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- Correspondence and Papers of Sir Ralph Sadler, Volume IV (1580-1585)
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Volume IV of the Correspondence and Papers of Sir Ralph Sadler, 1580-1585. The majority of the letters in this volume are published in The State Papers and Letters of Sir Ralph Sadler, ed. by Arthur Clifford (1809), II, pp. 331-544.
1. Speech of Sir Ralph Sadler (b. 1533, d. 1603) against the proposed marriage of Elizabeth I (b. 1533, d. 1603) to Hercule Francois (b. 1554, d. 1584), Duc d’Anjou, brother and heir of Henri III of France. c. 1580. ff. 1-4.
2. Royal Commission to provide George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury (b. c. 1522, d. 1590), Sir Henry Neville (b. c. 1520, d. 1593) and Sir William Pelham (d. 1587), engaged in 'a charge of importance’, with all necessities; Westminster, 16 January 1580 [1]. Signed by Elizabeth I, with paper signet; written on parchment. The Commission has been altered by words erased or inserted at a later date. f. 5.
3. Elizabeth I to Sir John Zouche (b. 1534, d. 1586), High Sheriff of Derbyshire; 16 January 1580 [1]. Signed; with paper signet. The text has been altered by words erased or inserted at a later date. ff. 6-7.
4. Elizabeth I to George Neville of Grove, High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire; 16 January 1580 [1]. Signed; with paper signet. ff. 8-9.
5. Elizabeth I to Sir Francis Hastings (b. c. 1546, d. 1610), High Sheriff of Leicestershire; 16 January 1580 [1]. Signed; with paper signet. ff. 10-11.
6. Commission to provide Sir Henry Neville and Sir William Pelham with post horses, etc.; 16 January 1580 [1]. Signed by Sir Francis Walsingham (b. c. 1532, d. 1590), principal secretary. The Commission has been altered to include Sadler, and the blank pages of it are covered with drafts (in the hand of Sir John Sommer, Sadler's secretary) of letters from Sadler to Walsingham in August and September 1584. ff. 12-13.
7. Instructions to Shrewsbury, Neville and Pelham regarding the removal of Mary, Queen of Scots (b. 1542, d. 1587) to Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire; 16 January 1580 [1]. Signed by Elizabeth I. Altered to include Sadler. ff. 14-15.
8. Instructions addressed to Talbot, Sadler, and Neville regarding the removal of Mary, Queen of Scots from Sheffield to Melbourne Castle, Derbyshire, in Sommer's hand; c. 1583. ff. 16-20.
9. Another draft of the above instructions, with additions and alterations in the hand of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (b. 1520/21, d. 1598). ff. 21-23.
10. Another draft of the same with ‘by the Queene’ written at the top of the page; 1583. ff. 24-25.
11. Private instructions for Sadler with ‘by the Queene’ written at the top of the page; no date. ff. 26-27.
12. Orders to be observed by those to whom the custody of Mary, Queen of Scots shall be committed; no date [1583]. ff. 28-29.
13. Orders set down by Shrewsbury, regarding the custody of Mary, Queen of Scots; with recommendations from Sadler to be added; no date [1583]. In the margins are notes in Sommer's hand. ff. 30-31.
14. Another draft of the same orders, omitting the first two articles. ff. 32-33.
15. George Seton, 5th Lord Seton (b. c. 1530, d. 1586) to Mary, Queen of Scots; Seton, 16 September 1583, in French. Copies in cipher (f. 34) and deciphered (f. 36).
16. James VI (b. 1566, d. 1625), king of Scotland, to his mother, Mary, Queen of Scots; Stirling, 8 November [1583], in French. Copies in cipher (f. 35) and deciphered (f. 36).
17. Patrick Gray, 6th Lord Gray (b. c. 1558, d. 1611), to Mary, Queen of Scots; 22 April [1584], in French. Deciphered copy only. ff. 36v-37.
18. Sir Francis Walsingham (b. c. 1532, d. 1590) to Sommer; The Court, 22 April, 1584. Signed. On the verso begins a draft of Sommer's answer, with a decipher of a ciphered letter sent to him by Walsingham (ff. 38-40).
