Aurelian Townshend
Verse
Unpublished poem of three quatrains.
Copy, subscribed AT.
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.
c.Late 1650s.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.
An unpublished 44-line answer to a previous poem (Ogden MS, pp. 3-4) CR
[? Carew Ralegh].
Copy of the full text, headed AT
.
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.
c.Late 1650s.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.
The Answere
First published in Chambers (1912), pp. 21-7. Brown, pp. 26-9.
Copy, subscribed Au: Tounsend
.
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.
c.late 1630s-early 1640s.Edited from this MS in Brown.
First published in
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.
Mid-17th century.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 Henry Lawes MS
:
Edited in part from this MS in Brown, with a facsimile.
Copy, headed AT.
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.
c.Late 1650s.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.
First published, in a musical setting by Lawes, in Henry Lawes,
Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.
This MS recorded in John P. Cutts,
Copy, headed AT.
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.
c.Late 1650s.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.
First published in
Copy, imperfect, lacking the last two lines.
Evidently a formal MS made by or for Sir Kenelm Digby (1603-65), natural philosopher and courtier, of the poems sent to him after the death of his wife Venetia (née Stanley) on 30 April/1 May 1633.
[1633].Purchased from J. Salkeld, 13 January 1877.
Edited chiefly from this MS in Brown.
The MS evidently sent to Digby by Townshend, described by Warner as probably in the original autograph of Townsend
, signed A. Tounshend
and endorsed For the Rightly Honorable Knight Sr Kenelme Digby
.
Described by Bright in 1877 as A small packet of old discoloured papers
.
Once owned by Sir Kenelm Digby (1603-65), natural philosopher and courtier. Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Bright's library was sold in five parts at Sotheby's, 3 and 18 June 1844, 3 March, 12 April and 7 July 1845.
The MS poems printed, with commentary by G.F. Warner, in
Edited from this MS in Bright (1877), pp. 17-19, whence collated in Brown.
Brown, pp. 48-9.
Copy of lines 36-58, here beginning
Including 49 pems by Thomas Carew and one of doubtful authorship.
c.1640s.Later owned by F. Wyburd who, according to W.C. Hazlitt (1870, p. xv), obtained it about three years ago of a dealer at Knightsbridge
. Owned c.1927 by P.J. Dobell, who sold it in 1936.
Cited in Wyburd MS
:
This MS text collated in Brown.
Copy, headed A: T:
.
Including 14 poems by Carew; the main text (ff. 1r-27r) in a non-professional mixed hand of the 1630s (but for later scribbling); the remaining leaves filled by later hands; notes on family history from 1647 to 1664 on ff. 28r-9r.
c.1630s[-75].Inscribed on f. 29v John Peverell Booke 1674
and his name also on ff. 1r and 49r. Fol. 48v containing a receipt dated 30 June 1653 by me Francis Blackitt of bro. William of Hoodcroft, Co. Durham
. Other names inside the front cover including John Peves
and Railphe Hogwood
and, inside the back cover, James Portington
, William Steadman 1675
, Thomas Meeres
, William Diton
and Ramond Swift
.
Cited in Peverell MS
:
Edited from this MS text in Brown.
Copy, headed
Later notes and scribbling including the names John Nutting
(ff. 26r, 56r) and John M.
and John Susan
(rear paste-down). The last leaf also containing a list of the titles of 65 poems by Carew together with the number of lines in each poem, this list unrelated to the contents of the rest of the MS.
Cited in Nutting MS
:
This MS collated in Brown. Edited in
Full version unpublished.
Copy of the full 62-line text, subscribed Philobasileus
[i.e. lover of the king].
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.
c.Late 1650s.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.
Extracts edited from this MS in Sackville-West; thence in Brown. Recorded by G.C. Moore Smith in
First published in C.J. Phillips,
Copy, headed
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.
c.Late 1650s.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.
Formerley among the papers of the Sackville family, of Knole, Kent.
This MS cited in Sackville West. Edited in Phillips and thence in Brown. Recorded by G.C. Moore Smith in
See
Brown, pp. 54-6.
