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Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon

1609–1674

Introduction

The Clarendon Papers

Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, who was knighted in 1643 and raised to the peerage in 1661, enjoyed some of the highest political offices in the realm, was trusted adviser to both Charles I and Charles II and was author of the celebrated History of the Rebellion. His papers, the majority concerning matters of state, have survived in considerable numbers.

Their history is, for the most part, fairly well documented. Although he died in France and, as an alien, might have been subject to the Droit d'Aubaine whereby his property became forfeit to the French Crown, Clarendon took steps earlier in 1670 to arrange for the exemption of his personal papers from this law and in 1674 he instructed his secretary, William Shaw, to safeguard them elsewhere. Thus, after his death on 9 December 1674, they came intact to his immediate heirs: viz. his two sons, Henry (second Earl of Clarendon) and Laurence (Earl of Rochester). The bulk of the papers was still retained by his descendants in 1759, when they were deposited with the University of Oxford by Catherine, Duchess of Queensberry, and her family. In accordance with the conditions which they stipulated, the proceeds from the publication of Clarendon's papers (which are held in perpetual copyright by the University of Oxford) were used to provide a building for the University (viz. Clarendon) Press. The collection had not, however, remained unscathed. Some measure of dispersal began after 1709 when Edward, third Earl of Clarendon, gave a number of letters and papers to Bryan Richards, a relative of his stepmother. Those manuscripts returned to the main collection at Oxford in 1767 from the estate of Dr Richard Powney. The third Earl's executor in 1723 was his godson, Joseph Radcliffe, who died in 1760 leaving many of Clarendon's papers among his effects, which were subsequently offered for sale by Samuel Baker, in 232 lots, on 9-10 April 1764. Many of these lots were bought by the Radcliffe trustees and consequently rejoined the main collection in the Bodleian although, as it happens, not all of the purchased lots can be accounted for (see further below).

Other losses are reported to have occurred earlier on 1 October 1721, when a certain number of Clarendon's papers were apparently destroyed in a fire at New Park, Petersham, home of his grandson, the second Earl of Rochester. In 1726-7 Clarendon's daughter, Lady Frances Keightley, sold some of his manuscripts to the bookseller Thomas Woodward, which he published as A Collection of Several Tracts of … Edward, Earl of Clarendon (London, 1727). Those manuscripts, presumably used as printer's copy, are not known to have survived. There were even a number of Clarendon's papers that were deliberately destroyed in 1849 by the family of Joseph Radcliffe, as being of no significance: see Francis R.Y. Radcliffe, A Few Stuart Papers, National Review, 11 (1888), 748-61.

Many, but by no means all, of the other dispersed manuscripts have been retrieved in subsequent years by donations and purchases — including a notable donation by the Marquess of Queensberry in 1785-9 — and yet others may come to light in due course. For a more detailed account of the history of the main collection, see Ian Green, The Publication of Clarendon's Autobiography and the Acquisition of his Papers by the Bodleian Library, BLR, 10 (1982), 349-67. Various letters concerning the Clarendon papers between 1737 and 1789 are also to be found in the British Library (Egerton MS 2183).

The Baker sale in 1764

The most notable of those manuscripts that were offered for sale in 1764 and bought by the Radcliffe trustees (see the annotated catalogue in the Bodleian, Mus. Bibl. III. 8°. 308b) but which are now lost may be listed as follows (none of these corresponding precisely to known Clarendon manuscripts, although in some cases this may be because of the vagueness or inaccuracy of the descriptions):

Lot 12
Historia Gallicanae Eccles … Montpelier, 10 Jan. 1670, 24 [pages].
Lot 13
Excursions casual, and Digressions upon Authors. Several Reflections upon Religion, on Mr. White's Principles, and Dr. Lightfoot's Books. With a Discourse of Anabaptism, and particularly of the Latitudinarian … Moline[s], 10 June 1672[;] A Letter of Consolation on the uncomfortable Condition of the Times … 1 June 1673[;] 58 [pages].
Lot 27
To a Friend, upon the Consideration of the Duties of Humility … To ditto, of the Plainness and Unaffectation that ought to be in Prayer … To ditto, of the great Use of Discretion, in all Matters, relating to Religion … Molines, 10 May 1673[;] 30 [pages].
Lot 28
Considerations in which every Man ought carefully to exercise himself, who hath entertained any Doubts which relate to the Religion that he professes, and in Order to obviate any Temptations which he may receive from other Men, to change that Religion in which he hath been bred. Recommended to, and particularly intended for those who are of the Communion of the Church of England … 15 [pages].
Lot 30
Occasional prayers and Meditations … 28 [pages]; Texts of Scripture … 4 [pages].
Lot 31
Considerations and Reflections on reading the Scriptures … Montpelier, Aug. 1668[;] 52 [pages].
Lot 32
Animadversions on a Book entitled, Fanaticism fanatically imputed to the Catholique Church by Dr. Stillingfleet, and the Imputation refuted and retorted by J. [viz. S.] C. … Molines, 3 July 1673[;] 66 [pages] [this work published in London, 1673].
Lot 38
Journal of Lord Clarendon, containing many Particulars of what pass'd concerning him, previous to his going out of England, and not in the last printed Work in 3 vol. folio, from June 1667 to November following … 21 [pages].
Lot 74
[includes] Meditations on the Scriptures, on Anger, Death, Loss of Friends, &c 1650, at Madrid, 9 February And on the 30 January, Day of the King's Murther … 48 [pages].
Lot 75
Cicero ad Herennium, de Orator. Brutii, de Natura Deorum … Molines, 15 May 1674[;] 20 [pages;] Remarks on the Proverbs of Solomon, Lat & Eng … Montpellier, 28 Decemb. 1668[;] 24 [pages].
Lot 78
[includes] Of Charitable Contribution and Distribution … 2 [pages;] Christian Opinions enjoined or permitted; Meditations on the Church, Sacrament, &c … Montpellier, 11 May 1669[;] 24 [pages].
Lot 79
[includes] Velleius Paterculus … 8 [pages;] Concerning the Pope's Supremacy and Jurisdiction … 4 [pages] [cp. ClE 45].
Lot 81
Loose Papers of Notes, Extracts from the Scriptures, Texts, History of the Popes, &c … 61 [pages] [cp. ClE 45].
Lot 85
First Draught of the Animadversions upon Mr. Hobbes … 103 [pages] [see lot 86].
Lot 86
A brief View and Survey of the dangerous and pernicious Errors, with reference to the Church and State, in Mr Hobes's [sic] Book, entitled Leviathan … Molines, 12 April 1673[;] 172 [pages] [this work was published in Oxford, 1676].

The bulk of Clarendon's surviving papers — many written in his own hand, many others in the hands of his secretaries William Edgeman and William Shaw — now comprise 159 manuscript volumes in the Bodleian. Other Clarendon Papers are preserved in the British Library; National Archives, Kew; Pierpont Morgan Library, and elsewhere. Most of the main collection is calendared in CCSP (where, however, specifically literary manuscripts are omitted). Additional manuscripts are described in Belford. A selection of miscellaneous State Papers collected by Edward, Earl of Clarendon was published in three volumes, edited by R. Scrope and T. Monkhouse (Oxford, 1767-86). Some documents have appeared in An Appendix to the History of the Grand Rebellion (London, 1724) and further documents have appeared in other publications. But, with certain obvious exceptions, the majority remain unpublished.

The History of the Rebellion

The most important manuscripts in the main collection are naturally those of Clarendon's History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England (see *ClE 13). The complex process of the composition of this work, in two main stages during his two periods of exile, is discussed in Belford and in Firth. Its first publication, in Oxford 1702-3, nearly thirty years after Clarendon's death, occasioned a considerable controversy. The edition was based upon a transcript of the secretarial copy made for Clarendon (ClE 15), this transcript (*ClE 20) being made by William Wogan (1678-1758) and one Low, then secretary to one of the editors, Thomas Sprat (1635-1713), Bishop of Rochester. The historian John Oldmixon (1673-1742) claimed, in his Critical History of England (2 vols, London, 1724-6) and in his Clarendon and Whitlock compar'd (London, 1727), that the published text was highly inaccurate as a result of both careless copying and editorial adulteration. Among those who replied to this charge were Francis Atterbury (1662-1732), Bishop of Rochester, in The Late Bishop of Rochester's Vindication (London, 1730), and the antiquary John Burton (1696?-1771), whose essays in the Weekly Miscellany were collected as The Genuineness of Ld. Clarendon's History of the Rebellion Printed at Oxford Vindicated (Oxford, 1744), as well as in a pirated edition, The Clarendon-Family Vindicated (London, 1732). Among other things, Burton was the first to print an affidavit which, at the request of the University of Oxford, William Wogan swore on 16 February 1743 as to the accuracy of his transcript. The two folio leaves of this affidavit were subsequently affixed to the secretarial copy from which he had worked (ClE 15). A duplicate of this affidavit, with Wogan's signature, is at Trinity College, Dublin (MS 1705, boxed at MS 543/2/4) and a contemporary copy is in the Bodleian (MS Eng. hist. b. 172, ff. 123r-4r). The controversy continued in a series of anonymously published pamphlets, but Burton's account of the matter was generally held to have satisfactorily refuted Oldmixon's accusations. Nevertheless, Bandinel's edition of The History of the Rebellion in 1826 was the first to make any use of the autograph manuscript itself (*ClE 13). The standard edition of the work remains that by Macray in 1888, although other drafts and notes relating to the History have since come to light among Clarendon's papers and are recorded in the entries below.

