Prose
Characters
First published (as three characters) in Clarendon State Papers, 3 vols (Oxford, 1767-86), III, Supplement, pp. li-lxxxiv. Several paragraphs of the character of Digby incorporated into the History of the Rebellion, Book X (first published 1702-4).
*ClE 1
Characters of Lord Digby, Sir John Berkeley, Sir Henry Bennett and (?) George Villiers, second Duke of Buckingham, in the hand of William Shaw, with Clarendon's autograph corrections to the punctuation, 38 folio leaves. Characters of 1668-9.
This MS would appear to be different from those sold in the Radcliffe sale by Samuel Baker, 9 April 1764, lots 26 and 29, described as ‘Character and History of Lord Digby. Montpelier, April 1669; 48 pages’ and ‘Characters and History of Sir John Berkeley and Sir Henry Bennet; 22 pages’.
This MS discussed in Belford and in Graham Roebuck, ‘A “New” Portrait by Clarendon’, N&Q, 218 (May 1975), 168-70, the latter also reprinting the fourth character.
Consideracons worthy to be weighed in the Case of the English Gentleman now in Prison
ClE 2
Copy, with some alterations in another hand, on two folio leaves. 7 June 1650.
In: A folio composite volume of letters and papers of the Earl of Clarendon, for June-September 1650, 220 leaves. 1650.
This MS recorded in CCSP, II, 63.
ClE 3
Copy in the hand of William Edgeman on two folio leaves. 1650.
In: the MS described under ClE 2. 1650.
This MS recorded in CCSP, II, 63.
ClE 4
Second copy in the hand of William Edgeman on two folio leaves. 1650.
In: the MS described under ClE 2. 1650.
This MS recorded in CCSP, II, 63.
ClE 5
Third copy in the hand of William Edgeman on two folio leaves. 1650.
In: the MS described under ClE 2. 1650.
This MS recorded in CCSP, II, 63.
ClE 6
Copy of a French translation, headed ‘Considerations, ou Raisons dignes d'estre consideres, touchans l'affaire des Gentilhommes Anglois, Mainenant en prison’, with corrections in another hand, on three folio leaves. [1650].
In: the MS described under ClE 2. 1650.
This MS recorded in CCSP, II, 63.
ClE 7
Copy of a Spanish version in the hand of William Edgeman, headed ‘Consideraciones dignas de atencion en la causa de los Cavalleros Ingleses, presos en esta corte por la muerte de un Agente que se dezia ser de los Rebeldes de Inglaterra’, on eight folio leaves. [1650].
In: the MS described under ClE 2. 1650.
This version published in Madrid, 1650, and an exemplum accompanies the present text (pp. 39-42v). This MS recorded in CCSP, II, 63.
ClE 8
Autograph Latin translation, headed ‘Animadversiones et Considerationes satis perpendendae in causa Nobilium Anglorum in carcere iam nunc discussorum et detentorum’ and docketed ‘My Latine translation of the Considerations on Behalfe of the gent.’, on three folio leaves. [1650].
In: the MS described under ClE 2. 1650.
This MS recorded in CCSP, II, 63.
Contemplations and reflexions upon the Psalmes of David applying those devotions to the troubles of this time
First published in A Collection of Several Tracts by the Earl of Clarendon (London, 1727), pp. 307-770. Reprinted 1747, 1751. Also reprinted as The Moral Beauties of Clarendon, compiled from his reflections on the Psalms of David, and selections from those Psalms (2 vols, London, 1796).
ClE 9
Copy, in three folio volumes. c.1671.
Presented to the Bodleian c.1785 by the Marquess of Queensbury.
This MS discussed in Belford.
The Difference and Disparity betweene the Estates and Condicions of George Duke Buckingham and Robert Earle of Essex
First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), where it is ascribed to Sir Henry Wotton. First ascribed to Clarendon in the third edition (1672). First published separately as The characters of Robert Earl of Essex…and George Duke of Buckingham (London, 1706). Reprinted in An Appendix to the History of the Grand Rebellion (London, 1724), pp. 247-71, and in A Collection of several Valuable Pieces of Clarendon (2 vols, London, 1727), I, 247-71.
ClE 10
Copy, endorsed ‘For mr. Hide’, at the beginning of the second volume of Clarendon's commonplace book (ClE 53); c.1630-5.
In: Miscellany compiled by Edward Hyde, first Earl of Clarendon (1609-74). c.1634-41.
This MS discussed in Belford.
ClE 11
Copy, headed ‘The disparity beetweene the Earle of Essex and the Duke of Buckingham’. c.1630s.
In: A large folio composite volume of state tracts, in English and Latin, in various professional hands, i + 488 leaves, in modern calf.
Among the collections of Browne Willis (1682-1760), antiquary, of Whaddon Hall, near Winslow, Buckinghamshire.
This volume discussed, with a facsimile of f. 92r (Plate IV after p. 272) in H.R. Woudhuysen, Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts 1558-1640 (Oxford, 1996), pp. 176-8.
This MS recorded in Bedford.
ClE 11.3
Copy, in a professional hand, with (f. 46r) a general title-page, heavily damp-stained. c.1630s.
In: Two unbound manuscripts relating to the first Duke of Buckingham, in professional hands, 61 folio leaves.
Volume CCCCLXXXVII of the Evelyn Papers, of John Evelyn (1620-1706), diarist and writer, of Wootton House, Surrey, and his family, also incorporating papers of his father-in-law, Sir Richard Browne, Bt (1605-83), diplomat, and his family. Formerly preserved at Christ Church, Oxford. Purchased March 1995.
ClE 11.5
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, entitled ‘The Difference: and: disparitye, Betwene the Estates, and Condicons, of George Duke of Buckingham; and Robte Earle of Essex’, the title-page only in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, the rest in another professional hand.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various hands, 122 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. In various professional hands, including that of the ‘Feathery Scribe’.
