Joseph Hall

Copy.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Joseph Hall (not the bishop). Later owned by John Payne Collier (1789-1883), literary scholar, editor and forger, who has entered in pseudo-17th-century secretary script copies of various ballads on ff. 39r-41r, 107v-79r, 181r-v, 227r-8v, 243r-6r, as well as adding foliation (1-284) before the more recent foliation (1-291, used below). Quaritch's sale catalogue of English Literature (August-November 1884), item 22350, Collier's transcript of the MS made c.1860 being item 22352. Formerly Folger MS 2071.7.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Giles E. Dawson, John Payne Collier's Great Forgery, SB, 24 (1971), 1-26.

Copy, headed An anthem made by D^r. Hall.

Inscribed (on p. [330]) Robert Lord his book Anno Domini; (on [p. 335]) william Jacob his booke Amen; and, among scribbling on the last leaf, Hugh Gibgans of the same and John Winter of Buckland Dursbane [or husbande?]. Owned in 1788 by Alexander R. Popham. Bloomsbury Book Auction, 23 November 2000, lot 8.

A microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7698.

Copy of the series of three poems, in a predominantly secretary hand, transcribed from HlJ 2.

A flyleaf (f. 1*r) inscribed Scotlands Nobility & Gentry / Jo: withie.

Edited from this MS in Davenport.

Copy of the three poems, in a neat italic hand, each subscribed D^r Hall, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter.

Given in 1629 by William Camden's executor, Sir Robert Cotton, to Sir James Balfour, first Baronet (1600-57), of Denmilne and Kinncaird, Lyon King of Arms and antiquary, who has inscribed the cover Camdeni Clarentii Armorum Regis Regni Angliæ collectiones. Purchased in 1723 at the sale of the library of Sir Robert Sibbald (1641-1722), royal physician and geographer.

Edited from this MS in Davenport.

Copy of a Latin epitaph by an Italian Friar (beginning Dormit Mestè in hoc Tumulo) followed by a 23-line English version, headed Sequitur Anglicè, inscribed at the side by Cole Translated by Jo: Hall &c: Jn: 1634. It is wrote in the Hand of that Time, & probably translated by Joseph Hall, who was B^p. of Exeter in 1627.

In the hand of the Rev. William Cole, FSA (1714-82), antiquary (Volume XXXI of the Cole Collection).

Recorded in Davenport, p. lxxv.

From the family papers of John Loveday (1711-89), of Caversham, Oxfordshire, and formerly at Williamscote House, near Banbury. Sold to Maggs in 1971.

Recorded in Davenport, p. lxxv.

Copy, ascribed to J. H.

Owned and probably compiled by John Abbott (b.1653/4), of St John's College, Oxford.

Copy, headed An Epitaph upon King Charles.

Possibly compiled in part by Elias Smyth, minor canon of Durham (whose epitaph on his son Richard appears on p. 134).

Among the collections of Christopher Hunter (1675-1757), Durham antiquary and physician.

Copy.

Compiled by Thomas Walker (b.1682), of Mosley, near Ashton under Lyne, Greater Manchester, including (pp. 105-6, 203) verses by him to his parents etc., dated 1720/1-27.

Later owned by Sir Charles Bradbury (his sale December 1864, lot 2819), to Haywood, thence bought by Sir Thomas Baker. Bernard Halliday, bookseller of Leicester, February 1930.

Copy, ascribed to J: Hall. Bp Norwich:.

Inscribed (f. i) Anthony Search his most excellent booke Jan^ry 6^th Anno Dom: 1695.

Copy, unascribed.

Copy, headed An epitaph upon King Charles, subscribed J. H.

Inscribed A Present from D^r Storer to Henry Cole, Peterborough. Later donated by Laurence Heyworth.

Copy of an unascribed version.

Scribbling on f. ii^r including ffor m^r William Rabey in New=market..., ffor my Louing ffriend in G John westhropp at m^r Rogers Reringe house Bury in S[uffolk], ffor m^r John fford at his house in Newmarket in the countey of cambridge; notes on f. iii^v-iv^r, one Recd 22 July 1669, subscribed John Cooke and including, on f. vi^r, ffor m^r John Cocke at his howse neere the white harte in Thetford.... Later owned, in the 1730s, by Charles Barlow, of Emmanuel College, Cambridge (his bookplate f. ii^v).

Copy of the poem, preceded by a two-line Latin epigram, and followed by six lines headed Explaynd and beginning The lyon awe, the flower her faire estate, the whole subscribed Jos: Hall.

Inscribed four times on a flyleaf Tobias Alston his booke: i.e. probably Tobias Alston (1620-c.1639) of Sayham Hall, near Sudbury, Suffolk. His half-brother Edward (b.1598) was a contemporary of Herrick at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, while his cousin, Edward Alston, later President of the College of Physicians, was a contemporary of Herrick at St John's College, Cambridge, some of the other contents also relating to Cambridge, besides some relating to Suffolk. The date 1639 occurs on p. 241, and pp. 243-50 contains verses written in two later hands (to c.1728) and some prose pieces written from the reverse end.

Names inscribed on a flyleaf including Henry Glisson (later Fellow of the College of Physicians); Thomas Avral(?); Horace Norton; Henry Rich; and James Tavor (Registrar of Cambridge University). Later owned by one John Whitehead, and by Dr Mary Pickford. Sotheby's, 27 June 1972, lot 309.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Alston MS: HeR Δ 7. A complete set of photocopies of the MS is in the British Library, RP 772. Facsimile of pp. 6-7 in Sotheby's sale catalogue (see HeR 176, HeR 405) where the MS is described at some length. See also letters by Peter Beal and Donald W. Foster in TLS (24 January 1986), pp. 87-8.

Copy of the twelve-line poem, preceded by a two-line Latin motto and headed Josephus Hall in Melv..

Once owned by John Moore (1646-1714), Bishop of Norwich and Ely.

Copy, here beginning On y^e Altar Royall, Melvjn frowns to find, subscribed Bp Hall, following a Latin Responsio (Hic liber Angloru Regalj clausis on'arâ) subscribed Epus Hall.

Compiled by a Cambridge University man, possibly of King's College, and formerly at Eton.

Inscribed names: Hennericus Some, Johannes Chase, Jacobus Chase.

Edited from this MS in Dinshaw.

Copy, untitled and ascribed to Ios Hall. Imman..

Among collections of Anthony Wood (1632-95), Oxford antiquary.

Edited from this MS in Sandison and in Davenport.

Copy of Hall's commendatory verses, headed Ad Autorem, prefixed to a copy of William Bedell's poem A Protestant Memorial (here The Shepheards Tale of the Powderplot, ff. 11r-25r) and subscribed Joseph Hall. c.1620s-30s.

An autograph manuscript of sixteen poems by Mary Astell, in her semi-calligraphic script, occupies ff. 50r-97v. It is a presentation copy with (f. 50v) a title-page, A Collection of Poems humbly presented and Dedicated To the most Reverend Father in God William [Sancroft] By Divine Providence Lord Archbishop of Canterbury &c 1689 (f. 51r-v), a prose dedicatory epistle to Archbishop Sancroft, and (f. 94r) an address leaf To the most Reverend his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury These humbly present, 49 quarto leaves, bearing traces of a red wax seal.

The Astell MS discussed in Ruth Perry, A seventeenth-century feminist poet, TLS, 20 August 1982, p. 911. It is described also in the online Perdita project.

This MS recorded in Wynter, IX, 707.

Copy of a Latin version by William Dillingham of Hall's commendatory verses to William Bedell.

Copy of a version headed By Bishp Hall and beginning While on the Sabbath, we read Greenham's Lines.

Copy of Book IV, Satire 3, lines 1-27, here beginning What botes it (Pontice, tho thou couldst discours.

Probably compiled by Thomas Dutton, whose name and dates 1603 and 1634 are inscribed on ff. 134v and 138r.

Inscribed (f. 2r) Robt. Wever his booke 1658, Robert Wever i66i, and Joseph Edmondson his Book June y^e 13. 1759. Wellesley sale, lot 147. Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, 24 June 1865.

Christie's, 13-14 June 1979 (Arthur A. Houghton Jr sale, Part 1), lot 247, to Maggs.

