CELM: Wellcome Library, London

MS 276

A series of extracts relating to astronomical and astrological terms, in a mixed hand, twelve duodecimo leaves, unbound. Mid-17th century.

Acquired in 1922.

FloJ 4: John Florio, A worlde of Wordes

First published in London, 1598.

MS 749

A folio composite volume of cookery, medical and miscellaneous MS receipt books, comprising fourteen items, in various hands, 359 leaves, in half-calf marbled boards.

Booklabel of James Shrowle. Inscribed J Hodgkin Dec. 9th, 1914. Item 492 on an unidentified sale catalogue. Acquired in 1931.

item 13

RaW 712: Sir Walter Ralegh, Chemical and Medical Receipts ('')

Copy of various receipts by Ralegh, in a 36-page MS of medical and other prescriptions, in a single mixed hand, with (pp. 33-6) an Index; the first receipt (for the flux of the belly and blood, p. 1) inscribed in the margin S^r W: R.; one on p. 14 (Myne owne purge) recorded in the Index (under fol. 14) as S^r W: R: his owne purge; with a declaration (p. 28) Whatsoever is conteyned in theis precedent pages is transcribed out of S^r Walter Raleghs booke of receipts written w^th his owne hand and is done according to the originall in eu^rie sillable; followed (pp. 28-9) by a receipt introduced This that followeth Sr W: R: wrote w^th his own hand and gave it to mee to teach me to make the Magister: of Pearle.

c.1620s.

MS 805

A quarto volume of chiefly state tracts, speeches and letters, in several hands, with (ff. 94r-5r) a Table of contents, ff. [96r-107v] occupied by tracts in later hands, 107 leaves, frayed towards the end, in contemporary calf gilt. c.1625[-1730].

The last item subscribed (f. 107v) in the same hand Finis Jne phillipson 1730 / Transcribed...in December Anno Dominij i689 p me Georgium Dixon p pastorle phillipsono, this hand also responsible for various marginal inscriptions elsewhere including (f. 55v) Jno: Phillipson Elizabeth Green Coppy. Item 422 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Acquired in 1930.

ff. 13r-14r

BcF 525: Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications ('')

Copy of Bacon's submission on 19 March 1620/1, in a secretary hand.

The Humble Submissions and Supplications Bacon sent to the House of Lords, on 19 March 1620/1 (beginning I humbly pray your Lordships all to make a favourable and true construction of my absence...); 22 April 1621 (beginning It may please your Lordships, I shall humbly crave at your Lordships' hands a benign interpretation...); and 30 April 1621 (beginning Upon advised consideration of the charge, descending into mine own conscience...), written at the time of his indictment for corruption. Spedding, XIV, 215-16, 242-5, 252-62.

ff. 14v-15v

BcF 258.5: Francis Bacon, A Prayer, or Psalm ('')

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed The Lord Chancello^r his Psalme or Praier, dated in the margin March 162i.

First published in Remaines (London, 1648). Spedding, XIV, 229-31.

ff. 17r-20r

BcF 526: Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications ('')

Copy of Bacon's submission on 22 April 1621, in a secretary hand.

The Humble Submissions and Supplications Bacon sent to the House of Lords, on 19 March 1620/1 (beginning I humbly pray your Lordships all to make a favourable and true construction of my absence...); 22 April 1621 (beginning It may please your Lordships, I shall humbly crave at your Lordships' hands a benign interpretation...); and 30 April 1621 (beginning Upon advised consideration of the charge, descending into mine own conscience...), written at the time of his indictment for corruption. Spedding, XIV, 215-16, 242-5, 252-62.

ff. 38r-9v

RaW 992: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s) ('')

Copy of a letter by Ralegh to his wife, [1603], in a secretary hand.

ff. 39v-47v

BcF 527: Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications ('')

Copy of The Confession and submission of S^r Francis Bacon on 30 April 1621, in a secretary hand, dated in the margin A^o Domini 162i.

The Humble Submissions and Supplications Bacon sent to the House of Lords, on 19 March 1620/1 (beginning I humbly pray your Lordships all to make a favourable and true construction of my absence...); 22 April 1621 (beginning It may please your Lordships, I shall humbly crave at your Lordships' hands a benign interpretation...); and 30 April 1621 (beginning Upon advised consideration of the charge, descending into mine own conscience...), written at the time of his indictment for corruption. Spedding, XIV, 215-16, 242-5, 252-62.

MS 6880

An octavo notebook of extracts principally from works on religion and ancient history, in a single cursive mixed hand, closely written from both ends along the length of each page with the spine uppermost, 162 leaves (plus three stubs), in contemporary calf with ties.

Compiled by Andrew Melvill, a student of Glasgow University under James Woodrow (d.1707), Professor of Divinity, and frequently signed by Melvill (sometimes as And: Melvinus) with dates ranging from 29 November 1699 to 15 May 1701.

