Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury

Including (ff. 1r-25r) a quarto collection of poems by Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury, in a neat predominantly italic hand, subscribed by him (f. 25r) The Verses of Ed. L. Herbert of Cherbery and Castle Island; 1630, with his occasional autograph corrections, deletions and additions.

Purchased from Mrs Ada C. South, 14 October 1905.

This MS collated in Moore Smith, p. 130.

Including (ff. 1r-25r) a quarto collection of poems by Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury, in a neat predominantly italic hand, subscribed by him (f. 25r) The Verses of Ed. L. Herbert of Cherbery and Castle Island; 1630, with his occasional autograph corrections, deletions and additions.

Purchased from Mrs Ada C. South, 14 October 1905.

This MS collated in Moore Smith, p. 133.

Copy, headed Idea: Off S^r: Edw: Harbert.

From the library of Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755), nonjuring bishop and topographer.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Rawlinson MS: DnJ Δ 38. Also briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 277 (No. 94), with facsimile examples on pp. 102-3.

This MS collated in Smith, p. 125.

Copy, untitled.

Including 59 poems by Donne (and second copies of six poems), in probably six professional secretary hands: A (ff. 1r-25v, 82r-129r); B (ff. 26r, 42v-7v, 49r-63r, 63v-79r, 130r-48r); C (ff. 27r-36v, 41r-2v; with occasional corrections possibly in hand B); D (ff. 37r-40v); E (ff. 63r-v); and F (f. 129v).

Scribbling includes the name Meriall Tracy (on f. 148v). Later owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary; by Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough, antiquary; and by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector (his library, lot 624). Sotheby's, 17 July 1917 (Huth sale), lot 5873.

Recorded in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Haslewood-Kingsborough MS (II): DnJ Δ 26. Discussed in C.M. Armitage, Donne's Poems in Huntington Manuscript 198: New Light on The Funerall, SP, 63 (1966), 697-707.

A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 15). Betagraph of the watermark in f. 43 in Ted-Larry Pebworth, Towards a Taxonomy of Watermarks, in Puzzles in Paper: Concepts in Historical Watermarks, ed. Daniel W. Mosser, Michael Saffle and Ernest W. Sullivan, II (London, 2000), pp. 229-42 (p. 240).

Including (ff. 1r-25r) a quarto collection of poems by Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury, in a neat predominantly italic hand, subscribed by him (f. 25r) The Verses of Ed. L. Herbert of Cherbery and Castle Island; 1630, with his occasional autograph corrections, deletions and additions.

Purchased from Mrs Ada C. South, 14 October 1905.

This MS collated in Moore Smith, pp. 128-9.

Copy, transcribed from The Last Remains of S^r John Suckling (1659).

Formerly Chest II, No. 21.

This MS recorded in The Works of Sir John Suckling: The Non-Dramatic Works, ed. Thomas Clayton (Oxford, 1971), p. 98.

Copy of the first stanza.

Including (ff. 1r-25r) a quarto collection of poems by Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury, in a neat predominantly italic hand, subscribed by him (f. 25r) The Verses of Ed. L. Herbert of Cherbery and Castle Island; 1630, with his occasional autograph corrections, deletions and additions.

Purchased from Mrs Ada C. South, 14 October 1905.

This MS collated in Moore Smith, p. 132.

Autograph draft with copious revisions.

From papers of the Herbert family, of Powis Castle.

This MS discussed in Rossi, III, 389-91. Facsimile in IELM, I.ii, after p. 169, Facsimile XIX.

Autograph draft with some revisions.

From papers of the Herbert family, of Powis Castle.

This MS discussed in Rossi, III, 389-91.

Autograph draft, with some revisions.

From papers of the Herbert family, of Powis Castle.

This MS discussed in Rossi, III, 389-91.

Copy, untitled.

Including (ff. 1r-25r) a quarto collection of poems by Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury, in a neat predominantly italic hand, subscribed by him (f. 25r) The Verses of Ed. L. Herbert of Cherbery and Castle Island; 1630, with his occasional autograph corrections, deletions and additions.

Purchased from Mrs Ada C. South, 14 October 1905.

This MS collated in Moore Smith, p. 131, with a facsimile after p. xxiv.

Copy, headed The Ecchoe.

Including 16 poems (plus second copies of two) by Carew, 19 poems by or attributed to Herrick (and second copies of six of them), 23 poems (plus second copies of two and four of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, 18 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and eleven poems by Waller.

Inscribed on a flyleaf Peeter Daniell and his initials stamped on both covers. Later scribbling including the names Thomas Gardinor, James Leigh and Pettrus Romell. Owned in 1780 by one A. B. when it was given to Thomas Percy (1768-1808), later Bishop of Dromore. Sotheby's, 29 April 1884 (Percy sale), lot 1. Acquired from Quaritch, 1957.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Daniell MS: CwT Δ 5, HeR Δ 2, RnT Δ 1, StW Δ 5, WaE Δ 9. Briefly discussed in Margaret Crum, An Unpublished Fragment of Verse by Herrick, RES, NS 11 (1960), 186-9. A facsimile of f. 22v in Marcy L. North, Amateur Compilers, Scribal Labour, and the Contents of Early Modern Poetic Miscellanies, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 106). Betagraphs of the watermark in f. 65 in Ted-Larry Pebworth, Towards a Taxonomy of Watermarks, in Puzzles in Paper: Concepts in Historical Watermarks, ed. Daniel W. Mosser, Michael Saffle and Ernest W. Sullivan, II (London, 2000), pp. 229-42 (p. 241).

Copy, in Lawes's musical setting.

Comprising over 300 songs and musical dialogues by Lawes, probably written over an extended period (c.1626-62) in preparation for his eventual publications, including settings of 38 poems by Carew, fourteen poems by or attributed to Herrick, and fifteen by Waller.

Bookplates of William Gostling (1696-1777), antiquary and topographer; of Robert Smith, of 3 St Paul's Churchyard; and of Stephen Groombridge, FRS (1755-1832), astronomer. Later owned, until 1966, by Miss Naomi D. Church, of Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. Formerly British Library Loan MS 35.

Recorded in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Henry Lawes MS: CwT Δ 16; HeR Δ 3; WaE Δ 11. Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Pamela J. Willetts, The Henry Lawes Manuscript (London, 1969). Facsimiles of ff. 42r, 78r, 80r, 84r, 111r and 169r in The Poems and Masques of Aurelian Townshend, ed. Cedric C. Brown (Reading, 1983), pp. 59, 60, 62, 64, 66 and 117. Also discussed in Willa McClung Evans, Henry Lawes: Musician and Friend of Poets (New York and London, 1941), and elsewhere. A complete facsimile of the volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 3 (New York & London, 1986).

Facsimile of f. 83 of this MS in Pamela J. Willetts, The Henry Lawes Manuscript (London, 1969), plate I.

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

Bookseller's label of Kenneth Mummery, Bournemouth.

Copy, with seven autograph corrections and revisions.

Including (ff. 1r-25r) a quarto collection of poems by Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury, in a neat predominantly italic hand, subscribed by him (f. 25r) The Verses of Ed. L. Herbert of Cherbery and Castle Island; 1630, with his occasional autograph corrections, deletions and additions.

Purchased from Mrs Ada C. South, 14 October 1905.

This MS collated in Moore Smith, p. 132.

Copy, headed An Elegie uppon y^e Prince is death.

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).

This MS collated in Smith, pp. 127-8.

Copy, headed SCH his Eligie, transcribed from HrE 15.

Transcribed from British Library Add. MS 25303 and perhaps associated likewise with the Inns of Court. Including 23 poems by Carew and three of doubtful authorship.

Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 13 May 1856 (Pickering sale), lot 258.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Pickering MS: CwT Δ 11.

This MS collated in Smith, pp. 127-8.

Copy, headed S^r Ed. H. his Elegy on Prince Harry, subscribed 9^ber 9^th 1612.

