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Manuscript/Mixed Material Document signed (contemporary copy)

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Title

  • Document signed (contemporary copy)

Summary

  • A source for the history of the Drake-Norris expedition against Spain and Portugal, which was planned and organized immediately after the defeat of the Invincible Armada, and which was carried out in the following year, 1589. In this document, Sir Henry Billingsley (d. 1606), then an Alderman of London, and a wealthy merchant; Peter Osborne (1521-1592), a "remembrancer to the Lord Treasurer in the Exchequer", a leading Treasury official of the reigns of Edward VI and Elizabeth I; and Edward Fent, are charged with the duty of controlling and auditing the financial accounts of the Drake-Norris expedition. The enterprise had been organized as a sort of joint-venture, financed by investments by the Queen and private persons.

Names

  • Burghley, William Cecil, Baron, 1520-1598
  • Walsingham, Francis, Sir, 1530?-1590
  • Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • October 11, 1588

Headings

  • -  Armada, 1588
  • -  Burghley, William Cecil,--Baron,--1520-1598
  • -  Drake, Francis,--approximately 1540-1596--Travel
  • -  Walsingham, Francis,--Sir,--1530?-1590

Notes

  • -  1 page. Folio (330 x 222 mm.). With an attached leaf bearing a 5-line docket.
  • -  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.
  • -  Description based on Global Gateway metadata.
  • -  drakenew

Medium

  • 1 sheet

Repository

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021699431

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Credit Line: Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collections Division.

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Chicago citation style:

Burghley, William Cecil, Baron, Francis Walsingham, and Hans And Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection. Document Signed Contemporary Copy. 1588. Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021699431/.

APA citation style:

Burghley, W. C., Walsingham, F. & Hans And Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection. (1588) Document Signed Contemporary Copy. [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021699431/.

MLA citation style:

Burghley, William Cecil, Baron, Francis Walsingham, and Hans And Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection. Document Signed Contemporary Copy. 1588. Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021699431/>.