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Collection of political and parliamentary documents

 Collection
Identifier: P65737
Abstract Compiled by several people, this collection of political and parliamentary documents contains speeches; letters and petitions (including to Elizabeth I, Queen of England and James I, King of England); reports of famous trials; notes on the history of England (covering from the time of William the Conqueror through the Commonwealth), France (particularly the Huguenots and the death of Henry I, Duke of Guise), and Spain (including the West Indies and Central America); Anglo relations with the...
Dates: compiled circa 1550-circa 1650

Papers of Richard Smith

 Collection
Identifier: S65753
Abstract

Contains fair copies, drafts, and notes in the hand of Richard Smith. Consists of writings and notes on the Bishops and Archibishops of England, Christ's descent into hell, a collection of short essays on religious and secular topics, rites and ceremonies of the church (presumably the Church of England), and indulgences.

Dates: 1633-1670

E. Williams watermark collection, including the papers of the Hale family of King's Walden and other papers

 Collection
Identifier: W55553
Abstract

A collection of paper from sixteenth and seventeenth-century manuscripts and printed books, broadsides, and pamphlets, gathered and arranged according to watermark type by E. Williams of Hove, Sussex, in the early twentieth century. Many of the manuscripts relate to the legal, financial, and manorial affairs of the Hale family of King's Walden, Hertfordshire.

Dates: Majority of material found within ca. 1570-1699

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Manuscripts (documents) 12
England 10
Letters (correspondence) 10
Sixteenth century 9
Family papers 6
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Deeds 5
Fifteenth century 5
Legal documents 5
Great Britain 4
History 4
Memorandums 4
Petitions 4
Financial records 3
Inventories 3
Poems 3
Royalists 3
Speeches 3
Warrants 3
Wills 3
Accounts 2
Armorials (reference sources) 2
Contracts 2
Family histories 2
Fourteenth century 2
France 2
Genealogies (histories) 2
Judicial records 2
Leases 2
Legal instruments 2
Legislative proceedings 2
Letters patent 2
Manorial records 2
Norfolk (England) 2
Receipts (financial records) 2
Roundheads 2
Surveys (documents) 2
Travel 2
Anabaptists 1
Aphorisms 1
Ashbourne (England) 1
Bath (England) 1
Bequests (legal property) 1
Biographies (literary works) 1
Bishops 1
Blank forms 1
Books and reading 1
Catholics 1
Ciphers (codes) 1
Clippings (information artifacts) 1
Coats of arms 1
Colombia 1
Cornwall (England : County) 1
Courts and courtiers 1
Curiosities and wonders 1
Devon (England) 1
Dictionaries 1
Eighteenth century 1
English Civil War (Great Britain : 1642-1649) 1
Fasts and feasts 1
Formularies 1
Geography 1
Guardian and ward 1
Historiography 1
Huguenots 1
Indulgences (documents) 1
Inquisitiones post mortem 1
Invoices 1
Ireland 1
Justices of the peace 1
Loans 1
London (England) 1
Madrid (Spain) 1
Maps (documents) 1
Medical formularies 1
Merlin (Legendary character) 1
Militia 1
Minutes (administrative records) 1
Netherlands 1
Newsletters 1
Nineteenth century 1
Panama 1
Paternity 1
Personal papers 1
Poland 1
Popish Plot (1678) 1
Portugal 1
Pregnancy 1
Prophecies 1
Puritan Revolution (Great Britain : 1642-1660) 1
Satires (literary works) 1
Smuggling 1
Spain 1
Surrey (England) 1
Tangier (Morocco) 1
Turkey 1
United States 1
Watermarks 1
West Indies 1
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Language
Latin 5
French 3
Dutch; Flemish 1
Spanish; Castilian 1
 