Other Works

Besides his History, the Clarendon Papers in the Bodleian include the autograph manuscript of his important autobiography, which has still never been published in its original form, being partly incorporated in the History, partly published in a three-volume edited version in 1759 (see *ClE 23 and Ian Green, op. cit.). The Clarendon Papers also include several political and religious tracts and reports which might, in the broadest sense, be classified as literary and which have consequently been given entries below. They are, namely, Clarendon's early comparison between the Duke of Buckingham and Earl of Essex (ClE 10-12.5); his pamphlet on the assassination in Madrid of the Parliamentary agent Anthony Ascham, Consideracons worthy to be weighed in the Case of the English Gentleman now in Prison of 1650 (ClE 2-8); his Shorte view of … Ireland of c.1652 (ClE 25-44); his Letter from a True and Lawfull Member of Parliament relating to the King's Declaration in 1655 (*ClE 21-22); his Succession of Popes of c.1668 (*ClE 45); four Characters of c.1668-9 (*ClE 1); and his lengthy devotional works Contemplations and reflexions upon the Psalmes (ClE 9) and Religion and Policy (ClE 24-24.5), both written near the end of his life, as well as his prototype discussion of the Civil War, Transcendent and Multiplied Rebellion, of 1645 (*ClE 46). As is apparent from entries below, certain of these tracts — especially the Shorte view of … Ireland, which was not published until 1719/20 — had some degree of contemporary circulation in manuscript copies. Various notable compilations and commonplace books of Clarendon, including meditations on the execution of Charles I, have also been given entries below in a Miscellaneous section (ClE 47-54).

Documents

Among the miscellaneous documents in the Clarendon Papers in the Bodleian and elsewhere that have not been given separate entries below are political papers of considerable historical interest. They include copies or drafts of parliamentary speeches by Clarendon — such as one in April 1641 (MS Clarendon 20, ff. 82-7), which was published in that year and reprinted in John Rushworth, Historical Collections, IV (1721), 230-3, and elsewhere; and his speech on 8 May 1661 (MS Clarendon 74, ff. 373r-9r), which was published in 1661 and reprinted in, among other things, the Somers Tracts, VII (1812).

A small scattered group of other documents are of considerable interest in that they were prepared, drafted or revised by Clarendon for use by Charles II. These may briefly be listed as follows:

  • Charles II's letter to his friends in England, 12 August 1659 (British Library, Egerton MS 2536, f. 450r).
  • Charles II's Declaration sent to England in January 1659/60 (British Library, Egerton MS 2542, ff. 328r-9r).
  • Charles II's letter to the House of Lords, 14 April 1660 (British Library, Add. MS 37425, ff. 45r-6v).
  • Charles II's instructions to Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1663/4 (Bodleian, MS Tanner 47, ff. 56r-7v).
  • Charles II's Declaration to the City of London after the Great Fire in 1666 (Untraced: Sotheby's, 19 December 1932, lot 214, to Tregaskis).
  • Charles II's speech in the House of Lords, 13 May 1678 (Marquess of Bath, Longleat, PO/Vol. II, f. 390r).
  • Charles II's reply to the address of the House of Commons on 27 February 1662/3 on the subject of the Declaration of Indulgence (British Library, Sloane MS 4107, ff. 260r-4r).

The last document, a heavily revised draft which in fact was never used by the King, is discussed, with other relevant documents, in George R. Abernathy, Jr, Clarendon and the Declaration of Indulgence, JEH, 11 (1960), 55-73. Council notes which passed between Clarendon and the King in 1660-2 (MSS Clarendon 100-101) are edited and reproduced in facsimile in Notes which passed at Meetings of the Privy Council between Charles II and the Earl of Clarendon, 1660-1667, together with a few letters, reproduced in fac-simile from the Originals in the Bodleian Library, ed. W.D. Macray (Roxburghe Club, London, 1896). Macray observes in his preface to this edition (p.v) that these notes are probably in the main the only papers of like character which have been preserved … Evidently the rule was then observed, which is still of obligation, prohibiting private oral conversation at the Council Board. And hence it was that fragmentary personal communications passing between the King and Clarendon were hastily jotted down on paper, and handed from one to the other, with confidential questions and answers and suggestions.

Countless other miscellaneous papers of Clarendon, or official documents signed by him, are found in the Bodleian, British Library, National Archives, Kew, and elsewhere.

Letters

Naturally a substantial portion of Clarendon's surviving manuscripts comprises his personal correspondence — both letters received by him from numerous correspondents and his own letters, written or signed by him, whether drafts, retained copies, or the letters actually sent. Among many notable examples are his letters written in August 1646 to William, Lord Widdrington, and to Sir John Berkeley, announcing the beginnings of his History of the Rebellion (Bodleian, MS Clarendon 28, ff. 165r, 178r-9r), and the letter he wrote on 12 November 1646, to Sir Edward Nicholas, describing his plan for the work and stating that he had already completed sixty sheets of it (Bodleian, MS Clarendon 29, ff. 4r-6r). Some of his letters, particularly those dating from the Civil War period, are wholly or partly in cipher or make use of pseudonyms in both salutations and signatures. The codes to sixteen such ciphers used by the Royalists are written out in Bodleian, MS Clarendon 94, and see also British Library, Egerton MS 2550, ff. 42r, 74r.

As with his miscellaneous documents, there are some hundreds of extant letters and memoranda by Clarendon. Although too numerous to be given separate entries, examples of letters by him may be listed, according to repository, as follows:

  • All Souls College, Oxford (MS 239, f. 163).
  • Bodleian (MSS Add. c. 303, f. 104r; Carte 29, ff. 559r-v, 596, 624; 43, f. 3; 73, f. 462; 75, f. 473; 217, f. 467; Don. b. 8, pp. 298-301; Eng. lett. c.196, ff. 19, 23; c. 453, ff. 1-2; c. 469, ff. 159-60; d.2, ff. 149-53; d. 22, ff. 151-3; Rawl. A.10, p. 240; A.21, p. 466; A.26, f. 386; A.32, p. 457; A.67, p. 267; A. 148, ff. 95-9; C. 726; D. 395, f. 81; Rawl. letters 109, f. 87; Smith 29, p. 44; Tanner 47, f. 56; 49, ff. 18, 112; 51, f. 159; 59, f. 193; 338, ff. 108-44).
  • Boston Public Library (Ch.G.b.3).
  • British Library (Add. MSS 4157, f. 158; 4162, Vol. 111, 3; 4187, ff. 28r-74v; 4266, f. 92r; 4280, f. 11; 9828, f. 14; 12097, f. 18; 14269; 16272, ff. 8v, 10v, 13v; 18982, ff. 138, 159, 161, 177, 222v; 21506, ff. 52r, 64r; 21947, f. 89r; 22919, f. 151r; 22920, f. 61r; 23199, ff. 35, 37; 28103, f. 45; 29549, f. 60; 32093, f. 421; and 32094, ff. 177-93 [Malet papers recorded in HMC, 5th Report (1976), Appendix, pp. 308-15]; 32499, ff. 4, 18-31; 33589, f. 27; 34727, ff. 74-80, 83-5, 102; 39246, f. 96 [Wodehouse manuscripts recorded in HMC, 13th report (1892), Appendix, p. 464]; 40133, ff. 83r, 108r-15r; Add. MS 75354, formerly Althorp papers (B4); Egerton MSS 2533, ff. 483, 492; 2538, f. 109; 2542, ff. 27r-32r; 2550, ff. 42r, 74r; 2618, f. 69r; Harley MS 3512; Lansdowne MS 1054, f. 75r; Sloane MS 1519, f. 82r; Stowe MS 142, f. 47r).
  • Brown University, John Carter Brown Library (Codex Eng 2).
  • Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 103, f. 3).
  • Folger (MSS X. d. 18 (1-18)).
  • Library of Lord Lyttelton, Hagley Hall (recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 37).
  • Harvard, MS Hyde 10 (139) [recorded in catalogue of the R.B. Adam Library (1929), III, 64].
  • Historical Society of Pennsylvania (Simon Gratz Collection, British Authors, Case 10, Box 28; British Jurists, Case 9, Box 39).
  • Hertfordshire Record Office (Verulam papers).
  • Huntington (HA 14984; HA 14985; HM 14986; HM 20617).
  • Inner Temple Library (Petyt MS 538, Vol. 17, ff. 430, 444).
  • University of Manchester (Lord Newton Papers).
  • Library of the Marquess of Bath, Longleat House (PO, Vol. II, passim).
  • Magadalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library (passim).
  • National Library of Ireland (6 letters in Ormonde MSS 2301-2562).
  • Northamptonshire Record Office (Finch Hatton papers).
  • Pierpont Morgan Library (R-V R of E series; R-V Autographs Misc., English r-m, Stuart v. 2, pp. 28, 36).
  • Plume Library, Maldon (Plume MS 32).
  • Princeton (Robert H. Taylor Collection).
  • National Archives, Kew (SP 16, 18 and 29 series, passim, and PRO 30/53/7/80).
  • State Library Victoria, Melbourne, RAREEMM 222/13.
  • Victoria and Albert Museum (Forster Collection, 48. G. 2/10).
  • Warwickshire County Record Office (Denbigh Papers, CR 2017/C2/200-1; CR 2017/C5/7; CR 2017/C5/11; CR 2017/22; CR 2017/44; CR 2017/47).
  • Yale (Osborn MS fb 152: microfilm in the British Library, RP 572 (3)).

Over the past two hundred years or so — and in addition to the second day of the Radcliffe sale on 10 April 1764, which was entirely devoted to letters — many scores of letters by Clarendon have been offered for sale at auction or in booksellers' catalogues. Examples of relevant sale catalogues, many of which contain facsimile reproductions, include:

  • Maggs's catalogues No. 551 (1930), item 1933; No. 579 (1932), item 1399; No. 593 (1934), item 36; No. 608 (1935), item 296; No. 641 (1937), item 47.
  • Sotheby's, 23 July 1979, lot 3 (correspondence concerning the Treaty of Breda, 1667: now Bodleian, MS Clarendon 159); 21 July 1980, lot 44, to Hofmann & Freeman; 11 December 1993, lot 463; 13 December 1994, lot 400 (unsold); 17 July 1997, lot 17 (unsold); 11 December 1997, lot 83, to John Wilson; and numerous previous sales, especially in the period 1902-1932.
  • Christie's, 29 April 1981, lot 25, to Quaritch.

