Folger Shakespeare Library
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Society of Antiquaries

  • MS 22

    Copy of a version in 581 stanzas, in a single neat italic hand, headed The History of Edward ye Second by Sr F: H:, here beginning I sing thy sad disastor fatall King, ii + 99 quarto leaves, in contemporary brown calf gilt with initials H C.

    c.1620s.

    Arms in gilt on the cover of Henry Chitting (?1580-1638), Chester Herald. A note inside the front cover by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), Oxford antiquary, records This MS. belongs to Dr. John Thorpe of Rochester.

    • HuF 16
      No description or publication history available.

      First published, in an unauthorized edition as The Deplorable Life and Death of Edward the Second. Together with the Downefall of the two Unfortunate Favorits, Gavestone and Spencer. Storied in an Excellent Pöem, London, 1628. First authorized edition, as The Historie of Edward the Second, Surnamed Carnarvan, one of our English Kings. Together with the Fatall down-fall of his two vnfortunate Favorites Gaveston and Spencer, London, 1629. An edition of a 576-stanza version in three cantos, entitled The Life of Edward II, was printed in London 1721 from an unidentified MS.

      Mellor, pp. 4-169 (664-stanza version, headed The Life and Death of Edward the Second, including The Authors Preface beginning Rebellious thoughts why doe you tumult so?).

      Sir Francis Hubert, Edward II ('It is thy sad disaster which I sing')

  • MS 26

    A quarto volume of speeches in Parliament 1626-9, in one or possibly two secretary hands, iv + 87 leaves, in half-calf on marbled boards.

    c.1630s.

    Signature (on a slip affixed to f. [iir]) of Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector.

    • CtR 190 ff. 11r-15v

      Copy, the normal heading superscribed Sr Robert Cottons Speech as it is said deliuered to the priuy Councell somewhat before the parliamt Ao 1627.

      Tract beginning As soon as the house of Austria had incorporated it self into the house of Spaine.... First published London, 1628. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. 308-20.

      Sir Robert Cotton, The Danger wherein this Kingdome now Standeth, and the Remedy
    • RuB 78 ff. 39r-40v

      Copy, headed Sr Beniamin Ruddyers speach the same day, in the howse of Comons.

      Speech beginning We are here upon a great business.... Yale 1628, III, 127-9 and 133-4. Variants: III, 138-9, 141, 143, and 161. Variant version in Manning, pp. 126-8.

      Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, 28 April 1628

  • MS 46

    A MS treatise in Italian, in a professional italic hand, v + 80 quarto leaves, in contemporary calf gilt (rebacked).

    An autograph letter signed by Wotton (f. 1v) presenting the MS to Sir Maurice Barkley, MP, 19 April 1597, explaining that the MS had been written for him in Siena and left in the hands of a gentleman of Naples in Geneva from whom he had just received it.

    c.1592-4.

    Bookplate of Dr Thomas Morell, FRS, FSA (d.1784), who presented it 31 May 1781.

    • *WoH 308
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      A treatise by Lombardelli on the Tuscan language, addressed to Wotton and written for him in 1592 when he was in Italy. Later published as I Fonti Toscani (1598).

      Sir Henry Wotton, De' Fonti della Lingva Toscana Ragionamento d'Orazio Lombardelli senese, Tranqvillo Vmoroso

  • MS 78

    A folio volume of manuscript and printed state tracts, almost entirely in a single professional secretary hand, 106 leaves, in contemporary calf.

    • CtR 367 ff. 71r-8r

      Copy, as Written by Sr Robert Cotton the 27th of Aprill 1614.

      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]

  • MS 95

    Copy of the Dedication to the Queen only, in a professional secretary hand, 55 folio leaves, bound with four other tracts (MSS 85, 94, 104, 105), in 19th-century half-calf on marbled boards.

    With a title-page in italic: An Answere to the Coppye of a raileing Invective against the Regiment of woemen in generall with certaine mallipart exceptions to diverse and sundry matters of the State, written vnto Queene Elizabeth by the Right honble Henry Lord Howard Earle of Northton.

    Early 17th century.

    Presented 10 February 1790 by Francis Douce, FSA. (1757-1834), antiquary and collector.

    • HoH 82
      No description or publication history available.

