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creatorOf PAPERS AND CORRESPONDENCE CHIEFLY RELATING TO MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS and the conspiracies and plots involving her; 1559-1594, n.d. Some Latin, French and Spanish. Mostly contemporary copies. Further official copies of many of the items are in Cotton MS..., 1558-1626 British Library
referencedIn SERVICES and anthems. Imperfect at the beginning. The composers are:-[Robert] Parsons, f. 4. [John] Mundie, ff. 6, 83 b, 9 b, 102, 101 b, 107. [John] Sheppard, ff. 21, 74 b, 93, 97 b, 98 b, 100, 102 b, 105 b. -Woodson, f. 37. [Thomas] Morleie [Morley... British Library
referencedIn Vol. III (ff. 283). M-S.includes:ff.1-5 Thomas Madox, d 1727 Historiographer Royal: Biographical notice: 18th cent.ff. 6-12 Sir John Marsham, 1st Baronet d 1685: Biographical notice: 18th cent.: Fr.ff. 13,16 John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlboro... British Library
creatorOf PAPERS RELATING TO DIPLOMATIC AND ECCLESIASTICAL AFFAIRS; 1554-1600. Latin, English, French and Spanish. Partly copies. 1. ff. 2-100b. Correspondence and papers relating to the peace conference at Boulogne; 1600. Partly Latin, French and Spanish. Mos..., 1554-1601 British Library
referencedIn " THE coppie of a letter written by a Mr. of Artes in Cambridge to his friend in London, concerning some conferrence passed of late betweene twoe worshipfull and graue men about ye present state and some of ye proceedings of the Earle of Leicester an... British Library
referencedIn Vol. I.Johnson: Music: 16th-17th centt.Robert White: Music in lute notation: 16th or 17th cent.William Damon: Musical pieces in lute notation: 17th cent.Michael Des Buisons: Musical pieces: 17th cent.John Taverner: Musical pieces in lute notation: 16..., 16th century-17th century British Library
referencedIn MEYERSTEIN BEQUEST. Vol. II (ff. ii+17). Counter-tenor part-book containing Latin motets, etc., for five, six or seven voices, by William Byrd (ff. 3b-5, 9b-11, 13, 13b, 15), Orlando di Lasso (ff. 11b-12b), [Robert?] Parsons (ff. 15b-16), John Shephe... British Library
referencedIn Robert Parsons, SJ: Leicester's Commonwealth, 1584; attributed to: 17th cent.Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester: Leicester's Commonwealth, by R. Parsons: 1584. British Library
creatorOf ELIZABETHAN CONSORT SONGS TRANSCRIBED BY PHILIP HESELTINE ('PETER WARLOCK') from Oxford, Christ Church MSS. 984-988 for solo voice and string quartet; circa 1926. Autograph. (1) 'Abradad', here attributed to Richard Farrant. Vocal score, beg. 'Ah, al..., approximately 1926 British Library
referencedIn Vol. II.includes:f. 1 b Alfonso Ferrabosco, junior; composer: Madrigal: post 1601.: Imperf.f. 46 b, etc Orlando Gibbons, organist and composer: The cries of London set to music by: post 1601.f. 48, etc Patrick Mando: Madrigal: post 1601.f. 50, ... British Library
referencedIn PSALMS and solos out of various services, in Eng. and Lat., with musical notes; together with the musical notation of a few secular airs, Fr. and Eng. To some of the services are added the names of the composers, viz.: "R[obert] White," f. 3 b; "Mais..., 16th century-17th century British Library
referencedIn COLLECTION of In nomines, etc., without words, followed (at f. 26) by sacred compositions in parts, and (at f. 78) by three Italian songs; by English composers of the 16th century. Paper; ff. 80. Late XVIth cent. Obl. Quarto. British Library
creatorOf ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. The Baldwin Collection of Motets, etc.: circa 1600, unless otherwise dated. A volume in the script throughout of John Baldwin of Windsor (excepting ff. 87b-89), containing 203 motets, instrumental pieces, canons and contrapunt..., 1590-1606 British Library
referencedIn 1. " LEICESTER'S Commonwealth " : the political tract attributed to Robert Parsons, the Jesuit (see No. 270). f. 1b. 2. " Encyclopædia sive tabulæ artium liberalium " : a summary of philosophy, theology, etc., in the form of deductive tables, in Lati... British Library
referencedIn Vol. I.Thomas Weelkes, composer: Musical settings of the "Cries of London": post 1601.includes:f. 1 b Alfonso Ferrabosco, junior; composer: Motet: post 1601.: Imperf.f. 46 b, etc Orlando Gibbons, organist and composer: The cries of London set to ... British Library
referencedIn James Stanley, Baron Strange; 7th Earl of Derby (1642): Commonplace-book: 1645, 1645/6.: Partly autogr.includes:ff. 2-5 b Arnaud de Ossat, Cardinal 1598: Letter to Henry IV. of France, 1601; translated by Lord Derby: 1645.ff. 7-12 b Robert Parson... British Library
creatorOf ‘Leicester’s Commonwealth’; 1584. Copy, late 16th cent. This is one of many manuscript copies of the Catholic libel on Robert Dudley (d. 1588), Earl of Leicester, that circulated following the suppression of the printed version of 1586. The full t..., 1584 British Library
referencedIn Sloane 1303Paper, in folio, ff. 73, end of the XVII century.1. Account of the taking of Cadiz by the English, under the Earl of Essex and Ld. Howard in the year 1596. ff. 1-6.2. "The copye of a letter written by a Master of Artes in Cambridge to his ... British Library
creatorOf PSALM TUNES; after 1712. Added in MS. on inter-leaves to the printed volume The Whole Books of Psalms…by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others (Printed by William Pearson, 1712). Those marked a, below, are for 4 voices and, unless the contrary i... British Library
referencedIn THE TREGIAN ANTHOLOGYCollection of madrigals, motets, fantasias, etc., mostly by Italian and English composers of the 16th and early 17th centuries, transcribed in score by Francis Tregian (d. 1619), the compiler of the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book.The ... British Library
referencedIn Vol. IV.includes:f. 1 b Alfonso Ferrabosco, junior; composer: Motet: post 1601.: Imperf.f. 46 b, etc Orlando Gibbons, organist and composer: The cries of London set to music by: post 1601.f. 48, etc Patrick Mando: Madrigal: post 1601.f. 50, etc... British Library
referencedIn Sloane 1566Paper, in folio, ff. 83, XVI century 'The Copie of a letter written by a Master of Arte of Cambridge to his friend in London concerninge some talke past of late betwene two gentilmen of worth about the present state of some proceedinge of ... British Library
referencedIn COLLECTION Of tracts, etc., made apparently by Dr. Zachary Grey, Rector of Houghton Conquest (ob. 1766), in whose hand the first 92 leaves are written. From a note by Rev. William Cole, the Cambridge antiquary, in Add. MS. 5822, f. 123, it would seem... British Library
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