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Royal MS 18 A LXIII
- Record Id:
- 040-002107479
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000338.0x0002b4
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 18 A LXIII
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
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'A DISCOURSE of the beseiginge, defendinge and releeuinge of the towne of Bergen vp Zome in the year 1622', by an anonymous author; introduced by two ten-line stanzas addressed 'To the Prince his Highnes' [Charles, Prince of Wales], beg. 'Vnto your Hignes humbly I present This poore discourse, which shewes no discontent'. The treatise beg. 'It is not to bee accounted extrauigancy in a musition' (f. 1). The author, who was present with the allied army and calls himself 'but an apprentice in this craft of soulgerie' (f. 4) and 'a souldier of a summers standinge' (f. 20), says that he writes what he has 'gathered and learned from his Excellencie (sc. Maurice, Prince of Orange) and the rest of the cheifes' (f. 4 b). A few corrections are apparently autograph. An 'abridged copy' is printed in C. Dalton's Life and Times of Gen. Sir Edward Cecil, Viscount Wimbledon, 1885, ii, p. 16.
Paper; ff. i + 36. Quarto. 101/3 in. x 7 in. Circ. 1622. Not in the old catalogues.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Royal Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-002107479 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 18 A LXIII : 'A DISCOURSE of the beseiginge, defendinge and releeuinge of the towne of Bergen vp Zome in the year 1622', by an… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[1632]/040-002107479
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1617
- End Date:
- 1627
- Date Range:
- c 1622
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)