19. Elizabeth I to Sadler; Oatlands, 12 August, 26th year of her reign [1584]. Signed; with paper signet. ff. 41-42.
20. Elizabeth I to Sir Andrew Noel (b. c. 1552, d. 1607), High Sheriff of Leicestershire; Oatlands, 15 August 1584. Signed; with paper signet. ff. 43-44.
21. Elizabeth I to Robert Markham, High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire; Oatlands, 15 August, 26th year of her reign [1584]. Signed; with paper signet. ff. 45-46.
22. Contents of the letters from Michel de Castelnau (b. c. 1520, d. 1592) Sieur de Mauvissière and French Ambassador to Elizabeth I, to Mary, Queen of Scots and her secretary, Claude de la Boisseliere Nau (b. c. 1542, d. 1605); 29 Aug. 1584. f. 47.
23. A brief summary of events between Mary, Queen of Scots and Shrewsbury and Sadler, since the latter’s arrival, and a summary of Sadler’s instructions; 31 August [1584]. ff. 48-49.
24. Sadler to Walsingham; 2 September 1584. Draft. ff. 50-51.
25. Details of a conversation between Mary, Queen of Scots and Sommer, whilst travelling from Sheffield to Wingfield; 2 September 1584. ff. 52-53.
26. Walsingham to Sadler; Oatlands, 2 September 1584. Signed; with paper signet. ff. 54-55.
27. Walsingham to Sadler; Oatlands, 4 September 1584. Signed; with paper signet. ff. 56-57.
28. Sadler to Walsingham; 7 September 1584. Draft. Mutilated. f. 58.
29. Walsingham to Sadler; Barne Elms, 9 September 1584. Signed; with paper signet. ff. 59-60.
30. Walsingham to Sadler; Oatlands, 16 September 1584. Signed; with paper signet. ff. 61-62.
31. Sadler to Walsingham; 21 September 1584. Draft. ff. 63-64.
32. Shrewsbury to Sadler; Oatlands, 28 September 1584. Signed. ff. 65-66.
33. Shrewsbury to Sadler; Oatlands, 30 September 1584. Signed; with paper signet. ff. 67-68.
34. Walsingham to Sadler; Barn Elms, 30 September 1584. Signed; with paper signet. ff. 69-70.
35. Sadler to Walsingham; Wingfield, 3 October 1584. Draft. ff. 71-72.
36. Walsingham to Sadler; The Court, 5 October 1584. With paper signet. ff. 73-74.
37. Walsingham to Sadler; The Court, 6 October 1584. Signed; with signet. ff. 75-76.
38. Walsingham to Sadler; 6 October 1584. With paper signet. ff. 77-78.
39. Sadler to Walsingham; Wingfield, 8 October 1584. Draft. ff. 79-80.
40. Sadler to Walsingham; no date. Draft, written on the blank pages of Walsingham's letters of the 6th October. ff. 81-82.
41. (a) Walsingham to Sadler; London, 17 October 1584. With paper signet. ff. 83-84.
Enclosed were: (b) copy of a letter from William Wilbeck [Gilbert Curle (d. 1609)], servant of Mary, Queen of Scots, to Thomas Baldwin; 20 September 1584. f. 85; (c) an explanation of the code names in Curle's letter. f. 86.
42. Sadler to Walsingham; no date. Draft in Sadler's hand, corrected by Sommer. Endorsed 20 October 1584. ff. 88-91.
43. Walsingham to Sadler; The Court, 23 October 1584. With paper signet. ff. 92-93.
44. Sadler to Walsingham; Wingfield, 25 October 1584. Draft. ff. 94-95.
45. Walsingham to Sadler; Hampton Court, 28 October 1584. Signed; with paper signet. ff. 96-97.
46. Walsingham to Sadler; 28 October 1584. Signed; with paper signet. ff. 98-99.
47. (a) Walsingham to Sadler; Hampton Court, 31 October 1584. Signed; with holograph postscript. With paper signet. ff. 100-101.
