William Camden

Volumes I-III, for 1587 and 1591 (c.753 leaves); Vols IV-V, for 1558-82 (c.385 leaves); Vols VI-VII, for 1589-1603 (c. 288 leaves); Vols VIII-IX, for 1589-1603 (c.264 leaves), and containing various additions and revisions in the hand of Francis Bacon, with Camden's further revisions after 18 May 1620; Vol. X (c.242 leaves) comprising various fragments.

Bacon's additions here edited and discussed in The Works of Francis Bacon, ed. James Spedding et al., VI (London, 1858), 349-64.

Owned on 2 April 1711 by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), who on 28 March 1719 records his bequest of the volume to the Bodleian.

Extracts.

Chiefly in the hand of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), antiquary, and also including the Feathery Scribe.

Later owned by Sir Simonds D'Ewes, Bt, MP (1602-50), diarist and antiquary.

Autograph draft plan of the Annales, in double columns, on thirteen leaves, also (later) a rudimentary index to them.

Donated by John Hacket (1592-1670), Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield.

The contents of this MS listed in Montague Rhodes James, The Western Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, II (Cambridge, 1901), pp. 423-6.

Autograph draft pedigree, on one page, corresponding to Volume II, pp. 140-1, of the 1627 edition of the Annales.

Headed The copye of the Storye of Queen Elizabeth from 1583 to 1587 not transcribed for my self as yett but sent into France to Thuanus, transcribed from Cotton MS Faustina F. X, ff. 105r-70r (in Camden's autograph working draft: CmW 1).

Extracts.

Among the Irish collections of Sir George Carew (c.1556-1612), administrator and diplomat. Afterwards among collections of William Laud (1573-1645), Archbishop of Canterbury.

Extracts, headed An abstract of some important and remarkable passages taken out of W. Cambden's History of Queen Eliz., by me begun Oct. 7, 1700, with a few remarks here and there of my owne.

Armorial bookplate of Russell Robartes, MP (d.1718), father of Henry (c.1695-1741), third Earl of Radnor.

Extract.

Various extracts and quotations.

Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 10 of the Hopkinson MSS.

Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 294.

Extracts.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 294.

Extracts.

Extracts.

Entirely in the hand of the Rev. Abraham Wright (1611-90), of St John's College, Oxford, author.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ja: Wright (Abraham's son) and later of Taylor, Brighton. Bookplate of William Bromley, of Baginton, Warwickshire, 1703. Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 21 August 1858 (Bliss sale), lot 220.

For facsimile examples, see ShW 71 and ShW 44.

Extracts, including examples on pp. 6*, 109, 177, 181, 186, 188, 220, 242, and 245.

This MS probably given to Viscount Preston by Daniel Skinner, his former schoolfellow at Westminster School; Milton's Commonplace Book (MnJ 66), together with the letter addressed to him by Henry Lawes (MnJ 10), were discovered by Alfred J. Horwood in 1874 among the papers of the Graham family at Netherby Hall, Longtown, Cumberland, and recorded in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, p. 320. The state papers of Viscount Preston, among whose muniments Milton's commonplace book (with related material) was found, were sold at Sotheby's on 10 July 1986, lot 303, and are now in the British Library (Add. MSS 63752-63781).

Extracts.

Extracts.

Inscription on front pastedown by O.W. Malet sayimg the MS belonged to his grandfather the Rev. A. Malet of [?]Canterbury. Inscribed (f. [i^r]) Michel W Malet.

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Extracts.

Extracts.

A chronological summary of the work, in a small mixed hand, headed Camdeni Elizabetha: Apparatus.

Inscribed (inside front and rear covers) Robert Thornton and William Sherida / W^m Sheridan.

Once owned by Sir Robert Cotton, Bt (1571-1631), antiquary and politician, and, on 2 April 1711, by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), antiquary.

A series of autograph notes constituting Camden's additions to and revisions of Philemon Holland's English translation of Britannia (London, 1610), with page references to that edition; entitled (p. 10) A Suplement of the Topographicall Description of Britain published MDCX, Conteining many specialites w^ch since have intervened concerning Creations, inscriptions & other memorable matters in England Scotland Ireland, and the ysles adiacent.

Assembled by Thomas Smith (1638-1710), Oxford scholar and editor, who has inscribed p. 10 These papers I designe to print & then to give them to the Cottonian Library.

Owned on 4 April 1711 by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), antiquary, who records (p. iii) Smith's beqest to him of the volume.

These additions are largely unpublished.

A transcript of CmW 11, in a professional hand. 1681.

Made by or for Thomas Smith (1638-1710), Oxford scholar and editor.

Owned on 10 March 1710/11 by Thomas Hearne (1678-1733), antiquary, who records Smith's bequest to him.

Entitled Britannia, or a Chorographicall Description of the most florishing Kingdomes of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and of the Ilands adiacent; inscribed on the title-page in another hand This being m^r William Camdens manuscript found in his owne library lockt in a cupbord as a treasuer hee much estemed and since his death sufferd to se light; what appears to be the main scribe signing himself, however (f. 579v), P. Hanwood, with the number 58 [? 1658].

Owned in 1657 by one Richard Champion.

The scribe identified in H.R. Woudhuysen, Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts 1558-1640 (Oxford, 1996), as John Crisp, amanuensis of Sir Peter Manwood, MP (d.1625).

With Gough's extensive annotations.

Extracts from the Annales and Britannia.

Extracts, corresponding to pp. 241-95 of the edition of 1610.

Later owned by Richard Plantagenet Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (1797-1861), second Duke of Buckingham and Chandos.

Extract.

Compiled by Sir John Gibson (1606-65), of Welburn, near Kirkby Moorside, Yorkshire, when he was a Royalist prisoner in Durham Castle. The name Penelope Gibson on f. 174r.

Bookplate of William Ward Jackson.

Extracts.

Compiled by members of the Shann family, of Methley, Yorkshire, and mainly in the hand of Richard Shann (1561-1627).

Extensive extracts and abridgement by Elizabeth Freke, headed A Catalogue of of [sic] the Shires and their Cheife places in them of England; and First I will begin with Cornwall as being the furthest place or parts in the West and soe pass over the other Countries, In ordor Imitateing strabo ptolomy and the most antient Geagraphers who allways begin their first from the first Meridian. Taken out of Camdens Britiania.

Freke Papers Vol. III. Donated by Mary, Lady Carbery.

Extracts.

Volume CCLXXVI of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 281.

Numerous extracts, chiefly from Britannia, including examples on ff. 6r-v, 11r, 29r, 30r-2r, 33v-4r, 48v-9r, 146v.

Extract.

Extracts, in a mixed hand, headed Of the originall Inhabitants of Ireland Cap: i, with a side-note Colleccons touching Ireland, subscribed These are Collected but of learned Cambden.

Published in 1722.

Notes for additions to Britannia made by one John Burnsell.

Extracts, headed Camdens opinio of Brittaine, w^th his Epitomized Description therof, in Latin and English.

Booklabel (f. i^v) Lib: G: Spearman Dunelm A^o 1700/1. Among the family collection established by Christopher Mickleton (1612-69), Durham attorney, and by his eldest son James (1638-93), lawyer and antiquary, which was later incorporated in the collections of Gilbert Spearman (1675-1738), lawyer and antiquary.

