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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    37. “ The names of the severall villages and tithings within the 7 hundreds in the countye of Gloucester.” f. 117. 38. Copy of the Eoll of Caerlaverock [1300], with arms blazoned, temp. Geo. 1. or II. f. 119. See Cotton MS. Calig. A. xviii. 39. Lists of Earls Marshal, 1245-1601; and of Seneschals of England, ternpp. Edw. Conf.—Hen. VII. f. 124. 40. Pedigrees of Portman to 1661, and of Perry to 1748. fif. 126,127. 41. Eeceipt by Katharine Lowther for portraits of Eachel, Lady Eussell, Sir Tho. Lowther, Bart., and Sir Will. Lowther, Bart., to be preserved as heirlooms at Holker Hall, under the will of the last-named ; 3 Sept. 1756. Copy. f. 129. 42. Extracts from Patent Eolls, etc. ff. 131-134. 43. Brief treatises, entitled (a) “ Some thoughts concerning the Deity,” (b) “OfLight,” (c) “OfMeteors.” ff. 145, 171, 175. 44. Biographical and bibliographical notes on historical and literary characters, ff. 178-185. 45. “ Directions for gathering and preserving seeds, dryed specimens of Plants and other Natural Earietyes.” f. 189. 46. “ The Westchester Wonder, or the Young Man’s Trance, shewing how one John Moor fell in three several trances . . . and declared [the] Joye and Happiness of the Eighteous,” etc. Printed, f. 192. Amongst poetical pieces at the end are;— 47. Ehyming hexameter “ verses [Latin colophons] at the end of MSS.” In the hand of Browne Willis, the antiquary, f. 194. 48. “ The History and fall of y® Conformity Bill, being an excellent new song,” etc., beg. “ God bless our gracious Sovereign Ann.” Printed in Poems on Affairs of State, 1716, iii. p. 382. f. 196. 49. “ The Court Garland, a sorrowful new Ballad,” beg. “ The year that Chartres {oh. 1732) went to hell”; and satirizing Lord Hervey. f. 197. 50. Epitaph in Latin on Maj.-Gen. Eobert Hunter, Governor of Jamaica (ob. 1734). Followed by fourteen hexameter lines, beg. “ En ! decus Auriacum juvenis, quern jactat alumnum,” by E[ichard] Watkins, M.A., Wadham Coll., Oxon. In Nichols’s Literary Anec- dotes, vi. p. 90, the epitaph is attributed to the Eev. — Fleming, f. 198. 51. Lines “to the Prince of Orange [William Charles Henry, m. Anne, Princess Eoya», 1754] on his visiting Oxford,” beg. “ Eeceive, lovd Prince, the tribute of our praise.” f. 200. 52. Verses, beg. “Come listen, ye Tories and Jacobites boo” (sic). f. 202. For another copy, with an additional verse and explanatory notes, see Add. 23,463, f. 45. 53. “ A simple ballad made by five Witts only,” beg. “ Poor merrey man of Enfield Chace ” ; [1740]. f. 203.
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