Autograph octavo notebook, arranged alphabetically in the form of a commonplace book, recording comments on various of Halifax's contemporaries, incidents and conversations, 80 pages (plus blanks).
1688-90.This MS briefly discussed in Foxcroft, I, ix.
A collection of drafts, notes and memoranda on political matters, chiefly autograph, some in the hands of amanuenses (including Halifax's brother Henry Savile), including draft speeches (or abstracts of speeches), memoranda relating to the Rye House Plot (1683), notes on Parliamentary, Committee and legal proceedings and examinations and a few miscellaneous observations on political and philosophical matters, written in part in double columns, on over fifty leaves or loose sheets (plus blanks), chiefly folio (some quarto and octavo).
c.1665-95.This collection briefly discussed in Foxcroft, I, ix. Some documents edited by her passim, principally in I, 505-7 (Draught of a Petition &c. the Bishops to K. James, In the year 168[8]; Letters 60.1); II, 95-8 (Reflections by the Marquis of Halifax on the evidence of Mr. Hampden: A14); II, 99-103 (Reflections on the foregoing &c: A12, A13 and A3); II, 105-6 (sketch of Lord Montague: A19); II, 119-22 (Notes of the proceedings in the Murder Committee: A8); II, 122-3 (Notes on Evidence of Forbes: A9); II, 137-40 (speech: A26); II, 155 (Concerning Capel: C24); II, 156-7 (speech: A27); II, 162-4 (speech: A28); II, 253-6 (speech: A22); II, 256-7 (speech: A20); II, 257-64 (Notes on the Life of Bishop Williams: A16); II, 528 (Additional Maxims: A25). Some miscellaneous maxims (A25, A30) edited in Brown, III, 454-5.
An autograph octavo notebook of Court gossip, 1692-4, in contemporary black morocco gilt.
c.1694.Acquired from Maggs Bros in 2007.
Copy, with Dedication to Lancelot Andrewes, in a professional hand (the same as MS Hardwick 55:
Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 44.
First published in Certaine Miscellany Works of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, ed. William Rawley (London, 1629). Spedding, VII, 1-36. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. VIII (Oxford, 2012), pp. 183-206.
A large folio volume of works by Francis Bacon, the greater part in a single professional hand, in contemporary vellum.
c.1620s-30s.Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 43.
Copy, on three leaves.
First published in London, 1641. Spedding, VII, 217-26.
Copy, on twelve folio leaves.
A tract beginning It is but ignorance if any man find it strange that the state of religion (especially in the days of peace) should be exercised...
. First published as A Wise and Moderate Discourse concerning Church-Affaires ([London], 1641). Spedding, VIII, 74-95.
Copy, on fourteen folio leaves.
First published in London, 1604. Spedding, X, 103-27. The circumstances of the original publication and the book's suppression by the Bishop of London discussed, with a census of relevant exempla, in Richard Serjeantson and Thomas Woolford, The Scribal Publication of a Printed Book: Francis Bacon's Certaine Considerations Touching...the Church of England (1604), The Library, 7th Ser. 10/2 (June 2009), 119-56.
Copy, on five folio leaves.
First published with Essayes (London, 1597). Spedding, VII, 227-42. His translation, pp. 243-54.
Copy, on nine pages of five folio leaves.
A tract beginning I do not find it strange (excellent King)...
. First published in London, 1603. Spedding, X, 90-9.
Copy, on three folio leaves.
A brief history beginning The books which are written do in their hands represent the faculties of the mind of man...
. Quoted in John Speed, History of Great Britain (London, 1611). First published complete in Cabala (London 1663). Spedding, VI, 17-22.
Copy, in several hands, on 32 folio leaves.
A tract beginning It were just and honourable for princes being in war together, that howsever they prosecute their quarrels...
. First published in Resuscitatio, ed. W. Rawley (London, 1657). Spedding, VIII, 146-208.
A letter to M. Critoy, Secretary of France, c.1589, A Letter on the Queen's religious policies, was later incorporated in Certain Observations made upon a Libel, and first published in Cabala, sive scrinia sacra (London, 1654), pp. 38-41.
Copy, on twelve folio leaves.
