Cotton MS Caligula E II

Codex chartaceus, in folio, constans foliis 218, simul cum superiore compactus.

[These two vols. have been (1902) rearranged in chronological order:- Cal. E. I. circ. 1416-1521. Cal. E. II. 1522-1555.]

• 1. Henry VIII, to Francis I; in answer to letters received by Tarbe. [i. e. Gabriel de Gramont, Bp. of Tarbes, Ambr from France.] (French. a draught corrected by Henry.) 1526? 1.
• 2. Henry VIII; his instructions to ........ corrected by himself. [4 March 1535] 2.
• 3. Henry VIII; his instructions [Letter to Sir F. Brian] to his ambassadors in France. [25 March 1531] 4.
• 4. Francis I; five original letters to Henry VIII. three to Card. Wolsey, and one (a copy) to de Vaux. [10 June 1527 (App. Brewer)] 5.
• 5. Louisa Dss. of Angouleme; two letters to the treasurer of Calais. (Orig. Fr.) 11.
• 6. Henry II. K. of Navarre, to Card. Wolsey. (Orig. Fr.) [20 Jan. 1528] 13.
• 7. Card. Wolsey, to the Dss. of Angouleme. (Fr. copy.) 14.
• 8. Fourteen rough draughts of letters and instructions; in Card. Wolsey's hand. 15.
• 9. Seventeen original dispatches from the council of Tournay, on matters of that garrison: signed by the E. of Worcester, Ld. Mountjoy, Sir R. Jerningham, and many others. [State Papers i. 131.] 29.
• 10. Nine original dispatches from Ld. Mountjoy; on the affairs of the garrison of Tournay. [two pr. in Bentley's Excerpta Historica p. 286.] 65.
• 11. Eight original dispatches from Sir Rd. Jerningham; on the affairs of the garrison of Tournay. 80.
• 12. The council of Calais, to Card. Wolsey; representing the decayed condition of that garrison. (Orig.) 98.
• 13. Two original letters from Sir Wm. Fitzwilliam, to Card. Wolsey; dated Guines, Sept. 2, and Ocy. 23. [1524] 100.
• 14. Five original letters from sir Rd. Wingfield; all from Calais. 102.
• 15. Sir Robt. Wingfield, to Bryan Tuke. (Orig. a fragment.) Calais, Jan. 14, 1519-20. [1528-9] 110.
• 16. Twelve original dispatches from sir Wm. Sandys; from Calais, Guines, Newmanbridge, &c. 111.
• 17. Five original letters from Dr. Richd. Sampson, to Card. Wolsey; on the affairs of the bishoprick of Tournay, &c. Tournay. [21 Aug. 1516] 132.
• 18. A letter signed Edward Howard (the Ld. Admiral) and a paper marked on the back "to the king, from my Ld. Admiral." 139.
• 18. b. A paper from the E. of Warwick (Beauchamp?) to a bishop of Winchester (Beaufort?) stating several requests for Calais. (Fr.) [circ. 1416] 142. b.
• 19. Richd. Lee, to Ld. Cromwell. (Orig.) Calais, Sept. 26. [1536] 143. [#228, 228v]
• 20. John Cheyne, to ........ (Orig.) Guines, Nov......... [1528] 144.
• 21. John Waller, [Wallop] to ........ (Orig.) Jemieville? Sept. 6. [1535] 145.
• 22. Thirteen fragments in English, some of them rough draughts, but all of them too much mutilated to be made out distinctly. 146.
• 23. Sixteen papers in French, most of them original letters from the Card. of Lorrain, Montmoreney? Bonnivet, de Bellay, Marillac, de Tavernier, la Guiche, &c. 166.
• 24. Seven papers in latin; some of them original letters. 186.
• 25. An Italian paper; being an answer to a memorial; without either date or signature. [28 Febr. 1536] 195.
• 26. Three accounts of expenses in France. N. B. Pensions paid to French ministers. [1 Nov. 1533] 197.
• 27. Francis I; his commission to W. Bolley a Rubiculis (Rougemont) and Joh. Joachin de Passano, [It is a deed of obligation by them as agents] to treat with Cuthbert Bp. of London [elect of Durham] and sir Wm. Fitzwilliam. (Latin.) [14 Feb.] [in 1530] [27 W. Bolley a cubiculis Francisci regis (so absurdly metamorphosed into Rubiculis is most probably W. Bellay, Seigneur de Largey] 200.
• 28. Traité de neutralité entre le duché de Bourgogne et la Franche Comté, fait entre François II. et Charles V. 205.