Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

Formerly part of the Lambarde volume of MS plays once owned by W.L. Lambarde, of Bradbourne Hall, Sevenoaks, Kent. Hodgson's, 19 June 1924, lot 528, to Major Barrett. Acquired by Folger from Frank Marcham, bookseller.

Edited from this MS in Bowers; described in Greg, Dramatic Documents, I, 336-7, and in R.C. Bald, Bibliographical Studies in the Beaumont & Fletcher Folio of 1647, Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, Supplement 13 (Oxford, 1938), p. 50 et seq. (with a facsimile page facing p. 52). Discussed in Fredson Bowers, Beggars Bush: A Reconstructed Prompt-Book and its Copy, Studies in bibliography, 27 (1974), 113-36.

Marked up copiously as a promptbook, in an italic hand, with cuts and stage directions and with a cast list.

Discussed in Gordon McMullan, Some Late Seventeenth-Century Annotations in Wadham's Copy of the Beaumont and Fletcher First Folio, N&Q, 233 (December 1988), 496-8.

Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by John Wilson.

Including ten poems by Carew and twelve poems by or attributed to Herrick, in musical settings, predominantly in a single hand (ff. 2r-63v, 92r-9r, 100r, with a change of style on ff. 64r-5v and in the index probably by the same hand), with 18th-century additions on ff. 81v-7v, 89r-v and 145v-53r, and scribbling elsewhere.

Later owned by Colonel W.G. Probert, of Bevills, Bures, Suffolk. Sold by Quaritch in 1937.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Probert MS: CwT Δ 4, HeR Δ 1. Discussed and analysed in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211. Also briefly discussed in George Thewlis, Some Notes on a Bodleian Manuscript, M&L, 22 (1941) 32-5, and in Willa McClung Evans, Shakespeare's Harke Harke ye Larke, PMLA, 60 (1945), 95-101 (with a facsimile of f. 78r). A facsimile of the volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 6 (New York & London, 1987).

This MS collated in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 177-9, and in Bowers, p. 352.

Copy in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

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

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

Edited from this MS in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, p. 93 (collated p. 178). Collated in Bowers, p. 352.

Copy in a musical setting by John Wilson.

Compiled by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer.

Bookplate of Povert Henley.

Copy.

Once owned by Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725) and afterwards among the collections of Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741).

Cited in IELM I.i (1980) as the Harley Rawlinson MS: DnJ Δ 64.

This MS collated in Bowers, p. 352.

Copy, headed 1. Song, under the general heading Songs to the play called Beggars Bush.

Copy, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

Compiled entirely by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer.

Later owned by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author.

Discussed in John P. Cutts, Seventeenth-Century Songs and Lyrics in Edinburgh University Library Music MS. Dc. 1. 69, MD, 13 (1959), 169-94. A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 8 (New York & London, 1987).

This MS collated in Cutts, Musique de La troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 177-9, and in Bowers, p. 352.

Copy, in double columns, untitled.

Inscribed (in another hand) on the front pastedown Thomas Boydell. Formerly Folger MS 4108.

This MS collated in Bowers, p. 352.

Copy, in a musical setting by John Wilson.

Once owned by the Shirley family, Earls Ferrers, of Staunton Harold, Leicestershire. Also owned, and annotated, by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author. Acquired in 1888.

Generally cited as the Earl Ferrers MS. Collated in Cutts, Drexel Manuscript 4041, Musica Disciplina, 18 (1964), 151-202. A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 9 (New York & London, 1987).

Edited from this MS in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 91-2 (collated p. 178). Collated in Bowers, p. 352.

Copy, untitled and here beginning Cast yo^r Caps and care away.

Once erroneously associated with Thomas Killigrew (1612-83), whose hand does not appear in the volume.

Inscribed (f. [ir]) S^r Robert Killigrew / 1702. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 9070. Sotheby's, 19 May 1897, lot 455.

Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Nancy Cutbirth, Thomas Killigrew's Commonplace Book?, Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin, NS No. 13 (1980), 31-8.

Copy of the song, untitled, here beginning Cast your Caps & Care away.

The contents, the latest of which (on pp. 203-7) can be dated to a marriage that took place in November 1656, reflect the taste of Interregnum Royalist sympathisers.

Formerly in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 4001. Sotheby's, 29 June 1946, lot 164, to Myers. Then in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.

Copies in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled and here beginning Cast your Capps and cares away.

Principally in a single hand, a second hand responsible for 4/b, ff. 17v-24v, and for 4/c, ff. 5r-12v; the collection largely copies of vocal trios that would appear in John Wilson's Cheereful Ayres (Oxford, 1660).

In a collection of MS music books associated with the Filmer family, baronets, of Kent, members of whom included the political philosopher Sir Robert Filmer (1588-1653), his brother Edward (d.1650, compiler of French Court Aires, 1628) and son Sir Edward (d.1668), and the playwright Edward Filmer (fl.1700).

Copy of Higgen's song in a musical setting by Nicholas Lanier (as edited by John Wilson).

Compiled by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer.

Bookplate of Povert Henley.

This setting first published in John Wilson, Cheerfull Ayres (Oxford, 1659).

Copy, in a musical setting by Nicholas Lanier (as edited by John Wilson), untitled.

Compiled entirely by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer.

Later owned by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author.

Discussed in John P. Cutts, Seventeenth-Century Songs and Lyrics in Edinburgh University Library Music MS. Dc. 1. 69, MD, 13 (1959), 169-94. A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 8 (New York & London, 1987).

Edited from this MS in Cutts, Musique de La troupe de Shakespeare, p. 95 (collated p. 181). Collated in Bowers, p. 352.

Copy, headed 2. Song.

Copy of a version of Higgen's song, here beginning I met with y^e deuell in the shape of a Ramme, in a musical setting probably by John Wilson.

Owned (in 1659) and partly compiled by the composer John Gamble (d.1687), with some misnumbering.

Later owned by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author. Acquired in 1888.

A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 10 (New York & London, 1987). Discussed in Charles W. Hughes, John Gamble's Commonplace Book, M&L, 26 (1945), 215-29.

Edited from this MS in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 94, 179-80. Collated in Bowers, p. 252.

Copy of the Boy's song, in a musical setting.

Formerly Carlisle Cathedral, Dean & Chapter of Carlisle MSS, Box B1.

These MSS discussed in John P. Cutts, Bishop Smith's Part-Song Books in Carlisle Cathedral Library (American Institute of Musicology, 1972).

Edited from this MS in John P. Cutts, A Newly Discovered Musical Setting from Fletcher's Beggars' Bush, Comparative Drama, 5, 1971, 101-5.

Copy, headed 3. Song.

Copy of the drinking song, in a musical setting (? probably by John Wilson), untitled, subscribed M^r Chilmead.

Compiled by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer (his signature f. 2v).

Arms of Eleanor Bursh on a seal affixed to f. 56r. Later owned and annotated in pencil by Thomas Oliphant (1799-1873), music editor and cataloguer.

A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 5 (New York & London, 1986).

Edited from this MS in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 83-4 (collated pp. 170-1).

Copy of the Boy's song, untitled.

Compiled in part (ff. 131v-66r) by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.

Copy of the song, untitled.

Including 16 poems by Carew and 13 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode. Written in three hands: i.e. A (Codrington's hand, including his own poems) on pp. 1-283, 349-55; B on pp. 284-9; and C on pp. 289-348, 356-60; dated (pp. 1-22) Anno Dom: 1638 and The 30^th of May. 1638.

Acquired from Blackwell's, 1962.

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

Copy in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

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

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

Wilson's setting first published in John Playford, Select Musicall Ayres (London, 1652). Edited from this MS in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, p. 1 (collated p. 114), and in English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), No. 21.

Copy, untitled, subscribed Ignoto.

Including 19 poems by Habington and (ff. 8r-21r, 28v) 21 poems by Katherine Philips transcribed from a edited source.

Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as Rawlinson MS I: PsK Δ 6.

Copy, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

Possibly compiled in part by one T. C.

Inscribed (f. 1v) R. Guise [of Abbey] Feb: 12. 1760. Purchased from Thomas Thorpe, bookseller, 17 June 1839.

A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 4 (New York & London, 1986).

This MS collated in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 114-15.

Copy.

Once owned by Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725) and afterwards among the collections of Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741).

Cited in IELM I.i (1980) as the Harley Rawlinson MS: DnJ Δ 64.

Copy, headed A Sonnet, subscribed W. S.

Compiled by one Thomas Crosse, whose name appears (f. 1*) in An Acrosticke upon my name, as well as subscribed (Tho: Cro:) to a poem on ff. 23v-4r.

Copy, in a musical setting by John Wilson.

This MS collated in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, p. 114.

Copy of the song, untitled.

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.

Copy of 2^d stanza of y^e song act 4 scene scen. 1., here beginning Hide O hide those hills of snow.

Copy, in a musical setting by John Wilson.

Once owned by the Shirley family, Earls Ferrers, of Staunton Harold, Leicestershire. Also owned, and annotated, by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author. Acquired in 1888.

Generally cited as the Earl Ferrers MS. Collated in Cutts, Drexel Manuscript 4041, Musica Disciplina, 18 (1964), 151-202. A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 9 (New York & London, 1987).

This MS collated in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, p. 114. Facsimile in John H. Long, Shakespeare's Use of Music (Gainesville, Florida, 1961), p. 135.

Copy, in a musical setting by John Wilson.

Owned (in 1659) and partly compiled by the composer John Gamble (d.1687), with some misnumbering.

Later owned by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author. Acquired in 1888.

A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 10 (New York & London, 1987). Discussed in Charles W. Hughes, John Gamble's Commonplace Book, M&L, 26 (1945), 215-29.

This MS collated in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, p. 114.

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 of the song, untitled.

The contents, the latest of which (on pp. 203-7) can be dated to a marriage that took place in November 1656, reflect the taste of Interregnum Royalist sympathisers.

Formerly in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 4001. Sotheby's, 29 June 1946, lot 164, to Myers. Then in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.

Copy, untitled.

Once erroneously associated with Thomas Killigrew (1612-83), whose hand does not appear in the volume.

Inscribed (f. [ir]) S^r Robert Killigrew / 1702. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 9070. Sotheby's, 19 May 1897, lot 455.

Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Nancy Cutbirth, Thomas Killigrew's Commonplace Book?, Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin, NS No. 13 (1980), 31-8.

