James Shirley

Copy.

4°, 78 pages (plus vi pages of preliminaries, pp. 79-88 blank); neat calligraphic MS of largely early versions of 36 poems by Shirley; the main text from p. 3 to p. 76 in an ornamented and flourished calligraphic script; a less elaborate script, certainly that of Shirley himself, appearing on pp. 77-8; titles added on pp. 12, 33 and 66, and some spaces left for other titles not filled; margins ruled throughout; the poems each signed J: S:; signed at the end (p. 77) J. Shirley. Greg and Armstrong considered the whole MS to be autograph, Croft only the last two pages: see discussion in Introduction above.

A note on p. 1 in the hand of Thomas Hearne (1678-1735) Octob. 17. 1719. This MS. was given me by M^r Ardern Battine, B.A. of Balliol College [i.e. Arden Battine (b. c.1694), of Wimmering, Hampshire, who matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in 1714 and transferred to Balliol, gaining his B.A. in 1718 and M.A. in 1721]; names on p. 82 of Andrew Wall, Joseph Wall and Ro: Doyley; later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755); c.1640-3 (and most probably 1642).

Recorded in IELM as ShJ Δ 1. Collated, and sometimes used as copy-text, in Armstrong; some poems also edited from it in Gifford & Dyce (1833), the transcript of the MS by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869) being in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce Collection (Cat. No. 48; Pressmark D.25. F. 43). Complete, slightly reduced, facsimile of pp. 1-78 in Poems 1646 (1970). Facsimiles of pp. 77-8 in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 40-1; of f. 78 in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCV(a), and in Alfred Murnau, John Webster. Teufel Wörter (Nordlingen, 1986), before p. 49 (see ShJ 192).

Edited from this MS in Armstrong.

Copy, headed Curtisan.

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 Curtizan.

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

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

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

This MS recorded in Armstrong.

Copy, headed Curtesan.

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

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

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

This MS recorded in Armstrong.

Copy, 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. 184.

Copy, in a musical setting by William 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.

Copy, headed The Curtizan.

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

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

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

Copy of a 36-line version beginning Lissen (Gallants) to my words.

4°, 78 pages (plus vi pages of preliminaries, pp. 79-88 blank); neat calligraphic MS of largely early versions of 36 poems by Shirley; the main text from p. 3 to p. 76 in an ornamented and flourished calligraphic script; a less elaborate script, certainly that of Shirley himself, appearing on pp. 77-8; titles added on pp. 12, 33 and 66, and some spaces left for other titles not filled; margins ruled throughout; the poems each signed J: S:; signed at the end (p. 77) J. Shirley. Greg and Armstrong considered the whole MS to be autograph, Croft only the last two pages: see discussion in Introduction above.

A note on p. 1 in the hand of Thomas Hearne (1678-1735) Octob. 17. 1719. This MS. was given me by M^r Ardern Battine, B.A. of Balliol College [i.e. Arden Battine (b. c.1694), of Wimmering, Hampshire, who matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in 1714 and transferred to Balliol, gaining his B.A. in 1718 and M.A. in 1721]; names on p. 82 of Andrew Wall, Joseph Wall and Ro: Doyley; later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755); c.1640-3 (and most probably 1642).

Recorded in IELM as ShJ Δ 1. Collated, and sometimes used as copy-text, in Armstrong; some poems also edited from it in Gifford & Dyce (1833), the transcript of the MS by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869) being in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce Collection (Cat. No. 48; Pressmark D.25. F. 43). Complete, slightly reduced, facsimile of pp. 1-78 in Poems 1646 (1970). Facsimiles of pp. 77-8 in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 40-1; of f. 78 in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCV(a), and in Alfred Murnau, John Webster. Teufel Wörter (Nordlingen, 1986), before p. 49 (see ShJ 192).

Edited from this MS in Armstrong, p. 93.

Copy of a 36-line version beginning List all people to my words.

Inscribed names (on front paste-down and f. 1r) of Fra: Norreys (? Sir Francis Norris (1609-69)) and Hen. Balle. Purchased from J. Harvey 8 December 1877.

Copy of a 40-line version beginning Listen: gallants, to my wordes.

Folios 62r-78v comprise an independent verse miscellany in the hand of the Feathery Scribe, with his title-page A: Booke;, Off, verses &c.

Later owned by Edward Stillingfleet (1635-99), Bishop of Worcester. Bought by Robert Harley in 1707.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 242 (No. 56).

Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 242 (No. 56.5).

Copy of a 30-line version beginning Listen Gallants to my words.

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

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

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

Edited from this MS in Armstrong, p. 93.

Copy of an intermediate 46-line version, in a neat roman hand, beginning Listen Gallants to my wordes, on two pages of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, among papers probably associated with William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle.

Copy.

Inscribed (on p. [330]) Robert Lord his book Anno Domini; (on [p. 335]) william Jacob his booke Amen; and, among scribbling on the last leaf, Hugh Gibgans of the same and John Winter of Buckland Dursbane [or husbande?]. Owned in 1788 by Alexander R. Popham. Bloomsbury Book Auction, 23 November 2000, lot 8.

A microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7698.

Autograph copy.

4°, 78 pages (plus vi pages of preliminaries, pp. 79-88 blank); neat calligraphic MS of largely early versions of 36 poems by Shirley; the main text from p. 3 to p. 76 in an ornamented and flourished calligraphic script; a less elaborate script, certainly that of Shirley himself, appearing on pp. 77-8; titles added on pp. 12, 33 and 66, and some spaces left for other titles not filled; margins ruled throughout; the poems each signed J: S:; signed at the end (p. 77) J. Shirley. Greg and Armstrong considered the whole MS to be autograph, Croft only the last two pages: see discussion in Introduction above.

A note on p. 1 in the hand of Thomas Hearne (1678-1735) Octob. 17. 1719. This MS. was given me by M^r Ardern Battine, B.A. of Balliol College [i.e. Arden Battine (b. c.1694), of Wimmering, Hampshire, who matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in 1714 and transferred to Balliol, gaining his B.A. in 1718 and M.A. in 1721]; names on p. 82 of Andrew Wall, Joseph Wall and Ro: Doyley; later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755); c.1640-3 (and most probably 1642).

Recorded in IELM as ShJ Δ 1. Collated, and sometimes used as copy-text, in Armstrong; some poems also edited from it in Gifford & Dyce (1833), the transcript of the MS by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869) being in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce Collection (Cat. No. 48; Pressmark D.25. F. 43). Complete, slightly reduced, facsimile of pp. 1-78 in Poems 1646 (1970). Facsimiles of pp. 77-8 in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 40-1; of f. 78 in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCV(a), and in Alfred Murnau, John Webster. Teufel Wörter (Nordlingen, 1986), before p. 49 (see ShJ 192).

Edited from this MS in Armstrong, p. 97.

Facsimiles also in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 40-1, and (part of p. 78) in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCV(a), and in DLB, vol. 58, Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers (Detroit, 1987), p. 257. See Introduction.

Copy.

4°, 78 pages (plus vi pages of preliminaries, pp. 79-88 blank); neat calligraphic MS of largely early versions of 36 poems by Shirley; the main text from p. 3 to p. 76 in an ornamented and flourished calligraphic script; a less elaborate script, certainly that of Shirley himself, appearing on pp. 77-8; titles added on pp. 12, 33 and 66, and some spaces left for other titles not filled; margins ruled throughout; the poems each signed J: S:; signed at the end (p. 77) J. Shirley. Greg and Armstrong considered the whole MS to be autograph, Croft only the last two pages: see discussion in Introduction above.

A note on p. 1 in the hand of Thomas Hearne (1678-1735) Octob. 17. 1719. This MS. was given me by M^r Ardern Battine, B.A. of Balliol College [i.e. Arden Battine (b. c.1694), of Wimmering, Hampshire, who matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in 1714 and transferred to Balliol, gaining his B.A. in 1718 and M.A. in 1721]; names on p. 82 of Andrew Wall, Joseph Wall and Ro: Doyley; later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755); c.1640-3 (and most probably 1642).

Recorded in IELM as ShJ Δ 1. Collated, and sometimes used as copy-text, in Armstrong; some poems also edited from it in Gifford & Dyce (1833), the transcript of the MS by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869) being in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce Collection (Cat. No. 48; Pressmark D.25. F. 43). Complete, slightly reduced, facsimile of pp. 1-78 in Poems 1646 (1970). Facsimiles of pp. 77-8 in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 40-1; of f. 78 in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCV(a), and in Alfred Murnau, John Webster. Teufel Wörter (Nordlingen, 1986), before p. 49 (see ShJ 192).

Edited from this MS in Armstrong.

Copy of a version beginning Cupid calls com Louers com, in a musical setting (by William 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.

Edited from this MS in Cutts, Original Music for Two Caroline Plays — Richard Brome's The English Moore; or The Mock-Mariage and James Shirley's The Gentlemen of Venice, N&Q, 231 (March 1986), 21-5 (p. 24), where it is suggested that this song may belong to The Gentlemen of Venice, Act III, scene iv.

Copy of an early version of stanzas 2-4, untitled and here beginning Her haires are Cupids, w^ch when she spreads.

4°, 78 pages (plus vi pages of preliminaries, pp. 79-88 blank); neat calligraphic MS of largely early versions of 36 poems by Shirley; the main text from p. 3 to p. 76 in an ornamented and flourished calligraphic script; a less elaborate script, certainly that of Shirley himself, appearing on pp. 77-8; titles added on pp. 12, 33 and 66, and some spaces left for other titles not filled; margins ruled throughout; the poems each signed J: S:; signed at the end (p. 77) J. Shirley. Greg and Armstrong considered the whole MS to be autograph, Croft only the last two pages: see discussion in Introduction above.

A note on p. 1 in the hand of Thomas Hearne (1678-1735) Octob. 17. 1719. This MS. was given me by M^r Ardern Battine, B.A. of Balliol College [i.e. Arden Battine (b. c.1694), of Wimmering, Hampshire, who matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in 1714 and transferred to Balliol, gaining his B.A. in 1718 and M.A. in 1721]; names on p. 82 of Andrew Wall, Joseph Wall and Ro: Doyley; later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755); c.1640-3 (and most probably 1642).

Recorded in IELM as ShJ Δ 1. Collated, and sometimes used as copy-text, in Armstrong; some poems also edited from it in Gifford & Dyce (1833), the transcript of the MS by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869) being in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce Collection (Cat. No. 48; Pressmark D.25. F. 43). Complete, slightly reduced, facsimile of pp. 1-78 in Poems 1646 (1970). Facsimiles of pp. 77-8 in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 40-1; of f. 78 in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCV(a), and in Alfred Murnau, John Webster. Teufel Wörter (Nordlingen, 1986), before p. 49 (see ShJ 192).

Edited from this MS in Armstrong, p. 98.

Copy of an early version headed An Hyperbolick Description of a Leady which for y^e sharpness of it I have here Insert and beginning Hir Hairs are Cupids nets which when she spreads.

Probably compiled in Scotland by members of the Rutherford family.

Inscribed (f. 1r) M^r Gideon Rutherford and Jean Rutherford, and (ff. 11v-13v) including a poem on John Reutherfoord. Acquired in 1924 from Maggs Bros.

Briefly discussed in Marcia Allentuck, An Unpublished Commonplace Book of Scottish Interest in the Folger Shakespeare Library, SSL, 7, No. 4 (April 1970), 270-1.

Copy of an early version headed In praise of his M^rs. Shirley and beginning Her haires are Cupids nets.

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

Copy, headed Vppon the Duke of Buckingham, Epitaph.

4°, 78 pages (plus vi pages of preliminaries, pp. 79-88 blank); neat calligraphic MS of largely early versions of 36 poems by Shirley; the main text from p. 3 to p. 76 in an ornamented and flourished calligraphic script; a less elaborate script, certainly that of Shirley himself, appearing on pp. 77-8; titles added on pp. 12, 33 and 66, and some spaces left for other titles not filled; margins ruled throughout; the poems each signed J: S:; signed at the end (p. 77) J. Shirley. Greg and Armstrong considered the whole MS to be autograph, Croft only the last two pages: see discussion in Introduction above.

A note on p. 1 in the hand of Thomas Hearne (1678-1735) Octob. 17. 1719. This MS. was given me by M^r Ardern Battine, B.A. of Balliol College [i.e. Arden Battine (b. c.1694), of Wimmering, Hampshire, who matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in 1714 and transferred to Balliol, gaining his B.A. in 1718 and M.A. in 1721]; names on p. 82 of Andrew Wall, Joseph Wall and Ro: Doyley; later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755); c.1640-3 (and most probably 1642).

Recorded in IELM as ShJ Δ 1. Collated, and sometimes used as copy-text, in Armstrong; some poems also edited from it in Gifford & Dyce (1833), the transcript of the MS by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869) being in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce Collection (Cat. No. 48; Pressmark D.25. F. 43). Complete, slightly reduced, facsimile of pp. 1-78 in Poems 1646 (1970). Facsimiles of pp. 77-8 in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 40-1; of f. 78 in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCV(a), and in Alfred Murnau, John Webster. Teufel Wörter (Nordlingen, 1986), before p. 49 (see ShJ 192).

This MS collated in Armstrong.

Copy, untitled.

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

This MS collated in Armstrong. Edited in the online Earl Stuart Libels.

Copy.

Inscribed (f. 1v, in a court hand) Daniell Leare his Booke, witnesse William Strode, and (f. 164r) M^r Daniell Leare eius Liber: i.e. compiled chiefly by Daniel Leare, a distant cousin of the poet William Strode, probably at Christ Church, Oxford, before he entered the Middle Temple in 1633.

This suggestion, by Mary Hobbs, is supported by entries in the Caution Book of 1625-41 at Christ Church, where Strode is found (p. 22) paying £10 as college security for Leare and where Leare signs (p. 23) on this sum's repayment by Dr Fell on 13 May 1633. Forey suggests (p. lxxix) that he was the Daniell Leare of St Andrews, Holburne, whose will was proved in 1652; but it is more likely that he was the Daniel Leare to whom Henry King, Dean of Rochester, leased property at Chatham on 19 July 1655 (National Archives, Kew, SP 18/99/61). Daniel Leare's wife, Dorothy, was a member of the Hubert family with whom King was associated by virtue of the marriage of his sister Dorothy.

The volume includes 12 poems by Donne; 15 poems (plus a second copy of one and three of doubtful authorship) by Carew; 20 poems (plus two of uncertain authorship) by Corbett; and 84 poems (plus second copies of eight poems, four poems of doubtful authorship and some apocryphal poems) by Strode, the texts being closely related to, and in part probably transcribed from, the Corpus MS of Strode's poems (StW Δ 1).

Inscribed also John Leare (probably Daniel's younger brother); (f. 1r) Anthony Euans his booke (who married Daniel Leare's niece Dorothy Leare in 1663); (f. 1v) Alexander Croke his Book 1773; and (f. 164v) John Scott (who matriculated at Christ Church in 1632). Rimell & Son, 9 November 1878.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), and II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Leare MS: DnJ Δ 41, CwT Δ 15, CoR Δ 4, and StW Δ 10.

Discussed in Mary Hobbs, An Edition of the Stoughton Manuscript (unpub. Ph.D. thesis, University of London, 1973), pp. 185-90; in her Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and their Value for Textual Editors, EMS, 1 (1989), 192-210 (pp. 189-90); and in her Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), passim, with facsimile examples of ff. 79-80 facing p. 87.

Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, untitled, among other poems on the Duke of Buckingham.

Inscribed (f. 134v) Anthony Methuen. Later owned by members of the Wyndham family, including probably the Henry Penruddocke Wyndham (1736-1819), topographer. Sotheby's, 11 April 1872, lot 1331, to David Laing.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Laing MS: DnJ Δ 47.

Copy, headed Epitaph on George Villiers Duke of Buckingham -- by Shirley.

Compiled by Colonel Gabriel Lepipre.

Copy, untitled.

Copy of an untitled eighteen-line version beginning I haue noe humour to adore the fface.

4°, 78 pages (plus vi pages of preliminaries, pp. 79-88 blank); neat calligraphic MS of largely early versions of 36 poems by Shirley; the main text from p. 3 to p. 76 in an ornamented and flourished calligraphic script; a less elaborate script, certainly that of Shirley himself, appearing on pp. 77-8; titles added on pp. 12, 33 and 66, and some spaces left for other titles not filled; margins ruled throughout; the poems each signed J: S:; signed at the end (p. 77) J. Shirley. Greg and Armstrong considered the whole MS to be autograph, Croft only the last two pages: see discussion in Introduction above.

