Manuscripts

Comoedyes and pastoralls : with their songs, as also one booke of epigrammes by W.P. Esquier ... exscriptum anno salutis 1647. :

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Description: William Percy (1575-1648), third son to the Eighth Earl of Northumberland, was an amateur dramatist and poet. Work is a transcription by Percy in 1647 of six of his plays (The Cuck-Queanes and Cuckolds errants, Arabia siticus, the Faery pastorall or Forest of Elves, A country tragaedye in Vacuniam, the Aphodysia and Necromantes), songs and epigrams.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1647]
Call number: mssHM 4
Creator: Percy, William (1575-1648)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: By the later 18th century, work acquired by the antiquarian Sir William Burrell. Purchased in 1796 by the Duke of Roxburghe. It was then acquired by Joseph Haslewood (his notes, dated 1825, on the acquisition in info file), then the Duke of Devonshire and finally Henry E. Huntington. Armorial bookplate of the Duke of Devonshire with motto "Honi soit qui mal y pense" on front pastedown.