Add MS 78663

EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXCVI. Sir John Beaumont, 1^st Bart. (1582-1628), `Bosworth Field'. Copy, mid 17<sup>th</sup> 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 by Beaumont's son. For other manuscripts of Beaumont's verse, see The Shorter Poems of Sir John Beaumont, ed. Roger D. Sell (Abo, 1974), pp. 49-53; of these it said that `there is no reason to suppose that any of them has as good authority as the 1629 edition, though none of them can be shown beyond doubt to derive from that edition'. With the note by William Upcott on the fly-leaf, `This Manuscript Poem originally belonged to the celebrated John Evelyn ... It was presented by the late Lady Evelyn to her relation Mrs Hugh Bisshopp … sister in law of Lord De la Zouche. On her death in 1826 it came into the possession of Mrs Hales her favourite Housekeeper, by whom it was given July 7 1826 to William Upcott'. Formerly Evelyn MS 107.

Original vellum binding, restored. 190 x 140mm.