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1. Add MS 48085

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Title:
Papers relating to the German Protestant states, 1563-1580
Scope & Content:
Copies of papers concerning foreign affairs, chiefly with reference to the German Protestant states between 1563 and 1580. Alarmed by divisions between Lutherans and Calvinists in Germany, Queen Elizabeth I sent three missions to that country in 1577, with the aim of establishing a Protestant Le...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, German, and Latin
Date Range:
1563-1580
Extent:
1 volume

2. 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

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 48018

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Title:
Formulary for a Clerk of the Privy Council, compiled by Robert Beale
Scope & Content:
Robert Beale (1541-1601), administrator and diplomat, was a Clerk of the Privy Council from 1572 until his death in 1601. This was the second of two formularies for his office that he compiled: the first (dated 1572) is now Add MS 48150. A note by Beale on f. i recto states that 'This Booke of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1575-c 1586
Extent:

1 volume