Volume 1

Catalogue of the Stowe manuscripts in the British Museum.

  • British Museum. Department of Manuscripts (Stowe MSS)
Date:
1895-1896
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Catalogue of the Stowe manuscripts in the British Museum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    15. “ Modus faoiendi duellum coram domino Kege,” temp. Eichard II.; begins “ Premierement les quereles et billes.” Fr. ff. 136-141. 16. “ Officium Marescalli”: grant of the office of Earl Marshal by Eichard II. to Thomas [Mowbray], Earl of Nottingham, 12 Jan. 1386 ; followed by a treatise on the duties of Earl Marshal, entitled “ Cy ensuiuant (sic) les usaiges que Thomas de Brotherton [Earl of Norfolk, 1312, and Earl Marshal, 1315], filz du Eoi, clamait a user per I’office de la Mareschalsee.” Lat. ff. 142-147 b. 17. “ Cy ensuyvent lez estatutes ordennances et coustumes a tenir en Ihost, ordonnes et faites par Ion advisement et deliberacion de notre tresexcellent et souveraigne seigneur le Eoy Eichard et Jehan, Due de Lancastre et Seneschal dangleterre,” etc.; Durham, 16 July, 1385. Ordinances for the expedition into Scotland in that year, with a detailed order of battle. Fr. ff. 148-151. 18. Account of the expedition of Edward I. into Scotland in 1296, beginning “ En Pan xxiii® du Eoy Edward dangleterre.” Fr. ff. 152-153 b. The volume concludes with a full table of contents, in a different hand (ff. 154-156). The whole of the articles, in somewhat different order, and with some additions, are contained also in Add. MS. 32,097, of the 15th cent. The volume contains a few MS. notes in the hand of Thomas Astle, and has the name “ Arundel ” written on f. 1. Paper; ff. 156. xvith cent. In brown leather covers, stamped with the arms of Henry, Prince of Wales, in the centre, and with the Prince of Wales’s feathers, issuing from a crown, at each comer. Folio. 141. Oeiginal papers, warrants, official and private letters, etc.; tempp. Hen. IV.—James I. Included are several letters from Abbots of monasteries before the Dissolution, the reports to the Privy Council of Commissioners appointed to take account of Church goods in 1552-1553, and other historical documents. The contents are as foEows;— 1. Warrant from Henry of Lancaster, Earl of Derby, afterwards King Henry IV., to William Loveney, Clerk of his Wardrobe, to supply Jak Davy with cloth for a gown for Davy’s father, in addition to gowns already allowed for himself, his mother and his wife; Hertford, 13 Aug. [1380-1397]. French. Holograph; with signet seal, surrounded with a wisp of plaited grass, f. 3. 2. Thomas Clare, Chancellor of Oxford University, to the Privy Council, in favour of John Bathe, a scholar of the University, accused of assaulting Thomas Coule, a burgess of Oxford; n. d, [1416-1418]. f. 5.
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