The Babington plot, 1586

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Title: The Babington plot, 1586
Abstract: Manuscript, on paper, in cursive script, produced in England in 1586. The text is an examination of the confessions of the conspirators in the plot against Queen Elizabeth, including of John Ballard, Anthony Babington, John Savage, Robert Barnewell, etc. It contains copies of two letters from Babbington to and from Mary Queen of Scots and discusses the role of Mary Queen of Scots in the conspiracy
Description: In English and Latin.
On the front of the vellum wrapper is the name "John Rigbye barrister, Cliffordes Ynne."
Bound in a parchment bifolium from an early thirteenth-century English Latin manuscript of the Digest of Justinian, with the glossa ordinaria of Accursius in the margins, along with some later commentary in an Anglicana script.
Incomplete table of contents on f. 1v.
Provenance: Purchased
Extent: 1 31 cm. x 20 cm. vol. (22 ff.) ;
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Name): Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603
Subject (Topic): Assassination attempt, 1586
Babington Plot, 1586
Subjects: Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603 > Assassination attempt, 1586
Babington Plot, 1586
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: The Babington Plot. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.