COLLECTION Of political and other papers, chiefly contemporary transcripts, with a few originals and modern copies, the majority relating to the events of the 17th cent. Included are:- 1. Petition to Richard II. from Margaret, dau. and heir of the late Thomas de Brotherton, Earl of Norfolk, co...
MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS, chiefly political; 1540-1629. 1. " Certaine articles put forth vnto the Bishoppes . . . by the kinges maiestie in Juine, ao Do. 1540 [concerning Sacraments], to make an answeare vnto by ther learninges." See Strype, Cranmer, ed. 1840, i. p. 108, ii. p. 744. f 1. 2. " Th...
TRANSCRIPTS, facsimiles, and drafts of English and Foreign State letters; 1549-1765. A few of them have memoranda in the hand of Thomas Astle, and are copies of letters that have since been acquired by the British Museum. The contents are:- 1. Henry II. of France to, [Con Baccach] O'Neill, Ear...
COLLECTION of State papers, letters, and miscellaneous documents, many of which relate to the Civil War and the affairs of the Commonwealth; 1564-1760. The letters at the end relate to literature and kindred subjects, and several of them are addressed to Dr. John Hill, Apothecary, etc., who acqu...
TRANSCRIPTS Of State papers and political tracts; circ. 1565-1629. The contents are :- 1. A conference between William Axton, minister of Morton-Corbet, co. Salop, and [Thomas Bentham] Bishop of Lichfield, Thomas Bickley, Chancellor of Lichfield, and others, on the use of the surplice, the pra...
1. " ORIGINAL LETTERs of Mary, Queen of Scots, to James, Earl of Bothwell " : a transcript of eleven love-letters so entitled, each having a short explanatory introduction. They are not identical, either in number or contents, with the " Casket Letters " generally so called. Letters 1-3 relate t...
MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION Of papers relating to the history of Scotland, and more particularly to the Jacobite risings of 1715 and 1745:- 1. Award "concerning sundry disputes" between William, Bishop of Orkney and Shetland, and Haco Johnson; Kirkwall, F. of St. Urban, Pope [25 May], 1369. Trans...
A COLLECTION Of miscellaneous political and other tracts, etc., in different hands; 1572-1635. 1. Star Chamber cases, viz. :-(a) Judgments against Thomas Howard, Earl of Suffolk, late Lord Treasurer, Catherine, his wife, and Sir John Bingley, for taking bribes, etc.; 12 Nov. 1619. f. 3;- (b)...
LETTERS of the Privy Council of the reign of Elizabeth. Copies. The first part (fF. 3-85) is apparently arranged in chronological order, covering the period from the last months of 1578 to March, 1580; but the exact dates are rarely given. The rest of the volume is not arranged chronologically; ...
HISTORICAL TRACTS and papers; tempp . Elizabeth and James I. 1. " A coppie of the last instructions which ye Emperour Charles the Vth gave to his sonne Phillipp before his death. Translated out of Spanishe " [by Lord Henry Howard, cr. Earl of Northampton 1604]. This is followed by the translat...