CELM: The Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth House

Halifax Box 6, [no item number]

Autograph octavo notebook, arranged alphabetically in the form of a commonplace book, recording comments on various of Halifax's contemporaries, incidents and conversations, 80 pages (plus blanks). 1688-90.

*HaG 67: George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, Miscellanies

This MS briefly discussed in Foxcroft, I, ix.

Halifax Collections, Groups A (1-31) and C (24)

A collection of drafts, notes and memoranda on political matters, chiefly autograph, some in the hands of amanuenses (including Halifax's brother Henry Savile), including draft speeches (or abstracts of speeches), memoranda relating to the Rye House Plot (1683), notes on Parliamentary, Committee and legal proceedings and examinations and a few miscellaneous observations on political and philosophical matters, written in part in double columns, on over fifty leaves or loose sheets (plus blanks), chiefly folio (some quarto and octavo). c.1665-95.

*HaG 68: George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, Miscellanies

This collection briefly discussed in Foxcroft, I, ix. Some documents edited by her passim, principally in I, 505-7 (‘Draught of a Petition &c. the Bishops to K. James, In the year 168[8]’; Letters 60.1); II, 95-8 (‘Reflections by the Marquis of Halifax on the evidence of Mr. Hampden’: A14); II, 99-103 (‘Reflections on the foregoing’ &c: A12, A13 and A3); II, 105-6 (sketch of Lord Montague: A19); II, 119-22 (‘Notes of the proceedings in the “Murder Committee”’: A8); II, 122-3 (‘Notes on Evidence of Forbes’: A9); II, 137-40 (speech: A26); II, 155 (‘Concerning Capel’: C24); II, 156-7 (speech: A27); II, 162-4 (speech: A28); II, 253-6 (speech: A22); II, 256-7 (speech: A20); II, 257-64 (‘Notes on the Life of Bishop Williams’: A16); II, 528 (‘Additional Maxims’: A25). Some miscellaneous maxims (A25, A30) edited in Brown, III, 454-5.

Halifax Papers, [unnumbered]

An autograph octavo notebook of Court gossip, 1692-4, in contemporary black morocco gilt. c.1694.

*HaG 67.5: George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, Miscellanies

Acquired from Maggs Bros in 2007.

MS Hardwick 43

Copy, with Dedication to Lancelot Andrewes, in a professional hand (the same as MS Hardwick 55: BcF 143.5), on 19 folio leaves (plus blanks). c.1620s-30s.

BcF 60: Francis Bacon, Advertisement touching a Holy War

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 44.

First published in Certaine Miscellany Works of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, ed. William Rawley (London, 1629). Spedding, VII, 1-36. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. VIII (Oxford, 2012), pp. 183-206.

MS Hardwick 51

A large folio volume of works by Francis Bacon, the greater part in a single professional hand, in contemporary vellum. c.1620s-30s.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 43.

item 1

• BcF 160: Francis Bacon, A Confession of Faith

Copy, on three leaves.

First published in London, 1641. Spedding, VII, 217-26.

item 2

• BcF 69: Francis Bacon, An Advertisement touching the Controversies of the Church of England

Copy, on twelve folio leaves.

A tract beginning ‘It is but ignorance if any man find it strange that the state of religion (especially in the days of peace) should be exercised...’. First published as A Wise and Moderate Discourse concerning Church-Affaires ([London], 1641). Spedding, VIII, 74-95.

item 3

• BcF 130: Francis Bacon, Certain Considerations touching the Better Pacification and Edification of the Church of England

Copy, on fourteen folio leaves.

First published in London, 1604. Spedding, X, 103-27. The circumstances of the original publication and the book's suppression by the Bishop of London discussed, with a census of relevant exempla, in Richard Serjeantson and Thomas Woolford, ‘The Scribal Publication of a Printed Book: Francis Bacon's Certaine Considerations Touching...the Church of England (1604)’, The Library, 7th Ser. 10/2 (June 2009), 119-56.

item 4

• BcF 304: Francis Bacon, Meditationes sacrae

Copy, on five folio leaves.

First published with Essayes (London, 1597). Spedding, VII, 227-42. His translation, pp. 243-54.

item 5

• BcF 109: Francis Bacon, A Brief Discourse touching the Happy Union of the Kingdoms of England and Scotland

Copy, on nine pages of five folio leaves.

A tract beginning ‘I do not find it strange (excellent King)...’. First published in London, 1603. Spedding, X, 90-9.

item 6

• BcF 217: Francis Bacon, The History of the reign of K. Henry the Eighth, K. Edward, Q. Mary, and part of the reign of Q. Elizabeth

Copy, on three folio leaves.

A brief history beginning ‘The books which are written do in their hands represent the faculties of the mind of man...’. Quoted in John Speed, History of Great Britain (London, 1611). First published complete in Cabala (London 1663). Spedding, VI, 17-22.

item 7

• BcF 143: Francis Bacon, Certain Observations made upon a Libel published this present year, 1592

Copy, in several hands, on 32 folio leaves.

A tract beginning ‘It were just and honourable for princes being in war together, that howsever they prosecute their quarrels...’. First published in Resuscitatio, ed. W. Rawley (London, 1657). Spedding, VIII, 146-208.

A letter to M. Critoy, Secretary of France, c.1589, ‘A Letter on the Queen's religious policies’, was later incorporated in Certain Observations made upon a Libel, and first published in Cabala, sive scrinia sacra (London, 1654), pp. 38-41.

