Lisle Papers

The Lisle Papers are a collection of roughly three thousand letters received in Calais between 1533 and 1540 by Arthur Plantagenet, 1st Viscount Lisle, an illegitimate son of King Edward IV and an uncle of Henry VIII, and by his wife Honor Plantagenet, during Arthur's time as Lord Deputy of Calais. The letters record exchanges with the Lisles' family, court acquaintances, retainers and servants, with their London agent John Husee as the most frequent correspondent, and they give a detailed picture of domestic Tudor life and the court of Henry VIII. When Lisle was arrested for treason in 1540 his papers were confiscated and eventually placed in the Tower of London; the collection survives as one of only three of its kind from this period to come down largely intact, and is now held at the National Archives among the State Papers Foreign and Domestic. Muriel St Clare Byrne produced the first full annotated edition of the letters in 1981, followed by an abridged edition in 1983. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/