British Library: Western Manuscripts
EVELYN PAPERS (16th century-Early 20th century) (Add MS 78168-78693) Table of Contents
EVELYN PAPERS (16th century–Early 20th century)
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Add MS 78172–78178 Papers of the Earl of Leicester78172–78178. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. V–XI. Papers of and relating to Robert...... 8
Add MS 78179–78185 Papers relating to the Royal Household. ([1547–1601])...... 16
Add MS 78187–78188 EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. XX, XXI. Horoscopes by John Wells, mathematician and Treasurer of the Stores at...... 25
Add MS 78189–78200 : Official Correspondence ([1631–1682])...... 27
Add MS 78201–78209 Papers relating to Diplomatic Service ([1575–1665])...... 35
Add MS 78210–78219 Privy Council Papers78210–78219. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. XLIII–LII. Papers of Sir Richard Browne relating to...... 55
Add MS 78220–78224 Family and Personal Correspondence ([1619–1683])...... 61
Add MS 78225–78227 Accounts and Legal Papers78225–78227. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. LVIII–LX. Household accounts of Browne, with...... 65
Add MS 78228–78234 Academic and Literary Papers ([1560–1705])...... 67
Add MS 78235–78254 Political and Diplomatic Tracts78235–78254. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. LXVIII–LXXXVII. These comprise items that...... 77
Add MS 78255–78262 Papers of the Council of State.78255–78262. EVELYN PAPERS. These papers, consisting partly of confiscated...... 91
Add MS 78291–78294 George Evelyn (1617–1699)78291–78294. EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXXIV–CXXVII. Papers of George Evelyn, elder...... 117
Add MS 78298–78322 : Letterbooks and Correspondence ([1635–1706])...... 124
Add MS 78323–78326 Diary Manuscripts ([1620–1737])...... 165
Add MS 78327–78333 Commonplace Collections78327–78333. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols CLX–CLXVI. Commonplace books or adversaria of John...... 169
Add MS 78334–78352 Manuscripts relating to Virtuoso Projects ([1560–1799])...... 175
Add MS 78353–78359 Verse and Drama ([1600–1706])...... 197
Add MS 78360–78392 Devotional Manuscripts78360–78392. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols CXCIII, CCXXV. These are the most extensive category...... 203
Add MS 78393–78401 Papers relating to Public Offices and Affairs78393–78401. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols CCXXVI–CCXXXIV. Papers of...... 226
Add MS 78402–78413 Inventories, Accounts and Wills ([1600–1709])...... 234
Add MS 78414–78429 Manuscripts, etc., collected by John Evelyn ([1200–1999])...... 243
Add MS 78438–78439 EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLXXI, CCLXXII. Letterbooks of Mary Evelyn; [1667–[1674?]. Partly autograph; partly...... 270
Add MS 78446–78447 EVELYN `PAPERS. Vol. CCLXXIX, CCLXXX. General commonplace books of John Evelyn junior; circa 1668–[1690s?]...... 277
Add MS 78449–78452 EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLXXXII–CCLXXXV. Papers of John Evelyn junior relating to the public revenue; 1681–1687,...... 280
Add MS 78465–78466 EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCXCVIII, CCXCIX. Letters from Jael (Godolphin) Boscawen, widow of Edward Boscawen, M.P.,...... 289 Add MS 78472–78474 EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCV–CCCVII. Letters to Sir John Evelyn from Theophilus Peyrol, 1725–1730, tutor and...... 293
Add MS 78483–78484 EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCXVI, CCCXVII. Correspondence of Sir John Evelyn with Robert Wake, steward of Wotton;...... 298
Add MS 78485–78490 EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCXVIII–CCCXXIII. Correspondence of Sir John Evelyn with Thomas James, steward at...... 299
Add MS 78491–78495 EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCXXIV–CCCXXVIII. Letters from Henry Symonds, steward at Wotton; 1735–1744. One letter...... 302
Add MS 78498–78502 EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCXXXI–CCCXXXV. General correspondence of Sir John and Lady Evelyn, mostly of the...... 305
Add MS 78503–78511 Official Papers78503–78511. EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCXXXVI– CCCXLIV. Papers relating to the public offices of...... 307
Add MS 78514 A–F EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCXLVII A–F. Journal of Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart.; 1713–1734. Autograph. The journal...... 313
Add MS 78519 A–C EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCLII A–C. Notebooks purportedly by an anonymous London merchant who is also the owner of...... 319
Add MS 78521–78522 Evelyn Papers. Vols. cccliv, ccclv. Miscellaneous verse, English and Latin, together with inscriptions and...... 322
Add MS 78524–78526 EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. CCCLVII–CCCLIX. Household, personal and estate bills and financial papers of Sir John...... 325
Add MS 78527–78528 EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCLX, CCCLXI. General account–books kept by Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart., of receipts and...... 326
Add MS 78530–78543 Papers Acquired by Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart ([1660–1740])...... 328
Add MS 78548–78550 EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCLXXXI–CCCLXXXIII. Bills and receipts of Sir Frederick Evelyn and his wife; 1765–1817...... 347
Add MS 78555–78559 John Evelyn (1743–1827) ([1778–1833])...... 352
Add MS 78560–78566 George Evelyn (d. 1829) ([1808–1859])...... 355
Add MS 78567–78576 William John Evelyn (1822–1908) ([1600–1915])...... 359
Add MS 78582 A–B EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXV A, B. Presentation copy and continuation of Add. MS 78581; 1831–1832. (1831–1832)...... 371
Add MS 78584 A–E Evelyn Papers. Vol. ccccxvii a–e. Sale catalogues of Messrs. Evans of the books (78584 A), manuscripts (78584...... 374
Add MS 78586–78587 EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXIX, CCCCXX. The manor and parish of Abinger; 1486–1862. Including papers predating...... 378
Add MS 78589–78590 EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXXII, CCCCXXIII. The manors of Paddington (also called Paddington Bray or Paddington...... 380
Add MS 78591–78592 EVELYN PAPERS. Vols CCCCXXIV, CCCCXXV. The manor of Westcott; 1588–1779, n.d. For the history of the manor,...... 381
Add MS 78593–78595 EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. CCCCXXVI–CCCCXXVIII. Papers relating to the combined Evelyn estates in Surrey, with...... 382
Add MS 78604–78605 EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXXXVII, CCCCXXXVIII. Steward's yearly account–books of Sir Frederick Evelyn, 3rd...... 388
Add MS 78607–78608 EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXL, CCCCXLI. Papers relating to the charity established under the will of William...... 392
Add MS 78610 A–S EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXLIII. Drawings, engravings and plans, chiefly of Wotton, the first group, A–M, by John...... 394
Add MS 78628 A–B EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCLXI A, B. Plans of Sayes Court garden; [1652–1654?]–1685. The garden is discussed in...... 415
Add MS 78629 A–N EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCLXII. Maps of Deptford and the Sayes Court estate; 1623–1762. (1623–1762)...... 418 Add MS 78641–78642 EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCLXXIV, CCCLXXV. Catalogue of the Evelyn library compiled by William Upcott, librarian...... 435
Add MS 78645 A–B EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCLXXVIII A, B. Liturgical manuscripts; 15th cent. (15th century)...... 438
Add MS 78674–78675 EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. DVII, DVIII. Two volumes in Greek containing texts on logic and rhetoric; 18th cent...... 456
Add MS 78677 A–D EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. DX. Four deed boxes, similar to that containing the song–sheets in Add. MS 78676 above;...... 459
Add MS 78678–78679 EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. DXI, DXII. `Original Letters: Nobility 1544–1704’. (title on spine). With preliminary...... 462
Add MS 78680–78682 Evelyn Papers. Vols. dxiii–dxv. `Original Letters collected by William Upcott of the London Institution:...... 468
Add MS 78683–78685 EVELYN PAPERS. Vols DXVI–DXVIII. `Authors and Antiquaries’ (label on spines). On one of the fly–laves is a...... 472
Add MS 78686–78689 EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. DXIX–DXXII. `Original Letters collected by William Upcott of the London Institution...... 481
Key Details
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78168-78693
Creation Date 16th century-Early 20th century
Extent and Format 633 items
Languages of Material English; Latin
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Title EVELYN PAPERS (16th century-Early 20th century)
Scope and Content Correspondence and papers of the Evelyn family of Wotton, Surrey, and related families; 16 th-early 20th centuries. The core of the archive consists of the papers of John Evelyn the diarist (1620-1706), to which are added those of his wife’s family (Gonson and Browne) and his own (Evelyn and Stansfield), and those of his descendants, the most substantial being those of his grandson, Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart. (1680-1763). Also included are papers relating to the Evelyn estates (though the main sequence of manorial records and deeds is on deposit at Surrey History Centre, Woking), and to the Evelyn Library; manuscripts collected by members of the family, and papers relating to the roles of the Evelyn family solicitor, William Bray, and of the autograph collector, William Upcott, in relation to the archive. See also Additional Charters 77255-77719 and 77721-77726. On the content and history of the archive in general, see Theodore Hofmann, et al., ‘John Evelyn’s Archive at the British Library’, Book Collector, 44 (1995).
The archive was preserved and added to at Wotton House from the time the property was inherited by John Evelyn on the death of his elder brother at the end of the 17th century, until the 20th century. From 1949 to 1995 it was on deposit at Christ Church Oxford. John Evelyn had left his manuscripts in some disorder (see the general description of Add. MSS 78298-78429), and by this stage they had also become intermingled with those of earlier and later generations of the family. The partial numeration which was added to the manuscripts when or before they came to Christ Church reflected this random order. Since being acquired by the British Library, the successive generations of the family archive have been restored to their distinct entities and Evelyn’s manuscripts have been placed in an order which more clearly reflects their origin and nature. Where an item has had a former Christ Church Evelyn MS number, this has been noted in the catalogue description. The archive was purchased by the British Library from the Evelyn family through Christie’s in March 1995.
Paper, except where otherwise stated. Five hundred and twenty-five volumes, arranged follows:
78168-78171: William and Benjamin Gonson
78172-78185: Sir Richard Browne, Kt. (Earl of Leicester)
78186-78188: Christopher Browne (1577-1646)
78189-78263: Sir Richard Browne, Bart. (1605-1683)
78264-78271: Sir Edward Nicholas (1593-1669)
78272-78273: George Evelyn I (1526-1603)
78274-78281: Richard Evelyn of Wotton (d. 1640)
78282-78290: John Stansfield of Lewes
78291-78295: George Evelyn II (1617-1699), and Mary Evelyn (Lady Wyche)
78296-78297: William and Jane Glanville; William Glanville junior
78298-78429: John Evelyn (1620-1706)
78430-78439: Mary Evelyn (wife of the diarist)
Page 1 2021-08-13 78440-78441: Mary Evelyn (daughter of the diarist)
78442-78461: John Evelyn junior
78462-78529: Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart.
78530-78543: Papers Acquired by Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart.
78530-78531: Jael Boscawen
78532-78537: Charles Godolphin
78538: William Draper
78539-78543: Ralph Bohun
78544-78545: Sir John Evelyn, 2nd Bart.
78546-78553: Sir Frederick Evelyn, 3rd Bart.
78554-78576: Successors of Sir Frederick Evelyn
78577-78584: William Bray and William Upcott
78585-78610: Estate Papers: Surrey
78611-78629: Estate Papers: Deptford
78630-78643: Catalogues of the Evelyn Library
78644-78677: Manuscripts Collected by the Evelyn Family
78678-78693: Upcott’s Collections
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Page 2 2021-08-13 Add MS 78168-78271 GONSON AND BROWNE 78168-78271. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. I-CIV. Papers which accrued to the Evelyn archive as
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78168-78271
Creation Date 1641-1660
Extent and Format 109 items
Title GONSON AND BROWNE 78168-78271. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. I-CIV. Papers which accrued to the Evelyn archive as the family papers of Mary, wife of John Evelyn (1620-1706) and only surviving child of Sir Richard Browne, Bart (1605-1683). They consist of papers (78168-78171) which descended to Browne through his mother Thomasine (d. 1638) from her father Benjamin Gonson the elder (d. 1577) and grandfather William Gonson (d. 1545), both of whom had been in turn Treasurers of the Navy; further papers (78172-78185) of Browne’s paternal grandfather, Sir Richard Browne (d. 1604), M.P., of Horsley, co. Essex, and later of Sayes Court, Deptford, reflecting his service in the household of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (78172-78178), and later in that of Elizabeth I (78179-78175); papers of his father Christopher Browne (d. 1646) (78186-78188); and papers of Sir Richard Browne, Bart. (78189-78263). For a pedigree of the Gonson and Browne families, 1634, see The Visitation of Essex, ed. W. C. Metcalfe, Harleian Society, vol. XIII, 1878, II, pp. 359-61; and family notes of Sir Richard Browne among the Pepys papers in the Bodleian Library, MSS Rawl. A 183 and 308, and Add. MS 15857, f. 153. The central part of the collection (78189-78209) consists of diplomatic correspondence and papers of Browne relating to his duties as resident to Charles I and II in France, 1641-1660, and (78210-78219) as clerk of the Privy Council after the Restoration. By virtue of his clerkship Browne came into possession at the Restoration of a series of informations and petitions, etc. (78256-78260), that had been submitted to the Council of State between 1649 and 1652. Also included (78220-78254) are personal and family correspondence, household accounts, early academic exercises and manuscripts owned by or presented to Browne. A extra dimension is added by the survival of papers relating to Charles II, including a minute-book (78255) kept by Sir Richard Fanshawe as secretary to Prince Charles’s council of war at Bristol in 1645 and official papers (78256, 78257) of Sir Robert Long, private secretary to Charles in Paris in 1648 and 1649. These are complemented by a series of papers (78264-78271) of Charles’s secretary of state, Sir Edward Nicholas, that were acquired by Evelyn’s grandson, Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart., in the mid-18th century from the archive that was formerly in the possession of Nicholas’s descendants at West Horsley, co. Surrey. One hundred and four volumes, arranged as follows:78168-78171: William and Benjamin Gonson 78172-78185: Sir Richard Browne, Kt. (d. 1604)78186-78188: Christopher Browne (1577-1646) 78189-78263: Sir Richard Browne, Bart (1605-1683) 78264-78271: Sir Edward Nicholas (1593-1669) (1641-1660)
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Page 3 2021-08-13 Add MS 78168-78171 WILLIAM AND BENJAMIN GONSON.78168-78171. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. I-IV. Papers of William Gonson (d. 1545) and
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78168-78171
Creation Date 1535-1577
Extent and Format 4 items
Title WILLIAM AND BENJAMIN GONSON.78168-78171. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. I-IV. Papers of William Gonson (d. 1545) and Benjamin Gonson the elder (d. 1577), relating to the Navy, with some family and estate papers; 1535-1577. Partly Latin. William Gonson was succeeded in the office of Treasurer of the Navy by his son Benjamin (called the elder to distinguish him from his own son Benjamin, d. 1600, Clerk of the Ships). Gonson’s naval accounts for 1544-1545 are in Add. MS 7968, while versions of those for 1562-1563 and for 1570 and 1574 are Bodleian MSS Rawl. A. 200-202. See also Evelyn’s undated note on Gonson’s accounts in Add. MS 15950, f. 79. Four volumes. (1535-1577)
Scope and Content Benjamin Gonson, Treasurer of the Navy: Accounts as Treasurer, family and estate papers: 1551-1577.
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Add MS 78168 (1535-1553)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78168
Creation Date 1535-1553
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. I. Accounts of William Gonson and Benjamin Gonson the elder as owners of the merchant ship ‘Matthew Gonson’, al. ‘Matthew’; 1535-1553. Imperfect. These include: (a) detailed bills of lading for goods consigned at Southampton for delivery to Messina, with the trademarks of the individual merchants, 24 Sept. 1535 and 15 July-24 Sept. 1539, as with those carried on the return voyage from Messina by way of the Islands of Crete and Khios, 29 Jan. 1539/40-22 May 1540; - (b) list of wages owing to named crewmen taken on at Southampton and London, 2 Oct. 1535-1 May 1536 and 15 Feb.-15 Aug. 1539, and for voyages to the Levant, 28 Feb.-19 Nov. 1541; - (c) copies of dispatches addressed from shipboard to the ‘Right Worshipfull Master’, 16 Oct. 1541-9 Apr. 1542; - (d) wages due to the ship’s crew on the voyage to Andalusia, 1 Oct. 1542-22 Apr. 1543; - (e) ship’s inventory, 6 Oct. 1541; - (f) wages on the Levant voyage, 1 Oct. 1552-5 July. 1553, the crew being headed by ‘Mr [William] wynter gentleman’ (for whom see Add. MSS 78170, 78181 below, and David Loades, The Tudor Navy, Aldershot, 1992, pp. 155, 159) and ‘Richard graie Capytane’. References are made in the accounts for 1535 to sums already paid by ‘my father in London’, and in the final entry, made at Cadiz in Feb. 1552/3, to ‘Mr Gonson’. During much of the intervening period, beginning in June 1539, the vessel saw service in Henry VIII’s navy. Between April and Sept. 1545 it was employed in the fleet prepared against France (Letters and Papers of Henry VIII, XIV, I, 1097; XX, I, 543, and II, 27, 62, 88, and 368), and in the latter month was chosen by Sir Thomas Seymour as his flagship (ibid., XX, II, App. 27). At this time it was variously described as comprising 300 and 600 tons and carrying a complement of 350 or 300 men. A different vessel also named ‘Matthew Gonson’ is mentioned in 1517-8 as being employed for transport of goods to the Mediterranean by the merchant Nicolo de Marini de Egra, who died in 1544 (Alwyn A. Ruddock, Italian Merchants and Shipping in Southampton 1270-1600, Southampton, 1951, p. 241). Formerly Evelyn MS 156.
Partial contemporary foliations in ink run from xii to lxxviiii at beginning and 1 to 35 at end. Text copied mostly in a single hand, with additions made in the final section in
Page 4 2021-08-13 another. Imperfect by excision of leaves at various points. Paper, mostly unwatermarked, carries flourished letter W (similar to Briquet, 9150, dated to 1552) in final section. Jotting in ink on the back cover in a late 16th cent. hand. ‘Rowland Hill of London Merchant 1535-1552’ inscribed on 19th-cent. blue slip pasted to front cover. Limp vellum covers attached to the gatherings by means of three leather straps on the spine. 350 x 250 mm.
William Gonson, Treasurer of the Navy: Accounts: 1535-1545.
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Add MS 78169 (1 Oct 1562-26 Oct 1563)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78169
Creation Date 1 Oct 1562-26 Oct 1563
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. II. Accounts of Benjamin Gonson, the elder, for works carried out on the Queen’s ships at Deptford; 1 Oct.-31 Dec. 1562. These include payments relating to ‘the new makeing of her majestys new shippes and boattes called The Victory The Tryumphe and the Ayede’, as well as repairs to the Jesus of Lubeck and the ‘Greatbarke’. Marginal notes in another hand (cf. Add. MS 78170 below) recording the discharge of particular debts, with the names of proxies who received the sums, include one dated 26 Oct. 1563. At the foot of each page is a note of audit according to the abacus (auditors' use). Formerly Evelyn MS 68.
ff. 23. Single sewn gathering. Partial foliation from 1 to 15 at foot of rectos. Modern numbering in pencil at head of f. 1 runs ‘MS. 2. 63 (2)’, with ‘100’ and ‘68’ added within circles. 400 x 292 mm.
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Page 5 2021-08-13 Add MS 78170 (1563)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78170
Creation Date 1563
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. III. Accounts of Benjamin Gonson, the elder for works at Deptford and Woolwich; 31 Sept.-31 Dec. 1563, with additions 1564-1565. Signed on each page by William Holstock, Comptroller of the Navy and Surveyor of Victuals at Deptford, and William Wynter (kt. 1573), Surveyor of the Ships and Master of the Ordnance of the Navy. These include payments relating to ‘the new makeing of her graces new shippe’, apparently the ‘White Bear’. Occasional marginal notes in several hands, of which the main one also occurs in 78169 above, include records of payments made from 11 March 1564 to 21 Aug. 1565. At the foot of each page is a note of audit in Arabic numerals. At the end is a similar leaf of accounts for Woolwich for the period 1 Jan.-31 Mar. 1563. Formerly Evelyn MS 69.
ff. 22. Partly sewn gatherings, now imperfect. Modern numbering in pencil at head of f. 5 runs ‘MS. 2. 63 (2)’, with ‘100’ and ‘68’ added within circles. 404 x 286 mm.
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Add MS 78171 (1562-1590)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78171
Creation Date 1562-1590
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. IV (ff. 53). Accounts for works at Deptford, Portsmouth and Gillingham, etc.; 1562-1564; with some family and estate papers, 1572-1577. Partly drafts.
1.Accounts for works at Deptford, Portsmouth and Gillingham; 1562-1564, 1590. See also Bodleian MSS Rawl. A 200-202. From Evelyn MSS 68, 69 and 283. ff. 37. Viz: (a) ff. 8+2. Accounts for carriage of timber to Deptford; 8, 30 June-8 Nov. 1562. In the sewn gathering the contractors are named as Henry Bamford, George Bridges, John Leech and Henry Austin. A separate bifolium copied in the same hand, bearing entries dated 8 June that were later deleted by crossing through, is annotated ‘per S Alexaundre for mydsomer quarter 1562’. A final note of payment to Leech dated 30 Oct. 1562 is added in another hand. Found loose in Evelyn MS 68; - (b) ff. 8. Accounts for work on named vessels at Portsmouth in Michaelmas and Christmas Quarters; 1 Oct.-31 Dec. 1562. Each page is signed below the accounts by William Holstock and William Wynter, with an additional item signed by Holstock; - (c) ff. 16. ‘[Thomas] Morleys acompte for Charges Sustened as well in groundinge of the quens mats Shippes at portesmouthe docke as allso in perfiteing of the Jennetes docke for the brengyng in of the harte / which Charges begane and monye defraid Sens aprell Laste / 1563 and in Cluded in mydsommer quarter endinge the fyue of June’. Partly deleted by crossing through, and bearing occasional marginal notes in another hand. On the verso of the final leaf is a statement of the final account, with Morley’s autograph note of receipt, 6 Nov. 1563. Inserted loose are two bills, 1561 and n.d., bearing orders to Morley for payment, signed by William Wynter, 12 Aug. 1563. Docketed on first page in Evelyn’s hand ‘MSS 12. Accompts’, and in modern pencil ‘MS. [292 deleted] 183’; - (d) f. 1. Draft accounts for Deptford and Gillingham dockyards from Lady to Christmas Quarters 1562. Found loose in Add. MS 78170; - (e) f. 1. ‘Tho Willson his Reconyng To Ende the Last of December 1562 for victualls’, 1 March-31 Dec. 1562. Found loose in Add. MS 78170; -(f) f. 1. Receipt by Richard Dethick for payment by Gonson of his father ‘John Dethicke s Reconnynge made the xvth Daie of June. 1564’ for work done
Page 6 2021-08-13 in Michaelmas and Christmas quarters 1563. Found loose in Add. MS 78170; - (g) Note of wages paid to artisans in the docks, storehouses and ‘trynete harre’ and of rent paid for the great dock and charterhouse at ‘brychyngsaye’ [?Birchington-on-sea’, a member of the Cinque Ports], with note in a different hand ‘entred in Colne in Mighellmas quarter 1563 per S. Alexsaunder’. Docketed `A cope of the gret boke for the charges at colne begone the fyrst daye of July & Endyd the last of September’. Origin uncertain.
2.ff. 14. Family and estate papers of Benjamin Gonson, the elder; etc.; 1572-1577. These relate partly to the manor of Fritwell, co.Oxon., formerly granted to William Gonson in 1530, that devolved through his son Christopher (d. 1553) to his grandson Benjamin (d. 25 June 1576), and of which the Earl of Rutland was lord: see VCH Oxon., VI, 1959, p. 138: (a) ff. 3. Receipt of sums from named tenants in Fritwell and Somerton, co. Oxon., for twelve-year leases granted to them at Michaelmas; 24 Oct. 1572. Signed by Benjamin Gonson the elder and Sir John Hawkins. With a contemporary copy; - (b) f. 1. Receipt by Roger Wood, servant of the Earl of Rutland, to the elder Gonson and Sir John Hawkins for two hundred marks in full payment for the Earl’s lease of the manor of Fritwell, co. Oxon.; Rolls Chapel, 29 Sept. 1573. Copied on the verso and recto of a leaf bearing memoranda in a different hand ‘To Enquier for’ an Act of Parliament in 28 Henry VIII [1536] and the restitution of the Earl of Rutland’s lands by Queen Mary, [1553]; - (c) ff. 2. Memorandum by Thomas Ellis of an agreement between Benjamin Gonson the elder and [Edmond] Hopcroft for the purchase by Hopcroft of two tenements in Fritwell, with one close in the occupation of Benjamin Gonson of Fritwell; n.d., [circa 1573]; - (d) ff. 2. Letter of Benjamin Gonson of Fritwell to his uncle, Benjamin Gonson the elder, rel. to his outstanding debt; 8 April 1575; - (e) ff. 2. Letter of [?Florence] Harle to Gonson [the younger? (his will 1 Sept. 1594, with ratification of 25 May 1600, signed by him on each page, is now Add. MS 74210)], following the death of ‘your Cozen & my loving sonne in lawe’, Benjamin Gonson of Fritwell, relating to the debt inherited by his widowed daughter; Duddington, 27 June 1576; - (f) ff. 2. letter of John Edmondes to Gonson at Great Baddow rel. to twenty marks owed to ‘my sister [i.e. sister-in-lawe] your poor kinswoman [gonson]’; ‘From yor howse in Tower Streat’, 21 Aug. 1577; - (g) ff. 17. Six letters, etc., in Spanish, dated from Gran Canaria, mostly dated 2 Dec. 1549. Writers include Don Rodrigo Manrique de Acuna, Pedro Aron and Juan de Claderon. Also included is a bill of lading in English for goods to be transported Gran Canaria to Rouen, partly for delivery to merchants of Lyon. Formerly Evelyn MS 290; found with Add. MS 78244 below. Two other mercantile documents of 1547 (an inventory) and 1549 are amongst the Evelyn estate papers in Surrey History Centre.
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Page 7 2021-08-13 Add MS 78172-78185 SIR RICHARD BROWNE (d. 1604), M.P.78172-78185. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. V-XVIII. Papers of Sir Richard Browne
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78172-78185
Creation Date 1552-1601
Extent and Format 14 items
Title SIR RICHARD BROWNE (d. 1604), M.P.78172-78185. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. V-XVIII. Papers of Sir Richard Browne (circa 1538-1604), M.P., as servant to the Earl of Leicester and Elizabeth I, etc.; 1552-1601, n.d. In the 1570s Browne entered the service of Robert Dudley (d. 1588), Earl of Leicester, Steward of the Household to Elizabeth I. On the death of his patron he obtained the post of Clerk of the Green Cloth and subsequently of Clerk Comptroller of the Household (1596). Between 1584 and his death in May 1604 he sat as Member of Parliament for several boroughs successively. His wife was Joanna Vigorus of Langham, co. Essex, who died in Nov. 1618, aged 74. The present papers came into his possession by virtue of his offices, though none appears to be copied by him or to include his annotations (cf. his letter to Burghley of 5 Oct. 1595 in Landsdowne MS 78, f. 145). For an account of his career see P. W. Hasler (ed.), The History of Parliament. The House of Commons 1558-1603 (1981), I, pp. 503-4, and for the history of his collections see Simon Adams, ‘The Papers of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. 1. The Browne-Evelyn Collection’, Archives, XX (1992), pp. 63-85, esp. pp. 65, 67. Fourteen volumes. (1552-1601)
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Add MS 78172-78178 Papers of the Earl of Leicester78172-78178. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. V-XI. Papers of and relating to Robert
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78172-78178
Creation Date 1552-1589
Extent and Format 7 items
Title Papers of the Earl of Leicester78172-78178. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. V-XI. Papers of and relating to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester; 1552-1589, n.d. The provenance and former extent of this collection are described by Adams, loc. cit.; while a brief account (now PRO SP 45/20/282) by Sir Joseph Williamson, Secretary of State 1674-1678, is abstracted in a ‘Calendar of documents relating to the history of the State Paper Office to the year 1800’, in the Thirtieth Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records, 1869, p. 245. The archive formerly incorporated three volumes of letters addressed to Leicester, mostly of 1561-1571, now in the Pepys library at Magdalene College, Cambridge (MSS 2502-2504). For further material of Leicester from this archive, removed by William Upcott, see Add. MS 78690 below.Seven volumes. (1552-1589)
Scope and Content Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester: Sir Richard Browne, MP: Accounts, inventories, etc., assembled by Sir R. Browne as servant to the Earl of Leicester: 1552-1589, n.d.
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Add MS 78172 (1560-1587)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78172
Creation Date 1560-1587
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. V (ff. 55). Miscellaneous papers and accounts mostly relating to military and household duties and mercantile ventures of Leicester; 1565-1586.
1.ff. 1-4. New Year's gifts received by and presented to Leicester; 1564. Included are jewels, plate and household stuff, clothes and horses, all listed with the names of their donors or recipients and their monetary values. The gifts presented to Elizabeth I were ‘A litle puppett, two pendauntes called eare Ringes a diall set wt Rubies and Diamondes agret Jewell wt a lokinge glasse set wt Diamondes and Rubies’, altogether valued at £322. 6s. In return Leicester received ‘A Carkenet set wt Diamond es & Rubies A george set wt Diamondes wt aperle pendaunt, x dosen of buttons set wt Diamondes and perle’, valued at £451. Cf. the Queen’s gift roll for 1564, now Folger Library MS [67.1 in De Ricci, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, I, 282]. Docketed in a contemporary hand and by John Evelyn. Formerly Evelyn MS 264a.
2.ff. 5-18. Documents relating to Leicester’s activities as Master of the Horse; circa 1565-1570. Viz.: (a). ff. 5-10. ‘A nott of all siche horses as hathe passid by the qwynis magestes passportes & wt other of the onorabyll Conselles Letters as ffoloithe. anno 1565’; circa 1565-1566. The list, which was submitted to Leicester as Master of the Horse, includes names of travellers, many of them Frenchmen, and dates. Several of the entries refer to Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount Montagu, Dr. Walter Haddon and Sir Nicholas Wotton, who in March-Sept. 1565 and April-July 1566 were at Bruges negotiating the restoration of commercial relations with the Netherlands. The arrangement is not chronological, but a preliminary note in another hand offers to reform the order; the same hand has addressed further memoranda to Leicester at the end (f. 6v). 305 x 210 mm. Formerly Evelyn MS 293; - (b) ff. 11-18. ‘The Copy of a gret Warrant for the stable’; 1 June [1570]; - (c) f. 19. Acknowledgement of receipt by Leicester from John Slyfield, gentleman of the Queen’s stud and race at Castlehay and Hanbury, co. Stafford, of four colts, at Reading; 21 Sept. [1570]. Signed by Slyfield. Papered signet seal.
3.ff. 20-27. Documents relating to Kenilworth: (a) Petition to Leicester from the freeholders, tenants and inhabitants of Killingworth [Kenilworth], seeking relief from the loss of free access to common grazing entailed by the recent erection of a chase and from the threats of the ranger Anthony Dockwra; circa 1571-1580. 425 x 300mm; - (b) ‘A Supplication from the Tenantes of Kenelworth’; [n.d.].
4.‘Thaccompte of Captayne William Thomas for the xiijC li deliuerid vnto him at utricht to be caried to Berke [Berkel]’; circa July 1586. The money was ‘sent by him to pay the soldiers then remayninge at the Towne of Berke’. Receipts are signed individually by the various soldiers. A note at the end refers to a ‘billet herevnto annexed’ (now wanting) that was ‘receauid by Marshall Conwey the xvjth of Julij 1586...at Berke’. 295 x 200mm.
5.Four documents relating to English affairs in the Low Countries; 1586-1587. See also Add. MS 78184 below. Viz.: (a) ‘The Lyst or Rolle of Englishe Companyes aswell in her Maties as the States pay’ (docket); 23 July 1586; - (b) ‘Money paide out of yor Exencies Treasor by yor Commandment for the seruice in theis Cuntries and to be repaid by the States accordinglie’; 4 Oct. 1586; - (c) ‘In the booke d[elivere]d by the States to Thomas Sherley amongst other thinges it is [?Cout] as followeth’; 1566-22 July [23 Oct.] 1587. Docketed ‘The abstract of those thinges wherewth the States doe chardge his Exen [--] of horse. 22 July 1587’; - (d) ‘Abstract ex libr[o] Hugon Cholmely ar[miger]. pro pecun[ia] deliv[er]at[a]. Johannem Syne pro equitibus’; 16 Sept./Oct. 1567; - (e) ‘[?26 June 1586]. Articles exhibited against the Threr at warres in the Lowe Cuntries / The first Articles’ (docket). Paper headed ‘Some causes for which my Lo: Leicester Dyslyketh with Mr [Richard] hud[dleston] her Maties Treasurer at warres [of] the Lowe Cuntries’; - (f) ‘The Treasoror of the lowe Cuntries answeares to the Articles
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Add MS 78173 (May 1576-Feb [1580])
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78173
Creation Date May 1576-Feb [1580]
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. VI. Accounts of John Barker, merchant, with the Earl of Leicester; May 1576-Feb. 1579/80. Autograph, signed on final page. These record credits and debits for ships registered in various English ports, viz: the White Bear, the Nicholas of Barnstaple, Robert of Bristol, the James, John the Evangelist, Margaret and Prudence of London, the Kathryn of Millbrook, the Rose of Newcastle and the Minion of Plymouth, trading to Seville, Cadiz, Jerez [de la Frontera] and Sanlucar de Barrameda [=Andalusia]. At the end is a final reckoning by Barker of his debt to ‘my singuler good lord’, with a signed note of money owed to Leicester that has been ‘putt owt By exchange’. For two letters from Barker to Leicester, 28 April, 10 June 1578, see Cotton MS Vespasian C. VIII, ff. 362, 371. Text transcribed in a single cursive secretary hand, with marginal additions calculations in another. Docketed on the first page in Evelyn’s hand’. Formerly Evelyn MS 257.
ff. 14. Single gathering, with xii-xiv stubs only. Watermark crowned shield bearing letter B above compartment with name of Nicolas Lebé, similar to Briquet 8077-8081 (from documents dated 1566-1582). Contemporary foliation from 1 to 10 beginning after first leaf. 430 x 295 mm.
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Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78174-78175
Creation Date 1585-1589
Extent and Format 2 items
Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. VII, VIII. Accounts of the Merchant Adventurers trading to Barbary; 1585-1589. Fair copies, partly imperfect. Letters patent were issued on 5 July 1585 (PRO, C66/1266/1-3) for the charter of the Barbary Company, which was to run for twelve years. Leicester was a leading member, along with his secretary (later Sir) Arthur Attye, Richard Staper, a Levant merchant, and Alexander Avenon, who acted as agent in London. Henry Roberts, agent in Morocco, returned from Marrakesh in August 1588 and Leicester died in the following month. The present records were compiled some five months later, evidently as part of the settlement of Leicester’s affairs, from ledgers in possession of the Company. The present volumes formed the basis of chapter 7 in T. S. Willan, Studies in Elizabethan Foreign Trade (Manchester, 1959), pp. 240-265. Two volumes. (1585-1589)
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Add MS 78174 (1585-1588)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78174
Creation Date 1585-1588
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. VII. Abridged accounts of the Barbary Company; 1585-1588. This covers the first four years of trading, ending at midsummer 1588, with a few additional entries extending into the fifth year. Credits and debits involving Leicester, Attye, Staper and Avenon are listed throughout on facing pages. Other persons mentioned include Edward Gray, William Harvey, John Farington, Myles Diconson and John Warner. Occasional payments are recorded to the king of Barbary (f. 1v, 4) and Sir Francis Drake (f. 20). Formerly Evelyn MS 258.
ff. 20. Single sewn folio gathering. Transcribed in a secretary script (for which cf. Add. MS 78175 below), with italic for headings. Some marginal calculations added at the end in another hand. 360 x 230 mm.
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Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78175
Creation Date 21 Jun 1585-15 Feb 1589
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. VIII. Abridged accounts of the Barbary Company; 21 June 1585-15 Feb. 1589. Fair copy.Imperfect at beginning and end. These were compiled from annual accounts submitted by individual members and servants of the Company (cf. the ‘Callender’ on f. 1, and the ledger- and folio-references added on most pages). The earliest date in the manuscript relates to the payment of four thousand pounds by Leicester to ‘Malley Hammet [i.e. Mulay Ahmed] Emperor of Morocus’ in connection with a quadripartite indenture of 21 June 1585. A series of notes towards the end (p. 136), of which the latest is dated 15 Feb. 1588/9, mention the Company’s secretary, Richard Mayes, and list sums paid for various royal letters, accounts and ‘wrytinges for the matters of Barbary’. Formerly Evelyn MS 155.
ff. 74. Text transcribed in a single secretary hand (cf. Add. MS 78174 above), with references and some marginal notes in another. Contemporary pagination in ink from 1 to 140. Watermark a bunch of grapes with letters ‘A G’ at base, similar to Briquet no. 13163 (dated to 1580-1589), as Add. MS 78177 below. Imperfect owing to the excision of most of the first leaf (f. 1), which formerly comprised a calendar of the first and second years’ accounts, along with the last two leaves, now represented by stubs, which were replaced by a bifolium. The partial heading surviving on the original penultimate leaf reads ‘Abridgment ... / the 4 years acc[ompte]’, while further accounts are visible on the verso. Front cover inscribed in Evelyn’s hand. Contemporary binding of limp vellum with single leather tie. Covers secured to gatherings by four leather thongs, with ancillary stitching, all sewn through spine. 425 x 285 mm.
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Add MS 78176-78177 EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. IX, X. Inventories of goods in Leicester’s houses; circa 1579-1582. Included are lists
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78176-78177
Creation Date c 1579-1582
Extent and Format 2 items
Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. IX, X. Inventories of goods in Leicester’s houses; circa 1579-1582. Included are lists of the contents of Leicester House, in London, Kenilworth Castle, co. Warwick, Wanstead, co. Essex, Grafton Court, co. Northants., and Stoke Newington, co. Middx. Some eight separate inventories of Leicester’s goods, dated between 18 July 1580 and 21 Nov. 1590, are listed among the papers of the Marquess of Bath at Longleat in H.M.C., 58th Report, V, 1980, pp. 202-224. Another, of furniture at Kenilworth, etc., 1585, is abstracted in HMC, 77th Report (De L’Isle and Dudley), I (1925), pp. 278-298.Two volumes. (c 1579-1582)
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Add MS 78176 Inventory of goods at Leicester House and Kenilworth Castle (c Jan 1582-May 1582)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78176
Creation Date c Jan 1582-May 1582
Extent and Format 1 volume
Title Inventory of goods at Leicester House and Kenilworth Castle (c Jan 1582-May 1582)
Physical Characteristics Materials: Paper. Dimensions: 425 x 290 mm. Foliation: ff. 45. Binding: Unbound. Collation: ff. 1–12 (xvi leaves, minus i–iv), 13–26 (xiv) and 27–45 (xviii, minus xvii). Contemporary foliation from ff. 2–44 and 46, with 45 omitted owing to loss of leaf, still visible on ff. 2–45. Watermark bunch of grapes with letters A P at base (similar to Briquet 13165 (dated 1565).
Scope and Content ff. 1r–45v: Volume IX of the Evelyn Papers. An imperfect, possibly draft inventory of goods at Leicester House and Kenilworth Castle, c. January–May 1582. The inventory of Leicester House (ff. 1r–26v), which incorporates (ff. 2r–6v passim) some notes of valuation, concludes with ‘A note of a newe supplye of napery for Leicester howsse. maij 1581’ (f. 26v).
Following the list (ff. 22r–23v) of maps, books and of pictures are some ‘Pictures lately bought’ (f. 24r). Another hand has added marginal notes throughout referring to losses, thefts or transfers, etc., of items, the latest being dated 25 April 1582 (f. 20r). That the inventory was not the work of Thomas Underhill or Richard Browne is clear from the notes ‘To Vnderhill. xxvijo april 1580. he doethe not chardge hym self with it. Quere’ (f. 13v) and ‘Quere where this bowle should be chardged. Browne hath it not’ (f. 2v).
The text is copied between vertical pencil rules in a current secretary hand; f. 27r is blank except for ruled margins on the recto. Formerly Evelyn MS 263.
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Custodial History Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (c. 1532–1588).
John Evelyn (1620–1706).
The John Evelyn archive was purchased by the British Library in 1995.
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Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78177
Creation Date c Jan 1582-Jun 1582
Extent and Format 1 volume
Title Earl of Leicester's inventory book (c Jan 1582-Jun 1582)
Physical Characteristics Materials: Paper and parchment. Dimensions: 430 x 285 mm. Foliation: ff. 84. Occasional folios excised throughout, with one replacement bifolium. Final leaves, comprising some half of total, blank. Watermark a bunch of grapes with letters ‘A G’ at base, similar to Briquet no. 13163 (dated to 1580–1589), like Add MS 78175. Binding: Contemporary binding of parchment over card, with the remains of two green-silk ties. Each cover is gilt-stamped with Leicester’s full heraldic achievement of seize quartiers contained within a lozenge touching sides of a double-ruled compartment with triangular corner-pieces incorporating a bear’s(?) head. Spine divided by rules into ten gilt-tooled sections, each carrying a horizontal line of ornaments. The front cover is inscribed in the hand of John Evelyn.
Scope and Content ff. 1r–84r: Volume X of the Evelyn Papers. ‘An Inventory Booke aswell of Plate Asalso of Hanginges...and other furniture of Houshold of...Therle of Leicesters...as remayneth in the chardge of Dyvers Persons in sundrye his Lordshippes Places Maii 1582...’, c. January–June 1582.
Included are lists of goods in Leicester House, in Wanstead House, drawn up by Nicolas Webber, 12 January ‘1582’, at Kenilworth Castle, 12 June 1582, and Grafton, 16 June 1582, both compiled by Thomas Underhill, and at Stoke Newington (‘Newington Inne’), co. Middx. Items at Leicester House include ‘A Lowe chayre of wallnuttree’, with John Evelyn’s autograph note that ‘This Chayre is now at Wotton in Surry: J.E.’, along with maps, globes, books, portraits and other pictures. Amongst the latter are ‘One smale pycture of Therle of Essex’ [Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex], and ‘One of Mr Phillipp Sydney when he was a Boye’. At Kenilworth the furnishings included tapestries depicting biblical subjects, portraits of foreign dignitaries and musical intruments. A number of the items were gifts received at New Year 1581: others carry notes of transfer from other houses (e.g. Grafton, and Bennington, Hertfordshire.). A few early entries carry notes of condition and of items imperfect, lost or stolen, while occasional additions are made in a current hand. For inventories of Leicester’s goods at Leicester House, Wanstead and Kenilworth, 1588–1589, see Harley Rolls D.35, I–XI, which include the 232 books listed by W. E. Moss, Bindings from the Library of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (1934). Text copied within ruled compartment in a single squareish secretary hand, with calligraphic lettering for main title and flourished initials throughout. Formerly Evelyn MS 264.
Parchment pastedown leaves from a service book.
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Custodial History Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (c. 1532–1588).
John Evelyn (1620–1706).
The John Evelyn archive was purchased by the British Library in 1995.
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Add MS 78178 Earl of Leicester's disbursement book, 1584–1586 (1584- 1586)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78178
Creation Date 1584-1586
Extent and Format 1 volume
Title Earl of Leicester's disbursement book, 1584–1586 (1584-1586)
Physical Characteristics Materials: Paper. Dimensions: 300 x 200 mm. Foliation: ff. 81. Binding: Unbound.
Scope and Content ff. 1r–81v: Volume XI of the Evelyn Papers. Imperfect disbursement book of the Earl of Leicester, 1584–1586. The entries, dated 10 and 17 April 1584, 2 October–13 December 1585, 21–31 March and 26 May–30 June 1586, record payments made on Leicester’s warrant to household servants, tradesmen and others. The text is printed in Household Accounts and Disbursement Books of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, 1558–1561, 1584–1586, ed. Simon Adams, Camden Society, 5th Series, 6 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), pp. 177–366; see pp. 9–10 for a description of this manuscript and pp. 1–12 passim for other Leicester account-books formerly at Wotton.
A similar disbursement book from Wotton, covering the period 11 December 1585–8 April 1587, figured as lot 53 in the Upcott sale of 22 June 1846 but was destroyed in 1879 during the fire at the Birmingham Reference Library, and its text is known only from transcripts (see Adams, pp. 4–8). Formerly Evelyn MS 258b.
The volume is unbound and imperfect, missing all but the two outer leaves of the first gathering and the last leaf of the final one. Present collation 2, 16, 18, 16, 16 and 13 leaves respectively.
Copied in at least three distinct secretary hands, with marginalia in others, including that of Leicester. Hand A ends in the middle of the entry for 4 June, B at the foot of that for 12 June 1585 and C covers 14 June–5 July 1585, with the remainder in the same or a similar script.
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Custodial History Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (c. 1532–1588).
John Evelyn (1620–1706).
The John Evelyn archive was purchased by the British Library in 1995.
Simon Adams (ed.), Household Accounts and Disbursement Books of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, 1558–1561, 1584–1586, Camden Society, 5th Series, 6 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).
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Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78179-78185
Creation Date [1547-1601]
Extent and Format 7 items
Title Papers relating to the Royal Household. ([1547-1601])
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Add MS 78179-78184 EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. XII-XVII. Papers of Richard Browne as Clerk of the Green Cloth (1588) and Clerk
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78179-78184
Creation Date c 1552-1601
Extent and Format 6 items
Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. XII-XVII. Papers of Richard Browne as Clerk of the Green Cloth (1588) and Clerk Comptroller of the Household (1596) to Elizabeth I; etc.; circa 1552-1601, n.d. Six volumes. (c 1552-1601)
Scope and Content Sir Richard Browne, MP: Papers as Clerk of the Green Cloth and Comptroller of the Household: circa 1552-1601, n.d.
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Reference Add MS 78179
Creation Date after 1575
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XII. Regulations for the reformation of the household of Elizabeth I; n.d., after 1575. Fair copy, with revisions and additions in several hands. These orders, which replace those issued in the first year of Elizabeth’s reign, are said to be transcribed from those set out in ‘a booke newly signed wth her highnes owne hand’ that laid down the number of her servants and the diet to be allowed to them. Added at the beginning is ‘A breif of this booke conteyninge the Reformacon of her Mats house to be be effected by these wayes followinge’, with additions made in another ink. The final order is concerned with suppressing thefts of items by the Queen’s servants from houses at which she stayed during her progresses. At the end occurs a comparative table of the charges of the royal household at 37 Hen. VIII [1545-1546] and 17 Eliz. I [1574-1575]. Formerly Evelyn MS 162.
Main text transcribed in a formal secretary hand,with some additions and marginal notes made in various hands. Watermark of pot with letters (?)G G. Lettered on the front cover ‘For reformation of household abuses’; with John Evelyn’s pressmarks. Limp vellum covers attached to the gatherings by means of two (formerly three) leather strengtheners on the spine. 300 x 210mm.
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Add MS 78180-78181 EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. XIII, XIV. Survey of abuses by purveyors of livestock and feed, etc., to the royal
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78180-78181
Creation Date c 1587-1592
Extent and Format 2 items
Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. XIII, XIV. Survey of abuses by purveyors of livestock and feed, etc., to the royal kitchens and stables; circa 1587-1592. Two volumes. (c 1587-1592)
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Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78180
Creation Date c 1587-1592
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XIII. Abuses by purveyors; circa 1587-1592. This volume seems to have served as the draft for the following volume. Figures supplied begin in 1587, but mostly relate to the years 1590 and 1591. Formerly Evelyn MS 176.
ff. 76. Disbound. Eight gatherings sewn together, with excisions and with three additional leaves sewn in. Watermark a lion rampant on a crowned shield surmounting a compartment labelled ‘Jaques.Te[b]...’. Docketed on first page in Evelyn’s hand. Accounts of Sir Frederick Evelyn, Oct.-Dec. 1767, jotted on blank half-page. 360 x 225 mm.
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Add MS 78181 (1587-1592)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78181
Creation Date 1587-1592
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XIV. Abuses by purveyors; 1587-circa but after Nov. 1592. Fair copy, with additions. The twenty-one counties represented comprise all those below the line between the Severn and the Wash, with the addition of Lincolnshire but excluding Devon and Cornwall. The first section (ff. 1-20) comprises, on rectos only, tables of provisions supplied by named purveyors for the years 1590 and 1591, with prices charged, etc., compiled from certificates issued by local JPs. This is followed (ff. 21-50) by a record of ‘The sondry and great abuses and disorders comytted by the purveiors of Oxen and Muttons in sondrie sheres breiflie collected as followeth’, followed by other commodities. The three final pages [ff. 51, 52] comprise expenses of provisions in Oct. and Nov. 32 and 34 Eliz. I [1590, 1592]. Text transcribed in a secretary hand, with additions and annotations in others. Inscribed by John Evelyn on third flyleaf is ‘Note that these Abuses & Clamors produced a Reformation of Pu[r]veyers & of that settlement of euery dayes provision in Court, by the sole suggestion, paines & Industry, of Sr: Rich: Browne, Cleark of the Greene-cloth to Q: Eliz. & K. James’. Name of William Loveden jotted in contemporary italic hand on verso of first flyleaf, probably a relation of the Hercules Loveden listed in 1587 as a servant of Leicester’s in Cotton MS Galba C. VIII, f. 98. Formerly Evelyn MS 67.
ff. [iii + 52.]. Sections of leaves excised at various points. Watermark (of bunch of grapes surmounted by ‘4+ / M’) similar to Briquet 13200, dated 1573-1588. Docketed on front cover in Evelyn’s hand. Contemporary binding of limp vellum, back cover now wanting. 420 x 285 mm.
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Add MS 78182-78183 EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. XV, XVI. Diet of the Queen and her household, with provisions supplied, etc., by
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78182-78183
Creation Date 1592-1600
Extent and Format 2 items
Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. XV, XVI. Diet of the Queen and her household, with provisions supplied, etc., by various counties, for a single year; 1 Oct. 1592-Sept. 1593, [6 Jan. 1600]. Partly draft, imperfect, and copy. See also Add. MS 78184, item 5, below (comparison of provisions, 1592/3 with those in 1589/90). Two volumes. (1592-1600)
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Add MS 78182 (1565)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78182
Creation Date 1565
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XV. Rough draft , imperfect by loss of preliminary section, of 78183 below.
ff. 11. Two sewn gatherings collating 16, 26 (iv=stub). Watermark a bunch of grapes with letters ‘A P’ at base (similar to Briquet 13165 (dated 1565). 400 mm x 275 mm.
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Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78183
Creation Date 16th century
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XVI. Fair copy, with additions and marginal annotations, of 78182 above. A list of ‘The contentes of this Booke [tending to A Compos[ition] added in another hand]’ is copied on the front vellum cover. The first item is headed ‘The Booke of lyu ereys made according to the seruice daylie, and as Mr Quarles hath framed the booke of Dyett’. James Quarles (d. 1599) was successively clerk of the royal kitchen and Clerk of the Green Cloth. There follow details of the dishes allowed daily and monthly, the total of provisions consumed in one year, and the names of the counties that compounded, 1564-1590, wholly or in part, for their assessment for provisions. Marginal notes added in another hand include specific allowances made to Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, as Master of the Horse (1587-1601). Formerly Evelyn MS 154.
ff. ii +23. Single sewn gathering with contemporary limp vellum covers secured by leather thongs. Pages ruled in red with compartments. Watermark of bunch of grapes surmounted by ‘4+ / M’, similar to Briquet 13200, dated 1573-1588. Front cover inscribed, apparently in the hand of the copyist of Add. MS 78179 above, with contents-list and with press-marks in John Evelyn’s hand. 416 x 284mm.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XVII. Miscellaneous papers of Sir Richard Browne, M.P., relating to the royal household, commerce, etc.; 1553-1601. Partly copies.
ff. 65.
1.Four documents rel. to the coronation feast of Queen Mary, 1 Oct. 1553. Docketed by Evelyn as part of ‘Bundle .I. Coronat Feasts &c / Q: Mary / Equipage of Stable / Q: Eliz: / &c:’. As follows: (a) ‘A proporcion for Spice [etc.] at the Coronation of Queene Marye at Westminster the firste daye of October in the fyrste yeare of her Reagne in the yeare of o ur Lord god 1553’. Tall oblong gathering measuring 407 x 157 mm.; - (b) ‘Roste att the Coronacion’ (docket), beginning with meats ‘For the Quen the Bushopp & the La: Elizabeth’; - (c) ‘A Breviat of the seuerall messes of meate served at the Coronacion of Quene Mary’ (docket). 406 x 305 mm; - (d) Coloured plan of the tables used at the ‘Coronacions feaste’ (docket). 410 x 267 mm.
2.Order of procession; n.d. Headed, ‘The followinge are to resorte to the standarde of the lyone by the conducke in the yarde next the new buildinges to Lancaster & Windsor [i.e. Heralds]’. ff. 2.
3.Royal firework display: ‘A discryption of the severall Fyre warkes invented and wrought by her matis Gonners and what is invented to bee performed (to the vewe) in euery of them’; n.d., temp. Eliz. I.
4.Bill of fare when Elizabeth I feasted the Italian and Muscovite ambassadors on Twelfth Day
Page 20 2021-08-13 (6 Jan.) 1601. Paper: ff. 2. Docketed in a contemporary hand ‘Italion Duke Imbassit Musk the Q dyet abrade xijf daye 1600 [i.e. 1601]’ and by Evelyn ‘Bill of Fare when the Queen Eliz Entertained the Duke of Italy & Ambassr of Muscovy’. Formerly Evelyn MS 314.
5.Comparison of the expenses for provisions in ‘November last Anno 35 [1592 or 1593] with those in 32 Eliz. I [1589 or 1590]; circa 1593. 490 x 360mm.
6.‘A note of all suche somes of money as are owinge to her highness Subiects for provisions taken for the...housholde, in the tyme of Gregorie Lovell Late Cofferer...’, in 24-37 Eliz. I [circa 1581-1595]. ‘And also more to be Answeared by Sr Christopher Blunte (d. 1601) for sales due by the Earle of Lecester’ (d. 1588).
7.Document rel. to lease of post fines due to Eliz.; n.d.
8.‘James Kinge his generall pardon at the Coronation’ for treasons, etc., committed before 20 March 1602/3. Abstract, in English, of the Latin original; see Rymer’s Foedera, II:2, 85-87.
9.Answer of Eliz. I to the Lords and Commons relating to their petition for her to marry; [10] Feb. 1559 [see Commons Journals., i. 54]. Text varies from that printed in J. E. Neale, Elizabeth I and her Parliaments 1559-1581 (1953), pp. 48-50. Contemporary copy.
10.Miscellaneous documents relating to trade, viz.: (a) Proposal rel. to a royal commission requiring the buyers and sellers of tin from the mines in Cornwall to supply the Queen’s pewterer at fixed prices twice yearly; n.d. Docketed ‘Alderman Hatcher for tynne’; - (b) Petition of William Cotton, ‘Esquyer’, to Elizabeth I, on account of the ransom paid by him while ‘wrongfullye deteined’ in France, to have a licence under the Great Seal for importation of so many [blank] tuns of wines, without charge of customs, for two years; n.d., bef. 1603. Draft, on vellum; - (c) Petition for letters patent to remedy the dearth of corn giving ‘Reasons to be alleged what is the greatest cause of the dearthe & scarsitie’; temp. Eliz. I; - (d) Letters patent granted to the Company of Vinteners; 7 Eliz. I [1564-1565]. Docketed ‘Vynteners’. Vellum. 384 x 260 mm (irregular); - (e) Summary of the statutes of 5 Eliz. I [1562-1563], cap. 4, rel. to tradesmen and artificers. Docketed ‘for Apprentyces / Abstract of the statutes / worthy the noting’. fols. 2. 433 x 316 mm.; - (f) Financial estimate for cost of seven men and 4 deputies travelling for four years throughout England and Wales to enroll [?4000] apprentices annually; circa late 16th-cent.; - (g) ‘A brief collection and discourse of ye Lawes of ye realme touching Victualls and Victualers ...’ (docket), n.d; - (h) Petition of [the Company of Dyers] for appointment of a searcher for cloths dyed with logwood or blockwod, as prohibited by a statute of 23 Eliz. I [1580-1581], and mentioning letters patents granted to Sir George Delves and William Fitzwilliam; n.d.
11.Documents relating partly to Browne’s period in the Low Countries; circa 1586-1587. See also Add. MS 78172 above. Viz: (a) ‘Les noms des cappitanes qui sont au payement des Estates qui ont receu armes et aultres fournitures hors l’armerie de son Exce’ (i.e. Leicester); circa 1586-1588; - (b) Browne’s account for victualling captains in the Low Countries; n.d., aft. Nov. 1592; - (c) Petition of Browne to Queen Elizabeth seeking the reversion of the manor of `Castle Brente, co. Somerset, in recompense for victuals provided to the troops in the Low Countries in the time of the Earl of Leicester; n.d. [circa 1588-1603]. Copy. ff. 2; - (d) Lord Treasurer Burghley: Letter to the Master of the [---] rel. to a petition of Browne on a suit between him and certain ‘Hollanders’; 23 Nov. 1591. Copy. With note at foot ‘procured by Rich Browns Creditors’; - (e) Warrant by the Lord Treasurer to [Mr Fulke], Master of the Household, authorising the delivery to Browne of three hundred pounds from the royal coffers, in consideration of his services; 28 Mar. 1602/3. Drafts, and copy. ff. 4.
12.Legal opinion rel. to the tenancy of lands in and about London, etc., said to be granted on 29 Aug. 36 Hen. VIII [1544] to Roger (d. 1582) and his brother Robert Taverner [poss. servant and sub-tenant of the Earl of Leicester, Mich. 1584; see Inq. p.m. Norfolk 16 Jas. I (1618-9)]; n.d., [before 1582]. For the original grants, dated July 1544, see Letters and Papers of Henry VIII, vol. XIX, pt. 1, no. 1035 (68, 147). Docketed ‘Lewes landes’ [poss. Rutherick Lewes, yeoman usher to Leicester by Mich. 1584].
13.Bond from Christopher Blaxton of Isted, co. Sussex, to William Farnecombe of Rodmell in one quarter of wheat and twelve bushells of barley; 2 Feb. 1601. Mark of Blaxton, but lacking names of witnesses. Docketed ‘fa[?rencom] bond’.
14.Law case ‘touching the Church of Gloucester’ in its attempt to recover a tenement, etc.,
Page 21 2021-08-13 occupied by the widow of Henry Martin for non-payment of rent; n.d., [aft. 1565].
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XVIII. Establishment-List of the Household of Edward VI; circa July 1552-July 1553. Copy, circa 1572-1576, with additions. The date of the original document is settled by its inclusion of Sir John Gates as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. The list incorporates names and salaries of office-holders. Added in an italic hand, apparently before 1576, are notes of six holders of posts in the Court of Augmentations and of grantees of various manors, mostly in co. Essex. These include Bennington [?co. Herts., but cf. Benningtons, co. Essex] and ‘Hallingbury’ [?Little Hallingbourne] which is described as ‘Modo Com: Essex & hered:’, that is, Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex 1572, who in 1576 bequeathed it to his widow Lettice, later wife of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. Both manors had been confiscated from William Parr, Marquess of Northampton, the grant to whom of Stanstead [Hall in Halsted], on 24 Oct. 1564, is noted here. Also recorded are grants of Kenilworth to Leicester (6 Sept. 1563) and of Copped Hall, near Epping, to Thomas Heneage (3 Aug. 1564). These entries suggest that the manuscript belonged to Leicester, or to Browne who was escheator for Essex in 1569-70. For another list see Stowe MS 571, ff. 1-76v. Formerly Evelyn MS 163.
ff. ii+64. Watermark crowned shield charged with intertwined letters above compartment lettered ‘C DENISE’, similar to Briquet no. 9334 (dated 1572-1578). Limp vellum covers with two leather ties. Front cover inscribed by John Evelyn ‘Number (I) MSS: A Booke of the Fees & Expenses of the Crowne, & officers of State; Kinges Court, House, Castles, Fortresses & other matters relating to the Kingdome in ye Reigne of Hen: VIII’.
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Page 22 2021-08-13 Add MS 78186-78188 CHRISTOPHER BROWNE (1577-1646).78186-78188. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. XIX-XXI. Letters and papers of Christopher
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Title CHRISTOPHER BROWNE (1577-1646).78186-78188. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. XIX- XXI. Letters and papers of Christopher Browne, M.P.; 1590-1630, n.d. Christopher Browne, son and heir of Sir Richard Browne (d. 1604), was born in London on 8 Feb. 1577. He may perhaps be identified with the Christopher Browne of London, gentleman, who matriculated from Corpus Christi College, Oxford, on 2 May 1589, aged 13, and took the B.A. degree in 1593. In 1603-1604 he obtained a lease of the manor of Sayes Court from the Crown for forty-one years, and on 29 July 1604 married Thomasine (d. June 1638, aged 75, according to MI in St. Nicholas, Deptford, quoted by Dews, p. 81), daughter of Benjamin Gonson the younger and widow of the sea captain Edward Fenton (d. 1603). A son, the future Sir Richard Browne, Bart., was born in the following year. Christopher died in March 1646; his will (P.C.C., 91 Twisse), by which he left his estate to his grandson Richard Browne, with reversion to his granddaughter Mary (later Evelyn), was proved on 10 June following by his brother-in-law William Pretyman, with power reserved to his great-nephew John Wells the younger. Cf. the Chr. Browne, elder brother of Trinity House, whose will was proved in 1637.Three volumes. (1590-1630)
Scope and Content Christopher Browne, MP: Letters and papers: 1590-1630, n.d.
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Creation Date 1590-1630
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XIX. (ff. 80). Miscellaneous letters and papers, partly legal, of and addressed to Christopher Browne; 1590-1630, n.d. Also included are various items relating to John Wells the elder (d. 1635), Treasurer of the Stores at Deptford (for whom see a letter of John Evelyn, 29 May 1691, quoted in Nathan Dews, History of Deptford, 1884, p. 93n.).
1.Letters addressed to Browne; 1605-1630, n.d. ff. 30. Several relate to property-holding and others to the education at Oxford of his son Richard, whose dockets appear on most of them. For letters written to Browne by his son, 1621-1628, see Add. MS 34702, ff. 1-8. The writers include: Richard Browne (son) from Oxford; 14 June 1624, 5 Jan. 1625. Latin; William Browne (cousin), Colchester, 9 Sept. n.y.; William Bourcher (cousin), rel. to a lease; 17 Jan. 1604/5; Margaret, widow of Sir John Hawkins; Luxborough, 20 May 1605. Signed, with a copy of her certificate giving consent to Browne’s conditions rel. to Sayes Court; Thomas Disney (nephew), relating to legal evidences; Harmeston, 20 March 1624; Christian Stephens (relative), rel. to a lease; 23 July, 18 Sept. 1627; Sir Anthony Weldon, n.d. [1627 on later docket]; Thomas Nevile, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, rel. to renewal of a college lease held by Browne; 28 Sept. 1610; three letters of Sebastian Benefield, al. Benfield, D.D., from Christ Church, Oxford, 25 Sept., 9 Oct. 1620 and 21 Mar. 1621, rel. to Richard Browne’s admission as fellow commoner there, under the tutorship of Barton Holyday. A letter from Barton Holyday to Christopher Browne, removed by William Upcott, is now in his
Page 23 2021-08-13 album, Add. MS 78684 below; Charles Stockwell, B.D., from Christ Church, Oxford, 19 Feb. 1622, rel. to his taking over as tutor to Richard Browne; eight letters from fellows of Merton College, mostly rel. to Richard Browne, viz: Laurence Hinton, 15 Aug. 1625 (docketed as having been sent ‘With a Speech of Sr Robert Cookes’) and 12 Feb., 22 Oct. [1629]; Peter Turner, 19 July, 9 Sept. 1629 and 5 Apr., 14 June 1630, rel. to Browne’s progress in his diplomatic employment; James Marsh, 26 Aug. [1629]; Sir John Glanville, the younger, from Lincolns Inn, 1630.
2.Miscellaneous papers; 1590-1625, n.d. ff. 9. Viz:- (a) Letter of Sir John Hawkins to his brother-in-law Captain Edward Fenton rel. to payments for the navy; Plymouth, 4 Nov. 1590; (b) A pronostication out of French 1613’; - (c) Letter of Thomas Bodley to Francis Bacon rel to Novum Organum; 19 Feb. 1607/8. Copy; - (d) Francis Bacon’s letter to the House of Lords; 19 Mar. 1620/1. Copy, in hand of Christopher Browne; - (e) Translation into English of propositions rel. to the proposed match between Charles, Prince of Wales, and the Infanta of Spain; Madrid, 8 Oct. 1622; - (f) John Wells of Deptford, nephew of Christopher Browne: Prognostication ‘For Dr [Samuel] Page’ (d. 1630), Vicar of St. Nicholas, Deptford, concerning the prospects for success of his proposed match; 14 Mar. 1624/5.
3.ff. 35. Legal papers of and rel. to Christopher Browne; 1601-1618, n.d. Partly Latin. Viz:- (a) Certificate by Sir John Popham, Lord Chief Justice, and Sergeant William Daniel that Browne was provoked to the manslaughter of Laurence Robinson; 3 July 1601. Signed. f. 1; - (b)List of the plate of Sir Richard Browne, deceased, allowed by his widow Joanna to her son Robert Browne; 24 June 1604. f. 1; - (c) Christopher Browne’s bond for a lease of lands in Chartham, co. Kent; 26 Nov. 1605. Signed by Browne and as witnesses by Thomas Cockes, Edward Gower and William Short. ff. 2; - (d) Bond by John Nulls of London, merchant, to Christopher Browne in fourteen pounds; 25 May 1625. Signed by Nulls and, as witnesses, by William and John Frithe; - (e)will of John Wells, al. Welles, the elder, of Deptford, Treasurer of the Stores (d. Dec. 1635); n.d. [circa but bef. Aug. 1630]. Draft, partly autograph. Beneficiaries include his wife Katheryn, eldest son John, to whom he bequeaths his books and mathematical instruments, sons Thomas, Benjamin and Christopher, daughters Katherine, ‘Ben’, Margaret and Mary, and a child as yet unborn. Joint overseers Christopher Browne and Benjamin Wallenger. ff. 2.; (f) indenture between the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury and Christopher and Thomasine Browne of Deptford rel. to the lease of the manor of Chartham; 29 Jan. 15 James I [1618]. ff. 24.; - (g) memorandum of agreement between John Henniker (al. Heneker) and Christopher Browne rel. to renewal of the lease on Henniker’s farm at Chartham; 10 Oct. 1619. Signed by Browne; - (h) commissioners of the Green Cloth: ‘Articles agreed on concerninge all maner of Purveyances &c’ (docket); 6 Feb. 1622/3. Imperfect, comprising a leaf numbered 4 and one unnumbered. This document relates to compositions made with Justices of the Peace for purveyances in ‘the said County’ (probably Surrey). ff. 2; - (i) Quitclaim by James Currey, of St. Dunstan’s-in-the-West, to Christopher Browne of Deptford and his heirs; 10 Aug. 1631; - (j) ‘Copie of Jo: Grenesmyths will’; n.d. Hand of Christopher Browne.
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Page 24 2021-08-13 Add MS 78187-78188 EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. XX, XXI. Horoscopes by John Wells, mathematician and Treasurer of the Stores at
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Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. XX, XXI. Horoscopes by John Wells, mathematician and Treasurer of the Stores at Deptford, nephew of Christopher Browne of his uncle Christopher and cousin Richard, later Sir Richard Browne, Bart.; circa 1611 and 2 Sept. 1611. Latin. Partly autograph. The main watermark (of posts, similar to Heawood, Watermarks, no. 3499) is the same in both tracts, indicating that they were executed at about the same time. Wells matriculated. Oxford (St. Alban’s Hall) 15 June 1632, aged 20 and succeeded his father as Treasurer of the Stores; see Dews, History of Deptford, p. 93n. Two volumes. (1606-1616)
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XX. Horoscope of Christopher Browne; 2 Sept. 1611. Autograph fair copy, with revisions. Latin. Browne’s date of birth is given as 8 Feb. 1577, in London, and predictions are offered as far as 1631. Formerly Evelyn MS 268.
ff. 12. 318 mm x 203 mm. Sewn gathering of twelve leaves, lacking two excised. Inscribed at head of first page ‘MSS: Christopheri Browne Horoscope: by Mr Wells’.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XXI. Horoscope of Sir Richard Browne, Bart.; n.d., circa 1611. Fair copy, partly autograph, with revisions. Browne’s date of birth is given as 6 May 1605, at Deptford. Dates from 1609-1641, apparently added later, occur in another hand in the margins of the final section (ff. 11v-13). Notes added on f. 2v in two hands include calculations by the astrologer Sir Christopher Heydon (d. 1623) and the mathematician ‘Mr [Henry] Briggs’ (d. 1630), etc., and memoranda dated from 1614 to 1620. Formerly Evelyn MS 270.
ff. 11. Sewn gathering of ten leaves (-3, 4, replaced before sewing by a three smaller leaves of a different stock). Text copied partly in a scribal hand. Inscribed on first page, ‘My Cosen Richard Browne his Natiuitye by Mr Wells:’. 318 mm x 203 mm.
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Add MS 78189-78263 PAPERS OF SIR RICHARD BROWNE, BART.78189- 78263. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. XXII-XCVI. Correspondence and papers,
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Creation Date c 1620-1682
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Title PAPERS OF SIR RICHARD BROWNE, BART.78189-78263. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. XXII-XCVI. Correspondence and papers, official and personal, of Sir Richard Browne, Bart. (1605-1683); circa 1620-1682, n.d. Partly drafts and copies. Partly Latin, Greek, French, Italian and Spanish. Richard, son of Christopher Browne (d. 1646) and Thomasine Gonson, was entered at Christ Church, Oxford, in Michaelmas Term 1620 but did not matriculate in the university until 23 June 1623, the day on which he graduated B.A. from St. Alban Hall. In the following year he was elected to a fellowship at Merton College, and in February 1627 enrolled at Gray’s Inn (Add. MS 34702, f. 9). Through the influence of Dudley Carleton, Viscount Dorchester, he entered the diplomatic service, acting as secretary to Sir Isaac Wake during his embassies in Venice and Savoy (Oct. 1628-circa March 1631) and in Paris (March 1631-May 1632), and subsequently to John, 1st Viscount Scudamore, there (April 1635- March 1639). In 1635 he married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Pretyman of Dryfield, co. Glouc., whom he had admired since July 1628 (Add. MS 34702, f. 8). From 1641-1657 he served successively Charles I and II as their resident at the French Court, when his private chapel became a focus for exiled Anglicans. Much of the period from late 1652 to spring 1656 was passed in Brittany, raising funds from captured English ships. He remained in France until June 1660, after which he took up the clerkship of the Privy Council which had been been granted to him 27 Jan. 1641 and which he retained until 1672. Though he failed to obtain the Wardenship of his old college (see Add. MS 34702, ff. 199 et seq.), he was called to the bar at Gray’s Inn, 9 Nov. 1660, and elected Elder Brother of Trinity House, Deptford, in Oct. 1669 and Master on 3 June 1672. His daughter Mary was married in his chapel in Paris on 27 June 1647 to John Evelyn, who from Deptford on 6 Oct. 1652 reported the death of Browne’s wife (Add. MS 78221). His only son, Richard, died in June 1661. The present papers, while largely relating to his activities in the diplomatic service and Privy Council, include a quantity of family correspondence, accounts and legal
Page 26 2021-08-13 documents, some academic exercises, etc., from his years at Oxford, circa 1623-1628 and a miscellaneous collection of verse in various languages. They supplement other items already in the Library’s collections (acquired partly from the collections of William Upcott, who removed them from the Evelyn archive in the early 19th century), including Browne’s despatches to Secretaries of State, 1641-1651, now in Add. MSS 12184-12186; a selection of his correspondence, 1621-1683, in Add. MS 34702; and letters from various correspondents, 1624-[1712?], in Add. MSS 15857, 15858. Further items, also removed by William Upcott but later bought back by the Evelyn family, are to be found in Add. MS 78690 below. A limited number of Browne’s letters is printed in the Diary and Correspondence of John Evelyn, ed. William Bray, rev. by John Forster (1854), pp. 327-353. Forty-four volumes, arranged as follows:78189-78200: Official Correspondence78201-78209: Papers relating to Diplomatic Service78210-78219: Privy Council Papers.78220-78224: Family and Personal Correspondence78225-78227: Accounts and Legal Papers78228-78234: Academic and Literary Papers78235-78254: Political and Diplomatic Tracts78255-78262: Papers of the Council of State.78263: Outsize papers. (c 1620-1682)
Scope and Content Sir Richard Browne, Baronet: Correspondence and papers: 1620-1682, n.d.
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Creation Date 1637-1660
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XXII (ff. 145). Correspondence of Sir Richard Browne with:
1.ff. 31. Joseph Avery, agent to the Hanse towns; Hamburg, 15/25 Aug. 1643-8/18 Jan. 1647. Mostly scribal copies, signed. Included are copies of letters, in Latin, of Johann Adler Salvius, Swedish diplomat in Hamburg, partly to Avery, 26 Sept. 1643, 25 June 1644, 18 Apr. 1644, and of Count Axel Oxenstierna, the Swedish chancellor, 14 Oct., 1 Dec. (Engl. transl.) 1643.
2.ff. 31. Sir William Boswell; Hague, 6/16 May 1644-27 Apr. 1648. Included among several documents copied in the hand of Boswell’s secretary, John Simon (cf. despatch of 3 Sept. 1646), is an account of the entertainment of the Princess Royal and Prince of Orange at Breda; 12 Aug. [?1644].
3.ff. 34. Philip Burlamachi; 26 June 1637-10 Sept. 1645, n.d. French. These relate largely to attempts to recover the dowry of Henrietta Maria. See also Add. MS 15944, f. 41, for a letter of 8 Jan. 1645.
4.ff. 36. Sir George Carteret, 20/30 Sept. 1643-16 May. 1660.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XXIII (ff. 110). Correspondence of Sir Richard Browne with:
1.ff. 22. William, Lord Craven; 30 Sept. 1631, 22 July 1643-30 Dec. 1647. Partly [italics]French[/italics]. Included are a retained [italics]copy[/italics] of Browne’s letter to Craven, 28 May. 1644 and a letter, 20 Nov. 1645, of Craven to Thomas Webb, secretary to the Duke of Richmond.
2.ff. 17. William Curtius; Frankfort and Ulmstadt, 7 May 1665-13 Apr. 1676. Mostly [italics]French[/italics]. For newsletters of Curtius to Browne from Frankfurt, 1643-1647, see Add. MS 15865.
3.ff. 44. Sir Henry De Vic (1st Bart. 1649), agent to the Spanish Netherlands; Brussels, 24 Feb.1641-30 May 1648. Mostly autograph, signed. For dockets surviving from letters of De Vic, 17/27 Dec. 1641, 1 Dec. 1646, 22 Apr. 1650 and 22 July 1651 see Add. MSS 78199, 78223 below. Also included are a proxy letter written by Phillip de Vic, 8 Sept. 1646, and a draft letter of Browne to De Vic, 24 Nov. 1646. See also Add. MS 15857, f.137.
4.ff. 29. William Edgeman, 19 Nov. 1652-24 Jan. 1654.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XXIV (ff. 140). Correspondence of Sir Richard Browne with Sir Arthur Hopton, English Ambassador to Spain; 19/29 Sept. 1641-19 May 1648, n.d. Partly imperfect. Included is a draft letter of Browne to Hopton, 9/19 Aug. 1643. A further two letters from Hopton to Browne, removed by William Upcott, are now in his album, Add. MS 78678 below.
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Creation Date 1646-1667
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XXV. Correspondence of Sir Richard Browne with: Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, etc.; 1646-1660, 1667. Mostly autograph and drafts or copies, signed. Partly cipher, deciphered. Partly French. Clarendon’s letters, sixty-three in number, all without address or direction, are dated from Jersey, Paris, Cologne, Antwerp, Bruges, etc., between 12 July 1646 and 28 Feb. 1660. Those of 8, 10 and 18 Feb. 1653 are in the hand of his secretary William Edgeman, signed by Hyde, with that of 16 Aug. 1659 in an unidentified hand. Thirty-nine draft or copy letters, etc., of Browne (ff. 17-91) are mostly dated from Brest and Paris, 21 April 1653-14 May 1660. Also included is a copy (f. 55) of Browne’s letter, in French, of 7 June 1654 to the connoisseur Guillaume Perrochel, conseiller and mâitre d’hôtel du roi, seeking his aid to place the young painter Philippe Duval (d. 1709) of Brest under some master (in the event, Charles Le Brun) in Paris. At the end is a copy in Evelyn’s hand of ‘The humble Petition and Addresse of Edward, Earle of Clarendon’ to Parliament of Nov. 1667, following his impeachment, first printed in State Tracts, I (1693), pp. 377-379. Forty-six letters of Clarendon and nine of Browne were printed in Memoirs Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, Esq. F.R.S., ed. William Bray (1818), II, and later editions. Many letters are docketed in a later hand, probably that of Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart., and annotated in pencil by a 19th cent. editor with notes about copying. Four more letters from Hyde to Browne and one from his daughter Anne Hyde (afterw. Duchess of York), removed by William Upcott, are now in his albums in Add. MSS 78678 and 78687 below. For a draft letter of Browne to Anne Hyde, 1 June 1657, see Add. MS 78199. Formerly Evelyn MS 10.
ff. 101. Binding of half red morocco and grey boards, similar to other bindings added by William Upcott. 240 x 195mm.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XXVI (ff. 139).
1.Letters to Sir Richard Browne from Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel; 19 Feb. 1643-10 July 1646. These letters were not known to Mary F. S. Hervey, The Life, Correspondence and Collections of Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, Cambridge (1921), who prints on pp. 443-445 only the two letters in Add. MS 15970, ff. 82, 83. A further letter is preserved in Upcott’s album, Add. MS 78678 below. Followed by three letters from his wife, Alathea, Countess of Arundel, 14 Oct.-11 Nov. 1644, and one letter from his son, Henry Frederick, Earl of Arundel, 18 Aug. 1648.
2.Correspondence of Browne with Henry Jermyn, Earl of St. Albans; 15/25 Aug. 1642-29 Oct. 1664, n.d. Partly [italics]French[/italics]. The letter of 7 Aug. 1654 is in the hand of Jermyn’s secretary Abraham Cowley. Including one letter from Jermyn’s sister, 1644, and three [italics]draft[/italics] letters of Browne to Jermyn, 1646-1664.
4.Letters to Browne from Sir Francis Mackworth; 20 Aug. 1646-18 May 1648.
5.Letters to Browne from Peter Morton, secretary to Basil Feilding, 2nd Earl of Denbigh, as ambassador extraordinary to Savoy; Lucerne and Turin, 26 Feb. 1644-17 Mar. 1645 NS. Autograph.
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Creation Date 1645-1667
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Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. XXVII, XXVIII. Correspondence of Sir Richard Browne with Sir Edward Nicholas, Secretary of State to Charles I and II; 1645-1667. Mostly autograph. Partly drafts and copies. Partly cipher, deciphered in some cases. Consisting of retained draft and copy letters from Browne to Nicholas (some jointly to Lord Digby), Sept 1641-June 1644; followed by twenty-seven letters from Nicholas dated mostly from Caen, [?12/] 22 Dec. 1645-1 June 1648, along with the address-panel only of one of 10/20 July 1648. These are followed by one hundred and two letters written by Nicholas from Bruges, 6/16 June 1656-22 Apr./2 May 1658, with a further thirty-three from Brussels, 30 Apr./10 May-18/28 Dec. 1658, most of which are docketed by Browne with dates of writing, receipt and reply. Also included is an autograph copy sent to Nicholas of Browne’s rejection of the English Parliament’s offer to him as transmitted by their agent René Augier, 23 June 1649 (cf. CSPD 1649-1650, pp. 183-4), along with retained drafts of two letters from Browne to Nicholas of 23 Dec. 1659/2 Jan. 1660 and 1 Dec. 1667. Two further letters of 1647 from Nicholas to Browne, presumably once part of this archive, are in Add. MSS 21066, f. 15, and 28104, f. 5. Fourteen letters of Browne to Nicholas, 1651, 1656-1659, are in the Nicholas Papers in Egerton MSS 2534 and 2536; further letters from the periods 1650-1655 and 1660-1668 are known only from lists assembled by Nicholas in Egerton MS 2556, ff. 1-37v passim. A letter from Browne to Nicholas, 21 May 1660, and a retained copy of Nicholas’s letter to Browne of 5 Feb. 1667/8 are in the further portion of the Nicholas Papers in Add. MS 78268 below; for the complex history of the Nicholas Papers in relation to the Evelyn archive, see the collective description of Add. MSS 78262-78271. Intercepted letters between Browne and Nicholas, Dec. 1657-Dec. 1659, are calendared in CSPD 1657-1658, 1658-1659 and 1659-1660.Two volumes. (1645-1667)
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Creation Date 1641-1657
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XXVII (ff. 183). [17?]27 Sept. 1641-13/23 June 1649; 6/16 June 1656-15/25 May 1657.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XXVIII (ff. 170). [22May/]1 June 1657-18/28 Dec. 1658; 2 Jan. 1660, 1 Dec. 1667.
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Creation Date 1643-1660
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XXIX (ff. 104). Correspondence of Sir Richard Browne with:
1.Sir George Radcliffe; 17 Apr. 1652-10 Nov. 1656. Including nine draft letters of Browne to Radcliffe, 1652-1655, n.d. Radcliffe’s letters of Sept. 1654-Sept. 1655 include news of Browne’s household and financial affairs in Paris. For further letters from Browne, see Add. MS 34702.
2.Gilbert Talbot (kt. 1645), chargé d’affaires at Venice; partly from Falmouth and [Lostwithiel], 25 Sept. 1643-3 Sept. 1644. Partly autograph, signed .
3.Edmond Wyndham, formerly agent for the English Fleet at Dunkirk (cf. warrant in Add. MS 78204, 12/22 Jan. 1650/1), from Dieppe; 18 Aug. 1659-23 Jan. 1660. Some of the letters incorporate interlinear texts written in invisible ink, subsequently treated to render them legible. The letter of 26 Aug. 1659 bears Browne’s notes concerning royalist activity in England.
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Creation Date 1641-1678
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Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. XXX-XXXIII. General correspondence of Browne, chiefly in his capacity as English Agent and Resident in France; 1641-1678, n.d. Partly drafts and copies. Partly Latin, French and Italian. The first few items are retained copies of letters written by Browne while a student at Oxford. One series of newsletters written from London, 1646-1658, is subscribed only with the Greek letter Φ. Browne’s draft replies comprise some forty items. Further letters to Browne, removed by William Upcott, are to be found in his albums in Add. MSS 78678-78687 below. Four volumes. (1641-1678)
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Creation Date 1641-1646
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XXX (ff. 211). 1641-1646.
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Creation Date 1647-1649
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XXXI (ff. 156). 1647-1649.
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Creation Date 1650-1659
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XXXII (ff. 188). 1650-1659.
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Creation Date 1660-1682
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XXXIII (ff. 155). 1660-1682, n.d.
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Title Papers relating to Diplomatic Service ([1575-1665])
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Add MS 78201-78203 EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. XXXIV-XXXVI. Diplomatic papers of Sir Richard Browne; 1625-1637, n.d. Partly copies.
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Creation Date 1625-1637
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Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. XXXIV-XXXVI. Diplomatic papers of Sir Richard Browne; 1625-1637, n.d. Partly copies. Partly Latin, French and Italian. The material derives from Browne’s early period in the diplomatic service. On the recommendation of Dudley Carleton, 1st Viscount Dorchester and Secretary of State, he went as secretary to Sir Isaac Wake, English ambassador (Oct. 1628-circa March 1631) to Savoy and subsequently (circa March 1631-May 1632) to France; see letters of Peter Turner to Christopher Browne, 9 Sept. 1629 and 5 April 1630, in Add. MS 78186 above, and an itinerary of Browne’s journey from Turin to and from Rome, Sept. 1629-Feb. 1630, in Add. MS 78230 below. Browne’s passport, as ‘Gentilhomme de la bouche du Ducq de Savoye’, to travel via the Low Countries to England, signed by the Archduke Isabella at Brussels, 12 June 1630, is now in Add. MS 78263. Letters and papers in Add. MS 78201 derive from his service as secretary in the embassies of Wake. Those in Add. MS 78202 relate to the activities of John, 1st Viscount Scudamore (1635-1639), whose official dispatches, Aug. 1635-Mar. 1639 in Add. MS 35097 and Add. MS 45142 are mostly copied in Browne’s hand (and see also Add. MS 11044, ff. 77-85); and of Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester, ambassador extraordinary (1636-1641) +o France. According to the DNB, in 1641 Browne was sent on two diplomatic missions, to the Queen of Bohemia and the Elector Palatine, and to Henry Frederick, Prince of Orange. In July of that year he was appointed Charles I’s Resident at the French court, and continued in the same capacity until the Restoration. Some of the documents in the following two volumes may be later copies arising from Browne’s period as Resident; see Vane to Wake, 17 Sept. 1631, Add. MS 15858, f. 175.Three volumes. (1625-1637)
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Creation Date 1621-1636
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XXXIV. (ff. 173). Miscellaneous letters and papers relating to the embassy of Sir Isaac Wake in France; 1621-1632, n.d. Partly copies. Partly Latin, French and Italian.
Including:
1.Letters addressed mostly to Sir Isaac Wake, with some newsletters, etc.; 28 April 1631-20 March 1632. Partly copies. Partly Latin, French and Italian. The writers include Sir Robert Anstruther, Joseph Avery, Sir Dudley Carleton, William Lord Craven, Basil Lord Feilding, Sir Balthasar Gerbier, Sir Arthur Hopton, Louis XIII, Peter Morton, Marie de Rohan and Sir Peter Wyche. ff. 69.
2.Miscellaneous diplomatic papers, chiefly copies, 31 Mar. 1621-29 Mar. 1632. Included are:
(a)Commission to Francois de Bonne, Duc de Lesdiguières, as maréchal général; 31 March 1621. French.
(b)Remonstrance of James Hay, Earl of Carlisle, and Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, rel. to the treaty between France and England; 20 Nov. 1624. French.
(c)Christian V, King elect of Denmark: Letter of credence addressed to Louis XIII for Jacques [Coppequesne, Seigneur] de Friville; 30 Oct. 1625. Latin. Latin. Signed by the king. Cf. Add. MS 78263 for a safe-conduct for Friville, 14 April 1623.
(d)Treaty between France and England; 31 March 1626. Two copies. render="italic" French .
(e)Propositions made by Wake and the Earl of Carlisle, to the Republic of Venice, with replies; 28 Aug.-2 Oct. 1628. Italian.
(f)‘Considerations touching warre with France & Spain & treaty with either’; 1628. French, in an unidentified hand. Incomplete.
(g)‘Memoire concerning the Rochelle buisinesse &tc’, n.d. (title, apparently in the hand of John Evelyn, from docket). French.
(h)Browne’s ‘Lamentation uppon the drowning of the Kinge of Bohemias Sonne’ [i.e. Henry Frederick, son of Frederick V, Elector Palatine]; circa 29 Jan. 1629. render="italic" Autograp h draft. Latin.
(i)‘Articles de Paix entre les deux Couronnes’; 14 April 1629. French.
(j)List of documents chiefly concerning diplomatic precedence; 1629.
(k)‘A prognostication ordered and taken out, according to the Calculation of the Principall Astrologers Vpon this present yeare, 1629. Sent from Rome to his Imperiall Majestie and the Prince elector of Saxony’; Aug. 1629.
(l)Propositions made by Sir Robert Anstruther at the Electoral Diet at Ratisbon; 2 Sept. 1630.
(m)‘Declaration de L’Emperor sur les 5. points de la Proposition Electorale’; Ratisbon, 12 Nov. 1630. French.
Page 36 2021-08-13 (n)Louis XIII and Gustavus Adolphus: ‘The Articles of Assistance between the Fr: K. And the K: of Swede. 13. of January. 1631’ (Browne’s docket). Latin.
(o)Commentary on Cardinal Richlieu’s letter to the Queen Mother, signed ‘Le Pieux Historien’; 29 April 1631. French.
(p)Louis XIII to the Duc d’Orleans; 5 May 1631. Copy, with an extract in the same hand of the Register of the Council of State, 12 May 1631. French.
(q)Marie de Medici, Queen Mother, to Louis XIII, 24 May 1631. Copy. French.
(r)Declaration of Louis XIII rel. to the return of Marie de Medici from Compeigne; 25 May 1631. French.
(s)Don Carlo Coloma to Dr Chellison rel. to English catholics; Brussels, 20 May 1631. Notarised copy.Latin.
(t)Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden: Letters to Louis XIII and to Cardinal Richelieu; 17 Sept. 1630. Copies. Latin and French transl.
(u)Henri, Duc de Rohan: ‘Copie of Monsieur de Rohan his Letter’, outlining his thoughts on affairs in Europe; 1631. French.
(v)Memorial of Gaston, Duke of Orleans, to the parliament of Dijon (Burgundy); [1632]. French .
(w)‘Copie Des Articles entre [les] Couronnes d’Ang[leterre] & de France, a[grées?] a St. Germains le [29] Mars. 1632. Pour la restitution’. Imperfect from paper damage. French. Accompanied by an extract, in Latin, from the power granted by Charles I to Wake, Greenwich, 29 June 1631.
(x)List of German states with notes of their Protestant or Catholic affiliations, etc.; 1632. French. Docketed ‘Division of Germany. P. Burl. [i.e. Philip Burlamachi]’.
(y)‘Note of Bookes and Treaties’, mentioning ‘Youre Lordships relation of Swisserland’, ‘short Relation of Italy’ and ‘Propositions to the senate [of Venice] in behalfe of the king’; circa 1631-1632. Docket of Browne.
(z)‘Responces aux demandes de Monsieur [Guillaume] de Caen’ regarding beaver exported from Canada by the brothers Kirk, etc.; n.d. [circa 1632]. French.
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Creation Date 1631-1646
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XXXV (ff. 130). Miscellaneous letters and papers chiefly relating to the embassies of John, Viscount Scudamore, and Robert, Earl of Leicester, in France; 1631-1644. Partly copies. Partly Latin, French and Italian.
1.Miscellaneous letters and papers; 1633-circa 1640. ff. 48. Including:
(a)Itinerary of Charles I’s journey to Scotland, May-June 1633.
(b)Itemised bill for extraordinary expenses for Scudamore’s journey to Paris and his audience with Louis XIII; circa Aug. 1635. Copy, with notes and docket in Browne’s hand.
(c)‘Memoire Concerninge the Ld. Viscount Scudamore his Audience and Entry into Paris. Aug.: 1635’ [i.e. 26 Aug./5 Sept. 1635], docketed by Browne with details of Court etiquette; n.d.
(d)Summary of treaty between France and the Duke of Savoy; 1635. French.
(e)‘Exceptions against [Scipion] Dupleix’: contentious passages, with page-references, from his Histoire de Louis le Juste (1633), relating to the proposed match between the Prince of Wales and ‘Madame Chrestienne seur [puisnes added] du Roy’ and to the treaty sought by the English; n.d. Two copies, one with corrections. French.
(f)‘Memoire des differents entre les deux Couronnes’ of England and France, relating to merchant shipping; Paris, 15 Feb. 1635/6.
(g)Copy and extract of letters of Count Axel Oxenstierna, Chancellor of Sweden; March 1636. Latin .
(h)Speech of Joseph Avery to Chancellor Oxenstierna; 3 June 1636. Latin.
(i)Copy of a postal treaty between England and France; 14 July 1636. French.
(j)Johann Adler Salvius, Swedish diplomat, to --, from Hamburg, [29 Sept.] 1636. Copy. Latin.
(k)‘Propositions concerninge the Palatinate’; 1636. Italian. Directed at head ‘Per francia’.
(l)Letter of ‘H: H:’ to Gilbert Talbot [at Venice], mentioning Leicester, the writer’s patron, Selden’s Mare Clausum, Walter Montagu and ‘Suavius noster’; 18 Jan. [?1636]. Latin .
(m)‘Prerogatives des Ambassadeurs des Roys sur ceux des autres Princes et Republiques’, in Browne’s hand; aft. 1737. French.
(n)List of the King’s ships appointed by Admiralty warrant; 31 Jan. 1637/8.
(o)Document beg. ‘La Mort de Monsieur de Criqui trouble grandement La Cour’; 26 March [1638], relating to Charles I de Blanchefort, Duc de Lesdiguières, marshal of France, who d. 17 March 1638. French.
(p)Key to the cipher between the Earl of Leicester and Sir Arthur Hopton; n.d. [circa 1638-1641]
(q)‘A note of what we are damnified by the French’, relating to English merchant shipping, addressed to a secretary of the Earl of Leicester; [1640?].
(r)Draft memorial of Browne to [Cardinal Richelieu] on behalf of the English Ambassador, for
Page 38 2021-08-13 an answer to propositions for restoration of the Elector Palatine; [circa May 1636-Sept. 1641].
(s)Lists and memoranda relating to English galley slaves at Marseilles; circa 1641. French.
(t)Note from the Sieur de Saint Hubert to the English ambassador, offering his services; [ circa 1632- 1641]. French.
2.Series of newsletters; circa 2 Aug.-25 Nov. 1636, Feb. 1637. Copies or extracts. French and Italian. The individual leaves or bifolia, most of which are copied in a single hand, comprise news from several continental towns and cities. Several bear directions ‘A monsieur Monsieur Broune [and le Secretaire]’. That headed from Basle on 10 Nov. ends ‘Si vous me ferez part de [?les] nouvelles de Bruxelles vous m’obligerez’. Some of the passages have been marked in the margin by Browne with consecutive series of numbers. Transcribed mostly on a single stock of paper watermarked with a crowned horn-in-shield above the letters MC and arranged by latest date in each. ff. 42
3.Papers, partly legal, relating to recovery of sums outstanding from the second portion of the dowry of Queen Henrietta Maria; 1631-1644. Partly copies. French and Italian. Credentials for the purpose (see draft in Add. MS 72429, f. 14) having been issued by Charles I to Philip Burlamachi in Feb. 1631, the business was actively prosecuted under Scudamore and Leicester, and a further commission (Add. MS 78204, below) was issued to Browne in July 1642. See also the letters of Burlamachi, 1637-1645, to Browne in Add. MS 78189 above and to Leicester in Add. MS 15857, ff. 163-169, 1637-1638. ff. 31. As follows:
(a)Philip Burlamachi: (i) Account of attempts made from 1631 to circa Feb. 1636 to recover the sums; n.d. (possibly encl. in Burlamachi’s letter of 20 July OS 1637). French; - (ii) Statement of the contracts made for the payment of interest on the dowry, etc., by 20 Aug. 1635, involving René Augier; circa 1643-1644. French; - (iii) Note of sums outstanding from the dowry; 11 May 1643. Copy, in Italian, with postscript, in French, in the hand of Burlamachi. All the above are copies in the hand of a secretary of Burlamachi; see letters in Add. MS 15857, ff. 163, 165, 169, and the report of circa Dec. 1639 in Add. MS 15858, ff. 201-203, docketed by Thomas Cantarini, banker of Paris, as being delivered to Secretary Windebank.
(b)Two lists of papers relating to the affair, viz: - (i) ‘Inventaire de pieces concernant le restant des deniers de la dot de la Royne de la G. Br: qui sont en mains des Srs de Guenegault [Gabriel de Guénégaud, Trésorier de l’Épargne] & [François] Petit’; circa 6 Feb. 1640. French. Docketed in an unidentified hand ‘Inuentaire des pieces que j’ay laisses a...le Comte de Leycester a Paris 1640’; - (ii) ‘Certain peeces, and theyr Inuentary, Concerning the Remainder of the Queenes portion. Deliuered into me by Mr Augier 6/16 June 1640’ (docket in hand of Leicester). French.
(c)Louis XIV: Arrêt, citing an order of Aug. 1637 to Cantarini for restitution to Browne of 2800 livres, and mentioning the wife of Sieur Georges Lebret and Marie de la Croix [i.e. Marie de Guénégaud (d. Jan. 1655), née de la Croix, widow of Gabriel, trésorier de l’Épargne (d. Feb. 1638)] and [Philip/Jehan] Burlamachi; 1 June 1644. Copy, with draft of same bearing note in hand of Browne dated 1 June 164[4], a secretarial draft, with revisions in hand of Browne, of the arrêt of [? 4 June 1644], and a ‘Signification’ of the arrêt of 4 June 1644.
(d)‘Memoire des frais faicts pour Monsieur Le Resident d’Angleterre pour recevoir les arrerages des trois Rentes appartenant au Roy De La grande Bretagne a prendre sur Les ayes Nouvelles de france’, July 1638-Aug. 1644, with signed attestation by ‘Forestier’; 15 Sept. 1644. Two copies, one with signed note and docket by Cantarini. French. This document relates to the arrêt of June 1644 which terminates the ‘longe dependinge suite for recovery of a remainder of H[enrietta] M[aria]’s portion-money longe since deposited here’, out of which ten years before had been bought these ‘rents or perpetuity’. See also Add. MSS 78204, below, and 15944, f. 43, for a memoire of Claude Voille, advocate in the Paris Parliament, relating to the arrears; n.d.
(e)‘Acte ou Contract de delivrance Reciproque entre Madame de Guenegault [i.e. Guénégaud] & le Sieur Resident Browne’; circa 6 Aug. 1644. Title from docket. ff. 10.
(f)Fragments recording payments to Cantarini, Claude Voille, Forrestier and others; 1644, n.d.
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(g)Louis XIV: Arrêt for referral of a request by Browne relating to Thomas Cantarini and Marie de la Croix; 27 Aug. 1644. Extracted from the register of the Council of State. Vellum.
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Creation Date 1635-c 1637
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XXXVI. Directories of the French court and official establishment; 1635- circa 1637. The first of these two lists, which is transcribed in the hand of Browne and headed ‘France 1635’, gives names and details of members of the French royal houses, peers, marshals, officers of the crown, governors of provinces and fortified places, and ambassadors. The second list, compiled circa 1636-1637, in another hand, is similar in character but includes more detailed notices of the royal household. Formerly Evelyn MS 201.
ff. i + 68. Notebook with all margins pre-ruled in red ink, and covers of vellum over boards, inscribed ‘Manuscript’ in a contemporary hand at head of spine. 210 x 160mm.
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Creation Date 1575-1665
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XXXVII (ff. 214). Miscellaneous official papers and documents relating to Browne’s period of residence in France; 1641-1665, n.d. Mostly copies. Partly Latin and French. Partly cipher. Browne was appointed agent to Charles I in France on 23 July 1641, following Leicester’s departure for Ireland, and continued in the same post until the Restoration. The material consists mostly of diplomatic instructions, sign-manual warrants, petitions for arrears, official accounts and orders for payment of expenses; for copies of some of these documents in the hand of John Nicholas, see Add. MS 15856, and for a copy of accounts submitted by Browne for his expenses over the period from Feb. 1645 to July 1647, see Add. MS 15856, f. 93. Also included are papers relating to his private Anglican chapel, cipher-keys, lists of books and manuscripts, and heraldic and genealogical notes partly relating to the grant of his baronetcy.
ff. 214.
1.ff. 1-101. Letters of credence, diplomatic instructions, privy seal warrants, with sign manual, of Charles I and II, commissions and passport, etc., issued to or on behalf of Browne; 1641-1643 and 1649-1654. Mostly copies. Partly Latin and French. Partly cipher. The letters of credence, which are in French, are addressed to the Prince of Orange, Louis XIII and Cardinal Richelieu, 1640-1641. A few documents derive from or passed through the hands of
Page 40 2021-08-13 Sir Robert Long and Sir Edward Nicholas. For a (largely ciphered) letter from Charles I to Browne, 7 Nov. 1647, see Add. MS 34710, f. 3. Included are:-
(a)Charles I: Letters of credence for Browne as envoy to the Prince of Orange; 3 Feb. 1640/1. Copy.
(b)Charles I: ‘Copy of a Patent of Clerke of the Councell’; 23 Feb. 1640/1.
(c)Charles I: Letters of credence for Browne as Resident to Louis XIII following the recall of the Earl of Leicester; 13, 27 July 1641. Copy.
(d)Charles I: Instructions to Browne as Resident to Louis XIII; 23 Feb., 23 July 1641. Sign manual of Charles I, countersigned by Sir Henry Vane the elder.
(e)Charles I: Privy seal, etc., for payment of Browne’s salary as Resident, with a further sum for his recent journey to the Low Countries; 20 July 1641. Copies.
(f)Charles I: Privy seal letters to Browne, 19 July 1642 (French), 12 Sept. 1642 (with autograph revisions), 21 March 1642[/3] (cipher), 5 April 1643. For a further ciphered letter of 7 Nov. 1647, see Add. MS 34710, f. 3.
(g)Charles I: Credentials for Browne as Resident to Louis XIV and the Queen Regent, Anne of Austria; 20 June 1643. Copies. French.
(h)Account by Browne of his interview with Cardinal Mazarin announcing the arrival of George, Baron Goring (later 1st Earl of Norwich) as Charles I’s ambassador extraordinary; 8 Dec. 1643. Autograph.
(i)Safe-conduct by Browne for his secretary Edward Messervy to travel in England ‘to eyther of their Maties Courts’; Paris, June 1644. Drafts, partly autograph, signed.
(j)Request by Browne for an allowance for secret service; circa July 1644. render="italic" Draft .
(k)Legal document relating to a sum of ‘tres mil cent cinquante livres’ and rehearsing a warrant, dated Oxford, 26 Dec. 1644, of Charles I to Browne as ‘barronet’, which mentions Henrietta Maria and [Thomas] Cantarini; n.d. French.
(l)Charles I: ‘Copy of His Majesties promise of the Ambassie of Constantinople to Sr R. Br:’; 28 Nov. 1645. Cipher. With ‘Copies and Praecedents concerning the Turkish Embassie’ of both Peter Wyche, circa Mar. 1627 or Jan. 1629, and of Sir Sackville Crowe, 9 Apr. 1634. See also Browne’s letters to Nicholas, 9 June and [?15] Dec. 1645, for his canvassing for the post, Add. MS 12185, ff. 47v, [94].
(m)Charles I: ‘Drauft of a Privie Seale for payment of my Arrears’ (Browne’s docket) in the hand of Long; n.d., before Jan. 1649.
(n)Charles II: Warrant under sign manual confirming Browne as his Resident in France at the same salary; 30 July 1649. With two copies, the first attested by Sir Edward Walker.
(o)Charles II: Letters of credence for Browne as his Resident to Louis XIV; Saint-Germain, 30 July 1649. Copy.
(p)Charles II: Privy seal warrant, etc., for grant to Browne, without fees, of the baronetcy for which a warrant had been drawn up by Charles I in [Feb.] 1643; 11 Aug. 1649. Two copies .
(q)Charles II: Form of a letter requesting the loan of £100; St. Germain, 20 Sept. 1649. Two copies, one with annotations by Browne.
(r)Charles II: Warrant to Luke Whittington, agent of the fleet at Dunkirk, for payment to Browne on his behalf; 18 Dec. 1649.
(s)Charles II: Grant for augmentation of Browne’s arms; Jersey, 8 Feb. 1649/50. Copy, endorsed by Evelyn. See Add. MS 37675, ff. 23v-24 for a copy, 1663, with rehearsal of original grant, and Add. MS 14294 for another version.
Page 41 2021-08-13 (t)Charles II: Commission to Browne for collection of his fifteenths on prizes, etc.; 30 Mar. 1650. Copy, with note by Nicholas and docketed by a Nicholas scribe as ‘renewed February 27 th 1660’. French.
(u)James, Duke of York: Letter of introduction to his uncle the Duc de Vendome on behalf of Browne; 10 Dec. 1650. Signed.
(v)Charles II: Warrant to Edmund Wyndham, agent for the English fleet at Dunkirk, for payment to Browne of the King’s fifteeenths of prizes, etc.; Perth, 22 Jan. 1651. With French transl. by Charles du Bosc, ‘Secretaire Interprete de sa Maté en la langue Angloise’.
(w)Charles II: Privy seal warrants for payments of Browne’s arrears out of the prize money; 6 June 1650-23 March 1652. Partly copies.
(x)Louis XIV: Passport for Mary, wife of John Evelyn to travel to England; Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 18 May 1652. Copy. French.
(y)Charles II: Letter to Browne enclosing warrant for payment to him of an (allowance from his pension from the French King; Louvre, 24, 26 June 1652.
(z)Charles II: Safe-conduct for Browne to travel to towns and ports in Brittany and Normandy, with his instructions; 31 Oct. 1652. Partly French.
(aa)Charles II: Warrant to Browne for allowance of sums formerly assigned to him; 9 July 1654. Copy, in Browne’s hand. Preceded by original autograph receipt signed by Charles II.
(bb)Browne: Receipt for a gift of 1000 livres from the Duke of York; 31 Aug. 1655. Autograph copy.
(cc)Charles II: Letter of revocation for Browne as English Resident in France; Brussels, 16 May 1657. French. Signed.
(dd)Louis XIV: Order to Henri Auguste de Loménie, Comte de Brienne, tresorier de l’Epargne, for payment of 4000 livres to Charles II; 5 May 1658. Copy. render="italic" French .
(ee)Note that Browne had returned from France and kissed the King’s hand; 6 June 1660. Copy.
(ff)List by Browne of his bills for extraordinary allowances throughout his period of office in France; 5 June 1660. Autograph.
(gg)Privy seal warrant to Browne for payment of arrears of his salary as Resident; 30 May, 15 June 1662. Autograph draft and copy, attested by William Cooke, 29 Feb. 1723/4.
(hh)Notes by Browne of ‘what moneyes I haue Receiued uppon my French Employment’; 8 Sept. 1664. Autograph.
2.ff. 142-161. Ten cipher-keys of Browne; after June 1640-Dec. 1659, n.d. Partly drafts. Span dates with reference to the forms of names are in square brackets.
(a)Browne’s substitution-cipher with Charles I, docketed ‘My Character with his Majesty: during the Rebellion’; circa 1642-1649. For another copy, see Add. MS 15857, f. 151.
(b)Unattributed cipher-key in hand of Browne, docketed ‘Cifre &c.’; between 27 Nov. 1641 [Secretary Nicholas] and 2 Mar. 1643 [Marquess of Worcester].
(c)Cipher with Lord Percy [cr. 28 June 1643]; circa 28 Nov. 1644 [Lord George Goring]-16 Mar. 1648 [Sir Thomas Fairfax].
(d)Two ciphers with Nicholas; bef. 27 Oct. 1643 and 1644. See also Egerton MS 2550, f. 54. See also (g) below.
(e)Cipher with ‘Mr William Crafts [Crofts]’; circa 1644 [WMK see Nicholas 1644: between 27
Page 42 2021-08-13 Oct. 1643 [Marquess of Newcastle] and ?1645 [death of Grotius].
(f)Two ciphers written in the hand of Browne, the first consisting wholly of proper names, circa Oct. 1643 [Marquess of Ormonde]-Sept. 1646 [Sir Francis Windebank], and the second (‘Draught of a Cifre’) containing none, n.d. Draft. For the watermarks cf. Heawood, no. 652 (dated 1642 or after).
(g)‘Cipher with Mr Secretary Nicholas’; n.d. [aft. 1645], with additions in the hand of Browne. See also (d) above.
(h)‘Cypher with Mr. John Clotterbooke’; circa Jan. 1649. Text and docket ‘Cypher with’ in hand of John Nicholas, with identification in that of Browne.
(i)Browne’s cipher with his ‘Cousin Tuke’ [Sir Samuel Tuke], etc.; Dec. 1659.
3.Memorials, projects, articles, etc., relating to the agreement between Browne and the superintendants of posts in Paris for the establishment of courier services from via the Normandy ports to Weymouth; 1643-1644. Partly copies. French.
