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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Cotton MS Language English Name Randolph, Thomas, ambassador, 1523-1590

1. 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

2. Cotton MS Caligula B IX/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Caligula B IX/1
Title:
Records and papers concerning England and Scotland, 1556-1579
Scope & Content:
Records and papers concerning England and Scotland, 1556-1579. Volume 1 of 2. f. 1r-1v: List of titles of documents concerning the borders. ff. 2r-6v: Proceedings of Thomas Wharton, 1st Baron Wharton, and other commissioners concerning the borders. Containing copies of an indenture between th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1556-1579
Extent:
1 volume

3. Cotton MS Caligula B X/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Caligula B X/1
Title:
Records and papers concerning England and Scotland, 1558-1561
Scope & Content:
This is volume 1 of 2 volumes created from Cotton MS Caligula B X. Contents: f. 1r: Note ‘Scotland ab ao. 1558 usque 1567'. f. 1v: Note ‘Lord let mee knowe mine end & the munites of my dayes that I may be Certified how long I have to live saith David'. f. 2r: Inscription of Robert Cotto...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, Italian, Latin, and Scots
Date Range:
1558-1631
Extent:
1 volume

4. 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.

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. Cotton MS Julius F VI

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Julius F VI
Title:
Historical and topographical collections, 1529-1640
Scope & Content:
Collection of historical letters and papers, principally from the reigns of Queen Elizabeth I and King James VI and I. From the collection of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician. Partly assembled by Cotton and William Camden (1551–1623), historian an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1529-1640
Extent:

1 volume

9. Cotton MS Vespasian C XII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian C XII
Title:
Records and papers concerning England and Spain, 1262-1509
Scope & Content:
Papers concerning England and Spain, 1262-1509. Including the marriage contract of Arthur, Prince of Wales (1486-1502), and Katherine of Aragon (1485–1536) in 1497 (ff. 227r-237v), and the marriage contract of Prince Henry, later King Henry VIII (1491–1547), and Katherine of Aragon in 1502 (ff. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1262-1509
Extent:
1 volume