(q) Photograph of a certificate that Dorothy Tempest, wife of Michael Tempest, was alive and well on 17 Oct. 1581, in the autograph of William Byrde, the musician, and signed by him. This certificate was sent by Byrde, with a covering letter (now in the Public Record Office, Exchequer Rolls, E 4...
(qq) Photograph of Cuthbert's letter to Cuthwin describing the death of Bede on Ascension Day, 735, from St Gall, Stiftsbibliothek MS. 254, P. 253; 9th cent. Lines 6-11, col. 1, contain 'Bede's Death Song', in Anglo-Saxon, for which this MS. is the earliest authority (see The Anglo-Saxon Minor P...
(r) Rotographs (2) of a letter from Mrs Susanna Wesley to her son, John Wesley, founder of Methodism, now in Melbourne Public Library; 25 Oct. 1732. ff. 53-54. Presented by the Trustees of Melbourne Public Library.
(rr) Rotograph of an agreement between Simon, Bishop of Worcester, and Waleran, Earl of Worcester, in settlement of their disputes, including a grant to the Earl of the third penny in the City of Worcester, from the original in the Birmingham City Library no. 435324; dated 116o (probably in mist...
(s) Photographs (2) Of:-(1) 'Sir: Frances Steward, his Canzonett:' beg. 'Grace my lovely one', by Thomas Weelkes; early 17th cent. Quintus part only. The original MS. was Sotheby's sale-cat. 24-25 Jan. 1955, lot 480. f. 55 ;-(2) Autograph endorsement and signature of Nicholas Hilliard, miniaturi...
(ss) Rotograph of folios 4b and 5 of Peniarth MS. 190 in the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, probably the earliest MS. of Dafydd ap Gwilym's poems; 15th cent. These folios contain the Elegy on Gruffyold Grug, beg. 'Tost oyd ddwyn trais gynhwynawl'. The present reproduction was included i...
(t) Rotograph of Articles of Agreement between Sir William Maitland of Lethington, Secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots, and Lord William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Etngham, Chamberlain ofthe Household to Queen Elizabeth I, concerning a proposed state visit of Mary to Elizabeth, to take place, at ...
(v) Rotographs (5) Of two letters of Jane Austen to her sister, Cassandra, in the Library of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; 15 Oct. 1808, 29 May 1811. Printed by R. W. Chapman, Jane Austen's Letters, 1932, i, Pp. 221-4; ii, pp. 280-3. ff. 59-63. Presented by Dr Thomas Olli...
(w) Rotographs (3) of a copy of the 1664 Shakespeare Folio in the Folger Library, Washington, with annotations agreeing verbatim with notes in Pope's edition of Shakespeare, 1725, but not in Pope's hand. See also (nn) below. ff. 64-66. Presented by Professor George Wiley Sherburn.
(x) Photographs (4) Of two charters, viz.:-(i) Confirmation by Richard I to Wenlock Priory, of his grant of Sirlet Wood, etc., near Much Wenlock, co. Salop (cf. Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum, ed. Caley, Bandinel and Ellis, v, 1825, P. 77); 11 Nov. 1198. With Second Great Seal. ff. 67-69;-(2) Gr...