Lansdowne MSS
43, no.3, 3ff – Letter from William Parry to Lord Burghley; Fetter Lane, London, 2 August 1584.
48, f.120 – Proclamation ordering markets to be supplied with foodstuffs ‘at reasonable prices’; Greenwich, 2 January 1587.
50, articles 19–21 – Letters from Henry Radcliffe, Fourth Earl of Sussex about a planned rebellion by Catholics ‘in the country near Portsmouth, Hampshire; June 1586.
52, article 31 – Captain William Borough’s defence against the charges laid against him by Sir Francis Drake, May 1587.
– article 39 – Captain William Borough’s account of his ‘misunderstanding’ with Sir Francis Drake, 30 April 1587.
– article 40 – Discourse of what courses were best taken for the resistance of the Spanish navy, by William Borough: 26 February 1589.
53, article 3, 3ff – Speech of Mr William Parry at his execution; Great Palace Yard, Westminster, 2 March 1585.
– f.23 – Account of the fighting off Cadiz by Francisco de Benito de Maiora; St Mary’s Port, ‘nine of the clock at night’, 29 April 1587.
– article 79 – Account of Anne Burnell who claimed to be the daughter of Mary I and Philip of Spain.
56, f.175 – Agreement between Sir Francis Drake and the London Merchant Adventurers covering the supply of ships and the division of spoil for the attack on Cadiz; signed 28 March 1587.
59, f.105 – Proclamation forbidding any who served with the expedition to Spain and Portugal from approaching the royal court; 1589.
100, f.98 – Drake’s plan for his campaign in Galicia and the Caribbean in 1585.
103, f.93 – Authority to Anthony Ashley to keep a ‘true journal’ of proceedings during the expedition to Spain and Portugal; 1589.
Sloane MSS
262/62 – Diary of the English peace commissioners in Flanders.
Stowe MSS
159, f.370 – Letter from Ralph Lane describing the English landing at Peniche, Portugal, 26 May 1589.
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE LIBRARY, CAMBRIDGE
MSS
Hh.6.10. ff.1–59 – Disputation of Puritan Ministers in London; November 1588.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHIVES, GLOUCESTER
Gloucester Borough Records
GBR /H/2/1, f.1 – Privy Council letter to Lord Chandos, seeking the appointment of a provost marshal for the arrest and imprisonment of ‘idle vagabonds’, 1588.
HATFIELD HOUSE, HERTFORDSHIRE
MSS OF THE MARQUIS OF SALISBURY
Cecil Papers
13/77 – Mary Queen of Scots signed bond ‘to be an enemy to all those that attempt anything against Queen Elizabeth’s life’; Wingfield, 5 January 1585.
16/17 – Circumstances of the execution of Mary Queen of Scots, bearing Burghley’s holograph.
17/2 – Instructions to Dr Dale, negotiating a peace treaty with Spain.
17/23 – Depositions by two Dutch sailors who served with the Spanish Armada.
18/26 – Letter from the Privy Council to Lord Burghley seeking licences to export corn, 1589.
18/54 – Appeal by twenty-five captains who had served on the expedition to Portugal for further service.
18/82 – Letter from Robert, Earl of Essex, to Vice-Chamberlain Heneage.
162/148 – Advertisements of merchants ‘touching practises against England’, [1583].
164/17 – Account of execution of Mary Queen of Scots.
166/83 – Numbers and names of ships that served against the Spanish Armada.
186/2 – Claim for compensation, following the escape of thirty Spanish prisoners from Dublin Bay in the stolen pinnance, Swallow, 1588. (Misdated in HMC Salisbury, vol. XIC (London 1923), p.813, as 1601).
Maps
CPM Supp.11 – Map of Ulster and his nearest nigthbores.
INNER TEMPLE LIBRARY, CITY OF LONDON
Petyt MSS
Series 538, vol. 43, ff.304–14 – An Antidote against Jesuitism’ written in Burghley’s hand; draft dated 158– but probably 1583. Final version is in vol. 37, ff.177 et seq.
LAMBETH PALACE LIBRARY, LONDON
MSS
250, ff.170–15 – Proceedings at the arraignment of Philip Howard, Earl of Arundel, in Westminster Hall, 14 April 1589.
647, ff.235–8 – Letter from William Fenner to Anthony Bacon; Plymouth, 1589.
3,198, f.284 – Leicester to the Earl of Shrewsbury; Tilbury Camp, 15 August 1588.
3,206, f.263 – Robert Swift the younger to the Earl of Shrewsbury, providing news from court, including the release of Princess Elizabeth from the Tower; London, 20 May 1554.