4.ff. 102-141. Papers relating to Browne’s chapel in Paris and to Anglican affairs in France, etc.; 1647-1657, n.d. Charles I’s instructions to Browne in 1641 included the maintainance of a chapel. See also Evelyn, Diary, III, pp. 21, n.3, 247-8, Add. MS 4200, f. 15v (newsletter of 1/11 May 1646), Evelyn, Diary and Correspondence, IV, p. 281 (Hyde to Browne, 30 July 1653), and an article in Notes and Queries, 24 Aug. 1935, p. 129, for Browne’s house and chapel in the Faubourg St Germain and the concern for the ordination of Anglican bishops there. The chapel was discontinued by order of Charles II in 1655 (Add. MS 34702, f. 219).
(a)Certificates, in Latin, by John Bramhall, as Bishop of Derry for the ordination as Anglican priests in Browne’s chapel of Philippe le Cousteur, al. Couteur, later Rector of St. Martin’s, Jersey, 4 Jan. 1647 (also dated in margin, 17 Sept. 1648), and of Joshua Ahior, al. Ahier, M.A of Oxford, 1, 2 July 1649. Copies. Latin. Interlined later above Bramhall and Ahior are the names of Thomas Sydserf and Daniel Brevint.
(b)Certificates of ordination in Browne’s chapel by Thomas Sydserf, Bishop of Galloway, for Ahior as deacon and priest; 1, 2 July 1649 O.S. Copies. Latin .
(c)Testimonial of the pastors and elders of the Anglican Church in Dieppe in favour of the ordination of Jacques le Francy, a Catholic convert, formerly Professor of Philosophy there; n.d. French, with English draft.
(d)Letter of Richard Steward, Dean-designate of St. Paul’s and Westminster, to M. des Fontaines (i.e. Daniel de Mazières, al. Maizières, physician to the Elector Palatine) rel. to a tract on the necessity of bishops, with epitome, composed by him; [Jersey,] 11 Feb. 1650. The tract, in French, is now Add. MS 78239 below.
(e)Epitome, as mentioned above (d), of the tract by M. des Fontaines on the episcopal government of the Church of England; Feb. 1650. French. Followed by a copy in Browne’s hand of a petition of ‘Daniel de Mazières Esq, [?Sieur] Des Fontaines’ (docket) to Charles II for the grant of a baronetcy or knighthood and offering assistance in the matter of the reformed churches; n.d. French.
(f)Certificate by John Cosin of the marriage of a French couple, Gedeon du Pré and Sara Barbier, in the chapel of Browne’s house; 13 Dec. 1650. Copy in Browne’s hand. render="italic" Latin .
(g)Note of receipt by John Cosin of ‘all the furniture that belongeth to the Communion-Table & Pulpit in the King’s Chappell at his Residents House’; 1 Jan. 1657. Autograph, signed.
(h)‘Of the Necessity and Antiquity of Auricular Confession. By MrD[ean] C[osin]’; n.d. Copy in the same hand as (c) above.
(i)Prayers read in Browne’s chapel; circa Jan. 1648. Viz.:- (i) ‘Forme of the Extraordinary
Page 43 2021-08-13 Prayers for the Kinge’ (docket in hand of Browne), including lists of psalms for morning and evening prayer and collects for holy days, n.d., circa Jan. 1648; - (ii) Four copies of prayers for the king, taking the form of responses, one of them docketed by Browne ‘Aditionall Occassionall Prayers’, together with a variant version copied in two hands; n.d.; - (iii) Booklet comprising ‘Addt & Occas Prayers’. For the transcription of these, see Joseph Crowther to Browne from St. Germain, 4 Jan. 1648, Add. MS 78223: ‘I haue made my servant transcribe some copies of or present Occasionall Prayers for His Majesty ... to bee multiplyed also if yo r present Sexton bee so much a Clerke’.
(j)Extract from the (?) Anglican liturgy in the hand of Browne; n.d.
(k)Brief discourse ‘Du pouvoir Sacerdotal & de la Confession auriculaire’, and recipe for a purgative; n.d. French.
5.ff. 162-178. Lists of books and manuscripts relating to English and continental diplomacy; 1575-1643; circa 1628-after Feb. 1663.
(a)‘Note of Manuscripts’, 1575-1637; circa 1637. French. With mutilated leaf copied in same hand of tracts incl. some rel. to Henri IV, Jean Richardot. Pomponne de Bellièvre, and ‘la Serenissima Infanta’ Isabella. French. ff. 3.
(b)‘Memoire de diuerses Instructions, Negociations, Traités, Histoires, relations et autres Manuscrits’; after May 1641. French. Docketed by Browne ‘Liste de Pieces escriptes a la Main’. ff. 2.
(c)‘Liste de Pieces escrites a la Main’ (Browne’s docket), incorporating 33 political and diplomatic tracts, 19 ‘Eloges’ and 7 ‘Obsequies et Enterrements’; after June 1641. ff. 2.
(d)‘Liste des Manuscrits’, comprising forty-three numbered items relating to French politics and diplomacy, with a final (unnumbered) note of a collection of forms of address used by the French royal family in official letters; after Feb. 1643. French. Titles from Browne’s dockets. ff. 4.
(e)‘Note of such severall treaties and other instruments [1340-1618] contained in one great Paper booke kept in the Archiues at Whitehall’ (docket); n.d. In Browne’s autograph. Imperfect from damage to paper. The list relates in part to the Holy Roman Empire, Scotland, Portugal, the Hanse Towns and merchant adventurers. ff. 6.
(f)‘Acknowledgement. From my Lord Hollis [Denzil, 1st Baron Holles] what papers. His Lordship Receaued from me at his goinge Ambassador into France’; 30 June 1663 (docket of Browne).
6.ff. 179-188. Miscellaneous heraldic and genealogical papers of Browne, partly relating to his baronetcy and arms, etc.; 1643[?4]-after 1660. Partly French. ff. 10.
(a)Postscript from dispatch of George, Lord Digby, to Browne, announcing the King’s intention of conferring a baronetcy on him; 21 Feb. 1643[?/4]; n.d. Copy, in hand of Browne, with order of precedence, etc., taken from Thomas Milles’s Catalogue of Honour (1610). For the warrant see G.E.C., Complete Baronetage, III, p. 10, n.(c).
(b)Extracts in the hand of Browne from The Patents concerning ... Baronets (1617); n.d.
(c)Blazon of arms, with crest and motto, of Browne as baronet; n.d. [after 1660]. On the verso occur his autograph remarks, with a sketch of a helmet. Perhaps ‘The Escuchion’ mentioned as sent to him on 9 Jan. 1645: his bookplate with these quarterings, etc., engraved by P. Nolin, a Dutch artist working in the mid century, survives in a BL copy of Milton’s Paradise Lost (1668).
(d)Queries addressed from France by Browne to an unnamed herald, on behalf of three friends; n.d. Copy.
(e)Opinion ‘Concerninge praecedence of Knights Daughters. &tc.’, signed by ‘Lancaster & Clarencieux’; n.d. The name ‘John Taylor’ is written in contemporary red crayon on the verso of the second leaf.
(f)‘Standards & Cornets’: Blazons of ten royalist banners, incorporating royal beasts and other devices including the thistle and the harp, all crowned, with accompanying pencil sketches; circa mid-17th cent.
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(g)Tabular pedigree of Ernest Bogislaus, Duc (1633-1684) de Croy; n.d., circa Oct. 1644-Jan. 1649. Autograph. French. Letters of Croy, 1644-1649, are in Add. MS 78197.
(h)‘Genealogie de Messieurs Les Chausers’: relating to a claim for noble status by the family who took their origin from an Englishman, Thomas Chauser, who settled in France in 1501 and married into Breton families; n.d. [?1647]. Docket in Browne’s hand. Watermark: crown over Latin cross in shield and pendent ‘CA’, resembles that of Add. MS 15750, f. 29 (letter of Bendish from Constantinople, Nov. 1647).
(i)Sir Edward Walker, Garter King of Arms: ‘Drauft, in hand of Browne, of a patent for Arms’ for ‘le Sieur Henri Cletcher [son of Thomas, representative of an English noble family, who died at the Hague] a present habitué a Stockholm’; dated London, 26 April 1669. French. For copies of the grant, with attestation of arms by Paul Ferine, Groom of the Robes, see Add. MSS 14293, f. 72 (hand of Sir William Haward), 14294, f. 39, and 37675, f. 29.
(j)Fragment of paper bearing black wax signet seal of a coronet over two intertwined hearts.
(k)Charles II: Warrant ‘A tous qui...’; Brussels, 27 Feb. 1660. French. Subscribed ‘par ordre’ and countersigned by Nicholas. Vellum leaf, docketed by Evelyn ‘Packett: A. & belongs to num: XXI’, and dated in a contemporary hand. Largely illegible.
Legal Status Not Public Record(s)
Add MS 78205 (1641-1657)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78205
Creation Date 1641-1657
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XXXVIII (ff. 159). Letters and papers relating to the civil war in England, Scotland and Ireland, and to English citizens abroad; 1641-1657. Mostly copies. Partly drafts and copies. Partly Latin, French, Italian and Spanish.
1.Translation into French of the oath administered to Members of Parliament in Scotland; 12 Aug. 1641.
2.Charles I: ‘The Kings speech to the Parlament of Scotland the 17th of August 1641’.
3.Extract from a letter from the Lords Justices of Ireland to the Earl of Leicester, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin, 25 Oct. 1641. Printed (also as extract) in CSPIreland 1633-1647, pp. 342-3.
4.Answers of the Mayor and commonalty and the gentry of York to the propositions of Charles I of 30 April [1642]. Copies, in the same hand as 5, 8, 9, 17 below.
5.Bifolium comprising letters of Sir Thomas Roe to the Earl of Holland and Edmund Waller; 3 June 1642. Copies.
6.Reply of Parliament to Charles I; 26 July 1642. Copy.
7.Petition of the county of Denbigh to Charles I; 1 Aug. 1642. Copy.
8.Newsletter concerning the royalist army, dated from Shrewsbury; 11 Oct. 1642. Copy.
9.Message of both Houses of Parliament delivered by Sir Peter Killegrew to the King at Reading; 25 Nov. 1642. Copy.
10.The Solemn League and Covenant; [9 Feb. 1643]. Copy.
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11.‘Earle of Lothien his Negociation’: articles of agreement between Louis XIII and Sir William Kerr, 3rd Earl of Lothian, for a regiment of Scots guards; circa Feb. 1642/3. Copy, with additions in Browne’s hand. French.
12.Contract between Louis XIII and James Campbell, Earl of Irvine, rel. to the formation of a regiment of Scots guards in the French service; 27 Feb. 1642/3. Copy. render="italic" French .
13.Note by Browne of representations made to Louis XIV for rewarding Scots services to the French; 5/15 May 1643. French.
14.Two memorials by Sir William Boswell to the States General objecting to goods stolen by the rebels in London being taken to Holland and to the reception of Sir Walter Strickland as the parliament’s envoy; 7, 15 May 1643. Copies. French.
15.Commission of the Catholics of Ireland to Capt. Francis Olivers and answers to his propositions; 1643. Two copies.
16.Papers rel. to a suit brought by William, Lord (afterwards Earl) Craven, for the recovery of papers delivered to his servant Pierre Piagett, lately deceased; 16-23 May, 4, 5 June 1644. French. ff. 16/20. Prefaced is a set of instructions from Craven to Browne, 16 May 1644, in French, signed and bearing his red wax armorial seal.
17.Propositions of the Irish Catholics to be appended to their remonstrance in return for the grant of which they will contribute 10,000 men to suppress the rebellion; circa May 1644.
18.Letter from Charles I to Prince Rupert; 14 June 1644. Copy.
19.‘Discharge for [Anne Stanhope] the Countesse of Clare hir tenne pistolls deposited. &c.’; 20 July 1644. French.
20.Charles I: Letter to Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex; [Liskeard, 6 Aug. 1644]. Copy. With an account by John Richard, attested by Robert Seymour, Lord Beauchamp, of its delivery. The letter is printed in W. B. Devereux, Lives and Letters of the Devereux, Earls of Essex (1853), II, pp. 427-8.
21.Articles of Lostwithiel between the royalist army and the Earl of Essex’s forces, Sept. 1644, with two letters of Lord George Digby on behalf of Charles I to Parliament concerning peace terms, 4 July, 8 Sept. 1644. Copies in a single hand.
22.Abstract of peace terms presented to Charles I at Oxford by the commissioners of Parliament, with his response; 24 Nov. 1644.
23.Instructions of the Earl of Montrose, the Lord Napier, and the lairds of Keer and Blackhall; of the Earl of Traquaire to Lieut.-Col. Stewart; with a ‘tablet’ or propositions from the King; and a request for confirmation of the acts of the last general assembly at Edinburgh; n.d. [?circa 1644].
24.‘Copie of part of a Memoire presented to the Count of Brienne Jan. 1645’: memorial or ‘remonstrance’ to Louis XIV, through Henri Auguste de Loménie, Comte de Brienne, relating to French support for ‘Ceux de la Faction du Pretendu Parlement de Londres’, seeking suppression of pro-Parliamentary publications by the reformed churches there and mentioning ‘la Police Ecclesiastique’; n.d. French. Draft in hand of Browne, with two copies, one incorporating corrections by him. Together with some related ‘Propositions & Maximes de ceux de Londres touchant la Royaulte’, title added in Browne’s hand.
25.Letter from William, Lord Craven, to Thomas Webb, secretary to the Duke of Richmond; 20 Nov. 1645. Red wax signet seal.
26.‘Memoire from Monr. de Kervidonay’ (Browne’s docket): Document relating to ‘30000 Livres pretendus’ of Henrietta Maria, mentioning ‘son assosié’ John Sambourn and her secretary Henry, Lord Jermyn; n.d. (after Sept. 1643). French.
27.Endymion Porter to the Duque de Amalfi; Paris, 21 Feb. 1646. Spanish.
28.Charles I: Letter to both Houses of Parliament; Oxford, 23 March 1645/6. Copy.
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29.Sir Peter Richaut: Letter to ‘your Lordship’ rel. to securing money for the King from the state of Venice; March 1645/6. Copy.
30.‘La lettre de capitaine de Meautr[ix]’, addressed ‘A son Altesse’ [?Charles, Prince of Wales], declaring his readiness to serve the king; Brest, 26 June 1646.
31.Newsletter of Browne giving an account of the reception of Henrietta Maria and Prince Charles by Louis XIV and the Queen Regent at Fontainebleau; 18 Aug. [1646]. Scribal draft, with autograph revisions.
32.‘Copie of the Kinges answere to the Parl[iament] Propositions sent to Newcastle’ (scribal docket); [Aug. 1646]. Copy.
33.David Jenkins, Judge: Answer to the Committee of Examinations; 10 April 1647. Copy.
34.Louis XIV and Anne of Austria: Certification of French citizenship for Isaac Basire, a native of Rouen and son of the late Jean Basire, avocat; 24 April 1647. French. Signed by the King and countersigned by Loménie.
35.Charles I: Letter to Parliament, in answer to the propositions concerning religion; Holdenby; 12 May 1647. Copy.
36.Certificate concerning the effect of war on Dublin; 12 Sept. 1647. French. Draft in hand of Browne.
37.Louis XIV and Anne of Austria, regent of France: Warrant for the restoration of arms seized at Quimperlé to Sir William Godolphin; 14 Sept. 1647. Copy. render="italic" French .
38.Sir Richard Browne: Safe-conduct for John Podmer to travel to Italy; 24 Feb. 1648. Latin .
39.Thomas Hobbes: Autograph proposals for persuading Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick (Lord High Admiral Dec. 1642-Apr. 1645 and May 1648-Feb. 1649), to bring the English navy over to the King [Charles I]; n.d. (probably August 1648, when Prince of Wales wrote to him and sent Crofts to treat: see Clarendon, History, XI, pp. 69-70). Docketed by Browne ‘Propositions. E. of Warwick &ct. T.H.’.
40.Letter of Ludovic Lindsay, Earl of Crawford and Lindsay, on behalf of the Committee of Estates of the Parliament of Scotland, to Charles, Prince of Wales; [The Downs, 16 Aug. 1648]. Copy, in hand of Browne scribe.
41.Sir Balthasar Gerbier: Declaration of his conduct rel. to debts owed to him by the French Queen Mother, with note of authentication, in French, signed by Debora van Kipp, Lady Catherine Gerbier, Charles Gerbier, etc., 7 Nov. 1648. Copy. Preceded by a related document of Jan. 1647.
42.Claude Saumaise to Abraham de Wicquefort, rel. to the execution of Charles I; Leyden, 17 Feb. 1648/9. Copy in hand of Browne. French. See Clarendon SP, II, p. 1.
43.‘Memoire concerning Monsieur Augier’ presented by Browne to Sir Edward Nicholas; June 1649. French. Draft.
44.Louis XIV and Anne of Austria: Passport for Sir Arthur Slingsby to go into Holland by way of Flanders; 31 Aug. 1649. French.
45.Letter from anonymous English royalists to Jermyn at the Louvre, offering support to Charles II and seeking subsistence; 2 Dec. 1649. Copy, with two copies of a translation into French. Mentioned in despatch to Nicholas of 11 Dec. 1649, Add. MS 12186, f. 94.
46.‘Instructions and Examinations taken at the Louvre On Sunday the fift day of December. &c. 1649’. French. With note in Browne’s hand of penalties fit for persons who have threatened Lord Jermyn with death unless he gives them money; circa Dec. 1649.
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47.Charles II: Declaration at Breda, ‘Concerning the right of [Sir Edward Walker’s] being sent with the Order of the Garter’; 8 April 1650. Copy, docketed by Browne.
48.Engagement of the Marquess of Huntly and other Scottish nobles in favour of Charles II; 1650. Copy, docketed by Browne.
49.Articles between Admiral Robert Blake and Lieut.-Col. John Clarke, for Parliament, and Sir John Grenville, governor, for the King, for the surrender of the Scilly Isles; 23 May1651. Copy .
50.Sir William ‘Makdoel’ [i.e. Makdowell], Charles II’s agent at Rotterdam: ‘Raisons et motifs pour ne recognoistre La Puissance qui pour le present domine en Angleterre pour une Republique’; 1651. Docketed by Browne. French.
51.Louis XIV: Protection for John Richards, English Catholic, against the order for expulsion of the English from St Malo, with a safe conduct for travel in France; 15 Nov. 1651, 10 Jan. 1652. Copies. With ‘Factum du Procez & differend pendant au Conseil. Pour Jean Richards Anglois…’, a legal argument for restitution of goods and papers seized while he was living at St. Malo; aft. 10 Jan. 1652. French. Printed.
52.Letter of Louis XIV to Charles II solliciting a visit from him; Melun, 14 June 1652. Copy, in the hand of Browne. French. With note appended of a printed book entitled ‘Apologie du Roy d’Angleterre contre les injustes calumnies qu’on luy a imposées Avec la lettre du Roy envoyée a sa dit Majesté Britannique sur la subject de la paix’; Paris, 1652. For the original letter see Clarendon SP, II, p. 136.
53.Charles II to his brother Henry, Duke of Gloucester; Cologne, 10 Nov. 1654. Copy, docketed by Browne. Printed in Bray, IV, p. 203.
54.Charles II: Safe conduct for Capt. John Madin to travel in British domains, subscribed ‘Ed: Nicholas’; Cologne, 27 Oct. 1655. Copy, by Browne.
55.Letter of Ormonde to Dromore, 20 Sept. 1656, with copies of an exchange between Dromore and Mazarin, 3 Sept. 1656 and n.d., together with a order from Charles II to [Col. Mackarty and Sir James Darcy], 20 Aug. 1656. Copies. Partly French.
56.Speech of Ambassador Lockhart to Louis XIV; 16 Mar. 1657. Copy, in Browne’s hand. French.
57.Memoire of Henrietta Maria to the Comte de Brienne [Henri Auguste de Loménie] seeking protections from time to time for English exiles from their English creditors; n.d. [ circa July 1651-1658]. Draft in hand of Browne. French .
58.‘Memoire of Complaints against ye French Kings proceedings against the Kings party &c’ (docket, hand unidentified, with ‘B V’ added in Evelyn’s hand). Mentions Augier’s proceedings.
59.‘A seditious position formerly omitted’, rel. to the lawfulness of rebellion by subjects formerly loyal to the crown; n.d.
60.List in Browne’s hand of ‘Offices in the Lord High Chancellor of England his guift’; n.d.
Legal Status Not Public Record(s)
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Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78206
Creation Date 1639-1660
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XXXIX (ff. 167). Miscellaneous papers rel. to European politics and diplomacy, including the Palatinate question, etc.; 1639-1660, and undated. Partly drafts and copies. Partly Latin, French, Italian and Spanish. Many of the papers which relate to negotiations for the restoration of the Elector Palatine originate with Sir Thomas Roe and (Sir) William Curtius. Roe (d. Nov. 1644) was English ambassador extraordinary to the conference held at Hamburg for a general peace, Apr. 1638-June 1640, and to the diet of Ratisbone and the Emperor at Vienna, March 1641-Sept. 1642. Cf. Add. MS 4172, ff. 159-198, for letters of and documents sent by him to Browne, Sept. 1641-Oct. 1643, that are preserved among Roe’s letter-books in Add. MSS 4168-4172: three others, 14 June-4 Oct. 1643, are now Add. MS 15857, ff. 89-94. William Curtius served Charles I and II as, intermittently, agent to the German states, 17 Sept. 1639-1658, attending the imperial diets (at Nuremburg) late in 1639, and in 1642 and 1649. For the newsletters which he sent to Browne from Frankfurt, May 1643-Dec. 1647, see Add. MSS 15856 and 78190 above.
1.Letters of Charles I to various of the Prince Electors and others; 25 Oct. 1639-9 Dec. 1640. Copies. Latin.
2.Treaty between France and Sweden; 30 June 1641. Two copies. Latin.
3.Copy of the Holy Roman Emperor’s resolution concerning the Palatinate question, given to Sir Thomas Roe; 30 Aug. 1641. Latin.
4.Henri, 5th Duke of Guise: ‘Memoire comme les benefices du Duc de Guyse de 450[m livres] de reuenue ont este distribues’, with names of those who obtained them’; circa Sept.-Nov. 1641. French. With additions and docket in hand of Browne.
5.Letter from the Swedish legate to the Imperial legate; 31 Oct. 1641. Copy. render="italic" Latin .
6.Sir Thomas Roe’s petition at Vienna concerning the Palatinate question; 9/19 Nov. 1641. Copy.Latin.
7.Sir Thomas Roe, ‘The heads of my conference with the mediators’, 28 Dec. 1641, with ‘The mediators answere’, 4/14 Jan. 1642. Copies, docketed by Rowe. Latin.
8.‘Projet et Propositions des Hessois etc. au Traite de Goslar; 1641. Copy. render="italic" Latin.
9.Two sets of propositions by Sir Thomas Roe to the deputies appointed for settling the affair of the Palatinate, Vienna, 11/21 March, 23 July 1642, with ‘The Emperor’s last answere’, 6 May 1642. Copies. Latin.
10.‘Lettres d’Abolition au Duc de Bouillon, L’an 1642. Au Mois de Septembre’. Copy. French.
11.Extracts, partly in the hand of Browne, from the will of Cardinal Richelieu; circa but after 4 Dec. 1642. French.
12.Prophecy of [Jacques] Mengau, described as ‘avocat de Besiers en languedoc’; circa Dec. 1642. French, docketed in English as delivered 10 Dec. 1642.
13.Equipment necessary for a force of artillery comprising 6000 horse and 12000 infantry ; 26
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14.Anonymous tract addressed to [Philip IV] rel. to the ‘separation de Conde Ducque’ [de Olivares]; circa Jan. 1643. Spanish. Beg. ‘Haviendo reconoscido V. Magd.’
15.‘Extrait de la Proposition de Baviere faite aux Estats a Donauworth’; 19/29 Jan. 1643. French .
16. ‘Essame delli Interesse del Duca di Baviera’; n.d., circa Jan. 1643 (date from wmk). Italian.
17.‘Praefatio Bavarica, Declarationi prius editae noviter (mense Januario) Francofurti praefixa’; circa Jan. 1643. Copy. Latin.
18.Letters from London to Count Trautmansdorf and the Bishop of Wurtzburg, rel. to the Palatinate; 10/20 Feb. 1643. Copies. Italian and French.
19.Extract from the proposals made by the ambassadors of the Emperor at Frankfort; 11/21 Feb. 1643. French.
20.Extract of a letter from the Bavarian general Mercy camped at Hechingen; 12/22 Feb. [1643?].
21.Answer of [Maximilian I] Duke of Bavaria to the Imperial ambassador concerning the restitution of the Palatinate; [circa Oct. 1643]. Two copies. Latin.
22.Petition of Matthieu Sauvage, almoner to the late Marie de Medici, for his expenses, 1 Jan. 1641-9 Mar. 1643. French.
23.‘The King of Spain’s Decreto’; April 1643. Spanish. Copy.
24.Extract of the proceedings of the Diet of the Circle of Suebia’; 12/22 April 1643. French .
25.Note relating to the establishment of a council to consider the coronation of Anne of Austria, Regent of France; 1643 [after Apr.].
26.Newsletter written from the French court to ‘Votre Altesse’; May-June 1643. French.
27.Memorials of Browne to the Queen Regent about the Palatinate affair; June-July 1643. Drafts and copies. French. Including a ‘Memoire presenté a Messieurs les Ministres d’Estat’.
28.André Paul, [?Privy Councillor to the Elector Palatine]: ‘Monsieur Paul’s Memoire’, directed to Browne, for representations to the Queen Regent rel. to the restoration of the Palatinate; [circa 1643-1645].
29.‘La Charité Francoise composée par vn Gentilhomme Anglois’ relating to the embassy of the Prince d’Harcourt to England in Sept. 1643-Jan. 1644; [1644]. French.
30.Charles III de Lorraine, Prince d’Harcourt, ambassador extraordinary to England [Sept. 1643-Jan. 1644]: Proposition made to the Earl of Northumberland for mediation between Charles I and Parliament by the French king; circa Nov. 1643. French.
31.‘Relation de ce qui s’est passe a Poictou’ rel. to a request for removal of imposts on wine and cotton; [circa 1643?]. Copy, docketed by Browne. French.
32.Paper in hand of Browne, docketed ‘Intrigue Chavigny’; 15 Jan. 1644. French.
33.‘Articles accordes par le Roy Treschrestien & Messrs le Estates des Prouinces Vnies’; 29 Feb. 1644. Copy. French.
34.Extract relating to the disgrace of Mme. de Hautefort, formerly mistress of Louis XIII, dated Paris, 22 April 1644. French.
35.Letter from Don Felipe de Silvas to the magistrates of Lerida; June 1644. Spanish. Copy.
36.Letter from Don Francisco de Mello; 5 July 1644. Copy.
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37.Swedish ambassador’s speech; 29 July 1644. Copy. Latin .
38.Relation of the triumphal entry of Philip IV into Lerida; [7] Aug. [1644]. Spanish.
39.Letter of Louis XIV to [‘Monsieur’] rel. to Cardinal Pamphilio, etc.; 11 Oct. 1644. Copy. French.
40.Newsletter from Munster 9/19 Nov. 1644. Copy. French.
41.Extract from the proposals made by the envoys of Louis XIV at Munster, in favour of the Elector of Trier; 4 Dec. 1644. French.
42.Paper docketed by Browne, ‘Memoire out of Germany; after. 1644. Copy. render="italic" Latin .
43.List of deputies at Osnabruck; May 1645. Copy, with annotations by Browne. French.
44.Newsletter from Rome, 10 July 1645. Imperfect. Italian.
45.Letter of the Duchesse de Rohan to M. Rivett; 29 July 1645. Copy. render="italic" French .
46.Document endorsed ‘Postulata Evangelicorum Exhibita Osnabrugae’; 16/26 Dec. 1645. Latin .
47.Reasons for the annulment of the marriage of the Duc de Guise and the Comtesse de Bossu; circa 1646.
48.Louis XIV and Anne of Austria: Opinion sent to Innocent X rel. to the dispute involving the Pope and Cardinals Antonio and Francesco Barberini; circa 1646. Copy, in hand of Browne. render="italic" French .
49.Claude de Mesmes, Comte d’Avaux [and Abel Servien, Marquis de Sablé et de Boisdauphin]: ‘Harangue de Monsr D’Avuax a Messrs Les Estates &c’; [May 1647]. Copy. French. Cf. Bibliothèque Nationale, Fonds Francais, MS 24098, ‘Discours de Claude des Mesmes, Comte d’Avaux, et d’Abel Servien ... au sujet de la paix’.
50.Two letters to the Marquess of Grana and Cardinal Sandoval, taken in a Dutch prize; 21 Nov., 1 Dec. 1648. Spanish.
51.Patent of Louis XIV for the invention of a ‘water work’ by Etienne de Villebressieu; March 1652. Copy. Latin.
52.Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine: Letter to the Duc d’Orleans; Coloniers, 19 June 1652. French. Copy, in hand of Browne.
53.Relation of the capitulation of Dunkirk; 11 Sept. 1652. French.
54.Letters of English sovereigns, viz:- (a) James I to Ernest of Bavaria, Elector of Cologne, 7 Nov. 1604; - (b) Charles II to Charles Caspar, Archbishop of Trier, circa 16 June 1652 (see reply of that date in Clarendon SP, II, 137); - (c) William [VI], Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel, n.d. (for one of 23 Dec. 1652, see Clarendon SP, II, 159). Partly drafts and copy in the hand of Browne. Mostly Latin.
Page 51 2021-08-13 55.The Polish ambassador’s speech to the King of Sweden; 20 Aug. 1655. Copy. render="italic" Latin .
56.Letter to ‘Monseigneur’ [Cardinal Mazarin] rel. to [? French Huguenot faith], following the declaration of Saint-Germain on 18 July 1656. Copy. French .
57.Letters of Christina, Queen of Sweden, to the Duke of Guise who is to accompany her through France, 14 Aug. 1656, and an undated one of Guise to a friend, describing her. Copies, in hand of Browne. French.
58.‘L’Arrest du Conseil du 6me Sepre 1657. Contre la Ville de Marsailles [sic]. &tc. Par le payement de 550m livres’ (docket of Browne).
59. Proceedings of Louis XIV with regard to divisions in the principality of Orange; Mar. 1660. Copies. French.
60. Undated items, mostly in French, including: - (a) Speech to the Venetian senate by President Maillé, French ambassador; - (b) Strategy ‘Pour battre deux cents Chevaux avec 20 Chevaux & 50 Mousquetaires’; - (c) Brief prayer subscribed ‘Flaminio Novarese’. Printed. Latin; - (d) ‘Liste des Grand Chambriers’ in Browne’s hand; - (e) Browne’s draft of verses, in Latin, possibly to his wife.
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Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. XL-XLII. Papers, partly legal, relating to English shipping and mercantile affairs in France; 1640-1654. In return for a royal commission, privateers bringing their prizes into French ports were required to pay dues to Charles II and the Duke of York. Sir Richard Browne was one of those employed to supervise the sales and collect the proceeds; ‘from the close of 1652 to [spring 1656] Browne was actively engaged in Brittany, at Brest and Nantes, endeavouring to collect the sums owed to the King’, though only a fraction of the money was recovered (DNB; and see also Ronald Hutton, Charles II (Oxford, 1989), pp. 76-77). The newsletters of the parliamentary agent, René Augier, to the Committee for Foreign Affairs, 1646-1648, in Add. MS 4200 contain much information about royalist shipping; see also Add. MS 4191.Three volumes. (1640-1654)
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Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XL, XLI. Papers, chiefly memorials and petitions, many of them from Browne, to the French King, the Queen Regent, and secretaries of state on behalf of particular individuals or ships; 1640-1654. Chiefly drafts or copies. Partly Latin, French and Spanish. Two volumes (1640-1654)
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Scope and Content Vol. XL. 1640-1645.
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Scope and Content Vol. XLI. 1646-1654.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XLII. (ff. 130). Miscellaneous legal documents, etc., relating to disputes relating to shipping; June 1640-April 1656, April 1660, and undated. Partly copies. Partly Latin and French. Several of the suits concern claims for restoration of 10ths and 15ths due to Charles II and James, Duke of York, from prizes taken.
1.ff. 63. Papers in a case rel. to a cargo of paper consigned by Robinson Hayward, Matthew Holworthy and others, English merchants, in the vessel La Lune Dorée under captain Alexander Baynham; Genoa, 19 June-21 Aug. 1640. Two copies of Hayward’s petition, with attestations, in Italian, Spanish and Dutch, by and rel. to Pedro Martinez, captain of La Luna Dorada of Danzig, 26 June 1640. Signed by Martinez and by Cristofero and Emmanuele Dongo, etc., and directed to Giovanni Antonio Dongo.
2.ff. 4. Arrêt issued by Louis Seguier, Baron de St. Brisson, king’s councillor, in a case of debt involving Daniel Coghill of Marseilles and Thomas Batty of Paris, English merchants; 15 Sept. 1642. Vellum.
3.ff. 28. Eight documents in a suit brought by Jehan Foss, merchant of Nantes, acting for Charles II, against Jaspar Holston, Guillaume Balsart and others, rel. to a debt of 960 livres for 10th and 15th parts due to Charles from a prize sold at Nantes; 14 Mar.1651-13 Dec. 1652 [i.e 14 Mar., 18, 24, 28 May, 4, 10, 12 June 1651, and 10, 13 Dec. 1652]. Partly vellum. For Foss see also Browne’s despatches of 28 Jan., 25 Feb. 1650 in Add. MS 12186, ff. 112, 124.
4.ff. 26. Report by Hamon le Jacobin, sénéschal of St. Pol de Léon, with interrogation by the authorities of the town of a witness, relating to ships in the harbour of Roscoff and mentioning Captain Lazare Perigent; 8 July, 11 Sept. 1654.
5.ff. 48. Legal documents, papers and accounts rel. to the suit brought by Browne acting on behalf of Charles II and James, Duke of York, against François le Dourguy, Sieur de Roscerff, for restitution of their 10th and 15th parts in prizes withheld by Roscerff in contravention of the terms of the commission granted to him in May 1653 to harry the ships of the English parliament; 1 May 1653-3 April 1656, 9 April 1660 and n.d. Partly copies. Partly Latin and French. Included are: (a) an ‘Account by Mr Ben: Johnson concerninge Monr. De Roscerf. &c.’, Nov. 1655; - (b) an ‘Account of the Processe against Roscerf at Rennes. Apl: 9th. 1660’, written on a blank leaf from a letter from Charles Murray, 24 Sept. 1645; - (c) extract, on vellum, from the registers of the parliament of [?Britanny], 7 Feb. 1656; - (d) memoranda in the hand of Browne’s attorney Charles Bourguinony of St. Pol de Léon. For further letters of Bourguinony and others rel. to this case, 8 June 1655-17 April 1656, see Add. MS 78199 above. See also a letter of Roscerff to Browne, 7 Aug. 1653, Add. MS 15857, f. 209.
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Title Privy Council Papers78210-78219. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. XLIII-LII. Papers of Sir Richard Browne relating to Privy Council business; 1661-1667. Browne obtained a clerkship of the Council on 27 Jan. 1641 but took his place only at the Restoration. See Add. MSS 78255-78262 below for confiscated royalist papers and records of Council of State business, which came into the custody of Browne allegedly in his capacity as Clerk.Ten volumes. (1661-1667)
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Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. XLIII-LII. Minutes of meetings of the Privy Council; 1661-1667. The present rough notes, copied out collaboratively by Browne and his fellow clerks Sir Edward Walker and Sir John Nicholas, etc., relate to proceedings over fifteen complete months between Feb 1661 and Dec. 1667 (78210-78214), followed by a further fifty sporadic entries dating from July to Oct. 1660 and Feb. 1661 to Aug. 1670 (78215-78217). Complementary sets of minutes are preserved in Add. MS 37820 (Aug. 1661-Mar. 1667), Stowe MS 489 (Sept. 1661-Jan. 1670) and Egerton MS 2555 (April 1661). Scarcely any Privy Council records for this decade survive in The National Archives (Public Record Office). For an exchange between Browne and Nicholas regarding the Council records, 1 Dec. 1667 and 5 Feb. 1668, see above, Add. MS 78195, and below, Add. MS 78268; for further letters, etc., 1665-1668, see Add. MSS 15858, ff. 96, 152, 184. A group of papers deriving from the Council of State, 1646-1652, acquired by Browne by virtue of his clerkship, is in Add. MSS 78258-78262 below. Five volumes. (1661-1667)
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XLIII (ff. 30). 1-28 Feb., 5-28 June 1661. Docketed by Evelyn with library press-marks. Formerly Evelyn MS 213.
198 x 145mm.
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Creation Date 1661-1662
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XLIV (ff. 38). 2-30 Oct. 1661, and 5-28 Feb., 4-29 June 1662. Included is a list of members of committees for foreign affairs, trade, etc., appointed by the Council, Nov. 1660-Nov. 1661 (cf. Add. MS 37820, ff. 12, 65-68v). Formerly Evelyn MS 171.
312 x 195mm.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XLV (ff. 40). 1-29 Aug. and 5-28 Nov. 1662, 4-27 Feb., 6-27 May and 3-28 Aug. 1663.
312 x 204mm.
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Creation Date 1665
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XLVI (ff. 20). 3-24 Feb., 2-28 June 1665. Docketed by Evelyn.
Side sewn within paper wrapper, with several leaves excised at end. 312 x 204mm.
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Creation Date 1667
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XLVII (ff. 40). 5-29 June, 14-21 Aug., 2-30 Oct. and 11-20 Dec. 1667.
298 x 193 mm; 290 x 196mm. The order is confused and old foliation mistaken. The final entry is written on the same smaller stock as the inserted gathering covering 11 Oct.-13 Dec.
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Creation Date 1614-1678
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Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. XLVIII-L. Papers of Sir Richard Browne relating to Privy Council business, including draft minutes, petitions, reports, orders , 25 June 1660-30 Sept. 1678. Partly drafts, copies and extracts. The earliest items (78215, ff. 1-14) are copies or extracts in the hand of John Wolley the younger, Keeper of the Council Records. These are followed by further minutes, 1660-1670, partly in drafts by Browne, with orders, petitions and papers. Substantial groups of papers of June-Sept. 1667 relate to the second Dutch war and the retrenchment of royal expenditure. Two outsize petitions from 78215 are preserved in 78263.Three volumes. (1614-1678)
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Scope and Content Vol. XLVIII (ff. 133). 1614-1659; 1660-1663.
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Scope and Content Vol. XLIX (ff. 151). 1664-July 1667.
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Scope and Content Vol. L (ff. 104). Aug. 1667-1678, n.d.
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Creation Date 1621-1628
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Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. LI, LII. Indices to Privy Council Books; 1621-1628. The Council Books indexed in these two volumes were numbered as 5 to 10 in the continuous series covering the reigns of James I and Charles I, though the page-references cited here do not correspond with those in the PRO printed series of Acts of the Privy Council. The first volume also includes occasional lists of passes, patents and commissions granted, and of orders passed, and the second summaries of ‘Presidents [i.e. precedents] and notes of publique businesses’. The index to the eighth book (18 July 1626-29 Feb. 1628) includes references to ‘Defaulters’ from the forced loan and musters. Contemporary ink foliation in 78218, imperfectly, from 1 to 92, and 78219, 1-28; 1-39. Listed in the 1687 catalogue of the Evelyn library (f. 129v) as ‘A Table of ye Council Bookes for severall yeares (I) (II) (III)’; probably owned by Sir Richard Browne. Add. MS 78218 formerly Evelyn MS 274.Two volumes. Contemporary covers of limp vellum attached by leather thongs and secured by ties. Front covers lettered ‘Bookes 5t[h]. 6th. 7th. 8th.’ [9th, 10th ]’; pressmarked and docketed by Evelyn. 218 x 192mm. (1621-1628)
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Scope and Content Vol. LI. Books 5-8; 4 March 1621-31 May 1627.
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Scope and Content Vol. LII. Books 9, 10; 1 June 1627-29 Feb. 1628 and [1 Mar.-19 Dec. 1628].
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Title Family and Personal Correspondence ([1619-1683])
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LIII (ff. 104). Correspondence of Browne with members of his immediate family; 1641-1652. Partly French.
1.Letters to Browne while in France from his father Christopher Browne, mostly written from Deptford and London; 19 Aug. 1641-5 Feb. 1645/6 (ff. 94). These, which supplement seven letters of 1641-1643 in Add. MS 15857, ff. 76-86, cover political, domestic and family events, with business and financial matters relating to Sayes Court. Also included are a letter addressed to his daughter-in-law, 23 June 1642, and another, in French, of 29 Aug. 1644 to his grandchildren. Some notes relating to lawsuit of the 1670s with William Pretyman (for which see further 78615 below) appear on the letter of 30 Jan. 1644/5.
2.Letters to Browne from his wife, Elizabeth (Pretyman); 24 Aug. 1640-4 Sept. 1652. The final long letter concerning conditions of purchase of Sayes Court, is docketed ‘My Deare Wifes last letter’.
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Creation Date 1647-1682
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LIV (ff. 165). Letters to Browne from John and Mary Evelyn and their children, etc.; 1647-1682. Partly copies. Partly cipher. Partly Latin, Greek and French.
1.ff. 1-133. Ninety-two letters from John Evelyn to his father-in-law; 20 Oct. 1647-5 July 1649; [5 Feb.] 1652-23 Jan. 1654, 29 Jan. 1656-17 May 1660, 17 Sept. 1665-25 Jan., 1666, 22 Feb. 1679, [?18] June 1679, 6 Apr. 1682. Some of the letters are signed ‘Άπλάνώς’ (13 Jan. 1648-4 June 1649 passim), ‘T N’ (4 Sept. 1657) and ‘N. R.’ (10/20 Nov. 1659). Two letters of 29 Jan. 1649, announcing the death of the King, have similarities of content and are both originals, but the second, signed only with a pentacle, may not be to Browne. Letters written by Evelyn before the Restoration are directed to Mr [William] Peeters, a merchant of London (4 April-4 Sept. 1648), to Robert Kibble, al. Kible, ‘demeurant auec Monsr [Laurence] Greene Marchand Anglois à l’Hostel de [la Ville de] Venize’ (12 Mar.-5 July 1649), to Mr Smith, al. Smyth (‘chez Mr Poignant’, 5 June 1652; no place, 18, 26 Nov., 13 Dec. 1657; and via M. Oudinet, 15 Feb. 1658-17 May 1660 passim). Red wax seals of seven distinct types, geometrical, armorial and [figural], survive on letters written between 1648 and 1665. An unsigned letter of 7 Jan. 1649/50, requesting that replies be addressed to Captain Thomas Danser, appears to be in the hand of Richard Evelyn, brother of John. Also included are retained copies of Browne’s letters of 31 Aug. 1652 (original below, Add. MS 78306) and 15 April 1660. Further correspondence of Evelyn and Browne, 1647-1673, is now preserved in Add. MSS 15857, ff. 108-150 passim, 15948, ff. 5-37, 57, 64, 34702, ff. 23-222 passim, and 78306.
2.ff. 134-149. Ten letters from Mary Evelyn, daughter of Browne and wife (1647) of Evelyn; 12 June 1652-6 Dec. 1655. Partly French. Red wax seals of three types. For Browne’s letters to his daughter, see Add. MS 78431 below.
3.ff. 150-161. Seven letters from John Evelyn junior; 14 Dec. 1665-21 Dec. 1675, n.d. Partly Latin and Greek. Also included are two sets of New Year verses in English and in Latin hexameters addressed to his grandfather, 1674 and n.d., and an enclosed letter, in French. Other letters, 1673 and 1676, are in Stowe MS 745, f. 76 (Latin) and Add. MS 15948, f. 149. Red wax armorial seal on letter of 1 Mar. 1667. For letters from his grandfather, see Add. MS 78442.
4.f. 162. Letter from Mary Evelyn, granddaughter of Browne; 3 June 1682.
5.ff. 163-165. Two letters of George Evelyn, elder brother of John Evelyn; circa Oct. and 14 Dec. 1665.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LV. (ff. 133). Correspondence of Browne with members of the Pretyman family; 1647-1676.
1.Ninety-nine letters to Browne from his brother-in-law, William Pretyman, etc.; 2 Nov. 1641-21 Nov. 1662. Partly imperfect. Many of the letters relate to Sayes Court of which, following the death of Christopher Browne, Prettyman acted as steward and later trustee. Included are a statement, dated 29 June 1643, of sums remitted to Browne in Paris, 26 July 1641-6 Jan. 1641/2, and a draft letter of Browne to Pretyman, 1 Oct. 1659. For papers relating to the protracted law-suit of Browne and Evelyn with Pretyman see below Add. MS 78615.
2.Four letters from Katharine al. Catharine Pretyman, Browne’s niece, Stockerston, 9 Jan. 1668/9-30 Sept. 1673. Despite some differences of hand, the letters are probably all from the same individual, though the first letter gives a variant spelling of the name.
4.Copy of an assignment to Browne by Thomas, son of Sir John Pretyman, 1st Bart., of a ‘statute merchant’ for £1000, sworn in 1659, over the lands of John Marston of Slawston, co. Leic.; 23 Mar. 1673/4, together with a letter from Pretyman to Browne; 8 June 1677.
5.Two letters of Sir John Pretyman, 1st Bart.; 17 July 1674, 25 Sept. 1676.
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Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. LVI, LVII. General correspondence of Browne; circa 1624-1683. Partly drafts. Partly Latin, Greek and French. Many of the writers are members of his extended family and household servants, including James Stephens, 1643-1675; Thomas Batty, 1643-1680; Edward, Francis, George and Susan Hungerford, 1646-1669; George, Mary and Samuel Tuke, 1646-1674; William Peters, 1647-1649; Samuel and Elizabeth Camby, 1650-1674; and John Higgins, 1669-1673. Also included are letters, partly in Latin, relating to Browne’s early years at Merton College, Oxford, circa 1624-1632, including one from John Earle, al. Earles, circa March 1630/1, with whom also he corresponded, 1656-1657, mostly in Latin and Greek, on literary matters, etc. A series of letters, 1653-1654, from his housekeeper in Paris, Anne Castle, or Cassell, wife (1654) of Guillaume Saradin, relates to his official residence there. For letters of Richard Bellings, Irish historian, 1659 and n.d., with verses in English and Latin, see Add. MS 78233 below.Two volumes. (c 1624-1683)
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LVI (ff. 102). Circa 1624-21 Mar. 1660.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LVII (ff. 119). 5 Aug. 1660-11 Feb. 1683.
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Title Accounts and Legal Papers78225-78227. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. LVIII-LX. Household accounts of Browne, with personal papers and legal documents; 1641-1683, n.d. Partly French. Three volumes. (1641-1683)
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LVIII (ff. 73). Household accounts in Paris; 20 [Oct.] 1642-23 Sept. 1645, 23-30 July 1646, 20 Mar. 1644 N.S. English and French. The accounts were rendered each Saturday during the period. Notes of sums received or paid, most of them from or to William Peters (or Peter), are regularly entered in the margins, above the signatures of William Bush or Sir Richard Browne. A certificate of audit by Thomas Batty (f. 29) is dated 22 Aug. 1643, and a receipt (f. 37v) by Thomas Vaughan 26 Dec. 1643. At the end occur some stray accounts for July 1646, 20 Mar. 1644, 7 June 1642 and 4 June 1643, with a note (ff. 67-68) of money received by Batty, 1 June 1642-30 May [1643], and further receipts (f. 69v), 4 June 1643.
Paper; ff. 69. Four formerly disbound folio gatherings, collating i16, ii-iii 18, iv 20; twelve leaves have been torn out at the beginning, and now survive only as written fragments. 350 x 230mm.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LIX (ff. 166). Household and other accounts in France and England, etc.; circa 1641-1683, 1875, n.d. Partly French. Partly copies and printed.
1.ff. 1-108. Household and other accounts in France; circa 1641-1659 , n.d. Included are quittances for rent, etc., on Browne’s official residence in Paris, 1643-1656, for which see also the letters, 1653-1654, of his housekeeper in Add. MS 78223 above.
2.ff. 109-158. Household and other accounts in England; 1664-1683, n.d. Included is a ‘Note of Rings given at the Funerall of Sr Rich: Browne ... 19 Feb. 1682/3’, jotted in John Evelyn’s hand on a list of officials of Trinity House, Deptford, 1682-1683. ff. 48.
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Creation Date 1640-1681
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LX. (ff. 168). Legal documents relating to Browne’s personal affairs; 1640-1681, n.d. Partly French. Included are:-
1.Papers relating to suits for debt brought against Browne by Pierre Chevreuil, butcher of Paris, etc.; 26 Oct. 1654-30 Feb. 1655. French. Partly vellum. ff. 67. Included are:
(a)‘Information Pour Pierre Chevreuil Marchant Boucher a paris demandeur et Compleignant Contre Richard Broune deffendeur et accusé’ for a debt of 368 livres and 18 sous; 7 Jan. 1655 N.S. French. Included are depositions by Sir George Radcliffe, Guillaume Paradin and Browne’s servant Anne Cassel (later Mme. Paradin). Formerly sewn together at the foot are two related documents, partly vellum.
(b)List of tapestries belonging to Browne that were distrained towards payment of Browne’s debts to Chevreuil following sentences of the courts; 8 May 1655 N.S. French. Signed in three places by the court bailiff Andre Maurice, ‘huissier sergent a verge’ in the Grand Chatelet of Paris. 380 mm. x 248 mm.
2.ff. 46. Legal and other papers relating to the will of John Langton, English merchant, 1650-1663, 1672, and to the affairs of John Pretyman as administrator of the will of John Farrington, circa 1665-after 1675. Partly copies. Partly French. ff. 38.
(a)Will of John Langton, with later material relating to its execution, 20 April 1650-10 Sept. 1663, including two notarised translations of documents into English, 12 Nov. 1672. Langton, residual heir of his brother Robert, died in France, leaving as his executor Samuel Camby, who granted Browne power of attorney in March 1649/50.
(b)‘Memoire de l’affaire de M. [Laurence] Grin [i.e. Greene]’, etc.; after 27 Jan. 1642 and 2 June 1660. French. Greene, a London merchant, died in Paris in 1654 (see P.C.C. wills
Page 66 2021-08-13 1654, 159), having borrowed money from Robert Langton to pursue a claim against Philippe de Harlay, Comte de Cézy, French ambassador in Constantinople. See further mention of the Cézy suit in letters of René Augier, 10 Apr.-3 Aug. 1646 passim and 12 Feb. 1648 in Add. MS 4200, ff.13-27, 66.
3.ff. 34. Miscellaneous legal documents and bonds; 1640-1681. Including, in addition to bonds:
(a)Contract between Richard Browne and George Blackhall of Exeter, ‘ordinary [?] of his Maties Body’, for investigating the setting up of monts de piété, or banks, in London; 8 Dec. 1641.
(b)Memoir of Browne to Louis XV and his council complaining of the imprisonment of his servant and the theft of his sheep by the Bailiff of St Germains; n.d. [circa 1641-1660]. Copy. French.
(c)‘Arrest de Reparation’ issued by Louis Seguier, Baron de St. Brisson, Provost of Paris, on a complaint made by Browne against Melchior Damoiseau, ‘sergan au baillage’ of Fort l’Eveque, following a incident of 29 Aug. involving Browne’s carriage on the Pont Neuf; 22 Sept. 1643. Vellum and paper.
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Title Academic and Literary Papers ([1560-1705])
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LXI. Academic exercises, formal letters and speeches, etc., of or transcribed by Browne at Oxford; 1622-1625, n.d. Partly autograph. Latin, with some Greek. Mostly copies, partly imperfect. The contents derive from his career at, successively, Christ Church, St. Albans Hall and Merton College. Included are:
1.ff.1-7. Copies of letters written to his father, Richard Corbett, Dean of Christ Church, and others, with a prose lament on the death of Sir Henry Savile in Feb. 1622, with epigrams that were printed in Oxford University’s Ultima Linea Savilii, 1622, sig. D, all comprised in a single gathering.
2.ff. 9-10v. Speech made before the university on medicine; n.d.
3.ff. 11-22. Copies of letters to his father, partly from St Alban Hall, to Jerameel Terrent of Christ Church and to various named fellows of Merton College and its Warden, Nathaniel Brent, with other notes, incorporated in loose leaves from a single notebook, 1624-1625, n.d. Partly imperfect.
4.ff. 23-41. Exercises on themes extracted from the Latin historians, etc., n.d. Partly imperfe ct.
5.ff. 42-44v. Speech of John Prideaux, Vice-Chancellor, to James I at Woodstock, 24 Aug. 1624.
6.ff. 45-47. Address, beginning 'Quid orbi attonito dirum incutis horrorem?', following the death of James I in March 1625.
7.ff. 48-54. Two copies of a disputation on three questions in natural philosophy, beginning with ‘Philosophi possint sufficere rebus civilibus’, including verses, n.d. Partly imperfect. Formerly Evelyn MS 101.
ff. 54. Unsewn gatherings. Wrapper docketed by Evelyn 'Orations & Academical Exercises of Sr: R: Brown whilst a young student in Oxford'. 216 x 158mm.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LXII. Notebook of questions in natural philosophy; circa 1623-1628. Autograph. Sixteen numbered propositions pre-entered in the notebook are followed sporadically by observations taken, sometimes with page-references, from works by Eustachius, Dandinus, Antonio Ruvio’s commentary on Aristotle’s Physics, ‘Pere:’ [?Benedictus Pererius: sc. ‘de communibus rerum naturalium principiis’] ‘Suer:’ and ‘Aegid:’. Lot 59 in Evans’ sale of Upcott’s collections, June 1846 (Add. MS 78584 B). Beal EvJ 26 (incorrectly as a manuscript of John Evelyn, who has only added the title on the cover). Formerly Evelyn MS 101.
Contemporary covers of limp vellum with remains of two leather ties. Spine headed in ink ‘Philos:’ and front cover lettered ‘Academical Exercises’ in the hand of John Evelyn. 177 x 119mm.
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Creation Date 1627-1630
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LXIII. Notebook of extracts from classical authors, notes on Italian politics and an itinerary in Northern Italy; 1627-1630, with additions by John Evelyn the younger, afterwards 1st Bart, 1701/2, including (f. 48v) an elegiac couplet written in Nov. 1701 at Oxford and (ff. 94v, 95) copies of an epigram of Feb. 1702 ‘On the descent of the Germans from the Alps...into Cremona.’ in parallel Latin and English versions. Partly Latin, Greek and Italian. Beal EvJ 30 (incorrectly as having some content by John Evelyn the diarist). Formerly Evelyn MS 95.
ff. iv + 187. Contemporary binding of brown calf, the covers bearing a blind-stamped compartment formed from three rules, with four tie-holes at edges; spine of raised bands. Paste-downs (ff. ii, iv) formed from printed sheets of The Dayes Report (p. 8) and Deus et Rex (p. 17), as seen also in the lining of the black leather pyxides (Add. MS 78677 A). Contemporary pagination in ink from 1 to 366. Recto of front flyleaf (f. 1) bears letter ‘R’ at centre in ink and on the verso the ownership-inscription of John Evelyn the younger, dated ‘1701/2’. 105 x 170mm.
1.ff. 3v-36. Extracts ‘Ex M. Fabii Quintiliani, Institutionum Oratorium Libris Duodecim Excerpta’.
2.ff. 56v-78. Extracts ‘Ex Lucii Flori Excerpta’.
3.ff. 88v-93. Miscellaneous notes, in English, on Italian affairs, including events in the Marquisates of Mantua and Monferrat, 1627-1629.
Volume reversed:
4.ff. 169-158v. Extracts ‘Ex C. Plinii Caecilii. Secund. Epist:’.
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5.ff. 187-179. Miscellaneous notes relating to Italy, partly in Italian.
6.ff. 178v-177. Itinerary of a journey from and to Turin by way of Vicenza, Ferrara, Florence, Siena and Rome; 12 Sept. 1629-9 Feb. 1630. The journey was taken while Browne was serving as secretary to the embassy of Sir Isaac Wake to Savoy (see Add. MSS 78201, 78202 above).
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Creation Date 1636-1682
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Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LXIV (ff. 152). Memoranda, with some notes of Browne’s reading, etc.; 1636-1682, n.d. Partly imperfect. Partly Latin, Greek, French and Italian. The memoranda, which were begun during his period of service with Scudamore and Leicester, include some from his period as Charles I’s agent in France. See also below Add. MS 78459 for an alphabetical commonplace-book of Browne that was re-used as an account-book, 1683-1690, by John Evelyn junior; headings run from ‘Absentia’ (?) to ‘Uxor’, with brief sporadic entries in Browne’s smallest italic (cf. Add. MS 78230), unobscured from ‘Fides’ onwards.ff. 32. Various sizes. (1636-1682)
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Scope and Content A.ff. 1-27v. Memoranda; circa Feb. 1636-Jan. 1639. Imperfect. Partly Latin, Greek, French and Italian. The surviving sections include notes of contemporary and historical events in France and Spain, the French language, together with a list of addressees of letters written by Browne on 1 Nov. 1636 N.S. Also included are anecdotes rel. to the Earl of Leicester’s embassy to France, partly dated 18/28 May 1636 to 27 Oct. 1637, with an account of Viscount Scudamore’s taking leave of the French King and Queen Regent in Jan. 1638/9.
Paper: ff. 27. Three unbound but partially sewn gatherings i- ii10, iii 10 (-9, 10) + 3 singletons. 195 x 153mm.
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Scope and Content B.ff. 28-54. Memoranda; 1641-1650. Partly Latin and French. The journal, kept sporadically from 30 July to Oct. 1642 and Apr. 1649 to Aug. 1650, is interspersed with political notes, list of addresses and books, and inscriptions and verses in Latin.
Paper: ff. 27. Four unbound but sewn gatherings. 153 x 98mm.
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Scope and Content C.ff. 55-60. Memoranda, with entries, partly in pencil, mostly circa 1643-1660, with additions circa 1672. Partly Latin, Greek and French.
Paper: ff. 26. Marbled paper covers, with green silk tie. 108 x 56 mm.
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Scope and Content D. ff. 61-104v. Miscellaneous reading-notes, minutely written in a tall oblong notebook with marbled wrappers similar to (E) below, consisting of a front flyleaf and 44 numbered pages. Latin and Greek. The observations are divided into numbered centuries, of which the second is carried as far as no. 75 only.
ff. ii + 26. Limp marbled covers. 210 x 85mm.
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Scope and Content E.ff. 105-120v. Miscellaneous reading-notes later enclosed in or folded into a tall oblong wrapper similar to (D) above; n.d. [circa 1646-1651, etc.]. Latin and Greek. A docket (f. 87v) in Evelyn’s hand on the tall oblong marbled wrapper within which the loose leaves were folded describes it as ‘Pac [siglum] kett. Fragments & short notes on Severall Subjects of Hist: Language, Divinity of li[t]lle Importance Left by Sr. R Brown among his loose papers.’ The leaves are drawn from various different stocks of paper, some of them re-used from letters that are no longer extant in the archive.
ff. 16. 210 x 85mm.
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Scope and Content F.ff. 121-152. Miscellaneous loose notes, jottings and ‘Historicall Extracts’; 1650-1682, n.d. Partly Latin and French. Included is a small pamplet on the ‘Estat du Revenue des Eglises de France’; n.d. [circa 1630s], docketed ‘Polit’ by Evelyn.
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Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. LXV-LXVII. Verse and other material collected by Sir Richard Browne; circa 1603-1682. Partly Latin, French and Italian.Three volumes. (c 1603-1682)
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LXV. Walter Hawkesworth: ‘Labyrinthus’; circa 1602-1603. Latin. This five-act play, based on the La Cintia of Giambattista della Porta (Venice, 1601), was written for performance at Trinity College, Cambridge. A further seven copies, three of them bearing the author’s name and three a cast-list, are recorded in REED: Cambridge, ed. Alan H. Nelson, Toronto, 1989, II, pp. 904-906. The first printed edition appeared in London in 1635, and a modern one, with a translation and commentary by Susan Brock, was published by Garland Press in 1988. Formerly Evelyn MS 129.
ff. iii+36. 220 x 175mm. Contemporary covers of limp vellum gilt-stamped with double compartment containing centrepiece and fleur-de-lys cornerpieces, and bearing five roses on the spine. Some marginal notes, stage-directions and corrections to the text appear to be in the hand of Browne who has added at the end ‘deest non nihil’.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. LXVI (ff. 133). Miscellaneous English verse collected and partly copied by Browne and his father; circa 1590-circa 1700, n.d. English and Latin. Many of the verses, which are arranged largely in chronological order of composition, bear endorsements in Browne’s hand. Included are:-
1.ff. 1-3. Two poems by or attributed to Sir Walter Ralegh, viz: (a) ‘Goe soule the boddies guest’ (elsewhere entitled ‘The Lie’), with answer beg. ‘Courts scorne, states disgracinge’, headed in another hand ‘a new ballet entitled Sr Foole yow lye’; - (b) elegy on the death of Sir Francis Walsingham, beg. ‘Heere Hobbinoll lies our sheapherd while-ere’; circa late 16th cent.
2.ff. 7-12v. Poems and epigrams by Richard Corbett, Peter Heylyn and other Oxford men; circa 1613-1621. Copies, mostly in a single hand. Partly imperfect. Several of the pieces concern the performance of Barten Holiday’s comedy Technogamia at Christ Church, Oxford, on 26 Aug. 1621. A distich in Latin relates to the marriage of Frances Devereux with the Earl of Somerset, in 1613.
3.ff. 13-16. Verses copied by Christopher Browne, including: (a) ‘Cambridge Madrig[a]ll in answere to Oxforde ballat’ of Richard Corbett, beg. ‘A ballat late was made’; circa March 1615; - (b) Ballad ‘To the tune of Oh Bullen’, beg. ‘Gentlemen of England partly you may understande’, docketed by his son ‘Verses uppon the buildinge of Pauls Church’; circa 1620-1623.
4.ff. 17-22. Richard Corbett: (a) New Year’s gift of verses to the Duke of Buckingham, beg. ‘When I can pay my parents or my king’; 1 Jan. 1621/2; - (b) satirical verses addressed to John Hammon, curate of Ribbesford, regarding his prohibition of the maypole, beg. ‘The mighty zeal which thou hast new putt on’; circa 1620-1630; - (c) Verse-letter to the Duke of
Page 74 2021-08-13 Buckingham on his absence in Spain with Prince Charles, beg. ‘I read of islands floating and removed’; 1622 (bef. Oct.). All were printed in Poetica stromata (1648).
5.ff. 23, 23v. King James I: Verses urging women to exchange the city for the country life, beg. ‘Ye women that do London love so well’; circa April 1623. Printed in The Poems of King James VI of Scotland, ed. James Craigie (Edinburgh, 1958), II, p.178.
6.ff. 32, 32v. Sir John Suckling: ‘The Witts’, beg. ‘A Sessions was held the other daye’; circa 1639-40. Copy. Printed in Suckling’s Fragmenta Aurea (1646).
7.ff. 51-53v. Sir Richard Fanshawe: translations into Latin of two poems attributed to Thomas Cary of the bedchamber; viz: (a) ‘Farewell faire Saint; lett not the Seas & Wind’; - (b) ‘Tell me Eutresia, since my Fate’, followed by a variant version of the English; circa 1648. Printed in The Pastor Fido (1648).
8.ff. 58-62. Four satires on Cromwell and his fellows, followed by four satirical pieces on his coaching accident in September 1655; circa July 1650-Sept.1655. Copies partly by Browne.
9.ff. 69-73. Katherine Philips: Two autograph poems, with a copy of a dramatic extract, beg. (a) ‘You Justly may forsake a Land which you’, Jan. 1660/1; - (b) ‘No, No, unfaithfull world thou hast’, 1663; - (c) ‘Caesar that enuious Fate which I can braue’, circa (but aft.) 1663, extracted from her translation of Corneille’s Pompey, Act III, sc. IV, ll.5-end.
10.ff. 81-96, 110-115v. Advice-to-a-Painter poems, etc.; 1666-1673. Included are: (a) ‘The S[econd Ad]uice to a Painter drawin[g] the[e] History of or Nauall Business Being the Last Worke of Sr Joh: Denham. London written for the Company of Poets’, beg. ‘Nay painter if thou dar’st designe that fight’; circa March-June 1666; - (b) ‘New Instructions to a Painter’ [i.e. The Fourth Advice], beg. ‘Draw England ruined by what was giu’en before’; Aug. 1667; - (c) ‘Further Advice to a Painter’, beg. ‘Painter once more thy Pencill reasume’, sometimes attributed to Andrew Marvell, in an untitled version of 52 verses; circa Jan.-Feb. 1670.
11.ff. 98-99. Prologue and epilogue to Henry Neville Payne’s The Fatal Jealousy, subscribed ‘For … Sr. Samuel Tuke from his humble servant, Matthew Medbourne’; Aug. 1672. Copies, signed, apparently in the hand of Medbourne, who acted in it. Viz: (a) ‘To you great sovereign wits that have such sway’, spoken by William Smith; - (b) ‘A tragedy and not heroic’, by Harry Harris. Partly imperfect. Printed in The Fatal Jealousie (1673).
12.ff. 118-123v. William Atwood: Verses by or addressed to him on the subject of Edmund Waller’s poetry, etc., viz.: (a) ‘On Mr: Atwoods Divine Love’, beg. ‘Immortal Bard! Whose chaster Muse does show’, subscribed ‘M. E.’ but not in the hand of Mary Evelyn; - (b) Atwood’s lines ‘To a Lady [i.e. Anne Wharton] who wth verses to himself sent him her answer to Mr Waller’, beg. ‘When that soft hand whence Waller has his dues’; circa 1681-1685; - (c) Bifolium comprising two sets of religious verses, viz.: (i) Translation of Psalm 103, beg. ‘Advance my soul and all your powers incline’; - (ii) Anne Wharton’s Answer to Atwood’s verses beg. ‘Small are the poor Returnes which you receive’, printed in Wharton’s The Idea of Christian Love (1688); circa 1683-1684.
13.ff. 124-127. Edmund Waller: ‘Of Divine Love’; 1685. Extracts.
14.ff. 128-130v. Anne Killigrew: Verses and epigrams; circa 1685. Possibly autograph. The calligraphically-written texts comprise: (a) ‘To the Queen [i.e. Mary of Modena]’, beg. ‘As those who pass the Alps do say’, in a version of 68 lines, as against 82 in the printed version; - (b) Four epigrams, viz: (i) ‘Wee deem them moderate but enough implore’; - (ii) ‘Wanton Mamurra [pr. Belinda] loudly does Complaine’; - (iii) ‘Posthumus boasts hee does not Thunder feare’; - (iv) ‘Now liquid Streames by the feirce cold doe grow’. Printed, with variants, in Killigrew’s Poems (1686).
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. LXVII (ff. 142). Miscellaneous verses and inscriptions, with some prose, mostly in languages other than English and deriving from Browne’s papers; circa late 16th cent.-1683, n.d. Partly autograph drafts and copies. Partly Latin, French, Italian and Spanish. As follows:
1.ff. 1-53. Verses and inscriptions chiefly relating to English affairs, arranged in roughly chronological order; after 1649-1683, n.d. Mostly Latin. Partly drafts .
(a)ff. 22-52. Inscriptions and verses composed, revised or copied chiefly by Browne; 1650-1683, n.d. Including: (i) Two autograph fair copies of an epitaph in Latin elegiacs for his wife Elizabeth (d. 6 Oct. 1652) and two autograph drafts of a monumental inscription in Latin prose for the tomb of his son Richard (buried 23 June 1661); - (ii) Richard Bellings, Irish historian: Autograph verses, in Latin elegiacs and in English, partly incorporated in letters to Browne, with occasional autograph revisions and additions by the recipient; circa 1655-1659 and n.d. Partly drafts and imperfect; - (iii) ‘Ejaculationes consolatoriae in praesentem statum ... Jacobi Ducis Monmouthensis compilatae per Thomam Ramseum Lithuanum … Ministrum …’, in Latin lapidary verse, with prefatory letter, dedicated to Browne as ‘Militi’; 26 March [?circa 1680-1682]; - (iv) ‘Mr Cooper’s Verses on Sr: R: Browne’s Death’ (docket by John Evelyn), beg. ‘If we our sorrows, with our joys compare’; Feb. 1683.
(b)ff. 1-21. Miscellaneous verses and inscriptions chiefly relating to English affairs; 1603-1678, n.d. Latin. Included are: (i) William Clarke: ‘Carmen heroicum in mortem Serenissimae Angliae Reginae nuper defunctae’, in Latin hexameters, beg. ‘Reginae manes et ineluctabile fatum’; 1603; - (ii) George Herbert: ‘Inventa Bellica’, in Latin hexameters; circa 1622. Two copies, partly imperfect, subscribed ‘G. Herbert’; - (iii) Three Horatian odes, in Latin, headed ‘Soteria I Caroli II Magnae Britanniae &c Regis Serenissimi …’; circa Oct. 1651. Fair copy, imperfect, with revisions; - (iv) Draft of a lapidary inscription, etc., in Latin for the tomb of Sir Richard Ford, Lord Mayor of London (d. 1678).
2.ff. 54-142. Verse elegies, epitaphs, inscriptions and satires, etc., with some prose, on European affairs and public figures; circa late 16th cent.-1660, n.d. Latin, French and Italian. Including:
(a)ff. 57-61. Three poems and a verse-epitaph, in Latin, on the Dominican Tommaso Martinelli, robber of Petrarch’s tomb, one poem being subscribed ‘J: M:’; followed by Latin elegiacs ‘Ad Petrarcham’ by Maurice Berkeley; circa (but aft.) 1630.
(b)ff. 79-105v. Satirical verses and inscriptions in Latin and French composed mostly after the death of Cardinal Richelieu in November 1642. The writers, who are mostly anonymous, include François Hédelin, Abbé d’Aubigné, and Francois Maynard.
(c)f. 110. Satirical epigram in Latin elegiacs on the Assembly of Munster; circa 1643-1648. Copy in Browne’s hand.
Page 76 2021-08-13 (d)f. 115. ‘Rondeau à Boire à L’Inchiquin’ [i.e. Murrough O’Brien, 1st Earl of Inchiquin, lieutenant-general in the French army]; circa 1650-1660. render="italic" French.
(e)ff. 117-122v. Gilbert Gaulmin (d. 1665): Verses, in Latin and French, viz: (i) Two sets of Latin elegiacs on the marriage of Louis XIV to Maria Teresa, Infanta of Spain, and three further sets on the peace resulting from this; May 1660. Two copies; - (ii) ‘Au Roy d’Angleterre Ode’, celebrating the restoration of Charles II, subscribed ‘Gilbert’; circa 1660.
3.ff. 123-142. Miscellaneous undated verse and prose, including amatory and bawdy verse; circa 1640-circa 1660. French, Italian and Spanish. Including:
(a)f. 125. Translation into French of the equivocal verses ‘I hold as faith’ (printed in Wits Recreations (1640) on the Catholic and Protestant creeds, beg. ‘Je tien pour chose tres certaine’.
(b)ff. 137-142. Francisco de Quevedo: Satirical dialogue on the economic policies of the Conde-Duque de Olivares, beg. ‘O Señor Licenciado Dioss le guarde’; circa late 1630s-1643. Spanish. Printed, from a copy in Madrid, Bibliotheca Nacional MS 4067, by Mercedes Etreros, La satira politica en el siglo xvii (Madrid, 1983), App. xvi, pp.448-56.
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Title Political and Diplomatic Tracts78235-78254. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. LXVIII-LXXXVII. These comprise items that show clear evidence of Browne’s ownership (78233-78241) or that accrued (78256-78260), or seem likely to have accrued (78242-78255, 78261, 78262), to him at various stages of his official career.Nineteen volumes. ([1500-1699])
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LXVIII. Astronomical treatises copied in a single Secretary hand; circa late 16th cent.-1628. Copy, imperfect, wanting one or more leaves at the beginning. Latin. Pages mostly ruled with margins in ink. Towards the middle is added a list of the golden numbers, dominical letters, etc., for the years 1612-1628, and the verse ‘filius esto dei tu bonus accipe gratus’, below the date 1612. Pen trials inside front covers and on end flyleaves incorporate the name ‘Henry Temple’, along with names of several Oxford students, viz. Thomas Glover (University College, 1600), J[ohn] Pennington (Magdalen Hall, 1601; fellow 1608-1612), Thomas Occleshawe (St. Mary Hall, 1604), and William Harris (one man of which name matriculated from Merton in Jan. 1617 and another from St. Albans Hall in Nov. 1617). Further jottings include ‘Deliuer this to the right Honble. Sr Browne at Merton College’, circa 1624-1628, and ‘Mr Browne’ (M.A. July 1628). Formerly Evelyn MS 128.
Contemporary covers of limp vellum. 190 x 150mm.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LXIX. Jean Picart: Four imaginary dialogues of social life, in French; n.d. (circa mid 1640s). Apparently autograph. The tract is prefaced by a dedication in prose to ‘Monsieur Richard Browne’, that is, Browne’s son Richard, followed by acrostic verses. Picart (fl. 1620-1670) may have been the French engraver known for his bookplates and portraits; payments to him are recorded in Browne’s accounts at Paris for Sept. 1645 and July 1646 (Add. MS 78225, ff. 52v, 53). Watermark of paper similar to Heawood, no. 3616 (dated 1644-1646). Formerly Evelyn MS 105.
Contemporary limp vellum covers, with two leather ties; back cover and spine mutilated. Docketed by Evelyn on front cover ‘MSS … Gram: Dialoges French.’ Page-size 198 x 160mm.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LXX. Sir Balthasar Gerbier: ‘His last Admonitions to his Daughters, His answeares to theire letters, Their refusall of a Conference, after they had accepted the same, His morre particullar Declaration and Sommons, Their answeare on the said Sommons, His reply thereon. And the Prayer, to God for his said Daughters, Elizabeth=Debora and Susanne, in the English Nunnery att Paris’; circa Dec. 1646. Autograph. The contents cover the period 31 Sept.-15 Nov. 1646, when Gerbier’s daughters had been removed from his custody in the course of a dispute with the royalists in Paris over his financial projects. The text, which was printed at Paris in May 1646, is prefaced by letters of Gerbier to Sir Richard Browne, 28 Nov. 1646, to M. de Bosse, 27 Nov. 1646, to Dean Richard Steward, 29 Nov. 1646, and to Mary Browne, n.d. See related letters of Gerbier in Add. MS 78197. For another manuscript, sent by the author to the Countess of Clare with a prefatory letter dated 24 Nov. 1646, see Harley MS 3384. Autograph ownership-inscription on the flyleaf by ‘Marye Evelyn, son Livre 1647. du donne de Monsieur le Chevaliere Balthazer Gerbeere A Paris: 1646. Meliora Latent.’ Note in a contemporary hand, ‘This booke (being the originall manuscript of this knight) was printed, & dedicated to M:rs M: Browne’. Formerly Evelyn MS 8.
Contemporary binding (restored) of blind-stamped brown calf sprinkled with tears over all but the blank double-ruled compartment at the centre. 225 x 165mm.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LXXI. Sir Balthasar Gerbier: ‘The relation of sr Balthasar Gerbier Knight, Master of Ceremonies to the king of great Britain, For the Cleering of some particullars which haue by some been misunderstood, during the Raignes of king James, and king Charles’; Paris, 25 June 1648. Fair copy in two scribal hands, the preface signed by Gerbier. This defence of his former employer, George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, is prefaced by a dedication to Charles II when Prince of Wales, referring to a similar relation lately addressed by Gerbier to Henrietta Maria, in French, and opens with a ‘Table of the particullars contayned in this Relation’, with page-references added in another hand to the main text. For another manuscript, with dedication dated 26 June 1648 and table of contents at the end, see Add. MS 4181. Text (excluding preliminaries) paginated from 1 to 66. An anecdote relating to Sir Henry Wotton on f. 14v has been bracketed by a contemporary reader and marked ‘no’. Formerly Evelyn MS 7.
ff. ii+42. Contemporary binding (restored) of brown calf, gilt-stamped with two treble-ruled compartments, the inner one with filigree centrepiece and cornerpieces. 210 x 155mm.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LXXII. [Daniel de Maizières, physician to the Elector Palatine]: ‘Traicté contenant les moyens d’vnir toutes les Esglises Reformées de l’Europe, par Vne Discipline Ecclesiastique suivant l’ancienne institution des Apostres, et la practique continuée dans tous les Siecles. Par D. de M. Doctr en Med.; [ circa 1649-1660]. Partly French, Latin and Greek. The first leaf bears the direction ‘Au Roy De la Grande Bretagne [Charles II] treshumblement’, and is followed by an address ‘Au Lecteur’. Datable references in the tract, which attempts to trace a middle way between episcopacy and presbyterianism, include the Scots Covenant of March 1638, ‘qui a tant causé de mal, et faict respandre une Mer de sang’ and the Assembly of Glasgow (21 Nov. 1638). See also Add. MS 78204 for an epitome, etc. Formerly Evelyn MS 227.
Single sewn gathering, unbound, and watermarked with horn with pendant ‘P P’. 207 x 157mm.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LXXIII. The Book of Common Prayer; Imprinted at London by Robert Barker…And by the Assigns of John Bill. 1638. Printed in black letter. A calligraphic inscription, in Latin, commemorating the rescue of the volume ‘ipso horrendi facinoris die’ and its subsequent gift to Browne by ‘Isacius Heraldus’ [i.e. Isaac Hérault] is transcribed on an inserted leaf before the title-page in the hand of John Evelyn’s amanuensis Richard Hoare; a further copy is in Add. MS 78234. For Hérault, see Notes and Queries, 6 th Series, XII, 1885, pp. 250-1, and for a transcript of the text Notes and Queries, 4th Series, III, 1869, p. 382. Immediately below is a note in Evelyn’s hand, reading ‘This is the Booke which Charles the first M.B. did use upon the scaffold. xxx Jan: 1649, being the day of his glorious Martyrdom’. Cf. an exemplar of Barker’s and Bill’s small quarto common prayer book of 1639 (BL press-mark Eve. a. 131) which carries an ex libris inscription of Mary Evelyn, 1651, copied in Hoare’s hand, and incorporates manuscript notes by her father.
Folio, with titlepage in red and black; partly black letter; unpaginated but signed consecutively throughout and ending on [Dd4]; with ‘The form and manner of making and consecrating bishops…’ (A8, B6), of which the final leaf [B6 recto] is blank, and followed by an unsigned leaf containing on the recto prayers to be said ‘Upon every Obit-Day; or, when any Companion of the Order [of the Garter] is present at Divine Service…’. Contemporary binding of black morocco, crudely gilt-stamped with the royal arms, [? re-attached and] furnished with 18th cent. endpapers; foredges gilt. 285 x 195mm. Found loose with the volume are a ribbon of blue silk that formerly served as bookmarker, three copies of a printed exhibition label, circa 1867, for the book while at
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LXXIV. Collection of documents mostly relating to French diplomacy; 1625-1647. Copies in several hands, and printed. Latin, French and Italian. This composite collection consists principally of texts of various treaties. The date ‘Novembre 1645’ is entered in Browne’s hand on the titlepage of the ‘Harangue de Monsieur Le Chancellier de France ...’, supplying that partially lost by trimming of the outer edge. One of the tracts is copied in the same hand as and on papers watermarked similarly to Add. MS 78242. Armorial bookplate of Sir Frederick Evelyn, 3rd Bart. Formerly Evelyn MS 174a.
ff. 300. Contemporary covers of vellum over boards, lettered at foot of spine in ink in a slightly later hand, possibly that of John Evelyn, ‘Political Manuscript’. 330 x 220mm.
Contents include:
1.Anonymous ‘Discours sur la mort de Henry le Grand’; circa 1610. This is not identifiable as the work of Jacques de la Fons.
2.‘Instruction de la Roine Marie de Medicis a sa fille [Henrietta Maria] Roine d’Angleterre faite par la Cardinal [Pierre] de Berulle en l’anee 1625.’; Amiens, 15 June 1625.
3.‘Instruction baillee a Mr de la Ville aux Clercs [i.e Antoine de Loménie, Seigneur de la Ville-aux-Clercs] allant Ambassadeur Extraordinaire en Angleterre de la part du Roy’, regarding the marriage treaty of Prince Charles and Henrietta Maria, with stipulations for the treatment of Catholics in England; 1624.
4.‘Discours de la Trefue des Pais-bas auec le Roy D’Espagne’; circa (or aft.) 1609.
5.‘Traicté fait entre le Roy d’Espagne et [Henri] le Duc de Rohan au nom des Reformez en France’; Madrid, 3 May 1629.
6.Francis I, Duke of Modena: ‘Informationi A Sua Santità sopra le pretensioni che il Duca di Modena ha con la Camera Apostolica’; circa 1643. Italian.
7.‘Traité de la nouuelle Alliance & Confederation faite entre les deux Couronnes de France & de Suede et leurs Alliés, auec Gabriel Ragotsky Prince de Transiluanie…’; Alba Julia, 16 Sept. 1643.
8.Address headed ‘Illustres, Generosi, Magnifici, Nobilissimi et Consultissimi’; Osnaburg, 4/14 Oct. 1644.
9.‘Discours sur l’Election de l’Electeur Palatin au Royaume de Boheme’; circa Aug. 1619.
10.‘Apologie de Monsieur le Duc de Rohan sur les derniers troubles de la France a cause de la Religion’; [1630]. This is the ninth of Rohan’s ‘Discours politiques’. Further copies are Add. MSS 32093, ff. 34 ff, 62528, ff. 91v-95, and Stowe MS 177, ff. 202-208.
11.Documents relating to the treaty between Louis XIII and the States General, etc.; 29 Feb., 1 March 1644.
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13.‘Harangue de Monsieur Le Chancelier de france faitte a Nonce du Pape portant plainte du Roy Contre le Pape’; Nov. 1645.
14.Abel Servien, Marquis de Sablé et de Boisdauphin: ‘Discours de Monsieur de seruient [aux] Messieurs Les Estats du xiiii Januier 1647’.
15.‘Traicte de Treue Entre Le Roy D’Espagne Et les estatz Generaux des pays bas fait a Munster en Westphalie et conclud le Premier nouembre 1646 signé le 8e Januier 1647’.
16.‘Aduis sur Le Gouuernement de L’Estat par les Estrangers’; n.d.
17.‘Inscriptions, Svscriptions, et souscriptions des Lettres que le Roy la Reyne Monseigneur le Dauphin et Monsieur escriuent et qui leur sont escriptes tant dedans que dehors le Royaume’; n.d. [tempp. Henri IV and Louis XIII]. Cf. a similar compilation in Add. MS 78271 below.
18.‘Recueil des Traictez et alliances que les Roys, Princes et Republiques Chrestiennes ont faictes entre’eulx pour la conseruation de leurs estats redigez en dix hiut Volumes en folio manuscripte’, 1200-1644, arranged chronologically by country; aft. 1644.
19.Charles Bernard, Genealogie de la maison royalle de Bourbon, Paris, 1646. Printed. French. Prefaced by a fold-out engraved pedigree illustrated with portraits and armorial bearings.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LXXV. Henri de Rohan, Duc de Rohan: ‘Memoires du Duc de Rohan sur les choses advenues en France depuis la mort de Henry le Grand Jusques a la paix faicte auec les Reformez au mois de Mars 1629’. Copy. French. The text was first published by Samuel Sorbière in 1644. For further copies see Egerton MS 1686, Harley MSS 1230 and 4583, and Add. MS 62528. Armorial bookplate of Sir Frederick Evelyn, 3rd Bart. Listed in the 1687 catalogue of Evelyn’s library, item 15[?], and formerly pressmarked ‘B6:8’, altered to ‘B6:11’. Formerly Evelyn MS 60.
Contemporary binding of mottled calf, with on spine gilt stamped monogram composed of letters ‘REB’, for Richard and Elizabeth Browne, similar to the following volume. 345 x 225 mm.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LXXVI. Miscellaneous tracts, with some letters and verse; 1641-1642, n.d. Scribal copies, in the same French hand as the preceding volumes. Latin and French. With annotations by Browne and Evelyn. Formerly Evelyn MS 168.
ff. 200. Contemporary binding of mottled calf, with monogram ‘REB’ on the spine, similar to the preceding volume. Watermarked with crowned fleur-de-lys in shield with pendent ‘M A’. Document in French and printed occur as binder’s waste inside front and back covers. 345 x 225mm.
The contents include:
1.‘Abregé de l’Estat general de la Recepte & depense de tout le Royaume de France’; 1644. With a note by Evelyn referring to ‘another more large Account’.
2.‘Relation des resolutions du Parlemt Thoulouse en suitte des desordres arriués a Villefranche’; June 1643.
3.‘Manifeste pour la Justice des armes des Princes de la Paix. M.DC.XLI’.
4.‘Les Commissaires deputés pour trauailler a la Reformation des habits, trains, jeus, festins &c ...’.
5.[Pierre Victor Palma Cayet attrib.]: ‘Le Diuorce Satyrique’; n.d. This and the following tract concern the amours of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Henri IV.
6.‘La Ruelle mal assortie. Dialogue Satyrique’; n.d.
7.Three sets of French verses; 1593-1606.
8.Satirical elegies and epitaphs, etc., on Cardinal Richelieu, in verse and prose; 1642. Latin and French. Included are: (a) ‘Le Tableau de Gouuernement ou Eloge de Monsieur le Cardinal de Richelieu’: long poem in octosyllabic couplets, beg. ‘Peuples esleués des autels’; - (b) lapidary inscription, in Latin, beg. ‘Eminentissimi mortuorum Gloriosis Manibus’; - (c) two prose pieces entitled ‘Le principal & perpetuel Testament pour mon heritier vniuersel’, in French, and ‘Eminentissimo Cardinali Richelieu. Mysterium Politicum’, in Latin. For further items see Add. MS 78234.
9.‘Articles accordes entre le Comte Duc [i.e. de Olivares], pour le Roi d’Espagne; Et le Sieur de Fontrailles [i.e. Louis d’Astarac, Vicomte de Fontrailles] pour & au nom de Monsieur a Madrid le 13e Mars 1642’.
10.‘Arrest contre Monsieur. 1642’. Title and date added in Browne’s hand.
11.Two speeches made by Pierre Scarron at Valence to Louis XIII, 25 Feb., and to Cardinal Richelieu, 26 Feb. 1642.
12.‘Lettre de consolation a la Reine sur la mort du Cardinal Infant [Ferdinand of Hapsburg]’; Nov. 1641.
13.‘Lettre de remerciement a la Reine de son portrait, & de Messeigneurs le Dauphin et d’Anjou’.
14.Documents relating to the peace conference at Osnaburg: (a) Johann Adler Salvius, Swedish diplomat, and Claude de Mesmes, Comte d’Avaux: documents, in Latin, 15/25 Dec. 1641; - (b) letter of Christian IV of Denmark to Claude de Mesmes, 9 Dec. 1641, with reply, 1 Jan. 1642; – (c) ‘Aduis important Sur l’occurrence & disposition des affaires, presente a S.E. le [blank] Avril 1641’; - (d) ‘Traité fait entre le Roi de France Tres Chrestien Louis XIII. Et les Srs Princes Maurice Cardinal & Thomas de Sauoye. 1642’; 1 July 1642.
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15.Series of documents rel. to the treaty concluded between France and the United Provinces at The Hague, 15 April 1634.
16.‘Estat general des gages, appointemens & pensions que le Roi veut & ordonne estre paiees…aux Princes, Princesses, Dames & Officiers de la Couronne…durant la presente annee Mil six cens quarante deux’; 20 Jan. 1642.
17.‘Erection de Duche et Pairrie en faueur du Prince de Monaco …’; 1642.
18.Proceedings and interrogations in the case of M. de Thou; Sept. 1642.
19.‘Scauoir si pour le bien de la France Il est expedient de rompre a present entieremt le traffic auec les Anglois’.
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Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. LXXVII-LXXXII. Tracts relating to European politics and political theory; 1530-1591, n.d. Copies, late 16th-early 17th centt. French, Italian and German. Most relate to French, Italian and Spanish affairs. Several are annotated with the same series of readers’ symbols in the margins. 78244-78247 were formerly grouped together as Evelyn MS 275. Ten volumes. (1530-1591)
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LXXVII. (ff. 36). Tracts relating to European politics and political theory; 1530-1591, n.d. Copies, late 16th-early 17th centt. French, Italian and German.
1.Two tracts relating to Francis I of France; 1530-[1546?]. Copies, early 17 th cent. Italian. ff. 7. Marginal readers’ symbols and notes added in other hands. Docketed by Evelyn and numbered by him at the head ‘MS (47)’: (a) ‘L’Essortatione a francesco primo, Re di francia, che si leui dall’ amicitia et intelligentia ch’egli ha’ co’l Gran Turca’, [?1546] (dated 14 May 1546 in Egerton MS 1089, ff. 229-232); - (b) ‘L’escusatione del detto Re’ fatto d’un suo Ambasciatore all Signoria di Venetia’, 1530.
2.‘Discorso di Ragusa, et di Sauoia’; 1576. Copy, early 17th cent. Italian. For another copy of the tract on Ragusa see Royal MS 14 A. XIII, ff. 719-727. ff. 8. Marginal readers’ symbols added in other hands. Docketed by Evelyn, and numbered by him ‘MS (43 altered to 44)’.
3.Two political tracts; late 16th-early 17th centt. Copies, early 17th cent. Italian. ff. 15. Marginal notes added in another hand. Docketed by Evelyn, and numbered by him, ‘MS 15’; viz.: (a) ‘Relatione di Gio. Battista Leoni dell’Isola di Malta 1582:’. A copy in Add. MS 48146, ff. 4-31, includes an additional passage (ff. 28v-31) and is dated to the feast day of the three magi [6 Jan.] 1608; and (b) ‘Relatione del Gran Ducato fiorentino’; dated 1576 and in separate title 1592.
4.‘Discours au Roy: 1580’. Copy, early 17th cent. French. ff. 4. Docketed by Evelyn and numbered by him, ‘MS (29)’.
5.‘Brieue Relatione del guiramento del Principe Don filippo fatto in Madrill nella Chiesa di San Gieronimo a xj di Nouembre del 1584:’. Copy, early 17th cent. Italian. ff. 2. Docketed by Evelyn ‘11 Hist’, and numbered ‘MS (19)’.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LXXVIII. ‘Conclaue nel qual fu creato Pio Vo: 1566’. Copy, early 17 th cent. Italian. Marginal readers’ symbols added in other hands. Docketed by Evelyn and numbered by him, ‘MS 6’.
ff. [stub+15]. 315 x 215mm.
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Creation Date 1587
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LXXIX (ff. 18). ‘Relatione delle cose di Spagna: 1587’. Copy, early 17th cent. Italian. Docketed by Evelyn, and numbered by him,’MS (26)’. Marginal readers’ symbols and non-consecutive numbers added in other hands. Docketed by Evelyn, and numbered by him, ‘MS (6)’.
ff. 18. 330 x 230mm.
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Creation Date 1591
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LXXX. ‘Alcune annotationi intorno le cose del stato. 1591’. The tract is largely concerned with monarchy and includes an examination of Plato’s doctrines.
ff. 15. 315 x 215mm.
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Creation Date c 16th century
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LXXXI. Two tracts on the Curia Romana and the Great Council of Venice; circa 16th cent.]. Copy, 17th cent. Italian. Docketed by Evelyn and numbered by him, ‘MS (28)’. Formerly Evelyn MS 302.
ff. ii + 10. Blue paper wrappers docketed in hand differing from that of text. 315 x 220mm.
1.‘Parere del Gran Duca Cosmo di Toscana [i.e. Cosimo di Medici] sopra la Corte di Roma’; n.d. Other copies are in Add. MSS 14099, ff. 282-287v, and 16489, ff. 64-66v.
2.‘Capitulare Maioris Consilii [docket adds di Venetia]’; n.d.
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Creation Date c 1585-1594
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LXXXII. ‘Summarische Verzeichnuss aller Vnndt Jeder der Römischen Kaiserlichen Maiestet ...’: List of Imperial garrisons with their complements, etc., from the Adriatic to Hungary, along with details of the Turkish forces opposing them; circa 1585-1594, with additions in another hand, 1594-1596. German. Watermark similar to Briquet no. 1847 (dated 1585). Docketed by Evelyn, and numbered by him, ‘MS (32)’. Mentioned with another MS in Evelyn’s 1687 library catalogue, Add. MS 78632, as ‘Two MS: concerning the Empire in High Dut[c]h. 32.33’.
ff. 14. 330 x 220mm.
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Creation Date c 1561-1571
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LXXXIII. Political tracts on France and Switzerland; circa 1561-1571 and circa (but aft.) April 1617. Copies, partly imperfect. Partly English and Italian. The volume comprises two tracts, transcribed in a continental and an English hand respectively, brought in a single binding. Docketed by Evelyn at foot of first text page. Listed amongst the manuscripts in Add. MS 78632, the Evelyn 1687 library catalogue. Formerly Evelyn MS 166.
Contemporary stiff vellum covers. 293 x 200mm.
1.Michele Angelo Giuseppi Suriano, al. Soriano, Venetian ambassador to France: ‘Commentarii del. Rego di Francia … MDLXXI’. Imperfect, concluding ‘ma ne questo ne quello e di’. Italian. The work is variously dated elsewhere to 1561 and 1562. Further copies are listed in the Royal Catalogue entry for MS 14 A. XXI, art. 13, to which may be added that in Add. MS 48148, ff. 269-319.
2.Sir Isaac Wake: ‘A discourse of the 13. Cantons of the Helveticall League’; circa (but aft.) April 1617. Copy, imperfect, in an italic hand. The tract was printed in A threefold help to political observations, contained in three discourses (1655).
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Creation Date 1590-1624
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LXXXIV. Collection of tracts on continental politics; circa 1595-1619. Copies, imperfect. French. The seven discourses surviving here in complete or fragmentary texts relate largely to events that resulted in the Thirty Years War. Text transcribed in a French hand, with tracts numbered individually; lacking catchwords.
ff. 56. Fourteen unsewn gatherings of four leaves each, comprising 37-40, 53-104 in the original ink foliation. 240 x 180mm.
1.ff. 1-4v. Contention between Philip II of Spain and Henry IV of France; circa 1595-1598. Imperfect, comprising ff. 37-40 of original only.
2.f. 5. Discourse relating to the interests of Spain, France and Italy; n.d. Imperfect, comprising f. 53 (final) of original only.
3.ff. 5-21v. ‘Discours sur le different suruenu Entre le pape paul cinque Et la republique de Venise lan 1605’. Imperfect, comprising ff. 53-69v of original only.
4.ff. 21v-32v. ‘Discours de la Trefue des pays Bas auec le roy despaigne’; circa 1609. Folios 69v-80v of original.
5.ff. 32v-41. ‘Discours sur laffaire de la succession de Cleues Et Juilliers’; circa 1609. Folios 80v-89 of original.
6.ff. 41-54. ‘Discours sur lellection du compte palatin au royaume de boheme’; circa 1619. Folios ff. 89-102 of original.
7. ff. 54-56v. ‘Discours sur les mouuvemens suruenus En Italie pour la succession des duches de mantoue Et montferrat’; circa 1617. Imperfect, comprising ff. 102-104 of original only.
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Creation Date [1636]
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LXXXV. Cardinal Marzio Ginetti: ‘Instruttioni e memorie date al signor Cardinale Ginnetti destinato legato a latere di N. Signore per il trattato di pace Vniver sale da farsi tra Principi christiani’; [1636]. Copy, in an Italian hand. Italian. These instructions relate to the peace conference between France, Spain and Germany intended by Pope Urban VIII to be convened at Cologne. For further manuscripts and bibliographical details see descriptions of Add. MSS 8732, ff. 2-194, and 8772, ff. 1-123v. With several different Evelyn Library press-marks, including one in Evelyn’s hand. Item 14 amongst manuscripts listed in Add. MS 78632, the 1687 Evelyn library catalogue. Formerly Eveyln MS 66.
Contemporary vellum covers. Section of leaves excised at end. 260 x 200mm.
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Creation Date c 1643
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LXXXVI. ‘Curieuses recherches de La France’; circa (but before) 1643. French. Small pocket-book, comprising a brief survey of the French government and establishment in the reign of Louis XIII. Transcribed in a French hand. Some passages are underlined or marked in the margins with pencil strokes. Press-marked by Evelyn Coue 66’. Formerly Evelyn MS 229.
ff. 14. Side-sewn gathering. 177 x 125mm.
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Creation Date 1660-1699
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LXXXVII. Armorial bearings borne by the Browne or Brown families of various counties; n.d., circa later 17th cent (but bef. 1687). This collection of drawings in trick of the arms of families of that name does not appear to be related to that compiled in 1640 by Edmund Weaver, formerly Phillipps MS 29896, of which a copy survives in Add. MS 43859. Evelyn’s annotations include notes on the arms borne by Sir Richard Browne, etc., and the library classification ‘Icones’. Formerly Evelyn MS 196.
Home-made notebook of paper watermarked with foolscap and pendent letters ‘AD’, side-sewn within double small comb wrappers lettered by W. J. Evelyn in ink on front cover ‘Arms of Brown’. 205x 155mm.
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Add MS 78255-78262 Papers of the Council of State.78255-78262. EVELYN PAPERS. These papers, consisting partly of confiscated
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Creation Date [1646-1653]
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Title Papers of the Council of State.78255-78262. EVELYN PAPERS. These papers, consisting partly of confiscated royalist papers and partly of records of Council of State business, apparently came into custody of Sir Richard Browne at the Restoration in his capacity as Clerk of the Privy Council. They must represent the papers Pepys referred to in 1681, when he asked Evelyn about ‘Sir Richard Browne’s share of the letters of State found among the Council-papers at the King’s coming-in’; Evelyn replied that he had ‘yet by me many thousands’ (Particular Friends, ed. Guy de la Bédoyère, 1995, pp. 126-7). The Restoration Privy Council was concerned to secure the records of its predecessor; in 1660 there was an order that the records of the Council of State should be brought in and kept with the rest of the Council records (CSPD 1660-1661, p. 79). On 25 Nov. 1662 a general warrant was issued for the recovery of all records from Interregnum officials (Add. MS 35117, f. 169v). This group was evidently never delivered to the State Paper Office.Eight volumes. ([1646-1653])
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LXXXVIII. Minute-book of Sir Richard Fanshawe as secretary to the Prince of Wales’s council of war at Bristol; bef. 8/18 March 1644/5. Autograph. These rough notes include resolutions, instructions and letters of Prince Charles, with details of troop-movements, victualling and payments. Among the entries for the morning of 11 March is the text of an oath of confidentiality administered to all the active members of the council, comprising the Earl of Berkshire, the Lords Capel, Hopton and Colepepper, and Sir Edward Hyde. The provenance of this volume is conjectural, but it seems likely to have been amongst confiscated royalist papers in the custody of the Council of State. Formerly Evelyn MS 215.
Paper: ff. [72]. Seven sewn gatherings, collating 18 (stubs), 2-7 12, secured by three vellum sewing-thongs, but disbound. 173 x 118mm.
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Add MS 78256-78257 EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. LXXXIX, XC. Letters and papers of Robert Long (afterw. 1st Bart) as secretary of state
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Creation Date 1646-1649
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Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. LXXXIX, XC. Letters and papers of Robert Long (afterw. 1st Bart) as secretary of state and privy councillor to Charles II when Prince of Wales; 1646-1649, n.d. The status of these as confiscated royalist papers amongst Council of State records is more certain. A trunk of Long’s papers was seized when Jersey (where Charles II had stayed on his flight from England in 1646) fell to the parliamentary forces in December 1651, and referred by the Council of State to the Committee of Examinations (CSPD 1651-1652, p. 223: 20 April 1652). Two itemized lists are at Stowe MS 184, ff. 189-223; the corresponding numbers, where these are endorsed, are noted in brackets against the documents listed below. Several are docketed ‘Pervsed’. A further item from this source is now amongst the albums of William Upcott in Add. MS 78690 below. Long was appointed secretary to the Prince in 1646, but came under recurrent suspicion of disloyalty. His dismissal, and replacement by Sir Edward Hyde, was precipitated by the seizure of his papers at Jersey. He was restored to Exchequer office and created baronet after the Restoration. For further correspondence and papers of Long, see Add. MS 37047, including papers relating to the seizure of the trunk and his dismissal, and HMC Pepys MSS, including some of the papers seized, possibly deriving from Sir Richard Browne’s collection of these.Two volumes. (1646-1649)
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Creation Date 1646-1649
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LXXXIX (ff. 110). Correspondence of, petitions addressed to and warrants issued by Charles II when Prince of Wales; 1647-1649, n.d. Included are:
1.ff. 18. Correspondence of Charles II when Prince of Wales; 1646-1649, n.d. Viz:
(a)Letter from the garrison at Pendennis, seeking relief, 7 July 1646. Signed by twelve officers of the garrison. (List 2, no. 321).
(b)Letter of ‘Louithe’ [? Oliver Plunkett, 6th Baron Louth] to Prince Charles; Kilkenny, 4 May 1647. (List 1, no. 218).
(c)Letter of Sir James Mcdonnell to Prince Charles; Ross, 18 May 1647. (List 1, no. 217).
(d)Letter of the garrison of Inniskillen to Prince Charles; 26 Feb. 1648/9. Signed by twelve members. (List 2, no. 88).
(e)Letter of Robert Wynne and ‘Geremi Ghonson’; Deal Castle, 30 June 1648.
(f)Instructions from Prince Charles to Sir Benjamin Wright, agent in Spain, to aid three Jersey merchants in recovering their ship and cargo; Saint-Germain, 26 May 1648. With letter of Wright, Madrid, 20 July 1648.
(g)Letter of Sir William Curtius to Charles II; Frankfort, 4 March 1649. French. Docket in hand of Long.
(h)Letter of James Butler, Marquess of Ormonde, to Charles II; Kilkenny, 25 May 1649. (List 2, no. 8).
(i)Letter of Charles II [to his aunt Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia] accompanying a recommendation of Sir Francis Doddington to the service of the Prince Elector; n.d. Copy .
(j)Minutes in an unidentified hand of three letters addressed to Charles II, dated 9 April, 12 June and 28 July 1649
2.Petitions addressed to Charles, Prince of Wales; circa July and Aug., 1648, n.d. From: (a) Walter Allen and George Poad seamen; - (b) Henry Armstrong, trumpeter; - (c) George Bowles, seaman on the Antelope; - (d) Robert Cobbe, gunner, of London; - (e) John Day, for Richard Shute of London, merchant; - (f) Jonathan Eden, wine cooper of London, 25 Aug. 1648; - (g) Col. James Galbreth; - (h) Capt. John Goodwin; - (i) Richard Hart, DCL, for confirmation as Admiralty Judge; - (j) Thomas Hill, trumpeter; - (k) James Holmes, cavalryman; - (l) Joost van Leeut; - (m) Thomas Masters, seaman; - (n) Robert Rich; - (o) George Roswell, waterman; - (o) Ann, wife of John Rowland, rector of Footscray, Kent; - (p) seamen and soldiers of Sandowne Castle; (q) Richard Talbot, lieut. in the life guard of Charles I; (q) Henry Tirwhitt, Henry Dalton and Edward Ingoldsby, formerly at Colchester; - (r) Thomas Walter, Peter Sloman and Giles Moore, sailors and soldiers.
3.Petitions addressed to Charles II; n.d. (aft. 1649). From (a) the company of the Antelope; - (b) Wingfield Blackmore and others, of Kent; - (c) John Brett and the Company of Adventurers for Guinea; - (d) Capt. Peter Canon; - (e) Daniel Coghlan, page of the bedchamber; - (f) Capt. Thomas Garnett; - Robert Harrison and John Edwards; - (g) John Herbert; - (h) John Johnson, blockmaker; - (j) Maj. Royston; - (k) Capt. John Smith (List 2, No. 208); - (l) Capt. Richard Smith; - (m) Henry Sweeting and others, seamen.
Page 93 2021-08-13 4.ff. 26. Warrants, commissions, passes, etc., issued by Charles II as Prince of Wales and king; 17 March 1648-31 Dec. 1649, n.d. Partly drafts in the hand of Long. Partly French and Latin. Including: (a) ‘Letter of Prince Charles to Sir Isaac ‘Arston’, Bart., mentioning the dramatist Thomas Killigrew the elder; Saint-Germain, 17 March 1648 (List 2, No.119); - (b) warrant to Henry Lord Percy for -- Killigrew, son of the dramatist Thomas Killigrew the elder, to be sworn page after William Killigrew; 25 May 1648; - (c) testimonials for Sir Philip ‘Rely’ and William Markham, May, June 1648. French; - (d) grant to Charles Davison to be page of honour, 30 June 1648; - (e) letters patent undertaking to pay the banker Thomas Cantarini of Paris a sum promised to him by the late Philippe Burlamachi from the debt owed to Burlamachi by Charles I; 7 July 1648. French; - (f) Draft pass for Lord Culpepper, 12 July 1648; order for Sir Anthony St Leger, 29 July 1648; - (g) commission to Richard Hart, D.C.L., 11 Sept. 1648. Latin; - (h) articles of agreement with Martin de Reuz, merchant of Rotterdam, 5 Dec. 1648; - (i) pass for Edward Carteret, 6 Jan. 1648/9, with a list of other passes on the verso; - (j) pass for Francis Rogers, for England; 6 Jan. 1649 (List 2, No. 15); - (k) safe-conduct to Le Sieur Berton Malbert; Breda, 23 June 1649. French; letters patent and bond of Nicholas Geynan, Nov. 1649. French; - (l) warrant to John Fosse, merchant, 30 Dec. 1649; - (m) recommendation for Col. William Anselm, n.d. French; - (n) pass for John Sleigh’s vessel bound for Barwick, docketed ‘Pass Mr Nicholas Armorer’; n.d.; - (o) ‘A list of such Commissions for Sea Captaines as his Hignes Prince Charles hath graunted since his coming into Fraunce’; 8 Oct. 1646-3 Mar. 1647 (List 1, No. 104.)
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Creation Date 1646-1650
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XC (ff. 174). Letters to, and papers of Long; 1646, 1648-1650, n.d.
1.Newsletters to Long from Sir Richard Browne in Paris, aft. 10 May- 7 Aug. 1648, n.d. Partly autograph and imperfect. For further letters, 1647-1650, originally part of this sequence, see Add. MS 15858, ff. 56-60.
2.Newsletters to Long from Sir William Curtius; 12 Mar. 1648-17 Apr. 1649, n.d. French .
3.Letters to Long; Sept. 1648-Aug. 1649, n.d. Partly French. The writers include Elizabeth, Lady Kinalmeaky (List 1, No. 170), Thomas Fisher, Robert Bargrave, Martin de Reus, John Webster, Sir Francis Doddington, Arnoul de Lisle, Sir John Grenville.
4.Miscellaneous letters bearing dockets by Long; 31 Aug.-7 Dec. 1648.
5.Naval papers; circa Sept. 1648-14 Aug. 1649, n.d. Including: (a) Oath taken by seamen under Capt. Philip Marshall to serve the King and Prince in the present action against the Earl of Warwick; [?Sept. 1648]. Signed by 49 sailors (List 1, No. 97); - (b) ‘The names of such Shippes as attend his Highness the Prince, now riding att Helford Sluce’; [? Sept. 1648]; - (c) Proposition of Martin de Reus of Rotterdam, for supplying canon to the fleet of Charles II at Helvetsluys, 3 June 1649, with a note of progress. French; - (d) Recommendation by Faithful Fortescue addressed to Thomas Bray, gentleman of the bedchamber, for a commission to Robert Evans to fit out a man of war; Calais, 14 Aug. 1649; - (e) Proposition of M. Wicquefort, ‘Recommended to Prince Rupert’ partly rel to the East Indies fleet due in London; 16 Feb. n.y; - (f) ‘His Majesties Allowance at Sea for [Capt. Diamond and his] 31. Men two Months’, n.d.; - (g) Memoranda of Long relating to ships’ cargoes seized at Amsterdam, etc.; n.d.; - (h) expenses in connection with supplies; 1648; - (i) ‘A list of the Shipps pro Anno 1649’, comprising 63 vessels of which 31 are marked as having been victualled at London, with numbers of men and days in service; 13 Feb.-4 Sept. 1649; - (j) ‘A note of Officers and Gentlemen that haue formerly serued the Kinge of England and desyres soe to Continue in the
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6. Miscellaneous papers: (a) safe-conduct from John Nelsonn for Thomas ‘Rarber’ to Canterbury, Dover Castle, 16 Jan.1648/9; - (b) memoranda of business letters to be written on behalf of Charles II, etc.; n.d.; - (c) ‘oath of a priuy councellor as sett out by Sir Edward Cooke’ (title from docket of Long); n.d.