Inscribed Thomas Thomson.

Quaritch, sale catalogue 230 (May 1904), item 373.

Extracts.

Extracts.

Extracts.

References and quotations.

Extracts.

Extracts.

Extracts.

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 13152. Sotheby's, 15 June 1971, lot 1649.

Later owned by Eric Sexton, FSA, of Rockport, Maine. Christie's, 15 April 1981 (Sexton sale), lot 165, to Thorp.

Sotheby's, 27 April 1982, lot 313 (unsold).

Extracts.

Formerly owned by G.F. Wilbraham, of Delamere House.

Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 416.

Extracts.

Extracts.

With annotations to the text, maps and plates by William Stukeley (1687-1765), antiquary and natural philosopher.

Originally owned in 1694 by one Elias Mason, and by Stukeley in 1714. Bookplate of Charles Eve, 1 September 1767. Christie's, 9 November 1983, lot 48.

Recorded in Bodleian Library Record, 11 (1982-5), 241-2, with a facsimile of the sketch of Stukeley that appears in the MS on a flyleaf.

The original MS of the contributions to the English edition of 1695, contributions relating to Welsh counties, prepared by Edward Lhuyd (1660-1709), naturalist and philologist, for the work's editor Edmund Gibson (1669-1748), Bishop of London, with Gibson's annotations and instructions to the printer and (pp. 695, 40) a corrected proof-sheet for the edition, 104 folio leaves, in 19th-century quarter-leather.

This MS discussed, with numerous facsimile examples, in Gwyn Walters and Frank Emery, Edward Lhuyd, Edmund Gibson, and the Printing of Camden's Britannia, 1695, The Library, 5th Ser. 32 (1977), 109-37.

Extracts.

Autograph drafts for Camden's Greek grammar.

Autograph autobiographical notes, on one page.

Donated by John Hacket (1592-1670), Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield.

The contents of this MS listed in Montague Rhodes James, The Western Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, II (Cambridge, 1901), pp. 423-6.

Entitled (f. 1^r) Reges, Reginæ Nobiles in Ecclesia S^t. Petri Westmonasterij sepulti, with rubrication and 166 emblazoned coats of arms, on 95 quarto leaves (including 22 blanks), gilt edged, in contemporary calf elaborately gilt with the arms of Queen Elizabeth and probably presented to her.

Bookplate of Strickland Freeman, Fawley Court, Buckinghamshire, 1810. Sotheby's, 23 April 1945, lot 40.

Formerly Broxbourne R 276. Described, with an illustration, in Howard M. Nixon, Broxbourne Library: Styles and Designs of Bookbindings from the Twelfth to the Twentieth Century (London, 1956), pp. 112-14.

This exemplum may have been presented to Queen Elizabeth I.

Formerly in the library of the Isham family, of Lamport Hall, Northamptonshire.

Autograph, on 45 leaves.

Donated by John Hacket (1592-1670), Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield.

The contents of this MS listed in Montague Rhodes James, The Western Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, II (Cambridge, 1901), pp. 423-6.

Thomas Smith's own exemplum of his edition of 1691 with his MS additions to these Annales, is in the Bodleian, 4° Rawl. 204.

Transcript of Camden's autograph MS (CmW 17).

Compiled by, and partly in the hand of, Sir William Dugdale (1605-86), antiquary and herald.

Once owned by Sir Henry Spelman (1563/4-1641), historian and antiquary. MS XXX Vol 2 of the collections of Hudson Gurney (1775-1864), banker and antiquary.

Notes, chiefly relating to the Order of the Garter, transcribed by Elias Ashmole (1617-92) from Camden's autograph MS in the custody of D^r: Hacket B^p: of Lichfield and Coventry 1668.

Later owned by William Bromley-Davenport, of Baginton Hall, Warwickshire. Sotheby's, 8 May 1903, lot 339, to Ridler.

Copy of an early version, here beginning The busie witt of man continually workinge hath wrought out of names…, partly autograph.

Largely comprising notes and materials either written by Camden or used by him for his various works, particularly Remaines.

Names inscribed (f. 207r) Bryan Tukerson and George Wiseman.

Copy, partly autograph.

Largely comprising notes and materials either written by Camden or used by him for his various works, particularly Remaines.

Names inscribed (f. 207r) Bryan Tukerson and George Wiseman.

Copy in the hand of the Feathery Scribe.

Both parts containing antiquarian tracts:

ff. 1r-29v, Matters of Combat 1609, predominantly in a professional secretary hand, with additions in other hands, owned in 1612 by William Crispe (name inscribed in court hand several times) and also by Henry Crispe (inscribed f. 20r-v), one or both also probably responsible for trial exercises in decorative lettering. c.1609-12.

ff. 30r-45v, discourses and copies of Latin documents relating to the offices of Lord Steward, Constable, and Earl Marshal of England, with title-page and (incomplete) list of contents, in the hands of professional scribes: ff. 30r-119v, 132r-45v, 150v-61r, 165v to to half-way down f. 205r in the hand of the Feathery Scribe; the remainder in two other scribal hands. c.1630s.

Once owned by the Isham family, of Lamport Hall, Northamptonshire. Sotheby's, 17 June 1904 (Library of a Gentleman in the Country), lot 89, to Quaritch. P.J. and A.E. Dobell, sale catalogue No. 80 (1928), item 719.

Described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 255 (No. 88). Woudhuysen, Sir Philip Sidney, p. 30.

Copy, in the hand of an unidentified scribe, headed The Etimologie antiquitie and office of the Earle Marshall of England.

Bookplates of Sir John Dolben, second baronet (1684-1756), of Finedon, Northamptonshire, and of The Rev. H.C. Beeching/Yattendon/1897. Acquired from Maggs.

Copy, in a professional hand, headed The Etimologyie Antiquitie and office of the office [sic] of Erle Marshal….

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed The Etymologie antiquitie and office of the Earle Marshall of England, unattributed.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 120. Microfilm in the British Library, M/346 (3rd item).

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed The Etimology Antiquitie and office of the Earle Marshall of England, unascribed.

Bequeathed by Sir Jerome Alexander (c.1600-70), Justice of the Irish Common Pleas. Old pressmark G. 3. 5.

Copy, in a professional hand.

Once owned by Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, antiquary and collector (No. 4556 in the 1773 catalogue of his books). Among the collections of Richard Gough, FSA (1735-1809), antiquary and topographer.

Copy.

Copy, headed The Etimologie Antiquitie & office of the Earle Marshall of England.

Acquired from Lord R. Montagu, MP, 27 June 1863.

Copy, in a neat secretary hand, subscribed William Camden.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, unascribed.

Later owned, and inscribed (f. 1*r) by John Anstis (1669-1744).

Copy, headed The Etimologie Antiquitie and office of Earle Marshall of England, unascribed.

Inscribed (f. 1*^r) by Wanley with date of accession into the Harley Library 4 May 1721. An affixed slip inscribed Ane baryngton, Robarts, and The Lady Robarts, all in the same hand.

Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor, 1701.

