John Evelyn

Volume CLXXXVI of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn B67.

Recorded in Keynes, p. 44. Facsimile example in Christie's sale catalogue, 13 July 1978, lot 1732.

Owned in 1818 by William Upcott. Bought at the Upcott sale on 22 June 1846, lot 117. Volume CLXXXVII of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 34.

This MS recorded in Keynes, p. 42.

Volume CLXXXIX of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 33.

This MS recorded in Keynes, p. 42.

Autograph draft translation of Lucretius, De rerum natura, Book VI.

Volume CLXXXVIII of the Evelyn Papers.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 34a.

Autograph fragment of a verse translation of De rerum natura, dated 11 September 1657.

Volume CLXXXVIII of the Evelyn Papers.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 540.

Including, inter alia, an Italian version of Vpon my Lady Isabella Thynns cutting of Trees in paper Translated from M^r: Waller (f. 9v), Upon my worthy kinsman Sr Sam: Tuke de his incomparable play (p. 51), On the Dutchess of New-Castles coming to the Royal Society 1666 (f. 26r-v), Ballad: To the tune of S^r. Jo: Sucklings I'le tell the Dick (pp. 52-3), To Abraham Cowley sending me his Poeme — The Garden (ff. 27v-8v), and Elegie [on Cowley] (ff. 29v-31r).

Volume CXC of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 124.

This MS recorded in Keynes, p. 21. The poem on p. 51 pub. in Samuel Tuke, The Adventures of Five Hours, 2nd edition (London, 1664), sigs A3b-A4a [Keynes, p. 259]. The poem on pp. 59-62 edited from this MS in Allan Pritchard, Editing from Manuscript: Cowley and the Cowper Papers, in Editing Poetry from Spenser to Dryden, ed. A.H. De Quehen (New York or London, 1981), pp. 46-76 (pp. 70-4), and the poem on pp. 55-76 of the MS discussed in Pritchard, pp. 69-70. The MS discussed in Stuart Gillespie, Venus in Cypresse sheets, TLS, 30 January 2015, 14-15.

Facsimile of p. 56 in IELM, II.i (1987), Facsimile XVIII, after p. xxiv.

Autograph copy of a poem headed A Pleasant Ballad: How Mop went into France to be a Nunn, on a single folio leaf.

Volume CXCII of the Evelyn Papers.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 325.

Autograph copy of a poem headed How Mop From France is lately come (beginning Mop's arriv'd on English ground), on a single quarto leaf, endorsed Ballad on Mrs Mary Tuke.

Volume CXCII of the Evelyn Papers.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 326.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 557.

Autograph copy of verses on the entertainment given 30 May 1667 by the Royal Society for the Duchess of Newcastle, headed Ballad. To ye Tune of I'le tell the Dick &c. and beginning I'le tell the Jo: where I have been, on two folio leaves, sent to Sir Joseph Williamson (1633-1701). See also EvJ 6.

John Evelyn's motto, Meliora Retinete, on a flyleaf.

Extracts and notes.

The letter first published in Miscellaneous Writings (1825), p. xii. Edited in the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, K.T., Gabriel Naudé and John Evelyn: with some notes on the Mazarinades, The Library, 4th Ser. 12 (1932), 382-408, where this volume is described with facsimile examples on pp. 393 and 395. Recorded in Keynes, p. 107.

Autograph fair copy, headed A faithfull and impartial Narrative of w^t pass'd at the Landing of the Swedish Ambass^r, endorsed The Contest [of] the French & Span[ish] Embass^rs: on Towre hill for Praecedency: note: That Copys of this were dispatchd to the L^d: Ambass^r: in France…Another was written to be laydup & kept in y^e paper Office at White-hall, on four folio pages, imperfect.

Volume CCXXVI of the Evelyn Papers.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 319. Edited from this MS in Bray. Recorded in Keynes, p. 100, and in Hiscock (1955), p. 244.

Autograph fair copy, headed A faithfull and impartial Narrative of what pass'd at the Landing of the Swedish Ambass^r:, on two folio leaves.

This MS recorded in Keynes, p. 100.

Autograph draft, partly deleted, headed Numismae: JE: Foule Copy, 120 numbered pages plus 12 unnumbered leaves, some pages lacking.

Volume CLXXXXIII of the Evelyn Papers.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 63.

A summary of the work, in a neat italic hand, as By J. Evelin Esq^r F.R.S. in fol., on five quarto pages.

Later owned by William Upcott (1779-1845), antiquary and autograph collector. Sotheby's, 16 June 1846 (Upcott sale), lot 555, to Thomas Rodd.

Autograph draft of the dedicatory epistle in Latin to Charles, Lord Spencer, and Francis Godolphin, on a single quarto leaf. 1 October 1697.

Volume CLXXXXIII of the Evelyn Papers.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, MS 538.

Autograph, on five pages of three folio leaves, signed and dated by Evelyn 15 Feb: 1664[/5], sent to the Royal Society, inscribed By M^r Evelyn: read Mar: 1: [16]64[/5] Ent^d. R B. 3. 72.

This MS recorded in de Beer, III, 401, n. 8.

Copy, as by M^r. Evelyn.

Copy of EvJ 19, as by M^r. Evelyn.

This volume bought at Christie's, 13 July 1978, lot 1701.

Copy, As it was presented to the R. Society 29. April 1675 By John Evelyn Esquire Fellow of the same, subscribed Read to y^e Society 29 April & 13 May 1675.

Copy of EvJ 22, As it was Presented to the R: Society 29. April 1675 By John Evelyn Esq^r Fellow of the same, subscribed Read to the Society 29 Aprill & 13. May 1675.

A partly autograph copy of a tract, with a pen-and-ink drawing and engraving, Translated out of Spanish [of Don Joseph Lucatela, 1668] and Improued & Comunicated by the Royal Society, with a title-page, a letter signed to the Viscount Brouncker, President of the Royal Society and a six-line advertisement at the end all in Evelyn's hand, the rest in the cursive hand of an amanuensis, on 27 folio leaves, rectos only, the letter dated from Sayes Court 23: Feb: [16]69-70, sent to the Royal Society and docketed read Mar: 3: [16]69-70. / trans: 60.

Extracts, inscribed M^r Evelyn's Sylva.

Sotheby's, 13 July 1855, lot 1364.

Later owned by James Bindley, FSA (1737-1818), book collector.