First published in Resuscitatio, ed. William Rawley (London, 1657). Spedding, X, 218-34.
Copy, on seven pages of four folio leaves.
An unfinished history, beginning By the decease of Elizabeth, Queen of England, the issues of King Henry the Eighth failed...
. First published in Resuscitatio, ed. William Rawley (London, 1657). Spedding, VI, 275-9.
Copy, comprising twenty aphorisms on justice beginning Qui de legibus verba fecerunt, omnes fere vel ad Philosophorum delicias…
, on ten folio leaves.
Unpublished in this form. Adapted and incorporated in Book VIII of De augmentis scientiarum first published in Opera, tomus primus (London, 1623). Spedding, I, 413-840 (p. 803 et seq.).
Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand, on three pages of two folio leaves.
Spedding, VI, 535-91. The Oxford Francis Bacon, XV, 43-50.
Copy, in a professional hand, untitled, 151 folio leaves.
c.1620s-30s.First published c.1626.
A folio volume of tracts by Bacon and others, in a professional hand (the same as MS Hardwick 43:
Copy, in a copy (on ff. 32r-55v) of Richard Verstegan's A Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles...1592.
See E.A. Strathmann in MLN, 60 (1945), 111-14.
First published as introduced ...yet immediately after his [Leicester's] death, a friend of his bestowed vpon him this Epitaphe and beginning Heere lies the woorthy warrier
, in Richard Verstegan, A Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles (London, 1592
), p. 54, which is sometimes entitled Cecil's Commonwealth: see E.A. Strathmann in MLN, 60 (1945), 111-14. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 172, who notes that the epitaph was quoted, from a text among William Drummond's papers, in Sir Walter Scott's Kenilworth (1821). Rudick, No. 46, p. 120.
Copy, in the same hand as
A tract beginning It were just and honourable for princes being in war together, that howsever they prosecute their quarrels...
. First published in Resuscitatio, ed. W. Rawley (London, 1657). Spedding, VIII, 146-208.
A letter to M. Critoy, Secretary of France, c.1589, A Letter on the Queen's religious policies, was later incorporated in Certain Observations made upon a Libel, and first published in Cabala, sive scrinia sacra (London, 1654), pp. 38-41.
Muniments of the Duke of Devonshire.
A small folio volume of legal opinions and arguments.
c.1638.Once owned by one John Boulton.
Copy, added to the volume in a later hand.
Six lines, unpublished.
The title recalls the sub-heading, Writ on three fair Trenchers, with a Piece of Char-Coal
, of A Declaration of Major George Wither, Prisoner in the Tower of London, published in 1662.
A quarto volume, containing a series of abstracts from Roman history, in the large childish hand of William Cavendish, later third Earl of Devonshire, evidently written as exercises probably for Hobbes, 106 quarto pages, in limp vellum.
Early-mid-17th century.Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 73.
Unpublished.
A folio volume of partly autograph drafts by Bacon, 30 leaves (including blanks), a number lacking the bottom half of the page, all now disjunct and mounted on guards.
Copy of the last 170 words or so, in the hand of one of Bacon's amanuenses (now overlaid by
This MS recorded in Oxford Francis Bacon.
First published in Francisci Baconi...Scripta in naturali et universali philosophia, [ed. Isaac Gruter] (Amsterdam, 1653). Edited by Graham Rees in The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. VI (Oxford, 1996), pp. 63-93, with an English translation.
Copy, here ascribed to Gulielmus Herbert
, in an unidentified hand, on a leaf pasted over the original first leaf of the Bacon MS.
This MS collated in Hutchinson.
First published in Emanuele Tesauro, Caesares, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1637). Hutchinson, pp. 436-7. McCloskey & Murphy, with a translation, pp. 168-71.
A working draft, beginning Quod ali perpetuo potest, et alendo restitui in integru…
, ff. 1-15a in the neat hand of one of Bacon's amanuenses, with extensive autograph revisions and additions by Bacon; ff. 16r-30v entirely in Bacon's hand.
Edited from this MS in Rees (1984) and in Oxford Francis Bacon, VI, with facsimiles of ff. 8v and 16r [formerly 17r] in both publications. Formerly recorded in IELM, I.i, as two works (BcF 284 and BcF 287), but in fact it is one work.