For the Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles (also known as Cecil's Commonwealth), the ‘Libel’ that Bacon answered, see RaW 383.8.

item 8

• BcF 118: Francis Bacon, Certain Articles or Considerations touching the Union of England and Scotland

Copy, on twelve folio leaves.

First published in Resuscitatio, ed. William Rawley (London, 1657). Spedding, X, 218-34.

item 10

• BcF 105: Francis Bacon, The Beginning of the History of Great Britain

Copy, on seven pages of four folio leaves.

An unfinished history, beginning ‘By the decease of Elizabeth, Queen of England, the issues of King Henry the Eighth failed...’. First published in Resuscitatio, ed. William Rawley (London, 1657). Spedding, VI, 275-9.

item 11

• BcF 288: Francis Bacon, Aphorismi de jure gentium maiore siue de fontibus justiciae & juris

Copy, comprising twenty aphorisms on justice beginning ‘Qui de legibus verba fecerunt, omnes fere vel ad Philosophorum delicias…’, on ten folio leaves.

Unpublished in this form. Adapted and incorporated in Book VIII of De augmentis scientiarum first published in Opera, tomus primus (London, 1623). Spedding, I, 413-840 (p. 803 et seq.).

item 12

• BcF 211: Francis Bacon, Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral. Of Seditions and Troubles

Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand, on three pages of two folio leaves.

Spedding, VI, 535-91. The Oxford Francis Bacon, XV, 43-50.

MS Hardwick 52

Copy, in a professional hand, untitled, 151 folio leaves. c.1620s-30s.

MrT 64: Sir Thomas More, Cresacre More's Life of Sir Thomas More

First published c.1626.

MS Hardwick 55

A folio volume of tracts by Bacon and others, in a professional hand (the same as MS Hardwick 43: BcF 60). c.1620s-30s.

[unspecified page number]

• RaW 384.4: Sir Walter Ralegh, An epitaph on the Earl of Leicester (‘Here lyes the noble warryor that never bludyed sword’)

Copy, in a copy (on ff. 32r-55v) of Richard Verstegan's A Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles...1592.

See E.A. Strathmann in MLN, 60 (1945), 111-14.

First published as introduced ‘...yet immediately after his [Leicester's] death, a friend of his bestowed vpon him this Epitaphe’ and beginning ‘Heere lies the woorthy warrier’, in Richard Verstegan, A Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles (London, ‘1592’), p. 54, which is sometimes entitled Cecil's Commonwealth: see E.A. Strathmann in MLN, 60 (1945), 111-14. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 172, who notes that the epitaph was quoted, from a text among William Drummond's papers, in Sir Walter Scott's Kenilworth (1821). Rudick, No. 46, p. 120.

ff. 86r-127r

• BcF 143.5: Francis Bacon, Certain Observations made upon a Libel published this present year, 1592

Copy, in the same hand as BcF 160.

For the Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles (also known as Cecil's Commonwealth), the ‘Libel’ that Bacon answered, see RaW 383.8.

MS Hardwick 58

Muniments of the Duke of Devonshire.

MS Hardwick 59

A small folio volume of legal opinions and arguments. c.1638.

Once owned by one John Boulton.

[last four pages, unnumbered]

• WiG 37: George Wither, George Withers Close Prisoner writte with a cole on a wall, thes verses (‘Though I am shutt from freinds, & penne, & Inke’)

Copy, added to the volume in a later hand. Late 17th century.

Six lines, unpublished.

The title recalls the sub-heading, ‘Writ on three fair Trenchers, with a Piece of Char-Coal’, of A Declaration of Major George Wither, Prisoner in the Tower of London, published in 1662.

MS Hardwick 70

A quarto volume, containing a series of abstracts from Roman history, in the large childish hand of William Cavendish, later third Earl of Devonshire, evidently written as exercises probably for Hobbes, 106 quarto pages, in limp vellum. Early-mid-17th century.

HbT 36: Thomas Hobbes, Abstracts from Roman history

Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 73.

Unpublished.

MS Hardwick 72A

A folio volume of partly autograph drafts by Bacon, 30 leaves (including blanks), a number lacking the bottom half of the page, all now disjunct and mounted on guards.

f. 1r [overlaid]

• BcF 290.8: Francis Bacon, De Fluxu et Refluxu Maris

Copy of the last 170 words or so, in the hand of one of Bacon's amanuenses (now overlaid by HrG 313), lacking the rest of the treatise.

This MS recorded in Oxford Bacon.

First published in Francisci Baconi...Scripta in naturali et universali philosophia, [ed. Isaac Gruter] (Amsterdam, 1653). Edited by Graham Rees in The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. VI (Oxford, 1996), pp. 63-93, with an English translation.

f. 1r

• HrG 313: George Herbert, In Honorem Illustr. D.D. Verulamij, S^tⁱ Albani, Mag. Sigilli Custodis post editam ab eo Instaurationem Magnam (‘Qvis iste tandem? non enim vultu ambulat’)

Copy, here ascribed to ‘Gulielmus Herbert’, in an unidentified hand, on a leaf pasted over the original first leaf of the Bacon MS. Mid-17th century.

This MS collated in Hutchinson.

First published in Emanuele Tesauro, Caesares, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1637). Hutchinson, pp. 436-7. McCloskey & Murphy, with a translation, pp. 168-71.

ff. 1v-31v

• *BcF 294: Francis Bacon, De vijs mortis, et de senectute retardandâ atq́. instaurandis uiribus

A working draft, beginning ‘Quod ali perpetuo potest, et alendo restitui in integru…’, ff. 1-15a in the neat hand of one of Bacon's amanuenses, with extensive autograph revisions and additions by Bacon; ff. 16r-30v entirely in Bacon's hand.