In the hand of Edward Knight, book-keeper and prompter of the King's Company, incomplete, lacking Act IV, scenes i and ii and part of scene iii, with his note (f. 24r) explaining that the booke where by it was first Acted from is lost: and this hath been transcribed from the fowle papers of the Authors w^ch were found.

Hodgson's, 20 February 1903, lot 1124.

Edited from this MS, with facsimile examples, in Greg. Collated in Bowers. Facsimile example in DLB, vol. 58, Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers (Detroit, 1987), p. 17.

Copy, headed Love.

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.

This MS collated in Beaurline.

Copy of the first stanza, here beginning Dearest tel me what is loue, together with the second stanza of the version which appears in The Knight of the Burning Pestle (III, 29-42).

Including 11 poems by Donne, and 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett.

Later owned by Edward Jeremiah Curteis, M.P., of Windmill Hill, Sussex. Puttick & Simpson's, 30 June 1884 (Curteis sale), lot 175, to Pearson of Pall Mall for James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89). Formerly Folger MS 452.5.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), and II.i (1987), as the Curteis MS: DnJ Δ 50 and CoR Δ 9. Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Arthur F. Marotti, Folger MSS V.a.89 and V.a.345: Reading Lyric Poetry in Manuscript, in The Reader Revealed, ed. Sabrina Alcorn Baron, et al. (Washington, DC, 2001), pp. 44-57. Discussed in Arthur F. Marotti, Christ Church, Oxford, and Beyond: Folger MS V.a.345 and Its Manuscript and Print Sources, SP 113 (2016), 850-78. A facsimile of p. 36 is in Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey, Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper (Washington, DC, 2008), p. 32.

This MS collated in Beaurline and in Cyrus Hoy's edition of The Knight of the Burning Pestle, Bowers, I, 93.

Copy, in a musical setting by Robert Johnson.

Once owned by the Shirley family, Earls Ferrers, of Staunton Harold, Leicestershire. Also owned, and annotated, by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author. Acquired in 1888.

Generally cited as the Earl Ferrers MS. Collated in Cutts, Drexel Manuscript 4041, Musica Disciplina, 18 (1964), 151-202. A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 9 (New York & London, 1987).

Edited from this MS in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 27-8 (collated p. 135). Collated in Beaurline.

Copy, in a musical setting by Robert Johnson.

The original cover inscribed Ann Twice her booke. Inscribed on the first page My Cosen Twice Leftte this Booke with me...which is to be returne to her AGhaine.... Later owned by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author.

A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 11 (New York & London, 1987). Discussed in John P. Cutts, Songs Vnto the Violl and Lute—Drexel Ms. 4175, Musica Disciplina, 16 (1962), 73-92.

Edited from this MS in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, p. 27 (collated p. 135); collated in Beaurline.

Copy, in a musical setting by Robert Johnson.

Owned (in 1659) and partly compiled by the composer John Gamble (d.1687), with some misnumbering.

Later owned by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author. Acquired in 1888.

A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 10 (New York & London, 1987). Discussed in Charles W. Hughes, John Gamble's Commonplace Book, M&L, 26 (1945), 215-29.

This MS collated in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 134-6, and in Beaurline.

Copy.

Later owned by F.W. Cosens (1819-89). Bookplate of James W. Ellsworth.

Copy, untitled.

Probably compiled by a member of an Inn of Court.

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

This MS recorded in Bowers.

Copy, in a musical setting by Robert Johnson.

Owned (in 1659) and partly compiled by the composer John Gamble (d.1687), with some misnumbering.

Later owned by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author. Acquired in 1888.

A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 10 (New York & London, 1987). Discussed in Charles W. Hughes, John Gamble's Commonplace Book, M&L, 26 (1945), 215-29.

Edited from this MS in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, p. 28 (collated pp. 136-7). Collated in Beaurline.

Copy of the first stanza in a musical setting by Robert Johnson (as edited by John Wilson).

Compiled by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer.

Bookplate of Povert Henley.

This setting first published in John Wilson, Cheerfull Ayres (Oxford, 1659).

Copy of the first stanza, in a musical setting by Robert Johnson (as edited by John Wilson)

Compiled entirely by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer.

Later owned by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author.

Discussed in John P. Cutts, Seventeenth-Century Songs and Lyrics in Edinburgh University Library Music MS. Dc. 1. 69, MD, 13 (1959), 169-94. A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 8 (New York & London, 1987).

Edited from this MS in Cutts, Musique de La troupe de Shakespeare, p. 29 (collated pp. 137-8). Collated in Beaurline.

Copy, in a musical setting by Robert Johnson (as edited by John Wilson).

Owned (in 1659) and partly compiled by the composer John Gamble (d.1687), with some misnumbering.

Later owned by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author. Acquired in 1888.

A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 10 (New York & London, 1987). Discussed in Charles W. Hughes, John Gamble's Commonplace Book, M&L, 26 (1945), 215-29.

Edited from this MS in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, p. 30 (collated pp. 137-8). Collated in Beaurline.

Copies in a musical setting by Robert Johnson (as edited by John Wilson), untitled.

Principally in a single hand, a second hand responsible for 4/b, ff. 17v-24v, and for 4/c, ff. 5r-12v; the collection largely copies of vocal trios that would appear in John Wilson's Cheereful Ayres (Oxford, 1660).

In a collection of MS music books associated with the Filmer family, baronets, of Kent, members of whom included the political philosopher Sir Robert Filmer (1588-1653), his brother Edward (d.1650, compiler of French Court Aires, 1628) and son Sir Edward (d.1668), and the playwright Edward Filmer (fl.1700).

Copy of Vecchio's incantation, untitled, in a musical setting by Robert Johnson.

Including ten poems by Carew and twelve poems by or attributed to Herrick, in musical settings, predominantly in a single hand (ff. 2r-63v, 92r-9r, 100r, with a change of style on ff. 64r-5v and in the index probably by the same hand), with 18th-century additions on ff. 81v-7v, 89r-v and 145v-53r, and scribbling elsewhere.

Later owned by Colonel W.G. Probert, of Bevills, Bures, Suffolk. Sold by Quaritch in 1937.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Probert MS: CwT Δ 4, HeR Δ 1. Discussed and analysed in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211. Also briefly discussed in George Thewlis, Some Notes on a Bodleian Manuscript, M&L, 22 (1941) 32-5, and in Willa McClung Evans, Shakespeare's Harke Harke ye Larke, PMLA, 60 (1945), 95-101 (with a facsimile of f. 78r). A facsimile of the volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 6 (New York & London, 1987).

Printed from this MS in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 52-3 (collated pp. 149-50).

Copy, headed The coniuringe of y^e witch.

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.

Printed from this MS in James Orchard Halliwell, The First Sketch of Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor, Shakespeare Society (London, 1842), p. 69; recorded in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, p. 150.

Autograph copy by Lawes of the first six lines, in his musical setting, untitled.

Inscribed (f. 1v) Richard Gibbon his booke giuen to him by Mr William Lawes all of his owne pricking and composeing, and Giuen to me J R by his widdow m^ris Gibbon J R:, and Borrowed of Alderman Fidye by me Jo: Surgenson. Bookplates of William Gostling (1696-1777), antiquary and topographer, and of Julian Marshall (1836-1903), music and print collector and writer.

A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 2 (New York & London, 1986). Discussed in John P. Cutts, British Museum Additional MS. 31432 William Lawes' writing for the Theatre and the Court, The Library, 5th Ser. 7 (1952), 225-34, and in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Texts of William Lawes's Songs in B.M. MS. Add. 31432, The Library, 5th Ser. 9 (1954), 122-7.

From the library of Lord Charlemont.

This MS partly collated in Greg; described in Greg, Dramatic Documents, I, 334-7.

Extracts Out of y^e Elder brother. A Comedie by John ffletcher. Beaumonts fellow poet, with comments on the play.

Entirely in the hand of the Rev. Abraham Wright (1611-90), of St John's College, Oxford, author.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ja: Wright (Abraham's son) and later of Taylor, Brighton. Bookplate of William Bromley, of Baginton, Warwickshire, 1703. Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 21 August 1858 (Bliss sale), lot 220.

For facsimile examples, see ShW 71 and ShW 44.

Wright's comments (f. 86r-v.) edited in Arthur C. Kirsch, A Caroline Commentary on the Drama, Modern Philology, 66 (1968-9), 256-61 (p. 258).

Facsimile of f. 85v in Parnassus Biceps or Severall Choice Pieces of Poetry by Abraham Wright 1656, ed. Peter Beal (Scolar Press, 1990), pp. 192-3.

Copy of Charles's song, headed An ode, subscribed John Fletcher.

Compiled by one Thomas Crosse, whose name appears (f. 1*) in An Acrosticke upon my name, as well as subscribed (Tho: Cro:) to a poem on ff. 23v-4r.

Dyce, X, 248-9; Bullen, II, 57-8.

Excerpts, with comments on the play.

Entirely in the hand of the Rev. Abraham Wright (1611-90), of St John's College, Oxford, author.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ja: Wright (Abraham's son) and later of Taylor, Brighton. Bookplate of William Bromley, of Baginton, Warwickshire, 1703. Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 21 August 1858 (Bliss sale), lot 220.

For facsimile examples, see ShW 71 and ShW 44.

Wright's comments (f. 99r-v) printed in Arthur C. Kirsch, A Caroline Commentary on the Drama, MP, 66 (1968-9), 256-61 (p. 259).

Copy, here beginning Sing, That do keep our flocks, in a musical setting by William Lawes.

Compiled by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer.

Bookplate of Povert Henley.

Second copy in a musical setting by William Lawes.

Compiled by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer.

Bookplate of Povert Henley.

Copy, in a musical setting by William Lawes, untitled.

Compiled entirely by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer.

Later owned by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author.

Discussed in John P. Cutts, Seventeenth-Century Songs and Lyrics in Edinburgh University Library Music MS. Dc. 1. 69, MD, 13 (1959), 169-94. A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 8 (New York & London, 1987).

This MS collated in Cutts, Seventeenth Century Songs and Lyrics in Edinburgh University Library Music MS. Dc. 1. 69, MD, 13 (1959), 169-94 (p. 181); recorded in Hoy, p. 584.

Copy of a version, in a musical setting by William Lawes, untitled and here beginning Sing That doth Keep our flocks from harm.

Compiled entirely by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer.

Later owned by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author.

Discussed in John P. Cutts, Seventeenth-Century Songs and Lyrics in Edinburgh University Library Music MS. Dc. 1. 69, MD, 13 (1959), 169-94. A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 8 (New York & London, 1987).