First published by Graham Rees assisted by Christopher Upton, Francis Bacon's Natural Philosophy: A New Source. A Transcription of manuscript Hardwick 72A with translation and commentary (The British Society for the History of Science, Monograph 5, 1984). Edited by Rees, with a translation into English (An Inquiry concerning the Ways of Death the postponing of Old Age, and the Restoring of the Vital powers), in The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. VI (Oxford, 1996), pp. 270-359.
Copy, in a professional hand, 62 folio leaves, in a recycled limp vellum membrane comprising earlier accounts.
Early 17th century.First published as The Copie of a Leter, Wryten by a Master of Arte of Cambrige, to his Friend in London, Concerning some talke past of late betwen two worshipful and graue men, about the present state, and some procedinges of the Erle of Leycester and his friendes in England ([? Rouen], 1584). Soon banned. Reprinted as Leycesters common-wealth (London, 1641). Edited, as Leicester's Commonwealth, by D.C. Peck (Athens, OH, & London, 1985). Although various attributions have been suggested by Peck and others, the most likely author remains Robert Persons (1546-1610), Jesuit conspirator.
Copy of a legal brief evidently composed by Hobbes, in the hand of an amanuensis (James Wheldon), untitled and beginning Concerning the punishment of such persons as by word or writing uttered any thing contrary to the definition or determination of Holy Church…), on two folio leaves.
c.1660s?.Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 74. Edited from this MS in Mintz. Also discussed by Robert Willman in Journal of the History of Ideas, 31 (1970), 607-13, and by Mintz in Journal of the History of Ideas, 31 (1970), 614-15.
First published in Samuel I. Mintz, Hobbes on the Law of Heresy: A New Manuscript, Journal of the History of Ideas, 29 (1968), 409-14.
Copy, including the dedication to William Cavendish, Earl of Devonshire, in the hands of two amanuenses, on fourteen folio pages.
c.1626-8.This MS (once erroneously described as autograph) given to the eighth Duke of Devonshire in 1850 by the Derbyshire antiquary Thomas Bateman, of Middleton Hall.
First published, dedicated to William Cavendish, Earl of Devonshire, [c.1636?] (no title-page known). 2nd edition [London, 1666]. Molesworth, Latin, V, 319-40.
Copy, with alterations, in the hand of an amanuensis, some corrections in a neat italic hand, lacking a title-page and the dedicationon, xviii + 289 large folio pages.
For the dedication from this MS, see
This MS item 133 in Treasures from Chatsworth, intro. by Sir Anthony Blunt (International Exhibitions Foundation, 1979-80), where it is erroneously described as autograph.
First published, dedicated to William Cavendish, Earl of Newcastle, in two parts, as Humane Nature: Or, The fundamental Elements of Policie, (London, [1649]-1650), and as De Corpore Politico: or The Elements of Law, Moral and Politick (London, 1650). Molesworth, English, IV, 1-76, 77-228. Edited by Ferdinand Tönnies (London, 1889). 2nd edition, with an introduction by M.M. Goldsmith, (London, 1969).
Copy, in the hand of an amanuensis, with Hobbes's autograph signed dedication to William Cavendish, Earl of Newcastle, dated 9 May 1640, and some autograph corrections and marginal notes, on 302 large folio pages.
1640.First published, dedicated to William Cavendish, Earl of Newcastle, in two parts, as Humane Nature: Or, The fundamental Elements of Policie, (London, [1649]-1650), and as De Corpore Politico: or The Elements of Law, Moral and Politick (London, 1650). Molesworth, English, IV, 1-76, 77-228. Edited by Ferdinand Tönnies (London, 1889). 2nd edition, with an introduction by M.M. Goldsmith, (London, 1969).
Copy, in the hand of an amanuensis, incomplete, lacking the last page of the dedication, 366 folio pages.
c.1640.First published, dedicated to William Cavendish, Earl of Newcastle, in two parts, as Humane Nature: Or, The fundamental Elements of Policie, (London, [1649]-1650), and as De Corpore Politico: or The Elements of Law, Moral and Politick (London, 1650). Molesworth, English, IV, 1-76, 77-228. Edited by Ferdinand Tönnies (London, 1889). 2nd edition, with an introduction by M.M. Goldsmith, (London, 1969).
