Add MS 33256

TRANSCRIPTS of State Papers relating to Scotland, viz.:-

1. Papers and correspondence concerning internal affairs and relations with England ; 1558-1560. (See Calendar of Foreign State Papers.) ff. 2-103.

2. Correspondence of English officers and others concerning the siege of Haddington and affairs of the Border; 1548. (See the originals in Add. MS. 32,657.) ff. 104-133.

3. "A Discourse of the late troubles happend in Scotland between the Queen's Ma^tie and the King her husband and certain of the Nobility"; 9 March, 1565[6]. "Written by Secretary Cecil's hand as follows, viz^t: This discourse was written by the Lord Ruthen, the Principall Undertaker of the slaughter of David Rucio, Italian Secretary to the Queen of Scots, with whome she was suspected. This he wrote, being sick, not long before his death, having no hope of life. He died at Newcastle in England, 1565[6]." ff. 134-149.

4. Negotiations and correspondence concerning the affairs of the Border; 1585. (See the originals in Add. MS. 32,657.) ff. 150- 171.

5. "Tenne Parcells for Mr. [Edward] Wotton's dispatche, 1° Octobris, 1586"; being "parcells of extracts and coppyes of the Scottish Queen's intercepted letters" to Babington and others, with instructions to Wotton, Ambassador to Scotland, how to make use of the same. ff . 172-205. Paper; ff. 205. A.D. 1703. Folio.

Mary of Scotland: Transcripts of papers and correspondence with England, from 1543 to 1586;: 17th, 18th centt.

includes:

• ff. 104-133 Haddington, E. Lothian: Correspondence conc. the siege of: 1548.
• ff. 134-149 Patrick Ruthven, 3rd Baron Ruthven and Dirletoun: Discourse conc. the plot against D. Rizzio, 1566.: 1703.: Copy.
• ff. 134-149 David Rizzio: Discourse, in 1566, relating to the murder of, by Lord Ruthven. Copy: 1703.
• ff. 172-205 Edward Wotton, Ambassador to Scotland: Transcripts of intercepted letters of Mary Qu. of Scots, etc., sent to, with instructions how to use them: 1586.