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General Literary Manuscripts collection, 1677-1969.

Title: General Literary Manuscripts collection, 1677-1969.

The manuscripts in the General Literary Manuscripts collection represent a wide variety of American and English writers, as well as a range of written materials. Some items of note include a signed bank check from James Fenimore Cooper to "Daughters," some hand-written receipts with sealing wax of Sir Robert Howard dated 1677, several manuscripts by Christopher Darlington Morley, and an original 1940s radio script by Damon Runyon called, "That Ever-Loving Wife of Hymie's."

ArchivalResource: 1 linear ft. (1 box)

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Hall, Henry, ca. 1656-1707. Collection of sacred and secular songs by late 17th century composers [manuscript], ca. 1710.

Title: Collection of sacred and secular songs by late 17th century composers [manuscript], ca. 1710.

Collection of songs, motets and anthems by late 17th and early 18th century British and Continental composers; copied in the early eighteenth century. Some works attributed but most unattributed. 12-13 staves per page; scored for voices and basso continuo (often with figures) and some works also name string or wind instruments. Musical settings are by Henry Hall, John Blow, [Jeremiah] Clarke, Alessandro Stradella, John Allnott, [Giacomo Carissimi], Daniel Purcell and above all Henry Purcell. Many of the songs were taken from works by John Bancroft, Thomas Betterton, William Congreve, Abraham Cowley, John Crowne, Thomas D'Urfey, John Dryden, John Fletcher, [Anthony?] Henley, Sir Robert Howard, Nathaniel Lee, P.A. Motteux, William Mountfort, Katherine Philips, George Powell, Elkanah Settle, Thomas Shadwell, Shakespeare (The tempest, Twelfth night and Timon of Athens), Thomas Southerne, Sir Richard Steele, and Nahum Tate. Also, at the beginning of Part I, excerpt from The merchant of Venice, two odes on the death of Henry Purcell (one by Dryden), and a few medicinal formularies; at the beginning of Part II, lines by John Gilbert of Christ's College, Cambridge.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. of ms. music ; 33 x 22 cm.

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Legal and Exchequer Document Collection, 1541-1754

Title: Legal and Exchequer DocumentCollection, 1541-1754

The bulk of this collection consists of Exchequer records andlegal documents from England, 1541-1754. Includesdocuments and fragments bearing the signatures of Exchequer officialsand other public officials. Also includes indentures regarding property inthe village of Sulgrave, ancestral home of George Washington's family, and copies of documents relating to the city of Lille, France.

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes

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Child, William, 1606 or 1607-1697. Autograph letter signed, dated : Windsor Castle, 4 March 1686/5, to [Sir Robert Howard?], 1686 Mar. 4.

Title: Autograph letter signed, dated : Windsor Castle, 4 March 1686/5, to [Sir Robert Howard?], 1686 Mar. 4.

Saying that the recipient had promised to send Child word "how many lyveryes are unpai'd," and that he would help Child procure the money that is due to him.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (12mo)

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Howard, Robert, Sir, 1626-1698. Copy of The country gentleman, ca. 1668 [manuscript], ca. 1695.

Title: Copy of The country gentleman, ca. 1668 [manuscript], ca. 1695.

A play by Sir Robert Howard with an interpolated scene by the Duke of Buckingham. A comedy in five acts. Includes very few stage directions and while each act opens with a scene 1, there are no further formal scene divisions.

ArchivalResource: 48 leaves ; 32 x 20 cm.

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Osborne, Thomas, Duke of Leeds, 1631-1712. Letter signed : Wallingford House, to Sir Robert Howard, Auditor of the Exchequer, written as 1st Earl of Danby, 1676 Dec. 16.

Title: Letter signed : Wallingford House, to Sir Robert Howard, Auditor of the Exchequer, written as 1st Earl of Danby, 1676 Dec. 16.

Being an order for the payment of £1,300 to Sir William Temple, Ambassador to The Hague.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (fol.)

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Howard, Robert, Sir, 1626-1698. Check signed : [np.], 1697 Dec. 28.

Title: Check signed : [np.], 1697 Dec. 28.

Paying the bearer £5 "to Receivers or Collecters of supplies for ye warr."

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; (oblong 48mo)

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Charles II. Treasury. Document : Whitehall Treasury Chambers, to Sir Robert Howard, 1679 Dec. 13.

