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1. Add MS 19398

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Add MS 19398
Title:
Royal and noble autographs, 1399-1646
Scope & Content:
Original letters, bills of privy seal, orders of Privy Council, and other documents, bearing the autograph signatures of royal and noble people, principally of England. Between 1399 and 1646. ff. 1r-2r: Papers concerning the sale of the volume to Dawson Turner (1775–1858), banker, botanist and...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century-17th century
Extent:
1 volume

2. Add MS 35830

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Add MS 35830
Title:
State letters and papers (Hardwick Papers vol. 482)
Scope & Content:
State letters and papers, principally the correspondence of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton (1515/16-1571), diplomat and member of parliament. He was appointed ambassador to France in May 1559, two months before the death of King Henry II, and his letters give detailed accounts of his interviews wit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1557-1561
Extent:
1 volume

3. 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

4. Add MS 48023

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Add MS 48023
Title:
Political and religious papers, 1558-1601, with some 15th-century diplomatic copies
Scope & Content:
This volume from the Yelverton Manuscripts was largely in the possession of Robert Beale, administrator and diplomat (1541-1601), at the time of his death. It is probable that the volume was bound after his death, as there is one item dated as late as 1601 ('The Viewe of Fraunce or The Method of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1419-1874
Extent:
1 volume

5. Add MS 48043

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Add MS 48043
Title:
Political tracts, c. 1552-c. 1579
Scope & Content:
This collection of late 16th-century political tracts forms part of the Yelverton Manuscripts, which originate in the collections of the administrator and diplomat Robert Beale (1541-1601). The volume is in its original binding of covers made from a 15th-century antiphoner, and bears a lettered ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1558-1601
Extent:
1 volume

6. Add MS 48047

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Add MS 48047
Title:
Treatises on politics and economics
Scope & Content:
This volume is part of the Yelverton Manuscripts. The initial pasted on the front, H', points to it belonging to the early core of the collection, the library of Robert Beale (1541-1601), administrator and diplomat. It contains some headings and notes, and one text and (probably) one transcripti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1565-1600
Extent:
1 volume

7. Cotton MS Appendix L

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Cotton MS Appendix L
Title:
State Papers, 1513-1637
Scope & Content:
This volume, primarily of original douments, includes correspondence in the hands of Thomas, Cardinal Wolsey (1470/71-1530), Thomas Cromwell (d. 1540), and William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (1520/1521-1598); letters from Sir Francis Walsingham (c. 1532-1590) relating to the Babington conspiracy,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1513-1637
Extent:
1 volume

8. Cotton MS Caligula B IX/1

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Cotton MS Caligula B IX/1
Title:
Records and papers concerning England and Scotland, 1556-1579
Scope & Content:
Records and papers concerning England and Scotland, 1556-1579. Volume 1 of 2. f. 1r-1v: List of titles of documents concerning the borders. ff. 2r-6v: Proceedings of Thomas Wharton, 1st Baron Wharton, and other commissioners concerning the borders. Containing copies of an indenture between th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1556-1579
Extent:
1 volume

9. 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.

10. Cotton MS Titus B VII

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Cotton MS Titus B VII
Title:
Letters to the Earls of Leicester, Sussex and others
Scope & Content:
Letters to the earls of Leicester, Sussex, and others, mainly from the reign of Elizabeth I and James I (1558-1625). f. 1r partial contents list of letters. ff. 2r-3v Letter from Robert Zinzan to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. Reporting his delivery of the Queen’s present of horses to King ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Ancient, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, and Spanish
Date Range:
1558-1625
Extent:
1 volume