Elizabeth
Page 49
Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reign of Mary I, 1553–1558, ed. C. S. Knighton (London, 1998)
CSPF
Calendar of State Papers, Foreign, ed. W. B. Turnbull, J. Stevenson and A. J. Crosby, 25 vols. in 28 parts (London, 1861–1950)
CSPSM
Calendar of State Papers Relating to Scotland and Mary, Queen of Scots, 1547–1603, ed. J. Bain and W. K. Boyd, 13 vols. (London, 1898–1969)
CSPSp, 1st Series
Calendar of Letters, Despatches, and State Papers Relating to the Negotiations between England and Spain, ed. G. A. Bergenroth, P. de Gayangos and M. A. S. Hume, 13 vols. (London, 1873–1954)
CSPSp, 2nd Series
Letters and State Papers Relating to English Affairs Preserved Principally in the Archives of Simancas, ed. M. A. S. Hume, 4 vols. (London, 1892–9)
CSPV
Calendar of State Papers and Manuscripts Relating to English Affairs in the Archives and Collections of Venice and in Other Libraries of Northern Italy, ed. R. Brown, G. Cavendish-Bentinck and H. F. Brown, 38 vols. (London, 1864–1947)
CUL
Cambridge University Library
De L’Isle and
Report on the Manuscripts of Lord De L’Isle and Dudley Preserved at Penshurst
Dudley MSS
Place, 6 vols. (London, 1925–66)
De Maisse
A Journal of All That Was Accomplished by Monsieur de Maisse, Ambassador in England . . . Anno Domini 1597, ed. and trans. G. B. Harrison and R. A. Jones (London, 1931)
Devereux
Lives and Letters of the Devereux, Earls of Essex, 1540–1646, ed. W. B. Devereux, 2 vols. (London, 1853)
D’Ewes
The Journals of All the Parliaments during the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, ed. S. D’Ewes (London, 1682)
DIB
Dictionary of Irish Biography, ed. J. McGuire and J. Quinn, 9 vols. (Cambridge, 2009) and http://dib.cambridge.org/
EAC
Elizabeth I: Autograph Compositions and Foreign Language Originals, ed. J. Mueller and L. S. Marcus (Chicago, 2003)
ECW
Elizabeth I: Collected Works, ed. L. S. Marcus, J. Mueller and M. B. Rose (Chicago, 2000)
EHR
English Historical Review
Ellis
Original Letters, Illustrative of British History, ed. H. Ellis, 3 series, 11 vols. (London, 1824–46)
FF
Ancien Fonds Français
Finch MSS
Report on the Manuscripts of Allan George Finch, Esq., of Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland, 5 vols. (London, 1913–70)
Foedera
Foedera, Conventiones, Litterae et Cuiuscunque Generis Acta Publica inter Reges Angliae et Alios Quosuis Imperatores, Reges, Pontifices, Principes vel Communitates, ed. T. Rymer, 20 vols. (London, 1726–35)
Folger
Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC
Guildhall
Guildhall Library, London
Hakluyt
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, ed. R. Hakluyt, 2 vols. in 1 (London, 1599)
Hardwicke State Papers
Miscellaneous State Papers from 1501 to 1726, ed. P. Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, 2 vols. (London, 1778)
Harington
J. Harington, Nugae Antiquae. Being a Miscellaneous Collection of Original Papers in Prose and Verse, Written . . . by Sir John Harington, new edn, 3 vols. (London, 1792)
Harleian Miscellany
The Harleian Miscellany, Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, as Well in Manuscript as in Print, Found in the Late Earl of Oxford’s Library, 2 vols. (London, 1808)
Harrison
The Elizabethan Journals. Being a Record of the Things Most Talked of during the Years 1591–1603, ed. G. B. Harrison, 3 vols. in 1 (London, 1938)
Hartley
Proceedings in the Parliaments of Elizabeth I, ed. T. E. Hartley, 3 vols. (Leicester, 1981–95)
Hatfield MSS
Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Most Honourable the Marquis of Salisbury Preserved at Hatfield House, 24 vols. (London, 1883–1976)
Haynes
A Collection of State Papers . . . left by William Cecil, Lord Burghley, ed. S. Haynes (London, 1740)
HEH
Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, California
HLQ
Huntington Library Quarterly
HMC
Historical Manuscripts Commission
HJ
Historical Journal
HR
Historical Research
JEH
Journal of Ecclesiastical History
JMH
Journal of Modern History
LASPF
List and Analysis of State Papers, Foreign, ed. R. B. Wernham, 7 vols. (1964–2000)
Lambeth
Lambeth Palace Library
Laughton
State Papers Relating to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada, Anno 1588, ed. J. K. Laughton, 2 vols. (London, 1894)
Lettenhove
Relations Politiques des Pays-Bas et de l’Angleterre sous le Règne de Philippe II, ed. K. de Lettenhove, 11 vols. (Brussels, 1882–1900)
Lettres de Henri IV
Recueil des Lettres Missives de Henri IV, ed. M. Berger de Xivrey and J. Guadet, 9 vols. (Paris, 1843–76)
Lodge
Illustrations of British History, Biography and Manners . . . Exhibited in a Series of Original Papers Selected from the Manuscripts of the Noble Families of Howard, Talbot and Cecil, ed. E. Lodge, 2nd edn, 3 vols. (London, 1838)
LQE
The Letters of Queen Elizabeth, ed. G. B. Harrison (London, 1935)
LQEJ
Letters of Queen Elizabeth and King James VI of Scotland, ed. J. Bruce, Camden Society, Old Series, 46 (1849)
LSP, James VI
Letters and State Papers during the Reign of King James VI, ed. J. Maidment (Edinburgh, 1838)
MS
Manuscript
Murdin
A Collection of State Papers . . . left by William Cecil, Lord Burghley, ed. W. Murdin (London, 1759)
Nichols
The Progresses and Public Processions o
f Queen Elizabeth . . . Illustrated with Historical Notes, ed. J. Nichols, new edn, 3 vols. (London, 1823)
NA
National Archives, London
ODNB
The New Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, ed. C. Matthew and B. Harrison, 60 vols. (Oxford, 2004) and http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/index.html
RO
Record Office
Rutland MSS
The Manuscripts of His Grace the Duke of Rutland, Preserved at Belvoir Castle, 4 vols. (London, 1888–1905)
RQ
Renaissance Quarterly
SCJ
Sixteenth-Century Journal
Secret Corr.
The Secret Correspondence of Sir Robert Cecil with James VI, King of Scotland, ed. D. Dalrymple (Edinburgh, 1766)
SHR
Scottish Historical Review
Spedding
The Letters and the Life of Francis Bacon, ed. J. Spedding, 7 vols. (London, 1861–74)
SR
Statutes of the Realm, ed. A. Luders, T. E. Tomlins and J. Caley, 11 vols. (London, 1810–28)
State Trials
A Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanours from the Reign of King Richard II to the Reign of King George II, 3rd edn, 6 vols. (London, 1742)
Stow, 1592 edn
J. Stow, The Annales of England (London, 1592)
Stow, 1605 edn
J. Stow, The Annales of England . . . Continued until This Present Year 1605 (London, 1605)
Stow, 1631 edn
Annales, Or A General Chronicle of England, Continued and Augmented . . . unto the End of This Present Year 1631 (London, 1631)
Townshend
Historical Collections, Or An Exact Account of the Proceedings of the Four Last Parliaments of Q[ueen] Elizabeth, ed. H. Townshend (London, 1680).
TRHS
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society
TRP
Tudor Royal Proclamations, ed. P. Hughes and J. F. Larkin, 3 vols. (London, 1964–9)
Unton
Correspondence of Sir Henry Unton, Knight, Ambassador from Queen Elizabeth to Henry IV, King of France in the Years 1591 and 1592, ed. J. Stevenson (London, 1847)
Winwood
Memorials of Affairs of State in the Reigns of Q[ueen] Elizabeth and K[ing] James I . . . from the Original Papers of the Right Honourable Sir Ralph Winwood, ed. E. Sawyer, 2 vols. (London, 1725)
Wright
Queen Elizabeth I and Her Times, ed. T. Wright, 2 vols. (London, 1838)
Manuscripts preserved at NA are quoted by the call number there in use. The descriptions of the classes referred to are as follows:
C 76
Chancery, Treaty Rolls
E 112
Exchequer, King’s Remembrancer, Bills, Answers, etc.
