English commonplace book

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  Commonplace book. English history: manuscript

  Manuscripts

  Copies of letters of Sir Walter Ralegh, Robert Devereux (2nd Earl of Essex), Henry Brooke (8th Baron Cobham), Sir Philip Sidney, William Cecil (Baron Burghley), Thomas Egerton (1st Viscount Brackley), and other prominent persons.

  mssHM 102

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  Commonplace book. English history: manuscript

  Manuscripts

  Includes copies of "Leicester's Commonwealth," "Burghley's Commonwealth," Sir Francis Bacon's "Certain Observations Made Upon a Libel," letters by Sir Walter Ralegh, etc.

  mssHM 267

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  Commonplace book. English history: manuscript

  Manuscripts

  Extracts from medieval records about defense, including information about the general musters, the provision of ships for defense, the defense of the sea coast, and the use of beacons.

  mssHM 30661

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  Commonplace book. English history: manuscript

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  Accounts of foreign and domestic affairs of Charles I, including the English landing on the Isle of Ré, the Seige of La Rochelle, Privy Council proceedings involving Sir John Corryton, and a description of "the Late deceased Prince of Bohemia."

  mssHM 45148

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  Commonplace book. English history: manuscript

  Manuscripts

  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.

  mssHM 41952

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  Commonplace book. English history: manuscript

  Manuscripts

  Extracts from the works of Francis Bacon, maxims of state, notes on a book of ancient history, etc.

  mssHM 1728