Later owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1906-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale), lot 247, to Maggs.

Copy, with the appended A Meditation of Death, According to the Former Rules, imperfect, lacking one leaf between ff. 125 and 126 containing the end of Chapter XXIV and the beginning of Chapter XXV.

Repeated references in titles to Josep: Hall now B^p. of Exon. indicate a date of transcription after 23 December 1627 and before 15 November 1641, when Hall became Bishop of Norwich. It was possibly copied out before 1633, since it contains his paraphrase on The Song of Songs following the text of the Geneva Bible (HlJ 57), a work which he revised following the text of the Authorized Version and incorporated in An Explication …of all the Hard Texts in the Old and New Testament (1633).

The last page of the MS (f. 137v) contains eight untitled religious aphorisms (beginning The law before o^r sauiour Christs time, was like the rod in Moses hand turned into a serpent…), but it is not clear whether these aphorisms, perhaps an afterthought of the scribe to fill up the volume, derive from Hall's works.

Sotheby's, 5 July 1977, lot 109.

Cited below as the Beal MS.

Copy.

Repeated references in titles to Josep: Hall now B^p. of Exon. indicate a date of transcription after 23 December 1627 and before 15 November 1641, when Hall became Bishop of Norwich. It was possibly copied out before 1633, since it contains his paraphrase on The Song of Songs following the text of the Geneva Bible (HlJ 57), a work which he revised following the text of the Authorized Version and incorporated in An Explication …of all the Hard Texts in the Old and New Testament (1633).

The last page of the MS (f. 137v) contains eight untitled religious aphorisms (beginning The law before o^r sauiour Christs time, was like the rod in Moses hand turned into a serpent…), but it is not clear whether these aphorisms, perhaps an afterthought of the scribe to fill up the volume, derive from Hall's works.

Sotheby's, 5 July 1977, lot 109.

Cited below as the Beal MS.

Extracts, as by Dr Hall.

Among the family archives of Lord Braybrooke, of Audley End, Essex.

Copy, entitled A breife Summe of the Principles of Religion by waye of Catechisme, docketed M^r Doctor Josuah Hall.

Received 29 December 1639; bearing Laud's additions and alterations and his endorsement These phaps may be thought fitt for a suscriptio of others; a single leaf.

Facsimile of the first page in IELM, I.ii (1980), Facsimile XVII (p. 113).

Copy of the complete work, as by J. H. Bp of Exon., including the dedicatory epistle to Charles I subscribed John: Exon. [sic], in a professional secretary hand, on two once conjugate folio leaves, foliated in pencil 209-210, endorsed The Bp. of Exon his propositions to his Ma^tie.

Copy.

Repeated references in titles to Josep: Hall now B^p. of Exon. indicate a date of transcription after 23 December 1627 and before 15 November 1641, when Hall became Bishop of Norwich. It was possibly copied out before 1633, since it contains his paraphrase on The Song of Songs following the text of the Geneva Bible (HlJ 57), a work which he revised following the text of the Authorized Version and incorporated in An Explication …of all the Hard Texts in the Old and New Testament (1633).

The last page of the MS (f. 137v) contains eight untitled religious aphorisms (beginning The law before o^r sauiour Christs time, was like the rod in Moses hand turned into a serpent…), but it is not clear whether these aphorisms, perhaps an afterthought of the scribe to fill up the volume, derive from Hall's works.

Sotheby's, 5 July 1977, lot 109.

Cited below as the Beal MS.

Extracts.

Compiled possibly by one Thomas Parsons, whose name is subscribed to a letter on f. 92v.

Copy of nineteen Characterisms of Vice.

The table of contents (f. 155v) subscribed Margrett Bellasys, possibly the daughter of Thomas Belasyse (1577-1652), first Viscount Fauconberg of Henknowle. The front endpaper later inscribed The pieces which I have extracted for The Specimens are, Page 91, 211, 265: i.e. possibly by Thomas Campbell (1777-1844), editor of Specimens of the British Poets first published in 1809. Afterwards owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Evans (Sotheby's), 29 February 1836 (Heber sale, Part VIII), lot 13.

Copy, as set downe by that worthy Doctour Hall.

This MS volume originally included, as item 8, Robinson's own Sundrye other most excellent...and Holy Obseruations collected after the finishing of this booke and originally comprised 750 pages.

The last page contained a note signed by Peter Manwood (probably Sir Peter Manwood (d.1625), MP for Sandwich in 1588, 1593 and 1597, knighted 1603), who records his receiving the volume as a legacie from his very good freinde Thomas Robinson, w^ch Mr Austyn Lynn his sonn in lawe dyd carefully sende him, and that he wrott itt in his house on St Mary hyll next Billingsgate [in London]. The complete volume was offered in G. Michelmore's sale catalogue No. 15 (January 1930), as item 161. It was then subsequently split up and offered as two items in their sale catalogue No. 21 (February 1933): the main portion as item 152; the Robinson Obseruations as item 301. The main portion (with the devotional tracts) was sold at Sotheby's, 11 April 1938, lot 459, with a facsimile of the title-page, and on 13-14 June 1955, lot 461, to Sawyer, with a facsimile of the cover in the sale catalogue.

Extracts.

Annotated in the rugged italic hand of Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician.

Copy, headed The Bishop of Exeters Letter to the House of Commons.

Copy, headed A Letter sent by the Bpp of Exeter. Aprill.

Once owned by John Somers (1651-1716), Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor, and by his brother-in-law Sir Joseph Jekyll (1662-1738), lawyer and politician (No. 387 in the sale catalogue of his library, 1759).

Copy, headed Doctor Josuah Hall Bishop of Exeter his Letter to the Lower House of Parliament.

Copy, headed D^r Joshua Hall, Bishopp of Exeter his Message to y^e Lower House of Parliam^t.

Once owned by John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 44 of the Hopkinson MSS. Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

This volume (when unnumbered) recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 300.

Copy, headed The Bishope of Exeters lre to the house of Comons. 2 May: 1628.

Christie's, 12 June 1881 (Fairfax sale).

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed Doct^r: Josua Hall Bishope of Exeter his Lettre to the Lower howse of Parliamente. c.1620s-30s.

Stamped crest on the cover of the Finch family, Earls of Winchilsea.

Copy, headed The Bpp of Exeters letter to the Parliament.

1725, the date of accession into the Harley Library, inscribed by Wanley on f. 1r.

Copy, in a professional hand, untitled, subscribed Jos. Exeter.

The date of acquisition for the Harley Library inscribed by Wanley (f. 1*r) 13 August, 1724.

Copy, headed A Letter sent by the Bishop of Exeter to the House of Comons the same day, subscribed Exeter.

Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand, headed A lre written to the house of Comons by the B. of Excester on the 2^d of May 1628, subscribed Jos. Exceter, on one side of a quarto leaf.

Copy, headed The Bishopp of Exceters ler to the Parliament.

Inscribed (f. [i^r]) Humfry Burton.

Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand, headed 2 Maij. B. of Excesters lre 2^do Maij

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed The Bishpp of Exeters Letter to the howse of Comons, on one side of a folio leaf.

Copy, headed The Bp: of Exceter D^r: Hall, his lre to y^e lower-howse of pliam^t, subscribed Joshua Exceter.

Copy, headed Doctor Josua Hall B^pp: of Excetter his letter to the lower hous of Parliament, the name Josua corrected to Joseph in another hand.

Formerly MS F. 2. 20.

Copy, headed The Bpp of Exeter lre to the lower house of pliam^t.

Among papers of the Smyth family of North Nibley, Gloucestershire, and the Cowper family of Lancashire.

Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, headed Lo: Bish of Exeus Speech, on a single folio leaf.

A flyleaf inscribed This belongs to M^rs Carewe of Crowcombe, Co. Somerset / T Philli: i.e.formerly among the Carew MSS at Crowcombe Court, Somerset, and borrowed at some time by Sir Thomas Phillips, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector.

Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 373.

Copy, headed The Bishop of Exceters Lre to the howse of Coms, subscribed Josuah Hall.

Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor, dated 1701.

Copy, headed The Byshopps of Excester Letter to the house of Commons, subscribed Josua Hall.

Copy, headed The Bishop of Exceters letter sent to the howse of Commons. 28. Aprill 1628.

