Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton

Copy of a 42-line version, in an italic hand, with a lengthy title, subscribed H N gemesis, with five unrelated Latin verses added at the end in another hand, on two conjugate small folio leaves.

Volume V of the Cassiobury Papers donated by Adela, Countess of Essex, comprising papers of the Capel family, Earls of Essex, of Cassiobury House, Watford, Hertfordshire.

Autograph fair copy of a 42-line version, subscribed Finis. H. N. gemens, docketed Inscriptions upon the Queene of Scotts tombe.

Edited from this MS in Calendar of State Papers relating to Scotland, IX (1585-88), pp. 314-15.

Autograph fair copy of a 42-line version, with revisions, headed In Obitum potentissimæ principis D Mariæ Stuartæ Scotoum Reginæ Franciæ dotariæ et coronæ Anglicanæ hæredis indubitata atque proximæ memoriæ suæ celebritati deuotissimus carmen lugubre posuit, as by Henricus Northampt comes.

Autograph fair copy of the 42-line version, with some deletions, headed In Obitum pijssimæ potentissimæque Principis D Mariæ Stuartæ Scotoru Reginæ Franciæ Dotariæ et iure successionis Anglicanæ regni hæredis proximæ...carmen lugubri posuit, as by Henr. Howardus comes Northamptoniæ.

Probably edited from this MS in The Works of Henry Howard Earl of Surrey and of Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder, ed. George Frederick Nott, 2 vols (London, 1815), pp. 472-4 (the MS erroneously cited as Cotton, Titus, B. VI. p. 174).

Autograph fair copy of a 36-line version, with some revisions, headed In obitum potentissimæ principis Mariæ Stuartæ Scotoru Reginæ Franciæ Dotariæ et iure successionis Angliæ hæredis indubitatææ atque proximæ, unascribed.

Copy, headed My Lord of Northamptons funerall verses touching the Princes death. / Vppon the death of y^e late noble Prince Henry.

Among papers of the Cavendish-Bentinck family, Dukes of Portland, of Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire, incorporating papers of the related Holles, Harley and Cavendish families, and purchases made by J.A.C.J. Cavendish-Bentinck (1857-1943), sixth Duke of Portland.

Copy, in the secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe. c.1620s-30s.

In various hands, including early items docketed by Robert Beale (1541-1601), Clerk of the Privy Council.

Yelverton MS 68, including papers of Beale descending to Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), Justice of the Common Pleas, and his family.

Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 43. Described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 228-9 (No.33).

Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 229 (No. 33.4).

Autograph MS, under headings of categories of proposed Abatements and Improvementes, docketed in another hand (f. 84r) Considerations of the Kings present Estate by the Earl of Northampton in his own hand.

Inscribed (f. 1r) A Collection made by S^r Robert Cotton for his Ma^ties Seruice in time of Extremytie. A list of contents (f. 2v) is in the hand of Sir William Dugdale (1605-86), antiquary and herald.

Copy. Early 17th century.

Copy, in the professional secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe.

In various professional hands, including those of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), antiquary, and the Feathery Scribe.

Later owned by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), herald and antiquary. Then by Robert Harley.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 239-41 (No. 53).

Beal, In Praise of Scribes, 1998), p. 41 (No. 53.14).

Copy, in a professional secretary hand.

Copy.

Once owned by Ric: Tichbone, probably Sir Richard Tichborne, second Baronet, MP (c.1578-1652).

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 247 (No. 71), with a facsimile of f. 1r on p. 83.

Copy.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, pp. 203-4.

Copy.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand.

Mostyn MS 139 (Old Catalogue MS 53), from the library originally founded by Sir Thomas Mostyn (1535-1617) at Mostyn Hall, near Hollywell, Flintshire, and maintained by Sir Roger Mostyn (1567-1642) and his son Sir Roger Mostyn, first Baronet (1625?-90). Sotheby's, 13 July 1920, lot 72, to Sumner.

Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 352.

Copy.

Entirely in the hand of the Feathery Scribe.

Bookplate of James Buckley (1770-1839), of Bryncaerau Castle. From the library of Captain James Buckley (1869-1924), of Castell Gorfod, St Clears, Carmarthenshire, which incorporated books and manuscripts collected by Theophilus Jones (1759-1812), Brecknockshire historian, by William Owen Pughe (1759-1835), antiquary and lexicographer, and by Joseph Joseph, FSA (1890), of Brecon, collector.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 211-14 (No. 1), with a facsimile example of f. 32v on p. 65.

Beal, In Praise of Scribes, pp. 211-12 (No. 1.1).

Copy.

No. 11 inscribed Severall Tracts Selected out of a Booke in y^e hands of Sir Robert Cotton Knight and Baronnet.

Collected in 1674 by one John Witham.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, untitled but indexed on f. 99r as A Discourse concerning a marriadge betweene Q Elizabeth and Monsieur d'Aniou, 33 folio pages, frayed at edges. c.1638.

Owned and occasionally annotated by Mildmay Fane (1602-66), second Earl of Westmorland. Christie's, 18 July 1892 (Westmorland sale), lot ??

