Add MS 48117

PAPERS RELATING TO THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND, etc.; 1563-1598, n.d. Partly Latin. Copies, unless otherwise described.

1. ff. 2-8. 'Of Discipline in the Church of Scotlande', a short tract followed by answers to James VI's questions (for which see art. 11 below) to the General Assembly at Perth, Feb. 1597. See Calderwood, v, pp. 577-584, and

T. Thomson, Acts and Proceedings of the General Assemblies of the Kirk of Scotland, Bannatyne Club, lxxxi, pt.3, 1845, pp. 904-908. Apparently a draft by an Englishman (Beale?) with notes and additions by Beale.

2. ff. 9-9b. 'A Lenvoy to Edinburgh', beg. 'The peace O Edinburgh has wrought they wo'. An apostrophe to the city, probably by the ministers exiled after the events of 16 December 1596, see art. 14 below.

3. ff. 10-11. Papers relating to the General Assembly at Perth, Feb.-March 1597. See Acts and Proceedings, pt.3, pp. 889-902. As follows: (a) The thirteen articles proposed to the Assembly by the King, with the Assembly's answers. Calderwood, v, pp. 610-616. ff. 10-10b; (b) Articles for the trial of the Catholic Lords, Huntley, Angus and Errol. See Calderwood, v, pp. 616-618 and art. 4(c) below. f. 11.

4. ff. 11b-16. Papers relating to the General Assembly at Dundee, May 1597. Acts and Proceedings, pt.3, pp. 913-930. As follows: (a) 'Notes in forme of a declaracion of certaine of the actes made in the generall assemblie holden at Perthe'; 13 May (14 May in Acts and Proceedings, pp. 924-925). See also Calderwood, v, pp. 640-641. f. 11b; (b) 'Answers to the rest of his Majesties questions accordinge as they were proponed by his h. and his Commissioners in this present assemblye'. Calderwood, v, pp. 642-644. ff. 12-12b; (c) Report of the commission for the trial of the Catholic Lords, with their replies to the articles in art. 3(b) above. Acts and Proceedings, pt.3, pp. 918-922; Calderwood, v, pp. 633-638. ff. 13-16.

5. ff. 19-33. Two copies of 'An answare by the Scottish Ministers now in Englande to a certaine letter subscribed by certayne of the flockes in Scotland'; Aug. 1584. By James Lawson and Walter Balcanquall, ministers of St Giles, Edinburgh, according to the printed version in Calderwood, iv, pp. 91-97.

6. ff. 39-151. Parts of John Knox, 'History of the Reformation in Scotland'. A note by Beale, f. 39, 'pagina 540 in the printed coppye', refers to the edition by Vautrollier, 1586, suppressed by Whitgift, see Calderwood, viii, p. 283. As follows: (a) The last part of book iii. D. Laing, The Works of John Knox, Bannatyne Club, 1846-1864, pp. 175-182. ff. 39-41; (b) 'The Book of Discipline'. Ibid., pp. 185-287. ff. 41-69; (c) Book iv. Ibid., pp. 261-461. ff. 70-151.

7. ff. 152-153b. Letter and Articles from the General Assembly to Mary, Queen of Scots; June 1565. Printed from Cotton MS. Caligula B.X, ff. 112-112b, 115-115b (in which the Articles are wrongly dated 1560), in R. Keith, History of the Affairs of Church and State in Scotland, ed. P. Lawson, Spottiswode Soc., 1844-1850, iii, pp. 107-109, 113-115. The Queen's reply (Caligula B.X, ff. 113-113b) is ibid., pp. 121-126. See also SPF 1565, no. 1328.

8. ff. 154-155. Letter from John Knox to Thomas Sampson, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, referring to the vestiarian controversy; Edinburgh, 20 May 1565. Sampson was deprived of his deanery for his part in the controversy, see P. Hughes, The Reformation in England, iii, 1954, p. 159, and J. Strype, Life . . . of Matthew Parker, 1821, i, p. 368. Annotated by Beale, f. 155, 'Vidi autographum'.

