Part II: The Tudors: Henry VIII to Elizabeth I, 1509 – 1603: State Papers Foreign, Ireland, Scotland, Borders and Registers of the Privy Council  

Containing around 500,000 facsimile manuscript pages linking to fully-searchable Calendar entries, Part II reunites Foreign, Scotland, Borders and Ireland papers for the 16^th century together with the Registers (‘Minutes’) of the Privy Council for the whole of the Tudor period.

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Key themes of Part II include:

• Mary, Queen of Scots: captivity, trial and execution
• French wars of Religion between Catholics and Huguenots (1562-98)
• 1541 Act raising Ireland into a Kingdom annexed to the Crown of England
• Henry VIII’s ‘rough wooing’ of Scotland
• England’s defeat of Philip II of Spain’s Grand Armada in 1588
• Beginning of 80-year war between Spain and the Netherlands in 1566
• England's relations with the Barbary States, Denmark, Flanders, France, Genoa, Holy Roman Empire, German States, Hambery and Hanse Towns, Holland and Flanders, Italian State and Rome, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Savoy and Sardinia, Sicily and Naples, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Tuscany and Venice
• Letters to and from the English agents in Scotland: the ambassadors Randolphe, Killigrew and the two Bowes, and the secretarial assistant Nicolson
• Extents and valors of the possessions of dissolved religious houses in Ireland, and those attainted of high treason, including Gerald, Earl of Kildare (1540-1583).

Includes:

• From The National Archives, London: SP 46, 49, 50,51, 52, 53, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 68, 69, 70, 71, 75, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 88, 89, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 108, and PC2 (Registers of the Privy Council, 1509-1602)
• From the British Library: Selected documents from the Cotton, Harley and Yelverton Collections