Title:
Miscellaneous literary manuscripts
Level: Category
Estate and Family records
Level: Fonds
COPPED HALL ESTATE, EPPING, WALTHAM HOLY CROSS AND WALTHAMSTOW
Level: Sub-Fonds
MISCELLANEOUS
Scope and Content:
Includes:

(i) Copy of letter from Cardinal Richelieu to French Ambassador in Rome, 1628

(ii) Contemporary copy of Edmund Waller, 'Upon the late storm and death of ... Oliver Cromwell' (published in Three Poems upon the death of the late Usurper Oliver Cromwell, 1659) with copy of reply by Sir William Godolphin, and a poem 'on his Mistress droun'd'

(iii) Contemporary copy of 'Directions to a Painter' and 'Clarindon'd House-Warming', by Sir John Denham (published 1667)

(iv) Contemporary copy, with corrections, of poem by George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham on death of his father-in-law, Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax, 1671 (printed in his Works (1775), volume 2, pp.135-137)

(v) 17th-century copies of correspondence, 1587, between Sir Amias Paulet, and Walsingham and Davison (printed in The Letter-Books of Sir Amias Paulet, ed. John Morris (1874), pp.359-362) and 'apology' of Davison, relating to his execution of the warrant on Mary, Queen of Scots (printed in Sir W. Nicolas, Life of William Davison (1823), pp.270-285)

(vi) Contemporary copy of poem 'Garnets Ghost Addressing to the Jesuits ... just after the Murther of Sr Edmond-Bury Godfrey', (1678)

(vii) 5 sheets from diary with brief notes of national events 1683-1688, e.g. fire at Newmarket, 22 March 1682/3, and deaths, including members of Conyers family and Lord Petre, 2 January 1683/4

(viii) Contemporary copy (in same hand as (iii) and (vii)) of first of two papers by King Charles II, printed by King James II, 1686

(ix) Contemporary copy of satirical poem 'Faction displayed', attributed to William Shippen, Jacobite politician, printed 1704

(x) 'Heads of an Indenture Between the Court and the Commons ... April 1746' (skit on Septennial Bill in form of apprenticeship indenture)

(xi) Poem addressed to Miss Sophia Conyers, 1735 (daughter of Edward Conyers, married Sir Roger Newdigate, 1743)

(xii) Poem 'on the Wedding Day' to Lady Sophia Fermor, 14 July 1736

(xiii) Poem 'The Review', Winchester, 26 April 1738

(xiv) List of speakers for and against motion in House of Commons to remove Sir Robert Walpole, 13 February 1740/1, with vote in both houses (sketches by John Conyers on reverse)

(xv) Latin epitaph, 1741

(xvi) Ballad on Garter ceremony, 1741 [refers to John Anstis and Duke of Portland]

(xvii) Copy of Earl of Derwentwater's letter from Tower, 8 December 1746 [see also D/DP F273/38, 39]

(xviii) List of Parliamentary manuscripts, 1601-1673, belonging to William Hall of Middle Temple, and subsequently to John Conyers, 1748

(xix) Poem on marriage of Henrietta Conyers, 21 December 1768, by Revd [Thomas] Salt [vicar of Nazeing, 1761-1806]

(xx) Verses on 'Lady Pomfret's present of Antique Statues ... to Oxford', 10 April 1755; reference to 'Oxford streets ... said to be paved with Jacobites'

(xxi) 'A State Riddle' (relates to Sir Robert Walpole; probably written after his fall, 1742)

(xxii) Latin epigrams and epitaph of Peter le Neve, Norroy, died 1729 (sketches by John Conyers on reverse)

(xxiii) 'The Court Martial's address to his Majesty' (relates to Admiral Byng, executed 1757)

(xxiv) Love poem addressed to Captain Lindsey and part of letter referring to him

(xxv) Key to 'Atlantis' [probably to be dated to Queen Anne's reign; characters include her, Duke and Duchess of Marlborough]; 4 documents

(xxvi) Poem on Nash's picture hung between busts of Newton and Pope in Long Room at Bath, Somerset

(xxvii) Poem on miraculous conception of son [of King James II] by Mary of Modena

(xxviii) Poem on influence of Duchess of Marlborough over Queen Anne

(xxix) Poem on Browne Willis, the antiquarian (1682-1760)

(xxx) Verse character of Mr. Mather, franked by Sir Roger Newdigate

(xxxi) Poem 'To the Haters of Papists', late 17th century

(xxxii) Poems 'The Brothers' (Frederick, Prince of Wales and William, Duke of Cumberland, sons of King George II) and 'Norfolk House'

(xxxiii) Poems 'Advice to Frederick [Prince of Wales]'

(xxxiv) Ballad 'The South Sea' (refers to 'the suppresion of Bubbles in June [1720])

(xxxv) Epitaph in verse on Sir Henry St George, Garter (1581-1644)

(xxxvi) Poem of death of Algernon Sidney (1622-1638)

(xxxvii) Elegy on the death of Miss Warner's squirrel

(xxxviii) Poem by William Pulteney (created Earl of Bath, 1742) on the Duchess of Richmond

(xxxix) 'Oath ordered by the Church of Rome to be administer'd to a New Convert'

(xl) Copy of poem by Alexander Pope 'On Two Paramours killed by Lightning'

(xli) Latin testimonial to Charles Tremayne (at Magdalen College, Oxford; not in Forster, Alumni)

(xlii) Verse 'Upon Mr. Edward Howard's Utopia'

(xliii) Verse prophecy found under foundations of chapel at Wallingford House, Berkshire, 1694

(xliv) Prophecy by John Sadler of Warnwell, Dorset, 1661, relating to Great Plague, Great Fire, Revolution of 1688, etc.

(xlv) Verses 'For a Consumption'

(xlvi) Notes from Sir Thomas Browne's 'Religio Medici' (17th century)
Dates of Creation:
17th and 18th century
Extent:
122