A note on p. 1 in the hand of Thomas Hearne (1678-1735) Octob. 17. 1719. This MS. was given me by M^r Ardern Battine, B.A. of Balliol College [i.e. Arden Battine (b. c.1694), of Wimmering, Hampshire, who matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in 1714 and transferred to Balliol, gaining his B.A. in 1718 and M.A. in 1721]; names on p. 82 of Andrew Wall, Joseph Wall and Ro: Doyley; later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755); c.1640-3 (and most probably 1642).

Recorded in IELM as ShJ Δ 1. Collated, and sometimes used as copy-text, in Armstrong; some poems also edited from it in Gifford & Dyce (1833), the transcript of the MS by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869) being in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce Collection (Cat. No. 48; Pressmark D.25. F. 43). Complete, slightly reduced, facsimile of pp. 1-78 in Poems 1646 (1970). Facsimiles of pp. 77-8 in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 40-1; of f. 78 in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCV(a), and in Alfred Murnau, John Webster. Teufel Wörter (Nordlingen, 1986), before p. 49 (see ShJ 192).

Edited from this MS in Armstrong, p. 97.

Copy of a version headed To a Gentleman that magnified his M^rs. the prayse of a M^r. and beginning I haue noe humour to adore the face.

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 of a version headed To a Gentleman (that magnified his Mistresse) The praise of a Maister and beginning I have no humour to adore the face.

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

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

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

This MS recorded in Armstrong.

Copy of a version headed To a Gentleman (that magnified his Mistresse) The praise of a M^r. and beginning I have no humour to adore y^e face, subscribed T.R..

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

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

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

Copy of a seven-stanza version, headed Chlorinda's Garden and here beginning fayne would I have a Plott of ground, subscribed James Shirley.

Including fourteen poems by James Shirley, generally ascribed to him, and eleven poems by Strode (and two of doubtful authorship).

Inscribed (on the front paste-down) My cousin chute gaue me this book out of his father study at the vine Hampshire (following the same statement in French), indicating that the MS was owned by, and possibly originally compiled for, the family of Chaloner Chute, MP (c.1595-1659), Speaker of the house of Commons, who acquired The Vyne, near Basingstoke, Hampshire, in 1653. Later owned by Sir William Tite (1798-1873), architect. Sotheby's, 30 May 1874, lot 2343. Bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork, book collector. Sotheby's, 21 March 1891 (Crawford sale), lot 2493.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Chute MS: ShJ Δ 2 and StW Δ 11. Briefly discussed, with a facsimile of f. 34v (see ShJ 96 and ShJ 100) in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and their Value for Textual Editors, EMS, 1 (1989), 192-210 (pp. 200-1, 209-10 n. 40). Discussed, with facsimiles of ff. 53r and 80r, in Arthur F. Marotti, Chaloner Chute's Poetical Anthology (British Library, Additional MS 33998) as a Cosmopolitan Collection, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 99).

Edited from this MS text in Howarth, pp. 26-7, and in Armstrong, p. 97.

Copy of a seven-stanza version headed Cardias Garden and beginning Faine would I haue A plott of Ground.

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

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

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

This MS collated in Howarth and recorded in Armstrong.

Copy, headed (afterwards) One that lou'd two Mistresses at once.

4°, 78 pages (plus vi pages of preliminaries, pp. 79-88 blank); neat calligraphic MS of largely early versions of 36 poems by Shirley; the main text from p. 3 to p. 76 in an ornamented and flourished calligraphic script; a less elaborate script, certainly that of Shirley himself, appearing on pp. 77-8; titles added on pp. 12, 33 and 66, and some spaces left for other titles not filled; margins ruled throughout; the poems each signed J: S:; signed at the end (p. 77) J. Shirley. Greg and Armstrong considered the whole MS to be autograph, Croft only the last two pages: see discussion in Introduction above.

A note on p. 1 in the hand of Thomas Hearne (1678-1735) Octob. 17. 1719. This MS. was given me by M^r Ardern Battine, B.A. of Balliol College [i.e. Arden Battine (b. c.1694), of Wimmering, Hampshire, who matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in 1714 and transferred to Balliol, gaining his B.A. in 1718 and M.A. in 1721]; names on p. 82 of Andrew Wall, Joseph Wall and Ro: Doyley; later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755); c.1640-3 (and most probably 1642).

Recorded in IELM as ShJ Δ 1. Collated, and sometimes used as copy-text, in Armstrong; some poems also edited from it in Gifford & Dyce (1833), the transcript of the MS by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869) being in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce Collection (Cat. No. 48; Pressmark D.25. F. 43). Complete, slightly reduced, facsimile of pp. 1-78 in Poems 1646 (1970). Facsimiles of pp. 77-8 in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 40-1; of f. 78 in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCV(a), and in Alfred Murnau, John Webster. Teufel Wörter (Nordlingen, 1986), before p. 49 (see ShJ 192).

This MS collated in Armstrong.

Copy, untitled.

4°, 78 pages (plus vi pages of preliminaries, pp. 79-88 blank); neat calligraphic MS of largely early versions of 36 poems by Shirley; the main text from p. 3 to p. 76 in an ornamented and flourished calligraphic script; a less elaborate script, certainly that of Shirley himself, appearing on pp. 77-8; titles added on pp. 12, 33 and 66, and some spaces left for other titles not filled; margins ruled throughout; the poems each signed J: S:; signed at the end (p. 77) J. Shirley. Greg and Armstrong considered the whole MS to be autograph, Croft only the last two pages: see discussion in Introduction above.

A note on p. 1 in the hand of Thomas Hearne (1678-1735) Octob. 17. 1719. This MS. was given me by M^r Ardern Battine, B.A. of Balliol College [i.e. Arden Battine (b. c.1694), of Wimmering, Hampshire, who matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in 1714 and transferred to Balliol, gaining his B.A. in 1718 and M.A. in 1721]; names on p. 82 of Andrew Wall, Joseph Wall and Ro: Doyley; later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755); c.1640-3 (and most probably 1642).

Recorded in IELM as ShJ Δ 1. Collated, and sometimes used as copy-text, in Armstrong; some poems also edited from it in Gifford & Dyce (1833), the transcript of the MS by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869) being in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce Collection (Cat. No. 48; Pressmark D.25. F. 43). Complete, slightly reduced, facsimile of pp. 1-78 in Poems 1646 (1970). Facsimiles of pp. 77-8 in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 40-1; of f. 78 in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCV(a), and in Alfred Murnau, John Webster. Teufel Wörter (Nordlingen, 1986), before p. 49 (see ShJ 192).

This MS collated in Armstrong.

Copy, headed Good morrow to y^e wonder of her Sex.

Including fourteen poems by James Shirley, generally ascribed to him, and eleven poems by Strode (and two of doubtful authorship).

Inscribed (on the front paste-down) My cousin chute gaue me this book out of his father study at the vine Hampshire (following the same statement in French), indicating that the MS was owned by, and possibly originally compiled for, the family of Chaloner Chute, MP (c.1595-1659), Speaker of the house of Commons, who acquired The Vyne, near Basingstoke, Hampshire, in 1653. Later owned by Sir William Tite (1798-1873), architect. Sotheby's, 30 May 1874, lot 2343. Bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork, book collector. Sotheby's, 21 March 1891 (Crawford sale), lot 2493.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Chute MS: ShJ Δ 2 and StW Δ 11. Briefly discussed, with a facsimile of f. 34v (see ShJ 96 and ShJ 100) in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and their Value for Textual Editors, EMS, 1 (1989), 192-210 (pp. 200-1, 209-10 n. 40). Discussed, with facsimiles of ff. 53r and 80r, in Arthur F. Marotti, Chaloner Chute's Poetical Anthology (British Library, Additional MS 33998) as a Cosmopolitan Collection, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 99).

This MS text collated in Armstrong.

Copy, 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, subscribed 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 John P. Cutts, Seventeenth-Century Songs and Lyrics in Edinburgh University Library Music MS. Dc. 1. 69, MD, 13 (1959), 169-94 (p. 181).

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).

Copy, 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. 194.

Copy, subscribed James Shirley.

Including fourteen poems by James Shirley, generally ascribed to him, and eleven poems by Strode (and two of doubtful authorship).

Inscribed (on the front paste-down) My cousin chute gaue me this book out of his father study at the vine Hampshire (following the same statement in French), indicating that the MS was owned by, and possibly originally compiled for, the family of Chaloner Chute, MP (c.1595-1659), Speaker of the house of Commons, who acquired The Vyne, near Basingstoke, Hampshire, in 1653. Later owned by Sir William Tite (1798-1873), architect. Sotheby's, 30 May 1874, lot 2343. Bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork, book collector. Sotheby's, 21 March 1891 (Crawford sale), lot 2493.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Chute MS: ShJ Δ 2 and StW Δ 11. Briefly discussed, with a facsimile of f. 34v (see ShJ 96 and ShJ 100) in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and their Value for Textual Editors, EMS, 1 (1989), 192-210 (pp. 200-1, 209-10 n. 40). Discussed, with facsimiles of ff. 53r and 80r, in Arthur F. Marotti, Chaloner Chute's Poetical Anthology (British Library, Additional MS 33998) as a Cosmopolitan Collection, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 99).

Edited from this MS text in Howarth and in Armstrong.

Copy, untitled.

4°, 78 pages (plus vi pages of preliminaries, pp. 79-88 blank); neat calligraphic MS of largely early versions of 36 poems by Shirley; the main text from p. 3 to p. 76 in an ornamented and flourished calligraphic script; a less elaborate script, certainly that of Shirley himself, appearing on pp. 77-8; titles added on pp. 12, 33 and 66, and some spaces left for other titles not filled; margins ruled throughout; the poems each signed J: S:; signed at the end (p. 77) J. Shirley. Greg and Armstrong considered the whole MS to be autograph, Croft only the last two pages: see discussion in Introduction above.

A note on p. 1 in the hand of Thomas Hearne (1678-1735) Octob. 17. 1719. This MS. was given me by M^r Ardern Battine, B.A. of Balliol College [i.e. Arden Battine (b. c.1694), of Wimmering, Hampshire, who matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in 1714 and transferred to Balliol, gaining his B.A. in 1718 and M.A. in 1721]; names on p. 82 of Andrew Wall, Joseph Wall and Ro: Doyley; later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755); c.1640-3 (and most probably 1642).

Recorded in IELM as ShJ Δ 1. Collated, and sometimes used as copy-text, in Armstrong; some poems also edited from it in Gifford & Dyce (1833), the transcript of the MS by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869) being in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce Collection (Cat. No. 48; Pressmark D.25. F. 43). Complete, slightly reduced, facsimile of pp. 1-78 in Poems 1646 (1970). Facsimiles of pp. 77-8 in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 40-1; of f. 78 in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCV(a), and in Alfred Murnau, John Webster. Teufel Wörter (Nordlingen, 1986), before p. 49 (see ShJ 192).

Edited from this MS in Gifford & Dyce and in Armstrong.

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

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

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

Edited from this MS in Howarth and in Armstrong.

Copy, headed Of the old Cittie of verulam nere S^t Albons

Entitled Collections out of seuerall Authors by Marmaduke Raudon Eboracensis 1662: i.e. compiled by Marmaduke Rawdon (1610-69), traveller and antiquary, of Guiseley, Yorkshire, who later lived with his cousin, also named Marmaduke Rawdon, at Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, the MS including elegies on yet another (Sir) Marmaduke Rawdon (1582-1646), Governor of Basing House.

Later owned by Thomas Rodd (1796-1849). Rodd's sale catalogue, February 1850, item 764.

Cited in IELM, II.i, as the Rawdon MS: CrR Δ 2. Crashaw's work collated in Martin (cited as A1) and discussed pp. lxxx-lxxxi.

For other Rawdon miscellanies, see Yale, Osborn MS fb 150; York Minster, MS Add. 122; and a MS sold at Puttick and Simpson's, 3 March 1870, lot 552, to Nicholls. For the Rawdon family, see H.F. Hayllar, The Chronicles of Hoddesdon (1948), pp. 52-4.

This MS collated in Howarth and in Armstrong.

Copy.

4°, 78 pages (plus vi pages of preliminaries, pp. 79-88 blank); neat calligraphic MS of largely early versions of 36 poems by Shirley; the main text from p. 3 to p. 76 in an ornamented and flourished calligraphic script; a less elaborate script, certainly that of Shirley himself, appearing on pp. 77-8; titles added on pp. 12, 33 and 66, and some spaces left for other titles not filled; margins ruled throughout; the poems each signed J: S:; signed at the end (p. 77) J. Shirley. Greg and Armstrong considered the whole MS to be autograph, Croft only the last two pages: see discussion in Introduction above.

A note on p. 1 in the hand of Thomas Hearne (1678-1735) Octob. 17. 1719. This MS. was given me by M^r Ardern Battine, B.A. of Balliol College [i.e. Arden Battine (b. c.1694), of Wimmering, Hampshire, who matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in 1714 and transferred to Balliol, gaining his B.A. in 1718 and M.A. in 1721]; names on p. 82 of Andrew Wall, Joseph Wall and Ro: Doyley; later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755); c.1640-3 (and most probably 1642).

Recorded in IELM as ShJ Δ 1. Collated, and sometimes used as copy-text, in Armstrong; some poems also edited from it in Gifford & Dyce (1833), the transcript of the MS by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869) being in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce Collection (Cat. No. 48; Pressmark D.25. F. 43). Complete, slightly reduced, facsimile of pp. 1-78 in Poems 1646 (1970). Facsimiles of pp. 77-8 in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 40-1; of f. 78 in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCV(a), and in Alfred Murnau, John Webster. Teufel Wörter (Nordlingen, 1986), before p. 49 (see ShJ 192).

Edited from this MS in Gifford & Dyce and in Armstrong.

Copy, headed Songe the 19^th.

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

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

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

This MS recorded in Armstrong.

Copy of an untitled 28-line version beginning Ladie: what's your fface to me?

4°, 78 pages (plus vi pages of preliminaries, pp. 79-88 blank); neat calligraphic MS of largely early versions of 36 poems by Shirley; the main text from p. 3 to p. 76 in an ornamented and flourished calligraphic script; a less elaborate script, certainly that of Shirley himself, appearing on pp. 77-8; titles added on pp. 12, 33 and 66, and some spaces left for other titles not filled; margins ruled throughout; the poems each signed J: S:; signed at the end (p. 77) J. Shirley. Greg and Armstrong considered the whole MS to be autograph, Croft only the last two pages: see discussion in Introduction above.

A note on p. 1 in the hand of Thomas Hearne (1678-1735) Octob. 17. 1719. This MS. was given me by M^r Ardern Battine, B.A. of Balliol College [i.e. Arden Battine (b. c.1694), of Wimmering, Hampshire, who matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in 1714 and transferred to Balliol, gaining his B.A. in 1718 and M.A. in 1721]; names on p. 82 of Andrew Wall, Joseph Wall and Ro: Doyley; later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755); c.1640-3 (and most probably 1642).

Recorded in IELM as ShJ Δ 1. Collated, and sometimes used as copy-text, in Armstrong; some poems also edited from it in Gifford & Dyce (1833), the transcript of the MS by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869) being in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce Collection (Cat. No. 48; Pressmark D.25. F. 43). Complete, slightly reduced, facsimile of pp. 1-78 in Poems 1646 (1970). Facsimiles of pp. 77-8 in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 40-1; of f. 78 in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCV(a), and in Alfred Murnau, John Webster. Teufel Wörter (Nordlingen, 1986), before p. 49 (see ShJ 192).

Edited from this MS in Armstrong, p. 92.

Copy of a version headed To his M^rs. whom hee Lou'd to enioy her and beginning Ladie w^hts your face to mee.

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 of a version headed To his Mistresse, whome hee lou'd to enioye her and beginning Ladie what's your face to mee.

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

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

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

This MS recorded in Armstrong.

Copy of a version headed To his M^rs. whome hee lou'd to enioye and beginning Ladye what's your face to me.

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

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

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

Copy.

4°, 78 pages (plus vi pages of preliminaries, pp. 79-88 blank); neat calligraphic MS of largely early versions of 36 poems by Shirley; the main text from p. 3 to p. 76 in an ornamented and flourished calligraphic script; a less elaborate script, certainly that of Shirley himself, appearing on pp. 77-8; titles added on pp. 12, 33 and 66, and some spaces left for other titles not filled; margins ruled throughout; the poems each signed J: S:; signed at the end (p. 77) J. Shirley. Greg and Armstrong considered the whole MS to be autograph, Croft only the last two pages: see discussion in Introduction above.

