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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    George Downham, Bishop of Derry, f. 250 b. Daniel Featly, Kector of Lambeth, f. 341 b. Francis Godwin. Bishop of Hereford, f. 245. Joseph Hall, Bishop of Norwich, f. 338 b. Sir John Hayward, f. 257 b. Richard Holdsworth, Master of Em- manuel College, Cambridge, f. 343. Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of York, f. 242. John King, Bishop of London, f. 442 b. Arthur Lake, Bishop of Bath and Wells, f. 245 b. William Laud, Archbishop of Canter- bury, f. 325 b. Tobias Matthew, Archbishop of York, f. 249. James Montague, Bishop of Win- chester, f. 244 b. Thomas Morton, Bishop of Durham, f. 341. Sir Henry Savile, f. 259. Richard Senhouse, Bishop of Carlisle, f. 248. Josias Shute, Rector of St. Mary Wool- noth, f. 344. Nathaniel Shute, Rector of St. Mildred’s, Poultry, f. 344. Edward Simonds, or Symmons, Rector of Rayne, co. Essex, f. 342 b. Miles Smith, Bishop of Gloucester, f. 249. Sir Henry Spelman, f. 260. John Spottiswood, Archbishop of St. Andrews, f. 331. Ephraim Udall, Rector of St. Augus- tine’s, London, f. 344. James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh, f. 331 b. Richard Vaughan, Bishop of London, f. 242. Sir Henry Wotton, f. 259. Milton is mentioned on f. 301 b Miltonus qnidam laicus, postea regis insignissimus adversarius ”) as the author of an anti- episcopal pamphlet in answer to Ussher [in 1641]. Paper; fit. 364. Folio. 77. “ Behemoth, or the Epitome of y® Civill Wars of England,” 1640-1660; by Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury. At the end (f. 65), in a different hand, is an exposition (incomplete) of the statute “ 22 and 23 Car. 2^^ cap. 10°, An Act for the better settling of Intestates estates.” Paper; ff. 68. Late xviith cent. Folio. 78. “ An alphabetical Memorandum-Book or Index, whereby several remarkable passages in Kapin’s History of England (to the Kevolution) may he easily turn’d to. Continued to the end of King William’s Keign from another History, etc.” With dedica- tion by Charles Gibhon, 1 Mar. 1733 [4], to William, Duke of Cumberland. Paper; ff. 52. Small Quarto. 79. Notes on Eapin’s History of England by Philip Morant [1700- 1770], the historian of Essex, consisting of references to, and extracts from, the earlier chroniclers illustrating certain passages. In two volumes, bound in one, the first relating to British and Saxon times, the second to the reign of WiUiam the Conqueror. Paper; fif. 45, 28. Quarto. £
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