Untraced, miscellaneous

A folio volume of state tracts.

c.1620s-40s.

Inscribed A.A. June. 15. 1649. 8^sh. Philips, 10 November 1994, lot 388.

A duodecimo commonplace book, compiled by John Adamson, later Rector of Burton-Coggles, Lincolnshire, 67 leaves plus 60 blank leaves.

c.1665-90.

Maggs's sale catalogue No. 536 (1930), item 1310.

Copy of parts of the first stanza, alleged by J.P. Collier to be in the hand of the actor Edward Alleyn (1566-1626), upon a scrap of paper on the back of which is a memorandum respecting some agricultural implements bought by him, bearing date in 1616.

1616?.

This MS allegedly found by Collier among the Alleyn Papers in Dulwich College: see Collier, Memoirs of Alleyn (1841), p. 54. Its authenticity cannot be verified.

Autograph (?) of a version of about 65 lines (or 76 verses), headed Old Age. Against old men taking physick, on two folio pages.

Owned c.1845 by J.L. Anderdon. Sotheby's, 17 May 1879, lot 53, to F. Naylor. Sotheby's, 27 July 1885, lot 262. Parke Bernet Galleries, New York, 30 October 1950 (Oliver R. Barrett sale), lot 273.

This MS recorded in Parks, p. 31. Despite the discrepancy of length, it is possibly to be identified with the serious verses by Cotton writ with his own hand, and...never...in print from which Anderdon edited his text. Four lines (corresponding, with variants, to lines 31-4 of Anderdon's printed text) are quoted in the 1950 sale catalogue.

Copy of Andrewes's notes, among other MS notes in a printed exemplum of The Book of Common Prayer (Cambridge, 1635).

Possibly in the hand of Mr More [? William Moore (1590-1659), of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University Librarian], from whom the volume was purchased by John Covel (1638-1722), diplomat and Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge.

Mid-late 17th century.

Bonham's, 27 June 2006, lot 382, with a facsimile page in the sale catalogue.

A volume of state papers.

17th century.

Formerly among the MSS of the Earl of Westmoreland, Apethorpe, Northamptonshire (dispersed in 1892).

Recorded in HMC, 10th Report, Appendix IV (1885), p. 21.

A quarto fair copy.

Late 16th century?.

Later owned by Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector. Baker & Leigh (Sotheby's), 28 April 1773, lot 4744.

Copy, neatly written and apparently prepared for the press, three octavo volumes (containing 44, 33 and 36 chapters respectively), 584 pages.

Late 16th century.

Thomas Thorpe's Catalogue of manuscripts upon papyrus, vellum and paper, 1843, item 582, and in his subsequent sale catalogues until 1850.

Ascham's exemplum of the first printed edition of Toxophilus, presented to King Henry VIII.

c.1545.

Formerly in the Royal Library.

An exemplum of the first printed edition of Toxophilus, with Ascham's presentation epistle to the Earl of Essex.

c.1545.

Formerly owned by Frank Brewer Bemis (1861-1935), Boston banker and book collector.

Recorded in De Ricci, I (1935), 949.

A printed exemplum containing Jonson's inscription (on the verso of the title-page) Ben: Jonson's Guift & Testimony of Observance.

c.1616.

Inscribed on the title-page Do Panton. Later owned by Bertram, fifth Earl of Ashburnham (1840-1913). Sotheby's, 6 December 1897 (Ashburnham sale, Part 3), lot 2174, to Quaritch.

A worn folio volume of transcripts of state letters and tracts, the majority by or relating to Francis Bacon, in a single professional secretary hand (the Feathery Scribe), 101 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

c.1625-30s.

From the papers of the Cartwright family of Aynho. Formerly an unnumbered MS in C(A) Box 56, in the Northamptonshire Record Office.

A quarto commonplace book, including family memoirs, compiled by Brian Fairfax (1633-1711) for the education of his children, c.125 pages, in contemporary calf.

c.1683-85.

Bookplate of John Richards Jr, D.S.A. Sotheby's, 27 April 1870 (John Bruce sale), to Edward Hailstone (1818-90), antiquary, botanist and book collector, of Walton Hall, Wakefield. Bookplate of John Richards Jr, FSA. Sotheby's, 21 July 1988, lot 314, to Quaritch, with a facsimile page in the sale catalogue.

Bacon's exemplum of the second printed edition, folio, in contemporary calf with Bacon's boar crest in gilt on both covers.

c.1620.

Inscriptions including Thomas machon his Booke 1667, Henrique Gudrique, and John Sparke His Book Anno Dom 1699. Sotheby's, 11 December 1997, lot 65, to Rick Adams.

Facsimiles of the boar crest and cover in Sotheby's sale catalogue.

An untitled illuminated genealogy of English monarchs, written to celebrate the triumph of Queen Elizabeth and possibly prepared as a New Year's gift for her, written, as well as illuminated, in the accomplished secretary hand of Morgan Colman (secretary to Sir John Puckering, Lord Keeper) and bearing on p. 67 the arms of Francis Bacon dated 1592, 71 folio pages, partly on vellum, in 19th-century half-morocco marbled boards.

1592.

Inscribed name of H[arriet] Crofts. Bookplate of Sir John Saunders Sebright, seventh Baronet, MP (1767-1846), of Beechwood, Hertfordshire. Phillips, 11 November 1993, lot 603.

Illustrated in the Phillips sale catalogue and in Peter Dawkins, Dedication to the Light (The Francis Bacon Research Trust Journal, Ser. I, vol. 3, 1984), p. 146.

Copy of a five-quatrain version, in the hand of Peter Middelton (fl.1620s), Royal Chaplain, headed In obitum Ducis Lenox & Richmondiæ p Clarissimum virum vic. Comite S^tAlbons, inscribed in Middelton's printed exemplum of Bacon's The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh (London, 1622), in contemporary calf lettered P M.

Given to Middelton on 20 April 1622 by Francis Burgoyne (d.1633), Prebendary of Durham. 19th-century bookplates or labels M. F. Middelton and Ex libris Charles Hervey Hoare. Sold in the 1980s by Joseph & Sawyer, booksellers

An exemplum of the printed edition bearing Bacon's boar crest on the cover.

1620.

The crest on this volume illustrated in Peter Dawkins, Dedication to the Light (The Francis Bacon Research Trust Journal, Ser. I, vol. 3, 1984), p. 145.

MS of an English translation by James Wright (1643-1713).

Late 17th-early 18th century.

Later owned by William Bromley-Davenport, of Baginton Hall, Warwickshire. Sotheby's, 8 May 1903, lot 339, to Ridler.

Copy, in a folio volume containing three other theological tracts (one by John Rainolds, 1593).

Late 16th century?.

Later owned by W. Bromley-Davenport, of Baginton Hall, Warwickshire. Not apparently among other recorded collections or sale catalogues of Bromley-Davenport MSS, it may have perished in a fire at Baginton in 1884.

Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 78, and in Folger edition, Volume V.

Manuscript, very neatly written 12mo. pp. 113...most probably that revised copy [by the Author in the 1698 folio edition of Milton's Prose Tracts], in the hand, it may be, of Elwood (Milton's amanuensis), or of D. Baker, whose name is on the fly-leaf, with the date of 1683.

Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue Bibliotheca Anglo-Poetica (1844), item 1284. Puttick & Simpson, 4 February 1863 (Dering sale), lot 899, to Willis. Willis & Sotheran's sale catalogue No. 191 (25 February 1863), item 565. Puttick & Simpson's, 31 October 1864, lot 811, to Cole.

Copy, in a professional Scottish hand, following the Latin version by Archibald Pitcairne, at the end of a MS copy of Colin Lindsay, third Earl of Balcarres's Memoirs touching the Revolution in Scotland, 110 quarto pages in all, in contemporary calf.

c.1690-early 1700s.

Sotheby's, 10 July 2001, lot 22 (unsold).

Copy, transcribed from Samuel Wright's copy in its original state.

c.1626-48.

Formerly in the Barham Library belonging to the Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge.

This MS described in Brightman, p. xviii.

Copy, headed Sir Robert Viner setting up the King's Statue, in a verse miscellany.

Early 18th century.

Owned in 1697 by one Isaiah Bartlett. From the family papers of John Loveday (1711-89), of Caversham, Oxfordshire, and formerly at Williamscote House, near Banbury.

A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, possibly in a single variant cursive hand, 76 pages, disbound.

c.1660s.

Inscribed Thomas Beesly his booke, Richard Dewe, and Stephen Philips his booke, and possibly associated with the University of Oxford. Sotheby's, 17 July 2008, lot 133, to Anonymous, with facsimiles of pp. 20-1 in the sale catalogue.

A set of photocopies is in the British Library, RP 9362.

Autograph annotations.

Auction sale by F. O. Beggi, 17 March 1864, lot 357.

Stern, p. 206.

Autograph annotations and marginalia, with signature Gabriel Arvejo.

Late 16th century?.

Owned in April 1904 by the Rev. Walter Begley, 24 Greencroft Gardens, Hampstead.

Moore Smith, p. 81. Stern, p. 205.

A collection of over forty letters by Montague Summers, to A.H. Bullen, principally discussing at length his edition of The Works of Aphra Behn, c.80 quarto and octavo pages.

1913-21.

Sotheby's, 13 December 1990, lot 294, to T. D'Arch Smith, with a facsimile example in the sale catalogue.

Autograph letter signed, to Jacob Tonson, [undated].

Late 17th century.

Formerly among Tonson papers belonging to W.R. Baker, at Bayfordbury, Hertfordshire. Christie's, 17 December 1907, lot 152, to Sotheran. Sotheby's, 17 March 1930, lot 183, to Maggs.

Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 70. Edited in Gentleman's Magazine, NS 5 (May 1836), 481-2, and (from a transcript made by Edmond Malone and owned by G. Thorn-Drury) in Summers, I, xlv-xlvi.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, 94 quarto leaves (including fourteen pages of notes), in contemporary limp vellum.

c.1596-1600s.

