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- Record Id:
- 040-002092591
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002092590
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- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001555.0x0003de
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147917625.0x000001
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- Add MS 40746
- Title:
- Bowes papers, 1484-1691
- Scope & Content:
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Volume 1. Papers relating to the Northern Rebellion of 1569-1570. Including letters, drafts, copies, accounts, musters, and law documents of Sir George Bowes (1527–1580), soldier and administrator. Dating between 1561 and 1691, except for an earlier letter (f. 6r) from Elizabeth Bullmer to Sir Robert Claxton, before 1484.
f. 1r: Notes relating to the sale of the volume.
ff. 2r-5r: Table of contents.
f. 6r-6v: Letter from Elizabeth Bullmer to Sir Robert Claxton. Dating from before 1484.
ff. 7r-8v: Copy of an indenture of the sale of the manor of Mickleton, North Riding of Yorkshire, to Sir George and Robert Bowes, by one Bellerby. 1561.
ff. 9r-12v: Copy of the articles of agreement between English and Scottish border commissioners. Subscribed by Henry Scrope, John Maxwell, John Foster, Thomas Gargrave and John Rokeby. 1563.
ff. 13r-16r: Accounts of Robert Bowes and Sir George Bowes. Signed. 1568.
f. 17r-18v: Musters and notes on the Wapentake in East Hang, North Riding of Yorkshire. 20 May 1569.
f. 19r-19v: Letter from Sir George Bowes to Sir John Foster, Warden of the Marches of Scotland. 24 November 1569.
f. 20r-20v: Letter from Thomas Middleton to Sir George Bowes. 19 December 1569.
f. 21r-21v: Letter from Christopher Halle, Bailiff of Long Newton. Sending information concerning the rebels. 1569.
f. 22r-22v: Letter from Sir George Bowes to Thomas Radclyffe, third Earl of Sussex. 13 January 1570.
ff. 23r-24v: List of rebels in Craven, Yorkshire. 1570.
f. 25r-25v: A letter from Sir George Bowes to ‘certain gentlemen’. 1569.
f. 26r-26v: Letter from Sir George Bowes to Thomas Radclyffe, third Earl of Sussex. 1 February 1569/70.
f. 27r-27v: Letter from Sir Thomas Gargrave, Vice-President of the Council of the North, to Sir George Bowes. 4 February 1569/70.
f. 28r-28v: Letter from Sir Thomas Gargrave, Vice-President of the Council of the North, to Sir George Bowes. 6 February 1569/70.
f. 29r-29v: Notes on the Wapentake. 6 February 1569/70.
f. 30r-30v: Letter from Sir Thomas Gargrave, Vice-President of the Council of the North, to Sir George Bowes. 8 February 1569/70.
ff. 31r-33v: Original and copy of a letter from Sir Thomas Gargrave, Vice-President of the Council of the North, to Sir George Bowes. 9 February 1569/70.
f. 34r-34v: Letter from Sir George Bowes to Frances Radclyffe, wife of Thomas Radclyffe, third Earl of Sussex. 13 February 1570.
ff. 35r-37v: Letter from Sir Thomas Gargrave, Vice-President of the Council of the North, to Sir George Bowes. 24 February 1569/1570.
f. 38r-38v: Letter from Katheryn Conyers, of Skipton, to Sir George Bowes. 25 February 1569.
f. 39r-39v: Letter from Myles Skayffe to Sir George Bowes. 27 March 1570.
f. 40r-40v: Letter from Sir George Bowes to Thomas Radclyffe, third Earl of Sussex. 4 April 1570.
f. 41r-41v: Notes on accounts and financial matters. 1569-1570.
f. 42r-42v: Letter from Sir George Bowes to Sir Ralph Sadler, diplomat. 1570.
ff. 43r-50v: Papers relating to the rental of the manor of Kirkby Moorside, in the North Riding of Yorkshire. c. 1570.
f. 51r: Copy of a petition by Sir George Bowes to Queen Elizabeth I.
ff. 52r-53v: Receipt by Matthew Shafto, of the Middle Temple. 1572.
ff. 54r-55v: Accounts of crown rents from Sir George Bowes, receipted by John Clopton. 6 and 20 November 1573.
ff. 56r-57v: Interrogatory relating to dealings between Samson Norton and Sir George Bowes. c. 1573.
ff. 58r-59v: Notes and accounts concerning Chester.
f. 60r-61v: Copy of a letter to William Cecil, first Baron Burghley, from Sir George Bowes. January 1573.
ff. 62r-65v: Accounts of Sir George Bowes. With receipts by John Clopton for crown rents.
ff. 66r-70v: Depositions relating to the mining rights of Sir George Bowes in Stanhope and Wolsingham, Durham. With interrogatories in the suit against Sir George Bowes by Robert Westwood. 1575.
ff. 71r-72v: Copy of the will of Christopher Bainbridge, 9 November 1575.
ff. 73r-78v: Accounts of Sir George Bowes. 1576.
