Add MS 46367

ff. i–143v: Harington Papers, ‘Prose No. II’, comprising copies of letters, etc., c. 1544–1581, with later additions mainly in the hand of John Harington, MP (d. 1564). One of the two main hands (ff. 7–17 and throughout) is the same as that in Add MS 46366, ff. 1–78.

Contents:

f. i: Notes on the dates of birth and death of Harington and Cheke.

ff. 1r–3v: Translation of part of Plato’s Gorgias into English, mid-17th century. Written in two hands.

ff. 4r–6v: Blank, other than ‘I thanke yow’ in the bottom right-hand corner of f. 6v.

f. 7r: Part of a copy of a letter from ? to ?, 9 August 1549.

ff. 7r–8v: Copy of a letter from Sir John Cheke, tutor to Edward VI and Secretary of State, to Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, c. 1549.

ff. 8v–9v: Copy of a letter from Cheke to Edward VI, ‘out of my death bedd’, c. May 1552. Both this letter and the previous one are printed in Nugae Antiquae, ed. T. Park (1804), i, pp. 41, 17.

ff. 9v–15v: Sixteen copies of letters from Cheke to his wife Mary, née Hill. The majority are undated, but the one on ff. 14r–v is dated 2 November 1554, Padua, and the letter after it on ff. 14v–15r is dated 1554.

ff. 15v–16r: Copy of a letter from Cheke to Master P, undated.

ff. 16r–17r: Two undated copies of letters from Cheke to Peter Osborne, Keeper of the Privy Purse to Edward VI, c. 1549–1550.

f. 17r: Copy of a letter from Cheke to his mother Agnes, née Dufford, 5 August [no year; c. 1544–1549], Woking.

f. 17r: Copy of a letter from Cheke to Spilman, 28 January 1551, Greenwich.

f. 17v: Copy of a letter from Cheke to Osborne, 18 August 1550; another letter from Cheke to ?, undated.

ff. 18r–v: Blank.

f. 19r: Copy of a letter from Cheke to Sir William Petre, Secretary of State, 22 December [no year].

ff. 19r–26v: Fifteen copies of letters from Cheke to his mother. The second (ff. 19v–20r) is 27 August [no year], Hampton; the fourth (ff. 20r–v) is 8 February; the fifth (ff. 20v–21r) is 1 September; the sixth (ff. 21r–v) is 15 October; the ninth (f. 23v) is 8 June, Ampthill; the tenth (f. 24r) is 18 October, Harford; the eleventh (ff. 24r–v) is 6 May, Westminster; the thirteenth (ff. 25r–26r) is 2 December, Ampthill; the fourteenth (f. 26r) is 18 September, and the fifteenth (f. 26v) is 10 June. No year is given.

f. 26v: Copy of a letter from Cheke to Osborne, 30 June 1549.

ff. 27r–31v: Blank.

f. 32r: Copy of a letter from ? to Cousin John, 17 May 1575.

f. 32v: Copy of a letter to the Privy Council, on behalf of the recusant Brian Fowler, of Baswich, c. 1575–1577.

f. 33r: Copy of a letter from Elizabeth I on behalf of Edward, son of Sir John Cheke, c. 1572–1577.

ff. 33v–34r: Copy of a letter to a commissioner for Portugal Causes on the behalf of Paul Banninge, merchant, 1575.

ff. 34r–v: Copy of a letter from ? to ?, 10 August 1564.

ff. 34v–35v: Copies of two letters from Jane Neville, Countess of Westmorland, to William Cecil, Lord Burghley, 17 and 22 September 1575.

ff. 35v–36v: Copy of a letter from Jane Neville, Countess of Westmorland to Charles Neville, 6th Earl of Westmorland, 22 September 1575. For this and the previous letter see Hist. MSS. Comm., 9th Report, Hatfield Papers, ii, pp. 113–114.

ff. 36v–37r: Copy of a letter from Mr Pomerstone to ?, 16 July 1574.

ff. 37v–38r: Copy of a letter from ? to ? 20 December 1575.

f. 38v: Copy of the warrant by the commissioners for Portugal Causes on behalf of the merchants Richard Eature and Arnold Clerke, both of Southampton, and the shipmaster Roger Perry, 1575.

