National Archives, Kew

Bill of complaint to Sir Nicolas Bacon by George Puttenham, with answers to it by the defendants Allen Egloubie, John Deninge and Francis Morris, and Puttenham's replication to Morris's answer; Egloubie's testimony claiming that they had lawfully broken into certain of Puttenham's coffers or chestes where they had found secretly hidden and laied vpp to no good purpos certen coapes Vestemente[s] masse booke[s] Stolles Supaltarries…and soche lyke trumperie fitt for the s[er]vice of the masse and other Papisticall Service nowe abolisshed, on five membranes of vellum, November 1570.

1570.

Heywood's deposition in a law-suit between Baskerville and Worth, signed by him three times, 3 October 1623.

1623.

Facsimiles of two signatures in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCVIII (f-h).

Letter by Sandys, in a secretary's hand and signed by Sandys, to John Ferrar, 8 April 1623.

1623.

Edited in Kingsbury, IV, 106-10. Reprinted in Davis, pp. 150-7.

A copy by Mandeville of Sandys's letter to John Ferrar, 8 April 1623, sent to Secretary Conway.

1623.

A petition by Sandys, to the King, entirely in the hand of a scribe, [1631].

1631.

Summarized in VMHB, 8 (1900-1), 43.

A letter by the Council of the Virginia Company, to Sir Edward Conway, signed by King and other members of the council, 30 March 1628.

1628.

Bill of complaint to Sir Nicholas Bacon by Thomas Brooke accusing Thomas Councell and George Puttenham of corruptly and disceitfullye cheating him out of his legacy betwen them…by indirecte, and sinister meanes, whereby they also caused him to be confined for twelve months in prison where he lived in misery and in greate daunger of ffamyne, 28 April 1564; separate answers by Thomas Councell and George Puttenham, dismissing his allegations as vntrue; and the replication to both answers by Thomas Brooke, on four membranes of vellum, [1564].

1564.

Bill of complaint to Sir Nicholas Bacon by Richard Hartilpoole of Clerkenwell, accusing George Puttenham of defaulting in the payment of various debts and financial promises incurred during the course of some years of service, including his attending Puttenham on a six-week trip to Flanders, and a transaction with one Endlowe of London, a merchant lying in prison, in which Hartilpoole was ignorantly duped, Puttenham being described as a man of suche lewde lascivious, and wicked disposit[i]on in his lyvinge (to shamefull and to abomynable herein to be resyted) which he maintained w^th cullorable and indirecte practises and whose detestable lief and oppressions of poorer men, such men as Thomas Brooke, Thomas Moore, Thomas Lipscombe, Thomas Puller, Thomas Ordeney, Giles Moore, John Bardolph and others have friendly and secretly tried to persuade him to forsake, 29 April 1567; with Puttenham's answer, dismissing these allegations as most of them…ymagyned and subtilly devysed slanders, on two large membranes of vellum, [1567].

1567.

Bill of complaint to Sir Nicholas Bacon by Giles Moore accusing George Puttenham of cheating him with pollecye and subtill invention, out of the benefice and parsonage of Shaldon, Hertfordshire, which he let Puttenham take possession of and subsequently grant to John Bardolphe under the promise that Puttenham would secure the necessary dispensation from the Bishop of Winchester, which he failed to do, ultimately resulting in Moore's arrest; with Puttenham's answer, dismissing the allegations as vntrue and insufficient in the lawe, on two large membranes of vellum, [undated, but before 1566].

c.1560s.

Bill of complaint to Sir Nicholas Bacon by John Paulet, Mary Paulet, Philip Windsor and Elizabeth Windsor, children of Elizabeth, Lady Windsor, referring to Lady Windsor's inheritance from the late Lord Windsor of goods and chattels to the value of over £3,000, from which, on 9 September 1559, she made a deed of gift to her children, but which her new husband George Puttenham wanted for his pryvate gayne resulting in their being defrauded of their rights; the lengthy answer to this by George Puttenham and Lady Windsor, denying that any such deed of gift was made; a brief summary of this answer; and the replication to this answer by the four complainants, insisting that a Suffycyent wrytynge was made by their mother w^th her whole minde and full consent and Seyled w^th her Seyle and by her lawfully as her deyd of Grant dylyu^ryd, on four membranes of vellum, undated.

c.1560s.

A bill of complaint to Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper, by Richard Puttenham, against Sir William Warham, concerning a dispute over a bargain and sale; with Warham's answer [undated: probably early in the period 1558-79 when Bacon was Lord Keeper].

[1558-79].

A bill of complaint to Sir Nicholas Bacon by George Puttenham and Elizabeth, Lady Windsor, claiming redress from Edmund Windsor, brother of the late William, Lord Windsor, for revenues from lands in Sussex, Berkshire and Hampshire which properly descended from Sir Andrew, Lord Windsor, to her; Edmund Windsor's answer dismissing the claim; the replication to this by George Puttenham and Elizabeth, Lady Windsor, supporting their claim; and Edmund Windsor's rejoinder, on four generally large membranes of vellum.

c.1570.

Quoted in Willis, pp. 399-400.

Bill of complaint to Sir Nicholas Bacon by Andrew Vavasor of the Middle Temple, steward of the lands and tenements of Philip, youngest son of the late William, Lord Windsor, against George Puttenham, concerning Philip Windsor's rights and money owing to him; with George Puttenham's answer, referring to Vavasor's duty to safely p^rserve Philip's escriptes writtinges and munymentes, as well as his title, and costs on Philip's behalf borne both by Puttenham and Philip's sister Elizabeth, on two membranes of vellum.

c.1560s.

A bill of complaint to Sir Nicholas Bacon by Thomas Wayland and his wife Mary, widow of Robert Downes, seeking repayment by Richard Puttenham of £160 lent him by Downes, 2 November 1561.

1561.

Bill of complaint to Sir Nicholas Bacon by Thomas Colbie and Edward Gilbard against Richard Puttenham, Thomas Harrison, John Warton and others, seeking redress concerning a lease of property at Sherfield in Hampshire, referring to the involvement in this lease of George Puttenham, as well as Thomas Wayland and his wife Mary, on a single membrane of vellum, [undated, but probably early 1560s].

c.1560s.

Bill of complaint to Sir Thomas Bromley, Lord Chancellor, by William Bethell of Winchester, accusing George Puttenham, Robert/Thomas Hannington, and John Warne of conspiring to undermine Bethell's rights in a manor in 1561/2; with the answers of Puttenham, Hannington and Warne denying the charge, on two large membranes of vellum, [undated, but between 1579 and 1587].

c.1579-87.

Wycherley's bill of complaint against the bookseller Samuel Briscoe, concerning the delay in the publication of his Miscellany Poems, entirely in the hand of a professional scribe, 23 January 1699/1700.

1700.

For this case, see Howard P. Vincent, William Wycherley's Miscellany Poems, PQ, 16 (1937), 145-8.

Formal bill of complaint by Vanbrugh and Swiney against Rich, Norris and Bullock, entirely in the hand of a legal scribe, 27 January [1707/8?].

1708.

Register, No. 1953.

A deposition relating to the scrivener Thomas Frith, the text in the hand of a scribe and signed by Shirley (a large four-inch-wide signature, James Sherley, in a mixed italic script), 6 March 1615/16.

1616.

This document discussed in J.P. Feil, James Shirley's Years of Service, RES, NS 8 (1957), 413-16.

Interrogatories to be administered to George Puttenham on behalf of William Woodes against Humphrey Forster, concerning what Puttenham knew about Forster and his dealings; related interrogatories for Roger Hatton and Joane Jerom, and for Woodes's solicitor, John Cresset, the latter dated 28 January 1588[9]; together with answers signed by John Cresset (8 February 1588/9), by Roger Hatton (21 February 1588/9), and by George Puttenham (5 March 1588/9).

1589.

Deposition by George Puttenham in the case of Sir Richard Reade versus Francis Morris, in answer to interrogatories [see below], concerning the dealings of his brother Richard with his servant, the Italian-born Francis Manzaga, including reference to Manzaga's having once forged a deed in Venice and to an evill prank played by him when in Richard Puttenham's service; written in the hand of a clerk on two broadsheets (a third continuing with a deposition by Thomas Temple), each signed by Puttenham (Geo. putenham), 28 November 1578.

1578.

Recorded in Eccles, p. 108.

Interrogatories to be administered against Francis Morris on behalf of Sir Richard Reade in the case of Reade versus Morris, concerning Richard Puttenham's residence at Sherfield and Francis Manzaga, including whether Morris knows the hand in Wrytinge of Puttenham or whether he knows if Manzaga was eu^r detectyd of eney foergerey or other fallshood, on a long strip of paper, [1578].