This volume reproduced in facsimile, ed. J.L. Nevinson (Blackwell's, for the Luttrell Society, 1951). Facsimile of title-page in Keynes, p. 113. The MS corrections are edited in Bray (1818), II, 320-32.

Vol LXII of the Evelyn Papers.

Evans (i.e. Sotheby's), 22 June 1846 (William Upcott sale), lot 59. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 10.

Autograph commonplace book, containing a series of observations in Latin and English on a wide variety of subjects, 815 numbered quarto pages (including many blanks), in modern buckram.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 36.

Volume CLXXIV of the Evelyn Papers. Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 44.

Volume CLXXII of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 65.

In a letter to Mr. Boyle 8 Aug. 1659, [Evelyn] says he had intended to write a History of Trades, but had given it up from the great difficulty he found in the attempt (Bray, II, part I, p. 103).

Volume LXIII of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 95.

Autograph commonplace book containing Adversaria Historical, Physical, Mathematical, Mechanicall &c. promiscuously set downe as they Occur in Reading, or Casual Discourse, on 36 pages in a large folio volume otherwise blank, damaged by damp, in contemporary vellum, originally together with a detached quarto gathering of collections possibly from EvJ 76.

Volume CLXVI of the Evelyn Papers. Christ Church, Oxford, MS 173.

Containing miscellaneous anecdotes, proverbs, maxims, extracts in English and Latin, and other notes, headed 1650 Vade Mecum.

Inscribed inside the front cover B. J. Ashley (or Astley?). Sotheby's, 10 November 1964, lot 456.

Later owned by Alfred Morrison (1821-97), manuscript and art collector. Sotheby's, 5 May 1919 (Morrison sale), lot 2820, to G. D. Smith.

Autograph Note of the Books, Prints, Letters, Mapps, Papers of state & particulars, Lent to M^r. Sam: Pepys, Late Secretary to y^e Admiralty to be all returned me againe, on a single folio leaf; 5 December 1681.

Autograph lists of books and manuscripts belonging to and written by Evelyn.

This volume lot 586 in the Upcott sale on 24 June 1846.

Volume CCCCLXIV of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MSS 19, 20 and 259.

Volume CCCCLXV of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, MS 20a.

This MS bought at the Upcott sale on 22 June 1846 (either lot 60 or lot 61).

Edited in part in Keynes, pp. 297-303. Discussed pp. 13-17, with facsimiles of pp. 1-2 as plates 3 and 4, between pp. 16 and 17.

Volume CCCCLXVI of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 30.

The title-page only of Evelyn's quarto library catalogue of 1653, viz. Bibliothecae Euelyni Catalogvs, in the hand of Richard Hoare, mounted at the front of an 18th-century book of accounts.

Volume CCCCLXIV of the Evelyn Papers. Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 185.

This title-page reproduced in facsimile in Keynes, 1st edition (1937), Plate 3, after p. 14. NB. Keynes also reproduces in this plate, as if part of the same catalogue, a page of a totally unrelated library catalogue (Evelyn MS 27, f. 83), which is a quarto Catalogus Materialis of c.1706.

Autograph list of letters and papers in a closet at Wotton, on a single quarto leaf.

Volume CCCCLXXII of the Evelyn Papers.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 310.

Autograph list of books and manuscripts left at Wotton, on a single scrap of paper, 21 November 1702.

Volume CCCCLXXII of the Evelyn Papers.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 311.

Autograph list of Things I would write out faire and reforme if I had Leasure, on a single quarto lea, with other related papers.

Volume CCCCLXXII of the Evelyn Papers.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 330. Edited from this MS in Bray, II, part I, p. 104, and in Wheatley (1893), pp. 87-8.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 489.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 527.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 539.

Autograph plan of a Designe for a Library for the Royal Society, given in 22^d May S^r: R: Murray Praesident.

Volume CLXXVII of the Evelyn Papers.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 541.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 576.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 577.

Autograph list of books and papers written by Mary Evelyn, the diarist's daughter, compiled by him after her death, on a slip of paper, among other MSS.

Volume CCLXXIII of the Evelyn Papers.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 580.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 601.

Formerly Christ Church, Evelyn MS 603.

Autograph list or conspectus of subject categories of books, headed The History of Arts Illiberall and Mechanick, signed and dated by Evelyn, on, on all four pages of two folio leaves sent to the Royal Society. 16 January 1660/1.

This MS (which is related to Sculptura (1662)) recorded in W.R.B. Prideaux, John Evelyn's Designe for a Library, The Antiquary, NS 48 (1912), 127-9, and in Keynes, p. 116.

Autograph, headed Designe for a Lybrary, being a list of book categories, signed and dated by Evelyn, on one side of a single folio leaf, endorsed For S^r: Robert Murrey [i.e. Sir Robert Moray (1608/9?-73), army officer and politician, a founder member of the Royal Society], sent to the Royal Society. 22 May 1661.

This MS discussed, with a facsimile, in W.R.B. Prideaux, John Evelyn's Designe for a Library, The Antiquary, NS 48 (1912), 127-9. Recorded in Keynes, 18-19.

Christie's, 15 March 1978, lot 1066 (with a facsimile of the main annotation in the sale catalogue), to Quaritch.

Copy of five chapters, in the cursive hand of an amanuensis, headed Booke: II [of Sculptura], as By M^r: Evelyn, on fifteen folio pages, foliated 33r-39r, sent to the Royal Society and inscribed in the margin Read May 14. [16]62.

This MS edited as Part II of Sculptura, ed. C.F. Bell (Oxford, 1906). Recorded in Keynes, pp. 117, 260-1.

Copy.

This MS recorded in Wheatley (1893), in Bell and in Keynes.

Volume CLXXXII of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, MS 136.

Edited from this MS by Geoffrey Keynes (London, 1932). Recorded in Keynes (1968), p. 254.

Autograph, headed A Note of Writings & Original Papers & matters of state, Accompts, Letters, Petititons, Grants &c. Relating to S^r: R^d. Browne M^r: Evelyn &c. Concerning ther Title to the pastures & other estate of Saye-Court, on both sides of a folio leaf.

Later in the possession of William Upcott (1779-1845), antiquary and autograph collector, and with his index (ff. 1r-4r). Upcott sale (22 June 1846), lot 27.

Volume CCXXXVI of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, MS 53.

Volume CCCCLI of the Evelyn Papers. Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 62.

Volume CCXXXIX of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, MS 64.

