Richard Bruce Wernham, 1906–1999

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. W. Bernard
Keyword(s):  
British Museum ◽  
The State ◽  
Grammar School ◽  
Modern History ◽  
The Public ◽  
Tenant Farmer ◽  
Public Record

Bruce Wernham was born on 11 October 1906 at Ashmansworth, near Newbury, Berkshire, the son of a tenant farmer. He attended St Bartholomew's Grammar School, which he remembered with affection all his life, serving as Governor from 1944. In 1925 he went on to Exeter College, Oxford, and took a first in Modern History in 1928. He returned to study towards a D.Phil. His chosen theme was ‘Anglo-French relations in the age of Queen Elizabeth and Henri IV’, a subject that would remain at the centre of his interests for the rest of his life. After a year, he moved to London in order to work on the State Papers in the Public Record Office and the British Museum.

The Rebellion of the Earls, 1569

1906 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 171-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. R. Reid
Keyword(s):  
British Museum ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Careful Study ◽  
Modern History ◽  
The Public ◽  
Local Point ◽  
Local Sources ◽  
Public Record ◽  
Parish Registers

A popular movement like the Rebellion of the Earls can always be treated from two distinct standpoints, the national and the local. Hitherto, the Rebellion has always been treated from the national standpoint, with the result that, so far as I am aware, there is no book dealing with the Rebellion alone. All accounts of it must be sought in general histories such as those named below. I would specially mention the chapter in the ‘Cambridge Modern History’ in which Mr. Law has anticipated all the conclusions which I have been able to draw from my own examination of the sources. The local point of view, on the other hand, has been almost wholly ignored, and affords more opportunity for investigation; to it, therefore, I have confined myself. I cannot pretend that the essay is exhaustive, as circumstances have prevented me from investigating the local sources, such as Corporation and Town Records, Parish Registers and the like. Nevertheless, this contribution may not be wholly without value, since it is based on a careful study of the material preserved at the Public Record Office and in the British Museum.

scholarly journals VIII.—A Letter of Sir Henry Lee, 1590, on the trial of Iron for Armour

Archaeologia ◽  
1888 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 167-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harold Arthur Dillon
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Record ◽  
The Subject

The Letter from Sir Henry Lee, Master of the Armoury to Elizabeth, addressed to Lord Burghley, which forms the subject of this paper, has not before been printed. It is calendared among the State Papers, in the Public Record Office, and is holograph bearing the date 12 Oct. 1590.

scholarly journals An Estimate of the Scottish Nobility during the Minority of James VI. and Subsequently, with Preliminary Observations

1873 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 222-296
Author(s):  
Charles Rogers
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Record

During the spring of 1872, while engaged in the Public Record Office in some important researches, I chanced to discover a small quarto MS. volume, bearing the following inscription:—“Index of ye Nobility of Scotland in ye Time of James ye First.” The volume was in the handwriting of Sir Joseph Williamson, and, though undated, clearly belonged to the period between 1666 and 1701, when the transcriber held office as Keeper of the State Papers. Along with a written narrative concerning the nobility and their several families were descriptions of their armorial escutcheons, partly in French, and other entries of an extraneous and unimportant character.

XXXIV Rowland White’s ‘Discors Touching Ireland’, c. 1569

1977 ◽  
Vol 20 (80) ◽  
pp. 439-463 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Canny
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Condition ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Public Record ◽  
Thomas Wilson

This selected document was forwarded to Sir William Cecil in March 1571, but it was probably composed some years previously, and almost certainly before the Irish parliament of 1569–71 had assembled. It is transcribed from a copy, bearing the name of Secretary Thomas Wilson, which survives among the State Papers, Ireland in the Public Record Office, London (S.P 63, vol. 31, no. 32, ff 73–117). The piece is considered worthy of presentation because it is the most comprehensive analysis of the social and political condition of sixteenth century Ireland made by an Irish-born contemporary; because it indicates how the author’s perception of the world differed from that of the majority of Englishmen who commented on Ireland; and because it can be established that White’s opinions were shared by other articulate people within the Pale. The document, which is disposed of in nine lines in the Calendar of state papers Ireland, 1509–73, also serves to illustrate how grossly inadequate is that series for the sixteenth century.

Peter Philips, Composer and Organist 1561 – 1628

1957 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 48-60
Author(s):  
A.G. Petti
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
The Public ◽  
Catholic Faith ◽  
New Material ◽  
Public Record ◽  
The Many

Among the many English musicians exiled for the Catholic Faith was Peter Philips the composer and organist. As is often the case with these musicians, little is generally known about him, and so I am taking the opportunity of using material which has come to light in recent months, in conjunction with the little information which was previously established, to attempt a biography of him, however incomplete. This new material comes from various sources, including the State Papers Holland for 1593, which are in the Public Record Office; a letter to Fr. Persons from Richard Verstegan in the Stonyhurst Archives; the Pilgrims’ Book at the English College Rome; and court accounts and a certificate of residence in the Archives Générales du Royaume, Brussels.

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