Other facsimile examples of autograph letters by Clarendon may be found in The Autograph Portfolio; A Collection of Fac-simile Letters from Eminent Persons (London, 1837); in Joseph Netherclift, A Collection of a Hundred Characteristic and Interesting Autograph Letters, written by Royal and Distinguished Persons of Great Britain (London, 1849), p. 75; in Catalogue of the Collection of … Alfred Morrison, I (1883), 212-13; in Garnett and Gosse (1903), III, 36; and in Giles E. Dawson and Laetitia Kennedy-Skipton, Elizabethan Handwriting 1500-1650 (London, 1968), No. 45.

There is no collected edition of Clarendon's voluminous correspondence, but a number of his letters have been printed in such publications as, inter alia: Sir Richard Fanshawe, Original Letters of His Excellency Sir Richard Fanshaw, during his Embassies in Spain and Portugal (London, 1702); The Life of the Reverend Dr John Barwick, D.D., ed. Peter Barwick (London, 1724), Appendix; John Evelyn, Memoirs, ed. W. Bray, 2 vols (London, 1818), II, 173-280; Christopher Wordsworth, Documentary Supplement to Who Wrote ΈΙΚΩΝ ΒΑΣΙΛΙΚΗ including recently discovered letters and papers of Lord Chancellor Hyde and of the Gauden Family (London, 1825); A Narrative by John Ashburnham of his Attendance on King Charles the First … to which is prefixed a Vindication of his Character and Conduct, from the Misrepresentations of Lord Clarendon, [ed. George, third Earl of Ashburnham], 2 vols (London, 1830); T. H. Lister, Life and Administration of Clarendon, 3 vols (London, 1837-8); Memoirs of Prince Rupert and the Cavaliers including their private correspondence, ed. Bartholomew Warburton, 3 vols (London, 1849); The Nicholas Papers. Correspondence of Sir Edward Nicholas, Secretary of State, ed. George F. Warner, Camden Society, NS 40, 50, 57; 3rd Ser. 31 (London, 1886-1920); Amelia M. Gunnere, Oxford and the Quakers, Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 23 (1899), 237-89; K.H. Feiling, A Letter of Clarendon during the Elections of 1661, EHR, 42 (1917), 407-8; F.J. Routledge, A Letter from Sir Edward Hyde to John Nicholas, 28 August, 1658, BQR, 4 (1925), 274-6; K.H. Feiling, Clarendon and the Act of Uniformity, 1662-3, EHR, 44 (1929), 289-91; P.H. Hardacre, Clarendon and the University of Oxford, 1660-1667, British Journal of Educational Studies, 9 (1961), 117-31; P.H. Hardacre, Clarendon, Sir Robert Howard, and Chancery Office-Holding at the Restoration, HLQ, 38 (1975), 207-14; and W.G. Roebuck, Charles II: The Missing Portrait, HLQ, 38 (1975), 215-24.

Letters to the Duke of York and the Duchess of York

Two of Clarendon's letters which received particular attention by his contemporaries because of their subject matter are those to his daughter Anne and to her husband, the Duke of York (later James II), sometimes dated c.1668-70 or April 1671, on the occasion of her conversion to Roman Catholicism. (In fact she died on 31 March 1671 before the letter, sent by Clarendon from France, reached her in England). These were widely circulated in manuscript before their publication, probably in 1680, and known extant copies are recorded in the entries below (ClE 125-155).

Clarendon's Impeachment and Petition

Throughout his career in office, Clarendon was the object of various plots against him. The first really serious attempt to overthrow him was the charge of high treason levelled against him in 1663 by George Digby, second Earl of Bristol. The Articles of High Treason and other hainous misdemeanours agst Edward, Earle of Clarendon, Lord Chancellor, exhibited by Earl of Bristol, 10 July 1663 were widely disseminated in manuscript copies, a number of which are recorded below (ClE 56-70).

Although Digby failed to have Clarendon convicted in 1663, more successful charges were brought against him four years later after the King had already dismissed him from office. An impeachment was first presented to the House of Lords by a committee on 12 November 1667. Clarendon's flight to Calais on 29 November was taken as evidence of his guilt. The Articles of Treason exhibited in Parliament against Clarendon, 14 November 1667 were published immediately afterwards and The Proceedings in the House of Commons touching the Impeachment of Clarendon 1667 were later published in 1700. Both articles and proceedings were widely copied, extant examples including those recorded below (ClE 93-124).

Clarendon attempted to defend himself and to procure the right to return to England in a petition on 3 December 1667, which was printed as To the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament Assembled: The Humble Petition and Address of Clarendon ([London, 1667?]). This was subsequently reprinted widely, sometimes under the title News from Dunkirk-house: or, Clarendon's Farewell to England Dec 3 1667. Again numerous manuscript copies have survived, including those recorded below (ClE 71-92).

Clarendon's Library

Clarendon was a great bibliophile — to whom, for instance, Evelyn dedicated his translation of Gabriel Naudé's treatise Instructions concerning Erecting of a Library (London, 1661). His library, which was expanded by his son and is said to have numbered 6,350 volumes, is discussed in P.H. Hardacre, Portrait of a Bibliophile I, BC, 7 (Winter 1958), 361-8. The Bibliotheca Clarendoniana was dispersed in a sale conducted by Thomas Wilcox of the Strand, in 1,786 lots, beginning on 26 August 1756 (an exemplum of the 62-page catalogue is at Christ Church, Oxford, Z. G. 8. 15). Only one of Wilcox's items (lot 1054: Littleton's Tenures (1588)) is recorded as containing autograph annotations.

Occasional volumes from the Clarendon Library still come to light today: for instance, his exemplum of Reliquiae Wottonianae (1651) which was offered for sale in Quaritch's Bulletin 28, English Books before 1701 (1985), item 75. An exemplum of John Evelyn's Numismata (London, 1697) which the author inscribed and presented to his friend the second Lord Clarendon was offered for sale in Blackwell's catalogue A 20 (1981), item 62. An exemplum of Clarendon's A Brief View and Survey of the Dangerous and Pernicious Errors to Church and State, in Mr. Hobbes's Book entitled Leviathan (Oxford, 1676), which, according to the recipient's Ex dono inscription, was presented to Evelyn by the second Lord Clarendon, was sold at Christie's, 23 June 1977, lot 372, to Drury. Yet another exemplum of this edition owned by the second Lord Clarendon is in Cambridge University Library (Sir Geoffrey Keynes's Bibliotheca Bibliographici No. 2829). The same library possesses (No. 2074) the Clarendon Library exemplum of Pierre Nicole, The Pernicious Consequences of the New Heresies of the Jesuites (London, 1666). Also from the Clarendon Library is an exemplum of Reliquiae Wottoniae (London, 1651) offered in Quaritch's Bulletin 28 (1985), item 75.

Miscellaneous

An acknowledgement by William Sancroft of his receipt of the manuscript copy of Clarendon's History from Clarendon's son, the second Earl, with Sancroft's textual emendations, is in Bodleian, MS Tanner 314, f. 96r et seq.

Notes on Clarendon's History and other works by him, including A shorte view of … Ireland, as well as notes on his life, prepared by and for the historian Thomas Birch (1705-66), though not given entries below, are in the British Library (Add. MSS 4222, f. 211r; 4253, ff. 165r-79r; 4326, f. 216r; and 4471, ff. 158r-96r).

A digest of Bandinel's edition of the History of the Rebellion (London, 1826) made by W.E. Gladstone is in the British Library (Add. MS 44802C, ff. 2r-13r).

Abbreviations

Belford
Willis Addison Belford, Jr, A Survey of the Writings of Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon (unpub. Ph.D., Denver, 1972 [University Microfilms 72-28946]).
CCSP
Calendar of the Clarendon State Papers preserved in the Bodleian Library, 5 vols (Oxford, 1869-1970): Vol I [to January 1649] ed. Octavius Ogle and W.H. Bliss (1872); Vols II and III [1649-57] ed. W. Dunn Macray (1869-70); Vols IV and V [1657-1726] ed. F.J. Routledge (1932-70).
Firth
C.H. Firth, Clarendon's History of the Rebellion, English Historical Review, 19 (1904), 26-54, 246-62, 464-83.

Prose

Characters

First published (as three characters) in Clarendon State Papers, 3 vols (Oxford, 1767-86), III, Supplement, pp. li-lxxxiv. Several paragraphs of the character of Digby incorporated into the History of the Rebellion, Book X (first published 1702-4).

*ClE 1
Autograph

Characters of Lord Digby, Sir John Berkeley, Sir Henry Bennett and (?) George Villiers, second Duke of Buckingham, in the hand of William Shaw, with Clarendon's autograph corrections to the punctuation, 38 folio leaves.

Characters of

1668-9

This MS would appear to be different from those sold in the Radcliffe sale by Samuel Baker, 9 April 1764, lots 26 and 29, described as Character and History of Lord Digby. Montpelier, April 1669; 48 pages and Characters and History of Sir John Berkeley and Sir Henry Bennet; 22 pages.

This MS discussed in Belford and in Graham Roebuck, A New Portrait by Clarendon, N&Q, 218 (May 1975), 168-70, the latter also reprinting the fourth character.

Bodleian Library, Clarendon MSS (MS Clarendon 122)
Consideracons worthy to be weighed in the Case of the English Gentleman now in Prison
ClE 2

Copy, with some alterations in another hand, on two folio leaves. 7 June 1650.

This MS recorded in CCSP, II, 63.

A folio composite volume of letters and papers of the Earl of Clarendon, for June-September 1650, 220 leaves.

1650
Bodleian Library, Clarendon MSS (MS Clarendon 40 ff. 17r-18r)
ClE 3

Copy in the hand of William Edgeman on two folio leaves. 1650.

This MS recorded in CCSP, II, 63.

A folio composite volume of letters and papers of the Earl of Clarendon, for June-September 1650, 220 leaves.

1650
Bodleian Library, Clarendon MSS (MS Clarendon 40 ff. 1r-20v)
ClE 4

Second copy in the hand of William Edgeman on two folio leaves. 1650.

This MS recorded in CCSP, II, 63.

