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Type of resource

mixed material

Extent

ff. 143 (35 used)

Date created

[ca. 1600-1625]

Language

English

Material

Paper

Height (mm)

285

Width (mm)

190

Foliation

ff. 1-35

Provenance

Given by Lord Queenborough in 1923.

Research

The petition, and Bacon's speeches in Parliament, printed by S. D'Ewes, A compleat journal of ... the House of Lords and House of Commons throughout the whole reign of Queen Elizabeth (1708), pp. 105-7, 151-4, 232-5; Throckmorton's memoranda by J. E. Neale, English Historical Review, LXV (1950), pp. 91-8.

Binding

Contemporary calf binding, gilt-tooled.

Summary

CCCC MS 543 contains transcripts of various letters and speeches of Sir Nicholas Bacon (1510-79) along with other contemporary letters and documents, including a 1571 petition of the House of Lord to Queen Elizabeth I and a letter of William Cecil to an unknown fellow councillor dated May 1587. The manuscript was never part of Parker's collection but was instead donated to the college by Lord Queenborough (1861-1949) in 1923.

Contents

Letter from Nicholas Bacon to Queen Elizabeth (no date) -- Letter from Nicholas Bacon to Queen Elizabeth 26 November 1577 -- Letter from Nicholas Bacon to Queen Elizabeth 6 May 1578 -- Letter from Nicholas Bacon to Francis Walsingham 24 July 1578 -- Speech of Nicholas Bacon in the council -- Speech of Nicholas Bacon in the council -- Petition of the Lords to Queen Elizabeth, 1571 -- Speech of Nicholas Bacon in Parliament -- Speech of Nicholas Bacon in Parliament -- Letter of William Cecil to a councillor 12 May 1587 -- Nicholas Throckmorton's memoranda to the Queen 1558

M.R. James Date

17th cent. early

Augmented James Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:ty804bn9345/543.pdf

Contains

• Letter from Nicholas Bacon to Queen Elizabeth (no date). 3r-4r

  Author

  Nicholas Bacon

• Letter from Nicholas Bacon to Queen Elizabeth 26 November 1577. 4r-5r

  Author

  Nicholas Bacon

• Letter from Nicholas Bacon to Queen Elizabeth 6 May 1578. 5v-6r

  Author

  Nicholas Bacon

• Letter from Nicholas Bacon to Francis Walsingham 24 July 1578. 6r-6v

  Author

  Nicholas Bacon

• Speech of Nicholas Bacon in the council. 7r-13v

  Note

  f. 13v blank

• Speech of Nicholas Bacon in the council. 14r-17v

  Note

  f. 17v blank

• Petition of the Lords to Queen Elizabeth, 1571. 18r-20v
• Speech of Nicholas Bacon in Parliament. 21r-25r
• Speech of Nicholas Bacon in Parliament. 25r-29v

  Note

  f. 29v blank

• Letter of William Cecil to a councillor 12 May 1587. 30r-31r

  Author

  William Cecil

• Nicholas Throckmorton's memoranda to the Queen1558. 31v-31v

  Author

  Nicholas Throckmorton

Repository

UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

Location

MS 543

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