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31. Stowe MS 280

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Stowe MS 280
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Scope & Content:
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

32. Stowe MS 275

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Stowe MS 275
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" AN APOLOGIE of [Robert Devereux] the earle of Essex against those which falsly and malitiously take him to be the onely hinderance of the peace and quietnes of his countrye ": a defence of the policy of war with Spain, addressed to Anthony Bacon in 1598. To this is annexed, in the same hand, a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
Extent:
1 item

33. Stowe MS 279

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Stowe MS 279
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1. " MAXIMS, religious and political, of King James 1. f. 2. Printed, but with variations, in The Prince's Cabala, etc., 1715, under the title of " The Table-Talk of King James I., etc. Collected by Sir Thomas Overbury." 2. " Obseruations upon the state of the 17 Prouinces, as they stood ao 1619...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 item

34. Stowe MS 268

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Stowe MS 268
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" A BREYFE DISCOURSE in prayse of Kynge Rychard the Thyrd, Kynge of England. . . . . . Said to have been composed by Sir William Cornwallis the younger." With the note (f. 4) by Thomas Astle, " . . . . . transcribed from the original formerly in the library of John Anstis, Esqr., Garter K. at Ar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

35. Stowe MS 276

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Stowe MS 276
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1. Copy of the letter of [Robert Devereux], Earl of Essex, to [Henry Wriothesley], Earl of Southampton, written shortly before the execution of the former in 1601. Printed in 1642. f. 3 b. 2. Treatise, " Of the foundacion of a State and the essencial parts that form a Prince." A note in anothe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 item

36. Stowe MS 303

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Stowe MS 303
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TRANSCRIPTS of tracts and papers relating to Trade, Parliamentary and Legal Procedure and State affairs; temp . Charles II. 1. " A particular Journal of the proceedings in the House of Peers in a cause between T[homas] Skinner, a private merchant trading to the E. Indies, and the E. India Comp...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[between 1649-1685]
Extent:
1 item

37. Stowe MS 272

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Stowe MS 272
Title:
John Leslie, 'A treatise touchinge the right, title, and interest of the moste excellente princesse Marie, Queene of Scotland' (1584); early 17th century devotional poetry and other writings
Scope & Content:
This volume's original vellum cover has been retained, bearing on the front and back the arms and name of Richard St George (1554/5-1635), herald. The cover (f. 1r) also has written on it in a 17th century hand the contents as: 'The Title of Scotland to the Crown of England by John Lisle Bishop...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1584-1635
Extent:
1 volume

38. Stowe MS 307

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Stowe MS 307
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TRACTS and papers, political and miscellaneous; circ. 1680-1807. 1. " Of the King's power of pardoning Impeachments, by Heneage [Finch], late Earl of Nottingham (ob. 1682), late Lord Chancellor of England, on account of the late Earl of Danby's pardon." copy, circ. 1700. Printed in 1791, f. 1....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1680-1807
Extent:
1 item

39. Stowe MS 298

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Stowe MS 298
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TRACTS, political and legal, etc..- 1. " An argument vppon the question of Imposicions, devided into sundrie chapters, by Sr John Davies, knight," etc. (See above, No. 297, art. l.) f. 2. 2. Argument against Impositions, by James Whitelocke, preceded by the Remonstrance from the House of Commo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[between 1625-1649]
Extent:
1 item

40. Stowe MS 296

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Stowe MS 296
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TRACTS, political and legal, etc.:- 1. Speech of Sir Walter Mildmay in the Star Chamber, 28 Mar. 1587, " at the censure of Secretary [William] Davison," for despatching the Queen's warrant for the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, her Majestic being alto-ether vnacquainted with the matter., n...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item