Copy, headed The Etymologie, Antiquity and Office of Earle Marshall of England, unascribed.

Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor, 1701.

Copy.

Copy, headed The Etimologie, Antiquitie and office of the Earle Marshall of England.

From the library of William T. Smedley (1851-1934), Baconian. Acquired c.1924.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 265-7 (No. 109).

Copy.

Owned in 1685 by Francis Negus, presumably the Francis Negus who was Surveyor of the Mews, secretary to the Duke of Norfolk, and father of the soldier and courtier Francis Negus (1670-1732).

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, unascribed.

Once owned by Ric: Tichbone, probably Sir Richard Tichborne, second Baronet, MP (c.1578-1652). James Tregaskis, sale catalogue No. 1022 (1948), item 29. Bought from Maggs, 4 November 1948, by Annie Winifred Bryher (née Ellerman, d.1983). Afterwards owned by the Ralegh scholar Agnes Latham (1905-96), of Pickering, North Yorkshire.

Briefly described in Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 229-31 (No. 35).

Copy, in the hand of an amanuensis, with a passage added at the end in Camden's minute italic hand, headed Steward of England; the paper delivered to the Society of Antiquaries (? on 4 June 1603).

Copy, in the hand of the Feathery Scribe, headed A discourse of the Lord Steward of England collected by Mr William Cambden.

Bookplates of Sir John Dolben, second baronet (1684-1756), of Finedon, Northamptonshire, and of The Rev. H.C. Beeching/Yattendon/1897. Acquired from Maggs.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed A discourse of the office of the Lo: Steward of England Collected by m^r Willm Cambden.

Bequeathed by Sir Jerome Alexander (c.1600-70), Justice of the Irish Common Pleas. Old pressmark G. 3. 5.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed A Discourse of the office of the lord high steward of England Collected by m^r William Cambden.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 120. Microfilm in the British Library, M/346 (3rd item).

Copy, in the professional secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe.

Both parts containing antiquarian tracts:

ff. 1r-29v, Matters of Combat 1609, predominantly in a professional secretary hand, with additions in other hands, owned in 1612 by William Crispe (name inscribed in court hand several times) and also by Henry Crispe (inscribed f. 20r-v), one or both also probably responsible for trial exercises in decorative lettering. c.1609-12.

ff. 30r-45v, discourses and copies of Latin documents relating to the offices of Lord Steward, Constable, and Earl Marshal of England, with title-page and (incomplete) list of contents, in the hands of professional scribes: ff. 30r-119v, 132r-45v, 150v-61r, 165v to to half-way down f. 205r in the hand of the Feathery Scribe; the remainder in two other scribal hands. c.1630s.

Once owned by the Isham family, of Lamport Hall, Northamptonshire. Sotheby's, 17 June 1904 (Library of a Gentleman in the Country), lot 89, to Quaritch. P.J. and A.E. Dobell, sale catalogue No. 80 (1928), item 719.

Described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 255 (No. 88). Woudhuysen, Sir Philip Sidney, p. 30.

Copy in Smith's hand, headed Commentariolus de Senescallo Angliæ per G. Camdeno.

Made by or for Thomas Smith (1638-1710), Oxford scholar and editor.

Owned on 10 March 1710/11 by Thomas Hearne (1678-1733), antiquary, who records Smith's bequest to him.

Copy, headed A Discourse of the Office of the Lord Steward of England, Collected by M^r. William Camden.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed A Discourse of the office of the off [sec] Lord Steward of England collected by M^r William Camden, and subscribed Wil: Camden.

Later owned, and inscribed (f. 1*r) by John Anstis (1669-1744).

Copy, headed Steward of England, subscribed W^m Camden.

Inscribed (f. 1*^r) by Wanley with date of accession into the Harley Library 4 May 1721. An affixed slip inscribed Ane baryngton, Robarts, and The Lady Robarts, all in the same hand.

Copy, headed A discourse of the office of the Lord Steward of England Collected by M^r. William Cambden.

Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor, 1701.

Copy, headed Steward of England, subscribed Will: Camden.

Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor, 1701.

Extracts, headed Allusions Remainis of a greater matter fol: 140.

Inscribed (f. 1r) The 2. day of Janvarie .1617. <erasure> begun to be wrytten - by my man John May. / P W[?].

Copy, headed A Discourse of the office of the Lord Steward of England Collected by master William Camden.

From the library of William T. Smedley (1851-1934), Baconian. Acquired c.1924.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 265-7 (No. 109).

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as collected by m^r Will: Camden.

Once owned by Ric: Tichbone, probably Sir Richard Tichborne, second Baronet, MP (c.1578-1652). James Tregaskis, sale catalogue No. 1022 (1948), item 29. Bought from Maggs, 4 November 1948, by Annie Winifred Bryher (née Ellerman, d.1983). Afterwards owned by the Ralegh scholar Agnes Latham (1905-96), of Pickering, North Yorkshire.

Briefly described in Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 229-31 (No. 35).

Copy, headed Steward of England.

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed A Discourse of the office of the Lord Steward of England collected by M^r Cambden, on three folio leaves paginated 30-3, subscribed William Cambden.

MS, partly autograph.

Largely comprising notes and materials either written by Camden or used by him for his various works, particularly Remaines.

Names inscribed (f. 207r) Bryan Tukerson and George Wiseman.

Fragment of an early autograph rough draft, here beginning When I first sett penne to write of Armes…, on a single leaf.

Among collections of Roger Dodsworth (1585-1654), antiquary, passed on to Lord Fairfax, who donated them to the Bodleian.

Fragment of a later draft, here beginning coates of Armes wh^ch were registred alwayes…, in the hand of an amanuensis with Camden's autograph corrections and revisions, on two separate leaves.

Among collections of Roger Dodsworth (1585-1654), antiquary, passed on to Lord Fairfax, who donated them to the Bodleian.

Draft, partly autograph.

Largely comprising notes and materials either written by Camden or used by him for his various works, particularly Remaines.

Names inscribed (f. 207r) Bryan Tukerson and George Wiseman.

Draft, partly autograph, of parts of the essay, headed England; also containing material for what became the essay The inhabitants of Britaine.

Largely comprising notes and materials either written by Camden or used by him for his various works, particularly Remaines.

Names inscribed (f. 207r) Bryan Tukerson and George Wiseman.

Draft, partly autograph.

Largely comprising notes and materials either written by Camden or used by him for his various works, particularly Remaines.

Names inscribed (f. 207r) Bryan Tukerson and George Wiseman.

Edited from this MS in Fussner.

Incomplete early draft, partly autograph. This draft essay also developed into the essay Of Epitaphes (see CmW 67).

Largely comprising notes and materials either written by Camden or used by him for his various works, particularly Remaines.

Names inscribed (f. 207r) Bryan Tukerson and George Wiseman.

Copy of the first part of the essay, here beginning The Caire all ages have had of Buriall, in the hand of Sir James Balfour, with his emendations and with Camden's examples of epitaphs replaced by Balfour's selection of some Scottish epitaphs.

Partly written and compiled by Sir James Balfour, first Baronet (1600-57), of Denmilne and Kinncaird, Lyon King of Arms and antiquary.

