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Harley MS 6222
- Record Id:
- 040-002052070
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002052070
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000899.0x0003b1
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6222
- Title:
- Petition of Richard Troughton, Bailiff of South Witham, Lincolnshire, to the Privy Council in the reign of Queen Mary, relating to the share taken by him in the Duke of Northumberland's Plot
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-1v: A letter by Richard Throughton, beginning: ‘To the Kinge and Quenes maiesties moste honorabili councell’; ending ‘Uppon mundaye beffor The Duke of Suffolk’; ending with a declaration: ‘I was never in any commocion or otherwise against the Crowne of Englond in all my liffe but allways / god be preased / ready to dye for the deffence of the same –Richard Throughton’.
ff. 2r-15v: Petition of Richard Troughton to the Privy Council, beginning: ‘Hit maye please your honorable lordshipes to be advertised that upon tewsday the xjth daye of July in the ffirste yar [sic] of the moste gracyouse Raign of the Quenes Maiestie I [1553] Richard Troughton Ba[i]l[i]ffe of South Witham in the Countye of Lincolnshire and John Dove counstable of the same Towne the said day and yere standyng together at Comon wateryng place there called Hedgedyke’.
The manuscript contains a later addition:
f. 1r: A title-page by Ralph Starkey: ‘A Publication of busenes Passede uppon the Deathe of Edward .6. about Jane Seamors Proclayming Queen & Queen Mary - :R:ST: 1615’.
f. 16r: Notes in English, beginning: 'Thursday the .20. of Ju. John Dudley Duke of Northumberland being at Sant Edmunds Bury and having most sure knowledge that the Lady Mary was by the Nobilitie and others of the counsel remaining at London proclamed queen of England sonday before was thewith muche trowbled in his mynd, not knowing what was best for hym to do, yet at the laste fled backe agayne with as muche spede as he convenientlie could and came to Cambridge about five of the clocke in the evening, wher he with suche other of the nobilitie as fled backe [etc.]'; with some notes in French (crossed out); added in the 16th century.
f. 16v: Notes in French, beginning: 'Justicez de peace'; added in the 16th century.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002052070 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 6222 : Petition of Richard Troughton, Bailiff of South Witham, Lincolnshire, to the Privy Council in the reign of Queen Mary, relating to… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[6226]/040-002052070
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
French - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1555
- End Date:
- 1555
- Date Range:
- 1555
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 305 x 200 mm.
Foliation: ff. 16; f. 16 is a smaller paper leaf; each leaf has been mounted onto a paper guard.
Script: 16th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house; re-bound on 20 June 1966; bound together with Harley MSS 6215-6221, 6223-6233.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Richard Troughton (fl. 1550s), Bailiff of South Witham, Lincolnshire: wrote the manuscript (see Madden, 'Petition of Richard Troughton' (1830), 18-22).
Ralph Starkey (d. 1628) of Darley Hall in Oulton, owned in 1615: his initials (:R:ST:) with the year 1615 on f. 1r (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 314).
The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (b. 1689, d. 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 (b. 1694, d. 1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (b. 1715, d. 1785), duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) 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:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 344.
Frederic Madden, 'Petition of Richard Troughton, Bailiff of South Witham, Lincolnshire, to the Privy Council in the Reign of Queen Mary, Relating to the Share Taken by Him in the Duke of Northumberland's Plot', Archaeologia: or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, 23 (1830), 18-49.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 465.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England