Letter : to the French government concerning death of Elizabeth I, 1603 Apr. 8.

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Letter : to the French government concerning death of Elizabeth I, 1603 Apr. 8.

Manuscript draft letter, in an unidentified hand, informing an unidentified official of the French government of the death of Elizabeth I and the proclamation of James VI of Scotland as king of England. Harlay was the French ambassador.

1 item ; 32 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7797741

Houghton Library

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Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603

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Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn was born at Greenwich on 7 September 1533. She was the half-sister of the elder Mary (1516-1558) and the younger Edward (1537-1553). In her early years she acquired knowledge of Latin, French, and Italian, and showed proficiency in music. Her governesses and tutors tended to adhere to Reformation principles. Identification with Protestantism aroused the suspicions of Mary, a Catholic, on her succession after the death of Edward, even though she h...

James I, King of England, 1566-1625

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James VI was born in Edinburgh Castle in 1566, the only son of Mary, Queen of Scots, and her second husband, Lord Darnley. As Mary was forced to abdicate shortly after his birth, he acceded to the Scottish throne as an infant and was brought up to be distanced from his mother. He was learned, taught by some of the best tutors available in the Scottish Humanist school, but also deeply superstitious, secretive and something of a misanthropist. He married Anne of Denmark in 1590, though ...

Harlay, Christophe de, comte de Beaumont, d. 1616.

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