This MS recorded in Cutts, MD, 13 (1959), 181, and in Hoy, p. 584.

Copy of Cloe's song, in a musical setting by William Lawes.

Once owned by the Shirley family, Earls Ferrers, of Staunton Harold, Leicestershire. Also owned, and annotated, by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author. Acquired in 1888.

Generally cited as the Earl Ferrers MS. Collated in Cutts, Drexel Manuscript 4041, Musica Disciplina, 18 (1964), 151-202. A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 9 (New York & London, 1987).

This MS collated in Cutts, Drexel Manuscript 4041, p. 169.

Copy of the God of the River's song in a musical setting by John Wilson.

Compiled by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer.

Bookplate of Povert Henley.

Copy, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

Compiled entirely by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer.

Later owned by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author.

Discussed in John P. Cutts, Seventeenth-Century Songs and Lyrics in Edinburgh University Library Music MS. Dc. 1. 69, MD, 13 (1959), 169-94. A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 8 (New York & London, 1987).

This MS recorded in John P. Cutts, Seventeenth Century Songs and Lyrics in Edinburgh University Library Music MS. Dc. 1. 69, Musica Disciplina, 13 (1959), 169-94 (p. 189), and in Hoy, p. 584.

Copies, in a musical setting by John Wilson.

Leaves excised from these volumes are in the Folger, MS V.a.411 (five leaves) and (nine leaves) at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust (Halliwell-Phillipps, Shakespearean scrapbooks).

A flyleaf in the Cantus Secundus part book inscribed Decemb. 30. 1674. Note that I Thomas Clifford bought this sett of Musick Books of Mr Richard Price's widow M^rs Dorothy Price for --7^s--6^d.

Copies in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

Principally in a single hand, a second hand responsible for 4/b, ff. 17v-24v, and for 4/c, ff. 5r-12v; the collection largely copies of vocal trios that would appear in John Wilson's Cheereful Ayres (Oxford, 1660).

In a collection of MS music books associated with the Filmer family, baronets, of Kent, members of whom included the political philosopher Sir Robert Filmer (1588-1653), his brother Edward (d.1650, compiler of French Court Aires, 1628) and son Sir Edward (d.1668), and the playwright Edward Filmer (fl.1700).

Copy of the Boy's song in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

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

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

Edited from this MS in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, p. 88 (collated p. 174).

Including 15 poems by Carew and 17 poems by King.

Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Bookplate of the Warwick Castle Library. Formerly Folger MS 1.8.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Halliwell MS: CwT Δ 26 and KiH Δ 11. James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Some Account of the Antiquities…illustrating…Shakespeare (1852), No. 8. Facsimile example in Giles Dawson and Laetitia Kennedy-Skipton, Elizabethan Handwriting 1500-1650 (London, 1968), Plate 42. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 195).

This MS collated in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, p. 174.

Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector, and by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Edited from this MS, with facsimile examples, in Gerritsen and in Ioppolo. Collated in Dyce and in Bowers. Discussed in Greg, Dramatic Documents, I, 288-93.

A presentation copy prepared by Crane (as a Matter Recreatiue) for Sir Kenelm Digby (1603-65), natural philiosopher and courtier, to whom a dedicatory epistle is written (p. v), dated 27 November 1625.

From the library of the Ormsby Gore family, Barons Harlech, of Brogyntyn (or Porkington), Oswestry, Shropshire. Inscribed (p. ii) by William E. Wynne with a note of provenance saying that Digby's grand-daughter married Richard Mostyn of Penbedw, Denbighshire, and that their daughter married Richard Williams, Wynne's great grandfather. Also inscribed K. Digby Margrit (i.e Digby's daughter-in-law), and) given by W.W.E. Wynne Esq. to me W. Ormsby Gore April 8. 1837.

Printed from this MS, with three facsimile examples, in the Malone Society edition. Collated in Dyce, in Bond, and in Bowers.

Facsimiles of two pages also in F.P. Wilson, Ralph Crane, Scrivener to the King's Players, The Library, 4th Ser. 7 (1926-7), 194-215 (plates I and II). Facsimile of first page in DLB, vol. 58, Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers (Detroit, 1987), p. 20.

Copy.

Once erroneously associated with Thomas Killigrew (1612-83), whose hand does not appear in the volume.

Inscribed (f. [ir]) S^r Robert Killigrew / 1702. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 9070. Sotheby's, 19 May 1897, lot 455.

Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Nancy Cutbirth, Thomas Killigrew's Commonplace Book?, Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin, NS No. 13 (1980), 31-8.

Copy of the spirit's song in a musical setting by J. H. (John Hilton?) or T.H. (Thomas Holmes?).

Once owned by the Shirley family, Earls Ferrers, of Staunton Harold, Leicestershire. Also owned, and annotated, by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author. Acquired in 1888.

Generally cited as the Earl Ferrers MS. Collated in Cutts, Drexel Manuscript 4041, Musica Disciplina, 18 (1964), 151-202. A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 9 (New York & London, 1987).

Edited from this MS in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 81-2 (collated pp. 169-70).

Copy, untitled. and here beginning Wee obay wee obay.

Once erroneously associated with Thomas Killigrew (1612-83), whose hand does not appear in the volume.

Inscribed (f. [ir]) S^r Robert Killigrew / 1702. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 9070. Sotheby's, 19 May 1897, lot 455.

Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Nancy Cutbirth, Thomas Killigrew's Commonplace Book?, Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin, NS No. 13 (1980), 31-8.

Edited from this exemplum in Dyce. Recorded in Williams, p. 176.

Excerpts, with comments on the play.

Entirely in the hand of the Rev. Abraham Wright (1611-90), of St John's College, Oxford, author.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ja: Wright (Abraham's son) and later of Taylor, Brighton. Bookplate of William Bromley, of Baginton, Warwickshire, 1703. Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 21 August 1858 (Bliss sale), lot 220.

For facsimile examples, see ShW 71 and ShW 44.

Wright's comments (f. 95v) printed in Arthur C. Kirsch, A Caroline Commentary on the Drama, MP, 66 (1968-9), 256-61 (p. 259).

Extracts from Acts III and IV, in a neat rounded hand, on three leaves once folded as a letter or packet.

Two brief extracts relating to marriage, transcribed from pp. 8-9 of a printed source, added in a late 17th-century hand.

Possibly compiled by one W: H:: i.e. probably William Holgate (1618-46), of Queens' College, Cambridge, with late 17th-century additions apparently made by other members of the Holgate family, of Saffron Walden and Great Bardfield, Essex.

Owned in the early 18th century by John Wale, who supplied the index on pp. 330-3. Owned before 1927 by Col. W.G. Carwardine-Probert, of Bures, Suffolk (descendant of the Holgate family).

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Holgate MS: DnJ Δ 58 and StW Δ 22. Briefly discussed in W.G.P., Verses by Francis Beaumont, TLS (15 September 1921), p. 596, and in E.K. Chambers, William Shakespeare, 2 vols (Oxford, 1930), II, 222-4. Also discussed, with facsimiles on pp. 68 and 70 of pp. 181 and 13, in Michael Roy Denbo, Editing a Renaissance Commonplace Book: The Holgate Miscellany, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, III, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2004). pp. 65-73. For facsimile pages see DnJ 2931 and ShW 25. Complete microfilm in the Essex Record Office (T/A 98).

Copy of Piorato's song, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

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

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

Edited from this MS in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, p. 110 (collated pp. 188-9), and in English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), No. 24; collated in Williams, p. 108.

Copy, in a musical setting by John Wilson.

Compiled by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer.

Bookplate of Povert Henley.

Copy in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

Compiled entirely by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer.

Later owned by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author.

Discussed in John P. Cutts, Seventeenth-Century Songs and Lyrics in Edinburgh University Library Music MS. Dc. 1. 69, MD, 13 (1959), 169-94. A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 8 (New York & London, 1987).

This MS collated in Cutts, Musique de La troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 188-9, and in Williams, p. 108.

Copy, headed On his M^rs Eyes.

Later owned by the Newcastle antiquarian collectors John Bell (1783-1864) and Robert White (1802-74).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Bell-White MS, CwT Δ 30. Described, with facsimiles of ff. 30r and 56v, in T.G.S. Cain, The Bell/White MS: Some Unpublished Poems, ELR, 2 (1972), 260-70.

Copy, headed To his loue.

Including ten poems by Carew and twelve poems by Strode (and two poems of doubtful authorship).

The initials M W stamped on each cover: i.e. M[aidstone] and W[inchilsea]. Evidently compiled by or for Sir Thomas Finch, Viscount Maidstone and Earl of Winchilsea (who succeeded to the peerage in 1633 and died in 1634). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 190.

The MS came to Rosenbach with a printed exemplum of William Wishcart, An Exposition of the Lord's Prayer (London, 1633), and the two clearly share the same provenance. The printed volume is similarly bound, with the initials M W; it is inscribed Lord Winchilsea for M^r Locker 1634; it bears the late 17th-century signatures of Stephen Locker and Alexander Campbell, and the bookplates of Captain William Locker (1731-1800) and Edward Hawke Locker (1777-1849).

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Winchelsea MS: CwT Δ 33 and StW Δ 25.

This MS collated in Williams, p. 108.

Copy, untitled.

Owned in the mid-late 17th century by E. Puckering (signed f. 1r), probably a man but possibly Elizabeth (d.1689), wife of Sir Henry Newton (afterwards Puckering) (1618-1701), by whose bequest the MS came to Trinity College in 1691 (this Lady Elizabeth being the daughter of Thomas Murray (1564-1623), tutor to Prince Charles).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Puckering MS, DnJ Δ 13. A note by Henry Bradshaw states that this MS was collated in 1861 and 1863 by the Rev. T.R. O' Flahertie (d.1894), of Capel, near Dorking, Surrey, book collector.

Copy, headed Sonnet.

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

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

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

Copies in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

Principally in a single hand, a second hand responsible for 4/b, ff. 17v-24v, and for 4/c, ff. 5r-12v; the collection largely copies of vocal trios that would appear in John Wilson's Cheereful Ayres (Oxford, 1660).

In a collection of MS music books associated with the Filmer family, baronets, of Kent, members of whom included the political philosopher Sir Robert Filmer (1588-1653), his brother Edward (d.1650, compiler of French Court Aires, 1628) and son Sir Edward (d.1668), and the playwright Edward Filmer (fl.1700).

