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Container Reference (shelfmark) Stowe MS 743-760

1. Stowe MS 743-748

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Stowe MS 743-748
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MISCELLANEOUS ORIGINAL LETTERS on historical, literary, and other subjects; 1570-1759. Six volumes, folio, chronologically arranged. A large proportion of the letters down to 1684 are addressed to Sir Edward Dering, of Surrenden, co. Kent, 1st Bart., M.P. (ob. 1644), and to his son, Sir Edward, 2nd Bart., M.P. (ob. 1684), those to the latter referring more especially to his duties as Commissioner for Claims in Ireland after the Restoration. Another series, of the latter part of the 17th cent...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1570-1759
Extent:
6 items

2. Stowe MS 749

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Stowe MS 749
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ORIGINAL LETTERS addressed to John Anstis, Garter King of Arms (ob. 1745), on antiquarian subjects, principally heraldic or genealogical; 21 Oct. 1700-19 Mar. 1741/2. The last letter, dated 12 Apr. 1746, must be to John Anstis jun. The names of the writers are given in the index. Among them are:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
21 Oct 1700-19 Mar 1742
Extent:
1 item

3. Stowe MS 750

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Stowe MS 750
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ORIGINAL LETTERS from lawyers, scholars and others addressed for the most part to Thomas Parker, Lord Chief Justice 1710, Baron Parker 1716, Lord Chancellor 1718, Earl of Macclesfield 1721 (ob. 1732); 1704-1739. A few draft replies of Lord Macclesfield are interspersed (ff. 46, 112, 246, 430, 43...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1704-1739
Extent:
1 item

4. Stowe MS 751

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Stowe MS 751
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ORIGINAL LETTERS Of John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, and Sarah his wife, to James Craggs, Sen. [Postmaster-General in 1715], who was acting as financial secretary to the Duchess; 1711-1718. The Duke's letters are twenty-one in number, and with one exception (f l5), dated "Camp before Bouchai...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1711-1718
Extent:
1 item

5. Stowe MS 752-754

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Stowe MS 752-754
Title:
ORIGINAL LETTERS addressed to Charles Lyttelton, LL.D., Dean of Exeter [1748-1762] and Bishop of Carlisle [1762-1768], President of the Society of Antiquaries [1765], chiefly of literary and antiquarian subjects; 1730-1768. Three volumes. Paper. Folio.
Scope & Content:
Charles Lyttelton, DD; FRS; Bishop of Carlisle: Correspondence of: 1730-1768.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1730-1768
Extent:
3 items

6. Stowe MS 755

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Stowe MS 755
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MISCELLANEOUS PRIVATE LETTERS, etc., English and foreign; 1613- 1818:- 1. [Richard Butler, 3rd Viscount] Mountgarrett, to Sir Williain Andrewes, Knt., with a present of a goshawk, etc.; Ballyne, 12 Sept. 1613. f 1. 2. [Henry Percy, 9th Earl of] Northumberland (ob. 1632), to Sir Thomas Fairfa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1613-1818
Extent:
1 item

7. Stowe MS 756

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Stowe MS 756
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LETTER-BOOK containing copies of letters of a writer whose name is not given, addressed to " Dolly Sqr," her father, John Handley, his cousin, and others, on the subject of his love for the lady, and his desire to make her his wife; St. Albans and London, 6 April, 1725-29 Jan. 1725/6 Paper; ff. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Apr 1725-29 Jan 1726
Extent:
1 item

8. Stowe MS 757

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Stowe MS 757
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LETTER from N[athaniel] B[rassey] Halhed [author of A Code of Gentoo Laws, 1776, and A Grammar of the Bengal Language, 1778, afterwards M.P. for Lymington 1791-1796] to the Rev. [George] Costard, on the antiquity and character of the Indian language and religion, in reply to a letter published b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1779
Extent:
1 item

9. Stowe MS 758

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Stowe MS 758
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MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS, Treasury warrants, papers, etc.; 1619- 1818. Amongst them are:- 1. Statement of claims on the Exchequer of Frances, wife of Sir Thomas Savile, and grand-daughter of William, Lord Cobham; circ. 1620. 2. Speech of Algernon Sydney delivered to the Sheriffs on the scaffold...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1619-1818
Extent:
1 item

10. Stowe MS 759

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Stowe MS 759
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1. EPIT0ME Of Church history, from the birth of Christ to 1612. ff. 3-49 b. Followed (ff. 50-59) by notes, in the same hand, on the Apostles and Evangelists, the early Bishops of Rome, Jerusalem, and Alexandria, and other Fathers of the Church. At ff. 1 b, 2, are memoranda of commercial transact...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item