Inscribed by Wanley (f. 1r and elsewhere) with date of accession into the Harley library ‘16 October 1725’. In the Harley Library, formed by the politician and book collector Robert Harley (1661-1724), first Earl of Oxford, and his son Edward (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford; the volume docketed 16 October 1725, a year after the library was moved from Brampton Bryan to London.
Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 244-5 (No. 59).
ClE 11.8
Copy, in a professional secretary and italic hand, with a title-page ‘The disparitie betweene the Earle of Essex and the Duke of Buckingham’. c.1630s.
In: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various professional hands, 380 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.
ClE 11.9
Copy, unascribed.
In: A folio volume of state tracts and papers, dating up to 1663, in a single semi-calligraphic hand, except for ff. 224r-95r in two other professional hands, 445 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco gilt. The principal scribe associated with Henry Feilde. c.1660s.
ClE 12
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘The Disparitie betweene the Earle of Essex And The Duke of Buckinghame’, imperfect. c.1628-30s.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several professional secretary hands, with (ff. 4r-6r) a table of contents, 222 leaves, in old half-calf.
Stamped (f. 1r) with name of Sir Richard Betenson, Bt (? the first Baronet, d.1679, of Hatton Garden, Holborn). Thomas Thorpe, ‘Catalogue of books, ancient and modern...[and] manuscripts’, Part 2 (1823), item 5903. In the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 2519. Sotheby's, 21 March 1895 (Phillipps sale), lot 301. Among the collections of Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence, MP (1837-1914), Baconian scholar and book collector.
University of London, Senate House Library, MS 309, ff. 184r-205r.
ClE 12.5
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with a title-page ‘The Disparitie betweene the Earle of Essex and the late Duke of Buck:’.
In: A folio volume of state tracts and speeches, in several professional hands, 586 leaves, in old calf. c.late 1620s-30s.
Bequeathed by Sir Jerome Alexander (c.1600-70), Justice of the Irish Common Pleas. Former pressmark G. 4. 9.
Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 222-3 (No. 17A).
The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, begun in the year 1641
First published in 3 vols, Oxford, 1702-4. Edited by Bulkeley Bandinel (8 vols, Oxford, 1826).Edited by W. D. Macray (6 vols, Oxford, 1888).
*ClE 13
Autograph draft. Autograph draft, headed ‘A true Historicall narracon on the Rebellion & Civill warrs in England begunn in the yeere 1641. with the pecedent passages & Actions that contributed thereunto’, on 630 large folio pages, including some copies of documents in the hand of Wiliam Edgeman, begun in Scilly, 18 March 1645[/6]. c.1646-73.
Lot 102 in the Radcliffe sale on 9 April 1764. See also lot 87 in the Radcliffe sale, which included ‘Heads of the History of the Rebellion, and of the Continuation of it to the Restoration; 10 pages’.
This MS collated in Macray, with a facsimile example facing p. 1; discussed in Belford, in Firth, and in Percy Simpson, Proof-Reading in the Sixteenth Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (London, 1935; reprinted 1970), pp. 90-4.
*ClE 14
Draft of most of Book IX and part of Book X. Draft of most of Book IX and part of Book X in the hand of William Edgeman, with Clarendon's autograph endorsement ‘Concerning the Westerne businesse’, on 66 folio leaves. [June-July 1646].
This MS discussed in Macray, I, xi, and IV, I, 8 et seq.; in Belford, and in Firth.
ClE 15
Copy of Books I-VII. In two hands, those of William Edgeman (pp. 1-243 and 264-9) and of William Shaw, on 643 pages, including some blanks intended for the insertion of copies of document; together with four leaves of later prefatory material, including three letters to Dr Richard Rawlinson from the compiler of the Chandos sale catalogue (1747) erroneously stating that this MS is in Clarendon's autograph, and William Wogan's affidavit of 16 February 1743.
Once in the library of James Brydges (1674-1744), first Duke of Chandos. Purchased at the Chandos sale by Cock at Cannons, Middlesex (12 March 1746/7), lot 2578, by Richard Rawlinson.
Extracts from the prefatory letters printed in W.D. Macray, Annals of the Bodleian Library, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1890), pp. 227 and 250. This MS discussed in Belford and in Simpson, Proof-Reading, pp. 90-4. See also Introduction.
ClE 15.5
An index to the History, compiled by Thomas Hearne. 1709.
In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and papers, 398 leaves. Assembled by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), antiquary. c.1674-7.
A flyleaf inscribed ‘Tho. Hearne. Julij 12o. 1709’.
ClE 15.8
Notes on the work.
In: A folio commonplace book of extracts from various works, 22 leaves. 18th century.
ClE 16
Copy of part of Book XII in the hand of William Shaw, bound with the draft of Clarendon's Life (ClE 23). c.1670s.
In: Almost entirely autograph draft of Clarendon's Life, vi + 908 folio leaves. 1668-72.
Donated to the Bodleian by the Marquess of Queensbury, 18 October 1789.
According to George Watson, in ‘The Reader in Clarendon's History of the Rebellion’, RES, NS 25 (1974), 396-409, the rest of this MS was destroyed by fire in the 18th century: i.e. presumably in the fire at New Park, Petersham, in 1721.
*ClE 17
Autograph notes, added at a later date to an official minute dated 3 December 1640.
In: A composite volume of letters and papers of the Earl of Clarendon, for September 1640-January 1640/1, 284 leaves.
This MS recorded in CCSP, I, 211.
*ClE 18
Autograph notes on two folio leaves. c.1644.
In: the MS described under ClE 16.
This MS recorded in CCSP, I, 255.
*ClE 19
Autograph memoranda for Books III-VIII, together with autograph minutes of a committee, on seven folio leaves. 1644.
In: A composite volume of letters and papers of the Earl of Clarendon, a collection of addenda dated 1586-1648, 125 leaves.
This MS recorded in CCSP, I, 503.
