Calendar of the manuscripts of the Most Hon. the Marquis of Salisbury.
Subtitle: preserved at Hatfield House, Hertfordshire
Contributors: Salisbury, Robert Cecil, marquess of, 1830-1903; Roberts, Richard Arthur, 1851-1943, ed; Salisbury, Edward, ed; Giuseppi, M. S. b. 1869
Publisher: Printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode for Her Majesty's Stationery Office
Published: 1971
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Great Britain -- History -- 1485- -- Sources
Notes: At head of title: Historical manuscripts commission

Vols 11-12 edited by R. Arthur Roberts, secretary of the commission: v. 13-14 (Addenda) by E. Salisbury; v. 15-     (Supplementary and undated papers) by M. S. Giuseppi

A few of the papers are in French

"The series of these most important political and other documents commences in 1306, but papers of earlier date than the reign of Elizabeth are comparatively few. For the reigns of Elizabeth and James I, however, they constitute a body of state papers illustrative of general events and political transactions, with which the state papers preserved in the Public record office are alone comparable."