Including 27 poems (and second copies of two poems) by Thomas Carew and three of doubtful authorship.

This MS largely transcribed in British Library, Add. MS 21433. The hand occurs also in British Library, Harley MS 3910, between ff. 112v and 120v, and is possibly associated with the Inns of Court.

Scribbled inscriptions including (f. 1r) M^r John Bowyer; (f. 2r) Jeronomus ffox; and (f. 3r) William Ralph Baesh.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Colchester MS: CwT Δ 13.

This MS collated in Smith, pp. 127-8.

Copy, in a mixed hand, headed One Prince Henery an Elegy by S^r Ed: Her:.

Probably compiled by university or inns of court men.

This MS collated in Smith, pp. 127-8.

Copy, headed Elegye, subscribed S^r Edwarde Harbort one the Prince.

From the library of John Moore, Bishop of Norwich and Ely (1646-1714), which was given to the University of Cambridge by King George I.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Moore MS: DnJ Δ 46.

This MS collated in Smith, pp. 127-8.

Copy, in the cursive italic hand of Sir Robert Phelips (1586?-1638), politician, untitled, on both sides of a single folio leaf, endorsed S^r. E^d Herbert of the prin[ce].

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

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

Copy, headed An Elegy upon y^e princes death.

In non-professional hands, the miscellany entitled A Collection of Witt and Learning…consisting of verses, poems, songs, sonnetts, Ballads, Lampoons, Libells, Dialouges...from the year 1600, to this present year: 1677.

Formerly Osborn MS Chest II, Number 14.

Extracts, headed M^r Ed Harbert of the prince and beginning at line 3 (here My Soule Layd up in you).

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, with three autograph corrections or revisions.

Including (ff. 1r-25r) a quarto collection of poems by Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury, in a neat predominantly italic hand, subscribed by him (f. 25r) The Verses of Ed. L. Herbert of Cherbery and Castle Island; 1630, with his occasional autograph corrections, deletions and additions.

Purchased from Mrs Ada C. South, 14 October 1905.

This MS collated in Moore Smith, p. 129.

Copy, headed On Mrs. Bulstreed.

Afterwards owned by other members of the Champernowne family, by Sir Edward Seymour, Bart. (?the third Baronet, 1610-85). Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1836), item 1030. Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872) (MS 9568). Sotheby's, 6 June 1898 (Phillipps sale), lot 749. Bookplate of C.S. Harris and bequeathed by him 1916.

Cited in IELM, I.i (190), as the Phillipps MS: DnJ Δ 20.

This MS collated in Smith, p. 127.

Copy, headed Another Sir Edw: Harbert.

From the library of Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755), nonjuring bishop and topographer.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Rawlinson MS: DnJ Δ 38. Also briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 277 (No. 94), with facsimile examples on pp. 102-3.

This MS collated in Smith, p. 127.

Copy, headed Another.

Constituting ff. 230r-99v in a quarto composite volume of verse and prose, in various hands, 308 leaves, in modern half green morocco gilt.

Among the collections of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724), and his son, Edward, second Earl of Oxford (1681-1741), and acquired in 1722 from the bookseller Nathaniel Noel (fl.1681-c.1753).

Cited in IELM I.i as the Harley Noel MS: DnJ Δ 2.

This MS collated in Smith, p. 127.

Copy of lines 11-21, untitled, here beginning This mightie warrier was deceived yet.

Including 59 poems by Donne (and second copies of six poems), in probably six professional secretary hands: A (ff. 1r-25v, 82r-129r); B (ff. 26r, 42v-7v, 49r-63r, 63v-79r, 130r-48r); C (ff. 27r-36v, 41r-2v; with occasional corrections possibly in hand B); D (ff. 37r-40v); E (ff. 63r-v); and F (f. 129v).

Scribbling includes the name Meriall Tracy (on f. 148v). Later owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary; by Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough, antiquary; and by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector (his library, lot 624). Sotheby's, 17 July 1917 (Huth sale), lot 5873.

Recorded in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Haslewood-Kingsborough MS (II): DnJ Δ 26. Discussed in C.M. Armitage, Donne's Poems in Huntington Manuscript 198: New Light on The Funerall, SP, 63 (1966), 697-707.

A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 15). Betagraph of the watermark in f. 43 in Ted-Larry Pebworth, Towards a Taxonomy of Watermarks, in Puzzles in Paper: Concepts in Historical Watermarks, ed. Daniel W. Mosser, Michael Saffle and Ernest W. Sullivan, II (London, 2000), pp. 229-42 (p. 240).

Copy of lines 1-2, headed One M^rs Boulstreed, imperfect, lacking the rest.

Later owned by Major J.B. Whitmore. Hodgson's, 20-21 November 1958, lot 571, with a facsimile page in the sale catalogue.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Osborn MS: DnJ Δ 30. For a facsimile page see DnJ 728, DnJ 1205. Complete microfilm in British Library (M/569).

Copy, headed An Epitaph on one who had a stinking breath and here beginning Here lyes one stinks I must confesse.

Later in the libraries (with bookplates) of the book collector Richard Heber (1774-1833); of the bibliographer and antiquary Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833); of the biographer and literary editor Alexander Chalmers (1759-1834); and of the antiquary Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough (his sale by Charles Sharpe in Dublin, 1 November 1842, lot 577).

Copy, headed On a stinking breath and here beginning Haere lies one stinks I must confesse.

Owned and probably compiled by Robert Bishop. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9549. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue, English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 187.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) as the Bishop MS: DnJ Δ 59. Edited in David Coleman Redding, Robert Bishop's Commonplace-Book: An Edition of a Seventeenth Century Miscellany (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1960) [Mic 60-3608].

Copy, headed On my L. of Dorsets first sonne, with Herbert's autograph addition who dyed in his birth.

Including (ff. 1r-25r) a quarto collection of poems by Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury, in a neat predominantly italic hand, subscribed by him (f. 25r) The Verses of Ed. L. Herbert of Cherbery and Castle Island; 1630, with his occasional autograph corrections, deletions and additions.

Purchased from Mrs Ada C. South, 14 October 1905.

This MS collated in Moore Smith, p. 128.

Copy, untitled, subscribed S^r Ed: Herberte.

Compiled by John Cruso (fl.1595-1655), poet and military writer, who matriculated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, in 1632.

Names inscribed lengthways down margins (pp. 71, 91, 95) including Cuthbert Sewell Esq, Jos. Nicholson, Wm Richardson, and Somers. Donated in 1922 by Gordon Wordsworth who claims that the volume was once owned by the poet William Wordsworth.

This MS collated in Smith, p. 132.

This MS discussed in Rossi, III, 391.

Copy with four autograph corrections and revisions.

Including (ff. 1r-25r) a quarto collection of poems by Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury, in a neat predominantly italic hand, subscribed by him (f. 25r) The Verses of Ed. L. Herbert of Cherbery and Castle Island; 1630, with his occasional autograph corrections, deletions and additions.

Purchased from Mrs Ada C. South, 14 October 1905.

This MS collated in Moore Smith, p. 130.

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Sotheby's, 20 March 1967 (Powis Castle Sale), lot 176. Dawson's sale catalogue No. 208 (1970), item 108, sold to Deighton Bell. Purchased in 1991 from Quaritch.

Facsimile of this MS in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 20 March 1967.

Copy of a seven-stanza version, with an autograph correction.

Including (ff. 1r-25r) a quarto collection of poems by Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury, in a neat predominantly italic hand, subscribed by him (f. 25r) The Verses of Ed. L. Herbert of Cherbery and Castle Island; 1630, with his occasional autograph corrections, deletions and additions.

Purchased from Mrs Ada C. South, 14 October 1905.

First pub in Occasional Verses (1665); Moore Smith, pp. 68-9. This MS collated and the last two stanzas printed in Moore Smith, pp. 134-5.

Copy, with an autograph alteration.