Frank B. Benger, Leatherhead, Surrey, sale catalogue 10 (1940s?), item 1. Later owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1906-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 12 June 1980 (Houghton sale, Part II), lot 441, to Clarke, with a facsimile of the first page in the sale catalogue as Plate 40, facing p. 116.

Exemplum of the first edition, second issue (1648), with six MS corrections probably made in the printing house.

Formerly in the Oxford library of John Sparrow (1906-92), literary scholar and book collector.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in John Sparrow, Manuscript Corrections in the Two Issues of Donne's Biathanatos, BC, 21 (Spring 1972), 29-32. Also discussed in Ernest Sullivan, Authoritative Manuscript Corrections in Donne's Biathanatos, SB, 28 (1975), 268-76.

Copy, folio.

17th century.

Formerly among the MSS of the Duke of Marlborough, at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire.

Recorded in HMC, 8th Report (1881), Appendix, p. 25.

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 5 July 1858 (Bliss sale). Puttick & Simpson, 14 December 1893, lot 349.

Moore Smith, p. 86. Stern, p. 217 (as wherabouts unknown).

A small quarto commonplace book in English and Latin, in three hands, including 30 pages of proverbs, one item dated 1687, 57 pages, in 19th-century half-calf.

Late 17th century.

Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 21 June 2001, lot 20.

A miscellany.

Compiled by Robert Bolles, second Baronet, of Scampton, and of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.

c.1635-46.

T. Coxeter et al. sale catalogue, Osborne, 1748, item 15.

Copy, headed Of a Lady and here beginning A vertuous Lady sittinge in a muse, in an oblong volume of cittern music compiled in part by the Bedfordshire Parliamentarian Sir William Boteler (d.1656).

Mid-17th century.

Christie's, 2 April 1982, lot 4, to Richard McNutt.

A volume of historical and legal tracts.

c.1630.

Later owned by Harry Lawrence Bradfer Lawrence (1887-1965), Norfolk antiquary and manuscript collector. Formerly on temporary loan to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

A document signed, covenanting to pay a share of the profits to Sir Arthur Ingram, 26 March 1617.

1617.

A folio volume of tracts apparently owned by Sir Walter Ralegh, 170 leaves, in 18th-century calf (rebacked).

c.1611-15.

Bookplate of the Earl of Derby, Knowsley House, Merseyside. Christie's, 23 March 1954, lot 248, to Quaritch. Afterwards owned by Harry Lawrence Bradfer Lawrence (1887-1965), Norfolk antiquary and manuscript collector. Formerly on temporary loan to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

Briefly described in Phyllis M. Giles, A Handlist of the Bradfer-Lawrence manuscripts deposited on loan at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 2 (1973), 86-99 (p. 96).

Copy, untitled, inscribed on blank leaf A1 in an exemplum of the printed quarto edition of Davenant's Gondibert (London, 1651).

c.1651.

Sotheby's, New York, 30 April-1 May 1990 (H. Bradley Martin sale), lot 2749.

This volume, or else DeJ 55, possibly corresponds to the exemplum of Gondibert (1651) with 118 lines on the fly-leaf sold at Sotheby's, 19 November 1906 (sale of the Trentham Hall Library of the Duke of Sutherland), lot 461.

A single-word MS correction in the text of Lycidas (p. 22, line 9: do altered to use), in a printed exemplum of Justa Edouardo King naufrago, ab amicis moerentibus, amoris (Cambridge, 1638).

[1638?].

Sotheby's, New York, 1 May 1990 (H. Bradley Martin sale), lot 3053. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1132 (December 1990), item 68.

A printed exemplum of Marvell's Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681).

c.1680s.

Later owned by Jerome Kern (1885-1945), musical theatre and film composer. Sotheby's, New York, 1 May 1990 (H. Bradley Martin sale), lot 3042.

A folio volume of state tracts and papers, in several professional secretary hands, 257 pages.

From the Braye Manuscripts, descending from John Browne (1608-91), Clerk of the Parliaments, whose daughter, Martha, married Sir Roger Cave, Bt, of Stanford Hall, Rugby, seat of successive Lords Braye.

A bound set of photocopies of this volume is in the Parliamentary Archives, BRY/51.

A folio volume of state tracts and papers, in a single professional secretary hand, a note on the last page dated 7. Nov. 1637, 40 pages.

Late 16th century.

From the collections of John Browne (1608-91), Clerk of the Parliaments. Inscribed (p. 1) returned to D^r Browne of Twickenham and Thomas [?]Aisley.

A bound set of photocopies of this volume is in the Parliamentary Archives, BRY/79.

Volume of state letters.

17th century.

Formerly among the Braye Manuscripts, descending from John Browne (1608-91), Clerk of the Parliaments, whose daughter Martha married Sir Roger Cave, Bt, of Stanford Hall, Rugby, seat of successive Lords Braye.

Recorded in HMC 15, 10th Report, Appendix VI (1887), p. 116.

A printed exemplum containing Jonson's presentation inscription to a person whose name was later deleted.

c.1616.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 3 March 1845 (Bright sale), lot 3223.

Exemplum of the printed second edition of 1587, with Camden's Latin presentation inscription to Edward Bulkeley, prebendary of Lichfield, an octavo, in old calf rebacked.

c.1587.

Later owned by Eric Sexton, FSA, of Rockport, Maine. Christie's, 15 April 1981 (Sexton sale), lot 165, to Thorp.

Exemplum of the printed sixth edition of 1607, with Camden's autograph presentation inscription to Charles Howard (1536-1624), second Baron Howard of Effingham and first Earl of Norttingham, Admiral, 30 June 1616.

1616.

Sotheby's, 27 April 1982, lot 313 (unsold).

Copy.

Late 17th century.

Owned in 1963 by Cleanth Brooks (1906-94), American professor and literary critic.

This MS collated in POAS, I.

Copy.

17th century.

Owned before 1697 by Thomas Brotherton, of Hey, Lancashire.

Recorded in Edward Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ, [ed. Humphrey Wanley] (Oxford, 1697).

Copy.

Copy, apparently headed The Copy of a Letter written by Sir Philip Sidney to our late famous Queen Elizabeth touching her Marriage with Monsieur.

17th century?.

Owned by Thomas Brotherton of Hey, Lancashire.

Recorded by Edward Bernard in Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ [ed. Humphrey Wanley] (Oxford, 1697).

Collection of John Carter (1905-75), bibliographer and bookseller, relating to Sir Thomas Browne, including various proof and working exempla of the 1929 edition by W. A. Greenhill and his own 1932 and 1958 editions of Hydriotaphia and The Garden of Cyrus.

c.1929-58.

Sotheby's, 24 March 1976 (Carter sale), lots 18-20, variously to G.F. Sims and to Sanders of Oxford.

Copy, 60 leaves paginated 1-116.

Early-mid-17th century.

Formerly owned by Annie Winifred Bryher (née Ellerman, d.1983) and by the Ralegh scholar Agnes Latham (1905-96), Pickering, North Yorkshire.

Copy, in a miscellany.

Mid-17th century.

Owned in 1889 by the Duke of Buccleuch, Drumlanrig Castle, Dumfriesshire.

Edited from this MS in Bullen.

MS, finely written, folio.

1710.

Once owned by the Rev. W.E. Buckley. Sotheby's, 16 April 1894, lot 306.

A printed exemplum allegedly belonging to Sir Thomas More with numerous notes in his hand.

c.1527.

Recorded by William Carew Hazlitt (1834-1913), bibliographer and writer, in his annotated exemplum of his A Roll of Honour (1908), p. 161, in the British Library (Cup.410.g.343).

A commonplace book compiled by Whitelocke Bulstrode (1652-1724), administrator and writer.

1680-93.

Later in the library of J. Eliot Hodgkin, FSA (1829-1912), of Richmond, Surrey, engineer and book collector.

Recorded in HMC, 15th Report, Appendix II (1897), pp. 3 and 18 (where the poems by Rochester at the reverse end are erroneously attributed to Lord Rosebery).

Copy, in a cursive hand, 63 folio pages, in modern half-morocco gilt.

Early 17th century.

Inscribed I lent this MS to Mr Hearne who published it at Oxon in 8^o. Later owned, and inscribed 26 August 1921, by the Rt. Hon. John Elliott Burns (1858-1943), labour leader and politician. Sotheby's, 14 March 1944 (Burns sale, second portion), lot 250.

This MS used by Thomas Hearne (1676-1735), Oxford antiquary, for his Latin edition of Roper's Life of More (Oxford, 1716). Collated in Hitchcock, and briefly described (as MS J), pp. xv-xvi.

Copy, in a cursive hand, entitled The Life and Death of S^r Thomas More knight sometymes Lord Chauncellor of England. Written by William Roper his Sonne in Lawe Anno domini 1535, 64 quarto leaves, unfoliated, in modern morocco.

Late 16th century.

Later owned by the Rt. Hon. John Elliott Burns (1858-1943), labour leader and politician. Sotheby's, 14 March 1944 (Burns sale, second portion), lot 249.

This MS collated in Hitchcock, and briefly described (as MS B) p. xvi.

A quarto volume of tracts, letters and religious poems, 146 leaves, in old calf gilt.

Late 16th - early 17th century.

Sotheby's, 15 November 1926, lot 422A. Owned in 1932 by the Rt. Hon. John Burns: i.e. John Elliott Burns (1856-1943), labour leader and politician. Sotheby's, 14 March 1944 (Burns sale, second portion), lot 217, to Quaritch.

A document signed by Burton (Robt: Burton) as witness on a deed poll from Bevil Wymberley and his wife Elizabeth, of Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire, to Richard Broome, of Spalding, for lands in Spalding, ovellum, 15 August 1621.

1621.

Later owned by Roger Barrett, Chicago lawyer. Simon Finch, sale catalogue No. 35 (1998), item 20, with a facsimile example.

