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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A XXIV
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Scope & Content:: 'THE PORTRAIT of a Prince': poem (45 x 6 lines) addressed to James I by John Ferrour, who in a dedicatory letter prefixed alludes to his coming as a messenger to the King a day before Queen Elizabeth's death; cf. also another letter printed by Lodge, Illustrations of British History, 1838, iii, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1603-1606
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A XXIX
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Scope & Content:: SERMON on 'the Oath of Allegiance lately [1606] establisshed by publicque aucthoritie', by an anonymous author, who in his introductory letter to James I states that he was appointed to preach it 'in a Synode or generall meeting of the whole Ministerie at Suthwell in Nottinghamshire'. Paper; ff...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1606
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A XXV
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Scope & Content:: ADDRESS to James I entitled 'Verie necessary Considerations for the weale publique' and advocating the enclosure of common lands, by John Shotbolt [al. Battalion, cf. 17 A. XXXVII]. Signed at the end. Paper; ff. 19. Quarto. 71/4 in. x 51/2, in. Circ. 1611-1625 (see 15 b). Not in the old catalog...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1611-1625
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A XXVI
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Scope & Content:: ADDRESS to James I on the value for military and civil purposes of a secret invention called 'the Merva' by Simon Sturtevant, al. Sturtevante, 'heretofore Student in Christes Colledge in Cambridge together with Doctor [James] Mountacue [Mountague], Deane of your Majesties Chappel' [Bishop of Bat...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A XXVII
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Scope & Content:: POEM against Roman Catholics (50 x 4 lines) entitled 'An Exortac[i]on for all those yt are blinded with Idolitry, they hate ye light and walke in darkness, deceiuing them selues', addressed to James I by Edmund Dee; 12 June, 1603. A few stanzas are printed by Sir E. Brydges in Restituta, 1816, i...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 12 Jun 1603
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A XXVIII
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Scope & Content:: POLITICAL TRACT, in form of a letter addressed to Charles I, by Henry Cock on the fortunate dismissal of Queen Henrietta Maria's French attendants and of 'those who are communely called the fathers of the Oratory, who lately were chapleins to the Queenes Majesty', and on the machinations of 'Fis...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1630
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A XXX
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Scope & Content:: ADDRESS to James I on various political reforms by James Dackombe, dated Little Fountmell [Lit. Fontmell, co. Dorset], 24 June, 1603, but including a memorial originally written from the same place (where Dackombe was attending the King's court as 'a poore suiter'), 8 Apr. 1603, to Thomas [Boyd,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1603
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A XXXI
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Scope & Content:: 'THE ARGUMENT of the Spectacle presented to the Sacred, Maiestys of Great Brittan and Denmark as they passed through London' [31 July, 1606] with the Latin speech of [Sir Henry Montagu] Recorder of London, and the Latin verses spoken at the Pageant, by John Marston, the dramatist (d. 1634). The ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1606
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A XXXII
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Scope & Content:: VERSES (about 400 couplets) against the Spanish match and on other political topics, addressed anonymously to James I. Beg. 'O blessed king, that heares the poore'; ends 'Shall reape in ioye from all their feares'. Paper; ff. 12. Quarto. 73/4 in. x 6 in. Circ. 1618. Not in the old catalogues.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1618
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A XXXIII
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Scope & Content:: 'JANUS TEMPLE shutt and opened': a poem (91 x 6 lines, rhymes ababcc) by Gervaise Scroope [? Sir Gervase Scrope of Cockerington, Sheriff of Lincoln 9 Chas. 1], addressed to James I, preceded by a dedicatory letter. Some anagrams on the names of the author and of the King are added at ff. 2b, 10b...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1603-1625]
Extent:: 1 item

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