Inventory of Pictures and other=Houshold-stuff Left at Says-Court 1696 and a 27-page list of books, partly autograph, partly in another hand, on 66 octavo pages in all, badly damaged.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 579.

Formerly part of Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 579.

Containing particulars of Evelyn's estates in Surrey, Sussex and Kent, Things left in my Closet in Dover-streete. May 1703, Abstract of my last Acc[om]pt. as Tress[ure]r of Gr[eenwich]: Hospital and other personal accounts and memoranda.

Sotheby's, 5 May 1919 (Alfred Morrison sale), lot 2823, to Maggs. John Evelyn Collection of Carelton R. Richmond.

Facsimile examples of this MS in Maggs's sale catalogue No. 449 (1924), item 173, plate XL, and in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 4 March 1937 (Moss sale), lot 686.

Christie's, South Kensington, 8 June 2004, lot 147, with a facsimile in the sale catalogue.

Autograph drawing and caption, headed A Scheme of the Posture of the Dutch Fleete and action at Shere-nesse and Chatham, 10^th, 11^th, and 12^th of June, 1667.

Inscribed by him Mixt papers put up in my parchment covers in and about the time of the first Dutch war (1665, 66, 67, 680, design'd for the most part for a collection, as I remember, towards the history thereof.

This MS recorded in Wheatley (1893), p. 88; engraving by Sidney Hall from this MS reproduced in Pepys's Diary, ed. Mynors Bright (1825), IV, facing p. 363.

Volume CCXXXIII of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, MS 42.

Autograph notes and drafts for the period 1664-7, for Evelyn's Third Booke on the Dutch War, headed Progresse of y^e Dutch-War, ff. ii + 66 quarto leaves.

Volume CCXXXIV of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, MS 134.

This MS recorded in Keynes, p. 202.

Copy of An Impartial Narrative of The Victory obtained by the States General of the United Provinces over the Potent fleet of the King of England in a fight during four days, beginning June 11^th 1666, in a professional hand, with Evelyn's autograph note So 'tis called by N. Wilson, y^e Author of the Dutch Book of Naval Architecture…, on eleven folio pages, endorsed M^r Oldenburgs[?], being part of Evelyn's collections on the Dutch War.

Volume CCXXVI of the Evelyn Papers.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 300.

Autograph draft report on possible sources of fuel along the Thames during the Durch was, incomplete, the first page only.

Volume CCXXVI of the Evelyn Papers.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 517.

Collections, partly autograph, partly in other hands, including a Catalogue of Books & papers in order to y^e Hist: of the Dutch warr, brought w^th me vp to Lond: 16 ffeb: 1672/3, on 31 pages, chiefly folio

Volume CCXXVI of the Evelyn Papers.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 545.

Once enclosed with a letter of 6 December 1681 to Samuel Pepys. Mentioned in Evelyn's list of books and MSS lent to Pepys in 1681 (EvJ 34).

This MS discussed in E.V. Unger and W.A. Jackson, The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library: English Literature 1475-1700, 3 vols (New York, 1940), III, 1209, with a facsimile on the facing page, Plate LVI.

Autograph notes on seven folio leaves, headed Praemissis Praemittendis. The Chiefe Heads or Titles, which I propose to my Selfe, in the Contexture of the History of the Late Warr w^th Holland, &c, humbly submitted to his Ma^ties: Animadversions, enclosed in a letter of 28 January 1670/1 to Sir Joseph Williamson (1633-1701).

A folio volume of largely autograph notes by Evelyn intended for incorporation in the Elysium Britannicum, some perhaps for a new edition of the Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-Trees, and also some for Evelyn's translation of De La Quintinye's Compleat Gard'ner (1693). 135 leaves.

Volume CLXXVII of the Evelyn Papers.

Autograph collections and notes, together with a printed prospectus.

This volume lot 586 in the Upcott sale on 24 June 1846.

The prospectus printed in Bray, II, part i, pp. 107-9.

Volume CLXXVI of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 38.

This MS recorded in Wheatley (1893), p. 87.

Volume CLXXV of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 45.

Edited from this MS in Ingram. Extracts edited as John Evelyn's Manuscript on Bees from Elysium Britannicum, ed. D.A. Smith (Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, 1966), with facsimile examples. Discussed in Bee World, 46 (1965), 117-31. Recorded in Wheatley (1893), p. 87; in Hiscock (1955), p. 243 (with a facsimile example after p. 32), and in Keynes, p. 236. Facsimile examples in Mark Laird, Sayes Court Revisited, in John Evelyn and his Milieu, ed. Frances Harris and Michael Hunter (London, 2003), pp. 115-44.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 532.

Partly laid-down on the flyleaf of a printed exemplum of Volume I of Memoirs illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, ed. William Bray (2nd edition, London, 1819), with a note in William Upcott's hand, dated 22 May 1840, stating that that the leaf had belonged to Elysium Britannicum.

Dawson's sale catalogue No. 208 (1960s), item 80.

This MS recorded in Keynes, p. 236.

Mounted in an album by William Upcott (1779-1845), antiquary and autograph collector, with his note stating that these drawings were done for Elysium Britannicum, together with material relating to the first edition of Evelyn's Memoirs (1818).

Sotheby's, 30 June 1964, lot 464, to A.G. Thomas.

Draft of a prose epitaph for the proposed monument of Evelyn's father-in-law, Sir Richard Browne (d.12 February 1682/3) at Deptford Church, with a drawing of it and a list of Browne's children.

Later in the possession of William Upcott (1779-1845), antiquary and autograph collector, and with his index (ff. 1r-4r). Upcott sale (22 June 1846), lot 27.

Volume CXCII of the Evelyn Papers.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 324.

Volume CXCII of the Evelyn Papers.

Autograph Latin inscription, endorsed Inscription L: Clarendon, on a single octavo leaf.

Volume CXCII of the Evelyn Papers.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 470.

Autograph design for a funeral inscription for Dr John Beale (1603-83), on a single octavo leaf

Volume CXCII of the Evelyn Papers.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 471.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 472.

Autograph, headed Marble Paper, by M^r Evelyn, signed and dated by him In January 1661, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed S^r: Rob: Murrey Præs: [i.e. Sir Robert Moray (1608/9?-73), army officer and politician, a founder member of the Royal Society], sent to the Royal Society and inscribed Read Jan: 8. 61[/2] / Ent^d R B. 1. 137.

Copy, inscribed Brought in by M^r Evelyn.

