Manuscripts
Leicester's Commonwealth: manuscript
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Pedigree of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester
Manuscripts
Official heraldic pedigree of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, created with an intention to demonstrate his suitability to be a royal consort. The pedigree was prepared by Robert Cooke.
mssHM 68350
Heroica eulogia
Manuscripts
Presentation copies of grants relating to the earls of Leicester, collected by William Bowyer, keeper of the royal archives at the Tower of London and presented by him to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (1532?-88). Interspersed among the deeds are eulogies in verse of previous earls of Leicester and of others, and of the kings who granted the various charters; at the end, satiric anticlerical verses.
mssHM 160
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Commonplace book. English history: manuscript
Manuscripts
Copies of letters, treatises, and accounts of legal proceedings, chiefly in England, in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, including accounts of the rebellion, trial, and execution of the Earl of Essex, a copy of the "Liber Intrationem [in Camera Stellata tempore Regis Henr. Septimi]", other proceedings in Star Chamber, Sir Henry Wotton on George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, etc.
mssHM 41952
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Manuscript of "Sonnet on Himself"
Manuscripts
Formerly bound with manuscripts of other American poets. Also includes a print of Whittier's likeness.
mssHM 1217
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Indenture from Hinckley in Leicestershire
Manuscripts
The indenture is a "Surrender and Regrant." Thomas Rawlat of Hinckley (about 14 miles SW of Leicester) was granted property by Thomas Sainsome, Thomas Smith, Ralph Robinson, and Thomas Wrightman. This indenture cancels their previous agreement and re-grants a cottage in Hinckley to Rawlat by charter. Sir Edward Howard, Sir John Trevor, Thomas Trevor, William Jackson and Robert Bragg all the Lords of the Manor of Hinckley, as was Charles Howard, Earl of Nottingham. (All are identified in the indenture). The indenture was granted on March 24, 1604/5. It was witnessed by William Bacon, Richard Baber, Thomas Cowy, and Thomas Godfrye (the signatures are on the verso).
mssHM 82624
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(HM 21095-21158)
Manuscripts
The collection consists mostly of dispatches from Wellesley to Beresford, a general under Wellesley, giving instructions. There are 12 items by the Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool. Also includes map of a "Plan of attack up on the French on the Heights of Rolica." Subjects matter: the training and equipping of Portuguese troops during the Peninsular War; acquisition of supplies; troop movements during the war; routine administrative matters.
mssHM 21095-21158