Crewe Manuscripts

Inventory list
Identifier Sort ascending Title Level of description Date Digital object
f. 138r Inscription by Campegius Vitringa the elder Part 7 Sept. 1711
f. 139r Inscription by Johann Christoph Wagenseil Part 1669
f. 144r Inscription by Jesaias Friedrich Weisenborn Part early 18th c.
f. 151r Inscription by Matthias Zimmermann Part 25 Apr. 1670
f. 1v Receipt from John Walthoe to Jacob Tonson II Part 28 Aug. 1714
f. 1v Receipt from Edward Young to Thomas Worrall Part 7 Dec. 1727
f. 5 Memoranda regarding the division of the profits, etc., of Humphrey Prideaux’s Connection, signed by Robert Knaplock and Jacob Tonson I Part 20 Aug. 1718–21 Feb. 1719
f. 9 (i) Articles of agreement between (A) Hannah Knaplock, Jacob Tonson III, and Richard Tonson, and (B) Samuel Shuckford, 22 Nov. 1739, bearing (ii) an assignment from Han-nah Knaplock to the Tonsons, 18 July 1740, and (iii) a receipt from Shuckford, 2 June 1743 Part 22 Nov. 1739–2 June 1743
f. 11 Assignment from (A) Dorman Newman junior to (B) Jacob Tonson I and (C) Jacob Tonson II of the rights in various books, 22 Apr. 1713; endorsed with a receipt from Newman of the same date Part 22 Apr. 1713
f. 13 Receipt from Temple Stanyan to Jacob Tonson I Part 15 July 1714
f. 15 Agreement between (A) John Heylyn and (B) Somerset Draper, on behalf of (C) Jacob and Richard Tonson and B himself Part 14 Nov. 1748
f. 17 Memorandums of agreement between (A) Jacob Tonson III and Richard Tonson and (B) Robert Dodsley, regarding Charles Jervas’s translation of Don Quixote Part 1 May 1740
f. 18 Assignment from Thomas Worrall to Henry Lintot of copyrights in various books, and copies of books Part 30 June 1738
ff. 21–5 Copy of an agreement between (A) John Dryden and (B) Jacob Tonson for Dryden’s translation of Virgil, 15 June 1694 Part 18th c.
f. 34r Note from Andrew Millar to Jacob Tonson Part 15 Apr. 1760
f. 38 Account of the costs of printing Parnell’s Poems Part 18th c.
ff. 2–28 Leaves from The History of the Misfortunes of John Calas, a Victim to Fanaticism, to which is added a Letter from M. Calas to his Wife and Children, ‘written by M. De Voltaire’ (Edinburgh: P. Williamson) Part 1776
f. 29 Description of the next two items, probably in the hand of William Upcott Part 19th c.
f. ii v Epigraph Part
f. 8r Engraved title-page of Elegantiae poeticae, by Jean Blumerel, editio novissima (Oxford, 1679) Part 1679
f. 9r Engraved title-page of Lexicon philosophicum, by Étienne Chauvin (Rotterdam, 1692) Part 1692
f. 10r Engraved title-page of The Britannic Magazine, or, Entertaining Repository of Heroic Adventures and Memorable Exploits, Vol. III (London, 1796) Part 1796
f. 23r Title-page of Primitiae anatomicae de humani corporis ossibus, by Pieter Paaw (Leiden, 1615), including a woodcut illustration Part 1615
f. 25r Engraved title-page of The Naturalist’s Cabinet, or, Interesting Sketches of Animal History, by Thomas Smith, Vol. II (London, 1806) Part 1806
f. 26r Engraved title-page of The Naturalist’s Cabinet, or, Interesting Sketches of Animal History, by Thomas Smith, Vol. IV (London, 1806) Part 1806
f. 27r Engraved title-page of A Dissertation on Oriental Gardening, by Sir William Chambers (London, 1772) Part 1772
pp. 202–4 ‘A New Ballad, or Truth needs no Vindication’ (author unknown) Part
pp. 226–30 ‘A True and Full Accounth of A Late Conference between The Wonderfull Speaking Head, and Father Gauden, as it was related by the Head’s own Mouth to Doctor Frazer’ (author unknown) Part
pp. 255–6 ‘To the Clergy of England, Who are Dignify’d and Distinguish’d for Preaching up Passive Obedience’ (author unknown) Part
pp. 286–90 ‘To be Wiser than our Forefathers’ (author unknown) Part