Prose
(1) Latin works
[including translations of Camden's Latin works into English]
Annales ab anno 1603, ad annum 1623
See CmW 17-20.
Annales rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha
Part I (to 1589) first published in London, 1615. Parts I-II (to 1603) published in Leiden, 1625-7.
*CmW 1
Autograph papers, bound in eleven folio volumes, comprising various drafts, revised fair copies, and related fragments. Volumes I-III, for 1587 and 1591 (c.753 leaves); Vols IV-V, for 1558-82 (c.385 leaves); Vols VI-VII, for 1589-1603 (c. 288 leaves); Vols VIII-IX, for 1589-1603 (c.264 leaves), and containing various additions and revisions in the hand of Francis Bacon, with Camden's further revisions after 18 May 1620; Vol. X (c.242 leaves) comprising various fragments. Early 17th century.
Bacon's additions here edited and discussed in The Works of Francis Bacon, ed. James Spedding et al., VI (London, 1858), 349-64.
*CmW 2
Camden's autograph revisions, in an exemplum of the edition of 1615, prepared for a new edition. 1615-23.
Owned on 2 April 1711 by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), who on 28 March 1719 records his bequest of the volume to the Bodleian.
CmW 2.5
Extracts.
In: A folio volume of state papers and tracts, in various professional hands, 396 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. Chiefly in the hand of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), antiquary, and also including the ‘Feathery Scribe’.
Later owned by Sir Simonds D'Ewes, Bt, MP (1602-50), diarist and antiquary.
*CmW 3
Autograph draft plan of the Annales, in double columns, on thirteen leaves, also (later) a rudimentary index to them. c.1623.
In: A folio composite volume of antiquarian papers, in various hands and paper sizes. c.1603-23.
Donated by John Hacket (1592-1670), Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield.
The contents of this MS listed in Montague Rhodes James, The Western Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, II (Cambridge, 1901), pp. 423-6.
Trinity College, Cambridge, MS R. 5. 20 (James 715), [unspecified pages].
*CmW 4
Autograph draft pedigree, on one page, corresponding to Volume II, pp. 140-1, of the 1627 edition of the Annales.
In: One of Camden's printed books, Jean du Tillet, Receuil des roys de France (Paris, 1586-8), with MS pages bound in at the front and end.
CmW 5
Copy of part of the Annales, in a single italic hand, 59 tall folio leaves (ff. 56-9 smaller size and bound-in), collated at the end with the edition of 1615, in quarter calf on marbled boards. Headed ‘The copye of the Storye of Queen Elizabeth from 1583 to 1587 not transcribed for my self as yett but sent into France to Thuanus’, transcribed from Cotton MS Faustina F. X, ff. 105r-70r (in Camden's autograph working draft: CmW 1). Late 17th century.
CmW 6
Exemplum of the 1639 Leiden edition of Book IV with numerous MS alterations and additions, possibly derived from Camden's own revisions. 17th century.
CmW 6.2
Extracts.
In: A folio volume of miscellaneous papers, 333 leaves.
Among the Irish collections of Sir George Carew (c.1556-1612), administrator and diplomat. Afterwards among collections of William Laud (1573-1645), Archbishop of Canterbury.
CmW 6.3
Extracts, headed ‘An abstract of some important and remarkable passages taken out of W. Cambden's History of Queen Eliz., by me begun Oct. 7, 1700, with a few remarks here and there of my owne’.
In: A quarto volume of notes on kings of England, 186 leaves. 18th century.
Armorial bookplate of Russell Robartes, MP (d.1718), father of Henry (c.1695-1741), third Earl of Radnor.
CmW 6.32
Extract.
In: A folio volume of state and parliamentary papers, 125 leaves. Late 17th century.
CmW 6.33
Various extracts and quotations.
In: A folio volume of genealogical material, 210 leaves, in modern calf gilt. Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 10 of the Hopkinson MSS. Mid-late 17th century.
Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.
Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 294.
CmW 6.35
Extracts.
In: A volume of genealogical material relating to Northern families. Late 17th century.
Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 294.
CmW 6.37
Extracts. 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers, chiefly copies, relating to State Affairs, 73 leaves.
CmW 6.38
Extracts.
In: A quarto miscellany of extracts from plays and historical works, with comments on them, entitled ‘Excerpta quædam per A. W. Adolescentem’, in a single cursive predominantly italic hand, 119 leaves, in modern quarter-morocco. Entirely in the hand of the Rev. Abraham Wright (1611-90), of St John's College, Oxford, author. c.1640.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Ja: Wright’ (Abraham's son) and later ‘of Taylor, Brighton’. Bookplate of William Bromley, of Baginton, Warwickshire, 1703. Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 21 August 1858 (Bliss sale), lot 220.
For facsimile examples, see ShW 71 and ShW 44.
CmW 6.39
Extracts, including examples on pp. 6*, 109, 177, 181, 186, 188, 220, 242, and 245.
In: John Milton's Commonplace Book. c.1632-60s.
This MS probably given to Viscount Preston by Daniel Skinner, his former schoolfellow at Westminster School; Milton's Commonplace Book (MnJ 66), together with the letter addressed to him by Henry Lawes (MnJ 10), were discovered by Alfred J. Horwood in 1874 among the papers of the Graham family at Netherby Hall, Longtown, Cumberland, and recorded in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, p. 320. The state papers of Viscount Preston, among whose muniments Milton's commonplace book (with related material) was found, were sold at Sotheby's on 10 July 1986, lot 303, and are now in the British Library (Add. MSS 63752-63781).
CmW 6.5
Extracts. Late 17th century.
In: A collection of unbound papers relating to Ely Cathedral, in various hands, in marbled wrappers.
CmW 7
MS of a translation into English of Camden's history of the reign of Queen Elizabeth from 1558 to 1568, closely written in a single minute cursive secretary hand, imperfect, lacking the beginning, a title, and probably the ending, 36 quarto leaves, in modern brown calf gilt. Mid-17th century?
CmW 7.1
Extracts.
In: A quarto miscellany of English and Latin tracts and recipes, in two or more hands, written from both ends, c.256 pages (including numerous blanks), in contemporary limp vellum. Inscription on front pastedown by O.W. Malet sayimg the MS belonged to his grandfather the Rev. A. Malet of [?]Canterbury. Inscribed (f. [ir]) ‘Michel W Malet’. c.1700-1740.
CmW 7.2
Extracts
In: A composite folio volume of state tracts and papers, in various hands, 152 leaves, in modern red morocco gilt.
CmW 7.5
A chronological summary of the work, in a small mixed hand, headed ‘Camdeni Elizabetha: Apparatus’.
In: An octavo composite miscellany of verse and prose, in several secretary, italic and mixed hands, 190 leaves (irregularly numbered), in contemporary limp vellum. c.1580s-1615.
Inscribed (inside front and rear covers) ‘Robert Thornton’ and ‘William Sherida / Wm Sheridan.’
Marsh's Library, Dublin, MS Z 3. 5. 21, ff. 114v-23v, 178r-[190v].
Britannia
First published in London, 1586, with additions in 1607 and successive editions.
*CmW 8
Autograph early draft, bound in two volumes, c.162 and 15 folio leaves. [1579-80].
*CmW 10
Camden's autograph revisions and annotations in an exemplum of the London edition of 1607. c.1607-23.
Once owned by Sir Robert Cotton, Bt (1571-1631), antiquary and politician, and, on 2 April 1711, by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), antiquary.
*CmW 11
A series of autograph notes constituting Camden's additions to and revisions of Philemon Holland's English translation of Britannia (London, 1610), with page references to that edition; entitled (p. 10) ‘A Suplement of the Topographicall Description of Britain published MDCX, Conteining many specialites wch since have intervened concerning Creations, inscriptions & other memorable matters in England Scotland Ireland, and the ysles adiacent’. c.1621-3.
In: A folio composite volume of antiquarian collections, iii + 77 folio pages, in early 18th-century half-calf. Assembled by Thomas Smith (1638-1710), Oxford scholar and editor, who has inscribed p. 10 ‘These papers I designe to print & then to give them to the Cottonian Library’.
Owned on 4 April 1711 by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), antiquary, who records (p. iii) Smith's beqest to him of the volume.
These additions are largely unpublished.
CmW 12
A transcript of CmW 11, in a professional hand. 1681.
In: A quarto volume of transcripts of works by Camden, viii + 46 pages, in early 18th century half-calf. Made by or for Thomas Smith (1638-1710), Oxford scholar and editor. c.1680-90.
Owned on 10 March 1710/11 by Thomas Hearne (1678-1733), antiquary, who records Smith's bequest to him.
CmW 13
Copy of an English translation by Richard Knolles (1550?-1610), 579 folio leaves (plus a later index on ff. 580-602), in contemporary calf. Entitled ‘Britannia, or a Chorographicall Description of the most florishing Kingdomes of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and of the Ilands adiacent’; inscribed on the title-page in another hand ‘This being mr William Camdens manuscript found in his owne library lockt in a cupbord as a treasuer hee much estemed and since his death sufferd to se light’; what appears to be the main scribe signing himself, however (f. 579v), ‘P. Hanwood’, with the number ‘58’ [? 1658]. Early-mid-17th century.
Owned in 1657 by one Richard Champion.
The scribe identified in H. R. Woudhuysen, Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts 1558-1640 (Oxford, 1996), as John Crisp, amanuensis of Sir Peter Manwood, MP (d.1625).
CmW 13.11
An exemplum of the printed edition of Britannia (1607) with Richard Gough's extensive annotations. With Gough's extensive annotations. c.1789.
CmW 13.12
An exemplum of the printed edition of Britannia (1607) with Richard Gough's extensive annotations. c.1789.
CmW 13.128
Extracts from the Annales and Britannia.
In: A quarto volume of notes on history, 210 leaves. 17th century.
CmW 13.129
Extracts, corresponding to pp. 241-95 of the edition of 1610.
In: A duodecimo volume of notes on English counties, 88 leaves. Mid-17th century.
Later owned by Richard Plantagenet Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (1797-1861), second Duke of Buckingham and Chandos.
CmW 13.135
A folio volume comprising printed sheets of Edmund Gibson's edition in English (1695), relating to Sussex, with numerous MS notes copied from a collection of Messrs John Elliot and Edward Clarke, 76 pages. Late 18th century.
CmW 13.141
Extract.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in a cursive predominantly secretary hand, i + 284 leaves, in contemporary calf. Compiled by Sir John Gibson (1606-65), of Welburn, near Kirkby Moorside, Yorkshire, when he was a Royalist prisoner in Durham Castle. The name Penelope Gibson on f. 174r. c.1653-60.
Bookplate of William Ward Jackson.
CmW 13.142
Extracts.
In: A folio commonplace book, including (ff. 133r-45r) ‘Certaine pretie songes hereafter Drawn together, by Richard Shanne i6ii’, 254 leaves, in modern half brown morocco. Compiled by members of the Shann family, of Methley, Yorkshire, and mainly in the hand of Richard Shann (1561-1627). c.1611-32.
CmW 13.143
Extensive extracts and abridgement by Elizabeth Freke, headed ‘A Catalogue of of [sic] the Shires and their Cheife places in them of England; and First I will begin with Cornwall as being the furthest place or parts in the West and soe pass over the other Countries, In ordor Imitateing strabo ptolomy and the most antient Geagraphers who allways begin their first from the first Meridian. Taken out of Camdens Britiania’.
In: A quarto notebook, in a single hand, i + 349 leaves, in contemporary calf within modern quarter vellum. c.1669.
Freke Papers Vol. III. Donated by Mary, Lady Carbery.
CmW 13.144
Extracts.
In: A tall folio composite volume of commonplace-book notes and extracts, chiefly in the hand of John Evelyn the younger, on various paper sizes, 248 leaves, in modern half-morocco. Late 17th century.
Volume CCLXXVI of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 281.
CmW 13.148
A volume of extracts from Britannia, headed ‘Collectanea varia...ex immortali Wilhelmi Camdeni Libro de chorographica Descriptione Angliæ, et Hyberniæ congesta’. 17th century.
CmW 13.15
Numerous extracts, chiefly from Britannia, including examples on ff. 6r-v, 11r, 29r, 30r-2r, 33v-4r, 48v-9r, 146v.
In: A quarto miscellany of extracts chiefly from historical works, in Latin and English, in a single small mixed hand, compiled by one Thomas Gybbons, armiger, 237 leaves, in modern quarter-morocco gilt. Mid-late 17th century.
