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Stowe MS 273
- Record Id:
- 040-001953075
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001952775
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000493.0x000327
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100162927708.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 273
- Title:
- Robert Glover (?), An Answer to John Leslie, Bishop of Ross, 1584-1585
- Scope & Content:
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This treatise carries a title page in an 18th- or 19th-century hand:
'AN ANSWER to a discourse of John Lesley, Bishop of Rosse, intended to prove that Mary, Queen of Scots, was intitled to the crown of England in preference to Queen Elizabeth, because the Pope had deposed her, and that her son was intitled to the crown of this realm after her decease.'
The treatise is generally ascribed to Robert Glover, herald. It was written in response to John Leslie [Lesley], A treatise towching the right, title, and interest of the most excellent Princess Marie, Queene of Scotland, and of the most noble king Iames, her Graces sonne, to the succession of the croune of England ([Rouen], 1584 [printed by G. L'Oyselet]) (STC 1557; ESTC: S108494). There are manuscript copies of Leslie's treatise in British Library Stowe MS 273 and Harley MS 6368.
Stowe MS 273 is undated. However, as a tract written as part of a polemical debate, one of two tracts written in response to Leslie's 1584 treatise by people close to members of the government, it can be dated to 1584 or shortly after. It is a reworking of an earlier version composed in response to the original publication of Leslie's treatise, then in Latin, four years earlier, De titulo et jure Serenissimae Principis Mariæ Scotorum Reginæ, quo regni Angliæ successionem sibi juste vendicat, Libellus (Rheims, J. Fognaeus: 1580), Drafts of the original response are in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, and Northamptonshire Record Office.
The book is written in a fair scribal hand, and the cover may well be original.
Contents:
f. 1r: Title page.
ff. 2r-51r: The text of the treatise.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Stowe Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001952775
036-001952833
037-001953069
040-001953075 - Is part of:
- Stowe Ms 1-1085 : Stowe Manuscripts
Stowe MS 54-310 : CLASS IV.HISTORY.
Stowe MS 268-310 : SECT. VI.-POLITICAL TRACTS, COLLECTIONS, CARICATURES, ETC.
Stowe MS 273 : Robert Glover (?), An Answer to John Leslie, Bishop of Ross, 1584-1585 - Hierarchy:
- 032-001952775[0004]/036-001952833[0006]/037-001953069[0006]/040-001953075
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Stowe Ms 1-1085
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100162927708.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1584
- End Date:
- 1585
- Date Range:
- 1584-1585
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- England.
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Matreials: paper.
Dimensions: 290mm x 190mm (writing area: 240mm x 150mm).
Foliation: 51ff (ff. 2-51 are contemporary paper leaves, f. 1 a leaf added for title-page at a later date; plus one modern paper flyleaf at the beginning and one at the end).
Script: formal secretary hand.
Binding: Possibly pre-1600, vellum, contemporary with the tract itself. There has been some rebinding with the addition of title-page and fly-leaves, and possibly stiffening of the original vellum cover. Gold tooling and stamping. A British Museum title has been stamped onto the spine.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (b. 1776, d. 1839), 1st duke of Buckingham and Chandos, of Stowe House, near Buckingham.
Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (b. 1797, d. 1861), 2nd duke of Buckingham and Chandos: sold in 1849 to Lord Ashburnham.
Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1797, d. 1878), 4th earl of Ashburnham, of Ashburnham Place, Sussex.
Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1840, d. 1913), 5th earl of Ashburnham: purchased by the British Museum from him together with 1084 other Stowe manuscripts in 1883.
- Former Internal References:
- 253
Press VI no. 30 - Information About Originals:
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Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS Carte 105, ff. 16r-92v: Answer to the Bishop of Ross's book (earlier draft)
Northamptonshire Record Office, MS Fitzwilliam (Milton) Pol. 223: Answer to Bishop of Ross's book, 1580 (earlier draft)
- Publications:
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Catalogue of the Stowe Manuscripts in the British Museum, ed. by Edward J.L. Scott, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1895), I, 345.
Margaret F. Beckett, 'The political works of John Lesley, Bishop of Ross (1527-1596)' (Ph.D. thesis, University of St Andrews, 2002).
Peter Lake, "The 'Political Thought' of the "Monarchical Republic of Elizabeth", Discovered and Anatomized', Journal of British Studies, 54 (2054), 257-87.
Peter Lake, Bad Queen Bess, Libels, Secret Histories, and the Politics of Publicity in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth I (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2016).
Nigel Ramsay, 'Glover, Robert (1543/4–1588), herald', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, January 03, 2008 (Date of access 8 Feb. 2019, http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-10833)
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)