PREFACE.

One hundred and seventy-two lots catalogued below, all but some half-dozen are of English origin. Seventy-six contain manuscripts, liturgical, geographical or historical, dating from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries (with one or two of later date). The remainder consist of printed books, including no less than eighty-four published before 1610. Several manuscripts of great importance, together with twenty-nine rare books printed before 1640, deal directly with early American history and colonization.

This remarkable collection represents an untouched accumulation of a character now almost unique in private hands. Inherited by the present owner from the Percy Earls of Northumberland and from their descendants and successors in the Petworth estates, the Earls of Egremont, the majority of the books and manuscripts are associated with Henry, ninth Earl of Northumberland, whose fine book-stamp (illustrated opposite page 12) appears on twenty volumes and who obviously owned many others; and with his son Algernon, tenth Earl and Lord High Admiral.

Henry Percy, ninth Earl of Northumberland, was born in 1564. Heir to one of the most powerful and historic families of England, and ranking eighth in succession to the throne, he lacked no opportunity of contact with the leading figures of his time and of interest in the great movements, then afoot, of enterprise and discovery beyond the seas. A friend of Raleigh and a supporter of the Virginia Company, he followed closely the voyages and adventures of the western pioneers, among whom his brother, George Percy, for a time held office. It was to Northumberland that the colonist William Strachey, in search of further support for Virginian interests, dedicated what appears to be the earliest of the three extant manuscripts of his "Historie of Travel into Virginia Britania." This elaborate treatise, probably the best of all early accounts of the colony, was never printed until modern times. The Northumberland manuscript, the only one in private hands, is now offered for sale (lot 142), together with a very fine copy of the same author's Virginian "Lawes," printed in 1612.

Other printed works (all of great rarity) are, as regards Virginia, Rich's "Newes from Virginia," 1610 (lot 123); Captain John Smith's "True Relation," 1608 (lots 134 and 135, variant issues); and the anonymous "True Declarations," 1610 (lots 164, 5, 6): as regards New England, Brereton's "Briefe and True Relation," 1602, the first English publication relating to New England (lots 21, 22, two issues); Rosier's "True Relation" of Captain Weymouth's voyage, 1605 (lots 127, 128, two issues: this and Brereton's work have been described as "The Verie Two Eyes of New-England Historie"); and Wood's "New Englands Prospect," 1634, the first detailed account of Massachusetts (lot 172).

In 1606 the Earl of Northumberland fell under suspicion politically and was confined for a period of years in the Tower. During this enforced seclusion he associated with Raleigh, Thomas Harriot, and a

variety of men of learning, and while maintaining his interest in matters
overseas, embarked on the scientific studies which obtained him the
nickname of the "Wizard Earl." It is to this period that the library
owes a series of manuscripts on the art of alchemy (lots 2-11) of remark-
able interest.

His brother George Percy (1580-1632, Deputy Governor of
Virginia 1609-12) was warmly involved, as an opponent of Captain
Smith, in the struggles and rivalries of the early colonists and in later
years composed as an apologia a narrative of events, as he saw them,
during his sojourn in America. This important document was not
published, and appears to have survived only in the manuscript dedicated
to the writer's nephew Algernon, Lord Percy, afterwards tenth Earl of
Northumberland. This unique manuscript appears as lot 115 in the
present sale.

The tenth Earl was responsible for no other accretion to the library
of such outstanding importance, but a number of items of some interest
date from his lifetime, including the manuscript of Mainwaring's
"Nomenclator Navalis," the first English seaman's dictionary, doubtless
presented to him officially as Lord High Admiral.

The collection includes a number of manuscript maps of exceptional
consequence. Foremost among these is Sir Humphrey Gilbert's chart
of North America and the Arctic regions (lot 78), bearing the signature
of the great explorer and the cabalistical symbol affected by Dr. John
Dee, by whom it was doubtless drawn up. There is also an extremely
fine map of Guiana, obviously closely associated with Raleigh's explora-
tions (lot 79).

The earlier manuscripts include at least two of the highest merit.
One, an early 15th Century Pilgrimage of the Soul (lot 76), is probably
the finest illuminated manuscript in vernacular English to be offered by
auction for many years. Some suggestion of the quality of the decoration
and of the condition of the work is conveyed by the coloured frontispiece
to this catalogue. A Sarum Horae of the same date (lot 65) in im-
maculate state and bearing the "Wizard Earl's" book-stamp, is also a
very fine example of English writing and illumination.

Among the few 18th Century lots, mention is due to Sir James
Murray's voluminous original report, as Governor of Quebec, to Lord
Egremont, Secretary of State, on the affairs of Canada in 1762 (lot 120):
and to the set of four superb water-colour drawings of the famous action
between H.M.S. *Reindeer* and the U.S. Sloop *Wasp* in June, 1814
(lot 43).

No collection combining, to the extent found here, historic ownership
and association with works in themselves of the highest importance
and rarity, has reached the auction room for nearly fifteen years. It is
clear that very few sales of this character can possibly occur in the future:
certainly no such gathering of Americana is likely to recur in the
English market.

February, 1928.

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BRERETON (JOHN) A BRIEFE AND TRUE RELATION
OF THE DISCOUERIE OF THE NORTH PART OF
VIRGINIA; BEING A MOST PLEASANT, FRUITFULL AND COM-
MODIOUS SOILE: Made this present yeere 1602, by Captaine
Bartholomew Gosnold, Captaine Bartholowmew (sic) Gilbert,
and diuers other gentlemen their associats, by the permission of
the honourable knight, Sir Walter Ralegh, &c. . . . Whereunto is
annexed a Treatise, conteining important inducements for the
planting in those parts, and finding a passage that way to the
South sea, and China. Written by M. Edward Hayes, a gentle-
man long since imploied in the like action, blact letter, FIRST
EDITION (A-C 4), title within lace-pattern border, a somewhat
severely cropped copy, but the body of the text complete excepting
two leaves where it is just touched, in clean and crisp condition,
unbound 4to. Londini, Impensis Geor. Bishop. 1602

** THE EXCEEDINGLY RARE FIRST EDITION OF WHICH ONLY SIX OTHER COPIES ARE KNOWN, FOUR OF THEM IN PUBLIC LIBRARIES AND ONE OF THE OTHERS WANTING THE TITLE. APPARENTLY ONLY TWO COPIES OF THIS FIRST EDITION HAVE EVER BEEN SOLD BY PUBLIC AUCTION.

This is an account of the first English attempt to settle in the
land since called New England, and is the earliest English
publication relating to its history. It is now known that the
statement on the title-page that the voyage was made by the
permission of Raleigh is untrue and the contraband character
of the enterprise stands confessed. Instead of making the
circuitous route by the Canaries, Gosnold steered due west, and
was the first to accomplish a direct course to America, saving
"the better part of a thousand leagues." The voyagers made
the headland which they named Cape Cod, and Gosnold,
Brereton and two others went ashore on "the white sands," the
first spot in New England trodden by English feet.

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25 CAPGRAVE (JOHN) [HERE BEGYNNETH THE KALENDRE OF THE NEWE LEGENDE OF ENGLANDE.] On folio 119: ₩ Thus endyth the Kalendre of the new Legende of Englande/Emprynted ... by Richarde Pynson ... [n. d.] On folio 120: ₩ Here begynneth the lyfe of seynt Birgette. On folio 133: ₩ Thus endyth the Lyfe of Seynt Byrgette Enprynted at Lōdon ... by Rycharde Pynson ... 1516. [Then follows with fresh sigs. natures on 16 leaves, A-B 8]. Hereaftre foloweth a deuoute Boke compylyd by mayster Walter Hylton to a deuoute man in temperall estate howe he shulde rule hym. On sig. B 8: ₩ Thus endyth a deuoute boke cōpylyd by mayster Walter Hylton/Empryntyd at lōdon ... by (Rycharde Pynson) ... 1506, 3 parts, Black letter, large woodcut of St. Bridget within an elegant flower border, Pynson's woodcut device at end of each of the three parts, wants the first 20 leaves, wormed throughout (some leaves rather badly), front cover and part of back only of the original binding remain, stamped calf over wooden boards 4to. London, R. Pynson, 20 Feb. 1516

**EXTREMELY RARE.** Hylton's treatise "To a Deuoute man," though dated 1506, is no doubt printed at the same time as the rest of the book.

26 CAREW (THOMAS) COELUM BRITANICUM. A MASQUE AT WHITE-HALL IN THE BANQVETTING-HOVSE, on Shrove-Tuesday-night, the 18. of February, 1633, FIRST EDITION, second issue (with the errors in pagination corrected and 12 pages reset), worm-hole through the blank margin, has the original blank leaf before title, A VERY LARGE, CLEAN AND UNPRESSED COPY IN THE ORIGINAL BROWN PAPER WRAPPER (the upper cover torn)

4to (7½ in. by 5½ in.) London: Printed for Thomas Walkley ... 1634

27 CARTWRIGHT (JOHN) The Preachers Travels. Wherein is set downe a true Journall to the confines of the East Indies ... With the Authors returne by the way of Persia, Susiana, Assiria ... containing a full suruew of the Knigdom (sic.) of Persia ... Also a true relation of Sir Anthonie Sherleys entertainment there : and the estate that his Brother M. Robert Sherley liued in, FIRST EDITION, the blank inner margin of four leaves in gathering K wormed, the top rule of two or three leaves shaved, the blank leaf for sig. A 4 missing, unbound

4to. London Printed for Thomas Thorpe, and are to bee sold by Walter Burre. 1611

28 [CARTWRIGHT (W.)] The Royal Slave, A Tragicomedy. The Scene Sardes, Acted before the King at Oxford (Note. Written by Wm. Cartwright a Student of Christchurch, and first repre-

THE
MANSION
of Magnanimitie.

WHEREIN IS SHEWED, THE
most high and honorable acts of fundrie English Kings,
Princes, Dukes, Earles, Lords, Knights and Gentlemen,
from time to time performed in defence of their Princes
and Countrie: set forth as an encouragement to all
faithfull subiects, by their example resolutely
to addreffe them felues againft all for-
reine enemies.

Published by RICHARD CROMPTON an Apprentice
of the common Law. 1599.

Whereunto is also adioyned a collection of diuerse Lawes and
Statutes meete to be knowne of all men : with a briefe Table,
shewing what munition ought to be kept by all forts of her
Maieſties subiects, for the defence of her Highneſſe
Realmes and Dominions.

LONDON,
Printed for V William Ponſonby.
1599.

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39 DAVIES (WILLIAM) A True Relation of the Travailes and most miserable Captiuitie of William Dauies, Barber-Surgery of London, vnder the Duke of Florence. Wherein is truly set downe the manner of his taking, the long time of his slauerie, and meanes of his deliuerie, after eight yeeres, and ten moneths Captiuitie in the Gallies. Discouering many mayne Landes, Ilandes, Riuers, Cities and townes, of the Christians and Infidels, Black letter (A-E 4), unbound, A GOOD COPY, RARE
4to. London: Printed for Nicholas Bourne, 1614

40 Digges (Leonard) A Prognostication euerlasting of right good effect ... contayning ... rules to iudge the weather by the Sunne, Moone, Starres, Comets, Rainbow, Thunder, Clowdes, Black letter (A-O 4 and a folding diagram of the "Coelestiall Orbes"), woodcuts and diagrams, a badly cropped copy, unbound; sold not subject to return
4to. No place, printer or date (probably not before 1576)

41 DONNE (JOHN) SATIRES, ELEGIES, POEMS AND SONGS, MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER, very neatly and clearly written in an Italian book hand, 118 leaves (including four blank), original olive morocco, line tooling in blind and gold on sides, g. e. (binding somewhat rubbed)
4to. EARLY XVII CENT.

42 DOVER. ORIGINAL COLOURED DRAWING ON VELLUM OF DOVER AND DOVER HARBOUR in 1552, made for the Privy Council of Edward VI with a view to the construction of 4 Jetties. Details of the proposed necessary alterations written on a folio sheet are attached to the drawing, and a shorter account of them is written on the drawing itself within a scroll frame. This doubtless formed a part of the plans for the improvement of Dover started by Henry VIII when he contributed £80000 towards the erection of a pier which was not completed till the reign of Elizabeth, during which period the harbour was constantly undergoing alterations (64 in. by 26 in.). 1552

** A VERY INTERESTING RECORD OF TUDOR DOVER, showing a view of the town, ships in the harbour, the pier, jetties, etc., and the surrounding country as far as Folkestone, which is indicated by a church and a few houses in the distance.

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DRAWINGS. NAVAL ACTION BETWEEN H.M.S. REINDEER, AN 18 GUN SLOOP COMMANDED BY CAPTAIN MANNERS, AND THE AMERICAN SLOOP, THE WASP, 28 JUNE, 1814.

43

A SERIES OF FOUR REMARKABLY FINE WATER-COLOUR DRAWINGS, ATTRIBUTED TO J. T. SERRES, each 14¼ in. by 18¼ in., within wash borders

Plate I represents the Commencement of the Action on the Reindeer weathering the Wasp and passing ahead of her, when both vessels open their bow guns. The Wasp is in the act of putting her helm down and letting fly the head sheets to tack under the Reindeer's bow

Plate II represents the Wasp with her gib boom in the Reindeer's lee rigging

Plate III. The vessels are alongside each other when superior weight, both of metal and of numbers overpower every effort made by the gallant Captain of the Reindeer

Plate IV. The hull of the Wasp in the act of sinking the Reindeer, and putting part of her crew on board a Portuguese vessel for a passage to Plymouth

The *Wasp* was sister to the *Peacock* and the most famous of her class. After making many daring captures in the Channel, she encountered the *Reindeer*. The latter was at a considerable disadvantage—both in guns and men—and Captain Manners, who was finally shot dead after being repeatedly hit, made a last desperate attempt to run his brig aboard the *Wasp*, whose crew then boarded and captured the *Reindeer*.

The *Wasp* never returned to port and her fate remains one of the ocean mysteries.

with a contemporary MS. description of the drawings, 2 pp. folio

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LOT 45—continued.

making the King of England his Vicar-General, Franckfort
15 Sept. 24 year of his reign—*Folio* 36: Another letter of
the Emperor about a debt 13 Sept. 1338—*Folio* 37b: John
de Chalons does homage to King Edward before Calais, 6 March
1346—*Folio* 40: SCOCIA. Covenant between Edward III &
Edward de Balliol, King of Scotland, the latter granting all his
right to the crown of Scotland. Bamborough, 20 Jan. 1355—
Edward Balliol, King of Scotland, about the above, dated from
Rokesburgh—Another Charter about the same by Edward King
of Scotland, 1355—*Folio* 43: Release by Edward Balliol King
of Scotland, 1355—*Folio* 44: Agreement between the King of
England and Charles de Blois, dated Westminster, 1 March,
1352—*Folio* 50: French letter of Godfrey de Harecourt
appointing the King his heir in Normandy, 18 July, 1356—
*Folio* 51: French account of the subjection of Scotland to
England—*Folio* 55: Treaty of peace at Calais between Eng-
land & France, 6 April, 1354—*Folio* 58: Letters from the
Pope to the Prince of Wales. Innocent to Edward. Dated
Avignon 5 non. Oct. 4th year, etc.—*Folio* 59b: Treaty of peace
between the Kings of England & France, London 24 March,
1359—*Folio* 66: Homage by the Prince of Wales for the
Duchy of Aquitaine—*Folio* 70b: Confederation between the
King and Thomas Earl of Mar, 24 Feb. 1359, etc.

46 ELIZABETH (Queen) An Address to her Majesty concerning "the most dangerous, foule and outragious abuses of late growene into the Services of the Warrs . . ."

It is suggested that all who lose an Ensign shall only use
a black ensign until it be recovered, that the Statute of
Edward VI, called the Statute for Captains be proclaimed
every month.

A very beautifully written MS. written in the latter part
of the reign of Elizabeth (the writer, who describes him-
self, "a faithfull subject," gives "A trew decipher of the
two greatest enormities crept into the Wars of England of
late years since the 25 year of the reign of Her Most Excellent
Majesty"), 17 leaves

Seven Orders of the Grecian Army in their retreat from Babilon when Xenophon was present, 22 leaves, with diagrams; *folio, vellum, with badge of the "Wizard Earl" on sites*

XVI CENT.

