Beinecke MS 40                                                       England, s. XVII
Attainder of Lord Cromwell

          ff. 2r-10r    Anno xxxii H: 8 In^^o. The Attainder of the Lord
     Cromwell. Soit faict come il est desire...In their most humblewise
     shewing to your most Royal Majestie the Lords...this said Article of
     Attainder or any other Article Provision or thing heretofore had or
     made to the contrary Notwithstanding. ff. 1r-v and 10v-12v blank

          For this Act of Attainder (of which Beinecke MS 40 is a later
     copy) See Rotuli Parliamentorum...(London, n.d.) 32. h. 8; calendared
     in detail but not verbatim in Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic
     of the Reign of Henry VIII, 1509-47, XV, 498 (60).

          Paper (watermarks similar to Heawood 348), ff. 12, 330 x 212 (277
     x 151) mm. Written in ca. 25 lines; frame-ruled in ink; prickings at
     corners of written space, plus one along each vertical bounding line in
     outer margin.
          The manuscript is composed of a single gathering, unbound.
          Written in a neat cursive script by one scribe.

          Written in England in the 17th century; provenance unknown; no
     Beinecke library files concerning it.

     Bibliography: De Ricci, v. 1, p. 170, no. 40.

     Barbara A. Shailor