This MS recorded in Berry, pp. lix-lxi., and in Woudhuysen, p. 101.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, inscribed by Beale An answer made to M^r Stubbes his booke, by the l. Henry Howard as it was thought or by Francis Throgmorton [i.e. Francis Throckmorton (1554-84), Catholic conspirator] who was afterwardes executed.

Collected and annotated by Robert Beale (1541-1601), Clerk of the Privy Council. Including (ff. 152r-95v) a printed exemplum of Stubbs's banned tract A Gaping Gulf (1579).

Yelverton MS 31, among Beale's papers descending to Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), Justice of the Common Pleas, and his family.

Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 41.

Edited from this MS in Berry.

Owned and signed on the first page (Ro. Cotton Bruceus) by Sir Robert Cotton (1571-1631), antiquary and politician.

This MS recorded in Berry, pp. lix-lxi.

Copy, entitled The Lord Henry Howard after Earle of Northampton his defence Of the ffrench Monsieurs desiring Queene Elizabeth in marriage written in A^o. 22^o. Eliz A^o. D^o. i580, in Answare To M^r. Stubbs treatyse foregoeing which was intituled The Discouerie of a gapeing Gulfe. &c., following a printed exemplum (on ff. 31r-74v) of John Stubbs's Gaping Gulf (1579).

The volume entitled BAZILEGAMVS or Roial Marriages discussed approoued improued Betweene Queene Mary & King Philip finished A^o.D^o. 1554. fol. i. Queene Elizabeth and Mounsieur frustrated A^o.D^o. 15. fol. 3i..

Owned, 2 April 1627, and annotated by the diarist and antiquary Sir Simonds D'Ewes (1602-50). Book label with the motto Virtute et Fide.

This MS recorded in Berry, pp. lix-lxi.

Autograph drafts on the subject of the Earl Marshall, under the running heading Antiquitas Mariscalli.

Part of an autograph draft of the work, here beginning out of the riche mine of Peru betweene a glass..., the sequence out of order, imperfect.

With a title-page in an italic hand: A briefe discourse of y^e right vse of gevinge armes, w^th: the Late abusis about that matter, and y^e beste meane' by w^ch. they may be reformid orderly. Written by Henry Howard Earl of Northampton.

Baker, No. 420, pp. 76-7. date? early 17c?

Beginning with the heading What Inconueniences & abuses haue falne out by suffringe the kings att Armes to giue Coats and text beginning The originall word which Ierome translats Nobilem implies notabilenes... and ending ...soe that their owne faint collors may be deerly purchased &c. Finis.

Formerly Folger MS 1743.1.

A transcript of this MS made c.1900, on 15 folio pages, is Folger MS W.b.20.

Copy of an extract, in an italic hand, headed Extracted out of a discourse written in King James his time by the right hon^ble. Henry Howard Earle of North^ton. and by him then p^rsented to his fellow Commissioners for the Office of Earle Marshall of England Intituled A certaine form of Orders to be prescribed to the Officers of Armes For reformation of abuses & prevention of Corruptions deeply rooted & not easie to be removed, and here beginning Discord betwixt Garter & the Provinciall Kings of Armes hath beene the cheife cause of Corruption & disorder in y^e Office of Armes....

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

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed in the margin My Lord of Northampton concerning the painters of Armes and others.

Owned in 1772 by John White, formerly a member of All Souls College.

With a title-page (f. 5r), inscribed Scripsit Pau: Thompson Cant: in gratia Amiciss^mi: sui Jwh^s: Clapham; with the Dedication To the Q^s most sac: ma^tie on ff. 10r-13r; the main text on ff. 14r-39r; written in a single secretary hand, that of Paul Thompson (1563-1617) of Cambridge, apparently for his friend John Clapham. Folios 6r-9r are occupied by sixteen sonnets (two addressed to the painter Segar), apparently by one Ch. M., in a different hand. The volume was originally in vellum wrappers extracted from a 15th-century Italian manuscript of letters by Cicero.

Owned in 1898 by Richard Mullings and before 1933 by the Wiltshire Archæological and Natural History Society.

Recorded in Wiltshire Archæology and Natural History Magazine, 30 (1898), pp. 39, 85-6, and in Woudhuysen, p. 102.

Copy, including the dedicatory epistle to Queen Elizabeth.

Copy of the main text, lacking a title and dedicatory epistle to the Queen, in a formal small italic hand.

Inscribed (f. 15r and elsewhere) John Rider his Book. Christie's, 30 January 1980, lot 102.

Bound with a separate 86-leaf MS of A ffrench Satyre of State (Harley MS 6247), in (deteriorated) half calf on marbled boards.

Inscriptions (f. 63v) including financial records p me Thoma Paleston, bought John Turner the xiij^th of novembr 1611, Evan Williams of Exeter, and Ralph Addisson [sic].

Copy in two professional secretary hands, untitled, with the Dedication to the Queen, signed Henry Howarde, very imperfect, the first two leaves and f. 49 torn vertically in half, also lacking a title and the ending.

