Manuscripts
Heroica eulogia
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- Description
- 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.
- Date
- [1567]
- Call number
- mssHM 160
- Provenance
- Acquired from G. D. Smith, 1912. Written in England in 1567, with calligraphic passages copied by John de Beauchesne, as the presentation copy from William Bowyer to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. Sale of Thomas Jett, London, 11 May 1731, n. 19. Was in the Tixall Library of Sir F. A. T. Clifford Constable of Aston Hall; his sale, Sotheby's, 6 November 1899, lot 90 to B. F. Stevens. Belonged to Robert Hoe: Cat. (1909) pp. 10-11; his sale, Anderson, New York, 1911, pt. I, n. 2124 to G. D. Smith. Smith Catalogue 1 (1911) n. 66 to Henry E. Huntington in 1912.
