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032-002024442

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032-002024442

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Add MS 33591-33594

Title:

Papers and Correspondence of Sir Ralph Sadler, 4 volumes

Scope & Content:

Mary of Scotland: Correspondence and papers of Sir R. Sadleir relating to her reign and captivity: 1554-1585.

Sir Ralph Sadleir: Correspondence and papers rel. to negotiations betw. England and Scotland: 1554-1585.

Elizabeth I of England: Correspondence of Sir R. Sadleir: 1559-1585.

Sir William Cecil, Baron Burghley 1571; Lord Treasurer 1572: Correspondence with Sir R. Sadleir: 1559-1585.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts

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Add MS 33591 : Correspondence and papers of Sir Ralph Sadler, Volume I (1554-1559)
Add MS 33592 : Correspondence and papers of Sir Ralph Sadler, Volume II (1559-1560)
Add MS 33593 : Correspondence and papers of Sir Ralph Sadler, Volume III (1561-1578)
Add MS 33594 : Correspondence and Papers of Sir Ralph Sadler, Volume IV (1580-1585)

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

4 volumes of bound letters

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English
French
Italian

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1554

End Date:

1585

Date Range:

1554-1585

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Material Type:

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Legal Status:

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Names:

Cecil, William, 1st Baron Burghley, royal minister, Lord Treasurer 1572, 1520-1598,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121428768
Elizabeth I, Queen of England and Ireland, 1533-1603,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121446237
Mary, of Scotland
Sadler, Ralph, 1507-1587

Related Material:

From the printed Catalogue of Additions (1894), pp. 59-60:

'OFFICIAL PAPERS and correspondence relating to the transactions between England and Scotland carried on through the agency of Sir Ralph Sadleir, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. They embrace three several periods, viz., Aug. 1559-April, 1560; Nov. 1569-Feb. 1572; and April, 1584 - April, 1585. Four volumes. Paper. Folio. The first two volumes contain, with a few earlier documents, the correspondence of Sadleir. when stationed at Berwick, and subsequently acting as Warden of the East and Middle Marches of England, Aug. 1559-April, 1560. All the joint letters of Sadleir and his colleagues are drafts in his own hand. The third volume chiefly contains his correspondence while acting as Treasurer of the " Northern " Army during the insurrection of the Earls of Northumberland and Westmorland, Nov. 1569-March, 1570. Sadleir's letters are holograph drafts. The fourth volume principally deals with the captivity of Mary, Queen of Scots, at Wingfield and Tutbury Castles under Sadleir's custody during the absence of Lord Shrewsbury at the Court to plead his cause with Qu. Elizabeth against the machinations and slanders of his own wife. Sadleir's letters are drafts, chiefly in the hand of his private secretary, Sir John Sommer.

These letters and papers were edited in 1809 at Edinburgh by Arthur Clifford, a direct descendant of Sir Ralph Sadleir, from transcripts made by Rev. John Kirk, of Lichfield. The originals were then at Tixall Hall, co. Stafford, the ancient seat of the Astons, whither they were removed from Standon Lordship, co. Hertford, the seat of Sir R. Sadleir, on the marriage in 1762 of Hon. Barbara Aston with Hon. Thos. Clifford, son of Hugh, 3rd Lord Clifford, by whose son Sir Thos. Clifford Constable, Bart., these papers were again removed to his seat at Burton Constable, co. York. Hon. Barbara Aston was directly descended from Gertrude Sadleir, granddaughter of Sir Ralph, by her marriage in 1584 with Sir Walter Aston of Tixall.

Arthur Clifford, the editor, was brother of Sir T. Clifford Constable, 1st Bart., by whose grandson, Sir F. A. T. Clifford Constable, 3rd Bart., the collection was sold in 1889, after having remained uninterruptedly in Sir R. Sadleir's family from the time of his death in 1587.'