7.Papers rel. to revenue: (a) warrant to the Sheriff of York to seize the new lodge in the forest of Galtrees that was delivered to Long as receiver of recusant revenues in southern England in 1639, on account of a debt owed to the King, 17 Feb. 1646. Copy; - (b) note of the revenues of Henrietta Maria in Devon and Cornwall, with annotations by Long, n.d.; - (c) list of ‘Offices and advowsons of the Dutchy of Cornewall from Mr Piper’, with notes by Long, n.d.; - (d) list of ‘Officers of the dutchy of Cornewall from Mr Paddon’, with notes by Long, n.d.; - (e) ‘Certificate of the Revenewe which was his Majesties when he was Prince’; after Jan. 1649; - (f) memorandum to enquire who has the place of Controller of the Customs in Cornwall following the death of Richard Dean, with docket and note by Long, n.d.
8.Household papers of Charles II; 1647-1650. Including: (a) expenses of, and officers belonging to the Princes’s stables, 1648, n.d.; - (b) lists, etc., of his household servants; 21 June 1648-31 July 1649; - (c) miscellaneous bills, bonds and lists of disbursements; 1645-1650.
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Creation Date Jun 1649-Jan 1653
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Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. XCI-XCV. Committee for Examinations: Records, comprising informations, petitions, letters, and orders of the Council of State, with bonds for good behaviour, etc.; June 1649-Jan. 1653, n.d. (with four items only for 1649 and one major gap from April to June 1652). Partly printed. These papers were abstracted from the official transactions of the Council of State, 1649-1660, the bulk of which are to be found in The National Archives (formerly Public Record Office and State Paper Office). They came into the custody of Sir Richard Browne at the Restoration in his capacity as Clerk of the Privy Council, as described above. Many of the documents are directed to the president of the Council, John Bradshaw, whose dockets they bear, along with those of the secretary to the Committee,Captain George Bridges. Further Council of State documents are amongst the papers removed from the Evelyn archive by William Upcott; for example, petitions in Add. MSS 15857, ff. 230 (Fawconer, 1650), and 15858, ff. 97 (Noel, 1659), 116 (Sir G. Pratt, 1656). The undated papers in Add. 78262 chiefly consist of petitions and informations arranged in separate alphabetical sequences. Formerly (in part) Evelyn MS 303.Five volumes. (Jun 1649-Jan 1653)
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Creation Date Jun 1649-30 Nov 1650
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XCI. June 1649-30 Nov. 1650.
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Creation Date 1650-1651
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XCII. 6 Dec. 1650-31 June 1651.
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Creation Date 4 Jul 1651-20 Jan 1652
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XCIII. 4 July 1651-20 Jan. 1652.
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Creation Date 21 Jan 1652-31 Aug 1652
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XCIV. 21 Jan.-31 Aug. 1652.
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Creation Date 2 Sep 1653-6 Jan 1653
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XCV. 2 Sept.-6 Jan.1653, n.d.
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Creation Date 1539-1678
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Scope and Content Outsize documents.
78263. EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XCVI. Outsize papers of Sir Richard Browne, etc.; 1539, 1623-1678, n.d. Partly copy, draft, printed, and signed. Partly Latin and French.
1.From Add. MSS 78201, 78202:
(a)Safe-conduct by Christian IV, King of Denmark, for Jacques [Coppequesne, Seigneur] de Friville to travel to the French Court; 14 Apr. 1623. Latin. Signed by the king. Circular armorial papered seal. ff. 2. Cf. a letter of credence for Friville, 30 Oct. 1625, in Add. MS 78201. Latin. Signed by the king. Papered seal.
(b)‘Articles de Paix entre les deux Couronnes de France, et d’Angleterre, l’an 1629’; 20 May, 6/16 Sept. 1629. French. Annotated in hand of Browne. ff. 2
(c)Passport by the Archduke Isabella for Richard Browne, ‘Gentilhomme de la bouche du Ducq de Savoye’ to travel through the Low Countries to England, valid for four months; Brussels, 12 June 1630. Signed by Isabella and countersigned ‘della faille’. French. Oval armorial papered seal. f. 1.
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(d)Style and title of John, 1st Viscount Scudamore, as Ambassador from Charles I to Louis XIII of France, 1635. Printed Cf. STC sub ‘England’ for other contemporary examples.
(e)‘Estat du fonds que Le Roy veult et ordonne estre fourny par le Tresorier de L’espargne…pour le payment d’un mois de montre aux trouppes…commandée par le Sr duc de la Force…’; 1636. Copy. French. ff. 4.
2.From Add. MS 78205.
(a)Heads of the speech made by Charles I to Parliament; 28 Apr. 1641. Copy. Docketed by Evelyn ‘Bundle II’. ff. 2.
(b)Proclamation of Charles I announcing a treaty with John IV of Portugal; 22 May 1642. Printed. Docketed on verso by Browne, ‘Portugall Proclamation’.
3.From Add. MS 78206.
(a)Louis XIII: ‘Declaration Pour la Regence de la Reyne [Anne of Austria]. 21. Avril. 1643’ (docket). Copy. French. Docketed by Evelyn ‘Bund: III’. ff. 4.
(b)Bond by Browne for payment to le Sieur Huguenot, secretary of [?Henri] de Guénégaud, Sieur du Plessis-Belleville, royal counsellor, of 1500 livres, and mentioning Mme. de Guénégaud and [Thomas] Cantarini; 20 April 1644. French. Signed by both parties. ff. 2.
(c)A ‘reconoissance du sieur Cantariny [i.e. Thomas Cantarini] pour la reception des quittances de la somme de [600 livres] en vertu de l’arrest’ (docket); 1 July 1644. French. Signed by, amongst others, Cantarini and Browne. ff. 2.
(d)The ‘reconaissance du Sieur Voille des quittances pour la somme de [600 livres] en vertu de larrest’ (docket); 1 July 1644. French. Signed by, among others, Claude Voille, advocate of the parliament of Paris, and Browne. ff. 2.
(e)‘Acte du Renouvelement des Alliances entre les deux Couronnes &ct. le 3me Juillet 1644’. ff. 2.
(f)‘Compte de ce quy est deub a Jacques Marchays [Marchais] marchand a paris pour le retour de la lettre de change de 1000ll Ste[rlings] tirée a paris le 5e octobre 1644 ...’, with a copy of the ‘lettre de Change’ signed by Lord Goring; 7 Dec. 1644. French. Relates to munitions for Charles I. ff. 2.
(g)Bond by Laurence Greene in £5000, in the affair of the Comte de Cézy, mentioning Browne, Edmund Warcupp and the poet Edmund Waller; Paris, 21 June 1647. French. Signed by, amongst others, Greene and Waller. ff. 2.
4.From Add. MS 78207: Petition submitted by Browne to Louis XIV and to Anne of Austria as superintendent of navigation and commerce rel. to claims made by the English parliament, through their agent René Augier, for the restitution of English vessels and goods taken by royalists; circa 10 July 1647-Jan. 1649. Imperfect at end, comprising 11 numbered pages. ff. 11.
5.From Add. MS 78215.
(a)‘An Appeale made to A Courte of Assistants at the Fishmongers hall By the trade & mistery of fishmongers London: January: 2: 1664[/5?]’. Formerly Evelyn MS 271. With six further petitions and additional documents; circa Oct. 1663-May 1664.
(b)Petition of northern clothiers to the King rel. to prohibition by Scots parliament of transport of clothes from England; n.d. [temp. Restoration]. Signed by 313 tradesmen. ff. 5.
6.From Add. MS 78226:
(a)Indenture between Christopher Browne and Richard Browne granting of all the goods of the first to the second party in consideration of an annuity of £120 to be payed to Christopher and his wife during their lives; 8 July 1633. Fair copy with revisions. ff. 4.
(b)Will of Sir John Pretyman of Driffield; 3 Dec. 1638. Copy. Pretyman was Browne’s
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(c)‘Inventaire faict le 21 8bre 1654 des meubles de monsieur Le Residanst dangletaire’. French. ff. 2.
(d)Answer of Browne to a bill of complaint by Henry Robinson relating to a portion of the debt formerly owed by Laurence Greene to Robert Langton; circa 1672. Draft, with autograph additions by Browne.
(e)‘A Copie of an Act of Parliament touching the payment of the Constables fee of Dovor [Dover] Castle &c; 28 April 31 Henry VIII [1539]. Copy, 17th cent., numbered ‘26’ on the docket.
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Add MS 78264-78271 SIR EDWARD NICHOLAS 78264-78271. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. XCVII-CIV. Papers of Sir Edward Nicholas (1593-1669)
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Creation Date 1560-1706
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Title SIR EDWARD NICHOLAS 78264-78271. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. XCVII-CIV. Papers of Sir Edward Nicholas (1593-1669) and other members of the Nicholas family; 1560-1706, n.d. Partly drafts, copies and cipher. Partly Latin and French. The greater part relates to the work of Sir Edward Nicholas as Secretary of State, 1641-1662, and consists of letters and papers of, and relating to Charles I and II. Included are some official papers of his son Edward Nicholas, M.P. (1662-1726). The Nicholas Papers did not form part of the archive formed or inherited by Evelyn the diarist, but derive ultimately from the archive which descended in the Nicholas family at their seat at West Horsley, co. Surrey, close to Wotton. The complicated dispersal of this is described in detail in The Nicholas Papers, ed. Sir George F. Warner, Camden Society, 1886, I, pp. i-iv, and in the catalogues of the Nicholas Papers (G52, G85 and 1287) now at Surrey History Centre, Woking. A schedule of the whole contents of the archive (Egerton MS 2562) was drawn up in 1720-1723 by Sir Edward Nicholas’s second son, Edward, whose son William allowed a large portion to be transferred to Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart. (d. 1763), at nearby Wotton. In December 1750 Thomas Birch made a calendar and extracts (now Add. MS 4180) of the material there. Thereafter, according to Warner, ‘it is probable that Sir John Evelyn, after selecting what he considered most valuable, subsequently returned the bulk of the papers to their original home’ (Nicholas Papers, I , pp. i-ii). A further portion was apparently transferred to William Man Godschall of Albury, who sent Sir Edward Hyde’s letters to Edward Nicholas to the editor of the Clarendon State Papers in 1782. Other items in Godschall’s possession were transferred to Wotton by William Bray in the 1820s, in the belief that they belonged there; others were apparently returned to West Horsley and sold from there. A large portion of the latter is now Add. MSS 37816-37823 (registers of Nicholas’s official letters) and Egerton MSS 2533-2562 (correspondence and papers, from which The Nicholas Papers were printed). Nicholas’ Privy Council minutes, 1661-1662, are Bodleian MS Eng. Hist. c. 311, but other important items, as Warner noted, appear to be still unaccounted for, notably Nicholas’s three volumes of letterbooks, seen by Thomas Birch (see Nicholas Papers, I, p. iii). It was from the present collection that William Bray printed the correspondence of Nicholas with Charles I and II, etc., in editions of The Diary and Correspondence of John Evelyn. Some items were removed by William Upcott; e.g. Add. MS 15856, copies in the hand of John
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Scope and Content Sir Edward Nicholas, Secretary of State: Correspondence and papers: 1640-1669.
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Add MS 78264 (1641-1658)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78264
Creation Date 1641-1658
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XCVII (ff. 151). Correspondence of Charles I, Charles II, and other members of the royal family with Nicholas, etc.; 1641-1658. Partly copies, and cipher with decipher. Partly French. Most of the letters are printed in Diary and Correspondence of John Evelyn, ed. by William Bray, 1859, IV. The contents are as follows:-
1.ff. 1-100. Correspondence of Charles I with Nicholas, 8 Aug.-22 Nov. 1641, 30 Jan. 1644/5-24 Nov. 1648. Partly autograph, and scribal with autograph additions. Partly copy and cipher, deciphered. The king’s replies are often written on Nicholas’s originals, sometimes docketed by Charles ‘Yours Apostyled’. Also included are: (a) a letter of the King to Hyde, 7 Sept. 1641; - (b) a signed undertaking by the King to M. [Jean de] Montereul, French ambassador, concerning those who are to accompany him to the Scots, [1646]; - (c) an autograph memorandum rel. to the conditions under which he is to treat, [1647]; - (d) a later copy of a letter of Charles I to the Prince of Wales, from Hereford, 23 June 1645, printed in Clarendon’s History, X, 4; - (e) a warrant with sign manual, docketed ‘Charles to me [i.e. Nicholas] for my advise Concerning his Resolution to goe speedily to Holland’, 10 June 1648. Covers of seventeen of the letters of Charles I, 15 Aug.-18 Nov. 1641, were separated from the letters themselves, retained at West Horsley, and are now Egerton MS 2546. For a stray of 27 July 1647 see Huth sale, Sotheby, 12 June 1911, lot 38.
2.ff. 101-110. Correspondence, etc., of Charles II, partly as Prince of Wales, with Nicholas; 10 June 1648, 31 Jan. 1649/50-28 Sept. 1653, 12 Oct. 1662. Partly cipher, deciphered. Partly printed in Bray, IV, pp. 194-196, 201-203.
3.ff. 111-125. Eleven letters, etc., of Henrietta Maria to Nicholas; circa 5 Sept. 1641-circa 20 Nov. 1641 and n.d. Printed in Bray, IV, pp. 50 [rec. 19 Aug. 1641], 84 [rec. 5 Oct. 1641], 115 [rec. 8 Nov. 1641], 118 [rec. 10 Nov. 1641], 124 [rec. 12 Nov. 1641], 131 [rec. 20 Nov. 1641], and by R. A. Beddard, ‘Six unpublished letters of Queen Henrietta Maria’, British Library Journal, 25 (1999), pp. 129-143 [rec. 5 Sept., 1 Oct. 1641, and n.d.], with two warrants containing instructions to Nicholas to accompany the Prince to Calais, etc.; 9, 22 June 1648. Signed. Red wax armorial seals. One further letter is in Upcott’s album, Add. MS 78264 below.
4.f. 126. James, Duke of York, to Nicholas; Paris, 18 Nov. 1651. Printed in Bray, IV, pp. 200-201.
5.f. 127. Princess Mary of Orange to Nicholas; Breda, 21 July 1653. Printed in Bray, IV, pp. 201-202.
6.ff. 128-130. Prince Rupert to Nicholas; Bristol, 27 July 1645, and Frankfort, 6/16 June 1658.
7.ff. 131-151. Letters of Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia to Nicholas; 31 Aug. 1654 N.S.-18 Jan. 1654/5. Several bear black wax armorial seals with cotton tags. Printed in Bray, IV, pp. 205-226.
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Add MS 78265 (1622-1663)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78265
Creation Date 1622-1663
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XCVIII (ff. 75). Miscellaneous correspondence and papers of Charles I, Charles II, and other members of the royal family; 1622-1663, n.d. Partly drafts and copies. Partly French. Included are copies of letters of Charles I, royal warrants, and petitions to Charles II. As follows:-
1.Correspondence, etc., of Charles I, 1645-1646. Copies. Including: (a) petition to Charles from Prince Rupert and the garrison of Newark; [Oct. 1645]; - (b) two letters to Sir Henry Vane the younger, 2 Mar. 1646 and n.d., bearing autograph notes of certification by the King; - (c) Henrietta Maria: letters by and on behalf of, to Charles I; Paris, 3, 4 Feb. [1646?]. Scribal decipherments(?), with dockets by Nicholas. Partly French; - (d) letters of the King to Parliament, etc.; Newcastle, 18 May, 10 June 1646 and Holdenby, 6 March 1647; - (e) ‘Extract of the Kings Declaration … shewing the faults made in translating into French; 18 Jan. 1647/8; -(f) ‘His Majesties farewell speech vnto the Lords Commissioners at Newport in the Isle of Wight; 1 Dec. 1648. Copy, with docket by Nicholas.
2.Miscellaneous warrants, commissions, letters of credence, etc., of Charles I; 1625-1646, n.d. Mostly drafts and copies.
3.Miscellaneous correspondence of Charles II; 1649-1654. Partly copies. Partly French. Included is a discourse, in French, addressed to Charles II, signed ‘Herault’, on the restoration of monarchy and episcopacy in England; Beauvais, 12 March 1650. Apparently autograph. The author may be Louis Hérault (d.1682), exiled minister of the Walloon church in London and later canon of Canterbury; for his brother Isaac see Add. MS 78240 above.
4.Letters and commissions of James, Duke of York; 1650-1657. Copies, including a copy of a letter from his mother, Henrietta Maria, 10 Feb. 1651, printed by Beddard, loc. cit., p. 141.
5.Petitions and letters addressed to, and documents relating to Charles II, referred to Sir Edward Nicholas; 1660-1663, n.d. Including an original letter from Edward Montagu, Earl of Sandwich, to Charles II, concerning the embarkation of Catherine of Braganza for England, Lisbon, 27 March 1662.
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Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78266
Creation Date 1649-1662
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XCIX. Diplomatic correspondence of Charles II with foreign rulers and states, etc.; 1649-1662, n.d. Partly drafts, copies and fragments. Partly Latin, French, Italian and Spanish. The dated letters cover the periods 22 May 1649-13 Oct. 1655, 24 Aug. 1657-15 Sept. 1660 and Apr. 1662. Included are letters of credence, and of congratulation on the restoration: the two last relate to the voyage to England of Catherine of Braganza (the copy of whose letter, dated Lisbon, 1 April 1662, to Charles is in the hand of Sir Richard Fanshawe). Many have been rendered partly illegible by damp.
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Add MS 78267 (Apr 1649-Jul 1661)
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Reference Add MS 78267
Creation Date Apr 1649-Jul 1661
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. C. Charles II: Sign-manual warrants, letters patent, commissions, orders, etc., issued by him, partly as Prince of Wales; April 1649-July 1661, n.d. Mostly drafts and copies. Partly Latin and French. The majority consists of appointments, sometimes blank, to military and naval commands, and to academic or ecclesiastical preferments. For similar material, see Egerton MS 2551.
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Page 102 2021-08-13 Add MS 78268 (1640-1669)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78268
Creation Date 1640-1669
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CI. Miscellaneous official and personal correspondence of Sir Edward Nicholas; 1640-1641, 1648-1669. Partly copies, and cipher. Partly French. The first section (ff. 1-88) consists mostly of official letters addressed by peers to Nicholas while he was managing affairs in London during the King’s absence in Scotland in 1641. The main writers are the Earls of Arundel, Bristol, Holland and Northumberland, the Earl and Countess of Roxburghe and the Duke and Duchess of Richmond. Including a letter of Sir Robert Long to Lord Cottington, 8 June 1648, bearing a docket by Nicholas. For similar material, see Egerton MSS 2533-2540.
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Add MS 78269 (1560-1707)
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Reference Add MS 78269
Creation Date 1560-1707
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CII. Miscellaneous papers of Sir Edward Nicholas, and of other generations of his family; 1560-1706, n.d. Five generations are represented here in direct line, namely Edward Nicholas of Salisbury, John Nicholas (d. 1644) of Winterbourne Earles, Sir Edward Nicholas (1593-1669), Secretary of State, Sir John Nicholas (1623-1704), Clerk of the Privy Council, and Edward Nicholas (d. 1726), Treasurer to Queen Mary and Prince George. For further correspondence of Sir Edward Nicholas see Egerton MSS 2540, 2543 and 2559-2562. Included are:
1.Three letters of John Jewel, Bishop of Salisbury, to Edward Nicholas; 6 April 1563, 23, 27 Jan. n.y. For further letters from the series, 1560, 1563, see Egerton MS 2533, ff. 1-6.
2.Bond by John Nicholas of Winterbourne Earls to perform all the articles of his indenture with Richard Goodridge of New Sarum; 6 Oct. 1626. Signed by Nicholas and four witnesses.
3.Miscellaneous papers, mostly official, of Sir Edward Nicholas; 1625-1665. Partly printed .
4.Lapidary epitaph, in Latin, for Sir Edward Nicholas; 1 Sept. 1669. Copy, in the hand of his son John.
5.Seth Ward, Bishop of Salisbury, to Mr Gantlet, requesting a survey of Winterbourne Earles; 9 Oct. 1671.
6.List of civil and military officers allegedly appointed by the Pope, circulated during the period of the Popish Plot; [1679-1681]. Copy.
7.Lists of revenue assessment commissioners for Pembroke, Derby, Dorset, etc.; 1689, n.d.
Documents partly relating to the household establishments of Mary II and Queen Anne; 1689-1706, n.d. Copies. Nicholas was Treasurer to Queen Mary (1693-1694), Paymaster of
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8.Ralph, Duke of Montagu to Edward Nicholas as ‘Treasurer to his Royall Highnesse’; 22 April 1707.
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Add MS 78270 (25 Dec 1701-25 Mar 1706)
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Reference Add MS 78270
Creation Date 25 Dec 1701-25 Mar 1706
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CIII. ‘An Establishment of the Yearly Payments to be made by Edward Nicholas Esqr’; 25 Dec. 1701-25 Mar. 1706. Copy.
ff. 13. Sewn gathering, unbound. 320 x 210mm.
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Add MS 78271 (c 1624-1643)
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Reference Add MS 78271
Creation Date c 1624-1643
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CIV. Formulary of addresses and of subscriptions used by French sovereigns and members of the royal family in letters to heads of state, etc., tempp. Henry II-Louis XIII. Copy, in an English hand; circa 1624-1643 (cf. f. 30v). French. At least one similar compilation, temp. Louis XIII, is listed in Add. MS 30191, ‘A catalogue of the treaties and other instruments, books and papers in His Majesty’s Paper Office’, f. 56, as having been preserved among the State Papers. See also Add. MS 78241 above.
ff. 109. Contemporary ink foliation: 1-108. Watermark generally similar to Heawood, no. 800 (?arms of Cardinal Mazarin, after 1642). Sewn gatherings, unbound. 223 x 172mm.
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Page 104 2021-08-13 Add MS 78272-78273 George Evelyn I (1526-1603) (1526-1603)
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Reference Add MS 78272-78273
Creation Date 1526-1603
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Title George Evelyn I (1526-1603) (1526-1603)
Scope and Content George Evelyn, grandfather of the diarist: Correspondence and papers: 1579-1625.
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Reference Add MS 78272
Creation Date 1579-1625
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CV (ff. 75). Papers of George Evelyn, grandfather of the diarist; 1579-1616. Several are endorsed in the hand of his son Richard.
1.f. 1. Letter to George Evelyn from his son Richard; 1587. [italics]Latin[/italics].
2.ff. 2-4. Letters from Laurence Kingston and Stephen Pecke to [Evelyn?]; 1601, 1602.
3.ff. 5- 27. Papers relating gunpowder manufacture, including a `controversie' involving George and John Evelyn and Richard Hill, false evidence laid against George Evelyn, and proposals concerning saltpetre manufacture; 1589-1592, n.d. Formerly damaged by damp, with loss of text.
4.ff. 28-35. Miscellaneous financial papers of George Evelyn, including a general release to him from Richard Johnson, a list of recognizances acknowledged by him, receipts by Edward Gage for a payment of an annuity and a bond of Thomas Bristowe; 1579-1590.
5.ff. 36-39. Record of payments to various individuals, including John and Robert Evelyn, under the Privy Seal; 1602. The excerpt from a 19[superscript]th[/superscript] cent [italics]printed[/italics] sale catalogue attached indicates that this was a later addition to the archive by purchase, probably by William John Evelyn.
6.ff. 40-48. Articles, bonds, etc., in connection with settlements on the marriage of George Evelyn's daughter Katherine to Thomas Stoughton; 1602-1603.
7.ff. 49-57. Will of George Evelyn, 1603, [italics]signed[/italics] by him on every page (formerly Evelyn MS 152), with the definitive sentence of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.
8.ff. 58-75. Releases and receipts arising from the administration of his estate and that of his 2[superscript]nd[/superscript] wife, Joan (Stint), including (f. 71) an elegy on her death in 1613; 1603-1625.
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Creation Date 17 Jun 1603
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CVI. Modern copy of the inquisition post mortem of the lands of George Evelyn; 17 June 1603. Latin, with translation, presented by J. Blacker Morgan, 1890, to William John Evelyn, with (ff. 1-2) his covering letter. Formerly Evelyn MS 165. See Add. MS 78281 below for an inventory of his stock and goods at Wotton.
Paper; ff. 48. Half binding of dark red leather, late 19th cent. 330 x 220mm.
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Add MS 78274-78281 Richard Evelyn of Wotton (d. 1640) ([1603-1642])
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78274-78281
Creation Date [1603-1642]
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Title Richard Evelyn of Wotton (d. 1640) ([1603-1642])
Scope and Content Richard Evelyn, father of the diarist: Correspondence and papers: 1613-1640.
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Creation Date 1609-1640
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CVII (ff. 150). Correspondence of Richard Evelyn of Wotton (d. 1640), father of the diarist. Most letters have suffered damage from damp, with some loss of text.
1.f. 1. Memoranda by Richard Evelyn of family births, marriage and deaths, with a note of his death added by his son George; 1613-1640.
2.ff. 2-86. Correspondence with his eldest son George, and his tutor at Oxford, William Hobbs; 1633-1640. Including a few retained [italics]drafts[/italics] and [italics]copies[/italics] of Richard Evelyn's letters. See also letter of June 1634, Add. MS 15948, f. 2.
3.ff. 87-89. Letters from Edward Snatt, schoolmaster at Lewes, concerning his second son, John; 1637.
4.ff. 90-117. Correspondence with George Bradshaw, tutor to John Evelyn at Balliol College, and with his father, Nicholas Bradshaw; 1637-1640. Including a few retained [italics]drafts[/italics] from Richard Evelyn, one to John, 1640. Letters to John from his father, 1635-1640, are in Add. MS 78302 below.
5.ff. 118-123. Letters from his youngest son, Richard junior; 1640. Partly [italics]Latin[/italics].
6.ff. 124-148. Letters on business and estate matters to and from Richard Evelyn; 1609-1639, n.d.
7.ff. 149-150. [italics]Draft[/italics] letter from Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Evelyn (afterwards wife of Edward Darcy), to a female relation, concerning fashion; 1630.
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Reference Add MS 78275
Creation Date 1606-1639
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CVIII (ff. 83). Papers of Richard Evelyn as Justice of the Peace, High Sheriff of Surrey, etc.; 1618-1638, n.d.
1.ff. 1-10. Notes by Richard Evelyn on `Breaches of the Peace', `The Definition of an Unlawfull Assemblie, Rout, & Riott', `Suretie for the Peace', etc.; [early 17[superscript]th[/superscript] cent.]. Endorsed in the hand of Sir John Evelyn, 1[superscript]st[/superscript] Bart., `Old Justice of Peace papers'.
2.ff. 11-12. `The Indictment, Conviction & Judgement of John Astone' at Surrey quarter sessions; 1606. [italics]Latin[/italics]. [italics]Copy[/italics] by Richard Evelyn.
3.ff. 13-14. An abstract in an unidentified hand of a bill for suppressing drunkenness; 16[09?].
4.f. 15. `Resolutions and Advises' on the Elizabethan statutes for the relief of the poor and vagabonds; [early 17th cent.].
5.f. 16. Notes of the names and sentences of those tried at Surrey quarter sessions; 1620-1621. With additions apparently in Richard Evelyn's hand.
6.ff. 17-28. [italics]Copies[/italics] of warrants, recognizances, orders, etc., issued at Surrey quarter sessions; 1619-1620. Imperfect, wanting at one leaf at the beginning.
7.ff. 29-30. `The yearly receipts for the hospetall and house of correction'; 1623. Listing the contributions of several Surrey parishes including Wotton. The office of treasurer was rotated yearly. These accounts have the note at the foot, `The accompte of Sir Robert Albanie taken by me Richard Evelyn appoynted to succeede him in the sayd office 1623'.
8.ff. 31-56v. Commissions, warrants, orders, and assessments concerning rates, subsidies, ship timber and ship-money, most involving Richard Evelyn as one of the commissioners; 1618-1638, n.d. Partly [italics]Latin[/italics]. Partly [italics]copies[/italics].
9.ff. 57-64. Proceedings relating to the appointment of a commission to enquire into exacted fees, of which Richard Evelyn was a member; 1628. [italics]Copies[/italics], endorsed in his hand.
10.f. 65. Acquittance to Richard Evelyn for a fine of £50 for not receiving a knighthood; 1630. Endorsed by him. See [italics]Diary[/italics], II, p. 2, for this episode.
11.ff. 66-67. Anagram by Thomas Zwanger on Richard Evelyn's appointment as High Sheriff; 1631. [italics]Latin[/italics]. Endorsed and dated in the hand of John Evelyn the diarist.
12.ff. 68-73. Lists by Richard Evelyn of charges, disbursements, and provisions sent him as High Sheriff; 1633-1634.
13.ff. 74-75. Orders for the Christmas revels at Wotton; 1635. Endorsed by Evelyn the diarist.
14.f. 76. Receipt by a sheriff of Sussex, endorsed by Richard Evelyn, `Acquittance for a post fine'.
15.ff. 77-78. `A restraint to Victualers for byinge or dressing of venison, Hares, fesants, etc'; 1635. Endorsed in what appears to be Richard Evelyn's hand.
16.ff. 79-80. Notes by Richard Evelyn of the settlement of a dispute about water rights between Sir Anthony Vincent and -- Sheers; 8 Aug. 1636.
17.f. 81. Examination of Thomas Catte alias Austin on a mittimus of Richard Evelyn as Justice of the Peace; 2 Oct. 1636.
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18.ff. 82-83. `An oath to be administred to the Scottish men within London accordinge to Majestys Commission'; 1639. Endorsed by Richard Evelyn.
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Reference Add MS 78276
Creation Date 1633-1637
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CIX (ff. 86). Papers relating to a complaint against Richard Evelyn that as High Sheriff of Surrey, he had reprieved the convicted felons Elizabeth Wynn and Magdalen Dutton from execution; consisting of petitions, affidavits, and certificates, with the information, interrogatories and examination of Richard Evelyn in the Court of Star Chamber; 1633-1637. Chiefly drafts and copies, some imperfect. For this episode, see Evelyn Diary, I, p. 10; II, p. 12.
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Reference Add MS 78277
Creation Date 1617-1640
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CX (ff. 56). Miscellaneous papers of Richard Evelyn, chiefly financial; 1617-1640.
1.ff. 1-8. Transactions between Sir Richard Sondes and Richard Evelyn concerning the payment of a debt, including a [italics]draft[/italics] letter and notes of Evelyn; 1617-1618.
2.ff. 9-14. Estimate and contracts with carpenter and bricklayer for a house to be built by George Evelyn at West Deane, co. Wilt.; 1623. George Evelyn, named overseer of Richard Evelyn's will of 1627 below, was described there as his `specyall good Friend & Cossen'.
3.ff. 15-16. Notes by Richard Evelyn of amounts given to his wife for housekeeping; 1623-1626.
4.ff. 17-21. Will of Richard Evelyn; 1627. [italics]Autograph[/italics], [italics]signed[/italics] on every page and [italics]sealed[/italics], with later additions and deletions.
5.ff. 22-27. [italics]By the King. A Proclamation for reforming sundry inconveniences touching the Coynes of this Realme[/italics]; 1619. [italics]Printed[/italics], with MS notes by Richard Evelyn, aft. 1627.
6.ff. 28-33. `A Treatice of Sr Ro[bert] Co[tton] presented to the Lords of his Mat privy Councell. The danger wherein the kingdome of England now stands and the Remedie thereof’; Feb.
Page 109 2021-08-13 1627/8. [italics]Copy[/italics], endorsed in what appears to be the hand of Richard Evelyn and also by Evelyn the diarist. Formerly Evelyn MS 291. For further copies, see Sloane MSS 757, 826, 1455, 2531, Add. MSS 4106, 33469, 34312, Stowe MSS 145 and 156.
7.ff. 34-56. Notes by Richard Evelyn of estate income and expenses, excluding rents: mowing, pasturing hogs, felling timber, hedging and ditching, walling, brick-making, threshing, etc.; 1625-1640. Partly autograph. Many individuals are named, including Daniel Peter (Peeter), a tenant farmer whose wife was John Evelyn’s wet-nurse.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXI. Account-book of Richard Evelyn, with some additions by his son, George Evelyn II; 1610-1642. Detailed chronological entries by Richard Evelyn, 1610-1615, chiefly of his expenses on clothes, manorial administration and law charges, followed by two pages of entries by George Evelyn, 1640-1642. Tipped into the front (ff. 2-4) are notes about the movements of the court, 1609-1611, and `A Bill of the Charges for the makinge of the Saltpeeter’, listing payments to Edmund Noe and Robert Sherlock, 1611. At the end reversing the volume (f. 62) are a few lines of writing exercises by Katherine [Evelyn?], and some field measurements of Wotton, 1604. Formerly Evelyn MS 285.
ff. ii + 64. Original vellum foldover binding with tie, repaired, with the note on the cover by Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart., `Old Account Book of my great Grandfather Richard Evelyn'. 300 x 210mm.
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Creation Date 1614-1639
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXII (ff. 92). Lists by Richard Evelyn of rents due at Ladyday and Michaelmas, with tenants' names; 1614-1639. Autograph.
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Creation Date 1634-1641
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXIII. Account-book containing entries by Richard Evelyn of receipts and payments chiefly in connection with his estates (grain, stock, mowing, coppicing, hedging, threshing, repairing houses, etc.), but also (at the end reversing the volume) for the expenses of his sons, George, John and Richard, and the son of the rector of Wotton at Oxford; the entries are continued by his son George; 1634-1641. Autograph. Formerly Evelyn MS 131.
ff. iii + 47. Quarto notebook with original vellum foldover binding. 200 x 170mm.
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Creation Date 1603-1640
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXIV (f. 4).
1.ff. 1-3. Inventory and valuation of the goods of George Evelyn I, taken by Henry Sawyer of Ockly, Anthony Harrod of Abinger, and others; 10 June 1603. Including stock and room by room itemized contents of Wotton. Three strips of vellum.
2.f. 4. Inventory and valuation of the goods of Richard Evelyn; 1640. Collective valuations only, under the categories of cash, wearing apparell, plate, household stuff, coach, stock, grain, debts and arrears of rent. One sheet of vellum.
George Evelyn, grandfather of the diarist: Correspondence and papers: 1579-1625.
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Add MS 78282-78290 John Stansfield78282-78290. EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXV-CXXIII. Papers of John Stansfield, merchant of the
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Creation Date 1581-1637
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Title John Stansfield78282-78290. EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXV-CXXIII. Papers of John Stansfield, merchant of the Cliffe, near Lewes, and maternal grandfather of the diarist; 1581-1637. Stansfield `exported through Newhaven corn, iron, ordnance and timber, principally to London and ports in northern France and the Netherlands, and imported groceries, draperies . . . salt, wine, fruit, sugar and coal, much of which was then distributed from Lewes across the weald and downland, and to Brighton’ (Colin E. Brent, A Short Economic and Social History of Brighton, Lewes and the Downland Region, East Sussex County Council, 1976, p. 16). He married first (24 March 1597/8) Eleanor, daughter of Thomas Comber of West Allington (d. 1613), and secondly (1614) Jane, daughter Thomas Michell. He died 23 Feb. 1626/7. John Evelyn’s mother, Eleanor Stansfield, daughter of the first marriage, was her father’s heir and also his executrix (on account of her `wise and understanding husband'), thus accounting for the presence of these papers, which chiefly relate to Stansfield’s business affairs, in the archive. John Evelyn the diarist, who was Stansfield's godson as well as his grandson, lived in his household from the age of five and inherited certain property from him; see Evelyn, Diary, I, p. 7, and the will of Richard Stansfield, summarized in John Stansfeld, History of the Family of Stansfeld or Stansfield (Leeds, 1885), pp. 388-390. After his grandfather’s death Evelyn remained with Stansfield’s second wife (not his grandmother, although he calls her so) until he was sent to Oxford in 1637. During this period she remarried William Newton of Southover and they moved there from the Cliffe. She died in 1650. The small group of the Newtons’ letters in Add. MS 78282 may have been acquired by Evelyn after her death.Nine volumes. (1581-1637)
Scope and Content John Stansfield, merchant, of Lewes, county Sussex: Correspondence and papers: 1581-1637.
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Creation Date 1594-1637
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXV (ff. 61).
1.ff. 1-43. Letters, requests for loans, and orders for payment by and to John Stansfield, some with receipts or Stansfield's memoranda; 1594-1612, n.d.
2.ff. 44-60. Family letters to Stansfield's second wife, Jane, and her second husband William Newton, including letters from Richard Evelyn; 1627-1637, n.d.
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Creation Date 1591-1624
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXVI (ff. 93). Acquittances for money paid and received; 1591-1624, n.d.
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Creation Date 1581-1626
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXVII (ff. iii + 49). Quitclaims; 1581-1626.
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Creation Date 1577-1626
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXVIII (ff. 88). Money bonds by and for John Stansfield; 1577-1626.
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Creation Date 1603-1614
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXIX (ii + 79). Book of payments received, kept by John Stansfield, containing brief details of names, amounts and dates; 1603-1614. Autograph.
Contemporary vellum binding with leather ties, annotated on the front cover by Richard Evelyn as his executor. 290 x 210mm.
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Creation Date 1581-1618
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXX (ff. 75).
1.ff. 1-19. Feoffment by William Shelley relating to all his lands, including Denton, co. Sussex; 1581. [italics]Copy[/italics]. Endorsed by Richard Evelyn.
2.ff. 20-50. Indenture from Richard Sackville, 3[superscript]rd[/superscript] Earl of Dorset, for payment of his debts, including reference to the manor of North Stoke, co. Sussex; 1615. [italics]Copy[/italics]. Endorsed by Richard Evelyn. Both Denton and North Stoke afterwards came into possession of John Stansfield, and were bequeathed to Richard Evelyn and afterwards to his son John (Stansfeld, [italics]History of the Family of Stansfeld[/italics], pp. 389-390).
3.ff. 51-75. Conveyance of Denton, co. Sussex, from Sir John Shelley, 1[superscript]st[/superscript] Bart., to John Stansfield; 1618. [italics]Draft.[/italics]
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Creation Date 1593-1625
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXXI. Miscellaneous financial papers of John Stansfield, including quarterly statements of account, notes of money paid, agreements and covenants for various transactions, and a warrant from the King to collect a voluntary loan; 1593-1625. At the end is a handwritten and hand-painted certificate to those who have contributed to relieve the poor of Lewes, 1625.
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Creation Date 1621-1633
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXXII. Executors' papers of John Stansfield, many endorsed by Richard Evelyn; 1626-1633.
1.Bills, etc., for mourning and funeral expenses; 1626-1627.
2.Will of Stansfield; 28 April 1621. [italics]Signed[/italics] on every page, and endorsed, `Mr Stansfild's first will'.
3.Inventory of the contents of Stansfield's house, [italics]signed[/italics] by his widow in respect of her life interest; 1627.
4.Notes by Richard Evelyn of money given him by Stansfield before his death and of the disposition of Stansfield's estates; [1627].
5.Inquisition [italics]post mortem[/italics] for Stansfield; 1627. [italics]Latin[/italics]. [italics]Copy,[/italics] endorsed `for Mr Evelyn the Copie of Mr Stansfeilds office 1627’.
6.Acquittances to Richard Evelyn for the payment of legacies and annuities; 1627-1633.
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Creation Date 1624
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXXIII. John Sampson: `Nestor's Panygyric: The Praise of Old Age … Written by the Author at Corpus Christi Coll: in Oxford’; 1624. With emblematic decorations in pen and ink on the title-page. The text, which begins, `To the most vertuous, wise and true Nestor Mr John Stansfeild of Lewes in Sussex peace and happines’, is written throughout in a not very accomplished secretary hand, differing from that of Sampson in the receipt for his legacy from Stansfield in Add. MS 78289 above. On the fly-leaf is a note by John Evelyn, `This discourse was dedicated to my grandfather Standsfield . . . My Grandfather (I find) maintain’d this young scholar in the University: This was copied from a Booke of my Grandmother, by some very ignorant person’. Sampson graduated B.A. at Corpus Christi, 22 Feb. 1625, M.A. 23 Feb. 1628, and was appointed vicar of Blewbury, co. Berk., 1629. Evelyn’s press-mark(?) on fly-leaf: `J.38’. Formerly Evelyn MS 104.
Contemporary binding of brown sprinkled calf. 145 x 97mm.
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Title George Evelyn II (1617-1699), and Mary Evelyn (Lady Wyche) (1617-1699)
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Add MS 78291-78294 George Evelyn (1617-1699)78291-78294. EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXXIV-CXXVII. Papers of George Evelyn, elder
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Title George Evelyn (1617-1699)78291-78294. EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXXIV-CXXVII. Papers of George Evelyn, elder brother of the diarist; 1641-1699. These papers, in contrast to those of his father and younger brother, are fragmentary and miscellaneous. He inherited Wotton in succession to his father and lived from 1640 till 1699. He married twice: Mary, daughter of Daniel Caldwell (d. 1644) and Mary, daughter of Sir Robert Offley and widow of Sir John Cotton of Eltham (d. 1664). Both his sons, George, by his first wife, and John, by his second wife, predeceased him and left no male heirs. Thus Wotton passed by entail to his brother John on his death. His executors were his daughter, Mary, wife of Sir Cyril Wyche, and nephew William Glanville junior, who disputed the settlement of the estate and according to the diarist, `sold & disposed of what goods were left of my Brothers' before he could take possession (Diary, V, p. 377). It may have been by this means that his papers were lost. Nevertheless some papers of both executors remain in the archive (Add. MSS 78295-78297 below).Four volumes. (1641-1699)
Scope and Content George Evelyn, brother of John Evelyn: Correspondence and papers: 1641-1699.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXXIV (ff. i + 84).
1.ff. 1-49. Letters to George Evelyn from his brother John; 1649, 1687-1698. No original letters from John to George survive between 1650 and 1686, though some copies are entered in Evelyn's letterbook (Add. MS 78298). For letters from George to John, see Add. MSS 78303-78304. The present letters chiefly concern the settlement of Wotton on John Evelyn after the death of his brother's last surviving son in 1691, the arrangements for his coming to live at Wotton and his contributions to the gardens there.
2.ff. 50-56. Letters from John Evelyn junior; 1691-1696.
3.ff. 57-68. Letters to and from other correspondents; 1642-1699, n.d. Including (f. 68) an undated letter from `Cathrin E’ (possibly Katherine, daughter of George Evelyn junior) to her father.
4.ff.-69-80. Quarterly lists, incomplete, of servants' wages at Wotton; 1643-1661.
5.ff. 81-84. Bills and receipts; 1636-1667.
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Creation Date 1626-1690
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXXV (ff. 78). Miscellaneous papers; 1641-1690.
1.Bond between Robert Peach and Sir John Cotton (father-in-law of George Evelyn?); 1626.
2.Articles of agreement between George Evelyn and James Bignold of Shere; 1641.
3.Assessment of levies for the parishes of Capell and Ockley, co. Surrey (names and amounts); 1642.
4.Bond between Elizabeth Spencer, widow of John Arnold of Reigate, and William Arnold; 1645.
5.Petition of the electors of Reigate to the House of Commons; [1645?]. Copy.
6.Order by Surrey justices for the collection of a parliamentary levy from the parish of Dorley; 1646.
7.Petition of Francis Theobald, Lawrence Tilcock and Thomas Toth to the Court of Exchequer concerning Richard Conquest of Houghton Conquest, mentioning George Evelyn; 1649.
8.Proceedings between Francis Theobald, Lawrence Tilcock and Thomas Toth and George Evelyn; 1649.
Page 118 2021-08-13 9.Bill of complaint in Chancery of George Evelyn, as his father's executor, against Richard Conquest of Houghton Conquest, co. Bed.; [1649?]. Draft.
10.Proceedings at London quarter sessions between George Evelyn and his wife and Viscount Molyneux; 1649. Latin.
11.Inquisition at Surrey quarter sessions concerning the felling of timber on George Evelyn's estate; 1649. Latin.
12.Information of John Brookes against Richard Kinton before the Committee of Sequestrations for Northamptonshire; 1650.
13.Declaration by the mayor and aldermen of London concerning a deposition of Samuel Parker; 1651. Seal en placard.
14.Bond between John Long of Abinger and George Evelyn; 1670.
15.Articles of agreement between Anne Long and Andrew Johnson of Abinger and George Evelyn, concerning trespass on the latter's property; 1679.
16.Complaint of John Higham, Rector of Wotton circa 1659-1684, against the assessors of the parish; n.d.
17.Evidence for an election hearing between Thomas Vincent, elected M.P. for Reigate, 1 March 1689, against Sir John Parsons, who held the seat in preceding and later Parliaments; 1689. Draft .
18.Induction of Robert Offley as Rector of Abinger; 1690.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXXVI. `The taxation and assessment of the two last Subsidies of Fower entire subsidies graunted to our most gratious souveraigne Lord Kinge Charles in the Parliament holden at Westminster in the xvi Yere of his Maties Raigne within the Hundreds followinge’; 1640-1641. Including George Evelyn’s assessment on f. 12.
Original vellum wrapper, with the title and total assessment added on the front and back covers; formerly used on the verso for an indenture. 225 x 210mm.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXXVII.
1.Papers arising from the death of George Evelyn's first wife, Mary, daughter of Daniel Caldwell by his first wife, Mary, daughter of George Duncombe of Shalford and Albery Weston: - (a) Inventory of debts of Laurence Caldwell, in respect of his son and executor, Daniel Caldwell; 1628. Vellum strip; - (b) Bill of complaint in Chancery of Alice, second wife of Daniel Caldwell, and Raynes Lowe; 1646; - (c) Answer of George Evelyn as defendant in the suit; [circa 1646?]. Draft. Imperfect, wanting everything after p. 23; - (d) Order between Alice Caldwell and George Evelyn; 1646. Copy. - (e) Summing-up of the case between Alice Caldwell and George Evelyn; [1646?]; - (f) Agreement between Alice Caldwell and George Evelyn to accept the arbitration of several named lawyers; 1646. Imperfect; - (g) Legal opinion in the preceding case, with some text, the date and signatures lost; [1646?].
2.Papers arising from the marriage of George Evelyn III to Katherine, née Gore, daughter of Robert Gore of Chelsea, merchant. Their daughters included Katherine, who married George Fulham, D.D., and Elizabeth, who married Richard Dyott and had a daughter Jane: (a) Marriage settlement of George Evelyn and Katherine Gore; 1667. Copy; - (b) Agreement for raising marriage portions for the three daughters of George Evelyn junior, Katherine, Mary and Elizabeth; 1695; - (c) Notes rel. to the marriages of Katherine and Elizabeth, in connection with the settlement of Wotton; 1699, n.d.
3.Will of George Evelyn II; 1699, proved 1700. Extract from the Registry of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. Formerly Evelyn MS 152.
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Creation Date 1648-1723
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Scope and Content Mary Evelyn (Lady Wyche)
78295. EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXXVIII. Correspondence of Mary Evelyn of Wotton (1648-1723), eldest daughter of George Evelyn II and afterwards (1692) wife of Sir Cyril Wyche; 1664-[1690s?].
1. Letters from her father George Evelyn; 1664-1674. The first letters in the sequence are addressed jointly to Mary and her sister Elizabeth (d. 1665). After George Evelyn was widowed for the second time in 1664, his eldest daughter had some household responsibilities. Apart from family news and household matters, the letters concern her clothes and conduct and her reluctance to marry.
2. Other correspondence of Mary Evelyn with female relations, letters from a prospective suitor, one letter to her husband (f. 157), and one fragmentary letter from her husband; [1660s?]-[1690s], n.d.
Mary Wyche, wife of Sir C Wyche: Correspondence: 1664-[1690s].
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Add MS 78296-78297 William and Jane Glanville; William Glanville junior ([1649-1699])
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Title William and Jane Glanville; William Glanville junior ([1649-1699])
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXXIX. Letters to William Glanville (1618-1702), his wife Jane Evelyn (1616-1651) and their son William Glanville (1650-1718); 1649-1699. Glanville senior, who was briefly M.P. (1681), had property in Greenwich and Devonshire, but appears to have lived much at or near Wotton. His son was executor to George Evelyn II, perhaps accounting for the presence of these papers in the archive.
1.Letters from John Evelyn to his sister Jane and brother-in-law William Glanville, 1649-1652, followed by letters from John Evelyn, his wife, and John Evelyn junior to William Glanville and his son William Glanville junior, 1669-1699. With some 20th cent. copies. See Evelyn’s letterbook (Add. MS 78298 below) for copies of some of these and some further letters, and Add. MS 78305 for letters of the Glanvilles to Evelyn.
2.Letters to Jane Glanville (`my everlasting Valentine') from William Evelyn of Nutfield; bef. 1652.
2.Letters to William Glanville and his son, William Glanville junior, chiefly from the Richard Evelyn of Woodcote, younger brother of the diarist; his wife Elizabeth (Mynne); sister-in-law, Anne (Mynne), wife of (1) Sir John Lewknor and (2) Sir William Morley; and daughter Anne, wife (1670) wife of William Montagu; 1657-1699, n.d. The letters from Anne Evelyn to William Glanville junior are partly in [italics]French[/italics] and concern parental opposition to their marriage. Many of the letters have been badly affected by damp. Formerly Evelyn MS 280.
William Glanville, son of W Glanville, MP: Letters to, and commonplace notes by: 1668-1699, n.d.
William Glanville, MP: Correspondence: 1652-1688.
Jane Glanville, sister of John Evelyn; wife of W Glanville: Letters to: 1649-1651, n.d.
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Creation Date Late 17th century
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXXX. Commonplace material, chiefly on legal, religious and political subjects, possibly in the hand of William Glanville junior; late 17th cent. Partly Latin, Greek and French. Partly printed.
William Glanville, son of W Glanville, MP: Letters to, and commonplace notes by: 1668-1699, n.d.
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Creation Date 1635-1706
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Title JOHN EVELYN (1620-1706)78298-78429. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. CXXXI- CCLXII. Correspondence and papers of John Evelyn; 1635-1706, with a few earlier and later items. Evelyn, second son of Richard Evelyn of Wotton, was educated at Lewes and Balliol College Oxford, travelled extensively in Europe in the 1640s, married Mary Browne, daughter of the English Resident in Paris in 1647, and settled at her ancestral home, Sayes Court in Deptford (where he created a celebrated garden) from 1652 until 1694. In 1699, on the death of his elder brother without male heirs, he inherited the Evelyn estate at Wotton. Evelyn was a notable lay Anglican, a quintessentially `virtuoso’ member of the early Royal Society and held occasional public office after the Restoration. He wrote and translated for publication for much of his life. Many of the manuscripts described below relate in some way to these projects, but are not always straightforward to categorize or relate to his published works. Very few of the manuscripts of works he actually sent to the press survive; the draft of Numismata (Add. MS 78350) and a few notes for revised editions of Sylva, or a Discourse of Forest Trees (in Add. MS 78344) are the only exceptions. Sylva was a great success, running to four enlarged editions in his life-time, but he also began many projects which were never brought to completion. Several of the manuscripts described below derive from these unfinished works; the most famous being the comprehensive gardening work, `Elysium Britannicum' (Add. MSS 78342-78344). Other text manuscripts were originally intended for private use by himself, his family, friends and employees, but not for publication; his collection of occasional verse (Add. MS 78357), devotional works, conduct manuals (e.g. Add. MS 78386) and directions to his apprentice gardener (Add. MS 78349) are all in this category, though the title, `Directions for the Gardiner at Says Court:
Page 122 2021-08-13 but which may be of Use for other Gardens', indicates a wider readership in mind, and some of the devotional manuscripts show signs of his later attempts to `reform' them with possible publication in view. Other manuscript volumes, his letterbooks (Add. MSS 78298-78299) and diary (Add. MSS 78323 and 78325) derive from original records re-written by him in retrospect, apparently without any intention to publish; but some, most notably the diary, brought him posthumous fame by their later publication. The elaborately compiled general commonplace volumes begun in the 1650s Add. MSS 78328-78331) were never intended for publication in themselves, but only to provide the material for his publications. But collections of a more specific kind, such as recipes (Add. MS 78337) or trade practices (Add. MS 78339), were later included in his lists of what he intended to revise and perhaps publish (Memoires for my Grand-son, pp. 66-67; and see also an earlier list, `Things I would write out faire and reforme if I had Leasure’, in John Evelyn, Diary and Correspondence, ed. William Bray, 1859, II, p. 92). Other manuscripts represent a stage between collecting material and preparation for the press. The manuscripts of the `Elysium Britannicum' clearly show how one stage shades into another. Two `books' of the main text intended for the press survive, though in draft form, but a third `book' is now missing and many of the surviving collections relating to it (Add. MSS 78343, 78344) represent a very rudimentary stage of composition: excerpts and commonplace material marked up with their places in the main work. Having moved from Sayes Court to London and then to Wotton in his last years, Evelyn left his papers in disorder. Shortly before his death he wrote to his grandson and heir, `Touching my own Writings and papers, as Copys of Letters, Common-place Books, and several unpolish's draughts collected at severall times and confus'dly pack'd up or bound without any order, altogether Imperfect and most of them Impertinent--I would have you burn or other ways dispose of'. Having briefly described the categories of devotional and occasional literary works and listed the chief items by name, he added that there were `innumerable Insignificant Collections and Atempts, desultory and undigested, cast in no method, some hundreds of Authors marked with my blak-lead Crayon, also I intended to have transcribed into Adversaria: but had never leasure: In short--most, if not all, meere Embrios or Trifles, the marks of Time Indiscreetly lost and fit onely to be abolished' (Memoires for my Grand-son, pp. 63, 68). But he did not destroy them himself, nor did his grandson, and although there were some later losses, these represent a comparatively small part of the whole and the archive catalogued below is still recognizable from Evelyn's description of it.The disorder in which Evelyn left his manuscripts was probably increased by their move from Wotton House in the mid-20th century. By the time the whole Evelyn archive was deposited at Christ Church Oxford in 1949, they had become mingled randomly with those of earlier and later generations of the family. They have now been placed in an order which more clearly reflects their origin and nature, within the following categories:78298-78322: Letterbooks and Correspondence: 78323-78326: Diary Manuscripts 78327-78333: Commonplace Books: 78334-78352: Manuscripts relating to Virtuoso Projects: 78353-78359: Verse and Drama: 78360-78392: Devotional Manuscripts: 78393-78401: Papers relating to Public Offices and Affairs: 78402-78413: Inventories, Accounts and Wills: 78414-78429: Manuscripts, etc., collected by John Evelyn: Note that manuscripts relating to Evelyn's library and the estate papers of his period are in categories of their own below, Add. MSS 78630-78643 and Add. MSS 78585-78609 respectively, in order to preserve the continuity of these records through several generations of the family.Evelyn manuscripts at the British Library and elsewhere are listed in the Index of English Literary Manuscripts 1625-1700, comp. Peter Beal, II (1987), pp. 461-487; Beal numbers are noted where applicable in the catalogue descriptions below. See also the essay collection, John Evelyn and his Milieu, ed. F. Harris and Michael Hunter (British Library, 2003).One hundred and thirty-one volumes. (1635-1706)
Scope and Content John Evelyn, diarist: Correspondence and papers: 1635-1706.
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Title : Letterbooks and Correspondence ([1635-1706])
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Add MS 78298-78299 EVELYN PAPERS. Vols CXXXI-CXXXII. Letterbooks, containing autograph copies or versions of Evelyn's letters
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
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Creation Date 1644-1698
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Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vols CXXXI-CXXXII. Letterbooks, containing autograph copies or versions of Evelyn's letters to various correspondents between 1644 and 1698; [comp. second half of 17th cent]. Those at the beginning are in Latin, Italian, German and French, as indicated below. The letters were apparently entered from original loose drafts or retained copies. Evelyn notes in his Memoires for my Grand-son, pp. 64-65, that there are `severall more [letters] in loose papers which I intended to transcribe, but they grew to[o] fast upon me'. Some of these survive and have been filed in their places in the chronological sequence of his correspondence in Add. MSS 78315-78319 below. They indicate that Evelyn made his letterbook copies from very rough drafts which were not always fully or legibly dated. It would appear that this took place sufficiently long after the event for him to have forgotten the chronological context of some letters, since some dates are clearly inaccurate. The letters of the 1670s seem to be particularly unreliable in this respect; obvious examples are the letter to Lord Clifford on his resignation as Lord Treasurer in August 1673, entered under 1672, a letter to his successor Danby as Lord Treasurer, dated January 1673, and letters to the Duchess of Newcastle (d. 1673) dated 15 June 1674, and to Meric Casaubon (d. 1671), dated 15 July 1674. Where the letterbook copies can be checked against the letters as sent, they sometimes show substantial differences in content. Particular Friends, ed. Guy de la Bedoyère (Boydell, 1997), in which Evelyn's surviving correspondence with Samuel Pepys has been traced and collated, cites a number of cases (see p. 19). Another example is the copy of the letter to Lord Clifford, entered as 28 Jan. 1672 in the letterbook. The letter which appears to be the original of this was actually dated 23 Nov. 1670 and differs very considerably in content (see BL RP 5460). It is also clear from comparison with Evelyn’s collection of incoming letters (Add. MSS 78300-78322 below) that he chose to record only a selection of his out-going letters in these letterbooks. This, together with the evidence that he copied them some time after the event and in a form not always faithful to the original, suggests that the letterbooks are best regarded, not as a neutral record of transactions with particular individuals, but as part of his life record, reconstructed in retrospect like his diary and probably influenced by the published collections of letters, classical and later, which he held in his library (see Add. MS 78632, ff. 81-88 below, `Epistolae’).The second volume has the inscription by Evelyn, dated 15 Nov. 1699: `I did not enter any of these Letters (or
Page 124 2021-08-13 what are copied in two other Volumes) with the least Intention to make them publiq but for my own satesfaction, & to looke now & then back upon what has past in my private Concerns & Conversations; many of them being Impertinencys, & therefore may be dispos'd of as my Heirs think fit'. On the front paste-down of the first volume are further instructions to his grandson and heir: `This Booke Containes the Copies onely of severall Letters the most part of which are of no Importance, & therefore may be disposd of as Wast-paper. There are yet some of them which may be preserved but they are very few. Vanity of Vanities, all is Vanity'; and below, `I think they have all ben well Examin'd tho' not so diligently as they might be. You may set a mark upon any that seeme materiall & dash out all the rest'. The pastedowns of both volumes contain a few references by Evelyn to particular letters and some lists of `Remarquable letters' in the hand of Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart. The second volume contains an index of addressees by Evelyn to both volumes. The reference in the first inscription quoted above to `two other volumes' of letter copies apparently refers to Evelyn’s internal subdivisions of the first letterbook, Add. MS 78298, which he headed `Liber I’ and `Liber II’. But the fact that only the second letterbook, now numbered Add. MS 78299, was present when the archive was first deposited at Christ Church led to the assumption that William Upcott must have made away with two further volumes (see the account of W. G. Hiscock in the Times Literary Supplement, 6 April 1951, p. 220). In fact the first letterbook, now numbered Add. MS 78298, subsequently came to light at Stonor Park and was then added to the archive at Christ Church. The confusion about the total number of physical volumes also led to the statement in Peter Beal, Index of English Literary Manuscripts, 3 vols (Mansell, 1980-93), II: 1625-1700, Pt 1 (1987), p. 464, that the archive contains three volumes of Evelyn’s letterbooks, originally with the Christ Church numeration 39, 39a and 39b, with a further volume of `select letters to particularly important persons', preserved at Stonor Park and on microfilm in the Bodleian Library. The microfilm is question is actually of the volume which is now Add. MS 78298. As Add. MSS 78298 and 78299 make clear when they are examined together, Evelyn never compiled more than these two volumes of letterbooks. At Christ Church they were formerly numbered Evelyn MSS 39a and 39b.In Add. MS 78298 all four borders of each page have been uniformly ruled in red ink; in 78299 the left and right hand margins only. Each letter is headed in a uniform style with its number in Roman numerals (in the continuous sequence through both volumes), the addressee’s name, the date and place of writing in the margin, and occasional marginal annotations by Evelyn. Several letters from this and other sources were printed in successive editions of Evelyn's Memoirs, ed. William Bray (1818; called Diary and Correspondence in later editions); the largest selection of letters appears in Vol. III of the edition of 1859; the letters listed in bold below appear in this edition; the pencilled notes `Copied' or `C' in the margins of both letterbooks may refer to this editorial work. See also Add. MSS 78577-78580 below for Bray’s notes, copies and proofs). Two volumes. Now rebound in British Library bindings, but with the original bindings of brown calf, blind ruled (matching that of Evelyn’s sermon notes, Add. MS 78364), boxed with them). 355 x 285mm (350 x 230 old bindings). (1644-1698)
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Creation Date 1644-1679
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXXXI (ff. iv + 203). Letters from Evelyn to various correspondents, 1644-1679. Copies; second half 17th cent. With some 19th cent. pencilled marks in the margin. Divided into three sections:
1.ff. 1-3. [Epistolarum Liber Primus], containing copies of letters in Latin, of which the heading and letters numbered i-xxxiv are now missing, the first leaves having been removed, presumably by Evelyn himself. Letters numbered xxxv-xlii remain, dated between 4 April 1655 and 1675. Followed (ff. 4-22) by leaves which have been ruled but otherwise left blank.
2.ff. 23-28. ` Epistolarum Liber Secundus', containing copies of letters in Italian, German and French, numbered i-xxiv, and dated between 26 Nov. 1644 and 2 Feb. 1685/6. Followed (ff 29-37) by leaves which have been ruled but otherwise left blank.
3.ff. 38-203v. `Epistolarum Liber III', containing copies of letters in English, numbered i-ccccii (with some errors in the sequence; e.g. xiii and xiv are repeated), and dated between June 1645 and 4 April 1679, with a few later notes added; e.g. concerning Evelyn’s negotiations with Col. Henry Morley in 1660 (f. 100). The addressees’ names, places written from, and dates of letters are given by Evelyn as follows:
f. 38.John Crafford, Venice, 21 June 1645
f. 38v.Thomas Henshaw, Venice, 21 June 164[5?]
f. 39.Earl of Arundel, Paris, 8 Aug. 1646
f. 39.Mr Robinson, London, 18 May 1648
f. 39v.Lady Cotton, London, 14 July 1648
f. 39v.Edmund Waller, Paris, 20 Dec. 1649
f. 39v.`Platona’, Paris, 20 Dec. 1649
f. 40.Kendric Eaton [Sir Kenrick Eyton], Paris, 7 Feb. 1650
f. 40.Lady Catherine Scot[t], Paris, 9 Feb. 1650
f. 40v.Mr Clarke, Paris, 12 Feb. 1650
f. 40v.James Scudamor, Paris, 12 Feb. 1650
f. 41.`Platona’, Paris, 10 March 1650
f. 41.James Scudamore, Paris, 26 March 1650
f. 41v.T. White, Paris, 26 March 1650
f. 42.Brother George Evelyn, Paris, 13 April 1650
f. 42.Thomas Keightley, Paris, Easter Day 1650
f. 42.Viscountess Montague, Paris, Easter Day 1650
f. 42v.Mr Kendrick, Paris, 20 June 1650
f. 42v.Mr G[asper] Needham, Paris, 26 Nov. 1650
Page 126 2021-08-13 f. 42v.Lady Fr. Carye [Carey], Paris, 30 Nov. 1650
f. 43.Brother Richard Evelyn, Paris, 3 Dec. 1650
f. 43.Mr J. Langton, Paris, 3 Dec. 1650
f. 43.Mr R. Heath, 19 Dec. 1650
f. 43v.Gasper Needham, Paris, 19 Dec. 1650
f. 44.Thomas Keightley, Paris, `Annun. B.V. [25 March] 1651’
f. 45v.Richard Owen, Paris, 12 April 1651
f. 45v.Samuel Tuke, Paris, 28 April 1651
f. 46.Sister Jane Glanville, Paris, 17 June 1651
f. 46.Dr John Cosin, Paris, 28 July 1651
f. 46v.Samuel Tuke, Paris, 29 July 1651
f. 46v.Edmund Waller, Paris, 29 July 1651
f. 47.Sister Jane Glanville, Paris, 6 Sept. 1651
f. 47.Mr. E. H[e?]wes, Paris, 6 Oct. 1651
f. 47vLady Garret, Paris, 9 Oct. 1651
f. 47v.Mr Spencer, brother of Lord Sunderland, Paris, 13 Oct. 1651
f. 47vCousin E. S., Paris, 27 Oct. 1651
f. 48.William Glanville, Paris, 18 Nov. 1651
f. 48.Sister Jane Glanville, Paris, 26 Nov. 1651
f. 48.Uncle [William Pretyman], Paris, 2 Dec. 1651
f. 48v.Mr Radcliff[e], Paris, 2 Dec. 1651
f. 49.Mr John Cosin, Paris, 1 Jan. 1652
f. 51vJohn Mellington [Millington], Paris, 10 Jan. 1652
f. 52.Brother Richard Evelyn, Paris, 10 Jan. 1652
f. 52.William Glanville, Paris, 10 Jan. 1652.
f. 52v.Philadelphia Carey, Paris, 22 Jan. 1652
f. 52v.Sir Richard Browne, Calais, 4 Feb. 1652
f. 53.Wife Mary Evelyn, London, 12 Feb. 1652
f. 53.Sir Richard Browne, Sayes Court, 14 Feb. 1652
f. 53v.Mons. Bourgh, London, 18 Feb. 1652
f. 53vHenry Hyldyard [Hildyard], Drury Lane, 8 March 1652
f. 54.Earl of Norwich, London, 12 March 1652
f. 54.Dr Stanley, Sayes Court, 13 March 1652
f. 54.Mother-in-law, Lady Browne, Sayes Court, 13 March 1652
f. 54v.Brother George Evelyn, Sayes Court, 20 March 1652
Page 127 2021-08-13 f. 54v.Henry Hyldyard [Hildyard], Sayes Court, 31 March 1652
f. 55.Brother George Evelyn, Sayes Court, 3 April 1652
f. 55.Edmund Waller, Sayes Court, 13 April 1652
f. 55v.Edward Thurland, London, 25 April 1652
f. 55v.Dr John Cosin, Sayes Court, 25 April 1652
f. 56.Wife Mary Evelyn, Sayes Court, 28 April 1652
f. 56v.Wife Mary Evelyn, Sayes Court, 10 May 1652
f. 57.Wife Mary Evelyn, Sayes Court, 24 May 1652
f. 57v.Sir Richard Browne, Sayes Court, 25 Aug. 1652
f. 57v.Sister[-in-law Elizabeth] Evelyn, Sayes Court, 30 Aug. 1652
f. 58.Lord Chancellor, Sayes Court, 1 Nov. 1652
f. 58.Uncle Hungerford, Sayes Court, 14 June 1653
f. 58v.Gasper Needham, Sayes Court, 16 June 1653
f. 59.Wife Mary Evelyn, Woodcote, 4 July 1653
f. 59.Cousin Richard Fanshawe, Sayes Court, 7 Oct. 1653
f. 59v.Edmund Waller, Sayes Court, 12 Nov. 1653
f. 59v.Henry Hyldyard {Hildyard], Sayes Court, 7 Feb. 1653
f. 60.Sir John Evelyn of Godstone, Sayes Court, 21 Jan. 1654
f. 60.Dr [Jeremy] Taylor, Sayes Court, 9 Feb. 1654
f. 60v.Dr [Jeremy] Taylor, Sayes Court, 24 May 1655
f. 60v.`Cousin S.’, Sayes Court, 13 July 1655
f. 62.Lady [`Carye?], Sayes Court, 15 July 1655
f. 62v.Same, Sayes Court, 1 Aug. 1655
f. 62v.Lady [ ], Sayes Court, 7 Sept. 1655
f. 63.Lady E. [ ], Sayes Court, 12 Sept. 1655
f. 63.Wife Mary Evelyn, London, 4 Oct. 1655
f. 63v.Sir Edward Hales, London, 15 Dec. 1655
f. 63v.Lady E. [ ], Sayes Court, 3 Feb. 1655[/6]
f. 64v.Lady [ ], Sayes Court, 20 Feb. 1655[/6]
f. 65.Peter Pet, Sayes Court, 21 Feb. 1655[/6]
f. 65v.Brother George Evelyn, Sayes Court, 1 March 1655[/6]
f. 65v.Lady Newton, Sayes Court, 12 March 1655[/6]
f. 66.Mr[s?] Fountaine, Sayes Court, 16 March 1655[/6]
f. 66v.Dr Taylor, London, 18 March 1655[/6]
f. 67.Mr Maddox [Madox], Sayes Court, `17/27 Jan. 1656/7’
Page 128 2021-08-13 f. 67v.Sir Richard Browne, Sayes Court, 4 March `1656'
f. 68.Dr [William] Rand, Sayes Court, 4 March `1656’
f. 68.Mr Barlow, Sayes Court, 17 April 1656
f. 68v.Mr N. N., Sayes Court, 25 April 1656
f. 69.Dr [Jeremy] Taylor, Says Court, 27 April 1656
f. 69v.Sir Nicholas Crisp, Sayes Court, 16 May 1656
f. 69v.`Penthea' [`Electra'(?) crossed through], Says Court, 19 May 1656
f. 70.Mr Maddox [Madox], Sayes Court, 11 June 1656
f. 70v.Sir Charles Harbord, Sayes Court, 11 Sept. 1656
f. 70v.Dr [Jeremy] Taylor, Sayes Court, 18 Sept. 1656
f. 71.Mr [Thomas] Triplet, Sayes Court, 18 Sept. 1656
f. 71.Mr Maddox [Madox], Sayes Court, 21 Sept. 1656
f. 71v.Dr [Jeremy] Taylor, Sayes Court, 9 Oct. 1656
f. 72.Brother George Evelyn, Sayes Court, 15 Dec. 1656
f. 72v.Mr [Francis] Barlow, `a painter’, Sayes Court, 23 Dec. 1656
f. 73.Lady Newton, Sayes Court, 23 Dec. 1656
f. 73v.Lady Carye, Sayes Court, 16 Jan. 1656[/7]
f. 74.Edward Thurland, Sayes Court, 20 Jan. 1656[/7]
f. 76.Commissioners of the Navy, Sayes Court, 21 Jan. 1656[/7]
f. 76.Sir Richard Browne, Sayes Court, 12 Feb. 1656[/7]
f. 76v.Obadiah Walker, Sayes Court, 7 March 1656[/7]
f. 77.Mr Maddox [Madox], n.p., n.d.
f. 78.Dr [William] Rand, Sayes Court, 9 April 1657
f. 78v.Dr Taylor, Sayes Court, 9 May 1657
f. 79.Lady Mordaunt, Sayes Court, 11 May 1657
f. 79v.Mr [Edward] Snatt, Sayes Court, 17 May 1657
f. 80.Lady Puckering [Newton], Sayes Court, [14?] June 1657
f. 80.Dr [Jeremy] Taylor, Sayes Court, 9 June 1657
f. 80v.Samuel Tuke, Sayes Court, 9 June 1657
f. 80v.Monsieur [Jacques] Lefranc, Sayes Court, 18 June 1657
f. 80v.Sir Charles Harbord, Sayes Court, 21 June 1657
f. 81.Dr [Jeremy] Taylor, Sayes Court, 28 June 1657
f. 81.Brother George Evelyn, 30 June 1657
f. 81v.Lady Newton, Sayes Court, 2 Sept. 1657
f. 82.Dr Reynolds, Sayes Court, London, 3 Dec. 1657
Page 129 2021-08-13 f. 82.Earl of Chesterfield, London, 6 Dec. 1657
f. 82v.Lady Newton, Sayes Court, 6 Jan. 1657[/8]
f. 82v.[Thomas] Henshaw, Sayes Court, 6 Jan. 1657[/8]
f. 83.Mr Maddox [Madox], Sayes Court, 10 Jan. 1657[/8]
f. 84.Conrad Burgh, Sayes Court, 12 Jan. 1657[/8]
f. 84.Lieutenant of the Tower, Greenwich, `14 Jan. 1656'
f. 84v.Sir Richard Browne, Sayes Court, 14 Feb. 1657[/8]
f. 85.Mr [John] Mordaunt, Sayes Court, 24 Feb. 1657[/8]
f. 85.Sir Richard Browne, Sayes Court, 20 March 1657[/8]
f. 85v.Mr Barlow, Sayes Court, 5 April 1658
f. 85v.Mr Pett, Sayes Court, 5 April 1658
f. 86.Brother George Evelyn, Sayes Court, 12 June 1658
f. 86v.[Thomas] Henshaw, Sayes Court, 22 June 1658
f. 87.Mr Maddox [Madox], Sayes Court, 13 July 1658
f. 87.Earl of Chesterfield, Wotton, 30 July 1658
f. 87v.Earl of Chesterfield, Wotton, 10 Aug. 1658
f. 88.Brother George Evelyn, Sayes Court, 15 Oct. 1658
f. 88v.Peter Pett, Sayes Court, 16 Oct. 1658
f. 89.Edward Thurland, 8 Nov. 1658
f. 90.Cousin George N., Sayes Court, 13 Jan. 1658/9
f. 90v.Samuel Tuke, Sayes Court, 13 Jan. 1658/9
f. 90v.Lady Newton, Sayes Court, 14 Jan. 1658/9
f. 91.Brother George Evelyn, Sayes Court, 1 Feb. 1658/9
f. 91.Sir Edward Hales, Sayes Court, 18 Feb. 1658/9
f. 91.Brother Richard Evelyn, Sayes Court, 18 Feb. 1658/9
f. 91v.Col. Herbert Morley, Deptford, 19 Feb. 1658/9
f. 91v.Robert Heath, Sayes Court, 26 Feb. 1658/9
f. 92.Robert Heath, `De Agello meo’, 3 March 1658/9
f. 93.Lord Nieuport, Dutch envoy, Sayes Court, 23 March 1658/9
f. 93v.Monsieur Le Franc, Sayes Court, 6 July 1659
f. 94.Samuel Hartlib, Sayes Court, 8 Aug. 1659
f. 94.Robert Boyle, Sayes Court, 8 Aug. 1659
f. 94v.Robert Boyle, Sayes Court, 3 Sept. 1659
f. 96.`Cyperissa', `From my Villa in the Garden’, 14 Sept. 1659
f. 97.Robert Boyle, Sayes Court, 1 Oct. 1659
Page 130 2021-08-13 f. 99.Robert Boyle, Covent Garden, 1 Dec. 1659
f. 99v.Col. [Herbert] Morley, Covent Garden, 12 Jan. 1659/60
f. 100v.Lady Puckering [Newton], Covent Garden, 12 Jan. 1659/60
f. 101.Dr [Thomas] Browne of Norwich, Covent Garden, 28 Jan. 1659/60
f. 102.John Beale, Covent Garden, 1 Feb. 1659/60
f. 102.Samuel Hartlib, Covent Garden, 4 Feb. 1659/60
f. 103v.[ ], Covent Garden, 16 Feb. 1659/60
f. 104.Sir Richard Browne, Covent Garden, 18 Feb. 1660[/1]
f. 104v.[Sir] William Coventry, Sayes Court, 23 July 1660
f. 105.Sir Edward Nicholas, Sayes Court, 1 Aug. 1660
f. 106.Col. R. Spencer, Sayes Court, 25 Aug. 1660
f. 106.Viscount Mordaunt, Sayes Court, 28 Aug. 1660
f. 106v.Viscountess Mordaunt, Sayes Court, 1 Sept. 1660
f. 106v.Sir Philip Warwick, Sayes Court, 2 Sept. 1660
f. 107v.Samuel Tuke, Says Court, 3 Feb. 1660/1
f. 108.Dr [John] Wilkins, Sayes Court, 17 Feb. 1660/1
f. 109.Col. Tuke, London, 8 April 1661
f. 110.Dr Thomas Fuller, Sayes Court, 9 July 1661
f. 110.Bishop of Downe and Connor, Sayes Court, 9 July 1661
f. 110v.Earl of Peterborough, Sayes Court, 23 July 1661
f. 111.Viscount Mordaunt, Sayes Court, 1 Aug. 1661
f. 111.Wife Mary Evelyn, Sayes Court, 1 Aug. 1661
f. 111v.Lady Needham, Sayes Court, 12 Aug. 1661
f. 112.Samuel Tuke, Sayes Court, 12 Aug. 1661
f. 112v.Nephew George Evelyn, Sayes Court, 24 Aug. 1661
f. 113.Mr [James] Thicknesse, Sayes Court, 5 Sept. 1661
f. 113.Robert Boyle, Sayes Court, 13 Sept. 1661
f. 113v.Sir William Petty, London, 16 Sept. 1661
f. 114.Sir William Compton, Whitehall, 4 Oct. 1661
f. 114.Sir Henry Bennet, Sayes Court, 7 Oct. 1661
f. 115.[Sir William] Coventry, Sayes Court, 12 Oct. 1661
f. 115.Sir Henry Bennet, London, 7 Dec. 1661
f. 116.Viscountess Mordaunt, London, 1 Jan. 1661/2
f. 116.Earl of Bristol, Westminster, 1 Feb. 1661/2
f. 116v.Duke of Ormonde, Hampton Court, 12 May 1662
Page 131 2021-08-13 f. 116v.Sir Kenelm Digby, London, 15 May 1662
f. 117.[John Cosin], Bishop of Durham, Sayes Court, 10 Aug. 1662
f. 117v.Lady Cotton, Sayes Court, 9 Sept. 1662
f. 118.Mr Vander Douse, Sayes Court, 13 Sept. 1662
f. 118v.Col. Tuke, Sayes Court, 29 Jan. 1662/3
f. 118v.Abraham Cowley, Sayes Court, 20 March 1662/3
f. 119.Dr Breton, Sayes Court, 29 March 1663
f. 119.Abraham Cowley, Sayes Court, 28 May 1663
f. 119v.Sir Nicholas Crisp, London, 7 June 1663
f. 119v.Sir Philip Warwick, Sayes Court, 9 July 1663
f. 120.Dr [William] Croone, Sayes Court, 11 July 1663
f. 120v.Abraham Cowley, Sayes Court, 11 July 1663
f. 120v.Col. Tuke, [Sayes Court], 24 May 1663
f. 121.Nephew George Evelyn, Sayes Court, 5 Aug. 1663
f. 121v.Dr [Thomas] Pierce, Sayes Court, 20 Aug. 1663
f. 122v.Dr [Thomas] Pierce, London, 17 Sept. 1663
f. 123v.Viscount Mordaunt, Sayes Court, 24 Jan. 1663/4
f. 123v.Lady Butler, Sayes Court, 1 Feb. 1663/4
f. 124.Nephew George Evelyn, 30 March 1664
f. 124v.Dr [Walter] Pope, Sayes Court, 30 March 1664
f. 125v.Sir Anthony Bateman, Sayes Court, 20 April 1664
f. 126.Lady [ ], Sayes Court, 2 May 1664
f. 126v.John Beale, London, 23 July 1664
f. 127.Brother Richard Evelyn, Sayes Court, 9 Aug. 1664
f.127v.Sir George Carteret, Sayes Court, 22 Aug. 1664
f. 127v.Brother George Evelyn, Sayes Court, 19 Sept. 1664
f. 128.Thomas Sprat, Bishop of Rochester, Sayes Court, 21 Oct. 1664
f. 129v.Robert Boyle, Sayes Court, 21 Oct. 1664
f. 130.[Earl of Clarendon], Lord Chancellor, London, 1 Nov. 1664
f. 130.Thomas Povey, Sayes Court, 6 Nov. 1664
f. 130v.Viscount Brouncker, Sayes Court, 9 Nov. 1664
f. 130v.Robert Boyle, Sayes Court, 23 Nov. 1664
f. 131v.Sir William Davenant, London, 29 Nov. 1664
f. 131v.Sir Thomas Clifford, Sayes Court, 29 Dec. 1664
f. 132.Governor of Dover Castle, Sayes Court, 29 Dec. 1664
Page 132 2021-08-13 f. 132v.Elias Ashmole, Sayes Court, 2 Jan. 1664[/5]
f. 133.Viscount Cornbury, Sayes Court, 2 Jan. 1664/5
f. 133v.Silas Titus, Sayes Court, 2 Feb. 1664/5
f. 133v.Thomas Chiffinch, London, 7 Feb. 1664/5
f. 134v.Viscount Cornbury, London, 9 Feb. 1664[/5?]
f. 136.Roger L'Estrange, London, 24 Feb. 1664[/5]
f. 136v.Sir Christopher Wren, Sayes Court, 4 April 1665
f. 137.Sir Thomas Clifford, London, 20 April 1665
f. 137v.Ambassador of Holland, Whitehall, 27 April 1665
f. 137v.Duke of Albemarle, Dover, 30 May 1665
f. 138.Governor of Dover Castle, Deal, 14 June 1665
f. 138.Lord Arlington, Deale, 3 June 1665
f. 138v.Sir Joseph Williamson, Deal, 13 June 1665
f. 138v.Sir Thomas Clifford, Painters Hall, London, 16 June 1665
f. 139.Bishop of Salisbury, Sayes Court, 18 June 1665
f. 139.Sir Peter Wyche, Sayes Court, 20 June 1665
f. 140v.Viscount Cornbury, Cornbury, 21 June 1665
f. 141v.Sir George Ascue, On board the Prince, 1 July 1665
f. 141v.Sir William Coventry, Sayes Court, 5 July 1665
f. 142.Sir George Carteret, Sayes Court, 14 Aug. 1665
f. 142v.Duke of Albemarle, Sayes Court, 8 Sept. 1665
f. 143.Viscount Cornbury, Sayes Court, 9 Sept. 1665
f. 144v.Sir William Doyley, Sayes Court, 9 Sept. 1665
f. 145.Viscount Cornbury, Sayes Court, 12 Sept. 1665
f. 145v.Lord Sandwich, Sayes Court, 18 Sept. 1665
f. 146.Duke of Albemarle, Sayes Court, 24 Sept. 1665
f. 146v.Sir Philip Warwick, Sayes Court, 30 Sept. 1665
f. 147.Sir William Coventry, Sayes Court, 2 Oct. 1665
f. 147v.[Earl of Clarendon], Lord Chancellor, Sayes Court, 2 Oct. 1665
f. 148v.Duke of Albemarle, Chatham, 20 Oct. 1665
f. 149.Sir John Griffith, Rochester, 20 Oct. 1665
f. 149v.Lord Ashley, Sayes Court, 26 Oct. 1665
f. 150.Lord Arlington, Sayes Court, 26 Oct. 1665
f. 150v.Sir William Morice, Sayes Court, 1 Nov. 1665
f. 151.Francis Carter, Sayes Court, 27 Nov. 1665
Page 133 2021-08-13 f. 151v.Justices at Rochester, Sayes Court, 12 Dec. 1665
f. 152v.Lady Carteret, Sayes Court, 14 Dec. 1665
f. 153.Lord Craven, Sayes Court, 16 Dec. 1665
f. 153v.Matthew Wren, Sayes Court, 21 Dec. 1665
f. 153v.Sir Francis Clarke, Sayes Court, 23 Dec. 1665
f. 154.Viscount Cornbury, Sayes Court, 20 Jan. 1665/6
f. 155.Samuel Pepys, Sayes Court, 3 Jan. 1665/6
f. 155.Sir William Swan, Sayes Court, 8 Feb. 1665/6
f. 155v.Dean of Ripon, Sayes Court, 12 March 1665/6
f. 156.Lord Culpeper, Sayes Court, 31 March 1666
f.156.Duke of Albemarle, Sayes Court, 29 May 1666
f. 157.Brother George Evelyn, Whitehall, 18 July 1666
f. 157v.Abraham Cowley, Sayes Court, 24 Aug. 1666
f. 158.Sir Samuel Tuke, Sayes Court, 27 Sept. 1666
f. 160v.[Earl of Clarendon], Lord Chancellor, Sayes Court, 27 Nov. 1666
f. 161v.Lord Douglas, Star Chamber, 7 Dec. 1666
f. 161v.Mons. Desmaretz of Jersey, Sayes Court, 17 Dec. 1666
f. 162.Henry Oldenburg, Sayes Court, 22 Dec. 1666
f. 162v.Sir Samuel Tuke, Sayes Court, 24 Dec. 1666
f. 163.Dr [Ralph] Bathurst, Sayes Court, 20 Jan. 1666/7
f. 163.Brother Richard Evelyn, Sayes Court, 8 Feb. 1666/7
f. 164.Abraham Cowley, Sayes Court, 12 March 1666/7
f. 165.Sir George Mackenzie, London, 15 March 1666/7
f. 165.[Earl of Clarendon], Lord Chancellor, London, 18 March 1666/7
f. 165v.Dr [Israel] Tongue [Tonge], Sayes Court, 25 April 1667
f. 165v.Sir William Penn, Star Chamber, 11 July 1667
f. 166.Sir James Langley, Sayes Court, 31 July 1667
f. 166.Henry Howard of Norfolk, Sayes Court, 4 Aug. 1667
f. 166v.Dr [Ralph] Bathurst, London, 9 Sept. 1667
f. 167.Obadiah Walker, London, 9 Sept. 1667
f. 167v.Dr [John] Fell, London, 11 Sept. 1667
f. 168.Sir Samuel Tuke, London, 26 Sept. 1667
f. 168v.Edward Evelyn, London, 27 Sept. 1667
f. 168v.Thomas Sprat, Sayes Court, 12 Nov. 1667
f.169.Earl of Sandwich, Sayes Court, 13 Dec. 1667
Page 134 2021-08-13 f. 169.Sir Robert Moray, Sayes Court, 13 Dec. 1667
f. 169v.Dr [Ralph] Bathurst, Sayes Court, 20 Feb. 1667/8
f. 169v.Sir George Mackenzie, Sayes Court, 11 April 1668
f. 170.Sir William Davenant, Says Court, 25 March 1668
f. 170.Joseph Glanvill, Sayes Court, 24 June 1668
f. 170v.Dr Edward Stillingfleet, Sayes Court, 4 Aug. 1668
f. 171.Earl of Sandwich, Sayes Court, 21 Aug. 1668
f. 172.Dr Stokes at Vienna, London, 21 Aug. 1668
f. 172v.Joseph Glanvill, Sayes Court, 26 Aug. 1668
f. 173.Dr [John] Beale, Sayes Court, 27 Aug. 1668
f. 174.Obadiah Walker, Sayes Court, 24 Sept. 1668
f. 174v.Thomas Lloyd, Says Court, 16 Oct. 1668
f. 174v.Sir Joseph Williamson, London, 17 Oct. 1668
f. 175.Obadiah Walker, London, 19 Oct. 1669[8?]
f. 176.Sir Thomas Clifford, Sayes Court, 1 Feb. 1668/9
f. 177.Dr [John] Fell, Sayes Court, 12 March 1668/9
f. 177.Lord Henry Howard, Sayes Court, 14 March 1668/9
f. 178.Dr [Isaac] Basiere [Basire], London, 8 May 1669
f. 178.Sister[-in-law Elizabeth] Evelyn, Sayes Court, 8 June 1669
f. 179.Lord Arlington, London, 11 June 1669
f. 179v.Obadiah Walker, Sayes Court, 21 Aug. 1669
f. 180.Earl of Clarendon, `from our poor Villa', 19 Sept. 1669
f. 180.Dr Meric Casaubon, Sayes Court, 17 Jan. `1669/70’
f. 180v.Dr Meric Casaubon, Sayes Court, 24 Jan. `1669’
f. 180v.Dr [William] Rand, Wotton, 20 March `1669'
f. 181.Dr [Ralph] Bathurst, Sayes Court, 21 Aug. 1669
f. 181.Sir Paul Neile, Covent Garden, 21 Sept. 1669
f. 181v.Sister[in-law Elizabeth] Evelyn, Sayes Court, 12 Sept. 1669
f. 182.Dr [Thomas] Barlow, Sayes Court, 12 Dec. 1669
f. 182.Lord Treasurer, Sayes Court, 20 Jan. `1670'
f. 182v.Dr John Beale, Sayes Court, 27 July 1670
f. 184v.Lord Chamberlain, Sayes Court, 28 Oct. 1670
f. 184v.Sir Thomas Hanmer, Sayes Court, 13 Dec. 1670
f. 185.Dr Glanville, Sayes Court, 15 Dec. 1670
f. 185.Matthew Wren, Sayes Court, 21 Jan. 1671/2
Page 135 2021-08-13 f. 185.Sir Denys Gauden, 21 Jan. 1671/2
f. 185.Bishop of Rochester, Sayes Court, 12 Feb. 1671/2
f. 185v.James Hamilton, Sayes Court, 27 April 1671
f. 186.Sir Edward Thurland, Sayes Court, 3 May 1671
f. 186.Lord Treasurer, Sayes Court, 14 July 1671
f. 186v.Sir George Lane, Sayes Court, 17 July 1671
f. 186v.Lord Clifford, Lord Treasurer, Sayes Court, 31 Aug. 1671
f. 187v.Lord Clifford, Sayes Court, 28 Aug. 1671
f. 187v.Lord Clifford, Lord Treasurer, Sayes Court, 14 Nov. 1671
f. 188.Lord Clifford, Lord Treasurer, 28 Jan. 167[1/2?]
f. 188v.Anne Howard, Sayes Court, 27 July 1672
f. 189.Viscount Mordaunt, Sayes Court, 29 July 1672
f. 189.Dr [John] Durell, Whitehall, 2 Aug. 1672
f. 189v.Sir Robert Holmes, Whitehall, 22 Aug. 1672
f. 189v.Craven Howard, Whitehall, 23 Aug. 1672
f. 190.Henry Savile, Rochester, 8 Sept. 1672
f. 190.Viscount Cornbury, Whitehall, 17 Sept. 1672
f. 190.Dr [Robert] Breton, Sayes Court, 28 Dec. 1672
f. 190v.Lord Danby, Lord Treasurer, Whitehall, 2 Jan. `1673'
f. 190v.Sidney Godolphin, Sayes Court, 21 June 1673
f. 191.Dorothy Howard, Sayes Court, 23 June 1673
f. 191.Lord Clifford, Lord Treasurer, Sayes Court, 21 Aug. `1672'
f. 191.Lady Yarburgh, Whitehall, 22 Nov. 1673
f. 191v.Obadiah Walker, London, 21 Dec. 1673
f. 191v.Mr Hunt, Sayes Court, 16 Dec. 1673
f. 191v.Francis de Sancta Clara (al.Davenport), Sayes Court, 12 Jan. `1674'
f. 192.Mrs [Elizabeth] Howard, Sayes Court, 21 April 1674
f. 192.Sister[-in-law Elizabeth] Evelyn, Sayes Court, 21 May 1674
f. 193.Lady Lewknor, Sayes Court, 17 May 1674
f. 193.Dr [Ralph] Bathurst, Sayes Court, 6 June 1674
f. 193v.Duchess of Newcastle, Sayes Court, 15 June `1674’
f. 193v.Robert Boyle, Sayes Court, 20 June 1674
f. 194.Dr Meric Casaubon, Sayes Court, 15 July `1674’
f. 194.Lady Berkeley, Sayes Court, 18 July 1674
f. 194v.Sir John Maynard, Sayes Court, 12 Sept. 1674
Page 136 2021-08-13 f. 194v.Mr [Samuel] Benson, Sayes Court, 2 Jan. `1675'
f. 194v.Lord Berkeley, Whitehall, 12 Feb. `1675'
f. 195.Sir Robert Viner, Sayes Court, 26 Feb. '1675'
f. 195.Lady Grahame, Sayes Court, 16 March `1675'
f. 195.Lady Berkeley, London, 13 April 1675
f. 195v.Dr [Ralph] Bathurst, Whitehall, 17 Sept. 1675
f. 195v.Dr [John] Beale, Sayes Court, 25 Nov. 1675
f. 195v.Lady Berkeley, Sayes Court, 28 Nov. 1675
f. 196.Son John Evelyn, Sayes Court, 31 Jan. 1675/6
f. 196v.Earl of Ossory, Whitehall, 21 Feb. 1675/6
f. 196v.Lady Berkeley, Sayes Court, 18 June 1676
f. 197.Viscount Mordaunt, London, 30 June 1676
f. 197.`Electra' [Margaret Godolphin], Sayes Court, 18 July 1676
f. 199.Viscountess Mordaunt, Sayes Court, 16 June 1677
f. 199v.Anne Howard, Sayes Court, 22 June 1677
f. 199v.Lord Arlington, Lord Chamberlain, Whitehall, 19 Sept. 1677
f. 200.Lord Treasurer, Lord Danby, London, 18 Dec. 1677
f. 200v.Dr Littleton, Sayes Court, 12 Feb. 1677/8
f. 200v.Dr Richard Owen, Sayes Court, 11 April 1678
f. 200v.Col. Richard Talbot, Whitehall, 22 June 1678
f. 200v.Lord Arlington, Lord Chamberlain, Sayes Court, [ ] 1678
f. 200v.Earl of Clarendon, Sayes Court, 3 Dec. 1678
f. 201.Countess of Clarendon, Sayes Court, 21 Feb. 1678/9
f. 201.Sidney Godolphin, Whitehall, Feb. 1679
f. 201v.Countess of Sunderland, n.p., n.d.
f. 201v.Charles Bertie, Whitehall, 15 Feb. 1679
f. 201v.Sir Henry Capel, Sayes Court, 16 Feb. 1679
f. 201v.Samuel Pepys, Sayes Court, 27 Feb. 1679
f. 202.Sidney Godolphin, Sayes Court, 28 Feb. 1679
f. 202.Countess of Clarendon, Sayes Court, 6 March 1679
f. 202.Sidney Godolphin, London, 12 March 1679
f. 203.Lady Sylvius, Sayes Court, 4 April 1679
f. 203.Son John Evelyn, n.p., n.d.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXXXII (ff. iv +167). Letterbook, containing letters numbered cccciii-dcccx, in continuation of the preceding volume, dated 15 April 1679-6 Feb. 1697/8(the last letter breaks off after the first few lines). Some of the drafts on single leaves, which now filed in the chronological sequence of general correspondence (Add. MSS 78315-78319 below), of which more survive from the 1690s and 1700s than any other period, were probably intended to be entered in this letterbook, `but they grew to[o] fast upon me' (Evelyn, Memoires for my Grandson, p. 65). Paginated by Evelyn: 1-232, with one leaf (pp. 67-68) torn out, probably by Evelyn himself, as the last lines on the preceding page have also been obliterated in ink; cf. the note by W. G. Hiscock (f. ii) that it was missing when the archive was deposited at Christ Church. At the end are: (ff. 129-144) a calendar of some letters in an unidentified 18 th cent. hand; (ff. 164-165v) an alphabetical index to letters in both volumes in the hand of John Evelyn, with references to his own pagination; notes (f. 167v) by Evelyn concerning styles of address, and (f.iv) a few references by Evelyn and his grandson, Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart., to particular letters. Addressees’ names and dates of letters are given by Evelyn as follows:
f. 1.Countess of Sunderland, London, 15 April 1679
f. 2.Lady Sylvius, Sayes Court, 4 May 1679
f. 2. Sir Stephen Fox, Sayes Court, 12 June 1679
f. 2v. Dr [John] Beale, Sayes Court, 11 July 1679
f. 2v. Sir Stephen Fox, London, 14 Nov. 1679
f. 3.Sidney Godolphin, Sayes Court, 17 Dec. 1679
f. 3. Samuel Pepys, Sayes Court, 20 Jan 1679/80
f. 3v. Sidney Godolphin, `Easter Monday 1679/80'
f. 4. Mrs [Jael] Boscawen, Sayes Court, 22 March 1679/80
f. 4. Sir John Stonehouse, Bart., Sayes Court, 3 March `1680'
f. 4v. Sir William Godolphin, Sayes Court, 28 April 1680
f. 4v. Earl of Arlington, Sayes Court, 12 March 1680
f. 5. Archbishop of Canterbury, Sayes Court, [1/]8 April 168[0?]
f. 5. Countess of Ossory, Whitehall, 3 [June?] 1680
f. 5. Countess of Bristol, Sayes Court, 1[7?] July 1680
f. 5v. Sidney Godolphin, Sayes Court, 13 Aug. 1680
f. 6. Countess of Sunderland, Sayes Court, 24 Aug. 1680
f. 6. Lady Berkeley, Sayes Court, 28 Aug. 1680
Page 138 2021-08-13 f. 6v. Niece [Anne] Montague, Sayes Court, 30 Aug. 1680
f. 7. Dr [Gilbert] Burnet, Sayes Court, 30 Aug. 1680
f. 7. Mr Upman, Fellow of Eton College, Whitehall, 11 Jan. 1680/1
f. 7. Lady Anne Spencer, Sayes Court, 14 Feb. 1680/1
f. 7v. Sir Stephen Fox, Sayes Court, 13 May 1681
f. 7v. Countess of Sunderland, Whitehall, 16 May 1681
f. 8. Sister[in-law Elizabeth] Evelyn, Sayes Court, 21 May 1681
f. 8. Bishop of Winchester, Sayes Court, 1 June 1681
f. 8. Samuel Pepys, Sayes Court, 5 June 1681
f. 8v. Lord Sunderland, Whitehall, 12 June 1681
f. 9. Countess of Sunderland, Sayes Court, 20 July 1681
f. 9. Sir Christopher Wren, Sayes Court, 23 Sept. 1681
f. 9v. William London, Sayes Court, 27 Sept. 1681
f. 10v. Sir Stephen Fox, Sayes Court, 3 Dec. 1681
f. 11. Samuel Pepys, Sayes Court, 5 Dec. 1681
f. 11v. Duke of Norfolk, Sayes Court, 10 Dec. 1681
f. 11v. Sidney Godolphin, Sayes Court, 19 Dec. 1681
f. 11v. Daniel Collwall [Colwall], Sayes Court, 11 Feb. 1681/2
f. 12. Bishop of Oxford, Sayes Court, 19 March 1681/2
f. 13v. Sidney Godolphin, Sayes Court, 2[3?] March 1681/2
f. 14v. Daughter Mary Evelyn, Whitehall, 31 May 1682
f. 15. Mr Creech, Fellow of Wadham College, Sayes Court, 4 Aug. 1682
f. 15v. Lady Berkeley, Sayes Court, 12 Aug. 1682
f. 16. Samuel Pepys, Sayes Court, 19 Sept. 1682
f. 17. Duchess of Grafton, 29 Sept. 1682
f. 17. Sidney Godolphin, Sayes Court, 19 Nov. 1682
f. 17v. Mr Creech, Whitehall, 29 Nov. 1682
f. 17v. Earl of Ossory, n.p., n.d. `This is misplaced'.
f. 18. Lord Chamberlain, Sayes Court, 13 Feb. 1682/3
f. 18. Lady Tuke, Sayes Court, 13 Feb. 1682/3
f. 18. William Pretyman, Sayes Court, 3 March 1682/3
f. 18v. Mr Creech, Sayes Court, 4 March 1682/3
f. 19. Dr Plot, Sayes Court, 16 March 1682/3
f. 20. Earl of Kildare, Sayes Court, 23 March 1682/3
f. 20. Sidney Godolphin, London, 5 April 1683
Page 139 2021-08-13 f. 20. Jonathan Taylor, n.p., n.d
f. 20v. Mr Evans, Vicar of St Helens, Sayes Court, 31 May 1683.
f. 21. Mrs Boscawen, Sayes Court, 1 June 1683
f. 21. Countess of Sunderland, 1 June 1683
f. 21. Samuel Pepys, Sayes Court, 10 Aug. 1683
f. 21v. Earl of Arlington, Sayes Court, 21 Sept. 1683
f. 21v. Lady Berkeley, Whitehall, 26 Nov. 1683
f. 22. Bishop of Oxford, Villiers Street, 27 Dec. 1683
f. 22v. Lady Berkeley, Villiers Street, 1 Dec. 1683
f. 22v. Bishop of Oxford, Villiers Street, 2 Dec. 1683
f. 22v. Lord Keeper [Francis] North, n.p., 3 Feb. 1683/4
f. 23. [Richard] Holden, vicar of Deptford, Villiers St, 11 Feb. 1683/4
f. 23v. Henry Slingsby, Villiers Street, 13 Feb. 1683/4
f. 23v. Mons. van der Douse [Does], London, 29 March 1684
f. 24. Sir Thomas Lynch, Sayes Court, 4 April 1684
f. 24. [Francis] Aston, sec. of the Royal Society, 12 April 1684
f. 25. [Robert] Berkeley [of Spetchley], Sayes Court, 22 April 1684
f. 25. Sidney Godolphin, Sayes Court, 22 April 1684
f. 25v. Countess of Clancarty, Sayes Court, 18 May 1684
f. 25v. Thomas Keightley, Sayes Court, 18 May 1684
f. 25v. Commissioners of the Navy, Sayes Court, 23 May 1684
f. 26. Sir Richard Anderson, Sayes Court, 23 May 1684
f. 26. Samuel Pepys, Sayes Court, 30 May 1684
f. 26v. Mrs [Jael] Boscawen, Sayes Court, 4 July 1684
f. 26v. Lady Berkeley, Sayes Court, 26 July 1684
f. 27. Mrs [Jael] Boscawen, Sayes Court, 31 May 1684
f. 27. Lord Godolphin, Sayes Court, 9 Sept. 1684
f. 27. Mrs Boscawen, Sayes Court, 11 Sept. 1684
f. 27v. Earl of Arlington, Sayes Court, 15 Oct. 1684
f. 27v. Peter Fontaine, Sayes Court, 25 Oct. 1684
f. 28.Lord Godolphin, Whitehall, 8 Dec. 1684
f. 28. Son [John Evelyn], Sayes Court, 22 Dec. 1684
f. 28v. Countess of Sunderland, Sayes Court, 8 Jan. 1684/5
f. 28v. Robert Berkeley, Sayes Court, 12 Jan. 1684/5
f. 28v. Countess of Clancarty, Sayes Court, 15 Jan. 1684/5
Page 140 2021-08-13 f. 29. Samuel Pepys, Sayes Court, 9 Feb. 1684/5
f. 29. Lord Godolphin, Sayes Court, 11 Feb. 1684/5
f. 29v. Brother George Evelyn, Sayes Court, 23 Feb. 1684/5
f. 30. Lady Sylvius, Sayes Court, 19 March 1684/5
f. 30v. Lord Godolphin, Sayes Court, 20 March 1684/5
f. 31. Mrs [Jael] Boscawen, Sayes Court, 23 March 1684/5
f. 31. Earl of Clarendon, Sayes Court, 23 March 1684/5
f. 31v. Lady Berkeley, Sayes Court, 25 March 1685
f. 31v. Lord Godolphin, Whitehall, 22 May 1685
f. 31v. Lady Sylvius, Sayes Court, 29 July 1685
f. 32. Samuel Pepys, Sayes Court, 3 Auy 1685
f. 32. Wife [Mary Evelyn], Sayes Court, 18 Aug. 1685
f. 32v. Dr [Ralph] Bohun, Sayes Court, 14 Sept. 1685
f. 32v. Countess of Sunderland, Sayes Court, 15 Sept. 1685
f. 32v. Henry Frederick Thynne, Sayes Court, 22 Sept. 1685
f. 33. Samuel Pepys, Sayes Court, 23 Sept. 1685
f. 33v. Dr [James] Hide, Sayes Court, 7 Oct. 1685
f. 33v. Countess of Sunderland [n.d., n.p.; incomplete]
f. 34. Samuel Pepys, Sayes Court, 31 Dec. 1685
f. 34. Viscount Cornbury, n.p., 31 Dec. 1685
f. 34v. Samuel Pepys, Sayes Court, 1 Jan. 1685/6
f. 34v. Dr Reines, judge, Sayes Court, 12 Jan. 1685/6
f. 35. Sir William Holford, Whitehall, 22 Jan. 1685/6
f. 35. Lord Godolphin, n.p., 22 Jan. 1685/6
f. 35. Earl of Clarendon, n.p., 2 Dec. 1685
f. 35v. Earl of Clarendon, Whitehall, 1 Feb. 1685/6
f. 35v. Countess of Clarendon, Whitehall, 1 Feb. 1685/6
f. 35v. Wife [Mary Evelyn], Whitehall, 3 Feb. 1685/6
f. 35v. Lord Lieutenant, Whitehall, 13 March 1685/6
f. 36. Countess of Clarendon, Whitehall, 13 March 1685/6
f. 36. Viscount Cornbury, Whitehall, 15 March 1685/6
f. 36. Countess of Sunderland, Whitehall, 14 March 1685/6
f. 36v. Lord Dartmouth, Whitehall, Whitehall, 3 May 1686
f. 36v. Countess of Sunderland, Whitehall, 6 May 1686
f. 37. Lord Lieutenant, Whitehall, 6 May 1686
Page 141 2021-08-13 f. 37. Sir Thomas Genner, Whitehall, 6 May 1686
f. 37v. Robert Phelips, Sayes Court, 18 May 1686
f. 37v. Lord Godolphin, Sayes Court, 23 May 1686
f. 38. Brother George Evelyn, Sayes Court, 8 June 1686
f. 38. Dr Parr, Sayes Court, 8 June 1686
f. 38. Samuel Pepys, Sayes Court, 29 June 1686
f. 38v. Lord Treasurer [Earl of Rochester], Whitehall, 7 July 1686
f. 38v. Lady Sylvius, Sayes Court, 9 July 1686
f. 39. Lord Treasurer [Rochester], Whitehall, 13 July 1686
f. 39. Robert Berkeley, Sayes Court, 16 July 1686
f. 39v. Earl of Clarendon, Sayes Court, 20 July 1686
f. 40. Countess of Clarendon, Sayes Court, 14 Aug. 1686
f. 40. Countess of Sunderland, Sayes Court, 12 Sept. 1686
f. 41. Earl of Clarendon, Sayes Court, 12 Sept. 1686
f. 41. Lord Godolphin, Sayes Court, 9 Sept. 1686
f. 41v. Mrs [Jael] Boscawen, Sayes Court, 17 Sept. 1686
f. 41v. Robert Berkeley, Sayes Court, 21 Sept. 1686
f. 42. Dr Venn, Whitehall, 8 Oct. 1686
f. 42. Robert Berkeley, Sayes Court, 22 Oct. 1686
f. 42v. Dr [Richard] Parr, Sayes Court, 4 Nov. 1686
f. 42v. Lord Godolphin, Sayes Court, 9 Oct. 1686
f. 43. Lord Godolphin, London, 16 Oct. 1686
f. 43. Duke of Norfolk, n.p., 27 Nov. 1686
f. 43. Samuel Pepys, London, 28 Nov. 1686
f. 43. `Lord Treasurer Danby’, Sayes Court, 3 Dec. 1686
f. 43. Cousin Stephens, London, 6 Dec. 1686
f. 43v. Countess of Clarendon, London, 27 Dec. 1686
f. 43v. Duke of Norfolk, London, 11 Jan. 1686/7
f. 44. Thomas Povey, Sayes Court, 10 Jan. 1686/7
f. 44. Lord Godolphin, Sayes Court, 10 Jan. 1686/7
f. 44v. Robert Berkeley, London, 15 Jan. 1686/7
f. 44v. Mr [Richard] Holden, vicar of Deptford, London, 17 Jan. 1686/7
f. 44v. Samuel Pepys, London, 19 Jan. 1686/7
f. 45v. Lord Arundel of Wardour, London, 12 March 1686/7
f. 46. Lord Godolphin, Deptford, 21 May 1687
Page 142 2021-08-13 f. 46. Samuel Pepys, Deptford, 20 June 1687
f. 46. Lord Clarendon, London, 23 June 1687
f. 46v. Lord Godolphin, London, 3 Aug. 1687
f. 46v. Mrs [Jael] Boscawen, Wotton, 6 Aug. 1687
f. 46v. Mrs [Dorothy] Grahme, Cranborne, 6 Aug. 1687
f. 46v. Dr [Thomas] Tennison [Tenison], Wotton, 10 Aug. 1687
f. 47. Countess of Clancarty, Sayes Court, 16 Sept. 1687
f. 47. Mrs [Jae] Boscawen, London, 19 Sept. 1687
f. 47v. Countess of Sunderland, Deptford, 30 Sept. 1687
f. 47v. Earl of Clarendon, Sayes Court, 11 Nov. 1687
f. 47v. Robert Berkeley, Sayes Court, 14 Nov. 1687
f. 48. Sister [-in-law Elizabeth] Evelyn, Sayes Court, 20 Feb. 1687/8
f. 48v. Sister [in-law] Elizabeth Evelyn, Sayes Court, 29 Feb. 1687/8
f. 48v. Mr Dummer, Deptford, 21 May 1688
f. 48v. Countess of Sunderland, Sayes Court, 15 June 1688
f. 49. Countess of Sunderland, London, 23 July 1688
f. 49v. Samuel Pepys, Deptford, 31 July 1688
f. 49v. Countess of Sunderland, London, 6 Aug. 1688
f. 50. Mrs [Jael] Boscawen, Deptford, 11 Aug. 1688
f. 50. Countess of Sunderland, Sayes Court, 14 Aug. 1688
f. 50. Countess of Sunderland, Sayes Court, 29 Aug. 1688
f. 50v. Mrs [Jael] Boscawen, Sayes Court, 31 Aug. 1688
f. 50v. Sir Charles Porter, Sayes Court, 4 Sept. 1688
f. 51. Robert Berkeley, Sayes Court, 18 Sept. 1688
f. 51. Countess of Sunderland, Deptford, 9 Sept. 1688
f. 51. Lord Godolphin, Sayes Court, 9 Sept. 1688
f. 51v. Archbishop of Canterbury [Sancroft], London, 10 Oct. 1688
f. 51v. Countess of Clarendon, Sayes Court, 12 Oct. 1688
f. 52. Samuel Pepys, London, 2 Nov. 1688
f. 52. Lady Sylvius, London, 4 Nov. 1688
f. 52v. Lord [ ], London, Nov. 1688
f. 53v. Countess of Sunderland, London, 7 Dec. 1688
f. 54. Lord Mayor [Sir John Chapman], Deptford, 12 Dec. 1688
f. 54. Son [John Evelyn], London, 18 Dec. 1688
f. 55. Brother [George] Evelyn, Deptford, 19 Dec. 1688
Page 143 2021-08-13 f. 55. Mr [William] Stringfellow, Deptford, 20 Dec. 1688
f. 55v. Countess of Sunderland, Sayes Court, 23 Dec. 1688
f. 56. Dr [Gilbert] Burnet, London, 23 Jan. 1688/9
f. 56. Countess of Sunderland, London, 22 Feb. 1688/9
f. 56v. Lord Spencer, London, 22 Feb. 1688/9
f. 56v. Countess of Sunderland, London, 28 Feb. 1688/9
f. 57. Mr [William] Stringfellow, London, 26 March 1689
f. 57. Sir Paul Rycaut, London, 26 March 1689
f. 57. Countess of Sunderland, London, 29 March 1689
f. 57v. Brother [-in-law] William] Glanville, Sayes Court, 3 April 1689
f. 57v. Lord Godolphin, Sayes Court, 4 April 1689
f. 58. Mr [Richard] Holden, vicar of Deptford, London, 25 April 1689
f. 58. Archbishop of Canterbury [Sancroft], Sayes Court, 1[?] May 1689
f. 58v. Countess of Bristol, Westminster, 21 June 1689
f. 58v. Justices of the Peace at Maidstone Assizes, London, 16 July 1689
f. 59. Earl of Monmouth, London, 17 July 1689
f. 59. Dr Harwood, Sayes Court, 21 Aug. 1689
f. 59. Samuel Pepys, Sayes Court, 12 Aug. 1689
f. 63. Daughter Susanna [Evelyn], Sayes Court, 14 Aug. 1689
f. 63v. Mrs [Jael] Boscawen, n.p., n.d.