9. ff. 155-156. Letter from John Knox to the brethren of the Congregation;

9 Oct. 1563. Laing, op. cit., ii, pp. 395-397 (see also vi, p. 527); Calderwood, ii, pp. 231-233.

10. ff. 156b-157b. Extract from Knox's will, 13 May 1572, giving the 'testimony of my mynd', i.e., his address to the faithful. Laing, op. cit., vi, pp. liv-lvi.

11. ff. 159-161b. 'Questions to be resolved at the Convencion of the States and Generally Assembly at Perth the last day of februarye 1596' [i.e. 1597]. Title by Beale. James VI's questions to the Assembly, drawn up by John Lindsay, Lord Menmuir, Sec. of State, see art. 1 above.

12. ff. 163-163b. Act of the Scots Parliament confirming the right of bishops, abbots and prelates to a vote in Parliament; Dec. 1597. APS, iv, p. 130; Calderwood, v, pp. 669-670.

13. ff. 164-170b. Papers relating to the General Assembly at Dundee, 7-14 March 1598. Acts and Proceedings, pt.3, pp. 934-938; Calderwood, v,

pp. 682-709. As follows: (a) The King's letter to the Presbyteries summoning the Assembly; 28 Dec. 1597 (MS. 1579). f. 164;

(b) Summons to the Presbyteries from the Commissioners of the Assembly and Robert Rollock, the Moderator; 22 Dec. 1597. ff. 164-165b;

(c) Letter from George Nicholson, Burghley's agent in Scotland, with news of the Assembly; 15 March 1598. For another letter from Nicholson to Burghley of the same date see SP Scot. 1597-1603, ii, no. 129. ff. 166-166b; (d) A further account of the Assembly, unsigned and undated, but apparently 15 March 1598. Another copy is art. 20 below. ff. 167-170b.

14. ff. 171-182b. Papers relating to the tumult of 16 Dec. 1596 and the subsequent exile of the Edinburgh ministers, see Calderwood, v, pp. 510-521. See also art. 2 above. As follows: (a) Letter from Robert Bruce and Walter Balcanquall in answer to slanders against them and their colleagues who had withdrawn from Edinburgh; n.d. Printed under the year 1597 in Calderwood, v, pp. 553-560, where it is stated to have prefaced their 'Apologie' (ibid., pp. 560-575; dated 4 Jan. 1596-1597). ff. 171-173;

(b) Apologia of the exiled ministers. This differs from the 'Apologie' of Bruce, see (a) above. ff. 173-178b; (c) Unsigned letter to James VI, concerning dissensions between the King and his ministers; n.d. A version is printed by Calderwood, v, pp. 539-551, who attributes it to the minister of Kilconquhar, and states that it was delivered to the King on 10 Jan. 1597, and that it so enraged him 'that he could eate no meate that night for anger'. ff. 179-182b.

15. ff. 183-184. Account of the examination of John Hewson, minister of Cambuslang in Glasgow diocese, by the Privy Council at Falkland; 12 July 1584. Calderwood, iv, pp. 146-148.

16. ff. 184b-185. Articles relating to episcopacy agreed by the General Assembly, the King's Commissioners and the Ministers of Scotland; 10 May 1586. See Calderwood, iv, pp. 491-493, 558-560, and Acts and Proceedings, pt.2, pp. 652-654.

17. ff. 188-191. Letter from Robert Bruce to Sir Francis Walsingham complaining of attacks on presbyterianism by Richard Bancroft, then a canon of Westminster, in a sermon preached at St Paul's Cross on 9 Feb. 1589; 16 Jan. 1590. On this sermon, which was subsequently printed (STC 1346) see Hughes, op. cit., iii, pp. 209-212.