A note on p. 1 in the hand of Thomas Hearne (1678-1735) Octob. 17. 1719. This MS. was given me by M^r Ardern Battine, B.A. of Balliol College [i.e. Arden Battine (b. c.1694), of Wimmering, Hampshire, who matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in 1714 and transferred to Balliol, gaining his B.A. in 1718 and M.A. in 1721]; names on p. 82 of Andrew Wall, Joseph Wall and Ro: Doyley; later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755); c.1640-3 (and most probably 1642).

Recorded in IELM as ShJ Δ 1. Collated, and sometimes used as copy-text, in Armstrong; some poems also edited from it in Gifford & Dyce (1833), the transcript of the MS by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869) being in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce Collection (Cat. No. 48; Pressmark D.25. F. 43). Complete, slightly reduced, facsimile of pp. 1-78 in Poems 1646 (1970). Facsimiles of pp. 77-8 in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 40-1; of f. 78 in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCV(a), and in Alfred Murnau, John Webster. Teufel Wörter (Nordlingen, 1986), before p. 49 (see ShJ 192).

Edited from this MS in Armstrong, p. xxvi.

Copy, untitled.

Including 14 poems by Donne, six poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Carew, ten poems by Habington and 13 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Randolph. Owned and possibly compiled by Arthur Capell (1631-83), second Earl of Essex, whose name is inscribed in red ink (1*), in a similar roman hand to that on ff. 1r-19r. He married (1653) Elizabeth Percy (1636-1718), daughter of Algernon, tenth Earl of Northumberland; she was therefore the great niece of Habington's mother-in-law, Eleanor Percy, sister of the ninth Earl of Northumberland.

Later among the collections of Robert Harley (1661-1724), first Earl of Oxford, and his son, Edward (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II, i-ii (1987-93), as the Capell MS: DnJ Δ 43, CwT Δ 17, and RnT Δ 3. Discussed in Geoffrey Tillotson, The Commonplace Book of Arthur Capell, MLR, 27 (1932), 381-91.

This MS recorded in Armstrong.

Copy, here ascribed to Carew.

References to Westminster Drollerie (which was not published until 1671) added on pp. 1 and 242.

Inscribed on the title-page Frendraught Legi: i.e. by James Crichton (d.1674/5), second Viscount Frendraught. Bookplate of Thomas Fraser Duff (1830-77), of Woodcote, Oxfordshire. Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 9 April 1987, lot 272 (with a facsimile of p. 131 in the sale catalogue), sold to Quaritch.

Copy, untitled.

4°, 78 pages (plus vi pages of preliminaries, pp. 79-88 blank); neat calligraphic MS of largely early versions of 36 poems by Shirley; the main text from p. 3 to p. 76 in an ornamented and flourished calligraphic script; a less elaborate script, certainly that of Shirley himself, appearing on pp. 77-8; titles added on pp. 12, 33 and 66, and some spaces left for other titles not filled; margins ruled throughout; the poems each signed J: S:; signed at the end (p. 77) J. Shirley. Greg and Armstrong considered the whole MS to be autograph, Croft only the last two pages: see discussion in Introduction above.

A note on p. 1 in the hand of Thomas Hearne (1678-1735) Octob. 17. 1719. This MS. was given me by M^r Ardern Battine, B.A. of Balliol College [i.e. Arden Battine (b. c.1694), of Wimmering, Hampshire, who matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in 1714 and transferred to Balliol, gaining his B.A. in 1718 and M.A. in 1721]; names on p. 82 of Andrew Wall, Joseph Wall and Ro: Doyley; later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755); c.1640-3 (and most probably 1642).

Recorded in IELM as ShJ Δ 1. Collated, and sometimes used as copy-text, in Armstrong; some poems also edited from it in Gifford & Dyce (1833), the transcript of the MS by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869) being in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce Collection (Cat. No. 48; Pressmark D.25. F. 43). Complete, slightly reduced, facsimile of pp. 1-78 in Poems 1646 (1970). Facsimiles of pp. 77-8 in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 40-1; of f. 78 in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCV(a), and in Alfred Murnau, John Webster. Teufel Wörter (Nordlingen, 1986), before p. 49 (see ShJ 192).

This MS collated in Armstrong.

Copy, headed one that Lou'd a great M^rs. & durst not discouer it and here beginning I cannot longer hold, my body grows.

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 One that lou'd a Mistresse & durst not discouer it.

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

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

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

This MS recorded in Armstrong.

Copy, headed Of one that lou'd a great Mistresse and durst not discouer it.

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

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

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

Copy, headed On her Child sicke of y^e small Pockes, subscribed James Shirley.

Including fourteen poems by James Shirley, generally ascribed to him, and eleven poems by Strode (and two of doubtful authorship).

Inscribed (on the front paste-down) My cousin chute gaue me this book out of his father study at the vine Hampshire (following the same statement in French), indicating that the MS was owned by, and possibly originally compiled for, the family of Chaloner Chute, MP (c.1595-1659), Speaker of the house of Commons, who acquired The Vyne, near Basingstoke, Hampshire, in 1653. Later owned by Sir William Tite (1798-1873), architect. Sotheby's, 30 May 1874, lot 2343. Bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork, book collector. Sotheby's, 21 March 1891 (Crawford sale), lot 2493.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Chute MS: ShJ Δ 2 and StW Δ 11. Briefly discussed, with a facsimile of f. 34v (see ShJ 96 and ShJ 100) in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and their Value for Textual Editors, EMS, 1 (1989), 192-210 (pp. 200-1, 209-10 n. 40). Discussed, with facsimiles of ff. 53r and 80r, in Arthur F. Marotti, Chaloner Chute's Poetical Anthology (British Library, Additional MS 33998) as a Cosmopolitan Collection, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 99).

This MS text collated in Armstrong.

Copy, headed To her absent childe sicke of the Smalpox.

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.

Later owned by David Laing (1793-1878), Scottish antiquary, collector and librarian. Sotheby's, 21 February 1881, lot 257, to Ridler.

Edited from this MS in Gifford & Dyce.

Copy, 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. 191.

Copy, in a musical setting by William 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 recorded in Cutts, Original Music for Two Caroline Plays — Richard Brome's The English Moore; or The Mock-Mariage and James Shirley's The Gentlemen of Venice, N&Q, 231 (March 1986), 21-5.

Copy.

4°, 78 pages (plus vi pages of preliminaries, pp. 79-88 blank); neat calligraphic MS of largely early versions of 36 poems by Shirley; the main text from p. 3 to p. 76 in an ornamented and flourished calligraphic script; a less elaborate script, certainly that of Shirley himself, appearing on pp. 77-8; titles added on pp. 12, 33 and 66, and some spaces left for other titles not filled; margins ruled throughout; the poems each signed J: S:; signed at the end (p. 77) J. Shirley. Greg and Armstrong considered the whole MS to be autograph, Croft only the last two pages: see discussion in Introduction above.

A note on p. 1 in the hand of Thomas Hearne (1678-1735) Octob. 17. 1719. This MS. was given me by M^r Ardern Battine, B.A. of Balliol College [i.e. Arden Battine (b. c.1694), of Wimmering, Hampshire, who matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in 1714 and transferred to Balliol, gaining his B.A. in 1718 and M.A. in 1721]; names on p. 82 of Andrew Wall, Joseph Wall and Ro: Doyley; later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755); c.1640-3 (and most probably 1642).

Recorded in IELM as ShJ Δ 1. Collated, and sometimes used as copy-text, in Armstrong; some poems also edited from it in Gifford & Dyce (1833), the transcript of the MS by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869) being in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce Collection (Cat. No. 48; Pressmark D.25. F. 43). Complete, slightly reduced, facsimile of pp. 1-78 in Poems 1646 (1970). Facsimiles of pp. 77-8 in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 40-1; of f. 78 in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCV(a), and in Alfred Murnau, John Webster. Teufel Wörter (Nordlingen, 1986), before p. 49 (see ShJ 192).

Edited from this MS in Gifford & Dyce and in Armstrong.

Copy.

4°, 78 pages (plus vi pages of preliminaries, pp. 79-88 blank); neat calligraphic MS of largely early versions of 36 poems by Shirley; the main text from p. 3 to p. 76 in an ornamented and flourished calligraphic script; a less elaborate script, certainly that of Shirley himself, appearing on pp. 77-8; titles added on pp. 12, 33 and 66, and some spaces left for other titles not filled; margins ruled throughout; the poems each signed J: S:; signed at the end (p. 77) J. Shirley. Greg and Armstrong considered the whole MS to be autograph, Croft only the last two pages: see discussion in Introduction above.

A note on p. 1 in the hand of Thomas Hearne (1678-1735) Octob. 17. 1719. This MS. was given me by M^r Ardern Battine, B.A. of Balliol College [i.e. Arden Battine (b. c.1694), of Wimmering, Hampshire, who matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in 1714 and transferred to Balliol, gaining his B.A. in 1718 and M.A. in 1721]; names on p. 82 of Andrew Wall, Joseph Wall and Ro: Doyley; later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755); c.1640-3 (and most probably 1642).

Recorded in IELM as ShJ Δ 1. Collated, and sometimes used as copy-text, in Armstrong; some poems also edited from it in Gifford & Dyce (1833), the transcript of the MS by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869) being in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce Collection (Cat. No. 48; Pressmark D.25. F. 43). Complete, slightly reduced, facsimile of pp. 1-78 in Poems 1646 (1970). Facsimiles of pp. 77-8 in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 40-1; of f. 78 in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCV(a), and in Alfred Murnau, John Webster. Teufel Wörter (Nordlingen, 1986), before p. 49 (see ShJ 192).

Edited from this MS in Gifford & Dyce and in Armstrong.

Copy of a twenty-line version.

4°, 78 pages (plus vi pages of preliminaries, pp. 79-88 blank); neat calligraphic MS of largely early versions of 36 poems by Shirley; the main text from p. 3 to p. 76 in an ornamented and flourished calligraphic script; a less elaborate script, certainly that of Shirley himself, appearing on pp. 77-8; titles added on pp. 12, 33 and 66, and some spaces left for other titles not filled; margins ruled throughout; the poems each signed J: S:; signed at the end (p. 77) J. Shirley. Greg and Armstrong considered the whole MS to be autograph, Croft only the last two pages: see discussion in Introduction above.

A note on p. 1 in the hand of Thomas Hearne (1678-1735) Octob. 17. 1719. This MS. was given me by M^r Ardern Battine, B.A. of Balliol College [i.e. Arden Battine (b. c.1694), of Wimmering, Hampshire, who matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in 1714 and transferred to Balliol, gaining his B.A. in 1718 and M.A. in 1721]; names on p. 82 of Andrew Wall, Joseph Wall and Ro: Doyley; later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755); c.1640-3 (and most probably 1642).

Recorded in IELM as ShJ Δ 1. Collated, and sometimes used as copy-text, in Armstrong; some poems also edited from it in Gifford & Dyce (1833), the transcript of the MS by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869) being in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce Collection (Cat. No. 48; Pressmark D.25. F. 43). Complete, slightly reduced, facsimile of pp. 1-78 in Poems 1646 (1970). Facsimiles of pp. 77-8 in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 40-1; of f. 78 in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCV(a), and in Alfred Murnau, John Webster. Teufel Wörter (Nordlingen, 1986), before p. 49 (see ShJ 192).

This MS collated in Armstrong.

Copy, subscribed James Shirley.

Including fourteen poems by James Shirley, generally ascribed to him, and eleven poems by Strode (and two of doubtful authorship).

Inscribed (on the front paste-down) My cousin chute gaue me this book out of his father study at the vine Hampshire (following the same statement in French), indicating that the MS was owned by, and possibly originally compiled for, the family of Chaloner Chute, MP (c.1595-1659), Speaker of the house of Commons, who acquired The Vyne, near Basingstoke, Hampshire, in 1653. Later owned by Sir William Tite (1798-1873), architect. Sotheby's, 30 May 1874, lot 2343. Bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork, book collector. Sotheby's, 21 March 1891 (Crawford sale), lot 2493.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Chute MS: ShJ Δ 2 and StW Δ 11. Briefly discussed, with a facsimile of f. 34v (see ShJ 96 and ShJ 100) in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and their Value for Textual Editors, EMS, 1 (1989), 192-210 (pp. 200-1, 209-10 n. 40). Discussed, with facsimiles of ff. 53r and 80r, in Arthur F. Marotti, Chaloner Chute's Poetical Anthology (British Library, Additional MS 33998) as a Cosmopolitan Collection, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 99).

This MS text recorded in Armstrong.

Copy, headed Vpon a Bird p^rsented to his Mistris, subscribed James Shirley.

Including fourteen poems by James Shirley, generally ascribed to him, and eleven poems by Strode (and two of doubtful authorship).

Inscribed (on the front paste-down) My cousin chute gaue me this book out of his father study at the vine Hampshire (following the same statement in French), indicating that the MS was owned by, and possibly originally compiled for, the family of Chaloner Chute, MP (c.1595-1659), Speaker of the house of Commons, who acquired The Vyne, near Basingstoke, Hampshire, in 1653. Later owned by Sir William Tite (1798-1873), architect. Sotheby's, 30 May 1874, lot 2343. Bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork, book collector. Sotheby's, 21 March 1891 (Crawford sale), lot 2493.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Chute MS: ShJ Δ 2 and StW Δ 11. Briefly discussed, with a facsimile of f. 34v (see ShJ 96 and ShJ 100) in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and their Value for Textual Editors, EMS, 1 (1989), 192-210 (pp. 200-1, 209-10 n. 40). Discussed, with facsimiles of ff. 53r and 80r, in Arthur F. Marotti, Chaloner Chute's Poetical Anthology (British Library, Additional MS 33998) as a Cosmopolitan Collection, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 99).

This MS text collated in Armstrong.

Compiled in part by Brian Fairfax (1633-1711), scholar and courtier.

Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Bliss sale, 21 August 1858, lot 117. Item 667 in an unidentified sale catalogue.

This MS collated in Armstrong.

Copy of a fourteen-line poem, headed Riddle on Love, subscribed Sherly.

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 of lines 1-30, 34-5, untitled, on a single folio leaf.

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

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

This MS collated in Armstrong and in Howarth.

Copy, headed The New-yeares-gift, or Prophesy, & Vote.

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

This MS collated in Armstrong.

Copy, untitled.

Compiled by a Cambridge University man.

This MS collated in Armstrong.

Copy, subscribed J: Shirley.

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

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

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

Edited from this MS in Armstrong and in Howarth.

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

Copy, untitled and subscribed Ignot.

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.

This MS recorded in Armstrong.

Copy, in a musical setting by William Lawes, headed A Dialogue Betweene Strephon & Daphne.

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).

Autograph copy by Lawes, in his musical setting, headed A Dialogue.

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.

Copy, headed Song in the Cardinal.

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 [Sonnet] ²⁹.

Purchased c.1798.

Copy, headed A Song.

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.

Copy of a 24-line version, headed To his over daring thoughts and here beginning Proud man, no more; let not thy eyes, subscribed James Shirley.

Including fourteen poems by James Shirley, generally ascribed to him, and eleven poems by Strode (and two of doubtful authorship).

Inscribed (on the front paste-down) My cousin chute gaue me this book out of his father study at the vine Hampshire (following the same statement in French), indicating that the MS was owned by, and possibly originally compiled for, the family of Chaloner Chute, MP (c.1595-1659), Speaker of the house of Commons, who acquired The Vyne, near Basingstoke, Hampshire, in 1653. Later owned by Sir William Tite (1798-1873), architect. Sotheby's, 30 May 1874, lot 2343. Bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork, book collector. Sotheby's, 21 March 1891 (Crawford sale), lot 2493.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Chute MS: ShJ Δ 2 and StW Δ 11. Briefly discussed, with a facsimile of f. 34v (see ShJ 96 and ShJ 100) in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and their Value for Textual Editors, EMS, 1 (1989), 192-210 (pp. 200-1, 209-10 n. 40). Discussed, with facsimiles of ff. 53r and 80r, in Arthur F. Marotti, Chaloner Chute's Poetical Anthology (British Library, Additional MS 33998) as a Cosmopolitan Collection, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 99).

This MS text collated in Armstrong, p. 91.

