John Marston

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 The MS also edited in Juliet Mary Gowan, An Edition of Edward Pudsey's Commonplace Book (c.1600-1615) (unpublished M. Phil., University of London, 1967).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.

Extracts.

Lettered on the spine W. How's Common-placebook.

Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps and in the Warwick Castle Library.

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 The MS also edited in Juliet Mary Gowan, An Edition of Edward Pudsey's Commonplace Book (c.1600-1615) (unpublished M. Phil., University of London, 1967).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.

Edited from this MS in Bullen (1887). Discussed in R. E. Brettle, Notes on John Marston, RES, NS 13 (1962), 390-3 (p. 391). Facsimile examples in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XVIII(b-c); in DLB, vol. 58, Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers (Detroit, 1987), p. 163; and in James Knowles, Marston, Skipwith and The Entertainment at Ashby, EMS, 3 (1992), 137-92 (pp. 160-1).

Copy of Franceschina's song, in a musical setting, untitled.

Inscribed (f. 3v), evidently by the compiler, Giles Earle his booke 1615 (with other notes dated 1610) and (f. 1v) Egidius Earle hunc librum possidet qui compactus fuit mense Septembris. 1626., f. 81r subscribed Anno Dni: 1623 / Mense Augusti: Finis.

Acquired from Joseph Lilly, bookseller, 17 May 1862.

A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 1 (New York & London, 1986).

Edited from this MS in Andrew J. Sabol, Two Unpublished Stage Songs for the Aery of Children, RN, 13 (1960), 222-32 (p. 230). Recorded in Wine and in Davison.

Copy of the song, in a musical setting, untitled.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Robius Downes. Bookplates of Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary, and of William Hayman Cummings (1831-1915), singer and musical antiquary. Notes in 1841 (f. 2r) by Joseph Warren (1804-81), composer and music editor. Sotheby's, 9 June 1917 (Cummings sale), lot 1586, to Maggs.

A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 1 (New York & London, 1986).

Headed The ho^ble: Lorde & Lady of Huntingdons Entertainement of theire right Noble Mother Alice: Countesse Dowager of Darby the firste nighte of her honors arrivall att the house of Ashby, the dedication (f. 1r) and all of ff. 14r-15r in Marston's hand, as are probably occasional deletions, corrections and additions throughout the text (including five words on f. 2v and three lines written lengthways down the outer margin on f. 10v); the main text written probably in a single professional hand, in alternating italic and secretary scripts.

The volume also has tipped-in a separate MS of verses relating to Lady Derby and Lady Huntingdon (beginning As this ys endelesse, endelesse be yo^r ioyes), in a secretary hand, subscribed W: SK: [i.e. William Skipton], on the first two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

Among the papers of the Egerton family, Earls of Bridgewater.

Edited from this MS by editors. Discussed in R.E. Brettle, Notes on John Marston, RES, NS 13 (1962), 390-3 (p. 391); in James D. Knowles, Identifying the Speakers: The Entertainment at Ashby (1607), N&Q, 233 (December 1988), 489-90; and, with facsimile examples, in James Knowles, Marston, Skipwith and The Entertainment at Ashby, EMS, 3 (1992), 137-92.

Facsimile pages also in Davenport, p. 191; in R.B. Haselden, Scientific Aids for the Study of Manuscripts, Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, Supplement 10 (Oxford, 1935), fig. XIII; in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 28; and in DLB, vol. 58, Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers (Detroit, 1987), p. 165.

Extracts from the preliminary description of the arrangements at the Park Gates and all of Merymna's first speech, in an italic hand, headed The Lady of Derbies entertaynm^t att Ashby 1707 August. Early 17th century.

This MS collated in Davenport.

Extracts, transcribed from one of the editions of 1606.

Among the working papers and collections of William Drummond of Hawthornden: Hawthornden Vol. VII.

Extracts, headed Insatiate Countesse.

Lettered on the spine W. How's Common-placebook.

Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps and in the Warwick Castle Library.

These annotations discussed in Albert H. Tricomi, Counting Insatiate Countesses: The Seventeenth-Century Annotations to Marston's The Insatiate Countess, Huntington Library Quarterly, 62/1-2 (2001), 107-22.

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.

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.

Facsimile of p. 49 in May, p. 78.

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.

