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Malone, Edmond, 1741-1812,. Autograph letter signed from Edmond Malone to an unidentified recipient [manuscript], 1805 August 1.

Title: Autograph letter signed from Edmond Malone to an unidentified recipient [manuscript], 1805 August 1.

Malone responds to the recipient'd request to impart any information concerning author Owen Feltham.

ArchivalResource: 1 item ; 23 x 19 cm.

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Felltham, Owen, 1602?-1668. Three weekes observations of the states countries especially Holland, [ca. 1640].

Title: Three weekes observations of the states countries especially Holland, [ca. 1640].

Manuscript on paper, in a single secretary hand, of this Englishman's description of the land and people of the Low Countries, including comments upon their character, fashion, diet, work habits, and religious and political practices. The government is described as "a democracy, and there had need be many to rule such a rabble of rude ones"(p. 29). Includes a disapproving commentary on the relationship of religion to the state: "Whosoever disturbs the civill governement is lyable to punishment, but the decrees of heaven anyone may breake, by professing what false religion he will"(p. 32).

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (60 p.) ; 21 x 16 cm.

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Burlington, Richard Boyle, Earl of, 1612-1698,. A book of verses collected by me, R. Dungarvan [manuscript], ca. 1630.

Title: A book of verses collected by me, R. Dungarvan [manuscript], ca. 1630.

Possibly collected while attending Christ Church, Oxford. The poems are by or attributed to H.B., William Basse - Upon Poet Shakespeare (Part II, leaf 8), William Browne, Thomas Carew, Richard Corbet, John Donne, John Earle, Owen Feltham, J.M., Ben Jonson, Henry King, George Morley, E.R., William Strode and others. Also cookery and medicinal recipes in other hands. The name Tyrrell is penciled on leaf 2v of Part I. De Ricci notes that the volume is believed to be partly in the handwriting of James Tyrrell. Part I: ink recipe (leaf 2v), poems (leaves 3-54r), receipts (leaves 54r-117); Part II: verse (leaves 1-20), receipts (leaves 21-54).

ArchivalResource: 257 leaves ; 20 x 15 cm.

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