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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XL
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Scope & Content:: AN EXHORTATION to Queen Mary 'for the reformation of rentes within all [her] realmes and dominions', by Philip Gerrard, yeoman of the Guard (formerly a yeoman of the Chamber, and author of A godly invective, &c., 1547). The writer had in the first instance addressed his exhortation to Edward...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1553
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XLI
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Scope & Content:: 'THE MAYSTER OFF GAME', by Edward, second Duke of York (cf. 17 A. LV, 17 B. II). The present copy has the text in a different order, ch. xii-xxv of the printed text (ed. Baillie-Grohman) following ch. xxxvi, and ch, xxvi being omitted. Vellum; ff. 77. 8 in. x 5 in. Middle of the XV cent. Gather...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XLII
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Scope & Content:: 'THE ABEWSE OF JUSTIS and the curuptione of the lawe, not by reporte but by trewe experience': an address to James I by John Fawset, of New Alresford, co. Southt., 1610, wherein he gives an account of the murder on 25 Mar. 1605, of Alis Lanawaye, of New Alresford, the steps he took to bring the ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1610
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XLIII
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Scope & Content:: SIR JOHN MANDEVILLE'S Travels, bound with other romances, in English, viz.: 1. The Book of John Mandeville, knight, in the defective English version (lacuna from p. 18, 1. 21 to p. 32, 1. 16 of the Roxburghe Club ed., 1889, see f. 20) as given in the majority of the MSS. Besides the above lacun...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XLIV
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'A TREATISE of the office, power and authoritie off a Soveraigne Christian Magistrate in matters ecclesiasticall': a translation, by I. D., 'one of the preachers to the English forces in the United Provinces, resident in Utrecht', of Tractaet van t'ampt ende authoriteyt eener Hooger-Christelijck...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1625-1649]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XLIX
Title:
Scope & Content:: ADDRESS to the people of the Netherlands to encourage them in resistance to the government of the Archduke Albert and the Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia. The latter part (f. 20 b) is a special warning to Roman Catholics that their religion will be no protection to them against Spain. A briefer f...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1607
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XLV
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Scope & Content:: 'A BRIEFE DECLARATION Of the gouerment of Ireland, opening many corruptions in ye same: discouering ye discontentments of the Irishery and the causes moving theis expected troubles: and showing meanes how to establish quietnes in that kingdome honorably: to your Majesties profit without any encr...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1594-1595
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XLVI
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Scope & Content:: 'A RIGHT GODLY EXHORTACION and treatice tending to obedience': a treatise on the duties of subjects to a king, written shortly after the Gunpowder Plot (see ff. 2, 49 b). Paper; ff. 50. Quarto. 8 in. x 61/2 in. Circ. 1606. Not in the old catalogues.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1606
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XLVII
Title:
Scope & Content:: COLLECTIONS on Dictamen or the art of letter-writing, with legal and other commonplaces, for use in London. One of the compilers seems to have been connected with the northern part of Hampshire, and probably with the family of Leigh of Herriard. Contents:- 1. Poems, viz.:-(a) Dietary, or verse...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1452-1456
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XLVIII
Title:
Scope & Content:: MEDICAL RECIPES, charms, &c., viz. 1. The virtues of divers herbs, which be hot and which be cold, &c.; cf. 17 A. XXXII, art. 2. The contents, however, are not identical. Imperfect. Beg. in the chapter on the poppy and ends with that on the lily, 'for to do awey frekenesse on a mannes v...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

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