Salisbury, Robert Cecil, Earl of. The copie of a letter to the Right Honourable the Earle of Leycester, Lieutenant generall of all her Maiesties forces in the vnited Prouinces of the lowe Countreys : written before, but deliuered at his returne from thence: vvith a report of certeine petitions and declarations made to the Queenes Maiestie at two seuerall times, from all the lordes and commons lately assembled in Parliament. And her Maiesties answeres thereunto by her selfe deliuered, though not expressed by the reporter with such grace and life, as the same were vttered by her Maiestie

Folger bibliographic ID: 163195
STC number: 6052
ESTC number: S109079
Folger call number: STC 14390 copy 2
Folger holdings ID: 156498

Bibliographic format

quarto

General notes

The letter signed: R.C., i.e. Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury Sometimes attributed to Richard Crompton Regarding the proposed execution of Mary, Queen of Scots The last leaf is blank From p. 4 on, even numbers are on the rectos The letter comes in two versions; A3r, text starts (1) "Albeit with earnest" or (2) "Albeit the earnest" Signatures: A-E⁴

Item information about Folger STC 14390 copy 2

HH122/2.25. HH42/6. Letter in version 1. Tan calf binding, blind-tooled, with red leather labels on spine lettered in gilt: 'Pamphlets' and '9'. Manuscript notes: pencilled notes on front fly-leaf list 'American References' within volume. Last of 25 tracts (STCs and Wings) bound together. Provenance: inscriptions on t.p.: 'R. North' and 'Durum Pati' [i.e. Durum Patientia (?)]; bookplate of William Lord North of Carthlage and Baron Grey of Rolleston 1703'; Sotheby sale, 13 November 1922:642; collated by E. Talbot at Quaritch; Harmsworth copy

Extended title: The copie of a letter to the Right Honourable the Earle of Leycester, Lieutenant generall of all her Maiesties forces in the vnited Prouinces of the lowe Countreys : written before, but deliuered at his returne from thence: vvith a report of certeine petitions and declarations made to the Queenes Maiestie at two seuerall times, from all the lordes and commons lately assembled in Parliament. And her Maiesties answeres thereunto by her selfe deliuered, though not expressed by the reporter with such grace and life, as the same were vttered by her Maiestie
Alternate titles: Copie of a letter to the Right Honourable the Earle of Leycester, Lieutenant generall of all her Majesties forces in the united Provinces of the lowe Countreys

Great Britain Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587

author: Salisbury, Robert Cecil, Earl of, 1563-1612
subject: Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587
attributed name: Crompton, Richard, active 1573-1599
printer: Barker, Christopher, 1529-1599
former owner: Harmsworth, R. Leicester Sir, (Robert Leicester), 1870-1937
former owner: North, William North, Baron, 1678-1734
associated with: Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603