ff. 79r-80v: Interrogatories in a suit between John Dobyson and William Markenfeld. 1577.
ff. 81r-84v: Inventories of goods spoiled during the rebellion. 1577.
ff. 85r-86v: Letter from Percyvall Gimson to Sir George Bowes. Berwick-upon-Tweed, 25 July 1578.
f. 87r-88v: Letter from Richard Robinson, steward, to Sir George Bowes. 1578.
f. 89r-90v: Accounts of crown rents paid by Sir George Bowes, with receipts by John Clopton. 1578.
f. 91r: Letter from Henry Woodhowse to Sir George Bowes, 1579.
ff. 92r-93v: Letter from George Hutton, steward, to Sir George Bowes. 11 May 1579.
ff. 94r-95v: Letter from Gregory Fiennes, tenth Lord Dacre, to Sir George Bowes. 10 May 1579.
f. 96r-96v: Letter from John Clopton to Sir George Bowes. 3 July 1579.
ff. 97r-98v: Letter from John Clopton to Sir George Bowes. 16 July 1579.
ff. 99r-100v: Letter from John Clopton to Sir George Bowes. 5 August 1579.
ff. 101r-102v: Letter from John Clopton to Sir George Bowes. With accounts. 26 August 1579.
ff. 103r-104v: Letter from John Clopton to Sir George Bowes. 7 September 1579.
f. 105r-105v: List of speeches by Robert Bowes.
ff. 106r-107v: Letter from Christopher Rokebye to Sir George Bowes. 21 June 1580.
ff. 108r-109v: List of papers and documents stored in a trunk. No date.
ff. 110r-113v: Notes towards a survey of the manors of Hilton and Bradbury, Durham. c. 1580. With a later copy.
f. 114r-114v: Letter to Anne Bowes, from Christopher Addeson and Lawrence Dent. 16th century.
ff. 115r-116v: Will of Ambrose Mason, of Barnard Castle. 1592.
ff. 117r-117*v: Will of Nicholas Erington. Signed, with seal. July 1593.
f. 118v: Statement of Sir William Bowes’s accounts, signed by Francis Gofton, auditor. With a note by James Altham, Baron of the Exchequer. 1611.
f. 119r: Petition of Sir William Bowes to Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury. 1611.
ff. 120r-121v: Agreement relating to Streatlam, Durham. Signed by: Talbot Bowes, of Richmond, North Riding of Yorkshire; George Collingwood; Thomas Riddell; Peter Riddell; Magdalen Bowes, widow of George Bowes; and Sir Ralph Delavale. 1612.
ff. 122r-123v: Paper on the legal opinions of Sir John Jacson and Rowland Wandesford, relating to Streatlam, Durham. 1612.
ff. 124r-124v: Letter from Thomas Bowes, of Streatlam, to one Mr Childe. 16 July 1632.
ff. 125r-126v: Letter from Matthew Hutton, of Marske, to his aunt, Anne Bowes. 20 October 1636.
f. 127r: Letter from Sir Thomas Widdington to John Heath, of the Chancery, Durham. 25 March 1661.
f. 128r: Receipt to Anne Bowes, from Elizabeth and Christopher Tothall. 20 June 1674.
ff. 129r-134v: Draft appointment of Sir William Bowes as Master Forester of Barnard Castle. Signed by Sir Robert Sawyer, Speaker of the House of Commons. 15 July 1685.
f. 135r-136v: Letter from Owen Wynne, serjeant-at-law, to Sir William Bowes. 22 November 1687.
ff. 137r-138v: Letter from Nathaniel Crew, third Baron Crew and Bishop of Durham, to Sir William Bowes. 5 October 1588.
ff. 139r-140v: Letter from John Lowther, second Baronet, to Sir William Bowes. 14 July 1691.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002092590
040-002092591 - Is part of:
- Add MS 40746-40748 : BOWES PAPERS: correspondence and papers of the Bowes family. of Streatlam and Gibside, co. Durham, ancestors of the present…
Add MS 40746 : Bowes papers, 1484-1691 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002092590[0001]/040-002092591
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- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
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- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1484
- End Date:
- 1691
- Date Range:
- 1484-1691
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- England, Scotland.
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 325 x 240 mm.
Foliation: ff. vi + 140.
Binding: Post-1600. British Museum.
Script: Secretary, italic.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England, Scotland.
Provenance:
Sir George Bowes (1527–1580), soldier and administrator: former owner.
Purchased by the British Museum at Sotheby’s, 26-28 March 1923 (Lot 675).
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1921-1925 (London: British Library, 1950), p. 165.
Kesselring, K.J., The Northern Rebellion of 1569: faith, politics and protest in Elizabethan England (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
Marcombe, David, ‘A rude and heady people: the local community and the rebellion of the northern earls’, in The Last Principality: Politics, Religion and Society in the Bishopric of Durham 1494-1660, ed. by David Marcombe (Nottingham: University of Nottingham, 1987), pp. 117-51.
Thornton, G.B., The Rising in the North (Hexham: Ergo, 2010).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)