Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint

Verse

(1) English Poems by Southwell

At home in Heaven
('Faire soule, how long shall veyles thy graces shroud?')

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 55-6.

SoR 1

Copy.

In: A volume of Southwell's English verse and some prose works, in a single hand but for one poem and some corrections in a second hand, 78 quarto leaves. c.1592-1609.

Bearing the childish signature of iereneme WalDegrave (? the future nun Dame Hieronima Waldegrave, c.1603-35) and once in the possession of the Waldegrave family of Essex.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Cited by editors as the Waldegrave MS. Described in McDonald, pp. 19-22, and in Brown, pp. xxxvii-xl. This MS probably to be identified as the lost Bury St Edmunds MS recorded in McDonald, pp. 25-7: see Brown, pp. xxxix-xl.

SoR 2

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of English poems and letters of Robert Southwell, largely in one neat small hand, together with sigs A-E (pp. 1-34) of a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, with other Poemes (London, 1595), vii + 80 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum stamped IHS. Early 17th century.

Inscribed names (f. 79v) Thomas Champney Book Anno: Domini 1677; (f. 78v) Mrs Mary Hooge Booke Anno Domini 1678; and (elsewhere) Katherine and Laurence Champney. 19th-century notes (ff. ii-vii) referring to this MS as The Woolhampton MS (? from Woolhampton, Berkshire). Later in the Virtue and Cahill Library, of the Catholic Cathedral of Portsmouth. Christie's, 5 July 1967, lot 190.

Generally cited as the Virtue and Cahill MS.

SoR 3

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of works by Robert Southwell, in an accomplished secretary hand, 110 leaves, some pages at the back partly torn away, in 19th-century half-morocco. Early 17th century.

Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, April 1836 (Heber sale), lot 1447.

SoR 4

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of poems by Robert Southwell, in a neat predominantly italic hand, with (f. 1*v) a list of contents, 1* + 43 leaves, in modern black morocco. 1620.

With a faded inscription (f. 57v) Charles Cauendish 1620 / Anno Dmi, 1620.

Cited in IELM, I.ii, as the Cavendish MS.

SoR 5

Copy.

In: A small quarto composite volume of works chiefly by Southwell, comprising a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, With other Poems (London, 1595), vi + 56 pages, with minor MS corrections and marks, bound with an untitled MS of poems by Southwell and others, in one or possibly two neat italic hands, 88 leaves, formerly in contemporary calf, now in modern quarter-calf. Early 17th century.

Inscribed on the title-page E[x] L[ibris] J. Phillips 1774. Booklabel of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).

Cited by editors, and in IELM, I.ii, as the Harmsworth MS. Collated in Brown.

SoR 5.5

Copy.

In: Fragments of a small quarto miscellany of poems, chiefly by Robert Southwell (sixteen by him, probably copied from lost printed sources), in a single mixed Scottish hand, 36 pages (in present state).

Apparently compiled by one R. C. (possibly Robert Calder) for Sir Robert Gordon (1580-1656), Lord of Inverary and Gentleman of the Privy Chamber.

c.1610.

The MS pages used as binder's waste or even perhaps as a deliberate mode of secretion in a MS volume compiled by the schoolmaster and royal chaplain Alexander Ross (1591-1654), of Aberdeen. Later in the library of Andrew Fletcher (1653?-1716), of Saltoun, political theorist and book collector. H.P. Kraus, New York, sale catalogue No. 157 (1980), item 29. Sotheby's, 19 July 1994, lot 29 (with other MSS relating to the recusant Gordon family), to Quaritch.

SoR 6

Copy.

In: A miscellany, entitled a not-booke of divinity and honor military and civill, chiefly comprising 29 poems by Robert Southwell transcribed from printed sources, in the predominantly italic hand of Thomas Read, a student of Magdalen College, Oxford, 186 leaves, dated 1624. 1624.

Later in the collection of George Arents Jr (1875-1960), manufacturer.

This MS recorded in Brown, p. li, but not collated.

The burning Babe
('As I in hoarie Winters night')

First published in Saint Peters Complaint (London, 1602). Brown, pp. 15-16.

SoR 7

Copy.

In: A volume of Southwell's English verse and some prose works, in a single hand but for one poem and some corrections in a second hand, 78 quarto leaves. c.1592-1609.

Bearing the childish signature of iereneme WalDegrave (? the future nun Dame Hieronima Waldegrave, c.1603-35) and once in the possession of the Waldegrave family of Essex.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Cited by editors as the Waldegrave MS. Described in McDonald, pp. 19-22, and in Brown, pp. xxxvii-xl. This MS probably to be identified as the lost Bury St Edmunds MS recorded in McDonald, pp. 25-7: see Brown, pp. xxxix-xl.

SoR 8

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of English poems and letters of Robert Southwell, largely in one neat small hand, together with sigs A-E (pp. 1-34) of a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, with other Poemes (London, 1595), vii + 80 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum stamped IHS. Early 17th century.

Inscribed names (f. 79v) Thomas Champney Book Anno: Domini 1677; (f. 78v) Mrs Mary Hooge Booke Anno Domini 1678; and (elsewhere) Katherine and Laurence Champney. 19th-century notes (ff. ii-vii) referring to this MS as The Woolhampton MS (? from Woolhampton, Berkshire). Later in the Virtue and Cahill Library, of the Catholic Cathedral of Portsmouth. Christie's, 5 July 1967, lot 190.

Generally cited as the Virtue and Cahill MS.

SoR 9

Copy, with corrections in two later hands.

In: A quarto volume of works by Robert Southwell, in an accomplished secretary hand, 110 leaves, some pages at the back partly torn away, in 19th-century half-morocco. Early 17th century.

Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, April 1836 (Heber sale), lot 1447.

SoR 10

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of poems by Robert Southwell, in a neat predominantly italic hand, with (f. 1*v) a list of contents, 1* + 43 leaves, in modern black morocco. 1620.

With a faded inscription (f. 57v) Charles Cauendish 1620 / Anno Dmi, 1620.

Cited in IELM, I.ii, as the Cavendish MS.

SoR 11

Copy.

In: A small quarto composite volume of works chiefly by Southwell, comprising a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, With other Poems (London, 1595), vi + 56 pages, with minor MS corrections and marks, bound with an untitled MS of poems by Southwell and others, in one or possibly two neat italic hands, 88 leaves, formerly in contemporary calf, now in modern quarter-calf. Early 17th century.

Inscribed on the title-page E[x] L[ibris] J. Phillips 1774. Booklabel of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).

Cited by editors, and in IELM, I.ii, as the Harmsworth MS. Collated in Brown.

SoR 12

Copy, untitled.

In: A long ledger-size miscellany of recusant verse and some prose, including 32 poems by Robert Southwell, largely in the single neat hand of Gertrude Thimelby (1617-68), a second hand on pp. 119-21, viii + 130 pages, some leaves partly torn away, in contemporary vellum. c.1651-7.

Associated with the Fairfax family of Wootton Wawen, Warwickshire, including Thomas Fairfax (d.1691), yeoman. Later inscribed with the name Harriet Marcusden. Sold by P.J. Dobell, 1948.

Discussed in Cedric C. Brown, Recusant Community and Jesuit Mission in Parliament Days: Bodleian MS Eng. poet. b. 5, Yearbook of English Studies, 23 (2003), 290-315.

SoR 12.5

Copy.

In: An octavo miscellany of verse, prose and drama, written over a period in various hands, 179 leaves, in remains of contemporary calf. c.1620-late 17th century.

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.

A childe my Choyce
('Let folly praise that fancie loves, I praise and love that child')

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, p. 13.

SoR 13

Copy.

In: A volume of Southwell's English verse and some prose works, in a single hand but for one poem and some corrections in a second hand, 78 quarto leaves. c.1592-1609.

Bearing the childish signature of iereneme WalDegrave (? the future nun Dame Hieronima Waldegrave, c.1603-35) and once in the possession of the Waldegrave family of Essex.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Cited by editors as the Waldegrave MS. Described in McDonald, pp. 19-22, and in Brown, pp. xxxvii-xl. This MS probably to be identified as the lost Bury St Edmunds MS recorded in McDonald, pp. 25-7: see Brown, pp. xxxix-xl.

SoR 13.5

Copy.

In: A quarto miscellany, in one or possibly two hands, one of which may be Sir Charles Calthorpe (d.1616), judge and Attorney-General of ireland, 279 leaves, imperfect. c.1600.
SoR 14

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of English poems and letters of Robert Southwell, largely in one neat small hand, together with sigs A-E (pp. 1-34) of a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, with other Poemes (London, 1595), vii + 80 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum stamped IHS. Early 17th century.

Inscribed names (f. 79v) Thomas Champney Book Anno: Domini 1677; (f. 78v) Mrs Mary Hooge Booke Anno Domini 1678; and (elsewhere) Katherine and Laurence Champney. 19th-century notes (ff. ii-vii) referring to this MS as The Woolhampton MS (? from Woolhampton, Berkshire). Later in the Virtue and Cahill Library, of the Catholic Cathedral of Portsmouth. Christie's, 5 July 1967, lot 190.

Generally cited as the Virtue and Cahill MS.

SoR 15

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of works by Robert Southwell, in an accomplished secretary hand, 110 leaves, some pages at the back partly torn away, in 19th-century half-morocco. Early 17th century.

Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, April 1836 (Heber sale), lot 1447.

SoR 16

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of poems by Robert Southwell, in a neat predominantly italic hand, with (f. 1*v) a list of contents, 1* + 43 leaves, in modern black morocco. 1620.

With a faded inscription (f. 57v) Charles Cauendish 1620 / Anno Dmi, 1620.

Cited in IELM, I.ii, as the Cavendish MS.

SoR 17

Copy.

In: A long ledger-size miscellany of recusant verse and some prose, including 32 poems by Robert Southwell, largely in the single neat hand of Gertrude Thimelby (1617-68), a second hand on pp. 119-21, viii + 130 pages, some leaves partly torn away, in contemporary vellum. c.1651-7.

Associated with the Fairfax family of Wootton Wawen, Warwickshire, including Thomas Fairfax (d.1691), yeoman. Later inscribed with the name Harriet Marcusden. Sold by P.J. Dobell, 1948.

Discussed in Cedric C. Brown, Recusant Community and Jesuit Mission in Parliament Days: Bodleian MS Eng. poet. b. 5, Yearbook of English Studies, 23 (2003), 290-315.

SoR 17.5

Copy.

In: Fragments of a small quarto miscellany of poems, chiefly by Robert Southwell (sixteen by him, probably copied from lost printed sources), in a single mixed Scottish hand, 36 pages (in present state).

Apparently compiled by one R. C. (possibly Robert Calder) for Sir Robert Gordon (1580-1656), Lord of Inverary and Gentleman of the Privy Chamber.

c.1610.

The MS pages used as binder's waste or even perhaps as a deliberate mode of secretion in a MS volume compiled by the schoolmaster and royal chaplain Alexander Ross (1591-1654), of Aberdeen. Later in the library of Andrew Fletcher (1653?-1716), of Saltoun, political theorist and book collector. H.P. Kraus, New York, sale catalogue No. 157 (1980), item 29. Sotheby's, 19 July 1994, lot 29 (with other MSS relating to the recusant Gordon family), to Quaritch.

SoR 18

Copy of lines 5-16, beginning Loves seetest mark, Lawdes highest theme, mans most desired light and headed Op Xt.

In: A miscellany, entitled a not-booke of divinity and honor military and civill, chiefly comprising 29 poems by Robert Southwell transcribed from printed sources, in the predominantly italic hand of Thomas Read, a student of Magdalen College, Oxford, 186 leaves, dated 1624. 1624.

Later in the collection of George Arents Jr (1875-1960), manufacturer.

This MS recorded in Brown, p. li, but not collated.

SoR 19

Copy, in Gertrude Thimelby's hand.

In: A quarto miscellany of recusant verse, many of the 65 poems relating to the circle of the Catholic Aston family, in three hands, 200 leaves (including five preliminary blanks, and ff. 53r-135v are blank), in contemporary leather gilt.

Compiled principally by Constance Fowler (d.1664), daughter of the diplomat Walter Aston, Baron Aston of Forfar (1584-1639), of Tixall and Colton, Staffordshire, her roman hand responsible for ff. 6r, 8r-15v, 24v-34v, 46v-52v, 136r-9r, 143v-59r, and 182v-95v. The second, predominantly secretary hand, responsible for fourteen poems on ff. 7r-v, 16r-24r, and 35r-46r, is that of Constance's sister Gertrude Thimelby (1617-68). The third hand, on ff. 196r-200v, is that of Constance's brother-in-law Sir William Pershall.

c.1635-50s.

William H. Robinson, sale catalogue (1925), item 472.

This volume discussed, with a complete first-line index and a facsimile of f. 25r, in Jenijoy La Belle, The Huntington Aston Manuscript, The Book Collector, 29 (Winter 1980), 542-67. See also Jenijoy La Belle, A True Love's Knot: The Letters of Constance Fowler and the Poems of Herbert Aston, JEGP, 79 (1980), 13-31. The complete volume edited in The Verse Miscellany of Constance Aston Fowler: A Diplomatic Edition, ed. Deborah Aldrich-Watson (Tempe, Arizona, 2000), with a facsimile of f. 28v on p. lxiv.

Aldrich-Watson, pp. 68-9. This MS recorded in Jenijoy La Belle, The Huntington Aston Manuscript, BC, 29 (Winter 1980), 542-67 (p. 558).

Christs bloody sweat
('Fat soile, full spring, sweete olive, grape of blisse')

First published (lines 1-12) in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 18-19.

SoR 20

Copy.

In: A volume of Southwell's English verse and some prose works, in a single hand but for one poem and some corrections in a second hand, 78 quarto leaves. c.1592-1609.

Bearing the childish signature of iereneme WalDegrave (? the future nun Dame Hieronima Waldegrave, c.1603-35) and once in the possession of the Waldegrave family of Essex.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Cited by editors as the Waldegrave MS. Described in McDonald, pp. 19-22, and in Brown, pp. xxxvii-xl. This MS probably to be identified as the lost Bury St Edmunds MS recorded in McDonald, pp. 25-7: see Brown, pp. xxxix-xl.

SoR 21

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of English poems and letters of Robert Southwell, largely in one neat small hand, together with sigs A-E (pp. 1-34) of a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, with other Poemes (London, 1595), vii + 80 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum stamped IHS. Early 17th century.

Inscribed names (f. 79v) Thomas Champney Book Anno: Domini 1677; (f. 78v) Mrs Mary Hooge Booke Anno Domini 1678; and (elsewhere) Katherine and Laurence Champney. 19th-century notes (ff. ii-vii) referring to this MS as The Woolhampton MS (? from Woolhampton, Berkshire). Later in the Virtue and Cahill Library, of the Catholic Cathedral of Portsmouth. Christie's, 5 July 1967, lot 190.

Generally cited as the Virtue and Cahill MS.

SoR 22

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of works by Robert Southwell, in an accomplished secretary hand, 110 leaves, some pages at the back partly torn away, in 19th-century half-morocco. Early 17th century.

Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, April 1836 (Heber sale), lot 1447.

SoR 23

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of poems by Robert Southwell, in a neat predominantly italic hand, with (f. 1*v) a list of contents, 1* + 43 leaves, in modern black morocco. 1620.

With a faded inscription (f. 57v) Charles Cauendish 1620 / Anno Dmi, 1620.

Cited in IELM, I.ii, as the Cavendish MS.

SoR 24

Copy of a 36-line version.

In: A small quarto composite volume of works chiefly by Southwell, comprising a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, With other Poems (London, 1595), vi + 56 pages, with minor MS corrections and marks, bound with an untitled MS of poems by Southwell and others, in one or possibly two neat italic hands, 88 leaves, formerly in contemporary calf, now in modern quarter-calf. Early 17th century.

Inscribed on the title-page E[x] L[ibris] J. Phillips 1774. Booklabel of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).

Cited by editors, and in IELM, I.ii, as the Harmsworth MS. Collated in Brown.

SoR 25

Copy.

In: A long ledger-size miscellany of recusant verse and some prose, including 32 poems by Robert Southwell, largely in the single neat hand of Gertrude Thimelby (1617-68), a second hand on pp. 119-21, viii + 130 pages, some leaves partly torn away, in contemporary vellum. c.1651-7.

Associated with the Fairfax family of Wootton Wawen, Warwickshire, including Thomas Fairfax (d.1691), yeoman. Later inscribed with the name Harriet Marcusden. Sold by P.J. Dobell, 1948.

Discussed in Cedric C. Brown, Recusant Community and Jesuit Mission in Parliament Days: Bodleian MS Eng. poet. b. 5, Yearbook of English Studies, 23 (2003), 290-315.

SoR 26

Copy.

In: A miscellany, entitled a not-booke of divinity and honor military and civill, chiefly comprising 29 poems by Robert Southwell transcribed from printed sources, in the predominantly italic hand of Thomas Read, a student of Magdalen College, Oxford, 186 leaves, dated 1624. 1624.

Later in the collection of George Arents Jr (1875-1960), manufacturer.

This MS recorded in Brown, p. li, but not collated.

Christs sleeping friends
('When Christ with care and pangs of death opprest')

First published (lines 1-12) in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 19-21.

SoR 27

Copy.

In: A volume of Southwell's English verse and some prose works, in a single hand but for one poem and some corrections in a second hand, 78 quarto leaves. c.1592-1609.

Bearing the childish signature of iereneme WalDegrave (? the future nun Dame Hieronima Waldegrave, c.1603-35) and once in the possession of the Waldegrave family of Essex.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Cited by editors as the Waldegrave MS. Described in McDonald, pp. 19-22, and in Brown, pp. xxxvii-xl. This MS probably to be identified as the lost Bury St Edmunds MS recorded in McDonald, pp. 25-7: see Brown, pp. xxxix-xl.

SoR 28

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of English poems and letters of Robert Southwell, largely in one neat small hand, together with sigs A-E (pp. 1-34) of a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, with other Poemes (London, 1595), vii + 80 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum stamped IHS. Early 17th century.

Inscribed names (f. 79v) Thomas Champney Book Anno: Domini 1677; (f. 78v) Mrs Mary Hooge Booke Anno Domini 1678; and (elsewhere) Katherine and Laurence Champney. 19th-century notes (ff. ii-vii) referring to this MS as The Woolhampton MS (? from Woolhampton, Berkshire). Later in the Virtue and Cahill Library, of the Catholic Cathedral of Portsmouth. Christie's, 5 July 1967, lot 190.

Generally cited as the Virtue and Cahill MS.

SoR 29

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of works by Robert Southwell, in an accomplished secretary hand, 110 leaves, some pages at the back partly torn away, in 19th-century half-morocco. Early 17th century.

Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, April 1836 (Heber sale), lot 1447.

SoR 30

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of poems by Robert Southwell, in a neat predominantly italic hand, with (f. 1*v) a list of contents, 1* + 43 leaves, in modern black morocco. 1620.

With a faded inscription (f. 57v) Charles Cauendish 1620 / Anno Dmi, 1620.

Cited in IELM, I.ii, as the Cavendish MS.

SoR 31

Copy.

In: A small quarto composite volume of works chiefly by Southwell, comprising a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, With other Poems (London, 1595), vi + 56 pages, with minor MS corrections and marks, bound with an untitled MS of poems by Southwell and others, in one or possibly two neat italic hands, 88 leaves, formerly in contemporary calf, now in modern quarter-calf. Early 17th century.

Inscribed on the title-page E[x] L[ibris] J. Phillips 1774. Booklabel of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).

Cited by editors, and in IELM, I.ii, as the Harmsworth MS. Collated in Brown.

SoR 32

Copy.

In: A long ledger-size miscellany of recusant verse and some prose, including 32 poems by Robert Southwell, largely in the single neat hand of Gertrude Thimelby (1617-68), a second hand on pp. 119-21, viii + 130 pages, some leaves partly torn away, in contemporary vellum. c.1651-7.

Associated with the Fairfax family of Wootton Wawen, Warwickshire, including Thomas Fairfax (d.1691), yeoman. Later inscribed with the name Harriet Marcusden. Sold by P.J. Dobell, 1948.

Discussed in Cedric C. Brown, Recusant Community and Jesuit Mission in Parliament Days: Bodleian MS Eng. poet. b. 5, Yearbook of English Studies, 23 (2003), 290-315.

SoR 33

Copy.

In: A miscellany, entitled a not-booke of divinity and honor military and civill, chiefly comprising 29 poems by Robert Southwell transcribed from printed sources, in the predominantly italic hand of Thomas Read, a student of Magdalen College, Oxford, 186 leaves, dated 1624. 1624.

Later in the collection of George Arents Jr (1875-1960), manufacturer.

This MS recorded in Brown, p. li, but not collated.

Content and rich
('I dwell in grace's courte')

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 67-9.

SoR 34

Copy.

In: A volume of Southwell's English verse and some prose works, in a single hand but for one poem and some corrections in a second hand, 78 quarto leaves. c.1592-1609.

Bearing the childish signature of iereneme WalDegrave (? the future nun Dame Hieronima Waldegrave, c.1603-35) and once in the possession of the Waldegrave family of Essex.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Cited by editors as the Waldegrave MS. Described in McDonald, pp. 19-22, and in Brown, pp. xxxvii-xl. This MS probably to be identified as the lost Bury St Edmunds MS recorded in McDonald, pp. 25-7: see Brown, pp. xxxix-xl.

SoR 35

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of English poems and letters of Robert Southwell, largely in one neat small hand, together with sigs A-E (pp. 1-34) of a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, with other Poemes (London, 1595), vii + 80 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum stamped IHS. Early 17th century.

Inscribed names (f. 79v) Thomas Champney Book Anno: Domini 1677; (f. 78v) Mrs Mary Hooge Booke Anno Domini 1678; and (elsewhere) Katherine and Laurence Champney. 19th-century notes (ff. ii-vii) referring to this MS as The Woolhampton MS (? from Woolhampton, Berkshire). Later in the Virtue and Cahill Library, of the Catholic Cathedral of Portsmouth. Christie's, 5 July 1967, lot 190.

Generally cited as the Virtue and Cahill MS.

SoR 36

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of works by Robert Southwell, in an accomplished secretary hand, 110 leaves, some pages at the back partly torn away, in 19th-century half-morocco. Early 17th century.

Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, April 1836 (Heber sale), lot 1447.

SoR 37

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of poems by Robert Southwell, in a neat predominantly italic hand, with (f. 1*v) a list of contents, 1* + 43 leaves, in modern black morocco. 1620.

With a faded inscription (f. 57v) Charles Cauendish 1620 / Anno Dmi, 1620.

Cited in IELM, I.ii, as the Cavendish MS.

SoR 38

Copy.

In: A miscellany, entitled a not-booke of divinity and honor military and civill, chiefly comprising 29 poems by Robert Southwell transcribed from printed sources, in the predominantly italic hand of Thomas Read, a student of Magdalen College, Oxford, 186 leaves, dated 1624. 1624.

Later in the collection of George Arents Jr (1875-1960), manufacturer.

This MS recorded in Brown, p. li, but not collated.

SoR 39

Copy, headed The contented man.

In: An oblong duodecimo verse miscellany, perhaps largely in one hand, with later additions by others, generally written across the page with the spine turned upwards, 136 leaves, with (f. 2r-v) a table of contents, in half green morocco.

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

c.1668-1713.

Inscribed (f. 2r) Several Divine poems out of a Mss. of Mr. 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.

SoR 39.5

Copy.

In: A quarto miscellany, in one or possibly two hands, one of which may be Sir Charles Calthorpe (d.1616), judge and Attorney-General of ireland, 279 leaves, imperfect. c.1600.
SoR 39.8

Copy.

In: Fragments of a small quarto miscellany of poems, chiefly by Robert Southwell (sixteen by him, probably copied from lost printed sources), in a single mixed Scottish hand, 36 pages (in present state).

Apparently compiled by one R. C. (possibly Robert Calder) for Sir Robert Gordon (1580-1656), Lord of Inverary and Gentleman of the Privy Chamber.

c.1610.

The MS pages used as binder's waste or even perhaps as a deliberate mode of secretion in a MS volume compiled by the schoolmaster and royal chaplain Alexander Ross (1591-1654), of Aberdeen. Later in the library of Andrew Fletcher (1653?-1716), of Saltoun, political theorist and book collector. H.P. Kraus, New York, sale catalogue No. 157 (1980), item 29. Sotheby's, 19 July 1994, lot 29 (with other MSS relating to the recusant Gordon family), to Quaritch.

Davids Peccavi
('In eaves, sole Sparrowe sits not more alone')

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, (London, 1602). Brown, pp. 35-6.

SoR 40

Copy.

In: A volume of Southwell's English verse and some prose works, in a single hand but for one poem and some corrections in a second hand, 78 quarto leaves. c.1592-1609.

Bearing the childish signature of iereneme WalDegrave (? the future nun Dame Hieronima Waldegrave, c.1603-35) and once in the possession of the Waldegrave family of Essex.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Cited by editors as the Waldegrave MS. Described in McDonald, pp. 19-22, and in Brown, pp. xxxvii-xl. This MS probably to be identified as the lost Bury St Edmunds MS recorded in McDonald, pp. 25-7: see Brown, pp. xxxix-xl.

SoR 41

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of English poems and letters of Robert Southwell, largely in one neat small hand, together with sigs A-E (pp. 1-34) of a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, with other Poemes (London, 1595), vii + 80 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum stamped IHS. Early 17th century.

Inscribed names (f. 79v) Thomas Champney Book Anno: Domini 1677; (f. 78v) Mrs Mary Hooge Booke Anno Domini 1678; and (elsewhere) Katherine and Laurence Champney. 19th-century notes (ff. ii-vii) referring to this MS as The Woolhampton MS (? from Woolhampton, Berkshire). Later in the Virtue and Cahill Library, of the Catholic Cathedral of Portsmouth. Christie's, 5 July 1967, lot 190.

Generally cited as the Virtue and Cahill MS.

SoR 42

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of works by Robert Southwell, in an accomplished secretary hand, 110 leaves, some pages at the back partly torn away, in 19th-century half-morocco. Early 17th century.

Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, April 1836 (Heber sale), lot 1447.

SoR 43

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of poems by Robert Southwell, in a neat predominantly italic hand, with (f. 1*v) a list of contents, 1* + 43 leaves, in modern black morocco. 1620.

With a faded inscription (f. 57v) Charles Cauendish 1620 / Anno Dmi, 1620.

Cited in IELM, I.ii, as the Cavendish MS.

SoR 44

Copy.

In: A small quarto composite volume of works chiefly by Southwell, comprising a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, With other Poems (London, 1595), vi + 56 pages, with minor MS corrections and marks, bound with an untitled MS of poems by Southwell and others, in one or possibly two neat italic hands, 88 leaves, formerly in contemporary calf, now in modern quarter-calf. Early 17th century.

Inscribed on the title-page E[x] L[ibris] J. Phillips 1774. Booklabel of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).

Cited by editors, and in IELM, I.ii, as the Harmsworth MS. Collated in Brown.

SoR 44.5

Copy.

