St John‘s College Personal Collections

Order for payment of surplusage of £2000 to Marshal Duc de Biron, signed by Lord Buckhurst

Miscellaneous/Box 15/SA1/2
Item
23 March 1601

Part of Miscellaneous Papers

Photograph of A.L.s., from William Cecil to his father, Robert Cecil.

Miscellaneous/Box 5/CE1
Item
2 September 1602

Part of Miscellaneous Papers

Discusses his planned trip to Cambridge.

Cecil, William (1591-1668) 2nd Earl of Salisbury

Letters of Thomas Sackville

Miscellaneous/Box 15/SA1
File
1600–1602

Part of Miscellaneous Papers

Sackville, Thomas (c 1536-1608) 1st Earl of Dorset, statesman and poet

Letter from Robert Cecil

Miscellaneous/Box 5/CE0
Item
1603

Part of Miscellaneous Papers

Autograph letter signed Ro: Cecyll to the Lord High Treasurer Thomas Sackville (1536-1608), requesting Sackville to give 200 pounds to Cecil's steward Roger Houghton for immediate payment to the Scottish noblewoman Lady Barbara Ruthven (d. 1625), whose two brothers had been killed in an alleged plot against King James three years earlier. Postscript in darker ink written by Roger Houghton.

Cecil, Robert (1563-1612) 1st Earl of Salisbury, statesman

A.L.s. from Lord William Howard of Naworth to Thomas Dudley

Miscellaneous/Box 10/HO7
Item
10 January 1616

Part of Miscellaneous Papers

Asks for a case of his tenant to be tried at Dudley's sessions to be looked at kindly.

Howard, Lord William (1563-1640) antiquary and landowner

The first British newspaper: the Weekly Newes

Dukes/4
Series
1622

Part of Graham Dukes Newspaper Collection

Photocopy of front page, 30 May 1622.

A.L.s., from Mary, Countess of Shrewsbury, to Sir Thomas Fairfax

Miscellaneous/Box 16/SH3
Item
15 November 1623

Part of Miscellaneous Papers

Hopes that TF will recover from his illness, is unsure about her future, gives a description of a fire and of the finery of the Spanish ambassador.

Talbot, Mary, Countess of Shrewsbury (1556–1632)

A.L.s. from Thomas Fairfax to his grandfather, 1st Baron.

Miscellaneous/Box 7/FA2
Item
24 July 1637

Part of Miscellaneous Papers

Has recovered from an illness and discusses a visit. Notes the imprisonment of John Williams, the Bishop of Lincoln, and an emotional speech given to his servants.

Fairfax, Thomas (1612-1671) 3rd Baron Fairfax, general

Copy of letter from Thomas Wentworth to 'Dr Beale the Provost and the other Fellows of St John's College' (In the hand of Thomas Baker)