Copy, made by Thomas Smith, inscribed by Smith Transcribed from his Adversaria in the possession of the Lord Hatton [i.e. Christopher Hatton (1632-1706), first Viscount Hatton], on three pages of two conjugate quarto leaves.

Including papers on barons in connection with the case of Lord Roos, 27 April 1616, on the judicial proceedings in 1616 after the death of Sir Thomas Overbury (1613), on the punishment of peers, on Rathlin Island, and an anonymous tract on Geoffrey of Monmouth (pp. 133-8).

Owned or used by Edward Walker, Garter King of Arms; by Francis Sandford, Lancaster Herald; and by Mr Howell (herald painter). Acquired by Thomas Smith (1638-1710), Oxford scholar and editor, at Christmas 1703. Inscribed by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), on 2 March 1710/11, as having been bequeathed by Smith to him.

Extracts from this MS (concerning the trial of the Earl of Somerset) printed in Beatrice White, Cast of Ravens (London, 1965), pp. 213-16.

Copy, entitled A Collection made by M^r. Camden concerning the Different Sense and meaning of the word Baro in severall Ages, and headed The following Collection was communicated to me by the Learned D_r. Thomas Smith….

Compiled by William Petyt (1640/1-1707), lawyer and political propagandist.

Autograph fair copy, headed Castles, on the recto of a single folio leaf; the paper delivered on 15 May 1599.

Copy of Richard Carew's essay as incorporated by Camden in Remaines, in the hand of an amanuensis with a few autograph alterations by Camden.

Largely comprising notes and materials either written by Camden or used by him for his various works, particularly Remaines.

Names inscribed (f. 207r) Bryan Tukerson and George Wiseman.

Copy in the hand of John Stow (1525?-1605), subscribed Translatyd owt of latyn into Englyshe by W. Camden and here writen by John Stow marchaunt taylowr in the monthe of June anno 1576.

Copy of 267 apothegms, including 110 which were to appear in Grave Speeches, in thesecretary hand of an amanuensis with autograph corrections and revisions, headed Witty aunsweres & saienges of Englishmen.

Largely comprising notes and materials either written by Camden or used by him for his various works.

Copy of 551 apothegms, including two which were to appear in Grave Speeches, in the secretary hand of an amanuensis, untitled.

Largely comprising notes and materials either written by Camden or used by him for his various works.

Autograph draft of the opening paragraph, untitled.

Largely comprising notes and materials either written by Camden or used by him for his various works, particularly Remaines.

Names inscribed (f. 207r) Bryan Tukerson and George Wiseman.

Unfinished autograph draft of an untitled essay addressed to James I concerning the proiect of Armes; two pages.

Donated by John Hacket (1592-1670), Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield.

The contents of this MS listed in Montague Rhodes James, The Western Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, II (Cambridge, 1901), pp. 423-6.

Draft, partly autograph, headed English tounge and here beginning From Englishmen we will now procede to the English tounge….

Largely comprising notes and materials either written by Camden or used by him for his various works, particularly Remaines.

Names inscribed (f. 207r) Bryan Tukerson and George Wiseman.

Autograph rough draft of passages belonging to the essay.

Largely comprising notes and materials either written by Camden or used by him for his various works, particularly Remaines.

Names inscribed (f. 207r) Bryan Tukerson and George Wiseman.

Draft, partly autograph, of a short later version.

Largely comprising notes and materials either written by Camden or used by him for his various works, particularly Remaines.

Names inscribed (f. 207r) Bryan Tukerson and George Wiseman.

Copy, partly autograph, of a short early version, here beginning In most auncient ages there was onely batterie or chaunge of wares….

Largely comprising notes and materials either written by Camden or used by him for his various works, particularly Remaines.

Names inscribed (f. 207r) Bryan Tukerson and George Wiseman.

Extracts labelled Mr Camden, among others labelled Mr Burton, in a section with the running title money and Coynes, almost illegible due to permeation of the ink.

Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 7, Part II, of the Hopkinson MSS.

Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 294.

Copy in the secretary and italic hand of an amanuensis, with autograph additions, including (f. 165v) an unpublished autograph epitaph of four lines (beginning John Bell Brokenbrow liyys vnd^r this stean) belonging to this essay, on three folio pages, docketed Camd; the paper delivered to the Society of Antiquaries on 3 November 1600.

Autograph fair copy, headed Townes, on both sides of a single folio leaf; the paper delivered 23 June 1599.

Autograph fair copy, headed The Antiquitie of Armes in England. Armes, on both sides of a single folio leaf; the paper delivered 2 November 1598.

Autograph rough draft, here beginning Wheras Armories or Armes do as silent names distinguish families….

Largely comprising notes and materials either written by Camden or used by him for his various works, particularly Remaines.

Names inscribed (f. 207r) Bryan Tukerson and George Wiseman.

Copy, in the secretary hand of an amanuensis, headed Funeralles, on both sides of a folio leaf, docketed Camd.; the paper delivered 30 April 1600.

Copy in Smith's hand, headed Commentariolus de Antiquitate Parliamentorum Authore G. Camdeno.

Made by or for Thomas Smith (1638-1710), Oxford scholar and editor.

Owned on 10 March 1710/11 by Thomas Hearne (1678-1733), antiquary, who records Smith's bequest to him.

Copy, headed of the Antiquitie of Parliaments, on three pages, subscribed William Camden.

Copy, headed in the margin The Antiquity of parlyam^ts writte by M^r W: Camden.

In a single calligraphic hand, employing various scripts, a scribe identified or associated with one Henry Feilde.

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.

Copy.

Volume V of the papers of John Scudamore (1601-71), first Viscount Scudamore, politician and diplomat.

Evans (i.e. Sotheby's), 3 December 1821 (Scudamore sale), various lots, to Thomas Thorpe. Phillipps MS 22282. Sotheby's, 16 June 1896 (Phillipps sale). Dobell's sale catalogue No. 238 (1914), item 603. Presented by Wilfred Merton, FSA (1888-1957), book and manuscript collector.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed The Antiquity of Parliaments, subscribed William Camden. c.1630.

Yelverton MS 111, among papers of Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), Justice of the Common Pleas, and his family.

Copy.

Lot 389 in an unidentified sale and two unidentified armorial bookplates. Bought from Davis & Orioli, 10 November 1917.

Copy in a professional secretary hand, headed The Antiquitye of Parliaments in England, subscribed Written by M^r W: Camden, also docketed by Sir Simonds D'Ewes (f. 249v) Written by M^r William Cambden, author of the Britannia.

annotated by, Dewes.

Copy, headed The Antiquitie of Parliaments, subscribed W^m Camden, in a sheaf of papers (ff. 22r-44r) in a professional predominantly secretary hand headed The seuerall opinions of sundry Antiquaries touchinge the Antiquitye Power order state manner Persons, and Proceedinges of the high Court of Parliament in England.

Inscribed (f. 2r) Sum Edw Umfrevile Jun^eis. Interioris Templi Studentis 1725. 10^o Aprilis: i.e. by Edward Umfreville (1702?-86), collector of legal manuscripts. Bookplate (as Shelburne) of William Petty (1737-1805), second Earl of Shelburne and first Marquess of Lansdowne, Prime Minister.

