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Harley MS 4943

Record Id:

040-002050787

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002050787

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x0001ce

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100155074586.0x000001

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 4943

Title:

Orders of the Privy Council, 1570-1580

Scope & Content:

Copies of orders of the Privy Council, principally between 1570 and 1580. Mainly letters from Elizabeth I (1533–1603), queen of England and Ireland.

f. 1*r: Flyleaf containing pen-trials, notes in Latin and English, and two names: ‘Xtopher Troughton Julij 1624’; ‘Edw: Pynchon’.

ff. 1r-14v: Two tables of contents.

f. 15r-15v: Letter from Queen Elizabeth I to Richard Barnes, Bishop of Durham. For the visitation of Durham Cathedral. 1580.

f. 16r-16v: Letter from Queen Elizabeth I to George Frederick, Marquis of Brandenburg. Thanking him for a gift of hawks. 1579. Latin.

ff. 17r-20v: Letters from Queen Elizabeth I to the Kings of Poland, Sweden, and Denmark. Latin.

ff. 20v-21r: Letter to Queen Elizabeth I from Edzard II, Count of East Frisia. 14 August 1580. Latin.

f. 21r-21v: Letter from Queen Elizabeth I to Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor. Oatlands, 7 September 1580. Latin.

ff. 21v-22v: Letter from Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, to Queen Elizabeth I. Prague, 1580.

ff. 22v-25r: Letter from Edzard II, Count of East Frisia, to Queen Elizabeth I. Embden, 25 July 1580.

f. 25r-25v: Letter to Queen Elizabeth I from Edzard II, Count of East Frisia. 14 August 1580. Continued from above. Latin.

ff. 25v-27r: Letter from King Sigismund of Poland to Queen Elizabeth I. 6 April 1568. Latin.

ff. 28r-29v: Opinions and orders of the Privy Council concerning dispensations.

ff. 30r-43r: Collection of copies and extracts of letters concerning musters and preparations against foreign invasion. With notes of their copyists and correctors. 1570-1580.

f. 45r-45v: Copy of a letter from Queen Elizabeth I to the bishops. Forbidding them to sell or cut down timber in their sees. February 1579.

ff. 45r-54v: Collection of copies and extracts of letters concerning rebellion and sedition. 1569-1574.

ff. 55r-61v: Collection of copies and extracts of letters concerning piracy. 1571-1580.

f. 62r: Letter from Queen Elizabeth I to Sir William Drury of Berwick. Requesting repair of the bridge of the town, decayed by a stormy winter. 25 March 1571.

f. 62r-62v: Letter from Queen Elizabeth I to the Treasurer of Berwick. On the fortifications of the town. 1 April 1571.

f. 63r-63v: Record of the remains of powder in the store of Queen Elizabeth I. 10 August 1579.

ff. 64r-77r: Collection of copies of letters concerning merchants in the Hanse towns. With notes of their copyists and correctors. 1571-1579.

f. 78r: Letter from Queen Elizabeth I to the Sheriff of Kent. Westminster, December 1571.

f. 78r-78v: Letter from Queen Elizabeth I to the Commissioners of the Cinque Ports. Westminster, 19 February [1571].

f. 79r: Letter from Queen Elizabeth I to Henry Radcliffe. Concerning strangers. Westminster, 14 May 1571.

ff. 79v-80v: An estimate for the furnishing of eleven ships for three months. 1579.

ff. 81r-84v: Collection of copies and extracts of letters concerning sea matters and merchant affairs. 1571-1579.

f. 85r: Letter from Queen Elizabeth I to the Lord Mayor and Bishop of London. Concerning beggars and vagabonds. No date.

f. 85r-85v: Letter from Queen Elizabeth I to the Lord Mayor and Bishop of London. Concerning beggars and vagabonds. Westminster, 9 March 1571.

ff. 86r-96r, 190r-193v, 199r-202v: Collection of copies and extracts of letters concerning Scotland and the borders. With notes of their copyists and correctors. 1571-1580.

f. 97r-97v: Letter from Queen Elizabeth I to the Lord Mayor of London. Prohibiting the killing and eating of flesh in Lent. No date.

f. 97v-98r: Letter from Queen Elizabeth I to all counties. Concerning the eating of flesh in Lent. No date.

f. 98r-98v: A letter patent or placard sent to all Justices of the Peace. Concerning the observation of fish day. No date.

ff. 99r-101v: Collection of copies and extracts of letters concerning the unlawful transportation of leather, grain, and ordinance. 1571-1578.

ff. 102r-109v: Certificates and letters of the bishops, concerning the use of timber in their sees. See above, f. 45r-45v.

ff. 110r-126r: Collection of copies and extracts of letters concerning ‘controversies in lawe and other quarrells’. Including legal matters in Lincoln, Colchester, Rye, and Wales. With notes of their copyists and correctors.

f. 127r-127v: Letter from Queen Elizabeth I to the Sheriffs of every county. Concerning the diet of the Justices of Assizes. 21 February 1573.

f. 127v-128r: Letter from Queen Elizabeth I to Sir Henry Sidney. For the keeping of Sessions in the 12 shires of Wales. 7 November 1573.

