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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Miscellany [manuscript], compiled ca. 1660.

Title: Miscellany [manuscript], compiled ca. 1660.

Includes notes on the Bible; notes on Hebrew grammar; notes on the use of the quadrant; notes in shorthand, possibly of sermons; poems, a few by J. Gibbon, Crashaw, Ravenshaw, Benlowes, Sherburne, Hooke and Llewellan; epigrams by Thomas Fuller; and excerpts from Shakespeare's sonnets, The passionate pilgrim, and A lover's complaint.

ArchivalResource: 1 item ; 13 x 7 cm.

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Stanley, Thomas, 1625-1678. A register of friends, ca. 1696.

Title: A register of friends, ca. 1696.

Manuscript, in a single Italic hand, containing poetical tributes to the author's friends: William Fairfax, William Hammond, James Shirley, John Hall, Richard Lovelace, Sir Justiniam Isham, Bowman, Sir Edward Sherburne, and Reverend Salmon. The collection is prefaced by a poem titled "A Register of Friends." Also includes, in a different Italic hand, economic tracts and notes by Charles Davenant. The first title, "Observations upon the state of the value & strength of France, Holland, & England, made July the 15th, 1696 by Dr C. D'Av," lists tables of population count, taxation, and total income and expenses of those countries. This piece is followed by "A scheme for a councill of Trade," which proposes a council to be established by the House of Commons which would oversee shipping and manufactures in England. The next piece, "Munn upon Trade," advocates foreign trade "to increase our wealth and Treasure," and the final piece, "Sr. Josiah Child upon Trade," discusses trade practices in foreign countries and their levels of success, including various countries' plantation ventures in Tobago, Barbados, and the West Indies. This piece also contains passages concerning "our American Plantations," which "produce Commoditys of a different nature from our own except N. England."

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (83 p.) ; 24 x 19 cm.

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Sherburne, Edward, Sir, 1618-1702. Autograph letter signed : the Tower [London], to Sir Thomas Chicheley, 1675 Feb. 2.

Title: Autograph letter signed : the Tower [London], to Sir Thomas Chicheley, 1675 Feb. 2.

Sending his design of the inscription for the monument of the two unfortunate Princes; with the inscription.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.) ; (8vo and fol.)

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Cotton, John, Sir, 1621-1701. Arguments of Sir John Cotton -- sic et non [manuscript], ca. 1675.

Title: Arguments of Sir John Cotton -- sic et non [manuscript], ca. 1675.

Probably an autograph manuscript. Contains theoretical arguments illustrated with numerous quotations from classical and contemporary authors including Thomas Randolph, George Sandys, Thomas Stanley, Richard Fanshaw, Ben Jonson, Thomas May, Edward Sherburne, Hugo Grotius, Thomas Browne, Sir Francis Bacon and George Chapman.

ArchivalResource: 143 p.

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Sherburne, Edward, Sir, 1618-1702. Letter, 1676 November 8, to Sir George Wharton.

Title: Letter, 1676 November 8, to Sir George Wharton.

Requests payment to Thomas Flanders, Roger Knight and Thomas Staveley, gunners, who are appointed to an expedition to put down Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia.

ArchivalResource: 2 p. ; 28 cm.

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