Add MS 6402

A folio volume (146 folios), of miscellaneous papers, chiefly from Mr. Cole’s collections, consisting of:

1. Two pieces of music, one titled ‘A Coranto’, and the other ‘My lady Hunsdons Puffe. Doulland.’ (folios 1, 1b)

2. Copy of the statutes of Bailliol College, Oxford. ‘Script. Per me Gulielmum Bosuelum, Collegii Baliolen sis Socium, 21 April 1610’. (folios 3b-11)

3. ‘Thomas Milisents Pedigree of Lynton in ye countie of Cambridge[shire], diligently searched and collected out of sundry auntient deeds, evidences, wills, and writings’. (folios 12-13b)

4. Copy of an inscription in Arabic, apparently intended to explain a talismanic inscription on an idol. (See Add MS 6399 A, folios 37-39). (folios 14-16)

5. Extract from Blount’s Tenures, relating to land in the parish of Tonge, Shropshire. (folio 17)

6. Epitaph on Richard Moody in Standish Church, Lancashire. (folio 18)

7. Copies of inscriptions on the entrance of the little cell, in the Record Rooms, in the White Tower, London. (folios 19, 20)

8. Certificate from John Mallabarr, curate of [unknown] of the attendance of Alice Maile at divine service. Dated 10 November 1685. (folio 21)

9. Description of a curious machine for the measuring of time, invented and made by a Lincolnshire man, and to be seen at Mr. Graham’s, Fleet Street, London. (folio 22)

10. Verses on the marriage of the Prince [Frederick] of Wales with the Princess [Augusta] of Saxe-Gotha [17 April 1736]. (folio 22b)

11. ‘De la Vie de l’Ephemere’, with slight drawings. (folio 23)

12. Copy of letter from Maurice Johnson esquire, secretary of the Spalding Society, to [Bogdani] with minutes of the Societies proceedings. Dated 19 May 1736. (folio 23b)

13. Letter from Maurice Johnson esquire to William Bogdani esquire. Private affairs. Marriage of his daughter to Dr. Green. Minutes of proceedings of the Spalding Society to be communicated to the Society of Antiquaries in London. Dated Spalding, 31 January 1735/1736. (folios 24-25b)

14. Letter from Maurice Johnson esquire to William Bogdani esquire. Concerning antiquities discovered at Nismes. Minutes of the Spalding Society continued. Dated Spalding, 24 November 1739. (folios 26-27b)

15. Letter from Maurice Johnson esquire to William Bogdani esquire. With a dissertation on the use of seals, and their validity in Law. Dated Spalding, 19 August 1734. (folios 28-29b)

16. Letter from Maurice Johnson esquire to William Bogdani esquire. Concerning a silver seal found at Peterborough with the arms of Cantilupe on it, and the family of Zouche. Prosperity of the Spalding Society. Dated Spalding, 20 March 1731/1732. (folios 30, 31)

17. Letter from Maurice Johnson esquire to William Bogdani esquire. Relative to an inscription in Sutterton Church, on Sibille de Framton, wife of Adam de Framton. Eclipse of the Sun. Minutes of the Spalding Society. Dated Spalding, 5 May 1733. (folios 32, 33)

18. Letter from Maurice Johnson esquire to William Bogdani esquire. Family affairs. Uncommon manner of interment discovered at Lincoln Cathedral. Dated Spalding, 7 October 1741. (folios 34-35b)

19. Letter from the son of Maurice Johnson esquire to William Bogdani esquire. In familiar terms. No date. At the end is written by Maurice Johnson, a letter to William Bogdani esquire, with an account of a coin found under a sluice near Spalding. Dated Spalding, 30 December 1738. (folios 36-37b)

20. Letter from Maurice Johnson esquire to William Bogdani esquire. Private affairs. Minutes of the Spalding society from December to 7 January. Dated 3 April 1736. (folios 38-39b)

21. Extract of the minute relating to the antiquities discovered at Nismes, 1738, in a letter from Mons. Massip, King’s advocate in Nismes, to Peter Deandé esquire of London. (folios 40, 41)

22. Letter from Maurice Johnson esquire to Sir Joseph Ayloff, Baronet, with minutes of the proceedings of the Spalding Society. Dated Spalding, 8 December 1739. (folios 42, 43)

Many of the above letters are much injured by damp.For an account of the Spalding Society, see Nichol’s ‘Anecdotes of Literature’, Volume VI.

