Manuscripts

Commonplace book. English history: manuscript

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Description: Copies of letters of Sir Walter Ralegh, Robert Devereux (2nd Earl of Essex), Henry Brooke (8th Baron Cobham), Sir Philip Sidney, William Cecil (Baron Burghley), Thomas Egerton (1st Viscount Brackley), and other prominent persons.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1580-1620.
Call number: mssHM 102
Provenance: In Library, 1929.
Dimensions: 17 x 21 cm :
Associated people: Burghley, William Cecil, (1520-1598.); Ellesmere, Thomas Egerton, (1540?-1617.); Raleigh, Walter, (1552?-1618.); Sidney, Philip, (1554-1586.)
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Manuscript by John Donne on Poems and Problems [commonplace book]

Manuscripts

Official, semi-official, and personal papers of six generations of the Egerton family, particularly those accumulated by Sir Thomas Egerton, 1540?-1617, Baron Ellesmere and Viscount of Brackley, Solicitor-General (1581-1592), Attorney-General (1592-1594), Lord Keeper (1596-1603), and Lord Chancellor (1603-1617); Sir John Egerton, 1st Earl of Bridgewater, 1579-1649, President of the Council of Wales (1631-1649); John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, 1622-1686, Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire (1660-1686); John Egerton, 3rd Earl of Bridgewater, 1646-1701, President of the Board of Trade (1696-1699), First Lord of Admiralty (1699-1701), Speaker of the House of Lords (1697 and 1700); John Scrope Egerton, 1st Duke of Bridgewater, 1681-1745, a Whig courtier under Anne and George I, and Francis, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater, 1736-1803. Approximately 13,000 pieces.

EL 6893 (34/B/35)

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