1578.

Interrogatories to be administered to George Puttenham on behalf of William Woodes against Humphrey Forster, concerning what Puttenham knew about Forster and his dealings; related interrogatories for Roger Hatton and Joane Jerom, and for Woodes's solicitor, John Cresset, the later dated 28 January 1588[9]; together with answers signed by John Cresset (8 February 1588/9), and by Roger Hatton (21 February 1588/9), on five large membranes of vellum.

1589.

Deposition by George Puttenham in the case of William Woodes versus Humphrey Forster (or Foster), in answer to interrogatories, concerning his dealings with Forster, accused of unlawfully trespassing and taking away a thousand sheep at Aldermanston, alleging that Puttenham threatened to bring to Star Chamber the foreman of a jury at the Guildhall for acquitting Forster contrary to the evidence, giving details of jurors at Forster's trial at Reading who came to Puttenham at his lodgings at the Bear and of the foreman of the jurors, Mr Chocke, at Forster's trial at Westminster, who came with Forster to Puttenham's lodgings in the Strand, where a deal was struck which Forster later renaged on, and of other subsequent meetings with jurors at Puttenham's lodgings in the Old Palace at Westminster; written in the hand of a clerk on four large membranes of vellum, each of them signed by Puttenham (Geo. putenham), one signed twice, 5 March 1588/9.

1589.

Recorded in Eccles, p. 109.

A deposition by Jonson in the case of Rowe versus Garland, in a professional secretary hand, signed Ben Jonson, on a single broadsheet, 8 May 1610.

The testimony of John Marston of Christchurch in the County of Southanpton Clarke aged 46. years, signed by him twice, on behalf of his father-in-law Dr William Wilkes, in a suit against Richard Clerke of Coventry, 5 May 1621.

1621.

Recorded in Eccles, p. 92.

A deposition by Sandys in the case of Dawber versus Clayborne, written in a secretarial hand and signed by Sandys at the foot of both broadsheets, 22 June 1638.

1638.

Wycherley's deposition, the text in the hand of a scribe and signed by Wycherley, on behalf of George Rodney Bridges and his wife Anna Maria, Countess of Shrewsbury, in a Chancery suit between Bridges and Elizabeth Browne, 12 May 1693.

1693.

Recorded in Eleanore Boswell, Footnotes to Seventeenth-Century Biographies, MLR, 26 (1931), 341-5.

Pleadings, in Latin, in the Court of Chancery, Westminster, in a case concerning George and Richard Puttenham and the manor of Sherfield, on one large membrane of vellum, [c.12 February 1568/9].

1589.

Pleadings, in Latin, in the Court of Chancery, Westminster, in a case brought 27 August 1570 by George Puttenham, Richard Puttenham and Richard Charnock (their brother-in-law) against one Ansley, on one large membrane of vellum, [October-November 1570].

1570.

Record of a case between George Puttenham and Robert Dowe, in a Chancery Close Roll on vellum, Westminster, 3 April 1566.

1566.

Record of a case between George Puttenham and Thomas White concerning Richard Springham, in a Chancery Close Roll on vellum, Westminster, 23 July 1566.

1566.

Record in Latin, in a Chancery Close Roll on vellum, of a grant to George Puttenham in consideration of his faithful and acceptable service (in consideratione boni veri & fidelis & acceptabilis servicii nobis) of the reversion of the leases of the rectories of Marten, Wiltshire, and St Botolphs without Aldgate, London, at annual rents of £18 and £22 respectively, [May 1588].

1588.

A box of papers and commonplace books of the Cary family, including the Rev. Francis Henry Cary (1642-1712), rector of Brinkworth, Wiltshire.

Muniments principally of Anne (née St John: 1614-96), Countess of Rochester, and the associated Lee and Cary families.

A box of unbound and unnumbered legal and miscellaneous papers.

Milton's faltering post-blindness autograph signature (John Milton) on a certified affidavit recording payment to him of a £500 debt by Richard Powell, 29 November 1659, written on the verso of Powell's bond to Milton of 11 June 1627.

1659.

Discussed, with a complete facsimile, in J. Milton French, The Powell-Milton Bond, HSNPL, 20 (1938), 61-73. Edited in Columbia XVIII, 419-20, and in LR, I, 135-7.

Severall answeres by Wither to Thomas Knollis's bill of complaint, entirely in a professional hand and unsigned, 15 December 1645.

1645.

Wither's autograph bill of complaint, to the Privy Council, against Humphrey Fledger, on a single large membrane of vellum, 6 May 1647.

1647.

An autograph bill of complaint by Wither, to the Privy Council, concerning a suit against him by one Thomas Beauchamp a pore Tradsman in London, on a single membrane of vellum, 28 January 1657/8.

1558.

Vanbrugh's bill of complaint against Thomas Holford about the Haymarket Theatre site, entirely in the hand of a legal clerk, 14 August 1703.

1703.

Register, No. 1732.

Muniments of the Duchess of Norfolk.

Autograph letter signed, to the Secretary of the Board of Trade, from Ashley, 5 October 1717.

1717.

Hodges, No. 83. McKenzie, III, 182 (Letter 62)

Heywood's signature on a lease, 20 February 1538/9.

1539.

Discussed in A. W. Reed, Early Tudor Drama (London, 1926), pp. 35-7, 237-8, with a facsimile example facing p. 124.

Shakespeare's signature, in a cursive secretary hand, on a deposition in the case of Belott versus Mountjoy, 11 May 1612.

Twenty-five other documents relating to the case, many mentioning Shakespeare, are REQ 4/1/3.

1612.

Facsimile in S. Schoenbaum, William Shakespeare: A Documentary Life (New York, 1975), p. 212.

Autograph, untitled, subscribed Per me laurigerum britonu skeltonida Vatem:, on two conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet, endorsed A lawde and prayse made for our Sovereigne Lord the Kyng, probably the MS presented to Henry VIII in 1509.

c.1509.

Edited from this MS in Dyce and in Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII, ed. J.S. Brewer, Vol. II, Part II (London, 1864), p. 1518.

Complete facsimile and transcript in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 6-8. Facsimile examples in William Nelson, John Skelton, Laureate (New York, 1939), p. 164; in Maurice Pollet, John Skelton, trans. John Warrington (London, 1971), after p. 62; in John Skelton, The Book of the Laurel, ed. F.W. Brownlow (Newark, Delaware, 1990), p. 26; in DLB, vol. 136, Sixteenth-Century British Non-Dramatic Writers. Second Series, ed. David A. Richardson (Detroit, 1994), p. 306; and in Henry VIII Man and Monarch, ed. Susan Doran (British Library, London, 2009), p. 62.

Articles to be inquired of executed and p[er]formed for and on the behalf of her ma^tie in the Counties of Staff warwick and Oxford, inquiring about outstanding debts to the Queen of Sir John Throckmorton deceased and George Puttenham, in seventeen several bonds of £40, the document signed by Sir John Fortescue, Chancellor of the Exchequer, on one membrane of vellum, [undated, but between 1589 and 1603].

c.1589-1603.

An official document signed by Leland, 20 May 1545.

Recorded in Letters and Papers Foreign and Domestic of Henry VIII, Vol. XX, part 1 (1905), No. 776.

Official enrolled copy of an indictment of Thomas Betterton's company for profane or obscene expressions.

Agreement between Vanbrugh and Owen Swiney concerning the Haymarket Theatre, the text entirely in Vanbrugh's hand and signed by him and Swiney, 14 August 1706.

1706.

Edited in Coke Papers, p. 7. Recorded by Milhous and Hume in TN, 35 (1981), p. 77. Register, No. 1860.

Agreement between Vanbrugh and Wilks, in a professional hand and signed by both men, 15 August 1706.

1706.

Recorded by Milhous and Hume in TN, 35 (1981), 77. Register, No. 1861.

Agreement between Vanbrugh and Mrs Oldfield, in a professional hand and signed by both Vanbrugh and by Mrs Oldfield, 15 August 1706.

1706.

Recorded by Milhous and Hume in TN, 35 (1981), 77. Register, No. 1862.

Agreement between Vanbrugh and Henry Norris, in a professional hand and signed by both men, 15 August 1706.

1706.

Recorded by Milhous and Hume in TN, 35 (1981), 77. Register, No. 1863.

Agreement between Vanbrugh and John Mills, in a professional hand and signed by Mills only, 20 August 1706.

1706.

Recorded by Milhous and Hume in TN, 35 (1981), 77. Register, No. 1864.

Agreement between Vanbrugh and William Bullock, in a professional hand and signed by Bullock only, 20 August 1706.

1706.

Recorded by Milhous and Hume in TN, 35 (1981), 77. Register, No. 1865.

