Repository: British Library

British Library: Add. MS 10037
Translations of the Sibyls' Prophecies of the Birth of Christ (1589)
Jane Seager (Translator, scribe and artist)


British Library: Add. MS 10337
Elizabeth Rogers' Virginal Book (dated 1656)
Elizabeth Rogers (Scribe)
Short entry.


British Library: Add. MS 12047
Sidney Psalms
Mary (Sidney) Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (Author)
Short entry.


British Library: Add. MS 12048
Sidney Psalms
Mary (Sidney) Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (Author)
Short entry.


British Library: Add. MS 15900
Memorandum Book (Begun c.1653)
(Author, Scribe) Anne Hyde


British Library: Add. MS 17492
Miscellany (early 16th c.)
Margaret (Douglas) Howard (Scribe)
Mary (Howard) Fitzroy (Scribe)
Mary Shelton (Scribe)
Short entry.


British Library: Add. MS 19333
De Rerum Natura ( early mid 17th c.)
Lucy Hutchinson ( Translator)


British Library: Add. MS 19633
Transcription by Esther Inglis of Guy du Faur, Seigneur de Pibrac's Quatrains (1 January, 1615)
Esther Inglis (Scribe)
Full entry.


British Library: Add. MS 21621
A Collection of Poems Referring to the times (?early 1701)
(Author)Jane Barker
(Scribe)William Connock


British Library: Add. MS 22606
Transcription by Esther Inglis of Guy du Faur, Seigneur de Pibrac's Quatrains (27 June, 1617)
Esther Inglis (Scribe)
Full entry.


British Library: Add. MS 25901
Civil War Diary
Lucy (Apsley) Hutchinson (Author)
Short entry.


British Library: Add. MS 27351
Diary (July 1666-March 1669)
Mary Rich, Lady Warwick (Author)
Short entry.


British Library: Add. MS 27352
Diary (November 1669-March 1672)
Mary Rich, Lady Warwick (Author)
Short entry.


British Library: Add. MS 27353
Diary (March 1672-March 1673/4)
Mary Rich, Lady Warwick (Author)
Short entry.


British Library: Add. MS 27354
Diary (March 1675-August 1676)
Mary Rich, Lady Warwick (Author)
Short entry.


British Library: Add. MS 27355
Diary (August 1676-November 1677)
Mary Rich, Lady Warwick (Author)
Short entry.


British Library: Add. MS 27356
Occasional Meditations (1663-1677)
Mary Rich, Lady Warwick (Author)
Short entry.


British Library: Add. MS 27357
Some Specialties in the life of M. Warwick (17th and 18th c.)
Mary Rich, Lady Warwick (Author)
Short entry.


British Library: Add. MS 27358
Collections out of my Lady Warwick's papers (17th century)
Mary Rich, Lady Warwick (Author)
Short entry.


British Library: Add. MS 27466
Receipt book (1682)
Mary Doggett (Compiler)
Short entry.


British Library: Add. MS 27467
A mother's legacy to her unborn child (1622)
Elizabeth Jocelin ( author, scribe)


British Library: Add. MS 27622
Household accounts (1609-1617)
Ann Archer (Compiler)
Short entry.


British Library: Add. MS 27927
Ecclesiastes and the Song of Solomon (1599)
Esther Inglis ( Transcriber)
Short entry.


British Library: Add. MS 28693
Love's Martyr (late 17th c.)
Anne Wharton (Author)
Short entry.


British Library: Add. MS 32376
Autobiography (11 September 1677-21 April 1678)
Anne, Lady Halkett (Author, scribe)


British Library: Add. MS 32456
Household accounts
Rachel Pengelly (Compiler)
Short entry.


British Library: Add. MS 34169
Diary in almanac (1647)
Isabella Twysden (Author)
Short entry.


British Library: Add. MS 34170
Diary in almanac (1648)
Isabella Twysden (Author)
Short entry.


British Library: Add. MS 34171
Diary in almanac (1649)
Isabella Twysden (Author)
Short entry.


British Library: Add. MS 34172
Diary in almanac (1651)
Isabella Twysden (Author)
Short entry.


British Library: Add. MS 41161
Memoirs (May 1676)
(Author) Ann Harrison Fanshawe


British Library: Add. MS 42849, fols. 76-177
Devotional journals of the Henry family (1686-1752)
Sarah Savage (Author)
Katherine Tylston (Author)
Ann Hulton (Author)
Katherine Tylston (jr.) (Author)
Hannah Tylston (Author)
Short entry.


British Library: Add. MS 4378
The mother's legacy to her unborn child (1622-1624)
Elizabeth Jocelin ( author)


British Library: Add. MS 4454
The religious meditations, verse and autobiographical writings of Katherine Austen (1664-83)
Katherine Austen (Author)


British Library: Add. MS 45196
Receipt book (1656-1700)
Anne Glydd (Compiler)
Short entry.


British Library: Add. MS 45197
Medical receipt book (June 1638)
Anne Brockman
Short entry.


British Library: Add. MS 45199
Receipts and exercises (1674-?1687)
Elizabeth Brockman ( Compiler)
Short entry.


British Library: Add. MS 45208
Account book (1700-1704)
Anne Brockman (Compiler)
Short entry.


British Library: Add. MS 45209
Account book ()
Anne Brockman (Compiler)
Short entry.


British Library: Add. MS 45718
Miscellany (September 1684 to February 1714.)
Elizabeth Freke (Compiler)
Short entry.


British Library: Add. MS 45719
Miscellany (1712-1714.)
Elizabeth Freke (Compiler)
Short entry.


British Library: Add. MS 45720
Geographical and historical notes (1669?)
Elizabeth Freke (Compiler)
Short entry.