Edited from this MS in Rees (1984) and in Oxford Bacon, VI, with facsimiles of ff. 8v and 16r [formerly 17r] in both publications. Formerly recorded in IELM, I.i, as two works (BcF 284 and BcF 287), but in fact it is one work.

First published by Graham Rees assisted by Christopher Upton, Francis Bacon's Natural Philosophy: A New Source. A Transcription of manuscript Hardwick 72A with translation and commentary (The British Society for the History of Science, Monograph 5, 1984). Edited by Rees, with a translation into English (‘An Inquiry concerning the Ways of Death the postponing of Old Age, and the Restoring of the Vital powers’), in The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. VI (Oxford, 1996), pp. 270-359.

MS Hardwick 83

Copy, in a professional hand, 62 folio leaves, in a recycled limp vellum membrane comprising earlier accounts. Early 17th century.

LeC 43: Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth

First published as The Copie of a Leter, Wryten by a Master of Arte of Cambrige, to his Friend in London, Concerning some talke past of late betwen two worshipful and graue men, about the present state, and some procedinges of the Erle of Leycester and his friendes in England ([? Rouen], 1584). Soon banned. Reprinted as Leycesters common-wealth (London, 1641). Edited, as Leicester's Commonwealth, by D.C. Peck (Athens, OH, & London, 1985). Although various attributions have been suggested by Peck and others, the most likely author remains Robert Persons (1546-1610), Jesuit conspirator.

MS Hardwick, Drawer 145, No. 18

Copy of a legal brief evidently composed by Hobbes, in the hand of an amanuensis (James Wheldon), untitled and beginning ‘Concerning the punishment of such persons as by word or writing uttered any thing contrary to the definition or determination of Holy Church…’), on two folio leaves. c.1660s?

HbT 59: Thomas Hobbes, Legal brief

Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 74. Edited from this MS in Mintz. Also discussed by Robert Willman in Journal of the History of Ideas, 31 (1970), 607-13, and by Mintz in Journal of the History of Ideas, 31 (1970), 614-15.

First published in Samuel I. Mintz, ‘Hobbes on the Law of Heresy: A New Manuscript’, Journal of the History of Ideas, 29 (1968), 409-14.

Hobbes MSS A. 1

Copy, including the dedication to William Cavendish, Earl of Devonshire, in the hands of two amanuenses, on fourteen folio pages. c.1626-8.

HbT 1: Thomas Hobbes, De Mirabilibus Pecci (‘Alpibus Angliacis, ubi Pecci nomine surgit’)

This MS (once erroneously described as autograph) given to the eighth Duke of Devonshire in 1850 by the Derbyshire antiquary Thomas Bateman, of Middleton Hall.

First published, dedicated to William Cavendish, Earl of Devonshire, [c.1636?] (no title-page known). 2nd edition [London, 1666]. Molesworth, Latin, V, 319-40.

Hobbes MSS A. 2A

Copy, with alterations, in the hand of an amanuensis, some corrections in a neat italic hand, lacking a title-page and the dedicationon, xviii + 289 large folio pages. For the dedication from this MS, see HbT 19.5. c.1640.

HbT 21: Thomas Hobbes, The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic

This MS item 133 in Treasures from Chatsworth, intro. by Sir Anthony Blunt (International Exhibitions Foundation, 1979-80), where it is erroneously described as autograph.

First published, dedicated to William Cavendish, Earl of Newcastle, in two parts, as Humane Nature: Or, The fundamental Elements of Policie, (London, [1649]-1650), and as De Corpore Politico: or The Elements of Law, Moral and Politick (London, 1650). Molesworth, English, IV, 1-76, 77-228. Edited by Ferdinand Tönnies (London, 1889). 2nd edition, with an introduction by M.M. Goldsmith, (London, 1969).

Hobbes MSS A. 2B

Copy, in the hand of an amanuensis, with Hobbes's autograph signed dedication to William Cavendish, Earl of Newcastle, dated 9 May 1640, and some autograph corrections and marginal notes, on 302 large folio pages. 1640.

*HbT 20: Thomas Hobbes, The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic

Hobbes MSS A. 2C

Copy, in the hand of an amanuensis, incomplete, lacking the last page of the dedication, 366 folio pages. c.1640.

HbT 22: Thomas Hobbes, The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic

Hobbes MSS A. 3

A formal copy, in the professional hand of the ‘Parisian scribe’, on 228 folio pages of vellum, with an emblematically decorated title-page, the dedication to the third Earl of Devonshire bearing Hobbes's autograph signature, in later red morocco gilt. Evidently Hobbes's formal presentation copy to the Earl, dated from Paris, 1641. c.1641.

*HbT 18: Thomas Hobbes, Elementorum philosophiae: sectio tertia, de cive

Edited in part from this MS in Warrender and discussed, pp. 38-40, with facsimiles of the title-page and the end of the dedication in the frontispiece and plate II, after p. xiv. Also discussed by Howard Warrender in ‘The Early Latin Version of Thomas Hobbes's De Cive’, The Library, 6th Ser. 2 (1980), 40-52 (pp. 42-3). Facsimile of p. 62 in Timothy Raylor, ‘The Date and Script of Hobbes's Latin Optical Manuscript’, EMS, 12 (2005), 201-9 (p. 206).