CmW 13.155
Extract.
In: A quarto composite volume of MS and printed tracts relating to Ireland, in four hands, 108 leaves, in modern quarter crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.
CmW 13.157
Extracts, in a mixed hand, headed ‘Of the originall Inhabitants of Ireland Cap: i’, with a side-note ‘Colleccons touching Ireland’, subscribed ‘These are Collected but of learned Cambden’. Mid-17th century.
In: the MS described under CmW 13.155.
CmW 13.16
A quarto manuscript of the unfinished abridgement of Edmund Gibson's English translation which he published in 1722. Published in 1722. c.1722.
CmW 13.162
Notes for additions to Britannia made by one John Burnsell.
In: A volume (Part VIII) of antiquarian materials collected by John Warburton, FRS, FSA (1682-1759), Somerset Herald and antiquary, for an intended history of Yorkshire. Early-mid 18th century.
CmW 13.167
Extracts, headed ‘Camdens opinio of Brittaine, wth his Epitomized Description therof’, in Latin and English.
In: A folio miscellany of historical verse and prose, in English and Latin, in several secretary hands, one cursive hand predominating, i + 183 leaves, in half reversed calf. c.1648.
Booklabel (f. iv) ‘Lib: G: Spearman Dunelm Ao 1700/1’. Among the family collection established by Christopher Mickleton (1612-69), Durham attorney, and by his eldest son James (1638-93), lawyer and antiquary, which was later incorporated in the collections of Gilbert Spearman (1675-1738), lawyer and antiquary.
Durham University Library, Mickleton & Spearman MS 62, ff. 149v-66v.
*CmW 13.168
Autograph inscription, ‘Gulielmus Camden, in amicitiae symbolum D. D. L. M.’, in a printed exemplum of Britannia (London, 1600). c.1600.
Inscribed Thomas Thomson.
*CmW 13.169
Autograph presentation inscription by Camden to William Beecher, on the title-page in a printed exemplum of Britannia (London, [1607]), a folio in calf gilt. c.1607.
Quaritch, sale catalogue 230 (May 1904), item 373.
CmW 13.17
Extracts.
In: A folio volume of historical material, 123 leaves, in modern red morocco gilt.
CmW 13.174
Extracts.
In: A folio volume of historical materials, 331 leaves, in modern red morocco gilt.
CmW 13.175
Extracts.
In: A folio volume of miscellaneous transcripts and extracts, 247 leaves.
CmW 13.176
References and quotations.
In: A draft by William Petyt on a treatise concerning ‘the Parliaments and Governments of England after the Reign of King John’, 296 folio leaves.
CmW 13.178
Extracts.
In: A folio volume of transcripts of state papers, 314 leaves.
CmW 13.18
Extracts.
In: A folio volume of transcripts of public records, inscribed on a flyleaf ‘De Creatione Nobilium in Parliamento’, 235 leaves.
CmW 13.182
Copy of extensive portions of the work, ‘Ex Camdeni Britania’, in thee small mixed hand of Robert Vaughan (1591/2-1667) of Hengwrt, antiquary, including drawings of coins, 96 small folio pages, in modern quarter-morocco. Early-mid-17th century.
CmW 13.183
A printed exemplum of “Britannia” owned and annotated by Camden's correspondent Jacques Auguste de Thou (1553-1617), French historian. Early 17th century.
CmW 13.184
Extracts.
In: An antiquarian miscellany, compiled by William Wyrley (1565-c.1613). Late 16th-early 17th century.
Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 13152. Sotheby's, 15 June 1971, lot 1649.
*CmW 13.185
Exemplum of the printed second edition of 1587, with Camden's Latin presentation inscription to Edward Bulkeley, prebendary of Lichfield, an octavo, in old calf rebacked. c.1587.
Later owned by Eric Sexton, FSA, of Rockport, Maine. Christie's, 15 April 1981 (Sexton sale), lot 165, to Thorp.
*CmW 13.187
Exemplum of the printed sixth edition of 1607, with Camden's autograph presentation inscription to Charles Howard (1536-1624), second Baron Howard of Effingham and first Earl of Norttingham, Admiral, 30 June 1616. 1616.
Sotheby's, 27 April 1982, lot 313 (unsold).
CmW 13.19
Extracts.
In: A folio volume relating to Chester. 17th century?
Formerly owned by G.F. Wilbraham, of Delamere House.
Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 416.
CmW 13.2
Extracts.
In: A large folio composite volume of historical and miscellaneous papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 272 leaves.
CmW 13.3
Extracts.
In: A folio composite volume of antiquarian tracts, letters and notes, in various hands and paper sizes, 111 leaves.
CmW 13.4
Collections of Edmund Gibson for his edition of Britannia in English (1695). c.1695.
CmW 13.5
Annotated exemplum of Britannia, newly translated...by Edmund Gibson (London, ‘1695’), viii + 529 leaves, in contemporary reversed calf (rebacked). With annotations to the text, maps and plates by William Stukeley (1687-1765), antiquary and natural philosopher. 1694/5-c.1714.
Originally owned in ‘1694’ by one Elias Mason, and by Stukeley in 1714. Bookplate of Charles Eve, 1 September 1767. Christie's, 9 November 1983, lot 48.
Recorded in Bodleian Library Record, 11 (1982-5), 241-2, with a facsimile of the sketch of Stukeley that appears in the MS on a flyleaf.
CmW 13.51
The original MS of the contributions to the English edition of 1695, contributions relating to Welsh counties, prepared by Edward Lhuyd (1660-1709), naturalist and philologist, for the work's editor Edmund Gibson (1669-1748), Bishop of London, with Gibson's annotations and instructions to the printer and (pp. 695, 40) a corrected proof-sheet for the edition, 104 folio leaves, in 19th-century quarter-leather. c.1695.
This MS discussed, with numerous facsimile examples, in Gwyn Walters and Frank Emery, ‘Edward Lhuyd, Edmund Gibson, and the Printing of Camden's Britannia’, 1695, The Library, 5th Ser. 32 (1977), 109-37.
CmW 13.6
The MSS for Richard Gough's edition of Britannia in English (1789), almost entirely in Gough's hand, dated 1771-82, in three volumes, 648, 680 and iii + 609 leaves respectively. 1771-82.
CmW 13.7
Exemplum of the printed edition of 1607 with notes in the hand of Thomas Gale (1635?-1702) and Richard Gough (1735-1809). 1607.
CmW 13.8
An exemplum of the printed edition of 1607 with annotations made by one Dr Mason. 17th century.
CmW 13.85
Extracts.
In: A folio composite volume of speeches in Parliament, in various secretary hands, 346 leaves (plus blanks), in red morocco gilt.
CmW 13.9
An exemplum of the printed edition of Britannia (1607) with Richard Gough's extensive annotations. c.1789.
Institutio Graecae grammatices compendiaria
First published in London, 1595. Reprinted in facsimile by the Scolar Press (Menston, 1969).
CmW 14
Autograph drafts for Camden's Greek grammar.
In: A quarto composite volume of heraldic and other historical papers, in various hands, 187 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco.
British Library, Cotton MS Vespasian E. VIII, ff. 75r-95r, 126v-31v, 161v-7v, 182v-3v, 185r.
CmW 14.5
An exemplum of the printed edition of 1656 with extensive anonymous annotations by someone who used the grammar. c.1656.
Memorabilia de seipso
First published in Camdeni epistolae (London, 1691), Appendix, pp. 85-6.
*CmW 15
Autograph autobiographical notes, on one page. c.1622.
In: the MS described under CmW 3. c.1603-23.
Trinity College, Cambridge, MS R. 5. 20 (James 715), [unspecified pages].
Reges, reginae, nobiles & alij in Ecclesia Collegiata B. Petri Westmonasterij sepulti, vsque ad annum 1600
First published in London, 1600.
CmW 16
Copy, in the hands of two amanuenses. Entitled (f. 1r) ‘Reges, Reginæ Nobiles in Ecclesia St. Petri Westmonasterij sepulti’, with rubrication and 166 emblazoned coats of arms, on 95 quarto leaves (including 22 blanks), gilt edged, in contemporary calf elaborately gilt with the arms of Queen Elizabeth and probably presented to her. c.1600.
Bookplate of Strickland Freeman, Fawley Court, Buckinghamshire, 1810. Sotheby's, 23 April 1945, lot 40.
Formerly Broxbourne R 276. Described, with an illustration, in Howard M. Nixon, Broxbourne Library: Styles and Designs of Bookbindings from the Twelfth to the Twentieth Century (London, 1956), pp. 112-14.
CmW 16.5
An exemplum of the printed edition of 1600, with the arms of the persons mentioned therein emblazoned in the margins. This exemplum may have been presented to Queen Elizabeth I. 1600.
CmW 16.7
An exemplum of the edition of 1600 with the arms of the persons mentioned therein emblazoned in the margins. c.1600.
Formerly in the library of the Isham family, of Lamport Hall, Northamptonshire.
Regni regis Jacobi I annalium apparatus
First published in Camdeni epistolae (London, 1691), Appendix, pp. 1-85.
*CmW 17
Autograph, on 45 leaves. c.1623.
In: the MS described under CmW 3. c.1603-23.
Thomas Smith's own exemplum of his edition of 1691 with his MS additions to these Annales, is in the Bodleian, 4° Rawl. 204.
Trinity College, Cambridge, MS R. 5. 20 (James 715), [unspecified pages].
CmW 17.5
Additions to the Annales for 1603-23 among copious annotations made by Thomas Smith to his exemplum of his printed edition of Camdeni epistolae (1691). c.1691.
CmW 18
Transcript of Camden's autograph MS (CmW 17).
In: A folio composite volume of historical and heraldic papers, in various hands, ii + 122 leaves (plus stubs of excised leaves), in later reversed calf. Compiled by, and partly in the hand of, Sir William Dugdale (1605-86), antiquary and herald. Mid-late 17th century.
Once owned by Sir Henry Spelman (1563/4-1641), historian and antiquary. MS XXX Vol 2 of the collections of Hudson Gurney (1775-1864), banker and antiquary.
CmW 19
Notes, chiefly relating to the Order of the Garter, transcribed by Elias Ashmole (1617-92) from Camden's autograph MS ‘in the custody of Dr: Hacket Bp: of Lichfield and Coventry 1668’. 1668.
In: A folio composite volume of Ashmole's papers.
CmW 20
MS of an English translation by James Wright (1643-1713). Late 17th-early 18th century.
Later owned by William Bromley-Davenport, of Baginton Hall, Warwickshire. Sotheby's, 8 May 1903, lot 339, to Ridler.
(2) English works
Allusions
A tract beginning ‘I will now present vnto you a few extracts out of names...’. First published in Remaines (London, 1605), pp. 140-5.
See also CmW 102.1.
*CmW 21
Copy of an early version, here beginning ‘The busie witt of man continually workinge hath wrought out of names…’, partly autograph.
In: A folio composite volume of genealogical, historical and antiquarian tracts and papers, in various hands, 323 leaves, in modern half crushed calf on cloth boards gilt. Largely comprising notes and materials either written by Camden or used by him for his various works, particularly Remaines.
Names inscribed (f. 207r) ‘Bryan Tukerson’ and ‘George Wiseman’.
Anagrammes
A tract beginning ‘The onely Quint-essence that hitherto the Alchimy of wit coulde draw out of names...’. First published in Remaines (London, 1605), pp. 150-7.
The Antiquity and Office of the Earl Marshall of England
A tract beginning ‘Such is the vncertainety of etimologyes...’ and sometimes entitled in manuscripts ‘The Etymology, Antiquity and Office of the Earl Marshall of England’. First published, as ‘Commentarius de etymologia, antiquitate, & officio Comitis Marescalli Angliae’, in Camdeni epistolae (London, 1691), Appendix, pp. 87-93. Hearne (1771), II, 90-7.
CmW 23
Copy in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’.
In: A folio volume comprising two independent units, foliated as a single series, xii + 246 leaves (plus 12 further blanks). Both parts containing antiquarian tracts:
ff. 1r-29v, ‘Matters of Combat 1609’, predominantly in a professional secretary hand, with additions in other hands, owned in 1612 by William Crispe (name inscribed in court hand several times) and also by Henry Crispe (inscribed f. 20r-v), one or both also probably responsible for trial exercises in decorative lettering. c.1609-12.
ff. 30r-45v, discourses and copies of Latin documents relating to the offices of Lord Steward, Constable, and Earl Marshal of England, with title-page and (incomplete) list of contents, in the hands of professional scribes: ff. 30r-119v, 132r-45v, 150v-61r, 165v to to half-way down f. 205r in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’; the remainder in two other scribal hands. c.1630s.
