47 letters and documents, on paper (one document on parchment) in various cursive scripts, produced in England between 1554 and 1706. Mostly from the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, they consist of claims for expenses, wages, and other benefits. They include an account of a banquet (15 November 1561), signed by the Marquis of Winchester and Sir Walter Mildmay; a Claim for Allowances (1563) by Sir Thomas Chaloner, Ambassador to Spain; L. S. (1578) by Lord Burgley about money to be sent to Ireland and mentioning Sir Philip Sidney; A. L. S. (1597) by George, Lord Hunsdon; A. K. S. (Chester, 11 Aug. 1601) by the antiquary and mathematician Edward Brerewood to the Privy Council. The documents also include signatures of other government officials and nobles. and The documents derive from the papers of Robert Petre, Auditor for the Exchequer, and his colleague Vincent Skinner.
Description:
Binding: Middle Hill boards, spine missing., Ex libris Sir Thomas Phillipps (unnumbered MS)., and Modern pencil pagination employed. Wanting p. 43-46, 65-68, 109-114, 119-120, 125-132, 139-142, 161-168, 177-178.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Politics and government--1533-1603 and Great Britain--Politics and government--1603-1625
Subject (Name):
Elizabeth--I,--Queen of England,--1533-1603, Great Britain.--Exchequer, James--I,--King of England,--1566-1625, and Phillipps, Thomas,--Sir,--1792-1872--Ownership
Five manuscript charters, including land grants and indentures, produced in England between 1352 and 1599. On parchment in cursive charter hand, Chancery script, and Secretary script.
Description:
Ex libris Sir Thomas Phillipps (MS 32220). Purchased and Four of the charters have partially or fully preserved wax seals.
Arundel, Philip Howard, Earl of, Saint, 1557-1595 Hanslopp, Nicolas
Published / Created:
ca. 1600
Call Number:
Osborn a5
Image Count:
70
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
For more information on the text, see notes to Osborn a6. and Manuscript, on paper, in italic script, produced in England around 1600. The text is a devotional poem, also known as The Fourfold Meditation. After the introduction of 216 lines, the poem begins "O wretched man which louest earthlie thinges..." Manuscript, on paper, in italic script, produced in England around 1600.
Alternative Title:
The fourfold meditation. and The pathe to paradise, [circa 1600].
Description:
Also known as The Foure-Fould Meditation., Bequest of James M. Osborn, 1976., Binding: nineteenth-century paper boards., Pasted in before the title page is a slip which reads, "The Rev. Charles Churchill, Halifax, Nova Scotia, requests your acceptance of this manuscript found on board a vessel wrecked off the coast of Bermuda.", and The title page has crosses in gold ink surrounding the name of Mary Yeate.
Manuscript, on parchment, in Anglicana formata script, produced in southern England around 1450.
Description:
Binding: leather over boards, seventeenth century., Decorations include initials with gold, blue, and red at chapter beginnings., Ex libris Sir Thomas Phillipps (MS 8343). Bequest of James M. Osborn, 1976., and The text begins at line 32, "And no quyk creature bot thay." Lines 3672-3742 are missing at blank f. 55. Lines 9479-9614 are missing between ff. 138 and 139.
Subject (Name):
Beauclerk, Tobias--Ownership, Heber, Richard--Ownership, Ives, John,--1751-1776--Ownership, Phillipps, Thomas,--Sir,--1792-1872--Ownership, Rolle, Richard,--of Hampole,--1290?-1349.--Pricke of conscience, and Webb, James--Ownership