John Suckling

Copy, untitled, on the rectos of two conjugate folio leaves, gnawed at the corner by rodents.

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

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

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy, headed Of Absence.

Part B (ff. 16d-86v): A quarto miscellany of poems and letters, in several hands, compiled by William Elyott (a nephew of Sir Simonds D'Ewes). c.1640-55.

Part C (ff. 86 bis-120r): A quarto verse miscellany compiled by Thomas Axton, M.A. (b.1699/1700), of Trinity College, Cambridge. c.1718-22.

Part C sold at the Thomas Rawlinson sale in March 1733/4, lot 289.

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy, subscribed J. S.

Owned (inscription f.[ir]), and possibly partly compiled, by Sir Henry Rainsford (1599-1641), of Clifford Chambers, near Stratford-upon-Avon.

Bookplate of Edward Greenfield Doggett and Hugh Greenfield Doggett, of Bristol, 1893. Later owned by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 15. Discussed in Peter Davidson, The Notebook of Henry Rainsford, N&Q, 229 (June 1984), 247-50.

Copy, in the italic hand of John Langley, household steward and tutor to the Earl of Middlesex's sons, untitled, in a eight-page quarto booklet of verse by Suckling.

Among papers of the Sackville and Cranfield families, Earls of Dorset and of de la Warr, of Knole Park, Kent.

Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, pp. 303-4.

This MS collated in Clayton and discussed p. ciii. Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 306.

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

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy.

With (f. 1r-v) a prose dedication To the Queene (Henrietta Maria), an entry on f. 42v in a later hand, and f. 76v with scribbled date 14 of Jvne 1665.

Covers inscribed on the inside at various times Gentilles Colte her Book, Th Whitfield Sept^br. 18: 1764 and b[ough]t at Woodcoates sale. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 7004). Sotheby's, 24 April 1911. lot 844. Colbeck, Radford & Co., The Ingatherer, No. 24 (June 1932), item 221. Sold by P.J. and A.E. Dobell in 1936.

Reduced facsimile of ff. 1r-41v in Poems 1645 (1971). Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Colte MS: WaE Δ 1.

This MS collated in Clayton. Facsimile in Edmund Waller, Poems 1645 (Menston: Scolar Press, 1971).

Copy.

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

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

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy.

Compiled chiefly by Sarah Cowper (née Holled, 1644-1720), Lady Cowper, wife of Sir William Cowper, MP (1639-1706), possibly in part from texts supplied by Martin Clifford (c.1624-77), erstwhile secretary of the Duke of Buckingham and Master of the Charterhouse. Including (pp. [91-116]) 26 poems by Sir Charles Sedley as a single group (and copies of a poem of doubtful authorship on pp. [165] and [179]).

Recorded in IELM, II.ii, as the Cowper MS: SeC Δ 2. Discussed in Allan Pritchard, Editing from Manuscript: Cowley and the Cowper Papers, in Editing Poetry from Spenser to Dryden, ed. A.H. De Quehen (New York & London, 1981), pp. 47-76, esp. pp. 62-5, and in Harold Love, Two Rochester Manuscripts Circulated from the Charterhouse, The Library, 6th Ser. 16/3 (September 1994), 225-9.

Copy in the italic hand of John Langley, household steward and tutor to the Earl of Middlesex's sons, untitled, in a eight-page quarto booklet of verse by Suckling.

Among papers of the Sackville and Cranfield families, Earls of Dorset and of de la Warr, of Knole Park, Kent.

Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, pp. 303-4.

This MS collated in Clayton and discussed p. ciii; recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 306.

Afterwards owned by Charles de Beaumont, the Chevalière d'Éon (1728-1810). Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872): Phillipps MS 9500. In the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, and art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936.

This MS collated in Clayton.

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy, headed responsus.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Joseph Hall (not the bishop). Later owned by John Payne Collier (1789-1883), literary scholar, editor and forger, who has entered in pseudo-17th-century secretary script copies of various ballads on ff. 39r-41r, 107v-79r, 181r-v, 227r-8v, 243r-6r, as well as adding foliation (1-284) before the more recent foliation (1-291, used below). Quaritch's sale catalogue of English Literature (August-November 1884), item 22350, Collier's transcript of the MS made c.1860 being item 22352. Formerly Folger MS 2071.7.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Giles E. Dawson, John Payne Collier's Great Forgery, SB, 24 (1971), 1-26.

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy.

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

Later bookplate of Henry B. Humphrey.

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

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy, in a musical setting.

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

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

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy.

Formerly Chest II, No. 21.

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy, untitled.

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

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

This MS collated in Clayton.

Second copy, untitled, in double columns on one side of a single folio leaf.

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

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

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy, headed The Bride on her Wedding-day, describ'd. A Song, on the first of two conjugate folio leaves.

This MS recorded in Clayton.

Copy, on two conjugate folio leaves. Late 18th century.

Chiefly collected by W.H. Black. Subsequently bought from Miss N.T. Harrison, 1947.

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled.

This MS recorded in Clayton.

Copy, headed The Wedding.

Owned in 1670 by one Hilkiah Bedford.

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy, headed A Parly betwean two West-Country men on Sight of a Wedding.

Folios 1r-32r copied c.1686-8 in a single hand; ff. 33v-48r copied c.1688-94 in four other hands.

Later owned by Sir Francis Freeling, first Baronet (1764-1836), postal administrator and book collector. Evans (Sotheby's), 25 November 1836 (Freeling sale), lot 1156. Acquired from Leo S. Olschki, 6 November 1986.

Copy, headed On the Marriage of the Lord Louelace, subscribed S^r John Suckling.

Compiled by Peter Calfe (1610-67), son of a Dutch merchant in London.

Later owned by John, Baron Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor, and afterwards by Edward Harley (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford.

Cited in IELM II.i-ii (1987-93), together with British Library, Harley MS 6918 with which it was once bound, as the Calfe MS: CwT Δ 18; KiH Δ 9; RnT Δ 4. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis, pp 129-35, 444-5 (see KiH Δ 6).

Edited from this MS in Berry, pp. 19-25; collated in Clayton.

Copy of lines 1-4 (words only), untitled.

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

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

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

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy, headed S^r John Suckling on y^e Lord Lovelace his Marriage.

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

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

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

Copy, subscribed J. S.

Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 17 of the Hopkinson MSS.

Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, pp. 295-6.

This MS collated (no variants) in Peter Beal, Suckling's Verses in the Hopkinson Manuscripts, N&Q, 222 (December 1977), 543-4, and see also Thomas Clayton in N&Q, 224 (October 1979), 425-7.

Copy, headed A Barly-breake, subscribed dedit ffrancis Kneuett.

Compiled by Sir Thomas Dawes (knighted 1639).

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

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy, in Lawes's musical setting, untitled.

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

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

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

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy, headed Sonnetto.

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy, untitled.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Joseph Hall (not the bishop). Later owned by John Payne Collier (1789-1883), literary scholar, editor and forger, who has entered in pseudo-17th-century secretary script copies of various ballads on ff. 39r-41r, 107v-79r, 181r-v, 227r-8v, 243r-6r, as well as adding foliation (1-284) before the more recent foliation (1-291, used below). Quaritch's sale catalogue of English Literature (August-November 1884), item 22350, Collier's transcript of the MS made c.1860 being item 22352. Formerly Folger MS 2071.7.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Giles E. Dawson, John Payne Collier's Great Forgery, SB, 24 (1971), 1-26.

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy, untitled.

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

Later bookplate of Henry B. Humphrey.

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

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.

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

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

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy, untitled.

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

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

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

Facsimile of f. 55v in Cutbirth, Thomas Killigrew's Commonplace Book? p. 34.

Copy, untitled.

