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John Bowle, usually called Don Bowle, Vicar of Idmerston, Wilts, now in the British Museum. Mr. Bowle obtained the loan of it from the late James Pettit Andrews, Esq., of Brompton, on June 16, 1784, and returned it to that gentleman on April 14, 1785. The original is thus described by Mr. Bowle: "Diarium plus ultra in white vellum Pocketbook, 8vo. gilt leaves." Although it was in the custody of this gentleman for ten months, we are inclined to think that he only made a transcript of a portion of it; but even the fragment here presented to the reader will help to illustrate the life and habits of one of the most useful of the literary antiquaries of the last century. As we hope to furnish in a subsequent paper some few additional particulars to the little that is known of the personal history of William Oldys, we avail ourselves of this opportunity to solicit from our correspondents the communication of any unpublished facts or documents relating to him which may be found in their libraries. · ED.] 1737, June 22. Mrs. Cooper came to my chambers: said she would return me Puttenham's Art of Poesy, Browne's Pastorals, and Sir Henry Wotton, when she had finished her extracts for the second volume of her Muses' Library1 to be published by Christmas. To keep the large old MS. volume of the statutes of the Order of the Garter with the Arms of the Knights thereof, their portraits and Illuminations of the Ceremonies of the Order of the Bath composed temp. Henry VII. and VIII., till Mr. V. [Vertue?] has seen it. To take particular notice of Talbot's Rose, a sheet printed from a copper-plate and bound in this book, entitled "The Union of the Roses of the Families of Lancaster and York, with the arms of those who have been chosen Knights of the Garter from that time to this day, 1589." In this Rose the arms of all those who have been (since the marriage in 1486 of King Henry VII. of the House of Lancaster, which bore the Red Rose, with Elizabeth, daughter of Edward IV. of the House of York, whose ensign was the White Rose) chosen into the Order of the Garter, instituted about 20 Edward III. are orderly set down. The English arms placed within the Rose; those of Foreign princes in the leaves beneath. There are the heads of Henry VII. and his Queen Elizabeth engraved at the two upper corners over this great crowned Rose, also in the flowery leaves of it, the said King Henry, his son, King Henry VIII., Queen Mary, and Queen Elizabeth, between the arms of the Knights Companion, who have all their names and dates of their creations subscribed. At the bottom Æg. Pluventor; sold in the Black Friers, Tho. Talbot, composuit; Jodocus Hondius, Flander. Sculps. Londini, and the date is 1589.2 3 June 29. Saw Mr. Ames's old MS. on vellum, entitled Le Romant de la Rose, which cost forty crowns of gold at Paris when first written, as apBishop Burnet's book, his arms being pasted in it; pears by the inscription at the end. It had been and Mr. Rawlinson's, being mentioned in one of his Catalogues. In the same Catalogue also is mentioned Sir William Monson's collections, which Mr. West bought and lent me before the fatal 1 "The Muses' Library, or a Series of English Poetry from the Saxons to the Reign of King Charles II. By Elizabeth Cooper. London, printed for T. Davies, 1738, Svo." There are some copies of this work with the imprint "Printed for James Hodges, 1741," and others with "Vol. I." on the title and last leaf; but notwithstanding these variations, no more than one volume, or one edition, was ever printed. It is said to be mostly compiled by William Oldys. 2 Noticed in Moule's Bibliotheca Heraldica, p. 36. In the Cotton library (Vesp. D. xvii.) is "A miscellaneous collection concerning Abbies and various historical matters, extracted from chronicles, rolls of noble families their pedigrees, &c. by Thomas Talbot." 3 See Herbert's Ames, vol. i. p. xxxix. 4 Sir William Monson, an Admiral of note in the reign of James I., formed considerable collections, principally relating to the affairs of the navy. There are occasional copies from them, and allusions to them, in papers in the State Paper Office. |