In: Fragments of a small quarto miscellany of poems, chiefly by Robert Southwell (sixteen by him, probably copied from lost printed sources), in a single mixed Scottish hand, 36 pages (in present state).

Apparently compiled by one R. C. (possibly Robert Calder) for Sir Robert Gordon (1580-1656), Lord of Inverary and Gentleman of the Privy Chamber.

c.1610.

The MS pages used as binder's waste or even perhaps as a deliberate mode of secretion in a MS volume compiled by the schoolmaster and royal chaplain Alexander Ross (1591-1654), of Aberdeen. Later in the library of Andrew Fletcher (1653?-1716), of Saltoun, political theorist and book collector. H.P. Kraus, New York, sale catalogue No. 157 (1980), item 29. Sotheby's, 19 July 1994, lot 29 (with other MSS relating to the recusant Gordon family), to Quaritch.

SoR 44.8

Copy.

In: An octavo miscellany of verse, prose and drama, written over a period in various hands, 179 leaves, in remains of contemporary calf. c.1620-late 17th century.

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.

Decease release. Dum morior orior
('The pounded spice both tast and sent doth please')

First published in St. Peter's Complaint, and other Poems. by the Rev. Robert Southwell, ed. W.J. Walter (London, 1817). Brown, pp. 47-8.

SoR 45

Copy.

In: A volume of Southwell's English verse and some prose works, in a single hand but for one poem and some corrections in a second hand, 78 quarto leaves. c.1592-1609.

Bearing the childish signature of iereneme WalDegrave (? the future nun Dame Hieronima Waldegrave, c.1603-35) and once in the possession of the Waldegrave family of Essex.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Cited by editors as the Waldegrave MS. Described in McDonald, pp. 19-22, and in Brown, pp. xxxvii-xl. This MS probably to be identified as the lost Bury St Edmunds MS recorded in McDonald, pp. 25-7: see Brown, pp. xxxix-xl.

Edited from this MS in Brown, pp. 47-8.

SoR 46

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of English poems and letters of Robert Southwell, largely in one neat small hand, together with sigs A-E (pp. 1-34) of a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, with other Poemes (London, 1595), vii + 80 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum stamped IHS. Early 17th century.

Inscribed names (f. 79v) Thomas Champney Book Anno: Domini 1677; (f. 78v) Mrs Mary Hooge Booke Anno Domini 1678; and (elsewhere) Katherine and Laurence Champney. 19th-century notes (ff. ii-vii) referring to this MS as The Woolhampton MS (? from Woolhampton, Berkshire). Later in the Virtue and Cahill Library, of the Catholic Cathedral of Portsmouth. Christie's, 5 July 1967, lot 190.

Generally cited as the Virtue and Cahill MS.

SoR 47

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of works by Robert Southwell, in an accomplished secretary hand, 110 leaves, some pages at the back partly torn away, in 19th-century half-morocco. Early 17th century.

Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, April 1836 (Heber sale), lot 1447.

Edited from this MS in St. Peter's Complaint, and other Poems; by the Rev. Robert Southwell, ed. W.J. Walter (London, 1817).

SoR 48

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of poems by Robert Southwell, in a neat predominantly italic hand, with (f. 1*v) a list of contents, 1* + 43 leaves, in modern black morocco. 1620.

With a faded inscription (f. 57v) Charles Cauendish 1620 / Anno Dmi, 1620.

Cited in IELM, I.ii, as the Cavendish MS.

SoR 49

Copy.

In: A small quarto composite volume of works chiefly by Southwell, comprising a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, With other Poems (London, 1595), vi + 56 pages, with minor MS corrections and marks, bound with an untitled MS of poems by Southwell and others, in one or possibly two neat italic hands, 88 leaves, formerly in contemporary calf, now in modern quarter-calf. Early 17th century.

Inscribed on the title-page E[x] L[ibris] J. Phillips 1774. Booklabel of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).

Cited by editors, and in IELM, I.ii, as the Harmsworth MS. Collated in Brown.

SoR 50

Copy, in a neat secretary hand, with corrections or emendations in a different ink, on the first two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed Des vers de mr Sothwell de la Reyne d'Escosse l'an 1596, receus au mois de Feuurier and Sa vertu m'attire.

In: A folio guardbook of state letters, mainly addressed to Anthony Bacon, in various hands, 241 leaves, in modern half-calf marbled boards.

Volume IX of the papers of Anthony Bacon (1558-1601), political intelligencer, subsequently among the collections of Thomas Tenison (1636-1715), Archbishop of Canterbury.

This MS recorded in Brown, p. lxxx, but not collated. Described in Louise Imogen Guiney, Recusant Poets (London & New York, 1938), p. 247.

Epitaph on Lady Margaret Sackville
('Of Howards stemme a glorious branch is dead')

See SoR 322-325.

Fortunes Falsehoode
('In worldly meriments lurketh much miserie')

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 65-6.

SoR 51

Copy.

In: A volume of Southwell's English verse and some prose works, in a single hand but for one poem and some corrections in a second hand, 78 quarto leaves. c.1592-1609.

Bearing the childish signature of iereneme WalDegrave (? the future nun Dame Hieronima Waldegrave, c.1603-35) and once in the possession of the Waldegrave family of Essex.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Cited by editors as the Waldegrave MS. Described in McDonald, pp. 19-22, and in Brown, pp. xxxvii-xl. This MS probably to be identified as the lost Bury St Edmunds MS recorded in McDonald, pp. 25-7: see Brown, pp. xxxix-xl.

SoR 52

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of English poems and letters of Robert Southwell, largely in one neat small hand, together with sigs A-E (pp. 1-34) of a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, with other Poemes (London, 1595), vii + 80 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum stamped IHS. Early 17th century.

Inscribed names (f. 79v) Thomas Champney Book Anno: Domini 1677; (f. 78v) Mrs Mary Hooge Booke Anno Domini 1678; and (elsewhere) Katherine and Laurence Champney. 19th-century notes (ff. ii-vii) referring to this MS as The Woolhampton MS (? from Woolhampton, Berkshire). Later in the Virtue and Cahill Library, of the Catholic Cathedral of Portsmouth. Christie's, 5 July 1967, lot 190.

Generally cited as the Virtue and Cahill MS.

SoR 53

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of works by Robert Southwell, in an accomplished secretary hand, 110 leaves, some pages at the back partly torn away, in 19th-century half-morocco. Early 17th century.

Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, April 1836 (Heber sale), lot 1447.

SoR 54

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of poems by Robert Southwell, in a neat predominantly italic hand, with (f. 1*v) a list of contents, 1* + 43 leaves, in modern black morocco. 1620.

With a faded inscription (f. 57v) Charles Cauendish 1620 / Anno Dmi, 1620.

Cited in IELM, I.ii, as the Cavendish MS.

SoR 55

A MS correction in the printed text.

In: A small quarto composite volume of works chiefly by Southwell, comprising a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, With other Poems (London, 1595), vi + 56 pages, with minor MS corrections and marks, bound with an untitled MS of poems by Southwell and others, in one or possibly two neat italic hands, 88 leaves, formerly in contemporary calf, now in modern quarter-calf. Early 17th century.

Inscribed on the title-page E[x] L[ibris] J. Phillips 1774. Booklabel of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).

Cited by editors, and in IELM, I.ii, as the Harmsworth MS. Collated in Brown.

SoR 55.5

Copy of lines 25-40; imperfect, lacking the rest of the poem.

In: Fragments of a small quarto miscellany of poems, chiefly by Robert Southwell (sixteen by him, probably copied from lost printed sources), in a single mixed Scottish hand, 36 pages (in present state).

Apparently compiled by one R. C. (possibly Robert Calder) for Sir Robert Gordon (1580-1656), Lord of Inverary and Gentleman of the Privy Chamber.

c.1610.

The MS pages used as binder's waste or even perhaps as a deliberate mode of secretion in a MS volume compiled by the schoolmaster and royal chaplain Alexander Ross (1591-1654), of Aberdeen. Later in the library of Andrew Fletcher (1653?-1716), of Saltoun, political theorist and book collector. H.P. Kraus, New York, sale catalogue No. 157 (1980), item 29. Sotheby's, 19 July 1994, lot 29 (with other MSS relating to the recusant Gordon family), to Quaritch.

SoR 56

Copy.

In: A miscellany, entitled a not-booke of divinity and honor military and civill, chiefly comprising 29 poems by Robert Southwell transcribed from printed sources, in the predominantly italic hand of Thomas Read, a student of Magdalen College, Oxford, 186 leaves, dated 1624. 1624.

Later in the collection of George Arents Jr (1875-1960), manufacturer.

This MS recorded in Brown, p. li, but not collated.

From Fortunes reach
('Let fickle fortune runne her blindest race')

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 66-7.

SoR 57

Copy.

In: A volume of Southwell's English verse and some prose works, in a single hand but for one poem and some corrections in a second hand, 78 quarto leaves. c.1592-1609.

Bearing the childish signature of iereneme WalDegrave (? the future nun Dame Hieronima Waldegrave, c.1603-35) and once in the possession of the Waldegrave family of Essex.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Cited by editors as the Waldegrave MS. Described in McDonald, pp. 19-22, and in Brown, pp. xxxvii-xl. This MS probably to be identified as the lost Bury St Edmunds MS recorded in McDonald, pp. 25-7: see Brown, pp. xxxix-xl.

SoR 58

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of English poems and letters of Robert Southwell, largely in one neat small hand, together with sigs A-E (pp. 1-34) of a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, with other Poemes (London, 1595), vii + 80 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum stamped IHS. Early 17th century.

Inscribed names (f. 79v) Thomas Champney Book Anno: Domini 1677; (f. 78v) Mrs Mary Hooge Booke Anno Domini 1678; and (elsewhere) Katherine and Laurence Champney. 19th-century notes (ff. ii-vii) referring to this MS as The Woolhampton MS (? from Woolhampton, Berkshire). Later in the Virtue and Cahill Library, of the Catholic Cathedral of Portsmouth. Christie's, 5 July 1967, lot 190.

Generally cited as the Virtue and Cahill MS.

SoR 59

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of works by Robert Southwell, in an accomplished secretary hand, 110 leaves, some pages at the back partly torn away, in 19th-century half-morocco. Early 17th century.

Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, April 1836 (Heber sale), lot 1447.

SoR 60

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of poems by Robert Southwell, in a neat predominantly italic hand, with (f. 1*v) a list of contents, 1* + 43 leaves, in modern black morocco. 1620.

With a faded inscription (f. 57v) Charles Cauendish 1620 / Anno Dmi, 1620.

Cited in IELM, I.ii, as the Cavendish MS.

SoR 61

Copy.

In: A small quarto composite volume of works chiefly by Southwell, comprising a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, With other Poems (London, 1595), vi + 56 pages, with minor MS corrections and marks, bound with an untitled MS of poems by Southwell and others, in one or possibly two neat italic hands, 88 leaves, formerly in contemporary calf, now in modern quarter-calf. Early 17th century.

Inscribed on the title-page E[x] L[ibris] J. Phillips 1774. Booklabel of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).

Cited by editors, and in IELM, I.ii, as the Harmsworth MS. Collated in Brown.

SoR 62

Copy, imperfect.

In: A long ledger-size miscellany of recusant verse and some prose, including 32 poems by Robert Southwell, largely in the single neat hand of Gertrude Thimelby (1617-68), a second hand on pp. 119-21, viii + 130 pages, some leaves partly torn away, in contemporary vellum. c.1651-7.

Associated with the Fairfax family of Wootton Wawen, Warwickshire, including Thomas Fairfax (d.1691), yeoman. Later inscribed with the name Harriet Marcusden. Sold by P.J. Dobell, 1948.

Discussed in Cedric C. Brown, Recusant Community and Jesuit Mission in Parliament Days: Bodleian MS Eng. poet. b. 5, Yearbook of English Studies, 23 (2003), 290-315.

SoR 62.5

Copy.

In: Fragments of a small quarto miscellany of poems, chiefly by Robert Southwell (sixteen by him, probably copied from lost printed sources), in a single mixed Scottish hand, 36 pages (in present state).

Apparently compiled by one R. C. (possibly Robert Calder) for Sir Robert Gordon (1580-1656), Lord of Inverary and Gentleman of the Privy Chamber.

c.1610.

The MS pages used as binder's waste or even perhaps as a deliberate mode of secretion in a MS volume compiled by the schoolmaster and royal chaplain Alexander Ross (1591-1654), of Aberdeen. Later in the library of Andrew Fletcher (1653?-1716), of Saltoun, political theorist and book collector. H.P. Kraus, New York, sale catalogue No. 157 (1980), item 29. Sotheby's, 19 July 1994, lot 29 (with other MSS relating to the recusant Gordon family), to Quaritch.

SoR 63

Copy.

In: A miscellany, entitled a not-booke of divinity and honor military and civill, chiefly comprising 29 poems by Robert Southwell transcribed from printed sources, in the predominantly italic hand of Thomas Read, a student of Magdalen College, Oxford, 186 leaves, dated 1624. 1624.

Later in the collection of George Arents Jr (1875-1960), manufacturer.

This MS recorded in Brown, p. li, but not collated.

SoR 64

Copy of lines 1-6, untitled.

In: A quarto composite volume of verse and prose, partly on vellum, partly on paper, c.110 leaves. Mid-late 16th century.
A holy Hymne
('Praise, O Sion, praise thy Saviour')

First published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 23-6.

SoR 65

Copy, headed Saint Thomas of Aquines Hymne read on corpus christy daye. Lauda Sion saluatorem.

In: A volume of Southwell's English verse and some prose works, in a single hand but for one poem and some corrections in a second hand, 78 quarto leaves. c.1592-1609.

Bearing the childish signature of iereneme WalDegrave (? the future nun Dame Hieronima Waldegrave, c.1603-35) and once in the possession of the Waldegrave family of Essex.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Cited by editors as the Waldegrave MS. Described in McDonald, pp. 19-22, and in Brown, pp. xxxvii-xl. This MS probably to be identified as the lost Bury St Edmunds MS recorded in McDonald, pp. 25-7: see Brown, pp. xxxix-xl.

SoR 66

Copy, headed Saint Thomas of Aquines Hymne. read on corpus christy daye.

In: A quarto volume of English poems and letters of Robert Southwell, largely in one neat small hand, together with sigs A-E (pp. 1-34) of a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, with other Poemes (London, 1595), vii + 80 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum stamped IHS. Early 17th century.

Inscribed names (f. 79v) Thomas Champney Book Anno: Domini 1677; (f. 78v) Mrs Mary Hooge Booke Anno Domini 1678; and (elsewhere) Katherine and Laurence Champney. 19th-century notes (ff. ii-vii) referring to this MS as The Woolhampton MS (? from Woolhampton, Berkshire). Later in the Virtue and Cahill Library, of the Catholic Cathedral of Portsmouth. Christie's, 5 July 1967, lot 190.

Generally cited as the Virtue and Cahill MS.

SoR 67

Copy, headed Saint Thomas of Aquines hyme redd on Corpus xpi day. Lauda Syon Sal.

In: A quarto volume of works by Robert Southwell, in an accomplished secretary hand, 110 leaves, some pages at the back partly torn away, in 19th-century half-morocco. Early 17th century.

Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, April 1836 (Heber sale), lot 1447.

SoR 68

Copy, headed Sainte thomas of Aquines Hymne redd on corpus christie daye Lauda syon saluatorem.

In: A quarto volume of poems by Robert Southwell, in a neat predominantly italic hand, with (f. 1*v) a list of contents, 1* + 43 leaves, in modern black morocco. 1620.

With a faded inscription (f. 57v) Charles Cauendish 1620 / Anno Dmi, 1620.

Cited in IELM, I.ii, as the Cavendish MS.

SoR 69

Copy, headed St. Thomas of Aquines hymne read on Corpus Christi daye: Lauda Sion Salvatorem.

In: A small quarto composite volume of works chiefly by Southwell, comprising a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, With other Poems (London, 1595), vi + 56 pages, with minor MS corrections and marks, bound with an untitled MS of poems by Southwell and others, in one or possibly two neat italic hands, 88 leaves, formerly in contemporary calf, now in modern quarter-calf. Early 17th century.

Inscribed on the title-page E[x] L[ibris] J. Phillips 1774. Booklabel of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).

Cited by editors, and in IELM, I.ii, as the Harmsworth MS. Collated in Brown.

I dye alive
('O life what lets thee from a quicke decease?')

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 52-3.

SoR 70

Copy.

In: A volume of Southwell's English verse and some prose works, in a single hand but for one poem and some corrections in a second hand, 78 quarto leaves. c.1592-1609.

Bearing the childish signature of iereneme WalDegrave (? the future nun Dame Hieronima Waldegrave, c.1603-35) and once in the possession of the Waldegrave family of Essex.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Cited by editors as the Waldegrave MS. Described in McDonald, pp. 19-22, and in Brown, pp. xxxvii-xl. This MS probably to be identified as the lost Bury St Edmunds MS recorded in McDonald, pp. 25-7: see Brown, pp. xxxix-xl.

Facsimile of stanza 3 of this MS in Grosart (quarto edition), facing p. 84. For an account of Grosart's misreadings, see Pierre Janelle, Robert Southwell the Writer (London, 1935), pp. 304-5.

SoR 70.5

Copy, here beginning life who lettest.

In: A quarto miscellany, in one or possibly two hands, one of which may be Sir Charles Calthorpe (d.1616), judge and Attorney-General of ireland, 279 leaves, imperfect. c.1600.
SoR 71

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of English poems and letters of Robert Southwell, largely in one neat small hand, together with sigs A-E (pp. 1-34) of a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, with other Poemes (London, 1595), vii + 80 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum stamped IHS. Early 17th century.

Inscribed names (f. 79v) Thomas Champney Book Anno: Domini 1677; (f. 78v) Mrs Mary Hooge Booke Anno Domini 1678; and (elsewhere) Katherine and Laurence Champney. 19th-century notes (ff. ii-vii) referring to this MS as The Woolhampton MS (? from Woolhampton, Berkshire). Later in the Virtue and Cahill Library, of the Catholic Cathedral of Portsmouth. Christie's, 5 July 1967, lot 190.

Generally cited as the Virtue and Cahill MS.

SoR 72

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of works by Robert Southwell, in an accomplished secretary hand, 110 leaves, some pages at the back partly torn away, in 19th-century half-morocco. Early 17th century.

Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, April 1836 (Heber sale), lot 1447.

SoR 73

Copy, with second stanza first (beginning I live, but such a life as ever dies).

In: A quarto volume of poems by Robert Southwell, in a neat predominantly italic hand, with (f. 1*v) a list of contents, 1* + 43 leaves, in modern black morocco. 1620.

With a faded inscription (f. 57v) Charles Cauendish 1620 / Anno Dmi, 1620.

Cited in IELM, I.ii, as the Cavendish MS.

SoR 74

Copy.

In: A small quarto composite volume of works chiefly by Southwell, comprising a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, With other Poems (London, 1595), vi + 56 pages, with minor MS corrections and marks, bound with an untitled MS of poems by Southwell and others, in one or possibly two neat italic hands, 88 leaves, formerly in contemporary calf, now in modern quarter-calf. Early 17th century.

Inscribed on the title-page E[x] L[ibris] J. Phillips 1774. Booklabel of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).

Cited by editors, and in IELM, I.ii, as the Harmsworth MS. Collated in Brown.

SoR 75

Copy.

In: A miscellany, entitled a not-booke of divinity and honor military and civill, chiefly comprising 29 poems by Robert Southwell transcribed from printed sources, in the predominantly italic hand of Thomas Read, a student of Magdalen College, Oxford, 186 leaves, dated 1624. 1624.

Later in the collection of George Arents Jr (1875-1960), manufacturer.

This MS recorded in Brown, p. li, but not collated.

I dye without desert
('If orphane Childe enwrapt in swathing bands')

First published in St. Peters Complaint, and other Poems. by the Rev. Robert Southwell, ed. W.J. Walter (London, 1817). Brown, pp. 48-9.

SoR 76

Copy.

In: A volume of Southwell's English verse and some prose works, in a single hand but for one poem and some corrections in a second hand, 78 quarto leaves. c.1592-1609.

Bearing the childish signature of iereneme WalDegrave (? the future nun Dame Hieronima Waldegrave, c.1603-35) and once in the possession of the Waldegrave family of Essex.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Cited by editors as the Waldegrave MS. Described in McDonald, pp. 19-22, and in Brown, pp. xxxvii-xl. This MS probably to be identified as the lost Bury St Edmunds MS recorded in McDonald, pp. 25-7: see Brown, pp. xxxix-xl.

Edited from this MS in Brown, pp. 48-9.

SoR 77

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of English poems and letters of Robert Southwell, largely in one neat small hand, together with sigs A-E (pp. 1-34) of a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, with other Poemes (London, 1595), vii + 80 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum stamped IHS. Early 17th century.

Inscribed names (f. 79v) Thomas Champney Book Anno: Domini 1677; (f. 78v) Mrs Mary Hooge Booke Anno Domini 1678; and (elsewhere) Katherine and Laurence Champney. 19th-century notes (ff. ii-vii) referring to this MS as The Woolhampton MS (? from Woolhampton, Berkshire). Later in the Virtue and Cahill Library, of the Catholic Cathedral of Portsmouth. Christie's, 5 July 1967, lot 190.

Generally cited as the Virtue and Cahill MS.

SoR 78

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of works by Robert Southwell, in an accomplished secretary hand, 110 leaves, some pages at the back partly torn away, in 19th-century half-morocco. Early 17th century.

Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, April 1836 (Heber sale), lot 1447.

Edited from this MS in St. Peter's Complaint, and other Poems; by the Rev. Robert Southwell, ed. W.J. Walter (London, 1817).

SoR 79

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of poems by Robert Southwell, in a neat predominantly italic hand, with (f. 1*v) a list of contents, 1* + 43 leaves, in modern black morocco. 1620.

With a faded inscription (f. 57v) Charles Cauendish 1620 / Anno Dmi, 1620.

Cited in IELM, I.ii, as the Cavendish MS.

SoR 80

Copy.

In: A small quarto composite volume of works chiefly by Southwell, comprising a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, With other Poems (London, 1595), vi + 56 pages, with minor MS corrections and marks, bound with an untitled MS of poems by Southwell and others, in one or possibly two neat italic hands, 88 leaves, formerly in contemporary calf, now in modern quarter-calf. Early 17th century.

Inscribed on the title-page E[x] L[ibris] J. Phillips 1774. Booklabel of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).

Cited by editors, and in IELM, I.ii, as the Harmsworth MS. Collated in Brown.

Josephs Amazement
('When Christ by growth disclosed his descent')

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, (London, 1602). Brown, pp. 21-3.

SoR 81

Copy.

In: A volume of Southwell's English verse and some prose works, in a single hand but for one poem and some corrections in a second hand, 78 quarto leaves. c.1592-1609.

Bearing the childish signature of iereneme WalDegrave (? the future nun Dame Hieronima Waldegrave, c.1603-35) and once in the possession of the Waldegrave family of Essex.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Cited by editors as the Waldegrave MS. Described in McDonald, pp. 19-22, and in Brown, pp. xxxvii-xl. This MS probably to be identified as the lost Bury St Edmunds MS recorded in McDonald, pp. 25-7: see Brown, pp. xxxix-xl.

SoR 82

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of English poems and letters of Robert Southwell, largely in one neat small hand, together with sigs A-E (pp. 1-34) of a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, with other Poemes (London, 1595), vii + 80 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum stamped IHS. Early 17th century.

Inscribed names (f. 79v) Thomas Champney Book Anno: Domini 1677; (f. 78v) Mrs Mary Hooge Booke Anno Domini 1678; and (elsewhere) Katherine and Laurence Champney. 19th-century notes (ff. ii-vii) referring to this MS as The Woolhampton MS (? from Woolhampton, Berkshire). Later in the Virtue and Cahill Library, of the Catholic Cathedral of Portsmouth. Christie's, 5 July 1967, lot 190.

Generally cited as the Virtue and Cahill MS.

SoR 83

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of works by Robert Southwell, in an accomplished secretary hand, 110 leaves, some pages at the back partly torn away, in 19th-century half-morocco. Early 17th century.

Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, April 1836 (Heber sale), lot 1447.

SoR 84

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of poems by Robert Southwell, in a neat predominantly italic hand, with (f. 1*v) a list of contents, 1* + 43 leaves, in modern black morocco. 1620.

With a faded inscription (f. 57v) Charles Cauendish 1620 / Anno Dmi, 1620.

Cited in IELM, I.ii, as the Cavendish MS.

SoR 85

Copy.

In: A small quarto composite volume of works chiefly by Southwell, comprising a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, With other Poems (London, 1595), vi + 56 pages, with minor MS corrections and marks, bound with an untitled MS of poems by Southwell and others, in one or possibly two neat italic hands, 88 leaves, formerly in contemporary calf, now in modern quarter-calf. Early 17th century.

Inscribed on the title-page E[x] L[ibris] J. Phillips 1774. Booklabel of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).

Cited by editors, and in IELM, I.ii, as the Harmsworth MS. Collated in Brown.

SoR 85.5

Copy.

In: Fragments of a small quarto miscellany of poems, chiefly by Robert Southwell (sixteen by him, probably copied from lost printed sources), in a single mixed Scottish hand, 36 pages (in present state).

Apparently compiled by one R. C. (possibly Robert Calder) for Sir Robert Gordon (1580-1656), Lord of Inverary and Gentleman of the Privy Chamber.

c.1610.

The MS pages used as binder's waste or even perhaps as a deliberate mode of secretion in a MS volume compiled by the schoolmaster and royal chaplain Alexander Ross (1591-1654), of Aberdeen. Later in the library of Andrew Fletcher (1653?-1716), of Saltoun, political theorist and book collector. H.P. Kraus, New York, sale catalogue No. 157 (1980), item 29. Sotheby's, 19 July 1994, lot 29 (with other MSS relating to the recusant Gordon family), to Quaritch.

Lewd Love is Losse
('Misdeeming eye that stoupest to the lure')

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 62-3.

SoR 86

Copy.

In: A volume of Southwell's English verse and some prose works, in a single hand but for one poem and some corrections in a second hand, 78 quarto leaves. c.1592-1609.

Bearing the childish signature of iereneme WalDegrave (? the future nun Dame Hieronima Waldegrave, c.1603-35) and once in the possession of the Waldegrave family of Essex.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Cited by editors as the Waldegrave MS. Described in McDonald, pp. 19-22, and in Brown, pp. xxxvii-xl. This MS probably to be identified as the lost Bury St Edmunds MS recorded in McDonald, pp. 25-7: see Brown, pp. xxxix-xl.

SoR 87

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of English poems and letters of Robert Southwell, largely in one neat small hand, together with sigs A-E (pp. 1-34) of a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, with other Poemes (London, 1595), vii + 80 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum stamped IHS. Early 17th century.

Inscribed names (f. 79v) Thomas Champney Book Anno: Domini 1677; (f. 78v) Mrs Mary Hooge Booke Anno Domini 1678; and (elsewhere) Katherine and Laurence Champney. 19th-century notes (ff. ii-vii) referring to this MS as The Woolhampton MS (? from Woolhampton, Berkshire). Later in the Virtue and Cahill Library, of the Catholic Cathedral of Portsmouth. Christie's, 5 July 1967, lot 190.

