The Lisle Papers are the correspondence received in Calais between 1533 and 1540 by Arthur Plantagenet, 1st Viscount Lisle (c.1480-1542), Lord Deputy of Calais , an illegitimate son of King Edward IV and an uncle of King Henry VIII , and by his wife, Honor Plantagenet, Viscountess Lisle (born Honor Grenville and formerly the wife of Sir John Bassett (d.1529) of Umberleigh in Devon), from several servants, courtiers , royal officials, friends, children and other relatives. They are an important source of information on domestic life in the Tudor age and of life at the court of Henry VIII.
16-758: Although long available as transcriptions in the Letters and Papers of Henry VIII , they were first published as an annotated collection in 1981 as a six-volume edition, titled "The Lisle Letters", and an abridged selection in one volume was published in 1983, both edited by Muriel St. Clare Byrne . The entire collection, now housed within the State Papers of the United Kingdom at the National Archives at Kew, comprises about 3,000 documents, ranging in date from 1 January 1533 to 31 December 1540. During this time Lord Lisle
32-454: A total of thirteen parts between 1894 and 1910. This brought the series down to the end of the reign of Henry VIII, but by this date a number of new documents had been discovered, and the first volume in particular was felt to be defective. A second, greatly expanded, edition of Volume 1 was therefore published in three parts (two volumes of text and an index) in 1920. Two further volumes of Addenda were published in 1929 and 1932. A full set of
48-514: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . British History Online British History Online is a digital library of primary and secondary sources on medieval and modern history of Great Britain and Ireland . It was created and is managed as a cooperative venture by the Institute of Historical Research , University of London and the History of Parliament Trust . Access to
64-480: Is a multi-volume edition of documents from the reign of Henry VIII of England . The series was edited by J. S. Brewer , James Gairdner and R. H. Brodie, and originally published between 1862 and 1932. It remains a key resource for historians of the period, and is now freely available online as part of British History Online . Surviving documents from the Public Record Office (now The National Archives ),
80-555: The British Museum (now the British Library ), other archives, and reliable older publications, are presented in date order. The texts are calendared : that is to say, they are slightly summarised and edited, the language modernised, and some explanatory footnotes added; but all substantive content is retained. Undated documents are printed at the end of the assumed month or year. Grants and payments from accounts are also inserted at
96-514: The Tower of London . It is one of only three such collections to have survived, and it's the only one still largely intact and not amalgamated with similar documents, the others being the papers of Thomas Cromwell (State Papers, Henry VIII, SP 1) and the small collection of Lord Darcy's papers. A few further documents from the correspondence of the Lisles survived outside the collection originally deposited in
112-473: The "Calendar of Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of Henry VIII" edited by J. S. Brewer, J. Gairdner and R H Brodie (London 1862-1930). In the early 1930s, Muriel St. Clare Byrne , then a young student of Tudor England, started an exhaustive study of the approximately 3,000 original documents then at the Public Record Office comprising the Lisle Papers. Her work in transcribing, annotating and arranging
128-595: The Reign of Henry VIII and the Journals of the House of Lords and House of Commons . The places covered by British History Online are: British History Online began with a one-year pilot project in 2002 (Version 1.0), and Version 5.0 was launched in December 2014. Version 5.0 contains a number of new features, including subject guides for local, parliamentary and urban history, and
144-775: The Tower and are contained in the Cotton, Harleian and Royal Manuscripts in the British Library . Some also were transferred to the Thomas Cromwell collection. The papers deposited in the Tower were subsequently transferred to the Chapter House of Westminster Abbey , in the category "Treasury of the Receipt of the Exchequer", and remained there until 1832 when the Home Office ordered their removal to
160-596: The care of the State Paper Commission at the State Paper Office, amalgamated with the Public Record Office in 1852, which was recently re-founded as the National Archives . They are held today at the National Archives in the category "State Papers Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, SP3, Lisle Papers" Summaries of The Lisle Letters were published between 1862 and 1930 scattered within the 33 volumes of
176-485: The end of their respective months. The earlier State Papers of Henry VIII , published by the Royal Commission for State Papers in 11 volumes between 1830 and 1852, is not wholly superseded because the editors of that series sought to reproduce the original phrasing and orthography of the selected letters. The first volume, edited by Brewer and covering the years 1509 to 1514, was published in 1862. Brewer also edited
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#1733084519964192-598: The letters lasted several decades and was not published until 1981. Two editions have been published as follows: Letters and Papers of Henry VIII Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII (full title: Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII: preserved in the Public Record Office, the British Museum, and elsewhere in England ; often abbreviated in citations as L&P )
208-648: The majority of the content is free, but other content is available only to paying subscribers. The content includes secondary sources such as the publications of The History of Parliament , the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England , the Calendar of Close Rolls , Survey of London and the Victoria County History ; and major published primary sources such as Letters and Papers of
224-406: The next three volumes, covering the years 1515 to 1530, published in a total of eight parts between 1864 and 1876. Following Brewer's death in 1879, Gairdner edited the next nine volumes (5–13), covering the years 1531 to 1538, which appeared in a total of eleven parts between 1880 and 1893. Gairdner and Brodie jointly edited the next eight volumes (14–21), covering the years 1539 to 1547, published in
240-474: The series therefore amounts to 21 nominal volumes, plus two volumes of Addenda ; but in physical terms (with Volume 1 represented by the second edition) it amounts to a total of 37 volumes. A full reprint of the series was issued by the Kraus Reprint Co. in 1965. The full text is also available online as part of British History Online . This article about a non-fiction book on English history
256-547: Was based at Calais whilst performing his office of Lord Deputy of Calais . The correspondence is between Lord and Lady Lisle and their family, acquaintances at court, retainers, and servants. The main correspondent was John Husee , Lord Lisle's London agent. Following Lisle's arrest for alleged treason in 1540, as was usual in such cases, all his papers in the Staple Inn in Calais, his official residence, were confiscated and placed in
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