Add MS 48164

MISCELLANEOUS HISTORICAL WORKS; early 17th cent. Partly Latin. Table of contents, f. ii.

1. ff. 1-36b. Works (not autograph) by Sir Francis Vere (d.1609). As follows: (a) 'The Calis Journey'. ff. 1-7b; (b) 'The Iseland voyage'. ff. 8-17b; (c) 'The slaughter at Turnehoulte'. ff. 18-21; (d) 'The Battaile of Newporte'. ff. 21-30; (e) 'The siege of Ostende'. ff. 30-36b. Printed in The Commentaries of Sir Francis Vere, 1657, pp. 24-177; the last part of item (b), ff. 16b-17b, is titled separately in the book, p. 65, as 'The Government of the Briell'. The MS. omits the date from the first line of each item, but it includes some details not in the printed version, e.g. the name of the Dutchman mentioned on p. 64, f. 15b, and some variants, e.g. 'Hide-park' for 'Mary-bone-parke', p. 65, f. 15b. The 1657 edition pressmarked BL 591. f. 19 has MS. corrections agreeing generally with the present MS. Other MSS. of Vere's Commentaries (some incomplete) are Sloane MS. 827, ff. 24-34; Harley MSS. 1344, 1997, ff. 54-69b, 3638,

ff. 89-187 passim, 6798, ff. 54-73; King's MS. 265, ff. 207-255b; Lansdowne MS. 223, ff. 97-121b; and Bodleian Library MS. Bodley 710. See also M. D. Cockle, Bibliography of English Military Books, 1900, no. 166.

2. ff. 37-38. 'A note of the Englishe slaine, & hurt in the Battell at Newporte on sunday the 21 June 1600 stilo novo'.

3. ff. 39-61b. Notes on coinage and exchange, including (ff. 40-52b) the proceedings of the Whitehall conference of 1611-1612 (see SPD

1611-1618, pp. 91, 92), the value of money coined in the last seven years of Elizabeth I and the seven years to November 1617 (f. 53), and the Privy Council appointment of the exchange commission of 10 May 1607, charges to the commission, etc. (ff. 62-70b). The contents of ff. 53b-61b duplicate ff. 39-52b.

4. ff. 71-74. 'Magnae Chartae origo . . . et Confirmatio numerosa'. Latin. An historical account of Magna Carta.

Paper; ff. iii + 93. Contemporary pagination, 1-185, ff. 1-93. Folio. XVII cent. Vellum binding, numbered '176' on the spine. Titled on a fore-edge flap, f. iii. Covers bear the stamp of Henry Yelverton, Viscount de Longueville.

Bookplates and Book-stamps: Henry Yelverton, 15th Baron Grey of Ruthin; 1st Viscount de Longueville: Stamp on binding of Lord de Longueville: 1690-1704.

Bookplates and Book-stamps: Stamps of Lord de Longueville on covers: 1690-1704.

Sir Francis Vere, d 1609: 'Commentaries': n.d.

Elizabeth I of England: Papers of R. Beale, Clerk of the Council: 16th cent.

Robert Beale, Clerk to the Privy Council: Correspondence and papers.

includes:

• ff. 1-36b Sir Francis Vere, soldier: Parts of his Commentaries: early 17th cent: Copies.
• ff. 37-38 Army; England: English casualties at the battle of Nieuwpoort: 1600.
• ff. 39-61b Coinage: Notes on coinage and exchange: early 17th cent.