Among the Braye Manuscripts, descending from John Browne (1608-91), Clerk of the Parliaments, whose daughter, Martha, married Sir Roger Cave, Bt, of Stanford Hall, Rugby, seat of successive Lords Braye.

Copy, headed The Buishop of Exceters lre sent to the house of Commons 28 Aprill 1628.

Bookplate of the Earl of Aylesford, Packington, Warwickshire. Bernard Halliday, Leicester, sale catalogue 1930, item 568.

Copy, headed The Bishop of Exceters Letter to the Lower house of Parliament.

Bookplate of E.S. and H. Lloyd. Purchased from Peter Eaton (Booksellers) Ltd, 24 October 1967. Formerly House of Lords Record Office, Historical Collection 50.

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed The Bishop of Exeters Speech to the Lower Howse of Parliament.

Copy.

Copy, headed Bp hall of Exeter his Letter to the Comons House in Parlam^t. 1628.

In the hand of William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, the first page (f. [i^r] inscribed Z / Sylloge Epistolarum quarundam insignium, aliorumque aliquot Monumentorum, facta manu RRP. Wilhelmi Sancroft. Archiepi Cantuar. Accesserunt Orationes eiusdem nonnulla in Academiâ Cantabrig. habitæ.

Among collections of Henry Wharton (1664-94), Sancroft's chaplain (in 1688-9).

Copy, headed Doctor Hall Bpp of Exeter his Letter to y^e lower house of Parlym^t.

Recorded in HMC, 6th Report, Part I (1877), p. 306.

Copy, headed Bishop Halls letter to the house of Comons.

Copy.

A microfilm in the British Library, M/353.

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed A Letter sent by the bishop of Exeter to the house of Commons 28th Ap: 1628, on a single folio leaf, imperfect.

Donated in 1921 by Dr J. R. Tanner.

Copy, headed Doctor Josua Hall Bpp. of Exeter his letter to the lower howse of Parliament.

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, subscribed Exeter.

Inscribed (f. 141r) John: Saunders is the trew owner of this booke, Captaine Christo: Blounte, and Valentine LLawless.

Owned by John Madden, MD (1649-1703/4), physician and manuscript collector. Old pressmark F. 1. 20.

Copy, headed The Bishop of Exeters Letter sent to the house of Commons 28. april. 1628.

Copy.

Once owned by Hudson Gurney (1775-1864), antiquary and banker.

The name Thomas Cole inscribed on front pastedown. Later owned by the Rev. Dr Cox Macro (1683-1767), antiquary, and subsequently by Hudson Gurney (1775-1864), antiquary and banker.

Copy.

Inscribed on f. ii^v madam Kelsey. Owned in 1841 by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Afterwards by Sir Thomas Phillipps (Phillipps MS 10819).

Copy.

Formerly among the Braye Manuscripts, descending from John Browne (1608-91), Clerk of the Parliaments, whose daughter Martha married Sir Roger Cave, Bt, of Stanford Hall, Rugby, seat of successive Lords Braye.

Recorded in HMC 15, 10th Report, Appendix VI (1887), p. 116.

Copy.

Repeated references in titles to Josep: Hall now B^p. of Exon. indicate a date of transcription after 23 December 1627 and before 15 November 1641, when Hall became Bishop of Norwich. It was possibly copied out before 1633, since it contains his paraphrase on The Song of Songs following the text of the Geneva Bible (HlJ 57), a work which he revised following the text of the Authorized Version and incorporated in An Explication …of all the Hard Texts in the Old and New Testament (1633).

The last page of the MS (f. 137v) contains eight untitled religious aphorisms (beginning The law before o^r sauiour Christs time, was like the rod in Moses hand turned into a serpent…), but it is not clear whether these aphorisms, perhaps an afterthought of the scribe to fill up the volume, derive from Hall's works.

Sotheby's, 5 July 1977, lot 109.

Cited below as the Beal MS.

Copy.

Repeated references in titles to Josep: Hall now B^p. of Exon. indicate a date of transcription after 23 December 1627 and before 15 November 1641, when Hall became Bishop of Norwich. It was possibly copied out before 1633, since it contains his paraphrase on The Song of Songs following the text of the Geneva Bible (HlJ 57), a work which he revised following the text of the Authorized Version and incorporated in An Explication …of all the Hard Texts in the Old and New Testament (1633).

The last page of the MS (f. 137v) contains eight untitled religious aphorisms (beginning The law before o^r sauiour Christs time, was like the rod in Moses hand turned into a serpent…), but it is not clear whether these aphorisms, perhaps an afterthought of the scribe to fill up the volume, derive from Hall's works.

Sotheby's, 5 July 1977, lot 109.

Cited below as the Beal MS.

Copy.

Repeated references in titles to Josep: Hall now B^p. of Exon. indicate a date of transcription after 23 December 1627 and before 15 November 1641, when Hall became Bishop of Norwich. It was possibly copied out before 1633, since it contains his paraphrase on The Song of Songs following the text of the Geneva Bible (HlJ 57), a work which he revised following the text of the Authorized Version and incorporated in An Explication …of all the Hard Texts in the Old and New Testament (1633).

The last page of the MS (f. 137v) contains eight untitled religious aphorisms (beginning The law before o^r sauiour Christs time, was like the rod in Moses hand turned into a serpent…), but it is not clear whether these aphorisms, perhaps an afterthought of the scribe to fill up the volume, derive from Hall's works.

Sotheby's, 5 July 1977, lot 109.

Cited below as the Beal MS.

Copy.

Compiled by Nehemiah Wallington (1598-1658), puritan London turner and diarist.

Including (ff. 34r-51v) Some Epiesels or Letters of Ios Hall D of Diuinitie and Deane of Worchester in 1620, transcribed from the edition of Hall's collected works printed in 1620, with a note at the end Their be many more excellent letters in D Halls Booke which I let passe for preuitis sake.

Inscribed (f. 1v) Nehemiah Wallington his Booke 1650; (f. 5v) Nehemiah Wallington May 1650; (f. 205v) 1658 Iune y^e xxiii By the marcy of God I haue read ouer this my Writing Booke which is Coppies of precious Lettres..., and (f. 209v) Nehemiah Wallingtoⁿ his Booke 1635. Also inscribed (f. 1v) by his son-in-law Ionathan Houghton September IX 1658.

Recorded in Paul S. Seaver, Wallington's World: A Puritan Artisan in Seventeenth-Century London (Stanford, 1985).

Copy or extracts.

This MS volume originally included, as item 8, Robinson's own Sundrye other most excellent...and Holy Obseruations collected after the finishing of this booke and originally comprised 750 pages.

The last page contained a note signed by Peter Manwood (probably Sir Peter Manwood (d.1625), MP for Sandwich in 1588, 1593 and 1597, knighted 1603), who records his receiving the volume as a legacie from his very good freinde Thomas Robinson, w^ch Mr Austyn Lynn his sonn in lawe dyd carefully sende him, and that he wrott itt in his house on St Mary hyll next Billingsgate [in London]. The complete volume was offered in G. Michelmore's sale catalogue No. 15 (January 1930), as item 161. It was then subsequently split up and offered as two items in their sale catalogue No. 21 (February 1933): the main portion as item 152; the Robinson Obseruations as item 301. The main portion (with the devotional tracts) was sold at Sotheby's, 11 April 1938, lot 459, with a facsimile of the title-page, and on 13-14 June 1955, lot 461, to Sawyer, with a facsimile of the cover in the sale catalogue.

Copy.

Repeated references in titles to Josep: Hall now B^p. of Exon. indicate a date of transcription after 23 December 1627 and before 15 November 1641, when Hall became Bishop of Norwich. It was possibly copied out before 1633, since it contains his paraphrase on The Song of Songs following the text of the Geneva Bible (HlJ 57), a work which he revised following the text of the Authorized Version and incorporated in An Explication …of all the Hard Texts in the Old and New Testament (1633).

The last page of the MS (f. 137v) contains eight untitled religious aphorisms (beginning The law before o^r sauiour Christs time, was like the rod in Moses hand turned into a serpent…), but it is not clear whether these aphorisms, perhaps an afterthought of the scribe to fill up the volume, derive from Hall's works.