      An unpublished answer to, and attack upon, John Knox's railing invective against Mary Queen of Scots, First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women (1558). Written, Howard claims in his Dedication, some thirteen years after he was asked to do so by a Privy Councillor [i.e. c.1585-90]. The Dedication to Queen Elizabeth beginning It pricketh now fast upon the point of thirteen years (most excellent most gratious and most redoubted Soveraign …; the main text, in three books, beginning It may seem strange to men of grounded knowledge …, and ending … Sancta et individuae Trinitati sit omnis honor laus et gloria in secula seculorum. Amen.

      Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, A dutiful defence of the lawful regiment of women

  • MS 116

    A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers relating to coinage, in various hands, v + 339 leaves, in a recycled 15th-century vellum fragment of a philosophical treatise within later brown calf.

    Owned by Sir Robert Cotton, with (f. vr) his engraved plate, his autograph signatures (ff. 50r, 61r, 159r), and his occasional annotations throughout.

    Later owned by Thomas Baker (1656-1740), Cambridge antiquary. Acquired in 1751 by Joseph Massie. Including part of a letter about the MS by W. Herne, 30 March 1752. Purchased from Massie in 1761.

    • *CtR 434 ff. 149r-50r
      Autograph

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with alterations, headed 1626 Septemb Sir Robert Cotton speech to his Maty... [etc.], subscribed with his autograph signature Ro: Cotton.

      Speech, beginning Gold and silver haue a twofoeld estimacon in extrinsicke as they are moneyes..., relating to Cotton's principal speech on coinage. Cottoni Posthuma (1651), pp. 303-7.

      Sir Robert Cotton, Sr Robert Cottons Speeche to his matie: on Sonday ye .3. of September at the Councell table aboute the alteracion of the moneys. 1626
    • *HoH 115 ff. 158v, 323r
      Autograph

      Howard's autograph endorsement Equalling Siluer on a treatise on coinage (ff. 155r-8r) dated 8 October 1612, and his 24-line autograph addition, at the lower half and margin of the last page, to a tract on The lawes and Statutes of this Realme (ff. 322r-3r).

  • MS 138

    Petition to Oliver Cromwell

    Signed by 36 citizens of Bedfordshire.

    12 May 1653.

    Bequeathed by Milton to Thomas Ellwood.

    Published by John Nicholls as Original Letters and Papers of State…From the Year MDCXLIX to MDCLVIII (London, 1743) [see LR, V, 339-40].

    • *MaA 522 ff. 152r-3v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Marvell, to Oliver Cromwell, from Windsor, 28 July 1653.

      Margoliouth, II, 304-5, with a complete unfolding facsimile. Facsimile example also in Samuel Leigh Sotheby, Ramblings in the Elucidation of the Autograph of Milton (London, 1861), after p. 190 (Plate XXIV, No. v).

      Andrew Marvell, Letter(s)

  • MS 145

    A folio composite volume of papers of William Habington's father, the antiquary Thomas Habington (1560-1647), collections principally for his Miscellaneous Antiquities of Worcestershire, v + 397 leaves, in reversed calf.

    Bookplate of Charles Lyttelton (1714-68), Bishop of Carlisle.

    • *HaW 51 f. 337v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by William Habington, to his mother, 22 May [1640?].

      Edited in John Amphlett, A Survey of Worcestershire by Thomas Habington (Worcestershire Historical Society No. 5, 2 vols, 1895-9), I, 18. Edited, with a reduced and somewhat indistinct facsimile, in Allott, p. xxxiii and frontispiece. Facsimiles in IELM, II.i (1987), Facsimile XX, after p. xxiv, and in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 141.

      William Habington, Letter(s)

  • MS 201

    A folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers, in various hands and sizes, 91 items.

    Among the collections of John Thorpe, MD (1682-1750), Clerk to the Royal Society.

    • DnJ 3997.8 item 37

      Copy of an account of the consecration of the chapel of Lincoln's Inn by George Montague, Bishop of London, with a summary of Donne's sermon, in a predominantly secretary hand, subscribed And this was ye substance of ye Sermon wherein hee showed superficiem but not medullam Theologiæ haveinge Eloquentiæ satis but supientiæ parum, And thus Haue you what I Could Collect out of ye Sermon, on two conjugate folio leaves.

      First published in London 1623. Potter & Simpson, IV, 362-79.

      John Donne, Encænia. The Feast of Dedication, Celebrated at Lincolnes Inn, in a Sermon there upon Ascension day, 1623

  • MS 234

    A tall folio composite volume of miscellaneous antiquarian documents and extracts, both manuscript and printed, relating to Cornwall, in various hands and paper sizes, iii + 101 leaves, in 18th-century half-calf.

