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 796 CHAPTER XIV. THE REFORMATION UNDER EDWARD VI. MANUSCRIPTS. A. State Papers. The Domestic State Papers of the reign of Edward VI in the Record OflSce are wmparatively scanty, there being only nineteen volumes in the regular series, and even volumes of Addenda (consisting chiefly of documents relating to Scotland and he Borders). The Foreign State Papers include an imperfect series of despatches rom English representatives abroad, transcripts of despatches from foreign ambas- adors resident in England, and a series entitled the Calais Papers. Many were i-anscribed with a view to a new edition of Rymer's Foedera, and a, list of them is irinted in vol. iii, pp. xxxiv — liii, of Hardy's Syllabus, 1885. There are also five 'olumes of State Papers relating to Scotland. For other diplomatic correspondence, ee type-written Lists of Transcripts in the Record Oflfice; and Reports 33, 36, !9, 42-7 of the Deputy Keeper of Records. The State Papers at the British Museum are numerous, but, not as a rule being irranged according to subject, they are difficult to consult; there are, however, Jergenroth's Transcripts of Simancas Papers (Add. MSS. 28595-7) and a series of Scottish State Papers known as l^ie Hamilton Papers (Add. MSS. 32091, 32647-8, 12654, and 32667). Other single volumes of great value are scattered throughout he Cotton, Harley, Lansdowne, Royal, Stowe, and Additional Collections, and the inly guide to them is to be found in the various ms. Class Catalogues kept in the tISS. Department at the Museum. Some of the more important volumes are Mward VI's Journal (Cotton MS. Nero C. x), the Privy Council's Warrant Book Royal MS. 18 C. xxiv), Starkey's collection of letters and papers (Harley MS. 353), nd the documents relating to Somerset's agrarian policy (Lansdowne MS. 238). The Privy Council's Register is at the Privy Council Office in Whitehall; the nner Temple Library possesses a valuable collection of State Papers entitled the 'etyt MSS. ; the Talbot Papers in the College of Arms contain some six thousand lublic and private letters dating from the sixteenth century; the Marquis of ialisbury's collection at Hatfield includes some three hundi-ed documents relating to he reign, and isolated State Papers are to be found in many other private libraries. B. MlSCEIil^NEOUS MSS. Besides State Papers, the Record Office contains a vast mass of materials to rhich the historian must have occasional recourse. Such are the Patent and Close lolls, the records of the Star Chamber, the Admiralty Courts and Court of