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Harley MS 6369
- Record Id:
- 040-002052218
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002052218
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000899.0x0002d5
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100155076798.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6369
- Title:
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William Davison on the execution of Mary Queen of Scots
- Scope & Content:
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ff. 1r–10r: A late 16th or early 17th-century copy of William Davison's declaration to Francis Walsingham concerning the beheading of Mary Queen of Scots.
f. 1r: title page ('Secretarie Davisons declar[ation] to Secretarie Walsingham of his innocencie touching the Skotish Queene beheadinge').
f. 2v: 'A discourse sent by Secretarie Davison being then Prisoner in the Tower of London vnto Secretarie Walsingham conteineinge a sommarie reporte of that which passed betweene her Maiestie and him in the cause of the Scotish Queene from the signeinge of the warrant to the time of his restraint', 20 February 1587.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002052218", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 6369: William Davison on the execution of Mary Queen of Scots" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002052218 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 6369 : William Davison on the execution of Mary Queen of Scots - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[6374]/040-002052218
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100155076798.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1595
- End Date:
- 1605
- Date Range:
- c 1600
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 191 x 162 mm.
Foliation: ff. 10 + 21.
Binding: British Museum binding.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
'IMS' on pastedown: possibly belonged to John Murray of Salcombe (1670–1748).
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:
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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. 361.
Nicholas Harris Nicolas, Life of William Davison, secretary of state and privy councillor to Queen Elizabeth (London:, 1823), Appendix A, pp. 231–255. An edition of this discourse using Cotton MS Titus C VII and collated with this manuscript, Harley MS 290, and Cotton MS Titus C VII.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A study of the sources of the Harleian collection of manuscripts preserved in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 291.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)