    Collected by John Warburton, FSA (1682-1759), Somerset Herald and antiquary.

    Presented by John Evans, DCL, President of the Society of Antiquaries, 2 December 1886.

    • LeJ 87.8 ff. 68r-95r

      Extensive extracts from Books I and II, in two cursive hands, headed in Warburton's hand Leland's Itinerary for Corwall.

      John Leland, The Itinerary of John Leland [Other transcripts and extracts]

  • MS 247

    Copy, in a professional secretary hand, entitled (f. 1r) A parley betweene Robert Deuoreux Earle of Essex & George Villers Duke of Buckingham, headed (f. 2r) Of Robert Devoreux Earle of Essex And Of George Villers Duke of Buckingham, 23 folio leaves, in marbled paper wrappers within modern cloth.

    c.1634-41.
    • WoH 288.5
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, 1641. Edited by Sir Robert Egerton Brydges (Lee Priory Press, Ickham, 1814).

      Sir Henry Wotton, A Parallel between Robert Earl of Essex and George Duke of Buckingham

  • MS 258

    A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several professional hands, iv +130 leaves, in reversed calf.

    Presented by Philip Henry, fifth Earl Stanhope, President of the Society of Antiquaries, 22 January 1863.

    • RaW 608.5 ff. 45r-9r

      Copy, in two professional cursive secretary hands, headed Sr Walter Rawleighs Letter to Prince Henry touchinge the modell of a ship.

      An epistolary tract addressed to Prince Henry, beginning That the ark of Noah was the first ship because the invention of God himself.... First published, as Upon the first Invention of Shipping, in Judicious and Select Essayes and Observations (London, 1650). Works (1829), VIII, 317-34.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse of the Invention of Ships, Anchors, Compass, &c.
    • RaW 669.5 ff. 93r-110v

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as written by Sir Walter Raweleigh and directed to kinge James in the first yeare of his raigne 1602.

      A tract addressed to James I and beginning It belongeth not to me to judge whether the king of Spain hath done wrong to the Netherlands.... First published in Three Discourses of Sir Walter Ralegh (London 1702). Works (1829), VIII, 299-316.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse touching a War with Spain, and of the Protecting of the Netherlands
    • WoH 288.8 ff. 111r-30v

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed Of Robert Devoreux Earl of Essex And George Villiers Duke of Buckham.

      First published in London, 1641. Edited by Sir Robert Egerton Brydges (Lee Priory Press, Ickham, 1814).

      Sir Henry Wotton, A Parallel between Robert Earl of Essex and George Duke of Buckingham

  • MS 291

    A quarto volume of state papers, in two secretary hands, 53 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum with traces of ties.

    Inscribed inside the front cover Ex Libris J J Cumberstone MCCCCCCC.

    • BcF 511 ff. 2v-4v

      Copy of Bacon's submission, 22 April 1621.

      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.

      Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications
    • RaW 980 ff. 31v-3v, 35r-6r, 45r-v

      Copies of letters by Ralegh, to James I (2) and to Ralegh's wife (3), the last imperfect, lacking the ending.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

  • MS 330

    A duodecimo miscellany of verse, on affairs of state etc., and prose, including Latin academic exercises, in a single small hand, compiled by an Oxford University man, written from both ends, iii + 87 leaves, in old morocco.

    c.1670s.

    Bookplate of Arthur Ashpitel, FSA, and bequeathed by him 1869.

    • DrJ 267 f. 1r

      Copy, headed Song in the fifth Act, imperfect.

      California, X, 310-11. Kinsley, I, 126-7. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 223-4.

      John Dryden, An Evening's Love: or The Mock Astrologer, Act V, scene i, lines 504-33. Song ('Celimena, of my heart')
    • DrJ 117 ff. 1v-2r

      Copy, subscribed J D.

      First published in Covent Garden Drolery (London, 1672). Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 141-2. California, I, 141-2. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 212-15.

      John Dryden, Prologue to Albumazar ('To say this Commedy pleas'd long ago')
    • DoC 307.5 ff. 2v-3r

      Copy, headed A Dialogue between Tassander Cœlia and Suivanthe.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen [i.e. London], 1680). Discussed in Harris, p. 185, and in Vieth, Attribution, pp. 437-8.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Actus Primus, Scena Prima ('For standing tarses we kind nature thank')
    • SeC 63 f. 3r

      Copy, headed To Mrs M. N: ... A ... P, subscribed Sr C. S.

