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1. Add MS 19402

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Add MS 19402
Title:
Letters to sovereigns of Scotland, volume 2, 1603-1624
Scope & Content:
The second volume of a collection of letters sent to sovereigns of Scotland, between 1603 and 1624. Including letters by: Princess Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia; Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales; Prince Charles; Sir Francis Bacon; and George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham. f. i Printed title-page:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1603-1624
Extent:
1 volume.

2. Add MS 33594

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Add MS 33594
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

3. Add MS 33740

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Title:
Papers relating to the Spanish Armada, 1588
Scope & Content:
f. 1r: modern contents page. f. 2r: Letter from the Privy Council to the Lord Admiral Howard, informing him that 'a good number of the best and choysest shotte of the trayned bandes' of Kent 'should be forthwith sent to the sea side . . . . to double man the shippes', 21 July 1588, Richmond. Si...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Jul 1588-1 Aug 1588
Extent:
1 volume

4. Add MS 35831

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Add MS 35831
Title:
State letters and papers (Hardwicke Papers vol. 483)
Scope & Content:
State letters and papers including the correspondence of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, diplomat and Member of Parliament (1515/16-1571) during his time as Ambassador in France, 1561-1564. f. 1 Letter from Mary, Queen of Scots, to Queen Elizabeth I: as Queen Elizabeth I is not satisfied with her pr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1562-1599
Extent:
1 volume

5. Add MS 38823

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Add MS 38823
Title:
Sir Edward Hoby, Commonplace book
Scope & Content:
Commonplace book of Sir Edward Hoby, politician and diplomat (1560-1617), containing entries on various subjects including America, Parliament, the Isle of Sheppey, the siege of Calais (1346-1347), and Mary, Queen of Scots. ff. i-ii) Remains of two parchment fragments of a 13th-century manuscri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, Latin, and Turkish
Date Range:
c 1582-c 1596
Extent:

1 volume

6. Harley MS 6994

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Harley MS 6994
Title:
Letters on state affairs, 1586–1589
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–216v: Letters on state affairs from many prominent individuals, including Robert Dudley, the Earl of Leicester; William Cecil, Lord Burghley; John Puckering; Sir Walter Mildmay, and Francis Walsingham, 1586–1589. ff. 1r–v: Original complimentary letter in Latin from Hieronymus Groslotiu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1586-1589
Extent:
1 volume

7. Harley MS 6997

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Harley MS 6997
Title:
Letters on state affairs, 1595–1596
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–184v: Letters on state affairs from many prominent individuals, including William Cecil, Lord Burghley, Sir Thomas Heneage, John Puckering, the Stanhope brothers, and Francis Walsingham, for the years 1595–1596. The majority are addressed to Puckering in his capacity as Lord Keeper. ff. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1595-1596
Extent:
1 volume

8. Sloane MS 226

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Sloane MS 226
Title:
Roger Marbeck, An account of the taking of Cadiz, 1596
Scope & Content:
Roger Marbeck, "A breefe and a true discourse of the late honorable voyage unto Spayne and the wynning, sacking and burning of the famous Towne of Cadiz there, and of the miraculous overthrowe of the Spanishe Navie at that tyme, with a reporte of all other Accidents thereunto appertayning, by Do...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1596-1597
Extent:
1 volume

9. Stowe MS 150

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Stowe MS 150
Title:
Miscellaneous letters, 1525-1623
Scope & Content:
This is a miscellaneous collection of 16th- and early 17th-century correspondence. It incudes one holograph letter of Sir Philip Sidney from Flushing [Vlissingen] in 1586 (ff. 50r-v), and a copy of a letter from the Irish chieftain Florence MacCarthy Reagh [Finian Mac Cárthaigh Riabhach] to Sir ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1525-1623
Extent:
1 volume

10. Stowe MS 166

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Stowe MS 166
Title:
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 Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1592-1601
Extent:
1 volume