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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    6. Alonso de Cardenas, Spanish Ambassador, to the Protector, pressing for the conclusion of the treaty between Spain and the Common- wealth; ^ Jan. 165f. Span. With translation, ff. 59, 60. 7. P[hineas] Andrew to the wife of Sir John Harrison; 20 Jan. 1653 [4]. f. 66. 8. Sir John Jacob to Phineas Andrew; 12 May, 1654. f. 70. 9. Petition from Joanna Savile, widow of Jonas Gar way [of Exeter ?], to the Protector; n.d. f. 76. 10. Instructions for Gen. [William] Penn, Col. [Robert] Venables, and twelve others, for the expedition against the Spanish in the West Indies; 18 Aug. 1654. Signed by John Thurloe, secretary to the Lord Protector, f. 83. 11. “An Ellegie written on the unhappy accident w®'' befell the Lord Protector,” being thrown from his coach-box in Hyde Park, 29 Sept. 1654. In the hand of John Nicholas, son of Sir Edw. Nicholas, Sec. of State to Charles II.; with a note in the hand of Sir Edward (cf. Nicholas Papers, ii., 1892, p. 201). f. 85. 12. “The Game at Picquet played at Court, 1655”: a political dialogue between Cromwell and other prominent Parliamentarians, f. 94. 13. Lieutenant’s Commission to Capt. John Pennifather in Col. Rich. Le Hunt’s regiment of foot; 3 Sept. 1655. Signed by Charles Fleetwood, Commander-in-Chief in Ireland. With seal. Vellum, f. 99. 14. Auditors’ statement of accompts of Charles Walley, Alderman, of Chester, for “ carrying on severall services relateing to the affaires and armies in England, Scotland and Ireland for reduceing of the Isle of Man and tryal of the late Earle of Derby, performed by order of the ... Councell of State” in 1649-1654; 3 Oct. 1655. With other papers relating to the same. fif. 100-109. 15. Unsigned letter, endorsed “ from Col. [John] Bamfield,” agent of Cromwell, giving an account of the projects of the Queen [Henrietta Maria] and [Henry] Lord Jermyn for the royalist cause, etc.; circ. 1654-5 {cf. Thurloe’s State Papers, ii. p. 510). f. 111. 16. Warrant of Henry Cromwell, Commander-in-Chief in Ireland, to Sir John Blackwell and Richard Deane, Treasurers at War, for payment for the troops; 6 Aug. 1656. Signed, f. 113. 17. Report of the Admiralty Commissioners on Maj. John Wade’s accompts “touching the Forest of Deane”; 6 Nov. 1656. Signed by [Col.] Edward Salmon, [Major] Robert Beake, [Col.] Thomas Kelsey, Edward Hopkins, f. 114. 18. “ The heads of a bill in order to the settling of a Kingly Government”; circ. 1657. f. 116.
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