      First published in The New Academy of Complements (London, 1671). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Bat (2 vols, London, 1722), I, 62-3. Sola Pinto, I, 22.

      Sir Charles Sedley, To Celia ('As in those Nations, where they yet adore')
    • MyJ 29 ff. 5v-6r

      Copy, subscrubed J Mayn.

      Jasper Mayne, Vpon Sr John Denhams Translation of the Psalms ('In those dark Ages when the world was blind')
    • ClJ 72 ff. 11v-12v

      Copy.

      First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 26-8.

      John Cleveland, The Mixt Assembly ('Fleabitten Synod: an Assembly brew'd')
    • MaA 352 ff. 16r-19v

      Copy.

      First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 34-53. Lord, pp. 117-30. Smith, pp. 332-43. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 28-32, as anonymous.

      The case for Marvell's authorship supported in George deF. Lord, Two New Poems by Marvell?, BNYPL, 62 (1958), 551-70, but see also discussion by Lord and Ephim Fogel in Vol. 63 (1959), 223-36, 292-308, 355-66. Marvell's authorship supported in Annabel Patterson, The Second and Third Advices-to-the-Painter, PBSA, 71 (1977), 473-86. Discussed also in Margoliouth, I, 348-50, and in Chernaik, p. 211, where Marvell's authorship is considered doubtful. A case for Sir John Denham's authorship is made in Brendan O Hehir, Harmony from Discords: A Life of Sir John Denham (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1968), pp. 212-28.

      Andrew Marvell, The Second Advice to a Painter ('Nay, Painter, if thou dar'st design that fight')
    • MaA 383 ff. 22v-6r

      Copy.

      First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 67-87. Lord, pp. 130-44. Smith, pp. 346-56. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 32-3, as anonymous.

      Andrew Marvell, The Third Advice to a Painter ('Sandwich in Spain now, and the Duke in love')
    • MaA 416 ff. 26v-7r

      Copy, headed Fourth Advice.

      First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 140-6, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 33-5, as anonymous. Regarded as anonymous in Margoliouth, I, 348-50.

      Andrew Marvell, The Fourth Advice to a Painter ('Draw England ruin'd by what was giv'n before')
    • MaA 431 ff. 27v-9r

      Copy, headed ffifth Advice.

      First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 146-52, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 35-6, as anonymous. Regarded as anonymous in Margoliouth, I, 348-50.

      Andrew Marvell, The Fifth Advice to a Painter ('Painter, where was't thy former work did cease?')
    • MaA 136 ff. 29r-30v

      Copy.

      First published with Directions to a Painter…Of Sir John Denham ([London], 1667). Margoliouth, I, 143-6. POAS, I, 88-96. Lord, pp. 144-51. Smith, pp. 358-61.

      Andrew Marvell, Clarindon's House-Warming ('When Clarindon had discern'd beforehand')
    • MaA 298 f. 30v

      Copy, headed Vpon Clarendons House.

      First published with Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). Margoliouth, I, 146-7. Rejected from the canon by Lord and also by Chernaik, p. 211.

      Andrew Marvell, Upon his House ('Here lies the sacred Bones')
    • MaA 288 f. 30v

      Copy, headed On Clarindons Grand children.

      First published with Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). Margoliouth, I, 147. Rejected from the canon by Lord and also by Chernaik, p. 211.

      Andrew Marvell, Upon his Grand-Children ('Kendal is dead, and Cambridge riding post')
    • DoC 281 ff. 35v-6r

      Copy, headed To Mr Edward Howard on his Brittish Princes, subscribed Buckhurst.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen [i.e. London], 1680). POAS, I (1963), 338-9. Harris, pp. 7-9.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, To Mr. Edward Howard, on his Incomparable, Incomprehensible Poem Called The British Princes ('Come on, ye critics! Find one fault who dare')
    • WaE 771 f. 36r-v

      Copy, subscribed Ed Waller.

      First published, ascribed to Mr. Waller, in The Third Part of Miscellany Poems (London, 1716), pp. 68-9. The Works of Edmund Waller, ed. Elijah Fenton (London, 1729). The Genuine Remains in Verse and Prose of Mr. Samuel Butler, ed. Robert Thyer, 2 vols (London, 1759), I, 104-6.

      Edmund Waller, To the Honourable Ed. Howard Esq. upon his Incomparable, Incomprehensible Poem of the British Princes ('Sir/ You have oblig'd the British Nation more')
    • SdT 12 ff. 37v-8r

      Copy, headed In Imitation of his most excellent style, subscribed T Shadwell.