47 ELY PRIORY, CARTULARY OF. MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM, written in various hands on 112 leaves, the first two or three leaves somewhat stained, strips cut from the blank margins of a few leaves at beginning, the sides of original wooden boards remain, the back gone

small *folio* (11½ in. by 7⅔ in.). ENGLISH XIII-XV CENT.

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MANUSCRIPT BY MR. A. J. HORWOOD WILL BE FOUND IN THE SIXTH REPORT OF THE HIST. MSS. COMM, 1877 (see ib. pp. 287-319, MSS. at Petworth House, No. 9). The volume contains copies of documents relating to the Priory chiefly of the period Edward I, II and III, most of them in Latin (a few in French). The first entries (folio 5 seq.) are written in a large early hand which ends on folio 14. The entries after that are mostly XIV Century.

A few of the interesting entries detailed in Mr. Horwood's list are as follows:—*Folio* 43: The Prior of Ely complains of Roger de Montalt who put up new gallows in the Hundred of Tudelyng and having taken Geoffrey Hare, a robber, hung him. The Prior claims the sole right to gallows:—*Folio* 43b: John de Hastings against the Prior of Ely for throwing down his gallows:—*Folio* 48B, 1309: The appointment of monks to choose a bishop; they chose John de Ketene; he affected to refuse; they accepted him, sung Te Deum, went to the High Altar and declared the election to the clerks and people by R. de Swafham:—*Folio* 57B: The Prior and Convent of Ely excuse themselves from a loan asked by the King (Edward II) for his wars with Scotland:—*Folio* 62, 1323: The Prior of Ely and the Convent to the King. The King has asked how many “Enpensions e gastreysons e mandemens e envoys” they and their house are charged with. They pray his mercy: their Church is all ruined:—*Folio* 63B, 1324: Letter about the founding the House of the Scholars of St. Michael of Cambridge (absorbed in Trinity College); Confirmation by J. de Crandene, Prior of Ely and the Convent, of the appropriation of the church of St. Michael Cambridge to the master and scholars of the House of St. Michael there:—*Folio* 70, 1320: A list of books borrowed from the Prior and Convent by Roger de Huntingfeld later rector of Balsham:—*Folio* 72: Four books taken out of their church by a robber, three of them now in Paris. Seeking their return:—*Folio* 77B, 1335: Confirmation of the grant of the church of Hynton to St. Peter's, Cambridge, by John de Hotham, Bishop of Ely:—*Folio* 84: Concerning the grant by Hugh de Balsam of the Church of St. Peter without Trompeton, Cambridge, to the Master and poor scholars of Peter House, Cambridge—*Folio* 88B (? 1338): Concerning a present of a chalice and two cups of gold demanded by the King:—*Folio* 99: Concerning the Foundation of the House of the Scholars of Corpus Christi in Cambridge:—*Folio* 102B, 1366: Charter uniting All Saints and St. Giles, Cambridge. The parishioners of All Saints are for the most part dead by pestilence and the parishioners of St. Giles also have died. The nave of All Saints is ruinous, and the bones of dead bodies are exposed to beasts:—*Folio* 106B, 1350: Grant of a messuage to Trinity Hall.

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48 EXCHANGE AND COINAGE. [A TREATISE ON EXCHANGE, MINTAGE, etc.], SIXTEENTH CENTURY MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM

Folio 2: The Preface. "Ffor the better vnderstanding of the Arythemetycall rules conteyned in this book of Exchange," etc. 2 pages

Folios 3-12: A CONFERENCE OF WAIGHTES BOOLION AND VALEWES of the silver monies of England and of the sylver monyes of the Lowe Countries, with a comparyson of the exchange vsed to and fro betwene the Burse at Anwerpe (sic), and lombarde streete in london ... fynished in the monthe of ffebruarye, Anno 1564, 19 pages

Folios 13-17: A TREATISE CONCERNINGE THE MINTAGE OF THE MONEYES, necessarily depending vpon the booke of exchange hereafter ensuing, 10 pages

Folios 18-19: An abstracte of the dyfferent reasons of the two Juryes concerning the Syzing of the Troy Weyghte, and of the avoyredepois wate: wrytten the 28. of Marche. 1585, 3 pages

Folio 20: The controuersie betwene her Matye and the steedes or stillyard men: written the 8th of Aprill 1578, 2 pages

Folio 21: Towchinge the vente of Englyshe clothes. Written the 9th of october. 1587, 2 pages

Folio 22: Towching the multitude of marchantes for venting of Englyshe clothes, 2 pages
written in a cursive hand, 22 leaves, followed by 17 leaves of blank vellum, in a contemporary calf binding, Lyonnese frame compartment on sides lettered in centre OF THE EXCHAINGE, a coat-of-arms above (five fusils in bend azure, a crescent in sinister chief), silk ties

folio (13½ in. by 10¼ in.). ENGLISH LATE XVI CENT.

** Note on the first leaf. "1615. So This Booke was made 51 yeares past." and in red below, "John Achesone with my hand. Amen."

49 Exchequer. In Camera Scaccarij. Maij 1608. Directions for Commissioners, with the Steward of each Mannour, Black letter (S. T. C. No. 7705), London, R. Barker, 1608—In camera Ducatus Lanc. 6. Iunij 1608. Directions for Commissioners, with the Steward of each Mannour, Black letter (apparently unrecorded), ib. 1608, unbound 4to. (2)

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FAMOUS (A) VICTORIE, ATCHIUED IN AUGUST LAST 1613. by the Christian Gallies of Sicilia, against the Turkes. Wherein were redeemed aboue a thousand Christian Captiues, as many Turkes slaine, and aboue six hundred taken, woodcut of a sea-fight on title (A-B 4, the first leaf blank except for the signature and the last leaf blank), a small slit throughout, unbound, A GOOD COPY

4to. (6¾ in. by 5¼ in.). Printed for Th: Thorp, 1613

** EXTREMELY RARE. Only one copy is recorded in the S. T. C. (No. 22528), that in the British Museum.

51

FERRARIUS MONTANUS (Jo.) A Woorke . . . touchynge the good orderynge of a common weale . . . Englished by William Bauande, FIRST EDITION, Black letter, poetical translations from classical authors interspersed in the text, name of owner in a 16th Century hand on fly-leaf "Thomas Valentine. fide sed vide," signatures on back of title in early 17th Century hands "Tho. Kemys" and "Willm. Willoughebye," woodcut border round title slightly defective at foot, wants two leaves of Table and leaf of errata at end, original limp vellum binding (loose)

4to. London, John Kingston for John Wight, 1559

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FLORENCE. Good Newes from Florence : of a famovs victorie obtained against the Turkes in May last 1613. both by Sea and Land : By the great Duke of Florence, the Earle of Candale, and diuers French Commanders and Gentlemen (A-C 4), imprint cut into removing date, unbound

4to. London, E. Griffin for N. Butter [1614]

** Only two copies are recorded in the S. T. C. (British Museum and Sir R. L. Harmsworth).

53

GARCILASSO DE LA VEGA. Primera Parte de los Commentarios Reales, que tratan del origen de los Yncas, Reyes qve fveron del Perv, FIRST EDITION, engraved plate of arms, rust stains on license leaf, a slit in folio 64, some leaves at end somewhat water-stained, old calf, covers loose

folio. En Lisboa: En la officina de Pedro Crasbeeck. 1609. [Colophon at end dated 1608]

54

Garcilasso de la Vega. Historia General del Perv, wants the plate of arms and two other preliminary leaves, original calf

folio. En Cordoua, por la Viuda de Andres Barrera, 1617

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55 GARDINER (EDMUND) [THE TRIALL OF TABACCO] PHYSICALL AND APPROVED MEDICINES, AS WELL IN MEERE SIMPLES, AS COMPOUND OBSERUATIONS. With a true and Direct Judgement of the seuerall Complexions of Men . . . With the making of many excellent Vnguents, and Oyles, as also their applications . . . WITH THE TRUE VSE OF TAKING THAT EXCELLENT HERBE TOBACCO AS WELL IN THE PIPE BY SUME, AS ALSO IN PHYSICKE, MEDICINE AND CHIRURGERIE, FIRST EDITION, THIRD ISSUE (¶ 2; A-P 4; Q 2), dedicated to Sir Edmond Carey Knight, commen-datory verses by John Serle and Edward Michael, A VERY FINE COPY IN CONTEMPORARY WRAPPER WITH ORIGINAL SEWING AND IN CLEAN AND UNPRESSED CONDITION

4to (7 13/8 in. by 5 7/8 in.) London, Printed for Matthew Lownes . . . 1624

** APPARENTLY UNRECORDED AND THE ONLY COPY KNOWN. This book is the third issue with a cancel title of Edmund Gardiner's exceedingly rare book "The Triall of Tobacco" which first appeared in 1610. The second issue and the first with the title "Phisicall and approved medicines" was published a year later, in 1611, and of this issue only one copy is recorded in the S. T. C. (Cambridge University Library).

[See ILLUSTRATION.]

56 GENTLEMAN (TOBIAS) ENGLANDS WAY TO WIN WEALTH, and to employ Ships and Marriners: Or, a plaine description what great profite it will bring . . . by the Erecting, Building, and aduenturing of Busses, to Sea, a fishing, FIRST EDITION (A 3; B-G 4; H 1; the leaf at end marked H 1 is probably A 4, the last leaf of the first gathering), a few marginal notes shaved, un-bound, VERY RARE

4to. London Printed for Nathaniel Butter. 1614

57 GRAIN. Orders appointed by his Maiestie to be straightly obserued for the preuenting and remedying of the dearth of Graine and other Vietuall. Dated the first day of June 1608, Black letter (A-D 4; first leaf a blank except for signature within a woodcut ornament, last leaf a blank), unbound

¶ Imprinted at London by Robert Barker . . . 1608

** EXTREMELY RARE. S. T. C. No. 9217 (three copies only: Emmanuel College Cambridge, Cosin Library Durham, and Huntington).

58 [GRAY (ROBERT)] A GOOD SPEED TO VIRGINIA, FIRST EDITION, Black letter (A-D 4, first leaf blank), unbound

4to (6 1/8 in. by 4 3/4 in.) London Printed by Felix Kyngston for William Welbie . . . 1609

** A VERY GOOD COPY OF AN EXTREMELY RARE BOOK. Dedicated

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to the "Knights, Merchants and Gentlemen, Adventurers for
the plantation of Virginea" by R. G. who finishes his work
"sorrowing with my selfe that I am not able neither in person
nor purse to be a partaker in the businesse." This copy has
the rare blank leaf before the title. It seems to be the third
printed tract relating to Virginia. The other two, Smith's
*True Relation*, 1608, and Johnson's *Nova Britannia*, published
in February, 1609, are both in the present catalogue (lots 134,
135, 71).

[See ILLUSTRATION.]

59 GRIMALDUS (LAURENTIUS) THE COVNSELLOR. EXACTLY POUR-TRAITED IN TWO BOOKES. Wherein the offices of Magistrates, the happie life of Subiectes, and the felicitie of Commonwealths is pleasantly and pithilie discoursed . . . Newlie translated into English, FIRST EDITION (A 2; B-0 6), NUMEROUS MS. MARGINAL NOTES BY HENRY PERCY NINTH EARL OF NORTHUMBERLAND "THE WIZARD EARL," old vellum, with his badge on sides

folio. London Imprinted by Richard Bradocke . . . 1598

** A VERY GOOD COPY. Of this exceedingly rare first edition only three copies are recorded in the S. T. C. (British Museum, Cambridge University Library and Huntington).

60 GUNPOWDER PLOT. A True and Perfect Relation of the proceedings at the seuerall Arraignments of the late most barbarous Traitors (A-rff 4, last a blank), wormhole through the blank margin of a few leaves at end, contemporary calf (binding broken and lower cover loose). 4to. London, R. Barker, 1606

** On the back of the title is the dated woodcut stamp "Hymfridvs Dyson Notarius publicus me possidet. 1611." A very early example of the use of such a stamp. For another book from his library see under "O'Dogherty" (Lot 111).

61 GWYNNETH (JOHN) A Declaracion of the state wherein all heretikes dooe leade their liues, FIRST EDITION, Black letter (A-0 4), title within woodcut compartment (shaved at top and slightly defective), headline of two leaves (sig. A 2-3) shaved, VERY RARE

4to. London, T. Berthelet, 1554

(Bound with)

[BROUGHTON (H.)] Textes of Scripture, chayning the holy Chronicle vntyll the Sunne lost his lyght, and the Sonne brake

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the Serpentes head, FIRST EDITION, Black letter, title within
border 4to. London, for G. Simson and W. White, 1591

KER (GEORGE) A Discouerie of the Vnnatvrall and Traiterovs
Conspiracie of Scottisch Papists, Black letter, head-lines and
marginal notes cropped, VERY RARE (S. T. C. 14937)

4to. Edinburgh, R. Waldegrave, n. d. [1593]

[BAGSHAW (CHRISTOPHER)] A True relation of the faction begun
at Wisbich, by Fa. Edmonds, alias Weston, a Iesuite, 1595.
and continued since by Fa. Walley, alias Garnet ... and by Fa.
Parsons in Rome ... Against vs the Secular Priests their
brethren and fellow Prisoners, FIRST EDITION, somewhat stained,

title slightly torn 4to. Newly Imprinted. 1601

[Watson (William)] Important Considerations, which ovght to
move all ... Catholics ... to acknowledge ... that the pro-
ceedings of her Maiesty ... haue bene both mild and mercifull,
FIRST EDITION, a few headlines cut into

4to. Newly Imprinted. 1601

DISCOVERYE (A) of a Covnterfecte Conference helde at a counter-
fecte place, by counterfecte travellers, for thadvancement of a
counterfecte tytle, and invented, printed, and published by
one (PERSON) that dare not avovve his name

8vo. Printed at Collen, 1600

**EXTREMELY RARE. Only 2 copies are recorded in the S. T. C.
(No. 6913)—Bodleian and Sir R. L. Harmsworth.

Bound with 7 others (mostly imperfect), in 1 vol. 17th
century calf, back broken; sold as a collection and not subject

to return 4to. (1)

62

HART (SIR WILLIAM) The Examinations, Arraignment & Conuic-
tion of George Sprot, Notary in Aye-mouth, Together with his
constant and extraordinarie behauiour at his death, in Eden-
borough, Aug. 12. 1608 ... Whereby appeareth the treasonable
deuice betwixt Iohn late Earle of Gowry and Robert Logane
of Restalrig ... plotted by them for the cruell murthering of
our most gracious Soueraigne, unbound, A FINE COPY

4to. London, Melch. Bradwood, for William Aspley. 1609

63

Hartlib (Samuel) A Briefe Relation of that which hath been
lately attempted to procure Ecclesiasticall Peace amongst
Protestants, 1641; Sr. Kenelme Digbyes honour maintained.
By a most couragious Combat which he fought with Lord

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Mount le Ros, who by base and slanderous words reviled our King, woodcut of the duel on title, title cut into, n. d. (? 1641); Bacon (Sir Francis) The Learned Reading upon the Statute of Uses, 1642; and 6 others; in 1 vol. old calf, binding broken; sold not subject to return 4to

64

HAWLEY (THOMAS, d. 1557, *Clarenceux King-of-arms*) HERE FOLOWETH THE FOURME AND MANER OF KEPINGE OF THE PARLEAMENT OF ENGLANDE—The maner forme and vsage of Gilberte de Strogell marshall of Englande in what maner he occupiede & usede the saide office—Here foloweth the maner & custome of the vsages of Thomas Brotherton which he hade and vsede in the office of marshalsie, MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM, WRITTEN BY THOMAS HAWLEY FOR PROTECTOR SOMERSET, very well and clearly written in a neat gothic hand, 21 lines to a page, 36 leaves, the opening page of the first treatise WITH A FINE MINIATURE IN GOLD AND COLOURS OF THE KING [PROBABLY INTENDED FOR EDWARD VI] BETWEEN A BISHOP AND SWORD-BEARER (2¼ in. by 2⅔ in.), with a full border of flowers and leafy sprays, on the verso of the first leaf THE ARMS OF EDWARD SEYMOUR DUKE OF SOMERSET FINELY EMBLAZONED IN GOLD AND COLOURS, and on the recto the inscription “PAR VOSTRE TRESHUMBLE THOMAS HAWLAY CLARENCIEULX ROY DARMES,” initials throughout in gold on red and blue grounds, old calf 4to. (9 in. by 7½ in.). 1547

**

The coat-of-arms dates this manuscript fairly closely. The Garter places it after 9 Jan. 1541, and the omission of the augmentation of arms granted him 15 Aug. 1547, puts it before that date. If the somewhat loosely drawn coronet be accepted as denoting ducal rank, the MS. must be subsequent to 16 Feb. 1547, when Seymour was created Duke of Somerset. Early in February, 1547, he was appointed High Steward of England, Treasurer of the Exchequer and Earl Marshal, and at this time, or shortly after, Hawley must have composed the manuscript for his use.

