BIB_ID
137677
Accession number
MA 291
Creator
Southwell, Robert, Saint, 1561?-1595.
Display Date
1591 or later.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906
Description
1 item (37 p.) ; 17.5 cm
Notes
One of four known manuscript copies.
Text written in response to Burghley's proclamation "A declaration of great troubles pretended against the realme by a number of seminarie priests and Jesuists," dated 18 October 1591 and published in November.
Written primarily in secretary hand with occasional italic words and phrases.
Text written in response to Burghley's proclamation "A declaration of great troubles pretended against the realme by a number of seminarie priests and Jesuists," dated 18 October 1591 and published in November.
Written primarily in secretary hand with occasional italic words and phrases.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1906.
Summary
A petition to Queen Elizabeth I, asserting that the Catholics in England do not deserve the "contumelious termes" applied to them in a recent proclamation in her name. Discussing the Babington Plot of 1586, mentioning Anthony Babington (p.27); John Ballard (p.27); Sir Francis Walsingham (p.28); Gilbert Gifford (p.29); Robert Poley (p.28); Baron de Chateauneuf (French Ambassador to England, called "Monsieur Chatennefe," p.30); Claude Nau and Gilbert Curle (p. 30); Bernard Maude (p.31); and John Savage (p.33).
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (20.2 cm)
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