Janus: Tracts on Ireland

Manuscripts contains:
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MS Add.3839	Adair Welcker: Five poems
MS Add.3840	Adair Welcker: Five poems
MS Add.3841-3842	Antoine Varillas: Histoire de Francois I, books 1-12, in anonymous Italian MS translation
MS Add.3843	Transcription of Barnwell Priory: 'Observancie Regulares'
MS Add.3844	Sir Edward Maunde Thompson: Sanders Lectures on Greek and Latin Paleography
MS Add.3845	Translation of J.J. Fux 'Gradus ad Parnassum'
MS Add.3847	Zachary Grey: The Glory of the British Flag exemplified. In a chronological Series of the most memorable victories obtained at Sea. By the Bravest of Our English Admirals, Sea captains etc...Extracted from our best Naval-Writers, and English Historians
MS Add.3848	Sarah Clayton: A Breif Sum of the Principles of the Christian Religion
MS Add.3850	Manor of Fen Drayton, Cambridgeshire: Court Orders
MS Add.3851	Nicolas Eastwick: Oratio Academica
MS Add.3852	Notes on Cambridgeshire and Lancashire families, and related subjects
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Tracts on Ireland

Title	Tracts on Ireland
Reference	GBR/0012/MS Add.4352
Covering Dates	1650 (Circa)
Extent and Medium	1 Volume
Repository	Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives

Content and context

The authors of the tracts include Henry Jones (1605-1682), bishop of Meath, 1661-1682; Walter Enos; and Edmond Bray.

Contents: (fo. 1) 'Discourse concerning the Affairs of Ireland' (printed 1650); (fo. 16v) title; (fo. 17) Latin couplets and scribblings; (fo. 17v) 'For the right honorab and my very good Lord Edward Lord Viscount Conway and Cann C Canningham' (c. 1690); (fo. 18) 'Relation of some Passages in the North of Ireland'; (fo. 37v) 'Memorandim quod...S W Arthur Chichester Colonell H O H Qui aime le honeur ne craine la morte'; (fo. 38) 'Right trusty and right entirely bloved'; (fo. 38v) scribblings; (fo. 39v) scribblings and 'Marmaduke Cannoneere'; (fo. 40) 'Robert Jones' and scribblings; (fo. 40v) scribblings and 'Billingsly'; (fo. 41) 'Robert Jones'; (fo. 41v) 'William Clerke servant to Colonell Tho Trafford to goe in England', 'Thomas Boone' and 'John Cannerlane'; (fo. 43) W. Enos, 'Reflections upon the Peace...1646'. This appears to be a summary of W. Enos, A survey of the articles of the late rejected peace (Kilkenny, 1646); (fo. 52) H. Jones, 'Considerations of the present State', title page and preface; (fo. 54) Edmond Bray, 'A Congratulation for the most honourable the lord Marquesse of Ormond'; (fo. 63v) endorsement; (fo. 64) Henry Jones, 'Considerations of the present State of the Kingdom of Ireland and the Army therein'; (fo. 73v) endorsement.

Received from the collection of Henry Bradshaw, 1886.

Access and Use

Please cite as Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives, Tracts on Ireland, MS Add.4352

Index Terms

Ireland

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