Including (ff. 1r-25r) a quarto collection of poems by Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury, in a neat predominantly italic hand, subscribed by him (f. 25r) The Verses of Ed. L. Herbert of Cherbery and Castle Island; 1630, with his occasional autograph corrections, deletions and additions.

Purchased from Mrs Ada C. South, 14 October 1905.

This MS collated and the last two stanzas edited in Moore Smith, pp. 134-5.

This MS discussed in Rossi, III, 391-2.

Found in the vicarage of Chirbury and given to Lord Powis by the Rev. John Bard.

This MS discussed in Frank J. Warnke, Two Previously Unnoted MSS. of Poems by Lord Herbert of Cherbury, N&Q, 199 (April 1954), 141-2.

Copy of the elegiac distich, headed Anglus, and six elegiac couplets headed Respons. Gallo supradicto qui Joanna[m] Aurelian[am] Virginem et plenam Deo fuisse contendit and beginning Define, Galle, tuam tandem jactare Bubulcam.

These verses follow in the MS a text of François Duiet's epigram in praise of Joan of Arc to which they are a response.

Copy of a version headed More deiuersity of kissing and beginning at line 5 (here The sweetly melting kisse that doth consume).

Owned and probably compiled by Robert Bishop. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9549. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue, English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 187.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) as the Bishop MS: DnJ Δ 59. Edited in David Coleman Redding, Robert Bishop's Commonplace-Book: An Edition of a Seventeenth Century Miscellany (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1960) [Mic 60-3608].

Copy of a 38-stanza version, with several autograph corrections and revisions.

Including (ff. 1r-25r) a quarto collection of poems by Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury, in a neat predominantly italic hand, subscribed by him (f. 25r) The Verses of Ed. L. Herbert of Cherbery and Castle Island; 1630, with his occasional autograph corrections, deletions and additions.

Purchased from Mrs Ada C. South, 14 October 1905.

This MS collated and the last three stanzas printed in Moore Smith, pp. 133-4, with a facsimile of f. 13 after p. xxiv.

Copy, headed The L. Herbert.

Among papers of the Clitherow family of London, which included Sir Christopher Clitherow (1578-1642), Lord Mayor of London in 1635. Bookplate of James Clitherow Esq. of Boston House, Middlesex: i.e. either Christopher's son, James Clitherow (1618-82), merchant and banker, who purchased Boston Manor, in the parish of Hanwell, in 1670, or James Clitherow (1694-1752).

Including (ff. 1r-25r) a quarto collection of poems by Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury, in a neat predominantly italic hand, subscribed by him (f. 25r) The Verses of Ed. L. Herbert of Cherbery and Castle Island; 1630, with his occasional autograph corrections, deletions and additions.

Purchased from Mrs Ada C. South, 14 October 1905.

Edited from this MS in Moore Smith.

Copy, with an autograph revision, headed Sonnet, with Herbert's autograph addition at Merlou 1620 in France.

Including (ff. 1r-25r) a quarto collection of poems by Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury, in a neat predominantly italic hand, subscribed by him (f. 25r) The Verses of Ed. L. Herbert of Cherbery and Castle Island; 1630, with his occasional autograph corrections, deletions and additions.

Purchased from Mrs Ada C. South, 14 October 1905.

This MS collated in Moore Smith, p. 132.

Including (ff. 1r-25r) a quarto collection of poems by Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury, in a neat predominantly italic hand, subscribed by him (f. 25r) The Verses of Ed. L. Herbert of Cherbery and Castle Island; 1630, with his occasional autograph corrections, deletions and additions.

Purchased from Mrs Ada C. South, 14 October 1905.

Printed from this MS in Norman Ault, Seventeenth Century Lyrics, 2nd edition (New York, 1950), p. 3; collated in Moore Smith, p. 130.

Copy, with an autograph revision, headed by Herbert Ditty.

Including (ff. 1r-25r) a quarto collection of poems by Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury, in a neat predominantly italic hand, subscribed by him (f. 25r) The Verses of Ed. L. Herbert of Cherbery and Castle Island; 1630, with his occasional autograph corrections, deletions and additions.

Purchased from Mrs Ada C. South, 14 October 1905.

This MS collated in Moore Smith, p. 128.

Copy, untitled.

A folio verse miscellany, including 15 poems by Donne, f. 162r-v in a rounded italic hand, ff. 164r-74v in a slightly erratic italic hand, ff. 175r-279v in a neat formal italic hand (also responsible for the index on ff. 2r-11v), this miscellany constituting ff. 162r-279v of a single folio volume containing also Part I (DnJ Δ 15), ii + 279 leaves in all (lacking one or more leaves at the end), in old blind-stamped calf (rebacked).

Formerly MS G. 2.21.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Dublin MS (II): DnJ Δ 61.

Formerly MS G. 2. 21, p. 357; this MS collated in Smith, p. 128.

Copy.

In the hands of two amanuenses associated with King: i.e. Scribe A (c.1636), pp. 1-214, that of Thomas Manne's imitator using two styles (a: pp. 1-62, 64-6, 133-4, 147-215; and b, the earlier: pp. 63, 67-132, 135-45); and Scribe B (c.1641): pp. 217-47, that of the scribe responsible for the Phillipps MS (Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 8471).

The flyleaf inscribed Ex dono Eugenii Stoughton Die Octobrii 23 Anno-1738-Domini: i.e. owned before 1738 by the Stoughton family, of St John's House, Warwick.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Stoughton MS: CwT Δ 36 and KiH Δ 6. A complete photocopy deposited by Mary Hobbs in the Bodleian (MS Facs. d. 157). Edited in Mary Hobbs, An Edition of the Stoughton Manuscript (An Early Seventeenth-Century Poetry Collection in Private Hands connected with Henry King and Oxford) seen in relation to other contemporary Poetry and Song Collections (unpub. Ph.D. thesis, University of London, 1973). Also discussed in Mary Hobbs, The Poems of Henry King: Another Authoritative Manuscript, The Library, 5th Ser. 31 (1976), 127-35. Recorded in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King, D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96. A complete facsimile edition in The Stoughton Manuscript, ed. Mary Hobbs (Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1990).

Copy.

Including (ff. 1r-25r) a quarto collection of poems by Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury, in a neat predominantly italic hand, subscribed by him (f. 25r) The Verses of Ed. L. Herbert of Cherbery and Castle Island; 1630, with his occasional autograph corrections, deletions and additions.

Purchased from Mrs Ada C. South, 14 October 1905.

This MS collated in Moore Smith, p. 131.

Copy in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

Possibly Wilson's formal autograph MS or else in the hand of someone similarly associated with Edward Lowe (c.1610-82).

Complete facsimile in Jorgens, Vol. 7 (1987). Discussed in John P. Cutts, Seventeenth Century Lyrics: Oxford, Bodleian, MS. Mus. b. 1, MD, 10 (1956), 142-209.

This MS collated in John P. Cutts, Seventeenth Century Lyrics, MD, 10 (1956), 142-209, (p. 168).

Comprising papers of the Skipwith family of Cotes, Leicestershire, including 60 poems by John Donne (and one Problem), the text related in part to the Edward Smyth MS (DnJ Δ 45); also 15 poems (and second copies of two) by Henry King; and 19 poems (and two of doubtful authorship) by Carew.

Including poems ascribed to William Skipwith (? Sir William Skipwith, d.1610, or his grandson, William, or possibly a cousin, William Skipwith, of Ketsby, Lincolnshire, fl.1633); to Sir Henry Skipwith (fl.1609-52); and to Thomas Skipwith, and several poems by Donne's friend Sir Henry Goodyer (1571-1627), to whom a branch of the Skipwith family was related by marriage. Later owned by Robert Sherard (1719-99), fourth Earl of Harborough. Sotheby's, 10 June 1864, lot 605, to Boone.

