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Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603. De conquestu Angliae per Hispanos [manuscript], 1570-1604.

Title: De conquestu Angliae per Hispanos [manuscript], 1570-1604.

Contemporary copies of 19 documents that concern Catholic plans to conquer England and Scotland. They include the papal bull excommunicating Elizabeth, [1570]; a brief summary of conditions in England by William Allen, 1585?; the agreement between Sixtus V and Philip II about Elizabeth, 1587; the political alignment of the nobility in Scotland; two letters from Jean Vendville, undated and 1586; the reasons for making Allen a cardinal; the demands of the Duke of Lennox, 1582; a letter from Philip II to Elizabeth, September 24, 1583; and an account on Scottish matters by the Duke of Guise, 1583.

ArchivalResource: 96 leaves.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/611623329 View

Allen, William, 1532-1594. Autograph letter signed : [Rheims], to a Church official in Paris, 1581 Apr. 15.

Title: Autograph letter signed : [Rheims], to a Church official in Paris, 1581 Apr. 15.

Concerning anti-Catholic feeling in England.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; (fol.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83188384 View

[Narrative of the trial of Mary Queen of Scots, at Fotheringay, Oct 13-15, 1586], [ca. 1600?].

Title: [Narrative of the trial of Mary Queen of Scots, at Fotheringay, Oct 13-15, 1586], [ca. 1600?].

Manuscript, in a single hand, of an account of the proceedings, the copy occasionally corrected and blanks filled by another hand. The manuscript begins on Wednesday, October 12, 1586, with the consideration by the commission of a report of Sir Amias Paulet's message to Mary; and ends with a description of the counsel's examination of a series of letters, including one from Mary declaring her intention to bestow the English crown on the King of Spain and several between Mary and William Allen. Several leaves are missing at both the beginning and end of the text.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (46 f.) (incomplete at beginning and end) ; 28 x 20 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702177334 View

Milton House (Milton, England). The Milton House archives, circa 1575-1775.

Title: The Milton House archives, circa 1575-1775.

This collection, the title of which is derived from the name of the house in England where its contents were kept for almost 200 years, consists of significant portions of the papers of George Birkhead, Archpriest of England in the early seventeenth century, and of the Belson family, together with a miscellany of letters and documents pertaining in one way or another to English Catholic history between the late sixteenth and late eighteenth centuries. Among the more prominent authors of letters are Robert Parsons (or Persons), S.J., one of the first missionaries to Protestant England; Thomas Fitzherbert, agent for the English Catholic clergy in Rome; and Cardinal William Allen. The documents are said to have been at Douai College in France until the French Revolution, when they were taken to England.

ArchivalResource: 1.75 linear feet (5 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122928166 View