The manuscript appears to be unpublished. Its author, Thomas Hawley, *Clarenceux King-of-arms* and last Roseblanche Pursuivant, negotiated with the Scots before Flodden and was present at the “Field of the Cloth of Gold.” His visitations of Kent, Surrey, Hampshire and Essex were printed in 1878.

[See ILLUSTRATION.]

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[LIDGATE (JOHN)?] THE DREME OF THE PILGRYIMAGE OF THE SOULE, TRANSLATED OUT OF THE FRANSSH IN TO ENGLISSH (TRANSLATED FROM THE PROSE VERSION BY JEHAN DE GALLOPES OF GUILLAUME DE DEGUILLEVILLE'S PELERINAGE DE L'AME): [*Begins on folio 4 after three leaves of "Kalender" or Table:] "Incipit Liber qui nuncupatur Grace dieu. Capm primū. As I lay in a seint laurence nyht slepynge in bed me bifel a ful mervaylous dreme which I shal reherse ..."; [Ends on folio 133, followed by "Verba Translatoris" of nearly a page:] "Here endeth the dreme of the pilgrymage of the soule, translated out of Franssh in to English the yere of oure lord M'CCCC' XIII," ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM, IN PROSE WITH PASSAGES IN VERSE, 136 ll. (including three blank leaves at end), long lines, BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN BY AN ENGLISH Scribe IN A VERY CLEAR AND LEGIBLE GOTHIC HAND, TWENTY-SIX BEAUTIFULLY PAINTED MINIATURES BY AN ENGLISH ARTIST (FOR DESCRIPTIONS SEE BELOW), WITH THREE-QUARTER BAR-PATTERN BORDERS IN GOLD AND COLOURS, with foliate decoration and sprays of flowers, four other pages with three-quarter borders, chapter headings in red, some fine initials in colours on a gold ground, others in blue with pen-work in red, IN THE ORIGINAL BINDING OF WHITE DOE-SKIN OVER WOODEN BOARDS

small folio (10 5/8 in. by 7 5/8 in.) ENGLISH, FIRST HALF OF XV CENT.

**THE FINEST ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT IN VERNA-
CULAR ENGLISH TO BE OFFERED BY AUCTION FOR
MANY YEARS. THE TWENTY-SIX MAGNIFICENT MINIATURES
WITH WHICH THE MANUSCRIPT IS DECORATED ARE SUPERB
EXAMPLES OF ENGLISH WORK OF THE XV CENTURY. They are
beautifully painted with the soft but bright colouring characteristic
of English miniatures of the period on grounds of burnished gold
(three on black grounds). The subjects are as follows:

BOOK I, 1. (folio 4) The author in bed dreaming his dream (5 1/16 in. by 3 1/16 in.). [See FRONTISPIECE.]

2. (f. 6) The soul is led to judgment between Satan and his Guardian Angel (4 2/3 in. by 1 1/16 in.).

3. (f. 9) The presentation of the Soul for judgment (5 1/16 in. by 2 2/3 in.).

4. (f. 19) Satan writing the accusation of the Soul (4 1/16 in. by 2 1/3 in.).

5. (f. 30) Justice with Truth and Reason on either side weighing the Soul in a balance against the accusation of Satan (4 1/16 in. by 2 2/3 in.)

6. (f. 33) The weighing of the Soul continued (4 1/16 in. by 2 1/3 in.).

BOOK II, 7. (f. 35) The Soul is brought to Purgatory by his Guardian Angel (4 2/3 in. by 3 1/16 in.).

8. (f. 37 verso) A Holy Soul brought to Heaven is greeted by singing angels (4 7/16 in. by 2 2/3 in.).

9. (f. 39 verso) The Soul is shown by his Guardian Angel how wretched souls are deformed through sin (4 1/16 in. by 2 1/16 in.).

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10. (f. 41) The Soul is shown by his Guardian Angel damned souls being led to Hell (4⅝ in. by 2⅛ in.).

11. (f. 45) Souls burning in Purgatory comforted by prayer (4⅝ in. by 2¾ in.).

12. (f. 46 verso) Souls burning in Purgatory comforted by Guardian Angels (4⅝ in. by 2¾ in.).

13. (f. 48 verso) The Soul shown by the Guardian Angel the fires of Purgatory (4⅛ in. by 2⅞ in.).

14. (f. 52) The Soul is shown by his Guardian Angel a soul imprisoned in ice "for delicat norisshyng of his body" (4⅝ in. by 2¾ in.).

15. (f. 53 verso) He is shown a soul punished "by cause that his dettis were not payed" by being chained to a money-chest (4¼ in. by 2½ in.).

BOOK III, 16-19. [ff. 57 verso (4½ in. by 3⅛ in.), 60 verso (4¼ in. by 2⅛ in.), 62 (4½ in. by 2½ in.), 65 verso (4¼ in. by 2½ in.)] Four miniatures of the Guardian Angel showing to the Soul the punishments of hell.

BOOK IV, 20. (f. 69) The Soul leaves hell with the Guardian Angel and comes above ground, where he sees two trees, the green and the dry (4⅝ in. by 1⅞ in.).

21. (f. 78) He sees Christ nailed to the dry tree with a saint adoring (4¼ in. by 2⅞ in.).

22. (f. 83) The vision of the asses' tombs (4¼ in. by 3⅛ in.).

23. (f. 84 verso) The vision of Lady Doctrine (4⅝ in. by 2⅞ in.).

24. (f. 92) The vision of the armed and the naked images (4⅛ in. by 2½ in.).

BOOK V, 25. (f. 106 verso) The Soul taken out of Purgatory by the Guardian Angel (4¼ in. by 3 in.).

26. (f. 108) The Soul shown by the Guardian Angel the circles of Heaven (4½ in. by 2¾ in.).

THE MANUSCRIPT IS IN MAGNIFICENT CONDITION THROUGHOUT, AND IS ABSOLUTELY COMPLETE WITH THREE PRELIMINARY LEAVES OF "KALENDAR" OR TABLE OF THE CHAPTERS, AND THREE BLANK LEAVES AT END. Owing to the width of the margins the original MS. signatures (with one or two exceptions) remain untouched, and catch-words are found at the end of each gathering. The make-up of the manuscript is in gatherings of eight leaves each, the first without signature, and then a-q⁸.

John Lidgate is generally supposed to be the author of this English version of the "Pelerinage de l'Ame," as some of the additional poems found here form a part of his poem, "The Life of Our Lady." The series of lyrics introduced into the prose translation are all recorded by Mr. Carleton Brown, *Register of Middle English Religious and Didactic Verse, part I, pp. 476-77.* Guillaume de Deguilleville was Monk, and afterwards Prior of the Abbey of Chalis. Little more than this seems to be known of him. His great work, "Le Romant des trois Pelerinages," in three parts was completed about 1335, "Le Pelerinage de la vie

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MAPS.

78 SIR HUMPHREY GILBERT'S MAP OF NORTH AMERICA AND THE ARCTIC REGIONS MADE FOR HIM BY DR. JOHN DEE, circa 1582 (24½ in. by 19¾ in.), DRAWN ON PAPER IN WATER-COLOURS

** THIS IMPORTANT MAP BEARS ON IT THE AUTOGRAPH SIGNATURE OF SIR HUMPHREY GILBERT, and in contemporary handwriting on the back is inscribed "for Navigation." In the lower right hand

corner is the following inscription :

This curious cabalistic sign (twice repeated elsewhere on the map) is undoubtedly the "Monas Hieroglyphica" of the famous DR. JOHN DEE; Scholar, Physician, Cartographer, Astrologer, Alchemist and Spiritualist; the friend of the Gilbert family, and of Ortelius and Mercator; which is treated of at length in his book of that name, printed at Antwerp in 1564, one of his few published works. The meaning of the letters T. S. is uncertain. Suggested readings are "Tinctor Scriptor (Painter & Drawer)," or "Trinitatis Socius" (Dee was one of the original fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge); or "Tuente Sigilla" (Under the guidance of this sign.

In confirmation of Dee's authorship it may be observed that the eastern coast-line of North America bears great similarity to that in his map of 1580.

In all probability this Map was made by Dee as a rough
Navigator's Guide for Sir Humphrey Gilbert on his last
Voyage in 1583, and was, perhaps, Dee's payment for the
Grant mentioned in his Diary for Sept. 10th, 1580. "Sir
Humfry Gilbert graunted me my request to him, made by
letter, for the royaltyes of discovery all to the North above
the parallell of the 50th degree of latitude, in the presence
of Stoner, Sir John Gilbert, his servant or reteiner; and
thereuppon toke me by the hand with faithfull promises in
his lodging of John Cooke's howse in Wichcross strete, where
we dyned onely us three together, being Satterday."

The Map, from internal evidence, would appear to be of
about the date 1582, for two main reasons: (a) the watermark
of the paper, a bunch of grapes with the name Gouault
(Briquet, 13215) is used on paper of about this period, being
found in De Jode's Atlas of 1578; (b) the cartography is
of about this period; it is later than the Map Dee made
for Queen Elizabeth in 1580, which lacks the fabulous Sea of

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RALEIGH'S TRAVELS IN GUIANA.

79 A MAGNIFICENT CONTEMPORARY MS. MAP ON VELLUM, WITH VERY FINE AND BRILLIANT COLOURING, 13 in. by 18½ in., circa 1597, endorsed in contemporary handwriting "The Ryver of Orenoque"

This very beautiful and interesting Map was obviously never designed for a practical Navigator's Chart; but was most probably prepared by Raleigh or under his direction for presentation to the "Wizard Earl" of Northumberland, whose interest in Geography and Exploration is well known.

The Map dates from the years following the Voyage of Raleigh to Guiana, 1595-7. The most conspicuous feature of it is the fabled lake of Parine, upon the shores of which was believed to stand the Golden City of Manoa, "El Dorado." This lake was not "discovered" until Raleigh's Voyage of 1595, and is supposed to have entered cartography from a misunderstood report of the overflowing of the river Parine. There is in the British Museum a Map from Raleigh's own pen, thought to be the Chart mentioned in his "Discovery of Guiana," which would thus date from the years 1597-1598; to this the present Map is in general very similar.

Among the few names are the river Desakebi (Essequibo), which flows from the lake of Parine, and Nombra de Dios, which must have been much in the public mind at the moment as the last town destroyed by Drake just before his death in 1595. At all events, the Map must date from very shortly after 1597, and it is certain that the connection with Raleigh is close.

A MAGNIFICENT EARLY MAP OF THE GREATEST INTEREST.

[See ILLUSTRATION.]

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MEDIAEVAL SCIENCE. LATIN TREATISES ON ARITHMETIC, MUSIC, LOGIC, THE ART OF MEMORY, SOUND, WEIGHT, RAYS, COMETS, THE SPHERE, etc., MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM, written by an English scribe in a rather small and regular book hand, about 33 lines to the page, 172 leaves, a few leaves at beginning waterstained at top, OTHERWISE IN GOOD CONDITION, original white leather binding over wooden boards, original catches and clasps, the badge of Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland, the "Wizard Earl," on sides

4to (7 in. by 5 in.). ENGLISH, EARLY XV CENT.

** The contents are as follows: Tractatus lincolniensis [Robert Grosseteste] de generacione sonorum vocalium (ff. 1-2)—Tractatus de modis significandi; Tractatus fratris Thome de Alquino de modalibus (ff. 3-10)—De divisione logice (ff. 11-16)—Robert Grosseteste. Tractatus lincolniensis de cometis (ff. 17-18b)—Grosseteste. De generatione impressionum humidarum, etc. (ff. 18b-21a)—Tractatus Francisci de signis naturae (ff. 21b-23)—Tractatus de arte memorandi, with diagrams and a volvelle (ff. 24-27)—Tractatus Bredoonis de arithmetica (ff. 29-46)—Tractatus Lavenham de ludo philosophorum. (This is preceded by a letter by John Lavenham, monk of Colchester, to Henry Bishop of Norwich, about calculations), diagram (ff. 47-54)—De ponderibus (ff. 55-59)—Grosseteste. Tractatus Lincolniensis de Yride (ff. 61-63b)—Grosseteste. De fractionibus radiorum et de luce (ff. 63b-68)—De practica Geometrie, with drawings and diagrams (ff. 69-75)—Tractatus Alberti de forma resultante in speculo (ff. 76-79)—Tractatus de practica musice (with musical notes); Tractatus metricus musice speculative editus a Magistro Johanne de murs (Begins : Quoniam musica est de sono), diagrams (ff. 80-99b)—De sinu recto et verso, diagrams (ff. 99b-110)—Grosseteste. R. Lincolniensis de Spera (ff. 111-120)—De Cristallo combustorio, diagrams; De Cylindri compositione, etc. (ff. 121-130)—Grosseteste. De impressionibus aeris, diagrams (ff. 131-134)—De significationibus 12 signorum; De Nativitatibus, etc. (ff. 135-140)—De iudicio urine (ff. 141-145)—Tractatus contra Theoricam Planetarum, diagrams (ff. 146-167)—De Astrolabio (ff. 168-172).

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MEDIAEVAL SPORT AND SCIENCE. A XV CENTURY ENGLISH MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM, CONTAINING AN ENGLISH POEM ON HAWKING, A BOOK OF HUNTING IN ENGLISH DEDICATED TO HENRY PRINCE OF WALES (HENRY V, b. 1386, *suc.* 1413, *d.* 1422), A TREATISE ON ASTRONOMY, ENGLISH AND LATIN RECIPES FOR THE DISEASES OF HORSES, RECIPES FOR COOKERY AND WINE, TALES IN LATIN AND MISCELLANEOUS FRAGMENTS WRITTEN IN SEVERAL HANDS ON 86 LEAVES, *a stain on the first two leaves*, ON THE WHOLE IN VERY GOOD CONDITION, *original rough leather binding (the top corner of the upper cover defective)*

folio. (11¼ in. by 8 in.). ENGLISH, XV CENT.

** A MOST IMPORTANT AND INTERESTING ENGLISH MANUSCRIPT, CHIEFLY IN THE VERNACULAR. The Poem on Hawking (folio 125-134A) occupies 19 pages. *Begins :—*

“Thu that art a gentilman
and gentilmanys game wylt lere
Sertayne poyntes of gentilmanys game
I can the tell fulle seere
how that a hauk shuld be made
I putte v poyntes the for to see ...”

The second part of the Poem begins on folio 131B :

“Now of gosehauk kepyng I have you tolde
Now kepe his tarsell of the same maner ...”

Ends on folio 134A :

“Here are rulys ynow sothe for to saye
But yf a man be more vncunnyng
I pray to god bothe nygth and daye
Alle faconerys he save fro srenkelyng (?)

Amen.”

The Book of Hunting preceded by a Table follows occupying 89 pages (folios 134B-178). The prologue is addressed to “my worshypfulle and drede lorde . . . eldest son and eyre vnto the hye excellent and cristen prince H. the IIII . . .” The text begins on folio 138B: “The hare is comyn beste ynow & therefore me nedyth not to telle of here makyng . . .” Then follow chapters on the Hart, the Buck, the Roobukke, the Wildebore, the Wolfe, the Foxe, the Greye, the Wilde Catte, the Otyr, hounds, the sickness of hounds, ratchets or running hounds, the spaniel, mastiff, a good hunter, the kennel, & much about hunting. On folio 176 begins: “Off the Ordynnance & of ye manner of hunting when the kyng woll hunte in ye foreste or in Parkes for ye hertes with bowes & Grehoundes.” One of the cries to the hounds is “*Oyez a Damound oyez oyez a semble a bemound assemble assemble*.”

