William Camden

1551–1623

Introduction

A large number of Camden's papers survive, including extensive drafts of his great works, the Annales and Britannia, and various notes and collections relating to them. Both the draft of the Annales for 1603-23, first published in 1691, and early drafts of most of the essays which constitute his Remaines are extant. Copies or drafts of various other essays and papers, many unpublished, are preserved, and considerable numbers of extant manuscripts and printed books are annotated by Camden or are known to have been used by him.

Prose

The Prose section of the entries in CELM (CmW 1-113) records known manuscripts of Camden's literary compositions: of his historical, topographical, and antiquarian works and discourses. It includes seventeenth-century English translations of his Latin works and various essays which can be identified among his miscellaneous papers as independent original works.

The Society of Antiquaries mentioned frequently in these entries flourished probably from the mid-1580s until c.1608 and periodically enjoined its members to deliver formal opinions on specified subjects at convened meetings. For some account of the history and scope of the Society see Linda Van Norden, Sir Henry Spelman on the Chronology of the Elizabethan College of Antiquaries, Huntington Library Quarterly, 13 (1949-50), 131-60; C.E. Wright, The Elizabethan Society of Antiquaries and the Formation of the Cottonian Library, The English Library before 1700, ed. Francis Wormald and C.E. Wright (London, 1958), pp. 176-212; also Linda Van Norden, The Elizabethan College of Antiquaries (unpub. Ph.D. thesis, University of California at Los Angeles, 1946) [microfilm in Bodleian, Diss. Films 472]. A number of the original papers delivered to the Society are preserved among the Cotton Manuscripts in the British Library, and there are numerous early transcripts of such papers (in the British Library, Bodleian, and elsewhere). Some of the Cottonian papers were printed in 1720 by Hearne, who noted in his preface that several of the discourses had no names prefixed to them and had not been properly registered by the Secretary of the Society, so that he could not identify their authors. This uncertainty persisted in Ayloffe's enlargement of Hearne's work in 1771, and the attributions in that edition prove to be not entirely reliable. A number of the Cottonian papers which have been misattributed or printed as anonymous can be positively identified as Camden's because they contain his hand or are endorsed as his by the Secretary of the Society.

A manuscript which relates to the Society of Antiquaries but which has not been entered in CELM is in the Bodleian (MS Rawl. B. 70, ff. 1r-16v). Several discourses, the full texts of which are not known, are cited in the manuscript, with Camden's name occasionally mentioned, either as author of the works or else as the person whose manuscript collection is being quoted. These instances are (f. 2r) Of the Antiquity of Marquesses in England, February 1590/1 (Camden fol. 102); (f. 3r) Of Earles and there Antiquity here in England (Camb: fo: 396, Camb: 415); and (f. 6r) Of y^e Antiquity of viscountes heere in England, 23 June 1591 (Camb: 139, Camb: 427). There is also, in British Library, Hargrave MS 225, ff. 103r-13r, an antiquarian tract Of the Antiquity of The Parliamente (beginning The dilligent observers of the antiquity of the Realme doe verie well knowe …). It is clearly subscribed William Camden, but seems to be otherwise unknown.

Miscellaneous Documents

The Miscellaneous section in CELM (CmW 137-72) records known volumes of Camden's miscellaneous papers, or collectanea (and early transcripts of them), and also (CmW 172) the drawing of Queen Elizabeth's funeral procession which has been attributed to him. These collections contain not only manuscripts of some of the independent works recorded in the Prose section (to which appropriate cross-references are given) but also much material relating to Camden's major works and to his general activities as an antiquary, a chronicler and a herald. Besides Camden's will (CmW 200-202), also recorded in the Documents section (CmW 172.5-202) are a number of (usually illuminated) grants of arms which Camden signed in his capacity of Clarenceux King of Arms. No doubt many more of these grants have been widely dispersed in libraries, private collections, and local record offices.

Clearly miscellaneous papers relating to Camden and his work as a herald could be extended to encompass an indefinite range of antiquarian documents which might have been used by him or which have some connection with him. There are, for instance, many examples of his deputations to other heralds to make Visitations on his behalf, as well as copies of pedigrees drawn up by or for him. Examples of Camden's deputations not given separate entries in CELM are at All Souls College, Oxford (MSS 278-9) and in the British Library (Cotton MS Julius F. VIII, ff. 66r-7r), and there are many manuscripts of the Visitations undertaken by his deputies, notably in the British Library (Harley MSS 887, 1043, 1141-2, 1179-80, 1234, 1394, 1430-1, 1451, 1532) and at The Queen's College, Oxford (MSS 95-6, 99, 116, 160).

Other documents (some original, some transcripts) relating to Camden's work as a herald are in the Bodleian (MSS Ashmole 840 (f. 407r), 858, 862 (pp. 71-9), 1132 (ff. 5r-6r), 1763 (f. 26^c); Rawl. B. 103, ff. 95v, 159r); British Library (Add. MSS 6284 (ff. 54r-7r), 26710 (f. 125r), 26758 (ff. 2r-4r); Arundel MS 512, ff. 45v-50r; Egerton MS 2586, f. 326r; Harley MSS 1359, 1438); National Library of Scotland (MS 2517, f. 493r); and The Queen's College, Oxford (MS 94, f. 63r); also a manuscript book of antiquities relating to the Stafford family sold at Sotheby's, 1 November 1966, lot 1208, to C. Fitzherbert.

A number of these documents, and of those recorded in the entries in CELM, can be associated with the St Georges, a family closely connected with the College of Arms; many of their papers were later acquired by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872). These papers must have been among the books and manuscripts concerning Armes and herauldrie which, together with all Camden's auncient seales, he bequeathed to his successors in the office of Clarenceux. The rest of Camden's imprinted bookes and manuscripts he bequeathed to Sir Robert Cotton (1571-1631) — thus, incidentally, returning some of Cotton's own manuscripts which Camden had borrowed of him — hence the number of Camden manuscripts still among the Cotton Manuscripts now in the British Library.

