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961. Stowe MS 275

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Stowe MS 275
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" AN APOLOGIE of [Robert Devereux] the earle of Essex against those which falsly and malitiously take him to be the onely hinderance of the peace and quietnes of his countrye ": a defence of the policy of war with Spain, addressed to Anthony Bacon in 1598. To this is annexed, in the same hand, a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
Extent:
1 item

962. Stowe MS 276

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Stowe MS 276
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1. Copy of the letter of [Robert Devereux], Earl of Essex, to [Henry Wriothesley], Earl of Southampton, written shortly before the execution of the former in 1601. Printed in 1642. f. 3 b. 2. Treatise, " Of the foundacion of a State and the essencial parts that form a Prince." A note in anothe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 item

963. Stowe MS 277

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Stowe MS 277
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"DISCOURSE concerning the prerogative of the Crown," by William Camden, beg. "The lawes of England which men call the common lawes." Apparently a draft. Paper; ff. 12. Early xviith cent. Small quarto. Political Tracts: Discourse on the prerogative of the Crown, by W. Camden: early 17th cent. W...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 item

964. Stowe MS 278

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Stowe MS 278
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" FRAGMENTA REGALIA, or observacions on Queene Elizabeth, her tymes and favourites," by Sir Robert Naunton, Secretary of State. First printed in 1641. Paper; ff. 69. xviith cent. Small folio. Political Tracts: "Fragmenta Regalia," by Sir R. Naunton: 17th cent. Sir Robert Naunton, Secretary of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

965. Stowe MS 279

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Stowe MS 279
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1. " MAXIMS, religious and political, of King James 1. f. 2. Printed, but with variations, in The Prince's Cabala, etc., 1715, under the title of " The Table-Talk of King James I., etc. Collected by Sir Thomas Overbury." 2. " Obseruations upon the state of the 17 Prouinces, as they stood ao 1619...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 item

966. 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

967. Stowe MS 281

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Stowe MS 281
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"VOX POPULI, or News frome Spayne, translated according to the [imaginary] Spanishe coppie": a pamphlet by Thomas Scott against the Spanish Match. Priinted in 1620, and suppressed; included in the Somers Tracts, 1809, vol. ii., p. 508. Paper; ff. 14. xviith cent. Small quarto. Thomas Scott: Vox...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

968. Stowe MS 282

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Stowe MS 282
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" DE LIBERA ELECTIONE Regni Bohæmici et de Jure Imperatoris Ferdinandi ad idem Regnum, 1619 ": a Latin treatise in answer to a discourse asserting the right of the Elector Palatine to the crown of Bohemia, the writer declaring the crown not to be elective, and defending the claim of Ferdinand. T...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1620
Extent:
1 item

969. Stowe MS 283

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Stowe MS 283
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" THE PASSAGES and occurrences which happened from the first acceptation of the Crowne of Bohemia by the Palsgrave [Frederic] untill the looseinge of the Palatinate," in 1623, with especial reference to the part taken with regard to the affairs of the Palatinate by James I. In a contemporary han...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1623
Extent:
1 item

970. Stowe MS 284

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Stowe MS 284
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A DISCOURSE of Foreign War, with an account of all the Taxations upon this Kingdom, etc., by Sir Robert Cotton, Bart. Printed in 1690. Paper; ff. 47. Early xviith cent. Belonged, in 1774, to Thomas Astle. Small Quarto. Political Tracts: "Discourse of Foreign War," by Sir R. Cotton: early 17th c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 item

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