This MS recorded in Wheatley (1893), p. 87, and in Keynes, pp. 260-1.

Copy of EvJ 87, as by M^r Evelin.

Copy of EvJ 87, subscribed Brought in by M^r. Evelyn.

Inscribed inside the front cover as having been given by G. S. Heales of Doctors' Commons to Sir Joseph Banks, Bt (1743-1820), naturalist, President of the Royal Society, on 31 May 1814.

Copy.

This MS recorded in Wheatley (1893), p. 87, and in Keynes, pp. 260-1.

Copy in the hand of Michael Weeks.

Among the papers of Sir Joseph Williamson (1633-1701).

Autograph draft, with deletions, on all four pages of two folio leaves, incomplete, dated 11: March: 1660[/1], sent to the Royal Society, inscribed Read Mar: 13: [16]60[/1]. 1660/1.

Copy, in a neat cursive hand, as by M^r Evelyn, incomplete, on nine pages of five folio leaves.

Copy, as by M^r: Evelyn and Enter'd June y^e 29 1661. From M^r Evelin & M^r. Croone.

Copy of EvJ 93, as By M^r. Evelyn, subscribed Entred June the 29^th. 1661 From M^r Evelin and M^r. Croon.

Volume CCLX of the Evelyn Papers.

Copy of EvJ 93, as By M^r Evelyn.

Inscribed inside the front cover as having been given by G. S. Heales of Doctors' Commons to Sir Joseph Banks, Bt (1743-1820), naturalist, President of the Royal Society, on 31 May 1814.

Copy, in the hand of Michael Weeks.

Among the papers of Sir Joseph Williamson (1633-1701).

Autograph paper, headed A succinct but full deduction of his Majesties indubitable Title to the Dominion and Sovereignty of the British Seas, and consequently the Fishery and Duties appendant thereunto, incomplete, on fourteen folio pages, preceded by a memorandum about the work's suppression by the King just as it was carrying to the presse, sent by Evelyn to Samuel Pepys, January 1673/4. 1674.

This paper partly incorporated in Evelyn's Navigation and Commerce (London, 1674). Recorded in HMC, 70, Pepys (1911), p. 267. Listed as item 7 (A discourse concerning the Fishery) in Evelyn's note of books and MSS lent to Pepys in 1681 (EvJ 34).

Autograph paper, headed A letter written to a Friend concerning the Interest of his Majestye and the nation in the Fishery and Duties appendant to it..., on 21 folio pages, sent to Samuel Pepys and docketed by him on the title-page Fishery. M^r Evelyn's second paper concerning the Fishery, 1673.

Recorded in HMC, 70, Pepys (911), p. 267. Listed as item 8 (A discourse concerning y^e duty of the Flag) in Evelyn's note of books and MSS lent to Pepys in 1681 (EvJ 34).

Autograph note, on one side of a single quarto leaf, subscribed by Evelyn Given in [to the Royal Society] by M^r: Evelyn 10: Sep^r: 1662. 1662.

Copy, in a cursive scribal hand, as brought in by M^r Evelyn 10. Sept. 1662, on an oblong octavo-size slip of papers.

Copy, as Given in by M^r. Evelyn. 10 Sept. 1662.

Copy of EvJ 99, subscribed Given in by M^r. Evelyn 10^th. Sept. 1662.

Copy of EvJ 99, as An Account received by M^r: Evelyn from a friend of his.

Inscribed inside the front cover as having been given by G. S. Heales of Doctors' Commons to Sir Joseph Banks, Bt (1743-1820), naturalist, President of the Royal Society, on 31 May 1814.

Autograph Latin notes, headed Brevissimae Graecae Grammatices Institutiones, on seven quarto leaves.

This volume lot 586 in the Upcott sale on 24 June 1846.

Autograph draft of A Compendium of the Pronunciation of the ffrench toung, on six quarto leaves. Notes on French vocabulary also occur on ff. 31, 59, 69 among historical notes chiefly written by John Evelyn Jr.

This volume lot 586 in the Upcott sale on 24 June 1846.

Autograph drafts of The English Grammer and The Latine Grammar, on 12 quarto leaves.

This volume lot 586 in the Upcott sale on 24 June 1846.

A ggrammatical vademecum or manual reference book compiled from various authors in the hand of Richard Hoare, with Evelyn's autograph note at the beginning stating that This Compendium ... is in many places false written & full of Errore; imperfect, 218 octavo pages (plus blanks), in contemporary morocco gilt.

Volume CLX of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 91.

This MS recorded in Keynes, p. 22.

Autograph draft, headed Gramatica. A General or praeliminary Grammar, on twenty quarto pages; imperfect.

Volume CLXXXIV of the Evelyn Papers.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 536.

Autograph compendium of French pronunciation, headed Compendium pronuntiaos Gallicae, on four quarto leaves.

Volume CLXXXIV of the Evelyn Papers.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 537

Volume CCLXXX of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 57.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 492.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 559.

Sotheby's, 5 May 1919 (Alfred Morrison sale), lot 2821, to Edwards.

Autograph draft of the beginning, partly in Latin.

Volume CLXXVII of the Evelyn Papers.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MSS 546 and 547.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 547.

This MS recorded in Bray, UU, part i, p. 103.

Volume CCLXIII of the Evelyn Papers. Later bookplate of Theodore H. Broadhead. Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 143.

This MS recorded in Hiscock (1951), pp. 6-7, and in Hiscock (1955), p. 244.

Extracts.

With a title-page, The Life of Mr^is: Godolphin, Writen at the Request of my Lady Sylvius. By a Friend, a dedicatory epistle to Lord Godolphin, and the text of a letter to Evelyn dated from London 22 September 1678.

Harcourt Library. Sotheby's, 1869 (Mr Dillon's collection), lot 366. Booklabels of Howard A. Levis and of the John Evelyn Collection of Carelton R. Richmond.

Edited from this MS in Sampson (1939). Recorded in Keynes, with facsimile examples.

Facsimile of the first page in The Houghton Library 1942-67: A Selection of Books and Manuscripts in Harvard Collections (Cambridge, Mass., 1967), p. 54.

Inserted letter by James P. Muirhead, to [Samuel Wilberforce], Bishop of Oxford, from Henley Court, Telsworth, Oxfordshire, 21 June 1869. Owned before 1956 by Dr Octavia Wilberforce. Sotheby's, 8 May 1956, lot 42, to Maggs. Booklabel of the John Evelyn Collection of Carelton R. Richmond and booklabel of Martha Venables Vernon.

