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801. Stowe MS 743-748

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 743-748
Title:
MISCELLANEOUS ORIGINAL LETTERS on historical, literary, and other subjects; 1570-1759. Six volumes, folio, chronologically arranged. A large proportion of the letters down to 1684 are addressed to Sir Edward Dering, of Surrenden, co. Kent, 1st Bart., M.P. (ob. 1644), and to his son, Sir Edward, 2nd Bart., M.P. (ob. 1684), those to the latter referring more especially to his duties as Commissioner for Claims in Ireland after the Restoration. Another series, of the latter part of the 17th cent...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1570-1759
Extent:
6 items

802. Stowe MS 743-760

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 743-760
Title:
CLASS XVII. PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
16th century-19th century
Extent:
18 items

803. Stowe MS 744

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 744
Title:
Scope & Content:
Vol. II. (ff. 172). 1640-1667. 1. [Sir] Richard Skeffington [?aft. 4th Bart., of Fisherwick] to his cousin Sir E. Dering; Coventry, 12 Dec. 1640. f. 1. 2. The Mayor and Jurats of Sandwich to the same, asking him to oppose in Parliament the attempts to levy subsidies on the Cinque Ports from ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1640-1667
Extent:
1 item

804. Stowe MS 745

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 745
Title:
Scope & Content:
Vol. III. (ff. 145). 1667-1677. 1. William Lodge, the artist, to his mother, Elizabeth Aldburghe, at Gisborne, co. York; [Cambridge,] 14 Nov. 1667. f. 1. 2. [Patrick Plunkett, 9th Baron] Dunsany, to Sir E. Dering, on his misfortunes: "My sadd and deplorable condition, my weake and aged bedd-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1667-1677
Extent:
1 item

805. Stowe MS 746

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 746
Title:
Scope & Content:
Vol. IV. (ff. 146). 1678-1690. 1. [John Skeffington, 2nd Viscount] Massereene, to Sir E. Dering, on public affairs in Ireland; Dublin, 18 May, 1678. f. 1. 2. William Lodge, the artist, to Henry [Giles]; London, 9 Nov. 1678. f. 3. 3. Jo. Assheton, Henry Marsden, and Tho. Heber, to Lord Fair...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1678-1690
Extent:
1 item

806. Stowe MS 747

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 747
Title:
Scope & Content:
Vol. V. (ff. 157). 1691-1702. 1. E- E- to Rev.- Banks, of Hull. . . . "Certainely we live among a strange sort of people, for I am told to-day that the Clergy were going to petition the Queen to depose Archbishop Tillottson because he was not a Christian nor in Priest's Orders, so farre does s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1691-1702
Extent:
1 item

807. Stowe MS 748

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 748
Title:
Scope & Content:
Vol. VI. (ff. 235). 1703-1759. 1. T[homas] M[adox], antiquary, to Edward Floyde [Lhwyd], "at the Museum in Oxford," ending "There is nobody yet appointed Keeper of the Cotton-Library, nor any salary settled on that place,"; London, 18 Feb. 1702 [3]. f. 3. 2. Thomas Kirke, of Cookridge, and J...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1703-1759
Extent:
1 item

808. Stowe MS 749

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 749
Title:
Scope & Content:
ORIGINAL LETTERS addressed to John Anstis, Garter King of Arms (ob. 1745), on antiquarian subjects, principally heraldic or genealogical; 21 Oct. 1700-19 Mar. 1741/2. The last letter, dated 12 Apr. 1746, must be to John Anstis jun. The names of the writers are given in the index. Among them are:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
21 Oct 1700-19 Mar 1742
Extent:
1 item

809. Stowe MS 750

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 750
Title:
Scope & Content:
ORIGINAL LETTERS from lawyers, scholars and others addressed for the most part to Thomas Parker, Lord Chief Justice 1710, Baron Parker 1716, Lord Chancellor 1718, Earl of Macclesfield 1721 (ob. 1732); 1704-1739. A few draft replies of Lord Macclesfield are interspersed (ff. 46, 112, 246, 430, 43...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1704-1739
Extent:
1 item

810. Stowe MS 751

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 751
Title:
Scope & Content:
ORIGINAL LETTERS Of John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, and Sarah his wife, to James Craggs, Sen. [Postmaster-General in 1715], who was acting as financial secretary to the Duchess; 1711-1718. The Duke's letters are twenty-one in number, and with one exception (f l5), dated "Camp before Bouchai...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1711-1718
Extent:
1 item

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