Generally cited as the Virtue and Cahill MS.

SoR 88

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of works by Robert Southwell, in an accomplished secretary hand, 110 leaves, some pages at the back partly torn away, in 19th-century half-morocco. Early 17th century.

Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, April 1836 (Heber sale), lot 1447.

SoR 89

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of poems by Robert Southwell, in a neat predominantly italic hand, with (f. 1*v) a list of contents, 1* + 43 leaves, in modern black morocco. 1620.

With a faded inscription (f. 57v) Charles Cauendish 1620 / Anno Dmi, 1620.

Cited in IELM, I.ii, as the Cavendish MS.

SoR 90

Copy.

In: A small quarto composite volume of works chiefly by Southwell, comprising a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, With other Poems (London, 1595), vi + 56 pages, with minor MS corrections and marks, bound with an untitled MS of poems by Southwell and others, in one or possibly two neat italic hands, 88 leaves, formerly in contemporary calf, now in modern quarter-calf. Early 17th century.

Inscribed on the title-page E[x] L[ibris] J. Phillips 1774. Booklabel of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).

Cited by editors, and in IELM, I.ii, as the Harmsworth MS. Collated in Brown.

SoR 90.5

Copy.

In: Fragments of a small quarto miscellany of poems, chiefly by Robert Southwell (sixteen by him, probably copied from lost printed sources), in a single mixed Scottish hand, 36 pages (in present state).

Apparently compiled by one R. C. (possibly Robert Calder) for Sir Robert Gordon (1580-1656), Lord of Inverary and Gentleman of the Privy Chamber.

c.1610.

The MS pages used as binder's waste or even perhaps as a deliberate mode of secretion in a MS volume compiled by the schoolmaster and royal chaplain Alexander Ross (1591-1654), of Aberdeen. Later in the library of Andrew Fletcher (1653?-1716), of Saltoun, political theorist and book collector. H.P. Kraus, New York, sale catalogue No. 157 (1980), item 29. Sotheby's, 19 July 1994, lot 29 (with other MSS relating to the recusant Gordon family), to Quaritch.

SoR 90.8

Copy.

In: An octavo miscellany of verse, prose and drama, written over a period in various hands, 179 leaves, in remains of contemporary calf. c.1620-late 17th century.

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.

SoR 91

Copy.

In: A miscellany, entitled a not-booke of divinity and honor military and civill, chiefly comprising 29 poems by Robert Southwell transcribed from printed sources, in the predominantly italic hand of Thomas Read, a student of Magdalen College, Oxford, 186 leaves, dated 1624. 1624.

Later in the collection of George Arents Jr (1875-1960), manufacturer.

This MS recorded in Brown, p. li, but not collated.

Life is but Losse
('By force I live, in will I wish to die')

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 50-1.

SoR 92

Copy.

In: A volume of Southwell's English verse and some prose works, in a single hand but for one poem and some corrections in a second hand, 78 quarto leaves. c.1592-1609.

Bearing the childish signature of iereneme WalDegrave (? the future nun Dame Hieronima Waldegrave, c.1603-35) and once in the possession of the Waldegrave family of Essex.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Cited by editors as the Waldegrave MS. Described in McDonald, pp. 19-22, and in Brown, pp. xxxvii-xl. This MS probably to be identified as the lost Bury St Edmunds MS recorded in McDonald, pp. 25-7: see Brown, pp. xxxix-xl.

SoR 92.5

Copy.

In: A quarto miscellany, in one or possibly two hands, one of which may be Sir Charles Calthorpe (d.1616), judge and Attorney-General of ireland, 279 leaves, imperfect. c.1600.
SoR 93

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of English poems and letters of Robert Southwell, largely in one neat small hand, together with sigs A-E (pp. 1-34) of a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, with other Poemes (London, 1595), vii + 80 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum stamped IHS. Early 17th century.

Inscribed names (f. 79v) Thomas Champney Book Anno: Domini 1677; (f. 78v) Mrs Mary Hooge Booke Anno Domini 1678; and (elsewhere) Katherine and Laurence Champney. 19th-century notes (ff. ii-vii) referring to this MS as The Woolhampton MS (? from Woolhampton, Berkshire). Later in the Virtue and Cahill Library, of the Catholic Cathedral of Portsmouth. Christie's, 5 July 1967, lot 190.

Generally cited as the Virtue and Cahill MS.

SoR 94

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of works by Robert Southwell, in an accomplished secretary hand, 110 leaves, some pages at the back partly torn away, in 19th-century half-morocco. Early 17th century.

Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, April 1836 (Heber sale), lot 1447.

SoR 95

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of poems by Robert Southwell, in a neat predominantly italic hand, with (f. 1*v) a list of contents, 1* + 43 leaves, in modern black morocco. 1620.

With a faded inscription (f. 57v) Charles Cauendish 1620 / Anno Dmi, 1620.

Cited in IELM, I.ii, as the Cavendish MS.

SoR 96

Copy.

In: A small quarto composite volume of works chiefly by Southwell, comprising a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, With other Poems (London, 1595), vi + 56 pages, with minor MS corrections and marks, bound with an untitled MS of poems by Southwell and others, in one or possibly two neat italic hands, 88 leaves, formerly in contemporary calf, now in modern quarter-calf. Early 17th century.

Inscribed on the title-page E[x] L[ibris] J. Phillips 1774. Booklabel of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).

Cited by editors, and in IELM, I.ii, as the Harmsworth MS. Collated in Brown.

SoR 97

Copy.

In: A miscellany, entitled a not-booke of divinity and honor military and civill, chiefly comprising 29 poems by Robert Southwell transcribed from printed sources, in the predominantly italic hand of Thomas Read, a student of Magdalen College, Oxford, 186 leaves, dated 1624. 1624.

Later in the collection of George Arents Jr (1875-1960), manufacturer.

This MS recorded in Brown, p. li, but not collated.

Lifes death loves life
('Who lives in love, loves least to live')

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 54-5.

SoR 98

Copy.

In: A volume of Southwell's English verse and some prose works, in a single hand but for one poem and some corrections in a second hand, 78 quarto leaves. c.1592-1609.

Bearing the childish signature of iereneme WalDegrave (? the future nun Dame Hieronima Waldegrave, c.1603-35) and once in the possession of the Waldegrave family of Essex.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Cited by editors as the Waldegrave MS. Described in McDonald, pp. 19-22, and in Brown, pp. xxxvii-xl. This MS probably to be identified as the lost Bury St Edmunds MS recorded in McDonald, pp. 25-7: see Brown, pp. xxxix-xl.

SoR 98.5

Copy.

In: A quarto miscellany, in one or possibly two hands, one of which may be Sir Charles Calthorpe (d.1616), judge and Attorney-General of ireland, 279 leaves, imperfect. c.1600.
SoR 99

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of English poems and letters of Robert Southwell, largely in one neat small hand, together with sigs A-E (pp. 1-34) of a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, with other Poemes (London, 1595), vii + 80 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum stamped IHS. Early 17th century.

Inscribed names (f. 79v) Thomas Champney Book Anno: Domini 1677; (f. 78v) Mrs Mary Hooge Booke Anno Domini 1678; and (elsewhere) Katherine and Laurence Champney. 19th-century notes (ff. ii-vii) referring to this MS as The Woolhampton MS (? from Woolhampton, Berkshire). Later in the Virtue and Cahill Library, of the Catholic Cathedral of Portsmouth. Christie's, 5 July 1967, lot 190.

Generally cited as the Virtue and Cahill MS.

SoR 100

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of works by Robert Southwell, in an accomplished secretary hand, 110 leaves, some pages at the back partly torn away, in 19th-century half-morocco. Early 17th century.

Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, April 1836 (Heber sale), lot 1447.

SoR 101

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of poems by Robert Southwell, in a neat predominantly italic hand, with (f. 1*v) a list of contents, 1* + 43 leaves, in modern black morocco. 1620.

With a faded inscription (f. 57v) Charles Cauendish 1620 / Anno Dmi, 1620.

Cited in IELM, I.ii, as the Cavendish MS.

SoR 102

Copy.

In: A small quarto composite volume of works chiefly by Southwell, comprising a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, With other Poems (London, 1595), vi + 56 pages, with minor MS corrections and marks, bound with an untitled MS of poems by Southwell and others, in one or possibly two neat italic hands, 88 leaves, formerly in contemporary calf, now in modern quarter-calf. Early 17th century.

Inscribed on the title-page E[x] L[ibris] J. Phillips 1774. Booklabel of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).

Cited by editors, and in IELM, I.ii, as the Harmsworth MS. Collated in Brown.

SoR 103

Copy, untitled.

In: A long ledger-size miscellany of recusant verse and some prose, including 32 poems by Robert Southwell, largely in the single neat hand of Gertrude Thimelby (1617-68), a second hand on pp. 119-21, viii + 130 pages, some leaves partly torn away, in contemporary vellum. c.1651-7.

Associated with the Fairfax family of Wootton Wawen, Warwickshire, including Thomas Fairfax (d.1691), yeoman. Later inscribed with the name Harriet Marcusden. Sold by P.J. Dobell, 1948.

Discussed in Cedric C. Brown, Recusant Community and Jesuit Mission in Parliament Days: Bodleian MS Eng. poet. b. 5, Yearbook of English Studies, 23 (2003), 290-315.

SoR 103.5

Copy.

In: Fragments of a small quarto miscellany of poems, chiefly by Robert Southwell (sixteen by him, probably copied from lost printed sources), in a single mixed Scottish hand, 36 pages (in present state).

Apparently compiled by one R. C. (possibly Robert Calder) for Sir Robert Gordon (1580-1656), Lord of Inverary and Gentleman of the Privy Chamber.

c.1610.

The MS pages used as binder's waste or even perhaps as a deliberate mode of secretion in a MS volume compiled by the schoolmaster and royal chaplain Alexander Ross (1591-1654), of Aberdeen. Later in the library of Andrew Fletcher (1653?-1716), of Saltoun, political theorist and book collector. H.P. Kraus, New York, sale catalogue No. 157 (1980), item 29. Sotheby's, 19 July 1994, lot 29 (with other MSS relating to the recusant Gordon family), to Quaritch.

SoR 104

Copy.

In: A miscellany, entitled a not-booke of divinity and honor military and civill, chiefly comprising 29 poems by Robert Southwell transcribed from printed sources, in the predominantly italic hand of Thomas Read, a student of Magdalen College, Oxford, 186 leaves, dated 1624. 1624.

Later in the collection of George Arents Jr (1875-1960), manufacturer.

This MS recorded in Brown, p. li, but not collated.

SoR 105

Copy, in Gertrude Thimelby's hand.

In: A quarto miscellany of recusant verse, many of the 65 poems relating to the circle of the Catholic Aston family, in three hands, 200 leaves (including five preliminary blanks, and ff. 53r-135v are blank), in contemporary leather gilt.

Compiled principally by Constance Fowler (d.1664), daughter of the diplomat Walter Aston, Baron Aston of Forfar (1584-1639), of Tixall and Colton, Staffordshire, her roman hand responsible for ff. 6r, 8r-15v, 24v-34v, 46v-52v, 136r-9r, 143v-59r, and 182v-95v. The second, predominantly secretary hand, responsible for fourteen poems on ff. 7r-v, 16r-24r, and 35r-46r, is that of Constance's sister Gertrude Thimelby (1617-68). The third hand, on ff. 196r-200v, is that of Constance's brother-in-law Sir William Pershall.

c.1635-50s.

William H. Robinson, sale catalogue (1925), item 472.

This volume discussed, with a complete first-line index and a facsimile of f. 25r, in Jenijoy La Belle, The Huntington Aston Manuscript, The Book Collector, 29 (Winter 1980), 542-67. See also Jenijoy La Belle, A True Love's Knot: The Letters of Constance Fowler and the Poems of Herbert Aston, JEGP, 79 (1980), 13-31. The complete volume edited in The Verse Miscellany of Constance Aston Fowler: A Diplomatic Edition, ed. Deborah Aldrich-Watson (Tempe, Arizona, 2000), with a facsimile of f. 28v on p. lxiv.

Aldrich-Watson, pp. 70-1.

Looke home
('Retyred thoughts enjoy their owne delights')

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, p. 57.

SoR 106

Copy.

In: A volume of Southwell's English verse and some prose works, in a single hand but for one poem and some corrections in a second hand, 78 quarto leaves. c.1592-1609.

Bearing the childish signature of iereneme WalDegrave (? the future nun Dame Hieronima Waldegrave, c.1603-35) and once in the possession of the Waldegrave family of Essex.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Cited by editors as the Waldegrave MS. Described in McDonald, pp. 19-22, and in Brown, pp. xxxvii-xl. This MS probably to be identified as the lost Bury St Edmunds MS recorded in McDonald, pp. 25-7: see Brown, pp. xxxix-xl.

SoR 107

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of English poems and letters of Robert Southwell, largely in one neat small hand, together with sigs A-E (pp. 1-34) of a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, with other Poemes (London, 1595), vii + 80 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum stamped IHS. Early 17th century.

Inscribed names (f. 79v) Thomas Champney Book Anno: Domini 1677; (f. 78v) Mrs Mary Hooge Booke Anno Domini 1678; and (elsewhere) Katherine and Laurence Champney. 19th-century notes (ff. ii-vii) referring to this MS as The Woolhampton MS (? from Woolhampton, Berkshire). Later in the Virtue and Cahill Library, of the Catholic Cathedral of Portsmouth. Christie's, 5 July 1967, lot 190.

Generally cited as the Virtue and Cahill MS.

SoR 108

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of works by Robert Southwell, in an accomplished secretary hand, 110 leaves, some pages at the back partly torn away, in 19th-century half-morocco. Early 17th century.

Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, April 1836 (Heber sale), lot 1447.

SoR 109

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of poems by Robert Southwell, in a neat predominantly italic hand, with (f. 1*v) a list of contents, 1* + 43 leaves, in modern black morocco. 1620.

With a faded inscription (f. 57v) Charles Cauendish 1620 / Anno Dmi, 1620.

Cited in IELM, I.ii, as the Cavendish MS.

SoR 110

Copy of lines 1-18.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in an accomplished mixed hand throughout, with headings or incipts in engrossed lettering, 194 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco. c.1596-1601.

This MS volume discussed in Katherine K. Gottschalk, Discoveries concerning British Library MS Harley 6910, MP, 77 (1979-80), 121-31.

This MS recorded in Brown, p. 146.

Losse in delaies
('Shun delaies, they breede remorse')

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 58-9.

SoR 111

Copy.

In: A volume of Southwell's English verse and some prose works, in a single hand but for one poem and some corrections in a second hand, 78 quarto leaves. c.1592-1609.

Bearing the childish signature of iereneme WalDegrave (? the future nun Dame Hieronima Waldegrave, c.1603-35) and once in the possession of the Waldegrave family of Essex.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Cited by editors as the Waldegrave MS. Described in McDonald, pp. 19-22, and in Brown, pp. xxxvii-xl. This MS probably to be identified as the lost Bury St Edmunds MS recorded in McDonald, pp. 25-7: see Brown, pp. xxxix-xl.

SoR 111.5

Copy.

In: A quarto miscellany, in one or possibly two hands, one of which may be Sir Charles Calthorpe (d.1616), judge and Attorney-General of ireland, 279 leaves, imperfect. c.1600.
SoR 112

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of English poems and letters of Robert Southwell, largely in one neat small hand, together with sigs A-E (pp. 1-34) of a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, with other Poemes (London, 1595), vii + 80 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum stamped IHS. Early 17th century.

Inscribed names (f. 79v) Thomas Champney Book Anno: Domini 1677; (f. 78v) Mrs Mary Hooge Booke Anno Domini 1678; and (elsewhere) Katherine and Laurence Champney. 19th-century notes (ff. ii-vii) referring to this MS as The Woolhampton MS (? from Woolhampton, Berkshire). Later in the Virtue and Cahill Library, of the Catholic Cathedral of Portsmouth. Christie's, 5 July 1967, lot 190.

Generally cited as the Virtue and Cahill MS.

SoR 113

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of works by Robert Southwell, in an accomplished secretary hand, 110 leaves, some pages at the back partly torn away, in 19th-century half-morocco. Early 17th century.

Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, April 1836 (Heber sale), lot 1447.

SoR 114

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of poems by Robert Southwell, in a neat predominantly italic hand, with (f. 1*v) a list of contents, 1* + 43 leaves, in modern black morocco. 1620.

With a faded inscription (f. 57v) Charles Cauendish 1620 / Anno Dmi, 1620.

Cited in IELM, I.ii, as the Cavendish MS.

SoR 115

A minor MS correction in the printed text.

In: A small quarto composite volume of works chiefly by Southwell, comprising a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, With other Poems (London, 1595), vi + 56 pages, with minor MS corrections and marks, bound with an untitled MS of poems by Southwell and others, in one or possibly two neat italic hands, 88 leaves, formerly in contemporary calf, now in modern quarter-calf. Early 17th century.

Inscribed on the title-page E[x] L[ibris] J. Phillips 1774. Booklabel of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).

Cited by editors, and in IELM, I.ii, as the Harmsworth MS. Collated in Brown.

SoR 116

Copy, untitled.

In: A long ledger-size miscellany of recusant verse and some prose, including 32 poems by Robert Southwell, largely in the single neat hand of Gertrude Thimelby (1617-68), a second hand on pp. 119-21, viii + 130 pages, some leaves partly torn away, in contemporary vellum. c.1651-7.

Associated with the Fairfax family of Wootton Wawen, Warwickshire, including Thomas Fairfax (d.1691), yeoman. Later inscribed with the name Harriet Marcusden. Sold by P.J. Dobell, 1948.

Discussed in Cedric C. Brown, Recusant Community and Jesuit Mission in Parliament Days: Bodleian MS Eng. poet. b. 5, Yearbook of English Studies, 23 (2003), 290-315.

SoR 116.5

Copy.

In: Fragments of a small quarto miscellany of poems, chiefly by Robert Southwell (sixteen by him, probably copied from lost printed sources), in a single mixed Scottish hand, 36 pages (in present state).

Apparently compiled by one R. C. (possibly Robert Calder) for Sir Robert Gordon (1580-1656), Lord of Inverary and Gentleman of the Privy Chamber.

c.1610.

The MS pages used as binder's waste or even perhaps as a deliberate mode of secretion in a MS volume compiled by the schoolmaster and royal chaplain Alexander Ross (1591-1654), of Aberdeen. Later in the library of Andrew Fletcher (1653?-1716), of Saltoun, political theorist and book collector. H.P. Kraus, New York, sale catalogue No. 157 (1980), item 29. Sotheby's, 19 July 1994, lot 29 (with other MSS relating to the recusant Gordon family), to Quaritch.

SoR 116.8

Copy.

In: An octavo miscellany of verse, prose and drama, written over a period in various hands, 179 leaves, in remains of contemporary calf. c.1620-late 17th century.

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.

SoR 117

Copy.

In: A miscellany, entitled a not-booke of divinity and honor military and civill, chiefly comprising 29 poems by Robert Southwell transcribed from printed sources, in the predominantly italic hand of Thomas Read, a student of Magdalen College, Oxford, 186 leaves, dated 1624. 1624.

Later in the collection of George Arents Jr (1875-1960), manufacturer.

This MS recorded in Brown, p. li, but not collated.

Loves Garden grief
('Vaine loves avaunt, infamous is your pleasure')

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, p. 64.

SoR 118

Copy.

In: A volume of Southwell's English verse and some prose works, in a single hand but for one poem and some corrections in a second hand, 78 quarto leaves. c.1592-1609.

Bearing the childish signature of iereneme WalDegrave (? the future nun Dame Hieronima Waldegrave, c.1603-35) and once in the possession of the Waldegrave family of Essex.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Cited by editors as the Waldegrave MS. Described in McDonald, pp. 19-22, and in Brown, pp. xxxvii-xl. This MS probably to be identified as the lost Bury St Edmunds MS recorded in McDonald, pp. 25-7: see Brown, pp. xxxix-xl.

SoR 119

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of English poems and letters of Robert Southwell, largely in one neat small hand, together with sigs A-E (pp. 1-34) of a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, with other Poemes (London, 1595), vii + 80 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum stamped IHS. Early 17th century.

Inscribed names (f. 79v) Thomas Champney Book Anno: Domini 1677; (f. 78v) Mrs Mary Hooge Booke Anno Domini 1678; and (elsewhere) Katherine and Laurence Champney. 19th-century notes (ff. ii-vii) referring to this MS as The Woolhampton MS (? from Woolhampton, Berkshire). Later in the Virtue and Cahill Library, of the Catholic Cathedral of Portsmouth. Christie's, 5 July 1967, lot 190.

Generally cited as the Virtue and Cahill MS.

SoR 120

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of works by Robert Southwell, in an accomplished secretary hand, 110 leaves, some pages at the back partly torn away, in 19th-century half-morocco. Early 17th century.

Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, April 1836 (Heber sale), lot 1447.

SoR 121

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of poems by Robert Southwell, in a neat predominantly italic hand, with (f. 1*v) a list of contents, 1* + 43 leaves, in modern black morocco. 1620.

With a faded inscription (f. 57v) Charles Cauendish 1620 / Anno Dmi, 1620.

Cited in IELM, I.ii, as the Cavendish MS.

SoR 122

Copy.

In: A small quarto composite volume of works chiefly by Southwell, comprising a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, With other Poems (London, 1595), vi + 56 pages, with minor MS corrections and marks, bound with an untitled MS of poems by Southwell and others, in one or possibly two neat italic hands, 88 leaves, formerly in contemporary calf, now in modern quarter-calf. Early 17th century.

Inscribed on the title-page E[x] L[ibris] J. Phillips 1774. Booklabel of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).

Cited by editors, and in IELM, I.ii, as the Harmsworth MS. Collated in Brown.

SoR 122.5

Copy.

In: An octavo miscellany of verse, prose and drama, written over a period in various hands, 179 leaves, in remains of contemporary calf. c.1620-late 17th century.

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.

SoR 123

Copy.

In: A miscellany, entitled a not-booke of divinity and honor military and civill, chiefly comprising 29 poems by Robert Southwell transcribed from printed sources, in the predominantly italic hand of Thomas Read, a student of Magdalen College, Oxford, 186 leaves, dated 1624. 1624.

Later in the collection of George Arents Jr (1875-1960), manufacturer.

This MS recorded in Brown, p. li, but not collated.

Loves servile lot
('Love mistris is of many mindes')

Lines 1-48 first published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Lines 49-76 published in 2nd edition (1595). Brown, pp. 60-2.

SoR 124

Copy.

In: A volume of Southwell's English verse and some prose works, in a single hand but for one poem and some corrections in a second hand, 78 quarto leaves. c.1592-1609.

Bearing the childish signature of iereneme WalDegrave (? the future nun Dame Hieronima Waldegrave, c.1603-35) and once in the possession of the Waldegrave family of Essex.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Cited by editors as the Waldegrave MS. Described in McDonald, pp. 19-22, and in Brown, pp. xxxvii-xl. This MS probably to be identified as the lost Bury St Edmunds MS recorded in McDonald, pp. 25-7: see Brown, pp. xxxix-xl.

SoR 125

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of English poems and letters of Robert Southwell, largely in one neat small hand, together with sigs A-E (pp. 1-34) of a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, with other Poemes (London, 1595), vii + 80 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum stamped IHS. Early 17th century.

Inscribed names (f. 79v) Thomas Champney Book Anno: Domini 1677; (f. 78v) Mrs Mary Hooge Booke Anno Domini 1678; and (elsewhere) Katherine and Laurence Champney. 19th-century notes (ff. ii-vii) referring to this MS as The Woolhampton MS (? from Woolhampton, Berkshire). Later in the Virtue and Cahill Library, of the Catholic Cathedral of Portsmouth. Christie's, 5 July 1967, lot 190.

Generally cited as the Virtue and Cahill MS.

SoR 126

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of works by Robert Southwell, in an accomplished secretary hand, 110 leaves, some pages at the back partly torn away, in 19th-century half-morocco. Early 17th century.

Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, April 1836 (Heber sale), lot 1447.

SoR 127

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of poems by Robert Southwell, in a neat predominantly italic hand, with (f. 1*v) a list of contents, 1* + 43 leaves, in modern black morocco. 1620.

With a faded inscription (f. 57v) Charles Cauendish 1620 / Anno Dmi, 1620.

Cited in IELM, I.ii, as the Cavendish MS.

SoR 127.5

Copy.

In: Fragments of a small quarto miscellany of poems, chiefly by Robert Southwell (sixteen by him, probably copied from lost printed sources), in a single mixed Scottish hand, 36 pages (in present state).

Apparently compiled by one R. C. (possibly Robert Calder) for Sir Robert Gordon (1580-1656), Lord of Inverary and Gentleman of the Privy Chamber.

c.1610.

The MS pages used as binder's waste or even perhaps as a deliberate mode of secretion in a MS volume compiled by the schoolmaster and royal chaplain Alexander Ross (1591-1654), of Aberdeen. Later in the library of Andrew Fletcher (1653?-1716), of Saltoun, political theorist and book collector. H.P. Kraus, New York, sale catalogue No. 157 (1980), item 29. Sotheby's, 19 July 1994, lot 29 (with other MSS relating to the recusant Gordon family), to Quaritch.

SoR 128

Copy.

In: A miscellany, entitled a not-booke of divinity and honor military and civill, chiefly comprising 29 poems by Robert Southwell transcribed from printed sources, in the predominantly italic hand of Thomas Read, a student of Magdalen College, Oxford, 186 leaves, dated 1624. 1624.

Later in the collection of George Arents Jr (1875-1960), manufacturer.

This MS recorded in Brown, p. li, but not collated.

Mans civill warre
('My hovering thoughts would flie to heaven')

First published (lines 1-12) in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 49-50.

SoR 129

Copy.

In: A volume of Southwell's English verse and some prose works, in a single hand but for one poem and some corrections in a second hand, 78 quarto leaves. c.1592-1609.

Bearing the childish signature of iereneme WalDegrave (? the future nun Dame Hieronima Waldegrave, c.1603-35) and once in the possession of the Waldegrave family of Essex.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Cited by editors as the Waldegrave MS. Described in McDonald, pp. 19-22, and in Brown, pp. xxxvii-xl. This MS probably to be identified as the lost Bury St Edmunds MS recorded in McDonald, pp. 25-7: see Brown, pp. xxxix-xl.

SoR 130

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of English poems and letters of Robert Southwell, largely in one neat small hand, together with sigs A-E (pp. 1-34) of a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, with other Poemes (London, 1595), vii + 80 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum stamped IHS. Early 17th century.

Inscribed names (f. 79v) Thomas Champney Book Anno: Domini 1677; (f. 78v) Mrs Mary Hooge Booke Anno Domini 1678; and (elsewhere) Katherine and Laurence Champney. 19th-century notes (ff. ii-vii) referring to this MS as The Woolhampton MS (? from Woolhampton, Berkshire). Later in the Virtue and Cahill Library, of the Catholic Cathedral of Portsmouth. Christie's, 5 July 1967, lot 190.