The Treatise on Astronomy occupies 20 pages (folios 103-112), beginning on f. 103A: “Here begynnyth the boke of astronomye . . . ymade of the wyseste philosoferes and astrono-
myers that euyr were sythe the world was begunne . . .”

SECOND DAY'S SALE.

Tuesday, April 24th, 1928.

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LOT 88.

ONSON (Admiral Sir William), 1569-1643. NAVAL TRACTS,
IMPORTANT AUTOGRAPH MS. in 6 volumes

Vol. I (233 pp. and index) Contains Yearly Observations, 1585 to 1602, including descriptions of voyages of Sir Francis Drake, Hawkins, Frobisher, Raleigh, etc

Vol. II (167 pp. and index) Actions of the English Nation, and voyages of Admiral Monson

Vol. III (279 pp. and index) The Office of the Lord Admiral of England; A Briefe Collection of ye Shipping of England, the number of ships built in Spain from 1590-1600 and how they have been lost

Vol. IV (164 pp. and index) The Discovery of several Countries and the enterprises of the Spaniards and Portuguese, Sir Francis Drake's voyage, The Rutter of America, Two Worlds undiscovered, An Advice to Plant in ye Islands of St. Lawrence, etc.

Vol. V (213 pp. and index) On Projects and Stratagems, A Project to prevent the French landing in Ingland, How to Warr upon Holland, Trade to West Indies for tobacco, etc.

Vol. VI (249 pp. and index) A Comparison of the West India Trade, Concerning fish and fishinge, Something concerning whales, The favours England have done Holland

in 6 vol. *folio, original calf, with the letters W. M. in gilt on each side*

Parts of the above MSS. were printed in 1682 under the title of Naval Tracts, and afterwards in Churchill, Collection of Voyages, 1703.

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98 **NAVAL MANUSCRIPT.** Raleigh (Sir Walter) A Discourse of the Invention of Ships, Anchors, Compasses, etc., the first Navigable war ... the strength and defects of the sea forces of England, France Spain and Venice, *title and 17 leaves, small folio, vellum* XVI CENT.

99 **NAVAL.** Mainwaring (Sir Henry) A brief Abstract, Exposition and Demonstration of parts and things belonging to a ship and the practique of Navigation, MS. 357 pp. with ornamental pen-and-ink frame for a title; Arms of Percy (six quarters) and in each corner the Percy badge and coronet, and index of 12 pp. *folio, morocco gilt panels on sides, g. e. on the fore-edge is written "Sir Hen. Manwaring"* XVII CENT.

** This is the famous "Nomenclator Navalis," the first seaman's dictionary in the English language, written about 1620/23, but not printed until 1644. This copy was probably presented by the author to the 10th Earl of Northumberland when Lord High Admiral.

100 **NAVAL MANUSCRIPT.** Observations and overtures for a sea fight upon our own Coastes and what kinde of order and disciplyne is fittest to be used in marshalling and directing our Navies against the huge preparations of such Spanish Armadas or others as shall at any time come to assayle and invade us, 34 pp.; on p. 31 the writer mentions "My Father, Sir W. Gorges," who, he says, went to Sea against Thos. Stukeley, a traitor who fled out of Ireland and went to the Pope who gave him the title of the Marquis of Ireland, *4to, vellum*

EARLY XVII CENT.

101 **NAVAL MANUSCRIPTS.** True length of the Mastes and Yardes of H.M. Sea Ships and Pinnaces, 16 pp.; Apportion of Anchors and Cables to furnish any of H.M. Ships to Sea, 11 pp.; Length, breadth & depth of boats building to H.M. Ships, 2 pp.; The burden of all H.M. Ships, with their number of men and ordnance, their draught of water, and time of building, 41 Ships; A large Table of the Ships, with their particulars in columns, *4to, vellum* circa 1640

102 **NAVAL.** The office of the Admiralty of England. A finely written 17th Century MS. of 39 pp., giving a list of the officers, pay duties, etc. The author mentions Sir Kenelm Digby, "A gentleman of good experience in Sea-causes, and of much wisdom ..." attended much to the Service, but did not, to his knowledge receive anything, *4to. limp vellum gilt*

A VISION OR DREAME CONTAYNING THE
whole State of the Netherland warres, as it appeared to a louer of the
Netherlands lying in his bed, vpon the 7.of Nouember, betweene 3.and
4.of the clocke in the morning, wherein was represented vnto him a
goodly Country, and therein a fayre comely Horfe well brideled and
fadled, whereat being much amazed, he fayde, Behold the Horfe, but
where is the Rider?

This Horfe is compared to the Netherland, his chiefe Owner the King of
Spaine, who with riding thereof, had cruelly Spur-galled him; hercupon
appeared a cunning Rider out of Orange, and tooke on him to manage
the horfe gently: This horfe was by policy & great subtilty of the Pope
sought to be betraied, as it lately appeared, who by his Bishops cá when
he pleafeth change the names of men, and so they haue giuen an other
name vnto the warres, making the Kings warres the Emperours warres,
thereby with more eafe, to lay holde vpon the horſes bridle, by that
meanes the better to incloſe the Netherlands.

Who ſhall ride mee?

Imprinted at London for Edward Marchant. 1615.

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LOT 110—continued.

shaved, the diagram on verso of title shaved at top, headline of
A 2 verso, and C 3 verso shaved, OTHERWISE A VERY GOOD COPY
4to. London, Printed for Iohn Tap, and are to be sold at
his shop at Saint Magnus Corner, n. d.

** APPARENTLY UNRECORDED AND THE ONLY COPY KNOWN. Of the
only edition given in the S. T. C. (for J. Tap, 1628), one copy
only is recorded (Bodleian).
(Bound with)

MANSFIELD (ERNST VON, COUNT) COVNT MANSFIELDS DIREC-
TIONS OF WARRE. Given to all his Officers and Souldiers in
Generall [translated by W. G.], FIRST EDITION (A-H 4) A VERY
GOOD COPY

4to. London, Printed by Edw. Allde for Richard Whittaker ... 1624

** EXCEEDINGLY RARE. ONLY TWO COPIES ARE RECORDED BY THE
S T. C. (British Museum and Bodleian).

OSTEND. A True Historie of the Memorable Siege of Ostend ...
Conteining the Assaults, Alarums, Defences, Inuentions of
warre, Mines, Counter-mines and Retrenchments, Combats of
Galleys, and Sea-fights ... Translated out of French ... by
Edward Grimeston, FIRST EDITION (A 4; A (repeated)-Gg 4,
last leaf blank; and a folding copperplate of the siege-works),
unbound, A VERY GOOD COPY, VERY RARE

4to. London Printed for Edward Blount. 1604
bound in 1 vol. contemporary calf, a one line fillet in gold
between two in blind round sides, in centre the badge of Henry
Percy, Ninth Earl of Northumberland, "The Wizard Earl"

4to. (1)

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O'DOGHERTY (SIR CAHIR) THE OUER-THROW OF AN IRISH REBELL,
IN A LATE BATTAILE: or the death of Sir Carey Adoughertie,
who murdred Sir George Paulet in Ireland; and for his re-
bellion hath his head now standing ouer Newgate in Dublin
(A-C 4, first leaf blank), woodcut on title of Newgate in Dublin
with two heads on poles above, unbound

4to (7 1/2 in. by 5 3/4 in.) [Colophon] Dublin Printed by Iohn Franckton ... 1608

** A VERY GOOD COPY OF AN EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE BOOK. Two
COPIES ONLY ARE RECORDED IN THE S. I. C. (British Museum
and Trinity College, Dublin). The Imprint on the title is
"Imprinted at London for I. Wright, and are to be sold at his
shop neere Christ Church gate. 1608."

Sir Cahir O'Dogherty, lord of Inishowen, is said to have
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revenge he seized Culmore Castle and sacked and burnt Derry.
He was shot during an engagement near Kilmacrenan.

On the last leaf but one is the dated woodcut stamp of the
original owner "Hymfridvs Dyson Notarius publicus me
possidet. 1611." A very early example of such a stamp. Cp.
lot 61, above.

[See ILLUSTRATION.]

112

PALISSY (B.) A LEARNED DIALOGUE OF BERNARD PALESSY, CONCERNING WATERS AND FOUNTAINES, BOTH NATURALL AND ARTIFICIAL. TRANSLATED OWT OF FRENCH INTO ENGLISH BY THOMAS WATSON, MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER, 70 pages, neatly written in a cursive book hand, old limp vellum binding, badge on sides of the "Wizard Earl" 4to. LATE XVI CENT.

** The "Dialogue" is between "Theorike" and "Practise." The work appears to be unpublished. The translator may be identical with Thomas Watson, the poet (? 1557-1592), but there is no record of it among his works.

113

PARRY (WILLIAM) A NEW AND LARGE DISCOURSE OF THE TRAUELS OF SIR ANTHONY SHERLEY KNIGHT, by Sea, and ouer Land, to the Persian Empire. Wherein are related many straunge and wonderfull accidents: and also, the Description and conditions of those Countries and People he passed by, his letter, title within border (slightly shaved at top), pagination of several leaves cut into, the blank margin of a few leaves slightly wormed, unbound

4to. London Printed by Valentine Simmes for Felix

Norton. 1601

** VERY RARE. Two copies only are recorded in the S. T. C. (British Museum. and Sir R. L. Harmsworth.) Verses at end by John Davies of Hereford "in praise of William Parry."

114

PEACHAM (HENRY) A MOST TRUE RELATION OF THE AFFAIRES OF CLEVE AND GVLICK, As also of all what hath passed this last summer, since ... Prince, Mavrice of Nassav, tooke the field with his Armie ... With the Articles of the Peace, propounded at Santen, FIRST EDITION (A-E 4, F 2, first leaf a blank), an emblematic copper-plate on the back of the title, a small blank piece torn from the corner of sig. B 3 and B 4, unbound, A VERY GOOD COPY, VERY RARE

4to. London, Printed by W. Stansby for John Helme...

1615

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THE PERCY MANUSCRIPT.

115

PERCY (GEORGE), 1580-1632. A TREWE RELATYON OF THE PROCEEDINGS AND OCCURRENTES OF MOMENTE WHICH HAVE HAPPENED IN VIRGINIA, FROM THE TYME SR. THOMAS GATES WAS SHIPPWRACKTE UPON THE BERMULES, ANO. 1609, UNTILL MY DEPARTURE OUTT OF THE COUNTRY WHICH WAS IN ANO. DNI. 1612. UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT, 42 pp. 4to, WITH DEDICATION TO ALGERNON, LORD PERCY (AFTERWARDS 10TH EARL OF NORTHUMBERLAND), NEPHEW OF THE AUTHOR, AND SON OF THE "WIZARD EARL," contemporary vellum, gilt stamps and tooling, a typed transcript accompanies the lot c. 1625

\*\* PROBABLY THE MOST IMPORTANT SOURCE FOR THE HISTORY OF THE EARLY COLONY OF VIRGINIA YET REMAINING UNPUBLISHED. IT IS THE OUTSPOKEN REPORT OF A PROMINENT COLONIST, EYE-WITNESS OF THE EVENTS WHICH HE RELATES, GIVING A FRANK RELATION OF AFFAIRS IN THE COLONY OF VIRGINIA DURING THE YEARS 1609-1612.

GEORGE PERCY, 1580-1632: Author, Colonist and Soldier of Fortune, was the uncle of Algernon, Lord Percy, who was afterwards Lord High Admiral and Chief Commissioner for the Navy, and brother of the "Wizard Earl," who whole-heartedly supported the Virginia Company, and even paid some of the expenses of the author, amounting to £432 during one year in which he was Deputy Governor of Virginia.

After serving in the Netherlands Wars, George Percy sailed for Virginia in 1606, and in 1609 appeared on the list as incorporator of the second Company of Virginia.

He was twice made Deputy Governor of the colony, first from 1609-1610, after the recall of his enemy, Captain John Smith, against whose publications this book is directed; and again 1611-1612, after the departure of Lord La Warre. He returned to England in 1612. In about 1625 (for he mentions Charles the First as reigning king at the time) he wrote this treatise to send to his nephew, giving a very frank relation of all the miseries and hardships which the colonists had had to suffer. In later life he returned to fight in the Netherlands Wars against the Spaniards, and died in 1632.

The contents of this manuscript are a most human narrative, written in a blunt straight forward style in accordance with his own dictum on page 2.

To this purpose many other examples might be recited, but the Relatyon itself being brief I have no intent to be tedious, but to deliver the Trewthe

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briefly and plainly; the which I doubt not but will rather like than loathe
the Reader, nor do I purpose to use any eloquent style or phrase; the which
indeed in me is wanting; But to deliver thatt trewly which my selfe and
many others have had bitter experience of. Many other worse miseries
have happened unto our collonie in Virginia, both before and since that
tyme which I do intend to treate of; having selected this parte from the
rest for two respects. First in regard I was most frequent and acquainted
with these proceedings, being most part of the tyme president and governour;
next in respect the leaste parte hereof hath not been formerly published.

The author was obviously more at home with the sword than with
the pen. That he dictated the book is almost certain partly from
the inconsequence of many of the sentences, partly from the regular
handwriting and spelling which are typical of the professional scribe.
The whole relation is filled with the detailed observations that only
an eye-witness in control of affairs could supply. The motive of each
expedition or the reason for a defeat is always plainly shown, and
there is no attempt to mince words in the descriptions of the
Indians' cruelty, of the severity of the punishments inflicted on the
delinquents in the colony; or of the extremities to which the
colony was reduced by famine. A few extracts will show the
general style and tenor of the work:

(Page 12). Now all of us at James Town beginning to feel the sharp prick
of hunger, which no man surely describes but he which hath tasted the
bitterness thereof, a world of miseries ensued as the sequel will express unto
you insomuch that some to satisfy their hunger have robbed the store for
the which I caused them to be executed . . . And now famine beginning to
look ghastly and pale in every face, that nothing was spared to maintain
life and to do those things which seem incredible, as to dig up dead corpses
out of graves and to eat them; and some have licked up the blood which
hath fallen from their weak fellows; and amongst the rest this was most
lamentable, that one of our colony murdered his wife . . . and salted her for
his food, the same not being discovered before he had eaten part thereof,
for the which cruel and inhuman fact, I adjudged him to be executed, the
acknowledgment of the deed being enforced from him by torture having
hung by the thumbs with weights at his feet a quarter of an hour before he
would confess the same.

He shows very clearly how near James Town was to complete
demolition on account of the appalling hardships which the settlers
had to endure:

These miseries considered it was resolved upon by Sir Thomas Gates and
the whole colony with all speed to return for England, whereupon most of
our men were set to work, some to make pitch and tar for trimming of our
ships, others to bake bread, and few or none not employed in one occasion
or another; so that in a small space of time four pinnaces were fitted and
made ready, all preparing to go aboard. And if Sir Thomas Gates had not
laboured with our men they had set the town on fire, using this or the like
words unto them: "My masters let the town stand, we know not but that
as homeless men as ourselves may come and inhabit here." Then all of us
embarking ourselves, Sir Thomas Gates in the "Delivrance" with his com-
pany, Sir George Somers in the "Patience," myself in the "Discovery,"
and Captain Davis in the "Virginia"; all of us sailing down the river with
a full intent to have proceeded upon our voyage for England, when suddenly
we espied a boat make towards us, wherein we found to be Captain Brewster
sent from my Lord La Warre who was come unto us with many gentlemen
of quality and 300 men besides great store of victualls, munition and other

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116 PIMENTEL (DIEGO) The Deposition of Don Diego Piementellj, cheefe Maister of one Regiment of the Campe of the King of Spayne . . . before . . . the Counsaile of the Haghe in Holland. Translated out of Dutch into English, by F. M. Black letter (A-B 4), unbound, very RARE

4to. Printed first at Delfe, and nowe reprinted at London
by John Woolfe . . . 1588

117 POEMS. A COLLECTION OF POEMS AND BALLADS in ridicule of the Parliamentary Party during the Quarrel with Charles I, MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER, written in various 17th Century hands, with some later additions in the 18th Century, 17th Century calf binding, crest on sides of Lord Conway (d. 1683), a Saracen's head with coronet above within a wreath

folio. XVII-XVIII CENT.

