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Add MS 5495
- Record Id:
- 032-003441898
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003441898
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100075949233.0x00019d
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 5495
- Title:
- Copies of various papers and letters, chiefly during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, written soon after that period
- Scope & Content:
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A volume containing copies of various papers and letters, chiefly during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, written soon after that period, viz.
1. The customerships of all England, with their officers and fees. p. 1.
2. ‘A rate appointed by the Queenes Matie for the dischardge to be made of the Importe of Wines to be provided by the Lords and States of the Realme, with sondrie other principall officers and ministers serving her Matie within the Realme.’ p. 5.
3. ‘The disent of Queen Elizabethe.’ p. 11.
4. ‘The issue of King H. the 7th.’ p. 11.
5. ‘To Mr. Anthony Bacon. An apologie of ye Earle of Essex against those wch falslye and maliciously taxe him to be ye only hinderer of ye peace and quiet of his Cuntrye.’ p. 15.
6. The parley between the Earl of Tyrone [Hugh O’Neil] and the Earl of Essex [Robert Devereux], 7th Sept 1599, with the names of the knights and captains slain since the Earl of Essex went to Ireland. p. 33.
7. Brief relation of the several speeches delivered by the lords of the Star Chamber, concerning the Earl of Essex, 1599. p. 35.
8. The Lord Keeper Egerton’s [Thomas Egerton] letter to the Earl Marshall (Earl of Essex). p. 53.
9. The Earl Marshall’s answer to the Lord Keeper. p. 55.
10. Verses by Robert, Earl of Essex, against Sir Walter Raleigh. p. 57. Beginning ‘Muses no more but mazes be your names.’
11. ‘These Verses were pend by Robert late Earl of Essex in his first discontentmt in ye moneths of July and August.’ p. 58.
12. Letter addressed to some person not named, giving an account of the arraignment of the Earl of Northumberland [Henry Percy], in the Star Chamber. Dated 3 July 1606. p. 61.
13. ‘The manner of ye Execution of ye Queen of Scots, 1586.’ p. 63.In a letter from Robert Wylie to Lord Burleigh [Sir William Cecil]. Other copies are in Manuscripts Cotton, Jul. F VI, Calig. 13 V, and Manuscript Lansdowne, 51, one of which (fuller than the present, but omitting the personal description of the Queen) is printed in Ellis’s letters, 2nd Ser. Vol. III. p. 113.
14. ‘A true discourse of the aprehension of sundrye witches latelye taken in Scotland, at Edenborough, in January last, 1591 where of some are executed, and some are yet imprisoned, with a perticuler recitall of these examinations, taken in the presence of the Kinges Majestie.’ p. 69.
15. Extracts from the court roll of the manor of Thanington (county Kent). Kept by Mr. Crane. 14 May 1638. p. 83.N.B. The pages are blank in the manuscript from p. 87 to p. 146b.
16. Various memoranda of monies received and paid by R. Hales, a former possessor of the manuscript. p. 146b.
17. ‘A Treatise written by Sir Henry Spilman Knight, De Sepultura.’ pp. 157-176, in the handwriting of R. Hales. Printed quarto, London, 1641.
Prefixed to the volume is an imperfect list of contents, and a memorandum of the birth of Thomas, son of R. Hales, 3 Apr 1638.
Folio, pp. 176.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003441898
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003441898
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume (176 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1599
- End Date:
- 1641
- Date Range:
- 1599-1641
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- Folio. The pages are blank from page 87 to page 146b
- Custodial History:
- R. Hales
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased from Edward Hasted (1732-1812), author of the History of the County of Kent. 62 volumes (Add MS 5478-5539) were acquired from Hasted.
- Arrangement:
- Prefixed is an imperfect list of contents, and a memorandum of the birth of Thomas, son of R. Hales
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- This catalogue description has been transcribed from the original [18th-19th-century] handwritten Catalogue of Additional Manuscripts and may contain inaccuracies. The handwritten catalogue is available in the Manuscripts Reading Room.
- Related Material:
- Bound up with Add MS 5496; Cotton MSS Jul. F VI, Calig. 13 V; Lansdowne MS 51