A folio composite volume of letters and papers of the Earl of Clarendon, for June-September 1650, 220 leaves.

1650
Bodleian Library, Clarendon MSS (MS Clarendon 40 ff. 21r-2v)
ClE 5

Third copy in the hand of William Edgeman on two folio leaves. 1650.

This MS recorded in CCSP, II, 63.

A folio composite volume of letters and papers of the Earl of Clarendon, for June-September 1650, 220 leaves.

1650
Bodleian Library, Clarendon MSS (MS Clarendon 40 ff. 23r-4v)
ClE 6

Copy of a French translation, headed Considerations, ou Raisons dignes d'estre consideres, touchans l'affaire des Gentilhommes Anglois, Mainenant en prison, with corrections in another hand, on three folio leaves. [1650].

This MS recorded in CCSP, II, 63.

A folio composite volume of letters and papers of the Earl of Clarendon, for June-September 1650, 220 leaves.

1650
Bodleian Library, Clarendon MSS (MS Clarendon 40 ff. 25r-7v)
ClE 7

Copy of a Spanish version in the hand of William Edgeman, headed Consideraciones dignas de atencion en la causa de los Cavalleros Ingleses, presos en esta corte por la muerte de un Agente que se dezia ser de los Rebeldes de Inglaterra, on eight folio leaves. [1650].

This version published in Madrid, 1650, and an exemplum accompanies the present text (pp. 39-42v). This MS recorded in CCSP, II, 63.

A folio composite volume of letters and papers of the Earl of Clarendon, for June-September 1650, 220 leaves.

1650
Bodleian Library, Clarendon MSS (MS Clarendon 40 ff. 31r-8r)
ClE 8

Autograph Latin translation, headed Animadversiones et Considerationes satis perpendendae in causa Nobilium Anglorum in carcere iam nunc discussorum et detentorum and docketed My Latine translation of the Considerations on Behalfe of the gent., on three folio leaves. [1650].

This MS recorded in CCSP, II, 63.

A folio composite volume of letters and papers of the Earl of Clarendon, for June-September 1650, 220 leaves.

1650
Bodleian Library, Clarendon MSS (MS Clarendon 40 ff. 44r-6v)
Contemplations and reflexions upon the Psalmes of David applying those devotions to the troubles of this time

First published in A Collection of Several Tracts by the Earl of Clarendon (London, 1727), pp. 307-770. Reprinted 1747, 1751. Also reprinted as The Moral Beauties of Clarendon, compiled from his reflections on the Psalms of David, and selections from those Psalms (2 vols, London, 1796).

ClE 9

Copy, in three folio volumes.

c.1671

Presented to the Bodleian c.1785 by the Marquess of Queensbury.

This MS discussed in Belford.

Bodleian Library, Clarendon MSS (MSS Clarendon 135*, 135**, 135***)
The Difference and Disparity betweene the Estates and Condicions of George Duke Buckingham and Robert Earle of Essex

First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), where it is ascribed to Sir Henry Wotton. First ascribed to Clarendon in the third edition (1672). First published separately as The characters of Robert Earl of Essex … and George Duke of Buckingham (London, 1706). Reprinted in An Appendix to the History of the Grand Rebellion (London, 1724), pp. 247-71, and in A Collection of several Valuable Pieces of Clarendon (2 vols, London, 1727), I, 247-71.

ClE 10 c.1630-5

Copy, endorsed For mr. Hide, at the beginning of the second volume of Clarendon's commonplace book (ClE 53).

This MS discussed in Belford.

Miscellany compiled by Edward Hyde, first Earl of Clarendon (1609-74).

c.1634-41
Bodleian Library, Clarendon MSS (MS Clarendon 127 ff. 17r-27r)
ClE 11 c.1630s

Copy, headed The disparity beetweene the Earle of Essex and the Duke of Buckingham.

This MS recorded in Belford.

A large folio composite volume of state tracts, in English and Latin, in various professional hands, i + 488 leaves, in modern calf.

Among the collections of Browne Willis (1682-1760), antiquary, of Whaddon Hall, near Winslow, Buckinghamshire.

This volume discussed, with a facsimile of f. 92r (Plate IV after p. 272) in H.R. Woudhuysen, Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts 1558-1640 (Oxford, 1996), pp. 176-8.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Willis 58 ff. 462r-86v)
ClE 11.3 c.1630s

Copy, in a professional hand, with (f. 46r) a general title-page, heavily damp-stained.

Two unbound manuscripts relating to the first Duke of Buckingham, in professional hands, 61 folio leaves.

Volume CCCCLXXXVII 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. Formerly preserved at Christ Church, Oxford. Purchased March 1995.

ClE 11.5

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, entitled The Difference: and: disparitye, Betwene the Estates, and Condicons, of George Duke of Buckingham; and Robte Earle of Essex, the title-page only in the hand of the Feathery Scribe, the rest in another professional hand.

A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various hands, 122 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

In various professional hands, including that of the Feathery Scribe.

Inscribed by Wanley (f. 1r and elsewhere) with date of accession into the Harley library 16 October 1725. In the Harley Library, formed by the politician and book collector Robert Harley (1661-1724), first Earl of Oxford, and his son Edward (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford; the volume docketed 16 October 1725, a year after the library was moved from Brampton Bryan to London.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 244-5 (No. 59).

ClE 11.8

Copy, in a professional secretary and italic hand, with a title-page The disparitie betweene the Earle of Essex and the Duke of Buckingham. c.1630s.

A folio composite volume of state papers, in various professional hands, 380 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

ClE 11.9

Copy, unascribed.

A folio volume of state tracts and papers, dating up to 1663, in a single semi-calligraphic hand, except for ff. 224r-95r in two other professional hands, 445 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco gilt.

The principal scribe associated with Henry Feilde.

c.1660s
The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 213 ff. 214r-22v)
ClE 12 c.1628-30s

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed The Disparitie betweene the Earle of Essex And The Duke of Buckinghame, imperfect.

A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several professional secretary hands, with (ff. 4r-6r) a table of contents, 222 leaves, in old half-calf.

Stamped (f. 1r) with name of Sir Richard Betenson, Bt (? the first Baronet, d.1679, of Hatton Garden, Holborn). Thomas Thorpe, Catalogue of books, ancient and modern...[and] manuscripts, Part 2 (1823), item 5903. In the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 2519. Sotheby's, 21 March 1895 (Phillipps sale), lot 301. Among the collections of Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence, MP (1837-1914), Baconian scholar and book collector.

ClE 12.5

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with a title-page The Disparitie betweene the Earle of Essex and the late Duke of Buck:.

A folio volume of state tracts and speeches, in several professional hands, 586 leaves, in old calf.

c.late 1620s-30s

Bequeathed by Sir Jerome Alexander (c.1600-70), Justice of the Irish Common Pleas. Former pressmark G. 4. 9.

Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 222-3 (No. 17A).

The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, begun in the year 1641

First published in 3 vols, Oxford, 1702-4. Edited by Bulkeley Bandinel (8 vols, Oxford, 1826). Edited by W.D. Macray (6 vols, Oxford, 1888).

*ClE 13
Autograph

Autograph draft.

Headed A true Historicall narracon on the Rebellion & Civill warrs in England begunn in the yeere 1641. with the pecedent passages & Actions that contributed thereunto, on 630 large folio pages, including some copies of documents in the hand of William Edgeman, begun in Scilly, 18 March 1645[/6].

c.1646-73

Lot 102 in the Radcliffe sale on 9 April 1764. See also lot 87 in the Radcliffe sale, which included Heads of the History of the Rebellion, and of the Continuation of it to the Restoration; 10 pages.

This MS collated in Macray, with a facsimile example facing p. 1; discussed in Belford, in Firth, and in Percy Simpson, Proof-Reading in the Sixteenth Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (London, 1935; reprinted 1970), pp. 90-4.

Bodleian Library, Clarendon MSS (MS Clarendon 112)
*ClE 14
Autograph

Draft of most of Book IX and part of Book X.

Draft of most of Book IX and part of Book X in the hand of William Edgeman, with Clarendon's autograph endorsement Concerning the Westerne businesse, on 66 folio leaves.

[June-July 1646]

This MS discussed in Macray, I, xi, and IV, I, 8 et seq.; in Belford, and in Firth.

Bodleian Library, Clarendon MSS (MS Clarendon 113)
ClE 15

Copy of Books I-VII.

In two hands, those of William Edgeman (pp. 1-243 and 264-9) and of William Shaw, on 643 pages, including some blanks intended for the insertion of copies of document; together with four leaves of later prefatory material, including three letters to Dr Richard Rawlinson from the compiler of the Chandos sale catalogue (1747) erroneously stating that this MS is in Clarendon's autograph, and William Wogan's affidavit of 16 February 1743.

Once in the library of James Brydges (1674-1744), first Duke of Chandos. Purchased at the Chandos sale by Cock at Cannons, Middlesex (12 March 1746/7), lot 2578, by Richard Rawlinson.

Extracts from the prefatory letters printed in W.D. Macray, Annals of the Bodleian Library, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1890), pp. 227 and 250. This MS discussed in Belford and in Simpson, Proof-Reading, pp. 90-4. See also Introduction.

ClE 15.5 1709

An index to the History, compiled by Thomas Hearne.

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and papers, 398 leaves.

Assembled by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), antiquary.

c.1674-7

A flyleaf inscribed Tho. Hearne. Julij 12o. 1709.

ClE 16 c.1670s

Copy of part of Book XII in the hand of William Shaw, bound with the draft of Clarendon's Life (ClE 23).

According to George Watson, in The Reader in Clarendon's History of the Rebellion, RES, NS 25 (1974), 396-409, the rest of this MS was destroyed by fire in the 18th century: i.e. presumably in the fire at New Park, Petersham, in 1721.

Almost entirely autograph draft of Clarendon's Life, vi + 908 folio leaves.

1668-72.

Donated to the Bodleian by the Marquess of Queensbury, 18 October 1789.