Once owned by the Isham family, of Lamport Hall, Northamptonshire. Sotheby's, 17 June 1904 (‘Library of a Gentleman in the Country’), lot 89, to Quaritch. P.J. and A.E. Dobell, sale catalogue No. 80 (1928), item 719.
Described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 255 (No. 88). Woudhuysen, Sir Philip Sidney, p. 30.
CmW 23.2
Copy, in the hand of an unidentified scribe, headed ‘The Etimologie antiquitie and office of the Earle Marshall of England’.
In: A folio composite volume of state and antiquarian tracts, in probably three professional secretary hands, one of them (on 286 pages, including a title-page (f. 1r), a ‘Table’ of contents (ff. 2r-5r), and foliation throughout) being the ‘Feathery Scribe’, vi + 211 leaves, in late 17th-century calf. c.1625-30s.
Bookplates of Sir John Dolben, second baronet (1684-1756), of Finedon, Northamptonshire, and of ‘The Rev. H.C. Beeching/Yattendon/1897’. Acquired from Maggs.
CmW 23.4
Copy, in a professional hand, headed ‘The Etimologyie Antiquitie and office of the office [sic] of Erle Marshal...’. c.1620s.
In: A folio composite volume of papers on antiquarian and state matters, in various hands, 207 leaves, in half-calf.
CmW 23.6
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘The Etymologie antiquitie and office of the Earle Marshall of England’, unattributed.
In: A folio volume of antiquarian tracts, in professional secretary hands, 7 + 133 leaves (plus blanks). c.1630.
Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 120. Microfilm in the British Library, M/346 (3rd item).
CmW 23.8
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘The Etimology Antiquitie and office of the Earle Marshall of England’, unascribed.
In: A folio volume of antiquarian tracts, in three professional hands, 261 leaves (plus numerous blanks), dated in ink on the fore-edge ‘1637’, in contemporary calf. c.1637.
Bequeathed by Sir Jerome Alexander (c.1600-70), Justice of the Irish Common Pleas. Old pressmark G. 3. 5.
CmW 24
Copy, in a professional hand. c.1630.
In: A folio composite volume of antiquarian tracts, in English and Latin, in various hands, ii + 93 leaves, in marbled boards.
Once owned by Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, antiquary and collector (No. 4556 in the 1773 catalogue of his books). Among the collections of Richard Gough, FSA (1735-1809), antiquary and topographer.
CmW 25
Copy in: A large folio volume of antiquarian tracts relating to high offices of state, including papers delivered to the Society of Antiquaries, in a professional secretary hand, 223 pages, in half-calf. c.1620s-30s.
CmW 26
Copy, headed ‘The Etimologie Antiquitie & office of the Earle Marshall of England’.
In: A folio volume of tracts and papers relating principally to the Earl Marshall of England and the protocols of duelling, in two or more professional secretary hands, 318 leaves, in half-calf on marbled boards. c.1630s.
Acquired from Lord R. Montagu, MP, 27 June 1863.
CmW 27
Copy, in a neat secretary hand, subscribed ‘William Camden’.
In: A folio composite volume of antiquarian tracts and documents, including original papers of the Society of Antiquaries, in various hands, 485 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.
CmW 28
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, unascribed.
In: A folio composite volume of antiquarian tracts and papers, in several professional hands, 148 Leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.
Later owned, and inscribed (f. 1*r) by John Anstis (1669-1744).
CmW 29
Copy, headed ‘The Etimologie Antiquitie and office of Earle Marshall of England’, unascribed.
In: A folio volume of antiquarian tracts, in several professional hands, 208 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. Late 17th century.
Inscribed (f. 1*r) by Wanley with date of accession into the Harley Library ‘4 May 1721’. An affixed slip inscribed ‘Ane baryngton’, ‘Robarts’, and ‘The Lady Robarts’, all in the same hand.
CmW 30
Copy in: A folio volume of antiquarian tracts, almost entirely in a single professional secretary hand, 175 leaves (plus a two-leaf insertion), with a table of contents (ff. 168r-75r). in mottled leather. c.1630s.
Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor, 1701.
CmW 31
Copy, headed ‘The Etymologie, Antiquity and Office of Earle Marshall of England’, unascribed.
In: A large folio volume of antiquarian tracts, in a single professional secretary hand, 316 leaves, in modern mottled leather. c.1620s-30s.
Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor, 1701.
CmW 31.3
Copy in: A folio composite volume of papers in the hand of Augustine Vincent (c.1581/4-1626), Rouge Croix Pursuivant and Windsor Herald. Early 17th century.
CmW 31.5
Copy, headed ‘The Etimologie, Antiquitie and office of the Earle Marshall of England’.
In: A large folio volume of state and antiquarian tracts and papers for c.1530-1631, predominantly in two professional secretary hands, one of them that of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, 762 numbered pages (lpp. 148-76 blank, lacking pp. 345-56, plus 28 blanks), in old reversed calf.
From the library of William T. Smedley (1851-1934), Baconian. Acquired c.1924.
Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 265-7 (No. 109).
CmW 31.8
Copy in: A large folio volume of antiquarian tracts, chiefly relating to the office of Earl Marshal, in a single professional hand. Late 17th century.
Owned in 1685 by Francis Negus, presumably the Francis Negus who was Surveyor of the Mews, secretary to the Duke of Norfolk, and father of the soldier and courtier Francis Negus (1670-1732).
CmW 32
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, unascribed.
In: A folio volume of state letters and tracts, almost entirely in two professional secretary hands, predominantly that of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, iv + 232 leaves, in reversed calf. c.1628-30s.
Once owned by ‘Ric: Tichbone’, probably Sir Richard Tichborne, second Baronet, MP (c.1578-1652). James Tregaskis, sale catalogue No. 1022 (1948), item 29. Bought from Maggs, 4 November 1948, by Annie Winifred Bryher (née Ellerman, d.1983). Afterwards owned by the Ralegh scholar Agnes Latham (1905-96), of Pickering, North Yorkshire.
Briefly described in Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 229-31 (No. 35).
The Antiquity, Authority, and Succession of the High Steward of England
A tract beginning ‘Whom we call in English steward, in Latine is called seneschallus...’. First published in Hearne (1771), II, 38-40.
*CmW 33
Copy, in the hand of an amanuensis, with a passage added at the end in Camden's minute italic hand, headed ‘Steward of England’; the paper delivered to the Society of Antiquaries (? on 4 June 1603).
In: the MS described under CmW 27.
CmW 33.5
Copy, in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, headed ‘A discourse of the Lord Steward of England collected by Mr William Cambden’.
In: the MS described under CmW 23.2. c.1625-30s.
CmW 33.8
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘A discourse of the office of the Lo: Steward of England Collected by mr Willm Cambden’.
In: the MS described under CmW 23.8. c.1637.
CmW 34
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘A Discourse of the office of the lord high steward of England Collected by mr William Cambden’.
In: the MS described under CmW 23.6. c.1630.
Duke of Northumberland, Alnwick Castle, MS 531, ff. 15r-17v (2nd series).
CmW 35
Copy, in the professional secretary hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’.
In: the MS described under CmW 23.
CmW 36
Copy in Smith's hand, headed ‘Commentariolus de Senescallo Angliæ per G. Camdeno’.
In: the MS described under CmW 12. c.1680-90.
CmW 37
Copy, headed ‘A Discourse of the Office of the Lord Steward of England, Collected by Mr. William Camden’.
In: the MS described under CmW 25. c.1620s-30s.
CmW 38
Copy. in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘A Discourse of the office of the off [sec] Lord Steward of England collected by Mr William Camden’, and subscribed ‘Wil: Camden’. c.1620s.
In: the MS described under CmW 28.
CmW 39
Copy, headed ‘Steward of England’, subscribed ‘Wm Camden’.
In: the MS described under CmW 29. Late 17th century.
CmW 40
Copy, headed ‘A discourse of the office of the Lord Steward of England Collected by Mr. William Cambden’.
In: the MS described under CmW 30. c.1630s.
CmW 41
Copy, headed ‘Steward of England’, subscribed ‘Will: Camden’.
In: the MS described under CmW 31. c.1620s-30s.
CmW 41.5
Extracts, headed ‘Allusions Remainis of a greater matter fol: 140.’
In: A folio volume of state tracts and miscellaneous extracts, largely in one professional secretary hand, 183 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘The 2. day of Janvarie .1617. <erasure> begun to be wrytten - by my man John May. / P W’[?]. c.1618-20s.
CmW 42
Copy, headed ‘A Discourse of the office of the Lord Steward of England Collected by master William Camden’.
In: the MS described under CmW 31.5.
CmW 43
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as ‘collected by mr Will: Camden’.
In: the MS described under CmW 32. c.1628-30s.
CmW 43.5
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘A Discourse of the office of the Lord Steward of England collected by Mr Cambden’, on three folio leaves paginated 30-3, subscribed ‘William Cambden’.
In: A folio composite volume of state papers and antiquarian tracts, in various hands, ff. 132r-56v comprising a series of antiquarian tracts in a single professional secretary hand, 265 leaves, in red morocco. Early 17th century.
The Antiquitye of Armes in England
See CmW 69-70.
Apparell
A tract beginning ‘No doubt but after the creation, mankinde went first naked...’. First published in Remaines (London, 1614), pp. 230-7.
Armes in England, Of the Antiquitye of
See CmW 69-70.
Armories
A tract beginning ‘Whereas somewhat hath bene saide of Allusions and Anagrams...’. First published in Remaines (London, 1614), pp. 177-95.
See also CmW 69-70.
*CmW 45
Fragment of an early autograph rough draft, here beginning ‘When I first sett penne to write of Armes…’, on a single leaf.
In: A folio composite volume of heraldic and genealogical papers belonging to Camden, Robert Glover, and others, 172 leaves.
Among collections of Roger Dodsworth (1585-1654), antiquary, passed on to Lord Fairfax, who donated them to the Bodleian.
*CmW 46
Fragment of a later draft, here beginning ‘coates of Armes whch were registred alwayes…’, in the hand of an amanuensis with Camden's autograph corrections and revisions, on two separate leaves.
In: the MS described under CmW 45.
Artillarie
A tract beginning ‘If euer the witte of man went beyond it selfe, it was in the inuention of Artillarie...’. First published in Remaines (London, 1614), pp. 238-42.
Baron, The Title of
See CmW 110-112.
Barons, The Etymologie and Original of
See CmW 53-54.
Britaine
A tract beginning ‘Whereas I have purposed in all this Treatise to confine my selfe...’. First published in Remaines (London, 1605), pp. 1-6.
*CmW 48
Draft, partly autograph, of parts of the essay, headed ‘England’; also containing material for what became the essay The inhabitants of Britaine.
In: the MS described under CmW 21.
Britannia, or a Chorographicall Description of the most florishing Kingdomes of England, Scotland, and Ireland, &c
See CmW 13.
Brooke, On Ralph
See CmW 98-100.
Castles
See CmW 55.
Christian Names
A tract beginning ‘Names called in Latine Nomina quasi Notamina...’. First published in Remaines (London, 1605), pp. 28-39.
Christian Religion in this Island, Of the Antiquity of the
See CmW 89.
Commentarius de etymologia, antiquitate, & officio Comitis Marescalli Angliae
See CmW 23-32.
Discourse concerning the Prerogative of the Crown (‘The laws of England which men call the common laws...’)
First published in Frank Smith Fussner, ‘William Camden's “Discourse concerning the Prerogative of the Crown”’, Proceedings of the American Philological Society, 101 (1957), 204-15.
*CmW 50
Autograph draft, on twelve small quarto leaves. c.1615-16.
Edited from this MS in Fussner.
Diversity of Names of this Island, Of the
See CmW 95-6.
Duke
See CmW 90-1.
Earl Marshall of England, The Antiquity and Office of the
See CmW 23-32, 105-6.
Epitaphes
A tract beginning ‘Great hath bene the care of burial euen since the first times...’. First published in Remaines (London, 1605), [Part ii], pp. 27-59. Hearne (1771), I, 310-54. This draft essay was also developed into the essay Of Epitaphes (see CmW 67).