Ralph Brook

The entries in CELM also include (*CmW 98-100) a series of interesting unpublished notes by Camden which make for a critique of the Catalogue and Succession (1619) of one of Camden's colleagues, Ralph Brook (1553-1625), York Herald. As such they throw further light on the only serious controversy in which Camden is known to have been engaged in his professional life. Brooke (who was apparently not free from motives of professional jealousy) must have been one of the very few people who would have disputed Sir John Harington's estimate of Camden as the best antiquarie of our time (Orlando Furioso (1591), Notes to Book IV). Brooke attacked Camden's magnum opus in his Discoverie of Certaine Errours… in… Britannia (London [1596]), to which Camden replied in the Ad Lectorem in the fifth edition of Britannia (1600). Brooke rejoined with an answer which, however, was not published until 1723. It is interesting that before the publication of his own magnum opus, his Catalogue and Succession, Brooke submitted the work to Camden's criticism and, according to notes in Camden's annotated exemplum (*CmW 100), incorporated some of Camden's emendations. Camden's notes indicate, nevertheless, that his criticism went beyond that accepted by Brooke. Camden may have had little incentive to develop his critique — partly, perhaps, because of the ill-health which afflicted him in his final years, and perhaps he was also somewhat disarmed by the fact that Brooke had asked for his comments before publication. In any events the last word in the matter was left to Camden's deputy, Augustine Vincent (1584?-1626), whose Discoverie of Errours in Brooke's work (a criticism in which Camden plainly took an interest: see *CmW 99) appeared in 1622 shortly after Brooke published an enlarged edition of his Catalogue. The rivalry between Brooke and Camden resulted in disputes over other heraldic matters, as is witnessed by some papers in Cotton MS Faustina E. 1 (*CmW 146) and by a document headed The answeres of Garter and Clarenceux Kings of Arms to the Scrowle of Arms exhibited by Raffe Brokesmouth called Yorke Herauld in the Bodleian (MS Ashmole 846, ff. 50r-1v). A complete transcript of Brooke's Discoverie of Certaine Errours made by Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt (1592?-1667) is in the National Library of Wales (Peniarth MS 274D, pp. 1-20, 197-241).

Spurious Attributions

It is possible that more professional works of Camden will come to light in due course. Two manuscripts which, however, appear to have been wrongly associated with him (in library catalogues) are MS 652 (ff. 115-318) at Trinity College, Dublin, and MS 1371 (ff. 83-111) at Lambeth Palace. The former is a series of genealogical notes and coats of arms of English families and brief lives of some Popes, material which would no doubt have interested Camden (and might conceivably derive from his papers) but which bears no trace of his hand or any mark of his ownership. The second work is a treatise in Law French probably occasioned by the disputed claims to the barony of Abergavenny in 1598-9. Camden was certainly involved in that case (see, for instance, *CmW 166), but there must have been many documents relating to it and there seems to be no good reason for associating that particular item with him.

Verse

One other area in which there is uncertainty about the canon is Camden's verse. A collection of verse by, or attributed to him (almost exclusively in printed works) appears in Poems by William Camden with Notes and Translations from the Latin, ed. George Burke Johnston, Studies in Philology, 72, No. 5 (December 1975). Johnston appends (pp. 107-13) a very small number of doubtful poems, certain of which may be found in manuscript (e.g. one sometimes attributed to Dekker: DkT 3-36). Camden was, however, an avid collector of miscellaneous epitaphs and epigrams, many of which are cited in his works (notably Remaines). It would therefore be difficult to determine exactly which of them (if any) were of his own composition or revision. Although a few examples of autograph verse drafts by Camden among the Cotton Manuscripts are known (e.g. an epitaph on Mary Queen of Scots: see *CmW 149.5), verse associated with Camden has not been given separate entries in CELM.

An epitaph on Sir Nicholas Bacon (Non hominem possu, non audeo dicere Diuum), for instance, is ascribed to Camden in a miscellany in Chetham's Library (Mun. A.4.15, p. 138; printed in Grosart, The Dr Farmer MS (1873), II, 157). A composite volume of printed tracts at Westminster Abbey (CB. 13) has on the flyleaf a couplet in Camden's hand headed Epitaphium Elizabethae Reginae (beginning Spaynes rodd, Roomes ruine, Netherlands reliefe). This anonymous couplet is found in various other sources besides; for instance, in the Bodleian (MSS Eng. poet. e. 40, f. 124; Rawl. poet. 153, f. 8v); British Library (Add. MSS 27406, f. 75; 29921, f. 38); Folger (MS V.a.103, Part I, p. 1); Rosenbach Museum & Library (MS 239/16, p. 148; 239/27, p. 235; 1083/16, p. 243); and University of Nottingham (Pw V 37, p. 1).

Books and Manuscripts Owned or Inscribed by Camden

The main collection of printed books from Camden's library probably also derives from the bequest to Cotton, and is to be found at Westminster Abbey. It consists of more than fifty bound volumes of miscellaneous works (over 400 titles); it is evidently only a small part of Camden's original library, and it perhaps represents a selection of items of little interest to Cotton which Cotton was persuaded to donate to Westminster Abbey by the Dean of Westminster, John (later Archbishop) Williams. Those volumes at Westminster with substantial annotations by Camden are included in the entries in CELM, but various other volumes in the collection bear Camden's brief inscription of ownership (or his motto Jouis omnia plena) as well as, in some instances, annotations in other hands. There is also one volume formerly at Westminster (Gal. F. 2. 2) — containing, inter alia, tracts relating to Gallus's libel on De Thou's Historiarum sui temporis — which may have annotations by Camden but which cannot at present be located.

The rest of Camden's library was at some time dispersed, and examples of his books are found in various libraries. They are catalogued in Richard L. DeMolen, The Library of William Camden, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 128:4 (1984), 326-409. In addition to his inscribed or annotated volumes recorded in the entries in CELM, examples of printed books bearing Camden's signature or inscription of ownership are preserved in the following repositories:

Bodleian, AA. 2 (1). Th. Seld.: Jacques Godefroy, De suburbicarii regionibus et ecclesiis (Frankfurt, 1618).
British Library, 503. a. 23: Cardin Le Bret, Recueil d'aucuns plaidoyez faicts en la cour des aydes (Paris, 1609).
Folger, INC G353: Gratianus the Canonist, Decretum (Venice, 1500); PA/5360/R5/P7/Cage: Lorenz Rhodoman, Poesis Christiana (Frankfurt, 1589).
University of Glasgow, BG53-h.28: Eilhard Lubin, Antiquarius (Amsterdam, 1594).
Huntington, STC 10039: Articles whereupon it was agreed, in 1562 (1571).
University of Minnesota, Z 355. A141: Aelianus, De militaribus (Venice, 1552).
National Library of Wales: Humfrey Lhuyd, Commentarioli Britannicae descriptionis fragmentum (Cologne, 1572).
Yale, Ecd. 160: Abraham Ortelius, Itinerarium (Antwerp, 1584); Edc. 530P: Wilibald Pirckheimer, Germaniae (Nuremberg, 1530).

An exemplum of Nicolaus Copernicus, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (Basle, [1566]), bearing Camden's signature, was formerly at Brown University but has been unlocated since 1974.

Yet other manuscript volumes containing inscriptions of ownership or very brief notes in Camden's hand are found in:

Bodleian, MS Bodl. 885: 15th- and 16th-century papers chiefly relating to the claims of the King of England over France.
British Library, Add. MS 57945: Phillipps MS 13764, a notebook of John Stow; Arundel MS 333: medieval Irish documents; Egerton MS 1238: an album of Paul Groë of Nuremberg with Camden's inscription on f. 28.

A printed exemplum of Camden's Britannia (London, 1586), with his presentation inscription to Galfrido Kinge, was offered at Bonham's, 10 November 2009, lot 15, and is now in the library of Gregory Baran, Seattle.

