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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A LVI
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Scope & Content:: TRACT on the state of Ireland, addressed to James I by Sir John Dowdall [of Kilfinny, knighted 1594, see Shaw, Knights, ii, p. 90], being an autograph copy of that which he wrote 1 March, 1599 [1600], when he was commander of the Fort of Duncannon for Queen Elizabeth. Frequent references to the ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1603-1625]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A LVII
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Scope & Content:: 'A POEME vpon the praise of Vertue', by Nicholas Breton (cf. 17 C. XXXIV), with dedicatory letter to James I. Printed in 1605, with an epistle to the reader not here given, as The Soules immortall crowne, &c.; reprinted by Grosart, Works of N. Breton, 1879, i, tract o. Beg. 'Oh my deere Muse...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1603-1605
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A LVIII
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Scope & Content:: 'THE DISCOVERY of the cuntry of Kinge Solomon his rich trade and trafique within twentye daies saile of England': an identification of Solomon's Ophir with the region of the Gambia river, addressed to Charles I by Richard Jobson. The author, who states that he had written a similar account two y...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1625-1627
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A LX
Title:
Scope & Content:: THE DREME OF SYPYON, taken owt of the syxt boke of Cicero intytlyd de republyca': translation of the Somnium Scipionis by Henry Parker, 10th Lord Morley (cf. 17 A. XXX, &c.), with a letter of dedication to 'the Lady [afterwards Queen] Mary, sister to . . . kyng Edwarde the syxt'. Vellum; ff...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1547-1553]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A LXI
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Scope & Content:: 'THE GRIEF OF IOYE. Certeyne elegies wherein the doubtfull delightes of mannes lyfe are displaied': a satirical poem by George Gascoigne (cf. 18 A. XLVIII). This, the last work of the poet (d. Oct. 1577), was a New Year's gift to the Queen, 1 Jan. 1577, as appears by the letter of dedication (f....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1576
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A LXII
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Scope & Content:: TRANSLATION by Henry Parker, 10th Lord Morley (cf. 17 A. XXX, &c.), of no. 49 of the fifty novels in the Novellzino of Masuccio of Salemo (first printed 1476, ed. 1535, p. 197). Printed from this MS. by F. Brie, Die erste Übersetzung einer ital. Novelle ins Englische, Brunswick, 1910 (Archiv...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1540-1547
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A LXIII
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'A DISCOURSE of the beseiginge, defendinge and releeuinge of the towne of Bergen vp Zome in the year 1622', by an anonymous author; introduced by two ten-line stanzas addressed 'To the Prince his Highnes' [Charles, Prince of Wales], beg. 'Vnto your Hignes humbly I present This poore discourse, w...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1622
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A LXIV
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'A COPIE of diuers and sundry verses as well in Latin as in Englishe deuised and made partely by Jhon Leland and partely by Nicholas Vuedale' (Leland's are all Latin) on the occasion of the coronation of Queen Anne Boleyn at the pageants exhibited by the Mayor and Citizens of London on Whitsun E...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1533
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A LXIX
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'A CHRISTIAN REFORMACION of Nosce teipsum': a poem (with a prose appendix, ff. 18-20 b), dedicated to James 1, by Robert Chambers, being a criticism of Sir John Davies' Nosce Teipsum, which was written in 1592 (see Add. MS. 25304), but first published in 1599. The fuller title (f. 3) runs 'A sec...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1603-1625]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A LXV
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Scope & Content:: ADDRESS to James I by Richard Spert, containing a scheme for increasing the revenues and customs of Ireland by letting to tenants, and forming into parishes, all lands there which may be found on a survey to accrue to the Crown by 'attainder, concealement, forfeyture or agreement', and by develo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1603-1625]
Extent:: 1 item

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