Generally cited as the Virtue and Cahill MS.

SoR 131

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of works by Robert Southwell, in an accomplished secretary hand, 110 leaves, some pages at the back partly torn away, in 19th-century half-morocco. Early 17th century.

Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, April 1836 (Heber sale), lot 1447.

SoR 132

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of poems by Robert Southwell, in a neat predominantly italic hand, with (f. 1*v) a list of contents, 1* + 43 leaves, in modern black morocco. 1620.

With a faded inscription (f. 57v) Charles Cauendish 1620 / Anno Dmi, 1620.

Cited in IELM, I.ii, as the Cavendish MS.

SoR 133

Copy.

In: A small quarto composite volume of works chiefly by Southwell, comprising a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, With other Poems (London, 1595), vi + 56 pages, with minor MS corrections and marks, bound with an untitled MS of poems by Southwell and others, in one or possibly two neat italic hands, 88 leaves, formerly in contemporary calf, now in modern quarter-calf. Early 17th century.

Inscribed on the title-page E[x] L[ibris] J. Phillips 1774. Booklabel of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).

Cited by editors, and in IELM, I.ii, as the Harmsworth MS. Collated in Brown.

SoR 134

Copy.

In: A long ledger-size miscellany of recusant verse and some prose, including 32 poems by Robert Southwell, largely in the single neat hand of Gertrude Thimelby (1617-68), a second hand on pp. 119-21, viii + 130 pages, some leaves partly torn away, in contemporary vellum. c.1651-7.

Associated with the Fairfax family of Wootton Wawen, Warwickshire, including Thomas Fairfax (d.1691), yeoman. Later inscribed with the name Harriet Marcusden. Sold by P.J. Dobell, 1948.

Discussed in Cedric C. Brown, Recusant Community and Jesuit Mission in Parliament Days: Bodleian MS Eng. poet. b. 5, Yearbook of English Studies, 23 (2003), 290-315.

SoR 135

Copy.

In: A miscellany, entitled a not-booke of divinity and honor military and civill, chiefly comprising 29 poems by Robert Southwell transcribed from printed sources, in the predominantly italic hand of Thomas Read, a student of Magdalen College, Oxford, 186 leaves, dated 1624. 1624.

Later in the collection of George Arents Jr (1875-1960), manufacturer.

This MS recorded in Brown, p. li, but not collated.

Marie Magdalens complaint at Christs death
('Sith my life from life is parted')

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 45-6.

SoR 136

Copy.

In: A volume of Southwell's English verse and some prose works, in a single hand but for one poem and some corrections in a second hand, 78 quarto leaves. c.1592-1609.

Bearing the childish signature of iereneme WalDegrave (? the future nun Dame Hieronima Waldegrave, c.1603-35) and once in the possession of the Waldegrave family of Essex.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Cited by editors as the Waldegrave MS. Described in McDonald, pp. 19-22, and in Brown, pp. xxxvii-xl. This MS probably to be identified as the lost Bury St Edmunds MS recorded in McDonald, pp. 25-7: see Brown, pp. xxxix-xl.

SoR 137

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of English poems and letters of Robert Southwell, largely in one neat small hand, together with sigs A-E (pp. 1-34) of a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, with other Poemes (London, 1595), vii + 80 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum stamped IHS. Early 17th century.

Inscribed names (f. 79v) Thomas Champney Book Anno: Domini 1677; (f. 78v) Mrs Mary Hooge Booke Anno Domini 1678; and (elsewhere) Katherine and Laurence Champney. 19th-century notes (ff. ii-vii) referring to this MS as The Woolhampton MS (? from Woolhampton, Berkshire). Later in the Virtue and Cahill Library, of the Catholic Cathedral of Portsmouth. Christie's, 5 July 1967, lot 190.

Generally cited as the Virtue and Cahill MS.

SoR 138

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of works by Robert Southwell, in an accomplished secretary hand, 110 leaves, some pages at the back partly torn away, in 19th-century half-morocco. Early 17th century.

Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, April 1836 (Heber sale), lot 1447.

SoR 139

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of poems by Robert Southwell, in a neat predominantly italic hand, with (f. 1*v) a list of contents, 1* + 43 leaves, in modern black morocco. 1620.

With a faded inscription (f. 57v) Charles Cauendish 1620 / Anno Dmi, 1620.

Cited in IELM, I.ii, as the Cavendish MS.

SoR 140

A minor MS correction in the printed text.

In: A small quarto composite volume of works chiefly by Southwell, comprising a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, With other Poems (London, 1595), vi + 56 pages, with minor MS corrections and marks, bound with an untitled MS of poems by Southwell and others, in one or possibly two neat italic hands, 88 leaves, formerly in contemporary calf, now in modern quarter-calf. Early 17th century.

Inscribed on the title-page E[x] L[ibris] J. Phillips 1774. Booklabel of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).

Cited by editors, and in IELM, I.ii, as the Harmsworth MS. Collated in Brown.

SoR 141

Copy of line 25, here With my loue my life was rested, untitled, in a musical setting by Thomas Morley.

In: A virginal book.

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

c.1635-8.

This setting first published in Thomas Morley, First Booke of Ayres (London, 1600). See Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 138, 494-6.

SoR 142

Copy of line 25, here With my loue my life was nestled, untitled, in a musical setting by Thomas Morley.

In: A virginal book.

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

c.1635-8.
SoR 143

Copy of lines 25-30, 19-24, 13-18, headed Cant 8 and here beginning With my loue my life was nestled.

In: A folio verse miscellany, ii + 65 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

Entitled Miscentur seria iocis. 1647. Elegies, Exequies, Epitaphs, Epigrams, Songs Satires and other Poems, a formal compilation entirely in the hand of the Yorkshire antiquary John Hopkinson (1610-80).

1647.

From the library of Cecil Brent, FSA. Sold by P.J. & A.E. Dobell, January 1938.

SoR 144

Copy of lines 25-30, headed I live where I love and here beginning With my hart my love was nesled, followed by five new stanzas.

In: A long narrow ledger-like volume (c.40 x 15 cm) of ballads and metrical romances, in a single predominantly secretary hand, 268 leaves, all mounted on guards, in modern half-morocco. Mid-17th century.

Later owned by Thomas Percy (1768-1808), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor, and bearing copious annotations in his hand throughout, with a list by him at the end dated 20 December 1757.

This volume edited as Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript, ed. John W. Hales and Frederick J. Furnivall, 4 vols (London, 1867-8). Re-edited by I. Gollancz, 4 vols (London, 1905-10). Facsimile example of f. 94r in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 1986), No. 20, p. 31. Discussed, with five facsimile examples, in Joseph Donatelli, The Percy Folio Manuscript: A Seventeenth-Century Context for Medieval Poetry, EMS, 4 (1993), 114-33.

SoR 145

Copy of lines 25-30, 19-24, 18-18, in a musical setting by Thomas Morley, untitled.

In: A folio volume of largely vocal music, mainly in a single secretary hand, 120 pages, in mottled calf. Early 17th century.

Complete facsimile in Jorgens, VI (1987).

Edited from this MS in John P. Cutts, Seventeenth Century Songs and Lyrics (Columbia, Mo., 1959), p. 423.

SoR 146

Copy of line 25 only, here With my love my lyf was nestled, in a musical setting by Thomas Morley, untitled.

In: Three small quarto musical part books of the St Andrews Psalter (the Scottish Metrical Psalter of 1566 etc. by Thomas Wode, afterwards Vicar of St Andrews), copied c.1575-8, in formal angular roman hands, with rubrication and colour decoration, and with a series of secular songs added later in secretary and italic hands at the end, comprising (i) Treble part: iv + 214 pages (including blanks; (ii) Tenor part: iv + 200 pages; and (iii) Bassus part: 214 pages, all in 19th-century black morocco (iii incorporating an original vellum board). c.1575-early 17th century.

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

SoR 147

Copy of line 25 et seq., in a musical setting, untitled and here beginning With my Love, my life was nested.

In: MS transcript of the first printed edition (Aberdeen, 1662) of John Forbes, Cantus, Songs and Fancies. c.1662.

In the Atholl Collection of Music, assembled by Lady Dorothea Stewart-Murray (1866-1937), daughter of John Stewart-Murray (1840-1917), seventh Duke of Atholl. Formerly in the Sandeman Library, Perth.

SoR 148

Copy of line 25, in a musical setting by Thomas Morley, untitled.

In: A quarto musical part book, in several neat secretary and italic hands, with some initial-letter decoration, headed (f. 5r) This is the fyrst Buke addit to the four psalme Bukkes, for songis of four or fyue partis, meit and apt for musitians, to recreat..., with (ff. 2r-4r) a table of contents, 63 leaves, in old blind-stamped calf.

One of the part books of the St Andrews Psalter.

Early 17th century.
Mary Magdalens blush
('The signs of shame that staine my blushing face')

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 32-3.

SoR 149

Copy.

In: A volume of Southwell's English verse and some prose works, in a single hand but for one poem and some corrections in a second hand, 78 quarto leaves. c.1592-1609.

Bearing the childish signature of iereneme WalDegrave (? the future nun Dame Hieronima Waldegrave, c.1603-35) and once in the possession of the Waldegrave family of Essex.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Cited by editors as the Waldegrave MS. Described in McDonald, pp. 19-22, and in Brown, pp. xxxvii-xl. This MS probably to be identified as the lost Bury St Edmunds MS recorded in McDonald, pp. 25-7: see Brown, pp. xxxix-xl.

SoR 150

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of English poems and letters of Robert Southwell, largely in one neat small hand, together with sigs A-E (pp. 1-34) of a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, with other Poemes (London, 1595), vii + 80 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum stamped IHS. Early 17th century.

Inscribed names (f. 79v) Thomas Champney Book Anno: Domini 1677; (f. 78v) Mrs Mary Hooge Booke Anno Domini 1678; and (elsewhere) Katherine and Laurence Champney. 19th-century notes (ff. ii-vii) referring to this MS as The Woolhampton MS (? from Woolhampton, Berkshire). Later in the Virtue and Cahill Library, of the Catholic Cathedral of Portsmouth. Christie's, 5 July 1967, lot 190.

Generally cited as the Virtue and Cahill MS.

SoR 151

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of works by Robert Southwell, in an accomplished secretary hand, 110 leaves, some pages at the back partly torn away, in 19th-century half-morocco. Early 17th century.

Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, April 1836 (Heber sale), lot 1447.

SoR 152

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of poems by Robert Southwell, in a neat predominantly italic hand, with (f. 1*v) a list of contents, 1* + 43 leaves, in modern black morocco. 1620.

With a faded inscription (f. 57v) Charles Cauendish 1620 / Anno Dmi, 1620.

Cited in IELM, I.ii, as the Cavendish MS.

SoR 153

A minor MS correction in the printed text.

In: A small quarto composite volume of works chiefly by Southwell, comprising a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, With other Poems (London, 1595), vi + 56 pages, with minor MS corrections and marks, bound with an untitled MS of poems by Southwell and others, in one or possibly two neat italic hands, 88 leaves, formerly in contemporary calf, now in modern quarter-calf. Early 17th century.

Inscribed on the title-page E[x] L[ibris] J. Phillips 1774. Booklabel of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).

Cited by editors, and in IELM, I.ii, as the Harmsworth MS. Collated in Brown.

New heaven, new warre
('Come to your heaven you heavenly quires')

First published in Saint Peters Complaint (London, 1602). Brown, pp. 13-15.

SoR 154

Copy.

In: A volume of Southwell's English verse and some prose works, in a single hand but for one poem and some corrections in a second hand, 78 quarto leaves. c.1592-1609.

Bearing the childish signature of iereneme WalDegrave (? the future nun Dame Hieronima Waldegrave, c.1603-35) and once in the possession of the Waldegrave family of Essex.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Cited by editors as the Waldegrave MS. Described in McDonald, pp. 19-22, and in Brown, pp. xxxvii-xl. This MS probably to be identified as the lost Bury St Edmunds MS recorded in McDonald, pp. 25-7: see Brown, pp. xxxix-xl.

SoR 155

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of English poems and letters of Robert Southwell, largely in one neat small hand, together with sigs A-E (pp. 1-34) of a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, with other Poemes (London, 1595), vii + 80 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum stamped IHS. Early 17th century.

Inscribed names (f. 79v) Thomas Champney Book Anno: Domini 1677; (f. 78v) Mrs Mary Hooge Booke Anno Domini 1678; and (elsewhere) Katherine and Laurence Champney. 19th-century notes (ff. ii-vii) referring to this MS as The Woolhampton MS (? from Woolhampton, Berkshire). Later in the Virtue and Cahill Library, of the Catholic Cathedral of Portsmouth. Christie's, 5 July 1967, lot 190.

Generally cited as the Virtue and Cahill MS.

SoR 156

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of works by Robert Southwell, in an accomplished secretary hand, 110 leaves, some pages at the back partly torn away, in 19th-century half-morocco. Early 17th century.

Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, April 1836 (Heber sale), lot 1447.

SoR 157

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of poems by Robert Southwell, in a neat predominantly italic hand, with (f. 1*v) a list of contents, 1* + 43 leaves, in modern black morocco. 1620.

With a faded inscription (f. 57v) Charles Cauendish 1620 / Anno Dmi, 1620.

Cited in IELM, I.ii, as the Cavendish MS.

SoR 158

Copy.

In: A small quarto composite volume of works chiefly by Southwell, comprising a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, With other Poems (London, 1595), vi + 56 pages, with minor MS corrections and marks, bound with an untitled MS of poems by Southwell and others, in one or possibly two neat italic hands, 88 leaves, formerly in contemporary calf, now in modern quarter-calf. Early 17th century.

Inscribed on the title-page E[x] L[ibris] J. Phillips 1774. Booklabel of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).

Cited by editors, and in IELM, I.ii, as the Harmsworth MS. Collated in Brown.

New Prince, new pompe
('Behold a silly tender Babe')

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, (London, 1602). Brown, pp. 16-17.

SoR 159

Copy.

In: A volume of Southwell's English verse and some prose works, in a single hand but for one poem and some corrections in a second hand, 78 quarto leaves. c.1592-1609.

Bearing the childish signature of iereneme WalDegrave (? the future nun Dame Hieronima Waldegrave, c.1603-35) and once in the possession of the Waldegrave family of Essex.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Cited by editors as the Waldegrave MS. Described in McDonald, pp. 19-22, and in Brown, pp. xxxvii-xl. This MS probably to be identified as the lost Bury St Edmunds MS recorded in McDonald, pp. 25-7: see Brown, pp. xxxix-xl.

SoR 160

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of English poems and letters of Robert Southwell, largely in one neat small hand, together with sigs A-E (pp. 1-34) of a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, with other Poemes (London, 1595), vii + 80 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum stamped IHS. Early 17th century.

Inscribed names (f. 79v) Thomas Champney Book Anno: Domini 1677; (f. 78v) Mrs Mary Hooge Booke Anno Domini 1678; and (elsewhere) Katherine and Laurence Champney. 19th-century notes (ff. ii-vii) referring to this MS as The Woolhampton MS (? from Woolhampton, Berkshire). Later in the Virtue and Cahill Library, of the Catholic Cathedral of Portsmouth. Christie's, 5 July 1967, lot 190.

Generally cited as the Virtue and Cahill MS.

SoR 161

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of works by Robert Southwell, in an accomplished secretary hand, 110 leaves, some pages at the back partly torn away, in 19th-century half-morocco. Early 17th century.

Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, April 1836 (Heber sale), lot 1447.

SoR 162

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of poems by Robert Southwell, in a neat predominantly italic hand, with (f. 1*v) a list of contents, 1* + 43 leaves, in modern black morocco. 1620.

With a faded inscription (f. 57v) Charles Cauendish 1620 / Anno Dmi, 1620.

Cited in IELM, I.ii, as the Cavendish MS.

SoR 163

Copy.

In: A small quarto composite volume of works chiefly by Southwell, comprising a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, With other Poems (London, 1595), vi + 56 pages, with minor MS corrections and marks, bound with an untitled MS of poems by Southwell and others, in one or possibly two neat italic hands, 88 leaves, formerly in contemporary calf, now in modern quarter-calf. Early 17th century.

Inscribed on the title-page E[x] L[ibris] J. Phillips 1774. Booklabel of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).

Cited by editors, and in IELM, I.ii, as the Harmsworth MS. Collated in Brown.

SoR 164

Copy, untitled.

In: A long ledger-size miscellany of recusant verse and some prose, including 32 poems by Robert Southwell, largely in the single neat hand of Gertrude Thimelby (1617-68), a second hand on pp. 119-21, viii + 130 pages, some leaves partly torn away, in contemporary vellum. c.1651-7.

Associated with the Fairfax family of Wootton Wawen, Warwickshire, including Thomas Fairfax (d.1691), yeoman. Later inscribed with the name Harriet Marcusden. Sold by P.J. Dobell, 1948.

Discussed in Cedric C. Brown, Recusant Community and Jesuit Mission in Parliament Days: Bodleian MS Eng. poet. b. 5, Yearbook of English Studies, 23 (2003), 290-315.

Of the Blessed Sacrament of the Aulter
('In paschall feast the end of auncient rite')

First published as The Christians Manna in S. Peters Complaint and Saint Mary Magdalens Fvnerall Teares ([St Omers], 1616). Brown, pp. 26-8.

SoR 165

Copy.

In: A volume of Southwell's English verse and some prose works, in a single hand but for one poem and some corrections in a second hand, 78 quarto leaves. c.1592-1609.

Bearing the childish signature of iereneme WalDegrave (? the future nun Dame Hieronima Waldegrave, c.1603-35) and once in the possession of the Waldegrave family of Essex.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Cited by editors as the Waldegrave MS. Described in McDonald, pp. 19-22, and in Brown, pp. xxxvii-xl. This MS probably to be identified as the lost Bury St Edmunds MS recorded in McDonald, pp. 25-7: see Brown, pp. xxxix-xl.

Edited from this MS in Brown, pp. 26-8.

SoR 165.5

Copy, in a professional hand, subscribed W: S., on a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and papers principally in the hand of Lord Henry Howard, including some letters to him and some parliamentary speeches, 585 leaves, in 19th-century morocco gilt. c.1580s-1614.
SoR 166

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of English poems and letters of Robert Southwell, largely in one neat small hand, together with sigs A-E (pp. 1-34) of a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, with other Poemes (London, 1595), vii + 80 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum stamped IHS. Early 17th century.

Inscribed names (f. 79v) Thomas Champney Book Anno: Domini 1677; (f. 78v) Mrs Mary Hooge Booke Anno Domini 1678; and (elsewhere) Katherine and Laurence Champney. 19th-century notes (ff. ii-vii) referring to this MS as The Woolhampton MS (? from Woolhampton, Berkshire). Later in the Virtue and Cahill Library, of the Catholic Cathedral of Portsmouth. Christie's, 5 July 1967, lot 190.

Generally cited as the Virtue and Cahill MS.

SoR 167

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of works by Robert Southwell, in an accomplished secretary hand, 110 leaves, some pages at the back partly torn away, in 19th-century half-morocco. Early 17th century.

Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, April 1836 (Heber sale), lot 1447.

Edited from this MS in St. Peter's Complaint, and other Poems; by the Rev. Robert Southwell, ed. W.J. Walter (London, 1817).

SoR 168

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of poems by Robert Southwell, in a neat predominantly italic hand, with (f. 1*v) a list of contents, 1* + 43 leaves, in modern black morocco. 1620.

With a faded inscription (f. 57v) Charles Cauendish 1620 / Anno Dmi, 1620.

Cited in IELM, I.ii, as the Cavendish MS.

SoR 169

Copy.

In: A small quarto composite volume of works chiefly by Southwell, comprising a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, With other Poems (London, 1595), vi + 56 pages, with minor MS corrections and marks, bound with an untitled MS of poems by Southwell and others, in one or possibly two neat italic hands, 88 leaves, formerly in contemporary calf, now in modern quarter-calf. Early 17th century.

Inscribed on the title-page E[x] L[ibris] J. Phillips 1774. Booklabel of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).

Cited by editors, and in IELM, I.ii, as the Harmsworth MS. Collated in Brown.

[The] Peeter Playnt
('That sturdy peter...an...did boaste')

First published in Grosart (1872). Transcribed more accurately in Mario Praz, Robert Southwell's Saint Peter's Complaint and its Italian Source, MLR, 19 (1924), 273-90. McDonald, pp. 144-7. Brown, pp. 103-7.

*SoR 170

Autograph first draft of a verse translation of part of Luigi Tansillo's Le Lagrime di San Pietro.

In: A quarto composite volume of Robert Southwell's autograph papers, in various paper sizes, 64 leaves, in modern binding. c.1580.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Described in McDonald, pp. 12-14.

Facsimiles of f. 50r in Brown, frontispiece, and in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 19, and of f. 51r in Petti, English Literary Hands, No. 29.

A Phansie turned to a sinners complaint
('Hee that his mirth hath lost')

First published in Saint Peters Complaint (London, 1602). Brown, pp. 36-40.

SoR 171

Copy.

In: A volume of Southwell's English verse and some prose works, in a single hand but for one poem and some corrections in a second hand, 78 quarto leaves. c.1592-1609.

Bearing the childish signature of iereneme WalDegrave (? the future nun Dame Hieronima Waldegrave, c.1603-35) and once in the possession of the Waldegrave family of Essex.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Cited by editors as the Waldegrave MS. Described in McDonald, pp. 19-22, and in Brown, pp. xxxvii-xl. This MS probably to be identified as the lost Bury St Edmunds MS recorded in McDonald, pp. 25-7: see Brown, pp. xxxix-xl.

SoR 172

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of English poems and letters of Robert Southwell, largely in one neat small hand, together with sigs A-E (pp. 1-34) of a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, with other Poemes (London, 1595), vii + 80 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum stamped IHS. Early 17th century.

Inscribed names (f. 79v) Thomas Champney Book Anno: Domini 1677; (f. 78v) Mrs Mary Hooge Booke Anno Domini 1678; and (elsewhere) Katherine and Laurence Champney. 19th-century notes (ff. ii-vii) referring to this MS as The Woolhampton MS (? from Woolhampton, Berkshire). Later in the Virtue and Cahill Library, of the Catholic Cathedral of Portsmouth. Christie's, 5 July 1967, lot 190.

Generally cited as the Virtue and Cahill MS.

SoR 173

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of works by Robert Southwell, in an accomplished secretary hand, 110 leaves, some pages at the back partly torn away, in 19th-century half-morocco. Early 17th century.

Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, April 1836 (Heber sale), lot 1447.

SoR 174

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of poems by Robert Southwell, in a neat predominantly italic hand, with (f. 1*v) a list of contents, 1* + 43 leaves, in modern black morocco. 1620.

With a faded inscription (f. 57v) Charles Cauendish 1620 / Anno Dmi, 1620.

Cited in IELM, I.ii, as the Cavendish MS.

SoR 175

Copy, headed Diars fancie turned to a sinners complaint.

In: A small quarto composite volume of works chiefly by Southwell, comprising a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, With other Poems (London, 1595), vi + 56 pages, with minor MS corrections and marks, bound with an untitled MS of poems by Southwell and others, in one or possibly two neat italic hands, 88 leaves, formerly in contemporary calf, now in modern quarter-calf. Early 17th century.

Inscribed on the title-page E[x] L[ibris] J. Phillips 1774. Booklabel of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).

Cited by editors, and in IELM, I.ii, as the Harmsworth MS. Collated in Brown.

SoR 175.5

Copy.

In: Fragments of a small quarto miscellany of poems, chiefly by Robert Southwell (sixteen by him, probably copied from lost printed sources), in a single mixed Scottish hand, 36 pages (in present state).

Apparently compiled by one R. C. (possibly Robert Calder) for Sir Robert Gordon (1580-1656), Lord of Inverary and Gentleman of the Privy Chamber.

c.1610.

The MS pages used as binder's waste or even perhaps as a deliberate mode of secretion in a MS volume compiled by the schoolmaster and royal chaplain Alexander Ross (1591-1654), of Aberdeen. Later in the library of Andrew Fletcher (1653?-1716), of Saltoun, political theorist and book collector. H.P. Kraus, New York, sale catalogue No. 157 (1980), item 29. Sotheby's, 19 July 1994, lot 29 (with other MSS relating to the recusant Gordon family), to Quaritch.

The prodigall childs soule wracke
('Disankerd from a blisfull shore')

First published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 43-5.

SoR 176

Copy, in the hand of a second scribe responsible only for corrections elsewhere in the MS.

In: A volume of Southwell's English verse and some prose works, in a single hand but for one poem and some corrections in a second hand, 78 quarto leaves. c.1592-1609.

Bearing the childish signature of iereneme WalDegrave (? the future nun Dame Hieronima Waldegrave, c.1603-35) and once in the possession of the Waldegrave family of Essex.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Cited by editors as the Waldegrave MS. Described in McDonald, pp. 19-22, and in Brown, pp. xxxvii-xl. This MS probably to be identified as the lost Bury St Edmunds MS recorded in McDonald, pp. 25-7: see Brown, pp. xxxix-xl.

SoR 177

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of English poems and letters of Robert Southwell, largely in one neat small hand, together with sigs A-E (pp. 1-34) of a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, with other Poemes (London, 1595), vii + 80 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum stamped IHS. Early 17th century.

Inscribed names (f. 79v) Thomas Champney Book Anno: Domini 1677; (f. 78v) Mrs Mary Hooge Booke Anno Domini 1678; and (elsewhere) Katherine and Laurence Champney. 19th-century notes (ff. ii-vii) referring to this MS as The Woolhampton MS (? from Woolhampton, Berkshire). Later in the Virtue and Cahill Library, of the Catholic Cathedral of Portsmouth. Christie's, 5 July 1967, lot 190.

Generally cited as the Virtue and Cahill MS.

SoR 178

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of works by Robert Southwell, in an accomplished secretary hand, 110 leaves, some pages at the back partly torn away, in 19th-century half-morocco. Early 17th century.

Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, April 1836 (Heber sale), lot 1447.

SoR 179

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of poems by Robert Southwell, in a neat predominantly italic hand, with (f. 1*v) a list of contents, 1* + 43 leaves, in modern black morocco. 1620.

With a faded inscription (f. 57v) Charles Cauendish 1620 / Anno Dmi, 1620.

Cited in IELM, I.ii, as the Cavendish MS.

SoR 180

Copy.

In: A small quarto composite volume of works chiefly by Southwell, comprising a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, With other Poems (London, 1595), vi + 56 pages, with minor MS corrections and marks, bound with an untitled MS of poems by Southwell and others, in one or possibly two neat italic hands, 88 leaves, formerly in contemporary calf, now in modern quarter-calf. Early 17th century.

Inscribed on the title-page E[x] L[ibris] J. Phillips 1774. Booklabel of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).

Cited by editors, and in IELM, I.ii, as the Harmsworth MS. Collated in Brown.

SoR 181

Copy.

