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Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian F IV
Title:: Statutes and customs relating to the forests, including the Assize of Woodstock, 1184 (10v–12r, 17r–18v: 2 copies), and incorporating Of Ilands arrising in the Sea and of the Salt Shore compared with the fresh (96r–104r)
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 16th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian F IX
Title:: Miscellaneous papers, including the statutes of St George’s College, Windsor (2r–18r), and a record of its visitation, 1570 (18v–22r); ordinances for the Augustinian canons in England, 1519 (23r–32v); letters and papers concerning precedency (39r–93r, 100r–113r); record of the autopsy performed on Prince Henry of England (d. 1612) (136r); Articles concerning the Admiralty of England, 1591 (ff. 173–174: printed text); topographical notes by John Leland (d. 1552) (198r–199r); historical memoran...
Scope & Content:: A paper volume in folio, consisting of 309 leaves, besides an imperfect table of contents at the beginning. 1. Statuta ecclesiae collegiatae castri de Windsor, confirmata ex auctoritate Clementis VI. papae: with a table of contents at fol. 15, and some of the oaths administered. 1. 2. Injunctio...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1384-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian F V
Title:: Records and papers (predominantly transcripts) concerning France, including Traitte des princes, conseillers et autres ministres de l’etat de France (1r–47v: imperfect); Peace of Madrid, 1526 (65r–100v); Peace of Cambrai, 1529 (101r–119v); Peace of Câteau-Cambrésis, 1559 (140v–151r, 152v); advertisement for a Professor of Mathematics, Paris, 1576 (f. 232: printed text); request addressed to Henri III, king of France (1574–1589), 1576 (237r–252r); papers relating to Paris peace negotiations, 1...
Scope & Content:: Codex chartac. in folio, constans foliis 503. 1. Traité des princes, conseillers, et autres ministres de l'etat de France, ainsi que de l'etat du royaume, vers la fin du XVIme siecle. 1.2. An extract of all the lieutenants, governors, &c. in France, as they were placed by Henry IV. 48.3. A ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 16th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian F VI
Title:: Correspondence and other records (originals and transcripts) concerning England and France, 1572, including letters of Queen Elizabeth I of England (1558–1603), King Charles IX of France (1560–1574), William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (d. 1598), Francis Walsingham (d. 1590) and Sir Thomas Smith (d. 1577); Treaty of Blois, 1572 (24r–44v); Ad Serenissimam Angliæ, Franciæ, Hyberniæ Reginam Elizabetham, Pro Christianorum Defensio Oratio (289r–294v)
Scope & Content:: Language(s): English, French, Latin and Italian, partly in cipher Codex chartaceus, in folio, constans foliis 297. 1. Sir Fr. Walsingham? to Ld. Burleigh? giving an account of an interview he had with the Q. of Navarre, concerning the proposed marriage between the prince of Navarre; and lady M...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Cipher, English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1572-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian F VII
Title:: Records and correspondence (all originals) concerning England and Scotland, 1296–1547, including the renunciation of fealty by John Balliol, king of Scots (1292–1296; d. 1313), to King Edward I of England (1272–1307), 1296 (f. 42); instructions sent by Humphrey, duke of Gloucester (d. 1447), to John Scrope, Lord Scrope of Masham (d. 1455), 1430 (f. 48); letter of Mary, queen of Scots (1542–1567; d. 1587), 1547 (f. 73); early modern list of contents (ff. 126–130)
Scope & Content:: Codex membran. et chartac. in folio, constans foliis 121. [See Stevenson's Illustrations of Scottish History] 1. Rotulus de munitionibus castrorum Scotiae: being a table, or tariff, of the pay of certain chiefs and their men on the borders of Scotland. (Lat. on vellum.) 29 Edw. III. 1355. 1. 2...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1296-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian F X
Title:: Journal of Sir Thomas Parry, English ambassador to France (1602–1605/6; d. 1616), January 1603–April 1605
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1603-1605
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian F XII
Title:: Correspondence (all originals) concerning Ireland, 1557–1587 (ff. 1–117); miscellaneous state papers (mostly originals), 1536–1615 (ff. 119–222)
Scope & Content:: Language(s): English, Latin and Irish (ff. 1–117); Italian (6v); predominantly English (ff. 119–222) Codex chartaceus, in folio, constans foliis 221. 1. Tho. Ormonde, to the Ld. lieutenant of Ireland, complaining of the depredations of the earl of Desmond. (Orig.) Waterford, Feb. 25. 1. 2. A w...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Irish, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1536-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

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