A formal copy, in the professional hand of the Parisian scribe
, on 228 folio pages of vellum, with an emblematically decorated title-page, the dedication to the third Earl of Devonshire bearing Hobbes's autograph signature, in later red morocco gilt.
Evidently Hobbes's formal presentation copy to the Earl, dated from Paris, 1641.
c.1641.Edited in part from this MS in Warrender and discussed, pp. 38-40, with facsimiles of the title-page and the end of the dedication in the frontispiece and plate II, after p. xiv. Also discussed by Howard Warrender in The Early Latin Version of Thomas Hobbes's De Cive, The Library, 6th Ser. 2 (1980), 40-52 (pp. 42-3). Facsimile of p. 62 in Timothy Raylor, The Date and Script of Hobbes's Latin Optical Manuscript, EMS, 12 (2005), 201-9 (p. 206).
First published in London, 1642. Molesworth, Latin, II, 133-432. Warrender, De Cive: Latin (1983).
Copy of what appears to be the original chapter 19 (divided into nineteen sections and dealing with the geometry of the parabola, hyperbola and ellipse), in the neat professional hand of the Parisian scribe
, with autograph corrections by Hobbes, on 35 quarto leaves.
This chapter later rejected from the printed version and as yet unpublished. Discussed in Arrigo Pacchi, Convenzione e ipotesi nella formazione della filosophia naturale di Thomas Hobbes (Florence, 1965), pp. 25-6.
First published in London, 1655. Molesworth, Latin, I, 1-431.
Fragment of a formal copy, comprising chapter 3 and part of chapter 2, in the neat professional hand of the Parisian scribe
, together with six engraved geometrical diagrams, on fifteen quarto pages.
Facsimile of p. 1 in Timothy Raylor, The Date and Script of Hobbes's Latin Optical Manuscript, EMS, 12 (2005), 201-9 (p. 207).
First published in London, 1658. Molesworth, Latin, II, 1-132.
Copy, in the hand of an amanuensis (James Wheldon), with one or two corrections in the faltering hand of Hobbes, untitled, on ten folio pages.
c.1672-3.First published in London, 1679. Molesworth, Latin, I, lxxxi-xcix. See also
Copy of an untitled Latin compilation of geometrical axioms and definitions, presumably made for Hobbes's personal use, in a professional hand, with a few minor autograph corrections probably by Hobbes (on pp. 21, 34, 36, 37), on 42 quarto pages.
c.1641?.Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 46.
Unpublished.
Copy of three Latin digests, in the hands of several amanuenses.
Probably prepared by Hobbes for his pupil, the third Earl of Devonshire.
Comprising:
(A) Julij Cæsaris Scaligeri de subtilitate (parts i-iii), signed by Hobbes and the short titles of each section possibly in his hand, on 105 folio pages;
(B) Aristotelis rhetorica, on 21 folio pages;
(C) Aristotelis parva moralia, on 39 folio pages.
These MSS formerly in two volumes but rebound as one volume in 1939 when the sections were sewn in the wrong order (viz. Aiii, B, C, Ai, Aii).
Mid-17th century.Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 47. Item B bears some relation to A Briefe of the Art of Rhetorique (London [1637]) [Molesworth, English, VI, 419-536], and see also
Unpublished.
Fragment of a Latin treatise on Geometry, probably entitled Cyclometria (beginning Quin Cyclometria totius Geometriae pars pulcherrima sit…
), with a dedication to the third Earl of Devonshire, in the hand of an amanuensis (James Wheldon), with a few autograph corrections and revisions by Hobbes, on nine folio pages.
Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 48. Hobbes refers to this treatise in his letter to the Duke of Ormonde, 14 August 1677 (see to be published…by some frend or other
after his death.
An upublished Latin treatise on Geometry, probably entitled Cyclometria (beginning Quin Cyclometria totius Geometriae pars pulcherrima sit…
).
