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Name Holcroft, Thomas, Deputy-Server Royal; Ambassador to Scotland, 1505-1558

1. Add MS 32646

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Add MS 32646
Title:
Transactions between Scotland and England, 1532-1541
Scope & Content:
Official correspondence and state papers relating to transactions between England and Scotland between March 1532 and December 1541. Volume 1 of the Hamilton Papers (Add MSS 32646-32657). f. 1 Modern title page. ff. 2r-3v Memorial credential, from King Henry VIII to Thomas Hawley, Carlisle her...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
[7 Mar 1532]-31 Dec 1541
Extent:
1 volume

2. Add MS 32657

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Add MS 32657
Title:
Transactions between Scotland and England, May 1547-May 1590 (Hamilton Papers)
Scope & Content:
Official correspondence and state papers relating to transactions between England and Scotland between 30 May 1547 and 27 May 1590. Volume 12 of the Hamilton Papers (Add MSS 32646-32657). ff. 2r-3v Letter from Cuthbert Tunstall, Bishop of Durham, to Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset and Lord Pro...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Spanish
Date Range:
30 May 1547-27 May 1590
Extent:
1 volume

3. Add MS 46372

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Add MS 46372
Title:
The Psalms of David, translated into English verse by Sir Philip Sidney and Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
Scope & Content:
Collection of Psalms, translated into English verse by Sir Philip Sidney, author and courtier (1554-1586), and his sister Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, writer and literary patron (1561-1621). Volume VII of the Harington Papers (Add MS 46366-46384). Previously owned by Sir John Har...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1586-1610
Extent:
1 volume

4. Add MS 47112

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Add MS 47112
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Scope & Content:
EGMONT PAPERS. Vol. CXCIII (ff. i+12). Egmont MS. 267. Commonplace book chiefly of Sir Philip Perceval, 2nd Bart. (d. 1680); aft. 1668. The principal contents are:-(1) 'The Earle of Pembrock's speech in the house of Peers when the 7 Lords were accused of high Treason': a pretended speech of Phil...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
after 1668
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 58435

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Add MS 58435
Title:
Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, autograph poems
Scope & Content:
Autograph collection of poetry by Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, courtier and poet (1563-1626). Inscribed ‘For the Countess of Pembroke’, i.e. the poet’s sister Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, writer and literary patron (1561-1621). ff. i-ii W. Blott: letter to H.J. Cooke, ag...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1590-1600
Extent:
1 volume

6. Cotton MS Caligula B VII

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Cotton MS Caligula B VII
Title:
Records and papers (originals and copies) concerning England and Scotland, 1525–1556
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–513v: A volume of original documents and copies concerning England and Scotland, 1525–1556, several of which relate to a potential marriage between Edward VI and Mary Queen of Scots. f. 1r: Title page. ff. 2r–v, 3v: Original letter from Dr Magnus to Cardinal Wolsey, reporting that he ha...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, Latin, and Scots
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
Extent:
1 volume

7. Egerton MS 3879

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Egerton MS 3879
Title:
Sir Philip Sidney and Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke: The Psalms of David translated into English verse; circa 1584-1599. Copy, circa but before 23 April 1632. Psalms 1-43 had been translated in the 1580s by Sidney (d. 1586), possibly in collaboration with his sister Mary (d. 1621), 3rd wife of Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, who continued the work up to Psalm 150 by circa 1599. The complete text was first printed in 1823 by Samuel Weller Singer in an edition based on the Penshur...
Scope & Content:
Sir Philip Sidney, soldier, statesman and poet: Psalms: Mary Herbert, neé Sidney, wife of Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke: Verse-translation of the Psalms: 1632: Copy.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
before 23 Apr 1632
Extent:
1 item

8. Harley MS 6910

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Harley MS 6910
Title:
Elizabethan poetry miscellany
Scope & Content:
Elizabethan poetry miscellany, compiled between 1596 and 1600. Includes copies and extracts of works by: Michael Drayton; Edmund Spenser; George Chapman; Robert Southwell; Sir John Harington; Nicholas Breton; Sir Walter Ralegh; Thomas Lodge; Thomas Nashe; Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford; Wi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1596-1600
Extent:
1 volume