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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

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Ballads

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]

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Aphra Behn

 

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]

[Aphra Behn,] Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and his Sister Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and his Sister (London: Printed for J. Hindmarsh and J. Tonson, 1693).

(This is not the first edition, which was 1684)

All the Histories and Novels Written by the Late Ingenious Mrs. A. Behn. London: Printed for the Chapman at the Angel, 1698. Third edition with additions. The volume shown is the only known complete copy of the Chapman third edition with additions. See Women Writers website

 

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Robert Boyle

William Faithorne's engraved portrait of Boyle, with his air-pump in the background, 1664

(Engraving of Boyle with his air pump, 1644)

 

Image of Boyle's student notebook (Royal Society MS 44 © The Royal Society)

(written between 1642 and 1644)

 

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Charles I (who later lost his head, see engraving below)

Charles I King of England, Scotland and Ireland

Van Dyck

Anthony van Dyck.  Charles I, King of England, from Three Angles.

Van Dyck

 

Van Dyck

Charles I (1631) by Daniel Mytens.

Daniel Mytens (1632)

Painting: Charles I by Studio of Anthony van Dyck

(from Van Dyck's Studio, 1640)

 

The famous Eikon Basilike of 1649 [McElligot's  lectureprogramme.html]

 

Execution of Charles I

The execution of King Charles I. A single sheet. Engraved

(1649.  British Library)

 

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Cromwell's Bloody Slaughter-House; or, his damnable designes laid and practised by him and his negros in contriving the murther of his Sacred Majesty King Charles I. discovered. By a Person of Honor [i.e. John Gauden]. (1660, British Library)

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Charles II (1630 - 1685).

Charles II           

 Portrait. King of Great Britain and Ireland.

(from a 1724 book. British Library)

 

King Charles II

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Abraham Cowley ( 1618 - 1667 )

Abraham Cowley

Portrait

(Opposite the title page of his Poetical Blossomes, 1633)

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Oliver Cromwell

 

Oliver Cromwell from a portrait by Sir Peter Lely, 1618 -1680 - Link to Gallery

 

 

Order of the Council of State

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)

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John Donne (1572-1631)

 

 

 

Letter of John Donne

Autograph letter of John Donne to Sir Robert Cotton, written from prison, 20 February 1601 (British Library)

 

 

 







 

Poem of John Donne

Contemporary copy of Donne's poem 'Dreame' (Early 17th century. British Library))

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John Dryden 

John Dryden

(From a book of 1717. British Library)

(Manuscript page.  Strangely enough I cannot find a reference to its contents)

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John Evelyn

 

The autograph manuscripts of John Evelyn's Diary

The autograph manuscripts of John Evelyn's Diary
Copyright © The British Library Board

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Lady Ann Fanshawe (1625-1680)

 

A painting of Lady Ann Fashawe ,  after Cornelius Johnson.  

 

 

 

 

 

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Nell Gwynne

 

 

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Henrietta Maria,  wife of Charles I

Painting: Henrietta Maria by Studio of Anthony van Dyck

(From the Studio of Van Dyck, c. 1632)

Henrietta Maria (ca 1633) by Sir Anthony van Dyck.

(Van Dyck, 1633)

  (by Sir PeterLely)

 

 

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Edward Herbert (1582-1648)

Edward, Lord Herbert of Chirbury   (1582/3-1648)

 

 

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Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) 

Portrait of HobbesIllustrated title page

                                                          Portrait                                  Illustrated Title Page of Leviathan

                                                                                                               (1651. British Library)

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Richard Lovelace

 

    

(  by William Dobson)

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Andrew Marvell

A minature of Andrew Marvell

Letter from Marvell (1671) [Citation Special Collections, Tutt Library, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado]

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John Milton

(The only decent portrait of Milton available.  He was an undergraduate at Cambridge when this picture was painted)

 

Commonplace Book of John Milton

(Whole folio)  Autograph page from the Commonplace Book of John Milton, relating to law

1633-1667

Milton's Reason of Church Government (1641)

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Newspapers

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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Dorothy Osborne (1627-1695)

 

 

Portrait of Osborne

 

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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)

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 Samuel Pepys

(http://www.waterhistory.org/histories/london/)

A Page from the Diaries

(Source Page)

(Source page)

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Religious Groups and Sects

Ranters

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Sir Edmund Verney, the Standard Bearer

 

 

 

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Sir Christopher Wren

 

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Lady Mary Wroth

 

  

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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