Early draft of sixteen chapters, in the hand of the Cavendishes' chaplain Robert Payne (1596-1651), on 57 octavo pages (29 leaves, plus blanks).
c.1645?.Chapters 1-6 edited from this MS (ff. 1-8v), with facsimiles of two pages, in Baron Cay von Brockdorff, Die Urform der Computatio sive Logica des Hobbes, Veröffentlichungen der Hobbes-Gesellschaft, No. 2 (Kiel, 1934). Edited complete from this MS in Jacquot & Jones (1973), Appendice III, pp. 461-513.
First published in London, 1655. Molesworth, Latin, I, 1-431.
Copy of the treatise by G. F.
, dedicated to the most noble Ladie A
whom the author addresses as Your Highness
[i.e. ? Lady Arbella Stuart (1575-1615)], in an unidentified hand, on 87 quarto pages (including blanks).
Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 49.
Unpublished.
Copy of the treatise by William Oughtred (1575-1660), in at least one professional hand, with diagrams, and with annotations in the hand of the Cavendishes' chaplain Robert Payne (1596-1651), on seven quarto pages.
Mid-17th century.Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 50.
Published in 1647.
Copy of the treatise by Edmund Gunter (1581-1626), in the hand of the Cavendishes' chaplain Robert Payne (1596-1651), docketed as Transcript. ex MS. Autographo ipsi[u]s Authoris dn Edmi Gunter. ex Aede Chri Oxon
, on 59 quarto pages.
Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 51.
Unpublished treatise on geometry.
Copy of the treatise by Pierre de Fermat (1601-75), in the hand of the Parisian scribe
, with diagrams, on 16 large folio pages.
Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 52.
Unpublished treatise on geometry.
Copy of the treatise by Walter Warner (c.1558-1643), mathematician and natural philosopher, in the hand of the Cavendishes' chaplain Robert Payne (1596-1651), with diagrams, on 21 folio pages.
Mid-17th century.Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 53.
Unpublished treatise on geometry.
Copy of the treatise by Jean de Beaugrand, in the hand of the Parisian scribe
, with additions possibly by Hobbes on the title-page and on pp. [15], [17], [18] and [39], on 42 large folio pages.
Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 54. Facsimile of p. 8 in Timothy Raylor, The Date and Script of Hobbes's Latin Optical Manuscript, EMS, 12 (2005), 201-9 (p. 295).
A treatise dedicated to Cardinal de Richelieu, published in Paris, 1636.
A Collection of notes and exercises, chiefly in in the hand of the Cavendishes' chaplain Robert Payne (1596-1651), with diagrams, on c.107 quarto and octavo leaves.
On mathematical and geometrical problems, physics, astronomy, optics, chronology, coinage and military fortification, chiefly in Latin, partly in English and a few pages in French, partly original, chiefly derived from other mathematicians and scientists (including Athanasius Kircher, William Oughtred, Thomas Harriot, Claude Mydorge, Evangelista Torricelli, Bonaventura Cavalieri, Descartes, Henry Briggs, Pappus of Alexandria, Walter Warner, Carlo Renaldini, Simon Stevinus, Galileo, Archimedes, and Kepler).
Mid-17th century.Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 55.
Unpublished.
A collection of notes, the first an autograph fragment by Hobbes, the rest in the hand of the Cavendishes' chaplain Robert Payne (1596-1651).
Early-mid-17th century.A collection of notes on proportions and geometrical problems, in the hand of the Cavendishes' chaplain Robert Payne (1596-1651).
Miscellaneous notes on physics (including Galileo's theory of gravity), astronomy, and geometry, including notes on Hobbes's draft of De corpore (chapters 12 and 13), all in the hand of the Cavendishes' chaplain Robert Payne (1596-1651).
Early-mid-17th century.Miscellaneous notes on refraction and optics, in the hand of the Cavendishes' chaplain Robert Payne (1596-1651).
Early-mid-17th century.Notes on chronology, in two hands, the second that of the Cavendishes' chaplain Robert Payne (1596-1651).
Early-mid-17th century.Miscellaneous notes chiefly on arithmetical and geometrical problems, in the hand of the Cavendishes' chaplain Robert Payne (1596-1651), and including autograph notes by Hobbes on fortification.
