Elizabeth I, Privy Council Letter

Privy Council Letter of her reign, addressed to the High Sheriff and Commissioners for the Musters of the County of Norfolk, ordering them to levy a force of 100 men to serve in Ireland because of "the contynuance of the troubles there", Richmond, 15 Jan. 1599. Signed by Sir Thomas Egerton, later Lord Ellesmere, Master of the Rolls; Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst, the poet, Lord Treasurer; Charles Howard, Earl of Nottingham, who had held chief command against the Armada, Lord High Admiral; George Carey, Lord Hunsdon, Elizabeth's cousin, Lord Chamberlain; Roger North, Treasurer of the Queen's Household; William Knollys, Comptroller of the Queen's Household; Robert Cecil, later Earl of Salisbury, Secretary of State; Sir John Fortescue, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Sir John Popham, Lord Chief Justice. -- description from Vendor Catalog (Maggs Catalogue)

In Collection:

• Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Collection

Contributor

• Banbury, William Knollys, Earl of, 1547-1632
• Nottingham, Charles Howard, Earl of, approximately 1536-1624
• Dorset, Thomas Sackville, Earl of, 1536-1608
• Dorset, Charles Sackville, Earl of, 1638?-1706
• North, Roger, Baron, 1530-1600
• Ellesmere, Thomas Egerton, Baron, 1540?-1617
• Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603
• Salisbury, Robert Cecil, Earl of, 1563-1612
• Popham, John, Sir, 1531?-1607
• Fortescue, John, Sir, 1531?-1607

Subject

• Manuscripts, Medieval
• Great Britain. Privy Council
• Politics and government
• Tyrone's Rebellion (1597-1603)

Language

• lat

Identifier

• Shelf Mark: Doc.Brown.8

Date created

• January 15, 1599

Resource type

• Text

Rights statement

• No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only

Extent

• 2 pages folio ; 336 x 463 mm

Alternative title

• Elizabeth I (1533-1603), Queen of England

Geographic coverage

• Ireland
• England--Norfolk

Coordinates

• 52.66667, 1
• 53, -8

Additional physical characteristics

• Folded once, letter on the two sides of one of the resulting leaves, the address on one side of the other leaf. Seal tear professionally repaired. With integral address leaf.

Physical repository

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Collection

• Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Collection

Provenance

• Donated by Bruce and Dorothy Brown.

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Genre

• correspondence
• manuscripts (documents)

Archival item identifier

• 1989-069-11

Fonds title

• Bruce and Dorothy Brown Collection

Fonds identifier

• SC017

Is referenced by

• Archival finding aid: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/findaids/brown_collection_manuscripts.pdf
• Special Collection Inventory: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/collections/medieval/inventory.php.

Date digitized

• February 23, 2012

Technical note

• Metadata by KD.

Rights

• Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access to the original manuscript and for reproduction requests (fee for reproductions). This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/cvts-9054

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