British Library Journal (volume 25, number 1, spring 1999)

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Patronage and Connection: The Career of the Rev. William Talbot (1720-1811), Chancellor of Salisbury
(1999-05)
Gibson, William T.
William Talbot, Chancellor of Salisbury Cathedral from 1771 to 1811, has been unknown to history, other than by his entry in Alumni Cantabrigienses which records that he was a native of Odel, Bedfordshire, educated at Oakham School, served as a sizar at Clare College, Cambridge from 1738, and having graduated B.A. in 1743 and M.A. in 1746 was a Fellow of Clare for twenty-two years. Talbot appears to have walked the well-trodden path to a college living and retired to the country to enjoy the fruits of long service to his college. However the survival of his letters among the Newcastle Papers in the British Library coupled with the recent discovery of hitherto unknown letters by him allows new light to be thrown onto the life of this eighteenth century clergyman.
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Jacobites under the Beds: Bishop Francis Atterbury, the Earl of Sunderland and the Westminster School Dormitory case of 1721
(1999-05)
Jones, Clyve
In British Library, Harleian MS. 7190 there is a list of names which at first glance seems puzzling, even to an historian of early eighteenth-century Britain. The initial clue to its identification comes from the words 'For the Bp of Rochester' and ' Ag[ain]st' at the foot of the two columns of names. A quick check of the numbers of names reveals that this is a division list of those in the House of Lords who voted for and against Bishop Francis Atterbury's appeal against a Court of Chancery decision to proceed to trial over the building of a new dormitory for Westminster School. The vote on 16 May 1721 went in Atterbury's favour by 26 to 24. The curious nature of the list arises from an analysis of those who supported and those who opposed the Bishop. Atterbury was a highTory and leading (though secret) advocate in England of the restoration of the Stuart Pretender (James Francis Edward, son of James II). Thus is seems strange that those who voted for him in the hst included several of the high officers of state in the Whig administration, including the 'prime minister', the Earl of Sunderland, while some of Atterbury's opponents were his fellow Jacobites.
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Dryden attributions and texts from Harley MS. 6054
(1999-05)
Kelliher, Hilton
In a footnote to the long and scholarly biography with which in 1800 Edmond Malone prefaced his edition of Dryden's prose he drew attention to a couplet preserved in a manuscript verse-miscellany in the British Museum Library.
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Francisco Muñoz y San Clemente and his 'Reflections on the English Settlements on New Holland'
(1999-05)
King, Robert J.
The significance of Francisco Muñoz y San Clemente's 'Reflexiones sobre los establecimientos Ingleses de la Nueva-Holanda' lies in the influence it had in causing the politico-scientific expedition to the Pacific led by Alexandro Malaspina to include in its itinerary a visit to the new English colony in New South Wales (see figs, 1, 2). The 'Reflexiones' presented irrefutable reasons for Spain to send her own observers to obtain first-hand knowledge of the Botany Bay colony.
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Cuttings from an unknown copy of the Magna Glossatura in a Wycliffite Bible (British Library, Arundel MS. 104)
(1999-05)
Panayotova, Stella
Three historiated initials from a Latin manuscript have been pasted as marginal illustrations in the Psalter section of an early fifteenth-century English Bible which is now Arundel MS. 104 in the British Library. The manuscript, to which the initials belonged originally, is unknown or lost. On the basis of stylistic and iconographic comparison with surviving manuscripts, it has been suggested that they came from an early thirteenth-century English Psalter or Bible. Another aspect of the cuttings provides more precise evidence. The short sections of text which survive on the reverse of the three extant images and on the off-sets of six more cuttings, now removed, revealthat the historiated initials belonged originally to a copy of Peter Lombard's Magna Glossatura.
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New light on Richard Steele
(1999-05)
Alsop, J. D.
Richard Steele (1672-1729) has been studied so extensively that new factual information on the essayist and playwright is generally a consequence of accidental discovery. The following evidence was unearthed in the course of unrelated research amongst the archival records of Augustan and Georgian Britain.
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British Library Journal (volume 25, number 1, spring 1999)

British Library Journal (volume 25, number 1, spring 1999)

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