E 192
Exchequer, King’s Remembrancer, Private Papers and Exhibits, Supplementary
E 351
Exchequer, Lord Treasurer’s Remembrancer and Pipe Offices, Declared Accounts (Pipe Office)
KB 8
King’s Bench (Crown Side), Bag of Secrets
LC 2
Lord Chamberlain’s Department, Special Events
LC 5
Lord Chamberlain’s Department, Miscellanea
PC 2
Privy Council, Registers
PROB 11
Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Registered Copy Wills
REQ 2
Court of Requests, Proceedings, Henry VII to Charles I
SO 3
Signet Office, Docquet Books
SP 11
State Papers, Domestic, Mary
SP 12
State Papers, Domestic, Elizabeth
SP 15
State Papers, Domestic, Addenda, Edward VI to James I
SP 46
State Papers, Supplementary
SP 52
State Papers, Scotland, Series I, Elizabeth I
SP 53
State Papers, Scotland, Series I, Mary, Queen of Scots
SP 59
State Papers, Scotland, Border Papers
SP 63
State Papers, Ireland, Elizabeth I to George III
SP 70
State Papers, Foreign, General Series, Elizabeth I
SP 77
State Papers, Foreign, Flanders
SP 78
State Papers, Foreign, France
SP 83
State Papers, Foreign, Holland and Flanders
SP 84
State Papers, Foreign, Holland
SP 94
State Papers, Foreign, Spain
SP 97
State Papers, Foreign, Turkey
SP 98
State Papers, Foreign, Tuscany
SP 99
State Papers, Foreign, Venice
SP 101
State Papers, Foreign, Newsletters
SP 102
State Papers, Foreign, Royal Letters
SP 103
State Papers, Foreign, Treaty Papers
STAC 5
Court of Star Chamber, Proceedings, Elizabeth I
Notes and References
Preface
1 Camden’s debt to Burghley and Robert Cecil is from BL, Additional MS 36294, fo. 24. Burghley’s role as the teenage Elizabeth’s backstairs fixer is from J. Guy, The Children of Henry VIII (Oxford, 2013), pp. 136–7.
2 The criticisms expressed here are my own, but similar conclusions were reached by C. Haigh, ‘Introduction’, in The Reign of Elizabeth I, ed. C. Haigh (London, 1984), pp. 6–11. For the dates and circumstances of composition of Camden’s Annales, see P. Collinson, ‘One of Us? William Camden and the Making of History’, TRHS, 6th Series, 8 (1998), pp. 151–63. For a discussion of the limitations of Camden’s work, see P. Collinson, ‘William Camden and the Anti-Myth of Elizabeth: Setting the Mould?’, in The Myth of Elizabeth, ed. S. Doran and T. S. Freeman (London, 2003), pp. 79–93.
3 See, for instance, Annales, Or, The History of the Most Renowned and Victorious Princesse Elizabeth, tra
ns. R. Norton (London, 1635), sig. b; P. Collinson, ‘Elizabeth I and the Verdicts of History’, HR, 76 (2003), p. 480.
4 L. Strachey, Elizabeth and Essex (London, 1928; repr. 1971), pp. 22–4.
5 V. Woolf, ‘The Art of Biography’, in Selected Essays, ed. D. Bradshaw (Oxford, 2008), pp. 116–23.
6 Strachey, Elizabeth and Essex, p. 11.
7 For an earlier attempt to advocate this line, see J. E. Neale, ‘The Sayings of Queen Elizabeth’, History, 10 (1925), pp. 212–33.
8 Only the State Papers, Domestic, are covered by the Victorian printed calendars for the last years of the reign. After July 1589, the State Papers, Foreign, cease to be calendared, and, instead, increasingly rudimentary, consolidated digests of documents cover the years until December 1596. Thereafter, nothing before 1603 is printed, leaving major sub-collections to be searched by trial and error, including State Papers, France, Spain, Holland, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Russia and Turkey. A significant quantity of Burghley’s and Robert Cecil’s correspondence now at Hatfield House for the years after 1583 is abstracted in HMC, Hatfield MSS, III–XIV, and some selected documents are printed in full by Murdin. However, large swathes of highly important papers in the BL, Cotton, Lansdowne, Harleian and Additional collections (to name but four) are not printed or calendared at all.