Formerly Chest II, No. 21.

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy, in a neat italic hand, subscribed J Sucklyn. Esq^r, on the third page of two conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.

Among papers of the Sackville and Cranfield families, Earls of Dorset and of de la Warr, of Knole Park, Kent.

Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, pp. 303-4.

Edited from this MS in Beaurline, loc. cit., and in Clayton, with a facsimile in Clayton, Plate 5, before p. xcix. Facsimiles also in DLB, vol. 58, Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers (Detroit, 1987), p. 270, and in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 260.

Copy, in a neat italic hand, untitled and subscribed J Sucklyn Esq^r, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.

Among papers of the Sackville and Cranfield families, Earls of Dorset and of de la Warr, of Knole Park, Kent.

Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, pp. 303-4.

Edited from this MS in Beaurline, loc. cit., and in Clayton.

Copy, untitled.

Afterwards owned by Charles de Beaumont, the Chevalière d'Éon (1728-1810). Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872): Phillipps MS 9500. In the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, and art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936.

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy, untitled.

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

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

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy in the italic hand of John Langley, household steward and tutor to the Earl of Middlesex's sons, untitled, in a eight-page quarto booklet of verse by Suckling.

Among papers of the Sackville and Cranfield families, Earls of Dorset and of de la Warr, of Knole Park, Kent.

Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, pp. 303-4.

This MS collated in Clayton and discussed p. ciii; recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 306.

Copy, headed Songe.

Formerly (before 1686) in the Palatine Library at Heidelberg. Possibly acquired by Charles Louis (1617-80), Elector Palatine, while at the English court of his uncle, Charles I, from 1635 to 1649.

This volume discovered, and announced in the TLS, 23 July 2010, pp. 14-15, by June Schlueter and Paul Schlueter.

Copy, untitled.

Formerly Chest II, No. 21.

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy of an untitled six-stanza version, in an italic hand, on both sides of a single quarto leaf.

Including eleven poems by John Donne, three of them (ff. 10r-14v, 55r, 76r-7r) in the italic hand of his friend Sir Henry Goodyer (1571-1627); ff. 95r-8r in the same hand as the Leconfield MS (DnJ Δ 5) and constituting part of what was probably a quarto MS book of Donne's satires; f. 132r-v constituting a set of six verse epistles by Donne, the text related to the Westmoreland MS (DnJ Δ 19).

From the Conway Papers belonging chiefly to Sir Edward Conway, Baron Conway of Ragley, later Viscount Killultagh and Viscount Conway of Conway Castle (c.1564-1631), and to his son, Edward, second Viscount Conway (1594-1655). Later owned by John Wilson Croker (1780-1857), politician and writer, and presented 10 January 1860.

Cited in IELM, I.i, as the Conway MS: DnJ Δ 40. Cited as A23 by editors. Facsimile of f. 62r in Michael Roy Denbo, Editing a Renaissance Commonplace Book: The Holgate Miscellany, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, III, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2004). pp. 65-73 (p. 71).

This MS collated and the last two stanzas edited in Clayton.

Copy, headed Song, by Sir John Suckling.

Copy of the first stanza, in a musical setting by John Atkins.

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

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

This MS recorded in Clayton.

Copy, untitled, subscribed S^r J. Suckling.

Afterwards owned by Charles de Beaumont, the Chevalière d'Éon (1728-1810). Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872): Phillipps MS 9500. In the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, and art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936.

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy, subscribed J. S.

Scribbling on f. 33r rev. including the name Elizabeth keech.

Copy, subscribed J. S.

Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 17 of the Hopkinson MSS.

Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, pp. 295-6.

This MS recorded (but not seen) in Clayton, p. 291. Collated in Peter Beal, Suckling's Verses in the Hopkinson Manuscripts, N&Q, 222 (December 1977), 543-4, and see also Thomas Clayton in N&Q, 224 (October 1979), 425-7.

Copy, subscribed S^r John suckling.

G. Broughton is possibly William (Gulielmus) Broughton (b.1684/5), of Trinity College, Cambridge (one of whose Latin verse compilations was copied in 1704-6 by Richard Robinson in Trinity College, Cambridge, MS 0.6.1 (James 1497). Also the name Jo: Tweedy is inscribed several times on f. 81r. Owned before 1841 by one W. Potter.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Tweedye MS: CwT Δ 10.

Edited from this MS in Clayton.

Copy, headed On King Richard the third supposed to be buried under the bridge at Leycester.

Compiled by Peter Calfe (1610-67), son of a Dutch merchant in London.

Later owned by John, Baron Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor, and afterwards by Edward Harley (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford.

Cited in IELM II.i-ii (1987-93), together with British Library, Harley MS 6918 with which it was once bound, as the Calfe MS: CwT Δ 18; KiH Δ 9; RnT Δ 4. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis, pp 129-35, 444-5 (see KiH Δ 6).

Edited from this MS in Haworth and in Berry, p. 26; collated in Clayton.

Copy.

Formerly (before 1686) in the Palatine Library at Heidelberg. Possibly acquired by Charles Louis (1617-80), Elector Palatine, while at the English court of his uncle, Charles I, from 1635 to 1649.

This volume discovered, and announced in the TLS, 23 July 2010, pp. 14-15, by June Schlueter and Paul Schlueter.

Copy, subscribed J. S..

Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 17 of the Hopkinson MSS.

Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, pp. 295-6.

This MS recorded (but not seen) in Clayton, p. 230. Collated in Peter Beal, Suckling's Verses in the Hopkinson Manuscripts, N&Q, 222 (December 1977), 543-4, and see also Thomas Clayton in N&Q, 224 (October 1979), 425-7.

Copy, subscribed J. S.

Scribbling on f. 33r rev. including the name Elizabeth keech.

Copy, subscribed J. S.

Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 17 of the Hopkinson MSS.

Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, pp. 295-6.

This MS collated (no variants) in Peter Beal, Suckling's Verses in the Hopkinson Manuscripts, N&Q, 222 (December 1977), 543-4, and see also Thomas Clayton in N&Q, 224 (October 1979), 425-7.

Copy, subscribed S^r J: Suckling.

Afterwards owned by Charles de Beaumont, the Chevalière d'Éon (1728-1810). Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872): Phillipps MS 9500. In the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, and art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936.

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy, in Lawes's musical setting, untitled.

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

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

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

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.

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

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

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.

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

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

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

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy, subscribed S^r. J: S:.

Afterwards owned by Charles de Beaumont, the Chevalière d'Éon (1728-1810). Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872): Phillipps MS 9500. In the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, and art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936.

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy, untitled.

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

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

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

Copy, untitled, here beginning No more fayre Heretick, it needs must be.

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

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

Copy, untitled.

Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 32 poems (plus four of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue (1836), item 1044. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9561. Sotheby's, 19 June 1893 (Phillipps sale), lot 628, and 21 March 1895, lot 903. Hodgson's, 23 April 1959, lot 528.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the English Poetry MS: CoR Δ 3 and StW Δ 6.

This MS collated in Clayton.

Owned in 1664 by Anthony Wood (1632-95), Oxford antiquary.

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy, headed Sonnet, subscribed S^r. P.S..

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

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy, headed A Song by S^r Jo: Suckling.

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

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

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

Copy, headed Protestations of Love.

Inscribed (f. [ii^r]), probably by the compiler, Ex Libris Georgij Wright [b.1685/6] S^ti Johannis Collegis Cantabrigiensis Alumni, Decimo quarto Junij. Annoq. Domini 1703.

Also inscribed (f.[ii^r]) M^rs Frances Wright 1708. A postal address on f. 95r (rev.) reads: Direct to Marg^tt Borrett att M^rs. Borretts In Kirkby=stephen Westmoorland p brough bag _ These.