f. 64. Samuel Pepys, Sayes Court, 1 Oct. 1689
f. 64v. Countess of Sunderland, London, 12 Jan. 1689/90
f. 64v. Samuel Pepys, Sayes Court, 20 Jan. 1689/90
f. 65. Robert Berkeley, London, 26 Jan. 1689/90
f. 65. Countess of Sunderland, Sayes Court, 1 Feb. 1689/90
f. 65. Francis Godolphin, London, 4 April 1690
f. 65v. Samuel Pepys, Soho Square, 7 April 1690
f. 66. Countess of Clarendon, Says Court, 16 June 1690
f. 68. [ ], Deptford, 21 June 1690
f. 68v. Countess of Sunderland, Sayes Court, 23 July 1690
f. 69. Dr [Thomas] Tenison, Sayes Court, 4 Aug. 1690
f. 69. Francis Godolphin, Deptford, 9 Aug. 1690
f. 69v. Earl of Clarendon, London, 18 Sept. 1690
f. 70. Lord Godolphin, Sayes Court, 20 Sept. 1690
f. 70. Samuel Pepys, London, 2 Oct. 1690
Page 144 2021-08-13 f. 70. Sir Nicholas Crisp, Deptford, 15 Oct. 1690
f. 70v. Countess of Bristol, Dover Street, 21 Nov. 1690
f. 70v. Countess of Sunderland, Dover Street, 26 Dec. 1690
f. 70v. Lord Spencer, Dover Street, 15 Jan. 1690/1
f. 71. Marquess of Carmarthen, Dover Street, 4 Feb. 1690/1
f. 71. Brother [George] Evelyn, Dover Street, 23 Feb. 1690/1
f. 71v. `The Bookseller’, Sayes Court, 15 May 1691
f. 71v. Brother[-in-law William] Glanville, Sayes Court, 20 May 1691
f. 72. Mr V. de Bendy, Sayes Court, 2 May 1691
f. 72. Brother [George] Evelyn, London, 25 May 1691
f. 72v. Samuel Pepys, Sayes Court, 12 June 1691
f. 72v. [William] Glanville, 21 June 1691
f. 72v. Lord Godolphin, Sayes Court, 26 June 1691
f. 73. Countess of Sunderland, Sayes Court, 27 June 1691
f. 73. Brother [George] Evelyn, Sayes Court, 21 July 1691
f. 73v. Lord Godolphin, Wotton, 31 July 1691
f. 74. Mr [Anthony] Wood, Sayes Court, 29 May 1691
f. 74v. Countess of Sunderland, Dover Street, 14 Oct. 1691
f. 74v. Sir William Godolphin, Sayes Court, 20 Oct. 1691
f. 74v. Anthony Bowyer, Dover Street, 5 Nov. 1691
f. 75. Dr [Ralph] Bohun, Dover Street, 5 Nov. 1691
f. 75. Mr Chamberlaine, Alderman, Dover Street, 10 Nov. 1691
f. 75. Countess of Sunderland, Dover Street, 10 Nov. 1691
f. 75v. Brother [George] Evelyn, Dover Street, 13 Nov. 1691
f. 76. Sir Laurence Staughten, Bart., Dover Street, 23 Nov. 1691
f. 76v. Thomas Berenger, Dover Street, 30 Nov. 1691
f. 76v. Sister [in-law Elizabeth] Evelyn, London, Dec. 1688
f. 77v. Mrs M[ary] Tuke, Dover Street, 12 Jan. 1691/2
f. 78. Lord Spencer, Dover Street, 15 Jan. 1691/2
f. 78v. Brother [George] Evelyn, Dover Street, 18 Jan. 1691/2
f. 79. Sir Dudley Cullum, Dover Street, 24 Feb. 1691/2
f. 79. Samuel Pepys, Dover Street, 12 April 1692
f. 79v. Lady Wyche [niece Mary Evelyn], n.p.; n.d.
f. 79v. Archbishop [John] Tillotson, Dover Street, 3 May 1692
f. 80. Bishop of Lincoln, Sayes Court, 16 July 1692
Page 145 2021-08-13 f. 80. Countess of Clancarty, Dover Street, 30 July 1692
f. 80. Countess of Sunderland, Dover Street, 2 Aug. 1692
f. 80v. Samuel Pepys, Wotton, 9 Sept. 1692
f. 80v. Lord [ ], n.p., 12 Oct. 1692
f. 80v. Bishop of Lincoln, Sayes Court, 15 Oct. 1692
f. 82. Earl of Clarendon, Dover Street, 4 Jan. 1692/3
f. 82. Mr B[ ], Dover Street, 21 Feb. 1691/2
f. 83. Mr [Richard] Bentley, Dover Street, 3 March 1693
f. 83. Brother [George] Evelyn, Dover Street, 16 April 1693
f. 83v. Lady Sylvius, Dover Street, 26 April 1693
f. 83v. Brother [George] Evelyn, Dover Street, 16 May 1693
f. 83v. Lord Spencer, Deptford, n.d.
f. 84. Lady Tuke, Deptford, [29?] June 1693
f. 84. [Henry Compton], Bishop of London, 23 June 1693
f. 84v. Mr [William] Stringfellow, n.p., n.d.
f. 84v. Mr Justell, Deptford, 21 Aug. 1693
f. 85. Mr Churchill, bookseller, Sayes Court, 23 Aug. 1693
f. 85. Dr Plot, Sayes Court, 27 Aug. 1693
f. 85. Lord Spencer, Deptford, 4 Sept. 1693
f. 85v. Bishop of Lincoln, Sayes Court, 24 Oct. 1693
f. 85. Daughter [Susanna] Draper, n.p., n.d.
f. 85v. Duchess of Grafton, Dover Street, 28 Nov. 1693
f. 86. Bishop of Lincoln, Dover Street, 23 Feb. `1693’
f. 86. Brother, George Evelyn, Dover Street, 28 March 1694
f. 86. Samuel Pepys, Dover Street, 2 April 1694
f. 86v. Dr Gale, Dover Street, 4 April 1694
f. 86v. William Blathwayt, Dover Street, 4 April 1694
f. 86v. Bishop of Lincoln, n.p., n.d.
f. 87. Cousin George Evelyn of Nutfield, Sayes Court, 13 April 1694
f. 87. Richard Waller, Wotton, 8 May 1694
f. 87. Countess of Sunderland, Wotton, 8 May 1694
f. 87. Mr Gibson, Wotton, 31 May 1694
f. 87v. Mr Walker, Wotton, 12 May 1694
f. 87v. Cousin Park, Wotton, 12 May 1694
f. 88. Bishop of Lincoln, Wotton, 29 May 1694
Page 146 2021-08-13 f. 88. Samuel Pepys, Wotton, 30 May 1694
f. 88v. Mr [Benjamin] Took, Wotton, 2 June 1694
f. 88v. Commissioners of the Navy, Wotton, 17 June 1694
f. 89. Samuel Pepys, Wotton, 7 July 1694
f. 89. Lord Spencer, Wotton, 6 July 1694
f. 89v. William Wotton, Wotton, 11 July 1694
f. 89v. Mr Gibson, Wotton, 15 July 1694
f. 90. Bishop of Lincoln, Wotton, 5 Aug. 1694
f. 90v. Countess of Sunderland, Wotton, 5 Aug. 1694
f. 90v. Daughter [Susanna] Draper, Wotton, Aug. 1694
f. 90v. Lord Spencer, Wotton, 2 Aug. 1694
f. 91. Samuel Pepys, Wotton, 2 Sept. 1694
f. 91v. Archbishop [Tenison] of Canterbury, Wotton, 7 Jan. 169[4/5]
f. 92. Mr Bentley, Wotton, 7 Jan. 1694/5
f. 92. Samuel Pepys, Wotton, 7 Jan. 1694/5
f. 92. Lord Spencer, Wotton, 28 Jan. 1694/5
f. 92v. Lord Godolphin, Wotton, 3 Feb. 1694/5
f. 92v. Bishop Lloyd of Coventry, Wotton, 5 Feb. 1694/5
f. 93. Mr Gibson, Wotton, 1 Feb. 1694/5
f. 93v. Mr Chadwick, Wotton, 8 Feb. 1694/5
f. 93v. Samuel Pepys, Wotton, 25 March 1695
f. 94. Lady Sylvius, Wotton, [7?] April 1695
f. 94. Mr Strange, Wotton, n.d.
f. 94v. Archbishop of Canterbury, Wotton, 15 April 1695
f. 94v. William Glanville, n.p, n.d.
f. 94v. Lord Capel, Dover Street, 4 July 1695
f. 95. Sister Draper, Wotton, 23 July 1695
f. 95v. Lord Godolphin, Wotton, Aug. 1695
f. 95v. Countess of Sunderland, Wotton, Sept. 1695
f. 95v. Archbishop of Canterbury, Wotton, 14 Sept. 1695
f. 95v. Sir Samuel Morland, Wotton, 18 Sept. 1695
f. 96. Mr Charlton, Wotton, 18 Sept. 1695
f. 96. Dr Williams, Wotton, Sept. 1695
f. 96. Mr Strange, London, 8 Oct. 1695
f. 96v. Sir John Chardin, `the great traveller’, Surrey Street, 9 Oct. 1695
Page 147 2021-08-13 f. 96v. Dr [Ralph] Bohun, Surrey Street, 11 Oct. 1695
f. 96v. Mrs [Jael] Boscawen, Surrey Street, 25 Nov. 1695
f. 96v. Lord Capel, Surrey Street, 1 Dec. 1695
f. 97. Mr [Samuel] Travers, Wotton, 29 Dec. 1695
f. 97v. Mr Vanbrugh, Wotton, 9 Jan. 1695/6
f. 97v. Mr [Richard] Bentley, Wotton, 14 Jan. 1695/6
f. 98. Mr Hunt, Wotton, 14 Jan. 1695/6
f. 98. Son-in-Law [William] Draper, Wotton, 24 Jan. 1695/6
f. 98. Lord Godolphin, Wotton, 7 Feb. 1695/6
f. 98v. Mr [Richard] Bentley, Wotton, 16 Feb. 1695/6
f. 98v. Dr [Ralph] Bohun, Wotton, 24 Feb. 1695/6
f. 99. Mr [Richard] Bentley, Wotton, `quinquagesima’ 1695/6
f. 99. Sister Draper, 13 March 1695/6
f. 99v. Mr [Richard] Bentley, Wotton, 22 March 1695/6
f. 99v. Mr [William] Wotton, Wotton, 30 March 1696
f. 101v.Mr [Roger] Wye, Wotton, 30 March 1696
f. 101v. Archbishop of Canterbury, Surrey Street, 29 April 1696
f. 101v. Mr [William] Wotton, Surrey Street, 12 May 1696
f. 102. [Richard] Holden, Vicar of Deptford, Sayes Court, 18 May 1696
f. 102v. Dr Williams, London, 14 June 1696
f. 103. Lord Godolphin, Surrey Street, 16 June 1696
f. 104. Mr Place, Surrey Street, 17 Aug. 1696
f. 105. Lord Godolphin, n.p., 3 Aug. 1696
105v. Officers of the King’s Yard, Deptford, London, 8 Sept. 1696
f. 105v. Archbishop of Canterbury, Surrey Street, 17 Sept. 1696
f. 106. Lord Godolphin, Surrey Street, 12 Aug. 1696
f. 106. William Bridgman, Surrey Street, 15 Sept. 1696
f. 106v. Sister Draper, n.p., 16 Sept. 1696
f. 106v. Lord Godolphin, n.p., 18 Sept. 1696
f. 106v. Dr [Richard] Bentley, Wotton, 18 Oct. 1696
f. 107. Archbishop of Canterbury, n.p., n.d.
f. 107. Mr [William] Wotton, Wotton, 28 Oct. 1696
f. 107v. Son [John Evelyn], Wotton, 6 Oct. 1696
f. 107v. Sir Stephen Fox, Wotton, 15 Nov. 1696
f. 108. Samuel Pepys, Wotton, 3 Dec. 1696
Page 148 2021-08-13 f. 108v. Mrs [Jael] Boscawen, Wotton, 3 Dec. 1696
f. 108v. Countess of Sunderland, n.p., n.d.
f. 109. Archbishop of Canterbury, Wotton, 6 Dec. 1696
f. 109. Son-in-Law Draper, Wotton, 10 Jan. 1696/7
f. 109. Lord Godolphin, Wotton, 10 Jan. 1696/7
f. 109v. Dr [Richard] Bentley, Wotton, 10 Jan. 1696/7
f. 109v. Archbishop of Canterbury, Wotton, 18 Jan. 1696/7
f. 110. Dr [Richard] Bentley, Wotton, 20 Jan. 1696/7
f. 110v. Countess of Sunderland, Wotton, 7 Feb. 1696/7
f. 110v. Archbishop of Canterbury, Wotton, 10 April 1697
f. 111. Son [John] Evelyn, Wotton, 17 April 1697
f. 111. Mr [William] Wotton, Wotton, 13 April 1697
f. 111v. Viscount Galway, London, 19 April 1697
f. 112. Mrs [Jael] Boscawen, Berkeley Street, May 1697
f. 112v. Countess of --, Wotton, 4 May 1697
f. 112v. Mr [William] Wotton, Berkeley Street, 26 June 1697
f. 113. Mr [Charles] Trimnell, Wotton, 19 Aug. 1697
f. 113. Archbishop of Canterbury, Wotton, 26 Sept. 1697
f. 113. Dowager Countess of Clancarty, Wotton, 3 Oct. 1697
f. 113. Mr Bridgeman, Wotton, 28 Sept. 1697
f. 113v. Daughter Draper, Wotton, 14 Oct. 1697
f. 113v. Countess of Sunderland, n.p., n.d.
f. 113v. Lady Tuke, Surrey Street, 1 Nov. 1697
f. 114. Countess of Sunderland, Surrey Street, 24 Dec. 1697
f. 114. Lord Godolphin, London, 24 Dec. 1697
f. 114. Mr [William] Wotton, London, 24 Dec. 1697
f. 114v. Dr [Richard] Bentley, Wotton, 25 Dec. 1697
f. 114v. Sister Draper, Wotton, 25 Dec. 1697
f. 115. Sir Christopher Wren, Wotton, 20 Feb. 1696/7
f. 115. Archbishop of Canterbury, Wotton, Feb. 1696/7
f. 115v. Dr [Richard] Bentley, Wotton, 4 Feb. 1697/8
f. 115v. Lord Godolphin, Wotton, 6 Feb. 1697/8
f. 115v. Dr [Henry] Godolphin [unfinished], n.p., n.d.
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Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
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Creation Date 1635-1706
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Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vols CXXXIII-CLV. Letters to Evelyn from various correspondents, with some drafts of his letters; 1635-1706. Letters from members of Evelyn’s immediate family and large groups of letters from a single correspondent are placed together in Add. MSS 78300-78314. Single letters or small groups are arranged chronologically in Add. MSS 78315-78319. The sequences as they arranged here are not complete. A number of letters to Evelyn from notable correspondents were removed from the family archive by the collector William Upcott in the early 19th century. Several of the albums in which he mounted his autograph collection were bought back by the Evelyn family in 1846 and are now in Add. MSS 78678-78689 below; the Evelyn items are highlighted there. Further Evelyn letters from Upcott's collection were purchased by the British Museum at the same period and are now in Add. MSS 15948-15949, 15857-15858, and 15889. See Evelyn’s letterbooks (Add. MSS 78298-78299 above) for copies of his letters to some of the individuals whose letters to him are in the following sequences. His letters to other family members whose papers form separate sections in the present archive, notably his wife, son and grandson, brother and father-in-law, are to be found in these sections of the archive.Twenty-three volumes. (1635-1706)
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Creation Date 1652-1705
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXXXIII (ff. 130).
1.ff. 1-85. Letters to John Evelyn from his wife Mary, daughter of Sir Richard Browne and Elizabeth (Pretyman); 1652-1705.
2.ff. 86-89. Letters from his daughters Mary (1665-1685), 1681, and Elizabeth (1667-1685), 1685.
3.ff. 90-130. Letters from his daughter Susan (1669-1754) and her husband William Draper of Addiscombe;1693-1704, n.d. Most of the letters are from Draper and include some of Evelyn's draft replies on blank leaves. He was nephew of Sir Thomas Draper of Sunninghill, Bart.; his papers as Treasurer of Greenwich Hospital, in which post he succeeded his father-in-law, are Add. 38464-38466. In addition to family matters, the letters concern Sayes Court, where Drapers lived intermittently from May 1694, the building of Greenwich Hospital and other public matters. See also letters of 25 July 1691 and 4 Aug. 1697, Add. MS 15949, ff. 28, 128.
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Creation Date 1665-1705
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXXXIV (ff. 110).
1.ff. 1-83. Letters from his son John, 1665-1697, with one (f. 109) from his widow Martha (Spencer), 1699. Several early letters are in Latin.
2.ff. 84-108. Letters from his grandson John, son of the preceding and afterwards Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart.; 1699-1705. Many are in Latin.
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Creation Date 1635-1688
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXXXV (ff. 93).
1.ff. 1-13. Letters from his father, Richard Evelyn of Wotton; 1635-1640.
2.ff. 14-93. Letters from his younger brother Richard Evelyn of Woodcote (1622-1670), 1644-1668, n.d., his brother’s wife Elizabeth (Mynne), 1666-1688, and one in French (f. 59) from their daughter Anne (afterwards wife of William Montagu), 1664; 1644-1688. Followed (ff. 87-93) by documents deriving from a dispute about the settlement of Richard Evelyn’s estate; these include printed copies of a Case of George Evelyn and manuscript copies (in the hand of William Glanville junior) of the will of Richard Evelyn, 5 Feb. [1669[/70], and of acrimonious correspondence between George and John Evelyn and Richard Evelyn’s heirs, 1673-1688. Many of the documents have formerly been damaged by damp and suffered considerable loss of text.
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Page 151 2021-08-13 Add MS 78303-78304 EVELYN PAPERS. Vols CXXXVI, CXXXVII. Letters from his elder brother George Evelyn of Wotton (1617-1699), with
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Creation Date 1636-1699
Extent and Format 2 items
Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vols CXXXVI, CXXXVII. Letters from his elder brother George Evelyn of Wotton (1617-1699), with a few letters from his first wife, Mary (Caldwell; d. 1644), and second wife, Mary (Offley; formerly wife of Sir John Cotton and still known as Lady Cotton after her marriage to George Evelyn, d. 1664) and his eldest son George; 1636-1699. Several letters of the 1650s refer to the creation of the landscape garden at Wotton. See also Add. MS 15949, ff. 2-4, for further letters of 1685-1686, printed in Helen Evelyn, History of the Evelyn Family (1915), pp. 48-52. Many letters have been damaged by damp, with some loss of text; some 20th cent. transcripts are also included. At the end are copies of a case, partly printed, of George Evelyn for presentation to the House of Commons, concerning the settlement of Wotton on his brother John after the death of his own male heirs, with annotations and responses by John Evelyn; [1690s] (one formerly Evelyn MS 308, the others unnumbered).Two volumes. (1636-1699)
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Creation Date 1636-1659
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Scope and Content Vol. CXXXVI (ff. 102). 1636-1659.
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Page 152 2021-08-13 Add MS 78304 (1660-1699)
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Creation Date 1660-1699
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Scope and Content Vol CXXXVII (ff. 144). 1660-1699.
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Creation Date 1638-1702
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXXXVIII (ff. 89). Letters to Evelyn from his sister Jane (1616-1651), 1638-1651 (including one draft reply); her husband William Glanville, 1642-1694, and their son William Glanville, 1695-1702. William Granville’s first letter is in Latin. A number of the letters have been damaged by damp, with some loss of text; some 20th cent. transcripts are also included. Several of William Glanville's letters are addressed jointly to Evelyn and his wife; for Glanville's letters to Mrs Evelyn alone, see Add. MS 78434 below. One further letter from Glanville to Evelyn, removed by William Upcott, is in his album, Add. MS 78684 below. Evelyn’s letters to Jane Glanville are in Add. MS 78296 above.
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Page 153 2021-08-13 Add MS 78306 (1647-1697)
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Creation Date 1647-1697
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXXXIX (ff. 161).
1.ff. 1-85. Letters from Evelyn's parents-in-law, Lady (Elizabeth) Browne (née Pretyman), 1647-1649, and Sir Richard Browne, 1652-1681. With the exception of a few letters of 1652, all Browne's letters in this series are dated after 1660. For further letters of 1647-1665, some addressed to Evelyn under the pseudonym John Grafton or John Richardson, see Add. MS 15857, ff. 108-123, 148-150, Add. MS 15948, ff. 57, 64, and Add. MS 34702, ff. 23-222 passim. For Evelyn’s letters to Browne, see Add. 78221 above and Add. MS 15948, ff. 5-37. A further letter from Browne, 19 Dec 1665, is in the Houghton Library, Harvard University.
2.ff. 86-161. Letters from Sir Samuel Tuke, 1st Bart., 1649-1672, including two letters from his brother George Tuke, 1658, 1659 (ff. 95, 102), and followed by three letters from Sir Samuel’s second wife Mary (Sheldon), 1673, 1697, and their daughter Mary (`Mop'), 1690; 1649-1697 (ff. 157-161). Copies of a number of Evelyn's letters to Tuke are entered in his letterbook, Add. MS 78298 above. Sir Samuel Tuke was a cousin of Mary Evelyn through her mother's family, the Pretymans (see Esmond de Beer’s article in Notes and Queries, 161, 1931, p. 346). A Roman Catholic convert, he was settled in the household of Henry Howard, grandson of Thomas, Earl of Arundel and the future Duke of Norfolk, at Norwich in the early 1660s as tutor to his sons, and his letters from there refer several times to Dr (afterwards Sir) Thomas Browne. He was the author of a successful play, The Adventures of Five Hours (1663). Two of his commonplace books (Add. MSS 78423-78424) came into Evelyn's hands, presumably after his death, which is usually (e.g., in the Oxford DNB) said to have taken place in January 1674. However there are no letters to Evelyn later than 1672, and in her letter endorsed by Evelyn `April 1673', Lady Tuke refers to herself as recently widowed.
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Creation Date 1671-1704
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXL (ff. 165). Correspondence with Margaret (Blagge) Godolphin, [1672?]-1678, her husband Sidney Godolphin, afterwards Baron and 1st Earl of Godolphin, 1676-1704, and their son Francis, afterwards 2nd Earl of Godolphin, 1690-1702; 1673-1704. Evelyn's letters are drafts or copies; several of Margaret Blagge's letters are copies in Evelyn's hand, possibly made when she requested their return of in anticipation of her marriage and kept back some of the originals, telling him he could `take out what ever you like of them without out putting any marke upon them whos they were' (see her letters of June-July [1674], ff. 41, 45-46). For a further letter from Evelyn, see Add. MS 15950, ff. 106-107; for instructions compiled by Mary Evelyn and written out by her husband as guidance for Margaret Godolphin in setting up and keeping house on an income of £500 a year, [1676-1677] see Add. MS 80766.
Margaret Blagge (1652-1678) was the daughter of Col. Thomas Blagge, royalist and groom of the bedchamber to Charles II. On 16 October 1672, while she was maid of honour to Queen Catherine of Braganza, Evelyn made a pact of spiritual friendship with her, as he describes in his Diary, III, p. 628, and in his comemorative `Life of Mrs Godolphin'. At the time she was debating with herself and with Evelyn whether she should fulfil her long-standing engagment to Sidney Godolphin or pursue her religious vocation in a single life. Many of her letters are undated, but most can be dated from internal evidence, at least so as to make the sequence clear; many belong to the period 1673-1674, when the friendship was at its most intense and she was undecided about her future. For the devotional works they also exchanged during this period, see Add. MSS 78372-78392 below. In May 1675 she married Godolphin in secret and died on 9 September 1678, immediately after the birth of her first child. Evelyn's friendship with Sidney Godolphin and with the son, Francis, who survived his mother, continued after her death, and in 1705 his grandson and heir married Sidney Godolphin's niece, Anne Boscawen.
Many of Margaret Godolphin's letters bear multiple endorsements by Evelyn, in the form of symbols (chiefly the pentacle which he used to designate her), numeration (sometimes more than one sequence) and other comments. The numeration does not appear to have a clear connection with the chronology of the letters, but may be connected with the writing of his `Life of Mrs Godolphin'. This work was completed in 1684 and circulated amongst her family and friends, but not published for the first time until 1847; see The Life of Mrs Godolphin, ed. Harriet Sampson (1932), which discusses the earlier printed editions. Evelyn quoted or paraphrased some of the present correspondence in this work, including several letters of Margaret Godolphin which no longer survive in manuscript. The two manuscripts of the `Life', one a scribal copy presented to her friend Lady Sylvius in 1684, and the other an autograph version of it presented to Sidney Godolphin in 1702, are both now in the Houghton Library, Harvard University.
In his later years Evelyn kept the Godolphins' letters by him `in the Scrittore in my Closett next the Bedchamber at Wotton' (see the list in Add. MS 78404 below). He transcribed a few of his retained copies and drafts to them into his letterbooks (Add. MSS 78298-78299), but endorsements on his letters to Sidney Godolphin of 8 April 1679 (`These copies should be transcribed with the rest of mine to Mr Godolphin') and 9 Sept. 1680 (`Let these be Copyed & kept') suggest that he may have intended a separate transcribed sequence of these.
Many of the present letters are printed in W. G. Hiscock, John Evelyn and Mrs Godolphin (1951) and John Evelyn and his Family Circle (1955). His reading of the friendship in these works was based on the conjectural dates he supplied and also pencilled on the letters themselves while they were on deposit at Christ Church. These remain on the letters, but are not always reliable; an example is the letter referring to Margaret's concern for James Hamilton, fatally injured in a naval battle in June 1673 (f. 15), which bears Hiscock's pencilled date `[1674?]'. See also F. Harris, Transformations of Love: the Friendship of John Evelyn and Margaret Godolphin (Oxford, 2003).
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXLI (ff. 209). Letters from John, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, 1676-1677, his wife, Christian, Lady Berkeley, 1676-1685 (with one draft reply from Evelyn), and one letter from their eldest son Charles, afterwards 2nd Baron Berkeley, 1677 (f. 171); 1675-1685. A few of Berkeley's letters are in the hand of an amanuensis and include some copies of his letters to others. Margaret Godolphin (see Add. MS 78307 above) lived in the Berkeleys' household before her marriage; Lady Berkeley's letter of 19/29 Jan. 1676 includes a copy in Evelyn's hand of a note originally written by her. The Berkeleys' letters chiefly refer to Evelyn's stewardship of their affairs, including their houses in Piccadilly and Twickenham, undertaken while Berkeley was ambassador at Paris and Nimeguen. Further letters from Berkeley, 21/31 Dec. 1675, and from Lady Berkeley, aft. 1676, are in Add. MS 15948, ff. 146 and 153. A few copies of Evelyn's letters to them are entered in his letterbooks.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXLII (ff. 143).
1.ff. 1-21. Letters to Evelyn from Elizabeth Carey, wife of John, Viscount Mordaunt, 1655-1678, with one copy of a letter from Evelyn, 1678, and preceded by one note of 1650 from her sister Philadelphia, afterwards wife of Sir Henry Lyttelton, 2nd Bart.; 1650-1678. Copies of several more letters from Evelyn to Lady Mordaunt are entered in his letterbook. One letter from her and three from her husband to Evelyn, removed by William Upcott, are now in his album, Add. MS 78679 below.
2.ff. 22-52. Letters to Evelyn from Anne Howard, daughter of the Hon. William Howard and wife (1677) of Sir Gabriel Sylvius; 1675-1694. Copies of letters from Evelyn to her before and after her marriage are entered in his letterbooks, Add. MSS 78298-78299 above.
3.ff. 53-78. Letters to Evelyn from Anne (Digby) Spencer, wife of Robert, 2nd Earl of Sunderland, including copies of three letters from Evelyn to her; 1678-1702. The remainder of Lady Sunderland's letters to Evelyn, 1675-1699, were removed by William Upcott and are now in Add. MS 15889 and in Upcott's album, Add. MS 78679 below. Several letters to Lady Sunderland are entered in Evelyn's letterbooks. Followed (f. 77) by a letter from her son, Charles, Lord Spencer, afterwards 3rd Earl of Sunderland; 1689 (for further letters from hin, separately bound, see Add. MS 78310 below).
4.ff. 79-143. Correspondence of Evelyn with Jael (Godolphin) Boscawen, widow of Edward Boscawen, M.P., and sister of Sidney, 1st Earl of Godolphin, including (f. 81) one letter on her behalf from her sister Penelope Godolphin; 1680-1705. The last letters in the sequence
Page 156 2021-08-13 concern the negotiations for the marriage of the Boscawens' daughter Anne to Evelyn's grandson, John Evelyn, afterwards 1st Bart.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXLIII. Letters from Charles, Lord Spencer, the second enclosing a copy of a dissertation in Latin (formerly Evelyn MS 226); 1691, [1690]. Three further letters, 1690-1694, are in Add. MS 78679 below. Copies of letters from Evelyn are entered in his letterbook. The dissertation as lot 72 in Evans’ sale of William Upcott’s collection, 22 June 1846 (Add. MS 78584 B) and purchased by William John Evelyn.
ff. ii+13. Binding of dark blue leather, early 19th cent. 190 x 165mm.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXLIV (ff. 75).
1.ff. 1-31. Letters from James Thicknesse (or Thickins); 1640-1661. Partly Latin. Evelyn's friend at Oxford and companion on his travels in France and Italy, he appears to have died of an ague at Malden in Essex, not long after the last letter in this series was written; see Evelyn, Diary, I, pp. 13-14.
2.ff. 32-59. Letters from Thomas Henshaw; 1645-1659, n.d. Followed by one undated draft from Evelyn, [1697?]. Two more letters from Henshaw to Evelyn, 1656-1657, are Add. MS 15948, ff. 61-62. Copies of three letters from Evelyn to Henshaw, 1645-1658, are included in his letterbook. Evelyn shared his Middle Temple chambers with Henshaw (1618-1700), travelled with him in Italy in the 1640s, and later shared a common enthusiasm for gardening and virtuoso pursuits. After the Restoration Henshaw was F.R.S., French secretary to Charles II and Resident in Denmark. For his alchemical diary, 1668, see Sloane MS 2222, ff. 136-141v.
3.ff. 60-75. Letters from Philip Packer, of Groombridge; 1649-1682. Including one retained copy of a letter from Evelyn of 1678. Packer (circa 1618-1686) was Evelyn's contemporary at Oxford and the Middle Temple. After the Restoration he was F.R.S. and Paymaster of the King's Works, 1668-1686. See Evelyn, Diary, II, pp. 547-548, and Howard Colvin, History of the King's Works, 5 (1976), pp. 10-11. For letters from his daughters to Mary Evelyn, see Add. MS 78436 below.
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Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vols CXLV, CXLVI. Letters from John Beale, D.D., F.R.S. (1608-1683), Rector of Yeovil; 1659-1679. Partly Latin, including some verse. Some of the letters are in the hands of amanuenses and signed or initialled by Beale. Several have formerly been damaged by damp and are now discoloured and have portions of text missing. Further letters from Beale to Evelyn, once part of this sequence, were removed by Evelyn to the collection of notes and documents put together for insertion in his `Elysium Britannicum' (Add. MS 78343, ff. 66-74, 79, 126, 133-35, below); others were removed by William Upcott and are now Add. MS 15948, ff. 80-96, 136-138, and in the album, Add. MS 78683 below. A copy of one letter of 20 Sept. 1659 is in Sheffield University Library, Hartlib Papers 67/22/1A. Copies of five letters from Evelyn to Beale, 1660-1675, are entered in his letterbooks. For Beale, a writer on orchards and husbandry, whose treatise `Pomona' was published as part of Evelyn's Sylva, see Mayling Stubbs, `John Beale, Philosophical Gardener of Herefordshire', Annals of Science, 39 (1982), pp. 463-489, and 46 (1988), pp. 323-363, Peter H. Goodchild, `John Evelyn, John Beale and Backbury Hill, Herefordshire', Garden History, 19 (1991), pp. 105-127, and Michael Leslie, `The Spiritual Husbandry of John Beale’, in Culture and Cultivation, ed. M. Leslie and T. Raylor (Leicester, 1992).Two volumes (1659-1679)
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Scope and Content Vol. CXLV (ff. 120). 1659-1669.
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Scope and Content Vol. CXLVI (ff. 110). 1670-1679.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXLVII (ff. 108).
1.ff. 1-53. Letters from Ralph Bohun, D.C.L. (1685), tutor to John Evelyn junior at Sayes Court and Oxford from 1665 till January 1671 (Diary, III, p. 566), and Rector of Wotton from 1701 until his death in 1716; 1665-1706. Including one letter from his uncle Dr Ralph Bathurst, Master of Trinity, concerning Bohun, 1668, and one draft from Evelyn to Bohun, 1701. For Bohun's surviving papers, including his correspondence, manuscript sermons and library catalogue, see Add MSS 78539-78542 below. One further letter from Bohun to Evelyn, removed by William Upcott, is in his album, Add. MS 78683 below.
2.ff. 54-84. Correspondence with Samuel Pepys; 1665-1703. Followed by one letter from John Jackson, 1703, announcing Pepys's death. Several of Pepys's letters written in an official capacity are in clerks' hands and signed only; Evelyn's letters are mostly drafts and copies, but include several originals which were added to the archive by purchase: 1 May 1665, Sotheby's, June 1869, lot 364; 1 Dec. 1681, Simon Finch Rare Books, Oct. 1998 (untraced in de la Bédoyère below); 1 March 1686, 4 Oct. 1689 and 11 Jan. 1690, from Samuel John Davey as traced by de la Bédoyère in the edition noted below. In addition to the loose drafts and copies, Evelyn entered copies of some of his letters to Pepys in his letterbooks. The association between Pepys and Evelyn began while Evelyn was Commissioner for Sick and Wounded Seamen in 1665 and in their later years became a close friendship. Because of its attraction
Page 159 2021-08-13 for collectors, their correspondence is now widely dispersed and a number of Pepys's letters are untraced (although some removed by William Upcott are in his albums, Add. MSS 78680, 78684 below). The whole surviving correspondence on both sides is published in Particular Friends, ed. Guy de la Bédoyère (Boydell, 1997), which points out that Evelyn's letterbook copies sometimes differ significantly from the versions sent where these can be traced.
3.ff. 85-108. Letters from Benjamin Tooke and his son and namesake, booksellers, of Middle Temple Gate, Fleet Street; 1674-1704. Tooke the elder published Evelyn's Navigation and Commerce (1674), Numismata (1697), and Acetaria (1699).
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Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vols CXLVIII-CLII. General correspondence; 1637-1706. A number of the letters are in Latin, French, Spanish and Italian. Chiefly letters to Evelyn, but including draft letters by him, some of which were intended for copying into his letterbooks. Letters of John Earle, John Cosin (78316, ff. 24, 31) and Lady Clarendon (78317, f. 140), which may originally have been removed from the archive by William Upcott, have been returned to it via Sotheby’s sale, 4 April 1955, lots 202, 197 196); folders, etc., which give their provenance are filed at the end of the sequence (78319, ff. i-v). Further letters to Evelyn which were removed by William Upcott are to be found in his albums, Add. MSS 78678-78688 below. Five volumes. (1637-1706)
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Scope and Content Vol. CXLVIII (ff. 143 + 81*). 1637-1649
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Scope and Content Vol. CXLIX (ff. 180). 1650-1659
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Scope and Content Vol. CL (ff. 144). 1660-1679. Note that Evelyn's correspondence as Commissioner for Sick and Wounded Seamen during these years is filed separately in Add. MSS 78320-78322 below.
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Scope and Content Vol. CLI (ff155 + 86*). 1680-1699
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Scope and Content Vol. CLII (ff. 93 +v). 1700-1706, N.D.
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Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vols CLIII-CLV. Correspondence of John Evelyn, mostly incoming letters, with some related papers, as Commissioner for Sick and Wounded Seaman; 1664-1688. Evelyn was first appointed to the Commission for Sick and Wounded Seamen on 28 October 1664, with responsibility for Kent and Sussex, in anticipation of the outbreak of the Second Dutch War. His fellow commissioners were Sir William Doyley, Bart., M.P. (Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex), Bullen Reymes, M.P. (Hampshire and Dorset), and Sir Thomas Clifford, afterwards Baron Clifford and Lord Treasurer (Devon and Cornwall). Sir George Downing was added in May 1666 (Diary, III, p. 445). Each had responsibility for appointing physicians and surgeons and arranging for hospitals and other quarters for the sick and wounded seamen and prisoners of war put ashore in his district. Evelyn’s bore the brunt during the Dutch wars. At the outbreak of the Third Dutch War in March 1672 his commission was renewed (along with Doyley and Reymes, with Sir Henry Forde to replace Clifford and Thomas Knollys after Reymes's death in December 1672). His Diary details his several journeys and other events in connection with his duties, his difficulties in securing money and his lawsuit with the Commissioners' treasurer, George Cock, concerning his accounts. During the Second Dutch War, 1665-1667, his task was complicated by the plague. With
Page 162 2021-08-13 the court at Oxford, Evelyn reported to the Duke of Albemarle, whose letters and instructions to him are in Add. MS 78320 below. The other letters are chiefly from his fellow commissioners, deputies, agents and medical officials at the ports of his district where the seamen were quartered (Gravesend, Rochester, Chatham, Margate, Dover, Deal and Rye), and others concerning the care of sick and wounded seamen and prisoners of war. The commission formally ceased on 28 March 1674, and thereafter the letters chiefly concern the arrears of payment. Evelyn's letterbook, Add. MS 78298 above, contains copies of a number of his letters to government ministers and officials concerning his duties, especially in 1665-1666, some of which are published in the various editions by Bray of Evelyn's Diary and Correspondence, together with Evelyn's draft for a proposed seamen’s infirmary at Chatham. But Evelyn did not copy his letters to the local agents, and only occasional drafts survive on blank sheets of their letters. For the related lists and accounts, see Add. MSS 78394-78400 below. For related correspondence and background, see the PRO, Calendar of State Papers Domestic; J. A. Shaw, `The Commission for Sick and Wounded and Prisoners 1664-1667', Mariner's Mirror, XXV (1939), pp. 306-327, J. J. Keevil, Medicine and the Navy (Edinburgh, 1957-1958), II, pp. 96-131 (neither of which use the present papers), and Particular Friends, ed. Guy de la Bedoyère (Boydell, 1997), for correspondence with Pepys. For Evelyn’s accounts and papers as commissioner, see Add. MSS 78394-78400 below.Three volumes. (1664-1688)
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLIII (ff. 102).
1.ff. 1-4. Draft and copy of documents initiating the Commissions, the first in the hand of Sir Thomas Clifford; 1664-1665.
2.ff. 5-43. Letters from George Monck, Duke of Albemarle, mostly to Evelyn; 25 July 1665-10 March 1666. In the hand of an amanuensis, signed. Followed by one (f. 43) jointly signed with Prince Rupert, Aug. 1666. The letter of 17 Sept. 1665 was acquired separately through Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 10 June 1999, lot 66, having presumably been removed from the archive by William Upcott. Further letters from this sequence of 4 Aug. 1665, 31 Jan. 1665/6 and (jointly with Prince Rupert) 9 June 1666, removed by Upcott, are in Add. MS 78678 below.
3.ff. 44-102. Letters from Evelyn's fellow Commissioners and agents; Oct. 1664-Sept. 1665.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLIV (ff. 138). Letters; Oct. 1665-May 1673. Including a few drafts and copies by Evelyn. There are few letters surviving for 1666 and none for 1672.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLV (ff. 140). Letters and petitions; June 1673-1688. Including a few drafts and copies by Evelyn.
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Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vols CLVI-CLVIII. `Diary’ of John Evelyn, covering the period bef. 1620 till shortly before his death in Feb.1706; comp. [aft. 1660]-1706. Mostly autograph. Evelyn first began to keep diary notes as a school-boy, in imitation of his father (Diary, I, p. 8). An early example of these almanac entries of 1636-7 is now in Balliol College, PRT. 670.a.13. Another example of 1647 is unlocated after sale at Sotheby's, 23 June 1925, lot 347; another of 1653 is now Add. MS 80765. He wrote to one of his correspondents: `remember I keep a Kalendar of all that passes' (Add. MS 78298: to `Platona', 20 Dec. 1649). A bookbinder's bill of Gabriel Bedell of 11 June 1662 (in Add. MS 78638 below) includes an `Almanacke bound with pages Extraord[inary]', which indicates the form in which he continued to compile his original entries. After the Restoration Evelyn began to transcribe and expand these, adding passages from published travel guides and from his own memory, including some retrospective comments; consequently, of the volumes described below only Add. MS 78323 after 1684 and Add. MS 78325 actually contain contemporary or near contemporary diary entries; for a detailed account of how this was established, see de Beer's introduction in Diary, I, pp. 44-105. Apart from the almanac volumes already mentioned, two copies of an extract concerning events in 1651 in other collections (of which there is another at beginning of Add. MS 78324 below), and a few missing pages whose location is now conjectural, the manuscripts described below constitute the whole surviving text of Evelyn's diary. For a list of all the diary manuscripts (except the almanac of 1653), see Peter Beal, Index of English Literary Manuscripts, 3 vols (Mansell, 1980-93), II: 1625-1700, Pt 1 (1987), pp. 486-487.The diary remained unpublished in the hands of Evelyn's descendants for more than a hundred years after his death. William Upcott, who was employed in 1813 on recommendation of the family solicitor, William Bray, to catalogue the Evelyn library, later exaggerated his role in `discovering' the diary, rescuing it and Evelyn's manuscript correspondence from neglect and destruction, and persuading the widow of Sir Frederick Evelyn, 3rd Bart. to publish it, while allowing Bray to be named as editor (see Upcott's accounts in Diary, I, pp. 53-55 and Add. MS 78583, 5 July 1845). In fact the diary was well known within the family circle and had already been lent to Bray for use in his continuation of Owen Manning's History of Surrey. Upcott was not the first to urge its publication. In 1814 Lady Evelyn requested Bray to select suitable portions of it for this purpose (see Bray's account in the preface to Add. MS 78581 below), and his
Page 165 2021-08-13 autograph transcripts, notes and index in Add. MS 78577 below, which confirm his editorial role; although it is clear from his and Lady Evelyn's letters to Upcott (in Add. MS 78583) that she was concerned that he might lack the time to complete it and that Upcott did play a large part in seeing it through the press. The first edition entitled Memoirs Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn appeared in two quarto volumes in 1818, a further quarto edition in 1819 and an octavo edition in 1827. The proofs of both are in Add. MS 78580 A and B. The best edition is now The Diary of John Evelyn, ed. Esmond de Beer, 6 vols., (Oxford, 1955); it is based on all the available diary manuscripts and is extensively annotated, though de Beer did not have access to Evelyn's manuscript correspondence or the remainder of his archive.Three volumes. (1620-1706)
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLVI. `Kalendarium' (Evelyn's title at the beginning of the text), covering the period 1620 to October 1697; [aft. 1660]-1697. Autograph. With the exception of the initial account of Evelyn's birth and family, the text is presented in day-to-day journal form, but de Beer (I, pp. 44-46, 70-74) concludes on the basis of changes in handwriting and layout that Evelyn began the present text (called `K') in the early 1660s (up to p. 237) as a transcript of his original diary notes, that this process was then discontinued for some years and not resumed until about 1680, and that it was only after about 1684 that the volume was used for roughly contemporaneous entries. The retrospective compilation of much of the text is supported by evidence of hindsight in the content; for example reference to individuals by later forms of their names or titles without any evidence that these are late interpolations into an earlier text.
Paginated by Evelyn 1-732, but with several pages missing; one between pp. 150-151, one before 215 and several between 718 and 719; it is thought that some of these may now be in the collection of Count G. W. Orlov (1777-1826), now in the State Historical Museum, Moscow (Beal, op. cit., p. 487). Many of the leaves between pp. 157 and 214 are out of order. A small pen drawing by Evelyn of the `altar of friendship' inscribed by him and Margaret Blagge in October 1672 is inserted between pp. 414 and 415, adjacent to the diary entry referring to it; a transcript of pp. 715-716, which are damaged, is also been inserted. When first described by William Upcott in the early 19th century the diary was without covers (see his account of 5 July 1845 in Add. MS 78583 below). The present half binding in red morocco and grey boards was added by Lady Evelyn at the urging of Upcott when the project for publishing it was first proposed (see Lady Evelyn's letter to William Bray, 3 May [1814?], Add. MS 78583); it is lettered on the spine `J. EVELYN'S DIARY M.S.' 240 x 175mm.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLVII. Continuation by Evelyn of the preceding volume in loose gatherings; Oct. 1697-Feb. 1706, preceded (ff. ii-iii) by an extract on two leaves from the earlier volume, June 1651 (see also Beal EvJ 219 and 220 for what are evidently two further copies of this in other collections); 1651-1706. Autograph. The first leaf of the main text is headed `Joyn the following pages to the r[est] of my Diary. 1697. next October 31'. As de Beer remarks, it was clearly only lack of space in the preceding volume which caused this last section to be preserved separately. This part of the diary was published in the Abinger Monthly Record, I, II, and III (1889-93), passim (for an incomplete sequence of these issues, see Add. MS 78576 below). The text is discussed by de Beer in Diary, I, pp. 46-47.
ff. iv + 91. Paper in quarto gatherings of differing sizes, 190 x 160mm. largest size. When acquired by the British Library this part of the diary was in the form of 26 sewn gatherings (numbered by Evelyn I-II, IV-XVII), enclosed in paper covers (or end papers), Some leaves were misplaced when it was put together (there are autograph notes to this effect at the bottom of f. 11v and the top of f. 14); one is missing (between ff. 8 and 9) and the edges of some others had been damaged by the lack of a binding. On the front paper cover was written the early 19th cent. binding instruction, `1/2 Bd Red Morocco Hollow back not cut. Upcott. Brown paper inside'; this either relates to the preceding volume or indicates an unfulfilled plan to put this continuation into a matching binding. In 1998 the leaves were repaired and cased in limp vellum. 200 x 165mm.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLVIII. `De Vita Propria Pars Prima' (title as lettered on the spine): a revised version of Add. MS 78323 up to 29 Oct. 1644; comp. circa 1700 and later. Autograph in a small book-hand, but with the last sentence finished (from the comparable passage in Add. MS 78323 above) in the hand of Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart. The manuscript is discussed by de Deer in Diary, I, p. 47 (as MS `V') and the text is printed in I, pp. 1-121. Evelyn included `my own Ephemeris or diarie' in a list of `Things I would write out faire and reforme if I had Leasure', which he compiled in the 1680s or 1690s (in Add. MS 78404 below). The present volume probably represents the first stage of this plan to `reforme' the manuscripts of the `Kalendarium' by transforming it into a formal memoir.
ff. 39. Written within left and right margins which have been ruled in red ink. Paginated `1-73' by Evelyn. Contemporary binding of red morocco, gilt-ruled and stamped with Evelyn's arms and motto in the centre and his cipher in the corners of front and back covers. 240 x 175mm.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLIX. `John Evelyn's Memoirs Anno 1737': copy of parts of Add. MSS 78323 and 78325, from the beginning until Good Friday 1644; 1737, with a few corrections in ink in a different hand and a few pencilled annotations in pencil in the margins relating to the differences between the two texts. For the text, an inaccurate copy of Evelyn’s original, see de Beer, in Diary, I, pp. 47-48, who notes that it is nevertheless of value in providing a transcript of a missing page and in helping to correct the order of some misplaced pages in Add. MS 78323. This copy was presumably made to the instructions of Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart., although it was not, as stated by Beer, actually made by him. The hand may be that of his son, Sidney Evelyn, or possibly of a professional copyist. De Beer states that the pencilled annotations are by Bray or Upcott, but there is no clear resemblance to the hand of either. The pencilled notes on one of the fly-leaves (f. v) are in the hand of the diarist himself, made after 1701 and apparently relating to his commentary on the New Testament. They indicate that this volume, although later rebound, was originally one of the matching blank paper volumes which he used for his letterbooks, sermon notes, and commonplace material. At the beginning (f. 2) is a loose fragment of a leaf with a note by William John Evelyn, `MS. of Evelyn's Diary', and (on f. iv) impressions of Evelyn's seal and monogram labelled in pencil by William John Evelyn, with an unrelated engraving labelled `Well on Ockley Green'. Formerly Evelyn MS 50. Beal EvJ 218.
Quarter bound in brown morocco and buckram, 19th cent. 360 x 240mm.
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Title Commonplace Collections78327-78333. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols CLX-CLXVI. Commonplace books or adversaria of John Evelyn; [1649-1703?]. Mostly autograph, but begun by Richard Hoare, the professional scribe whom Evelyn brought from England to Paris with him in 1649 to help `reduce my studies into a method’ (to Sir Richard Browne, 14 June 1649; Add. MS 78221), and continued by Evelyn himself after Hoare had left his service. Evelyn in Memoires for my Grandson, p. 44, recommends the making of commonplaces from reading: `From such a Magazine one is inabled to speake or write upon any occasion, & it would not be amisse to pitch upon some usefull subject to exercise your style in & to publish some Fruits of your studys, which cannot be don without Collections, no man being able to build anything whatever without the help of others which may stand or last longer than the Cobwebs spun out of the bowels of an Insect'. Keeping up the commonplace books or `adversaria’ according to the original scheme of universal knowledge used in Add. MS 78330 below gave way to a more informal, pragmatic arrangement as he grew older. To his grandson he described the `packets & Bundles of Excerpts of all Subjects intended to have ben transcrib'd into Books and Adversaria, but growing too numerous . . . I left off that thought'. A wrapper once used for these loose commonplace notes, dating after 1697 (Add. MS 15950, f. 80), suggests that in the end Evelyn organized many of these according to the projects he had in hand: `In this Bundle or Roll marked [double circle with line] is Containd the Excerpts and Collections, casualy gatherd out of several authors &c and intended to have been transcribed into Adversaria as applicable to several subjects'; the list that follows indicates the notes for his History of Religion were marked `R'; notes for future editions of Sylva, `S'; notes for the `Elysium Britannicum', `HE'; notes for his `discourse of Manuscripts', `MSS', and so on. Some notes with these markings still survive; for example in Add. MS 78344. Several of the volumes below are discussed in Michael Hunter, `John Evelyn in the 1650s', Science and the Shape of Orthodoxy (Woodbridge, 1995), pp. 67-97; particular references are given below. One other commonplace book, containing a collection of anecdotes and maxims, is now in the Houghton Library, Harvard University, MS Eng. 992.7.Seven volumes. ([1649-1703?])
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLX. `Vademecum'; [1649-1651]. Latin. A compendium of information on a variety of subjects, including grammar, rhetoric, philosophy, logic, science, metaphysics, ethics, politics, theology and music, calligraphically written within margins ruled in red ink by Richard Hoare. With the later addition on the fly-leaf of the chemical sign for sublimation and a note by Evelyn, `This Compendium is taken chiefly out of [J. H]. Alsted['s Encyclopaedia] & P: Du Moulin, &c': and is in many places false written & full of Errors'. See Hunter, op. cit., p. 72. Beal EvJ 104. Formerly Evelyn MS 91.
Paper; ff. iii + 121. Small octavo, with binding of dark red morocco, gilt-stamped with Evelyn's crest and monogram. 130 x 90cm.
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Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. CLXI-CLIV. `Loci communes': a series of three volumes, with a separate index volume; [circa 1649-1680s?]. Begun in Hoare's hand and continued by Evelyn, they contain `extracts of his reading . . . sorted by subject according to the whole gamut of knowledge, human, natural and divine', so that they comprise `one of the most elaborate commonplace books to survive for the period' (Hunter, op. cit., p. 74). Evelyn was proud of his method, sending his brother in 1658 `the frame or Idea of my Adversaria which after many tryals and reformations I find most advantagious' (ibid.). The volumes described below show signs of these `tryals and reformations'. At first extracts were sorted and arranged by subject before they were entered, as shown in Add MS 78330 below, which was actually the first volume to be compiled, although Evelyn later made it `tomus tertius' in the series. Thereafter extracts from a particular book were entered together, and the resulting entries sorted by means of key-words entered in the margins of the volume; these key-words were then entered in the separate index volume or `universal table' (Add. MS 78331). In the process of this change of method, the physical make-up of the volumes was affected, some leaves or gatherings being excised and inserted elsewhere. Borders ruled in pencil and pagination added in ink by Evelyn. Beal EvJ 170.Four volumes. ([c 1649-1680s?])
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXI. `Locorum Comm: Tomus 1mus'; [1650s-1680s?]. Autograph. Partly Latin and Greek. Preceded (ff. 1-2) by a list of books read and commonplaced, in two columns under headings, `Theolog. & Moral' and `Hist & Philolog'; the whole headed `Bookes Comm: plac: in Divinite Read & Entered in this & the Other two Volumes viz. the Portfeuile & Philologic: Adversar:'. Followed by a preliminary Latin note (f. 2v), headed `De forma Locorum Communium Eruditioni acquirendae accommodata', a quotation from a published letter in Latin from Joseph Scaliger to Isaac Casaubon, and Evelyn's motto and monogram. All the notes from any one source are entered together, with notes in Latin of subject matter in the margins. The first section (ff. 3-89v) is headed, `Loci Communes [`Theologici et' inserted] Philologici'. On p. 227 is the heading `Medicina. Morbi, Vulnera, Pharmaca. Chirurgia &c', and on p. 521, `Bellica, Arma, Castra, Machinae, Stratagemata, Arces, Bellica Facinora, Virtus Militaris, but with no notes entered. On pp. 601-606 are notes headed `Fragmenti'. These headings presumably predate the marginal subject indexing of all the notes. Formerly Evelyn MS 54/2.
Paginated mostly in ink `1-944' by Evelyn; but some sequences (pp. 1-28, 123-138, 355-414, 701-730, 845-860) are paginated in pencil or ink over pencil, having been added after the original leaves were excised, leaving guards on which new blank leaves were pasted. Traces of notes in Evelyn's hand from the original leaves remain on some of the guards. The excised leaves are now in Add. MS 78330 below. Original binding of mottled calf, with Evelyn's monogram and crest of a gryphon passant stamped in gold. 440 x 295mm.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXII. `Locorum Comm: Tomus IIdus'; [1650s-1680s?]. A note by Evelyn in Latin at the beginning explains that the commonplaces in this second volume were not included in the preceding volume either because the works concerned were not read in due order, or because of absence on a journey; this is followed by quotations from Cicero, Isaac Casaubon and Francis Bacon's Advancement of Learning, `A substantiall and Learned digest of Common-Places is a solid, and good aide to memory . . .'. All the notes from a particular source are made in sequence, with have marginal notes of subject-matter. At p. 157 there is a crossed out heading, `Panegyrica. In Regis inauguratione ...', and on pp. 455-466: Miscellaneous notes and `Fragmenta'. Formerly Evelyn MS 54/3.
Paginated `1-725’ in ink by Evelyn. Bound to match the preceding volume. 435 x 295mm.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXIII. 'Tomus Tertius'; [aft.1649?]. In fact this volume was originally the first of the series to be compiled. The first pages of each of the sections described below are in the hand of Richard Hoare. At this stage Evelyn conceived of a subject arrangement for his commonplace notes, the original four sections or 'tomes' of this volume corresponding roughly to the divisions of theology, science, arts and law, further subdivided by 'chapters'. Subject terms in Latin were later added in the margins. Having filled the present volume, Evelyn adopted the method in the two subsequent volumes (Add. MSS 78328 amd 78329 above) of entering notes from all his reading into one sequence, adding subject terms in the margin. The present volume was then made the third in the series; 'tome primus' has been altered to 'tome tertius' on the first page (even though 'tome' originally referred to the internal sub-divisions of the volume, not to the volume number). Some 'chapter' headings have also been altered by pasting over new titles. The original pagination of the volume in sections, which do not run in a continuous sequence (of which details are given below), also indicates some rearrangement of the material before binding. In addition some leaves have been excised, leaving only stubs on to which new leaves were then pasted. On the evidence of the original ink pagination, some of the leaves in the present volume were originally part of what is now Add. MS 78328 above, but rebacking, during which the individual disjunct leaves have been mounted on modern guards, may have obscured the full extent of this rearrangement. The volume was later repaginated in one sequence by Evelyn in pencil from p. 7 onwards to provide a means of reference for the index volume; see his note on f. 1: 'note that the black lead figures of the pages agree onely with The Universall Table of all the Three Tomes [i.e., Add. MS 78331]’. One leaf from this volume, paginated 434-435 and headed 'Cap. IIII Metaphysica', was removed by William Upcott and is now Add. MS 15950, f. 125. Formerly Evelyn MS 54/1.
ff. 182. Undecorated binding of dark brown leather, not matching the two succeeding volumes, with the holes for ties on each edge and modern rebacking. The non-sequential pagination suggests that the notes were entered first on loose quires, then assembled for binding. 430 x 300mm.
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1.ff. 1-3v. 'Tomus Primus [altered to 'Tertius'] Loci Communes Theologici. Cap. I. Deus ejus attributa ...' pp. 1-6.
2.ff. 4-16v. '[Tomus Primus] Cap. II. 'Religio Templa, Ceremoniae, oracula, Victimae Auguria, Sacerdotium, Donaria, Prodigia, Iure juranda. pp. 127-152.
3.ff. 17-66v. '[Tomus primus]. Cap. III. Theologia Polemica. Didactica, Controversiae, Casus Conferentiae, Interpretatio'. pp. 290-391.
4.ff. 67-71v. '[Tomus primus]. Cap V [sic]. Ethica ['Metaphysica' pasted over]: Virtutes, Prudentia, Iustitia, Fortitudo, Temperantia, veritas, liberalitas, Patientia, Magnificentia, Perturbationes, mentis, Vitia, et extrema, Amor, odium, spes & Imor'. pp. 485-492.
5.ff. 72-87v. 'Locorum Comm: Tomus Secundus Hist: Philos: Scient: Mathem: Med: &c. Chap: I'. The subject matter relates to the arts and literature. Original pagination not legible.
6.ff. 88-95v. '[Tomus secundus]. Cap. II. Mathematicae Disciplinae. Arithmetica, Geometria, Geographia, Astronomia, Cosmosgraphia, Hydrographia, Optica, Musica'. pp. [123]-138.
7.ff. 96-125v. '[Tomus Secundus]. Cap. III. Historia Universalis. Chronologia, Vitae, &c [pasted over 'Chronologica, Philosophia, Metaphysica, Philologica']. pp. 355-412.
8.ff. 126-141v. '[Tomus Secundus]. Cap. IV. Philosophia 'sive Physica', added in a later hand. pp. 701-729.
9.ff. 142-149v. '[Tomus Secundus]. Cap. IIIII. Medicina: Morbi, Alchymia, Pharmaca, Chyrurgia'. pp. 845-860.
10.ff. 150-152v. 'Tomus Tertius [pasted over 'Secundus']. Cap. I. Artes Liberales: Architectura, Venatio, Aucupium, Typographia, Pictura, Statuaria, Fusoria, Equestris, Aviaria sculptoria, et earum opera'. pp. 1-4.
11.ff. 153-156v. '[Tomus Tertius]. Cap. II. Artes Illiberales: Tectoria, Sutoria, Sartoria, Fullonica, Lignaria, Ferraria, Plastica, Lapidaria'. pp. 286-293.
12.ff. 157-164v. '[Tomus Tertius]. Cap. III. Apothegmata & Sententiae: De Divitiis, Nobilitate, Tempore, Morte, Honoribus'. pp. 364-378.
13.ff. 165-171v. '[Tomus Tertius]. Cap. IIII. Miscellanea'. pp. 580-593.
14.ff. 172-177v. 'Tomus Quartus. Loci Communes Ivridici et Politici. Cap. I. Politica. Monarchia, Aristocratia, &c. Tyrannis, Comitia, Magistratus, Legationes, Tributa, Aerarium, Leges-politicae, Coloniae, Disciplina Militaris, & similia. Oeconomia'. pp. 1-12.
15.ff. 178-179v. '[Tomus Quartus]. Forensia. Cap. II. Leges Civiles Ratio se-usus Fori judicialis, Juris Prudentia, Advocatio et similia'. pp. 155-158.
16.ff. 180-180v. '[Tomus Quartus]. Cap. III. Iura Canonica. Concilia &c'. pp. 255-256.
17.ff. 181-182v. '[Tomus Quartus. Cap. IIII. Ius Consultum sive Municipale. The Common and Statute Lawes of England'. pp. 333-336.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXIV. Index to the preceding three volumes, consisting of four lists of entries, each in double columns, and followed by volume (in the above order) and page references, corresponding with the pencilled sequences added to each volume. A note by Evelyn concerning the order and forms of reference is on f. 1v. Formerly Evelyn MS 54/4.
ff. ii + 113. Original binding of dark brown calf, with blind ruling and no other decoration, matching the letterbooks (Add. MSS 78298-78299) and sermon notes (Add. MS 78364). 345 x 225mm.
1. ff. 1-92. Subject terms in Latin in alphabetical order.
2. ff. 93-103v. Proper names in alphabetical order.
3. ff. 104v-107. Books of Scripture, including the Apocrypha.
4. ff. 108-113. Terms in English law in alphabetical order.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXV. `Adversaria'; [after 1680?]. Autograph. Partly Latin. Commonplace book, with subject headings in the margins. The notes have been entered in several sections with many blank pages between, but the sections are unheaded, except for the last, headed `Sententiae & Fragmenta'. The entries in all are wide-ranging, and include theology, ethics, and excerpts from classical literature. This may be the `Philologic. Adversar.' referred to in Add. MS 78328 above. The handwriting suggests that the volume was kept up in Evelyn's later years. Beal EvJ 27. Formerly Evelyn MS 36.
ff. ii + 376. Paginated `1-815' in pencil by Evelyn. Modern buckram binding. 250 x 210mm.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXVI. `Adversaria Historical, Physical, Mathematical, Mechanicall, &c promiscuously set downe as they Occur in Reading, or Casual Discourse', with the note added in the margin, `Also some particular notes in my Travels'; [1680s-1703, n.d]. Autograph. Entries concerning natural and practical knowledge predominate, but there are also entries on subjects similar to those in the preceding volume. They includes a long section (ff. 7-9) on `Modes', concerning fashions in male and female dress of the 1690s and referring to Evelyn's work, Tyrannus or the Mode (1661). There are many blank leaves before a further section headed `Receipts, Compositions & and other Medicinal & Artificial Seacrets, Casualy met with in Reading, & discourse', containing 54 entries. This section is similar in subject-matter to Add. MS 78340 below, but on the evidence of the handwriting this volume, like the preceding, was begun in the later years of Evelyn's life. Several of the notes are illustrated with small pen drawings. Beal EvJ 31. Formerly Evelyn MS 173.
ff. 20 + ii. Original vellum binding. 320 x 210mm.
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Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXVII. `Hortus Hyemalis sive Collectio Plantarum Horti Gymnasij Patavini, quibus auctior erat 1645 …’; 1645, with later notes and specimens. (1645)
Scope and Content John Evelyn's hortus siccus, which he called his 'hortus hyemalis'. The autograph title-page also bears Evelyn’s motto, `Meliora Retinete’, an emblem of a bleeding heart transfixed with two arrows, a quotation from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Book I: `Heu mihi quod nullis Amor est medicabilis Herbis;/Nec prosunt Domino quae prosunt omnibus Artes!’, and the later press-mark, `In Chartophyl. 23’. In his diary for 30 July 1645 Evelyn records that he went to the `Garden of Simples' at Padua, and `gave order to the Gardner to make me a Collection of them for an hortus hyemalis, by permission of the Cavalier Dr [Johann] Vestlingius their Praefect, & Botanic Professor, as well as Anatomic’ (Diary, II, p. 466.). It was in effect a tourist souvenir, but personalized by Evelyn. His title-page is followed by a page-long account, headed, `Hortus Hyemalis conficiendo ratio’, on the gathering, preservation and mounting of the specimens of plants; it concludes with a later note, referring to the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society for Feb. 1698. Evelyn also included a chapter on these collections of dried plants as chapter 3 of the missing third `book’ of the `Elysium Britannicum’ (see Add. MS 78342 below).
The specimens are mounted on the right-hand pages, with numbers and botanical names in Latin (and Greek in some cases) underneath each one. On the left-hand facing pages of the first 29 specimens there are further autograph captions in English with five elements, of which there is a key on f. 2v: the name of the plant, its locations, flowering season, `virtue’ or medical uses, and the page reference to a fuller description in John Parkinson’s herbal, Theatrum botanicum (1640). The left-hand pages are left blank for the remainder of the volume. After f. 146 is a sequence of tree-leaves without identification. Most if not all of these were probably added later; the last has an annotation referring to Sylva. Beal EvJ 159. No former Evelyn MS number.
ff. v+157. Contemporary foliation ff. 1-143, which becomes pagination up to 164. Contemporary [Italian?] binding of olive green morocco, blind-stamped and ruled. 380 x 260mm.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXVIII. Notes on chemistry, with the title, `Chymistry or [As my Master Monsieur Barlet of Paris under whom I went my first curriculm(?) ...] Ergotechnica' (the words in square brackets have been crossed through by Evelyn), and the note on the fly-leaf, `E libris manuscriptis Evelyni. Parisiis 1646'; 1646. Autograph. See F. Sherwood Taylor, `The Chemical Studies of John Evelyn', Annals of Science, 8 (1952), pp. 285, 290-292, who points out that the text is in part based on a course of chemistry under Annibal Barlet and suggests that Evelyn probably intended publishing it. It appears to be derived from lecture notes and is not a translation of Barlet's Cours, published in 1653; Evelyn's preliminary list of `Writers of Chymistry' (f. 5v) includes `Monsr Barlet not yet in print'. Although it begins in Evelyn's book-hand, much of it is in his more rapid cursive hand. Contents include `The Names of the Instruments to be placed & had in the Elaboratory', illustrated with numerous pen and ink illustrations of equipment and processes; chemical symbols (ff. 18v, 100v), and operations involving animal, vegetable and mineral matter; several of the vegetable operations are crossed through, possibly a sign that Evelyn later copied them into chapter 2 of the now lost third book of the `Elysium Britannicum' (see Add. MS 78342 below). Amongst the specfic processes are some attributed to Sir Kenelm Digby (ff. 107v, 113), and (108v), how to make salt peeter'. Beal EvJ 152. Formerly Evelyn MS 32.
ff. iii + 129. Quarto with original binding of mottled calf, gilt-stamped; rebacked. 225 x 180mm.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. CLXIX. `Medicus Itinerarius in Privatum Authoris usum conscriptus'; 1651. Medical notes, calligraphically written by Evelyn's scribe, Richard Hoare, with the later note by Evelyn, `This Trifle from p: 89 is muche out of Senectus: It is all full of Errors & needs correction'. Followed by a disbound fragment which follows on from 89; `the dismemberment of the MS may be the work of Evelyn himself, perhaps connected with the recipe collection in MS 51 [Add. MS 78337 below]' (Hunter, op. cit., p. 72). Beal EvJ 156, 157. Formerly Evelyn MSS 89, 133.
ff. v + 144. The first part, with original pagination 1-201, bound in dark red morocco, with elaborate gilt tooling; the second, with original pagination [202]-282, disbound and incomplete, with the top portion of p. 202 torn away and everything after p. 282 missing.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXX. Medical and culinary recipes; 1651-18th cent. In four sections, of which `Book I' is headed `Receipts Medicinal', `Book II', `Receipts Chirurgical', `Book III', `Receipts of Preserves and Perfumes', and `Book IIII' `Receipts of Cookery'. Each section begins with entries in the hand of Evelyn's amanuensis Richard Hoare, followed by various other hands, but chiefly that of Evelyn's wife. A few of the last entries have been added by 18th century members of the family. Substantial excerpts are printed in John Evelyn, Cook: the Manuscript Receipt Book of John Evelyn, ed. Christopher Driver (Totnes, 1997). See also Hunter, op. cit., p. 74. Beal EvJ 153. Formerly Evelyn MS 51.
ff. iii + 103. Original binding of mottled calf, with Evelyn's monogram and crest of a gryphon passant stamped in gold, matching the commonplace volumes, Add. MSS 78328-78329 above, but rebacked and repaired. 440 x 285mm.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXXI.
1.ff. 1-34. Collection of loose medical and culinary receipts on different sizes of paper and in several hands, including those of Evelyn, his wife, son, and daughter Mary; late 16 th-17th cent. Some have endorsements or notes in Evelyn's hand, or that of his grandson, Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart. Preserved in the original portfolio of off-white cardboard with pink cloth ties, annotated by Evelyn on the front, `Papers &c for the still-house' and `Receipts. In Chartophyl:’.
2.ff. 35-66. Further loose receipts and medical notes of the same kind; 17th cent. Partly Latin. The last item, a table setting endorsed `A greate Feast’, was formerly loose in the preceding volume. Formerly Evelyn MSS 297, 531. See also Add. MS 15950, ff. 126-129.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXXII. `Trades. Secrets & Receipts Mechanical, as they came casualy to hand. Alphabetically plac’d according to the subsequent Table'; [1650s]. Partly autograph, but some entries in other hands. With an alphabetical list of the trades at the beginning (f. 2); after the main sequence (f. 2v) are lists of `Mean & Frippery Trades', `Servil Trades', `Polite Arts & Trades', `Exotic Arts & Trades', `Trads more Liberall', `Femal Trads & Arts', `Occupations in & about the Country'. Lettered `P' at the head of the title-page. For most of the listed trades a heading is the only entry; those listed below have some detail added. Evelyn appears to have begun this work in the early 1650s as a contribution to the History of Trades programme outlined by Francis Bacon. He was reported at one stage to be almost finished (Hunter, op. cit., p. 75), but admitted in 1659 that he had actually made little progress beyond the `short collection of some heads and materials' in the present manuscript, because he found it uncongenial to collect information from `mechanical capricious persons' (to Boyle, 9 Aug. 1659, Diary and Correspondence, ed. Bray, III, p. 115). In January 1661 he presented an expanded version of his list of trades to the Royal Society as a `Circle of Mechanical Trades' and was invited to collate it with the similar projects of other Fellows; see A. Forbes Sieveking, in Transactions of the Newcomen Society, 4 (1923-4), pp. 40-47, and M. Denny, `The Early Program of the Royal Society and John Evelyn', Modern Language Quarterly, 1 (1940), p. 492. Nothing came of the total history, but several individual studies by Evelyn and others did result; that on marbled paper delivered by Evelyn to the Royal Society on 8 Jan. 1662 derives from the present work; see Beal EvJ 86-90 and Sloane MS 243, ff. 96-98; for those of Sir William Petty, see Add. MS 72897. On the present manuscript, see Hunter, op. cit., pp. 75-82; and on the programme in general, W. E. Houghton, `The History of Trades: its Relation to Seventeenth Century Thought', Journal of the History of Ideas, 2 (1941), pp. 33-60; K. H. Ochs, `The Royal Society's History of Trades', Notes and Records of the Royal Society, 39 (1985), pp. 129-158. See also the second section of Add. MS 78340 below for a further collection of the same kind, compiled for Evelyn's own use. Paginated in pencil, `1-605’ by Evelyn. Beal EvJ 29. Formerly Evelyn MS 65.
Paper; ff. iii + 304. Contemporary binding of brown calf. 325 x 210mm.
1.f. 12. `Bell-founder’.
2.f. 17. `Brasier’.
3.f. 24. `A Cabinett-maker & box maker’
4.f. 89. `Gold-Smyth’.
5.f. 101. `Hatter & Hattmaker’.
6.f. 107v. `Inke-maker’.
7.f. 112. `Joyner’.
8.f. 124. `Mason’.
9.f. 126. `Lime Burner’: a long entry with pen and ink sketches of kilns, one reproduced in Hunter, op. cit. Evelyn may have become familiar with this trade because of the proximity of lime-kilns along the south bank of the Thames, not far from Sayes Court; see C. W. Chalklin, Seveenteenth Century Kent (1965), p. 148.
10.f. 144. `Paynter’.
Page 179 2021-08-13 11.f. 153. `Perfumer’.
12.ff. 182v-186v. `Ship-wright’: a long entry, probably deriving from the proximity of Deptford dockyard to Evelyn’s estate at Sayes Court.
13.f. 200. `Spectacle-maker’.
14.f. 226. `Wood-monger’.
15.ff. 245-246v. `Enamelling’: a long entry.
16.ff. 247-248v. `Limbing or Miniature'; the latter part of the entry in French in another hand.
17.f. 251v. `Grotesco': grotto or shell-work.
18.f. 258. `Lapidary or Jeweller’.
19.f. 261v. `Mosaiq-Worke'.
20.f. 263. `Pietra-Comessa'.
21.ff. 263v-264. `Marble-paper’.
22.f. 272v. Table-booke & Asses skin Varnish’.
23.f. 275. `Varnishes of all sorts as Indian &c’.
24.f. 278. `Dy[e]ing of stone, Ivory, Tinctur of Mettalls &c'.
25.f. 278v. `Pasts Artificial stones, marble, &c’.
26.f. 286v. `Sculptor’.
27.f. 295v. `Fowler’.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXXIII. Collection in two parts, the first of medical and culinary recipes, the second of skills and crafts; 1659-[early 18th cent?]. Autograph. Begun in or after 1659 (see Hunter, op. cit., p. 82, n. 62, who points out that on the first page there is an entry derived from a communication Evelyn received in 1659 via Samuel Hartlib; see Add. MS 15948, f. 67) and added to, on the evidence of the handwriting, until late in Evelyn's life. The first part of this volume has connections with his other collection of medical and culinary recipes in Add. MS 78337, and the second with his history of trades in Add. MS 78339 above. Hunter, op. cit., p. 82, n.62, suggests that this volume was kept for Evelyn's private use because of concerns about the communication of trade secrets. However `Books of Medicin Receipts and other Books of Mechanics' figure in the list of manuscripts which `I did purpos to have finish'd and perhaps publish'd', in Memoirs for my Grand-son, pp. 66-68. Beal EvJ 154. Formerly Evelyn MS 52A.
Paginated `1-446’ by Evelyn. Original binding of mottled calf, matching the first and second volumes of the series above. 430 x 300mm.
1.`Liber primus: Medicina, Pharmaca, Chirurgia, Chymia, Cosmetica, Suffimenta, Bellaria, Coquinaria &c'; [1650s-1690s?]. Autograph, with a few pen and ink sketches. Partly Latin. With a preliminary `Explication of Weights and Measures' (followed by a pentacle symbol, f. 1v) and a list of chemical symbols (f. 2). Consisting of recipes, numbered 1-442. Including (p. 191) a separate section headed `Agri-culture Housewifry &c', left blank (apparently because Evelyn began to keep this information separately in Add. MS 78341 below), and (p. 251) `Jumenta. Remedies against Diseases in Cattell & other Observations', with the note, `There are other Remedys scatterd among the other Receipts in this Book misplac'd, which see the Table'.
2.`Liber Secundus. Artes Illiberales, et Mechanicae'. Consisting of descriptions of techniques and instruments, several illustrated with small pen and ink drawings, numbered 1-339. Including the making of marbled paper of which a rough version is in Add. MS 78339.
3.Separate alphabetical indices to the each `book'.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXXIV. 'A Booke of Promiscuous Notes & Observations concerning Husbandry, Building &c', with 'Gardens; Horses' added underneath; [1650s-1670s?]. Autograph. The notes have been entered under the general headings specified below, on the right-hand pages with a note of the specific topic in the right-hand margin for ease of reference, and the opposite page left blank for additional notes. The leaves between the main sections are blank. The individual topics are entered in no systematic order, some apparently from observation, some with a note of source; e.g. 'Lady Frances Shaen' after the note on potatoes (f. 6v). Handwriting and internal evidence suggest that Evelyn began the commonplace book in the 1650s when he first took possession of Sayes Court and used it partly as a practical manual and partly as a source for his published or projected works; e.g. the notes on melons have been corrected in his later hand and annotated 'these Notes were published by me in Print long since' (f. 13). Several entries are illustrated with his pen and ink sketches. At the beginning is added instructions for maintaining a garden, headed 'The Weekely Course' and 'Q[u]arterly Course' (f. 2v). There is an alphabetical index of topics at the end (ff. 142-143v). With 19th cent.(?) pencilled pagination and a note at the beginning (f. 1). Beal EvJ 28. Formerly Evelyn MS 44.
ff. ii+145. Contemporary vellum binding, lettered in ink on the front cover 'V' (i.e., following on the preceding 4 volumes?); and in the 19th cent. hand of William John Evelyn, 'Husbandry Iohn Evelyn M.S.'. 345 x 235mm.
1.ff. 6-15. The cancelled heading 'Herbs' (f. 3) on what was afterwards changed to the general title-page, was probably intended as the heading for this section, which includes notes on fruit, types of propagation, diseases and remedies and 'Errours & Impostures'.
2.ff. 37, 42v-47. 'Agriculture' or 'De Re Rustica', including notes on arable, pasture and marsh land, units of measurement, crops, ploughs, building materials, fencing, ponds and an engine for raising water.
3.ff. 88-89. 'Husbandry for Says-Court', including brief notes of the stock, building materials to be found there, alterations to the house ('better I had don to have pulld all downe at first') and the contents of the still-house and brew-house, the latter with a sketch.
2.ff. 101-105. Observations of Architecture &c', including notes, plans and sketches of Woodcote Park, Cornbury, the stables of Berkeley House in Piccadilly, beehives, a sluice on the Thames, wharfing in 'the manner of the Hollanders' and 'the subterranean Warren'.
3.ff. 125-126. 'Horse Medicins: Catell; Dogs'.
4.ff. 132-133. 'Country Recreations', chiefly concerning training of dogs.
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Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. CLXXV-CLXXVII. Manuscripts of the `Elysium Britannicum'; [late 1650s-bef. 1706]. Beal EvJ 75, 76. Formerly Evelyn MSS 45, 38, and unnumbered.Three volumes. ([Late 1650s-before 1706])
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXXV. `Elysium Britannicum, or The Royal Gardens in Three Books' (f. 8), a comprehensive work on horticulture; in a later published extract from the work, Acetaria: a Discourse of Sallets, Evelyn added the sub-title, `Describing and Shewing the Amplitude, and Extent of that part of Georgicks, which belongs to Horticulture'; [early 1660s, with additions to early 18th cent.]. Beginning as an autograph fair copy, with many alterations and additions, in the form of interlineations, marginalia and inserted slips of paper, most in Evelyn's hand but a few by others; for example the long insertion, ff. 276-279v, is in the hand of Sir Thomas Hanmer. Also including many pen and ink drawings of various sizes by Evelyn. Preceded (ff. i-ii) by a letter of 20 Jan. 1659[/60] to `Dr [Gaspar?] Ne[e]dham' from several Oxford botanists, forwarded to Evelyn, commenting on his project, (f. 1) a copy of a printed prospectus or table of contents to the whole work, with MS. additions by Evelyn (for which see further below), and (ff. 2-3) a chapter by chapter key to the notes intended for insertion into this volume collected in the immediately following volume (Add. MS 78343 below).
The work which became the `Elysium Britannicum' was first mentioned by Evelyn in the dedicatory epistle to his translation of Nicolas de Bonnefons' Le jardinier françois, published in December 1658, although he states there that the design had been conceived `long since'. In 1659 the first version of the prospectus or table of contents of the work was circulated amongst Samuel Hartlib's circle and various responses were received, including one from John Beale, who suggested the addition of `6 or 7 chapters more', including one on `the riches, beauty, wonders, plenty, & delight of a Garden festivall', another on the `transmutation of flowers' and another on `Mounts, Prospects Precipices and Caves'. No copy of this first prospectus appears to survive, but `to avoyde the infinite copying of some of my curious friends', Evelyn had another printed, this time with Beale's suggested additions incorporated, some of them almost verbatim. There is a copy of this second version in Add. MS 15950, f. 143. The work itself was evidently considerably advanced at this stage, but does not appear to have reached the form of the present manuscript; Evelyn wrote to Sir Thomas Browne on 20 Jan. 1660, `Though I have drawne it in rude sheets, almost every chapter rudely, yet I cannot say to have finished anything tollerably, farther than chapter XI. lib 2, and those which are so compleated are yet so written that I can at pleasure inserte whatsoever shall come to hand to obelize [sic], correct, improve, and adorne it'. Yet another version of the prospectus was produced after this, including the intended chapter referred to in the letter to Browne, on `stupendious and wonderful plants'. There is a copy of this version bound as a table of contents into the front of the present manuscript (f. 1), with further changes marked on it in manuscript by Evelyn, including a series of continuous chapter numbers in roman
Page 183 2021-08-13 numerals (I-XLVII), in addition to the separate printed arabic sequences for each of the three `books'. He continued to work on the project for several more years and it was announced for publication in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society in Nov. 1669, though he became increasingly aware that it would be beyond his resources to complete it. For documentation of the various stages of the project, see F. Harris, `The Manuscripts of John Evelyn's "Elysium Britannicum"', Garden History (Winter, 1997), pp. 131-132.
The pagination added by Evelyn to the prospectus at f. 1 of the present manuscript as a table of contents, indicates that it originally ran to about 900 pages, possibly more than 1000. But of these, some pages between pp. 25 and 37 of the chapter `Of the Mould and Soile of a Garden', from Book I, and everything after p. 342, that is from chapter 19 Book II onwards, is now missing. Some of this material was probably removed for piecemeal publication and to that extent the content is not lost. The missing pages of Book I were probably incorporated into Evelyn's Philosophical Discourse of Earth, delivered to the Royal Society in 1675 and published the following year. Part of Book II, chapter 19, `Of the Ortyard, and what Fruit-Trees, Olitory, and Esculent Plants may be admitted into a Garden of Pleasure' may have drawn on The French Gardiner, which Evelyn translated in 1658, and `Of Sallets' was published in Acetaria in 1699. The section of Book II, chapter 20 on wine-making is probably to be identified with the `Directions concerning Making and Ordering of Wines', which Evelyn added to The English Vineyard Vindicated, published on behalf of John Rose in 1666; and the `Kalendarium Hortense', which formed the 23rd and last chapter of Book II, was published in 1664 as an appendix to Sylva. Book II, chapter 7, `Of Groves, Labyrinths, Daedales, Cabinets, Cradles, Pavilions, Galleries, Close-Walkes and other Relievos', has a note against it in the table of contents (f. 1), `part of this is printed [in] Sylva', although the chapter itself is still present in manuscript. The reasons for the total loss of Book III can only be conjectured, since no part of it was ever published. But it is likely that much of the content of one of the longest chapters of Book III, that on `The Gardiners Elaboratory, and of distilling, and extracting of Waters, Spirits, Essences, Salts, Resuscitation of Plants, with other rare Experiments, and an account of their Vertues', was derived from another of Evelyn's projects of the early 1660s. In Paris in 1645 and 1651 he had attended the chemistry lectures of Annibal Barlet and Nicolas Le Fèvre, and when the latter were published in 1660, he undertook a translation of them, the first portion of which survives in his archive as Add. MS 78345. Le Fèvre's work included instructions for carrying out particular processes, many of them involving plants. It is at this point that the manuscript of Evelyn's translation becomes fragmentary. As he was also working intensively on the `Elysium' at the time, it seems likely that he decided to incorporate this part of his translation of Le Fevre into it, though neither now survives. His notes of Barlet's lectures (Add. MS 78335) also have the operations concerning vegetable processes crossed through, suggesting that he may have transcribed these into the `Elysium Britannicum' as well.
Acetaria: a Discourse of Sallets, published in 1699, was prefaced by a last version of the prospectus. This incorporated the changes noted in manuscript in f. 1 and included a new chapter on `garden burial'. In the preface Evelyn explained why `a person of my acquaintance, should have spent almost forty years, in gathering and amassing materials for a hortulan design, to so enormous a heap, as to fill some thousand pages' and yet never be able to bring it to completion: `this is that which abortives the perfection of the most glorious and useful undertakings; the unsatiable coveting to exhaust all that should or can be said upon every head . . . There ought to be as many hands, and subsidiaries to such a design (and those masters too) as there are distinct parts of the whole … that those who have the means and courage, may (tho' they do not undertake the whole) finish a part at least, and in time unite their labours into one intire, compleat, and consummate work indeed'.
The present manuscript has been published as Elysium Britannicum or The Royal Gardens, ed. John Ingram (Philadelphia: University pf Pennsylvania Press, 2001); see also the essay collection John Evelyn’s `Elysium Britannicum’ and European Gardening, eds. Therese O’Malley and Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn (Washington, D.C., 1998).
ff. 338. Incomplete; lacking everything after Book II, chapter 18, `Of Wonderful and studendious Plants' (p. 342 in Evelyn's numeration). Paper size: 310 x 200mm.
Contents (including headings of missing chapters, as given in the table of contents):
1.Book I:
Ch. 1: `The Garden deriv'd and defined, with its distinctions & sortes'. ff. 8-10.
Ch. 2: `Of a Gardiner, and how he is to be qualified'. ff. 10-13.
Ch. 3: `Of the Principles and Elements in generall'. ff. 13v-17v.
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Ch. 5: `Of the Aire and Winds'. ff. 18v-23.
Ch. 6: `Of the Water'. ff. 23-27.
Ch. 7: `Of the Earth'. ff. 28-30.
Ch. 8: `Of the Celestiall influences; particularly, the sun, and Moon'. ff. 29v-34.
Ch. 9: `Of the fower Seasons'. ff. 34-37.
Ch. 10: `Of the Mould and soile of a Garden'. ff. 37-51.
Ch. 11-12, `Of Composts, and Stercoration', and `Of the Generation of Plants' (pages 24-36 according to the numeration in Evelyn’s table of contents) are missing, although slips of paper containing passages for insertion in these chapters are present, and three extensive additions to pp. 24 and 25 are in Add. MS 78344 below. These chapters were probably used for The Philosophical Discourse of Earth (1675).
2.Book II:
Ch. 1. `Of the Instruments belonging to a Gardiner, and their various uses'. ff. 51-58.
Ch. 2. `Of the Situation of a Garden, with its Extente'. ff. 58v-59v.
Ch. 3. `Of Fencing, Enclosing, plotting and disposing the ground'. ff. 59v-63.
Ch. 4. `Of a Seminary, and of propagating Trees Plants, and Flowers'. ff. 63-80v.
Ch. 5. `Of knotts, Parterrs, Compartiments, Bordures, and Embossements'. ff. 80v-85.
Ch. 6. `Of Walkes, Terraces, Carpets and Allées, Bowling Greenes, Bares, Maills, their materialls and proportions'. ff. 85-93.
Ch. 7. `Of Groves, Labyrinths, Daedales, Cabinets, Cradles, Pavilions, Galleries, Close-Walkes and other Relievos'. ff. 93-107.
Ch. 8. `Of Transplanting'. ff. 107-113.
Ch. 9. `Of Fountaines, Cascad's, Rivulets, Canales, Piscina's, and Water-workes'. ff. 114-137.
Ch. 10. `Of Rocks, Grots, Crypta's, Mounts, Precipes, Porticos, Ventiducts'. ff. 138-154v.
Ch. 11. `Of Statues, Payntings, Columns, Dyals, Perspectives, Pots, Vrnes, Jarrs, Vasa's and other Ornaments'. ff. 155-172.
Ch. 12. `Of artificial Echo's, Musick, & Hydraulick motions'. ff. 172v-190.
Ch. 13. `Of Aviaries, Apiaries, Vivaries, Insects &c'. ff. 190-239.
Ch. 14. `Of Verdures, Perennial-greenes, and perpetuall Springs'. ff. 239v-242.
Ch. 15. `Of Orangeries, Oporothecas, and Conservatories of rare Plants & Fruites with the manner of raising them'. ff. 243-259.
Ch. 16. `Of Coronary Gardens, Flowers, & rare Plants, how they are to be propagated, governed, and improved; together with a Catalogue of the Choysest shrubs, Plants, and Flowers ... and how a Gardiner is to keepe his Register'. ff. 259v-324v.
Ch. 17. `Of the Philosophico-Medicall Garden'. ff. 325-331v.
Ch. 18. `Of Wonderfull and Stupendious Plants'. ff. 332-338v.
Ch. 19. `Of the Ortyard, and what Fruit-Trees, Olitory, and Esculent Plants may be admitted into a Garden of Pleasure'. Missing; pp. 352-380 according to the table of contents.
Ch. 20. `Of Sallets' inserted in MS in the table of contents, with subsequent chapter numbers changed to accommodate this; missing.
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Ch. 21. `Of a Vinyard, and directions about making Wine'. Missing; pp. 380-395 according to the table of contents.
Ch. 22. `Of Watering, Pruning, Plashing, Nailing, Clipping, Mowing, and Rolling'. Missing; pp. 395-405 according to the table of contents.
Ch. 23. `Of the Enemies and Infirmities to which a garden is obnoxious, together with the Remedies'. Missing; pp. 405-418 according to the table of contents.
Ch. 24. `Of the Gardiners Almanack, or Calendarium Hortense, directing what he is to do monthly, and what Fruits and Flowers are in Prime'. Missing; pp. 418-432 according to the table of contents. With the printed marginal note,` This is already published [in Sylva ] …’
3.Book III: all chapters missing; chapter headings and page references taken from the table of contents; several of latter are now illegible as a result of paper damage on the right hand lower margin.
Ch. 1. `Of Conserving, Properating [sic], Retarding, Multiplying, Transmuting and altering the Species, Forms, and substantial qualities of Plants and Flowers'. Missing; pp. 433-559 according to the table of contents.
Ch. 2. `Of the Gardiners Elaboratory, and of distilling extracting of Waters, Spirits ... with other rare Experiments, and an account of their Vertues'. Missing; pp. 559-[6?]62] according to the table of contents.
Ch. 3. `Of Composing the Hortus Hyemalis, and making Books of Natural, Arid Plants, and Flowers ...'. Missing; pp 62[-]-[---], according to table of contents.
Ch. 4. `Of Painting of Flowers ... with other artificials representations of them'. Missing; pp. [-----] (pagination missing from table of contents)..
Ch. 5. `Of Crowns, Chaplets, Garlands ... and other Flowry Pomps'. Missing; pp. [---]-[---] (pagination missing from the table of contents).
Ch. 6. `Of the Hortulan Laws'. Missing; pp. 643-649 according to the table of contents.
Ch. 7. `Of the Hortulan study and of a Library assistant to it'. Missng; pp. 649-65[-] according to the table of contents.
Ch. 8. `Of Hortulan Entertainments ...'. Missing; pp. 65[-]-727 according to the table of contents.
Ch. 9. `Of the most famous Gardens in the World, Ancient and Modern'. Missing; pp. 727-807 according to the table of contents.
Ch. 10. `The Description of a Villa'. Missing; pp. 807-[--] according to the table of contents.
`The Corollary and Conclusion’.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXXVI. `Rude Collections to be Inserted into Elysium Britannicum, Referring to the several Chapters of what is beg[un]' (f. 150v), consisting of Evelyn's collection of additional material to be incorporated into the `Elysium Britannicum', including insertions for Book III, of which the main text is now missing from Add. MS 78342; 1660s-[1680s?]. Mostly autograph. In his reading and correspondence Evelyn was constantly discovering more material to add to his work, which he noted down in the order he found or read them. He then annotated each item with its place in the main manuscript (Add. MS 78242 above), chiefly with the abbreviated book and chapter number (e.g. `2-8’ for Book II, chapter 8). He cut many of the leaves into slips and inserted them in the correct place in the manuscript, but he never completed the task and the uncut leaves, with the individual entries each annotated with their place in the manuscript, now make up the present manuscript, which is paginated `1-221' by Evelyn. At Add. MS 78342, ff. 2-3, is the key which links the two, headed by Evelyn,`A Table leading to the notes in the loose sheetes to be inserted in the Elysium Britannicum. Note that in the loose papers to which those figures referr: the first stands for the book, the second for the Chapter: as 2-8 in the margent: that is the second book; chap 8. viz Transplants, & so of the rest'.
The manuscript consists chiefly of notes, with some diagrams, made at different times and on different types and sizes of paper, some the blank portions of address leaves of letters to himself and his father-in-law of the 1640s and 1650s which Evelyn commonly used as scrap paper in his later years. The notes contain information gathered from a variety of sources, including published works, his own commonplace books (e.g. f. 6, `See for an Engine or water-worke, my Booke of Receipts Mechanical: paragraph 68') and private communications. The latter include some original letters and lists of plants sent to Evelyn by friends and associates, as detailed below. Formerly Evelyn MS 38.
Paginated by Evelyn, `1-221' (+ several unnumbered); two pages are numbered 35, and the following pages are missing: 62, 72, 74, 77-78, 81, 100, 103(?), 111, 124, 127, 143, 183, 192-195, 198-201, 218. Several of the latter, all bearing Evelyn's pagination (pp. 72, 77, 81, 111, 124, 143, 193, 218), are now amongst the group of notes relating to the `Elysium Britannicum' in the papers of William Upcott in Add. MS 15950, ff. 142-174. In the 19th century the whole of the present collection was mounted on guards and bound, after which the volume suffered a great deal of deterioration apparently from damp. Much of the paper, although now conserved, is damaged and discoloured, affecting the text. Several folios relating to language and education, originally at the end of this volume, having been added by mistake from an unrelated bundle of commonplace notes at the time of the earlier binding, have now been placed Add. MS 78351 below.
ff. 155. British Library binding. 350 x 280mm.
Contents:
1.ff. 1-10, 14-16v, 19-24v. Notes for incorporation into all three books of the `Elysium Britannicum', with abbreviated chapter headings added in the margin for each item, referring to those in the table of contents in Add. 78342, f. 1; including (f. 22) a page of notes headed `Villa'.
2.ff. 11-13v, 17, 25-57, 59-65, 76-78, 81-98, 115-125, 127-132, 136-149v. Notes for incorporation into all three books of the `Elysium Britannicum', with book and chapter numbers in arabic numerals added in the margins for each item (e.g. `2-1' for Book II, chapter 1). Including several lists of plants (ff. 93, 95, 147-149v) not in Evelyn's hand.
3.ff. 18, 153-155. Notes with chapter numbers in roman numerals in the margins, referring to the continuous sequence (I-XLVII) added by Evelyn to the printed table of contents in Add. MS 78342, f. 1, above, in addition to sequences of arabic chapter numbers for each book.
4.f. 58. Letter from Cuthbert Horsley to `Madame' [Lady Tuke?], 20 April 1670, with a passage
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5.ff. 66-74v, 79, 126, 133-135. Letters from John Beale to Evelyn, 19, 22, 29 Oct. 1670; 11 Dec. 1668; n.d.; 12, 9, 2 Nov. 1662, discussing the `Elysium Britannicum' or matters relevant to it, some passages marked by Evelyn with the book and chapter numbers. For the rest of Beale's letters, see Add. MSS 78312-78313 below and 78683 below.
6.f. 75. `An Extract of Mr [Henry] Oldenburg Letters Paris', [1660s?], containing a message for Evelyn concerning a French work giving advice about the situation of a garden.
7.ff. 99-114. Letter headed `Madrid 12 June 1668', much faded but describing the gardens of Spain, from Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich (see Evelyn's letters to him of 13 Dec. 1667 and 21 Aug. 1668 in Add. MS 78298 above), with passages marked by Evelyn for insertion chiefly in Book 3, chapter 9.
8.f. 150v. Original wrapper for this bundle of notes, marked with a [flower] symbol.
9.ff. 151-152. List of books and authors consulted in the compilation of `Elysium Britannicum'.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXXVII. Notes by and collected by Evelyn for `Elysium Britannicum', Sylva, the Royal Society and related projects; mostly late 17th cent.
ff. 136. British Library arrangement. 395 x 255mm.
1.Notes, mostly intended for incorporation into the `Elysium Britannicum', a few with pen and ink diagrams, on sheets of different sizes, each annotated with a symbol of intersecting circles and the roman chapter numbers referring to the table of contents of Add. MS 78342 above. Some sheets are headed `Hortus', `HE', or `S'. The key to these abbreviations is now in Add. MS 15950, f. 80: `In this Bundle or Roll marked [same symbol of intersecting circles] is Containd the Excerpts and Collections, casualy gatherd out of several authors &c.'; according to the list which follows `S' indicates that the notes were for inclusion in the next edition of Sylva; `HE' that they were `To be inserted in what I begun and intended about Gardning & Horticulture, under the Title of Elysium or Paradise--Imperfect'. A few items are not in Evelyn's hand, but were acquired by him from other sources, and filed as part of his material; viz: - (a) ff. 1-4. Extensive additions (one leaf, two half leaves and one fragment) to `Elysium Britannicum', Book I, Ch. 10, pp. 24-25, on soil, etc.; - (b) ff. 5-95. Notes and drafts on various sizes of paper, for additions to several chapters of `Elysium Britannicum’, including: extensive notes for Book II, chapters 15 and 16, on fruit-trees and flower gardens, and to Book III, chapters 6 and 7, on `Hortulan Study' and `Hortulan Entertainment'; notes taken from Abraham Munting (ff. 7-8); notes in French from [Henry Oldenburg?] (f. 9); notes and lists concerning fruit-trees and North American plants by George London (ff. 11-15); a fragment, apparently relating to the garden at Sayes Court, headed, `Ever-greenes, and other rare plants in Cases and potts &c: 1660: 1661', with (on the verso) `The Several fruit Trees in the House-Ortchard, according to their Rowes and numbers', with a later note for its insertion into Book II, chapter 19 (f. 17); and a drawing of a bee-hive with a list of Latin, French and Italian letters to Evelyn's correspondents (see Add. MSS 78298-78299 above) on the verso (f. 66). Notes for insertion into Sylva, the `History of Staves', the history of religion, and `the Dignity of Man’ and `Pictura’ are mixed with these, according to the abbreviations set out in Add. MS 15950, f. 80.
2.ff. 96-103. Drafts by Evelyn in old age, apparently intended either for a further edition
Page 188 2021-08-13 of Sylva, or for the `Elysium Britannicum', although in most cases the notes of chapters, pages, etc., in which they are to be inserted do not correspond to any of the existing manuscript or printed versions, viz: - (a) ff. 96-98. `Appendix', altered to `Cap II', `An Account of Exotic-Trees & other tender, Rare and Curious Shrubs, Perennial Greens', `for such of the Curious who [are] not satisfied with what our vulgar and ruder Forests aford us of plaine and ordinary & most Usefull Ti[m]ber-Trees', consisting of two leaves, containing a list of the plants in alphabetical order; -(b) ff. 99-100. Part of the text of `Ch. III', on the choice of a gardener, with heading, `Consider whether to bring in this either after the Cultures of Exoticks, evergreen, Curiositys, &c. Or after the Description of the Garden and Royal Seats in England, compared with those of Italy, France and other countrys'; -(c) ff. 101-103. Several other notes, some with page numbers for insertion, including (f. 103; formerly Evelyn MS 535) verses in the hand of Evelyn's grandson, beg. `A wood with sweet embraces five miles wide', also with a note by Evelyn with its place of insertion.
3.Material concerning Evelyn's translation of De La Quintinye's Compleat Gard'ner (1693), viz: (a) ff. 104-105. `A Praeliminary Discourse, shewing the Order, Method, & Designe of this Part, chiefly relating to Fruit-Trees', endorsed `I wrote this for Mr Wises Translation & Epitomy of La Quintiny in which it is printed'; - (b) f. 106. Copy of the London Gazette for 1692, containing an advertisement for the work, marked in pencil; - (c) f. 107. Autograph copy of the dedication endorsed `Epistle dedicatory I write for the Bookseller before the Translation of M: Quint[inie]'.
4.Papers relating to the Royal Society and to Sylva; 1659-1701, viz: (a) ff. 108-111. Proposal in a hand which suggests an origin in the Hartlib communication network for a Protestant college of arts and sciences to be set up in England for research, teaching of children and the promotion of Christian values; [1659?]. Latin. The college to have a council of eleven and various officers, including secretaries for various foreign countries (two for England), two librarians and two `Conservatores’; eleven departments covering medicine, mathematics, edication, trade, agriculture, building, music and the arts, etc. Salaries are specified and that there is to be no theological disputation; - (b) ff. 112-113. Evelyn’s drawings for a `college'; 1659. Reproduced and discussed in Michael Hunter, Establishing the New Science (Woodbridge: Boydell, 1989), pp. 181-184; - (c) f. 114. Pen and ink sketches and notes by Evelyn for arms and mottoes for the Royal Society; 1660 (endorsed date); - (d) f. 115. `Note of what Books are fit for the Library of the Royal Society', prepared by Evelyn for Sir Robert Moray; [1661]. Beal EvJ 46. Formerly Evelyn MS 541; - (e) ff. 116-120. Papers relating to Sylva, including the order of 15 Oct. 1662, for the printing of `Sylva' (f. 116); fragments by Evelyn for Sylva (ff. 117-120); pp. 312-328 of the 3rd edition of Sylva, with a few MS corrections in the hands of Evelyn and his grandson (ff. 121-124); a letter from Thomas Franklin to – Waller about quick-setting and ditching, referring to `Mr Evelyn’s excellent book Silva', 6 Feb. 1701 (ff. 125-128).
5.ff. 129-135. `The Historie of Staves'; [1664-bef. 1670]. With `Joannis Evelyni . . . De Baculis'; [1670s?]. Partly Latin. Autograph. Imperfect. Evelyn began this some time before 1670 as an appendix to his Sylva; see his correspondence with Isaac Casaubon, Jan. 1670 (Diary and Correspondence, ed. Bray, III, pp. 220-225). It is included in his list of `Things I would write out faire and reforme if I had Leasure', and in Add. MS 15950, f. 80, as `On the History of Staves, Begun, intended, Imperfect'. The text seems never to have progressed beyond the beginning, but Evelyn continued to gather material for it as part of his commonplace collections. Beal EvJ 111 and 112. Formerly Evelyn MS 546 and 547.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXXVIII. Treatise on natural philosophy and chemistry; [aft. 1660?]. Autograph draft, including several pen and ink sketches of the laboratory equipment. Imperfect and fragmentary at the end. Most of this text is based on a course in chemistry by Nicasius Le Fèvre, studied by Evelyn in Paris in the late 1640s and early 1650s (Diary, II, pp. 534-5, III, p. 49) and published as Traicté de la Chymie in 1660; see F. Sherwood Taylor, `The Chemical Studies of John Evelyn', Annals of Science, VIII (1952), pp. 285, 290-292. Evelyn's interest in chemistry was strong in the 1650s; (see letters from Le Fèvre, 23 March, 25 May, 3 June 1652, 30 Sept. 1655, 13 Sept. 1656), and Samuel Hartlib describes him as `a chymist' with `a great many furnaces' (Michael Hunter, `John Evelyn in the 1650s', Science and the Shape of Orthodoxy, Woodbridge, 1995, p. 75). If he intended to publish this work, the plan was overtaken by another English translation of Le Fèvre, A Compendious Body of Chymistry, by `P. D. C.', which appeared in 1664. Evelyn's version lacks most of the instructions for specific chemical processes. Those concerning vegetable matter may have been taken over for use in the appropriate chapter of his `Elysium Britannicum', but the relevant portion of the manuscript does not survive in either case. It appears by comparison with the `garden laboratory' shown on the plan of Sayes Court that some of the sketches of equipment in the present manuscript may represent the interior of his `elaboratory' at Sayes Court. Beal EvJ 155. Formerly Evelyn MS 61. A sheet headed `Chymicall processes experimented by me', 1659 (formerly Evelyn MS 562; Beal EvJ 158), appears on the grounds of paper size and type to belong to this compilation and has been added to it.
Consisting of two sewn gatherings, and at least one of which has been disjoined and is now incomplete.
1.Book 1 [no title]:
Preface, `To my honour'd & Learned friend Mr G[aspar] N[eedham]’.
Ch. 1. `Of the Name of this Science'.
Ch. 2: `Of the definition of Alchemy & whether it aught to be call'd Art or a Science'.
Ch. 3: `Of the End of Chimistry'.
Ch. 4: `Of the Principals of Elements & Natural things'.
Ch. 5: `Of the divers substances found in the Resolution & Anatomie of Compounds'.
Ch. 6: `Of each Principall in Particular'.
Ch. 7: `Of Phlegme'.
Ch. 8: `Of the Spirit'.
Ch. 9: `Of Sulphur'.
Ch. 10: `Of Salt'.
Ch. 11: `Of Earth'.
Ch. 12: `Of the Elements in Generall'.
Ch. 13: `Of the Element of Fire'.
Ch. 14: `Of the Element of Ayre'.
Ch. 15: `Of the Element of Water'.
Ch. 16: `Of the Element of Earth'.
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Ch. 17: `Of the principals of mixts ...'.
Ch. 18: `Of the principles of destruction'.
Ch. 19: `Of Pure & Impure'.
Ch. 20: `How the Impure enters into all things'.
Ch. 21: `How to seperat the Impur out of all things'.
Ch. 22: `Of the pure substances which one may extract out of Mixts'.
Ch. 23: `Of the Naturall Generation & Corruption of Mixts & of their diversity'.
Ch. 24: `Of the diffrence of mixts in Generall'.
Ch. 25: `Of the diversity of Perfect mixts'.
Ch. 26: `Of the Media Minerals or Marcassits'.
Ch. 27: `Of Metalls'.
Ch. 28 (wrongly 38): `Of Stones'.
Ch. 29 (wrongly 39): `Of Other Mixts, as well Animats as Inanimats'.
