A Catalogue of the Right Honourable Charles Earle of Carlisle’s Books In His Lordships Library at Castle Howard Taken in February 1715/1716 transcribed and edited by David Griffiths Yorkshire Country Houses Partnership Libraries Project University of York Library & Archives October 2004 This catalogue has been compiled from the information transcribed from a manuscript in Castle Howard archives, shelfmark H2/3/1, which appears in the two columns below marked ‘Shelfmark’ and ‘MS Entry’ respectively. The manuscript has an introductory note that reads as follows: An explanation of the Letters and Directions how to find any book in this Catalogue as followeth C Signifies the Classis which is mark’d att top with Gold Letters A B C &c: Reckoning them from the Left Hand to the right. D Signifies the Division, Partition or shelf directly down under the Gold Letters on the Top N Signifies the Number of the Books in Each shelf according to the figure mark’d on the back In this transcription of the catalogue, the ‘Classis’ is the first of the two letters in the shelfmark following the 1716 date; the ‘Division, Partition or shelf’ is the second; and the ‘Number’ is the Arabic numeral, preceded by a ‘0’ in many instances to allow for computer sorting. Of the letters comprising the ‘Classis’, the letters D, F, and G were not used; and neither was the letter J which at this time would have been considered another form of the letter I. The arrangement on the shelves would seem to have been a mixture of the systematic and the pragmatic, in that there are arrangements by subject, e.g., BE (history, topography, and travel), EC (theology), and EE (history); and by size, e.g., BF, EF, KE, LE, ME would probably have been bottom shelves containing, as they did, folio size volumes. It is not known where in the house the books were located nor the furnishings in which they were kept. All but eight of the titles in the manuscript list have been identified, although I realise that some of the identifications which I have made may possibly be in error. Books which have a comment ‘Pressmark of the third Earl of Carlisle’ or a mark of ownership of Sir William Fenwicke are currently housed in the library at Castle Howard. The abbreviations used in the Comment column of the table, which refer to bibliographical sources, are as follows: CH Castle Howard library COPAC merged online catalogues of the members of the [U. K.] Consortium of University Research Libraries ESTC Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue KVK Karlsruhe Virtueller Katalog U of Y University of York Library & Archives catalogue Wing D. G. Wing. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, etc. 2nd ed. (New York, 1972-1978). 3 vols. YCHP LP Yorkshire Country House Partnership. Libraries Project database 1698 catalogue A Catalogue of the Right Honourable Charles Earl of Carlisle’s Book’s in the Library in His Lordships House in Soho Square London Taken in March 1698. (Castle Howard MS. H2/3/8) 2 A B C E H I K L M N HB 1- IB 1- KB 1- LB 1- MB 1- NB 1- 27 8 13 15 12 10 AC 1- EC 1- HC 1- IC 2- KC 1- LC 1- MC 1- NC 1- 6 32 23 11 6, 8, 5, 7- 8, 10- 5, 7- 17 12, 16 12 11 AD BD 1- CD 1- ED 1- HD 1- ID 1- KD 1- LD 2, MD 1- ND 1- 1-5 21 5, 7 20 19 9, 20 8 4-15 18 9 AE 1- BE 1- CE 1- EE 1- HE 1- IE 1- KE 1- LE 1- ME 1- NE 1- 7 14 8 27 20 12 8 11 11 10 AF 1- BF 1- CF 1- EF 1- HF 1- IF 1- NF 1- 8 18 5, 7 15, 18 5, 7- 4, 6- 9 11, 11 14-16, 18-20 AG CG 1- HG IG 2- NG 1- 1-7 7 13, 11 12 171 AH 1, CH 1- IH 1- NH 1- 6 6 14, 16 11 AI 1- CI 1-7 6 1 HG 13 and 17 are probably transcriptional errors for HF 13 and 17. 3 ID Shelfmark MS Entry Author Title Imprint Comment 020 1716 HB 01 A treatise of Arithmetick Manuscript in French 002 1716 KE 04 Atlas in English 2 Fol. (KE 04-5) 063 1716 HB 16 Bullon’s Court of Rome 116 1716 ND 09 Collection of Lives 405 1716 CD 05 Collection of Poems 169 1716 EC 16 Devotions 261 1716 AE 04 Hughes Miscelines 344 1716 CG 05 World of the Moone 303 1716 NB 03 Lives of Modern Divines Abel redevivus: or, The dead yet speaking. The lives London, 1651 Signature on title- and deaths of the moderne divines. Written by page: William severall able and learned men Fenwicke 345 1716 CE 07 Miscelanary Poems pt 4th Annual miscellany: for the year 1694. Being the London, 1694 Pressmark of the 3rd fourth part of Miscellany poems … by the most Earl of Carlisle