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]]> The following transcription of Demorest's annotations was selected and transcribed by Casper College student and Archives staff member Grace MacPherson in January of 2024.

SONNET 1
Overall notes
Sid – Arcadia [illegible] has 17 sonnets (9 are Eng. Form)
Henry VII on throne –
Marriage Arthur + Cath. Of Aragon
Tudor symbol A Rose – maybe Raleigh?
1501 – Arthur, Prince of Wales, marries Cath. of Aragon – Nov. (See line 3)
1600 – Bruns burned [illegible] Rome
Henry Tudor was Earl of Richm.
Eyes here can be her attach. to Leic., preventing royal marriage
What if Fair = Fr = Francis?
Spring may mean Spain
Theme of whole: Categories
Is she to be the matron’s “tender” in marriage trade?
Line 1
Increase: Marriage—family but not love “desired”
Line 3
Decease: Cecil?
Line 4
Bear: May be marriage with Leicester
Line 10
Spring: Spain?
Line 11
Buriest: Bear = leicester [sic] symbol
Line 12
Waste in niggarding: denigrate[;] negromantike?[?]

SONNET 2
Overall Notes
Fair is part of title of [illegible] Baron Ferrers
Death of Arthur; Henry becomes successor
Mary Stuart born in 42
Jane suggests council speakers in this group but I’m inclined to think (perhaps) – over period of years – advice urying [sic] (quote Ransom)
Arthur’s death possibly from corruption
’99 – Sir [illegible] probable host to [illegible] – More + he [illegible] – Henry, age 9 – encountered by them, (N born in ’91—
Duke of York = Henry
Mary Tudor m. to James IV of Scotl. He much older than she (she is 15) ([illegible] of James I, Engl)
Maybe “best” is Bess
’02 Catherine’s tutor + confessor sent back home (Alessandra Gualdina[?])
1601 1561 40 winters (from time of Bacon’s birth)
Could I’s be J’s for James = House of St.?
Line 1
Forty winters: prophecy: Scotland – winters
Line 4
Weed: widow’s (Cath)
Line 7
Eyes: Leic?
Line 13
When thou art old: She’d be 65 after 40 years on throne
Art: Stuart? 15 + 25 Catherine Howard will see her blood]]> https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/]]> The following transcription of Demorest's annotations was selected and transcribed by Casper College Student and Archives staff member Grace MacPherson in January of 2024.

Sonnet 3
Overall notes:
Shelton is tutor to Henry 8
(3) Death of Queen – Eliz. Of York + possib. of rem. for Henry VII
1603 = death of Eliz. the q, Essex, too, said to resemble his mother
Glass – wrinkles – golden time suggests E’s statement that she may still bear a child
Cath[erine of Aragon] resembles Isabella [of Castile]

Sonnet 4
Overall Notes:
(4) Impecunious position of stranded Spanish pris[oners]
Sir Thomas [illegible] treas. from Novil[?] 1586 1587
When does Isabella die?
Frank – francois (free)
Henry VII considers marrying Cath.
Niggard might symbolize necromancer (word used this way elsewhere)
5 = use ewes hues
Line 4
Free: Frank[,] Francis?
Line 11
Gone: Aragon]]> The following transcription of Demorest's annotations was selected and transcribed by Casper College Student and Archives staff member Grace MacPherson in January of 2024.

Sonnet 5
Overall Notes:
’05 – Isabella dies
“till” = Sp. Castille
The frost – lease – show?
E’s speech 1585 q. Eccl.: They that fear the frost the snow will fall on them.
’06 – Joann[a] + Philip removed[?] as prisoners after shipdown to England[?] – Bacon Treaty of Windsor
Summer must be fair queen

Sonnet 6
Overall Notes:
6 – Perfect number assigned to Venus
’06 – Death of Philip after pact with Ferdinand. Henry considers Joanna as wife.

Line 1
Ragged: Henry
Line 2:
Distill’d: Joanna
Line 4:
Self-kill’d: Philip]]> https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/]]> The following transcription of Demorest's annotations was selected and transcribed by Casper College Student and Archives staff member Grace MacPherson in January of 2024.

Sonnet 7
Overall Notes:
Cecil called “victrix orientis” [Latin: victrix is the feminine form of the word for champion or victor; orientis means "of the east"]
’07 Anne C.[?] born[.] Her father is Earl of Wiltshire
7 – Number 7 is Virgin, sign of Minerva + Pallas, the moon goddess

Line 1:
Lo: Marlowe symbol
Line 2
Eye: eyes = Leicester

Sonnet 8
Overall Notes:
’08 Mary Tudor m. (by proxy) to Archduke Charles Sidney – theorist on “music”
8 = Vulean[?] – Symbol of muse of spheres
Will Somers was court fool and confidante of Henry VIII – supposedly had[?] joined court 1525 – James Hil[?] was chief singer]]> https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/]]> The following transcription of Demorest's annotations was selected and transcribed by Casper College Student and Archives staff member Grace MacPherson in January of 2024.

Sonnet 9
Overall Notes:
9 = Called Mars – “tends toward the end, that is 10.”
(9) Henry dies [,] Henry VIII succeeds him
1509 – Henry VII dies – Henry VIII on throne
Deathbed wish = m. of #8 + Cath (widow)

Line 4
Wail: Wales? (Prince?)

Sonnet 10
Overall Notes:
1510. Scandal of court: Catherine pregnant. Henry unfaithful: Anne [illegible] Geo. Hastings
Honeymoon over
10 = Above all other numbers[.] Called Janus

Line 1
Any: Annie = cares for her
Line 6
Conspire: Cath. alone insisted on staying in Engl.
Line 10
Gentle love: love of gentlewoman, not queen]]> https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/]]> The following transcription of Demorest's annotations was selected and transcribed by Casper College Student and Archives staff member Grace MacPherson in January of 2024.

Sonnet 11
General Notes:
(11) (a) Prince of Wales [illegible] lives 7 wks
Tho. More was estate of Nalsey[?]
Sir Thomas Egerton is keeper of the gov. seal of Eng.

Line 7
Cease: Cecil?
Line 13
Seal: of state (authorizes) written records

Sonnet 12
Overall Notes
’12 Naval incident – loss by fire of ships that were fighting – caused Henry to improve gun positions
’52 Somerset executed by Northumberland
’12 Birth of James V?

Line 1
Count: (pun) Compton courted/married gentlew. Anne
Line 3
Violet past prime: Symbol of faithfulness]]> https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/]]> The following transcription of Demorest's annotations was selected and transcribed by Casper College student and Archives staff member Grace MacPherson in January of 2024.

SONNET 13
Overall Notes
(13) Father of Cath. – Ferd. – proves treacherous + makes truce with France. Henry leads troops in [illegible]. Cath. found [illegible]. Scotl. Skirmish [sic] of Chillingham. She sends Henry the bloody tunic of [illegible].
“determination”. Legal term meaning “forth[?] to an end” (Keeton, p. 30)
*’13 – Eliz. Blount[?] attracts Henry

SONNET 14
Overall Notes
’14 – Desertion by [illegible] leads to anger – new fig. on council: [illegible] uses Bish. of [illegible] + Lincoln – Archb. of York
1514 – Q. of Fr. dies + Princess [illegible] Louis XII
’14 Mary Tudor wed to Louis 12
Intelligence service—Bacon’s]]> https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/]]>