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  • 941/73/2

    A volume of state tracts and papers, in various hands, one secretary hand predominating, with a table of contents and other additions by members of the Hervey family.

    c.1630[-1690].

    Probably once owned by John Hervey (1665-1751), first Baron Ickworth and first Earl of Bristol, of Ickworth, near Bury St Edmunds.

    • RaW 592.5 ff. 30r-72r
      No description or publication history available.

      A treatise, with a dedicatory epistle to James I beginning Those that are suppressed and hopeless are commonly silent ..., the dialogue beginning Now, sir, what think you of Mr. St. John's trial in the Star-chamber?.... First published as The Prerogative of Parliaments in England (Midelburge and Hamburg [i.e. London], 1628). Works (1829), VIII, 151-221.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, A Dialogue between a Counsellor of State and a Justice of the Peace
    • HoJ 82 ff. 129v-31r

      Copy, headed Dr. Hoskins his Ballat and docketed Verses on Ludloes part in ye Parliament House by Dr. Hoskins.

      Attributed to Hoskyns by John Aubrey. Cited, but unprinted, as No. III of Doubtful Verses in Osborn, p. 300. Early Stuart Libels website.

      John Hoskyns, The Censure of a Parliament Fart ('Downe came graue auncient Sr John Crooke')
    • RaW 658.5 ff. 135r-44r

      Copy, headed The match propounded by the Savoian....

      A tract beginning To obey commandment of my lord the prince, I have sent you my opinion of the match lately desired by the duke of Savoy.... First published in The Interest of England with regard to Foreign Alliances, explained in two discourses: 1) Concerning a match propounded by the Savoyan, between the Lady Elizabeth and the Prince of Piedmont (London, 1750). Works (1829), VIII, 223-36. Ralegh's authorship is not certain.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse touching a Match between the Lady Elizabeth and the Prince of Piedmont
    • RaW 645.8 ff. 145r-56r

      Copy, dated 1611.

      A tract beginning There is nobody that persuades our prince to match with Savoy, for any love to the person of the duke.... First published in The Interest of England with regard to Foreign Alliances, explained in two discourses:...2) Touching a Marriage between Prince Henry of England and a Daughter of Savoy (London, 1750). Works (1829), VIII, 237-52. Ralegh's authorship is not certain.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse touching a Marriage between Prince Henry and a Daughter of Savoy
    • GgA 136 ff. 188r-200r

      Copy.

      First published, as A larger Relation of the...Iland Voyage (but without any dedicatory epistle), in Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas his Pilgrimes (London, 1625). Glasgow edition of Purchas, XX (1907), 34-129. According to Purchas the work was written in 1607 and dedicated to Prince Henry.

      Sir Arthur Gorges, The Islands Voyage

  • 941/73/4

    Copy, in a professional hand (the same as in HaG 22), on 179 folio pages.

    Late 17th century.

    Once owned by John Hervey (1665-1751), first Baron Ickworth and first Earl of Bristol, of Ickworth, near Bury St Edmunds.

    This MS discussed in Robert Gathorne-Hardy, Halifax's The Character of a Trimmer: Some Observations in the Light of a Manuscript from Ickworth, The Library, 5th Ser. 14 (1959), 117-23. Collated in Brown, I, 345-96.

    • HaG 17
      No description or publication history available.

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

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

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