- Published / Created:
- 1676 [1677]
- Call Number:
- Osborn b359
- Collection Title:
- Some trialls and motions ap[u]d bancho regis termino hill[ary] Jan: 29th 166/7 [sic], [1677-1678]
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, in a single cursive hand, of notes on some cases heard in the Court of King?s Bench in 1677 and 1678. and Many of the notes concern the trials involving Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, including his suit for slander against Lord Digby, the habeas corpus issued for him, and his own trial in King?s Bench. The notes include summaries of the arguments made by Shaftesbury?s and Digby?s representatives and the debate concerning the """"prorogation"""" or """"adjournment"""" of Parliament.
- Description:
- Binding: contemporary sheep; impression of central boss on front panel. and Teaching resource: English Paleography Examples, 16th-18th century
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain--Politics and government --1660-1688 and Great Britain--Social conditions --17th century
- Subject (Name):
- Digby, John, Earl of Bristol, 1635?-1698, Great Britain. Court of King’s Bench, Great Britain. Parliament, 1661-1678, Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 1621-1683, and Taylor, John, of Guilfoord, Essex
- Subject (Topic):
- Atheism, Blasphemy, Law, Libel and slander, Trials, and Whig Party (Great Britain)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > ... all ye sons of God are kings ...
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- Published / Created:
- 1822-1824
- Call Number:
- Osborn d283
- Collection Title:
- ""Notes during a journey to Edinbro in July & August 1822.""
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- Travel diary followed by an account of a journey from London to the West Country and back in 1824 (28 p.) and includes a few recipes at the end (8 p.); describes a meeting with Robert Owen (1771-1858) and the arrival in Edinburgh of George IV, king of Gt.
- Description:
- Autograph manuscript.
- Collection Created:
- 1822-1824
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > ...beautiful lake has been so often described ...
- Creator:
- Montagu, Mrs. (Elizabeth), 1720-1800.
- Published / Created:
- 1762 Sep 11 and 1774
- Call Number:
- Osborn c405
- Image Count:
- 10
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in several hands, containing two letters written by Elizabeth Montagu. The first letter, signed by Montagu and addressed "To Doctor Monsey," admonishes the recipient's attachment to "Miss B," warning him, "Do not sadden your retirement & embitter your life by hopeless love." She describes the recent marriage of her elderly brewer to "a jolly lass of 25," urges him to visit, and asks him in a postcript to get her a "bottle of eye water." The second letter, written in another hand and addressed to "The Revd. Dr. Percy," apologizes for Mrs. Montagu's illness and subsequent absence "when he did her the favour to call," and requests him to call again and "bring certain manuscripts in his pocket." The volume also includes an engraving of Elizabeth Montagu.
- Description:
- Binding: cloth covered boards; blue morocco spine. and For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain--Social life and customs--18th century.
- Subject (Name):
- Montagu,--Mrs.--(Elizabeth),--1720-1800. and Percy, Thomas,--1729-1811.
- Subject (Topic):
- Letters and Women authors
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > 1 ALS to Messenger Monsey and 1 AL to Thomas Percy, 1762 Sep 11, and 1774 [no month] 17.
- Published / Created:
- 1554-1706
- Call Number:
- Osborn fa18
- Image Count:
- 160
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- 47 letters and documents, on paper (one document on parchment) in various cursive scripts, produced in England between 1554 and 1706. Mostly from the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, they consist of claims for expenses, wages, and other benefits. They include an account of a banquet (15 November 1561), signed by the Marquis of Winchester and Sir Walter Mildmay; a Claim for Allowances (1563) by Sir Thomas Chaloner, Ambassador to Spain; L. S. (1578) by Lord Burgley about money to be sent to Ireland and mentioning Sir Philip Sidney; A. L. S. (1597) by George, Lord Hunsdon; A. K. S. (Chester, 11 Aug. 1601) by the antiquary and mathematician Edward Brerewood to the Privy Council. The documents also include signatures of other government officials and nobles. and The documents derive from the papers of Robert Petre, Auditor for the Exchequer, and his colleague Vincent Skinner.
- Description:
- Binding: Middle Hill boards, spine missing., Ex libris Sir Thomas Phillipps (unnumbered MS)., and Modern pencil pagination employed. Wanting p. 43-46, 65-68, 109-114, 119-120, 125-132, 139-142, 161-168, 177-178.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain--Politics and government--1533-1603 and Great Britain--Politics and government--1603-1625
- Subject (Name):
- Elizabeth--I,--Queen of England,--1533-1603, Great Britain.--Exchequer, James--I,--King of England,--1566-1625, and Phillipps, Thomas,--Sir,--1792-1872--Ownership
- Subject (Topic):
- Finance, Public--Great Britain and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > 47 letters and papers from the Office of the Exchequer, 1554-1706.
- Creator:
- Worseley Mr
- Published / Created:
- [1680-1700].
- Call Number:
- Osborn fb70
- Collection Title:
- [Collection of 17th century poems], [1680-1700].