Early-mid-17th century.An octavo volume, sometimes known as the third Earl of Devonshire's Dictation Book, 160 pages (plus blanks), in calf.
c.1633.Formerly MS Hardwick 72.
Copy, in the hand of the young Earl, with Hobbes's autograph corrections and revisions, headed Ex. Aristot: Rhet. Lib. 1. Cap. 1
.
This MS briefly discussed in A Briefe of the Art of Rhetorique, ed. John Harwood (Carbondale, 1986). Recorded in IELM, II.i (1987), as HbT 56.
First published in London, [1637].
Copy, in the hand of the young Earl, with Hobbes's autograph corrections and revisions.
First published in London, [1637].
A folio exercise book containing thirty geometrical propositions, in the hand of the third Earl of Devonshire, with autograph corrections and additions by Hobbes, 21 pages.
Early-mid-17th century.Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 57.
Unpublished.
A quarto volume of essays, probably by the young William Cavendish (1590-1628), (second Earl of Devonshire, in Hobbes's early formal hand, with some corrections probably in Cavendish's hand, vi + 78 pages, in vellum gilt.
A series of ten formal essays on Arrogance, Ambition, Affectation, Detraction, Self-will, Masters and Servants, Expenses, Visitations, Death and Reading of Histories, with a dedication by William Cavendish to his father.
c.1611-14?. Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 58. This MS edited, and authorship attributed to Hobbes, in Friedrich O. Wolf, Die neue Wissenschaft des Thomas Hobbes (Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt, 1969), pp. 113-67. Hobbes's authorship rejected in favour of William Cavendish by E.G. Jacoby, H.W. Jones, M.M. Goldsmith, Douglas Bush and Noel Malcolm (see especially Annals of Science, 32 (1975), 401-3; N&Q, 218 (May 1973), 162-4; and Historical Journal, 24 (1981), 297-321 (pp. 320-1)). The essays also discussed in Hamilton, pp. 451-2 (who argues that the MS is not… in Hobbes's handwriting
and that it is merely a handwritten copy of the printed version
). The authorship and date remain controversial.
Anonymously published (together with two further essays on Country Life and Religion and with four discourses) under the title Horae subsecivae. Observations and Discourses (London, 1620).
Fragment of an untitled tract, on the relationship between virtue and religion (beginning That vertue & religion are essentially the same…
), possibly composed by Hobbes, the hand possibly that of a member of the Cavendish family, on a single half-folio leaf.
Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 59.
Unpublished.
Fragment of a formal disputation on the rights of sovereignty, between Hobbes and ? the fourth Earl of Devonshire, the text beginning in the hand of the third Earl of Devonshire, with an answer in the hand of one of Hobbes's amanuenses (James Wheldon), on the first two pages (numbered 9 and 10) of two conjugate quarto leaves, endorsed Questions relative to Hereditary Right. Mr Hobbes
.
Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 60. Edited from this MS, and discussed, in Skinner.
First published in Quentin Skinner, Hobbes on Sovereignty: An Unknown Discussion, Political Studies, 13 (1965), 213-18.
Copy of A Narration of ye Proceedings both Publique & Private, concerning ye Inheritance of ye Right Honble, William Earle of Devonshire, from ye time of ye decease of his Grandfather, to this present, describing the administration of the Cavendish estates from 1625 to 1639 and the part played by Hobbes therein, in the hand of an amanuensis (? Christopher Hallely), signed four times by the third Earl of Devonshire and four times by Hobbes and witnessed by Christopher Hallely, dated 12 April 1639, on eight folio pages.
1639.Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 61. This MS recorded in G.C. Robertson, Hobbes (Edinburgh & London, 1886), p. 27n, and in Douglas Bush, Hobbes, William Cavendish, and Essayes, N&Q, 218 (May 1973), 162-4. A passage cited in Hamilton, pp. 446-7 (where the MS is erroneously described as being in Hobbes's handwriting
).
Unpublished.
Autograph memorandum signed by Hobbes, relating to the Earl of Devonshire's steward Humphrey Poole, dated 15 September 1640, on an oblong strip of paper.
