Add MS 48039

PAPERS OF ROBERT BEALE RELATING TO RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS; c. 1584-1591, n.d. Partly corrected copies and drafts.

1. ff. 1-61. Letters and papers of Beale relating to his dispute with Archbishop Whitgift; 1584. See Strype, Whitgift, i, pp. 271-300. Copies, with autograph headings, corrections and notes. The papers are linked by Beale's narrative (ff. 40, 47, 56b) of the dispute. As follows: (a) Treatise on religious questions submitted to Whitgift by Beale in April 1584. Draft. Whitgift's summary, sent to Burghley, is printed by Strype, ibid., i, pp. 284-288, from Lansdowne MS. 42, ff. 175-178b. ff. 1-39b; (b) Letter from Beale to Whitgift, following the archbishop's refusal to return Beale's MS.; 7 May 1584. Printed by Strype, ibid., iii, pp. 91-98, from Whitgift's copy to Burghley, Lansdowne MS. 42, ff. 184-184b; Whitgift's covering letter to Burghley, 8 May 1584, is printed in HMC, Bath MSS, ii, 1907, p. 23. See also Strype, ibid., i, pp. 296-299. ff. 42-45b; (c) 'The answer of Robert Beale concerninge such thinges as have passed between the L. Archbishopp of Canterburye and him'. Dated by Beale (f. 48) 'Primo Julii 1584. For my L Thres'. Beale's defence of his conduct and opinions includes the information that he had been taught by his future opponent John Aylmer, Bishop of London, when he had lodged at Strasbourg in 'mine uncle Morisines house', ie., Sir Richard Morison, ambassador to Emperor Charles V. ff. 48-56; (d) 'Meanes how to settle a godlie and charitable quietnes in the churche etc.' Dated by Beale (f. 57) 'October 1584. For Mr Secretary and by him sent to ye L. Archebishop before the parlement'. Strype, ibid., iii, pp. 135-144. ff. 57-61.

2. ff. 63-70. Letter from Beale to Sir Christopher Hatton on behalf of his ward John Hales, of Whitefriars, Coventry, arrested in Aug. 1589 for harbouring the Marprelate press; 25 Nov. 1589.

3. ff. 74-88b. Papers relating to the proceedings against Thomas Cartwright and other Puritan ministers arrested in 1590; 1590-1591. See A. F. S. Pearson, Thomas Cartwright and Elizabethan Puritanism, 1925, pp. 315-358. For other papers about the imprisoned ministers see Add. 48064 passim. As follows: (a) Letter from Beale to Whitgift asking for bail for Humphrey Fenn, vicar of Holy Trinity, Coventry; 1590. ff. 74-75b;

(b) Notes 'Touching the proceedinge against the ministers': a draft of an address sent by Beale to Whitgift; 1591. Add. 48064, art. 17, is a copy. ff. 77-88b.

4. ff. 89-202b. Papers relating to ecclesiastical jurisdiction, and particularly to the Court of High Commission; c. 1591, n.d. See R. G. Usher, The Rise and Fall of the High Commission, 1913, especially ch. vi, and pp. 148, n.1 and 372 for related material and other MSS. As follows: (a) Opinion of William Aubrey and other civilians, delivered to the Lord Treasurer, in favour of the ex officio oath in ecclesiastical courts; c. 1591. Printed in Strype, Whitgift, iii, pp. 232-235, from Cotton MS. Cleopatra F.I, ff. 81-82. The opinion was drawn up following the reference to the Privy Council of the indictment of John Hunt, the bishop of Norwich's commissary; see James Morice's 'A Iust and Necessarie Defence of a Briefe Treatise', 1594, Lambeth MS. 234, in which another copy of the opinion is ff. 100-101. ff. 89-90; (b) 'Of othes in Ecclesiasticall Courtes', an opinion in favour of High Commission. Noticed by Strype, ibid., ii, p. 31, from Cotton MS. Cleopatra F.I, ff. 75-80b (other copies are ff. 82-87b of the same MS. and Bodleian Library MS. Jones 39, f. 73). ff. 91-95; (c) Opinion on whether an ecclesiastical judge may hold plea and minister an oath in any but matrimonial and testamentary causes. Another copy is Cotton MS. Cleopatra F. I, ff. 87b-88b. ff. 95b-96; (d) 'A Collection shewinge what iurisdiction the clergie hath heretofore lawfully used, and maye lawfullye use in the Realme of Englande'. Other copies are Cotton MS. Cleopatra F.I, ff. 5-54, and Inner Temple, Petyt MS. 511.16, 4v, see J. C. Davies, Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of . . . the Inner Temple, 1972, i, p. 229. The Cotton MS. copy, which incorporates Beale's corrections to the present MS., was noticed by Strype, ibid., ii, pp. 30-31, but he confused it with James Morice's 'Brief treatise of oathes exacted by ordinaries . . . ', ff. 55-72b of the Cotton MS. (printed anonymously 1590, STC 18106). ff. 92-202b.

