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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    England”; Westminster, 28 Aug., a® 19 [1621]. Signed-, with paper seal, f. 32. 26. Warrant from Charles I. to William [Eeilding], Earl of Denbigh, Master of the Great Wardrobe, for the delivery to Sir William Segar, Garter King of Arms, for the King’s “ installment ” in August, of “ one Helmet of Steele wrought with burnisht gold, a close crowne with the creast of the Lyon to stand thereon. Mantles of cloth of Tyssue lyned with cloth of sylver spotted Ermyn, one swoorde, the Hylte & Chape guylte, the scabberd & girdle cloth of gold, a greate Banner of our armes embrodered, a cushion of Crymzon or purple veluet to beare our Eoabes vppon,” etc.; Hampton Court, 10 July, 1625. Signed-, -with, signet-seal. Vellum, f. 34. Belonged to Tho. Astle, 1793. 27. Appointment by Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I., of Thomas Malet, of the Middle Temple [Justice of the King’s Bench 1641, oh. 1665], to be her Solicitor-General; Denmark House, 4 Sept., 2 Chas. I. [1626]. Signed at the lop, and countersigned by Eo[bert] Alton, Secretary. With an acknowledgment of the appointment signed by Tho. Malet; and a certificate of his being sworn, 24 Dec. 1626. Vellum. With an ornamental headline and border. At the foot is the note by T. Astle: “ From the Philobiblian Library, Sepf. 25“^, 1767.” f. 35. 28. Elizabeth [wife of Frederic V., Elector Palatine and King of Bohemia] to [? Spencer Compton, Earl of] Northampton, on private matters; Hague, 3 March [? 1630-1640]. Hologr. f. 37. 29. 30. John Hampden to and Sir William Andrewes, concerning the repair of Sherrington Bridge, co. Bucks; 3 , 1630,21 Mar. 1633 [4]. ff. 39, 40. 31. Charles I. to the Diet of Poland, expressing his assent to the marriage of his niece Elizabeth, daughter of the Queen of Bohemia, to Ladislas VII. of Poland; Westminster, 27 Jan. 163f. Signed “Vester benevolus amicus, Carolus E.”; with paper seal. f. 42. 32. Original return of the names of those refusing to pay Ship-money in the parish of Great Kimble, co. Bucks, with the amount of their respective assessments; 9 Jan. 1635 [6]. The list contains thirty- one names, headed with that of “ John Hampden, Esquier, xxxP. vP. ”; and it includes the names of Peter Aldridge and Thomas Lane, who were themselves the assessors, f. 44. 33. Privy CouncE Warrant to “ the present high sheriff and the late high sheriff of the County of Buc[kingham],” to levy the arrears (£330) of Ship-money assessed upon the county; Croydon, 25 Aug. 1636. Signed by Archbishop Laud, Lord Keeper Coventry, Will. Juxon, Bishop of London, the Earl of Salisbury, Lords Newburgh
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