Copy of a letter signed : the Tower [London], to the Lord Treasurer [William Cecil, first Baron Burghley] and the Earl of Leicester, 1584 [i.e. 1585] Feb. 18.

BIB_ID

130094

Accession number

MA 664

Creator

Parry, William, -1585.

Display Date

1584 [i.e. 1585] Feb. 18.

Credit line

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.

Description

1 item (3 p.) ; 32 cm

Notes

Parry was arrested, tried, and executed in 1585, not 1584.
This item is bound into the Cecil-Stamford-Towneley manuscript on p. 408-410; see main record for MA 664 for information on the volume and its contents.

Provenance

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson, 1910.

Summary

Reviewing the reasons for and against his execution for plotting against Queen Elizabeth.

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Department

Literary and Historical Manuscripts