Copy, headed The Antiquity of Parliam^ts, subscribed William Cambden.

Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor, 1701.

Later owned by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), herald and antiquary, and afterwards by Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, antiquary and collector.

Copy, headed The Antiquitie of Parliam^ts in England written by M^r William Cambden, Authour of the Brittania.

Once owned by Richard St George (d.1635), Clarenceux Ling of Arms. Sir Henry St George sale, London, 27 November 1738, lot 209. Purchased in 1928 from Dobell.

Copy, untitled, subscribed Willm Camden.

G.N. Last's sale catalogue 200 (1934), item 773.

Copy.

Later owned by Harry Lawrence Bradfer Lawrence (1887-1965), Norfolk antiquary and manuscript collector. Formerly on temporary loan to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

Copy in the hand of the Feathery Scribe, headed The Antiquetye Off Parliam^tes, subscribed Willm Camden.

Inscribed in court hand by one M: Bayley. Later Phillipps MS 15141. Sold by James Tregaskis, 4 June 1902. Formerly MS 1054.

Described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 221 (No. 14).

Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 221 (No. 14.4).

Copy.

Copy, headed The antiquitie of Parliaments, subscribed William Camden.

Copy, headed The Antiquitie of Parliaments, subscribed W: Camden.

Copy, headed The Antiquity of Parliam^t, subscribed W^m: Camden.

Among the papers of Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, formerly at Powis Castle. Formerly Powis MSS (1959 deposit), Series II, Bundle XVI, Miscellaneous Political Papers, Part 1, No. 2.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, subscribed W^m Camden.

Bequeathed by Sir Jerome Alexander (c.1600-70), Justice of the Irish Common Pleas. Old pressmark G. 3. 2.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed An other Discourse of the Antiquity of Parliaments, subscribed William Cambden.

Bequeathed by Sir Jerome Alexander (c.1600-70), Justice of the Irish Common Pleas. Old pressmark G. 4. 13.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 226-7 (No. 23).

Copy.

Inscribed names of frizell Griffin, Arnold Thomas of lane baglan, and Robert Toughe. Sotheby's, 28 October 1980, lot 780.

Copy.

Later ownership inscription by Edward Maugin, and a note by him which refers to the reading of this volume and dismissive attitude towards it by the Rev. Joseph Hunter (1783-1861). Sotheby's, 13 December 1990, lot 358 (unsold), and 30 July 1991, lot 28, to Hatchwell.

Copy in the hand of an amanuensis, untitled, endorsed M^r Camden; probably the paper delivered to the Society of Antiquaries. c.1604.

Autograph fair copy, headed Duke, on both sides of a single folio leaf; the paper delivered 25 November 1598.

Facsimile of f. 105r in IELM, I.i (1980), Facsimile VII, p. 148.

Autograph draft of an early version, headed Duke and here beginning This word Duke we have receaued from the french….

Largely comprising notes and materials either written by Camden or used by him for his various works, particularly Remaines.

Names inscribed (f. 207r) Bryan Tukerson and George Wiseman.

Copy in the secretary hand of an amanuensis, untitled and here beginning Since civility..., on both sides of a single folio leaf; the paper delivered to the Society of Antiquaries on 28 October 1601.

Copy, subscribed by M^r Camden, apparently a transcript of CmW 92, made by Thomas Smith.

Chiefly compiled by Thomas Smith (1638-1710), Oxford scholar and editor.

Owned on 10 March 1710/11 by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), antiquary.

Copy, in the secretary hand of an amanuensis, with autograph additions, docketed Cam, on both sides of a single folio leaf; the paper delivered 28 November 1600.

Autograph fair copy, with revisions, on one side of a single folio leaf; the paper delivered 29 June 1604.

Copy, subscribed by M^r Camden, apparently a transcript of CmW 95, made by Thomas Smith.

Chiefly compiled by Thomas Smith (1638-1710), Oxford scholar and editor.

Owned on 10 March 1710/11 by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), antiquary.

Copy in the cursive secretary hand of an amanuensis, headed in Camden's hand Tombes, and Monuments, on both sides of a single folio leaf, endorsed M^r Clarencieux; the paper delivered to the Society of Antiquaries on 7 June 1600.

Autograph draft of part of a critique of Ralph Brooke, York Herald, A Catalogue and Succession of the Kings, Princes, Dukes, Marquesses, Earles, and Viscounts of this Realme of England, since the Norman Conquest, to the present yeare, 1619 (London, 1619); untitled and here beginning In the Catalogue of the Earles of Arundell First he maketh Roger Montgomery to be Earle of Belesmo….

Autograph draft of part of Camden's critique, headed In M^r Yorkes succession of Kinges and beginnng In the Conqueror to overpasse his mistaking in computation by Ides…, as also (p. 168) the first page (pp. 169-70 missing) of Camden's notes (including a draft title-page) for The errors of M^r Brooke in his Catalogue and Succession… written by Camden's deputy Augustine Vincent (c.1584-1626).

Including papers on barons in connection with the case of Lord Roos, 27 April 1616, on the judicial proceedings in 1616 after the death of Sir Thomas Overbury (1613), on the punishment of peers, on Rathlin Island, and an anonymous tract on Geoffrey of Monmouth (pp. 133-8).

Owned or used by Edward Walker, Garter King of Arms; by Francis Sandford, Lancaster Herald; and by Mr Howell (herald painter). Acquired by Thomas Smith (1638-1710), Oxford scholar and editor, at Christmas 1703. Inscribed by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), on 2 March 1710/11, as having been bequeathed by Smith to him.

Extracts from this MS (concerning the trial of the Earl of Somerset) printed in Beatrice White, Cast of Ravens (London, 1965), pp. 213-16.

Vincent's Discoverie of Errours in the first Edition of the Catalogue of Nobility…by Ralfe Brooke pub. London, 1622.

Constituting a detailed critique of the book, some on interleaves, inscribed M^r Yorke sent his booke to me to be censured the 19 of Febr: and I did resend it the 25^th of the same month, and some pages inscribed This page reprinted.

Copy of a draft, in a neat italic and secretary hand.

Largely comprising notes and materials either written by Camden or used by him for his various works, particularly Remaines.

Names inscribed (f. 207r) Bryan Tukerson and George Wiseman.

Edited from this MS, with a complete facsimile, in Dunn's article (1986).

Draft, partly autograph.

Largely comprising notes and materials either written by Camden or used by him for his various works, particularly Remaines.

Names inscribed (f. 207r) Bryan Tukerson and George Wiseman.

Copy of portions of the work, in a secretary hand, annotated by the fourth Earl of Bedford, subscribed in another hand Here wee left 19 Aprilis 1630.

Partly written, and annotated, in the rugged italic hand of Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician.

Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1.

Extracts.

Extracts.

Extracts, headed Observations out of Cambden's Remains.

Inscribed on a flyleaf T Balldwyn p^rtium 3^s and used by M^r Sumner, and, on p. 420, Robert Elwis.

Inscribed on the title-page R. Spence.

Extracts.

Extracts.

