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Name Plowden, Edmund, jurist, c 1518-1585

1. Add MS 4209

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Add MS 4209
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EXTRACTS FROM PRINTED BOOKS, etc.; 17th cent. Latin, French and English. Viz.:- (1) 'Notes taken out of the Historye of the Raigne of King H. 7 written by ... Francis [Bacon] Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban: printed 1622'. ff. 3-18. (2) 'Brief notes taken out of Samuell Daniel's collection o...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 36078

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Add MS 36078
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HARDWICKE PAPERS. Vol. DCCXXX. "Conceipts sur diverse disputable points par Mounsier Ed[mond] Plowden": a collection of moot points of law, generally known as Plowden's Queries and published in French in 1620 (?) and in an English translation in 1662. The MS. contains more than the edition (409 ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 36081

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Add MS 36081
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HARDWICKE PAPERS. Vol. DCCXXXIII. Legal treatises and collections, apparently collected by Sir Nicholas Lechmere, Baron of the Exchequer 1689-1700. 1. "A short introduction to the better understanding of the Exchequer," written temp. Jas. l., apparently by a Clerk of the Pipe, and relating ent...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
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1 item

4. Cotton MS Caligula B IV

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Cotton MS Caligula B IV
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Records and papers concerning Mary, Queen of Scots
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Records and papers concerning England and Scotland, mainly concerning Mary (1542–1587), Queen of Scots. ff. 2r-94v: Copy of Edmund Plowden’s ‘Treatise of Succession’. Concerning the King’s two bodies, i.e. natural and political, and intended to prove the title of Mary, Queen of Scots, to the su...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1542-1567
Extent:
1 volume

5. Harley MS 361

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Harley MS 361
Title:
The queries of Sir Edmund Plowden, lawyer, and other legal texts
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Folio manuscript volume. Contents: ff. 1-67v: 'Les Quæres dle Monseiur Edmond Plowden, Apprentice dle Melieu Temple'. The queries of Sir Edmund Plowden, lawyer and legal theorist, of Middle Temple. ff. 68-74v: A judges charge to the jury, on the arraignment of some authors of the Martin Marprel...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 16th century-Mid 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

6. Harley MS 849

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Harley MS 849
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Edmund Plowden, A treatise proving Mary Queen of Scots' right to the English throne, 1566
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ff. 1r–30v: 'A treatice prouing that if our Soueraigne Lady queen Elizabeth (whom god blesse with long lyffe & many children) shoulde die without issue; that the Quene of Scottes by her birthe in Scotlande is not disabled by the lawe of England to receiue the crowne of Inglande by discent.' ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 16th century
Extent:
1 volume