*ClE 20
Copy in seven folio volumes in the hands of William Wogan (Books I-V) and one Mr Low, with a few leaves (Book VIII, ff. 9-25) in a third hand; including a draft of the Preface of the first editor, Lawrence Hyde, Earl of Rochester, in Low's hand, corrected in Rochester's hand. [1691].
Presented to the Bodleian c.1785 by the Marquess of Queensbury.
This MS was the copy-text for the first edition (1702-4). Discussed in Belford, in Firth, and in Simpson, Proof-Reading, pp. 90-4.
ClE 20.5
A quarto volume comprising notes and extracts by Francis Turner (1638?-1700), Bishop of Ely, headed ‘Notes taken from the Lord Chancellor Clarendon's History’ [i.e. Clarendon's MS ‘lent him to read’], seventeen leaves (plus numerous blanks), incorporating (ff. iv-2r) a printed indenture dated 30 March 1681, in contemporary vellum. Late 17th century.
Inscribed (f. 1r rev.) ‘Ex MSS. olim Rev. Adm. Fr. Turner’: i.e.
ClE 20.8
Extracts.
In: A folio volume of verse and prose extracts, those on pp. 321-7 headed ‘Observables of a Miscellaneous Nature’, those on pp. 367-77 ‘Witty Sentences’, in a single cursive secretary hand, 377 pages (including numerous blanks), in reversed brown calf. 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. 1699-1711.
Durham University Library, Mickleton & Spearman MS 5, p. 323.
A Letter from a True and Lawfull Member of Parliament
First published anonymously in London, 1656. Once thought to be by Sir Henry Vane the younger (1613-62), politician and writer.
*ClE 21
Autograph draft on thirteen of fourteen folio pages, headed ‘A letter from a true and lawfull member of Parliamt. and one faithfully engaged with itt from the begininge of the warr to the end: To one of the Lords of His Highnesse Councell, upon occasyon of the late Declaration, shewinge the reasons of the proceedings for securinge the peace of the Commonwealth, published on the 31. of Octobr. 1655’.
In: A composite volume of letters and papers of the Earl of Clarendon, for April-December 1655, 296 leaves.
This MS discussed in Belford and recorded in CCSP, III, 79.
*ClE 22
Copy on twenty folio leaves. Mid-late 17th century.
In: the MS described under ClE 21.
This MS recorded in CCSP, III, 216.
The Life of Clarendon Written by Himself
First published in 3 vols, Oxford, 1759.
*ClE 23
Almost entirely autograph draft on folio pages, numbered 1-363, 368-533 and 544-883, in two parts, with the second part beginning on p. 615.
In: the MS described under ClE 16.
The text was never printed in this form; part was incorporated by Clarendon in his History of the Rebellion and the remainder was published in 1759. This MS discussed in Belford and in Firth.
ClE 23.5
Copy of ‘From The Restoration of the Royal Family In the Year 1660, To his Banishment, In the Year 1667...A MS Continuation Of The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon...Copied from the Original Manuscript in his own Hand Writing’, in a neat professional hand (same as ClE 000), with some alterations in a second hand, 805 large folio pages. Early 18th century.
Purchased in Pittsburgh, PA, in the 1850s. Later owned by David G. Waxman, of Estates of Mind Rare Books & Manuscripts, Great Neck, NY. Sotheby's, 19 July 1993, lot 205 (unsold), with a facsimile of the title-page in the sale catalogue.
When offered in the London Antiquarian Book Fair in June 1991 the MS was cited in TLS, 21 June 1991, p. 22.
Religion and Policy and the Countenance and Assistance each should give to the other
First published in 2 vols, Oxford, 1811.
ClE 24
Copy in the hand of William Shaw, 366 folio leaves, together with some 18th-century family papers. 1673-4.
NB. Lots 35 and 36 in the Radcliffe sale by Samuel Baker on 9 April 1764 described as ‘A Letter form Lord Clarendon on the Affairs of the Church, 76 pages; Religion and Policy, and the Countenance and Assistance that each should give to the other; With a Survey of the Pope's Power and Jurisdiction in the Dominion of other Princes - with additional interleaved pages, 80 pages’ and as ‘A Continuation of the above, 4 page; Ditto, Rouen, 24 November 1674, 25 pages; Some Observations on the Hist. of the Popes’, and see also ClE 45.
This MS discussed in Belford.
ClE 24.5
Copy, in a professional hand, with a few corrections in another hand, 555 large folio pages, in contemporary calf. Early 18th century.
Bookplate of Stanley J. Keyes. Later owned by David G. Waxman, of Estates of Mind Rare Books & Manuscripts, Great Neck, NY. Sotheby's, 19 July 1993, lot 204 (unsold). Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 21 June 2001, lot 26 (unsold).
A shorte view of the State and condicon of the kingdome of Ireland from the year 1640 to this tyme
First published in Dublin, 1719-20. Published in London, 1720. Incorporated into the 1816, 1826 and 1849 editions of The History of the Rebellion. Reprinted as Vol. II of A Collection of Several Valuable Pieces of Clarendon (2 vols, London, 1727).
*ClE 25
Autograph draft, 24 large folio leaves; imperfect. c.1652.
In: A folio composite volume of three MS tracts, 84 leaves. c.1668.
This MS recorded in Belford. See Facsimile VI.
ClE 26
Copy in the hand of William Edgeman on five folio leaves, incomplete, [before January 1653].
In: the MS described under ClE 25. c.1668.
This MS discussed in Belford.
*ClE 27
Copy on 47 folio leaves, with an autograph motto on the first leaf, a prefatory leaf bearing the note ‘His Grace the Duke of Ormonds papers’. c.1652.
In: the MS described under ClE 25. c.1668.
Printed from this MS in the first London edition (1720). Discussed in Belford.
ClE 29
Copy on 83 quarto leaves. Mid-late 17th century.
Microfilm of this MS in the National Library of Ireland, n. 782, p. 508.