ff. 39r–v: Copy of a letter from ? to Mr [Pic?], no date.

ff. 40r–41v: Blank.

ff. 42r–45r: Copy of a letter from William Cecil, Lord Burghley to Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford, c. February 1564, Wimbledon. Another copy is in Add MS 33271 ff. 24r–v.

ff. 45r–v: Imperfect copy of a letter from Elizabeth I to the Bishops, against ‘prophecying’, from a diocesan letter, 7 May 1577. Other copies are in Cotton MS Cleopatra F II ff. 278r–279r and Add MS 33271 ff. 44v–45r.

ff. 48r–v: Imperfect copy of a letter

ff. 49r–50v: Blank.

ff. 51r–v: Copy of a letter from ? to a lady, 27 [no month or year], from court.

ff. 51v–52r: Copy of a letter from Peter Osborne to ?, 20 May 1573.

ff. 52v–53v: Copy of a letter from George Blyth to George Hastings, 4th Earl of Huntingdon, 11 May 1574.

ff. 54r–v: Copy of a letter from George Blyth to Dorothy Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, 20 June 1574.

ff. 54v–55v: Copy of a letter to Mr Pumerstone upon the marriage of his daughter against his will, 1574.

ff. 56r–57r: Copy of a letter from Thomas Kerry, Clerk of the Privy Seal, to William Cecil, Lord Burghley, 22 July 1574.

ff. 57v–58r: Copy of a letter from Peter Osborne to ?, 25 January 1574.

f. 58v: Copy of a letter from Peter Osborne to ?, 25 January 1574.

ff. 59r–62r: Blank.

f. 62v: Note about the next item.

ff. 63r–v: Copy of a letter from Sir Christopher Hatton to Edward Manners, 3rd Earl of Rutland, at Queen Elizabeth's command, on behalf of Thomas Markham, c. 1581.

ff. 64r–68v: Blank.

f. 69r: Imperfect copy of a letter from Sir William Paget and Sir Philip Hoby to the Duke of Somerset, 24 June 1549, Brussels. See Calendar of State Papers Foreign, 1547–1553, pp. 38–39.

ff. 69v–77r: Blank.

f. 77v: The first chapter of Genesis in Arabic, c. July 1653. Cf. Add MS 10114, f. 33v.

ff. 78r–100r: Blank, other than some pen trials on the top right-hand corner of f. 94r.

f. 100v: Title for the next item (Latin interpretation of Arabic words from the Psalms).

f. 101r: Latin equivalents of Arabic words from the psalms, no date. Cf. Add MS 10114, ff. 36v–39v, 42v–43v (revised).

ff. 102r–107v: Translation into English of four letters by Seneca, c. 16th century (Book 1, no. 2; Book 5, no. 1; Book 1, no. 3, and Book 6, no. 3).

ff. 108r–123v: Blank.

ff. 124r–127v: Copy of a letter from Walter Haddon to Thomas Wilson, Secretary of State, c. 1549. Cf. a Latin version printed in Lucubrationes G. Haddoni, ed. T. Hatcher (1567), pp. 193–206.

ff. 128r–v: Notes of poll money at Bath, Somerset, 1641.

f. 129r: Notes from the Puritan divine William Fenner’s Wilful Inpenitency, the Grossest Selfe-Murder (1648), c. 1648–1653.

ff. 129v–131v: Copy of a letter from Dr Thomas Sampson, puritan divine, to Sir Francis Walsingham, c. July 1580.

ff. 132r–133v: Blank.

ff. 134r–v: Copies of two letters from Elizabeth I to unknown correspondents, said to have been composed simultaneously, no date. The first letter is imperfect. Printed in Nugae Antiquae (1804), i, pp. 115–118.

f. 134r: Mathematical notes.

ff. 135r–138v: Blank.

f. 139r: Notes on justice from Cicero; notes (c. 1650) from the 'Clavis Mathematicae' of William Oughtred (d 1660).

ff. 139v–141v: Blank.

ff. 142r–143v: Diary; notes and spiritual journal, 8 April 1650 to 5 December 1653, and an ‘order of fast & public prayer’ laid down by Charles I against the plague, c. 1625.