Edited and discussed in W.H. Grattan Flood, A John Marston Letter, RES, 4 (1928), 86-7; in Robert E. Brettle, The Poet Marston Letter to Sir Gervase Clifton, 1607, RES, 4 (1928), 212-14; in Brettle, Notes on John Marston, RES, NS 13 (1962), 390-3; and in Albert H. Tricomi, Identifying Sir Gervase Clifton, the Addressee of Marston's Letter, 1607, N & Q, 222 (May-June 1977), 202-3. Facsimiles of the letter in Albert H. Tricomi, The Provenance of John Marston's Letter to Lord Kimbolton, PBSA, 72 (1978), 213-19 (Plate 2); in IELM, I.ii (1980), Facsimile XXVI (p. 331), and in James Knowles, Marston, Skipwith and The Entertainment at Ashby, EMS, 3 (1992), 137-92 (p. 179).

Marston's boyish signature (Johannes Marston), 4 February 1591/2.

Discussed by Robert E. Brettle in John Marston, Dramatist at Oxford, 1591(?)-1594, 1609, RES, 3 (1927), 398-405; in John Marston, Dramatist: Some New Facts about his Life, MLR, 22 (1927), 7-14; and in Notes on John Marston, RES, NS 13 (1962), 390-3.

Marston's autograph Latin entry signed (Johanes Marston) when he subscribed to the Thirty-nine Articles on his ordination, 24 September 1609.

Discussed by Robert E. Brettle in John Marston, Dramatist at Oxford, 1591(?)-1594, 1609, RES, 3 (1927), 398-405; in John Marston, Dramatist: Some New Facts about his Life, MLR, 22 (1927), 7-14; and in Notes on John Marston, RES, NS 13 (1962), 390-3.

Marston's second autograph Latin entry signed (Joh: Marston) when he subscribed to the Thirty-nine Articles on his ordination, 24 December 1609.

Discussed by Robert E. Brettle in John Marston, Dramatist at Oxford, 1591(?)-1594, 1609, RES, 3 (1927), 398-405; in John Marston, Dramatist: Some New Facts about his Life, MLR, 22 (1927), 7-14; and in Notes on John Marston, RES, NS 13 (1962), 390-3.

Recorded in Eccles, p. 92.

The text printed in The Works of John Marston, ed. James Orchard Halliwell (London, 1856), I, viii-ix. Discussed by Robert E. Brettle in John Marston, Dramatist at Oxford, 1591(?)-1594, 1609, RES, 3 (1927), 398-405; in John Marston, Dramatist: Some New Facts about his Life, MLR, 22 (1927), 7-14; and in Notes on John Marston, RES, NS 13 (1962), 390-3.

Copy.

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).

Copy, here ascribed to Mr [John] Heappe.

Including 18 poems by Carew and two of doubtful authorship, compiled by Nicholas Burghe (d.1670), Royalist Captain during the Civil War and one of the poor Knights of Windsor in 1661 (references to I Nicholas Burgh occurring on ff. 165r, with the date 3^d of June 1638, and 166r, and his name partly in cipher on other pages); predominantly in his hand, with some later additions in other hands.

Afterwards owned by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Burghe MS: CwT Δ 1.

An anonymous copy.

Among the collections of Francis Douce (1757-1834), antiquary and collector.

An anonymous copy.

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).

An anonymous copy, headed On y^e Duke of Buckingham returneing from the Isle of Ree.

Compiled by an Oxford University man, possibly a member of St John's College.

A receipt (f. 104r) by John Weston recording payment from his brother Ed: Weston, 3 May 1714. The name John Saunders inscribed on the final leaf.

An anonymous copy, headed In Ducem Reducem.

Inscribed (f. iii^r) by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector, Bought at the sale of M^r. [Jonathan] Boucher's Library in April 1806, for £2. 12. 6. E Malone.

An anonymous copy.

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

Copy of the first six lines.

The name Edward Michell inscribed later inside the rear cover. Afterwards owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Michell MS: CwT Δ 8. Briefly discussed (in connection with the poem Shall I die? attributed to Shakespeare) by Gary Taylor in The Sunday Times (24 November 1985, pp. 1, 3, with a facsimile example) and by Peter Beal in TLS (3 January 1986, p. 13); and see also letters on 24 January 1986, pp. 87-8.

An anonymous copy, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

Partly compiled by Archbishop Sancroft.

Copy, headed Vpon the Dukes returne from the Isle of Ree.

Comprising three separate units: ff. 1r-96v all in Sancroft's hand; ff. 97r-104r in a second hand; and ff. 105r-9r in a third hand.

Including (on ff. 2-23, 27ar-v, 70) 94 Latin poems ascribed to Crashaw (including three of doubtful authorship) and (on ff. 29-41, 43v, 44v-58, 60v, 62v-5v, 67-70v, 72-3, 95-6) 101 English poems (plus a second copy of one of them) attributed to him (including one of doubtful authorship) and (on f. 16r-v) one Greek poem attributed to him; a list of contents on the first page beginning Mr. Crashaw's poems transcrib'd fro his own copie, before the were printed; among w^ch are some not printed….