A miscellany, compiled chiefly by Valentine Cabeck, of Pembroke College, Cambridge.

c.1680.

Owned in 1926 by C.W. Brodribb.

A printed exemplum inscribed on the title-page Tho. More me possedit pretiu...

Hodgson's, 16 November 1904, to Pearson.

This volume recorded in Mark English, Lost Autographs of John Skelton, David Lyndsay, and Thomas More, N&Q, 248 (December 2003), 385.

An illuminated grant of arms, to Richard Couper, of Temple Elfont, Surrey, signed by Camden as Clarenceux King of Arms, 2 May 1600.

1600.

Christie's, 29 May 1986, lot 15, to Heraldry Today.

An illuminated grant of arms, to Thomas Usher, signed by Camden as Clarenceux King of Arms, on vellum, 30 August 1613.

1613.

John Wilson's sale catalogue No. 63 (c.1990), item 36.

Copy, the last item in a folio volume of tracts on the Court of Chancery.

17th century.

Later owned by Lieutenant-Colonel G.H.W. Carew of Crowcombe Court, Somerset.

Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 372.

Copy, folio.

Early 17th century?.

Formerly among the Carew family papers at Crowcombe Court, Taunton, Somerset. Sotheby's, 6 May 1903 (Crowcombe Court Library sale), lot 270, to Ridler.

Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, pp. 373-4.

A quarto copy.

17th century.

Later owned by Lieutenant-Colonel G.H.W. Carew of Crowcombe Court, Somerset.

Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 373.

Copy, quarto.

Listed by Humfrey Wanley (in Bodleian, Gough Oxford 22) as a MS in E. Carlisle's Bib. Angliæ 643.33. - 4^to: i.e. presumably in the library of Charles Howard (1669-1738), third Earl of Carlisle, Lord Lieutenant of Cumberland and Westmorland.

Wotton's inscribed and signed exemplum of the printed edition.

Later in the Oxford library of John Sparrow (1906-92), literary scholar and book collector.

Exemplum allegedly containing Bacon's signature.

The authenticity of the signature cannot be confirmed, but the volume's association with Spedding suggests its likelihood.

Late 16th century?.

Formerly owned by James Spedding (1808-81), literary editor and biographer, and later by Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist and book collector. Afterwards at University College London (Ogden A 303), but now untraced.

Autograph letter signed by Margaret Cavendish, to Mons. Zealicen, secretaire a son Altesse, La Haye [? Chrystian Huygens], from Antwerp, 15 July 1660.

1660.

Richard Hatchwell, Malmesbury book dealer, in 2003.

MS.

c.1619?.

Edited from this MS by Collier in 1848.

Autograph ten-line inscription, presenting the volume to Sir Henry Crofts.

c.1609.

Apparently once owned, or used, by John Payne Collier (1789-1883), literary scholar, editor and forger (? acquired from the Bridgewater library). Possibly later owned in 1933 by Frank Brewer Bemis (1861-1935), Boston banker and book collector.

The inscription is printed in Tannenbaum, p. 145, from the facsimile which appears in John Payne Collier, A Catalogue, Bibliographical and Critical, of Early English Literature (London, 1837), p. 53. The facsimile reproduced in Cummings, p. 223.

Autograph eight-line inscription, presenting the volume to Henry Jones.

c.1611.

Inscribed in 1796 by George Steevens (1736-1800), literary editor and scholar. Afterwards owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector; by Robert Stayner Holford, MP (1808-92), of Westonbirt, Gloucestershire, art collector; by Frank Brewer Bemis (1861-1935), Boston banker; and by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1906-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's 13 June 1979 (Houghton. sale Part I), lot 110, to Fleming. Sotheby's, New York, 9 November 1989 (Garden sale), lot 89. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1165, item 15.

Facsimile of the inscription in Christie's sale catalogue, Plate 16, and in Cummings, p. 227.

Copy, complete with 32-page Dedication to the Queen, in two professional predominantly secretary hands, 255 quarto pages.

c.1620s.

Sotheby's, 13 December 1993, lot 287; 19 May 1994, lot 682; and 25 October 1994, lot 678, to Bradin T. Cormack, Stanford, California.

Copy of lines 147-58, here beginning But yet in all this enterchaunge of all, inscribed on sig. A6v of an exemplum of the Works of Chaucer printed by Thomas Petit (c.1545).

Early 17th century.

Owned in 1978 by A. G. Thomas, London bookseller.

Copy of a version of lines 339-44 of The Proloug of the First Buke, here beginning O venerable Chaucer principall poet and peare, inscribed in an exemplum of the fourth printed edition of Chaucer's Workes (1550).

Mid-late 16th century.

Sotheby's, 12 December 2002, lot 179, to Bauman Rare Books, New York.

A folio volume relating to Chester.

17th century?.

Formerly owned by G.F. Wilbraham, of Delamere House.

Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 416.

Copy, in a folio volume of legal tracts.

17th century.

Formerly among the MSS of Reginald Cholmondeley of Condover Hall, Shropshire.

Recorded in HMC, 5th Report (1876), Appendix, p. 338.

Copy of the two letters, on nine quarto pages, dated from Montpelier, 3 April 1671.

Late 17th century.

Sotheby's, 25 March 1974, lot 252, to A.G. Thomas.

Inscribed on the verso of the last leaf W. Bowles.

Copy of From The Restoration of the Royal Family In the Year 1660, To his Banishment, In the Year 1667...A MS Continuation Of The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon...Copied from the Original Manuscript in his own Hand Writing, in a neat professional hand (same as ClE 000), with some alterations in a second hand, 805 large folio pages.

Early 18th century.

Purchased in Pittsburgh, PA, in the 1850s. Later owned by David G. Waxman, of Estates of Mind Rare Books & Manuscripts, Great Neck, NY. Sotheby's, 19 July 1993, lot 205 (unsold), with a facsimile of the title-page in the sale catalogue.

When offered in the London Antiquarian Book Fair in June 1991 the MS was cited in TLS, 21 June 1991, p. 22.

Copy, in a professional hand, with a few corrections in another hand, 555 large folio pages, in contemporary calf.

Early 18th century.

Bookplate of Stanley J. Keyes. Later owned by David G. Waxman, of Estates of Mind Rare Books & Manuscripts, Great Neck, NY. Sotheby's, 19 July 1993, lot 204 (unsold). Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 21 June 2001, lot 26 (unsold).

Copy.

Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 24 June 1993, lot 189.

Copy, transcribed from a printed edition by one James Clark of Glasgow.

1631.

Later owned by John Pinkerton (1758-1826), by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector, and (in 1836) by J. Bohn.

Recorded in Hamer, IV, 12, and in Kinsley, p. 2.

An octavo miscellany, in English and Latin in at least two hands.

Inscribed Tho: Clarkes Booke Sid[ney] Suss[ex]: Coll[ege, Cambridge] 1654.

c.1654.

Formerly in the library of the Earl of Macclesfield, Shirburn Castle, Oxfordshire.

Copy.

Sotheby's, 19 March 1852, lot 14, to Waller.

Letter, possibly autograph, to an unspecified correspondent, with autograph subscription, signature (Anne Pembrooke) and date (from Bannardos Castell this 30 of Junne 1646).

Later owned by John Thane (1747?-1818), manuscript and print dealer.

Facsimile of the subscription in Joseph Netherclift, Autograph Letters, Characteristic Extracts, and Signatures, from the Correspondence of Illustrious and Distinguished Women of Great Britain (London, 1838).

A couplet allegedly by Daniel quoted by Lady Anne Clifford (1590-1676) in an unspecified MS source (probably one of her memorandum books).

Early 17th century?.

Once among the papers of the Clifford family.

Edited from this MS in Williamson.

A letter, in the hand of an amanuensis, with Anne Clifford's autograph signature, date and subscription, to her Noble Coson Sir Philip Mudgrave, on the first page of a pair of conjugate quarto leaves, addressed on the fourth page, from Burden Tower, Yorkshire, 2 June 1667.

Sotheby's, 13 December 1993, lot 243, to Grisenthwaite.

A copy of An abridgement of the first (- third) great booke of Records in Skipton Castle...by Tim. Banks. To the Right Hon^ble Mary, Countesse of Harold.

18th century.

Formerly owned by the Leveson-Gower family, of Bill Hill, Berkshire.

Recorded in Lives of Lady Anne Clifford Countess of Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery (1590-1676) and of her parents summarized by herself, ed. J.P. Gilson (London, Roxburghe Club, 1916), pp. xi-xii.

A portion of a leaf extracted from the book (Wing O269, pages 199-200), with copious marginal annotations in the rugged italic hand of Lady Anne Clifford.

The printed text here beginning There are also in this Countrey several sorts of Mineral Waters, very good against divers Diseases... and ending ...the Well is inclosed with a high wall, having at the.

1662-76.

Inscribed by Thomas Raffles (1788-1863), 24 December 1837. Richard M. Ford, London bookseller, April 2002.

Exemplum of the printed edition of 1607 with the text of the missing first two leaves and signature 0 supplied in MS.

Early 17th century.

Owned before 1937 by the Clifton Shakspere Society.

Recorded in Herford & Simpson, V, 7, and collated.

Copy, headed To Alexander Gill and here beginning Doth the prosperity of a pardon still, in a verse miscellany.

17th century?.

Once owned by John Payne Collier (1789-1883), literary scholar, editor and forger.

Edited from this MS in John Payne Collier, An Old Man's Diary (London, 1871-2), part ii, p. 13, whence collated in Herford & Simpson.

A miscellany.

Alleged by Collier to contain seventeen sonnets by William Alabaster, sermons by Donne, King, etc., and a collection of miscellaneous poems, chiefly upon sacred subjects, collected in the reign of James I. The sermons are possibly the Merton MS (Bodleian, MS Eng. th. c. 71). The Alabaster and other poems are not identified, but the MS may have been genuine.

17th century.