Copy, beginning Aurelian Townsend
.
A formal, probably presentation MS relating to the death of Frances, Countess of Bridgewater, on 11 March 1635/6, comprising (ff. [2r-29v]) the funeral sermon preached by John Carter on 2 April 1636, in a non-professional predominantly italic hand, and (ff. [31r-2r]) Townshend's elegy in another italic hand, 32 quarto leaves.
1635.A complete facsimile of this MS is in the Huntington, EL 6883.
Edited from the photocopy of this MS in Brown.
See
First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in John Playford,
Copy.
Once owned by Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725) and afterwards among the collections of Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741).
Cited in Harley Rawlinson MS
:
This MS recorded in Brown.
Copy of the opening lines, in a musical setting, headed
Compiled by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer (his signature f. 2v).
c.1654-70s.Arms of Eleanor Bursh on a seal affixed to f. 56r. Later owned and annotated in pencil by Thomas Oliphant (1799-1873), music editor and cataloguer.
A complete facsimile of this volume in
This MS recorded in Brown.
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.
Mid-17th century.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 Henry Lawes MS
:
Edited from this MS in Brown, with a facsimile.
Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.
Cattalogueof contents, 229 leaves.
Owned (in 1659) and partly compiled by the composer John Gamble (d.1687), with some misnumbering.
c.1630s-50s.Later owned by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author. Acquired in 1888.
A complete facsimile is in
Copy, untitled and unascribed.
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.
c.Late 1650s.Formerly in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 4001. Sotheby's, 29 June 1946, lot 164, to Myers. Then in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.
Copy, untitled.
Once erroneously associated with Thomas Killigrew (1612-83), whose hand does not appear in the volume.
Mid-17th century-c.1702.Inscribed (f. [ir]) Sr 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,
Copy.
Formerly Chest II, No. 21.
First published in Gabriel Heaton, His Acts Transmit to After Days
: Two Unpublished Poems by Aurelian Townshend
Copy, in a neat roman hand, subscribed ATounshend
, once folded as a letter.
Collected by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King of Arms and antiquary, his brother Oliver, and Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector.
Edited from this MS, with a facsimile of the first page, in Gabriel Heaton, His Acts Transmit to After Days
: Two Unpublished Poems by Aurelian Townshend
First published, in a musical setting by Lawes, in Henry Lawes,
Copy, headed AT.
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.
c.Late 1650s.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.
First published in Chambers (1912), pp. 33-5. Brown, pp. 30-1.
Copy, headed
Collected, and partly written, by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.
Betagraph of the watermark in f. 29 in Ted-Larry Pebworth,
This MS text recorded in Brown.
Copy, headed
Inscribed (p. i) Ex dono B. R. ao J
.
Copy, subscribed Au: Townsend
.
G. Broughtonon ff. 1r and after 44r, a reference to St John's College, Cambridge (in 1731) on f. 83v, 93 leaves (plus blanks), in 19th-century half black morocco. c.1630s [-1733].
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 Tweedye MS
:
This MS recorded in Brown.
Copy, subscribed Aurelean Townsend
.
Transcribed from
Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 13 May 1856 (Pickering sale), lot 258.
Cited in Pickering MS
:
Copy, subscribed in a different ink Aurelian Tounsend
.
To the righte honoble: the Lorde Thomas Darcy Viscount Colchester(c.1565-1640, Viscount Colchester from 1621 to 1626), 191 leaves, in modern half-morocco.
Including 27 poems (and second copies of two poems) by Thomas Carew and three of doubtful authorship.
This MS largely transcribed in
Scribbled inscriptions including (f. 1r) Mr John Bowyer
; (f. 2r) Jeronomus ffox
; and (f. 3r) William Ralph Baesh
.
Cited in Colchester MS
:
Copy, untitled.
