Add MS 48151

MISCELLANEOUS MEDIEVAL AND LATER HISTORICAL MATERIALS, GENEALOGIES, ACCOUNTS OF VOYAGES; late 16th cent. Most items, except art. 2, are annotated or endorsed by Beale. 17th-cent. contents list, f. 4.

1. ff. 15-57. Extracts from medieval chronicles, etc., namely the Annales Cambriae, Hoveden, Thorne, the Bury chronicle attributed to John Eversden, the Bermondsey annals and Domesday Book. Titles mostly by Beale. Also included, ff. 39-43, is an Anglo-Saxon glossary compiled from the laws of the Anglo-Saxon kings, etc.; at f. 42b Beale gives a note of his source, dated 1587, 'an old book of St Augustines of Canterbury, which I borowed of Mr Recorder'.

2. ff. 63-128. Genealogies of the English nobility to about 1587. With 17th-cent. additions and corrections, a number dated 1658 (eg. ff. 69, 72).

3. ff. 157-158b. 'A discourse of a voiage intended by Rychard Grenefeld by seas anno 1573' (title by Beale, f. 157b); see A. L. Rowse, Sir Richard Grenville, 1937, pp. 83 sqq.

4. ff. 159-160b. 'The Relacon of Frances Fernandes borne in Viana a towne of Portingall touchinge the voyage which ye Portingalls make from Cochin a haven in the East India unto China . . . '. On Fernandes see A. Cortesao, Cartografia e cartografos portugueses das sécules XV e XVI, ii, 1935, p. 297.

5. ff. 161-166. 'Sondrie Reportes of the contrie which Sir Humfrie Gilberte goeth to discover'; [Aug.-Sept. 1582]. Collated for the edition in D. B. Quinn, The Voyages . . . . of Sir Humphrey Gilbert, ii, Hakluyt Soc., 2nd ser., lxxxiv, 1939, pp. 296-310.

6. ff. 169-174b. Geoffrey Ducket's report on Persia, to which he was appointed special envoy in 1568, see Royal MS. 13 B.I, f. 228.

7. ff. 177-179. Account of the Armada voyage, 1588, by Pedro Destrada, a Spanish soldier, in an undated letter to his brother. Memorandum by Beale dated 1589, f. 177. Printed from the present MS., a translation from the Spanish, by M. Oppenheim, Navy Rec. Soc., xxiii, 1902, pp. 299-308.

Paper; ff. ii + 220. 17th-cent. foliation. Folio. Late XVI cent. Inscription, f. 1, 'October ye 18th 1658. This is Sir Henry Yelverton's booke', i.e. Sir Henry Yelverton, 2nd Bart. Bound (upside down) in conjoint leaves of a 14th-cent. English noted missal with red and blue initials containing parts of the temporale for Septuagesima and Sexagesima (front cover, f. i) and the Circumcision and Vigil of the Epiphany (f. ii, back cover). Leather ties. Numbered '162' on spine. Traces of label on front cover.

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:

• ff. i, ii and covers Liturgies LATIN: Bindings ENGLISH: Bifolium of an English noted missal: 14th cent.
• f. 1 Sir Henry Yelverton, 2nd Baronet: Note of ownership: 1658.
• ff. 39-43 Dictionaries: Anglo-Saxon glossary: compiled late 16th cent.
• ff. 63-128 Genealogies: Genealogies of English nobility to c. 1587, with additions: 16th-17th cent.
• ff. 157-158b Voyages and Travels: Sir Richard Grenville, naval commander: Projected voyage: 1573.
• ff. 159-160b Francisco Fernandes, Portuguese navigator: Voyages and Travels: Account of a voyage to China: late 16th cent.
• ff. 161-166 Voyages and Travels: Sir Humphrey Gilbert, navigator: Projected voyage: 1582.
• pp. 161-166 Sir Humphrey Gilbert: Report concerning his proposed voyage of discovery,: 1582.
• ff. 169-174b Geoffrey Ducket, envoy to Persia: Report on Persia: c. 1568.
• ff. 169-174b Persia: Report on, by G. Ducket: circa 1568.
• ff. 177-179 Voyages and Travels: Pedro Destrada, Spanish soldier: Account of the Armada voyage: 1588: Engl. transl.