Agreement between Vanbrugh and Theophilus Keen, in a professional hand and signed by Keen only, 20 August 1706.

1706.

Recorded by Milhous and Hume in TN, 35 (1981), 77. Register, No. 1866.

Agreement between Vanbrugh and Thomas Newman, in a professional hand and signed by Newman only, 20 August 1706.

1706.

Recorded by Milhous and Hume in TN, 35 (1981), 77. Register, No. 1867.

M^r Vanbrughs proposall concerning actresses' salaries, in the hand of Sir John Stanley, [spring 1706].

1706.

Recorded by Milhous and Hume in TN, 35 (1981), 83.

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [? Thomas Coke, Vice-Chamberlain], from Whitehall, 6 July 1714.

1714.

Edited in Albert Rosenberg, New Light on Vanbrugh, PQ, 45 (1966), 603-13 (p. 609). Recorded by Milhous and Hume in TN, 35 (1981), 84. Register, No. 2424.

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [? Thomas Coke, Vice-Chamberlain], 13 August 1714.

1714.

Edited in Albert Rosenberg, New Light on Vanbrugh, PQ, 45 (1966), 603-13 (pp. 609-10). Recorded by Milhous and Hume in TN, 35 (1981), 84. Register, No. 2427.

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [? Thomas Coke, Vice-Chamberlain, or Sir John Stanley]. 27 December 1714.

1714.

Edited in Albert Rosenberg, New Light on Vanbrugh, PQ, 45 (1966), 603-13 (p. 610). Recorded by Milhous and Hume in TN, 35 (1981), 84. Register, No. 2491.

Memorandum [? to Thomas Coke, Vice Chamberlain] on the history of Vanbrugh's agreement with Owen Swiney, in a professional hand and signed by Vanbrugh (f. 169r), with professional copies of related letters by Lord Shrewsbury and Colley Cibber (ff. 169v-70r) and Vanbrugh's autograph copies of letters by Swiney (ff. 171-2), [c.February 1714/15].

1715.

Edited in Albert Rosenberg, New Light on Vanbrugh, PQ, 45 (1966), 603-13 (p. 609), and in Coke Papers, pp. 233-6. Recorded by Milhous and Hume in TN, 35 (1981), 122. Register, No. 2506.

Autograph memorandum by Vanbrugh explaining why he denied Rich the right to produce plays, [c. August 1706].

1706.

Edited in Coke Papers, pp. 9-10 (No. 5). Register, No. 1856.

Purchase by Vanbrugh from Woolley of ground for the Haymarket Theatre, [1703].

1703.

Recorded in 1984 by Graham Barlow: see Register, No. 1731.

Copy of Vanbrugh's indenture assigning the Haymarket Theatre to Charles Vanbrugh, 13 October 1720.

c.1720.

Register, No. 3031.

A true Inventory of y^e Goods that are in the Tower Wardrobe, signed at the end by Wither as member of the Committee of Trustees for the Sale of the Late King's Goods.

c.1649.

Edited in Millar, pp. 1-19.

A true inventory of the plate now being in the Jewell=house of Whitehall in the Custody of M^r Carew Mildmay taken the 31^th of July. 1649, signed at the end by Wither as member of the Committee of Trustees for the Sale of the Late King's Goods.

1649.

Edited in Millar, pp. 20-1.

Goods belonging to y^e late King vallued as followeth, signed near the end by Wither as member of the Committee of Trustees for the Sale of the Late King's Goods.

c.1649.

Edited in Millar, pp. 322-6.

Copy of an order by the Council in the Privy Council Registers, agreeing, with sureties of £200, to allow Puttenham, currently prisoner in the Fleet, to appear at Winchester Assizes, 15 June 1570.

1570.

Dasent, VII, 364.

Copy of an order by the Council, in the Privy Council Register, commanding the Warden of the Fleet prison to pay Puttenham £20 due to him, 22 July 1574.

1574.

Dasent, VIII, 274.

Copy of a letter by the Council, in the Privy Council Registers, informing the Dean of the Arches of Lady Windsor's suit with her husband George Puttenham and her state of destitution, 31 October 1575.

1575.

Dasent, IX, 39-40.

Copy of a letter by the Council, in the Privy Council Registers, ordering Puttenham to obey the Court of Arches decree to pay his wife Lady Windsor £3 a week from the end of May until 18 November or else to appear before the Council to answer cause to the contrary.12 March 1575/6.

1576.

Dasent, IX, 96.

Copy of a letter by the Council, in the Privy Council Registers, requiring the Archbishop of Canterbury and Bishop of London to settle the dispute between Puttenham and his wife, for that the Ladies case seemeth Lamentable and her husbandes dealinge[s] extreme considering he hath all his Livinge[s] by her, 20 April 1576.

1576.

Dasent, IX, 107.

Copy of a letter by the Council, in the Privy Council Registers, ordering Puttenham to pay his wife £112, wh[i]ch he hath heretofore contemptuouslie refused to do, or else appear before the Council, and not to faile in any wise as he will aunswer to the contrarie at his p[er]ill, 19 June 1576.

1576.

Dasent, IX, 144.

Report, in the Privy Ciuncil registers, concerning Puttenham's willingness to defend himself in Star Chamber against the accusation that he unlawfully conveyed lands from Lady Windsor and without recourse to the Queen's pardon, 24 June 1578.

1576.

Dasent, IX, 148.

Order by the Council, in the Privy Council Registers, to seek advice of the Master of the Rolls with respect to Lady Windsor's petition, 15 June 1578.

1578.

Dasent, X, 255.

Order by the Council, in the Privy Council Registers, for apprehending Puttenham and his servant John Cressett, 23 June 1578.

1578.

Dasent, X, 260.

Order, in the Privy Council Registers, notifying the Attorney General that they are moved with compassion for Lady Windsor and granting Puttenham twenty days to retrieve £120 from Lord Windsor before he appears before the Council, 26 October 1578.

1578.

Dasent, X, 355-6. Quoted in Willis, p. 454.

A letter by Sir John Throckmorton, in the Privy Council Registers, about deferred payment of £220 to Puttenham. 21 October 1578.

1578.

Dasent, X, 363.

A letter by the Council, in the Privy Council Registers, to Sir John Throckmorton, notifying him of their requiring him or Puttenham to appear before the Council in order to bring some order into the Lady Windsor dispute, 6 November 1578.

1578.

Dasent, X, 375-6. Quoted in Willis, pp. 454-5.

A letter by the Council, in the Privy Council Registers, requesting Dr Lewes and others to ascertain what is owed to Lady Windsor by Puttenham, 8 December 1578.

1578.

Dasent, X, 430.

Warrant by the Council, in the Privy Council Registers, for the Keeper of the Gatehouse, Westminster, to receive Puttenham into custody, 23 December 1578.

1578.

Dasent, X, 435. Quoted in Willis, p. 455.

Order by the Council, in the Privy Council Registers, to deliver the disputed lands of Puttenham to John Paulet, 1 March 1578/9.

1579.

Dasent, XI, 61.

Council proceedings, entered in Robert Beale's hand: in the Privy Council Registers, about investigating the dealings of Puttenham and Sir John Throckmorton, 17 May 1579.

1579.

Dasent, XI, 129-30.

The Council's settlement of Lady Windsor's case against Puttenham, in the Privy Council Registers, 13 July 1579.

1579.

Dasent, XI, 168.

Autograph agreement signed by George Puttenham (Geo. putenham~), countersigned by his former wife Elizabeth Lady Windsor (Elizabethe wenser), for a settlement between them, specifying his allowances to her and overseeing by Sir John Trockmorton or someone else appointed by the Council, Puttenham's text considerably emended in the hand of Lord Burghley, who has also added the names of the Lords of the Council; on one folio page, tipped into Volume IV of the Privy Council Registers, Greenwich, 13 July 1579.

1579.

Dasent, XI, 188-9.

Council proceedings, in the Privy Council Registers, wanting Throckmorton to find out why the agreed settlement by Puttenham was not performed, [c.1579-81].

c.1579-81.

Dasent, XI, 299.

A letter by the Council, in the Privy Council registers, requesting the Judges Delegate to help Lady Windsor to get the relief due to her, 19 June 1581.

1581.

Dasent, X, 93.

A letter by the Council, in the Privy Council Registers, ordering Puttenham to settle Lady Windsor's complaints or answer to the Council, 7 August 1581.

1581.

Dasent, XIII, 162.

Letter by the Council, in the Privy Council Registers, requesting commissioners to investigate or settle the Puttenham-Windsor dispute relating to the Herriard estate, 11 September 1581.

1581.

Dasent, XIII, 203-4.

