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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A XL
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Scope & Content:: THEOLOGICAL TREATISE in twenty chapters on the sevenfold form or image of the universe, addressed to Henry VIII by Robert Syngleton. For the author (Dict. Nat. Biogr., s.n. Singleton), a priest who recanted certain heresies in May, 1543, but was executed at Tyburn for high treason 7 March, 1543/...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1521-1544
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A XLI
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Scope & Content:: 'THE APPROVED ORDER of Martiall Discepline', with particulars of the duties of each officer, &c., by G. C., addressed to James I. In his introduction the author states (f. 2 b) that he served the late Queen 'in Irelande, the Lowe Countryes and at sea this 28 yeares'. A treatise with the same...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A XLII
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'A CLOSET of Cownsell, exhausted and drawne forth of the prudent preceptes of Cato': poem (98 x 8 lines, rhymes ababcdcd) with dedicatory letter to 'the right honorable and vertuous lord Jhon Lumney', i.e. John Lumley, Lord Lumley (d. 1609), by J[ohannes] Philippus, i.e. apparently John Phillip,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A XLIII
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Scope & Content:: METRICAL ADAPTATION of 'Plutarchi commentarium (sic) in Principe requiri doctrinam' ( perhaps in the Latin version of Erasmus, printed with his Institutio Principis, 1516, &c.), by Thomas Blundeville. Probably identical with 'The Learned Prince', the first of Blundeville's Three Moral Treati...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1558-1603]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A XLIV
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Scope & Content:: ANONYMOUS TRACT addressed to James I, showing the abuses and frauds on the revenue practised by foreign merchants, especially the Dutch, and the inadequacy of the laws to deal with them. In two parts, viz. (a) 'Of the exportation of Treasure', or the buying up and transporting of the best Englis...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1603-1625]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A XLIX
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'AN ELLEGIACK ENCOMIUM' on the death of James I addressed to Charles I, in doggerel verse, by Richard Taileboys. Apparently autograph. The dedicatory letter, in prose, mentions (f. 2) that the King (Charles I) had already received a book from the author. The Elegy itself, which begins 'Mounte vp...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1625
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A XLVI
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Scope & Content:: ADDRESS to Queen Elizabeth on the disorders of the Royal Household, by an officer of the same. The writer, who defends himself against the charge of dishonesty made against him and hinted at by the Queen 'in a generall speache' to all her officers, states that from 28 years of age (f. 5 b) he ha...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1580
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A XLVII
Title:
Scope & Content:: VERSES by Sir Arthur Gorges (d. 1625), to illustrate three devices, viz. :-(a) For King James, the rose and thistle entwined round the harp, surmounted by a crown and crossed sword and sceptre, with motto 'Regum est parcere subiectis et debellare superbos'. Beg. 'Divinly did your Royall Mott pre...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1609
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A XLVIII
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Scope & Content:: 'THE TALE of Hemetes the heremyte pronownced before the Q. Maiesty att Woodstocke, 1575', by George Gascoigne (d. 1577), in Euphuistic prose. Preceded by 14 lines of verse over the poet's motto 'Tam marti quàm Mercurio' (f. 2), and a dedicatory letter to the Queen (f. 3) apparently signed by the...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1575
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A XV
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'THE EXPOSITION of the xxxvi Psalme of Dauid, Noli emulari in malignantibus, by the greate and exellent dyuyne Johannes de Turrecremata' [Juan de Torquemada, Cardinal, d. 1468], translated into English by Henry Parker, 10th Lord Morley (d. 1556), and dedicated to the Lady [afterwards Queen] Mary...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1509-1547]
Extent:: 1 item

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