Edited from this MS in Wilberforce (1847). Discussed in Sampson (1939), pp. 116-23 (when the MS was lost and presumed autograph), and in Keynes, p. 250.

Copy of Evelyn's revised version (as sent to Henry Oldenburg, Secretary of the Royal Society, 22 December 1666), in a rounded italic hand, subscribed JEvelyn, on two pairs of conjugate folio leaves. Early 18th century.

Formerly Guildhall Library MS 94.

Edited from this MS in Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, 3rd Ser. 27 (1919-20), 463-70. Reprinted in E.S. de Beer's edition (Oxford, 1938) [see Keynes, p. 255].

MS map of Deptford, 1623, with Evelyn's autograph annotations and his drawing of Sayes Court, with various other maps and surveys relating to Deptford, on paper and vellum.

Volume CCCCLXII of the Evelyn Papers. Including Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MSS 153, 281.

An engraving based on this map reproduced in Bray, I, after p. 314.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 421.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 426.

Drawing of an Egyptian stone, with an autograph note, on two folio leaves.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 544.

Formerly a Folder of Drawings in Christ Church, Oxford.

Reproduced in Bray, II, part i, after p. 120.

Once owned by William Upcott (1779-1845), antiquary and autograph collector, and later by John Dillon, and by Alfred Morrison (1821-97), manuscript and art collector.

This MS discussed in E.V. Unger and W. A. Jackson, The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library: English Literature 1475-1700, 3 vols (New York, 1940), III, 1209.

Later owned by J. Eliot Hodgkin, FSA (1829-1912), of Richmond, Surrey, engineer and book collector. Sotheby's, 23 April 1914 (Hodgkin sale), lot 244, to Francis Edwards.

Recorded in HMC, 39, 15th report, Appendix II (1897), p. 184.

Formerly owned by William Upcott (1779-1845), antiquary and autograph collector.

Facsimile of this MS in Charles John Smith, Historical and Literary Curiosities (London, 1847), No. 57.

Volume CCCXLVIII of the Evelyn Papers. Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 132.

Edited from this MS by Geoffrey Keynes (London, 1926). Recorded in Keynes (1968), pp. 20, 28, 251-4.

Autograph notes from John Willis, The arte of Stenographie, or Shortwriting (London, 1628) on ten quarto leaves.

This volume lot 586 in the Upcott sale on 24 June 1846.

Portion of a copy of an essay in Latin in praise of Pliny and Juvenal, imperfect, on three quarto leaves.

This volume lot 586 in the Upcott sale on 24 June 1846.

Autograph fragment of a treatise on metaphysics, on a single folio leaf.

This volume lot 586 in the Upcott sale on 24 June 1846.

Volume CCLXXVIII of the Evelyn Papers. Sotheby's, 19 June 1893 (Sir Thomas Phillipps sale), lot 226. Afterwards Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 43.

Autograph title-page and two lines of preface for an essay on The Dignity of Mankind, in A Problematical Exercitation or Essay...Writen at the Request of Samuel Pepys Esq^r:...1676, on the first two leaves of a quarto volume of 219 leaves later filled with notes on land documents by Sir John Evelyn, Bt, in contemporary vellum.

Volume CLXXX of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 137.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 419.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 429.

Volume CLXXI of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MSS 297 and 531.

Volume CLXXXXIII of the Evelyn Papers.

Formerly part of Christ Church, Oxford, MS 533.

Autograph notes and drafts, including a draft of the dedicatory epistle for Sylva, verses on the visit of Tsar Peter the Great (1698), three pages of Bibliotheca & MSS and notes relating to Greek and Latin vocabulary, on 31 leaves and slips of paper.

Volume CXCII of the Evelyn Papers.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 533.

Autograph notes concerning comedy and other dramatic writings, in quarto and folio leaves.

Volume CXCII of the Evelyn Papers.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 534.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 543.

Autograph notes on colonial plantations in America and the West Indies, 3 June 1671, on a single quarto leaf.

Volume CCXXVI of the Evelyn Papers.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 548.

Autograph notes on travel in Italy, on a single folio leaf, 4 October 1657.

Volume CLXXXIV of the Evelyn Papers.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 549.

Notes and lists, including some Latin verse, on about fifteen leaves and scraps of paper.

Volume CCCLIV of the Evelyn Papers.

Probably corresponding to Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 550, but not in Evelyn's hand.

Volume CCI of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MSS 55/556.

Once owned by William Upcott (1779-1845), antiquary and autograph collector, and later by John Dillon, and by Alfred Morrison (1821-97), manuscript and art collector.

This MS described and edited in full in E.V. Unger and W.A. Jackson, The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library: English Literature 1475-1700, 3 vols (New York, 1940), III, 1205-8.

Sotheby's, 4 July 1917, lot 466, to Tregaskis. Maggs's sale catalogue No. 445 (1923), item 123.

Sotheby's, 29 October 1975, lot 26, to Winifred Myers.

Volume CCXIX of the Evelyn Papers. Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 106.

This MS recorded in Hiscock (1955), p. 244, and in Keynes, p. 247.

Fragment of an autograph draft on two folio leaves.

This volume lot 586 in the Upcott sale on 24 June 1846.

Fragment of an autograph draft on three quarto leaves apparently cut from EvJ 145.

This volume lot 586 in the Upcott sale on 24 June 1846.

This MS printed in Sampson, Appendix B1, pp. 218-23; recorded in Hiscock (1951), p. 167, and in Hiscock (1955), p. 244.

Later owned by Alfred Morrison (1821-97), manuscript and art collector. Sotheby's, 5 May 1919 (Morrison sale), lot 2821, to Francis Edwards.

Recorded in Sampson, p. 224.

This MS edited in Sampson (1939), Appendix B2, pp. 223-36. Discussed in E.V. Unger and W.A. Jackson, The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library: English Literature 1475-1700, 3 vols (New York, 1940), III, 1215-16. Recorded (as at the Houghton Library, Harvard) in Keynes, p. 247.

Edited from this MS in Bray (1818), II, Part i, pp. 33-48. Reported to be at Wotton House in Wheatley (1893), p. 85. Recorded in Keynes, p. 7. Listed as A Discourse of Manuscripts, Begun but Imperfect in one of Evelyn's lists in British Library, Add. MS 15950, f. 80r (EvJ 35).

