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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    to induce us to do justice as the love wee beare to the execution of justice, and therefore wee finde it straunge to heare such language from a King which but yesterday did issue out of his mynoritie, when as during the time of the King his father of happie memory wee never were acquainted with words of this strayne,” etc.; Westminster, 7 Nov. 1614. Signed, f. 95. 20. [De Plessen], on the general state of Germany; 30 Nov. 1614. Fr. f. 112. 21. B. B. de Walmerode; Rees en Cleves, 4 Dec. 1614. Fr. f. 120. 22. Francis Cottington, condoling with Edmondes on the death of his wife, and informing him with regard to the Santen treaty, “ that the Count Maurice refused to signe unto certaine artycles agreed on by the Commissioners, whereuppon all ys lyke to breake of againe ” ; London, 4 Dec. 1614. f. 122. 23. John Bolton and William Gostling, on their appointment as Conservators of Commerce at Bordeaux, and asking Edmondes “ to appointe some maintenaunce for the charge therof”; Bordeaux, 8 Dec. 1614. f. 126. 24. Sir Thomas Somerset, condoling with Edmondes on the death of his wife, etc.: “ Great speach there is of a newe favorett {i.e. George Villiers], and that he should be sworen of the bedchamber eare long; for my parte when it is done, I will beleave it, yet there is and hath bene as strange things done in our adge ”; London, 12 Dec. [1614]. f. 128. 25. The Elector Palatine, condoling with Edmondes on the death of his wife; Heidelberg, 15 Dec. 1614. f. 140. 26. Francis van Aerssen, on the failure of the Santen negotiations, and the refusal of Spinola to give up Wesel, etc.; Hague, 15 Dec. 1614. Fr. Copy. f. 142. 27. George William, Prince of Brandenburg, on the same subject, and asking Edmondes to continue his good services; Cleves, ^ Dec. 1614. Fr. f. 144. 28. James I., recommending Theodore de Mayerne, his physician, returning to France on private business; Whitehall, 11 Jan. 1615 [6]. Signed, f. 174. 29. G[eorge Abbot, Archbishop of] Canterbury, asking Edmondes to assist John Crenshaw in his suit in the French Courts against — Maintine, of Marseilles, who “ did violently assault the Tyger of London and surprized the goods in the same,” of which Maurice Abbot, the archbishop’s brother, was part-owner; Lambeth, 12 Jan. 1614 [5]. f. 176. 30. Articles proposed by Louis XIII. for the marriage of his sister, Pr. Christine, with Pr. Charles, with statements by the Queen Regent
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