Extracts, headed Notes out of a copie of a letter written by way of dedication of charles the 5^th: his instructions to his sonne Phillip: Translated out of Spanish: and sent to her ma^tie by L: H: Howard [E: of Arundell deleted].

Compiled by John Manningham (c.1575-1622), lawyer, of the Middle Temple.

The Diary edited by John Bruce, Camden Society 99 (London, 1868). The Diary of John Manningham of the Middle Temple 1602-1603, ed. R.P. Sorlien (Hanover, NH, 1976). Facsimiles of f. 12r in DLB, vol. 62, Elizabethan Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers (Detroit, 1987), p. 318, and of f. 29v in The British Inheritance: A Treasury of Historic Documents, ed. Elizabeth Hallam and Andrew Prescott (London, 1999), p. 44.

A fair copy, probably made for presentation, complete with dedication To the Qveenes most Excellent Ma^tie in italic script (ff. 1r-8v), the main text in mixed secretary script (ff. 9r-54v), in the hand of Howard's principal amanuensis (the same as in British Library, King's MS 166), with autograph sidenotes by Howard throughout.

With the armorial bookplate of Shelburne: i.e. William Fitzmaurice Petty (1737-1805), Earl of Shelburne (in 1761), Marquess of Lansdowne (in 1784). Books collected by Shelburne included several which had belonged to Sir Julius Caesar, and also many of Lord Burghley's: Cyril Davenport, English Heraldic Book Stamps (London, 1909), pp. 313-14.

Untitled and lacking the Dedication to the Queen, but with a colophon (f. 33v): Here End the Instruction which the Emperour Charles the fift gaue to his sonne Philip Before his death.

Complete with the Dedication To the Queenes moste excellente Ma^tie:, headed A memoriall of a discourse vsed by the late worthy Emperour Charles the v^th vppon the resignem^t of his gouermente, and stats to his sonne, the now kinge of Spaine.

Name on f. 1v of John Gybbon. Inscription on f. 2r Lent to M^r Gunton. Feb. 16. 1648....

Copy of the main text (ff. 3r-23r). followed by the Dedication To the Queenes most excellent Ma^tie: (ff. 24r-7r), in a professional secretary hand, unascribed.

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

Complete with a formal title-page (f. 1r) and Dedication To the Quenes most Excellent Maiestie (ff. 2r-9r); the main text on ff. 10r-64r; written in the accomplished, predominantly secretary hand of Howard's principal amanuensis (the same as in British Library, Lansdowne MS 792); the dedication subscribed and signed by Howard (f. 9r) Y^r M^ties most affectionat, humble, and / loyall subiecte, till deathe / Henry Hwward; in calf with the arms of George III in gilt and the royal arms bookplate pasted on f. 1v.

Copy, in a single cursive hand, complete with the Dedication To the Queenes most Excellent Majestie subscribed Henry Hwward (pp. 1-12), headed The Memoriall of a Discourse used by the late worthie Emperor Charles the V^th vpon the Resignement of his Government & State to his Sonne, Philip .II. King of Spaine, on 110 small quarto pages (followed by 22 blanks), in later half-calf on marbled boards.

From the library of King George I.

Copy, in a single mixed hand, of about two thirds of the main text, incomplete and lacking a title and the Dedication. Early-mid-17th century.

Copy, in a single hand, complete with (pp. 87-93) the Dedication To the Quenes most excellent Ma^tie.

This MS tract separately numbered EL 1201.

In a single secretary hand, on six folio pages.

Among the Hastings papers.

Among the Hastings papers.

Copy, complete with a Dedication to the Queen subscribed Henrie Howarde, in a single professional secretary hand.

Inscribed (f. 213r) Nathaniell Darby his Booke ffeb: y^e 22^th in the year of our Lord god 1701/2.

Among the collections of Thomas Tenison (1636-1715), Archbishop of Canterbury.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, complete with Dedication to the Queen subscribed Henrie Howarde.

Copy of only the dedication to Queen Elizabeth, headed An Epistle dedicatory of y^e Lo: Henry Howard in y^e beginning of a booke called The Exhortations of Charles y^e fift to his sonne King Phillipp vppon the yeilding vp the gouerment of his dominions to him. Translated out of Spanish by y^e said Lo: and dedicated to her Ma^tie: as followeth, subscribed Hen Howarde.

From the collections of John Browne (1608-91), Clerk of the Parliaments. Inscribed (p. 1) returned to D^r Browne of Twickenham and Thomas [?]Aisley.

A bound set of photocopies of this volume is in the Parliamentary Archives, BRY/79.

Sotheby's, 13 December 1993, lot 287; 19 May 1994, lot 682; and 25 October 1994, lot 678, to Bradin T. Cormack, Stanford, California.

Headed The sume of diverse directions of governm^te which Ch: 4^th lefte vnto his sonne Philip y^e ii K. of Spaine, and without a Dedication.

The MS is accompanied by a 19th-century transcript of it.

Complete with fourteen-page The Epistle To the Queen, but without a title, in a single professional scribal hand.

