LIBELS 1580

Oxford-Arundel Libels 1580-81 (under development)

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Libels Part 0: Rules of Transcription
Libels Part 1: Oxford contra Leicester (?Autumn 1579)
Libels Part 2: Oxford contra Charles Arundel (Three Interrogatories and Depositions)
Libels Part 3: Henry Howard contra Oxford: letters and libels
Libels Part 4: Charles Arundel contra Oxford: formal statement and three libels
Libels Part 5: Charles Arundel: miscellaneous correspondence
Libels Part 6: Charles Arundel: correspondence with a lady
Libels Part 7: Oxford and the Vavasor Affair

NB: On 16 December 1580 Oxford denounced his former friends Henry Howard, Charles Arundel, and Francis Southwell, for pro-Catholic sedition. The transcriptions presented here document the denunciation initiated by Oxford and the retaliatory responses of the three accused.

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Document 1.1: PRO SP12/151[/50], f. 110

Document 2.1.1: BL Add. 15891, ff. 79-9v
Document 2.1.2: BL Add. 15891, ff. 79-9v
Document 2.1.3: PRO SP12/147[/4] f. 6
Document 2.1.4: PRO SP12/151[/47], ff. 105-6
Document 2.1.5: PRO SP12/151[/48], ff. 107-8
Document 2.2.1: PRO SP12/151[/42], ff. 96-6v
Document 2.2.2: PRO SP15/28[/2], f. 3
Document 2.2.3: PRO SP12/151[/43], ff. 95-5v, 97-7v
Document 2.3.1: PRO SP12/151[/44], ff. 98-9
Document 2.3.2: PRO SP12/151[/44], f. 99
Document 2.3.3: PRO SP12/151[/44], f. 99-9v

Document 3.1: BL Cotton Titus C.6, ff. 7-8
Document 3.2: BL Cotton Titus C.6, ff. 5-6
Document 3.3: PRO SP12/147[/6], ff. 6-7
Document 3.4: Cecil Papers 98/129 [ii, 193]
3.5 In Preparation ... check again soon!
Document 3.6.1: PRO SP12/151[/57], ff. 118-19
Document 3.6.2: Note appended to preceding
Document 3.7: PRO SP12/155[/44], ff. 84-4bis
Document 3.8: PRO SP12/150[/51], ff. 97-8
Document 3.9: PRO SP12/150[/81], ff. 150-1
Document 3.10: BL Add. 15891, ff. 43v-4

Document 4.1.1: PRO SP15/27A[/46], ff. 81-2
Document 4.1.2: (follows 4.1.1, outside back leaf)
Document 4.2: PRO SP12/151[/46], ff. 103-4
Document 4.3: PRO SP12/151[/45], ff. 100-2
Document 4.4: PRO SP12/151[/49], ff. 109-9v

Document 5.1: BL Add. 15891, f. 99
Document 5.2: BL Add. 15891, ff. 94-4v
Document 5.3: PRO SP12/151[/51], f. 111
Document 5.4: BL Add. 15891, f. 73
Document 5.5: BL Add. 15891, ff. 83v-84
Document 5.6: BL Add. 15891, ff. 77v-8
Document 5.7: PRO SP12/151[/53], f. 114
Document 5.8: BL Add. 15891, f. 61
Document 5.9: PRO SP12/151[/55], f. 116
Document 5.10: PRO SP12/151[/56], f. 117
Document 5.11: PRO SP12/150[/43], ff. 84-5
Document 5.12: PRO SP12/151[/52], f. 113

Document 6.1: PRO SP12/151[/51], f. 112
Document 6.2: follows preceding, f. 112
Document 6.3: follows preceding, ff. 112-12v
Document 6.4: PRO SP12/149[/3], f. 3
Document 6.5: PRO SP12/149[/3A], f. 4
Document 6.6: PRO SP12/151[/54], f 115
Document 6.7: follows 6.3, f. 112v
Document 6.8: follows preceding, ff. 112v and 111v
Document 6.9: follows preceding, f. 111v

Document 7.1: Huntington Library HA13066
Document 7.2: PRO SP12/149[/67], ff. 156-7
Document 7.3: PRO SP12/149[/68], ff. 158-9
Document 7.4: BL Lansdowne 33[/6], ff. 12-13
Document 7.5: BL Add. 15891, f. 77
Document 7.6: PRO SP12/149[/69], ff. 160-1
Document 7.7: PRO SP12/154[/11], ff. 20-1
Document 7.8: PRO SP12/154[/12], ff. 22-2bis
Document 7.9: PRO SP12/154[/13], ff. 23-4
Document 7.10: BL Lansdowne 99[/93] ff. 252-3