Cambridge University Archives

*HeR 436: Robert Herrick, Document(s) ('')

Herrick's autograph signature (as Robertus Heareck or Hearick, the dot on the i perhaps being accidentally extended) under the heading Aula Trinitatis for 1616.

1616.

*FlG 4: Giles Fletcher the Younger, Document(s) ('')

Fletcher's autograph signed subscription for the degree of B.D. on 3 July 1619.

1619.

Facsimile in IELM, I.ii (1980), Facsimile XIV (p. 76).

*HeR 437: Robert Herrick, Document(s) ('')

Herrick's autograph signature (as Robert Hearick) under the heading Aula Trinitatis, also in his hand, for 1620.

1620.

*FuT 10: Thomas Fuller, Document(s) ('')

Fuller's subscription, with signature only, to the Thirty-Nine Articles, upon his graduation at Queens' College, at the end of the Lent Term in 1624/5.

1625.

The signature is reproduced in facsimile in Bailey, p. 88.

*RnT 597: Thomas Randolph, Document(s) ('')

Randolph's autograph signature as subscription for his Bachelor of Arts, probably March 1627/8.

1627/8.

Facsimile in IELM, II.ii (1993), Plate VIIIc, after p. xxi.

*FuT 11: Thomas Fuller, Document(s) ('')

Fuller's subscription, with signature only, upon graduating as Master of Arts.

1628.

The signature is reproduced in Bailey, p. 98.

*MnJ 89: John Milton, Document(s) ('')

Autograph signature (Joannes Milton), when graduating as B.A., in the University Subscription Book, [January 1628/9].

1629.

Facsimiles in Sotheby, Ramblings, after p. 124 (Plate XVII[bis], No. i, item 1), and in Masson, I, after p. 780. Reproduced in J. Milton French, Milton's Supplicats, HLQ, 5 (1942), 349-53 (p. 353). Recorded in Columbia XVIII, 624, and in LR, I, 190.

*RnT 598: Thomas Randolph, Document(s) ('')

Randolph's autograph signature as his subscrition for his Master of Arts, probably July 1631.

1631.

Facsimiles in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCVIII(a-e), and in IELM, II.ii (1993), Plate VIIIf, after p. xxi.

*MnJ 92: John Milton, Document(s) ('')

Autograph signature (Joannes Milton), when graduating as M.A., in the University Subscription Book, [July 1632].

1632.

Facsimiles in Sotheby, Ramblings, after p. 124 (Plate XVII[bis], No. i, item 3), and in Masson, I, after p. 780. Recorded in Columbia XVIII, 624, and in LR, I, 271-2.

*FuT 12: Thomas Fuller, Document(s) ('')

Fuller's two-line autograph subscription in English, signed by him, upon graduating as Bachelor of Divinity.

1635.

Facsimile of the full subscription in IELM, II.i (1987), Facsimile XIXa, after p. xxiv. The signature alone reproduced in Bailey, p. 161.

*MaA 569: Andrew Marvell, Document(s) ('')

Marvell's autograph subscription for his Bachelor of Arts, in February 1638/9.

1639.

Facsimile in Kelliher, p. 24 (Marvell's signature the ninth from the bottom in the right-hand column).

*RnT 599: Thomas Randolph, Document(s) ('')

Miss E.S. Leedham-Green has suggested this is in the poet's own hand, but I am of the firm opinion that this was written on his behalf by someone else (perhaps Thomas Goldfinch or some other college butler or official), as was quite customary in this period.

Before January 1627/8.

*MnJ 90: John Milton, Document(s) ('')

Milton's autograph supplicat for the degree of Bachelor of Arts, c.10 January 1629.

1629.

Edited, with a facsimile, in J. Milton French, Milton's Supplicats, HLQ, 5 (1942), 349-53 (pp. 349-51

MnJ 91: John Milton, Document(s) ('')

Milton's supplicat for the degree of Master of Arts, written on his behalf in an unidentified hand (?Richard Osborne), c.10 January 1632.

1632.

Edited, with a facsimile, in J. Milton French, Milton's Supplicats, HLQ, 5 (1942), 349-53 (pp. 350-2).

MoH 24: Henry More, Inscription(s) ('')

Autograph supplicats signed by More, 1 April 1636, and again in 1637 and 1638.

1636-38.