A summary in official minutes of a petition by Congreve to the Board of Trade, 9 February 1717/18.

1718.

Hodges, No. 86.

A letter subscribed and signed by Dudley Carleton, the text in Carew's hand, to Edward Herbert in Paris, from The Hague, 5 October 1619 NS.

A letter subscribed and signed by Dudley Carleton, most of the last page in his hand, the rest in Carew's hand, [to Edward Herbert], from The Hague, 9 November 1619 NS.

Autograph letter signed, to Sir Edward Herbert, 23 January 1614/15.

1615.

Edited in Hayward, pp. 465-6.

Autograph letter signed by Habington, to Lady Herbert, endorsed as received 1 February 1645/6.

A folio volume of antiquarian tracts and papers relating to the Earl Marshall and duels, entirely in the hand of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), antiquary, 46 leaves, imperfect, disbound.

From papers of the Herbert family, of Powis Castle.

A folio composite sheaf of autograph writings by Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, 25 leaves, sewn but unbound.

c.1625.

From papers of the Herbert family, of Powis Castle.

Thomas Southerne's last will and testament, 6 November 1731, proved 3 June 1746.

Edited in Jordan & Love, II, 432-3.

Shakespeare's last will and testament, in the cursive secretary hand of a legal clerk or scrivener, signed by Shakespeare in a shaky hand three times on three separate pages, the last By me William Shakspeare, dated 25 March 1616, proved 22 June 1616.

1616.

Facsimiles in S. Schoenbaum, William Shakespeare: A Documentary Life (New York, 1975), pp. 243-5; in William Shakespeare: A Documentary Volume, ed. Catherine Loomis, DLB, 263 (Detroit, 2002), pp. 245-7; and elsewhere.

Donne's last will and testament, made 13 December 1630, proved 5 April 1631.

1630.

The text edited in Bald, Life, pp. 563-7.

Pepys's last will and testament, originally written 2 August 1701, with codicils dated 12-13 May 1703, proved 25 June 1703.

1703.

Edited in H.B. Wheatley, Pepysiana (London, 1899), pp. 251-70.

Bacon's last will and testament, signed by him 19 December 1625, proved 13 July 1627.

1626.

The text printed in Spedding, XIV, 539-45.

Herbert's last will and testament, in the hand of his curate, Nathaniel Bostocke, and signed by Herbert, dated 25 February 1632/3, and proved 12 March 1632/3.

1633.

Edited in Hutchinson, pp. 382-3.

Walton's autograph last Will and testament, begun 9 August and finished and signed before witnesses on 24 October 1683, proved 4 February 1683/4.

1683.

Edited (with errors) in Nicolas, I, ciii-cviii. Reprinted in Keynes (1929), pp. 605-9. Edited from the original in Ernest G. Marriott, Izaak Walton 1593-1683 (London, 1987), pp. 17-20. Unfolding facsimile in The Compleat Angler, ed. George A. B. Dewar, 2 vols (London, 1902), after p. xliv.

Evelyn's autograph last will and testament, proved 18 March 1705.

Puttenham's last will and testament, entirely in the hand of a scribe, bequeathing all his goods and chattels, including his bille[s] bonnde[s] obligac[i]ions, to Marye Sym[m]es wydowe his servaunt…for the good service she did hym, written in the presence of Sebastian Archebold scrivener, James Clerke, William Johnson and dyvers others, aboute the fyrste day of September Anno d[omi]ni 1590; proved according to a subsequent inscription in Latin, 14 October 1594.

1594.

Vanbrugh's autograph last will and testament, unsigned, written, with a codicil, 30-31 August 1725 and proved 22 April 1726.

1725.

Last will and testament of Richard Puttenham, entirely in the hand of a scribe, written as a prisoner in her mat^ies Bench, bequeathing all his goods to my verely, reported and reputed daughter Katherin Puttenham and appointing my trustye frinds John Armatage and John Peter as his overseers, witnessed by William Blithe, John Calvert, Frances Syckes, Thomas Blithe and John Peter; made 22 April 1597, proved 2 May 1597.

1597.

Daniel's autograph last will and testament, signed, dated 4 September 1619.

1619.

The text edited in Sellers, p. 54.

Walton's autograph signature as witness to the will of Nicholas Hare of the Inner Temple, also witnessed by Walton's brother-in-law Thomas Grinsell, 19 December 1621.

This will was proved 7 January 1621/2: a probate copy PROB 11/139/1.

1621.

Recorded in Jonquil Bevan, Izaak Walton's The Compleat Angler The Art of Recreation (Brighton, 1988), p. 7.

Camden's last will and testament, proved 10 November 1623.

1623.

Camden's will edited in Hearne (1720), Appendix II, 277-80, and (1771), II, 390-2.

Marston's autograph signature on his last will and testament, drawn up on 17 June 1634, proved 9 July 1634.

1634.

The text printed in The Works of John Marston, ed. James Orchard Halliwell (London, 1856), I, viii-ix. Discussed by Robert E. Brettle in John Marston, Dramatist at Oxford, 1591(?)-1594, 1609, RES, 3 (1927), 398-405; in John Marston, Dramatist: Some New Facts about his Life, MLR, 22 (1927), 7-14; and in Notes on John Marston, RES, NS 13 (1962), 390-3.

Corbett's last will and testament, signed by him twice, dated 7 July 1635; proved 5 September 1635.

1635.

Burton's autograph last will and testament, with his revisions, dated 15 August 1639, proved 11 May 1640.

Edited and discussed in Nicolas K. Kiessling, Robert Burton's Will Holograph Copy, RES, NS 41 (February 1990), 94-101. Complete facsimile in Nicolas K. Kiessling's exhibition catalogue The Legacy of Democritus Junior (Bodleian Library, 1990), Plates VII-IX, pp. 22-4.

Herbert's last will and testament, proved October 1648.

1648.

Hall's partly autograph and signed last will and testament, dated 21 July 1654, emended on 7 September 1656, and proved 18 September 1656.

1656.

Wynter, I, lxxvii-lxxxi.

Shirley's last will and testament, entirely autograph, with copious revisions, and signed by Shirley (James Shirley), on four large broadsheets, July 1666, proved 6 November 1666. A registered copy is National Archives, Kew, PROB 11/319-22.

Edited (incomplete and with inaccuracies) in Arthur Huntington Nason, James Shirley, Dramatist (New York, 1915), pp. 158-60. Facsimile pages are in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCV(b-c), and in IELM, II.ii (1993), Facsimile XII, after p. xxi.

Denham's last will and testament, signed by him, 13 March 1668/9, proved 9 May 1670.

1669.

Edited in Wills from Doctors' Commons, ed. John Gough Nichols and John Bruce, Camden Society No. 83 (1863), pp. 119-23, Cited in O Hehir, Harmony, pp. 253, 256.

The last will and testament of John Beaumont, Agnes Beaumont's father, signed by her as a witness, made 15 August 1670, proved 30 May 1674.

1670.

Recorded in Patricia L. Bell, Agnes Beaumont of Edworth, Bunyan Studies: Bunyan and his Times, 10 (2001/2). 7-28 (pp. 12 and 27 n. 8).

Autograph signature of Traherne (Tho. Traherne) as witness to the will of his patron, Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 19 February 1673/4, proved 15 July 1674.

A registered copy (unsigned) is PROB 11/345/83.

1674.

Recorded in Gladys Wade, Thomas Traherne (Princeton, 1944), p. 103.

Traherne's nuncupative will, bequeathing, among other things, All my books…to my brother Phillip, drawn up after his death and witnessed by Alice Coxson, Mary Linum, John Berdoe and K. Digby Jr, 27 September 1674, proved 22 October 1674.

Autograph last will and testament signed by More, 12 June 1686.

1686.

A registered copy of Waller's last will and testament, entirely in a professional hand, 19 June 1686, with a separate codicil dated 2 July 1687, and proved 7 November 1687.

1687.

Shadwell's last will and testament, entirely autograph and signed by him, [1690], proved 13 December 1692.

Edited in Summers, I, ccxxxv-ccxxxvi, with a complete unfolding facsimile after p. ccxxx. It is is accompanied by a probate deposition signed by Ellenor Leigh on 13 December 1692, certifying that Shadwell wrote the Will between Bartholomew=tide and Michaelmas 1690. This is edited in Summers, I, ccxxxv (where it is misdated 3, December), with an unfolding facsimile before p. ccxxxi.

1690.

Halifax's last will and testament signed by him, proved 17 April 1695.

1695.

Sedley's Last Will and Testament, the text in the hand of a clerk or scrivener and signed by Sedley, proved 30 August 1701.

1701.

Edited in Sola Pinto, Life, pp. 315-18.