This MS is the curious folio volume lent to John Nichols (1745-1826) by the late Lord Harborough and cited in Nichols's account of the Skipwith family in his History of Leicestershire, 4 vols (1795-1815), III, part i (1800), 367.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Skipwith MS: DnJ Δ 21; CwT Δ 14; KiH Δ 8. Also described in Mary Hobbs's thesis, pp. 119-29 (see KiH Δ 6). For Sir William Skipwith and his literary connections, see James Knowles, Marston, Skipwith and The Entertainment at Ashby, EMS, 3 (1992), 137-92 (esp. pp. 171-2).

This MS collated in Smith, p. 131.

Copy.

Fols 1r-93v, 95r-100v in the hand of Peter Calfe (1610-67), son of a Dutch merchant in London (whose name is inscribed on a flyleaf: f. 1*); f. 94r-v in an unidentified hand, and ff. 101v-2r in that of Peter Calfe's son, Peter Calfe the Younger (d.1693).

Later owned by John, Baron Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor, and afterwards by Edward Harley (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford. Inscribed (f. 1r) Janu. 6. 1738/9.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), together with British Library, Harley MS 6917 with which it was once bound, as the Calfe MS: CwT Δ 18; KiH Δ 9; RnT Δ 4.

This MS collated in Smith, p. 131.

Copy.

Including 16 poems by or attributed to Herrick and 24 poems by Randolph (plus two of doubtful authorship). This MS related to HeR Δ 2 and to RnT Δ 1.

Inscriptions including (on a flyleaf) Anthony S^t John/ Ann: S^t John/ 1640 Bletso: i.e. Anthony St John (1618-73), of Christ's College, Cambridge, fourth son of Oliver, fourth Baron St John and first Earl of Bolingbroke (c.1584-1646), of Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, and Anthony's wife, Ann Kensham (married 1639); (flyleaf) Oliver Beeesfor[d]; and (f. 81v) John Watts. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 13187. Sotheby's, 6 June 1910, lot 672, to Quaritch. Item 1415 in an unidentified sale.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the St John MS: HeR Δ 4 and RnT Δ 8. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 72).

Copy.

Including ten poems by Carew (and two of doubtful authorship) and 24 poems by Randolph.

Thomas Thorpe, Catalogue of upwards of fourteen hundred manuscripts (1836), item 1030. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9282. Subsequently in the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, and art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936 (Perry sale). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 188.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosenbach MS I: CwT Δ 31 and RnT Δ 10. The complete volume edited in Howard H. Thompson, An Edition of Two Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Poetical Miscellanies (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1959) (Rosenbach Library Mic 59-4669).

Copy, subscribed finis Ro: Herrick.

Once owned by the Sir Henry Spelman (1563/4-1641), historian and antiquary, and later by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist, and antiquary. Puttick & Simpson's, 6 June 1859 (Turner sale), lot 164. Afterwards owned by Sir George Grey (1812-98), Governor of Australia, New Zealand and Cape Colony. Formerly MS Grey 2 a 11.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Grey MS: DnJ Δ 60 and HeR Δ 6. Facsimile of p. 119r (HeR 355) in L.F. Casson, The Manuscripts of the Grey Collection in Cape Town, The Book Collector, 10 (Spring 1961), 147-55 (facing p. 153).

Copy.

Including (ff. 1r-25r) a quarto collection of poems by Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury, in a neat predominantly italic hand, subscribed by him (f. 25r) The Verses of Ed. L. Herbert of Cherbery and Castle Island; 1630, with his occasional autograph corrections, deletions and additions.

Purchased from Mrs Ada C. South, 14 October 1905.

This MS collated in Moore Smith, p. 131.

Copy.

From the library of Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755), nonjuring bishop and topographer.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Rawlinson MS: DnJ Δ 38. Also briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 277 (No. 94), with facsimile examples on pp. 102-3.

This MS collated in Smith, p. 126.

Copy, with three autograph corrections.

Including (ff. 1r-25r) a quarto collection of poems by Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury, in a neat predominantly italic hand, subscribed by him (f. 25r) The Verses of Ed. L. Herbert of Cherbery and Castle Island; 1630, with his occasional autograph corrections, deletions and additions.

Purchased from Mrs Ada C. South, 14 October 1905.

This MS collated in Moore Smith, p. 129.

Copy.

From the library of Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755), nonjuring bishop and topographer.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Rawlinson MS: DnJ Δ 38. Also briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 277 (No. 94), with facsimile examples on pp. 102-3.

This MS collated in Smith, p. 125.

Copy.

Including 59 poems by Donne (and second copies of six poems), in probably six professional secretary hands: A (ff. 1r-25v, 82r-129r); B (ff. 26r, 42v-7v, 49r-63r, 63v-79r, 130r-48r); C (ff. 27r-36v, 41r-2v; with occasional corrections possibly in hand B); D (ff. 37r-40v); E (ff. 63r-v); and F (f. 129v).

Scribbling includes the name Meriall Tracy (on f. 148v). Later owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary; by Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough, antiquary; and by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector (his library, lot 624). Sotheby's, 17 July 1917 (Huth sale), lot 5873.

Recorded in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Haslewood-Kingsborough MS (II): DnJ Δ 26. Discussed in C.M. Armitage, Donne's Poems in Huntington Manuscript 198: New Light on The Funerall, SP, 63 (1966), 697-707.

A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 15). Betagraph of the watermark in f. 43 in Ted-Larry Pebworth, Towards a Taxonomy of Watermarks, in Puzzles in Paper: Concepts in Historical Watermarks, ed. Daniel W. Mosser, Michael Saffle and Ernest W. Sullivan, II (London, 2000), pp. 229-42 (p. 240).

Copy, with eight autograph corrections and revisions.

Including (ff. 1r-25r) a quarto collection of poems by Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury, in a neat predominantly italic hand, subscribed by him (f. 25r) The Verses of Ed. L. Herbert of Cherbery and Castle Island; 1630, with his occasional autograph corrections, deletions and additions.

Purchased from Mrs Ada C. South, 14 October 1905.

This MS collated in Moore Smith, p. 130.

Copy, here beginning Exalted minde, that guid'st thee beautious spheare.

From the library of Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755), nonjuring bishop and topographer.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Rawlinson MS: DnJ Δ 38. Also briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 277 (No. 94), with facsimile examples on pp. 102-3.

This MS collated in Smith, p. 126.

Copy.

Including 59 poems by Donne (and second copies of six poems), in probably six professional secretary hands: A (ff. 1r-25v, 82r-129r); B (ff. 26r, 42v-7v, 49r-63r, 63v-79r, 130r-48r); C (ff. 27r-36v, 41r-2v; with occasional corrections possibly in hand B); D (ff. 37r-40v); E (ff. 63r-v); and F (f. 129v).

Scribbling includes the name Meriall Tracy (on f. 148v). Later owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary; by Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough, antiquary; and by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector (his library, lot 624). Sotheby's, 17 July 1917 (Huth sale), lot 5873.

Recorded in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Haslewood-Kingsborough MS (II): DnJ Δ 26. Discussed in C.M. Armitage, Donne's Poems in Huntington Manuscript 198: New Light on The Funerall, SP, 63 (1966), 697-707.

A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 15). Betagraph of the watermark in f. 43 in Ted-Larry Pebworth, Towards a Taxonomy of Watermarks, in Puzzles in Paper: Concepts in Historical Watermarks, ed. Daniel W. Mosser, Michael Saffle and Ernest W. Sullivan, II (London, 2000), pp. 229-42 (p. 240).

Copy.

Transcribed principally by one S. H. (born 20 October 1665) from John Benson's duodecimo edition of Horace: his Art of Poetry (London, 1640), the medicinal receipts on ff. 23v-8v partly in another hand.

Copy, with at least twelve autograph corrections and revisions, headed To my M^tris &c.

Including (ff. 1r-25r) a quarto collection of poems by Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury, in a neat predominantly italic hand, subscribed by him (f. 25r) The Verses of Ed. L. Herbert of Cherbery and Castle Island; 1630, with his occasional autograph corrections, deletions and additions.

Purchased from Mrs Ada C. South, 14 October 1905.