eminent hands 409 1716 EC 28 Art of Patience Art of patience and balm of Gilead under all London, ? ESTC records 4 afflictions editions between 1684 and 1702 325 1716 BE 08 Motts System of Geography Atlas geographus; or, A compleat system of London, 1708 ESTC geography, ancient and modern, … Illustrated with about 100 new maps … done … by Hermann Moll 057 1716 EC 09 Beauty of Holiness Beauty of holiness ESTC records 3 works of this title <1716 085 1716 EE 03 Cabala Cabala, sive Scrinia sacra, mysteries of state and London, 1663 Pressmark of the 3rd government: in letters of illustrious persons and great Earl of Carlisle ministers of state 174 1716 IE 08 Dolmans Conference about the Conference about the next succession to the crown of London, 1681 Pressmark of the 3rd Succession England … Published by R. Dolman Earl of Carlisle. Spine title: Doleman 473 1716 NH 06 Seat of the Late war in the Description of all the seats of the present wars of London, 1707 ESTC Netherlands in 1707 Europe, in the Netherlands 173 1716 IB 06 Dictionarium Rusticum Dictionarium rusticum & urbanicum: a dictionary of London, 1714 ESTC all sorts of country affairs, handicraft, trading and merchandizing 274 1716 IC 08 History of the Expedition into Spaine Full and impartial history of the expedition into London, 1704 ESTC in 1702 Spain; in the year 1702 4 520 1716 ID 01 History of Remarkable Tryalls History of the most remarkable tryals in Great Britain London, 1715 Pressmark of the 3rd and Ireland, in capital cases Earl of Carlisle 228 1716 AG 06 Historie de Grenade or L’innocente Innocente justifiee. Historie de Grenade. Par Mle *** Hague, 1694 Pressmark of the 3rd justifiee Earl of Carlisle 313 1716 EC 22 Lamasabecktheni Lama-sabachthani, or, Cry of the Son of God; useful London, 1689- ESTC records 6 at all times, especially for Passion Week 1712 possible editions 316 1716 HB 10 Leisters Common Wealth Leycesters common-wealth: conceived, spoken and London, 1641 Pressmark of the 3rd published with most earnest protestation of all dutifull Earl of Carlisle good will and affection towards this realm 171 1716 HB 06 Digby’s Cabinet Lord George Digby's cabinet and Dr Goff's London, 1646 Signature on title- negotiations … taken at the battel at Sherborn in page: William Yorkshire about the 15th of October last Fenwicke 122 1716 AD 04 Memoirs of the Prince Conde Memoires of the affairs of France, during the reign of London, 1675 ESTC the present king Lewis the XIV. Containing the most noted exploits of the now Prince of Conde 351 1716 IF 10 Miscellani Poem on the Muses Muses farewel to popery & slavery, or, A collection London, 1690 Pressmark of the 3rd farewell to Popery & Slavery of miscellany poems, satyrs, songs, &c. Earl of Carlisle 196 1716 AE 03 Essays Moral & Politicall on Parterre de fleurs. Essays, observations, and London, 1710 Pressmark of the 3rd Severall Subjects reflexions, moral and political, upon several subjects Earl of Carlisle 420 1716 IH 04 State Poems pt 3d Poems on affairs of state: from Oliver Cromwell, to London, 1698 CH copy this present time … Part III 414 1716 HB 13 Popes Conclave Popes conclave: or, A speech made by His Holinesse, Edinburgh, ESTC upon the disastrous disappointments which the 1640 Romane cause hath received by the late proceedings, and the great Covenant of Scotland 128 1716 HB 03 Caballa Scrinia Ceciliana: mysteries of state & government: in London, 1663 Signature on title- letters of the late famous Lord Burghley… being a page: William further additional supplement of the Cabala Fenwicke 475 1716 AF 06 Court of Spaine Spanish history: or, A relation of the differences that London, 1678 CH copy happened in the court of Spain 446 1716 MD 12 State Tracts of K Ch: 2nd 2 Vol State tracts: being a collection of several treatises London, 1693 CH vol. 1 relating to the government. Privately printed in the reign of K. Charles II 220 1716 HF 09 a Body of Geography &c Thesaurus geographicus: a new body of geography London, 1695 ESTC 333 1716 ED 15 Les Us & Coutumes De la Mer Us et coutumes de la mer Rouen, 1671 Pressmark of the 3rd Earl of Carlisle 441 1716 IG 06 Rochester on Roschomon’s works Works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, London, 1714 ESTC Dorset, &c. 010 1716 MC 02 Accademie des Sciences 2 Tom Académie royale des 5 sciences (France) 011 1716 BD 03 Aelian Tacticks Aelian, 3rd cent.