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Name Cornwallis, Thomas, Knight, MP, 1518-1604

1. Add MS 33597

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Add MS 33597
Title:
Paston Letters and Papers
Scope & Content:
Contents: A collection of 29 letters and one land transaction document of the Paston family of Norfolk from the mid-15th century to the end of the 16th century. 15th-century letters (numbers in brackets refer to Davis, Paston Letters (Early English Text Society, 2004)): f. 1r-v: Letter from E...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1422-1597
Extent:

A collection of 27 letters on paper, bound together, 41 folios

2. Add MS 48018

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Add MS 48018
Title:
Formulary for a Clerk of the Privy Council, compiled by Robert Beale
Scope & Content:
Robert Beale (1541-1601), administrator and diplomat, was a Clerk of the Privy Council from 1572 until his death in 1601. This was the second of two formularies for his office that he compiled: the first (dated 1572) is now Add MS 48150. A note by Beale on f. i recto states that 'This Booke of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1575-c 1586
Extent:

1 volume

3. Add MS 49622

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Add MS 49622
Title:
Psalter, with calendar, prayers, litany and offices ('The Gorleston Psalter')
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Calendar. f. 7r: miniature of the Crucifixion (added after the manuscript passed to Norwich Cathedral Priory, c. 1320-1325). f. 7v: prayer before the Psalter, ‘Suscipere dignare domine dues omnipotens hos psalmos quos ego indignus peccator’ (added after the manuscript pa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1310-1324
Extent:

A parchment codex

4. Cotton MS Caligula B IV

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Cotton MS Caligula B IV
Title:
Records and papers concerning Mary, Queen of Scots
Scope & Content:
Records and papers concerning England and Scotland, mainly concerning Mary (1542–1587), Queen of Scots. ff. 2r-94v: Copy of Edmund Plowden’s ‘Treatise of Succession’. Concerning the King’s two bodies, i.e. natural and political, and intended to prove the title of Mary, Queen of Scots, to the su...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1542-1567
Extent:
1 volume

5. Egerton MS 2790

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2790
Title:
TRANSCRIPTS Of instructions to Ambassadors and other similar state-papers; tempp. Hen. VIII.-Eliz.[between 1509-1603]:- 1. Instructions to Sir Anthony St,. Leger, K.G., Lord Deputy, and others " whome his majestie hath appointed to be of his Highnes privie Councell in . . . Ireland"; July, 1550. f. 1. 2. Instructions to Sir Henry Sidney, K.G., as Lord Deputy of Ireland; 2 Aug. 1575. f. 6. 3. " A brief memoriall of Instructions for Mr. Edmond Tremaine being sent to the L. Deputie of Ire...
Scope & Content:
Bindings GERMAN: Wooden boards covered with stamped vellum: 17th cent. England General Chronicles and History: Instructions to Ambassadors and others: tempp. Hen. VIII.-Eliz.: Copies. includes: f. 1 Sir Anthony St. Leger: Instructions to, as Lord Deputy of Ireland: 1550.ff. 1, 6, 10 Irela...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1509-1603
Extent:
1 item

6. Harley MS 7007

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7007
Title:
Correspondence of Prince Henry, 1601-1610
Scope & Content:
Letters, state warrants and correspondence of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales (1594–1612). Volume 1 of Harley MSS 7007-7009. ff. 1r-2v: Letter from George Paul, Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, to Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford. Cambridge, 1 July 1713. Latin. ff. 3r-4v: Letter from George P...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1601-1610
Extent:
1 volume.