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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    10. Henoch Clapham, imprisoned on a charge of increasing the panic caused by the Plague, to Henry, Prince of Wales; 1st June [1604], “ being y® 29^'* weeke from my first commitment.” f. 52 b. 11. The same to [Kichard Bancroft] Bishop of London, accusing him of injustice in committing him to prison, and of leniency towards the Papists : “ Your proceeding with Papists is noted generally to be wonderfully much easy, and nothing so harsh as with paynfull prcchers of y® Gospell ” ; “ Gate-house,” 29 Apr. [1604]. f. 56 b. 12. James I. to the United Provinces, concerning the Arminians; Hitchingbrooke [Hinchinbrook], 20 March, 1617 [8]. f. 57 b. 13. Account of a voyage by James Barker, gent., and four others, who sailed from the Summer Islands “ in a Boate made of cedar... of 2 tons ” on 27 July, 1617, and landed on the coast of Ireland 13 or 14 September, f. 59. 14. “A mistery of the Jesuits” \v. f. 1 b], printed under the title of The Hellish and horribhle Councell practised and used by the Jesuites . . . when they would have a man to murther a King, etc., London, 1610. Compare also The Black Box of Borne, 1641. A note by the transcriber at the end of the tract runs, “ Translated out of y® French coppy. This incouragement was given to y‘ Jesuite who killed y® King of France” [Henry IV.], 1610. f. 60. 15. Instructions to Sir John Digby to treat with Spain for a marriage between Pr. Charles and the Infanta Maria; 16 Apr. 1617. f. 61. 16. Speech of the Lord Keeper [John Williams, Dean of Westminster, aft. Bishop of Lincoln] “ at y® meeting of y® L®. and other Com- missioners for y® subsidies at Guild-Hall”; 30 July, 1621. f. 62 b. 17. Letter concerning y® Protestants in France leaving their country, “ written per Mr. Salsbury ” [f. lb]; 12 Dec. 1621. f. 66. 18. “A short view of y® Eeigne of King Henry y® third ” by Sir Eobert Cotton, Bart.; temp. Jas. I. Printed in Lord Somers’ Second Collection of Tracts, and elsewhere, f. 68. 19. Eolation of the negotiation for the marriage of Pr. Henry with “ y« elder daughter of Spain and afterwards wti* y® yonger,” said on f. 1 b to have been written by Sir John Digby to the Lord Fenton; 1611. Printed in Gutch’s Collectanea Curiosa, where, however, it is attributed to Sir Charles Cornwallis and addressed to Sir John Digby. f. 80 b. 20. James I. to his son-in-law, Frederick, Elector Palatine, King of Bohemia; 20 Nov. 1623. f. 95. Followed by Frederick’s reply; Hague, Dec. 1623. f. 97. 21. Speech of Sir Benjamin Eudyerd to the House of Commons, on the Spanish treaties for the marriage and the restoration of the Palatinate; [March, 162f ]. Cf. Gardiner, History of England, V. pp. 189, 190. f. 102 b.
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