23. Copy of an inscription on an ivory whip handle, found among the ruins of St. Albans Monastery. Copied 19 April 1733. (folio 44)

24. Copy on facsimile of an inscription found in the wall of the tower of the steeple of St. George’s Church, Southwark. (folio 45)

25. Letter from Thomas Browne to Beaupré Bell esquire, on the Egyptian and Indian Mythology. Dated Fort St. George, 20 January 1741/1742. (folios 46-47b)

26. Copy of an inscription sculptured on a rock in the River Taunton, in New England, drawn by Dr. Isaac Greenwood in 1730. (folio 48) (See folio 112 of this volume)

27. Observations on a Greek inscription printed and dedicated to the society of Antiquaries by Mr. Ames. (folios 49-50)

28. Rough sketch of the ancient seal of the City of London, affixed to a deed in French, with notes on the deed itself. (folios 51, 52)

29. Planctus B.tæ Sororis Liviæ Cæsarinæ Virginsis ad crates ferreas, dum desponsabatur Friderico Sfortiæ, ad imitationem Planctus B. Mariæ semper Virginis. (folio 55)

30. Epigramma ad Procos Liviæ Cæsarinæ. (folio 56)

31. Contro gl’altieri; Sonetto Satirico. (folio 56b)

32. Nu altro contro i medesimi. (folio 56b)

33. Roma Vedova, che cerca Sposa, e addolorato per la monte di clemente X. va laminga per la selve e grotte, e l’Echo gli risponde. (folios 57-59)

34. Pater Noster spora degl’altieri. (folio 59)

35. L’imbarcodei Corteggiani. (folios 61-63)

36. Two printed inscriptions, drawn up by Dr. Edward Bentham, Canon of Christchurch, ao. 1775. The first in Greek, addressed to time. The second in honour of the Reverend William Cole, Vicar of Burnham, on the gift of a statue to Joseph Bentham, painter of Cambridge. (folio 64)

37. ‘A brief account of the British or Cambrian Music’, by Lewis Morris, published in 1746. Sent to Mr. Cole by Mr. Pennant in 1778 (Partly Printed). (folios 65-67b)

38. Note [written by Horace Walpole] respecting King Richard III, from the Roll of John Rous of Warwick, in the possession of the Duke of Manchester. (folio 68)

39. Letter from M. Tyson to Mr. Cole, offering to borrow Rands manuscripts. Thanks for the Cromwell Epitaphs. Dated Benet College, 21 November 1771. (folio 69)

40. Copy of a Latin Epitaph to the Reverend Samuel Blythe. S. T. P. in Clare Hall (?) Chapel, Cambridge. (folios 70-71)

41. Coloured Sketch, with the inscription of the monument by John Wilcox D.D. in Clare Hall Chapel, Cambridge. (folio 72)

42. Memoranda relative to Dr. Addenbrook of Little Court in Buntingford, Hertfordshire. (folio 73)

43. Letter from the Reverend J. Addenbrooke to Dr. Collignon, relative to Dr. Addenbrooke and his family connections. Dated Lichfield, 18 July 1771. (folios 75, 76)

44. Modern Plan of the east end of Croyland Abbey Church, with the order and situation of the different stone laid by the several benefactors, ao. 1113, under the direction of Prior Odo. (folio 77)

45. Satirical Poem titled ‘The nature and proceedings of Sectaries, from the original to the present time. By a Jesuit, 1690’. (folio 78-81)