Copy, subscribed James Shirley.

Including fourteen poems by James Shirley, generally ascribed to him, and eleven poems by Strode (and two of doubtful authorship).

Inscribed (on the front paste-down) My cousin chute gaue me this book out of his father study at the vine Hampshire (following the same statement in French), indicating that the MS was owned by, and possibly originally compiled for, the family of Chaloner Chute, MP (c.1595-1659), Speaker of the house of Commons, who acquired The Vyne, near Basingstoke, Hampshire, in 1653. Later owned by Sir William Tite (1798-1873), architect. Sotheby's, 30 May 1874, lot 2343. Bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork, book collector. Sotheby's, 21 March 1891 (Crawford sale), lot 2493.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Chute MS: ShJ Δ 2 and StW Δ 11. Briefly discussed, with a facsimile of f. 34v (see ShJ 96 and ShJ 100) in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and their Value for Textual Editors, EMS, 1 (1989), 192-210 (pp. 200-1, 209-10 n. 40). Discussed, with facsimiles of ff. 53r and 80r, in Arthur F. Marotti, Chaloner Chute's Poetical Anthology (British Library, Additional MS 33998) as a Cosmopolitan Collection, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 99).

Edited from this MS text in Howarth and in Armstrong.

Copy of an untitled early version of the first stanza beginning O would to God, the god of Loue would dye.

4°, 78 pages (plus vi pages of preliminaries, pp. 79-88 blank); neat calligraphic MS of largely early versions of 36 poems by Shirley; the main text from p. 3 to p. 76 in an ornamented and flourished calligraphic script; a less elaborate script, certainly that of Shirley himself, appearing on pp. 77-8; titles added on pp. 12, 33 and 66, and some spaces left for other titles not filled; margins ruled throughout; the poems each signed J: S:; signed at the end (p. 77) J. Shirley. Greg and Armstrong considered the whole MS to be autograph, Croft only the last two pages: see discussion in Introduction above.

A note on p. 1 in the hand of Thomas Hearne (1678-1735) Octob. 17. 1719. This MS. was given me by M^r Ardern Battine, B.A. of Balliol College [i.e. Arden Battine (b. c.1694), of Wimmering, Hampshire, who matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in 1714 and transferred to Balliol, gaining his B.A. in 1718 and M.A. in 1721]; names on p. 82 of Andrew Wall, Joseph Wall and Ro: Doyley; later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755); c.1640-3 (and most probably 1642).

Recorded in IELM as ShJ Δ 1. Collated, and sometimes used as copy-text, in Armstrong; some poems also edited from it in Gifford & Dyce (1833), the transcript of the MS by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869) being in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce Collection (Cat. No. 48; Pressmark D.25. F. 43). Complete, slightly reduced, facsimile of pp. 1-78 in Poems 1646 (1970). Facsimiles of pp. 77-8 in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 40-1; of f. 78 in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCV(a), and in Alfred Murnau, John Webster. Teufel Wörter (Nordlingen, 1986), before p. 49 (see ShJ 192).

Edited from this MS in Armstrong, p. 89.

Autograph copy by Lawes of an early two-stanza version, 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.

Edited from this MS in Cutts, The Library (1952), p. 232.

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 a four-stanza version beginning O thinke not Phebe, cause a cloud.

4°, 78 pages (plus vi pages of preliminaries, pp. 79-88 blank); neat calligraphic MS of largely early versions of 36 poems by Shirley; the main text from p. 3 to p. 76 in an ornamented and flourished calligraphic script; a less elaborate script, certainly that of Shirley himself, appearing on pp. 77-8; titles added on pp. 12, 33 and 66, and some spaces left for other titles not filled; margins ruled throughout; the poems each signed J: S:; signed at the end (p. 77) J. Shirley. Greg and Armstrong considered the whole MS to be autograph, Croft only the last two pages: see discussion in Introduction above.

A note on p. 1 in the hand of Thomas Hearne (1678-1735) Octob. 17. 1719. This MS. was given me by M^r Ardern Battine, B.A. of Balliol College [i.e. Arden Battine (b. c.1694), of Wimmering, Hampshire, who matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in 1714 and transferred to Balliol, gaining his B.A. in 1718 and M.A. in 1721]; names on p. 82 of Andrew Wall, Joseph Wall and Ro: Doyley; later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755); c.1640-3 (and most probably 1642).

Recorded in IELM as ShJ Δ 1. Collated, and sometimes used as copy-text, in Armstrong; some poems also edited from it in Gifford & Dyce (1833), the transcript of the MS by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869) being in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce Collection (Cat. No. 48; Pressmark D.25. F. 43). Complete, slightly reduced, facsimile of pp. 1-78 in Poems 1646 (1970). Facsimiles of pp. 77-8 in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 40-1; of f. 78 in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCV(a), and in Alfred Murnau, John Webster. Teufel Wörter (Nordlingen, 1986), before p. 49 (see ShJ 192).

This MS collated and the additional stanza edited from it in Armstrong, pp. 88-9.

Autograph copy by Lawes, in his musical setting, untitled and here beginning O Thinke not Phoebe.

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.

Copy, here beginning O thinke not Phoebe cause a cloud and ascribed to T.C..

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

This MS collated in Armstrong.

Copy of an untitled sixteen-line version.

4°, 78 pages (plus vi pages of preliminaries, pp. 79-88 blank); neat calligraphic MS of largely early versions of 36 poems by Shirley; the main text from p. 3 to p. 76 in an ornamented and flourished calligraphic script; a less elaborate script, certainly that of Shirley himself, appearing on pp. 77-8; titles added on pp. 12, 33 and 66, and some spaces left for other titles not filled; margins ruled throughout; the poems each signed J: S:; signed at the end (p. 77) J. Shirley. Greg and Armstrong considered the whole MS to be autograph, Croft only the last two pages: see discussion in Introduction above.

A note on p. 1 in the hand of Thomas Hearne (1678-1735) Octob. 17. 1719. This MS. was given me by M^r Ardern Battine, B.A. of Balliol College [i.e. Arden Battine (b. c.1694), of Wimmering, Hampshire, who matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in 1714 and transferred to Balliol, gaining his B.A. in 1718 and M.A. in 1721]; names on p. 82 of Andrew Wall, Joseph Wall and Ro: Doyley; later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755); c.1640-3 (and most probably 1642).

Recorded in IELM as ShJ Δ 1. Collated, and sometimes used as copy-text, in Armstrong; some poems also edited from it in Gifford & Dyce (1833), the transcript of the MS by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869) being in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce Collection (Cat. No. 48; Pressmark D.25. F. 43). Complete, slightly reduced, facsimile of pp. 1-78 in Poems 1646 (1970). Facsimiles of pp. 77-8 in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 40-1; of f. 78 in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCV(a), and in Alfred Murnau, John Webster. Teufel Wörter (Nordlingen, 1986), before p. 49 (see ShJ 192).

Edited from this MS in Armstrong, p. 89.

Copy, headed Vppon the Lord of S: his recouerye

4°, 78 pages (plus vi pages of preliminaries, pp. 79-88 blank); neat calligraphic MS of largely early versions of 36 poems by Shirley; the main text from p. 3 to p. 76 in an ornamented and flourished calligraphic script; a less elaborate script, certainly that of Shirley himself, appearing on pp. 77-8; titles added on pp. 12, 33 and 66, and some spaces left for other titles not filled; margins ruled throughout; the poems each signed J: S:; signed at the end (p. 77) J. Shirley. Greg and Armstrong considered the whole MS to be autograph, Croft only the last two pages: see discussion in Introduction above.

A note on p. 1 in the hand of Thomas Hearne (1678-1735) Octob. 17. 1719. This MS. was given me by M^r Ardern Battine, B.A. of Balliol College [i.e. Arden Battine (b. c.1694), of Wimmering, Hampshire, who matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in 1714 and transferred to Balliol, gaining his B.A. in 1718 and M.A. in 1721]; names on p. 82 of Andrew Wall, Joseph Wall and Ro: Doyley; later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755); c.1640-3 (and most probably 1642).

Recorded in IELM as ShJ Δ 1. Collated, and sometimes used as copy-text, in Armstrong; some poems also edited from it in Gifford & Dyce (1833), the transcript of the MS by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869) being in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce Collection (Cat. No. 48; Pressmark D.25. F. 43). Complete, slightly reduced, facsimile of pp. 1-78 in Poems 1646 (1970). Facsimiles of pp. 77-8 in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 40-1; of f. 78 in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCV(a), and in Alfred Murnau, John Webster. Teufel Wörter (Nordlingen, 1986), before p. 49 (see ShJ 192).

This MS recorded in Armstrong.

Copy of a 28-line version headed To th[e R]ight Ho:^bl sisters The Ladie B[isshop] and Ladie Dia[na] Curs[on] and beginning Ladies, whose first stile is Good.

4°, 78 pages (plus vi pages of preliminaries, pp. 79-88 blank); neat calligraphic MS of largely early versions of 36 poems by Shirley; the main text from p. 3 to p. 76 in an ornamented and flourished calligraphic script; a less elaborate script, certainly that of Shirley himself, appearing on pp. 77-8; titles added on pp. 12, 33 and 66, and some spaces left for other titles not filled; margins ruled throughout; the poems each signed J: S:; signed at the end (p. 77) J. Shirley. Greg and Armstrong considered the whole MS to be autograph, Croft only the last two pages: see discussion in Introduction above.

A note on p. 1 in the hand of Thomas Hearne (1678-1735) Octob. 17. 1719. This MS. was given me by M^r Ardern Battine, B.A. of Balliol College [i.e. Arden Battine (b. c.1694), of Wimmering, Hampshire, who matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in 1714 and transferred to Balliol, gaining his B.A. in 1718 and M.A. in 1721]; names on p. 82 of Andrew Wall, Joseph Wall and Ro: Doyley; later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755); c.1640-3 (and most probably 1642).

Recorded in IELM as ShJ Δ 1. Collated, and sometimes used as copy-text, in Armstrong; some poems also edited from it in Gifford & Dyce (1833), the transcript of the MS by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869) being in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce Collection (Cat. No. 48; Pressmark D.25. F. 43). Complete, slightly reduced, facsimile of pp. 1-78 in Poems 1646 (1970). Facsimiles of pp. 77-8 in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 40-1; of f. 78 in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCV(a), and in Alfred Murnau, John Webster. Teufel Wörter (Nordlingen, 1986), before p. 49 (see ShJ 192).

Edited from this MS in Armstrong, p. 94.

Copy of an early version, headed Thankes for an Entertaynm^t and here beginning Ladyes, whose first stile is good, subscribed James Shirley.

Including fourteen poems by James Shirley, generally ascribed to him, and eleven poems by Strode (and two of doubtful authorship).

Inscribed (on the front paste-down) My cousin chute gaue me this book out of his father study at the vine Hampshire (following the same statement in French), indicating that the MS was owned by, and possibly originally compiled for, the family of Chaloner Chute, MP (c.1595-1659), Speaker of the house of Commons, who acquired The Vyne, near Basingstoke, Hampshire, in 1653. Later owned by Sir William Tite (1798-1873), architect. Sotheby's, 30 May 1874, lot 2343. Bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork, book collector. Sotheby's, 21 March 1891 (Crawford sale), lot 2493.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Chute MS: ShJ Δ 2 and StW Δ 11. Briefly discussed, with a facsimile of f. 34v (see ShJ 96 and ShJ 100) in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and their Value for Textual Editors, EMS, 1 (1989), 192-210 (pp. 200-1, 209-10 n. 40). Discussed, with facsimiles of ff. 53r and 80r, in Arthur F. Marotti, Chaloner Chute's Poetical Anthology (British Library, Additional MS 33998) as a Cosmopolitan Collection, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 99).

This MS text collated in Armstrong.

Copy, headed (afterwards) To the Painter vpon his preparation to draw M^rs M.H. Picture and here beginning Be not too dareing Painter, 'tis.

4°, 78 pages (plus vi pages of preliminaries, pp. 79-88 blank); neat calligraphic MS of largely early versions of 36 poems by Shirley; the main text from p. 3 to p. 76 in an ornamented and flourished calligraphic script; a less elaborate script, certainly that of Shirley himself, appearing on pp. 77-8; titles added on pp. 12, 33 and 66, and some spaces left for other titles not filled; margins ruled throughout; the poems each signed J: S:; signed at the end (p. 77) J. Shirley. Greg and Armstrong considered the whole MS to be autograph, Croft only the last two pages: see discussion in Introduction above.

A note on p. 1 in the hand of Thomas Hearne (1678-1735) Octob. 17. 1719. This MS. was given me by M^r Ardern Battine, B.A. of Balliol College [i.e. Arden Battine (b. c.1694), of Wimmering, Hampshire, who matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in 1714 and transferred to Balliol, gaining his B.A. in 1718 and M.A. in 1721]; names on p. 82 of Andrew Wall, Joseph Wall and Ro: Doyley; later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755); c.1640-3 (and most probably 1642).

Recorded in IELM as ShJ Δ 1. Collated, and sometimes used as copy-text, in Armstrong; some poems also edited from it in Gifford & Dyce (1833), the transcript of the MS by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869) being in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce Collection (Cat. No. 48; Pressmark D.25. F. 43). Complete, slightly reduced, facsimile of pp. 1-78 in Poems 1646 (1970). Facsimiles of pp. 77-8 in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 40-1; of f. 78 in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCV(a), and in Alfred Murnau, John Webster. Teufel Wörter (Nordlingen, 1986), before p. 49 (see ShJ 192).

Edited from this MS in Armstrong, pp. 90-1.

Copy, headed To A Limner preparinge to Draw M^ris WC., subscribed James Shirley.

Compiled in part by Brian Fairfax (1633-1711), scholar and courtier.

Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Bliss sale, 21 August 1858, lot 117. Item 667 in an unidentified sale catalogue.

Copy of an untitled version beginning Know coye disdaine, I am aboue.

4°, 78 pages (plus vi pages of preliminaries, pp. 79-88 blank); neat calligraphic MS of largely early versions of 36 poems by Shirley; the main text from p. 3 to p. 76 in an ornamented and flourished calligraphic script; a less elaborate script, certainly that of Shirley himself, appearing on pp. 77-8; titles added on pp. 12, 33 and 66, and some spaces left for other titles not filled; margins ruled throughout; the poems each signed J: S:; signed at the end (p. 77) J. Shirley. Greg and Armstrong considered the whole MS to be autograph, Croft only the last two pages: see discussion in Introduction above.

A note on p. 1 in the hand of Thomas Hearne (1678-1735) Octob. 17. 1719. This MS. was given me by M^r Ardern Battine, B.A. of Balliol College [i.e. Arden Battine (b. c.1694), of Wimmering, Hampshire, who matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in 1714 and transferred to Balliol, gaining his B.A. in 1718 and M.A. in 1721]; names on p. 82 of Andrew Wall, Joseph Wall and Ro: Doyley; later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755); c.1640-3 (and most probably 1642).

Recorded in IELM as ShJ Δ 1. Collated, and sometimes used as copy-text, in Armstrong; some poems also edited from it in Gifford & Dyce (1833), the transcript of the MS by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869) being in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce Collection (Cat. No. 48; Pressmark D.25. F. 43). Complete, slightly reduced, facsimile of pp. 1-78 in Poems 1646 (1970). Facsimiles of pp. 77-8 in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 40-1; of f. 78 in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCV(a), and in Alfred Murnau, John Webster. Teufel Wörter (Nordlingen, 1986), before p. 49 (see ShJ 192).

Edited from this MS in Armstrong, pp. 97-8. Some lines in this MS version incorporated in To a Beautiful Lady (Away with handsome faces, let me see) in Poems (1646): see Armstrong, p. 97.

Copy of an early ten-line version headed To E: H: &: W: H: and beginning There is noe ffaith in Clarett, now I see.

4°, 78 pages (plus vi pages of preliminaries, pp. 79-88 blank); neat calligraphic MS of largely early versions of 36 poems by Shirley; the main text from p. 3 to p. 76 in an ornamented and flourished calligraphic script; a less elaborate script, certainly that of Shirley himself, appearing on pp. 77-8; titles added on pp. 12, 33 and 66, and some spaces left for other titles not filled; margins ruled throughout; the poems each signed J: S:; signed at the end (p. 77) J. Shirley. Greg and Armstrong considered the whole MS to be autograph, Croft only the last two pages: see discussion in Introduction above.

