The British Library: Additional Charters

The contract between Dryden and Jacob Tonson for his translation of Virgil, in a professional rounded hand, signed by Dryden and witnessed by William Congreve (who possibly had a hand in the drawing up of the contract), on vellum, 15 June 1694.

1694.

Edited in William Congreve: Letters & Documents, collected and edited by John C. Hodges (London, 1964), No. 61.

An agreements, signed by Davenant, for the forming of a theatre company with Thomas Betterton and others, 5 November 1660.

Signed by Davenant.

1660.

An agreement, signed by Davenant, for the forming of a theatre company with Thomas Betterton and others, 11 March 1660.

1661.

An assignment of a share in the Duke's theatre, 1661.

1661.

Grant of arms by Camden as Clarenceux King of Arms, to Robert Wakeman, DD, of Beerferris, Devon, including Camden's copy of lines from Chaucers's Nun's Tale, 1616.

A bill of sale of all Hubert's household furniture and moveable fittings in the Manor of Stansted-Mountfichet, Essex, to Sir Thomas Middleton, Alderman of London, for £200, in a professional hand on a single membrane of vellum, signed by Hubert himself (Huberd), with signatures of three witnesses on the verso, 29 July 1608.

Lacking the original Schedule or Inventory and seal.

1608.

Recorded in Mellor, p. xxxv n. 3, with a facsimile of Hubert's signature, p. 278.

Autograph signature, on an indenture between Lovelace and Mary and Thomas Cheeseman relating to the purchase of property at Smarden, 4 August 1645.

1645.

Discussed in the Rev. A.J. Pearman, The Kentish Family of Lovelace, Archæologia Cantiana, 10 (1876), 211.

Walton's autograph signature as witness, on an assignment of a judgment debt by Anne Hannah King (daughter-in-law of Henry King, Bishop of Chichester) and Mr Butler to Thomas Lee, 3 May 1677.

1677.