Owned by John Payne Collier (1789-1883), literary scholar, editor and forger, who claims to have lent the MS, to a clergyman, when, in transit, Alabaster's sonnets accidentally escaped. The clergyman, who received only the sermons, was John Hannah (1818-88), archdeacon, schoolmaster and man of letters.

This MS, or MSS, discussed by Collier in his History of English Dramatic Poetry, 3 vols (London, 1831), II, 431-3, and in his Bibliographical and Critical Account of the Rarest Books, 2 vols (London, 1865), I, i*, and by Hannah in his edition of Henry King's Poems and Psalms (Oxford, 1843), p. xxx. See also Sonnets of William, Alabaster (1959), pp. xlvii-xlviii.

A receipt for a South Sea dividend, signed by Congreve, March 1717.

1717.

Sotheby's, 26 October 1916, Lot 105, to Tregaskis.

A receipt, signed by Congreve, 17 October 1718.

Recorded in the catalogue of the R.B. Adam Library (1929), III, 70. Subsequently in the collection of Donald and Mary Hyde (Lady Eccles).

A receipt to John Warner & Co, signed by Congreve, December 1719.

1719.

Sotheby's, 25 July 1978, lot 363, and 14 March 1979, lot 327. Maggs's sale catalogues No. 1021 (1981), item 43, and No. 1126 (August 1991), item 48.

Receipt, signed by Congreve, 29 March 1720.

1720.

Sotheby's, 11 March 1908, lot 343, to Scott.

An authorization for Thomas Snow to receive Congreve's latest dividend on South Sea stock, 9 July 1722.

1722.

Laid in a printed exemplum of Congreve's Works (3 vols, London, 1761), sold at Sotheby's, New York, 14 December 1988, lot 73.

A receipt for South Sea dividends, signed by Congreve, 27 November 1724.

1724.

Sotheby's, 29 October 1962, lot 227, to Hamilton.

A receipt to John Warner & Co, signed by Congreve, December 1724.

1724.

Owned in 1964 by Samuel Loveman, Bodley Book Shop, New York.

Recorded in Hodges, Letters, p. x.

An Exchequer warrant, signed by Congreve, 30 March 1727.

Sotheby's, 23 April 1923, lot 188, to Manning.

An Exchequer warrant, signed by Congreve, 6 April 1727.

1727.

Sotheby's, 20 November 1903, lot 279, to Barker. Possibly the same document sold at Sotheby's, 19 February 1930, lot 402, to Dobell.

Autograph letter signed, to Joseph Keally, from London, 2 March 1707[/8].

1708.

Owned in December 1989 by Clive Farahar & Sophie Dupré, booksellers, Calne, Wiltshire.

Berkeley, pp. 355-7. Hodges, No. 30. McKenzie, III, 169-70 (Letter 40).

Autograph letter signed, to Joseph Keally, from Richmond, 6 June [1710].

1710.

Owned in December 1989 by Clive Farahar & Sophie Dupré, booksellers, Calne, Wiltshire.

Berkeley, pp. 371-2. Hodges, No. 39. McKenzie, III, 175 (Letter 49).

Autograph letter signed (WC), to Joseph Keally, from London, 10 August 1710.

1710.

Bonhams, 22 November 2011, lot 221, with a facsimile in the sale catalogue.

McKenzie, III, 175 (Letter 50).

Autograph letter signed, to John Palstock, 10 February 1722/3.

1723.

Sotheby's, 18 July 1991, lot 175, to Henry, with a facsimile in the sale catalogue.

Allegedly two manuscript corrections in the text of Lycidas which certainly appear to be in the handwriting of Milton, in a large paper printed exemplum of Justa Edouardo King naufrago, ab amicis moerentibus, amoris (Cambridge, 1638).

[1638?].

William H. Robinson's sale catalogues No. 65 (1938), item 80, with a facsimile of an opening (but not showing MS corrections), and No. 73 (1941), item 313, with a facsimile of the title-page.

The MS corrections were compared in 1938 with those in MnJ 12 by A.W. Pollard. Recorded in LR, I, 355.

Copy, apparently contemporary, with corrections, embodying a variant version of at least lines 1532-3, alleged improbably to bear corrections in (the blind) Milton's own hand.

Sotheby's, 11-14 December 1865, lot 702.

Late 17th century?.

Recorded in Gentleman's Magazine, 3rd Ser. 2 (September 1866), 332, as having been recently discussed in the Pall Mall Gazette and sold at Sotheby's: see Columbia, XVIII, 644.

An exemplum signed by Cotton on the title-page and at the end and also by Catherine Cotton (given me by my deare father).

Late 17th century.

Later in the library of John Buxton (1912-89), Reader in English Literature, Oxford University. Phillip J. Pirages's sale catalogue (1988), item 166.

A printed exemplum signed by Cotton.

Late 17th century.

Later owned by G. M. Smith. Puttick & Simpson, 30 July 1849, lot 357, and 30 January 1850, lot 275.

Volume of collections, at least partly autograph.

Early 16th century?.

Formerly in the library of Sir Robert Cotton (1571-1631), with his shelfmark Vitellius D. IV. No longer among the Cotton MSS (in the British Library) and probably destroyed, with many of the Cotton MSS, in a fire in 1731. Extracts from Cotton MSS made by George Harbin (c.1665-1744), historical writer and librarian, now at the University of Kansas (MS C63), do not include this MS.

Discussed in McCusker (1942), pp. 102-3.

An exemplum with Cotton's Autograph and MS corrections.

c.1679.

Thomas Rodd's sale catalogue (1836), part ii, item 3674.

An exemplum inscribed This booke was given me by my very deare friend M^r Izaak Walton. August ye 22^d 1663. Charles Cotton.

c.1663.

Unidentified sale catalogue, 1911.

An exemplum with Autograph of Charles Cotton…at the end.

Late 17th century.

Sotheby's, 3 March 1845, lot 681, to Anderton [i.e. J. L. Anderdon].

Cotton's alleged exemplum.

Mid-late 17th century.

Thomas Rodd's sale catalogue (1839), item 3628.

An exemplum with autograph of Charles Cotton.

Late 17th century.

Undated sale catalogue of Joseph Lilly (d.1870), Bibliotheca curiosa, p. 26. In the library of William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork, book collector. Sotheby's, 12 March 1891 (Crawford sale), lot 772, to Pickering.

Recorded in W.C. Hazlitt, Three Book-Collectors, The Antiquary, 37 (1901), 88-9; in Turner, p. 445 et seq.; in Dust, p. 20; and in Parks, p. 29.

An exemplum signed by Cotton on the fly-leaf and copiously annotated throughout.

Mid-late 17th century.

Sotheby's, 7 July 1845, lot 358, to Cotton.

Recorded by W.C. Hazlitt in N&Q, 2nd Ser. 11 (13 April 1861), 286, and in The Antiquary, 37 (1901), 89. Also recorded in Turner, p. 445 et seq.; in Dust, p. 20; and in Parks, pp. 15, 29.

An exemplum inscribed by Davenant, on 19 December 1651, to Charles Cotton Esquire [i.e. the Elder, d.1658] and probably retained by Cotton the poet, who wrote verses to Davenant relating to this work.

Later owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1906-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale), lot 161, to Borg.

Discussed in Alvin I. Dust, The Seventh and Last Canto of Gondibert and Two Dedicatory Poems, JEGP, 60 (1961), 282-5.

An exemplum with the autograph signature of Charles Cotton, the angler.

Mid-late 17th century.

Later owned by John Dunn Gardner, MP (1811-1903). Sotheby's, 8 July 1854 (Gardner sale), lot 622, to Lilly.

An exemplum allegedly having on the title an autograph of one of the family of Cromwell, Earl of Ardglass, whose widow became Cotton's second wife; and on the fly-leaf the following presentation in Cotton's handwriting Liber Thomae Suttoni Donum Caroli Cottoni Arm..

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Mid-late 17th century.

Later owned by Thomas Bateman (1821-61).

Recorded by Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing Remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Also recorded in Turner, p. 445, et seq.; in Dust, p. 20; and in Parks, p. 31.

An exemplum inscribed by Fanshawe to Cotton.

Parke Bernet Galleries, New York, 15 November 1978, lot 44, with a facsimile of the inscription in the sale catalogue.

c.1655.

A folio page inscribed by Cotton Present this to the honor'd Colonell Beaumont from the humblest of his servants Charles Cotton.

Mid-late 17th century.

Puttick & Simpson, 9 December 1857, lot 435, to Smith.

Letter, probably autograph and signed by Cotton, to [John Ferrers] (Noble Cosen), [from Beresford], 18 February [1657]. This letter was transcribed in the 19th century in the selective transcript of the Derby MS now in Derby Central Library (8469) (see above). The transcriber notes: The preceding Letter in Cotton's own handwriting was sent me by J. E. Blake Esq. 14. Essex Street Strand, (in the year 1834) who inserted it as an illustration in his Copy of the Compleat Angler by Walton & Cotton. He discovered both that & the Answer, in searching among ancient Deeds belonging to the late Marquis of Townshend [descendant of the Ferrers family], which were brought from Tamworth Castle. The text of this transcript is given in Turner, pp. 70-1.

1647.

Parke Bernet Galleries, New York, 30 October 1950 (Oliver R. Barrett sale), lot 274.

This letter was transcribed in the 19th century in the selective transcript of the Derby MS now in Derby Central Library (8469). The copyist notes: The preceding Letter in Cotton's own handwriting was sent me by J. E. Blake Esq. 14. Essex Street Strand, (in the year 1834) who inserted it as an illustration in his Copy of the Compleat Angler by Walton & Cotton. He discovered both that & the Answer, in searching among ancient Deeds belonging to the late Marquis of Townshend [descendant of the Ferrers family], which were brought from Tamworth Castle. The text of this transcript is given in Turner, pp. 70-1.

Letter by Cotton, to Izaak Walton, date unknown.

Mid-late 17th century.