Recorded in IELM, II.ii, as the Wright MS: WaE Δ 12.

Copy, headed A gent: having repulse from a gent=woeman, A freind gives him counsell. A song.

Including 12 poems by Carew.

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

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

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy, untitled.

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

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy, in a musical setting by William Lawes.

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

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

Edited from this MS in Murray Lefkowitz, William Lawes (London, 1960), pp. 201-2. Collated in Clayton.

Copy, untitled.

Afterwards owned by Charles de Beaumont, the Chevalière d'Éon (1728-1810). Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872): Phillipps MS 9500. In the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, and art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936.

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy, untitled.

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

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

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

Copy.

Formerly Chest II, No. 21.

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy, untitled and deleted.

Compiled by one Philip Kynder (b.1597).

Copy, headed Loves Ne plus Ultra and here beginning To see how unregarded now.

Bookplate of F.W. Cosens (1819-89), book collector. Sotheby's, 25 July 1890 (Cosens sale, in lot 294. Bookplate of S.G. Hamilton. Bought in 1950 from H.F.B. Brett-Smith, Oxford literary scholar and editor.

This MS collated in Clayton.

Autograph copy by Lawes, in his musical setting, untitled.

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

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

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy, in a musical setting by John Atkins (d.1671).

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

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

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy, in a musical setting by John Atkins.

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

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

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

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy, untitled and here beginning See See how vnregarded now.

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

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

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

Copy, untitled.

Formerly Chest II, No. 21.

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy, in a musical setting by Nicholas Lanier.

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

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

This MS collated in Clayton. On f. 30 of the MS appears the incipit of thee with a musical setting by William Webb as published in Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1652).

Copy, in a musical setting by Nicolas Lanier, subscribed S^r: John Suckling.

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

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

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

This MS recorded in Clayton.

Copy, subscribed S^r. J: S:.

Afterwards owned by Charles de Beaumont, the Chevalière d'Éon (1728-1810). Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872): Phillipps MS 9500. In the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, and art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936.

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy, subscribed S^r J: Suckling.

Compiled by Peter Calfe (1610-67), son of a Dutch merchant in London.

Later owned by John, Baron Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor, and afterwards by Edward Harley (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford.

Cited in IELM II.i-ii (1987-93), together with British Library, Harley MS 6918 with which it was once bound, as the Calfe MS: CwT Δ 18; KiH Δ 9; RnT Δ 4. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis, pp 129-35, 444-5 (see KiH Δ 6).

Edited from this MS in Clayton.

Copy, untitled, subscribed S^r. J. S.

Afterwards owned by Charles de Beaumont, the Chevalière d'Éon (1728-1810). Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872): Phillipps MS 9500. In the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, and art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936.

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy, in the italic hand of John Langley, household steward and tutor to the Earl of Middlesex's sons, untitled, in an eight-page quarto booklet of verse by Suckling.

Among papers of the Sackville and Cranfield families, Earls of Dorset and of de la Warr, of Knole Park, Kent.

Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, pp. 303-4.

This MS collated in Clayton and discussed p. ciii; recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 306.

Copy of an untitled variant version in a musical setting.

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

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

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

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy, headed Sonnet.

Bookplate of John Pinkerton (1758-1826), historian and poet. Sotheby's, April 1812 (Pinkerton sale), lot 593, to Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, 1836 (Heber sale, Part XI), lot 1104, to Thomas Thorpe. His catalogue, 1836, bought by Laing.

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy on the first page of two conjugate leaves of verse [by Suckling].

Among papers of the Sackville and Cranfield families, Earls of Dorset and of de la Warr, of Knole Park, Kent.

Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, pp. 303-4.

Edited from this MS in Beaurline, loc. cit., and in Clayton.

Copy on the third page of two conjugate folio leaves of verse [by Suckling].

Among papers of the Sackville and Cranfield families, Earls of Dorset and of de la Warr, of Knole Park, Kent.

Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, pp. 303-4.

Edited from this MS in Beaurline, loc. cit., and in Clayton, with a facsimile, Plate 4, after p. xcviii. Facsimile also in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 259.

Copy on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves of verse [by Suckling].

Among papers of the Sackville and Cranfield families, Earls of Dorset and of de la Warr, of Knole Park, Kent.

Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, pp. 303-4.

Edited from this MS in Beaurline, loc. cit., and in Clayton.

Copy on the second page of two conjugate folio leaves of verse [by Suckling].

Among papers of the Sackville and Cranfield families, Earls of Dorset and of de la Warr, of Knole Park, Kent.

Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, pp. 303-4.

Edited from this MS in Beaurline, loc. cit., and in Clayton.

Copy, subscribed J.S.

Scribbling on f. 33r rev. including the name Elizabeth keech.

Copy, subscribed J. S.

Scribbling on f. 33r rev. including the name Elizabeth keech.

Copy, with an additional stanza, headed A Dialogue betw: T: C: and S^r: I: S: and subscribed T: C:.

Inscribed (f. i^r) by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), the date 1741 added.

This MS collated in Clayton. The additional stanza edited in Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), p. 535.

Copy on the second page of two conjugate folio leaves of verse [by Suckling].

Among papers of the Sackville and Cranfield families, Earls of Dorset and of de la Warr, of Knole Park, Kent.

Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, pp. 303-4.

Edited from this MS in Beaurline, loc. cit., and in Clayton.

Copy on the second page of two conjugate folio leaves of verse [by Suckling].

Among papers of the Sackville and Cranfield families, Earls of Dorset and of de la Warr, of Knole Park, Kent.

Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, pp. 303-4.

Edited from this MS in Beaurline, loc. cit., and in Clayton.

Copy on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves of verse [by Suckling].

Among papers of the Sackville and Cranfield families, Earls of Dorset and of de la Warr, of Knole Park, Kent.

Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, pp. 303-4.

Edited from this MS in Beaurline, loc. cit., and in Clayton.

Copy on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves of verse [by Suckling].

Among papers of the Sackville and Cranfield families, Earls of Dorset and of de la Warr, of Knole Park, Kent.

Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, pp. 303-4.

Edited from this MS in Beaurline, loc. cit., and in Clayton.

Copy on the second page of two conjugate folio leaves of verse [by Suckling].

Among papers of the Sackville and Cranfield families, Earls of Dorset and of de la Warr, of Knole Park, Kent.

Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, pp. 303-4.

Edited from this MS in Beaurline, loc. cit., and in Clayton.

Copy, untitled.

Owned before 1959 by the Lingard-Guthrie family.

This MS collated in Clayton and in Beaurline, loc. cit.

Copy, headed The Witts.

Including many poems by Sidney Godolphin (1610-43), poet and courtier, and associated with the circle of Lucius Cary (1609/10-1643), second Viscount Falkland, politician and author, of Great Tew, Oxfordshire.

This MS collated in Clayton and in Beaurline, loc. cit.

Copy, in a professional rounded italic hand, headed The Witts, on two conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter. c.1630s.

Partly compiled by Sir Richard Browne and his father Christopher Browne (1577-1646), of Saye's Court, Deptford.

Volume LXVII of the Evelyn Papers, of John Evelyn (1620-1706), diarist and writer, of Wootton House, Surrey, and his family, also incorporating papers of his father-in-law, Sir Richard Browne, Bt (1605-83), diplomat, and his family. Formerly preserved at Christ Church, Oxford. Acquired March 1995.

This MS collated in Clayton and in Beaurline, loc. cit.

Copy, headed The Witts.

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

Later bookplate of Henry B. Humphrey.

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

Edited from this MS in Beaurline, loc. cit. Collated in Clayton.

Copy, headed The witts.