This MS collated in Moore Smith, pp. 131-2.

Copy, with two autograph revisions.

Including (ff. 1r-25r) a quarto collection of poems by Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury, in a neat predominantly italic hand, subscribed by him (f. 25r) The Verses of Ed. L. Herbert of Cherbery and Castle Island; 1630, with his occasional autograph corrections, deletions and additions.

Purchased from Mrs Ada C. South, 14 October 1905.

This MS collated in Moore Smith, p. 129.

Copy, untitled.

Collected, and partly written, by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.

Betagraph of the watermark in f. 29 in Ted-Larry Pebworth, Towards a Taxonomy of Watermarks, in Puzzles in Paper: Concepts in Historical Watermarks, ed. Daniel W. Mosser, Michael Saffle and Ernest W. Sullivan, II (London, 2000), pp. 229-42 (p. 239).

This MS collated in Smith, p. 129.

Copy, headed To Lady Diana Cecill.

Compiled principally by one H. S., a Cambridge University man.

This MS volume edited in Diana Julia Rose, MS Rawlinson Poetical 147: An Annotated Volume of Seventeenth-Century Cambridge Verse (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Leicester, 1992), of which a copy is in Cambridge University Library, Manuscript Department, A8f.

This MS collated in Smith, p. 129.

Copy, the first two words centred as a heading, transcribed from HrE 66.

Transcribed from British Library Add. MS 25303 and perhaps associated likewise with the Inns of Court. Including 23 poems by Carew and three of doubtful authorship.

Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 13 May 1856 (Pickering sale), lot 258.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Pickering MS: CwT Δ 11.

This MS collated in Smith, p. 129.

Copy, the first two words centred as a heading.

Including 27 poems (and second copies of two poems) by Thomas Carew and three of doubtful authorship.

This MS largely transcribed in British Library, Add. MS 21433. The hand occurs also in British Library, Harley MS 3910, between ff. 112v and 120v, and is possibly associated with the Inns of Court.

Scribbled inscriptions including (f. 1r) M^r John Bowyer; (f. 2r) Jeronomus ffox; and (f. 3r) William Ralph Baesh.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Colchester MS: CwT Δ 13.

This MS collated in Smith, p. 129.

Copy, omitting the first two words.

Inscribed (f. 179r) This is S^r. Thomas Meres [or ? Maiors] Book: i.e. probably Sir Thomas Meres (1634-1715), of Kirton, Lincolnshire. Later bookplate of the Rev. John Curtis. Purchased from Mrs Ann Austin Curtis 12 October 1889.

This MS collated in Smith, p. 129.

Copy, in an uneven italic hand, untitled, subscribed S^r Ed: Harbert.

Probably compiled by university or inns of court men.

This MS collated in Smith, p. 129.

Copy, untitled, subscribed By S^r. Ed: Harbert.

Formerly MS 2073.3.

Copy, untitled, subscribed S^r Edward Harbert.

Including 11 poems by Carew and 14 poems by Randolph.

Inscribed Jane Wheeler and Tho: Oliver Busfield. Francis Quarles's poem (pp. 209-11) To y^e two partners of my heart M^r John Wheeler, and M^r Symon Tue. Item 96 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Formerly Folger MS 2071.6.

A Jo. Wheeler signed the Christ Church, Oxford, disbursement books for 1641-3 (xii, b.85 and 86).

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Wheeler MS: CwT Δ 25 and RnT Δ 7.

Copy, untitled and omitting the first two words, subscribed by S^r Edward Herbert.

Compiled by or for Sir Henry Cholmley, brother of Sir Hugh Cholmley (1600-57), the ascription by my brother S^r Hugh Cholmley (1600-57) inserted on f. 19r in a cursive hand responsible for entries on ff. 3r-12v, 15v-29r, 41r-v, 75v-7r, the contents including twelve poems by Thomas Carew and poems by members of the circle of Lucius Cary (1610?-43), second Viscount Falkland, of Great Tew, Oxfordshire, by the St Leger family of Ulcombe, Kent, and by Sir William Twysden of Kent.

Later bookplate of Henry B. Humphrey.

Recorded in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Cholmley MS: CwT Δ 27.

Copy, untitled and omitting the first two words in the first line, in double columns.

Including 52 poems by Donne (many on pp. 64-109, 167-74 initialled L.C. [? Lord Chancellor], as are some poems by others), 11 poems by Carew, ten poems by Corbett, and 11 poems by or attributed to Herrick, in a single neat hand throughout; the poems dating up to 1637.

Later scribbling and inscriptions including the names Edw Denny [presumably Edward Denny (1569-1637), Baron Denny of Waltham and first Earl of Norwich], Charles Cocks, Edward Randolphe and (on p. 162) Thomas Cassy. Later owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary (sold in the Haslewood sale, London, 1833, lot 1329, to Thorpe); by Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough, antiquary (his sale in Dublin, 1 November 1841, item 624); and by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector (his library catalogue, 1880, IV, pp. 1159-64), and sold at Sotheby's, 17 July 1917 (Huth sale), lot 5873.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Haslewood-Kingsborough MS (I): DnJ Δ 25, CwT Δ 28, CoR Δ 10, and HeR Δ 5. A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 15). Discussed in C.M. Armitage, Donne's Poems in Huntington Manuscript 198: New Light on The Funerall, SP, 63 (1966), 697-707. A facsimile of part of p. 63 in Marcy L. North, Amateur Compilers, Scribal Labour, and the Contents of Early Modern Poetic Miscellanies, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 101).

Copy, untitled, subscribed Lord Herbert.

A folio verse miscellany, including 15 poems by Donne, f. 162r-v in a rounded italic hand, ff. 164r-74v in a slightly erratic italic hand, ff. 175r-279v in a neat formal italic hand (also responsible for the index on ff. 2r-11v), this miscellany constituting ff. 162r-279v of a single folio volume containing also Part I (DnJ Δ 15), ii + 279 leaves in all (lacking one or more leaves at the end), in old blind-stamped calf (rebacked).

Formerly MS G. 2.21.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Dublin MS (II): DnJ Δ 61.

Formerly MS G. 2. 21, p. 307, this MS collated in Smith, p. 129.

Copy, headed My Lord Herbert of my Lady of Oxford, here beginning That rare beauty thou dost show.

Formerly (before 1686) in the Palatine Library at Heidelberg. Possibly acquired by Charles Louis (1617-80), Elector Palatine, while at the English court of his uncle, Charles I, from 1635 to 1649.

This volume discovered, and announced in the TLS, 23 July 2010, pp. 14-15, by June Schlueter and Paul Schlueter.

Including (ff. 1r-25r) a quarto collection of poems by Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury, in a neat predominantly italic hand, subscribed by him (f. 25r) The Verses of Ed. L. Herbert of Cherbery and Castle Island; 1630, with his occasional autograph corrections, deletions and additions.

Purchased from Mrs Ada C. South, 14 October 1905.

Edited from this MS in Moore Smith.

Copy, with an autograph correction.

Including (ff. 1r-25r) a quarto collection of poems by Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury, in a neat predominantly italic hand, subscribed by him (f. 25r) The Verses of Ed. L. Herbert of Cherbery and Castle Island; 1630, with his occasional autograph corrections, deletions and additions.

Purchased from Mrs Ada C. South, 14 October 1905.

This MS collated in Moore Smith, p. 132.

Copy, untitled and deleted.

Including (ff. 1r-25r) a quarto collection of poems by Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury, in a neat predominantly italic hand, subscribed by him (f. 25r) The Verses of Ed. L. Herbert of Cherbery and Castle Island; 1630, with his occasional autograph corrections, deletions and additions.

Purchased from Mrs Ada C. South, 14 October 1905.

Copy, untitled and ascribed to Sir Edw: Harbert.

From the library of Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755), nonjuring bishop and topographer.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Rawlinson MS: DnJ Δ 38. Also briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 277 (No. 94), with facsimile examples on pp. 102-3.

Edited from this MS in Moore Smith.

