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Cotton Ch IV 38/2
- Record Id:
- 040-003652501
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003202582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100102424295.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165154774.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton Ch IV 38/2
- Title:
- Draft of a speech by Elizabeth I dissolving Parliament
- Scope & Content:
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A draft version of a speech by Queen Elizabeth I of England (r. 1558-1603), dissolving Parliament.
The text is written in the queen's hand and features numerous revisions. It is headed '1563, 5th Elizabeth [error for 1567]. A letter in Queen Elizabeth hand to the Commons in Parliament about their petitions concerning marriage and liberties' and was most likely intended to be read aloud to the Commons by Sir Nicholas Bacon (b. 1510, d. 1579), Lord Keeper of the Great Seal.
Dated 2 January 1567.
A second version of this speech, freely revised by Elizabeth and delivered by her to the House of Lords, is now Cotton MS Titus F I, ff. 121v-122r.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003202582
040-003652501 - Is part of:
- Cotton Ch : Cotton Charters
Cotton Ch IV 38/2 : Draft of a speech by Elizabeth I dissolving Parliament - Hierarchy:
- 032-003202582[0088]/040-003652501
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton Ch
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 leaf
- Digitised Content:
- https://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100165154774.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1567
- End Date:
- 1567
- Date Range:
- 1567
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper.
Dimensions 310 x 210 mm.
Foliation: f. 1.
Script: Late 16th-century secretary hand.
Binding: Bound with Cotton Chs IV 38/1, IV 40-43, IV 45-48, and IV 59.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician.
Cotton’s collection was augmented by his son, Sir Thomas Cotton (b. 1594, d. 1662), 2nd baronet, and his grandson, Sir John Cotton.
Sir John Cotton (b. 1621, d. 1702), 3rd baronet: bequeathed the entire Cotton collection of books and manuscripts to trustees ‘for Publick Use and Advantage’, 12 and 13 William III, c. 7.
Formed one of the foundation collections of the British Museum in 1753.
- Publications:
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Booth, Ted, A Body Politic to Govern: The Political Humanism of Elizabeth I (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013), pp. 67-68.
Elizabeth I: Collected Works, ed. by Leah Marcus, Janel Mueller, and Mary Beth Rose (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2000), pp. 104-06.
Heisch, Allison, 'Queen Elizabeth I: Parliamentary Rhetoric and the Exercise of Power', Signs,1 (1975), 31–55 (pp. 39, 55).
Hulse, Clark, Elizabeth I: Ruler and Legend (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003), pp. 67-70.
Marcus, Leah S., 'From Oral Delivery to Print in the Speeches of Elizabeth I', in Print, Manuscript, and Performance: The Changing Relations of the Media in Early Modern England, ed. by Arthur F. Marotti and Michael D. Bristol (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2000), 33-48 (p. 36).
Neale, J. E., 'Parliament and the Succession Question in 1562/3 and 1566', The English Historical Review, 36 (1921), 497–520 (pp. 513-14).
Prescott, Andrew, English Historical Documents (London: British Library, 1988), pp. 42-43.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)