Phillipps MS 13128.

A largely autograph draft work, the first two leaves in a professional secretary hand with Howard's autograph deletions and revisions, all the rest entirely autograph with his revisions, untitled, docketed (f. 99r) A Discourse of Duells in the Handwriting of Henry howard Earl of Northampton - the interlineation to p. 2. & afterwards the whole, subscribed (f. 118v) sit laus sanctæ Trinitati, with an additional autograph leaf f. 120r-v.

Copy, in the accomplished secretary hand of one of Howard's principal amanuenses, with his autograph sidenotes, untitled.

Discussed in Fredson Thayer Bowers, Henry Howard Earl of Northampton and Duelling in England, Englische Studien, 71 (1936-7), 350-5.

Copy of the discourse, in a professional secretary hand, untitled, a reference to the Duke of Norffolke my grand father occurring on f. 478r.

Discussed in Fredson Thayer Bowers, Henry Howard Earl of Northampton and Duelling in England, Englische Studien, 71 (1936-7), 350-5.

Copy, in a professional hand, ascribed to Northampton, inscribed in the margin Ex MS: in bibl Hatton: i.e. copied from a manuscript in the library of Christopher Hatton. The text is followed (on ff. 146r-8r) by a copy of Sir Edward Coke's discourse on the subject allegedly written at Northampton's request.

Volume I of twelve volumes of collections made by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.

Copy in the hand of the Feathery Scribe, lacking a title-page, but headed Duello Foil'd: The whole proceedinges, in the orderly Dissoluinge, of a designe for single, fight, Betwene, two Valiant, gentlemen by occasion, Whereof, the vnlawfulnes; and wickednes, of a Duello, is preparatorilye, Disputed, accordinge to the Rules, of honno^r: and Right Reason: Written, by y^e: Lo: Henry Howard, Earle of Northampton An^o:.

Once owned by Sir Robert Oxenbridge, MP (1595-1638) of Hurstbourne Priors, Hampshire; later by Thomas Tanner (1674-1735), Bishop of St Asaph, ecclesiastical historian, scholar and book collector. It was once bought from John Jackson of Tottenham High Cross.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 258-9 (No. 96).

Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 258 (No. 96.5).

Copy, subscribed with notes in Archbishop Sancroft's hand.

Copy, as written by y^e Lo: Henry Howard Earle of Northampton.

Inscribed on a preliminary blank leaf From Canon Newling's collection / Purchased at Rodd [i.e. Thomas Rodd (1796-1849), bookseller] 12^th Mar 1842.

Copy, in two professional secretary hands, as written by y^e Lord Henry Howard Earle of Northampton.

Acquired from Lord R. Montagu, MP, 27 June 1863.

Copy, in a professional italic and secretary hand, with a few autograph sidenotes and annotations by Howard, entitled Dvello Foil'd, with a dedication (f. 359r) to my uery good Lord.

Copy.

Inscribed (f. 1*^r) by Wanley with date of accession into the Harley Library 4 May 1721. An affixed slip inscribed Ane baryngton, Robarts, and The Lady Robarts, all in the same hand.

Copy, subscribed Yo^r Lo^ps most humble serv^t to be commanded Ed Cooke.

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

Copy, subscribed S^r Edward Coke.

Copy, in Starkey's hand.

From papers of the Herbert family, of Powis Castle.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as written by the Lord Henry Howarde Earle of Northampton.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as written by the lord H: Howard Earle of Northampton Anno dni [blank].

Bequeathed by Sir Jerome Alexander (c.1600-70), Justice of the Irish Common Pleas. Old pressmark G. 3. 5.

Extracts by Stanford.

Discussed, with facsimiles of pp. 1 and 49, in Steven W. May, Henry Stanford's God Knows What, EMS, 16 (2011), 70-81.

Prepared for a member of the Stanhope family, probably Sir John Stanhope, later first Baron Stanhope of Harrington (c.1545-1621), Treasurer of the Chamber (in 1596-1616), with a lengthy title-page (f. 1r), subscribed by four lines in Latin in Howard's own hand quoting from Daniel 13.57; illuminated arms of the Stanhope family (f. 1v) followed by eight autograph lines of Latin verse by Howard and with his sidenote, signed Amicus tibi in perpetuum fidelissimus H. Hwward; a Dedication To the Quenes most excellent Maiestie on ff. 2r-19v, 19 bis - 20r, subscribed with two autograph lines of Latin signed by Howard (f. 20r) Your Maiesties most loyall / and humble subiecte and / seruante till deathe / H. Hwward; the main text on ff. 21r-176v, with separate title-pages for the second book (f. 97r after a blank leaf) and third book (f. 119v).

Given to the Bodleian in 1621 by Ralph Radcliffe, Town Clerk of Oxford.

In the hand of the Feathery Scribe; with a title-page: An: Aunswere:, To, the; Coppye of a Rayleinge Invectyve, (Against the Regym^te: of Woemen in generall) w^th: Certayne Malliparte dyceptions to dyvers and sundrye, matters of the State, Wrytten To Queene Elizabeth, By the Right honno^ble: Henrye Lord Howarde, Late Earle of North^ton.

