The text is an examination of the confessions of the conspirators in the plot against Queen Elizabeth and the role of Mary Queen of Scots in the conspiracy.
Description:
Bound in a parchment bifolium from an early thirteenth century English Latin manuscript of the Digest of Justinian, Cursive script., Imperfect: mutilated with some loss of text., On the front of the vellum wrapper is the name ""John Rigbye barrister, Cliffordes Ynne."", Pages not numbered consecutively., Several blank pages throughout., and The margins contain the glossa ordinaria of Accursius, as well as some later commentary in an Anglicana script.
Subject (Name):
Accursius, glossator, ca. 1182-ca. 1260, Babington, Anthony, 1561-1586, Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603, and Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587
Biggs and Cottle correspondence regarding Lyrical ballads.
Container / Volume:
Folder: Letter 1
Image Count:
6
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Sixteen autograph letters, signed, and autograph manuscript poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, published their in Lyrical Ballads with Other Poems, volume II (London: Printed for T. N. Longman and O. Rees, by Biggs and Co., Bristol, 1800). The poems were written out by Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Dorothy Wordsworth between July 28 and December 23, 1800, in the form of letters to the printers Biggs and Cottle of Bristol, England. The sheets were folded and sent through the mail, and the poems used as setting copy for the volume. One letter, dated July 28, 1800, is addressed to Humphry Davy.
Alternative Title:
Letter 1. To Biggs and Cottle. 1800 July 28. Letter from Wordsworth to Mr. Davy (afterwards Sir Humphrey Davy)
Description:
Ellen Irwin., Heartleap well., The brothers (part), and There was a boy.
Subject (Name):
Biggs and Cottle., Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834, Davy, Humphry, Sir, 1778-1829 , Longman, R. G.--Ownership., Wordsworth, Dorothy, 1771-1855, and Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850
Subject (Topic):
English literature--19th century. and Poets, English--19th century.
Biggs and Cottle correspondence regarding Lyrical ballads.
Container / Volume:
Folder: Letter 3
Image Count:
6
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Sixteen autograph letters, signed, and autograph manuscript poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, published their in Lyrical Ballads with Other Poems, volume II (London: Printed for T. N. Longman and O. Rees, by Biggs and Co., Bristol, 1800). The poems were written out by Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Dorothy Wordsworth between July 28 and December 23, 1800, in the form of letters to the printers Biggs and Cottle of Bristol, England. The sheets were folded and sent through the mail, and the poems used as setting copy for the volume. One letter, dated July 28, 1800, is addressed to Humphry Davy.
Description:
Lucy Gray., The fly., The idle shepherd boys., The oad and the broom., and The waterfall and the eglantine.
Subject (Name):
Biggs and Cottle., Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834., Davy, Humphry, Sir, 1778-1829 , Longman, R. G.--Ownership., Wordsworth, Dorothy, 1771-1855., and Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850.
Subject (Topic):
English literature--19th century. and Poets, English--19th century.
Biggs and Cottle correspondence regarding Lyrical ballads.
Container / Volume:
Folder: Letter 4
Image Count:
6
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Sixteen autograph letters, signed, and autograph manuscript poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, published their in Lyrical Ballads with Other Poems, volume II (London: Printed for T. N. Longman and O. Rees, by Biggs and Co., Bristol, 1800). The poems were written out by Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Dorothy Wordsworth between July 28 and December 23, 1800, in the form of letters to the printers Biggs and Cottle of Bristol, England. The sheets were folded and sent through the mail, and the poems used as setting copy for the volume. One letter, dated July 28, 1800, is addressed to Humphry Davy.
Description:
A whirlblast from behind the hill., Andrew Jones., Inscription for the house on an island at Grasmerre., Inscription for the spot where the Hermitage stood on St. Herbert's Island. Derwentwater., Lines written with a slate pencil on a stone (part)., Poor Susan., Ruth (part), Song for the Wandering Jew., The two thieves., Tis said that some have died for love., and To a sexton.
Subject (Name):
Biggs and Cottle., Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834., Davy, Humphry, Sir, 1778-1829 , Longman, R. G.--Ownership., Wordsworth, Dorothy, 1771-1855., and Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850.
Subject (Topic):
English literature--19th century. and Poets, English--19th century.
Biggs and Cottle correspondence regarding Lyrical ballads.
Container / Volume:
Folder: Letter 5
Image Count:
6
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Sixteen autograph letters, signed, and autograph manuscript poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, published their in Lyrical Ballads with Other Poems, volume II (London: Printed for T. N. Longman and O. Rees, by Biggs and Co., Bristol, 1800). The poems were written out by Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Dorothy Wordsworth between July 28 and December 23, 1800, in the form of letters to the printers Biggs and Cottle of Bristol, England. The sheets were folded and sent through the mail, and the poems used as setting copy for the volume. One letter, dated July 28, 1800, is addressed to Humphry Davy.
Description:
Lines written on a tablet in a school., Lines written with a slate pencil … (remainder), Nutting., Ruth (remainder), The fountain., The two April mornings., and Three years she grew in sun and shower.
Subject (Name):
Biggs and Cottle., Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834., Davy, Humphry, Sir, 1778-1829 , Longman, R. G.--Ownership., Wordsworth, Dorothy, 1771-1855., and Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850.
Subject (Topic):
English literature--19th century. and Poets, English--19th century.