Sub-fonds
Carew Manuscripts
Catalogue reference: MSS/596-638
What’s it about?
This record is about the Carew Manuscripts dating from 1515-1623.
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Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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MSS/596-638
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Title (The name of the record)
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Carew Manuscripts
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Date (When the record was created)
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1515-1623
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Description (What the record is about)
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Diverse and important papers for the history of Ireland, especially during the reign of Elizabeth I, including copies of some documents not now known to survive.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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There is some obscurity in the arrangement of the collection which, unlike the published calendar, is not arranged chronologically. Different parts of some documents are bound in different volumes.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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<p>Bodleian Library: Carte Papers; also Laud Manuscripts 611-615.</p>
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- Lambeth Palace Library
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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43 Volumes
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
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Volume I, p. lxiii, of the published calendar notes that part of Carew's efforts in later life must have been 'occupied in arranging his valuable collections of papers connected with the history of Ireland'. The material was bequeathed to Sir Thomas Stafford, perhaps Carew's natural son, on whom biographical information is limited, but who finished the work and published Pacata Hibernia (1633), a history of Carew's administration of the province of Munster.
The Carew manuscripts were transferred to the Public Record Office for the calendar to be made.
Some of the original volumes appear not to have survived.
A LIST OF THE CAREW MSS.,
Showing the Ancient Letter-marks both of the Volumes which are still to be found in the LAMBETH and BODLEIAN LIBRARIES, and of those which are now wanting.
Old lettering.
A Carew MS 596.
AA Carew MS 597.
AAA Described in the old catalogue of the Lambeth Library, but now missing.
B Carew MS 598.
BB Carew MS 599.
BBB Described as above. Missing.
C Carew MS 600.
CC Carew MS 601.
[C]CC Carew MS 602.
D Carew MS 603.
DD MS. Laud. 611, in the Bodleian Library.
DDD (altered to QQQ) Carew MS 604.
E MS. Bodl. Laud., 612.
EE Missing, but printed as Davis's Reports.
EEE Carew MS 605.
F Carew MS 606.
FF Described as above. Missing.
FFF Carew MS 607.
G Carew MS 608.
[GG] Carew MS 609.
GGG Carew MS 610.
H Carew MS 611.
HH Carew MS 612.
HHH Described as above. Missing.
I MS. Bodl. Laud. 613.
JJ Carew MS 610.
JJJ Described as above. Missing.
K MS. Bodl. Laud. 614.
KK Described as above. Missing.
KKK Carew MS 613.
L Carew MS 614.
LL Carew MS 615.
LLL Carew MS 616.
M Carew MS 617.
MM Carew MS 618.
MMM Carew MS 619.
N Carew MS 620.
NN Described as above. Missing.
NN[N] Carew MS 621.
O Carew MS 622.
OO Described as above. Missing.
OOO Described as above. Missing.
P Carew MS 623.
PP Described as above. Missing.
PPP Carew MS 624.
Q Carew MS 625.
QQ Carew MS 626.
QQQ Described as above. Missing.
R Described as above. Missing.
RR Described as above. Missing.
RRR Described as above. Missing.
S Carew MS 627.
SS Described as above. Missing.
SSS Carew MS 628.
T MS. Bodl. Laud. 615.
TT ("Tomus Primus") Carew MS 629.
TT ("Tomus Secundus") Carew MS 630.
TTT Described as above. Missing.
V Carew MS 631.
VV Carew MS 632.
VVV Described as above. Missing.
W Carew MS 633.
WW Described as above. Missing.
WWW Carew MS 634.
X Described as above. Missing.
XX Carew MS 635.
XXX Described as above. Missing.
Y Described as above. (Printed as "Davis's Discourse.")
YY Described as above.
YYY Not described in the old catalogue, but a memorandum respecting it has been made by Archbishop Sancroft.
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- <span class="wrapper"><p>Originally catalogued in H. J. Todd, A catalogue of the archiepiscopal manuscripts in the library at Lambeth Palace (1812).</p> <p>More detailed entries in Calendar of the Carew Manuscripts preserved in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth, ed J. S. Brewer and William Bullen (6 volumes, 1867-1873):</p> <p>Volume I: 1515-1574 (1867)</p> <p>Volume II: 1575-1588 (1868)</p> <p>Volume III: 1589-1600 (1869)</p> <p>Volume IV: 1601-1603 (1870)</p> <p>Volume V: 1603-1623 (1873)</p> <p>Volume VI: Book of Howth and Miscellaneous (1871)</p> <p>These give detailed abstracts of the documents. The abstracts are arranged in chronological order, unlike the original papers which are dispersed through the volumes. The introductions to the volumes of the published calendar include biographical information on Carew and his contemporaries, summarise the content of the papers and remark on particular items, and provide commentary on contemporary events and characters. They also include further copies of some of the documents, and copies of documents from other sources.</p> <p>Catalogue descriptions are based on this calendar.</p> <p>Some documents were also published in the Letters and Papers of Henry VIII.</p> <p>See also Report to the Right Honourable the Master of the Rolls upon the Carte and Carew Papers in the Bodleian and Lambeth Libraries (1864), including information (Appendix C) on the missing volumes.</p></span>
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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Collected by Sir George Carew, President of Munster (afterwards Earl of Totnes), for the purpose of writing a history of Ireland, but he died before completing this work.
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Copies information (Indicates existence, availability, location and format of copies)
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Microfilms of the Carew Manuscripts are available from World Microfilms Publications.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/f8094637-f8eb-4e90-8813-81973d61090e/
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