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Add MS 88965
- Record Id:
- 032-001606077
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001606077
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000035.0x00011e
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100164916923.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 88965
- Title:
- Letter of King Henry VII concerning Perkin Warbeck's rebellion
- Scope & Content:
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Letter from King Henry VII to Edward Courtenay, Earl of Devon, concerning Perkin Warbeck's rebellion in the West Country and the defence of Exeter, 16 September, no year, Woodstock. Signed 'H[enricus] R[ex]' at the head of letter.
In September 1497, Perkin Warbeck sailed from Cork to Cornwall, where he proclaimed himself as Richard IV and set off for Exeter. In this letter, Henry VII orders Edward Courtenay and his followers to defend the city and 'wt you alle the nobles of yr said co[m]pany wt their retynewes can, by various means, harry, surround and capture Perkin and the rebels', ensuring that 'Perkin escape you not in any waise for it is the chief thyng we desire to have hym broughte unto me alyve'. Henry VII informs Courtenay that reinforcements are being sent, and money with Richard Empson and William Hattercliff, and that a generous reward is to be offered for the capture of Warbeck.
Papered royal signet seal on the verso and addressed to 'oure right trusty and right welbeloved cousin Therle of Devonshire, and to oure trusty and right welbeloved the other noblemen assembled ... in his company'.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001606077
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-001606077
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 folio
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100164916923.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1497
- End Date:
- 1497
- Date Range:
- 1497
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 438 x 315 mm
Foliation: f. 1.
Binding: None.
Script: Secretary.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
The letter was at Boconnoc in Cornwall (a former Courtenay seat), see Hasted's History of Kent: Part I, ed. Henry H. Drake (1886), p. xiv.
Spiro family collection.
Purchased by the British Library at Christies, 4 June 2008, lot 74.
- Former Internal References:
- Deposit 10533 A
- Publications:
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Ian Arthurson, The Perkin Warbeck Conspiracy 1491–1499 (Stroud: Alan Sutton, 1994), pp. 184–85, in which the letter is cited and partly quoted.
Hasted's History of Kent: Part I, ed. Henry H. Drake (1886), p. xiv.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)