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Businesses (1)
- Merchant London
Organisations (15)
- Barking Abbey (Benedictine) Barking, Essex
- Cobham College Cobham, Kent
- Court of Wards and Liveries
- Cranborne Priory Cranborne, Dorset
- Enfield Chase Enfield, Middlesex
- Exchequer
- Hertfordshire militia Hertfordshire;Hertfordshire
- Hospital of St Mary and St Thomas of Canterbury, Ilford Ilford, Essex
- Lord Chamberlain of the Household
- Privy Council
- Receiver-General of First Fruits
- Royal Household and Wardrobe
- St Albans liberty St Albans, Hertfordshire
- St Michael's Mount Priory (Alien), cell of Mont-St-Michel Abbey St Michael's Mount, Cornwall
- Tower of London London
Persons (55)
- Andrewes, Lancelot (1555-1626), Bishop of Winchester
- Anne (1574-1619) of Denmark, Queen Consort of James I
- Bacon, Francis (1561-1626) Viscount St Albans, Lord Chancellor
- Bancroft, Richard (1544-1610) Archbishop of Canterbury
- Brooke, Henry (d 1619) 8th Baron Cobham
- Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Robert (1831-1891) 1st Earl of Lytton, Viceroy of India
- Caesar, Sir Julius (1558-1636) Knight Judge
- Cecil, James (1748-1823) 1st Marquess of Salisbury
- Cecil, Robert (1563-1612) 1st Earl of Salisbury, statesman
- Cecil, William (1520-1598) 1st Baron Burghley, statesman
- Cecil, William (1591-1668) 2nd Earl of Salisbury
- Coke, Sir Edward (1552-1634) Knight Judge MP Law Writer
- Devereux, Robert (1566-1601) 2nd Earl of Essex, statesman
- Dudley, Robert (1532-1588) Earl of Leicester
- Egerton, Thomas (1540-1617) Viscount Brackley, Lord Chancellor
- Elizabeth I, (1533-1603) Queen of England and Ireland
- Galloway, Mary Arabella Arthur (1850-1900) Lady
- Gascoyne, Bamber (1758-1824), politician
- Gascoyne-Cecil, Edgar Algernon Robert (1864-1958) Viscount Cecil of Chelwood
- Gascoyne-Cecil, Hugh Richard Heathcote (1869-1956) Baron Quickswood, politician
- Gascoyne-Cecil, James Brownlow William (1791-1868) 2nd Marquess of Salisbury
- Gascoyne-Cecil, James Edward Hubert (1861-1947) 4th Marquess of Salisbury
- Gascoyne-Cecil, Robert Arthur James (1893-1972) 5th Marquess of Salisbury
- Gascoyne-Cecil, Robert Arthur Talbot (1830-1903) 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, statesman
- Grey, Thomas (d 1614) 15th Baron Grey of Wilton
- Harington, Sir John (1561-1612) Knight Wit and Author
- Hastings, Henry (1535-1595) 3rd Earl of Huntingdon
- Hatton, Sir Christopher (1540-1591) Knight Lord Chancellor
- Henri, IV (1553-1610) King of France and Navarre
- Howard, Charles (1536-1624) 1st Earl of Nottingham, Admiral
- Lake, Sir Thomas (1567-1630) Knight, Secretary of State
- Macdonell, Sir Hugh Guion (1832-1904) Knight Diplomat
- Mallet, Sir Louis (1823-1890) Knight Civil Servant and Economist
- Mary, (1542-1587) Queen of Scotland
- Nassau, Maurice (1567-1625) Prince of Nassau, Dutch statesman and general
- Ogle, Sir John (1569-1640) Knight Military Commander
- Palavicino, Sir Horatio (d 1600) Knight Merchant and Political Agent
- Percy, Henry (1564-1632) 9th Earl of Northumberland
- Philip, II (1527-1598) King of Spain
- Popham, Sir John (? 1531-1607) Knight Chief Justice of the King's Bench
- Raleigh, Sir Walter (? 1552-1618) Knight Military and Naval Commander Author
- Sackville, Thomas (c 1536-1608) 1st Earl of Dorset, statesman
- Seymour, Edward (? 1506-1552) 1st Duke of Somerset
- Somerset, Edward (c 1550-1628) 4th Earl of Worcester
- Stanhope, John (1545-1621) 1st Baron Stanhope of Harrington
- Stanley, Mary Catherine (1824-1900) Countess of Derby, political hostess and wife of 15th Earl of Derby