Sotheby's, 5 July 1977, lot 109.

Cited below as the Beal MS.

Copy.

Compiled by Nehemiah Wallington (1598-1658), puritan London turner and diarist.

Including (ff. 34r-51v) Some Epiesels or Letters of Ios Hall D of Diuinitie and Deane of Worchester in 1620, transcribed from the edition of Hall's collected works printed in 1620, with a note at the end Their be many more excellent letters in D Halls Booke which I let passe for preuitis sake.

Inscribed (f. 1v) Nehemiah Wallington his Booke 1650; (f. 5v) Nehemiah Wallington May 1650; (f. 205v) 1658 Iune y^e xxiii By the marcy of God I haue read ouer this my Writing Booke which is Coppies of precious Lettres..., and (f. 209v) Nehemiah Wallingtoⁿ his Booke 1635. Also inscribed (f. 1v) by his son-in-law Ionathan Houghton September IX 1658.

Recorded in Paul S. Seaver, Wallington's World: A Puritan Artisan in Seventeenth-Century London (Stanford, 1985).

Copy or extracts.

This MS volume originally included, as item 8, Robinson's own Sundrye other most excellent...and Holy Obseruations collected after the finishing of this booke and originally comprised 750 pages.

The last page contained a note signed by Peter Manwood (probably Sir Peter Manwood (d.1625), MP for Sandwich in 1588, 1593 and 1597, knighted 1603), who records his receiving the volume as a legacie from his very good freinde Thomas Robinson, w^ch Mr Austyn Lynn his sonn in lawe dyd carefully sende him, and that he wrott itt in his house on St Mary hyll next Billingsgate [in London]. The complete volume was offered in G. Michelmore's sale catalogue No. 15 (January 1930), as item 161. It was then subsequently split up and offered as two items in their sale catalogue No. 21 (February 1933): the main portion as item 152; the Robinson Obseruations as item 301. The main portion (with the devotional tracts) was sold at Sotheby's, 11 April 1938, lot 459, with a facsimile of the title-page, and on 13-14 June 1955, lot 461, to Sawyer, with a facsimile of the cover in the sale catalogue.

Copy.

Compiled by Nehemiah Wallington (1598-1658), puritan London turner and diarist.

Including (ff. 34r-51v) Some Epiesels or Letters of Ios Hall D of Diuinitie and Deane of Worchester in 1620, transcribed from the edition of Hall's collected works printed in 1620, with a note at the end Their be many more excellent letters in D Halls Booke which I let passe for preuitis sake.

Inscribed (f. 1v) Nehemiah Wallington his Booke 1650; (f. 5v) Nehemiah Wallington May 1650; (f. 205v) 1658 Iune y^e xxiii By the marcy of God I haue read ouer this my Writing Booke which is Coppies of precious Lettres..., and (f. 209v) Nehemiah Wallingtoⁿ his Booke 1635. Also inscribed (f. 1v) by his son-in-law Ionathan Houghton September IX 1658.

Recorded in Paul S. Seaver, Wallington's World: A Puritan Artisan in Seventeenth-Century London (Stanford, 1985).

Copy.

Compiled by Nehemiah Wallington (1598-1658), puritan London turner and diarist.

Including (ff. 34r-51v) Some Epiesels or Letters of Ios Hall D of Diuinitie and Deane of Worchester in 1620, transcribed from the edition of Hall's collected works printed in 1620, with a note at the end Their be many more excellent letters in D Halls Booke which I let passe for preuitis sake.

Inscribed (f. 1v) Nehemiah Wallington his Booke 1650; (f. 5v) Nehemiah Wallington May 1650; (f. 205v) 1658 Iune y^e xxiii By the marcy of God I haue read ouer this my Writing Booke which is Coppies of precious Lettres..., and (f. 209v) Nehemiah Wallingtoⁿ his Booke 1635. Also inscribed (f. 1v) by his son-in-law Ionathan Houghton September IX 1658.

Recorded in Paul S. Seaver, Wallington's World: A Puritan Artisan in Seventeenth-Century London (Stanford, 1985).

Copy.

Compiled by Nehemiah Wallington (1598-1658), puritan London turner and diarist.

Including (ff. 34r-51v) Some Epiesels or Letters of Ios Hall D of Diuinitie and Deane of Worchester in 1620, transcribed from the edition of Hall's collected works printed in 1620, with a note at the end Their be many more excellent letters in D Halls Booke which I let passe for preuitis sake.

Inscribed (f. 1v) Nehemiah Wallington his Booke 1650; (f. 5v) Nehemiah Wallington May 1650; (f. 205v) 1658 Iune y^e xxiii By the marcy of God I haue read ouer this my Writing Booke which is Coppies of precious Lettres..., and (f. 209v) Nehemiah Wallingtoⁿ his Booke 1635. Also inscribed (f. 1v) by his son-in-law Ionathan Houghton September IX 1658.

Recorded in Paul S. Seaver, Wallington's World: A Puritan Artisan in Seventeenth-Century London (Stanford, 1985).

Copy, headed Epistle 9. To Master Thomas Burliz. Consolations of immodarate griefe For the death of Friends.

Compiled by Nehemiah Wallington (1598-1658), puritan London turner and diarist.

Including (ff. 34r-51v) Some Epiesels or Letters of Ios Hall D of Diuinitie and Deane of Worchester in 1620, transcribed from the edition of Hall's collected works printed in 1620, with a note at the end Their be many more excellent letters in D Halls Booke which I let passe for preuitis sake.

Inscribed (f. 1v) Nehemiah Wallington his Booke 1650; (f. 5v) Nehemiah Wallington May 1650; (f. 205v) 1658 Iune y^e xxiii By the marcy of God I haue read ouer this my Writing Booke which is Coppies of precious Lettres..., and (f. 209v) Nehemiah Wallingtoⁿ his Booke 1635. Also inscribed (f. 1v) by his son-in-law Ionathan Houghton September IX 1658.

Recorded in Paul S. Seaver, Wallington's World: A Puritan Artisan in Seventeenth-Century London (Stanford, 1985).

Copy.

Compiled by Nehemiah Wallington (1598-1658), puritan London turner and diarist.

Including (ff. 34r-51v) Some Epiesels or Letters of Ios Hall D of Diuinitie and Deane of Worchester in 1620, transcribed from the edition of Hall's collected works printed in 1620, with a note at the end Their be many more excellent letters in D Halls Booke which I let passe for preuitis sake.

Inscribed (f. 1v) Nehemiah Wallington his Booke 1650; (f. 5v) Nehemiah Wallington May 1650; (f. 205v) 1658 Iune y^e xxiii By the marcy of God I haue read ouer this my Writing Booke which is Coppies of precious Lettres..., and (f. 209v) Nehemiah Wallingtoⁿ his Booke 1635. Also inscribed (f. 1v) by his son-in-law Ionathan Houghton September IX 1658.

Recorded in Paul S. Seaver, Wallington's World: A Puritan Artisan in Seventeenth-Century London (Stanford, 1985).

Copy.

This MS volume originally included, as item 8, Robinson's own Sundrye other most excellent...and Holy Obseruations collected after the finishing of this booke and originally comprised 750 pages.

The last page contained a note signed by Peter Manwood (probably Sir Peter Manwood (d.1625), MP for Sandwich in 1588, 1593 and 1597, knighted 1603), who records his receiving the volume as a legacie from his very good freinde Thomas Robinson, w^ch Mr Austyn Lynn his sonn in lawe dyd carefully sende him, and that he wrott itt in his house on St Mary hyll next Billingsgate [in London]. The complete volume was offered in G. Michelmore's sale catalogue No. 15 (January 1930), as item 161. It was then subsequently split up and offered as two items in their sale catalogue No. 21 (February 1933): the main portion as item 152; the Robinson Obseruations as item 301. The main portion (with the devotional tracts) was sold at Sotheby's, 11 April 1938, lot 459, with a facsimile of the title-page, and on 13-14 June 1955, lot 461, to Sawyer, with a facsimile of the cover in the sale catalogue.

Copy.

