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 C XV
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'THE CASE OF PRAEMUNIRE, or the Conviction and Attainder of Robert Lalor, priest, being endited vppon the statute of 16 Ric. 2, cap. 5': contemporary copy of the trial (Hilary, 4 Jas. I, 1607) of R. Lalor, Vicar- General in the dioceses of Dublin, Kildare, and Ferns (cf. S. R. Gardiner's History...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1607
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 C XVI
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'A DEMONSTRACION Of Ste John Chrysostome agaynst the Gentyles, that Christ is God': an anonymous much corrected English version (the author calls it 'faythfully translated') of the Latin translation of Chrysostom's (Migne, Patr. Gr. xlviii. 813). The use of the Latin is evident from the use of s...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 C XVII
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'THE ARMORI OF NOBILLITI, wherin is conteyned the 5 Conquerers of England, the 7 Kinges that reigned at one tyme and the cause why ye Armes of England were so often altred . . . a brief Discourse of the right, title, clayme, disposicion and reigne, matche and issue, of all the kinges of this lan...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1589-1593
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 C XVIII
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'THE BOOKE OF HUNTING, which is clepede Master of all games': the treatise by Edward, 2nd Duke of York, elsewhere called the Master of Game (cf. 17 A. LV, &c.). Wants the prologue. About 50 lines of the text of ch. iii are misplaced in ch. iv, apparently by transposition of a leaf of an arch...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1500
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 C XX
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'THE REALL STATVIT mathematicall of the pyse and ballance . . . with questyons practicall answered for ye newe beginners and for ye dottid fooles which never knewe nvmber waight nor measure, wherin ore kings was decevyd and cossynid with pyse and lyne millions in the yeare', &c., by 'John Mo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1603-1625]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 C XXI
Title:
Scope & Content:: OFFICIAL RETURNS of the forces of the Navy and Army of England, in view of the threatened invasion by Spain in 1588. Copies. The contents are as follows:- 1. Navy, viz.:-(a) Copy of 'The Lo. Admiralls [Charles Howard Lord Howard of Effingham] commission for returning to the Seas, August, 1588' ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 C XXII
Title:
Scope & Content:: CONFESSIO AMANTIS, by John Gower. The copy has (a) the prologue in which the author calls the poem 'A book for Kyng Richardis sake' (l. 24) and where the date '1390' (f. 3, col. I ) is mentioned in red;-(b) the explicit of six lines containing (ll. 5, 6) the reference to [Henry,] Earl of Derby;-...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 C XXIII
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'A DEMONSTRATION of divers parts of Warre, especially of the Discipline of Cavalleria': treatise, addressed to Charles I, by Gen. Sir Edward Cecil, Viscount Wimbledon (d. 1638). Written towards the end of the author's life. The running title is 'The Demonstrance of Cavallerye'. A short extract i...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1627-1638
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 C XXIV
Title:
Scope & Content:: DOCQUET-BOOK of signed bills as warrants for the Great Seal, entitled 'The note of all the billes signed by the Kinges maiestie and the counsaile', 19 Oct. 4 Edw. VI [1550]-3 July, 7 Edw. VI [1553] i.e. to the end of the reign. The margins are arranged in four columns giving date, nature of do...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1550-1553
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 C XXV
Title:
Scope & Content:: AGLAURA, a tragedy, in five acts, by Sir John Suckling (d. 1642). With three prologues, the first to the general public, beg. 'I've thought vpon't, and cannot tell which way', the second 'for ye Court', beg. 'Those common passions, hopes and feares that still', and the third 'To ye king', beg. '...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1638-1639
Extent:: 1 item

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