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Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 23
Title:
Scope & Content:: HOURS Of the Virgin, etc., in Latin, with French rubrics. There is no calendar, and the following are the contents: — (1) "Heures de le doleur et compassion de le glorieuse viergene Marie pour Ihesu Crist." f. 3; — (2) Prayers to the Virgin, with (f. 38b) the hymn "Gaude flore virginali." f. 32;...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 732
Title:
Scope & Content:: KENTISH ARMS in trick, a collection made apparently about 1620, but copied later. The names of the bearers on ff. 44-47 are dated between 1380 and 1416. With index. Vellum and paper; ff. 51. Late XVIIth cent. Octavo. County of Kent: Arms of families: 17th-18th centt. Heraldry: Kentish arms: ci...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 805-806
Title:: "A REGISTER of the names and occupations of all persons residing within the county of Buckingham (not engaged in any military capacity) between the ages of 15 and 60 years; and also of the number of draught horses, waggons, carts of burthen, wind and water corn-mills, within the same. Returned to John Penn, Esq., High Sheriff, pursuant to a precept issued by him for the better ascertaining the Posse Comitatus. Carefully examined and arranged by Acton Chaplin, Undersheriff, 1798." In two volu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1798
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 87
Title:
Scope & Content:: "DÉTAIL GÉNÉRAL et spécifique sur toutes les parties des Finances du Royaume de France; seconde partie, 1766": an enumeration and discussion of the taxes and imposts existing in France at this period, ending with an attack on the heaviness of the burdens and the maladministration of the finances...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1766
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 681
Title:
Scope & Content:: ARMS of English sovereigns from William I to William III and Mary, with those of the peers created in their respective reigns (to 1689). In trick and blazon; with biographical particulars of the peers created, etc. f. 4. Preceded by the arms of "the five conquerors of this island," sc. Brutus, J...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 789
Title:
Scope & Content:: 1. "ABREGÉ de la Geographie"; apparently compiled between 1742 and 1763 (see ff. 136, 137). Not the same work as No. 788, and much less full. 2. "Principes de la langue françoise": a short treatise on French grammar. f. 186. Paper; ff. 197. XVIIIth cent. Quarto. includes: f. 1 Geography: Abr...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 843
Title:
Scope & Content:: FORMS OF OATHS of Mayors, Aldermen, Justices of peace and other civil officers of the borough of Colchester; 18th cent. With a list in the hand of Rev. Philip Morant. Paper; ff. 10. XVIIIth cent. Octavo. Oaths: For Mayors etc., of Colchester: 18th cent.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 86
Title:
Scope & Content:: "ETAT ACTUEL des affaires généralles concernant les Finances du Royaume de France": a tabular statement of the finances of France, drawn up in or about 1762, and including statements (1) of the ordinary revenue, (2) of the ordinary expenditure, (3) of the extraordinary sums raised in 1755-1762 f...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1762
Extent:: 1 item

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