Repeated references in titles to Josep: Hall now B^p. of Exon. indicate a date of transcription after 23 December 1627 and before 15 November 1641, when Hall became Bishop of Norwich. It was possibly copied out before 1633, since it contains his paraphrase on The Song of Songs following the text of the Geneva Bible (HlJ 57), a work which he revised following the text of the Authorized Version and incorporated in An Explication …of all the Hard Texts in the Old and New Testament (1633).

The last page of the MS (f. 137v) contains eight untitled religious aphorisms (beginning The law before o^r sauiour Christs time, was like the rod in Moses hand turned into a serpent…), but it is not clear whether these aphorisms, perhaps an afterthought of the scribe to fill up the volume, derive from Hall's works.

Sotheby's, 5 July 1977, lot 109.

Cited below as the Beal MS.

Copy.

Repeated references in titles to Josep: Hall now B^p. of Exon. indicate a date of transcription after 23 December 1627 and before 15 November 1641, when Hall became Bishop of Norwich. It was possibly copied out before 1633, since it contains his paraphrase on The Song of Songs following the text of the Geneva Bible (HlJ 57), a work which he revised following the text of the Authorized Version and incorporated in An Explication …of all the Hard Texts in the Old and New Testament (1633).

The last page of the MS (f. 137v) contains eight untitled religious aphorisms (beginning The law before o^r sauiour Christs time, was like the rod in Moses hand turned into a serpent…), but it is not clear whether these aphorisms, perhaps an afterthought of the scribe to fill up the volume, derive from Hall's works.

Sotheby's, 5 July 1977, lot 109.

Cited below as the Beal MS.

Copy.

Compiled by Nehemiah Wallington (1598-1658), puritan London turner and diarist.

Including (ff. 34r-51v) Some Epiesels or Letters of Ios Hall D of Diuinitie and Deane of Worchester in 1620, transcribed from the edition of Hall's collected works printed in 1620, with a note at the end Their be many more excellent letters in D Halls Booke which I let passe for preuitis sake.

Inscribed (f. 1v) Nehemiah Wallington his Booke 1650; (f. 5v) Nehemiah Wallington May 1650; (f. 205v) 1658 Iune y^e xxiii By the marcy of God I haue read ouer this my Writing Booke which is Coppies of precious Lettres..., and (f. 209v) Nehemiah Wallingtoⁿ his Booke 1635. Also inscribed (f. 1v) by his son-in-law Ionathan Houghton September IX 1658.

Recorded in Paul S. Seaver, Wallington's World: A Puritan Artisan in Seventeenth-Century London (Stanford, 1985).

Copy, headed Epistle 6. To Mistris A. P. A discourse of the Signes and proofes of true Faith.

Compiled by Nehemiah Wallington (1598-1658), puritan London turner and diarist.

Including (ff. 34r-51v) Some Epiesels or Letters of Ios Hall D of Diuinitie and Deane of Worchester in 1620, transcribed from the edition of Hall's collected works printed in 1620, with a note at the end Their be many more excellent letters in D Halls Booke which I let passe for preuitis sake.

Inscribed (f. 1v) Nehemiah Wallington his Booke 1650; (f. 5v) Nehemiah Wallington May 1650; (f. 205v) 1658 Iune y^e xxiii By the marcy of God I haue read ouer this my Writing Booke which is Coppies of precious Lettres..., and (f. 209v) Nehemiah Wallingtoⁿ his Booke 1635. Also inscribed (f. 1v) by his son-in-law Ionathan Houghton September IX 1658.

Recorded in Paul S. Seaver, Wallington's World: A Puritan Artisan in Seventeenth-Century London (Stanford, 1985).

Copy or extracts.

This MS volume originally included, as item 8, Robinson's own Sundrye other most excellent...and Holy Obseruations collected after the finishing of this booke and originally comprised 750 pages.

The last page contained a note signed by Peter Manwood (probably Sir Peter Manwood (d.1625), MP for Sandwich in 1588, 1593 and 1597, knighted 1603), who records his receiving the volume as a legacie from his very good freinde Thomas Robinson, w^ch Mr Austyn Lynn his sonn in lawe dyd carefully sende him, and that he wrott itt in his house on St Mary hyll next Billingsgate [in London]. The complete volume was offered in G. Michelmore's sale catalogue No. 15 (January 1930), as item 161. It was then subsequently split up and offered as two items in their sale catalogue No. 21 (February 1933): the main portion as item 152; the Robinson Obseruations as item 301. The main portion (with the devotional tracts) was sold at Sotheby's, 11 April 1938, lot 459, with a facsimile of the title-page, and on 13-14 June 1955, lot 461, to Sawyer, with a facsimile of the cover in the sale catalogue.

Copy.

Repeated references in titles to Josep: Hall now B^p. of Exon. indicate a date of transcription after 23 December 1627 and before 15 November 1641, when Hall became Bishop of Norwich. It was possibly copied out before 1633, since it contains his paraphrase on The Song of Songs following the text of the Geneva Bible (HlJ 57), a work which he revised following the text of the Authorized Version and incorporated in An Explication …of all the Hard Texts in the Old and New Testament (1633).

The last page of the MS (f. 137v) contains eight untitled religious aphorisms (beginning The law before o^r sauiour Christs time, was like the rod in Moses hand turned into a serpent…), but it is not clear whether these aphorisms, perhaps an afterthought of the scribe to fill up the volume, derive from Hall's works.

Sotheby's, 5 July 1977, lot 109.

Cited below as the Beal MS.

Copy or extracts.

This MS volume originally included, as item 8, Robinson's own Sundrye other most excellent...and Holy Obseruations collected after the finishing of this booke and originally comprised 750 pages.

The last page contained a note signed by Peter Manwood (probably Sir Peter Manwood (d.1625), MP for Sandwich in 1588, 1593 and 1597, knighted 1603), who records his receiving the volume as a legacie from his very good freinde Thomas Robinson, w^ch Mr Austyn Lynn his sonn in lawe dyd carefully sende him, and that he wrott itt in his house on St Mary hyll next Billingsgate [in London]. The complete volume was offered in G. Michelmore's sale catalogue No. 15 (January 1930), as item 161. It was then subsequently split up and offered as two items in their sale catalogue No. 21 (February 1933): the main portion as item 152; the Robinson Obseruations as item 301. The main portion (with the devotional tracts) was sold at Sotheby's, 11 April 1938, lot 459, with a facsimile of the title-page, and on 13-14 June 1955, lot 461, to Sawyer, with a facsimile of the cover in the sale catalogue.

Copy.

Compiled by Nehemiah Wallington (1598-1658), puritan London turner and diarist.

Including (ff. 34r-51v) Some Epiesels or Letters of Ios Hall D of Diuinitie and Deane of Worchester in 1620, transcribed from the edition of Hall's collected works printed in 1620, with a note at the end Their be many more excellent letters in D Halls Booke which I let passe for preuitis sake.

Inscribed (f. 1v) Nehemiah Wallington his Booke 1650; (f. 5v) Nehemiah Wallington May 1650; (f. 205v) 1658 Iune y^e xxiii By the marcy of God I haue read ouer this my Writing Booke which is Coppies of precious Lettres..., and (f. 209v) Nehemiah Wallingtoⁿ his Booke 1635. Also inscribed (f. 1v) by his son-in-law Ionathan Houghton September IX 1658.

Recorded in Paul S. Seaver, Wallington's World: A Puritan Artisan in Seventeenth-Century London (Stanford, 1985).

Copy.

Repeated references in titles to Josep: Hall now B^p. of Exon. indicate a date of transcription after 23 December 1627 and before 15 November 1641, when Hall became Bishop of Norwich. It was possibly copied out before 1633, since it contains his paraphrase on The Song of Songs following the text of the Geneva Bible (HlJ 57), a work which he revised following the text of the Authorized Version and incorporated in An Explication …of all the Hard Texts in the Old and New Testament (1633).

The last page of the MS (f. 137v) contains eight untitled religious aphorisms (beginning The law before o^r sauiour Christs time, was like the rod in Moses hand turned into a serpent…), but it is not clear whether these aphorisms, perhaps an afterthought of the scribe to fill up the volume, derive from Hall's works.

Sotheby's, 5 July 1977, lot 109.

Cited below as the Beal MS.

Copy.

Compiled by Nehemiah Wallington (1598-1658), puritan London turner and diarist.

