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This is the only inscription on the page. It was probably written before the sheet, the paper of which differs from most of the other leaves, was bound into the book.

Contains a transcript of f. 12.

Engraved by W. S. Wilkinson, from a drawing by William Twopeny.

(The illustration includes a banner bearing the text ‘Quid rides? mutato nomine, de te | Fabula narratur. Horat.’)

First words: ‘If justice and goodness be not the same in God …’.

First words: ‘Pleasure and pain accompany almost every idea …’.

The names, which include those of women, are in three columns, headed respectively ‘Archer Row’, ‘Portugal Row’, and ‘Holborn Row’.

In verse. First line: ‘Conceal’d from Care beneath this Marble lyes’.
Printed in John Hackett’s Select and Remarkable Epitaphs (1757), ii. 50.

First words: ‘Our desires have different names …’ On the mount is written ‘This is not Gray’s. The Original is on the same leaf which contains the Fragment of the IVth Book. “De Principiis Cogitandi”.’

‘Sein Rath ist wunderbarlich, und führet es herlich hinaus.’ (Isaiah, xxviii. 29.) Dated at Jena.

First line: ‘As Florimel supinely lay along’. At the head is written ‘J Henley’. The subject of the poem was presumably John Hawtrey, who took a BA from St John’s in 1709, the year in which Henley was admitted there; but the date of his death is unknown.

A agrees to translate ‘with all the convenient speed from the Latin into English verse all the Eclogues Georgics and Eneid of Virgil and prepare them for the press with such notes preface or dedication as he shall think most fitting’. He agrees not to write, translate, or publish anything else until he has finished this work, except for the translation of ‘a little French Book of painting’ which he has agreed to make for ‘some Gentlemen Virtuoso’s and Painters’; the writing of any new original poem or book of prose not exceeding the price of 1s. when printed; and the publication of a comedy by his son John Dryden (The Husband his Own Cuckold), and the writing of the prologue, epilogue, or songs for that play. B will have the copyright in the translation of Virgil, and will pay A in return £200 in instalments when specified parts of it are complete. B will provide at his own costs all the brass cuts or plates formerly printed with Ogilby’s translation of Virgil in folio which can be obtained, buy so many more as are wanting to complete the number of one hundred (excluding Ogilby’s portrait and the frontispiece), and print them as directed by A. B agrees that he will endeavour to find as many people as there are cuts in the book to subscribe 5 guineas each (payable in instal-ments, as specified), to be paid to (A) for each of the books delivered to these persons. The names and arms of the subscribers will be engraved on their respective plates. Any money paid to B by any person over the said 5 guineas shall be paid to A, and A will give B a receipt for it, and B agrees to make oath before a Master in Chancery how much subscription money he has received, and to pay these sums to A on request. B will deliver to A as many books as he wants of the same, size, volume, letter, and paper, as the aforementioned hundred volumes, and including the same prints, for which A will pay as much above the selling price of the said books on common paper as the charge of printing on the best paper amounts to. Any difference between the parties on this point is to be left to the determination in writing of three persons to be chosen by them. There shall be no more copies printed on fine paper than those which are subscribed for, and B shall not make any proposals for printing a second edition until A has disposed of the books which are to be subscribed for. When A has completed the translation as far as Book VI of the Aeneid he may publish advertisements in the Gazette or elsewhere, giving notice that only subscribers can have books on fine paper, and advising the date on which subscriptions are to be received, and when A has completed his translation he will declare the number of books to be printed on fine paper, which B will print accordingly. If one hundred subscribers are not found by the time the translation of Book VI of the Aeneid is completed, A will return to B the subscription money he has received, and A shall be free to make a new agreement with B or any other person for the translation, and B will return to A as much of the translation as he has received. For the performance of this agreement the parties mutually bind themselves in £200.

(Transcript in an unidentified hand.)

Docketed ‘Account of the Throgmorton Family.’ The MS includes a number of original corrections. The account breaks off abruptly. It is unclear whether the names mentioned in it correspond to real persons.

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Transcript

Account of the Throgmorton Family wrote in Part by Mr Abraham Smyth, who had been Steward to S[i]r Humphrey & the Lady Judith.