Ch. 30, (wrongly 40): `How the chimistry doth worke upon these mixts to draw out of them the pure, & reject the Impure'.
2.`The Second Booke: of Naturall Phylosophy wherin the speculations of the former are asserted from Manual Practise and Hermetiq Experience: conteyning the most excellent & absolute course of Chymistry that hath ever bin hither too Extant ...'
The Preface
Ch. 1: `Of Tearmes Necessary to the Understanding and Composing of chymicall operations'.
Ch. 2: `Of the divers kinds of salutions, & coagulations'.
Ch. 3: `Of the divers degrees of Heate'.
Ch. 4: `Of the Varietys of Vessells'.
Ch. 5: `Of the Variety of Furnaces'.
Ch. 6: `Of Lutations &c'.
Ch. 7: `Of The Furniture of an Elaboratory'.
Ch. 8: `Of the Explication of certayne marks & tearmes wh Chemiq have Used'.
Ch. 9: `Of Separating & purif[y]ing of the five substances after the First Extraction'.
Ch. 10: `An Apologie for the remedys Chymically prepared'.
Ch. 11: `Of the faculties of Mixts, and of the divers degrees of their qualityes'.
Ch. 12: `An Advertisement touching the praecautions which are to be observed in the Administration of Chimical Remedys'.
Ch. 13 [1]: `Of th'Order which wee shall observe in the descriptions of our operations'.
Ch. 2: `Of Deaw and of Rayne'.
Ch. 3: `Of Hony and of Wax'.
3.At this point the exact relationship to Le Fèvre's work breaks down. The remainder of the text consists of tables of animals, vegetables and minerals, notes on chemical processes relating to vegetable matter, descriptions and sketches of furnaces, vessels and other
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXXIX. `Coelum sanitatis. or, a Particular of the Vegetable & Animal Dissolvant'; [1650s-1660s]. Autograph copy or translation. Account of the chemical preparation and curative properties of a quintessential remedy, of which Evelyn remarks (f. 53), `this is for all our Philospher's Boast, but a well rectified spirit of wine'. Apparently taken from a work originally circulated in French, preceded by a preface setting the scene in a chemical laboratory in the garden of `a little villa ... not far from the city', which has resemblances to Evelyn's `elaboratory' in the garden of Sayes Court. At the beginning (f. 1) is a note in Evelyn's later hand, `A Copy of this in French which I have seen, has not a Word of this romantic Preface, who ever he was who wrot it, & translated the rest ill enough', a comment which may be intended to mask his own authorship of the preface and his translation of the rest of the work. Bookplate of the Marquess of Crewe. Geoffrey Keynes, John Evelyn: a Study in Bibliophily (Oxford, 1968), p. 20. Beal EvJ 161. Not originally part of the Evelyn Papers as purchased in 1995; purchased separately at Christie's, 26 Nov. 1997, lot 77.
ff. ii + 53. Contemporary binding of brown calf, gilt-stamped with a wheat-sheaf and with a pseudo-chemical symbol by Evelyn in ink on the front cover. 145 x 90mm.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXXX. Quarto volume with a title-page and a few lines of preface, entitled `The Dignity of Mankind, in a problematical Exercitation or Essay ... Writen at the Request of Samuel Pepys Esq'; 1676. This is apparently the work listed by Evelyn in Add. MS 15950, f. 80, as `Concerning the Sagacity of Brute Animals, begun but imperfect', for which he used the symbol `Br' in his commonplace notes. It is also included in his list of `Things I would write out faire and reforme if I had Leasure' (Add. MS 78404 below). The further reference in Memoires for my Grand-son, p. 66, `The Dignity of Man, & how neere some Bruits approch'd to the Rationale, but the main, & best, Additions wanted Insertion and much of the rest, especialy concerning the soule, to be shorten'd and reform'd', suggests that the present manuscript is the beginning of a fair copy of a more extensive draft which no longer survives. In a letter to Pepys of 10 July 1682 on the use of dogs in war Evelyn made what is apparently a reference to this as a work he was revising; see Particular Friends, ed. Guy de la Bedoyère (Boydell, 1997), p. 132. For the importance of the subject at this period, see Keith Thomas, Man and the Natural World (Penguin, 1984), pp. 34-35. The remainder of the volume (ff. 3-219) is taken up with an abstract by Sir John Evelyn, 1 st Bart. of the court rolls, 16th-18th cent., of all his Surrey manors, made circa 1717-1719. Beal EvJ 131. Formerly Evelyn MS 137.
iii + 224. Original vellum binding. 215 x 175mm.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXXXI. John Evelyn, Sylva, or a discourse of forest-trees, 3rd edn (London, 1679), with Evelyn’s autograph annotations for the 4th edition of 1706 (though these represent only a proportion of the changes and additions made for that edition). With, on the preliminary leaves (ff. ii and iv verso), Bedingfeld’s signature and inscription `ex dono Jno Evelyn Esq 1703’, and Evelyn’s note, `This Book belongs to Sayes Court: Gardens &c’, followed by his monogram. The volume is mentioned in Bedingfeld’s letter to Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart., 9 Jan. 1706/7 in Add. MS 78482 below. Not originally part of the Evelyn Paper as purchased in 1995; purchased separately from Maggs, September 1997.
ff. i-iv; pp. 412, 38. Original binding of brown calf, rebacked. 330 x 215mm.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXXXII. `Directions for the Gardiner at Says Court: But which may be of Use for other Gardens'; 1687 (f. 4), with later additions by Evelyn up to the 1690s, and by his grandson, Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart., the latter relating to plantings at Wotton between 1710 and 1735. With the preliminary note by Evelyn, `Jonathan Mosse came to me Apprentice for six-yeares, 24 June 1686'. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes for the Nonesuch Press, 1932, but without the diagrams and illustrations or the additions by the 1st Bart. Paginated by Evelyn, `I-III, 1-170', but with several leaves excised after p. 83. Beal EvJ 58. Formerly Evelyn MS 136.
Quarto notebook, bound in vellum, with `S', possibly in Evelyn's hand on the front cover. 210 x 170mm.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXXXIII (ff. ii + 76).
1.ff. 1-73. `Numismata. A Discourse of Medals'; [bef. 1697]. Autograph draft (ff. 1-61), probably begun as a fair copy, but with many cancelled passages and changes, and the note by Evelyn, `foule copy', on the fly-leaf. Paginated 1-120 by Evelyn, but with pp. 93-94 and 97-100 missing. Followed (f. 62) by a draft dedicatory letter in Latin to Charles, Lord Spencer, and Francis Godolphin, later versions of pp. 3-7 (ff. 63-65), and other insertions and loose notes (ff. 66-73). Numismata was published 1697 (see Keynes, Evelyn: a Study in Bibliophily, pp. 229-234). It is the only work published in Evelyn's lifetime for which a substantially complete manuscript survives. Beal EvJ 15. Formerly Evelyn MS 63 (and 538).
2.ff. 74-76. Notes headed `Bibliotheca & MSS'; late 17th cent. Autograph. These were probably intended for Evelyn's essay `Of Manuscripts', listed as `begun but imperfect' in Add. MSS 15950, f. 80, and printed in Memoirs, ed. Bray (1818), II, pp. 323-336, when the manuscript was part of the present archive (it is now unlocated; Beal EvJ 150). It appears from the first paragraph of this essay that it was conceived as a continuation of Evelyn's translation of Naudé's Instructions concerning Erecting a Library (1661), and of Numismata: `it might neither be unacceptable or vnwellcom to the Curious, and such as would inrich & addorne their Libraries with that which has euer ben esteemed the most valuable & precious furniture, if to what the learned Naudeus has publish'd concerning it in general, I added some more particular Directions in a chapter or two relating to Manu-scripts, as alredy I have of Medals' (p. 323). See also the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, `Gabriel Naudé and John Evelyn', The Library, 4th ser., 12 (1932), pp. 383-402, discussing his copy of the first edition with Evelyn's MS.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXXXIV (ff. 176+87*+169*). Miscellaneous papers by or collected by Evelyn, relating to language, education, heraldry, etc.; including fragmentary works and notes. For related material, removed from the archive by William Upcott, see Add. MS 15950, ff. 81-105, 111-121.
1.ff. 1-32. `Grammatica. A general or praeliminary Grammar', consisting of a preface, followed by grammars of Latin and Greek; [1650s?]. Autograph, partly fair copies, partly drafts, all three incomplete. The first and last leaves of the Latin grammar are in Add. MS 15950, ff. 99-105, with the note by Evelyn (f. 99), `Write to Cos. [Christopher] Wase to see his owne method', suggesting that that it was compiled in connection with the education of his son Richard; the present leaves come after f.101v. Beal EvJ 105. Formerly Evelyn MS 536.
2.ff. 33-43. Greek-Latin word list; n.d. Autograph.
3.ff. 44-67. Collection of loose sheets, originally part of a bound notebook, containing excerpts and definitions, mostly in Greek and Latin, alphabetically arranged by English subject terms, which are entered in the right-hand margins; n.d. Autograph. The first sheet headed `A' is on a smaller size of paper and may come from a different work. The purpose of the collection is not clear, but it may be intended as an aid to composition, commonplacing or public speaking.
4.ff. 68-71. A guide to the pronunciation of the French language; 1643, n.d. Latin. The first three pages are in an unidentified hand, the remainder may be in the hand of John Evelyn junior, with Evelyn's autograph motto `Omnia explorate Meliora retinete', various press-marks and the date `1643' at the head. For an English translation, apparently also in the hand of John Evelyn junior, see Add. MS 15950, ff. 88-93v. Beal EvJ 106. Formerly Evelyn MS 537.
5.ff. 72-87. Shorthand guides; 1633, n.d. Formerly Evelyn MS 202.
6.f. 88. Single sheet with an Anglo-Saxon alphabet in columns; [1650s?]. Autograph, endorsed in another hand, `J. Evelyn's copy of the Saxon alphabet'. The English grammar by Evelyn in Add. 15950, ff. 94-98, ends with an Anglo-Saxon alphabet. Phillipps MS 29426. Formerly Evelyn MS 483.
7.ff. 89-99. Syriac, Slavonic, Coptic, Samaritan, Arabic, Greek, and Hebrew alphabets; 17th cent. Not in Evelyn’s hand.
8.ff. 100-101. Notes and pen drawings by Evelyn of Egyptian hieroglyphs; 17th cent.
9.ff. 102-108. Copy of Act 1 of Terence's `The Eunuch', in an unidentified hand, with the note in Evelyn's later hand , `Academical Exercise'. Formerly Evelyn MS 526.
10.ff. 109-114. Commonplace notes endorsed by Evelyn `Education. To Direct Young Scholars how to proceede in their study'. Originally bound by mistake with the notes to be added to `Elysium Britannicum', Add. MS 78343 above. `Papers concerning education' are included in Evelyn's list of `Things I would write out faire and reforme if I had Leasure', in Add. MS 78404.
11.ff. 115-124. Evelyn’s matriculation certificate for Balliol College, 1637, and passports
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12.ff. 125-143. Family and heraldic notes; [1670s?], n.d.
13.f. 144. Notes by Evelyn headed `Itinerary Italy’. Formerly Evelyn MS 549.
14.ff. 145-168. Miscellaneous fragmentary works and notes, including pp. 17-30 of Tyrannus or the Mode (1661) by Evelyn, printed, with a few marginal marks.
15.ff. 169-175. Pen and ink sketches by Evelyn of the plans and elevation of the several floors of a large formal house, with his notes.
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Scope and Content A.Exercises in French grammar; 1643. With Evelyn’s ownership signature and motto on the fly-leaf, `Turoniis 1643’. Formerly Evelyn MS 121.
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Scope and Content B.`Receuil des mots qui soubs mesmes prononciation ont des significations differentes. Dispose en ordre alphabetiques’; 1644. French. In the same hand as the preceding, and including a few pencil sketches on blank pages. With Evelyn’s signature on the title-page, `Turoniis. Sept: 18: 1644’, and with his monogram stamped on the front and back covers. Formerly Evelyn MS 190.
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Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vols CLXXXVI-CLXXXIX. Manuscripts relating to Evelyn's project for publishing a verse translation with commentary of Lucretius' De rerum natura; 1656-1657. Only the translation of the first book was ever published. No manuscripts relating to the second book are known to survive. The project, which reflected Evelyn's interest in the new science as well as in classical literature and philosophy, is discussed in his letters to Sir Richard Browne of 1656-57 in Add. MS 78221. See also Keynes, Evelyn, a Study in Bibliophily, pp. 41-45, Michael Hunter, `John Evelyn in the 1650s', Science and the Shape of Orthodoxy (Woodbridge, 1995), pp. 67-97, and Michael M. Repetzki (ed.), John Evelyn’s Translation of Lucretius Carus De rerum natura, Münsteraner Monographien zur englischen Literatur 22 (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2000). Four volumes. (1656-1657)
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXXXVI. John Evelyn, An Essay on the First Book of T. Lucretius Carus, De rerum natura. Interpreted and Made English Verse. London: Gabriel Bedell and Thomas Collins, 1656. Printed, with autograph inscription, a note on the verso of the title-page concerning the many misprints, and extensive marginal annotations and corrections. The work was seen through the press in Evelyn's absence by Dr Thomas Triplet and Evelyn complained repeatedly of his negligence (Keynes, Evelyn: a Study in Bibliophily, p. 42). Beal EvJ 1. Formerly Evelyn Collection B67.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXXXVII. Translation of Lucretius, De rerum natura, books III-VI (to line 694); 1656-1657. Autograph fair copy of a text which was never published, Evelyn claiming that the `ill successe' of the first volume `at the printers discouraged me from troubling the world with the rest'. Written on the rectos of the leaves only with some additions in ink and pencil on the facing pages. The lines on ff. 154-155 have been added in a much later hand and have the note `examine again' in pencil in the margin. Originally in Evlyn's archive; removed in 1818 by William Upcott (his dated ownership signature, f. iii); lot 117 in Evans’ sale of Upcott’s collection, 22 June 1846 (Add. MS 78584 B) and purchased William John Evelyn. Beal EvJ 2. Formerly Evelyn MS 34.
ff. iii. + 155 (foliation in a modern hand, added before acquisition by the British Library). Binding of dark blue leather, blind-stamped, 19th cent. 200 x 115mm.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXXXVIII. Translation of Lucretius, De rerum natura, book VI (from line 696); 11 Sept. 1657 (dated by Evelyn at the end, as the date of completion). Autograph draft, on disbound quarto gatherings, with stubs of several leaves (ff. 1-3) torn off at the beginning. Presumably this represents the draft from which the preceding fair copy was made. At the end are unattributed typescript notes (ff.i-ii), comparing Evelyn’s translation to that in Bodleian. Rawl.D.314. Beal EvJ 4. Formerly Evelyn MS 34a.
ff. 30 + iii.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXXXIX. Commentary on Lucretius, De rerum natura, books III to VI, to accompany the above translation; 1656-1657. Autograph draft in a rough cursive hand, preceded by a draft preface(?) in a later hand, concerning his motives for undertaking the work. The main text is written on the rectos of the leaves, with substantial insertions on facing pages. With the volume are two loose leaves: one containing a copy of William Lawes’ musical setting of Richard Lovelace’s `Why should thou swear I am forsworn’, [17 th cent.?], the other a small engraving (34 x 34mm) of soldiers with a battle scene in the background. Beal EvJ 3. Formerly Evelyn MS 33.
ff. iv + 159. Pencil foliation (not including prefatory text), `1-155', probably by Evelyn up to 60, then continued in a more modern hand. Contemporary vellum binding, with traces of pencil and ink sketches on the front and back covers. 220 x 117mm.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXC. Quarto notebook containing autograph fair copies of Evelyn's occasional verse, in three sections with some blank leaves between each; 17th cent. Many leaves discoloured by damp, with some fading of text. Beal EvJ 6. Formerly Evelyn MS 124.
ff. 69. Paginated `1-68' in ink by Evelyn, continued by him in pencil to p. 158. Binding of black calf, gilt ruled and stamped, [17th cent.?], with modern repairs. 118 x 114mm.
1.ff. 1-34. Section headed `Otium Evelyni', with the further heading, `Ludicra. Follies', containing separate items of occasional secular verse and epigrams, written between 1639 (f. 29) and 1688 (f. 34), but not entered in chronological order, and with some later crossing through in pencil, and marginal notes (ff. 27v-28) after 1690. With a few lines in Latin and Greek.
2.ff. 38-50. Section headed `Hymns and Sacred Poems', with the further heading, `Mea Seria Ludo.' Several are in Latin, some with parallel English translation or version. The hymns for each day of the week (those for Friday and Saturday headed but not entered) and other church festivals are also to be found in the corresponding meditations in the following section of devotional manuscripts; mid-late 17th cent.
3.ff. 63v-64v. Verses relating to Evelyn's friendship with Margaret (Blagge) Godolphin, who died in childbirth in 1678; circa 1673-[1680s]: `On the Gift of the dearest Friend I have in the World' (accompanied by a small pen and ink sketch of their `altar of friendship', for the earlier version of which, see Evelyn, Diary, III, opp. p. 628); - `In Margaritam (Eheu Charissimam!) Epitaphium'; - `Elegia Mrs: Godolphin my never enough to be deplored Friend'; - `Sent with the Common prayer Book to that deare Child litle Fr: Godolphin'. The second and third items were also included at the end of Evelyn's Life of Mrs Godolphin; see the
Page 200 2021-08-13 edition by Harriet Sampson (Oxford University Press, 1939), pp. 112-114. For this friendship, see also Add. MSS 78307 and 78372-78392.
4.ff. 69-70. `The Table': a list by Evelyn of the contents of each section with page numbers.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXCI. `Thersander. A Tragi-Comedy'; early 1660s. Autograph fair copy, signed by Evelyn on the title-page, with many deletions and alterations. An incomplete play in blank verse, never completed or performed, but see The Diary of Samuel Pepys, ed. Robert Latham and William Mathews, 6 (1972), p. 289, for a probable reading to Pepys in 1665. For a further leaf, see Add. MS 15950, f. 177. Beal EvJ 213. Formerly Evelyn MS 41.
ff. 68. Original vellum binding, with leather ties. 295 x 205 mm.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXCII (ff. 55). Miscellaneous literary manuscripts, including verse, inscriptions and epitaphs by, addressed to, or otherwise associated with John Evelyn; circa 1634-1706.
1.ff. 1-4. Act I, Scene 1 of `The Originals. A Comedy', by Evelyn; [1660s?]. Autograph fair copy. Lot 428 in Evans’ sale of William Upcott’s collections, 22 June 1846 (Add. MS 78584 B) and purchased by William John Evelyn. Formerly Evelyn MSS 534. Beal EvJ 212.
2.ff. 5-17. Notes concerning comedy and other forms of dramatic writing, in quarto and folio sheets; n.d. Autograph. Formerly Evelyn MSS 534, 542. Beal EvJ 136, 212.
3.f. 18. Two sets of elegaic verses by Nicholas Crouch, student at Balliol, addressed to George Bradshaw, Dean of Balliol, apologizing for some minor transgression; circa 1634-?June 1638. Latin. Evelyn was at Balliol at this period and Bradshaw was his tutor (see Add. MS 78274 above).
4.f. 19. Epitaph for Margaretha (b. 1276), wife of Hermann, Count of Hennenberg, who according to legend gave birth to 365 children. Latin. Certified as a faithful copy of the inscription in the church of Loosduinen by the notary public in [1641?]. With an endorsement by Evelyn.
Page 201 2021-08-13 5.f. 20. Epitaph of Pierre Gassendi; aft. 1655. Latin. Copy .
6.f. 21. Inscription endorsed by Evelyn as by or relating to Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, dated `M.D.C.L.X'; [aft. 1660]. Autograph. Latin. Beal EvJ 83. Formerly Evelyn MS 470.
7.f. 22. Verses by Abraham Cowley, addressed to Evelyn, beg. `Happy art Thou, whom God does bless'; facsimile, 1837, of verses in Cowley's hand written circa 1664, and with an engraving of `Abraham Cowley's Residence at Chertsey' at the head.
8.ff. 23-25. `Epigr: Verses and Inscriptions sent me from Learned Persons, which should have ben Engraven in Marble, and set up at Oxford in acknowledgement of my Procuring them The Greek Marmora Arundeliana'; [1667]. Autograph copies of Latin inscriptions, partly in verse. Evelyn adds that he would not allow them to be set up, `as to[o] greate a Vanity in me'. On the verso of one sheet is a rough pencil sketch of wharves and sluice-gates, presumably at Deptford. Formerly Evelyn MS 533.
9.ff. 26-28. Inscription to Cornelius de Wit, beg. `Aeternitati Sacrum'; 1667. Latin. Three copies, the first in Evelyn's hand and the last with a copy of the monumental inscription of his brother Richard, 1669, on the verso. Formerly Evelyn MS 472. Beal EvJ 8.
10.ff. 29-31. Two sets of Latin elegaics relating to Evelyn and the Dutch wars, complimenting him on his care of the sick and wounded seamen, on the safety of his wife after the plague, and on the re-establishment of peace and trade; [1665-1674?]. Copies in a scribal hand.
11.ff. 32-33. Verses by Evelyn concerning Mary Tuke, the daughter of Lady Tuke, headed, `A Pleasant Ballad How Mop went to France to be a Nunn', and `De Bith Income. How Mop from France is lately come ...'; [1680s?]. Autograph. Formerly Evelyn MSS 325, 326. Beal EvJ 7, 8.
12.f. 34. Epitaph by Evelyn for Sir Richard Browne; 1683. Autograph. Beal EvJ 82. Formerly Evelyn MS 391.
13.f. 35. Epitaph by Evelyn for Dr John Beale; 1683. Autograph, with notes for alternative wording.
14.f. 36 Epitaph for Henry Bennet, Earl of Arlington; [1685]. Latin.
15.ff. 37-38. Political verse on the reign of James II, headed `Hounslow Heath’; 1688. In a scribal hand.
16.f. 39. Three sets of extempore verses in Latin by Evelyn, with notes of their context; 1696, n.d. Autograph fair copies.
17.f. 40. Verses by Evelyn on Peter the Great's stay at Sayes Court; 1697. Autograph. Latin and English.
18.f. 41. Inscription of the poet and courtier Fleetwood Sheppard’; aft. 1698. Latin. Endorsed by Evelyn `Fleetewod Shephards Epitaph’.
19.f. 42. `An Inscription Intended to be set up for the E of R When by the unhappy effects of his Ministry, The Chappell of St Stephen is become a Chappel to the Jesuites . . .'; 1701. Autograph. The paper has been damaged at the foot, with some loss of text. Beal EvJ 81. Formerly Evelyn MS 324.
20.ff. 43-44. Copy of the Latin hymn, `Dies irae', calligraphically written, with annotations in pencil by Evelyn; bef. 1706.
21.ff. 45-46. Verses addressed to John Evelyn by Jo: Bowes, beg. `Sir./ To a great Age God lengthens out your years ...'; [early 1700s?]. Calligraphically written and decorated with illustrations of tulips in coloured inks. Formerly Evelyn MS 328.
22.ff. 47-48. Inscription for John Evelyn's tomb at Wotton; 1706, endorsed in the hand of his grandson. Formerly Evelyn MS 339.
23.ff. 49-50. Two inscriptions, calligraphically written to accompany the copy by John Bogdane of Evelyn's portrait by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1689, presented to the Royal Society after his death; aft 1706. Unnumbered.
Page 202 2021-08-13 24.f. 51. Two stanzas endorsed by Evelyn, `Song / Ital[i]an Verses’; 17th cent.
25.ff. 52-62. Transcripts of verses from `Otium Evelyni' (Add. MS 78357); 20th cent. Incomplete, pp. 5, 11, 31, 40, 45, 55, 58, 62, 63, 68 only.
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Title Devotional Manuscripts78360-78392. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols CXCIII, CCXXV. These are the most extensive category in the archive. They consist of notes and commentaries on the Bible, sermon notes, essays on religious subjects, but chiefly of private devotional works and meditations. Many of them were written or adapted for, or otherwise associated with Margaret Blagge (1652-1678), the maid of honour at the Restoration court, with whom Evelyn made a pact of spiritual friendship in October 1672. This is usually signified by his addition of the motto, `Un Dieu Un Amy', and the pentacle which he used to symbolize the friendship. After her death in child-birth in 1678 Evelyn retrieved the devotional works he had written for her (see Evelyn to Pepys, 3 Oct. 1685, The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, English Literature 1475-1700 (New York, 1940), p. 1214; Memoires for my Grand-son, p. 64); hence their presence in his archive. For his correspondence with the Godolphins, see Add. MS 78307 above. Further devotional matter by Evelyn is to be found on three end-papers of his wife's Book of Common Prayer, Eve.a.131 (`Evening Prayer for this Family'), and of Simon Patrick's The Christian Sacrifice, 2nd edn (1672), Eve.a.23 (notes on preparations to take Communion).Thirty-two volumes. ([1600-1740])
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Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vols CXCIII, CXCIV. Evelyn's Bible, two volume folio edition printed by Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel, printers to the University of Cambridge, 1638, interleaved with blank leaves. On these and in the margins are many autograph annotations. The leaf preceding each of the title-pages contains an engraved design encircling a blank medallion for the recording of personal or family memoranda. On the verso of this leaf in the first volume is the autograph inscription, `E Libris Evelyni 1650'; in the medallion itself, `This Bible is after my Decease to be deliverd to Mrs Blagge, late Mayd of Honour to the Queen', signed and dated 16 Oct. 1673, the first anniversary of his pact of friendship with her. At the head of the inscription is the pentacle symbol and the motto `Un Dieu un Amy'; at the foot the Evelyn gryphon and the motto `Meliora Retinete'. After each title-page is inserted, in the first volume, a map of the Holy Land, by John Speed, 1611; in the second, an anonymous map of the eastern Mediterranean, entitled `Peregrinatie der Apostelen'. On the first fly leaf of the first volume is `A Prayer before Reading Holy Scripture' and on the back paste-down of the last volume is the note, `the full notes are no farther than to the End of the Acts in those Interfoliations, but should be supplyd from the MSS. Folio'; i.e. Add. MS 78362 below. Beal EvJ 166. Formerly Evelyn MS 46.Two volumes. Bound in brown reversed calf, blind-stamped. 390 x 260mm. (17th century)
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXCV. `Analecta and Notes upon several places & Difficulties of the New Testament'; n.d. Autograph. Covering all the books of the New Testament by chapter and verse, but as indicated by the note at the end of Add. MS 78361 above, the notes for the four gospels and the Acts of the Apostles in many cases duplicate those in the present volume, while those for books after the Acts are more frequent and detailed. Beal EvJ 168. Formerly Evelyn MS 48.
Folio bound in brown reversed calf, blind stamped, rebacked. 360 x 240mm.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXCVI. `Lectures Containing the most edifying sentences, Texts & Illustrious passages of the New Testament, where of one being every day read, the whole will be gone over every Weeke'; n.d. Autograph. `Notes upon the whole N. Testament', which may refer either to this item, was included in Evelyn's list of works `I did purpose to have finish'd and perhaps publish'd', in Memoires for my Grandson, p. 68. Containing excerpts in a neat hand by chapter and verse from all the books of the New Testament in sequence, and from the Apocrypha, divided into `Periods'. Beal EvJ 167. Formerly Evelyn MS 47, with several leaves restored from the loose unnumbered commonplace notes.
ff. ii + 28. Quarto gatherings, disbound and imperfect; pp. 1-16, 41-71 and 112-119 only. 200 x 150mm.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXCVII. `Ta tōn `Omiliōn Peripsēmata tina, or a breife Account of divers Sermons recollected at my after Retirement, and begun, ĒĒAnno domini M.DC.L'; 1650-1687. Autograph. Preceded by a list of texts of sermons heard as far back as 1634, with the note, `I first tooke notes of Sermons when very young at schoole, also at the University but they were so imperfect . . . that I have onely noted the Texts in my Journal'. Most of the sermon notes for 1658 are inserted at the end on separate leaves, headed `An Account of such Sermons as I heard at my Parish-Church by the Ordinary Minister there Beginning Anno 1658', cut from another folio notebook of the same size and sewn in. With borders ruled in red ink, the year entered at the top, the date of the sermon in the lefthand margin and the person and place in the righthand margin. The greater part of the notes relate to the period 1650-1660; between 1661 and 1671 the notes are infrequent and brief, and become more extensive again from 20 October 1672 onwards, probably as a result of the pact of friendship with Margaret Blagge on 16 October 1672. References such as `Dr Frampton, since Bishop' suggest that this volume was written up from earlier notes some time after the event. On the end paper is the note: `In those sermons which I have marked with a X some considerable note may occur'; all those of the period 1672-1674, the years of his clostest friendship with Margaret Blagge, are so marked. Briefer notes of many of these sermons and of others not included in this volume are to be found in Evelyn's diary.
ff. iii + 151. Contemporary binding of brown calf. 350 x 235mm.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXCVIII. `The Lamentation of Origen after his fall'; 1638. Autograph. Neatly executed, with borders ruled in red, pen decoration of the first initial and paginated `1-11'. Initialled and dated at the end from Oxford. Beal EvJ 171. Formerly Evelyn MS 70.
The individual leaves have been placed on guards and bound in dark blue leather and cloth, 19th cent.(?). 160 x 125mm.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXCIX. `Relation of what passed betwixt my Co[usin] [Thomas] K[eightly], the Deane of Peterborough and my selfe at Paris touching his Change of Religion. Written by a Gentleman of his Relation'; 1651. Calligraphically written by Richard Hoare, with a few autograph notes by Evelyn, including the pencilled date at the end `Paris, 1651'. See also Evelyn's letters to Cosin, 28 July 1651 and 1 Jan. 1652, in his letterbook, Add. MS 78298 above, and Add. MS 78324, ff. ii-iii, an extract by Evelyn from his diary for June 1651 (cf. Beal EvJ 219 and 220 for what are apparently two further copies). Beal EvJ 199. Formerly Evelyn MS 135.
Contemporary vellum binding. 215 x 165mm.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. CC. Treatise on religion, with a title-page by Evelyn, originally ` THRĒ''SKEIA, or A Rationall Account of the True Religion Asserting the most Antient to be the Best: The Jewish why and how Changed? Why not Gentile? or Mahumetan, but the Christian? Why not any of the Christian Sects, but the Catholick Reform'd? Collected for the Settling and Establishment of my own Choice', preceded by the later title, `The History of Religion'; 1657-1704. Partly autograph fair copy, partly draft, with many later notes and interleaved additions. With the quasi-imprint on the title-page, `Begun in the yeare 1657 when the Church of England was in persecution'. Preceded by three separate notes concerning his later intentions to revise and perhaps publish it; one (f. 1v) is dated 2 Nov. 1704, another (f. 4v) includes the symbols used for cross-referencing to his commonplace notes, which also occur in the margins throughout. `A Rational Account of the True Religion . . . with a packet of notes belonging to it' is included in Evelyn's list of `Things I would write out faire and reform if I had Leasure'. With Evelyn's pagination i-vi, 1-723 (not including the interleaved pages); the first leaf after the preface is now misbound before the title-page. With a table of contents and alphabetical index at the end. Edited as The History of Reōōōligion by R. M. Evanson, 2 vols (1850), which does not distinguish between the original text and the later additions. Beal EvJ 165. Formerly Evelyn MS 37.
ff. ii + 371. On quarto gatherings, half bound in brown morocco, 19th cent. 210 x 165mm.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCI (ff. i + 73). Commonplace notes and collections on religious topics on various sizes of paper, some intended as additions to the preceding manuscript;17 th-early 18th cent. Autograph. At the end is a bifolium containing the first chapter and part of the second of `Aedes Sapientia et Instaurationis Imaginis dei. Representing a Course of Vniversal Knowledge in Order' (Beal EvJ 141. Formerly Evelyn MS 554), followed by a `discourse’ on Arius and Calvin in Evelyn’s hand, endorsed as `given mee by a R Catholique at Padova in Italy 1645’, a notice of a charitable institution in Soho for French refugees; [late 17th cent.], endorsed in Evelyn’s hand, and a `Forme for a Noble-Man’s Chaplaine’, mentioning Ralph Bohun, [1678], in Latin, with annotation and endorsement by Evelyn, and notes on the life of Dr Henry Hammond, not in Evelyn’s hand.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCII. `Copy of what I sent to the Countesse of Clarendon 1688', with `concerning the Millenium' added; 1688. Autograph. See Add. MS 78299 for Evelyn's letters to Flower, wife of Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon, at this time. Beal EvJ 164. Formerly Evelyn MS 35.
Originally unbound quarto gatherings, paginated by Evelyn 1-15, repaired and enclosed in a modern wrapper of marbled paper. 235 x 180mm.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCIII. Devotional work on tiny loose sheets, folded in gatherings, but not sewn, calligraphically written by Richard Hoare; [late 1640s?]. Latin and Greek. Beal EvJ 186. Formerly Evelyn MS 99.
Folder of black leather, elaborately gilt-tooled, with silk ties. 115 x 80mm.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCIV. `Officium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis ad Quotidianum Johannis Evelynni vsum concinnatum'; circa 1650. Calligraphically written by Richard Hoare, with rubrication, ruling in red and some decoration in a similar style to the office of Mary Evelyn below. With a frontispiece containing a pen and ink drawing on vellum of a kneeling figure in prayer, presumably intended to be Evelyn, since the altar or oratory bears the Evelyn gryphon, although the features are barely discernible and he wears clerical robes. The lettering and decoration have become partially obliterated in places. Beal EvJ 182. Formerly Evelyn MS 94.
Binding of black morocco with elaborate decoration in metal work on front and back covers, including Evelyn's monogram (at each corner of both cover and on straps across the spine) and a central decoration containing his motto and emblem, as designed by Thomas Simon. 125 x 80mm.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCV. `Officium Sanctae & Individuae Trinitatis: Privat Devotions and Offices Composed & collected by John Evelyn for his Annuall & quotidian use'; 1650, with later additions. Calligraphically written by Richard Hoare, with some rubrication and use of coloured inks. At the end is an autograph `Morning-Prayer', 1661, and at the beginning several autograph additions concerning Margaret Godolphin, to whom Evelyn presented the volume in April 1676. These include the fly-leaf inscription, `Remember with what importunity you desired this Booke of your Friend. Remember me for it in your prayers', followed by several prayers, the addition of the motto and pentacle on the title-page, and of several dates concerning her life in the preliminary calendar. Sold at Puttick and Simpson, 11 March 1873. See Life of Mrs Godolphin, ed. Sampson, pp. 192-193, Keynes, Evelyn: a Study in Bibliophily, p. 247 and Diary, II, p. 559. Beal EvJ 183. Formerly Evelyn MS 96.
Contemporary binding of red morocco gilt ruled and tooled, with the remains of metal clasps. 140 x 90mm.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCVI. `An Office of . . . Composed for the pious use and exercise of Mrs Mary Evelyn'; [early 1650s?]. Calligraphically written by Richard Hoare, with rubrication, ruling in red and some decorated initials and headings. Beal EvJ 185. Formerly Evelyn MS 98.
Contemporary binding of red calf, elaborately gilt-tooled. 145 x 100mm.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCVII. `An Eucharistical Office or The Wedding Garment or Trimming of the Lamp'; 1660, with later additions. Autograph. The title-page also contains the motto, `Meliora Retinete' and the drawing of an altar with a book and a cross. The order of the elements of the title has been changed subsequently, and the pentacle symbol on the central segment of the altar was probably added in the early 1670s, when the office was adapted to the use of Margaret Blagge. The altar drawing is related to that used by Evelyn for the pact of friendship; see also 78385 F below. Prayers by and for her have been added at the end, including `For my [pentacle] Tuesday' (p. 185) and `A Prayer of [pentacle] before the sacrament' (p. 205). Beal EvJ 184. Formerly Evelyn MS 97.
Contemporary binding red morocco, gilt stamped and ruled, re-backed. 135 x 90mm.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCVIII. `The Office for Pentecost or the Descent of the Holy Spirit'; May 1673. Autograph. Presented to Margaret Blagge; with the pentacle symbol at the beginning and end, and the motto `Un Dieu, Un Amy' at the foot of the last leaf. Beal EvJ 197. Formerly Evelyn MS 126.
200 x 165mm.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCIX. `A Meditation for Michaelmas Day'; 29 Sept. 1673. Autograph. Presented to Margaret Blagge; with the pentacle symbol at the beginning and end, and `for Electra' and the motto `Un Dieu, Un Amy' at the foot of the last leaf. This and the other `Meditations' which follow have the standard content of psalm, meditation, prayer and hymn. Neatly executed, with borders ruled in red ink, and paginated `1-15' by Evelyn. Beal EvJ 172. Formerly Evelyn MS 72.
ff. 8. The individual leaves have been placed on guards and bound in dark blue leather and cloth, 19th cent. (?). 170 x 125mm.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCX. Two devotional works; 1673. Beal EvJ 196. Formerly Evelyn MS 125.
ff. iii + 28. Two quarto notebooks bound together, probably at the instigation of William Upcott. 205 x 160mm.
1.`A Meditation on Nativity'; 25 Dec. 1673. Autograph. Presented to Margaret Blagge; with pentacle symbol at the beginning and the end, the motto `Un Dieu, un Amy' at the foot of the last leaf, and an obliterated sentence `Re[member?] your poor friend'.
2.`Office on Epiphany'; [6 Jan.] 1672[/3?]. Autograph. Presented to Margaret Blagge; with the pentacle symbol at the beginning and the end and the motto `Un Dieu, Un Amy' at the foot of the last leaf.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCXI.
Two devotional works in unbound quarto gatherings.
1.ff. 1-65. [`An Office for the Lord's Day']; [April 1674?]. Autograph. No title-page and no pentacle symbol, although one appears on the last page of passages to be inserted. The title and date come from Add. MS 78389 below. Paginated by Evelyn, `1-126’. Includes Beal EvJ 198. Formerly Evelyn MS 130. 190 x 155mm.
2.ff. 66-78. `The Rogation Office'; [May 1674?]. Autograph. Without the pentacle symbol, but presented to Margaret Blagge; see her letter 1730. Paginated by Evelyn `1-25'. Unnumbered. Quarto gatherings. 192 x 155mm.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCXII. `Tuesdays Meditation'; [circ. July 1674]. Autograph. Presented to Margaret Blagge; with the pentacle symbol at the beginning and end, the motto `Un Dieu, Un Amy' at the foot of the last leaf. Dated from her letter on receiving it, July [1674], 78307, f. 48, printed in Hiscock, John Evelyn and Mrs Godolphin, pp. 132-133 (but misdated July 1675). Neatly executed, with borders ruled in pencil, and paginated `1-46' by Evelyn. Beal EvJ 177. Formerly Evelyn MS 84.
ff. iii + 26. The individual leaves have been placed on guards and bound in dark blue leather and cloth, 19th cent. (?). 155 x 112mm.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCXIII. `Wednesdayes Meditation'; 15 Sept. 1674. Autograph. Presented to Margaret Blagge; with the pentacle symbol at the beginning and end. Neatly executed, with borders ruled in red ink, and paginated `1-63' by Evelyn. Beal EvJ 175. Formerly Evelyn MS 82.
ff. iii + 36. The individual leaves have been placed on guards and bound in dark blue leather and cloth, 19th cent. (?). 155 x 110mm.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCXIV. `The Memorial of the Just. An Office for all Saints on their several Anniversaries'; 16 Oct. (altered in pencil by Evelyn to 1 Nov.) 1674. Autograph. Uniform with the `meditations' presented to Margaret Blagge, but with no pentacle symbol. Neatly executed, with the borders ruled in pencil and paginated `1-45' by Evelyn. Included in Memoires for my Grand-son, p. 67, amongst the list of manuscripts he intended to have `finish’d and perhaps publish’d'. Beal EvJ 179. Formerly Evelyn 86.
ff. iii + 23. The individual leaves have been placed on guards and bound in dark blue leather and cloth, 19th cent. (?). 155 x 120mm.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCXV. `A Meditation for Mone-day'; 9 Nov. 1674. Autograph. Presented to Margaret Blagge; with the pentacle symbol at the beginning and end, and the motto `Un Dieu, Un Amy' at the foot of the last leaf. Neatly executed, with borders ruled in red ink, and paginated `1-32' by Evelyn; the `Prayer', which is unpaginated, appears to become misplaced in rebinding and is after the psalm, pp. `1-4'. Beal EvJ 178. Formerly Evelyn MS 85.
ff. iii + 20. The individual leaves have been placed on guards and bound in dark blue leather and cloth, 19th cent. (?). 155 x 112mm.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCXVI. `A Meditation upon the Advents'; 11 Dec. 1674. Autograph. Presented to Margaret Blagge; with the pentacle symbol at the end. Neatly executed, with borders ruled in red ink. without the hymn which normally appears at the end. Beal EvJ 176. Formerly Evelyn MS 76.
ff. iii + 31. The individual leaves have been placed on guards and bound in dark blue leather and cloth, 19th cent. (?). 150 x 112mm.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCXVII. `Thursdays Meditation'; 26 Jan. 1674/5. Autograph. Presented to Margaret Blagge; with the pentacle symbol at the beginning and end, and `for Electra' and the motto `Un Dieu, Un Amy' at the foot of the last leaf. Neatly executed, with the borders ruled in red ink, and paginated by Evelyn `1-89'. Beal EvJ 173. Formerly Evelyn MS 73.
ff. iii + 47. Formerly a small notebook with a marbled paper cover; the individual leaves have been placed on guards and bound in dark blue leather and cloth, 19th cent.(?). 150 x 112mm.
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Scope and Content A.`Circumcision: or a New-Yeares Day Office', also entitled `A New-Yeares-Gift for [pentacle]'; 1672 (f. 9); 1673/4 (f. 9). Autograph. Presented to Margaret Blagge; with the pentacle symbol at the motto `Un Dieu, Un Amy' at the foot of the last leaves. In the same form as the meditations, with a psalm, meditation, prayer and hymn, and with later, apparently unrelated notes added by Evelyn on the inside of the front and back covers. Beal EvJ 187. Formerly Evelyn MS 110.
ff. ii + 11. Quarto notebook with marbled paper cover. 200 x 160mm.
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Scope and Content B.Fragment of a `Grand Poenitential, or Lenten Office'; [1673?]. Autograph. With the pentacle symbol at the end. Paginated 107-114. From Evelyn MS 552.
ff. 4. 195 x 155mm.
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Scope and Content C.`Friday Morning & Evening', consisting of`A Prayer for Fridays Recollection especialy if it be a Day of Preparation before the Holy Sacrament', with the pentacle symbol at the head; `Verses made by [pentacle]', copied by Evelyn, and `A Prayer for Friday Evening'; [1674?]. Autograph. Beal EvJ 192. Formerly Evelyn MS 116.
ff. iii + 13. Notebook with marbled paper covers. 155 x 115mm.
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Scope and Content D.`The Communion of Saints, in A Private Office'; [1672-1674?]. Autograph. Presented to Margaret Blagge. With the pentacle symbol on the first and last leaves. Paginated by Evelyn 1-2[9]. The last leaf is fragmentary. Formerly part of Evelyn MS 206.
ff. 15. Quarto gatherings, sewn. 190 x 150mm.
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Scope and Content E.`Officium Poenitentiae or The Practise of Repentanc[e] by Confessions & Deprecations with Prayers & Devotions sutable to its designe To be sollemnly used befor[e] our approach to the holy-Communion and at all other tymes of special Mortification'; [1672-1674?]. Autograph. Not identified as presented to Margaret Blagge. Beal EvJ 193. Formerly Evelyn MS 117.
ff. ii + 23. Notebook with marbled paper cover. 160 x 110mm.
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Scope and Content F.`The Trimming of the Lamp, or a short Eucharisticall Office Office To be us'd upon Occasions betweene the Monethly Communions when there is opportunitie to Receive'; [1675?]. Autograph. Incomplete; wanting all after p. 14 (catch word, `The Prayer'). On the fly-leaf: `A short Eucharisticon. Thursday'. Beal EvJ 194. Formerly Evelyn MS 120.
ff. iii + 8. Notebook, rebacked and with modern marbled paper covers. 150 x 100mm.
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Scope and Content G.`The Wedding-Garment or The manner how a Christian ought to prepare himselfe for the worthy celebration of the holy Eucharist'; [1670s?]. Incomplete, with at least one leaf torn out at the end (catchwords `by the'); see the following item. Beal EvJ 191. Formerly Evelyn MS 115.
ff. iii + 7. Notebook, rebacked and with modern marbled paper covers. 158 x 100mm.
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Scope and Content H.`Eucharistica' (fly-leaf) `Considerations, Meditations and prayers' (half-title); [1670s?]. With the pentacle symbol at the beginning and the note, `To be revised and added to in The Wedding Garment'. Beal EvJ 189. Formerly Evelyn MS 112.
ff. iii + 8. Notebook, rebacked and with modern marbled paper covers. 145 x 100mm.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCXIX. `Oeconomics To a newly married friend'; [1676], with a few later amendments. Autograph. Advice on friendship, marriage and the management of a devout household, addressed by Evelyn to Margaret Blagge, whose marriage to Sidney Godolphin was made public in May 1676. Underneath the title is the motto `Un Dieu Un Amy' and the pentacle symbol. With the borders ruled in red ink, and autograph pagination 1-74, but the present text is imperfect; pp. 41-50, apparently concerning children, have been cut out and the last lines on p. 40 and the first on p. 51, the beginning and end of this section, have been obliterated, probably by Evelyn himself in the course of his later revision; pp. 79-84 were amongst the papers removed from the Evelyn archive by William Upcott in the early 19th cent. and are now Add. MS 15950, ff. 108-110; pp. 75-77 and all after p. 85 are untraced. This is one of the manuscripts in Evelyn's list, `Things I would write out faire and reforme if I had Leasure' (MS 330); the emblem, apparently a pearl drop (a reference to Margaret Blagge's name), which Evelyn has sketched in ink against this item in the list, also appears on the front cover of the manuscript. Beal EvJ 145. Formerly Evelyn MS 106.
ff. 78. Quarto notebook with marbled paper cover and later brown paper wrapper. 190 x 150mm.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCXX. `Oeconomical, Conjugal and Domestick Offices: fitted for the devouter Married Persons & Housekeepers especially [pentacle]', i.e. Margaret Godolphin; 1 Jan. 1676 [/1677]. Autograph draft. Prayers for particular occasions. Less calligraphically written than the other meditations. At the end are the motto, `Un dieu, un Amy' and the pentacle symbol. Paginated 1-34 by Evelyn, but with pp. 17-18, 23-24 missing; two stray leaves (pp. 19-22) have been added from MS 553. Beal EvJ 200. Formerly Evelyn MS 206 and 553.
ff. 17. 190 x 155mm.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCXXI. `The Office for Trinity Sonday & octaves after Pentecost'; 8 May 1678. Autograph. Presented to Margaret (Blagge) Godolphin; with the pentacle symbol at the beginning and end. Neatly executed, with the borders ruled in red ink, and paginated by Evelyn `1-79'. Beal EvJ 176. Formerly Evelyn MS 83.
Formerly a small notebook with a marbled paper cover; the individual leaves have been placed on guards and bound in dark blue leather and cloth, 19th cent.(?). 150 x 112mm.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCXXII. A composite volume, containing `Dominica or An Office for the Lord's Day', with (p. 110) the pentacle symbol, the motto `Un Dieu un Amy' and the date 15 April 1674. Followed (p. 118) by `The Trimming of the Lamp, or Weekely Communion Office', `Mental Communion' (p. 134), various prayers and hymns, etc.; [aft. 1678]. Autograph. With a memorial passage about Margaret Godolphin, written after her death, at the end. Beal EvJ 180. Formerly Evelyn MS 90.
Contemporary binding of dark brown calf, rebacked. 150 x 100mm.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCXXIII. `Discourses' and `devotions' in 16 chapters on preparation for death; [1670s-1680s?]. Autograph. The date Sept. 1688 has been added, apparently in a later hand, to p. 9. Imperfect, wanting the first leaf, and paginated by Evelyn `3-220', with an unpaginated table of contents at the end. The last leaf contains (twice) the pentacle symbol, the shield and motto, `Un Dieu un Amy', associated with Margaret Godolphin; several more lines on this page have been obliterated. This is probably the manuscript listed by Evelyn in Memoires for my Grand-son, p. 67, as `Ultima Rerum', amongst those he intended to have finish’d and perhaps publish’d'. Beal EvJ 163. Formerly Evelyn MS 31.
Contemporary or near contemporary binding of mottled calf, gilt-stamped, rebacked.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCXXIV. `Devotions of Mrs Blaggs which I copied out at the Request of my Lady Sylvius & from whom I borrowed them afterwards & intend to Restore'; [aft. 1678]. Copies by Evelyn of prayers, sermon notes, hymns and verse by Margaret Blagge, wife of Sidney Godolphin, paginated by him, `81-119’, as part of an unidentified longer work. Lady (Anne) Sylvius, née Howard, and her sister Dorothy were former maids of honour and friends of Margaret Godolphin. Evelyn’s `The Life of Mrs Godolphin’ was completed in 1684 at the instigation of the former and this volume was probably intended as an additional memorial although the pagination sequence does not follow on from that of either of the known manuscripts (both at Harvard University, Houghton Library). A note has been added to the title after 1698, `and now by her [Lady Sylvius’s] Permission I would have them presented to my Lady Harriet Godolphin’; i.e., the wife of Francis Godolphin, afterwards 2nd Earl of Godolphin, only child of Margaret Godolphin. These copies were made by Evelyn from Margaret Blagge’s papers, to which her husband gave him access after her death. His preliminary note states: `Amongst innumerable Papers & Fragments which this Devout Lady has left; & which if put together would make a Considerable Folio) I present your Ladyship with this Specimen onely, for a tast, & to shew how Religiously she spent her houres of Recesse & how Universal (& choice) her Devotions were’. A few original devotional manuscripts of Margaret Godolphin are in the following volume. Formerly Evelyn MS 122.
ff. iii + 22. Quarto notebook with modern marbled paper cover. 195 x 150mm.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCXXV (ff. 139 + iv). Devotional papers by Margaret Blagge and Evelyn; 1664-1687, n.d.
1.ff. 1-8. Papers by Margaret (Blagge) Godolphin, given to Evelyn after her death by her husband as material for `The Life of Mrs Godolphin’. Several others quoted at length by him there no longer survive in manuscript; see, most notably `My Life, by God's Grace, without which I can do nothing', The Life of Mrs Godolphin, ed. H. Sampson (Oxford, 1934), pp. 14-17, and her advice to the Howard sisters on their conduct as maids of honour, ibid., pp. 101-105, and the passage from her `diary', p. 107. Formerly Evelyn MS 305. Consisting of: (a) ff. 1-2. Notes by [Margaret Blagge] of three deathbeds, including those of her mother and Anne Hyde, Duchess of York; [aft. 1671]. Autograph. Endorsed by Evelyn, `(15) reflection on the death of several. don', and included in Life of Mrs Godolphin, ed. Sampson, p. 12. Incorrectly endorsed in a later pencil note as by Mary Evelyn; - (b) ff. 3-4. Devotional notes by [Margaret Blagge] on the Virgin Mary, beg. `and the angel came unto her'; [1670s]. Autograph. Endorsed [by Evelyn?] `F'; - (c) f. 5. Devotional notes by [Margaret Blagge] to Evelyn, headed `for my frind'; [1672-1678]. Autograph; - (d) f. 6. Prayer by [Margaret Blagge] on behalf of her future husband, Sidney Godolphin; [1673]. Autograph. Endorsed by Evelyn, `M. [pentacle] prayer for S: G: 9'; - (e) ff. 7-8. `A Passage of [pentacle] prayer on Tuesday’ (the day of their regular meetings). Copy by Evelyn.
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2.ff. 9-134. Leaves of various sizes, some paginated as fragments of larger compilations, and small notebooks by Evelyn, containing prayers for particular occasions, hymns and other notes; 1664-1687, n.d. Including prayers connected with Margaret Blagge, 1672-1674 (ff. 16-18), and others apparently intended for assembling into a formal series of daily, weekly and quarterly private offices (for the draft scheme of which see f. 139 below); one series (ff. 66-76) is annotated `Hebdomad.', with prayers for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Beal EvJ 190. Formerly Evelyn MSS 111, 114 and 553.
3.ff. 135-136. `To his Orientall: The Legend of Philaretes and the Pearle’; [1672-1674]. Autograph. The first two leaves of an account by Evelyn of his platonic friendships, evidently a preliminary to an account of his friendship with Margaret Godolphin. Beal EvJ 211. Formerly Evelyn MS 304.
4.ff. 137-138. Confessional notes by Evelyn covering the whole of his whole life, the first item dated 1625, the last 1689/90. Autograph. Latin, in a tiny hand, much abbreviated, on one side of one leaf of a bifolium. Reproduced as the frontispiece of W. G. Hiscock, John Evelyn and his Family Circle (1955), and discussed on p. 126. It is probably to be connected with the `solemn survey of my whole Life, in order to the making, and confirming my peace with God, by an accurate Scrutinie of all my actions past, as far as I am able to call them to mind', which Evelyn recorded in his Diary on his sixtieth birthday, 31 Oct. 1680. However there is no clear change of handwriting or ink between the entries before and after 1680 in the present notes. Beal EvJ 202. Formerly Evelyn MS 315.
5.f. 139. A scheme for `A Course of Privat Offices & Devotions', daily, monthly, quarterly and annual, `Eucharisticall', `Ultima rerum', `Oeconomiq Office', etc., with a note to himself, `For all which see & examine all your loose papers & offices [i.e. those listed above and in the preceding volumes] & as far as you can, Reduce & Translate them in that Method'. Evelyn’s list of papers in Add. MS 78639 below (former Evelyn MS 310) also refers to this scheme: `In this Drawer are likewise Contained . . . divers stitched Books & papers of Devotions, Offices & Prayers to be Methodiz'd & digested: more particularly Offices Annual Qua[r]terly, Monethly, Weekely & Daily, with other Meditations and Discourses, upon peculiar Emergencies: All of them intended to be Revis'd for the particular & private Use onely (Especialy the Office Oeconomical Conjugall) of a Saint now in Heaven'. The disbound or fragmentary nature of some of the devotional manuscripts above may be connected with this uncompleted revision. The scheme also goes on to mention `Sermon Texts', `History of religion' and `A Library of Books' on religious topics, and apparently represents an attempt by Evelyn, late in life, to give an integral form to all his writings and collections on religion.
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Title Papers relating to Public Offices and Affairs78393-78401. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols CCXXVI-CCXXXIV. Papers of Evelyn relating to public offices and public affairs; 1660-1701. Evelyn was actively involved in the Restoration of Charles II and afterwards sought public office. He hinted at the possibility of being appointed Historiographer Royal and hoped for the reversion of his father-in-law’s post of Clerk of the Council, but did not succeed in either. However Charles II used him as a government writer from time to time, and, among more minor service on public commissions, he was a Commissioner for Sick and Wounded Seamen from 1664 till 1675 and a member of the Council of Trade and Plantations from 1671 to 1674. The following papers derive from these activities.Nine volumes. (1660-1701)
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCXXVI (ff. 79 + vi). Miscellaneous papers relating to public affairs; 1660-1701.
1. ff. 1-4. [italics]Autograph draft[/italics] by Sir Thomas Clarges, 1664, written for insertion in Edward Phillips's continuation of Sir Richard Baker's [italics]Chronicle of the Kings of England[/italics] (1665), giving an account of Evelyn's negotiations with his former school-fellow, Sir Herbert Morley, at the Restoration and beg. `In the seven hundred and nineteenth page of this Hystory wee omitted to insert a very materiall negotiation …'. With a heading and endorsements on the wrapper by Evelyn; one of the endorsements reads, `Sir Thomas Clarges (Brother in Law to the Duke of Albemarle) his insertion what Concerned Mr Evelyn in Mr Philips's History of the Kings of England: Note that my Letter to Coll. Morly was not rightly copied, there is likewise too much sayd concerning me, which is better, & as it ought to be in second Impression'. Numbered `(13)' by Evelyn. The manuscript is printed in Bray, [italics]Diary and Correspondence[/italics], II, pp. See also Add. MS 78684, nos.128, 129 below; and notes by Esmond de Beer in[italics] Sussex Archaeological Collections[/italics], 78 (1937), pp. 177-183, and A. H. Nethercot in [italics]Huntington Library Quarterly[/italics], 1 (1938), pp. 439-446, in which is printed a further account by Evelyn, added to a copy of Baker's [italics]Chronicle[/italics] once owned by him. Formerly Evelyn MS 316.
2. ff. 5-9. `Accounte of what Passed betweene [me and?] Colonel Herbert Morley 1659.1660': a narrative by Evelyn in the form of a letter to `My Lord', incorporating a copy of his letter to Morley of 12 Jan. 1660; aft. 1660. [italics]Autograph draft[/italics]. The document is in two bifolia, hitherto separated accidentally in the archive; the first was conserved while it on deposit at Christ Church, the second being filed with Evelyn’s incoming correspondence. The former was accompanied by the address leaf of a letter from Lord Norwich to Sir Richard Browne, 1646 (f. 9), which may have been used as a wrapper. Evelyn also copied his letter to Morley of 12 Jan. 1660 into his letterbook, Add. MS 78298, ff. 99v-100, adding a lengthy note to it in a later hand.
3. ff. ff. 10-11. `A faithfull and impartial Narrative of w[ha]t pass'd at the Landing of the
Page 226 2021-08-13 Swedish Ambassador', by Evelyn; 1661. Autograph fair copy, with first two paragraphs crossed through. Evelyn describes in his Diary, III, pp. 297-298, how Charles II commissioned him to write this narrative. With a note at the foot describing how he collected the information and an endorsement that copies were given to the French ambassador and deposited in the `paper office at White-hall' (now PRO SP 29/43/12; see Calendar of State Papers Domestic 1661-2, p. 105). See also Keynes, Evelyn: a Study in Bibliophily, pp. 100-101, who notes that the narrative was published from the present manuscript in the first edition of Evelyn's diary, Memoirs Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, ed. William Bray (1818), II, pt. 1, pp. 349-355, and that versions were included in Phillips' edition of Sir Richard Baker's Chronicle, pp. 799-800, and in Biographica Britannica, 2nd edn. (1793), V, pp. 613-614. Beal EvJ 13. Formerly Evelyn MS 319.
4. ff. 12-15. Plans for the rebuilding of London after the Great Fire of 1666 by Evelyn and Sir Christopher Wren respectively, the first headed `Londinum Redivivum Presented by me to His Majesty a Week after the Conflagration, together with a discourse now in the Paper Office', both engraved [by George Vertue] for the Society of Antiquaries; 1748. For the presentation of Evelyn's plan and discourse, see Diary, III, pp. 462-463. See also John Evelyn, London Revived, ed. E. S. de Beer (Oxford, 1938).
5. ff. 16-17. Pen and ink sketch plan of the fortifications and ships at anchor near Chatham, when the Dutch fleet invaded the Medway; 1667. Not in Evelyn's hand, but annotated by him in pencil, `Descent of the Dutch when they burnt our ships at Chatham 1666 [sic]'. For related plans by Evelyn, see Bodleian MS Rawl. A.195, f. 78 (Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, ed. Lord Braybrooke, 1825, II, pt, 2, between pp.12-13), and The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, English Literature 1475-1700 (New York, 1940), p. 1209, and Plate 56 (29 June 1667).
6. ff. 18-20. Report by Evelyn to Charles II and James, Duke of York, concerning supplies of peat and turf adjacent to London during the blockade of the Thames by the Dutch fleet; [1667]. With an explanatory heading added by him in old age, `This was when we had War with Holland, & the supply of Sea Coale from New Castle was Interrupted . . .'. Autograph draft, incomplete, consisting of the first page only, with a signed extract from Evelyn's Sylva (1664) containing a recipe for mixing coal-dust and loam, with the note, `I desire his Majestie may be acquainted with this Paper'. See Diary, III, pp. 486-487, for this commission and experiments with his recipe. Beal EvJ 70. Formerly Evelyn MS 517. Accompanied (f. 120) by a possibly unrelated account of quantities of coal transported from Newcastle and Sunderland, 1658-1660.
6. ff. 21-26v. Translation of an account of the `Four Days' Battle' between the English and Dutch fleets in June 1666, taken from Nicolaas Witsen, Aeloude en hedendaegsche Scheeps-Bouw en Bestier (Amsterdam, 1671), and apparently supplied to Evelyn as material for his history of the Dutch War by Henry Oldenburg; 1671. In a clerical hand, with annotation and endorsement by Evelyn, `Mr Oldenburgs: (9)'. Beal EvJ 69. Formerly Evelyn MS 300.
7. ff. 27-43. Materials assembled by Evelyn in connection with his research for the history of the Dutch War, including (f. 27) a `Catalogue of Books & papers in order to the Hist: of the Dutch Warr brought with me up to London 16 Feb. 1672/3', a list of printed and manuscript sources headed, `Materia substrata pro bello Belgico Navalis' (f. 28v), chronological notes of events 1665-1667, apparently an index to his own notebooks (ff. 29-31); excerpts and notes from unidentified published works and copies of original documents; [circa 1670-1672?]. Mostly autograph. Partly Latin. Beal EvJ 71. Formerly Evelyn MS 545.
8. ff. 44-56. Documents deriving from Evelyn's service on the Council for Trade and Plantations; 1671-1674. Evelyn was appointed to the Council for Plantations, which had been revived in July 1670, in January 1671. In September 1672 the former Council of Trade was amalgamated with it, and it became the Council for Trade and Plantations. See in general Charles M. Andrews, British Committees, Commissions and Councils of Trade and Plantations 1622-1675 (Baltimore, 1908), 96-106, and R. P. Bieber, `The Plantation Councils of 1670-4’, English Historical Review, 40 (1925), 93-106, which discusses the manuscript journal of the Council's proceedings, now at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Evelyn also gives some details of proceedings in his Diary entries for the period. Consisting of: (a) ff. 44-51. Commissions for the Council of Foreign Plantations; 13 July 1670, 4 April 1671 Copies in a scribal hand, the second, by which Evelyn was added to the commission, has an addition to the endorsement by him. Formerly Evelyn MSS 403, 335; - (b) f. 52. Notes concerning colonial settlements in North America and Jamaica, headed `Extr: out of a Letter to Mr Evelyn'; 3 June 1671. Autograph. Beal EvJ 138. Formerly Evelyn MS 548; - (c) ff. 53-54. Memorial to the Council from Francis Moryson concerning Virginian tobacco; [1671?]. Formerly Evelyn MS 329; - (d) f. 55. Summons by the secretary, Benjamin Worsley, to Evelyn to a meeting of the Council; 6 May 1673. Formerly Evelyn MS 415; - (e) f. 56. Copy by Evelyn of an order by Danby as Lord Treasurer to the Auditor of the Exchequer for Evelyn to
Page 227 2021-08-13 receive his salary as Commissioner for Trade and Plantations, 18 Dec. 1674, with Evelyn's notes of the Exchequer precedures and fees for receiving it; aft. 1674. Autograph. Formerly Evelyn MS 528.
9. ff. 57-59. Proposals concerning the Navy, `A Project concerning Victualing his Mat[esty']s Navy', n.d., and `Mr Withers proposal which I presented to his Matie; 28 May 1673’ (see Diary, IV, p. 12), both endorsed by Evelyn. Formerly MS 278 and unnumbered.
10. ff. 60-69. [italics]Copies[/italics] in a single scribal hand relating to public affairs, consisting of parliamentary addresses, the King's responses, speeches and messages, Feb.-March 1673, and a memorial of the Dutch ambassador, 8 Sept. 1677. Incomplete and damaged, with some loss of text.
11. ff. 70-79. Papers of Evelyn concerning his treasurership of Greenwich Hospital; 1696-[1705?]. In a clerical hand with occasional [italics]autograph[/italics] annotations. Consisting of: (a) f. 69. List of subscriptions to the building; [1696?]. Formerly Evelyn MS 393; - (b) ff. 70-71. Resolutions of the committees; 20 Jan. 1696, 4 Nov. 1696. Formerly Evelyn MSS 395, 394; - (c) ff. 72-73. Abstract of Evelyn's account as treasurer, 1696-1701. Formerly Evelyn MS 392b(?); - (d) ff. 74-75. Summary of Evelyn's accounts as treasurer, 1696-1703. Formerly Evelyn MS 392a; - (e) ff. 76-77. Memorials of Evelyn and his son-in-law William Draper to the commissioners; [1705?]. Formerly Evelyn MSS 453, 375.
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Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vols CCXXVII- CCXXXIII. Accounts and papers of Evelyn as Commissioner for Sick and Wounded Seamen; 1664-1679. For this Commission and for Evelyn’s correspondence as Commissioner, see Add. MSS 78320-78322 above. Seven volumes. (1664-1679)
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Page 228 2021-08-13 Add MS 78394-78395 EVELYN PAPERS. Vols CCXXVII, CCXXVIII. Certificates from the shipboard officials to the Commissioner for Sick
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Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vols CCXXVII, CCXXVIII. Certificates from the shipboard officials to the Commissioner for Sick and Wounded Seamen and agents in Evelyn's district that the individuals named therein from the ships specified have been set on shore for treatment; 1665-1666. Signed by the officials. Mostly printed forms with manuscript additions. Followed by lists of prisoners of war, 1665-1666 (ff. 137-145), and of ships, English and French, with commanders and numbers of crew (ff. 146-153), 1666-1672, n.d. (see Diary, III, p. 397, n). Two volumes. (1665-1666)
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Scope and Content Vol. CCXXVII (ff. 161). 1665.
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Scope and Content Vol. CCXXVIII (ff. 154). 1666-1678, n.d.
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Creation Date 1664-1681
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCXXIX (ff. 74). Working papers for Evelyn’s accounts; 1664-1681. For the methods of accounting, see Keevil, pp. 109, 129. Diary, IV, p. 93n, gives Evelyn's declared accounts as PRO, Declared Accounts Navy, 1821/487-488. See also Diary, III, pp. 483, 490.
1.Accompts relating to the Sick & Wounded Sea-men, and Prisoners of Warr in Mr Evelyn's District from the yeares 1664,1665, 1666, 1667; 1664-1667. [italics]Autograph draft[/italics], endorsed `An Imperfect Book of Accounts relating to the Warr'.
2.Expenses by Edwin Sands on drugs for Dutch prisoners of war at Chelsea College; 1665.
3.Charges for former Dutch prisoners of war quartered at Gravesend [by Edward Mason?]; Oct.-Nov. 1666.
4.Abstracts of account by Bartholomew Fillingham, clerk to the Commissioners, of the charges of quarters, salaries, etc., in Evelyn's district; 1666-1668.
5.Capt. George Cock's account of payments to Evelyn, with notes concerning payment of salaries; 1664-1668.
6.Order by the Commisssioners for payment to Sir William D’Oyley; 1672. [italics]Copy[/italics]. Formerly Evelyn MS 489.
7.Bill for stationery for Evelyn's district by Robert Snow; Oct. 1673.
8.Abstract of account at Dover by Edward Smith, 4 Oct. 1674.
9.Abstracts of account at Deal and Sandwich by Balthazar St Michel, 1674, 1676.
10.Abstract of account at Rochester and Chatham by Philip Henslow; 15 Dec. 1676.
11.Abstracts of accounts at Feversham, Milton and Sittingborne, by John Conny; 29 Nov., 1 Dec 1676, with a combined abstract with the preceding, May 1675.
12.Abstract of account at Margate by Capt. John Glover; [1676?].
13.Abstract of account at Gravesend by Robert Birstall, [1678?] and Richard Gibson, 1678. With Birstall’s discharge for debt at Surrey Quarter Sessions, 1678.
Page 230 2021-08-13 14.Evelyn's working papers for the preparation of his accounts for the whole period of the Third Dutch War, with the abstracts prepared for presentation to the Treasury; 1673-1681. Mostly [italics]autograph drafts[/italics].
15.List by Richard Gibson of the books of accounts for the ports in Evelyn's district for the period of the Third Dutch War; aft. 1675.
16.A list of ships of the Royal Navy, with commanders’ names and numbers of men and guns; [aft. 1671].
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Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. CCXXX-CCXXXII. Formal accounts of hospitals, Second Dutch War; 1664-1667.Three volumes. (1664-1667)
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCXXX (ff. 87).
1.ff. 1-9. Chatham, 1664-1665, and Rochester, 1666-1667.
2.ff. 10-80. Gravesend; 1664-1667.
3.ff. 81-87. Deptford; 1665-1667.
4.ff. 88-89. Erith and Milton near Sittingbourne; 1665-1666. [italics]Fragm[/italics]., first leaves only of each.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCXXXI (ff. 74).
1.ff. 1-16. Faversham; 1665-1667.
2.ff. 17-74. Leeds Castle; 1665- 1666.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCXXXII (ff. 115).
1.ff. 1-66. Deal; 1664-1667.
2.ff. 67-115. Port of Dover and Dover Castle; 1664-1667.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCXXXIII. Account-book with many blank leaves and some previously used cut or torn out, labelled by Evelyn on the cover, `Accompt of Sick and Wounded & prisoners of War &c both The first & The second [Dutch] Warr; 1664-1669, 1671-1679. Formerly Evelyn MS 42.
Original vellum binding, with Evelyn's label and monogram and the symbol of interlocked C on the front cover.
1.Accounts with Capt. Cocke; 1668.
2.`A catalogue of Such Papers & Loose Notes as any may Concerne the Affaire of the first Dutch Warr, as ty'd up & Numberd in the Packetts & Bundles Marked D.E.' 15 items specified, all relating to Evelyn's work as Commissioner, and several concerning the use of Leeds Castle to house prisoners.
3.`Here follows the Accompt of Charge &c: of the Quarters Cures & Sallaries of Sick & Wounded Sea-men: prisoners of warr & officers, relating to the 2d Dutch-Warr begun 18 Mar: 1671/2 to 1 Jan. 1675/6 ... All which is more accurately enterd in another Booke at Large, to the End of the Warr: &c: which consult this being imperfect'. The symbol of that volume is given as an interlocked C, intersected vertically by a spear.
4.Accounts of disbursements to deputies and other officials in particular areas and of his own salary and expenses; 1671-1676.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCXXXIV. Notes and `minutes' for Evelyn's History of the Second Dutch War, headed `Excerpta &c. Periodus III . . . The Thirde Booke', with `Progresse of the Dutch War' added; [1671-1673]. Autograph draft. Consisting partly of his own notes and partly of notes from other sources, and including a chronological summary and a narrative of the naval campaign in 1666. According to an account the History in Evelyn’s letter to Lord Clifford of 31 Aug. 1671 (Diary and Correspondence, III, p. 229), the first part or `period’ covered Anglo-Dutch relations from 1586 till 1660, and `herein a deduction of all the notorious injuries and affronts which the English have suffered from the Dutch'; the second part covered the period 1660 to 1666, in 169 paragraphs, and third continued the narrative until the Treaty of Breda in 1667. In December 1681 Evelyn lent the unfinished text of the History and related papers on the fishery to Samuel Pepys (see Add. MS 15948, f. 156, and Particular Friends, ed. Guy de la Bédoyère (1997), pp. 123, 129). The latter are still in his archive (see below); the text of the history is not known to survive. See Add. 78393, ff. 21-43, for some further papers relating to this project. Beal EvJ 68. Formerly Evelyn MS 134.
The progress of the history is as follows: having pointed out to Clifford that the Dutch
Page 233 2021-08-13 government had licensed histories of the War which were critical of England, Evelyn was commissioned by the King in June 1670 to compose a rival work, and told to `make it a little keen' (Diary, pp. 527, 540, 545). He was given access to state papers, including `ten paper-bookes of Dispatches & Treaties' (Diary, III, pp. 562-563; CSPD 1670, p. 490), and in January 1671 he presented the King with a synopsis of the work (Beal EvJ 73, `The Chiefe Heads or Titles, which I propose to my Selfe, in the Contexture of the late Warr with Holland', 7 folio leaves; see also CSPD 1671, pp. 54-55). In August he presented Clifford with a draft of the preface, `in obedience to a suggestion of My Lord Arlington's, requiring of me a complete deduction of the progress of navigation and commerce, from its first principle to the present age ... since all our contests and differences with the Hollanders derive only from that source'; but he warned that the history itself would run to 800 or 1000 folio pages (Diary and Correspondence, ed. Bray, III, pp. 228-231). His heart was not in the task. After the outbreak of the Third Dutch War in March 1672 he was more in sympathy with the Dutch than the French allies, and Clifford's resignation in 1673 deprived him of his main patron and source of information. On 9 Jan. 1674 he was asked by the King to write something for rapid publication `against the Hollanders, about the Duty of the flag & fisherie' (Diary, IV, p. 30). The result was `A succinct but full deduction of his Majesties indubitable Title to the Dominion and Sovereignty of the British Seas, and consequently the Fishery and Duties thereunto' and `A letter written to a Friend concerning the Interest of his Majestye and the nation in the Fishery and Duties appendant to it' (Magdalene College, Cambridge 2504, item 673, 649; HMC Pepys MSS, pp. 267-268; Beal EvJ 96, 97). The first was published together with the preface under the title Navigation and Commerce, their Original and Progress in 1674. But before it could appear a peace treaty was signed and the Dutch ambassador complained abou the hostile tone of the work. It was suppressed by order of the King to the Stationers’ Company, although he assured Evelyn that he approved of it and had the copies restored to the printer (Keynes, Evelyn: a Study in Bibliophily, pp. 202-204). Evelyn then abandoned the History altogether; `in summ I had no thankes for what I had don, and have ben accounted since (I suppose) a useless fop, and fit onely to plant coleworts' (Particular Friends, p. 130: 28 April 1682).
ff. ii + 66. British Library binding. 190 x 150mm.
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Title Inventories, Accounts and Wills ([1600-1709])
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCXXXV. `Pictures and other Household-stuff Left at Sayes Court'; 1696. Autograph. Inventory, room by room, entered in pencil in a notebook containing a few earlier alphabetical entries by Evelyn for a library catalogue; made in June 1696 while Evelyn prepared Sayes Court for the tenancy of Vice Admiral John Benbow (see Diary, V, p. 244). Listed are the contents of three parlours, withdrawing room, the great chamber, library, study, chapel, `John's chamber', maids' chamber, garret, upper store house, hall, staircase, still-house, kitchen, buttery, bedchamber, dressing-room, nursery, `myrtil house', greenhouse, `Bowling Ally somer house', brick summer house, garden, wood-house, bake-house, stable and apple loft. At the beginning (f. 1v) are two translations into English verse of Virgil's Aeneid, Bk. II, ll. 15-20. and at the end (ff. 22v-36) a further library catalogue, both in the early hand of Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart. Some of the pencil entries are faint and many leaves have been damaged by damp with some loss of text. Beal EvJ 63. Formerly Evelyn MS 88.
ff. iii + 36. Originally bound in dark brown calf, with gilt-stamped decoration in the centre of the front cover, now extensively repaired and rebacked. 170 x 115mm.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCXXXVI. Inventory of pictures and furniture at Wotton; 1702. Autograph. With a preliminary leaf headed `Inventory', with Evelyn's monogram, and on the verso a table of contents of the rooms and offices, headed `Order to be surveyd for the Inventory', with several of the locations marked with a cross and with page numbers in the inventory. Paginated 1-15 by Evelyn, though several of the numbers have been cropped when the individual leaves were window-mounted in the 19th cent. Beal EvJ 60. Formerly Evelyn MS 53.
ff. iii + 9. Binding of brown calf, blind-stamped, 19th cent.(?), with a printed title-page, `Inventory in John Evelyn's handwriting of Pictures, Furniture, &c. at Wotton House, 1702'. 398 x 290mm.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCXXXVII. Inventories of goods, at Sayes Court, Wotton and the Evelyns' London lodgings; 1663-1709, n.d. For a further inventory of Wotton, 1709, see Add. MS 78529 below.
1.f. 1. List by Evelyn of items stolen from Sayes Court; 16 Feb. 1663. [italics]Autograph[/italics].
2.f. 2. Inventory of household linen belonging to George or Sir Samuel Tuke; 26 August 1668. Endorsed by Evelyn.
3.ff. 3-5. List by Mary Evelyn of the clothes and goods left by Sir Richard Browne at his death; Feb. 1683. Formerly Evelyn MSS 569 and 573.
4.ff. 6-17. Inventories by Mary Evelyn of the contents of Sayes Court; March-Dec. 1683. Partly [italics]imperfect[/italics]. Including separate lists of linen, plate, china, furniture and paintings, the contents of the still-house, of Evelyn's chambers at the Temple and `goods in use at London'. Possibly made in connection with the Evelyns' move to London in the winter of 1683/4. Formerly Evelyn MSS 279, 568, 583, 589, 590.
5.ff. 18-21. Inventory by Mary Evelyn of `China left at Sayes Court', of the contents of the still-house and of `Pewter in Jonnes keeping'; April 1694. Made in preparation for the move from Sayes Court to Wotton (see [italics]Diary[/italics], V, p. 179). Formerly Evelyn MS 591.
6.ff. 22-23. List by Mary Evelyn of the goods of her son John Evelyn junior at Wotton; April 1699. Made following his death on 24 April 1699. Formerly Evelyn MS 604.
7.f. 24. List by Evelyn headed, `To carry to Wotton’; 8 April 1705. Formerly Evelyn MS 527.
8.ff. 25-58. Two inventories by Mary Evelyn of the contents of Wotton, room by room: 1705, with a few small additions by Evelyn, and March 1706, `when given into my Grandsons possession', after Evelyn's death. Formerly Evelyn MSS 593 and 588.
9.ff. 59-63. Inventory by Mary Evelyn of the contents of Evelyn's house in Dover Street; March 1706. Formerly Evelyn MS 565.
10.f. 64. List by Mary Evelyn of silver coins; May 1707. Formerly Evelyn MS 597.
11.ff. 65-102. Lists of pictures at Wotton from Add. MS 78403 above. C[italics]opies[/italics], mostly by William John Evelyn. Formerly Evelyn MSS 562, 563 and unnumbered.
12.ff. 103-108. List in an unidentified hand of 137 paintings, including a number of copies after Continental masters by `Mr Peartt'; 17th cent.
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Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCXXXVIII A, B. Two account books of receipts and debts; 1650-1683. Mostly autograph, but with some initial entries in the hand of Evelyn's amanuensis, Richard Hoare. Both books were begun in 1650, but record some transactions as far back as 1645. With the inscriptions on the fly-leaves, `E Libris Autographis J. Evelyni Pariis 1650'. (1650-1683)
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Scope and Content A. `Codex Accepti Containing what I have Received & what payed'; 1650-1682.
ff. 44. Sewn, with paper covers. 390 x 155mm.
1.f. 2v. Memoranda concerning the taxes paid in Deptford; 1655-1665.
2.ff. 3-4v. `An Exact and Perfect Rolle of my Lands, Leases and Tennants 1655'.
3.f. 5. Money lent on mortgages and bonds; 1655-1667.
4.ff. 5v-25v. Entries on facing pages of quarterly disbursements and receipts, mostly from estate rents; 1650-1660.
5.ff. 26-29v. Moneys received from mortgages and bonds; 1650-1664.
6.ff. 30-40v. Receipts from rents; 1661-1682.
7.ff. 41v-43. Rentals in connection with the marriage settlement of John Evelyn junior, consisting of separate lists of lands and rents belonging to Evelyn in Kent and Sussex, to Sir Richard Browne in Deptford, those settled on his son in marriage, and those for his own and his wife's maintenance, his wife's jointure and his daughters' marriage portions; 1680.
8.f. 43. Bills of Exchange Received; 1651.
9.f. 44v. `Estimate of my estate'; 1673.
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Scope and Content B.`Debita containing Both what is owing to me & what is owing by me'; 1650-1683. A continuation of this account is contained in a volume later used by Evelyn as a rental for his Deptford estate, now Add. MS 78618, ff. 23-24, below.
ff. i + 33. Sewn, with paper covers. 390 x 155mm.
1.ff. 3-24v. `A Book Concerning all Manner of Debts owing unto mee'; 1650-1682. Mostly arrears of rent, but some personal debts in the early years.
2.ff. 25v-26. Entries on facing pages of moneys borrowed and debts discharged by Evelyn; 1650-1683
3.ff. 28v-29. Entries on facing pages of moneys lent by and repaid to Evelyn; 1650-1681.
4.ff. 30v-31. Entries on facing pages for `Debts of Conscience which I oblige myself to pay as God shall enable me' and `Debts owing to me which are Desperate'; 1662-1680.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCXXXIX. Account-book, headed, `Codex expensi', containing day by day accounts of disbursements for personal expenses; Jan. 1673-Dec. 1681. Autograph. Including payments for charity, children's pocket-money, gifts, travelling expenses, books, garden expenditure (both mostly not itemized speficially), building work, furniture and special occasions such as his son's wedding. At the end of each year there are totals for the various categories of expenditure and additional totals for clothing and household provisions, taken over from accounts kept by his wife. Beal EvJ 64. Formerly Evelyn MS 64.
ff. i + 22. 170 x 155mm.
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Creation Date 1641-1706
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Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vols CCXL-CCXLIII. Bills and receipts of Evelyn and his family, mostly for household provisions and clothing, many made through John Strickland, steward at Sayes Court and (after 1699) Thomas Bedingfield, steward at Wotton; 1641-1706. The Wotton papers include some bills for work done on the estate, where it is difficult to separate these consistently from household bills. The main sequence of estate accounts and rentals is filed below under Estate Papers, Add. MSS 78585-78609.Four volumes. (1641-1706)
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Add MS 78407 (1641-1706)
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Creation Date 1641-1706
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content Vol. CCXL (ff. 145 + 14*).
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Creation Date 1680-1693
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Scope and Content Vol. CCXLI. 1680-1693 (ff. 100).
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Add MS 78409 (1694-1699)
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Creation Date 1694-1699
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Scope and Content Vol. CCXLII. 1694-1699.
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Add MS 78410 (1700-1706)
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Creation Date 1700-1706
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content Vol. CCXLIII. 1700-1706 (ff. 148).
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Page 240 2021-08-13 Add MS 78411 (1642-1706)
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Creation Date 1642-1706
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCXLIV (ff. 133).
1.ff. 1-2. Accounts of amounts received and disbursed on behalf of Evelyn by his brother, Richard Evelyn; 1649-1650.
2.ff. 3-34. Accounts of John Strickland, butler and steward at Sayes Court, for money spent and received on Evelyn's behalf; 1685-1700.
3.ff. 35-41. Accounts of amounts invested or dispersed for charity by Evelyn and his family on behalf of Margaret Godolphin and Lady Mordaunt; 1677-1678.
4.ff. 42-51. Notes of marriage settlements and expenses for John Evelyn junior, Susan (Evelyn) Draper and grandson John Evelyn, afterwards 1st Bart.; 1680-1706.
5.ff. 51-122. Bonds; 1642-1705.
6.ff. 123-132. Lists and notes concerning debts owed to Evelyn; 1682-1688, n.d.
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Add MS 78412 (1672-1706)
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Creation Date 1672-1706
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCXLV. Papers relating to wills, trusteeships and executorships.
1.f. 1. `A very necessary paper belonging to the Codicill of my last Will ...'; 26 Feb. 1702/3.
2.ff. 2-15. Will and codicil of John Evelyn; 29 Feb. 1703/4. [italics]Autograph[/italics] and [italics]signed[/italics].
3.f. 16. [italics]Draft[/italics] of the will of John Evelyn; 20 Feb. 1705/6.
4.ff. 17-19. . [italics]Copy[/italics] of the will of Mary Evelyn, by Sir John Evelyn, 1[superscript]st[/superscript] Bart.
5.ff. 20-31. Decree in Chancery relating to the estate of George Tuke; 1672. [italics]Copy,[/italics] endorsed by Evelyn, who was one of the executors.
6.ff. 32-42. Neve [italics]v[/italics]. Evelyn in the Prerogative Court; 1674.
7.ff. 43-49. Will of Elizabeth, wife of John, 1st Viscount Mordaunt; 1 Nov. 1677. [italics]Abstract[/italics].
8.ff. 50-67. Act of Parliament, 29 Car. II, 13, to enable Lady Mary Mordaunt to sell her interest in the manor of Bletchingly; 1677. [italics]Copy[/italics], endorsed by Evelyn, who
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9.ff. 68-69. Codicil of the will of Robert Boyle; 28 July 1690. [italics]Copy.[/italics]
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Add MS 78413 A-B EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCXLVI A, B. ([1706-1709])
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
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Creation Date [1706-1709]
Extent and Format 2 items
Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCXLVI A, B. ([1706-1709])
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Add MS 78413 A (25 Feb [1706])
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
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Creation Date 25 Feb [1706]
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content A.Will of John Evelyn; 25 Feb. 1705/6. Probate copy on vellum.
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Page 242 2021-08-13 Add MS 78413 B (9 Feb [1709])
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Creation Date 9 Feb [1709]
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content B.Will of Mary Evelyn; 9 Feb. 1708/9. Probate copy on vellum.
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Add MS 78414-78429 Manuscripts, etc., collected by John Evelyn ([1200- 1999])
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78414-78429
Creation Date [1200-1999]
Extent and Format 35 items
Languages of Material English; Latin
Access Conditions Unavailable as awaiting conservation
Title Manuscripts, etc., collected by John Evelyn ([1200-1999])
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Page 243 2021-08-13 Add MS 78414 ([1590]-1647)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78414
Creation Date [1590]-1647
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCXLVII. Devotional manuscript, `Enchiridion christianarum precationum in honorem sacrosanctae individuae et gloriosae Trinitatis e sacris scripturis: delibatum et in particularia erga singulas Personas officia distributum', with dedicatory epistle (ff. 3-68v) by H[enry] Howard [afterwards Earl of Northampton], to William Cecil, Lord Burghley subscribed 'Londini ex aedibus Dacrensibus martii 15. 1589' [i.e. 1590]. Latin. In Howard’s calligraphic autograph, with some decorations and coloured illustrations. Annotated by Evelyn in the fly-leaf, `ex dono praestantiss. amici D.D. Jacobi Crassi [James Thicknesse, for whom see Add. MS 78311, ff. 1-31 above], Lond: 1647', and `In Catalogo J. Evelyni inscriptus, Meliora Retinete'. Formerly Evelyn MS 100.
ff. iii + 237. Modern binding of black velvet. 180 x 135mm.
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Add MS 78415 ([Early 17th century])
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78415
Creation Date [Early 17th century]
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCXLVIII. `Womans Worth. Or a treatise shewing & proving by sundry reasons that women doe excell Men. Authoris nomen pagina queque probat collegiae Omnium Animarum [All Souls College]'; [early 17th cent.]. Copy, 1638, in more than one scribal hand, of a manuscript in the Bodleian Library; the `imprint' reads, `Oxford: Imprinted as yet never, onely a M.S in the Library of that famous university, 1638'. With scribal pagination `1-107’. Pages have borders ruled in pencil, with the heading `Women’s Worth’ on each in rather untidy decorative pen-work. This volume is listed as item 4 in the Manuscripts section of John Evelyn’s library catalogue, Add MS 78632, f. 129 below, and was possibly obtained by him while he was at Oxford. The work draws upon Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa’s De nobilitate et praeccelentia foeminei sexus. The Bodleian copy, which is attributed to William Page (1590-1664), Fellow of All Souls, is also mentioned in a letter to Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, from Bodley’s Librarian, Dr Thomas Barlow, 21 May 1663, printed in Letters and Poems in honour of the Duchess of Newcastle ([London], 1676), p. 69. Another 17th cent. copy is held by the Wigan Archives Service, Leigh, Lancashire. Formerly Evelyn MS 187.
ff. iii + 56. Contemporary binding of speckled calf, gilt-ruled. 160 x 115mm.
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Page 244 2021-08-13 Add MS 78416 A-D EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCXLIX A-D. Music manuscripts. ([1575-1670])
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78416 A-D
Creation Date [1575-1670]
Extent and Format 4 items
Languages of Material English; Latin
Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCXLIX A-D. Music manuscripts. ([1575-1670])
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Add MS 78416 A (1638-1639)
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Creation Date 1638-1639
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Scope and Content A.Music for the violin and (at the end reversing the volume) the viol; 1638-1639. At the beginning is the note by Evelyn, `Musica est bene cantand: scientia', and `Mr Merist SS Theol. Bacc. Dedit mihi bene librum ego tamen notas insertui' Ball: Coll: Oxon: 1638'. One page of music (f. 9) is headed in his hand, `The Worme. J Evelyn'. With the later press-mark `Cove E' on the front cover. Formerly Evelyn MS 205.
ff. i + 15. Original vellum cover. 140 x 190mm.
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Page 245 2021-08-13 Add MS 78416 B (c 1580-1630)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78416 B
Creation Date c 1580-1630
Extent and Format 1 item
Languages of Material Latin
Scope and Content B.Two of a set of four partbooks containing eight motets by Richard Dering (circa 1580-1630) and four anonymous motets, possibly also by Dering; copied [1625-1640?]. Ff. 1-8: bassus; ff. 9-16: altus (original separate pagination 1-16; 1-16). See Jonathan Wainwright, Musical Patronage in Seventeenth Century England (Aldershot, 1997), esp. p. 285, for this manuscript. Formerly Evelyn MS 189 a, b.
ff. 16. Six hand-ruled staves per page, marginal rulings left and right. 200 x 160mm.
Motets as follows:
1.ff. 1, 9. [Dering], `Laetamini cum Maria’
2.f. 1v. [Dering], `Justus cor suum tradidit’.
3.f. 2. [Dering], `Ardens est cor meu[m]’.
4.ff. 2v, 9v. [Dering], `Alleluia gaudeamus’.
5.ff. 3, 10. [Dering], `Isti sunt sancti’.
6.ff. 3v, 11. [Dering], `Gloria patri’.
7.ff. 4, 11v. `Exultate justi’.
8.ff. 5, 12v. `Te gloriosus Apostoloru[m]’.
9.ff. 5v, 13v. [Dering], `O nomen Jesu’.
10.ff. 6v, 14v. [Dering], `Panis angelicus’.
11.ff. 7v, 15. `Si diligis me Simon Petre’.
12.ff. 8v, 16. `O dulcissime’ Jesu’.
Richard Dering, composer: Bassus and altus parts of eight motets: circa 1625-1640?: Latin: Copy.
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Page 246 2021-08-13 Add MS 78416 C (before 1645)
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Creation Date before 1645
Extent and Format 1 item
Languages of Material Latin
Scope and Content C.Giacomo Carissimi (1605-1674), Motet, `Si linguis hominum'; bef. 1645. Latin. Copy in an Italian hand, with decorative initial letter S in ink. Nine hand-ruled staves to a page. With an inscription on the front cover by Evelyn, `Coll. JEvelynus: Romae Aprilis: 11: 1645'., the motto `Meliora Retinete', and the later press-mark, `Cove F'. Formerly Evelyn MS 211.
ff. 12. 215 x 160mm.
Giacomo Carissimi, composer: Motet, 'Si linguis hominum': bef. 1645: Latin: Copy.
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Creation Date [c Mid 17th century?]
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content D.Songbook; [circa mid 17th cent.?]. French and Italian, in two different hands. Imperfect; a portion has been cut from the first leaf. It was presumably made and used in Paris while John Evelyn lived in the Browne household after his marriage, since it has the following list of names on the front cover: `Monsieur Bushe, Monsieur Langton, Monsieur Toppe, Monsieur Browne, Marie Evelyn, Monsieur Evelyn'. With the later press-mark `Cove E' by Evelyn on the front cover. Formerly Evelyn MS 216.
ff. i + 20. 175 x 225mm.
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Page 247 2021-08-13 Add MS 78417 (13th century-16th century)
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Reference Add MS 78417
Creation Date 13th century-16th century
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCL. Compendium of treatises on alchemy and the philosopher’s stone; 13 th-16th cent. Latin, French and Italian.Copies in a single, probably French, scribal hand, early 17th cent., with some annotations in French and English in another hand. Including treatises by or attributed to Pierre Massin, Bartholomeus Korndoeffer, Jehan Le Saulnier, Almazatus, Richard Stanihurst, `Abbe de Cottignon’, Queretanus, `Frere Polet’, Carpin, Pontanus and Philippe Rouillasco. According to an inscription by Evelyn on the fly-leaf, the volume was given him by George Digby, Earl of Bristol; though it was Sir Kenelm Digby with whom Evelyn exchanged alchemical information (see Diary, III, p. 48). Formerly Evelyn MS 223.
ff. ii + 417. Original binding of green vellum. 235 x 175mm.
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Creation Date 17th century
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLI. `Les Choses Necessaires a la Composition de la Pierre des Sages'; 17th cent. French. Copy in a calligraphic hand of a text concerning the philosopher's stone. Consisting of a preface of eleven chapters addressed by the author to his son, followed by `La Practique’ of the chapters, two `Papiers volants’, `La grande Branche Reyne ou Particulier reel ou veritable, and the addition by Evelyn, headed `Premiere Colomne contenant les deux Oeuvres Physiques …’, begun in Evelyn's hand and continued by his amanuensis Richard Hoare, with the note at the beginning, `The 11: chap: is the true preface to this: which I had not at that tyme those papers were bound up: This being the most rare of du Bois Manuscripts'. With his ownership inscription on the fly-leaf, `E Libris Evelynis Parississ 1650 Meliora Retinete'. Item 13 in the Manuscripts section of John Evelyn’s library catalogue, Add MS 78632, f. 129 below. See also Michael Hunter, `John Evelyn in the 1650s', Science and the Shape of Orthodoxy (Woodbridge, 1995), p. 43. Formerly Evelyn MS 56.
Contemporary binding of mottled calf, gilt ruled and stamped with Evelyn's monogram in each corner and his bookplate with motto and coat of arms in the centre. 290 x 205mm.
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Page 248 2021-08-13 Add MS 78419 (Early 17th century)
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Creation Date Early 17th century
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLII. Notebook containing medicinal recipes; early 17th cent. Copies, mostly in a single secretary hand, with a few additions in different hands at the end. On the last page is a set of verses, apparently in Evelyn’s hand, describing the contents, beg. `In this booke is recorded many a score/Of oyntments & Plaisters for every sore …’. Formerly Evelyn MS 199.
Quarto, sewn but disbound. 170 x 145mm.
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Creation Date Oct 1638-May 1641
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLIII. Disbound leaves from a cash journal kept by George Tuke in connection with various mercantile transactions, including the manufacture of leather hangings; 9 Oct. 1638-May 1641. Tuke was the elder brother of Sir Samuel Tuke, who is several times mentioned in the accounts; Evelyn was his trustee and later his executor; see Diary, III, pp. 190, 491, etc. Formerly Evelyn MS 294.
385 x 250mm.
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Page 249 2021-08-13 Add MS 78421 ([1650s?])
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Creation Date [1650s?]
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLIV. `A funerall sermon preached at the interment of Goodman Glascocke of Crissing in Essex', by an unidentified clergyman; [1650s?]. In a single rather crabbed hand. Cressing Temple in Essex was the home of Sir Samuel Tuke, 1st Bart., with whom Evelyn and his wife occasionally stayed. With the press-mark by Evelyn on the fly-leaf, `8 Theol. Cove N 62'. Formerly Evelyn MS 113.
Modern marble wrappers. 150 x 95mm.
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Add MS 78422 (1659-1660)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
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Creation Date 1659-1660
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLV. Notes taken by Gasper Needham, D. Med., of sermons preached by Peter Gunning, afterwards Bishop of Chichester and Ely, at Exeter House in the Strand, London; 1659-1660. Autograph, with a title-page in Evelyn's hand. Needham (circa 1620-1679) was described by Evelyn at his death as `my pious, deare & antient learned friend … a true & holy Christian, & one who loved me with greate affection’ (Diary, p. 673). Gunning’s services at Exeter House chapel were much resorted to by Anglicans during the last years of the Interregnum; Evelyn’s diary contains notes of his own attendance. Formerly Evelyn MS 71.
ff. v + 136. Modern binding of blue leather. 155 x 125mm.
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Page 250 2021-08-13 Add MS 78423 (Mid 17th century)
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Reference Add MS 78423
Creation Date Mid 17th century
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLVI. Commonplace book of Sir Samuel Tuke, 1st Bart., chiefly on historical, theological and philosophical subjects; mid 17th cent. Autograph. Mostly French, but with some notes in English, including `Collections out of Mr Hobbs Leviathan' and extracts from Donne's Poems in the edition of 1639. The date 19 March 1656 appears on f. 53v, with that of 'Ash Wednesday. 6th March 1659' on f. 86v. Tuke was a cousin and close friend of John Evelyn and his wife; fpr his letters, see Add. MS 78306, ff. 86-161 above. This volume may have been given to them by Tuke's widow. It has inscriptions by Evelyn, including a cruciform symbol on the cover and on the fly-leaf, `Common Places gather'd by Sir Samuell Tuke Bart'. Item 2 in the Manuscripts section of John Evelyn’s library catalogue, Add MS 78632, f. 129 below. Formerly Evelyn MS 254.
Original vellum binding, gilt-stamped, with the remains of green cloth ties. 365 x 215mm.
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Add MS 78424 (1662-1676)
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Creation Date 1662-1676
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Scope and Content Evelyn Papers. Vol. cclvii. Commonplace-book of Sir Samuel Tuke; 1662-circa 1671. Partly autograph, with some entries in the hand of an amanuensis. On the back fly-leaf (f. 134, vol. rev.) Tuke noted that 'I began these collections the 9th of July 1662'. Notes from biographical, historical and religious works published 1670-1671, some in French, occur on ff. 27-18, vol. rev., while extracts from English poets include Ben Jonson (f. 131, vol. rev.) and Sir John Suckling (f. 123, vol. rev.). Entries are copied chiefly on the left-hand pages. Formerly Evelyn MS 164.
Paper; ff.134 + i. 350 x 220 mm.
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Page 251 2021-08-13 Add MS 78425 EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLVIII. Miscellaneous collected papers of John Evelyn; 17th cent. (17th century)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
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Creation Date 17th century
Extent and Format 1 item
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Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLVIII. Miscellaneous collected papers of John Evelyn; 17th cent. (17th century)
Physical Characteristics Heavily damaged from iron gall ink erosion
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLVIII. Miscellaneous collected papers of John Evelyn; 17th cent.
1. `Avertimente & precetti &c'; 17th cent. [italics]Italian[/italics]. An anonymous treatise in short sections, including those on health, honour and reputation, fashion, negotiation, etc. Presumably acquired by Evelyn when he was in Italy in the mid 1640s and afterwards inscribed by him on the front cover, `Polit. MSS', and the location `In Chartophyl’. Formerly Evelyn MS 231. 215 x 160mm.
2. Three discourses headed, `Quaestio devidenda sic se habet Corporae caelestia non sunt causae humanarum actionum`, `Thomae Randulphi oratio praevaricatoris comitiis Cantabrigiensibus habita. Anno Domini 1632', `An Veritas sit in intellecta, et pendet in veritate rei’, mostly in the same hand, headed 5, 6 and 7; early 17[superscript]th[/superscript] cent. [italics]Latin[/italics]. Formerly Evelyn MS 301.
3. `Sume Dyerections towards the makinge of a smale watche of brasse'; 17th cent. In an unidentified secretary hand. Formerly Evelyn MS 298.
4. Treatise on astronomy in seventeen short chapters; early 17[superscript]th[/superscript] cent. [italics]Copy[/italics] in a single scribal hand. Headed `Astronomy’ by Evelyn, and annotated with the location `In Chartophylac:’.
5. `The use of the Philosophers stone for health taken out of an old M.SS.’; 17[superscript]th[/superscript] cent. The heading is Evelyn’s [italics]autograph,[/italics] the text probably in that of his amanuensis, Richard Hoare, and therefore [italics]circa[/italics] 1649-52. Formerly Evelyn MS 118. In a modern binding of marbled paper.
6. `Usage du Compas de proportion’; 17[superscript]th[/superscript] cent. [italics]French[/italics]. Formerly Evelyn MS 519.
7. [italics]Extracts[/italics] of communications from Lyons, Amsterdam and elsewhere on perpetual motion, 1658-1660, n.d. Partly [italics]Latin[/italics]. The last is headed `Mr [Cressy] Dymocks Proposition’. Probably, on the evidence of the handwriting, supplied to Evelyn by Samuel Hartlib. Formerly Evelyn MS 299.
8. Fragmentary papers, some annotated by Evelyn, on mathematics, clock-making, metallic thread, the capacity of a vessel containing liquid, and streams with calcifying properties; 17[superscript]th[/superscript] cent.
9. `The Reall subject Or an Expositive Clause(?) to the whole matter masked under the name of Dendrologia:/ Under the shadow of Trees is couched Amixt Theologicall discourse: Partlie Theologicall: Polyticall: Historicall …’; 1640. Key to James Howell's [italics]Dendrologia[/italics]. Formerly Evelyn MS 492.
10. `Series decretorum dei Causarumque & mediorum salutis. Per B. Sandersonum’; 17[superscript]th[/superscript] cent. [italics]Latin[/italics]. In the same hand as the preceding. Formerly Evelyn MS 560. Annotated by Evelyn.
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11. Notes and pen sketches of Roman military equipment and battle formations; 17[superscript]th[/superscript] cent. In an unidentified hand.
12. `The Testament of that excellent learned person, Jac. Aug. Thuanus’ (Jacques Auguste de Thou); 17th cent. [italics]Copy[/italics] in a scribal hand, endorsed by Evelyn.
13. Fragment on allegiance to the Roman Catholic church’, beg. `The discourse wee had the other day I hope satisfyed you . . .’; 17[superscript]th[/superscript] cent. In an unidentified scribal hand, endorsed by Evelyn `Theol’.
14. Fragment of a sermon on false accusation; late 17[superscript]th[/superscript] cent.?]. In an unidentified hand. Formerly Evelyn MS 521.
15. `History & Case of a Murder discovered, Extraord[inary?] sent me by Mr Thorsby [Ralph Thoresby] of Leeds’; late 17[superscript]th[/superscript]-early 18[superscript]th[/superscript] cent.
16. Two Ottoman documents endorsed by Evelyn, `An Arabic or Turkis Writing’, apparently formal letters or addresses to an English Christian community, both with the [italics]tughra[/italics] (calligraphically ornate signature) of an Ottoman sultan; 1070 [1659 according to the Christian calendar]. [italics]Turkish[/italics]. One document has the further endorsement, `Arc: Vil: N-XIV’.
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Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
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Creation Date 17th century-18th century
Extent and Format 10 items
Title 78426 A-I. EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLIX A. Engraved portraits of Evelyn, 17th-18th cent. (17th century-18th century)
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Page 253 2021-08-13 Add MS 78426 AA-B Aa, Ab, B.Three copies of the portrait of Evelyn, drawn and engraved by Robert Nanteuil; 1650. Aa and Ab
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Creation Date 1650
Extent and Format 3 items
Title Aa, Ab, B.Three copies of the portrait of Evelyn, drawn and engraved by Robert Nanteuil; 1650. Aa and Ab appear to represent state V, and B possibly state VI of the engraving, as listed in Charles Petitjean and Charles Wickert, Catalogue de l’oeuvre gravé de Robert Nanteuil (Paris, 1925), p. 188. 360 x 250mm. (1650)
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Creation Date 1650
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content Copy of engraved portrait of Evelyn
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Page 254 2021-08-13 Add MS 78426 AB (1650)
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Creation Date 1650
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content Copy of engraved portrait of Evelyn
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Add MS 78426 B (1650)
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Creation Date 1650
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content Copy of engraved portrait of Evelyn
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Add MS 78426 C (18th century)
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Creation Date 18th century
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content C.Crude engraved version of the same, labelled `John Evelyn Esq.’, with hand-coloured border, and `ob. 1706’ and a cropped pagination reference added in manuscript; 18th cent. Probably a book illustration.
200 x 130mm.
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Page 255 2021-08-13 Add MS 78426 D (17th century-18th century)
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Creation Date 17th century-18th century
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content D.Crude engraved version of the same, `A Bannerman Sculp’; labelled `John Evelyn Esq., and in the top right corner, `P.67’; 17th-18th cent.
295 x 235mm.
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Add MS 78426 E (19th century)
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Creation Date 19th century
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content E.Version of the same in an oval surround, `Swaine sc.’; with a facsimile of his signature and autograph beneath; 19th cent. Probably a book illustration.
215 x 165mm.
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Page 256 2021-08-13 Add MS 78426 F (20th century)
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Scope and Content F.Reproduction of the proof state of Nanteuil’s engraving (A above), without the motto; 20th cent.
290 x 210mm.
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Scope and Content G.Reversed etched version of the same; [20th cent.?]
170 x 125mm.
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Scope and Content H. Oval portrait of Evelyn engraved after Kneller’s of 1689, but showing some influence of the Nanteuil portrait in the features and the cloak worn by the sitter; engraved by Bartolozzi, 1776, as the frontispiece of Sylva. Framed, with a photograph of Wotton house, 20th cent., on the back.
285 x 200mm.
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Scope and Content I.Version of the preceding, with oak tree branches joined across the upper part of the oval surround; `Published by Dr Thornton December 20, 1800’.
240 x 200mm.
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Page 258 2021-08-13 Add MS 78427 A-C EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLX. ([1660-1707])
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Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLX. ([1660-1707])
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Scope and Content A. Drawing of Tenerife, the first in ink and grey wash, apparently not by Evelyn, with inscription underneath, `The Towne Oratava in the greate Canaries in prospect the pica Teneriff’ (535 x 380mm); [early 1660s?]. Presumably connected with Evelyn’s `exact Relation of the pico Tenariff, taken from Mr: Clappham, who had long resided in that Iland’, read at the Royal Society on 13 March 1661; for the manuscripts of this, see Beal EvJ 91-95.
380 x 520mm.
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Scope and Content BCopy of the preceding drawing by Evelyn in ink and coloured wash, with his inscription, `Orotava in Tenerif Insula Canar:’, initialled by him; (370 x 250mm); [early 1660s?].
250 x 370mm.
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Scope and Content C.Engraving of the Virgin and Child, by Benedictus Farjat after Egidius Halet, with caption `Transvolavit ad Nos Sancta Domus Tanquam Navis Quae Pertransit Fluctvantem Aqvam to in Civitate Sanctificata Reqvievit …’, with the manuscript inscriptions underneath, `Gulielmus Mansell Poenitentiarius Anglus’ and in a different hand `Matthias Rindtsius […] Poenitent German’, 27 Oct. 1707. Acquired from John Wilson, Cheltenham, with a collection of pamplets from the Evelyn.Library, 1998.
630 x 450mm.
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Page 260 2021-08-13 Add MS 78428 A-F EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLXI. ([1600-1899])
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Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLXI. ([1600-1899])
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Creation Date 25 Apr 1641
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Scope and Content A.Lead bullet, with a label by Evelyn, `A slug bullet shot from his Ma: Char: the first quarters agst the Rebells at the bridge at Causam [Caversham] neare Reading 25 April 1641’.
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Scope and Content B.Amulet of kid skin with silk ribbons, worn as a prophylactic against the plague; second half of 17th cent.
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Page 261 2021-08-13 Add MS 78428 C (19th century)
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Scope and Content C.Seal of John Evelyn, with ebony (?) handle. Motto `Junxit Amor’ and two Evelyn griffins on joined shields engraved. English (?), circa mid. 17th cent. Attached to card, with an impression in red wax, labelled by William John Evelyn, 19th cent.
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Scope and Content D.Seal of John Evelyn, agate, mounted in gold, partly enamelled. With the griffin of the Evelyn crest and the motto `Omnia explorate, meliora retinete’. English. Mid to late 17 th cent. With an impression in red wax on card, labelled by William John Evelyn, 19th cent.
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Page 262 2021-08-13 Add MS 78428 E (17th century)
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Scope and Content E.Seal of Sir John Evelyn of Godstone (1590-1664), engraved glass (?), mounted in bronze (?). Evelyn crest. English. First half 17th cent. Attached to card, with an inscription by William John Evelyn.
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Scope and Content F.Seal of George Evelyn of Nutfield (1641-1699). Mounted in metal. Monogram, intertwined G.E. Second half 17th cent. Attached to card, labelled by William John Evelyn.