Including (ff. 34r-51v) Some Epiesels or Letters of Ios Hall D of Diuinitie and Deane of Worchester in 1620, transcribed from the edition of Hall's collected works printed in 1620, with a note at the end Their be many more excellent letters in D Halls Booke which I let passe for preuitis sake.

Inscribed (f. 1v) Nehemiah Wallington his Booke 1650; (f. 5v) Nehemiah Wallington May 1650; (f. 205v) 1658 Iune y^e xxiii By the marcy of God I haue read ouer this my Writing Booke which is Coppies of precious Lettres..., and (f. 209v) Nehemiah Wallingtoⁿ his Booke 1635. Also inscribed (f. 1v) by his son-in-law Ionathan Houghton September IX 1658.

Recorded in Paul S. Seaver, Wallington's World: A Puritan Artisan in Seventeenth-Century London (Stanford, 1985).

Copy, headed Bishop Hall vpon his emprisonm^t, dated from the Tower 1641 and subscribed To my much respected & obliged freind m^r A. B these.

Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 18 of the Hopkinson MSS.

Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, pp. 296-7.

Copy.

Repeated references in titles to Josep: Hall now B^p. of Exon. indicate a date of transcription after 23 December 1627 and before 15 November 1641, when Hall became Bishop of Norwich. It was possibly copied out before 1633, since it contains his paraphrase on The Song of Songs following the text of the Geneva Bible (HlJ 57), a work which he revised following the text of the Authorized Version and incorporated in An Explication …of all the Hard Texts in the Old and New Testament (1633).

The last page of the MS (f. 137v) contains eight untitled religious aphorisms (beginning The law before o^r sauiour Christs time, was like the rod in Moses hand turned into a serpent…), but it is not clear whether these aphorisms, perhaps an afterthought of the scribe to fill up the volume, derive from Hall's works.

Sotheby's, 5 July 1977, lot 109.

Cited below as the Beal MS.

Extracts, as by docter hall.

Among the family archives of Lord Braybrooke, of Audley End, Essex.

Copy.

Repeated references in titles to Josep: Hall now B^p. of Exon. indicate a date of transcription after 23 December 1627 and before 15 November 1641, when Hall became Bishop of Norwich. It was possibly copied out before 1633, since it contains his paraphrase on The Song of Songs following the text of the Geneva Bible (HlJ 57), a work which he revised following the text of the Authorized Version and incorporated in An Explication …of all the Hard Texts in the Old and New Testament (1633).

The last page of the MS (f. 137v) contains eight untitled religious aphorisms (beginning The law before o^r sauiour Christs time, was like the rod in Moses hand turned into a serpent…), but it is not clear whether these aphorisms, perhaps an afterthought of the scribe to fill up the volume, derive from Hall's works.

Sotheby's, 5 July 1977, lot 109.

Cited below as the Beal MS.

With a formal title-page, Henochisme: Or A Treatise Shewinge Howe to walke with God: Written in Latin by Ioseph Hall Bishop of Exeter And Translated into English By M: W:; a five-page dedicatory epistle to Hall; a seven-page presentation epistle to Mrs Elizabeth St John; and 75 pages of text; the presentation epistle in a very small hand, signed Moses Wall and dated Octob: 2. an. 1639, evidently in Wall's hand; all the rest in a neat secretary hand.

Inscribed (f. [i^r]) Anne Bernard Her Book / Johanna.

Original Latin version first published London, 1635; Wynter, X, 188-207. Wall's translation unpublished.

Copy.

Repeated references in titles to Josep: Hall now B^p. of Exon. indicate a date of transcription after 23 December 1627 and before 15 November 1641, when Hall became Bishop of Norwich. It was possibly copied out before 1633, since it contains his paraphrase on The Song of Songs following the text of the Geneva Bible (HlJ 57), a work which he revised following the text of the Authorized Version and incorporated in An Explication …of all the Hard Texts in the Old and New Testament (1633).

The last page of the MS (f. 137v) contains eight untitled religious aphorisms (beginning The law before o^r sauiour Christs time, was like the rod in Moses hand turned into a serpent…), but it is not clear whether these aphorisms, perhaps an afterthought of the scribe to fill up the volume, derive from Hall's works.

Sotheby's, 5 July 1977, lot 109.

Cited below as the Beal MS.

Extracts, beginning These things be comely....

Compiled possibly by one Thomas Parsons, whose name is subscribed to a letter on f. 92v.

Extracts.

Copy, in double columns, headed Joseph Hall concerneinge the observation of Christmasse day.

Given by William Moore.

Copy.

Repeated references in titles to Josep: Hall now B^p. of Exon. indicate a date of transcription after 23 December 1627 and before 15 November 1641, when Hall became Bishop of Norwich. It was possibly copied out before 1633, since it contains his paraphrase on The Song of Songs following the text of the Geneva Bible (HlJ 57), a work which he revised following the text of the Authorized Version and incorporated in An Explication …of all the Hard Texts in the Old and New Testament (1633).

The last page of the MS (f. 137v) contains eight untitled religious aphorisms (beginning The law before o^r sauiour Christs time, was like the rod in Moses hand turned into a serpent…), but it is not clear whether these aphorisms, perhaps an afterthought of the scribe to fill up the volume, derive from Hall's works.

Sotheby's, 5 July 1977, lot 109.

Cited below as the Beal MS.

Extensive extracts, in secretary hands, annotated by the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Dr. Halls book on meditations & vows.

Annotated in the rugged italic hand of Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician.

Extracts by Alice Thornton, headed B^pp: Halls Obseruations in his booke of Meditations And Vowes.

Inscribed on a flyfeaf Ex Libris Tho. Comber De Creech St. Michael in Comitatu Somerset 1789. 1800. The Contents of this Book are written by the hand of Mrs Alice Thornton, the Great Great Grandmother of me Thomas Comber 1789. Owned in 1875 by a descendant of Alice Thornton, the Rev. Henry George Wandesford Comber, MA, Rector of Oswaldkirk. Sotheby's, 21 July 1980, lot 63, unsold. Sotheby's, 29 June 1982, lot 17, to Quaritch, with a facsimile example in the sale catalogue. Then owned by Paula Peyraud, New York State. Bloomsbury Auctions, New York, 6 May 2009, lot 464.

A microfilm of this MS is also in the British Library, RP 2346.

Extracts, headed Doctor Halls meditations and beginning It were better a man should want a man answereable to their weight....

A compilation of prayers and devotional meditations, in a single predominantly secretary hand.

Extracts, headed D^r Halls meditations, & vowes, beginning It were better a man should want work then that great workes should want a man answereable to their weight...

A compilation of prayers and devotional meditations, transcribed in a professional rounded hand by or for Edward Sandys and with his dedicatory address For the now R^t Hon^ble Elizabeth Countess of Huntingdon July 20^th 1676.

Extracts, headed D^r Halls meditations & vowes.

A compilation of prayers and devotional meditations, in a single rounded hand.

Extracts, listing 57 items, beginning In meditation, they w^ch begin heavenly thoughts....

Compiled possibly by one Thomas Parsons, whose name is subscribed to a letter on f. 92v.

Extracts, headed D^r: Halls medutations & vowes and beginning It were better a man should want worke then great workes should want a man....

A compilation of prayers and devotional meditations, in a single mixed hand.

Discussed, with a facsimile of f. 1r, in Victoria E. Burke, Materiality and Form in the Seventeenth-Century Miscellanies of Anne Southwell, Elizabeth Hastings, and Jane Truesdale, EMS, 16 (2011), 219-41.

Copy.

Repeated references in titles to Josep: Hall now B^p. of Exon. indicate a date of transcription after 23 December 1627 and before 15 November 1641, when Hall became Bishop of Norwich. It was possibly copied out before 1633, since it contains his paraphrase on The Song of Songs following the text of the Geneva Bible (HlJ 57), a work which he revised following the text of the Authorized Version and incorporated in An Explication …of all the Hard Texts in the Old and New Testament (1633).

The last page of the MS (f. 137v) contains eight untitled religious aphorisms (beginning The law before o^r sauiour Christs time, was like the rod in Moses hand turned into a serpent…), but it is not clear whether these aphorisms, perhaps an afterthought of the scribe to fill up the volume, derive from Hall's works.