A note on p. 1 in the hand of Thomas Hearne (1678-1735) Octob. 17. 1719. This MS. was given me by M^r Ardern Battine, B.A. of Balliol College [i.e. Arden Battine (b. c.1694), of Wimmering, Hampshire, who matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in 1714 and transferred to Balliol, gaining his B.A. in 1718 and M.A. in 1721]; names on p. 82 of Andrew Wall, Joseph Wall and Ro: Doyley; later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755); c.1640-3 (and most probably 1642).

Recorded in IELM as ShJ Δ 1. Collated, and sometimes used as copy-text, in Armstrong; some poems also edited from it in Gifford & Dyce (1833), the transcript of the MS by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869) being in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce Collection (Cat. No. 48; Pressmark D.25. F. 43). Complete, slightly reduced, facsimile of pp. 1-78 in Poems 1646 (1970). Facsimiles of pp. 77-8 in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 40-1; of f. 78 in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCV(a), and in Alfred Murnau, John Webster. Teufel Wörter (Nordlingen, 1986), before p. 49 (see ShJ 192).

Edited from this MS in Armstrong, p. 95.

Copy of an eighteen-line version headed Vppon S^r. G: Ca: Ladie: Ep: and beginning Death (that on humaine fflesh doth vse to feed).

4°, 78 pages (plus vi pages of preliminaries, pp. 79-88 blank); neat calligraphic MS of largely early versions of 36 poems by Shirley; the main text from p. 3 to p. 76 in an ornamented and flourished calligraphic script; a less elaborate script, certainly that of Shirley himself, appearing on pp. 77-8; titles added on pp. 12, 33 and 66, and some spaces left for other titles not filled; margins ruled throughout; the poems each signed J: S:; signed at the end (p. 77) J. Shirley. Greg and Armstrong considered the whole MS to be autograph, Croft only the last two pages: see discussion in Introduction above.

A note on p. 1 in the hand of Thomas Hearne (1678-1735) Octob. 17. 1719. This MS. was given me by M^r Ardern Battine, B.A. of Balliol College [i.e. Arden Battine (b. c.1694), of Wimmering, Hampshire, who matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in 1714 and transferred to Balliol, gaining his B.A. in 1718 and M.A. in 1721]; names on p. 82 of Andrew Wall, Joseph Wall and Ro: Doyley; later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755); c.1640-3 (and most probably 1642).

Recorded in IELM as ShJ Δ 1. Collated, and sometimes used as copy-text, in Armstrong; some poems also edited from it in Gifford & Dyce (1833), the transcript of the MS by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869) being in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce Collection (Cat. No. 48; Pressmark D.25. F. 43). Complete, slightly reduced, facsimile of pp. 1-78 in Poems 1646 (1970). Facsimiles of pp. 77-8 in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 40-1; of f. 78 in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCV(a), and in Alfred Murnau, John Webster. Teufel Wörter (Nordlingen, 1986), before p. 49 (see ShJ 192).

Edited from this MS in Armstrong, p. 95.

Copy of a version, headed Vpon a Lady's Death and beginning Death, y^t on humane flesh doth vse to feed.

Including fourteen poems by James Shirley, generally ascribed to him, and eleven poems by Strode (and two of doubtful authorship).

Inscribed (on the front paste-down) My cousin chute gaue me this book out of his father study at the vine Hampshire (following the same statement in French), indicating that the MS was owned by, and possibly originally compiled for, the family of Chaloner Chute, MP (c.1595-1659), Speaker of the house of Commons, who acquired The Vyne, near Basingstoke, Hampshire, in 1653. Later owned by Sir William Tite (1798-1873), architect. Sotheby's, 30 May 1874, lot 2343. Bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork, book collector. Sotheby's, 21 March 1891 (Crawford sale), lot 2493.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Chute MS: ShJ Δ 2 and StW Δ 11. Briefly discussed, with a facsimile of f. 34v (see ShJ 96 and ShJ 100) in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and their Value for Textual Editors, EMS, 1 (1989), 192-210 (pp. 200-1, 209-10 n. 40). Discussed, with facsimiles of ff. 53r and 80r, in Arthur F. Marotti, Chaloner Chute's Poetical Anthology (British Library, Additional MS 33998) as a Cosmopolitan Collection, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 99).

This MS text recorded in Armstrong.

Copy, lines 1-34 in the calligraphic hand of the main scribe, lines 35-42 in Shirley's hand.

4°, 78 pages (plus vi pages of preliminaries, pp. 79-88 blank); neat calligraphic MS of largely early versions of 36 poems by Shirley; the main text from p. 3 to p. 76 in an ornamented and flourished calligraphic script; a less elaborate script, certainly that of Shirley himself, appearing on pp. 77-8; titles added on pp. 12, 33 and 66, and some spaces left for other titles not filled; margins ruled throughout; the poems each signed J: S:; signed at the end (p. 77) J. Shirley. Greg and Armstrong considered the whole MS to be autograph, Croft only the last two pages: see discussion in Introduction above.

A note on p. 1 in the hand of Thomas Hearne (1678-1735) Octob. 17. 1719. This MS. was given me by M^r Ardern Battine, B.A. of Balliol College [i.e. Arden Battine (b. c.1694), of Wimmering, Hampshire, who matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in 1714 and transferred to Balliol, gaining his B.A. in 1718 and M.A. in 1721]; names on p. 82 of Andrew Wall, Joseph Wall and Ro: Doyley; later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755); c.1640-3 (and most probably 1642).

Recorded in IELM as ShJ Δ 1. Collated, and sometimes used as copy-text, in Armstrong; some poems also edited from it in Gifford & Dyce (1833), the transcript of the MS by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869) being in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce Collection (Cat. No. 48; Pressmark D.25. F. 43). Complete, slightly reduced, facsimile of pp. 1-78 in Poems 1646 (1970). Facsimiles of pp. 77-8 in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 40-1; of f. 78 in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCV(a), and in Alfred Murnau, John Webster. Teufel Wörter (Nordlingen, 1986), before p. 49 (see ShJ 192).

Edited from this MS in Gifford & Dyce and in Armstrong. Facsimile of p. 77 also in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 30, and see Introduction.

Copy, including the Epitaph inscribed in a small peice of Marble (beginning Noe more marble lett him haue).

4°, 78 pages (plus vi pages of preliminaries, pp. 79-88 blank); neat calligraphic MS of largely early versions of 36 poems by Shirley; the main text from p. 3 to p. 76 in an ornamented and flourished calligraphic script; a less elaborate script, certainly that of Shirley himself, appearing on pp. 77-8; titles added on pp. 12, 33 and 66, and some spaces left for other titles not filled; margins ruled throughout; the poems each signed J: S:; signed at the end (p. 77) J. Shirley. Greg and Armstrong considered the whole MS to be autograph, Croft only the last two pages: see discussion in Introduction above.

A note on p. 1 in the hand of Thomas Hearne (1678-1735) Octob. 17. 1719. This MS. was given me by M^r Ardern Battine, B.A. of Balliol College [i.e. Arden Battine (b. c.1694), of Wimmering, Hampshire, who matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in 1714 and transferred to Balliol, gaining his B.A. in 1718 and M.A. in 1721]; names on p. 82 of Andrew Wall, Joseph Wall and Ro: Doyley; later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755); c.1640-3 (and most probably 1642).

Recorded in IELM as ShJ Δ 1. Collated, and sometimes used as copy-text, in Armstrong; some poems also edited from it in Gifford & Dyce (1833), the transcript of the MS by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869) being in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce Collection (Cat. No. 48; Pressmark D.25. F. 43). Complete, slightly reduced, facsimile of pp. 1-78 in Poems 1646 (1970). Facsimiles of pp. 77-8 in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 40-1; of f. 78 in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCV(a), and in Alfred Murnau, John Webster. Teufel Wörter (Nordlingen, 1986), before p. 49 (see ShJ 192).

Edited from this MS in Gifford & Dyce and in Armstrong.

Copy, headed Vpon a Parson's death and including the Epitaph.

Including fourteen poems by James Shirley, generally ascribed to him, and eleven poems by Strode (and two of doubtful authorship).

Inscribed (on the front paste-down) My cousin chute gaue me this book out of his father study at the vine Hampshire (following the same statement in French), indicating that the MS was owned by, and possibly originally compiled for, the family of Chaloner Chute, MP (c.1595-1659), Speaker of the house of Commons, who acquired The Vyne, near Basingstoke, Hampshire, in 1653. Later owned by Sir William Tite (1798-1873), architect. Sotheby's, 30 May 1874, lot 2343. Bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork, book collector. Sotheby's, 21 March 1891 (Crawford sale), lot 2493.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Chute MS: ShJ Δ 2 and StW Δ 11. Briefly discussed, with a facsimile of f. 34v (see ShJ 96 and ShJ 100) in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and their Value for Textual Editors, EMS, 1 (1989), 192-210 (pp. 200-1, 209-10 n. 40). Discussed, with facsimiles of ff. 53r and 80r, in Arthur F. Marotti, Chaloner Chute's Poetical Anthology (British Library, Additional MS 33998) as a Cosmopolitan Collection, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 99).

This MS text recorded in Armstrong. Facsimile of f. 34v in Hobbs, EMS, 1 (1989), 201.

Copy, untitled.

4°, 78 pages (plus vi pages of preliminaries, pp. 79-88 blank); neat calligraphic MS of largely early versions of 36 poems by Shirley; the main text from p. 3 to p. 76 in an ornamented and flourished calligraphic script; a less elaborate script, certainly that of Shirley himself, appearing on pp. 77-8; titles added on pp. 12, 33 and 66, and some spaces left for other titles not filled; margins ruled throughout; the poems each signed J: S:; signed at the end (p. 77) J. Shirley. Greg and Armstrong considered the whole MS to be autograph, Croft only the last two pages: see discussion in Introduction above.

A note on p. 1 in the hand of Thomas Hearne (1678-1735) Octob. 17. 1719. This MS. was given me by M^r Ardern Battine, B.A. of Balliol College [i.e. Arden Battine (b. c.1694), of Wimmering, Hampshire, who matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in 1714 and transferred to Balliol, gaining his B.A. in 1718 and M.A. in 1721]; names on p. 82 of Andrew Wall, Joseph Wall and Ro: Doyley; later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755); c.1640-3 (and most probably 1642).

Recorded in IELM as ShJ Δ 1. Collated, and sometimes used as copy-text, in Armstrong; some poems also edited from it in Gifford & Dyce (1833), the transcript of the MS by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869) being in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce Collection (Cat. No. 48; Pressmark D.25. F. 43). Complete, slightly reduced, facsimile of pp. 1-78 in Poems 1646 (1970). Facsimiles of pp. 77-8 in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 40-1; of f. 78 in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCV(a), and in Alfred Murnau, John Webster. Teufel Wörter (Nordlingen, 1986), before p. 49 (see ShJ 192).

This MS collated in Armstrong.

Copy, written as two separate poems, the first headed (afterwards) To A Gentlewoman Melancholy, the second untitled.

4°, 78 pages (plus vi pages of preliminaries, pp. 79-88 blank); neat calligraphic MS of largely early versions of 36 poems by Shirley; the main text from p. 3 to p. 76 in an ornamented and flourished calligraphic script; a less elaborate script, certainly that of Shirley himself, appearing on pp. 77-8; titles added on pp. 12, 33 and 66, and some spaces left for other titles not filled; margins ruled throughout; the poems each signed J: S:; signed at the end (p. 77) J. Shirley. Greg and Armstrong considered the whole MS to be autograph, Croft only the last two pages: see discussion in Introduction above.

A note on p. 1 in the hand of Thomas Hearne (1678-1735) Octob. 17. 1719. This MS. was given me by M^r Ardern Battine, B.A. of Balliol College [i.e. Arden Battine (b. c.1694), of Wimmering, Hampshire, who matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in 1714 and transferred to Balliol, gaining his B.A. in 1718 and M.A. in 1721]; names on p. 82 of Andrew Wall, Joseph Wall and Ro: Doyley; later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755); c.1640-3 (and most probably 1642).

Recorded in IELM as ShJ Δ 1. Collated, and sometimes used as copy-text, in Armstrong; some poems also edited from it in Gifford & Dyce (1833), the transcript of the MS by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869) being in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce Collection (Cat. No. 48; Pressmark D.25. F. 43). Complete, slightly reduced, facsimile of pp. 1-78 in Poems 1646 (1970). Facsimiles of pp. 77-8 in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 40-1; of f. 78 in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCV(a), and in Alfred Murnau, John Webster. Teufel Wörter (Nordlingen, 1986), before p. 49 (see ShJ 192).

This MS collated in Armstrong.

Copy.

4°, 78 pages (plus vi pages of preliminaries, pp. 79-88 blank); neat calligraphic MS of largely early versions of 36 poems by Shirley; the main text from p. 3 to p. 76 in an ornamented and flourished calligraphic script; a less elaborate script, certainly that of Shirley himself, appearing on pp. 77-8; titles added on pp. 12, 33 and 66, and some spaces left for other titles not filled; margins ruled throughout; the poems each signed J: S:; signed at the end (p. 77) J. Shirley. Greg and Armstrong considered the whole MS to be autograph, Croft only the last two pages: see discussion in Introduction above.

A note on p. 1 in the hand of Thomas Hearne (1678-1735) Octob. 17. 1719. This MS. was given me by M^r Ardern Battine, B.A. of Balliol College [i.e. Arden Battine (b. c.1694), of Wimmering, Hampshire, who matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in 1714 and transferred to Balliol, gaining his B.A. in 1718 and M.A. in 1721]; names on p. 82 of Andrew Wall, Joseph Wall and Ro: Doyley; later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755); c.1640-3 (and most probably 1642).

Recorded in IELM as ShJ Δ 1. Collated, and sometimes used as copy-text, in Armstrong; some poems also edited from it in Gifford & Dyce (1833), the transcript of the MS by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869) being in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce Collection (Cat. No. 48; Pressmark D.25. F. 43). Complete, slightly reduced, facsimile of pp. 1-78 in Poems 1646 (1970). Facsimiles of pp. 77-8 in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 40-1; of f. 78 in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCV(a), and in Alfred Murnau, John Webster. Teufel Wörter (Nordlingen, 1986), before p. 49 (see ShJ 192).

Edited from this MS in Gifford & Dyce and in Armstrong.

Copy of a ten-line version, headed Epitaph on y^e most faire & vertuous Lady, E:S:, subscribed James Shirley.

Including fourteen poems by James Shirley, generally ascribed to him, and eleven poems by Strode (and two of doubtful authorship).

Inscribed (on the front paste-down) My cousin chute gaue me this book out of his father study at the vine Hampshire (following the same statement in French), indicating that the MS was owned by, and possibly originally compiled for, the family of Chaloner Chute, MP (c.1595-1659), Speaker of the house of Commons, who acquired The Vyne, near Basingstoke, Hampshire, in 1653. Later owned by Sir William Tite (1798-1873), architect. Sotheby's, 30 May 1874, lot 2343. Bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork, book collector. Sotheby's, 21 March 1891 (Crawford sale), lot 2493.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Chute MS: ShJ Δ 2 and StW Δ 11. Briefly discussed, with a facsimile of f. 34v (see ShJ 96 and ShJ 100) in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and their Value for Textual Editors, EMS, 1 (1989), 192-210 (pp. 200-1, 209-10 n. 40). Discussed, with facsimiles of ff. 53r and 80r, in Arthur F. Marotti, Chaloner Chute's Poetical Anthology (British Library, Additional MS 33998) as a Cosmopolitan Collection, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 99).

Part of this text edited from this MS in Armstrong, p. 100. Facsimile of f. 34v in Hobbs, EMS, 1 (1989), 201.

Copy of a 110-line version beginning Is the Sea richer for a dropp of Raine?.

4°, 78 pages (plus vi pages of preliminaries, pp. 79-88 blank); neat calligraphic MS of largely early versions of 36 poems by Shirley; the main text from p. 3 to p. 76 in an ornamented and flourished calligraphic script; a less elaborate script, certainly that of Shirley himself, appearing on pp. 77-8; titles added on pp. 12, 33 and 66, and some spaces left for other titles not filled; margins ruled throughout; the poems each signed J: S:; signed at the end (p. 77) J. Shirley. Greg and Armstrong considered the whole MS to be autograph, Croft only the last two pages: see discussion in Introduction above.