Inscribed (f. 2r) Sum EUmfreville: i.e. Edward Umfreville (1702?-86), collector of legal manuscripts. Bookplate of Horace Walpole (1717-97), fourth Earl of Orford, author, politician and patron of the arts. Strawberry Hill sale, 30 April 1842, lot 91.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 228 (No. 30).

Extracts from the treatise, headed A short Tractate of womens Gounment, beginning Howsoeu^r y^e ffrenchmen oppose them selues against womens goun^mt, as Bodin theire Countreyman hath of late streched out y^e strength of his witt..., and ending ...do shew Doct^r. Ridley in his view of y^e Ciuill, & Ecclecall Law. Pag. 98. 99.

Later scribbling (f. 15r) including names Joseph England, Tho Denton and Joseph Dixon.

In the accomplished italic and secretary scripts of one or possibly two of Howard's principal amanuenses, with a formal title-page (f. 2r) including an autograph quotation in Latin by Howard from Daniel 13.57, twelve lines of autograph Latin verse by him, followed by illuminated arms of the Heneage family, subscribed by ten more autograph lines of Latin verse signed Tibi in perpetuum / Leuinctissimus / H. Hwward (f. 2v), a Dedication To the Queenes Most Excellent Maiestie in italic script (ff. 3r-29r), subscribed by Howard (f. 29r) Your Maiesties most loyall / and humble subiecte till / death / H: Hwward, the main text then in secretary script, after an unnumbered blank leaf, on ff. 30r-238r, with separate title-pages for the second book (f. 132v) and third book (f. 162r), and with some of the sidenotes also in Howard's hand.

Scribbled names on f. 1*^v of henry Dull and John Poole. Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, 17 May 1862.

In a professional hand (that of the imitator of the Feathery Scribe), with a formal title-page: An answere To The coppie of a rayling Invectiue ag^st the regement of woemen in genall with certein Mallepert excepcons to divers and sundrye matters of the state written vnto Queen Elizabeth by the right honorable Henrye Lo Howard late Earle of Northampton; the title docketed at the top with the initials G. D., in modern quarter-vellum on marbled boards.

Probably MS 43 in the collection of Harry Lawrence Bradfer-Lawrence (1887-1965), Norfolk and Yorkshire antiquary and manuscript collector. Item 155 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Sotheby's, 12-13 and 27 January 1987, lot 795.

For Sir Robert Cotton (1571-1631), antiquary and politician; written at least partly in the accomplished italic script of Howard's principal amanuensis; with a formal title-page in engrossed lettering (f. 1r) including an autograph quotation in Latin from Daniel 13.57 by Howard; the arms of Cotton in watercolours (f. 1v) subscribed by ten autograph lines of Latin verse by Howard (f. 1v); a Dedication To the Queenes Most Excellent Maiestye in italic script on ff. 2r-26v, with autograph corrections and sidenotes by Howard and his three-line subscription; the main text, possibly in one or more other hands, in a predominantly secretary script, after a blank leaf (f. 27r-v), on ff. 28r-240v, with separate title-pages for the second book (f. 134r) and third book (f. 165r).

The title-page subscribed by the heavily deleted name or signature of Sir Robert Cotton and then the inscription Ex dono Henrici Comitis Northamptoni 1613. The name N: Boothe inscribed on f. 2*^v. Harleian inscription Oxford, BH Oct. 18. 1738. on f. 1r.

This volume was evidently lent by Cotton to the merchant and antiquary Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628) before 23 April 1621 (recorded in his loan register Harley MS 6018, f. 150r, and recorded as item 47 in Starkey's own list of his MSS, Harley MS 537, ff. 82r-3v). It presumably remained in Starkey's collections which were purchased after his death by Sir Simonds D'Ewes.

Copy of the Dedication to the Queen only, in a professional hand with a title-page: An aunswere to the Coppie of a Rayleing Invectiue, against the Regement, of woemen in generall, w^th certaine, Malliparte exceptions, to diuers, and sundrie matters of State; Written vnto Queene Elizabeth; by the Right Honnorable Henrye Lord Howard late Earle of Northampton &c.

For Sir George Carey (1547-1603), who was elevated to the peerage as the second Baron Hunsdon in 1597 and was then Lord Chamberlain of the Household; written in the accomplished italic and secretary scripts of Howard's principal amanuensis; with a formal title-page (f. 1r) including an autograph four-line quotation in Latin from Daniel 13.57 by Howard; the illuminated arms of Carey superscribed by four autograph lines of Latin verse and subscribed by six autograph lines of Latin verse by Howard and with his marginal dedication signed (f. 1v); a Dedication To the Qveenes Most Excellent Maiestie in flourished italic script on ff. 2r-27r, with a two-line addition in Howard's hand (f. 16v) and subscribed and signed by him (f. 27r); the main text in a secretary script on ff. 28r-231v, with separate title-pages for the second book (f. 125r) and third book (f. 156r), and with occasional autograph sidenotes added by Howard.