Sotheby's, 5 July 1977, lot 109.

Cited below as the Beal MS.

Copy.

Repeated references in titles to Josep: Hall now B^p. of Exon. indicate a date of transcription after 23 December 1627 and before 15 November 1641, when Hall became Bishop of Norwich. It was possibly copied out before 1633, since it contains his paraphrase on The Song of Songs following the text of the Geneva Bible (HlJ 57), a work which he revised following the text of the Authorized Version and incorporated in An Explication …of all the Hard Texts in the Old and New Testament (1633).

The last page of the MS (f. 137v) contains eight untitled religious aphorisms (beginning The law before o^r sauiour Christs time, was like the rod in Moses hand turned into a serpent…), but it is not clear whether these aphorisms, perhaps an afterthought of the scribe to fill up the volume, derive from Hall's works.

Sotheby's, 5 July 1977, lot 109.

Cited below as the Beal MS.

Copy or extracts.

This MS volume originally included, as item 8, Robinson's own Sundrye other most excellent...and Holy Obseruations collected after the finishing of this booke and originally comprised 750 pages.

The last page contained a note signed by Peter Manwood (probably Sir Peter Manwood (d.1625), MP for Sandwich in 1588, 1593 and 1597, knighted 1603), who records his receiving the volume as a legacie from his very good freinde Thomas Robinson, w^ch Mr Austyn Lynn his sonn in lawe dyd carefully sende him, and that he wrott itt in his house on St Mary hyll next Billingsgate [in London]. The complete volume was offered in G. Michelmore's sale catalogue No. 15 (January 1930), as item 161. It was then subsequently split up and offered as two items in their sale catalogue No. 21 (February 1933): the main portion as item 152; the Robinson Obseruations as item 301. The main portion (with the devotional tracts) was sold at Sotheby's, 11 April 1938, lot 459, with a facsimile of the title-page, and on 13-14 June 1955, lot 461, to Sawyer, with a facsimile of the cover in the sale catalogue.

Extracts.

Compiled possibly by one Thomas Parsons, whose name is subscribed to a letter on f. 92v.

Copy.

Repeated references in titles to Josep: Hall now B^p. of Exon. indicate a date of transcription after 23 December 1627 and before 15 November 1641, when Hall became Bishop of Norwich. It was possibly copied out before 1633, since it contains his paraphrase on The Song of Songs following the text of the Geneva Bible (HlJ 57), a work which he revised following the text of the Authorized Version and incorporated in An Explication …of all the Hard Texts in the Old and New Testament (1633).

The last page of the MS (f. 137v) contains eight untitled religious aphorisms (beginning The law before o^r sauiour Christs time, was like the rod in Moses hand turned into a serpent…), but it is not clear whether these aphorisms, perhaps an afterthought of the scribe to fill up the volume, derive from Hall's works.

Sotheby's, 5 July 1977, lot 109.

Cited below as the Beal MS.

Copy or extracts.

This MS volume originally included, as item 8, Robinson's own Sundrye other most excellent...and Holy Obseruations collected after the finishing of this booke and originally comprised 750 pages.

The last page contained a note signed by Peter Manwood (probably Sir Peter Manwood (d.1625), MP for Sandwich in 1588, 1593 and 1597, knighted 1603), who records his receiving the volume as a legacie from his very good freinde Thomas Robinson, w^ch Mr Austyn Lynn his sonn in lawe dyd carefully sende him, and that he wrott itt in his house on St Mary hyll next Billingsgate [in London]. The complete volume was offered in G. Michelmore's sale catalogue No. 15 (January 1930), as item 161. It was then subsequently split up and offered as two items in their sale catalogue No. 21 (February 1933): the main portion as item 152; the Robinson Obseruations as item 301. The main portion (with the devotional tracts) was sold at Sotheby's, 11 April 1938, lot 459, with a facsimile of the title-page, and on 13-14 June 1955, lot 461, to Sawyer, with a facsimile of the cover in the sale catalogue.

Extracts.

Copy.

Repeated references in titles to Josep: Hall now B^p. of Exon. indicate a date of transcription after 23 December 1627 and before 15 November 1641, when Hall became Bishop of Norwich. It was possibly copied out before 1633, since it contains his paraphrase on The Song of Songs following the text of the Geneva Bible (HlJ 57), a work which he revised following the text of the Authorized Version and incorporated in An Explication …of all the Hard Texts in the Old and New Testament (1633).

The last page of the MS (f. 137v) contains eight untitled religious aphorisms (beginning The law before o^r sauiour Christs time, was like the rod in Moses hand turned into a serpent…), but it is not clear whether these aphorisms, perhaps an afterthought of the scribe to fill up the volume, derive from Hall's works.

Sotheby's, 5 July 1977, lot 109.

Cited below as the Beal MS.

Extracts, headed Bish Exeter Can / Whithall April 1622.

Entirely in the rugged italic hand of Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician.

Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1. Recorded (as the Bedford MS) in Peter Beal, More Donne Manuscripts, John Donne Journal, 6/2 (1987), 213-18 (p. 213).

Copy, headed The Text Eexurgat Deus disipetur mimici Let god arise let his Enemyes Bee Scattered ooop Psalme 68: 1: and beginning My Texte is the Kings Motto..., ascribed to Joseph Hall.

In a semi-calligraphic hand, in black and red ink, by or associated with one Henry Feilde.

Sold by Winifred Myers, 21 December 1949.

Extracts, in a mixed hand, annotated by the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Notes out of a Sermon preacht at Court the 28 of ffebruary 1629 by Jos: Exon, called the hipocrite / The text: 2 Tim: 5: 3.

Partly in the rugged italic hand of Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician, partly in the neat mixed hand of an amanuensis.

Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1.

Extracts, in the hand of the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Doctor Halles via media.

Partly written, and annotated, in the rugged italic hand of Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician.

Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1.

Inscribed J. Symones Grays Inn 1795. Bookplate of John Towneley of Towneley, Lancashire. Sotheby's, 28 June 1883 (Towneley sale), lot 122, to James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector.

The third part of a trilogy, possibly partly written by Hall. This play was twice printed in Cambridge in 1606. For the first two parts see ShW 118. The whole trilogy is edited from the MS and printed sources by J.B. Leishman in The Three Parnassus Plays (1598-1601) (London, 1949).

Extracts from a sermon, in the hand of the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Doctor Hall Salm 68: 19.

Chiefly in the rugged italic hand of Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician, partly in the rounded secretary hand of an amanuensis and two others.

Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1.

Extracts, in a predominantly italic hand, annotated by the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed The Bishop of Exeters opinion touchinge mariage w^th a sisters daughter.

Compiled by, and partly in the rugged italic hand of, Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician.

Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1.

Extracts, headed Docter Hall dedication.

Entirely in the rugged italic hand of Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician.

Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1. Recorded (as the Bedford MS) in Peter Beal, More Donne Manuscripts, John Donne Journal, 6/2 (1987), 213-18 (p. 213).

Extracts, in the hand of the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Out of Hall.

Assembled by, and partly in the rugged italic hand of, Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician.

Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1.

Extract from one of Hall's meditations.

Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 27 of the Hopkinson MSS. Chiefly transcribed from papers belonging to John Savile, Baron of Pontefract, and Edward Taylor, of Furnivall's Inn, Holborn.

Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 298.

Extracts from various of Hall's works, throughout the MS, including ff. 1r-28r, 44r-8r, 51r-7r, 67r.

Owned and possibly compiled by Richard Waferer, of Buckinghamshire (name on ff. 43r and 76v).

Also inscribed (f. ii) with names of Marth: Waferer and Walter Jesson.

Extracts from works by Hall, including Quo Vadis, the Epistles, and Characters of Virtues and Vices, dated 1649.

Compiled by one William Bright, entitled ffragmenta hic omnigena è varijs excerpta authoribus ad priuatum existunt vsum WB ex anno 1644.

Inscribed also inside the lower cover Will: Bright Novemb 12^th pretiu 8^d 1645.

