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1603Sir Walter Raleigh's notes
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1604First English dictionary
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1605Letter about Guy Fawkes
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1605Gunpowder Plot conspirators
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1605The head of Guy Fawkes
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1608Shakespeare's King Lear
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1610The Globe Theatre
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1611King James Bible
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1617Surgeons' tools
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1623Chinese globe
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1623Shakespeare's First Folio
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1636Lotus Sutra
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1640Witch hunting
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1643English Civil War scenes
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1649Execution of Charles I
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1649Agreement of the People
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1649Charles I's executioner
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1650Early A - Z of London
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1650Advert for a quack doctor
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1660Oliver Cromwell as the Devil
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1665A cure for the Plague
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1665Robert Hooke, Micrographia
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1666Great Fire of London map
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1666Great Fire of London
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1666Wren's plans after the fire
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1669Theatrical figures
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1674Dictionary of criminal slang
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1674Games and pastimes
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1679Habeas Corpus Act
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1679Map of the moon
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1684A London Rhinoceros
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1685Henry Purcell
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1690Locke's Two Treatises
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1693East India Company
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1693Account of a shipwreck
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1698Map of South America
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Intro
Walter Raleigh, or Ralegh (1552-1618) was a colourful figure: soldier, pirate, explorer, poet, courtier, scholar, and bringer of potatoes and tobacco to England. Caught in the crossfire of court intrigue in 1603, he was imprisoned in the Tower of London until 1616, when he was let out on an expedition to find gold in the Orinoco. The expedition failed, and on his return he was beheaded for crimes committed in Spain en route back. During his spell in prison, Raleigh made these notes for his History of the World. He only finished the first volume, reaching the second Roman war with Macedonia. The pages here show the Nile delta and deal with the time of the Pharaohs.
Shelfmark: Add. MS 57555, f. 23.