Paper; ff. v + 210 + (147*, 150*). 17th-cent. foliation. Folio. c. 1584-1591. Formerly bound in a bifolium (not consecutive leaves) of a 14th-cent. biblical commentary, I Corinthians, chs. 1, 3-5. 'Herbarium Turn[iseri] Lat' written in a late 16th-cent. hand, and the folding pattern, indicate the sheet was used as a binding prior to employment as a cover for the present MS., possibly for a work in manuscript of William Turner (d.1568). Spine '44' twice.

Elizabeth I of England: Papers of R. Beale, Clerk of the Council: 16th cent.

Robert Beale, Clerk to the Privy Council: Correspondence and papers.

includes:

• cover Bindings ENGLISH: Bible. Commentaries: Bifolium from commentary on I Corinthians used as binding: 14th cent.
• ff. 1-61 John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury: Papers rel. to his quarrel with R. Beale: 1584.
• ff. 1-61 Robert Beale, Clerk to the Privy Council: Treatise on religious affairs and other papers rel. to his quarrel with the Abp. of Canterbury: 1584: Partly drafts.
• f. 42 Robert Beale, Clerk to the Privy Council: Letter to the Abp. of Canterbury: 1584: Draft.
• f. 63 Robert Beale, Clerk to the Privy Council: Letter to the Lord Chancellor: 1589: Draft.
• f. 74 Robert Beale, Clerk to the Privy Council: Letter to the Abp. of Canterbury: [1590]: Draft.
• ff. 74-86b Puritans: Papers rel. to proceedings, etc., against Puritian ministers: 1577-1593.
• ff. 77-88b Robert Beale, Clerk to the Privy Council: Address to the Abp. of Canterbury in defence of the nine ministers: 1591: Draft and copy.
• f. 89 Thomas Byng, civilian: Opinion on oaths in ecclesiastical courts: c. 1591: Copy.
• ff. 89-202 Law CANON: Papers rel. to ecclesiastical jurisdiction: circa 1590.
• ff. 89-90 Nicholas Styward, alias Steward; LL.D: Opinion on oaths in ecclesiastical courts: 1591: Copy.
• ff. 89-90 William Aubrey, DCL: Opinion on oaths in ecclesiastical courts: circa 1591: Copy.
• ff. 89-90 Edward Stanhope, Chancellor of the diocese of London; Knight 1603: Opinion on oaths in ecclesiastical courts: c. 1591: Copy.
• ff. 89-90 Richard Cosin, civilian: Opinion on oaths in ecclesiastical courts: c. 1591: Copy.
• ff. 89-90 Law CANON: Opinion by W. Aubrey, etc., on oaths in ecclesiastical courts: c. 1591: Copy.
• ff. 89-90 Daniel Dunn, alias Donne; civilian; Knight 1603: Opinion on oaths in ecclesiastical courts: c. 1591: Copy.
• ff. 89-90 Robert Forth, civilian: Opinion on oaths in ecclesiastical courts: c. 1591: Copy.
• ff. 89-90 William Lewin, civilian: Opinion on oaths in ecclesiastical courts: c. 1591: Copy.
• ff. 89-90 John Lloyd, civilian: Opinion on oaths in ecclesiastical courts: c. 1591: Copy.
• ff. 91, 95b Law CANON: Treatises on oaths in ecclesiastical courts: circa 1590.
• f. 99 Robert Beale, Clerk to the Privy Council: Collection on ecclesiastical jurisdiction in England: circa 1590.