Folger Shakespeare Library
CELM

Gregory Baran and Laura Federighi Collection, Seattle

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    A folio composite volume of state and antiquarian tracts, in probably three professional secretary hands, one of them (on 286 pages, including a title-page (f. 1r), a Table of contents (ff. 2r-5r), and foliation throughout) being the Feathery Scribe, vi + 211 leaves, in late 17th-century calf.

    c.1625-30s.

    Bookplates of Sir John Dolben, second baronet (1684-1756), of Finedon, Northamptonshire, and of The Rev. H.C. Beeching/Yattendon/1897. Acquired from Maggs.

    • CtR 251 ff. 1r-8r

      Copy, in the hand of the Feathery Scribe.

      Tract beginning For the Clearinge whereof wee will intreate off the name.... Hearne (1771), II, 1-12.

      Sir Robert Cotton, A Discourse Off the Offyce of the Lord Steward of England, Written by Sr Robte Cotton, knight, and Baronnett
    • CtR 326 ff. 8r-11v

      Copy, in the hand of the Feathery Scribe.

      A tract beginning Which office because it was neuer hereditary.... Unpublished?

      Sir Robert Cotton, Of the steward of the King's household by Sr. Robt Cotton Kt. & Bart.
    • CmW 33.5 ff. 12r-14v

      Copy, in the hand of the Feathery Scribe, headed A discourse of the Lord Steward of England collected by Mr William Cambden.

      A tract beginning Whom we call in English steward, in Latine is called seneschallus.... First published in Hearne (1771), II, 38-40.

      William Camden, The Antiquity, Authority, and Succession of the High Steward of England
    • CtR 234 ff. 15r-17v

      Copy, in the hand of the Feathery Scribe.

      Tract beginning Yff wee curiouslye will looke the Roote of this question.... Hearne (1771), II, 65-7.

      Sir Robert Cotton, A Discourse Of the Offyce of the Lord Highe Connstable of England, written by Sr: Robte Cotton, knight, and Baronett
    • CtR 50 ff. 17v-23v

      Copy, in the hand of the Feathery Scribe.

      Tract beginning The plentye of this discourse, the last question of Highe Connstables, whereto.... Hearne (1771), II, 97-103.

      Sir Robert Cotton, The Antiquitye and Offyce of Earle Marshall of England, Written by Sr Robte Cotton, knight, and Baronett
    • CtR 215 ff. 23v-5v

      Copy, in the hand of the Feathery Scribe.

      A dedicatory epistle beginning Sir, Yor small tyme, I must Ballance, wth as sclendr Aunswere... followed by a tract beginning Because the Jurisdiction att the Comon Lawe was vncertayne....

      Sir Robert Cotton, A Discourse Of the Antiquitye, and Offyce of the Earle Marshall of England, written by Sr Robte Cotton, knight, Att the request of the Lord Henrye Howard, Earle of Northampton [25 November 1602]
    • CmW 23.2 ff. 34r-42r

      Copy, in the hand of an unidentified scribe, headed The Etimologie antiquitie and office of the Earle Marshall of England.

      A tract beginning Such is the vncertainety of etimologyes... and sometimes entitled in manuscripts The Etymology, Antiquity and Office of the Earl Marshall of England. First published, as Commentarius de etymologia, antiquitate, & officio Comitis Marescalli Angliae, in Camdeni epistolae (London, 1691), Appendix, pp. 87-93. Hearne (1771), II, 90-7.

      William Camden, The Antiquity and Office of the Earl Marshall of England

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    Copy, in a professional hand, as Written by Sr Robert Cotton Anno 1621, on six unbound folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.

    c.1620s.

    Swann, New York, 15 September 2011 (Eric. C. Caren Collection), lot 147.

    • CtR 104.5
      No description or publication history available.

      Tract, the full title sometimes given as A Brief discourse prouinge that the house of Comons hath Equall power with the Peeres in point of Judicature written by Sr Rob: Cotton to Sr Edward Mountague Ano Dni. 1621, beginning Sir, To give you as short an accompt of your desire as I can.... First published in London, 1640. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [341]-351.

      Sir Robert Cotton, A Briefe Discovrse concerning the Power of the Peeres and Commons of Parliament in point of Judicature

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    Copy, on six folio leaves, in modern grey boards.

    Acquired from Maggs Brothers, 20 January 2006.

    • CtR 339.5
      No description or publication history available.

      Tract, addressed to George Villiers, first Duke of Buckingham, beginning In humble obedience to your Grace's Command, I am emboldned to present my poor advice.... Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. 1-9.

      Sir Robert Cotton, A Relation of the Proceedings against Ambassadors who have miscarried themselves, etc. ... [27 April 1624]

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    Copy, in a professional hand, the same as in HaG 17, with a title-page in a roman hand, 185 folio pages, in contemporary vellum.

    Late 17th century.

    Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), Earl de Grey, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire. Maggs's sale catalogue Mercurius Britannicus No. 152 (June 1956), p. 10. The Collection of Robert S Pirie, Sotheby's, 2 December 2015, lot 413.

    This MS collated in Brown, I, 345-96.

    • HaG 22
      No description or publication history available.

      First published, ascribed to the Honourable Sir W[illiam] C[oventry], in London, 1688. Foxcroft, II, 273-342. Brown, I, 178-243.

      George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, The Character of a Trimmer

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    A folio volume of proceedings in Parliament 1628/9, 60 leaves plus blanks, in contemporary limp vellum.

    c.1629.

    Later owned by Thomas Martin (1697-1771) of Palgrave, antiquary and collector. Acquired by Charles Brietzcke (c.1738-95), government official, 19 May 1774. Later owned by Arthur Beauchesne, parliamentary clerk in Canada. Sotheby's, 15 July 2010, lot 3.

    • RuB 113.5 f. 27v

      Copy, headed Sr Beniamyn Rudyard, dated 10 February 1628.

      A speech beginning There be diverse recantations, submissions and sentences remaining on record.... Variant versions include one beginning That there have been many publique censures and recantacions.... See Commons Debates for 1629, ed. Wallace Notestein and Frances Helen Relf (Minneapolis, 1921), pp. 137, [274]-5.

      Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, 10 February 1628/9

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