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Container Reference (shelfmark) Stowe MS 981-1015

11. Stowe MS 991

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Stowe MS 991
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"IDÆÆ ORATIONUM desumptæ ex disquisitionum politicarum materiis": outlines of speeches and addresses suitable for various occasions in political affairs. Latin. There are 90 in all, the subjects of some being stated in general terms, e.g. "Idæa orationis qua nova vectigalia necessitatis Reipubli...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

12. Stowe MS 992

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Stowe MS 992
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"ORIGINAL MEMOIRS of Apparitions and Spirits in Wales": a collection of stories of apparitions of spirits and fairies in various places in Wales, especially in and near the parish of Blaenau Gwent [Aberustryth, al. Aberystwith, co. Monmouth], to which the narrator, who relates several supernatur...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1738
Extent:
1 item

13. Stowe MS 993

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Stowe MS 993
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ESSAY on the dignity of Trade, showing the high opinion in which it has been held in all ages, and that it is as honourable a pursuit, and as likely to lead to advancement, as any of the learned professions. There are two versions of the essay, in different hands, one having been crossed through...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1747
Extent:
1 item

14. Stowe MS 994-1009

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Stowe MS 994-1009
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SPECIMENS of the signatures and handwriting produced (according to the title-page) "by me William Henry Ireland during my fabrication of the manuscripts which I wrote and attributed to Shakespeare," with Ireland's explanatory notes. Paper; ff. 9. XVIIIth-XIXth cent. Quarto. Accompanying this volume are sixteen printed tracts, containing Ireland's forged signatures and marginal notes of Shakespeare, most of them having on the titlepage the inscription "S[amuel] Ireland from his dear Son." The...
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William Shakespeare: Signatures and marginal notes forged by W. H. Ireland: 18th-19th centt.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
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16 items

15. Stowe MS 1010

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Stowe MS 1010
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COMMONPLACE-BOOK, including extracts from Sir R. Fanshawe's translation of Guarini's Pastor Fido [first published in 1646], and from [G.J.] Vossius, Rhetorices Contracta. On the fly-leaf is roughly scribbled the name of Richard Temple. Paper; ff. 18. XVIIth-XVIIIth centt. Duodecimo. Gerard Joha...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item

16. Stowe MS 1011-1012

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Stowe MS 1011-1012
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COMMONPLACE-BOOKS of John Fortescue Aland, Justice of the King's Bench (1727) and of the Common Pleas (1729), cr. Lord Fortescue of Credan in 1746 (ob. 1746), partly legal, partly general, including such subjects as Non-jurors, the doctrine of Resistance, Escheators, Mahomet, Philosophy, etc., the entries for the most part being very brief. Two volumes; with an index of subjects at the end of each. Paper; ff. 116, 45. Belonged to Thomas Astle. Small Quarto.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
2 items

17. Stowe MS 1013

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Stowe MS 1013
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COMMONPLACE-BOOK belonging to, and for the most part in the hand of, Edward Vernon, D.D., of Trinity College, Cambridge, Rector of St. George's, Bloomsbury (ob. 1761). The contents are:-(1) "A brief account of the nature, end and use of chronology." f. 3;-(2) "De origine scribendi": a treatise i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

18. Stowe MS 1014

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Stowe MS 1014
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COMMONPLACE-BOOK, containing extracts from various authors, by Thomas Astle. On f. 32 is a recipe "to make decay'd letters appear in an old MS." Paper; ff. 32. Circ. 1760. Sm. Quarto. Thomas Astle, ob. 1803: Commonplace-book: circ. 1760. includes: f. 32 Recipes: To revive decayed letters in o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1760
Extent:
1 item

19. Stowe MS 1015

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Stowe MS 1015
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COMMONPLACE-BOOK, containing extracts from Caesar's Commentaries and from Sir Clement Edmondes's "Observations" on the same, with shorter quotations from Ovid, Horace, Juvenal, and Persius. Paper; ff. 199. Early XVIIIth cent. The name "Madame Willten" appears on the inside cover. Folio. Madame ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 item