Some Grey Matter

What is a Primary Source?

Manuscript Primary Sources:

        British Library, London :
                Additional 10617 – Seventeenth-century transcriptions of National Archives Public Record                                                    Office, Kings Bench 8/22–25
                Additional 12065 – Sixteenth-century transcript of John Dudley’s Scaffold Speech
                Additional 14024 – Seventeenth- or eighteenth-century transcriptions of Privy Council                                                    Register from reign of Edward VI
                Additional 15215 – Anonymous sixteenth-century chronicle of Wyatt’s Rebellion
                Additional 18738 – Letter from Privy Council dated 15 July 1553
                Additional 22563 – 1833 transcript of letter from Privy Council to the Sheriff of Wiltshire in                                                    the name of Queen Jane, 7 July 1553
                Additional 26748 – Minutes of the Privy Council for late-1553
                Additional 33230 – Letter from officials in Kent noting they had proclaimed Mary as Queen,                                                    19 July 1553
                Additional 34152 – Letters from persons in Kent related to Wyatt’s Rebellion
                Additional 48036 – Seventeenth-century transcript of Acts of Privy Council for Mary and                                                    Philip
                Cotton Caligula B IX/1 – Notes on matters of the succession in England, 1556–1570
                Cotton Galba B XII – Originals of letters from Edward and the Privy Council to the English                                                    Ambassadors in Brussels
                Cotton Julius B IX – Register of Grants, etc. under the Great Seal, 1551–1553
                Cotton Julius F VI – Sixteenth-century transcription of a fifteenth-century treatise against                                                    accession to the Crown by a woman and of proclamation of                                                    accession of Queen Jane
                Cotton Titus B II – Letter from Mary to Earl of Sussex to raise forces in her defense, 29 July                                                    1553
                Cotton Vespasian F III – Mary’s proclamation against Sir Thomas Wyatt
                Cotton Vitellius F XII – St Edmund’s Chronicle of London, 1189–1555
                Egerton 2009–2012 – Four-volume set of madrigal, motets, etc. in four voices, including                                                    a ballad about Queen Jane
                Egerton 2148 – Thomas Hoby’s “Booke of the Trauaile and lief of me”
                Egerton 2642 – A sixteenth-century almanac, includes chronicle of events of 1553
                Egerton 2986 – Letter from Francis Hastings reporting capture of Henry Grey,                                                    2 February 1554
                Harley 284 – Contemporary transcript of John Dudley’s scaffold speech
                Harley 353 – Contemporary copies of sixteenth-century letters and papers
                Harley 416 – Papers of John Foxe, accessible only via British Library microfilm
                Harley 422 – Papers of John Foxe, accessible only via British Library microfilm
                Harley 424 – Papers of John Foxe, accessible only via British Library microfilm
                Harley 425 – Papers of John Foxe, accessible only via British Library microfilm
                Harley 523 – Contemporary copies of papers of the Privy Council for reign of Edward VI
                Harley 2194 – Late-seventeenth-century transcript of records of Lords High                                                    Steward of England
                Harley 2342 – Lady Jane Grey’s prayer-book. Accessible only via British Library microfilm.
                Harley 2370 – De Arte Moriendi, containing copy of Jane Grey’s letter to her sister,                                                    February 1554
                Lansdowne 2 – William Cecil’s copy of Jane Grey’s letter to Thomas Harding
                Lansdowne 3 – Original letters to and from the Privy Council, July 1553
                Lansdowne103 – Papers of William Cecil, Lord Burghley
                Lansdowne 104 – Papers of William Cecil, Lord Burghley
                Lansdowne 198 – Royal Proclamations 1504–1642
                Lansdowne 1236 – Original letters, including several under autograph signature of Queen                                                    Jane, 11 July 1553
                Royal 12A XXVI – Late-seventeenth-century transcript of John Dudley’s speech from the                                                    scaffold
                Royal 18C XXIV – Original register of all bills signed by King and Privy Council from 19                                                    October 1551
                Sloane 1086 – Book of heraldic emblems, including Grey family banner
                Sloane 3011 – Regole et Institutioni della Lingua Thoscana , by Michelangelo Florio,                                                    inscribed to Lady Jane Grey

        Cambridge University Library :
                Dd. XI.46, Regole de la lingua Thoscana, Michelangelo Florio

        Corporation of London Record Office :
                The Repertories of the Court of Aldermen, 1485–1835.

        Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington , D.C. :
                Loseley L.b.24 – Letter from Queen Jane to Thomas Cawarden, 16 July 1553
                Loseley L.b.341 – Letter from Queen Mary to Thomas Cawarden, January 1554
                Loseley L.b.342 – Letters Patent of Edward VI granting offices to Thomas Cawarden
                Loseley L.b.503 – Letter from Privy Council to Thomas Cawarden, 9 July 1553
                Loseley L.b.504 – Letter from Henry Grey to Thomas Cawarden, 16 July 1553

        Public Record Office of the National Archives ( UK) :
                C 1/1289 – Records of lawsuit, related to Chancery 1/1301
                C 1/1301 – Lawsuit catalogued as “time of Queen Jane”
                E 101/631 – Inventory of John Dudley’s properties seized in August 1553
                E 154/2 – Inventory of John Dudley’s properties seized in August 1553
                E 154/6 – Inventory of John Dudley’s properties seized in August 1553
                KB 8/22–25 – Documents related to trial of Jane and Guildford Dudley et al.,
                                                13 November 1553
                LR 2/118 – Inventory of John Dudley’s properties seized in August 1553
                LR 2/119 – Inventory of John Dudley’s properties seized in August 1553
                LR 2/120 – Inventory of John Dudley’s properties seized in August 1553
                SP 10/5/4–5, Extract 94/2/1–2 – Jane Grey’s letter to Thomas Seymour, 1548
                SP 10/15/79 – Letters and papers of the reign of Edward VI

        Hatfield House (UK) :
                Salisbury 1 – Drafts of diplomatic letters, July 1553
                Salisbury 133 – Documents related to trial of Thomas Seymour, 1549
                Salisbury 138 – Documents related to trial of Thomas Seymour, 1549
                Salisbury 150 – Documents related to trial of Thomas Seymour, 1549
                Salisbury 198 – Diplomatic letters, June and July 1553
                                All accessible only via microfilm at Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC,
                                Folger Shakespeare Library microfilm number 164, reels 1, 30, 39, and 52.

        Surrey History Centre, Woking (UK) :
                Loseley COR 3 – Original letters from Queen Jane and Privy Council to official in Surrey
                Loseley 2014 – Original letters from Queen Jane and Privy Council to official in Surrey
                Loseley 6729/3 – Original letters under autograph signature of Queen Jane
                Unclassified 1922 – Original copy of proclamation of accession of Queen Jane

Printed Primary Sources :  

        Acts of the Privy Council of England, New Series, Vol. III . A.D. 1550–1552. Edited by John                  Roche Dasent. London : HMSO, 1891.

        Anon. The life, death and actions of the most chast, learned, and religious lady, the Lady                  Iane Gray, daughter to the Duke of Suffolke Containing foure principall discourses                  written with her owne hands. The first an admonition to such as are weake in faith:                  the second a catechisme: the third an exhortation to her sister: and the last her words                  at her death. London: Printed by G. Eld, for John Wright, 1615. Accessible via Early                  English Books Online.

        Ascham, Roger. The Scholemaster, or plaine and perfite way of teachyng children, to                  understand, write, and speake, the latin tong, but specially purposed for the private                  brynging up of youth in Jentlemen and Noble mens houses.... London: John Daye, 1570.                  Accessible via Early English Books Online.

        Ascham, Roger. The Whole Works of Roger Ascham. Edited by J. A. Giles. New York: AMS                  Press, 1965; reprinted from edition of London: John Russell Smith, 1864.