1699-1701.

ff. 29r-40v

RaW 679.9: Sir Walter Ralegh, The History of the World ('')

Series of extracts, headed Some few things excerpted out of Sir Walter Raleighs history of the World, subscribed Finis hujus Collectionis ex Dom: Walt: Raleigh / march 26 1700.

First published in London, 1614. Works (1829), Vols. II-VII.

MS 7113

A folio recipe book, with medical, culinary and other receipts, in several hands, including frequently the rounded hand of an amanuensis who entitles it (f. 3r) M^rs. Fanshawes Booke of Receipts of Physickes Salues, Waters, Cordialls, Preserues and Cookery written the eleuenth day of December 1651 by Me Joseph Auerie, also inscribed (f. 1r) These ffor MS: ffanshaw, and some receipts possibly in Lady Ann's own hand; inscribed by her daughter Katherine (f. 2r) K: ffanshawe. Giuen mee by my Mother March 23^th, 1678 and (against receipts) My Mother A ffanshawe, some later entries by Katherine and others dated as late as 1707, 267 leaves (including numerous blanks), in contemporary olive morocco gilt with traces of a clasp. c.1651-1707.

Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 6 April 1995, lot 192.

Facsimiles of ff. 2r and 126r in David B. Goldstein, Eating and Ethics in Shakespeare's England (Cambridge, 2013), 156, 162.

*FaA 3: Ann, Lady Fanshawe, Household receipt book

Facsimiles of ff. 2r and 126r in David B. Goldstein, Eating and Ethics in Shakespeare's England (Cambridge, 2013), 156, 162.

Unpublished.

MS MSL/36

A quarto composite commonplace book of extracts chiefly from religious works, in probably several hands, one predominating, ff. 115r-27r occupied by a sporadic journal for 1715-21 in later hands, 131 leaves (including blanks), in old half-calf.

Compiled by Dr Thomas Lewis (d.1746), of the Royal College of Physicians.

c.1700s.

ff. 26v-40v passim

AndL 55.8: Lancelot Andrewes, Tortura torti ('')

Extracts from various works by B^p Andrews, including (ff. 26v-7r) Sermon .5. of y^e Gunpoud: Treason Pg 938; (f. 27v) Sermon of worshipping Imaginations pg 26. 27; (f. 28r) Of Worshipping Angells; (f. 30b^r-v) Serm: of y^e Resurrection. pg. 385...388...391; (f. 33v) Ag^st Worshiping Angells...i^st Serm: p. 8. and i^st Sermon of y^e Nativity pg. 8; (ff. 37v-8r) Of Preaching...epist: to y^e King, before B^p Andrew's Sermons; (f. 40r) i^st Serm: on y^e Nativitie. p. 6-7. - et 4.5.; and (f. 40v) Of y^e Verity Of y^e X^tian Religion...2 sermon pg X.

First published in London, 1609.

f. 29v

HkR 20.5: Richard Hooker, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Book VIII ('')

Extracts, headed Kings subject to God alone, subscribed Hooker's Ecclesiastical Policy 8 book p^rserv'd by Arch B^p Usher publ: by D^r Bernard in his Clavi Frabalos p. 93. 94.

First published in an incomplete form (with Book VI) in London, 1648. Some additions published in Nicholas Bernard, Clavi Trabales (London, 1661), and in John Gauden's complete edition of the Polity (London, 1662). Keble, III, 326-455 (and pp. 456-60 for a passage found in MSS but not in the first edition, possibly part of a Sermon on Civil Disobedience). Edited by Raymond Aaron Houk, Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity Book VIII (New York, 1931). Folger edition, Volume III, pp. 315-448.

f. 30a^r-v

WtI 8: Izaak Walton, Life of Mr. George Herbert ('')

Extracts, variously headed How to cure y^e Comon People of contemning y^e Clergy, How to dye unto Sin, and How to live unto God, subscribed respectively Walton's life of M^r George Herbert. p. 310, Id: pg. 390, and Bl: 4. 6.

First published in London, 1670.

ff. 104r-9v passim

HlJ 82: Joseph Hall, Extracts ('')

Extracts from works by Hall, including (f. 104r) That Different Judgm^ts may all center in Truth, subscribed B^p. Hall's laws of Consc: Epist to y^e Reader, and Schismes, subscribed B^p Hall's Medit: cent: 2. Med: 53; (105v) extracts subscribed D^r Jos: Hall's Heaven upon Earth Sect: 8 and B^p Hall's Meditations lib: i. med: 62; and (f. 109v) extracts subscribed B^p Hall's Med: cent: 2 Med: 74.

WTI/SGB/A.25/5

A collection of modern papers and printed materials relating to Sir Thomas Browne.

BrT 63: Sir Thomas Browne, Editorial Papers