EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCLIII. Rental for the Deptford estate by Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart., continuing the preceding; 1728-1741, with a few additions to 1760. Autograph. Formerly Evelyn MS 210. ff. ii+29. Marbled paper wrappers. 155 x 200mm.
Vol. CCCCLIX. Annual rentals and accounts of George Mitchell as receiver of rents for the Deptford estate, signed by Sir Frederick Evelyn, 3rd Bart.; 1792-1797. Formerly Evelyn MS 255/5-9. Paper covers. 330 x 210mm.
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCLXIII. Volume of blank paper, originally intended by John Evelyn for his library catalogue; 1653-19th cent. The pages have been ruled with margins in red ink on the left and right, but all that has been entered of the catalogue is the title-page (f. 7), `Bibliothecae JE...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCLXXXI. Collection of legal documents from the Court of Exchequer, temp. Eliz. I. Copies, late 16th-early 17th cent., in more than one legal hand. Mostly Law French. Imperfect; with at least one leaf missing at the beginning, and much damaged by damp throughout. Formerly E...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXCII. Gatherings from a notebook or notebooks, begun in a secretary hand, but chiefly in a single unidentified cursive hand, containing various extracts, partly in Latin and Italian, from historical and occult texts; 17th cent. The first group of gatherings, on differen...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXCIV. Minutes of the Society of Antiquaries; 1 Jan. 1718-19 May 1743. Contemporary copy in more than one clerical hand, including a frontispiece and numerous neatly executed drawings in pen and ink, with grey and occasionally coloured washes. Preceded by a note in a la...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXCVI. Sir John Beaumont, 1st Bart. (1582-1628), `Bosworth Field'. Copy, mid 17th cent., in a single accomplished calligraphic hand, which resembles that of Evelyn's amanuensis Richard Hoare, in roman and italic scripts. The verses were first published posthumously in 1629...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCLXXXIV. Account-book of Sir John Evelyn, 1st and 2nd Bart. and of Sir Frederick Evelyn and others as Treasurers of the Leatherhead to Guildford turnpike, showing receipts and payments; 1758-1793. Signed in several places by the officials. Formerly Evelyn MS 102. Origi...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXXIII. John Sampson: `Nestor's Panygyric: The Praise of Old Age … Written by the Author at Corpus Christi Coll: in Oxford’; 1624. With emblematic decorations in pen and ink on the title-page. The text, which begins, `To the most vertuous, wise and true Nestor Mr John Stan...