Volume 1

Catalogue of the Stowe manuscripts in the British Museum.

  • British Museum. Department of Manuscripts (Stowe MSS)
Date:
1895-1896
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    and Cottington, Sec. Windebank, Sir Tbo. Edmondes and Sir Dudley Carleton. With seal. Much injured by damp. f. 45, 34. Sir Edward Hyde [Earl of Clarendon, 1661] to Lady Carnarvon, just before the outbreak of the Civil War, referring to the eflbrts made by both of them to secure some important person (unnamed) for the King : “ If your advize and interest doe not prevayle with your favour, I have no hope left; ’tis not possible for me to say more in the argument to him then I have, nor can I imagyne what ill spiritt can engage him thus to venture his fortune and his fame, his honour and the honour of his house, in a vessell where none but desperate persons have the government.” He proceeds:—“I know not what argument they have at London for their confidence but truly they seeme to have very few frendes in these partes, and I doe not thinke ther condicion is much better in other places.” Dated, Nottingham, 22 July, [1642]. The person alluded to is probably Lady Carnarvon’s father, Philip Herbert, Earl of Pembroke (cf. Clarendon State Papers, ii. pp. 144-149). Endorsed in the hand of Eichard Grenville, “Del. to me ult: No: 1642, being taken in a trunke of Lady Caernarvons, was searched by Coll. Goodwine.” f. 47. 35. John Hampden to Col. Bulstrode and others commanding Parlia- mentary troops: “ The army is now at North Hampton, moving every day nearer to you. If you disband not, wee may be a mutual succour each to other; but if you disperse, you make yourselves and your country a pray”; Northampton, 31 Oct. [1642]. Printed in Lord Nugent’s Memorials of J. Hampden, f. 49. 36. The same to the same, enclosing the above letter, which had been delayed: “We cannot be ready to march till to-morrow, and then I beleeve wee shall. . . . You shall do mee a favour to certify mee what you heare of the Kings forces, for I beleeve your intelligence is better from Oxford and those parts then ours can be”; Northampton, 1 Nov. 1642. f. 51. 37. Eequest of Charles I., by the advice of the members of both Houses assembled at Oxford, for a contribution of £20 towards a loan of £100,000, “ to resist and suppress all such of our subjects of Scotland as have in a hostile manner already entered or shall hereafter enter into this Kingdom ”; 14 Eeb. 1643 [4]. Printed form, with the amount in writing. Signed at the head; and at the foot are signatures of Sir Edward Littleton, Lord Keeper, and Sampson Eure, Speaker of the Commons at Oxford. Addressed to Eobert Drue, of “ the Devizes,” Wilts, and endorsed with a receipt for the £20 signed by Sir John Penruddock, Sheriff of Wilts, f. 53. H
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