Cited in IELM as the Sancroft MS: CrR Δ 1. Crashaw edited in part from this MS, and collated, in Grosart, in Waller and in Martin (cited as T or T5), and discussed in Waller, pp. vi-ix, and in Martin, pp. lviii-lxxiii. Folios 28-34v, 38v-41, 44v, 52v-6 reproduced in facsimile in Steps to the Temple (1970).

An anonymous copy.

Comprising three separate units: ff. 1r-96v all in Sancroft's hand; ff. 97r-104r in a second hand; and ff. 105r-9r in a third hand.

Including (on ff. 2-23, 27ar-v, 70) 94 Latin poems ascribed to Crashaw (including three of doubtful authorship) and (on ff. 29-41, 43v, 44v-58, 60v, 62v-5v, 67-70v, 72-3, 95-6) 101 English poems (plus a second copy of one of them) attributed to him (including one of doubtful authorship) and (on f. 16r-v) one Greek poem attributed to him; a list of contents on the first page beginning Mr. Crashaw's poems transcrib'd fro his own copie, before the were printed; among w^ch are some not printed….

Cited in IELM as the Sancroft MS: CrR Δ 1. Crashaw edited in part from this MS, and collated, in Grosart, in Waller and in Martin (cited as T or T5), and discussed in Waller, pp. vi-ix, and in Martin, pp. lviii-lxxiii. Folios 28-34v, 38v-41, 44v, 52v-6 reproduced in facsimile in Steps to the Temple (1970).

Copy, headed In Duce reduce.

Among the papers of the Stanhope family, of Horsforth, near Leeds. Formerly Spencer-Stanhope MSS, Calendar No. 2795 (Bundle 10, No. 34).

Copy, headed vpon his returne from thence.

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

Copy, headed Verses on the Duke of Buckingham, here beginning And art thou turnd w^th all thy faults.

A flyleaf inscribed [?] Johannes Philips. Acquired from H. Stevens 11 December 1852.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1987), as the John Philips MS: StW Δ 8.

Copy, quoted in a brief tract about Buckingham and the disastrous Isle de Rhé expedition.

In a single calligraphic hand, employing various scripts, a scribe identified or associated with one Henry Feilde.

Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 21 August 1858 (Bliss sale), lot 140.

This MS discussed in Van Strien.

Copy, subscribed These verses came forthe, as I did heare, soon after the returne from Rees; in which, whether any more be sette down then vulgar rumor, which is often lying, I knowe not... [c.26 June 1628].

Compiled by the Rev. John Rous (1584-1644), incumbent of Santon Downham, Suffolk, and relating, retrospectively, chiefly to public events and to literary texts in circulation in 1625-42.

Later owned by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist and antiquary. Turner sale, 7 June 1859, lot 253. The second MS purchased at Sotheby's, 15-25 March 1871 (library of the bookseller Joseph Lilly).

The first MS edited in full in Diary of John Rous, incumbent of Santon Downham, Suffolk, from 1625 to 1642, ed. Mary Anne Everett Green, Camden Society No. 66 (1856).

Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand, with emendations and annotations in another hand, headed In reditum Ducis, subscribed These verses came forthe, as I did heare, soon after the returne from Rees; in which, whether any more be sette down then vulgar rumor, which is often lying, I knowe not.... [c.26 June 1628], on three pages of two probably once conjugate folio leaves, endorsed Satire of bucks.

Collected by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King of Arms and antiquary, his brother Oliver, and Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector.

Copy, in a small mixed hand, in double columns, headed In reditum Ducis, on one side of a folio leaf, once folded as a letter.

Collected by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King of Arms and antiquary, his brother Oliver, and Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector.

Copy, headed In Ducem reducem ab Insula RE, dated in the margin A^o. i627.

Compiled by Sir Thomas Dawes (knighted 1639).

Purchased on 4 July 1873 from William Carew Hazlitt (1834-1913), bibliographer and writer.

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled.

Inscribed (f. 3r) Arth: Langford his booke the first of may 1629; (ff. 3r, 84v) John Slaughter; (f. 86r) Francis Webb and Robert Thurketil. Subsequently in the papers of the Trumbull family, including chiefly William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), diplomat and government official. Later belonging to the Marquess of Downshire, of Easthampstead Park. Formerly Berkshire Record Office Trumbull Add 51.

Sotheby's, 14 December 1989, lot 232, and 13 December 1990, lot 11. Facsimile example in the sale catalogues. Acquired 22 March 1991.