Including 52 poems by Donne (many on pp. 64-109, 167-74 initialled L.C. [? Lord Chancellor], as are some poems by others), 11 poems by Carew, ten poems by Corbett, and 11 poems by or attributed to Herrick, in a single neat hand throughout; the poems dating up to 1637.

Later scribbling and inscriptions including the names Edw Denny [presumably Edward Denny (1569-1637), Baron Denny of Waltham and first Earl of Norwich], Charles Cocks, Edward Randolphe and (on p. 162) Thomas Cassy. Later owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary (sold in the Haslewood sale, London, 1833, lot 1329, to Thorpe); by Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough, antiquary (his sale in Dublin, 1 November 1841, item 624); and by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector (his library catalogue, 1880, IV, pp. 1159-64), and sold at Sotheby's, 17 July 1917 (Huth sale), lot 5873.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Haslewood-Kingsborough MS (I): DnJ Δ 25, CwT Δ 28, CoR Δ 10, and HeR Δ 5. A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 15). Discussed in C.M. Armitage, Donne's Poems in Huntington Manuscript 198: New Light on The Funerall, SP, 63 (1966), 697-707. A facsimile of part of p. 63 in Marcy L. North, Amateur Compilers, Scribal Labour, and the Contents of Early Modern Poetic Miscellanies, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 101).

Edited from this MS in Berry, pp. 39-47; collated in Clayton and in Beaurline, loc. cit. A MS transcript made by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833) is in the New York Public Library, Manuscript Divisoin: see Beaurline, p. 46, and C.M. Armitage, Identification of New York Public Library Manuscript Suckling Collection and of Huntington Manuscript 198, SB, 19 (1966), 215-16.

Copy, possibly in the italic hand of John Langley, household steward and tutor to the Earl of Middlesex's sons, untitled, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed by Lionel Cranfield, Earl of Middlesex, Rymes Of som Poettes Of som Wittes Abowt London Septemb^r 1637.

Among papers of the Sackville and Cranfield families, Earls of Dorset and of de la Warr, of Knole Park, Kent.

Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, pp. 303-4.

This MS collated in Clayton and in Beaurline, loc. cit.

Copy, headed The Witts.

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

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

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

Copy, untitled.

Compiled by Sir Francis Fane (c.1612-80), of Fulbeck Hall, Northamptonshire, with his signed dedications to his son Henry (ff. 2r-v, 130r) dated respectively 1 January 1655 and 20^th. of Aug^t: 1663.

This MS collated in Clayton and described p. 296.

Copy, in a neat italic hand, untitled, in the upper left-hand corner of part of a single quarto leaf, once folded as a letter or packet, endorsed in a later hand Sir John Suckling.

Among papers of the Sackville and Cranfield families, Earls of Dorset and of de la Warr, of Knole Park, Kent.

Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, pp. 303-4.

Edited from this MS in Clayton.

Copy, untitled and subscribed ffinis Tu.

Inscribed (p. i) Ex dono B. R. a^o Jni. i625 [altered to i631] / Broughton / Thomas Gray.

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy of lines 1-19, untitled, written later.

Inscribed (p. i) Ex dono B. R. a^o Jni. i625 [altered to i631] / Broughton / Thomas Gray.

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy, headed Vpon his Loves Vicissitude, subscribed Walton Poole.

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

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

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

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy, headed The Sparke T.C., subscribed W.P..

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

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy, headed On his first Loue, subscribed Posuit Wal: Poole.

Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 30 poems by Strode (one of them in V.a.152) plus one of doubtful authorship.

Later sold by Thomas Thorpe. Afterwards owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89) (and No. 27 in his Catalogue of Shakespeare Reliques (Brixton Hill, 1852)) and subsequently in the library of Lord Warwick at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1.27.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Thorpe-Halliwell MS: CoR Δ 7 and StW Δ 17. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy, headed To a scornfull Mistresse.

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

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

Copy, here beginning My first Love burnt my hart to tynder.

Partly compiled (pp. 75-99) by one Robert Berkeley, who has inscribed the first page Rob Berkeley his booke An^o. 1640.

Formerly owned by Henry Huth (1815-78). Formerly Rosenbach 195.

This MS collated in Clayton; also collated (as Mr. Huth's Berkeley MS. 1640) in Thomas Carew, Poems, ed. W.C. Hazlitt (London, 1870), p. 119.

Copy, headed The answer to it, subscribed Walton Poole.

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

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

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

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

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy, headed On the 2 first verses of the former Copye for the Lady Denham, subscribed Walton Poole.

A folio verse miscellany, including 15 poems by Donne, f. 162r-v in a rounded italic hand, ff. 164r-74v in a slightly erratic italic hand, ff. 175r-279v in a neat formal italic hand (also responsible for the index on ff. 2r-11v), this miscellany constituting ff. 162r-279v of a single folio volume containing also Part I (DnJ Δ 15), ii + 279 leaves in all (lacking one or more leaves at the end), in old blind-stamped calf (rebacked).

Formerly MS G. 2.21.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Dublin MS (II): DnJ Δ 61.

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy.

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

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

Edited from this MS in L.A. Beaurline, The Canon of Sir John Suckling's Poems, SP, 57 (1960), 492-518 (p. 517); collated in Clayton.

Copy, in Lawes's musical setting (1596-1662).

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

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

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

Edited from this MS in Clayton.

Copy, untitled.

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

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

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy, untitled.

Compiled principally by Henry George, while a student at Christ's College, Cambridge.

Inscribed (f. 1*^v) Meliora Spero dum Spiro / Henricus George / nec ut mortale / quod opto.

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy of lines 1-8, headed vpon A womans inconstancy.

Including 12 poems by Carew.

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

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

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy, headed S^r John Suckling verses. The text followed (ff. 23v-4) by The Answ[er]:.

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

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

Edited from this MS in A. D[yce], Inedited Song by Sir John Suckling, N&Q, 1st Ser. 1 (December 1849), 72. Collated in Clayton.

Copy, in double columns, untitled.

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

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy, untitled.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Joseph Hall (not the bishop). Later owned by John Payne Collier (1789-1883), literary scholar, editor and forger, who has entered in pseudo-17th-century secretary script copies of various ballads on ff. 39r-41r, 107v-79r, 181r-v, 227r-8v, 243r-6r, as well as adding foliation (1-284) before the more recent foliation (1-291, used below). Quaritch's sale catalogue of English Literature (August-November 1884), item 22350, Collier's transcript of the MS made c.1860 being item 22352. Formerly Folger MS 2071.7.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Giles E. Dawson, John Payne Collier's Great Forgery, SB, 24 (1971), 1-26.

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.

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

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

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.

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

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

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

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy, untitled.

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

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

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

Copy, subscribed J. S..

Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 17 of the Hopkinson MSS.

Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, pp. 295-6.

This MS collated in Peter Beal, Suckling's Verses in the Hopkinson Manuscripts, N&Q, 222 (December 1977), 543-4, and see also Thomas Clayton in N&Q, 224 (October 1979), 425-7.

Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand, untitled, with two staves of music, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves.

Including eleven poems by John Donne, three of them (ff. 10r-14v, 55r, 76r-7r) in the italic hand of his friend Sir Henry Goodyer (1571-1627); ff. 95r-8r in the same hand as the Leconfield MS (DnJ Δ 5) and constituting part of what was probably a quarto MS book of Donne's satires; f. 132r-v constituting a set of six verse epistles by Donne, the text related to the Westmoreland MS (DnJ Δ 19).

From the Conway Papers belonging chiefly to Sir Edward Conway, Baron Conway of Ragley, later Viscount Killultagh and Viscount Conway of Conway Castle (c.1564-1631), and to his son, Edward, second Viscount Conway (1594-1655). Later owned by John Wilson Croker (1780-1857), politician and writer, and presented 10 January 1860.