LINCOLNSHIRE ARCHIVES
LINCOLN RECORD OFFICE, LINCOLN
8ANC/58 – ‘Note of such information as I had of some shipmasters that came from the [Gibraltar] straits who were eye-witness to all that is underwritten’; Peregrine Bertie, Thirteenth Baron Willoughby de Eresby; ?March 1588.
8ANC10/114 – Lord Willoughby to the Dutch States General, reminding them of their agreement to supply ships against any enterprise by Spain against England; The Hague, 5 April 1588.
LONGLEAT HOUSE, WARMINSTER, WILTSHIRE
DU/ Vol. 3, ff.91–102 – ‘State of the debt charged upon the deceased Earl of Leicester for exceeding his allowance in the time of his lieutenant generalship in the Low Countries’, 1588.
NATIONAL ARCHIVES, KEW, SURREY
Admiralty records
AO1/1686/23 – 1588 Accounts of Treasurer of Navy.
Exchequer records
E 30/1705 – Ratification of the Treaty of London, ending the Anglo-Spanish war, by Philip III of Spain; Valladolid, 15 June 1605.
Maps
MPF 1/134 – Richard Popinjay’s map of Hampshire, Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight, 1587, showing fortifications and potential landing beaches. Scale: 1 inch to the mile.
MPF 1/318 – Drake’s chart, used in his attack on Cadiz in 1587, dated that year and signed by his vice-admiral William Borough.
State Papers – Domestic
SP 11/1/22 – Memoranda for Queen Mary on financial issues; early August 1553.
SP 11/4/6 – Estimate for payment of royal debts; ?April 1554.
SP 11/4/2 – Letter from Princess Elizabeth to Mary I: Westminster, ‘about noon’ 17 March 1554.
SP 12/1/7 – Elizabeth’s charge to Sir William Cecil and her Council; Hatfield, 17 (or ?20) November 1558.
SP 12/2/22 – Elizabeth I’s address to Parliament declaring her determination to remain unmarried; 10 February 1559.
SP 12/114/22 – John Aylmer, Bishop of London, to Walsingham; London, 21 June 1577.
SP 12/141/29 – Account of attempts to convert Catholics in York Cathedral, August 1580.
SP 12/168/4 – Sir George Carey, governor of the Isle of Wight, complains to Sir Francis Walsingham about his poor resources to defend the island; February 1584.
SP 12/168/9; SP 12/181/26; SP 12/187/3 – Reports on the fortifications of Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight.
SP 12/176/22 – Lord Burghley’s proposals for a ‘Grand Council’ to govern England in the event of the queen’s assassination, 1584–5.
SP 12/197/13 – Hampshire people requested to lend labourers to dig trenches.
SP 12/198/64 – Instructions to Justices of the Peace on the maintenance and operation of warning beacons, 1587.
SP 12/199/93 – Lord Burghley to the deputy lieutenants of the maritime counties with directions for a new review of horse and foot within the realm; March 1587.
SP 12/208/79, f.181 – Letter from Lord High Admiral Howard to Lord Burghley, reporting on the condition of the queen’s ships; 12 February 1588.
SP 12/208/87, f.201v – Letter from Lord High Admiral Howard to Lord Burghley reporting on the Ark Royal; 28 February 1588.
SP 12/209/40 f.77 – Letter from Sir Francis Drake to the Privy Council, urging a pre-emptive strike on the Armada before it sailed; Plymouth, 30 March 1588.
SP 12/210/33 – Such means as are considered to put the forces of the R
ealm in order to Withstand any Invasion.
SP 12/211/47 – Sir Francis Godolphin’s report of a Mousehole barque sighting Armada ships on 23 June 1588.
SP 12/211/56 – Proclamation ordering martial law against possessors of papal bulls, books, pamphlets; Greenwich, 1 July 1588.
SP 12/212/66 f.139 – Lord Burghley to Sir Francis Walsingham on financial problems, 19 July 1588.
SP 12/212/80 f.167 – Lord Howard, Lord High Admiral to Sir Francis Walsingham, Ark Royal, Plymouth, 31 July 1588.
SP 12/212/95 – Proclamation against ‘wicked and traitorous lies’.
SP 12/213/14 – Names of the ships presently in [Sir Henry Seymour’s] fleet; 23 July 1588.
SP 12/213/34 – Report by Lord Henry Seymour listing his ships and their supplies, June 1588.
SP 12/213/40, f.97 – Sir George Carey to Earl of Sussex, reporting fighting off the southern coast of the Isle of Wight; Carisbrooke Castle, 4 August 1588.