        Calendar of Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic of the Reign of Henry VIII, 1509–                  1545, Preserved in the Public Record Office, the British Museum, and Elsewhere in                  England. Edited by James Gairdner. London: Published for Her Majesty's Stationery Office                  by Longman, l826 and Vaduz: Kraus Reprint, 1965.

        Calendar of Letters and State Papers Relating to English Affairs, preserved principally in                  the Archives of Simancas, Vol. 1: Elizabeth I: 1558–1567. Edited by Martin A. Hume.                  Nendeln, Liechtestein: Kraus Reprints, 1971.

        Calendar of Letters, Despatches, and State Papers relating to negotiations between                  England and Spain, Vol. XI: Edward VI and Mary. Edited by Royall Tyler. London:                  HMSO, 1916 and Nendeln, Lichtenstein, 1969.

        Calendar of Letters, Despatches, and State Papers relating to negotiations between                  England and Spain, Vol. XII: Mary I: January–July 1554. Edited by Royall Tyler.                  London: HMSO, 1916 and Nendeln, Lichtenstein, 1969.

        The Chronicle of the Grey Friars of London. Edited by John Gough Nichols. London: The                  Camden Society, 1852.

        The Chronicle of Queen Jane, and of Two Years of Queen Mary, and especially of the                  Rebellion of Sir Thomas Wyat. Edited by John Gough Nichols. London: Camden Society,                  1850.

        Commendone, Giovanni Francesco. “Il Successi d’Inghilterra.” The Accession, Coronation, and                  Marriage of Mary Tudor, as related in four manuscripts of the Escorial. Translated by                  Cesare V. Malfatti. Barcelona, 1956.

        A conference between the Lady Jane Grey and F. Fecknam a Romish priest, concerning the                  blessed sacrament; whilest she was prisoner in the Tower of London, and was                  beheaded on the Green there, Feb. 12. 1554. Together with her behaviour and last                  speech and prayers at her suffering. London: 1688.

        Edward VI. The ‘Chronicle’ and Political Papers of King Edward VI. Edited by W. K.                  Jordan. Ithaca: New York: Cornell University Press, 1966.

        Edward VI. England’s Boy King: The Diary of Edward VI, 1537–1553. Edited by Jonathan                  North. Welwyn Garden City, UK: Ravenhall Books, 2005.

        English Historical Documents 1485–1558. Edited by C. H. Williams. London: Eyre and                  Spottiswoode, 1967.

        Fabyan, Robert. The New Chronicles of England and France, in two parts. London: Printed                  for F. C. and J. Rivington, 1811.

        Florio, Michelangelo. Historia de la vita e de la morte de l’Illustrissima Signora Giovanna                  Graia, gia regina eletta a publicata d'Inghilterra. Middelburgh, Zeeland: Johan                  Radermacher, 1607.

        Florio, Michelangelo. Regole de la Lingua Thoscana, edited by Giuliano Pellegrini. Firenze:                  Sansoni, 1954.

        Foxe, John. Actes and Monuments of these latter and perillous dayes touching matters of the                  Church .... London: John Day, 1563.

        Grey, Jane. Brief Confessional Writings: Grey, Stubbes, Livingstone and Clarksone. Edited                  by Mary Ellen Lamb. Vol. 2 of The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library                  of Essential Works, Series 1, Printed Writings, 1500–1640, Part 2, edited by Betty S.                  Travitsky and Patrick Cullen. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2001.

        Grey, Jane. An epistle of the Ladye Iane a righte vertuous woman, to a learned man of late                  falne from the truth of Gods most holy word, for fear of the worlde. London: John                  Daye, 1554. Accessible via Early English Books Online (EEBO).

        Grey, Jane. “A French Letter Concerning Lady Jane Grey and Queen Mary.” In La révolte du                  conte de Warwick contre le roi Edward IV, edited by J. A. Giles. London: Caxton                  Society, 1849 and New York: B. Franklin, 1967.

