1st Edition
The Elizabethan Secretariat and the Signet Office The Production of State Papers, 1590-1596
By Angela Andreani
Copyright 2017
222 Pages
by
Routledge
222 Pages
7 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
222 Pages
7 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book investigates the work of the Elizabethan secretariat during the fascinating decade of the 1590s, when, after the death of Francis Walsingham, the place of principal secretary remained vacant for six years. Through original sources in the collections of the State Papers and Cecil Papers, this study reconstructs the activities of the clerks and secretaries who worked in close contact with... Read more
Introduction
1. The Context
2. The Cecil Papers at Hatfield House
3. Work in the Signet Office
4. The Royal Secretariat and the Signet Office
Conclusion
Appendix
Biography
Angela Andreani is Folger Shakespeare Library short-term fellow, and has also been Marie Skłodowska Curie Intra-European research fellow at the University of Sussex.
