Crewe Manuscripts

Inventory list
Identifier Sort ascending Title Level of description Date Digital object
f. 19 (i) Assignment from (A) Edmund Prideaux to (B) Robert Knaplock and Jacob Tonson junior of the copyrights in various books, 16 Apr. 1715; endorsed with (ii)–(iii) receipts from (A) to (B), 12 Dec. 1715 and 25 Feb. 1718, (iv) a certificate that (i)–(iii) were shown to (A) at his examination in the case of Robert Knaplock et al. v. Edmund Curll, 5 Apr. 1722, and (v) a similar certificate relating to Thomas Glenister, c. 1722 Part 1715–22
f. 20 Assignment from (A) Charles Bathurst to (B) Jacob and Richard Tonson of copyrights in two books Part 10 Feb. 1741
ff. 26–7 Copy of an agreement between (A) John Milton and (B) Samuel Simmons for Milton’s Paradise Lost, 27 Apr. 1667; Part 18th c.
f. 31 Account of the costs of printing a new edition of William Cowper’s Myotomia Reformata in folio Part 17 Jan. 1724
f. 33r Promissory note from (A) Jacob Tonson II to (B) Temple Stanyan Part 13 Apr. 1715
f. 35 Assignment from Temple Stanyan to Jacob Tonson II of the copyright in the first volume of Stanyan’s Grecian History (1707) Part 29 May 1714
f. 36 Assignment from (A) Giles Jacob to (B) Bernard Linton of the copyrights of several books by Jacob Part 29 Apr. 1719
inside back cover Leaf from the Cornhill Magazine, containing part of an article by Henry H. Wood entitled ‘Jottings from the Note-Book of an Undeveloped Collector’ Part Oct. 1867
f. 5 List of books, in an unidentified hand Part early 18th c.
ff. 32–7 Ideas for orations, etc. Part c. 1729
ff. 54–7 Rough texts of sermons Part early 18th c.
ff. 58–60 Notes on various subjects Part early 18th c.
f. 66 ‘List of Lectures Ecclesiastical for the Oratory’ Part early 18th c.
ff. 74–5 ‘Rule of the Oratory. Studying Course.’ Part early 18th c.
ff. 83–4 Notes for an oration(?) Part early 18th c.
f. 90 Rough table of monetary amounts, etc. Part early 18th c.
ff. 91–106 Records of financial transactions, etc., by John Henley Part 1728
ff. 123–5 Notes on church history, etc. Part early 18th c.
ff. 154–5 Notes on chemistry Part early 18th c.
f. 173 Notes on biblical subjects, currency, etc. Part early 18th c.
f. 8r Note on the death of Benjamin Starkey on 9 July 1822 Part c. 1822
f. 9r Copies of four newspaper articles about Benjamin Starkey Part 1815–22
pp. 121–38 ‘Manifesto della Contessa Diana Zambeccari Bolognese, Con la Morte del Cavaliere Sampieri di S. Giovanni Seguita il di 6 Luglio 1672’ Part
pp. 141–64 ‘Morte del Padre Frà Girolamo Savanarola seguita in Firenze alli 23 Maggio 1498 in Piazza del Gran Duca D. G. G.’, by Giuseppe Gatti, 1675 Part
pp. 371–2 ‘Abiurazione di Vaiano di Filippo Vaiani’ Part
pp. 375–96 ‘Morte di Francesco Cenci, della Lucrezia sua Consorti, di Beatrice, e Jacopo suoi Figlioli Seguita in Roma alli 9 Settembre 1598’ Part
pp. 469–83 ‘Notizie curiose intorno alla Vita di Francesco Ruspoli fiorentino’ Part
pp. 485–91 ‘Copia di Lettera scritta il Sig[no]r Simone Orsino Al Sig[no]r Abbate Bardi di tutto il Seguito fra il Sig[no]r Marg'e Bartolommei, Sign[o]r del Nero, et altri interessati nell Lite che fecero di Carnevale l’Anno 1665 di Gennaio’ Part
pp. 504–13 ‘Contratto di Matrimonio fra Alessandro de Medici Duca Primo di Firenze, e Madama Margherita d’Austria figlia naturale di Carlo Quinto’ Part
p. 538 ‘Sonetto’, by Giambattista Felice Zappi Part