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1. Stowe MS 132-267

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Stowe MS 132-267
Title:
SECT. V. - STATE PAPERS, DIPLOMATIC AND POLITICAL CORRESPONDENCE, AND HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
14th century-19th century
Extent:
136 items

2. Stowe MS 184-185

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Stowe MS 184-185
Title:
MISCELLANEOUS HISTORICAL PAPERS, consisting of original letters, and warrants of the various Parliamentary Committees, chiefly relating to the transactions of the Committee of Trustees or Contractors for the sale of the fee-farm rents of the Crown, which sat at Worcester House during the time of the Commonwealth; 1628-1660. With a few letters and transcripts of a later date, to 1746. Two volumes. Paper. Folio. The first part of vol. i. contains the correspondence of Sir Edward Dering, lst Ba...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1628-1746
Extent:
2 items

3. Stowe MS 234-240

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Stowe MS 234-240
Title:
TRANSCRIPTS Of the Hanover State papers contained in Nos. 222-232. Seven volumes. These transcripts were made before the present chronological arrangement of the originals, and are under various headings. Paper. xixth cent. Folio.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
7 items

4. Stowe MS 246-247

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Stowe MS 246-247
Title:
COLLECTION of letters, principally on state affairs, addressed with few exceptions to James Craggs, Jun., Secretary at War [13 Apr. 1717], and Secretary of State [16 Mar. 1718]; 1711- 1720. With a few papers of an earlier date. Two volumes. Paper. Folio. The most important series consists of letters of John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair, appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to France in Jan. 17l5 and Ambassador in Feb. 1719. They are his private letters, as distinct from his formal despatches, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1711-1720
Extent:
2 items

5. Stowe MS 233

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Stowe MS 233
Title:
Scope & Content:
ACCOUNT of the contents of the Hanover State Papers contained inHargrave MS 222-232, according to the original arrangement. At the beginning is a history of the papers. Paper; ff. 14. xviiith cent. Folio.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Stowe MS 241-242

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Stowe MS 241-242
Title:
STATE PAPERS and Correspondence, originals and copies, 1688 - 1744; collected by Thomas Astle, Keeper of the Records in the Tower, and intended to serve as an appendix to the Hanover Papers (Hargrave MS 222-232). Two volumes. Paper. Large Octavo.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1688-1744
Extent:
2 items

7. Stowe MS 194-196

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Stowe MS 194-196
Title:
COLLECTION of transcripts of state-papers, warrants, etc., tempp. Charles I.-William III., made for use as precedents. The binding (early 19th cent.) is lettered " Coventry's Papers." This refers either to Henry Coventry, Secretary of State, 1672-1679, or to his younger brother, Sir William Coventry, Secretary to James, Duke of York, 1660-1667, Commissioner of the Treasury, 1667-68, etc.; but they both died in 1686. In three volumes. There is an index of subjects at the end of each volume. P...
Scope & Content:
Records, Public: Transcripts of State papers, for precedents: temp. Chas. II.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[between 1625-1702]
Extent:
3 items

8. Stowe MS 264-265

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Stowe MS 264-265
Title:
TRANSCRIPTS Of official correspondence of the various Governors of the British North American Colonies with the Board of Trade and Plantations, and the Secretaries of State, on the subject of the Stamp Act and the disturbances caused by the attempt to put the Act into execution; 1764-1766. Two volumes. Paper; ff. 384, 406. xviiith cent. Folio.
Scope & Content:
Massachusetts, North America: Correspondence of the Governor, and Council minutes conc. the Stamp Act: 1765.: Copies.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
2 items

9. Stowe MS 198

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Stowe MS 198
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Scope & Content:
LETTERS of Sir William Temple, Bart., written during his embassy at Brussels in 1665-1666, translated into French in 1730 by James Newsham, being the first sixteen letters (excepting those written originally in French) in Swift's edition of Sir W. Temple's Correspondence, 1700. The last letter i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1730
Extent:
1 item

10. Stowe MS 132-137

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Stowe MS 132-137
Title:
TRANSCRIPTS Of despatches, instructions to ambassadors, negotiations, treaties, etc., chiefly relating to the general history of Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. Six volumes. Vol. II. has on f. 2 an engraved portrait, " W. Delff sculpsit," of Sir Dudley Carleton, Ambassador at Venice and the Hague, etc. (ob. 1632), and on f. 1 the book-plate of Richard, lst Duke of Buckingham and Chandos. All the volumes bear the book-plate, dated 1701, of Algernon Capell, Earl of Essex. Paper; xviith ...
Scope & Content:
Treaties: Negotiations, treaties, etc., relating to European history: 14th-17th centt. Records, Public: Transcripts of State papers on the general history of Europe: 16th. -17th centt. Algernon Capell, 2nd Earl of Essex: Book-plates. Bookplates: Capell (Algernon), Earl of Essex: 1701.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
14th century-17th century
Extent:
6 items