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Container Reference (shelfmark) Stowe MS 84-103

1. Stowe MS 84

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 84
Title:
Proceedings of the rehabilitation trial of Joan of Arc
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains one of only three official copies made of the Processus justificationis Johanne D'Arc, or proceedings of the rehabilitation trial of Joan of Arc (b. c. 1412, d. 1431). Joan had been put on trial before a Church court headed by Bishop Pierre Cauchon (b. 1371, d. 1442), an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1455-1456
Extent:
1 volume

2. Stowe MS 85

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 85
Title:
Scope & Content:
Copy of the diplomatic correspondence, with instructions, of Godefroy, Comte d'Estrades, including his missions to England in 1637 and to Holland in 1638-1650, etc.; 1637-1657. With a letter from the Comte to Louis XIV., dated 17 June, 1672. French. The contents agree closely with Egerton 2071, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1637-1672
Extent:
1 item

3. Stowe MS 86

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 86
Title:
Scope & Content:
"ETAT ACTUEL des affaires généralles concernant les Finances du Royaume de France": a tabular statement of the finances of France, drawn up in or about 1762, and including statements (1) of the ordinary revenue, (2) of the ordinary expenditure, (3) of the extraordinary sums raised in 1755-1762 f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1762
Extent:
1 item

4. Stowe MS 87

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 87
Title:
Scope & Content:
"DÉTAIL GÉNÉRAL et spécifique sur toutes les parties des Finances du Royaume de France; seconde partie, 1766": an enumeration and discussion of the taxes and imposts existing in France at this period, ending with an attack on the heaviness of the burdens and the maladministration of the finances...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1766
Extent:
1 item

5. Stowe MS 88-89

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 88-89
Title:
"SOME ACCOUNT of the affairs of France since the disgrace of the Duc de Choiscul [1771] to the year 1776": a minute narrative of the Court intrigues of the period, with characters of the principal persons concerned, viz. Madame du Barry, the Due de Choiseul, the Due d'Aiguillon, Maupeou the Chancellor, Abbé Terray, the Due d'Orléans, the Due de Richelieu, and several others. Two volumes. The narrative proceeds continuously to the end of 1773 : after that there is, at some interval, an accoun...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1777
Extent:
2 items

6. Stowe MS 90

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 90
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Scope & Content:
PAPERS relating to the French army in 1790-92, consisting of several statements and estimates for establishment and maintenance of the various branches. They chiefly form portions of several plans formed by, or submitted to, the "Comte de Latour du Pin" [Jean Frédéric de la Tour du Pin, Comte du...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1790-1792
Extent:
1 item

7. Stowe MS 91

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 91
Title:
Scope & Content:
"RELATION circonstanciée d'un voyage fait en Ecosse par la compagnie des cadets gentilshoimmes de la marine de France," who sailed from Dunkirk 11 June, 1746, in the brigantine "Bien Trouvé," commanded by Captain Anguier, in quest of the Pretender, Charles Edward. Written by P. J. C. Dupont, one...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
before 1750
Extent:
1 item

8. Stowe MS 92-93

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 92-93
Title:
"INVENTAIRE chronologique et detail1é de toutes les chartes qui se trouvent dans les archives des Comtes de Flandre, deposées dans l'ancienne chambre des comptes du Roi à Lille." Compiled by Denis Joseph Godefroy, Keeper of the Archives de la Chambre des Comptes at Lille. In two volumes, comprising respectively the periods 706-1240 and 1241-1270. The title-pages are dated 1784 and 1785; and in the preface to vol. i. (f. 7) the compiler states that the work, a great part of the expense of whi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1782-1785
Extent:
2 items

9. Stowe MS 94

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 94
Title:
Scope & Content:
"COMMENTAIRE ou diurnal de l'expedition de Thunes faicte par le tresauguste et tresvictorieux Empereur Charles cinqiesme": a narrative by an eye-witness of the expedition made by Charles V. in 1535 against Khair al addin Barbarossa, Dey of Algiers, to punish and suppress piracy, in which Tunis w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 item

10. Stowe MS 95

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 95
Title:
Scope & Content:
"A MEMORIALL of a discourse vsed by the late worthy Emperour Charles the Vth vppon the resignement of his gouermente and stats [in 1556] to his sonne [Philip II.] the now kinge of Spaine": a translation from the Spanish by Lord Henry Howard [cr. Earl of Northampton, 1604], with preface addressed...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item