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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    180. Collection of miscellaneous papers relating to state affairs and ecclesiastical, local and other matters in the 17th century; followed by poetical pieces, mostly of an amatory character, but of which a few are on political subjects. The most important are:— 1. Summary of events in the reign of Henry VIII. f. 1. 2. Petition to King [James I.] from “ the Catholiques of England ” ; [April, 1603]. Copy. f. 3. 3. Speech of [Eichard] Martin, of the Middle Temple, made in the name of the Sheriffs of London to the King [James I.] “ at his first cominge into y« realm ” ; [7 May, 1603]. f. 5. For another copy, see Add. 25,707, f. 142. Printed in J. Nichols’s Progresses of King James I., 1828, i. p. 128*. 4. “ The Ministers peticion to the K. touching the reformacion of abuses in the Churche”; [1603]. See Strype’s Life of Archh. WMtgift, Bk. iv. ch. xxxi. Copy. f. 7. 5. “ Sir Walter Eawleighs arguments at his Arraignment at Win- chester,” etc.; [Nov. 1603]. Copy. f. 9. 6. Eeply of the House of Commons to the King’s objections to the return of Sir Francis Goodwyn, Knt., as M.P. for co. Buckingham; [Feb. 160|]. Copy. f. 11. 7. “Articles of union between England and Scotland 6 Dec. 1604. Copy. f. 13. Followed at ff. 22, 25 by two papers relating to the commerce of the two countries. 8. “ Sir Wal. Eawleighs letter to S^ Eobert Carre, touching the begging of his Lands ” ; [2 Jan. 1609]. Copy. f. 26. 9. “ Mr. Stampes observacions in his voyage to Constantinople ”; an account of a journey from Zante to Constantinople, and thence back to Eagusa, July—Sept. 1609, with a description of the Sultan, his court, etc. f. 27. 10. [Eichard Butler, 3rd Viscount] Mountgarrett, to his father-in- law Sir William Andrewes, Knt., on the advantage of marrying his heir “ into some worthy and rich house,” and suggesting his union with a daughter of Lord Will. Howard; Balleyn, 13 Sept. 1613. f. 32. 11. [Sir Thomas Overbury to Eobert Carr, Earl of Somerset; from the Tower, 1613]. Copy. f. 34. 12. Letter [to Louis XIII.] probably from Nicholas Brulart de Sillery, Chancellor of France, giving up his office, and warning the King against his present advisers, “ certeyne new comers drawne out of the draggs of busines and of the people,” etc.; \_circ. 1617]. Engl, translation, f. 36. For another copy, see Add. 22,591. f. 29. 13. “A discourse of Ireland by L. Gernons,” commencing with a general description of the country, followed by a particular
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