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Bodley, Sir Thomas, 1545-1613 (knight, scholar, diplomat, and founder of the Bodleian Library, Oxford)

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Dates

  • Existence: 1545 - 1613

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Collection of miscellaneous Elizabethan orders for musters and other military papers

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.54
Scope and Contents Includes: statistics of musters, 1588-97; London, orders for discipline, 1589; instructions to Sir Thomas Bodley as envoy to king of Denmark, 1588; instructions to Armagel Waad as envoy to duke of Holstein, 1559 (cf. Calendar of State Papers Foreign 1558-9, p. 217); instructions for musters and for lords lieutenant, with a special article for Norfolk and Lincoln, undated; instructions to Francis Russell, 2nd earl of Bedford, on appointment as lord lieutenant of Dorset, Devon, Cornwall and...
Dates: 1558-1635
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).