John Lyly

Extracts, headed Euph..

Extracts.

Inscribed (ff. 1r, 2r) Samuell Watts.

Among the papers of the Sanford family. Formerly DD/SF 3970.

Extracts.

Four leaves of this commonplace book are in the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, ER 82/1/21.

Owned in 1615-16 by one Bassett and in the 1880s by Richard Savage. At the Neligan sale, 2 August 1888, lot 1098. Bought by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), and his sale 4 July 1889, lot 1257.

All the Shakespearian texts except Othello were edited from this MS in Richard Savage's Shakespearean Extracts (1887). The MS also edited in Juliet Mary Gowan, An Edition of Edward Pudsey's Commonplace Book (c.1600-1615) (unpublished M. Phil., University of London, 1967). It was then found that the miscellany lacked several of its original leaves, including extracts from six plays by Shakespeare. These leaves were rediscovered in 1977 among Savage's papers at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, ER 82/1/21, and the Othello extracts identified by Gowan. The MS also discussed in J. Rees, Shakespeare and Edward Pudsey's Booke, 1600, N&Q, 237 (September 1992), 330-1; in Juliet Gowan, One Man in His Time: The Notebook of Edward Pudsey, Bodleian Library Record, 22 (2009), 94–101; in Fred Schurink, Manuscript Commonplace Books, Literature, and Reading in Early Modern England, HLQ, 73/3 (2010), 453-69 (pp. 465-9), with a facsimile of f. 31r on p. 467; and in Tom Lockwood, At Mr Marston’s Request: Edward Pudsey and the Inns of Court, N&Q, 63 (September 2016), 450-3.

Copy, in an italic hand, of two speeches by an Angler, headed At S^r William Russels howse at Cheswick, the second speech headed At her Ma^ts: departure, subscribed John: Lilly, on one side of a single folio leaf, the verso with a (deleted) address panel To the Right Worshipfull Roger Wilbraham Esquio^r M^r of Requestes geve these, and once folded as a letter.

Edited from this MS in Hotson.

Copies of parts of the entertainment: ff. 253r-62v, in a cursive secretary hand, on quarto leaves, endorsed by Caesar The 2. speeches dialogue wise to Q. Elizabeth at my howse at Mitcha 13. Sept. 1598; f. 233r, in a professional secretary hand, endorsed (f. 234v) in another hand A copy of the supplication deliuered to her Ma^ty At D. Cæsars howse, 12. Septeb. 1598; f. 281r, Greek and Latin verses in a roman hand, endorsed by Caesar (f. 281v) The dite of the greak song, before the Q^s ma^ty at mine howse at Mitcha.

Papers of Sir Julius Caesar (1558-1636), Master of the Rolls.

Sale of Julius Caesar's MSS, December 1757, lot 73. Bookplate of Horace Walpole (1717-97), fourth Earl of Orford, author, politician and patron. Strawberry Hill sale, 30 April 1842, lot 155.

Edited from these MSS in Hotson.

Extracts.

Four leaves of this commonplace book are in the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, ER 82/1/21.

Owned in 1615-16 by one Bassett and in the 1880s by Richard Savage. At the Neligan sale, 2 August 1888, lot 1098. Bought by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), and his sale 4 July 1889, lot 1257.

All the Shakespearian texts except Othello were edited from this MS in Richard Savage's Shakespearean Extracts (1887). The MS also edited in Juliet Mary Gowan, An Edition of Edward Pudsey's Commonplace Book (c.1600-1615) (unpublished M. Phil., University of London, 1967). It was then found that the miscellany lacked several of its original leaves, including extracts from six plays by Shakespeare. These leaves were rediscovered in 1977 among Savage's papers at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, ER 82/1/21, and the Othello extracts identified by Gowan. The MS also discussed in J. Rees, Shakespeare and Edward Pudsey's Booke, 1600, N&Q, 237 (September 1992), 330-1; in Juliet Gowan, One Man in His Time: The Notebook of Edward Pudsey, Bodleian Library Record, 22 (2009), 94–101; in Fred Schurink, Manuscript Commonplace Books, Literature, and Reading in Early Modern England, HLQ, 73/3 (2010), 453-69 (pp. 465-9), with a facsimile of f. 31r on p. 467; and in Tom Lockwood, At Mr Marston’s Request: Edward Pudsey and the Inns of Court, N&Q, 63 (September 2016), 450-3.

A Latin epistle by Lyly, to Lord Burghley, in a professional hand, 16 May 1574.

Edited in Bond, I, 13-14, and in Feuillerat, pp. 522-3.

Autograph letter signed, to Lord Burghley, July 1582.

