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Elizabethan England...1933-60. "Noble arts, especially maps": notes on hitherto unknown examples of sixteenth century cartography. With annotated list of maps, charts, documents, and pictures, published in the portfolio PDF

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OBUfatrettycm (&n$[anb “ Wltyahttyan ” consists of 325 signed and numbered sets, numbered in Vol 1. With Portfolio, Issued to subscribers only. Also of ten sets unnumbered; which are respectively in the British Museum, Bodleian Library, Cambridge University Library; Trinity College, Dublin; the National Library of Scotland; and in possession ©itgianD: §eing tlcje Utetorg of iJjifi ©owntrg " |ln Relation to ail Ifamgn Jpirfnce#*” FROM ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS, MANY HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED; CO-ORDINATED WITH XVIth CENTURY PRINTED MATTER RANGING FROM ROYAL PROCLAMATIONS TO BROADSIDE BALLADS. 31 uf Hifc anfr gttmitnt,* BY E. M. TENISON Officer of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Corresponding Member of the Academy of History of Spain, O* Member of the Society for Nautical Research. With many hundred portraits and other illustrations in collotype, also title pages and portraits in line. And with PORTFOLIO of unique Maps, Charts^ Documents, etcetera, relevant to the textfahd first%published 1932. for iti* 2UiiJrov to gFttfrjwrilwr# onlu 3U ttyz SWgtt jof ttys Qtras witty ttys (Griffin, &pa, global jfetwnington in tlr* (ttomtttj of $Parn>i£fc. MDCCCCXXXVI DIANA by Hcndril( Cornclisz Vroom in possession of The Marquess of Salisbury, K.G. at Hatfield House. Panel: 43 x 34 inches. Described in the Inventory of the 1st End of Salisbury, A.D. ibit, as " A PORTRAIT OF HER LATE MAJESTY A Vroom never saw Queen Elizabeth in her youth, and did not come to England till invited by the Lord High Admiral to paint scenes for die House of Lords’ tapestries commemorating the defeat of the Spanish Armada; so this picture is to some extent fanciful. It is now conjectured at Hatfield that it may have been based on an early painting by a forgotten artist. Possibly it was evolved from some sketch made in April 1558, when Princess Elizabeth, attended by twelve ladies in white satin, and twenty retainers clad in green, met fifty archers on the borders of Hatfield Forest; and was presented with a silver-headed arrow made of peacock’s feathers; and was invited to fulfil the rdlc of Diana in sports devised for her entertainment by her courtly Catholic gaoler Sir Thomas Pope. See " The Youth of Queen Elizabeth/' by Louis Wiesencr, Translated by 0. M. Younge. (1879). Vol. II. pp. 246-247. A copy of this picture is at Kncbworth House, in possession of the Earl of Lytton; but without record as to when or by whom acquired, (1) Frontispiece: E. M. Tenison’s " Elizabethan England/' vol, V, jUktttfwleirQnmti** I N Volume I, pp. i-iii, thanks have been rendered to His Majesty the King, and to many other owners of sixteenth century pictures, the reproduction of which is intended to make this History vividly representative of an age when “all things between Heaven and earth that may tend to Wisdom ” were eagerly welcomed. In Book II the treasures of the Marquess of Salisbury, K.G., are again drawn upon; and also the unpublished Dudley MSS of the Marquess of Bath, K.G., the collotype facsimiles of which likewise began in the earlier volumes. From the collection of one of the first subscribers, the Duke of Portland, K.G., comes the picture of Mary Queen of Scots in Vol. VI. From the late Earl of Warwick, the armour of Robert Dudley, Lord Denbigh, still at Warwick Castle. The Earl of Lytton, K.G., is to be thanked for the portrait of his ancestor Rowland Lytton, of whose services in the Netherlands our Peerages have been unaware. Lytton’s letters from the Front to Lord Burghlcy, in 1586, and a note from his General, the Earl of Leicester, to the Queen, commending his zeal and valour, are new even to his own descendants. His picture, lance in hand, 1585, was never photographed until selected for “ Elizabethan England/’ Vol. VI. Whether painted in England or in the Low Countries, it shows us a typical “Voluntary Gentleman” of the Horse. From