Pencil inscription on front pastedown: Charles A. Cole[?] June 26 '64. The rear cover stamped R. S. 1705.

Extracts.

Autograph rough draft of the title-page, here addressed to Fulke Greville, with a list of contents.

Largely comprising notes and materials either written by Camden or used by him for his various works, particularly Remaines.

Names inscribed (f. 207r) Bryan Tukerson and George Wiseman.

Autograph rough draft of the dedication (without the name of the addressee).

Largely comprising notes and materials either written by Camden or used by him for his various works, particularly Remaines.

Names inscribed (f. 207r) Bryan Tukerson and George Wiseman.

First published (addressed to Sir Robert Cotton) in Remaines (London, 1605).

Autograph draft; the paper delivered to the Society of Antiquaries 3 November 1603.

Largely comprising notes and materials either written by Camden or used by him for his various works, particularly Remaines.

Names inscribed (f. 207r) Bryan Tukerson and George Wiseman.

Copy, untitled.

The fifth volume of antiquarian collections belonging to Thomas Astle (1735-1803), archivist and collector of books and manuscripts.

Draft, partly autograph.

Largely comprising notes and materials either written by Camden or used by him for his various works, particularly Remaines.

Names inscribed (f. 207r) Bryan Tukerson and George Wiseman.

Autograph list of names relating to the essay.

Largely comprising notes and materials either written by Camden or used by him for his various works, particularly Remaines.

Names inscribed (f. 207r) Bryan Tukerson and George Wiseman.

An autograph list of local names relating to Camden's essay.

Owned on 1 April 1711 by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), antiquary, who records (p. v) Smith's bequest of the volume to him.

Autograph draft notes for an early paper on the title of baron, untitled.

Largely comprising notes and materials either written by Camden or used by him for his various works, particularly Remaines.

Names inscribed (f. 207r) Bryan Tukerson and George Wiseman.

Autograph draft of a later paper on the title of baron, headed The State of the Question, probably connected with the case of Lord Roos (1616).

Including papers on barons in connection with the case of Lord Roos, 27 April 1616, on the judicial proceedings in 1616 after the death of Sir Thomas Overbury (1613), on the punishment of peers, on Rathlin Island, and an anonymous tract on Geoffrey of Monmouth (pp. 133-8).

Owned or used by Edward Walker, Garter King of Arms; by Francis Sandford, Lancaster Herald; and by Mr Howell (herald painter). Acquired by Thomas Smith (1638-1710), Oxford scholar and editor, at Christmas 1703. Inscribed by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), on 2 March 1710/11, as having been bequeathed by Smith to him.

Extracts from this MS (concerning the trial of the Earl of Somerset) printed in Beatrice White, Cast of Ravens (London, 1965), pp. 213-16.

Autograph draft, untitled and here beginning If such an inhaerent Excellency, retentive facultie, and inseperabilitie of titles had beene known in former ages…, on seven pages.

Donated by John Hacket (1592-1670), Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield.

The contents of this MS listed in Montague Rhodes James, The Western Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, II (Cambridge, 1901), pp. 423-6.

Draft, partly autograph.

Largely comprising notes and materials either written by Camden or used by him for his various works, particularly Remaines.

Names inscribed (f. 207r) Bryan Tukerson and George Wiseman.

Facsimile of the inscribed title-page in [John Collins], A Short Account of the Library at Longleat House, Warminster, Wilts (Sotheby's, 1980), p. 21.

Nine pages of autograph pedigrees bound in at the front and end of the volume, including the dates 1598, 1605, and 1616.

Inscribed liber Briani Stapletoni.

For a discussion of annotations in Milles's books (which, however, does not mention this item) see P.H. Davison, The Annotations to Copies of Thomas Milles's Books in the British Museum and Bodleian Libraries, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 133-9.

Sotheby's, 28 July 1859 (A. Bradbury sale), lot 629, to Graves.

Recorded, with some annotations quoted and with a facsimile of Camden's inscription of ownership, in Original Letters of Eminent Literary Men, ed. Sir Henry Ellis, Camden Society 23 (London, 1843), p. 128 (and frontispiece).

Inscribed (f. 1r) by Sir Robert Cotton Ro. Cottoni Brucei ex dono Domini Guillimi Camdeni amicorum prestantissimorum...1609, and signed by Camden on f. 271v.

Papers of William Camden, comprising (ff. 73-4v) a Latin tract in a professional hand with Camden's autograph heading De Curijs Ecclesiasticis Archiepi Cantuariensis ex libello de praerogatiuis sedis Cantuari; (f. 96v) an autograph tabulation of The Courtes of England, endorsed on f. 96 des courtes et officiers d'Angleterre, tiré du livre Intitulé politiae Angliae en Englois; and (ff. 97r-8v) an index of civil and ecclesiastical offices of the Realm (in Latin) in a professional hand with Camden's autograph heading Ex Libello de Politeia Angliae in vsum Dnae Reginae primo Regni anno conscripto; f. 73 endorsed with the date 1582.

One of Camden's miscellaneous collections, largely in his hand.

Among collections of Roger Dodsworth (1585-1654), antiquary, passed on to Lord Fairfax, who donated them to the Bodleian.

The volume as a whole.

Including papers on barons in connection with the case of Lord Roos, 27 April 1616, on the judicial proceedings in 1616 after the death of Sir Thomas Overbury (1613), on the punishment of peers, on Rathlin Island, and an anonymous tract on Geoffrey of Monmouth (pp. 133-8).

Owned or used by Edward Walker, Garter King of Arms; by Francis Sandford, Lancaster Herald; and by Mr Howell (herald painter). Acquired by Thomas Smith (1638-1710), Oxford scholar and editor, at Christmas 1703. Inscribed by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), on 2 March 1710/11, as having been bequeathed by Smith to him.

Extracts from this MS (concerning the trial of the Earl of Somerset) printed in Beatrice White, Cast of Ravens (London, 1965), pp. 213-16.

The collection as a whole.

Owned on 1 April 1711 by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), antiquary, who records (p. v) Smith's bequest of the volume to him.

Smith's transcript of some of Camden's topographical notes and copies of Latin inscriptions found in Britain; pp. 26-7 apparently transcribed from CmW 161.

Compiled chiefly by Thomas Smith (1638-1710), Oxford scholar and editor.

Autograph annotations by Camden, with his comments and corrections, including those on ff. 11r, 17r and 44r.

Inscribed (f. 54v) George Owen [c.1598-1665] York Herald. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 13758. Sotheby's, 28 June 1965, lot 98.

A ten-line autograph annotation by Camden, in the margin of a scribal copy (ff. 58r-61v) of the proceedings at the coronation of James I and Queen Anne, 25 July 1603.

Afterwards owned by Sir Richard St George (1554/5-1635), Clarenceux King of Arms, and possibly by his grandson, Sir Henry St George (1625-1715), Clarenceux and Garter King of Arms. Presented by William Guthrie (1708?-70), historian and political journalist, 24 April 1764.

Mr Baker's, York Street, Covent Garden, 1768 (Anstis sale). Sotheby's, 6 November 1899 (Tixal sale), lot 114.