First published in London, 1642. Molesworth, Latin, II, 133-432. Warrender, De Cive: Latin (1983).

Hobbes MSS A. 4

Copy of what appears to be the original chapter 19 (divided into nineteen sections and dealing with the geometry of the parabola, hyperbola and ellipse), in the neat professional hand of the ‘Parisian scribe’, with autograph corrections by Hobbes, on 35 quarto leaves. c.1648-9?

*HbT 15: Thomas Hobbes, Elementorum philosophiae: sectio prima, de corpore

This chapter later rejected from the printed version and as yet unpublished. Discussed in Arrigo Pacchi, Convenzione e ipotesi nella formazione della filosophia naturale di Thomas Hobbes (Florence, 1965), pp. 25-6.

First published in London, 1655. Molesworth, Latin, I, 1-431.

Hobbes MSS A. 5

Fragment of a formal copy, comprising chapter 3 and part of chapter 2, in the neat professional hand of the ‘Parisian scribe’, together with six engraved geometrical diagrams, on fifteen quarto pages. c.1649.

HbT 17: Thomas Hobbes, Elementorum philosophiae: sectio secunda, de homine

Facsimile of p. 1 in Timothy Raylor, ‘The Date and Script of Hobbes's Latin Optical Manuscript’, EMS, 12 (2005), 201-9 (p. 207).

First published in London, 1658. Molesworth, Latin, II, 1-132.

Hobbes MSS A. 6

Copy, in the hand of an amanuensis (James Wheldon), with one or two corrections in the faltering hand of Hobbes, untitled, on ten folio pages. c.1672-3.

*HbT 7: Thomas Hobbes, Vita carmine expressa (‘Natus erat noster servator Homo-Deus annos’)

First published in London, 1679. Molesworth, Latin, I, lxxxi-xcix. See also HbT 0.8.

Hobbes MSS A. 7

Copy of an untitled Latin compilation of geometrical axioms and definitions, presumably made for Hobbes's personal use, in a professional hand, with a few minor autograph corrections probably by Hobbes (on pp. 21, 34, 36, 37), on 42 quarto pages. c.1641?

*HbT 51: Thomas Hobbes, Geometrical axioms and definitions

Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 46.

Unpublished.

Hobbes MSS A. 8

Copy of three Latin digests, in the hands of several amanuenses. Probably prepared by Hobbes for his pupil, the third Earl of Devonshire. Mid-17th century.

*HbT 58: Thomas Hobbes, Latin digests

Comprising:

(A) Julij Cæsaris Scaligeri de subtilitate (parts i-iii), signed by Hobbes and the short titles of each section possibly in his hand, on 105 folio pages;

(B) Aristotelis rhetorica, on 21 folio pages;

These MSS formerly in two volumes but rebound as one volume in 1939 when the sections were sewn in the wrong order (viz. Aiii, B, C, Ai, Aii).

Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 47. Item B bears some relation to A Briefe of the Art of Rhetorique (London [1637]) [Molesworth, English, VI, 419-536], and see also HbT 56. This MS recorded in Hamilton, p. 451.

Unpublished.

Hobbes MSS A. 9

Fragment of a Latin treatise on Geometry, probably entitled Cyclometria (beginning ‘Quin Cyclometria totius Geometriae pars pulcherrima sit…’), with a dedication to the third Earl of Devonshire, in the hand of an amanuensis (James Wheldon), with a few autograph corrections and revisions by Hobbes, on nine folio pages. [After 1678].

*HbT 45: Thomas Hobbes, Cyclometria

Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 48. Hobbes refers to this treatise in his letter to the Duke of Ormonde, 14 August 1677 (see HbT 164), as ‘to be published…by some frend or other’ after his death.

An upublished Latin treatise on Geometry, probably entitled Cyclometria (beginning ‘Quin Cyclometria totius Geometriae pars pulcherrima sit…’).

Hobbes MSS A. 10

Early draft of sixteen chapters, in the hand of the Cavendishes' chaplain Robert Payne (1596-1651), on 57 octavo pages (29 leaves, plus blanks). c.1645?

HbT 14: Thomas Hobbes, Elementorum philosophiae: sectio prima, de corpore

Chapters 1-6 edited from this MS (ff. 1-8v), with facsimiles of two pages, in Baron Cay von Brockdorff, ‘Die Urform der “Computatio sive Logica” des Hobbes’, Veröffentlichungen der Hobbes-Gesellschaft, No. 2 (Kiel, 1934). Edited complete from this MS in Jacquot & Jones (1973), Appendice III, pp. 461-513.

First published in London, 1655. Molesworth, Latin, I, 1-431.

Hobbes MSS B. 1

Copy of the treatise by ‘G. F.’, dedicated to ‘the most noble Ladie A’ whom the author addresses as ‘Your Highness’ [i.e. ? Lady Arbella Stuart (1575-1615)], in an unidentified hand, on 87 quarto pages (including blanks). Mid-17th century.

HbT 53: Thomas Hobbes, Glossopaideia. that is. The Ready way of teaching and learning The Languages

Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 49.

Unpublished.

Hobbes MSS B. 2

Copy of the treatise by William Oughtred (1575-1660), in at least one professional hand, with diagrams, and with annotations in the hand of the Cavendishes' chaplain Robert Payne (1596-1651), on seven quarto pages. Mid-17th century.

