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1. Add MS 6362

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Title:
A collection of royal warrants and instructions, 1541-1612
Scope & Content:
A collection of original warrants and instructions, with royal signatures, from the time of King Henry VIII to King James I. The warrants include a number issued by Queen Mary I in 1558, especially to Thomas Gresham, her agent in Flanders, and to George Bredyman, Groom of the Privy Chamber and K...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1541-1612
Extent:
1 volume

2. Add MS 12060

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Title:
Lord Morley's account of the miracles of the sacrament
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–23v: A collection of miraculous examples and narratives in support of the doctrine of transubstantiation, made by Henry Parker, Lord Morley, and addressed to Mary I. The prologue states the injuries suffered by various nations in consequence of heresy. It was probably written for presenta...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1555-1556
Extent:
1 volume

3. Add MS 34563

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Title:
Papers relating to Sir Henry Bedingfield and the custody of Princess Elizabeth, 1554–1555
Scope & Content:
ff. 1v–66v: A volume of letters and papers relating to Sir Henry Bedingfield's service as vice-chamberlain in the royal household, and the custody of Princess Elizabeth in 1554–1555, during Mary I's reign. f. 1v: A note of the allowance given to Bedingfield for bouge of court as vice-chamberlai...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 May 1554-13 Jul 1558
Extent:
1 volume

4. Add MS 35840

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Title:
Roger Ascham's letterbook
Scope & Content:
The letterbook of Roger Ascham as Latin Secretary to Queen Mary I (1553–1558). Volume CCCCXCII of the Hardwicke Papers. It contains copies of letters in Latin from Mary to foreign sovereigns, princes and others, 1554–1558, and is largely holograph. Royal MS 13 B I is the continuation of Ascham’s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1554-1558
Extent:
1 volume

5. Add MS 48000

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Title:
Treaties between England, Spain, and the Holy Roman Empire, 1254-1599
Scope & Content:
Copies of treaties between England, Spain, and the Holy Roman Empire, between 1254 and 1599, with related documents. Partly in the hand of Petruccio Ubaldini, Italian soldier, illuminator, calligrapher and scholar. ff. xxviii-xxxii: Inspeximus of King Henry VI. Of a commercial treaty with Holla...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1500-1599
Extent:
1 volume

6. Add MS 70518

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Title:
Miscellaneous letters and papers, 1540-1706
Scope & Content:
These letters are calendared in Historical Manuscripts Commission, Portland Manuscripts, II, 5-64. They form part of a section of miscellaneous manuscripts amongst the Portland Papers, which were originally held at Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire. The Portland Papers were deposited at the British...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Latin, and Scots
Date Range:
1540-1706
Extent:
1 volume

7. Add MS 71009

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Title:
Descriptions of Tudor court ceremonies
Scope & Content:
Collection of papers concerning the organisation of the royal household, including detailed descriptions of sacred and secular court ceremonies, during the reigns of King Edward IV, King Henry VIII, King Edward VI and Queen Mary I. Gathered by John Norris (1522/23-91), courtier, who served as a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1530-1570
Extent:
1 volume

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/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

10. Cotton MS Julius F VI

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Cotton MS Julius F VI
Title:
Historical and topographical collections, 1529-1640
Scope & Content:
Collection of historical letters and papers, principally from the reigns of Queen Elizabeth I and King James VI and I. From the collection of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician. Partly assembled by Cotton and William Camden (1551–1623), historian an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1529-1640
Extent:

1 volume