An anonymous copy.

Once owned by John Hart and John Ashton.

Copy.

Once owned by John Hart and John Ashton.

Text from this MS in online Early Stuart Libels.

An anonymous copy.

Copy.

Later owned by J.P. Earwaker (1847-95), Cheshire historian. Formerly in the Chester City Record Office.

Recorded in HMC, 12th Report, Appendix IX (1891), pp. 545-52.

Copy, in double columns, on one side of a folio leaf, slightly imperfect.

Compiled, and partly written, by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.

Sotheby's, 20 February 1978, lot 367, to Hofmann. Acquired from Hofmann & Freeman, 1982. Formerly MS Add. 806.

Copy.

Given by William Moore.

Copy, headed Verses vpon the Duke of Buckinghams returne from y^e Isle of Rees.

Copy, headed In Ducem reducem, here beginning And art y^u come againe with all thy faults, subscribed doloris nullus.

A loose paper wrapper is later inscribed Verses writ in old M^r James Harris's hand: i.e. James Harris (1605-79), of Salisbury, lawyer.

Among papers of the Harris (Malmesbury) family.

Copy.

Copy.

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.

Copy, in a professional hand, with various alterations, headed In Ducem re-ducem, on all four pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

Among papers of the Irwin family, of Temple Newsam. Formerly TN/F7.

Another copy, with some alterations, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed In praise of y^e Duke.

Among papers of the Irwin family, of Temple Newsam. Formerly TN/F7.

Copy, headed In Reducem Ducem, here beginning And art returned great Duke with all thy faults, incomplete.

Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1132 (1990), item 128, with a facsimile example.

Copy, headed In Reducem Ducem.

Compiled, and partly composed, by George Weller (1710-78), lawyer, of Tonbridge, Kent.

Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1132 (December 1990), item 128.

Copy, headed Vpon the Duke of B: retorne from the Isle of Rees.

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.

Among papers of the Middletons, a Yorkshire recusant family. Formerly MD59/22/B/7.

Copy, ascribed to John Marston.

Including 18 poems by Carew and two of doubtful authorship, compiled by Nicholas Burghe (d.1670), Royalist Captain during the Civil War and one of the poor Knights of Windsor in 1661 (references to I Nicholas Burgh occurring on ff. 165r, with the date 3^d of June 1638, and 166r, and his name partly in cipher on other pages); predominantly in his hand, with some later additions in other hands.

Afterwards owned by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Burghe MS: CwT Δ 1.

Copy, ascribed to John Marston.

Including 18 poems by Carew and two of doubtful authorship, compiled by Nicholas Burghe (d.1670), Royalist Captain during the Civil War and one of the poor Knights of Windsor in 1661 (references to I Nicholas Burgh occurring on ff. 165r, with the date 3^d of June 1638, and 166r, and his name partly in cipher on other pages); predominantly in his hand, with some later additions in other hands.

Afterwards owned by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Burghe MS: CwT Δ 1.

Copy.

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

Copy.

The name Edward Michell inscribed later inside the rear cover. Afterwards owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Michell MS: CwT Δ 8. Briefly discussed (in connection with the poem Shall I die? attributed to Shakespeare) by Gary Taylor in The Sunday Times (24 November 1985, pp. 1, 3, with a facsimile example) and by Peter Beal in TLS (3 January 1986, p. 13); and see also letters on 24 January 1986, pp. 87-8.

Copy.

Comprising three separate units: ff. 1r-96v all in Sancroft's hand; ff. 97r-104r in a second hand; and ff. 105r-9r in a third hand.

Including (on ff. 2-23, 27ar-v, 70) 94 Latin poems ascribed to Crashaw (including three of doubtful authorship) and (on ff. 29-41, 43v, 44v-58, 60v, 62v-5v, 67-70v, 72-3, 95-6) 101 English poems (plus a second copy of one of them) attributed to him (including one of doubtful authorship) and (on f. 16r-v) one Greek poem attributed to him; a list of contents on the first page beginning Mr. Crashaw's poems transcrib'd fro his own copie, before the were printed; among w^ch are some not printed….

Cited in IELM as the Sancroft MS: CrR Δ 1. Crashaw edited in part from this MS, and collated, in Grosart, in Waller and in Martin (cited as T or T5), and discussed in Waller, pp. vi-ix, and in Martin, pp. lviii-lxxiii. Folios 28-34v, 38v-41, 44v, 52v-6 reproduced in facsimile in Steps to the Temple (1970).

Text from this MS in Early Stuart Libels online website.

An anonymous copy, Latin only.

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

Copy, docketed Received Sept. 16 [1628], from Will. Crosse.