A note on p. 1 in the hand of Thomas Hearne (1678-1735) Octob. 17. 1719. This MS. was given me by M^r Ardern Battine, B.A. of Balliol College [i.e. Arden Battine (b. c.1694), of Wimmering, Hampshire, who matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in 1714 and transferred to Balliol, gaining his B.A. in 1718 and M.A. in 1721]; names on p. 82 of Andrew Wall, Joseph Wall and Ro: Doyley; later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755); c.1640-3 (and most probably 1642).

Recorded in IELM as ShJ Δ 1. Collated, and sometimes used as copy-text, in Armstrong; some poems also edited from it in Gifford & Dyce (1833), the transcript of the MS by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869) being in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce Collection (Cat. No. 48; Pressmark D.25. F. 43). Complete, slightly reduced, facsimile of pp. 1-78 in Poems 1646 (1970). Facsimiles of pp. 77-8 in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 40-1; of f. 78 in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCV(a), and in Alfred Murnau, John Webster. Teufel Wörter (Nordlingen, 1986), before p. 49 (see ShJ 192).

Edited from this MS in Armstrong, pp. 95-6.

Copy, headed An Elegy on y^e death of King James, subscribed James Shirley.

Including fourteen poems by James Shirley, generally ascribed to him, and eleven poems by Strode (and two of doubtful authorship).

Inscribed (on the front paste-down) My cousin chute gaue me this book out of his father study at the vine Hampshire (following the same statement in French), indicating that the MS was owned by, and possibly originally compiled for, the family of Chaloner Chute, MP (c.1595-1659), Speaker of the house of Commons, who acquired The Vyne, near Basingstoke, Hampshire, in 1653. Later owned by Sir William Tite (1798-1873), architect. Sotheby's, 30 May 1874, lot 2343. Bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork, book collector. Sotheby's, 21 March 1891 (Crawford sale), lot 2493.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Chute MS: ShJ Δ 2 and StW Δ 11. Briefly discussed, with a facsimile of f. 34v (see ShJ 96 and ShJ 100) in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and their Value for Textual Editors, EMS, 1 (1989), 192-210 (pp. 200-1, 209-10 n. 40). Discussed, with facsimiles of ff. 53r and 80r, in Arthur F. Marotti, Chaloner Chute's Poetical Anthology (British Library, Additional MS 33998) as a Cosmopolitan Collection, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 99).

This MS text collated in Armstrong.

Copy, headed Vppon S^r Thomas Neuill. Kn^t..

4°, 78 pages (plus vi pages of preliminaries, pp. 79-88 blank); neat calligraphic MS of largely early versions of 36 poems by Shirley; the main text from p. 3 to p. 76 in an ornamented and flourished calligraphic script; a less elaborate script, certainly that of Shirley himself, appearing on pp. 77-8; titles added on pp. 12, 33 and 66, and some spaces left for other titles not filled; margins ruled throughout; the poems each signed J: S:; signed at the end (p. 77) J. Shirley. Greg and Armstrong considered the whole MS to be autograph, Croft only the last two pages: see discussion in Introduction above.

A note on p. 1 in the hand of Thomas Hearne (1678-1735) Octob. 17. 1719. This MS. was given me by M^r Ardern Battine, B.A. of Balliol College [i.e. Arden Battine (b. c.1694), of Wimmering, Hampshire, who matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in 1714 and transferred to Balliol, gaining his B.A. in 1718 and M.A. in 1721]; names on p. 82 of Andrew Wall, Joseph Wall and Ro: Doyley; later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755); c.1640-3 (and most probably 1642).

Recorded in IELM as ShJ Δ 1. Collated, and sometimes used as copy-text, in Armstrong; some poems also edited from it in Gifford & Dyce (1833), the transcript of the MS by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869) being in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce Collection (Cat. No. 48; Pressmark D.25. F. 43). Complete, slightly reduced, facsimile of pp. 1-78 in Poems 1646 (1970). Facsimiles of pp. 77-8 in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 40-1; of f. 78 in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCV(a), and in Alfred Murnau, John Webster. Teufel Wörter (Nordlingen, 1986), before p. 49 (see ShJ 192).

This MS collated in Armstrong.

Copy.

4°, 78 pages (plus vi pages of preliminaries, pp. 79-88 blank); neat calligraphic MS of largely early versions of 36 poems by Shirley; the main text from p. 3 to p. 76 in an ornamented and flourished calligraphic script; a less elaborate script, certainly that of Shirley himself, appearing on pp. 77-8; titles added on pp. 12, 33 and 66, and some spaces left for other titles not filled; margins ruled throughout; the poems each signed J: S:; signed at the end (p. 77) J. Shirley. Greg and Armstrong considered the whole MS to be autograph, Croft only the last two pages: see discussion in Introduction above.

A note on p. 1 in the hand of Thomas Hearne (1678-1735) Octob. 17. 1719. This MS. was given me by M^r Ardern Battine, B.A. of Balliol College [i.e. Arden Battine (b. c.1694), of Wimmering, Hampshire, who matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in 1714 and transferred to Balliol, gaining his B.A. in 1718 and M.A. in 1721]; names on p. 82 of Andrew Wall, Joseph Wall and Ro: Doyley; later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755); c.1640-3 (and most probably 1642).

Recorded in IELM as ShJ Δ 1. Collated, and sometimes used as copy-text, in Armstrong; some poems also edited from it in Gifford & Dyce (1833), the transcript of the MS by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869) being in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce Collection (Cat. No. 48; Pressmark D.25. F. 43). Complete, slightly reduced, facsimile of pp. 1-78 in Poems 1646 (1970). Facsimiles of pp. 77-8 in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 40-1; of f. 78 in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCV(a), and in Alfred Murnau, John Webster. Teufel Wörter (Nordlingen, 1986), before p. 49 (see ShJ 192).

Edited from this MS in Gifford & Dyce and in Armstrong.

Copy, headed On y^e Lady Rivers thought to dye by extreame griefe.

Including fourteen poems by James Shirley, generally ascribed to him, and eleven poems by Strode (and two of doubtful authorship).

Inscribed (on the front paste-down) My cousin chute gaue me this book out of his father study at the vine Hampshire (following the same statement in French), indicating that the MS was owned by, and possibly originally compiled for, the family of Chaloner Chute, MP (c.1595-1659), Speaker of the house of Commons, who acquired The Vyne, near Basingstoke, Hampshire, in 1653. Later owned by Sir William Tite (1798-1873), architect. Sotheby's, 30 May 1874, lot 2343. Bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork, book collector. Sotheby's, 21 March 1891 (Crawford sale), lot 2493.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Chute MS: ShJ Δ 2 and StW Δ 11. Briefly discussed, with a facsimile of f. 34v (see ShJ 96 and ShJ 100) in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and their Value for Textual Editors, EMS, 1 (1989), 192-210 (pp. 200-1, 209-10 n. 40). Discussed, with facsimiles of ff. 53r and 80r, in Arthur F. Marotti, Chaloner Chute's Poetical Anthology (British Library, Additional MS 33998) as a Cosmopolitan Collection, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 99).

This MS text recorded in Armstrong.

Copy of a seven-stanza version.

4°, 78 pages (plus vi pages of preliminaries, pp. 79-88 blank); neat calligraphic MS of largely early versions of 36 poems by Shirley; the main text from p. 3 to p. 76 in an ornamented and flourished calligraphic script; a less elaborate script, certainly that of Shirley himself, appearing on pp. 77-8; titles added on pp. 12, 33 and 66, and some spaces left for other titles not filled; margins ruled throughout; the poems each signed J: S:; signed at the end (p. 77) J. Shirley. Greg and Armstrong considered the whole MS to be autograph, Croft only the last two pages: see discussion in Introduction above.

A note on p. 1 in the hand of Thomas Hearne (1678-1735) Octob. 17. 1719. This MS. was given me by M^r Ardern Battine, B.A. of Balliol College [i.e. Arden Battine (b. c.1694), of Wimmering, Hampshire, who matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in 1714 and transferred to Balliol, gaining his B.A. in 1718 and M.A. in 1721]; names on p. 82 of Andrew Wall, Joseph Wall and Ro: Doyley; later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755); c.1640-3 (and most probably 1642).

Recorded in IELM as ShJ Δ 1. Collated, and sometimes used as copy-text, in Armstrong; some poems also edited from it in Gifford & Dyce (1833), the transcript of the MS by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869) being in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce Collection (Cat. No. 48; Pressmark D.25. F. 43). Complete, slightly reduced, facsimile of pp. 1-78 in Poems 1646 (1970). Facsimiles of pp. 77-8 in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 40-1; of f. 78 in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCV(a), and in Alfred Murnau, John Webster. Teufel Wörter (Nordlingen, 1986), before p. 49 (see ShJ 192).

This MS collated in Armstrong.

Copy, headed A song on Prince Charles his birth.

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 collated in Armstrong.

Copy, headed Uppon the birth of the Young prince and here beginning fayre fare their muses which in welchim'd verse.

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

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

This MS recorded in Armstrong.

Copy, here beginning Wellfare their Muses that w^th well climbe verse

Compiled, over a period, principally by Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), Chaplain of Christ Church, Oxford, and Henry King's amanuensis, including (ff. 7r-61r) 24 poems by King in Manne's formal hand, written c.1625-30s; ff. 61v-72v, 73r-99v, 100r-101v written in a variant style of Manne's hand, c.1630s; and (ff. 72v, 99v, 102r-14v, 190v-169r rev.) additions in six other hands, c.1630s-44, with (ff. 75r, 76r, and 76v) three poems to which the subscription R. Dorset is added in the hand of King himself.

Inscribed (f. 190v rev.) Ann Littleton. Thomas Rodd's sale catalogue, [June 1848], p. 31. Sotheby's, 4 Februry 1850 (Rodd sale), lot 500, to James Orchard Halliwell[-Phillipps] (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Afterward owned by the Rev. Thomas Corser, FSA (1793-1876), book collector. Sotheby's, 25 June 1873 (Corser sale), lot 325, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Later owned by the bookdealer Philip Robinson. Sotheby's, 26 June 1974, lot 3013, with a facsimile example in the sale catalogue.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Thomas Manne MS: KiH Δ 7. Used in Crum. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

Copy, headed In natalem Caroli Principis Cantilena.

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

This MS recorded in Armstrong.

Copy, headed Vpon the Birth of Prince Charles. The English Babe.

Copy, headed On y^e princes birth.

Including 14 poems by Carew (and a second copy of one poem), eight poems (plus 3 of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, and 28 poems by Strode (plus a second copy of one and two of doubtful authorship).

Later used and annotated by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, and entries in his hand on f. 97r. Formerly Bodleian, MS CCC.328.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Fulman MS: CwT Δ 2; RnT Δ 6; StW Δ 16.

Copy, in a cursive predominantly secretary hand, untitled.

Inscribed (f. 134v) Anthony Methuen. Later owned by members of the Wyndham family, including probably the Henry Penruddocke Wyndham (1736-1819), topographer. Sotheby's, 11 April 1872, lot 1331, to David Laing.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Laing MS: DnJ Δ 47.

Copy, headed A Song on Prince Charles his birth and here beginning Welfare y^e Muses w^ch in well chimed verse.

Compiled by T. E., a member of St John's College, Oxford

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Bright sale, June 1844. MS 40 in the library of the Shirley family at Ettington Hall, Warwickshire, and with notes by E.Ph. Shirley.

Recorded in HMC, 5th Report, Part I (1876), Appendix, p. 365.

This MS recorded (as M540) in HMC, 5th Report, Part I (1876), Appendix, p. 365.

Copy, headed A Song on Prince Charles his birth and here beginning Faire fare y^e Muses which in well-chim'd verse.

Including 23 poems (and a second copy of one) by Randolph.

Mostyn MS 196: from the library originally founded by Sir Thomas Mostyn (1535-1617) at Mostyn Hall, near Holywell, Flintshire, Wales, the MS possibly acquired by Sir Roger Mostyn (1567-1642) or by his son Sir Roger Mostyn, first Baronet (1625?-90). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 191.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Mostyn MS: RnT Δ 11. Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1873), Appendix, p. 356. Edited in Howard H. Thompson, An Edition of Two Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Poetical Miscellanies (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1959) [Mic 59-4669].

Copy, headed Charles his birth. Song and here beginning Faire fare, y^e Muses w^ch in well-chim'd verse.

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 H: works.

Owned by Henry Bracegirdle, of Merton College, Oxford, and in 1674 by one Hugh Massey.

Copy of lines 1-10, headed Verses wrighten vnder A windowe In the Abby Church of S^t Alban whearin the Execution of that protomartire was paynted; the Heads mans eyes falling out att the Martirdome, here beginning The Image of our frailtie, paynted glass, and ascribed to I.S..

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

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

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

Printed from this MS in Howarth; collated in Armstrong.

Copy.

Compiled by John Phillipps, of Exeter College, Oxford, and the Middle Temple, who has inscribed the front pastedown John Phillipps. med: Temp: Lond: 1776.

Acquired from Cumming of Exeter, 1941.

Copy, here beginning The image....

Copy of an untitled twelve-line version.

4°, 78 pages (plus vi pages of preliminaries, pp. 79-88 blank); neat calligraphic MS of largely early versions of 36 poems by Shirley; the main text from p. 3 to p. 76 in an ornamented and flourished calligraphic script; a less elaborate script, certainly that of Shirley himself, appearing on pp. 77-8; titles added on pp. 12, 33 and 66, and some spaces left for other titles not filled; margins ruled throughout; the poems each signed J: S:; signed at the end (p. 77) J. Shirley. Greg and Armstrong considered the whole MS to be autograph, Croft only the last two pages: see discussion in Introduction above.

A note on p. 1 in the hand of Thomas Hearne (1678-1735) Octob. 17. 1719. This MS. was given me by M^r Ardern Battine, B.A. of Balliol College [i.e. Arden Battine (b. c.1694), of Wimmering, Hampshire, who matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in 1714 and transferred to Balliol, gaining his B.A. in 1718 and M.A. in 1721]; names on p. 82 of Andrew Wall, Joseph Wall and Ro: Doyley; later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755); c.1640-3 (and most probably 1642).

Recorded in IELM as ShJ Δ 1. Collated, and sometimes used as copy-text, in Armstrong; some poems also edited from it in Gifford & Dyce (1833), the transcript of the MS by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869) being in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce Collection (Cat. No. 48; Pressmark D.25. F. 43). Complete, slightly reduced, facsimile of pp. 1-78 in Poems 1646 (1970). Facsimiles of pp. 77-8 in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 40-1; of f. 78 in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCV(a), and in Alfred Murnau, John Webster. Teufel Wörter (Nordlingen, 1986), before p. 49 (see ShJ 192).

Edited from this MS in Armstrong, p. 90.

Copy, untitled, in a musical setting.

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 John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 199).

Copy, 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).

Copy, in Lawes's musical setting.

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

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

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

Copy, untitled.

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

This MS recorded in Armstrong.

Copy, headed Song.

Including 14 poems by Donne, six poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Carew, ten poems by Habington and 13 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Randolph. Owned and possibly compiled by Arthur Capell (1631-83), second Earl of Essex, whose name is inscribed in red ink (1*), in a similar roman hand to that on ff. 1r-19r. He married (1653) Elizabeth Percy (1636-1718), daughter of Algernon, tenth Earl of Northumberland; she was therefore the great niece of Habington's mother-in-law, Eleanor Percy, sister of the ninth Earl of Northumberland.

Later among the collections of Robert Harley (1661-1724), first Earl of Oxford, and his son, Edward (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II, i-ii (1987-93), as the Capell MS: DnJ Δ 43, CwT Δ 17, and RnT Δ 3. Discussed in Geoffrey Tillotson, The Commonplace Book of Arthur Capell, MLR, 27 (1932), 381-91.

This MS recorded in Armstrong.

Copy, untitled.

Compiled by University or Inns of Court men.

The extracted fols 7, 8 and 54 are now Chetham's Library Halliwell-Phillipps No. 2757, Chetham's Library Halliwell-Phillipps No. 2216, and Chetham's Library Halliwell-Phillipps No. 2217 respectively. The extracted fol. 9 is now Folger MS V.a.505, p. 27.

Inscribed (f. [104v] Thomas White His Book May y^e 20 Anno Domine 1691. Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps and in his library at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1.21.

Copy, headed In praise of his m^rs. absolute perfections.

Compiled, probably at least in part, by George Turner Scoolmaster, as his name is inscribed at the end, a couplet on p. 179 reading Hic liber me pertinet and beare yt well in minde / Per me Georgium Turner so curteous and kinde. Possible contributors are members of the Bancrofte family, whom he might perhaps have tutored.