ClE 31
Copy, in a neat hand, on 114 folio leaves, with two letters concerning the work. Mid-late 17th century.
Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor, dated 1701.
ClE 32
Copy, on 144 folio pages. Late 17th century.
From the library of the third Earl of Gosford (1806-64). Puttick and Simpson's, 26 April 1884, lot 1616, to Henry Bradshaw.
Microfilm in the National Library of Ireland, n. 5328, p. 5437.
ClE 33
Copy, on 45 folio leaves, imperfect. Late 17th century.
Bought by Henry Bradshaw from William Ridler, London bookseller, 11 May 1885.
Microfilm of this MS in the National Library of Ireland, n. 5328, p. 5437.
ClE 34
Copy, on 92 quarto leaves of a 112-leaf volume, with a brief note in the hand of William King (1650-1729), Archbishop of Dublin. [Before 1686].
Edited from this MS in the first Dublin edition (1719-20). Discussed in Belford.
ClE 35
Copy, in a single mixed hand, 183 folio pages, in modern cloth. Mid-17th century.
ClE 36
Copy, in several professional predominantly italic hands, 158 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum. Late 17th century.
Bookplate of John Perceval (1683-1748), first Earl of Egmont, dated 1736. Purchased in October 1924 from Fred Hanna.
ClE 37
Copy in: A quarto volume of state tracts and papers, in a single professional cursive hand, 304 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum boards. Late 17th century.
Sotheby's, March 1956.
ClE 38
Copy, on 202 folio pages. Mid-late 17th century.
Owned in 1701 by Algernon Capell, Earl of Essex (1670-1710), and later in the Stowe Library.
ClE 38.5
Copy, in two cursive hands, entitled ‘A Short view of the state of Ireland from the yeare 1640 to the yeare 1652’, 203 folio pages, followed (pp. [204-25]) by a tract on the trial of Mr Mordaunt in yet another cursive hand, in contemporary calf. Late 17th century.
Formerly Princeton AM 2002-18. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector.
A set of photocopies is in British Library, RP 4683 (1).
ClE 38.8
Copy, in two cursive italic hands, on 78 folio leaves, paginated 1-155. Late 17th century.
Wentworth.
ClE 39
Copy, in a single mixed hand but for p. 5 in another hand, 253 quarto pages (plus blanks etc.), in contemporary blind-stamped calf. Late 17th century.
Three pages among blanks at the end containing, in another hand, a short catalogue of books of John Stearne (1660-1745), Bishop of Clogher, dated ‘March: 18. [16]83[/4]’.
This MS discussed in Belford.
ClE 40
Copy, in a neat rounded hand, headed ‘A short View of the State of Ireland from the yeare 1640 to the yeare 1652’, subscribed ‘March. 5th. 1678’, 399 quarto pages (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped calf. 1678/9.
Purchased from Maggs Bros. 10 February 1908. Old pressmark O. 2. 31.
This MS recorded in Belford.
ClE 40.5
Copy, in two or more predominantly italic hands, headed ‘A short view of the state of Ireland from ye yeare 1640 to the yeare 1652’, subscribed ‘March ye 5th. 1678’. c.1678.
In: A folio composite volume of tracts, in several probably professional hands and paper sizes, 98 leaves (plus about thirty blanks), in vellum boards.
Inscribed (f. [iiv]) ‘Hen Ware’ and ‘John Edgar Ker / Willoughthorpe Herts’. In the library of Herbert Somerton Foxwell (1849-1936), economist and bibliographer.
University of London, Senate House Library, MS 45, ff. 1r-58r.
ClE 40.8
Copy in: A quarto volume of political material, including correspondence between Henry Bennett and the Duke of Ormonde in 1663, chiefly in one hand, notes dated 1677 in another hand, 344 pages (including blanks), in contemporary vellum. c.1677.
ClE 41
Copy.
Owned before 1950 by the Earl of Wicklow. Sotheby's, 13 December 1950, lot 220, to H. Eisemann.
ClE 42
Copy, on 214 quarto pages. Mid-late 17th century.
Sotheby's, 17 June 1974, lot 251, to Foley.
ClE 43
A quarto copy. 17th century.
Later owned by Lieutenant-Colonel G.H.W. Carew of Crowcombe Court, Somerset.
Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 373.
ClE 44
Fragment of a copy of the introductory portion, with a marginal note: ‘This discourse was pen'd by ye late Lord Chancellor Clarendon, no doubt by concert wth ye Marquess of Ormond whom he would excuse’, on a single folio leaf. Late 17th century?
Formerly owned by the Earl of Jersey, Osterley Park.
Recorded in HMC, 8th Report, Part I (1874), Appendix, p. 99 (No. 9).
Succession of Popes, accordinge to the Spanish Pontificall History compared with others
First published in Religion and Policy…With a Survey of the Power and Jurisdiction of the Pope on the Dominions of other Princes (2 vols., Oxford, 1811).
*ClE 45
Autograph draft, 146 quarto pages. c.1668.
NB. Lots 35, 36, 79 and 81 in the Radcliffe sale by Samuel Baker on 9 April 1764: see ClE 24 and Introduction.
This MS discussed in Belford.
Transcendent and Multiplied Rebellion and Treason, Discovered, By the Lawes of the Land
First published anonymously, [in Oxford?], 1645.
*ClE 46
Autograph draft on six folio leaves.
In: A composite volume of letters and papers of the Earl of Clarendon, for October 1645-January 1645-January 1645/6, 210 leaves. 1645.
This MS recorded in CCSP, I, 295, and discussed in Belford.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
*ClE 47
Autograph collection on legal and political matters, on eleven folio leaves.
In: A composite volume of letters and papers of the Earl of Clarendon, for December 1649-July 1647, 270 leaves. 1647.
This MS recorded in CCSP, I, 350.
*ClE 48
Autograph meditation and prayer on the anniversary of the execution of Charles I, with autograph notes on the same subject, on four folio leaves. 30 January ‘1650’.
