St. Paul's Cathedral collection, volume 1 : letters, documents, portraits, and prints, 1584 Mar. 1-1820 Sept. 6.

The St. Paul's Cathedral collection (MA 420-425) includes autograph letters and documents from various people with some relation to St. Paul's Cathedral. Individual items in the collection are separately cataloged; other items have been removed from the volumes and are separately housed and individually cataloged. Volume 1 (MA 420) contains the following items: a receipt signed by George Abbot, dated 1622 Mar. 31 (MA 420.1); an autograph receipt signed by Sir Ralph Abercromby, dated 1793 Apr. 20 (MA 420.2); an autograph letter signed by George Bridges, dated 1820 Sept. 6 (MA 420.3); a letter signed by William Cecil, Baron Burghley, to the Mayor of Chester, dated 1584 Mar. 1 (MA 420.4); an autograph letter signed by Henry Compton to Sir Robert Southwell, dated [1690] June 2 (MA 420.5); an autograph letter signed by Henry Compton to the Lord Mayor of London, dated 1691 Dec. 9 (MA 420.6); an autograph letter signed by Henry Compton to Henry Savile, dated [1682?] Sept. 11 (MA 420.7); a document signed by Henry Compton, Bishop of London, Thomas Osborne, Duke of Leeds and Marquess of Carmarthen, and Thomas Belasyse, Earl Fauconberg, dated 1689 July 16 (MA 420.8); a document signed by Arthur Annesley, Earl of Anglesey, John Grenville, Earl of Bath, Henry Compton, Bishop of London, Sir Thomas Dolman, Arthur Capel, Earl of Essex, Sir John Ernle, Thomas Belasyse, Earl Fauconberg, Sir Leoline Jenkins, Sir Edward Seymour, and Charles Spencer, Earl of Sunderland to the Lord Lieutenant of the county of Oxford, dated 1680 Apr. 15 (MA 420.9); an autograph letter signed from Richard Corbet to William Laud, dated 1630 Apr. 27 (MA 420.10); three autograph signatures of Nathaniel Crewe, dated 1676, 1708, and undated (MA 420.11); an autograph letter signed by John Dolben to Mr. Henry Thynne, dated [1684 or 1685?] Apr. 11 (MA 420.12); an autograph signature of Edmund Gibson, dated 1745 Aug. 26 (MA 420.13); and an autograph letter signed by Reginald Heber to his bankers, dated 1816 Apr. 8 (MA 420.14).