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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Cotton MS Language Cipher Name Walsingham, Francis, Principal Secretary, c 1532–1590, http://isni.org/isni/000000...

1. Cotton MS Caligula C VI

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Caligula C VI
Title:
Records and papers (originals and copies) concerning England and Scotland, 1580–1581
Scope & Content:
A volume of records and papers (originals and copies) concerning England and Scotland, 1580–1581. It includes items in the hand of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (d. 1598). ff. 2r–v: Robert Bowes, to William Cecil, reporting a plot of Esmé Stuart , Earl of Lennox and his friends to ruin Mor...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, and French
Date Range:
1580-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

2. Cotton MS Caligula C VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Caligula C VII
Title:
Records and papers (originals and copies) concerning England and Scotland, 1582–1584, including correspondence of Mary, Queen of Scots
Scope & Content:
This is a collection of original documents - including many reports from the English Ambassador in Edinburgh, Robert Bowes, as well as letters from James VI, Mary, Queen of Scots, and Catherine de Medici - alongside scribal copies from the early 17th century. Many of the originals of these copie...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, Italian, Latin, and Scots
Date Range:
1582-1631
Extent:

1 volume

3. Cotton MS Galba D III

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Galba D III
Title:
Records and papers concerning England and the Low Countries, 1588–1589
Scope & Content:
Records and papers concerning England and the Low Countries, 1588-1589. ff. 3r-4v Letter from Sir William Russell to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. Reporting the dangers he apprehends for Flushing. Flushing, January 2 1587-8. ff. 5r-6v Memorandum for Joachim Ortell, agent sent from the Stat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, Dutch, English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1588-1589
Extent:
1 volume

4. Cotton MS Vespasian C VIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian C VIII
Title:
Records and papers (originals and transcripts) concerning Anglo-Spanish relations, 1587-1603
Scope & Content:
This is a collection of transcripts and original documents. A number of documents are identified as gifts, or translations from the papers of, the Spanish Ambassador (Gondomar) in 1615 ((ff. 11*r, 276r-v, 281r-284r, 289r-293v). Some of the documents probably came from Robert Beale. The document...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1587-1631
Extent:
1 volume