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Add MS 48093
- Record Id:
- 040-001951106
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001951006
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000449.0x00000c
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100163533218.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 48093
- Title:
- Robert Wingfield, Life of Queen Mary I
- Scope & Content:
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Life of Queen Mary I (Vita Mariae Angliae Reginae) by Robert Wingfield of Brantham, Suffolk, July 1553–August 1554. The manuscript appears to be unique, and was edited with a translation by Diarmaid MacCulloch, Camden Miscellany, xxviii, 1984, pp. 181–301. Wingfield (see MacCulloch, pp. 183–188) was a Catholic supporter of Mary; his narrative gives a unique East Anglian view of the events of the first year of her reign, and especially of the details of her bid for the succession and Wyatt's rebellion, differing in some respects from other contemporary accounts. The dedication (f. 7r) to Sir Edward Waldegrave, Keeper of the Great Wardrobe and later (1557) Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, is dated 20 May and the narrative formerly ended on 5 May 1554. Wingfield extended the narrative to August when he recalled his manuscript from Waldegrave for corrections necessitated, as he said, by the failure of his friend Roger Ascham to correct the work with sufficient care, as he had been asked to do (ff. 40r–41v; MacCulloch, pp. 284–285). A reference to Sir William Cecil's official journey abroad in November 1554 (MacCulloch, p. 291), wrongly described as a flight for religious reasons, suggests that the work was not finished until late in the year. The manuscript is a fair copy, with corrections (some perhaps by the author) in at least three hands of the early 16th to early 17th centuries. Probably the copy presented to Waldegrave; the manuscript may have come into official hands, and subsequently into Beale's collections, at Waldegrave's imprisonment for recusancy in 1561.
Written in one hand, with corrections in others. There is a mark in the margin of f. 26 beside a reference to a daughter of the 2nd Earl of Cumberland, a distant relative of Wingfield through the Brandon family. Vellum binding with remains of a green lace, titled on the front cover and numbered '102' on the spine. This manuscript is kept in a box with Add MS 48091 and 48092.
ff. 1r–6r: Blank folios.
f. 7r: Dedicatory letter in Latin to Sir Edward Waldegrave.
ff. 8r–47v: Life of Mary I (in Latin).
ff. 48r–64v: Blank folios.
f. i: Blank early modern leaf.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001951006
040-001951106 - Is part of:
- Add MS 48000-48196 : THE YELVERTON MSS
Add MS 48093 : Robert Wingfield, Life of Queen Mary I - Hierarchy:
- 032-001951006[0090]/040-001951106
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 48000-48196
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100163533218.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1553
- End Date:
- 1554
- Date Range:
- Jul 1553-Aug 1554
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 195 x 145 mm.
Foliation: ff. 64 + i (early modern endleaf).
Binding: Parchment binding with '102' on the spine, with the remains of green lace.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England and France.
Provenance:
Henry Yelverton, 15th Baron Grey of Ruthin; 1st Viscount de Longueville (c. 1664–1703/4).
Acquired by the British Library in 1953.
- Former Internal References:
- Yelverton MS 102
- Publications:
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The British Library Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts: The Yelverton Manuscripts. Part I: Descriptions. Additional Manuscripts 48000–48196 (London: British Library Board, 1979), pp. 246–47.
'The Vita Mariae Angliae Reginae of Robert Wingfield of Brantham', ed. and trans. Diarmaid MacCulloch, Camden Miscellany, xxviii (London: Royal Historical Society, 1984), pp. 181–301.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)