Manuscripts

Commonplace book. English history: manuscript

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Description: Copies of letters, treatises, and accounts of legal proceedings, chiefly in England, in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, including accounts of the rebellion, trial, and execution of the Earl of Essex, a copy of the "Liber Intrationem [in Camera Stellata tempore Regis Henr. Septimi]", other proceedings in Star Chamber, Sir Henry Wotton on George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, etc.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: [after 1633]
Call number: mssHM 41952
Provenance: In Library, 1974.
Dimensions: 29 cm :
Associated people: Wotton, Henry, (1568-1639.)
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