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 4
- Image Count:
- 4
- Abstract:
- Manuscripts, in different hands, of a collection of several dozen primarily satirical and anonymous poems, many scatological. The majority of the poems are political satires, especially concerning the abdication of King James II and the accession of King William III; other targets include Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax; religious zeal; and France. Other poems satirize women, including Barbara Villiers (afterwards Palmer), Countess of Castlemaine and Duchess of Cleveland, with reference to her affair with rope-dancer Jacob Hall; Mrs. Moseley and her link with Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Baron Ashley and 1st Earl of Shaftesbury; and women's conduct generally. The collection also includes a broadside printing of Packington's Pound, as well as numerous satirical songs sung to its tune.
- Description:
- Binding: marbled covers, detached. and See "Early American Literature, vol. XIV, 1979, concerning the attribution of "A Fart" (p. 193).
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain--Court and courtiers, Great Britain--Politics and government--1660-1714, and Great Britain--Social life and customs--17th century
- Subject (Name):
- Cleveland, Barbara Villiers Palmer, Duchess of, 1641-1709, Etherege, George, Sir, 1635?-1691, Hall, Jacob, James II, King of England, 1633-1701. aut, Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 1621-1683, and William III, King of England, 1650-1702
- Subject (Topic):
- Ballads, English, English poetry--17th century, Political poetry, English, Songs, English, Verse satire, English, and Women--Conduct of life
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A New address to Mr. Bayes in his late conversion to the Church of Rome
- Creator:
- Pembroke, Anne Clifford Herbert, Countess of, 1590-1676
- Published / Created:
- 1600-1602.
- Call Number:
- Osborn b27
- Image Count:
- 86
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, in a single secretary hand, of personal accounts on behalf of Lady Anne Clifford. The manuscript records gifts from various sources, such as gold "geven by my Lady of Warwick to my La. Anne at the court," and money allowed by her mother, Lady Cumberland, as well as its expenditure on clothes, charity, and play. Entries include sums "Given by my La. Anne for a reward to a poore woman that brought her Lap. apples & cakes," "for half a thousand of pynnes," "delivered to Mrs. Taylor for buying a white parchmt fanne for my Lady Anne," "geven by my Lady Anne to ii poore men in the fields," and "lost at cardes." The manuscript also records sums borrowed by Lady Anne, and the names of her creditors.
- Description:
- Binding: limp parchment., Dos-a-dos, two pages of pen trials and proverbs., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., and Signatures of Anne Clifford appear throughout the manuscript.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England--Social life and customs
- Subject (Topic):
- Account books, Accounting, Maxims, Nobility--England, Women--Conduct of life, and Women--Social life and customs
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A booke of accompts of my Lady An[ne] Clifforde, 1600-1602.
- Published / Created:
- 1582
- Call Number:
- Osborn a18
- Image Count:
- 39
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on paper, in cursive bookhand, produced in England and dated May 27, 1582.
- Description:
- A note on f. 18v reads: "A verry tratoroos Worke pretended to bee the answers of Peyres Plowman to the prynted interrogatores of alleageaunce. Butt in treuthe a Waye to instruct papists how to answer tratorooslye & defende the trators for Martyrs that dyed at Tyburne in August 1582." and Binding: vellum wrapper, with front cover cut away. Disbound. Box also contains remains of silk binding thread in separate envelope.
- Subject (Name):
- Langland, William,--1330?-1400?--Piers Plowman
- Subject (Topic):
- Catholic Church--England--Controversial literature, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Tyburn gallows (London, England)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A consolatorye letter to a traitor neare ye gallowes founde at Bellamyes at Uxenden : Peers Plowghman hys answer to the doctours interogatoryes, 1582 May 27.
- Call Number:
- Osborn c116
- Collection Title:
- [Commonplace book],
- Image Count:
- 3
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain --Social life and customs --18th century
- Subject (Topic):
- English poetry --18th century, English wit and humor, Occasional verse, English, and Women authors
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A discription of a shower in London
- Call Number:
- Osborn fc24
- Collection Title:
- [Commonplace book],
- Image Count:
- 3
- Alternative Title:
- An inscrip[tio]n made by Dr Swift Dean of St. Patricks & placed over a vault where Duke Schomberg lies
- Description:
- Anonymous manuscript.
- Subject (Name):
- Schomberg, Charles Schomberg, Duke of, 1645-1693 and Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A gent upon reading ye foregoing inscription applied the following verses in Lucan to the case
- Call Number:
- Osborn fc135
- Collection Title:
- [Poems],
- Image Count:
- 9
- Alternative Title:
- Epitaph on Josua Barnes the Greek professor, On the Parliament house by Dr. Swift, Swift upon his curat complaining of hard duty (extempore), and Wrote on Swift's window by Dr. Delane
- Subject (Name):
- Barnes, Joshua, 1654-1712 and Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745
- Subject (Topic):
- English poetry --18th century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A letter from Swift to his friend comparing his body to copyhold tenement