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121. Stowe MS 139

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Stowe MS 139
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" LIST of Treaties between ye severall Princes and States of the World," arranged chronologically under the various countries, as follows:-(1) England, 1442-1681. ff. 19-35b;-(2) France, 1438-1679. ff.36-44,85b-91;-(3)Holland,1441-1678. ff.44b- 61 b;-(4) Sweden, 1614-1681. ff. 62-67;-(5) Germany...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1693
Extent:
1 item

122. Stowe MS 221

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Stowe MS 221
Title:
Letter of James II to the Grand Vizier Azem, announcing the recall of James Brydges, 8th Baron Chandos, Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire; Windsor, 30 September, 1685
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Contents: A letter of James II (r. 1685-1688), King of England, Scotland, and Ireland to the Grand Vizier Azem, announcing the recall of James Brydges (b. 1642, d. 1714), 8th Baron Chandos, as English Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, and the appointment of Sir William Soame (b. c. 1645, d. 16...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Sep 1685
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1 leaf

123. Stowe MS 255

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Stowe MS 255
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" PROCEEDINGS against the Rebels after the Rebellion in 1745," consisting of a complete account of the legal proceedings against the prisoners at York and Carlisle, in Aug. and Sept. 1746, the witnesses' depositions, etc. At the end (f. 91) is added a copy of Queen Anne's Commission for regulati...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1746
Extent:
1 item

124. Stowe MS 59

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Stowe MS 59
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"EXPLANATIO Testamenti Regis Alfredi," and other writings relating to Hyde Abbey, Winchester, in Latin and English, copied "ex libro Abbatiæ de Hyda," sc. from Stowe 58, ff. 23 b-47 b, 53-68. All the documents are included in the Rolls Series edition of the Liber Monasterii de Hyda, 1866. Paper;...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

125. Stowe MS 273

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Stowe MS 273
Title:
Robert Glover (?), An Answer to John Leslie, Bishop of Ross, 1584-1585
Scope & Content:
This treatise carries a title page in an 18th- or 19th-century hand: 'AN ANSWER to a discourse of John Lesley, Bishop of Rosse, intended to prove that Mary, Queen of Scots, was intitled to the crown of England in preference to Queen Elizabeth, because the Pope had deposed her, and that her son ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1584-1585
Extent:
1 volume

126. Stowe MS 65

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Stowe MS 65
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THE POLYCHRONICON of Ranulph Higden, translated into English by John Trevisa; in seven books. With three prefaces, the first beg. "Aftir solempne and wi[y]se writeris of artis and sciencis." The text does not agree completely with that of any of the MSS. collated for the edition in the Rolls Ser...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 15th century
Extent:
1 item

127. Stowe MS 284

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Stowe MS 284
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A DISCOURSE of Foreign War, with an account of all the Taxations upon this Kingdom, etc., by Sir Robert Cotton, Bart. Printed in 1690. Paper; ff. 47. Early xviith cent. Belonged, in 1774, to Thomas Astle. Small Quarto. Political Tracts: "Discourse of Foreign War," by Sir R. Cotton: early 17th c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 item

128. Stowe MS 306

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Stowe MS 306
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MISCELLANEOUS TRACTS and papers, viz. :- 1. Copy of the Charter granted by Queen Elizabeth to the city of Winchester; 1571. f 1. 2. Extracts from the Journals of the House of Commons referring to questions of' privilege of Members of that House with reference to the jurisdiction of the House ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century-19th century
Extent:
1 item

129. Stowe MS 66

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Stowe MS 66
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1. FORM of resignation of the crown by Richard II. [29 Sept. 1399], followed by the "protestacio regis Ricardi ante resignacionem," the challenge of the crown by Henry, Duke of Lancaster., and his speech after election as Henry IV. The first two articles in Latin, the others in English. See Rot....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

130. Stowe MS 280

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Stowe MS 280
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1."A DISCOURSE, of passages betweene the Earles of Essex, Northampton and Somerset, the Countesse of Somerset, Sir Thomas Overbury and others, with theyre risinge and fall, with diverse other matters acted duringe the late raigne of King James, as alsoe of the Duke of Buckinghams first cominge i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

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