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11. Add MS 89036/1/12

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 89036/1/12
Title:
William Dacres Adams: Political Correspondence of William Pitt, the Younger
Scope & Content:
Document numbering continues from Add MS 89036/1/11: 38(i). June 1804. Pitt's notes in respect of Lord Seaforth. 39. Downing Street, Pitt to Count Woronzow, 1 June 1804. Copy draft. 40. Joseph Fiber [?Tiber] to [Pitt], 1 June 1804. A plan to disseminate political leaflets in France by balloon at...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1804
Extent:
1 file

12. Royal MS 20 D I

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 D I
Title:
Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César, second redaction
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the earliest surviving copy of the second redaction of the Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César, probably produced in the 14th century. This version focuses on Troy, eliminating the biblical histories and the history of Alexander and integrates portions of the prose translati...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c 1330-c 1340
Extent:

363 folios.

13. Add MS 38525

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 38525
Title:
HISTORICAL COLLECTION to illustrate the times of Henry V, made by Robert Sanderson (d. 1741), Clerk of the Rolls, one of the editors of Rymer's Fædera. It consists of extracts and copies of documents relating chiefly to the French war, the Lollards, etc., taken from the public records in his charge and from Cotton MSS. (some of which have since been lost in the fire of 1731), etc., the references being generally given in the margins. A few earlier and later documents are added. For Sanderson...
Scope & Content:
Robert Sanderson, Clerk of the Rolls, d.1741: Collection for temp. Hen. V made by. Henry V of England: R. Sanderson's historical collection for reign of: 18th cent. England, Ecclesiastical History: Collections of R. Sanderson, rel. to lollardry, etc., temp. Hen.V: 18th cent. includes: f. 1 W...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

14. Add MS 38139

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Add MS 38139
Title:
Scope & Content:
HISTORICAL collections of Sir Peter Manwood, of Hackington co. Kent (son of Sir Roger Manwood, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, 1578-1592), Sheriff of Kent 1602, K.B. 1603, d. 1625: consisting mainly of transcripts and translations of state papers, 1564-1618 especially for the years 1603-1605. Most...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1564-1618
Extent:
1 item

15. Add MS 40160

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Add MS 40160
Title:
COMMONPLACE-BOOK of [William Lloyd, Bishop of Norwich; cf. J. H. Overton, The Nonjurors, pp. 38-46]; mainly transcripts of religious and political papers. Names of authors, etc., are in the bishop's autograph. The principal contents are as follows:- 1. "The Presbyterian Pater Noster, Creed, and Ten Commandments"; a parody by Thomas Ashenden, rector of Dingley, co. Northt. Printed, probably in 1681. f. 2. 2. "A Speech lately made by A noble Peer of the Realm" [i.e. Anthony Ashley Cooper, ...
Scope & Content:
Political Tracts: Miscellaneous tracts, in commonplace book: early 18th cent. Commonplace Books: Bp. W. Lloyd, nonjuror: early 18th cent. William Lloyd, Bishop of Norwich; nonjuror: Commonplace - book: early 18th cent. England, Ecclesiastical History: Commonplace-book containing nonjuring tra...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1680-1740
Extent:
1 item

16. Stowe MS 228

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 228
Title:
Scope & Content:
HANOVER PAPERS. Vol. VII. (ff. 298). 1/12 Jan. 1714/5 - 10/21 July, 1716. The writers are [St. Paul Boucquet, Minister at Wandsworth; 2 Oct. 1715]. Imperf. f. 134. J[oachim] H[einrich, Baron] Bülow; Hanover, 4 Febr. 1716. f 221. [Gen.] W[illiam Cadogan, [afterw. Earl Cadogan] ; Edinburgh, Inver...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and German
Date Range:
[12 Jan 1715-21 Jul 1716]
Extent:
1 item

17. Egerton MS 2877

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2877
Title:
COMMONPLACE-BOOK of Gilbert Frevile, of Bishop Middleham, co. Durham, containing notes of sermons by Puritan and other divines, miscellancous historical matter, etc. Tables of contents are at ff. 2 b, 188. The date 1591 on the cover is perhaps that of the commencement of the collection. The chief contents are:- 1. Copy of a sundial, with the name of Rob. de Freuyle, 1583. f. 1. 2. Calligraphical design, "Servire deo est regnare." f. 2. 3. Beginning of a compendium of English history, d...
Scope & Content:
London, Parishes. St. Mary Aldermary: Sermons by puritan and other divines,: circ. 1604-1611. Sermons: Notes of sermons by puritans and others, chiefly in London: circ. 1604-1611. Francis Marberry, rector of St: Martin, vintry, and St. Pancras, Soper Lane. Sermons by: circ. 1605-1610. Commonp...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1579-1622
Extent:
1 item

18. Add MS 5467

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 5467
Title:
COLLECTION OF TRACTS: includes items translated by John Shirley (d.1456); mid - late 15th cent. Origin: England. The reference to Henry VI on f. 72v suggests a date after 1461. English and some Latin. Imperfect at end (catchword f. 224v). For descriptions of this manuscript and discussion of Shirley and his work, see: M. A. Manzalaoui, ed., Secretum Secretorum, EETS, no. 276 (1977), i, Text, pp. xxxvii-xxxviii; O. Gaertner, John Shirley sein Leben und Wirken (1904); A. I. Doyle, 'More light ...
Scope & Content:
Marmaduke Towlard, fl. 1683: Memoranda, etc., by: late 17th cent. includes: ff. 1-15v Horticulture: Geoffrey de Vinsauf, fl. 1200: On the tilling of trees, attrib. to G. de Vinsauf: 15th cent. ff. 1-22 Watermarks: Tête de boeuf: late 15th cent. ff. 16-21 Horticulture: Nicholas Bollard, natural...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
15th century-17th century
Extent:
1 item

19. Add MS 8331

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 8331
Title:
MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of political treatises, discourses, satires and other papers relating to Rome, Genoa, France, Germany, Tuscany, and Sweden; circa 1613-1652. Italian. Copies. The MS. includes: - (a) three treatises (arts. 1-3) relating to ambassadorial precedence at the papal court for representatives of the Republic of Genoa, after 1641; - (b) discourse (art. 4) addressed to Queen Christina of Sweden by the Dutch scholar Theodor Ameyden in celebration of the treaty of peace with the...
Scope & Content:
Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. Rome; Court of; and Popes, Bishops of. General: Political treatises and satires rel. to: circa 1613-1652: Ital: Copies. includes: ff. 2-84v Republic of Genoa: Ceremonials: Ambassadors: Treatises rel. to ambassadorial precedence of Genoese represe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1613-1652
Extent:
1 item

20. Add MS 74246

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 74246
Title:
HENRY HERBERT, 4TH BARON HERBERT OF CHIRBURY: notebook containing accounts of his executor, John Edwards of Rorrington in Chirbury, co Salop., 1691-1700, and other items relating to Lord Herbert and the Lloyd family; 1688-1740. Before being used as an account book, the volume belonged to Lord Herbert himself, who used it to enter copies of documents circulated prior to the Revolution of 1688. Herbert was an Exclusionist and a supporter of William of Orange. See also Add. MS 37157 for further...
Scope & Content:
Accounts: Henry Herbert, 4th Baron Herbert of Chirbury: John Edwards, of Rorrington; executor of Lord Herbert of Chirbury: James II of England: Notebook and executor's account-book of Lord Herbert of Chirbury: 1688-1740: Partly autogr. includes: ff. 54v-87v Lloyd Edwards, of Rorrington: Note...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1688-1740
Extent:
1 item

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