Janus: Copies of political tracts

Manuscripts contains:
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MS Add.7194.X	Polish grammar
MS Add.7194.XI	Italian letters
MS Add.7194.XII	Medieval fragments
MS Add.7194.XIII	Don Joseph Canizares [Jose de Canizares]: 'Dichos y hechos de Felipe segundo y Prinzipe Don Carlos'.
MS Add.7194.XIV	Exemplification of fine
MS Add.72	Copies of political tracts
MS Add.7218	Maria Susannah Grey: Letters from Family and Friends
MS Add.722	The 1570 Statutes of the University of Cambridge, and related material
MS Add.7223	Captain Thomas Alexander: Journal
MS Add.724	Orders of the House of Lords
MS Add.725	University of Cambridge Celibacy Debate
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Copies of political tracts

Title	Copies of political tracts
Reference	GBR/0012/MS Add.72
Covering Dates	1600 (Circa)
Extent and Medium	1 volume; paper
Repository	Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives

Content and context

Contents: Charles V, 'Instructions to his son Philip II, king of Spain', translated into English; 'Apologie for the Earl of Essex', published London, 1603; 'A Discourse written to Her Majesty concerning the retaining of the Action for the Low Countries', attrib. to Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester.

fo. 50v: blank.

fo. 1: '6'.

fo. 2: 'F'.

fo. 52v: scribblings and 'E K' in 17th-cent. hand.

From Samuel Knight DD, prebend of Ely and rector of Bluntisham, Hunts (d. 1746), the MS. descended to John Percy Baumgartner of Milton, Cambs., who presented it to the Library in 1861.

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Please cite as Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives, Copies of political tracts, MS Add.72

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