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21. Stowe MS 271

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Stowe MS 271
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Scope & Content:
1. " LEICESTER'S Commonwealth " : the political tract attributed to Robert Parsons, the Jesuit (see No. 270). f. 1b. 2. " Encyclopædia sive tabulæ artium liberalium " : a summary of philosophy, theology, etc., in the form of deductive tables, in Latin and English. f 49. Paper; ff. 79. xviith c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

22. Stowe MS 295

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Stowe MS 295
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" A PLAN for the more speedy conclusion of the present very bloody and expensive war [with France], in case it shall not be thought expedient to continue it on the present footing in Germany, by Thomas Cole "; circ. 1758. With a dedicatory letter to George II., in which the writer speaks of havi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1758
Extent:
1 item

23. Stowe MS 297

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Stowe MS 297
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1. " AN ARGUMENT upon the questions of Impositions [debated in 1610], diuided into sundry chapters, by Sr John Dauyes, Knight, one of his Maiestyes learnd Counsell in Ireland " [Attorney General for Ireland, 1606, ob. 1626]. Printed under the title, The question concerning Impositions, etc., 165...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[between 1625-1649]
Extent:
1 item

24. Stowe MS 283

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Stowe MS 283
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" THE PASSAGES and occurrences which happened from the first acceptation of the Crowne of Bohemia by the Palsgrave [Frederic] untill the looseinge of the Palatinate," in 1623, with especial reference to the part taken with regard to the affairs of the Palatinate by James I. In a contemporary han...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1623
Extent:
1 item

25. Stowe MS 285

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Stowe MS 285
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1. A DISCOURSE of Court and Courtiers. f. 2. The author's name is not given; but in a copy in Harley MS. 3364 the preface, which is addressed to the Duke of Lenox, is signed by " Edw. Payton " [Sir Edward Peyton, Bart.] and dated " from Isleham, vlt. Martii, 1633." 2. " A discoverye of the Holla...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1630
Extent:
1 item

26. Stowe MS 294

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Stowe MS 294
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" A LETTER to a young Gentleman by a Tutor and Fellow of a College in Oxford," giving him advice as to his behaviour in political affairs. The preface is dated 4 Apr. 1748. The name of George Bridges appears oil the cover, and the MS. is evidently in his hand, but there was no graduate of that n...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Apr 1748
Extent:
1 item

27. Stowe MS 289

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Stowe MS 289
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PARALLEL between Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, and George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, by Sir Henry Wotton, 1641. Printed in Reliquiae Wottonianae, 1672. Paper; ff. 20. xviith cent. Small Folio. Sir Henry Wotton, Ambassador to Venice, and (1623) Provost of Eton: Parallel between the Earl of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1641
Extent:
1 item

28. Stowe MS 273

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 273
Title:
Robert Glover (?), An Answer to John Leslie, Bishop of Ross, 1584-1585
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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

29. 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

30. 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