SP 12/213/64, f.148 – Lord Howard, Lord High Admiral, to Sir Francis Walsingham, reporting on the battle of Gravelines, in Ark Royal, 8 August 1588.
SP 12/213/65 f.150 – Sir Francis Drake to Sir Francis Walsingham reporting on the battle of Gravelines, in Revenge, 8 August 1588.
SP 12/213/71, ff.164–5 – Sir John Hawkins to Sir Francis Walsingham, reporting on the battle of Gravelines, in Victory, 8 August 1588.
State Papers – Foreign
SP 94/2 f.212 – Estimate of men and ships under the command of Santa Cruz, ?1587.
SP 94/3 f.227r – Spanish Armada reported ready to sail, 7 May 1588. f.229 – Estimates of the numbers of men and ships gathered at Lisbon.
State Papers – Ireland
SP 63/137 no. 1, ii, f.4 – Medina Sidonia’s sailing instructions for Spain.
–17, Partial list of Spanish prisoners remaining at Drogheda, 13 October 1588.
SP 63/139/25 no.1 f.83 – Testimony of James Machary of ‘the Cross within the County of Tipperary’, 29 December 1588.
SP 63/149, f.30 – Report of Luke Plunkett on the Swallow; Dublin, 1589.
State Papers – Scotland
SP 52/35/18 – Letter from Lord Hunsdon to William Davison describing the execution of Francis Throckmorton; Berwick, 23 July 1584.
Will
PROB 11/92 ff.229–30 – Will of William Borough, dated 26 July 1598.
SURREY LOCAL HISTORY CENTRE, WOKING, SURREY
LM/13/29/370 – Examination of ‘Tristram Winslade, a Catholic, accused of involvement in a Spanish invasion’; 1588.
LM/1945 – Paper entitled ‘A certain and direct way to perceive in the night season or in a misty weather in the daytime whether the beacon the which we have regard unto be on fire or not’.
Printed
SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF LONDON
BURLINGTON HOUSE, LONDON
Broadsides
T[homas] D[eloney] – A most ioyfull songe made in the behalfe of all her Maiesties faithfull and louing subjects of the great ioy which was made in London at the taking of the late trayterous conspirators (London, printed by Richard Jones [1586]). (Broadsides, Henry VIII–Elizabeth, 1519–1603, f.83). STC 6557.
W[illiam] E[lderton] – A new Ballade, declaring the daungerous shootyng of the Gunne at the Courte (London, Edward White, 1579). (Broadsides, Henry VIII–Elizabeth, 1519–1603, f.72).
Proclamations
Reuocation of sundrie her Maiesties subiects remaining beyond the Seas under colour of studie, and yet liuing contrarie to the Lawes of God and of the Realm. And also against the reteyning of Jesuits and Massing Priestes, sources of sedition and other treasonable attempts, Greenwich, 10 January 1581 (London, Christopher Barker, 1581). (Proclamations, vol. 4, Elizabeth, 1558–90, f.26B.)
The effect of certain branches of the Statute made in Anno. XXXIII Henry. VIII touching the maintenance of Artyllery and the punishment of such as vse vunlawfull games, very necessary to be put into execution (London, Christopher Barker, ?1580). (Proclamations, vol. 4, Elizabeth, 1558–90, f.26.)
Against the bringing in, dispersing, uttering and Keeping of bulles from the Sea of Rome, and other Traiterous and Sedicious Libels, Bookes and Pamphlets, Greenwich, 1 July 1588 (London, deputies of Christopher Barker, 1588). (Proclamations, vol. 4, Elizabeth, 1558–90, f.45.)
The Queenes most excellent Maiestie, being minded in this daungerous time to intertain a certain number of captaines and souldiers for the garding of her royall person under the government and lieutenancy of the Right Hon. Lord Chamberlain . . . by this proclamation straightly to charge and command that all and every person and persons . .. do observe and keep such rates and prices for all kinds of victuals, horsemeate, lodging and other necessaries . . . St James’, 17 August 1588 (London, deputies of Christopher Barker, 1588). (Proclamations, vol. 4, Elizabeth, 1558–90, f.46.)
The Queenes Maiestie being given to vnderstand that diuers souldiers vpon the dissoluing of the campe at Tilberie in the countie of Essex have in the way homeward sold diuerse their armors and weapons which have been delivered vnto them by the officers of those Counties where they have been levied . . . and besides the sale of the said armor and weapons have most falsely and slanderously given out that they were compelled to make sale of them for that they received no pay which is most vntruely reported, St James’, 25 August 1588 (London, deputies of Christopher Barker, 1588). (Proclamations, vol. 4, Elizabeth, 1558–90, f.47.)