1640.Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 62.
Unpublished.
MS note of ye prospective glasses [by Fontana, Torricelli and others] bought of Mr. Hobbes ye 13th day of Aprill. 1659
, in an unidentified hand, on the first page of two conjugate small folio leaves.
Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 63.
Unpublished.
List of Authores citati a Bonaventura Cavalieri in Specchio Ustorio
, in the hand of the Cavendishes' chaplain Robert Payne (1596-1651), on one side of a long octavo leaf.
Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 64.
MS of eighteen complimentary lines of verse to Hobbes, in acknowledgement of his commendation of the Picture I have drawn
, untitled and beginning My hopes have there succes, since that I find
, on a single quarto leaf.
A possible candidate for authorship is the miniaturist Samuel Cooper (1607/8-72), who, according to John Aubrey, was a friend of Hobbes.
Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 65.
Unpublished.
A quarto volume containing 103 anonymous English verse epigrams in imitation of Martial, dedicated to William Cavendish (later second Earl of Devonshire), in an unidentified hand, the last two epigrams on p. 37 in different hands, 33 pages, in limp vellum.
17th century.Inscribed names (p. 38) of Edward Sackville and William Cavendish.
Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 66.
Unpublished.
MS of a discussion in French, by P. de la Moulinière, on the relation between Church and State, written partly in refutation of Hobbes's opinion and with reference to Sorbière, headed Les scribes et pharisiens sont assis en la cheze de moyse faittes tout ce qu'ils vous commanderont
, in an unidentified hand (possibly De la Moulinière's), on both sides of a single folio leaf.
Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 67.
Fragment of a treatise in French on the municipal constitutions of French cities, in an unidentified hand, on a single folio leaf paginated 44 and 45.
Mid-17th century.Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 68.
Unpublished.
Copy of Articles of Impeachmt of high Treason & other high crimes and offences against William Earle of Powys William Viscount Stafford Henery Lord Arrundell of Wordour William Lord Petre & John Lord Bellacys: now Prisonrs in the Tower, in an unidentified hand, on six folio pages, endorsed by one of Hobbes's amanuenses (James Wheldon), also endorsed For Mr Halleley...
.
Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 69.
Copy of The Lord Shaftsburys Speech in the House of Lords March. 25. 1679, in an unidentified hand, with corrections in a second hand, endorsed by James Wheldon, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.
Late 17th century.Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 70.
A Copy of the Bill concerning the D: of York [the Exclusion Act, 5 May 1679], in an unidentified hand, docketed by one of Hobbes's amanuenses (James Wheldon), on five folio and two quarto pages.
Late 17th century.Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 71.
A folio volume containing English translations made by Hobbes of 76 letters by the Venetian patriot Fr. Fulgenzio Micanza, letters sent between 1615 and 1625 to William Cavendish, second Earl of Devonshire (1591?-1628), in the hands of two amanuenses, with autograph annotations by Hobbes on the first page, 277 folio pages (plus blanks), in vellum.
Mid-17th century.Owned c.1813 by G. Dyer, of Exeter. Formerly MS Hardwick 73Aa.
Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 72. The essays are discussed in Vittorio Gabrieli, Bacone, la riforma e Roma nella versione Hobbesiana d'un carteggio di Fulgenzio Micanzio, EM, 8 (1957), 195-250. The MS also briefly discussed in Arthur T. Shillinglaw, Hobbes and Ben Jonson, TLS (18 April 1936), p. 336.
Another MS copy of these letters is in the
Bundle of documents, relating to Ralegh's Irish estates.
1587-1628.Copy of a letter by Lord Burghley to Sir John Perrott, Lord Deputy of Ireland, 12 October 1587, with Ralegh's autograph nine-line subscription at the foot signed by him, on all four pages of two conjugate folio leaves.
Copy of a supposed deed made by Sr.Walter Ralegh to Sr. John Gilbert & Adrian Gilbert his brother, of his landes in Ireland, dated xxo. ffebr. Ao xxxiiijo Elizabeth
. [20 February 1591/2].