** A MS. note on fly-leaf says: "Many of these Pieces are printed in a book entitled 'Rump or an exact Collection of the choycest Poems & Songs relating to the late times, by the most eminent Wits from anno 1639 to anno 1661'-London 1662 8vo."

The names of some of the authors are given at the end of the pieces, e.g. William Darrell, Henry Killigrew, Charles Gale, Henry Harrington, Thomas Weaver, Tho. Lonsford, John Denham, John Berkenhead, Abraham Cowley, Richard Fanshaw, Richard Nevill, Will. Strode, Edmund Waller and others.

118 [PROCTOR (THOMAS)] Of the knowledge and conducte of warres, two bookes, FIRST EDITION, woodcut of arms on second leaf, a tiny hole in sig. ♫ 3, a minute worm-hole through two or three leaves, unbound, A FINE COPY

4to. [London], R. Tottell, 1578

** At the end of the verses on the back of the leaf following the title is an additional stanza written in a contemporary hand:

"Not Argos nor the grekysh townes
shall now the glorye beare:

But Brutus heare in England highe
the troian walles shall reare."

119 [PROCTOR (T.)] Of the Knowledge and conducte of warres, two bookes, FIRST EDITION, another copy, marginal notes and chapter numeration shaved, some leaves faintly water-stained, unbound

4to. ib. 1578

120 QUEBEC. REPORT OF THE GOVERNMENT OF QUEBEC AND DEPENDENCIES THEREOF by General James Murray (Governor of Quebec 1760 and Governor of Canada 1763-6), to Lord Egremont, Secretary of State, MANUSCRIPT WITH AUTOGRAPH SUBSCRIPTION AND SIGNATURE, AND DATED FROM QUEBEC 5 JUNE,

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127 ROSIER (JAMES) A TRUE RELATION OF THE MOST PROSPEROUS VOYAGE MADE THIS PRESENT YEERE, 1605, BY CAPTAINE GEORGE WAYMOUTH, IN THE DISCOUERY OF THE LAND OF VIRGINIA: Where he discovered 60 miles vp a most excellent Riuer; together with a most fertile land. WRITTEN BY JAMES ROSIER. A GENTLEMAN EMPLOYED IN THE VOYAGE, ORIGINAL EDITION, Black letter (A-E 4), title within fine woodcut border, wormed at top (through the blank margin only except in the case of a few leaves on which two or three letters of text are very slightly affected), an original flaw in the paper of sig. C1 slightly affecting the text, unbound, A GOOD COPY IN VERY CLEAN AND CRISP CONDITION
4to. (6½ in. by 5¼ in.). Londini [Eliot's Court press.] Impensis Geor. Bishop. 1605

\*\* EXCEEDINGLY RARE. ABOUT NINE COPIES ONLY APPEAR TO BE KNOWN. Rosier gives an account of Captain Weymouth's voyage to the coast of Maine, with the exception of Gosnold's voyage in 1602 the earliest voyage by Englishmen to the lands of New England.

They arrived at an island now identified as Monhegan, 84 miles to the N.E. from Cape Ann. "A trade was quickly established with the Indians, and a valuable cargo of skins obtained at a very small cost. Meantime Weymouth went away in a boat and presently discovered a large river, up which he went for a considerable distance. He and those with him seem to have held this discovery to be the great result of the voyage; but from that day to this no one has ever been able to determine positively what river it was, capable opinion in the United States being divided between the Penobscot, St. George's River, and the Kennebec ... Weymouth reported pleasant climate, excellent soil, good harbours, facilities for trade; but opinion still set in favour of gold and precious stones rather than of commerce, agriculture, and hard work, and for several years no further notice was taken of Weymouth's discoveries."—*Dict. of Nat. Biog. Art.* WEYMOUTH.

Brereton's "Brief and True Relation" and this work have been termed "The Verie Two Eyes of New-England Historie."

[See ILLUSTRATION.]

128 ROSIER (JAMES) A TRUE RELATION OF THE MOST PROSPEROUS VOYAGE MADE THIS PRESENT YEERE 1605, BY CAPTAINE GEORGE WAYMOUTH, IN THE DISCOUERY OF THE LAND OF VIRGINIA, ORIGINAL EDITION, ANOTHER COPY, headlines cut into (in some cases severely), the border round the title shaved at top, OTHERWISE IN VERY GOOD AND CRISP CONDITION, unbound
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132
SCOTT (EDMUND) AN EXACT DISCOVRSE OF THE SUBTILTIES, FASHISHIONS (sic), POLLICIES, RELIGION, AND CEREMONIES OF THE EAST INDIANS, as well Chyneses as Iauans, there abyding and dweling. Together with the manner of trading with those people, aswell by vs English, as by the Hollanders : as also what hath happened to the English Nation at Bantan in the East Indies, since the 2. of February 1602. vntill the 6. of October 1605. Whereunto is added a briefe Description of Iaua Maior, FIRST EDITION (A-N 4; and an additional leaf at end of "Faultes escaped in the printing"), the top margin slightly wormed, in a few cases affecting a letter or two of the head-line, unbound, A VERY GOOD AND CLEAN COPY

4to. (6 ½ in. by 5¼ in.). At London, Printed by W. W. [hite] for Walter Burre. 1606

** EXTREMELY RARE. Only three copies are recorded in the S. T. C. (British Museum, Sir R. L. Harmsworth and New York Pub. Library.)

The additional leaf of errata at end, present in this copy, has been very hastily and carelessly compiled and appears to be generally missing. It is not mentioned in the collation giving by Lowndes, nor is it given by Hazlitt (III, 226).

133
Sherley (Sir Anthony) His Relation of his Travels into Persia . . . his magnificent entertainement . . . with his aduice to his brother, Sir Robert Sherley, FIRST EDITION, some leaves shaved, unbound

4to. London Printed for Nathaniell Butter, and Ioseph Bagfet. 1613

A
TRIÈRE
ATION OF LUCH OCCURRENCIES

AND ACCIDENTS OF NOATEAS
HATHAPNED IN VIRGINIA SINCE THE FIRST
planting of that COLONY, WHICH IS NOW
RESIDENT IN THE SOUTH PART THEREOF, TILL
THE LAST RETURNE FROM
THENCE.

Written by Captaine Smith one of the said Collony, to a
worshipfull friend of his in England.

LONDON

Printed for John Tappe, and are to be sold at the Grey-
ound in Paul's-Church-yard, by W. W.

1608

LOT 134

AND ACCIDENTS OF NOATEAS
HATHAPNED IN VIRGINIA SINCE THE FIRST
planting of the COLONY, WHICH IS NOW
RESIDENT IN THE SOUTH PART THEREOF, TILL
THE LAST RETURNE FROM
THENCE.

Written by a Gentleman of the said Collony, to a worshipfull
friend of his in England.

LONDON

1608

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136 SMITH (CAPTAIN J.) THE GENERALL HISTORIE OF VIRGINIA, NEW-ENGLAND, AND THE SUMMER ISLES: with the names of the Adventurers, Planters, and Governours from their first beginning An: 1584. to this present 1624 ... Also the Maps and Descriptions of all those Countryes, their Commodities, people, Government, Customes, and Religion yet knowne, FIRST ISSUE OF THE FIRST EDITION, brilliant impression of the en-graved title by Barra (with portraits of Queen Elizabeth, James I and Charles Prince of Wales), and maps of "Ould Virginia," Virginia, the Summer Isles and New England (with portrait of Captain John Smith), GOOD IMPRESSIONS OF ALL THE PLATES IN VERY FINE CONDITION (excepting two or three trifling slits or holes caused by the folds), WITH WIDE MARGINS, THE SIDE-MARGINS AND TWO OF THE BOTTOM MARGINS UNCUT, has the additional portrait of the Duchess of Richmond, but without that of Pocahontas, with the rare "errata" slip pasted at foot of last page, original calf, book-label of the Earl of Egremont, A VERY FINE UNPRESSED COPY
folio (11½ in. by 7½ in.). London. Printed by I. D. and I. H. for Michael Sparkes. 1624

137 SMITH (SIR THOMAS) SIR THOMAS SMITHES VOIAGE AND ENTERTAINMENT IN RUSHIA. With the tragicall ends of two Emperors, and one Empresse, within one Moneth during his being there: And the miraculous preseruation of the now raigning Emperor, esteemed dead for 18. yeares (A-B 2; C-M 4; M (repeated) 3), two or three headlines very slightly shaved, the inside blank margin of a few leaves at end wormed at top 4to. (6¼ in. by 5¼ in.). Printed at London for Nathanyell Butter. 1605

** For an interesting account of this pamphlet and its references to Sidney, Ben Jonson and Hamlet see Collier's "Bibl. Cat." II, pp. 355-7.

138 SMYTHE (SIR JOHN) Certain Discourses ... concerning the formes and effects of diuers sorts of weapons, and other verie important matters Militarie ... and chiefly, of the Mosquet, the Caliuer and the Long-bow; As also, of the great sufficiencie, excellencie, and wonderful effects of Archers, FIRST EDITION, heading on sig. (a) 2 recto just touched, unbound 4to. At London, Printed by Richard Johnes ... 1590

139 SOTO (FERDINANDO DE) VIRGINIA RICHLY VALUED, BY THE DESCRIPTION OF THE MAINE LAND OF FLORIDA, HER NEXT

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LOT 139—continued.

NEIGHBOUR . . . Wherin are truly obserued the riches and
fertilitie of those parts . . . Written by a Portugall gentleman of
Eluas, emploied in all the action, AND TRANSLATED OUT OF
PORTUGESE BY RICHARD HAKLVYT, FIRST EDITION (A-Z 4; Aa 2),
a few headlines towards the end very slightly shaved, signature
and catchword on one page (sig. Aa 1) cut into

4to. At London Printed by Felix Kyngston for Matthew
Lownes ... 1609

** A VERY CLEAN, GOOD AND CRISP COPY. THE EXCEEDINGLY RARE FIRST EDITION AND ONE OF THE RAREST OF HAKLUYT'S WORKS. This book is a companion to Lescarbot's "Nova Francia," issued in the same year. It describes the country north of Virginia, and was issued with a view to inducing settlers to go out to the new Colonies.

(Bound with)

HARCOURT (ROBERT) A RELATION OF A VOYAGE TO GVIANA.
Describing the Climat, Scituation, fertilitie, prouisions and
commodities of that Country . . . Performed by Robert Har-
covrt, of Stanton Harcourt Esquire. The Pattent for the
Plantation of which Country, his Maiestie hath granted to the
said Robert Harcovrt vnder the Great Seale, FIRST EDITION,
two leaves of dedication shaved at foot, OTHERWISE A VERY FINE
COPY

4to. At London Printed by Iohn Beale for W. Welby
... 1613

WRIGHT (EDWARD) The Description and vse of the Sphaere,
FIRST EDITION (A-O 4), unbound

4to. London Printed for Iohn Tap ... 1613

** EXTREMELY RARE. The S. T. C. records no copy of this book in America.

SCOTT (EDMUND) An Exact Discovrse of the Subtilties,
Fashishions (sic), Pollicies, Religion, and Ceremonies of the
East Indians, as well Chyneses as Iauans, there abyding and
dweling, FIRST EDITION, a small inkstain on sig. A3 verso, a
few marginal MS. notes of explanation in a contemporary
hand, wants the last leaf and the additional leaf of errata at
end

4to. At London, Printed by W. W. for Walter Burre. 1606

** EXTREMELY RARE. For a perfect copy of this work, see under
SCOTT in the present sale. ⚙️132
bound together in 1 vol. contemporary vellum, IN VERY CRISP
AND CLEAN CONDITION

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THE STRACHEY MANUSCRIPT.

142
STRACHEY (WILLIAM) THE HISTORIE OF TRAVEL
INTO VIRGINIA BRITANIA, MANUSCRIPT. ON PAPER,
122 LEAVES, WITH DEDICATION TO HENRY PERCY, NINTH EARL
OF NORTHUMBERLAND, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR; A FINE IMPRES-
sION OF CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH'S MAP OF VIRGINIA, 1612, IS
INSERTED, TOGETHER WITH TWENTY-SEVEN ENGRAVINGS FROM
DE BRY'S HARIOT, ALL FINELY COLOURED BY HAND, contem-
porary calf, a large lozenge-shaped gilt ornament impressed in
gold on each cover, g. e.
folio. 1612

** PROBABLY THE MOST IMPORTANT MANUSCRIPT
OF AMERICAN INTEREST REMAINING IN PRIVATE
HANDS.

WILLIAM STRACHEY, colonist and writer on Virginia, was a member of the expedition to Virginia of 1609. It was his ship, the Sea Venture, which suffered the famous shipwreck on the Bermudas, commemorated by various published accounts which are believed to have provided Shakespeare with material for "The Tempest" (see lots 23 and 123 above). On reaching Virginia he filled important employments in the colony. Returning to England in 1611 he prepared (in addition to the Virginian "Lawes Divine, Morall & Martiall," published 1612, see next lot) the exhaustive treatise on Virginia contained in the present manuscript.

THIS TREATISE, PROBABLY THE BEST OF ALL EARLY ACCOUNTS
OF THE COLONY, WAS NEVER PRINTED UNTIL MODERN TIMES
(Hakluyt Society, 1849).

IT IS KNOWN TO EXIST ONLY IN THREE MANUSCRIPT COPIES,
ALL CONTEMPORARY WITH THE AUTHOR :

I. British Museum, Sloane MS. 1622 (dedicated to Sir Francis Bacon).

II. Bodleian Library, Ashmole MS. 1758 (dedicated to Sir Allen Apsley).

III. The present manuscript.

COMPARISON OF EXISTING MANUSCRIPTS.

We have carefully examined and compared the three
manuscripts. They are very similar in general composition,
but there are certain points of difference which give strong
ground for supposing that this copy, the only one in private
hands, is the earliest of the three, as it is undoubtedly the
finest and most carefully written.

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LOT 142—STRACHEY MANUSCRIPT—continued.

All three MSS. are in the same handwriting, undoubtedly that of a professional scribe, and not of Strachey himself, as was believed by the Hakluyt editor.

Of Strachey's own writing we possess a signature in the British Museum (MS. Harl. 7009, Fol. 58), and the more recently discovered presentation copy of his "Lawes" (Lot 301 of the Britwell Americana). Even these two do not provide a very large body of writing for the purposes of close comparison; but it seems highly probable that the signature to the Dedication; the signed verse on f. 4b; and all the chapter-headings, the numerous marginal notes, and the MS. descriptions on the plates (which this MS. alone possesses) are all in the handwriting of STRACHEY.

In this MS. and in the Bodleian version the bindings are identical, but the British Museum MS. has been re-bound. Both the other MSS. have three engravings inserted which do not appear in this one, though they are for all practical purposes irrelevant:—1. The Title-page from Harriot, with a shortened form of the title written on the blanks from which the printed text has been removed (the present MS. is the only one having the TITLE WRITTEN OUT IN THE FULL AND COMPLETE FORM); 2. The Adam and Eve Allegorical Frontispiece to the Plates; 3. An additional Map of a portion of Virginia.

At the end of the other MSS. there is a short Dictionary of the Indian language.

In this copy the Plates of the Picts with wide margins are bound in between the First and Second Books. In the other MSS. these are bound-in after the American Plates, and are rather clumsily stuck in, either with a printed description from Harriot or without any description at all. THIS IS THE ONLY MS. HAVING THE WRITTEN AUTOGRAPH DESCRIPTIONS TO THE PLATES, WHICH IN SEVERAL CASES VARY CONSIDERABLY FROM THE PRINTED TEXT OF HARRIOT.

Neither of the other MSS. has such a long explanatory Dedication; this is the only one in which the Plan of the work is sketched out.

This MS. is also the only one in which the Margins have been ruled in red, and all the Indian words and most of the proper names underlined or written in red ink.

Neither of the other MSS. was written and composed with such care as this; both bear traces of hasty composition.

These facts, together with what we know of its intention, lead to an almost certain conclusion that THIS MS. IS THE EARLIEST OF THE THREE.