Copy, untitled.

Constituting ff. 230r-99v in a quarto composite volume of verse and prose, in various hands, 308 leaves, in modern half green morocco gilt.

Among the collections of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724), and his son, Edward, second Earl of Oxford (1681-1741), and acquired in 1722 from the bookseller Nathaniel Noel (fl.1681-c.1753).

Cited in IELM I.i as the Harley Noel MS: DnJ Δ 2.

Printed from this MS in Frank J. Warnke, Two Previously Unnoted MSS. of Poems by Lord Herbert of Cherbury, N&Q, 199 (April 1954), 141-2.

Copy, the first stanza headed Of Inconstancy, the second headed The Aunswere, in praise of itt.

Including 13 poems by Donne and 14 (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett; the scribe is that mainly responsible also for the Thomas Smyth MS (DnJ Δ 48).

Later owned and used extensively as a notebook by Dr William Balam (1651-1726), of Ely, Cambridgeshire, who also annotated Cambridge University Library MS Add. 5778 and Harvard fMS Eng 966.4. Bookplate of N. Micklethwait. Owned in 1931 by the Rev. F.W. Glass, of Taverham Hall, near Norwich (seat in the 17th century of the Sotherton family and later of the Branthwayt and Micklethwait families).

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Welbeck MS: DnJ Δ 57 and CoR Δ 11. Discussed in H. Harvey Wood, A Seventeenth-Century Manuscript of Poems by Donne and Others, Essays & Studies, 16 (1931), 179-90. For Taverham Hall, see Thomas B. Norgate, A History of Taverham from Early Times to 1969 (Aylsham, 1969).

Copy, untitled and here ascribed to JD.

Afterwards owned by other members of the Champernowne family, by Sir Edward Seymour, Bart. (?the third Baronet, 1610-85). Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1836), item 1030. Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872) (MS 9568). Sotheby's, 6 June 1898 (Phillipps sale), lot 749. Bookplate of C.S. Harris and bequeathed by him 1916.

Cited in IELM, I.i (190), as the Phillipps MS: DnJ Δ 20.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Smith, p. 139.

Copy, ascribed to S^r Edw. Herbert.

From the library of Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755), nonjuring bishop and topographer.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Rawlinson MS: DnJ Δ 38. Also briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 277 (No. 94), with facsimile examples on pp. 102-3.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Smith, p. 139.

Constituting ff. 230r-99v in a quarto composite volume of verse and prose, in various hands, 308 leaves, in modern half green morocco gilt.

Among the collections of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724), and his son, Edward, second Earl of Oxford (1681-1741), and acquired in 1722 from the bookseller Nathaniel Noel (fl.1681-c.1753).

Cited in IELM I.i as the Harley Noel MS: DnJ Δ 2.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Smith, p. 139.

Copy, untitled.

Including 91 poems and some prose works by John Donne and fourteen poems by Thomas Carew.

Among the collections of Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (1776-1839), first Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, of Stowe House, near Buckingham, largely derived from the collection of the antiquary Thomas Astle (1735-1803), which in turn chiefly derived from Astle's father-in-law, the Essex historian Philip Morant (1700-70) (see DnJ Δ 15). Later owned by Bertram, fourth Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878).

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as Stowe MS II: DnJ Δ 44 and Stowe MS: CwT Δ 22.

This MS collated in Smith, p. 139.

Copy, untitled, subscribed J. D.

Inscribed inside the rear cover J. D. Dune Rainsford …Chiltearns probably by a member of the family of Sir Henry Goodyer's brother-in-law Sir Henry Rainsford (1575-1622), of Clifford Chambers, Stratford-upon-Avon. Later owned by J. Carnaby. Puttick and Simpson's, 25 November 1886, lot 334. Then owned by the Rev. T.R. O'Flahertie (d.1894), of Capel, near Dorking, Surrey, book collector, and by Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908), American professor and art historian. Formerly MS Nor 4502.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Carnaby MS: DnJ Δ 22. Briefly discussed in C.E. Norton, The Text of Donne's Poems, [Harvard] Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature, 5 (1896), 1-22 (pp. 10-11).

This MS collated in Grierson and in Smith, p. 139.

Copy, untitled.

Like Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 5778 (DnJ Δ 4) and University of Nottingham, Pw V 37 (DnJ Δ 57), this volume was extensively used as a notebook by Dr William Balam (1651-1726), of Ely, Cambridgeshire. Sotheby's 10-12 June 1914, lot 1095. Then owned until 1932 by Percy J. Dobell (1871-1956), bookseller. Formerly MS Nor 4506.

Recorded in IELM as the Dobell MS: DnJ Δ 16. Discussed, with a facsimile of f. 194r (see DnJ 2104) by Mabel Potter in A Seventeenth-Century Literary Critic of John Donne: The Dobell Manuscript Re-examined, HLB, 22 (1975), 63-89, and in A Letter of Tom Browne, N&Q, ? (October 1973), 393. A facsimile of the last page (see DnJ 4011) is in Potter & Simpson, X, 428-30. The extensive MS and typescript papers on this MS by George Reuben Potter and Mabel H. Potter, donated by George R. Potter in 1962, are Harvard, MS Eng 966.4.1.

Copy, headed Ode.

Mainly transcribed from Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8468 (the Luttrell MS: DnJ Δ 18), with a title-page (p. i) inscribed The Poems of D.J. Donne (not yet imprinted)...finished this 12 of October 1632. It bears corrections in two hands (one possibly the original scribe) made from the 1633 edition of Donne's Poems, many of the poems headed P. (signifying Printed), with some annotated in red ink Not Printed. The largest known MS collection of Donne's poems and apparently used in the preparation of the second edition of the Poems (1635).

According to the compiler of the partial transcript of this MS (Harvard MS Eng 966.2), the O'Flahertie MS belonged to the late D^r Parnel, Arch Deacon of Clogher: i.e. Thomas Parnell (1679-1718), poet and essayist, and after his decease to M^r. Tho^s: Burton of Dublin, and [was] obtained from him by the Editor. Sold at Puttick & Simpson's, 28 April 1856 (Francis Moore sale), lot 975. Later owned by the Rev. T.R. O'Flahertie (fl.1861-94), vicar of Capel, near Dorking, Surrey, book collector. Sotheby's, 25-27 July 1899, lot 384, to Ellis. Described in Ellis and Elvey's sale catalogue No. 93 (November 1899), the relevant pages of which are inserted in the MS. Formerly MS Nor 4504.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) as the O'Flahertie MS: DnJ Δ 17.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Smith, p. 139.

Copy, untitled.

Bookplate of Thomas Stephens of the Inner Temple (perhaps the Thomas Stephens who was at the Inner Temple in 1717 or else his son, Thomas, who was there in 1725). Later owned by F.W. Cosens (1819-89), book collector; and purchased from Bernard Quaritch in 1896 by Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908), American professor and art historian. Formerly MS Nor 4500.

Cited in IELM, I.i, as the Stephens MS: DnJ Δ 23. Used extensively in The Complete Poems of John Donne, D.D., ed. Alexander B. Grosart, 2 vols (privately printed, 1872-3). Briefly discussed in C. E. Norton, The Text of Donne's Poems, [Harvard] Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature, 5 (1896), 1-22 (pp. 6-10).

This MS collated in Grierson and in Smith, p. 139.

Copy, untitled, ascribed at the top to J D.

Inscriptions including (f. 6r) Hannah Lewis Jun^r; Thomas Turner his Book (three times, ff. 8r, 14v, 48v, dated 1750, 58 and 1760); (f. 12r) Edmund Baxter att M^rs Nortons; (ff. 20r, 59v) John Jones; (f. 40r) Joⁿ: Pryse 1729; (f. 59v) Robt. W^as[?]; and (f. 79r) Edmund Baxter 1729. Later owned by Edward Vernon Utterson (1776-1856), of Shanklin and Ryde, Isle of Wight, artist, literary antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 24 April 1852 (Utterson sale), lot 1317, sold to Lelly. Then owned by Sir John Simeon, third Baronet (1815-70), M.P. Sotheby's, 3 March 1871 (Simeon sale), lot 638, to Pickering. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 436 (1930), item 576. Formerly MS Nor 4620.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Utterson MS: DnJ Δ 51. Discussed in Sir John Simeon, Unpublished Poems of Donne, Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, 3 (London, 1856-7), No. 3. For an account of Utterson, see Raymond V. Turley, Edward Vernon Utterson, The Book Collector, 25 (1976), 21-44 (and plates after p. 48).

