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1. Add MS 48027/1

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Add MS 48027/1
Title:
Drawings and documents on the sentence against and execution of Mary, Queen of Scots
Scope & Content:
This volume contains two leaves that were originally part of Add MS 48027, where they followed f. 569 and f. 650, but without modern foliation. The leaves are now mounted separately in this volume and are referred to by the folio numbers they would have been given in the modern foliation of Add ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1587
Extent:
1 volume

2. Add MS 48180

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Add MS 48180
Title:
John Leslie, Bishop of Ross, 'Tranquilitatis animi praeservatio et munimentum ad serenissimam principem D. Mariam Scotorum Reginam'
Scope & Content:
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.

3. Add MS 48093

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Add MS 48093
Title:
Robert Wingfield, Life of Queen Mary I
Scope & Content:
Life of Queen Mary I (Vita Mariae Angliae Reginae) by Robert Wingfield of Brantham, Suffolk, July 1553–August 1554. The manuscript appears to be unique, and was edited with a translation by Diarmaid MacCulloch, Camden Miscellany, xxviii, 1984, pp. 181–301. Wingfield (see MacCulloch, pp. 183–188)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Jul 1553-Aug 1554
Extent:
1 volume

4. Add MS 48098

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Add MS 48098
Title:
Treatise against Mary, Queen of Scots, by Thomas Norton
Scope & Content:
This treatise addresses Queen Elizabeth, and addresses her as "we". It was evidently written by Thomas Norton, a leading polemicist against the claims of Mary, Queen of Scots to the English crown, who was active in the parliaments of 1571 and 1572 in attempts to (at the least) bar Mary from the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1571-1572
Extent:
1 volume

5. Add MS 48047

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Add MS 48047
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

6. Add MS 48078

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Add MS 48078
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

7. Add MS 48043

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Add MS 48043
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

8. Add MS 48007

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Add MS 48007
Title:
Papers on negotiations between England and Spain, 1556-1594
Scope & Content:
Copies of papers concerning negotiations between England and Spain, mostly concerning trade with the Netherlands, 1556-1594. Other copies of these documents can be found in Add MS 48011 and Cotton MSS Galba C I, II, IV and V. From the collections of Robert Beale (1541–1601), administrator and di...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1556-1594
Extent:
1 volume

9. Add MS 48015

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Add MS 48015
Title:
Papers relating to Ireland, 1538-1600
Scope & Content:
Copies of papers relating to Ireland in the 16th century, principally in the hand of Robert Beale (1541–1601), administrator and diplomat. ff. 1r-31v: Extracts from chronicles and copies of charters relating to the medieval history of Wales (ff. 1r-8r) and Ireland (ff. 20r-31v). Latin. ff. 43r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1538-1600
Extent:
1 volume

10. Add MS 48029

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Add MS 48029
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