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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 48000-48196 Name Yelverton, Family Digitised Content Yes (unavailable)

1. Add MS 48017

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Title:
Transcripts of papers relating to the administration of Ireland, 1323-1599
Scope & Content:
Copies of papers relating to the administration of Ireland from 1323 until the late 16th century. ff. i-v: Front and rear covers. Vellum binding is a bifolium from a Sarum antiphoner printed in Paris, 1519-20. Leather ties. Numbered 17 on spine and back cover; coloured label ‘R’ on back cover....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

2. Add MS 48023

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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

3. Add MS 48027

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Title:
Papers and correspondence relating chiefly to Mary, Queen of Scots, 1559-1594
Scope & Content:
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

4. Add MS 48029

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Title:
Papers relating to alleged Catholic and Spanish plotting, 1577-1594
Scope & Content:
This volume of the Yelverton papers derives from the papers of Robert Beale (1541-1601), administrator and diplomat, who was a Clerk of the Privy Council from 1572 until his death. His hand appears on a number of pages, providing notes (ff. 73*r-v, 83v, 94v) or title-pages and subheadings (ff. 7...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1577-1601
Extent:
1 volume

5. 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

6. Add MS 48044

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Title:
Correspondence and state papers relating to foreign affairs and parliament, 1525-1625
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and papers of Robert Beale (1541-1601), administrator and diplomat. Including original correspondence of English ambassadors in France and Rome, 1530-1533, as well as documents relating to the Netherlands, the 1604 Treaty of London, and the Spanish Match. ff. 4r-5v Letter from Th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1525-1625
Extent:
1 volume

7. Add MS 48047

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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

8. 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

9. Add MS 48064

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Title:
Papers of Robert Beale relating to Elizabethan religious affairs
Scope & Content:
Papers of Robert Beale (1541-1601) relating to Elizabethan religious matters. This volume is largely a matter of copies, often with headings, notes and corrections by Robert Beale. There are some items which are pre-Reformation precedents, and others which relate to religious authority and to ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1559-1601
Extent:

1 volume

10. Add MS 48078

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Title:
Correspondence of Thomas Sackville as envoy to the Netherlands, 1583-1598
Scope & Content:
Correspondence of Thomas Sackville, Baron Buckhurst and 1st Earl of Dorset from 1604, during his time as envoy in the Netherlands, 1583-1598. ff. 1r-2v: Letter from Thomas Sackville, Baron Buckhurst, to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. 26 March 1586. ff. 3r-6v: Two letters from Thomas Sackv...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
1583-1598
Extent:
1 volume