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1711. Royal MS 18 B XXVIII

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Royal MS 18 B XXVIII
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'A BRIEF SOMME of Geographia, which dothe treat o all partes and provinces of the worlde and specially of countreis lately dyscovered by your maiestie and by themperour Charles of that name the vth and of the kynges of Portugall and Spayne' (so described in the introductory letter to Henry VIII)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1535-1543
Extent:
1 item

1712. Royal MS 18 B XXX

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Royal MS 18 B XXX
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TABLE of contents of an anonymous treatise, or scheme for a treatise, called 'The Revelation of the Divine Majestie', in 24 books and a preface. Each of the books has for title a word or passage of Genesis i. 1-5. It is of a cosmographical, and in parts alchemical (cf. Bk. 4, 5), character rat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
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1 item

1713. Royal MS 18 B XXXI

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Royal MS 18 B XXXI
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THE FALL OF PRINCES: poem by John Lydgate in nine books (5140 x 7 + 19 x 8 lines), being his translation of Laurent de Premierfaits French version of Giovanni Boccaccio's Latin prose work De casibus Virorum Illustrium. The divisions between the books are generally only distinguished by a somewha...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

1714. Royal MS 18 C I

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Royal MS 18 C I
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MISCELLANEOUS genealogical, heraldic, and historical collection, possibly by one of the Styward family of Ely, though it does not seem to contain any of the same hands as Add. MS. 15644 or Egerton MSS. 2162, 2599. Included are:- 1. Pedigree (to circ. 1600) of the descendants of Sir William Bran...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 item

1715. Royal MS 18 C III

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Royal MS 18 C III
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'MR. [HUGH] HALLES a priestes discourse of gardeninge applied to a spirituall vnderstandinge'. For the author, whose Christian name is given in the Lumley cat., see Cal. State Papers, Domestic, 1581-1590, pp. 128, 129, 138, 142. In treating of the uses of the ordinary gardening tools, viz. the s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 16th century
Extent:
1 item

1716. Royal MS 18 C IV

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Royal MS 18 C IV
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ANONYMOUS TREATISE to prove 'That Popishe Priestes are not proceeded with or condemned in England bicause they tooke orders or were brought vpp beyonde the seas', &c., but for seditious practices. Preceded (f. 1) by a list of 'The names of the bookes and authors that are hereafter cited', an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1604
Extent:
1 item

1717. Royal MS 18 C IX

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Royal MS 18 C IX
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Vol. ii. bks. 23-25.
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 16th century
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1 item

1718. Royal MS 18 C V

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Royal MS 18 C V
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'A TREATISE OF TYTHES', advocating the voidance of impropriations, in five chapters, by William Swaddon, D.D., Archdeacon of Worcester (1610, d. 1623). Preceded by an address to James I (f. 2) signed by the author, and a preface 'To the freendlie Reader'. Paper; ff. 55. Folio. 121/2 in. x 73/4 i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1610-1623
Extent:
1 item

1719. Royal MS 18 C VI

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Royal MS 18 C VI
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DRAFT of a proposed Act of Parliament for the employment or punishment of 'strong valiaunt beggers, vacabundes and idle persones' by the institution of public works, as making or repairing havens and harbours, highways, fortresses, &c., such works 'to begyn the first daie of Marche that shal...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1536
Extent:
1 item

1720. Royal MS 18 C VII

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Royal MS 18 C VII
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'THE TRAGOEDY of Cleopatra, Queene of Aegypt' [by Thomas May, see Dict. Nat. Biogr.]. The play was acted in 1626, printed in 1639, and again in 1654. With these editions the MS., with a few verbal exceptions, agrees. On two leaves (113/4 in. x 71/2 in.) at the beginning (ff. 1, 2) is a fragment...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

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