Enclosed is: (b) a pledge of allegiance to Elizabeth I by the association of the nobility (etc.) of England; October 1584. ff. 102-103.
48. Walsingham to Sadler; 3 November 1584. ff. 104-105.
49. (a) Walsingham to Sadler; Hampton Court, 3 Nov. 1584. Signed; with paper signet. ff. 106-107.
Enclosed was: (b) a note of points to be resolved by Sadler; 3 November, 1584. ff. 108-109.
50. (a) Sadler to Walsingham; 6 November 1584. Draft. ff. 110-113. Enclosed were: (b) notes to be answered in relation to the guarding of Mary, Queen of Scots; Wingfield, 5 November 1584. Draft. ff. 114-115; (c) the examination of Edward Tocky, an adherent of Mary, Queen of Scots. f. 116.
51. (a) Cecil, Walsingham, and Sir Walter Mildmay (b. 1520/21, d. 1589) to Sadler; London, 7 November 1584. Signed; with paper signet. ff. 117-118. Enclosed was (b) Cecil to the High Sheriff of Staffordshire; 7 November 1584. Copy. ff. 119-120.
52. Walsingham to Sadler; Nonsuch, Surrey, 10 November 1584. Signed; with paper signet. f. 121.
53. Walsingham to Sadler; London, 11 November 1584. Signed; with paper signet. ff. 123-124.
54. Walsingham to Sadler; Hampton Court, 15 November 1584. Signed; with paper signet. Annotated in the margins by Sommer. ff. 125-126.
55. Walsingham to Sadler; St. James, 17 November 1584. Signed; with paper signet. Annotated in the margins by Sommer. ff. 127-128.
56. Walsingham to Sadler; St. James, 19 November 1584. Signed. Annotated in the margins by Sommer. ff. 129-130.
57. Walsingham to Sadler; St. James, 20 November 1584. Signed; with holograph postscript. With paper signet. Annotated in the margins by Sommer. ff. 131-132.
58. Walsingham to Sadler; St. James, 26 November 1584. Signed; with paper signet. Annotated in the margins by Sommer. ff. 133-134.
59. Sadler to Walsingham; 26 November 1584. Draft. ff. 135-136.
60. Walsingham to Sadler; St. James, 28 November 1584. Signed; with paper signet. ff. 137-138.
61. Walsingham to Sadler; St. James, 3 December 1584. Signed; with holograph postscript. With paper signet. ff. 139-140.
62. Walsingham to Sadler; The Court, 5 December 1584. With paper signet. ff. 141-142.
63. Sadler to Elizabeth I; Wingfield, 7 December 1584. Holograph draft. ff. 143-144.
64. Sadler to Walsingham; 7 December 1584. Draft. f. 145.
65. Sadler to Walsingham; Wingfield, 8 December 1584. Draft. ff. 146-147.
66. Sadler to Elizabeth I; 9 December 1584. Draft. ff. 148-149.
67. Memorandum of Sommer; no date. f. 150.
68. Sadler to Walsingham; Wingfield, 9 December 1584. Draft. f. 151.
69. Walsingham to Sadler; St. James, 12 December 1584. Signed; with paper signet. ff. 152-153.
70. Sadler to Walsingham; Wingfield, 14 December 1584. Draft. f. 154.
71. Sadler to Walsingham; Wingfield, 16 December 1584. Holograph draft. ff. 155-156.
72. Sadler to Walsingham; 29 December 1584. Two drafts. ff. 157, 158.
73. Sommer to Walsingham; no date [c. 31 December 1584]. Draft. f. 158v.
74. Cecil to Sadler; Greenwich, 5 January 1584 [5]. With paper signet. ff. 159-160.
75. Sadler to Walsingham; Wingfield, 6 January 1584 [5]. Draft. f. 161.
76. The Privy Council to the High Sheriff of Derbyshire; Greenwich, 10 January 1584[5]. Signed by Cecil; Charles Howard, 2nd Baron Howard of Effingham and 1st earl of Nottingham (b. 1536, d. 1624); Henry Carey, lst Baron Hunsdon (b. 1526, d. 1596); Sir Francis Knollys (b. 1511/12, d. 1596); Sir James Croft (b. c. 1518, d. 1590); and Sir Christopher Hatton (b. c. 1540, d. 1591). With paper signet. ff. 162-163.