        Grey, Jane. Here in this booke ye haue a godly epistle made by a faithful Christian A                  comunication betwene Feckna and the Lady Iane Dudley. A letter that she wrote to                  her syster Lady Katherin. The ende of the Ladye Iane vpon the scaffolde. Ye shal haue                  also herein a godly prayer made by maister Iohn Knokes. London: Successor of A.                  Scoloker, 1554. Accessible via EEBO.

        Grey, Jane. The life, death and actions of the most chast, learned, and religious lady, the                  Lady Iane Gray,daughter to the Duke of Suffolke Containing foure principall                  discourses written with her owne  hands. The first an admonition to such as are weake                  in faith: the second a catechisme: the third an exhortation to her sister: and the last                  her words at her death. London: G. Eld, for John Wright, 1615 and London: I. Haviland                  for John Wright, 1636. Accessible via EEBO.

        Grey, Lady Jane. Memoirs and Literary Remains of Lady Jane Grey. Edited by Harris Nicolas.                  London: Henry Colburn, 1832.

        Haynes, Samuel. A Collection of State Papers, relating to Affairs in the reigns of King Henry                  the Eighth, King Edward VI, Queen Mary, and Queen Elizabeth, from the year 1542–                  1570. London: 1740.

        Hayward, John. The Life and Raigne of King Edward the Sixth. Edited by Barrett L. Beer.                  Kent, OH and London: Kent State University Press, 1993.

        Hoby, Thomas. “A Booke of the Travaile and Lief of Me, Thomas Hoby, w[i]th Diverse Things                  Woorth the Notinge.” Edited by Edgar Powell. The Camden Miscellany, Vol. 10. London:                  The Royal Historical Society, 1902.

        Letter and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of HVIII, Vol. XII, Part II. Edited by                  James Gairdner. London: HMSO, 1891 and Vaduz: Kraus Reprint, 1965.

        Machyn, Henry. The Diary of Henry Machyn, Citizen and Merchant-Taylor of London, from                  A.D. 1550 to A.D. 1563. Edited by John Gough Nichols. London: The Camden Society,                  1848.

        Noailles, Antoine de, Mssrs. Ambassades de Messieurs de Noailles en Angleterre. 3 vols.                  Leyde: Dessaint and Saillant, 1763.

        Original Letters Relative to the English Reformation. 2 vols. Edited by Hastings Robinson.                  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1846 and 1847.

        The Parliamentary History of England, from the earliest period to the year 1803. 30 vols.                  London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Browne, 1806–1820.

        Parliaments of England, 1213-1702, Part I: Members of Parliament. London, 1878.

        Records of the Borough of Leicester, Being a series of Extracts from the Archives of the                  Corporation of Leicester, 1509–1603. Vol. 3. Edited by Mary Bateson. Cambridge:                  Cambridge University Press, 1905.

        Speed, John. The history of Great Britaine under the conquests of ye Romans, Saxons,                  Danes and Normans Their originals, manners, warres, coines & seales: with ye                  successions, lives, acts & issues of the English monarchs from Iulius Caesar, to our                  most gracious soueraigne King Iames. London: William Hall and John Beale, 1611.                  Accessible via EEBO.

        The Statutes of the Realm. Printed by command of His Majesty King George the Third.                  From Original Records and Authentic Manuscripts. Vol. 3. London: 1817.

        Strype, John, ed. Ecclesiastical Memorials, relating chiefly to Religion and the Reformation                  of it, and the emergencies of the Church of England under King Henry VIII, King                  Edward VI, and Queen Mary. 3 vols. Translated by John Strype. London: John Wyat,                  1721 and Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1822.

        Wingfield, Robert. Vita Mariæ Reginæ. Edited and translated by Diarmaid MacCulloch. Camden                  Miscellany XXVIII, 4 th series, vol. 29. London: Royal Historical Society, 1984.

        Wriothesley, Charles. A Chronicle of England during the Reign of the Tudors, from A.D.                  1485 to 1559. Vol. 2. Edited by William Douglas Hamilton. London and New York: The                  Camden Society, 1872.