Cecil Manuscripts
(1572-1582) Letters and papers of William Cecil lord Burghley, Lord Treasurer. Includes some other material as early as 1553.DE MENDOZA. Cost: £4.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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The English in Holland and Flanders
(1586-1587) The State Papers Foreign of queen Elizabeth consist mainly of letters and reports concerning England's relations with continental Europe. The inhabitants of the Low Countries were at this period attempting to throw off the Spanish yoke, and Elizabeth sent considerable forces to their aid: the English leader, Robert Dudley earl of Leicester, was offered the governorship of the States General. The papers relating to Holland and Flanders in the State Papers Foreign are so voluminous in consequence, that a separate calendar was edited by Sophie Crawford Lomas and Allen B. Hinds under the direction of the Master of the Rolls, this volume, covering June 1586 to March 1587, being published in 1927. DE MENDOZA. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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The English in Holland and Flanders
(1588) The State Papers Foreign of queen Elizabeth consist mainly of letters and reports concerning England's relations with continental Europe. The inhabitants of the Low Countries were at this period attempting to throw off the Spanish yoke, and Elizabeth sent considerable forces to their aid. The papers relating to Holland and Flanders in the State Papers Foreign are so voluminous in consequence, that a separate calendar was edited by Sophie Crawford Lomas and Allen B. Hinds under the direction of the Master of the Rolls, this volume, covering January to June 1588, being published in 1931. DE MENDOZA. Cost: £4.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Ambassadors, ministers, soldiers and spies
(1589) The State Papers Foreign of queen Elizabeth consist mainly of letters and reports concerning England's relations with continental Europe, particularly the Netherlands and France. January to July 1589. DE MENDOZA. Cost: £4.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Secretary of State's Papers
(1596) The letters and papers of sir Robert Cecil, Secretary of State, deal with all manner of government business in England, Ireland and abroad.DE MENDOZA. Cost: £4.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Secretary of State's Papers
(1598) The letters and papers of sir Robert Cecil, Secretary of State, deal with all manner of government business in England, Ireland and abroad.DE MENDOZA. Cost: £4.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Secretary of State's Papers
(1600) The letters and papers of sir Robert Cecil, Secretary of State, deal with all manner of government business in England, Ireland and abroad.DE MENDOZA. Cost: £4.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Liegemen and Traitors, Pirates and Spies
(1623-1625) The Privy Council of James I was responsible for internal security in England and Wales, and dealt with all manner of special and urgent matters
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England and Venice
(1640-1642) The Master of the Rolls directed the compilation of translations of archives from northern Italy relating to English affairs. This volume, edited by Allen B. Hinds and published in 1924, is largely based on transcripts in the Public Record Office in London of major sources from the state archives housed in the Frari at Venice, in particular the Dispacci, Inghilterra. Most of this volume consists of the letters of Giovanni Giustinian the Venetian ambassador in England, the extracts from the Hague despatches, and the Esposizioni Principi; and as such contain descriptions of unfolding political events in Britain as seen by Italian diplomats. But there were also Englishmen actively trading with Venice and its sphere of influence in the eastern Mediterranean.DE MENDOZA. Cost: £4.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Official Papers
(1660-1681) The State Papers Domestic cover all manner of business relating to Britain, Ireland and the colonies, conducted in the office of the Secretary of State as well as other miscellaneous records. DE MENDOZA. Cost: £4.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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