Janus: Copies of political tracts

Manuscripts contains:
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MS Add.6160	Commonplace Book of Historical Notes
MS Add.6161	English Translation of Psalms 1-69
MS Add.6162	William Morris: The Lovers of Gudrun
MS Add.6163	Letters regarding Papal administration
MS Add.6164-6165	Cornelius Burges: Papers
MS Add.6166	Charles Edward Sayle: Watermarks
MS Add.6167	John Norris: Epistles
MS Add.6169	Trinity College Cambridge Book Club: Minutes
MS Add.617	Algernon Herbert: Christus Cyclopeus, or an essay illustrative of the Christianity of Britain in the fifth and succeeding centuries
MS Add.6170	Letters from Indian Army Troops
MS Add.6172	William Williams: Welsh Compositions
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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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