Add MS 32092

Volume II of state papers and documents owned by the Malet family, baronets, of Wilbury, Wiltshire. Covering the period 1576-1624.

ff. 1r-2v Letter from Johannes Sturmius, Rector of the Academy at Strassburg, to Edmund Grindal, Archbishop of Canterbury. On Grindal’s appointment to that see. Argentorati [Strasbourg], 20 March 1576. Latin.

ff. 3r-4v Instructions sent from William, Prince of Orange, to one Bartley, envoy. Concerning Bartley’s assignment to Queen Elizabeth I. Middelburg, 5 September 1576. French.

ff. 5r-10v Letter from T. Knell, Chaplain to Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex, to Sir Henry Sidney. Concerning his opinion of the cause of Essex's death. [c. 1576]. Followed by a paper titled ‘Particio terrarum et tenementorum que fuerunt Walter Mareschal in Hibernie [sic] inter heredes ipsorum Walteri et Ancelmi in Curia Domini Regis Henrici 3 Anno regni sui primo, 3 die Maij apud Wodstock, Anno 1217’.

ff. 11r-12v Extract from the customary roll of Amesbury Manor, Wiltshire. 17 March 1577[8].

ff. 13r-14v Paper on the controversy between the Chapter of Canterbury and Queens’ College, Cambridge. [c. Easter 1579].

ff. 15r-21v Award of Edmund Grindal, Archbishop of Canterbury, between the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury and Queens' College, Cambridge. With a record of rent arrears, 23 June 1579. Two copies. With Grindal’s reasons, in his own hand.

ff. 22r-23v Submission sent by John Piers, Bishop of Sarum and John Whitgift, Bishop of Worcester. For Edmund Grindal, Archbishop of Canterbury, to make to Queen Elizabeth I when sequestrated for not suppressing prophesising. 21 January 1580[1].

ff. 24r-25v Instruction sent from King James VI of Scotland to Sir George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon. On his return from Scotland. Stirling, 29 September 1582.

ff. 26r-28v Two letters from Sir Francis Walsingham to Edmund Grindal, Archbishop of Canterbury. On the reformation of the calendar. Richmond, 18 March 1582[3], 29 March 1583.

ff. 29r-33v Letter from Edmund Grindal, Archbishop of Canterbury, John Aylmer, Bishop of London, John Piers, Bishop of Sarum, and John Young, Bishop of Rochester, to Francis Walsingham. Enclosing their reasons against accepting the Gregorian calendar. Lambeth, 4 April 1583.

ff. 34r-37v A plot for the invasion of the realm, said to have been found on a Scottish Jesuit at sea. 4 September 1584.

ff. 38r-39v Letter from King James VI of Scotland to his mother, Mary, Queen of Scots. Answering her complaints about his ambassador. Holyroodhouse Palace, 15 February 1584[5]. French.

ff. 40r-41v Letter from Queen Elizabeth I to Mary, Queen of Scots. On the refusal of King James VI of Scotland to assent to the association of his mother with himself in the realm of Scotland. Somerset House, February 1584[5].

ff. 42r-47v Two copies of a letter from John Collvill to Theodore Beza. Against Patrick Adamson, Archbishop of St. Andrews. London, 23 March 1585. Latin.

ff. 48r-49v Letter from Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, to his mother Lettice Dudley, third wife of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. Asking her forgiveness for his conduct. Lanphey, 12 April 1585.

ff. 50r-51v Letter from Jean Nau, Secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots, to Francis Walsingham. Concerning the safety of dispatches sent to him. Tutbury, 15 July 1585. French.

ff. 52r-53v Letter from John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury, to Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford. To make peace with his son, Edward Seymour, Lord Beauchamp, who had married without his consent. Lambeth, 4 November 1585.

ff. 54r-55v Letter from Queen Elizabeth I to John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury. Ordering the clergy to raise levies for the Low Countries. Greenwich, 23 January 1585[6].

ff. 56r-57v Letter from King James VI of Scotland to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. On the condemnation of his mother, Mary, Queen of Scots. Holyroodhouse Palace, 4 December 1586.

ff. 58r-72v Proceedings at the trials and executions of Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, in 1572, and of Mary, Queen of Scots, in 1586 and 1587.

ff. 72r-74r Letter from Theodore Beza to James Lowson. Geneva, 16 March 1580. Latin.

