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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    Paper; ff. 251. xvirtli-xviiith centt. Belonged to Thomas Astle (for whom the copies of papers seem to have been made), and bound by him in old covers bearing the arms of Henry, Prince of Wales (oh. 1612). The leather has now been stripped off and laid down inside the new covers. Folio. 159. A COLLECTION of miscellaneous political and other tracts, etc., in different hands ; 1572-1635. 1. Star Chamber cases, viz.:—(a) Judgments against Thomas Howard, Earl of Suffolk, late Lord Treasurer, Catherine, his wife, and Sir John Bingley, for taking bribes, etc.; 12 Nov. 1619. f. 3;— (b) Information against Francis Eussell, Earl of Bedford, Eohert Carr, Earl of Somerset, John Holies, Earl of Clare, Sir Eohert Cotton, Bart., John Selden, and Gilbert Barrell, for circulating “ a false, seditious, and pestilent discourse ” [by Sir Eobert Dudley] ; [1629]. f. 15;—(c) Information against Sir Henry Yelverton, Attorney-General, and Eobert Heath, Eecorder of London; 20 Oct. 1620. f. 28 ;—(d) “ Censure ” on John Williams, Bishop of Lincoln; 11 July, 1637. f. 38;—(e) Proceedings against William Prynne and Michael Sparkes, concerning the Mistrio-Mastix; 15 Feb. 1633 [4]. f. 45. 2. “ The coppie of a letter supposed to be written to Sir Edward Cooke [Coke] in the time of his troble”; [1616], See Calendar of State Papers for 1611-1618, p. 415. f. 79. 3. “ The whole manner of the proceedinge agaynst the Scotyshe Quene,” at Fotheringhay, 12-15 Oct. 1586; with copies of the correspondence between the Queen and Ant. Babington, etc. f. 87. 4. “ A trewe noate of the deathe and executyon of the Quene of Scottes,” etc., 8 Feb. 1586 [7]. “ This is the reporte of my brother Edward Capell, who was an eye-wyttnes of these thinges, and wayghted vpon the Earle of Shrewesbury at that tyme.” Followed by two copies of the Dean of Peterborough’s prayer, f. 108. 5. “A relation of the proceedings against ambassadors whoe have miscarryed themselves and exceeded their commission ... by Sir Eobert Cotton;” 27 Apr. 1624. See Cottoni Posthuma, 1651, p. 1. f. 112. 6. “ A collection out of the booke called Liber Eegalis remayneing in the treasurie of the Church of Westminster, toucheing the corona- tion of the king and queene togeather.” f. 119. 7. The Bishops’ articles for the regulation of the Church, in 1584; with observations on the same by F. N. and D. H. The articles vary in order and form from the copy in Cardwell’s Documentary Annals of the Reformed Church of England, 1839, vol. i. p. 411. ff. 128, 129, 135.
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