Parts of the household payments of Robert Devereux earl of Essex, with a draft of an English comedy
MS. Douce 171
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Title
Parts of the household payments of Robert Devereux earl of Essex, with a draft of an English comedy
Shelfmark
MS. Douce 171
Summary
Comprises:
(fol. 1) Parts of the household payments of Robert Devereux earl of Essex (d. 1601), from 1576 to 1585.
(fol. 48v) Part of an English comedy (the author's draft), which turns on the loves of Alice and Alexis long thwarted by Tanto: it ceases in the first scene of the third act, unfinished; but an argument of the whole is prefixed.
Between and about these pieces is much scribbling in a large clumsy hand, in which the date '1604' occurs, and Welsh words. Several leaves are torn, as fols. 37b, 38b, 43b 44b, 44c.
Date
written late in the 16th and early in the 17th cent.
Language
English
Physical facet
On paper, mutilated
Physical extent
81 Leaves
Custodial history
Owned by 'Nicholas Waringe' in the 17th cent.
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Collection contents
Parts of the household payments of Robert Devereux earl of Essex, with a draft of an English comedy
