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1. Stowe MS 981-1015

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Stowe MS 981-1015
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CLASS XXII. PROSE WORKS, PHILOLOGICAL, MORAL, PHILOSOPHICAL, ETC, WITH LITERARY COLLECTIONS AND COMMONPLACES.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
14th century-19th century
Extent:
35 items

2. Stowe MS 991

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Stowe MS 991
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"IDÆÆ ORATIONUM desumptæ ex disquisitionum politicarum materiis": outlines of speeches and addresses suitable for various occasions in political affairs. Latin. There are 90 in all, the subjects of some being stated in general terms, e.g. "Idæa orationis qua nova vectigalia necessitatis Reipubli...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

3. Stowe MS 1011-1012

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Stowe MS 1011-1012
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COMMONPLACE-BOOKS of John Fortescue Aland, Justice of the King's Bench (1727) and of the Common Pleas (1729), cr. Lord Fortescue of Credan in 1746 (ob. 1746), partly legal, partly general, including such subjects as Non-jurors, the doctrine of Resistance, Escheators, Mahomet, Philosophy, etc., the entries for the most part being very brief. Two volumes; with an index of subjects at the end of each. Paper; ff. 116, 45. Belonged to Thomas Astle. Small Quarto.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
2 items

4. Stowe MS 992

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Stowe MS 992
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"ORIGINAL MEMOIRS of Apparitions and Spirits in Wales": a collection of stories of apparitions of spirits and fairies in various places in Wales, especially in and near the parish of Blaenau Gwent [Aberustryth, al. Aberystwith, co. Monmouth], to which the narrator, who relates several supernatur...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1738
Extent:
1 item

5. Stowe MS 1015

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Stowe MS 1015
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COMMONPLACE-BOOK, containing extracts from Caesar's Commentaries and from Sir Clement Edmondes's "Observations" on the same, with shorter quotations from Ovid, Horace, Juvenal, and Persius. Paper; ff. 199. Early XVIIIth cent. The name "Madame Willten" appears on the inside cover. Folio. Madame ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Stowe MS 993

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Stowe MS 993
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ESSAY on the dignity of Trade, showing the high opinion in which it has been held in all ages, and that it is as honourable a pursuit, and as likely to lead to advancement, as any of the learned professions. There are two versions of the essay, in different hands, one having been crossed through...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1747
Extent:
1 item

7. Stowe MS 984

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Stowe MS 984
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"BISHOP Bedle [?William Bedell, Bishop of Kilmore, 1629-42, and Ardagh, 1629-33] his groundes for the lawfullnesse of usury." The tract is not included in the lists of Bedell's works given by his biographers. Paper; ff. 47. XVIIth cent. Belonged, 18th cent., to John Keymer. Duodecimo. Usury: Tr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

8. Stowe MS 994-1009

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Stowe MS 994-1009
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SPECIMENS of the signatures and handwriting produced (according to the title-page) "by me William Henry Ireland during my fabrication of the manuscripts which I wrote and attributed to Shakespeare," with Ireland's explanatory notes. Paper; ff. 9. XVIIIth-XIXth cent. Quarto. Accompanying this volume are sixteen printed tracts, containing Ireland's forged signatures and marginal notes of Shakespeare, most of them having on the titlepage the inscription "S[amuel] Ireland from his dear Son." The...
Scope & Content:
William Shakespeare: Signatures and marginal notes forged by W. H. Ireland: 18th-19th centt.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
16 items

9. Stowe MS 1014

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Stowe MS 1014
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COMMONPLACE-BOOK, containing extracts from various authors, by Thomas Astle. On f. 32 is a recipe "to make decay'd letters appear in an old MS." Paper; ff. 32. Circ. 1760. Sm. Quarto. Thomas Astle, ob. 1803: Commonplace-book: circ. 1760. includes: f. 32 Recipes: To revive decayed letters in o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1760
Extent:
1 item

10. Stowe MS 987

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Stowe MS 987
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ANAGRAM On the words "Charles the Second by the Grace of God King of England, Scotland, Fraunce, and Irelande, Defender of the Faith," by P[aul] Lorrain; with explanatory treatise, and dedicatory letter to Samuel Pepys, Secretary of the Admiralty, dated 1 Jan. 1684/5. The writer speaks of himsel...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1 Jan 1685]
Extent:
1 item