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2151. Royal MS 18 A XXXVI

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Royal MS 18 A XXXVI
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PETITION of James Dackombe (cf. 18 A. XXX) to James I, for the relief of imprisoned debtors and the reform of judicial abuses. Paper; ff. 15. Quarto. 73/4 in. x 6 in. Temp. Jas. I. Not in the old catalogues.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1603-1625]
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1 item

2152. Royal MS 18 A XXXVII

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Royal MS 18 A XXXVII
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PROPOSALS to James I by John Lewis [of Llynwene] a barrister formerly practising in the Marches Court, for a history of Britain in ten books, asking for the King's 'incoragement or discoragement' before he proceeds further. The work, in seven books, with dedication to Prince Henry, was printed a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1603-1612
Extent:
1 item

2153. Royal MS 18 A XXXVIII

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Royal MS 18 A XXXVIII
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ADDRESS to Henry VIII by 'Johne Eldar, clerk, a Reddshank, to introduce what the author, a native of Caithness, calls a 'plotte of the realme of Scotland' (f. 4), which was to give a description of the country, and advocating a marriage between Prince Edward and Mary, Queen of Scots. The author ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1543
Extent:
1 item

2154. Royal MS 18 B I

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Royal MS 18 B I
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'A RELATION of the State of Polonia and the United Provinces of that Crowne, anno 1598'; including also a summary of Polish history. Anonymous, but the 'author was no doubt George Carew (knt, 1608, d. 1612), who was sent on an embassy to Poland in 1598 (see Dict. Nat. Biogr.), and whose 'relatio...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1600
Extent:
1 item

2155. Royal MS 18 B II

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Royal MS 18 B II
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Romance of Melusine
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Melusine, a romance in English prose, translated from Jean d'Arras, Roman de Melusine (ou la noble histoire de Lusignan), composed for Jean, Duc de Berri, at the request of his sister Marie, Duchesse de Bar in 1393 (the date given in this manuscript is 1387). ff. 1r-3v: Prologue, translated fr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1470-1498
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Paper codex

2156. Royal MS 18 B III

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Royal MS 18 B III
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CHRONICLE OF THE BRUTE, to A.D. 1419, in English. Imperf at beg. and end. The text resembles 17 D. XXI, but is not so good. Beg. (f. 5) 'was alle wyldernesse' in the middle of the 'Prologe of Albyon'. ff. 1-4 should follow f. 8, but two leaves are wanting before the misplaced passage. Ch. i beg....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

2157. Royal MS 18 B IV

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Royal MS 18 B IV
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CHRONICLE OF THE BRUTE, to A. D. 1419, in English. Beg., imperf, 'of him had skorne and dispite' in the 'Prolog of Albion'. Chronicle beg. 'In the noble citee of grete Troie'; ends, imperf. (two leaves missing), 'than come the Erle of Warrewik'. The events of 1 (part)-5 Henry V are omitted by ac...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

2158. Royal MS 18 B IX

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Royal MS 18 B IX
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SERMONS, &c., by John Wycliffe, in English. The MS. was only partly collated (as G) for Thomas Arnold's Select English Works of Wyclif, 1869. Contents:- 1. Homilies on the Sunday epistles and Sunday and ferial gospels, beg. with Advent and followed (f. 126) by those for the Commune and (f. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 15th century
Extent:
1 item

2159. Royal MS 18 B V

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Royal MS 18 B V
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'THE POWER of Princes and the dutie of Subiectes accordinge to the scripture and the judgment of the auncient fathers for an antidote against the poyson of the late and lewde doctrine of Papistes and Puritanes. By Dauid Owen,' B.D. (D.D. 1618), chaplain to Sir John Ramsey, Viscount Haddington an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1610
Extent:
1 item

2160. Royal MS 18 B VI

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Royal MS 18 B VI
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TRANSCRIPTS of Scottish State Papers, domestic and foreign, chiefly in the reigns of James V (d. 1542), Mary (d. 1587), and the first few years of James VI, during the regency of the Earl of Murray, together with a few earlier documents; 1312, 1448-1572. Many of the letters, more especially of J...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
Extent:
1 item

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