IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0096 MS 191
Held at: Senate House Library, University of London
Title: Union of England and Scotland, 1604
Date(s): 1604
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 volume containing 8 items
Name of creator(s): Unknown
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
King James VI of Scotland also became King of England in 1603.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Manuscript volume containing a collection of documents relating to a proposal for a Union between England and Scotland, 1604, namely 'Articles agreed by the Commissioners to be propounded to the parliaments of both kingdomes at the next sessions', 6 Dec 1604; 'Objections against the change of the name or stile of England and Scotland into the name or stile of Great Brittayne, to be moved and debated in the conference between Lords and Commons, and to that end, by the comitties of the House of Commons, collected, reviewed and reduced to order for their better instruction', [1604]; 'The arguments used by the merchants in nother house of Parliament against the Union in Commerce', initialled R.C.B., [1604]; 'An Act authorizing certain commissioners of this realm to treate with commissioners reciproque of Scotland, tuching the weale of both realmes', [1604]; a copy of the King's letter to the House of Commons relating to the proposed Union, 2 May 1604; tract beginning 'The dangers to be considered in this proposition of free commerce', [1604]; extracts from chronicles and charters illustrating Anglo-Scottish relations and royal style of rulers of England from A.D. 100 to 1460, [1604]; extracts from charters of King Edgar relating to the foundation of Worcester Cathedral dating 964, and Ely Cathedral [dating 973], giving the royal style (both are quoted as authorities for the use of the word Britain, [1604].
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
8 items.
Conditions governing access:
Access to this collection is unrestricted for the purpose of private study and personal research within the supervised environment and restrictions of the Library's Palaeography Room. Uncatalogued material may not be seen. Please contact the University Archivist for details.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies may be made, subject to the condition of the original. Copying must be undertaken by the Palaeography Room staff, who will need a minimum of 24 hours to process requests.
Physical characteristics:
Manuscript folio. Bound in half-morocco.
Finding aids:
Collection level description.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Part of the Goldsmith's Library of Economic Literature, initially collected by Herbert Somerton Foxwell and presented by the Goldsmith's Company to the University of London in 1903.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
Other University of London manuscripts relating to English and Scottish Union include MSS 20 (xxvi), 85, 86, 403, and 422.
Publication note:
Several of the items have been printed in full in John Bruce Appendix to the report on the event and circumstances which produced the Union (London, 1799).
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled by Sarah Smith as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.
Rules or conventions: ISAD(G) 2nd edition, and NCA rules for the construction of personal, place and corporate names (1997).
Date(s) of descriptions: Aug 2000