Another printed exemplum of Camden's Britannia (London, 1596), with his presentation inscription in Latin to Robert Turner, was offered at Sotheby's, 13-14 June 1955, lot 136, to Steven, a facsimile of the inscription appearing in the sale catalogue. Lot 320 in the same sale was the presentation exemplum to Camden of John Selden's Titles of Honour (London, 1614), sold to Quaritch.

In the Royal Library, Windsor (II. 43. H), is an exemplum of the 1600 quarto edition of Britannia, which is possibly the dedication exemplum bound in dark olive morocco for Queen Elizabeth I. It is recorded as such in W.C. Hazlitt's annotated copy of his A Roll of Honour (1908) now in the British Library, Cup.410.g.343, before p 149. It bears the bookplate of Wilmot Vaughan (1730-1800), first Earl of Lisburne.

The Royal Library, Windsor, also has (II. 56. A Gall) an exemplum of John Philipott's 1636 edition of Remaines inscribed by Philipott himself to Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia.

A manuscript in the Bodleian (MS Selden supra 118) contains (ff. 1-27v) extracts made by John Selden from a lost manuscript of the Historia Britonum of Nennius (or Gildas) — a manuscript containing at least 447 pages or leaves — which belonged to Camden. Yet another manuscript closely associated with him is the so-called Camden Roll of Arms (c.1280), preserved in the British Library (Cotton Roll XV. 8). Copies of it are in the Bodleian (MS Rylands d. 31); British Library (Harley MS 6137, ff. 66v-72v), by Richard Kimbey; College of Arms (MSS L. 14, ff. 62-70, probably by Nicholas Charles, Lancaster Herald; Vincent 164, ff. 111-19, possibly by Richard Scarlett); and The Queen's College, Oxford (MS 158, pp. 349-65, by Robert Glover). The text of the Roll is printed in James Harris Greenstreet, The Original Camden Roll of Arms, Transactions of the British Archaeological Association, 38 (1882), 309-28, and the various manuscripts copies are described in Anthony Richard Wagner, A Catalogue of English Medieval Rolls of Arms (London, 1950), pp. 16-18.

Correspondence

A further category of miscellaneous manuscripts that is not represented in the entries in CELM is Camden's correspondence. Many of his letters were printed in Camdeni epistolae (1691) by Thomas Smith (1638-1710), who was custodian of the Cotton Manuscripts and himself a collector of Camden's papers. Many more letters, chiefly unpublished, are to be found, and no doubt more await discovery.

Original letters of Camden are preserved in the following repositories:

Bodleian, Broxbourne R 1417, and Broxbourne 84.21; MS Don. c. 79, f. 82.
British Library, Add. MSS 25384 (f. 5), 29598 (f. 1), 36294; Burney MS 363, f. 124; Cotton MSS Julius C. III; Julius C. V; Titus B. IV, f. 318r; Vespasian F. IX; and Harley MS 7017. Facsimile examples of a total of seven letters in the British Library appear in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate LXXIII; in Petti, English Literary Hands, No. 30 (see *CmW 142); and in Original Letters of Eminent Literary Men, ed. Sir Henry Ellis, Camden Society 23 (London, 1843), frontispiece.
Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 46/17.
New York Public Library, Manuscript Division.
Pierpont Morgan Library, MA 1346-54; MA 2635-6. A letter of 4 August 1577 here is reproduced in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 18 June 1968, lot 351, and in British Literary Manuscripts, Series I, ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (New York, 1981), no. 17.
Robert S Pirie, New York. A photocopy is in the British Library, RP 216.
Trinity College, Cambridge, MS R. 5. 20 (James 715).
University of Texas at Austin.

A letter of 1 June 1619 once in the Alfred Morrison Collection and now unlocated is reproduced in the printed catalogue of that collection, I (1883), Plate 33, facing p. 162. Other facsimiles of letters by Camden may be found in Isographie des Hommes Célèbres, Tome 1 (1828-30).

Some transcripts of letters of Camden are in the Bodleian (MSS Add. C. 296, ff. 89r-90r; Carte 101; Lat. misc. e. 88 (Phillipps MS 4863); Smith 71, 74, 89) and British Library (Harley MS 7017, ff. 81-2); and see also Sotheby's, 14 June 1971, lot 1400, to Alan Thomas.

A number of letters written to Camden by various correspondents are to be found in the repositories mentioned above and in Marsh's Library, Dublin (MS Z 3. 5. 24 (4) — a letter of 1574 from John Dee).

Printed Exempla of Works by Camden Owned by Notable People or with Readers' Annotations

Besides including numerous examples of extracts or quotations from Camden's works copied into miscellanies, entries have also been given in CELM to some printed exempla of interesting provenance or bearing notable readers' annotations. No doubt many more examples, which may throw light on the reading history and reception of Camden's works, will come to light in due course.

Abbreviations

Camdeni epistolae (1691) — V. cl. Gulielmi Camdeni et illustrium virorum ad G. Camdenum epistolae, ed. Thomas Smith (London, 1691).
Hearne (1720) — A Collection of Curious Discourses written by Eminent Antiquaries, ed. Thomas Hearne (Oxford, 1720).
Hearne (1771) — A Collection of Curious Discourses written by Eminent Antiquaries, ed. Thomas Hearne, 2nd edition [enlarged by Sir Joseph Ayloffe], 2 vols (London, 1771).

Prose

(1) Latin works

[including translations of Camden's Latin works into English]

Annales ab anno 1603, ad annum 1623

See CmW 17-20.

Annales rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha

Part I (to 1589) first published in London, 1615. Parts I-II (to 1603) published in Leiden, 1625-7.

*CmW 1

Autograph

Autograph papers, bound in eleven folio volumes, comprising various drafts, revised fair copies, and related fragments.

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.

Early 17th century

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

The British Library: Cotton MSS (Cotton MSS Faustina F. I-XI) | Catalogue

*CmW 2

Autograph

Camden's autograph revisions, in an exemplum of the edition of 1615, prepared for a new edition.

1615-23

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

Bodleian Library, Smith MSS (MS Smith 2) | Catalogue

CmW 2.5

Extracts.

In: A folio volume of state papers and tracts, in various professional hands, 396 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

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.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 1 through 999 (Harley MS 36 ff. 392-3v) | Catalogue

*CmW 3 c.1623

Autograph

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

In: A folio composite volume of antiquarian papers, in various hands and paper sizes.

c.1603-23

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.

Trinity College, Cambridge (MS R. 5. 20 (James 715) [unspecified pages]) | Catalogue

*CmW 4

Autograph

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

In: One of Camden's printed books, Jean du Tillet, Receuil des roys de France (Paris, 1586-8), with MS pages bound in at the front and end.

Westminster Abbey (CA 49 [last page])

CmW 5

Copy of part of the Annales, in a single italic hand, 59 tall folio leaves (ff. 56-9 smaller size and bound-in), collated at the end with the edition of 1615, in quarter calf on marbled boards.

