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1. Attainder of Lord Cromwell
- Published / Created:
- [between 1600 and 1700]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 40
- Image Count:
- 24
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of a later copy of the Act of Attainder of Thomas Cromwell
- Description:
- In English., Watermarks: similar to Heawood 348., Script: Written in a neat cursive script by one scribe., and Unbound.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Cromwell, Thomas, Earl of Essex, 1485?-1540. and Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547.
- Subject (Topic):
- Attainder, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Politics and government
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Attainder of Lord Cromwell
2. Bouche of courte
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1571]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 610
- Image Count:
- 194
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper. The documents in this archival register cover the period from King Henry VIII (1509-1547) through Queen Elizabeth (1558-1603).
- Description:
- In English., Script: Copied by a single hand in Gothica Cursiva Libraria (Secretary)., and Binding: Limp vellum with remains of leather ties. Preserved in a modern cardboard folder covered with paper decorated with vertical red and purple stripes. On the brown leather spine the gold-tooled inscription: "KING HENRY VIII'S OWN MS. BOUCH OF COURT".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
- Subject (Topic):
- Courts and courtiers, Manuscripts, Medieval, Court and courtiers, and Politics and government
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bouche of courte
3. Carta de foresta
- Published / Created:
- 1562.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 89
- Image Count:
- 214
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Carta de foresta, a collection of hunting and forestry laws. With a collection of extracts, in Latin, all concerning laws of forestry
- Description:
- In English., Watermarks: unidentified pot., Script: Written in a well formed chancery hand by a single scribe., and Binding: Sixteenth century. Endleaves reinforced with vellum, two leaves originally pasted to each board. Sewn on five single, tawed skin thongs laced into paste boards rounded on the outside of the spine edge. Beaded endbands sewn on leather or cane cores but not laced to boards. The spine is square, with traces of adhesive. Covered in dark brown calf, blind-tooled with a triple line border and a small central ornament. Two ribbon fastenings, now wanting. Leather broken at joint, sewing reinforced.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
- Subject (Topic):
- Forests and forestry, Hunting, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Politics and government
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Carta de foresta
4. Carta de foresta
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 88
- Image Count:
- 151
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of a collection of laws governing hunting and forestry
- Description:
- In Latin, with passages in English and French., Script: Arts. 4-14 written in a neat chancery script with Anglicana influence; arts. 1 and 15 in similar, but less elegant hands; arts. 2-3 are in gothic textura., Plain initial, in red, with crude ink penwork flourishes on f. 1v; KL monograms and portions of calendar also on red., Some stains on ff. 2r-7v render text illegible., and Binding: 19th-20th centuries. Rebinding in quarter pigskin, tanned, not tawed, with a strap and pin fastening. The oak boards, cambered on all four outer edges and with rectangular pegs, are probably contemporary with the manuscript. Front pastedown composed of a small fragment of prayers in Latin (15th century).
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
- Subject (Topic):
- Forests and forestry, Hunting, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Politics and government
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Carta de foresta
5. Carta de foresta
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1580]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 618
- Image Count:
- 139
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper containing a collection of hunting and forestry laws
- Description:
- In English., Watermark: similar to Briquet 12781., The text includes: 1) Table of Contents of art. 2, referring to the early foliation. 2) A collection of hunting and forestry laws similar to those published by John Manwood, A Brefe Collection of the Lawes of the Forest (London, 1592) and A Treatise and Discourse of the Lawes of the Forrest ... (London, 1598). 3) Two extracts. (1) De placito forestarum. B. Thorpe, ed., Ancient Laws and Institutions of England ( London, 1840), p. 228; (2) Dialogus de Scaccario, W. Stubbs, ed., Select Charters and other Illustrations of English Constitutional History (Oxford, 1913), pp. 221-222. 4) Consuetudines et assisa de foresta. 5) Ordinatio forestae., Script: written in Gothica Cursiva Currens (Secretary), often difficult to read. Gothica Cursiva Antiquior is used as display script., and Binding: grey paper over pasteboard; on the spine a leather label with gold-tooled inscription: "FOREST / LAWS / MS. / CIRCA /1580".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
- Subject (Topic):
- Forestry law and legislation, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Politics and government
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Carta de foresta
6. Commonplace book of political and military material, circa 1629-1632
- Creator:
- Holles, John, Earl of Clare, ca. 1565-1637
- Call Number:
- Osborn b32
- Image Count:
- 357
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of about 85 copies of primarily political documents pertaining to events between 1592 and 1632. The volume includes speeches and letters relating to the murder of Thomas Overbury and the trial of Walter Raleigh; a description of voyage to France to aid the Huguenot cause in 1626-7 and seige of La Rochelle; a factual account, with figures, of fighting in Thirty Years' War; "The examinations of the counterfett ghost that came into St James on fryday night the 13 of 9br 1612, beeing that day sennight after Prince Harries death," whose testimony was taken by Sir Thomas Chaloner and Sir John Holles; and the confession of Anne Lady Ross to the Star Chamber declaring that she had perjured herself by "accusing the said Right Honorable Countess of Exeter with an intent & purpose to poison" her. The volume also contains a copy of the will of Holles' father, Thomas Holles of Haughton, dated 17 March 1592 and "written in his owne hand"; and "A prayer wch my deere sister Wentworth did use, coppied from her owne hand, wch I had of my mother 24th Jan. 1631."