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and the writing so nearly corresponds with that of the author
as it appeared in the presentation copy of the "Lawes" in
the Britwell Library, that we may reasonably conclude that
these were written to face the Plates by STRACHEY himself.

f. 78-79b: Liber Secundus; "Of the first finders out of these
Partes of America for the behoof of England: of the tyme.
when; & of their severall Voiages, a perticuler Record
Epitomised, togither with som accidents; as also of the Severall
Colonies which have possessed the Country, evē until this last
Plantatiō."

ff. 89b-86a: Of the Northerne Colonie upon the River of Sachadehoc. Containing a diary of the Voyage of Christopher Newport & Sir John Popham.

ff. 97b-118a are occupied with the Plates of The Natives of Virginia from De Bry, 21 in number, beginning with the map of 'Hatorask or ye south Cape' with the Descriptions in MS. (probably in Strachey's own hand) on the opposite pages.

Plate 1, the Allegorical Title-page from De Bry portraying
Adam and Eve, has not been included, presumably on the
grounds that it was irrelevant; and Plate 17 is inserted at
the beginning of this volume as described above, serving as a
Frontispiece.

These plates are not bound-in as are the plates of the Picts,
but are carefully stuck in on the leaves of the MS. so that
each plate bears on its verso the description of the next.

The descriptions in some cases vary considerably from the
printed legends from Harriot; some of them are mentioned
also in the body of the text by the author, who had, in some
cases, caused spaces to be left for them in the body of the
book, but apparently changed his mind and relegated them all
to the end of the book.

Captain John Smith's Map is also referred to at length in
the text in Caps. II and III.

The MS. ends with a blank leaf.

DATE.

The evidence for the date of the MS. rests, apart from the
evidence afforded by the Dedications, and the inclusion of a
map published in 1612, on two statements in the text:

1. f. 6b: "True yt is the first Shipps that COLUMBUS
carryed thither were but in Ao 1492, wch is now since 120
yeares."

2. f. 18b: "North Virginia . . . being the place wherein
our aboard and habitation hath now well neere sixe yeares

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consisted," i.e. since 1606. In the British Museum copy this "six" has been erased and "11" substituted, dating this copy five years later, i.e. 1617.

It seems probable that the MS. in the Bodleian and this MS. are nearly contemporary; though from indications of considerably more careful writing, and much higher quality in the general composition of the book, it is fairly certain that this is the earlier of the two. That in the British Museum was probably written in 1617 and presented in 1618, the year in which Bacon was appointed Lord Chancellor, the dignity mentioned in the Dedication.

Another confirmation that this MS. is the earliest may be found in the fact that it is the only one in which the Preface mentions the outline of the work, which was never completed. Strachey must have abandoned hope of ever completing the work by the time that the next copy was written as there is no mention of it there.

PROBABLE EARLY HISTORY.

Henry, ninth Earl of Northumberland, "The Wizard Earl," was imprisoned in the Tower from 1605 to 1621, on suspicion of being a Papist; his brother, George Percy, went on the expedition with Captain Newport to Virginia, as is mentioned in the Dedication; and was deputy governor for Capt. John Smith in 1609. While in the Tower, the Earl took a great deal of interest in mathematical and geographical research, and amongst other benefactions gave Harriot a pension of £300 per annum to assist him in his pursuits.

It is not too much to suppose that in 1611 or 1612 Northumberland met Strachey, perhaps with another prisoner in the Tower, Sir Walter Raleigh, always referred to and often apologised for as "Sir W. R." and suggested to him or even perhaps commissioned him to write a summary out of his own knowledge and from the scattered accounts of other travellers of the early attempts to colonise Virginia. Strachey himself says in the Preface that this is "the first Catagraph or Draught as I have had tyme to digest into forme and Method, out of my Journall or diary bookes: in which I have not thought yt amisse neither to epitomise briefly somewhat of the former Colonies, since they making all to one story the whole maie appeare so much the more cliere and short for your Lordship's absolute knowledge." Harriot would naturally be interested in this work, and may have offered to supply the Earl with proofs of the plates of his own work to illustrate the book, and, perhaps, coloured them himself. Strachey probably dictated the work to his Secretary. Then, realising what a

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STRACHEY (WILLIAM) FOR THE COLONY IN VIRGINIA BRITANNIA. LAVVES DIUINE, MORALL AND MARTIALL, &c. FIRST EDITION (six preliminary leaves: i.e. 1. sig. A 1 = Title; 2. an inserted leaf without signature with a dedicatory inscription beneath a woodcut headpiece, otherwise blank, "To The Right Worthy, and one of the chiefe Fautors of this Christian expedition, Sir William Wade Knight, &c." THIS LEAF WAS MISSING FROM THE BRITWELL-HUNTINGTON COPY; 3. sig. A 2 (unsigned), verses by William Strachey to the "Lords of the Councell of Virginea," the verso blank; 4. an inserted leaf without signature containing verses by William Strachey to the "Lord Lawarr" and Sir Thomas Smith; 5-6. sig. A 3-4 (sig. A 3 signed A 2), a preface by William Strachey to the "Assistants vnto his Maiesties Councell for the Colonic in Virginea-Britannia"; the "Articles, Lawes, and Orders," etc. sig. B-N 4; the last seven pages (N 1 verso-N 4) are occupied by a prayer in black letter: "A Praier duly said Morning and Evening vpon the Court of Guard, either by the Captaine of the watch himselfe, or by some one of his principall officers), BOUND IN ORIGINAL VELLUM, line panel tooling in gold on sides, fan ornament at corners, fan stamps to a cruciform design in centre, gilt back

4to (7½ in. by 5¾ in.), Printed at London for Walter Burre.

1612

** A MAGNIFICENT COPY OF AN EXCEEDINGLY RARE BOOK IN IMMACULATE CONDITION. PROBABLY THE FINEST COPY IN EXISTENCE. ONLY FOUR OTHER COPIES APPEAR TO BE KNOWN (British Museum; Bodleian, a fragment only; Huntington, and John Carter Brown).

THIS APPEARS TO BE THE EARLIEST COMPILATION OF THE SETTLED LAWS OF VIRGINIA. This stern code was promulgated by Sir Thomas Gates and Sir Thomas Dale during 1610-1611, and was revised by Sir Edward Cecil, afterwards Viscount Wimbledon.

THIS COPY IN ITS ORIGINAL BINDING IS IN THE FINEST POSSIBLE STATE THROUGHOUT, BEING IN ENTIRELY UNPRESSED AND ORIGINAL CONDITION. No copy appears to have been sold by auction, either in this country or in America since the Heber sale (lot 2688) in 1836 (probably the Britwell copy).

[See ILLUSTRATION.]

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LOT 149—continued.

the badge of Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland, the
"Wizard Earl"

folio. (13¾ in. by 8½ in.). ENGLISH, EARLY XVII CENT.

** A full list of the contents of the manuscript is given in the Hist. MSS. Comm. Sixth Report, 1877 (MSS. at Petworth House, pp. 287-319, No. 115).

Among the more interesting items are the following:
Petition of the Clothiers of the North, 1605—Petition of the Merchants of Exeter, Plymouth, etc., about the customs on cloths, 1605—Other petitions, letters, etc., about rates on clothes—An Assurance of fish from Newfoundland, 1604—Petition about wrongs committed by salt-makers in Durham and Northumberland, 1605—Narrative of the trade and state of salt-making and other documents relating to salt—A meane to bring the Irishe into one kinde of Language and civillity with the Englishe—Reasons against the draining of the fens, 1605—The Power and Purpose of the Patent granted to the Saltpetremen, 2 Jac. I.—Petition of Newcastle-on-Tyne against the abuses of the Hoast of lading and disposing of sea cole and grindstones—Considerations moving Queen Elizabeth to restrain the current of sterling moneys into Ireland—Treatise by Sir Richard Martin, Master of the Mint touching Mint matters—The gain of making monies in the Mint, 1612—Reasons against raising the current value of silver money, 1612—John Keymer's treatise on trade and commerce addressed to the King.

150 TRADE. The Trade of merchandize for the Western Worlde in Auncyent times, a 17th Century MS. 11 pp. *folio, unbound*

151 TRADE. ARTICLES CONCLYDED AT PARIS the xxiiij. of February 1605. stylo Angliae: By ... Iames ... King of Great Britaine ... And Henrie the Fourth most Christian French King ... FOR THE MORE COMMODIOUS ENTERCOURSE IN TRAFFIQUE BETWEENE THEIR SUBIECTS (A-D 4; first leaf a blank except for signature, last leaf a blank), *unbound*

4to. *Imprinted at London by Robert Barker ... 1606*

** ONLY ONE OTHER COPY APPEARS TO BE RECORDED, that in the British Museum (S. T. C. No. 9212).

152 TRADE. MISSELDEN (EDWARD) The Circle of Commerce. Or the Ballance of Trade, in defence of free Trade ... Wherein also, Exchanges in generall are considered: and therein the whole Trade of this Kingdome with forraine Countries, is digested into a Ballance of Trade, *two preliminary leaves wanting,*

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several leaves somewhat water-stained, London, John Dawson for Nicholas Bourne, 1623; A Discourse consisting of Motives for the Enlargement and Freedome of Trade. Especially that of Cloth, and other Woollen Manufactures ... the First Part, London, 1645; An Apology for the East-India Company: With an Account of some large Prerogatives of the Crown of England ... in Relation to foreign Trade and foreign Parts. By W. A[ttwood], London, Printed for the Author, 1690; An Essay upon the Present Interest of England [by George Stepney], 1701; A State of the National Debt, as it stood 24 Dec. 1716 ... compared with the Debt at Michaelmas, 1725 [by William Pulteney, Earl of Bath], 1727, bound in 1 vol. old half calf, joints cracked; sold as a collection and not subject to return 4to. (1)

153 TRADE. ROBERTS (LEWIS) THE TREASURE OF TRAFFIKE. Or A Discourse of Forraigne Trade. Wherein is shewed the benefit and commoditie arising ... by a well ordered Commerce and regular Traffike, a small hole in sig. o 3, London, E. P. for Nicholas Bourne, 1641; THE USE AND ABUSES OF MONEY, and the Improvements of it, by two Propositions for Regulating our Coin ... with the most likely way to advance a General Trade, Domestick as well as Foreign, leaf of Table at end a little soiled and slightly torn, 1671; [TEMPLE (SIR WILLIAM)] An Essay upon Taxes, marginal note on D 1 verso very slightly shaved, 1693; [CHILD (SIR JOSIAH)] A Discourse of the Nature, Use and Advantages of Trade. Proposing some Considerations for the Promotion and Advancement thereof, three or four leaves slightly shaved, 1694; A Treatise Concerning the East-India-Trade ... and Best Secured and Improved by a Company and a Joint-Stock, pagination slightly shaved, 1696; and another, bound in 1 vol. old half calf, one joint broken; sold as a collection, and not subject to return 4to. (1)

154 Travers (Walter) A Svpplication made to the Privy Covnsel, title slightly stained, inside blank corner of first three leaves slightly defective, Oxford, Joseph Barnes, 1612—Hooker (Richard) The Answere to a Svpplication preferred by Mr. Walter Travers to the H H. Lords of the Privie Counsell, ib. 1612, unbound 4to. (2)

155 TREATISE (A) PARAENETICAL, THAT IS TO SAY : AN EXHORTATION. Wherein is shewed ... the right way and true meanes to resist the violence of the Castilian King [PHILIP II] : to breake the course of his desseignes : to beat downe his pride, and to ruinate his puissance ... By a Pilgrim Spaniard, beaten by time, and persecuted by fortune. Translated out of the Castilian

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159 TRUE (A) AND PERFECT RELATION OF THE NEWES SENT FROM AMSTERDAM, THE 21. OF FEBRUARY, 1603. CONCERNING THE FIGHT OF FIUE DUTCHE SHIPPES IN THE EAST INDIES, AGAINST THE PORTUGALL FLEETE, consisting of eight great Gallions, and 22 Galleyes both great and small: wherof was Admirall, Don Andreas Fartado Mendosa. Wherevnto is added also, the Voyage and Nauiugation of the said fiue Duteche shippes and others, in the Isles of East Indies, and of their comming home (sig. A = 4 leaves), *black letter*, *unbound* 4to. (6 2/3 in. by 5 1/4 in.). Imprinted at London by T. C. for Thomas Archer . . . 1603

** EXCEEDINGLY RARE. ONLY ONE OTHER COPY APPEARS TO BE KNOWN. A VERY GOOD COPY.

160 TYMME (THOMAS) A DIALOGUE PHILOSOPHICALL. WHEREIN NATVRES SECRET CLOSET IS OPENED, and the cause of all motion in nature shewed ovt of Matter and Forme . . . And how all things exist in the number of three. Together with the wittie invention of an Artificiall perpetuall motion, FIRST EDITION, (A-K 4), a woodcut diagram on p. 55 and a full-page woodcut on p. 61, unbound
4to. London, T. S. for Clement Knight, 1612

** EXTREMELY RARE. A VERY FINE COPY.

[See ILLUSTRATION.]

161 Ulster. A Collection of such orders and conditions, as are to be obserued by the Vndertakers, vpon the distribution and Plantation of the Eschaeted Lands in Ulster (A-B 4, C 2, *last blank*), *unbound*, RARE
4to. ¶ Imprinted at London by Robert Barker . . . 1608

162 [VEER (GERRIT DE)] THE TRUE AND PERFECT DESCRIPTION OF THREE VOYAGES, SO STRANGE AND WOONDERFULL . . . BY THE SHIPS OF HOLLAND AND ZELAND, on the North sides of Norway, Muscouia, and Tartaria, towards the Kingdomes of Cathaia & China; shewing the discouerie of the Straights of Weigates, Noua Zembla, and the Countrie . . . which is thought to be Greenland: where neuer any man had bin before: with the cruell Beares, and other Monsters of the Sea, and the vnsupportable and extreame cold . . . whereby the men were forced to build a house in the cold and desart Countrie of Noua Zembla . . . and how . . . they were constrained to sayle . . . in little open Boates . . . with extreame labour, vnspoken troubles, and great hunger (TRANSLATED BY WILLIAM PHILIP, who signs the

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dedication), *Black letter* (A 2; B-X 4, *last blank*), *some marginal notes and one or two head-lines or catch-words shaved, first few leaves and some other leaves stained, unbound*

4to. Imprinted at London for T. Pauier. 1609

** EXTREMELY RARE. The S. T. C. records only one copy in England (British Museum). The two American copies there recorded are in the John Carter Brown Library and the New York Public Library.

163

VEGETIUS RENATUS (FLAVIUS) [AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF "DE RE MILITARI."]. *The Translator's Prologue beings on folio 1 in red:* "Here bigynneth a schort tretise the whiche Vegecius that was the worschipful Erle Renate sone wroote to the Empō of Rome"... *Folio 1 verso, the Author's Prologue:* "In olde tyme it was the mañe and the custome that sotilnesse and studies of hie craftis schulden be drawen and redacte to gidre"... *Folio 2, Chap. I:* "How oonly by custuable usage of dedis of armes the Romayns had the victorie of alle othir nacions"... *Folio 102 verso:* Explicit liber quartus et ultimus, MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM NEATLY AND CLEARLY WRITTEN IN A VERY GOOD GOTHIC HAND, *long lines, 30 to a page, 104 leaves (including two original blank leaves at end), with signatures and catchwords for the gatherings (a-n 8), the Translator's Prologue and the headings in red, initials throughout in blue with pen-work decoration in red, paragraph marks in red and blue, a piece torn from the last leaf of gathering "f" preserved, IN VERY GOOD CONDITION, WITH WIDE MARGINS, unbound folio (11 1/2 in. by 7 1/2 in.)* ENGLISH, EARLY XV CENT.

** An English version made for Thomas, 4th Lord Berkeley, in 1408. "Attributed by Tanner and others to John de Trevisa (and so in *Dic. Nat. Biogr.*) because he translated other works for the same Lord Berkeley. But in 1408 Trevisa would have been nearly 80 years old, and in three copies at Oxford (Digby MS. 233, Douce MS. 291 and Magdalen Coll. MS. 30) the translator's name is indicated by a rebus or device which Douce and Coxe read Clef- or Clif-toun, while Mr. F. Madan suggests Bannerton (Standardton or Pennonton might also be possible)." —*Brit. Mus. Cat. of West. MSS. in Royal and King's Coll. Vol. II*, p. 267.

