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Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 273
Title:: Robert Glover (?), An Answer to John Leslie, Bishop of Ross, 1584-1585
Scope & Content:: This treatise carries a title page in an 18th- or 19th-century hand: 'AN ANSWER to a discourse of John Lesley, Bishop of Rosse, intended to prove that Mary, Queen of Scots, was intitled to the crown of England in preference to Queen Elizabeth, because the Pope had deposed her, and that her son ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1584-1585
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 274
Title:
Scope & Content:: " A LARGE and excellent discourse of the estate of Christiandome, written by an vnknowne author about the yeare of our Lord 1594 . . . conteyning many secret passages and hidden mysteries of the tymes both past and present, with much variety of good matter both historicall and politicall." The a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 275
Title:
Scope & Content:: " AN APOLOGIE of [Robert Devereux] the earle of Essex against those which falsly and malitiously take him to be the onely hinderance of the peace and quietnes of his countrye ": a defence of the policy of war with Spain, addressed to Anthony Bacon in 1598. To this is annexed, in the same hand, a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 16th century-17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 276
Title:
Scope & Content:: 1. Copy of the letter of [Robert Devereux], Earl of Essex, to [Henry Wriothesley], Earl of Southampton, written shortly before the execution of the former in 1601. Printed in 1642. f. 3 b. 2. Treatise, " Of the foundacion of a State and the essencial parts that form a Prince." A note in anothe...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 277
Title:
Scope & Content:: "DISCOURSE concerning the prerogative of the Crown," by William Camden, beg. "The lawes of England which men call the common lawes." Apparently a draft. Paper; ff. 12. Early xviith cent. Small quarto. Political Tracts: Discourse on the prerogative of the Crown, by W. Camden: early 17th cent. W...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 278
Title:
Scope & Content:: " FRAGMENTA REGALIA, or observacions on Queene Elizabeth, her tymes and favourites," by Sir Robert Naunton, Secretary of State. First printed in 1641. Paper; ff. 69. xviith cent. Small folio. Political Tracts: "Fragmenta Regalia," by Sir R. Naunton: 17th cent. Sir Robert Naunton, Secretary of ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 279
Title:
Scope & Content:: 1. " MAXIMS, religious and political, of King James 1. f. 2. Printed, but with variations, in The Prince's Cabala, etc., 1715, under the title of " The Table-Talk of King James I., etc. Collected by Sir Thomas Overbury." 2. " Obseruations upon the state of the 17 Prouinces, as they stood ao 1619...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 280
Title:
Scope & Content:: 1."A DISCOURSE, of passages betweene the Earles of Essex, Northampton and Somerset, the Countesse of Somerset, Sir Thomas Overbury and others, with theyre risinge and fall, with diverse other matters acted duringe the late raigne of King James, as alsoe of the Duke of Buckinghams first cominge i...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 281
Title:
Scope & Content:: "VOX POPULI, or News frome Spayne, translated according to the [imaginary] Spanishe coppie": a pamphlet by Thomas Scott against the Spanish Match. Priinted in 1620, and suppressed; included in the Somers Tracts, 1809, vol. ii., p. 508. Paper; ff. 14. xviith cent. Small quarto. Thomas Scott: Vox...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 282
Title:
Scope & Content:: " DE LIBERA ELECTIONE Regni Bohæmici et de Jure Imperatoris Ferdinandi ad idem Regnum, 1619 ": a Latin treatise in answer to a discourse asserting the right of the Elector Palatine to the crown of Bohemia, the writer declaring the crown not to be elective, and defending the claim of Ferdinand. T...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1620
Extent:: 1 item

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