English College, Rome

Liber 313, ff. 72v-3r

Entry in the Account Books of the Venerable English College, autograph or in another hand, recording money paid to him between 3 April and 22 June 1647, beginning ‘The 3d of April I Rich: Crashaw haue received two pistols moneta Romana...’. 1647.

CrR 451: Richard Crashaw, Document(s)

Liber 314, f. 21r-v

A series of four autograph entries in English, one of them signed, recording loans made to Crashaw on 17 December 1647, 3 January 1647/8, 18 May and 31 October 1648, in the Account Books of the Venerable English College. 1647-8.

*CrR 452: Richard Crashaw, Document(s)

Facsimile of f. 20v in IELM, II.i (1987), Facsimile XIb, after p. xxiv. Three of these entries (but not the first) discussed, together with other allusions to Crashaw in the English College records, in Kenneth J. Larsen, ‘Some Light on Richard Crashaw's Final Years in Rome’, MLR, 66 (1971), 492-6.

Liber 1394

Copy, 168 pages. Early 17th century?

AlW 252: William Alabaster, Alabaster's Conversion

Edited from this MS in Sutton.

Alabaster's account of ‘How I came [to] be [a Protestant] and [of] my state and [progress] therin’, in thirteen chapters, first published in Sutton (1997), pp. 101-69.

Liber 1395

MS of a Latin translation of the first seven chapters, incomplete. Early 17th century?

AlW 253: William Alabaster, Alabaster's Conversion

This MS cited in Sutton, p. xviii, who suggests that the translator may have been Robert Persons (1546-1610), Jesuit missionary and polemicist.

Alabaster's account of ‘How I came [to] be [a Protestant] and [of] my state and [progress] therin’, in thirteen chapters, first published in Sutton (1997), pp. 101-69.

Scritture 35: 3

A series of copies of, or extracts from, some 57 poems by Cowley, in a single hand, evidently transcribed from printed texts, on twelve folio leaves folded lengthways (including two blanks). Late 17th century.

CoA 282: Abraham Cowley, Extracts

Inscribed ‘Margaret Cordell April the 3d 1682’ and ‘Domenico Marcura’.

Discussed in Suzanne Gossett, ‘Ex Cowleo Cowleo Digna’, The Venerabile, 25, No. 4 (1973), 251-6.