Wycherley's last Will and Testament, the text in the hand of a scrivener and signed in a shaky hand by Wycherley the day before his death, 31 December 1715, proved 13 January 1715/16.

1715.

Probate copy of Elyot's last will and testament, 1546.

1546.

Registered copies of Barclay's last will and testament, dated 10 June 1552 and 13 May 1553.

1552-3.

A registered copy of Sidney's last will and testament.

c.1580s.

Edited in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, pp. 147-52.

A registered copy of Hoskyns's last will and testament, dated 31 January 1635[/6].

Osborn, pp. 241-2.

A registered copy of Puttenham's last will and testament, which was written c.1 September 1590 and proved 10 October 1594.

1594.

A registered copy of the last will and testament of Richard Puttenham, made 22 April 1597, proved 2 May 1597.

1597.

A registered copy (on f. 94) of Daniel's last will and testament, proved 1 February 1619/20.

1620.

A registered copy of Camden's last will and testament, proved 10 November 1623.

1623.

Camden's will edited in Hearne (1720), Appendix II, 277-80, and (1771), II, 390-2.

A registered copy of Gorges's last will and testament, proved 27 December 1625.

A registered copy of Andrewes's last will and testament, dated 16 February 1626/7.

1627.

Edited in LACT, Minor Works (1854), pp. c-cxix.

A registered copy of Bacon's last will and testament, 19 December 1625, proved 13 July 1627.

1626.

A registered copy of Herbert's last will and testament, in a professional hand, proved 12 March 1632/3.

1633.

A registered copy of Marston's last will and testament, 9 July 1634.

1634.

A registered copy of Corbett's last will and testament, dated 7 July 1635, proved 5 September 1635.

1635.

Probate copy of Burton's last will and testament.

1640.

Edited from this MS in Publications of the Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1 (1926), 218-20, and in Paul Jordan-Smith's edition of Philosophaster (Stanford, 1931), pp. 275-7.

A registered copy of Martha Moulsworth's last will and testament, 19 July 1646.

1646.

Edited in The Muses Females Are: Martha Moulsworth and Other Women Writers of the English Renaissance, ed. Robert C. Evans and Anne C. Little (West Cornwall, CT, 1995), pp. 221-4.

A registered copy of Anne Venn's last will and testament, made 19 November 1653, proved 26 January 1654/5.

1655.

Probate copy of Hall's last will and testament, made by him on 21 July 1654, emended 7 September 1656, and proved 18 September 1656.

A registered copy of Earle's last will and testament, proved 18 December 1665.

1665.

Cited in Darwin, p. 237.

A registered copy of Shirley's last will and testament, July 1666, proved 6 November 1666.

1666.

A registered copy of King's last will and testament, 14 July 1653, proved 16 November 1669.

1669.

Edited in Hannah, pp. cviii-cxiv.

A registered copy of Denham's last will and testament of 13 March 1668/9, proved 9 May 1670.

c.1670.

A registered copy of Traherne's nuncupative will, 27 September 1674, proved 22 October 1674.

c.1674.

Edited from this copy in Dobell (1903), pp. 167-8. Reprinted in Margoliouth, I, xxvi-xxvii.

Probate copy of Katherine Austen's last will and testament.

1683.

A registered confirmation of the codical, made on 2 July 1687, to Waller's last will and testament dated 19 June 1686, proved 7 November 1687.

1687.

A registered copy of More's last will and testament of 12 June 1686, proved 2 [or 22] October 1687.

1687.

Edited in Nicolson, pp. 481-3.

Registered copy of Waller's last will and testament, 19 June 1686, with a separate codicil dated 2 July 1687, and proved 7 November 1687.

1687.

A registered copy of Shadwell's last will and testament, proved 13 December 1692.

1692.

A registered copy of Killigrew's last will and testament, dated 3 October 1695.

1695.

Edited from this MS in Motten, pp. 326-7.

A registered copy of Halifax's last will and testament, proved 17 April 1695.

1695.

Edited in Foxcroft, II, 264-6.

A registered copy of Sedley's last will and testament, proved 30 August 1701.

1701.

Probate copy of Pepys's last will and testament, originally written 2 August 1701, with codicils dated 12-13 May 1703, proved 25 June 1703.

1703.

A registered copy of Dorset's last will and testament, proved 21 April 1708.

1708.

A registered copy of the last will and testament of Elizabeth Freke, proved 15 April 1714.

1714.

A registered copy of Wycherley's last will and testament, 31 December 1715, proved 13 January 1715/16.

1716.

A registered copy of Manley's last will and testament, made 6 October 1723 and proved 28 September 1724.

1724.

Edited in Daniel Hipwell, Mary de la Rivière Manley, N&Q, 7th Ser. 8 (1889), 156-7.

A registered copy of Vanbrugh's last will and testament, written 30-31 August 1725 and proved 22 April 1726.

1726.

A registered copy of Congreve's last will and testament, made 26 February 1725/6, proved 3 February 1728.

1728.

Hodges, Letters, No. 148, pp. 254-8.

A registered copy of Denham's last will and testament, made 13 March 1669, proved 9 May 1669, with an inventory.

1669.

Petition by Richard Puttenham, after four years' imprisonment, relating to his estranged wife Mary, 3 May 1587.

1587.

Petition relating to Richard Puttenham and Katherine Jenninge, widow, 6 November 1587.

1587.

Interrogatories to be administered to Francis Morris (husband of Richard Puttenham's daughter) on behalf of George Puttenham, about the circumstances of his forfeiture of £1,000 to the Queen by virtue of confiscation and Morris's stay of it and repayment of it into the Exchequer; with Francis Morris's answers signed, confirming that the byll signed by her ma^tie was staied and Revokd by his means, on a membrane of vellum and two broadsheets, 2 December 1578.

1578.

John Caborne versus Richard Puttenham and John Morris relating to the manor of Sherfield, 1590.

1590.

A bill of complaint to the Queen by Richard Hartilpoole (a verye poor and Aged man) about George Puttenham's unlawful removal of bedding from his house to Puttenham's dwelling house in Trinity Lane, London, about 1564-65 [September or October 1565], and his withholding for three years of a £5 annuity due to him according to his deed of 5 April 1565, [1569]; the answers of George Puttenham to Hartilpoole's bill of complaint, 17 May 1569; the replication of Hartilpoole to Puttenham's answers, 19 May 1569; interrogatoreis to be administered on behalf of Richard Hartilpoole to George Puttenham; Depositions of Edmund Walwyne, Richard Price, Richard Dyckenson and John Francis Maganza in answer to interrogatories by Puttenham, 6 June 1569; and (at the top) a warrant by the Queen and Master of Requests for the arrest and imprisonment of George Puttenham because of his disobedience, To the manyfeste contempte of vs and o^r said Counsaill, of their decree and other letters of injunction relating to Hartilpoole's bill of complaint, on five membranes of vellum and five folio pages, 24 July 1569.

1569.

Edmund Molinex versus Thomas Colbie and Richard Puttenham concerning the manor of Sherfield, 1584.

1584.

Richard Puttenham versus Thomas Hargrave and Elizabeth his wife concerning the manor of Sherfield, 1583.

1583.

A bill of complaint to the Queen by George Puttenham against John Ashe concerning money owned to him in accordance with a statute staple resulting from a bond for £400 made earlier to Ashe by Henry Pockham who had since been attainted and executed, 13 May 1564, together with the Answer of John Ashe, denying the debt, on two membranes of vellum, [1564].

1564.

A lawsuit involving Richard Puttenham's estranged wife Mary Puttenham, 1591.

1591.

A bill of complaint to the Queen by Henry Thackham, who for two years had served George Puttenham in thoffice of his clark and in other busynes and affaires at an annual salary of £10 but who had accrued in Puttenham's service expenses of £40 which Puttenham w^thout respect of any vpright dealing had refused to pay, having also by his synister practises and subtill p[er]swasions and devyces procured and allured Thackham in Puttenham's affairs to spende and consume…the some of C [100] m[a]rke[s], on one membrane of vellum, undated.

c.1570s-80s.

