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Egerton MS 1787
- Record Id:
- 032-001982691
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001982691
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000053.0x0000d1
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165162258.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Egerton MS 1787
- Title:
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Deed of mortgage by William Shakespeare
- Scope & Content:
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Original deed of mortgage by William Shakespeare, of Stratford-on-Avon, gentleman, and others, to Henry Walker, of London, of a dwelling-house in Blackfriars. 11 March, 1612/13.
With autograph signature ‘Wm Shakspe’, one of six surviving signatures of William Shakespeare. Includes the signatures of the two other buyers, William Johnson and John Jackson. Sealed and delivered in the presence of William Atkinson, Edward Overy, Robert Andrewes and Henry Lawrence.
Accompanying the deed are letters relating to its provenance and public exhibition, now kept separately as Egerton MS 1787/1:
f. 1r: Cuttings from The Illustrated London Life. 1843. On the discovery of the mortgage deed.
f. 2r: Cuttings from an unnamed newspaper. 17 May 1843. On the auction of the mortgage deed.
f. 3r: Cuttings from The Morning Chronicle. 30 June 1843. Article titled 'More Shakespeare Autographs!', by W. Shelton Mackenzie.
f. 4r-4v: Memorandum on the history of the mortgage deed, by Richard Troward. 3 June 1845.
ff. 5r-6v: Letter from J. Albany Wallis to David Garrick, 18 April 1768. Reporting the finding of the document among the title deeds of an estate at Blackfriars belonging to Reverend Utrick Fetherstonhaugh, of Oxted, Surrey.
ff. 7r-10v: Letter from Peter Cunningham to Richard Troward, 4 October 1848. On the deed’s public exhibition. With envelope.
ff. 9r-10v: Letter from Sarah Key to Sotheby's. March 26 1858. Relating to the deed.
ff. 11r-12v: Letter from Reverend Peter M. Filleul, June 9 1858. Relating to the deed.
ff. 13r-18r: Extracts from The Private Correspondence of David Garrick, 2 vols (London: Colburn and Bentley, 1831).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Egerton Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001982691
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-001982691
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100165162258.0x000001
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1613
- End Date:
- 1613
- Date Range:
- 11 Mar 1613
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- England.
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 475 x 305 mm.
Foliation: ff. 11.
Script: Secretary, italic.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Reverend Utrick Fetherstonhaugh (1717/18-1788), of Oxted, Surrey: former owner, until 1768.
Albany Wallis (1713-1800), lawyer: discovered among a bundle of deeds in Fetherstonhaugh’s possession, 1768. Later a former owner as one of Garrick’s executors.
David Garrick (1717–1779), actor and playwright: former owner, 1768-1779.
Eva Maria Garrick (1724–1822), dancer: former owner, 1779-1790.
George Steevens (1736–1800), literary editor and scholar: former owner.
Horace Walpole, fourth earl of Orford (1717–1797), author, politician, and patron of the arts: conveyed to Edmond Malone, 1790.
Edmond Malone (1741–1812), literary scholar and biographer: former owner, 1790.
John Payne Collier (1789–1883), literary editor and forger: exhibited at a meeting of the Shakespeare Society, 1841.
Richard Troward, lawyer: former owner, 1845.
James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820–1889), antiquary and literary scholar: former owner.
Reverend Peter M. Filleul: former owner, pre-1858.
Purchased by the British Museum: Sotheby’s, 14 June 1858, Lot 328 (£315). From the Farnborough Fund.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of the Egerton Manuscripts. Nos. 1-1636 (London: British Museum [18--]), p. 878.
‘Egerton MS 1787’, Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450-1700, ed. Peter Beal, online: http://www.celm-ms.org.uk/repositories/british-library-egerton.html [accessed 29 May 2019].
‘Our Weekly Gossip’, The Athenaeum, issue 1599 (June 19, 1858), p. 788.
Robert Bearman, Shakespeare's Money (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), pp. 166-71.
Benjamin Rowland Lewis, The Shakespeare Documents: Facsimiles, Transliterations, Translations & Commentary, vol 2 (California: Stanford University Press, 1940), pp. 445-47.
Catherine Loomis, ed. William Shakespeare: A Documentary Volume, Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 263 (Detroit: Gale: 2002), p. 218.
Alan H. Nelson and the Folger Shakespeare Library, ‘Shakespeare purchases the Blackfriars Gatehouse: Mortgage, signed by Shakespeare’, Shakespeare Documented, online: https://shakespearedocumented.folger.edu/exhibition/document/shakespeare-purchases-blackfriars-gatehouse-mortgage-signed-shakespeare [accessed 29 May 2019].
Lois Potter, The Life of William Shakespeare: A Critical Biography (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), pp. 408-09.
Samuel Schoenbaum, William Shakespeare: A Documentary Life (Oxford: Clarendon, 1975), pp. 225-26.
Samuel A. Tannenbaum, Problems in Shakspere’s Penmanship (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1927), pp. 47-65.
- Exhibitions:
- Discovering literature: Shakespeare and Renaissance, (online), 30 April 2016-
Shakespeare in Ten Acts, British Library, London, 15 April 2016 - 6 September 2016 - Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)