Cotton MS
Appendix XXVII
, f.145 – Deposition of unidentified witness on marriage of Prince Arthur and Katherine of Aragon.
Augustus I, III
, f.70 – Contemporary drawing of the town of Calais from the sea.
Caligula B I
, f.141 – Archibald Douglas, Earl of Angus, to Henry VIII; Dalkeith, 19 October 1519.
——f.232 – Queen Margaret to Henry VIII; Edinburgh, April 1519.
Caligula B II
, f.333 – Lord Dacre of the North to Wolsey; Harbottle, 22 October 1519.
Caligula B VI
, f.35 – Queen Katherine to Thomas Wolsey; Woburn, Bedfordshire, 16 September 1513.
——f.76 – James IV of Scotland to Henry VIII; Edinburgh, 24 May 1513.
——f.83 – Margaret, wife of James IV of Scotland, to Henry VIII; 11 April 1513.
Caligula D VI
, f.92 – Katherine of Aragon to Wolsey; Richmond, [2]6 July 1513.
——f.93 – Katherine of Aragon to Wolsey; Richmond, 13 August 1513.
——f.94 – Katherine of Aragon to Wolsey; Richmond, 25 August 1513.
——f.104 – Thomas Lord Howard, Lord High Admiral, to Wolsey, on board
Mary Rose
, Plymouth harbour, May 1513.
——f.106 – 7 – Thomas Lord Howard, Lord High Admiral, to Henry VIII; on board
Mary Rose
, Plymouth harbour, 7 May 1513.
——f.121v – Henry to Wolsey about his requirements for a French peace treaty – fragmentary, the document damaged by fire; ?June 1514.
——f.149 – Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, to Henry VIII; Beauvais, 25 October 1514.
——f.176 – Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, to Wolsey; Paris, 5 March 1515.
——f.184 – Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, to Henry VIII; Paris, – March 1515.
Caligula D VII
, f.158 – Sir Thomas Boleyn to Wolsey; Blois, 16 November 1519.
Caligula D VIII
, f.83 – Wolsey to Sir Richard Jerningham, English ambassador to the French court; Westminster, 20 May 1521.
Caligula D VIII
, f.246 – Earl of Surrey to King’s Council; on board the
Mary Rose
, Portland, 14 June 1514.
Cleopatra B V
, ff.64 – 95 – Diary of John Taylor, king’s chaplain and clerk of the Parliament during the invasion of France, 1513.
Cleopatra E III
, f.123 – Draft of an oration by an English ambassador to Pope Innocent VIII and the Cardinals, Rome, soon after the marriage of Henry VII to Elizabeth of York, January 1486.
Cleopatra E IV
, f.249 – Richard Layton to Thomas Cromwell about ‘Our Lady’s Girdle’ at Bruton Abbey, Somerset, 24 August 1535.
Faustina E VII
, f.6 – Order of battle of the king’s rearguard for the invasion of France, June 1513.
Galba B III
, f.3 – Convenant between Thomas Spinelly, Henry VIII’s agent in the Low Countries and the Flemish gunmaker Hans Poppenruyter of Malines to cast forty-eight artillery pieces.
——f.4 – Thomas Spinelly to Henry VIII, 26 January 1510, about artillery manufacture.
——f.51 – Sir Edward Poynings to Henry VIII; Brussels, 14 October 1512.
——f.54 – Henry VIII to Sir Edward Poynings and other ambassadors; November 1512.
Galba B XIII
, f.93 – Letter from Charles, Prince of Spain to Princess Mary signed ‘V’re bon Mary, Charles’; Malines, 18 December 1513.
Julius B XII
, ff.91 – 110 – Creation of Henry Duke of York.
Tiberius D VIII
, f.89 – Form of coronation oath, 24 June 1509, as amended in his own hand by Henry VIII, probably in the 1530s.
Tiberius E VIII
, f.100v – A ‘device for the manner and order of the Coronation’ of Henry VII ‘rightful and undoubted inheritor of the crowns of England and France’ by the whole consent of the realm chosen and required to be King and also of the Princess Katherine, daughter of Spain and Aragon, his wife, Queen of England and of France, to be solemnised at Westminster, Sunday 24 June 1509. Interlined later by Henry VIII.