Cited in IELM, I.i, as the Conway MS: DnJ Δ 40. Cited as A23 by editors. Facsimile of f. 62r in Michael Roy Denbo, Editing a Renaissance Commonplace Book: The Holgate Miscellany, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, III, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2004). pp. 65-73 (p. 71).

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy, headed Song.

Including eleven poems by John Donne, three of them (ff. 10r-14v, 55r, 76r-7r) in the italic hand of his friend Sir Henry Goodyer (1571-1627); ff. 95r-8r in the same hand as the Leconfield MS (DnJ Δ 5) and constituting part of what was probably a quarto MS book of Donne's satires; f. 132r-v constituting a set of six verse epistles by Donne, the text related to the Westmoreland MS (DnJ Δ 19).

From the Conway Papers belonging chiefly to Sir Edward Conway, Baron Conway of Ragley, later Viscount Killultagh and Viscount Conway of Conway Castle (c.1564-1631), and to his son, Edward, second Viscount Conway (1594-1655). Later owned by John Wilson Croker (1780-1857), politician and writer, and presented 10 January 1860.

Cited in IELM, I.i, as the Conway MS: DnJ Δ 40. Cited as A23 by editors. Facsimile of f. 62r in Michael Roy Denbo, Editing a Renaissance Commonplace Book: The Holgate Miscellany, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, III, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2004). pp. 65-73 (p. 71).

Copy, headed Capt. Tyrell. Of M^rs Winchcombe. The text followed (p. 158) by an answer by M^r Womack.

Compiled principally by one H. S., a Cambridge University man.

This MS volume edited in Diana Julia Rose, MS Rawlinson Poetical 147: An Annotated Volume of Seventeenth-Century Cambridge Verse (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Leicester, 1992), of which a copy is in Cambridge University Library, Manuscript Department, A8f.

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy, untitled.

Compiled by Samuel Waker, painter stainer, of London.

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

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy, in a neat italic hand, untitled, on one page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

Among papers of the Sackville and Cranfield families, Earls of Dorset and of de la Warr, of Knole Park, Kent.

Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, pp. 303-4.

Edited from this MS in Clayton.

Copy, untitled.

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

Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

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

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy, in Lawes's musical setting.

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

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

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

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.

Bookplate of Edmund Thomas Warren Horne, publisher, and probably the compiler. Puttick & Simpson's, 24 April 1873.

Copy.

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

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

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

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy of lines 1-12, untitled.

Inscribed (f. [ii^r]) Edward Pulton / Aprill 1645, and (f. 44v rev.) Edwardus Jackson 1687.

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy.

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

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

This MS recorded in Clayton.

Copy, untitled.

Inscribed (Part I, f. 1r) M^r John Oldhams Booke [i.e. the poet John Oldham (1653-83)]. Inscribed (Part II, f. 1r) James Bateman [(b.1633/4) of Christ's College, Cambridge], and Robert Pierrepont [either the son of Col. Francis Pierrepont, M.P. (d.1659), or the third Earl of Kingston (1650/1-82), of Holme-Pierrepoint, Nottinghamshire, Oldham's patron]. Formerly Folger MS 621.1.

Described in F.P. Hammond, A Commonplace Book owned by John Oldham, N&Q, 224 (December 1979), 515-18.

This MS recorded in Clayton.

Copy, untitled.

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

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

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

Copy, untitled.

Formerly Chest II, No. 21.

This MS recorded in Clayton.

Copy in the italic hand of John Langley, household steward and tutor to the Earl of Middlesex's sons, untitled, in a eight-page quarto booklet of verse by Suckling.

Among papers of the Sackville and Cranfield families, Earls of Dorset and of de la Warr, of Knole Park, Kent.

Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, pp. 303-4.

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy, headed Against Absence.

274 leaves, unnumbered.

Comprising:

[Part I, ff. 12r-168r], five sermons, the first four by Donne, in the hand of Knightley Chetwode, son of Richard Chetwode, of Chetwode, Buckinghamshire, and Oakley, Staffordshire. 1625/6.

[Part II, ff. 1r-78r rev.], a verse miscellany, produced when the original blank pages were later filled from the reverse end, probably by one Katherine Butler. 1696.

The volume inscribed as having been given to Katherine Butler by her father in May 1693.

Described in Potter & Simpson, I, 41-2.

Copy, headed To y^e Lady Desmonde and subscribed P Apsley.

Including many poems by Sidney Godolphin (1610-43), poet and courtier, and associated with the circle of Lucius Cary (1609/10-1643), second Viscount Falkland, politician and author, of Great Tew, Oxfordshire.

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy, subscribed J. S.

Scribbling on f. 33r rev. including the name Elizabeth keech.

Copy, untitled and here beginning I do'nt belieue you can soe guilty bee.

G. Broughton is possibly William (Gulielmus) Broughton (b.1684/5), of Trinity College, Cambridge (one of whose Latin verse compilations was copied in 1704-6 by Richard Robinson in Trinity College, Cambridge, MS 0.6.1 (James 1497). Also the name Jo: Tweedy is inscribed several times on f. 81r. Owned before 1841 by one W. Potter.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Tweedye MS: CwT Δ 10.

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy, headed On his M^rs beauty spotts and here beginning Madam your heart cannot soe guilty be.

Including 12 poems by Carew.

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

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

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy, in Constance Fowler's hand, headed on black paches and initialled M^r H T [i.e. Henry Thimelby, brother-in-law of Constance Fowler].

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.

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, p. 114. This MS discussed in Jenijoy La Belle, The Huntington Aston Manuscript, BC, 29 (Winter 1980), 542-67 (p. 555-6).

Copy of an untitled version, here beginning I dare not thinke yow can so guilty bee.

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

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

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

Copy of a version headed Songe and beginning There was no woman ever made.

Formerly (before 1686) in the Palatine Library at Heidelberg. Possibly acquired by Charles Louis (1617-80), Elector Palatine, while at the English court of his uncle, Charles I, from 1635 to 1649.

This volume discovered, and announced in the TLS, 23 July 2010, pp. 14-15, by June Schlueter and Paul Schlueter.

Copy, in a professional hand, entitled (f. 99r) A Discourse written by S^r John Suckling Kn^t. to the Earle of Dorset.

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy, in a mixed hand, as by S^r John Suckling, on eighteen quarto leaves.

Some items possibly from the library of Sir Henry Spelman (1563/4-1641), historian and antiquary. Probably the quarto volume later owned by the Rev. Dr Cox Macro (1683-1767), antiquary, sold at Christie's, February 1820, lot 99. Afterwards owned by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist, and antiquary. A description of the contents on ff. 1v-2r by Sir Francis Palgrave, December 1842. Turner sale, 1859, lot 8. Phillipps MS 21538. Sotheby's, 5-10 June 1899 (Phillipps sale), lot 1090.

Copy, headed A Discourse written by S^r John Suckling Kn^t to y^e Earle of Dorsett, followed (on f. 304r) by a contemporary reader's extensive comments prompted by the work, in a closely written mixed hand.

Stamped (f. 1r) with name of Sir Richard Betenson, Bt (? the first Baronet, d.1679, of Hatton Garden, Holborn). Thomas Thorpe, Catalogue of books, ancient and modern...[and] manuscripts, Part 2 (1823), item 5903. In the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 2519. Sotheby's, 21 March 1895 (Phillipps sale), lot 301. Among the collections of Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence, MP (1837-1914), Baconian scholar and book collector.

Copy, principally in the hand of the Feathery Scribe, the last two pages in another professional hand, with a reader's marginal annotations, on fifteen leaves.

