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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    and Imperial Courts during the years 1522-1525, relating to the Cardinal’s designs on the Popedom on the death of Adrian VI., and to the French war; and (2) of the correspondence of Sir Francis Walsingham, Ambassador at Paris, with Qu. Elizabeth, Lord Treasurer Burghley, Lord Leicester and others, relating to the negotiations on the proposed marriage of the Queen with the Duke of Anjou, 1570-1571. All the letters in the latter series are printed, in a more correctly chronological order, in The Compleat Ambassador, by Sir D. Digges, 1655. In the printed volume, however, the negotiations come to an end with the recall of Walsingham in March, 1572; whereas in the present MS. the correspondence breaks off in September, 1571. The earlier series are generally included in Brewer’s Letters and Papers of the Beign of Henry VIII., vols. iii. and iv. (1865-1876). The originals are mostly in the Public Eecord Office, hut copies of many of the letters are also to be found in the Harley and Cotton collections in the British Museum. The contents are as follows:— 1. Thomas Wolsey, Cardinal, Archbishop of York, to [John Clerk], Bishop of Bath, Eichard Pace, Secretary to Henry VIII., Dean of St. Paul’s, and Thomas Hannibal, Master of the Eolls, Ambassadors at the Court of Eome; [22 Dec. 1523, 25 Mar. 1524]. ff. 3, 19. 2. Henry VIII. to the Bishop of Bath ; n. d. \_circ. 1523]. f. 9 b. 3. Thomas Wolsey to Eichard Sampson, Dean of Windsor and of the Chapel Eoyal, and Sir Eichard Jerningham, Ambassadors to Charles V.; 31 Aug., 6 Nov. [1523], 13 Jan. [1524]. ff. 14, 95 b, 101. 4. The same to the Bishop of Bath; [16 Jan. 1525]. f. 31 h. 5. The same to E. Sampson; [13 Feb. 1525]. f. 42. 6. The same to the Bishop of Bath and T. Hannibal; [28 May, 1524]. f. 54. 7. Sir E. Jerningham to T. Wolsey; [3 July, 1523]. f. 60. 8. E. Pace to Henry VIII. and to Brian Tuke; [26 Jan. 1525]. ff. 66, 67. 9. Instructions to [Cuthbert Tunstall] Bishop of London and Sir Eichard Wingfield, on their special mission to the Emperor Charles V.; [26 March, 1525]. f. 67 b. 10. Henry VIII. to the Bishop of London, Sir E. Wingfield and E. Sampson; 8 Sept. [1525]. f. 86. 11. The same to Sir Thomas Boleyn, Treasurer of the Household, and E. Sampson; [10] Jan. [1523]. f. 107. 12. Instructions to the same, on their mission to Charles V.; [Dec. 1522]. f. 116 b.
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