In: A long ledger-size miscellany of recusant verse and some prose, including 32 poems by Robert Southwell, largely in the single neat hand of Gertrude Thimelby (1617-68), a second hand on pp. 119-21, viii + 130 pages, some leaves partly torn away, in contemporary vellum. c.1651-7.

Associated with the Fairfax family of Wootton Wawen, Warwickshire, including Thomas Fairfax (d.1691), yeoman. Later inscribed with the name Harriet Marcusden. Sold by P.J. Dobell, 1948.

Discussed in Cedric C. Brown, Recusant Community and Jesuit Mission in Parliament Days: Bodleian MS Eng. poet. b. 5, Yearbook of English Studies, 23 (2003), 290-315.

SoR 182

Copy.

In: A miscellany, entitled a not-booke of divinity and honor military and civill, chiefly comprising 29 poems by Robert Southwell transcribed from printed sources, in the predominantly italic hand of Thomas Read, a student of Magdalen College, Oxford, 186 leaves, dated 1624. 1624.

Later in the collection of George Arents Jr (1875-1960), manufacturer.

This MS recorded in Brown, p. li, but not collated.

SoR 183

Copy, in Gertrude Thimelby's hand.

In: A quarto miscellany of recusant verse, many of the 65 poems relating to the circle of the Catholic Aston family, in three hands, 200 leaves (including five preliminary blanks, and ff. 53r-135v are blank), in contemporary leather gilt.

Compiled principally by Constance Fowler (d.1664), daughter of the diplomat Walter Aston, Baron Aston of Forfar (1584-1639), of Tixall and Colton, Staffordshire, her roman hand responsible for ff. 6r, 8r-15v, 24v-34v, 46v-52v, 136r-9r, 143v-59r, and 182v-95v. The second, predominantly secretary hand, responsible for fourteen poems on ff. 7r-v, 16r-24r, and 35r-46r, is that of Constance's sister Gertrude Thimelby (1617-68). The third hand, on ff. 196r-200v, is that of Constance's brother-in-law Sir William Pershall.

c.1635-50s.

William H. Robinson, sale catalogue (1925), item 472.

This volume discussed, with a complete first-line index and a facsimile of f. 25r, in Jenijoy La Belle, The Huntington Aston Manuscript, The Book Collector, 29 (Winter 1980), 542-67. See also Jenijoy La Belle, A True Love's Knot: The Letters of Constance Fowler and the Poems of Herbert Aston, JEGP, 79 (1980), 13-31. The complete volume edited in The Verse Miscellany of Constance Aston Fowler: A Diplomatic Edition, ed. Deborah Aldrich-Watson (Tempe, Arizona, 2000), with a facsimile of f. 28v on p. lxiv.

Aldrich-Watson, pp. 36-8.

S. Peters afflicted minde
('if that the sicke may grone')

First published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, p. 31.

SoR 184

Copy.

In: A volume of Southwell's English verse and some prose works, in a single hand but for one poem and some corrections in a second hand, 78 quarto leaves. c.1592-1609.

Bearing the childish signature of iereneme WalDegrave (? the future nun Dame Hieronima Waldegrave, c.1603-35) and once in the possession of the Waldegrave family of Essex.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Cited by editors as the Waldegrave MS. Described in McDonald, pp. 19-22, and in Brown, pp. xxxvii-xl. This MS probably to be identified as the lost Bury St Edmunds MS recorded in McDonald, pp. 25-7: see Brown, pp. xxxix-xl.

SoR 185

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of English poems and letters of Robert Southwell, largely in one neat small hand, together with sigs A-E (pp. 1-34) of a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, with other Poemes (London, 1595), vii + 80 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum stamped IHS. Early 17th century.

Inscribed names (f. 79v) Thomas Champney Book Anno: Domini 1677; (f. 78v) Mrs Mary Hooge Booke Anno Domini 1678; and (elsewhere) Katherine and Laurence Champney. 19th-century notes (ff. ii-vii) referring to this MS as The Woolhampton MS (? from Woolhampton, Berkshire). Later in the Virtue and Cahill Library, of the Catholic Cathedral of Portsmouth. Christie's, 5 July 1967, lot 190.

Generally cited as the Virtue and Cahill MS.

SoR 186

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of works by Robert Southwell, in an accomplished secretary hand, 110 leaves, some pages at the back partly torn away, in 19th-century half-morocco. Early 17th century.

Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, April 1836 (Heber sale), lot 1447.

SoR 187

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of poems by Robert Southwell, in a neat predominantly italic hand, with (f. 1*v) a list of contents, 1* + 43 leaves, in modern black morocco. 1620.

With a faded inscription (f. 57v) Charles Cauendish 1620 / Anno Dmi, 1620.

Cited in IELM, I.ii, as the Cavendish MS.

SoR 188

Copy.

In: A small quarto composite volume of works chiefly by Southwell, comprising a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, With other Poems (London, 1595), vi + 56 pages, with minor MS corrections and marks, bound with an untitled MS of poems by Southwell and others, in one or possibly two neat italic hands, 88 leaves, formerly in contemporary calf, now in modern quarter-calf. Early 17th century.

Inscribed on the title-page E[x] L[ibris] J. Phillips 1774. Booklabel of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).

Cited by editors, and in IELM, I.ii, as the Harmsworth MS. Collated in Brown.

SoR 189

Copy, headed A song called St. peters afficted minde.

In: A long ledger-size miscellany of recusant verse and some prose, including 32 poems by Robert Southwell, largely in the single neat hand of Gertrude Thimelby (1617-68), a second hand on pp. 119-21, viii + 130 pages, some leaves partly torn away, in contemporary vellum. c.1651-7.

Associated with the Fairfax family of Wootton Wawen, Warwickshire, including Thomas Fairfax (d.1691), yeoman. Later inscribed with the name Harriet Marcusden. Sold by P.J. Dobell, 1948.

Discussed in Cedric C. Brown, Recusant Community and Jesuit Mission in Parliament Days: Bodleian MS Eng. poet. b. 5, Yearbook of English Studies, 23 (2003), 290-315.

SoR 190

Copy.

In: A miscellany, entitled a not-booke of divinity and honor military and civill, chiefly comprising 29 poems by Robert Southwell transcribed from printed sources, in the predominantly italic hand of Thomas Read, a student of Magdalen College, Oxford, 186 leaves, dated 1624. 1624.

Later in the collection of George Arents Jr (1875-1960), manufacturer.

This MS recorded in Brown, p. li, but not collated.

Saint Peters Complaynte
('How can I live, that have my life deny'de?')

This version first published in McDonald (1937), pp. 141-3. Brown, pp. 29-31.

SoR 191

Copy.

In: A volume of Southwell's English verse and some prose works, in a single hand but for one poem and some corrections in a second hand, 78 quarto leaves. c.1592-1609.

Bearing the childish signature of iereneme WalDegrave (? the future nun Dame Hieronima Waldegrave, c.1603-35) and once in the possession of the Waldegrave family of Essex.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Cited by editors as the Waldegrave MS. Described in McDonald, pp. 19-22, and in Brown, pp. xxxvii-xl. This MS probably to be identified as the lost Bury St Edmunds MS recorded in McDonald, pp. 25-7: see Brown, pp. xxxix-xl.

Edited from this MS in McDonald and in Brown.

SoR 192

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of English poems and letters of Robert Southwell, largely in one neat small hand, together with sigs A-E (pp. 1-34) of a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, with other Poemes (London, 1595), vii + 80 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum stamped IHS. Early 17th century.

Inscribed names (f. 79v) Thomas Champney Book Anno: Domini 1677; (f. 78v) Mrs Mary Hooge Booke Anno Domini 1678; and (elsewhere) Katherine and Laurence Champney. 19th-century notes (ff. ii-vii) referring to this MS as The Woolhampton MS (? from Woolhampton, Berkshire). Later in the Virtue and Cahill Library, of the Catholic Cathedral of Portsmouth. Christie's, 5 July 1967, lot 190.

Generally cited as the Virtue and Cahill MS.

SoR 193

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of works by Robert Southwell, in an accomplished secretary hand, 110 leaves, some pages at the back partly torn away, in 19th-century half-morocco. Early 17th century.

Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, April 1836 (Heber sale), lot 1447.

SoR 194

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of poems by Robert Southwell, in a neat predominantly italic hand, with (f. 1*v) a list of contents, 1* + 43 leaves, in modern black morocco. 1620.

With a faded inscription (f. 57v) Charles Cauendish 1620 / Anno Dmi, 1620.

Cited in IELM, I.ii, as the Cavendish MS.

SoR 195

Copy of lines 5-72, untitled and here beginning O Sinne of sinnes, of evels the very woorst, on the final blank leaf of the printed work.

In: A small quarto composite volume of works chiefly by Southwell, comprising a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, With other Poems (London, 1595), vi + 56 pages, with minor MS corrections and marks, bound with an untitled MS of poems by Southwell and others, in one or possibly two neat italic hands, 88 leaves, formerly in contemporary calf, now in modern quarter-calf. Early 17th century.

Inscribed on the title-page E[x] L[ibris] J. Phillips 1774. Booklabel of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).

Cited by editors, and in IELM, I.ii, as the Harmsworth MS. Collated in Brown.

Edited from this MS in McDonald (1937), pp. 141-3, and in Brown, pp. 29-31.

Saint Peters Complaint
('Launche foorth my Soul into a maine of teares')

First published London, 1595. Brown, pp. 75-100.

SoR 196

Copy, complete with The Author to the Reader (beginning Deare eie that daynest to let fall a looke).

In: A quarto volume of works by Robert Southwell, in an accomplished secretary hand, 110 leaves, some pages at the back partly torn away, in 19th-century half-morocco. Early 17th century.

Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, April 1836 (Heber sale), lot 1447.

SoR 197

MS corrections in the printed text.

In: A small quarto composite volume of works chiefly by Southwell, comprising a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, With other Poems (London, 1595), vi + 56 pages, with minor MS corrections and marks, bound with an untitled MS of poems by Southwell and others, in one or possibly two neat italic hands, 88 leaves, formerly in contemporary calf, now in modern quarter-calf. Early 17th century.

Inscribed on the title-page E[x] L[ibris] J. Phillips 1774. Booklabel of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).

Cited by editors, and in IELM, I.ii, as the Harmsworth MS. Collated in Brown.

SoR 198

Copy, complete with The Author to the Reader.

In: A quarto miscellany of religious verse and prose, dedicated to Thomas Knyvett, including (pp. 90-3 passim) thirteen sonnets by William Alabaster headed Certaine of Arabasters his meditations. Anno 1597, compiled by Peter Mowle, of Attleborough, Norfolk, 179 leaves, in contemporary calf stamped P.M. c.1592-1606.

Inscribed Peter Mowld Junior oweth this Booke Witnesse Edmond Mould Anno 1605. Formerly MS E. 3. 11 (Shelf RNN3).

Described in McDonald, pp. 29-33. Discussed in Earle Havens, Notes from a Literary Underground: Recusant Catholics, Jesuit Priests, and Scribal Publication in Elizabethan England, PBSA, 99 (December 2005), 505-38 (p. 529 et seq.)

This MS collated in Brown.

SoR 198.5

Copy of six stanzas of the poem, untitled and beginning at line 637 (Ah Sinne, the nothing that doth all things fyle), followed by lines 703-4.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in an accomplished mixed hand throughout, with headings or incipts in engrossed lettering, 194 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco. c.1596-1601.

This MS volume discussed in Katherine K. Gottschalk, Discoveries concerning British Library MS Harley 6910, MP, 77 (1979-80), 121-31.

SoR 198.8

Copy of Part of St Peters Plaint, beginning at line 637 (here Ah sin ye nothing yt doth all things file; of hell).

In: An octavo miscellany of verse, prose and drama, written over a period in various hands, 179 leaves, in remains of contemporary calf. c.1620-late 17th century.

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.

SoR 199

Copy, with 12 lines of The Author to the Reader arranged in the sequence of lines 7, 9, 8, 10-12, 20-1, 23-4, 3-4 (beginning If equities even-hand the balance held).

In: A miscellany, entitled a not-booke of divinity and honor military and civill, chiefly comprising 29 poems by Robert Southwell transcribed from printed sources, in the predominantly italic hand of Thomas Read, a student of Magdalen College, Oxford, 186 leaves, dated 1624. 1624.

Later in the collection of George Arents Jr (1875-1960), manufacturer.

This MS recorded in Brown, p. li, but not collated.

S. Peters remorse
('Remorse upbraids my faults')

First published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 33-5.

SoR 200

Copy.

In: A volume of Southwell's English verse and some prose works, in a single hand but for one poem and some corrections in a second hand, 78 quarto leaves. c.1592-1609.

Bearing the childish signature of iereneme WalDegrave (? the future nun Dame Hieronima Waldegrave, c.1603-35) and once in the possession of the Waldegrave family of Essex.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Cited by editors as the Waldegrave MS. Described in McDonald, pp. 19-22, and in Brown, pp. xxxvii-xl. This MS probably to be identified as the lost Bury St Edmunds MS recorded in McDonald, pp. 25-7: see Brown, pp. xxxix-xl.

SoR 201

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of English poems and letters of Robert Southwell, largely in one neat small hand, together with sigs A-E (pp. 1-34) of a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, with other Poemes (London, 1595), vii + 80 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum stamped IHS. Early 17th century.

Inscribed names (f. 79v) Thomas Champney Book Anno: Domini 1677; (f. 78v) Mrs Mary Hooge Booke Anno Domini 1678; and (elsewhere) Katherine and Laurence Champney. 19th-century notes (ff. ii-vii) referring to this MS as The Woolhampton MS (? from Woolhampton, Berkshire). Later in the Virtue and Cahill Library, of the Catholic Cathedral of Portsmouth. Christie's, 5 July 1967, lot 190.

Generally cited as the Virtue and Cahill MS.

SoR 202

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of works by Robert Southwell, in an accomplished secretary hand, 110 leaves, some pages at the back partly torn away, in 19th-century half-morocco. Early 17th century.

Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, April 1836 (Heber sale), lot 1447.

SoR 203

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of poems by Robert Southwell, in a neat predominantly italic hand, with (f. 1*v) a list of contents, 1* + 43 leaves, in modern black morocco. 1620.

With a faded inscription (f. 57v) Charles Cauendish 1620 / Anno Dmi, 1620.

Cited in IELM, I.ii, as the Cavendish MS.

SoR 204

Copy.

In: A small quarto composite volume of works chiefly by Southwell, comprising a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, With other Poems (London, 1595), vi + 56 pages, with minor MS corrections and marks, bound with an untitled MS of poems by Southwell and others, in one or possibly two neat italic hands, 88 leaves, formerly in contemporary calf, now in modern quarter-calf. Early 17th century.

Inscribed on the title-page E[x] L[ibris] J. Phillips 1774. Booklabel of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).

Cited by editors, and in IELM, I.ii, as the Harmsworth MS. Collated in Brown.

SoR 205

Copy.

In: A miscellany, entitled a not-booke of divinity and honor military and civill, chiefly comprising 29 poems by Robert Southwell transcribed from printed sources, in the predominantly italic hand of Thomas Read, a student of Magdalen College, Oxford, 186 leaves, dated 1624. 1624.

Later in the collection of George Arents Jr (1875-1960), manufacturer.

This MS recorded in Brown, p. li, but not collated.

Scorne not the least
('Where wards are weake, and foes encountring strong')

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 69-70.

SoR 206

Copy.

In: A volume of Southwell's English verse and some prose works, in a single hand but for one poem and some corrections in a second hand, 78 quarto leaves. c.1592-1609.

Bearing the childish signature of iereneme WalDegrave (? the future nun Dame Hieronima Waldegrave, c.1603-35) and once in the possession of the Waldegrave family of Essex.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Cited by editors as the Waldegrave MS. Described in McDonald, pp. 19-22, and in Brown, pp. xxxvii-xl. This MS probably to be identified as the lost Bury St Edmunds MS recorded in McDonald, pp. 25-7: see Brown, pp. xxxix-xl.

SoR 207

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of English poems and letters of Robert Southwell, largely in one neat small hand, together with sigs A-E (pp. 1-34) of a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, with other Poemes (London, 1595), vii + 80 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum stamped IHS. Early 17th century.

Inscribed names (f. 79v) Thomas Champney Book Anno: Domini 1677; (f. 78v) Mrs Mary Hooge Booke Anno Domini 1678; and (elsewhere) Katherine and Laurence Champney. 19th-century notes (ff. ii-vii) referring to this MS as The Woolhampton MS (? from Woolhampton, Berkshire). Later in the Virtue and Cahill Library, of the Catholic Cathedral of Portsmouth. Christie's, 5 July 1967, lot 190.

Generally cited as the Virtue and Cahill MS.

SoR 208

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of works by Robert Southwell, in an accomplished secretary hand, 110 leaves, some pages at the back partly torn away, in 19th-century half-morocco. Early 17th century.

Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, April 1836 (Heber sale), lot 1447.

SoR 209

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of poems by Robert Southwell, in a neat predominantly italic hand, with (f. 1*v) a list of contents, 1* + 43 leaves, in modern black morocco. 1620.

With a faded inscription (f. 57v) Charles Cauendish 1620 / Anno Dmi, 1620.

Cited in IELM, I.ii, as the Cavendish MS.

SoR 210

Three MS corrections in the printed text.

In: A small quarto composite volume of works chiefly by Southwell, comprising a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, With other Poems (London, 1595), vi + 56 pages, with minor MS corrections and marks, bound with an untitled MS of poems by Southwell and others, in one or possibly two neat italic hands, 88 leaves, formerly in contemporary calf, now in modern quarter-calf. Early 17th century.

Inscribed on the title-page E[x] L[ibris] J. Phillips 1774. Booklabel of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).

Cited by editors, and in IELM, I.ii, as the Harmsworth MS. Collated in Brown.

SoR 210.3

Copy.

In: Fragments of a small quarto miscellany of poems, chiefly by Robert Southwell (sixteen by him, probably copied from lost printed sources), in a single mixed Scottish hand, 36 pages (in present state).

Apparently compiled by one R. C. (possibly Robert Calder) for Sir Robert Gordon (1580-1656), Lord of Inverary and Gentleman of the Privy Chamber.

c.1610.

The MS pages used as binder's waste or even perhaps as a deliberate mode of secretion in a MS volume compiled by the schoolmaster and royal chaplain Alexander Ross (1591-1654), of Aberdeen. Later in the library of Andrew Fletcher (1653?-1716), of Saltoun, political theorist and book collector. H.P. Kraus, New York, sale catalogue No. 157 (1980), item 29. Sotheby's, 19 July 1994, lot 29 (with other MSS relating to the recusant Gordon family), to Quaritch.

SoR 210.6

Copy.

In: An octavo miscellany of verse, prose and drama, written over a period in various hands, 179 leaves, in remains of contemporary calf. c.1620-late 17th century.

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.

SoR 210.8

Copy of the last two lines, untitled and here beginning We trample grass & prize ye flowers of [May].

In: An octavo miscellany of verse, prose and drama, written over a period in various hands, 179 leaves, in remains of contemporary calf. c.1620-late 17th century.

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.

SoR 211

Copy.

In: A miscellany, entitled a not-booke of divinity and honor military and civill, chiefly comprising 29 poems by Robert Southwell transcribed from printed sources, in the predominantly italic hand of Thomas Read, a student of Magdalen College, Oxford, 186 leaves, dated 1624. 1624.

Later in the collection of George Arents Jr (1875-1960), manufacturer.

This MS recorded in Brown, p. li, but not collated.

SoR 212

Copy of lines 1-18.

In: A duodecimo miscellany of verse and some prose, in one or possibly two hands, in varying secretary and italic scripts, 107 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

Compiled by someone probably connected with the Royal Court.

c.1605.

Owned in 1845 by James Orchard Halliwell[-Phillipps] (1820-89), with his inscription of Andrews Bristol 1845 at the enormous Price of 6.6.0. Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Bliss sale, 21 August 1858, lot 189.

This MS recorded in Brown, p. 152. See also SoR 241.

SoR 213

Copy, untitled.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in an accomplished mixed hand throughout, with headings or incipts in engrossed lettering, 194 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco. c.1596-1601.

This MS volume discussed in Katherine K. Gottschalk, Discoveries concerning British Library MS Harley 6910, MP, 77 (1979-80), 121-31.

This MS recorded in Brown, p. 152.

Seeke flowers of heaven
('Soare up my soule unto thy rest')

First published in Moeoniae, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, p. 52.

SoR 214

Copy.

In: A volume of Southwell's English verse and some prose works, in a single hand but for one poem and some corrections in a second hand, 78 quarto leaves. c.1592-1609.

Bearing the childish signature of iereneme WalDegrave (? the future nun Dame Hieronima Waldegrave, c.1603-35) and once in the possession of the Waldegrave family of Essex.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Cited by editors as the Waldegrave MS. Described in McDonald, pp. 19-22, and in Brown, pp. xxxvii-xl. This MS probably to be identified as the lost Bury St Edmunds MS recorded in McDonald, pp. 25-7: see Brown, pp. xxxix-xl.

SoR 215

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of English poems and letters of Robert Southwell, largely in one neat small hand, together with sigs A-E (pp. 1-34) of a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, with other Poemes (London, 1595), vii + 80 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum stamped IHS. Early 17th century.

Inscribed names (f. 79v) Thomas Champney Book Anno: Domini 1677; (f. 78v) Mrs Mary Hooge Booke Anno Domini 1678; and (elsewhere) Katherine and Laurence Champney. 19th-century notes (ff. ii-vii) referring to this MS as The Woolhampton MS (? from Woolhampton, Berkshire). Later in the Virtue and Cahill Library, of the Catholic Cathedral of Portsmouth. Christie's, 5 July 1967, lot 190.

Generally cited as the Virtue and Cahill MS.

SoR 216

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of works by Robert Southwell, in an accomplished secretary hand, 110 leaves, some pages at the back partly torn away, in 19th-century half-morocco. Early 17th century.

Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, April 1836 (Heber sale), lot 1447.

SoR 217

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of poems by Robert Southwell, in a neat predominantly italic hand, with (f. 1*v) a list of contents, 1* + 43 leaves, in modern black morocco. 1620.

With a faded inscription (f. 57v) Charles Cauendish 1620 / Anno Dmi, 1620.

Cited in IELM, I.ii, as the Cavendish MS.

SoR 218

Copy.

In: A small quarto composite volume of works chiefly by Southwell, comprising a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, With other Poems (London, 1595), vi + 56 pages, with minor MS corrections and marks, bound with an untitled MS of poems by Southwell and others, in one or possibly two neat italic hands, 88 leaves, formerly in contemporary calf, now in modern quarter-calf. Early 17th century.

Inscribed on the title-page E[x] L[ibris] J. Phillips 1774. Booklabel of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).

Cited by editors, and in IELM, I.ii, as the Harmsworth MS. Collated in Brown.

SoR 219

Copy.

In: A long ledger-size miscellany of recusant verse and some prose, including 32 poems by Robert Southwell, largely in the single neat hand of Gertrude Thimelby (1617-68), a second hand on pp. 119-21, viii + 130 pages, some leaves partly torn away, in contemporary vellum. c.1651-7.

Associated with the Fairfax family of Wootton Wawen, Warwickshire, including Thomas Fairfax (d.1691), yeoman. Later inscribed with the name Harriet Marcusden. Sold by P.J. Dobell, 1948.

Discussed in Cedric C. Brown, Recusant Community and Jesuit Mission in Parliament Days: Bodleian MS Eng. poet. b. 5, Yearbook of English Studies, 23 (2003), 290-315.

SoR 220

Copy.

In: A miscellany, entitled a not-booke of divinity and honor military and civill, chiefly comprising 29 poems by Robert Southwell transcribed from printed sources, in the predominantly italic hand of Thomas Read, a student of Magdalen College, Oxford, 186 leaves, dated 1624. 1624.

Later in the collection of George Arents Jr (1875-1960), manufacturer.

This MS recorded in Brown, p. li, but not collated.

The Sequence on the Virgin Mary and Christ
('Our second Eve puts on her mortall shroude')

Poems vi & xii first published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Poems i-v, vii-xi first published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Poems xiii & xiv first published in The Poetical Works of the Rev. Robert Southwell, ed. W.B. Turnbull (London, 1856). Brown, pp. 3-12.

SoR 221

Copy of the sequence of fourteen poems.

In: A volume of Southwell's English verse and some prose works, in a single hand but for one poem and some corrections in a second hand, 78 quarto leaves. c.1592-1609.

Bearing the childish signature of iereneme WalDegrave (? the future nun Dame Hieronima Waldegrave, c.1603-35) and once in the possession of the Waldegrave family of Essex.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Cited by editors as the Waldegrave MS. Described in McDonald, pp. 19-22, and in Brown, pp. xxxvii-xl. This MS probably to be identified as the lost Bury St Edmunds MS recorded in McDonald, pp. 25-7: see Brown, pp. xxxix-xl.

SoR 222

Copy of the sequence of fourteen poems, with no general heading, the first poem headed The conception of our blessed Lady.

In: A quarto volume of English poems and letters of Robert Southwell, largely in one neat small hand, together with sigs A-E (pp. 1-34) of a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, with other Poemes (London, 1595), vii + 80 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum stamped IHS. Early 17th century.

Inscribed names (f. 79v) Thomas Champney Book Anno: Domini 1677; (f. 78v) Mrs Mary Hooge Booke Anno Domini 1678; and (elsewhere) Katherine and Laurence Champney. 19th-century notes (ff. ii-vii) referring to this MS as The Woolhampton MS (? from Woolhampton, Berkshire). Later in the Virtue and Cahill Library, of the Catholic Cathedral of Portsmouth. Christie's, 5 July 1967, lot 190.

Generally cited as the Virtue and Cahill MS.

SoR 223

Copy of a sequence of fourteen poems, imperfect.

In: A quarto volume of works by Robert Southwell, in an accomplished secretary hand, 110 leaves, some pages at the back partly torn away, in 19th-century half-morocco. Early 17th century.

Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, April 1836 (Heber sale), lot 1447.

Poems xiii & xiv edited from this MS in Turnbull.

SoR 224

Copy of the sequence of fourteen poems.

In: A quarto volume of poems by Robert Southwell, in a neat predominantly italic hand, with (f. 1*v) a list of contents, 1* + 43 leaves, in modern black morocco. 1620.

With a faded inscription (f. 57v) Charles Cauendish 1620 / Anno Dmi, 1620.

Cited in IELM, I.ii, as the Cavendish MS.

SoR 225

Copy of the sequence of fourteen poems.

In: A small quarto composite volume of works chiefly by Southwell, comprising a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, With other Poems (London, 1595), vi + 56 pages, with minor MS corrections and marks, bound with an untitled MS of poems by Southwell and others, in one or possibly two neat italic hands, 88 leaves, formerly in contemporary calf, now in modern quarter-calf. Early 17th century.

Inscribed on the title-page E[x] L[ibris] J. Phillips 1774. Booklabel of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).

Cited by editors, and in IELM, I.ii, as the Harmsworth MS. Collated in Brown.

SoR 226

Copy of the sequence of fourteen poems, beginning with A meditation on ye Conception of or Blessed lady: St mary the virgin.