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Page 263 2021-08-13 Add MS 78429 (17th century)
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLXII. Gloves of doe-skin, the cuffs embroidered with a design of flowers and leaves in gold and silver thread, coloured silks and spangles, and with a fringe of gold thread; 17th cent. These are mentioned by Evelyn (as ‘rich gold fringed gloves’) in an inventory of the contents of his Dover Street house in 1703 (pocket book of Evelyn, Harvard University, Houghton Library, MS Eng. 992.2, p. [23]). Traditionally they are said to have been given to him by Peter the Great of Russia, who stayed at Sayes Court in 1698, but there is no evidence of this, or indeed that Evelyn ever met Peter the Great, whose tenancy was arranged on the King’s behalf and resulted in extensive damage to the property which had to be made good by the Treasury (see Diary, V, p. 290). It is notable that the inventory reference quoted above gives no association for the gloves.
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Add MS 78430-78439 Mary Evelyn (wife of the diarist) ([1647-1708])
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Title Mary Evelyn (wife of the diarist) ([1647-1708])
Scope and Content Mary Evelyn, wife of John Evelyn, the diarist: Correspondence and papers: 1648-1708.
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Page 264 2021-08-13 Add MS 78430 (1648)
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLXIII. `Instructions Oeconomique': a domestic conduct manual in 23 chapters, including some verse, written by Evelyn for his wife shortly after their marriage; 1648. Including some Latin quotations, and one chapter, `De l’humilité du lit nuptial’, in French. Calligraphically written by his amanuensis, Richard Hoare (see his presentation inscription on f. 5v), with a pen and ink drawing on the title-page of a female figure with a cornucopia, a sheaf, and domestic animals; the first paragraph of Evelyn’s opening `Epistle’ (dated London, 27 June 1648) lettered in gold, the arms of Evelyn impaling Browne with mottoes in colour (f. 11v), and the initial O of the first chapter framing a pen drawing of a flaming heart on a pedestal. Preceded (f. 5) by an alphabetical list of authors cited in the text and followed by a table of contents. Parts of the text are now faded or illegible, apparently from damp. For the letter accompanying the presentation, see Evelyn to Mary Evelyn, 16 Sept. 1648, Add. MS 78431 below; he asks her not to show it to anyone, since `the novelty, as well as altogether the rarity of such Particular discourses (falling into the hands of irregular, and loose persons) cannot escape the Censure of an over Curious, and Indulgent husband'. On the fly-leaf Evelyn has written `E Libris Manuscriptis JEvelyn Parsijs 1649’, and his motto, `Omnia explorate, Meliora retinete'. Beal EvJ 113. Formerly Evelyn MS 143.
ff. ii + 64. Contemporary binding of red morocco, gilt ruled and stamped with the tools designed for Evelyn by Thomas Simon, incorporating his arms and monogram, on the front and back covers; with modern repairs and slip case. Bookplate of Theodore H. Broadhead (f. i). 170 x 135mm.
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Page 265 2021-08-13 Add MS 78431 (1648-1696)
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Creation Date 1648-1696
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLXIV.
1.Letters to Mary Evelyn from her father, Sir Richard Browne; 1665-1666. Further letters, 1658 and 1652-1660, are in Add. MS 15857, f. 147, Add. MS 34702, ff. 55-186 passim, and listed in Colbeck, Radford & Co., The Ingatherer, no. 18 (Sept. 1931), item 21. Letters from Mary Evelyn to her father are in Add. MS 78219 above.
2.Letters to Mary Evelyn from her husband, John Evelyn; 1648-1696. The first letter is in French. Including 20th cent. copies of many of the letters, probably made in connection with their conservation, and a photocopy of a letter of 19 June 1661, now in the Houghton Library, Harvard University, MS Eng. 991. Letters from Mary Evelyn to her husband are in Add. MS 78300 above.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLXV. Correspondence of Mary Evelyn with her son, John Evelyn junior, 1675-1697 (of which the first two letters are retained copies by Mary Evelyn), letters to her from his wife, Martha (Spencer), 1689-1704, their daughter Elizabeth (afterwards wife of Simon Harcourt), 1695-1697, their son John, afterwards Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart., 1697-1707, and his wife, Anne (Boscawen), 1706-1708. Many letters were written from Dublin while John Evelyn was Commissioner of the Irish revenue.
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Page 266 2021-08-13 Add MS 78433 (1684-1707)
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLXVI.
1.Letters to Mary Evelyn from her eldest daughter Mary; 1684. Including a copy by John Evelyn senior of the second letter.
2.Letters to Mary Evelyn from her youngest daughter Susan and her husband William Draper; 1689-1707.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLXVII.
1.Letters to Mary Evelyn from her husband’s brother-in-law, William Glanville, his son William Glanville junior, and the latter's wife Frances (Hales) Glanville; 1663-1699. Including some 20th cent. copies of Glanville's letters, probably made in connection with the conservation of the originals, several of which have suffered loss of text from damp; also one draft, 1685, and one retained copy, 1699, of Mary Evelyn's letters. She entered further copies of her letters to Glanville in her letterbooks, Add. MSS 78438-78439 below; a few of her letters to him as sent are in Add. MS 78296 above.
2.Letters to Mary Evelyn from her aunt Susan (Pretyman), wife of Edward Hungerford of Cadenham, co. Wilt.; 1653-1693. Including one retained copy of a letter, 1685, from Mary Evelyn; a few of her letters to Susan Hungerford are entered in her letterbooks, Add. MSS 78438-78439 below.
3.Letters to Mary Evelyn from Jael (Godolphin) Boscawen, widow of Edward Boscawen, M.P., and mother-in-law of Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart.; 1686-1708.
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Page 267 2021-08-13 Add MS 78435 (1649-1706)
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLXVIII.
1.Letters to Mary Evelyn from Sir Samuel Tuke, 1[superscript]st[/superscript] Bart., 1649-[1670?], and his wives, Mary (Guldeford), 1665-1666, and Mary (Sheldon), 1675-1704, and the latter's daughter Mary, 1684-1706; 1649-1706. Including two retained [italics]copies[/italics] of Mary Evelyn's letters. She entered several copies of her letters to Tuke in her letterbooks, Add. MSS 78438-78439 below. See also Add. MS 15949, f. 130, for another letter of Mary Tuke the daughter. For Tuke and his wives, see Esmond de Beer’s article in [italics]Notes and Queries[/italics], 161 (1931), p. 347. After 1692 Lady Tuke's letters are written from Portugal, where she accompanied the dowager Queen Catherine of Braganza as her bedchamberwoman.
2.Letters to Mary Evelyn from Ralph Bohun, D.C.L. (1685), tutor to John Evelyn junior at Sayes Court and Oxford, 1665-1671, and afterwards Rector of Wotton; 1667-1706. A further letter from Bohun, 6 Sept. 1707, is now in one of William Upcott’s albums, Add. MS 78683 below. Including a few [italics]drafts[/italics] and retained [italics]copies[/italics] of Mary Evelyn's letters. She also entered copies of several of her letters to Bohun in her letterbooks, Add. MSS 78438-78439 below; for her letters to him as sent, see in Add. MS 78539 and two in Upcott’s albums, Add. MSS 78683 and 78686 below.
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Creation Date 1682-1704
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLXIX. Letters to Mary Evelyn from Elizabeth (Packer) Geddes, daughter of Philip Packer of Groombridge, and wife (1696) of Michael Geddes, LL.D., including a few letters from her father and her sister Temperance, whose life-style is frequently referred to in the letters as a matter of concern (see also Diary, IV, p. 404); 1682-1704. Packer was John Evelyn’s contemporary and friend at Oxford and the Middle Temple (for his letters to Evelyn, see Add. MS 78311 above). After his death in 1686 and before her marriage, Elizabeth Packer lived for a time in the household of her cousin Elizabeth, wife of Robert Berkeley of Spetchley, afterwards 3rd wife of Gilbert Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury, who is referred to in the letters.
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Page 268 2021-08-13 Add MS 78437 (1647-1708)
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Creation Date 1647-1708
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLXX. Miscellaneous papers of Mary Evelyn; 1647-1708. See also Add. MS 15950, ff. 178-188 for diagrams in pencil annotated by John Evelyn, `Mary Evelyn Mathematical Exercises at Paris 1650'.
1.Other letters to and from Mary Evelyn; 1647-1708. Including drafts and retained copies of her own letters. Further letters to her are in Add. MS 15948, ff. 1, 101-102, in Upcott’s albums, Add. MS 78678, 78683, and 78688 below, and in the grangerized copy of Pepys’s Memoirs, Vol. I, Add. MS 78694.
2.Calligraphic exercise-book of Mary Evelyn; 1649. Latin and English excerpts, etc., decorated in red and black ink. Marbled paper wrapper.
3.The Picture of the Princesse Henrietta [London, n.d.]. Printed broadside, with the initials M.E. at the foot, expanded in manuscript to `M. Evelyn’, and with an autograph note by John Evelyn, `Presented to the Princesse 22d: Decr: 1660 at White-Hall for which her highnesse gave my wife particular thankes, and a very greate compliment'. Formerly Evelyn MS 312.
4.Miscellaneous papers, including family anecdotes, a book-list of 1706, and a group of papers, 1655-1696, concerning a debt, endorsed by Mary Evelyn, `Mrs Bridges papers belonging to her Bond from M. Clappam [William Clapham] in Virginia’. Household inventories and accounts of Mary Evelyn are in Add. MSS 78404 and 78407-78410 above.
5.Verses addressed to Mary Evelyn: `On my Mistris her Picture done with a Crayon’, apparently in the hand of Richard Hoare, [[italics]circa[/italics] 1650?]; [italics]Latin[/italics] verses by Edward Snatt, headed `In Effigiem M: Evelyni Jo: Evelyn … Pulcher: Uxoris’ , [[italics]circa[/italics] 1650?]; and `To the most virtuous &c my Lady Evelyn on removal from Deptford’, in an unidentified hand, [1694?].
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Page 269 2021-08-13 Add MS 78438-78439 EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLXXI, CCLXXII. Letterbooks of Mary Evelyn; [1667-[1674?]. Partly autograph; partly
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Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLXXI, CCLXXII. Letterbooks of Mary Evelyn; [1667-[1674?]. Partly autograph; partly 18th cent copies. See also F. Harris `The Letterbooks of Mary Evelyn', English Manuscript Studies (1998), pp. 202-214.Two volumes. (1667-1675)
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLXI. Letterbook of Mary Evelyn, containing copies of her letters to several correspondents; [1667]-[1674?], n.d. Autograph. Bearing the inscription of William Upcott on the fly-leaf, 25 Dec. 1821, with the note, `Given to me by my late lamented friend, Lady Evelyn' (f. iii). Lot 63 in the Evans’ sale of Upcott’s collections, 15-25 June 1846, from which it was acquired by W. J. Evelyn. Several of the letters are printed as appendices to Bray editions of Evelyn's Diary and Correspondence, the fullest selection being in the edition of 1850-52, IV, pp. 8-40, though these include some misdatings; detailed references are given below. Formerly Evelyn MS 9.
ff. iii + 39. Originally in sewn gatherings of quarto leaves, afterwards placed on guards for binding. Half bound in blue calf and grey boards, probably at the instigation of Upcott, early 19th cent. 205 x 175mm.
1.ff. 1-2. To [Ralph Bohun]; [April 1667]. For the letter as sent, see Add. MS 78539 below. Printed pp. 9-10.
2.f. 3. To Ralph Bohun; 17 July 1668. This leaf was omitted from the 19th cent. rebinding, but on the evidence of paper size and sewing marks must originally have been part of this volume. For the letter as sent, which contains further content, see Add. MS 78539. Printed, pp. 11-12.
3.f. 4. To `Chere Cousine' [Mary Evelyn of Wotton?]; [circa 1668]. render="italic" French .
4.f. 5. To her aunt [Susan Hungerford?]; circa 1668.
5.f. 6. To her son John, [late 1668]. Printed, pp. 21-22.
6.ff. 7-8. To her brother-in-law, William Glanville, [late 1668-early 1669]. Printed, pp. 12-13.
7.f. 8v. To Mary Evelyn of Wotton; [1667-1669]. Not printed.
8.f. 9: To James Tyrrell; 10 Feb. 1668/9. Printed with some errors, p. 14.
Page 270 2021-08-13 9.f. 10: To the same; [1669?]. Printed p. 15.
10.f. 10v. To Sir Samuel Tuke, 1st Bart.; [July 1668]. Printed p. 11.
11.f. 11. To William Glanville; [early 1669]. Printed pp. 15-16.
12.ff. 11v-13. To Elizabeth, widow of Richard Evelyn of Woodcote; 26 April 1670. Printed pp. 17-18, wrongly dated 26 Sept. 1670.
13.f. 14. To the same; [1670]. Printed pp. 19-20.
14.f. 14v. To Mary Evelyn of Wotton; 28 Sept. 1670. Printed p. 20.
15.f. 15. To William Glanville; 28 Sept. 1670. Printed, dated 21 Sept., pp. 16-17.
16.f. 15v. To `Mrs Evelyn of Wotton'; 1670. Printed p. 20.
17.f. 16. To William Glanville; Dec. 1670. Printed pp. 22-23.
18.f. 17. To Ralph Bohun; [ 27 Feb.] 1671. Printed pp. 25-26. For the letter as sent, see Add. MS 78539.
19.f. 18. To the same; May `1671' (apparently a mistake for 1672; dated with reference to her son's study of law; see Diary, p. 572). Printed p. 26.
20.f. 19. To William Glanville; 8 Oct. 1671. Printed pp. 26-27.
21.ff. 20-21v. To her son John; 9 Oct. 1671. Printed pp. 27-29.
22.f. 22. To Mrs [Mary?] Alexander; 8 Oct. 1671. Printed pp. 29-30.
23.f. 23. To Lady Anne Carr; 26 March [1672]. Printed pp. 32-33.
24.f. 24. To Ralph Bohun, [2 March 1672]. Printed with the last paragraph omitted pp. 30-31.
25.f. 25. To Anne Howard, afterwards Lady Sylvius; [circa 1672].
26.f. 25v. To her husband; Dec. 1672. Printed pp. 33-34.
27.f. 26. To Ralph Bohun; 4 Jan. `1672’ [1672/3]. Printed pp. 31-32. For the letter as sent, see Add. MS 78539.
28.f. 27. To Lady Tuke; 28 Jan. `1672’ [1672/3]. Printed with the date 1671 pp. 23-24.
29.f. 28. To Ralph Bohun; 28 Jan. `1672’ [1672/3]. Printed with the date 1671 pp. 24-25.
30.f. 29. [To Ralph Bohun]; 28 March 1673. Printed pp. 37-38.
31.ff. 30-31. To William Glanville; 31 Dec. 1673. Printed pp. 38-40.
32.f. 32. To Ralph Bohun; `[Jan.?] 1673[/4?]'. Printed with the date Jan. 1672/3 pp. 34-35.
ff. 33-35. Blank.
33.ff. 36-37. To Mrs Soul[emon?]; n.d. Printed pp. 36-37.
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Page 271 2021-08-13 Add MS 78439 (1660s-1671)
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Creation Date 1660s-1671
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLXXII.
1.ff. 1-10. Fragments of a letterbook of Mary Evelyn; 1660s-1671. Consisting of a quarto gathering of 8 leaves, containing autograph copies of her letters, numbered `24’-`29’, with four more unnumbered. None are dated and the addressees are not identified, but on internal evidence all but two (addressed `to a brother' and `Madame' respectively) are to Sir Samuel Tuke and date from the first half of the 1660s. Followed by a bifolium containing autograph copies of letters to `Brother' [William Glanville?], n.d. [1671?], and `Deare Cousen', 14 Sept. 1671. 190 x 155mm.
2.ff. 11-62. Fragment of a notebook, without cover and with several leaves torn out, containing copies of Mary Evelyn's letters between 1658 and the 1670s, in the hand of Mary, daughter of Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart, circa 1730. 200 x 160mm; -(a) f. 11. `To a Lady', n.d; -(b) f. 12. `To a kinsman’ [Sir Samuel Tuke], [1660s], wanting the first leaf (a complete autograph copy is in Add. MS 78435 above, though the endorsed date, 1669, in the hand of Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart., may not be accurate); -(c) f. 13. `To a Kinsman', requesting patronage, [1660s?]; -(d) f. 14. `To the Countesse of G[uilford] Groom of the Stole', i.e., to Queen Henrietta Maria, [early 1660s]; -(e) f. 14v. `To A Lady'; n.d. (a formal letter of compliment); -(f) f. 15. `To the Viscountess M[ordaunt]' concerning her request to be f[emme] de ch[ambre] to the Queen, circa 1662; -(g) f. 16. `To a Gentleman', circa 1663. On the favourable reception of Tuke's play; -(h) f. 17. `Dear sister' [Elizabeth Carey, Viscountess Mordaunt], [1657]; -(i) ff. 17v-18. `To a kinsman', n.d., referring to `your Polish Embassy’; -(j) ff. 18-19. To an aunt [Susan Hungerford], [1658]. Concerning the death of her son Richard; -(k) ff. 19v-20. To Lady Mordaunt, condoling her on the death of her sister; -(l) ff. 20v-26. `Dear Sister’, n.d. (on the death of a mother); several pages, of which the stubs (ff. 21-25) still show fragments of copies, are torn out at this point in the notebook, but the present letter continues over without a break; (m) f. 26. To `Madam’ [Lady Cotton?], bef. 1664; (n) f. 28. To Countess of Guilford, [early 1660s], recommending a gardener to the Queen Mother at Somerset House; -(o) f. 29. To the same on the same subject; -(p) f. 30. To Sir G[eorge] Car[teret], [1660s].
3.Second notebook containing copies of Mary Evelyn's letters between 1658 and the 1670s in the hand of Mary, daughter of Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart; taken in most cases from Mary Evelyn’s own copies in 1 above and in Add. MS 78438. With original wrapper of decorated paper, dated inside the front cover, 10 Aug. 1730: (a) To an unidentified correspondent, with the first leaf missing, beg. `...interposing their sence'; - (b) To Tuke, `no. 29’ in 1 above; -(c) `To a Brother', in 1 above; - (d) To `Madame', in 1 above; - (e) To [Tuke?], in 1 above; - (f) To Bohun, no. 2 in Add. MS 78438; - (g) To Susan Hungerford, 17 July n.y. (no copy elsewhere); - (h) To Bohun, no. 1 in Add. MS 78438; - (i) To [Susan Hungerford?], no. 4 in Add. MS 78438; - (j)To her son, no. 5 in Add. MS 78438; - (k) To Glanville, no. 6 in Add. MS 78438; - (l) To Mary Evelyn, no. 7 in Add. MS 78438; - (m) To Tyrrell, no. 8 in Add. MS 78438; - (n) To the same, no. 9 in Add. MS 78438; - (o) To Tuke, no. 10 in Add. MS 78438’; – (p) To Glanville, no. 11 in Add. MS 78438; - (q) To Elizabeth Evelyn; no. 12 in Add. MS 78438; - (r) To the same, no. 13 in Add. MS 78438; - (s) To Mary Evelyn, no. 14 in Add. MS 78438; - (t) To Glanville, no. 15 in Add. MS 78438; - (u) To Bohun, no. 19 in Add. MS 78438; - (v) To Mrs Evelyn, no. 16 in Add. MS 78438; - (w) To Glanville, no. 17 in Add. MS 78438; - (x) To Bohun, no. 18 in Add. MS 78438.
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Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLXXIII. Mary Evelyn, daughter of John Evelyn the diarist: Correspondence and papers: [1675]-1685. (1675-1685)
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLXXIII.
Correspondence and papers of and relating to Mary Evelyn (1665-1685), eldest daughter of John Evelyn; [1675]-1685. Mary Evelyn was born 1 Oct. 1665 and died, unmarried, of small-pox 14 March 1685.
1. Letters from her brother John; [1675]-1676, followed by a letter to his younger sister Elizabeth immediately after Mary’s death; 1685.
2. Letters from her parents; 1680-1685.
3. Letters from her brother’s former tutor, Ralph Bohun; 1676-1684. See Add. MS 15949, f. 142, for a further letter from Bohun.
4. Notebook with paper wrappers, `Mary Evelyn Her Booke of sermon notes 1679'; with additions to 1683. Beneath the title are her initials and a pentacle symbol. Formerly Evelyn MS 108.
5. Account by Mary Evelyn of personal expenditure; April-June 1680.
6. John Evelyn, `Directions for the employment of your time [to Mary Evelyn]'; [early 1680s?]. Autograph. Beal EvJ 206. Formerly Evelyn MS 558.
7. Mary Evelyn’s notes headed, `Necessary Additions to those Directions of my Father when I was at Sayes Court'; [early 1680s?]. Autograph. With the monogram `M.E.’, pentacle symbol, and motto `Redeeme the time' on the verso; for which see also Add. MS 78441 below. Formerly Evelyn MS 322.
8. Notes by Mary Evelyn senior on the disposal of her daughter’s possessions (probably a nuncupative will), together with two autograph copies of her epitaph (one formerly Evelyn MS 418), and a draft memoir; 1685.
9. List by John Evelyn headed, `A Note of what Books and papers were found written by my late Daughter Mary E. after her decease'; 1685. Autograph. Consisting of a bundle of letters marked `A, B', fragments of verses marked `G, H', a parchment book of commonplaces marked `K', a parchment book containing daily confessions, resolutions, and prayers, marked `L', a book of sermon notes bound in green, marked `M', a small parchment book of religious notes, marked `N', translations of prayers from the French, marked `Q', a single leaf containing a list of
Page 273 2021-08-13 the books she had read, marked `P', loose papers on religious subjects, etc., marked `Q, R', and a notebook bound in red morocco, marked `R' (probably the volume following). Only the paperbound sermon notes in the present volume and Add. MS 78441 below (apparently the volume marked `R’) now survive. Beal EvJ 49. Formerly Evelyn MS 580.
10. Verses on `Mrs Mary Evelyn’; [1685]. Endorsed in an unidentified hand, `By Mrs Chamberlain’.
11. Fragments of verse, consisting of drafts, a copy of `When I that well framed body see', and the fragment of the beginning of a romance headed, `The History of Melinda'; [early 1680s?]. Not certainly in the handwriting of Mary Evelyn. Formerly Evelyn 322, 313.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLXXIV. Miscellany volume compiled by Mary Evelyn, with a title-page reading `Miscelania or a Book of several designes and thoughts of mine for the regulating my Life upon many occasions', two mottoes `Remember thy Creator in the Dayes of thy youth' and `Redeeme the Tyme', and a pentacle; 1683-1684. Autograph. Opposite the title-page, as a frontispiece, is a pencil drawing of an altar surmounted by a book and cross, the monogram `ME' and the date `July 1684'. This and the pentacle symbol are clearly modelled on the symbols Evelyn had first used for his friendship with Margaret Godolphin; it was in 1684 that Evelyn wrote his commemorative `Life of Mrs Godolphin’ (see Add. MS 78307 above, and Evelyn, Diary, III, p. 628 and plate). Headed on the first page, `Rules for spending my pretious time well' and containing religious meditations and resolutions concerning her conduct. With the preliminary note, `I begun this Book in London in the Winter / Several Papers contayned what I have Inserted here which were very troublesom & . . . therefore I resolv'd to put all in one Book that they might be out of Danger & more usefull and not that I thought them worth it or out of opinion that they deserv'd to be seene for Indeed I do not think it nor shall they / Fryday 31 August 1683'. See ff. 6v-7, for a reference to `my Fathers Directions in the Paper he gave me', now in Add. MS 78440. With a further note by her father, `My Daughter Maries Booke found in her Closset after her decease with two other Bookes & many loose papers upon devout subjects'. Ruled and paginated 1-57, followed by many blank leaves. For a discussion, see Gillian Wright, `Mary Evelyn and Devotional Practice’, in John Evelyn and his Milieu, eds. F. Harris and M. Hunter (2003), pp. 221-33. Formerly Evelyn MS 92.
ff. iii + 32. Octavo notebook with contemporary binding of red calf, gilt ruled and stamped; rebacked and repaired. 150 x 100mm.
Mary Evelyn, daughter of John Evelyn the diarist: Correspondence and papers: [1675]-1685.
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Title John Evelyn junior ([1661-1726])
Scope and Content John Evelyn, son of John Evelyn the diarist: Correspondence and papers: circa 1664-1699.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLXXV. Family letters to John Evelyn junior, son of John Evelyn the diarist, and his wife Martha (Spencer); 1673-1726.
1.Letters from his grandfather, Sir Richard Browne; 1678-1680.
2.Letters from his father, John Evelyn, 1673-1693, n.d., followed by his letters to Martha Evelyn, 1699; 1673-1699.
3.Letters from his mother, Mary Evelyn, 1668-1695, followed by her letters to Martha Evelyn; [1702?]-1708.
4.Letters from his eldest sister, Mary; 1676-1682.
5.Letters from his wife, Martha; 1684-1691.
6.Letters from his son, John Evelyn, afterw. 1st Bart., 1694-1696 (partly in Latin), from him and his wife, Anne, to Martha Evelyn, 1708-1717, and from their daughter Anne in Edinburgh to her grandmother Martha Evelyn, 1723; 1693-1723. For further letters of 1710, 1713, and 1716 from this sequence, see Add. MS 15949, ff. 52, 61, 134.
7.Letter from his daughter Elizabeth (afterw. wife of Simon Harcourt), bef. 1699, and letters from her and her husband to her mother, Martha Evelyn; 1712-1721. For a further letter of 1716, see Add. MS 15949, f. 59.
8.Letter from his youngest sister, Susan (Evelyn) Draper, 1696, followed by letters from her (and one from her husband, William Draper, 1717) to Martha Evelyn; 1713-1726.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLXXVI. Other correspondence, official and personal, of John Evelyn junior and his wife; 1666-1717. Including a few drafts and copies of his letters and a few items in Latin and French.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLXXVII. Legal commonplace book, dated 1680 on the spine, arranged alphabetically under topic, with sparse entries by John Evelyn junior; [1680s]. Evelyn was admitted to the Middle Temple, 2 May 1672, and called to the bar in February 1683. Formerly Evelyn MS 157.
Original vellum binding, blind-stamped, with metal clasps. 370 x 230mm.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLXXVIII. Notes by John Evelyn junior from Sir Edward Coke's Institutes of the Laws of England; [1670s-1680s]. Autograph, with a later note on the fly-leaf, `J. Evelyn's Notes from Coke upon Littleton'. The fore-edges have been badly damaged by damp and have been restored with some loss of text. Beal EvJ 130 (incorrectly as being in the hand of John Evelyn the diarist). Purchased from Sir Thomas Phillipps' collection, at Sotheby's, 19 June 1893, lot 226. Formerly Evelyn MS 43.
Modern binding, but with part of the original spine restored and part of the original vellum front cover, with partially illegible autograph title, inserted at the back. 350 x 235mm.
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Title EVELYN `PAPERS. Vol. CCLXXIX, CCLXXX. General commonplace books of John Evelyn junior; circa 1668-[1690s?]. Autograph. See also Add. MS 78598 below for estate memoranda in a notebook formerly used by him and containing a few of his commonplace notes.Two volumes. Uniform bindings of brown calf, matching the volumes used for the letterbooks and sermon notes of John Evelyn the diarist (Add. MSS 78298-78299 and 78364 above). 350 x 225mm. (1663-1699)
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLXXIX. Commonplace collections from history, literature, the arts and the classics, initially compiled according to his father's method of annotating the margins with notes of subject matter (for which see further Add. MSS 78328-78331 above). Partly Latin. With a pencil shetch of a young man's head on the fly-leaf, which may be a portrait or a self-portrait. Formerly Evelyn MS 6.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLXXX. `Collections of Modern History' (front paste-down); [1670s-1690s?]. Formerly Evelyn MS 57.
ff. ii + 31
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Page 278 2021-08-13 Add MS 78448 (1665-1696)
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Scope and Content Evelyn Papers. Vol. cclxxxi. Commonplace notes and extracts by John Evelyn junior, mostly on religion, law, history and literature, etc.; circa 1670-1696, n.d. Partly Latin, Greek, French, and printed. For further notes, removed from the archive by William Upcott, see Add. MS 19590, ff.1-75.
Paper: ff. 248. 360 x 230 mm. The present volume has been assembled partly from notebooks, complete or imperfect, and partly from stray sheets or small gatherings. Some leaves bear subject-classifications jotted in the hand of John Evelyn senior. The arrangement is as follows:-
1.ff.1-12. Political and official papers partly relating to Ireland, Wales and Virginia; 1688-1696, n.d.
2.ff.13-73. Notes and extracts relating to the scriptures, church history, theology and philosophy, circa [1668?]-1691, n.d. Partly Latin and French.
3.ff.74-109. Notes on Roman and English Law, lists of legal officers of state, etc., some taken probably while Evelyn was studying at the Middle Temple; circa 1670-1696. Included is a notebook (ff.110-119) of extracts from Grotius’s De jure belli et pacis in the Amsterdam edition of 1670. Partly Latin.
4.ff.120-168. Notes chiefly on ancient, British and contemporary history, including a notebook (ff.120-134), now imperfect, of extracts taken apparently from an edition or translation of Camden’s Britannia, along with another (ff.159-168) comprising some 'Reflections on the Ancient Greek Historians'; circa 1685-1695.
5.ff.169-198. Miscellaneous notes on various subjects, including leaves from a notebook (ff. 178-198) of extracts from poems and dramas by Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, and Dryden, etc.; 1673-1674. Further leaves, comprising extracts from printed prose works 1671-1673, are now Additional MS 15950, ff.48-53v.
6.ff.199-236. Extracts from printed works in French on continental and English politics, including a glossary of Greek words taken partly from the Gospel of St Mark; circa 1686-1695, n.d.
7.ff.237-248. Library-lists, etc., including works, partly in French, bought by Evelyn in France and Ireland; circa 1670-1692. Partly printed.
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Page 279 2021-08-13 Add MS 78449-78452 EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLXXXII-CCLXXXV. Papers of John Evelyn junior relating to the public revenue; 1681-1687,
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Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLXXXII-CCLXXXV. Papers of John Evelyn junior relating to the public revenue; 1681-1687, n.d. Evelyn had a succession of posts connected with the public revenue, obtained through the patronage of Sidney, Lord Godolphin; in 1687 he was commissioned by the Treasury to investigate concealed lands in Devonshire (Diary, IV, p. 565). He served under the Treasury secretary as chief clerk from circa July 1689 until June 1691 (Office-holders in Modern Britain: Treasury Officials, comp. J. C. Sainty, 1972, p. 125). On petition in 1692 he was made receiver-general of the revenue for Kent, Surrey and Sussex. From 1692 until 1696 he was settled in Dublin as a commissioner of the Irish revenue. These are a fragmentary collection of working papers, many of them damaged by damp, deriving from Evelyn's duties in these posts. They consist chiefly of drafts and copies of official documents, establishments and accounts, together with his own notes and lists.Four volumes. (1681-1687)
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLXXXII. Answers of defendants Henry Blagdon, Sarah Blundell, Edward Bury, William Coleman, George Measfield, Robert Pingstone, Henry Richards, William Warren, and Phillip Williams respectively to the information against them by Sir Thomas Powis, Attorney-General, acquired by Evelyn in connection with his investigation into concealed lands in Devonshire; 1687. Copies.
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Page 280 2021-08-13 Add MS 78450 (1684-1705)
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLXXXIII. Treasury papers, chiefly concerning the collection of revenue in the counties; 1684-1705, n.d., but chiefly 1688-1692. Mostly official copies, including endoresements or drafts by John Evelyn junior. At the end are two lists in his hand, of `Non-Associating Peers’ and `non associating Commoners’.
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Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLXXXIV, CCLXXXV. Papers of John Evelyn junior as commissioner of the Irish revenue; 1681-1697. Including former Evelyn MSS 113, 276, 277. At the end is a copy of a sermon preached at Christ Church, Dublin, 23 Oct. 1696, formerly Evelyn MS 119.Two folders. (1681-1697)
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Scope and Content Vol. CCLXXIV. 1681-1693.
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Scope and Content Vol. CCLXXV. 1694-1697, n.d.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLXXVI. Advice by John Evelyn the diarist to his son as he was about to set out for Ireland, headed `Testamentum in Procinctu'; 10 Aug. 1692. Autograph, signed on p. 45 and dated on p. 100. Concerning the conduct of a Christian life; p. 47 onwards contain prayers and devotional matter. Neatly written in a small book-hand, with the lefthand margin ruled in pencil, and Evelyn’s original pagination 1-100. Beal EvJ 181. Formerly Evelyn MS 93.
Contemporary binding of dark brown leather. 135 x 90mm.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLXXVII. A New Almanack . . . by John McComb (Dublin, 1693). Printed, but interleaved with blank leaves, on which John Evelyn junior has entered a few MS notes concerning payments to servants, etc. Unused blank leaves have been used for unrelated and apparently later (18th cent.?) pencilled notes concerning Wotton tenants. Formerly Evelyn MS 87.
Modern binding of black leather. 150 x 100mm.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLXXXVIII. Parallel Latin copy and English translation of the odes of Horace, in an unidentified hand which may be that of John Evelyn junior or more probably that of his son, John Evelyn, afterwards 1st Bart.; [1680s-1690s?]. The text and translation are on facing pages, with wide margins ruled in ink, in which the notes are added. Probably at a considerably later date than the composition, the work was re-presented as if by John Evelyn the diarist. His engraved portrait by Thomas Worlidge after Nanteuil, 1723, was added as a frontispiece at the time of rebinding, and two slips of paper were mounted at the end, one an ownership inscription, probably removed from a volume once in his library, `E Libris J Evelynis emptus Turoniys 1644', and the other containing an impression of his seal, his monogram, and a copy of his note of the time and date of his birth. Purchased, probably by William John Evelyn, at Sotheby's, June 1869; a copy of the sale catalogue entry is pasted on to the front cover (f.i). Formerly Evelyn MS 127.
ff. vi + 70. Binding of brown Russia leather, 19th cent. 195 x 165mm.
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Page 283 2021-08-13 Add MS 78456 ([c 1666]-1689)
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLXXXIX. Occasional verse, chiefly by John Evelyn junior and his tutor Ralph Bohun; [circa 1666]-1689, n.d. Autograph fair copies by Evelyn, with the author’s name added after each one. Partly Latin and Greek. Variations of the hand indicate that the verses were entered over time into a folio volume, now disbound and probably with some pages missing from the end. A few loose leaves of verse, not originally from this volume, have also been inserted, and at the end a copy of Evelyn’s epitaph. Formerly Evelyn MS 253 and unnumbered.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCXC. [Richard Allestree?], Private Devotions for Several Occasions, Ordinary and Extraordinary (London, 1694), containing the title-page, pp. 403-503 and the printed appendices only, but bound with many blank leaves at the end, of which five pages immediately following the printed text contain autograph prayers and devotional matter by John Evelyn junior and nine at the end contain an autograph copy in French of `Idée d'un Galant Homme par Monsieur de la Chetardie'. Formerly Evelyn MS 193.
Contemporary binding of dark brown leather, with the remains of gilt tooling on the spine, rebacked. 190 x 125mm.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCXCI. Personal financial papers of John Evelyn junior 1664-1700.
1.Accounts and receipts for clothing, journeys, servants, medicine, wedding and funeral expenses, also including inventories, with sale prices, of the contents of his house in Smithfield, Dublin; 1677-1699.
2.Papers of and relating to John Evelyn’s father-in-law, Richard Spencer, merchant, chiefly arising from his will; [italics]circa[/italics] 1664-1679, n.d. Including his notes concerning the births of his children, a [italics]copy[/italics] of his will, 1667, calculations concerning his estate by Evelyn, and [italics]copies[/italics] of legal proceeedings by Sir John Stonehouse, Bart., who married Spencer’s widow and executrix, and Evelyn against Eusebius and Dormer Sheppard, merchants, and Sir Thomas Bludworth, the other executor.
3.Bonds; 1677-1697, with notes by John Strickland concerning their payment, 1700.
4.Documents of uncertain provenance: promissory notes to Samuel Wilson and other London merchants, late 17th[superscript] [/superscript]cent.; - bond and expenses in connection with debt collection from of Cromwell Claypole of Northampton, 1677-1679; - memorandum of an agreement between William Arnold of St Clement’s Dane and Mary Banbridge of Lambeth concerning rebuilding after a fire, 1697.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCXCII. Account-book of John Evelyn junior; 1683-1690, n.d. Autograph. Containing daily entries for personal expenses, including food and drink, clothing, furnishings and regular purchases of books. The entries become intermittent after 1688. The volume was originally intended for use as a commonplace book by his maternal grandfather, Sir Richard Browne; an alphabetical sequence of subject headings in Latin is distributed throughout, with a few entries added; on the pages used for accounts (up to `Felicitas’) these have been crossed through, with the remainder still legible (see also Add. MS 78231 above). On one front fly-leaf and at the end, reversing the volume, are a few medical receipts, notes of addresses, `Books Lent', and other jottings. Formerly Evelyn MS 123.
Contemporary binding of brown calf with raised bands; blind-ruled, with gilt edges and the remains of cloth ties. 195 x 120mm.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCXCIII. Account-book, apparently in the hand of Martha, wife of John Evelyn junior and recording disbursements on food, Feb.-June 1692, alternating with and (from July 1692-Aug. 1695) continued by more general accounts of expenditure in another hand, including rent of the Dover Street house. The book, pre-ruled in red ink in columns and with an index section at the end, has many blank leaves and has been used at different times for other purposes. On ff. ii and iii are highly-finished pencil drawings of pastoral scenes, 18 th cent.(?). Folio 2v is headed 'Navy' in a formal calligraphic hand and has a single entry for 1688. Formerly Evelyn MS 262.
ff. iv + 38. Original vellum binding. 415 x 270mm.
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Creation Date 1698-1719
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCXCIV. Notebook with a few entries of medical, veterinary and culinary recipes at the beginning in the hand of John Evelyn junior, but chiefly recording disbursements for personal expenditure in the hand of his widow, Martha (Spencer); 1698-1719. Incorrectly entitled on the fly-leaf in the hand of William John Evelyn, `Accounts, etc., Wotton House 1698-1719'. Formerly Evelyn MS 109.
Sewn, but with original binding missing. 190 x 250mm.
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Page 286 2021-08-13 Add MS 78462-78529 Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart ([1145-1840])
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Creation Date [1145-1840]
Extent and Format 75 items
Title Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart ([1145-1840])
Scope and Content Sir John Evelyn, 1st Baronet: Corrrespondence and papers: 1697-1785.
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Creation Date 1697-1720
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCXCV (ff. 210).
1.ff. 1-47v. Letters to Evelyn from his grandfather, John Evelyn the diarist; 1697-1701. Including a few draft replies in Latin. His letters to his grandfather are in Add. MS 78301. For Evelyn senior’s `Memoires for my Grand-son’, see Add. MS 78515 below.
2.ff. 48-66v. Letters from his grandmother, Mary Evelyn; 1697-1708.
3.ff. 67-197v. Letters from his mother, Martha (Spencer) Evelyn, 1697-1720. For a further letter of 1700, see Add. MS 15949, f. 132. His letters to his mother are in Add. MS 78442.
4.ff. 198-210. Letters from his sister, Elizabeth, wife of Simon Harcourt (son of 1st Viscount Harcourt); 1698-1704, 1717.
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Page 287 2021-08-13 Add MS 78463 (1704-1755)
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Creation Date 1704-1755
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCXCVI.
1.Letters to Evelyn from his uncle by marriage, William Draper of Addiscombe (d. 1718), and (from 1718 onwards) his son William Draper junior (1698-1759); 1704-1755. Including one letter from Sir John Evelyn, 1717. Draper junior's letters between 1725 and 1732 contain detailed accounts of his travels in Europe.
2.Letters from Susan (Evelyn) Draper, wife of William Draper senior, to Sir John Evelyn and his wife; 1712-1743. Including one [italics]draft[/italics] letter of Sir John Evelyn, 1720, and followed by a quitclaim from Susanna Draper to Sir John Evelyn and others in connection with the trusteeship of her younger son John, 1733.
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Add MS 78464 (1708-1750)
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Creation Date 1708-1750
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCXCVII. Correspondence between Sir John Evelyn and his wife; 1708-1750. Evelyn married, Sept. 1705, Anne, daughter of Edward Boscawen, M.P. and Jael Godolphin, and sister of High Boscawen, 1st Viscount Falmouth. There are no letters from Sir John in the present sequence after 1719 and no letters from his wife between 1714 and 1733. For further letters from Sir John to his wife, 1712-1718, 1727, see Add. MS 15949, ff. 50-58, 63-68, 87, 138.
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Page 288 2021-08-13 Add MS 78465-78466 EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCXCVIII, CCXCIX. Letters from Jael (Godolphin) Boscawen, widow of Edward Boscawen, M.P.,
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78465-78466
Creation Date 1706-1730
Extent and Format 2 items
Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCXCVIII, CCXCIX. Letters from Jael (Godolphin) Boscawen, widow of Edward Boscawen, M.P., to her daughter Lady (Anne) Evelyn; 1706-1730.Two volumes. (1706-1730)
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Reference Add MS 78465
Creation Date 1706-Apr 1719
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Scope and Content Vol. CCXCVIII. 1706-April 1719.
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Add MS 78466 (May 1719-1730)
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Reference Add MS 78466
Creation Date May 1719-1730
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Scope and Content Vol. CCXCIX. May 1719-1730.
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Page 289 2021-08-13 Add MS 78467 (1706-1740)
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Reference Add MS 78467
Creation Date 1706-1740
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCC. Letters from Lady (Dorothy) Medows, wife of Sir Philip Medows, K.B., and daughter of Mrs Boscawen, to her sister Lady Evelyn; 1706-1740. The letter of 31 Dec. 1715 has an addition by their brother Hugh Boscawen, Viscount Falmouth.
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Creation Date 1706-1731
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCI.
1.Letters from Mary, wife of Henry Godolphin, D.D., Provost of Eton and Dean of St Paul’s, to her niece by marriage, Lady Evelyn; 1715-1723, 1731.
2.Letters from Elizabeth, wife of Charles Godolphin of Coulston, to her niece by marriage, Lady Evelyn, including three letters in 1722-1723 to Sir John Evelyn; 1706-1725. For a further letter of 25 Aug. 1731, see Add. MS 15949, f. 94.
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Page 290 2021-08-13 Add MS 78469 (1701-1758)
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Creation Date 1701-1758
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCII.
1.Letters to Lady Evelyn from Sarah Churchill, widow of John, 1st Duke of Marlborough; [1720s]-circa 1739. Two are autograph and one in the hand of an amanuensis, signed. The last items are two copies of a letter to her from her husband of Aug. 1703, circulated amongst her family in the course of a law-suit with her grandson, the 3rd Duke, concerning her trusteeship of the Marlborough estates; for further copies, see F. Harris, `Accounts of the Conduct of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough 1704-1742’, British Library Journal, 8 (1982), p. 31. For a further long letter from the Duchess to Lady Evelyn, 1716, see Puttick & Simpson sale catalogues, 1846-57, IV, lot 309.
2.Letters to Lady Evelyn from Henrietta (Churchill) Godolphin, Countess of Godolphin, suo jure Duchess of Marlborough; circ. 1706-1732, but mostly of 1717-1722. The Duchess took the Evelyns’ second son Charles to live with her in his childhood and many of the letters concern him. For a further letter of 26 Oct. 1720, see Add. MS 15949, f. 73.
3.Letters to Sir John and Lady Evelyn from Francis, 2nd Earl of Godolphin, husband of the preceding; 1710-1732, 1758. Including two retained copies of Sir John Evelyn’s letters to him, 1712, 1726, copies by Evelyn of his letters to their son Charles, 1725-1726, and a letter from Lord Godolphin to their eldest son John (afterwards 2nd Bart.) on his marriage to a daughter of Hugh, Viscount Falmouth, 1732. For further letters from Lord Godolphin of 26 Oct. 1721 and 16 Jan. 1752, see Add. MS 15949, ff. 77, 112.
4.Letter to Lady Evelyn from Elizabeth Spencer, wife of Charles, 3rd Duke of Marlborough; aft. 1733.
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Page 291 2021-08-13 Add MS 78470 (1719-1748)
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Creation Date 1719-1748
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCIII.
1.Letters to Sir John and Lady Evelyn from William Godolphin, Marquess of Blandford, son of Henrietta, Duchess of Marlborough, and Francis, 2nd Earl of Godolphin, chiefly written from abroad, and including some letters from his servant John Sparrow, chiefly concerning his funeral arrangements; 1719-1731.
2.Letters to Lady Evelyn from Henrietta Pelham Holles, wife of Thomas, Duke of Newcastle, sister of the preceding; 1731-1748, n.d.
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Add MS 78471 (1717-1754)
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Creation Date 1717-1754
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCIV. Letters chiefly to Sir John Evelyn, with a few to Lady Evelyn, from their eldest son John (afterwards 2nd Bart.), including notes by his father for his marriage settlement with Mary Boscawen, 1732, and letters of 1749 to one of his brothers and to his sister Anne; 1717-1754. The letters concern his time at Oxford and afterwards court and political and social news. For a further letter of 9 Nov. 1738, see Add. MS 15949, f. 102.
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Page 292 2021-08-13 Add MS 78472-78474 EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCV-CCCVII. Letters to Sir John Evelyn from Theophilus Peyrol, 1725-1730, tutor and
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78472-78474
Creation Date 1725-1747
Extent and Format 3 items
Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCV-CCCVII. Letters to Sir John Evelyn from Theophilus Peyrol, 1725-1730, tutor and governor to his second son Charles (1709-1749), and afterwards from Charles Evelyn himself and (especially after 1740) from his wife, Susanna (Prideaux) to Sir John and Lady Evelyn, 1731-1747, including Sir John’s abstract of their marriage settlement, 1732; 1725-1747. Followed (at the end of 78474) by letters to Charles Evelyn, his eldest son Charles, and the latter’s wife Philippa (Wright) from other members of the family and friends;1727-1785. For further letters from Charles Evelyn, 25 Aug. 1739 and 20 April 1744, see Add. MS 15949, ff. 106, 110.Three volumes. (1725-1747)
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Creation Date 1725-1732
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content Vol. CCCV. 1725-1732.
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Page 293 2021-08-13 Add MS 78473 (1733-1740)
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Reference Add MS 78473
Creation Date 1733-1740
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content Vol. CCCVI. 1733-1740.
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Add MS 78474 (1727-1785)
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Reference Add MS 78474
Creation Date 1727-1785
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content Vol. CCCVII. 1741-1748; 1727-1785.
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Add MS 78475 (1749-1759)
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Reference Add MS 78475
Creation Date 1749-1759
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCVIII. Letters to Sir John Evelyn from, and accounts relating to his trusteeship of his grandsons Charles and John Evelyn, sons of his second son Charles Evelyn above:
1.Letters from Charles Evelyn, partly from Leghorn, where he was apprenticed to a merchant, 1749-1761, followed by accounts of his grandfather’s trusteeship of his property; 1749-1759.
2.Accounts relating to the last illness and funeral of his brother John; 1752-1755.
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Page 294 2021-08-13 Add MS 78476 (1738-1763)
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Creation Date 1738-1763
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCIX. Letters, etc., to Sir John and Lady Evelyn from their son Sidney (1718-1782); 1738-1763. Several are written from Nottingham and contain descriptions of the neighbourhood. Followed by letters (some fragmentary and damaged) to Sidney Evelyn from other members of his family and from friends, some addressed to him as `Sir John’,1733-1738, n.d. For a further letter from Sidney Evelyn of 1 Nov. 1738, see Add. MS 15949, f. 100.
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Creation Date 1724-1771
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCX (ff. 155).
1.ff. 1-79v. Letters to Sir John and Lady Evelyn from their daughter, Anne Evelyn (1707-1771); [1725?], 1734-1754. For a further letter of 24 Oct. 1752, Add. MS 15949, f. 139.
2.ff. 80-137v. Letters to Sir John and Lady Evelyn from their daughter, Mary Evelyn (1710-1779); 1735-1751, n.d. Preceded by one letter to her sister Anne, 1724. For a further letter of 24 Oct. 1735, see Add. MS 15949, f. 136.
3.ff. 138-153. Letters to Anne or Mary Evelyn from their youngest brother, Lt.-Gen. William Evelyn, M.P. (1723-1783); 1766-1771, n.d. With a copy and design for his monumental inscription, 1783, and some posthumous bills and receipts, 1780-1789.
4.ff. 154-155v. Certificates of admission of William Evelyn to the privileges of the cities of Glasgow and Perth; 1770. Vellum, with coloured borders.
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Page 295 2021-08-13 Add MS 78478 (1706-1732)
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Creation Date 1706-1732
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCXI. Letters to Sir John Evelyn from Rev. Samuel Thomson; curate of Wotton and (from 1710) vicar of Barnstaple; 1706-1732. Most of the letters are written after his move to Devonshire, and those of the latter part of Queen Anne’s reign contain detailed accounts of local news and politics.
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Creation Date 1720-1739
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCXII. Letters to Sir John Evelyn from William Rose, Rector of East Clandon (1708-1717) and of Wotton (1717-1739); 1720-1739. For further letters, see Add. 15949, ff. 143-145.
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Page 296 2021-08-13 Add MS 78480 (1715-1749)
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Creation Date 1715-1749
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCXIII.
1.Letters to Sir John Evelyn from John Burton, D.D., of New College and afterwards headmaster of Winchester, nephew of Ralph Bohun, the former Rector of Wotton; 1716-1728. Concerning the settling of his uncle’s affairs, books and libraries, and Oxford news.
2.Letters to Sir John Evelyn from Henry Weston, formerly clerk in the Secretary of State’s office; 1715-1749. Chiefly letters of public news of temp. George I.
3.Letters to Sir John Evelyn from Holford Cotton, LL.D. (University of Edinburgh), clergyman of the Church of Scotland at Fountainbridge, near Edinburgh; 1724-1736. Continuing an acquaintance made while the Evelyns were in Edinburgh in 1723.
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Creation Date 1743-1750
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCXIV. Letters to Sir John Evelyn from Thomas Mangey, D.D., former Rector of St Nicholas Guildford, Rector of St Mildred Bread Street, and prebend of Durham, with related accounts and legal papers; 1743-1750. Concerning a dispute with the chapter of Durham Cathedral over a prebend held by the Rev. Robert Offley of Abinger (d. 10 May 1743). The dispute concerned Evelyn as Offley’s kinsman, on whom his estate was settled. There is related correspondence of the 1740s in the general chronological series in Add. MS 78502 below.
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Page 297 2021-08-13 Add MS 78482 (1706-1735)
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Creation Date 1706-1735
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCXV. Letters to Sir John Evelyn from Thomas Bedingfeld, steward of Wotton; 1706-1735. All but the last four letters date from 1706-1710. Bedingfeld apparently ceased to act as steward after Lady Day 1710.
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Add MS 78483-78484 EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCXVI, CCCXVII. Correspondence of Sir John Evelyn with Robert Wake, steward of Wotton;
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78483-78484
Creation Date 1710-1716
Extent and Format 2 items
Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCXVI, CCCXVII. Correspondence of Sir John Evelyn with Robert Wake, steward of Wotton; 1710-1716. Both sides of the correspondence survive; Sir John Evelyn’s letters are originals, presumably returned to him by Wake. (1710-1716)
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Page 298 2021-08-13 Add MS 78483 (1710-1712)
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Reference Add MS 78483
Creation Date 1710-1712
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content Vol. CCCXVI. 1710-1712.
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Add MS 78484 (1713-1716)
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Reference Add MS 78484
Creation Date 1713-1716
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content Vol. CCCXVII. 1713-1716.
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Add MS 78485-78490 EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCXVIII-CCCXXIII. Correspondence of Sir John Evelyn with Thomas James, steward at
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78485-78490
Creation Date 1721-1737
Extent and Format 6 items
Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCXVIII-CCCXXIII. Correspondence of Sir John Evelyn with Thomas James, steward at Wotton; 1721-1737, preceded by a letter of 1719 from John Dibble, a tenant, to James, indicating that the latter began to act as steward immediately in succession to Robert Wake, although no letters from him to Evelyn are present here for 1719-1720. The series consists chiefly of James’s letters to Evelyn, but from the latter part of 1735 onwards Evelyn’s letters to James also survive. James’s last letter is endorsed by Evelyn with a note of his death on 31 Oct. 1737. It is followed by a recommendation with several signatories of a Mr [Joseph] Snow as his successor, which was evidently not accepted.Six volumes. (1721-1737)
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Reference Add MS 78485
Creation Date 1719-1726
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content Vol. CCCXVIII. 1719, 1721-May 1726.
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Add MS 78486 (Jun 1726-Feb 1729)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78486
Creation Date Jun 1726-Feb 1729
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content Vol. CCCXIX. June 1726-Feb. 1729.
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Page 300 2021-08-13 Add MS 78487 (Mar 1729-May 1731)
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Reference Add MS 78487
Creation Date Mar 1729-May 1731
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content Vol. CCCXX. March 1729-May 1731.
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Add MS 78488 (Jun 1731-Dec 1733)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78488
Creation Date Jun 1731-Dec 1733
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content Vol. CCCXXI. June 1731-Dec. 1733.
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Add MS 78489 (Jan 1734-Dec 1735)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78489
Creation Date Jan 1734-Dec 1735
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content Vol. CCCXXII. Jan. 1734-Dec. 1735.
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Page 301 2021-08-13 Add MS 78490 (Jan 1736-Nov 1737)
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Reference Add MS 78490
Creation Date Jan 1736-Nov 1737
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content Vol. CCCXXIII. Jan. 1736-Nov. 1737.
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Add MS 78491-78495 EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCXXIV-CCCXXVIII. Letters from Henry Symonds, steward at Wotton; 1735-1744. One letter
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
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Creation Date 1735-1744
Extent and Format 5 items
Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCXXIV-CCCXXVIII. Letters from Henry Symonds, steward at Wotton; 1735-1744. One letter of 1735, concerning the killing of game, precedes the main sequence written as steward in succession to Thomas James.Five volumes. (1735-1744)
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Add MS 78491 (1735-1739)
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Reference Add MS 78491
Creation Date 1735-1739
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content Vol. CCCXXIV. 1735, Nov. 1737-March 1739
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Page 302 2021-08-13 Add MS 78492 (Apr 1739-Dec 1739)
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Reference Add MS 78492
Creation Date Apr 1739-Dec 1739
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content Vol. CCCXXV. April-Dec. 1739
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Add MS 78493 (Jan 1740-Jan 1741)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78493
Creation Date Jan 1740-Jan 1741
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content Vol. CCCXXVI. Jan. 1740-Jan. 1741
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Add MS 78494 (Feb 1741-Apr 1742)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78494
Creation Date Feb 1741-Apr 1742
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content Vol. CCCXXVII. Feb. 1741-April 1742
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Page 303 2021-08-13 Add MS 78495 (May 1742-Dec 1744)
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Reference Add MS 78495
Creation Date May 1742-Dec 1744
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content Vol. CCCXXVIII. May 1742-Dec. 1744
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Add MS 78496 (1743-1753)
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Reference Add MS 78496
Creation Date 1743-1753
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCXXIX (ff. 145).
1.ff. 1-28v. Letters from Sir John Evelyn to Thomas Jones, apparently as steward, Oct.-Dec. 1745, followed by letters concerning his illness and death, Dec.1745-Jan. 1746.
2.ff. 29-81v. Letters from Thomas Hopkins, mainly as steward; Jan.-Feb.1743; Jan. 1746-May 1750.
3.ff. 82-145v. Letters from Robert Harm, apparently as steward; April 1751-May 1753.
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Page 304 2021-08-13 Add MS 78497 (1715-1753)
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Creation Date 1715-1753
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCXXX. Letters from Thomas Harris, attorney(?) of Dorking, concerning manorial matters; 1715-1753.
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Add MS 78498-78502 EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCXXXI-CCCXXXV. General correspondence of Sir John and Lady Evelyn, mostly of the
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78498-78502
Creation Date 1699-1762
Extent and Format 5 items
Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCXXXI-CCCXXXV. General correspondence of Sir John and Lady Evelyn, mostly of the former; 1699-1762, n.d. Including some drafts and retained copies of Sir John Evelyn’s letters, the early ones in Latin. Several more letters to Sir John and Lady Evelyn, removed by William Upcott, are in Add. MS 15949 and Add. MSS 78678-78679, 78683-78685 below.Five volumes. (1699-1762)
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Page 305 2021-08-13 Add MS 78498 (1698-1716)
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Reference Add MS 78498
Creation Date 1698-1716
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content Vol. CCCXXXI. 1698-1716.
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Add MS 78499 (1717-1719)
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Reference Add MS 78499
Creation Date 1717-1719
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content Vol. CCCXXXII. 1717-1719.
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Add MS 78500 (1720-1732)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78500
Creation Date 1720-1732
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content Vol. CCCXXXIII. 1720-1732.
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Page 306 2021-08-13 Add MS 78501 (1733-1739)
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Reference Add MS 78501
Creation Date 1733-1739
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content Vol. CCCXXXIV. 1733-1739.
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Add MS 78502 (1740-1762)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78502
Creation Date 1740-1762
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content Vol. CCCXXXV. 1740-1762, n.d.
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Add MS 78503-78511 Official Papers78503-78511. EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCXXXVI- CCCXLIV. Papers relating to the public offices of
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Creation Date 1705-1759
Extent and Format 9 items
Title Official Papers78503-78511. EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCXXXVI- CCCXLIV. Papers relating to the public offices of Sir John Evelyn; 1705-1759. In addition to being M.P. for Helston 1708-1710, and a Justice of the Peace, Evelyn held the offices of Treasurer of the revenue of stamped paper, from January 1704 (Diary, V, p. 556), Commissioner of Prizes, from July 1705, Joint Postmaster General, 1708-1715, and Commissioner of Customs, 1721-1763.Nine volumes. (1705-1759)
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Creation Date 25 Jul 1705
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCXXXVI. Establishment of the Prize Office; 25 July 1705. Including officers with salary, agents at the ports, in Ireland, and in foreign ports. Formerly Evelyn MS 233.
Original wrapper of marbled paper. 230 x 150mm.
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Reference Add MS 78504
Creation Date 1706-1708
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCXXXVII. `The Several Accounts of Prizes Delivered to Parliament in the Reign of Queen Anne' (title from front cover); 1706-1708. Contemporary office copy. Consisting of an `An Account of what has arisen by the Prizes During the present Warr according to an Order of the honourable house of Commons dated the 7th of November 1704. And how the same has been Apply'd', delivered to the House of Commons, 12 Dec. 1706, and other prize accounts of 1708. Formerly Evelyn MS 55.
Original vellum binding, with remains of green silk ties. 525 x 375mm.
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Page 308 2021-08-13 Add MS 78505 (1705-1706)
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Creation Date 1705-1706
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCXXXVIII. Declaration of Post Office accounts; 1705-1706. Formerly Evelyn MS 150. 500 x 315mm.
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Add MS 78506 (1699-1750)
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Creation Date 1699-1750
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCXXXIX. Miscellaneous loose papers, partly autograph, relating to the above offices:
1.Stamp duty; 1699-1707: accounts of produce of the stamp duty, 1699-1707; petition to the Treasury concerning method of receipt and payment of the duty, 1704.
2.The Prize Office; 1707-1710. Including: (a) legal opinions concerning the commissioners’ patent and concerning particular prizes; - (b) statements of the prize account; - [italics]printed[/italics] particulars of sales of prize goods; - (c) instructions by the commissioners to their agents in foreign ports; -(d) [italics]Reason agaist a Clause in the Bill, For the Better Securing the Treade of this Kingdom . . . which Invests the Whole Property of Prizes in the Captors.[/italics]
3.The Post Office; 1707-1717. Including: (a) notes of Sir John Evelyn concerning Post Office officials up to 1705; - (b) receipts by Sir Robert Cotton for payments from Evelyn’s salary, abstract of Post Office revenue from 1690-1710; - (c) accounts of receipts and payments by the receiver-general of the Post Office, 1710-1714; - (d) charges of managing the penny Post Office, 1685-1709; - (e) list of packet boats between Falmouth and Lisbon, royal warrant for free post of MPs’ letters, 1707; - (f) general Post Office account for America, 1707-1708; - (g) a calculation of an additional tax on letters, 1710; - (h) list of grants payable out of the Post Office, list of places and days of the week for the post, 1711-1712; - (i) orders to the officials and letter-carriers of the internal post and officers of the foreign post, 1711; - (j) description of the duties of the Comptroller of the Inland Office, 1712; - (k) account by Edward Leving, letter-carrier, of his discharge, 1717.
4.Customs; 1723-1750. Including: (a) certificate of admission for Sir John Evelyn as Burgess of Glasgow, 1723; - (b) various orders, jointly with other commissioners of Customs, 1727-1736; - (c) `List of the Patent Officers of the Customs’, London, 1750. Formerly Evelyn MS 151.
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Creation Date 1699-1720
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCXL. Tables of `The Imports & Exports compar'd with the Excess of each Country'; 1699-1720. Office copy. Formerly Evelyn MS 177.
Original binding of brown calf, blind-stamped. 360 x 260mm.
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Add MS 78508 (1699-1714)
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Reference Add MS 78508
Creation Date 1699-1714
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCXLI. Ledger containing abstracts of Customs receipts and payments; 1699-1714. Autograph. Formerly Evelyn MS 184.
Original vellum binding. 420 x 250mm.
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Page 310 2021-08-13 Add MS 78509 (1723)
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Creation Date 1723
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCXLII. Customs establishment; 1723. Formerly Evelyn MS 58.
Original vellum binding, gilt-stamped with royal arms. 480 x 300mm.
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Add MS 78510 (1708-1755)
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Creation Date 1708-1755
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCXLIII.
1.Miscellaneous papers as Justice of the Peace, including warrants to constables and church wardens, examinations of witnesses at Surrey quarter sessions, list of a special jury, 1734, and legal charges to the parish of Wotton for a murder prosecution at the Guildford assizes; [italics]temp[/italics]. Anne-1759. Partly [italics]autograph[/italics].
2.Papers relating to General Elections, including many lists of freeholders on the Evelyn estates and elsewhere in Surrey; 1708-1755, n.d. Partly [italics]autograph[/italics].
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Page 311 2021-08-13 Add MS 78511 (1742)
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Creation Date 1742
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCXLIV. `The Poll for Surry taken at Guildford on the 24th and 25th days of March 1741/2', set out by hundred and then by parish, according to the freeholder's place of residence, on the election of Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, after his appointment as Admiralty commissioner; 1742. Copy in a single neat clerical hand, with calligraphically written headings and columns for freeholder's name, whether he voted for Baltimore or George Woodruffe, and the location of the freehold. Formerly Evelyn MS 195.
225 x 140mm.
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Add MS 78512 (Aug 1702-Sep 1702)
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Creation Date Aug 1702-Sep 1702
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCXLV. `Iter Occidentale’: an account by John Evelyn, afterwards 1st Bart., of a journey into the West Country in company with his uncle, William Draper; Aug.-Sept. 1702. Autograph. Two folding leaves (ff. i, iii) from a printed almanac are pasted on to the front and back covers and the account of the journey is interspersed with several leaves of his unrelated notes and jottings (ff. 1, 8, 11, 31-33, 38v-39). In binding, the order of the gatherings has been interrupted, so that the chronological beginning of the account is at f. 13, continuing to f. 38, followed by ff. 1v-12. The route to and from Wotton takes in Winchester, Exeter, Plymouth, Launceston, Falmouth, Godolphin, Wilton, Salisbury, and Basingstoke. Formerly Evelyn MS 219.
ff. iii + 39. Contemporary binding of red morocco, gilt-tooled, with metal bosses and clasps. 140 x 85mm.
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Page 312 2021-08-13 Add MS 78513 (1725)
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Creation Date 1725
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCXLVI. Topographical and antiquarian notes relating to journeys by Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart., and his eldest son John, afterwards 2nd Bart., in Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Surrey, Hampshire and Wiltshire, with notes of expenses; 1725. Formerly Evelyn MS 218.
Notebook bound in brown leather. 90 x 150mm.
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Add MS 78514 A-F EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCXLVII A-F. Journal of Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart.; 1713-1734. Autograph. The journal
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Creation Date 1713-1734
Extent and Format 6 items
Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCXLVII A-F. Journal of Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart.; 1713-1734. Autograph. The journal is entered into a series of notebooks of different sizes and kinds. The uniform handwriting suggests that it was fair copied and perhaps expanded after the event from notes made at the time. The contents mainly concern journeys, sight-seeing (especially houses and gardens), social and family events and some references to public events. Formerly Evelyn MS 248. (A, C-F in one case; B in separate case). (1713-1734)
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Page 313 2021-08-13 Add MS 78514 A (7 Feb 1713-16 Aug 1714)
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Creation Date 7 Feb 1713-16 Aug 1714
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content A.Journal; 7 Feb. 1713-16 Aug. 1714, including an account of events at the time of the death of Queen Anne.
ff. 30. Quarto notebook with paper wrappers. 200 x 165mm.
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Add MS 78514 B (31 Dec 1719-7 Jul 1723)
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Creation Date 31 Dec 1719-7 Jul 1723
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Scope and Content B.Journal; 31 Dec. 1719-7 July 1723. The diaries entries are entered in a re-used account-book; at the end, reversing the volume (ff. 110v-111), are a few timber accounts of Sir John Evelyn, 1706. With a pencilled index in the hand of William John Evelyn, 19th cent.
ff. 111. Notebook bound in vellum over boards. 250 x 210mm.
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Page 314 2021-08-13 Add MS 78514 C (11 Sep 1724-4 Jul 1726)
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Creation Date 11 Sep 1724-4 Jul 1726
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content C.Journal; 11 Sept. 1724-4 July 1726.
ff. i + 47. Folio notebook with marbled paper covers. 320 x 205mm.
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Add MS 78514 D (25 Jul 1726-1 Jul 1728)
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Creation Date 25 Jul 1726-1 Jul 1728
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Scope and Content D.Journal; 25 July 1726-1 July 1728.
ff. i + 47. Folio notebook with marbled paper covers. 315 x 205mm.
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Page 315 2021-08-13 Add MS 78514 E (8 Jul 1728-21 Jul 1730)
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Creation Date 8 Jul 1728-21 Jul 1730
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Scope and Content E.Journal; 8 July 1728-21 July 1730.
ff. i + 46. Folio notebook with marbled paper covers. 320 x 210mm.
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Add MS 78514 F (18 Dec 1731-12 Jan 1734)
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Creation Date 18 Dec 1731-12 Jan 1734
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content F.Journal; 18 Dec. 1731-12 Jan. 1734. Partly a general memorandum book, including: notes concerning the house of Francis, 2nd Earl of Godolphin, at Hogmagog (extracts from a naval MS in the library, the depth of the well, Roman coins found there, etc.; ff. 1-4); - an inscription in Oakwood chapel (f. 7v); - extracts of verse, 18th cent.; - Latin inscriptions at New Hall, Essex; - notes on portraits of Queen Caroline and Charlotte Clayton, 1727-1728 (ff. 15v-19v).
ff. i + 20. Octavo notebook with marbled paper covers. 150 x 113mm.
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Page 316 2021-08-13 Add MS 78515 (1704-[1705])
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Creation Date 1704-[1705]
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCXLVIII. John Evelyn (1620-1706), `Memoires for my Grand-son'; 1704-[1705]. Autograph. Advice, `undigested as for Method' (f. 35), on provision for children, the maintenance and equipment of a household and estate, conduct of life, reading and recreations, etc., of a country gentleman, presented by Evelyn to his grandson and heir, afterwards Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart.; followed by `Promiscuous Advices' in the form of numbered moral and religious precepts and aphorisms, and including (ff. 32-33) a list of his own manuscripts and writings, many of which remain in the archive. Neatly written in a very small hand, with margins ruled in pencil and Evelyn's pagination `1-31’. Edited and published by Geoffrey Keynes (Oxford, 1926). The manuscript is dated 1704 on the title-page, but was written in sections, with some blank spaces left, at least until the grandson's marriage in September 1705 (f. 34). The indistinct handwriting of the later sections indicates Evelyn's decline; he died early in 1706, aged 85; see also his comment, `When I began . . . I intended to have written more legibly and in better method. But, prevented by my weaknesse, Infirmitys & want of Leisure, I am faine to leave it as it is' (f. 35). Beal EvJ 126. Formerly Evelyn MS 132.
ff. iii + 44. Contemporary binding of red morocco, gilt-tooled; rebacked. 125 x 80mm.
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Add MS 78516 (1700-1753)
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Creation Date 1700-1753
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCXLIX. Notes, mostly by Sir John Evelyn, concerning family history, drawn from the present archive, as well as from parish registers, monumental inscriptions and manorial records; early 18th cent.-1753, n.d., with a few later additions. Mostly autograph. See also Add. MS 24120, ff. 311-312. Formerly Evelyn MSS 225, 260, 279, 478 and unnumbered.
The contents include:
1.Note of `Portraits at Wotton’; 1745. Of Richard Evelyn, father of the diarist, and his daughter Elizabeth.
2.`Particulars of my Grandfather John Evelyn', with further notes concerning his life, taken from the diary and other documents in the archive.
3.`Extract of old papers & letters', largely concerning George Evelyn; 1753.
4.`Memoirs of the life of my father John Evelyn Esqr taken from his own letters'.
5.`Short account of Sir John Evelyn No.1', chronological notes up to 1759; aft. 1759.
6.Notes headed `Wotton', including notes of other manors owned by Sir John Evelyn.
7.List of successive rectors of Wotton, 1550s-1752.
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8.Lists of Evelyn christenings and burials, 1603-1749, chiefly at Wotton.
9.Copies, mostly by Sir John Evelyn, of Evelyn monumental inscriptions in Wotton, Godstone, West Deane, Long Ditton and Burnham churches, 1579-1738.
10.Notes from the court rolls of the manor of Harrow on the Hill relating to the Evelyn family; 15th-17th cent.
11.Notebook in which extracts from the preceding manorial rolls have been entered, followed by notes and monumental inscriptions, relating to the Evelyns of Long Ditton, Godstone, West Deane and Wotton, chiefly by Sir John Evelyn, but with an early 19th cent addition.
12.Two Evelyn pedigrees in an unidentified hand, the first up to the marriage of Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart.; the second of several branches of the family on successive folio sheets, with the note, `This Descent is truly taken and entred att the request of me Charles Evelyn’, and an addition concerning Robert Evelyn in the hand of Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart.
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Creation Date Early 18th century
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCL. Notebook by Sir John Evelyn, containing excerpts from early manorial records relating to Wotton, Gostrode, Westland, Abinger, Paddington, Westcott, Milton, Edmonds in Gomshall, and from parish records relating to births, marriages and deaths in the Wotton and Godstone branches of the Evelyn family; early 18th cent. Autograph. See also Add. MS 78347 above, a volume begun by Evelyn the diarist, to which his grandson has added an abstract of the court rolls, 16th-18th cent., of all his Surrey manors, circa 1717-1719. For the main sequence of records relating to the Evelyn manors, see Add. MSS 78585-78595 below. Formerly Evelyn MS 252.
Original vellum binding. 330 x 210mm.
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Page 318 2021-08-13 Add MS 78518 ([1699?])
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Creation Date [1699?]
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCLI. Notebook for a course on mathematics, astronomy, trigonometry, mechanics and hydrostatics, compiled by John Evelyn, afterwards 1st Bart., on the evidence of the handwriting of the greater part of it, while he was at Oxford in 1699, but with an incomplete treatise, `De ratione studii Mathem: consilium’, added by him in a later hand on blank pages at the beginning; [1699?]-18th cent. Autograph, with pen and ink diagrams. Mostly Latin. Formerly Evelyn MS 169.
Original vellum binding. 300 x 200mm.
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Add MS 78519 A-C EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCLII A-C. Notebooks purportedly by an anonymous London merchant who is also the owner of
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Creation Date 1697-1700
Extent and Format 3 items
Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCLII A-C. Notebooks purportedly by an anonymous London merchant who is also the owner of the manor of Lees in Surrey, but apparently compiled for use in the teaching of book-keeping; 1697-1700. Fair copies, chiefly in a single unidentified hand. The additions to the second volume suggest that they may have been connected with the education of Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart. Formerly Evelyn MS 194 (Add. MS 78519 C) and unnumbered. (1697-1700)
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Page 319 2021-08-13 Add MS 78519 A (1697)
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Creation Date 1697
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content A.Memorial and journal; 1697. With handwriting exercises at the end.
Paper wrappers.
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Add MS 78519 B (1697-1704)
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Creation Date 1697-1704
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Scope and Content B.`Leidger’; 1697-1704. With signatures and doodles by Evelyn on the wrappers and personal accounts of 1704 in his handwriting entered after the exercises, and on the same model.
Paper wrappers.
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Creation Date 1699-1700
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Scope and Content C.Composite account-book; 1699-1700. Including a set of thirty-five `Questions in Book-keeping', with answers on the opposite page, and at the end, reversing the volume, a set of instructions concerning the measuring of timber.
Original binding of black leather. 235 x 155mm.
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Add MS 78520 (Late 17th century)
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Creation Date Late 17th century
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCLIII. Notebook headed by Sir John Evelyn, `Verses made by Eton school boys, whilst I was there from 1692 to 1698'; late 17th cent. Latin. Mostly autograph copies, unattributed, in a hand which suggests that all were entered at or shortly after the time of composition, with the exception of one item in a later hand on the inside of the front cover. Formerly Evelyn MS 200.
Original marbled paper covers. 200 x 160mm.
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Page 321 2021-08-13 Add MS 78521-78522 Evelyn Papers. Vols. cccliv, ccclv. Miscellaneous verse, English and Latin, together with inscriptions and
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Creation Date c Late 17th century-Early 19th century
Extent and Format 2 items
Title Evelyn Papers. Vols. cccliv, ccclv. Miscellaneous verse, English and Latin, together with inscriptions and some prose, circa 1150-1809, composed or collected partly by John Evelyn but mostly by later generations of his family; circa late 17th-early 19th cent. Mostly copies. Partly printed. Partly Latin, French and Italian. Many are docketed in the hand of Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart. Included are items formerly numbered as Eve. MSS 200, 331, 334, 338, 340, 504, 509, 561. As follows:- (c Late 17th century-Early 19th century)
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Creation Date 1145-1788
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Scope and Content Evelyn Papers. Vol. cccliv. (ff. 214). Miscellaneous verses by, addressed to or collected by members of the Evelyn family, with some dramatic and prose pieces and inscriptions; circa 1150-1770, n.d. Mostly copies. Partly Latin, French and Italian. Arranged as follows:-
1.ff. 1-9. Verses partly by and addressed to members of the Evelyn family; circa 1705-1740, n.d. Partly copies.
2.ff.10-53. Verses, mostly in Latin, by John Evelyn, Sir John Evelyn, later 1st Bart., John Beale, D.D., and others; 1682-1730, n.d. Evelyn’s contributions include autograph English verses (f. 26v) in defence of Dr. Richard Bentley against his critics, beg. ‘As when a strong & well-spread oke they strive’, and his autograph response (f. 37v), headed ‘Memento Mare’ and beg. ‘But Water’s more vnstable than the Ground’, to a Latin epigram on the burial at sea of his brother-in-law William Glanville in April 1702. Also included is poem in Latin hexameters (ff. 43-48) entitled ‘Villa Wottoniana’ is endorsed ‘Mr Rawlinsons Verses on Wotton made in 1715’.
3.ff. 54-73. Translations and imitations in English of poems of Catullus, Horace, Lucan, Donne, La Fontaine and Paolo Rolli, etc., by Nicholas Rowe, Matthew Prior, Nathaniel Cotton, Lord Granville, Soame Jenyns, and Mary Monck; circa 1696-1788. Partly French and Italian. Partly copies and draft, circa early-late 18th cent.
4ff. 74-89. Dramatic pieces, viz: ― (a) Prologues and epilogues to plays, including Addison’s Cato, spoken before Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales, at Drury Lane, and to Rowe’s Lady Jane Grey, acted by the Prince’s children at Leicester House; 1745, 1749. Copies; ― (b) ‘Plan of the Flatterer. A Comedy’, the personae of which include Sir Harry Ever-green, Sir Pliant Fawnley and Mrs Varnish; circa mid-late 18th cent. ff. 86-89.
5.ff. 90-95. Miscellaneous prose, including:― (a) Series of satirical ‘Advices’ offered to individuals on their choice of lovers, each attributed to a named author; circa late 17th - early 18th cent. [?1694-1703]. ff. 90-91;― (b) Account of an entertainment held at Gunnersbury House, the residence of Princess Amelia, in 1765. ff. 94-95.
Page 322 2021-08-13 6.ff. 96-168. Inscriptions and epitaphs from church monuments, statues, portraits, with some elegies; circa 1150-1771, n.d. Copies, circa 1712-1771. Partly Latin and French. Arranged largely in chronological order of composition, with a final section of pieces almost wholly in English, 1748-1752 and n.d., transcribed on smaller leaves. English verses include copies of Addison’s translation of Cowley’s Latin epitaph for himself (ff. 107-108v), Dryden’s elegy on Lady Whitmore (f. 111) and Mary Wortley Montagu’s on Mrs. Bowes (f. 138). Two sets of verse on John Hewett and Sarah Drew, 1718 (ff. 126, 126v) differ from the texts printed in Pope’s Works, 1736, as do his lines on Simon Harcourt, 1722 (f.129v): all are copies in the hand of Sir John Evelyn. Also included are Sir John’s Latin epitaph (f. 117) for his grandfather, 1706, and inscriptions for Ralph Bohun (d.1716), D.D. (ff. 122-125), the elder William Glanville (f. 127), 1719, and Peter the Great (f. 141), 1725.
7.ff. 169-214. Collection of miscellaneous verses; circa 1713-1763. Copies, partly imperfect. Partly Latin. Texts are transcribed in at least two hands on uniformly-sized leaves from two separate paper-stocks, the order of the sections ascertainable from the former page-numbering or lettering of bifolia. Among the poets are Robert Howth, D.D., Thomas Tickell, Samuel Whyte, John Hoadly, John Harris and Levett Blackborne. Several pieces were printed in The Chaplet (1738), A collection of poems (1763) and The Shamrock: or, Hibernian Cresses (1772). Included are: ― (1) Translations of nine sonnets from the Italian of Giovanni Battista Felice Zappi and Faustina Maratti Zappi. ff. 178-181v; ― (2) Romance involving Dorisbe, her husband Sidonio and the witch Melissa. Imperfect. ff. 200-207v; ― (3) Anonymous translation into octosyllabic couplets of Boccaccio’s Decameron, 9th day, 2nd tale. Imperfect. ff. 208-214.
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Creation Date 1694-1814
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Scope and Content Evelyn Papers. Vol. ccclv. (ff. 212). Miscellaneous occasional verse, partly political, religious and amatory; temp. William III [1694-1702] - 1809, n.d. Mostly copies. Partly printed. The arrangement is roughly chronological by date of composition (ff. 1-184), with some pieces of uncertain date reserved to the end (ff. 185-211). The writers include Isaac Hawkins Browne, Mary Chandler, George Granville, Alexander Pope, Horace Walpole, Sir Charles Hanbury Williams and Edward Young. Also included are:
1.ff. 2, 2v. ‘Mr Weedon’: ‘Rogers Resolution to hit himselfe in at My Lady [Betty] Liles birth day’, beg. ‘’Sheartly wounds, I’ll not to ploughing not I sir’; circa late 17th cent. Attribution from docket (f. 3v).
2.ff. 4, 4v. Lament of an actor on the decline in the behaviour of theatre audiences, beg. ‘Tis not five yeares since this was a sweet place’; circa late 17 th-early 18th centt. Imperfect.
3.ff. 6v, 7. Short political fable beg. ‘Once on a time some friends did agree’, along with two extempore riddles composed by a lady; circa late 17th-early 18th cent.
4.ff. 9-12. ‘The Praise of tom iuggins [Cook of Xt Church who kept a Publick Cooks shop in Oxford] Heroi-comick Verse [by an Undergraduate of Oxford]’; circa late 17 th-early 18 th centt. Words within square brackets added in a second hand.
5.ff. 22-23v. Tory satire entitled ‘Advice to a Painter’, beg. ‘What hand what skill can
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6.ff. 50-51. Satirical verses entitled ‘The Walker’, beg. ‘Nigh where the Baths pour out their sweaty Streams’; temp. Anne.
7.ff. 102, 103. [?Abel Evans, D.D. (d.1737)]: Humorous poem headed ‘The Wooden Age. Suppos’d to be wrote by Dr Evans’, beg. ‘Since the Metallick Ages all are past’.
8.ff. 137-138. ‘Introduction to the second Book of public virtue; a Poem, address’d to the prince of wales’, beg. ‘Of Commerce, of the Merchant’s ventrous toils’; circa 1745-1757. Fair copy with revisions. Book I of George Spiltimber’s poem was published in 1745 (Foxon S651).
9,ff. 152-157v. Poems by a young lady, as ‘submitted to ye Judgement of Mr. Dodsley, if he designs further to add to his Collection…’ (f.154); circa 1755-1758.
10.ff. 204, 205. Lament ‘To Silvia’, beg. ‘Since Silvia, brightest of Liburnian Dames’; n.d. Fair copy with revisions in a different hand.
11.ff. 210-211. ‘Verses [By a member of the Committee in pencil] to be recited at Grenwich’, extolling charity, beg. ‘If it be truly said, the heaven born mind’; circa 1809 (watermark).
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Reference Add MS 78523
Creation Date 1699-1753
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCLVI.
1.Miscellaneous personal and political papers, historical notes, etc., [italics]copied[/italics] or collected by Sir John Evelyn; 1699-1753, n.d. A few are in [italics]Latin[/italics] and [italics]French[/italics].
2.Issues of newspapers; 1731-1747[italics]. Printed[/italics], with MS additions.
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Page 324 2021-08-13 Add MS 78524-78526 EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. CCCLVII-CCCLIX. Household, personal and estate bills and financial papers of Sir John
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
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Creation Date 1706-1764
Extent and Format 3 items
Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. CCCLVII-CCCLIX. Household, personal and estate bills and financial papers of Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart., with a few of his son, Sir John Evelyn, 2nd Bart.; 1706-1764, n.d. Many dating before 1720 are vouchers, in the form of receipted bills, for household steward’s accounts. After this they consist mainly of miscellaneous legal, financial and estate papers. The main sequence of rentals and estate accounts is at Add. MSS 78585-78603, below.Three volumes. (1706-1764)
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Add MS 78524 (1706-1712)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78524
Creation Date 1706-1712
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content Vol. CCCLVII. 1706-1712.
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Page 325 2021-08-13 Add MS 78525 (1713-1720)
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Reference Add MS 78525
Creation Date 1713-1720
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content Vol. CCCLVIII. 1713-1720.
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Add MS 78526 (1721-1765)
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Reference Add MS 78526
Creation Date 1721-1765
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content Vol. CCCLIX. 1721-1765, n.d.
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Add MS 78527-78528 EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCLX, CCCLXI. General account-books kept by Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart., of receipts and
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78527-78528
Creation Date 1719-1763
Extent and Format 2 items
Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCLX, CCCLXI. General account-books kept by Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart., of receipts and payments, including entries relating to Surrey and Deptford property, as well as family, household and personal expenditure; 1719-1763.Two volumes. (1719-1763)
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Page 326 2021-08-13 Add MS 78527 (1719-1725)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78527
Creation Date 1719-1725
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCLX. 1719-1725. Autograph. With several leaves torn out at the beginning and some later entries at the end for 1819-1824. Formerly Evelyn MS 241.
Original vellum binding. 320 x 200mm.
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Add MS 78528 (1740-1763)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78528
Creation Date 1740-1763
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCLXI. 1740-1763. Autograph. Formerly Evelyn MS 244.
Original vellum binding. 320 x 205mm.
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Page 327 2021-08-13 Add MS 78529 (1705-1779)
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Reference Add MS 78529
Creation Date 1705-1779
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCLXII.
1.Inventory by Lady Evelyn of the contents of Wotton, 1709, and other lists of goods, 1749-1754.
2.Bills of fare; 1740-1744. Partly [italics]French[/italics].
3.Instructions by Lady Evelyn to her housekeeper; n.d.
4.Medical and household prescriptions and recipes, including some for the treatment of animals; 1745-1765, n.d.
5.Notes for the marriage settlement of Sir John Evelyn, 1[superscript]st[/superscript] Bart.; 1705.
6.Papers relating to legacies, settlements, wills, etc.; 1722-1779, n.d. Including [italics]copies[/italics] of the wills and probate of Charles Godolphin of Coulston and his wife Elizabeth, 1726, 1732, and of Mary, daughter of Sir John Evelyn, 1[superscript]st[/superscript] Bart., 1779.
Ralph Bohun, Rector of West Kington, and of Wotton: Correspondence and papers: 1667-1716.
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Add MS 78530-78543 Papers Acquired by Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart ([1660- 1740])
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78530-78543
Creation Date [1660-1740]
Extent and Format 28 items
Title Papers Acquired by Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart ([1660-1740])
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Page 328 2021-08-13 Add MS 78530-78531 EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. CCCLXIII, CCCLXIV. Letters to Jael (Godolphin) Boscawen (1647-1731), widow of Edward
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78530-78531
Creation Date 1668-1727
Extent and Format 2 items
Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. CCCLXIII, CCCLXIV. Letters to Jael (Godolphin) Boscawen (1647-1731), widow of Edward Boscawen, M.P., and mother of Anne (Boscawen), wife of Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart.; 1668-1727. The letters probably came into the family archive on the death of Mrs Boscawen. A number of the letters are undated, and the endorsed dates supplied by the 1st Bart. are not always reliable.Two volumes. (1668-1727)
Scope and Content Ralph Bohun, Rector of West Kington, and of Wotton: Correspondence and papers: 1667-1716.
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Add MS 78530 (1678-1726)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78530
Creation Date 1678-1726
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCLXIII (ff. 172).
1.ff. 1-73v. Letters to Mrs Boscawen from her brother, Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin; 1678-1704. Including a letter from him to his wife Margaret (Blagge), written shortly before her death on 9 Sept. 1678, and letters to him from Charles Talbot, Duke of Shrewsbury, 1697, and his nephew Hugh Boscawen, 1701.
2.ff. 74-123v. Letters to Mrs Boscawen from Bridget (Sutton) Darcy, widow of the Hon. John Darcy (1659-1689), son of Conyers Darcy, 2nd Earl of Holdernesse; 1698-[1723?], n.d.
3.ff. 124-172. Letters to Mrs Boscawen from Sarah (Jenyns) Churchill, wife of John, 1st Duke of Marlborough; 1710-1726. Imperfect; several letters have at least one sheet missing. One letter of 1713 is an extract in the hand of Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart.; the last two letters are partly in the hands of amanuenses. For a further letter from the Duchess to Mrs Boscawen of 1 Sept. 1716, see Puttick and Simpson sale catalogues, 1846-57, IV, lot 310. For Mrs Boscawen’s letters to the Duchess, see Add. MS 61441.
Jael Boscawen, wife of Edward Boscawen, MP: Letters to Mrs J. Boscawen: 1668-1727.
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Page 329 2021-08-13 Add MS 78531 (1668-1727)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78531
Creation Date 1668-1727
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCLXIV.
1.Letters to Mrs Boscawen from Nicholas Mann, tutor to William Godolphin, Marquess of Blandford, and afterwards Master of the Charterhouse; 1716-1727.
2.Letters to and from Mrs Boscawen, with a few to, or endorsed by, her sister Penelope Godolphin (d.1697), chiefly from female relations and friends, including the Evelyns; 1668-1725, n.d. Several more letters to Jael Boscawen, removed by William Upcott, are now in his albums in Add. MSS 78678 and 78679 below.
Jael Boscawen, wife of Edward Boscawen, MP: Letters to Mrs J. Boscawen: 1668-1727.
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Add MS 78532-78537 Charles Godolphin78532-78537. EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCLXV-CCCLXX. Official documents compiled or collected by
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78532-78537
Creation Date 1691-1712
Extent and Format 7 items
Title Charles Godolphin78532-78537. EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCLXV-CCCLXX. Official documents compiled or collected by Charles Godolphin as Commissioner of Customs; 1691-1712, n.d. Charles Godolphin of Coulston was the younger brother of Sidney, 1st Earl of Godolphin, and of Mrs Jael Boscawen. The volumes were given to Sir John Evelyn, also a Commissioner of Customs, by Charles Godolphin’s widow Elizabeth; see her letter to him of 4 Jan. 1722/3 (Add. MS 78468 above): `tis with great pleasure that I comply with your desire of seeing these Books which I now send you believing I could not doe a more agreeable thing to Deare Mr Godolphin then to put them into your hands and as you look them over they will conferm your opinion of his great ability for that trust and you perhaps may doe that good with them which he could not which gave him much disquiet. I desire you would ... keep them in your Liberrey at Wotton as a remembrance of him'.Seven volumes. (1691-1712)
Scope and Content Charles Godolphin, MP: Papers as Commissioner of Customs: 1691-1712, n.d.
Ralph Bohun, Rector of West Kington, and of Wotton: Correspondence and papers: 1667-1716.
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Add MS 78532 (1691-1695)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78532
Creation Date 1691-1695
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCLXV. Entry-book of proposals, schemes, etc., entitled on the front wrapper, `The Scheme-Booke'; 1691-1695, n.d. Copies in more than one clerk’s hand. With an initial table of contents, partly in a clerk’s hand, added to Charles Godolphin, headed, `Propositions and Schemes offer’d towards a stricter management of the Customs by Mr Godolphin at severall times since he came to the Customehouse 8 July 1691’. Formerly Evelyn MS 178.
Original marbled paper covers within brown paper wrappers. 380 x 250mm.
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Add MS 78533-78535 EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCLXVI-CCCLXVIII. General entry-books, containing copies of Godolphin’s letters to
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78533-78535
Creation Date 1701-1719
Extent and Format 4 items
Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCLXVI-CCCLXVIII. General entry-books, containing copies of Godolphin’s letters to fellow officials, and of reports, memorials, etc.; 1701-1719. With some marginal autograph notes. Four volumes. (1701-1719)
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Page 331 2021-08-13 Add MS 78533 (1701-1709)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78533
Creation Date 1701-1709
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content 1701-1709. Formerly Evelyn MS 59.
Original vellum binding. 416 x 315mm.
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Add MS 78534 (1707-1710)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78534
Creation Date 1707-1710
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content 1707-1710. Formerly Evelyn MS 181.
Original marbled paper covers. 380 x 250mm.
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Page 332 2021-08-13 Add MS 78535 A (1709-1712)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78535 A
Creation Date 1709-1712
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content 1709-1712. Fornerly Evelyn MS 182a.
Original marbled paper covers. 380 x 250mm.
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Add MS 78535 B (1713-1719)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78535 B
Creation Date 1713-1719
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content 1713-1719. Fomerly Evelyn 182b.
Original marbled paper covers. 380 x 250mm.
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Page 333 2021-08-13 Add MS 78536 (1676-1740)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78536
Creation Date 1676-1740
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCLXIX. Abstracts of Customs accounts between 1676 and 1711; early 18th cent. Formerly Evelyn MS 180.
Original marbled paper wrappers. 380 x 490mm.
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Add MS 78537 (Early 18th century)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78537
Creation Date Early 18th century
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCLXX. `Fasciculus Memorialium or a Collection of papers, presented upon severall occasions to persons in the ministry or Public Trusts. With subsequent notes of special reference shewing how some of them may yet be serviceable to the publick and none of them can justly be charged with any other view'; early 18th cent. Partly copies, partly autograph. Formerly Evelyn MS 179.
Original marbled paper wrappers. 380 x 250mm.
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Page 334 2021-08-13 Add MS 78538 ([1709?]-1716)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78538
Creation Date [1709?]-1716
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content William Draper
78538. EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCLXXI. Papers of William Draper the elder, of Addiscombe, uncle by marriage of Sir John Evelyn, as Justice of the Peace and churchwarden of the parish of Croydon; [1709?]-1716, n.d. Given by him or his family to Sir John Evelyn, who has endorsed the last leaf, `Justice of Peace papers of Mr Draper of Adscomb’. For their correspondence, see Add. MS 78463 above.
William Draper, of Addiscombe, county Surrey: Papers as Justice of the Peace: [1709?]-1716, n.d.
Ralph Bohun, Rector of West Kington, and of Wotton: Correspondence and papers: 1667-1716.
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Add MS 78539-78543 Ralph Bohun ([1660-1740])
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Creation Date [1660-1740]
Extent and Format 18 items
Title Ralph Bohun ([1660-1740])
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Page 335 2021-08-13 Add MS 78539-78542 EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCLXXII-CCCLXXV. Correspondence, sermon notes and other papers of Ralph Bohun, D.D;
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78539-78542
Creation Date 1667-1716
Extent and Format 17 items
Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCLXXII-CCCLXXV. Correspondence, sermon notes and other papers of Ralph Bohun, D.D; 1667-1716. Bohun, a Fellow of New College Oxford, was tutor to John Evelyn junior at Sayes Court and Oxford between 1665 and 1671, and afterwards rector of West Kington, co. Wilt, 1674-1701, and of the Evelyns’ parish of Wotton from 1701 until his death in 1716. Since he died unmarried and with no relations in the vicinity, his papers were probably taken into the Evelyn archive at this point.Four volumes. (1667-1716)
Scope and Content Ralph Bohun, Rector of West Kington, and of Wotton: Correspondence and papers: 1667-1716.
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Add MS 78539 (1667-1706)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
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Creation Date 1667-1706
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCLXXII. Letters to Bohun from members of the Evelyn family; 1667-1702.
1. Letters from Mary Evelyn; 1667-1706. With `A Character of Mrs Evelyn taken from her letters', by Bohun, dated Oxford 1695, published in Diary and Correspondence of John Evelyn, ed. William Bray (1859), IV, pp. 3-7. The endorsed dates added by Sir John Evelyn to some of the letters are not always reliable. A further letter of Mary Evelyn to Bohun is in Upcott’s album, Add. MS 78686 below. Letters from Bohun to Mary Evelyn and some retained copies of her own letters are in Add. MSS 78435 and 78438-78439 above.
2. Letters from John Evelyn the diarist; 1673-1702.
3. Letters from John Evelyn junior and his sisters Mary, Elizabeth, and Susan Evelyn; 1675-1697.
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Page 336 2021-08-13 Add MS 78540 (1689-1716)
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Creation Date 1689-1716
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCLXXIII.
1.Letters to Bohun from other correspondents; 1701-1713, n.d. Letters to Bohun from his uncle, Ralph Bathurst, D.D., 1701-1703, are in one of Upcott’s albums, Add. MS 78683 below.
2.Book lists; 1699-1703, n.d. Partly [italics]autograph[/italics].
3.Bohun’s certificates of ecclesiastical installation, licence to preach, etc.; 1689-1701. Partly [italics]Latin[/italics].
4.Miscellaneous financial and medical papers; 1710-1712, n.d.
5.Epitaph for him, by an unidentified author, addressed to Sir John Evelyn; 1716. [italics]Latin[/italics].
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Add MS 78541 A-G EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCLXXIV A-G. Sermons and sermon notes by Bohun; late 17th-early 18th cent. Autograph
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78541 A-G
Creation Date Late 17th century-Early 18th century
Extent and Format 7 items
Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCLXXIV A-G. Sermons and sermon notes by Bohun; late 17th-early 18th cent. Autograph drafts.Seven volumes. Uniform bindings of blue buckram, 19th cent., all stamped on the spine with the text and the note, `collated by John Evelyn’. 170 x 125mm. (Late 17th century-Early 18th century)
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Page 337 2021-08-13 Add MS 78541 A (Late 17th century-Early 18th century)
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Creation Date Late 17th century-Early 18th century
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content A. On Jude 5. 3. Formerly Evelyn MS 74.
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Add MS 78541 B (Late 17th century-Early 18th century)
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Creation Date Late 17th century-Early 18th century
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content B. On I Corinthians 1. 23. Formerly Evelyn MS 75.
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Add MS 78541 C (Late 17th century-Early 18th century)
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Creation Date Late 17th century-Early 18th century
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content C. On John 20. 27. Formerly Evelyn MS 77.
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Page 338 2021-08-13 Add MS 78541 D (Late 17th century-Early 18th century)
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Creation Date Late 17th century-Early 18th century
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content D. On I Corinthians 6. 11. Formerly Evelyn MS 78.
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Add MS 78541 E (Late 17th century-Early 18th century)
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Reference Add MS 78541 E
Creation Date Late 17th century-Early 18th century
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content E. On Acts 16. 30. Formerly Evelyn MS 79.
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Add MS 78541 F (Late 17th century-Early 18th century)
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Creation Date Late 17th century-Early 18th century
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content F. On Deuteronomy 22. 29. Formerly Evelyn MS 80.
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Page 339 2021-08-13 Add MS 78541 G (Late 17th century-Early 18th century)
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Creation Date Late 17th century-Early 18th century
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content G. On Hebrews 12. 11. Formerly Evelyn MS 81.
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Add MS 78542 A-H EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCLXXV A-H. Unbound sermon notes by Bohun; late 17th-early 18th cent. Autograph drafts.
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78542 A-H
Creation Date Late 17th century-Early 18th century
Extent and Format 8 items
Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCLXXV A-H. Unbound sermon notes by Bohun; late 17th-early 18th cent. Autograph drafts. (Late 17th century-Early 18th century)
Scope and Content Ralph Bohun, Rector of West Kington, and of Wotton: Correspondence and papers: 1667-1716.
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Page 340 2021-08-13 Add MS 78542 A (Late 17th century-Early 18th century)
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Reference Add MS 78542 A
Creation Date Late 17th century-Early 18th century
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content A. On Job 20. 18. Formerly Evelyn MS 203.
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Add MS 78542 B (Late 17th century-Early 18th century)
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Creation Date Late 17th century-Early 18th century
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content B. On Lamentations 3. 39. Formerly Evelyn MS 142
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Add MS 78542 C (Late 17th century-Early 18th century)
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Creation Date Late 17th century-Early 18th century
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content C. On Matthew 3. 2. Formerly Evelyn MS 142.
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Page 341 2021-08-13 Add MS 78542 D (Late 17th century-Early 18th century)
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Creation Date Late 17th century-Early 18th century
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content D. On Matthew 5. 39. Formerly Evelyn MS 214.
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Add MS 78542 E (Late 17th century-Early 18th century)
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Reference Add MS 78542 E
Creation Date Late 17th century-Early 18th century
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content E. On Luke 19. 42. Formerly Evelyn MS 142
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Add MS 78542 F (Late 17th century-Early 18th century)
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Creation Date Late 17th century-Early 18th century
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content F. On Acts 17. 30. Formerly Evelyn MS 142
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Page 342 2021-08-13 Add MS 78542 G (Late 17th century-Early 18th century)
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Creation Date Late 17th century-Early 18th century
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content G. On Ephesians 4. 32. Formerly Evelyn MS 142
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Add MS 78542 H (Late 17th century-Early 18th century)
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Reference Add MS 78542 H
Creation Date Late 17th century-Early 18th century
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content H. Unfinished sermon notes, partly on Exodus 20. 3 and 4; another portion endorsed `Luxury in Habits: pars 2da’. Formerly Evelyn MS 142.
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Add MS 78543 (after 1716)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78543
Creation Date after 1716
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCLXXVI. Catalogue of Bohun's books at Oxford and Wotton, with short titles and prices, compiled by Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart.; aft. 1716. With notes on the fly-leaves by William Upcott, recording that the volume had been given to him in 1817 by Lady Evelyn (f. 1v), and noting biographical details of Bohun (f. 2). Part of lot 62 in Evans’ sale of Upcott’s collections, 22 June 1846 (Add. MS 78584 B), and purchased by William John Evelyn. Formerly Evelyn MS 12.
ff. 26. Binding of dark brown leather, blind-tooled, probably added by Upcott, early 19 th cent. 240 x 195mm.
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Add MS 78544-78545 SIR JOHN EVELYN, 2ND BART. 78544, 78545. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. CCCLXXVII, CCCLVIII. Records of Sir John
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78544-78545
Creation Date 1761-1765
Extent and Format 2 items
Title SIR JOHN EVELYN, 2ND BART. 78544, 78545. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. CCCLXXVII, CCCLVIII. Records of Sir John Evelyn, 2nd Bart. (1706-1767), as Clerk of the Greencloth; 1761, 1765. The 2nd Bart. survived his father by only four years, and apart from his letters to his parents in Add. MS 78471 and a few financial papers of his period in Add MS 78526 above, the following volumes deriving from his court office are the only records of his to survive.Two volumes. (1761-1765)
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Add MS 78544 (1761)
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Reference Add MS 78544
Creation Date 1761
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCLXXVII. Establishment of the royal household; 1761. Copy, with the ownership signature of Sir John Evelyn, 2nd Bart., on the fly-leaf. Formerly Evelyn MS 183.
Original vellum binding. 410 x 260mm.
Sir John Evelyn, 2nd Baronet: Records as Clerk of the Green Cloth: 1761-1765.
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Page 344 2021-08-13 Add MS 78545 (Oct 1765)
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Creation Date Oct 1765
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCLXXVIII. `Ledger' giving detailed bills of fare for the various tables of the royal household, beginning with that of the King and Queen at Richmond; Oct. 1765. Signed by Charles Ramus. Formerly Evelyn MS 186.
Original marbled paper wrappers. 430 x 280mm.
Sir John Evelyn, 2nd Baronet: Records as Clerk of the Green Cloth: 1761-1765.
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Add MS 78546-78553 Sir Frederick Evelyn, 3rd Bart ([1758-1818])
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78546-78553
Creation Date [1758-1818]
Extent and Format 8 items
Title Sir Frederick Evelyn, 3rd Bart ([1758-1818])
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Page 345 2021-08-13 Add MS 78546 (1760-1816)
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Reference Add MS 78546
Creation Date 1760-1816
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCLXXIX. Correspondence of Sir Frederick Evelyn, 3rd Bart. (1734-1812), and his wife, Mary (Turton); 1760-1816, n.d. Partly drafts.
Mary Evelyn, wife of Sir F Evelyn, 3rd Baronet: Correspondence and papers: 1799-1818.
Sir Frederick Evelyn, 3rd Baronet: Correspondence and papers: 1758-1812.
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Add MS 78547 (1777-1814)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78547
Creation Date 1777-1814
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCLXXX. Miscellaneous papers, temp. Sir Frederick Evelyn; 1777-1811.
1.Ephemera relating to Surrey elections; 1780-1794, n.d. Mostly [italics]printed[/italics], but including a MS list of Dorking freeholders, 1794.
2.Papers relating to the Tontine Society; 1791-1798. Mostly [italics]printed[/italics].
3.Miscellaneous legal documents; 1777-1810, n.d. Partly [italics]printed[/italics].
4.Programmes for race-meetings at Newmarket and Epsom; 1811. [italics]Printed[/italics].
5.Passport, [italics]signed[/italics] by the Duke of Wellington; 1814. Partly printed.
Sir Frederick Evelyn, 3rd Baronet: Correspondence and papers: 1758-1812.
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Page 346 2021-08-13 Add MS 78548-78550 EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCLXXXI-CCCLXXXIII. Bills and receipts of Sir Frederick Evelyn and his wife; 1765-1817.
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78548-78550
Creation Date 1765-1817
Extent and Format 3 items
Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCLXXXI-CCCLXXXIII. Bills and receipts of Sir Frederick Evelyn and his wife; 1765-1817. Including accounts with William Bray. At the end are copies of the will and codicils of Lady (Mary) Evelyn, and of her epitaph by John Evelyn of Wotton; 1814-1818. Three volumes (1765-1817)
Scope and Content Sir Frederick Evelyn, 3rd Baronet: Correspondence and papers: 1758-1812.
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Add MS 78548 (1765-1799)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78548
Creation Date 1765-1799
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content Vol. CCCLXXXI. 1765-1799.
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Page 347 2021-08-13 Add MS 78549 (1800-1811)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78549
Creation Date 1800-1811
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content Vol. CCCLXXXII. 1800-1811.
Mary Evelyn, wife of Sir F Evelyn, 3rd Baronet: Correspondence and papers: 1799-1818.
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Add MS 78550 (1811-1818)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78550
Creation Date 1811-1818
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content Vol. CCCLXXXIII. 1811-1818.
Mary Evelyn, wife of Sir F Evelyn, 3rd Baronet: Correspondence and papers: 1799-1818.
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Page 348 2021-08-13 Add MS 78551 (1758-1793)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78551
Creation Date 1758-1793
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCLXXXIV. Account-book of Sir John Evelyn, 1st and 2 nd Bart. and of Sir Frederick Evelyn and others as Treasurers of the Leatherhead to Guildford turnpike, showing receipts and payments; 1758-1793. Signed in several places by the officials. Formerly Evelyn MS 102.
Original vellum bound notebook. 205 x 165mm.
Sir Frederick Evelyn, 3rd Baronet: Correspondence and papers: 1758-1812.
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Add MS 78552 (1772-1779)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78552
Creation Date 1772-1779
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCLXXXV. Account-book of Sir Frederick Evelyn as Treasurer with the trustees of the Horsham turnpike; 1772-1779. Signed throughout by Thomas Hart, clerk to the trustees. Formerly Evelyn MS 103.
Original vellum bound notebook. 195 x 170mm.
Sir Frederick Evelyn, 3rd Baronet: Correspondence and papers: 1758-1812.
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Page 349 2021-08-13 Add MS 78553 (1775-1787)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78553
Creation Date 1775-1787
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCLXXXVI. Letters to William Mann Godschall of Weston House, near Guildford, chiefly from Dr Alexander Hunter of York (1733-1809) concerning his new edition of Sylva, and from the Earl of Portsmouth concerning Sir Isaac Newton’s papers; 1775-1787. On the evidence of the letters, Godschall acted as Hunter’s intermediary in obtaining the patronage of Sir Frederick Evelyn, to whom the edition was dedicated in 1776 (see Keynes, Evelyn: a Study in Bibliophily, p. 142). The letters may have been given to the Evelyn family after Godschall’s death, possibly through the agency of William Bray. For Godschall and the Newton archive, see Rob Iliffe, `Unity in Newton’s Archive’, in Archives of the Scientific Revolution, ed. Michael Hunter (London, 1997), p. 141. The bulk of his family and personal papers are held at the Surrey History Centre, Woking.
William Man Godschall, of Weston House, near Guildford: Alexander Hunter, physician and author: Letters to William Man Godschall from Alexander Hunter: 1775-1787.
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Add MS 78554-78576 SUCCESSORS OF SIR FREDERICK EVELYN78554- 78576. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. CCCLXXXVII-CCCCIX. Papers of the
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78554-78576
Creation Date 1761-1907
Extent and Format 28 items
Title SUCCESSORS OF SIR FREDERICK EVELYN78554-78576. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. CCCLXXXVII-CCCCIX. Papers of the successors of Sir Frederick Evelyn; 1761-1907. Sir Frederick Evelyn, 3rd Bart., had no children, and the heirs to the baronetcy, John Evelyn, 4th Bart., and Hugh Evelyn, 5th Bart., the sons of his cousin Charles (younger son of Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart.), were both of unsound mind. Sir Frederick left his estates to his widow, with the provision that they should pass at her death to his fifth cousin, John Evelyn (1743-1827), second son of William Evelyn, Dean of Emley, of the elder (Nutfield) branch of the family, both being descended from George Evelyn of Long Ditton and Godstone (d. 1603). Sir Frederick Evelyn died in 1812 and his widow in 1817, and John Evelyn succeeded as tenant for life until his death in 1827, when the estate passed to his son George, and in 1829 to his grandson William John Evelyn (1822-1908). Twenty-three volumes, arranged as follows:78554: Evelyn of Nutfield78555-78559: John Evelyn (1743-1827)78560-78566: George Evelyn (d. 1829)78567-78576: William John Evelyn (1822-1908) (1761-1907)
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Add MS 78554 (1727-1825)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78554
Creation Date 1727-1825
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content Evelyn of Nutfield
78554. EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCLXXXVII. Correspondence and papers of the Evelyn of Nutfield branch of the family, partly prior to the inheritance of Wotton; 1761-1825. For this branch of the family, see Helen Evelyn, The History of the Evelyn Family (1915).
1.Printed cases, in which Anne, Elizabeth and Mary Evelyn, daughters of George Evelyn of Godstone and Nutfield (1678-1724), were appellants, and George Evelyn’s brother Edward and his son James respondents, heard at the House of Lords, May 1733.
2.Accounts of Nathaniel Moore with Richard Evelyn of Dublin, eldest son of George Evelyn of Nutfield (1641-1699) by his third marriage, and his widow Elizabeth Evelyn; 1727-1737, 1764.
3.Letters from and on behalf of James Evelyn of Fellbridge, grandson of George Evelyn of Nutfield by his second marriage; 1787-1793.
