Crewe Manuscripts

Inventory list
Identifier Sort ascending Title Level of description Date Digital object
f. 7r Untitled verses, in French (author unknown) Part
f. 15r Untitled verses (author unknown) Part
f. 25r Untitled verses (author unknown) Part
f. 1r Draft of a deed of bargain and sale from D. M. (probably Daniel Midwinter), citizen and stationer of London, to Jacob Tonson II Part 18th c.
f. 2 Letter of attorney from (A) Humphrey Prideaux to (B) Edmund Prideaux (his son) Part 2 Apr. 1715
f. 3r Receipt from John Philips to Jacob Tonson I Part 24 Jan. 1708
f. 10 Articles of agreement between (A) Jacob Tonson & Co. and (B) Robert Dodsley, regarding William Duncan’s translation of Caesar’s Commentaries and his ‘Discourse on the Roman Art of War’ Part 30 Dec. 1752
f. 14 Agreement between (A) Samuel Shuckford and (B) Jacob Tonson & Co., 22 Dec. 1752; endorsed with a receipt from (A) to (B), 1 Nov. 1753 Part 22 Dec. 1752
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. 2r Letter from Celia Doddridge to Mercy Doddridge Part 15 Oct. 1767
f. 4r Letter from Mary Doddridge (cousin) to Philip Doddridge Part 2 Nov. 1751
f. 5r Letter from Mary Doddridge (cousin) to Philip Doddridge Part 2 Oct. 1766
f. 20r Letter from Mary Doddridge and Mercy Doddridge (daughters) to Mercy Doddridge Part 25–26 Dec. 1751
f. 22r Letter from Mary Doddridge (cousin) to Mercy Doddridge Part 24 Feb. 1755
f. 26r Letter from Mary Doddridge (daughter) to Mercy Doddridge (daughter) Part 19–20 Nov. 1754
f. 29r Letter from Mary Doddridge (daughter) to Mercy Doddridge Part 28 Aug. 1755
f. 30r Letter from Mary Doddridge (daughter) to Philip Doddridge Part 18 Aug. 1751
f. 32r Letter from Mary Doddridge (cousin) to Mercy Doddridge Part 1 May 1778?
f. 32v Letter from Mary Doddridge (cousin) to Mercy Doddridge Part 26 Oct. 1773
f. 33v Letter from Mary Doddridge (cousin) to Mercy Doddridge Part 22 Oct. 1774
f. 42r Letter from Mary Doddridge (cousin) to Mercy Doddridge Part 16 Feb. 1773
f. 43v Postscript of a letter from Mercy Doddridge (daughter) to Mary Doddridge (daughter) Part c. Aug. 1750
f. 45r Postscript(?) of a letter from Mary Doddridge (cousin) to Mercy Doddridge Part late 18th c.