Later owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1906-90), businessman and collector. Christie's, 12 June 1980 (Houghton sale, Part 2), lot 482. Christie's, New York, 18 November 1988 (John F. Fleming sale), lot 334.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 227 (No. 24).

Facsimile of the first page in Christie's sale catalogue, 12 June 1980, lot 482 (Plate 42 after p. 132).

Probably owned originally by Suckling's uncle, Charles Suckling of Woodton, and later owned by William Suckling, Roos Hall, Beccles, Suffolk.

This MS collated in Clayton and discussed pp. cii-civ. Clayton's photocopies of the MS are in the Bodleian (MS Facs. c. 27, f. 33).

Copy, headed A discourse presented to y^e Earle of Dorset by S^r John Suckling.

Inscribed inside the lower cover Will Graves/Memoranda. Thomas Thorpe, Catalogue of upwards of fourteen hundred manuscripts (1836). Afterwards owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 9621. Sotheby's, 17 May 1897 (Phillipps sale), lot 627. Donated in 1937 by Leicester Bradner. Formerly MS Vault, Section 10, Drawer 3 Commonplace book.

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy, headed S^r John Sucklings letter to his friend on one side of a single folio leaf.

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

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

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy, in Ashmole's hand, subscribed J: S:, on a single folio leaf.

Collected and some items written by Elias Ashmole (1617-92).

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed S^r John Sucklings Lre out of Scotland, April. 1639, on a single folio leaf.

Among collections of Roger Dodsworth (1585-1654), antiquary, passed on to Lord Fairfax, who donated them to the Bodleian.

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy in the hand of William Sancroft, headed A Letter sent by S^r John Sucklikng to a freind of his in Norfolke, concerning the Scottish businesse. Mid-17th century.

Compiled in part by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury.

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy, in a neat italic hand, as by S^r John Suckling.

Compiled by, and partly in the rugged italic hand of, Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician.

Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1.

Copy, headed S^r. John Sucklings letter to a friend of his. Anno: Dom: 1640.

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

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy.

Once owned by Dr Henry Smyth, Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge. Among the collections of John Patrick (1632-95), religious controversialist.

Copy.

Copy, in a mixed hand, headed An answer to a gentleman of Norfolke concerninge the Scottish business: 1639, subscribed A. C.

Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogues for 1835, item 228, and for 1836, item 216. Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 10134. Sold in 1895 to Tregaskis. Item 89 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Formerly Folger MS 163.1.

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed An answeer to a Gent in the north that sent to inquire after the Scottish busines, subscribed Written by S^r. John Sucklin as tis said.

Compiled partly by Sir Thomas Swinburne (c.1589-1645), of Edlingham and Nafferton, Sheriff of Northumberland in 1628-9.

Among the family collection established by Christopher Mickleton (1612-69), Durham attorney, and by his eldest son James (1638-93), lawyer and antiquary, which was later incorporated in the collections of Gilbert Spearman (1675-1738), lawyer and antiquary.

Copy, headed A Coppie of a Lre written by S^r. John Suckling knight to a friend of his in Kent, concerning y^e Scottish Businesse. A^o. Dni: 1639.

Lacking pages after p. 26 and p. 32, some of which are now National Library of Wales, Carreglwyd II. 595.

Among papers of the Griffith family of Carreglwyd, Anglesey, including papers of John Griffith of Gray's Inn, private secretary to Henry Howard (1540-1614), Earl of Northampton.

Among papers of the Mainwaring family.

Copy, subscribed A. C., on two pages.

Formerly Osborn Collection, Box 45, 19.

Copy, in a mixed hands, headed S^r John Sucklins letter to Tom: Cary the Poet.

Compiled by, and largely in the rugged italic hand of, Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician.

Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1.

Copy, headed Written by one to his freind that woed a widow, to whome he had foermerly bin a Suitor when she was a maide.

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

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

Collated in Clayton.

Copy, headed S^r John Sucklings letter to M^r Hen: Jermin, on seven quarto pages.

c.1640.

This MS collated in Clayton.

Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, untitled, on two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed on a blank leaf (f. 60v) A discourse of the state of these present times. / 1641.

This MS collated in Clayton.

Among the collection of George Thomason (c.1602-66), bookseller and collector of printed tracts.

This MS collated in Clayton. Microfilm in the British Library (Mic. B.58/245).

Among papers of the Sackville and Cranfield families, Earls of Dorset and of de la Warr, of Knole Park, Kent.

Edited from this MS in Clayton and discussed p. ci.

Headed To M^r. Henrye German in the beginninge of Parliam^t 1640 and subscribed J: S:.

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

Possibly a copy presented to the King for the performance at Court about Christmas-time 1637.

This MS collated in Beaurline and described pp. 256-8. Also described in W.W. Greg, Dramatic Documents from the Elizabethan Playhouses, 2 vols (Oxford, 1931), I, 332-3.

Comments on the play.

Discussed, with extracts, in G. Blakemore Evans, A Seventeenth-Century Reader of Shakespeare, RES, 21 (1945), 271-9.

Quoted in Blakemore Evans, p. 279.

Extracts.

Once owned by John Selden (1584-1654).

This item collated in Beaurline and described, p. 259.

Extensive MS annotations in a printed exemplum of the third edition, prepared for use as a promptbook by the King's Company.

This item briefly discussed in Beaurline, pp. 262-3. Complete reduced facsimile in Edward A. Langhans, Restoration Promptbooks (Carbondale & Edwardsville, 1981), pp. 163-95 (and discussed pp. 30-1).

Copy of part of the play, containing the dramatis personae, the first prologue, Act I scene i and scene ii, lines 1-16.

Inscribed (f. [ii^r]) Edward Pulton / Aprill 1645, and (f. 44v rev.) Edwardus Jackson 1687.

This MS collated in Beaurline.

Extracts.

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

On pages 3, 15-24 of Aglaura in an exemplum of Poems &c Written by Sir John Suckling (London, 1646).

Facsimile of pp. 22-23 in Roger E. Stoddard, Marks in Books, Illustrated and Explained (Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1985), p. 7, No. 6.

Extracts from Aglaura, Act I, scene iv, lines 95-103, beginning Ambition seemes all things and yet is none, headed S^r John Suckling.

Compiled entirely by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire.

Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.

Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the Bacon-Tottel Commonplace Books, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).

Extensive MS annotations in a printed exemplum of the third edition, prepared for use as a promptbook by the King's Company.

This item briefly discussed in Beaurline, pp. 262-3. Complete reduced facsimile in Edward A. Langhans, Restoration Promptbooks (Carbondale & Edwardsville, 1981), pp. 232-60 (and discussed pp. 31, 37).

Copy of the second stanza, beginning The Macedon youth left behind, in Purcell's musical setting.

Bookplate of Edmund Thomas Warren Horne, publisher, and probably the compiler. Puttick & Simpson's, 24 April 1873.

Copy of the second stanza, beginning The Macedon youth left behind, in Purcell's musical setting.

Owned, and possibly compiled, by William Knight (1684-1739), vicar choral (from 1712) and subchanter (from 1722) at York Minster.

Autograph copy by Lawes of Grainevert's song in Lawes's musical setting, untitled.

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

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

Edited from this MS in Cutts, The Library (1952), p. 228, and in Jorgens, Part 12 (1989), p. 2. Collated in Beaurline.

Copy of Grainevert's song, untitled.

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

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

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

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

This MS collated in Beaurline.

Copy of Nashorat's catch, in a musical setting by William Lawes, untitled. Mid-late 17th century.

Inscribed (f. 1r) R Guise Oct: 1762. Puttick & Simpson's, 20 December 1872.

This MS collated in Beaurline.

Copy of Nashorat's catch, here beginning Some drinke boyes some drinke.

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

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

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

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

This MS collated in Beaurline.