ff. 73v-75r ‘Propositiones Ministrororum Scotiæ Serenissimo Regi [King James VI of Scotland] oblatæ’. No date.

f. 75v Letter from Patrick Adamson, Archbishop of St. Andrews, to John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury. No date. Latin.

f. 76r Letter from John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury, to Patrick Adamson, Archbishop of St. Andrews. Lambeth, 4 January 1583[4]. Latin.

f. 76v Letter from Patrick Adamson, Archbishop of St. Andrews, to John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury. London, no date. Latin.

ff. 77r-78r Letter from John Colvill to Theodore Beza. London, 22 March 1584[5]. Latin.

ff. 78v-79r Letter to John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury, from an unknown recipient. 10 January 1584[5].

ff. 79v-80r Letter from Patrick Adamson, Archbishop of St. Andrews, to John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury. St. Andrews, 16 June 1584.

ff. 80v-81r Letter from Andrew Hunter to one Carmichael. Leith, 16 January 1585[6].

ff. 81v-82v Paper titled ‘The Platforme of the churche in Scotland’. Holyroodhouse Palace, 17 and 19 February 1585[6].

f. 83r-83v Paper titled ‘Narrative of the proceedings of the Nobilitie of Scotland againste the oppressors of Religion and Lawes of that Lande and abusers of the Kinges Majesties eares and parsoun’. 1 November 1585.

ff. 84r-86r Paper titled ‘Proclamation published by the Nobilitie of Scotland conteyninge the causes of their repairinge towardes the towne of Sterlinge to the Kinges Majesty’. 2 November 1585.

ff. 86v-88r Paper titled ‘Conference and reasoninge betwene the Kinge and James Gibson, Minister at Pencatland’ Linlithgou, 21 December 1585.

ff. 88v-90r Letter from Richard Fletcher, Dean of Peterborough, to John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury. Peterborough, 31 May [1586]. Enclosing notes of the first proceedings of the ecclesiastical general assembly in Scotland, begun in Edinburgh on 10 May 1586.

ff. 90v-91v Account by an eyewitness of the dissension between King James VI of Scotland and the ministers of the Presbytery of Edinburgh. On his commanding them to pray for his mother, Mary, Queen of Scots, after her condemnation. February 1586[7].

ff. 92r-93v Questions from Peter Wentworth, MP for Northampton, to John Puckering, Speaker of the Parliament. On his privileges. [1578].

ff. 94r-97v Papers titled ‘Notes out of Martins Protestation’ [1588], and ‘Collections out of Hy any work for a Cooper’ [1588].

ff. 98r-99v Arguments concerning the Bill of Pluralities. [1588]. Copy in Cotton MS Cleopatra F. II, ff. 246 b, 217 b.

ff. 100r-101v Paper on Daverson, a Scot, who preached at Aldermanbury Church on St. Peters Day, 29 June 1588.

ff. 102r-103v Letter from the Privy Council to John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury. For public prayers against the success of the Spanish Armada. With postscript in the hand of William Cecil, Baron Burghley. Signed by Sir Christopher Hatton, Chancellor, William Cecil, Baron Burghley, Sir Francis Knollys, Sir Thomas Heneage, Sir Francis Walsingham, Sir Adrian Powlet and Sir John Wolley. Richmond, 23 July 1588.

ff. 104r-105v Letter from the Privy Council to John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury. To appoint a chaplain and his pay for the Kentish Regiment going into France. Signed by Sir Christopher Hatton, Chancellor, William Cecil, Baron Burghley, Francis Walsingham, Sir John Wolley, Charles Howard, 2nd Baron Howard of Effingham, Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon, Sir John Perrot and Sir John Fortescue. Oatlands, 21 September 1589.

ff. 106r-107v Letter from Sir Robert Naunton, Ambassador in Scotland, to Sir John Copcoat, Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. On the dispute between the Scottish Kirk and Richard Bancroft. Edinburgh, 12 November 1589. Copcoat’s answer is in Egerton MS 2598, ff. 240-246.

ff. 108r-113v ‘Notes against the Apochrypha’. [1589?].

ff. 114r-119v Treatise titled ‘Of oaths in ecclesiastical Courts’. c. 1589. Two copies in Cotton MS Cleopatra F. I, ff. 70-84.

