• 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...
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    Henry VIII is exceptionally well-recorded, due to the survival of the Lisle Papers in the National Archives, the state archives of the UK. Honor was a daughter...
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    Baron Lumley Arthur Plantagenet, 1st Viscount Lisle (1460s/1470s – 3 March 1542), author of the Lisle Papers, an important historical source for the Tudor...
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    published, together with all the other Lisle Papers, by Muriel St Clare Byrne in her six-volume work "The Lisle Letters". Husee was the son of John Husee...
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  • the lease from the Coffin family, which struggle is mentioned in the Lisle Papers. The legal dispute forms the subject of a surviving holograph letter...
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    the destruction of royal weirs lost 500 marks in annual income. The Lisle Papers provide a detailed contemporary narrative of the struggle of the owners...
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  • him. Three of her letters to her mother Honor Grenville survive in the Lisle Papers. Basset was the second daughter of Sir John Basset (1462–1528), KB, of...
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  • Henry VIII is exceptionally well-recorded, due to the survival of the Lisle Papers in the National Archives, the state archives of the UK. Honor Blackman...
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    a substantial inheritance. His short life is well documented in the Lisle Papers. He studied law at Lincoln's Inn and at the age of 20, at the start of...
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    he was created Viscount Lisle, having entered into a marriage contract with his ward, Elizabeth Grey, suo jure Viscountess Lisle. The contract was ended...
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