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1. Stowe MS 142

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Stowe MS 142
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MISCELLANEOUS historical letters, etc.; 1375-1810. In two series, English or relating to England and (artt. 87-106) foreign. 1. Andrea Contarini, Doge of Venice, to Edward III. of England, desiring a safe conduct for merchant-ships about to be sent to Flanders; " in nostro ducali Palatio," 5 F...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1375-1810
Extent:
1 item

2. Stowe MS 227

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Stowe MS 227
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HANOVER PAPERS. Vol. VI. (ff. 553). 1/12 May, 1714 -25 Dec./6 Jan. 1714/15. The writers are:- J[oseph]Addison,[Secretary to the Lords Justices]; St. James's, 4, 11 Sept. Engl. ff. 419, 445. [Arthur Annesly, 5th Earl of] Anglesey, to the Electress Sophia; 7 May, 1714. Engl . f. 21. -d'Aussez (?)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and German
Date Range:
[12 May 1714-6 Jan 1715]
Extent:
1 item

3. Stowe MS 228

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Stowe MS 228
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HANOVER PAPERS. Vol. VII. (ff. 298). 1/12 Jan. 1714/5 - 10/21 July, 1716. The writers are [St. Paul Boucquet, Minister at Wandsworth; 2 Oct. 1715]. Imperf. f. 134. J[oachim] H[einrich, Baron] Bülow; Hanover, 4 Febr. 1716. f 221. [Gen.] W[illiam Cadogan, [afterw. Earl Cadogan] ; Edinburgh, Inver...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and German
Date Range:
[12 Jan 1715-21 Jul 1716]
Extent:
1 item

4. Stowe MS 231

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Stowe MS 231
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HANOVER PAPERS. Vol. X. (ff. 331). Jan. 1718-2.13 Nov. 1719. The writers are:- Card. Julio Alberoni to the Marquis de Monteleone, Spanish Ambassador at London; Madrid, 26 Sept., 10 Oct. 1718. Printed. ff. 143,159. F- 0- d'Artis; Genoa, 14 March, N.S. 1719. f. 286. Andreas Gottlieb, Baron von B...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish
Date Range:
Jan 1718-13 Nov 1719
Extent:
1 item

5. Stowe MS 256

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Stowe MS 256
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PHELPS PAPERS. Vol. I. (ff. 320). 22 June, 1725-26 Sept. 1757. 1. Original Letters to R. Phelps from (a) W[illiam] B[agot, afterw. 1st Baron Bagot]; Blithfield, [co. Staff.], 5 Nov. 1755. f. 280;- (b) Sn[eyd] Davies, [Prebendary of Lichfield, afterw. Archdeacon of Derby] ; Eccleshall, Staf...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Spanish
Date Range:
22 Jun 1725-26 Sep 1757
Extent:
1 item

6. Stowe MS 263

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Stowe MS 263
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TRANSCRIPTS Of letters addressed to Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, Ambassador at St. Petersburg; 1755-1757. The letters give an account of transactions in Parliament, movements of parties and court intrigues immediately before and after the fall of' the Duke of Newcastle's ministry in Nov. 1756, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

7. Stowe MS 295

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Stowe MS 295
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" A PLAN for the more speedy conclusion of the present very bloody and expensive war [with France], in case it shall not be thought expedient to continue it on the present footing in Germany, by Thomas Cole "; circ. 1758. With a dedicatory letter to George II., in which the writer speaks of havi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1758
Extent:
1 item

8. Stowe MS 308

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Stowe MS 308
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CHARACTERS of George I. and II., Qu. Caroline, Sir Robert Walpole, Lords Bath, Hardwicke, Chatham, Holland, Townshend, Granville, Bolingbroke, the Dukes of Bedford and Newcastle, Henry Pelham, and Alexander Pope; by Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield. Copies,some of them in the han...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 18th century
Extent:
1 item

9. Stowe MS 310

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Stowe MS 310
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COLLECTION of engraved political caricatures illustrating the closing years of George II., and more particularly the last Administration of Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle. Among the characters caricatured are the Duke, Robert Darcy, 4th Baron Holdernesse, Philip Yorke, lst Earl of Hardw...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

10. Stowe MS 324

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Stowe MS 324
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MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS chiefly relating to the customs, taxation, etc., 1396-1764; partly collected by Sir Richard Temple, when Commissioner of the Customs, and some of them apparently in his own hand. Among the contents are:- 1. Copy of an entail upon John Furneux and Amicia his wife of the man...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1396-1764
Extent:
1 item