Anne’s red sea...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
1394
Extent:
1 leaf

73. Cotton Ch XVII 23a

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton Ch XVII 23a
Title:
Instructions by Elizabeth I to her household officials to pay a salary to Katherine Paston and Jane Brussels, her chamberers
Scope & Content:
Instructions by Queen Elizabeth I for her cofferer, clerk of the green cloth, and comptroller to pay Katherine Paston and Jane Brussels, her chamberers, an annual salary of £20. Given at Windsor Castle, (blank day) of December 1575. Endorsed: in a 17th-century hand, ‘Warrant for wages for Mres...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1575
Extent:
1 leaf

74. Egerton Ch 7877

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton Ch 7877
Title:
Scope & Content:
Windsor, Parks: Signet Warrant for appointment of J. Owen as Seneschal of the honour and castle: 1721. John Owen, of the Middle Temple: Signet Warrant for his appointment as Seneschal of Windsor Castle and honour: 1721.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1721
Extent:
1 item

75. Egerton MS 2026

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2026
Title:
COPIES of political tracts, reports of trials, precedents, versw, etc., chiefly of the first half of the xviith century. The principal are:- 1. Song, "How happie is hee borne or taught," by S' H[enry] W[otton], f. 11 b. 2. "The names and ages of the Queene of Bohemia her children, September 1627," f. 12. 3. Satirical epitaphs upon Geo. Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, f. 12. 4. Heraldic devices for the Puritan, Jesuit, Usurer, etc., f. 14 b. 5. Report of the trial of Mervin [Touchet],...
Scope & Content:
Poetry: Collections of English political and miscellaneous pieces: 17th and 18th centt. includes: f. 11 b Sir Henry Wotton, Ambassador to Venice, and (1623) Provost of Eton: Song, " How happie is hee borne": 17th cent.f. 12 Bohemia, King of. Frederic V: Names and ages of his children: 1627...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

76. 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

77. Egerton MS 3307

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 3307
Title:
WINDSOR CAROL-BOOK, in Latin, French and English, with polyphonic music, written probably for St George's Chapel, Windsor, between 1430 and 1444. See Brit. Mus. Quart., xv, 1952, pp. 33-34; G. S. McPeek, The British Museum Manuscript Egerton 3307, 1963 (where the liturgical music, drinking song and motet are published); J. Stevens, Mediaeval Carols, Musica Britannica, iv, 1952 (where the carols are published); also B. Schofield and M. F. Bukofzer, 'A Newly Discovered Fifteenth-Century Manusc...
Scope & Content:
Carols: Windsor Carol-book: 1430-1444. Art. Illuminations and Drawings ENGLISH: Windsor Carol-book: historiated, illuminated and decorated initials: 1430-1444. Windsor, Parks: Carol-book written for ( ?) St George's Chapel: 1430-1444. Music: Windsor Carol-book: 1430-1444.: Lat., Fr. and Engl....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1430-1444
Extent:
1 item

78. Seal XCVIII.88-91

Reference (shelfmark):
Seal XCVIII.88-91
Title:
CASTS of the Seal of the Dean and Chapter of Windsor, obv. Canons; rev. "ad causas." From original impressions belonging to the Dean and Chapter.
Scope & Content:
Windsor, Parks: Casts of seal of the Dean and Chapter.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
4 items

79. Seal XXXVI.175

Reference (shelfmark):
Seal XXXVI.175
Title:
Scope & Content:
SEAL of the Castle of Wyndesore ; xvth cent. [xxxvi. 175.] Windsor, Parks: Cast of the seal of Windsor Castle: 15th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

80. Stowe Ch 119

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe Ch 119
Title:
Scope & Content:
RECORD of lease granted in the court of the rector and "domini" of the church of Vttoxatre [Uttoxeter, co. Staff.] and of the college of Wyndesore [Windsor], held at Uttoxeter, to John Perkyn of lands near. Uttoxeter. Dat. 10 June, 4 Hen. VI. [1426]. Lat. Windsor, Parks: Lease of land near Utto...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1426]
Extent:
1 item