CmW 51
Incomplete early draft, partly autograph. This draft essay also developed into the essay Of Epitaphes (see CmW 67).
In: the MS described under CmW 21.
CmW 52
Copy of the first part of the essay, here beginning ‘The Caire all ages have had of Buriall’, in the hand of Sir James Balfour, with his emendations and with Camden's examples of epitaphs replaced by Balfour's selection of some Scottish epitaphs. Mid-17th century.
In: A tall folio composite volume of of antiquarian papers, in several hands, 131 leaves, in modern cloth.
Partly written and compiled by Sir James Balfour, first Baronet (1600-57), of Denmilne and Kinncaird, Lyon King of Arms and antiquary.
Epitaphes, Of
See CmW 67.
The Etymologie and Original of Barons
A tract beginning ‘I have else where said somewhat of Barones...’. First published in Hearne (1720), pp. 205-8. Hearne (1771), I, 124-6. Camden's original MS is untraced: it is apparently not among Hatton MSS in the Bodleian, British Library, or Northamptonsire Record Office.
CmW 53
Copy, made by Thomas Smith, inscribed by Smith ‘Transcribed from his Adversaria in the possession of the Lord Hatton’ [i.e. Christopher Hatton (1632-1706), first Viscount Hatton], on three pages of two conjugate quarto leaves.
In: A folio composite volume of discourses, notes, of verses, and letters by Camden, mainly autograph, viii + 226 pages, different sizes, in early 18th-century half-calf. Including papers on barons in connection with the case of Lord Roos, 27 April 1616, on the judicial proceedings in 1616 after the death of Sir Thomas Overbury (1613), on the punishment of peers, on Rathlin Island, and an anonymous tract on Geoffrey of Monmouth (pp. 133-8). c.1615-20s.
Owned or used by Edward Walker, Garter King of Arms; by Francis Sandford, Lancaster Herald; and by Mr Howell (herald painter). Acquired by Thomas Smith (1638-1710), Oxford scholar and editor, at Christmas 1703. Inscribed by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), on 2 March 1710/11, as having been bequeathed by Smith to him.
Extracts from this MS (concerning the trial of the Earl of Somerset) printed in Beatrice White, Cast of Ravens (London, 1965), pp. 213-16.
CmW 54
Copy, entitled ‘A Collection made by Mr. Camden concerning the Different Sense and meaning of the word Baro in severall Ages’, and headed ‘The following Collection was communicated to me by the Learned Dr. Thomas Smith…’.
In: A folio volume of antiquarian collections, in a single rounded hand, 261 leaves, in black morocco gilt. Compiled by William Petyt (1640/1-1707), lawyer and political propagandist. Late 17th century-1700s.
The Etymology, Antiquity and Office of the Earl Marshall of England
See CmW 23-32.
The Etymology, Antiquity, and Privileges of Castles in England
A tract beginning ‘Castellum according to the grammarians is deduced, as a diminutive, from castles...’. First published, as an anonymous work, in Hearne (1771), I, 191-2.
*CmW 55
Autograph fair copy, headed ‘Castles’, on the recto of a single folio leaf; the paper delivered on 15 May 1599.
In: A folio composite volume of original papers of the Society of Antiquaries, in various hands, 221 leaves, in modern half-morocco on cloth boards gilt.
The Excellencie of the English tongue by R.C. of Anthony Esquire to W.C.
A tract beginning ‘It were most fitting (in respect of discretion) that men should first weigh matters...’. First published in Remaines (London, 1614), pp. 36-44.
*CmW 56
Copy of Richard Carew's essay as incorporated by Camden in Remaines, in the hand of an amanuensis with a few autograph alterations by Camden.
In: the MS described under CmW 21.
Giraldus Cambrensis, Vaticinal, or propheticall historie of the conquests of Ireland
Unpublished tract, beginning ‘ffor as muche as we have discoursed in owr Topographia of the bonndynge of Ireland...’.
CmW 57
Copy in the hand of John Stow (1525?-1605), subscribed ‘Translatyd owt of latyn into Englyshe by W. Camden and here writen by John Stow marchaunt taylowr in the monthe of June anno 1576’.
In: Stow's volume of transcripts of ‘Silouester Giraldus Cambrensis his Itinerarie of Wales & Description of Wales in English Never imprinted in that toung’.
Grave Speeches, and wittie Apothegmes of woorthie Personages of this Realme in former times
A tract beginning ‘Twenty yeares since, while I: Bishop...’. First published in Remaines (London, 1605), pp. 177-235.
*CmW 58
Copy of 267 apothegms, including 110 which were to appear in Grave Speeches, in thesecretary hand of an amanuensis with autograph corrections and revisions, headed ‘Witty aunsweres & saienges of Englishmen’.
In: A composite folio volume of antiquarian and state papers, by Camden and others, in various hands, 197 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. Largely comprising notes and materials either written by Camden or used by him for his various works. c.1580s-90s.
CmW 59
Copy of 551 apothegms, including two which were to appear in Grave Speeches, in the secretary hand of an amanuensis, untitled.
In: the MS described under CmW 58. c.1580s-90s.
Heralds in England, Of the Antiquity, Office and Privilege of
See CmW 92-3.
High Steward of England, The Antiquity, Authority, and succession of the
See CmW 33-43.
History of the reign of Queen Elizabeth from 1558 to 1568
See CmW 7.
The inhabitants of Britaine
A tract beginning ‘As all the Regions with the whole worlds frame...’. First published in Remaines (London, 1605), pp. 7-12.
See also CmW 48.
Kings of Arms
An unpublished tract beginning ‘Most gratious and dread Soueraigne According to the Greek Adage...’.
*CmW 61
Unfinished autograph draft of an untitled essay addressed to James I concerning the ‘proiect of Armes’; two pages. c.1603-23.
In: the MS described under CmW 3. c.1603-23.
Trinity College, Cambridge, MS R. 5. 20 (James 715), [unspecified pages].
The Languages
A tract beginning ‘From the people we will now proceede to the languages...’. First published in Remaines (London, 1605), pp. 12-28.
*CmW 62
Draft, partly autograph, headed ‘English tounge’ and here beginning ‘From Englishmen we will now procede to the English tounge…’.
In: the MS described under CmW 21.
*CmW 63
Autograph rough draft of passages belonging to the essay.
In: the MS described under CmW 21.
British Library, Cotton MS Julius F. XI, ff. 300v, 319v-22r, 323r.
Money
A tract beginning ‘It is a receaued opinion that in most auncient ages there was onely batterie...’. First published in Remaines (London, 1614), pp. 196-210.
*CmW 64
Draft, partly autograph, of a short later version.
In: the MS described under CmW 21.
British Library, Cotton MS Julius F. XI, ff. 268v, 269r-71r.
*CmW 65
Copy, partly autograph, of a short early version, here beginning ‘In most auncient ages there was onely batterie or chaunge of wares…’.
In: the MS described under CmW 21.
CmW 66
Extracts labelled ‘Mr Camden’, among others labelled ‘Mr Burton’, in a section with the running title ‘money and Coynes’, almost illegible due to permeation of the ink.
In: A folio volume of ‘auncient ffees due and vsually taken by the seuerall officers in the Countye of Yorke: with a treatise of weights and measures’, 126 leaves, in modern calf gilt. Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 7, Part II, of the Hopkinson MSS. 1663.
Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.
Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 294.
Motts, Of the Antiquity, Variety, and Reason of
See CmW 94.
Names of this Island, Of the Diversity of
See CmW 95-6.
Of Epitaphes
A tract beginning ‘Among all funeral honours, epitaphes have alwayes bene most respected...’. First published in Hearne (1771), I, 228-32. This essay developed from CmW 51.
*CmW 67
Copy in the secretary and italic hand of an amanuensis, with autograph additions, including (f. 165v) an unpublished autograph epitaph of four lines (beginning ‘John Bell Brokenbrow liyys vndr this stean’) belonging to this essay, on three folio pages, docketed ‘Camd’; the paper delivered to the Society of Antiquaries on 3 November 1600.
In: the MS described under CmW 55.
Of the Antiquity, Etymology, and Privilege of Towns
A tract beginning ‘As the desire of defence against injuries of the aire was the first motive of building cottages...’. First published, ascribed to Joseph Holland, in Hearne (1771), I, 192-4.
*CmW 68
Autograph fair copy, headed ‘Townes’, on both sides of a single folio leaf; the paper delivered 23 June 1599.
In: the MS described under CmW 55.
Of the Antiquitye of Armes in England
A tract beginning ‘Armes, in their generall signification for ensigns of honor...’. First published, as an anonymous work, in Hearne (1771), I, 170-1. This tract was later developed into the essay Armories (see CmW 45-6).
*CmW 69
Autograph fair copy, headed ‘The Antiquitie of Armes in England. Armes’, on both sides of a single folio leaf; the paper delivered 2 November 1598.
In: the MS described under CmW 55.
CmW 70
Autograph rough draft, here beginning ‘Wheras Armories or Armes do as silent names distinguish families…’.
In: the MS described under CmW 21.
Of the Antiquity of Ceremonies used at Funerals in England
A tract beginning ‘Whereas there was an identity of religion and manners among the auncient Gaules...’. First published, ascribed to James Ley, in Hearne (1771), I, 209-11.
CmW 71
Copy, in the secretary hand of an amanuensis, headed ‘Funeralles’, on both sides of a folio leaf, docketed ‘Camd.’; the paper delivered 30 April 1600.
In: the MS described under CmW 55.
Of the Antiquity of Parliaments in England
A tract beginning ‘That there were such like assemblies as parliaments now are, before the Romans arrival here...’. First published in Sir John Doddridge et al., The Several Opinions of Sundry Learned Antiquaries...touching...the High Court of Parliament in England (London, 1658). Hearne (1771), I, 303-6.
CmW 72
Copy in Smith's hand, headed ‘Commentariolus de Antiquitate Parliamentorum Authore G. Camdeno’.
In: the MS described under CmW 12. c.1680-90.
CmW 72.5
Copy, headed ‘of the Antiquitie of Parliaments’, on three pages, subscribed ‘William Camden’.
In: A folio volume of legal and antiquarian tracts, in several professional mixed hands, unfoliated, in contemporary vellum. Early 17th century.
CmW 73
Copy, headed in the margin ‘The Antiquity of parlyamts writte by Mr W: Camden’.
In: A square-shaped folio volume of antiquarian and state tracts, with a table of contents (ff. 374r-7v) and occasional engraved borders by John Sudbury and George Humble, 377 leaves, in modern half-morocco. In a single calligraphic hand, employing various scripts, a scribe identified or associated with one Henry Feilde. c.1640s.
Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 21 August 1858 (Bliss sale), lot 140.
This MS discussed in Van Strien.
CmW 74
Copy in: A folio volume comprising ‘The Severall Opinions of Sundrie Antiquaries’, members of the Society of Antiquaries, concerning Parliament, in a single professional secretary hand, iii + 32 leaves, in modern quarter-vellum. Volume V of the papers of John Scudamore (1601-71), first Viscount Scudamore, politician and diplomat. Early 17th century.
Evans (i.e. Sotheby's), 3 December 1821 (Scudamore sale), various lots, to Thomas Thorpe. Phillipps MS 22282. Sotheby's, 16 June 1896 (Phillipps sale). Dobell's sale catalogue No. 238 (1914), item 603. Presented by Wilfred Merton, FSA (1888-1957), book and manuscript collector.
CmW 74.5
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘The Antiquity of Parliaments’, subscribed ‘William Camden’. c.1630.
In: A folio composite volume of state, parliamentary and antiquarian tracts and papers, in several professional hands, i + 366 leaves, originally in a recycled vellum indenture (now detached), in modern quarter-calf. Yelverton MS 111, among papers of Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), Justice of the Common Pleas, and his family.
CmW 75
Copy in: A large folio volume of antiquarian, parliamentary and naval tracts, a formal compilation in professional hand(s), iii + 97 leaves, in contemporary panelled calf. Early 17th century.
Lot 389 in an unidentified sale and two unidentified armorial bookplates. Bought from Davis & Orioli, 10 November 1917.
CmW 76
Copy in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘The Antiquitye of Parliaments in England’, subscribed ‘Written by Mr W: Camden’, also docketed by Sir Simonds D'Ewes (f. 249v) ‘Written by Mr William Cambden, author of the Britannia’. c.1620s.
