Rates of importation and exportation of Mr. Worsnam
- Sraffa MS/A/17
- Unidad documental compuesta
- 6 June 1615
Extracted from Sraffa 2542-3
Rates of importation and exportation of Mr. Worsnam
Extracted from Sraffa 2542-3
Parte deCrewe Manuscripts
See the table of contents below. On the spine is stamped ‘The Glasse of Righteousness by H. Nichol of the family of Love. M.S.S. Anno M. D. LXXX.’
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Contents
f. i r: Title: ‘The Glasse of Righteousnes. (Speculum Justitiae) Through the holy Spirit of the Love of Jesus Christ and the deified Man, out of the Heavenly truth witnessed and published. To a declareing the Headsumme of the Upright Righteousnes or Kingly crowne of the Everlasting life. And is by HN perused anew and playnely or Distinctly declared. Translated out of Base-almayne. … ANNO. M. D. LXXX.’
f. 1v: Print of a symbolic representation of the Last Judgement, headed, in Low German, ‘Nu geit idt Gerichte ŏuer de Werlt: nu wert de Fŏrste desser Werlt vth-geworpen. Joan. 12.’ (John xii. 31). [1590 x 1630.]
The illustration depicts, in the words of the British Museum catalogue, ‘an angel hovering above two large orbs; a devil and skeleton standing on the right orb as it is swallowed by a hell mouth [with a lamb in front]; at left the same orb upturned, crush-ing the devil, the lamb with the flag of the resurrection standing on top of the fallen skeleton’. The angel carries a label inscribed ‘Nu is idt Heil de Kraft, vnde idt Ryck vnserem Gode geworden vnde de Macht Synem Christo Apoc 12’ (Rev. xii. 10). The lambs are each labelled ‘De Wech de Waerheit vnde idt Leuen’ (‘The Way, the Truth, and the Life’); the devils are each labelled ‘Sunde’ (‘Sin’).
Cf. British Museum No. 1870,0514.311.
f. 5r: ‘The First Booke. of the Glasse of Righteousnes.’
At the foot of the page is the date 1578.
f. 77r: Print of a symbolic representation of God in Heaven, 1656.
Engraved by Richard Gaywood. The print depicts a sun with the tetragrammaton in the centre, surrounded by clouds and a heavenly host. At the head is the text ‘Ego primus et ego novissimus: alpha et omega Is. 44.48. Ap.1.21.22’, and round the sun is ‘Coronae assimilabo judicium meum. 4.Esd.5.’ This is an elaboration of the device which appears on the title-page of several of Niclaes’s books, e.g. The Prophetie of the Spirit of Love (1574).
f. 78r: ‘The Second Booke of the Glasse of Righteousnes.’
f. 201r: ‘The Third Booke of the Glasse of Righteousnes.’
f. 295r: ‘The Tree of Life | The Fourth Booke of the Glasse of Righteousnes.’
f. 403r: Print of a heart and other emblems, captioned with verses beginning ‘Our Heart is the Minde of God’, [17th c.].
Two hands clasped in greeting in front of a lily, within a heart surrounded by rays of light, clouds, and winged heads. Above the hands are the words ‘Love trueth’, and amidst the clouds are the tetragrammaton and the word ‘Emmanuel’. Below the illustration are the following verses: ‘Our Heart is the Minde of God most high. Our Beeing amiable, as the sweet Lillie. Our faitfullnes Love and Trueth upright, Is Gods Light. life, and Cleernes bright.’
Letter from Isaac Barrow to the Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge
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Pera, Constant[ino]politanae - After an apology for the long delay in writing to the Fellowship, Barrow gives an account of his travels from Paris, with a description of his stay in Florence, prolonged because of the plague in Naples, which was predicted to spread to Rome whither he had planned to go next; heeding the warning that if caught by the plague he would not be able to leave, and it proving too difficult to reach Venice, he embarks on a ship to Constantinople. He describes the present state of affairs under the Grand Vizier, Koprulu Mehmed Pasha, who had come to power two years earlier: his work to restore the Ottoman name at home and abroad, recovering the islands of Tenedos and Lemnos, repelling an attack by the Venetian fleet, suppressing a revolt in Moldavia and Wallachia by removing their princes, repressing the infighting threatening the prestige of the empire, most recently undertaking an expedition to Transylvania on the pretext that Prince Ragotzy, a Turkish subject, had invaded Poland hoping to take the kingdom for himself. Barrow predicts that Christendom will find in the Grand Vizier its worst enemy and describes his punishment of Parthenius, the Patriarch of the Greek Church, who was accused of intrigue with the Duke of Muscovy despite the commonly held view that the accusations were false, and who was hanged and left on display in his Pontifical robes as a deterrent to plotters. Barrow closes with a promise to return to Cambridge within the year.
