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Record Id:

036-002109557

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002109547

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ark:/81055/vdc_100000000016.0x000286

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Title:

ANTHONY BACON TRANSCRIPTS.

Transcripts and extracts of the correspondence of Anthony Bacon (d. 1601), chiefly in his capacity as Private Secretary to Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex; 1580-1598, with a few of earlier date. They were made by Birch in 1750, 1751 from the originals in the Lambeth Palace Library (Nos. 647-662) for the purpose of, and incorporation in, his Memoirs of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth ... in which the secret intrigues of her court and the conduct of her Favourite Robert, Earl of Essex, both at Home and abroad are particularly illustrated, 2 vols, 1754. The principal writers (summarised at the end of the last volume) besides Bacon and Essex, are Lord Burghley, Sir Robert Cecil, Francis Bacon, Lord Henry Howard, Sir Robert Sidney, Edward Reynolds (Essex's secretary), Dr. Henry Hawkins (from Venice), Thomas Bodley and George Gilpin (from Holland), Antonio Perez (from Spain). Sixteen volumes. Paper. Small quarto. 1750, 1751.

Scope & Content:

Thomas Birch, d 1766 DD, FRS: Transcripts and abstracts of MSS., etc., made for and by: 18th cent.: Partly autogr.

Anthony Bacon, diplomatist: Copies, by T. Birch, of his correspondence (1558-1598) in Lambeth Library: 1750, 1751.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

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Additional Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002109547
036-002109557

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Add MS 4101-4478 : Manuscripts collected by Thomas Birch (b. 1705, d. 1766), D.D., and bequeathed by him to the British Museum, of which he was…

Add MS 4109-4124 : ANTHONY BACON TRANSCRIPTS. Transcripts and extracts of the correspondence of Anthony Bacon (d. 1601), chiefly in his capacity…

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032-002109547[0008]/036-002109557

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Record Type (Level):

Series

Extent:

16 items

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Languages:

English
French

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1750

End Date:

1751

Date Range:

1750-1751

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Material Type:

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Names:

Bacon, Anthony, diplomat, son of Lord Keeper of the Great Seal Sir Nicholas Bacon, 1558-1601
Birch, Thomas, DD, FRS, d 1766