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• STATE PAPERS ONLINE!
• 19th CENTURY BRITISH LIBRARY NEWSPAPERS!
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STATE PAPERS ONLINE
Part 1 The Tudors, Henry VIII to Elizabeth I,
1509-1603 State Papers Domestic Part II The
Tudors, Henry VIII to Elizabeth I, 1509-1603
State Papers Foreign, Ireland, Scotland, Borders
and Acts of Privy Council Part III The
Stuarts James I to Anne, 1603-1714 State
Papers Domestic Part IV The Stuarts James I
to Anne, 1603-1714 State Papers Foreign,
Ireland and Acts of Privy Council
Part 1 790 vols of docs 11.5 Part II 1333
vols 19.5 Part III 2710 vols 39.5 Part
IV 2010 vols 29.5 Total 6843 vols 100
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Themes of Part I 1509 - 1603
Monarchs Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I, Elizabeth
I Rule by a minor Rule by a woman
(twice) Religion and the State - The
Reformation Henry VIIIs break with
Rome Establishment of the Protestant Church of
England Marriage alliances the person and the
State Mary Is marriage with Philip (later Philip
II of Spain) Marriage proposals for Elizabeth
I Wars and treaties diplomacy domestic and
foreign Naval power, War against the Armada Sir
Francis Drake Treaty with the Netherlands Irish
rebellion Relationship between Scotland and
England James I
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Examination of Robert Wayland, gent. 1. Has
known Sir Walter Leveson 23 years. 2. Sir Walter
divers times persuaded him to practise with him
to make divers powders and other things, and to
prove their effect and promised him for his pains
the manor of Hales or Parton. 3. Sir Walter said
he could so poison a silver cup or bowl that
whosoever drank thereof would be poisoned, and
showed him how viz., that he would first put a
toad called Rubata into the cup, and put a silver
cover upon it, and then coals on the covers by
which means the heat of the fire would open the
pores of the silver cup, and draw in the poison
of the toad. 4. At Lilleshall Sir Walter put in
practice a perfume that would poison those that
smelt it as they lay in bed as it was
distilling, the bottom of the still melted, and
the perfume being in the fire, the savour thereof
was so noisome to them that smelt it that it
almost poisoned them a servant caused a smith,
tenant of Sir Walter's, to make a perfuming pot
for the purpose. 5. Sir Walter said that Pascal
Tapscott gave Robt. Greise, the boy of his
kitchen, a potion that he thought he would have
died thereof. 6. Sir Walter told him that if he
cut the bristles of a horse's tail and minced
them, and put it amongst buttered fish or minced
meat, it would destroy any man's stomach, and no
physic would help it. 7. He has often requested
examinate to buy things of vennmous qualities, as
the powder of glass, ratsbane, or Seneca
refusing to buy it, he went himself for it to an
apothecary's near the Palace at Westminster, and
said it was to kill rats in his chamber at
Lambeth but after that he caused cakes to me
made therewith, and willed
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19th Century U.K. Periodicals Online, 1800-1900

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Series 1 New Readerships Womens, Childrens,
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Higher Education Community
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