[Mildmay MS]
A folio volume principally of speeches by Sir Walter Mildmay (1520/1-1589), Chancellor of the Exchequer, in a single professional secretary hand, 52 leaves.
Late 16th century.Inscribed names including Noah Duckett 1706
, J Stockdale...Gift of Mrs Duckett
, and William Brookes
. According to a note on the flyleaf the MS was once in an old house in Leicester, then owned by Dr John Barcley, MD; bought from him by his brother-in-law George Cardale 5 March 1884; then owned by Joseph Green of Jayshill House, Stansted, Essex, who sold it to Charles Lowe, bookseller of Birmingham; offered in his sale catalogue in 1889, and purchased by Mildmay's descendant Mary, Viscountess Falmouth.
A bound set of photocopies of this volume is in the
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ElQ 208 ff. 24r-5r
Copy, headed
Her Maties: speech delivered by her owne mouth in ye Parliamt last holden at Westm: Anno Regin &c. 27:/ 1584
.Beginning
My lords and you of the Lower House: My silence must not injure the owner...
. Hartley, II, 31-3. Collected Works, Speech 16, pp. 181-3.Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Speech at the Closing of Parliament, March 29, 1585