In: A long ledger-size miscellany of recusant verse and some prose, including 32 poems by Robert Southwell, largely in the single neat hand of Gertrude Thimelby (1617-68), a second hand on pp. 119-21, viii + 130 pages, some leaves partly torn away, in contemporary vellum. c.1651-7.

Associated with the Fairfax family of Wootton Wawen, Warwickshire, including Thomas Fairfax (d.1691), yeoman. Later inscribed with the name Harriet Marcusden. Sold by P.J. Dobell, 1948.

Discussed in Cedric C. Brown, Recusant Community and Jesuit Mission in Parliament Days: Bodleian MS Eng. poet. b. 5, Yearbook of English Studies, 23 (2003), 290-315.

SoR 227

Copy of poems i-xii.

In: A miscellany, entitled a not-booke of divinity and honor military and civill, chiefly comprising 29 poems by Robert Southwell transcribed from printed sources, in the predominantly italic hand of Thomas Read, a student of Magdalen College, Oxford, 186 leaves, dated 1624. 1624.

Later in the collection of George Arents Jr (1875-1960), manufacturer.

This MS recorded in Brown, p. li, but not collated.

The Sequence on the Virgin Mary and Christ, vi. The Nativitie of Christ
('Beholde the father, is his daughters sonne')

Brown, pp. 6-7.

SoR 228

Copy of lines 1-4, headed Upon Christ.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single small neat predominantly secretary hand but for additions in a second hand on ff. 35v and 58r, compiled by an Oxford man, possibly a member of Wadham College, 97 leaves (inclusing two blanks), in half-calf.

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).

c.late 1630s.

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.

This MS not recorded in Brown.

SoR 229

Copy.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, made up from a larger book, 184 leaves, stubs of some excised leaves, in green boards.

Compiled by John Ramsay (b.1578), of Peterhouse, Cambridge, and the Middle Temple.

c.1596-1633.

Name (inscribed several times) of Thomas Russell. Given in 1724 by Robert Cook of Bokenham to Francis Blomefield (1705-52), Norfolk topographer, and with Blomefield's bookplate, 1736. Among the collections of Francis Douce (1757-1834), antiquary and collector.

SoR 230

Copy of lines 1-4, under a general running head Help to discourse and headed Q[uestion]. Wt Issue was yt wch was older then his mother? A[nswer]. Christ: to wch purpose ye Poet wittily followeth it:.

In: A duodecimo commonplace book of extracts, in English and Latin, written from both ends, 60 leaves, disbound.

Owned and probably compiled by John Abbott (b.1653/4), of St John's College, Oxford.

c.1670s.
SoR 230.5

Copy.

In: Fragments of a small quarto miscellany of poems, chiefly by Robert Southwell (sixteen by him, probably copied from lost printed sources), in a single mixed Scottish hand, 36 pages (in present state).

Apparently compiled by one R. C. (possibly Robert Calder) for Sir Robert Gordon (1580-1656), Lord of Inverary and Gentleman of the Privy Chamber.

c.1610.

The MS pages used as binder's waste or even perhaps as a deliberate mode of secretion in a MS volume compiled by the schoolmaster and royal chaplain Alexander Ross (1591-1654), of Aberdeen. Later in the library of Andrew Fletcher (1653?-1716), of Saltoun, political theorist and book collector. H.P. Kraus, New York, sale catalogue No. 157 (1980), item 29. Sotheby's, 19 July 1994, lot 29 (with other MSS relating to the recusant Gordon family), to Quaritch.

SoR 230.8

Copy.

In: Fragments of a small quarto miscellany of poems, chiefly by Robert Southwell (sixteen by him, probably copied from lost printed sources), in a single mixed Scottish hand, 36 pages (in present state).

Apparently compiled by one R. C. (possibly Robert Calder) for Sir Robert Gordon (1580-1656), Lord of Inverary and Gentleman of the Privy Chamber.

c.1610.

The MS pages used as binder's waste or even perhaps as a deliberate mode of secretion in a MS volume compiled by the schoolmaster and royal chaplain Alexander Ross (1591-1654), of Aberdeen. Later in the library of Andrew Fletcher (1653?-1716), of Saltoun, political theorist and book collector. H.P. Kraus, New York, sale catalogue No. 157 (1980), item 29. Sotheby's, 19 July 1994, lot 29 (with other MSS relating to the recusant Gordon family), to Quaritch.

Sinnes heavie loade
('O Lord my sinne doth over-charge thy brest')

First published in Saint Peters Complaint (London, 1602). Brown, pp. 17-18.

SoR 231

Copy.

In: A volume of Southwell's English verse and some prose works, in a single hand but for one poem and some corrections in a second hand, 78 quarto leaves. c.1592-1609.

Bearing the childish signature of iereneme WalDegrave (? the future nun Dame Hieronima Waldegrave, c.1603-35) and once in the possession of the Waldegrave family of Essex.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Cited by editors as the Waldegrave MS. Described in McDonald, pp. 19-22, and in Brown, pp. xxxvii-xl. This MS probably to be identified as the lost Bury St Edmunds MS recorded in McDonald, pp. 25-7: see Brown, pp. xxxix-xl.

SoR 232

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of English poems and letters of Robert Southwell, largely in one neat small hand, together with sigs A-E (pp. 1-34) of a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, with other Poemes (London, 1595), vii + 80 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum stamped IHS. Early 17th century.

Inscribed names (f. 79v) Thomas Champney Book Anno: Domini 1677; (f. 78v) Mrs Mary Hooge Booke Anno Domini 1678; and (elsewhere) Katherine and Laurence Champney. 19th-century notes (ff. ii-vii) referring to this MS as The Woolhampton MS (? from Woolhampton, Berkshire). Later in the Virtue and Cahill Library, of the Catholic Cathedral of Portsmouth. Christie's, 5 July 1967, lot 190.

Generally cited as the Virtue and Cahill MS.

SoR 233

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of works by Robert Southwell, in an accomplished secretary hand, 110 leaves, some pages at the back partly torn away, in 19th-century half-morocco. Early 17th century.

Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, April 1836 (Heber sale), lot 1447.

SoR 234

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of poems by Robert Southwell, in a neat predominantly italic hand, with (f. 1*v) a list of contents, 1* + 43 leaves, in modern black morocco. 1620.

With a faded inscription (f. 57v) Charles Cauendish 1620 / Anno Dmi, 1620.

Cited in IELM, I.ii, as the Cavendish MS.

SoR 235

Copy.

In: A small quarto composite volume of works chiefly by Southwell, comprising a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, With other Poems (London, 1595), vi + 56 pages, with minor MS corrections and marks, bound with an untitled MS of poems by Southwell and others, in one or possibly two neat italic hands, 88 leaves, formerly in contemporary calf, now in modern quarter-calf. Early 17th century.

Inscribed on the title-page E[x] L[ibris] J. Phillips 1774. Booklabel of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).

Cited by editors, and in IELM, I.ii, as the Harmsworth MS. Collated in Brown.

SoR 235.5
In: Fragments of a small quarto miscellany of poems, chiefly by Robert Southwell (sixteen by him, probably copied from lost printed sources), in a single mixed Scottish hand, 36 pages (in present state).

Apparently compiled by one R. C. (possibly Robert Calder) for Sir Robert Gordon (1580-1656), Lord of Inverary and Gentleman of the Privy Chamber.

c.1610.

The MS pages used as binder's waste or even perhaps as a deliberate mode of secretion in a MS volume compiled by the schoolmaster and royal chaplain Alexander Ross (1591-1654), of Aberdeen. Later in the library of Andrew Fletcher (1653?-1716), of Saltoun, political theorist and book collector. H.P. Kraus, New York, sale catalogue No. 157 (1980), item 29. Sotheby's, 19 July 1994, lot 29 (with other MSS relating to the recusant Gordon family), to Quaritch.

'The shippe that fro the port dothe sayle'

First published in McDonald (1937), p. 159.

*SoR 236

Autograph fragment, comprising seven lines of verse (with revisions) preceded by the words I goe…Amemmon, on a single leaf also containing a transcript in a later hand.

In: A quarto composite volume of Robert Southwell's autograph papers, in various paper sizes, 64 leaves, in modern binding. c.1580.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Described in McDonald, pp. 12-14.

Edited from this MS in McDonald.

Time goe by turnes
('The lopped tree in time may grow againe')

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 57-8.

SoR 237

Copy.

In: A volume of Southwell's English verse and some prose works, in a single hand but for one poem and some corrections in a second hand, 78 quarto leaves. c.1592-1609.

Bearing the childish signature of iereneme WalDegrave (? the future nun Dame Hieronima Waldegrave, c.1603-35) and once in the possession of the Waldegrave family of Essex.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Cited by editors as the Waldegrave MS. Described in McDonald, pp. 19-22, and in Brown, pp. xxxvii-xl. This MS probably to be identified as the lost Bury St Edmunds MS recorded in McDonald, pp. 25-7: see Brown, pp. xxxix-xl.

SoR 237.5

Copy.

In: A quarto miscellany, in one or possibly two hands, one of which may be Sir Charles Calthorpe (d.1616), judge and Attorney-General of ireland, 279 leaves, imperfect. c.1600.
SoR 238

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of English poems and letters of Robert Southwell, largely in one neat small hand, together with sigs A-E (pp. 1-34) of a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, with other Poemes (London, 1595), vii + 80 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum stamped IHS. Early 17th century.

Inscribed names (f. 79v) Thomas Champney Book Anno: Domini 1677; (f. 78v) Mrs Mary Hooge Booke Anno Domini 1678; and (elsewhere) Katherine and Laurence Champney. 19th-century notes (ff. ii-vii) referring to this MS as The Woolhampton MS (? from Woolhampton, Berkshire). Later in the Virtue and Cahill Library, of the Catholic Cathedral of Portsmouth. Christie's, 5 July 1967, lot 190.

Generally cited as the Virtue and Cahill MS.

SoR 239

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of works by Robert Southwell, in an accomplished secretary hand, 110 leaves, some pages at the back partly torn away, in 19th-century half-morocco. Early 17th century.

Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, April 1836 (Heber sale), lot 1447.

SoR 240

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of poems by Robert Southwell, in a neat predominantly italic hand, with (f. 1*v) a list of contents, 1* + 43 leaves, in modern black morocco. 1620.

With a faded inscription (f. 57v) Charles Cauendish 1620 / Anno Dmi, 1620.

Cited in IELM, I.ii, as the Cavendish MS.

SoR 241

Copy of lines 7-12, untitled, beginning The sea of fortune doth not ever flowe, added as the concluding stanza to a copy of the first three stanzas of Scorne not the least (SoR 212).

In: A duodecimo miscellany of verse and some prose, in one or possibly two hands, in varying secretary and italic scripts, 107 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

Compiled by someone probably connected with the Royal Court.

c.1605.

Owned in 1845 by James Orchard Halliwell[-Phillipps] (1820-89), with his inscription of Andrews Bristol 1845 at the enormous Price of 6.6.0. Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Bliss sale, 21 August 1858, lot 189.

This MS recorded in Brown, p. 146.

SoR 242

Copy, untitled.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in an accomplished mixed hand throughout, with headings or incipts in engrossed lettering, 194 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco. c.1596-1601.

This MS volume discussed in Katherine K. Gottschalk, Discoveries concerning British Library MS Harley 6910, MP, 77 (1979-80), 121-31.

This MS recorded in Brown, p. 146.

SoR 242.5

Copy.

In: An octavo miscellany of verse, prose and drama, written over a period in various hands, 179 leaves, in remains of contemporary calf. c.1620-late 17th century.

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.

SoR 242.8

Copy of the last two lines, untitled and beginning Unmedled joys here to no man befall.

In: An octavo miscellany of verse, prose and drama, written over a period in various hands, 179 leaves, in remains of contemporary calf. c.1620-late 17th century.

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.

To the Reader
('Deare eye that doest peruse my muses style')

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, p. 2.

SoR 243

Copy.

In: A volume of Southwell's English verse and some prose works, in a single hand but for one poem and some corrections in a second hand, 78 quarto leaves. c.1592-1609.

Bearing the childish signature of iereneme WalDegrave (? the future nun Dame Hieronima Waldegrave, c.1603-35) and once in the possession of the Waldegrave family of Essex.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Cited by editors as the Waldegrave MS. Described in McDonald, pp. 19-22, and in Brown, pp. xxxvii-xl. This MS probably to be identified as the lost Bury St Edmunds MS recorded in McDonald, pp. 25-7: see Brown, pp. xxxix-xl.

SoR 244

Copy, imperfect.

In: A quarto volume of works by Robert Southwell, in an accomplished secretary hand, 110 leaves, some pages at the back partly torn away, in 19th-century half-morocco. Early 17th century.

Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, April 1836 (Heber sale), lot 1447.

SoR 245

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of poems by Robert Southwell, in a neat predominantly italic hand, with (f. 1*v) a list of contents, 1* + 43 leaves, in modern black morocco. 1620.

With a faded inscription (f. 57v) Charles Cauendish 1620 / Anno Dmi, 1620.

Cited in IELM, I.ii, as the Cavendish MS.

SoR 246

Minor MS corrections in the printed text.

In: A small quarto composite volume of works chiefly by Southwell, comprising a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, With other Poems (London, 1595), vi + 56 pages, with minor MS corrections and marks, bound with an untitled MS of poems by Southwell and others, in one or possibly two neat italic hands, 88 leaves, formerly in contemporary calf, now in modern quarter-calf. Early 17th century.

Inscribed on the title-page E[x] L[ibris] J. Phillips 1774. Booklabel of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).

Cited by editors, and in IELM, I.ii, as the Harmsworth MS. Collated in Brown.

SoR 247

Copy, imperfect.

In: A long ledger-size miscellany of recusant verse and some prose, including 32 poems by Robert Southwell, largely in the single neat hand of Gertrude Thimelby (1617-68), a second hand on pp. 119-21, viii + 130 pages, some leaves partly torn away, in contemporary vellum. c.1651-7.

Associated with the Fairfax family of Wootton Wawen, Warwickshire, including Thomas Fairfax (d.1691), yeoman. Later inscribed with the name Harriet Marcusden. Sold by P.J. Dobell, 1948.

Discussed in Cedric C. Brown, Recusant Community and Jesuit Mission in Parliament Days: Bodleian MS Eng. poet. b. 5, Yearbook of English Studies, 23 (2003), 290-315.

SoR 248

Copy of lines 3-10, 17-18, beginning Give sobrest countnance leave sometime to smyle.

In: A miscellany, entitled a not-booke of divinity and honor military and civill, chiefly comprising 29 poems by Robert Southwell transcribed from printed sources, in the predominantly italic hand of Thomas Read, a student of Magdalen College, Oxford, 186 leaves, dated 1624. 1624.

Later in the collection of George Arents Jr (1875-1960), manufacturer.

This MS recorded in Brown, p. li, but not collated.

A vale of teares
('A vale there is enwrapt with dreadfull shades')

First published in Moeoniae, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 41-3.

SoR 249

Copy.

In: A volume of Southwell's English verse and some prose works, in a single hand but for one poem and some corrections in a second hand, 78 quarto leaves. c.1592-1609.

Bearing the childish signature of iereneme WalDegrave (? the future nun Dame Hieronima Waldegrave, c.1603-35) and once in the possession of the Waldegrave family of Essex.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Cited by editors as the Waldegrave MS. Described in McDonald, pp. 19-22, and in Brown, pp. xxxvii-xl. This MS probably to be identified as the lost Bury St Edmunds MS recorded in McDonald, pp. 25-7: see Brown, pp. xxxix-xl.

SoR 250

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of English poems and letters of Robert Southwell, largely in one neat small hand, together with sigs A-E (pp. 1-34) of a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, with other Poemes (London, 1595), vii + 80 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum stamped IHS. Early 17th century.

Inscribed names (f. 79v) Thomas Champney Book Anno: Domini 1677; (f. 78v) Mrs Mary Hooge Booke Anno Domini 1678; and (elsewhere) Katherine and Laurence Champney. 19th-century notes (ff. ii-vii) referring to this MS as The Woolhampton MS (? from Woolhampton, Berkshire). Later in the Virtue and Cahill Library, of the Catholic Cathedral of Portsmouth. Christie's, 5 July 1967, lot 190.

Generally cited as the Virtue and Cahill MS.

SoR 251

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of works by Robert Southwell, in an accomplished secretary hand, 110 leaves, some pages at the back partly torn away, in 19th-century half-morocco. Early 17th century.

Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, April 1836 (Heber sale), lot 1447.

SoR 252

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of poems by Robert Southwell, in a neat predominantly italic hand, with (f. 1*v) a list of contents, 1* + 43 leaves, in modern black morocco. 1620.

With a faded inscription (f. 57v) Charles Cauendish 1620 / Anno Dmi, 1620.

Cited in IELM, I.ii, as the Cavendish MS.

SoR 253

Copy.

In: A small quarto composite volume of works chiefly by Southwell, comprising a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, With other Poems (London, 1595), vi + 56 pages, with minor MS corrections and marks, bound with an untitled MS of poems by Southwell and others, in one or possibly two neat italic hands, 88 leaves, formerly in contemporary calf, now in modern quarter-calf. Early 17th century.

Inscribed on the title-page E[x] L[ibris] J. Phillips 1774. Booklabel of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).

Cited by editors, and in IELM, I.ii, as the Harmsworth MS. Collated in Brown.

SoR 254

Copy.

In: A miscellany, entitled a not-booke of divinity and honor military and civill, chiefly comprising 29 poems by Robert Southwell transcribed from printed sources, in the predominantly italic hand of Thomas Read, a student of Magdalen College, Oxford, 186 leaves, dated 1624. 1624.

Later in the collection of George Arents Jr (1875-1960), manufacturer.

This MS recorded in Brown, p. li, but not collated.

The Virgins salutation
('Spell Eva backe and Ave shall you finde')

First published in Moeoniae, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, p. 5 (a doubtful version also on p. 117).

SoR 254.5

Copy.

In: A quarto miscellany, in one or possibly two hands, one of which may be Sir Charles Calthorpe (d.1616), judge and Attorney-General of ireland, 279 leaves, imperfect. c.1600.
What joy to live?
('I wage no warre yet peace I none enjoy')

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 53-4.

SoR 255

Copy.

In: A volume of Southwell's English verse and some prose works, in a single hand but for one poem and some corrections in a second hand, 78 quarto leaves. c.1592-1609.

Bearing the childish signature of iereneme WalDegrave (? the future nun Dame Hieronima Waldegrave, c.1603-35) and once in the possession of the Waldegrave family of Essex.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Cited by editors as the Waldegrave MS. Described in McDonald, pp. 19-22, and in Brown, pp. xxxvii-xl. This MS probably to be identified as the lost Bury St Edmunds MS recorded in McDonald, pp. 25-7: see Brown, pp. xxxix-xl.

SoR 255.5

Copy.

In: A quarto miscellany, in one or possibly two hands, one of which may be Sir Charles Calthorpe (d.1616), judge and Attorney-General of ireland, 279 leaves, imperfect. c.1600.
SoR 256

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of English poems and letters of Robert Southwell, largely in one neat small hand, together with sigs A-E (pp. 1-34) of a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, with other Poemes (London, 1595), vii + 80 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum stamped IHS. Early 17th century.

Inscribed names (f. 79v) Thomas Champney Book Anno: Domini 1677; (f. 78v) Mrs Mary Hooge Booke Anno Domini 1678; and (elsewhere) Katherine and Laurence Champney. 19th-century notes (ff. ii-vii) referring to this MS as The Woolhampton MS (? from Woolhampton, Berkshire). Later in the Virtue and Cahill Library, of the Catholic Cathedral of Portsmouth. Christie's, 5 July 1967, lot 190.

Generally cited as the Virtue and Cahill MS.

SoR 257

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of works by Robert Southwell, in an accomplished secretary hand, 110 leaves, some pages at the back partly torn away, in 19th-century half-morocco. Early 17th century.

Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, April 1836 (Heber sale), lot 1447.

SoR 258

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of poems by Robert Southwell, in a neat predominantly italic hand, with (f. 1*v) a list of contents, 1* + 43 leaves, in modern black morocco. 1620.

With a faded inscription (f. 57v) Charles Cauendish 1620 / Anno Dmi, 1620.

Cited in IELM, I.ii, as the Cavendish MS.

SoR 259

Copy.

In: A small quarto composite volume of works chiefly by Southwell, comprising a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, With other Poems (London, 1595), vi + 56 pages, with minor MS corrections and marks, bound with an untitled MS of poems by Southwell and others, in one or possibly two neat italic hands, 88 leaves, formerly in contemporary calf, now in modern quarter-calf. Early 17th century.

Inscribed on the title-page E[x] L[ibris] J. Phillips 1774. Booklabel of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).

Cited by editors, and in IELM, I.ii, as the Harmsworth MS. Collated in Brown.

SoR 260

Copy.

In: A miscellany, entitled a not-booke of divinity and honor military and civill, chiefly comprising 29 poems by Robert Southwell transcribed from printed sources, in the predominantly italic hand of Thomas Read, a student of Magdalen College, Oxford, 186 leaves, dated 1624. 1624.

Later in the collection of George Arents Jr (1875-1960), manufacturer.

This MS recorded in Brown, p. li, but not collated.

(2) English Poems of Doubtful or Spurious Authorship

The Annuntiation altered from that before
('Spel Eva backe, and Ave shall you find')

First published in McDonald (1937), pp. 57-8. Brown, p. 117.

SoR 261

Copy.

In: A small quarto composite volume of works chiefly by Southwell, comprising a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, With other Poems (London, 1595), vi + 56 pages, with minor MS corrections and marks, bound with an untitled MS of poems by Southwell and others, in one or possibly two neat italic hands, 88 leaves, formerly in contemporary calf, now in modern quarter-calf. Early 17th century.

Inscribed on the title-page E[x] L[ibris] J. Phillips 1774. Booklabel of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).

Cited by editors, and in IELM, I.ii, as the Harmsworth MS. Collated in Brown.

Edited from this MS in McDonald and in Brown.

Beatus vir qui non abiit etc
('O happie wight that hath not raun'gd astray')

First published in McDonald (1937), p. 51. Brown, pp. 110-11.

SoR 262

Copy.

In: A small quarto composite volume of works chiefly by Southwell, comprising a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, With other Poems (London, 1595), vi + 56 pages, with minor MS corrections and marks, bound with an untitled MS of poems by Southwell and others, in one or possibly two neat italic hands, 88 leaves, formerly in contemporary calf, now in modern quarter-calf. Early 17th century.

Inscribed on the title-page E[x] L[ibris] J. Phillips 1774. Booklabel of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).

Cited by editors, and in IELM, I.ii, as the Harmsworth MS. Collated in Brown.

Edited from this MS in McDonald and in Brown.

Christ upon the Crosse to man
('Behold I fainte and fade away')

First published (from this MS) in McDonald (1937), pp. 53-4.

SoR 263

Copy.

In: A small quarto composite volume of works chiefly by Southwell, comprising a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, With other Poems (London, 1595), vi + 56 pages, with minor MS corrections and marks, bound with an untitled MS of poems by Southwell and others, in one or possibly two neat italic hands, 88 leaves, formerly in contemporary calf, now in modern quarter-calf. Early 17th century.

Inscribed on the title-page E[x] L[ibris] J. Phillips 1774. Booklabel of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).

Cited by editors, and in IELM, I.ii, as the Harmsworth MS. Collated in Brown.

Edited from this MS in Brown, pp. 113-14.

Christes answere
('Withdraw thy tender eies a while')

First published in McDonald (1937), p. 53. Brown, p. 113.

SoR 264

Copy.

In: A small quarto composite volume of works chiefly by Southwell, comprising a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, With other Poems (London, 1595), vi + 56 pages, with minor MS corrections and marks, bound with an untitled MS of poems by Southwell and others, in one or possibly two neat italic hands, 88 leaves, formerly in contemporary calf, now in modern quarter-calf. Early 17th century.

Inscribed on the title-page E[x] L[ibris] J. Phillips 1774. Booklabel of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).

Cited by editors, and in IELM, I.ii, as the Harmsworth MS. Collated in Brown.

Edited from this MS in McDonald and in Brown.

The Complaint of the B. Virgin having lost her Sonne in Hierusalem
('How may I live, since that my life is gone?')

First published in McDonald (1937), pp. 54-7. Brown, pp. 114-17.

SoR 265

Copy.

In: A small quarto composite volume of works chiefly by Southwell, comprising a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, With other Poems (London, 1595), vi + 56 pages, with minor MS corrections and marks, bound with an untitled MS of poems by Southwell and others, in one or possibly two neat italic hands, 88 leaves, formerly in contemporary calf, now in modern quarter-calf. Early 17th century.

Inscribed on the title-page E[x] L[ibris] J. Phillips 1774. Booklabel of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).

Cited by editors, and in IELM, I.ii, as the Harmsworth MS. Collated in Brown.

Edited from this MS in McDonald and in Brown.

SoR 266

Copy of lines 1-42, headed Our Blessed ladies complaint when she had lost her sonne.

In: A long ledger-size miscellany of recusant verse and some prose, including 32 poems by Robert Southwell, largely in the single neat hand of Gertrude Thimelby (1617-68), a second hand on pp. 119-21, viii + 130 pages, some leaves partly torn away, in contemporary vellum. c.1651-7.

Associated with the Fairfax family of Wootton Wawen, Warwickshire, including Thomas Fairfax (d.1691), yeoman. Later inscribed with the name Harriet Marcusden. Sold by P.J. Dobell, 1948.

Discussed in Cedric C. Brown, Recusant Community and Jesuit Mission in Parliament Days: Bodleian MS Eng. poet. b. 5, Yearbook of English Studies, 23 (2003), 290-315.

Conceptio B. Virginis sub porta aurea
('A golden gate was her conceaving place')

First published in McDonald (1937), p. 42. Brown, p. 108.

SoR 267

Copy.

In: A small quarto composite volume of works chiefly by Southwell, comprising a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, With other Poems (London, 1595), vi + 56 pages, with minor MS corrections and marks, bound with an untitled MS of poems by Southwell and others, in one or possibly two neat italic hands, 88 leaves, formerly in contemporary calf, now in modern quarter-calf. Early 17th century.

Inscribed on the title-page E[x] L[ibris] J. Phillips 1774. Booklabel of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).

Cited by editors, and in IELM, I.ii, as the Harmsworth MS. Collated in Brown.

Edited from this MS in McDonald and in Brown.

A Foure-fold Meditation: of the foure last things
('O wretched man, which louest earthlie thinges')

First published, as By R: S. The author of S. Peters complaint, in London, 1606. The poem is more commonly ascribed to Philip Howard (1557-95), first Earl of Arundel, Catholic Saint, with whom Southwell was acquainted (see McDonald, pp. 6-7, 121-2). EV17760.

SoR 267.1

Copy, entitled on a detached slip of paper A poeme of the contempte of the world and an exhortacion to prepare to dye made by Phillipe earle of Arundell after his attaynder.