HbT 80: Thomas Hobbes, Oughtred, William. A Most Easy Way for the Delineation of plain Sundials only by Geometry

Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 50.

Published in 1647.

Hobbes MSS B. 3

Copy of the treatise by Edmund Gunter (1581-1626), in the hand of the Cavendishes' chaplain Robert Payne (1596-1651), docketed as ‘Transcript. ex MS. Autographo ipsi[u]s Authoris dn Edmi Gunter. ex Aede Chri Oxon’, on 59 quarto pages. c.1630s?

HbT 54: Thomas Hobbes, Gunter, Edmund. De lineis regulae principalibus

Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 51.

Unpublished treatise on geometry.

Hobbes MSS B. 4

Copy of the treatise by Pierre de Fermat (1601-75), in the hand of the ‘Parisian scribe’, with diagrams, on 16 large folio pages. c.1643.

HbT 49: Thomas Hobbes, Fermat, Pierre de. Appollonij Pergei doctrinam

Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 52.

Unpublished treatise on geometry.

Hobbes MSS B. 5

Copy of the treatise by Walter Warner (c.1558-1643), mathematician and natural philosopher, in the hand of the Cavendishes' chaplain Robert Payne (1596-1651), with diagrams, on 21 folio pages. Mid-17th century.

*HbT 93: Thomas Hobbes, Warner, Walter. De tactionibus

Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 53.

Unpublished treatise on geometry.

Hobbes MSS B. 6

Copy of the treatise by Jean de Beaugrand, in the hand of the ‘Parisian scribe’, with additions possibly by Hobbes on the title-page and on pp. [15], [17], [18] and [39], on 42 large folio pages. c.1640s.

*HbT 40: Thomas Hobbes, Beaugrand, Jean de. Geostaticae sev de vario pondere grauium secundum uaria a terrae centro intervalla. dissertatio mathematica

Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 54. Facsimile of p. 8 in Timothy Raylor, ‘The Date and Script of Hobbes's Latin Optical Manuscript’, EMS, 12 (2005), 201-9 (p. 295).

A treatise dedicated to Cardinal de Richelieu, published in Paris, 1636.

Hobbes MSS C. i. 1-13

A Collection of notes and exercises, chiefly in in the hand of the Cavendishes' chaplain Robert Payne (1596-1651), with diagrams, on c.107 quarto and octavo leaves. On mathematical and geometrical problems, physics, astronomy, optics, chronology, coinage and military fortification, chiefly in Latin, partly in English and a few pages in French, partly original, chiefly derived from other mathematicians and scientists (including Athanasius Kircher, William Oughtred, Thomas Harriot, Claude Mydorge, Evangelista Torricelli, Bonaventura Cavalieri, Descartes, Henry Briggs, Pappus of Alexandria, Walter Warner, Carlo Renaldini, Simon Stevinus, Galileo, Archimedes, and Kepler). Mid-17th century.

HbT 71: Thomas Hobbes, Notes and exercises

Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 55.

Unpublished.

Hobbes MSS C. ii. 1-7

A collection of notes, the first an autograph fragment by Hobbes, the rest in the hand of the Cavendishes' chaplain Robert Payne (1596-1651). Early-mid-17th century.

HbT 72: Thomas Hobbes, Notes on geometrical problems

Hobbes MSS C. iii. 1-11

A collection of notes on proportions and geometrical problems, in the hand of the Cavendishes' chaplain Robert Payne (1596-1651).

HbT 73: Thomas Hobbes, Notes on geometrical problems

Hobbes MSS C. iv. 1-7

Miscellaneous notes on physics (including Galileo's theory of gravity), astronomy, and geometry, including notes on Hobbes's draft of De corpore (chapters 12 and 13), all in the hand of the Cavendishes' chaplain Robert Payne (1596-1651). Early-mid-17th century.

HbT 66: Thomas Hobbes, Miscellaneous notes

Hobbes MSS C. v. 1-4

Miscellaneous notes on refraction and optics, in the hand of the Cavendishes' chaplain Robert Payne (1596-1651). Early-mid-17th century.

HbT 67: Thomas Hobbes, Miscellaneous notes

Hobbes MSS C. vi. 1-2

Notes on chronology, in two hands, the second that of the Cavendishes' chaplain Robert Payne (1596-1651). Early-mid-17th century.

HbT 68: Thomas Hobbes, Miscellaneous notes

Hobbes MSS C. vii. 1-12

Miscellaneous notes chiefly on arithmetical and geometrical problems, in the hand of the Cavendishes' chaplain Robert Payne (1596-1651), and including autograph notes by Hobbes on fortification. Early-mid-17th century.

*HbT 68.5: Thomas Hobbes, Miscellaneous notes

Hobbes MSS D. 1

An octavo volume, sometimes known as the third Earl of Devonshire's ‘Dictation Book’, 160 pages (plus blanks), in calf. c.1633.

Formerly MS Hardwick 72.

pp. 1-143

• *HbT 13.4: Thomas Hobbes, A Briefe of the Art of Rhetorique

Copy, in the hand of the young Earl, with Hobbes's autograph corrections and revisions, headed ‘Ex. Aristot: Rhet. Lib. 1. Cap. 1’.

This MS briefly discussed in A Briefe of the Art of Rhetorique, ed. John Harwood (Carbondale, 1986). Recorded in IELM, II.i (1987), as HbT 56.

First published in London, [1637].

