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. Vols DXVI-DXVIII. `Authors and Antiquaries’ (label on spines). On one of the fly-laves is a note by Upcott: `This First Series comprizes Three Hundred and Eighty Four Letters of Literary and Antiquarian Characters … Three volumes’. Lot 421 in Evans’ sale of Upcott’s collections, 22 June 1846 (Add. MS 78584 B). Formerly Evelyn MSS 3/1-3. Three volumes. Matching bindings of brown leather.