GEMMS IDGEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-001584
TitlePapers of Robert Beale relating to Elizabethan religious matters
ShelfmarkAdd MS 48064
Creation Dateca. 1559 - 1601
RepositoryBritish Library
Contents NoteThis volume comprises copies of documents relating to religious conflicts in the 1580s and 1590s. These papers relate principally to Archbishop John Whitgift's anti-Puritanism, and include, inter alia, notes and extracts from the Marprelate Tracts. A variety of late sixteenth-century secretary and scribal hands is used throughout.
Material FeaturesFolio. Approx. 261ff. The volume is in its original binding, i.e. a vellum bifolium from a Sarum antiphoner printed in Paris in 1519.
Associated Peoplemanuscript owner - Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe, Richardmanuscript owner - Beale, Robertmanuscript owner - Gough-Calthorpe, Henrymanuscript owner - Yelverton, Henrymanuscript owner - Yelverton, Henrymanuscript owner - Yelverton, Henry
ProvenanceThese papers were collected by, and probably bound for, Robert Beale. They were passed to his son-in-law, Sir Henry Yelverton; following which, they descended to Henry Yelverton, 15th Baron Grey of Ruthin. Henry Yelverton, 3rd Earl of Sussex, inherited these papers, and he gave them to his cousin Sir Henry Gough-Calthorpe, 2nd Baronet. Richard Hamilton Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe sold the Yelverton Papers to the British Museum in 1953.
Acquisition
Source of DataBL online catalogue; Hannah Yip.
Other NoteFormerly Yelverton MS 70.
Sermons ContainedNotes of a sermon preached at Oxforde in Lente -- ff. 148r-150r
Sermon Reports Contained
GEMMS record createdJanuary 15, 2022
GEMMS record last editedMarch 06, 2022