ff. 129r-131r: Collection of copies and extracts of letters concerning ‘the examination of murders, pillage of the people, cruelty of landlords towards their tenants’. 1572.

f. 132r: Letter from Queen Elizabeth I to the Mayor and Aldermen of Canterbury. Concerning the election of mayors. 19 September 1572.

f. 132r-132v: Letter from Queen Elizabeth I to the Dean of Canterbury and others. Concerning the election of a new mayor. Reading, 25 September 1572.

f. 132v-133r: Letter from Queen Elizabeth I to the Dean of Canterbury and others. Concerning the election of a new mayor. No date.

f. 133r-133v: Letter from Queen Elizabeth I to the Aldermen of Canterbury. To remove the mayor and elect another. No date.

ff. 134r-140v: Collection of copies and extracts of letters from Queen Elizabeth I to the Bishops, Archbishops, Mayor and Sheriffs of Rye. Concerning religion, and aid for the Bishop of Carlisle. 1570-1572.

ff. 141r-164v: Collection of copies and extracts of letters concerning subsidies and loans, in London and other counties. 1570-1572.

f. 165r-165v: Letter from Queen Elizabeth I to the Justices of Assizes. Concerning the forfeiture of penal statutes. No date. With articles to be observed on the subject.

f. 165v: Letter from Queen Elizabeth I to the Archbishop of York. Concerning concealed land of churches. 17 June 1571.

ff. 165v-166r: Letter from Queen Elizabeth I to the Justices of several shires. On behalf of Lady Benger, concerning fines owed to her late husband. 17 August 1573.

f. 167r: Letter from one Mr Bashe to Francis Walsingham. Concerning victualling in Ireland. With articles of advice for victualling and good government of Ireland. 22 September 1579.

ff. 169r-170r: Letter from Queen Elizabeth I to Sir William Pelham, Justice of Ireland. Concerning negligence in government of Ireland. 8 December 1579.

ff. 171r-172r: Two letters from Queen Elizabeth I to the Earls of Desmond, and the Barons and Knights of Ireland. On the arrival there of Thomas Stukeley. 5 June 1578.

ff. 173r-180r: Accounts for the office of ordinance in Ireland. With records of its content and value. 1578.

ff. 180v-183v: Accounts for the state of the army and garrisons in Ireland. With the monthly charges for the same. 1578.

f. 184r-184v: Copies of two indentures to Robert Bingham for the furnishing of arms in Ireland. 1577.

ff. 185r-186r: Note of money paid to the government of Ireland, October 1572-June 1578. Taken from the signet books of Sir Thomas Smith and Sir Francis Walsingham.

ff. 186v-187r: Note of debts paid in Ireland, out of the Exchequer. Between February 1573 and the end of June and September 1578.

ff. 187v: Warrant to Sir Edward Filton to pay 100 l. for discharging ordinary charges in Ireland. June 1578.

ff. 187v-188r: Letter from Queen Elizabeth I and the Privy Council to the Earl of Desmond. January 1578.

ff. 188v-190r: Three letters from Queen Elizabeth I to William Drury, Justice of Ireland, the Archbishop of Dublin and the Earl of Kildare. January 1578-November 1579.

ff. 190r-193v: See ff. 86r-96r above.

ff. 194r-198v: Three letters from Queen Elizabeth I concerning the Low Countries. Addressed to William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham, Sir Francis Walsingham, and Archduke Matthias of Austria. 1578.

ff. 199r-202v: See ff. 86r-96r above.

ff. 203r-223r: Collection of copies of commissions, 1570-1579.

ff. 224r-225v: Two letters from Queen Elizabeth I to Sir Amias Paulet, ambassador in France. September 1578 and October 1579.

f. 226r: Decree by the Privy Council, concerning the town of Yarmouth. No date.

ff. 227r-229v: Collection of copies of proclamations. 20 October 1578, 18 May 1549, and no date.

ff. 230r-232v: Collection of copies of letters between Murad III, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, and Queen Elizabeth I. 1579. Latin.

f. 232v: Letter from Queen Elizabeth I to Frederick, Count Palatine, on behalf of the Count of Arcu. 1580. Latin.

f. 234v: Orders agreed between Sir Francis Walsingham, Thomas Wilson, and Thomas Randolph, Master of the Posts. For the conveyance of letters to France. Whitehall, 19 May 1579.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002050787

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 4943 : Orders of the Privy Council, 1570-1580

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[4943]/040-002050787

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

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Languages:

English
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1570

End Date:

1580

Date Range:

1570-1580

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 330 x 240 mm.

Foliation: ff. vi + 234.

Binding: Post-1600. British Museum.

Script: Secretary, italic.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

Christopher Troughton: former owner, 1624, his inscription (f. 1*r).

Edward Pynchon: former owner, his signature (f. 1*r).

The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (1661-1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (1689-1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts.

Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta Cavendish, née Holles (1694-1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (1715-1785), duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1808), vol. 3, pp. 229-30.

Dasent, John Roche, ed. Acts of the Privy Council of England, 46 vols. (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office), vols. 8-11 (1894-1895).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

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