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Manuscripts

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Manuscripts

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Image reference: E 368/69

Marginalia drawing of Edward I and Philip IV of France, 25/26 Edw I

 

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Image reference: E 164/2 folio 1

Detail of illuminated initial showing Henry II on his death bed and the writing of his will, 13th century

 

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Image reference: SP 1/53

Letter from Anne Boleyn, with her signature, April 1529

 

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Image reference: E 30/1472/1

Dispensation by Thomas Cranmer for the marriage of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour, 19 May 1536

 

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Image reference: E 30/1470 folio 4

Folio 4 of judgement declaring the annulment of the marriage of Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves, 9 July 1540

 

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Image reference: EXT 11/25

Page 2 of a letter from Princess Elizabeth to Queen Mary, known as the 'Tide' letter, in which Elizabeth begs her sister for an audience; 16 March 1553/4

 

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Image reference: MPF 1/366(1)

The murder of Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, at Kirk O'Field near Edinburgh, February 1567

 

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Image reference: SP 63/281

Portrait of Oliver Cromwell, 1650s

 

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Image reference: KB 27/1950/2

Illuminated initial portrait of Charles II, 1673

 

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Image reference: DL 10/281

Second Great Seal of Edward III, 1337