Various inscribed names (sometimes more than once): Anne Bancrofte, and Mary Bancrofte. Also, under 1624, a list of names with perhaps birthdates: Mary Bancrofte Ap. 28. 1611, Rich Bancrofte May 2. 1608, Elis Bancrofte Apr 27. 1614, and John Bancrofte Ap 30 1616. A legal document in the volume, dated 4 November 1645, relates to Willesden, Kilburn and Hampstead.

Formerly Folger MS 1027.2, this MS has been missing since 1991. It can be seen only on microfilm (Film Fo 4376.8).

Copy, untitled.

Including 11 poems by Carew and 14 poems by Randolph.

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

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

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

Copy, untitled.

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

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

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

This MS recorded in Armstrong.

Copy, untitled.

Including nine poems by Randolph, plus two of doubtful authorship.

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 10110. Bookplate of Robert Hoe (1839-1909), New York businessman and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Huntington MS: RnT Δ 9. Complete microfilm at the Shakespeare Institute, Birmingham (Mic S 15).

Copy, headed On his M^ris.

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 A Song by T. Carew.

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

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

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

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

Copy.

Formerly Chest II, No. 21.

Copy, inscribed at the side Sherley.

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

Copy.

Owned by Henry Bracegirdle, of Merton College, Oxford, and in 1674 by one Hugh Massey.

This item discussed in Dana G. McKinnen, A Description of a Restoration Promptbook of Shirley's The Ball, RECTR, 10 (May 1976), 25-48; and, with a facsimile example, in Edward A. Langhans, Restoration Promptbooks (Carbondale & Edwardsville, 1981), pp. 19-23.

Extracts, 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 here (f. 83) edited in Arthur C. Kirsch, A Caroline Commentary on the Drama, MP, 66 (1968-9), 256-61 (p. 257).

Copy of the song, superscribed Bass & treb, copied c.31 November-2 December 1645.

Edited in Diary of the Marches of the Royal Army during the Great Civil War, ed. C.E. Long, Camden Society, 1859.

Extracts.

Entitled A Volume of Figures Set by M^r Lilly from Aprill 1647 to Sept: 1648, comprising for the most part a formal collection of horoscopes.

Extracts, 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 here (f. 79v) printed in Arthur C. Kirsch, A Caroline Commentary on the Drama, MP, 66 (1968-9), 256-61 (p. 257).

Extracts, with a comment on the entertainment.

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 comment here (f. 75v) printed in Arthur C. Kirsch, A Caroline Commentary on the Drama, MP, 66 (1968-9), 256-61 (p. 257).

Copy of the whole play, but imperfect, lacking the last few pages, probably transcribed from the first edition.

Inscribed (f. 31v) Henry Gould his Book 1620. Compiled in part by one Henry Gould (c.1620). Other scribbling in the volume includes names of Robert Carter, John and Peggy Marriot, Thomas and John Allsopp (1746), George and Thomas Swindell, Richard Fowles, and George and Catherine Bindale, as well as an acrostic on Mrs Anne Boulton, and, on the first page, the inscription Mend the play Booke Gilbert Carter. Sotheby's, 15 December 1988, lot 13.

Copy of the first stanza of the dirge, in a musical setting by Edward Coleman.

This MS collated in John P. Cutts, Seventeenth-Century Songs and Lyrics in Paris Conservatoire MS. Res. 2489, MD, 23 (1969), 117-39 (p. 134).

Copy of the complete dirge, in a musical setting by Edward Coleman.

This MS collated in Cutts, p. 134.

Copy.

Among collections of Captain Montagu Montagu, RN (d.1863).

Copy of the dirge, untitled.

Owned in 1670 by one Hilkiah Bedford.

Copy of the dirge, headed The vanitye of greatnesse.

Including 15 poems (and a second copy of one poem) by Cowley and 15 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 II: PsK Δ 7.

Copy of the dirge, headed Songs.

Partly in Scottish dialect, one poem by mr. W. Turner.

Copy of the dirge, untitled.

Compiled by Samuel Waker, painter stainer, of London.

Later owned by Sir Simeon Stuart, third Baronet, MP (c.1724-c.1779/82), of Hartley Mauduit, Hampshire, Chamberlain of the Exchequer (constituting Volume XI of the Stuart Collection). Purchased in 1778.

Copy of the dirge, headed Scepters and Crownes must Tumble downe.

Copy of the dirge, untitled, on a small slip of paper.

Purchased from Joseph Lilly, 20 February 1844.

Copy of the dirge, headed The Good Old English Sonet made by M^r James Shirley Thus (at the Request of a friend) In Latin Metrified, followed (f. 47v) by The Latin Version beginning Natalium Lux et Magnificentia, and subscribed Comunic. a frater Tho: Watson. 1669.

Compiled by John Watson (d. c.1707), of Queens' College, Cambridge, vicar of Mildenhall, Suffolk.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ex dono D^rs Barb: Rhodes ...M^ri Joan: Rhodes Decemb: 5 1667; Janawary y^e 2 day 1726; W^m faildham London to y^e Land of maderah & from thence to Jamaca. Purchased from Lilly, 13 July 1850.

Copy.

Purchased at H.B. Rays sale, 26 July 1856, lot 1033.

Copy of the dirge, untitled, stanzas 2 and 3 separated from the first stanza, with cross-references, and all deleted.

Including ten poems by Cowley (on ff. 113r-v, 124r-9v).

Inscribed (f. 2r) Several Divine poems out of a Mss. of M^r. Hanserd Knolly's (thô [I suppose deleted] not of his composing); (f. 36r) Finis Manuscript, H. K.; (f. 1r and elsewhere) H Packwood Anno 1668 and George Gaynor, 1681. Item 988 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Purchased on 12 February 1876 from William Carew Hazlitt (1834-1913), bibliographer and writer.

Copy of the dirge, untitled and here beginning The Glories of our Birth & State.

Including ten poems by Cowley (on ff. 113r-v, 124r-9v).

Inscribed (f. 2r) Several Divine poems out of a Mss. of M^r. Hanserd Knolly's (thô [I suppose deleted] not of his composing); (f. 36r) Finis Manuscript, H. K.; (f. 1r and elsewhere) H Packwood Anno 1668 and George Gaynor, 1681. Item 988 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Purchased on 12 February 1876 from William Carew Hazlitt (1834-1913), bibliographer and writer.

Copy of the dirge, on one side of a small quarto leaf. Late 17th century.

Presented by A.W. Franks, 18 November 1891.

Copy of the dirge in a sixteen-stanza version, introduced ...for yours & my my meditation vppon death, which ought to be often, the following lines, though verses, yett de tristibus, are properly applicable.

Volume II of the Whitelocke Manuscripts.

Copy of the dirge, headed (erroneously) Song in the Gratefull servant; late 17th-early 18th century.

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 of the dirge, in a secretary hand, untitled, in a section of verse.

Compiled in large part by William Jackson, one of the Custome Masters of Great Yarmouth.

Copy of the dirge, untitled, on a single leaf. Mid-17th century.

Copy of the dirge, headed Song.

Inscribed (on the front free endpaper) E libris Johanis Harding ex Aede X^ti Oxon 1672.

Copy of the dirge, untitled.

Inscribed (on the front free endpaper) E libris Johanis Harding ex Aede X^ti Oxon 1672.

Copy of the dirge, untitled, subscribed by James Shirley.

Inscribed by, and the MS most likely compiled by, the Rev. Henry Newcome (1650-1713), of St Edmund's Hall, Oxford, in 1669, rector at Middleton, Manchester.

A pencil note (f. [i^v]) refers to Original MSS otherwise from Hockwold Hall.

Copies of the dirge, in a musical setting by Edward Coleman.

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.

Copy of the dirge, untitled.

Including copies of various drafts, fragments and extracts, as well as poems by other writers such as Anne Wharton, Sir Charles Berkeley, Sir Thomas Higgons (including part of a play by him), Elizabeth Taylor (Lady Wythens, afterwards Lady Colepeper), Ephelia, George Granville, the Duke of Buckingham, Sir George Etherege, the Earl of Rochester, James Shirley, and Thomas Rymer, also extracts from Dryden and Davenant; almost entirely in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, with considerable variation of style; an apparently second, unidentified, hand copying verse and prose (Memoire…par le Sieur Lycelot…Le 9^me de Decembre 1687 and Instructions to the Judges of Assize &c Lent 1687/8) on ff. [23r, 62r-7v, 70v]; two of these leaves ([65r and 70v]) docketed in a later hand (after 1713) The Handwriting of D^r Atterbury and Bish^p Atterbury [meaning perhaps copied from Atterbury's writing (see WaE Δ 15)]; a draft letter addressed (as is clear from the content) to Catherine, Lady Ranelagh (1614-91), sister of the noble and learned…M^r [Robert] Boyle, on f. [16v], enclosing ffathers last verses [not specified], noting his reluctance to write anything for the forthcoming marriage of Princess Anne and Prince George of Denmark [which took place on 28 July 1684], and observing that he has now consecrated his remayning facullty in vers to devotion; a poem Of his voyage vp the river to vissett (beginning In my breast Eternall flames) on f. [71r] ascribed to M^rs M Waller (presumably Waller's second wife, Mary Bresse or Breaux, d. 1677); some scribbling and calculations on ff. 3r, 71v, 72v, 73v, a label on the spine erroneously identifying the volume as a compilation by Brian Fairfax (1637-1711).

Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1798-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9096.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Harvard MS: WaE Δ 6.

Copy of the dirge, in a musical setting by Edward Coleman, untitled.

Inscribed (f. 1^r) Ann Blount and The Lady Ann Blount.

A complete facsimile of this volume is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 11 (New York & London, 1987).

Copy of the dirge, headed Anglice. The text followed by a Latin version.

In professional hands: A, pp. 1-194; B, in a different style and probably a different hand, pp. 195-432; C, probably yet another hand, with additions on pp. 75, 90, 102, 125, 142, 175, 195, and pp. 433-63.

Inscribed (on stubs and endpapers) matt Calihan, To C^pt Robinson att Ca^pt Eloass [Elwes] near y^e Watch house in Marlbur^hroagh street, For Cap^t. Robinson at his Lodginges in Charing Cross. Christie's, 27 June 1979, lot 16.

Various commissioned officers named Robinson are recorded in Charles Dalton, English Army Lists and Commission Registers, 1661-1714 (6 vols, London, 1892-1904): see esp. I, 276. The volume was most probably owned by Charles Robinson of the King's Regiment of Foot Guards, who became Captain and then Lieutenant-Colonel in 1688 and was killed at Namur in 1695. A member of the same regiment in 1684 was the purveyor of MS lampoons Captain Lenthal Warcup. The Captain Eloass mentioned in one inscription was possibly William Elwes, who served as a Lieutenant in Viscount Colchester's Regiment of Horse, c.1692-4, and as a Captain in Lord Windsor's Regiment of Horse in 1702.

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Robinson MS: RoJ Δ 8. Discussed with facsimiles of pp. 1-10 in Paul Hammond, The Robinson Manuscript Miscellany of Restoration Verse in the Brotherton Collection, Leeds, Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, 18 (1982), 275-324 [cited in entries as Hammond, Robinson]. Facsimiles of p. 1 also in Christie's sale catalogue, Plate 1, after p. 48, and in The Brotherton Collection University of Leeds: Its contents described with illustrations of fifty books and manuscripts (Leeds, 1986), p. 17. Selectively collated in Walker.

Copy of the dirge, untitled.

In professional hands: A, pp. 1-194; B, in a different style and probably a different hand, pp. 195-432; C, probably yet another hand, with additions on pp. 75, 90, 102, 125, 142, 175, 195, and pp. 433-63.

Inscribed (on stubs and endpapers) matt Calihan, To C^pt Robinson att Ca^pt Eloass [Elwes] near y^e Watch house in Marlbur^hroagh street, For Cap^t. Robinson at his Lodginges in Charing Cross. Christie's, 27 June 1979, lot 16.

Various commissioned officers named Robinson are recorded in Charles Dalton, English Army Lists and Commission Registers, 1661-1714 (6 vols, London, 1892-1904): see esp. I, 276. The volume was most probably owned by Charles Robinson of the King's Regiment of Foot Guards, who became Captain and then Lieutenant-Colonel in 1688 and was killed at Namur in 1695. A member of the same regiment in 1684 was the purveyor of MS lampoons Captain Lenthal Warcup. The Captain Eloass mentioned in one inscription was possibly William Elwes, who served as a Lieutenant in Viscount Colchester's Regiment of Horse, c.1692-4, and as a Captain in Lord Windsor's Regiment of Horse in 1702.

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Robinson MS: RoJ Δ 8. Discussed with facsimiles of pp. 1-10 in Paul Hammond, The Robinson Manuscript Miscellany of Restoration Verse in the Brotherton Collection, Leeds, Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, 18 (1982), 275-324 [cited in entries as Hammond, Robinson]. Facsimiles of p. 1 also in Christie's sale catalogue, Plate 1, after p. 48, and in The Brotherton Collection University of Leeds: Its contents described with illustrations of fifty books and manuscripts (Leeds, 1986), p. 17. Selectively collated in Walker.

Copy, headed Anglicè, preceded by a Latin version beginning Quid profunt monumenta....

Used from the reverse end, for a 79-page catalogue of c.1400 books dating from 1519 to the mid-18th century, in two hands, headed Catalogue of M^r. Okeover's Library taken Sept^r: 1760 with a supplement headed Found in London in Feby 1764 by M^r. Walhouse — after M^r. Leeke Okeover's death in M^r. Okeover's house in John Street, Gray's Inn Lane, London.

Inscribed (f. i^r) tho may. Sotheby's, 22 July 1980, lot 541.

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Okeover MS: MaA Δ 7.

Copy of the dirge, untitled.

Copy of the dirge, headed Reflections on our Mortal State. By M^r James Shirley.

Including (ff. 104-35) a late 17th-century quarto verse miscellany in a small mixed hand, possibly compiled by an Oxford University man.

Copy of the dirge, untitled, here beginnining The glories of our Birth ant [sic] state.

Owned in 1713 by one Millicent Rasby, whose name occurs repeatedly. Among the papers of the Elmhirst family of Houndhill, Worsbrough Bridge, Yorkshire.

Copy of the dirge, untitled, on the penultimate leaf in the volume.

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 dirge, headed A Song.

Containing a note by Bertram Dobell. Formerly MSS 2. 23.

Copy of lines 1-13 of the dirge, headed A song made as some say By James Shirley and others say by Alexander Brome about 40 years agoe, with a new supplement by T. Fuller D.D. 1677, imperfect, the rest excised.

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

Formerly Osborn MS Chest II, Number 14.

Copy of the dirge, untitled.

Formerly Chest II, No. 21.

Copy of the dirge in the hand of one Thomas Style, subscribed S^r This is the Song I Promised you if you Please To turne over Leafe... and headed A Song composed by the Earle of Orrery, on two conjugate folio leaves.

Assembled by the traveller Lorenzo Magalotti (1637-1712).

Sotheby's, 19 July 1966, lot 518.

Copy of the dirge, headed The Glittering Shade.

The title-page inscribed Nar. Lutterell: His Book 1682, i.e. owned by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732), annalist and book collector. At Yale formerly Chest II, No. 39.

Copy of the dirge, untitled, here beginning the Glories of our birth & state.

Compiled over a period (entries dated between 1621 and 1667) by members of the family of Sir Marmaduke Rawdon (1583-1646), merchant, shipowner and royalist soldier.

Inscribed (f. 278r) Mary Elliston october the 27 1763 and Mary Elliston Collchester. Later owned by Edward Hailstone (1818-90), of Walton Hall, Wakefield, botanist and book collector.

Sotheby's, 27 May 1986, lot 548, to Slater.

Copy of the dirge.

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 A Moral Song in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), pp. 122-3.

Copy of the dirge, headed On man's mortality.

Inscribed Thomas Beesly his booke, Richard Dewe, and Stephen Philips his booke, and possibly associated with the University of Oxford. Sotheby's, 17 July 2008, lot 133, to Anonymous, with facsimiles of pp. 20-1 in the sale catalogue.

A set of photocopies is in the British Library, RP 9362.

Facsimile in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 17 July 2008, p. 99.

Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 938 (1974), item 65. Sotheby's, 29 October 1975, lot 153. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (c.1980), item 71. Sotheby's, 27 May 1986, lot 548, to Slater.