In: A composite volume of letters and papers of the Earl of Clarendon, for January 1649-May 1650, 232 leaves.
This MS recorded in CCSP, II, 41
*ClE 49
Autograph meditation and prayer on the anniversary of the execution of Charles I on two folio leaves. 30 January ‘1651’.
In: A composite volume of letters and papers of the Earl of Clarendon, for October 1650-March 1650/1, 353 leaves.
This MS recorded in CCSP, II, 95.
*ClE 50
Autograph meditation on the anniversary of the execution of Charles I on a single folio leaf. 30 January ‘1652’.
In: A composite volume of letters and papers of the Earl of Clarendon, for April 1651-February 1651/2, 417 leaves.
This MS recorded in CCSP, II, 118.
*ClE 51
Autograph quotations from various writers on six slips of paper.
In: A composite volume of letters and papers of the Earl of Clarendon, undated, iv + 432 leaves. c.1670.
This MS recorded in CCSP, V, 746.
*ClE 52
Autograph memoranda of various political tracts, together with a list of books in another hand, on a single folio leaf.
In: the MS described under ClE 51. c.1670.
This MS recorded in CCSP, V, 746.
*ClE 53
A miscellany compiled by Clarendon and largely in his hand.
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.
*ClE 54
Autograph extracts from the Old Testament and Apocrypha, with occasional notes. Autograph extracts from the Old Testament and Apocrypha, with occasional notes, together with four autograph prayers headed ‘1648 Middleborough the 27 Aug. st. no.’, in a quarto volume of 374 pages (including many blanks), a few bearing entries in a later hand.
Formerly a Phillipps MS. This MS sold at Sotheby's, 19 June 1893, lot 131.
This MS recorded in Belford.
*ClE 55
Autograph ‘Papers of the Army’, parliamentary records drawn up by Clarendon in preparation for his History, on two folio pages, laid in a printed quarto volume of the work. Late 17th century.
Facsimile of one page in British Literary Manuscripts, Series I, ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (New York, 1981), No. 43.
Articles of High Treason and other hainous misdemeanours agst Edward, Earle of Clarendon, Lord Chancellor, exhibited by Earl of Bristol, 10 July 1663
ClE 56
Late 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various hands.
Owned in 1704 by Sir Thomas Thynne, first Viscount Weymouth (1640-1714).
Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 184.
The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House, MS 73, item 1 (pp. 1-13).
ClE 57
Copy. Late 17th century.
Among the papers of the St John family, of Bletsoe.
ClE 58
Copy in: A folio composite volume of chiefly state letters and papers, in varius hands, dated 1663-4, 210 leaves.
ClE 58.5
Late 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous papers, c.132 leaves.
ClE 59
Copy, followed (ff. 191v-4v) by related parliamentary proceedings.
In: A folio composite volume of state letters and papers, in several professional secretary hands, with (ff. 1r-12v) a ‘Tabula’ of contents, 315 leaves (including blanks), in old calf gilt.
Stamped crest on the cover of the Finch family, Earls of Winchilsea.
ClE 60
c.1663.
In: A volume of state papers and letters of John Thurloe (1616-68), government official, 280 leaves. Volume V of the Thurloe Papers.
ClE 61
Copy, followed (ff. 8v-18v) by related parliamentary debates.
In: A folio composite volume of political tracts, in several hands, 326 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. Early 18th century.
ClE 62
Late 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of state and legal tracts, papers and speeches, in several hands, with (f. 4r) an ‘Index’ of contents, 338 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco gilt.
ClE 63
Late 17th century.
In: A folio volume of state letters and papers, 216 leaves.
ClE 65
Late 17th century.
In: A folio volume of miscellaneous tracts and state papers, 79 leaves.
ClE 66
Copy in: A quarto composite volume of state papers, tracts and speeches, 183 leaves, in half-vellum on marbled boards. Compiled, and written, mostly by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.
ClE 67
Copy in: A folio volume comprising two tracts relating to Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, in a professional hand, 259 pages, in modern red cloth. Late 17th century.
Formerly in the Stoke-on-Trent City Libraries, Horace Barks Reference Library. Acquired from Mark Sieling in 2008. Formerly Folger MS Add. 264552.
ClE 68
Copy, in a mixed hand, untitled.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands, written from both ends, including (ff. 3r-49v) 49 poems by Donne in a single neat secretary hand, also responsible for poems by others on ff. 83r, 88r-90r, 4r-11v rev., later notes and two poems by Donne in other hands on the remaining leaves, 124 leaves, in contemporary vellum. c.1620[-76].
The later material including medical notes written c.1665-76 by Sir John Wedderburn (1599-1679), royal physician.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Wedderburn MS’: DnJ Δ 55. Discussed in Alan MacColl, ‘A New Manuscript of Donne's Poems’, RES, NS 19 (1968), 293-5.
ClE 69
Copy.
Recorded in HMC, 3rd report (1872), Appendix, p. 92.
ClE 70
Copy in: A folio volume of parliamentary tracts, debates and proceedings in Parliament, in two professional hands, 439 pages, in contemporary calf. c.1690.
Bookplate of James Brydges (1642-1714), eighth Baron Chandos, of Wilton Castle, Herefordshire.
The Humble Petition and Address of Clarendon in 1667
Petition beginning ‘I cannot express the insupportable trouble and grief of mind I sustain...’. Published as To the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament Assembled: The Humble Petition and Address of Clarendon, [in London, 1667?] and subsequently reprinted widely, sometimes under the title News from Dunkirk-house: or, Clarendon's Farewell to England Dec 3 1667.
ClE 71
Copy in: A folio composite volume of political letters and speeches (up to 1640), in various hands, 259 leaves (ff. 8-20 and 212-59 blank), in contemporary calf.
Assembled by the astrologer and antiquary Elias Ashmole (1617-92).
ClE 72
Copy in: A composite volume of letters and papers of the Earl of Clarendon, for 1667, 452 leaves.