      First published in A.J. Bull, Thomas Shadwell's Satire on Edward Howard, RES, 6 (1930), 312-15.

      Thomas Shadwell, On the British Princes In Imitation of his most excellent Style ('Of all great Nature fated vnto witt')
    • DoC 155 f. 40r-v

      Copy, headed On Mr Edw Howards New Vtopia, subscribed Buckhurst.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen [i.e. London], 1680). POAS, I (1963), 340-1. Harris, pp. 15-17.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On Mr. Edward Howard upon his New Utopia ('Thou damn'd antipodes to common sense!')
    • DrJ 123 f. 42r-v

      Copy, headed Prologue to the mistaken Philosopher.

      First published in An Evening's Love, or The Mock-Astrologer (London, 1671). Kinsley, I, 122-3. California, X, 214-15. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 216-19.

      John Dryden, Prologue [to An Evening's Love] ('When first over Poet set himself to write')
    • DrJ 219 f. 44r-v

      Copy, headed Mr Dryden to the C. of Castlemaine for procuring a Play of his might be printed.

      First published in A New Collection of Poems and Songs…Collected by John Bulteel (London, 1674). Examen Poeticum (London, 1693). Kinsley, I, 154-6. California, I, 45-6. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 81-3. Also in Paul Hammond, Dryden's Revision of To the Lady Castlemain, PBSA, 78 (1984), 81-90.

      John Dryden, To the Lady Castlemain, Upon Her incouraging his first Play ('As Sea-men shipwrackt on some happy shore')
    • DrJ 172 ff. 44v-5r

      Copy, headed Mr Dryden's Prologue at the first opening of ye Dukes old Playhouse by the Kings Actors.

      First published in Covent Garden Drolery (London, 1672). Westminster Drolery, The Second Part (London, 1672). Kinsley, I, 140. California, I, 143-4. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 256-7.

      John Dryden, The Prologue to Witt without Money being the first Play acted after the Fire ('So shipwrack't Passengers escape to Land')
    • SdT 15.8 f. 45r

      Copy, ascribed to J. S..

      Attributed to Shadwell by W.J. Lawrence in Oxford Restoration Prologues, TLS (16 January 1930), p. 43, but though misreading a manuscript ascription to J. S. as to T .S. Published in Danchin, Prologues and Epilogues, II, 414-16. Not by Shadwell.

      Thomas Shadwell, Prologue to the Oxford Scollers at the Act there, 1671 ('Your civil kindness last year shown')
    • BuS 1.6 f. 55v rev.

      A Latin translation of extracts from the work.

      Part I first published in London, 1663 [i.e. 1662]. Part II published in London, 1664 [i.e. 1663]. Part III published in London 1678 [i.e. 1677]. the whole poem first published in London, 1684. Edited by John Wilders (Oxford, 1967).

      Samuel Butler, Hudibras ('Sir Hudibras his passing worth')

  • MS 441/B

    An illuminated confirmation of the arms of John Fowle, of Sandhurst, Kent, signed by Camden as Clarenceux King of Arms, on vellum, 1602.

    1602.
    • *CmW 193
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      William Camden, Document(s)

  • MS 484

    A quarto volume of arms granted by Camden, with arms in trick and text in a neat rounded hand, entitled Severall Exemplifications Under the Hand & Seale Of his Office Wm Camden Clarenceaux King at Armes From the Comeing of King James the First 1602 to ye year 1622..., 164 leaves (plus blanks), in old calf.

    Mid-18th century.

    From the library of John Ives (d.1776), Suffolk Herald extaordinary. Phillipps MS 7365. Bookplate of Ralph Griffin, Secretary of the Society of Antiquaries, with his signature, presented by him 1928.

    • CmW 164.5
      No description or publication history available.
      William Camden, Collectanea

  • MS 657

    An unbound and unnumbered bundle of papers relating to coinage.

    • CtR 435 [unnumbered item]

      Copy, as Sir Robt. Cotton's speech..., on three pages of a pair of conjugate quarto leaves.

      Speech, beginning Gold and silver haue a twofoeld estimacon in extrinsicke as they are moneyes..., relating to Cotton's principal speech on coinage. Cottoni Posthuma (1651), pp. 303-7.

      Sir Robert Cotton, Sr Robert Cottons Speeche to his matie: on Sonday ye .3. of September at the Councell table aboute the alteracion of the moneys. 1626

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