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Add MS 48027/1
- Record Id:
- 040-003948634
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001951006
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100124786782.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100162919443.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 48027/1
- Title:
- Drawings and documents on the sentence against and execution of Mary, Queen of Scots
- Scope & Content:
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This volume contains two leaves that were originally part of Add MS 48027, where they followed f. 569 and f. 650, but without modern foliation. The leaves are now mounted separately in this volume and are referred to by the folio numbers they would have been given in the modern foliation of Add MS 48027.
Contents:
f. [569a]recto: Drawing of the sentence against Mary, Queen of Scots.
f. [569a]verso: List of names of those present at the sentence against Mary, Queen of Scots; with numbers corresponding to the drawing on f. [569a]recto.
f. [569a]verso: A memorandum on the announcement of the sentence against Mary, Queen of Scots, in London on 6 December 1586: 'On Tuesday the 6th of December 1586, the L[ord] maior assisted with divers Erles, all the Aldermen in their Scarlet gownes, the greatest number of gentlemen of best accompt remaining in and about the Citie with the number of three or fower skore of the most gravest and worshipfullest Citizens in Coates of velvet and Cheynes of gold all on horseback in the most solemne maner that could be devysed by the sound of fower Trumpettes about .x. of the Clocke in the forenoone made open and publyk declaracion and proclamacion of the sentence latelie geven against the Queen of Scottes under the greate Seale of England bearinge date at Richmond the daye of December etcaetera - At the crosse in Cheape / At thende of Chauncerye Lane over against the Temple in ffleete str[ete] / At Leaden hall Corner / At St Magnus neare London Bridge'; perhaps excerpted from Holinshed’s Chronicles.
f. [650a]recto: Drawing of the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots.
f. [650a]verso: A list of names of those present at the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots; with numbers corresponding to the drawing on f. [650a]recto.
Decoration:
A full-page drawing in brown ink showing Mary, Queen of Scots, being led into a court (f. [560a]recto); a full-page drawing in brown ink of the synoptic narrative of the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, showing her entry into the the Great Hall at Fotheringay Castle with her rosary, crucifix, and prayer book, her disrobement with the aid of Jane Kennedy and Elizabeth Curle, and her beheading (f. [650a]r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001951006
040-003948634 - Is part of:
- Add MS 48000-48196 : THE YELVERTON MSS
Add MS 48027/1 : Drawings and documents on the sentence against and execution of Mary, Queen of Scots - Hierarchy:
- 032-001951006[0180]/040-003948634
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 48000-48196
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100162919443.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1587
- End Date:
- 1587
- Date Range:
- 1587
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Publications:
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Calendar of the State Papers relating to Scotland and Mary Queen of Scots, 1547-1603, preserved in the Public Record Office, the British Museum and elsewhere in England, ed. by Joseph Bain et al., 13 vols (Edinburgh: General Register House, 1898-1969), esp. vols 3-10 (1569-1593).
The British Library Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts: the Yelverton Manuscripts Additional Manuscripts 48000-48196, 2 vols (London, British Library: 1994), I, 99-113.
Mary Queen of Scots and the Babington Plot, ed. by John Hungerford Pollen, Scottish History Society, 3rd ser. (Edinburgh; Edinburgh University Press, 1922).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)