Sir Gervase Elwes 'Speech and Repentance at His Execution (20 November 1615)'

Introduction

Manuscript

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Creation date: 20 November 1615

Authors

• Sir Gervase Elwes

Other Witnesses

• Bodleian Library, MS Ashmole 781, ff. 51–55
• British Library, Additional MS 34218, ff. 226r–227v
• British Library, Additional MS 35832, ??
• British Library, Harley MS 1893
• British Library, Stowe MS 401, ff. 39v–44v
• British Library, Stowe MS 402, ff. 19v–21v
• Harvard Law School, MS 1227
• Huntington Library, Hastings Legal Papers Box 1, Item 16
• University College, MS 152 [on deposit at the Bodleian], ff. 80–94

Seventeenth Century Print Exemplars

• Sir Gervase Elwes, The lieutenant of the Tower his speech and repentance, at the time of his death (1615) [STC STC STC 7626 7626.5 7627], pp. 8–10

Modern Print Exemplars

• The Harleian Miscellany (1st ed.), vol. 5, pp. 514–518

Selected Criticism

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Keywords (Text Type)

• scaffold speech

Keywords (Text Topics)

• Overbury affair

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