Copy of the dedication to the Queen only; with a formal title-page in the hand of the Feathery Scribe: An Aunswere, to, the, Coppye of a Rayleinge Invectyve (against, the Regyment of woemen in generall) w^th Certayne Malliparte, exceptions, to dyvers, and sundrye matters, of State, Wrytten, to Queene Elizabeth, By the Right honno^ble: Henrye Lord Howard, Late Earle, of Northampton:; the text in the hand of another scribe, on 60 leaves.

Some notes on the final blank verso of the tract by a near-contemporary reader (also responsible for notes in item 2 in the volume, a tract of 1642) remark on ways in which English queens furthered the causes of religion in England.

Once owned by Sir Richard Betenson, Bt (? the first Baronet, d.1679, of Hatton Garden, Holborn); by Thomas Brooke, F.S.A., of Armitage Bridge; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 2402; and later by Lord Fairfax of Cameron. Sotheby's, 14 December 1993 (Fairfax sale), lot 30 (unsold), and 13 December 1994, lot 538 (with facsimile examples in both sale catalogues).

Recorded in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 214-15 (No. 3), with facsimile examples on pp. 64, 65, 84-6.

Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 215 (No. 3.1), with a facsimile of the title-page on p. 64.

Copy of the Dedication only, in a formal secretary hand, written in a single narrow column throughout, headed in engrossed lettering To the Quenes most excellente Maiestie, 26 leaves.

The cover stamped in gilt with the badge of Henry Percy (1564-1632), ninth Earl of Northumberland (the Wizard Earl).

Recorded in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, p. 307.

For Robert Devereux (1566-1601), second Earl of Essex, written in the accomplished hands of two or more of Howard's principal amanuenses; with a formal title-page in engrossed lettering (f. 3r) including an autograph four-line quotation in Latin from Daniel 13.57 by Howard; the arms of Essex emblazoned in their proper colours (f. 3v) superscribed by six autograph lines of Latin verse and subscribed by six more autograph lines of Latin verse by Howard; (ff. [4r-25v]); the Dedication To the Queenes most Excellent Maiestie in secretary script, with autograph sidenotes by Howard and signed by him Henry Hwward; (ff. 26r-232v) the main text, in predominantly secretary hands, with variant styles of script for headings, sub-headings and sidenotes; with a separate title-page for the second book (f. [127v]) and a title in the second half of the page (f. [157r]) for the third book, with autograph corrections and sidenotes by Howard occasionally in the first book and throughout the third book.

Inscribed (f. [ii^v]) Tho: Chomley is the true ouner of this Booke by the Gifte of his good Mother the Ladie Marie chomley 1623. Sale of the Royal Library, Earl de la Ware, Baron Delamire. American Art Association, 11 March 1936 (Marsden J. Perry sale), lot 218. Charles S. Boesen's sale catalogue No. 1 (c.1951), item 160.

Facsimile examples of the illuminated arms and Dedication in the 1936 sale catalogue.

For William Cecil (1520-98), Lord Burghley, Secretary of State; written in the accomplished hands of one or more of Howard's principal amanuenses; with a formal title-page (f. 1r) including an autograph four-line quotation in Latin from Daniel 13.57 by Howard; the illuminated arms of Cecil superscribed by six autograph lines of Latin verse and subscribed by four autograph lines of Latin verse by Howard and signed by him Tuæ D in perpetuum deuinctiss. H. Hwward (f. 1v); the Dedication To the Queenes Most Excellent Maiestie in italic script on ff. 2r-27r signed by Howard (f. 27r); the main text, in a predominantly secretary script, by one or more scribes, with variant styles of script for headings, sub-headings and sidenotes, on ff. 28r-219r; with separate title-pages for the second book (f. 125v) and third book (f. 154r); with autograph corrections and sidenotes by Howard throughout; the paste-down formed from pages of a 16th-century French book about Henri III printed in black letter.

The Dedication only bears Cecil's autograph annotations (occasional words flagging subject matter on ff. 10r, 11r, 12v, 13r-v, 14r, 15v, and 16r). Later owned by Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) and with his bookplates.

Inscribed inside the front cover Baker & Leigh Aug: 77. Bookplate of Alfred Cock. His sale, 11 July 1898, lot 598, to Maggs.

With a title-page in italic: An Answere to the Coppye of a raileing Invective against the Regiment of woemen in generall with certaine mallipart exceptions to diverse and sundry matters of the State, written vnto Queene Elizabeth by the Right hon^ble Henry Lord Howard Earle of Northton.

Presented 10 February 1790 by Francis Douce, FSA. (1757-1834), antiquary and collector.

Copy of the Dedication to the Queen only, in a professional secretary hand, headed An answere to the Coppy of a rayleing Invectiue against the Regiment of Woemen, in generall, with certaine Malipart exceptions to diverse and sundry matters of State, written to Queene Elizabeth by the right hon^ble Henry lord Howard late Earle of Northton.

Bequeathed by Sir Jerome Alexander (c.1600-70), Justice of the Irish Common Pleas. Former pressmark G. 4. 9.

Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 222-3 (No. 17A).

The Dedication to the Queen (pp. 1-49) entirely in Howard's italic hand and signed Henry Hwward, the main text in the accomplished hand of one of his principal amanuenses; with some of the sidenotes in Books 1 and 2 and all those in Book 3 also in Howard's italic hand.

Inscribed (down the margin of p. 248) William Trumbull, possibly the son (1594-1668) or grandson (1639-1716) of William Trumbull (c.1580-1635), diplomat. Later owned by Lord Brougham and Vaux [? Henry Peter Brougham (1778-1868), first Baron, Lord Chancellor] whose monogram is stamped in gilt on the upper cover. Afterwards in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist and book collector.

Facsimile of p. 442r in H.R. Woudhuysen, Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts 1558-1640 (Oxford, 1996), Plate II after p. 272.

Sotheby's, 5 July 1955 (André de Coppet sale), lot 901, to Quaritch.

A defence of the government of women by the Lo: Howard in fol: is listed at Holkham Hall, Norfolk (Coke Library scroll, Archives) as being among MSS owned by Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), Attorney General.

Formerly among the Carew family papers at Crowcombe Court, Taunton, Somerset. Sotheby's, 6 May 1903 (Crowcombe Court Library sale), lot 270, to Ridler.

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

A formal presentation copy to William Cecil, Lord Burghley, entirely in Howard's italic hand, the title-page, decorated in colour, (f. 2r) Enchiridion christianarum precautionum in honorem sacrosanctæ indiuiduæ et gloriosæ Trinitatis e sacris scripturis: delibatum et in paricularia erga singulas Personas officia distributum; with (f. 1v) Burghley's arms in colour; (ff. 3r-68v) a dedicatory epistle to him, subscribed Londini ex aedibus Dacrensibus martii 15, 1589, signed H Hwward; and (ff. 69r-237v) a series of prayers and devotional meditations; various watercolour miniatures illustrating biblical scenes and religious subjects on ff. 70v, 87r, 116r, 146v, 165v, 199v, and 217v.

Volume CCXLVII 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 preserved at Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 100. Purchased March 1995.

This volume inscribed (on a flyleaf) by John Evelyn as being given to him, in London 1647, by James Thicknesse.

This MS would seem to be the work which Howard discusses in a letter to Burghley on 27 March 1589 (Cotton MS Titus C. VI, f. 39r-v), describing the matter out of which this treatise is compiled as the worde of god it selfe, expressing a hope that Burghley will therefore wincke the rather at the playnesse of the workmanshippe Diuersitie of formes of praier, adding that the littell booke is written in his own hand, that he was forced to take this extraordinary labore by the ignorance of the scriueners of this towne, and that it had a preface to your lordshipe.

Inscribed later in the 17th century A formularie of Psalmes & Prayers made by Henry Earle of Northampton and writ w^th his own hand. The first leaf is stamped Soc. Reg. Lond ex dono Henr. Howard Norfolciensis.

Autograph drafts of psalms and prayers.

Autograph MS, with copious revisions, in two sections, dated at the end Finitu Febr 26. 26-27 February 1613.

Autograph draft, with copious deletions and revisions, headed Certaine Rules to be prescribed and euer obseruid for the reformation of all abuses and corrupiones that haue crepte into the office of Armes and for preuentio of all meanes which maie bringe in the like herafter.

Dedicated and presented to Queen Elizabeth, the edges of the leaves gilt and gauffered, the semi-calligraphic text ruled in red and with running heads in gilt; the dedication to the Queen (f. 1r) elaborately decorated in blue, red and gold; an illuminated portrait of the Queen seated on the throne with a book on her lap on f. 1v; and an elaborate formal title-page in red and gold on f. 2r.

The volume labelled Ex legato Caroli Baronis Farnborough: i.e. from the library of Charles Long (c.1760-1838), Baron Farnborough, of Bromley Hill Place, the vellum boards bearing his arms in gilt (see Cyril Davenport, English Heraldic Book-Stamps (London, 1909), pp. 273-4). Purchased from H. Farrer 23 July 1842.

This MS recorded in Woudhuysen, p. 100. The portrait of Elizabeth is reproduced in Roy Strong, Portraits of Queen Elizabeth I (Oxford, 1963), pp. 100-2.

Probably the MS presented to James I.

Autograph, with revisions, docketed Demaundes of the Kinge.

Discussed in Fredson Thayer Bowers, Henry Howard Earl of Northampton and Duelling in England, Englische Studien, 71 (1936-7), 350-5.

Produced for Howard's sister Lady Katherine Berkeley; the dedication (ff. 1r-12v) To hys very lovinge sister the Lady Kathe. Barkley beginning Your earnest affection (my dere sister)… and including (f. 11r-v) verses beginning Nothing applyede to common vse, dated From Trinity haule in Cambridge the 6 of August 1569 and signed by Howard your lounge and fayth full brother durynge lyfe Henry Howarde.

