The letter-book contains copies of 87 of Pole's more important letters to popes, cardinals and sovereigns, including a moving letter written in 1541 after the execution of his mother, the Countess of Salisbury, in which he denounced Henry as another Nero, Herod or Caligula.
Item Provenance
5th Earl of Rosebery, Barnbougle Castle; Sotheby's, 29 October 2009, lot 90