77. The Privy Council to the High Sheriff of Staffordshire; 10 January 1584. Signed by Cecil, Howard, Hunsdon, Knollys, Croft and Hatton. With paper signet. ff. 164-165.
78. Sadler to Cecil; Wingfield, 13 January 1584 [5]. Holograph draft. ff. 166-168.
79. Sommer to Walsingham; 13 January 1584. Draft. f. 169.
80. Sadler to Walsingham; 13 January 1584. Draft. f. 170.
81. Memorial of wants for Mary, Queen of Scots and her household; 17 January 1584 [5]. Annotated in the margin by Sommer. f. 171.
82. Measurements of Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire. ff. 172-173.
83. Two plans of Tutbury Castle, showing the, lodgings of Mary, Queen of Scots. [1584/5.] ff. 174,175.
84. Sadler to Cecil; 21 January 1584 [5]. Draft. f. 176.
85. Sadler to Cecil; 25 January [1584/5]. Draft. f. 177.
86. Sommer to Walsingham; 25 January [1584/5 ]. Draft. f. 178.
87. Sadler to Burghley; 5 February 1584 [5]. Draft. ff. 179-180.
88. Sadler to Walsingham; Tutbury, same date. Draft. ff. 181-182.
89. List of Justices of the Peace, near Tutbury; 9 February 1584 [5]. f. 183.
90. A list of new dorniks [Tournai damasks] delivered to Tutbury since first of February 1584 [5]. f. 184.
91. Sadler to Justices of the Peace in Derbyshire and Staffordshire; Tutbury, 12 February 1584 [5]. Draft. f. 185.
92. Elizabeth I to Sadler, signed ‘Your very loving Soveraine’; Somerset House, 18 February 27th year of her reign [1584]. ff. 186-187.
93. Sadler to Walsingham; 23 February 1584 [5]. Draft. ff. 188-189.
94. The examination of Humfrey Bridges and a copy of the letter sent by him to Nicholas Langford; Tutbury, 24 February 1584 [5]. Copy. ff. 190-192.
95. Richard Bagot (b. c.1530, d. 1597), Justice of the Peace for Staffordshire, to Hugh Foden and Thomas Corbett, High Constables of Pirehill Hundred; Blithfield, Ash Wednesday [24 February 1584/5]. Copy. f. 193.
96. Tolomeo Gallio (b. 1526, d. 1607) Cardinal of Como to William Parry (d. 1585); Rome, 30 January 1584, in Italian. Copy. f. 194. Enclosed probably in a letter now missing from Walsingham to Sadler of 26 February. See f. 199 for Sadler's answer and opinion on Parry's treason.
97. Sadler to Burghley; Tutbury, 28 February 1584 [5]. Holograph draft. ff. 195-196.
98. Sadler to Walsingham; 28 February 1584 [5]. Holograph draft. ff. 197-198.
99. Sadler to Walsingham; no date. Draft annotated by Sommer. Endorsed around the end of February 1584 [5]. ff. 199-200.
100. Sommer to Cecil; Tutbury, 1 March 1584 [5]. Draft. ff. 201-202.
101. Account of moneys collected by Humfrey Minors, High Constable of Offlow Hundred, Staffordshire; 17 March 1584 [5]. f. 203.
102. A note from Humfrey Bridges; delivered on 18 March 1584/5. f. 204. See art. 94.
103. Interrogation of Rowland Kychin, Nicholas Langford's servant; March 1584 [5]. f. 205. See art. 94.
104. Sir Edward Stanhope to Sadler; Nottingham, 22 March 1584 [5]. Signed; with paper signet. ff. 206-207.
105. Sadler to Walsingham; 22 March 1584 [5]. Holograph draft. f. 208.
106. Sadler to Cecil; Tutbury, 5 April 1585. Holograph draft. f. 211.
107. Sadler to William Overton (b. 1524/25, d. 1609), Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield; Tutbury, 16 April 1585. Draft. f. 213.