A bill of complaint to King James I by y^r poore and distressed subiect Mary Simmes, widow, administratrix of George Puttenham's Will, against Sir Richard Paulet, demanding restitution for the chattels, books and diuers Evidence[s], Indentures Leases, statuts, Obligac[i]ons, bonds, bills, defesants [defeasances], certificats, and other Writings, all of a very greate valewe, which his parents John and Katherine Paulet had violently taken away from Puttenham's lodgings in Whitefriars [in 1578], referring to the inventory of Nine Leaves they had delivered to Puttenham's servant John Cresset about November 1579 as a trew coppy, the goods kept by the Paulets being worth £1,000 or more, and explaining how she had looked after Puttenham in his sickness, spending not only the little goods she had but also her time in his service, being now reduced to extreme poverty; Sir Richard Paulet's lengthy answer, defending the lawfulness of his family's proceedings (in which, however, he took no part, being then only a youth) and summarizing related matters concerning title, valuation and subsequent legal and financial arrangements, mentioning a letter by Humfrye Moseley secondarye of woodstreet about a jury's valuation of so many of y^e said Puttenhms goode[s]…at twentie three pounde[s] four shillinge[s] and two pence, referring to Puttenham as an ill disposed man, much bent to troubles, who as the world knoweth by keeping the plaint[iff] or other leawd women giving cause of divorce had much abused Paulet's grandmother, Lady Windsor, 29 April (docketed 5 May) 1613; and Mary Simmes's replication to this answer, insisting that the goods the Paulets had originally taken were worth £5,000, referring to another inventory of certain of George Puttenham's goods left in Herriard House to the value of £2,000 or more which Richarde Paulet gave to John Cresset about November 1597, and demanding restoration or recompense, on three membranes of vellum, 4 July 1613.

1613.

Recorded in Eccles, p. 109 (as Req 2/414/196).

A deposition by Gabriel Harvey of Walden...Essex Doctor of the lawe aged threeskore and thirteene yeres or thereaboutes, at Saffron Walden, 12 April 1626.

1626.

Recorded in Eccles, pp. 61-2.

A document in a professional secretary hand and signed JHoskyns, relating to a replication of Henry Hoskyns in a case relating to Launcelot Mills and his wife, on a large membrane of vellum, 3 May 1622?.

1622.

Directions by Queen Elizabeth concerning the case of Richard Puttenham, found guilty of rape, 25 April 1561.

1561.

Record in a Signet Office register on vellum of A lease in Revercon graunted vnto George Puttenham esq^r of the p[ar]sonage of Marten in the County of Wiltesh^r & ye personage of S^r Botholphe w^thout Aldgate London for the terme of xl^tie, yeare[s] Rent xl^li, & noe fyne in consideracon of service Sub: by the L: T[reasu]rer, & S^r Walter Mildmay. Procured by M^r wyndebancke, May 1588.

1588.

Autograph letter signed by Leland, to Thomas Cromwell, 25 January 1536/7.

Edited in Letters and Papers Foreign and Domestic of Henry VIII, Vol. XII, part 1 (1890), No. 230.

Autograph letter signed, to Thomas Cromwell, 18 November 1532.

1532.

Wilson, pp. 7-10.

Autograph letter signed, to Sir John Hackett, 6 April 1533.

1533.

Wilson, pp. 16-17.

Autograph letter signed, to Thomas Cromwell, [April or May 1533].

1533.

Wilson, pp. 18-19.

Autograph letter signed, to Thomas Cromwell, [Autumn 1534-Spring 1535].

1534-35.

Wilson, pp. 24-5.

A folio guard-book of independent Tudor state papers, stamped foliation 1-252.

Autograph letter signed, to Thomas Cromwell, 25 March [1528].

1528.

Wilson, p. 1.

An oblong quarto music part book (bass), the lyrics in a secretary hand, occupying ff. 19-32 (pencil foliation 16-29) in a folio guardbook of independent Tudor state papers, stamped foliation 1-97.

Mid-16th century.

Autograph letter signed, to the Viscountess Lisle, 3 December [1533].

1533.

Wilson, pp. 20-1.

Transcript of part of the Royal Society Register Book 1, in the hand of Michael Weeks, Clerk of the Royal Society.

Among the papers of Sir Joseph Williamson (1633-1701).

Papers of Sir Joseph Williamson (1633-1701).

Transcript of part of the Royal Society Register book in the hand of Michael Weeks, Clerk of the Royal Society.

Among the papers of Sir Joseph Williamson (1633-1701).

An octavo volume of tracts and papers relating to the Court of Chancery, in a single predominantly secretary hand, 203 pages (plus blanks), in modern calf.

c.1635-40s.

Name inscribed on flyleaf of Joseph [?]Manson.

A double-folio-size guardbook of separate verse MSS, in various hands and sizes, 43 leaves, in modern cloth.

Among the papers of Sir Joseph Williamson (1633-1701), but possibly derived in part from the Conway Papers: see Donne, Introduction.

Copies of five letters by Ralegh, to Sir John Gilbert the elder, 1583-91.

MS of the complete but probably unfinished work on 380 quarto leaves (pp. 1-182 of larger size than the rest), comprising 745 pages.

MS of the complete but probably unfinished work on 380 quarto leaves (pp. 1-182 of larger size than the rest), comprising 745 pages (erroneously paginated 1-735), some mutilated at edges; pp. 1-196, a fair copy of the first fourteen chapters, in one hand, that of Daniel Skinner (being almost certainly a recopying of an earlier transcript by Jeremie Picard); pp. 197-735, bearing extensive alterations and rewriting, in a second hand, that of Jeremie Picard (evidently the original copier of the whole work), but for pp. 183-96, 308, 571-4, which are entirely in Daniel Skinner's hand, with numerous recopying (of less legible portions of Picard's MS) in Skinner's hand elsewhere, sometimes on pasted-on slips in the margin (most notably on pp. 206, 222, 235, 247, 281-2, 304, 311, 328, 350, 353, 362, 381, 411, 461A, 472, 475, 486-7, 490, 506, 552, 559, 596, 617, 642, 686 [verso], 703), with additions probably in several other hands throughout; Picard's portion probably written earlier (post 1659) and Skinner's after Milton's death; the prologue (pp. 1-6) headed with a dedication to the Christian church throughout the World ([IO]ANNES MILTONVS Anglus Vniversis Christi Eccleijs...); the work headed before the first chapter (p. 7) De Doctrina Christiana ex sacris duntaxat libris petita disquisitionum libri duo posthumi; later pencil markings in the text by Charles Sumner made in the 19th century.

c.1659-75.

Daniel Skinner made an abortive attempt to publish this work through Elzevir in 1675, after which his father handed this MS over to Sir Joseph Williamson, Secretary of State (together with the Skinner MS of state papers: see Introduction); it was discovered in 1823 by Robert Lemon, Deputy Keeper of the Public Records.

Edited from this MS (in translation) in Sumner, with a facsimile of the first page of Chapter I as frontispiece; collated in Columbia. Discussed in Sotheby, Ramblings, pp. 153-63, with facsimile examples; in James Holly Hanford, The Date of Milton's De Doctrina Christiana, SP, 17 (1920), 309-19; in Arthur Sewell, Milton's De Doctrina Christiana, E&S, 19 (1933), 40-66; in Maurice Kelley, This Great Argument: A Study of Milton's De Doctrina Christiana as a Gloss upon Paradise Lost (Princeton, 1941), with facsimile examples after p. 218 (illustrating what Kelley takes to be at least seven and perhaps as many as twenty different hands); in Parker, II, 1056-7; in Maurice Kelley, Considerations touching the Right Editing of John Milton's De Doctrina Christiana, with a facsimile example, in Editing Seventeenth Century Prose, ed. D.I.B. Smith (Toronto, 1972), pp. 31-50; and in Gordon Campbell, De Doctrina Christiana: Its Structural Principles and Its Unfinished State, Milton Studies, 9 (1976), 243-60; and see also Maurice Kelley's articles, The Recovery, Printing and Reception of Milton's Christian Doctrine, HLQ, 31 (1967-8), 34-41; The Composition of Milton's De Doctrina Christiana: First Phase, in Th' Upright Heart and Pure, ed. Amadeus P. Fiore (Pittsburgh, 1967), pp. 35-44; and On the State of Milton's De Doctrina Christiana, ELN, 27 (1989), 43-8. Facsimile example also in HLQ, 33 (1969-70), after p. 400. See also Introduction above, Documents Signed on Milton's Behalf, No. ix. For an interesting but unconvincing argument that this work is not by Milton and that the ascriptions in the MS may have been spuriously added later, see William B. Hunter, The Provenance of the Christian Doctrine, SEL, 32 (1992), 129-42, illustrated with facsimile examples (and see also counter-arguments by Barbara K. Lewalski and John T. Shawcross, with Hunter's reply, pp. 143-66).

An unbound quarto letterbook, in three separate sections, 109 pages (plus blanks). In a single hand, that of Daniel Skinner, comprising his transcripts of 139 chronologically arranged state letters from 10 August 1649 to 15 May 1659; the collection entitled by Skinner Epistolae Johannis Miltonii Angli Pro Parlamento Anglicano interregni tempore scriptae (followed by three or four obliterated lines); the MS deposited in the Public Records, along with De Doctrina Christiana (MnJ 46), after the Government prevented him from publishing both with Elzevir in 1675.

c.1674-6.

