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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 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

5. Add MS 70518

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Add MS 70518
Title:
Miscellaneous letters and papers, 1540-1706
Scope & Content:
These letters are calendared in Historical Manuscripts Commission, Portland Manuscripts, II, 5-64. They form part of a section of miscellaneous manuscripts amongst the Portland Papers, which were originally held at Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire. The Portland Papers were deposited at the British...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Latin, and Scots
Date Range:
1540-1706
Extent:
1 volume

6. Arundel MS 285

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Arundel MS 285
Title:
Scottish miscellany of devotional verse and prose
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–224r: A collection of Scottish devotional poetry and prose by various authors. ff. 1r–4v: William Dunbar (d. circa 1530), 'The tabill of confessioun', in twenty-one eight-line stanzas. ff. 5v–46v: Walter Kennedy, 'The passioun of Crist', a poem in stanzas of eight lines. A woodcut, repr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Scots
Date Range:
1st half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

7. Cotton MS Caligula B VIII

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Cotton MS Caligula B VIII
Title:
Records and papers concerning England and Scotland, Henry VIII and Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:
ff. 4r–414v: Records and papers (originals and copies) concerning England and Scotland, from the reigns of Henry VIII (1509–1547) and Elizabeth I (1558–1603), including The Act for furthering of Iustice in criminall causes, 9 November 1588 (Edinburgh: Henrie Charteris, 158), STC 21887.5, ff. 38r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, Latin, Scots, and Spanish
Date Range:
1st quarter 16th century-1st half 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

8. Cotton MS Caligula B X/1

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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

9. Cotton MS Caligula B X/2

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Cotton MS Caligula B X/2
Title:
Records and papers concerning England and Scotland, 1562-1567
Scope & Content:
This is the second of two volumes created by the splitting of Cotton MS Caligula B X. Contents: ff. 209r-212v: Four draft papers by Sir William Cecil. Containing arguments for and against a meeting between Queen Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots. 21 and 30 Jun 1562. Another draft is below (...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, Latin, and Scots
Date Range:
1562-1631
Extent:
1 volume.

10. Cotton MS Caligula C II

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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.