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Papers of Nathaniel Bacon
Collection
Identifier: B33638
Abstract
Contains papers and letters relating to Bacon's career: 11 papers relating to his work as Justice of the Peace, including a paternity case, and 5 papers concerning a case brought forward by a Nicholas Ringolde for money owed; 3 papers as Clerk of Methwold and Deputy Steward of the Duchy of Lancaster; and 26 papers relating to the Norfolk Militia, of which 6 concern an inquiry into the number of forces raised and paid in Norfolk, 1594-1595 and 20 concern the musters in Norfolk, 1603-1620,...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1574-1650 ( 1590-1622); 1574 - 1650
Found in:
Folger Shakespeare Library
Papers of the Bacon-Townshend family of Stiffkey, Norfolk, 1550-1640
Collection
Identifier: B33869
Abstract
Letters and documents concerned with family, business, estate, financial, legal, and governmental affairs of Sir Nathaniel Bacon (1547-1622), Sir Nicholas Bacon (1509-1579), and members of the Townshend family, all of Norfolk. A few items are earlier than 1550 or later than 1640.
Dates:
1550-1640
Found in:
Folger Shakespeare Library
Papers of the Bagot family of Blithfield, Staffordshire
Collection
Identifier: B34684
Abstract
Primarily autograph letters signed, dating from 1557-1671, especially of Richard Bagot and of his son Walter. They are letters to them, letters from them (some of them drafts written on blank parts of letters addressed to them) and copies made by them of letters addressed to others, especially of official letters. The letters cover a wide range of topics and amply illustrate the life of a prosperous county family the multifarious duties it members were called upon to perform for the Crown....
Dates:
1428-1671 (bulk 1557-1671); Majority of material found within 1557 - 1671
Found in:
Folger Shakespeare Library
Papers of Robert Bennet
Collection
Identifier: B46763
Abstract
Contains mostly Bennet's official papers and reflect the shifting fortunes of the Parliamentarians and Royalists. Many of the official papers concern or are from both houses of Parliament, and the Council of State. Among the personal papers are several concerning law-suits and other business matters, a few deeds, Hannibal Vyvyan's directions to Colonel Bennet when he was sick in 1649 (155), and letters to and from fellow Anabaptists at Looe, 1656. A few miscellaneous documents seem to have...
Dates:
1603-1678 (bulk 1642-1663); Majority of material found within 1642 - 1663
Found in:
Folger Shakespeare Library
Papers of the Cavendish-Talbot family
Collection
Identifier: C38835
Abstract
Mostly consists of correspondence, as well as various financial documents, warrants, petitions, orders, physician instructions and other miscellaneous documents relating to the Cavendish, Talbot, Wentworth, and Slingsby families as well as to Sir Humphrey Style, and Stanley and Sarah Gower.
Dates:
1333-1705 (bulk 1548-1676); Majority of material found within 1548 - 1676
Found in:
Folger Shakespeare Library
Papers of the Ferrers Family of Tamworth Castle
Collection
Identifier: F47836
Abstract
Family and official papers of the Ferrers family of Tamworth Castle dating from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century (mostly mid-sixteenth century to mid-seventeenth century) concerning the family's political, legal, financial, personal, and manorial affairs mostly in Derbyshire, Essex, Leicestershire, Staffordshire, and Warwickshire.
Dates:
1371-1806 (bulk 16th - 17th century); Majority of material found within 1500 - 1600
Found in:
Folger Shakespeare Library
Papers of the Goodricke family of Ribston Hall, Nidderdale, Yorkshire
Collection
Identifier: G66753
Abstract
Contains 28 letters and 11 documents relating to the careers of Sir John Goodricke, his son Sir Henry Goodricke and their family, spanning the reigns of Charles I through the ascension of William & Mary.
Dates:
1639?-1689
Found in:
Folger Shakespeare Library
Letters from Mary Hatton Helsby to various recipients
Collection
Identifier: H38445
Abstract
The Letters of Mary Hatton Helsby consists of ten letters, 1651-1668 and thirteen newspaper clippings reproducing Hatton Helsby's correspondence, ca. 1900. The collection includes letters from both sides of the courtship between Mary Hatton Helsby and her eventual husband, Randolph Helsby, several containing commentary critical of both Royalist and Parliamentary factions.
Dates:
1651-1668
Found in:
Folger Shakespeare Library
Collection of political and parliamentary documents
Collection
Identifier: P65737
Abstract
Compiled by several people, this collection of political and parliamentary documents contains speeches; letters and petitions (including to Elizabeth I, Queen of England and James I, King of England); reports of famous trials; notes on the history of England (covering from the time of William the Conqueror through the Commonwealth), France (particularly the Huguenots and the death of Henry I, Duke of Guise), and Spain (including the West Indies and Central America); Anglo relations with the...