This collection edited in part in Original Papers illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Milton, ed. W. Douglas Hamilton, Camden Society Publications, vol. 75 (1859). Used in Columbia, XIII, and see also LR, V, 237-9 & passim. Discussed in Leo Miller, Milton's Personal Letters and Daniel Skinner, N&Q, 228 (October 1983), 431-2.

Cowley's autograph and signed last will and testament, dated 18 September 1665, proved 31 August 1667.

Cowley's will of 18 September 1665, mentioned above and is preserved in the poet's original autograph in the Public Record Office (PROB 10/1000 (proved 31 August 1667)), as well as in a registered copy (PROB 11/324/104 [an annotated transcript can also be found in the Bodleian, MS Eng. hist. e. 1, ff. 8-11v]).

1665.

Edited in Nethercot, pp. 296-7.

A formal registered copy of Donne's last will and testament, proved 5 April 1631.

1631.

A registered copy of Cowley's last will and testament dated 18 September 1665, proved 31 August 1667.

1667.

A registered copy of Walton's last will and testament, 24 October 1683, proved 4 February 1683/4.

1684.

A folio guard-book of independendent Elizabethan state papers, stamped foliation 1-163.

A folio guard-book of independent Elizabethan state papers, stamped foliation 1-214.

Autograph letter signed by Heywood, to William Cecil, Lord Burghley, 18 April 1575.

1575.

Edited in A. W. Reed, Early Tudor Drama (London, 1926), pp. 35-7, with a facsimile example facing p. 124.

A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 288 leaves, in red morocco.

A certificate of orthodoxy and loyalty signed by Taylor and others in favour of a petitioner, John Allington, [August?] 1660.

1660.

A folio guard-book of independent Elizabethan state papers, stamped foliation 1-230.

Interrogatories, answers and depositions relating to Puttenham's supposed connection with John Hodges and a plot against the life of Sir William Cecil, 19-20 February 1569/70.

1570.

Quoted in Willis, pp. 401-12.

Deposition of George Puttenham in answer to interrogatories administered to him relating to the conduct of John Hodges (including Hodges's alleged advice that Puttenham should have sought his byll not by M^r Secretary [William Cecil] but by my Lorde of Leycester who ys the chyck that sytteth next the hennes yt ys he that shall mary the Quene when all his doon) and denying that Puttenham ever accused Cecil of being a corrupt man or of offering money to anyone to kill him or of saying anything against the honour of either Leicester or his good and gracious Ladye the Queen; also referring to his letters attempting to purchase her Ma^te[s] favo^r, w^ch by vntrewe reporte[s] p[er]haps of late hath been w[ith]drawen; written in the secretary hand of a clerk and signed at the foot of each page by Puttenham himself (Ge. putenham), on 7 folio pages, 20 February 1569/70.

1570.

Articles disproving a suit by Richard Puttenham relating to George Puttenham and Francis Morris [February?] 1569/70.

1570.

Autograph letter signed, to Sir Francis Walsingham, [from King's College, Cambridge, 2 November 1580.

1580.

McClure, No. 3, p. 63.

Autograph, on two folio leaves, dated 2 April 1578.

1578.

Edited from this MS in Schmidt. Facsimiles of part of f. 2v in IELM, I.ii (1980), Facsimile XXXIII (p. 558), and in DLB, vol. 236, British Rhetoricians and Logicians, 1500-1660. First Series, ed. Edward A. Malone (Detroit, 2001), p. 300.

Autograph letter (unsigned), to the Privy Council, about the owtrages comytted upon him by Lord Thomas Paulet and his family and seruante[s], whose mallice put him in danger to be murdred and brought him into this great obloquye and distresse that the worlde seeth, so that Puttenham objects to hazarding his liberty by appearing before the Council only to sarue myn enemyes turnes, and to be noted for a fable to all the courte seekinge to answere a cowple of shameles weemen who neuer knowe tyme to make an ende, on twelve folio pages, endorsed A long lre drawne to the ll. [Lords] of the Councel. from M^r Georg Puttenham, [25 October] 1578.

1678.

Autograph letter (unsigned) by George Puttenham to Sir John Throckmorton, about his ill-treatment by the Paulet family and why he will not appear before the Privy Council or deliver himself into custody, on four folio pages [25? October] 1578.

1578.

Autograph letter (unsigned) by George Puttenham to Sir John Throckmorton, along similar lines, on four folio pages [25? October] 1578.

1578.

Copy of a letter by the Privy Council to Throckmorton, requiring him to appear before the Council to answer Lady Windsor's complaints about his brother-in-law George Puttenham, 6 November 1578.

1578.

A letter by the Council, to Sir John Throckmorton, summonsing him to appear before the Council in order to bring some order into the Puttenham-Lady Windsor dispute, 6 November 1578.

1578.

Quoted in Willis, pp. 455.

Autograph draft notes (unsigned) by George Puttenham for Sir John Throckmorton, about his dispute with his wife and how Throckmorton should conduct himself before the Privy Council, with interspersed autograph comments by Throckmorton, on two folio pages [c.December 1578].

1578.

Autograph note (unsigned) by George Puttenham to Sir John Throckmorton, about their mutual trowbles and how Throckmorton should conduct himself on his appearance before the Council; on one folio page [c. December 1578].

1578.

Autograph note (unsigned) by George Puttenham to Sir John Throckmorton, about his determynation to pursue his case, his unwillingness for Throckmorton to go to prison for his sake but insistence that he should gyve away nothinge without Puttenham's consent (…my ll. [Lords] nor any man lyving shall gyve away any off my goode[s] or lyv[ing]e[s] but by order off lawe…); on one half-folio page, [c.December 1578].

1578.

Autograph manuscript, in Puttenham's mixed italic and secretary scripts, of a translation by him of passages, concerning cruelty and tyranny, in Chapters 58 and 61 of the life of Tiberius, headed Suetonij Tranquilli in vita Tiberij cap. 58 and beginning Abowt that verry tyme his lorde chief iustice came to hym to knowe his Ma^tis plesure…, on two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, [1578].

Evidently relating to Puttenham's autograph notes sent to his brother-in-law Sir John Throckmorton concerning his defiance of the Privy Council.

1578.

This MS recorded in Willcock & Walker, p. xxii.

Autograph letter (unsigned) by George Puttenham to Sir John Throckmorton, about his legal case and willingness to suffer imprisonment if necessary (…there is never a man in englande hathe knowne me so tender ov^r my carcase, as that I wold not willinglie expose it to all dangers for my frende[s] sake…), including notes on the matter as an endorsement, on two folio pages, [? 17 December] 1578.

1578.

Letter signed by Sir John Throckmorton to Sir Francis Walsingham about the arrest of George Puttenham, [20? December] 1578.

1578.

Articles of the Privy Council to be administered to Puttenham concerning his dealings with Sir John Throckmorton, [20? December] 1578.

1578.

The answer of George Puttenham esquire, to the articles propoundedby the Lordes of the Councell, concerning his dealings with Sir John Throckmorton, this xij or xv yeares, written in the secretary hand of a clerk and signed at the end by Puttenham (Geo. Putenham), on four folio pages, 22 December 1578.

1578.

Throckmorton's answer to articles, in a professional hand, [22? December] 1578.

1578.

A letter signed by Throckmorton, to Sir Francis Walsingham, requesting the process in the Exchequer against him and Puttenham to be stayed, 23 December 1578.

1578.

A note about Puttenham's dealings with his brother [Richard] in Flanders in connection with the purchase of Sherfield and his making over the property to Throckmorton; together with an autograph note by Throckmorton [? December 1578].

1578.

Quoted in Willis, pp. 396, 412 and 457.

Autograph notes by George Puttenham presumably sent to Sir John Throckmorton, setting out the state of the case relating to Throckmorton and Puttenham, drawn up as notes within linked bubbles, on a bifolium and single folio leaf, endorsed M^r George Puttenham. The maters concerninge S^r John Throgmarton & him self drawn owte in tables, [? December 1578].

1578.

Autograph letter unsigned, probably by Richard Puttenham to his brother George, complaining of his Ingrate dealinge and the so greate & continuall and apparently endles trouble he causes his friends and relations, all of whom he has now alienated, [31 December] 1578.

1578.

Quoted in Willis, pp. 456-7.

Autograph Consideracions by George Puttenham to be vsed by syr Jhon Throck[morton]. before his appearance before the Council, with Throckmorton's autograph answers and comments written in the margin, on three folio pages, [? June] 1579.

1579.