Names
England and Wales. Privy Council 3
Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658 2
Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603 2
England and Wales. Parliament 2
Arran, Dorothy Butler, Countess of, -1716 1
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Bacon, Nathaniel, 1547-1622 1
Bagot family 1
Bagot, Richard, approximately 1530-1597 1
Bagot, Walter, 1557?-1623 1
Bancroft, Richard, 1544-1610 1
Bennet, Robert, 1605-1683 1
Bennet, William, 1611 or 1612- 1
Bradbourne family 1
Bradbourne, Anthony, active 1590 1
Bradbourne, Elizabeth, active 1575-1600 1
Bradbourne, Humphrey, -1581 1
Bradbourne, William, active 1581-1600 1
Bradshaw, John, 1602-1659 1
Broughton, Richard, -1604 1
Cage, Anthony 1
Cavendish family 1
Cawarden, Thomas, approximately 1514-1559 1
Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685 1
Chesterfield, Anne Stanhope, Countess of, -1667 1
Church of England 1
Cokayne, Dorothy, -1595 1
Cokayne, Edward, -1629 1
Cokayne, Thomas, Sir, approximately 1519-1592 1
Dawney, John, Sir, active 1660 1
Dearing family 1
Deputy Lieutenant (Norfolk, England) 1
Dering family 1
Dering, Edward, Sir, 1598-1644 1
Dering, Edward, Sir, 1625-1684 1
Desborough, John, 1608-1680 1
Devonshire, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1640-1707 1
Donne, John, 1572-1631 1
Dun, Daniel, 1544 or 1545-1617 1
England and Wales. Army 1
England and Wales. Commissioners of Customs. 1
England and Wales. Council of State 1
England and Wales. Lord Protector (1653-1658 : O. Cromwell) 1
England and Wales. Mint 1
England and Wales. Office of the Revels 1
England and Wales. Office of the Tents 1
England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons. 1
England and Wales. Royal Navy 1
Fairfax, Ferdinando Fairfax, Baron, 1584-1648 1
Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, Baron, 1612-1671 1
Ferrers, Anne, -1599 1
Ferrers, Dorothy, -1616 1
Ferrers, Elizabeth, active 1600 1
Ferrers, Henry de, active 11th century 1
Ferrers, Henry de, approximately 1303-1343 1
Ferrers, Humphrey, -1554 1
Ferrers, Humphrey, approximately 1541-1608 1
Ferrers, Humphrey, approximately 1600-1633 1
Ferrers, Isabella de, 1317-1349 1
Ferrers, John, -1576 1
Ferrers, John, 1629-1680 1
Ferrers, John, approximately 1566-1633 1
Ferrers, Thomas, -1458 1
Ferrers, Thomas, 1422-1498 1
Ferrers, Thomas, active 1580 1
Ferrers, William, 1333-1371 1
Ferrers, William, 1372-1445 1
Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661 1
Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661. Historie of the holy warre 1
Godwin, Francis, 1562-1633 1
Goodricke family 1
Goodricke, Francis, approximately 1621-1673 1
Goodricke, Henry, 1642-1705 1
Goodricke, John, 1617-1670 1
Goodricke, Savile, 1618 or 1619-1651? 1
Gower, Sarah, -1661? 1
Gower, Stanley 1
Guise, Henri, duc de, 1550-1588 1
Hale (Family : active 1501-1777 : of King's Walden) 1
Hale, Bernard, -1663 1
Hale, John, Sir, -1672 1
Hale, Rose, -1648 1
Hale, Rowland, -1669 1
Hale, William, -1634 1
Hale, William, 1597-1641 1
Hatton, Peter, 17th cent. 1
Hayne, Thomas, 1582-1645 1
Helsby, Mary, active 17th century 1
Helsby, Randolph, 1617-1696 1
Heydon, Christopher, Sir, 1561-1623 1
James I, King of England, 1566-1625 1
James II, King of England, 1633-1701 1
Leeds, Thomas Osborne, Duke of, 1631-1712 1
Leicester, Robert Dudley, Earl of, 1532?-1588 1
Mazarin, Hortense Mancini, duchesse de, 1646-1699 1
Methuen, Paul, 1613-1667 1
More, Christopher, -1549 1
More, George, Sir, 1553?-1632 1
More, Nicholas, -1684 1
More, Poynings, 1606-1649 1
More, Robert, 1581-1626 1
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