MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION Of papers relating to the history of Scotland, and more particularly to the Jacobite risings of 1715 and 1745:- 1. Award "concerning sundry disputes" between William, Bishop of Orkney and Shetland, and Haco Johnson; Kirkwall, F. of St. Urban, Pope [25 May], 1369. Trans...
COLLECTION Of miscellaneous historical, topographical, and other papers; 1360-1807. 1. Proceedings at, and list of princes attending, the Imperial Diet at Augsburg in June-August, 1582. Germ. ff. 1, 3. 2. Edict of Gebhardt, Archbishop Elector of Cologne, granting toleration to the Protestant...
Papers of Thomas Edmondes, Agent at the French Court, 1592-1596 and n.d., volume 1
Scope & Content:
Edmonde Papers, vol. 1, 18 June 1592-16 May 1596. This volume includes letters from William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, Sir Robert Cecil and Sir John Norris, commander in Brittany, to Thomas Edmondes. Much of this volume comprises drafts (described on the endorsements as copies or minutes) of t...
COLLECTION of State Papers and correspondence of Sir Thomas Edmondes, Knt.; 1592-1633. A few earlier and later papers are included in the last volume. Edmondes was English Agent at Paris, 1592-1599; Ambassador at the Archduke Albert's court at Brussels, 1605-1609; Ambassador to France, 1610-1617; Comptroller of the Household, 1616 ; Treasurer of the Household, 1618; and died in 1639. Twelve volumes. Paper. Folio. The collection includes original letters of English ambassadors to France and S...
Scope & Content:
Sir Thomas Edmondes, diplomatist: Correspondence and papers: 1592-1633, with additions 1470-1663.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Edmondes Papers, volume 2: English diplomatic correspondence, 1597-1605, including the reports of Thomas Edmondes, Ralph Winwood and Dudley Carleton in France; negotiations with the Spanish Netherlands; and letters of Ralph Winwood as Ambassador to the Dutch Republic
Scope & Content:
Edmondes Papers, volume 2, 26 October 1597-20 March 1605. Thomas Edmondes had been English agent at the French Court from 1592 to 1595 (he was also Secretary there before and after). He had returned to England in May or June 1596, returning to France on special missions in late March and early ...
EDMONDES PAPERS. VOL. III. (ff. 385). 21 Feb. 1605-22 Mar. 1606, N.S. Edmondes started for Brussels on 19 April, 1605, and his first letter here is dated 3 May, containing an account of the Marquis Ambrosio Spinola, the newly-appointed Spanish General in the Low Countries. The principal events t...
EDMONDES PAPERS. Vol. IV. (ff. 309). 29 March, 1607- 16 March, 1607 [8]. A gap of a whole year occurs between this and the preceding volume. The latter part of 1606 had been taken up by the secret negotiations of John Ney, Commissary General of the Friars Minor, on behalf of the Archduke, for a ...
Papers of Sir Thomas Edmondes, Vol. 5: 28 Mar 1608-23 Mar 1609
Scope & Content:
Papers of Sir Thomas Edmondes (d. 1639), diplomat: Vol. 5: 28 Mar 1608-23 Mar 1609. Edmondes was in this period Ambassador to the Spanish Netherlands, to the Archdukes Albert and Isabella, at Brussels. The great majority of the letters here are originals, with some drafts by Edmondes, usually ...
EDMONDES PAPERS. Vol. VI. (ff. 387). 28 March, 1609 - 24 March, 1610[1]. A truce for twelve years having been signed at Antwerp on 9 April, 1609, the letters of Edmondes from Brussels, of Carew from Paris, of Cornwallis from Madrid, and of Winwood from the Hague show how it was received in those...
EDMONDES PAPERS. Vol. VII. (ff. 321). 26 March, 1611-30 June, 1612. During this period affairs connected with the succession of Cleves were quiet. The two Electors were content, after Juliers had been recaptured, to renew their engagement to continue joint rulers of the disputed Duchies; while t...
