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.
Folio. Approx. 261ff. The volume is in its original binding, i.e. a vellum bifolium from a Sarum antiphoner printed in Paris in 1519.
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.
BL online catalogue; Hannah Yip.
Formerly Yelverton MS 70.
Notes of a sermon preached at Oxforde in Lente -- ff. 148r-150r