- Talbot, George (? 1528-1590) 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, statesman
- Talbot, Gilbert (1552-1616) 7th Earl of Shrewsbury
- Temple, Emily Mary (1787-1869), wife of 3rd Viscount Palmerston and widow of 5th Earl Cowper
- Victoria (1819-1901) Queen of Great Britain and Ireland
- Walsingham, Sir Francis (? 1530-1590) Knight, statesman
- Wellesley, Arthur (1769-1852) 1st Duke of Wellington, Field Marshal, statesman
- Winwood, Sir Ralph (1563-1617) Knight, Secretary of State and Diplomat
- Wolff, Sir Henry Drummond Charles (1830-1908) Knight, politician and diplomat
- Wriothesley, Henry (1573-1624) 3rd Earl of Southampton
Families (7)
- Bennett family of Beachampton Beachampton, Buckinghamshire;Selston, Nottinghamshire
- Brooke family, Barons Cobham Cobham, Kent
- Cecil, family, Marquesses of Exeter Burghley House, Northamptonshire;Bedford, Bedfordshire;Brinkhill, Lincolnshire;Bourne, Lincolnshire;Crowland, Lincolnshire;Revesby, Lincolnshire;Stamford, Lincolnshire;Westminster, Middlesex;Peterborough, Northamptonshire;Wrangdike, Rutland;Snape, Yorkshire;Well, Yorkshire
- Gascoyne family of Childwall Childwall, Lancashire;Barking, Essex;Ilford, Essex;Liverpool, Lancashire
- Gascoyne-Cecil, family, Marquesses of Salisbury Hatfield, Hertfordshire;Beachampton, Buckinghamshire;St Michael's Mount, Cornwall;Cranborne, Dorset;Barking, Essex;Ilford, Essex;Brockworth, Gloucestershire;Theobalds, Hertfordshire;Bermondsey, Surrey;Cobham, Kent;Childwall, Lancashire;Liverpool, Lancashire;Carlby, Lincolnshire;Westminster, Middlesex;Edmonton, Middlesex;Brigstock Parks, Northamptonshire;Selston, Nottinghamshire;Rum, Inverness-shire
- Seymour, family, Dukes of Somerset (created 1547, restored 1660) Shalbourne, Berkshire;Cheveley, Cambridgeshire;Cockermouth, Cumberland;Egremont, Cumberland;Syon House, Middlesex;Alnwick, Northumberland;Muchelney, Somerset;Drayton Bassett, Staffordshire;Newmarket, Suffolk;Petworth House, Sussex;Marlborough, Wiltshire;Pewsey, Wiltshire;Savernake Forest, Wiltshire;Trowbridge, Wiltshire;Catton, Yorkshire;Leconfield, Yorkshire;Spofforth, Yorkshire;Tadcaster, Yorkshire;Topcliffe, Yorkshire;Wressell, Yorkshire
- Stanley, family, Earls of Derby Glassmore, Cambridgeshire;Crag Hall, Cheshire;Macclesfield, Cheshire;Wildboarclough, Cheshire;Corney, Cumberland;Whicham, Cumberland;Bradworthy, Devon;South Weald, Essex;Hamerton, Huntingdonshire;Bickerstaffe, Lancashire;Bolton-cum-Adgarley, Lancashire;Bury, Lancashire;Knowsley, Lancashire;Lathom, Lancashire;Liverpool, Lancashire;Manchester, Lancashire;Pilkington, Lancashire;Preston, Lancashire;Epworth, Lincolnshire;London;Colham, Middlesex;Hillingdon, Middlesex;Brackley, Northamptonshire;Fleetham, Northumberland;Eynsham, Oxfordshire;Milton, Oxfordshire;Ellesmere, Shropshire;Knockin, Shropshire;Newmarket, Suffolk;East Lavant, Sussex;Halnaker, Sussex;Meriden, Warwickshire;Beetham, Westmorland;Witherslack, Westmorland;Burton in Lonsdale, Yorkshire;Kirkby Malzeard, Yorkshire;Mewith Head, Yorkshire;Thirsk, Yorkshire;Hawarden, Flintshire;Hope, Flintshire;Mold, Flintshire;Coonagh, County Limerick;Clonmore, County Louth;Smithstown, County Louth;Priestown, County Meath;Lyonstown, County Tipperary
Paper catalogues available to view at The National Archives - (4)
- NRA 10632 Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood: corresp and papers
- NRA 10535 Hugh Richard Heathcote Gascoyne-Cecil, Baron Quickswood: papers
- NRA 9226 Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury: private Foreign office corresp
- NRA 32925 Gascoyne-Cecil family, Marquesses of Salisbury: family and estate papers link to online catalogue