My Father being old S[i]r Seth’s Gardiner, whom he had served in that Capacity many Years, did upon the Marriage of Mr William Throgmorton (afterwards S[i]r William) with young Mistress Jane Trumbull find Means to place me in their Family, being then a Stripling, as Assistant under the Butler, & Helper in the Pantry, to whom by my good Lady & Patronesses’ Favour I succeeded some Years after, tho’ then under 30, and continued to discharge that Employment, till their Honours were pleased to promote me to the Stewardship about three Years & a half, before the Death of S[i]r William my Master, w[hi]ch was too soon followed by that of my dear & ever lamented Lady. S[i]r Humphrey, for so he then became, & Heir to that noble Estate tho’ not a little impair’d by S[i]r William’s gorgeous Manner of Liveing & too profuse Liberalities, was left with two unmarried Sisters, both elder than himself, Mrs Hester & Mrs Margaret, who were† very good Fortunes, haveing three thousand Pounds each, payable by their Brother, S[i]r H: on the Day of Marriage. he was (when S[i]r W: died) entering into his 26th Year, of a sanguine & healthful Constitution, a great Lover of Field-Sports, w[hi]ch were indeed his only Diversions, & while he was abroad & busied in them, you would have thought him quite another Man for in the House he was much given to museing, & even melancholy, slow of Speech & no Lover of Company. he never miss’d Morning & Evening Prayers with the Family besides w[hi]ch he always retired to his Closet for two Hours be-fore Supper & to this his Piety it may be imagined was oweing his Inclination to his eldest Sister, Madam Hester, who was thought to pass her whole Time in Devotion, except only what she gave to the Management of the Family, for she directed every thing (S[i]r H: little concerning himself in houshold Matters) laid out all Monies, & hired or turned away what Servants she thought good. S[i]r H: dureing his Father’s Lifetime (who was commonly following the Court, as his Place under the Duke of Buckinghā required him) had been trusted entirely to Mr Walter Henderson his Tutour a Scotchman of a very rigid Temper, that used him with great Severity. many a time has he been shut up for four & twenty Hours together in a dark Closet without a Morsel to support Nature, but what I (at the hazard of my Place) have conveyed to him thro’ the Key-hole, while Mr Walter was at his Devotions. he was corrected daily for the slightest Faults, nor ever stirred out of the House but to his Great Uncle’s at Rook-Hall four times in the Year, & then accompanied by his Tutor. never was suffer’d to help himself or ask for anything at Table till he was turn’d of twenty. never drank Wine, but on the Birth-Days of the Family & Christmas. till S[i]r H: being near 30, & happening to dine at old Mrs Blake’s his Godmother one Shrovetide he saw there for the first Time, the Lady Judith Stanley, youngest Sister to the Earl of Derby, who lived hard by at Rummington Place with the good Lady Countess-Dowager, her Grandmother. she was two Years younger than my Master, & looked upon as a young Lady of the best Hopes & finest Breeding in the County. no Pains or Expence haveing been spared in her Education; she sung well, […] Theorbo […] with great Skill, was famous for her […] Pastry & Filigraine-Work, but above all she danced to a Miracle, w[hi]ch tho’ a Diversion none of our Family at all approved (except Mrs Margaret) yet as it was Holiday Time, & Mrs Blake loved Merriment: the Company being set in to Danceing, Lady Judith haveing performed several Sarabands, was at last prevail’d upon to give them a Horn-pipe: S[i]r H: was observed to look at her a great Part of the Evening, & being placed near her at Supper he spoke more to her, than he had ever been seen to do before to any Woman, but his Relations. Madam Hester appear’d very serious all Night, would not taste any of the Fritters (a Dish usual at that Season) & when they were going again to Danceing, was seized with a violent Head-Ach, w[hi]ch obliged her Brother to return home with her. the next Sunday all the Family being at Church, young Primly, Chaplain to the Lady Bedingfield (who was M: Hester’s particular Friend) preach’d a Sermon against Stage-Plays, Masks, Mummings, but above all inveigh’d against the Ungodly & wanton Usage of Dancing, w[hi]ch he called the Lure of Letchery, & such as practised it were he said Imps of Impiety, & the Devil’s Poppets, and after he had dwell’d upon this Part of his Subject above an Hour, he put off the further Handleing that Matter till the next Sabbath-Day. when that came, S[i]r H: was not at Church, being indisposed, but M: Hester told him the Substance of it at Length after Dinner, adding a great deal about the profane Education given to young Women now a-days, & especially thos of Quality, for she knew my Master was never fond of the Court, w[hi]ch he look’d upon as a Sink of Lewdness & Debauchery. she grew too of late more than ordinary careful of provideing every thing, that she knew suited his Palate, & took a great Fancy to his favourite Dogs & Hawks, w[hi]ch she fed with her own Hand, & made much of. however S[i]r H: was observed to [be] less fond of his Sport & more sad than usual, spoke short to the Servants, & even to his Sister sometimes, & one night he rehearsed aloud the Creed, while every body else was saying the Lord’s Prayer. the Week after he went to Mad: Blake’s, tho’ it was like to rain, & Mad: Hester would have dissuaded him on account of his Health. he stayed late & return’d again two Days after

[Docketed in an unidentified hand:] Account of the Throgmorton Family

[Added below by a third hand (probably a price):] 10–5–

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The MS includes a number of original corrections, which have not been recorded. The ellipses indicate where some interlined words are obscured by the mount at the top of the second page.

† Sic.