Once owned by Samuel Bagster, who wrote to Sir Henry Ellis about it on 25 October 1848, enclosing a rough transcript (see Parks, pp. 30-1). He described it as being in perfect preservation and as having on the back a page of a sermon in the handwriting of M^r. Walton Jun^r. Bagster's letter to Ellis is now in the British Library (among Ellis's collections relating to his edition of The Complete Angler: Add. MS 41313, ff. 67-8v), but without the transcript of Cotton's letter originally accompanying it. The letter might, conceivably be the original of his well-known letter to Walton of 10 March 1675/6, which prefaces Part II of The Compleat Angler (5th edition, London, 1676) (see Nicolas, II, 323-4).

An exemplum with Autograph of Charles Cotton on Title.

Late 17th century.

Later owned by John Gerard Heckscher (1837-1908), New York book collector. Merwin-Clayton Sales Company, New York, 2-5 February 1909 (Heckscher sale), lot 514.

Recorded in Parks, p. 32.

An exemplum inscribed by Cotton to Thomas West.

Lilly's sale catalogue, 1881, item Montaigne.

An exemplum with autograph signatures of Charles Cotton at the beginning and end, and of his daughter Katherine upon the title.

Later owned by Thomas Bateman (1821-61). Sotheby's, 25 May 1893, lot 1346, to Kender.

Recorded by Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing Remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Recorded in Turner, p. 445 et seq.; in Dust, p. 21; and in Parks, p. 32.

An exemplum with autograph of Charles Cotton …at p. 1193.

Mid-late 17th century.

Edward Jeans sale catalogue, Norwich, 1860, item 3730. Puttick & Simpson, 11 June 1863, lot 1301, to Lonsdale.

An exemplum signed by Cotton, with a six-line poem on the flyleaf in another hand.

Late 17th century.

Maggs's sale catalogue No. 937 (Autumn 1971), item 24.

An exemplum with the autograph on the title-page Charles Cotton ex dono Richardi Marriot, Bibl.

Mid-late 17th century.

Sotheby's, 20 December 1838 (H.S. Cotton sale), lot 84, to [J.L.] Anderdon.

Recorded in Parks, p. 32.

An exemplum of the printed London edition of 1670, inscribed by Cotton to Robert Vaughan.

c.1670.

Formerly in Derby Central Library, but now untraced.

Recorded in Turner, p. 347, and thence in Dust, p. 21.

Cotton's exemplum.

Late 17th century.

Recorded by W.C. Hazlitt in his annotated exemplum of his own A Roll of Honour (London, 1908) in the British Library (Cup. 410. g. 343), p. 49.

An exemplum signed on the title-page by Charles Cotton, by his son Beresford, and by his eldest daughter Jane, and on the lower flyleaf by his youngest daughter Olive (Olivia).

Mid-late 17th century.

Recorded as From the library of the Marquis of Hastings. Once owned by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector. Sotheby's, 8 July 1919 (Huth sale), lot 7240, to F. Edwards. Sotheby's, 24 February 2000, lot 21, to Christopher Edwards, with a facsimile of the inscribed title-page in the sale catalogue.

Recorded in W.C. Hazlitt, Confessions of a Collector (London, 1897), p. 105; in Turner, p. 445 et seq.; in Dust, p. 21; and in Parks, p. 33.

A printed exemplum, inscribed by Cotton.

Willis & Sotheran's sale catalogue for 1859, item 8940.

An exemplum which supposedly belonged to…Charles Cotton. On pages 7 and 107 are marginal notes in Cotton's own hand.

Late 17th century.

Charles W. Traylen's sale catalogue No. 90 (1980), item 254.

Recorded in Parks, p. 33.

A printed exemplum inscribed by Catherine Cotton as having been given to her by her father.

c.1675.

Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 August 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 3662, to Lilly.

An exemplum signed by Cotton on a flyleaf.

Late 17th century.

Maggs's sale catalogue No. 735 (1944), item 136.

An exemplum inscribed by Cotton to William (Gui.) Wakefield, 1686.

1686.

Sotheby's, 20 December 1838 (H. S. Cotton sale), lot 74, to Pickering.

Recorded in Parks, p. 31.

Cowley's small quarto exemplum, with his inscription on the title-page Abraham Cowley, 1666.

1666.

Pickering & Chatto's A Catalogue of Old and Rare Books (c.1910?), item 628.

Autograph letter signed, to John Evelyn, from Chertsey, 13 May 1667.

Later owned by Robert Borthwick Adam (1863-1940), American book collector. Thence to the collection of Donald and Mary Hyde (Lady Eccles), L.6.68.

Edited in Memoirs illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, ed. William Bray, 2 vols (London, 1818), II, 229. Reprinted in Grosart, I, lxxvii-lxxviii.

Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Long, frpm Paris, 21 January 1650.

1650/1.

Sotheby's, 13 April 1905, lot 71, to Lindsay.

Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Long, from Paris, 14 December 1649.

1649.

Sotheby's, 26 July 1938, lot 425, to Maggs.

Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Long, from Paris, 8 January 1650.

1650/1.

Sotheby's, 25 July 1938, lot 425, to Maggs.

Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Long, from Paris, 15 January 1650.

1650/1.

Sotheby's, 25 July 1938, lot 425, to Maggs.

Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Long, from Paris, 29 January 1650.

1650/1.

Sotheby's, 13 April 1905, lot 77, to Maggs.

Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Long, from Paris, 5 February 1650.

1650/1.

Sotheby's, 25 July 1938, lot 425, to Maggs.

Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Long, from Paris, 11 June 1650.

1650.

Sotheby's, 25 July 1938, lot 425, to Maggs.

Autograph letter signed, to Robert Long, from Paris, 18 December 1649.

1649.

Sotheby's, 13 April 1905, lot 48, to Sabin.

Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Long, from Paris, 29 April 1650.

1650.

Sotheby's, 13 April 1905, lot 108, to Sabin.

Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Long, [from Paris], 28 May 1650.

1650.

Sotheby's, 13 April 1905, lot 119, to Sabin.

Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Long, from Paris, 25 January 1650.

1650/1.

Sotheby's, 18 December 1905, lot 242, to Wadmore.

Autograph calligraphic MS, almost entirely on rectos only, 67 leaves (49 x 75 mm.), in contemporary calf gilt.

A presentation MS to John Spottiswood (1565-1639), Archbishop of St Andrews, with a Dedication to him, in a small roman script throughout, with little decoration.

1616.

Later owned by Elizabeth Sharp and in 1963 by G. S. Cox, in the Channel Islands.

Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 49 (p. 77).

Copy, 40 pages (127 x 90 mm.).

Owned in 1799 by Thomas Crane, Minister of St Olave's, Chester (bookplate and inscription). Bookplate of Robert Offley Ashburton Milnes, afterwards Crewe- Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe. Christie's, 26 November 1997, lot 74.

Miscellaneous papers.

Late 17th century.

Descended from the family of William, Earl of Craven (1606-97).

A folio volume of state papers.

17th century.

Later owned by Lieutenant-Colonel G. H. W. Carew of Crowcombe Court, Somerset. Sotheby's, 6 May, 1903 (Carew sale), lot 312, to Cotton.

Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 372.

An exemplum of Waller's printed octavo Poems (London, 1664), with twenty-four pages of closely written manuscript additions, comprising five poems by Waller and additional lines for a sixth.

Late 17th century?.

Once owned by Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Cunningham (1820-75), field engineer in the Madras Army (retired 1861) and afterwards editor of, and commentator on, Ben Jonson, Marlowe and Massinger. Cunningham's library was dispersed at Sotheby's, 17-21 July 1876, but no mention of this volume is made in the sale catalogue.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Cunningham Volume: WaE Δ 18. The volume is briefly discussed by Cunningham in Waller's Poems, N&Q, 3rd Ser. 9 (10 March 1866), 192-3.

Thomas Killigrew's exemplum.

Early-mid 17th century?.

Autograph note by W.C. Hazlitt in his annotated exemplum of his A Roll of Honour (London, 1908), opposite p. 128, in the British Library, Cup.410.g.343, saying: T. K. possessed a copy of Daniel's Civil Wars, 1609, and wrote Killigrew on sigs. Q2.

Copy.

c.1680s.

Later among the papers of Lord Dartmouth. Sotheby's, 9 March 1948, lot 440, to Myers.

Original indenture signed by Davenant, concerning the building of a theatre originally planned to be near the Three Kings' Ordinary in Fleet Street, London, 2 October 1639.

1639.

Sotheby's, 14 March 1920, lot 518, to Hope, with a reduced facsimile in the sale catalogue.

Autograph letter signed, to Alderman James Watkinson, from Scarborough, 21 September 1643, (at night).

1643.

Sotheby's, 4 April 1938, lot 117, to Doran. Christie's, 12 July 2000 (William Foyle sale, Part III), lot 329, the detached inscribed leaf only, in an extra-illustrated printed exemplum of Peter Cunningham, The Story of Nell Gwyn (London, 1852), opposite p. 11.

Autograph letter signed, to an unspecified correspondent, from St Germains, 1 September 1646.

1646.

Formerly among the Egerton-Warburton MSS at Arley Hall, Cheshire. Sotheby's, 16 March 1937, lot 483, to King.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 291.

Autograph note by Davenant, from the Tower, 19 December 1652.

1652.

Sotheby's, 7 August 1884 (J.P. Collier sale), lot 1052, to B. J. Stevens.

Copy, headed Reason, a poem, together with extracts from Doomsday.

Late 17th century?.

Sotheby's, 27 November 1807, lot 260, to Clarke & Sons.

Allegedly Butler's printed exemplum, described as containing his autograph inscription on [the] title-page, Liber Samueli Butleri, An. Dom. 1667, and, on the fly-leaf, the inscription Samuell Butler his Book, 1667.

Inscribed in another hand Henry Spurway bought this book of Sam. Butler, Anno. 1669, pr. 15s.. Pickering & Chatto's A Catalogue of Old and Rare Books, [c.1910?], item 1546.