108. Sommer to Walsingham; April 1585. Draft. f. 214.
109. Elizabeth I to Sadler; April 1585. Draft. f. 215.
110. Philip Howard, 13th Earl of Arundel (b. 1557, d. 1595), to Elizabeth I on quitting England; no date [April 1585]. Copy. ff. 216-220.
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Materials: Paper (plus one parchment letter, f. 5).
Dimensions: 350 x 250 mm; the dimensions of the letters vary.
Foliation: ff. 220 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 2 at the end).
Script: Cursive.
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Origin: England.
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Sir Ralph Sadler (b. 1533, d. 1603), diplomat and administrator: his collection of papers and correspondence.
?Gertrude Sadler (b. before 1592, d. after 1639), Lady Aston: daughter of Sir Thomas Sadler (b. c. 1536, d. 1607) and granddaughter of Sir Ralph Sadler; she became the second wife of Walter Aston, 1st Lord Aston of Forfar (b. 1584, d. 1639) of Tixall, Staffordshire in 1607.
Barbara Aston (d. 1786): daughter and coheir of James, 5th Lord Aston of Forfar (b. 1723, d. 1751), direct descendant of Gertrude Sadler and Walter Aston; married Thomas Clifford (b. 1732, d. 1787) in 1762.
Sir Thomas Hugh Clifford (later Constable), 1st baronet (b. 1762, d. 1823), topographer and botanist: son of Barbara Aston and Thomas Clifford; his brother Arthur Clifford (b. 1777, d. 1830) edited and published the letters in 1809 from transcripts made by Rev. John Kirk of Lichfield. In 1821, Sir Thomas Hugh Clifford inherited the Yorkshire estates of his kinsman Francis Constable (d. 1821) and subsequently moved the letters from Tixall to Burton Constable, Yorkshire (see the printed Catalogue of Additions (1894), p. 60).
Sir Thomas Aston Clifford, 2nd baronet (b. 1807, d. 1870), of Burton Constable, Yorkshire, and Tixall Hall, Staffordshire, Member of Parliament: heritor of Burton Constable.
Sir Frederick Augustus Talbot Clifford, 3rd baronet (b. 1828, d. 1894): heritor of Burton Constable.
The four volumes were purchased by the British Museum at the sale of the Burton Constable manuscripts, Sotheby's, London, on 24 June 1889, for the sum of £405 (lot 151).
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The State Papers and Letters of Sir Ralph Sadler, Knight-Banneret, ed. by Arthur Clifford, 2 vols (1809), II, pp. 331-544.
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1888-1893 (London: British Museum, 1894), pp. 75-81.
'Appendix II: Materials for English Diplomatic History, 1509-1783, calendared in the Reports of the Historical Manuscripts Commission, with References to Similar Materials in the British Museum', in Eighteenth Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts (London: Stationery Office, 1917), pp. 357-402 (p. 364).
Arthur Jefferies Collins, Jewels and Plate of Queen Elizabeth I: The Inventory of 1574 (London: British Museum, 1955), p. 582.
Mack P. Holt, The Duke of Anjou and the Politique Struggle During the Wars of Religion (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), p. 226.
Susan Doran, Monarchy and Matrimony: The Courtships of Elizabeth I (London: Routledge, 1996), p. 261.
Susan Doran, Dissing Elizabeth: Negative Representations of Gloriana, ed. by Julia M. Walker (Durham, N.C.; London: Duke University Press, 1998), pp. 30-59 (p. 57 n. 54).
Derek Wilson, Sir Francis Walsingham: A Courtier in an Age of Terror (London: Constable 2007), p. 260.
James Daybell, The Material Letter in Early Modern England: Manuscript Letters and the Culture and Practices of Letter-Writing, 1512-1635 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. 158, 272 n. 64, 273 n. 77, 294.
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