Numerous extracts from various of Hall's works, including entries on pp. 7, 12, 15bis, 29, 34, 59, 69, 69bis, 77, 79bis, 84, 85, 102, 106, 132, 146, 168, 180, 185, 198, 207-9, 212, 224, 226, 228, 232, 272, 281, 290, 310, 382, 393, 395, 397, 404, 426, 449-50, 514-15, 560, 563, 577-8, 595, 618, and 634.

A modern pencil note on a flyleaf claims to identify the compiler as one Raworth.

Extracts from works by Hall, including extracts from Occasional Meditations, under subject headings (Time, Idlenesse, God is noe respecter of Persons, etc.).

Among papers of the Sheridan family, of Frampton Court, Dorset.

Extracts, headed Arguments agt Anabaptists out of Hall.

Compiled by Richard Brathwaite (1587/8-1673), poet, writer and Justice of Peace for Westmoreland.

Among the collections of Christopher Hunter (1675-1757), Durham antiquary and physician.

Extracts from Joseph Hall 1st Vol, Books I -III, including examples in the MS ff. 1r-11, 30r-7.

Inscribed (f. 69v) this was one of m^r edmond day booke and M^rs day gaue it me when he die. Bookplates of John Leevsay and of F.W. Cosens, FSA (1819-89), of Clapham Park, book collector.

Extracts from Hall's Epistles.

Compiled possibly by one Thomas Parsons, whose name is subscribed to a letter on f. 92v.

Extracts from works by Hall.

Owned in 1684 by one Stephen Aldhouse, of Matlaske.

Extracts, headed In y^e remarques on y^e Life of y^e great Abraham Taken out of Bpp Hall being a discours made between Abraham & Isaac upon his goeing to be sacrificed.

Compiled by Thomas Fane (1683-1736), sixth Earl of Westmorland.

Extracts from works by Hall.

Adapted verse extracts from works by Hall.

Entirely in the hand of Robert Overton (1608/9-1678/9), parliamentarian army officer, whose signature appears on a flyleaf. Prepared as a memorial and tribute to his wife, Ann Gardiner (d.1665), and written when in prison, either on Jersey or in the Tower of London.

Inscribed inside the front cover Sam^l Atkins Wykeham and inside the rear cover 17 Feby 1879. Purchased this Book of Prescot Bookseller. Upper Arcade. Bristol...Edw^d G. Doggett.

This volume discussed extensively, with facsimile examples (of pp. 85-6, 151-2, 162, 166, 190-2), in David Norbrook, This blushinge tribute of a borrowed muse: Robert Overton and his Overturning of the Poetic Canon, EMS, 4 (1993), 220-66.

Extracts from works by Hall, including (f. 104r) That Different Judgm^ts may all center in Truth, subscribed B^p. Hall's laws of Consc: Epist to y^e Reader, and Schismes, subscribed B^p Hall's Medit: cent: 2. Med: 53; (105v) extracts subscribed D^r Jos: Hall's Heaven upon Earth Sect: 8 and B^p Hall's Meditations lib: i. med: 62; and (f. 109v) extracts subscribed B^p Hall's Med: cent: 2 Med: 74.

Compiled by Dr Thomas Lewis (d.1746), of the Royal College of Physicians.

Extracts.

Later owned by Professor A. Stanton Whitfield. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 271.

Autograph letter signed, to Mrs Goring [or possibly Coring], 15 August [1608-16].

Facsimile in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate LXXIX.

Autograph letter signed, to Dr Ward, from Waltham, 30 March 1618/19.

Wynter, 503-4.

Wynter, X, 505-6. Facsimile example in Petti, No. 51.

Wynter, X, 506.

Copy by Thomas James of a letter sent to him by Hall, [1619].

Copy by Thomas James of a letter sent to him by Hall, from Emmanuel College, undated.

Copy by Thomas James of a letter sent to him by Hall, [1619].

Autograph letter signed, to Dr Ward, from Waltham, 2 February (Candlemas Day), 1619/20.

Wynter, X, 504-5.

Autograph letter signed, to Dr Ward, from Waltham, 14 July 1620.

Wynter, X, 507.

Wynter, X, 597-8.

Wynter, X, 508.

Wynter, X, 509.

Sotheby's, 14 April 1875, lot 612. Afterwards in the collection of Alfred Morrison (1821-97), manuscript and art collector. Subsequently in the collection of Carl H. Pforzheimer (1879-1957), financier and book collector.

Edited in The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library: English Literature 1475-1700 (New York, 1940), III, 1263-4.

Wynter, X, 509-10.

Wynter, X, 510-11.

Autograph letter signed, to Sir John Eliot, from Drury Lane, 6 February 1628/9.

Volume 10 of the papers of Sir John Eliot (1592-1632), politician.

Among the papers of the Eliot family, Earls of St Germans, of Port Eliot, Cornwall.

Giving Turner authority to omit certain passages in Hall's The Reconciler (published in London 1629).

Wynter, X, 511-13.

Wynter, X, 513-14.

Wynter, X, 515-16.

Copy of an epistle by Hall, in Latin, on the doctrine of Justus Lipsius, 25 February 1632/3.

Autograph letter signed, to Sir John Coke, 2 May 1636.

Volume XLIII of the papers of Sir John Coke (1563-1644), Secretary of State.

Formerly owned by the Marquess of Lothian, at Melbourne Hall, Derbyshire. Recorded in HMC, 12th Report, Appendix II (1888), p. 116.

Wynter, X, 517-19.

Wynter, X, 533-5 (from Prynne's Compleat History, and misdated 1629).

Wynter, X, 519-20.

Wynter, X, 520.

Wynter, X, 535-6 (from Prynne's Compleat History).

Wynter, X, 537-9 (from Prynne's Compleat History).

Wynter, X, 540-1 (from Prynne's Compleat History).

Wynter, X, 543-4 (from Prynne's Compleat History).

Wynter, X, 541-2 (from Prynne's Compleat History).

Autograph letter signed, to Sir Edward Nicholas, from Westminster, 10 December 1641.

Autograph letter signed by Hall, to the Rev. Edmunde Lynolde, pastor of Heling, near Grimsby, Lincolnshire, 14 August 1645.

Defending himself against Lynolde's accusations that Hall had done a great wrong to a fellow clergymam who had been unjustly sentenced in court; also with a revealing comment on Laud, who had been executed in the previous January, and notable comments on his own plight (having had his whole estate…seized by the Parliament …and…hauing not so much as a comptency allowed mee, as yet, for the necessary sustentaon of my family).

Meditations Vnmused and Vowes Vnvoted In An Epistle written to Doctor Joseph Hall late Bishop of Exceter wherein he is argued for a great wrong done to A Man of His Owne Profession in y^e late High Commission Court about an vniust and illegall sentence there passed.

Autograph letter signed by Hall, to an unidentified gentleman, from Norwich, 28 January 1646/7.

Wynter, X, 520.

Facsimiles in British Literary Manuscripts Series I, ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 1981), No. 28, and in Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, First Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester, DLB 121 (Detroit, 1992), p. 159.

Copy in Fulman's hand of a letter by Hall, in Latin, to Dr Henry Hammond, from Higham, 1 July 1651.

Wynter, X, 525-7.

Copy by Hopkinson of a letter by Hall to Thomas Fuller, from Higham, 30 August 1651.

Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 19 of the Hopkinson MSS

Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 297.

Wynter, X, 524-5 (from Fuller's Church History of Britain, p. 478).

Autograph letter signed by Hall, to a lady (a long letter of condolence on the death of her son), on four octavo pages, from Higham, 23 September 1651.

Holloway & Son, London, sale catalogue of Autographs and Manuscripts, [c.1870], item 294.

Autograph letter signed, to William Sancroft, 19 February [c.1655?].

Facsimile example in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate LXXIX.

Autograph letter signed, to Anne Sadleir, from Higham, 23 April [no year].

The letters chiefly to Anne Sadleir, of Standon, some to her husband.

Donated by Anne Sadleir in 1669.

Copy of an undated four-page epistle by Hall, headed The Bishop of Exceter his Apology vpon a Report that went of him to bee a fauourer of Puritans Written to a frind of his liuing at the Kings Court and beginning But can it bee thus? What? That a Divine of my Diocesse should so defile his owne nest…, in an italic hand.

Among the papers of the Phelips family, of Montacute House, Somerset.

Recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 58.

Wynter, I, lxxvii-lxxxi.