Hobbes MSS D. 2

A folio exercise book containing thirty geometrical propositions, in the hand of the third Earl of Devonshire, with autograph corrections and additions by Hobbes, 21 pages. Early-mid-17th century.

*HbT 52: Thomas Hobbes, Geometrical propositions

Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 57.

Unpublished.

Hobbes MSS D. 3

A quarto volume of essays, probably by the young William Cavendish (1590-1628), (second Earl of Devonshire, in Hobbes's early formal hand, with some corrections probably in Cavendish's hand, vi + 78 pages, in vellum gilt. A series of ten formal essays on Arrogance, Ambition, Affectation, Detraction, Self-will, Masters and Servants, Expenses, Visitations, Death and Reading of Histories, with a dedication by William Cavendish to his father. c.1611-14?

*HbT 47: Thomas Hobbes, Essays

Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 58. This MS edited, and authorship attributed to Hobbes, in Friedrich O. Wolf, Die neue Wissenschaft des Thomas Hobbes (Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt, 1969), pp. 113-67. Hobbes's authorship rejected in favour of William Cavendish by E.G. Jacoby, H.W. Jones, M.M. Goldsmith, Douglas Bush and Noel Malcolm (see especially Annals of Science, 32 (1975), 401-3; N&Q, 218 (May 1973), 162-4; and Historical Journal, 24 (1981), 297-321 (pp. 320-1)). The essays also discussed in Hamilton, pp. 451-2 (who argues that the MS ‘is not… in Hobbes's handwriting’ and that it is ‘merely a handwritten copy of the printed version’). The authorship and date remain controversial.

Anonymously published (together with two further essays on Country Life and Religion and with four discourses) under the title Horae subsecivae. Observations and Discourses (London, 1620).

Hobbes MSS D. 4

Fragment of an untitled tract, on the relationship between virtue and religion (beginning ‘That vertue & religion are essentially the same…’), possibly composed by Hobbes, the hand possibly that of a member of the Cavendish family, on a single half-folio leaf. Mid-17th century.

HbT 79: Thomas Hobbes, On virtue and religion

Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 59.

Unpublished.

Hobbes MSS D. 5

Fragment of a formal disputation on the rights of sovereignty, between Hobbes and ? the fourth Earl of Devonshire, the text beginning in the hand of the third Earl of Devonshire, with an answer in the hand of one of Hobbes's amanuenses (James Wheldon), on the first two pages (numbered 9 and 10) of two conjugate quarto leaves, endorsed ‘Questions relative to Hereditary Right. M^r Hobbes’. c.1670s.

HbT 78: Thomas Hobbes, On the rights of sovereignty

Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 60. Edited from this MS, and discussed, in Skinner.

First published in Quentin Skinner, ‘Hobbes on Sovereignty: An Unknown Discussion’, Political Studies, 13 (1965), 213-18.

Hobbes MSS D. 6

Copy of A Narration of y^e Proceedings both Publique & Private, concerning y^e Inheritance of y^e Right Hon^ble, William Earle of Devonshire, from y^e time of y^e decease of his Grandfather, to this present, describing the administration of the Cavendish estates from 1625 to 1639 and the part played by Hobbes therein, in the hand of an amanuensis (? Christopher Hallely), signed four times by the third Earl of Devonshire and four times by Hobbes and witnessed by Christopher Hallely, dated 12 April 1639, on eight folio pages. 1639.

*HbT 69: Thomas Hobbes, A Narration of y^e Proceedings both Publique & Private, concerning y^e Inheritance of y^e Right Hon^ble, William Earle of Devonshire, from y^e time of y^e decease of his Grandfather, to this present

Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 61. This MS recorded in G.C. Robertson, Hobbes (Edinburgh & London, 1886), p. 27n, and in Douglas Bush, ‘Hobbes, William Cavendish, and “Essayes”’, N&Q, 218 (May 1973), 162-4. A passage cited in Hamilton, pp. 446-7 (where the MS is erroneously described as being ‘in Hobbes's handwriting’).

Unpublished.

Hobbes MSS D. 8

Autograph memorandum signed by Hobbes, relating to the Earl of Devonshire's steward Humphrey Poole, dated 15 September 1640, on an oblong strip of paper. 1640.

*HbT 63: Thomas Hobbes, Memorandum

Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 62.

Unpublished.

Hobbes MSS E. 3

MS ‘note of y^e prospective glasses [by Fontana, Torricelli and others] bought of M^r. Hobbes y^e 13th day of Aprill. 1659’, in an unidentified hand, on the first page of two conjugate small folio leaves. 1659.

HbT 70: Thomas Hobbes, Note of y^e prospective glasses

Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 63.

Unpublished.

Hobbes MSS E. 5

List of ‘Authores citati a Bonaventura Cavalieri in Specchio Ustorio’, in the hand of the Cavendishes' chaplain Robert Payne (1596-1651), on one side of a long octavo leaf. Mid-17th century.

HbT 38: Thomas Hobbes, Authores citati a Bonaventura Cavalieri in Specchio Ustorio

Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 64.

Hobbes MSS E. 6

MS of eighteen complimentary lines of verse to Hobbes, in acknowledgement of his commendation of ‘the Picture I have drawn’, untitled and beginning ‘My hopes have there succes, since that I find’, on a single quarto leaf. Mid-17th century.

HbT 42: Thomas Hobbes, Complimentary verse

A possible candidate for authorship is the miniaturist Samuel Cooper (1607/8-72), who, according to John Aubrey, was a friend of Hobbes.

Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 65.

Unpublished.