ff. 120r- 121v Letter from Queen Elizabeth I to King James VI. Relating to his marriage. c. 1589.

f. 122r Letter from Francis Junius, Professor at Heidelberg, to John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury. Sending his second edition of the Old Testament. Heidelberg, 17 September 1590. Latin.

ff. 123r-124v Letter from Richard Bancroft, Ecclesiastical Commissioner, to Thomas Cartwright, late Margaret Professor of Divinity at Cambridge, new prisoner in the Fleet prison. On the meaning of the word Presbyter. Ely House, March 1590[1].

f. 125r-125v Letter from Thomas Cartwright, late Margaret Professor of Divinity at Cambridge, new prisoner in the Fleet prison, to Richard Bancroft, Ecclesiastical Commissioner. On the meaning of the word Presbyter. Fleet, 18 March 1590[1].

ff. 126r-135v Brief of a bill in the Star Chamber against Thomas Cartwright and eight others. [March 1590]. A copy in the hand of to John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury. Endorsed by George Harbin.

f. 136r Letter from the Privy Council to John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury. To allow Sir William Catesby, then in his custody, to go to the Bath, Somerset, and to his own house at Bushwood Hall, Warwickshire. Signed by Sir Christopher Hatton, Chancellor, William Cecil, Baron Burghley, Sir Thomas Heneage, Sir Francis Walsingham, Charles Howard, 2nd Baron Howard of Effingham, Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon, Sir John Fortescue and Thomas Sackville, Baron Buckhurst. Greenwich, 21 March 1590[1].

f. 137r-137v Letter from Justus Lipsius to Abraham Ortelius. Liége, 26 June 1592. Latin.

ff. 138r- 139v Two letters from William Cecil, Baron Burghley, to John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury. Concerning recusants in various counties. Oxford, 24 September 1592, and Rycott, 29 September 1592.

f. 140r-140v Letter from John Aylmer, Bishop of London, to the Privy Council. On the lack of preachers at Paul’s Cross. Fulham, 23 December 1592.

f. 141r Letter from the Privy Council to John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury. Enclosing the above letter. Signed by Sir John Puckering, Charles Howard, 2nd Baron Howard of Effingham, and Sir John Wolley. 26 December 1592.

f. 142r-142v Letter from John Penven to John Thynne of Longleat. Badgeworth, 31 August 1593. Latin.

ff. 143r-144v Paper allegedly given to King James VI by an English fugitive to encourage him to join with the Pope and become Catholic, for a plot against England. 1595-1596.

ff. 145r-146v Letter from Sir John Popham, Lord Chief Justice, to the Justices of the Peace for Wiltshire. For lowering the present high price of corn. Littlecot, 12 January 1596.

ff. 147r-148v Paper titled ‘Against the restraint of Licenses to marry’. [1597]. Copies in Cotton MS Cleopatra F. II, ff. 228, 231.

ff. 149r Warrant for John Ruthven, 3rd Earl of Gowry, to pass into Scotland. Signed by Thomas Sackville, Baron Buckhurst, and Sir Robert Cecil. Savoy, 9 April 1600.

ff. 150r-160v Lectures of John Doderidge, afterwards Sir John Doderidge, Justice of the King’s Bench. [1603]. French.

ff. 161r-200v ‘Le Methode de Monsieur Dodderige en son practize del ley d’engleterre qui apres fuit leigne seriant al ley al Roy Jaques’.

ff. 201r-201v Walter Raleigh, ‘When first this circle round, this building fair’. Copy titled ‘Certaine hellish verses devised by that Athiest and traitour Rawley as Yet is said’. Endorsed ‘verses sayed to be written by walter Rawley knight 1603’.

f. 202r-202v Petition to Queen Elizabeth I from Thomas Colepeper, gentleman, late of Aylesford, Kent. For remission of a fine for participation in Sir Thomas Wyatt’s rebellion. No date. Vellum.

ff. 203r-204v Order for translating the Bible, with rules to be observed in translating. January-June 1604.

ff. 205r-206v Letter from Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford and Ambassador to the Spanish Netherlands, to King James I. On the splendid reception of the embassy in Brussels. 3 May 1605.

