HISTORICAL CORRESPONDENCE VOLUME V

Historical correspondence volume V containing documents numbered 1-184. The volume was originally bound by Bray in two parts, the second of which (entitled 'Cawarden, Popish Recusants, etc') was sold some time between 1912 and 1939; most of its contents are now in the Folger Library, Washington (for which see Z/407/-). A Century of Persecution by S George Kieran Hyland (1920) reproduces many of these recusancy papers.

Bray's part 1 was rebound at the Public Record Office in 1939 into the present two parts. Several documents were subsequently removed from these for sale, but many of them were returned to Loseley and bound into a new volume, no.2014 (see 6729/13/-). Bound at the front is a typescript list of documents giving cross references to entries in the Historical Manuscripts Commission report or in Kempe's book and the original list of contents in Bray's hand.

The volume begins with a rare example of a letter issued under by Lady Jane Grey as queen (6729/3/4). The majority of the first part is compilations of letters to William and George More from: members of the Howard and Cecil families and from Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. The second part is principally family correspondence, apparently selected for their theme of debt, but also includes letters from Sir John Wolley, Latin Secretary to Queen Elizabeth (d.1596), to his father in law William More, including political news and references to the Queen's great trust in More (in particular 6729/3/169).

This is a full list of the contents of the volume (now in two parts: 6729/3/1-110 are bound in part 1, and 6729/3/112-184 in part 2). There are no documents with the references 6729/3/1-3, 6-11, 13, 22-25, 27-28, 31-32, 38-45, 57, 60-61, 64-66, 68-69, 75, 77, 81, 86, 89-90, 101-103, 108-109, 111, 114-129, 134-138.

For transcripts, see Zg/109/3/3/.