Copy of the Novice's song, in a musical setting probably by Robert Johnson, untitled.

Puttick & Simpson's, 2 March 1866, lot 230.

A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 2 (New York & London, 1986).

Edited from this MS in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 97-9 (collated pp. 183-4).

Copy of the song, in a musical setting by Robert Johnson, headed Myne Osts songe. Sung in y^e Mad Lover.

Possibly compiled in part by one T. C.

Inscribed (f. 1v) R. Guise [of Abbey] Feb: 12. 1760. Purchased from Thomas Thorpe, bookseller, 17 June 1839.

A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 4 (New York & London, 1986).

Edited from this MS in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, p. 102 (collated pp. 184-5).

Copy, in a musical setting by Robert Johnson, untitled.

Compiled by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer (his signature f. 2v).

Arms of Eleanor Bursh on a seal affixed to f. 56r. Later owned and annotated in pencil by Thomas Oliphant (1799-1873), music editor and cataloguer.

A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 5 (New York & London, 1986).

Edited from this MS in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 100-1 (collated pp. 184-5).

Copy, in an incomplete musical setting, untitled.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Richard Elliotts his Booke and William Wilkins 1743. The cover initials A. B. conjecturally attributed to Adrian Batten (1591-1637), composer. Puttick & Simpson's, 30 June 1873.

Facsimile of ff. 2r-26v in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 1 (New York & London, 1986).

Edited from this MS in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, p. 103 (collated pp. 184-5).

Marked up for possible use as a promptbook.

Inscribed Edward Goldesbrough of Lincoln's Inn Esq^r and James Webb.

Discussed in James P. O'Donnell, Some Beaumont and Fletcher Prompt Annotations, PBSA, 73 (1979), 334-7.

Facsimile of p. 27 in O'Donnell.

Copy of the third soldier's song in a musical setting by John Wilson.

Compiled by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer.

Bookplate of Povert Henley.

Copy, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

Compiled entirely by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer.

Later owned by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author.

Discussed in John P. Cutts, Seventeenth-Century Songs and Lyrics in Edinburgh University Library Music MS. Dc. 1. 69, MD, 13 (1959), 169-94. A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 8 (New York & London, 1987).

Edited from this MS in Cutts, Musique de La troupe de Shakespeare, p. 77 (collated pp. 166-7).

Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by John Wilson.

Including ten poems by Carew and twelve poems by or attributed to Herrick, in musical settings, predominantly in a single hand (ff. 2r-63v, 92r-9r, 100r, with a change of style on ff. 64r-5v and in the index probably by the same hand), with 18th-century additions on ff. 81v-7v, 89r-v and 145v-53r, and scribbling elsewhere.

Later owned by Colonel W.G. Probert, of Bevills, Bures, Suffolk. Sold by Quaritch in 1937.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Probert MS: CwT Δ 4, HeR Δ 1. Discussed and analysed in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211. Also briefly discussed in George Thewlis, Some Notes on a Bodleian Manuscript, M&L, 22 (1941) 32-5, and in Willa McClung Evans, Shakespeare's Harke Harke ye Larke, PMLA, 60 (1945), 95-101 (with a facsimile of f. 78r). A facsimile of the volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 6 (New York & London, 1987).

This MS collated in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 161-2.

Copy in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

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

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

Edited from this MS in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 71-2 (collated pp. 161-2).

Copy.

Once owned by Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725) and afterwards among the collections of Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741).

Cited in IELM I.i (1980) as the Harley Rawlinson MS: DnJ Δ 64.

Copy, headed in the margin The madd Louer y^t sent his hart to his M^rs:.

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

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

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

Copy, in a musical setting by John Wilson.

Owned and probably compiled by Elizabeth Davenant (sister of Sir William Davenant), of Oxford.

Complete facsimile of this MS volume in Jorgens, VII (1987). Discussed in John P. Cutts, M^ris Elizabeth Davenant 1624: Christ Church MS. Mus. 87, RES, NS 10 (1959), 26-37.

This MS collated in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, p. 161-2.

Copies in a musical setting by John Wilson in a music part book.

Printed from this MS in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 70-1 (collated pp. 161-2).

Including 15 poems by Carew and 17 poems by King.

Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Bookplate of the Warwick Castle Library. Formerly Folger MS 1.8.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Halliwell MS: CwT Δ 26 and KiH Δ 11. James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Some Account of the Antiquities…illustrating…Shakespeare (1852), No. 8. Facsimile example in Giles Dawson and Laetitia Kennedy-Skipton, Elizabethan Handwriting 1500-1650 (London, 1968), Plate 42. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 195).

This MS collated in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 161-2.

Copy of Stremon's song, untitled.

Including 16 poems by Carew and 13 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode. Written in three hands: i.e. A (Codrington's hand, including his own poems) on pp. 1-283, 349-55; B on pp. 284-9; and C on pp. 289-348, 356-60; dated (pp. 1-22) Anno Dom: 1638 and The 30^th of May. 1638.

Acquired from Blackwell's, 1962.

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

Originally a copy in a musical setting, listed in the table of contents (as Orpheus I am come) but now lacking

The original cover inscribed Ann Twice her booke. Inscribed on the first page My Cosen Twice Leftte this Booke with me...which is to be returne to her AGhaine.... Later owned by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author.

A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 11 (New York & London, 1987). Discussed in John P. Cutts, Songs Vnto the Violl and Lute—Drexel Ms. 4175, Musica Disciplina, 16 (1962), 73-92.

Copy of the song, in a musical setting generally attributed to Robert Johnson.

Volume XXII of the collections of Warren Royal Dawson (1888-1968), antiquary.

Associated with the Aston family of Aston, Cheshire, and probably once owned by Sir Roger Aston (d.1612), Master of the Great Wardrobe to James I and his heirs. Also inscribed with the names of [James?] Davies, an officer serving under Sir Charles Morgan during the Thirty Years War, and Thomas Davies. One section linscribed (f. 12r, c.1682-6) Sylvanus Stirrop His Booke. Bought by Warren Dawson at Sotheby's 1931.

This volume described in Pamela J. Willetts, Silvanus Stirrop's Book, Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle, No. 10 (1972), 101-7, 156.

Copy, headed A Sonnet.

Compiled by one Thomas Crosse, whose name appears (f. 1*) in An Acrosticke upon my name, as well as subscribed (Tho: Cro:) to a poem on ff. 23v-4r.

Copy, in a musical setting.

Formerly Carlisle Cathedral, Dean & Chapter of Carlisle MSS, Box B1.

These MSS discussed in John P. Cutts, Bishop Smith's Part-Song Books in Carlisle Cathedral Library (American Institute of Musicology, 1972).

This MS collated in John P. Cutts, Bishop Smith's Part-Song Books in Carlisle Cathedral Library (American Institute of Musicology, 1972), pp. 61-2.

Copy of the first line only, in a musical setting, untitled.

For a fourth (Counter-tenor) part book of this Psalter, see British Library, Add. MS 33933.

Edited from this MS in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 60-1 (collated pp. 154-6).

Copy in a musical setting.

Printed from this MS in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 58-9 (collated pp. 154-6).

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

One of the part books of the St Andrews Psalter.

Edited from this MS in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 60-1 (collated pp. 154-6).

Copy of the Orpheus-Charon duet, in a musical setting by Richard Balls, headed A Dialogue between Charon & a Louer.

This MS collated in John P. Cutts, Seventeenth-Century Songs and Lyrics in Paris Conservatoire MS. Res. 2489, MD, 23 (1969), 117-39 (pp. 129-30).

Copy, untitled.

Including 19 poems by Habington and (ff. 8r-21r, 28v) 21 poems by Katherine Philips transcribed from a edited source.

Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as Rawlinson MS I: PsK Δ 6.

Copy, in a musical setting by Richard Balls, untitled.

Inscribed (f. 1v), probably by the compiler, Elizabeth: Rogers hir virginall booke. ffebruarye y^e 27: 1656.

Also inscribed (f. 1r, twice) Elizabeth Fayre. Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, February 1836 (Heber sale), lot 1151.

A facsimile of ff. 20v-3r, 26v-7r, 35v-7r, 46v-60r of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 2 (New York & London, 1986).

Edied from this MS (erroneously cited as Add. 11337) in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 62-4 (collated pp. 156-8).

Copy.

Once owned by Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725) and afterwards among the collections of Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741).

Cited in IELM I.i (1980) as the Harley Rawlinson MS: DnJ Δ 64.

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.

Copy.

Copy, headed Sonnett. ¹⁸.

Purchased c.1798.

Copy, headed A dialogue betweene Orpheus & Charon.

The name of the possible compiler John Pike inscribed on f. 1r: i.e. possibly a member of the Pike family of Cambridge (one John Pike (d.1677) matriculating at Peterhouse in 1662).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Pike MS: KiH Δ 12. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6), pp. 143-7.

Copy of the song, untitled, imperfect.

Compiled by Herbert Aston (1613-88/9), poet, son of Walter Aston, Baron Aston of Forfar (1584-1639), of Tixall, Staffordshire, diplomat.

Inscribed on f. i^v Her: Aston [monogram] the 29 of July an: D: 1634.

Copy of lines 10-11 of Stremon's song, here beginning All these lye howling all these lye howling, in a musical setting by William Lawes.

Once owned by the Shirley family, Earls Ferrers, of Staunton Harold, Leicestershire. Also owned, and annotated, by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author. Acquired in 1888.

Generally cited as the Earl Ferrers MS. Collated in Cutts, Drexel Manuscript 4041, Musica Disciplina, 18 (1964), 151-202. A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 9 (New York & London, 1987).

Edited from this MS in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, p. 65 (collated pp. 158-9).

Copy of a version, here beginning O divinest God of Love, in a musical setting by John Wilson.

Including ten poems by Carew and twelve poems by or attributed to Herrick, in musical settings, predominantly in a single hand (ff. 2r-63v, 92r-9r, 100r, with a change of style on ff. 64r-5v and in the index probably by the same hand), with 18th-century additions on ff. 81v-7v, 89r-v and 145v-53r, and scribbling elsewhere.

Later owned by Colonel W.G. Probert, of Bevills, Bures, Suffolk. Sold by Quaritch in 1937.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Probert MS: CwT Δ 4, HeR Δ 1. Discussed and analysed in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211. Also briefly discussed in George Thewlis, Some Notes on a Bodleian Manuscript, M&L, 22 (1941) 32-5, and in Willa McClung Evans, Shakespeare's Harke Harke ye Larke, PMLA, 60 (1945), 95-101 (with a facsimile of f. 78r). A facsimile of the volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 6 (New York & London, 1987).

