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Egerton MS 2124
- Record Id:
- 032-001983057
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001983057
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000053.0x000195
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100153852427.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Egerton MS 2124
- Title:
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Letters and papers relating to Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Babington plot
- Scope & Content:
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A volume of letters and papers connected with Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Babington plot, found at Bardon House, Somerset, in 1834.
ff. 2r–3v: Summary of the charges brought against Mary by Parliament [May 1572]. See also Cotton MS Caligula B VIII, f. 240.
ff. 4r–5v: Instructions given to William West, Lord De La Warr, Sir Rafe Sadler, Thomas Willson, and Sir Thomas Bromley, after being sent to Mary, 11 January 1573, with her answers to the charges brought before her.
ff. 6r–7v: ‘Offers made to her Maiestie by the Queene of Scottes’, with memoranda, in the handwriting of Sir Christopher Hatton, on the danger of liberating Mary, 21 April 1583.
f. 8r–v: 'The heads of the matters with S[cotland]': Hatton's brief notes (8 headings) on Scotland, 26 May 1584.
f. 9r–v: Hatton's notes on arguments in favour of liberating Mary, 22 September 1584.
f. 10r: Considerations for Queen Elizabeth's safety, in Hatton's hand [December 1584?].
f. 11r–15r: List of charges made against Mary Stuart [1586].
f. 17r: Scheme showing the ‘foure principall heades and workers of all these myschefe’ – Mary Queen of Scots, the Pope, Philip II, and the Papists at home.
f. 19r–v: Charges Mary brings against Elizabeth in her letters.
f. 20v: Fragment entitled 'Concerninge the Q. of Scottes.'
ff. 21r–24v: List of signs of favour Elizabeth has shown to Mary.
f. 25r: Modern title-page, 'The Bardon Papers, Relating to the Unfortunate Mary Queen of Scots...'
ff. 26r–36r: Six holograph letters from William Cecil, Lord Burghley, to Sir Christopher Hatton concerning the Babington plot, 4, 12, 13, 15, 16 September 1586.
f.38r: Cecil to [Secretary Davidson?], reporting Mary's refusal to answer the arraignment, no date; copy.
ff. 39r–42r: Summary of charges and proofs against Mary, written by Sir Christopher Hatton, 1586.
f. 43r–44v: Hatton's notes on the principal points of the Babington plot [September 1586].
f. 45r: Hatton's notes, possibly for a speech, urging measures for the defence of the realm.
ff. 46r–v: A paper on Mary's false dealing entitled 'Pretend one thing & entend an other.'
f. 47r: Brief notes of evidence against Mary.
ff. 48r–49v: Charges against Mary, drawn from her 17 July 1586 letter to Babington.
ff. 50r–54v: John Puckering's notes on the case against Mary, 29 September 1586.
ff. 55r–56v: Arguments for the execution of Mary Queen of Scots.
ff. 57r–64v: Copy of the correspondence of Mary with Babington; 25 June–3 August 1586. See Cotton MS Julius F VI, ff. 240, 241, 247; Cotton MS Caligula B V, f. 164; and Cotton MS Caligula C IX, ff. 238, 240.
ff. 65r–66v: Extract of a letter from [Richard Douglas] to Archibald Douglas, the English Ambassador to Scotland, giving an account of James's remarks on the reading of the ambassador's letters, 22 September 1587.
ff. 67r–68v: Statement by Sir John Maitland, Lord Chancellor of Scotland, on an Anglo-Scottish alliance, September 20, 1588.
ff.69r–v: Francis Thynne’s correction of a statement made in his additions to Holinshed’s History of Scotland (1587).
f. 70r: List of writings concerning Mary.
ff. 71r–80r: Modern list of the original papers found at Bardon, Somerset, and the contents of this volume.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Egerton Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001983057
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-001983057
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100153852427.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1572
- End Date:
- 1588
- Date Range:
- 1572-1588
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 339 x 236 mm.
Foliation: ff. 80 + 17.
Binding: British Museum binding.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Robert Leigh (d. 1720).
William Leigh, who discovered the papers at Bardon House, Somerset, in 1834.
British Museum (purchased from William Leigh's daughter in 1870).
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1854–1875, Volume II (London: Museum Trustees, 1877), pp. 976–77.
Charles Cotton, 'The Bardon Papers. A Collection of Contemporary Documents (MS. Eg. 2124) Relating to the Trial of Mary Queen of Scots, 1586', Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 2 (1908), pp. 175–87.
Charles Cotton, The Bardon Papers: A Collection of Contemporary Documents (MS. Eg. 2124) relating to the Trial of Mary Queen of Scots, 1586 (Ramsgate: J. T. Savage, 1907).
Conyers Read (ed.) The Bardon Papers: Documents Relating to the Imprisonment and Trial of Mary Queen of Scots (London: Camden Society, 1909).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)