Facsimiles of f. 24r (letter to Lord Burghley, 1594) in Greg, English Literary Autographs, plate LXXIII(d), and in Petti, English Literary Hands, No. 30.

Various autograph notes and drafts by Camden, including entries on ff. 54r, 61r, 64v, 66v (on the dukedom of Buckingham), and 77r.

Compiled by Nicholas Charles (1582-1613), Lancaster Herald.

Charles's papers were purchased after his death by William Camden. They include two other of Charles's heraldic and genealogical collections: a quarto volume of 36 leaves (British Library, Add. MS 47178) and a folio volume of 135 leaves (British Library, Add. MS 47179). The three volumes constitute Volumes CCLVIII-CCLX of the papers of the Perceval family, Earls of Egmont, and the allied Southwell family.

In several largely secretary hands, one predominating, with coats of arms and other devices drawn in trick, bearing occasional additions and annotations in Camden's italic hand, including full pages ff. 5r, 30r, 33r, 37r, 39v, 75v-6r.

Afterwards owned by the St George family of heralds. Bookplate of Sir George Nayler (1764-1831), Garter King of Arms. Sotheby's, 25 July 1832 (Nayler sale), lot 131, to Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector (Phillipps MS 9781). Sotheby's, 26 June 1974 (Phillipps sale), lot 2882, with a facsimile of f. 30r in the sale catalogue.

Autograph Latin notes and antiquarian collections of Camden, including material used for Britannia, 126 leaves; one page (f. 119v) dated 1580, another (f. 100v) dated 1581.

At least some of the items here belonged to Camden, including several notes, drafts, patents and a letter in his hand, inscribed (f. 1r) Collections of M^r Camdens Relating to Hauralds at arms with sev^ll. Originall pattents.

Autograph notes in Latin by Camden, including verses (ff. 4r, 311r), various notes on coins, Scottish topography, Roman inscriptions in Northern England, war with Spain, &c, and a draft letter and draft dedication in his hand or in the hands of his amanuenses or correspondents with autograph additions, some notes probably relating to Britannia; a few autograph Epitaphia Camdeni, on f. 430r-v dating between 1604 and 1611.

This volume discussed and printed in part, with facsimile examples, in F. Haverfield, Cotton Iulius F. VI Notes on Reginald Bainbrigg of Appleby, on William Camden and on some Roman Inscriptions, Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, NS 11 (1911), 343-78.

Various autograph or partly autograph historical notes and memoranda, on possibly as many as 50 leaves, chiefly in Latin, including extracts from Tacitus and other Roman authors; topographical material (dated 1580) used for Britannia (including ff. 119r-v); copies of epitaphs (ff. 116r-17r); matter relating to Camden and George Buchanan; and a clothes bill for November 1578-July 1580.

Largely comprising notes and materials either written by Camden or used by him for his various works.

Certain of the contents of this MS noted in Haverfield (see CmW 147), pp. 350, 378.

Various historical notes and memoranda, autograph or partly autograph, chiefly in Latin, a number relating to Remaines, including genealogical trees (ff. 42r-61v), astronomical texts, verse (some on Sir Henry Goodyer the Elder, f. 85r, and on Sir Nicholas Bacon, f. 87r), and (f. 220r) notes relating to Britannia.

Largely comprising notes and materials either written by Camden or used by him for his various works, particularly Remaines.

Names inscribed (f. 207r) Bryan Tukerson and George Wiseman.

Various autograph papers by Camden, including: (f. 2r) his draft Latin epitaph, or Memoriæ, on Mary Queen of Scots, probably 1612; (ff. 36v, 40r-3v, 46r) his notes on various religious houses; (between ff. 46r and 64v) his annotations to genealogies; (ff. 74r-6v) his notes on Mary Queen of Scots; (ff. 77v-103v) his annotations to a chronological list (in another hand) of events in the reign of Queen Elizabeth; and (f. 126r-v) his notes on revenues of Spain.

Perhaps all compiled by Camden and partly in his hand, used for Britannia and other works; one page (f. 7r) dated 1603.

Various autograph papers by Camden, including (on ff. 75v-113r, 126v-67, 185v-7r) an Anglo-Saxon-Latin vocabulary, a list of Saxon places and names, various Latin notes, material connected with Greek, and words and phrases from Homer's Iliad (dated 10 October 1592).

Later owned by Sir Simonds D'Ewes, Bt, MP (1602-50), diarist and antiquary.

This MS recorded in F.J. Levy, The Making of Camden's Britannia, Bibliothèque D'Humanisme et Renaissance, 26 (1964), 70-97 (p. 82). Facsimile of f. 76c in Greg, English Literary Autographs, plate LXXIII(b).

A Coppie of boock of Scoths Petdegries taken ut of M^r Wiliam Camden alias Clarinciux King of Armes now in possession of S^r Robert Cotton K^t Ann^o 1627, in one or more secretary hands, transcribed from CmW 160.

A flyleaf (f. 1*r) inscribed Scotlands Nobility & Gentry / Jo: withie.

Autograph copy of quotations from Greek and Roman authors, &c chiefly relating to Great Britain, apparently intended for inclusion in Britannia.

This volume is not compiled by William Camden but is entirely in the hand of Robert Glover (1543/4-88), Somerset Herald.

Autograph rough notes in Latin, on genealogy and dates and events in Tudor history, on both sides of a single folio leaf.

Various documents belonging to Camden, partly autograph, including extensive and heavily revised drafts by Ralph Brooke (c.1563-1625), partly in his autograph, of his critiques of Camden's Britannia, notably (ff. 321-68v) A Second Discoverie of Certaine Errovrs Published in the much comended Britannia 1594 Very preiudiciall to the Discentes and successions of the auncient Nobilitie of this Realme, with a reply to M^r Camdens apologie, ad Lectorem in his firsr edicon 1610. By Ra: Brooke Yorke Herauld.

Bookplate of Sir George Nayler (1764-1831), Garter King of Arms. Formerly Folger MS 7033.

Brooke's A Second Discoverie was first published, from this MS, in an edition by John Anstis (London, 1723).

Various coats of arms and pedigrees in Camden's hand or annotated by him.

With a title-page: Illorum Magnatum stemata quorum hæreditas, deficientibus masculis, as feminas deuoluta est.

Inscribed (on front pastedown) as Ex Bibl... 1838 of William Morton Pitt, MP (1754-1836), of Kingston House, Dorset. Phillipps MS 7437. Sotheby's, 28 June 1965, lot 41, to Myers. Formerly Folger MS Add. 469.

A microfilm is in the British Library (RP 26).

Various genealogical and heraldic papers of Camden, a number autograph.

Once owned by the St George Family of heralds. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1782-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 166832. Sotheby's, 28 June 1965, lot 42, to Jantzen. Formerly Folger MS Add. 576.

A microfilm is in the British Library (RP 438).

A volume of genealogical papers largely compiled by William Camden, whose hand appears frequently throughout, some of the various texts probably in the hands of his amanuenses.

Given in 1629 by William Camden's executor, Sir Robert Cotton, to Sir James Balfour, first Baronet (1600-57), of Denmilne and Kinncaird, Lyon King of Arms and antiquary, who has inscribed the cover Camdeni Clarentii Armorum Regis Regni Angliæ collectiones. Purchased in 1723 at the sale of the library of Sir Robert Sibbald (1641-1722), royal physician and geographer.