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).

Late 17th century

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 5000 through 5999 (Add. MS 6217)

CmW 6

Exemplum of the 1639 Leiden edition of Book IV with numerous MS alterations and additions, possibly derived from Camden's own revisions.

17th century

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (8^o Rawl. 707)

CmW 6.2

Extracts.

In: A folio volume of miscellaneous papers, 333 leaves.

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.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Laud misc. 614 pp. 515-17) | Catalogue

CmW 6.3

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.

In: A quarto volume of notes on kings of England, 186 leaves.

18th century

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

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. C. 848 pp. 231-51) | Catalogue

CmW 6.32

Extract.

In: A folio volume of state and parliamentary papers, 125 leaves.

Late 17th century

All Souls College, Oxford (MS 202 f. 61v) | Catalogue

CmW 6.33

Various extracts and quotations.

In: A folio volume of genealogical material, 210 leaves, in modern calf gilt.

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

Mid-late 17th century

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.

Bradford Archives (32D86/10 passim)

CmW 6.35

Extracts.

In: A volume of genealogical material relating to Northern families.

Late 17th century

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

Bradford Archives (32D86/11 [unspecified page numbers])

CmW 6.37 17th century

Extracts.

In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers, chiefly copies, relating to State Affairs, 73 leaves.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 10000 through 14999 (Add. MS 14416 ff. 1r-4r) | Catalogue

CmW 6.38

Extracts.

In: A quarto miscellany of extracts from plays and historical works, with comments on them, entitled Excerpta quædam per A. W. Adolescentem, in a single cursive predominantly italic hand, 119 leaves, in modern quarter-morocco.

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

c.1640

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.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999 (Add. MS 22608 ff. 43r-68v) | Catalogue

CmW 6.39

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

In: John Milton's Commonplace Book.

c.1632-60s

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).

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 35000 through 39999 (Add. MS 36354 passim) | Catalogue

CmW 6.5 Late 17th century

Extracts.

In: A collection of unbound papers relating to Ely Cathedral, in various hands, in marbled wrappers.

Cambridge University Library, Additional MSS 1 through 4999 (MS Add. 41 f. 215r)

CmW 7

MS of a translation into English of Camden's history of the reign of Queen Elizabeth from 1558 to 1568, closely written in a single minute cursive secretary hand, imperfect, lacking the beginning, a title, and probably the ending, 36 quarto leaves, in modern brown calf gilt.

Mid-17th century?

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 25000 through 29999 (Add. MS 25286) | Catalogue

CmW 7.1

Extracts.

In: A quarto miscellany of English and Latin tracts and recipes, in two or more hands, written from both ends, c.256 pages (including numerous blanks), in contemporary limp vellum.

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.

c.1700-1740

The Folger Shakespeare Library, Miscellaneous manuscripts (MS W.a.303 p. 35) | Catalogue

CmW 7.2

Extracts

In: A composite folio volume of state tracts and papers, in various hands, 152 leaves, in modern red morocco gilt.

Inner Temple Library (Petyt MS 511, Vol. 17 passim) | Catalogue

CmW 7.3

Extracts.

Inner Temple Library (Petyt MS 512, Vol. S passim) | Catalogue

CmW 7.4

Extracts.

Inner Temple Library (Petyt MS 512, Vol. U passim) | Catalogue

CmW 7.5

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

In: An octavo composite miscellany of verse and prose, in several secretary, italic and mixed hands, 190 leaves (irregularly numbered), in contemporary limp vellum.

c.1580s-1615

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

Marsh's Library, Dublin (MS Z 3. 5. 21 ff. 114v-23v, 178r-[190v]) | Catalogue

Britannia

First published in London, 1586, with additions in 1607 and successive editions.

*CmW 8

Autograph

Autograph early draft, bound in two volumes, c.162 and 15 folio leaves.

[1579-80]

The British Library: Cotton MSS (Cotton MSS Titus F. VII-VIII) | Catalogue

*CmW 9

Autograph

Autograph later draft, c.89 folio leaves.

c.1600s

The British Library: Cotton MSS (Cotton MS Titus F. IX) | Catalogue

*CmW 10

Autograph

Camden's autograph revisions and annotations in an exemplum of the London edition of 1607.

c.1607-23

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

Bodleian Library, Smith MSS (MS Smith 1) | Catalogue

*CmW 11 c.1621-3

Autograph

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.

These additions are largely unpublished.

In: A folio composite volume of antiquarian collections, iii + 77 folio pages, in early 18th-century half-calf.

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.

Bodleian Library, Smith MSS (MS Smith 19 (kept at Arch. F. c. 7^s) pp. 10-75) | Catalogue

CmW 12

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

In: A quarto volume of transcripts of works by Camden, viii + 46 pages, in early 18th century half-calf.

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

c.1680-90

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

Bodleian Library, Smith MSS (MS Smith 85 pp. vii, 1-28) | Catalogue

CmW 13

Copy of an English translation by Richard Knolles (1550?-1610), 579 folio leaves (plus a later index on ff. 580-602), in contemporary calf.

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].

Early-mid-17th century

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).

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 849) | Catalogue

CmW 13.11

An exemplum of the printed edition of Britannia (1607) with Richard Gough's extensive annotations.

With Gough's extensive annotations.

c.1789

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Gough Gen. Top 140-3) | Catalogue

CmW 13.12

An exemplum of the printed edition of Britannia (1607) with Richard Gough's extensive annotations.

c.1789

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Gough Gen. Top 372-3) | Catalogue

CmW 13.128

Extracts from the Annales and Britannia.

In: A quarto volume of notes on history, 210 leaves.

17th century

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. B 275 passim and ff. 71r-85r) | Catalogue

CmW 13.129

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

In: A duodecimo volume of notes on English counties, 88 leaves.

Mid-17th century

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

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. C. 468 passim) | Catalogue

CmW 13.135

A folio volume comprising printed sheets of Edmund Gibson's edition in English (1695), relating to Sussex, with numerous MS notes copied from a collection of Messrs John Elliot and Edward Clarke, 76 pages.

Late 18th century

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 5000 through 5999 (Add. MS 5703)

CmW 13.141

Extract.

In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in a cursive predominantly secretary hand, i + 284 leaves, in contemporary calf.

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.

c.1653-60

Bookplate of William Ward Jackson.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 35000 through 39999 (Add. MS 37719 f. 156r) | Catalogue

CmW 13.142

Extracts.

In: A folio commonplace book, including (ff. 133r-45r) Certaine pretie songes hereafter Drawn together, by Richard Shanne i6ii, 254 leaves, in modern half brown morocco.

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

c.1611-32

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 35000 through 39999 (Add. MS 38599 ff. 90r-105r) | Catalogue

CmW 13.143

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.

In: A quarto notebook, in a single hand, i + 349 leaves, in contemporary calf within modern quarter vellum.

c.1669

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

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 45000 through 49999 (Add. MS 45720 ff. 1r-200r)

CmW 13.144

Extracts.

