BIB_ID
125109
Accession number
MA 242
Display Date
ca. 1700.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (126 p.) ; 32.3 cm
Notes
Catchwords throughout; contemporary pagination until pp.112; wide left margins often used for Biblical chapter and verse citations or to summarize content or clarify structure of argument.
Dating: The text was definitely composed after 1572, when Mary was charged on five "Cheif matters" (p.97), and this manuscript was definitely copied after 1587 (last page of writing says "She was beheaded Anno 1587"), probably around 1700.
Dating: The text was definitely composed after 1572, when Mary was charged on five "Cheif matters" (p.97), and this manuscript was definitely copied after 1587 (last page of writing says "She was beheaded Anno 1587"), probably around 1700.
Provenance
Front paste-down bears note: "Orrery / I found This Mss among my Father's Papers"; bookplate with crowned shield supported by two lions above the motto: "Honor Virtutis Praemium" (a second instance of this bookplate appears on the title page verso); purchased from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1906.
Summary
An "act and statute" summarizing the events of and recording a legal opinion on the debate over Mary Stuart's trial for treason against Queen Elizabeth. Including lists of charges against Mary, reasons for and against her trial in England, transcripts of parliamentary proceedings, and a judgment that "if the said Mary at any tyme after yo[u]r Ma[ies]ties decease [...] shall make any Claime, Challenge or Title to ye Crowne of this Relame of England[, ...] that then and from thenceforth the said Mary shall be deemed and taken as an Enemy to ye Realme and Crowne of England" (p.120).
Housed in
Brown leather pull-off box by Lloyd, Wallis & Lloyd (33.9 cm).
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