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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    omitted, only the bodies of the letters being given, with headings describing the contents. A table of contents is placed at the end. Paper; £f. 169. xviith cent. Belonged successively to John Anstis (f. 2), and to Tho. Astle, who has added a note (ff. 1 b, 2) on MSS. in the Cottonian and Harleian collections and in the State Paper OfiBce containing proceedings of the Privy Council, tempp. Eich. II.—Chas. I. Folio. 161. Historical tracts and papers; tempp. Elizabeth and James I. 1. “A coppie of the last instructions which y® Emperour Charles the yth gave to his sonne Phillipp before his death. Translated out of Spanishe ” [by Lord Henry Howard, cr. Earl of Northampton 1604]. This is followed by the translator’s letter presenting his work to Queen Elizabeth, in the hopes of obtaining a return of her favour. The original Spanish was published by Sandoval in his Life of Charles V. in 1634; the translation has never been printed, but other MS. copies (with some verbal variations) exist in Stowe MS. 95, and Harley MSS. 836, 1506 (incomplete), ff. 3, 24. 2. “ The Eevolucion of the five periods of 500 yeares ”: a short treatise showing that important crises have occurred about the end of each cycle of 500 years, beginning from Brute the Trojan (circ. 1000 B.c.) and ending with the reign of Elizabeth, f. 28. 3. Memoir, for consideration of the Queen and her Ministers, on the proposal that she should accept the offer of the sovereignty of the Low Countries, advising that no such decisive step should be taken; [1584-1585]. f. 32. 4. “ The coppie of a letter sent from the great Turck [Amurath III.] to y® Queene’s Maiestie in an®: 1590,” stating that he has abandoned his intended attack on Poland at her request, and is prepared to join in attacking Spain, f. 35. 5. “ The suddaine and evill digested opinions of some, whoe are committed to the censure of farr more worthie spiritts, touching the peace, or rather agreement, supposed to have bin offered unto hir Ma*'® by the king of Spaine ” : a memoir on the state of the war, especially with reference to the Low Countries, and advising the continuance of it; [1597-1598]. Perhaps by Sir Eobert Sydney, Governor of Flushing, f. 37. 6. “ An Answer made by command of prince Henry [of Wales] to certain propositions of warr and peace, delivered to his highnes by some of his millitary servants,” the writer urging the disadvantages of war in general; [1603-1612]. In the same hand as the pre- ceding, and paged continuously with it. f. 65. 7. “ Fragmenta Eegalia, or Observations on Queene Elizabeth, her
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