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R.7.22

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Shelfmark R.7.22
Manuscript Title

I. Description of Nonesuch

II. Henry Howard, earl of Northampton, Report of the Committee Appointed To Look Into the Navy
Alternative Title

Description of Nonesuch, Report of the Committee Appointed To Look Into the Navy By James I
James Number 758
Century 16th17th
Physical Description

Two tracts bound together.
Provenance

From Puckering.
Donor Puckering [formerly Newton], Sir Henry, third baronet (bap. 1618, d. 1701), Royalist Army Officer and Local Politician
Folio I. 13 ff. written. II. 17 ff. written.
Material Paper
Language Latin
IIIF Manifest URL https://mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/R.7.22/manifest.json
Online Since 19/10/2021

Contents

I. Belonged to Lord Lumley, whose name is on f.1.
Magnificae et plane Regiae Domus (quae vulgo vocatur Nonesuch) breuis et vera Descriptio.
De Veneris statua Apellis artificio.
Ends with two short copies of Latin verses, one to Diana, the other on Actaeon, and an English version of each.

II. "The Report of the Committee appointed by King James I. to inspect the Navy."
Very neatly done: the first line written in gold.
It is highly rhetorical, and seems to be the work rather of an Individual than of a Committee. No name is attached.
It is apparently what the Cat. MSS. Angliae (666) calls "a large letter of Advises to K. James I."
[By Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton (1540-1614), privy councillor to James I, Lord Privy Seal, and the leading member of the 1608 naval commission. The reference to "3" in the first line is to his code number in the secret correspondence with James. The emendations in the margin are in his hand. There is another copy in the B.L. -]

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