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1. Add MS 48046

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Add MS 48046
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Scope & Content:
WALSINGHAM CORRESPONDENCE: transcripts of the correspondence of Sir Francis Walsingham during his embassy to France; Aug. 1570-Sept 1572. Partly Latin, French and cipher. Copies, temp. Charles I. Printed with correspondence covering all his missions, 1570-1573 and 1581, in Sir D. Digges, The Com...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
Aug 1570-Sep 1572
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 48049

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Add MS 48049
Title:
Papers relating to Scotland and Mary, Queen of Scots, 1565-c. 1600
Scope & Content:
This volume is made up of copies and drafts relating to Mary Queen of Scots and more broadly to Scottish politics in the reign of King James VI (up to c. 1600). The volume forms part of the papers collected by Robert Beale, Clerk of the Council, and there are many endorsements, memoranda and dra...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, Greek, Ancient, Latin, and Scots
Date Range:
1560-1605
Extent:
1 volume

3. Add MS 48078

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Add MS 48078
Title:
Correspondence of Thomas Sackville as envoy to the Netherlands, 1583-1598
Scope & Content:
Correspondence of Thomas Sackville, Baron Buckhurst and 1st Earl of Dorset from 1604, during his time as envoy in the Netherlands, 1583-1598. ff. 1r-2v: Letter from Thomas Sackville, Baron Buckhurst, to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. 26 March 1586. ff. 3r-6v: Two letters from Thomas Sackv...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
1583-1598
Extent:
1 volume

4. Cotton MS Caligula C VI

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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

5. Cotton MS Caligula C VII

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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

6. Cotton MS Galba D III

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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

7. Cotton MS Vespasian C VIII

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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

8. Harley MS 260

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Harley MS 260
Title:
Letter-Book of Francis Walsingham as Ambassador to France, 26 Jan 1571-1 April 1573, with the reply to the French Ambassador, 20 Aug 1573
Scope & Content:
This is a scribal copy of the letter-book of Francis Walsingham covering most of his period as English Resident in Paris between early 1571 and spring 1573. The period covers the marriage negotiations of Queen Elizabeth I with two of the brothers of the King of France: Henri, Duke of Anjou (late...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1619-1628
Extent:
1 volume

9. Harley MS 1582

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1582
Title:
State papers, 1553-1596
Scope & Content:
This volume is entitled on the spine, 'Original Letters and Papers on State Affairs'. It contains a wide range of materials on English relations with, and intelligence on, France, the Low Countries and Germany in the late 16th century. It has also been termed, not entirely happily but with a g...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1553-1596
Extent:

1 volume.

10. Harley MS 6999

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Harley MS 6999
Title:
Letters and state warrants, 1580-1581
Scope & Content:
Letters and state warrants, from the years 1580-1581. ff. 1r-2v: List of contents. f. 3r: Letter from Robert Bowes to Francis Walsingham. Reporting on the case of James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, and his adherents, and requesting advice as to whether he should travel to London to answer the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher and English
Date Range:
1580-1581
Extent:
1 volume