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    • Title:The Babington plot, 1586.
    • Physical Description:1 vol. (22 ff.) ; 31 cm. x 20 cm.
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    • Notes:On the front of the vellum wrapper is the name "John Rigbye barrister, Cliffordes Ynne."
      Bound in a parchment bifolium from an early thirteenth-century English Latin manuscript of the Digest of Justinian, with the glossa ordinaria of Accursius in the margins, along with some later commentary in an Anglicana script.
      In English and Latin.
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    • Summary:Manuscript, on paper, in cursive script, produced in England in 1586. The text is an examination of the confessions of the conspirators in the plot against Queen Elizabeth and the role of Mary Queen of Scots in the conspiracy.
    • Format:Archives or Manuscripts
    • Cite as:The Babington Plot. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
    • Subjects:Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603--Assassination attempt, 1586.
      Babington Plot, 1586.
    • Subjects (Local Yale):Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.