In: A large folio volume of antiquarian and state tracts, in various professional hands, 385 leaves, in modern mottled leather gilt.
annotated by, Dewes.
CmW 77
Copy, headed ‘The Antiquitie of Parliaments’, subscribed ‘Wm Camden’, in a sheaf of papers (ff. 22r-44r) in a professional predominantly secretary hand headed ‘The seuerall opinions of sundry Antiquaries touchinge the Antiquitye Power order state manner Persons, and Proceedinges of the high Court of Parliament in England’.
In: A folio composite volume of antiquarian and parliamentary tracts, in various professional secretary hands, 245 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco in cloth boards gilt.
Inscribed (f. 2r) ‘Sum Edw Umfrevile Juneis. Interioris Templi Studentis 1725. 10o Aprilis’: i.e. by Edward Umfreville (1702?-86), collector of legal manuscripts. Bookplate (as ‘Shelburne’) of William Petty (1737-1805), second Earl of Shelburne and first Marquess of Lansdowne, Prime Minister.
CmW 78
Copy, headed ‘The Antiquity of Parliamts’, subscribed ‘William Cambden’.
In: A folio volume of state and legal tracts, in three professional secretary hands (one predominating ff. 2r-142r), 228 leaves (plus some blanks), in modern mottled leather. c.1620s-30s.
Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor, 1701.
CmW 79
Copy in: A folio volume of antiquarian and legal tracts, 77 leaves.
Later owned by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), herald and antiquary, and afterwards by Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, antiquary and collector.
CmW 80
Copy, headed ‘The Antiquitie of Parliamts in England written by Mr William Cambden, Authour of the Brittania’.
In: A folio volume of antiquarian tracts on parliament, largely in one secretary hand, ii + 60 leaves, in contemporary vellum gilt. c.1630s.
Once owned by Richard St George (d.1635), Clarenceux Ling of Arms. Sir Henry St George sale, London, 27 November 1738, lot 209. Purchased in 1928 from Dobell.
CmW 81
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Willm Camden’.
In: A quarto volume of state and antiquarian tracts, in a single professional secretary hand, 92 leaves, in old calf gilt. c.1620s-30s.
G.N. Last's sale catalogue 200 (1934), item 773.
CmW 82
Copy in: A volume of historical and legal tracts. c.1630.
Later owned by Harry Lawrence Bradfer Lawrence (1887-1965), Norfolk antiquary and manuscript collector. Formerly on temporary loan to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
CmW 82.8
Copy in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, headed ‘The Antiquetye Off Parliamtes’, subscribed ‘Willm Camden’.
In: A folio composite volume of tracts on parliament, in various professional hands (including the ‘Feathery Scribe’), 262 leaves, in contemporary calf.
Inscribed in court hand by one ‘M: Bayley’. Later Phillipps MS 15141. Sold by James Tregaskis, 4 June 1902. Formerly MS 1054.
Described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 221 (No. 14).
Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 221 (No. 14.4).
Harvard Law School Library, HLS MS 1039 (Hollis No. 003750674), ff. [44v-6v].
CmW 83
Copy in: A folio composite volume of legal and antiquarian papers, in various professional secretary hands, 284 leaves, in half brown morocco.
CmW 84
Copy, headed ‘The antiquitie of Parliaments’, subscribed ‘William Camden’.
In: A folio composite volume of antiquarian tracts, largely in two professional secretary hands, 120 leaves, in red morocco gilt.
CmW 85
Copy, headed ‘The Antiquitie of Parliaments’, subscribed ‘W: Camden’.
In: A quarto volume of antiquarian tracts on Parliament, in a single professional secretary hand, 90 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum. c.1620s-30s.
CmW 86
Copy, headed ‘The Antiquity of Parliamt’, subscribed ‘Wm: Camden’.
In: A folio volume of antiquarian tracts on parliament, in a professional secretary hand, twenty leaves (including two blanks), unbound. c.1620s-30s.
Among the papers of Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, formerly at Powis Castle. Formerly Powis MSS (1959 deposit), Series II, Bundle XVI, ‘Miscellaneous Political Papers’, Part 1, No. 2.
National Library of Wales, Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E5/3/30, ff. 11r-15r.
CmW 87
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, subscribed ‘Wm Camden’. c.1620s-30s.
In: A folio volume of state and antiquarian tracts and papers, in various hands, 252 leaves, in old calf.
Bequeathed by Sir Jerome Alexander (c.1600-70), Justice of the Irish Common Pleas. Old pressmark G. 3. 2.
CmW 88
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘An other Discourse of the Antiquity of Parliaments’, subscribed ‘William Cambden’.
In: A folio volume of state tracts dating up to 1641, in various professional hands, 381 leaves (plus blanks), in old calf. c.1625-41.
Bequeathed by Sir Jerome Alexander (c.1600-70), Justice of the Irish Common Pleas. Old pressmark G. 4. 13.
Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 226-7 (No. 23).
CmW 88.4
Copy in: A folio volume of antiquarian tracts on Parliament, in two or more cursive predominantly secretary hands, 71 pages, disbound. Early 17th century.
Inscribed names of ‘frizell Griffin’, ‘Arnold Thomas of lane baglan’, and ‘Robert Toughe’. Sotheby's, 28 October 1980, lot 780.
Professor Sir John Baker, Cambridge, [Parliamentary tracts MS], [no page numbers].
CmW 88.6
Copy in: A quarto composite volume of political and antiquarian tracts, in several probably professional hands, c.320 pages, in contemporary calf (rebacked). c.1592-1629.
Later ownership inscription by Edward Maugin, and a note by him which refers to the reading of this volume and dismissive attitude towards it by the Rev. Joseph Hunter (1783-1861). Sotheby's, 13 December 1990, lot 358 (unsold), and 30 July 1991, lot 28, to Hatchwell.
Of the Antiquity of the Christian Religion in this Island
A tract beginning ‘For the profession of Christian Religion in this ysle...’. First published in Hearne (1771), II, 165-7.
CmW 89
Copy in the hand of an amanuensis, untitled, endorsed ‘Mr Camden’; probably the paper delivered to the Society of Antiquaries. c.1604.
In: A folio composite volume of state and antiquarian tracts and papers generally relating to the history of the Church in Great Britain, including a few original papers delivered by the Society of Antiquaries, in various hands, 312 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt (earlier vellum bound-in).
Of the Antiquity of thye Name of Duke in England
A tract beginning ‘We have receaved this worde duke from the Frenche...’. First published, as an anonymous work, in Hearne (1771), I, 177-9.
*CmW 90
Autograph fair copy, headed ‘Duke’, on both sides of a single folio leaf; the paper delivered 25 November 1598.
In: the MS described under CmW 55.
Facsimile of f. 105r in IELM, I.i (1980), Facsimile VII, p. 148.
*CmW 91
Autograph draft of an early version, headed ‘Duke’ and here beginning ‘This word Duke we have receaued from the french…’.
In: the MS described under CmW 21.
British Library, Cotton MS Julius F. XI, ff. 313v-14r, 315r.
Of the Antiquity, Office and Privilege of Heralds in England
A tract beginning ‘Among all civil nations...’. First published in Hearne (1720), pp. 85-9. Hearne (1771), I, 52-4.
CmW 92
Copy in the secretary hand of an amanuensis, untitled and here beginning ‘Since civility...’, on both sides of a single folio leaf; the paper delivered to the Society of Antiquaries on 28 October 1601.
In: the MS described under CmW 55.
CmW 93
Copy, subscribed ‘by Mr Camden’, apparently a transcript of CmW 92, made by Thomas Smith.
In: A quarto composite volume of antiquarian tracts, xvi + 167 pages (plus five blanks), in early 18th-century half-calf. Chiefly compiled by Thomas Smith (1638-1710), Oxford scholar and editor.
Owned on 10 March 1710/11 by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), antiquary.
Of the Antiquity, Variety, and Reason of Motts
A tract beginning ‘Motts as we use the worde nowe...’. First published in Hearne (1771), II, 266-7.
*CmW 94
Copy, in the secretary hand of an amanuensis, with autograph additions, docketed ‘Cam’, on both sides of a single folio leaf; the paper delivered 28 November 1600.
In: the MS described under CmW 55.
Of the Diversity of Names of this Island
A tract beginning ‘That which the Poet said of Italy...’. First published in Hearne (1720), pp. 149-53. Hearne (1771), I, 90-3.
Of the Variety and Antiquity of Tombes and Monuments
A tract beginning ‘From the beginning there hath been amongst men an especial regard...’. First published, as an anonymous work, in Hearne (1771), I, 222-3.
*CmW 97
Copy in the cursive secretary hand of an amanuensis, headed in Camden's hand ‘Tombes, and Monuments’, on both sides of a single folio leaf, endorsed ‘Mr Clarencieux’; the paper delivered to the Society of Antiquaries on 7 June 1600.
In: the MS described under CmW 55.
On Ralph Brooke's Catalogue and Succession (1619)
Unpublished.
*CmW 98
Autograph draft of part of a critique of Ralph Brooke, York Herald, A Catalogue and Succession of the Kings, Princes, Dukes, Marquesses, Earles, and Viscounts of this Realme of England, since the Norman Conquest, to the present yeare, 1619 (London, 1619); untitled and here beginning ‘In the Catalogue of the Earles of Arundell First he maketh Roger Montgomery to be Earle of Belesmo…’.
In: A folio composite volume of state papers and tracts, generally relating to voyages and naval matters, in various professional hands, 388 leaves (but see RaW 726), in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.
*CmW 99
Autograph draft of part of Camden's critique, headed ‘In Mr Yorkes succession of Kinges’ and beginnng ‘In the Conqueror to overpasse his mistaking in computation by Ides…’, as also (p. 168) the first page (pp. 169-70 missing) of Camden's notes (including a draft title-page) for ‘The errors of Mr Brooke in his Catalogue and Succession…’ written by Camden's deputy Augustine Vincent (c.1584-1626), c.1619.
In: the MS described under CmW 53. c.1615-20s.
Vincent's Discoverie of Errours in the first Edition of the Catalogue of Nobility…by Ralfe Brooke pub. London, 1622.
*CmW 100
Camden's copious autograph annotations in a printed exemplum of Brooke's Catalogue and Succession (London, 1619. Constituting a detailed critique of the book, some on interleaves, inscribed ‘Mr Yorke sent his booke to me to be censured the 19 of Febr: and I did resend it the 25th of the same month’, and some pages inscribed ‘This page reprinted’. [1619-22].
Parliaments in England, Of the Antiquity of
See CmW 72-88.
Prerogative of the Crown, Discourse concerning the
See CmW 50.
Printinge
A brief unpublished and unfinished essay beginning ‘As gunnes were inuented to destruction so shortly after was the arte of printings found...’, originally intended for inclusion in Remaines. First published in R.D. Dunn, ‘Fragment of an unpublished Essay on Printing by William Camden’, British Library Journal, 12/2 (Autumn 1986), 145-9.
*CmW 101
Copy of a draft, in a neat italic and secretary hand.
In: the MS described under CmW 21.
Edited from this MS, with a complete facsimile, in Dunn's article (1986).
Rebus, or Name-devises
A tract beginning ‘Many approoved customes, lawes, maners, fashions, and phrases...’. First published in Remaines (London, 1605), pp. 146-9.
Remaines of a Greater Worke concerning Britaine
First published, dedicated to Sir Robert Cotton, in London, 1605. 2nd edition (with additions) London, 1614. 3rd edition (with a few further additions) London, 1623. Edited by R.D. Dunn (Toronto, Buffalo & London, 1984).
For individual essays in Remaines, see under separate titles.
CmW 102.1
Copy of portions of the work, in a secretary hand, annotated by the fourth Earl of Bedford, subscribed in another hand ‘Here wee left 19 Aprilis 1630’.
In: A folio commonplace book of extracts from devotional and miscellaneous works, largely in two secretary hands, 241 pages (plus 37 blank pages), in contemporary reversed calf with remains of metal clasps. Partly written, and annotated, in the rugged italic hand of Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician. c.1630s.
Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1.
The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey, HMC MS No. 31, pp. 99-140.
CmW 102.13
Extracts.
In: A quarto commonplace book of miscellaneous extracts, largely in one small hand, with a few additions in three other hands, 257 pages, in contemporary vellum. c.1620s.
CmW 102.2
Extracts.