Dates:
compiled circa 1550-circa 1650
Found in:
Folger Shakespeare Library
E. Williams watermark collection, including the papers of the Hale family of King's Walden and other papers
Collection
Identifier: W55553
Abstract
A collection of paper from sixteenth and seventeenth-century manuscripts and printed books, broadsides, and pamphlets, gathered and arranged according to watermark type by E. Williams of Hove, Sussex, in the early twentieth century. Many of the manuscripts relate to the legal, financial, and manorial affairs of the Hale family of King's Walden, Hertfordshire.
Dates:
Majority of material found within ca. 1570-1699
Found in:
Folger Shakespeare Library
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- Arran, Dorothy Butler, Countess of, -1716 1
- Bacon, Nathaniel, 1547-1622 1
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- Bagot, Richard, approximately 1530-1597 1
- Bagot, Walter, 1557?-1623 1
- Bennet, Robert, 1605-1683 1
- Bennet, William, 1611 or 1612- 1
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- Bradbourne, Elizabeth, active 1575-1600 1
- Bradbourne, Humphrey, -1581 1
- Bradbourne, William, active 1581-1600 1
- Bradshaw, John, 1602-1659 1
- Broughton, Richard, -1604 1
- Cage, Anthony 1
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- Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685 1
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- Cokayne, Dorothy, -1595 1
- Cokayne, Edward, -1629 1
- Cokayne, Thomas, Sir, approximately 1519-1592 1
- Dawney, John, Sir, active 1660 1
- Deputy Lieutenant (Norfolk, England) 1
- Desborough, John, 1608-1680 1
- Devonshire, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1640-1707 1
- England and Wales. Army 1
- England and Wales. Council of State 1
- England and Wales. Lord Protector (1653-1658 : O. Cromwell) 1
- England and Wales. Mint 1
- Fairfax, Ferdinando Fairfax, Baron, 1584-1648 1
- Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, Baron, 1612-1671 1
- Ferrers, Anne, -1599 1
- Ferrers, Dorothy, -1616 1
- Ferrers, Elizabeth, active 1600 1
- Ferrers, Henry de, active 11th century 1
- Ferrers, Henry de, approximately 1303-1343 1
- Ferrers, Humphrey, -1554 1
- Ferrers, Humphrey, approximately 1541-1608 1
- Ferrers, Humphrey, approximately 1600-1633 1
- Ferrers, Isabella de, 1317-1349 1
- Ferrers, John, -1576 1
- Ferrers, John, 1629-1680 1
- Ferrers, John, approximately 1566-1633 1
- Ferrers, Thomas, -1458 1
- Ferrers, Thomas, 1422-1498 1
- Ferrers, Thomas, active 1580 1
- Ferrers, William, 1333-1371 1
- Ferrers, William, 1372-1445 1
- Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661 1
- Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661. Historie of the holy warre 1
- Goodricke family 1
- Goodricke, Francis, approximately 1621-1673 1
- Goodricke, Henry, 1642-1705 1
- Goodricke, John, 1617-1670 1
- Goodricke, Savile, 1618 or 1619-1651? 1
- Gower, Sarah, -1661? 1
- Gower, Stanley 1
- Guise, Henri, duc de, 1550-1588 1
- Hale (Family : active 1501-1777 : of King's Walden) 1
- Hale, Bernard, -1663 1
- Hale, John, Sir, -1672 1
- Hale, Rose, -1648 1
- Hale, Rowland, -1669 1
- Hale, William, -1634 1
- Hale, William, 1597-1641 1
- Hatton, Peter, 17th cent. 1
- Helsby, Mary, active 17th century 1
- Helsby, Randolph, 1617-1696 1
- Heydon, Christopher, Sir, 1561-1623 1
- James I, King of England, 1566-1625 1
- James II, King of England, 1633-1701 1
- Leeds, Thomas Osborne, Duke of, 1631-1712 1
- Leicester, Robert Dudley, Earl of, 1532?-1588 1
- Mazarin, Hortense Mancini, duchesse de, 1646-1699 1
- Methuen, Paul, 1613-1667 1
- Mulys, John, of Halmpstone 1
- Neville, Henry, approximately 1520-1593 1
- Portsmouth and Aubigny, Louise-Renée de Kéroualle, Duchess of, 1649-1734 1
- Puckering, John, 1543 or 1544-1596 1
- Reynolds, Robert, approximately 1601-1661? 1
- Rous, Anthony, approximately 1605-1677 1
- Shrewsbury, Elizabeth Hardwick Talbot, Countess of, 1527?-1608 1
- Shrewsbury, George Talbot, Earl of, approximately 1522-1590 1
- Shrewsbury, Gilbert Talbot, Earl of, 1552-1616 1
- Slingsby, Henry, 1559 or 1560-1634 1
- Smith, Joan, -1658 1
- Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 1
- Style, Humphrey, 1594 or 1595-1659 1
- Talbot family 1
- Townshend, Charlotte Townshend, Viscountess, -1770 1
- Townshend, George Townshend, Marquess, 1755-1811 1
- Townshend, George Townshend, Marquis, 1724-1807 1
- Vyvyan, Hannibal, fl. 1649 1
- Waight, John, fl. 1648-1655 1
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