Autograph copy by Lawes, in his musical setting, untitled.

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

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

This MS collated in Beaurline.

Copy, in a musical setting by William Lawes.

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

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

This MS collated in Beaurline.

Copy of the song, untitled.

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

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

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

Copy of the song, untitled, here beginning Come let's away, to the Tavern I say, with two additional lines.

This MS collated in Beaurline.

Copy of a letter by Suckling, or possibly by Sir John Mennes, perhaps to Mary Bulkeley, undated.

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

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

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

Edited in Clayton (pp. 161-2), as a letter by Suckling, or possibly by Sir John Mennes, perhaps to Mary Bulkeley.

Later owned by Samuel Weller Singer, FSA (1783-1858), of Mickleham, literary scholar. Sotheby's, 3 August 1858 (Singer sale), lot 98, to Knight.

Edited in Clayton, p. 107.

A copy of a letter by Suckling, [to William Wallis], from Leiden, 18 November 1629.

Collected and some items written by Elias Ashmole (1617-92).

Edited in Clayton, pp. 112-14.

Autograph letter signed by Suckling, to the Earl of Middlesex, from Brussels, 3 May 1630.

Edited in Clayton, pp. 114-16.

Edited in Clayton, pp. 116-18, with a facsimile of the first page, Plate 2, after p. xcviii.

Autograph letter signed by Suckling, [to the Earl of Middlesex], from Hamburg, 10 October 1631.

Edited in Clayton, pp. 118-19.

Autograph letter signed by Suckling, to the Earl of Middlesex, from Würtzburg, 9 November 1631.

Edited in Clayton, pp. 119-21.

Autograph letter signed by Suckling, to the Earl of Middlesex, from Frankfurt, 29 November 1631.

Edited in Clayton, pp. 123-4.

Autograph letter signed by Suckling, to the Earl of Middlesex, from Frankfurt, 4 September [but really December] 1631.

Edited in Clayton, p. 125.

Edited in Clayton, pp. 126-9. Facsimile example (erroneously described as probably autograph) in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCVII.

Edited in Clayton, p. 130. Photocopy in Bodleian (MS Facs. d. 90, f. 149r).

Edited in Clayton, pp. 131-3.

Autograph letter signed by Suckling, to the Earl of Middlesex, from Camp [Scottish border], 6 June 1639.

Edited in Clayton, pp. 145-6. Facsimile in IELM, II.ii (1993), Facsimile XIV, after p. xxi.

Autograph letter signed by Suckling, to the Earl of Middlesex, from Whitehall, [30 September 1639].

Edited in Clayton, pp. 148-9. Facsimile in Berry, frontispiece.

Edited in Clayton, p. 151, with a facsimile, Plate 3, after p. xcviii. Facsimiles also in British Literary Autographs, Series I, ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (New York, 1981), No. 42, and in DLB, vol. 58, Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers (Detroit, 1987), p. 273. Edited in part in The R.B. Adam Library, Vol. III (London, 1929), 232.

Autograph letter signed by Suckling, to the Earl of Newcastle, from London, 8 January [1640/1?].

Volume CCCCXCIX of the Portland Papers, owned by the Harley family, of Brampton Bryan, and related families of Vere, Hollis, and Cavendish, and of Cavendish-Bentinck, Dukes of Portland. Formerly Loan MS 29/235.

Edited in Clayton, p. 152. Facsimile example in Berry, p. 114.

Sotheby's, 17 December 1963, lot 458.

Extracts, in the hand of the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed S^r Jo. Sucklins Play, here beginning Ther if prettier knots about you then this we see....

Compiled by, and largely in the rugged italic hand of, Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician.

Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1.

Verse extracts, inscribed S^r John Suckling.

Sotheby's, 13 July 1855, lot 1364.

Extracts, headed Sucklings Poems.

Compiled by Sir Samuel Tuke, first Baronet (c.1615-74), royalist army officer and playwright, cousin and friend of John Evelyn. Inscribed by him (f. 134r rev.) I began these Collections the 9^th of July, 1662 / By S^r Samuel Tuke: Bar^t:.

Volume CCLVII of the Evelyn Papers, of John Evelyn (1620-1706), diarist and writer, of Wootton House, Surrey, and his family, also incorporating papers of his father-in-law, Sir Richard Browne, Bt (1605-83), diplomat, and his family. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 164.

Prose extracts, headed S^r John Suckling.

Compiled by one William Bright, entitled ffragmenta hic omnigena è varijs excerpta authoribus ad priuatum existunt vsum WB ex anno 1644.

Inscribed also inside the lower cover Will: Bright Novemb 12^th pretiu 8^d 1645.

Extracts from various dramatic works.

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

Formerly MS 469.2.

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

Extracts.

Extracts from various poems by Suckling, including Against Fruition (I), the Song No, no, faire Heretique, and To my Lady E. C. at her going out of England.

274 leaves, unnumbered.

Comprising:

[Part I, ff. 12r-168r], five sermons, the first four by Donne, in the hand of Knightley Chetwode, son of Richard Chetwode, of Chetwode, Buckinghamshire, and Oakley, Staffordshire. 1625/6.

[Part II, ff. 1r-78r rev.], a verse miscellany, produced when the original blank pages were later filled from the reverse end, probably by one Katherine Butler. 1696.

The volume inscribed as having been given to Katherine Butler by her father in May 1693.

Described in Potter & Simpson, I, 41-2.

Prose extracts.

Compiled by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire.

Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.

Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the Bacon-Tottel Commonplace Books, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).

Copy.

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

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

Copy.

Owned before 1959 by the Lingard-Guthrie family.

Copy.

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

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

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

Copy.

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

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

Copy.

The verse miscellany, including an Index (ff. 78v-9v), is compiled by John Holles (1595-1666), second Earl of Clare.

Discussed in Andrew McRae, Literature, Satire and the Early Stuart State (Cambridge, 2004), 42, and Thomas Cogswell, The Symptomes and Vapors of a Diseased Time: the Earl of Clare and Early Stuart Manuscript Culture, RES, NS 57 (2006), 310-336. The parliamentary proceedings published in Christopher Thompson, editor, The Holles Account of Proceedings in the House of Commons in 1624 (Orsett, Essex, 1985).

Copy, headed To S^r John Suckling.

Compiled by Peter Calfe (1610-67), son of a Dutch merchant in London.

Later owned by John, Baron Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor, and afterwards by Edward Harley (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford.

Cited in IELM II.i-ii (1987-93), together with British Library, Harley MS 6918 with which it was once bound, as the Calfe MS: CwT Δ 18; KiH Δ 9; RnT Δ 4. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis, pp 129-35, 444-5 (see KiH Δ 6).

Copy, headed Verses agt S^r John Suckling.

Once owned by Dr Henry Smyth, Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge. Among the collections of John Patrick (1632-95), religious controversialist.

Copy.

Compiled partly by Sir Thomas Swinburne (c.1589-1645), of Edlingham and Nafferton, Sheriff of Northumberland in 1628-9.

Among the family collection established by Christopher Mickleton (1612-69), Durham attorney, and by his eldest son James (1638-93), lawyer and antiquary, which was later incorporated in the collections of Gilbert Spearman (1675-1738), lawyer and antiquary.

Copy.

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

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

Copy.

Including 52 poems by Donne (many on pp. 64-109, 167-74 initialled L.C. [? Lord Chancellor], as are some poems by others), 11 poems by Carew, ten poems by Corbett, and 11 poems by or attributed to Herrick, in a single neat hand throughout; the poems dating up to 1637.

