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(Click on the name to go to that section of the page. Some images take a little time to download, please be patient) Index:Ballads, Aphra Behn, Portrait, title pages from various of her works, Robert Boyle: 2 portraits, page from his student note book,Charles I: Portrait by Van Dyck, engraving of the excecution of Charles I, title page of 1660 booklet condemning the execution of Charles I, Charles II: Portraits, Abraham Cowley: Portrait from title page of Poetical Blossomes 1633, Oliver Cromwell: Portrait, Signed Order of Council of State proclaiming Cromwell as ProtectorJohn Donne: Portrait, Autograph letter of 1601, Contemporary copy of "Dreame", John Dryden: Portrait (Engraving), another portrait, John Evelyn: two portraits, Lady Ann Fanshawe, 2 portraits, Nell Gwinne,Henrietta Maria (Wife of Charles I): Portrait by Lely, George Herbert: Portrait, Thomas Hobbes: Portrait, Frontispiece from Leviathan,Richard Lovelace: Portrait, Andrew Marvell: 2 Portraits, a letter of 1671 (front and back), John Milton: Page from his commonplace book, Newspapers, Dorothy Osborne: 2 Portraits, Pamphlets, Proclamations and Notices (various),Religious Groups and Sects: Ranters, Sir Edmund Verney, the Standard Bearer, Lady Mary Wroth: Portrait A Ballad about 2 young lovers (1670s) [from McElligot's lectureprogramme.html] The Scornful Maid [McElligot's lectureprogramme.html] A smutty ballad (1680) [McElligot's lectureprogramme.html]
The Round-heads or, The Good Old Cause... as it is acted at the Duke's Theatre. London: Printed for R. Wellington, 1698.[see Aphra_Behn] (This is not the first edition, which was 1684)
(Engraving of Boyle with his air pump, 1644)
(written between 1642 and 1644)
Charles I (who later lost his head, see engraving below) Van Dyck Van Dyck
Van Dyck Daniel Mytens (1632) (from Van Dyck's Studio, 1640)
The famous Eikon Basilike of 1649 [McElligot's lectureprogramme.html]
The execution of King Charles I. A single sheet. Engraved (1649. British Library)
Charles II (1630 - 1685). Portrait. King of Great Britain and Ireland. (from a 1724 book. British Library)
Abraham Cowley ( 1618 - 1667 ) Portrait (Opposite the title page of his Poetical Blossomes, 1633)
Order of the Council of State proclaiming Oliver Cromwell Protector of the Commonwealth. Signed by Viscount Lisle, Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, Sir Charles Wolseley, Col. John Disbrowe, Col. John Lambert, Col. Edward Mountagu, Francis Rous, and others. Whitehall, 17 December 1653 (BritishLibrary)
Autograph letter of John Donne to Sir Robert Cotton, written from prison, 20 February 1601 (British Library)
(From a book of 1717. British Library) (Manuscript page. Strangely enough I cannot find a reference to its contents)
The autograph manuscripts
of John Evelyn's Diary
Lady Ann Fanshawe (1625-1680)
A painting of Lady Ann Fashawe , after Cornelius Johnson.
Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I (From the Studio of Van Dyck, c. 1632) (Van Dyck, 1633) (by Sir PeterLely)
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) Portrait Illustrated Title Page of Leviathan (1651. British Library)
![]() ( by William Dobson) Letter from Marvell (1671) [Citation Special Collections, Tutt Library, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado] (The only decent portrait of Milton available. He was an undergraduate at Cambridge when this picture was painted)
(Whole folio) Autograph page from the Commonplace Book of John Milton, relating to law 1633-1667 Milton's Reason of Church Government (1641) The Royalist Newspaper Mercurius Aulicus, 17 June 1643 [from McElligot's lectureprogramme.html]
An issue of Mercurius Veridicus
An issue of Mercurius Britannicus
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Pamphlets, Proclamations and Notices Star Chamber Decree concerning printing (1637) [from McElligot's lectureprogramme.html] Against Women Preachers (1641) [from McElligot's lectureprogramme.html]
An anti-Catholic Tract (1641) [from McElligot's lectureprogramme.html] Pamphlet calling for the assassination of Cromwell. 1659 (the date is wrongly printed) Samuel Pepys (http://www.waterhistory.org/histories/london/) A Page from the Diaries
Sir Edmund Verney, the Standard Bearer
Sir Christopher Wren
Portrait of Lady Sidney and six of her children. Marcus Gheeraerts. Collection of Viscount de L'Isle. One of the children is Lady Mary Wroth.
Title page of Urania (1621) [from luminarium]
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