In: A tall folio composite volume of commonplace-book notes and extracts, chiefly in the hand of John Evelyn the younger, on various paper sizes, 248 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

Late 17th century

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

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78448 ff. 120r-34v)

CmW 13.148

A volume of extracts from Britannia, headed Collectanea varia...ex immortali Wilhelmi Camdeni Libro de chorographica Descriptione Angliæ, et Hyberniæ congesta.

17th century

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 1 through 999 (Harley MS 963) | Catalogue

CmW 13.15

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

In: A quarto miscellany of extracts chiefly from historical works, in Latin and English, in a single small mixed hand, compiled by one Thomas Gybbons, armiger, 237 leaves, in modern quarter-morocco gilt.

Mid-late 17th century

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 1 through 999 (Harley MS 980 passim) | Catalogue

CmW 13.155

Extract.

In: A quarto composite volume of MS and printed tracts relating to Ireland, in four hands, 108 leaves, in modern quarter crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 1000 through 1999 (Harley MS 1932 f. 97r) | Catalogue

CmW 13.157 Mid-17th century

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.

In: A quarto composite volume of MS and printed tracts relating to Ireland, in four hands, 108 leaves, in modern quarter crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 1000 through 1999 (Harley MS 1932 ff. 104r-8r) | Catalogue

CmW 13.16

A quarto manuscript of the unfinished abridgement of Edmund Gibson's English translation which he published in 1722.

Published in 1722.

c.1722

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 716) | Catalogue

CmW 13.162

Notes for additions to Britannia made by one John Burnsell.

In: A volume (Part VIII) of antiquarian materials collected by John Warburton, FRS, FSA (1682-1759), Somerset Herald and antiquary, for an intended history of Yorkshire.

Early-mid 18th century

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 896 ff. 273r-83r) | Catalogue

CmW 13.167

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

In: A folio miscellany of historical verse and prose, in English and Latin, in several secretary hands, one cursive hand predominating, i + 183 leaves, in half reversed calf.

c.1648

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.

Durham University Library (Mickleton & Spearman MS 62 ff. 149v-66v)

*CmW 13.168

Autograph

Autograph inscription, Gulielmus Camden, in amicitiae symbolum D. D. L. M., in a printed exemplum of Britannia (London, 1600).

c.1600

Inscribed Thomas Thomson.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, Printed books (STC 4507 copy 2) | Catalogue

*CmW 13.169

Autograph

Autograph presentation inscription by Camden to William Beecher, on the title-page in a printed exemplum of Britannia (London, [1607]), a folio in calf gilt.

c.1607

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

The Folger Shakespeare Library, Printed books (STC 4508 copy 1) | Catalogue

CmW 13.17

Extracts.

In: A folio volume of historical material, 123 leaves, in modern red morocco gilt.

Inner Temple Library (Petyt MS 512, Vol. A passim) | Catalogue

CmW 13.174

Extracts.

In: A folio volume of historical materials, 331 leaves, in modern red morocco gilt.

Inner Temple Library (Petyt MS 512, Vol. AA passim) | Catalogue

CmW 13.175

Extracts.

In: A folio volume of miscellaneous transcripts and extracts, 247 leaves.

Inner Temple Library (Petyt MS 512, Vol. E passim) | Catalogue

CmW 13.176

References and quotations.

In: A draft by William Petyt on a treatise concerning the Parliaments and Governments of England after the Reign of King John, 296 folio leaves.

Inner Temple Library (Petyt MS 512, Vol. I passim) | Catalogue

CmW 13.178

Extracts.

In: A folio volume of transcripts of state papers, 314 leaves.

Inner Temple Library (Petyt MS 536, Vol. 1 f. 1r) | Catalogue

CmW 13.18

Extracts.

In: A folio volume of transcripts of public records, inscribed on a flyleaf De Creatione Nobilium in Parliamento, 235 leaves.

Inner Temple Library (Petyt MS 536, Vol. 11 passim) | Catalogue

CmW 13.182

Copy of extensive portions of the work, Ex Camdeni Britania, in thee small mixed hand of Robert Vaughan (1591/2-1667) of Hengwrt, antiquary, including drawings of coins, 96 small folio pages, in modern quarter-morocco.

Early-mid-17th century

National Library of Wales (Peniarth MS 272 C)

CmW 13.183

A printed exemplum of Britannia owned and annotated by Camden's correspondent Jacques Auguste de Thou (1553-1617), French historian.

Early 17th century

Estate of Robert S Pirie, New York ([Camden/Britannia])

CmW 13.184

Extracts.

In: An antiquarian miscellany, compiled by William Wyrley (1565-c.1613).

Late 16th-early 17th century

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.

University of Birmingham (MS 7/i/16 passim)

*CmW 13.185

Autograph

Exemplum of the printed second edition of 1587, with Camden's Latin presentation inscription to Edward Bulkeley, prebendary of Lichfield, an octavo, in old calf rebacked.

c.1587

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

Untraced, miscellaneous (Britannia volume (I)])

*CmW 13.187

Autograph

Exemplum of the printed sixth edition of 1607, with Camden's autograph presentation inscription to Charles Howard (1536-1624), second Baron Howard of Effingham and first Earl of Norttingham, Admiral, 30 June 1616.

1616

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

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Britannia volume (II)])

CmW 13.19

Extracts.

In: A folio volume relating to Chester.

17th century?

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

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

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Chester MS] [unspecified page numbers])

CmW 13.2

Extracts.

In: A large folio composite volume of historical and miscellaneous papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 272 leaves.

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 837 f. 212r-v) | Catalogue

CmW 13.3

Extracts.

In: A folio composite volume of antiquarian tracts, letters and notes, in various hands and paper sizes, 111 leaves.

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 1139 f. 108r-v) | Catalogue

CmW 13.4

Collections of Edmund Gibson for his edition of Britannia in English (1695).

c.1695

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Dep. c. 225-6)

CmW 13.5

Annotated exemplum of Britannia, newly translated...by Edmund Gibson (London, 1695), viii + 529 leaves, in contemporary reversed calf (rebacked).

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

1694/5-c.1714

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.

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. b. 33) | Catalogue

CmW 13.51

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.

c.1695

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.

Cardiff Central Library (MS 4.172) | Catalogue

CmW 13.6

The MSS for Richard Gough's edition of Britannia in English (1789), almost entirely in Gough's hand, dated 1771-82, in three volumes, 648, 680 and iii + 609 leaves respectively.

1771-82

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Gough Gen. Top 34-36) | Catalogue

CmW 13.7

Exemplum of the printed edition of 1607 with notes in the hand of Thomas Gale (1635?-1702) and Richard Gough (1735-1809).

1607

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Gough Gen. Top 51) | Catalogue

CmW 13.8

An exemplum of the printed edition of 1607 with annotations made by one Dr Mason.