- Description:
- In English, French, and Italian., Arms of the 4th Duke of Newcastle stamped in gold on front cover., and Binding: full parchment. Printed on spine: "Copies of State Papers Etc. 1592 - 1632.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England., France, Great Britain., Great Britain, and France.
- Subject (Name):
- Chaloner, Thomas, 1595-1661., Holles, John, Earl of Clare, ca. 1565-1637., Overbury, Thomas, Sir, 1581-1613., and Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618
- Subject (Topic):
- Huguenots, History, Nobility, Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648, Treason, Trials, Wills, Foreign relations, Politics and government, and Social life and customs
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commonplace book of political and military material, circa 1629-1632
7. English miscellany on travels, foreign countries, Catholicism and politics
- Published / Created:
- [between 1550 and 1625]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 621
- Image Count:
- 178
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper containing 1) Anthony Jenkinson (1529-1610/11), Relation of a travel to Russia and Persia. 2) Anonymous sonnet in praise of Queen Elizabeth I. Probably an autograph. 3) Anonymous treatise in four parts attacking the apology which Cardinal William Allen (1532-1594) published in 1587 for Sir William Stanley's action in the Netherlands in the preceding year. 4) Accounts regarding tenements; one is headed "Lambeth". 5) Account of a journey through the Middle East, made in 1578 and attributed by another hand to an unrecorded Sir Anthony Standen. 6) Definition of terms related to the Turkish empire encountered in art. 5. 7) Description of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany under Francesco Maria de' Medici (1541-1587). 8) Ferdinand Alvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva (1508-1582), Proposal addressed to King Philip II of Spain regarding the conquest of Portugal, made 25 May 1579, in English translation. 9) Description of the Benedictine convent of Camaldoli near Arezzo. 10) Short description of England and Scotland. 11) Accounts signed William Garnett; the last one is dated from the 33d year of Queen Elizabeth (1591/1592). The upper outer corner of the page is missing, with loss of text. 12) Collection of state letters. 13) Estate accounts partly dating from 1586/1587 and addressed to unknown person
- Description:
- In English., Script: Part I (between 1550 and 1600): Art. 1, 3 and the group 5-10 are each written by a different scribe, all writing Gothica Cursiva Libraria (Secretary). The quotations and headings in art. 3 are in Humanistica Cursiva. Art. 2 is also written in Humanistica Cursiva. Art. 4 is in Gothica Cursiva Currens (Secretary)., Script: Part II (between 1600 and 1625): Written by one hand in Gothica Cursiva Currens (Secretary), some quotations and headings in Humanistica Cursiva., Script: Part III (between 1575 and 1600): Written by one hand in Gothica Cursiva Formata (Secretary)., and Binding: Seventeenth century (?). Brown (?) sheepskin over pasteboard, rebacked. On the spine the gold-tooled titles (s. XIX-XX) "JENKINSON RELATION 1561" and "STATE PAPERS?? MS.".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., England, Middle East, Russia, and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Allen, William, 1532-1594., Jenkinson, Anthony., and Standen, Anthony, Sir.
- Subject (Topic):
- English poetry, English prose literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, Description and travel, History, and Politics and government
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > English miscellany on travels, foreign countries, Catholicism and politics
8. George Macartney papers, 1764-1792 (bulk 1764-1767).
- Creator:
- Macartney, George Macartney, Earl, 1737-1806
- Call Number:
- OSB MSS 181
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1
- Image Count:
- 60
- Abstract:
- The papers are almost entirely concerned with Macartney's embassy to Russia in 1764-1767, and include notes, memoranda, drafts of the trade treaty he negotiated, and a final copy; accounts of travel in Russia and general descriptions of the country, including a treatise on the natural history of Siberia and fossils found there; descriptions of principal figures of the Russian Court and of court protocol; and copies of correspondence and The collection also contains a printed copy of a 1762 decree by Catherine II concerning Alexis Bestoucheff-Rumin; and a dispatch sent by Russia to China in 1792 during Macartney's mission in Peking. Accompanied by a microfilm of the Macartney Papers in the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland
- Description:
- George Macartney was born in Ireland and educated at Trinity College. In 1764, Lord Holland proposed him as envoy extraordinary to Saint Petersburg for the negotiation of a trade treaty. Knighted before departing England, Macartney returned in 1767 after concluding the treaty and receiving the Polish Order of the White Eagle. He spent much of the remainder of his career in colonial governorships, including that of Madras, and took his seat in the Irish Parliament in 1788. In 1792 he was sent as plenipotentiary on a mission to Peking, and upon his return from China undertook negotiations with the exiled Louis XVIII in Verona. Macartney thereafter retired from public life due to ill health. and In French and English.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain., Great Britain, Russia., Russia, and Siberia (Russia)
- Subject (Name):
- Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796. and Macartney, George Macartney, Earl, 1737-1806.
- Subject (Topic):
- Diplomatic and consular service, British, Diplomatic and consular service, Russian, Diplomats, Commerce, Foreign relations, Politics and government, Court and courtiers, and Description and travel
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > George Macartney papers, 1764-1792 (bulk 1764-1767).
9. Lease agreement
- Creator:
- Grenville, Richard, Sir, 1541?-1591
- Published / Created:
- 1 Jan 1582.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 680
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment
- Description:
- In English., Written in English chancery script., Top edge cut to identify copy., and Wax seal.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Grenville, Richard, Sir, 1541?-1591.
- Subject (Topic):
- Leases, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Politics and government
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Lease agreement