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2. Stowe MS 743-748
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 743-748
- Title:
- MISCELLANEOUS ORIGINAL LETTERS on historical, literary, and other subjects; 1570-1759. Six volumes, folio, chronologically arranged. A large proportion of the letters down to 1684 are addressed to Sir Edward Dering, of Surrenden, co. Kent, 1st Bart., M.P. (ob. 1644), and to his son, Sir Edward, 2nd Bart., M.P. (ob. 1684), those to the latter referring more especially to his duties as Commissioner for Claims in Ireland after the Restoration. Another series, of the latter part of the 17th cent...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1570-1759
- Extent:
- 6 items
3. Stowe MS 756
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 756
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
- LETTER-BOOK containing copies of letters of a writer whose name is not given, addressed to " Dolly Sqr," her father, John Handley, his cousin, and others, on the subject of his love for the lady, and his desire to make her his wife; St. Albans and London, 6 April, 1725-29 Jan. 1725/6 Paper; ff. ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 6 Apr 1725-29 Jan 1726
- Extent:
- 1 item
4. Stowe MS 760
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 760
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
- 1. "FORMULÆ LITERARUM collected out of the most quaint authours in diverse languages." The only English authors mentioned are Sir Henry Wotton and Sir Francis Bacon. f. 2. 2. "Formes of Passeports in Latin, English, French, Italian, etc.," chiefly granted by Heneage Finch, Earl of Winchilsea, ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 item
5. Stowe MS 752-754
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 752-754
- Title:
- ORIGINAL LETTERS addressed to Charles Lyttelton, LL.D., Dean of Exeter [1748-1762] and Bishop of Carlisle [1762-1768], President of the Society of Antiquaries [1765], chiefly of literary and antiquarian subjects; 1730-1768. Three volumes. Paper. Folio.
- Scope & Content:
- Charles Lyttelton, DD; FRS; Bishop of Carlisle: Correspondence of: 1730-1768.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1730-1768
- Extent:
- 3 items
6. Stowe MS 757
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 757
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
- LETTER from N[athaniel] B[rassey] Halhed [author of A Code of Gentoo Laws, 1776, and A Grammar of the Bengal Language, 1778, afterwards M.P. for Lymington 1791-1796] to the Rev. [George] Costard, on the antiquity and character of the Indian language and religion, in reply to a letter published b...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1779
- Extent:
- 1 item
7. Stowe MS 751
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 751
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
- ORIGINAL LETTERS Of John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, and Sarah his wife, to James Craggs, Sen. [Postmaster-General in 1715], who was acting as financial secretary to the Duchess; 1711-1718. The Duke's letters are twenty-one in number, and with one exception (f l5), dated "Camp before Bouchai...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1711-1718
- Extent:
- 1 item
8. Stowe MS 759
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 759
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
- 1. EPIT0ME Of Church history, from the birth of Christ to 1612. ff. 3-49 b. Followed (ff. 50-59) by notes, in the same hand, on the Apostles and Evangelists, the early Bishops of Rome, Jerusalem, and Alexandria, and other Fathers of the Church. At ff. 1 b, 2, are memoranda of commercial transact...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Italian
- Date Range:
- 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 item
9. Stowe MS 749
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 749
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
- ORIGINAL LETTERS addressed to John Anstis, Garter King of Arms (ob. 1745), on antiquarian subjects, principally heraldic or genealogical; 21 Oct. 1700-19 Mar. 1741/2. The last letter, dated 12 Apr. 1746, must be to John Anstis jun. The names of the writers are given in the index. Among them are:...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and French
- Date Range:
- 21 Oct 1700-19 Mar 1742
- Extent:
- 1 item
10. Stowe MS 758
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 758
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
- MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS, Treasury warrants, papers, etc.; 1619- 1818. Amongst them are:- 1. Statement of claims on the Exchequer of Frances, wife of Sir Thomas Savile, and grand-daughter of William, Lord Cobham; circ. 1620. 2. Speech of Algernon Sydney delivered to the Sheriffs on the scaffold...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1619-1818
- Extent:
- 1 item