47 letters and documents, on paper (one document on parchment) in various cursive scripts, produced in England between 1554 and 1706. Mostly from the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, they consist of claims for expenses, wages, and other benefits. The...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603., James I, King of England, 1566-1625., and Great Britain. Exchequer.
Manuscript on paper in a formal secretary hand of a petition to James I, signed by 33 members of the English peerage, protesting the king's generous creation of new Scottish and Irish peers. The signatories state that they are acting "to challenge & p...
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Signatures: R. Warwick; Richard Dacre; Edwarde Bergevennye; Jo. Darcy; Stafford; Thomas Windesore; Tho. Wentworth; Jo. Mordaunt; Edwarde Stowrton; [Dudley?]; Henry Hunsdon; Oxenford; Ro. Essex; Ri. Dorset; W. Salisbury; Ro. Willoughby; Sheffyld; Henry...
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Ardglass, Thomas Cromwell, Earl of, 1594-1653., Bedford, Francis Russell, Earl of, 1593-1641., Bergavenny, Edward Neville, Baron, d. 1622., Bolingbroke, Oliver St. John, Earl of, 1580?-1646., Campden, Edward Noel, Viscount, d. 1643., Chesterfield, Philip Stanhope, Earl of, 1584-1656., Dacre, Richard Lennard, Baron, d. 1630., Darcy, John Darcy, Baron, 1579-1635., Dorset, Richard Sackville, Earl of, 1589-1624., Dover, Henry Carey, Earl of, ca. 1580-1666., Dudley, Edward Dudley, Baron, 1567-1643., Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1591-1646., Gerard of Gerard's Bromley, Gilbert, Baron, d. 1622., Holles, John, Earl of Clare, ca. 1565-1637., Huntingdon, Henry Hastings, Earl of, 1586-1643., James I, King of England, 1566-1625., Lincoln, Theophilus Clinton, Earl of, ca. 1600-1667., Lindsey, Robert Bertie, Earl of, 1582-1642., Mulgrave, Edmund Sheffield, Earl of, 1565-1646., Oxford, Henry de Vere, Earl of, 1593-1625., Paget, William Paget, Baron, 1609-1678., Peterborough, John Mordaunt, Earl of, 1599-1643., Salisbury, William Cecil, Earl of, 1591-1668., Saye and Sele, William Fiennes, Viscount, 1582-1662., Spencer, Robert Spencer, Baron, 1570-1627., Stafford, Edward Stafford, Baron, 1572-1625., Stamford, Henry Grey, Earl of, 1599?-1673., Stourton, Edward Stourton, Baron, 1555?-1633., Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of, 1593-1641., Suffolk, Theophilus Howard, Earl of, 1584-1640., Sunderland, Emanuel Scrope, Earl of, 1584-1630., Warwick, Robert Rich, Earl of, 1587-1658., and Windsor de Stanwell, Thomas Windsor, Baron, 1591?-1641.
Subject (Topic):
Nobility, Precedence, Titles of honor and nobility, Court and courtiers, and Politics and government