ff. 207r-208v Letter from the Privy Council to Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford, as Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire and Somerset. On the state of the train bands. Signed by Thomas Egerton, Baron Ellesmere and Chancellor, Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk, Charles Blount, Earl of Devonshire, Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, Sir William Knollys; Sir Edward Wotton, Sir John Fortescu, and Edward Bruce, 1st Baron Bruce of Kinloss.

f. 209r-209v Address titled ‘Sermo ad Papam’. From an English Roman Catholic to Paul V, on the wickedness of the Gunpowder plot and the vengeance to be taken on its authors. c. 1605. Latin.

f. 211r-211v Letter from Richard Bancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury, possibly to Martin Heton, Bishop of Ely. On war assessments on the clergy. Windsor, 4 September 1608.

ff. 212r-213v Letter from Richard Bancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury, to Thomas Ravis, Bishop of London. Lambeth, 21 September 1608. Sending a copy of a letter from the Privy Council, on war assessments on the clergy, Hampton Court 19 September 1608.

ff. 214r-215v Letter from the Privy Council to Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford. On his remissness in paying the King’s taxes. Signed by Thomas Egerton, Baron Ellesmere and Chancellor, Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, and Sir Julius Caesar. Whitehall, February 1610[1].

ff. 216r-217v Letter from George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury, to King James I. On the uncovering of the Gunpowder Plot. Lambeth, 25 January 1611[2].

ff. 218r-219v Advice from the Privy Council to King James I. On suppressing the growth of recusants. c. 1613.

f. 220r Letter from Arabella Stuart, wife of William Seymour, 2nd Earl of Hertford, to King James I. From her imprisonment in the Tower. c. 1610-1615. Draft; the letter sent is Harley MS 7003, f. 87.

f. 221r-221v Letter from Arabella Stuart, wife of William Seymour, 2nd Earl of Hertford, to Lady Jane Drummond. Thanking Queen Anne for her favourable intentions. c. 1610-1615. Draft; the letter sent is Harley MS 7003, f. 66.

ff. 222r-223v Letter from Arabella Stuart, wife of William Seymour, 2nd Earl of Hertford, to an unnamed friend of Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton. To secure his interest on her behalf. Copy in the hand of Dr Thomas Smyth; the letter sent is Cotton MS Vespasian F. III, f. 35.

ff. 224r-225v Letter from Sir Theodore Turquet de Mayerne, Physician to the English Court, to King James I. Sending an account of his mission to King Louis XIII of France and others. Paris, 17 February 1615. French.

ff. 226r-227v Letter from Sir Edward Coke, Lord Chief Justice, to King James I. On the trial at the Guildhall of Sir Thomas Monson for the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury. Serjeants’ Inn, 30 November 1615.

ff. 228r-229v Letter from Sir Edward Coke, Lord Chief Justice, to King James I. On the trial at the Guildhall of Sir Thomas Monson for the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury. Holborn, 3 December 1615.

ff. 230r-305v Defence of the affairs of William Maitland, of Lethington, Ambassador to England, written by his son James Maitland. Antwerp, 11 April 1616.

ff. 306r-307v Proceedings at the visitation of the see of Norwich by George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury. During the vacancy caused by the death of Bishop John Jegon. Held in the Chapter House, 13 April 1618. Latin.

ff. 308r-309v Protest against the visitation of the see of Norwich by George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury, by Edmund Suckling, Rector of Hellesdon, and the Chapter of Norwich. 13 April 1618. Latin.

ff. 310r-311v Letter from Sir Henry Yelverton, Attorney General, to James I. On the case of Sir Thomas Lake and others v. Lady Exeter. 20 February 1618[9].

ff. 312r-313v A catalogue of letters written to John Selden. In the possession of Matthew Hales of Alderly, Gloucestershire.

ff. 314r-315v Letter from John Selden to Edward Herbert, Ambassador in France. Relating a discussion with King James I and George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, at Theobalds, concerning Selden’s ‘History of Tithes’. London, 3 February 1619[20]. Latin.

f. 316r-316v Letter from Armand Jean Du Plessis, Bishop of Luçon, to King James I. On the proposed marriage of Princess Henrietta Maria with Prince Charles. St. Germain, 18 September 1624. French.

ff. 317r-323v Notes on the interrogation of John Digby, 1st Earl of Bristol, with his answers. On his impeachment by George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham. [1624].

ff. 324r-333v Treatise on the Spanish Match. [1624]. French.