A note of ownership in a 15th Century hand occurs in the margin of sig. i 7 "Thomas Rotherham boke" (? Thomas Rotherham, 1423-1500, Archbishop of York); the name occurs again on the following leaf, and again on a fly-leaf. In the margin of the first folio is an inscription in a 16th Century hand, "Faciendum est bellum vt acquiratur pax. J. Seynt John."

A
TRVE AND SINCERE
declaration of the purpofe and ends
of the Plantation begun in Virginia,
of the degrees which it hath receiued; and meanes by
which it hath beene aduanced : and the refolution and
conclusion of his Matesties Councel of that Colo-
ny, for the conftant and patient profecution there-
of, vntill by the mercies of GOD it shall
retribute a fruitful harueft to the king-
dome of heauen, and this Com-
mon-Wealth.

Seit forth by the authority of the Go-
ernors and Councellors ef-
tablished for that Plantation.

A word spoken in due season, is like apples of
Gold, with pictures of filuer. Prouer. 25. 11.

Fear is nothing else, but a betraying of the suc-
cors which reason offereth. Wil. 17. 11.

AT LONDON,
Printed for I. Stepney, and are to be fold at the figne
of the Crane in Paules Churchyard.

1610.

LOT 164

A
TRVE AND SINCERE
declaration of the purpofe and ends
of the Plantation begun in Virginia,
of the degrees which it hath receiued; and meanes by
which it hath beene aduanced : and the refolution and
conclusion of his Matesties Councel of that Colo-
ny, for the conftant and patient profecution there-
of, vntill by the mercies of GOD it shall
retribute a fruitful harueſt to the king-
dome of heauen, and this Com-
mon-Wealth.

Sett forth by the authority of the Go-
ernors and Councellors ef-
tablished for that Plantation.

AT LONDON,
Printed for I. Stepney, and are to be fold at the figue
the Crane in Paules Churchyard.

1610.

LOT 165

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ARCHIVES D'ETAT AU MINISTERE DE L'INTERIEUR
DE LA REPUBLIQUE TCHECOSLOVAQUE

Prague 158 - III, Valdštýnská 16.

Prague, le 16. mars 1921.

Monsieur

Wilfrid M. Voynich

Aeolian Hall

33 West 42nd street
NEW YORK

En réponse à votre estimée lettre du 9 février /: par-
venue le 28 février /: je prends la liberté de vous communiquer :

Le nom sur la photographie que vous m'avez envoyée
doit se lire ainsi : Jacobj Tepenecz = Jacobi de Tepenecz.

Cet homme était tchèque de naissance et s'appellait
Jacques Horčický de Tepenec. Suivant l'usage
de son temps il a latinisé son nom de famille tchèque de Hor-
čický en Synapius. Il fut un adepte et un grand
ami et bienfaiteur des Jésuites de Prague. A cause de ça leur
grand historiographe, le jésuite Jean Schmidl, lui a dédié
dans son ouvrage célèbre "Historia Societatis Jesu provinciae
Bohemiae" au IIIième tome page 386 - 388 un assez grand article,
dont la copie suit.

A l'aide de Schmidl le professeur Joseph Vávra a
écrit en 1895 le court article suivant : "Jacques Horčický de
Tepenec" dans le programme de l'école réelle tchèque de Prague
et un extrait de cet article dans le dictionnaire encyclopédique
tchèque de "Otto", volume XI /: 1897 /:

François Martin Pelzel dans son livre "Abbildungen böhmischer und mährischer Gelehrten und Künstler nebst kurzen Nachrichten von ihrem Leben und Wirken" /: Portraits des savants et des artistes de la Bohème et de la Moravie et des courtes descriptions de leur vie et actions /: Prague 1773 - 1782, tome III page 93 - 99 dans l'article "Jacob Horcziczky von Tepenecz sonst Synapius genannt", basé aussi sur Schmidl, a apporté néanmoins des renseignements nouveaux, avec un portrait de Horčický, comme aussi Louis Böhm dans le livre "Královské věnné město Mělník" /: La ville royale de Mělník /: Mělník 1892, page 325 - 327.

Nous joignons la traduction française de l'article de Vávra dans l'encyclopédie "Otto", complété a l'aide des livres cités, et la reproduction photographique du portrait, qui se trouve chez Pelzel. Ensuite nous joignons la copie du diplôme du 20 octobre 1608, par lequel l'empereur Rodolphe II éleva Horčický a l'état de noblesse.

Horčický ne pouvait avoir rien de commun avec Ferdinand III et sa cour, parceque Ferdinand III est né le 13 juillet 1608, tandis que Horčický est mort le 25 septembre 1622. Ferdinand en question, dont les enfants le docteur Raphaël apprenait le tchèque, ne pouvait être que le fameux ami des jésuites, Ferdinand II /: père de Ferdinand III /: , né le 9 juillet 1578, roi de Bohème après la mort de Mathias /: mort le 20 mars 1619 :/, devenu tristement célèbre après la bataille de la Montagne Blanche par les immenses confiscations des biens des nobles et la recatolisation brutale de la population du royaume de Bohème.

Ce docteur Raphaël est identique avec le docteur Raphaël Soběhrd-Mnišovský de Sebuzín et de Horstein, qui lui aussi fut élevé par les Jésuites et fut un juriste célèbre.

Tout ce que j'ai pu apprendre le concernant en hâte dans des divers écrits et documents, je le joins dans la pièce ajoutée.

Je m'intéresserait beaucoup des nouvelles plus exactes du manuscrit que vous allez lire, c'est pour ça que je vous prie de vouloir m'envoyer votre discours, s'il sera publié, éventuellement des indications par écrit concernant cette question, vu que ce manuscrit semble être assez intéressant pour l'histoire de notre pays.

Veuillez agréer l'expression de mon estime et l'assurance
de mon empressement.

Conseiller ministériel
et directeur des archives d'état :

de mon empreinte.

Veuillez agréer l'expression de mon eatime et l'assurance
baya.

ce manuscrit étant être saisis intéressant pour l'histoire de notre
ment des indications par écrit concernant cette question, au due
de votre m'envoyer votre discurso, a'il aera publié, éventuelle-
qu manuscrit que une affaire liné, c'est pour ça que je vous brie
je m'intéresserait beaucoup des nouvelles plus exactes

ARCHIV MINISTERSTVA VNITRA

Praha 158 - III. Valdštýnská 16.

## NOBILITATIO

für den Hauptmann des St. Georg-Klosters in dem Prager Schlosze
Jakob Horžiczky mit dem Praediat "v o n Tepenecz".
Prag, den 20.Octobris / 1608.

## RUDOLPHUS.

Ad perpetuam rei memoriam: etc.

Ad fastigium et apicem Imperialis dignitatis mediante gratia, et
benignitate dei optimi maximi electi, istud non solum Majestati nostrae
convenire, verum etiam justitiam a Nobis requirere censuimus, ut eis, quos
placuit eidem supremo Monarchae virtute, suisque donis ornare, vestigiis
Divorum Romanorum Imperatorum et serenissimorum Hungariae, et Bohemiae Reg-
gum, tum etiam Austriae Archiducum Praedecessorum Nostrorum exemplo, et
testimonium praebeamus, et eosdem universis honorandos proponamus, quate-
nus, qui aliis virtute antecellunt, eminentia etiam praerogativarum cante-
ros praecedant, et qui recta voluntate, promptitudine atque facultate de
Nobis bene mereri studeant, a Nobis quoque gratiis specialibus abundanti-
us exornentur.

Cum itaque Majestati Nostrae honestus JACOBUS HORCZICZKY Auli-
cus Noster, et Capitaneus Monasterij Sancti Georgij in arce Pragensi fide-
lis Nobis dilectus authenticis documentis et sufficienti testimonio vi-
rorum fide dignorum comprobasset, se legitimis parentibus natum semper
hactenus non tantum honestam et inculpatam vitam duxisse, sed etiam in
id, ut Nobis servitia fidelia, et gratia exhibere posset, diligenter, ac se-
dulo incubuisse, petiissetque ut eum gratia Nostra Caesarea prosequi, et
in argumentum munificentiae erga ipsum Nostrae, insigniis Nobilitatis, quo
in futurum promptior adsequia Nobis praestanda, rederetur, coornare digna
remur, dignum existimavimus, qui tum ob eximias animi, et ingenij dotes.

juribus, quibus caeteri Nobiles et armigeri insigniti sunt, plenaria cum libertate potiantur, utantur, fruantur.

Quapropter mandamus serio omnibus et singulis fidelibus Imperijj ac Regnorum Nostrorum subditis, cujuscunque status, ordinis, gradus, aut conditionis existent, ut praenominatum JACOBUM HORCZICZKY de TEPENECZ una cum posteritate ejus condescendente ejusmodi armorum praerogativa abque ullo impedimento gaudere sinant, neve ullo modo utentes molestari patiantur sub Indignatione Nostra et poena viginti quinque Marcarum auri puri, cujus medietas ut fisco Nostro debeatur, reliqua vero pars ut caedat in usum eorum, qui injuriam pertulerint, irremissibiliter decernimus.

In quorum omnium fidem, ac evidens testimonium haec praesentes fieri, Regalisque Nostri Sigilli appensum jussimus communiri.

Datae in Regali Nostra Praga 20ma Octobris Ao. 1608.

Concordat cum copia registri nobilitationum N.12 fol.931 -934, quod Pragae in archivo ministerii rerum internarum reipublicae Tche-coslovacae asservatur.

Pragae, die 8. Martii anno 1921.

Consiliarius ministerii:

ARCHIVUM MINISTERII RERUM INTERNARUM

Pragae 158 - III. Valdštýnská 16.

HISTORIAE SOCIETATIS JESU PROVINCIAE BOHEMIAE

pars III.

ab anno Christi MDCXVI ad annum MDCXXXII.

Authore

Joanne SCHMIDL,

societatis eiusdem sacerdote.

Pragae 1754.

Pagina 386 - 388.

Collegii Pragensis patronum locupletissimum hoc quoque anno /:1622:/ caelum sibi vendicavit, JACOBUM inquam HOR- CZICZKY, latinis postea dictum SINAPIUM. Hunc virum fortuna pede- tentim per varios gyros ex imis provexit ad sublimia, eique constan- ti / quod rarum / vultu arrisit. Fortunae vero suae is ipsus /deo conatus promovente/ dexterrimus faber exstitit, unaque ostendit, quid possit humanum ingenium; si modo, qua in re excellere possit, ipsé- met animadvertas, eóque culturam et industriam conferas. Itaque JACO- BUS obscuro loco natus, in coquina collegii Crumloviensis coco primum lixarum operam diutinam puer addixit. Quia vero ingenio- sior apparebat, quam ferendum censerent nostri, ut inter fumos obso- lesceret; e culina extractus, et ad musas traductus est. Literis mansve- tioribus utcunque perceptis, pharmacopaeo ejusdem collegii, fratri nostro Martino SCHAFFNER, ab arte medica, sed ea praesertim, quam botanicam, chymicamque vocant, longé latéque celebratissimo /:1:/ additus est: cujus dum artem omnem docili ingenio, attentisque et oculis, et auribus, assidue haurit sedulus tyro; sensim et ipse lon- gé ultra ejusdem artis rudimenta promovit. Cujus porro excolendae subsidia a philosophia petiturus Pragam abivit, ibíque in nostrum receptus alumnorum seminarium, domi promum condum, seu peni dispen-

/:1:/ Vide parte II.L.4.n.140.

satorem egit, in scholis Aristoteli operam dedit: neque tamen interea desistebat. combibitam CRUMLOVII artem identidem experiri, medicas ex herbis aliisque rebus aquas suosque eliquando; quas aquas diebus, quibus feriantur musae, prope horti nostri Transmuldani ostia, qua trajectus est, bona rectoris venia divendebat. Nec hedera opus fuit; aquarum quippe efficaciam fugati morbi proclamavere: jāmque plus aquae Sinapianae sitiebatur, quam coquinqueretur. Sed sub haec fortuna JACOBUM alió divertere, aliudque ei ostium aperire visa fuit. Cum enim esset/ingenio ad plura penetranda capaci, rei quoque oecometricae tractandae rationes condidicerat: nam et ad an. 1600. legitur praefectus, seu ut autem, provisor seminarii NOVODOMENSIS; tum rogatu SANCTIMONIALIUM AD DIVI GEORGII PRAGAE, earum bona sub annum 1606. Capitanei, id est PRAEFECTI nomine, administranda suscepit: quo tempore, ut pote religionis catholicae, quod vixit, perstудiosus, quo patrii homines erudirentur exactius mysteriis romanis; CONFESSIONEM CATHOLICAM, in divinis literis, conciliis, et patribus fundatam /: sine dubio nostri cujusdam patris opera adjutus: / scrip sit, quam postea an. 1609. typis mandatam, cancellario et optimatibus regni dedicavit. Verum inter haec /: solet enim se animus identidem ad id referre, quod semel didicisse placuit: / JACOBUS noster chymicam suam nunquam non exercebat; eo profectu, ut ipse quoque multa et rara in ea arte suópte ingenio reperiret, et alchimiam etiam feci tractaret successu. Non potuit ea res diu latere imperatorem RUDOLPHUM, ejuscemodi artium curiosissimum, et maximum amatorem. Ergo JACOBUM ad se evocat, atque commorari in aula sua jubet. Erat autem RUDOLPHI aula viris doctissimis, ex omnibus Evropae regionibus maximis praemiis. Pragam attractis, et copióse ac laute habitis, refertissima: abundabat artificibus, et qui in gemmis, auro, aliisque metallis operarentur, praestantissimis: pictoribus item, statuariis, et aliis; cum nihil esset artium et scientiarum, maximé ex quibus certa utilitas in publicum colligitur, cujus peritos homines non haberet: in iisque chorum duxere TYCHO BRAHE DANUS, mathematicus, siquis unquam alius, insignis; ANSELMUS de BOOT BRUGENSIS, gemmarius; JACOBUS TYPOTIUS inter viros eruditos nominatissimus: turba denique chymicorum de-

lectabatur IMPERATOR, quibus ipse plerumque collaborabat: /1/
et huic quidem potissimum operi vacanti sibi, SINAPIUM esse ad ma-
num volebat; quod ille obsequium IMPERATORI multis annis praesti-
tit. Nihil autem tum erat facilius, quam sub munificentissimo PRIN-
CIPE, et in probatos artifices profuso, ditescere. Itaque cum in
SINAPII inventis et effectis mire sibi CAESAR complacuisset; tantis
ille /praeter nobilitatem EQUESTRIS ORDINIS, et perpetui aulici / an.
1608.collatam/ crevit opibus, ut IMPERATORI, bellis subinde presso,
aere posset succurrere. /2/ Amplius veró apud RUDOLPHUM gratia cre-
vit; postquam is, quantum arte JACOBUS valeret, proprio experimento
didicit, suamque aegrotantis jamjam fugituram animam, caetera medi-
corum turba CAESARIS salutem in desperationem habente, ab illo ad offi-
cium revocatam sensit. /3/ Verum quantumcunque fortuna elevaret ho-
minem, non ipsum variavit; sed qualem moribus invenit, talem reliquit:
modestum, probum, omnibus affabilem: fidem catholicam cunctis opibus
promovere satagebat, idcirco, quos ad sacerdotium aspirare comperit
studiosos, peculiari semper liberalitate favit. Paucos in BOHEMIA
discipulos JACOBO societas pares habuit; qui aeque luculentis amp-
lisque testimoniis gratum animum ei affirmassent. In omnibus COLLE-
GII PRAGENSIS necessitatibus asylum ipse, ac perpetuus benefactor.

/4/ Suprema viri fata accelerasse videtur lapsus ex equo; inde ab
anno altero lente moriebatur; biduo ante mortem MELNICO PRAGAM
se deportari fecit, ubi in manibus P. ADAMI KRAWARSKY, cujus aposto-
licas virtutes et industrias unice admirabatur, et magni faciebat,
pientissime diem clausit, qui fuit 25. Septembris; postquam fortuna-
rum facultatumque suarum /5/ societatem Pragensem instituisset hae-
redem. Cadaver splendidissimo, ut tanto benefactore dignum erat, fu-
nere, pridie calendas octobres, in templum Salvatoris illatum, et pro-
pe aram VIRGINIS AB ANGELO SALUTATAE conditum est, ut né quid defo-
ret societati de TOTO SINAPIO. Defunctum celebrata sua facundia
/1/ Haec, et alia de Rudolpho vide in Balbino, Miscell. Dec. I. L. 7 pag
255. /2/ Balbinus Miscell. Dec. I. L. 9 nondum edito, Tract. 2. /3/ Ita li-
ber, cui titulus: Domus pietatis et literar. seu: Seminarium S. Wencesl.
Colum. IV. /4/ Crugerius ad diem 18. Septembris. /5/ Crugerius cit.
Diarium rectoris Prag. ad diem 25. Septemb. hujus anni.

