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951. Stowe MS 266

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Stowe MS 266
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REPORT Of the Commissioners and Trustees for managing forfeited estates in Scotland annexed to the Crown; Edinburgh, 6 May, 1765. Signed by John Campbell [Lord of Session ?], [Sir] David Dalrymple [afterw. Lord of Session?], G. Beauclerk, G. Drummond, M. Car- donnel, Robert Oliphant [Post...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 May 1765
Extent:
1 item

952. Stowe MS 267

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Stowe MS 267
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LIST of state letters, tracts, speeches and bills in Parliament, ballads, and other papers illustrating the history of England from 1624 to 1735; in the hand of Rev. Philip Morant (ob. 1.778). At f. 20 begins a chronological list of State Trials and literature relating to the same, from 1388 to ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

953. Stowe MS 268

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Stowe MS 268
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" A BREYFE DISCOURSE in prayse of Kynge Rychard the Thyrd, Kynge of England. . . . . . Said to have been composed by Sir William Cornwallis the younger." With the note (f. 4) by Thomas Astle, " . . . . . transcribed from the original formerly in the library of John Anstis, Esqr., Garter K. at Ar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

954. Stowe MS 268-310

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Stowe MS 268-310
Title:
SECT. VI.-POLITICAL TRACTS, COLLECTIONS, CARICATURES, ETC.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
16th century-19th century
Extent:
43 items

955. Stowe MS 269

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Stowe MS 269
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" A commyssion sent to the bloudy byshop of London, and to al couents of Frers, by the high and mighty prince lord Sathanas the deuill of hell " : a satire against the Church, apparently composed in the reign of Henry VIII. A note at the end states that it was " transcribed from a copy in the ha...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Sep 1748
Extent:
1 item

956. Stowe MS 270

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Stowe MS 270
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" THE coppie of a letter written by a Mr. of Artes in Cambridge to his friend in London, concerning some conferrence passed of late betweene twoe worshipfull and graue men about ye present state and some of ye proceedings of the Earle of Leicester and his friends in England ": the tract known as...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1594
Extent:
1 item

957. Stowe MS 271

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Stowe MS 271
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1. " LEICESTER'S Commonwealth " : the political tract attributed to Robert Parsons, the Jesuit (see No. 270). f. 1b. 2. " Encyclopædia sive tabulæ artium liberalium " : a summary of philosophy, theology, etc., in the form of deductive tables, in Latin and English. f 49. Paper; ff. 79. xviith c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

958. Stowe MS 272

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Stowe MS 272
Title:
John Leslie, 'A treatise touchinge the right, title, and interest of the moste excellente princesse Marie, Queene of Scotland' (1584); early 17th century devotional poetry and other writings
Scope & Content:
This volume's original vellum cover has been retained, bearing on the front and back the arms and name of Richard St George (1554/5-1635), herald. The cover (f. 1r) also has written on it in a 17th century hand the contents as: 'The Title of Scotland to the Crown of England by John Lisle Bishop...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1584-1635
Extent:
1 volume

959. Stowe MS 273

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Stowe MS 273
Title:
Robert Glover (?), An Answer to John Leslie, Bishop of Ross, 1584-1585
Scope & Content:
This treatise carries a title page in an 18th- or 19th-century hand: 'AN ANSWER to a discourse of John Lesley, Bishop of Rosse, intended to prove that Mary, Queen of Scots, was intitled to the crown of England in preference to Queen Elizabeth, because the Pope had deposed her, and that her son ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1584-1585
Extent:
1 volume

960. Stowe MS 274

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Stowe MS 274
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" A LARGE and excellent discourse of the estate of Christiandome, written by an vnknowne author about the yeare of our Lord 1594 . . . conteyning many secret passages and hidden mysteries of the tymes both past and present, with much variety of good matter both historicall and politicall." The a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 item

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