46. ‘The merry Lowngers, a Force, as it was acted by a Private Company in Cambridge’, with the ‘Dramatis Personæ’ prefixed (apparently only the part of one of the characters). (folio 82)

47. Notes on a Sermon preached at St. Gyles, the great church in Edinburgh, upon the feast day, being the last Sunday in July, by Mr. James Row, 1639. (folio 85-88b)

48. The Lord Digby, his speech in Parliament, 1640. (folios 89-90b)

49. Argument of Justice George Crook concerning Ship-money, 14 April 1638, (folios 90b-92)

50. ‘A Collection of Shipps with their burthen and men yet are to be charged in England and Wales, by ye 7th of March, 1635’. (folio 93)

51. Account of Thomas Bourchier, Bishop of Ely, and afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, drawn up by Mr. Cole, and intended probably for insertion in Bentham’s History of Ely Cathedral. (folios 94-102)

52. Original warrant of King Charles I to the Ranger of the Forest of Delamere in Cheshire, for the delivery of a brace of Bucks. Dated Yorke, 27 June 1642. (folio 103)

53. Plan of the oldest part of the Rectory House at Blechley, Buckinghamshire. (folio 105)

54. List of non-communicants at Foxton, Easter, 1685. Signed by ‘Tho. Lethe’ Vicar. (folio 106)

55. Copy of a letter from Dr. Isaac Greenwood, Hollesian Professor at N. Cambridge, giving an account of the Inscription on the Rock in Taunton River, New England. Dated N. E. Cambr. 8 December 1730. (folios 107, 108) (See folio 48 of this volume, and ‘Phil. Trans.’ No. 339)

56. Copy of an ancient inscription in honour of the Emperor Antoninus, at Nismes. (folio 109)

57. Geometrical sketches. (folio 110)

58. Extracts relating to Mr. Cole’s Family, from the Parish Registers of Baberham and Little Abingdon, Cambridge. (folio 111)

59. Memoranda in Mr. Cole’s handwriting, relating to the Bromley Family. (folio 112)

60. Epitaph 9at Catherin Hall, Cambridge?) to the Children of Kenrick Prescot, D.D. master of Catherine Hall. (folio 113)

61. Copy of a letter from the Lords of the Privy Council to the Earl of Lincoln, Custos Rotulorum of the county of Cambridgeshire, for enforcing the Laws against Papists. Dated Whitehall, 24 February 1743. Accompanied by the copy of a letter from the Earl of Lincoln, to the clerk of Peace for Cambridgeshire, inclosing the above. Dated 29 February 1743/1744. (folio 114, 115)

62. Letter from E. Betham to Mr. Cole. On the spire of Salisbury’s having been set on fire by lightning. Dated Brixton Deverill, Wiltshire, 5 July 1742. (folio 116, 117)

63. Papers in the handwriting of Browne Willis esquire of Whaddon Hall, Buckinghamshire, being:i. Petition from himself and Robert Lownder of Winston to the Right Honourable Henry Howard, Deputy Earl Marshal in favour of Thomas Willis and Daniel Willis of Liverpool. Dated June 1721.ii. Petition from the said Thomas Willis and Daniel Willis to the same for a certificate of their Arms.iii. Bill from the Heralds Office for the said Armsiv. Pedigree of Willis, showing the descent of the above parties from Thomas Willis of Kennington, Oxfordshire. (folios 118-119b)

64. Copy of a letter from the Reverend George Stanhope, Dean of Canterbury, to Mr. William Bowyer, the printer, on the burning of this house. Dated Lewisham, Kent, 31 January 1712. (folio 120) (Printed in Nichol’s ‘Literary Anecdotes’, Volume 1, page 51)

65. Verses written in the 16th century, beginning ‘Sweete Jesu, with thy mother mylde’. (folio 121)

66. Rough sketch of the Front of Salden House, in Buckinghamshire. (folio 122)

67. Extract from Bishop Arundel’s ‘Registrum Causarum’ V. 41 relative to the election of Brother Henry Brown as Custos. Of the Hospital of St. John’s, at Chad. (See Cole’s volume Add MS 5842, folio 14). (folio 123)