Compiled by the Rev. John Rous (1584-1644), incumbent of Santon Downham, Suffolk, and relating, retrospectively, chiefly to public events and to literary texts in circulation in 1625-42.

Later owned by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist and antiquary. Turner sale, 7 June 1859, lot 253. The second MS purchased at Sotheby's, 15-25 March 1871 (library of the bookseller Joseph Lilly).

The first MS edited in full in Diary of John Rous, incumbent of Santon Downham, Suffolk, from 1625 to 1642, ed. Mary Anne Everett Green, Camden Society No. 66 (1856).

Edited from this MS in Diary of John Rous, ed. Mary Ann Everett Green, Camden Society 66 (London, 1856), p. 26. Green, p. 26.

Copy.

Copy.

Once owned by John Hart and John Ashton.

Copy, following a Latin version.

Inscribed (f. 1v) D^r Benfield of Cor; X^pi his Notes. / The gift of his Executor to M^r B: G. / -30.

Copy.

An anonymous copy.

An anonymous copy.

An anonymous copy.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) as the Emmanuel College MS: DnJ Δ 65.

Copy.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Stephen Wellden and Abraham Bassano and (f. 98r) Elizabeth Weldon. Later owned by William John Thoms (1803-85), writer, antiquary and librarian. Sotheby's, 11 February 1887 (Thoms sale), lot 1092. Also owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89). Formerly Folger MS 452.4.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Welden MS: DnJ Δ 49.

An anonymous copy.

Formerly recorded as Oglander book of accounts.

Copy of the Latin only.

Including thirteen poems by Strode and three of doubtful authorship.

Later sold by Thomas Thorpe (1836). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9569. Bookplate of 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 193.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Rosenbach MS I: CwT Δ 31 and StW Δ 23.

Copy of the Latin only.

Probably compiled by a member of an Inn of Court.

Bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork, book collector. Formerly Rosenbach 186.

Copy.

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.

Copy.

Later owned by Ambrose Salusburye. Sotheby's, 2 December 1907 (A.H. Frere sale), lot 321, to Dobell.

Anonymous copy.

Among the collections of Francis Douce (1757-1834), antiquary and collector.

An anonymous copy.

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).

An anonymous copy.

Inscribed (f. iii^r) by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector, Bought at the sale of M^r. [Jonathan] Boucher's Library in April 1806, for £2. 12. 6. E Malone.

An anonymous copy.

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

Copy, headed A farewell to the Duke when he went with the fflete towards the Islands of Rees.

Inscriptions inside the covers including the name Phil. Mu (or Mer.). Later in the library of John Sparrow (1906-92), literary scholar and book collector. Acquired in 1969 by Dr Bent Juel-Jensen (1922-2006), Oxford physician and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Sparrow MS: StW Δ 31.

Copy, headed Upon the Dukes goeing into Fraunce.

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

Copy.

Once owned by John Hart and John Ashton.

An anonymous copy.

Including 14 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 22 poems by Corbett and 36 poems (plus three of doubtful authorship) by Strode. Apparently transcribed in part from Westminster Abbey, MS 41.

Inscribed (f. 1r) by one I A of Christ Church, Oxford, and also Robert Killigrew his booke witnes by his Maiesties ape Gorge Harison. Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane, Bt (1660-1753), physician and collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Killigrew MS: CwT Δ 21; CoR Δ 6; StW Δ 14. Facsimile example of f. 2v in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), Plate 7, after p. 86.

An anonymous copy.

Copy.

Including 23 poems by Strode (and second copies of two poems) and one poem of doubtful authorship.

Including (ff. 98r-100r) a letter by one Pet[er] Wood. Inscribed (ff. 90r-1r), Thease verses I borroed to write out of John Sherly [d. 1666] a booke seller in litle Brittaine, 28^th of March 1633. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9235. Sotheby's, 21 February 1938, lot 243.

Cited in IELM II.ii (1993), as the Wood MS: StW Δ 21. Discussed in C.F. Main, New Texts of John Donne, SB, 9 (1957), 225-33.

Copy, untitled.

Copy.

Including 45 poems (and a second copy of one) by Carew, 11 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Corbett, and 25 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

The initials T. C. stamped on the front cover. Sold by Thomas Thorpe (1836). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9536, and by Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), of Providence, Rhode Island, industrialist, banker, and art and books collector. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 189.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Rosenbach MS II: CwT Δ 32, CoR Δ 12, and StW Δ 24. Discussed in Scott Nixon, The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 193-5).

Copy, headed Upon y^e Dukes voyage to y^e Isle of Rheez 1627.

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.