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671. Stowe MS 88-89

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Stowe MS 88-89
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"SOME ACCOUNT of the affairs of France since the disgrace of the Duc de Choiscul [1771] to the year 1776": a minute narrative of the Court intrigues of the period, with characters of the principal persons concerned, viz. Madame du Barry, the Due de Choiseul, the Due d'Aiguillon, Maupeou the Chancellor, Abbé Terray, the Due d'Orléans, the Due de Richelieu, and several others. Two volumes. The narrative proceeds continuously to the end of 1773 : after that there is, at some interval, an accoun...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1777
Extent:
2 items

672. Stowe MS 89

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Stowe MS 89
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Vol. II. ff. 55. Louis XV of France: Account of the affairs of France from the disgrace of the Duc de Choiseul to the year 1776, perhaps by Lord Holdernesse: 1777. Robert D'Arcy, Earl of Holdernesse; Secretary of State, etc: Account of the affairs of France, ascribed to: 1771-1776. Bindings E...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1777
Extent:
1 item

673. Stowe MS 90

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Stowe MS 90
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PAPERS relating to the French army in 1790-92, consisting of several statements and estimates for establishment and maintenance of the various branches. They chiefly form portions of several plans formed by, or submitted to, the "Comte de Latour du Pin" [Jean Frédéric de la Tour du Pin, Comte du...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1790-1792
Extent:
1 item

674. Stowe MS 91

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Stowe MS 91
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"RELATION circonstanciée d'un voyage fait en Ecosse par la compagnie des cadets gentilshoimmes de la marine de France," who sailed from Dunkirk 11 June, 1746, in the brigantine "Bien Trouvé," commanded by Captain Anguier, in quest of the Pretender, Charles Edward. Written by P. J. C. Dupont, one...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
before 1750
Extent:
1 item

675. Stowe MS 92

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Stowe MS 92
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Scope & Content:
Vol. I. ff. 353. Lille, France: Inventory of charters in the Chambre des Comptes at: 1782-85.: Fr. Denis Godefroy, Historiographer of France: Inventory of charters of the Counts of Flanders compiled by: 1782-85.: Fr. Flanders: Inventory of charters in the archives of the Counts of: 1782-85.: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1782-1785
Extent:
1 item

676. Stowe MS 92-93

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Stowe MS 92-93
Title:
"INVENTAIRE chronologique et detail1é de toutes les chartes qui se trouvent dans les archives des Comtes de Flandre, deposées dans l'ancienne chambre des comptes du Roi à Lille." Compiled by Denis Joseph Godefroy, Keeper of the Archives de la Chambre des Comptes at Lille. In two volumes, comprising respectively the periods 706-1240 and 1241-1270. The title-pages are dated 1784 and 1785; and in the preface to vol. i. (f. 7) the compiler states that the work, a great part of the expense of whi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1782-1785
Extent:
2 items

677. Stowe MS 93

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 93
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Scope & Content:
Vol. II. ff. 318. Lille, France: Inventory of charters in the Chambre des Comptes at: 1782-85.: Fr. Denis Godefroy, Historiographer of France: Inventory of charters of the Counts of Flanders compiled by: 1782-85.: Fr. Flanders: Inventory of charters in the archives of the Counts of: 1782-85.:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1782-1785
Extent:
1 item

678. Stowe MS 94

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Stowe MS 94
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"COMMENTAIRE ou diurnal de l'expedition de Thunes faicte par le tresauguste et tresvictorieux Empereur Charles cinqiesme": a narrative by an eye-witness of the expedition made by Charles V. in 1535 against Khair al addin Barbarossa, Dey of Algiers, to punish and suppress piracy, in which Tunis w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 item

679. Stowe MS 95

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Stowe MS 95
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"A MEMORIALL of a discourse vsed by the late worthy Emperour Charles the Vth vppon the resignement of his gouermente and stats [in 1556] to his sonne [Philip II.] the now kinge of Spaine": a translation from the Spanish by Lord Henry Howard [cr. Earl of Northampton, 1604], with preface addressed...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

680. Stowe MS 96

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Stowe MS 96
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Scope & Content:
RELAZIONI and other papers relating to Italy and Spain 1620-1634: — 1. Memoir on the Venetian republic, addressed to Philip IV. of Spain in 1620 by Don Aloiso Cueva, Spanish Ambassador in Venice, dealing with (a) the possessions and dependencies of Venice, (b) its revenues and expenditure, (c) i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1620-1634
Extent:
1 item