Edited in Bond, I, 28-9, and in Feuillerat, pp. 529-31. Facsimile in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XVII.

Edited in Bond, I, 390.

Edited in Bond, I, 68-9.

Edited in Bond, I, 391.

Edited in Bond, I, 392-3, and in Feuillerat, pp. 557-8.

Edited in Bond, I, 395.

Edited in Bond, I, 75. Facsimile in Bond, III, frontispiece.

Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Cotton, damaged by fire, 30 April 1605.

Edited in Bond, p. 395 and in Feuillerat, p. 564. Facsimile in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XVIII(a).

Copy.

Copy.

Copy.

Compiled over a period, and partly written, by Sir Stephen Powle (c.1553-1630), Clerk of the Crown.

Copy.

Owned in the 17th century by William Goswell, his friend James Bedford, and Gerard Langbaine [? Gerard Langbaine (1608/9-58), head of Queen's College, Oxford]. Also inscribed (f. 376) Amy Wigmore.

Copy.

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

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

Copy, headed A petitionary letter from John Lilly to Queen Elizabeth.

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

Copy, headed A petitionary letter from Jo: Lilly to Queene Elizabeth.

Later owned by John Locker (1693-1760), barrister and literary editor. Bought at his sale in 1764 by Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian (whose signature on f. ii^r is actually dated 26 September 1763).

Copy.

In the collection of Francis Hargrave (1740/1-1821), legal writer. Inscribed by him on f. [i^v] F. Hargrave A gift made to me this day by my friend George Hardinge Esquire [(1743-1816), judge and writer]. F. H. 16. July 1789.

Described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 232 (No. 40).

This MS collated in Bond.

Copy.

In various professional hands, including that of the Feathery Scribe.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 242-4 (No. 57).

Edited from this MS in Feuillerat and in Bond.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed A peticon of John Lilly to the Queenes Ma^tie.

This MS collated in Bond.

Copy.

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

Copy.

Largely in one neat secretary hand; a second hand on ff. 58v-9r, and a third on f. 66r. Compiled chiefly by a University of Cambridge man.

Once owned by F.W. Cosens, FSA (1819-89), of Clapham Park, book collector. Bequeathed in 1894 by Samuel Sandars, of Trinity College, Cambridge.

Discussed in Ted-Larry Pebworth and Claude J. Summers, Recovering an Important Seventeenth-Century Poetical Miscellany: Cambridge Add. MS 4138, TCBS, 7 (1978), 156-69 (pp. 160-1). A 19th-century transcript of much of this MS is in the Bodleian, MS Firth d. 7, ff. 60r-9r.

Copy, headed A peticion of John Lillie to y^e queenes Maiestie.

Inscribed (p. i), probably in the late 17th century, John Peck His Book.

Recorded in Bond.

Copy.

Possibly associated with the Inns of Court. Later used, and annotated in the margin, by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) as the Fulman MS: DnJ Δ 36. Formerly Bodleian MS CCC 327.

Copy.

Among the papers of the Fuller family of Brightling Park. Possibly once owned by Ambrose Trayton of Lewes, Esquire of the Body to James I and Charles I.

Copy, headed A Petitionary Letter from Jo: Lyllie to Queene Elizabeth.

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

This MS recorded in Bond.

Copy, headed A Petitionarie Letter from John Lillie to Queene Elizabeth.

Copy, headed A Petitionarie Letter from John Lillie to Queene Elizabeth.

Formerly MS F. 2. 20.

Copy, headed A Petitionarie Letter from John Lillie to Queene Elizabeth.

Later owned by the antiquary Michael Lort (1725-90). Bookplate of Edmund Turner. Sotheby's, 24 October 1972, lot 383, to Alan Thomas.

Copy, headed A Peticon made by John Lilly to the Q^s. Ma^tie.

Copy.

With a letter by James Gairdner (1828-1912), historian, returning this volume to Edward William Cox (1809-79), lawyer and publisher, 20 January 1886.

Gift of Mr Roland L. Redmond, 1942.

Copy.

Including 14 poems by Carew, 13 poems by Corbett and 25 poems (plus one poem of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

Scribbling on the first page including the words Peyton Chester….

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Osborn MS I: CwT Δ 38; CoR Δ 14; StW Δ 29.

Copy.

Copy.

Copy, headed M^r Lillyes peticon to the Queene. 1601: about the tyme of my L^d of Essex followers fall.

Compiled over a period, and partly written, by Sir Stephen Powle (c.1553-1630), Clerk of the Crown.

Edited from this MS in Bond, I, 378, and in Feuillerat.

Copy.