The main scribe is probably John Rolleston (1597?-1681), of Sokeholme, Nottinghamshire, Sir William Cavendish's secretary, who is also chiefly responsible, inter alia, for the Newcastle MS (British Library, Harley MS 4955). The later revisions were probably prepared for the production by the King's Company at the Bridges Street Theatre on 18 August 1664.

This MS discussed in R.G. Howarth, A Manuscript of James Shirley's Court Secret, RES, 7 (1931), 302-13, and 8 (1932), 203, and in W.W. Greg, Dramatic Documents from the Elizabethan Playhouses: Commentary (Oxford, 1931), pp. 346-52. See also Bentley, Jacobean & Caroline Stage, V, 1100-2. The Induction edited from this MS in Danchin, Prologues & Epilogues, I, 196-8.

Facsimiles of f. 15r in James Shirley, The Cardinal, ed. E.M. Yearling (Manchester, 1986), frontispiece, and of part of f. 28r in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCV(d).

Locke's predominantly autograph copy, including instrumental dances, recitatives, choruses, &c. and five songs, headed The Instrumentall and Vocall Musique in the Morall representation att the Millitary Ground jn Lescester ffields 1659.

Once owned by Hannah Lanier. Bought at Dr Hayes's sale, Oxford, by Edward Jones. Sotheby's, 1825 (E. Jones sale), in lot 476. Puttick & Simpson's, 25 June 1849, lot 576.

Edited from this MS (with facsimiles of ff. 3, 9 and 20) by Edward J. Dent in Musica Britannica, 2 (London, 1951). See also R.G. Howarth, Shirley's Cupid and Death, TLS (15 November 1934), p. 795;, and Bentley, Jacobean & Caroline Stage, V, 1102-4.

Copy of the second song, headed Death's Triumph.

Including 15 poems (and a second copy of one poem) by Cowley and 15 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 II: PsK Δ 7.

Copy of the second song, headed Song. 91. Death, and his Emissaries.

The title-page inscribed Nar. Lutterell: His Book 1682, i.e. owned by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732), annalist and book collector. At Yale formerly Chest II, No. 39.

Extracts, 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 here (f. 78v) printed in Arthur C. Kirsch, A Caroline Commentary on the Drama, MP, 66 (1968-9), 256-61 (p. 257).

Extracts, 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 here (f. 87) printed in Arthur C. Kirsch, A Caroline Commentary on the Drama, MP, 66 (1968-9), 256-61 (p. 258).

Extracts.

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

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

Extracts, 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 here (f. 101v) printed in Arthur C. Kirsch, A Caroline Commentary on the Drama, MP, 66 (1968-9), 256-61 (p. 259).

Possibly made in preparation for an intended second edition.

Bookplate of Francis Longe, of Spixworth Park, Norfolk.

These emendations selectively collated in Huebert and discussed, pp. 43-4.

In the Bute Collection of English Plays purchased in April 1956 from Major Michael Crichton-Stuart of Falkland.

This item discussed in G. Blakemore Evans, New Evidence on the Provenance of the Padua Prompt-Books of Shakespeare's Macbeth, Measure for Measure, and Winter's Tale, SB, 20 (1967), 239-40. On other early prompt-books, see Prompt-books in the Introduction for William Shakespeare.

Acquired from William H. Robinson, April 1956.

Discussed in Judith Milhous and Robert D. Hume, A 1660s Promptbook of Shirley's Loves Crueltie, Theatre Research International, 11 (1986), 1-13.

Sotheby's, 25 November 1974, lot 3172, with a facsimile of two annotated pages in the sale catalogue, p. 61.

Briefly discussed in Edward A. Langhans, More Restoration Manuscript Casts and Dates and a New Restoration Promptbook, TN, 32 (1978), 126-30 (pp. 128-9). Complete reduced facsimile in Langhans, Restoration Promptbooks (Carbondale & Edwardsville, 1981), pp. 197-231 (and discussed, pp. 35-8).

Formerly preserved in The Players Club, New York.

Described by John Malone in a periodical of c.1894-5, a cutting of which is in an extra-illustrated exemplum of George Alfred Townsend, The Life, Crime and Capture of John Wilkes Booth (New York, [1865]) now in the Harvard Theater Collection: see Bentley, Jacobean & Caroline Stage, V, 1141.

Extracts, 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 here (f. 114) edited in Arthur C. Kirsch, A Caroline Commentary on the Drama, MP, 66 (1968-9), 256-61 (p. 259).

Extracts, 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 here (f. 80v) printed in Arthur C. Kirsch, A Caroline Commentary on the Drama, MP, 66 (1968-9), 256-61 (p. 257).

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

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.

In an octavo volume, Shirley's Six New Playes (London, 1653), in contemporary sheep (rebacked).

Inscribed (title-page) Will: Norman and his blind-stamped initials and date 1655 on the covers. Formerly at Sion College, London (ARC K 55.2 /SH 6). Sotheby's, 13 June 1977, lot 61.

This item recorded in Gifford & Dyce, V, 354. Discussed in Montague Summers, A Restoration Prompt-Book, TLS (24 June 1920), p. 400; in Summers, The Restoration Theatre (London, 1934), with a facsimile of p. 13 facing p. 142; in Edward A. Langhans, The Restoration Promptbook of Shirley's The Sisters, Theatre Annual, 14 (1956), 51-65, with six facsimile examples; in Sotheby's sale catalogue for 13 June 1977, lot 61, with a facsimile example. A complete facsimile is in Edward A. Langhans, Restoration Promptbooks (Carbondale & Edwardsville, 1981), pp. 133-62 (and discussed, pp. 28-30).

Langhans records an exemplum of the first edition of the play at the University of Chicago containing a transcript of the annotations in the present exemplum made by the editor William Gifford (1756-1826).

A rough working draft, or foul paper, of a scene in blank verse and prose between the Prince [Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence] and Lorenzo [Lorenzino de' Medici] which was later heavily adapted as Act I, scene ii of The Traitor; a fragment comprising some 144 lines of text drafted out, with numerous currente calamo revisions, in the mixed secretary and italic hand of its (probably professional) author on two conjugate folio leaves, each c.390 x 305 mm; from the papers of Sir John Coke (1563-1644), Secretary of State, or his family, and the muniments of the Marquess of Lothian at Melbourne Hall, Derbyshire; the MS at some time folded and used as wrapping paper to enclose a bundle of letters (possibly in 1634 or 1640) when books and papers were sent by his sons respectively from Gray's Inn and from London to Melbourne); marked in pencil in the 1880s by William Dashwood Fane Packet 3 (which originally contained documents of 1601-30, including Sir Fulke Greville's household accounts of 1602-3).

This MS was discovered by Edward Saunders and identified by Felix Pryor at Melbourne Hall in 1985. Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 20 June 1986, lot 222 (unsold).

This MS appeared in a separate sale catalogue by Felix Pryor for Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 20 June 1986, lot 222, and is discussed by him, with a facsimile page and transcript, in Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook, ed. J.M. Brook (Detroit, 1986), pp. 133-8. It was publicized elsewhere, with occasional reduced facsimile examples, notably in The Times (6 May 1986), pp. 1, 12, and (19 October 1989); Time (19 May 1986), p. 11; New York Times (24 May 1986); TLS (13 June 1986), p. 651; The Spectator (14 June 1986), pp. 34-5; and Maine Antique Digest (July 1986), pp. 36-37C.

Discussed, with reduced facsimiles, and the attribution to Webster supported, in Antony Hammond and Doreen DelVecchio, The Melbourne Manuscript and John Webster: A Reproduction and Transcript, SB, 41 (1988), 1-32, and in Alfred Marnau, John Webster. Teufel Wörter (Nordlingen, 1986) [where it is also translated into German as Il Moro, Herzog von Florenz. Ein Webster-Fragment]. Facsimiles also in Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor, William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion (Oxford, 1987), p. 8., and in DLB, vol. 58, Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers (Detroit, 1987), pp. 290-1.

Discussed, and the attribution to Webster rejected in favour of Shirley, by I.A. Shapiro in letters to the TLS (4 July 1986), pp. 735-6, and (8 August 1986), p. 865 (also in unpublished further articles), and in The Works of John Webster, Vol. III, ed. David Gunby, David Carnegie, and MacDonald P. Jackson (Cambridge, 2003), pp. xxx-xxxi. See also letters and articles by Richard Proudfoot and Felix Pryor in TLS (13 June 1986), p. 651; (18 July 1986), p. 787; (22 August 1986), pp. 913-14; and (29 August 1986), p. 939, and N.W. Bawcutt, The Assassination of Alessandro de' Medici in early Seventeenth-Century English Drama, RES, NS 56 (June 2005), 412-23.

Extracts, 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 here (f. 74) printed in Arthur C. Kirsch, A Caroline Commentary on the Drama, MP, 66 (1968-9), 256-61 (p. 257).

Copy of the song, in a musical setting by William Lawes.

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

Bookplate of Povert Henley.

This MS Edited in part in Peter Walls, New Light on Songs by William Lawes and John Wilson, M&L, 57 (1976), (pp. 62-3).

Copy of the song in a musical setting by William Lawes, untitled, deleted.

Edited from this MS in Murray Leflkowitz, William Lawes (London, 1960), pp. 231-3; Edited in part in Walls, p. 62.

Copy of the song in a musical setting by William Lawes, scored for two voices and incomplete, 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 (pp. 192-3). Edited in part in Walls, pp. 62-3.

Copy of the complete song, in a musical setting by William Lawes, scored for three voices, 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 (pp. 192-3). Edited in part in Walls, pp. 62-3.

Copy of the incipit in a musical setting by William Lawes, headed First Song of the Innis of Court Masque The howres descending.

Edited from this MS in Edward J. Dent, Foundations of English Opera (Cambridge, 1928), pp. 30-2; in Andrew J. Sabol, Songs and Dances for the Stuart Masque (Providence, Rhode Island, 1959), pp. 78-80; in Lefkowitz, pp. 89-91; and in Sabol, 400 Songs & Dances, No. 36.

Copy of the incipit in a musical setting by William Lawes.

Edited from this MS in Dent, pp. 32-4 (transcription corrected in Murray Lefkowitz, William Lawes (London, 1960), p. 217); in Sabol (1959), pp. 81-3; in Lefkowitz, Trois Masques, pp. 92-6; and in Sabol, 400 Songs & Dances, No. 37.

Copy of the incipit in a musical setting by William Lawes (1602-45).

Edited from this MS in Dent, pp. 34-7 (and see also Murray Lefkowitz, William Lawes, p. 217); in Sabol, (1959), pp. 84-8; in Lefkowitz, Trois Masques, pp. 97-104; and in Sabol, 400 Songs & Dances, No. 38.

Copy of the song in a musical setting by William Lawes.

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

Bookplate of Povert Henley.

Edited from this MS in Peter Walls, New Light on Songs by William Lawes and John Wilson, M&L, 57 (1976), 55-64 (pp. 58-61); edited in part from this MS in Sabol, 400 Songs & Dances, No. 414.

Copy of the song, 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).

Edited from this MS in John P. Cutts, Seventeenth-Century Songs and Lyrics in Edinburgh University Library Music MS. Dc. 1. 69, MD, 13 (1959), 169-94 (p. 193); in Walls, loc. cit.; and in Lefkowitz, pp. 105-6. Edited in part from this MS in Sabol, 400 Songs & Dances, No. 414.

Autograph copy by Lawes, in his musical setting, headed Amphilucæ: in a Maske.

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.

Edited from this MS in Cutts, The Library (1952), p. 232; in Lefkowitz, William Lawes, p. 218; in Sabol (1959), pp. 89-90; in Lefkowitz, Trois Masques, pp. 106-8; and in Sabol, 400 Songs & Dances, No. 39.

Copy of the 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 incipit in a musical setting by William Lawes, incomplete, headed The Last Part of the Innis of Court Masque.

Edited from this MS in Lefkowitz, pp. 108-9, and in Sabol, 400 Songs & Dances, No. 416.

Extracts, 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 here (f. 82) printed in Arthur C. Kirsch, A Caroline Commentary on the Drama, MP, 66 (1968-9), 256-61 (p. 257).

Owned, and annotated, by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

This item briefly discussed in Bertram Joseph, Stage-Directions in a 17th Cent. Copy of Shirley, TN, 3 (1949), 66-7. Complete reduced facsimile in Edward A. Langhans, Restoration Promptbooks (Carbondale & Edwardsville, 1981), pp. 261-94 (and discussed, pp. 42-4).

Extracts, with comments on the play, headed y^e young Admirall tragicomedie.

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 here (f. 90r) printed in Arthur C. Kirsch, A Caroline Commentary on the Drama, MP, 66 (1968-9), 256-61 (p. 258).

Shirley's additions were identified by I.A. Shapiro: see his letter in TLS (8 August 1986), p. 865. Facsimile of a page in No. 11, a stage arrangement entirely in Shirley's hand, in Trois Masques à la Cour de Charles I^er d'Angleterre, ed. Murray Lefkowitz (Paris, 1970), Plate VIII, and, also, very reduced, in I.A. Shapiro, The Melbourne MS, TLS (8 August 1986), p. 865. A microfilm of the MSS is at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London (XR 54, reel 15).

Recorded in Bentley, Jacobean & Caroline Stage, V, 1066. A very reduced facsimile in I.A. Shapiro, The Melbourne MS, TLS (8 August 1986), p. 865.

This document discussed in J.P. Feil, James Shirley's Years of Service, RES, NS 8 (1957), 413-16.

Calendar of the Proceedings of the Committee for Compounding &c, 1643-1660, Cases, July 1650-December 1653 (1892), p. 2703. These documents discussed in George Bas, Two Misrepresented Biographical Documents concerning James Shirley, RES, NS 27 (1976), 18-25.

Edited (incomplete and with inaccuracies) in Arthur Huntington Nason, James Shirley, Dramatist (New York, 1915), pp. 158-60. Facsimile pages are in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCV(b-c), and in IELM, II.ii (1993), Facsimile XII, after p. xxi.

The front cover stamped in gilt S. E. S. 1884: i.e. Sewallis Evelyn Shirley, MP, JP (1844-1904). From the library of the Shirley family at Ettington Hall, Warwickshire. Quaritch's sale catalogue of English Literature (August-November 1884), item 22263.

A printed exemplum, evidently a presentation volume from the author, although they do not bear any trace of his own hand. It bears the signature on the title-page of Bernard Hyde, who in fact was the truly Noble dedicatee of Shirley's edition.

Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 236.

Copy, ascribed to Alexander Gill.

Including fourteen poems by James Shirley, generally ascribed to him, and eleven poems by Strode (and two of doubtful authorship).

Inscribed (on the front paste-down) My cousin chute gaue me this book out of his father study at the vine Hampshire (following the same statement in French), indicating that the MS was owned by, and possibly originally compiled for, the family of Chaloner Chute, MP (c.1595-1659), Speaker of the house of Commons, who acquired The Vyne, near Basingstoke, Hampshire, in 1653. Later owned by Sir William Tite (1798-1873), architect. Sotheby's, 30 May 1874, lot 2343. Bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork, book collector. Sotheby's, 21 March 1891 (Crawford sale), lot 2493.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Chute MS: ShJ Δ 2 and StW Δ 11. Briefly discussed, with a facsimile of f. 34v (see ShJ 96 and ShJ 100) in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and their Value for Textual Editors, EMS, 1 (1989), 192-210 (pp. 200-1, 209-10 n. 40). Discussed, with facsimiles of ff. 53r and 80r, in Arthur F. Marotti, Chaloner Chute's Poetical Anthology (British Library, Additional MS 33998) as a Cosmopolitan Collection, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 99).

Edited in Calendar of State Papers Domestic, Charles I, 1633-1634, pp. xxvii-xxviii, 450.

Copy, with full title and here beginning Now did heavens Charioter y^e day.

Compiled by T. E., a member of St John's College, Oxford

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Bright sale, June 1844. MS 40 in the library of the Shirley family at Ettington Hall, Warwickshire, and with notes by E.Ph. Shirley.

Recorded in HMC, 5th Report, Part I (1876), Appendix, p. 365.

Copy, headed On y^e solemne triumphs of y^e Gentlemen of y^e Innes of Court, riding w^th y^e Maske p^rsented before his Ma^tie:.

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.

Extracts from plays by Shirley, including The Traitor.

Inscribed W. Harte 1726: i.e. by Walter Harte (1709-41), compiler of the MS, which also has his bookplate.

Extracts from plays and poems.

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).