Archive Reference (shelfmark): Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X / Material Type: Archives and Manuscripts - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A XXVI
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Scope & Content:: ADDRESS to James I on the value for military and civil purposes of a secret invention called 'the Merva' by Simon Sturtevant, al. Sturtevante, 'heretofore Student in Christes Colledge in Cambridge together with Doctor [James] Mountacue [Mountague], Deane of your Majesties Chappel' [Bishop of Bat...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A XXVII
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Scope & Content:: POEM against Roman Catholics (50 x 4 lines) entitled 'An Exortac[i]on for all those yt are blinded with Idolitry, they hate ye light and walke in darkness, deceiuing them selues', addressed to James I by Edmund Dee; 12 June, 1603. A few stanzas are printed by Sir E. Brydges in Restituta, 1816, i...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 12 Jun 1603
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A XXVIII
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Scope & Content:: POLITICAL TRACT, in form of a letter addressed to Charles I, by Henry Cock on the fortunate dismissal of Queen Henrietta Maria's French attendants and of 'those who are communely called the fathers of the Oratory, who lately were chapleins to the Queenes Majesty', and on the machinations of 'Fis...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1630
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A XXX
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Scope & Content:: ADDRESS to James I on various political reforms by James Dackombe, dated Little Fountmell [Lit. Fontmell, co. Dorset], 24 June, 1603, but including a memorial originally written from the same place (where Dackombe was attending the King's court as 'a poore suiter'), 8 Apr. 1603, to Thomas [Boyd,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1603
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A XXXI
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Scope & Content:: 'THE ARGUMENT of the Spectacle presented to the Sacred, Maiestys of Great Brittan and Denmark as they passed through London' [31 July, 1606] with the Latin speech of [Sir Henry Montagu] Recorder of London, and the Latin verses spoken at the Pageant, by John Marston, the dramatist (d. 1634). The ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1606
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A XXXII
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Scope & Content:: VERSES (about 400 couplets) against the Spanish match and on other political topics, addressed anonymously to James I. Beg. 'O blessed king, that heares the poore'; ends 'Shall reape in ioye from all their feares'. Paper; ff. 12. Quarto. 73/4 in. x 6 in. Circ. 1618. Not in the old catalogues.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1618
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A XXXIII
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'JANUS TEMPLE shutt and opened': a poem (91 x 6 lines, rhymes ababcc) by Gervaise Scroope [? Sir Gervase Scrope of Cockerington, Sheriff of Lincoln 9 Chas. 1], addressed to James I, preceded by a dedicatory letter. Some anagrams on the names of the author and of the King are added at ff. 2b, 10b...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1603-1625]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A XXXIV
Title:
Scope & Content:: AN ABSTRACT of Frauds of the Officers of the Navy by Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton (d. 1614), addressed to James I (cf. list of the author's works in Works of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, and of Sir Thomas Wyatt, ed. G. F. Nott, 1815, ii, p. 468). A clerk's copy corrected and subscribed by ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1609
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A XXXIX
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Scope & Content:: 'A PARTICULAR of my journey, with those meane obseruations I have collected': anonymous travels, lasting 17 months, through France, Switzerland, Italy, by sea from Venice to Egypt, through Sinai to Jerusalem, where the author arrived 7 Jan. 1607[8] and spent 12 days. He thence passed through Pal...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1607-1608
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A XXXV
Title:
Scope & Content:: MEMORIAL to James I containing proposals for economics in the cost of armour, by 'Jhon Martin', a manufacturer of armour plates, with a comparative table (f. 9) of the price Queen Elizabeth 'paid Sir Thomas Gresham for theis sorts of armors in the first and second yeare of her raigne', the price...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1603-1625]
Extent:: 1 item

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