A volume of antiquarian papers, compiled by, and largely in the hand of, William Camden, comprising drafts of antiquarian tracts and other writings, as well as historical notes, lists, jottings, and other material, including James I's licence to print Britannia.

Donated by John Hacket (1592-1670), Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield.

The contents of this MS listed in Montague Rhodes James, The Western Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, II (Cambridge, 1901), pp. 423-6.

In a professional hand, inscribed by Thomas Smith Collection wh^ch I had transcribed for mee out of a MS of m^r Camdens in Trinity College Library in Cambridge, when I was there 1692.

See also CmW 141.

Copy of some of Camden's historical notes and lists in CmW 161.

Copy of some of Camden's historical notes and lists in CmW 161 transcribed from Thomas Baker's transcript (CmW 163).

From the library of John Ives (d.1776), Suffolk Herald extaordinary. Phillipps MS 7365. Bookplate of Ralph Griffin, Secretary of the Society of Antiquaries, with his signature, presented by him 1928.

Once owned by the St George family of heralds. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 1378. Sotheby's, 15 June 1971, lot 1611, with a facsimile of one page with school fees in the sale catalogue.

Once owned by the St George family of heralds. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 13160. Sotheby's, 28 June 1965, lot 40, to Traylen, with a facsimile example in the sale catalogue. Charles W. Traylen, sale catalogue No. 66, item 9. Acquired from C.A. Stonehill in 1967. Bookplate of Albert H. Childs (his fund).

Discussed in William Huse Dunham, Jr, William Camden's Commonplace Book, YULG, 43 (1969), 139-56. A microfilm is in the Parliamentary Archives, Historical Collections No. 249.

Originally written in 1597 by William Smith, Rouge Dragon, with Camden's extensive autograph additions, the latest for the year 1622, entitled Baronagium Angliae. Magnatum scilicet illius Regni Stemmata recentiora…delineata; with a contemporary index and a later index.

Later owned by Lord Mowbray, Segrave and Stourton. Sotheby's, 20 February 1967, lot 220. Christie's, 16 July 1969, lot 122, and 21 February 1973, lot 254, to Hofmann and Freeman.

Sotheby's, 11 July 1951, lot 604 (sold on behalf of the Trustees of Arthur Wakerley, deceased), to Colonel Potter.

Once owned by the St George family of heralds. Sotheby's, 28 June 1965, lot 43, to Jantzen. Sotheby's, 21 July 1980, lot 3 (unsold). Sotheby's, 11 July 1983, lot 84, to Ferrers-Walker.

Once owned by the St George family of heralds. Sotheby's, 15 June 1971, lot 1612, unsold.

Successively owned and augmented by Richard Lee, Clarenceux King of Arms (d.1597), Nicholas Charles, Lancaster Herald (d.1613), Camden, and the St Georges. Sotheby's, 15 June 1971, lot 1624, unsold.

Comprising visitations of Devon, Dorset and Suffolk, with pedigrees (including Sir Walter Ralegh's on f. 66r) and coats of arms drawn in trick, &c, mainly in two scribal hands, with some notes also in the hand of Henry St George the Elder (1581-1644).

Sotheby's, 14 December 1976, lot 49, to Maxwell.

Presented in 1791 by John Wilmot.

Engraved reproduction of this MS in Vetusta Monumenta, III (Society of Antiquaries, London, 1799), plates 18-24; discussed in W.A. Jackson, The Funeral Procession of Queen Elizabeth, The Library, 4th Ser. 26 (1945-6), 262-71 (p. 264). A similar roll drawing, but not apparently in Camden's hand, is Add. MS 35324, No. 7.

Annotations in Latin, possibly in Camden's hand, partly relating to the genealogy of Lord Winton.

Compiled by Sir Richard St George (c.1555-1635).

Grant(s) of arms by Camden as Clarenceux King of Arms.

Once owned by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King of Arms and antiquary, and by Joseph Smith, Provost of Queen's College, Oxford.

Grant(s) of arms by Camden as Clarenceux King of Arms.

Once owned by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King of Arms and antiquary, and by Joseph Smith, Provost of Queen's College, Oxford.

Copy, in a secretary hand, of a gant of arms by Camden as Clarenceux King of Arms, to Edward Wattes of Blakesley, Northamptonshire, and Montague Wattes of Lincolns Inn, 15 February 1615/16.

Inscribed on flyleaves Liber Clopton, Purchased of Mr. Halsted (who acquired it at John Ives's sale in 1777, lot 429), and Tho: Martin: i.e. Thomas Martin (1697-1771, of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector; with annotations by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King of Arms and antiquary.

Grant(s) of arms by Camden as Clarenceux King of Arms.

Autograph eleven-line memorandum by Camden, relating to Roman Britain, beginning Desyre M^r Claxton [i.e. William Claxton (1530-97), antiquary] to certifye you what rare matter he knoweth as concerning the Picton wall.

Copy of a grant of arms by Camden, as Clarenceux King of Arms, to Thomas Taylor of Battersea, Surrey, 16 December 1600.

Copy of a confirmation of arms to Harborne by Camden as Clarenceux King of Arms and by William Segar, Norroy King of Arms, 1615.

Formerly Folger MS 1495.3.

Formerly Folger MS 1439.1.

Grants of arms by Camden as Clarenceux King of Arms, headed Camden's guifts, possibly ? partly in his hand.

Inscribed (f. 3r) M^r Knight, May, 1644.

Sotheby's, 15 June 1971, lot 1626 (withdrawn).

Grant(s) of arms by Camden as Clarenceux King of Arms.

Grant(s) of arms by Camden as Clarenceux King of Arms.

Grants of arms by Camden as Clarenceux King of Arms.

Christie's, 29 May 1986, lot 15, to Heraldry Today.

John Wilson's sale catalogue No. 63 (c.1990), item 36.

Sotheby's, 15 June 1971, lot 1623 (withdrawn).

Christie's, 19 September 1984, lot 298, with an illustration in the sale catalogue.

Camden's will edited in Hearne (1720), Appendix II, 277-80, and (1771), II, 390-2.

Camden's will edited in Hearne (1720), Appendix II, 277-80, and (1771), II, 390-2.

A certified copy of Camden's last will and testament, proved 10 November 1623, in the hand of Thomas Smith.

Camden's will edited in Hearne (1720), Appendix II, 277-80, and (1771), II, 390-2.

French notes of Camden's explanation of some Saxon words.

Miscellaneous quotations from Camden's works.

Miscellaneous quotations from Camden's works.

Extracts from Camden relating to monasteries.

Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 30 of the Hopkinson MSS.

Extracts, headed Cambdens Remaines 1649.

Compiled by one William Bright, entitled ffragmenta hic omnigena è varijs excerpta authoribus ad priuatum existunt vsum WB ex anno 1644.

Inscribed also inside the lower cover Will: Bright Novemb 12^th pretiu 8^d 1645.

Extracts, in the hand of Robert Vaughan (1591/2-1667) of Hengwrt, antiquary.