Add MS 48064 - Papers of Robert Beale relating to Elizabethan religious matters

GEMMS Manuscript ID
GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT- 133
(old series: GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-1584)
Title
Papers of Robert Beale relating to Elizabethan religious matters
Shelfmark
Add MS 48064
Creation Date
ca. 1559 - 1601
Repository
Contents Note

This 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 Features

Folio. Approx. 261ff. The volume is in its original binding, i.e. a vellum bifolium from a Sarum antiphoner printed in Paris in 1519.

Provenance

These 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.

Source of Data

BL online catalogue; Hannah Yip.

Other Note

Formerly Yelverton MS 70.

Sermons Contained
GEMMS record created
January 15, 2022
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024