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- 040-002059676
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- 032-002059674
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Tresham family correspondence and papers, volume 2
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Volume 2 of papers relating to the Tresham family of Northamptonshire. Correspondence and papers of Thomas Tresham, gentleman and recusant (1543-1605).
ff. 1r-2v Correspondence. Letter from G. Shurrock to Thomas Tresham. 1598.
ff. 3r-4v Correspondence. Letters from John Andrew to Thomas Tresham. 1596-1604.
ff. 5r-6v Correspondence. Letter from Lewis Tresham, 1st Baronet, to his father Thomas Tresham. 1599.
ff. 7r-8v Correspondence. Letter from Edward Newgate to Thomas Tresham. 1599.
ff. 9r-18v Correspondence. Letters between Thomas Tresham the third, and his cousin Thomas Tresham. 1595-1605.
ff. 19r-20v Letter and petition to Thomas Egerton, 1st Baron Ellesmere, 1st Viscount Brackley, from Thomas Tresham. 1599.
ff. 21r-23v Propositions for discussion with George Fulshurst, alias Fulcis, servant to Thomas Tresham. By Thomas Tresham. 1599.
ff. 24r-24v Correspondence. Letters between Thomas Tresham and his cousin Horseman. 1583, 1599.
ff. 25r-28v Letter and petition to Thomas Egerton, 1st Baron Ellesmere, 1st Viscount Brackley, from Thomas Tresham. 1599.
ff. 29r-30v Correspondence. Letters between Thomas Tresham and Dr John Case. 1599.
ff. 31r-34v Memorandum by Thomas Tresham of an interview with Ambrose Vaux, 4th son of Lord Vaux. 1599.
ff. 35r-38v Correspondence. Letters between Muriel Tresham, wife of Thomas Tresham, and Elizabeth Egerton, 2nd wife of Sir Thomas Egerton. 1600.
ff. 39r-40v Correspondence. Letter from Edward Stourton, 10th Baron Stourton to Thomas Tresham. 1600.
ff. 41r-41v Memorandum of information laid against Thomas Tresham by John Mathew. 1600.
ff. 42r-46v Receipts given to Thomas Tresham by George Fulshurst, alias Fulcis, his servant. 1600.
ff. 47r-48v Statement by John Osberne, cousin to Thomas Tresham. 1601.
ff. 49r-50v Correspondence. Letter from John Osberne to Thomas Tresham. 1601.
ff. 51r-52v Correspondence. Letter from John Throckmorton to Thomas Tresham. 1601.
ff. 53r-55v Correspondence. Letters between Thomas Tresham and Edward Watson. 1593, [1601].
ff. 56r-56v Correspondence. Letters between Thomas Tresham and his steward George Levens. 1596-1605.
ff. 57r-57v Memorandum in the hand of Thomas Tresham titled ‘Whether the innocentt husbande may by law be bound to pay for his wyfe's recusancye.’ 1601.
ff. 58r-58v Accounts of Disbursements at the Assizes of Northampton. 1601.
ff. 59r-59v Correspondence. Letters between Thomas Tresham and his servant John Slynne. 1593-1605.
f. 60r Correspondence. Letter from Thomas Tresham to Thomas Spencer. 1601.
ff. 61r-62v Correspondence. Letters between Francis Tresham, conspirator, and his father Thomas Tresham. 1593 (?) - 1605.
ff. 63r-63v Memorandum on Thomas Tresham’s lands at Great Houghton, Northamptonshire. 1601.
ff. 64r-65v Correspondence. Letters between Thomas Tresham the third, and his cousin Thomas Tresham. 1595-1605.
ff. 66r-66v Warrant to levy rate for provision of the Royal Household, in Benefield, Northamptonshire. 1602.
ff. 67r-67v Correspondence. Letters between Thomas Tresham and his servant John Slynne. 1593-1605.
ff. 68r-68v Correspondence. Letter from Lewis Tresham, 1st Baronet (1611), to Simon Spatchehurst. 1602.
ff. 69r-70v Correspondence. Letters between Thomas Tresham and Robert Syars. 1602.
ff. 72r-73v Correspondence. Letters between Thomas Tresham the third, and his cousin Thomas Tresham. 1595-1605.
ff. 74r-80v Points for the interrogation of two horse-thieves, Ralph Conway and Simson, by the Mayor of Durham. 1602. Simson, horse-thief: Points for his interrogation by James Farrales, Mayor of Durham: 1602.
ff. 81r-84v Correspondence. Letters between Thomas Tresham and Tobias Matthew, Bishop of Durham, afterwards Archbishop of York. 1603.
ff. 85r-86v Correspondence. Letters between Thomas Tresham and Augustine Nicolls. 1603.
ff. 87r-88v Correspondence. Letters between Thomas Tresham and his steward George Levens. 1596-1605.
ff. 89r-91v Description, maps and plans of plot held in Aldwinkle, Northamptonshire, by John Slynne, servant of Thomas Tresham. 1603.
f. 92v Papers concerning Thomas Tresham’s tenants in Orton, Northamptonshire. 1599-1603.
