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1. Add MS 70518

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 70518
Title:
Miscellaneous letters and papers, 1540-1706
Scope & Content:
These letters are calendared in Historical Manuscripts Commission, Portland Manuscripts, II, 5-64. They form part of a section of miscellaneous manuscripts amongst the Portland Papers, which were originally held at Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire. The Portland Papers were deposited at the British...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Latin, and Scots
Date Range:
1540-1706
Extent:
1 volume

2. Cotton MS Appendix L

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Appendix L
Title:
State Papers, 1513-1637
Scope & Content:
This volume, primarily of original douments, includes correspondence in the hands of Thomas, Cardinal Wolsey (1470/71-1530), Thomas Cromwell (d. 1540), and William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (1520/1521-1598); letters from Sir Francis Walsingham (c. 1532-1590) relating to the Babington conspiracy,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1513-1637
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 Galba B X

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Galba B X
Title:
Records and papers concerning England and Burgundy, 1531–1546
Scope & Content:
Collection of letters and papers concerning England and Burgundy, dating from between 1531 and 1546. f. 1r: Cottonian title-page. ff. 2r-6v: Four letters from Stephen Vaughan to Thomas Cromwell. Reporting having finished a book concerning the wool trade in the Low Countries, and sending intell...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1531-1546
Extent:
1 volume

5. Cotton MS Galba D XI

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Galba D XI
Title:
Records and papers concerning England and the Low Countries, 1595
Scope & Content:
Records and papers concerning England and the Low Countries, mainly from 1595. f. 2r: Notes titled ‘Serment des gens de guerre à la charge des Estats de Zelande’. French. ff. 3r-6r: Instructions from Queen Elizabeth I to Thomas Bodley. For his dispatch to the States General. 1594. ff. 7r-10r:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1595
Extent:
1 volume

6. Cotton MS Galba D XII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Galba D XII
Title:
Records and papers concerning England and the Low Countries, 1596-1607
Scope & Content:
Records and papers concerning England and the Low Countries, mainly between 1596 and 1607. ff. 1r-4v Letter from Thomas Bodley to William Cecil, Baron Burghley. Reporting on his conferences with Johan van Oldenbarnevelt and the States General, concerning the war. The Hague, January 4 1595/6. f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1596-1607
Extent:
1 volume

7. Cotton MS Otho E VIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Otho E VIII
Title:
Papers relating to the Admiralty and Navy, 1553-1613
Scope & Content:
Papers relating to the Admiralty and Navy, dating from 1553 to 1613. Including items concerning Sir Richard Hawkins (c. 1560–1622), naval officer; Sir Walter Raleigh (1554–1618), courtier, explorer, and author; Sir Hugh Willoughby (d. 1554?), sea captain; Sir John Hawkins (1532–1595), merchant a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1553-1613
Extent:
1 volume

8. Harley MS 260

Reference (shelfmark):
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 7007

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7007
Title:
Correspondence of Prince Henry, 1601-1610
Scope & Content:
Letters, state warrants and correspondence of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales (1594–1612). Volume 1 of Harley MSS 7007-7009. ff. 1r-2v: Letter from George Paul, Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, to Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford. Cambridge, 1 July 1713. Latin. ff. 3r-4v: Letter from George P...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1601-1610
Extent:
1 volume.