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Cotton MS Caligula D XI

Record Id:

040-001102397

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-001101582

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001246.0x0002f7

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Cotton MS Caligula D XI

Title:

Records and correspondence concerning England and France, 1529

Scope & Content:

Fragments of records and correspondence concerning England and France, all c. 1529. Badly damaged by fire in 1731, the majority now fragmentary.

f. 1r: Fragment of a letter. French.

f. 2r: Fragment of a letter. French.

f. 3r: Fragment of a letter. Dated 5 June, signed de Boys. French.

f. 4r: Fragment of a letter, with notes. Dated 1529. French.

f. 5r: Fragment of a letter. Dated 28 June. French.

ff. 6r-7v: Fragment of a letter. [1527-1528]. French.

ff. 8r-9v: Fragment of a letter from Cuthbert Tunstall, Thomas More, and [John Hacket]. Cambray, 7 August [1529]. English.

ff. 10r-13v: Fragment of a letter from Cuthbert Tunstall, Thomas More, and John Hacket. Cambray, no date. English.

f. 14r-14v: Fragment of a letter. English.

f. 15r-15v: Fragment of a letter, with corrections. English.

f. 16r-16v: Fragment of a letter. [c. 1539]. French.

f. 17r: Fragment of a letter. Dated 27 June [1529].

f. 18r-18v: Fragment of a letter. [c. 1542]. French.

ff. 19r-20v: Fragment of a letter, with corrections. [c. 1527-1529]. English.

f. 21r: Fragment of a letter, with corrections. [c. 1527-1529]. English.

f. 22r-22v: Fragment of a letter. English.

ff. 23r-24v: Fragment of a letter, addressed to the King. English.

f. 25r-25v: Fragment of a letter. 26 May. Signed by Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk and William Fitzwilliam, Earl of Southampton. English.

f. 26r-26v: Fragment of a letter. 26 May. Addressed ‘To my lorde Cardinal his grace’, signed by Charles Brandon, first Duke of Suffolk and William Fitzwilliam, Earl of Southampton. English.

f. 27r-27v: Fragment of a letter. 6 June. Signed by Charles Brandon, first Duke of Suffolk. English.

f. 28r-28v: Fragment of a letter. Faded. English.

ff. 29r-35v: Fragment of a letter. 11 April 1529. English.

ff. 36r-39v: Fragment of a letter. 21 April [1529]. English.

ff. 40r-42v: Fragment of a letter from [Richard Wingfield]. July. English.

f. 43r-43v: Fragment of a letter. Dated 7 August. English.

ff. 44r-45v: Fragment of a letter. Addressed to the Duke of Suffolk. English.

ff. 46r-47v: Fragment of a document, possibly enclosed in the letter from Richard Wingfield above (ff. 40r-42v).

f. 48r: Fragment of a letter. French.

f. 49r: Fragment of a letter. Signed by Jaques […]. French.

f. 50r: Fragment of a letter. French.

f. 51r-51v: Fragment of a letter. Signed by William Knight and John Taylor, Master of the Rolls. 10 April [1529]. English.

ff. 52r-55v: Fragment of a letter. English.

ff. 56r-59v: Fragment of a letter. Signed by Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk. 12 June. English.

f. 60r-60v: Blank.

ff. 61r-62v: Fragment of a letter. Signed by Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, and William Fitzwilliam, Earl of Southampton. 18 May. English.

f. 63r-63v: Blank paper, addressed to the King.

ff. 64r-65r: Fragment of a letter. [12 June 1529]. French.

ff. 66r-67v: Fragment of a letter, addressed to King Henry VIII from Richard Wingfield, and Sir William Sandes. 29 May 1529. English.

ff. 68r-69v: Fragment of a letter. Signed by Richard Wingfield, and Sir William Sandes. 4 April 1529.

f. 70r-70v: Fragment of a letter. 12 July. English.

ff. 71r-76v: Fragment of a letter. English.

ff. 77r-78v. Fragment of a letter. French.

f. 79r-79v: Fragment of a letter. French.

ff. 80r-82v: Fragment of a letter. 3 May. English.

f. 83r-83v: Blank paper, addressed ‘To my Lorde Legate his good grace’.

f. 84r-84v: Blank paper, with address. Possibly addressed to Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, from Robert Wingfield.

f. 85r-85v: Fragment of a letter. French.

f. 86r-86v: Fragment of a letter addressed to the King of England. French.

ff. 87r-88v: Fragment of a letter. Latin. With seal.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Cotton Collection

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-001101582
040-001102397

Is part of:

Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts

Cotton MS Caligula D XI : Records and correspondence concerning England and France, 1529

Hierarchy:

032-001101582[0536]/040-001102397

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English
French
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1529

End Date:

1529

Date Range:

c. 1529

Era:

Place of Origin:

England and France.

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Physical Characteristics:

Damaged by fire in 1731.

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 425 x 285 mm.

Foliation: ff. i + 88.

Binding: Post-1600. British Museum 1963.

Script: Secretary, italic.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England and France.

Provenance:

Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (1571-1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician: former owner.

Robert Cecil (1563-1612), Earl of Salisbury: loaned, through Thomas Wilson, c. 1605-1612 (see Tite).

John Selden (1584–1654), lawyer and historical and linguistic scholar: loaned in 1621 (see Tite).

Edward Herbert (1582?–1648), first Baron Herbert of Cherbury and first Baron Herbert of Castle Island, diplomat and philosopher: loaned in 1636 (see Tite).

Cotton’s collection was augmented by his son, Sir Thomas Cotton (b. 1594, d. 1662), 2nd baronet, and his grandson, Sir John Cotton.

Sir John Cotton (b. 1621, d. 1702), 3rd baronet: bequeathed the entire Cotton collection of books and manuscripts to trustees ‘for Publick Use and Advantage’, 12 and 13 William III, c. 7. Formed one of the foundation collections of the British Museum in 1753.

Publications:

Planta, Joseph, ed., A Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library Deposited in the British Museum (London: Hansard, 1802), p. 162.

Sharpe, Kevin, Sir Robert Cotton, 1586–1631: History and Politics in Early Modern England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979).

Tite, Colin G.C., The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton’s Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use (London: British Library, 2003), p. 119.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Brandon, Charles, 1st Duke of Suffolk, 1484-1545,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/000000007818797X,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/88671748
Cecil, Robert, Viscount Cranborne, 1st Earl of Salisbury, 1563-1612
Cotton, John, 3rd Baronet, 1621-1702
Cotton, Robert Bruce, first baronet, antiquary and politician, 22 Jan 1571-6 May 1631,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/000000008116498X
Cotton, Thomas, 2nd Baronet, 1594-1662
Fitzwilliam, William, Earl of Southampton, courtier and naval administrator, c 1490-1542
Hacket, John, diplomat, fl 1529
Henry VIII, King of England and Ireland, 1491-1547,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000122586127
Herbert, Edward, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, 1582?-1648
Knight, William, Secretary of State to Henry VIII, Bishop of Bath and Wells, 1475-1547
More, Thomas, Saint, Lord Chancellor, humanist, and martyr, 1478-1535,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000367457307
Selden, John, lawyer and historical and linguistic scholar, 1584-1654,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000109004698
Taylor, John, Archdeacon of Buckingham 1516, Master of the Rolls 1527, c 1480-1534
Tunstall, Cuthbert, Bishop of Durham and diplomat, 1475-1559,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000108778421
Wilson, Thomas, Keeper of the Records at Whitehall, d 1629
Wingfield, Richard, diplomat, 1469-1525
Wingfield, Robert, diplomat, c. 1464-1539