A quarto volume of autograph notes on chemistry, f. 2r dated 1646, iii + 129 leaves, in contemporary mottled calf gilt.

Volume CLXVIII of the Evelyn Papers. Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 32.

This MS discussed in F. Sherwood Taylor, The Chemical Studies of John Evelyn, Annals of Science 8 (1952), 285-92, with facsimile examples.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 51.

A folio autograph compilation of notes on medicine and mechanics, c.450 pages, in contemporary mottled calf.

Volume CLXXIII of the Spenser Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 52a.

Autograph draft by Evelyn of a treatise on Natural Philosophy and Chemistry, on 23 folio leaves, together with several loose leaves of unrelated notes.

Volume CLXXVIII of the Evelyn Papers.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 61. This MS discussed, with facsimile examples, in Sherwood Taylor, loc. cit.

Iin a volume of 201 pages, with Evelyn's autograph notes on p. 201 and on the flyleaf stating This Trifle from p: 89 is much out of Senectus: It is all full of Errors & needs correction.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 89.

Autograph notes, headed Chymicall processes Experimented by me: 1659, on a single large folio leaf, the verso bearing an autograph Latin verse on roses.

Volume CLXXVIII of the Evelyn Papers.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 552.

Volume CLXVII of the Evelyn Papers.

Copy of an anonymous Spanish tract on the nature of gall stones, in a roman hand, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed La Baazar [Bezoar] / Given to y^e Royal Society by M^r Evelin. March y^e 25 1680. 1680.

Acquired by Evelyn in Italy in 1646 and later presented by him to the Royal Society on 31 October 1667.

Volume CLXXIX of the Evelyn Papers, of John Evelyn (1620-1706), diarist and writer, of Wootton House, Surrey, and his family, also incorporating papers of his father-in-law, Sir Richard Browne, Bt (1605-83), diplomat, and his family. Bookplate of Robert Offley Ashburton Milnes, afterwards Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, politician. Sotheby's, 4 March 1937, lot 686, to Goldschmidt. Christie's, 26 November 1997, lot 77.

This MS recorded in Keynes, p. 20.

Extracts.

Autograph prayer, headed Compline. For the 31: December, or Last Day of the Year, & first of the New, with an Advertisement or preface, on two conjugate quarto leaves, imperfect.

Volume CCXXIII of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 31.

Volume CCII of the Evelyn Papers. Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 35.

Volume CCI of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 37.

Edited from this MS by the Rev. R.M. Evanson, 2 vols (London, 1850). Recorded in Keynes, p. 251.

Evelyn's Bible (2 large folio volumes, 1638), with his extensive autograph annotations (particularly in the interleaved New Testament), his autograph Prayer before Reading Holy Scripture on a single folio leaf at the beginning, and with his note expressing the wish that these volumes should be delivered after his death to Mrs Blagge [Godolphin], dated 16 October 1673, bound in reversed calf.

Volumes CXCII-CXCIV. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 46.

Volume CXCVI of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, MS 47.

Volume CXCV of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 48.

Autograph fair copy of notes of sermons heard by Evelyn, chiefly in the 1650s, headed A breife Accoumpt of divers Sermons &c recollected at my after Retirements, and begun Anno Doni: M.DC.L, with (at the beginning) short notices of preachers and texts for the period 1634-43.

Volume CXCVII of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 49.

Vol. I comprising Loci Commvnes Theologici Tomus Tertivs and Tomus Quartus on 351 leaves, chiefly in Evelyn's autograph, the beginning and a few other pages in the hand of Richard Hoare and ff. 147-8v in another hand;

Vol. 2 comprising Tomvs I^mus. on 180 pages (plus 764 blank pages), entirely autograph;

Vol. 3 comprising Tomvs II^dus on 111 pages (plus 613 blank pages), entirely autograph, the flyleaf containing a quotation from Bacon's Advancement of Learning to the effect that A Substantiall and Learned digest of Common-Places is a solid, and a good aide to memory: And…the diligence, and paines in collecting Common-Places, is of greate vse, and certainety in stud[y]ing…;

Vol. 4 comprising an autograph Index Locorum Comunium on 219 pages (plus blanks).

Vols CLXI-CLIV of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MSS MSS 54, Parts 1, 2, 3 and 4.

Vol. 3 recorded in Keynes, p. 21.

Volume CXCVIII of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 70.

Volume CCIX of the Evelyn Papers. Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 72.

This MS recorded in Hiscock (1955), p. 243.

Volume CCXVII of the Evelyn Papers. Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 73.

This MS recorded in Hiscock (1955), p. 243.

Autograph meditation, headed A Meditation Upon the Advents, 11 December 1674, presented to Margaret Blagge, iii + 31octavo leaves, mounted on guards in half leather.

Volume CCXVI of the Evelyn Papers. Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 76.

This MS recorded in Hiscock (1951), p. 115, and in Hiscock (1955), p. 243.

Volume CCXIII of the Evelyn Papers. Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 82.

This MS recorded in Hiscock (1951), p. 116, and in Hiscock (1955), p. 243.

Autograph devotions, headed The Office for Trinity Sunday, & Octaves after Pentecost, 8 May 1678, presented to Margaret Blagge, 79 octavo pages, in marbled paper wrapper, now mounted on guards, in half-leather.

Volume CCXXI of the Evelyn Papers. Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 83.

This MS recorded in Hiscock (1951), p. 182, and in Hiscock (1955), p. 243.

Volume CCXII of the Evelyn Papers. Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 84.

This MS recorded in Hiscock (1951), pp. 132-4, and in Hiscock (1955), p. 243.

Volume CCXV of the Evelyn Papers. Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 85.

This MS recorded in Hiscock (1955), p. 243.

Volume CCXIV of the Evelyn Papers. Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 86.

This MS recorded in Hiscock (1955), p. 243.

An octavo composite volume of devotions, the first series headed Dominica or An Office for the Lord's Day, 15 April 1674, 169 pages, in contemporary calf (rebacked).

Volume CCXXII of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 90.

This MS recorded in Hiscock (1951), pp. 76, 177-9, and in Hiscock (1955), p. 243.

Volume CCLXXVI of the Evelyn Papers. Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 93.

This MS recorded in Hiscock (1955), p. 244.

Volume CCIV of the Evelyn Papers. Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 94.

Volume CCV of the Evelyn Papers. Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 96. Puttick and Simpson's, 11 March 1873.

