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Cotton MS Faustina A XI
- Record Id:
- 040-001103860
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001273.0x000055
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100163599985.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Faustina A XI
- Title:
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Discourse on the marriage of Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford, and Lady Katherine Grey
- Scope & Content:
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Discourse on the subject of the 1560 secret marriage between Edward Seymour, first earl of Hertford (1539?–1621), courtier, and Katherine Seymour, [née Grey], countess of Hertford (1540?–1568), noblewoman and royal kinswoman.
With a list of the commissioners in the case, and notes on conflicting accounts given by the Earl and Countess.
f. 1v: ‘Commissioners in the cause of the Ladie Catherine Grey and my L. of Hartforde’.
ff. 2r-41v: Discourse on the cause of Edward Seymour and Katherine Grey’s marriage. ‘Tractatus in cause Dominae Catharine Grey et Comitis Hartfordiensis’. Latin.
f. 42r-42v: ‘Contrarieties in the answers of th’erle of Hartford and the Lady Catherine Grey aswell against them selfes as against eche other’. From the confession of September 1561.
ff. 42v-44v: ‘Contrarieties out of their severall answers to the articles at Lambeth’. On conflicting accounts given by the Earl and Countess.
ff. 45r-46r: Summary titled ‘Unlikelihodes’. Beginning ‘First it is not like that the erle a man of his discretion in such a waightie mater should forget the talke betwene Mr Stokes and him of the said mariage’.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001103860 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Faustina A XI : Discourse on the marriage of Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford, and Lady Katherine Grey - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[1237]/040-001103860
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100163599985.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1561
- End Date:
- 1561
- Date Range:
- 1561
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- England
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper
Dimensions: 240 x 200 mm.
Foliation: ff. vii + 46.
Binding: Post 1600. British Library 1985.
Script: Secretary, italic.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician: former owner.
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.
- Administrative Context:
- Origin: England
- Publications:
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Planta, Joseph, ed., A Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library Deposited in the British Museum (London: Hansard, 1802), p. 605.
Chapman, H.W., Two Tudor Portraits: Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey and Lady Katherine Grey (Bath: Cedric Chivers, 1973).
Levine, M. The Early Elizabethan Succession Question, 1558-1568 (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1966).
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. 219.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)