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Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 285
Title:
Scope & Content:: 1. A DISCOURSE of Court and Courtiers. f. 2. The author's name is not given; but in a copy in Harley MS. 3364 the preface, which is addressed to the Duke of Lenox, is signed by " Edw. Payton " [Sir Edward Peyton, Bart.] and dated " from Isleham, vlt. Martii, 1633." 2. " A discoverye of the Holla...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1630
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 286
Title:
Scope & Content:: " THE SOVERAIGNTY Of the Seas of England. Proved by record, history and the municipall lawes of the Kingdome. . . . By SI John Burgh [Borough], Knight, Keeper of the Recordes in the Tower of London" [Garter King of Arms, 1633]. Printed in 1651 under the title of The Soveraignty of the British Se...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 287
Title:
Scope & Content:: " DOMINIUM maris Britannici. . . . per D. Ioannem de Burgo," etc.: a Latin version of the treatise as above, No. 286, with copious marginal references, and a dedication to Charles I. Paper; ff. 24. xviith cent. Small Folio. Political Tracts: "The Soveraignty of the Seas of England ": 17th cent....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 288
Title:
Scope & Content:: " THE DUKE OF LENOX his speeche before his Majestie concerning the warre with Scotland ": apparently addressed to Charles l., dissuading him from the war with Scotland in 1629 and counselling concessions to the Scots. According to Dr. S. R. Gardiner (Hist. of England, vol. viii. 1884, p. 367) a ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1629
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 289
Title:
Scope & Content:: PARALLEL between Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, and George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, by Sir Henry Wotton, 1641. Printed in Reliquiae Wottonianae, 1672. Paper; ff. 20. xviith cent. Small Folio. Sir Henry Wotton, Ambassador to Venice, and (1623) Provost of Eton: Parallel between the Earl of ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1641
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 290
Title:
Scope & Content:: PAMPHLET, in form of a letter to a person unnamed, in reference to the proposed marriage of James, Duke of York, [James II.], urging by historical examples the right of the royal family to arrange its marriages without reference to Parliament, and without taking into consideration the question o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 4 Feb 1679
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 291
Title:
Scope & Content:: " A VINDICATION Of ye Revolution, or a Hearty Endeavour to unite all the Members of the Church of England to the present Government, in a Dialogue between a Jacobite Tory and a Williaimite Tory." Apparently written before the death of Qu. Mary (27 Dec. 1694). Paper - ff. 17. Bound in dark blue m...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 292
Title:
Scope & Content:: POLITICAL OBSERVATIONS upon the state and condition of England, 1695. The tract is divided into twelve chapters, viz. (1) " As to the number of the People of England " ;-(2) " The proportion of England in acres and people to France and Holland, to Europe, and to the world in general; with a calc...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1695
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 293
Title:
Scope & Content:: TRACT " Concerning the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and new Oaths imposed in lieu of them how far the obligation of the former ceases in respect of King James, etc."; circ. 1700. Paper; ff. 16. Small quarto. Political Tracts: Concerning the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy: circ. 1700. O...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1700
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 294
Title:
Scope & Content:: " A LETTER to a young Gentleman by a Tutor and Fellow of a College in Oxford," giving him advice as to his behaviour in political affairs. The preface is dated 4 Apr. 1748. The name of George Bridges appears oil the cover, and the MS. is evidently in his hand, but there was no graduate of that n...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 4 Apr 1748
Extent:: 1 item

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