Archive Reference (shelfmark): Stowe Ms 1-1085 / Material Type: Archives and Manuscripts - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 283
Title:
Scope & Content:: " THE PASSAGES and occurrences which happened from the first acceptation of the Crowne of Bohemia by the Palsgrave [Frederic] untill the looseinge of the Palatinate," in 1623, with especial reference to the part taken with regard to the affairs of the Palatinate by James I. In a contemporary han...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1623
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 284
Title:
Scope & Content:: A DISCOURSE of Foreign War, with an account of all the Taxations upon this Kingdom, etc., by Sir Robert Cotton, Bart. Printed in 1690. Paper; ff. 47. Early xviith cent. Belonged, in 1774, to Thomas Astle. Small Quarto. Political Tracts: "Discourse of Foreign War," by Sir R. Cotton: early 17th c...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 285
Title:
Scope & Content:: 1. A DISCOURSE of Court and Courtiers. f. 2. The author's name is not given; but in a copy in Harley MS. 3364 the preface, which is addressed to the Duke of Lenox, is signed by " Edw. Payton " [Sir Edward Peyton, Bart.] and dated " from Isleham, vlt. Martii, 1633." 2. " A discoverye of the Holla...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1630
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 286
Title:
Scope & Content:: " THE SOVERAIGNTY Of the Seas of England. Proved by record, history and the municipall lawes of the Kingdome. . . . By SI John Burgh [Borough], Knight, Keeper of the Recordes in the Tower of London" [Garter King of Arms, 1633]. Printed in 1651 under the title of The Soveraignty of the British Se...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 287
Title:
Scope & Content:: " DOMINIUM maris Britannici. . . . per D. Ioannem de Burgo," etc.: a Latin version of the treatise as above, No. 286, with copious marginal references, and a dedication to Charles I. Paper; ff. 24. xviith cent. Small Folio. Political Tracts: "The Soveraignty of the Seas of England ": 17th cent....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 288
Title:
Scope & Content:: " THE DUKE OF LENOX his speeche before his Majestie concerning the warre with Scotland ": apparently addressed to Charles l., dissuading him from the war with Scotland in 1629 and counselling concessions to the Scots. According to Dr. S. R. Gardiner (Hist. of England, vol. viii. 1884, p. 367) a ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1629
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 289
Title:
Scope & Content:: PARALLEL between Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, and George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, by Sir Henry Wotton, 1641. Printed in Reliquiae Wottonianae, 1672. Paper; ff. 20. xviith cent. Small Folio. Sir Henry Wotton, Ambassador to Venice, and (1623) Provost of Eton: Parallel between the Earl of ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1641
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 290
Title:
Scope & Content:: PAMPHLET, in form of a letter to a person unnamed, in reference to the proposed marriage of James, Duke of York, [James II.], urging by historical examples the right of the royal family to arrange its marriages without reference to Parliament, and without taking into consideration the question o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 4 Feb 1679
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 291
Title:
Scope & Content:: " A VINDICATION Of ye Revolution, or a Hearty Endeavour to unite all the Members of the Church of England to the present Government, in a Dialogue between a Jacobite Tory and a Williaimite Tory." Apparently written before the death of Qu. Mary (27 Dec. 1694). Paper - ff. 17. Bound in dark blue m...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 292
Title:
Scope & Content:: POLITICAL OBSERVATIONS upon the state and condition of England, 1695. The tract is divided into twelve chapters, viz. (1) " As to the number of the People of England " ;-(2) " The proportion of England in acres and people to France and Holland, to Europe, and to the world in general; with a calc...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1695
Extent:: 1 item

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