Bound Manuscripts Section [no shelfmark]
Autograph commonplace book, 162 quarto leaves, in vellum. c.1580s-90s.
*HoH 102: Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, Commonplace book or collectanea
Bound Manuscripts Section, [no shelfmark]
Copy, in the secretary hand of one of Howard's amanuenses, with Howard's extensive autograph revisions and additions, untitled, 78 folio pages, in modern vellum. c.1614?
*HoH 54: Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, A Discourse of Duels [II]
An unpublished discourse beginning ‘It hath bene ancientlie obserued by men of great experience in precedent times...’.
Bound Manuscripts Section, [no shelfmark]
Copy, on 109 folio leaves of vellum, in contemporary velvet. In a professional secretary hand, with an elaborate title-page, ‘A veiw and perfect Discouerie / of the presente state of Irelande [...&c.]’, incorporating a partly engrossed dedication ‘To the moste excellent / highe and mightie prince James: by Gods / especiall grace, Kinge of Englande, / Scotland, ffraunce and Ireland, / my. moste gratious, and / dreade soueraigne’. c.1604-6.
SpE 53.5: Edmund Spenser, A View of the Present State of Ireland
First published in Sir James Ware, The Historie of Ireland (Dublin, 1633). Variorum, Prose Works (ed. Rudolf Gottfried), pp. 39-231.
Spenser's authorship of this ‘View’ is generally accepted, especially in light of the comparable views about Ireland in The Faerie Queene. A cautionary note about authorship is sounded, however, in Jean R. Brink, ‘Constructing the View of the Present State of Ireland’, Spenser Studies, 11 (1994), 203-28; in her ‘Appropriating the Author of The Faerie Queene: The Attribution of the View of the Present State of Ireland and A Brief Note of Ireland to Edmund Spenser’, in Soundings of Things Done: Essays in Early Modern Literature in Honor of S.K. Heninger, Jr., ed. Peter E. Medine and Joseph Wittreich (Newark, Delaware, 1997), 93-136. See also, inter alia, Andrew Hadfield, ‘Certainties and Uncertainties: By Way of Response to Jean Brink’, Spenser Studies, 12 (1998), 197-202, and Jean R. Brink, ‘Spenser and the Irish Question: Reply to Andrew Hadfield’, Spenser Studies, 13 (1999), 265-6.
J8/1/534
Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Earl of Carlisle, from Tadcaster, ‘Sunday noon’, 1700. 1700.
*VaJ 23: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
Edited in Works, IV, 6-7 (No. 2).
J8/1/535
Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Earl of Carlisle, from London, 2 February 1720/1. 1721.
*VaJ 315: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
Edited in Works, IV, 127 (No. 119).
J8/1/536
Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Earl of Carlisle, 7 February 1720/1. 1721.
*VaJ 316: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
Edited in Works, IV, 128 (No. 120).
J8/1/537
Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Earl of Carlisle, 18 February 1720/1. 1700.
*VaJ 317: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
Edited in Works, IV, 129 (No. 121).
J8/1/538
Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [the Earl of Carlisle], 28 February 1720/1. 1700.
*VaJ 318: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
Edited in Works, IV, 129-30 (No. 122), misdated 20 February.
J8/1/539
Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [the Earl of Carlisle], from Greenwich, 25 March 1721. 1721.
*VaJ 319: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
Edited in Works, IV, 131 (No. 123).
J8/1/540
Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [the Earl of Carlisle], from London, 22 April 1721. 1721.
*VaJ 320: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
Edited in Works, IV, 132-3 (No. 124).
J8/1/541
Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [the Earl of Carlisle], from London, 5 May 1721. 1721.
*VaJ 321: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
Edited in Works, IV, 133 (No. 125).
J8/1/542
Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [the Earl of Carlisle], from London, 25 May 1721. 1721.
*VaJ 322: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
Edited in Works, IV, 134 (No. 126).
J8/1/543
Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [the Earl of Carlisle], from London, 8 June 1721. 1721.
*VaJ 323: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
Edited in Works, IV, 135-6 (No. 127).
J8/1/544
Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [the Earl of Carlisle], from London, 6 July 1721. 1721.
*VaJ 324: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
Edited in Works, IV, 136 (No. 128).
J8/1/545
Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to[the Earl of Carlisle], from Whitehall, 16 November 1721. 1721.
*VaJ 328: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
Edited in Works, IV, 139 (No. 131).
J8/1/546
Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [the Earl of Carlisle], from London, 6 April 1722. 1722.
*VaJ 332: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
Edited in Works, IV, 141 (No. 134).
J8/1/547
Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [the Earl of Carlisle], from London, 24 April 1722. 1722.
*VaJ 333: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
Edited in Works, IV, 142 (No. 135).
J8/1/548
Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [the Earl of Carlisle], from London, 5 May 1722. 1722.
*VaJ 334: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
Edited in Works, IV, 143-4 (No. 136).
J8/1/549
Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Earl of Carlisle, from London, 10 May 1722. 1722.
*VaJ 335: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
Edited in Works, IV, 144 (No. 137).
J8/1/550
Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Earl of Carlisle, from London, 19 June 1722. 1722.
*VaJ 341: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
Edited in Works, IV, 147 (No. 140).
J8/1/551
Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [the Earl of Carlisle], from London. 19 July 1722. 1722.
*VaJ 342: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
Edited in Works, IV, 147-9 (No. 141).
J8/1/552
Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [the Earl of Carlisle], from London, 26 November 1723. 1723.
*VaJ 352: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
Edited in Works, IV, 153 (No. 147).
J8/1/553
Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [the Earl of Carlisle], from Whitehall, 11 February 1723/4. 1724.
*VaJ 355: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
Edited in Works, IV, 156-7 (No. 154).
J8/1/554
Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [the Earl of Carlisle], 18 February 1723/4. 1724.
*VaJ 356: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
Edited in Works, IV, 157-8 (No. 155).
J8/1/555
Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [the Earl of Carlisle], from London, 26 March 1724. 1724.
*VaJ 358: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
Edited in Works, IV, 158-60 (No. 156).
J8/1/556
Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Earl of Carlisle, from London, 11 April 1724. 1724.
*VaJ 359: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
Edited in Works, IV, 160-1 (No. 157).
J8/1/557
Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Earl of Carlisle, from London, 21 November 1724. 1724.
*VaJ 364: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
Edited in Works, IV, 163 (No. 161).
J8/1/558
Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [the Earl of Carlisle], from London, 10 December 1724. 1724.
*VaJ 365: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
Edited in Works, IV, 164-5 (No. 162).
J8/1/559
Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [the Earl of Carlisle], from Greenwich, 4 September 1725. 1725.
*VaJ 376: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
Edited in Works, IV, 168-9 (No. 166).
J8/1/560
Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [the Earl of Carlisle], from Greenwich, 11 September 1725. 1725.
*VaJ 377: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
Edited in Works, IV, 169-70 (No. 167).
J8/1/561
Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [the Earl of Carlisle], from London, 16 December 1725. 1725.
*VaJ 382: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
Edited in Works, IV, 171-2 (No. 169).
J8/1/562
Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Earl of Carlisle, from London, 8 March 1725/6. 1726.
*VaJ 384: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
Edited in Works, IV, 172-3 (No. 170).