Crewe Manuscripts

Inventory list
Identifier Sort ascending Title Level of description Date Digital object
f. 29 Description of the next two items, probably in the hand of William Upcott Part 19th c.
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.
f. 47r Print of Lord George Gordon Part c. 1781
f. 49r Print captioned ‘The Mob destroying and Setting Fire to the Kings Bench Prison and House of Correction in St Georges Fields’ Part 1 Aug. 1780
f. 52r Print captioned ‘Waare Afbeelding van Lord George Gordon, gevolgt na het Echte Pourtret’ Part c. 1781
f. 62r Direction from Francis Barlow, clerk in court for the king, and James Fenn and Matthew Bloxam, sheriffs, to the keeper of Newgate, instructing him to detain Lord George Gordon Part 18 Dec. 1787
pp. 1–4 Speech by the Earl of Shaftesbury in the House of Lords, 25 Mar. 1679 Part
pp. 56–8 ‘The Royal Kiss, or, Prorogation’ (author unknown) Part
pp. 95–100 ‘Sir Edmund-Bury Godfrey’s Ghost’ (author unknown) Part
pp. 133–4 ‘A Letter Sent to Tom Killigrew of the Bed-Chamber’ (author unknown) Part
pp. 144–8 ‘A Raree Show’, by Stephen College Part
pp. 158–61 ‘A new Ballad’, by William Wharton(?) Part
pp. 161–5 ‘The Duel of the Crabl—’, by Lord Buckhurst Part
p. 175 ‘On Blood’s stealing The Crown’, by Andrew Marvell(?), 1671(?) Part
pp. 216–25 ‘The Fancy’ (author unknown), 1679 Part
pp. 226–8 ‘The Time’ (author unknown), 1679 Part
pp. 229–30 ‘The Duke of Monmouth’s Letter to the King’ (author unknown) Part
pp. 243–5 ‘A Pindaric Ode: On the Lady Betty Felton’ (author unknown), 1679 Part
pp. 246–8 ‘On Captain Southerland, and Captain Bedloe’ (author unknown), 1679 Part