In: A quarto miscellany, comprising four items of religious verse, compiled possibly by one D. C:, iv + 45 leaves. Early 17th century.
SoR 267.2

Copy of stanzas 37-48, on a leaf detached from SoR 267.3.

In: A folio composite volume of state letters and tracts, 176 leaves.
SoR 267.3

Copy, lacking a leaf after f. 46v (for which see SoR 267.2).

In: A folio miscellany of religious verse and prose, partly compiled by Alexander Colepeper and passed on to his son Thomas, 166 leaves. c.1600.
SoR 267.4

Copy, in a possibly professional secretary hand, untitled.

In: A quarto composite volume of verse and prose tracts, in several secretary and italic hands, 33 leaves, with early 19th-century interleaving throughout, in old calf.

Haslewood-Phillipps MS 9613.

SoR 267.5

Copy of the opening lines only, untitled and here beginning O wretched man (why loust ye earthly life, in a musical setting by Jo: Wilby.

In: An oblong duodecimo musical part book (tenor), in a neat italic hand, 76 pages (including blanks). c.1600.
SoR 267.6

Copy, in two neat secretary hands, headed written against Christmas: 1587. / his musick in Christmas of the miserie of man in this life the paines of hell & the ioye of heaven, and, in the margin, Of the miserie of ma in this life.

In: A folio miscellany of state papers, religious verse and prose, and legal material, in several secretary hands, written over a period from both ends, 143 leaves (including a number of blanks), in a vellum wrapper (a recycled rubricated Latin text) within a contemporary leather wallet binding (rebacked), with straps. c.1572-1608.

Inscribed variously James Ware his Book: i.e. Sir James Ware (1594-1666), antiquary and historian; (henry Streite, william rise, Bartholomew Roche, and John Anderson. Including copies of indentures relating to John Glascock of London, John Ellis of Gray's Inn, and Edward Johnson, goldsmith, of London. Inscribed (f. [2r], ? by Ware) Qre whether this booke did belong to John Thornburgh [1551-1641] sometime Bp of Limrick & deane of York. vid fol: 13. Later among the manuscripts of the Carew family at Crowcombe Court, Somerset. Formerly Folger MS 297.3 and MS V.b.75.

Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 372. Briefly discussed by Fr Herbert Thurston in The Month, vol. 86, No. 379 (1896), pp. 33-4.

SoR 267.7

Copy, headed Memorare novissima a tua, et in æternum non peccatis / A Poëme of the contempt of the world, and an exhortation to præpare to die, made by Philip Earle of Arundel after his attaindour.

In: A small quarto composite volume of works chiefly by Southwell, comprising a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, With other Poems (London, 1595), vi + 56 pages, with minor MS corrections and marks, bound with an untitled MS of poems by Southwell and others, in one or possibly two neat italic hands, 88 leaves, formerly in contemporary calf, now in modern quarter-calf. Early 17th century.

Inscribed on the title-page E[x] L[ibris] J. Phillips 1774. Booklabel of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).

Cited by editors, and in IELM, I.ii, as the Harmsworth MS. Collated in Brown.

SoR 267.8

Copy, headed Of the fowre last things, which are these, Death, Iudgment, Hell, and Heaven.

In: A quarto volume of Catholic tracts, in a probably professional secretary hand, 163 leaves (plus blanks), in 18th-century calf gilt. Late 16th-early 17th century.

Inscribed on a flyleaf John Burns, November 30 1926: i.e. the Rt. Hon. John Elliott Burns (1858-1943), labour leader and politician. Acquired in 1944 from Quaritch.

Some verse contents of the volume briefly discussed or edited in Peter J. Seng, Recusant Poems in a More Circle Manuscript, Moreana, 19 (March 1982), 21-4.

SoR 267.9

Copy.

In: A collection of recusant verse, 16 leaves. c.1586.

Among the Scarsbrick, Blundell and Crosby papers.

SoR 267.91

Copy, headed Sartaine moste holsome & necessarie considerations, or meditations verye meete and convenyent (for all degrees) and att all tymes to be duelye considered of and had in Rememberance To wthdrawe our affections from this vaine & wicked worlde, to ye desire of Heauen and heauenlye thinges....

In: A quarto miscellany of religious verse and prose, dedicated to Thomas Knyvett, including (pp. 90-3 passim) thirteen sonnets by William Alabaster headed Certaine of Arabasters his meditations. Anno 1597, compiled by Peter Mowle, of Attleborough, Norfolk, 179 leaves, in contemporary calf stamped P.M. c.1592-1606.

Inscribed Peter Mowld Junior oweth this Booke Witnesse Edmond Mould Anno 1605. Formerly MS E. 3. 11 (Shelf RNN3).

Described in McDonald, pp. 29-33. Discussed in Earle Havens, Notes from a Literary Underground: Recusant Catholics, Jesuit Priests, and Scribal Publication in Elizabethan England, PBSA, 99 (December 2005), 505-38 (p. 529 et seq.)

This MS discussed, with a facsimile of p. 110, in Nancy Pollard Brown, Paperchase: The Dissemination of Catholic Texts in Elizabethan England, EMS, 1 (1989), 120-43 (pp. 125-70.

SoR 267.92
Copy, in a neat italic hand, with (ff. 1r-6v) an Introduction beginning From worldly cares and wanton loues conceipt, with a patterned title-page partly in gold, The Pathe to Paradise, iv + 27 quarto leaves, in 19th-century paper boards. c.1600.

Inscribed on the title-page Mary Yeate. A pasted-in slip The Rev. Charles Churchill [fl.1845, Wesleyan missionary], Halifax, Nov Scotia, requests your acceptance of this manuscript found on board a vessel wrecked off the coast of Bermuda.

SoR 267.93

Copy, untitled, subscribed Finis P M, preceded by an epistle To ye right honorable, ye Ladie vicount Hereford...this first of ianuarie, Anno 1595.

In: A quarto miscellany of Catholic verse and prose, in the hand of Peter Mowle (b.1554), entitled Sartain Most Holsome Meditations Verey Meete to Bee Dulie Considered, iv + 38 pages; once bound with a commonplace book of Nicolas Hanslopp, of Attleborough, dated 1 January 1595 but with dates between 1618 and 1622, now disbound. c.1595.

Inscribed names Robert Worral, John Radford, and William Sutton, His Booke.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Earle Havens, Notes from a Literary Underground: Recusant Catholics, Jesuit Priests, and Scribal Publication in Elizabethan England, PBSA, 99 (December 2005), 505-38 (p. 525 et seq.).

SoR 267.94

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of tracts, letters and religious poems, 146 leaves, in old calf gilt. Late 16th - early 17th century.

Sotheby's, 15 November 1926, lot 422A. Owned in 1932 by the Rt. Hon. John Burns: i.e. John Elliott Burns (1856-1943), labour leader and politician. Sotheby's, 14 March 1944 (Burns sale, second portion), lot 217, to Quaritch.

Man to the wound in Christs side
('O pleasant port, O place of rest')

First published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 72-3.

SoR 268

Copy, headed To the wound in Christes side.

In: A small quarto composite volume of works chiefly by Southwell, comprising a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, With other Poems (London, 1595), vi + 56 pages, with minor MS corrections and marks, bound with an untitled MS of poems by Southwell and others, in one or possibly two neat italic hands, 88 leaves, formerly in contemporary calf, now in modern quarter-calf. Early 17th century.

Inscribed on the title-page E[x] L[ibris] J. Phillips 1774. Booklabel of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).

Cited by editors, and in IELM, I.ii, as the Harmsworth MS. Collated in Brown.

SoR 269

Copy.

In: A long ledger-size miscellany of recusant verse and some prose, including 32 poems by Robert Southwell, largely in the single neat hand of Gertrude Thimelby (1617-68), a second hand on pp. 119-21, viii + 130 pages, some leaves partly torn away, in contemporary vellum. c.1651-7.

Associated with the Fairfax family of Wootton Wawen, Warwickshire, including Thomas Fairfax (d.1691), yeoman. Later inscribed with the name Harriet Marcusden. Sold by P.J. Dobell, 1948.

Discussed in Cedric C. Brown, Recusant Community and Jesuit Mission in Parliament Days: Bodleian MS Eng. poet. b. 5, Yearbook of English Studies, 23 (2003), 290-315.

SoR 270

Second copy.

In: A long ledger-size miscellany of recusant verse and some prose, including 32 poems by Robert Southwell, largely in the single neat hand of Gertrude Thimelby (1617-68), a second hand on pp. 119-21, viii + 130 pages, some leaves partly torn away, in contemporary vellum. c.1651-7.

Associated with the Fairfax family of Wootton Wawen, Warwickshire, including Thomas Fairfax (d.1691), yeoman. Later inscribed with the name Harriet Marcusden. Sold by P.J. Dobell, 1948.

Discussed in Cedric C. Brown, Recusant Community and Jesuit Mission in Parliament Days: Bodleian MS Eng. poet. b. 5, Yearbook of English Studies, 23 (2003), 290-315.

SoR 271

Copy.

In: A miscellany, entitled a not-booke of divinity and honor military and civill, chiefly comprising 29 poems by Robert Southwell transcribed from printed sources, in the predominantly italic hand of Thomas Read, a student of Magdalen College, Oxford, 186 leaves, dated 1624. 1624.

Later in the collection of George Arents Jr (1875-1960), manufacturer.

This MS recorded in Brown, p. li, but not collated.

SoR 272

Copy, in Gertrude Thimelby's hand.

In: A quarto miscellany of recusant verse, many of the 65 poems relating to the circle of the Catholic Aston family, in three hands, 200 leaves (including five preliminary blanks, and ff. 53r-135v are blank), in contemporary leather gilt.

Compiled principally by Constance Fowler (d.1664), daughter of the diplomat Walter Aston, Baron Aston of Forfar (1584-1639), of Tixall and Colton, Staffordshire, her roman hand responsible for ff. 6r, 8r-15v, 24v-34v, 46v-52v, 136r-9r, 143v-59r, and 182v-95v. The second, predominantly secretary hand, responsible for fourteen poems on ff. 7r-v, 16r-24r, and 35r-46r, is that of Constance's sister Gertrude Thimelby (1617-68). The third hand, on ff. 196r-200v, is that of Constance's brother-in-law Sir William Pershall.

c.1635-50s.

William H. Robinson, sale catalogue (1925), item 472.

This volume discussed, with a complete first-line index and a facsimile of f. 25r, in Jenijoy La Belle, The Huntington Aston Manuscript, The Book Collector, 29 (Winter 1980), 542-67. See also Jenijoy La Belle, A True Love's Knot: The Letters of Constance Fowler and the Poems of Herbert Aston, JEGP, 79 (1980), 13-31. The complete volume edited in The Verse Miscellany of Constance Aston Fowler: A Diplomatic Edition, ed. Deborah Aldrich-Watson (Tempe, Arizona, 2000), with a facsimile of f. 28v on p. lxiv.

Aldrich-Watson, pp. 39-40.

Optima Deo
('Behold how first the modest Rose doth prie')

First published in McDonald (1937), p. 50. Brown, p. 110.

SoR 273

Copy.

In: A small quarto composite volume of works chiefly by Southwell, comprising a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, With other Poems (London, 1595), vi + 56 pages, with minor MS corrections and marks, bound with an untitled MS of poems by Southwell and others, in one or possibly two neat italic hands, 88 leaves, formerly in contemporary calf, now in modern quarter-calf. Early 17th century.

Inscribed on the title-page E[x] L[ibris] J. Phillips 1774. Booklabel of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).

Cited by editors, and in IELM, I.ii, as the Harmsworth MS. Collated in Brown.

Edited from this MS in McDonald and in Brown.

Our Ladie to Christ upon the Crosse
('What mist hath dimd that glorious face?')

See SoR 283.

Praesentatio B. Virginis
('A glorious temple wrought with secret art')

First published in McDonald (1937), p. 43. Brown, pp. 108-9.

SoR 274

Copy.

In: A small quarto composite volume of works chiefly by Southwell, comprising a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, With other Poems (London, 1595), vi + 56 pages, with minor MS corrections and marks, bound with an untitled MS of poems by Southwell and others, in one or possibly two neat italic hands, 88 leaves, formerly in contemporary calf, now in modern quarter-calf. Early 17th century.

Inscribed on the title-page E[x] L[ibris] J. Phillips 1774. Booklabel of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).

Cited by editors, and in IELM, I.ii, as the Harmsworth MS. Collated in Brown.

Edited from this MS in McDonald and in Brown.

S. Peters complaint
('How can I live, that have forsaken life')

First published in McDonald (1937), pp. 51-2. Brown, pp. 111-12.

SoR 275

Copy.

In: A small quarto composite volume of works chiefly by Southwell, comprising a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, With other Poems (London, 1595), vi + 56 pages, with minor MS corrections and marks, bound with an untitled MS of poems by Southwell and others, in one or possibly two neat italic hands, 88 leaves, formerly in contemporary calf, now in modern quarter-calf. Early 17th century.

Inscribed on the title-page E[x] L[ibris] J. Phillips 1774. Booklabel of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).

Cited by editors, and in IELM, I.ii, as the Harmsworth MS. Collated in Brown.

Edited from this MS in McDonald and in Brown.

Ubi est Deus meus?
('Alas I live without my life')

First published in McDonald (1937), pp. 49-50. Brown, p. 109.

SoR 276

Copy.

In: A small quarto composite volume of works chiefly by Southwell, comprising a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, With other Poems (London, 1595), vi + 56 pages, with minor MS corrections and marks, bound with an untitled MS of poems by Southwell and others, in one or possibly two neat italic hands, 88 leaves, formerly in contemporary calf, now in modern quarter-calf. Early 17th century.

Inscribed on the title-page E[x] L[ibris] J. Phillips 1774. Booklabel of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).

Cited by editors, and in IELM, I.ii, as the Harmsworth MS. Collated in Brown.

Edited from this MS in McDonald and in Brown.

Unworthy receaving
('I freeze in fire, I thirst amiddest the crystal streames')

First published in McDonald (1937), pp. 50-1. Brown, p. 110.

SoR 277

Copy.

In: A small quarto composite volume of works chiefly by Southwell, comprising a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, With other Poems (London, 1595), vi + 56 pages, with minor MS corrections and marks, bound with an untitled MS of poems by Southwell and others, in one or possibly two neat italic hands, 88 leaves, formerly in contemporary calf, now in modern quarter-calf. Early 17th century.

Inscribed on the title-page E[x] L[ibris] J. Phillips 1774. Booklabel of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).

Cited by editors, and in IELM, I.ii, as the Harmsworth MS. Collated in Brown.

Edited from this MS in McDonald and in Brown.

Upon the Image of death
('Before my face the picture hangs')

First published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 73-4.

SoR 278

Copy.

In: A small quarto composite volume of works chiefly by Southwell, comprising a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, With other Poems (London, 1595), vi + 56 pages, with minor MS corrections and marks, bound with an untitled MS of poems by Southwell and others, in one or possibly two neat italic hands, 88 leaves, formerly in contemporary calf, now in modern quarter-calf. Early 17th century.

Inscribed on the title-page E[x] L[ibris] J. Phillips 1774. Booklabel of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).

Cited by editors, and in IELM, I.ii, as the Harmsworth MS. Collated in Brown.

SoR 279

Copy, headed verses vpon the Image of Death.

In: A long ledger-size miscellany of recusant verse and some prose, including 32 poems by Robert Southwell, largely in the single neat hand of Gertrude Thimelby (1617-68), a second hand on pp. 119-21, viii + 130 pages, some leaves partly torn away, in contemporary vellum. c.1651-7.

Associated with the Fairfax family of Wootton Wawen, Warwickshire, including Thomas Fairfax (d.1691), yeoman. Later inscribed with the name Harriet Marcusden. Sold by P.J. Dobell, 1948.

Discussed in Cedric C. Brown, Recusant Community and Jesuit Mission in Parliament Days: Bodleian MS Eng. poet. b. 5, Yearbook of English Studies, 23 (2003), 290-315.

SoR 280

Copy.

In: A miscellany, entitled a not-booke of divinity and honor military and civill, chiefly comprising 29 poems by Robert Southwell transcribed from printed sources, in the predominantly italic hand of Thomas Read, a student of Magdalen College, Oxford, 186 leaves, dated 1624. 1624.

Later in the collection of George Arents Jr (1875-1960), manufacturer.

This MS recorded in Brown, p. li, but not collated.

SoR 280.5

Copy, in a cursive mixed hand, untitled.

In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in possibly several hands, a cursive secretary hand predominating, ii + 77 leaves, imperfect, in contemporary limp vellum, within modern reversed calf.

Owned and possibly compiled by Richard Waferer, of Buckinghamshire (name on ff. 43r and 76v).

c.1597-1628.

Also inscribed (f. ii) with names of Marth: Waferer and Walter Jesson.

The virgin Mary to Christ on the Crosse
('What mist hath dimd that glorious face')

First published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 71-2.

SoR 281

Copy.

In: A long ledger-size miscellany of recusant verse and some prose, including 32 poems by Robert Southwell, largely in the single neat hand of Gertrude Thimelby (1617-68), a second hand on pp. 119-21, viii + 130 pages, some leaves partly torn away, in contemporary vellum. c.1651-7.

Associated with the Fairfax family of Wootton Wawen, Warwickshire, including Thomas Fairfax (d.1691), yeoman. Later inscribed with the name Harriet Marcusden. Sold by P.J. Dobell, 1948.

Discussed in Cedric C. Brown, Recusant Community and Jesuit Mission in Parliament Days: Bodleian MS Eng. poet. b. 5, Yearbook of English Studies, 23 (2003), 290-315.

SoR 282

Copy.

In: A miscellany, entitled a not-booke of divinity and honor military and civill, chiefly comprising 29 poems by Robert Southwell transcribed from printed sources, in the predominantly italic hand of Thomas Read, a student of Magdalen College, Oxford, 186 leaves, dated 1624. 1624.

Later in the collection of George Arents Jr (1875-1960), manufacturer.

This MS recorded in Brown, p. li, but not collated.

SoR 283

Copy of a version headed Our Ladie to Christ upon the Crosse.

In: A small quarto composite volume of works chiefly by Southwell, comprising a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, With other Poems (London, 1595), vi + 56 pages, with minor MS corrections and marks, bound with an untitled MS of poems by Southwell and others, in one or possibly two neat italic hands, 88 leaves, formerly in contemporary calf, now in modern quarter-calf. Early 17th century.

Inscribed on the title-page E[x] L[ibris] J. Phillips 1774. Booklabel of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).

Cited by editors, and in IELM, I.ii, as the Harmsworth MS. Collated in Brown.

Edited from this MS in Brown, pp. 112-13.

(3) Latin poems by Southwell

Ad deu in aff. Elegia
('Tu tacitas nosti lachrimas tu saucia cernis')

First published in Grosart (1872), p. 212.

*SoR 284

Autograph draft.

In: A quarto composite volume of Robert Southwell's autograph papers, in various paper sizes, 64 leaves, in modern binding. c.1580.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Described in McDonald, pp. 12-14.

Edited from this MS in Grosart.

Ad S. Catherina uirg. et mar
('Tu Catherina mei solatrix vnica luctus')

First published in Grosart (1872), p. 213.

*SoR 285

Autograph draft.

In: A quarto composite volume of Robert Southwell's autograph papers, in various paper sizes, 64 leaves, in modern binding. c.1580.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Described in McDonald, pp. 12-14.

Edited from this MS in Grosart.

'Clara Ducum soboles, superis nova sedibus hospes'

See SoR 322-325.

Elegia 7
('Ex luctu populus redditur ipse chalybs')

First published in Grosart (1872), pp. 206-7.

*SoR 286

Autograph draft of the last part of what would have been Elegia 7, imperfect, lacking the beginning.

In: A quarto composite volume of Robert Southwell's autograph papers, in various paper sizes, 64 leaves, in modern binding. c.1580.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Described in McDonald, pp. 12-14.

Edited from this MS in Grosart.

Elegia 8
('Dic vbi nunc quod amo est! vbinam quod semper amavi?')

First published in Grosart (1872), pp. 208-10.

*SoR 287

Autography draft.

In: A quarto composite volume of Robert Southwell's autograph papers, in various paper sizes, 64 leaves, in modern binding. c.1580.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Described in McDonald, pp. 12-14.

Edited from this MS in Grosart.

Elegia 9
('Quid conclamato iacis irrita vota sepulchro?')

First published in Grosart (1872), pp. 21-11.

*SoR 288

Autograph draft; imperfect, lacking the ending.

In: A quarto composite volume of Robert Southwell's autograph papers, in various paper sizes, 64 leaves, in modern binding. c.1580.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Described in McDonald, pp. 12-14.

Edited from this MS in Grosart.

Filij Prodigi porcos pascentis ad Patre Epistola
('Si tam longinquis rogites quis scripsit ab oris')

First published in Grosart (1872), pp. 199-205.

*SoR 289

Autograph draft.

In: A quarto composite volume of Robert Southwell's autograph papers, in various paper sizes, 64 leaves, in modern binding. c.1580.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Described in McDonald, pp. 12-14.

Edited from this MS in Grosart.

In festum pentecostes Ao D. 1.5.80. 21. Maij
('Postquam tartarei spolijs ditatus Auerni')

First published in Grosart (1872), pp. 214-15.

*SoR 290

Autograph draft, dated 21 May 1580.

In: A quarto composite volume of Robert Southwell's autograph papers, in various paper sizes, 64 leaves, in modern binding. c.1580.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Described in McDonald, pp. 12-14.

Edited from this MS in Grosart.

In renouationem uotorum festis Natalis Domini
('Vita uenit uitae cu uotis obuius ito')

First published in Grosart (1872), p. 214.

*SoR 291

Autograph draft.

In: A quarto composite volume of Robert Southwell's autograph papers, in various paper sizes, 64 leaves, in modern binding. c.1580.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Described in McDonald, pp. 12-14.

Edited from this MS in Grosart.

Poëma de Assumptione B.M.V.
('Cum caelum et tellus, et uasti machina mudi')

First published in Grosart (1872), pp. 191-9.

*SoR 292

Autograph draft, signed Robertus Southwellus.

In: A quarto composite volume of Robert Southwell's autograph papers, in various paper sizes, 64 leaves, in modern binding. c.1580.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Described in McDonald, pp. 12-14.

Edited from this MS in Grosart. Facsimile of part of f. 8r in Grosart (4to edition), facing p. 84.

Prose

(1) English Works by Southwell

Another letter persuasory to the same [i.e. his father]

A draft letter, beginning Understanding that you were resolved upon a course which nearest toucheth the salvation of your soul.... Brown, Two Letters, pp. 99-100.

SoR 292.1

Copy, headed An other letter perswasorye to the same, subscribed R. S.

In: A quarto volume of English poems and letters of Robert Southwell, largely in one neat small hand, together with sigs A-E (pp. 1-34) of a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, with other Poemes (London, 1595), vii + 80 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum stamped IHS. Early 17th century.

Inscribed names (f. 79v) Thomas Champney Book Anno: Domini 1677; (f. 78v) Mrs Mary Hooge Booke Anno Domini 1678; and (elsewhere) Katherine and Laurence Champney. 19th-century notes (ff. ii-vii) referring to this MS as The Woolhampton MS (? from Woolhampton, Berkshire). Later in the Virtue and Cahill Library, of the Catholic Cathedral of Portsmouth. Christie's, 5 July 1967, lot 190.

Generally cited as the Virtue and Cahill MS.

Edited in Brown, Two Letters, pp. 99-101.

SoR 292.2

Copy, headed A Letter writen to his brother.

In: A quarto volume of works by Robert Southwell, in an accomplished secretary hand, 110 leaves, some pages at the back partly torn away, in 19th-century half-morocco. Early 17th century.

Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, April 1836 (Heber sale), lot 1447.

Another letter written to one of his kinsmen

A letter beginning I know not how to write, because I know not to whom to write, to my cousin or to a stranger.... Brown, Two Letters, p. 101.

SoR 292.6

Copy, headed A Letter writen by P. B. to his Cosyn. W. R.

In: A quarto volume of works by Robert Southwell, in an accomplished secretary hand, 110 leaves, some pages at the back partly torn away, in 19th-century half-morocco. Early 17th century.

Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, April 1836 (Heber sale), lot 1447.

SoR 292.7

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of English poems and letters of Robert Southwell, largely in one neat small hand, together with sigs A-E (pp. 1-34) of a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, with other Poemes (London, 1595), vii + 80 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum stamped IHS. Early 17th century.

Inscribed names (f. 79v) Thomas Champney Book Anno: Domini 1677; (f. 78v) Mrs Mary Hooge Booke Anno Domini 1678; and (elsewhere) Katherine and Laurence Champney. 19th-century notes (ff. ii-vii) referring to this MS as The Woolhampton MS (? from Woolhampton, Berkshire). Later in the Virtue and Cahill Library, of the Catholic Cathedral of Portsmouth. Christie's, 5 July 1967, lot 190.

Generally cited as the Virtue and Cahill MS.

The Author to his loving Cosen

Prefatory address, beginning Poets by abusing their talents, and making the follies and fayninges of love.... First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 1-2.

SoR 293

Copy of the dedication of Southwell's poems, untitled.

In: A quarto volume of poems by Robert Southwell, in a neat predominantly italic hand, with (f. 1*v) a list of contents, 1* + 43 leaves, in modern black morocco. 1620.

With a faded inscription (f. 57v) Charles Cauendish 1620 / Anno Dmi, 1620.

Cited in IELM, I.ii, as the Cavendish MS.

This MS collated in Brown.

SoR 294

Minor MS corrections in the printed text.

In: A small quarto composite volume of works chiefly by Southwell, comprising a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, With other Poems (London, 1595), vi + 56 pages, with minor MS corrections and marks, bound with an untitled MS of poems by Southwell and others, in one or possibly two neat italic hands, 88 leaves, formerly in contemporary calf, now in modern quarter-calf. Early 17th century.

Inscribed on the title-page E[x] L[ibris] J. Phillips 1774. Booklabel of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).

Cited by editors, and in IELM, I.ii, as the Harmsworth MS. Collated in Brown.

SoR 295

Copy of the dedication of Southwell's poems.

In: A volume of Southwell's English verse and some prose works, in a single hand but for one poem and some corrections in a second hand, 78 quarto leaves. c.1592-1609.

Bearing the childish signature of iereneme WalDegrave (? the future nun Dame Hieronima Waldegrave, c.1603-35) and once in the possession of the Waldegrave family of Essex.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Cited by editors as the Waldegrave MS. Described in McDonald, pp. 19-22, and in Brown, pp. xxxvii-xl. This MS probably to be identified as the lost Bury St Edmunds MS recorded in McDonald, pp. 25-7: see Brown, pp. xxxix-xl.

This MS collated in Brown.

An Epistle unto his Father (22 October 1589)

Epistle, beginning In children of former ages it hath been thought so behooveful a point of duty.... First published as An Epistle of a Religious Priest unto his Father in A Short Rule of Good Life ([London?, 1596-7?]). Trotman, pp. 36-64. Brown, Two Letters, pp. 1-20.