Major C. E. Radclyffe, of Hyde and Foxdenton, late of the First Life Guards, comes the frontispiece to Vol. VI,—an unpublished “Elizabctha Regina” traditionally believed to have been presented by the Queen herself to a Radclyffe Maid of Honour. From our National Portrait Gallery the painting of Philip II, though already reproduced by the Hakluyt Society, is too fine a work of art to be omitted from the series of characteristic portraits embodied in “ Elizabethan England.” The National Gallery of Ireland (whence came the remarkable Queen Elizabeth in Volume II) now allows inclusion of the disputed portrait of Robert Dcvereux, Earl of Essex, formerly at Costessy Hall. The reasons for accepting this as authentic are specified with the collotype in Vol. VI. From Trinity College, Cambridge, Sir Henry Sidney’s memoranda in his Psalter; from the Bodleian, a drawing of Walsingham’s arms and crest; from the Director of the new National Maritime Museum, Professor Geoffrey Callender, F.S.A., an English MS. note on the shipping in Portugal, after the Spanish [ix] ELIZABETHAN ENGLAND X conquest: and from other sources, specified with each illustration, plans of cities, reproductions of title-pages, and various relevant items, the selection of which has necessitated longer care and consideration than the general reader can realise. For printed matter, it is a pleasure to commemorate the utility of the London Library, across a long period of years stretching back to before the Great War. As to Spain, special thanks arc due to the Director of the Academy of History and President of the Board of the Prado Gallery, the Duke of Berwick and Alba, the tapestries of whose great ancestor the 3rd Duke of Alba have not hitherto been reproduced in England. From the Palacio de Liria also comes the “ Verdadera Recopilacion " by Antonio de Escobar, of which the only known copy was one in the Biblioteca National, until the present Duke discovered this second among his hereditary possessions. English readers owe gratitude likewise to the Marquis of Santa Cruz, who supplies Notes describing the stern-lanterns captured from the adversary flagships at Lepanto and the Azores, by his ancestor, the “ never vanquished leader/’ Familiar as the originals may be to Spaniards, the pictures of them will be new in England. King Philip’s Commission and Instructions to the 1st Marquis of Santa Cruz, 23rd of June, 1584, translated in this volume from the originals in the Palacio tie Liria, are believed to be unpublished even in Spain. To the Academy of History of Spain, I offer cordial acknowledgement of the gracious reception given to the first four volumes of "Elizabethan England."1 My election on June the 14th, 1935, as a Corresponding Member, is pleasing in proportion to my lifelong admiration for the purposes and principles of the Academy: namely, "to encourage the study of every hind of Spanish History, ancient and modern, military, civil, ecclesiastical, and political; and also to stimulate arts, sciences and literature in all branches of culture bearing upon the civilisation of the Spanish race”2 Book I of this History (Vols. I—-IV), also received a cordial welcome from Seflor Don Alvaro Alcald-Galiano, Marquis of Castel Bravo,:J who, throughout his long career as a man of letters, has always been friendly to England. 1 Described by the Academy as “escrit* sin espiritu de partidistaA and as “reconstituting the march of historical events.” (Reported m the Madrid " A.B.Cr 1st and 5th June, £935.) h 2"p Erismtaetruot,o s y Reglamento de la Real Academia de la Historia" Madrid ’ i%9, p. 21 Artictdo 3In "d-B.C." Madrid 28th May 1935 p 32. In "The Mariner's Minor;’ vol. XVtll, nit: r April 1932, Profosor Geoffrey Callender, F S.A described the Portfolio of Maps anti Chart. , Cm -d ahead of the volumes, and predicted that the presentation of the events in the words of those chiefly concerned would “necessitate a wide revision of existing beliefs.” U S ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi From Ireland, Dr. Douglas Hyde expresses his hope that “as the evidence is drawn direct from the sources, and as the narrative covers a wider area than any one English historian has attempted for that especial time,” this “Elizabethan