In: A duodecimo volume of historical tracts, 95 leaves. 17th century.
CmW 102.3
Extracts, headed ‘Observations out of Cambden's Remains’.
In: A duodecimo notebook, 129 leaves. 17th century.
CmW 102.4
An exemplum of the printed edition of 1637, with annotations in possibly several hands. Mid-late 17th century.
Inscribed on a flyleaf ‘T Balldwyn prtium 3s’ and ‘used by Mr Sumner’, and, on p. 420, ‘Robert Elwis’.
CmW 102.5
An exemplum of the printed quarto edition of 1614, with annotations by William Cole (1714-82). 18th century.
Inscribed on the title-page ‘R. Spence’.
CmW 102.8
Extracts.
In: A folio volume comprising a collection of epitaphs, in a single neat italic hand, entitled ‘Delectus Epitaphiorum Anglo-Latinorum Tam Veterum quam Recentiu’, 74 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf. c.1664-1705.
Pencil inscription on front pastedown: ‘Charles A. Cole[?] June 26 '64’. The rear cover stamped ‘R. S. 1705’.
CmW 103
Autograph rough draft of the title-page, here addressed to Fulke Greville, with a list of contents.
In: the MS described under CmW 21.
CmW 104
Autograph rough draft of the dedication (without the name of the addressee).
In: the MS described under CmW 21.
First published (addressed to Sir Robert Cotton) in Remaines (London, 1605).
A second Discourse touching the Earl Marshals of England
A tract beginning ‘Some learned men which have discoursed of offices and magistracies...’. First published, as De origine & dignitate Comitis Marescalli Angliae, in Camdeni epistolae (London, 1691), Appendix, pp. 93-6. Hearne (1771), II, 327-30.
*CmW 105
Autograph draft; the paper delivered to the Society of Antiquaries 3 November 1603.
In: the MS described under CmW 21.
CmW 106
Copy, untitled.
In: A folio volume of antiquarian collections.
The fifth volume of antiquarian collections belonging to Thomas Astle (1735-1803), archivist and collector of books and manuscripts.
A Suplement of the Topographical Description of Britain published MDCX
See CmW 11-12.
Surnames
A tract beginning ‘Surnames given for difference of families, and continued as hereditary...’. First published in Remaines (London, 1605), pp. 89-139.
*CmW 109
An autograph list of local names relating to Camden's essay.
In: A quarto composite volume of papers by Camden, relating to Latin inscriptions found in England, viii + 58 pages, quarto and octavo, in early 18th-century half-calf. c.late 1590s.
Owned on 1 April 1711 by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), antiquary, who records (p. v) Smith's bequest of the volume to him.
The Title of Baron
An unpublished tract beginning ‘When as Baronies created by writt, or somoñ haue no date of inheritance...’.
*CmW 110
Autograph draft notes for an early paper on the title of baron, untitled.
In: the MS described under CmW 21.
*CmW 111
Autograph draft of a later paper on the title of baron, headed ‘The State of the Question’, probably connected with the case of Lord Roos (1616).
In: the MS described under CmW 53. c.1615-20s.
*CmW 112
Autograph draft, untitled and here beginning ‘If such an inhaerent Excellency, retentive facultie, and inseperabilitie of titles had beene known in former ages…’, on seven pages.
In: the MS described under CmW 3. c.1603-23.
Trinity College, Cambridge, MS R. 5. 20 (James 715), [unspecified pages].
The Title of Baron
An unpublished tract beginning ‘Whether the title of a Baronie brought into a familie wch afterward is invested with an Earledom...’.
Tombes, and Monuments
See CmW 97.
Townes
See CmW 68.
Usual Christian names
A tract beginning ‘Araon, Heb. a Teacher...’. First published in Remaines (London, 1605), pp. 40-75.
Viscountes heere in England, Of ye Antiquity of
Wise Speeches
See CmW 58-9.
Books and Manuscripts Owned or Inscribed by Camden
Aemilius, Paulus, Veronensis. De rebus gestis Francorum (Paris, 1555)
[Bible. - Song of Solomon] Willerami Abbatis in Canticum Canticorum paraphrasis gemina (Lyons, 1598)
Blackwell, George. Mr. George Blackwel, (Made by Pope Clement 8. Archpriest of England) his Answeres upon sundry his Examinations (London, 1607)
*CmW 116
Autograph note in Latin on ‘Eadgina vxor Athelstani’ on the last page.
Boccalini, Traiano. De ragguagli di Parnaso (Venice, 1612)
Boutrays, Raoul. De rebus in Gallia (Paris, 1610)
*CmW 118
Two pages of autograph annotations at the front. Also, tipped in, a twelve-leaf booklet containing an autograph list in Latin of names and events relating to the years 1602-9 probably derived from Boutrays's book.
Brooke, Ralph. A Catalogue and Succession (London, 1619)
See CmW 100.
Buchanan, George. Rerum Scoticarum historia (Edinburgh, 1582)
*CmW 118.5
Printed exemplum inscribed by Camden, recording its presentation to him by Abraham Ortelius (1527-98), geographer. Late 16th century.
Facsimile of the inscribed title-page in [John Collins], A Short Account of the Library at Longleat House, Warminster, Wilts (Sotheby's, 1980), p. 21.
The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House, [unspecified shelfmark].
Cowell, John. The Interpreter (Cambridge, 1607)
*CmW 119
Two pages of autograph notes at the end (giving the reasons for this book's suppression).
Crato, Joannes. Oratio funebris de Diuo Maxaemiliano II (Frankfurt, 1577)
Du Tillet, Jean. Recueil des roys de France (Paris, 1586-8)
*CmW 121
Nine pages of autograph pedigrees bound in at the front and end of the volume, including the dates 1598, 1605, and 1616.
In: the MS described under CmW 4.
Gesta Pontificorum Romanorum a Sancto Petro ad Anacletum
*CmW 121.5
Camden's brief autograph list of contents, on f. 3v in a 12th-13th-century formal MS chronicle of the Papacy, on 90 folio-size vellum leaves, in modern half red morocco. Late 16th-early 17th century.
Inscribed ‘liber Briani Stapletoni’.
Gilbert, Sir Humphrey. A Discourse of a Discouerie for a new Passage to Cataia (London, 1576)
Godwin, Francis. De praesulibus Angliae commentarius (London, 1616)
*CmW 123
Exemplum presented to Camden by the author with Camden's autograph annotations (together with others by Brian Twyne, Anthony Wood, et al.).
Hayward, Sir John. The Lives of the III. Normans, Kings of England (London, 1613)
*CmW 124
Autograph annotations in Latin and English and signature on the title-page ‘Gul Camdenij’.
Hotman, François. Decretorum baccalaurei (n.p., 1575)
——Francogallia (Cologne, 1574)
Jonstonus, Joannes. Britannia urbes [c.1600]
*CmW 127
Calligraphic MS copy of unpublished Latin verses on the cities of Great Britain (some afterwards quoted in Britannia); eleven leaves (plus one blank leaf); with Camden's autograph annotations and deletions.
Laetus, Erasmus. De re nautica (Basle, 1573)
Leowitz, Cyprianus von. De coniunctionibus magnis insignioribus superiorum planetarum (London, 1573)
Masson, Jean Papire. Annalium (Paris, 1578)
Milles, Thomas. The Catalogue of Honor (London, 1610)
*CmW 131
Autograph emendations.
For a discussion of annotations in Milles's books (which, however, does not mention this item) see P.H. Davison, ‘The Annotations to Copies of Thomas Milles's Books in the British Museum and Bodleian Libraries’, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 133-9.
Ortelius, Abraham. Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Antwerp, 1594)
*CmW 131.5
Printed exemplum presented to Camden by Abraham Ortelius (1527-98), geographer, with Camden's autograph list of maps. c.1594.
Sotheby's, 28 July 1859 (A. Bradbury sale), lot 629, to Graves.
Peucer, Caspar. Commentarius de praecipuis generibus diuinationum (Wittenberg, 1560)
Ptolemaeus, Claudius. Operis quadripartiti (Louvain, 1548)
*CmW 133
Autograph annotations.
Recorded, with some annotations quoted and with a facsimile of Camden's inscription of ownership, in Original Letters of Eminent Literary Men, ed. Sir Henry Ellis, Camden Society 23 (London, 1843), p. 128 (and frontispiece).
Rupescissa, Johannes de. Vade-Mecum in Tribulatione [etc.]
*CmW 133.5
Autograph annotations by Camden on at least f. 161r (eight lines), in a 14th-century MS volume of chronicles, 271 folio leaves of vellum, in old blind-stamped calf (rebacked). Inscribed (f. 1r) by Sir Robert Cotton ‘Ro. Cottoni Brucei ex dono Domini Guillimi Camdeni amicorum prestantissimorum...1609’, and signed by Camden on f. 271v. c.1609.
Sainte-Marthe, Scévole & Louis de. Histoire genealogique de la maison de France (Paris, 1619)
Saumaise, Claude de. Amici ad amicum de suburbicariis regionib. et ecclesiis suburbicariis epistola ([Leiden], 1619)
Tillet, Jean du. Receuil des roys de France (Paris, 1586-8)
See CmW 121.
Twyne, Brian. Antiquitatis academiae Oxoniensis apologia (Oxford, 1608)
Miscellaneous
Collectanea
*CmW 137
Papers of William Camden, comprising (ff. 73-4v) a Latin tract in a professional hand with Camden's autograph heading ‘De Curijs Ecclesiasticis Archiepi Cantuariensis ex libello de praerogatiuis sedis Cantuari’; (f. 96v) an autograph tabulation of ‘The Courtes of England’, endorsed on f. 96 ‘des courtes et officiers d'Angleterre, tiré du livre Intitulé politiae Angliae en Englois’; and (ff. 97r-8v) an index of civil and ecclesiastical offices of the Realm (in Latin) in a professional hand with Camden's autograph heading ‘Ex Libello de Politeia Angliae in vsum Dnae Reginae primo Regni anno conscripto’; f. 73 endorsed with the date 1582. c.1582.
In: A folio composite volume of state papers generally concerning diplomatic relations between England and France, in various hands.
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, Cinq cents de Colbert n° 466, ff. 73r-4v, 96r-8v.
CmW 138
One of Camden's miscellaneous collections, largely in his hand. c.1590s.
In: the MS described under CmW 45.
CmW 141
Smith's transcript of some of Camden's topographical notes and copies of Latin inscriptions found in Britain; pp. 26-7 apparently transcribed from CmW 161.
In: A quarto notebook of antiquarian material, viii + 184 pages. Compiled chiefly by Thomas Smith (1638-1710), Oxford scholar and editor. c.1680-1700.
*CmW 141.5
Autograph annotations by Camden, with his comments and corrections, including those on ff. 11r, 17r and 44r.
In: A volume of heraldic notes and pedigrees, compiled by Henry Ferrers (1550-1633), of Baddesley Clinton, Warwickshire, antiquary., i + 54 leaves, its original vellum wrapper (recycled from a 15th-century antiphoner) now ff. 53-4, within Middle Hill boards. Early 17th century.
Inscribed (f. 54v) ‘George Owen [c.1598-1665] York Herald’. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 13758. Sotheby's, 28 June 1965, lot 98.
CmW 141.8
A ten-line autograph annotation by Camden, in the margin of a scribal copy (ff. 58r-61v) of the proceedings at the coronation of James I and Queen Anne, 25 July 1603. c.1603.
In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers chiefly relating to court ceremonies, in various hands and paper sizes, 94 leaves.
Afterwards owned by Sir Richard St George (1554/5-1635), Clarenceux King of Arms, and possibly by his grandson, Sir Henry St George (1625-1715), Clarenceux and Garter King of Arms. Presented by William Guthrie (1708?-70), historian and political journalist, 24 April 1764.
*CmW 142
A partly autograph folio composite notebook, chiefly in Latin, containing drafts of letters, fragmentary materials for the Annales, and two dedications, some material (f. 15v) relating to Michael Drayton, in several hands and paper sizes, 114 leaves, in half-morocco gilt. 1582-1621.
Mr Baker's, York Street, Covent Garden, 1768 (Anstis sale). Sotheby's, 6 November 1899 (Tixal sale), lot 114.
Facsimiles of f. 24r (letter to Lord Burghley, 1594) in Greg, English Literary Autographs, plate LXXIII(d), and in Petti, English Literary Hands, No. 30.