Concerning [sic] the souldiers appointed to serve in her Maiesties seruice beyond the seas vnder the charge of Sir Iohn Norris and Sir Francis Drake, Richmond, 23 January 1589 (London, deputies of Christopher Barker, 1589). (Proclamations, vol. 4, Elizabeth, 1558–90, f.51.)
By the Queenes commaundment forasmuch as it is found by good proofe that many persons which haue serued of late on the seas in the iourney towards Spayne and Portingall, in coming from Plymouth and other portes . . . have fallen sick by the way and diuers died as infected with the plague . . ., Nonsuch, 22 July 1589 (London, deputies of Christopher Barker, 1589). (Proclamations, vol. 4, Elizabeth, 1558–90, f.55.)
Other printed works
Allen, Cardinal William – An admonition to the nobility and people of England and Ireland concerninge the present warres made for the esecution of his Holines sengtence by the highe and mightie Kinge Catholike of Spaine (Antwerp, 1588).
APC – Acts of the Privy Council, n.s., ed. John Roche Dasent;
– vol. 8, 1571–5 (London, 1894).
– vol. 14, 1586–7 (London, 1897).
– vol. 15, 1587–8 (London, 1897).
– vol. 16, 1588 (London, 1897).
– vol. 17, 1588–9 (London, 1898).
– vol. 18, 1589–90 (London, 1899).
Archer, Ian W. and Price, F. Douglas – English Historical Documents 1558–1603 (London & New York, 2011).
Corbett, Sir Julian S. – Papers Relating to the Navy during the Spanish War, 1585–7, NRS (London, 1898).
CSP Domestic Henry VIII – Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, vol. 10, 1536, ed. James Gairdner (London, 1887).
CSP Domestic Mary – Calendar of State Papers Domestic Series Mary I 1553–58, ed. C.S. Knighton, rev. ed. (London, 1998).
CSP Domestic Elizabeth – Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reign of Elizabeth, 1581–90, ed. Robert Lemon (London, 1865).
– Addenda, Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reigns of Elizabeth and James I, Addenda, 1580–1625, ed. Mary Anne Everett Green (London, 1872).
CSP Foreign Elizabeth – Calendar of State Papers, Foreign, of the Reign of Elizabeth, vol. 9, 1569–71, ed. Allan Crosby (London, 1874).
– vol. 18, July 1583–July 1584, ed. Sophie Crawford Lomas (London, 1914).
– vol. 21, pt 1, 1586–8, ed. Sophie Crawford Lomas (London, 1927).
– vol. 22, July–December 1588, ed. Richard Bruce Wernham (London, 1936).
CSP Ireland Elizabeth – Calendar of State Papers Relating to Ireland, of the Reign of Elizabeth I, August 1588
-September 1592, ed. Hans Claude Hamilton (London, 1885).
CSP Milan – Calendar of State Papers Existing in the Archives of Milan, ed. Allen B. Hinds, vol. 1 (London, 1912).
CSP Spain – Calendar of Letters and State Papers Spain, vol. 4, pt 2, 1531–3, ed. Pascual de Gayangos (London, 1882).
– vol. 10, 1550–2, ed. Royall Tyler (London, 1914).
– vol. 11, 1553, ed. Royall Tyler (London, 1916).
– vol. 13, 1554–8, ed. Royall Tyler (London, 1954).
CSP Spain (Simancas) – Calendar of Letters and State Papers Relating to English Affairs, Preserved in, or Originally Belonging to, the Archives of Simancas, vol. 1 (1558–67), ed. Martin A.S. Hume (London, 1892).
– vol. 2, 1568–79, ed. Martin A. S. Hume (London, 1894).
– vol. 3, 1580–6, ed. Martin A. S. Hume (London, 1896).
– vol. 4, 1587–1603, ed. Martin A. S. Hume (London, 1899).
CSP Vatican – Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs Preserved Principally at Rome in the Vatican Archives and Library, vol. 2, 1572–8, ed. J.M. Rigg (London, 1926).
CSP Venice – Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs Existing in the Archives of Venice, vol. 6, 1556–8, ed. Rawdon Brown (London, 1877).
– vol. 7, 1558–80, ed. Rawdon Brown and G. Cavendish Bentinck (London, 1890).
– vol. 8, 1581–91, ed. Horatio F. Brown (London, 1894).
Deloney, Thomas – The Queenes Visiting of the Campe at Tilburie with Her Entertainment There to the Tune of Wilson’s Wilde (London, 1588). STC 6565.
Ellis, Henry – Original Letters Illustrative of English History, 2nd s., (4 vols, London, 1827).
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