Bodleian Library, Clarendon MSS (MS Clarendon 123 ff. 885r-908r)
*ClE 17
Autograph

Autograph notes, added at a later date to an official minute dated 3 December 1640.

This MS recorded in CCSP, I, 211.

A composite volume of letters and papers of the Earl of Clarendon, for September 1640-January 1640/1, 284 leaves.

Bodleian Library, Clarendon MSS (MS Clarendon 19 f. 119r)
*ClE 18 c.1644
Autograph

Autograph notes on two folio leaves.

This MS recorded in CCSP, I, 255.

Almost entirely autograph draft of Clarendon's Life, vi + 908 folio leaves.

1668-72.

Donated to the Bodleian by the Marquess of Queensbury, 18 October 1789.

Bodleian Library, Clarendon MSS (MS Clarendon 123 ff. 229r-30r)
*ClE 19
Autograph

Autograph memoranda for Books III-VIII, together with autograph minutes of a committee, on seven folio leaves. 1644.

This MS recorded in CCSP, I, 503.

A composite volume of letters and papers of the Earl of Clarendon, a collection of addenda dated 1586-1648, 125 leaves.

Bodleian Library, Clarendon MSS (MS Clarendon 36 ff. 79r-85r)
*ClE 20
Autograph

Copy in seven folio volumes in the hands of William Wogan (Books I-V) and one Mr Low, with a few leaves (Book VIII, ff. 9-25) in a third hand; including a draft of the Preface of the first editor, Lawrence Hyde, Earl of Rochester, in Low's hand, corrected in Rochester's hand.

[1691]

Presented to the Bodleian c.1785 by the Marquess of Queensbury.

This MS was the copy-text for the first edition (1702-4). Discussed in Belford, in Firth, and in Simpson, Proof-Reading, pp. 90-4.

Bodleian Library, Clarendon MSS (MSS Clarendon 114-20)
ClE 20.5

A quarto volume comprising notes and extracts by Francis Turner (1638?-1700), Bishop of Ely, headed Notes taken from the Lord Chancellor Clarendon's History [i.e. Clarendon's MS lent him to read], seventeen leaves (plus numerous blanks), incorporating (ff. iv-2r) a printed indenture dated 30 March 1681, in contemporary vellum.

Late 17th century

Inscribed (f. 1r rev.) Ex MSS. olim Rev. Adm. Fr. Turner: i.e.

ClE 20.8

Extracts.

A folio volume of verse and prose extracts, those on pp. 321-7 headed Observables of a Miscellaneous Nature, those on pp. 367-77 Witty Sentences, in a single cursive secretary hand, 377 pages (including numerous blanks), in reversed brown calf.

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.

1699-1711
Durham University Library (Mickleton & Spearman MS 5 p. 323)
A Letter from a True and Lawfull Member of Parliament

First published anonymously in London, 1656. Once thought to be by Sir Henry Vane the younger (1613-62), politician and writer.

*ClE 21
Autograph

Autograph draft on thirteen of fourteen folio pages, headed A letter from a true and lawfull member of Parliamt. and one faithfully engaged with itt from the begininge of the warr to the end: To one of the Lords of His Highnesse Councell, upon occasyon of the late Declaration, shewinge the reasons of the proceedings for securinge the peace of the Commonwealth, published on the 31. of Octobr. 1655.

This MS discussed in Belford and recorded in CCSP, III, 79.

A composite volume of letters and papers of the Earl of Clarendon, for April-December 1655, 296 leaves.

Bodleian Library, Clarendon MSS (MS Clarendon 50 ff. 256r-69r)
*ClE 22
Autograph

Copy on twenty folio leaves. Mid-late 17th century.

This MS recorded in CCSP, III, 216.

A composite volume of letters and papers of the Earl of Clarendon, for April-December 1655, 296 leaves.

Bodleian Library, Clarendon MSS (MS Clarendon 50 ff. 270r-89r)
The Life of Clarendon Written by Himself

First published in 3 vols, Oxford, 1759.

*ClE 23
Autograph

Almost entirely autograph draft on folio pages, numbered 1-363, 368-533 and 544-883, in two parts, with the second part beginning on p. 615.

The text was never printed in this form; part was incorporated by Clarendon in his History of the Rebellion and the remainder was published in 1759. This MS discussed in Belford and in Firth.

Almost entirely autograph draft of Clarendon's Life, vi + 908 folio leaves.

1668-72.

Donated to the Bodleian by the Marquess of Queensbury, 18 October 1789.

Bodleian Library, Clarendon MSS (MS Clarendon 123 The MS as a whole)
ClE 23.5

Copy of From The Restoration of the Royal Family In the Year 1660, To his Banishment, In the Year 1667...A MS Continuation Of The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon...Copied from the Original Manuscript in his own Hand Writing, in a neat professional hand (same as ClE 000), with some alterations in a second hand, 805 large folio pages.

Early 18th century

Purchased in Pittsburgh, PA, in the 1850s. Later owned by David G. Waxman, of Estates of Mind Rare Books & Manuscripts, Great Neck, NY. Sotheby's, 19 July 1993, lot 205 (unsold), with a facsimile of the title-page in the sale catalogue.

When offered in the London Antiquarian Book Fair in June 1991 the MS was cited in TLS, 21 June 1991, p. 22.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Clarendon MS (I)])
Religion and Policy and the Countenance and Assistance each should give to the other

First published in 2 vols, Oxford, 1811.

ClE 24

Copy in the hand of William Shaw, 366 folio leaves, together with some 18th-century family papers.

1673-4

NB. Lots 35 and 36 in the Radcliffe sale by Samuel Baker on 9 April 1764 described as A Letter form Lord Clarendon on the Affairs of the Church, 76 pages; Religion and Policy, and the Countenance and Assistance that each should give to the other; With a Survey of the Pope's Power and Jurisdiction in the Dominion of other Princes - with additional interleaved pages, 80 pages and as A Continuation of the above, 4 page; Ditto, Rouen, 24 November 1674, 25 pages; Some Observations on the Hist. of the Popes, and see also ClE 45.

This MS discussed in Belford.

Bodleian Library, Clarendon MSS (MS Clarendon 125)
ClE 24.5

Copy, in a professional hand, with a few corrections in another hand, 555 large folio pages, in contemporary calf.

Early 18th century

Bookplate of Stanley J. Keyes. Later owned by David G. Waxman, of Estates of Mind Rare Books & Manuscripts, Great Neck, NY. Sotheby's, 19 July 1993, lot 204 (unsold). Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 21 June 2001, lot 26 (unsold).

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Clarendon MS (II)])
A shorte view of the State and condicon of the kingdome of Ireland from the year 1640 to this tyme

First published in Dublin, 1719-20. Published in London, 1720. Incorporated into the 1816, 1826 and 1849 editions of The History of the Rebellion. Reprinted as Vol. II of A Collection of Several Valuable Pieces of Clarendon (2 vols, London, 1727).

*ClE 25 c.1652
Autograph

Autograph draft, 24 large folio leaves; imperfect.

This MS recorded in Belford. Facsimile in IELM, II.i (1987), Facsimile VI.

A folio composite volume of three MS tracts, 84 leaves.

c.1668
Bodleian Library, Clarendon MSS (MS Clarendon 121 (A) ff. 4r-27r)
ClE 26

Copy in the hand of William Edgeman on five folio leaves, incomplete, [before January 1653].

This MS discussed in Belford.

A folio composite volume of three MS tracts, 84 leaves.

c.1668
Bodleian Library, Clarendon MSS (MS Clarendon 121 (B) ff. 28r-33r)
*ClE 27 c.1652
Autograph

Copy on 47 folio leaves, with an autograph motto on the first leaf, a prefatory leaf bearing the note His Grace the Duke of Ormonds papers.

Printed from this MS in the first London edition (1720). Discussed in Belford.

A folio composite volume of three MS tracts, 84 leaves.

c.1668
Bodleian Library, Clarendon MSS (MS Clarendon 121 (C) ff. 34r-80r)
ClE 29

Copy on 83 quarto leaves.

Mid-late 17th century

Microfilm of this MS in the National Library of Ireland, n. 782, p. 508.

ClE 31

Copy, in a neat hand, on 114 folio leaves, with two letters concerning the work.

Mid-late 17th century

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

ClE 32

Copy, on 144 folio pages.

Late 17th century

From the library of the third Earl of Gosford (1806-64). Puttick and Simpson's, 26 April 1884, lot 1616, to Henry Bradshaw.

Microfilm in the National Library of Ireland, n. 5328, p. 5437.

ClE 34

Copy, on 92 quarto leaves of a 112-leaf volume, with a brief note in the hand of William King (1650-1729), Archbishop of Dublin.

[Before 1686]

Edited from this MS in the first Dublin edition (1719-20). Discussed in Belford.

ClE 36

Copy, in several professional predominantly italic hands, 158 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum.

Late 17th century

Bookplate of John Perceval (1683-1748), first Earl of Egmont, dated 1736. Purchased in October 1924 from Fred Hanna.

ClE 37

Copy.

A quarto volume of state tracts and papers, in a single professional cursive hand, 304 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum boards.

Late 17th century

Sotheby's, March 1956.

National Library of Ireland (MS 7899 pp. 1-263)
ClE 38

Copy, on 202 folio pages.

Mid-late 17th century

Owned in 1701 by Algernon Capell, Earl of Essex (1670-1710), and later in the Stowe Library.

Royal Irish Academy (MS G. II. 1)
ClE 38.5

Copy, in two cursive hands, entitled A Short view of the state of Ireland from the yeare 1640 to the yeare 1652, 203 folio pages, followed (pp. [204-25]) by a tract on the trial of Mr Mordaunt in yet another cursive hand, in contemporary calf.

Late 17th century

Formerly Princeton AM 2002-18. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector.

A set of photocopies is in British Library, RP 4683 (1).

Princeton (RTC01 No. 33)
ClE 38.8

Copy, in two cursive italic hands, on 78 folio leaves, paginated 1-155.

Late 17th century

Wentworth.