4.Letters from and concerning William Glanville Evelyn, eldest son of William Evelyn, Dean of Emly (grandson of George Evelyn of Nutfield by his third marriage) from Boston and New York; 1761-1796. See further The Evelyns in America, ed. G. D. Scull. William Glanville Evelyn was killed in action in 1777.
5.Letters to Frances (Evelyn) Hume, daughter of William Evelyn of St Clere (son of William Evelyn Glanville and grandson of George Evelyn of Nutfield by his second marriage), and wife of Col. Alexander Hume; 1788, n.d
6.Schedule of 17th-18th cent. deeds relating to Nutfield; [late 18th cent.?].
7.Genealogical accounts of this branch of the Evelyn family; 19th-20 th cent. Partly typewri tten.
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Page 351 2021-08-13 Add MS 78555-78559 John Evelyn (1743-1827) ([1778-1833])
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78555-78559
Creation Date [1778-1833]
Extent and Format 5 items
Title John Evelyn (1743-1827) ([1778-1833])
Scope and Content John Evelyn, of Wotton, county Surrey: Correspondece and papers: 1788-1827.
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Add MS 78555 (1778-1825)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78555
Creation Date 1778-1825
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCLXXXVIII. Correspondence of John Evelyn, brother of William Glanville Evelyn above, who inherited Wotton on the death of Mary, widow of Sir Frederick Evelyn, 3 rd Bart., including letters from William Bray and Henry Upton, steward at Wotton; 1778-1825, n.d. Partly drafts and copies.
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Page 352 2021-08-13 Add MS 78556 (1817-1821)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78556
Creation Date 1817-1821
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCLXXXIX. Letterbook of John Evelyn; 1817-1821. Containing copies of his business letters concerning East India Company and other financial matters, as well as the Wotton estate. Formerly Evelyn MS 217.
Original binding of green vellum and paper over boards. 260 x 210mm.
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Add MS 78557 (1790-1812)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78557
Creation Date 1790-1812
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCXC. Statement of account of John Evelyn with Currie and Co., bankers; 1790-1812. Posthumously compiled, with a few notes in pencil in the hand of William John Evelyn.
Original vellum cover. 185 x 125mm.
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Page 353 2021-08-13 Add MS 78558 (1817-1827)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78558
Creation Date 1817-1827
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCXCI. Accounts and receipts of John Evelyn for personal, household and some estate matters; 1817-1827, n.d. For some entries for this period in an earlier family account-book, see Add. MS 78527 above.
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Add MS 78559 (1821-1833)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78559
Creation Date 1821-1833
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCXCII. Inventory of plate at London and Wotton, partly in the hand of Thomas Turner, butler; 1821-1833. Inscribed in pencil on the fly-leaf by William John Evelyn, `This book was given to me by Mr Turner at Wotton July 19, 1876. Mr Turner was butler to my grandfather from 1822 till my grandfather’s death in November 1827’. Formerly Evelyn MS 224.
Original vellum binding. 240 x 195mm.
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Page 354 2021-08-13 Add MS 78560-78566 George Evelyn (d. 1829) ([1808-1859])
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78560-78566
Creation Date [1808-1859]
Extent and Format 7 items
Title George Evelyn (d. 1829) ([1808-1859])
Scope and Content Mary-Jane Evelyn, wife of George Evelyn of Wotton: Correspondence and papers: 1814-1859, n.d.
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Add MS 78560-78562 EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCXCIII-CCCXCV. Correspondence of, chiefly letters to, George Evelyn of Wotton (d.
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78560-78562
Creation Date 1814-1855
Extent and Format 3 items
Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCXCIII-CCCXCV. Correspondence of, chiefly letters to, George Evelyn of Wotton (d. 1829), and his wife, Mary-Jane (Massey-Dawson); 1814-1855, n.d. Partly drafts. Partly French and Italian. The majority of the letters are to Mrs Evelyn, both before and after her marriage. She survived her husband by many years and continued to live at Wotton during her son’s minority. Preceded by two letters to her uncle, Charles Nicholas Pallmer of Norbiton; 1808. (1814-1855)
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Page 355 2021-08-13 Add MS 78560 (1808-1827)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78560
Creation Date 1808-1827
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content Vol. CCCXCIII. 1808-1827.
George Evelyn, of Wotton, county Surrey: Correspondence and papers: 1820-1830, n.d.
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Add MS 78561 (1828-Aug 1831)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78561
Creation Date 1828-Aug 1831
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content Vol. CCCXCIV. 1828-Aug. 1831.
George Evelyn, of Wotton, county Surrey: Correspondence and papers: 1820-1830, n.d.
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Page 356 2021-08-13 Add MS 78562 (Sep 1831-1859)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78562
Creation Date Sep 1831-1859
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content Vol. CCCXCV. Sept. 1831-1859, n.d.
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Add MS 78563 (1821-1827)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78563
Creation Date 1821-1827
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCXCVI. Statement of account of George Evelyn with Greenwood, Cox and Co., bankers; 1821-1827.
Original vellum cover. 180 x 125mm.
George Evelyn, of Wotton, county Surrey: Correspondence and papers: 1820-1830, n.d.
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Page 357 2021-08-13 Add MS 78564 (1825-1844)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78564
Creation Date 1825-1844
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCXCVII. Account-book recording daily outgoings on food and household supplies, headed on the fly-leaf, `Mrs Evelyn's Book, Wotton'; 1825-1844. Formerly Evelyn MS 256.
Original vellum binding. 330 x 140mm.
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Add MS 78565 (1830-1831)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78565
Creation Date 1830-1831
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCXCVIII. `Mrs Evelyn Butchers Book'; 1830-1831. Recording daily expenditure, with receipts throughout signed by Robert Barker. Formerly Evelyn MS 222.
180 x 115mm.
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Page 358 2021-08-13 Add MS 78566 (1812-1831)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78566
Creation Date 1812-1831
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCXCIX.
1.Miscellaneous accounts and receipts of George Evelyn; 1827-1830, n.d.
2.Miscellaneous papers of George Evelyn and his wife, including [italics]drafts[/italics] for George Evelyn’s epitaph and a few devotional and commonplace collections and recipes of his wife; 1812-1831, n.d. Partly [italics]printed[/italics].
George Evelyn, of Wotton, county Surrey: Correspondence and papers: 1820-1830, n.d.
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Add MS 78567-78576 William John Evelyn (1822-1908) ([1600-1915])
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78567-78576
Creation Date [1600-1915]
Extent and Format 15 items
Title William John Evelyn (1822-1908) ([1600-1915])
Scope and Content William John Evelyn, of Wotton, county Surrey: Correspondence and papers: 1839-1915, n.d.
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Page 359 2021-08-13 Add MS 78567 (1839-1915)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78567
Creation Date 1839-1915
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCC. Correspondence of William John Evelyn (1822-1908), his son, John Harcourt Chichester Evelyn, and other members of the family; 1839-1915, n.d. Followed by three letters addressed to W. G. Hiscock, deputy librarian of Christ Church, 1956.
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Add MS 78568 (19th century)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78568
Creation Date 19th century
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCI. `Scribbling book’ of William John Evelyn, containing rough notes, mostly in pencil, on history, languages, botany, current affairs, etc.; 19th cent. Formerly Evelyn MS 287.
Original binding of decorated paper over boards. 305 x 210mm.
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Page 360 2021-08-13 Add MS 78569 (1853-1855)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78569
Creation Date 1853-1855
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCII. Diary of Lt.-Col. George Pallmer Evelyn (brother of William John Evelyn); 1853-1855. Copy in a clerical hand, apparently from an original in which some words were illegible; these have been supplied and corrections and additions made in another hand, presumably that of the author. Two letters of 1857 and 1871 concerning the journal are included at the end. Recording a journey through France to Greece and Turkey and Evelyn’s service during the Crimean War (see Helen Evelyn, History of the Evelyn family, 1915, p. 262). Some pages have names obliterated in a heavier ink or portions cut or torn out.
Original wrapper. 280 x 210mm.
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Add MS 78570 (Late 19th century)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78570
Creation Date Late 19th century
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCIII. Volume of rough notes, records and pedigrees, partly in pencil, relating to the Evelyn family from the 16th to the 19th centuries, by William John Evelyn; late 19th cent. Formerly Evelyn MS 14.
335 x 225mm.
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Page 361 2021-08-13 Add MS 78571 (19th century)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78571
Creation Date 19th century
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCIV. Transcribed documents from the Public Record Office, 1596-1703, by and concerning the Evelyn family; 19th cent copies, in several different hands, presumably made for William John Evelyn. With an initial table of contents. Original pagination `1-526’. Formerly Evelyn MS 13.
Original binding of blue buckram. 340 x 230mm.
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Add MS 78572 (17th century-18th century)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78572
Creation Date 17th century-18th century
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCV.
1.Transcribed documents containing references to members of the Evelyn family in the 17th cent., from manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford; 19[superscript]th[/superscript] cent. [italics]copies[/italics], in a hand resembling one of those in the preceding volume and presumably made as part of the same project. Formerly Evelyn MS 170.
2.Notes and transcripts in the hand of, or collected by William John Evelyn concerning earlier members of the Evelyn family, including some original documents, signatures, address panels, etc., mostly fragmentary, 17th and 18th cent. For related press-cuttings, see Add. MS 78576 below. Formerly part of Evelyn MS 306.
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Page 362 2021-08-13 Add MS 78573 A (1669)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78573 A
Creation Date 1669
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content Evelyn Papers. Vol. ccccvi a. Roll pedigree of the Browne and Evelyn families up to [before] 1669; aft. 1669. With coloured and illuminated coats of arms, inset copies of grants of Sir Richard Browne’s baronetcy and coat of arms and of a certificate by Sir Richard St George, Clarenceux 1623-1634.
Vellum.
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Add MS 78573 B (1879)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78573 B
Creation Date 1879
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content Evelyn Papers. Vol. ccccvi b. Roll pedigree of the Evelyn family annotated by William John Evelyn, `drawn up by William Bray and corrected by me W.I.E. Xmas 1879’. With coloured coat of arms, inset concerning the French branch of the Evelyn family and pencilled additions and endorsements. Some information concerning John Evelyn the diarist and his children appears to have been derived from the preceding roll. For Bray’s account of the Evelyn family, see Add. MSS 78581, 78582. below.
Vellum.
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Page 363 2021-08-13 Add MS 78574 A-D EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCVII A-D. Compilations concerning the descent of the Evelyn family in the 19th
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78574 A-D
Creation Date 19th century
Extent and Format 4 items
Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCVII A-D. Compilations concerning the descent of the Evelyn family in the 19th century, chiefly prepared by William John Evelyn in connection with an action for libel against a former employee, who had cast doubt on the legitimacy of his father, and therefore on their right of succession to the Evelyn estates; 1878-1882. See also Helen Evelyn, Evelyn Family, pp. 360-366.Four volumes. (19th century)
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Add MS 78574 A (1 Oct 1878)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78574 A
Creation Date 1 Oct 1878
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content A.Daniel Webb Webber, Family of Evelyn of Wotton whilst in Ireland: a Memoir (privately printed and dated from Cheltenham, 1 Oct. 1878). With a MS note on the title-page by William John Evelyn that this was copied from the original manuscripts at Wotton, and a further note added by him, 25 Nov. 1882, that `In the recent suit of Evelyn v. Evelyn the original manuscript of Mr Webber's Memoir [78574 C] was verified as being in his handwriting’. Including Evelyn Pedigree, 1882, containing evidence concerning the births of John Evelyn of Wotton and his son and heir Capt. George Evelyn of Wotton, in the form of an extract from the baptismal register of Arklow, co. Wicklow and copies of depositions in a Chancery suit of 1796 between John Evelyn and Sir George Shuckburgh. Both items have MS annotations by William John Evelyn.
Half binding of brown calf and marbled paper. 245 x 195mm.
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Page 364 2021-08-13 Add MS 78574 B (19th century)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78574 B
Creation Date 19th century
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content B. Another copy of the second part of the preceding, Evelyn Pedigree.
Paper wrappers. 240 x 180mm.
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Add MS 78574 C (1878)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78574 C
Creation Date 1878
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content C.The original manuscript by Daniel Webb Webber, `Family of Evelyn of Wotton whilst in Ireland’; 1878. Autograph, with a preliminary note of its admission as evidence in the lawsuit, 1879, and an appended account in the handwriting of Wiliam John Evelyn, transcribing a letter of Webber to him. Formerly Evelyn MS 167.
Paper wrappers. 250 x 205mm.
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Page 365 2021-08-13 Add MS 78574 D (1879)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78574 D
Creation Date 1879
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content D.Account of the Last Male Descendants of John Evelyn, Author of Sylva, &c, 1879. With the MS inscription that it was presented to Cecil G. S. Foljambe by William John Evelyn at Wotton, 2 Nov. 1881. With occasional MS corrections and additions. The preface by William John Evelyn states that the narrative was extracted from William Bray’s manuscript history of the Evelyn family (see Add. MSS 78581, 78582 below). It concerns the 4th and 5 th Baronets, who were of unsound mind and therefore passed over in succession to the estate in favour of John Evelyn of Wotton.
Half binding of brown calf and marbled paper, matching Add. MS 78574 A. 245 x 195mm.
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Add MS 78575 (1819-1898)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78575
Creation Date 1819-1898
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCVIII.
1.Accounts and receipts for personal expenditure of William John Evelyn; 1873-1898.
2.Miscellaneous notes and papers of William John Evelyn; 1819-1877, n.d. Partly printed. Including former Evelyn MSS 161 and 167 and 284.
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Page 366 2021-08-13 Add MS 78576 A (Late 18th century-1892)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78576 A
Creation Date Late 18th century-1892
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCIX A. Printed ephemera, press cuttings, etc., chiefly relating to family and local affairs; late 18th cent.-1892, n.d.
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Add MS 78576 B (1844-1892)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78576 B
Creation Date 1844-1892
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCIX B.
1.Catalogue of the Portraits of Distinguished Naval Commanders … Exhibited in the Naval Gallery of Greenwich Hospital (London, 1844). Printed, with ownership inscription of W. J. Evelyn.
2.James White, Sale catalogue of the contents of Wotton Rectory, belonging to the Rev. John Evelyn Boscawen, 20-27 June 1851. Printed.
3.The Abinger Monthly Record, Nov., Dec. 1889, May 1890, April, June 1891, Aug. 1892. Printed. Including amongst other contents, excerpts from the diary of John Evelyn, 17th cent.
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Page 367 2021-08-13 Add MS 78577-78584 WILLIAM BRAY AND WILLIAM UPCOTT78577-78584. EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCX- CCCCXVII. Manuscripts deriving from
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78577-78584
Creation Date 1814-1846
Extent and Format 13 items
Title WILLIAM BRAY AND WILLIAM UPCOTT78577-78584. EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCX- CCCCXVII. Manuscripts deriving from the association of William Bray (1736-1832) and William Upcott (1779-1845) with the Evelyn family; 1814-1846. William Bray of Shere became the Evelyn family solicitor in the lifetime of Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart., and obtained his place in the Greencloth by the patronage of the 2nd Bart. In his memoir of the Evelyn family (Add. MS 78582 A below) he describes how he recommended William Upcott, librarian of the London Institution and autograph collector, to catalogue the library at Wotton and how they were both engaged by Lady Evelyn to edit and publish John Evelyn’s diary. During his time at Wotton Upcott removed many items from family archive to his own collections, apparently with the initial permission from Lady Evelyn, though what he took far exceeded whatever might have been intended by this. Yet as the correspondence below makes clear, he remained on friendly terms with Mary Jane, widow of George Evelyn and mother of William John Evelyn, until his death in 1845. The following material consists of notes, collections, transcripts and proof-sheets for Bray’s and Upcott’s editions of the diary and of Evelyn’s works, Bray’s accounts of the Evelyn family history, Upcott’s correspondence with Bray and with members of the family, and the sale catalogues of his collection (Bray’s letters to Sir Frederick and Lady Evelyn are chiefly on unrelated business matters and have been filed with their correspondence in Add. MS 78546 above). For the catalogues of the library at Wotton compiled by Upcott, see Add. MSS 78641-78643 below. His autograph albums and other collection items, bought by William John Evelyn after his death in order to retrieve the numerous Evelyn items in them, are Add. MSS 78678-78693 below.Eight volumes. (1814-1846)
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Page 368 2021-08-13 Add MS 78577 (1814-1815)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78577
Creation Date 1814-1815
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCX. `Extracts from the Diary of John Evelyn Esq; … written in his own hand, and now remaining in the Library at Wotton’, by William Bray; 1814-1815. In Bray’s autograph, with a few notes in another hand, probably that of his assistant James Bindley of the Stamp Office; Bindley’s letters to Bray, together with other documents relating to the publication of the diary, assembled by Upcott, are in Add. MS 15951. Original pagination 1-955, with an index. Formerly Evelyn MS 159.
Original half binding of brown calf over grey boards, probably added by Upcott, labelled on the spine, `Bray's Extracts from Evelyn's Diary'. 335 x 220mm.
William Bray, antiquary: Notes, transcripts and proofs rel. to the Evelyn family and John Evelyn's diary: 1814-1832.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXI. Miscellaneous loose notes by Bray for his edition of the diary, followed by loose copies of the letters from John Evelyn’s letterbooks (Add. MSS 78298-78299) for inclusion in it; 1814-1818. Partly autograph, but most of the copies of letters are in the handwriting of amanuenses. Including letters to Bray from James Bindley, 27 July 1815, and from Rogers Rudley, 30 Sept. 1816 (enclosing a letter from Abraham Hill to Evelyn, 26 Feb. 1698) and a few printed items, including a cutting from the Morning Chronicle, 11 Sept. 1822, giving an account of Upcott’s `rescue’ of Evelyn’s letters and diary, with an annotation by Bray.
William Bray, antiquary: Notes, transcripts and proofs rel. to the Evelyn family and John Evelyn's diary: 1814-1832.
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Page 369 2021-08-13 Add MS 78579 (c 1818)
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXII. Volume containing copies of the letters from 1679 to July 1684 from the second volume of John Evelyn’s letterbooks (Add. MS 78299 above); circa 1818. In the hand of the same amanuenses as copied the loose items in the preceding volume. Formerly Evelyn MS 40.
Original binding of marbled paper over boards. 340 x 220 mm.
William Bray, antiquary: Notes, transcripts and proofs rel. to the Evelyn family and John Evelyn's diary: 1814-1832.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXIII.
1.Incomplete proof-sheets of [italics]Memoirs Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn (London: Henry Colburn, 1818), with corrections by both Bray and Upcott; with a few preliminary pages of Upcott’s edition of Evelyn’s Miscellaneous Works (London: Henry Colburn, 1825); circa 1818-1825.
2.Incomplete proof-sheets of [italics]The Correspondence of Henry Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, ed. S. W. Singer (London, 1828), in a similar format to the preceding, included possibly because they were also corrected by Upcott; circa 1828.
3.Corrected pages of a later octavo edition of Evelyn’s diary, first published in 1827 with the title Diary and Correspondence of John Evelyn, and again in enlarged editions in 1850-52 and 1857.
William Bray, antiquary: Notes, transcripts and proofs rel. to the Evelyn family and John Evelyn's diary: 1814-1832.
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Page 370 2021-08-13 Add MS 78581 (c 1831)
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Creation Date c 1831
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXIV. Volume of notes by William Bray concerning the Evelyn family, preceded by a presentation letter to `Mrs Mary Jane Massey Evelyn, Widow of George Evelyn Esq.’, on different paper, describing amongst other matters the roles of himself and Upcott in the first publication of Evelyn's diary; circa 1831. This volume is a draft version of Add. MS 78582 A below, with many additions and alterations, but mostly in the hands of amanuenses, presumably on account of Bray’s great age; it was compiled not long before his death in 1832, when he was in his nineties. Covering the branches of the Evelyn family of Long Ditton, Hunterscombe, East and West Dean, Godstone, Felbridge, St Clere, Wotton, Baynards and Woodcote, and Sayes Court, Deptford. According to a note tipped in at the front of the volume, it was found at Bray’s former residence, the Manor House, Shere, by his great-great grandson and presented to the Evelyn family in 1951. For Bray’s roll pedigree of the Evelyn family, see Add. MS 78573 above. Formerly Evelyn MS 158.
Half binding in grey calf and marbled paper over boards, with labels, `Family of Evelyn’, in brown calf, gilt stamped, on the front cover and spine. 352 x 220mm.
William Bray, antiquary: Notes, transcripts and proofs rel. to the Evelyn family and John Evelyn's diary: 1814-1832.
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Add MS 78582 A-B EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXV A, B. Presentation copy and continuation of Add. MS 78581; 1831-1832. (1831-1832)
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Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXV A, B. Presentation copy and continuation of Add. MS 78581; 1831-1832. (1831-1832)
Scope and Content William Bray, antiquary: Notes, transcripts and proofs rel. to the Evelyn family and John Evelyn's diary: 1814-1832.
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Page 371 2021-08-13 Add MS 78582 A (1831)
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Scope and Content A. `An Account of The different Branches of the Family of Evelyn’, by William Bray: a presentation copy of Add. MS 78581 in the hand of an amanuensis, with a few emendations and gaps towards the end and a presentation letter to Mary Jane Evelyn at the beginning, signed by Bray in a shakey hand; 1831, with some later notes in pencil by William John Evelyn. Formerly Evelyn MS 160.
Original binding of brown calf, blind-stamped. 335 x 210mm.
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Creation Date 22 Oct 1832
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Scope and Content B.Notes, in continuation of the preceding, concerning John Evelyn’s posthumous reputation and Sylva in particular, with a preliminary letter from Bray to Mary Jane Evelyn; 22 Oct. 1832. In the hand of an amanuensis, signed. Formerly Evelyn MS 289.
Sewn gatherings, unbound. 335 x 205mm.
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Page 372 2021-08-13 Add MS 78583 (1813-1846)
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXVI. Correspondence and papers of, and relating to, William Upcott; 1813-1846. The letters written to Upcott by Bray and members of the Evelyn family are originals, presumably returned to the family after Upcott’s death.
1.Letters and notes from William Bray to Upcott; 1813-1819. Concerning the cataloguing of the library at Wotton and their edition of Evelyn’s diary. With a few unrelated letters to Upcott from other correspondents, [early 19[superscript]th[/superscript] cent].
2.Letters from Lady (Mary) Evelyn to Upcott, including two to William Bray concerning his projects with Upcott, which may be present because Bray forwarded them to Upcott; 1813-1817, n.d. One further letter is in Upcott’s album, Add. MS 78686 below.
3.Correspondence between Mary Jane, widow of George Evelyn, and Upcott; 1844-1845. Begun on the occasion of a new edition of John Evelyn’s [italics]Diary and Correspondence[/italics] and also concerning visits of her and her son, William John Evelyn, to see Upcott’s collection; followed by an account of Upcott’s death by Edward Spencer. Including a copy of a [italics]Catalogue of Autograph Books, entirely filled with the Collection of Mr. William Upcott … Third Exhibition, Liverpool Mechanics Institution June and July 1844[/italics] (Liverpool, 1844), with a presentation inscription from Upcott to Mary Jane Evelyn, 30 Oct. 1844, and the pencilled note by W. G. Hiscock on the cover, `Contains about 20 Evelyn items (from Wotton)’.
4.[italics]Facsimile of an Original Drawing of Designs for the Armorial Ensigns and Cyphers for the Royal Society. By John Evelyn, Esq.[/italics], inscribed by Upcott to Mary Jane Evelyn, 29 Nov. 1844. Taken from the collection of facsimiles by Charles John Smith, [italics]Historical and Literary Curiosities[/italics] (1840), and with the MS note on the front by Smith, `Only 25 Copies Printed’. The designs by Evelyn from which the facsimile was made are in Add. MS 78351 above.
William Upcott, antiquary and autograph collector: Correspondence and papers: 1813-1846.
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Page 373 2021-08-13 Add MS 78584 A-E Evelyn Papers. Vol. ccccxvii a-e. Sale catalogues of Messrs. Evans of the books (78584 A), manuscripts (78584
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Creation Date Jun 1846
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Title Evelyn Papers. Vol. ccccxvii a-e. Sale catalogues of Messrs. Evans of the books (78584 A), manuscripts (78584 B), prints, pictures and curiosities (78584 C) collected by William Upcott; 15-25 June 1846. Printed, with some pencil and ink notes, the latter of prices paid by William John Evelyn for the lots marked. With a separate MS list (78584 D) of the lots (books, manuscripts and prints) bought by W. J. Evelyn from the Evans’ sale (formerly Evelyn MS 307). With a bound copy (78584 E) of all three of the printed sale catalogues, marked up in ink with prices and buyers. (Jun 1846)
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Scope and Content Sale catalogues of Messrs. Evans of the books collected by William Upcott; 15-25 June 1846. Printed, with some pencil and ink notes, the latter of prices paid by William John Evelyn for the lots marked.
William Upcott, antiquary and autograph collector: Sale catalogues of his collections, annotated by W. J. Evelyn: 1846: Pr.
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Page 374 2021-08-13 Add MS 78584 B (Jun 1846)
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Scope and Content Sale catalogues of Messrs. Evans of the collected by William Upcott; 15-25 June 1846. Printed, with some pencil and ink notes, the latter of prices paid by William John Evelyn for the lots marked.
William Upcott, antiquary and autograph collector: Sale catalogues of his collections, annotated by W. J. Evelyn: 1846: Pr.
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Scope and Content Sale catalogues of Messrs. Evans of the prints, pictures and curiosities (78584 C) collected by William Upcott; 15-25 June 1846. Printed, with some pencil and ink notes, the latter of prices paid by William John Evelyn for the lots marked.
William Upcott, antiquary and autograph collector: Sale catalogues of his collections, annotated by W. J. Evelyn: 1846: Pr.
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Page 375 2021-08-13 Add MS 78584 D (Jun 1846)
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Scope and Content Separate MS list (78584 D) of the lots (books, manuscripts and prints) bought by W. J. Evelyn from the Evans’ sale (formerly Evelyn MS 307).
William Upcott, antiquary and autograph collector: Sale catalogues of his collections, annotated by W. J. Evelyn: 1846: Pr.
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Scope and Content Bound copy of all three of the printed sale catalogues, marked up in ink with prices and buyers.
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Page 376 2021-08-13 Add MS 78585-78610 ESTATE PAPERS: SURREY78585-78610. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. CCCCXVIII- CCCCXLIII. Estate papers relating to the
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Creation Date 1486-1863
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Title ESTATE PAPERS: SURREY78585-78610. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. CCCCXVIII- CCCCXLIII. Estate papers relating to the Surrey estates owned by the Evelyn family; 1486-1863. The main sequence of manorial records and deeds relating to these estates is on deposit at Surrey History Centre, Woking (Deposit no. 6330). The material described here consists of miscellaneous paper documents, account-books, etc., relating to the estates, which, probably because of their format, were retained with the personal papers in the family archive. Many of the 17th century papers are extracts of, explanatory notes concerning, or tables of contents to the earlier manorial documents made by Richard Evelyn, confirming his son John’s description of him as `of a thriving, neate, & methodicall genius’ (Diary, I, p. 1). See also Add. MSS 78278-78280 for accounts of Richard Evelyn relating to rents and estate management, and Add. MS 78347, a volume begun by John Evelyn the diarist and continued with an abstract of the court rolls of all the Surrey manors by Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart.Twenty-five volumes. (1486-1863)
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Creation Date 1569-1863
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXVIII. Papers relating to the manor and parish of Wotton; 1569-1863, n.d. Including `A Table for the more speedyer finding out of the principallest matters, Conteyned in the Court Rowles of the Mannor of Wotton’, and other copies and extracts by Richard Evelyn, a memorandum by John Evelyn of works to be carried out at Wotton, 1701, and notes about tenants, quit rents and poor rates by Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart. For the history of the manor, see VCH, Surrey, III, p.156: from the late 15th century it was held successively by Humphrey de Bohun, Sir David Owen, who married the heiress of the Bohuns, and his descendants, who conveyed Wotton to George Evelyn, then of Long Ditton, in 1579.
County of Surrey: Estate papers and account books rel. to the Evelyn estates: 1486-1882, n.d.
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Page 377 2021-08-13 Add MS 78586-78587 EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXIX, CCCCXX. The manor and parish of Abinger; 1486-1862. Including papers predating
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Creation Date 1486-1862
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Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXIX, CCCCXX. The manor and parish of Abinger; 1486-1862. Including papers predating the Evelyn family’s ownership, beginning with the attainder of the then owner, Sir Humphrey Stafford, in 1486, and including notes and extracts from court rolls by Richard Evelyn. For the history of the manor, see VCH, Surrey, III, pp. 130-131: in 1551 the Staffords sold it to Thomas and Edward Elrington, who alienated it in two moieties in 1578 and 1580. The Evelyns acquired these two moeities separately; from Sir Oliph Leigh (via Edmund and Richard Hill) to George Evelyn in 1595, and from Sir Edward Randyll (via William and John Morgan) to Richard Evelyn in 1622. Two volumes. (1486-1862)
Scope and Content County of Surrey: Estate papers and account books rel. to the Evelyn estates: 1486-1882, n.d.
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Creation Date 1486-1622
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Scope and Content Vol. CCCCXIX. 1486-1622.
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Page 378 2021-08-13 Add MS 78587 (1623-1862)
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Creation Date 1623-1862
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Scope and Content Vol. CCCCXX. 1623-1862.
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Creation Date 1574-1762
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXXI.
1.The manor of Milton; 1574-1762. Including copies and extracts by Richard Evelyn from the court rolls, substantial notes of manorial court proceedings, temp. Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart., and a sketch plan in pen and ink endorsed `Mr Tyers’s Plan of the ground near his Temple belonging to Milton Court Farm’, 1762. For the history of the manor, see VCH, Surrey, III, p. 147: having belonged to the Priory of Kilburn, it was held after the Reformation on lease from the crown by Richard Thomas and his widow Katherine, who married Saunders Wright. At the latter's death in 1574 it reverted to the crown, was granted briefly to Ralph Lathom in 1599 and purchased by George Evelyn in 1600.
2.The manor of Westland; 1705-circa early 19th cent. Consisting of four miscellaneous documents: a list of freehold tenants, a warrant to seize herriots, and testimony about boundaries. For the history of the manor, which was held as a sub-manor of Wotton, see VCH, Surrey, III, p. 158: from the 16th century it was owned successively by the Bray family, Thomas Godman, and John and Henry Aleyn, by whom it was conveyed in 1601 to George Evelyn.
County of Surrey: Estate papers and account books rel. to the Evelyn estates: 1486-1882, n.d.
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Page 379 2021-08-13 Add MS 78589-78590 EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXXII, CCCCXXIII. The manors of Paddington (also called Paddington Bray or Paddington
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Creation Date 1488-1803
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Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXXII, CCCCXXIII. The manors of Paddington (also called Paddington Bray or Paddington Elrington) and Paddington Pembroke; 1488-1803. For the history of the former manor, see VCH, Surrey, III, p. 133: it was owned by the Bray family until 1556, when it was alienated to Owen Elrington, who in turn alienated it in two moieties, both of which were acquired by the Evelyns, one via Richard Browne, Richard Hill and Oliph Leigh (as with Abinger); the other via Thomas and John Morgan and the widow of Christopher Parkin, in 1624. For the latter manor, see VCH, Surrey, III, pp. 132-133: from the 15th century it was in the ownership of the Nevill family, Lords Abergavenny, until it was conveyed in 1629 to Richard Evelyn.Two volumes. (1488-1803)
Scope and Content County of Surrey: Estate papers and account books rel. to the Evelyn estates: 1486-1882, n.d.
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Creation Date 1488-c 1640
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Scope and Content Vol. CCCCXXII. 1488-CIRCA 1640.
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Page 380 2021-08-13 Add MS 78590 (1666-1803)
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Scope and Content Vol. CCCCXXIII. 1666-1803.
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Add MS 78591-78592 EVELYN PAPERS. Vols CCCCXXIV, CCCCXXV. The manor of Westcott; 1588-1779, n.d. For the history of the manor,
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Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vols CCCCXXIV, CCCCXXV. The manor of Westcott; 1588-1779, n.d. For the history of the manor, see VCH, Surrey, III, p. 144: it descended with Paddington Pembroke and was sold by the 9th Lord Abergavenny to Richard Evelyn in 1629.Two volumes. (1588-1779)
Scope and Content County of Surrey: Estate papers and account books rel. to the Evelyn estates: 1486-1882, n.d.
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Page 381 2021-08-13 Add MS 78591 (1588-1723)
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Creation Date 1588-1723
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Scope and Content Vol. CCCCXXIV. 1588-1723.
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Creation Date 1724-1779
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Scope and Content Vol. CCCCXXV. 1724-1779, N.D.
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Add MS 78593-78595 EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. CCCCXXVI-CCCCXXVIII. Papers relating to the combined Evelyn estates in Surrey, with
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Creation Date 1500-1851
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Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. CCCCXXVI-CCCCXXVIII. Papers relating to the combined Evelyn estates in Surrey, with other miscellaneous estate papers; 16th cent.-1851, n.d.Three volumes. (1500-1851)
Scope and Content County of Surrey: Estate papers and account books rel. to the Evelyn estates: 1486-1882, n.d.
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Page 382 2021-08-13 Add MS 78593 (1500-1704)
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Scope and Content Vol. CCCCXXVI. 16th cent.-1704.
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Creation Date 1500-1851
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Scope and Content Vol. CCCCXXVII. temp. 1st Bart.
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Creation Date 1771-1851
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Scope and Content Vol. CCCCXXVIII. 1771-1851, N.D.
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Page 383 2021-08-13 Add MS 78596 (1706-1707)
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Creation Date 1706-1707
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXXIX. Rental and rent-book of Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart., for Wotton, with names of tenants, details of property and amounts of rent payable and received; 1706-1707. Autograph. With original autograph pagination `1-281', but with a number of leaves removed. Formerly Evelyn MS 288.
Original vellum binding, probably taken over from the collections of his father and grandfather, since it has what appears to be one of the symbols the diarist used to categorize his commonplace books on the front cover, and on the spine, apparently in the hand of John Evelyn junior, `Jus Civ. – et Histor.’ 330 x 225mm.
County of Surrey: Estate papers and account books rel. to the Evelyn estates: 1486-1882, n.d.
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Creation Date 1704-1726
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXXX.
1.Account-book of daily payments received for Wotton, kept by the steward Thomas Bedingfield; 1704-1709. Signed by Bedingfield and countersigned by Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart. With original pagination `13-66', but disbound and with pp. 52-62 missing. Formerly Evelyn MS 240. 312 x 200mm.
2.Wotton account-book kept by Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart., with columns for names of tenants and occupiers, rents, arrears, taxes, amounts received and due; 1720-1726. Autograph, with the first leaf annotated by William John Evelyn. Formerly Evelyn MS 241a. 300 x 190mm.
County of Surrey: Estate papers and account books rel. to the Evelyn estates: 1486-1882, n.d.
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Page 384 2021-08-13 Add MS 78598 (1711-1715)
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Creation Date 1711-1715
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXXXI. Memoranda of estate matters by Robert Wake; 1711-1715. Mostly in the hand of Robert Wake (see the reference to `my brother William Wake’, f. 12v), whose correspondence as steward is in Add. MSS 78483-78484 above, but including some notes (29v-25) in another hand apparently relating to new wainscotting at Wotton House. In a notebook originally used by John Evelyn junior; on one cover is his note, `Catalogue of Bookes read in Ireland', and on the adjacent paste-down commonplace notes in his handwriting. Formerly Evelyn MS 191.
ff. 33. Original vellum binding. 225 x 110mm.
County of Surrey: Estate papers and account books rel. to the Evelyn estates: 1486-1882, n.d.
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Creation Date 1730-1734
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXXXII. Brief notes by Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart., concerning tenants of the manors of Paddington, Wotton, Westland, Abinger, Westcott and Milton, chiefly about death and inheritance; 1730-1734. Autograph. Formerly Evelyn MS 207.
Notebook with original marbled paper wrappers. 200 x 160mm.
County of Surrey: Estate papers and account books rel. to the Evelyn estates: 1486-1882, n.d.
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Page 385 2021-08-13 Add MS 78600 (1734-1749)
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Creation Date 1734-1749
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXXXIII. Annual account-book kept by Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart., of payments and charges in respect of the poor rate for Wotton and Abinger; 1734-1749. Autograph. Formerly Evelyn MS 234.
Original vellum binding. 325 x 205mm.
County of Surrey: Estate papers and account books rel. to the Evelyn estates: 1486-1882, n.d.
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Creation Date 1735-1736
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXXXIV. Pocket rent-book apparently in the hand of Henry Symonds (whose correspondence as steward is in Add MSS 78491-78495), relating to Wotton, Westland, Abinger, Paddington, Westcott and Milton, with names, type of tenancy, arrears and rents due and received; 1735-1736. Formerly Evelyn MS 208.
Original vellum binding. 100 x 165mm.
County of Surrey: Estate papers and account books rel. to the Evelyn estates: 1486-1882, n.d.
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Page 386 2021-08-13 Add MS 78602 (after 1718)
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Creation Date after 1718
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXXXV. `Index to the Rolls of Abinger, Milton, Padington, Pembrook and Westland', in an unidentified scribal hand; aft. 1718. Lists arranged alphabetically by tenant's name for each of the manors, with dates and notes of the nature of the roll entry.
Notebook with original wrapper of rough paper, with the title on the front. 260 x 190mm.
County of Surrey: Estate papers and account books rel. to the Evelyn estates: 1486-1882, n.d.
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Creation Date 1763-1770
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXXXVI. Account-book [by Thomas Fielder?] of daily receipts and payments for Wotton; 1763-1770. Signed at the end by Sir Frederick Evelyn and Fielder. Formerly Evelyn MS 245.
Original vellum binding. 315 x 205mm.
County of Surrey: Estate papers and account books rel. to the Evelyn estates: 1486-1882, n.d.
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Page 387 2021-08-13 Add MS 78604-78605 EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXXXVII, CCCCXXXVIII. Steward's yearly account-books of Sir Frederick Evelyn, 3rd
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78604-78605
Creation Date 1790-1798
Extent and Format 7 items
Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXXXVII, CCCCXXXVIII. Steward's yearly account-books of Sir Frederick Evelyn, 3rd Bart., showing payments for work on the estate at Wotton, with names and details of work; 1790-1798, but lacking the volume for July 1791-July 1792. Formerly Evelyn MS 246.Notebooks with original paper wrappers, including four different wallpaper designs. 325 x 205 mm. (1790-1798)
Scope and Content County of Surrey: Estate papers and account books rel. to the Evelyn estates: 1486-1882, n.d.
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Add MS 78604 A-C Vol. CCCCXXXVII A-C. July 1790-July 1791; July 1792- June 1793; July 1793-July 1794. (1790-1794)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78604 A-C
Creation Date 1790-1794
Extent and Format 3 items
Title Vol. CCCCXXXVII A-C. July 1790-July 1791; July 1792-June 1793; July 1793-July 1794. (1790-1794)
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Page 388 2021-08-13 Add MS 78604 A (Jul 1790-Jul 1791)
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Reference Add MS 78604 A
Creation Date Jul 1790-Jul 1791
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content Vol. CCCCXXXVII A. July 1790-July 1791.
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Add MS 78604 B (Jul 1792-Jun 1793)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78604 B
Creation Date Jul 1792-Jun 1793
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Scope and Content Vol. CCCCXXXVII B. July 1792-June 1793.
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Add MS 78604 C (Jul 1793-Jul 1794)
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Reference Add MS 78604 C
Creation Date Jul 1793-Jul 1794
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content Vol. CCCCXXXVII C. July 1793-July 1794.
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Page 389 2021-08-13 Add MS 78605 A-D Vol. CCCCXXXVIII A-D. July 1794-July 1795; July 1795- July 1796; July 1796-July 1797; July 1797-June 1798.
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78605 A-D
Creation Date 1794-1798
Extent and Format 4 items
Title Vol. CCCCXXXVIII A-D. July 1794-July 1795; July 1795-July 1796; July 1796-July 1797; July 1797-June 1798. (1794-1798)
Scope and Content County of Surrey: Estate papers and account books rel. to the Evelyn estates: 1486-1882, n.d.
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Add MS 78605 A (Jul 1794-Jul 1795)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78605 A
Creation Date Jul 1794-Jul 1795
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content Vol. CCCCXXXVIII A. July 1794-July 1795.
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Page 390 2021-08-13 Add MS 78605 B (Jul 1795-Jul 1796)
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Reference Add MS 78605 B
Creation Date Jul 1795-Jul 1796
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content Vol. CCCCXXXVIII B. July 1795-July 1796.
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Add MS 78605 C (Jul 1796-Jul 1797)
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Reference Add MS 78605 C
Creation Date Jul 1796-Jul 1797
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content Vol. CCCCXXXVIII C. July 1796-July 1797.
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Add MS 78605 D (Jul 1797-Jun 1798)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78605 D
Creation Date Jul 1797-Jun 1798
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content Vol. CCCCXXXVIII D. July 1797-June 1798.
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Page 391 2021-08-13 Add MS 78606 (1873-1882)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78606
Creation Date 1873-1882
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXXXIX. Journal of transactions chiefly relating to estate matters at Wotton by William John Evelyn; 1873-1882, n.d. Mostly autograph, with occasional printed items. Including some loose insertions, pasted-in drafts, retained copy letters and printed items. Formerly Evelyn MS 18.
Ledger with original half binding of leather and cloth over boards, with the label `Wotton’ on the spine. 390 x 270mm.
County of Surrey: Estate papers and account books rel. to the Evelyn estates: 1486-1882, n.d.
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Add MS 78607-78608 EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXL, CCCCXLI. Papers relating to the charity established under the will of William
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78607-78608
Creation Date [1718-1878]
Extent and Format 2 items
Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXL, CCCCXLI. Papers relating to the charity established under the will of William Glanville for the payment of £30 a year to bind poor boys of Wotton and neighbouring parishes to apprenticeships.Two volumes. ([1718-1878])
Scope and Content County of Surrey: Estate papers and account books rel. to the Evelyn estates: 1486-1882, n.d.
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Page 392 2021-08-13 Add MS 78607 (1718-1768)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78607
Creation Date 1718-1768
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXL. Receipt-book of the charity, consisting of receipts signed by the boys or the tradesmen to whom they were bound apprentice, and witnessed by parish officials; 1718-1768. Four leaves between 1761 and 1764 have been torn out. Formerly Evelyn MS 234.
Notebook with original vellum binding. 240 x 195mm.
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Add MS 78608 (1722-1878)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78608
Creation Date 1722-1878
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXLI.
1.Miscellaneous papers relating to the Glanville charity, including an extract from Glanville’s will in the hand of Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart.; 1722-1878, n.d.
2.Indentures of apprenticeship arising from the Glanville charity; 1789-1807.
Paper and vellum.
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Page 393 2021-08-13 Add MS 78609 (1631-1877)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78609
Creation Date 1631-1877
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXLII. Papers relating to:
1.The Chapel of St John the Baptist, Okewood; 1637-1877. For this, see VCH, [italics]Surrey[/italics], II, pp. 162-163.
2.The charity set up by the will of Henry Smith of Silver Street, London, [italics]temp[/italics]. Charles I, for the relief of the poor in parishes of Kent and Surrey; 1631-1769, n.d.
County of Surrey: Estate papers and account books rel. to the Evelyn estates: 1486-1882, n.d.
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Add MS 78610 A-S EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXLIII. Drawings, engravings and plans, chiefly of Wotton, the first group, A-M, by John
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78610 A-S
Creation Date 1640-1840
Extent and Format 19 items
Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXLIII. Drawings, engravings and plans, chiefly of Wotton, the first group, A-M, by John Evelyn (1620-1706); 1640-early 19th cent. (1640-1840)
Scope and Content John Evelyn, diarist: Wotton, Surrey: Drawings, engravings and plans of Wotton house and garden by John Evelyn: 1640-1704.
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Page 394 2021-08-13 Add MS 78610 A (1640)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78610 A
Creation Date 1640
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Scope and Content A.[John Evelyn]: `A Rude draght of Wotton Garden before my Bro: alterd it & as it was 1640: South'; 1640. Pen and ink drawing of the south facade of the house from the vantage point of a mount of trees where the grotto was afterwards made. Including `chamber window to the roome wher I was borne’. Reproduced in M. S. Giuseppi, `Note on Two Drawings by John Evelyn of Wotton House in 1640’, Surrey Archaelogical Society Collections (1902) and in VCH, Surrey, III, opp. p. 156.
210 x 310mm.
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Add MS 78610 B (1640)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78610 B
Creation Date 1640
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Scope and Content B. [John Evelyn]: `The Prospect of the old house at Wotton 1640 from the Broome field'; 1640. Drawing in black and brown inks and grey wash, from the north-west, showing the pigeon house and large pond. Reproduced in the article cited under A above and in VCH, Surrey, III, opp. p. 156.
205 x 300mm.
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Page 395 2021-08-13 Add MS 78610 C (1640-1646)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78610 C
Creation Date 1640-1646
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content C. [John Evelyn]: `Prospect of Wotton Gardens & house towards the east, from the Meadow by the Woodside: as altred by my Bro: 1646': drawing in red crayon from the south east, with a small garden pavilion and pond highlighted in ink and labelled, `this study & pond was made by me 1640'. Entries in Evelyn’s Diary, I, p. 55; II, p. 81, suggest that they were actually made in the summer of 1643.
210 x 610mm.
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Add MS 78610 D ([1640s?])
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78610 D
Creation Date [1640s?]
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content D.[John Evelyn]: Wotton and environs apparently from the south east from a grove above the house; [1640s?]. Faint pencil drawing.
370 x 150mm
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Page 396 2021-08-13 Add MS 78610 E ([1650s?])
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78610 E
Creation Date [1650s?]
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Scope and Content E.[John Evelyn]: another version of the preceding, partly highlighted in pen and ink, and below it on the same sheet, a pencil sketch of the house and grotto from the west, [1650s?].
370 x 302mm.
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Add MS 78610 F ([c 1650s])
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78610 F
Creation Date [c 1650s]
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content F.[John Evelyn]: `Wotton in Surry as in the yeare 16[--] from Meadow Eastward'; [circa 1650s]. Drawing in pen and ink and grey wash. The last two figures of the date are indistinct.
140 x 380mm.
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Page 397 2021-08-13 Add MS 78610 G (1653)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
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Creation Date 1653
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Scope and Content G. John Evelyn: `Wotton in Surrey/The house of Geo: Evelyn Esqr taken in perspective from the top of the Grotto by J: Evelyn'; 1653. Etched view from the south. See Antony Griffiths, `John Evelyn and the Print’, in John Evelyn and his Milieu, eds F. Harris and Michael Hunter (London: British Library Publications, 2003), pp. 104-105.
140 x 220mm.
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Add MS 78610 H ([1650s?])
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78610 H
Creation Date [1650s?]
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Scope and Content H. [John Evelyn?]: View of Wotton with the garden, grotto and environs from the western corner; [1650s?]. Drawing, apparently by John Evelyn, in pen and ink, red crayon, and brown and grey wash. Reproduced with discussion in P. F. Brandon, The Tillingbourne Story (Shere, Gomshall & Peaslake Local History Society, 1984), p. 19.
215 x 435mm.
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Page 398 2021-08-13 Add MS 78610 I ([1650s?])
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
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Creation Date [1650s?]
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content I.[John Evelyn?]: Prospect of Wotton with the garden, grotto and environs from the north-west; [1650s?]. Rough sketch in pen and ink, damaged by damp. The style is similar to that of Evelyn’s drawings of Wotton, but there are also resemblances to the prospect of Wotton by John Aubrey from Bodleian MS Aubrey 4, reproduced in John Evelyn’s `Elysium Britannicum’ and European Gardening, eds Therese O’Malley and Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn (Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 1998). p. 155.
280 x 375mm.
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Add MS 78610 J ([Late 17th century?])
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78610 J
Creation Date [Late 17th century?]
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content J.[John Evelyn]: `Wotton House prospect north' (remainder of title obliterated); [late 17th cent.?]. Pen and ink drawing, apparently showing a remodelling of the north facade of the house in a more regular architectural style, with a large pond and brew-house to the west. Reproduced with discussion in P. F. Brandon, `Land, Technology and Water Management in the Tillingbourne Valley, Surrey, 1560-1760’, Southern History, 6 (1984), p. 88, and The Tillingbourne Story (Shere, Gomshall & Peaslake Local History Society, 1984), p. 20.
150 x 230mm.
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Page 399 2021-08-13 Add MS 78610 K ([Late 17th century-Early 18th century])
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78610 K
Creation Date [Late 17th century-Early 18th century]
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content K. [John Evelyn]: `The Measures of Wotton Area': measurements apparently in connection with proposed alterations, with a small drawing of the house and surroundings; [late 17th cent.-early 18th cent]. Formerly Evelyn MS 592.
180 x 110mm.
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Add MS 78610 L (1700s)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78610 L
Creation Date 1700s
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content L.[John Evelyn]: `Plot of the Lower garden at Wotton for Walle fruit'; 170-? (last figure of the date indistinct). Pen and ink sketch, showing the house from the south in elevation and the garden layout in plan, with a table of measurements and a note of scale in the top left hand corner. On the verso is `A Conjectural draught of the Ortyard of standard Fruit trees for Wotton’, south-facing, with a `meloniere’ to the west, and a list of varieties, chiefly of fruit-trees, below.
370 x 200mm.
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Page 400 2021-08-13 Add MS 78610 M (1704)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78610 M
Creation Date 1704
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content M.[John Evelyn]: `Plot of the Kitchin-Garden-Slip at Wotton planted Ao MDCCIV'; 1704. Plan ruled in black ink, with the names of features and key numbers in brown ink. Compass points (east at top), scale bar and (partial) key.
260 x 370mm.
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Add MS 78610 N (c Mid 18th century)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
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Creation Date c Mid 18th century
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Scope and Content N.Plan and evelation in pen, ink and grey and brown washes of a circular and domed brick structure, endorsed by Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart, `Arthurs Oven’, presumably at Wotton; circa mid 18th cent. With scale bar.
235 x 370mm.
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Page 401 2021-08-13 Add MS 78610 O (18th century)
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Creation Date 18th century
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content O.Ground plan with key in pencil and ink of several rooms, including a library, dining-rooms, drawing-room, bedchamber, etc., [at Wotton?]; 18th cent., endorsed in the hand of William John Evelyn, `apparently Plan of part of Wotton House by Sir John Evelyn Bart’. With scale bar.
480 x 365mm.
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Add MS 78610 P ([c 1750-1760])
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78610 P
Creation Date [c 1750-1760]
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content P.Two designs in pen, ink and brown wash for the interior of an elaborate greenhouse at Wotton, endorsed by Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart., `Wotton Greenhouse by Mr Kene’; [circa 1750-1760]. `Mr Kene’ may be Henry Keene (1726-1776), though no work of his at Wotton is recorded in Howard Colvin’s Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840. Formerly Evelyn MS 265.
350 x 495mm; 305 x 200mm.
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Page 402 2021-08-13 Add MS 78610 Q ([18th century-Early 19th century])
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78610 Q
Creation Date [18th century-Early 19th century]
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content Q.`View of Wotton in Surry', from the north, engraved by [James?] Basire; [18th-early 19th cent.].
305 x 370mm.
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Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78610 R
Creation Date [18th century?]
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content R.Elevation of an unidentified great house in the Palladian style, with what is probably a related garden plan (on paper with the same watermarks: fleur de lys, `CDG’); [18th cent.?]. With a smaller elevation of a different house, also in the Palladian style. All three plans professionally executed in pen and ink and grey wash; the first two are numbered `II’ and `IV’. It is not known how they came into the Evelyn archive.
330 x 870mm.; 355 x 470mm.; 190 x 375mm.
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Page 403 2021-08-13 Add MS 78610 S ([Late 18th century?])
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Reference Add MS 78610 S
Creation Date [Late 18th century?]
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content S.`The old Draw bridge over Yarmouth Haven by Butcher’: drawing in pen and ink and blue wash; [late 18th cent.?]. The title and attribution, in pencil on the verso, are signed by W. Seaman; `Butcher’ is possibly J. Butcher, who is recorded in connection with a painting of King’s Lynn, in 1794. It is not known how this item came into the Evelyn archive.
285 x 470mm.
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Add MS 78611-78629 ESTATE PAPERS: DEPTFORD78611-78629. EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXLIV-CCCCLXII. Estate papers, account-books and
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78611-78629
Creation Date c 1545-1877
Extent and Format 34 items
Title ESTATE PAPERS: DEPTFORD78611-78629. EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXLIV- CCCCLXII. Estate papers, account-books and plans relating to the tenure of the Browne and Evelyn families of the manor of Sayes Court, Deptford; circa 1545-1877. The manor of Sayes Court belonged to the crown and in the 16th and early 17th centuries was used by the Board of Green Cloth to pasture cattle for the royal household at Greenwich Palace. Sir Richard Browne (circa 1538-1604), grandfather of Sir Richard Browne, Bart. (father-in-law of John Evelyn), was Clerk of the Green Cloth and (1596) Comptroller of the Household. According to a petition of his son, Christopher Browne, of temp. Charles I (in Add. MS 78612 below), the lease had first been granted to him under Elizabeth I, and together with the house he built there, was his `onely estate and Livelihood'. The present documents indicate that on 7 July 1604 Christopher Browne was appointed keeper of the King's Pastures at Sayes Court, and granted the mansion house, with the adjacent gardens and orchards, on certain conditions of repair and care of the stock. The lease was renewed in 1610 for a term of 41 years, and on later occasions; see CSPD, p. 618, Hasted, History of Kent, I, p. 4, and records in Add. MSS 78611 and 78612 below. On his death in 1645 it passed to his son Sir Richard Browne, Bart. After the execution of Charles I in 1649 the manor was vested in trustees in order to be sold, the house and adjacent land being then occupied by Sir Richard's brother-in-law, William Pretyman. John Evelyn, having married Browne’s daughter, bought it in 1653, but continued to share the house with Pretyman until April 1655. At the Restoration the manor again became crown property and Evelyn secured a renewal of the lease, though not in fee farm, as Charles II had promised. He lived there until 1694, and made a famous garden adjacent to the manor house. His grandson, Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart., was able to purchase the manor from the crown and the Evelyns continued to own it into the 19th century. For a summary of the Browne-Evelyn ownership of the property, see Evelyn, Diary, II, pp. 537-538, n. 6, and III, p. 59, n. 1. Nineteen volumes. (c 1545-1877)
Scope and Content Deptford, Kent: Estate papers, account-books and plans rel. to the manor of Sayes Court: circa
Page 404 2021-08-13 1545-1877.
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Add MS 78611 (1545-1627)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78611
Creation Date 1545-1627
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXLIV. Miscellaneous papers; 1545-1627. Including a survey of the demesne lands, temp. Elizabeth I, and correspondence, petitions, etc., temp. James I, concerning negotiations between Christopher Browne and the Board of Green Cloth about his grant and allowances and the maintenance of the property, the wharf and marsh wall.
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Add MS 78612 (1630-1635)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78612
Creation Date 1630-1635
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXLV. Miscellaneous papers; 1630-1635, n.d. Including petitions of Christopher Browne for the renewal of the lease and a draft and copy of the renewal from the date of its expiry in 1651, for a further 24 years.
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Page 405 2021-08-13 Add MS 78613 (1642-1659)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78613
Creation Date 1642-1659
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXLVI. Miscellaneous papers; 1642-1653. Including items concerning John Evelyn’s renovation of the house and creation of the garden.
1.Letter from Sir Richard Browne to Edward Nicholas, Secretary of State concerning the possible sale of Sayes Court; 1642. Copy.
2.Survey of the manor of Sayes Court by commissioners for the sale of royal manors and lands; Dec. 1649-Jan. 1650. Copy.
3.Promise by Charles II to grant Sayes Court to Sir Richard Browne to compensate him for arrears in his expenses and allowances; 19 Sept. 1649. With confirmation; 8 Nov. 1652. Both signed, with seals en placard.
4.Order by the commissioners for the sale of fee farm rents; Sept. 1650. Copy.
5.List by Sir Richard Browne of the `Names of some of the Rebell Purchasers of Sayes Court'; [1650s]. Autograph.
6.`Particular’ by Sir Richard Browne of the rents of Sayes Court; 15 March 1652. Autograp h.
7.List of reparations at Sayes Court to be carried out for William Pretyman and Evelyn by Richard Shellman, carpenter; 1 April 1652.
8.Agreement and bond between Evelyn and Matthew Blissett, gardener, for the supply of trees for the orchard at Sayes Court; Jan. 1652/3.
9.Bond of Evelyn and Pretyman to William Joburne of Deptford, 7 Nov. 1653. Purchased separately from John Wilson, 21 Sept. 1999.
10.Agreement between Evelyn and William Staples, bricklayer, for the building of the brewhouse and wash-house chimnies at Sayes Court; 20 Dec. 1653.
11.Bonds by George Goreham and William Staples for the performance of agreements about building at Sayes Court; 1656.
12.Lists of mottoes compiled by Evelyn for the renovated Sayes Court, under the headings `Aviary', `Villa', `Garden', `Bees', `Elaboratory', `Dials', `House'; [1650s?], but later marked by him for inclusion in the appropriate chapters of the `Elysium Britannicum'. Mostly Latin; a few Greek. For the `quaint mottoes’ incorporated into the house and garden at Sayes Court, see Roger North, Lives of the Norths, ed. A. Jessopp (1890), I, p. 375.
13.Assignment of property at Sayes Court from James Stephens of Lincoln's Inn and William Pretyman, to Sir Edward Abney and John Wilkinson; [aft. 1653]. Copies. Imperfect; wanting leaves at the end.
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Page 406 2021-08-13 Add MS 78614 (1660-1704)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78614
Creation Date 1660-1704
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXLVII. Miscellaneous papers; 1660-1704, n.d. Consisting of petitions, surveys, correspondence, accounts, articles of agreement, etc., mostly drafts and copies, of Sir Richard Browne and John Evelyn and John Evelyn junior (on whom the estate was settled at the time of his marriage in 1680). The subjects include the crown lease and its boundaries, the leases of tenants (particularly the principal one, Sir Denys Gauden), a scheme in 1667 for brick manufacture on the estate involving Sir Samuel Morland and Sir John Kievit, the building of a mast-dock, adverse effects of other adjacent works or failures of maintenance in the dockyard and a petition of London merchants of temp. Queen Anne, to have the Red House at Deptford made a free wharf.
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Add MS 78615 (1674-1690)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78615
Creation Date 1674-1690
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXLVIII. Papers relating to prolonged legal proceedings between Sir Richard Browne, the Evelyns, William Pretyman and others; 1674-1690. These arose over the administration of Sayes Court and other properties by William Pretyman while Sir Richard Browne was abroad in the 1640s and 1650s. In order to preserve his ownership and supply himself with money, he conveyed Sayes Court in trust to Pretyman in 1642. When Pretyman refused to settle accounts after the Restoration, Browne began the suit in 1673 `to have an account and redeem his estate'. The defendants in their turn sued him for sums remitted to him abroad and owed to them for administering the estate. The dispute was eventually settled in 1687 by James II's grant to the Evelyns as Sir Richard's heirs of a debt owed to the crown by Pretyman as Receiver of the First Fruits, in settlement of a debt owed by the crown to Browne for expenses incurred while he was Resident in Paris, and by the Evelyns’ agreeing to discharge Pretyman of the debt in return for his making no further demands on them. However, as late as 1690 they were taking action against Pretyman's administrator for payment of the debt granted to them. The papers consist chiefly of draft documents in the hand of Browne, Evelyn and his son, a copy of Pretyman's response to Browne, 26 June 1682, and calculations of the various debts.
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Page 407 2021-08-13 Add MS 78616 (1706-1763)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78616
Creation Date 1706-1763
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXLIX. Miscellaneous papers of the time of Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart.; 1706-1763.
1.Notes by the steward John Strickland of tenants and rents of houses in Deptford, with drawings in elevation of the houses and the names of occupiers; 1706.
2.Account and receipt of quit rents payable by John Evelyn to the crown; 1706.
3.List and amounts by John Strickland of workman's bills at Deptford; 1706-1707.
4.Abstract of Sir John Evelyn’s title to `the Houses, Lands & Copperas Grounds in Deptford', 1566-1707, partly in the hand of Sir John Evelyn; aft. 1707.
5.Rentals at Deptford, by Sir John Evelyn and John Strickland; 1708-1718. That of 1715 is endorsed by Evelyn, `Tenants at Deptford 1715 with numbers to Mr Grove's plot' (i.e the survey at Add. MS 78629 K below).
6.John Strickland’s balance of account; 1717-1718
7.Legal opinion by Constantine Phipps concerning the liability of the officers of the King's Yard at Deptford for tax on their salaries; 16 June 1718.
8.Bond of John Darby of Deptford to William Lee; 27 June 1719.
9.Act of the parish authorities of St Mary Rotherhithe concerning Wolfacre Lane; 6 Dec. 1719.
10.Particular by Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart., of his leasehold estate at Deptford; 1720. Autograp h.
11.Notes, [italics]drafts[/italics], surveys and valuations concerning the leasehold history of the Sayes Court estate, in connection with Sir John Evelyn’s case for purchasing it from the crown; 1723-1725. Partly [italics]autograph.[/italics]
12.[italics]A Bill to enable His Majesty to Grant the Inheritance of certain Lands and Tenements in or near Deptford, in the County of Kent, to Trustees for Sir John Evelyn, Bart. and his Heirs, upon a full consideration to be paid for the same[/italics]; 1725?]. Two [italics]copies[/italics], [italics]printed,[/italics] the first with a MS annotation by Sir John Evelyn, the second with an [italics]extract[/italics] of a [italics]printed[/italics] sale catalogue pasted to the front cover, indicating that it was a 19[superscript]th[/superscript] cent. addition to the archive by purchase. Followed by a [italics]printed[/italics] copy of the Bill as enacted: [italics]An Act to enable His Majesty to Grant the Inheritance of certain lands and tenements …[/italics]
13.Proposal by the Commissioners of the Navy for enlarging the dockyard at Deptford, with Sir John Evelyn’s response; 1725. [italics]Copies[/italics].
14.Letters patent of George I, granting the reversion of the Sayes Court estate to Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart.; 1726. Copy, 1743. Latin. With accounts of expenses associated with the passing of it.
15.An Act for providing a Maintenance for the Minister of the New Parish Church of St Nicholas Deptford, in the County of Kent, and Surrey; and for making the same a distinct Parish; aft. 1727. Printed.
16.Rental of Deptford, as assessed for the Land Tax and Poor Rate; 1728.
17.Proceedings arising from a lease from John Evelyn to Anthony Phillips of land in Deptford of 5 Aug 1703; 1729. Including a draft of the lease, a power of attorney from Andrew Phillips
Page 408 2021-08-13 to William Taylor, 28 July 1713, and release from bond, 17 April 1714.
18.Declarations of ejectment; 1740. Partly [italics]printed[/italics].
19.Settlement by Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart., on the poor of the parishes of St Paul and St Nicholas, Deptford; 1749. [italics]Copy.[/italics]
20.List by Sir John Evelyn of ground rents at Deptford, with names of lessees, expiry dates, and current occupiers; 1757. [italics]Autograph[/italics].
21.Surveys of houses in Deptford, by Edward Cole; 1757-1759.
22.Bond by William Dudman, Henry Adams, William Barnard and John Barnard to Sir John Evelyn for performance of covenants in a lease; 1763.
23.Key by Sir John Evelyn to the survey of Sayes Court by John Grove of [1714?] (Add. MS 78629 K below), giving field names and acreages; n.d. Autograph.
Legal Status Not Public Record(s)
Add MS 78617 (1765-1999)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78617
Creation Date 1765-1999
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCL. Miscellaneous papers; 1765-1837.
1.Fire insurance policies of Sir John Evelyn, 2[superscript]nd[/superscript] Bart., and Sir Frederick Evelyn, 3[superscript]rd[/superscript] Bart., for properties in the parish of St Paul, Deptford; 1765-1780. Partly [italics]engraved[/italics].
2.Case and legal opinion by James Booth of Lincoln’s Inn concerning a lease of Edward Snelgrove; 1766.
1.Bill from Edward Currey to Sir Frederick Evelyn, for legal expenses in connection with Deptford; 1778-1780.
2.Counterpart of agreement between Sir Frederick Evelyn on the one part and John Clackson and Richard Bailey on the other concerning a lease at Deptford; 1790.
3.Receipts for fee farm rents from John Evelyn; 1820. Partly [italics]printed[/italics].
4.Notes by William Bray concerning the transmission of the Evelyns’ title to Deptford, 1725-1817; 1824.
5.Minute by the Committee of Bermondsey workhouse concerning compensation for road improvements affecting a property leased from George Evelyn; 1824.
6.Notice to the Trustees of the Roads concerning the demolition and rebuilding of houses in St Paul’s, Deptford; 1825. [italics]Copy[/italics].
7.Estimate by Peter Franks for roofing at Deptford; 1828.
8.Statement of income and expenditure of the Bermondsey, Rotherhithe and Deptford Roads Trust; 1828. [italics]Printed[/italics], endorsed for George Evelyn.
9.Form of authorization for building on the Evelyn estate during the minority of William John Evelyn; aft 1830. [italics]Printed[/italics],
10.[italics]A Bill for making Wet Docks and other Works on the South side of the River
Page 409 2021-08-13 Thames, at or near Rotherhithe and Deptford ... to be called `The Grand Collier Docks’[/italics]; 1837. [italics]Printed[/italics], endorsed with the name of James Banks, Blackheath Road.
11.Calculations concerning rents for the Evelyn estate at Deptford; 1837.
12.Licence to mortgage a property in Deptford from Samuel James Hose to George Bolton; 1875.
13.Receipts and payments of William John Evelyn in connection with the sale of Dudman’s dock; 1877.
14.List of leases, agreements and licences signed by William John Evelyn in respect of Deptford properties; 1877.
15.Notes in the hand of William John Evelyn concerning Deptford events and property transactions from the 16[superscript]th[/superscript] to the 19[superscript]th[/superscript] cent.; aft. 1873.
16.Memorial volume concerning the building of St Luke’s Church Deptford, presented to William John Evelyn, who had given the site; 1875. [italics]Printed[/italics], with annotation by Evelyn and photographs of the interior, exterior and the laying of the foundation stone.
17.Rough pen and ink sketch of Sayes Court house and the adjacent Brick Close, apparently taken from Add. MS 78629 A below; 20th cent.
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Add MS 78618 (1682-1704)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78618
Creation Date 1682-1704
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCLI. Account-book used by Evelyn from 1690 onwards chiefly as a record of his Deptford leases and rents, but also containing other financial memoranda, especially in connection with his earlier debts; 1682-1704. Autograph. Beal EvJ 64. Formerly Evelyn MS 62. The volume has had many leaves torn out and many of those present are loose insertions. This, together with the title lettered by Evelyn on the front cover (see below) and the similarity of the volume in format to his earlier personal account-books, Add. MS 78405-78406 above, suggests that it had originally been used as a continuation of Add. MS 78405 B, `Debita containing Both what is owing to me & what is owing by me', 1650-1683.
ff. 25. Original vellum covers, lettered by Evelyn in ink on the front cover, `Debita Ab. Anno M.D.C.LXXXXII [sic for LXXXII?]’, and `Rents paid & Arreares due to JE’, with further notes below by William John Evelyn concerning the many leaves cut out, 1871. 385 x 160mm.
1.ff. 1-4v. Abstract of Deptford leases; 1690.
2.ff. 5-6v. Rental of the Deptford estate, with tenants’ names and rents; 1690.
3.ff. 7-9v. Abstract of Deptford leases, after the sale of lands to pay the marriage portion of his daughter Susan; 1694, with additions to 1703.
4.ff. 10-11. Rental; 1694, with additions to 1700.
5.ff. 11v-12. Summaries of income from Deptford, Wotton and other sources and of yearly expenditure; 1703-1704.
6.ff. 13-21v. Quarterly accounts of rents received; 1694-1702.
7.ff. 22v-23v. Debts due to and owed by Evelyn; 1682-1703, but including debts dating from
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8.f. 24. `Memoranda’ of the names and addresses of occupiers of leasehold properties in Deptford, [1680s-1690s], with below, an account of rent and expenses at his Dover Street house, 1704.
9.f. 25. Notes of various payments and receipts, chiefly in connection with family debts and estate matters; 1700-[1702?].
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Add MS 78619 (1720-1728)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78619
Creation Date 1720-1728
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCLII. Rental (ff. 1-51, giving tenants and occupiers’ names, property details, rents, fines, terms and expiry dates of leases), and accounts (ff. 52v-73, receipts and payments), for the Deptford estate, by Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart.; 1720-1728. Autograph. Formerly Evelyn MS 255/1
ff. i+73. Vellum binding lettered on the front cover by William John Evelyn. 320 x 210mm.
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Add MS 78620 (1728-1741)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78620
Creation Date 1728-1741
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCLIII. Rental for the Deptford estate by Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart., continuing the preceding; 1728-1741, with a few additions to 1760. Autograph. Formerly Evelyn MS 210.
ff. ii+29. Marbled paper wrappers. 155 x 200mm.
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Page 411 2021-08-13 Add MS 78621 (1735-1742)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78621
Creation Date 1735-1742
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCLIV. Deptford estate accounts of Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart. (receipts and payments), 1735-1742, and rental (with notes of payments received and due), 1735-1747. Autograph. Formerly Evelyn MS 242.
Vellum binding. 320 x 210mm.
Legal Status Not Public Record(s)
Add MS 78622 (1742-1759)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78622
Creation Date 1742-1759
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCLV. Deptford estate accounts (receipts and payments) of Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart.; 1742-1759. Autograph. Formerly Evelyn MS 243.
Vellum binding. 330 x 200mm.
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Page 412 2021-08-13 Add MS 78623 (1758-1766)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78623
Creation Date 1758-1766
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCLVI. Steward’s rental (tenants’ names, amounts of rents and arrears) for the Deptford estate; 1758-1766. In two distinct hands. Formerly Evelyn MS 209.
Vellum binding. 210 x 165mm.
Legal Status Not Public Record(s)
Add MS 78624 (1735-1766)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78624
Creation Date 1735-1766
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCLVII. Stewards’ rentals and accounts for Deptford; 1735-1766.
Paper wrappers. 330 x 210mm.
1.Rental in two distinct hands for the parishes of St Nicholas and St Paul and elsewhere in Deptford, with occasional marginal comments by Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart.; 1735-1737. Formerly Evelyn MS 255/2.
2.Annual rentals and accounts of Edward Currey for the Grove Street estate in Deptford; 1763-1766. Copies. Formerly Evelyn MS 255/3 and /4.
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Page 413 2021-08-13 Add MS 78625 (1771-1792)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78625
Creation Date 1771-1792
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCLVIII. Rentals and accounts of Edward Currey, as receiver of rents for the Deptford estate, signed by Sir Frederick Evelyn, 3rd Bart.; 1771-1792. Formerly Evelyn MS 247.
340 x 210mm.
Legal Status Not Public Record(s)
Add MS 78626 (1792-1797)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78626
Creation Date 1792-1797
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content Vol. CCCCLIX. Annual rentals and accounts of George Mitchell as receiver of rents for the Deptford estate, signed by Sir Frederick Evelyn, 3rd Bart.; 1792-1797. Formerly Evelyn MS 255/5-9.
Paper covers. 330 x 210mm.
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Page 414 2021-08-13 Add MS 78627 (1803-1819)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78627
Creation Date 1803-1819
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content Vol. CCCCLX. Annual rentals and accounts of Edward Swift as receiver of rents for the Deptford estate, signed by Sir Frederick Evelyn, 3rd Bart., and his widow; 1803-1819. Formerly Evelyn MS 255/10-20.
Paper covers. 330 x 200mm.
Legal Status Not Public Record(s)
Add MS 78628 A-B EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCLXI A, B. Plans of Sayes Court garden; [1652-1654?]-1685. The garden is discussed in
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78628 A-B
Creation Date [1652-1654?]
Extent and Format 2 items
Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCLXI A, B. Plans of Sayes Court garden; [1652-1654?]-1685. The garden is discussed in Mark Laird, `Parterre, Grove and Flower Garden: European Horticulture and Planting Design in John Evelyn’s Time’, in John Evelyn’s `Elysium Britannicum’ and European Gardening, eds. Therese O’Malley and Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn (Washington, D.C., 1998), pp. 171-219, and `Sayes Court Revisited’, in John Evelyn and his Milieu, eds. F. Harris and M. Hunter (British Library, 2003), pp. 115-144. ([1652-1654?])
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Page 415 2021-08-13 Add MS 78628 A ([1652-1654?])
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78628 A
Creation Date [1652-1654?]
Extent and Format 1 item
Conditions of Use Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript
Scope and Content A. Untitled plan of John Evelyn’s house and garden at Sayes Court, with a detailed key occupying most of the left-hand side of the sheet, linked to the plan by means of 126 numbers, and headed, `Explanation of the Particulars Referring to the Numbers’; [1652-1654?]. Plan in pen and ink, designed by Evelyn but probably drawn and written by his amanuensis Richard Hoare. Cartouche to the left of centre in the form of a plinth, incorporating a [italics]Latin[/italics] inscription and surmounted by compasses, enclosing a compass rose (south at top) and scale bar: 40 yards: 2.35 inches [1: 612]. Showing the house and out-buildings in ground plan with individual rooms differentiated, and to the west the private garden, kitchen-gardens, oval parterre, grove, and to the far west the orchard, all delineated in great detail with planting patterns and pathways indicated and trees shown pictorially. Bounded by `Part of Great Broome Field’ (top and right), `Part of ten Acres [Field]’ (bottom), `part of K[ing’s Dock]yard’ (left). With several old repairs where the paper has been mutilated along earlier folds, resulting in some loss of text from the key and detail towards the top and bottom of the plan.
The plan was devised by John Evelyn shortly after he returned to England in 1652 after a long period of travel in Europe, as the working design and record of his renovations to the house and garden at Sayes Court. The Latin inscription within the cartouche, which includes the statement, `manu sua delineavit JE’, might be taken to indicate that he drew the present plan himself. However the key and other handwritten content are not in his hand, but appear to be in that of his amanuensis Richard Hoare and the whole is uniform in style and ink. It is likely that Hoare, an expert draftsman and calligrapher, copied the plan, including the inscription, from Evelyn’s draft, some time in or after 1654. This is confirmed by two letters Evelyn wrote to his father-in-law Sir Richard Browne; in the first of Sept. 1652 he refers to `the oval garden’, `the Exact designe whereof (together with our other environs) I purpose to send you coppied exactly from the plott which I have now finished and is the guide of all our designes’; in the second of 23 Jan. 1653/4 he adds, `I am exceedingly rejoyced to find that my little designes heere have pleasd you as I find they have by the foote of your letter, in those most excellent Verses, which I entend to engrave on a plate designed with this Epigraph: Nob viro D.D. R.B. Equiti aurato et Baronetto … Hunc Tamesis spectissimae Fluvii prospectum quem a Ripa Haeredituriae eius Terrae et Nativitatis loci in Agro Deptfordi[-?] manu sua propria delineavit et in Aere excusit J.E. Gener. Eius Amantiss: observantae … but of this more hereafter’ (see Add. MS 78221 above). The second letter indicates that Evelyn intended to engrave the plan himself, incorporating the inscription to his father-in-law, whose hereditary estate Sayes Court was. The present plan is in keeping with this intention; it is executed with great precision and clarity as to detail, the key is calligraphically written, and the cartouche incorporates an inscription to Browne similar to that quoted in the above letter. However no plate or print of the plan is known. The plan has been frequently reproduced, most notably in full and with several details of particular areas, including a transcribed key, in Prudence Leith-Ross, `The Garden of John Evelyn at Deptford’, Garden History, 25 (1997), pp. 138-152.
Paper. 565 x 645mm.
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Page 416 2021-08-13 Add MS 78628 B (Feb 1685)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78628 B
Creation Date Feb 1685
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content B.Plan by John Evelyn of part of the south-west portion of the garden at Sayes Court, with lists of fruit-trees planted there; Feb. 1685. Autograph. Pen and ink. Compass rose lower centre (south at top). No scale, but by comparison with the plan above, approx. 1: 342. Showing the part of the garden bounded by the west wall of the entrance courtyard of the house (left), the grass-walk (right), the home field (top) and the famous Sayes Court holly hedge and `mount walke or Terrace', which separated this part of the garden from the groves (bottom). Trees are shown pictorially, walls and gateways and the summer-house at the top of the hemispherical `bowling-green’ (the same that is depicted on the original garden plan above) in elevation.
The plan is untitled, but has been identified from a comparison with features shown on Add. MS 78629 A, references in `Directions to the Gardiner at Says-Court’, Add. MS 78349 (see below), and estate plans of Sayes Court which show the later garden in outline, by Joel Gascoigne in 1692 and John Grove in the early 18th century (British Library K. Top. XVIII.17.2, 3). When the garden was first laid out in the 1650s, the eastern half of this area of the garden was occupied by the elaborate oval parterre and the western half by the upper part of the orchard. As a result of changing fashions after the Restoration and especially after the severe winter of 1683/4, Evelyn greatly simplified the layout as shown on this plan. The main component of the new design was the large hemispherical `bowling-green’ or area of smooth lawn (also shown on the Gascoigne and Grove maps mentioned above), with the quadrants or `Triangular grounds’ on either side and the wall on the east side planted with fruit-trees. The named varieties are listed in a table which occupies the area of the bowling-green: 12 kinds of cherry; 21 varieties of pear in the quadrants, as well as apples, plums apricots, vines and figs on the walls, and underplanting including gooseberries, strawberries and violets. In the top left-hand corner is a further list of the fruit planted elsewhere in the garden: in the fountain and kitchen gardens, and on the island in the pond at the northern end of the garden. In `Directions for the Gardiner at Says-Court' in 1687, Evelyn also included lists of fruit-trees planted in several places in the garden, including the bowling-green area in 1684-1686 (Add. MS 78349, ff. 4-10).
Paper. 335 x 230mm.
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Page 417 2021-08-13 Add MS 78629 A-N EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCLXII. Maps of Deptford and the Sayes Court estate; 1623-1762. (1623-1762)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78629 A-N
Creation Date 1623-1762
Extent and Format 15 items
Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCLXII. Maps of Deptford and the Sayes Court estate; 1623-1762. (1623-1762)
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Add MS 78629 A (1623-1698)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78629 A
Creation Date 1623-1698
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content A.Map of Deptford by an unidentified cartographer; 1623 (date below scale bar), with John Evelyn's extensive autograph additions and annotations concerning the increase in population, the parish clergy, the origin of some of the buildings, etc., including his sketch of Sayes Court house, aft. 1698. Pen and ink on paper. Compass rose in lefthand corner (east at top). Scale bar: 50 perches (825 feet): 6.5 inches [1: 1523]. Bounded by Deptford Creek (top), River Thames (left), open fields, including `Mr Speights Land’ (right), Sayes Court (bottom). Houses are shown pictorially and the owners of some are named; docks, watergates, wharves, some roads and fields are identified and in some cases acreages given. Mutilated apparently by damage from damp, afterwards repaired and rebacked, with some loss of plan and text in the upper right quarter. With a label on the verso by Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart., `Old Map of Deptford 1623’. Engraved by `H. Mutlow, York Street’, with Evelyn’s annotations transcribed, for Nathan Dews, The History of Deptford (1884); a copy of this engraving with a pencil endorsement by W. G. Hiscock is included. Beal EvJ 117. Formerly Evelyn MS 153.
Paper. 521 x 730mm.
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Page 418 2021-08-13 Add MS 78629 B ([before 1652?])
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78629 B
Creation Date [before 1652?]
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content B.Untitled plan by an unidentified surveyor, with paper label in Evelyn’s hand on the verso, `Rolle containing Divers surveys of the Grounds at Says Court & Roads in Deptford belonging to Jo: Evelyn &c’., with `Leasehold from the Crown’ added in another contemporary hand’; [bef. 1652?]. Pen and ink, with field borders marked in coloured washes. Large coloured compass rose (east at top). Scale bar: 100 perches: 7.5 inches [1: 2640]. Showing field names and acreages; bounded by the river Thames, Brick Close and Butt Lane (top); New Cross Field (right); Woolpicker Lane (bottom); Bridghouse Land (left). A few buildings are sketched pictorially in ink, including Halfway House and `Mr Prittymans House’. The latter, from its location (near Brick Close, Butt Lane and the east Broomfield), may represent Sayes Court manor house at the period before 1652 when it was occupied by Sir Richard Browne’s brother-in-law and trustee William Pretyman, but its frontage more closely resembles the nearby `storekeeper’s house’, as shown on Add. MS 78629 A above. A garden plan has been faintly sketched around it in pencil at an indeterminate date. Formerly Evelyn MS 281.
Vellum. 720 x 550mm.
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Add MS 78629 C (1655)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78629 C
Creation Date 1655
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content C.`An exact Platt and Discription of certaine Dweling Houses & Wharfs with the Meadowe or Marsh Grounds Lying and being within the Parish of Depthford, in the County of Kent Parcell of the Possessions of Sir Nich: Crisp knight 1655’, surveyed by Richard Daynes. Pen and ink and coloured washes for the boundaries and buildings. Scale bar: 1000 feet: 6 inches [1: 2000]. Compass points in borders (east at top). Showing field names and boundaries, paths and buildings (mostly in plan). The fields are numbered sequentially, suggesting that a key to which these referred was once present.
Paper. 565 x 630mm.
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Page 419 2021-08-13 Add MS 78629 D (1674)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78629 D
Creation Date 1674
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content D.`A Mapp of the Copperas House, Lands and Tennements thereunto belonging, Lyeing in the Parish of Deptford in the County of Kent, held by Lease from Sir Richard Browne Knight and Baronet’, surveyed by William Mar; 1674. Pen and ink and coloured washes. Compass rose (east at top). Scale bar: 20 perches: 5 inches [1: 792]. Bounded by the Ravensbourne river (top) and Sir John Cutler’s land (right); showing enclosures, including the copperas bed, with acreages and names, highway, river `Ravensbury [Ravensbourne]’, and some buildings in elevation.
Vellum. 570 x 330mm.
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Add MS 78629 E (1676)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78629 E
Creation Date 1676
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content E.Plan of a proposed mast dock at Deptford; 1676. Ruled in pen and pencil, with measurements and annotations in an unidentified hand. Endorsed in a different hand, `Deptford for a Mast Dock tendered to the Navy Board the 4 Octo: 1676’. No compass orientation but south approx. at top. Scale bar: 30 feet: 1 inch [1: 360].
Paper. 540 x 440mm.
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Page 420 2021-08-13 Add MS 78629 F (1692)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78629 F
Creation Date 1692
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content F.`An Actuall Survey of severall parcels of land in tenure of Edward Snelgrove from [blank] Eveling Esq’, by an unidentified surveyor, presumably to accompany a lease; 1692. Compass rose (east at top). Pen and ink and coloured washes. Scale bar: 90 feet: 1 inch [1: 1080]. Showing 8 numbered areas of land with acreages on plan and in the key; a few buildings, foot-ways, Lamb’s mill and mill-pond, river Thames and wharfside (top), and `Sir Dennis Gauden’s land’ (right boundary). Endorsed in the hand of John Evelyn junior, `Survey of Mr Snelgrove and Mr Russells yard and Works at Deptford 1692’.
Vellum. 280 x 325mm.
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Add MS 78629 G (1693)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78629 G
Creation Date 1693
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content G.`Survey of the Fee Farm sold to Mr Vocking for my daughter [Susan] Draper's Portion', by John Evelyn; 1693. Autograph. Pen and ink. Compass rose (south at top). No scale given. Showing field names and acreages, with boundaries high-lighted in pink wash. London highway (top), Butt Lane (left), Green Lane (right), New Plantation Lane (bottom). A few houses shown pictorially. With a note by Evelyn at the the foot that the land had been purchased by Christopher Browne in 1631 and was therefore not part of the original crown lease of Sayes Court. Imperfect by damage to the bottom and right edges.
Paper. 230 x 330mm.
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Page 421 2021-08-13 Add MS 78629 H ([between 1702-1714])
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78629 H
Creation Date [between 1702-1714]
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content H. `Plott of the Mast-dock att Deptford'; temp. Qu. Anne. Ink and coloured wash, with the title and key in the hand of Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart., who possibly also drew the plan. No compass orientation. Scale bar: 50 feet(?): 1 inch [1: 600?].
Paper. 258 x 400mm.
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Add MS 78629 IA-IB I a,b.`A Survey of the Mast Dock by the Red House at Deptford with the way reserved up to Esq: Evelyn House
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78629 IA-IB
Creation Date 5 Nov 1711
Extent and Format 2 items
Title I a,b.`A Survey of the Mast Dock by the Red House at Deptford with the way reserved up to Esq: Evelyn House and a foot way by the Ditch side for to come to mend to Sluss [sic] that is on the east side of the Red House. Surveyed 5th Nov 1711. By John Grove’. Scale bar: 70 feet: 3 inches [1: 840]. No compass orientation. Ink and coloured washes, with a cartouche made up of an ornate engraved border, cut out and pasted on to enclose the MS title. Showing the dockyard boundary (left); the edge of the Red House (right), the mast dock, bridges, footways, ditches, `the anchor wharf’, crane and sluice. Endorsed, apparently by Sir John Evelyn, `Several draughts of Freehold land at Deptford’. Vellum. Two copies, slightly varying in title. 495 x 555mm. (5 Nov 1711)
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Page 422 2021-08-13 Add MS 78629 IA (5 Nov 1711)
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Creation Date 5 Nov 1711
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Scope and Content Vol 1
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Creation Date 5 Nov 1711
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Scope and Content Vol 2
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Creation Date 1712
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Scope and Content J.`Plan of Gammons Mill att Deptford’, by an unidentified hand; 1712. Plan and elevation in ink and grey wash, endorsed with the title and date by Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart. No compass orientation. Scale bar: 7 feet: 1 inch [1: 84]. Ground floor rooms are identified on the plan and measurements given. Adjacent Cutler’s Mill, waterway and barn are shown in plan.
Paper. 360 x 475mm.
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Page 423 2021-08-13 Add MS 78629 K ([1714?])
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Creation Date [1714?]
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Scope and Content K.`An Actuall Survey of the Lands belonging to Sayes Court in the Parish of Deptford in the County of Kent, being the Estate of John Evelyn Esq: surveyed in the Twelfe year of our Sovereign Lady Queen Ann By John Grove’; [1714?]. Ink and coloured washes. Compass rose (west south west at top). Scale bar: 50 chains: 8 inches [1: 4950]. Showing Sayes Court house and garden in plan, with the outlines of the garden layout in some detail, dockyard boundary (bottom), Woolpicker lane (top), fields (numbered for reference to a separate key), named roads and pathways, river Thames and buildings on the frontage and elsewhere. The layout of Sayes Court garden as shown here differs from that shown in Add. MS 78628 B above and the maps at K. Top XVIII.17.2, 3 cited there, in that the hemispherical bowling-green appears to have been replaced with rows of trees. The map has three insets each with different compass orientation, one a street of tenements (south at top), the second adjacent to the Ravensbourne river (east at top), the third headed `The Mill & Meadowes with Dog Lane field and slowes [i.e. sluice?] Field’ (south south east at top). With a separate key on paper in a later hand, of which that in the hand of Sir John Evelyn in Add. MS 78616 above is a slightly differing version.
Vellum. 300 x 495mm.
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Creation Date [1st half of 18th century?]
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Scope and Content L.Plan by an unidentified surveyor, endorsed in the hand of Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart.(?), `King’s Yd at Deptford’; [first half of 18th cent.?]. In red and black ink and cream wash. Compass rose (south west at top). Scale bar: 10 fathoms: 1.25 inches [1: 576]. Showing the wet dock and mast dock, ditches, canals, some named dockyard buildings, and the road to the Red House. With an area marked out by a broken red line and a table of acreages `Propos’d to be Bought’ and `Remains without the Red Prick’d Bound line’.
Paper. 525 x 640mm.
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Creation Date 1759
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Scope and Content M.`A Plan of Houses &c part of a Freehold Estate Belonging to Sir John Evelyn Baronet. Situate in the Parishes of St Paul and St Nich: Deptford in Kent Surveyed by Thos Wiggens 1759’. Ink and coloured washes, with cartouche with decorated and coloured border. Compass rose (west at top). Scale bar: 400 feet: 10 inches [1: 480]. Showing numbered tenements with a key to leaseholders’ names. Bounded on the west and south-west by the roads to Rotherhithe and Grove Street, to the north east by the royal dockyard wall and the way to Sayes Court house, to the east by Butt Lane and Back Lane, on the south by `Loving Edwards’s Lane’ and the Little Broomfield.
Vellum. 920 x 865mm.
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Creation Date 1762
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Scope and Content N.`A Plan of Part of the Estate Belonging to Sir John Evelyn Bar. Situate in Deptford in the County of Kent. Containing the Leases of the Red Houses, the Water Mills & Reservoirs, Anchor Smiths Alley, Grove Street & Mr Wells’s Dock Yard which Expire the 1st of April 1763. Survey’d By Thos Wiggens Greenwich 1762’. Pen and ink and coloured washes. Cartouche with decorative border in pen and ink. Compass rose (west at top). Scale bar: 200 feet: 4 inches [1: 600]. Showing streams, wet and dry docks and reservoirs, field names, boundaries, and acreages, buildings in plan, named roads and the boundary of the Victualling Office.
Vellum. 995 x 720mm
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Page 425 2021-08-13 Add MS 78630-78643 CATALOGUES OF THE EVELYN LIBRARY78630- 78643. EVELYN PAPERS. . CCCCLXIII- CCCCLXXVI. Catalogues of the book
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Creation Date 1653-[1860s]
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Title CATALOGUES OF THE EVELYN LIBRARY78630-78643. EVELYN PAPERS. . CCCCLXIII- CCCCLXXVI. Catalogues of the book collection begun by John Evelyn (1620-1706) and added to by later generations of the Evelyn family; 1653-[1860s]. Including a few lists of manuscripts. For the collection as dispersed at auction, 1977-78, see Christie’s sale catalogues, The Evelyn Library, Part I, A-C (22-23 June 1977), Part II, D-L (30 Nov.-1 Dec. 1977), Part III, M-S (15-16 March 1978), Part IV, T-Z (12-13 July 1978). See also Nicolas Barker, `The Sale of the Evelyn Library 1977-8’, and Michael Hunter, `The British Library and the Library of John Evelyn’, in Book Collector, 44 (1995), pp. 210-238.Fourteen volumes. (1653-[1860s])
Scope and Content John Evelyn, diarist: Catalogues and papers rel. to the library founded by John Evelyn: 1653-1860s.
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Creation Date 1653-1899
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCLXIII. Volume of blank paper, originally intended by John Evelyn for his library catalogue; 1653-19th cent. The pages have been ruled with margins in red ink on the left and right, but all that has been entered of the catalogue is the title-page (f. 7), `Bibliothecae JEvelyni Catalogus Index Titulorum et Materiarum’, calligraphically written and decorated by his amanuensis, Richard Hoare, 1653. On the verso is `Syllabus Titulorum’, a list in Latin of 15 subject categories with a decorative border. This leaf is not an integral part of the volume; it has been mounted on one of the blank leaves with the marginal rulings extended over it to make the two appear uniform. Five decorated section headings by Hoare, also relating to this catalogue, are in Add. MS 78639, with some titles and press-marks on the versos. Evelyn presumably kept these fragments, perhaps intending to re-use them, when the original catalogue became superseded by the later expansion of his library; see also Michael Hunter, `John Evelyn in the 1650s’, in Science and Shape of Orthodoxy (Woodbridge, 1995), p. 73. The volume was used by later generations of the family for accounts; ff. 1-5 and 8v-46 have been used to enter estate receipts and payments, 1771-1775, and William John Evelyn has made intermittent notes in the remainder of the volume of his studies of the Greek language and of Greek and European history, 19th cent. Formerly Evelyn MS 185.
Original binding of mottled calf, gilt-ruled and stamped, probably made for Evelyn in Paris circa 1650, incorporating devices designed for him by Thomas Simon, of which there are smoke impressions in Add. MS 78639 (2) below: a central oval block with the Evelyn griffin passant surmounted by a griffin head and underneath the motto `Omnia explorate Meliora retinete’, all surrounded by a wreath; his monogram is stamped at each corner of the ruled border and in each panel of the spine; repaired and rebacked. 303 x
Page 426 2021-08-13 220mm.
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Reference Add MS 78631
Creation Date [1686]
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCLXIV. Library catalogue of John Evelyn; [1686] (date in heading of section 2 below). Autograph, with columns and some headings and decoration in red ink. Imperfect, disbound and consisting only of the sections described below. In G. de la Bédoyère, `John Evelyn’s Library Catalogue’, Book Collector, 43 (1994), this catalogue is identified as a partial fair copy of Add. MS 78632 below. There is no other volume now in the archive which can be identified with the `faire Catalogue’ mentioned in Evelyn’s pencilled note on Add. MS 78632, f. 15; however the dates of the two manuscripts and the differences in order and content of the theological works listed in each mean that the identification is not straightforward; see also Theodore Hofmann, et al, `John Evelyn’s Archive at the British Library’, Book Collector, 44 (1995), pp. 170-171. Formerly Evelyn MSS 19, 20 and 259.
ff. 32. 300 x 205mm.
1.f. 1. `Method for a Library according to the Intellectual Powers', a single sheet setting out different methods of classification. Beal EvJ 36. Formerly Evelyn MS 19.
2.ff. 2-13. Catalogue, disbound and incomplete, listing 603 numbered works of `Libri Theologici', dated in the heading 1686. Preceded by an `advertisement' (f. 2v): `This Catalogue digested after the respective Faculties may serve as an Index Materiarum, for which reason the several Title-pages are frequently transcrib'd at large: There being at the End thereof a particular Table of the authors sur-names Alphabetically dispos'd for their easier finding out'; this `table' is evidently now section 3 of the present manuscript. The right-hand margin has been left for press-marks, but very few have been entered. Formerly Evelyn MS 259.
3.ff. 14-32. Index or summary list of books in columns, alphabetically arranged by author’s name and numbered sequentially under each letter. [italics]Imperfect[/italics]; the sequences for A, N and O are missing and three leaves covering D, E and V/W were found with section 2 above. The columns list author, `argumentum’ (i.e. subject category), format, place and date of publication and shelf-mark. Endorsed by Evelyn on the last leaf, `Method of/ My old Catalog at Says-Court’. Formerly Evelyn MS 20.
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Creation Date [1687?]
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCLXV. Library catalogue; [1687?]. The date is taken from the old vellum label now pasted inside the front cover (f. i), said to have been clearly legible when Keynes examined the volume before its present rebinding (Keynes, Evelyn: a Study in Bibliophily, p. 14), but now too faded to read; the publication dates of the books listed indicate that it cannot be earlier. The greater part of the entries are in the hand of John Evelyn junior, with additions by Evelyn senior. This is most detailed surviving catalogue of the 17th century Evelyn library, consisting of a preliminary alphabetical index, followed by the subject categories set out below. Under these, titles are transcribed at some length, with authors, place and date of publication and format. In the lefthand margin the titles are numbered in sequence; in the right-hand margin index references and some locations are given. The index has original pagination [I]-XXVI; the body of the catalogue is paginated 1-217, but with a number of insertions detailed below. The catalogue is discussed in Keynes, pp. 13-17. Part of section 11 (ff. 101-102) is transcribed in Keynes, pp. 297-303; sections 15 and 16 (ff. 121-127) concerning engravings are transcribed by Antony Griffiths, `John Evelyn and the Print’, in F. Harris and Michael Hunter, eds, John Evelyn and his Milieu (2003), pp. 109-112. Inserted at the back of the volume (ff. vi-viii) are a 20th cent. transcript of the music books listed on f. 118v, and notes of the sale and present whereabouts of two books from the Evelyn library. Lot 60 in Evans sale of William Upcott’s collections, 22 June 1846 (Add. MS 78584 B), and purchased by William John Evelyn. Beal EvJ 37. Formerly Evelyn MS 20a.
ff. viii + 139. Made up of gatherings and leaves of different sizes. The vellum label now inside the front cover was probably taken from an original vellum cover; this was replaced in the early 19th century by Upcott with a russia leather binding (Keynes, p. 14); rebound in brown morocco by Zaehnsdorf, Jan. 1937 (inscription on rear fly-leaf). 315 x 205mm.
Containing the following sections:
1.f. 1. `Method for a Librarie According to the Intellectual Powers', followed by several summary schemes of arrangement and press-marking, and (f. 1v) `A shorter Method for a Catalogue'. Recto and verso reproduced in Keynes, plates 3 and 4.
2.ff. 2-14v. Indexes, arranged alphabetically by author’s name or short-title, with each sequence subdivided by the subject categories below and including references to the original pagination.
3.ff. 15-40. `Libri Theologici Scholastici et Heterodoxi'. 782 + 107 + 30 numbered titles. Ff. 35v-40 are in the hand of Evelyn senior. Paginated: 1-48, 48*, 48**.
4.ff. 41-57. `Libri Historici, Ecclesiast. Gen: partic: Chronologici, Virorum Illustrium Vitae &c'. 845 numbered titles. Ff. 54-57 in the hand of Evelyn senior. Paginated: 49-76, 76*, 76**, 76***.
5.ff. 58-67. `Libri Poetici'. 630 numbered titles. Ff. 64v-67 in the hand of Evelyn senior. Paginated: 77-96.
6.ff. 68-73. `Libri Philologici Literatores et Miscellanea'. 448 numbered titles. Parts of ff. 70 and 73 in the hand of Evelyn senior. Paginated: 97-108.
7.ff. 74-80. `Libri Juridici'. 293 numbered titles. Ff. 78v-80 in the hand of Evelyn senior. Paginated: 109-120, 120*.
8.ff. 81-88. `Libri Grammatici. Logici. Rhetorici, Dictionar. Bibliothecarii, Epistolae, &c'. 308 + 66 numbered titles. Ff. 86, 88 in the hand of Evelyn senior. Paginated: 121-136.
9.ff. 89-94. `Libri Philosophici'. 204 numbered titles. Ff. 93, 94 mostly in the hand of Evelyn senior. Paginated: 137-148.
10.ff. 95-99. `Libri Medici'. 189 + 48 numbered titles. Part of f. 97v-f. 99 in the hand of
Page 428 2021-08-13 Evelyn senior. Paginated: 149-158.
11.ff. 100-103. `Historiae Materiarum & Oeconom: Rei Rustici, Mechanologici &c' 127 + 36 numbered titles. Part of f. 101v- f. 103 are in the hand of Evelyn senior. Paginated: 159-166. Titles 1-127 transcribed in Keynes, pp. 297-303.
12.ff. 104-113. `Politici, et Rei Militaris'. 276 + 209 +19 numbered titles. Ff. 109-113 mostly in the hand of Evelyn senior. Paginated 167-182, 182*, 182**, 182***.
13.ff. 114-119. `Libri Mathematici Musici &c'. 244 + 28 + 45 numbered titles. All except the first 18 titles in the hand of Evelyn senior. Paginated 183-192.
14.f. 120. `Mapps & Sea Cards &c'. With no sequential numbering, though with some non-sequential roman numbers. In the hand of Evelyn senior. Paginated: 193-194. Further topgraphical material is listed in section 17 below.
15.ff. 121-122. `Graphicè Sculpture & Taille Douce in Booke & Rolls'. In the hand of Evelyn senior. Paginated: 195-198.
16.ff. 123-125. `Icones &c'. Followed by some rough pencilled notes. In the hand of Evelyn senior. Paginated: 199-200, 200*, 200**
17.ff. 126-127. Untitled notes, mostly in pencil, of maps and other topographical material. In the hand of Evelyn senior. Paginated: 200***, 200****
18.f. 128. `Farrago: Miscellanea ...’, including political and other ephemera. In the hand of Evelyn senior. Paginated: 201-202.
19.ff. 129-135. `Manuscripts’. 86 numbered items, collected by Evelyn and other members of his family, including some which can be identified amongst the present Evelyn Papers (noted in the relevant catalogue entries), and summaries of the contents of bundles and drawers containing letters and papers from the archive of Evelyn and his father-in-law, Sir Richard Browne. In the hand of Evelyn senior. Paginated: 203-210.
20.ff. 136-137. `Pamphlets, stitch’d Books & Loose papers: at Lond: taken at Berkly-street 1699’. In the hand of Evelyn senior. Paginated: 211-212.
21.f. 138: `Fragmenta’, printed works with a note of their place in the above subject categories. In the hand of Evelyn senior. Paginated: 213.
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Creation Date [1690s]
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCLXVI. `Catalogus Bibliothecae Londini'; [1690s]. In the hand of John Evelyn senior. Several leaves have been cut out at the beginning of this small notebook; the surviving pages, numbered 23-37 by Evelyn, have been ruled in pencil into two columns with margins, the first headed `Libri Theologici’. Evelyn has made the preliminary note, `The first Catalogue is Alphabetical; the second of the Subjects & Facultys', and added a list of subjects: `Libri Theologici [with a reference to p. 23], Historici, Politici, Juridici, Mathematici, Medici, Gramatici, Poetici, Philosophici, Philologici, Materiarum, Miscellani', but no entries of titles have been made. Beal EvJ 38. Formerly Evelyn MS 30.
ff. ii + 9. In original paper wrapper, with the title written by Evelyn on the front cover. 190 x 150mm.
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Creation Date c 1699
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCLXVII. `Catalogus Librorum Georgii Evelyni apud Wottoniam ... quos Johanni fratri suo Legavit ... 1699': catalogue of the library at Wotton inherited by John Evelyn from his elder brother, with the title (f. 2v), apparently in the hand of John Evelyn, afterwards 1st Bart; compiled circa 1699. Much of the catalogue is in an unidentified hand which does not appear to be that of George Evelyn himself. The first part (ff. 7-35), headed `Catalogus Librorum Bibliothecae Woottoniana’, is a short-title list in press-mark order, with presses numbered A-H and volumes numbered sequentially under each letter. The second part is an alphabetical list by author or short-title with the press-mark entered in the right margin. In most cases places and dates of publication are not given. Followed by a list of `Books wanting out of the library Jan: 23 1698/9’, some unidentified sketch plans and measurements which may be connected with the garden, and on the last leaf a pencil note by John Evelyn senior that the books totalled 315, of which he had 100 in his own library. Formerly Evelyn MS 28.
ff. iii+79. Contemporary binding of brown calf, gilt-ruled and stamped. 205 x 160mm.
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Creation Date c 1702
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCLXVIII. `Bibliotheca Analecta 1699’: a list of the Evelyn library books, alphabetically by author and/or short-title, with dates and places of publication and what appear to be press-marks in the right margin, in the hand of John Evelyn, afterwards 1st Bart; circa 1702. Despite the date on the title-page, books published up to 1702 are included. With calligraphic trials and mathematical exercises interspersed, and pencil sketch-plans probably connected with the garden at Wotton. Formerly Evelyn MS 204.
ff. 74. Remains of original vellum binding. 200 x 170mm.
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Creation Date [Late 17th century-Early 18th century]
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCLXIX. Library catalogue in the early hand of Sir John Evelyn, 1 st Bart., entitled on the fly-leaf, `Catalogus Materialis’; [late 17th-early 18th cent.]. Containing short-titles, with no places or dates of publication, under the following subject headings, entered on righthand pages with additions on facing pages. Formerly Evelyn MS 27.
ff. iii + 137 (+65*). Contemporary binding of brown calf, repaired and rebacked. 198 x 180mm.
1.ff. 5-24. `Libri Theologici’.
2.ff. 24v-44. `[Libri] Historici’.
3.f. 45. `[Libri] Chronologici’.
4.ff. 45v-51. `[Libri] Geographi’.
5.ff. 51v-60. `[Libri] Politici’.
6.ff. 60v-69. `[Libri] Juridici’.
7.ff. 70-71. `Oratores. Rhetores &c’.
8.ff. 71v-77. `[Libri] Oratorii’. Including romances, novels and letters.
9.f. 78. [Libri] Poetici’; i.e. books about poetry.
10.ff. 78v-85. `Poetae’.
11.ff. 85v-90. `[Libri] Grammatici’.
12.ff. 90v-107. `[Libri] Philosophici’.
Page 431 2021-08-13 13.ff. 107v-120. `[Libri] Mathematici’.
14.ff. 120v-124. `Rei Rusticae Scriptores’.
15.ff. 124v-129. `[Libri] Medici’.
16.ff. 129v-136. `[Libri] Philologici Miscellanii’.
17.f. 137. `Account of Books Lent’.
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Creation Date [1720s-1730s?]
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCLXX. Library catalogue in the hand of Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart.; [1720s-1730s?]. Incomplete, containing details of theological works only, with abbreviated titles, whether folio, quarto or octavo, and place and date of publication, in ruled pencil columns. Formerly Evelyn MS 26.
ff ii.+16. Original binding of green vellum. 325 x 210mm.
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Creation Date 1741-1761
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCLXXI. Catalogue of the books at Wotton; 1741-aft. 1761. A shelf-list in more than one scribal hand, giving short-title, format, place and date of publication for shelves F-Kk (ff. 6-42), followed by shelves A-Ee (ff. 43-98) and by books elsewhere in the house (ff. 99-138), the last date of publication being 1761. At the beginning (ff. 2v-3) are calculations in the hand of Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart., of numbers of books in the library, 20 April 1741, by subject and size, with an overall total of 3854, and a list of prints and print books (ff. 4-5) collected by John Evelyn senior. Formerly Evelyn MS 21.
ff. 138. Notebook with marbled paper wrappers. 320 x 215mm.
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Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78639
Creation Date 1637-1999
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCLXXII. Miscellaneous papers relating to the books, manuscripts and coins collected by John Evelyn and his descendants; 1637-1752.
1.Notes of books and a donation given by Evelyn to Balliol College; 1637, 1676.
2.Smoke impressions on paper from metal dies for the decoration of bindings for Evelyn, by Thomas Simon, graver at the Mint, with inscription by Evelyn; 1641.
3.Designs in pencil and ink made for Evelyn by Abraham Bosse, including a variant book plate and personal cypher, with an enclosed bill and receipt which also refers to Nanteuil’s portrait of Evelyn; 1652. French.
4.Two impressions of a small etched personal cipher, `IE’, within a square border, intertwined with a design of flowers and leaves, one with the pencil inscription `Jo: Evelyn sculpsit’ at the foot; [1650s?]. 40 x 40.5mm. For Evelyn’s engraving, see Antony Griffiths, `John Evelyn and the Print’, in F. Harris and Michael Hunter, eds., John Evelyn and his Milieu (2003), pp. 101-105.
5.Five decorated headings by Richard Hoare cut from his library catalogue of 1653 (for which see Add. MS 78630 above), with some titles and press-marks on the versos. One is formerly Evelyn MS 402.
6.Draft of the `advertisement' to Evelyn’s 1686 library catalogue above, Add. MS 78631 above.
7.Miscellaneous lists of books, prints and maps in Evelyn’s hand, including `Books of Devotion for a Ladys Library’, compiled for Anne, Countess of Sunderland, and a list of books mentioning Evelyn himself; 1686, n.d. Including two notes by Evelyn cut from the fly-leaves of books formerly owned by him, 1660. Formerly Evelyn MSS 487, 515, 577, 601, 603. For further lists by Evelyn of books and manuscripts, see amongst Upcott’s collections, Add. MS 15950, ff. 76-80.
8.Lists by Evelyn of manuscripts in his archive relating to the time of Elizabeth I and to Sir Richard Browne; aft. 1682. Formerly Evelyn MS 581.
9.List by Evelyn of `Catalogue of Books, Papers Rolls &c of my son left at London’; 1692. Formerly Evelyn MS 576.
10.List by Evelyn of his own works and projects in manuscript, most of which remain in his archive, headed `Things I would write out faire and reforme if I had Leasure'; [1690s?]. Autograph. Including `Londoninum Redivium', `Pedegree of the Evelyns’, `The 3 remaining Meditations on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, being the remaining course of Offices …', `A Rational Account of the True Religion ... with a packet of notes belonging to it', `Oeconomicks to a Married Friend’, `The Legend of the Pearle', `Some letters of mine to Electra [Margaret Godolphin] & to others in that packet’, `A Discourse of Staves’, `Library & Manuscripts’, `A Book of some Observations Political & Discourses of that kind', `Thersander’, `Dignity of Mankind’, with later additions, including `My own Ephemeris or diarie’. Printed in Diary and Correspondence, ed. Bray (1859), II, pp. 92. Beal EvJ 42. Formerly Evelyn MS 330.
