Volume 1

Catalogue of the Stowe manuscripts in the British Museum.

  • British Museum. Department of Manuscripts (Stowe MSS)
Date:
1895-1896
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Catalogue of the Stowe manuscripts in the British Museum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    21. Queen Elizabeth to [George Talbot] Earl of Shrewsbury, in reference to his complaints of information having been given by one of his chaplains as to his custody of Mary, Queen of Scots, being insufficient, excusing the chaplain as having been actuated by patriotic zeal, and assuring the Earl that no lack of fidelity was imputed to him, but saying that she has caused the chaplain to be committed to prison for communicating his dealings with her to others and “ vsing speeches of vs to yow . . . contrary to the truthe, in that the speeches in deede proceeded from him to vs ” ; Green- wich, 30 March, 157-1. Signed, “ Your assured lovinge Soveraine Elizabeth E.” f. 25. 22. Claude Nau, private secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots, to Sir Francis Walsingham, Secretary of State, asking permission to discharge a manservant who had lately been taken into Queen Mary’s service, but had quarrelled with and nearly killed one of his companions, and praying for a message to Sir Amyas Paulet, Mary’s keeper, on the subject; Chartley, 15 June, 1586. f. 27. 23. Warrant from James I. to Sir George Howme [Home or Hume, Earl of Dunbar in 1605], Master of the Great Wardrobe, for the delivery, annually on St. Andrew’s Day, to Eobert Tias, Clerk of the Wardrobe, of “ foure yards of fine Puke for a gowne, thre yards of black veluet to guard the same, one furre of budge for the same gowne, price thereof eight pounds, eight yards of veluet for a jaquet, and thre yards of veluet for a doublet,” for his livery ; Wilton, 13 Nov. 1603. Signed; with signet-seal. Vellum, f. 29. Belonged to T. Astle, 1793. 24. Arabella Stuart [dau. of Charles Stuart, Earl of Lenox] to Charles Gosling, requesting information as to a contract of marriage between her cousin William Candish [Will. Cavendish, 2nd Earl of Devonshire 1625, married Christian, dau. of Edward, Lord Bruce of Kinloss] and Margaret Chaterton; Whitehall, 28 Mar. 1609. Signed; with holograph postscript, as follows : “ Eemember the old buck of Sherland and the rested tench I and other good company eat so sauorly at your house, and if thou be still a good fellow and an honest man, show it now, or be hanged.” Printed in F. A. Inderwick’s Side-Lights on the Stuarts, 1888, p. 101, and in E. T. Bradley’s Life of Arab. Stuart, 1889, ii. p. 224. f. 30. 25. James I. to Edward, Lord Zouch, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, desiring him to give orders that any person wishing to go abroad to serve the King of Spain in the Low Countries shall be allowed to do so without being required to take the oaths of supremacy and allegiance, since “ it is not vnknowen vnto vs that for the most part such as shall offer their service on that side are not perhaps conformable to the religion professed in the Church of
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