ClE 73
Late 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume, in various hands, chiefly comprising naval papers, 210 leaves.
Formerly in the library of Samuel Pepys.
ClE 75
Copy, in the hand of John Evelyn. Late 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of correspondence between Sir Richard Browne and Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, 101 leaves, in half-morocco. Volume XXV of the Evelyn Papers.
Formerly Evelyn MS 10.
ClE 76
Copy in: A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various hands, 216 leaves, in modern half calf gilt.
Inscribed in pencil (f. [1*r]) ‘bought of Mrs Whitlock’.
ClE 77
Copy in: A folio composite volume of state tracts, speeches and miscellaneous papers, in several hands, vi + 361 leaves, in modern half morocco gilt.
ClE 78
Late 17th century.
In: A thick folio volume of proceedings in Parliament.
ClE 79
Copy in: A folio volume of copies of state correspondence chiefly in the reign of Charles II, in several professional hands, 58 leaves, in modern half-calf. Late 17th century.
The name inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Henry Gregory’.
ClE 81
Copy, in the hand of William Dugdale.
Sir William Dugdale, Merevale Hall, Dugdale MSS, Bundle IX/17 in Horse-hair trunk.
ClE 83
Copy in: the MS described under ClE 68. c.1620[-76].
ClE 84
Copy, in a professional hand, on three large folio pages, unbound.
ClE 85
Copy. Late 17th century.
Recorded in HMC, 3rd report (1872), Appendix, p. 92.
ClE 87
Copy, on four folio pages, inscribed as being ‘scandalous & seditious’, it or the author deserving to be ‘burned by the hand of ye Hangman’. Copy. Late 17th century.
ClE 91
Copy.
In the library of Sir Thomas Osborne (1632-1712), Earl of Danby and first Duke of Leeds, politician. Sotheby's, 6 April 1869 (Leeds sale), lot 218. Sotheby's, 9 May, 1983, lot 362, to Morgan.
Impeachment Proceedings against Clarendon in 1667
Articles of Treason exhibited in Parliament against Clarendon, 14 November 1667 published in London, 1667. The Proceedings in the House of Commons touching the Impeachment of Clarendon 1667 published in London, 1700.
ClE 93
Copy of the articles of impeachment, 21 November 1667.
In: A quarto colume of state tracts, 23 leaves. Late 17th century.
Owned by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732), annalist and book collector.
ClE 94
A tall folio volume of parliamentary proceedings against Clarendon in 1667, in a professional rounded hand, 268 pages, in modern cloth. Late 17th century.
ClE 95
A volume of Commons debates about Clarendon's impeachment, in 1667, 182 pages. Late 17th century.
Bookplate of William, Lord St John (d.1720).
ClE 96
Copy in: A large folio formal miscellany of verse and prose, in a single rounded hand throughout, the margins ruled in red, and with an alphabetical index (pp. 719-21), 738 pages (pp. 722-38 blank), plus 40 pages of preliminary inserted material, in contemporary elaborately tooled leather. Including thirteen poems and a mock-speech in the Marvell canon and eleven poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items, compiled — in stages, probably for the most part in chronological sequence, over a period of up to fifteen years — by Sir William Haward (or Hawarde or Hayward) of Tandridge, Surrey (his signature, dated 21 January 1676/7, on p. 66). c.1667-82 [the poems by Marvell and Rochester c.1670s].
Sir William Haward was knighted in 1643, served as a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to Charles I, Charles II, James II and William III, was M.P. for Bletchingley (1661-78), a Fellow of the Royal Society (1665) and a Commissioner for the Sale of Fee Farm Rents (1670 onwards); he lived sometime in Scotland Yard and was still living in 1702 (see, inter alia, W. Paley Baildon, The Hawardes of Tandridge Co. Surrey (London, 1894), pp. 23-31). John Evelyn described him as ‘a greate pretender to English antiquities &c:’. An autograph letter by him, dated 23 March 1688/9, is in the British Library (Add. MS 29563, f. 453).
Later owned by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), by his wife Frances Le Neve (signature on p. vii), by their servant Joseph Allen, who entered additional items in 1729, and by her second husband Thomas Martin (1697-1771) of Palgrave. Later in the library of the Aston family of Tixall, Staffordshire (and sold in the Tixall sale at Sotheby's, 7 November 1899, lot 430 to Bertram Dobell (1842-1914)). Afterwards owned by George Thorn-Drury (1860-1931) and sold in 1935 by P.J. Dobell.
The Marvell canon selectively collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I and II and the Rochester canon selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker. See also Paul Hammond, ‘The Dating of Three Poems by Rochester from the Evidence of Bodleian MS. Don. b. 8’, BLR, 11 (1982), 58-9.
Facsimile of p. 277 in POAS, I, facing p. 228 (see MaA 98).
ClE 99
Copy in: A folio volume of parliamentary proceedings.
Among papers of the related families of Wentworth, Earls of Strafford, and Johnson.
ClE 100
Copy in: A volume of miscellaneous tracts and verse, chiefly relating to the Oxenden family of Kent.
ClE 101
A folio copy of the impeachment proceedings for Clarendon and for Arlington, partly in the hand of Thomas Osborne (1632-1712), first Duke of Leeds, politician.
ClE 102
Copy in: A folio volume of parliamentary papers of of Sir Henry Capel. Volume DXVII of the Hardwicke Papers, of the Yorke family.
ClE 103
Copy in: A folio composite volume of correspondence and papers of Sir Kenelm Digby (1603-65), natural philosopher and courtier, and of Sir Sackville Crow, first Baronet, of Laugharne, Carmarthen, 217 leaves.
ClE 105
Copy, in a professional hand, with occasional annotations in the hand of Sir William Trumbull (1639-1716), diplomat. c.1700.
Volume CCCLXI of the Trumbull Papers. Formerly Berkshire Record Office, Trumbull MS Add. 65.
