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Sloane MS 226
- Record Id:
- 040-002112569
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002112337
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000505.0x00037f
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100155079347.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Sloane MS 226
- Title:
- Roger Marbeck, An account of the taking of Cadiz, 1596
- Scope & Content:
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Roger Marbeck, "A breefe and a true discourse of the late honorable voyage unto Spayne and the wynning, sacking and burning of the famous Towne of Cadiz there, and of the miraculous overthrowe of the Spanishe Navie at that tyme, with a reporte of all other Accidents thereunto appertayning, by Doctor Marbeck attending upon the person of the right honourable the Lorde highe Admirall of England all the tyme of the said Actione" (f. 2r).
Roger Marbeck (1536-1605), college head and physician, attended Charles Howard, 2nd Baron of Effingham, Lord Admiral in the campaign against Cadiz in 1596 by Howard and Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex. His account of the expedition was written in 1596 or 1597: it opens with Howard and Essex coming to Plymouth "in May last 1596" (f. 2r). It is written in a fine scribal hand, possibly his own. It was apparently intended for publication: on f. 3v Marbeck flags up "Note heere that if it shall be soe thought good in this place, the originall of her Ma[jes]ties declaration, as also their L[ordshi]ps whoe decrees maie at large be sett downe verbatim, as they weare published abroad by themselves." It was never published - there was a ban on books on the expedition. It survives in at least two fair copies. It also formed much of the text for the account in Richard Hakluyt, The principal navigations, voiages, traffiques and discoveries of the English nation made by sea or ouer-land, 3 vols (London: 1598-1600), I, 607-619 (STC: 12626; ESTC: S106744), an account itself suppressed in 1599.
Marbeck includes a prayer for the fortune of the expedition by Queen Elizabeth I that arrived whilst the fleet was in Plymouth Roads, ff. 5r-v, as well as his own translation of the prayer into Latin (ff. 5v-6r). Despite his praise for the excellence of the prayer, which he presumed to translate the very instant he heard it, he leaves open whether he thinks the Queen actually wrote it.
Contents:
f. 1r: Owners' subscription: Michael Reingolds (1645): written over it in 17th hand: "This and much more".
f. 1v: Owner's subscription: Francis Harewell of Birlingham, Worcestershire (n.d., probably first quarter of 17th century).
ff. 2r-30v: Roger Marbeck, 'A breefe and a true discourse of the late honorable voyage unto Spayne and the wynning, sacking and burning of the famous Towne of Cadiz there...'
f. 31r: Author's subscription: Francis Harewell of Birlingham, Worcestershire (n.d. probably first quarter of 17th century.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Sloane Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002112337
040-002112569 - Is part of:
- Sloane MS 1-4100 : Sloane Manuscripts
Sloane MS 226 : Roger Marbeck, An account of the taking of Cadiz, 1596 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002112337[0232]/040-002112569
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Sloane MS 1-4100
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100155079347.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1596
- End Date:
- 1597
- Date Range:
- 1596-1597
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- England.
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 200mm x 150mm (writing area: 155mm x 115mm).
Foliation: ff. 31 (plus four modern flyleaves at the front and four modern flyleaves at the back).
Script: 16th century secretary hand,
Binding: British Museum 1894, refurbished 1984.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Francis Harewell, of Birlingham, Worcestershire: Inscribed: "Francis Harewell of Birlingham oneth this Booke" (f. 1v); "Liber Francisci Harewell De Birlingham Armigr" (f. 31r). an early 17th hand: this is probably Francis Harewell of Birlingham (1570-1629) who donated books to the Bodleian Library.
Inscribed: "Michael Reingolds his booke Anno 1645".
Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753), purchased at his death for the British Museum.
- Former Internal References:
- MS 244
MS B. 1071
MS B. 226
XX.B - Publications:
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W.A. Greenhill, 'Marbeck, Roger (1536–1605), college head and physician': Oxford Dictionary of NationalBiography. September 23, 2004. Oxford University Press,. Date of access 20 Feb. 2019, http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-18027
Paul Hammer, 'Myth-Making: Politics, Propaganda and the Capture of Cadiz in 1596', The Historical Journal, vol. 40, no. 3 (1997), 621–42.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)