An abstract of a certaine euidence Concerninge the landes wch Sr walter Raleigh formerly held in Ireland. and into whose custody he deliuered the same
, in a professional hand, on one page of a bifoilum, subscribed at the bottom in Ralegh's hand This is a trew abstract given by my self per the vse of Sr: Richard Boyle 1612 WRALEGH
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Bundle of documents relating to Ralegh's Irish estates.
A lease by Ralegh to George Goringe of Lewes, Sussex, and Herbert Pelham of Mychelham, Sussex, of land in Skannakin, on two membranes of parchment, signed by Ralegh, 7 February 1589/90.
A lease by Ralegh to John Jonson of Youghall yeoman of land in Skannakin, on one membrane of parchment, signed by Ralegh, 4 September 1589.
A lease by Ralegh to William Cade of Youghall, yeoman, of land in Skannakin, on one membrane of parchment, signed by Ralegh, 4 September 1589.
Articles of agreement, in a law clerk's hand, between George Goringe and Herbert Pelham and Robert Mawle, concerning land in Skannakin, on 3 pages of a bifolium, signed by Ralegh, 30 April 1596.
A lease by Ralegh to Richard Nelthorpe of London, of land in Skannakin, on one membrane of parchment, signed by Ralegh, 20 July 1588.
A lease by Ralegh to Robert Balle of London, of land in Inchekin, on one membrane of parchment, signed by Ralegh, 8 May 1591.
Lease by Ralegh to Robert Reve of Bury St Edmunds and Akice his wife, of land in Inchekin, on one membrane of parchment, signed by Ralegh, 1 February 1589.
Bundle of documents relating to Ralegh's Irish estates.
Lease by Ralegh to William Badly of Witham, Suffolk, of land at White's Island, on one membrane of parchment, signed by Ralegh, 21 February 1588
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A lease by Ralegh and Thomas Allen of London to Robert Balle of London, of land at White's Island, on one membrane of parchment, signed by Ralegh, 8 May 1591.
A lease by Ralegh to Thomas Allen, of land at White's Island, on one membrane of parchment, signed by Ralegh, 2 October 1589.
Bundle of documents relating to Ralegh's Irish estates.
A lease by Ralegh to Richard Trevor of Trevalyan, Denbigh, of land in Kilbree, on one membrane of parchment, signed by Ralegh, 9 February 1594.
Bundle of documents relating to Ralegh's Irish estates.
Quadripartite articles between Ralegh and Edward Dodge, Henry Pyne and Henry Hoons merchant and Veromo Martines, relating to land in Knockmourne, signed by all the parties except Ralegh, 13 July 1590.
Volume of correspondence.
Autograph letter signed, to Richard Boyle, Earl of Cork, from Castle Poulnelong, 1623.
Recorded in Klene, p. xxxi.
Autograph letter signed, to Sir Thomas Browne, 1623.
Recorded in Klene, p. xxxi.
Autograph folio volume, entitled Abregé du Traité de L'Ambassadeur par Wicquefort 1693
, in vellum.
A series of extracts in French extrapolated from Abraham van Wicquefort's treatise on diplomacy L'Ambassadeur et ses fonctions (first published at The Hague, 1681), arranged in double columns and with headings in the form of a commonplace book.
1693.Copy, in the hand of Ralph Crane (fl.1589-1632), poet and scribe, probably made for presentation to a courtier; with a title-page (f. 1r) and text on 21 octavo pages (ff. 2r-12r).
[1619].Edited from this MS in Herford & Simpson, with facsimiles of ff. 5r and 10r facing pp. 478, 492. Identified in F.P. Wilson, Ben Jonson and Ralph Crane, TLS (8 November 1941), p. 555, and in Wilson, Ralph Crane, Scrivener to The King's Players, The Library, 4th Ser. 7 (1926-7), 194-215.
First published in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VII, 473-91.
Autograph inscription by Chapman, presenting the volume to the Earl of Devonshire.
c.1624.A formal anonymous MS, in a professional hand, dedicated and addressed A Illvstrissime, et tres honnorable Seigneur. Monseigneur François Bacon Cheualier, Procureur general du Roy, et Conseiller en ses Conseils d'Estat et priué
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Probably a MS presented to the dedicatee, Bacon.
Early 17th century.