Copy of Sir Walter Rawleigh's Cordial, in a small quarto volume of culinary receipts.

Mid-late 17th century.

Sotheby's, 9 May 1961, lot 282, to Dawson.

Copy of the Dedication to the Queen only, headed An Answere to the Coppye of a Rayleing Invective, against the Regiment of Woemen in generall, with certain Mallepert exceptions... written unto Queen Elizabeth, by the Right Honoble: Henry Lo: Howard, late Earle of Northampton, 52 folio leaves.

17th century.

Sotheby's, 5 July 1955 (André de Coppet sale), lot 901, to Quaritch.

Copy, apparently transcribed from the edition of 1609, 51 quarto pages, in an elaborate binding.

Early-mid-17th century.

Sotheby's, 17 June 1969, lot 489, to Dobell. Privately owned in 1990.

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A receipt for £600 from Francis Bacon of Gray's Inn signed by both Denham and Thomas Killigrew, 9 October 1667.

1667.

Puttick & Simpson's, 3 June 1878, lot 93.

Recorded in The R.B. Adam Library (London & New York, 1929) vol. III, p. 81.

A receipt for £600 from Francis Bacon of Gray's Inn signed by Thomas Killigrew and Sir John Denham, 9 October 1667.

1667.

Puttick & Simpson's, 3 June 1878, lot 93.

Recorded in The R.B. Adam Library (London & New York, 1929) vol. III, p. 81.

Copy, including preliminary epistles, closely written in a cursive hand, 88 folio leaves (including blanks), in a leather binding.

Late 17th century.

With pasted-in Derby arms and inscription The Right Hon^ble James Earl of Derby Lord of Man and the Isles, 1702 [i.e. James Stanley (1664-1736), tenth Earl of Derby].

This MS collated and briefly described in Hitchcock and Hallett, pp. xiv-xv.

A quarto notebook and miscellany, largely in two hands, one of them that of Charles Deynes (1681-1756), of Roydon, near Diss, Norfolk, c.250 pages, in contemporary vellum (rebacked).

Late 17th-early-18th century.

Later owned by the Rev. Guy Bryon, of Malden, Essex, and by Alex Robertson, of Inverscargill, New Zealand, who acquired it in 1924 from Dobell. Roy Davids's sale catalogue No.VI (1999), item 32.

Harvey's exemplum, lacking the title-page.

c.1584.

Owned and recorded (as Alexand Dicson Artificiosa Memoriæ) in Thomas W. Jones's list of 1854 in University of London, Senate House Library, MS 289.

Donne's signature as a witness on an indenture of 20 March 1617.

1617.

Facsimile in R.C. Bald, Donne & the Drurys (Cambridge, 1959), facing p. 154.

Henry James's exemplum of Sir Edmund Gosse's edition of The Life and Letters of John Donne, 2 vols (London, 1899).

c.1899.

Later owned by John Sparrow (1906-92), literary scholar and book collector. Christie's, South Kensington, 18 December 1992 (unmentioned in the sale catalogue), to Arthur Freeman.

An exemplum of Donne's Poems (1633), with Paradoxes and Problems (1633), with Donne's signature pasted down on the title-page and inscribed on an end-paper Dr. Hen. King. Anno Dom. 1634.

1634.

Bearing on the verso of the title-page, dated 1703, the bookplate of Thomas Millington, who was a relation of King. Pickering & Chatto's sale catalogue for 1900, item 2756.

An exemplum of Donne's Poems (1633), bound with Juvenilia (1633), bearing a contemporary reader's annotations in ink in the margins of the Satyres and Letters to Sir Henry Goodyer (glossing proper names and commenting on the text).

c.1633.

Simon Finch's sale catalogue No. 8 (1991), item 33.

A printed exemplum with alleged autograph signature and notes by Drayton.

c.1627?.

Sotheby's, 18 April 1803 (Robert Grave sale), lot 2021, to Forster.

A printed exemplum with an alleged autograph presentation inscription by Drayton to Thomas Holl.

c.1612.

Sotheby's, 22 May 1874 (Sir William Tite sale), lot 961, to Sotheran.

Copy, untitled, on 75 quarto pages.

17th century.

In the library of David Constable. Sold by Speare, 19 November 1828, lot 2926.

A MS of Sir Dauid Lindesay A Satyre of the three Estates.

16th century?.

Owned in 1627 by William Drummond of Hawthornden, whose main books and MSS are in Edinburgh University Library and the National Library of Scotland, but the rest dispersed.

Recorded in Drummond's catalogue of his library, Auctarium Bibliothecae Edinburgenae (Edinburgh, 1627), p. 22. See Hamer, IV, 12, and Robert H. MacDonald, The Library of Drummond of Hawthornden (Edinburgh, 1971), No. 1371.

A receipt for £25 allegedly signed by Dryden, 26 February 1679.

1679.

Sotheby's, 15 March 1876, lot 120.

A printed receipt for a quarter's pay, allegedly signed by Dryden (with Printed Account of his Funeral, and portrait by Houbraken), undated.

Mid-late 17th century.

Sotheby's, 4 February 1876.

An exchequer receipt for £600, signed by Dryden and by Thomas Killigrew, relating to a fine for Nicholas Bacon's contriving the death of Sir Harbottle Grimston, 9 October 1667.

1667.

Puttick & Simpson's, 3 June 1878, lot 93.

Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to [Charles Sackville, sixth Earl of Dorset], from Lilford, [1677].

1677.

Later in the library of Robert Borthwick Adam (1863-1940), American book collector. Afterwards in the Donald and Mary Hyde Collection, Somerville, New Jersey, L.3.222.

Ward, Letter 6. Facsimile in the catalogue of The R.B. Adam Library (London & New York, 1929), III, after p. 87.

Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to Charles Sackville, sixth Earl of Dorset, 7 October [1691].

1691.

Formerly owned by Lord Sackville, at Knole Park, Kent.

Ward, Letter 22. Text, with a facsimile of the signature, in Charles J. Phillips, History of the Sackville Family, 2 vols (London, 1930), I, 444.

Copy of a letter by Dryden, to [Mary, Duchess of] Ormonde, first day of Winter, 1698.

1698.

Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 21 August 1858, lot 54 (withdrawn, as only a copy not autograph). Sotheby's, 19 December 1905, lot 317, to Sabin.

Ward, Letter 56, edited from a text in Illustrated London News (28 August 1858), p. 197. Printed facsimile example in Northamptonshire Record Office, D (CA) 302. NB. Also Ward and others identify the addressee as the Duke of Ormonde, but see Pierre Legouis, Dryden's Letter to Ormond, MLN, 66 (1951), 88-92.

Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to Elizabeth Steward, Candlemass-Day [2 February] 1698/9.

1699.

Later owned by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector. Sotheby's, 12 June 1911 (Huth sale), lot 63, to Meylen.

Ward, Letter 5. Facsimiles in Sotheby's sale catalogue and in Northamptonshire Record Office, D (CA) 302.

Dryden's printed exemplum, inscribed on the title-page John Dryden ex dono Edw. Howard.

The inscription relates to the family of Dryden's wife and would not be a likely subject for forgery.

Mid-late 17th century.

W.H. Robinson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, sale catalogue No. 18 (1927), item 264.

Part of a promptbook of the play, containing the cast-list for a performance before the Earl of Strafford in Dublin Castle on New Year's Day, 1635.

[i.e. 1637/8?].

Formerly preserved in The Players Club, New York.

Described by John Malone in a periodical of c.1894-5, a cutting of which is in an extra-illustrated exemplum of George Alfred Townsend, The Life, Crime and Capture of John Wilkes Booth (New York, [1865]) now in the Harvard Theater Collection: see Bentley, Jacobean & Caroline Stage, V, 1141.

An octavo miscellany compiled by Richard Duke (1652-1733), of Otterton, Devon.

Owned in 1918 by A. de Castro Glubb, of Pendean, Liskeard, Cornwall.

Discussed in J.J. Alexander, An Otterton Notebook, Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature, and Art, 50 (1918), 493-502.

Autograph letter signed, to Deare H [?Hyde], from Paris, 29 January [1651/2].

1652.

Sotheby's, 4 April 1955, lot 202, to Maggs.

Three unspecified autograph letters signed by Earle, one to Sir Richard Browne, 1663, etc. 3 pp. 4to. and folio.

1663.

Sotheby's, 15 March 1916, lot 108, to Dobell.

A quarto volume of Miscellanea Latina et Anglicana, compiled by Edward Southwell (d.1760), Secretary of State for Ireland.

Early 18th century?.

Thomas Osborne, Catalogue of the libraries of...several gentlemen (1748), item 248.

A small prayer book, 38 vellum leaves, 2 inches wide by 3 inches long.

Written in a calligraphic script, some letters gilded, containing two miniatures by Nicholas Hilliard, one of Elizabeth, the other of the Duc d'Anjou, bound in shagreen with gold enameled clasps, in the centre of each is a small ruby.

c.1579-82.

Subsequently given by James II to the Duke of Berwick. Later owned by Horace Walpole and then by the Duchess of Portland, who sold it on 24 May 1786. Bought by Queen Charlotte, who gave it to the dowager Duchess of Leeds. Exhibited in 1902 by J.W. Whitehead, of Southwood, at the Fine Art Society.

Photostats of the volume are in the British Library, Facsimile MS 218, which are annotated with a description by J. W. [Whitehead] dated 3 June 1893.

Autograph annotations.

Recorded, with some annotations quoted and with a facsimile of Camden's inscription of ownership, in Original Letters of Eminent Literary Men, ed. Sir Henry Ellis, Camden Society 23 (London, 1843), p. 128 (and frontispiece).

Accounts of the Earl of Essex's arraignment and execution, in a formal secretary hand, on 51 folio pages.

Early 17th century.

A microfilm of this MS is in the British Library, RP 1683.

Accounts of the Earl of Essex's arraignment and execution, in two MSS, in three hands, together with a quarto document signed by William Parr, Earl of Essex, 14 August 1544.