England” will gradually become “ known and read in all the civilised world wherever history is sought and cherished.”1 Meanwhile, to all sympathisers who have aided or may yet aid me in this “ voluntary homage to Truth,” I send my salutation and greeting. Since setting up in type the foregoing pages, and most of Vol. V, it is reported that the Marques de Castel Bravo, C.B.E. (better known as Alvaro Alcala-Galiano), and the Librarian of the Escorial (quoted, p. 185), were both among the many eminent and patriotic Spaniards who have perished tragically in Madrid. Also the Duque de Veragua, representing Christopher Columbus (E.E., Vol. IV, p. 238). Upon the disaster to the Palacio de Liria, see Vol. V, p. 304, note. In a later volume it will be specified which items have survived of the Spanish portraits, frescoes, tapestry, armour, MSS., &c., &c., reproduced in Volumes I to V of " Elizabethan England ” from Liria, the Prado Gallery, the Escorial, and other renowned collections. In 1931 the editor of the Hakluyt Society’s Vol, LXXI (Ser: ii, p. x), dating from Seville, rebuked “British historians for failure to consult Spanish sources. . . .” Prior to the accession of Alfonso XII it was not easy for foreigners to study Spanish MSS. (see E.E., Vol. I, p. 156). But under that King, and the Queen Regent Maria Cristina, and Alfonso XIII, there has been a crescendo of progress in appreciation of (and facilities for examining) the hereditary treasures: many of which were lent to the Barcelona Exhibition in 1929-30 (including documents now first published, pp. 186, 199-203). Though at the time of going to press, it is not possible to compute the extent of destruction, and loss of antiquitites which all the wars of the past had spared, the subscribers to this History, most of whom sent in their names in 1929-30, will recognise that the recent misfortunes of Spain give the publication an enhanced significance. For there can be little doubt that the wreckage of long-treasured works of art and architecture, and of unique MSS., will evoke from cultured and sober minds, all over the world, emotions far other than the destroyers anticipated. 28th November, 1936. e.m.t. 1 “ A New History: Spain and England, 1553-1583,” article by Douglas Hyde, L.L.D., Litt.D., (commenting on Vols. I—IV of Elizabethan England). See " StudiesVol. XXIV, No. 95, Sep: 1935. (A Quarterly Review: Dublin; London; Melbourne; and St. Louis, U.S.A.) pp. 487-490. GENERAL CONTENTS OF VOLUME V. Page Acknowledgments.ix Introduction to Book II.xvii The Universal Language.xxv Addenda: Index to Spanish State Papers.xxvii Corrigenda. King Philip’s letter to Queen Elizabeth.xxviii Addendum: “ Benefits oblige not ignoble minds ” (The tragedy of Henry, Duke of Suffolk).xxix Errata.xxx List of Parts, Chapters, and Sections.xxxiii List of Appendices and Notes to Vol. V.xxxiv Note on the Illustrations to Book II (Vols. V—VI).xxxvii List of Collotype Plates of Vol. V.xxxviii List of Illustrations in line of Vol. V.xxxix Table of Nine Popes contemporary with Queen Elizabeth.223 Table of Peers in Queen Elizabeth’s 5th Parliament.198 Parliamentary Date Table.facing p. 198 Genealogical Tables:— facing (a) Immediate ancestry of Mary Queen of Scots and Henry Duke of Guise 40 (b) Royal Descent of Henry Hastings, Earl of Huntingdon, K.G. . 62 (c) The Radclyffe (Ratcliff) Earls of Sussex, and Viscounts FitzWalter. 82 (d) The Gilbert, Raleigh, and Grenville connection . . . .182 Chronology, 1583—1585.295 Note on the Historical Conference, 1936 302 but the trufh^,ade a“8Wer that 1 conceived an Historian was bound to tell nothing "The Ufe of the Renowned Sir Philip Sidney. With the True Interest of bngland as it then stood in relation to all Forrain Princes&c. " Written by Sir Ful\e Grevil Knight, Lord Broo\, a Servant to Queen Elizabeth, and his Companion and Friend." (Chapter xvii). “ * • - la verdad el mas firme sosten de los tronos y el mejor guia para la gobernacion de los pueblos.” (.*' ' ",truth’ t^ie firmest support of thrones and the best guide for the ruling of people.) e “ Discursos del Excelentisimo SenorDuque de Berwick y de Alba leidos ante la Real Academia de la Historia," Madrid, 1919, p. 63.

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