ClE 106
Copy in: A composite volume of papers chiefly of Sir Edward Nicholas (1593-1669), Secretary of State, 430 leaves.
Volume III of the Nicholas Papers.
ClE 107
Copy, ii + 119 leaves, in contemporary vellum gilt. Volume XL of the papers of the Osborne family, formerly at Hornby Castle, Yorkshire, chiefly papers of Thomas Osborne (1632-1712), Earl of Danby and first Duke of Leeds.
ClE 109
Copy in: the MS described under ClE 61. Early 18th century.
ClE 112
Copy, 135 folio leaves. Late 17th century.
Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor.
ClE 113
Copy in: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous state and legal papers, 161 leaves.
ClE 113.5
Copy in: the MS described under ClE 67. Late 17th century.
ClE 114
Copy, in a professional hand, headed ‘A Collection of proceedings in the House of Commons, touching the Impeachment of the late Earle of Clarendon...1667’, 207 folio pages, in vellum boards. Late 17th century.
Donated by Dr Benjamin Burley.
ClE 115
Copy, in a single professional hand, headed ‘A Collection of Proceedings in the House of Commons about Impeaching the Earl of Clarendon...1667’, with other proceedings, 245 folio pages, in contemporary vellum. c.1667.
ClE 116
A folio volume comprising ‘A Collection of proceedings in the House of Comons about Impeaching the Earl of Clarendon...1667’, 238 pages, imperfect, in modern limp vellum with ties. Late 17th century.
National Library of Wales, Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers M/1/1/1.
ClE 117
Copy in: A volume of parliamentary records. Late 17th century.
Among the Braye Manuscripts, descending from John Browne (1608-91), Clerk of the Parliaments, whose daughter, Martha, married Sir Roger Cave, Bt, of Stanford Hall, Rugby, seat of successive Lords Braye.
ClE 118
1667.
In: Journal of the House of Lords, Vol. 12.
ClE 119
Related papers.
In: A volume relating to impeachments in Parliament, 1667.
ClE 120
Copy, on two folio pages. Late 17th century.
University of Calgary, Osborne Collection, Box/File No. MsC 132.2 (Item 4, Accession No. 25/72.1.2).
ClE 123
Copy, headed ‘Collection of proceedings in the House of Commons about impeaching the Earle of Clarendon late Lord Chancellour, with the debates and speeches concerning that matter’.
In: the MS described under ClE 70. c.1690.
ClE 124
Copy, occupying a folio volume of 239 leaves.
Formerly owned by the Duke of Manchester, at Kimbolton Castle.
Recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 12.
Letters to the Duke of York and the Duchess of York
Letters by Clarendon to his daughter Anne (who died on 31 March 1671 before the letter arrived) and to her husband, the Duke of York (later James II), on the occasion of her conversion to Roman Catholicism. The original letters, which received particular attention by his contemporaries because of their subject matter, are not known to survive.
These were first published in Two Letters written by…Edward Earl of Clarendon…one to His Royal Highness the Duke of York, the other to the Dutchess, occasioned by her Embracing the Roman Catholic Religion (London, [1680?]) and were reprinted in State Tracts (1689), in An Appendix to the History of the Grand Rebellion (Oxford, 1724), pp. 313-24, and elsewhere.
ClE 125
Copy of the two letters, the second dated ‘April 3d 71’. Early 18th century.
In: A folio composite volume of verse MSS, in various hands, 185 leaves.
The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House, Portland Papers, Vol. XVII, ff. 115v-113r rev.
ClE 126
Copy in: A composite volume of letters and papers of the Earl of Clarendon, for 1668-80, i + 348 leaves.
ClE 127
Copy in: the MS described under ClE 96. c.1667-82 [the poems by Marvell and Rochester c.1670s].
ClE 128
Copy in: A folio volume comprising copies of letters, 54 leaves. 18th century.
Donated by W. H. Bliss, MA, 18 July 1895.
ClE 129
Copy of both letters, in a cursive hand.
In: A folio composite volume of letters, in various hands, 243 leaves, in contemporary calf.
ClE 130
Copy of both letters, in a rounded hand, on a pair of conjugate folio leaves. Late 17th century.
In: A large folio composite volume of state letters, in various hands and paper sizes, 393 leaves, in 19th-century morocco gilt. Collected by the Hon. George Matthew Fortescue.
Recorded in HMC, 2nd report (1871), Appendix, p. 63.
ClE 131
Copy of Clarendon's letter to York, on two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed ‘The Earle of Clarenden to the Duke & Dutchess of Yorke’. Late 17th century.
In: A folder of unbound verse MSS and part of a diary (1672), in various hands and paper sizes, 42 leaves. At least some relating to Sir Willoughby Aston, of Aston Hall, Warrington, Cheshire. Acquired in 2000 from the estate of H.G. Pollard.
ClE 132
Copy of Clarendon's letter to his daughter, in a non-professional rounded hand, on four quarto leaves. Late 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 197 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco.
Including some papers written or endorsed by Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector, and by Sir John Fenn (1739-94), antiquary. Puttick & Simpson's, 16-18 July 1866 (Fenn sale).
ClE 133
Copy of Clarendon's letter to the Duke of York.
In: A folio composite volume of correspondence of the Hale family, in various hands, 433 leaves, in late 19th-century half-morocco. Volume II of the Hale Papers.
ClE 134
Copy in: A folio composite volume of state papers for 1660-85 of Charles Middleton (1649/50-1719), second Earl of Middleton, Jacobite Secretary of State, in various hands, 338 leaves. Volume I of the Middleton Papers, descended from Dr Owen Wynne, secretary in the Secretary of State's Office.
ClE 135
Copy in: A composite volume of transcripts by Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian, of state papers for 1598-1745, 289 leaves. Mid-18th century.
ClE 136
Copy of both letters, in a probably professional hand. Late 17th century.