Copy, untitled.

In a single, neat, predominantly roman hand (but for entries on ff. 105v-15r in a less neat cursive hand), and with various corrections or emendations throughout possibly in another hand.

Once owned by Frances (née Stanley) Egerton (1583-1636), Countess of Bridgewater, and her husband John Egerton (1579-1649), first Earl of Bridgewater. Listed in A Catalogue of my Ladies Bookes at London Taken October .27^th 1627 (Huntington, EL 6495) as No. 3, The Lamentaons of Jeremy in verse by D^r Donne, 8^o, among Paper Bookes of diverse volumes after the date 26 April 1631 and before a new list in a different hand under the date 17 April 1632.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Bridgewater MS: DnJ Δ 24.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Smith, p. 139.

Copy, untitled and here ascribed to J[ohn] D[onne].

Including 59 poems by Donne (and second copies of six poems), in probably six professional secretary hands: A (ff. 1r-25v, 82r-129r); B (ff. 26r, 42v-7v, 49r-63r, 63v-79r, 130r-48r); C (ff. 27r-36v, 41r-2v; with occasional corrections possibly in hand B); D (ff. 37r-40v); E (ff. 63r-v); and F (f. 129v).

Scribbling includes the name Meriall Tracy (on f. 148v). Later owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary; by Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough, antiquary; and by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector (his library, lot 624). Sotheby's, 17 July 1917 (Huth sale), lot 5873.

Recorded in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Haslewood-Kingsborough MS (II): DnJ Δ 26. Discussed in C.M. Armitage, Donne's Poems in Huntington Manuscript 198: New Light on The Funerall, SP, 63 (1966), 697-707.

A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 15). Betagraph of the watermark in f. 43 in Ted-Larry Pebworth, Towards a Taxonomy of Watermarks, in Puzzles in Paper: Concepts in Historical Watermarks, ed. Daniel W. Mosser, Michael Saffle and Ernest W. Sullivan, II (London, 2000), pp. 229-42 (p. 240).

Copy, headed Ode, subscribed J. D.

In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector.

Copy, untitled.

Later owned by Major J.B. Whitmore. Hodgson's, 20-21 November 1958, lot 571, with a facsimile page in the sale catalogue.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Osborn MS: DnJ Δ 30. For a facsimile page see DnJ 728, DnJ 1205. Complete microfilm in British Library (M/569).

Edited from this MS in Smith. Discussed in Rossi, II, 475-85, and III, 542.

Autograph draft, with copious revisions, of a memorial to the King, 1624.

From papers of the Herbert family, of Powis Castle.

This MS discussed in Rossi, II, 407-16, and III, 542.

Edited from this MS and discussed (as AuE) in Shuttleworth, with a facsimile of p. 58 facing p. 4. Discussed (as Draft A) in R.I. Aaron, The Autobiography of Edward, First Lord Herbert of Cherbury: The Original Manuscript Material, MLR, 36 (1941), 184-94, with a facsimile of p. 59 facing p. 161; and (as MS E) in Rossi, III, 508-20. Also discussed in N. W. Bawcutt, The Manuscripts of Lord Herbert of Cherbury's Autobiography, The Library, 6th Ser. 12 (1990), 133-6.

Other facsimile examples in DLB, vol. 121, Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, First Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1992), p. 174, and in DLB, vol. 252, British Philosophers 1500-1799, ed. Philip B. Damatteis and Peter S. Fosl (Detroit, 2002), p. 180.

A copy probably made for the Herbert family and left at Stokes Manor, Buckinghamshire, which was sold in 1713 by Henry Herbert to James Howe, whose son John sent the MS c.1737 to the Earl of Powis.

The copy-text for Horace Walpole's edition (1764). The text corrected from this MS in Shuttleworth and discussed (as AuW) pp. xx-xxi. Discussed (as Draft B) in Aaron, and (as MS W) in Rossi, III, 508-20. Also discussed in N.W. Bawcutt, The Manuscripts of Lord Herbert of Cherbury's Autobiography, The Library, 6th Ser. 12 (1990), 133-6.

A lost MS of the Autobiography once in a trunk in the Herbert family house at Ribbesford, near Bewdley, Worcestershire, until c.1818.

Evidence for this MS discussed in N.W. Bawcutt, The Manuscripts of Lord Herbert of Cherbury's Autobiography, The Library, 6th Ser. 12 (1990), 133-6.

Extracts made by Birch on 7 February 1755 from a transcript of Herbert's autograph (?) made in 1718 (? HrE 95).

Almost entirely in the hand of Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian.

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 490-1.

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 490-1.

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 490-1.

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 490-1.

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 490-1.

Inscribed (f. ⁱr) by the third Baron Herbert of Cherbury De Causis Erroru manuscripts of my Grand fathers giuen me by M^r Edw: Griffith of Sutten June. 29. 1680 wherof I have not yet taken a Catalogue

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 490-1

Formerly Powis MSS (1959 deposit), Series II, Bundle XIX, No. 5c.

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 490-1.

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 490-1.

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 560.

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 506.

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 506.

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 506.

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 507.

This MS discussed in Rossi, III, 412-16, and in Gawlick, pp. xi-xii. For an account of its history see H.F.J. Vaughan, Lord Herbert of Chirbury's MSS., Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological Society, 1st Ser. 3 (1880), 353-77.

This MS discussed in Rossi, III, 416-17, and in Gawlick, pp. xii-xiii. Facsimile of two pages in Greg, English Literary Autographs, plate XLIX (a-b).

Inscribed at the beginning of the second volume (f. [i^v]) Authore Ed. Herbert...1619 and at the end (f. 327r) Parisji consum. 20/30 Juni. 1623.

Later owned by Thomas Wagstaffe (1645-1712), nonjuror bishop, and by Thomas Baker (1656-1740), Cambridge antiquary.

These MSS discussed in Rossi, III, 417, and in Gawlick, p. xiii.

Autograph draft, headed A designe for a perpetuall entertainment of about 15000 Foote and 3000 Horse for his Ma^ties service. 14 February [1624/5].

From papers of the Herbert family, of Powis Castle.

Edited from this MS in Rossi, III, 484-6.

The two main hands also in HrE 113.2.

Griffin's B text. Facsimile of the first page in Griffin, p. 172.

The two main hands also in HrE 113.2.

Inscribed Anglesey his booke and Let this book be restored to the owner. Edm. Rassingham.

Griffin's R text. Facsimile of the first page (the caption misprinted as MS B) in Griffin, p. 170.

Inscribed (f. i^r) Pembroke: i.e. Henry Herbert (c.1689-1750), ninth Earl of Pembroke, architect and patron.

Griffin's P text.

Acquired from R. E. Lonsdale, 10 April 1875.

Griffin's A text.

Among papers of the Herbert family, of Powis Castle, including particularly papers of Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1582?-1648). Acquired in 1916.

Griffin's W text. Facsimiles of pp. 11 and 55 of the MS are in Griffin, pp. 181-2.

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 486-7.

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 486.

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 487.

Formerly in Powis MSS (1959 deposit), Series II, Bundle XII, Nos. 3-6.

Formerly in Powis MSS (1959 deposit), Series II, Bundle XII, Nos. 3-6.

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 487.

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 487.

Edited from this MS in Select Works (1849).

Autograph draft by Sir John Coke of his critique of Herbert's treatise, addressed to Your Lordship and endorsed Memorial for the Lord Harbert Castl Isle.