Titus A XIII
, f.186 – Ordinances and statutes devised by Henry VIII for a ‘retinue of spears’; 20 November 1509.
Titus B I
, f.104v – Thomas Wolsey to Bishop Fox; Windsor, 30 September 1511.
Titus D IV
, 138 ff. – Quarto volume, the so-called
Coronation Suite
presented to Henry and Katherine, written by Thomas More; 1509.
Vespasian C I
, ff.65 – 77 – Letter in cipher from John Stile, ambassador in Spain to Henry VIII; 5 August 1512.
——f.79 – Dr William Knight to Thomas Wolsey, the king’s almoner; Fuentarrabia, 5 August 1512.
——f.81 – Dr William Knight to Wolsey; San Sebastian, Spain, 4 October 1512.
Vespasian C III
, f.75 – Report of the death of the Marquis of Brandenburg in Valencia after over-heating himself playing at tennis; 10 July 1525.
——f.176 – Bishop Cuthbert Tunstal, Lord Privy Seal, Sir Richard Wingfield, Richard Sampson, Dean of the Chapel Royal, ambassadors to the Imperial Court, to Henry VIII; Toledo, 8 July 1525.
Vespasian C VI
, f.375
–
Treaty between Henry VIII and Ferdinand of Spain for the recovery of Aquitaine and the defence of the Pope; February 1513.
Vespasian C XIV
, f.106 – Articles and ordinances governing the security of the Tower of London ‘that the king’s grace has established’ signed by the Earl of Surrey and the Bishops of Winchester and Durham; London, 25 July 1509.
Vespasian C L
, f.58v – Despatch from the English envoy John Stile to Henry VIII; Valladolid, 9 September 1509.
Vespasian F III
, f.15 – Queen Katherine to Henry VIII; Woburn, Bedfordshire, 16 September 1513.
——f.44 – Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond, to Wolsey; Sheriff Hutton, Yorkshire, 4 March ?1526.
——f.73 – Henry VIII to Wolsey; Woodstock, 1 July 1518.
Vespasian F XIII
, f.60 – Lady Margaret Beaufort to Henry VII, Collyweston, 14 January ?1501.
——f.80 – Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, to Henry VIII; Montreuil, 22 April 1515.
——f.140 – Katherine of Aragon to Princess Mary; Woburn, October 1525.
Vitellius B II
, f.34 – Papal indulgence of Julius II to all who serve in Henry VIII’s dominions in the expedition against Louis XII, including those who contribute towards its cost; Rome, December 1512.
——f.51 – Cardinal Bainbridge to Wolsey; Rome, 17 September 1513.
——f.56 – Pope Leo X to Henry VIII; Rome, 17 December 1513.
——f.69 – Pope Leo X to Henry VIII, award of sword and
pileus
; Rome, 1 March 1514.
——f.183 – Silvester de’ Gigli, Bishop of Worcester, to Andrea Ammonius, Latin secretary to Henry VIII; Rome, November 1515.
Vitellius B IV
, f.84v – Notes by Richard Pace about Buckingham’s guilt on the reverse of a letter to him from Rome dated 29 March 1521; May 1521.
——f.111 – The ceremony of publishing Pope Leo X’s sentence against Martin Luther, in St Paul’s church; 12 May 1521.
——f.96 – Richard Pace to Thomas Wolsey; Greenwich Palace, 16 April 1521.
Vitellius B IX
, f.38 – College of Cardinals to Wolsey; Rome, 9 February 1527.
Vitellius B XI
, f.207 – Clement VII to Wolsey; Rome, 19 July 1529.
Vitellius B XII
, f.85 – Testimony of Sir Anthony Willoughby about Prince Arthur’s marriage with Katherine of Aragon.
——f.123v – Deposition of Nicholas West, Bishop of Ely.
——f.208 – Cardinals’ rejection of Katherine of Aragon’s appeal to Rome and summons to her to appear at the legatine trial.
Vitellius B XX
, f.234 – Sir Richard Wingfield, English ambassador at the Imperial court to Wolsey; ‘Mayence’ (Mainz), 3 June 1521.