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Box 606625912

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Contains 28 Results:

Speeches and miscellaneous papers, bulk: 17th-18th century

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Shelfmark: MS. Rawl. A. 346
Extents: 357 Leaves
Dates: Majority of material found within 17th-18th century

The trial of Mervyn Touchet, earl of Castlehaven; with two letters written by him after condemnation to his sisters and his son, an account of his execution, and his speech on the scaffold, 14 May 1631

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Shelfmark: MS. Rawl. A. 346, fol. 124
At the end are 24 lines, beginning, "Rome's worst Philenis and Pasiphae's dust / Are now chast fictions, and noe longer lust;" and a six-line epitaph on the earl, written by himself.
Extents: 1 item
Dates: 14 May 1631

Statement respecting discoveries of crown lands granted on expired leases, which were made in the reign of Charles II. by Elias Alleyn, gent., [temp. James II. or Will. III?]

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Shelfmark: MS. Rawl. A. 346, fol. 146
The paper itself appears to have been written in the time of James II. or Will. III.
Extents: 1 item
Dates: [temp. James II. or Will. III?]

Speech on religious grievances, without name, n.d.

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Shelfmark: MS. Rawl. A. 346, fol. 165
Beg. "Mr. Speaker, I find in your reporte that it hath pleased his majestie our grievances should be showed and remedies given unto them."
Extents: 1 item
Dates: n.d.