Printed from this MS in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 73-4, 162-4.

Copies of a version, untitled and here beginning O divinest God of Loue, in a musical setting by John Wilson.

Principally in a single hand, a second hand responsible for 4/b, ff. 17v-24v, and for 4/c, ff. 5r-12v; the collection largely copies of vocal trios that would appear in John Wilson's Cheereful Ayres (Oxford, 1660).

In a collection of MS music books associated with the Filmer family, baronets, of Kent, members of whom included the political philosopher Sir Robert Filmer (1588-1653), his brother Edward (d.1650, compiler of French Court Aires, 1628) and son Sir Edward (d.1668), and the playwright Edward Filmer (fl.1700).

Copy of Stremon's song.

Once owned by Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725) and afterwards among the collections of Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741).

Cited in IELM I.i (1980) as the Harley Rawlinson MS: DnJ Δ 64.

Copy, in a musical setting, subscribed y^e Battle.

Formerly Carlisle Cathedral, Dean & Chapter of Carlisle MSS, Box B1.

These MSS discussed in John P. Cutts, Bishop Smith's Part-Song Books in Carlisle Cathedral Library (American Institute of Musicology, 1972).

Copy, on one side of a single folio leaf.

Among the papers of the Gell family, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, including those of the Parliamentary commander and MP Sir John Gell, first Baronet (1593-1671). Formerly D258/28/5i.

Copy, in a musical setting by Robert Johnson.

Once owned by the Shirley family, Earls Ferrers, of Staunton Harold, Leicestershire. Also owned, and annotated, by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author. Acquired in 1888.

Generally cited as the Earl Ferrers MS. Collated in Cutts, Drexel Manuscript 4041, Musica Disciplina, 18 (1964), 151-202. A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 9 (New York & London, 1987).

Edited from this MS in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 67-9 (collated pp. 159-60).

Copy, untitled.

Once erroneously associated with Thomas Killigrew (1612-83), whose hand does not appear in the volume.

Inscribed (f. [ir]) S^r Robert Killigrew / 1702. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 9070. Sotheby's, 19 May 1897, lot 455.

Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Nancy Cutbirth, Thomas Killigrew's Commonplace Book?, Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin, NS No. 13 (1980), 31-8.

Copy of Gerasto's song, in a musical setting by J. J. (John Jenkins?).

Once owned by the Shirley family, Earls Ferrers, of Staunton Harold, Leicestershire. Also owned, and annotated, by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author. Acquired in 1888.

Generally cited as the Earl Ferrers MS. Collated in Cutts, Drexel Manuscript 4041, Musica Disciplina, 18 (1964), 151-202. A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 9 (New York & London, 1987).

Edited from this MS in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, p. 104 (collated p. 185).

Copy of Gerasto's song, in a musical setting.

Once owned by the Shirley family, Earls Ferrers, of Staunton Harold, Leicestershire. Also owned, and annotated, by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author. Acquired in 1888.

Generally cited as the Earl Ferrers MS. Collated in Cutts, Drexel Manuscript 4041, Musica Disciplina, 18 (1964), 151-202. A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 9 (New York & London, 1987).

Edited from this MS in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, p. 105 (collated pp. 185-6).

Copy of Florimel's song.

Once owned by Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725) and afterwards among the collections of Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741).

Cited in IELM I.i (1980) as the Harley Rawlinson MS: DnJ Δ 64.

Copy untitled.

Once erroneously associated with Thomas Killigrew (1612-83), whose hand does not appear in the volume.

Inscribed (f. [ir]) S^r Robert Killigrew / 1702. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 9070. Sotheby's, 19 May 1897, lot 455.

Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Nancy Cutbirth, Thomas Killigrew's Commonplace Book?, Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin, NS No. 13 (1980), 31-8.

Excerpts, with comments on the play.

Entirely in the hand of the Rev. Abraham Wright (1611-90), of St John's College, Oxford, author.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ja: Wright (Abraham's son) and later of Taylor, Brighton. Bookplate of William Bromley, of Baginton, Warwickshire, 1703. Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 21 August 1858 (Bliss sale), lot 220.

For facsimile examples, see ShW 71 and ShW 44.

Wright's comments (f. 96v) printed in Arthur C. Kirsch, A Caroline Commentary on the Drama, MP, 66 (1968-9), 256-61 (p. 259).

Copy of the last song, untitled.

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).

This MS collated in Bowers, p. 144.

Copy of the song, headed Sonnets 20.

Inscribed (in another hand) on the front pastedown Thomas Boydell. Formerly Folger MS 4108.

Copy of the Passionate Lord's song, headed Vpon Melancholy. W: S.

Including 18 poems by Corbett and 59 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

Inscribed on a flyleaf Elizabeth Lane hir booke and, among scribbling on another flyleaf, Johannes Finch. P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 341.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Elizabeth Lane MS: CoR Δ 1 and StW Δ 4. The Dobell catalogue description recorded in Forey (pp. lxxxv-lxxxvi).

Copy in the hand of Elias Ashmole, untitled, in a column faced on the right by an answer poem beginning Come all my deare delights.

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, headed on Melencholie.

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

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

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

Copy, headed The Image of Melancolly.

Inscribed (f. 101v) Henry Lawson (or just possibly Lamson). Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1836), item 1185. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9257. Sotheby's, 15 June 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 862. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 164 (1896), item 64.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Lawson MS: DnJ Δ 37 and CoR Δ 2.

Copy of the song, headed A Sonnett.

Including twenty poems by Randolph, plus ten of doubtful authorship (some here ascribed to T.R.), in two hands (A: pp. 3-99; B: pp. 1, 99-129), with some scribbling and one heading in other hands on pp. 3, 98 and 133; a poem on p. 1 (beginning Loe here a sett of paper=pilgrimes sent) dedicatingthe collection [To y^e] Incomparably vertuous Lady the Lady Harflette: i.e. Afra (d.1664), wife of Sir Christopher Harflete of Canterbury.

Among the collections of Sir Charles Harding Firth (1857-1936), historian.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Harflete MS: RnT Δ 2.

Inscribed on p. 144 in a late-15th-century quarto volume of astrological and astronomical texts and a Cambridge play.

Probably once owned by John and Elizabeth Salkeld. Bookplate of Ashburnham Appendix No. CCXLIX. Bought in May 1897 by Henry Yates Thompson (1838-1928), newspaper proprietor and manuscript collector. Sotheby's, 1 May 1899, lot 171. Tregaskis, Caxton Head, sale catalogue No. 1020 (February 1936), item 6. Maggs's sale catalogue No. 697 (1940-1), item 169. Among the collections of James P.R. Lyell (1871-1948), book collector, who purchased it in August 1942.

Copy, headed Song in y^e praise of Malancholye.

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.

This MS briefly discussed in Edward F. Rimbault, Song in Fletcher's Play of The Nice Valour…, N&Q, 1 (5 January 1850), 146-7.

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

No. 7 of a set of ten volumes, owned in 1673 by one William Iles (friend of Izaak Walton), who sent them to John Fell (1625-86), Dean of Christ Church and Bishop of Oxford, for y^e vse of the publicke musicke Scoole.

Complete facsimile in Jorgens, Vol. 6 (1987).

Edited from this MS in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 106-7 (collated pp. 186-8).

Copy, headed The Lovers Melancholy, here beginning Hence hence all you vaine delights, and subscribed W. Strode, in a verse miscellany (ff. 267r-73v) compiled by an Oxford University man.

Copy, headed An other lre from S^r Thomas Wiatte the elder to his sonne oute of Spaine aboute the same tyme.

Copy, with an additional stanza by Henry King, normally part of The Farwell (KiH 352-368.8).

Including (f. 1r) an anagram on Frances Pawlett. Inscribed in red ink (f. 123v) Egigius Frampton hunc librum jure tenet non est mortale quod opto: 1659: i.e. by Giles Frampton, who is perhaps responsible for some of the later poems. Also inscribed [?]R. N. 1663. Some later notes in the hand of Richard Rawlinson.

Second copy, headed A Song, also with an additional stanza by Henry King, normally part of The Farwell (KiH 352-368.8).

Including (f. 1r) an anagram on Frances Pawlett. Inscribed in red ink (f. 123v) Egigius Frampton hunc librum jure tenet non est mortale quod opto: 1659: i.e. by Giles Frampton, who is perhaps responsible for some of the later poems. Also inscribed [?]R. N. 1663. Some later notes in the hand of Richard Rawlinson.

Copy, headed Melancholy.

The first MS a verse miscellany, in an italic hand, 29 leaves. c.1640.

Copy, headed In laudem Melancholie.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1830-84), merchant and author. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 190, to Thomas Rodd (1796-1849), bookseller.

Copy, headed Melancholicus.

Probably compiled by a Cambridge University man.

Inscribed in engrossed lettering (f. 1r) E Libris Richard Sutclif. Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1830-84), merchant and author. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 194.

Copy, headed Melancholy.

Including principally autograph poems by Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax (1661-1715), but also (ff. 72v-7v) some poems apparently in a much earlier hand.

Later owned by John Lilly, bookseller. Sotheby's, 15-25 March 1871 (Lilly sale), lot 1366.

Copy, headed On Malancholy, omitting the first stanza and here beginning Welcom folded armes and fixed eye.

Compiled by Sir John Perceval, Bt (1629-65), probably while at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Volume CXCII of the papers of the Perceval family, Earls of Egmont, and the allied Southwell family.

Copy, in a musical setting by John Hilton, untitled.

Puttick & Simpson's, 2 March 1866, lot 230.

A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 2 (New York & London, 1986).

Edited from this MS in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 108-9 (collated pp. 186-8). Facsimile of f. 3v in Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture: A Companion to The Collected Works, ed. Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino (Oxford, 2007), p. 170.

Copy, headed One Melancholy and here beginning Hence all yee vaine delights.

Inscribed (f. 62r) Nathaniel Heighmore: i.e. presumably Nathaniel Highmore (1613-85), chemical physician and anatomist; John Sacheverell his hand and pen Amen; and John Sacheverell the Author of this....

Copy, headed Verses made of Maloncholy.

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.

Copy, headed Malancholy.

Compiled by a royalist.

Inscribed (f. 1r) W^m Godolphin Serv^t to M^r Savile and Hen: Savile Serv^t: to M^r Godolphin.

