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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XIII
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'THE WAY to Weldoeing', by Robert Bradshaw: a tract (very illiterately spelt) in dialogue-form on moral education, addressed to James I, asking for 'such alowanc to this small treatis that I may haue the onellye preferment of the bocks (sic)'. Autograph. From examples on ff. 70, 75 b, 76 (the fi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1616-1625
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XIV
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'REYMUND SEBUNDIUS. Of the nature of man. Certayne dialogues which shew the knowledg of Christ, and of man himself augmented agayne and faythfully corrected. Translated out of Latin into English by J. R.' The corrected draft of a translation of Raymundus de Sabunde, De natura hominis, 1568. For ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 16th century-Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XIX
Title:
Scope & Content:: SERMON on Ps. cxliv. 10, preached in Canterbury Cathedral, 5 Aug. 1616, by James Cleland, D.D., in commemoration of the King's deliverance from the Gowrie conspiracy in 1600. The preacher, who was chaplain to the Duke of Lenox (see his Monument of Mortalitie, 1624), gives an account of the consp...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1616
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XL
Title:
Scope & Content:: AN EXHORTATION to Queen Mary 'for the reformation of rentes within all [her] realmes and dominions', by Philip Gerrard, yeoman of the Guard (formerly a yeoman of the Chamber, and author of A godly invective, &c., 1547). The writer had in the first instance addressed his exhortation to Edward...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1553
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XLI
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'THE MAYSTER OFF GAME', by Edward, second Duke of York (cf. 17 A. LV, 17 B. II). The present copy has the text in a different order, ch. xii-xxv of the printed text (ed. Baillie-Grohman) following ch. xxxvi, and ch, xxvi being omitted. Vellum; ff. 77. 8 in. x 5 in. Middle of the XV cent. Gather...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XLII
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'THE ABEWSE OF JUSTIS and the curuptione of the lawe, not by reporte but by trewe experience': an address to James I by John Fawset, of New Alresford, co. Southt., 1610, wherein he gives an account of the murder on 25 Mar. 1605, of Alis Lanawaye, of New Alresford, the steps he took to bring the ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1610
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XLIII
Title:
Scope & Content:: SIR JOHN MANDEVILLE'S Travels, bound with other romances, in English, viz.: 1. The Book of John Mandeville, knight, in the defective English version (lacuna from p. 18, 1. 21 to p. 32, 1. 16 of the Roxburghe Club ed., 1889, see f. 20) as given in the majority of the MSS. Besides the above lacun...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XLIV
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'A TREATISE of the office, power and authoritie off a Soveraigne Christian Magistrate in matters ecclesiasticall': a translation, by I. D., 'one of the preachers to the English forces in the United Provinces, resident in Utrecht', of Tractaet van t'ampt ende authoriteyt eener Hooger-Christelijck...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1625-1649]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XLIX
Title:
Scope & Content:: ADDRESS to the people of the Netherlands to encourage them in resistance to the government of the Archduke Albert and the Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia. The latter part (f. 20 b) is a special warning to Roman Catholics that their religion will be no protection to them against Spain. A briefer f...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1607
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XLV
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'A BRIEFE DECLARATION Of the gouerment of Ireland, opening many corruptions in ye same: discouering ye discontentments of the Irishery and the causes moving theis expected troubles: and showing meanes how to establish quietnes in that kingdome honorably: to your Majesties profit without any encr...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1594-1595
Extent:: 1 item

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