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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Stowe Ms 1-1085 Name Parliament

41. Stowe MS 324

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Stowe MS 324
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MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS chiefly relating to the customs, taxation, etc., 1396-1764; partly collected by Sir Richard Temple, when Commissioner of the Customs, and some of them apparently in his own hand. Among the contents are:- 1. Copy of an entail upon John Furneux and Amicia his wife of the man...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1396-1764
Extent:
1 item

42. Stowe MS 325

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Stowe MS 325
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PAPERS concerning the revenue, taxes, coinage, royal fisheries, etc.; 1433-1770. Among the contents are:- 1. Extracts from the Rolls of Parliament for 11, 12 Hen. VI., being pp. 431-440 of vol. iv. of the printed edition. ff. 3-7. 2. Account of gold and silver coined from 1558 to 1770. f. 8....
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1433-1770
Extent:
1 item

43. Stowe MS 329

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Stowe MS 329
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1. " MODUS tenendi Parliamentum"; with a note at the beginning in the hand of Sir Roger Twysden (ob. 1672), referring to other copies in the library of Sir Thomas Cotton. f. 1. 2. A short treatise on the " Court of Parliament," beg. " This is the King's Majesties principall Court of Record." T...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 item

44. Stowe MS 330

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Stowe MS 330
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TREATISE on the origin and powers of Parliaments, in Latin; bog. " Longa temporis duratione sensim attrita et vulnerata gloria Romani Imperii," etc. Preceded by an " Elenchus sectionum Introductionis," the first section concluding, " Quarum legum et consuetudinum [Saxonum] hæc erat lex fundament...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
1 item

45. Stowe MS 331

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Stowe MS 331
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1. " A TRUE PRESENTATION of forepast Parlyaments to the view of present tymes and posteritye." Attributed in T. Hearne's Curious Discourses, 1771, vol. ii. p. 433, to Sir John Dodderidge (ob. 1628), Justice of the King's Bench. The author, however, in his preface (f. 4) states that the work was ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

46. Stowe MS 332

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Stowe MS 332
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TREATISE On Judicature in Parliament, evidently written in the reign of Charles I., beg. " The execucion of all our lawes." Precedents are freely quoted, the last being the accusations of the Earl of Bristol and the Duke of Buckingham in 1626; and the treatise must have been written between that...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

47. Stowe MS 333

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Stowe MS 333
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" WHITELOCKES Historie of the Parlement of England. And of some resemblances to the Jewish and other Councells "; by Bulstrode Whitelocke, Commissioner of the Great Seal (1648-1655, 1659), etc. Holograph. Cf. Add. MS. 31,984. The work is incomplete, the volume ending with Bk. i., ch. 22, entitle...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

48. Stowe MS 334-337

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Stowe MS 334-337
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" AN ESSAY upon the ancient and modern government, conventions and parliaments of England. With abstracts of the most observable laws and the frequency of later parliaments, in which is treated principally of the Saxon and Norman constitution of government and the legislative (sic) and laws during the time of the Saxon and first six Norman kings. After which succeed several necessary observations on succeeding parliaments, their frequency and prorogations to the reign of Elizabeth." Four vol...
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England; Parliament: Essay on the government of England, to the reign of Hen. III.: 18th cent. England General Chronicles and History: Essay on the government and parliaments of England to the reign of Hen. III.: 18th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
4 items

49. Stowe MS 338

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Stowe MS 338
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REFERENCES to, and short extracts from, the Records in the Tower and other documents, being apparently a collection towards a Parliamentary history of England. In the hand of Rev. Philip Morant (ob. 1778). Paper; ff. 48. Duodecimo. England; Parliament: Notes from the Tower Records relating to t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

50. Stowe MS 339

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Stowe MS 339
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" REPERTORIUM sive Elenchus Parliamentorum," tempp. Edw. III. -Edw. IV. : an alphabetical index of subjects. At the end (f. 41) is a copy of the recantation by Edward Spence, on 6 Nov. 1686, of a sermon preached by him before the University at St. Mary's Church, Cambridge, on the previous day ag...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item