Later owned by W.A. Foyle (1885-1963), bookseller, of Beeleigh Abbey, Essex. Christie's, 12-13 July 2000 (W.A. Foyle sale, Part III), lot 313.

Copy, in the professional secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe, 25 folio leaves, in paper wrappers.

c.1620s-30s.

Later in the collection of Donald Frizell Hyde (1909-66) and Mary Hyde (1912-2003), Viscountess Eccles. Christie's, New York, 14 April 2004 (Lady Eccles sale), lot 34.

A facsimile opening in the sale catalogue.

Two indentures for the sale of the manor of Thomlins (or Tomlyns) in Amersham, Buckinghsmshire, by Richard Stydolfe of Norbury, Surrey, to Sir William Drake of Shardeloes, Buckinghamshire, both signed as witnesses in the attestation on the verso by the attorney George Gosnold and by his apprenticed articled clerk the twenty-one year-old Etherege, both on vellum, dated 1 November 1657.

1657.

Sotheby's, 17 December 1998, lot 70, unsold. Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh, 11 July 2006, lot 271.

Facsimiles of the signatures in Sotheby's sale catalogue, p. 70, and in Peter Beal, A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology 1450-2000 (Oxford, 2008), p. 442. Photocopies are in the British Library, RP 8989.

A document relating to the purchase by the attorney George Gosnold of the manor of Thomlins in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, belonging to Edmund Waller, signed in the attestation by the nineteen year-old Etherege, as Gosnold's apprenticed articled clerk, 1657.

1657.

Sotheby's, 17 December 1998, lot 70, unsold. Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh, 11 July 2006, lot 271. Photocopies are in the British Library, RP 8989.

Two autograph letters signed by Etherege, to Sir Richard Bulstrode, Envoy at Brussels, [from Ratisbon], the first dated December 1685.

1685.

Owned in 1870 by T.E.P. Lefroy, of Hillcote, Bournemouth, Hampshire. One of the letters possibly that to an unspecified correspondent, dated from Ratisbon, 21 December 1685, offered at Sotheby's, 26 November 1891, lot 133. See EtG 000.

Recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 56.

Autograph notes in a printed exemplum of Sir George Wharton, No Merline, nor Mercurie, but a new Almanack...for...1647 ([York?], 1647).

In a composite volume of five printed almanacs, the others being William Lilly, Merlini Anglici Ephemeris ([London], 1647: 2 copies), The Welsh-Man's New Almanacke for 1647 and Wharton, Hemeroscopeion for 1645.

c.1647.

Once owned by Mrs S.L. Barnard, of Cave Castle, East Yorkshire. Sotheby's, 23 June 1925, lot 347 to Thorp.

This MS recorded in de Beer, I, 48.

Two autograph prayers written on five pages of blank leaves at the end of Evelyn's printed Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments (1639).

Mid-17th century?.

Mary Evelyn's name inscribed in the volume in the hand of Richard Hoare. Christie's, 8 November 1978, lot 14 (with a facsimile example in the sale catalogue), to Quaritch.

Autograph Devotionarie Book, comprising Of Frequent Communion, Mental Communion and Entertainments, 66 duodecimo leaves.

Mid-late 17th century?.

Inscribed (on a flyleaf) Mary Evelyn and names of later owners. Owned in 1936 by Viscount Falmouth, Tregothnan, Truro, Cornwall.

Edited from this MS by Walter Frere (London, 1936), with a facsimile of pp. 64-5 as frontispiece. Recorded in Keynes, p. 254.

Autograph notes on the diet of man before the Flood, comprising twelve lines on an oblong octavo leaf.

Mid-late 17th century?.

Puttick and Simpson's, 2 June 1921, lot 172, to Last.

Autograph and annotated architectural drawings (including winding stairs, stair balusters, a shop and sections of a dome), on four leaves.

Mounted in an album by William Upcott (1779-1845), antiquary and autograph collector, with his note stating that these drawings were done for Elysium Britannicum, together with material relating to the first edition of Evelyn's Memoirs (1818).

Mid-17th century?.

Sotheby's, 30 June 1964, lot 464, to A.G. Thomas.

Autograph drawing of designs for the armorial ensigns and ciphers of the Royal Society, headed Armes & Mottos proposd for y^e R. Society 1660.

c.1660.

Formerly owned by William Upcott (1779-1845), antiquary and autograph collector.

Facsimile of this MS in Charles John Smith, Historical and Literary Curiosities (London, 1847), No. 57.

Autograph quotation from Guillaume Joseph Grelot, Relation d'un voyage de Constantinople (Paris, 1680), with initialled autograph note, on a single quarto page; endorsed November, 1682.

1682.

Sotheby's, 4 July 1917, lot 466, to Tregaskis. Maggs's sale catalogue No. 445 (1923), item 123.

Autograph instructions for housekeeping, copied down by Evelyn from his wife's dictation for the use of Margaret Godolphin, on three folio pages.

c.1676.

Christie's, South Kensington, 8 June 2004, lot 147, with a facsimile in the sale catalogue.

Autograph Latin verses, one on the New Year of 1695/6, including notes in English on the circumstances of composition, on a single quarto leaf, endorsed In Extempore.

c.1690s.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 557.

Autograph lists, headed Wanting of my L. Clarendons, and Those which I already have are, on a single quarto leaf.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 489.

Autograph list of books on a small scrap of paper.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 527.

Autograph list of papers on a single slip of paper.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 539.

Autograph Catalogue of Bookes papers Rolls &c: of my sune Left at London: 1692, on ten quarto pages and slips of paper.

1692.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 576.

Autograph list of writings on a fragmentary slip of paper.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 577.

Autograph list of historical and geographical works at Wotton, on a slip of paper.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 601.

Autograph list of books, endorsed Libri desiderati, on two quarto pages.

Formerly Christ Church, Evelyn MS 603.

Inventory of Pictures and other=Houshold-stuff Left at Says-Court 1696 and a 27-page list of books, partly autograph, partly in another hand, on 66 octavo pages in all, badly damaged.

c.1696-1701.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 579.

Autograph list of papers concerning Sir Richard Browne's estate.

1679.

Formerly part of Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 579.

Autograph note marked for addition to page 6 of Elysium Britannicum, on a single quarto leaf.

1667.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 532.

Autograph funeral inscription to Lord de Wit, on a single quarto leaf.

1683.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 472.

Autograph notes on headings for a historical discourse on two folio leaves.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 492.

Autograph historical notes on a single folio leaf.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 559.

Autograph of a Latin version (...De Vaculis), on three folio pages, unfinished.

Late 17th century.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 547.

This MS recorded in Bray, UU, part i, p. 103.

Tracing pattern of a Sussex coat of arms with an autograph note, on a single leaf.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 421.

Autograph note on a coloured print of a coat of arms, on a single leaf.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 426.

Drawing of an Egyptian stone, with an autograph note, on two folio leaves.

1646.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 544.

Engraving of George Evelyn's estate of Wotton in Surrey with John Evelyn's autograph inscription.

1653.

Formerly a Folder of Drawings in Christ Church, Oxford.

Reproduced in Bray, II, part i, after p. 120.

Autograph note of a debate from the Athenian Mercury, on a single quarto leaf, c.18 April 1693.

1693.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 419.

Autograph quotation in Latin from Grotius, on a single octavo leaf.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 429.

Autograph drafts and notes, including biographical information about himself and others and notes concerning the history of the Royal Society, also including a list of queries in the hand of Anthony Wood, on a single folio leaf and various scraps of paper.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 543.

A large folio volume of medicinal receipts, in various hands, some pages in Evelyn's hand, 172 leaves (including blanks), f. 70r dated 1659.

Mid-late-17th century.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 51.

Compilation, headed Medicus Itinerarivs in Privatum Authoris usum conscriptus, in the hand of Richard Hoare.

Iin a volume of 201 pages, with Evelyn's autograph notes on p. 201 and on the flyleaf stating This Trifle from p: 89 is much out of Senectus: It is all full of Errors & needs correction.

1651.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 89.

Autograph notes on the Eucharist, on twelve folio and oblong quarto pages.

Late 17th century.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 554.

Autograph notes on a sermon by Dr [Robert] South, on a single folio leaf (folded in four columns).

Late 17th century.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 555.

Autograph draft of an essay, unfinished, on thirteen quarto leaves.

Mid-late 17th century?.

Edited from this MS in Bray (1818), II, Part i, pp. 33-48. Reported to be at Wotton House in Wheatley (1893), p. 85. Recorded in Keynes, p. 7. Listed as A Discourse of Manuscripts, Begun but Imperfect in one of Evelyn's lists in British Library, Add. MS 15950, f. 80r (EvJ 35).

Evelyn's autograph markings and an eight-line note at the end of the Index titulorum explaining their significance with regard to library classification, in his printed exemplum of Gabriel Naudé's Bibliothecae Cordesianae catalogus (Paris, 1643).

c.1651.

Christie's, 15 March 1978, lot 1066 (with a facsimile of the main annotation in the sale catalogue), to Quaritch.

Autograph, on eight folio pages, together with Pepys's Enquiries, dated 7 July 1680.

1680.

Later owned by Alfred Morrison (1821-97), manuscript and art collector. Sotheby's, 5 May 1919 (Morrison sale), lot 2820, to G. D. Smith.

Autograph draft, on three large folio leaves, endorsed in the hand of Margaret Godolphin Mrs. Evelin's directions concerning house keeping for me.

Mid-late 17th century?.

Later owned by Alfred Morrison (1821-97), manuscript and art collector. Sotheby's, 5 May 1919 (Morrison sale), lot 2821, to Francis Edwards.

Recorded in Sampson, p. 224.

Corrected proof; imperfect.

Later owned by William Upcott (1779-1845), antiquary and autograph collector. Sotheby's, 16 June 1846 (Upcott sale), lot 555, to Thomas Rodd.

