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Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 162
Title:: Catalogue of state papers (‘Walsingham’s Table Book’)
Scope & Content:: Catalogue of manuscripts and state papers in the possession of Sir Francis Walsingham, principal secretary of state (c. 1532-1590). In the hand of Sir Thomas Lake, administrator and politician (bap. 1561, d. 1630), private secretary to Walsingham. Dated 1588 (f. 3v). The papers relate chiefly t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1588
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 163
Title:
Scope & Content:: COLLECTION Of miscellaneous historical, topographical, and other papers; 1360-1807. 1. Proceedings at, and list of princes attending, the Imperial Diet at Augsburg in June-August, 1582. Germ. ff. 1, 3. 2. Edict of Gebhardt, Archbishop Elector of Cologne, granting toleration to the Protestant...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1360-1807
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 164
Title:
Scope & Content:: MISCELLANEOUS historical and other papers; 1588-1721. With a table of contents in the hand of Thomas Astle. 1. Part of the book of the Commissioners for the Sequestration of delinquents' estates in co. Essex; 31 Jan. 1645 [6]-17 Apr. 1646. f 2. Morant, in his Hist. of Essex, i., 1768, p. 421, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch and English
Date Range:: 1588-1721
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 165
Title:
Scope & Content:: LIST of contributors in the several counties of England to a loan raised in 1589, for the defence of the realm, by royal warrant (see f 2) dated 16 Jan. 1588 [9]; with the amounts of their respective contributions. Paper; ff. 31. xvith cent. Belonged to T. Astle (see notes by him, ff. 1, 2). Fol...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [16 Jan 1589]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 166
Title:: Papers of Thomas Edmondes, Agent at the French Court, 1592-1596 and n.d., volume 1
Scope & Content:: Edmonde Papers, vol. 1, 18 June 1592-16 May 1596. This volume includes letters from William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, Sir Robert Cecil and Sir John Norris, commander in Brittany, to Thomas Edmondes. Much of this volume comprises drafts (described on the endorsements as copies or minutes) of t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Cipher, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1592-1601
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 166-177
Title:: COLLECTION of State Papers and correspondence of Sir Thomas Edmondes, Knt.; 1592-1633. A few earlier and later papers are included in the last volume. Edmondes was English Agent at Paris, 1592-1599; Ambassador at the Archduke Albert's court at Brussels, 1605-1609; Ambassador to France, 1610-1617; Comptroller of the Household, 1616 ; Treasurer of the Household, 1618; and died in 1639. Twelve volumes. Paper. Folio. The collection includes original letters of English ambassadors to France and S...
Scope & Content:: Sir Thomas Edmondes, diplomatist: Correspondence and papers: 1592-1633, with additions 1470-1663.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:: 1592-1633
Extent:: 12 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 167
Title:: Edmondes Papers, volume 2: English diplomatic correspondence, 1597-1605, including the reports of Thomas Edmondes, Ralph Winwood and Dudley Carleton in France; negotiations with the Spanish Netherlands; and letters of Ralph Winwood as Ambassador to the Dutch Republic
Scope & Content:: Edmondes Papers, volume 2, 26 October 1597-20 March 1605. Thomas Edmondes had been English agent at the French Court from 1592 to 1595 (he was also Secretary there before and after). He had returned to England in May or June 1596, returning to France on special missions in late March and early ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Spanish
Date Range:: 26 Oct 1597-10 Mar 1605
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 168
Title:
Scope & Content:: EDMONDES PAPERS. VOL. III. (ff. 385). 21 Feb. 1605-22 Mar. 1606, N.S. Edmondes started for Brussels on 19 April, 1605, and his first letter here is dated 3 May, containing an account of the Marquis Ambrosio Spinola, the newly-appointed Spanish General in the Low Countries. The principal events t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:: 21 Feb 1605-22 Mar 1606
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 169
Title:
Scope & Content:: EDMONDES PAPERS. Vol. IV. (ff. 309). 29 March, 1607- 16 March, 1607 [8]. A gap of a whole year occurs between this and the preceding volume. The latter part of 1606 had been taken up by the secret negotiations of John Ney, Commissary General of the Friars Minor, on behalf of the Archduke, for a ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 29 Mar 1607-16 Mar 1608
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 170
Title:: Papers of Sir Thomas Edmondes, Vol. 5: 28 Mar 1608-23 Mar 1609
Scope & Content:: Papers of Sir Thomas Edmondes (d. 1639), diplomat: Vol. 5: 28 Mar 1608-23 Mar 1609. Edmondes was in this period Ambassador to the Spanish Netherlands, to the Archdukes Albert and Isabella, at Brussels. The great majority of the letters here are originals, with some drafts by Edmondes, usually ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:: 28 Mar 1608-23 Mar 1609
Extent:: 1 volume

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