Owned in the 17th century by William Goswell, his friend James Bedford, and Gerard Langbaine [? Gerard Langbaine (1608/9-58), head of Queen's College, Oxford]. Also inscribed (f. 376) Amy Wigmore.

Copy.

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

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

Copy, headed To Queene Elizabeth. Another Letter to Queen Eliz. from Jo: Lilly.

Later owned by John Locker (1693-1760), barrister and literary editor. Bought at his sale in 1764 by Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian (whose signature on f. ii^r is actually dated 26 September 1763).

Copy, headed Another Letter from John Lilly to Queen Elizabeth.

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

Copy.

In the collection of Francis Hargrave (1740/1-1821), legal writer. Inscribed by him on f. [i^v] F. Hargrave A gift made to me this day by my friend George Hardinge Esquire [(1743-1816), judge and writer]. F. H. 16. July 1789.

Described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 232 (No. 40).

This MS collated in Bond.

Copy.

In various professional hands, including that of the Feathery Scribe.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 242-4 (No. 57).

Edited from this MS in Bond.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed John lillies second peticon to the Queene.

This MS collated in Bond.

Copy.

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

Recorded in Bond.

Copy.

Largely in one neat secretary hand; a second hand on ff. 58v-9r, and a third on f. 66r. Compiled chiefly by a University of Cambridge man.

Once owned by F.W. Cosens, FSA (1819-89), of Clapham Park, book collector. Bequeathed in 1894 by Samuel Sandars, of Trinity College, Cambridge.

Discussed in Ted-Larry Pebworth and Claude J. Summers, Recovering an Important Seventeenth-Century Poetical Miscellany: Cambridge Add. MS 4138, TCBS, 7 (1978), 156-69 (pp. 160-1). A 19th-century transcript of much of this MS is in the Bodleian, MS Firth d. 7, ff. 60r-9r.

Copy, headed John Lillies second peticon.

Inscribed (p. i), probably in the late 17th century, John Peck His Book.

This MS recorded in Bond.

Copy.

Possibly associated with the Inns of Court. Later used, and annotated in the margin, by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) as the Fulman MS: DnJ Δ 36. Formerly Bodleian MS CCC 327.

Copy.

Among the papers of the Fuller family of Brightling Park. Possibly once owned by Ambrose Trayton of Lewes, Esquire of the Body to James I and Charles I.

Copy, headed Another Letter to Queene Elizabeth from Jo: Lillie.

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

Copy, headed Another Letter to Quene Eliz: from John Lilly.

Copy, headed Another Letter to Queene Elizabeth from John Lillie.

Formerly MS F. 2. 20.

Copy, headed Another letter to Queene Elizabeth from John Lilly.

Later owned by the antiquary Michael Lort (1725-90). Bookplate of Edmund Turner. Sotheby's, 24 October 1972, lot 383, to Alan Thomas.

Copy, headed Another of the same mans Peticons.

Copy.

With a letter by James Gairdner (1828-1912), historian, returning this volume to Edward William Cox (1809-79), lawyer and publisher, 20 January 1886.

Gift of Mr Roland L. Redmond, 1942.

Copy.

Including 14 poems by Carew, 13 poems by Corbett and 25 poems (plus one poem of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

Scribbling on the first page including the words Peyton Chester….

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Osborn MS I: CwT Δ 38; CoR Δ 14; StW Δ 29.

Recorded in William Urry, John Lyly and Canterbury, Thirty-third Annual Report of the Friends of Canterbury Cathedral (April 1960), 19-25 (p. 24).

Discovered by William Urry among the archives at Canterbury Cathedral. Formerly Boteler MSS 116a.

Recorded in William Urry, John Lyly and Canterbury, Thirty-third Annual Report of the Friends of Canterbury Cathedral (April 1960), 19-25 (p. 24).

Discovered by William Urry among the archives at Canterbury Cathedral. Formerly Boteler MSS 116b.

Recorded by Urry in John Lyly and Canterbury, Thirty-third Annual Report of the Friends of Canterbury Cathedral (April 1960), 19-25 (p. 24).

Discovered by William Urry among the archives at Canterbury Cathedral. Formerly Boteler MSS 116c.

Recorded by Urry in John Lyly and Canterbury, Thirty-third Annual Report of the Friends of Canterbury Cathedral (April 1960), 19-25 (p. 24).

Discovered by William Urry among the archives at Canterbury Cathedral. Formerly Boteler MSS 116e.

Recorded in William Urry, John Lyly and Canterbury, Thirty-third Annual Report of the Friends of Canterbury Cathedral (April 1960), 19-25 (p. 24).