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2. Cotton MS Augustus III/1
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Augustus III/1
- Title:
- A collection of drawings, maps and diagrams from the reign of Henry VIII; prints belonging to or associated with the Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains a miscellaneous collection of drawings of armies, men-at-arms and landscapes, maps, and what are thought to be the original designs for King Henry VIII’s tents for the Field of Cloth of Gold. The second volume is now bound as Cotton MS Augustus III/2. Cotton MS Augustus...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, German, and Latin
- Date Range:
- c 1500-c 1577
- Extent:
- 1 volume
3. Cotton MS Caligula B IV
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Caligula B IV
- Title:
- Records and papers concerning Mary, Queen of Scots
- Scope & Content:
- Records and papers concerning England and Scotland, mainly concerning Mary (1542–1587), Queen of Scots. ff. 2r-94v: Copy of Edmund Plowden’s ‘Treatise of Succession’. Concerning the King’s two bodies, i.e. natural and political, and intended to prove the title of Mary, Queen of Scots, to the su...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, French, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1542-1567
- Extent:
- 1 volume
4. Cotton MS Caligula B VIII
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Caligula B VIII
- Title:
- Records and papers concerning England and Scotland, Henry VIII and Elizabeth I
- Scope & Content:
- ff. 4r–414v: Records and papers (originals and copies) concerning England and Scotland, from the reigns of Henry VIII (1509–1547) and Elizabeth I (1558–1603), including The Act for furthering of Iustice in criminall causes, 9 November 1588 (Edinburgh: Henrie Charteris, 158), STC 21887.5, ff. 38r...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Cipher, English, French, Latin, Scots, and Spanish
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter 16th century-1st half 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
5. Cotton MS Caligula C II
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Caligula C II
- Title:
- Records and papers (primarily originals) concerning England and Scotland, 1569–1572.
- Scope & Content:
- This volume is a rich source of materials for Anglo-Scottish relations and the issue of Mary, Queen of Scots in English and Scottish politics between 1570 and 1572 (there is one document, and possibly another, from 1569). It includes original correspondence of Mary, Queen of Scots (r: 1542–1567;...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Cipher, English, French, Latin, and Scots
- Date Range:
- 1570-1st half of the 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume.
6. Cotton MS Caligula C IV
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Caligula C IV
- Title:
- Records and papers (originals and copies) concerning England and Scotland, 1568–1575
- Scope & Content:
- ff. 2r–330v: Records and papers (originals and copies) concerning England and Scotland, 1568–1575. Includes the original correspondence of Mary, Queen of Scots (1542–67; d. 1587); the instructions issued by Sir William Drury (d. 1579), High Marshal of Berwick and General of Her Majesty’s Force...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Cipher, English, and French
- Date Range:
- 1573-1st half of the 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
7. Cotton MS Caligula C V
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Caligula C V
- Title:
- Records and papers concerning England and Scotland, 1575–1579
- Scope & Content:
- ff. 3r–200r: A volume of records and papers (originals and copies) concerning England and Scotland, 1575–1579, including the original correspondence of Mary, Queen of Scots, and drawings by John Dunstall (ff. 73r–75r), including 'Certaine Emblemes upon a clock of the Q. of Scots' (f. 74r). ff. ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Cipher, English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
- Date Range:
- 1575-1st half of the 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
8. 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
9. 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
10. Cotton MS Caligula C VIII
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Caligula C VIII
- Title:
- Records and papers concerning England and Scotland, 1584–1586
- Scope & Content:
- Records and papers concerning England and Scotland, from the years 1584 to 1586. ff. 3r-4v: Letter from Robert Bowes to Francis Walsingham, principal secretary. Informing him of reports at Edinburgh that John Erskine, 2nd Earl of Marr, and Sir Thomas Lyon, Master of Glamis have returned from Ir...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, French, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1584-1586
- Extent:
- 1 volume