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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

De conquestu Angliae per Hispanos

 Collection
Identifier: D43667
Abstract

Bound collection of contemporary copies of nineteen documents concerning English Catholics and diplomatic affairs during the Anglo-Spanish War (1585-1604). Specifically, the documents concern Catholic plans to conquer England and Scotland.

Dates: 1570-1604 (bulk 1580s); Majority of material found within 1580 - 1589

Papers of the Ferrers Family of Tamworth Castle

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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

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

Papers of Richard Smith

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Identifier: S65753
Abstract

Contains fair copies, drafts, and notes in the hand of Richard Smith. Consists of writings and notes on the Bishops and Archibishops of England, Christ's descent into hell, a collection of short essays on religious and secular topics, rites and ceremonies of the church (presumably the Church of England), and indulgences.

Dates: 1633-1670

Manuscripts of the Strozzi family

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Identifier: S77699
Abstract Collection of 17th and 18th century transcripts made for the Strozzi family of Florence of political and religious material, relating to papal diplomacy, etc., of documents dating from the 14th century through the 17th century, with the bulk dating from the 16th and 17th centuries. A note in volume 1 states that the manuscripts came from Rome, from the archives of the Strozzi house, and indicates that the series is incomplete, as may be seen from the lower series of numbers on the spines of...
Dates: 17th and 18th century

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

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Names
Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603 2
Guise, Henri, duc de, 1550-1588 2
Allen, William, 1532-1594 1
Arran, Dorothy Butler, Countess of, -1716 1
Bradbourne family 1
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Bradbourne, Anthony, active 1590 1
Bradbourne, Elizabeth, active 1575-1600 1
Bradbourne, Humphrey, -1581 1
Bradbourne, William, active 1581-1600 1
Cage, Anthony 1
Catholic Church 1
Catholic Church. Pope (1566-1572 : Pius V) 1
Catholic Church. Pope (1585-1590 : Sixtus V) 1
Cavendish family 1
Chesterfield, Anne Stanhope, Countess of, -1667 1
Church of England 1
Cokayne, Dorothy, -1595 1
Cokayne, Edward, -1629 1
Cokayne, Thomas, Sir, approximately 1519-1592 1
England and Wales. Parliament 1
England and Wales. Sovereign (1558-1603 : Elizabeth I) 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
Godwin, Francis, 1562-1633 1
Gower, Sarah, -1661? 1
Gower, Stanley 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
Hayne, Thomas, 1582-1645 1
James I, King of England, 1566-1625 1
Leicester, Robert Dudley, Earl of, 1532?-1588 1
Lennox, Esmé Stuart, Duke of, approximately 1542-1583 1
Philip II, King of Spain, 1527-1598 1
Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872 1
Pius V, Pope, 1504-1572 1
Puckering, John, 1543 or 1544-1596 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
Sixtus V, Pope, 1520-1590 1
Slingsby, Henry, 1559 or 1560-1634 1
Smith, Richard, 1590-1675 1
Spain. Sovereign (1556-1598 : Philip II) 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
Vendeville, Jean de, 1527-1592 1
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