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2191. Royal MS 18 C VI

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Royal MS 18 C VI
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DRAFT of a proposed Act of Parliament for the employment or punishment of 'strong valiaunt beggers, vacabundes and idle persones' by the institution of public works, as making or repairing havens and harbours, highways, fortresses, &c., such works 'to begyn the first daie of Marche that shal...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1536
Extent:
1 item

2192. Royal MS 18 C VII

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Royal MS 18 C VII
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'THE TRAGOEDY of Cleopatra, Queene of Aegypt' [by Thomas May, see Dict. Nat. Biogr.]. The play was acted in 1626, printed in 1639, and again in 1654. With these editions the MS., with a few verbal exceptions, agrees. On two leaves (113/4 in. x 71/2 in.) at the beginning (ff. 1, 2) is a fragment...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

2193. Royal MS 18 C VIII

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Royal MS 18 C VIII
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Vol. i. bks. 1-22.
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 16th century
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1 item

2194. Royal MS 18 C VIII-IX

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Royal MS 18 C VIII-IX
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18 C. VIII, IX THE CRONICLE of Polydore Virgil', in 25 books, ending with the death of Richard III in 1485. An anonymous English translation of Polydore Vergil's Latin work 'Cronica Polydori' or 'Anglica Historia', the first printed edition of which (Basel, 1534) went down to 1509 (26 books), and the third edition (Basel, 1555) to 1538 (27 books). Two vols. bound together, vol. i, bks. 1-22, vol. ii, bks. 23-25. of the translation, books 23-25, comprising the history of Henry VI, Edward IV,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
2 items

2195. Royal MS 18 C X

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Royal MS 18 C X
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MIRROR of the Life of Christ, an English version of the Speculum (or Meditationes) vitae Christi commonly attributed to S. Bonaventura, but more probably by Johannes de Caulibus of San Gemignano in Tuscany (cf. 7 A. I, art. 5, 7 D. XVII, art. 1). Printed by Carton, 1488 (?), &c. The name of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
1 item

2196. Royal MS 18 C XI

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Royal MS 18 C XI
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THEOLOGICAL TREATISE entitled 'The mysteries in the millytant church of God vpon earth not reveled nor resolved vpon by the Doctors which doth breed the variaunce in the mylytant church vpon erthe', by William Woodward, with addresses to the King [James I], signed by the author (f. 1), and to th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1603-1625]
Extent:
1 item

2197. Royal MS 18 C XII

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Royal MS 18 C XII
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'THE REIGNE of King Henry the second, written in seauen bookes', in English verse, by Thomas May (d. 1650), agreeing with the edition printed by command of the King in 1633. The hand of the corrector of a few words (cf ff. 6 b, 15 b, 23 b, &c.) seems to be that of the corrector of the same a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

2198. Royal MS 18 C XIII

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Royal MS 18 C XIII
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HISTORY of the Patriarch Joseph, by William Forrest, priest (see above, 17 A. XXI, 17 D. III), being the second part of the poem, of which the first part is at University Coll., Oxford (MS. no. lxxxviii). Autograph. In Dict. Nat. Biogr. it is stated that the poem was finished in 1569, but was or...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1569
Extent:
1 item

2199. Royal MS 18 C XIV

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Royal MS 18 C XIV
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ACCOMPTS of William Hatteclyffe, under-treasurer of Ireland, 1495-1496. Extracts are printed by J. Gairdner, Letters and Papers illustrative of the Reigns of Rich. III and Hen. VII, Rolls Ser., 1863, ii, appendix B. viii, pp. 297-318. Interpolated into the MS. by some mistake in binding (ff. 184...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1495-1496
Extent:
1 item

2200. Royal MS 18 C XIX

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Royal MS 18 C XIX
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RICHARD DANIEL'S Copybook. Printed, 1664. Transferred in 1872 to the Dept. of Printed Books. Pressmark 1268. f. 9.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1664
Extent:
1 item

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