Document Analysis: Calendar of State PapersMain document used: ➢ Ed. Timings, EK 'Calendar of State Papers, James II, Vol 1 Feb-Dec 1685' (London, 1960) Secondary reading: ➢ Miller, John 'The Earl of Tyrconnell and the Irish policy of James II, 1685-88' (London, 1964) ➢ Simms, JG 'Jacobite Ireland 1685-91' (London 1969) ) ➢ Brady, Ciaran “Worst Gambling, Losers in Irish History” (Dublin 1974) ➢ Ó Ciardha, Eámmonn “Irish Jacobitism 1684-90” (Dublin 1984) )A primary document is one of the sources of information the most valuable ones a researcher can lay his hands on. This is much more useful than a secondary source because it allows you to access the mind and thinking of an individual at a specific time in relation to a decision that person may have made. A primary document is a record or other source of information created at the time studied, by an authoritative source, usually a person with direct personal knowledge of the events described at that time. All sources of research on history would be nothing if they did not contain detailed events in the primary documents, which is why we understand so much about yesterday's years and are valuable assets. In this essay I will use the Calendar of State Papers volume. A. These contain the State Papers of King James II from February to December 1685. The book contains sets of letters and papers, letter books, petitions and miscellaneous relating to King James II at the time of 1685 The entire book will not be used. in the analysis of the document, but the letters which were used to communicate with Richard Talbot will be the source of the analysis of the document. Before the 1680s, King James, then known as James Duke of York, befriended Talbot when they spent time in Belgium due to difficulties in their home country of Ireland and England. The friendship between them was very strong, which resulted in tension between the two men and saw Richard Talbot inherit the title of Earl of Tyrconnell on 7 May 1685. When Richard was made Earl of Tyrconnell, it was only a matter of until he replaced the then Viceroy, Clarendon, who at the time was quite unpopular with King James II..