01933    a2200337   4500001001100000005001700011008004100028020001800069037003600087040000700123041000800130072001300138072001500151072001600166072001500182072001400197072001400211072001500225072001400240072001400254072002100268072002100289072002100310072001900331100002000350245009300370250000600463260003200469300001000501520108400511135176425X20250317111607.0250312042017GB        14           eng    a9781351764254  bTaylor & FranciscGBP 42.99fBB  a01  aeng7 aN2thema7 aNHD2thema7 aNHTB2thema7 aDSB2thema7 a3M2bisac7 aHBLH2bic7 aHBJD12bic7 aHBTB2bic7 aDSBD2bic7 aHIS0000002bisac7 aHIS0150002bisac7 aHIS0370902bisac7 a942.0552bisac1 aAngela Andreani10aElizabethan Secretariat and the Signet OfficebThe Production of State Papers, 1590-1596  a1  aOxfordbRoutledgec20170331  a222 p  bThis book investigates the work of the Elizabethan secretariat during the fascinating decade of the 1590s, when, after the death of Francis Walsingham, the place of principal secretary remained vacant for six years. Through original sources in the collections of the State Papers and Cecil Papers, this study reconstructs the activities of the clerks and secretaries who worked in close contact with the Queen at court. An estimated fifty people, many unidentified, saw to every minute detail of the production of official documents and letters in an array of offices, rooms and locations within and outside the court. The book introduces the staff of the Elizabethan writing offices as a community of shared knowledge with a privileged and constant access to papers of state, working behind the scenes of court display and high politics. While the production of the state papers is explored as a means to re-construct the functioning of the inner mechanisms of state, it also provides a lens through which to access the knowledge of the administration in a pre-bureaucratic age.