f. 93r Three poems by Sir John Harington: ‘Howe England maye be reformed’, beginning ‘England of late menne saie is bankerupte growne’; ‘Against flatteringe preachers’, elsewhere titled ‘Against an extreame flatterer that preached at Bathe on the Queens day the fortith yeare of her Raigne’, beginning ‘Yowe that extoll the blisse of this our nation’; and ‘Of hangmen’, elsewhere titled ‘A Tragicall Epigram’, beginning ‘When doome of Peeres and Judges fore-appointed’.
ff. 95v-102v Memoranda in Thomas Tresham’s hand, relating to the proclamation of James I at Northampton. 1603.
f. 103r Correspondence. Letter to Thomas Tresham from Maurice Hilton, his servant. 1603.
f. 103v Memorandum concerning Thomas Tresham’s tenants in Orton, Northamptonshire. 1599-1603.
ff. 104r-104v Petition of English Catholics to James I of England. 1603.
ff. 105r-108v Correspondence. Letters between Thomas Tresham and Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton. 1603.
ff. 109r-109v Correspondence. Letters between Thomas Tresham and Ferdinand Baud. 1593-1605.
ff. 110r-110v Correspondence. Letters between Thomas Tresham the third, and his cousin Thomas Tresham. 1595-1605.
ff. 111r-112v Correspondence. Letter from Sir John Stanhope to Thomas Tresham. 1603.
ff. 113r-115v Correspondence. Letters between Francis Tresham, conspirator, and his father, Thomas Tresham. 1593 (?) - 1605.
ff. 116r-116v Papers concerning Thomas Tresham’s tenants in Orton, Northamptonshire. 1599-1603.
ff. 117r-118v Letters between Thomas Tresham the third, and his cousin Thomas Tresham. 1595-1605.
ff. 119-122v Political arguments concerning ‘why Queene Elizabeth better might make lawes against the Catholiques then for his majesty [James I] to continew them’. In Tresham’s hand. [?1603].
ff. 123r-126v Henry VIII of England, a draft of a defence of Catherine of Aragon, titled ‘Apologye for Queen Kateryne’.
ff. 127r-128v Correspondence. Letters between Francis Tresham, conspirator, and his father, Thomas Tresham. 1593 (?) - 1605.
ff. 129r-129v Account of the descent of Mary Tresham, née Recalde, wife of Lewis Tresham, from Martino Perez de Recalde.
ff. 130r-131v Correspondence. Letters between Thomas Tresham and his steward George Levens. 1596-1605.
ff. 132r-133v Correspondence. Letters between Francis Tresham, conspirator, and his father, Thomas Tresham. 1593 (?) - 1605.
ff. 134r-136v Expenses for transcripts from public records. 1604.
ff. 136r-136v Account of Thomas Tresham's expenses in connection with recusancy fines. 1604.
ff. 137r-140v Memorandum on the oath to be ministered to recusants by the force of the act of Parliament, i.e. the Act of 8 July 1604, with two copies of the oath.
ff. 141r-153v Correspondence. Letters between Thomas Tresham and Robert Spencer, 1st Baron Spencer. 1604.
ff. 154r-154v Petition of Catholic recusants to the Privy Council. 1604.
ff. 155r-156v Correspondence. Letter from Thomas Compton to Thomas Tresham. 1604.
ff. 157r-157v Correspondence. Letter from Richard Bray to Thomas Tresham. 1604.
ff. 158r-158v Correspondence. Letter from John Andrew to Thomas Tresham. 1596-1604.
ff. 159r-159v Correspondence. Letters between Thomas Tresham and his steward George Levens. 1596-1605.
ff. 160r-163v Account of the examination of Thomas Pounde, Jesuit, before the Star Chamber, 29 November 1604.
ff. 164r-165v 178 Correspondence. Letters between Thomas Tresham and his servant John Slynne. 1593-1605.
ff. 166r-170v Political tracts arguing for and against the peace with Spain. Three drafts, in Thomas Tresham's hand. Concluded 19 August 1604.
ff. 171r-174v Notes on the position of Catholics. 1604.
ff. 175r-175v Draft of a proposed Act to amend the Act of 8 July 1604 in respect of the payments by husbands of fines for their wives’ recusancy.
ff. 176r-177v Correspondence. Letters between Francis Tresham, conspirator, and his father, Thomas Tresham. 1593 (?) - 1605.
ff. 178r-178v Correspondence. Letters between Thomas Tresham and his servant John Slynne. 1593-1605.
ff. 179r-179v Correspondence. Letters between Thomas Tresham and Giles Porter. 1605.
ff. 180r-181v Correspondence. Letters between Francis Tresham, conspirator, and his father, Thomas Tresham. 1593 (?) - 1605.
ff. 182r-182v Correspondence. Letters between Thomas Tresham the third, and his cousin Thomas Tresham. 1595-1605.
ff. 183r-183v Correspondence. Letters between Thomas Tresham and his servant Thomas Vavasor. 1596, 1605.
ff. 184r-185v Correspondence. Letters between Thomas Tresham and his steward George Levens. 1596-1605.
