Sir Robert Naunton
Prose
Tableof contents in different Roman script, ii + 80 quarto leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Cerovski, p. 87.
The title (f. 1r) added in another hand, and ff. 77r-86v containing notes on the King's officers in yet another secretary hand.
c.1630s.This MS recorded in Cerovski, p. 87.
Copy, with a title-page.
In a single calligraphic hand, employing various scripts, a scribe identified or associated with one Henry Feilde.
c.1640s.Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 21 August 1858 (Bliss sale), lot 140.
This MS discussed in Van Strien.
This MS recorded in Cerovski, p. 87.
Sotheby's, 8 May 1871.
This MS recorded in Cerovski, p. 87.
Copy, on versos only.
Mainly in three hands, with later additions in c.1683-99.
Inscribed names including Anthony, Thomas and John Marshall, Jonas Ramsden, Jenkinson, Thomas Maleverer, and Lawson. Owned c.1670s-90s by the family of Sir Thomas Seyliard, third Baronet (d.1701), of Delawarre, Kent. Later note: Bought this Manuscript at Montague's Book warehouse near Queen Street Lincoln's Inn Fields Tuesday Feb: 12 1739
. Later armorial bookplate apparently of the Appleyard family of either Yorkshire or Norfolk. Phillips, 20 March 1998, lot 467, to Quaritch.
Copy, in a professional secretary hand.
This MS recorded in Cerovski, p. 87.
Copy, in a mixed hand.
This MS recorded in Cerovski, p. 87.
Copy, in the hand of the Feathery Scribe
, beginning at the sixth character, on 71 folio pages, imperfect, lacking the first part.
The second item (ff. 46r-81r) given in 1719 by John Anstis (1669-1744), antiquary, to Robert Harley (1661-1724), first Earl of Oxford, politician and book collector.
Briefly described in Peter Beal,
Copy, in two professional secretary hands (ff. 21r-34v, 35r-53v respectively). Mid-17th century.
In various professional hands, including those of Ralph Starkey (c.1568-1628), antiquary, and the Feathery Scribe
.
Briefly described in Peter Beal,
This MS recorded in Cerovski, p. 87.
Copy, in a small secretary hand, as By Sr Rob. Naunton Master of the Court of Wards
. c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Cerovski, p. 87.
Copy.
Inscribed (f. 3r) Sum Ed: Umfrevile Janrio 1727
: i.e. Edward Umfreville (1702?-(1702?-86), collector of legal manuscripts.
This MS recorded in Cerovski, p. 87.
Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand.
In various professional hands, including that of the Feathery Scribe
.
Briefly described in Peter Beal,
This MS recorded in Cerovski, p. 87.
This MS recorded in Cerovski, p. 87
This MS recorded in Cerovski, p. 87.
Copy, in at least three professional secretary hands, with a title-page.
Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor, 1701.
This MS recorded in Cerovski, p. 87.
This MS recorded in Cerovski, p. 87.
Copy, with a title-page, in a professional predominantly secretary hand.
Inscribed (flyleaf) John Holland No 28
and (f. 2r) Jefferies of Derbyshr
.
This MS recorded in Cerovski, p. 87.
Copy, on 66 leaves, the title-page later inscribed This treatise never printed, as Mr Bowles says-- Feb. 1721/2. B.G.
Sotheby's, 16 February 1938 (Clumber Library sale), lot 1341. Sotheby's, 14 December 1994 (Lord Fairfax of Cameron sale), lot 29, unsold; 13 December 1994, lot 539, sold to Quaritch.
Among papers of Sir John Marsham, first Baronet (1602-85), of Whornes Place, Cuxton, Kent, Clerk in Chancery and antiquary, and his successors, later Earls of Romney.
Copy, in a professional mixed hand, a title-page (p. 3) dated Ano: D
.
Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogues for 1835, item 228, and for 1836, item 216. Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 10134. Sold in 1895 to Tregaskis. Item 89 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Formerly Folger MS 163.1.
Edited principally from this MS in Cerovski.
From the papers of Sir Nathaniel Bacon (1546?-1622), politician, of Stiffkey, Norfolk, and his family, later owned by Marquess Townshend and sold in London 14 July 1924. Purchased from Frank Marcham in October 1925. Formerly Folger MS 1472.2.
Edited in part from this MS (erroneously cited as MS G.b.20) in Cerovski.
Copy of a slightly abbreviated version, in a professional secretary hand, subscribed ffinis Gloria Trinyni Deo in Æternum i640
.