17th century

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Gough Gen. Top 53) | Catalogue

CmW 13.85

Extracts.

In: A folio composite volume of speeches in Parliament, in various secretary hands, 346 leaves (plus blanks), in red morocco gilt.

Inner Temple Library (Petyt MS 538, Vol. 11 passim) | Catalogue

CmW 13.9

An exemplum of the printed edition of Britannia (1607) with Richard Gough's extensive annotations.

c.1789

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Gough Gen. Top 60-1) | Catalogue

Institutio Graecae grammatices compendiaria

First published in London, 1595. Reprinted in facsimile by the Scolar Press (Menston, 1969).

CmW 14

Autograph drafts for Camden's Greek grammar.

In: A quarto composite volume of heraldic and other historical papers, in various hands, 187 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco.

The British Library: Cotton MSS (Cotton MS Vespasian E. VIII ff. 75r-95r, 126v-31v, 161v-7v, 182v-3v, 185r) | Catalogue

CmW 14.5

An exemplum of the printed edition of 1656 with extensive anonymous annotations by someone who used the grammar.

c.1656

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 7000 through end (Harley MS 7628) | Catalogue

Memorabilia de seipso

First published in Camdeni epistolae (London, 1691), Appendix, pp. 85-6.

*CmW 15 c.1622

Autograph

Autograph autobiographical notes, on one page.

In: A folio composite volume of antiquarian papers, in various hands and paper sizes.

c.1603-23

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.

Trinity College, Cambridge (MS R. 5. 20 (James 715) [unspecified pages]) | Catalogue

Reges, reginae, nobiles & alij in Ecclesia Collegiata B. Petri Westmonasterij sepulti, vsque ad annum 1600

First published in London, 1600.

CmW 16

Copy, in the hands of two amanuenses.

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.

c.1600

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.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (Broxbourne 84.23)

CmW 16.5

An exemplum of the printed edition of 1600, with the arms of the persons mentioned therein emblazoned in the margins.

This exemplum may have been presented to Queen Elizabeth I.

1600

The British Library: Rare Books Room (C.32.e.14) | Catalogue

CmW 16.7

An exemplum of the edition of 1600 with the arms of the persons mentioned therein emblazoned in the margins.

c.1600

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

Westminster Abbey (CA 32)

Regni regis Jacobi I annalium apparatus

First published in Camdeni epistolae (London, 1691), Appendix, pp. 1-85.

*CmW 17 c.1623

Autograph

Autograph, on 45 leaves.

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

In: A folio composite volume of antiquarian papers, in various hands and paper sizes.

c.1603-23

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.

Trinity College, Cambridge (MS R. 5. 20 (James 715) [unspecified pages]) | Catalogue

CmW 17.5

Additions to the Annales for 1603-23 among copious annotations made by Thomas Smith to his exemplum of his printed edition of Camdeni epistolae (1691).

c.1691

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (4^o Rawl. 204) | Catalogue

CmW 18

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

In: A folio composite volume of historical and heraldic papers, in various hands, ii + 122 leaves (plus stubs of excised leaves), in later reversed calf.

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

Mid-late 17th century

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.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Dugdale 25 pp. 49-132) | Catalogue

CmW 19 1668

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.

In: A folio composite volume of Ashmole's papers.

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 111 ff. 85v-6v)

CmW 20

MS of an English translation by James Wright (1643-1713).

Late 17th-early 18th century

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

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Baginton Camden MS])

(2) English works

Allusions

A tract beginning I will now present vnto you a few extracts out of names.... First published in Remaines (London, 1605), pp. 140-5.

Books and Manuscripts Owned or Inscribed by Camden

Aemilius, Paulus, Veronensis. De rebus gestis Francorum (Paris, 1555)

*CmW 114

Autograph

A few autograph annotations.

Westminster Abbey (N. 6. 32)

[Bible. - Song of Solomon] Willerami Abbatis in Canticum Canticorum paraphrasis gemina (Lyons, 1598)

*CmW 115

Autograph

Autograph annotations.

c.1598

The British Library: Rare Books Room (844. k. 4 (2)) | Catalogue

Blackwell, George. Mr. George Blackwel, (Made by Pope Clement 8. Archpriest of England) his Answeres upon sundry his Examinations (London, 1607)

*CmW 116

Autograph

Autograph note in Latin on Eadgina vxor Athelstani on the last page.

Westminster Abbey (CB 22 (2))

Boccalini, Traiano. De ragguagli di Parnaso (Venice, 1612)

*CmW 117

Autograph

Autograph annotations (together with annotations by others).

The Folger Shakespeare Library, Printed books (JC 158 B7 1612 Cage) | Catalogue

Boutrays, Raoul. De rebus in Gallia (Paris, 1610)

*CmW 118

Autograph

Two pages of autograph annotations at the front. Also, tipped in, a twelve-leaf booklet containing an autograph list in Latin of names and events relating to the years 1602-9 probably derived from Boutrays's book.

Westminster Abbey (M. 5. 1)

Brooke, Ralph. A Catalogue and Succession (London, 1619)

See CmW 100.

Buchanan, George. Rerum Scoticarum historia (Edinburgh, 1582)

*CmW 118.5

Autograph

Printed exemplum inscribed by Camden, recording its presentation to him by Abraham Ortelius (1527-98), geographer.

Late 16th century

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.

The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House ([unspecified shelfmark])

Cowell, John. The Interpreter (Cambridge, 1607)

*CmW 119

Autograph

Two pages of autograph notes at the end (giving the reasons for this book's suppression).

Westminster Abbey (CB 95)

Crato, Joannes. Oratio funebris de Diuo Maxaemiliano II (Frankfurt, 1577)

*CmW 120

Autograph

Autograph annotations.

Westminster Abbey (CB 28 (5))

Du Tillet, Jean. Recueil des roys de France (Paris, 1586-8)

*CmW 121

Autograph

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

In: One of Camden's printed books, Jean du Tillet, Receuil des roys de France (Paris, 1586-8), with MS pages bound in at the front and end.

Westminster Abbey (CA 49 [unnumbered pages])

Gesta Pontificorum Romanorum a Sancto Petro ad Anacletum

*CmW 121.5

Autograph

Camden's brief autograph list of contents, on f. 3v in a 12th-13th-century formal MS chronicle of the Papacy, on 90 folio-size vellum leaves, in modern half red morocco.

Late 16th-early 17th century

Inscribed liber Briani Stapletoni.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 1 through 999 (Harley MS 633) | Catalogue

Gilbert, Sir Humphrey. A Discourse of a Discouerie for a new Passage to Cataia (London, 1576)

*CmW 122

Autograph

Autograph annotations.

Westminster Abbey (CB 2 (6))

Godwin, Francis. De praesulibus Angliae commentarius (London, 1616)

*CmW 123

Autograph

Exemplum presented to Camden by the author with Camden's autograph annotations (together with others by Brian Twyne, Anthony Wood, et al.).