This MS discussed in The Athenaeum, 1 March 1873, p. 281, and in Sampson, pp. 192-3. Recorded in Wheatley (1893), p. 87; in Hiscock (1955), p. 244; in Keynes, p. 247; and in de Beer, II, 559.

Autograph devotions, headed An Eucharistical Office or The Weding-Garment, or Triming of the Lamp, , 233 octavo pages; damaged by damp, in contemporary morocco gilt (rebacked).

Volume CCVII of the Evelyn Papers. Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 97.

This MS recorded in Hiscock (1951), p. 44, and in Hiscock (1955), p. 244.

Volume CCVI of the Evelyn Papers. Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 98.

A devotional volume, in Latin and Greek, in the calligraphic hand of Richard Hoare, on 40 tiny leaves, in an elaborate morocco folder gilt, with silk ties.

Volume CCIIIof the Evelyn Papers. Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 99.

Autograph MS, headed Circumcision: or New-yeares Day. Office, presented to Margaret Blagge, ii + 11 quarto leaves, in marbled wrapper.

Volume CCXVIII of the Evelyn Papers.

Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS T110. This MS recorded in Hiscock (1951), p. 40, and in Hiscock (1955), p. 244.

Autograph prayers and notes, headed Natalis Baptism, on sixteen octavo pages. 1670.

Volume CCXXV of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 553.

This MS recorded in Bray, II, part i, p. 103.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 111.

Autograph devotions, headed Eucharistia, with the note To be Revised & added to in the Wedding Garment, iii + 8 octavo Leaves, in a modern marbled wrapper.

Volume CCXVIII of the Evelyn Papers.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 112.

Autograph prayers, hymns and notes, on leaves of various sizes.

Volume CCXXV of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 553.

This MS recorded in Bray, II, part i, p. 103.

Formerly christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MSS 111, 114, and 553.

Autograph devotions, headed The Wedding-Garment or The manner how a Christian ought to prepare himselfe, for y^e worthy celebration of y^e holy Eucharist, imperfect, iii + 7 octavo leaves, in modern marbled wrapper.

Volume CCXVIII of the Evelyn Papers.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 115.

Autograph devotions, headed Friday: Morning & Euening, with verses by Margaret Blagge, iii + 13 octavo leaves, with marbled wrapper.

Volume CCXVIII of the Evelyn Papers.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 116.

Autograph devotions, headed Officivm Poenitentiae or Assistances in the Practise of Repentance by Confessions & Deprecations with prayers & Devotions suitable to its designe, ii + 23 octavo leaves, marbled paper wrapper.

Volume CCXVIII of the Evelyn Papers.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 117. This MS recorded in Hiscock (1951), pp. 51-2, and in Hiscock (1955), p. 244.

Autograph devotions, headed The Trimming of the Lamp or A short Eucharisticall Office, iii + 8 octavo leaves, in modern marbled wrapper.

Volume CCXVIII of the Evelyn Papers.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 120. This MS recorded in Hiscock (1955), p. 244.

Volume CCXXIV of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, MS 122.

Volume CCX of the Evelyn Papers. Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 125.

This MS recorded in Hiscock (1955), p. 244.

Autograph devotions, headed Office for Pentecost, 22 numbered quarto pages, plus four unnumbered leaves, presented to Margaret Blagge.

Volume CCVIII of the Evelyn Papers. Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 126.

This MS recorded in Hiscock (1955), p. 244.

Volume CCXI of the Evelyn Papers. Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 130.

This MS recorded in Hiscock (1955), p. 243.

Copy of a Relation of what passed betwixt my Co. K, the Deane of Peterbourgh, and my Selfe at Paris touching his Change of Religion Written to a Gentleman of his Relation in the hand of Richard Hoare, with Evelyn's autograph marginal notes on three pages, 78 quarto pages, in contemporary vellum, dated at the end Paris, 1651.

Volume CXCIX of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, MS 135.

Autograph drafts of prayers, devotions and collections on 65 quarto pages, including 34 quarto pages of Oeconomical, Conjugal, & Domestick Offices: fitted for the devouter Married persons, & House-keepers, dated 1 January 1676; A Passage of [*] proper on Tuesday on two quarto leaves; 28 quarto pages of The Communion of Saints, in a Privat: Office; and The Hymne (Glory be to God on high) on two quarto leaves, 17 quarto leaves in all, imperfect.

Volume CCXX of the Evelyn Papers. Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MSS 206 and 553.

Miscellaneous devotions and prayers in the hands of John Evelyn, Mary Evelyn and Margaret Blagge (Mrs Godolphin); including an autobiograph draft headed For my [*] Electra. If you desire to be a perfect Christian, and to abound in Spiritual Comforts, practise these things, on four folio leaves, imperfect, and an autograph copy of a letter to Margaret Blagge about religious life on three folio pages.

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

Autograph confession of sins, from 1625 to 1690, in contracted Latin

Volume CCXXV of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 553.

This MS recorded in Bray, II, part i, p. 103.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 315. Facsimile in Hiscock (1955), frontispiece.

Autograph draft of prayers, devotions and religious collections, 139 + iv small quarto leaves.

Volume CCXXV of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 553.

This MS recorded in Bray, II, part i, p. 103.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 554.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 555.

Autograph notes, headed Directions for the Employment of your time (to Mary Evelyn), on a single folio leaf; imperfect.

Volume CCLXXIII of the Evelyn Papers.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 558.

Inscribed (on a flyleaf) Mary Evelyn and names of later owners. Owned in 1936 by Viscount Falmouth, Tregothnan, Truro, Cornwall.

Edited from this MS by Walter Frere (London, 1936), with a facsimile of pp. 64-5 as frontispiece. Recorded in Keynes, p. 254.

Autograph drafts of an attempted translation of the Dies Irae, on pages 2-3 of a letter to Evelyn by William Fuller (1608-75), Bishop of London, dated 27 February 1656[/7].

Puttick and Simpson's, 2 June 1921, lot 172, to Last.

Mary Evelyn's name inscribed in the volume in the hand of Richard Hoare. Christie's, 8 November 1978, lot 14 (with a facsimile example in the sale catalogue), to Quaritch.

Autograph draft.

Volume CCXXV of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 553.

This MS recorded in Bray, II, part i, p. 103.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 304. This MS recorded, under the title The Legend of the Pearle, in in Hiscock (1951), pp. 14-17, and in Hiscock (1955), p. 244.