Copy, headed Melancholly, dedicated to Reverendissimo domino D^o T. Episc. Dunelm [i.e. Thomas Martin, Bishop of Durham in 1632-59], omitting the first stanza and here beginning Come, folded arms.

Inscribed at the end 12^th October, 1658. J. Hinson, possibly the compiler.

Copy, in a musical setting; incomplete.

Owned in 1732 by Richard Goodson, of Christ Church, Oxford.

This MS recorded in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, p. 186.

Copy, headed The praises of melancholy.

Part I probably in several hands, the predominant italic hand that also responsible for the Welbeck MS: DnJ Δ 57), and including 21 poems by Donne.

Part I inscribed (f. 1r) John Smyth his Book 1640, Charles Smyth 1674, Hugh Smyth 1676; (f. 23v) J Smyth 1677 / 1676. Part II inscribed several times Thomas Smith, on f. 19r also Die: Maij 12^o Ano 1659, with a reference on f. 58v to Balliol College, Oxford, 1659/60. Later inscribed (f. [i^r]) by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), who records buying this very curious and interesting MS. of Mess^rs Boone. Afterwards in the library at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1. 28.

Cited in IELM, I.i, as the Thomas Smyth MS: DnJ Δ 48.

Copy, headed On Melancholy.

Including 12 poems by Carew.

Inscribed Richard Archard his booke Amen 1650; Richard Archard his penn Amen 1657; to Mr Satars[?] towads the Casting of y^e lead 1657; Tho: Wise; John Smith of halmortaine and I…went to Thornebury; and Edward Watt. Bookplate of William Harris Arnold.

Cited in IELM, II.i, as the Archard MS: CwT Δ 24.

Copy, headed Verses made of Melancholy.

Inscribed (Part II, f. 1*r) A booke of verses collected by mee RDungaruan: i.e. Richard Boyle (1612-98), Viscount Dungarvon and later Earl of Burlington.

Also inscribed Mary Helerd. Subsequently owned by James Tyrrell (1642-1718), historical writer, and by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1782-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 15745. Formerly Folger MS 46. 2.

This MS recorded in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, p. 186.

Copy, headed A Melancholy meditation, with the second stanza placed first (here beginning Welcome folded armes, and fixed eyes).

The pagination cited below relates to the second, main series of pagination.

Inscribed on a flyleaf in red ink Matheus Day me suum vvst: i.e. Matthew Day (d.1661), five times Mayor of Windsor. Later owned by John Payne Collier (1789-1883), literary scholar, editor and forger. Collier's sale, 1884, lot 906. Formerly Folger MS 452.1.

Copy, headed Melancholly. WS.

Including 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 57 poems (plus a second copy of one poem and four poems of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: possibly his MS 18123. Owned c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914), literary scholar and bookseller. Formerly MS 646.4.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Dobell MS: CoR Δ 8 and StW Δ 18. Discussed in Bertram Dobell in The Athenaeum, No. 4475 (2 August 1913), p. 112. A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).

Copy, headed Of Melancholy.

Including 40 poems by Strode and two poems of doubtful authorship.

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9510. (Phillipps sale, lot 1015.) Owned c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914). Percy Dobell's sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 342. Formerly MS 4201. 27. 1.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dobell MS II: StW Δ 19. Formerly Folger MS 1.27.42.

Copy, headed A Melancholy Meditation, here omitting the first stanza and beginning Welcome foulded armes and fixed eyes.

Including 14 poems by Strode (and a second copy of one poem).

Inscribed (front pastedown) Wakelin EeK Hering / Blows of Whitsor, and (rear pastedown) R. J. Cotton. Formerly Folger MS 2073.4.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Cotton MS: StW Δ 20.

Copy, stanzas 2 and 3 placed first, headed Melancholy and here beginning Wellcome folded armes, & fixed eyes, then stanza 1, also headed Melancholy.

Formerly MS 2073.3.

This MS recorded in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, p. 186.

Copy, written as two separate poems, stanza 1 headed On Melancholly and stanzas 2-3 headed Melancholly.

Including 11 poems by Carew and 14 poems by Randolph.

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

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

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

Copy, headed Of melancholy.

Including 15 poems by Carew and 17 poems by King.

Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Bookplate of the Warwick Castle Library. Formerly Folger MS 1.8.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Halliwell MS: CwT Δ 26 and KiH Δ 11. James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Some Account of the Antiquities…illustrating…Shakespeare (1852), No. 8. Facsimile example in Giles Dawson and Laetitia Kennedy-Skipton, Elizabethan Handwriting 1500-1650 (London, 1968), Plate 42. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 195).

This MS collated in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 186-8.

Copy, untitled.

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

Later bookplate of Henry B. Humphrey.

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

Discussed and edited from this MS in Peter J. Seng, Early Version of a Song in Fletcher's Nice Valour, N&Q, 228 (April 1983), 151-2.

Copy of the song, untitled.

Probably compiled by two members of the Calverley family (f. 1r contains a poem headed A new years giuft presented to my father and Mother by my Brother Thomas Calverly).

Later in the library od Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9624. Owned before 1947 by N.M. Broadbent. Later owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1906-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 13 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 135, to Maggs.

Copy, headed The praise of Melancholly, the text followed (pp. 125-6) by The mock song (Come, come all you deare delights).

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

Copy, headed Of Malenchollye.

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

Copy, headed Melancholy.

Inscribed (p. 211) I ended this book Nov^r. 13^th 1723.

Copy of a variant, garbled version, beginning Hence vaine delights as short.

Later owned by Sir John Simeon, third Baronet, MP (1815-70); by Richard Monckton Milnes (1809-85), first Baron Houghton, author and politician, and by his son, Robert Offley Ashburton Milnes, afterwards Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, politician. Sotheby's, 22 July 1980, lot 585, to Quaritch.

Recorded in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Monckton Milnes MS: DnJ Δ 63. Briefly discussed in Sir John Simeon, Unpublished Poems of Donne, Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, 3 (London, 1856-7), No. 3, and, with selected collations, in Grierson (II, cix et passim). A complete set of photographs of the MS is in the British Library, RP 2031.

Copy, headed The praise of melancholy.

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

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

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

Copy, headed On Melancholly.

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 On Malancholly.

The name of the possible compiler John Pike inscribed on f. 1r: i.e. possibly a member of the Pike family of Cambridge (one John Pike (d.1677) matriculating at Peterhouse in 1662).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Pike MS: KiH Δ 12. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6), pp. 143-7.

Copy.

Including twelve poems by Carew, nine poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Randolph and nineteen (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, the miscellany associated with Oxford University and possibly related to Bodleian MS Malone 21, the latest date occuring in a poem on pp. 63-6 Vpon y^e great Frost 1634.

Inscribed inside the front cover by a later owner: April 1853 Read to Lit[erary] & Philosophical] Soc[iet]y of L[iver]pool. Acquired in 1940 by Edwin Wolf II (1911-91), Philadelphia librarian.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Wolf MS: CwT Δ 37; RnT Δ 12; StW Δ 28.

Copy, headed On y^e prayse of Melancholly.

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, headed A Melancholy.

Including 45 poems by Strode and three poems of doubtful authorship.

Formerly Box 22, item II.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Osborn MS II: StW Δ 30.

Copy.

Formerly Chest II, No. 21.

Bookplate of Frederick Andrew Inderwick, Q.C. (1836-1904), of the Inner Temple.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in A. Stevenson, The Case of the Decapitated Cast or The Night-Walker at Smock Alley, Shakespeare Quarterly, 6 (1955), 275-96.

Extracts, headed Out of Philaster, or loue lies bleeding, A Tragicomedie by ffrancis Beaumont, and John ffletcher, with comments on the play.

Entirely in the hand of the Rev. Abraham Wright (1611-90), of St John's College, Oxford, author.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ja: Wright (Abraham's son) and later of Taylor, Brighton. Bookplate of William Bromley, of Baginton, Warwickshire, 1703. Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 21 August 1858 (Bliss sale), lot 220.

For facsimile examples, see ShW 71 and ShW 44.

Wright's comments (f. 94v) printed in Arthur C. Kirsch, A Caroline Commentary on the Drama, MP, 66 (1968-9), 256-61 (p. 259).

Copy of a version of Stephano's song, here beginning Downe bee still you Seas, in a musical setting by John Wilson.

Compiled by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer.

Bookplate of Povert Henley.

This setting first published in John Wilson, Cheerfull Ayres (Oxford, 1659).

Copy of a version, here beginning Downe downe be still yow seas, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

Compiled entirely by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer.

Later owned by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author.

Discussed in John P. Cutts, Seventeenth-Century Songs and Lyrics in Edinburgh University Library Music MS. Dc. 1. 69, MD, 13 (1959), 169-94. A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 8 (New York & London, 1987).

This MS collated in Cutts, Musique de La troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 174-6.

Copy of a version, here beginning Downe downe be still yow seas, in a musical setting by John Wilson.

Once owned by the Shirley family, Earls Ferrers, of Staunton Harold, Leicestershire. Also owned, and annotated, by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author. Acquired in 1888.

Generally cited as the Earl Ferrers MS. Collated in Cutts, Drexel Manuscript 4041, Musica Disciplina, 18 (1964), 151-202. A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 9 (New York & London, 1987).

Edited from this MS in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, p. 89 (collated pp. 174-6).

Copy, untitled, in a musical setting possibly by Stephen Mace.

Including ten poems by Carew and twelve poems by or attributed to Herrick, in musical settings, predominantly in a single hand (ff. 2r-63v, 92r-9r, 100r, with a change of style on ff. 64r-5v and in the index probably by the same hand), with 18th-century additions on ff. 81v-7v, 89r-v and 145v-53r, and scribbling elsewhere.

Later owned by Colonel W.G. Probert, of Bevills, Bures, Suffolk. Sold by Quaritch in 1937.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Probert MS: CwT Δ 4, HeR Δ 1. Discussed and analysed in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211. Also briefly discussed in George Thewlis, Some Notes on a Bodleian Manuscript, M&L, 22 (1941) 32-5, and in Willa McClung Evans, Shakespeare's Harke Harke ye Larke, PMLA, 60 (1945), 95-101 (with a facsimile of f. 78r). A facsimile of the volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 6 (New York & London, 1987).

This MS collated in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 164-5.

Second copy, also untitled and in a musical setting possibly by Stephen Mace.