68. Memoranda in Mr. Cole’s handwriting of the Arms of various individuals, Colleges, etc. (folio 124)

69. Copies, in Cole’s writing, of an epitaph to the Reverend Nathaniel Heyrich, B. D. of Trinity College, Cambridge, sent to John Robinson esquire, 3 June 1767. (folio 125)

70. List of masters of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, taken from the table in the Master’s Lodge, 1747. (folio 126)

71. Short letter from the Reverend Stephen Apthorp to Mr. Cole, his brother in Law. Dated Eton, 19 July 1743. (folio 126b)

72. Extract from a manuscript legend of the house of Stanley, in the possession of Sir John Stanley of Alderley. (folio 127) (The whole of this legend is transcribed by Mr. Cole in Add MS 5860, pages 323-386)

73. Memoranda by Cole, relating to Queen’s College, Cambridge. (folio 128)

74. Arms of Richard Atwood A. M. in trick. (folio 129)

75. Notes relating to the Crew Family, by Mr. Cole. (folio 130)

76. Letter from William Colmore to [unknown]. Money voted by Parliament to continue the war. Arrest of Lady Griffin. Dated London, 24 October 1689. (folio 130b)

77. Short memoranda relating to Pointer Standly esquire, of Paxton Place, Huntingdonshire; John Chafey M. A. Prebendary of Salisbury; Joah Bates esquire, Commissioner of the Victualing office; Mr. Talbot, Rector of Stouer Provost [Stour Provost], Dorset; Jeremy Pemberton M. A. Rector of Kingston, Essex; Mr. Chatris, Vicar of Broad Chalk, Wiltshire; Henry Topping M. D.; William Barford, Rector of Kimpton, Hertfordshire; John Plumptre, Vicar of Stone, Worcestershire; and William Cooke, Provost of King’s College. In Cole’s writing. (folios 131-132b)

78. Epitaph of Thomas Southernwood M. A. Fellow of Eton. (folio 131b)

79. Original Instrument on Vellum, granting the Freedom of Glasgow to Mr. Cole. Dated 25 August 1749. (folio 133)

80. Copy of an inscription on an ivory carving found at Thetford, about 1781, with a rough sketch of the ivory. (folio 134) (The inscription is apparently to be read ‘O vos oms. (omens) vi… te manus, et… Sca. Marta. Ses. Petrus.’

81. Note of a French translation of Jacob Bryant’s, analysis of Ancient Mythology. (folio 135)

82. Short Memoranda by Cole, relating to James Mansfield of the Inner Temple; Dean Dampier; Mr. Ekins, Prebend of Canterbury; and Thomas Roger Duquesne, Vicar of Tuddenham, Norfolk. (folio 135b)

83. Latin Epigram ‘Stans pede in uno’, the subject given for Sir William Browne’s gold medal. (folio 136)

84. Memoranda by Cole of Lord Camden; Mr. Bates; Mr. James; Mr. Chartres; Nathaniel Morgan, M. A.; Dr. Thomas Morell; Mr. Duquesne; Dr. Battie; William George; Mr. Hawtrey, Vice-Provost of King’s College; Mr. Pemberton; Martin Whish esquire; Mr. Manistre; Dr. Thomas Ashton; Mr. Bogdani, F. R. S.; [unknown] Okes, M. D.; Daniel Gashe; John Ekins; Dr. Glynn; Mr. Bendall Martyn; Henry Knapp; Mr. Dampier; Prebend of Durham; Mr. Thackeray, B. D.; Dr. William Langford; Mr. Sewell; William Cole; Mr. Hayton; Mr. Vallet; and John Maule. Most, if not all, of the above were members of King’s College, Cambridge. (folios 137-144)

85. Letter from John Spring to [unknown]. Relative to the Hospital at Long Melford, and Statement of his Pedigree. Dated Vere Street, 8 November 1759. (folios 145, 146)