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SUCCESSION OF THE SOVEREIGNS OF ENGLAND, Princes of Wales, English nobility and sovereigns of Scotland in that order (contents, ff. iv-ivb); compiled c. 1573, the latest date mentioned (ff. 280, 292b, 399b, etc.) in the text. At ff. 577-578, once part of another MS., is an incomplete succession ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1560-1599
Extent:
1 item

42. Add MS 48043

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Political tracts, c. 1552-c. 1579
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This collection of late 16th-century political tracts forms part of the Yelverton Manuscripts, which originate in the collections of the administrator and diplomat Robert Beale (1541-1601). The volume is in its original binding of covers made from a 15th-century antiphoner, and bears a lettered ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1558-1601
Extent:
1 volume

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Correspondence and state papers relating to foreign affairs and parliament, 1525-1625
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Correspondence and papers of Robert Beale (1541-1601), administrator and diplomat. Including original correspondence of English ambassadors in France and Rome, 1530-1533, as well as documents relating to the Netherlands, the 1604 Treaty of London, and the Spanish Match. ff. 4r-5v Letter from Th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1525-1625
Extent:
1 volume

44. Add MS 48045

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THE NEGOTIATIONS OF CARDINAL WOLSEY: transcripts of correspondence, etc., mostly between Cardinal Wolsey and various ambassadors, with short introductory comments; 1522-1525. Copy, 17th cent. Not to be confused with George Cavendish's life of Wolsey, which was called in its first edition (1641) ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1518-1528
Extent:
1 item

45. Add MS 48046

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WALSINGHAM CORRESPONDENCE: transcripts of the correspondence of Sir Francis Walsingham during his embassy to France; Aug. 1570-Sept 1572. Partly Latin, French and cipher. Copies, temp. Charles I. Printed with correspondence covering all his missions, 1570-1573 and 1581, in Sir D. Digges, The Com...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
Aug 1570-Sep 1572
Extent:
1 item

46. Add MS 48047

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Treatises on politics and economics
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This volume is part of the Yelverton Manuscripts. The initial pasted on the front, H', points to it belonging to the early core of the collection, the library of Robert Beale (1541-1601), administrator and diplomat. It contains some headings and notes, and one text and (probably) one transcripti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1565-1600
Extent:
1 volume

47. Add MS 48048

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HISTORIES OF SCOTLAND. Copies, late 16th cent. 1. ff. 1-45. History of Scotland 1436-1561 by John Leslie, Bishop of Ross: an incomplete version in English to 1512 only. First line of title by Beale, f. 1. The present MS. is noticed in the first publication of Leslie's original Scots text by T....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 16th century
Extent:
1 item

48. Add MS 48049

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Papers relating to Scotland and Mary, Queen of Scots, 1565-c. 1600
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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

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DIGEST OF SCOTS LAW in seven books; 16th cent. (after 1555, see f. 72b). Latin and Scots. See The Practicks of Sir James Balfour of Pittendriech, ed. P. G. B. McNeill, Stair Soc., xxi, xxii, 1962, 1963, vol. 1, p. lviii and n.47, where the present MS. and another, National Library of Scotland Ad...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Latin, and Scots
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 item

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THE FIVE KNIGHTS' CASE, King's Bench; 15-28 Nov. 1627. Also called Sir Thomas Darnell's case, although Sir Thomas Darnell, Bart., withdrew early in the proceedings. The 'five knights', who had been imprisoned on the order of Charles I for refusing to pay the forced loan of 1627, applied for a wr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
[1625-1649]
Extent:
1 item