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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    London, “to take and retaine . . . goldsmithes, fyners, parters, smythes, gravors, monyers, labourers, or enie other artyficer of what facultie or science they he of,” together with materials of all kinds, and to imprison all who shall “ obstinatlie disobey or refuse at enie tyme from hensforth either by daie or by night to accom- plishe, obey, or fulfill ” the above commands. Signed; but without date or seal. Vellum, f. 18. 16. Warrant from Philip of Spain, husband of Queen Mary, as King of England, to his Treasurer, Dominico D’Orbea, for payment of a pension of 200 crowns, English money, to Edward Eaudolf, Colonel of Foot; London, 3 April, 1655. Signed “Philippe,” and counter- signed “Gonsaluus Perezius.” Seal. Lat. See Calendar of State Papers, 1547-1580, p. 65. f. 19. 17. Warrant from Queen Mary to George Bredyman, Groom of the Privy Chamber, to pay to Nicholas Brigham, Teller of the Exchequer, the sum of £6,000 to her own use; “ at our manuour of Saincte James,” 6 Oct., 5 and 6 Phil, and Mary [1558]. Signed; with signet-seal. Vellum. With a note by T. Astle, “Presented to me June 10th, 1793, by J[ames] W[est?], Esq^” f. 20. 18. Sir W. Cecil [afterw. Lord Burghley] to William Maitland of Lethington, Principal Secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots, sending letters from Tho. Kandolph, English Eesident in Scotland, and regretting having missed a meeting with him, adding, “ Yester- night whan I went from hence, I went to laye some lyme twigges for certen woodcokes, which I have taken, y® 4 hostages, John Eykhavlt, Captayn Berry, and a principall pylott ”; [1561-3]. Holograph, f. 21. 19. Order from Queen Elizabeth to John Fortescue, Master of the Great Wardrobe, to deliver tu Eoger Oliver and three others. Grooms of the Litter, specified quantities of crimson velvet for jerkins to be embroidered with the royal letters and arms, red “carsey” and sarcenet for hose, holland cloth for shirts, “ry- bon pointes,” a velvet nightcap and four pairs of shoes each; East Greenwich, 17 July, a® 6 [1564]. Signed; with signet-seal. Vellum, f. 22. 20. William Maitland of Lethington to Sir Nicholas Throgmorton, late English Ambassador to Scotland, saying that “ the mater is now comme to soche a poynt that we must have an assured protec- tion eyther from yow or from some other place. If yow relfuse, then we must haiif others vpon whatsoever conditions,” referring him for the rest to the bearer; Edinburgh, 21 May, 1568 (19 days after Mary’s flight to England), f. 23.
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