Autograph description of the Clepsamidium Nauticum, with a diagram, on a single folio leaf, endorsed by Samuel Pepys M^r Evelyn's Description of a new Sea-Hour-Glasse.

Late 17th century?.

Later owned by J. Eliot Hodgkin, FSA (1829-1912), of Richmond, Surrey, engineer and book collector. Sotheby's, 23 April 1914 (Hodgkin sale), lot 244, to Francis Edwards.

Recorded in HMC, 39, 15th report, Appendix II (1897), p. 184.

Autograph quotation of ten lines from Isaac Vossius, De magnitudine Carthaginis, concerning the golden apples of the garden of Hesperides, on a small slip of paper.

Sotheby's, 29 October 1975, lot 26, to Winifred Myers.

A MS allegedly in the hand of Edward Fairfax (1568?-between 1632 and 1635).

Formerly among the Fairfax papers at Leeds Castle, Kent.

Recorded as an autograph epitaph by Edward Fairfax on the late monarch in The Fairfax Correspondence, I, 2-3.

A small quarto commonplace book of extracts, compiled by probably two members of the Fane family, Earls of Westmorland, of Apethorpe, Northamptonshire, 120 leaves.

Mid-17th century.

Later owned by Professor A. Stanton Whitfield. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 271.

A printed exemplum containing Jonson's presentation inscription to his most learni'd and honor'd friend M^r. Tho. Farnabie.

1616.

Later owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1906-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale), lot 275, to Fleming.

A calligraphic copy of the poem, on vellum, 52 quarto pages, on rectos only, in contemporary green velvet.

With elaborately coloured and gilt arms and decorated borders, executed by Henrietta Louisa Fermor (1698-1761), Countess of Pomfret, Lady of the Bedchamber to the Princess of Wales, as a presentation MS to Princess Anne probably on the occasion of her betrothal to William IV of Orange-Nassau.

1733.

Sotheby's, 12 July 2007, lot 27, with illustration in the sale catalogue.

A folio volume of tracts attributed to Ralegh.

17th century.

Formerly among the Finch MSS at Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland. (Not among the Finch MSS in the Leicestershire Record Office and possibly destroyed in a fire in 1908).

Recorded in HMC, 7th Report (1879), Appendix, p. 516.

A volume of extracts from various authors, compiled by Frances Fitzherbert, who describes herself as a female scribbler and addresses the Collection of Sentences to Lady Elizabeth Cromwell (1674-1709) in the hope that it might amuse her when she Arive neere sixty years, 49 pages.

c.1700.

Sotheby's, April 1963, lot 494.

Printed exemplum bearing Harvey's signature and date 1579 on the title-page, occasional autograph annotations, and a full autograph page by him at the end relating to Parliament.

The volume was once Library of Congress KD7290 .F57132 1579, but was destroyed probably in the late 1980s. A microfilm is Library of Congress, Microfilm 85/10017 LL.

1579.

Probably the exemplum of The Office of Sheriff (London, printed by Thomas Marsh, undated) owned and recorded in Thomas W. Jones's list of 1854 in University of London, Senate House Library, MS 289.

Stern, p. 213 (recording the volume as whereabouts unknown).

Florio's presentation exemplum, inscribed in his hand with a sonnet subscribed Il Candido: i.e. his friend Matthew Gwinne (1558-1627), physician and playwright, To the right Honorable S^r. Thomas Egerton, knight Lord keeper of the greate seale of England (beginning Cato in yeares learn't Greeke, for Romanes weare).

c.1598.

Sotheby's, 19 March 1951 (Bridgewater Library sale), lot 135, to Rosenbach, with a facsimile of the complete poem in the sale catalogue. Sotheby's, 8 November 1965, lot 122, also with a facsimile in the sale catalogue. Zeitlin and Ver Brugge, Los Angeles, sale catalogue No. 246 (Autumn, 1978).

Discussed in correspondence by Bent Juel-Jensen and John Kerr in TLS, 23 December 1965, p. 1204, and 20 January 1966, p. 43.

Florio's presentation exemplum, inscribed by him to Sir Thomas Egerton.

c.1590s.

Sotheby's, 19 March 1951 (Bridgewater Library sale), lot 134, to Pickering, with a facsimile of the inscription in the sale catalogue.

Copy, on 214 quarto pages.

Mid-late 17th century.

Sotheby's, 17 June 1974, lot 251, to Foley.

Autograph ownership inscription (Sum Nicolai Udalli 1555), bound with an octavo exemplum.

1555?.

Recorded in W.C. Hazlitt, A Roll of Honor (1908), his annotated exemplum in the British Library, Cup.410.g.343, opposite p. 245.

Copy, headed Rochesters censure of the poets, on four folio pages.

Copy, headed Rochesters censure of the poets, on four folio pages, formerly in a composite volume of MS verse and prose collected by Richard Frank (c.1698-1762), of Campsall Hall, Yorkshire.

Late 17th century.

Chiefly comprising papers of the Yorkshire antiquary Nathaniel Johnston (1627-1705).

This volume recorded (as Bacon Frank Vol. 21) in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, pp. 457-8. The rest of the volume, lacking this poem, is now Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. c. 25.

A certificate signed by Fuller, allowing John Pinney to remain curate at Broadwindsor in Dorset, 18 October 1660.

1660.

Formerly in the possession of Major General Sir Reginald John Pinney (1863-1943) of Racedown, Dorset.

This MS edited in Bergen Evans, Thomas Fuller at Broadwindsor, RES, 7 (1931), 452-3.

Copy of two texts by Sir Walter Ralegh, in a predominantly italic hand, on a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

c.1620.

Endorsed Alex Fuller 10. June 1937. Bonham's, 18 December 2002, lot 776, with a facsimile example in the sale catalogue.

Photocopies of this MS are in the British Library, RP 8200.

A copy of plays by Shakespeare, in a single hand, 170 quarto pages, in marbled boards.

Mid-18th century.

Loosely inserted bookplate of David Garrick (1717-79), actor. Sotheby's, 8 December 1983, lot 48 (unsold).

Copy, described as The General: A tragi-comedy.

c.1660s?.

Stated by Halliwell-Phillipps in 1853 to be in the Plymouth Proprietary Library, but no record of this known. Recorded by him in 1860 as having been in private hands. 4^to, 1853 (see Clark, II, 827-8).

Edited from this MS by Halliwell-Phillipps (1853). Partly edited from Halliwell-Phillipps's edition, with collations, in Clark.

Autograph calligraphic MS.

1600.

Later owned by Philip Harcourt (d.1759), barrister.

Recorded in Thomas Hearne, Gulielmi Neubrigensis historia (Oxford, 1719), p. 752. Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 14 (p. 44).

Copy, in a small MS volume of religious writings, 82 leaves.

[1609-22].

In 1931 this MS was in the Jesuit Résidence in Ghent, Belgium, but is no longer there. Unless destroyed in World War II it may have been transferred to other Belgian Jesuit archives.

This MS collated in de Buck and described pp. 9-11.

A printed exemplum containing Jonson's presentation inscription to his worthy and deseruing Brother M^r. Alexander Glouer.

Later owned by Frank Capra (1897-1991), film director. Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 27 April 1949, lot 227, with a facsimile of the inscription in the sale catalogue.

This inscription edited in Herford & Simpson, VIII, 666.

Copy, headed A sa mistresse, written in two scribal hands on a blank page.

In a printed exemplum of The Faerie Queene, Books I-III, first issue without the complimentary sonnet to Lord Burghley (London, 1590).

c.1590s?.

Bearing an inscription in Greek meaning the author to himself and therefore possibly owned by Spenser himself. Other early inscriptions including D: S:, T: B:, mr john borlace gave mee this booke 1630; sum e libris G. Coxe;Eliza: Morgan her Booke; S: Byrch, and Gul: N[ ] Coll Rega. Owned before 1907 by Sir Israel Gollancz (1863-1930), and in 1929 by Dr Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach (1876-1952), bookseller, collector and scholar. Owned in 1946 by Frank H. Hogan. Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 23-4 April 1946 (Hogan sale, Part 3), lot 156, to Ray Hartz. A. Hime, Idyllwild, California, sale catalogue 8 (1983), item 26. Sotheby's, New York, 11 October 1991 (Richard Manney sale), lot 285.

This MS (formerly but no longer thought to be autograph) edited, with A. Judson's discussion, in Minor Poems, II, 419-20. Edited also in the 1991 Sotheby's sale catalogue. Facsimile in Flower & Munby, English Poetical Autographs, p. 3.

For some of the sale history of this volume, see Edwin Wolf 2nd and J.F. Fleming, Rosenbach (London, 1960), pp. 433, 540.

Printed exemplum with Davenant's autograph inscription For the much Honourd Charles Cotton Esquire [the Elder, d.1658].

c.1651.

Later owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1906-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part 1), lot 161, to Borg.

A printed exemplum with Davenant's autograph inscription For the much honour'd Serjeant Major [John] Wildman, dated 19 December 1651.

c.1651.

Sotheby's, 21 July 1983, lot 18, to Blackwell, with a facsimile of the inscription in the sale catalogue. Owned at some time by Howes Bookshop Ltd, Hastings, Sussex.

Fragments of a small quarto miscellany of poems, chiefly by Robert Southwell (sixteen by him, probably copied from lost printed sources), in a single mixed Scottish hand, 36 pages (in present state).

Apparently compiled by one R. C. (possibly Robert Calder) for Sir Robert Gordon (1580-1656), Lord of Inverary and Gentleman of the Privy Chamber.

c.1610.

The MS pages used as binder's waste or even perhaps as a deliberate mode of secretion in a MS volume compiled by the schoolmaster and royal chaplain Alexander Ross (1591-1654), of Aberdeen. Later in the library of Andrew Fletcher (1653?-1716), of Saltoun, political theorist and book collector. H.P. Kraus, New York, sale catalogue No. 157 (1980), item 29. Sotheby's, 19 July 1994, lot 29 (with other MSS relating to the recusant Gordon family), to Quaritch.