Sheffield Archives (WWM MS 16)
ClE 39

Copy, in a single mixed hand but for p. 5 in another hand, 253 quarto pages (plus blanks etc.), in contemporary blind-stamped calf.

Late 17th century

Three pages among blanks at the end containing, in another hand, a short catalogue of books of John Stearne (1660-1745), Bishop of Clogher, dated March: 18. [16]83[/4].

This MS discussed in Belford.

ClE 40

Copy, in a neat rounded hand, headed A short View of the State of Ireland from the yeare 1640 to the yeare 1652, subscribed March. 5th. 1678, 399 quarto pages (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped calf.

1678/9

Purchased from Maggs Bros. 10 February 1908. Old pressmark O. 2. 31.

This MS recorded in Belford.

ClE 40.5 c.1678

Copy, in two or more predominantly italic hands, headed A short view of the state of Ireland from ye yeare 1640 to the yeare 1652, subscribed March ye 5th. 1678.

A folio composite volume of tracts, in several probably professional hands and paper sizes, 98 leaves (plus about thirty blanks), in vellum boards.

Inscribed (f. [iiv]) Hen Ware and John Edgar Ker / Willoughthorpe Herts. In the library of Herbert Somerton Foxwell (1849-1936), economist and bibliographer.

ClE 40.8

Copy.

A quarto volume of political material, including correspondence between Henry Bennett and the Duke of Ormonde in 1663, chiefly in one hand, notes dated 1677 in another hand, 344 pages (including blanks), in contemporary vellum.

c.1677
Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 331 pp. 1-304)
ClE 41

Copy.

Owned before 1950 by the Earl of Wicklow. Sotheby's, 13 December 1950, lot 220, to H. Eisemann.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Wicklow MS])
ClE 42

Copy, on 214 quarto pages.

Mid-late 17th century

Sotheby's, 17 June 1974, lot 251, to Foley.

ClE 43

A quarto copy.

17th century

Later owned by Lieutenant-Colonel G.H.W. Carew of Crowcombe Court, Somerset.

Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 373.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Carew Quarto MS])
ClE 44

Fragment of a copy of the introductory portion, with a marginal note: This discourse was pen'd by ye late Lord Chancellor Clarendon, no doubt by concert wth ye Marquess of Ormond whom he would excuse, on a single folio leaf.

Late 17th century?

Formerly owned by the Earl of Jersey, Osterley Park.

Recorded in HMC, 8th Report, Part I (1874), Appendix, p. 99 (No. 9).

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Jersey MS])
Succession of Popes, accordinge to the Spanish Pontificall History compared with others

First published in Religion and Policy … With a Survey of the Power and Jurisdiction of the Pope on the Dominions of other Princes (2 vols., Oxford, 1811).

*ClE 45
Autograph

Autograph draft, 146 quarto pages.

c.1668

NB. Lots 35, 36, 79 and 81 in the Radcliffe sale by Samuel Baker on 9 April 1764: see ClE 24 and Introduction.

This MS discussed in Belford.

Bodleian Library, Clarendon MSS (MS Clarendon 140)
Transcendent and Multiplied Rebellion and Treason, Discovered, By the Lawes of the Land

First published anonymously, [in Oxford?], 1645.

*ClE 46
Autograph

Autograph draft on six folio leaves.

This MS recorded in CCSP, I, 295, and discussed in Belford.

A composite volume of letters and papers of the Earl of Clarendon, for October 1645-January 1645-January 1645/6, 210 leaves.

1645
Bodleian Library, Clarendon MSS (MS Clarendon 26 ff. 173r-8r)

Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous
*ClE 47
Autograph

Autograph collection on legal and political matters, on eleven folio leaves.

This MS recorded in CCSP, I, 350.

A composite volume of letters and papers of the Earl of Clarendon, for December 1649-July 1647, 270 leaves.

1647
Bodleian Library, Clarendon MSS (MS Clarendon 29 ff. 16r-26r)
*ClE 48
Autograph

Autograph meditation and prayer on the anniversary of the execution of Charles I, with autograph notes on the same subject, on four folio leaves. 30 January 1650.

This MS recorded in CCSP, II, 41.

A composite volume of letters and papers of the Earl of Clarendon, for January 1649-May 1650, 232 leaves.

Bodleian Library, Clarendon MSS (MS Clarendon 39 ff. 49r-52r)
*ClE 49
Autograph

Autograph meditation and prayer on the anniversary of the execution of Charles I on two folio leaves. 30 January 1651.

This MS recorded in CCSP, II, 95.

A composite volume of letters and papers of the Earl of Clarendon, for October 1650-March 1650/1, 353 leaves.

Bodleian Library, Clarendon MSS (MS Clarendon 41 ff. 175r-6r)
*ClE 50
Autograph

Autograph meditation on the anniversary of the execution of Charles I on a single folio leaf. 30 January 1652.

This MS recorded in CCSP, II, 118.

A composite volume of letters and papers of the Earl of Clarendon, for April 1651-February 1651/2, 417 leaves.

Bodleian Library, Clarendon MSS (MS Clarendon 42 f. 334r)
*ClE 51
Autograph

Autograph quotations from various writers on six slips of paper.

This MS recorded in CCSP, V, 746.

A composite volume of letters and papers of the Earl of Clarendon, undated, iv + 432 leaves.

c.1670
Bodleian Library, Clarendon MSS (MS Clarendon 92 ff. 305r-10r)
*ClE 52
Autograph

Autograph memoranda of various political tracts, together with a list of books in another hand, on a single folio leaf.

This MS recorded in CCSP, V, 746.

A composite volume of letters and papers of the Earl of Clarendon, undated, iv + 432 leaves.

c.1670
Bodleian Library, Clarendon MSS (MS Clarendon 92 f. 344r)
*ClE 53
Autograph

A miscellany compiled by Clarendon and largely in his hand.

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 The volumes as a whole)
*ClE 54
Autograph

Autograph extracts from the Old Testament and Apocrypha, with occasional notes.

Autograph extracts from the Old Testament and Apocrypha, with occasional notes, together with four autograph prayers headed 1648 Middleborough the 27 Aug. st. no., in a quarto volume of 374 pages (including many blanks), a few bearing entries in a later hand.

Formerly a Phillipps MS. This MS sold at Sotheby's, 19 June 1893, lot 131.

This MS recorded in Belford.

Bodleian Library, Clarendon MSS (MS Clarendon 138*)
*ClE 55
Autograph

Autograph Papers of the Army, parliamentary records drawn up by Clarendon in preparation for his History, on two folio pages, laid in a printed quarto volume of the work.

Late 17th century

Facsimile of one page in British Literary Manuscripts, Series I, ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (New York, 1981), No. 43.

Articles of High Treason and other hainous misdemeanours agst Edward, Earle of Clarendon, Lord Chancellor, exhibited by Earl of Bristol, 10 July 1663
ClE 56 Late 17th century

Copy.

A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various hands.

Owned in 1704 by Sir Thomas Thynne, first Viscount Weymouth (1640-1714).

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 184.

The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House (MS 73 item 1 (pp. 1-13))
ClE 58

Copy.

A folio composite volume of chiefly state letters and papers, in varius hands, dated 1663-4, 210 leaves.

Bodleian Library, Tanner Collection (MS Tanner 47 ff. 28r-30r)
ClE 59

Copy, followed (ff. 191v-4v) by related parliamentary proceedings.

A folio composite volume of state letters and papers, in several professional secretary hands, with (ff. 1r-12v) a Tabula of contents, 315 leaves (including blanks), in old calf gilt.

Stamped crest on the cover of the Finch family, Earls of Winchilsea.

ClE 66

Copy.

A quarto composite volume of state papers, tracts and speeches, 183 leaves, in half-vellum on marbled boards.

Compiled, and written, mostly by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.

Corpus Christi College, Oxford (MS 298 f. 79r-80v)
ClE 67

Copy.

A folio volume comprising two tracts relating to Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, in a professional hand, 259 pages, in modern red cloth.

Late 17th century

Formerly in the Stoke-on-Trent City Libraries, Horace Barks Reference Library. Acquired from Mark Sieling in 2008. Formerly Folger MS Add. 264552.

ClE 68

Copy, in a mixed hand, untitled.

A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands, written from both ends, including (ff. 3r-49v) 49 poems by Donne in a single neat secretary hand, also responsible for poems by others on ff. 83r, 88r-90r, 4r-11v rev., later notes and two poems by Donne in other hands on the remaining leaves, 124 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

c.1620[-76]

The later material including medical notes written c.1665-76 by Sir John Wedderburn (1599-1679), royal physician.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Wedderburn MS: DnJ Δ 55. Discussed in Alan MacColl, A New Manuscript of Donne's Poems, RES, NS 19 (1968), 293-5.

ClE 70

Copy.

A folio volume of parliamentary tracts, debates and proceedings in Parliament, in two professional hands, 439 pages, in contemporary calf.

c.1690

Bookplate of James Brydges (1642-1714), eighth Baron Chandos, of Wilton Castle, Herefordshire.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS fb 53 second pagination, pp. 1-38)
The Humble Petition and Address of Clarendon in 1667

Petition beginning I cannot express the insupportable trouble and grief of mind I sustain.... Published as To the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament Assembled: The Humble Petition and Address of Clarendon, [in London, 1667?], and subsequently reprinted widely, sometimes under the title News from Dunkirk-house: or, Clarendon's Farewell to England Dec 3 1667.

ClE 71

Copy.

A folio composite volume of political letters and speeches (up to 1640), in various hands, 259 leaves (ff. 8-20 and 212-59 blank), in contemporary calf.

Assembled by the astrologer and antiquary Elias Ashmole (1617-92).

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 800 ff. 210r-12r)
ClE 72

Copy.

A composite volume of letters and papers of the Earl of Clarendon, for 1667, 452 leaves.

Bodleian Library, Clarendon MSS (MS Clarendon 85 ff. 430r-3r)
ClE 74

Copy.

A folio composite volume of state letters and papers, in several professional secretary hands, with (ff. 1r-12v) a Tabula of contents, 315 leaves (including blanks), in old calf gilt.