Docketed by William Derham, "Paper. 1. Dr Barrows Lr ...to the Fellows of Trin. Col. Cambridge from Constantinople. Caland August 1658. Publ. Lr 1. W.Ds.'
Barrow, Isaac (1630-1677), mathematician and theologian
‘Verbum Sapienti’, by Sir William Petty
(‘In Petty's list of his own writings … the entry “Verbum Sapienti, and the value of People” stands opposite the year 1665, and the internal evidence makes it probable that the booklet was written in the latter part of that year.’ (The Economic Writings of Sir William Petty, ed. C. H. Hull (1899), vol. i.))
List of ships that arrived from India on 23 July 1674
Manuscript of 'A speech upon the State of the Nation' by Andrew Fletcher
Letter of Giambattista Vico to Padre Giacchi
Letter from [Gilbert Elliot of Minto] to David Hume
Further criticism of Hume's 'Dialogues concerning natural religion'
Letter from [Gilbert Elliot of Minto] to David Hume
Criticizes Hume's 'Dialogues concerning natural religion'
Letter from David Hume to Adam Smith
Jack's Land, Edinburgh. Commiserates regarding illness and discusses the work of the Long Parliament.
Letter from Adam Ferguson to Adam Smith
Groningen. Discusses Mr Gordon and his advisers, ceremonials of the Dutch, subject of previous letter (undisclosed), request to be addressed without clerical titles "for I am a downright layman"
Diary and account book belonging to Thomas Hebbes
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Diary entries and accounts kept by a student in his last year at Trinity College, Cambridge in a printed diary for 1753 altered to the later date the diary started in February 1755 and continuing on through the beginning of February 1756 when Hebbes left Trinity for Kensington. Hebbes records academic activities: declaiming in Chapel, presenting an epistle to the Master of Trinity Dr Smith, and paying the Moderator's man for huddling before being examined by Mr Howkins, and then by two moderators, and four fathers in the 'theatre'. His accounts record purchases of food, a subscription to Dockrell's Coffee House, and a variety of miscellaneous items: a new wig, repairs to his watch, Christmas boxes, as well as expenses relating to trips to London, Saffron Walden, Royston, Chesterton, and Stourbridge Fair. He records money won and lost at cards and bowls, and money given to the poor. He mentions selling books, makes payments to the Junior Proctor, Beadle, Head Lecturer and Senior Bursar, and buys a bachelor's gown, and wine and port for the 'Batchelor's table' before taking his degree. The diary also appears to have been used for handwriting practice by Ellen Hebbes and possibly other Hebbes children.
Hebbes, Thomas (c 1733-1766), clergyman
Letter from David Hume to Ronald Crawford
Lisle Street, Leicester Field. Discusses business with Lord Hopton.
Letter from Victor de Riqueti to [Antoine de Sartine, Lieutenant de Police]
Letter from William Mure to David Hume
Caldwell. Discusses new taxes in the colonies, possibility of George Brown settling in the area.
Letter from Adam Ferguson to Adam Smith
Edinburgh. Ferguson is reading AS's work and is complimentary but the work has provoked the Church, the University, the merchants and the militia, illness of Hume
Letter from Adam Smith to William Strahan
Kirkaldy. Apologises for the letter sent the previous day
Parte deCrewe Manuscripts
‘Aeronautica’: prints, cuttings, and other papers relating to the history of ballooning
Parte deCrewe Manuscripts
On the spine is stamped 'Aeronautica'.
Letter from Adam Smith to [Henry Beaufoy]
Edinburgh. Discusses revenues from tobacco, Hair Powder Act, consolidation of customs and excise
Letter from Adam Smith to [Henry Beaufoy]
Edinburgh: scheme to improve the fishing trade in Scotland
Cutting from an album amicorum, bearing an inscription by Jean-Pierre Blanchard
Parte deCrewe Manuscripts
Letter from Victor de Riqueti to de Mautore, notaire
Argenteuil. Suggests d'Ormessan should be deprived of his powers
Letter from T Frankland Lewis to Nassau William Senior
Unable to dine
Letter from T Frankland Lewis to Nassau William Senior
Happy to dine
Parte deCrewe Manuscripts
(The document bears a note on its provenance, dated at Annonay on 1 Jan. 1827.)