Four volumes of English State Papers of the time of Elizabeth I and James I.
Fortescue State Papers
This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford
- Reference
- GB 161 MSS. Add. D. 109-112
- Dates of Creation
- 1588-1627
- Name of Creator
- Language of Material
- English, and French.
- Physical Description
- 4 shelfmarks
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
George Matthew Fortescue (1791-1877) was an MP.
Access Information
Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/specialcollections).
Acquisition Information
The collection was presented to the Library by George Matthew Fortescue in 1872.
Note
Collection level description created by Emily Tarrant, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.
Other Finding Aids
Falconer Madan, et al., A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the Quarto series (7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vol. V, nos. 29015-8.
A detailed calendar of the papers is in the appendix to the 2nd Report of the Historical Manuscripts Commission, (London, 1871), pp. 49-63.
Custodial History
The collection consists chiefly of papers acquired by John Packer secretary of the Duke of Buckingham, including some which came to him when he acquired the estate of Hackness in Yorkshire. These papers, or part of them, descended with Hackness to the Hobys and Sydenhams in 1640, in 1707 to John van den Bempde, and then to the Pitts of Boconnoc.