Donated to the Bodleian on 2 May 1735 by Dr Thomas Waine, who has inscribed f. ii^r Sir / I Desire that M^r Nich^s, Holland of Merton College may have ye Liberty of peruseing Henry Howard's Manuscript of Philosophy att ye Request of me y^e Donor Tho^s Waine.

Autograph MS, with corrections and revisions, some on tipped-in slips of paper, of an antiquarian treatise in English on Counts, Dukes, and Earls, headed The deriuation of this word Comes or Counte acordinge to the trewe Etimologie, possibly incomplete.

Assembled, at least in part, by John Selden, MP (1584-1654), lawyer and historian. Among collections bequeathed by Sir Mathew Hale (1609-76), Chief Justice of the King's Bench, legal writer.

Described in Hunter's catalogue of Lincoln's Inn Manuscripts (1838) as endorsed My Lord of Northampton's discourse of earls and dukes, but this endorsement appears to be no longer present.

Autograph list of Abatementes and, on two conjugate quarto leaves, of details of the Juell howse.

In various largely professional hands, including (ff. 332r-5v) that of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), merchant and antiquary.

Effectively one of Howard's autograph miscellaneous compilations or commonplace books, relating chiefly to duels, his entries, mainly in English, under a series of Latin headings, beginning with Mendacium.

Discussed in Fredson Thayer Bowers, Henry Howard Earl of Northampton and Duelling in England, Englische Studien, 71 (1936-7), 350-5.

A substantial series of autograph drafts and entries, in English and Latin, most of it under commonplace-book-type headings (Regum institutio, Reges non subiectj legibus, Arma contra Principes, Status Popularis, Facetiæ, Inuentio, Pro Bello Argumeta, etc.), incorporating possibly drafts for an intended treatise on monarchy.

Series of autograph entries, in English and Latin, on narrow ledger-format leaves, under Latin subject headings and largely relating to naval matters (Naues, Howe Carried, M Thesaur, etc.).

Formerly among books from the library of Lord William Howard (1563-1640), antiquary and collector, of Naworth Castle, Cumberland, sold at Sotheby's, 15 December 1992, lot 171.

Formerly among books from the library of Lord William Howard (1563-1640), antiquary and collector, of Naworth Castle, Cumberland, sold at Sotheby's, 15 December 1992, lot 171.

Discussed, with facsimiles of ff. 57r and 63r, in Paul E. J. Hammer, How to Become an Elizabethan Statesman: Lord Henry Howard, the Earl of Essex and the Politics of Friendship, EMS, 13 (2007), 1-34.

Pen trials by James Maxwell of Naworth, one dated 1701. Formerly among books from the library of Lord William Howard (1563-1640), antiquary and collector, of Naworth Castle, Cumberland, sold at Sotheby's, 15 December 1992, lot 171.

Formerly among books from the library of Lord William Howard (1563-1640), antiquary and collector, of Naworth Castle, Cumberland, sold at Sotheby's, 15 December 1992, lot 171.

Formerly among books from the library of Lord William Howard (1563-1640), antiquary and collector, of Naworth Castle, Cumberland, sold at Sotheby's, 15 December 1992, lot 171.

Including (pp. 257-62, 271) entries under Regiment of Women, possibly relating to Howard's treatise A dutiful defence of the lawful regiment of women (HoH 68-87).

Autograph memorandum, on the rectos of two folio leaves, one headed Reasons against permission of the Judias, the other headed Reasons for the Judias.

In various hands, including that of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), merchant and antiquary (ff. 23r-v, 135r-42r, 169r-70v, 331r-v. 449r-52v).

Sotheby's, 6 December 1984, lot 326.

Lord Henry Howard's autograph annotations or docketing on various documents in professional hands on heraldic matters, including (ff. 94r-6r)Copy of M^r Camdens deputation to m^r N Charles Lancaster Herauld, for Visitting in his province; (ff. 225r-6v) Embeaselinge of Recordes and bookes out of the office; (ff. 227r-8v) Office of Armes; and (f. 234r-v) Rules or articles.

Howard's autograph docketing, Reasones of the Trinity howse touchinge shippinge of scotland, to a series of ten clauses in a professional hand, on a single broadsheet.

Howard's autograph endorsement Equalling Siluer on a treatise on coinage (ff. 155r-8r) dated 8 October 1612, and his 24-line autograph addition, at the lower half and margin of the last page, to a tract on The lawes and Statutes of this Realme (ff. 322r-3r).

Owned by Sir Robert Cotton, with (f. v^r) his engraved plate, his autograph signatures (ff. 50r, 61r, 159r), and his occasional annotations throughout.

Later owned by Thomas Baker (1656-1740), Cambridge antiquary. Acquired in 1751 by Joseph Massie. Including part of a letter about the MS by W. Herne, 30 March 1752. Purchased from Massie in 1761.

Copy of Howard's last will and testament.

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

Copy of Howard's last will and testament.

This volume discussed and printed in part, with facsimile examples, in F. Haverfield, Cotton Iulius F. VI Notes on Reginald Bainbrigg of Appleby, on William Camden and on some Roman Inscriptions, Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, NS 11 (1911), 343-78.