Autograph Petitions by George Puttenham to be exhibited by yow whan ye haue tried all that can be doon of the former pointe[s], drafted for Throckmorton's use, with interspersed autograph comments by Throckmorton; on one folio page, [June?] 1579.

1579.

Autograph memorandum by George Puttenham Concerninge the court. pointe[s] for Sir T[hrockmorton]. to consider of in order to rydde owreselvs of this trowble at the court but stressing that his appearance before the Council would vttrly destroy Puttenham; on three folio pages, [June?] 1579.

1579.

A certificate signed by Taylor and others in favour of a petitioner, William Markelman, 6 August 1660.

1660.

A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various hands, 255 leaves, in red morocco.

A breyfe of the controversye betwene ffredericke L: Wyndesor, and George Puttenham Esquier, with reference to the annuity granted to Elizabeth Lady Windsor and Puttenham's lewde and covenous practyses, [1582?].

1582?.

Petition by Sir Richard Paulet to the Privy Council for the reclaim of Herriard from George Puttenham and Sir John Throckmorton, 10 November 1583.

1583.

A folio guard-book of independent Elizabethan state papers, stamped foliaton 1-237.

A letter from Christopher Tayler To the godlie and his louinge brother in Christe Mr Houldesworth preacher of gods holie woord at Newcastle in which he records and comments on Hooker's opinions in his Temple sermons.

6 April 1586.

Edited from this MS in Folger edition, Volume V.

A folio guard-book of independent Elizabethan state papers, stamped foliation 1-301.

Copy in a professional hand.

[1594].

Edited from this MS in Cardwell, with facsimile examples. Attributed by him to Bacon, but the MS is not in his hand.

A list of chemical symbols used by Ralegh, headed Clavis Adversariorum Equitis Walteri Rhalegh.

1592.

This MS recorded in Lefranc (1968), p. 678.

A folio guard-book of independent Elizabethan state papers, stamped foliation 1-241.

Copy of Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Book V, chapter LXXVI.

17th century.

A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 159 leaves, in red morocco.

A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 159 leaves, in red morocco.

Autograph letter signed, to William Cecil, Lord Burghley, 16 August 1597.

1597.

Edited in Collected Works, II, 288-9.

Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Cecil, 22 December 1597.

1597.

Edited in Bond, I, 68-9.

A formal MS account of the examination of Alabaster in the Tower before Sir John Peyton and Attorney General Coke, signed by Alabaster, 22 July 1600.

1600.

Edited from this MS in Louise Imogen Guiney, Recusant Poets: with a selection from their work, vol. 1 (1938), pp. 337-8.

A folio guard-book of independent Elizabethan state papers, stamped foliation 1-160.

Copy of a text of the entertainment, sent by John Chamberlain to Dudley Carleton, 19 November 1602.

1602.

Facsimile example in Gabriel Heaton, Writing and Reading Royal Entertainments from George Gascoigne to Ben Jonson, p. 111.

A folio volume of partly autograph translations by Queen Elizabeth, 105 leaves (ff. 1r-5r 19th-century notes on the MS), all mounted on guards, in 19th-century red morocco gilt.

1593-8.

Accounts (on f. 105v) of cloth bought from John Willet mercer 18 January 1607.

Copy, in a neat secretary hand, untitled, of a motion relating To the full contentment of both States effectinge of peacefull vnion, endorsed Ro: Cotton: 26: March: 1603.

1603.

Copy of a genealogy headed A Discourse of y^e descent of The K^s M^y from to [sic] the Saxons, up to 26 March 1603.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, of a motion relating To the full contentment of both States effectinge of peacefull vnion, subscribed Ro: Cotton: 26: Mar. 1603.

1603.

Copy.

Copy of a genealogy, docketed A Discourse of y^e Descent of The King's Ma^ty K. James from y^e Saxons, up to 26 March 1603.

c.1603.

Autograph letter signed by Florio, to Sir Francis Windebank, 9 December 1619.

1619.

Edited in Yates, pp. 293-4.

A folio guard-book of independent Jacobean state papers, stamped foliation 1-196.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with alteratins in another hand.

Early 17th century.

Copy, in a neat italic hand, probably transcribed from BcF 228.7.

Mid-17th century.

Autograph letter signed by Daniel, to Charles Blount, Earl of Devonshire, [1605].

1605.

Edited in Sellers, pp. 51-2. Facsimiles in Grosart (large paper issue), I, facing p. xxii, and in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XXI (a-b).

Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Cecil, 8 November 1605.

1605.

Edited in Herford & Simpson, I, 202. Facsimiles in The Autographic Mirror, vol I (1864), p. 52; Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XXIII (a-b); and in Ann Morton, Men of Letters, Public Record Office Museum Pamphlets No. 6 (London, 1974), Plate III.

A folio guard-book of independent Jacobean state papers, stamped foliation 1-235.

Copy, lacking the introduction.

Copy, in a secretary hand, of The abstract of S^r Ro: Cottons speech at the Comittee on Wensday last concerning a petition for restitution of deprived ministers intended to be offered to the king, beginning In this busi[nes]se layed vpon vs by the howse..., on the first two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

Early 17th century.

A collection of papers relating to Cotton's arguments for admitting witnesses in defence, headed The Speeches in the Commons House of Parliam^t concerning that Clause in the Bill for repeal of Hostill Lawes for Admitting the Accused to have Witnesses in their part to be Examined uppon Oath....

A formal folio copy, in a professional secretary hand, subscribed Robert Cotton, stamped foliation [1]-71, penciled foliation [1]-132.

c.1609.

A partly autograph folio draft, with revisions, partly in two other secrerary hands and with added sidenotes in red ink, stamped foliation 76-104, with 109-28 occupied by related documents, the first two leaves in Cotton's hand.

c.1609.

MS of a dramatic entertainment, rapidly written in three cursive hands, the first probably Jonson's, headed The Key Keeper, on six folio pages, folded and with an outer leaf addressed for S^r Edward Conway Knight.

[1609].

Edited from this MS, with four facsimile examples, in Knowles (1999). Discussed in Janette Dillon, Court Meets City: The Royal Entertainment at the New Exchange, RORD, 38 (1999), 1-21, and, with a facsimile example, in Grace Ioppolo, Dramatists and their Manuscripts in the Age of Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton and Heywood (London & New York), pp. 159-69.

Autograph letter signed, to Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, [15 November 1609].

1609.

McClure, No. 55, p. 138.

A folio guard-book of independent Jacobean state papers, stamped foliation 1-188.

A folio guardbook of independent Jacobean state papers, stamped foliation 1-129.

Autograph letter signed, to Sir Thomas Lake. 27 July 1612.

1612.

Copy, headed Extracts out of the records, wherein may be collected by what means the Kings of England have and may raise money, written by Sir R C Knight and Baronet.

Early 17th century.

A folio guard-book of independent Jacobean state papers, stamped foliation 1-264.

Autograph letter signed, to Sir John Ogle, 22 May 1614.

1614.

Autograph letter signed, to Matthias Taylor, 24 May 1615.

1615.

Official deposition, signed by Campion, relating to the alleged implication of Sir Thomas Monson in the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury, dated 26 October 1615.

1615.

Facsimile in Vivian (frontispiece).

A folio guard-book of independent Jacobean state papers, stamped foliation 1-104.

A folio guardbook of independent Jacobean state papers, stamped foliation 1-42.

Autograph letter signed by Carew, to Sir Dudley Carleton, from London, 2 September 1616.

1616.

Edited in Dunlap, pp. 202-3.

Autograph letter signed by Carew, to Sir Dudley Carleton, from London, 11 September 1616.

1616.

Edited in Dunlap, pp. 203-5.

Autograph letter signed by Carew, to Sir Dudley Carleton, from Tunstall, 20 September 1616.

1616.

Edited in Dunlap, pp. 205-6. Facsimile of the subscription and signature in Hazlitt, p. xxx.

Copy of Bacon's speeches to Sir John Denham and to Serjeant Jones, 19 May 1617.

c.1617.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, on six folio leaves plus two blanks.

From the Conway Papers belonging to Edward Conway (c.1564-1631), first Viscount Conway and first Viscount Killultagh, politician, and his son Edward Conway (1594-1655), second Viscount Conway and second Viscount Killultagh, politician and book collector, of Ragley Hall, Warwickshire.

Edited from this MS in Sir Julian Corbett, The Elizabethan Origin of Ralegh's Instructions, Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816, Navy Record Society (London, 1905), 27-45.

Copy of Bacon's inaugural speech as Lord Chancellor, 7 May 1617.

A folio guard-book of Jacobean state papers, stamped foliation 1-165.

A folio guard-book of independent Jacobean state papers, stamped foliation 1-315.

A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 194 leaves, in red morocco.

A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 187 leaves, in red morocco.