Lady Anne Clifford's accounts for 1668-76.
1668-76.Edited from this MS in Spence (1997), pp. 255-6.
A complete set of three large cartularies.
Including Lady Anne Clifford's Memoriall
or Autobiography and the full text of Richard Robinson's account of All the Nine Memorable Voyages of her father, George Clifford (1558-1605), third Earl of Cumberland, privateer, formally prepared in a variety of hands (probably including her secretaries and copyists Edward Langley, Edward Hasell, William Watkinson, Thomas Strickland, Edward Guy, and Edward Fawcett), with rubrication, numerous coloured or pen and ink genealogical trees and facsimiles of seals, with various decorative features, and with Lady Anne's autograph corrections, emendations or annotations on some 70 pages, nearly 890 large folio pages in all, each volume in 18th-century calf (rebacked).
Comprising:
(i) The first booke of the recordes concerning the twoe noble familyes of the Cliffords which were Lords Cliffords...and the Veriponts
, 209 large folio pages (plus 30 blanks), dated 1649.
(ii) The Seconde Booke of the Recordes concerning the Twoe Noble Families of the Cliffords and Veriponts
, 459 large folio pages (plus 33 blanks), undated.
(iii) The Third Booke of the Recordes concerning the Noble Familyes of the Cliffords, Veriponts & Vescyes
, over 270 large folio pages (plus blanks), dating chiefly c.1652-75, with later additions up to 1734.
The third volume later owned by Lord Hodgson by family descent, and sold at Sotheby's, 10 July 2003, lot 81, with several colour facsimile examples in the sale catalogue, pp. 68-75.
Facsimiles of the first volume's first page, title and a genealogical tree in Spence (1997), pp. 161-2.
Lady Anne Clifford's last will and testament, written for her by Edward Hasell and signed by her (Anne Pembrooke
), 1 May 1674, proved 3 April 1676.
Facsimile of this MS in Spence (1997), p. 246.
Lady Anne Clifford's autograph inscription About the beginning of June in 1669 I began to read this Booke my selfe in Appleby castle
.
Recorded in Paul Salzman, Anne Clifford's Annotated Copy of Sidney's Arcadia, N&Q, 254 (December 2009), 554-5.
A miscellany compiled by Benjamin Brown (1664-1748), of Troutbeck, High Constable of Kendal Ward.
Late 17th century.Copy.
First published in Poems (1664), pp. 232-4. Poems (1667), pp. 119-20. Saintsbury, p. 574. Thomas, I, 190-1, poem 75.
Copy, headed A pure Dresse for a Virgin
and here beginning The things that make a woman please
.
First published in Poems (1667), p. 136. Saintsbury, p. 583. Thomas, I, 207-8, poem 90.
Copy, headed Quarles vpon the life of man
.
First published in Thomas Farnaby, Florilegium epigrammatum Graecorum (London, 1629). Poems by Sir Henry Wotton, Sir Walter Raleigh and others, ed. John Hannah (London, 1845), pp. 76-80. Spedding, VII, 271-2. H.J.C. Grierson, Bacon's Poem, The World: Its Date and Relation to certain other Poems, Modern Language Review, 6 (1911), 145-56.
Copy of 64 lines of the poem, headed Withers in his Speculum, Speculativum
, here beginning Seav'n Numerals the Roman Empire had
, on three pages.
First published, with preliminary material including a prose dedication to James I, in London, 1660. Miscellaneous Works of George Wither. Fifth Collection, Spenser Society No. 22 (1877; reprinted in New York, 1967), item 5 (pp. 1-176).