SoR 296

Copy, untitled, headed in a later hand Letter of a Son to his fathr, desireing him to be mindfull of death, & to prepare for his change 1589. Early 17th century.

In: A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous state tracts, speeches, and verse, in various largely professional hands, iv + 413 leaves (including a thirty-page index and some blanks), in half-calf (rebacked).

Transcribed from the Yelverton papers chiefly belonging to Sir Christopher Yelverton (1535?-1612), Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), and their family.

Owned in 1679 by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732), annalist and book collector.

SoR 297

Copy, headed A certaine letter written by the same author to his father to perswade him to embrace the Catholicke religion, subscribed R. S.

In: A quarto volume of English poems and letters of Robert Southwell, largely in one neat small hand, together with sigs A-E (pp. 1-34) of a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, with other Poemes (London, 1595), vii + 80 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum stamped IHS. Early 17th century.

Inscribed names (f. 79v) Thomas Champney Book Anno: Domini 1677; (f. 78v) Mrs Mary Hooge Booke Anno Domini 1678; and (elsewhere) Katherine and Laurence Champney. 19th-century notes (ff. ii-vii) referring to this MS as The Woolhampton MS (? from Woolhampton, Berkshire). Later in the Virtue and Cahill Library, of the Catholic Cathedral of Portsmouth. Christie's, 5 July 1967, lot 190.

Generally cited as the Virtue and Cahill MS.

This MS collated in Brown, Two Letters.

SoR 298

Copy, untitled, endorsed on f. 226v To his very louing Freind Mr Clement Knight bookseller at his shopp nere Paules church giue theise; imperfect.

In: A folio composite volume of theological works, in various hands, 354 leaves. c.1620s.

Apparently edited from this MS in St. Peter's Complaint, and other Poems; by the Rev. Robert Southwell, ed. W.J. Walter (London, 1817).

SoR 299

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of works by Robert Southwell, in an accomplished secretary hand, 110 leaves, some pages at the back partly torn away, in 19th-century half-morocco. Early 17th century.

Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, April 1836 (Heber sale), lot 1447.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Trotman. Collated in Brown, Two Letters.

SoR 300

Copy, as by R: S:, transcribed from the first edition of A Short Rule of Good Life, imperfect, the first leaf, dated in an italic hand 1607, largely torn away.

In: A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous papers, in several secretary hands, one predominating, 101 leaves, in modern half green morocco.

Volume II of the letterbooks and miscellanies of members of the Williams (alias Cromwell) family of Huntingdonshire.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Willu Readman.

This MS collated in Trotman. Described in McDonald, pp. 11-12. Recorded in Brown, Two Letters, p. xlvii.

SoR 301

Copy of the last 23 lines, on the first page of a pair of conjugate quarto leaves, once folded as a letter, imperfect, lacking the beginning.

In: A large folio composite volume of letters and papers, comprising correspondence of Sir Robert Southwell (1635-1702), diplomat and government official, in various hands and paper sizes, i + 406 leaves, mounted on guards.

Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 8741/8587. Sotheby's, 6-15 June 1910 (Phillipps sale), lot 843.

This MS recorded in McDonald, p. 11.

SoR 302

Copy, headed A Gracious and religious Epistle of a sonne to his father. Early 17th century.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and parliamentary speeches, in various hands and paper sizes, 138 leaves.

This MS not recorded by editors.

SoR 303

Copy, transcribed from the first edition of A Short Rule of Good Life, subscribed Robarte Southewell.

In: A quarto volume of prose writings by Robert Southwell, in a single small predominantly italic hand, 62 pages, in old vellum. c.1608-12.

Microfilm in the British Library (M/714).

Edited from this MS in Brown, Two Letters. Microfilm in the British Library (M/714).

SoR 304

Copy.

In: A quarto miscellany of religious verse and prose, dedicated to Thomas Knyvett, including (pp. 90-3 passim) thirteen sonnets by William Alabaster headed Certaine of Arabasters his meditations. Anno 1597, compiled by Peter Mowle, of Attleborough, Norfolk, 179 leaves, in contemporary calf stamped P.M. c.1592-1606.

Inscribed Peter Mowld Junior oweth this Booke Witnesse Edmond Mould Anno 1605. Formerly MS E. 3. 11 (Shelf RNN3).

Described in McDonald, pp. 29-33. Discussed in Earle Havens, Notes from a Literary Underground: Recusant Catholics, Jesuit Priests, and Scribal Publication in Elizabethan England, PBSA, 99 (December 2005), 505-38 (p. 529 et seq.)

This MS collated in Trotman and in Brown, Two Letters.

SoR 305

Copy.

In: A volume of Southwell's English verse and some prose works, in a single hand but for one poem and some corrections in a second hand, 78 quarto leaves. c.1592-1609.

Bearing the childish signature of iereneme WalDegrave (? the future nun Dame Hieronima Waldegrave, c.1603-35) and once in the possession of the Waldegrave family of Essex.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Cited by editors as the Waldegrave MS. Described in McDonald, pp. 19-22, and in Brown, pp. xxxvii-xl. This MS probably to be identified as the lost Bury St Edmunds MS recorded in McDonald, pp. 25-7: see Brown, pp. xxxix-xl.

This MS collated in Trotman and in Brown, Two Letters.

SoR 306

Copy, in a secretary hand, lacking the title-page.

In: A quarto volume of Catholic tracts, in three different hands, 82 leaves (plus 46 blanks), in old blind-stamped calf. c.1600.

Thomas Rodd's sale catalogue (1841), item 786. Later owned by Edward Hailstone (1818-90), of Walton Hall, Wakefield, botanist and book collector.

An Humble Supplication to Her Majesty

First published (by a secret English press) 1595 [for 1600?]. Edited by R.C. Bald (Cambridge, 1953).

SoR 307
Copy, in a single neat secretary hand, headed An humble Supplication to her Matie in aunswere of a late Proclamation, 26 quarto leaves (plus blanks), numbered 8. by the second Earl of Bridgewater, lacking covers. c.1595.

Probably owned by Sir Thomas Egerton (1540-1617), first Viscount Brackley and Baron Ellesmere, Lord Chancellor.

This MS collated in Bald.

SoR 307.5

Abstract of the work, headed Epitome supplicacojs, another title supplied in a later hand, probably that of Narcissus Luttrell, Petition of Roman Catholicks to [King James deleted] Queen Eliz. in maintenance of yeir religion; Cardinal Allen & father Parsons. Early 17th century.

In: A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous state tracts, speeches, and verse, in various largely professional hands, iv + 413 leaves (including a thirty-page index and some blanks), in half-calf (rebacked).

Transcribed from the Yelverton papers chiefly belonging to Sir Christopher Yelverton (1535?-1612), Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), and their family.

Owned in 1679 by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732), annalist and book collector.

SoR 307.8
Copy, in a probably professional secretary hand, on 41 quarto leaves, subscribed Mensis Decembris, et Anni Domini 1591 Die vltimo, in half-calf marbled boards. c.1591-1600.

Sotheby's, 16 September 1983, lot 00, to H. D. Lyons. Formerly Folger MS Add. 832.

SoR 308

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, apparently transcribed from the edition of 1595.

In: A folio composite volume of largely state and parliamentary papers, in several professional secretary hands, 202 leaves, in red morocco gilt.

Including (f. 3r-v) Elizabethan verses inscribed Thomas Aldwell me possidet and (ff. 4r-81r) a formulary of political and legal documents and precedents, in several hands, largely compiled by Francis Alford, MP (c.1530-92).

This MS recorded in Bald, pp. 47-8.

SoR 309

Copy, headed The Coppy of an Humble Supplication to Her Matie in answere to the late Proclamation.

In: A folio volume of state papers and tracts, in a professional cursive secretary hand, 346 leaves, in red morocco gilt. c.1620s-30s.

Edited from this MS in Bald. Described in McDonald, p. 16.

SoR 310
Copy; in a neat secretary hand, 37 small quarto pages, incomplete, slightly imperfect at the lower outer corners. c.1600.
SoR 311
MS corrections in two hands, made from a MS source, in an exemplum of the printed edition of 1595. c.1600s.

This item collated in Bald.

SoR 311.5

Copy of An humble supplication to her Majesty, wherein is an Answer to a Proclamation in 1591 against Seminary Priests. As also the Death of the Queen of Scots, Ballard, Babbington, and the Residue of the Confederates, how and by what means they were drawn into the same, on folio leaves.

1592?.

Whiston's sale catalogue, 26 February 1738/9 (Sir Joseph Jekyll sale), lot 319.

The Hundred Meditations of the Love of God

See SoR 339-340.

Letter to Sir Robert Cecil

Southwell's letter to Cecil from the Tower, 6 April 1593, beginning Honorable Good Sir: The usual effect of a languishing and afflicted life is an unwillingness to live.... First published in Brown, Two Letters (1973), p. 75-85.

SoR 312

Copy, subscribed Robarte Southewell.

In: A quarto volume of prose writings by Robert Southwell, in a single small predominantly italic hand, 62 pages, in old vellum. c.1608-12.

Microfilm in the British Library (M/714).

Edited from this MS in Brown (1973), with a facsimile of f. 54r as the frontispiece.

Mary Magdalen's Funeral Tears

Marie Magdalens Funerall Teares first published in London, 1591. Facsimile edition of the exemplum in the Huntington Library published in New York, 1975.

*SoR 313

Autograph draft of an English translation by Southwell of a 13th-century Latin homily (formerly attributed to Origen), intended to be read as a sermon; here beginning In this psent solemnity hauynge to speake in this audience of yr charityes…, unfinished; a work later expanded into Mary Magdalen's Funeral Tears.

In: A quarto composite volume of Robert Southwell's autograph papers, in various paper sizes, 64 leaves, in modern binding. c.1580.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Described in McDonald, pp. 12-14.

This MS discussed in Pierre Janelle, Robert Southwell the Writer (London, 1935), pp. 184-5. Facsimile of f. 56r in IELM, I.ii (1980), Facsimile XXIX (p. 498).

*SoR 314

Autograph draft of the beginning of Southwell's English translation of the 13th-century Latin homily; here beginning As she surpassed many in loue so she passed most christs oune disciplines in loyalty…, unfinished, a work later expanded into Mary Magdalen's Funeral Tears.

In: A quarto composite volume of Robert Southwell's autograph papers, in various paper sizes, 64 leaves, in modern binding. c.1580.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Described in McDonald, pp. 12-14.

Querimonia

An unpublished passage by Southwell previously known only in a Latin recension in Henry More, S.J., Historia missionis Provinciae Anglicanae Societatis Jesu (St Omer, 1660), pp. 173-5. Reprinted, with an English translation, in Publications of the Catholic Record Society, 5 (1908), pp. 294-300.

SoR 314.5
Copy.

In Catalogus primorum Patrum ac Fratrum SJ in Anglia collectus Romae 1640, ex variis libris et catalogis MS praesertim vero libro P. Procuratoris Domus Professae Romanae in quo scribebantur dim nomina novitorum ab AD 1556 et libro simili Domus Probationis S. Andreae inchoato ab anno 1565.

c.1640.

This MS identified and recorded in Brown, pp. xvi-xvii.

SoR 314.8
Copy, very neatly written in a small volume. 12mo. 17th century?

Thomas Rodd, sale catalogues (1839), p. 52, and (1841), item 463.

A Short Rule of Good Life

First published [in London? 1596-7?]. Brown, Two Letters, pp. 21-73.

SoR 315

Copy, entitled A short rule of good life to derecte the devowte Christian, in a neat secretary hand, with corrections and alterations, 95 unnumbered leaves; inscribed (f. [91v] and elsewhere), in a formal secretary hand, James Cleasbie bocke.

In: An octavo composite volume of religious tracts, in several hands, 316 leaves (plus blanks), in reversed calf.

Among the collections of Christopher Hunter (1675-1757), Durham antiquary and physician.

SoR 316

Copy of a version, as written by Robarte Southewell, transcribed from the first edition, with changes made by an Anglican editor.

In: A quarto volume of prose writings by Robert Southwell, in a single small predominantly italic hand, 62 pages, in old vellum. c.1608-12.

Microfilm in the British Library (M/714).

Edited from this MS in Brown, Two Letters. Microfilm in the British Library (M/714).

SoR 317

Copy, in a neat secretary hand, preceded by Three sonnetts in the Comendacon of this pamphlett.

In: A composite volume of theological and historical tracts.
SoR 318
Copy, 55 octavo leaves, in modern binding. End of 16th-early 17th century.

This MS is probably the 110-page octavo MS of the shorte Rule in blue morocco, joints, gilt edges, by Clarke sold at Sotheby's, 19 December 1853 (J.H.S. Pigott of Borckley Hall, Somerset, sale, 6th day), lot 2087, to Kerslake. Kerslake's sale catalogue [February 1860], item 450. Puttick & Simpson's, 10 July 1861 (part of Dering of Surrenden, Kent, sale), lot 749, to Jones. A 19th-century pencil note by Judge O' Brien presenting the MS to the House and saying it was Bought from Manchester.

This MS collated in Brown, Two Letters.

SoR 318.5
Copy, in a neat probably non-professional secretary hand, concluding with Three Sonnetts in the comendatio of ye Pamphlett, iv + 59 quarto leaves, in contemporary vellum. c.1600.

Formerly owned by Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon (1917-93), fifth Baron Kenyon, of Gredington, Shropshire.

SoR 318.8

Copy of the complete version.

In: A duodecimo volume, comprising chiefly two Catholic devotional works (the second A Bref Forme of Confession for such as confesse often), in a neat secretary hand, with additions in Latin and English (including A morninge exercise) in other hands on premilinary leaves, xxviii + 132 pages, in contemporary calf elaborately gilt. Late 16th-early 17th century.

Among papers of the recusant Throckmorton family, of Coughton Court, Warwickshire. Bookplate of Sir Charles Throckmorton, Bt.

SoR 319

Copy, in a neat italic hand.

In: A quarto volume of Catholic tracts, in three different hands, 82 leaves (plus 46 blanks), in old blind-stamped calf. c.1600.

Thomas Rodd's sale catalogue (1841), item 786. Later owned by Edward Hailstone (1818-90), of Walton Hall, Wakefield, botanist and book collector.

SoR 319.5

Extract, comprising A short meditation, of mans misery, here beginning What was I O lord, What am I..., transcribed from an early printed source.

In: A long ledger-size miscellany of recusant verse and some prose, including 32 poems by Robert Southwell, largely in the single neat hand of Gertrude Thimelby (1617-68), a second hand on pp. 119-21, viii + 130 pages, some leaves partly torn away, in contemporary vellum. c.1651-7.

Associated with the Fairfax family of Wootton Wawen, Warwickshire, including Thomas Fairfax (d.1691), yeoman. Later inscribed with the name Harriet Marcusden. Sold by P.J. Dobell, 1948.

Discussed in Cedric C. Brown, Recusant Community and Jesuit Mission in Parliament Days: Bodleian MS Eng. poet. b. 5, Yearbook of English Studies, 23 (2003), 290-315.

SoR 320

Extracts, transcribed from the first edition.

In: A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous papers, in several secretary hands, one predominating, 101 leaves, in modern half green morocco.

Volume II of the letterbooks and miscellanies of members of the Williams (alias Cromwell) family of Huntingdonshire.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Willu Readman.

This MS recorded in Brown, Two Letters, p. xlvii.

A Soliloquy

First published in Trotman (1914), pp. 69-70.

*SoR 321

Autograph copy of a Euphuistic prose recollection, beginning Alas whre doe I lament his losse….

In: A quarto composite volume of Robert Southwell's autograph papers, in various paper sizes, 64 leaves, in modern binding. c.1580.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Described in McDonald, pp. 12-14.

Edited from this MS in Trotman.

The Triumphs over Death

First published in London, 1595. Trotman, pp. 1-35.

SoR 322

Copy, headed A letter consolatorye for the death of a noble man his sister, complete with dedicatory epistle to Philip Howard, Earl of Arundel, the Epitaph on Lady Margaret Sackville (here beginning Of Howardes stemme a glorious braunche is deade), and the Latin epitaph Clara Ducum soboles, superis nova sedibus hospes, subscribed 1593 R. S.

In: A quarto volume of English poems and letters of Robert Southwell, largely in one neat small hand, together with sigs A-E (pp. 1-34) of a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, with other Poemes (London, 1595), vii + 80 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum stamped IHS. Early 17th century.

Inscribed names (f. 79v) Thomas Champney Book Anno: Domini 1677; (f. 78v) Mrs Mary Hooge Booke Anno Domini 1678; and (elsewhere) Katherine and Laurence Champney. 19th-century notes (ff. ii-vii) referring to this MS as The Woolhampton MS (? from Woolhampton, Berkshire). Later in the Virtue and Cahill Library, of the Catholic Cathedral of Portsmouth. Christie's, 5 July 1967, lot 190.

Generally cited as the Virtue and Cahill MS.

The Epitaph on Lady Margaret Sackville also printed and collated with the main MS copies in Brown, pp. 101-2, and the Latin epitaph printed in Brown, pp. 171-2. This MS recorded in Brown, p. xli.

SoR 323

Copy, complete with dedicatory epistle, the Epitaph on Lady Margaret Sackville and the Latin epitaph, untitled.

In: A quarto volume of works by Robert Southwell, in an accomplished secretary hand, 110 leaves, some pages at the back partly torn away, in 19th-century half-morocco. Early 17th century.

Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, April 1836 (Heber sale), lot 1447.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Trotman.

SoR 324

Copy, complete with dedicatory epistle, the Epitaph on Lady Margaret Sackville and the Latin epitaph.

In: A volume of Southwell's English verse and some prose works, in a single hand but for one poem and some corrections in a second hand, 78 quarto leaves. c.1592-1609.

Bearing the childish signature of iereneme WalDegrave (? the future nun Dame Hieronima Waldegrave, c.1603-35) and once in the possession of the Waldegrave family of Essex.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Cited by editors as the Waldegrave MS. Described in McDonald, pp. 19-22, and in Brown, pp. xxxvii-xl. This MS probably to be identified as the lost Bury St Edmunds MS recorded in McDonald, pp. 25-7: see Brown, pp. xxxix-xl.

This MS collated in Trotman.

SoR 325

A MS abridgement, headed Comfortes por the apflicted of the that haue lost a sister or such like, with lines 5-6, 13-18 of the Epitaph on Lady Margaret Sackville, here beginning Fame, honor, grace, gaue aire vnto his breath, and lines 3-4, 9-10 of the Latin epitaph, here beginning Dotibus ornauit, superauit moribus ortu.

In: A miscellany, entitled a not-booke of divinity and honor military and civill, chiefly comprising 29 poems by Robert Southwell transcribed from printed sources, in the predominantly italic hand of Thomas Read, a student of Magdalen College, Oxford, 186 leaves, dated 1624. 1624.

Later in the collection of George Arents Jr (1875-1960), manufacturer.

This MS recorded in Brown, p. li, but not collated.

(2) Latin Works by Southwell

Ad omnia accomodata precatio

Unpublished.

*SoR 326

Autograph draft of a prayer beginning O dulcissime Jesu Christe ecce nuc venit occasio….

In: A quarto composite volume of Robert Southwell's autograph papers, in various paper sizes, 64 leaves, in modern binding. c.1580.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Described in McDonald, pp. 12-14.

This MS recorded in McDonald, p. 13.

Ante Missam precatio

Unpublished.

*SoR 327

Autograph draft of a prayer beginning Cum tu dulcissime Jesu temetipsum spinis coronatu….

In: A quarto composite volume of Robert Southwell's autograph papers, in various paper sizes, 64 leaves, in modern binding. c.1580.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Described in McDonald, pp. 12-14.

This MS recorded in McDonald, p. 13.

Ante orationem precatio

Unpublished.

*SoR 328

Autograph draft of a prayer beginning Cum tu amatisse Jesu humanam natura assupteris….

In: A quarto composite volume of Robert Southwell's autograph papers, in various paper sizes, 64 leaves, in modern binding. c.1580.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Described in McDonald, pp. 12-14.

This MS recorded in McDonald, p. 13.

Ante studia precatio

Unpublished.

*SoR 329

Autograph draft of a prayer beginning O benignissime Jesu qui vt ignaros viam salutis doceres….

In: A quarto composite volume of Robert Southwell's autograph papers, in various paper sizes, 64 leaves, in modern binding. c.1580.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Described in McDonald, pp. 12-14.

This MS recorded in McDonald, p. 13.

Antequam cum externis aut etiam domesticis loquaris prec

Unpublished.

*SoR 330

Autograph draft of a prayer beginning O bone Jesu qui semper meca es….

In: A quarto composite volume of Robert Southwell's autograph papers, in various paper sizes, 64 leaves, in modern binding. c.1580.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Described in McDonald, pp. 12-14.

This MS recorded in McDonald, p. 13.

Exercitia et Devotiones

First published in Spiritual Exercises and Devotions of Blessed Robert Southwell, S.J., ed. J.M. de Buck, S.J. (London, 1931).

SoR 331
Copy, allegedly transcribed from Southwell's autograph MS (ex libello eius propria scripto), dated 1607, feb. 11o, 73 leaves, in old vellum. 1607/8.

Edited from this MS in de Buck. Recorded in McDonald, p. 14.

SoR 332
Copy, in a small MS volume of religious writings, 82 leaves. [1609-22].

In 1931 this MS was in the Jesuit Résidence in Ghent, Belgium, but is no longer there. Unless destroyed in World War II it may have been transferred to other Belgian Jesuit archives.

This MS collated in de Buck and described pp. 9-11.

SoR 333

Copy, with a title-page Exercitia & Deuotiones R. P. Roberti Sotwellj Soctis Iesu Martyris In Anglia.

In: An octavo volume of Catholic devotional meditations in Latin, in a single small secretary hand, 239 unnumbered leaves, in contemporary vellum, traces of ties.

Compiled by an unidentified Jesuit in Louvain.

c.1614.

Phillipps MS 2599.

Formerly in the Phillipps collection; this MS recorded in de Buck, pp. 14-15 (but not seen by him). See also SoR 341.

Meditatio

Unpublished.

*SoR 334

Autograph draft of a meditation beginning Omnia te in cruce dereliquerunt….

In: A quarto composite volume of Robert Southwell's autograph papers, in various paper sizes, 64 leaves, in modern binding. c.1580.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Described in McDonald, pp. 12-14.

This MS recorded in McDonald, p. 13.

Meditationes de Attributis Divinis ad amorem Dei excitantes

See SoR 341.

Meditoes in aduentu

Unpublished.

*SoR 335

Autograph theological notes.

In: A quarto composite volume of Robert Southwell's autograph papers, in various paper sizes, 64 leaves, in modern binding. c.1580.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Described in McDonald, pp. 12-14.

This MS recorded in McDonald, p. 13.

Notae theologicae

Unpublished.

*SoR 336

Autograph notes of a treatise on dogmatic theology.

In: A quarto composite volume of Robert Southwell's autograph papers, in various paper sizes, 64 leaves, in modern binding. c.1580.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Described in McDonald, pp. 12-14.

This MS recorded in McDonald, p. 12.

On Christ's condemnation to death and the injustice of such a sentence

See SoR 342.

Precatio

Unpublished.

*SoR 337

Autograph draft of a prayer beginning Domine Jesu Christe fateor me indignu esse qui oculos meos ad te attollam….

In: A quarto composite volume of Robert Southwell's autograph papers, in various paper sizes, 64 leaves, in modern binding. c.1580.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Described in McDonald, pp. 12-14.

This MS recorded in McDonald, p. 13.

*SoR 338

Autograph draft of a prayer beginning O dulcissime et suauissime Jesu….

In: A quarto composite volume of Robert Southwell's autograph papers, in various paper sizes, 64 leaves, in modern binding. c.1580.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Described in McDonald, pp. 12-14.

This MS recorded in McDonald, p. 13.

(3) Prose Works of Doubtful Authorship

The Hundred Meditations of the Love of God

An English translation of Diego de Estella's Meditaciones devotissimas del amor de Dios. First published in London, 1873, ed. John Morris, S.J.

SoR 339
Transcript of an early copy which was allegedly transcribed from ye Originall … written wth Mr. Robert Southwells owne hand and with a dedication by the early copyist to Lady Beauchamp, vii + 408 quarto leaves (plus later index and blanks). Early 19th century.

On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

Edited from this MS in Morris. Described in McDonald, pp. 15-16.

SoR 339.5
A formal copy, in an accomplished secretary hand, with some rubrication, with a title-page Certein Devovte Meditations of the Love of God, and with an eight-page Table at the end, i + 315 quarto leaves, in old calf. Early 17th century.
SoR 340
Copy, with a dedication claiming that the MS is transcribed by the copyist from Southwell's autograph MS and that the translation was intended by Southwell to be presented to the mother of Anne, Lady Beauchamp. Early 17th century.

Later in the library of Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1845 (Bright sale), lot 247, to Doleman.

This MS recorded in Brown, p. xx.

Meditationes de Attributis Divinis ad amorem Dei excitantes

Unpublished.

See also SoR 333.

SoR 341

Copy, with a title-page, the work here ascribed to B. P. Ca. Roberti Sotuuellj. mart.

In: An octavo volume of Catholic devotional meditations in Latin, in a single small secretary hand, 239 unnumbered leaves, in contemporary vellum, traces of ties.

Compiled by an unidentified Jesuit in Louvain.

c.1614.

Phillipps MS 2599.

Miscellaneous

Notebook

Unpublished.

*SoR 342
A sextodecimo composite booklet of autograph notes and memoranda by the young Southwell, i + 33 leaves (including nine blanks), in late 17th-century vellum gilt.

Comprising three MSS containing copies, in Latin and Italian, of Jesuit rules and spiritual exercises, a calendar of duties, and a Latin devotional tract On Christ's condemnation to death and the injustice of such a sentence, compiled while Southwell was a novice or scholastic in Rome.

c.1579-80.

The booklet sent from Rome by Christopher Green, S.J., to John Keynes, S.J., Rector of the Jesuit college at Liège; later probably sent to Stonyhurst College at its foundation in 1794. Given to Thomas Anthony Southwell (1777-1860), third Viscount Southwell. Temporarily deposited in 1930 by the fifth Viscount Southwell (1872-44) in St Joseph's Church, Newbury, Berkshire. A typescript summary and partial transcript of the MS made in London in 1930 by or for Fr C.A. Newdigate, S.J. Afterwards in the custody of Patrick C. Barry, in the Office of the Vice-Postulation for the Cause of the English and Welsh Martyrs, in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London. Deposited in the Bodleian in 1988 by Iain Cameron.

Described in H[erbert] T[hurston, S.J.], An Autograph Manuscript of the Venerable Robert Southwell, S.J., The Month, 193, No. 718 (April 1924), p. 353. Also described in Spiritual Exercises and Devotions of Blessed Robert Southwell, S.J., ed. J.-M. de Buck, S.J. (London, 1931), pp. 29-31, and in McDonald, pp. 14-15.

*SoR 343
A sectodecimo autograph notebook, comprising lists of saints and of subjects for prayers, in Latin, inscribed Manu P. Rob. Southwelli Martyris scripta, 16 unsewn leaves (ff. 9v-16r blank). c.1679-80.