Hobbes MSS F. 1

A quarto volume containing 103 anonymous English verse epigrams in imitation of Martial, dedicated to William Cavendish (later second Earl of Devonshire), in an unidentified hand, the last two epigrams on p. 37 in different hands, 33 pages, in limp vellum. 17th century.

HbT 46: Thomas Hobbes, Epigrams

Inscribed names (p. 38) of Edward Sackville and William Cavendish.

Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 66.

Unpublished.

Hobbes MSS F. 2

MS of a discussion in French, by P. de la Moulinière, on the relation between Church and State, written partly in refutation of Hobbes's opinion and with reference to Sorbière, headed ‘Les scribes et pharisiens sont assis en la cheze de moyse faittes tout ce qu'ils vous commanderont’, in an unidentified hand (possibly De la Moulinière's), on both sides of a single folio leaf. Mid-17th century.

HbT 75: Thomas Hobbes, On church and state

Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 67.

Hobbes MSS F. 3

Fragment of a treatise in French on the municipal constitutions of French cities, in an unidentified hand, on a single folio leaf paginated 44 and 45. Mid-17th century.

HbT 77.5: Thomas Hobbes, On the municipal constitutions of French cities

Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 68.

Unpublished.

Hobbes MSS G. 1

Copy of Articles of Impeachm^t of high Treason & other high crimes and offences again^st William Earle of Powys William Viscount Stafford Henery Lord Arrundell of Wordour William Lord Petre & John Lord Bellacys: now Prison^rs in the Tower, in an unidentified hand, on six folio pages, endorsed by one of Hobbes's amanuenses (James Wheldon), also endorsed ‘For M^r Halleley...’. c.1678-9.

HbT 37: Thomas Hobbes, Articles of Impeachm^t of high Treason & other high crimes and offences again^st William Earle of Powys William Viscount Stafford Henery Lord Arrundell of Wordour William Lord Petre & John Lord Bellacys: now Prison^rs in the Tower

Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 69.

Hobbes MSS G. 2

Copy of The Lord Shaftsburys Speech in the House of Lords March. 25. 1679, in an unidentified hand, with corrections in a second hand, endorsed by James Wheldon, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves. Late 17th century.

HbT 60: Thomas Hobbes, The Lord Shaftsburys Speech in the House of Lords March. 25. 1679

Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 70.

Hobbes MSS G. 3

A Copy of the Bill concerning the D: of York [the Exclusion Act, 5 May 1679], in an unidentified hand, docketed by one of Hobbes's amanuenses (James Wheldon), on five folio and two quarto pages. Late 17th century.

HbT 48: Thomas Hobbes, The Exclusion Act

Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 71.

Hobbes MSS [unnumbered]

A folio volume containing English translations made by Hobbes of 76 letters by the Venetian patriot Fr. Fulgenzio Micanza, letters sent between 1615 and 1625 to William Cavendish, second Earl of Devonshire (1591?-1628), in the hands of two amanuenses, with autograph annotations by Hobbes on the first page, 277 folio pages (plus blanks), in vellum. Mid-17th century.

HbT 64: Thomas Hobbes, Micanza, Fulgenzio. Letters

Owned c.1813 by G. Dyer, of Exeter. Formerly MS Hardwick 73A^a.

Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 72. The essays are discussed in Vittorio Gabrieli, ‘Bacone, la riforma e Roma nella versione Hobbesiana d'un carteggio di Fulgenzio Micanzio’, EM, 8 (1957), 195-250. The MS also briefly discussed in Arthur T. Shillinglaw, ‘Hobbes and Ben Jonson’, TLS (18 April 1936), p. 336.

Another MS copy of these letters is in the British Library, Add. MS 11309.

L Box 1 No. 7

Bundle of documents, relating to Ralegh's Irish estates. 1587-1628.

[unnumbered item]

• *RaW 1007: Sir Walter Ralegh, Document(s)

Copy of a letter by Lord Burghley to Sir John Perrott, Lord Deputy of Ireland, 12 October 1587, with Ralegh's autograph nine-line subscription at the foot signed by him, on all four pages of two conjugate folio leaves. 1587.

[unnumbered item]

• RaW 1008: Sir Walter Ralegh, Document(s)

Copy of a ‘supposed deed made by Sr.Walter Ralegh to Sr. John Gilbert & Adrian Gilbert his brother, of his landes in Ireland, dated xxo. ffebr. Ao xxxiiijo Elizabeth’. [20 February 1591/2]. 1592.

[unnumbered item]

• *RaW 1009: Sir Walter Ralegh, Document(s)

‘An abstract of a certaine euidence Concerninge the landes wch S^r walter Raleigh formerly held in Ireland. and into whose custody he deliuered the same’, in a professional hand, on one page of a bifoilum, subscribed at the bottom in Ralegh's hand ‘This is a trew abstract given by my self per the vse of Sr: Richard Boyle 1612 WRALEGH’. 1612.

L Box 2 No. 9

Bundle of documents relating to Ralegh's Irish estates.

[unnumbered item]

• *RaW 1010: Sir Walter Ralegh, Document(s)

A lease by Ralegh to George Goringe of Lewes, Sussex, and Herbert Pelham of Mychelham, Sussex, of land in Skannakin, on two membranes of parchment, signed by Ralegh, 7 February 1589/90. 1590.

[unnumbered item]

• *RaW 1011: Sir Walter Ralegh, Document(s)

A lease by Ralegh to John Jonson of Youghall yeoman of land in Skannakin, on one membrane of parchment, signed by Ralegh, 4 September 1589. 1589.

