Collection of historical papers, ca. 1555-1577 [manuscript], compiled 1577.

Collection of historical papers, ca. 1555-1577 [manuscript], compiled 1577.

[2], 92 leaves.

Many of the documents are connected with Oxford University. They include letters from Jerónymo Osório to R. Ascham, October 27, 1561, from Laurence Humphrey and [Thomas Sampson] to the bishops, and to the Queen concerning the Vestiarian controversy, [1565], from [the Commissioners for Queen's College, Oxford?] to Edmund Grindal [1561], from Roger Marbeck to the Queen, the Earl of Leicester, Thomas Thornton, [Thomas Young, Matthew Parker], the bishop of Salisbury, John Dolbeare, Henry Blageus, William Clerk, Reginald Pole, Dom. E. Rosse, and [Thomas?] (Barnard), canon of Christ Church, Oxford, [1561?-1564]; a speech delivered by Tobie Matthew before the Earl of Leicester, 1570; a letter from Matthew to the Earl 1577, and his prayer; speeches by Marbeck, Nicholas Balgay, John Rainolds, Peter Wentworth (in Parliament, [February 8, 1576]), and a speech castigating Richard II; sermons by Rainolds, 1576; petitions of Christ Church, Oxford, to the Queen, the Earl of Leicester and Lord Burghley, July 10, 1575, signed by Robert Dorset and Thomas Thornton; two discourses of Sir Thomas Smith touching the succession and the Queen's marriage, ca. 1560; reasons for the Queen to proceed with severity in the case of the Queen of Scots; ["articles" of religion "delivered unto Master Edward Dering ... " 1573?], beginning in the middle of his answer to the 7th Article; [Edward Waterhouse's] account of the death of the Earl of Essex, 1576, with the song he sang before he died, beginning, O heavenly God O father dear, [attributed to F. Kinwelmarsh]; a poem by the Queen, beginning, The doubt of future foes; the address of the French besieged in La Rochelle to the Queen, [1573] -- incomplete; and a petition of the Poles to the French king, September 18, 1574.

In English and Latin.

One or more leaves missing between leaf 90 and 91.

Poems listed in the Folger index of first lines.

List of contents loose in volume.

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Several of the documents are printed in Vita D. Thomae Morie, by W. Roper, ed. T. Mearne, 1716, and several are in Bodleian Library, Rawl. MS D. 264.

Mid-19th century English armorial binding with coat of arms of Evelyn Phillip Shirley.

Pitts of Kingston Dorset -- E. P. Shirley MS.
Formerly Folger MS Add 670.

Gift of the Friends of the Folger and others (Collectors Club).

Great Britain -- England.

V.b.317

MS Add 670