Autograph fair copy of a fragment of an unfinished comedy The Originals, together with some autograph notes on drama, on five folio and quarto pages.

Volume CXCII of the Evelyn Papers.

Once owned by William Upcott; this MS sold at the Upcott sale at Evans (i.e. Sotheby's) on 24 June 1846, lot 428. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 534.

Autograph notes relating to dramatic writings.

Volume CXCII of the Evelyn Papers.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 542.

Volume CXCI of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 41.

This MS recorded, as Thirsander, in Keynes, p. 21.

Autograph cancelled draft of part of Act I, scene ii, on a single quarto leaf, with an autograph drawing on the verso.

This volume lot 586 in the Upcott sale on 24 June 1846.

Evelyn's autograph diary covering the period from 1620 to 31 October 1697, headed Kalendarium, on c.732 folio pages (including a number of misplaced leaves between pp. 157 and 214 and blanks); imperfect, lacking various leaves (notably after p. 150, before p. 215 and after p. 718); the text up to p. 237 entered (transcribed from an original diary or notes) c.1660s, then resumed c.1680 and entries from c.1684 roughly contemporaneous; some later marginal notes; a four-page transcript of a damaged leaf (pp. 715-16, containing entries from 2 August to 13 September 1696) attached at rebinding in the early 19th century; also inserted after p. 414 a drawing of an altar given to Evelyn by Margaret Blagge (Mrs Godolphin), in 19th-century half-morocco.

Vol. CLVII of the Evelyn Papers.

Edited principally from this MS in Bray and (as text K) in de Beer, with facsimile examples in the latter (II, after p. 210, and III, after pp. 214, 350, 574 and 628). Facsimiles of the drawing of an altar also in Sampson, after p. 22, and in Hiscock (1951), after p. 26. William Bray's transcript of extracts from this Diary, taken in 1814-15, is in a large folio volume of c.1000 pages in Add. MS 78577 (formerly Evelyn MS 159).

Evelyn's autograph Diary in continuation of EvJ 215, for the period from 31 October 1697 to 3 February 1706, on four quarto pages, headed Extract out of my Diary: Paris [for 1651-3, written after 1677], followed by 26 gatherings numbered I to XXVII (181 chiefly quarto pages in all), with an autograph note: Join the following pages to [the rest] of my Diary. 1697. next October 31; some leaves misplaced, defective or missing, now in modern limp vellum.

Volume CLVII of the Evelyn Papers.

The first four pages printed in de Beer, III, Appendix A, pp. 632-6, and discussed I, 46-7. The main text edited from this MS in Abinger Monthly Record (1889-93), with a facsimile of the last page in Vol. III, before p. 449, and (as a continuation of K) in de Beer (1955), with facsimile examples in I, after p. 92, and V, after p. 402.

Evelyn's autograph revised version of EvJ 215 for the period up to late 1644, on 76 pages of a 470-page folio volume lettered on the spine De Vita Propria Pars Prima, the last few lines entered c.1737 in the hand of Evelyn's grandson, Sir John Evelyn, Bt (1682-1763), in contemporary red morocco gilt.

Vol. CLVIII of the Evelyn Papers.

Edited from this MS (as text V) in de Beer (1955).

Copy of parts of Evelyn's Diary for the period from 1620 to Good Friday 1644 transcribed from EvJ 215 and EvJ 217, in a probably professional hand, made for Sir John Evelyn, Bt (1682-1763), the diarist's grandson, on 270 pages of a folio volume of c.348folio pages, in quarter-morocco, lettered on the spine John Evelyn's Memoirs, 1620-1644. Copy, 1737.

Volume XLIX of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 50.

This MS discussed in de Beer, I, 47-8.

Transcript of the Extract out of my Diary Paris 1651 1 of June Trinity Sunday in an unidentified hand, on two conjugate folio leaves, erroneously identified by Hearne as an extract from Bishop Cosin's diary; given by Evelyn to Dr Smith after 1672.

Owned on 16 March 1710/11 by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), antiquary, who records Smith's bequest of the volume to him.

This MS pub., with omissions, in Bishop Cosin's Correspondence, Surtees Society (1869-72), I, 282-5; recorded in Wheatley (where it is cited as MS Smith 22a), and in de Beer, III, 632.

Volume CCCCX of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 159.

Transcript of the Extract out of my Diary. Paris 1651, headed MS Smith num: 13.

MS Baker 36.

This MS discussed, with all of Baker's MSS, in the Appendix to Zachary Masters' Life of Baker (Cambridge, 1784). Recorded in Bishop Cosin's Correspondence (1869-72), I, 282-5, in Wheatley, and in de Beer, III, 632.

Recorded in 1946 as being in the manuscript collection of Count G.V. Orlov (1777-1826) in the State Historical Museum, Red Square, Moscow. It cannot, however, be found there today.

This MS recorded in M.P. Alexeyev, British Manuscripts in Russia, TLS (21 September 1946), p. 456. Recorded (but not traced) in de Beer, I, 44.

Autograph notes, entered c.1636-7, partly deleted and rewritten c.1660, in two printed almanacs: Jonathan Dove, A New Almanacke and Prognostication (Cambridge, 1636) and Thomas Langley, A New Almanack and Prognostication (Cambridge, 1637).

Formerly owned by Mrs S.L. Barnard, of Cave Castle, East Yorkshire. Sotheby's, 23 June 1925, lot 345, with a facsimile example in the sale catalogue.

This MS discussed in de Beer, I, 48, and the notes edited, I, 75-7, with a facsimile example after p. 76. A facsimile example is also in Petti, English Literary Hands, No. 62.

In a composite volume of five printed almanacs, the others being William Lilly, Merlini Anglici Ephemeris ([London], 1647: 2 copies), The Welsh-Man's New Almanacke for 1647 and Wharton, Hemeroscopeion for 1645.

Once owned by Mrs S.L. Barnard, of Cave Castle, East Yorkshire. Sotheby's, 23 June 1925, lot 347 to Thorp.

This MS recorded in de Beer, I, 48.

Evelyn's autograph memorandum The paper of particulars given to my Wife Referring to my Codicil.

Volume CCXLV of the Evelyn Papers.

Evelyn's autograph and signed last will and testament, with a codicil, chiefly on broadsheets, 29 February 1703/4.

Volume CCXLV of the Evelyn Papers.

Autograph rough draft of Evelyn's last will and testament, 20 February 1705/6.

Volume CCXLV of the Evelyn Papers.