Bodleian Library, other MSS (Wood D. 21) | Catalogue

Hayward, Sir John. The Lives of the III. Normans, Kings of England (London, 1613)

*CmW 124

Autograph

Autograph annotations in Latin and English and signature on the title-page Gul Camdenij.

Westminster Abbey (CB 49a(2))

Hotman, François. Decretorum baccalaurei (n.p., 1575)

*CmW 125

Autograph

Autograph annotations.

Westminster Abbey (CB 25 (3))

Hotman, François. Francogallia (Cologne, 1574)

*CmW 126

Autograph

Autograph annotations.

1610

The British Library: Rare Books Room (C.134.a.11) | Catalogue

Jonstonus, Joannes. Britannia urbes [c.1600]

*CmW 127

Autograph

Calligraphic MS copy of unpublished Latin verses on the cities of Great Britain (some afterwards quoted in Britannia); eleven leaves (plus one blank leaf); with Camden's autograph annotations and deletions.

Westminster Abbey (CB 7 (14))

Laetus, Erasmus. De re nautica (Basle, 1573)

*CmW 128

Autograph

Autograph annotations.

1576

Bodleian Library, other MSS (4°. L. 23. Art. Seld.)

Leowitz, Cyprianus von. De coniunctionibus magnis insignioribus superiorum planetarum (London, 1573)

*CmW 129

Autograph

Autograph annotations.

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks N through Z (RB 59378)

Masson, Jean Papire. Annalium (Paris, 1578)

*CmW 130

Autograph

Autograph annotations.

Westminster Abbey (M. 3. 50)

Milles, Thomas. The Catalogue of Honor (London, 1610)

*CmW 131

Autograph

Autograph emendations.

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.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (B. 6. 16. Art.)

Ortelius, Abraham. Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Antwerp, 1594)

*CmW 131.5

Autograph

Printed exemplum presented to Camden by Abraham Ortelius (1527-98), geographer, with Camden's autograph list of maps.

c.1594

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

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Ortelius volume])

Peucer, Caspar. Commentarius de praecipuis generibus diuinationum (Wittenberg, 1560)

*CmW 132

Autograph

A few autograph annotations.

1575

The British Library: Rare Books Room (51.a.14) | Catalogue

Ptolemaeus, Claudius. Operis quadripartiti (Louvain, 1548)

*CmW 133

Autograph

Autograph annotations.

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).

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Ellis Camden MS])

Rupescissa, Johannes de. Vade-Mecum in Tribulatione [etc.]

*CmW 133.5

Autograph

Autograph annotations by Camden on at least f. 161r (eight lines), in a 14th-century MS volume of chronicles, 271 folio leaves of vellum, in old blind-stamped calf (rebacked).

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.

c.1609

Trinity College, Dublin, numbers 200 through 799 (MS 497) | Catalogue

Sainte-Marthe, Scévole & Louis de. Histoire genealogique de la maison de France (Paris, 1619)

*CmW 134

Autograph

A few autograph annotations.

Westminster Abbey (Gal. G. 1. 20)

Saumaise, Claude de. Amici ad amicum de suburbicariis regionib. et ecclesiis suburbicariis epistola ([Leiden], 1619)

*CmW 135

Autograph

Autograph annotations, dated 18-19 May 1619.

1619

Bodleian Library, other MSS (8° Z 40 (3) Th. Seld.)

Tillet, Jean du. Receuil des roys de France (Paris, 1586-8)

See CmW 121.

Twyne, Brian. Antiquitatis academiae Oxoniensis apologia (Oxford, 1608)

*CmW 136

Autograph

A few autograph annotations.

c.1616

Westminster Abbey (M. 3. 29)

Miscellaneous

Collectanea

*CmW 137 c.1582

Autograph

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.

In: A folio composite volume of state papers generally concerning diplomatic relations between England and France, in various hands.

Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (Cinq cents de Colbert n° 466 ff. 73r-4v, 96r-8v)

CmW 138 c.1590s

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

In: A folio composite volume of heraldic and genealogical papers belonging to Camden, Robert Glover, and others, 172 leaves.

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

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Dodsw. 20 The MS as a whole) | Catalogue

*CmW 139

Autograph

The volume as a whole.

In: A folio composite volume of discourses, notes, of verses, and letters by Camden, mainly autograph, viii + 226 pages, different sizes, in early 18th-century half-calf.

c.1615-20s

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

Bodleian Library, Smith MSS (MS Smith 17) | Catalogue

*CmW 140

Autograph

The collection as a whole.

In: A quarto composite volume of papers by Camden, relating to Latin inscriptions found in England, viii + 58 pages, quarto and octavo, in early 18th-century half-calf.

c.late 1590s

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

Bodleian Library, Smith MSS (MS Smith 84) | Catalogue

CmW 141

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.

In: A quarto notebook of antiquarian material, viii + 184 pages.

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

c.1680-1700

Bodleian Library, Smith MSS (MS Smith 86 pp. 26-45) | Catalogue

*CmW 141.5

Autograph

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

In: A volume of heraldic notes and pedigrees, compiled by Henry Ferrers (1550-1633), of Baddesley Clinton, Warwickshire, antiquary., i + 54 leaves, its original vellum wrapper (recycled from a 15th-century antiphoner) now ff. 53-4, within Middle Hill boards.

Early 17th century

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.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Top. gen. e. 77 passim) | Catalogue

CmW 141.8 c.1603

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.

In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers chiefly relating to court ceremonies, in various hands and paper sizes, 94 leaves.

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.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 4101 through 4999 (Add. MS 4712 f. 59r)

*CmW 142

Autograph

A partly autograph folio composite notebook, chiefly in Latin, containing drafts of letters, fragmentary materials for the Annales, and two dedications, some material (f. 15v) relating to Michael Drayton, in several hands and paper sizes, 114 leaves, in half-morocco gilt.

1582-1621

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.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 35000 through 39999 (Add. MS 36294) | Catalogue

*CmW 143 c.1616-17

Autograph

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

In: A tall folio composite volume of heraldic and genealogical papers, largely in one small secretary hand, ii + 196 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum boards.

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.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 45000 through 49999 (Add. MS 47177 passim)

*CmW 144

Autograph

A tall folio volume of pedigrees, apparently taken from heraldic visitations of Kent, Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Oxfordshire in 1574-86, iii + 77 leaves, in half-vellum marbled boards.

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.

Late 16th century

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.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 55000 through 59999 (Add. MS 58214)

*CmW 145

Autograph

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.

In: A quarto volume of antiquarian collections of Camden, 126 leaves; one page (f. 119v) dated 1580, another (f. 100v) dated 1581.

c.1580s

The British Library: Cotton MSS (Cotton MS Cleopatra A. IV The MS as a whole) | Catalogue

*CmW 146 Late 16th-early 17th century

Autograph

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.

In: A folio composite volume of heraldic tracts and papers, in various hands, 292 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco gilt.