O t t ů v Slovník Naučný

: Dictionnaire encyclopédique "O t t o" :/

Tome XI - Prague 1897 - page 569 - 570.

Traduction de l'article du prof. Vávra,
augmenté.

Horčický de Tepenec /: Synapius /: Jacques.

: Le nom Horčický vient du nom tchèque : horčice = sénevé, cela sign-
fie en botanique "synapis" ; c'est de là que vient son nom latinisé
Synapius :/.

Né en 1575 de parents pauvres dans un endroit du domaine
de Krumlov /: dans le Sud de la Bohème :/, il est mort en 1622 à
Prague. Pendant quelque temps il fut au service des Jésuites du col-
lège de Krumlov en qualité de marmiton; mais le recteur Bernard
Koch qui a découvert son talent l'a admis dans le séminaire pour les
étudiants pauvres de Krumlov. Là il a fréquenté pendant cinq ans
le lycée et puis il a été adjoint au frère Martin Schaffner, pharma-
cien du collège de Krumlov et médecin fameux qui était très instruit
dans la médecine et dans la botanique. Son maître ayant une clientèle
nombreuse, au temps où à Krumlov et les environs il n'y avait pas
de médecin capable, Horčický fut un observateur et étudiant assidu
et par là il a créé son bonheur futur,

En 1598 à peu près il s'est rendu au collège des Jésuites
de St. Clément à Prague pour y étudier la philosophie et y fut accep-
té comme séminariste. Outre les études empressées d'Aristote il ser-
vait aux confrères en qualité de dispensateur dans le réfectoire, et
pendant les heures libres il cueillait des plantes, en faisait des

remèdes et les vendait avec permission du recteur aux portes du jar-
din des jésuites de l'autre côté de la Vltava. Il avait un si grand
débit sans réclame charlatane qu'il avait de la peine à satisfaire
à tout le monde.

Comme il avait aussi des connaissances extraordinaires
dans l'économie rurale, on l'envoya en 1600 en qualité de proviseur
dans le nouveau collège à Jindřichův Hradec /: dans le Sud de la
Bohème :/, d'où il fut demandé par l'abbesse du couvent de bénédic-
tines de St. George à Prague comme intendant des biens de son cou-
vent. En cette qualité il s'occupait pendant son loisir dans son la-
boratoire chimique et grâce à son intelligence il a fait des nou-
velles découvertes.

L'empereur Rodolphe II en ayant entendu l'a fait venir à
sa cour et l'occupait dans son laboratoire chimique à côté des autres
savants de profession. Il était très aimable avec lui, le comble de
cadeaux et en 1608, le 20 octobre, il le nomma chevalier avec le
titre "de Tepene c". En ce temps Horčický guérit l'empereur
d'une grave maladie, contre laquelle les autres médecins ne savaient
aucun remède; cela augmenta son estime à la cour. Mais cette chance
ne l'a pas rendu orgueilleux, il resta modeste, franc et aimable dans
ses relations avec tout le monde. Envers les jésuites il est resté
un élève reconnaissant et envoyait souvent des cadeaux à leur col-
lège et séminaire de St. Clément.

Après la mort de Rodolphe II en 1612 il est devenu inten-
dant du domaine royale de Mělník et depuis 1616 le domaine lui fut
donné en gage. Horčický était un catholique zélé. Lorsque en 1609
les nobles tchèques protestants réclamaient la liberté de la con-
fession tchèque /: utraquiste :/ il publia et dédia au chancelier
Lobkovic le livre /: écrit en tchèque :/ : "La confession catholique
ou la description de la vraie religion chrétienne générale, concer-
nant l'espérance, l'amour chrétien et la justice", qu'il a écrit
déjà en 1606 à l'aide de quelque docteur du collège de St. Clément
/: 1. éd. en 1609, 2. éd. en 1677, 3. éd. en 1782 :/.

Au domaine de Mělník il propagea la réformation catholique
avec zèle. Par conséquent il fut détesté par le parti utraquiste ou

protestant. Après la défenstration de Prague /: le 23 mai 1618 :/
il fut pendant un certain temps empêsonné en 1618 et chassé de la
Bohème en 1619 pour toujours. Après la bataille de la Montagne Blanche
il retourna dans son domaine de Mělník, mais seulement pour peu de temps,
car en 1621 il tomba du chival, se blessa, fut malade
toute une année et mourut le 25 septembre 1622 dans le collège de
St. Clément à Prague, où il se fit transporter de Mělník deux jours
avant sa mort.

Il fut enterré a l'église du Saint Sauveur dans le même
collège. L'héritier principal fut le collège sus-dit auquel il léga
ses droits de gage sur Mělník et 50.000 florins.

Sur le marbre qui couvrait son sépulcre était l'inscription suivante:

AVDI VIATOR ! MARMOR HOC, CINERES TEGIT

HORCZICZKY, QVEM MINIMVM EXTLIT

ALTE RVDOLPHVS.

SED MAGE VIRTVS ET FIDES.

QVOD SORTE IN ISTA EST INFREQVENS.

HONORVM, OPVMQVE PONDERA IN TESTEM TVLIT.

POTVIT SINAPIS HOC FIDES.

SVB CVIVS VMBRA SAEPE SE ANIMATVM MEMOR

PONEBAT OPTIMO PATRI

A. MDCXXII COLLEGIVM SOCIETATIS IESV.

Selon indication de François Martin Pelzel dans son livre
"Abbildungen böhmischer und mährischer Gelehrten und Künstler nebst
kurzen Nachrichten von ihrem Leben und Wirken" /: Portraits des sa-
vants et artistes de la Bohème et de la Moravie et des coutes de-
scriptions de leur vie et actions :/ - tome III, Prague 1777, page 99-
existaient vers l'an 1777 quelques écrits de Jacques Horčický de
Tepenec sur la chimie et sur la botanique en manuscrit.

Le tableau ci-joint est la photographie du tableau dans
l'ouvrage justement mentionné de Pelzel et selon son indication il
se trouvait en 1777 en possession de Léopold Schernik, maître de
rhétorique à Těšín.

La prononciation
des noms tchèques selon
l'orthographie française.

Horčický = Hortchitskis /: h est prononcé comme en anglais :/
ý comme -is- dans "Denis".
č comme ch anglais in "child"

Tepenec = Tépénéts

horčice = hortchitsé

Krumlov = Kroumlof

Vltava = Vltava

Jindřichův Hradec /: château d'Henri :/ = I-ndrsihouf Hradets
Ch comme h anglais, mais plus aspiré
H comme h anglais

Mělník = Miëlnîk

Těšín = Tiëchinne

Prague 158-111, Valdštýnská 16.

Dr. Raphaël Soběhrd-Mnišovský
de Sebuzín et de Horstein.

/: Extrait des ouvrages suivants :

Joseph Jireček, Rukověť k dějinám literatury české do konce XVIII. věku - Manuel de l'histoire de la littérature tchèque jusqu'à la fin du XVIIIème siècle - Prague 1875, page 235-236.

François Martin Pelzel, Abbildungen böhmischer und mährischer gelehrten und Künstler nebst kurzen Nachrichten von ihrem Leben und Wirken - Portraits des savants et des artistes de la Bohème et de la Moravie, et des courtes descriptions de leur vie et actions - Tome IV
Prague 1782, page 50-54, avec le portrait.

J. C. comte d'Auersperg, Geschichte des königlich böhmischen Appellationsgerichtes - L'histoire de la cour royale d'appel du royaume de Bohème - Prague 1805, page 198-200.

Riegrův Slovník Naučný - Le dictionnaire encyclopédique "Rieger" - Tome V. Prague 1866, page 370-371.

Ottův Slovník Naučný - Le dictionnaire encyclopédique "Otto" - Tome XXIII. Prague 1905, page 556.

Thomas V. Bílek, Dějiny konfiskací v Čechách po r. 1618 - L'histoire des confiscations en Bohème après l'an 1618, - Prague 1882, en plusieurs endroits.

Beschreibung der bisher bekannten böhmischen Privatmünzen und Medaillen.

Herausgegeben von dem Vereine für Numismatik zu Prag - Description des monnaies tchèques privées et des médailles connues jusqu'à ce temps.

Publiée par la société de numismatique à Prague - Prague 1852, page 359-360,:/:avec la reproduction d'une médaille du docteur Raphaël Mnišovský. :/.

Docteur en droit Raphaël Soběhrd-Mnišovský de Sebuzín et de Horstein, juriste et écrivain tchèque, est né en 1580 à Horšův Týn dans la Bohème occidentale. Il a étudié à Prague chez les Jésuites. A cet époque ayant 20 ans il fit la connaissance de Barthélemi Paprocký de Hlohol et de Paprocká Vůle, écrivain polonais exilé, auquel il aida dans la composition du texte tchèque de son ouvrage "Diadochus, c'est à dire la succession des princes et des rois de Bohème": paru à Prague en 1602 :/., qu'il a complété lui même par une dissertation concernant les cloîtres et les abbées du royaume de Bohème. Puis il a continué ses études à Paris et à Rome, et il est devenu docteur en droit à l'étranger. C'est alors qu'il a changé son nom "Soběhrd" en "Mnišovský".

Après son retour il fut nommé sénateur royal du fameux diplomate et politique, cardinal Melchior Klesl, qui était en ce temps là gouverneur en Autriche. En cette qualité il rendait des services importants comme agent politique pendant la guerre que Ferdinand II. avait avec les Vénétiens. En récompense de ses services il fut nommé conseiller au gouvernement de Styrie. Il était chargé en même temps d'instruire le jeune archiduc qui plus tard est devenu l'empereur Ferdinand III dans la langue tchèque. Il écrivait probablement pour lui l'ouvrage latin : "Constructio seu strues Tritemiana. Qui nullum unquam idiomatis bohemici calluit verbum, per eam in momento scribet convenienter bohemice quantum volet" :/.: le manuscrit dans la bibliothèque de l'université d'Upsale où il fut transporté par les Suédois dans la guerre de trente ans :/.

Pendant les troubles de 1618 - 1620 il fut employé par Ferdinand II pour les actions d'état. Le 1 janvier 1621 il a obtenu le titre sus-dit "de Sebuzín", le 2 mai 1622 il fut installé comme conseiller de la cour royale d'appel à Prague "au banc des docteurs".

Il fut aussi envoyé en qualité de commissaire de la reformation dans diverses villes en Moravie et dans le comté de Glatz pour former la population protestante à devenir catholique. En récompense l'empereur lui donna 4000 florins de la chambre royale pour quelle somme lui fut donné le domaine Bulikovo près de Dačice en Moravie qui a été confisqué à Jean Dvořecký de Olbramovice.

En 1628 il fut nommé sècrétaire à la chancellerie royale aulique de Bohème où il traduisait en tchèque les ordonances, les lois et les patentes concernant le royaume de Bohème et les terres incorporées, et en 1635 il est devenu procureur royal.

Quand l'invasion saxonne a été repoussée il fut nommé par le généralissime impérial Albert de Wallenstein, duc de Friedland, membre de la "commission Friedlandaise de confiscation", qui fut chargé en 1632 - 1634 de juger et de punir les émigrants et les nobles tchèques qui accompagnaient et aidaient les Saxons dans leur expédition en Bohème. Lorsque le 25 février 1634 Albert de Wallenstein duc de Friedland et son général Adame Erdman Trčka comte de Lípa furent tués a Cheb /: Eger /:, comme suspects de haute trahison.

Raphaël Soběhrd-Mnišovský fut chargé de faire le procès criminel à tous les deux pour justifier la confiscation de leurs biens. En 1637 il fut nommé conseiller à la cour royale d'appel à Prague "au banc des nobles" et en 1640 il est devenu vicechambellan du cadastre des terres nobles du royaume de Bohème.

Soběhrd-Mnišovský était un poète prompt latin qui a composé 540 poèmes latins, surtout des épi programmes. Peu de temps avant sa mort il a composé à lui même un poème funèbre - "Funebria Raphaelis-Mnissovský de Sebuzin, quae sibi vivens adhuc valensque fecit - et l'a fait imprimer avec l'ordre de le distribuer à son enterrement.

Outre Bulíkov il tenait Lochkov, qu'il a acheté de la part de Venceslas Michna en 1637, deux maisons à Prague, des vignes près de Prague et de Litoměřice, et puis une ferme à Vršovice. Tout ceci a hérité sa femme Rozina de Hiršov et deux filles, dont une était mariée avec Daniel Pachta de Rájov.

Il est mort le 21 novembre 1644 et fut enterré à l'église du St. Sauveur au collège des Jésuites au St. Clément à Prague.

February 9, 1921.

The Director of the National State Archives of Bohemia,
Prague, Czocho Slovakia.

Dear Sir:

I should be very much obliged to you if you could give me some
information about a man who lived in Bohemia in the 17th century. His name
appears on the first leaf of a very important manuscript in my possession, which
he apparently owned at some time during the 17th century. As nearly as I can
read the name it is Jacobij a Tspenecz or Topenecz, and I am enclosing
photograph of it.

Through indirect evidence I gather that he was a friend of the
celebrated Prague professor, John, Marcus Marci, but although I have looked in
every possible book in the British Museum and in the New York libraries I
can find no reference to him. I also think he was personally acquainted
with or at the Court of Ferdinand III, King of Bohemia, and that he knew a certain
Dr. Raphael who taught Bohemian to the children of Ferdinand III. Incidentally
I should be very grateful if you could give me some information about this
Dr. Raphael, apart from Jacobij a Tspenecz."

I am sorry to trouble you in this matter, but I am to read a paper
on the MS. on April 20th and naturally would like to be able to give as much
of the history of my MS. as I can ascertain.

Yours sincerely,

RECEIPT FOR REGISTERED ARTICLE

No. 226015

Registered at the Post Office Indicated in Postmark.

Class postage.

Complete record of registered mail is kept at the post office, but the sender should write the name of the addressee on back hereof as an identification. Preserve and submit this receipt in case of inquiry.

Postmark clearly, showing date and office.

POSTMASTER,

Form 3806.

Per.

c5-6852

May 27th, 1921. No. 2.

Museum 1601. I wonder if this is true and if in this catalogue is enumerated
a mysterious MS. in cipher with illustrations of plants, astrological diagrams,
etc. and perhaps attributed to Roger Bacon.

I see in biographies reference to the fact that Horcicky
left his property to the Jesuits at Prague. I wonder if this property included
his library and if this library was disbursed or given away by him when
he was expelled from Bohemia in 1619. Perhaps research in that direction
will reveal to whom he gave my MS.

The work on my MS. was and is being done on two lines - one
is tracing the history and peregrinations of the MS., which is what I have tried
to do, and the other, much more complicated and important, is the decipherment
of the text by Professor W. Romaine Newbold of the University of Pennsylvania,
who has discovered the key to the cipher in which the MS. is written.
In all probability it will take several years before the work is entirely
finished and you quite understand that both Professor Newbold and I would like
to have as complete a picture as possible of the translation and history of the
MS., as the subject is so important and of the utmost scientific and historical
interest.

The lectures which he and I delivered on April 20-21
in Philadelphia before the College of Physicians and the American Philosophical
Society will be published by these institutions and as soon as this is done
I shall be pleased to send you copies. Meanwhile to give you some idea
as to what the MS. looks like and as to what researches are being made in
connection with it I am enclosing copy of a popular magazine article which
has just appeared in Hearst's Magazine for June. This, as you will note,
is merely a popular article and not an authorized version, but as it contains
illustrations and some facts I am sending it. Other articles in more
scientific magazines will appear in the near future, which I shall take
pleasure in sending you as they appear.

Again thanking you for your very valuable collaboration in
this work, I am,

Yours sincerely