*CmW 143
Various autograph notes and drafts by Camden, including entries on ff. 54r, 61r, 64v, 66v (on the dukedom of Buckingham), and 77r. c.1616-17.
In: A tall folio composite volume of heraldic and genealogical papers, largely in one small secretary hand, ii + 196 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum boards. Compiled by Nicholas Charles (1582-1613), Lancaster Herald.
Charles's papers were purchased after his death by William Camden. They include two other of Charles's heraldic and genealogical collections: a quarto volume of 36 leaves (British Library, Add. MS 47178) and a folio volume of 135 leaves (British Library, Add. MS 47179). The three volumes constitute Volumes CCLVIII-CCLX of the papers of the Perceval family, Earls of Egmont, and the allied Southwell family.
*CmW 144
A tall folio volume of pedigrees, apparently taken from heraldic visitations of Kent, Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Oxfordshire in 1574-86, iii + 77 leaves, in half-vellum marbled boards. In several largely secretary hands, one predominating, with coats of arms and other devices drawn in trick, bearing occasional additions and annotations in Camden's italic hand, including full pages ff. 5r, 30r, 33r, 37r, 39v, 75v-6r. Late 16th century.
Afterwards owned by the St George family of heralds. Bookplate of Sir George Nayler (1764-1831), Garter King of Arms. Sotheby's, 25 July 1832 (Nayler sale), lot 131, to Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector (Phillipps MS 9781). Sotheby's, 26 June 1974 (Phillipps sale), lot 2882, with a facsimile of f. 30r in the sale catalogue.
*CmW 145
Autograph Latin notes and antiquarian collections of Camden, including material used for Britannia, 126 leaves; one page (f. 119v) dated 1580, another (f. 100v) dated 1581.
In: A quarto volume of antiquarian collections of Camden, 126 leaves; one page (f. 119v) dated 1580, another (f. 100v) dated 1581. c.1580s.
British Library, Cotton MS Cleopatra A. IV, The MS as a whole.
*CmW 146
At least some of the items here belonged to Camden, including several notes, drafts, patents and a letter in his hand, inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Collections of Mr Camdens Relating to Hauralds at arms with sevll. Originall pattents’. Late 16th-early 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of heraldic tracts and papers, in various hands, 292 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco gilt.
*CmW 147
Autograph notes in Latin by Camden, including verses (ff. 4r, 311r), various notes on coins, Scottish topography, Roman inscriptions in Northern England, war with Spain, &c, and a draft letter and draft dedication in his hand or in the hands of his amanuenses or correspondents with autograph additions, some notes probably relating to Britannia; a few autograph ‘Epitaphia Camdeni’, on f. 430r-v dating between 1604 and 1611 c.1604-11.
In: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 468 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on roan boards. End 16th-early 17th century.
This volume discussed and printed in part, with facsimile examples, in F. Haverfield, ‘Cotton Iulius F. VI Notes on Reginald Bainbrigg of Appleby, on William Camden and on some Roman Inscriptions’, Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, NS 11 (1911), 343-78.
*CmW 148
Various autograph or partly autograph historical notes and memoranda, on possibly as many as 50 leaves, chiefly in Latin, including extracts from Tacitus and other Roman authors; topographical material (dated 1580) used for Britannia (including ff. 119r-v); copies of epitaphs (ff. 116r-17r); matter relating to Camden and George Buchanan; and a clothes bill for November 1578-July 1580. c.1580s-90s.
In: the MS described under CmW 58. c.1580s-90s.
Certain of the contents of this MS noted in Haverfield (see CmW 147), pp. 350, 378.
*CmW 149
Various historical notes and memoranda, autograph or partly autograph, chiefly in Latin, a number relating to Remaines, including genealogical trees (ff. 42r-61v), astronomical texts, verse (some on Sir Henry Goodyer the Elder, f. 85r, and on Sir Nicholas Bacon, f. 87r), and (f. 220r) notes relating to Britannia. c. Late 1590s.
In: the MS described under CmW 21.
*CmW 149.5
Various autograph papers by Camden, including: (f. 2r) his draft Latin epitaph, or Memoriæ, on Mary Queen of Scots, probably 1612; (ff. 36v, 40r-3v, 46r) his notes on various religious houses; (between ff. 46r and 64v) his annotations to genealogies; (ff. 74r-6v) his notes on Mary Queen of Scots; (ff. 77v-103v) his annotations to a chronological list (in another hand) of events in the reign of Queen Elizabeth; and (f. 126r-v) his notes on revenues of Spain.
In: A folio composite volume of historical documents, in various hands, 139 leaves, in modern half-morocco cloth boards gilt.
*CmW 150
A composite volume of historical and antiquarian notes and papers, 67 quarto leaves. Perhaps all compiled by Camden and partly in his hand, used for Britannia and other works; one page (f. 7r) dated 1603. Late 16th-early 17th century.
*CmW 151
Various autograph papers by Camden, including (on ff. 75v-113r, 126v-67, 185v-7r) an Anglo-Saxon-Latin vocabulary, a list of Saxon places and names, various Latin notes, material connected with Greek, and words and phrases from Homer's Iliad (dated 10 October 1592). c.1590s-1600s.
In: the MS described under CmW 14.
*CmW 152
A quarto composite volume of antiquarian collections, comprising papers of Camden and John Stow, including (f. 76c) an autograph note from Camden to Stow asking to borrow some abbey foundations, (ff. 77-8v) Camden's autograph emendations apparently to Stow's Survey of London, (ff. 81-94) Camden's copy of passages out of Roman and Greek writers concerning Britain possibly for Stow's use, and (f. 95r-v) Camden's autograph draft (imperfect) of a character of Henry VI (beginning ‘Thus ended this Kinge his transitorye Life…’), 124 leaves.
Later owned by Sir Simonds D'Ewes, Bt, MP (1602-50), diarist and antiquary.
This MS recorded in F.J. Levy, ‘The Making of Camden's Britannia’, Bibliothèque D'Humanisme et Renaissance, 26 (1964), 70-97 (p. 82). Facsimile of f. 76c in Greg, English Literary Autographs, plate LXXIII(b).
CmW 153
‘A Coppie of boock of Scoths Petdegries taken ut of Mr Wiliam Camden alias Clarinciux King of Armes now in possession of Sr Robert Cotton Kt Anno 1627’, in one or more secretary hands, transcribed from CmW 160. c.1620s.
In: A folio composite volume of heraldic and genealogical papers relating to the Scottish nobility, in various hands, 165 leaves, in modern morocco gilt.
A flyleaf (f. 1*r) inscribed ‘Scotlands Nobility & Gentry / Jo: withie’.
*CmW 154
Autograph copy of quotations from Greek and Roman authors, &c chiefly relating to Great Britain, apparently intended for inclusion in Britannia.
In: Composite volume of MSS.
*CmW 155
This volume is not compiled by William Camden but is entirely in the hand of Robert Glover (1543/4-88), Somerset Herald.
*CmW 156
Autograph rough notes in Latin, on genealogy and dates and events in Tudor history, on both sides of a single folio leaf. Late 16th-early 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of state, parliamentary and legal tracts, in professional secretary hands, 551 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco gilt.
CmW 156.5
A folio armorial, comprising over 700 coats of arms in trick, apparently based on a compilation by Camden, in a neat predominantly italic hand, with an inventory added later (ff. 197v-195v rev.) in 1768, x + 163 leaves (plus some 34 blanks), in 19th-century half-leather gilt. Mid-late-17th century.
*CmW 157
Various documents belonging to Camden, partly autograph, including extensive and heavily revised drafts by Ralph Brooke (c.1563-1625), partly in his autograph, of his critiques of Camden's Britannia, notably (ff. 321-68v) ‘A Second Discoverie of Certaine Errovrs Published in the much comended Britannia 1594 Very preiudiciall to the Discentes and successions of the auncient Nobilitie of this Realme, with a reply to Mr Camdens apologie, ad Lectorem in his firsr edicon 1610. By Ra: Brooke Yorke Herauld’.
In: A large folio composite volume of antiquarian and heraldic papers, in various hands, 368 leaves, in modern calf gilt.
Bookplate of Sir George Nayler (1764-1831), Garter King of Arms. Formerly Folger MS 7033.
Brooke's A Second Discoverie was first published, from this MS, in an edition by John Anstis (London. 1723).
*CmW 158
Various coats of arms and pedigrees in Camden's hand or annotated by him.
In: A large folio volume, containing a large collection of pedigrees and arms of noble families, in several hands, with later 19th-century notes, c.350 pages (plus two indexes), in contemporary calf. With a title-page: ‘Illorum Magnatum stemata quorum hæreditas, deficientibus masculis, as feminas deuoluta est’. c.1610.
Inscribed (on front pastedown) as ‘Ex Bibl... 1838’ of William Morton Pitt, MP (1754-1836), of Kingston House, Dorset. Phillipps MS 7437. Sotheby's, 28 June 1965, lot 41, to Myers. Formerly Folger MS Add. 469.
A microfilm is in the British Library (RP 26).
*CmW 159
Various genealogical and heraldic papers of Camden, a number autograph.
In: A tall folio composite volume of antiquarian papers, including pedigrees, coats of arms drawn in trick, and other heraldic, historical and genealogical notes, in various hands, c.88 pages (plus blanks), in Middle Hill boards. Late 16th-early 17th century.
Once owned by the St George Family of heralds. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1782-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 166832. Sotheby's, 28 June 1965, lot 42, to Jantzen. Formerly Folger MS Add. 576.
A microfilm is in the British Library (RP 438).
*CmW 160
A volume of genealogical papers largely compiled by William Camden, whose hand appears frequently throughout, some of the various texts probably in the hands of his amanuenses. c.1606-20.
In: A folio composite volume of genealogical collections, including pedigrees of royal and noble houses of Scotland, with some coats of arms drawn in trick, and other matter relating to Scotland, in various hands, 77 leaves.
Given in 1629 by William Camden's executor, Sir Robert Cotton, to Sir James Balfour, first Baronet (1600-57), of Denmilne and Kinncaird, Lyon King of Arms and antiquary, who has inscribed the cover ‘Camdeni Clarentii Armorum Regis Regni Angliæ collectiones’. Purchased in 1723 at the sale of the library of Sir Robert Sibbald (1641-1722), royal physician and geographer.
National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 33.2.36, The MS as a whole.
*CmW 161
A volume of antiquarian papers, compiled by, and largely in the hand of, William Camden, comprising drafts of antiquarian tracts and other writings, as well as historical notes, lists, jottings, and other material, including James I's licence to print Britannia.
In: the MS described under CmW 3. c.1603-23.
Trinity College, Cambridge, MS R. 5. 20 (James 715), The volume as a whole.
CmW 162
Copy of some of Camden's historical notes and lists in CmW 161, 36 folio leaves. In a professional hand, inscribed by Thomas Smith ‘Collection whch I had transcribed for mee out of a MS of mr Camdens in Trinity College Library in Cambridge, when I was there 1692’. 1692.
See also CmW 141.
CmW 163
Copy of some of Camden's historical notes and lists in CmW 161.
In: A folio volume of historical and academic papers, entirely in the hand of Thomas Baker (1656-1750), Cambridge antiquary. c.1707.
CmW 164
Copy of some of Camden's historical notes and lists in CmW 161 transcribed from Thomas Baker's transcript (CmW 163).
In: A folio volume of transcripts made by Thomas Baker (1656-1740), Cambridge antiquary, 309 pages (plus index). Late 17th-early 18th century.
CmW 164.5
A quarto volume of arms granted by Camden, with arms in trick and text in a neat rounded hand, entitled ‘Severall Exemplifications Under the Hand & Seale Of his Office Wm Camden Clarenceaux King at Armes From the Comeing of King James the First 1602 to ye year 1622...’, 164 leaves (plus blanks), in old calf. Mid-18th century.
From the library of John Ives (d.1776), Suffolk Herald extaordinary. Phillipps MS 7365. Bookplate of Ralph Griffin, Secretary of the Society of Antiquaries, with his signature, presented by him 1928.
*CmW 165
An autograph notebook, containing coats of arms drawn in trick and in painted emblazonry, with notes, some dated 26 July 1592, a pedigree in the hand of Nicholas Charles, Lancaster Herald (d.1613), a list of those attending the Field of the Cloth of Gold, and Camden's account of Westminster School fees for 1596-7, 306 pages. c.1590s.
