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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 48000-48196 Language English Name Norton, Thomas, lawyer and writer; Remembrancer of the City of London, c 1531-1584

1. Add MS 48029

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Title:
Papers relating to alleged Catholic and Spanish plotting, 1577-1594
Scope & Content:
This volume of the Yelverton papers derives from the papers of Robert Beale (1541-1601), administrator and diplomat, who was a Clerk of the Privy Council from 1572 until his death. His hand appears on a number of pages, providing notes (ff. 73*r-v, 83v, 94v) or title-pages and subheadings (ff. 7...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1577-1601
Extent:
1 volume

2. Add MS 48035

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Scope & Content:
PAPERS RELATING TO DIPLOMATIC AND ECCLESIASTICAL AFFAIRS; 1554-1600. Latin, English, French and Spanish. Partly copies. 1. ff. 2-100b. Correspondence and papers relating to the peace conference at Boulogne; 1600. Partly Latin, French and Spanish. Mostly copies. Numerous annotations and correct...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1554-1601
Extent:
1 item

3. 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

4. Add MS 48098

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Add MS 48098
Title:
Treatise against Mary, Queen of Scots, by Thomas Norton
Scope & Content:
This treatise addresses Queen Elizabeth, and addresses her as "we". It was evidently written by Thomas Norton, a leading polemicist against the claims of Mary, Queen of Scots to the English crown, who was active in the parliaments of 1571 and 1572 in attempts to (at the least) bar Mary from the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1571-1572
Extent:
1 volume

5. Add MS 48101

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Add MS 48101
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Scope & Content:
POLITICAL TRACTS AND PAPERS relating to domestic and foreign affairs; 1350-1351, 1576-1631. Latin, English, French and Italian. Chiefly copies, with some originals and drafts. 1. ff. 2-19. 'A discourse of the highe Court of Parliament, and of the Authoritie of the same, collected out of the Co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1350-1632
Extent:
1 item