70 Privy Council letters to the Archbishops of Canterbury, many relating to a period when the registers of the Privy council are missing. Many letters to and from Burghley and Walsingham. The 17th century papers include a volume of letters on French affairs and particularly Buckinghams ill-fated expedition to La Rochelle. The collection also includes papers of Sir Matthew Hale that reveal him as theologian and scientist as well as lawyer and most of the manuscript of Contemplations moral and divine
Item Provenance
Discovered by James Fairhurst in the 1930s, before that last known in the collection of Matthew Hale in the 17th century