[unnumbered item]

• *RaW 1012: Sir Walter Ralegh, Document(s)

A lease by Ralegh to William Cade of Youghall, yeoman, of land in Skannakin, on one membrane of parchment, signed by Ralegh, 4 September 1589. 1589.

[unnumbered item]

• *RaW 1013: Sir Walter Ralegh, Document(s)

Articles of agreement, in a law clerk's hand, between George Goringe and Herbert Pelham and Robert Mawle, concerning land in Skannakin, on 3 pages of a bifolium, signed by Ralegh, 30 April 1596. 1596.

[unnumbered item]

• *RaW 1014: Sir Walter Ralegh, Document(s)

A lease by Ralegh to Richard Nelthorpe of London, of land in Skannakin, on one membrane of parchment, signed by Ralegh, 20 July 1588. 1588.

[unnumbered item]

• *RaW 1015: Sir Walter Ralegh, Document(s)

A lease by Ralegh to Robert Balle of London, of land in Inchekin, on one membrane of parchment, signed by Ralegh, 8 May 1591. 1591.

[unnumbered item]

• *RaW 1016: Sir Walter Ralegh, Document(s)

Lease by Ralegh to Robert Reve of Bury St Edmunds and Akice his wife, of land in Inchekin, on one membrane of parchment, signed by Ralegh, 1 February 1589. 1589.

L Box 3 Bundle 3

Bundle of documents relating to Ralegh's Irish estates.

[unnumbered item]

• *RaW 1017: Sir Walter Ralegh, Document(s)

Lease by Ralegh to William Badly of Witham, Suffolk, of land at White's Island, on one membrane of parchment, signed by Ralegh, 21 February ‘1588’. 1588.

[unnumbered item]

• *RaW 1018: Sir Walter Ralegh, Document(s)

A lease by Ralegh and Thomas Allen of London to Robert Balle of London, of land at White's Island, on one membrane of parchment, signed by Ralegh, 8 May 1591. 1591.

[unnumbered item]

• *RaW 1019: Sir Walter Ralegh, Document(s)

A lease by Ralegh to Thomas Allen, of land at White's Island, on one membrane of parchment, signed by Ralegh, 2 October 1589. 1589.

L Box 3 Bundle 4

Bundle of documents relating to Ralegh's Irish estates.

[unnumbered item]

• *RaW 1020: Sir Walter Ralegh, Document(s)

A lease by Ralegh to Richard Trevor of Trevalyan, Denbigh, of land in Kilbree, on one membrane of parchment, signed by Ralegh, 9 February 1594. 1594.

L Box 3 Bundle 7

Bundle of documents relating to Ralegh's Irish estates.

[unnumbered item]

• RaW 1021: Sir Walter Ralegh, Document(s)

Quadripartite articles between Ralegh and Edward Dodge, Henry Pyne and Henry Hoons merchant and Veromo Martines, relating to land in Knockmourne, signed by all the parties except Ralegh, 13 July 1590. 1590.

Lismore Papers Vol. XIV

Volume of correspondence.

f. 160r

• *SoA 49: Anne, Lady Southwell, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed, to Richard Boyle, Earl of Cork, from Castle Poulnelong, 1623. 1623.

Recorded in Klene, p. xxxi.

f. 174r

• *SoA 50: Anne, Lady Southwell, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed, to Sir Thomas Browne, 1623. 1623.

Recorded in Klene, p. xxxi.

Strongroom, Shelf 1A [no item number]

Autograph folio volume, entitled ‘Abregé du Traité de L'Ambassadeur par Wicquefort 1693’, in vellum. A series of extracts in French extrapolated from Abraham van Wicquefort's treatise on diplomacy L'Ambassadeur et ses fonctions (first published at The Hague, 1681), arranged in double columns and with headings in the form of a commonplace book. 1693.

*HaG 67.8: George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, Miscellanies

Strongroom, Shelf 4C [no item number]

Copy, in the hand of Ralph Crane (fl.1589-1632), poet and scribe, probably made for presentation to a courtier; with a title-page (f. 1r) and text on 21 octavo pages (ff. 2r-12r). [1619].

JnB 691: Ben Jonson, Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue

Edited from this MS in Herford & Simpson, with facsimiles of ff. 5r and 10r facing pp. 478, 492. Identified in F.P. Wilson, ‘Ben Jonson and Ralph Crane’, TLS (8 November 1941), p. 555, and in Wilson, ‘Ralph Crane, Scrivener to The King's Players’, The Library, 4th Ser. 7 (1926-7), 194-215.

First published in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VII, 473-91.

31 C

Autograph inscription by Chapman, presenting the volume to the Earl of Devonshire. c.1624.

*ChG 18: George Chapman, Chapman, George. The Crowne of all Homer's Worckes Batrachomyomachia (London, [1624?])

[no shelfmark]

A formal anonymous MS, in a professional hand, dedicated and addressed ‘A Illvstrissime, et tres honnorable Seigneur. Monseigneur François Bacon Cheualier, Procureur general du Roy, et Conseiller en ses Conseils d'Estat et priué’. Probably a MS presented to the dedicatee, Bacon. Early 17th century.

BcF 670: Francis Bacon, Discovrs par lequel est amplement monstré l'utilité, & proffit que peult apporter une affinité, et alliance par mariage entre les … Rois de France, et de la grand Bretagne