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Philip Stringer: A Brief of the Entertainment given to Queen Elizabeth at Oxford 1592

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.34

Scope and Contents

Preceded by copy of letter from Stringer to 'Mr Dr Moutloe' [Henry Mowtlowe LLD], 3 May 1603. Also, in a second hand: 'Preparation at Oxford in August 1605 against the coming thither of King James ...' fo. 87v: 'The Manuscript found in Mr Bucks Study 1722.' Scribbled sums on fo. 1

Dates

  • Creation: 1605 (Circa)

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

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Extent

1 volume(s) (1 volume paper) : paper

Language of Materials

English

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Belonged to Samuel Knight DD, prebend of Ely and rector of Bluntisham, Hunts. After Knight's death in 1746, the MS. descended to John Percy Baumgartner of Milton, Cambs., who presented it to the Library in 1859.

Existence and Location of Copies

Microfilm available

Bibliography

Printed in C. Plummer (ed.), Elizabethan Oxford, Oxford, 1887, pp. 249-61, without the letter. Printed with the letter in J. Nichols, Progresses of Queen Elizabeth, vol. 3, London, 1823, pp. 149-60. Both printed editions taken from this MS. 'Preparation at Oxford in August 1605 against the coming thither of King James ...', published in abbreviated form in Nichols, Progresses of King James the First, vol. 1, London, 1828, pp. 530-59, from a copy made by Thomas Baker from this MS.
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

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