11.List of letters and papers in Evelyn’s closet at Wotton, including letters and devotional manuscripts associated with Margaret Godolphin; aft. 1702. Autograph, with a pencilled note by W. G. Hiscock. Beal EvJ 40. Formerly Evelyn MS 310.
12.List by Evelyn of books and papers left at Wotton, `when I came to winter at London'; 21 Nov. 1702. Including `A Book of Copys of my own Letters fol. … wherof the last letter is
Page 433 2021-08-13 CCCCII', several commonplace books and bundles, and volumes of religious and sermon notes still in his archive. Beal EvJ 41. Formerly Evelyn MS 311.
13.Notes by Evelyn, possibly for a letter, concerning leases and deeds in his closet at Dover Street; [bef. 1706]. Formerly Evelyn MS 602.
14.`Catalogue of Books left at London in my Grandfathers Study’, in the hand of John Evelyn, afterw. 1st Bart.; [early 1700s?]. With an additional list of maps and rolls.
15.Lists in the hand of Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart., of books, maps and coins belonging to his father, himself and his son Charles; circa 1698-1752.
16.`Mr Evelyn’s MSS at Wotton’, a list of ten items from the archive of John Evelyn the diarist; early 19th cent.
17.`A List of Books Missing from the Library at Wotton’, with press-marks, by F. McPherson; 22 Dec. 1827.
18.List of 14 items from the Evelyn archive headed `Evelyn MS Misc’; 20th cent.
19.Book-lists in unidentified hands, headed respectively `List of Books, At Upton Grey’ and `A Catalogue of all the Classick Authors cum Notis Variorum’; [18th cent.?].
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Creation Date Early 19th century
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCLXXIII. `Catalogus Bibliothecae Evelynianae': a catalogue arranged alphabetically by author, entered on the left-hand pages in the early hand of Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart., with many later additions of books published up to 1812 on facing pages, the latest in an early 19th cent. hand, and shelf-marks added in the left-hand margin; [early 18th-early 19th cent.]. Several 19th cent. engravings of Evelyn family portraits and of Wotton and its environs, chiefly from the first editions of Evelyn’s diary, have been inserted as preliminaries. Formerly Evelyn MS 22.
Binding in blind-tooled brown leather, 19th cent. 350 x 225mm.
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Page 434 2021-08-13 Add MS 78641-78642 EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCLXXIV, CCCLXXV. Catalogue of the Evelyn library compiled by William Upcott, librarian
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Creation Date 1813-1817
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Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCLXXIV, CCCLXXV. Catalogue of the Evelyn library compiled by William Upcott, librarian of the London Institution and autograph collector; 1813-1817. In his memoir of the Evelyn family (Add. MS 78582 A above), William Bray, the Evelyn family solicitor, describes how he recommended Upcott to catalogue the library at Wotton after a fire which resulted in the disarrangement of the books.Two volumes. (1813-1817)
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Creation Date Dec 1813
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCLXXIV. `A Catalogue of the Library at Wotton', with the label on the front cover, `Catalogue No. 2’; Dec. 1813. In a formal, calligraphic hand, which may be that of Upcott. In alphabetical order by author, entered on right hand pages, with format, number of volumes, place and date of publication added in columns, and different sets of press-marks added in left and right hand margins. Each alphabetical sequence is sub-divided by language. Additions have been made in later hands on the left hand pages. A copy of the engraved portrait of Evelyn by Nanteuil has been bound in opposite the title-page. With a pencilled note on the title-page, `1885 books publ. before 1707’, initialled by W.G. Hiscock and dated 12 Oct. 1950. At the end are statements of the delivery of the books to John Evelyn, 1817, to George Evelyn, 1827, to the guardians of William John Evelyn, 1830, and to William John Evelyn on his majority, 1844. Formerly Evelyn MS 23.
Half-binding in red leather and grey paper over boards, with a red leather and gilt-tooled label on the front cover. 390 x 250mm.
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Creation Date Dec 1817
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCLXXV. `A Catalogue of the Library at Wotton'; Dec. 1817. Fair copy in a single scribal hand. In alphabetical order and recording the same books as the preceding catalogue, with numbers of volumes, place and date of publication in columns, but no press-marks. At the end are statements of the delivery of the books to George Evelyn, 1827, and to the guardians of William John Evelyn, 1830. Formerly Evelyn MS 24.
Half-binding in red leather and marbled paper. 385 x 250mm.
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Creation Date 18th century-1861
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCLXXVI. Catalogue of an unidentified library, presumably at Wotton and perhaps (despite the label `Catalogue No. 1’) supplementary to the preceding, since it is in the same format and includes a high proportion of 18th and 19 th century books, the last date of publication being 1861; [1860s]. Entered on right-hand pages in a single scribal hand in alphabetical order by author, with number of volumes, place and date of publication in columns, and press-marks in the left-hand margin. Incomplete, with no entries after `S’. With some loose lists at the end in an unidentified hand, one with the note, `sent to Mr Clarke, Nov. 16. [18[68]’. Formerly Evelyn MS 25.
Half-binding in red leather over boards, with a red leather and gilt-tooled label on the front cover. 380 x 240mm.
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Page 436 2021-08-13 Add MS 78644-78677 MANUSCRIPTS COLLECTED BY THE EVELYN FAMILY78644-78677. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. CCCCLXXVII-DX. Manuscripts
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Creation Date 15th century-18th century
Extent and Format 38 items
Title MANUSCRIPTS COLLECTED BY THE EVELYN FAMILY78644-78677. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. CCCCLXXVII-DX. Manuscripts (with a few other objects) which accrued to the Evelyn archive or library and have remained with the archive, but which cannot be certainly associated with the collections of Sir Richard Browne (see Add. MSS 78235-78254) or John Evelyn the diarist (see Add MSS 78414-78429); 15th cent.-18th centt. For Evelyn’s essay on collecting manuscripts, see Evelyn, Memoirs, ed. Bray (1818), II, pp. 323-336.Thirty-four volumes. (15th century-18th century)
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCLXXVII. Romance of Sydrac and Boctus, beg., `Cy commence li livres de sydrac le philosophe li quiex est apeles li livres de la fontaine de sciences’, with 17 th cent. heading, `Sydrack philosophe de la fontaine des sciences’; [15th cent.?]. French. With an illumination at the beginning showing Sydrac and King Boctus, and with one further illuminated initial and many with red, blue and green pen-work. For this didactic romance, a catechism of medieval science, and other copies in the collections, see H.L.D. Ward, Catalogue of Romances in the British Museum (1883), I, pp. 903-923. Item 8 in Evelyn’s library catalogue of 1687, Add. MS 78632, f. 129. Formerly Evelyn MS 5.
Vellum. Original binding of vellum over boards. 240 x 175mm.
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Page 437 2021-08-13 Add MS 78645 A-B EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCLXXVIII A, B. Liturgical manuscripts; 15th cent. (15th century)
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Creation Date 15th century
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Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCLXXVIII A, B. Liturgical manuscripts; 15th cent. (15th century)
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Creation Date 15th century
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Scope and Content A.Book of Hours, English; 15th cent. Latin. Fragmentary, with portions excised. Including a calendar (the 15th cent. addition of St Erkenwald twice, 30 April, 14 Nov., perhaps indicates a London owner) lacking May-August; the Hours of the Virgin; the Seven Penitential Psalms; Fifteen Gradual Psalms, and Litany; the Office of the Dead; other original prayers including the `O intemerata’, with added 15th-16th cent. prayers, hymns and a Litany of the Virgin. With the ownership(?) inscriptions, `John Patte (16th cent.) and `Tho Harding' (17th cent.) on the first leaf, but no marks to connect it with the Evelyn library. Formerly Evelyn MS 141.
Vellum. Binding of dark brown calf, blind and gilt-stamped, 17th cent.(?), much damaged. 200 x 140mm.
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Page 438 2021-08-13 Add MS 78645 B (15th century)
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Creation Date 15th century
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Scope and Content B. Fragments cut from medieval illuminated manuscripts in an envelope with a crossed-out address to W.G. Hiscock, Deputy Librarian of Christ Church, and annotated by him `MS. Fragments (for N. K. to see)’. With them is a postcard identifying a psalter (apparently not Add. MS 78645 A above) and signed `N[eil]. R[ipley]. K[err].’
1. Leaf of an English noted choir Missal; 15[superscript]th[/superscript] cent. [italics]Latin[/italics]. Apparently used as a wrapper for documents relating to the manor of Abinger.
2. Part of a bifolium of an English or French Glossed Gospel of Matthew (including parts of Matthew 3-5); 13[superscript]th[/superscript] cent. [italics]Latin[/italics].
3. Part of a leaf of a French (?) Glossed unidentified text; 13[superscript]th[/superscript] cent. [italics]Latin[/italics].
4. Small piece of a leaf of an English noted Missal (?), with part of the opening of chant for St Stephen; 15[superscript]th[/superscript] cent.
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Creation Date c 1578
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCLXXIX. Giovanni Francesco Marcaldi: History of Mary, Queen of Scots; circa 1578. Copy, 1631 (Dedication to Bartolomio Raines, dated Venice, 29 May 1631). Italian. See Efisio Giglio-Tos, La prima storia di Maria Stuarda, Turin, 1907, for an edition of the text taken from Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS Ital. 870, with dedication dated 5 April 1631, though neither the present manuscript nor that in Add. MS 10400 is listed in the accompanying bibliography. Imperfect; wanting the final leaf (bearing last four words of full text in the Paris MS). Inscribed by Evelyn on the front cover, `A Fragment of the History of Mary Queen of Scotland’ and `Chartophyl MS: No. 71', and on the front pastedown, `Catalogo J. Evelyni inscriptus’, though it is apparently not listed amongst the manuscripts in Add. MS 78632. Formerly Evelyn MS 235.
ff. ii+32. Original vellum wrapper. 190 x 140mm.
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Creation Date 1591
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCLXXX. `An humble supplication to her Maiesty, in answere of the late Proclamation’, 1591, preceded by `A Preface to the gentleman's supplication put upp to her M[ajesty] some yeares passed by Mr Richard Shelleye'; late 16th cent c opy in a single secretary hand. Borders ruled in red ink with no inscription by John Evelyn. Formerly Evelyn MS 232.
155 x 115mm.
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Add MS 78648 (Late 16th century-Early 17th century)
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Creation Date Late 16th century-Early 17th century
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCLXXXI. Collection of legal documents from the Court of Exchequer, temp. Eliz. I. Copies, late 16th-early 17th cent., in more than one legal hand. Mostly Law French. Imperfect; with at least one leaf missing at the beginning, and much damaged by damp throughout. Formerly Evelyn MS 272.
Vellum binding. 295 x 205mm.
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Page 440 2021-08-13 Add MS 78649 (1603-1607)
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Creation Date 1603-1607
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCLXXXII. Commission from James I to Edward Somerset, 9th Earl of Worcester, for making gunpowder, 11 May 1603, followed (ff. 7-11) by covenants between the King and Worcester `uppon the patent’, 13 May 1603, and (ff. 12-14) a letter of attorney from Worcester to John Evelyn, Richard Harding and Robert Evelyn to receive money due from the King under their contract, 1607. Copies in more than one contemporary secretary hand. Annotated `Gunpowder’ on the front cover in a contemporary hand, and with the note below by William John Evelyn, `purchased by me … of Mr A. Bryant author of Map of Surrey … May 1868’. Formerly Evelyn MS 251.
ff. ii + 14. Contemporary vellum binding. 305 x 205mm.
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Creation Date Early 17th century
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Scope and Content Evelyn Papers. Vol. cccclxxxiii. `A Remonstrance Delivered to his Majestie in writinge after the Inhibition given by him to the Lower house of Parliament as well by wordes of Mouth as by Letters, nott to proceede in Examininge his Right to Impose [import and export duties] without assent of Parliamente’; early 17th cent. Copy in a contemporary secretary hand. With the name `Robt Offley’ on the fly-leaf in an italic hand which resembles that of the title; the body of the work is written in a single secretary hand which may be that of the same person. Mary, second wife of Evelyn’s elder brother George, was the daughter of Sir Robert Offley; her brother Robert Offley was buried at Wotton in 1663. Annotated by Evelyn on the fly-leaf `10 Law’; `Bundle X’ in the library catalogue of 1687, Add. MS 78632, f. 208v, is described as containing `Papers concerning Law matters’; the present item is not listed amongst them but may have been a later addition from his brother’s collection at Wotton. Formerly Evelyn MS 175.
ff. 49. 305 x 205mm.
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Page 441 2021-08-13 Add MS 78651 (1610-1625)
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Creation Date 1610-1625
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Scope and Content Evelyn Papers. Vol. cccclxxxiv.. Parliamentary and other state proceedings; temp. James I. Copy in a single scribal hand of the later 17th or early 18 th cent. With original foliation `1-209’. With the inscription on a fly-leaf, `Stamford 1693’, and a pencil note on another fly-leaf by Alfred J. Kempe, 4 June 1836, on the contents of the volume. Formerly Evelyn MS 249.
ff. 209. 340 x 210mm.
Contents include:
1.ff. 1-94. Proceedings of the House of Commons; 1610-1625.
2.ff. 114v-139. Proceedings in the Court of Star Chamber, 24 Nov. 1619.
3.ff. 146-170. `A Relation of the Cariages of the Marriages that should have been made Between the Prince of England and the Infanta Mayor And also afterwards with the younger Infanta’.
4.ff. 170v-176v. `The Articles of the Lady Frances Howard against the Earle of Essex’, with the answers.
5.ff. 187-206v. According to your Lordships late Command and former Instruction I have collected this true Journall of the Action I was comanded to undertake upon the Coasts of Spayne with his Majesties Fleet and Army in the yeare of our Lord 1625’.
6.ff. 207-209. Lists of histories of Scotland, Ireland and England.
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Page 442 2021-08-13 Add MS 78652 (1600-1628)
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Creation Date 1600-1628
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCLXXXV (ff. 108). Proceedings in Parliament, etc.; 1600-1628, n.d. Copies and extracts.
1.Suicide note of William Doddington; 1600. Partly [italics]Latin[/italics]
2.Speech of James I to the Houses of Paliament at their first meeting; 30 Jan. 1620/1. Two c[italics]opies[/italics]. Printed in Rushworth, [italics]Historical Collections[/italics] (1721), I, pp. 21-27.
3.Letter of Charles I to the Earl of Bristol, 20 Feb. 1625/6. Printed in Rushworth, [italics]Historical Collections[/italics] (1721), I, p. 237.
4.Abstract of the articles preferred by the Earl of Bristol against the Duke of Buckingham; 1 May 1626. Printed in Rushworth, [italics]Historical Collections[/italics] (1721), I, pp. 262-3.
5.[italics]Extracts[/italics] from the proceedings of Parliament, including speeches and messages from Charles I; 17 Mar. 1627/8-30 Jan. 1628/9. Partly [italics]imperfect[/italics]. On separate leaves or bifolia. In several hands, but with many of the dockets in a single unidentified contemporary hand. Partly printed in Rushworth, [italics]Historical Collections[/italics] (1721), I, pp. 476-651 [italics]passim[/italics].
6.Petition of Right; 7 June 1628. Printed in Rushworth, [italics]Historical Collections[/italics] (1721), I, pp. 619-26. At the end is ‘A Kalender or schedule of the shipping of this kingdome, which have bin taken by the Enemy and lost at sea within the space of 3. Yeares last past’. Contemporary title, deleted, on verso of wrapper, ‘Remonstrance deliuered to his Majesty at Whitehall 7 Junij 1628’, docketed by Evelyn on front wrapper. Cf. BL Harleian MS 1846, arts 10, 11.
1.‘Sir Henry Martins Argument of the Rationall Parte’; 1628. Docketed by Evelyn, `Sir Hen: Martyns Argument or speech to the Lords concerning the Petition of Right without alteration'.
2.[italics]Extracts[/italics] (non-consecutive) from the Journal of the House of Commons, including Selden’s speech on habeas corpus; etc.; [7 April 1628]. In a single scribal hand, with borders ruled in red. [italics]Imperfect.[/italics]
9.Final portion of an address relating to precedence; [early 17th cent.]. Docket by Evelyn on verso ‘Speeches & petitions &c Complai[ni]ng of the Scottish Nobility chal[l]enging equal place & dignity in England with the English noblemen’.
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Creation Date 1621
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCLXXXVI. `Tom Tell Troth’; 1621, n.d. (before 1625). Imperfect. This text of ‘Tom Tell Troth’, which now wants several sections but incorporates a duplicate of the passage comprising the introduction, etc., to the letter of Pope Gregory XV to Louis XIII of 4 Sept. 1621, may have been the property of a scriptorium. The tract was printed circa 1630 (STC 23868) and again in 1642 (Wing T 1786); other manuscript copies are in Add. MS 11308, ff. 2-45v, and Add. MS 48062, ff. 245-283. The final bifolium is abstracted from an unidentified political tract criticizing the pacific policy of James I, circa 1621-1625.
ff. 55. 300 x 195mm.
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Creation Date 1616-1641
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCLXXXVII. Tracts relating to George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, etc.; circa 1621-1626, n.d. At this period Sir Edward Nicholas was serving as secretary to Buckingham as Warden of the Cinque Ports; see Egerton MS 2544. For Nicholas papers in the present archive, see Add. MS 78264-78271:
1.‘The Commons declaration, and Impeachmente agaynst the duke of Buckingham’, 8 May 1626. Printed in Rushworth’s Historical Collections (1721), I, pp. 303-351 passim. Numbered in ink ‘MS / (34)’ at head and ‘(2)’ at foot of first page. The hand is that of the ‘Feathery Scribe’ or his imitator.
2.Sir Henry Wotton and Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon: two tracts comparing Buckingham with Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex; circa 1628-1641. Copies, partly imperfect., in two different hands. The general titlepage reads ‘Of Robert Devereux Earle of Essex And George Villiers Duke of Buckingham. A Parrallel written by Sr Henry Wotton. As alsoe the diference and Disparity written by Ed: Hide Gent.’. The second tract carries a separate titlepage reading, ‘The difference and disparity betweene ye Estates and Condicions of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, and Robert Devorex, Earle of Essex.’. Wotton’s tract was first published posthumously in 1641, and reissued, along with Hyde’s, in the 1685 edition of Reliquiae Wottonianae.
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Creation Date 1638-1641
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCLXXXVIII (ff. 91). Parliamentary speeches, with other tracts, etc.; 1638-1641, n.d. Partly imperfect.
1.ff. 1-10. Sir George Croke: ‘The Argument of iudge Crooke in the Exchequer Chamber concerning the Shipp-money’; 14 April 1638. Copy. Edited by S. R. Gardiner for Camden Society, Miscellany, 7 (1875). Single gathering docketed at head by Evelyn.
2.ff. 11-12. Speeches of Charles I and Lord Keeper Finch at the dissolution of Parliament; 5 May 1640. Printed in Rushworth, Historical Collections, III, 1154-5.
3.ff. 13- Journal of the Long Parliament, including speeches made in the House of Commons; 3 Nov.-21 Dec. 1640. Copies, in a single hand, mostly imperfect owing to mutilation of leaves. Watermark of unicorn. Cf. BL Harleian MS 6805.
4. George, Lord Digby : ‘My Lord Digbie’s Speech in the howse of Commons Jan: 19th 1640’ [i.e.1641]. (‘I rise not now’). ff. 18.
5.Edward Bagshaw: ‘Mr Bagshawes Speech in Parlyament against Bpps 9 Feb. 1640’ [i.e. 1641]. (‘I was yesterday’).
6.`The Byshopp of Armaghs Direction to the houses of Parlyment concerninge the Liturgy and Episcopall government beinge herunto requested by the Comons'. With the docket `MSS' in Evelyn’s hand. Formerly Evelyn MS 292.
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Creation Date Early 17th century
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCLXXXIX. Tract of religious controversy; early 17th cent. Copy in a single secretary hand. Incomplete; wanting the title-page and two leaves containing the end of the preface and the beginning of `the first argument’ of the first section, which has the running title, `Roman Church the only true Church’. With no marks to connect it with the Evelyn library. Formerly Evelyn MS 250.
Original vellum binding, damaged. 305 x 210mm.
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Creation Date Early 17th century
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXC. Short narratives by Sir Francis Vere (1560-1609) of his service as general of English troops in the Low Countries; early 17th cent. Copy in a single scribal hand. Written towards the end of his life and circulated in manuscript; first printed in 1657 as Commentaries of Sir Francis Vere. With the ownership inscription, `Hum[?] Sidenham, 1631’. With Evelyn's notes on the recto and verso of the first leaf: `Catalogo Evelyni inscriptus', and in his later hand, `I think this is printed'. Formerly Evelyn MS 138.
ff. 32. 200 x 160mm.
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Creation Date Late 17th century-Early 18th century
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXCI. `[Tabletalk: being] The Discourse of John Selden Esq: or His Sence of Various Matters of Weight, & high Consequence relating to Religion and State'. Copy in a single late 17th or early 18th cent. hand on sheets with borders ruled in red. Selden (1584-1654) was a celebrated lawyer and antiquarian; this collection of his spoken utterances was compiled and first published posthumously by one of his secretaries, Richard Milward, in 1689. Formerly Evelyn MS 266.
245 x 200mm.
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Creation Date 17th century
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXCII. Gatherings from a notebook or notebooks, begun in a secretary hand, but chiefly in a single unidentified cursive hand, containing various extracts, partly in Latin and Italian, from historical and occult texts; 17th cent. The first group of gatherings, on different sizes of paper, are sewn together; the remainder are loose and partly imperfect. Formerly Evelyn MS 198.
200 x 150mm.
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Creation Date 18th century (after
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXCIII. `Extracts from the Monumenta Britannica of John Aubrey Esqr in M.S.'; 18th cent. (aft. 1761). Copies in a single hand, with place names in red ink and illustrated by careful pen, ink and wash plans and drawings, some on folding leaves, with chapter and page references to the originals. A further explanatory note on the title-page reads, `It is Entitled Monumenta Britannica, or a Miscellany of British Antiquitys, Illustrated with the Notes of Dr Tho Gale, & John Evelyn Esqr. It consists of 4 Parts or Volumes in thin Folio'. Not an exact copy of Aubrey's autograph draft in the Bodleian Library. With a preface in the same hand as the rest of the manuscript about Aubrey's life, from his Natural History and Antiquities of the County of Surrey (1718-9), and about his intentions to publish the manuscript, from Thomas Warton's Life and Literary Remains of Ralph Bathurst (1761). On the evidence of the printed sale catalogue entry pasted inside the front cover, this volume was added to the Evelyn library by purchase in the 19th cent., probably because of the reference to Evelyn’s notes on the title-page. With the pencilled press-mark, `MS.2.8.(1)’. Formerly Evelyn MS 140.
220 x 180mm.
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Creation Date 1 Jan 1718-19 May 1743
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXCIV. Minutes of the Society of Antiquaries; 1 Jan. 1718-19 May 1743. Contemporary copy in more than one clerical hand, including a frontispiece and numerous neatly executed drawings in pen and ink, with grey and occasionally coloured washes. Preceded by a note in a late 18th or early 19th cent. hand that the volume contains the minutes in the first four volumes belonging to the Society of Antiquaries, including the indices. The text has occasional later annotations and at the end are a few miscellaneous insertions relating to the Society, of 1745, 1756-1757 and 1829, consisting of draft letters, minutes and proposed alterations to the statutes, the last printed with MS. notes. There is no indication how the volume came into the Evelyn archive. Formerly Evelyn MS 15.
Contemporary binding of reversed calf, blind-stamped and rebacked. 325 x 215mm.
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Creation Date 1623
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXCV. `A Spanish Jornnall'; 1623. Copy, early 17 th cent., in a single secretary hand. Journal in verse of a voyage from England to Spain. With press-marks, `Cove N.63’ and `Jul:16’, by Evelyn on the title-page (f. 1), and the attribution, `I think Corbets' (i.e. Richard Corbet, Bishop of Oxford and Norwich?); the verses are not included in The Poems of Richard Corbett, ed. J. A. W. Bennett and H. R. Trevor-Roper (Oxford, 1955), either amongst the authoritative or dubious attributions. Lot 170 in Evans’ sale of William Upcott’s collections, 22 June 1846 (Add. MS 78584 B) and purchased by William John Evelyn. Formerly Evelyn MS 220.
ff. iii + 10. Half binding of brown leather, 19th cent., with a small pasted attachment on the front cover, with the number `170' (not the Evelyn MS number). 205 x 160mm.
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Creation Date Mid 17th century
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXCVI. Sir John Beaumont, 1st Bart. (1582-1628), `Bosworth Field'. Copy, mid 17th cent., in a single accomplished calligraphic hand, which resembles that of Evelyn's amanuensis Richard Hoare, in roman and italic scripts. The verses were first published posthumously in 1629 by Beaumont's son. For other manuscripts of Beaumont's verse, see The Shorter Poems of Sir John Beaumont, ed. Roger D. Sell (Abo, 1974), pp. 49-53; of these it said that `there is no reason to suppose that any of them has as good authority as the 1629 edition, though none of them can be shown beyond doubt to derive from that edition'. With the note by William Upcott on the fly-leaf, `This Manuscript Poem originally belonged to the celebrated John Evelyn ... It was presented by the late Lady Evelyn to her relation Mrs Hugh Bisshopp … sister in law of Lord De la Zouche. On her death in 1826 it came into the possession of Mrs Hales her favourite Housekeeper, by whom it was given July 7 1826 to William Upcott'. Formerly Evelyn MS 107.
Original vellum binding, restored. 190 x 140mm.
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Creation Date 17th century
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXCVII. Plan or description of a masque in German cursive script; 17th cent. The characters include classical dieties and personifications (including night, day, dawn, sun and moon, the vices, etc.). Annotated by Evelyn `A Dutch play' and `In Chartophyl:'. Formerly Evelyn MS 139.
195 x 160mm.
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Add MS 78665 (1641-1655)
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Creation Date 1641-1655
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXCVIII. Letters from Robert Loveday to his brother Anthony Loveday, with a few to other correspondents; 1641-1655, n.d. Partly originals, partly drafts and copies. Robert Loveday of Chediston, Suffolk, was the translator of La Calprenede's romance, Cleopatra, under the title Hymen's Praeludia. After his death his brother published an edition of his letters as Loveday's letters domestick and forrein, to several persons, ocasionally distributed in subjects, philosophicall, historical & morall, in imitation of James Howell's Epistolae Ho-Elianae, which went into several editions between 1659 and 1684. The present manuscripts appear to be connected with this work, since they include annotations, presumably by Anthony Loveday, concerning the letters' fitness or otherwise for the press. It is not known how they came into the Evelyn archive. Formerly Evelyn MS 269.
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Creation Date 1645
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content Evelyn Papers. Vol. ccccxcix. Moral sentences drawn chiefly from Roman poets and dramatists; 1645. Latin. The collection is arranged in 102 numbered sections, the first being headed ‘A tergo stulto lapso relinquit occasio’, with an index in English at the end. Some of the sentences are taken from St Paul, Erasmus's Adagia and Sambucus's Emblemata.
Paper. 185 x 150 mm. Original vellum binding. Copied in a single hand, with the name 'William Parker' at the end, followed by 'Finis 1645' and 'Edward Hall his Booke'. Hall’s name is repeated several times on the fly-leaves. Annotated 'Theol' on the front cover by John Evelyn.
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Add MS 78667 (1650)
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Creation Date 1650
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. D. William Lily: Merlini Anglici Ephemerides, 1650. Printed, but with a verse fable of a cat and eagle jotted in a late 17th cent. hand in ink on the wrapper and continued in pencil on the four blank end-leaves of the almanac; beg. ‘In an ould oack a spitefull Cat did dwell’.
Paper: ff. 56. Sewn gatherings within vellum wrap-around cover. 145 mm x 98 mm.
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Creation Date c 1770
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. DI. Compilation of prose and verse, beg. with `The Marchant: a tale'; circa 1770. Copy in a single hand on 100 numbered pages, with an imperfect index.
335 x 210mm.
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Add MS 78669 (1683-1784)
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Creation Date 1683-1784
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content Evelyn Papers. Vol. dii. Jacobite ballads, etc., with some miscellaneous prose; circa 1688-1784. Partly French and Italian. Copies, circa mid-late 18th cent. The transcriber was John Towneley (1731-1813), F.R.S., of Towneley Hall, Lancashire, whose hand is also found in a letter to [?James] Manson of 1807 (Additional MS 35057, f.83), in the pre-1805 catalogues of Towneley Marbles (Additional MS 34009) and in that of printed books (Additional MSS 18064, 18065) that were later auctioned as Bibliotheca Townleiana, Evans, 2 pts., London, 1814. A detailed list of the contents of the manuscript was published in the 4th Report of the Historical Manuscripts Commission, 1874, App., pp.414-6. The verse and Jacobite prose was edited by A. B. Grosart as English Jacobite ballads, songs & satires, etc., from the MSS at Towneley Hall (privately printed, 1877).
Paper: ff. ii+103. 225 x 180mm. Formerly Evelyn MS 188. Green buckram folder (f. i). Five gatherings of original leaves enclosed within wrappers each embossed with the oval-shaped armorial crest of a bird and inscribed in ink with page-references to Grosart’s edition. Bookseller’s code ‘a/./.’ (f.1) and numbers ‘8/ 8/’ (f. 22) jotted in pencil. Purchased at the sale of Towneley manuscripts at Sotheby’s, 27-28 June 1883, lot 238, by the London bookseller Francis Harvey for four guineas. It may have entered the Evelyn collection when it passed to Stonor in the middle of last century. The contents are as follows:-
1.ff. 2-71v passim. Sixty-seven Jacobite ballads, songs and satires, etc., in English, with two (ff. 6v-9) in French; circa 1688-1751. Copies. Several of the authors are identified. Of two additional pieces (ff. 81, 82) written on loose sheets inserted before the final gathering only the first is in Towneley’s hand. Texts of a few poems survive also in Additional MSS 14854 and 29981, while contemporary printed versions of some twenty are recorded in D. F. Foxon, English verse 1701-1750, Cambridge, 2 vols., 1975. Also included (ff. 5v, 6) is the speech made by Lord Balmerinoch to the Lords, 18 Aug. 1746.
2.ff. 83-88. Jacobite prose, comprising copies of two items, both of which were printed in 1745, viz.:
(a) ff. 83-88. Proclamation by Prince Charles Edward Stuart, dated Holyrood House, 10 Oct. 1745, and subscribed by his secretary Sir John Murray;
(b) ff. 88-103v. ‘A Letter to the Archbishop of York [Thomas Herring]: Humbly offering, to
Page 452 2021-08-13 his Grace’s Solution some Doubts & Scruples suggested by his late speech to the Grand meeting of the County of York…’, 15 Oct. 1745, subscribed ‘Philalethes’.
3.ff. 72-79. Miscellaneous prose, viz.:
(a) ff. 72-76. ‘An Account of the Earthquake which happened in Calabria, 28th March 1783. In a letter from Count Francesco Ippolito to Sr W m Hamilton….Read at the Royal Society July 10th 1783’. Copy. Italian;
(b) ff. 76-79. Satirical allegory, in a fictitious Utopian Gazette Extraordinary for 14 Jan. 1784, of the debates that followed Pitt’s appointment as prime minister, consisting of a ‘Copy of a letter from Admiral Hazard to Mr Squirt, Secretary to the Admiralty’ and some ‘Utopian Ship News’.
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Add MS 78670 (1662-1899)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
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Creation Date 1662-1899
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. DIII.
1.`Account of my Jurny from the Citty of Burdiox [Bordeaux?] to Parris, Callis & London In Company of Madam Popel (?) & two daughters Mr Tho: Hancock Mr Charles Dalton Mr Joseph Eules(?) & Mounshour Lammot Savage Marchant of Burdiox’, by an unidentified Englishman; 1662. The account ends with their arrival at Dover. The wrapper label by William John Evelyn, `Sir R. Browne, Journey to Fontaineblau July 30, 1642', is incorrect; the journal is of interest for its account of a jouney through France, but appears to have no connection with the Evelyn family. Formerly Evelyn MS 212. 165 x 120mm.
2.Fragment of a travel journal by an unidentified Englishman in the Low Countries, including a description of Leyden and of the Princess of Orange's court at Hounslaerdyke; [italics]circa[/italics] 1678. Apparently a [italics]copy[/italics] in a single hand. Formerly Evelyn MS 520.
3.`Notes relating to a residance of a few weeks in Italy'; 19th cent. (references to a steam-boat on Lake Como and to the guide-book to Italy published by John Murray). Entered in a small notebook with a wrapper of grey and decorated paper, in a single unidentified hand, breaking off in mid-sentence. Formerly Evelyn MS 197. 198 x 145mm.
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Creation Date 17th century
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. DIV. `The Life of Pomponius Atticus a singular patterne of Civil Prudence. Written by Cornelius Nepos his Contemporary and familiar Friende'. Copy in a single 17th cent. scribal hand. A different translation from that published by Sir Matthew Hale, 1677. Formerly Evelyn MS 221.
Paper. Original binding of brown leather. 190 x 115mm.
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Creation Date 17th century-18th century
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. DV. Treatise on religion and moral philosophy, beg. `The whole art of living may be briefly comprehended under this general Precept; never to sacrifice a greater pleasure to a less ...'. Copy in a single hand, 17th-18th cent., with original foliation: 1-32. Partially illegible pencil notes on the front wrapper appear to refer to `Dean Collet's Sermon'. Formerly Evelyn MS 230.
185 x 150mm.
includes:
• ff. 4v-5v George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham: Poetry ENGLISH: Anna Maria Talbot, wife of Thomas, 11th Earl of Shrewsbury: Verses beg. 'Since you will needs my heart possess' to Anna Maria Talbot attrib. to George Villiers: circa 1703-1735.
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Creation Date 1328-1899
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. DVI (ff. 64). Composite volume:
1.ff. 1-4v. Four leaves of merchant's accounts, recording transactions between London and Middleberg; Oct.-Nov. 1611. Formerly Evelyn MS 295.
2.ff. 6-13v. Sir Henry Spelman, De Sepultura; bef. 1641. Copy in the hand of the imitator of the so-called Feathery Scribe. Imperfect, wanting final two thirds of the text. A copy of the full tract is in Harley MS 2208, ff. 167-183.
3.ff. 14-38v. Loose leaves from a collection of precedents for peerage creations from Edward III to James I; 1328-1621. Imperfect. Most items marked in pencil at foot with ‘Ext’, others numbered ‘fol 25’, etc., and one bearing the note ‘St George Clar’ [Sir Richard St. George, Clarencieux 1623-1635] in an early 18th cent, hand [? Peter Le Neve].
4.ff. 39-43. Pedigrees copied apparently in the hand of Thomas Thompson, Lancaster herald; viz: (a) of Jerningham of Somerleton, taken from a pedigree in the College of Heralds, in colours, with attestation by Thompson, 24 May 1638; - (b) of Stafford and Cheyney, taken from that in possession of Sir William Le Neve, Clarencieux King of Arms, n.d. [circa 1635-1661].
5.ff. 44-54v. Answers of the Commons to the reasons of the Lords, debated in conference, relating to the proposed bill for impositions on merchandise; 22 April 1671. Copy. Printed in the Commons' Journals, IX, 239-44.
6.ff. 55-61. Summary catalogue of books, listed by size and alphabetically by author or summary title, in an unidentified hand; 18th cent. With the note on the first leaf, `An Old Catalogue of Books', in a later hand. Apparently not connected with the Evelyn library. Formerly Evelyn MS 29. 420 x 170mm.
7.ff. 62-64. Facsimile of the death warrant of Charles I, 1649; 19th cent. Printed by Alexander Miller and Co.
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Page 455 2021-08-13 Add MS 78674-78675 EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. DVII, DVIII. Two volumes in Greek containing texts on logic and rhetoric; 18th cent.
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78674-78675
Creation Date 18th century
Extent and Format 2 items
Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. DVII, DVIII. Two volumes in Greek containing texts on logic and rhetoric; 18th cent. copies.Two volumes. Matching original bindings of black leather, blind-tooled. (18th century)
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Add MS 78674 Theophilos Korydaleus, Commentary on Aristotle's Logic (18th century)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
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Creation Date 18th century
Extent and Format Paper codex.
Languages of Material Greek, Ancient
Title Theophilos Korydaleus, Commentary on Aristotle's Logic (18th century)
Physical Characteristics Material: Paper. Foliation: ff 273. Dimensions: 280 x 220 mm. Ruling: 210 x 130 mm, 30 lines per page. Binding: Full leather binding of blind-tooled brown calf, with the Crucifixion at the centre of both covers, 18th century.
Scope and Content • ff 1r-269r: Theophilus Korydalleus, Commentary on Aristotle's Logic (Ἔκθεσις συνοπτικὴ τῆς ὅλης συλλογιστικῆς πραγματείας, ἐκδοθεῖσα παρὰ τοῦ λογιωτάτου καὶ σοφωτάτου Κορυδαλέως κυρίου Θεοφίλου, μητροπολίτου Ἀθηνῶν.) Complete text with a preface (Inc. "Οσα ένεκά του κινείται) not printed in the 1729 Venice edition (Εἰς ἅπασαν τὴν λογικήν τοῦ Ἀριστοτέλους Υπομνήματα καὶ Ζητήματα ὑπὸ τοῦ Σοφωτάτου Κυρίου Κυρίου Θεοφίλου του Κορυδαλέως Εκτεθέντα, νῦν δὲ πρώτον τύποις ἐκδοθέντα, καὶ μεθ’ ὅσης οίόν τε ἦν τῆς ἀκριβείας διορθωθέντα, παρά Κυρίου, Αλεξάνδρου Καγκελλαρίου. [1729].) • f. 269v: Manuel Philes, Carmina 38, Preces ad Spiritum Sanctum (TLG 2718.001), to which the copyist added: Τήν εὐχάριστόν σοι φωνὴν φέρω λόγε˙ ἰδὼν ποθεινῶς τέρμα τῶν ἐνηργμένων, and a note by a different hand: ταυτὰ Ἔλεγον οι μαθητάδες ἐμὲ followed by Byzantine music notation in first plagal mode (current Byzantine music notation, after 1814), • ff 270r-272r: table of contents and pen-trials.
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Custodial History Origin: Eastern Mediterranean. Completed 13 January 1738: f 269r.
Part of the John Evelyn archive, which was preserved and added to at Wotton House from the time the property was inherited by John Evelyn on the death of his elder brother at the end of the 17th century, until the 20th century. From 1949 to 1995 it was on deposit at Christ Church Oxford. John Evelyn had left his manuscripts in some disorder (see the general description of Add.
Page 456 2021-08-13 MSS 78298-78429), and by this stage they had also become intermingled with those of earlier and later generations of the family. The partial numeration which was added to the manuscripts when or before they came to Christ Church reflected this random order. Since being acquired by the British Library, the successive generations of the family archive have been restored to their distinct entities and Evelyn’s manuscripts have been placed in an order which more clearly reflects their origin and nature. The archive was purchased by the British Library from the Evelyn family through Christie’s in March 1995.
John Evelyn in the British Library (=The Book Collector 44.2), 1995.
Vassilios Tsiotras, "The Manuscripts of Theophilos Korydalleus’ Commentaries on Aristotle’s Logic", In: Ezio Riondato – Antonino Poppi - Cesare Cremonini (edd), Aspetti del pensiero e scritti. Atti del Convegno di Studio-Padova, 26-27 febbraio 1999, Accademia Galileiana di scienze, lettere ed arti, (Padova: Accademia Galileiana 2000), pp. 219-248 (manuscript not mentioned).
Digitisation has been made possible thanks to the generous support of the Hellenic Foundation.
Add MS 78675 Compilation of Greek Rhetorical Treatises (18th century)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78675
Creation Date 18th century
Extent and Format Paper codex.
Languages of Material Greek, Ancient
Title Compilation of Greek Rhetorical Treatises (18th century)
Physical Characteristics Material: Paper. Foliation: ff i + 81 + iii + 161 + ii + 162 + i. Dimensions: 280 x 220 (Text Space: 210 x 130) mm. Ruling: 30 lines. Binding: Full leather binding of blind-tooled brown calf, with the Crucifixion at the centre of the upper cover, 18th century. Decoration: Decorated initials and headpieces.
Scope and Content • ff. 1-31: Anonymous Treatise on Rhetoric (Προοίμιον εἰς τὴν ῥητορικὴν τέχνην) Inc. Τὴν ἔμφυτον ἐπιθυμίαν καὶ ἔφεσιν, ἃς περὶ τοὺς λόγους καὶ τὰ μαθήματα φύσει ἔχουσιν ἄνθρωποι. Expl. Ἐναντίον ἐστίν, ὅπερ καὶ ἐν τῷ κοινῷ τόπῳ εἴρηται διαφέρει δὲ ἐν τῷ κοινῷ τόπῳ ἐναντίον οὐ ἐν τῇ χρείᾳ καὶ γνώμῃ ὡς ἐν ἐκείνοις δεδήλωται ἰστέον ὅτι φράσεως ταῦτα δεῖ συνεστραμ[μέν]ης καὶ ἰσχυρᾶς, ὡς ἐγγὺς ὑποθέσεως ὄντος τοῦ προγυμνάσματος. • Same text in Add MS MS 18190, ff. 90-131v; Add MS 39622, ff. 100-134; Paris, BNF, Suppl. grec. 1363, ff. 33- 84 and Paris Bibliothèque Jean de Vernon, ICP Institut français d'études byzantines (IFEB) 7, pp. 365- 589. Cf. Bingelli (2014), p. 27. • ff. 31v-81v: Anonymous Treatise on "The Art of Rhetoric" in 3 books (Προοίμιον εἰς τὰς στάσεις τῆς ῥητορικῆς τέχνης.) Inc.Ἱκανῶς περὶ τῶν προγυμνασμάτων τοῦ Ἀφθονίου ἐξακριβώσαντος κατὰ τὸ ἐγχωροῦν τοῖς εἰσαγωγικοῖς. Expl. τοῖς έπιμόνως ένδιατρίβουσι τούτοις τοῖς άτελέσι τῆς κατά ρητορικήν τελειότητος έγκρατείς γενέσθαι. Same text in Add MS 39622, ff. 134-196, Paris, BNF, Suppl. grec. 1363, ff. 85-199v. • ff. 82r-161v: Alexander Mavrocordatos, Σύνοψις Ρητορικῆς τέχνης κατὰ πεῦσιν καὶ ἀπόκρισιν. Inc. Τί ἐστι ῥητορική; Ῥητορική ἐστὶ τεχνικὴ δύναμις λόγων πιθανῶν. Expl. τὴν ὀλιγοστὴν ταύτην μάθησιν δια συνεχούς ἀσκήσεως ἐπαυξῆσαι καὶ μεγίστην δείξαι τὴν ῥητορικὴν τελειότητα. Same text in Add MS 39622, ff. 1-99; Paris Bibliothèque Jean de Vernon, ICP Institut français d'études byzantines (IFEB) 7, pp. 591-596 with further parallel manuscripts. Cf. Binggeli (2014), p. 27.
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Custodial History Origin: Eastern Mediterranean.
Provenance:
France? Cf. note on f 162v, in French, reads: 'Le livre apartien a aspirs(?) a l4e/45(?) le 29 janvier 1829'.
Part of the John Evelyn archive, which was preserved and added to at Wotton House from the time the property was inherited by John Evelyn on the death of his elder brother at the end of the 17th century, until the 20th century. From 1949 to 1995 it was on deposit at Christ Church Oxford. John Evelyn had left his manuscripts in some disorder (see the general description of Add. MSS 78298-78429), and by this stage they had also become intermingled with those of earlier and later generations of the family. The partial numeration which was added to the manuscripts when or before they came to Christ Church reflected this random order. Since being acquired by the British Library, the successive generations of the family archive have been restored to their distinct entities and Evelyn’s manuscripts have been placed in an order which more clearly reflects their origin and nature. The archive was purchased by the British Library from the Evelyn family through Christie’s in March 1995.
John Evelyn in the British Library (=The Book Collector 44.2), 1995.A. Binggeli, M. Cassin, V. Kontouma, "Inventaire des manuscrits de l’Institut français d’études byzantines" , Revue des études byzantines 72 (2014), p. 5-128 (p. 27 with parallel manuscripts).Digitisation has been made possible thanks to the generous support of the Hellenic Foundation. Digitisation has been made possible thanks to the generous support of the Hellenic Foundation.
Add MS 78676 (1520-1537)
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
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Creation Date 1520-1537
Extent and Format 1 item
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. DIX. Portions of two Tudor song-sheets, `As power and wytt …’, and `Saunce remedy …’, printed by John Rastell (circa 1475-1536) and his son William Rastell (1508-1565); [1520s, circa 1532-1534]. Formerly used as lining material for a 17th cent. deed box which was added to the Evelyn archive before it was transferred to Christ Church, Oxford (for further examples of the deed boxes, see Add. MSS 78677 below). The song sheets were discovered, identified and reconstructed at Christ Church by John Milsom; see his article, `Songs and Society in Early Tudor London’, Early Music History, 16 (1997), pp. 235-49, esp. pp. 245-9.
Two sheets, mounted and cased.
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Add MS 78677 A-D EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. DX. Four deed boxes, similar to that containing the song-sheets in Add. MS 78676 above;
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78677 A-D
Creation Date 17th century
Extent and Format 4 items
Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. DX. Four deed boxes, similar to that containing the song-sheets in Add. MS 78676 above; 17th cent. (17th century)
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Creation Date 17th century
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content A. Black paper over wooden boards, hinged lid, lined with blank paper.
235 x 170 x 80 mm.
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Creation Date 17th century
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content B. Black paper over wooden boards, hinged lid, lined with fragments of a 16th cent. English text headed, `The one and twentieth [sic] Booke of Sleidanes Commentaries’.
180 x 190 x 80 mm.
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Creation Date 17th century
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content C. Black paper over wooden boards, hinged lid, leather tie, lined with sheets of a 17th cent. English text headed, `God and the King’.
285 x 200 x 85 mm.
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Creation Date 17th century
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Scope and Content D. Black paper over wooden boards, hinged lid, leather tie, lined with sheets of a 17th cent. Latin text, headed `Devs & Rex’.
280 x 195 x 70 mm.
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Add MS 78678-78693 UPCOTT’S COLLECTIONS78678-78693. EVELYN PAPERS. Albums containing autograph letters and other manuscript
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Creation Date 16th century-19th century
Extent and Format 16 items
Title UPCOTT’S COLLECTIONS78678-78693. EVELYN PAPERS. Albums containing autograph letters and other manuscript items, 16th-19th cent., collected and assembled by Wiliam Upcott (1779-1845), with a few loose items also collected by him, early 19th cent. For Upcott and the Evelyn family, see also Add. MSS 78577-78584 and 78641-78642 above. The documents are arranged in sets of albums by the status or occupation of the writers, and within each album alphabetically by the writer’s name, or chronologically. In many cases an engraved portrait of the writer, most of the 19th cent., has been added. These albums represent only a fraction of Upcott’s extensive autograph collection, which is described in detail in three separate catalogues: his privately printed Original Letters, Manuscripts and State Papers, Collected by William Upcott (1836) (copy with additions by Upcott in Add. MS 78693 below); Catalogue of the Autograph Room, Entirely Filled with the Collection of Mr. William Upcott ... Third Exhibition, Liverpool Mechanics’ Institution, June and July 1844 (copy annotated by W. G. Hiscock in Add. MS 78583 above); and (for the sale of his collection after his death) Catalogue of the Collection of Manuscripts and Autograph Letters Formed by the Late William Upcott, Evans, 22-24 June 1846 (annotated copy in Add. MS 78584 B above, and see also Theodore Hofmann, et al., `John Evelyn’s Archive at the British Library’, Book Collector, 44 (1995), pp. 200-7). The albums described below were acquired by William John Evelyn at the 1846 Evans sale because they contained a number of letters originally of Evelyn family provenance and removed by Upcott while he was employed at Wotton in cataloguing the library (see Add. MS 78641-78642 above). For this he claimed to have had Lady Evelyn’s permission, but if this was so, the amount he removed exceeded anything she can have intended. At the same sale W. J. Evelyn acquired a number of other manuscript items of Evelyn provenance, which because of format or quantity Upcott had not incorporated into albums: lots 42, 59-63, 117, 147, 170, 172, 257-258, 428, 429, 431, in the annotated sale catalogue in Add. MS 78584 B. These have been restored to their place in the archive, in most cases with a note recording the Upcott connection. The present albums, which contain many letters not of Evelyn origin, have been retained in the form Upcott compiled them. Letters of Evelyn family provenance are listed in bold. Other lots from the 1846 sale, some (but not all) of them Evelyn strays, were acquired by Sir Frederick Madden for the British Museum; these are now Add. MSS 18740, 15857-15858, 15865, 15866,
Page 461 2021-08-13 15889, 15891-15899, 15904, 15907, 15908, 15913, 15914, 15917, 15935-15945, 15952-15954. The three catalogues of Upcott’s collection listed above indicate that it contained a number of other albums of original letters (arranged in categories of clergy, military and naval men, scientists, poets, etc.), which were not acquired either by the British Museum or the Evelyn family. This was probably because the individuals represented in them were chiefly of the 18th or19th century and only summary descriptions were given in the Evans sale catalogue. However the item by item lists of the contents of these albums in the catalogue of the Liverpool exhibition of 1844 make it clear that they also contained a significant number (at least twenty letters, all from important correspondents) of strays from the Evelyn archive. Several of these albums were acquired by Alexander A. Smetz of Savannah and appear in the Catalogue Raisonné of his Library (1860). Their present whereabouts has not been traced. The second and later series of albums relating to literary figures (following the first series in Add. MSS 78683-78685 below), lots 421-424 in the Evans catalogue, have been published in microfilm with an index by Chadwyck-Healey (ISBN 0 85964 015 9; BL press-mark MFR 1847-1853). On Upcott in general, see A.N.L. Munby, The Cult of the Autograph Letter in England (1962), pp. 13-32. Sixteen volumes. (16th century-19th century)
Scope and Content William Upcott, antiquary and autograph collector: Albums of letters and portraits, 16th-19th cent. assembled by William Upcott: early 19th cent.
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Add MS 78678-78679 EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. DXI, DXII. `Original Letters: Nobility 1544-1704’. (title on spine). With preliminary
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78678-78679
Creation Date 1544-1704
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Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. DXI, DXII. `Original Letters: Nobility 1544-1704’. (title on spine). With preliminary lists of contents in Upcott’s hand. Lot 235 in Evans’ sale of William Upcott’s collections, 22 Jun 1846 (Add. MS 78584 B). Formerly Evelyn MSS 1/1-2.Two volumes. Matching bindings of embossed brown leather, early 19th cent. 330 x 240mm. (1544-1704)
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. DXI. Letters and documents of the following (title A-H):
1-3. Three letters from George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle to John Evelyn; 1665-1666. In the hand of an amanuensis, signed, last jointly with Prince Rupert. These supplement the sequence in Add. MS 78320, when Evelyn was Commissioner for Sick and Wounded Seamen. With two engraved portraits of Albemarle.
4-5. Lord and Lady Ancram to Oliver Cromwell as Lord Protector; [1654?]. Signed by both. With accompanying certificate.
6. Note in the hand of Sir Richard Browne, signed by Arthur Annesley, Earl of Anglesey, of Browne’s message and Anglesey’s response when the King dismissed him as Treasurer of the Navy; 6 Nov. 1668. With two engraved portraits.
7.Earl of Antrim to Lord ?; 9 August 1638.
8.Henry Bennet, Earl of Arlington, to John Evelyn; 25 Sept. 1677. About tree-planting at Euston. In the hand of an amanuensis, signed. With an engraved portrait.
9.Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, to Sir Richard Browne; 3 June 1644. Supplementing the letters in Add. MS 78193. With an engraved portrait.
10.Elizabeth (Stuart), wife of Henry Frederick, Earl of Arundel, to her son Charles Howard, endorsed by John Evelyn; 7 Dec. 1646.
11.Henry, 3rd Baron Arundell of Wardour as Lord Privy Seal to John Evelyn; 1688.
12.Thomas Bruce, 1st Earl of Aylesbury, to ?, from Genoa;n.d.
13.George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore, to Sir Thomas Wentworth; 1627.
14.William, 1st Baron Russell, to Lord Sydney;1603.
15.John, 1st Baron Belasyse, to Lady ?;1684.
16.Sir John Berkeley, afterwards 1st Baron Berkeley, to Sir Richard Browne, Brussels;[1650s?]
17,18. William, 4th Baron Berkeley of Stratton, to John Evelyn;1704.
19.Frances, wife of William, 4th Baron Berkeley of Stratton, to Mary Evelyn;[late 17th-early 18th cent.].
20.Charles Powlett, 1st Duke of Bolton, to `Mr Fort’;1694. Signed.
21.Charles Powlett, 2nd Duke of Bolton, to `Mr Cobbe’on behalf of John Evelyn jun.;1699. Signed.
22.Anne Digby, Countess of Bristol, to [Jael Boscawen?];[1680s?].
23, 24. William, Viscount Brouncker, to John Evelyn;1665, 1674. The second as President of the Royal Society, signed. With an engraved portrait.
25.Latin excerpt signed by Thomas Brudenell, afterwards 1st Earl of Brudenell;n.d. [bef. 1661].
26.Sophia, Countess of Buckenburg, to Lady Evelyn;11 Nov. 1716.
27, 28. George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, to Sir Francis Cottington;[1623]. Endorsed by Ralph Thoresby.
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29.Katherine, Duchess of Buckingham, to Lord ?;1634.
30, 32. George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham; n.d. With an engraved portrait (of John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham).
33.Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle, to Lady Mary Fenwick;n.d.
34.Acquittance of Roger Palmer, Earl of Castlemaine;1703. Signed.
35.Extracts from the accounts of Elizabeth, wife of William Cavendish afterwards Countess of Shrewsbury; [circa 1550s]. Signed. Partly copies.
36.George Brydges, 6th Baron Chandos, to ?;[1640s].
37.Philip Dormer Stanhope, 2nd Earl of Chesterfield, to John Evelyn;19 July 1662.
38.Elizabeth, wife of Donogh Maccarty, 4th Earl of Clancarty to [Jael Boscawen];27 Jan. [1691].
39-42. Four letters from Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon to Sir Richard Browne; 1653-1654. With an engraved portrait. Supplementing Add. MS 78192 above.
43-59. Thirteen letters from Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon to John Evelyn, 1664-1698, with four from his wife, Flower; 1680-1698. Imperfect; one letter of 1665 wants the first sheet. With an engraved portrait.
60.Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, to [Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart.?]; 1718.
61,62. Henry Brooke, 11th Lord Cobham, to Sir Edward Hoby, 1602, and from his nephew William Brooke, styled Lord Cobham.
63.Francis, Baron Cottington to Sir Richard Browne; 14 Dec. 1647. With an engraved portrait.
64.Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, to Sir Edward Hoby; 1604.
65.William, 1st Baron Craven, to Lord Grey of Warke; 1631.
66.John, Baron Craven of Ryton, to Sir Richard Browne; 1644. French.
67.John, Baron Culpeper to [Sir Richard Browne?]; 3 April 1660.
68.Thomas, 2nd Baron Culpeper, to John Evelyn, 31 March 1666.
69.Henry Danvers, 1st Earl of Danby, to Lord Fairfax; 1631.
70,71. Thomas Osborne, Earl of Danby, to Viscount Yarmouth; 1677.
72.Henry, Baron Danvers, afterwards Earl of Danby, to Sir Edward Hoby; 1606.
73, 74. John, 3rd Lord Darcy, to the Earl of Shrewsbury and Lord Fairfax; 1610, 1629.
75.Edward, Lord Denny, to Sir Thomas Fairfax; n.d.
76.William Cavendish, 3rd Earl of Devonshire, to Sir Francis Rhodes, Bart.; 1671.
77, 79. George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, to Sir Edward Walker, n.d. and Sir Richard Browne, 1641 (copy) (letter to Browne of 21 Feb. 1644 [no. 78?] noted in table of contents, but not now present).
80-82. Sir Richard Sackville, 1563, Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, 1606; Edward Sackville, 4th Earl of Dorset, 1634.
83.Richard Sackville, 5th Earl of Dorset, to Sir R. Browne; 1664.
84.Richard, Viscount Dungarvan,, to Lord Fairfax; n.d.
85.Sir William Ducie to John Evelyn; 26 July 1644.
86-89. Documents relating to William Parr, Earl of Essex; 1544.
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90, 91. Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, to Mr Peters; 1643. With engraved portrait.
92, 93. Elizabeth, Countess of Essex to the Duchess of --, and to Francis Godolphin, bef. 1676.
94.Ralph, 3rd Baron Eure, to Sir Edward Hoby; 1605.
95.William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Exeter, to Lord Fairfax; 1628.
96, 97. Ferdinando, Lord Fairfax, to his father and brother; 1616, 1636.
98-117. Various Fairfax letters
117a.Henry Carey, 1st Viscount Falkland, to his sisters; 1624.
118, 119. Warrant, with engraved portrait, by Lucius Carey, 2nd Viscount Falkland; 1642.
120.Anne, Lady Fanshawe, to Mary Evelyn; 19 March 1675/6.
121, 122. Thomas Belasyse, 1st Viscount Fauconberg, to Lord Fairfax; 1647.
123.Anne, Viscountess Fitzhardinge to Jael Boscawen; 3 April 1675.
124.Sir John Fortescue to Sir Edward Hoby; 1603.
125-128. Henri Massue de Ruvigny, Earl of Galway to Lord ?, to John Evelyn and to Lord Godolphin; 1697, 1699. French.
129, 130. James Stewart, 2nd Earl of Galloway, to Sir Richard Browne, 22 July 1659, and to General George Monck, 12 Dec. 1659.
131.Elizabeth Boyle, Countess of Guildford, to Mary Evelyn; [early 1660s?].
132.Appointment by James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton; 1648. Signed.
133.Brilliana, Lady Harley, to George Rawdon; 1636.
134.Christopher, 1st Baron Hatton, to Sir Richard Browne; 26 Dec. 1664.
135.Denzell, 1st Baron Holles, to Sir Richard Browne; 25 Sept. 1663.
136.Order signed by Sir Ingram Hopton; 1641.
137, 138. Documents signed by Ralph, Baron Hopton; 1644, 1649, the second a power of attorney to John Jane, with an endorsement in John Evelyn’s hand.
139, 140. Sir Arthur Hopton to Sir Richard Browne; 1644, 1646. Supplementing Add. MS 78191 above.
141, 142. Henry Hastings, 5th Earl of Huntingdon, to Sir Thomas Percy, early 17th cent., and from George Hastings, 8th Earl of Huntingdon, to Peter Le Neve, 1701.
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Creation Date 1549-1713
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. DXII. Letters and documents of the following (titles I-Z).
1.Sir John Knevit to [John Evelyn or Sir Richard Browne?]; 1663. French.
2.Order from Sir Marmaduke Langdale, afterwards 1st Baron Langdale, to the aldermen of Leeds; 1639. Signed.
3.Order from Ludovic Stuart, 2nd Duke of Lennox, to the aldermen of Sandwich; 1621.
4.Edward Sutton, 5th Lord Dudley, to the Earl of Leicester; 1594.
5.Robert Sydney, 2nd Earl of Leicester to John Evelyn; 15 Oct. 1661.
6.Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey to Richard Evelyn; 16 March 1633/4. Signed.
7.Montague Bertie, 2nd Earl of Lindsey, to Sir Richard Browne; 8 Sept. 1662. With an engraved portrait.
8.Elizabeth, 2nd wife of Henry Clinton, 2nd Earl of Lincoln; 1589.
9.Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester, to Sir Thomas Fairfax; [early 1640s?].
10.Robert Montagu, 3rd Earl of Manchester, to John Evelyn; 2 July 1676.
11.Memorandum of Margaret, 3rd wife of Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester; 1638.
12-14. Orders by James Ley, 1st Earl of Marlborough; 1625.
15.Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex; 1640.
16.Power of attorney from Henry Carey, 2nd Earl of Monmouth; 1650. Signed.
17-18. Orders as Admiralty commissioner and as Captain-General by James Scott, Duke of Monmouth; 1677, 1678. Signed.
19.Petition to Council of State by James Douglas, 1st Earl of Mordington; 1653. Signed.
20.Edmund Sheffield, 1st Earl of Mulgrave, to Ferdinando Fairfax; 1632.
21- 23. William Cavendish, Marquess of Newcastle, to Lord Fairfax; 1627, 1634.
24-26. Three letters from Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk, to John Evelyn; 19 Aug. 1666, 15, 22 Sept. 1668.
27, 28. Letter, etc., Algernon Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland; 1640.
29-31. Documents by Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham; 1586-1603.
32.James Butler, 12th Earl of 1st Duke of Ormonde; 1638.
33.Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, to [Sir Richard Browne?]; 27 June 1670.
34.Henry, Baron Percy of Alnwick, to Sir Richard Browne; 7 Nov. 1647.
35-37. Three letters from John, Viscount Mordaunt, to John Evelyn; 23 April 1661, 10 Nov. 1672, 11 April 1673. With a sealed address leaf to Sir Richard Browne, 17 April 1666. The first letter has pen and ink sketches by John Evelyn for insignia for the `Societas Regius’.
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38, 39. Elizabeth, Viscountess Mordaunt, to John Evelyn, 25 Jan. 1664 (jointly with her husband), 15 May 1677.
40.Barbara Mordaunt to Jael Boscawen; [1690s].
41, 42. Henry Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of Peterborough, to John Evelyn; 7 Sept. 1668, 29 July 1690.
43.Jane Martha, widow of Hans Willem Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland, to Lady Evelyn; 1 Dec. 1713.
44.Henry Sydney, Earl of Romney to John Evelyn; 18 April 1695. Signed.
45.Letter from Francis, 7th Earl of Rutland; n.d.
46-49. Four letters from Henry Jermyn, Earl of St Albans, to Sir Richard Browne; 1646-1665.
50-52. Letters from 1st Earl of Salisbury; 1605-1610.
53-55. Letters, etc., from 1st and 2nd Lord Savile; 1598-1643.
56-58. Three letters from John, 1st Viscount Scudamore, to Sir Richard Browne; 14 Jan., 3 April 1661, 13 May 1663.
59.Pass signed by John Seymour; 1564.
60.Appointment by Edmund Sheffield, 1st Earl of Mulgrave; 1605. Signed.
61, 62. Documents by Gilbert Talbot, 7th Earl of Shrewsbury; 1597, 1610.
63, 64. Letters from Anna Maria, wife of Francis Talbot, 11th Earl of Shrewsbury; n.d.
65.Order by Charles Talbot, Duke of Shrewsbury, as Lord Chamberlain; 1700. Signed.
66.Thomas Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton, to Charles II; 1663.
67.William Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, to Sir Edward Walker; 1668.
68, 69. Documents of Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk; 1600.
70.Dorothy Spencer, Countess of Sunderland, to her father Lord Leicester; 1643.
71-73. Three letters from Charles, Lord Spencer, afterwards 3rd Earl of Sunderland, to John Evelyn; Feb. 1690 (Latin), 8 May 1692, 20 June 1694.
74, 75. Anne Spencer, Countess of Sunderland to Mary Evelyn, 6 Aug. 1689, and Jael Boscawen, 13 Aug. [n.d.].
76.Letter from George Carew, 1st Earl of Totnes; 1605.
77.Letter from Sir Francis Vere; 1601.
78-80. Letters of Horace, Baron Vere, and his wife, Mary; 1631, n.d.
81.Order from Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick; 1645. Signed.
82.Letter from Anne, Countess of Warwick; 1578. Signed.
83.Letter from Thomas, 1st Baron Wentworth; 1549.
84.Letter from Thomas, 1st Viscount Wentworth; 1620.
85.Letter from Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford; 1634.
86.Letter from Sir George Wentworth; 1648.
87.Letter from Philip, 4th Baron Wharton; 1624.
88.Letter from Sir Thomas Widdrington; 1660.
Page 467 2021-08-13 89.Letter of Lord Robert Willughby; [1620s?].
90.Francis, 5th Lord Willoughby of Parnham, to Sir Richard Browne; 19 Oct. 1664.
91.Document of John Pawlett, 5th Marquess of Winchester; 1661.
92.Document of Lord William Pawlett; 1694.
93.Receipt of Elizabeth, wife of Edward, 4th Earl of Worcester; 1621.
94-97. Robert Paston, 1st Earl of Yarmouth, to his wife and others; bef. 1673-1677.
98.Letter from Edward, 11th Lord Zouche; 1621.
99-131. Documents with multiple signatures and signatures alone; chiefly 16th-17 th cent.
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Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
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Creation Date [1578-1825]
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Title Evelyn Papers. Vols. dxiii-dxv. `Original Letters collected by William Upcott of the London Institution: Collectors of Books’. Lot 513 in Evans’ sale of Upcott’s collections, 22 June 1846 (Add. MS 78584 B). Formerly Evelyn MSS 2/1-3.Three volumes. Matching bindings of brown leather. 340 x 250mm. ([1578-1825])
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Creation Date 1578-1824
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. DXIII. `Collectors of Books. Vol. I. 1824’. Letters and documents of the following:
1, 2.Sir Thomas Bodley; 28 July 1595. With a facsimile.
3.Sir Robert Cotton (facsimile)
4.John, Lord Lumley; 15 July 1578.
5-7.Dr John Cosin, Dean of Peterborough, Bishop of Durham, to John Evelyn, 5 June 1652, with a catalogue of his books acquired by Evelyn.
8.Evelyn to Richard Bentley; 23 Nov. 1694. Autograph copy.
9.Sir Kenelm Digby to [Evelyn?]; 28 July 1648.
10.Elias Ashmole (engraved portrait only)
11.William Seaman.
12.Anthony à Wood (engraved portrait only).
13.John Fell, Bishop of Oxford, to Dr Ralph Bathurst concerning John Evelyn and the Arundel library; 7 March [1669?].
14.John Moore, Bishop of Ely
15-24. Samuel Pepys to John Evelyn, 29 Nov. 1692, and to John Jackson, 1700, with `The Method of the present Register of my Books’, followed by draft lists of his books, prints, manuscripts, curiosities, ballads, etc., 1691, and a single page of shorthand.
25.Christopher Hatton.
26.Thomas Tenison, Bishop of Lincoln and Archbishop of Canterbury, to Evelyn; 19 June 1694.
27.Power of attorney from John, 1st Duke of Marlborough; 1719.
28. Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland to [Lord Danby?]; [1670s?].
29.Charles Spencer 3rd Earls of Sunderland, to John Grigsby; 1716.
. 30, 31. Power of attorney of Sir Hans Sloane; 1720.
32.Dr Thomas Gale to John Evelyn; 19 Jan. 1698.
33-36. Narcissus Luttrell; 1681-1720.
37, 38. William Nicolson, Bishop of Carlisle, to John Evelyn, 9 May 1700, and to Ralph Thoresby, 2 Sept. 1700.
39. John Bagford; 1710
40.Engraved portrait of John Murray; 1748.
41.Philip Sydenham to ?; 1703.
42. Dr John Woodward to Dr John Battely; 1707.
43.Power of attorney of Anthony Collins; 1724.
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44.James Logan to ?; 1730.
45.Thomas Hearne to Peter Le Neve; 1728.
46.Power of attorney of Robert Paston, Earl of Yarmouth; 1731.
47.Rev. Thomas Baker to ?; [1730].
48.William Warren to Dr Zachary Grey; 1740.
49.Engraved portrait of Christopher Codrington; n.d.
50, 51. Documents of James Brydges, Duke of Chandos; 1714, 1720.
52.Letter, etc., of Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford; 1739.
53, 54. Humfrey Wanley to Samuel Pepys; 1702.
55-66. Rev. John Lewis to Joseph Ames; 1740-1741, n.d.
66*. John Anstis to John Lewis, Joseph Ames, etc.; 1737, n.d.
67.William Knowler to Rev. John Lewis; n.d.
68-75.Letters, etc., of Joseph Ames and John Anstis; 1737-1759.
76-80. Letters of George Ballard to Joseph Ames; 1739-1741.
81-83. Thomas Hunt to Joseph Ames; 1740.
84-85. Letter, etc., Dr Richard Mead; 1720.
86, 87. Letters from Martin Folkes; 1705, 1747
88, 89. Brian Fairfax to Peter Le Neve, etc.; 1716, 1722.
90-92. Richard Rawlinson to Joseph Ames; 1739-1741.
93. Engraving and signature of John Henley; 1751.
94. Smart Letheullier to Andrew Ducarel; 1751.
95, 96. Thomas Potter to Zachary Grey; [1750s?]
97.Cox Macro to Andrew Ducarel; 1763.
98.Documents rel. to James Dormer; 1714.
99. Power of attorney of Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield; 1728.
100.Engraved portrait of Ralph Thoresby; 1712.
101.Power of attorney of William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire; 1726.
102.Richard Widmore to Joseph Ames; 1743.
103. Letter from Dr John Freind; 1721.
104.Letter from William Huddesford; 1760.
105, 106. James West to Thomas Martin and Joseph Ames; 1744
107. Thomas Martin to John Ives; 1770.
108.Francis Hawksbee to George Scott; 1753.
109-111. Rev. Cornewall Tathwell to Zachary Grey; 1747.
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Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
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Creation Date 1809-1825
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Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. DXIV, DXV. `Collectors of Books. Vol. II. 1824’ covers the period 1776-1809; `Collectors of Books. Vol. III. 1824’ covers the period 1809-1825. The date spans are those stamped on the spines, but both volumes contain a few earlier documents. Neither contains any of Evelyn family provenance. (1809-1825)
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Scope and Content Vols. DXIV, DXV. `Collectors of Books. Vol. II. 1824’. 1776-1809.
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Scope and Content Vols. DXIV, DXV. `Collectors of Books. Vol. III. 1824’. 1809-1825.
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Add MS 78683-78685 EVELYN PAPERS. Vols DXVI-DXVIII. `Authors and Antiquaries’ (label on spines). On one of the fly-laves is a
Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
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Creation Date [1621-1769]
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Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vols DXVI-DXVIII. `Authors and Antiquaries’ (label on spines). On one of the fly-laves is a note by Upcott: `This First Series comprizes Three Hundred and Eighty Four Letters of Literary and Antiquarian Characters … Three volumes’. Lot 421 in Evans’ sale of Upcott’s collections, 22 June 1846 (Add. MS 78584 B). Formerly Evelyn MSS 3/1-3.Three volumes. Matching bindings of brown leather. ([1621-1769])
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Creation Date 1631-1769
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol DXVI. Letters and documents of the following (A-F):
1.Joseph Addison to ?; 1703
2.Joseph Ames to Thomas Martin; 1756.
3, 4. Letter, etc., of Christopher Anstey; 1732, 1747
5. John Anstis to John Grigsby; 1713, 1714.
6. Francis Astry to ?; n.d.
7. Power of attorney of Lewis Atterbury; 1730.
1.Francis Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester, to Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart., 12 Dec. 1712
9, 10. Timothy Awbrey to Ambrose Philips; 1712.
11.Power of attorney of William Ayloffe; 1722.
12.Order of Thomas Barnes; 1715.
13, 14. Isaac Basire to Sir Richard Browne, 2 Oct. 1647, and Evelyn, 22 May 1669.
15.John Bastwicke to John Banks; 1637.
16-21. Ralph Bathurst to John Evelyn, 24 Sept. 1667, 8 Nov., 20 Dec. 1668, 12 Aug. 1669, and to Ralph Bohun, 28 May 1701, 31 Dec. 1703.
22-38. John Beale to John Evelyn, 18, 29 May 1660, 30 Aug. 1662, 6, 22 Sept., 26, 31 Oct., 13 Dec. 1662, 29 Jan., 7, 9 Feb., 14 March 1662/3, 8 Oct. 1671, 26 June 1682.
39, 40. Beaupré Bell to ?; 1729, 1740.
41, 42. Richard Bentley to John Evelyn; 21 April 1698, 6 June 1700.
43.Edward Bernard to ?; 1697.
44. Joseph Bingham to Charles Lockyer; 1722.
45, 46. Martin Bladen to Dr Fairfax and the South Sea Co. treasurer; 1705, 1721.
47.Edward Blount to [Richard?] Browne; 25 Aug. 1631.
48.Jacob Bobart to John Evelyn; 16 Feb. 1668.
49, 50. Ralph Bohun to John Evelyn and his wife; 15 Dec. 1705, 6 Sept. 1707.
51.George Bowyer to `Rev. Sir’; 1739.
52-55. Letters, etc., of William Bowyer; 1726; n.d.
56.Engraved portrait of Robert Boyle; n.d.
57.Document signed by Dr Nicholas Brady; n.d.
58. Sir Thomas Browne to John Evelyn; n.d. [bef. 1671].
59. Thomas Browne to Robert Jenkin; 1698.
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60, 61. Josiah Burchett to the mayor, etc, of Sunderland and to Sir George Byng; 1704, 1716.
62.Gilbert Burnet to the South Sea Co.; 1721.
63. Power of attorney of Thomas Burnet; 1728.
64. Robert Burscough to Rev. William Nicolson; 1700.
65, 66. John Burton to Andrew Ducarel; 1754, 1769.
67.Power of attorney of Edmund Calamy; 1720.
68. Power of attorney of John Campbell; 1759.
69. Thomas Carte to `Rev. Sir’; 1737
70-72. Meric Casaubon to Sir Richard Browne, 6 April 1649, and John Evelyn, Feb. 1665, 24 Jan. 1670.
73, 75. John Chamberlayne to Lord ? and Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart; 1712, 1722.
74.Edward Chamberlayne to John Evelyn; 1668.
76.Edward Chamberlayne to Charles Lockyer; 1730.
77. Sir John Chardin to John Evelyn, 9 Oct. 1695
78, 79. Rev. Edmund Chishull to William Bowyer, etc.; 1722
80.Note of Samuel Clarke, D. D; 1724.
81.William Clarke to ?; 1650
82.Abraham Clifford to George Thoresby; 1668.
83, 84. Martin Clifford to ?; 1671, n.d.
85.Note by William Congreve; 1721.
86. Richard Comyns to South Sea Co.; 1721.
87. Thomas Creech to John Evelyn, 5 Aug. 1683
88. Note of Alexander Cunningham; 1725.
89-93. Letters of Emanuel Mendes Da Costa; 1755-1763.
94. Robert Dale to ?; 1710
95, 96. Letters, etc., of Sir David Dalrymple to the South Sea Co.; 1721
97.Note of Abraham Demoivre; 1723.
98.Note of George Dodington; 1721.
99, 100. Letter to and from Francis Drake; 1749.
101.Thomas Duncomb to Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart., 7 Feb 1750[/1?].
102, 103. John Ecton, inc. letter to Sir John Evelyn, 1 April 1724.
104. Document rel. to George Edwards; 1737.
105. Signature of Henry Etough; n.d.
[Engraved portraits of John Evelyn; letter to `Mr Cooper’ (autograph copy), 21 Jan. 1702, listed in the table of contents, are missing].
106. John Flamsteed to Dr John Woodward; 1701.
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107. Margaret Flamsteed to South Sea Co.; 1725.
108. Daniel Fleming to William Nicolson; 1696.
109. Daniel Fogg to Charles Lockyer; n.d.
110. Phineas Fowke to George Plaxton; 1697.
111. Power of attorney of Dr John Freind; 1720.
112. Dr Robert Freind to South Sea Co.; 1721.
113. John Fryer to South Sea Co.; n.d.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. DXVII. Letters and documents of the following (G-P):
1, 2.Thomas Gale to John Evelyn; 10 Feb. 1698, 20 Jan. 1700
3-5.Roger Gale; 1710-1743
6.Power of attorney of Thomas Gibson; 1717.
7.Thomas Gibson to `Mr Coningham’; 1695.
8.Henry Gyles to Roger Geldart; 1690.
9.William Glanville to John Evelyn; 30 April 1642. Latin.
10, 11. Joseph Glanvill to John Evelyn; 15 Jan. [1670?], 23 Nov. 1667.
12.William Goodwin to John Grigsby; 1713.
13.John Ernest Grabe to Lord ?; 1709.
14.John Grainger to Charles Lockyer; 1722.
15.Henry Greene to John Evelyn; 24 June 1679.
16.Nehemiah Grew to John Evelyn; 5 May 1682.
17-19. Zachary Grey to ?; 1742-1743.
20.Thornaugh Gurdon to the South Sea Co.; 1721.
21, 22. Samuel Hartlib to an unidentified correspondent and to John Evelyn; 1657, 1660.
23.John Harwood to John Evelyn; 27 Aug. [late 1680s], with Evelyn’s draft reply on the verso.
24.Power of attorney of Nicholas Hawksmoor; 1723.
25.Robert Heath to John Evelyn; 1644. Latin.
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26, 27. Aaron Hill to Sir Robert Walpole and David Mallet; 1730, 1748.
28, 29. Abraham Hill to John Evelyn, 26 Jan., 26 Feb. 1698.
30.Benjamin Hoadly, Bishop of Bangor, to ?; [1715-21],
31.Barton Holyday to Christopher Browne; 26 March 1621.
32.Abraham Hooke to Charles Lockyer; 1728.
33.Nathaniel Hough to Charles Lockyer; 1725.
34.George Huddesford to Dr Shippen; 1733.
35.Receipt of Henry Hunt; 1695.
36.John Hutchinson to Charles Lockyer; 1725.
37.Francis Hutchinson to the South Sea Co.; 1725.
38.Anthony Hutton to ?; 1692.
39.John Johnson to Andrew Ducarel; 1757.
40.William Jones to John Grigsby; 1718.
41, 42. John Jones to Zachary Grey; 1735, 1740.
43, 44. Letter and power of attorney of White Kennett; 1696, 1739.
45.William King to ?; 1721.
46.P. Kirke to the South Sea Co.; 1722.
47.Rev. Samuel Knight to Zachary Grey; 1741.
48.Gilbert Knowles to Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart.; 24 Aug. 1723.
49.Arthur Kynnesman to ?; 1749.
50.Nathaniel Lardner to John Grigsby; 1712.
51.Power of attorney of William Law; 1719.
52.John Leland, D.D., to Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart.; 26 July 1757.
53.Sir Roger L'Estrange to Evelyn; 11 Sept. 1685.
54.Smart Lethuiller to Andrew Ducarel; 1750.
55.John Lewys to Richard Bean; 1664.
56.Edward Lhwyd to William Nicolson; 1698.
57.Martin Lister to Henry Giles; n.d.
58.Sir Thomas Lyttleton to ?; 1698.
59.Power of attorney of Robert Lloyd; 1713.
60.Orders of William Lowth; 1721,1726.
61, 62. Orders of Narcissus Luttrell; 1721, 1725
63, 64. Sir George Mackenzie to John Evelyn; n.d., 4 Feb. 1667[/68?], [1668].
65.Benjamin Madox to John Evelyn; 25 Feb. 1651. Latin.
66.Sir George Manwood to Sir Richard Browne; 26 March 1644.
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67.Abraham Markland to [the South Sea Co.]; 1722.
68.Power of attorney of Thomas Martin; 1734.
69.Andrew Marvell to Edwrad Thompson; 1670.
70.Orders of Edward Maynard; 1722.
71.Order of Richard Mead to South Sea Co.; 1720.
72.Order of John Mead to South Sea Co.; 1716.
73, 74. Order and power of attorney of William Melmoth to South Sea Co.; 1722, 1720.
75-77. Letters of Robert Midgley; 1684, 1694. With printed monumental inscription.
78.Order of Isaac Milles to South Sea Co.; 1722.
79.Order of the Council of State, 5 March 1651, to examine John Milton’s book, with an endorsement in John Evelyn’s hand, `This paper found at White-hall’.
80.Robert, 1st Viscount Molesworth, to Charles Lockyer; 1721.
81.Edward Wortley Montagu to ?; 1755.
82, 83. Letters from Philip Morant to ?; 1754, 1755.
84.Power of attorney of Edward Mores; 1720.
85.Letter of Edward Rowe Mores to Thomas Martin; 1753.
86, 87. Letters of Sylvanus Morgan; 1668, n.d.
88.Order of Corbyn Morris; 1730.
89.Letter of Charles Morton; 1751.
90.Order of Henry Muilman to South Sea Co.; n.d.
91.John Nalson to ?; 1683.
92.Order of Daniel Neal to South Sea Co.; 1712.
93.Jasper Needham to John Evelyn, 5 April 1649.
94.Order of John Needham to the South Sea Co.; 1722.
95, 96. Power of attorney of Peter Newcome; 1720.
97.Power of attorney of Sir Isaac Newton; 1720.
98, 99. John Nixon to Emanuel da Costa and Sir Thomas Cave; 1751, 1753.
100.William Norris to ?; 1755.
101-106. George North to Andrew Ducarel; 1751-1757.
107.Roderick O'Flaherty to ?; 1703.
108.Power of attorney of Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery; 1715.
109-125. Samuel Pepys to John Evelyn; 2 Nov. 1669, 26 March 1670, 1 March 1677, 7 Aug. 1683, 2 Oct. 1685, 10 Sept. 1688, 30 Aug. 1689, 13 Nov. 1690, 9 Jan., 28 March, 16 Sept. 1692, 22 May, 14 Aug., 7 Nov. (copy) 1694, 7 Aug. 1700, 19 Nov., 24 Dec. 1701. One guard between the letters of 1700 and 1701 appears to have had a letter cut from it.
126, 127. James Petiver to unidentified correspondents, 16 March 1705[/6?], n.d., the first mentioning John Evelyn.
Page 477 2021-08-13 128, 129. Edward Phillips to John Evelyn, 10 Dec. 1664 (with a draft by Evelyn on the verso, apparently connected with Phillips's continuation of Sir Richard Baker's Chronicle of the Kings of England (1665), and the account of Evelyn's negotiations with his former school-fellow, Sir Herbert Morley, at the Restoration, for which see further Add. MS 78393), and to John Evelyn jun., Nov. 1693.
130.John Place to John Evelyn; 2 Sept. 1699, with draft reply on the verso.
131.Richard Pococke to ?; 1751.
132, 133. Receipt of Alexander Pope for subscription; n.d. Partly printed, with letter of Pope to ? printed in The Correspondence of Alexander Pope, ed. George Sherburn (1965), II, p. 80.
134.Walter Pope to John Evelyn; 1/11 Feb. 1665.
135.Thomas Potter to Andrew Ducarel; 1733.
136.John Potter to [Andrew Ducarel?]; 1763.
137.William Prynne to ?; 1669.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. DXVIII. Letters and documents of the following (R-W):
1.Thomas Radcliffe to ?; 1731.
2.Power of attorney of Samuel Rastall; 1722.
3, 4. Richard Rawlinson to Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart., 30 Aug. 1746. With a copy of the epitaph of Sir Thomas Dereham.
5. John Ray to `Mr Newborough’; n.d.
6. William Reading to ?; 1724.
7. Nicholas Revett to James Stuart; 1753.
8. J[ohn?] Richardson to ?; n.d.
9. George Ridpath to Mr Newborough; n.d.
10. Thomas Robinson to Dr Law; 1755. Copy.
11. Order of J. Rogers; 1721.
12. Order of Edward Rolt; 1721.
13. Henry Rooke to Sir Peter Thompson; 1749.
14, 15. Alexander Ross to John Evelyn; 20 May, 21 July 1650.
16. Sir Paul Rycaut to John Evelyn; 8 April 1690.
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17-19. Letters, etc., of Thomas Rymer; 1721.
20. Order of Henry Sacheverell and others to South Sea Co.; 1722.
21. William Salkeld to Ralph Palmer; 1694.
22. Order of Lawrence Sanderson to South Sea Co.; 1726.
23. William Savage, `Upon the late very frequent disputes among the French Commanders’; n.d.
24. Elkanah Settle to John Boulter; n.d.
25. Orders of Dr Thomas Sherlock and Rachel Sherlock to South Sea Co.; 1721, 1724.
26. Sir Robert Sibbald to Edward Lhwyd; 1703.
27. Sir Hans Sloane to John Evelyn; 17 May 1698
28. Andrew Snape to Henry Merriott; 1698.
29. Order of Thomas Snelling to South Sea Co.; 1726.
30. Order of Thomas Sprat to South Sea Co.; 1713.
31, 32. Orders of George Stanhope to South Sea Co.; 1721, 1725.
33. Notice by Temple Stanyan to attend Council of Plantations; 1727.
34. Sir Richard Steele to Ambrose Phillips; 1712.
35-37. Simon Sterne to ?; 1697-1700, n.d.
38. Discharge of Robert Steuart for salary; 1709.
39-41. Order of William Stukeley to South Sea Co., and letters by and to Stukeley; 1722, 1746, n.d.
42. Jonathan Swift to Ambrose Phillips; 1708.
43. John Swinton to ?; 1767.
44-48. Thomas Tanner to Peter Le Neve, etc.; 1698-1719.
49. John Tanner to Thomas Martin; 1743.
50. Appointment by Thomas Tenison; 1731.
51-52. Order and power of attorney by William Thomas to South Sea Co.; 1733.
53-60. Ralph Thoresby, including letters to John Evelyn; 28 Aug., 19 Nov. 1698, 14 Feb., 9 Aug. 1702, 6 April 1706 (apparently written posthumously, endorsed by Evelyn’s grandson).
61. Order by John Thorpe to South Sea Co.; 1718.
63. Power of attorney of Thomas Tickell; 1732.
64. Orders by Matthew Tindall to South Sea Co.; 1722.
65. George Tonstall to ?; 1670.
66. Power of attorney by Jacob Tonson; 1723.
67. Thomas Triplet to John Evelyn, 7 Aug. 1656.
68. Abraham Tucker to Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart.; 25 March 1746.
69. Receipt of George Turnbull; 1740.
Page 479 2021-08-13 70. B. Tyndale to William Lowther; n.d.
71. Edward Tyson to John Evelyn; 15 March 1682.
72. Robert Uvedale to – Richardson; 1714.
73. Power of attorney of Sir John Vanbrugh; 1723.
74. Power of attorney of Charles Vanbrugh; 1720.
75. Edmund Waller to Sir Richard Browne; 3 July 1649.
76. Power of attorney of John Ward; 1728.
77. Notes by Sir James Ware; n.d.
78. Letter of `H. W.’ concerning autographs; 1708.
79-82. Christopher Wase to John Evelyn; 16 Oct. 1654, 7 March 1655, 17 July 1679, 6 Sept. 1688.
83. Order of Daniel Waterland to South Sea Co.; 1730.
84, 85. Power of attorney and notes by Isaac Watts; 1719, n.d.
86. John Welwood to Dr Cay; 1701.
87. James West to Thomas Martin; 1730.
88, 89. William Whiston to Lord Trevor; 1726. Copy.
90. James Whildon to Adam Barker; 1700.
91 Jeremiah White to ?; n.d.
92-94. David Wilkins to Bishop Edmund Gibson; 1716.
95. Browne Willis to Peter Le Neve; 1704.
96. William Willis to Andrew Ducarel; 1755.
97, 98. Order and power of attorney of William Wollaston; 1720.
99-101. John Woodward to John Evelyn; 25 Sept., 5 Oct. 1697. With power of attorney, 1720.
102. Order of Henry Woodward to South Sea Co.; 1722
103. [Benjamin?] Worsley to [Samuel Hartlib], [circa 1650s]. Copy, docketed by John Evelyn, `Dr Worsley’.
104-115. William Wotton to John Evelyn; 11 July 1694, 7 April, 24 May 1696, 2, 20 Jan. 1698, 7 April, 8 June, 6 July, 8 Aug. 1699, 22 Jan. 1702, 13 Aug., 30 Oct. 1703. One letter, which included a draft response by Evelyn, has been removed, leaving an empty guard leaf between the letters of 1702 and 1703.
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Title EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. DXIX-DXXII. `Original Letters collected by William Upcott of the London Institution. Distinguished Women’; 17th-19th cent. Each volume is preceded by a list of contents in Upcott’s hand. Unlike the preceding three series of albums, these contain only a few items originally from the Evelyn archive. Many are contemporary with Upcott and come from booksellers’ archives. Lot 556 in Evans’ sale of Upcott’s collections, 22 June 1846 (Add. MS 78584 B). Formerly Evelyn MSS 4/1-4.Four volumes. Matching bindings of brown leather. ([1640-1824])
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Scope and Content Evelyn Papers. Vol. dxix. Letters and documents of the following (A-E):
Frances Abington to Ozias Humphry’; n.d.
Lucy Aikin to ?; 1824.
3, 4. Elizabeth Craven, Margravine of Anspach, to Ozias Humphry’ and `Mrs Tyndall’; n.d.
5.Elizabeth Appleton to Henry Colburn; 1819.
6.Mary Arnold to ?; 1814.
7.Hannah Atkins to Henry Colburn; 1817.
8-11.Joanna Baillie to William Davies and Henry Colburn; 1821, n.d.
12.[Anne?] Bannerman to -- Wood; 1804.
13-15. Anna Letitia Barbauld to `Miss Parkes’ and -- Hunter; 1783-1824.
16, 17. Sarah Bates to Ozias Humphry; 1802, n.d.
18, 19. George Anne Bellamy to Robert Dodsley; n.d.
20-22. Lady Diana Beauclerk to Thomas Cadell; n.d.
23.Sophie Beckedoff to `Mrs Sharwell’; n.d.
24-26. Elizabeth Benger to Henry Colburn and others; 1817, n.d.
27.-- Benson to Henry Colburn; n.d.
28.Mary Berry to ?; 1815.
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29.Matilda Betham to -- Baker; n.d.
30.Receipt of Elizabeth Blackwell; 1747.
31.Order for payment by Teresa Blount; 1722.
32, 33. Frances Boscawen to Thomas Cadell and Mrs --; 1799, n.d.
34-37. Harriet Bowdler to Thomas Cadell and others; 1816, n.d.
38-40. Frances Brooke to Robert Dodsley; 1765, n.d.
41-43. Margaret Bryan to Messrs Lackington; 1811-1819, n.d.
44, 45. Jane Burke to -- Snugg; 1807, 1810.
46.Frances Burney to Henry Colburn; n.d.
47-50. Sarah Harriet Burney to Henry Colburn; 1816-1820.
51-55. Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby to Cadell and Lackington; 1803-1811.
56.C. Butler to Vernon and Hood; n.d.
57.Letitia Byrne to William Davies; 1812.
58, 59. Rosa Matilda Byrne to Cadell and Davies and Henry Colburn; n.d.
60.-- Campbell, wife of John Campbell, author of the Political Survey, to Messrs Evans; 1783.
61.Lady Charlotte Campbell; 1808.
62.Order by Queen Caroline; 1821.
63, 64. Princess Charlotte to --; n.d.
66. Elizabeth Carter to Montagu Pennington; 1805.
67. Ann Carter to Messrs Lackington; 1817.
68.Receipt of Susanna Centlivre; 1715.
69. Hester Chapone to Richard Price; n.d.
70. Eliza Emma Clewson to ?; 1817.
72-74. Mary Anne Clarke to ?; n.d.
75.Mary Cockle to Ozias Humphry; n.d.
76.Elizabth Cook, widow of Capt. James Cook, to -- Walker; 1796.
77.Note by Harriet Coutts; 1821.
78-81. Hannah Cowley to Thomas Cadell and others; n.d.
82-84. Mrs -- Crespigny to Thomas Cadell; 1803.
85.Frances Anne, Lady Crewe, to Ozias Humphry; n.d.
86.Anne Seymour Damer to `Samuel Johnston’; n.d.
87-89. Note, receipt, etc., of Frances D'Arblay; 1796-1821.
90.Order by -- Darwin, of The Priory, near Derby; 1810
91.Countess De Lally to Henry Colburn; 1814.
Page 482 2021-08-13 92.Elizabeth De Missy to --; 1777.
93, 94. Georgina, Duchess of Devonshire, to Richard Brinsley Sheridan, etc.; n.d.
95, 96. Susan Dobson to Henry Cadell; n.d.
97.Sarah D'Oyley to --; 1816.
98.[Susanna?] Duncombe to John Nichols; n.d.
99.[Eleanor?] Dyott to New Monthly Magazine; 1821.
100-102 Maria Edgeworth to G. Rennie and others; 1812, 1823, n.d.
103.Engraved portrait and facsimile signature of Queen Elizabeth I; 19th cent.
104.Elizabeth, Princess of Hesse-Homberg, to ?; n.d.
105-106. Proposal by Elizabeth Elstob for Aelfric’s Homilies; n.d.
107.Mary Evelyn to Ralph Bohun; 29 Jan [endorsed `1673/4’ by Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart., but probably 1672/3].
108.Mary, widow of Sir Frederick Evelyn, 3rd Bart., to William Upcott, 9 Jan. 1814.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. DXX. Letters and documents of the following (F-L):
1.Sarah Farrell to Thomas Cadell; 1794.
2.Mrs Fell to -- Vernon, bookseller; 1790
3.Receipt by Sarah Fielding; n.d.
4.Maria Fitzherbert to -- Cartwright; 1822.
5, 6.Anne Flinders to Messrs Lackington; 1815.
7, 8.Lavinia Forster to Ozias Humphry; 1802.
9, 10.Elizabeth Fox to ?; 1816.
11.Eliza Francis to Rudolph Ackermann; 1816.
12, 13.Letter, etc., by Elizabeth Fry; 1821, 1822.
15.Caroline Fry to ?; n.d.
16, 17.Eva Maria Garrick to Robert Adam, etc.; 1779, n.d.
18.Comtesse de Genlis to ?; 1773. French.
19.Eliza Gifford to William Thackeray, M.D; 1819.
Page 483 2021-08-13 21, 22. Mary Jane Godwin to ?; 1802, 1811.
23.-- Goldsworthy to Messrs Evans; n.d.
24-26. Maria Graham to ?; 1809.
27.Anne Grant to ?; 1805.
28-31. Eliza Gulston to Ozias Humphry and Thomas Cadell; n.d.
32.Miss Gunning to Messrs Vernon and Hood; n.d.
33.Anna Gurney to John Brightwen; n.d.
34.Maria Hack to ?; n.d.
35, 36. Maria Hackett to Messrs Nicholls; 1823.
37.Ann Hall to ?; 1774.
38, 39. Mrs -- Hall to Messrs Vernon and Hood; 1801.
40.Elizabeth Hamilton to ?; n.d.
41.Miss -- Hamilton to ?; n.d.
42, 43. Emma Hamilton to ?; 1804.
44.Mrs -- Hamilton to Thomas Cadell; n.d.
45.Mrs -- Harcourt to ?; n.d.
46.Mary Harrison to Thomas Vernon; n.d.
47.Miss -- Hatfield to Messrs Vernon and Hood; 1802.
48.L. M. Hawkins to Longmans; 18[0]4.
49.Receipt of Elizabeth Hayes; 1798.
50.Mary Hays to -- Underwood; 1801.
51-53. Felicia Hemans to John Murray; 1816.
54.Henrietta Maria to Sir Edward Nicholas; 6 Sept. [1641?].
55.Lady Hesketh to John Johnson; 1795.
56.Esther Hewlett to William Upcott; 1822.
57.Sophia Hoffhais to -- Sewell; 1789.
58, 59. Barbara Hofland to the Literary Gazette and to Lackingtons; n.d.
60.Fanny Holcroft; n.d.
61, 62. Mary Holderness to William Upcott; 1822.
63-66. Margaret Holford to Thomas Cadell and Henry Colburn; 1809-1814.
67, 68. Margaret Holford (apparently different from the preceding) to Henry Colburn; n.d.
69.Elizabeth Holt to – Jones; 1801.
70.Sarah and Isabella Horsley to the Society of Antiquaries; 1764.
71.Sophia Hume to Benjamin Partridge; 1747.
72.Mrs -- Hunter to Mr Payne; 1806.
Page 484 2021-08-13 73, 74. Agnes Sophia Hunter to ?; 1810, n.d.
75.J[ames?] Hurdis to Thomas Cadell; 1808.
76.Selina, Countess of Huntingdon to -- Knight; 1788.
77.Jane Hurdis to Rev. S. Gisborne; 1809.
78.Sarah Hurdis to William Stevens; 1810.
79.Lucy Hutchinson (facsimile of her handwriting)
80, 81. Catherine Hutton to John Nichols and James Grey Jackson; 1813
82.Ellen Hutton to ? 1816
83.Anne Hyde, afterwards Duchess of York, to Sir Richard Browne, 24 May 1657.
84-86. Letter, etc., of Elizabeth Inchbald; n.d.
87.Lady Jersey to Ozias Humphry; n.d.
88.Dorothea Jordan to ?; n.d.
89.Angelica Kaufmann to Ozias Humphry; n.d.
90.Elisa Kelly to ?; n.d.
91.Anne Kennicott to ?; n.d.
92, 93. Mrs -- Keppel to Ozias Humphry and Messrs Lackington; n.d.
94-96. Miss -- Knight to booksellers; 1809-1813, n.d.
97, 98. Letter, etc., of Mary Knowles; n.d.
99, 100. Lady Caroline Lamb to Henry Colburn; n.d.
101.Mary Leadbeater to John Bewley; 1820.
102.Sophia Lee to ?; n.d.
103.Harriet Lee to ?; n.d.
104.Charlotte Lennox to Andrew Millar; n.d.
105-107. E. A. Le Noir to Messrs Vernon, etc.; 1802-1804.
108-116. Mary Leslie to Messrs Vernon; 1803-1812.
117, 118. Alathea Lewis to Messrs Vernon; 1802.
119, 120. A. Lindley to ?; 1806, n.d.
121-124. Mary Linwood to several correspondents; 1808.-1815.
[124*] Fragment with signature of Augusta Lady Lovelace
125.Lady Lucas to --; n.d.
126.Signature of Lucy Lyttelton; n.d.
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. DXXI. Letters and documents of the following (M-P):
1, 2.Catherine Macaulay to ?; 1764.
3-5.E. M. Macauley to Henry Colburn; 1819-1821.
6, 7.Eliza Mackenzie to -- Offer; 1819, n.d.
8. Mrs Marcel to Longmans; n.d.
9-12. Mary, Queen of Scots (facsimiles).
13. E. K. Mathews to ?; n.d.
14. Madame de Maintenon to Mareschal to Villeroy; 1708
15-18. Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, to Lady -- and to the Duke of Newcastle (copy); to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (facsimile); temp. Qu. Anne, 1735, 1729
19.Mrs -- Milne to – Jones; n.d.
20-22. Letters, etc., of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu; n.d.
23-30. Elizabeth Montagu to Dr Messenger Monsey, etc.; 1758-1761, n.d.
31.Mrs Montolieu to --; n.d.
32.Madame Moreau to --; n.d.
33-47. Hannah More to Thomas Cadell and others; 1809, n.d.
48.Mary Augusta More to Marlow Sidney; 1802.
49-51. Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan, to Henry Colburn; 1814, n.d.
52.Elizabeth (Ritchie) Mortimer to --; 1824.
53.Lady Augusta Murray to – Hughes; n.d.
54.Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, to John Evelyn, 9 Feb. 1670[/1?].
55, 56. Mary Nicol to -- Carpenter and Henry Colburn; 1818, n.d.
57-59. Charlotte Nooth to Richard Valpy and William Upcott; 1817.
60. Elizabeth Ogborne to John Nichols; n.d.
61-63. Amelia Opie to Henry Colburn and Dawson Turner; 1817-1822, n.d.
64. A. Ottley to -- Boydell; 1798.
65-69. Alicia Tyndale Palmer to Messrs Lackington; 1809-1810.
70, 71. Emma Parker to Henry Colburn; 1814-1816.
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73. Lady (Katherine) Philippes to Mary Evelyn, 17 Aug. 1700.
74-95. Maria Pilkington to Vernon and Hood and others; 1802-1814.
96. M. P. Pinder to -- Shepherd; 1811.
97-104. Letters, engraved portraits, etc., of Hester Thrale Piozzi; 1797-1820.
105-112. Anne Plumptre to Messrs Lackington and others; 1792-1809, n.d.
113, 114, 117, 118. Jane Porter to various correspondents; 1812-1823.
116, 118. Anna Maria Porter to Georgina Parker; n.d.
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Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
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Creation Date 1640-1824
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. DXXII. Letters and documents of the following (R-Y):
1. Ann Radcliffe to --; n.d.
2. – Reeve to – Johnson; 1788.
3. Clara Reeve to --; 1802.
4. Henrietta Rhodes to -- Parkes; 1802.
5. Sarah Richardson to --; 1809.
6. Facsimile signature of Margaret, Countess of Richmond.
7, 8. Ann Ritson to Messrs Vernon Hood; 1809, n.d.
9. Mary Robinson (Perdita) to – Sewell; 1800.
10. Anna Maria Roche to Henry Colburn; n.d.
11. Frances Rowden to Messrs Lackington; n.d.
12. M. E. Rundle to Miss M. Bigge; 1817.
14, 15. Eliza Ryves to Robert Dodsley; 1780, 1782.
16. Mary Ann Schimmell Pennick to Duncan Ogle; 1823.
17. Anna Maria Schurman to Andrew Rivet; 1640. Latin.
18. Sarah Selby to Henry Colburn; n.d.
19-21. Olivia Wilmot Serres to – Cumberland, etc.; 1812-1823.
22-24. Anna Seward to Robert Dodsley, etc.; 1785-1808.
25. Facsimile signature of Lady Arabella Seymour
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26. Caroline Henrietta Sheridan to Ozias Humphry; n.d.
27. Sarah Siddons to – Hardinge; n.d.
28-34. Letters, etc., of Charlotte Smith; 1790-1805.
35. Note by Elizabeth Smith; n.d.
36. `Seal’ by Joanna Southcott; 1806.
37, 38. [Elizabeth Isabella?] Spence too Cadell and Davies; 1798.
40, 41. Mary Spence to Messrs Lackington, etc.; n.d.
42, 43. Madame de Stael to Henry Colburn; n.d.
44. Albertine de Stael to --; n.d.
45, 46. Anna Eliza Stothard to Elizabeth Turner and WilliamUpcott; 1819, 1822.
47-49. Mary Stockdale to William Upcott; 1824.
50. Agnes Strickland to Henry Colburn; 1824.
51. Duchess of Sussex to Henry Colburn; 1822.
52. Jane Taylor to Mrs Hewlett; 1818.
53. Emily Taylor to the editor of the New Monthly Magazine; 1824.
54. Elizabeth Thomas to Henry Colburn; 1819.
55. Miss -- Thomson to -- Collier; 1821
56. Ann Thornton to her daughter; n.d.
57. Mrs -- Tickell to Ozias Humphry; n.d.
58, 59. Mary Tighe to -- Carpenter; 1806.
60-66. Sarah and Selina Trimmer to Thomas Cadell and others; 1806-1813.
67-70. Elizabeth Trist to -- Hood, etc.; 180-1811.
71, 72. Lady Tuite to Cadell and Davies; n.d.
73. Mary Unwin, `The Needless Alarm: a Tale’; n.d.
73a. Facsimile signature of Lady Mary Vere.
74-76. Priscilla Wakefield to various correspondents; 1819, 1824, n.d.
77. Sarah Waldie to -- Parker; n.d.
78. Lady Mary Walker to Robert Dodsley; 1777.
79. Susanna Watts to ?; 1818.
80. Ann Watt to Earl Buchan; 1818.
81, 82. Helena Wells to Cadell and Davies; n.d.
83-85. Sarah Wesley to Henry Colburn and -- Sanders; 1820, n.d.
86. Jane West to ?; n.d.
87. Jane Wharton to Lord --; 1806.
88-90. Helen Maria Williams to Thomas Cadell and others; n.d.
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91-94. Honoria Williams to Messrs Lackington; 1820-1822..
95. Sarah Wilkinson to -- Cochrane; n.d.
96. Catherine Wilmshurst to the European Magazine; 1803.
97. Elizabeth Woodfall to N. Hart; 1805.
98. Elizabeth Wright to Vernon and Hood; 1807.
99. Ann Yearsley to ?; 1794.
100, 101. Mrs P. Young to Thomas Cadell; 1807.
102, 103. Olivia Young to James Lackington; 1802.
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Creation Date 16th century-18th century
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. DXXIII. Miscellaneous papers assembled by Upcott; 16th-18th cent. The provenance of all of the 66 documents is not clear, but some, probably the majority, have an Evelyn family provenance. Items 2, 3, 5, 6 and 8 all belong to the papers of Sir Richard Browne, Kt and M.P. as servant to the Earl of Leicester in Add. MSS 78172-78185 above; item 9, copies of indentures relating to Deptford, 1589, almost certainly has a Browne provenance; a substantial group relating to Anglo-French relations in the 1630s may originally have been amongst the papers of Sir Richard Browne, Bart., in Add. MSS 78201-78203; others of the 1640s and 1650s either mention Browne or have endorsements in the hand of Evelyn or Browne and are likely to come from Browne’s papers in Add. MSS 78204-78209, or elsewhere in his archive; item 48 derives from the papers of Sir Robert Long in Add. MS 78256, which probably came to Browne as part of the papers of the Council of State; item 61 is a copy of Sir Henry Hobart’s account of the battle of the Boyne, 1690, in the hand of John Evelyn junior. With a preliminary but incomplete list of the individual documents, partly in Upcott’s hand, added to in pencil by another hand. Lot 175 in Evans’ sale of Upcott’s collections, 22 June 1846, from which it was acquired by William John Evelyn. Formerly Evelyn MS 16.
Half binding of brown calf and marbled paper, early 19th cent., matching those of other Upcott compilations, for example Add. MSS 15857-15858.
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Creation Date 18th century
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Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. DXXIV. `Remembrances for Order and Decency to be kept in the Upper House of Parliament by the Lords when his Majesty is not there ...'; 18th cent. The latest orders are dated 1742. With a contemporary index. With partially illegible pencilled notes on the fly-leaf, referring to Upcott and Wotton. Formerly Evelyn MS 192.
Contemporary binding of red calf, gilt ruled and stamped with the royal arms. 190 x 125mm.
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Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
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Creation Date 1626-1840
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. DXXV. Loose items from Upcott’s collection; 1626-- early 19th cent.
1.Two letters from Jane Drummond to Lady Killigrew; 1626. These letters apparently do not have an Evelyn provenance, but were sold together with a letter of Mary Evelyn, as lot 557 in Evans’ sale of Upcott’s collections, 22 June 1846 (Add. MS 78584 B), and bought by William John Evelyn.
2.Two letters from the Comte de Lausanne to Mary of Modena; [italics]circa[/italics] 1690. [italics]French[/italics]. The provenance of these is uncertain; annotations `33 no. 174’ and `48 no. 174’ on the back of each, in what appears to be a later Continental hand, suggests that they may have passed through the sale rooms and were possibly acquired by Upcott.
3.Receipt by Alexander Pope for a subscription to his translation of the [italics]Iliad[/italics], mounted on a fold of brown paper, together with a small engraved portrait, 19[superscript]th[/superscript] cent.; possibly once part of Upcott’s collection of autographs.
4.Large bifolium headed `Index’, containing a calligraphically written list of royal and noble autographs and facsimiles, to the time of Edward V, with the signature of William Upcott on a small paste-down at the end; early 19[superscript]th[/superscript] cent.
5.Copy of part of the first book of an early printed edition Sir Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur, apparently in the hand of William Upcott; early 19th cent.
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Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts
Reference Add MS 78693
Creation Date 1840-1871
Extent and Format 1 item
Scope and Content EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. DXXVI. Original Letters, Manuscripts and State Papers. Collected by William Upcott, Islington (privately printed, 1836). A summary description by Upcott of his collection, preceded by an alphabetical table of contents, which the preface suggests was compiled with a view to interesting a public institution in purchasing them. This copy has several items added by Upcott preceding the title-page: two further title-pages in more decorative lettering, the first reading `A Collection of Original Autographs, by the most Distinguished Characters in all Classes of Life ... Illustrated with Portraits and Biographical Notices, by William Upcott’, and the second (presumably intended for one of the albums), `The Original Letters and Autographs of the Royal Families of England and Scotland from Henry IV to the Present Time, Vol. I. Collected by William Upcott of the London Institution. Illustrated with Portraits, 1825', an autograph letter from Upcott to George Daniel of 10 July 1840, describing the discovery and publication of Evelyn’s diary, cuttings from the Athenaeum, Sept.-Oct. 1871 of letters from Bray and Upcott to Thomas Dibdin of 1824 and 1825 on the same subject, and an engraved portrait of Upcott by T. Bragg, 1818. On the wrapper is a presentation note by George Daniel, dated 1840, to an unnamed individual. Formerly Evelyn MS 11.
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