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

Recorded in HMC, 12th Report (Earl Cowper), I, 398.

Autograph fair copy by Sir John Coke of the final version of his critique of Herbert's treatise.

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

Recorded in HMC, 12th Report (Earl Cowper), I, 398.

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 487.

Principally in the hands of three or four of Herbert's amanuenses, one of them Thomas Master (1602/3-43), poet, of New College, Oxford, who has written the dedicatory epistle; some pages are in Herbert's hand and with his frequent corrections and revisions; the last volume comprising a composite collection of related historical documents in various hands, including a number of pages written by Herbert, many of the documents transcribed by Thomas Master, and labelled Collectorum liber secundus.

Later inscriptions including Hen. Topp. Jan. 10. 1652 and Maii 2, 1653, Jam tandem acquisita ab Tho. Earle, rectore de Shorncot, Wilts. ita nunc opus completum et perfectum hoc est (historiæ Henrici 8) in originali suo manuscripto a magistro Th. Master, Neo-Gymnasii Oxon.

These MSS described in Rossi, III, 488-90.

Headed The Life and Raigne of K. Henry the VIII^th. Together with which is brieflie represented a Generall Historie of the times, and with a dedication to Charles I.

This MS described in Rossi, III, 490.

Prefixed (p. iii) by an autograph letter to John Rouse, Bodley's Librarian, 31 January 1643, presenting the volume to the Bodleian via Thomas Master.

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 490.

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 490.

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 490.

Quotations.

Armorial bookplate of Russell Robartes, MP (d.1718), father of Henry (c.1695-1741), third Earl of Radnor.

Extracts. Early 18th century.

Owned in 1730, and largely compiled as Vol III of his collections, by the Rev. John Lewis (1675-1747), of Margate. Owned in 1749 by Thomas Lewis. Acquired from Peter Thompson.

Extracts, headed The History of H. 8^t by my L^d cherbury.

Compiled by Sir Samuel Tuke, first Baronet (c.1615-74), royalist army officer and playwright, cousin and friend of John Evelyn. Inscribed by him (f. 134r rev.) I began these Collections the 9^th of July, 1662 / By S^r Samuel Tuke: Bar^t:.

Volume CCLVII of the Evelyn Papers, of John Evelyn (1620-1706), diarist and writer, of Wootton House, Surrey, and his family, also incorporating papers of his father-in-law, Sir Richard Browne, Bt (1605-83), diplomat, and his family. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 164.

Extracts, headed The Life of Henry y^e 8th by y^e L^d. Herbert of Cherbury, those beginning on f. 84r under the general heading Witty Sayinges.

Extracts, including entries on pp. 52, 79, 185, 188, 201, 258, 308, 310, 488, 519, 618, and 623.

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

Extracts, headed Hen: 8 written by Lo: Harbert.

Recorded in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, p. 312.

Extracts.

Extracts.

Compiled by William Petyt (1640/1-1707), lawyer and political propagandist.

Extracts, headed L. Cherbury's Hen, 8^t.

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.

Extracts.

Extracts.

Edited from this MS in Rossi.

Among papers of the Herbert family, of Powis Castle, including particularly papers of Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1582?-1648). Acquired in 1916.

Edited from this MS in Rossi's article and in Thomas Hobbes, Critique du De Mundo de Thomas White, ed. Jean Jacquot and Harold Whitmore Jones (Paris, 1973), Appendix II, pp. 448-60. Also discussed in R.I. Aaron, A Possible Early Draft of Hobbes' De Corpore, Mind, 54 (1945), 342-56, and in Arrigo Pacchi, Convenzione e ipotesi nella formazione della filosofia naturale di Thomas Hobbes (Florence, 1965), pp. 15-18, 42 et seq.

Edited from this MS in Hutcheson and discussed in Rossi, II, 485-95, and III, 542.

Copy, the work dated 1635, indexed (No. 51) as My Lord Herberts paper about y^e Kings Supremacy showed to y^e Arch B^p. of Canterbury by y^e Kings Comand.

Inscribed (p. 1) Collected out of his Majesties papers of state, Anno 1677. by J Brydall, being a series of transcripts in the cursive hand of John Brydall (c.1635-c.1705), lawyer and secretary to the Master of the Rolls.

The text corrected from this MS in Hutcheson. Recorded in Rossi, II, 493, and III, 542.

Addressed to the King [Charles I?], giving, at the monarch's request, his opinion concerninge a designe in the Indies, being Herbert's scheme to establish an English colony in northern Brazil.

This MS described in Rossi, III, 504.

This MS described in Rossi, III, 504.

This MS described in Rossi, III, 504-5.

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 505. title deleted

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 505.

Among papers of the Herbert family, of Powis Castle, including particularly papers of Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1582?-1648). Acquired in 1916.

Edited from this MS in Wright. Discussed in Rossi, III, 505; in R.I. Aaron, A Possible Early Draft of Hobbes' De Corpore, Mind, 54 (1945), 342-56 (pp. 354-5); in Gawlick, pp. xlvii-xlviii; and in Rossi, Herbert of Cherbury's Religio Laici: A Bibliographical Note, Edinburgh Bibliographical Society Transactions, 5, Part 2 (1962), 45-52 (where it is argued that the piece may belong to the Autobiography, but see HrE 138).

This MS also misidentified as a work by John Dryden's (reporting hearsay in a belated note) in Hugh Macdonald, John Dryden: A Bibliography of Early Editions and of Drydeniana (Oxford, 1939), p. 323, Repeated in James M. Osborn, John Dryden: Some Biographical Facts and Problems (New York, 1940); revised edition (Gainesville, Florida, 1965), p. 289.

This MS discussed in S.E. Sprott, The Osler Manuscript of Herbert's Religio Laici, The Library, 5th Ser. 11 (1956), 120-2; but see also Rossi, Edinburgh Bibliographical Society Transactions (1962), 45-6 (n).

Entitled Religio Laici offered to the consideration of all men (whether Dependants, or Independants) for the setling of some ffundamentall grounds of Religion (pp. 1-40), followed (pp. 41-59) by An Appendix to the Preists touching Religio Laici (beginning If, notwithstanding the Preists of whatsoever Religious order in whatsoever Country...) and (pp. 60-4)The common notions touching Religion (beginning Being about to speake of Revelation, wee thinke fitt to premise certaine præcognita thereof...).

Recorded in HMC, 6th Report (1877), pp. 312-13. The appendices, which may or may not be by Herbert, are unpublished.

This MS discussed in Rossi, I, 474-5, 589 et seq.; I, 524-5, and III, 542.

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 542 (n).

This MS discussed in Rossi, I, 481; II, 529-39, and III, 542.

Recorded in Rossi, III, 542.

Copy, headed The felicitie of Queene Elizabeth written by S^r. ffran: Bacon, on eight folio pages.

The spine labelled Monson Mss. CCXII.

Formerly among Herbert's papers at Powis Castle. Sotheby's, 16 January 1956 (Powis Castle sale), lot 216, with a facsimile page in the sale catalogue.

Discussed in Rossi, II, 537-8, and III, 542. Sotheby's, 16 January 1956, lot 216. A microfilm is in the British Library (M/471).

Formerly owned by the Earl of Powis, at Powis Castle. Bonhams, London, 10 November 2009, lot 56.

Facsimile examples in the sale catalogue (of ff. [5v-6r], [8r]) and in Bonham Magazine, issue 21 (Winter 2009), pp. 44-5 (of ff. [4v-5r] and [6v]).

Formerly among Herbert's papers preserved at Powis Castle.

Described in Thurston Dart, Lord Herbert of Cherbury's Lute-Book, M&L, 38 (1957), 136-48, and in Rossi, III, 405-7.

An autograph memorandum, headed I find that 7 Manners in generall are found, for opposinge an enemie, endorsed in Coke's hand collected by the L^d Herbert.

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

Recorded in HMC, 12th Report (Earl Cowper), I, 398.