Stamped crest on the cover of the Finch family, Earls of Winchilsea.

ClE 75 Late 17th century

Copy, in the hand of John Evelyn.

A folio composite volume of correspondence between Sir Richard Browne and Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, 101 leaves, in half-morocco.

Volume XXV of the Evelyn Papers.

Formerly Evelyn MS 10.

ClE 79

Copy.

A folio volume of copies of state correspondence chiefly in the reign of Charles II, in several professional hands, 58 leaves, in modern half-calf.

Late 17th century

The name inscribed (f. 1r) Henry Gregory.

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 856 ff. 52r-4r)
ClE 83

Copy.

A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands, written from both ends, including (ff. 3r-49v) 49 poems by Donne in a single neat secretary hand, also responsible for poems by others on ff. 83r, 88r-90r, 4r-11v rev., later notes and two poems by Donne in other hands on the remaining leaves, 124 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

c.1620[-76]

The later material including medical notes written c.1665-76 by Sir John Wedderburn (1599-1679), royal physician.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Wedderburn MS: DnJ Δ 55. Discussed in Alan MacColl, A New Manuscript of Donne's Poems, RES, NS 19 (1968), 293-5.

ClE 87

Copy, on four folio pages, inscribed as being scandalous & seditious, it or the author deserving to be burned by the hand of ye Hangman.

Copy.

Late 17th century
University of Sheffield (50H/43/92-93)
ClE 91

Copy.

In the library of Sir Thomas Osborne (1632-1712), Earl of Danby and first Duke of Leeds, politician. Sotheby's, 6 April 1869 (Leeds sale), lot 218. Sotheby's, 9 May, 1983, lot 362, to Morgan.

Impeachment Proceedings against Clarendon in 1667

Articles of Treason exhibited in Parliament against Clarendon, 14 November 1667 published in London, 1667. The Proceedings in the House of Commons touching the Impeachment of Clarendon 1667 published in London, 1700.

ClE 93

Copy of the articles of impeachment, 21 November 1667.

A quarto colume of state tracts, 23 leaves.

Late 17th century

Owned by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732), annalist and book collector.

All Souls College, Oxford (MS 123 No. 3 (pp. 17-22))
ClE 94

A tall folio volume of parliamentary proceedings against Clarendon in 1667, in a professional rounded hand, 268 pages, in modern cloth.

Late 17th century
ClE 95

A volume of Commons debates about Clarendon's impeachment, in 1667, 182 pages.

Late 17th century

Bookplate of William, Lord St John (d.1720).

ClE 96

Copy.

A large folio formal miscellany of verse and prose, in a single rounded hand throughout, the margins ruled in red, and with an alphabetical index (pp. 719-21), 738 pages (pp. 722-38 blank), plus 40 pages of preliminary inserted material, in contemporary elaborately tooled leather.

Including thirteen poems and a mock-speech in the Marvell canon and eleven poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items, compiled — in stages, probably for the most part in chronological sequence, over a period of up to fifteen years — by Sir William Haward (or Hawarde or Hayward) of Tandridge, Surrey (his signature, dated 21 January 1676/7, on p. 66).

c.1667-82 [the poems by Marvell and Rochester c.1670s]

Sir William Haward was knighted in 1643, served as a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to Charles I, Charles II, James II and William III, was M.P. for Bletchingley (1661-78), a Fellow of the Royal Society (1665) and a Commissioner for the Sale of Fee Farm Rents (1670 onwards); he lived sometime in Scotland Yard and was still living in 1702 (see, inter alia, W. Paley Baildon, The Hawardes of Tandridge Co. Surrey (London, 1894), pp. 23-31). John Evelyn described him as a greate pretender to English antiquities &c:. An autograph letter by him, dated 23 March 1688/9, is in the British Library (Add. MS 29563, f. 453).

Later owned by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), by his wife Frances Le Neve (signature on p. vii), by their servant Joseph Allen, who entered additional items in 1729, and by her second husband Thomas Martin (1697-1771) of Palgrave. Later in the library of the Aston family of Tixall, Staffordshire (and sold in the Tixall sale at Sotheby's, 7 November 1899, lot 430 to Bertram Dobell (1842-1914)). Afterwards owned by George Thorn-Drury (1860-1931) and sold in 1935 by P.J. Dobell.

Cited in IELM as the Haward MS: MaA Δ 2. The Marvell canon selectively collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I and II and the Rochester canon selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker. See also Paul Hammond, The Dating of Three Poems by Rochester from the Evidence of Bodleian MS. Don. b. 8, BLR, 11 (1982), 58-9.

Facsimile of p. 277 in POAS, I, facing p. 228 (see MaA 98).

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. b. 8 pp. 156-68)
ClE 104

Copy.

A folio composite volume of state letters and papers, in several professional secretary hands, with (ff. 1r-12v) a Tabula of contents, 315 leaves (including blanks), in old calf gilt.

Stamped crest on the cover of the Finch family, Earls of Winchilsea.

ClE 106

Copy.

A composite volume of papers chiefly of Sir Edward Nicholas (1593-1669), Secretary of State, 430 leaves.

Volume III of the Nicholas Papers.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2543 ff. 190r-204r)
ClE 107

Copy, ii + 119 leaves, in contemporary vellum gilt.

Volume XL of the papers of the Osborne family, formerly at Hornby Castle, Yorkshire, chiefly papers of Thomas Osborne (1632-1712), Earl of Danby and first Duke of Leeds.

ClE 112

Copy, 135 folio leaves.

Late 17th century

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

ClE 113

Copy.

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous state and legal papers, 161 leaves.

The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 425 f. 86r et seq.)
ClE 113.5

Copy.

A folio volume comprising two tracts relating to Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, in a professional hand, 259 pages, in modern red cloth.

Late 17th century

Formerly in the Stoke-on-Trent City Libraries, Horace Barks Reference Library. Acquired from Mark Sieling in 2008. Formerly Folger MS Add. 264552.

The Folger Shakespeare Library: V.b. series (MS V.b.338 pp. 1-217 (second series))
ClE 114

Copy, in a professional hand, headed A Collection of proceedings in the House of Commons, touching the Impeachment of the late Earle of Clarendon...1667, 207 folio pages, in vellum boards.

Late 17th century

Donated by Dr Benjamin Burley.

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 820)
ClE 115

Copy, in a single professional hand, headed A Collection of Proceedings in the House of Commons about Impeaching the Earl of Clarendon...1667, with other proceedings, 245 folio pages, in contemporary vellum.

c.1667
ClE 116

A folio volume comprising A Collection of proceedings in the House of Comons about Impeaching the Earl of Clarendon...1667, 238 pages, imperfect, in modern limp vellum with ties.

Late 17th century
National Library of Wales (Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers M/1/1/1)
ClE 117

Copy.

A volume of parliamentary records.

Late 17th century

Among the Braye Manuscripts, descending from John Browne (1608-91), Clerk of the Parliaments, whose daughter, Martha, married Sir Roger Cave, Bt, of Stanford Hall, Rugby, seat of successive Lords Braye.

Parliamentary Archives (BRY/3 ff. 74r-5r)
ClE 118 1667

Copy.

Journal of the House of Lords, Vol. 12.

Parliamentary Archives (HL/PO/JO/2/12 p. 144 et seq.)
ClE 119

Related papers.

A volume relating to impeachments in Parliament, 1667.

Parliamentary Archives (HL/PO/JO/10/1/329/108 f. 35r-40r)
ClE 120

Copy, on two folio pages.

Late 17th century
University of Calgary (Osborne Collection, Box/File No. MsC 132.2 (Item 4, Accession No. 25/72.1.2))
ClE 123

Copy, headed Collection of proceedings in the House of Commons about impeaching the Earle of Clarendon late Lord Chancellour, with the debates and speeches concerning that matter.

A folio volume of parliamentary tracts, debates and proceedings in Parliament, in two professional hands, 439 pages, in contemporary calf.

c.1690

Bookplate of James Brydges (1642-1714), eighth Baron Chandos, of Wilton Castle, Herefordshire.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS fb 53 pp. 160-359)
ClE 124

Copy, occupying a folio volume of 239 leaves.

Formerly owned by the Duke of Manchester, at Kimbolton Castle.

Recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 12.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Manchester MS])
Letters to the Duke of York and the Duchess of York

Letters by Clarendon to his daughter Anne (who died on 31 March 1671 before the letter arrived) and to her husband, the Duke of York (later James II), on the occasion of her conversion to Roman Catholicism. The original letters, which received particular attention by his contemporaries because of their subject matter, are not known to survive.

These were first published in Two Letters written by … Edward Earl of Clarendon … one to His Royal Highness the Duke of York, the other to the Dutchess, occasioned by her Embracing the Roman Catholic Religion (London, [1680?]) and were reprinted in State Tracts (1689), in An Appendix to the History of the Grand Rebellion (Oxford, 1724), pp. 313-24, and elsewhere.

ClE 125 Early 18th century

Copy of the two letters, the second dated April 3d 71.

A folio composite volume of verse MSS, in various hands, 185 leaves.

The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House (Portland Papers, Vol. XVII ff. 115v-113r rev.)
ClE 126

Copy.

A composite volume of letters and papers of the Earl of Clarendon, for 1668-80, i + 348 leaves.

Bodleian Library, Clarendon MSS (MS Clarendon 87 ff. 12r-13r, 14r-17r)
ClE 127

Copy.

A large folio formal miscellany of verse and prose, in a single rounded hand throughout, the margins ruled in red, and with an alphabetical index (pp. 719-21), 738 pages (pp. 722-38 blank), plus 40 pages of preliminary inserted material, in contemporary elaborately tooled leather.