In: A broadsheet-size guardbook of miscellaneous letters and state papers, in several hands and paper sizes, 24 leaves, in modern quarter-calf.
Donated by Nicholas Vansittart, Secretary to the Treasury.
ClE 139
Copy of Clarendon's letter to his daughter, on three quarto leaves, endorsed as being a copy ‘from Mr Ashby, MP for Leicester, received from him Feb 1675/6’. c.1676.
In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous correspondence and papers, in various hands, 114 leaves, in modern morocco gilt.
ClE 140
Copy of the letters, here dated 3 April 1671.
In: A large folio guard-book of independent state tracts and miscellaneous papers, in various hands, 229 leaves.
ClE 141
Copy of both letters (ff. 85r-6v, 87r-v), in a neat hand.
In: A folio volume of transcripts of state papers and parliamentary speeches, chiefly from 1618 to 1679, largely in a single mixed hand, written from both ends, 161 leaves, in old marbled boards. Late 17th century.
ClE 142
Copy of both letters, here dated 3 and 4 April 1671 respectively.
In: A folio volume principally of proceedings in the House of Commons, 1603-98, 90 leaves.
ClE 143
Copy of both letters, on two conjugate folio leaves, slightly imperfect. Late 17th century.
In: A folder of 25 unbound letters and papers, in various hands.
ClE 144
Copy by Baker of Clarendon's letter to York.
In: A folio volume of transcripts of historical and antiquarian papers, in Latin and English, made by Thomas Baker (1656-1740), Cambridge antiquary, 476 pages, in old reversed calf. MS Baker 33.
ClE 145
Copy, here dated 3 April 1671. Late 17th century.
ClE 146
Copy in: A volume of letters. Late 17th-early 18th century.
ClE 147
Copy in: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in a single cursive hand, 376 pages (including blanks), in contemporary calf. Compiled almost entirely by Sarah Cowper (née Holled, 1644-1720), Lady Cowper, wife of Sir William Cowper, MP (1639-1706), and inscribed by her inside the front cover ‘Sarah Cowper 1673’. Possibly compiled in part from texts supplied by Martin Clifford (c.1624-77), erstwhile secretary of the Duke of Buckingham and Master of the Charterhouse. c.1673-1700s.
Discussed in Harold Love, ‘Two Rochester Manuscripts Circulated from the Charterhouse’, The Library, 6th Ser. 16/3 (September 1994), 225-9.
ClE 148
Copy, on six pages of two unbound pairs of conjugate folio leaves. Late 17th century.
Among papers of the Grimston family, Earls of Verulam, of Gorhambury, Hertfordshire.
ClE 149
Copy in: A duodecimo volume of state and ecclesiastical letters and papers, in a single hand, 222 pages, in later black morocco gilt. In the hand of William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, the first page (f. [ir] inscribed ‘Z / Sylloge Epistolarum quarundam insignium, aliorumque aliquot Monumentorum, facta manu RRP. Wilhelmi Sancroft. Archiepi Cantuar. Accesserunt Orationes eiusdem nonnulla in Academiâ Cantabrig. habitæ’. Mid-late 17th century.
Among collections of Henry Wharton (1664-94), Sancroft's chaplain (in 1688-9).
ClE 151
Copy of the two letters, in a professional italic hand, on all four pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. Late 17th century.
In: A folder of twelve unbound folio letters and documents.
ClE 153
Copy of letters by Clarendon to his daughter Anne and to her husband, the Duke of York (later James II). c.1670s.
Pierpont Morgan Library, R-V Autogrs. Misc, [unnumbered item].
ClE 154
Copy in: A duodecimo commonplace book, in two hands, compiled by Jane Truesdale and her father, including extracts from various authors, 178 leaves, in old leather. c.1672-94.
A facsimile of f. 64r in Victoria E. Burke, ‘Materiality and Form in the Seventeenth-Century Miscellanies of Anne Southwell, Elizabeth Hastings, and Jane Truesdale’, EMS, 16 (2011), 219-41 (p. 233).
ClE 155
Copy of the two letters, on nine quarto pages, dated from Montpelier, 3 April 1671. Late 17th century.
Sotheby's, 25 March 1974, lot 252, to A.G. Thomas.
Inscribed on the verso of the last leaf ‘W. Bowles’.
Printed Exempla of Clarendon's History and Life Inscribed or Annotated by Notable Readers
The History of the Rebellion
ClE 156
An exemplum of the 1707 edition of the History annotated by William Warburton (1698-1779), Bishop of Gloucester. Mid-17th century.
Warburton's marginalia are printed in Bandinel's edition (1826), VIII, 507-649.
ClE 157
An exemplum of the three-volume printed Oxford edition of 1707 with annotations by Jonathan Swift. c.1707.
Swift's annotations edited in The Prose Writings of Jonathan Swift, ed. Herbert Davis, 14 vols (Oxford, 1939-66), V, 295-320.
ClE 158
An exemplum of the 1707 printed edition of the History with annotations by Thomas Gray. 1707.
The Life of Clarendon
ClE 159
An exemplum of the 1759 printed edition of Clarendon's Life with annotations by Thomas Gray. 1759.
Related Documents
Editorial papers
ClE 160
Series of notes by Henry Hyde (1638-1709), second Earl of Clarendon, on his father's manuscript of the History of the Rebellion, in preparation for its publication (in 1702-4). c.1700.
ClE 161
A series of autograph notebooks by Dr Bulkeley Bandinel (1781-1861), librarian, chiefly relating to his edition of Clarendon's History (1826), lxx + 553 folio leaves. c.1620s.
ClE 162
A volume of papers of Dr Bulkeley Bandinel (1781-1861), librarian, editor of Clarendon's History (1826). c.1820s.
ClE 163
A ‘statement’ relating to the compilation and printing of the 1759 edition of The Life of Clarendon Written by Himself. c.1759.
In: A guardbook of miscellaneous letters and papers, in various hands, i + 74 leaves.