Scope and Contents A collection of letters, statements, speeches and notes on Scottish and English historical events dating from 1571 until 1640. Much of the information concerns events leading to the English Civil War. Including copies of: 'A Generall View of the Scriptures'; Elizabeth I's instructions to Sir Thomas Smith, 3 Dec. 1571; 'The Tyme the Place and Manner of the Scottish Queenes Death', c. 1587; James VI, speech to Scottish parliament, 19 June 1617; speeches by Lord Ellesmere and Henry Montague in...

Scope and Contents Copies of letters of the Lords Justices of Ireland made at the expense of James Butler, Duke of Ormonde (see the note on fo. 178), 247 folios. On fos 229-236 are copies of further documents relating to Ireland, which are recopied in a later hand on fos 214-218, possibly by Henry St John. These documents include a letter from Elizabeth I to the Privy Council of Ireland; instructions of James I to Sir Oliver St John on his appointment as Lord Deputy of Ireland; letters from James I to the...

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An anonymous account of the wars in Ireland during 1646-1647 written in the form of a letter, but unsigned. On fo. 1 are two seventeenth-century notes, the former of which reads: 'E. of C. advertisement of Ireland 1647'.

Scope and Contents Transcripts of original papers then in the possession of Robert Green of Scalby Hall, Yorkshire, and formerly belonging to Col. Thomas Sanders of Ireton and Caldwell, Derbyshire. Copies of correspondence between: Col. Thomas Sanders, Henry Archbold, Daniell Watson, Sir John Gell, Mr Fletcher, Robert Devereux, 3rd earl of Essex, Sir John Curzon, Joseph Swetman, Nathaniel Barton, Oliver Cromwell, Major Edward Smithe, Gervase Bennett, Edward Pri[t]chard, Robert Cachett, Col. Robert Swallowe,...

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The volume includes the following: (fo. i) quotation from Cicero, De oratore; (fo. ii) dedication 'To the right honourable James Earl of Derby, Lord of Man and the Isles'; (fo. iii) prefatory letter to the Earl of Derby; (fo. iv) title; (fo. v) dedicatory letter to Dorothy, Countess of Burlington; (fo. 1) text; (fo. 26) postscript addressed to the same countess. Fo. 29 and most of the versos are blank.