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1. Add MS 4156

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Add MS 4156
Title:
State papers of John Thurloe, Secretary of State, 1650-1658 (especially 1654-1655)
Scope & Content:
The documents here formed part of the original collection of John Thurloe (d. 1668), Secretary to the Council of State and subsequently to the two Cromwells, Lord Protectors. They illuminate both the domestic and international politics of the period, as also the scope of Thurloe's intelligence s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Latin, Scots, and Spanish
Date Range:
1650-1658
Extent:
1 volume

2. Add MS 10308

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Add MS 10308
Title:
Poems of Sir Robert Ayton
Scope & Content:
Collection of poems in English and Scots by Sir Robert Ayton (1570–1638), poet and courtier. Collected by his nephew and executor, Sir John Ayton. f. 1r: Title page, ‘Some fewe English and Scotts amorous Poems of Sir Robert Ayton, late Secretarye to the most Illustrious, Anna and Henrietta Mary...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Scots
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

3. Add MS 18981

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Add MS 18981
Title:
Royalist correspondence, primarily addressed to Prince Rupert, 1643-1644
Scope & Content:
This is the second volume of the 'Rupert Correspondence' - overwhelmingly letters received by Rupert, Prince and Count Palatine of the Rhine (1619-1682) in 1644 - which descended in the family of Rupert's secretary Thomas Bennett until they were purchased by the publisher Richard Bentley, who in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, and Scots
Date Range:
1643-1644
Extent:
1 volume

4. Add MS 32646-32657

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Add MS 32646-32657
Title:
OFFICIAL correspondence and state papers relating to transactions between England and Scotland during the latter part of the reign of Henry VIII., from 1532 to 1545; and (in the last volume) a few similar letters of the beginning of the reign of Edward VI., in 1548, and the correspondence of Sir Francis Walsingham, Secretary of State, with Edward Wotton, Ambassador to Scotland in 1585. Twelve volumes. A large portion of the series relates to the embassy of Sir Ralph Sadler to Scotland in the...
Scope & Content:
Marches of England and Scotland: Official correspondence and papers relating to: 1532-1545, 1548, 1585. Hamilton State Papers: Transactions between England and Scotland: 1532-1548, 1585. England General Chronicles and History: Transactions between England and Scotland: 1532-1548, 1585.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Latin, Scots, and Spanish
Date Range:
[7 Mar 1532]-27 May 1590
Extent:
12 items

5. Add MS 32651

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Add MS 32651
Title:
Transactions between Scotland and England, 1543 (Hamilton Papers)
Scope & Content:
Official correspondence and state papers relating to transactions between England and Scotland between June and August 1543. Volume 6 of the Hamilton Papers (Add MSS 32646-32657). ff. 2r-3v Letter from Sir Ralph Sadler, ambassador to Scotland, to Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, Sir William Pa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Scots
Date Range:
3 June 1543-31 August 1543
Extent:
1 volume

6. Add MS 40732

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Add MS 40732
Title:
Gilbert the Hay, The Buike off King Allexander the Conqueroure
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains The Buike off King Allexander the Conqueroure, a translation of the Alexander Romance into Scots heroic couplets by the Scottish poet Gilbert the Hay (b. c. 1397, d. 1465). Gilbert's translation was likely influenced by earlier French sources of the Alexander romance. T...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin and Scots
Date Range:
Early 16th century
Extent:

1 volume

7. Add MS 48000-48196

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Add MS 48000-48196
Title:
THE YELVERTON MSS
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and papers chiefly of Robert Beale, Clerk of the Council (b. 1541, d. 1601), together with additions of the 17th century, including manuscripts of Sir Henry Yelverton, Justice of the Common Pleas (b. 1566, d. 1629), Beale's son-in-law, Sir Christopher Yelverton, Justice of the Kin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Scots, Spanish, and Welsh
Date Range:
[1100-1899]
Extent:
197 items

8. Add MS 48027

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Add MS 48027
Title:
Papers and correspondence relating chiefly to Mary, Queen of Scots, 1559-1594
Scope & Content:
Papers and correspondence relating to Mary, Queen of Scots: the conspiracies and plots involving her and her trial and execution and its aftermath, 1559-1594, n.d. Mostly contemporary copies. Further official copies of many of the items are in Cotton MS Caligula C IX. This volume was compiled b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Latin, Scots, and Spanish
Date Range:
1559-1626
Extent:
1 volume

9. Add MS 48032

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Add MS 48032
Title:
Scope & Content:
LEGAL TREATISES, etc., including 'Regiam Majestatem' and 'Quoniam Attachiamenta'. Partly compiled, c. 1570, by 'M. G.', whose hand occurs in artt. 5, 8, 15 and 16. 1. f. 3b. 'Expositiones quorundam vocabulorum'. Latin. Beg. 'Soke hoc est secta de hominibus . . . '. Harley 4700, ff. 210b-211. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Latin, and Scots
Date Range:
c 1570
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 48032-48033

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Add MS 48032-48033
Title:
SCOTS LEGAL TREATISES AND STATUTES, etc.; late 16th cent. Mostly Latin and Scots. For other MSS. In which the contents occur, especially Harley MS. 4700 (15th cent.), see APS, i, pp. i-xxxvi. The present MSS. May derive in part from Glasgow University MS. Murray 548, which includes most of their contents and also the two dated colophons in 48032, art. 16, and 48033, art.4. Occasional notes by Beale passim.
Scope & Content:
Elizabeth I of England: Papers of R. Beale, Clerk of the Council: 16th cent. Robert Beale, Clerk to the Privy Council: Correspondence and papers.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Latin, and Scots
Date Range:
Late 16th century
Extent:
2 items