Comprising papers of the Skipwith family of Cotes, Leicestershire, including 60 poems by John Donne (and one Problem), the text related in part to the Edward Smyth MS
(
Including poems ascribed to William Skipwith (? Sir William Skipwith, d.1610, or his grandson, William, or possibly a cousin, William Skipwith, of Ketsby, Lincolnshire, fl.1633); to Sir Henry Skipwith (fl.1609-52); and to Thomas Skipwith, and several poems by Donne's friend Sir Henry Goodyer (1571-1627), to whom a branch of the Skipwith family was related by marriage. Later owned by Robert Sherard (1719-99), fourth Earl of Harborough. Sotheby's, 10 June 1864, lot 605, to Boone.
This MS is the curious folio volume
lent to John Nichols (1745-1826) by the late Lord Harborough
and cited in Nichols's account of the Skipwith family in his
Cited in Skipwith MS
:
This MS text recorded in Brown.
Copy, untitled.
Inscribed (f. 179r) This is Sr. 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.
Copy, untitled, in double columns.
Including 52 poems by Donne (many on pp. 64-109, 167-74 initialled
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 Haslewood-Kingsborough MS (I)
:
Copy, untitled.
Including 59 poems by Donne (and second copies of six poems), in probably six professional secretary hands: A (ff. 1r-25v, 82r-129r); B (ff. 26r, 42v-7v, 49r-63r, 63v-79r, 130r-48r); C (ff. 27r-36v, 41r-2v; with occasional corrections possibly in hand B); D (ff. 37r-40v); E (ff. 63r-v); and F (f. 129v).
c.1620-33.Scribbling includes the name Meriall Tracy
(on f. 148v). Later owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary; by Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough, antiquary; and by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector (his library, lot 624). Sotheby's, 17 July 1917 (Huth sale), lot 5873.
Recorded in Haslewood-Kingsborough MS (II)
:
A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 15). Betagraph of the watermark in f. 43 in Ted-Larry Pebworth,
Copy, headed Jo: Grange
.
Inscribed To my euer honored good Cosen Sr John Reresby Barronett these prsent
: i.e. presented to Sir John Reresby, first Baronet (1611-46), royalist, of Thribergh Hall.
Among the muniments of Lord Mexborough, descended from the Savile family formerly of Methley Hall, near Pontefract, West Yorkshire. Formerly MX 237.
Cited in Mexborough MS
:
Copy, headed
Including ten poems by Carew and twelve poems by Strode (and two poems of doubtful authorship).
c.1634.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
The MS came to Rosenbach with a printed exemplum of William Wishcart, M W
; it is inscribed Lord Winchilsea for Mr 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 Winchelsea MS
:
Copy, untitled.
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 (
Formerly MS G. 2.21.
Cited in
This MS text recorded in Brown.
Copy, headed Aurelian Townsend
.
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 (
Formerly MS G. 2.21.
Cited in
This MS text recorded in Brown.
Copy.
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.
c.Late 1650s.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, headed
Later owned by the Newcastle antiquarian collectors John Bell (1783-1864) and Robert White (1802-74).
Cited in
Unpublished song of five sestains.
Copy, headed AT.
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.
c.Late 1650s.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.
First published, in a musical setting by Lawes and headed Youth and Beauty
, in Henry Lawes,
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.
Mid-17th century.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 Henry Lawes MS
:
Edited in part from this MS in Brown, with a facsimile.
Copy, headed AT.
.
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.
c.Late 1650s.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.
First published, in a musical setting by Lawes, in Henry Lawes,
Copy of the opening lines, in a musical setting, headed
Bookplate of Edmund Thomas Warren Horne, publisher, and probably the compiler. Puttick & Simpson's, 24 April 1873.
This MS recorded in Brown.
Copy (words only), headed
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.
Mid-17th century.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 Henry Lawes MS
:
Edited in part from this MS in Brown, with a facsimile.
Copy, headed AT
.
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.
c.Late 1650s.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.
First published in Chambers (1912), pp. 18-20. Brown, pp. 24-5.
Copy, untitled and subscribed Au: Tounsend
.
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.
c.late 1630s-early 1640s.Edited from this MS in Brown.
First published in Gabriel Heaton, His Acts Transmit to After Days
: Two Unpublished Poems by Aurelian Townshend
Copy, in a professional italic hand, subscribed ATounshend
.
