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1. Stowe MS 268-310

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Stowe MS 268-310
Title:
SECT. VI.-POLITICAL TRACTS, COLLECTIONS, CARICATURES, ETC.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
16th century-19th century
Extent:
43 items

2. Stowe MS 293

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Stowe MS 293
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TRACT " Concerning the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and new Oaths imposed in lieu of them how far the obligation of the former ceases in respect of King James, etc."; circ. 1700. Paper; ff. 16. Small quarto. Political Tracts: Concerning the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy: circ. 1700. O...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1700
Extent:
1 item

3. Stowe MS 278

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Stowe MS 278
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" FRAGMENTA REGALIA, or observacions on Queene Elizabeth, her tymes and favourites," by Sir Robert Naunton, Secretary of State. First printed in 1641. Paper; ff. 69. xviith cent. Small folio. Political Tracts: "Fragmenta Regalia," by Sir R. Naunton: 17th cent. Sir Robert Naunton, Secretary of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

4. Stowe MS 274

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Stowe MS 274
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" A LARGE and excellent discourse of the estate of Christiandome, written by an vnknowne author about the yeare of our Lord 1594 . . . conteyning many secret passages and hidden mysteries of the tymes both past and present, with much variety of good matter both historicall and politicall." The a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Stowe MS 290

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Stowe MS 290
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PAMPHLET, in form of a letter to a person unnamed, in reference to the proposed marriage of James, Duke of York, [James II.], urging by historical examples the right of the royal family to arrange its marriages without reference to Parliament, and without taking into consideration the question o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Feb 1679
Extent:
1 item

6. Stowe MS 310

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Stowe MS 310
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Scope & Content:
COLLECTION of engraved political caricatures illustrating the closing years of George II., and more particularly the last Administration of Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle. Among the characters caricatured are the Duke, Robert Darcy, 4th Baron Holdernesse, Philip Yorke, lst Earl of Hardw...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

7. Stowe MS 281

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Stowe MS 281
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"VOX POPULI, or News frome Spayne, translated according to the [imaginary] Spanishe coppie": a pamphlet by Thomas Scott against the Spanish Match. Priinted in 1620, and suppressed; included in the Somers Tracts, 1809, vol. ii., p. 508. Paper; ff. 14. xviith cent. Small quarto. Thomas Scott: Vox...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

8. Stowe MS 301

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Stowe MS 301
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Scope & Content:
POLITICAL and other tracts, viz.:- 1. Treatise on a war with Spain in the Low Countries, urging the disadvantages of it; beg. "The tyme of the daie is to be considered." f. 2. 2. " The number of Fleetes, 'besides the shippes mayneteyned in the Narrow Seas, that her Majestie set forth from th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Mar 1624
Extent:
1 item

9. Stowe MS 277

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Stowe MS 277
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"DISCOURSE concerning the prerogative of the Crown," by William Camden, beg. "The lawes of England which men call the common lawes." Apparently a draft. Paper; ff. 12. Early xviith cent. Small quarto. Political Tracts: Discourse on the prerogative of the Crown, by W. Camden: early 17th cent. W...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 item

10. Stowe MS 291

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Stowe MS 291
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" A VINDICATION Of ye Revolution, or a Hearty Endeavour to unite all the Members of the Church of England to the present Government, in a Dialogue between a Jacobite Tory and a Williaimite Tory." Apparently written before the death of Qu. Mary (27 Dec. 1694). Paper - ff. 17. Bound in dark blue m...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
1 item