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Name Lesley, John, Bishop of Ross, historian, and conspirator, 1527-1596

1. Add MS 48027

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Title:
Papers and correspondence relating chiefly to Mary, Queen of Scots, 1559-1594
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Papers and correspondence relating to Mary, Queen of Scots: the conspiracies and plots involving her and her trial and execution and its aftermath, 1559-1594, n.d. Mostly contemporary copies. Further official copies of many of the items are in Cotton MS Caligula C IX. This volume was compiled b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Latin, Scots, and Spanish
Date Range:
1559-1626
Extent:
1 volume

2. Add MS 48043

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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

3. Add MS 48048

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HISTORIES OF SCOTLAND. Copies, late 16th cent. 1. ff. 1-45. History of Scotland 1436-1561 by John Leslie, Bishop of Ross: an incomplete version in English to 1512 only. First line of title by Beale, f. 1. The present MS. is noticed in the first publication of Leslie's original Scots text by T....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 16th century
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 48049

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Title:
Papers relating to Scotland and Mary, Queen of Scots, 1565-c. 1600
Scope & Content:
This volume is made up of copies and drafts relating to Mary Queen of Scots and more broadly to Scottish politics in the reign of King James VI (up to c. 1600). The volume forms part of the papers collected by Robert Beale, Clerk of the Council, and there are many endorsements, memoranda and dra...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, Greek, Ancient, Latin, and Scots
Date Range:
1560-1605
Extent:
1 volume

5. Add MS 48088

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MISCELLANEOUS TRACTS AND PAPERS, mostly relating to the Netherlands, Spain and Scotland; 1549-temp. Eliz. I. Copies, c. 1600-mid 17th cent. 1. ff. 2-5. 'Precedency of Englande in respect of the antiquitie of the Kingdome'; c. 1600. Part of a treatise on the question of precedence between Engla...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1600-Mid 17th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 48180

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Title:
John Leslie, Bishop of Ross, 'Tranquilitatis animi praeservatio et munimentum ad serenissimam principem D. Mariam Scotorum Reginam'
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John Leslie, Bishop of Ross, 'Tranquilitatis animi praeservatio et munimentum ad serenissimam principem D. Mariam Scotorum Reginam', 1573 (title and date, f. iv). Latin. Autograph. This was composed at Farnham Castle (f. 5v), in the summer or autumn of 1573 when Leslie was a prisoner under hou...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1573
Extent:
1 volume.

7. Add MS 72473

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Add MS 72473
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TRUMBULL PAPERS. Vol. CCXXXII (ff. 16). John Leslie al. Lesley, Bishop of Ross: Two tracts, partly autobiographical; circa 1569-1579. Latin and French. Copies. As follows: 1. ff. 1-12. Tract on the necessity for ambassadors; circa 1568-1573. French. Copy. This tract is addressed (f. 1) to Quee...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
1563-1579
Extent:
1 item

8. 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

9. Cotton MS Caligula B IX/2

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Cotton MS Caligula B IX/2
Title:
Records and papers concerning England and Scotland 1556-1579
Scope & Content:
Records and papers concerning England and Scotland, 1556-1579. Volume 2 of 2. ff. 270r-283v: Discourse by Patrick Ruthven, 3rd Lord Ruthven. Concerning Mary, Queen of Scots, and trouble with the Scottish nobility. Newcastle, 1565. f. 284r-284v: Copy of a French translation of George Buchanan’...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1556-1579
Extent:
1 volume

10. Cotton MS Caligula C VIII

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Cotton MS Caligula C VIII
Title:
Records and papers concerning England and Scotland, 1584–1586
Scope & Content:
Records and papers concerning England and Scotland, from the years 1584 to 1586. ff. 3r-4v: Letter from Robert Bowes to Francis Walsingham, principal secretary. Informing him of reports at Edinburgh that John Erskine, 2nd Earl of Marr, and Sir Thomas Lyon, Master of Glamis have returned from Ir...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1584-1586
Extent:
1 volume