Title: Document : Whitehall Treasury Chambers, to Sir Robert Howard, 1679 Dec. 13.

Being an order for the payment of £500 to Edward Seymour.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (fol.)

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Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Copy of music for The Indian queen, ca. 1695 [manuscript], early 18th century.

Title: Copy of music for The Indian queen, ca. 1695 [manuscript], early 18th century.

Unbound manuscript score of Act V of "The Indian Queen" by Henry Purcell. Scored for voices, orchestra and basso continuo. Although never published in early imprints, the pieces were circulated in manuscripts. The literary text of Purcell's opera was written by John Dryden and Sir Robert Howard.

ArchivalResource: 1 ms. score (13 p.) ; 36 x 27 cm.

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Ernle, John, Sir. Document signed : [London], to Sir Robert Howard, 1682 Jan. 5.

Title: Document signed : [London], to Sir Robert Howard, 1682 Jan. 5.

Being an order for the payment of a 2s per diem for sixty-seven days to William Stasled , a messenger.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; (fol.)

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Cheek, Thomas, Lieutenant of the Tower. Demands of Thomas Cheek, Lieutenant of the Tower, for safe keeping of prisoners [manuscript], 1683 March 26-June 24.

Title: Demands of Thomas Cheek, Lieutenant of the Tower, for safe keeping of prisoners [manuscript], 1683 March 26-June 24.

Lists of five peers, prisoners for the whole quarter, and one commoner, with allowances for them and other expenses. Bill approved and signed by: Huntingdon, Bridgewater, Howard, Peterborough, Craven, Sunderland, and Ailesbury.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

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Cheek, Thomas. The Demands of Thomas Cheek Esq[uire] Lieuten[an]t of the Tower for safekeeping the prisoners in the Tower according to His Ma[jes]ties retrenchm[en]t manuscript bill signed : [London], undated [after 1683 Sept. 29].

Title: The Demands of Thomas Cheek Esq[uire] Lieuten[an]t of the Tower for safekeeping the prisoners in the Tower according to His Ma[jes]ties retrenchm[en]t manuscript bill signed : [London], undated [after 1683 Sept. 29].

A bill giving an account (totalling £290 5s 2.5d) for the safekeeping and feeding of prisoners involved in the Rye House Plot in the Tower of London. Accounts are for the quarter-year 25 June to 29 September (Michaelmas Day) 1683. Also listing payments due to the Chaplain, the Physician, the Gaoler, the Chirurgeon, the Apothecary, the Yeoman Porter, the Water Pumper, the Scavenger, and the Clock keeper, as well as to the labourers who performed "reparac[i]ons" to the building.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; 55.4 cm.

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Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685. A pardon unto Sir Henry Blunt Kn[igh]t. Westminster, 15 November 1660 : original document.

Title: A pardon unto Sir Henry Blunt Kn[igh]t. Westminster, 15 November 1660 : original document.

A pardon issued in 1660 to the traveller Sir Henry Blount, accompanied by an unusual note recording the charges "disbursed for Sr. Henry Blunt for his pardon" indicating the total costs incurred, including payments to the secretary of state and attorney general. Attached to the pardon is the intact "Second Great Seal of Charles II, " suspended on a vellum tag. The verso of document is docketed and signed off "Howard" signifying Sir Robert Howard.

ArchivalResource: Single vellum sheet with seal; 58 x 83 cm., folded, in print box with related contemporary document.

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Great Britain. Parliament, 1688. The arguments upon the abdication of King James ye 2d. Martis 22 die Jany. 1688, [1698].

Title: The arguments upon the abdication of King James ye 2d. Martis 22 die Jany. 1688, [1698].

Manuscript, in a single hand, of a copy of a report of proceedings and speeches in both houses of Parliament between January and February 1688. The manuscript concerns the abdication of King James II, and the bulk of the speeches concern the term "abdication" as opposed to "desertion," and which of these terms most accurately describes the actions of James II. Speeches draw on Latin etymologies; historical precedents of abdications; and a discussion of whether a kin is able to renounce his kinship at all. Speech-givers include Sir George Treby; Daniel Finch, Earl of Nottingham; Henry Hyde, Earl of Clarendon; Sir Robert Howard; and Thomas Herbert, Earl of Pembroke. The manuscript is dated "Woolavinton [Somerset] August ye 23 1698."