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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    14. lustructious for Sir Thomas Higgons, Envoy Extraordinary to Venice; June, Sept. 1673. Three copies, ft'. 36, 38, 40. 15. Four queries of [Henry Mordaunt, 2“*^] Earl of Peterborough, asking for instructions as to conduct, matters of precedence, etc., on his proceeding to Madrid as Ambassador Extraordinary; Feb. 1673 [4], With the replies in the margin, f. 42. 16. Brief of Pope Innocent XI. to Louis XIV., against the extension of the royal right over vacant sees; Eome, 29 Dec. 1679. Lat. Copy. f. 44. 17. Allegations concerning the irregular election of Sir E[ichard] T[emple] and Sir E[alph] V[erney] as M.P.s for Buckingham; [? 1680]. f. 46. Paper; fif. 46. With book-plate of arms of John Towneley. Belonged also to Thomas Astle. Large folio. 192. 1. Treaty between England and Portugal, dated 10 July, 1654. Followed by:—(1) Powers from King John IV. of Portugal and from Oliver, Protector, to their several commissioners to conclude the treaty; and (2) the ratification of the same by King John, dated Alcantara, 9 May, 1656. Copies. Latin. This copy of the treaty is stated to have been taken from “ one in the possession of the Factory at Oporto.” f. 1. 2. Another copy of the same treaty procured from the original in the Secretary of State’s office at Lisbon by Onofrius Hardwick, English Vice-Consul, and duly certified, 28 Feb. 1722. f. 21. 3. English translation of the same treaty and the ratification by King John. f. 35. Paper; flf. 61. xviiith cent. Folio. 193. Secret Article between Louis XIV. of France and the Protector, Oliver Cromwell, for the expulsion of Charles II. and others, Eoyalists, from France and of certain Frenchmen from England wthin forty days; [3 Nov. 1655]. Latin. On three single sheets of veUum fastened together with yellow silk. On f. 1 is the article itself, signed by [Anthoine] de Bordeaux, French Ambassador in England. On f. 2 are the names of the eleven Frenchmen to be expelled from England, with the signature of De Bordeaux. On f. 3 are the names of the twenty Englishmen to be expelled from France, the first three being “ Charles, eldest sonne of Charles, late Kiug of England, James, Duke of Yorke, Henry, Duke of Glocester, after tenn yeares if required,” with the signatures of the English Commissionens, Nathaniel Fiennes, P[hilip Sydney, Viscount] Lisle [Earl of Leicester, 1677], and Walter Strickland. The article is
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