f. 186r Correspondence. Letter to Thomas Tresham from Levinus Munck, Secretary to Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury. 1605.
f. 188r-189v Correspondence. Letters between Thomas Tresham and Ferdinand Baud. 1593-1605.
f. 190r-193v List of bonds delivered to Anne Tufton, afterwards Tresham, wife of Francis Tresham. 1605.
ff. 194r-195v Correspondence. Letter to Thomas Tresham, from Roland Sticeles, his servant. No date.
ff. 196r-197v Correspondence. Letter to Francis Tresham, conspirator, from George Levens, steward of Thomas Tresham. No date.
ff. 198r-199v Correspondence. Letter to Thomas Tresham from T.B. No date.
ff. 200r-201v Correspondence. Letter to Thomas Tresham from Nicholas Morrice, his schoolmaster. No date.
ff. 202r-203v Correspondence. Letter to Thomas Tresham from the inhabitants of Metheringham and parts of Kesteven, Lincolnshire.
ff. 204r-205v Maps of alternative routes from Stourton, Wiltshire, to Chastleton, Oxfordshire. 16th-17th Century.
f. 206r Signature of Francis Tresham, conspirator. No date.
ff. 209r-209v Correspondence. Letters of Muriel Tresham, wife of Sir Thomas Tresham the third: 1582-1600.
ff. 210r-212v Papers relating to Lewis Tresham, 1st Baronet (1611). No date.
ff. 213r-213v Question concerning inheritance in cases of attainder. 16th century.
ff. 214r-214v Receipt to Thomas Tresham from Mary Vaux, née Tresham, widow of Lord Vaux. Signed. No date.
ff. 215r-215v Correspondence. Letter from John Bill to George Levens, steward of Thomas Tresham. No date.
ff. 216r-216v Correspondence. Letter to Thomas Tresham from John Flamstead, his servant. 1588-1596.
ff. 217r-217v Correspondence. Letter from John Goodwin to George Levens, steward of Thomas Tresham. No date.
ff. 218r-218v Correspondence. Letters between Thomas Tresham and John Cheyney, Solicitor to Lord Vaux. No date.
ff. 219r-220r Correspondence. Letters between Francis Wyrley and Sir Thomas Tresham the second, Grand Prior of the Order of St. John in England 1557. 1551.
ff. 221r-221v Correspondence. Letters of Muriel Tresham, wife of Sir Thomas Tresham the third: 1582-1600.
f. 222r Correspondence. Fragment of a letter to Francis Tresham, conspirator. No date.
ff. 223r-225r Mathematical notes.
ff. 226r-235v Correspondence. Fragments of letters to Thomas Tresham, from his wife Muriel Tresham. No dates.
ff. 236r-241r Correspondence. Fragments of letters to Thomas Tresham from his brother. No dates.
ff. 242r-246v Correspondence. Fragments of letters to Thomas Tresham from unknown correspondents. No dates.
f. 247r Correspondence. Fragment of a letter addressed to Lord Spencer. No date.
ff. 248r-248v Correspondence. Fragment of a letter, with bills to discharge. No date.
f. 250r Correspondence. Fragment of a letter for ‘Liden’. No date.
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- Western Manuscripts
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- Add MS 39828-39838 : TRESHAM PAPERS : correspondence and papers of Sir Thomas Tresham (1543 ?-1605), recusant and builder. The papers were…
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- Start Date:
- 1598
- End Date:
- 1605
- Date Range:
- 1598-1605
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- CE
- Place of Origin:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 307 x 423mm.
Foliation: ff. iv + 250.
Binding: Post-1600. British Museum.
Script: Secretary, italic.
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Thomas Tresham, gentleman and recusant (1543-1605): former owner.
Thomas Bryan Clarke-Thornhill, diplomat and collector (1857-1934): donor.
- Publications:
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British Museum Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts 1916-1920 (London: British Museum, 1933), pp. 204-05.
Historical Manuscripts Commission, Report on Manuscripts in Various Collections, vol. 3 (London: Printed for His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1904), i-lvii, pp. 1-154.
Godfrey Anstruther, Vaux of Harrowden: a recusant family (Newport: R.H. Johns, 1953).
Peter Beal, ‘Additional MS 39829’, Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450-1700, online: http://www.celm-ms.org.uk/repositories/british-library-additional-35000.html [accessed 02 January 2019].
Alice Dryden, Memorials of Old Northamptonshire (London: Bemrose and Sons, 1903), pp. 129-44.
John Alfred Gotch, The Buildings Erected in Northamptonshire by Sir Thomas Tresham (London: B.T. Batsford, 1883).
Sandeep Kaushik, ‘Resistance, loyalty and recusant politics: Sir Thomas Tresham and the Elizabethan state’, Midland History, 21 (1996), 37–72.
Adrian Morey, The Catholic subjects of Elizabeth I (London: Allen & Unwin, 1978).
John Taylor, A Calendar of Papers of the Tresham Family, of the Reigns of Elizabeth and James I., 1580-1605. Preserved at Rushton Hall, Northamptonshire (London: J.R. Smith, 1871).
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