The British Library: Cotton MSS (Cotton MS Faustina E. 1 passim) | Catalogue

*CmW 147 c.1604-11

Autograph

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.

In: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 468 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on roan boards.

End 16th-early 17th century

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.

The British Library: Cotton MSS (Cotton MS Julius F. VI passim) | Catalogue

*CmW 148 c.1580s-90s

Autograph

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.

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

In: A composite folio volume of antiquarian and state papers, by Camden and others, in various hands, 197 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

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

c.1580s-90s

The British Library: Cotton MSS (Cotton MS Julius F. X passim) | Catalogue

*CmW 149 c. Late 1590s

Autograph

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.

In: A folio composite volume of genealogical, historical and antiquarian tracts and papers, in various hands, 323 leaves, in modern half crushed calf on cloth boards gilt.

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.

The British Library: Cotton MSS (Cotton MS Julius F. XI passim) | Catalogue

*CmW 149.5

Autograph

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.

In: A folio composite volume of historical documents, in various hands, 139 leaves, in modern half-morocco cloth boards gilt.

The British Library: Cotton MSS (Cotton MS Titus C. X passim) | Catalogue

*CmW 150

Autograph

A composite volume of historical and antiquarian notes and papers, 67 quarto leaves.

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

Late 16th-early 17th century

The British Library: Cotton MSS (Cotton MS Titus F. XI) | Catalogue

*CmW 151 c.1590s-1600s

Autograph

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).

In: A quarto composite volume of heraldic and other historical papers, in various hands, 187 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco.

The British Library: Cotton MSS (Cotton MS Vespasian E. VIII passim) | Catalogue

*CmW 152

Autograph

A quarto composite volume of antiquarian collections, comprising papers of Camden and John Stow, including (f. 76c) an autograph note from Camden to Stow asking to borrow some abbey foundations, (ff. 77-8v) Camden's autograph emendations apparently to Stow's Survey of London, (ff. 81-94) Camden's copy of passages out of Roman and Greek writers concerning Britain possibly for Stow's use, and (f. 95r-v) Camden's autograph draft (imperfect) of a character of Henry VI (beginning Thus ended this Kinge his transitorye Life…), 124 leaves.

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).

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 1 through 999 (Harley MS 530) | Catalogue

CmW 153 c.1620s

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.

In: A folio composite volume of heraldic and genealogical papers relating to the Scottish nobility, in various hands, 165 leaves, in modern morocco gilt.

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

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 1000 through 1999 (Harley MS 1423 ff. 33r-80r) | Catalogue

*CmW 154

Autograph

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

In: Composite volume of MSS.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 2000 through 2999 (Harley MS 2202 ff. 11-12) | Catalogue

*CmW 155

Autograph

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

Deleted entry (British Library Lansdowne MS 229) | Catalogue

*CmW 156 Late 16th-early 17th century

Autograph

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

In: A folio composite volume of state, parliamentary and legal tracts, in professional secretary hands, 551 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco gilt.

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 253 f. 199r-v) | Catalogue

CmW 156.5

A folio armorial, comprising over 700 coats of arms in trick, apparently based on a compilation by Camden, in a neat predominantly italic hand, with an inventory added later (ff. 197v-195v rev.) in 1768, x + 163 leaves (plus some 34 blanks), in 19th-century half-leather gilt.

Mid-late-17th century

Cardiff Central Library (MS 4.24) | Catalogue

*CmW 157

Autograph

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.

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

In: A large folio composite volume of antiquarian and heraldic papers, in various hands, 368 leaves, in modern calf gilt.

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

The Folger Shakespeare Library: V.b. series (MS V.b.218 passim) | Catalogue

*CmW 158

Autograph

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

In: A large folio volume, containing a large collection of pedigrees and arms of noble families, in several hands, with later 19th-century notes, c.350 pages (plus two indexes), in contemporary calf.

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

c.1610

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).

The Folger Shakespeare Library: V.b. series (MS V.b.299 passim) | Catalogue

*CmW 159

Autograph

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

In: A tall folio composite volume of antiquarian papers, including pedigrees, coats of arms drawn in trick, and other heraldic, historical and genealogical notes, in various hands, c.88 pages (plus blanks), in Middle Hill boards.

Late 16th-early 17th century

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).

The Folger Shakespeare Library: V.b. series (MA V.b.312 passim) | Catalogue

*CmW 160 c.1606-20

Autograph

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.

In: A folio composite volume of genealogical collections, including pedigrees of royal and noble houses of Scotland, with some coats of arms drawn in trick, and other matter relating to Scotland, in various hands, 77 leaves.

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.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 33.2.36 The MS as a whole) | Catalogue

*CmW 161

Autograph

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.

In: A folio composite volume of antiquarian papers, in various hands and paper sizes.

c.1603-23

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.

Trinity College, Cambridge (MS R. 5. 20 (James 715) The volume as a whole) | Catalogue

CmW 162

Copy of some of Camden's historical notes and lists in CmW 161, 36 folio leaves.

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.

1692

Miscellaneous Extracts from Works by Camden

Extracts

CmW 203

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

In: A MS volume.

Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (fonds français n° 3283 ff. 20r-3r)

CmW 204

Miscellaneous quotations from Camden's works.

In: A miscellany of extracts from printed books, in English and Latin, chiefly in Clarendon's hand, in two folio volumes, 213 and 88 leaves respectively, in leather gilt.

c.1634-73

Bodleian Library, Clarendon MSS (MSS Clarendon 126-7 passim) | Catalogue

CmW 205

Miscellaneous quotations from Camden's works.

In: A duodecimo volume of notes on history, 61 leaves.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. C. 774 ff. 60r-1r) | Catalogue

CmW 206

Extracts from Camden relating to monasteries.

In: A folio volume of collections on ecclesiastical matters, c.200 leaves.

Late 17th century

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

Bradford Archives (32D86/30 [unspecified page numbers])

CmW 207

Extracts, headed Cambdens Remaines 1649.

In: An octavo notebook of extracts, in a single small mixed hand, written from both ends, 165 leaves, in contemporary calf.

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

c.1644-76

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

Cambridge University Library, Additional MSS 5000 through 6999 (MS Add. 6160 ff. 83v-6r)

CmW 208

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

In: A folio composite volume of antiquarian tracts and genealogies, in various hands and paper sizes, 520 pages, in modern half red morocco.

National Library of Wales (Peniarth MS 270 D pp. 499-505)

CmW 209

In: A notebook compiled by William Burton (1609-57), Leicestershire antiquary.

c.1630s-40s

The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House (MS 260 passim)

William Camden

Introduction

Prose

Miscellaneous Documents

Ralph Brook

Spurious Attributions

Verse

Books and Manuscripts Owned or Inscribed by Camden

Correspondence

Printed Exempla of Works by Camden Owned by Notable People or with Readers' Annotations

Abbreviations

Prose

(1) Latin works

(2) English works

Books and Manuscripts Owned or Inscribed by Camden

Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous Extracts from Works by Camden

Contents