Later scribbling and inscriptions including the names Edw Denny [presumably Edward Denny (1569-1637), Baron Denny of Waltham and first Earl of Norwich], Charles Cocks, Edward Randolphe and (on p. 162) Thomas Cassy. Later owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary (sold in the Haslewood sale, London, 1833, lot 1329, to Thorpe); by Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough, antiquary (his sale in Dublin, 1 November 1841, item 624); and by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector (his library catalogue, 1880, IV, pp. 1159-64), and sold at Sotheby's, 17 July 1917 (Huth sale), lot 5873.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Haslewood-Kingsborough MS (I): DnJ Δ 25, CwT Δ 28, CoR Δ 10, and HeR Δ 5. A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 15). Discussed in C.M. Armitage, Donne's Poems in Huntington Manuscript 198: New Light on The Funerall, SP, 63 (1966), 697-707. A facsimile of part of p. 63 in Marcy L. North, Amateur Compilers, Scribal Labour, and the Contents of Early Modern Poetic Miscellanies, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 101).

Copy, headed To S^r Jo: Sucklinge.

Among papers of the Griffith family of Carreglwyd, Anglesey, including papers of John Griffith of Gray's Inn, private secretary to Henry Howard (1540-1614), Earl of Northampton.

Recorded in HMC, 5th Report (1876), p. 414.

Copy, the text only.

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

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

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

Copy.

Later owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1906-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 12 June 1980 (Houghton sale, Part 2), lot 486.

Copy, headed Verses made to S^r John Sucklin aboute the settinge forth his 100. horse for his Ma^ts. seruice in Scottland.

Copy, untitled.

Copy.

Among the papers of Samuel Hartlib (c.1600/2-1662), educationalist and natural philosopher, later owned by Lord Delamere.

Discussed and collated in Timothy Raylor, Samuel Hartlib's Copy of Upon Sir John Suckling's Hundred Horse, N&Q, 234 (December 1989), 445-7.

Copy.

Charles J. Sawyer, sale catalogue No. 117 (The Pym Collection, 1934), item 145 (where the tentative but unlikely suggestion is made that the first poem is in Sir Benjamin Rudyerd's hand).

Recorded in HMC, 10th Report, Appendix VI (1887), pp. 94-5.

Copy of a version of the last two stanzas (inverted).

Inscribed (f. 1r) Hugh Massey his Booke Amen 1692: ? Alderman of York, sone of Hugh Massey ...in y^e County of Chester b. 9 Jan 1676. Later owned by Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725), Yorkshire antiquary and topographer.

Copy, headed A Libel by y^e Scots, vpon S^r John Sucklings 1639.

Copy, here beginning I tell thee [fellowe] foole who e're thou be.

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

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

Copy.

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

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

Copy, ascribed to Sir John Suckling.

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

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

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

Copy.

Copy.

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

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

Copy.

The verse miscellany, including an Index (ff. 78v-9v), is compiled by John Holles (1595-1666), second Earl of Clare.

Discussed in Andrew McRae, Literature, Satire and the Early Stuart State (Cambridge, 2004), 42, and Thomas Cogswell, The Symptomes and Vapors of a Diseased Time: the Earl of Clare and Early Stuart Manuscript Culture, RES, NS 57 (2006), 310-336. The parliamentary proceedings published in Christopher Thompson, editor, The Holles Account of Proceedings in the House of Commons in 1624 (Orsett, Essex, 1985).

Copy.

Compiled by Peter Calfe (1610-67), son of a Dutch merchant in London.

Later owned by John, Baron Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor, and afterwards by Edward Harley (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford.

Cited in IELM II.i-ii (1987-93), together with British Library, Harley MS 6918 with which it was once bound, as the Calfe MS: CwT Δ 18; KiH Δ 9; RnT Δ 4. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis, pp 129-35, 444-5 (see KiH Δ 6).

Copy.

Compiled partly by Sir Thomas Swinburne (c.1589-1645), of Edlingham and Nafferton, Sheriff of Northumberland in 1628-9.

Among the family collection established by Christopher Mickleton (1612-69), Durham attorney, and by his eldest son James (1638-93), lawyer and antiquary, which was later incorporated in the collections of Gilbert Spearman (1675-1738), lawyer and antiquary.

Copy.

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

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

Copy.

Including 52 poems by Donne (many on pp. 64-109, 167-74 initialled L.C. [? Lord Chancellor], as are some poems by others), 11 poems by Carew, ten poems by Corbett, and 11 poems by or attributed to Herrick, in a single neat hand throughout; the poems dating up to 1637.

Later scribbling and inscriptions including the names Edw Denny [presumably Edward Denny (1569-1637), Baron Denny of Waltham and first Earl of Norwich], Charles Cocks, Edward Randolphe and (on p. 162) Thomas Cassy. Later owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary (sold in the Haslewood sale, London, 1833, lot 1329, to Thorpe); by Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough, antiquary (his sale in Dublin, 1 November 1841, item 624); and by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector (his library catalogue, 1880, IV, pp. 1159-64), and sold at Sotheby's, 17 July 1917 (Huth sale), lot 5873.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Haslewood-Kingsborough MS (I): DnJ Δ 25, CwT Δ 28, CoR Δ 10, and HeR Δ 5. A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 15). Discussed in C.M. Armitage, Donne's Poems in Huntington Manuscript 198: New Light on The Funerall, SP, 63 (1966), 697-707. A facsimile of part of p. 63 in Marcy L. North, Amateur Compilers, Scribal Labour, and the Contents of Early Modern Poetic Miscellanies, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 101).

Copy.

Among papers of the Griffith family of Carreglwyd, Anglesey, including papers of John Griffith of Gray's Inn, private secretary to Henry Howard (1540-1614), Earl of Northampton.

Recorded in HMC, 5th Report (1876), p. 414.

Copy of the first line only.

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

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

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

Copy.

Later owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1906-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 12 June 1980 (Houghton sale, Part 2), lot 486.

Copy.

Copy, untitled.

Copy.

Among the papers of Samuel Hartlib (c.1600/2-1662), educationalist and natural philosopher, later owned by Lord Delamere.

Discussed and collated in Timothy Raylor, Samuel Hartlib's Copy of Upon Sir John Suckling's Hundred Horse, N&Q, 234 (December 1989), 445-7.

Copy.

Charles J. Sawyer, sale catalogue No. 117 (The Pym Collection, 1934), item 145 (where the tentative but unlikely suggestion is made that the first poem is in Sir Benjamin Rudyerd's hand).

Recorded in HMC, 10th Report, Appendix VI (1887), pp. 94-5.

Copy, headed His Answere to the lybell.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Hugh Massey his Booke Amen 1692: ? Alderman of York, sone of Hugh Massey ...in y^e County of Chester b. 9 Jan 1676. Later owned by Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725), Yorkshire antiquary and topographer.

Copy.

Owned before 1959 by the Lingard-Guthrie family.

Copy.

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

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

Copy.

Compiled partly by Sir Thomas Swinburne (c.1589-1645), of Edlingham and Nafferton, Sheriff of Northumberland in 1628-9.

Among the family collection established by Christopher Mickleton (1612-69), Durham attorney, and by his eldest son James (1638-93), lawyer and antiquary, which was later incorporated in the collections of Gilbert Spearman (1675-1738), lawyer and antiquary.

Copy, headed S^r John Suckling's Escape from y^e Scots.

Compiled probably over a period by members of the Stringer family of Sharlston.

Among archives of the Fane family, Earls of Westmorland, of Apethorpe.

Imperfectly edited, and misattributed to Mildmay Fane, in Gerald W. Morton, Mildmay Fane's Satiric Poem on John Suckling, N&Q, 236 (March 1991), 85-6.

Copy.

Sotheby's, 15 February 1928, lot 500. Maggs's sale catalogue No. 550 (1931), item 310.