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1. Stowe MS 83

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Stowe MS 83
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"A SHORT VIEW of the State of Ireland from the yeare 1640 to ye yeare 1652": a transcript of a work published in 1719-20 under the title of The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in Ireland, . . . by . . . Edward, Earl of Clarendon. On f. 114b is copied part of a letter (cf. Stowe 82, f. 16...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
1 item

2. Stowe MS 114

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Stowe MS 114
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" THE PREVARICATION of Holy Church Libertyes ": the first five chapters of the work, as above (No. 113), ending with the death of Queen Mary. No general title is given, and the text varies in places from No. 113. The first chapter is headed " The lawfullnesse of King Henry the 8th his marriage w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
1 item

3. Stowe MS 132-137

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Stowe MS 132-137
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TRANSCRIPTS Of despatches, instructions to ambassadors, negotiations, treaties, etc., chiefly relating to the general history of Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. Six volumes. Vol. II. has on f. 2 an engraved portrait, " W. Delff sculpsit," of Sir Dudley Carleton, Ambassador at Venice and the Hague, etc. (ob. 1632), and on f. 1 the book-plate of Richard, lst Duke of Buckingham and Chandos. All the volumes bear the book-plate, dated 1701, of Algernon Capell, Earl of Essex. Paper; xviith ...
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Treaties: Negotiations, treaties, etc., relating to European history: 14th-17th centt. Records, Public: Transcripts of State papers on the general history of Europe: 16th. -17th centt. Algernon Capell, 2nd Earl of Essex: Book-plates. Bookplates: Capell (Algernon), Earl of Essex: 1701.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
14th century-17th century
Extent:
6 items

4. Stowe MS 148

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Stowe MS 148
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A SIMILAR COLLECTION of transcripts, but containing only the first part of the preceding MS., viz. the correspondence of Cardinal Wolsey; 1522-1525. Paper; ff. 282. Early xviith cent. With book-plate of Algernon Capell, Earl of Essex, 1701. Small Folio. Thomas Wolsey, Cardinal; Archbishop of Yo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1522-1525
Extent:
1 item

5. Stowe MS 159

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Stowe MS 159
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A COLLECTION Of miscellaneous political and other tracts, etc., in different hands; 1572-1635. 1. Star Chamber cases, viz. :-(a) Judgments against Thomas Howard, Earl of Suffolk, late Lord Treasurer, Catherine, his wife, and Sir John Bingley, for taking bribes, etc.; 12 Nov. 1619. f. 3;- (b)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1572-1635
Extent:
1 item

6. Stowe MS 161

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Stowe MS 161
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HISTORICAL TRACTS and papers; tempp . Elizabeth and James I. 1. " A coppie of the last instructions which ye Emperour Charles the Vth gave to his sonne Phillipp before his death. Translated out of Spanishe " [by Lord Henry Howard, cr. Earl of Northampton 1604]. This is followed by the translat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[between 1558-1625]
Extent:
1 item

7. Stowe MS 179

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Stowe MS 179
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RELATION Of the negotiations for peace between England, Spain, and the Archduke Albert, Governor of the Spanish Netherlauds, carried on at Brussels and subsequently at Boulogne; Jan. 1598[9] -Dec. 1600. The narrative commences with Sir R. Cecil's account of the arrival in London of Geronimo Coom...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1599-Dec 1600
Extent:
1 item

8. Stowe MS 183

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Stowe MS 183
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" A BOOKE of the coppies of letters, speeches, and papers"; Nov. 1622-Aug. 1625. In a nearly contemporary hand. 1. Letter from James I. to the Elector Palatine, 10 Nov. 1622, respecting the negotiations for his restoration to the Palatinate; with the Elector's answer, 30 Dec. [N.S.]. ff. 3, 4....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Nov 1622-Aug 1625
Extent:
1 item

9. Stowe MS 280

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Stowe MS 280
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1."A DISCOURSE, of passages betweene the Earles of Essex, Northampton and Somerset, the Countesse of Somerset, Sir Thomas Overbury and others, with theyre risinge and fall, with diverse other matters acted duringe the late raigne of King James, as alsoe of the Duke of Buckinghams first cominge i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

10. Stowe MS 285

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Stowe MS 285
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1. A DISCOURSE of Court and Courtiers. f. 2. The author's name is not given; but in a copy in Harley MS. 3364 the preface, which is addressed to the Duke of Lenox, is signed by " Edw. Payton " [Sir Edward Peyton, Bart.] and dated " from Isleham, vlt. Martii, 1633." 2. " A discoverye of the Holla...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1630
Extent:
1 item