Including thirteen poems and a mock-speech in the Marvell canon and eleven poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items, compiled — in stages, probably for the most part in chronological sequence, over a period of up to fifteen years — by Sir William Haward (or Hawarde or Hayward) of Tandridge, Surrey (his signature, dated 21 January 1676/7, on p. 66).

c.1667-82 [the poems by Marvell and Rochester c.1670s]

Sir William Haward was knighted in 1643, served as a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to Charles I, Charles II, James II and William III, was M.P. for Bletchingley (1661-78), a Fellow of the Royal Society (1665) and a Commissioner for the Sale of Fee Farm Rents (1670 onwards); he lived sometime in Scotland Yard and was still living in 1702 (see, inter alia, W. Paley Baildon, The Hawardes of Tandridge Co. Surrey (London, 1894), pp. 23-31). John Evelyn described him as a greate pretender to English antiquities &c:. An autograph letter by him, dated 23 March 1688/9, is in the British Library (Add. MS 29563, f. 453).

Later owned by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), by his wife Frances Le Neve (signature on p. vii), by their servant Joseph Allen, who entered additional items in 1729, and by her second husband Thomas Martin (1697-1771) of Palgrave. Later in the library of the Aston family of Tixall, Staffordshire (and sold in the Tixall sale at Sotheby's, 7 November 1899, lot 430 to Bertram Dobell (1842-1914)). Afterwards owned by George Thorn-Drury (1860-1931) and sold in 1935 by P.J. Dobell.

Cited in IELM as the Haward MS: MaA Δ 2. The Marvell canon selectively collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I and II and the Rochester canon selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker. See also Paul Hammond, The Dating of Three Poems by Rochester from the Evidence of Bodleian MS. Don. b. 8, BLR, 11 (1982), 58-9.

Facsimile of p. 277 in POAS, I, facing p. 228 (see MaA 98).

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. b. 8 pp. 457-63)
ClE 128

Copy.

A folio volume comprising copies of letters, 54 leaves.

18th century

Donated by W. H. Bliss, MA, 18 July 1895.

Bodleian Library, Eng. hist. MSS (MS Eng. hist. c. 44 f. 11v, 12v)
ClE 129

Copy of both letters, in a cursive hand.

A folio composite volume of letters, in various hands, 243 leaves, in contemporary calf.

Bodleian Library, Tanner Collection (MS Tanner 290 ff. 197r-9v)
ClE 130 Late 17th century

Copy of both letters, in a rounded hand, on a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

Recorded in HMC, 2nd report (1871), Appendix, p. 63.

A large folio composite volume of state letters, in various hands and paper sizes, 393 leaves, in 19th-century morocco gilt.

Collected by the Hon. George Matthew Fortescue.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Add. D. 111 ff. 384r-5v, 386r-9v)
ClE 131 Late 17th century

Copy of Clarendon's letter to York, on two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed The Earle of Clarenden to the Duke & Dutchess of Yorke.

A folder of unbound verse MSS and part of a diary (1672), in various hands and paper sizes, 42 leaves.

At least some relating to Sir Willoughby Aston, of Aston Hall, Warrington, Cheshire. Acquired in 2000 from the estate of H.G. Pollard.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Eng. c. 7019 ff. 1r, 2r)
ClE 132 Late 17th century

Copy of Clarendon's letter to his daughter, in a non-professional rounded hand, on four quarto leaves.

A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 197 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco.

Including some papers written or endorsed by Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector, and by Sir John Fenn (1739-94), antiquary. Puttick & Simpson's, 16-18 July 1866 (Fenn sale).

ClE 134

Copy.

A folio composite volume of state papers for 1660-85 of Charles Middleton (1649/50-1719), second Earl of Middleton, Jacobite Secretary of State, in various hands, 338 leaves.

Volume I of the Middleton Papers, descended from Dr Owen Wynne, secretary in the Secretary of State's Office.

ClE 136 Late 17th century

Copy of both letters, in a probably professional hand.

A broadsheet-size guardbook of miscellaneous letters and state papers, in several hands and paper sizes, 24 leaves, in modern quarter-calf.

Donated by Nicholas Vansittart, Secretary to the Treasury.

ClE 139 c.1676

Copy of Clarendon's letter to his daughter, on three quarto leaves, endorsed as being a copy from Mr Ashby, MP for Leicester, received from him Feb 1675/6.

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous correspondence and papers, in various hands, 114 leaves, in modern morocco gilt.

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 814 ff. 49r-51v)
ClE 140

Copy of the letters, here dated 3 April 1671.

A large folio guard-book of independent state tracts and miscellaneous papers, in various hands, 229 leaves.

The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 180 ff. 69r-70v)
ClE 141

Copy of both letters (ff. 85r-6v, 87r-v), in a neat hand.

A folio volume of transcripts of state papers and parliamentary speeches, chiefly from 1618 to 1679, largely in a single mixed hand, written from both ends, 161 leaves, in old marbled boards.

Late 17th century
The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 182 ff. 85r-7v)
ClE 142

Copy of both letters, here dated 3 and 4 April 1671 respectively.

A folio volume principally of proceedings in the House of Commons, 1603-98, 90 leaves.

The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 364 ff. 80r-90v)
ClE 144

Copy by Baker of Clarendon's letter to York.

A folio volume of transcripts of historical and antiquarian papers, in Latin and English, made by Thomas Baker (1656-1740), Cambridge antiquary, 476 pages, in old reversed calf.

MS Baker 33.

ClE 147

Copy.

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in a single cursive hand, 376 pages (including blanks), in contemporary calf.

Compiled almost entirely by Sarah Cowper (née Holled, 1644-1720), Lady Cowper, wife of Sir William Cowper, MP (1639-1706), and inscribed by her inside the front cover Sarah Cowper 1673. Possibly compiled in part from texts supplied by Martin Clifford (c.1624-77), erstwhile secretary of the Duke of Buckingham and Master of the Charterhouse.

c.1673-1700s

Discussed in Harold Love, Two Rochester Manuscripts Circulated from the Charterhouse, The Library, 6th Ser. 16/3 (September 1994), 225-9.

Hertfordshire Record Office (DE/P F37 pp. 281-4)
ClE 148

Copy, on six pages of two unbound pairs of conjugate folio leaves.

Late 17th century

Among papers of the Grimston family, Earls of Verulam, of Gorhambury, Hertfordshire.

ClE 149

Copy.

A duodecimo volume of state and ecclesiastical letters and papers, in a single hand, 222 pages, in later black morocco gilt.

In the hand of William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, the first page (f. [ir] inscribed Z / Sylloge Epistolarum quarundam insignium, aliorumque aliquot Monumentorum, facta manu RRP. Wilhelmi Sancroft. Archiepi Cantuar. Accesserunt Orationes eiusdem nonnulla in Academiâ Cantabrig. habitæ.

Mid-late 17th century

Among collections of Henry Wharton (1664-94), Sancroft's chaplain (in 1688-9).

Lambeth Palace Library (MS 595 pp. 29-36)
ClE 151 Late 17th century

Copy of the two letters, in a professional italic hand, on all four pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.

A folder of twelve unbound folio letters and documents.

Newberry Library, Chicago (Case MS fF 45919. 37 item 5)
ClE 153

Copy of letters by Clarendon to his daughter Anne and to her husband, the Duke of York (later James II).

c.1670s
The Pierpont Morgan Library (R-V Autogrs. Misc, [unnumbered item])
ClE 154

Copy.

A duodecimo commonplace book, in two hands, compiled by Jane Truesdale and her father, including extracts from various authors, 178 leaves, in old leather.

c.1672-94

A facsimile of f. 64r in Victoria E. Burke, Materiality and Form in the Seventeenth-Century Miscellanies of Anne Southwell, Elizabeth Hastings, and Jane Truesdale, EMS, 16 (2011), 219-41 (p. 233).

Yale, Osborn MS b 150 through Osborn MS b 199 (Osborn MS b 188 ff. 47r-63r)
ClE 155

Copy of the two letters, on nine quarto pages, dated from Montpelier, 3 April 1671.

Late 17th century

Sotheby's, 25 March 1974, lot 252, to A.G. Thomas.

Inscribed on the verso of the last leaf W. Bowles.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Clarendon letter(s)])

Printed Exempla of Clarendon's History and Life Inscribed or Annotated by Notable Readers

The History of the Rebellion
ClE 156

An exemplum of the 1707 edition of the History annotated by William Warburton (1698-1779), Bishop of Gloucester.

Mid-17th century

Warburton's marginalia are printed in Bandinel's edition (1826), VIII, 507-649.

ClE 157

An exemplum of the three-volume printed Oxford edition of 1707 with annotations by Jonathan Swift.

c.1707

Swift's annotations edited in The Prose Writings of Jonathan Swift, ed. Herbert Davis, 14 vols (Oxford, 1939-66), V, 295-320.

Marsh's Library, Dublin ([no shelfmark])
ClE 158

An exemplum of the 1707 printed edition of the History with annotations by Thomas Gray.

1707
Bodleian Library, other MSS (Auct. S. 10. 28-30)
The Life of Clarendon
ClE 159

An exemplum of the 1759 printed edition of Clarendon's Life with annotations by Thomas Gray.

1759
Bodleian Library, other MSS (Auct. S. 10. 31)

Related Documents

Editorial papers
ClE 160

Series of notes by Henry Hyde (1638-1709), second Earl of Clarendon, on his father's manuscript of the History of the Rebellion, in preparation for its publication (in 1702-4).

c.1700
Durham University Library (Add. MS 1107)
ClE 161

A series of autograph notebooks by Dr Bulkeley Bandinel (1781-1861), librarian, chiefly relating to his edition of Clarendon's History (1826), lxx + 553 folio leaves.

c.1620s
Bodleian Library, Clarendon MSS (MSS Clarendon 141-3, 143*, 144)
ClE 162

A volume of papers of Dr Bulkeley Bandinel (1781-1861), librarian, editor of Clarendon's History (1826).

c.1820s
Bodleian Library, Eng. hist. MSS (MS Eng. hist. b. 135)
ClE 163 c.1759

A statement relating to the compilation and printing of the 1759 edition of The Life of Clarendon Written by Himself.

A guardbook of miscellaneous letters and papers, in various hands, i + 74 leaves.

Bodleian Library, Eng. hist. MSS (MS Eng e. 237 ff. 65r-6r)

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