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1. Add MS 4155

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Title:
English political and diplomatic papers, 1587-1689
Scope & Content:
This is a miscellaneous collection of papers, including Elizabethan political and military matters; the parliamentary politics of the 1620s; and a number of early 17th-century diplomatic letters. There are probably some originals amongst the collection, but it is evidently mainly a collection of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1587-1740
Extent:
1 volume

2. Add MS 19401

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Title:
Letters to sovereigns of Scotland, volume 1, 1525-1603
Scope & Content:
The first volume of a collection of letters sent to sovereigns of Scotland, between 1525 and 1603. Including letters by King Henry VIII of England, Queen Elizabeth I of England, and Sir John Maitland, Lord Maitland of Thirlestane, Lord Chancellor of Scotland. f. 1r Printed title-page: ‘Origina...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1525-1603
Extent:
1 volume.

3. Add MS 21405

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Title:
AUTOGRAPHS of French statesmen, in French; 1568-1616, viz.: 1. Letter from [Guillaume ?] Ancel [Envoy from France to the Emperor Rudolph II.] to M. de Villeroy, advising him of the intentions of the Duke of Bavaria, and of the Protestant Princes, etc.; Prague, 25 Feb. 1586, f. 1. 2. Twenty-two letters on State affairs from P[omponne de] Bellièvre [Chancellor of France], between the years 1581 and 1596, addressed to the King and M. de Villeroy; dat. chiefly from Lyons, one from London [whit...
Scope & Content:
Nicholas de Neufville, Seigneur de Villeroy; Secretary of State: State-letters to him: 1570-1616. includes: f. 1 Guillaume Ancel, French Envoy to Germany: Letter to M. de Villeroy: 1586.: Fr. f. 3 Henry II of France; Catherine de' Medici: Letter to Queen Catherine de Medici, from P. de Bellièv...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1568-1616
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 33594

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Title:
Correspondence and Papers of Sir Ralph Sadler, Volume IV (1580-1585)
Scope & Content:
Contents: Volume IV of the Correspondence and Papers of Sir Ralph Sadler, 1580-1585. The majority of the letters in this volume are published in The State Papers and Letters of Sir Ralph Sadler, ed. by Arthur Clifford (1809), II, pp. 331-544. 1. Speech of Sir Ralph Sadler (b. 1533, d. 1603) ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
1580-1585
Extent:

A collection of letters bound together

5. Add MS 48049

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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

6. Cotton MS Caligula C VII

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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

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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 Titus B VII

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Cotton MS Titus B VII
Title:
Letters to the Earls of Leicester, Sussex and others
Scope & Content:
Letters to the earls of Leicester, Sussex, and others, mainly from the reign of Elizabeth I and James I (1558-1625). f. 1r partial contents list of letters. ff. 2r-3v Letter from Robert Zinzan to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. Reporting his delivery of the Queen’s present of horses to King ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Ancient, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, and Spanish
Date Range:
1558-1625
Extent:
1 volume

9. Egerton MS 1693

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Egerton MS 1693
Title:
Miscellaneous papers of Robert Beale, 1569-1593
Scope & Content:
Miscellaneous papers of Robert Beale, 1569-1593, comprising: continental correspondence; papers relating to Mary, Queen of Scots; and correspondence about the Church of England in the 1580s. This is a miscellaneous collection of papers once belonging to Robert Beale which have become separated...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, and Latin
Date Range:
1569-1593
Extent:
1 volume

10. Harley MS 1582

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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.

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