I. P., now in 19th-century half red morocco. Mid-17th century.
Inscribed (f. 3r) John Holland No. 29
(18th-century herald painter, whose collections are principally among the Stowe MSS in the British Library); bought of Mr Faiy July 30th 1805
; and William Thorn 1836
(i.e. ? the army officer and cartographer (1780-1843)).
Edited in part from this MS (erroneously cited as Folger MS 21) in Cerovski
Formerly Folger MS 115.1.
This MS recorded in Cerovski, p. 87.
This MS recorded (as Unnumbered MS
) in Cerovski, p. 87.
Bookplate of James P.R. Lyell. Given to the library in 1939 by Thomas W. Lamont.
This MS recorded (as Unnumbered MS
) in Cerovski, p. 87.
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with a title-page.
Copy of Naunton's account of William Cecil, Lord Burghley, headed
Copy of the first part, up to the section on Mountjoy, with a separated title-page, imperfect, lacking various pages and the last part.
Lacking pages after p. 26 and p. 32, some of which are now
Among papers of the Griffith family of Carreglwyd, Anglesey, including papers of John Griffith of Gray's Inn, private secretary to Henry Howard (1540-1614), Earl of Northampton.
Bookplate of James W. Ellsworth. Gift in 1980 of John F. Fleming (1910-87), of Larchmont, New York, bookseller.
In the hand of Thomas Lord, one of Naunton's two secretaries, and prepared as a presentation copy for Charles I, the left column on each page throughout reserved for Naunton's commentary made specifically for the King (and unique to this manuscript).
[1634].Bookplates of Brigadier-General Sir Herbert Conyers Surtees, DSO, CB, CBE, MVO (1858-1933), of Mainsforth Hall, Co. Durham, and Hans Fürstenberg (1890-1982), German book collector.
Edited from this MS, with a complete facsimile, by Roy E. Schreiber (Roxburghe Club, London, 2002).
Inscribed in a 19th-century hand (f. ir) Found at Poundisford Park to which it was brought by the Daughter of Robert Tristram Esq Merchant of Barnstaple who died about the year 1700
, Tristram's daughter Jane being married in 1737 to Isaac Welma (b.1710) of Poundisford Park.
Copy, the title-page only in the secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe
, the rest in another professional secretary hand.
Bequeathed by Sir Jerome Alexander (c.1600-70), Justice of the Irish Common Pleas. Former pressmark G. 4. 9.
Peter Beal,
Beal,
Copy, in two or more professional secretary hands, with (f. 137r) a formal italic title-page, preceded (f. 136r) by a note in a cursive italic hand This is written By Sr Robert Naunton secretary to King James
.
Old pressmark N. 2. 12.
This MS recorded in Cerovski, p. 87.
Bookplate of Francis Blomefield (1705-52), Norfolk topographer, Rector of Fersfield in Norfolk 1736
. Signature (inside front cover) of Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector. A tipped-in letter about the work by T.R. Maynard, from London, 2 October 1845. Among the collections of Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence, MP (1837-1914), Baconian scholar and book collector.
Bookplate of the Hon. James Brydges, of Wilton Castle, Herefordshire. Among papers of the Galway family, Viscounts Galway, of Serlby Hall.
Copy.
Includes arms and genealogy of Helsby Cherleton & Acton Co. Lestr
and of The Lords of Hatton Co. Lestr
. Inscribed Thomas Helsby Lincoln's Inn London 1855
.
Copy, the title-page (p. 21), pp. 23 to the top of p. 51, most of p. 65 to p. 66 in the hand of the Feathery Scribe
; the rest of p. 51 to the top of p. 65 in a second professional hand, and pp. 67-114 in a third scribal hand.
Feathery Scribe, 605 pages (including blanks), in 17th-century calf. c.late 1620s-30s.
Once owned by Sir Richard Grosvenor (1585-1645). Later owned by the Duke of Westminster, Eaton Hall, Cheshire (bookplate, XXI no. 20
). MS 25. Sotheby's, 20 February 1967, lot 265, sold to Dobell.
Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 215. A microfilm of the MS is in the British Library (RP 83).
Copy in a secretary hand.
Probably associated with Oxford. Armorial stamp on the cover of a Duke (?of Devonshire). Sotheby's, 5 July 1955 (André De Coppet sale), lot 952.
Copy, with a title-page added (f. i) in a non-professional hand and other late-17th-century minor additions.
A flyleaf inscribed John Rose Christmas 1895
.
Books Inscribed by Naunton
Naunton(cropped by binder) and
Robert Naunton præt 3s 4don the title-page, in the first octavo volume of this work (the second volume, 1161.b.2, not inscribed). Late 16th-early 17th century.