Once owned by the St George family of heralds. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 1378. Sotheby's, 15 June 1971, lot 1611, with a facsimile of one page with school fees in the sale catalogue.
*CmW 166
A largely autograph quarto notebook of heraldic and genealogical material, including matter relating to the claims for the barony of Abergavenny (1598-9), with inserted leaves in a later hand, c.280 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum. c.1598-1600s.
Once owned by the St George family of heralds. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 13160. Sotheby's, 28 June 1965, lot 40, to Traylen, with a facsimile example in the sale catalogue. Charles W. Traylen, sale catalogue No. 66, item 9. Acquired from C.A. Stonehill in 1967. Bookplate of Albert H. Childs (his fund).
Discussed in William Huse Dunham, Jr., ‘William Camden's Commonplace Book’, YULG, 43 (1969), 139-56. A microfilm is in the Parliamentary Archives, Historical Collections No. 249.
*CmW 167
A folio volume of 63 pedigrees of English noble families, with 65 coats of arms, on 225 pages, in old calf (rebacked). Originally written in 1597 by William Smith, Rouge Dragon, with Camden's extensive autograph additions, the latest for the year 1622, entitled ‘Baronagium Angliae. Magnatum scilicet illius Regni Stemmata recentiora…delineata’; with a contemporary index and a later index. c.1597-1622.
Later owned by Lord Mowbray, Segrave and Stourton. Sotheby's, 20 February 1967, lot 220. Christie's, 16 July 1969, lot 122, and 21 February 1973, lot 254, to Hofmann and Freeman.
CmW 167.5
A small quarto volume, containing ‘Severall Exemplifications under the Hand and Seale of his Office...from the comeing of King James the first, 1602 to the year 1622’, with 320 coats-of-arms drawn in trick and an index. c.1622.
Sotheby's, 11 July 1951, lot 604 (sold on behalf of the Trustees of Arthur Wakerley, deceased), to Colonel Potter.
*CmW 168
Autograph folio volume of pedigrees of English families, with numerous coats of arms emblazoned or drawn in trick, 56 pages (plus blanks), in 19th-century half-morocco.
Once owned by the St George family of heralds. Sotheby's, 28 June 1965, lot 43, to Jantzen. Sotheby's, 21 July 1980, lot 3 (unsold). Sotheby's, 11 July 1983, lot 84, to Ferrers-Walker.
*CmW 169
Camden's autograph additions (pp. 6, 7, 21, 25) in a volume of pedigrees of English and European noble families, with coats of arms drawn in trick, in the hand of Nicholas Charles, Lancaster Herald (d.1613), 32 pages.
Once owned by the St George family of heralds. Sotheby's, 15 June 1971, lot 1612, unsold.
*CmW 170
Autograph items by Camden in a large composite volume of heraldic MSS comprising about 250 items (plus blanks and indexes).
Successively owned and augmented by Richard Lee, Clarenceux King of Arms (d.1597), Nicholas Charles, Lancaster Herald (d.1613), Camden, and the St Georges. Sotheby's, 15 June 1971, lot 1624, unsold.
*CmW 171
Camden's extensive autograph annotations, additions and revisions in a volume of heraldic collections, c.200 pages. Comprising visitations of Devon, Dorset and Suffolk, with pedigrees (including Sir Walter Ralegh's on f. 66r) and coats of arms drawn in trick, &c, mainly in two scribal hands, with some notes also in the hand of Henry St George the Elder (1581-1644).
Sotheby's, 14 December 1976, lot 49, to Maxwell.
The Funeral Procession of Queen Elizabeth
CmW 172
Detailed pen and ink drawing in a roll about 27 feet in length by 8 inches wide, attributed to Camden. 1603.
Presented in 1791 by John Wilmot.
Engraved reproduction of this MS in Vetusta Monumenta, III (Society of Antiquaries, London, 1799), plates 18-24; discussed in W.A. Jackson, ‘The Funeral Procession of Queen Elizabeth’, The Library, 4th Ser. 26 (1945-6), 262-71 (p. 264). A similar roll drawing, but not apparently in Camden's hand, is Add. MS 35324, No. 7.
Document(s)
*CmW 172.5
Annotations in Latin, possibly in Camden's hand, partly relating to the genealogy of Lord Winton.
In: A folio volume of heraldic and genealogical collections, in several hands, 276 leaves (eight leaves excised), in contemporary vellum. Compiled by Sir Richard St George (c.1555-1635). c.1586-1619.
CmW 173
Grant(s) of arms by Camden as Clarenceux King of Arms.
In: A volume of heraldic collections, including emblazoned arms, in several hands, i + 522 leaves, in old calf (rebacked).
Once owned by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King of Arms and antiquary, and by Joseph Smith, Provost of Queen's College, Oxford.
CmW 175
Copy, in a secretary hand, of a gant of arms by Camden as Clarenceux King of Arms, to Edward Wattes of Blakesley, Northamptonshire, and Montague Wattes of Lincolns Inn, 15 February 1615/16.
In: A folio volume of genealogical material and pedigrees of Suffolk gentry, in various hands, 238 leaves, in modern half red morocco. Early 17th century.
Inscribed on flyleaves ‘Liber Clopton’, ‘Purchased of Mr. Halsted’ (who acquired it at John Ives's sale in 1777, lot 429), and ‘Tho: Martin’: i.e. Thomas Martin (1697-1771, of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector; with annotations by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King of Arms and antiquary.
*CmW 176
A grant of arms, to Robert Wakeman, DD, of Beerferris, Devon, signed by Camden as Clarenceux King of Arms, also with lines on the verso from Chaucer's ‘Nun's Tale’ relating to the Wakeman crest, 1616. 1616.
CmW 177
Grant of arms by Camden as Clarenceux King of Arms, to Robert Wakeman, DD, of Beerferris, Devon, including Camden's copy of lines from Chaucers's ‘Nun's Tale’, 1616.
CmW 178
Grant(s) of arms by Camden as Clarenceux King of Arms.
In: MS.
*CmW 179
Autograph eleven-line memorandum by Camden, relating to Roman Britain, beginning ‘Desyre Mr Claxton [i.e. William Claxton (1530-97), antiquary] to certifye you what rare matter he knoweth as concerning the Picton wall’. Late 16th century.
In: A folio composite volume of largely original letters, in various hands, 305 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt.
CmW 180
Copy of a grant of arms by Camden, as Clarenceux King of Arms, to Thomas Taylor of Battersea, Surrey, 16 December 1600.
In: MS.
CmW 181
Copy of a confirmation of arms to ‘Harborne’ by Camden as Clarenceux King of Arms and by William Segar, Norroy King of Arms, 1615.
In: A folio volume of genealogical and heraldic collections, predominantly in one hand, 114 leaves (plus blanks), in moderm half-morocco. Early 17th century.
*CmW 182
Confirmation of a grant of arms to Robert Cutler of Ipswich, Suffolk, signed by Camden as Clarenceux King of Arms. on a membrane of vellum with the arms emblazoned in their proper colours. 21 July 1612.
*CmW 183
Grant of arms to Ralphe Pratt of Nathern, Leicestershire, signed by Camden as Clarenceux King of Arms, on a decorated membrane of vellum with the arms emblazoned in their proper colours. 23 August 1601.
Formerly Folger MS 1495.3.
*CmW 184
Grant of arms to Edward Lyster, signed by Camden as Clarenceux King of Arms, on a decorated membrane of vellum with the arms emblazoned in their proper colours. 20 April 1602. 1602.
*CmW 186
A grant of arms to Robert Cutler, of Ipswich, Suffolk, signed by Camden as Clarenceux King of Arms, on a decorated membrane of vellum with the arms emblazoned in their proper colours. 21 July 1612. 1612.
Formerly Folger MS 1439.1.
*CmW 187
Confirmation of a grant of arms to Thomas Taylor, of Battersea, Sussex, signed by Camden as Clarenceux King of Arms, on a decorated membrane of vellum with the arms emblazoned in their proper colours. 16 December 1600. 1600.
CmW 188
Grants of arms by Camden as Clarenceux King of Arms, headed ‘Camden's guifts’, possibly ? partly in his hand.
In: A folio volume of eraldic arms, in old leather.
Inscribed (f. 3r) ‘Mr Knight, May, 1644’.
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, MS 551/315, f. 32r et seq.
CmW 189
Autograph emblazoned grant(s) of arms by Camden as Clarenceux King of Arms, in a composite volume of heraldic collections, c.80 folio pages in all (plus blanks), in Middle Hill boards. 16th-17th century.
Sotheby's, 15 June 1971, lot 1626 (withdrawn).
CmW 190
Grant(s) of arms by Camden as Clarenceux King of Arms.
In: MS.
CmW 191
Grant(s) of arms by Camden as Clarenceux King of Arms.
In: MS.
CmW 192
Grants of arms by Camden as Clarenceux King of Arms.
In: A folio volume of grants of arms by various heralds and printed escutcheons, 151 leaves. 17th century.
*CmW 193
An illuminated confirmation of the arms of John Fowle, of Sandhurst, Kent, signed by Camden as Clarenceux King of Arms, on vellum, 1602. 1602.
*CmW 194
A confirmation of arms for Thomas Bolton, of Woodbridge, signed by Camden as Clarenceux King of Arms, 25 August 1610. 1610.
*CmW 195
An illuminated grant of arms, to Richard Couper, of Temple Elfont, Surrey, signed by Camden as Clarenceux King of Arms, 2 May 1600. 1600.
Christie's, 29 May 1986, lot 15, to Heraldry Today.
*CmW 196
An illuminated grant of arms, to Thomas Usher, signed by Camden as Clarenceux King of Arms, on vellum, 30 August 1613. 1613.
John Wilson's sale catalogue No. 63 (c.1990), item 36.
CmW 197
Grant(s) of arms by Camden as Clarenceux King of Arms.
Sotheby's, 15 June 1971, lot 1623 (withdrawn).
*CmW 198
An illuminated grant of arms, to the City of Westminster, signed by Camden as Clarenceux King of Arms, 1 October 1601. 1601.
Christie's, 19 September 1984, lot 298, with an illustration in the sale catalogue.
Will
CmW 200
Camden's last will and testament, proved 10 November 1623. 1623.
Camden's will edited in Hearne (1720), Appendix II, 277-80, and (1771), II, 390-2.
CmW 201
A registered copy of Camden's last will and testament, proved 10 November 1623. 1623.
Camden's will edited in Hearne (1720), Appendix II, 277-80, and (1771), II, 390-2.
CmW 202
A certified copy of Camden's last will and testament, proved 10 November 1623, in the hand of Thomas Smith. Late 17th century.
In: A folio volume of principally state letters, vi + 58 leaves.
Camden's will edited in Hearne (1720), Appendix II, 277-80, and (1771), II, 390-2.
Miscellaneous Extracts from Works by Camden
Extracts
CmW 203
French notes of Camden's explanation of some Saxon words.
In: A MS volume.
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, fonds français n° 3283, ff. 20r-3r.
CmW 204
Miscellaneous quotations from Camden's works.
In: A miscellany of extracts from printed books, in English and Latin, chiefly in Clarendon's hand, in two folio volumes, 213 and 88 leaves respectively, in leather gilt. c.1634-73.
CmW 205
Miscellaneous quotations from Camden's works.
In: A duodecimo volume of notes on history, 61 leaves.
CmW 206
Extracts from Camden relating to monasteries.
In: A folio volume of collections on ecclesiastical matters, c.200 leaves. Late 17th century.
Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 30 of the Hopkinson MSS.
CmW 207
Extracts, headed ‘Cambdens Remaines 1649’.
In: An octavo notebook of extracts, in a single small mixed hand, written from both ends, 165 leaves, in contemporary calf. Compiled by one William Bright, entitled ‘ffragmenta hic omnigena è varijs excerpta authoribus ad priuatum existunt vsum WB ex anno 1644’. c.1644-76.
Inscribed also inside the lower cover ‘Will: Bright Novemb 12th pretiu 8d 1645’.
CmW 208
Extracts, in the hand of Robert Vaughan (1591/2-1667) of Hengwrt, antiquary.
In: A folio composite volume of antiquarian tracts and genealogies, in various hands and paper sizes, 520 pages, in modern half red morocco.
CmW 209
Copy in: A notebook compiled by William Burton (1609-57), Leicestershire antiquary. c.1630s-40s.