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Commonplace book. Parliament: manuscript

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    Commonplace book. Parliament: manuscript

    Manuscripts

    Copies of speeches in Parliament from 1623 to 1628, preceded by a roll of knights created in 1603 to 1624.

    mssHM 30663

  • Booke of good condicions : [manuscript]

    Booke of good condicions : [manuscript]

    Manuscripts

    ff. 1-122v: [Jacques Legrand, Booke of Good Condicions]: Rubric: Here begynneth the first part of this booke called good condicions, the which spekith of þe remedies þat is ageyns the vii dedly synnes. And first how pride displeseth god. The first chapitre. Incipit: Pride wolde compare to God in as muche as thei glorifi in þey self and in the goodes that they haue of the whiche thinges the gloire is principally due to god ... Explicit: wherby it apperith þat the hoope of theym availleth litil that seith that this worlde shall endure right longe. Here endeth the booke called the Sophiloge of wysdome otherwyse called the booke of good condicions. Deo gracias.

    mssHM 39872

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    A Booke Wherein is conteyned ye passages of ye last Parliamt. From ye yeare 1623 until the 10th day of March in ye yeare 1628 [ i.e., 1629]: with divers other matteriall passages happening in ye time

    Manuscripts

    A collection of excerpts from Proceedings in Parliament, the House of Commons Journals, speeches, letters, poems, and other records illustrating the deteriorating relationship between the Crown and Parliament under James I and Charles I. The volume includes an account of the impeachment of the Duke of Buckingham, the Remonstrances of the Commons, "The Complaint of distressed England to her children the Commons," "A Copie of some Jesuits letters directed to the Rector of Brussels," a list of shipping lost at sea through Admiralty incompetence, and many other entries, chiefly 1623-1626, with the later addition of "Majesty in Misery," a 72-line poem purportedly written by Charles I during his captivity at Carrisbrook Castle in 1648. Perhaps compiled by or for Sir Richard Knightley (1593-1628) of Fawsley, Northamptonshire, MP, an early supporter but later opponent of the Duke of Buckingham.

    mssHM 70511

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    Commonplace book

    Manuscripts

    Copies, not in Bacon's hand, of his speeches in Parliament and Star Chamber, and of his poems, 1559-1579.

    mssHM 1340

  • Commonplace book

    Commonplace book

    Manuscripts

    Commonplace book containing two quotations from Shakespeare's Othello, along with passages and translations from classical texts, notes on classical and mythological figures, remedies, household hints and practical notes, theological notes and arguments, poems, epigrams and sententiae, legal forms, rentals for land around Kirby Knowle [North Yorkshire], and copies of letters and documents.

    mssHM 60413

  • Booke of receipts: manuscript, 1695, November

    Booke of receipts: manuscript, 1695, November

    Manuscripts

    Volume contains medical and culinary recipes. Note on first page: "Magdalen Coward Her Booke of Receipts Made November, 1695."

    mssHM 88