Including ten poems by Carew and twelve poems by or attributed to Herrick, in musical settings, predominantly in a single hand (ff. 2r-63v, 92r-9r, 100r, with a change of style on ff. 64r-5v and in the index probably by the same hand), with 18th-century additions on ff. 81v-7v, 89r-v and 145v-53r, and scribbling elsewhere.

Later owned by Colonel W.G. Probert, of Bevills, Bures, Suffolk. Sold by Quaritch in 1937.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Probert MS: CwT Δ 4, HeR Δ 1. Discussed and analysed in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211. Also briefly discussed in George Thewlis, Some Notes on a Bodleian Manuscript, M&L, 22 (1941) 32-5, and in Willa McClung Evans, Shakespeare's Harke Harke ye Larke, PMLA, 60 (1945), 95-101 (with a facsimile of f. 78r). A facsimile of the volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 6 (New York & London, 1987).

Edited from this MS in English Songs (1625-1660), ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), No. 17; collated in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 164-5.

Copy in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

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

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

Edited from this MS in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, p. 75 (collated pp. 164-5).

Copy of the song, in a musical setting by Nicholas Lanier.

Volume XXII of the collections of Warren Royal Dawson (1888-1968), antiquary.

Associated with the Aston family of Aston, Cheshire, and probably once owned by Sir Roger Aston (d.1612), Master of the Great Wardrobe to James I and his heirs. Also inscribed with the names of [James?] Davies, an officer serving under Sir Charles Morgan during the Thirty Years War, and Thomas Davies. One section linscribed (f. 12r, c.1682-6) Sylvanus Stirrop His Booke. Bought by Warren Dawson at Sotheby's 1931.

This volume described in Pamela J. Willetts, Silvanus Stirrop's Book, Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle, No. 10 (1972), 101-7, 156.

Copy.

Copy, headed Carmen Consolatoriu.

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

Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, headed Carmen consolatorium, here beginning Weepe no more, sigh, nor groane.

Copy, headed This exquisite little song as from Beaumont & Fletcher's Queen of Corinthy. As it is not in the first Folio, it has been rejected from the text printed in the notes, in the Edition of 1778.

Owned in 1921 by George Neilson, then by Charles R. Cowie, and now in the John Cowie Collection.

Discussed in G. Neilson, A Bundle of Ballads, E&S, 7 (1921), 108-42.

This MS recorded in Neilson, A Bundle of Ballads, p. 120.

Copy in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

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

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

Edited from this MS in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, p. 76 (collated pp. 165-6).

Used as the binder's front endpapers in an exemplum of St Cyril, Opera (Paris, 1638), vol. VI.

Recorded, with a facsimile, in Jan Moore, p. 74 and at end.

Excerpts, with comments on the play.

Entirely in the hand of the Rev. Abraham Wright (1611-90), of St John's College, Oxford, author.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ja: Wright (Abraham's son) and later of Taylor, Brighton. Bookplate of William Bromley, of Baginton, Warwickshire, 1703. Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 21 August 1858 (Bliss sale), lot 220.

For facsimile examples, see ShW 71 and ShW 44.

Wright's comments (f. 98) printed in Arthur C. Kirsch, A Caroline Commentary on the Drama, MP, 66 (1968-9), 256-61 (p. 259).

The MS submitted for censorship to Sir George Buc, Master of the Revels, marked up for the writing of actors' parts, and with the King's Company's book-keeper's preliminary rehearsal notes for performance.

Owned until 10 May 1851 by the Fielding family, Earls of Denbigh and Desmond, of Newnham Paddex, Warwickshire. Recorded, as in their ownership, by Edward Bernard in Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ [ed. Humphrey Wanley] (Oxford, 1697).

Edited from this MS in Frijlinck and, with facsimile examples of ff. 2v, 3v, 7v, 24r, in the Malone Society edition. Discussed in T.H. Howard-Hill, Crane's 1619 Promptbook of Barnavelt and Theatrical Processes, MP, 86 (1988-9), 146-70; in T.H. Howard-Hill, Buc and the Censorship of Sir John Van Barnavelt in 1619, RES, NS 39 (February 1988), 39-63; and in Joseph F. Stephenson, On the Markings in the Manuscript of Sir John Van Olden Barnavelt, N&Q, 250 (December 2006), 522-4.

Facsimile examples in Greg, Dramatic Documents, II (discussed I, 228-9, 268-74); in DLB, vol. 58, Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers (Detroit, 1987), p. 174; and in Grace Ioppolo, Dramatists and their Manuscripts in the Age of Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton and Heywood (London & New York), p. 149.

Marked up for possible use as a promptbook.

Inscribed Edward Goldesbrough of Lincoln's Inn Esq^r and James Webb.

Discussed in James P. O'Donnell, Some Beaumont and Fletcher Prompt Annotations, PBSA, 73 (1979), 334-7.

Marked up as a promptbook, with cuts and stage directions and with a cast-list in two hands.

Discussed in Gordon McMullan, Some Late Seventeenth-Century Annotations in Wadham's Copy of the Beaumont and Fletcher First Folio, N&Q, 233 (December 1988), 496-8.

Copy in a musical setting adapted by Henry Lawes.

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

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

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

Printed from this MS in John P. Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, p. 96 (collated pp. 181-3).

Copy, in a musical setting adapted by Henry Lawes.

Owned (in 1659) and partly compiled by the composer John Gamble (d.1687), with some misnumbering.

Later owned by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author. Acquired in 1888.

A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 10 (New York & London, 1987). Discussed in Charles W. Hughes, John Gamble's Commonplace Book, M&L, 26 (1945), 215-29.

This MS collated in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 181-3.

Copy.

Once owned by Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725) and afterwards among the collections of Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741).

Cited in IELM I.i (1980) as the Harley Rawlinson MS: DnJ Δ 64.

Copy, untitled.

Once erroneously associated with Thomas Killigrew (1612-83), whose hand does not appear in the volume.

Inscribed (f. [ir]) S^r Robert Killigrew / 1702. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 9070. Sotheby's, 19 May 1897, lot 455.

Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Nancy Cutbirth, Thomas Killigrew's Commonplace Book?, Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin, NS No. 13 (1980), 31-8.

Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell (from 1872 Halliwell-Phillipps) (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Sotheby's, 23 May 1856 (Halliwell sale), lot 150, to J. Russell Smith; thence to Thomas Pennant Barton.

This item discussed in Robert K. Turner, Jr, Notes on the Text of Thierry and Theodoret, SB, 14 (1961), 218-31, and in Bowers's edition (Cambridge, 1966), III, 374. Recorded in Jan Moore, p. 67.

Copy in a musical setting by John Wilson.

Compiled by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer.

Bookplate of Povert Henley.

This setting first published in John Wilson, Cheerfull Ayres (Oxford, 1659).

Copy, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

Compiled entirely by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer.

Later owned by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author.

Discussed in John P. Cutts, Seventeenth-Century Songs and Lyrics in Edinburgh University Library Music MS. Dc. 1. 69, MD, 13 (1959), 169-94. A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 8 (New York & London, 1987).

Edited from this MS in Cutts, Musique de La troupe de Shakespeare, p. 34 (collated pp. 139-40).

Copy of the song, in a musical setting by Nicholas Lanier.

Volume XXII of the collections of Warren Royal Dawson (1888-1968), antiquary.

Associated with the Aston family of Aston, Cheshire, and probably once owned by Sir Roger Aston (d.1612), Master of the Great Wardrobe to James I and his heirs. Also inscribed with the names of [James?] Davies, an officer serving under Sir Charles Morgan during the Thirty Years War, and Thomas Davies. One section linscribed (f. 12r, c.1682-6) Sylvanus Stirrop His Booke. Bought by Warren Dawson at Sotheby's 1931.

This volume described in Pamela J. Willetts, Silvanus Stirrop's Book, Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle, No. 10 (1972), 101-7, 156.

Copies in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

Principally in a single hand, a second hand responsible for 4/b, ff. 17v-24v, and for 4/c, ff. 5r-12v; the collection largely copies of vocal trios that would appear in John Wilson's Cheereful Ayres (Oxford, 1660).

In a collection of MS music books associated with the Filmer family, baronets, of Kent, members of whom included the political philosopher Sir Robert Filmer (1588-1653), his brother Edward (d.1650, compiler of French Court Aires, 1628) and son Sir Edward (d.1668), and the playwright Edward Filmer (fl.1700).

Copy, untitled, here beginning Hearke you ladies y^t dispise.

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).

The poem here, Hearke yee virgins y^t soe prize, is quite different from the song in Valentinian, II, v, 24-43.

Copy of the song in a musical setting.

Volume XXII of the collections of Warren Royal Dawson (1888-1968), antiquary.

Associated with the Aston family of Aston, Cheshire, and probably once owned by Sir Roger Aston (d.1612), Master of the Great Wardrobe to James I and his heirs. Also inscribed with the names of [James?] Davies, an officer serving under Sir Charles Morgan during the Thirty Years War, and Thomas Davies. One section linscribed (f. 12r, c.1682-6) Sylvanus Stirrop His Booke. Bought by Warren Dawson at Sotheby's 1931.

This volume described in Pamela J. Willetts, Silvanus Stirrop's Book, Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle, No. 10 (1972), 101-7, 156.

Printed from this MS in Willetts, p. 107.

Copy, untitled.

Once erroneously associated with Thomas Killigrew (1612-83), whose hand does not appear in the volume.

Inscribed (f. [ir]) S^r Robert Killigrew / 1702. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 9070. Sotheby's, 19 May 1897, lot 455.

Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Nancy Cutbirth, Thomas Killigrew's Commonplace Book?, Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin, NS No. 13 (1980), 31-8.

Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by Robert Johnson.

Including ten poems by Carew and twelve poems by or attributed to Herrick, in musical settings, predominantly in a single hand (ff. 2r-63v, 92r-9r, 100r, with a change of style on ff. 64r-5v and in the index probably by the same hand), with 18th-century additions on ff. 81v-7v, 89r-v and 145v-53r, and scribbling elsewhere.

Later owned by Colonel W.G. Probert, of Bevills, Bures, Suffolk. Sold by Quaritch in 1937.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Probert MS: CwT Δ 4, HeR Δ 1. Discussed and analysed in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211. Also briefly discussed in George Thewlis, Some Notes on a Bodleian Manuscript, M&L, 22 (1941) 32-5, and in Willa McClung Evans, Shakespeare's Harke Harke ye Larke, PMLA, 60 (1945), 95-101 (with a facsimile of f. 78r). A facsimile of the volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 6 (New York & London, 1987).