British Library: Add. MS 46372
Sidney Psalms (Late 16th century)
Mary (Sidney) Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (Author)
Short entry.


British Library: Add. MS 56248
Receipt book (1666-1696)
Lady Mary Dacres (Compiler)
Short entry.


British Library: Add. MS 57944
Culinary and medical receipts (1688)
Mary Glover (Compiler)
Short entry.


British Library: Add. MS 62092
Expenses book (1610-1613)
Margaret Spencer (Compiler)
Short entry.


British Library: Add. MS 78437, fols 1-20
Calligraphic Exercise Book (1649)
(Scribe) Mary Evelyn (1635-1709)


British Library: Add. MS 78438
Letterbook (c.1665-1709)
(Author, Scribe) Mary Evelyn (1635-1709)


British Library: Add. MS 78439
Letterbooks of outgoing correspondence (c.1660-1730)
(Author) Mary Evelyn (1635-1709)


British Library: Add. MS 78440
Sermon Notes (1679-1683)
(Compiler, Scribe) Mary Evelyn (1665-1685)


British Library: Add. MS 78441
Spiritual meditations (Written between 31 August 1683 and 14 March 1685)
(Author, Scribe)Mary Evelyn


British Library: Harley 3918, fols 46r-58r
The Woman's Right (c.1670s)
(Author) Mary More


British Library: Harley MS 3184
A Method to Converse with God (October 1683)
(Translator) Catherine Holland


British Library: MS Egerton 1044
England's Forewarning (June 1644)
Grace Cary (Author)
Short entry.


British Library: MS Egerton 2197
Receipts of Elizabeth Digby (1650)
Elizabeth Digby (Compiler)
Short entry.


British Library: Ms Egerton 2214
Medical and cookery receipts ()
?Katherine Davies (Compiler)
Short entry.


British Library: MS Egerton 2609
Personal accounts of Elizabeth Wentworth ()
Elizabeth Wentworth (Compiler)
Short entry.


British Library: MS Egerton 2614
Diary of Lady Margaret Hoby (9 August 1599 to 21 July 1605.)
Lady Margaret Hoby (Author)
Short entry.


British Library: MS Egerton 2667
Notebook of Thomas and Abigail Kellond (1684/5-1710)
Abigail Kellond (Compiler)
Short entry.


British Library: MS Egerton 3054
Business accounts of Joyce Jeffreys (1638-48)
Joyce Jeffreys (Compiler)
Short entry.


British Library: MS Egerton 607
Prayers, Meditations, and Devotional Pieces (before 1663)
Elizabeth Cavendish Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater ( Author)


British Library: MS Harl. 2342
Prayer book (1554)
Lady Jane Grey (Scribe)
Short entry.


British Library: MS Harl. 4324
Les Quatrains de Guy de Faur (1614)
Esther Inglis ( Transcriber)
Short entry.


British Library: MS Harleian 1860
Translations from Eusebius (Before 1553)
Mary Roper Clarcke Bassett (Translator)
Short entry.


British Library: MS Harleian 2311
Miscellany compiled by Anna Cromwell Williams
A Book of Several devotions collected from good men by the worst of sinners ()
Anna Cromwell Williams (Author, scribe)
Full entry.


British Library: MS Harleian 6028
Abstracts of sermons (17th century)
Anne Harcourt (Compiler)
Short entry.


British Library: MS Harleian 6828, fols 510r-523v
Discourse of Friendship (1667)
(Author) Mary Beale
Summary entry.


British Library: MS Lansdowne 1228
business diary (June and July 1675.)
(Author)Elizabeth Petty
Summary entry.


British Library: MS Royal 15.A.I
Latin translation of Isocrates' oration for Archidamus (16th century.)
Lady Jane Lumley ( Translator)
Short entry.


British Library: MS Royal 15.A.II
Translation of Evagoras, Isocrates' fourth oration against Nicocles. (16th century.)
Lady Jane Lumley ( Translator)
Short entry.


British Library: MS Royal 15.A.IX
Translations from Isocrates and Euripides (c. 1550)
Lady Jane Lumley ( Translator)
Short entry.


British Library: MS Royal 17.B. XVIII
Translation of Basil the Great's Homily on Deuteronomy 15.9 (Between 1546 and 1551)
Mildred Cecil, Lady Burghley (nee Cooke) (Translator and possibly scribe)


British Library: MS Royal 17.D.XVI
Christian Emblems (1624)
Esther Inglis ( Transcriber)
Short entry.


British Library: MS Royal 7 D. X
Translation of Katherine Parr's Prayers and Meditations from English into French, Italian and Latin (30 December 1545)
Elizabeth I (Translator and scribe)


British Library: MS Sloane 1367
Medical receipts of Lady Ranelagh (17th century)
Lady Ranelagh (Author)
Short entry.


British Library: MS Sloane 2485
Cookery and medical receipts by Margaret Baker. (1650)
Margaret Baker (Compiler)
Short entry.


British Library: MS Sloane 2486
Receipt book in two parts containing mainly medical and some culinary receipts (1650)
Margaret Baker (compiler, scribe)


British Library: MS Sloane 2499
Julian of Norwich's Revelations
Anne Cary (Transcriber)
Short entry.


British Library: MS Sloane 3842
Elizabeth Butler's book (?1679)
Hester Gullyford? (Author)
Elizabeth Butler (Owner, compiler?)
Short entry.


British Library: MS Sloane 556
Medical receipts written by Anthony Lewis from a book owned by the Lady Marquess Dorset (1696)
Lady Marquess Dorset
Short entry.


British Library: MS Sloane 987
The Psalter (1586)
Esther Inglis ( Transcriber)
Short entry.


British Library: Sloane MS 3945, fols. 78-113
Biography of Christopher Love (after 1660)
Mary Love (Author)