18. ff. 195-198. Papers relating to the visit of Patrick Adamson, Archbishop of St Andrews, to England, 1583-1585. See Calderwood, iii, pp. 763-764, iv, pp. 49-62, and SP Scot. 1581-1583, nos. 681, 684, 687, 689, 723. Latin. As follows: (a) 'Propositiones ministrorum Scotiae Serenissimo Regi oblatae'. According to Calderwood, Adamson 'scattered farre and neere manie perverted positiouns, which he ascribed to the Kirk of Scotland'. Some articles in English related to the present item are Calderwood, iv, pp. 50-52. ff. 195-195: (b) 'Scriptum Archiepiscopi Sanctae Andreae in Scotia responsorium ad scriptum quorundam pastorum in Ecclesia Scotise'. Calderwood, iv, pp. 53-55, prints an English version, said to have been presented by Adamson to the Archbishop of Canterbury and others. ff. 195b-196; (c) Letters Patent of James VI to the ministers of Scotland touching the reformation of the Church and informing them that the Archbishop of St Andrews is going abroad for his health; 21 Oct. 1583. f. 197; (d) Letter of Archbishop Adamson to an unnamed foreign cleric: he had intended to visit him and his colleagues after visiting the baths of Lorraine, but because of the risks of the journey he writes instead; 10 Feb. 1584. ff. 197-198.

19. ff. 199-200b. Another copy of art. 13(d) above.

20. ff. 201-256b, 269-279. Memoranda by Beale on the history of Scotland 1560-1584, together with notes on the adjudication of the crown of Scotland by Edward I, 1291 (ff. 203-231), and on Scots laws (ff. 232-240b).

21. ff. 257-268b. Treason Pretended against the King of Scots, by certaine Lordes and Gentlemen, whose names hereafter followe. With a declaration of the Kinges Maiesties intention to his last Acts of Parliament: which openeth fully in effect all the saide conspiracy. Out of Skottish into English. Thomas Nelson, London, 1585. Printed. STC 21949.5. The 'Kinges Maiesties Declaration' was composed by Archbishop Adamson in defence of the acts of the Scots Parliament of May 1584; see Calderwood, iv,

pp. 254-269, 352-366, where it is printed, and its authorship and dissemination discussed.

Paper; ff. 280. Folio. Late XVI cent. Original binding stored separately. Front cover: indenture of lease for 21 years from Hugh Middleton, goldsmith, projector of the New River Company, 1st Bart. 1622, to Sir Henry Yelverton and Margaret his wife of water piping from the main pipe in Aldersgate St., London, to the kitchen and yard of their house there; 2 Jan. 1618. Printed form, details in manuscript. See STC 17869.5, Add. Ch. 56224 and H. Carter and H. D. L. Vervliet, Civilité types, Oxford Bibliographical Soc., n.s. xiv, 1966, no. 347*,

p. 83, n.1. Back cover, leaf from a Sarum antiphoner printed at Paris, 1519, 1520; for other MSS. similarly bound, see the Introduction. Formerly used as cover for a smaller work: the leaf bears an inscription 'Answere to the Lord Treasurer about the Autority of the pope and other Questions', which may indicate a connection with a fair copy of Add. 48101, art. 21(b). Numbered '132' on spine.

Liturgies LATIN: Leaves from a printed antiphoner used as covers: 1520.

Bindings ENGLISH: Vellum leaves from printed antiphoner (1519-1520) used as cover: mid. 17th cent.

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

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

Printed Matter: Leaves from a Paris antiphoner used as binding: 1520.

includes:

• front cover Printed Matter: Lease on printed form used as binding: 1618.
• front cover Bindings ENGLISH: Lease used as binding: 1618.
• front cover Sir Henry Yelverton, Attorney-General: London, Parishes. St. Mary Aldermary: Sir Hugh Middleton, 1st Baronet 1622: Margaret Yelverton, wife of Sir H Yelverton: Lease of water pipes in Aldersgate St to Sir Henry Yelverton and to Lady M. Yelverton from H. Middleton: 1618: Partly printed.
• ff. 2-200b Scotland General: Papers rel. to the Church of Scotland: 1563-1598.
• ff. 2-4 Robert Beale, Clerk to the Privy Council: Treatise `Of Discipline in the Churche of Scotlande', possibly by: 1596.
• ff. 4-8 Robert Beale, Clerk to the Privy Council: Answer by (?), to James VI's questions for the Assembly at Perth: 1596.
• ff. 9-9b County of Edinburgh: `A Lenvoy to Edinburgh': 1597(?).
• ff. 10-10b James VI of Scotland: Articles proposed to the General Assembly at Perth, etc.,: 1597.
• ff. 11, 13 William Douglas, 10th Earl of Angus: Articles for his trial and report thereof: 1597.
• ff. 11, 13 George Gordon, 6th Earl of Huntly: Articles for his trial, and report thereof: 1597.
• ff. 11, 13 Francis Hay, 9th Earl of Erroll: Articles for his trial and report thereof: 1597.
• ff. 19-33 Walter Balcanquall, Minister of St Giles, Edinburgh: Letter to his congregation: 1584: Copies.
• ff. 19-33 James Lawson, Minister of St Giles, Edinburgh: Letter to his congregation: 1584: Copies.
• ff. 39-151 John Knox, Scottish reformer and historian: Parts of `History of the Reformation in Scotland': c. 1586(?): Copy.
• ff. 152-153b Mary of Scotland: Letter and articles to, from the General Assembly: 1565: Copy.
• ff. 154-155 Thomas Sampson, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford: Letter to, from J. Knox,: 1565: Copy.
• ff. 154-155 John Knox, Scottish reformer and historian: Letter to T. Sampson: 1565: Copy.
• ff. 155b-156 John Knox, Scottish reformer and historian: Letter to the Congregation of Edinburgh: 1563: Copy.
• ff. 156b-157b John Knox, Scottish reformer and historian: Extract from his will: 1572.
• ff. 156b-157b Wills: J. Knox: 1572: Extract.
• ff. 159-161b John Lindsay, Lord Menmuir; Scottish Secretary of State: Questions for the General Assembly drawn up by, for James VI: 1597: Copy.
• ff. 163-163b James VI of Scotland: Act of Parliament confirming right of prelates to a vote in Parliament,: 1597.
• ff. 163-163b Parliament; Scotland: Act confirming prelates' right to vote,: 1597.
• f. 164 James VI of Scotland: Letter summoning the General Assembly: 1597: Copy.
• ff. 166-166b George Nicholson, English agent in Scotland: Letter to --: 1597: Copy.
• ff. 171-173 Walter Balcanquall, Minister of St Giles, Edinburgh: Letter of defence, with R. Bruce: 1597: Copy.
• ff. 183-184 John Hewson, minister of Cambuslang, county Lanarkshire: Account of his examination by the Privy Council of Scotland: 1584.
• ff. 183-184 James VI of Scotland: Account of the examination of J. Hewson by the Privy Council of Scotland: 1584.
• ff. 188-191 Robert Bruce, Minister of St Giles, Edinburgh: Letter to Sir Francis Walsingham: 1590: Copy.
• ff. 195-198 Patrick Adamson, Archbishop of St Andrews: Papers rel. to his journey to England: 1583-1584.
• ff. 195b-196 Patrick Adamson, Archbishop of St Andrews: `Scriptum . . . responsorium, ad scriptum quorundam pastorum in Ecclesia scotiae': 1584: Lat.
• f. 197 James VI of Scotland: Letters Patent to the Abp. of St Andrews: 1583: Lat: Copy.
• ff. 197-198 Patrick Adamson, Archbishop of St Andrews: Letter to --: 1584: Lat: Copy.
• ff. 201-256b, 269-279 Scotland General: Collections on Scottish history, by R. Beale: 16th cent.
• ff. 201-256b, 269-279 Robert Beale, Clerk to the Privy Council: Collections on Scottish history: 16th cent.
• ff. 257-258 Printed Matter: `Treason Pretended against the King of Scots . . .': 1585.
• ff. 257-268b James VI of Scotland: `Treason Pretended against the King of Scots . . .': 1585: Printed.
• ff. 257-268b Political Tracts: `Treason Pretended against the King of Scots . . .': 1585: Printed.
• ff. 258b-268b Printed Matter: `The Kinges Maiesties Declaration of his Acts confirmed in Parliament': 1585.
• ff. 258b-268b Patrick Adamson, Archbishop of St Andrews: `The Kinges Maiesties Declaration of his Acts confirmed in Parliament': 1585: Printed.