Printed from this MS in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, p. 35 (collated pp. 140-2).

Copy, untitled and here beginning Come charming sleepe thou easer of all woes.

Including 16 poems by Carew and 13 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode. Written in three hands: i.e. A (Codrington's hand, including his own poems) on pp. 1-283, 349-55; B on pp. 284-9; and C on pp. 289-348, 356-60; dated (pp. 1-22) Anno Dom: 1638 and The 30^th of May. 1638.

Acquired from Blackwell's, 1962.

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

Copy of the song, in a musical setting by Robert Johnson, untitled.

Possibly compiled in part by one T. C.

Inscribed (f. 1v) R. Guise [of Abbey] Feb: 12. 1760. Purchased from Thomas Thorpe, bookseller, 17 June 1839.

A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 4 (New York & London, 1986).

This MS collated in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 140-2.

Copy, in a musical setting by Robert Johnson.

Owned and probably compiled by Elizabeth Davenant (sister of Sir William Davenant), of Oxford.

Complete facsimile of this MS volume in Jorgens, VII (1987). Discussed in John P. Cutts, M^ris Elizabeth Davenant 1624: Christ Church MS. Mus. 87, RES, NS 10 (1959), 26-37.

Edited ffom this MS in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 37-8 (collated pp. 140-2).

Copy in a musical setting by Robert Johnson.

Edited from this MS in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 36-7 (collated pp. 140-2).

Copy, headed A Sonnet. W: S.

Including 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 57 poems (plus a second copy of one poem and four poems of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: possibly his MS 18123. Owned c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914), literary scholar and bookseller. Formerly MS 646.4.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Dobell MS: CoR Δ 8 and StW Δ 18. Discussed in Bertram Dobell in The Athenaeum, No. 4475 (2 August 1913), p. 112. A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).

Copy, headed songe sung to Prince Henry at his departinge.

Formerly MS 2073.3.

Copy, headed A Song sung to Prince Henery at his departinge.

Including 11 poems by Carew and 14 poems by Randolph.

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

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

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

Copy of the song, in a predominantly italic hand, headed When prince Henry on his death bed could not sleepe.

Copy, headed A wish to his discontented freinde.

Including ten poems by Carew and twelve poems by Strode (and two poems of doubtful authorship).

The initials M W stamped on each cover: i.e. M[aidstone] and W[inchilsea]. Evidently compiled by or for Sir Thomas Finch, Viscount Maidstone and Earl of Winchilsea (who succeeded to the peerage in 1633 and died in 1634). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 190.

The MS came to Rosenbach with a printed exemplum of William Wishcart, An Exposition of the Lord's Prayer (London, 1633), and the two clearly share the same provenance. The printed volume is similarly bound, with the initials M W; it is inscribed Lord Winchilsea for M^r Locker 1634; it bears the late 17th-century signatures of Stephen Locker and Alexander Campbell, and the bookplates of Captain William Locker (1731-1800) and Edward Hawke Locker (1777-1849).

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Winchelsea MS: CwT Δ 33 and StW Δ 25.

Copy, headed Vpon prince Henry being in a slumber a little before his death.

Including 85 poems (and second copies of two) by Thomas Carew.

Inscriptions including Horatio Carey 1642 te deus pardamus [viz. Horatio Carey (1619-ante 1677), eldest son of Sir Richard Carey (1583-1630) and great-grandson of Sir Henry Carey (1524?-96), first Baron Hunsdon ], Thomas Arding, Thomas Arden, William Harrington, Thomas John, John Anthehope and Clement Poxall. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 8270. Bookplates of John William Cole and of the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, 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 194.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Carey MS: CwT Δ 34. Briefly discussed in Gary Taylor, Some Manuscripts of Shakespeare's Sonnets, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 68 (1985), 210-46 (pp. 220-4). Discussed, with facsimile pages, in Scott Nixon, The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 188, 191-2).

Copy, in a secretary hand, subscribed D^r Donn.

Inscribed on the last page (f. 98v) by Andrewes's secretary samMVel. WrIght of LonDon 1616.

This MS discussed, with facsimiles of ff. 36r, 40v and 44v, in P.J. Klemp, Betwixt the Hammer and the Anvill: Lancelot Andrewes's Revision Techniques in the Manuscript of His 1620 Easter Sermon, PBSA, 89/2 (June 1995), 149-82.

Edited from this MS in The Complete Poems of John Donne, D.D., ed. Alexander B. Grosart, 2 vols (privately printed, 1872-3), II, 246.

Copy.

Inscribed on the front cover William Turner his booke, 1662 and, on the rear paste-down Catherine Gage's Booke: i.e. Catherine Gage, Lady Aston (d.1720). Formerly among the papers of the Aston family, of Tixall, Staffordshire.

Poems selectively edited from this MS (as his Third Division: Poems Collected by the Right Honourable Lady Aston) in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), pp. 107-205.

Edited from this MS, as To Sleep, in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), pp. 134-5.

Copy of the Boy's song in a musical setting by John Wilson.

Compiled by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer.

Bookplate of Povert Henley.

This setting first published in John Wilson, Cheerfull Ayres (Oxford, 1659).

Copy, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

Compiled entirely by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer.

Later owned by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author.

Discussed in John P. Cutts, Seventeenth-Century Songs and Lyrics in Edinburgh University Library Music MS. Dc. 1. 69, MD, 13 (1959), 169-94. A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 8 (New York & London, 1987).

Edited from this MS in Cutts, Musique de La troupe de Shakespeare, p. 39 (collated pp. 142-3).

Marked up for possible use as a promptbook.

Inscribed Edward Goldesbrough of Lincoln's Inn Esq^r and James Webb.

Discussed in James P. O'Donnell, Some Beaumont and Fletcher Prompt Annotations, PBSA, 73 (1979), 334-7.

Copy of the Boy's song in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

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

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

Edited from this MS in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, p. 90 (collated pp. 176-7).

Marked up possibly as a promptbook, with cuts and stage directions.

Discussed in Gordon McMullan, Some Late Seventeenth-Century Annotations in Wadham's Copy of the Beaumont and Fletcher First Folio, N&Q, 233 (December 1988), 496-8.

Formerly part of the Lambarde volume of MS plays once owned by W.L. Lambarde, of Bradbourne Hall, Sevenoaks, Kent. Hodgson's, 19 June 1924, lot 528, to Major Barrett. Purchased by Folger from Frank Marcham, bookseller.

The text corrected from this MS in Ferguson. A complete colour facsimile edition of the MS ed. Meg Powers Livingston, Malone Society 2007 (Manchester, 2008). Facsimile of one page in R.C. Bald, Bibliographical Studies in the Beaumont & Fletcher Folio of 1647, Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, Supplement 13 (Oxford, 1938), facing p. 50.

Copy of Lopez's song, untitled.

Including 16 poems by Carew and 13 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode. Written in three hands: i.e. A (Codrington's hand, including his own poems) on pp. 1-283, 349-55; B on pp. 284-9; and C on pp. 289-348, 356-60; dated (pp. 1-22) Anno Dom: 1638 and The 30^th of May. 1638.

Acquired from Blackwell's, 1962.

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

Copy in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

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

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

Edited from this MS in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 86-7 (collated pp. 173-4).

Copy, in a musical setting by John Wilson.

Compiled by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer.

Bookplate of Povert Henley.

Copy, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

Puttick & Simpson's, 2 March 1866, lot 230.

A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 2 (New York & London, 1986).

This MS collated in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 173-4.

Copy, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

Compiled entirely by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer.

Later owned by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author.

Discussed in John P. Cutts, Seventeenth-Century Songs and Lyrics in Edinburgh University Library Music MS. Dc. 1. 69, MD, 13 (1959), 169-94. A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 8 (New York & London, 1987).

This MS collated in Cutts, Musique de La troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 173-4.

Copy, headed In praise of a Mistresse.

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

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

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

Copy, in a musical setting by Dowland.

Compiled by one R: Cr. (Robert Creighton).

Copy, in a musical setting by Dowland.

Compiled chiefly by Thomas Hamond (d.1662), of Cressners, in the parish of Hawkdons, Suffolk.

Also inscribed Marie Hammond.

Copy, in a musical setting.

Compiled by one R: Cr. (Robert Creighton).

Copy, in a musical setting.

Compiled by one R: Cr. (Robert Creighton).

Copy, in a musical setting.

Copy, in a musical setting.

Copy, in a musical setting by Dowland.

Copy, in a musical setting.

Once owned by the Hon. G.O. Callaghan.

Edited from this MS in William Chappell, Old English Popular Music (London, 1893), I, 197.

Copy.

Copy.

Copy, in a musical setting.

Copy, in a musical setting.

One of the part books of the St Andrews Psalter.

With a title-page Ane buck off roundells...Collected and notted by dauid meluill. 1612, the compiler David Melvill, of Aberdeen, being the brother of James Melvill (1556-1614), Professor of Hebrew and Oriental Languages.

The binding bearing the name of Robert Ogilvie in gilt. Later owned by Lord Ashburnham. Recorded in 1916 as owned by Michael Tomkinson, of Franche Hall, Kidderminster. Recorded in 1958 as being somewhere in Australia.

This MS edited as The Melvill Book of Roundels, ed. Granville Bantock and H. Orsmond Anderton (Roxburghe Club, London, 1916).

II, 432: Troule the blacke bowle to mee. Edited in The Melvill Book of Roundels, ed. Granville Bantock and H. Orsmond Anderton (London, 1916), pp. 13, 52-3.

A series of extracts from several plays.

Extracts from various plays

Volume CCLXXVI of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 281.

Extracts from numerous plays.

This is the longest known extant version of the unpublished anthology Hesperides or The Muses Garden, by John Evans, entered in the Stationers' Register on 16 August 1655 and subsequently advertised c.1660, among works he purposed to print, by Humphrey Moseley. Another version of this work, in the same hand, dissected by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), is now distributed between Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Halliwell-Phillipps, Notes upon the Works of Shakespeare, Folger, MS V.a.75, Folger, MS V.a.79, and Folger, MS V.a.80.

Formerly MS 469.2.

This MS identified in IELM, II.i (1980), p. 450. Discussed, as the master draft, with a facsimile of p. 7 on p. 381, in Hao Tianhu, Hesperides, or the Muses' Garden and its Manuscript History, The Library, 7th Ser. 10/4 (December 2009), 372-404 (the full index printed as Catalogue A on pp. 385-94).

Extracts.

Extracts from plays.