Letter signed from Queen Elizabeth to Sir George Carew, Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance, bearing the authority of the petty seal of the Signet. Queen Elizabeth instructs Sir George to transport all manner of ordnance from the Tower of London to the northern border towns of Berwick, Newcastle, and Carlisle. Written from the manor of Greenwich, 1595 July 9.
Alternative Title:
Scottish Border Defense 1595
Description:
Earlier in July 1595, a force of several hundred Spanish soliders raided the city of Cornwall inciting further need to defend the Scottish border., In English., Variant title from description in Parkes, S. et al., Elizabethan Club of Yale University and its Library., and Bears the official seal of the Signet office.
Subject (Geographic):
England., Berwick (England), Carlisle (England), and Newcastle upon Tyne (England)
Subject (Name):
Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603. and Carew, George, Sir, -1612.
Manuscript on paper, in a single secretary hand, corrected, containing the text of a school drama on the life of Oedipus. The text, mainly in fourteener couplets, draws heavily on Alexander Neville's verse translation of Seneca's Oedipus (1581), and also contains extracts from Thomas Newton's Thebais (1581). The original scenes show the influence of other contemporary verse, including Lyly's Euphues and the fifth book of Spenser's Faerie Queene (1596). The work was apparently intended for performance by the pupils of a grammar school, probably the Royal Free Grammar School at Newcastle upon Tyne and The final two leaves of the volume contain "A speach deliverd before the founders at the entrance of the schole," in the same hand. The speech refers to the Selby family (George Selby was elected Mayor of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1600).
Description:
In English., Title on front cover: Oedpius with a song., Watermark similar to Briquet 11046., and Binding: contemporary full parchment.
Subject (Geographic):
Newcastle upon Tyne (England)
Subject (Name):
Lyly, John, 1554?-1606, Neville, Alexander, 1544-1614., Newton, Thomas, 1542?-1607., Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D., and Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599
Subject (Topic):
Influence, College and school drama, English, Endowed public schools (Great Britain), English drama, and English poetry