Collected by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King of Arms and antiquary, his brother Oliver, and Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector.
Edited from this MS, with a facsimile, in in Gabriel Heaton, His Acts Transmit to After Days
: Two Unpublished Poems by Aurelian Townshend
First published, in a musical setting by William Webb, in John Playford,
Copy.
Afterwards owned by other members of the Champernowne family, by Sir Edward Seymour, Bart. (?the third Baronet, 1610-85). Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1836), item 1030. Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872) (MS 9568). Sotheby's, 6 June 1898 (Phillipps sale), lot 749. Bookplate of C.S. Harris and bequeathed by him 1916.
Cited in Phillipps MS
:
This MS recorded in Brown.
Copy, headed in another hand A: Tounshend
.
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.
c.late 1630s-early 1640s.This MS recorded in Brown.
Copy, untitled.
Inscribed (p. i) Ex dono B. R. ao J
.
This MS recorded in Brown.
Copy, headed By Mr Tounsall
.
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 recorded in Brown.
Copy, as by Earle of Pe:
.
Transcribed from
Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 13 May 1856 (Pickering sale), lot 258.
Cited in Pickering MS
:
This MS text collated in Brown.
Copy, subscribed Earle of Pe:
.
To the righte honoble: the Lorde Thomas Darcy Viscount Colchester(c.1565-1640, Viscount Colchester from 1621 to 1626), 191 leaves, in modern half-morocco.
Including 27 poems (and second copies of two poems) by Thomas Carew and three of doubtful authorship.
This MS largely transcribed in
Scribbled inscriptions including (f. 1r) Mr John Bowyer
; (f. 2r) Jeronomus ffox
; and (f. 3r) William Ralph Baesh
.
Cited in Colchester MS
:
This MS collated in Brown. Recorded in Krueger,
Copy, untitled.
Comprising papers of the Skipwith family of Cotes, Leicestershire, including 60 poems by John Donne (and one Problem), the text related in part to the Edward Smyth MS
(
Including poems ascribed to William Skipwith (? Sir William Skipwith, d.1610, or his grandson, William, or possibly a cousin, William Skipwith, of Ketsby, Lincolnshire, fl.1633); to Sir Henry Skipwith (fl.1609-52); and to Thomas Skipwith, and several poems by Donne's friend Sir Henry Goodyer (1571-1627), to whom a branch of the Skipwith family was related by marriage. Later owned by Robert Sherard (1719-99), fourth Earl of Harborough. Sotheby's, 10 June 1864, lot 605, to Boone.
This MS is the curious folio volume
lent to John Nichols (1745-1826) by the late Lord Harborough
and cited in Nichols's account of the Skipwith family in his
Cited in Skipwith MS
:
This MS recorded in Brown.
Copy, untitled.
Inscribed (f. 179r) This is Sr. 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.
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed
Probably compiled by university or inns of court men.
c.1620s-30s.This MS text collated in Brown.
Copy, untitled.
The pagination cited below relates to the second, main series of pagination.
c.1640.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, untitled.
Inscriptions including (f. 6r) Hannah Lewis Junr
; Thomas Turner his Book
(three times, ff. 8r, 14v, 48v, dated 1750
, 58
and 1760
); (f. 12r) Edmund Baxter att Mrs Nortons
; (ff. 20r, 59v) John Jones
; (f. 40r) Jon: Pryse 1729
; (f. 59v) Robt. Was
[?]; and (f. 79r) Edmund Baxter 1729
. Later owned by Edward Vernon Utterson (1776-1856), of Shanklin and Ryde, Isle of Wight, artist, literary antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 24 April 1852 (Utterson sale), lot 1317, sold to Lelly
. Then owned by Sir John Simeon, third Baronet (1815-70), M.P. Sotheby's, 3 March 1871 (Simeon sale), lot 638, to Pickering. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 436 (1930), item 576. Formerly MS Nor 4620.
Cited in Utterson MS
:
Copy, untitled, subscribed ignoto
.
Compiled by or for Sir Henry Cholmley, brother of Sir Hugh Cholmley (1600-57), the ascription by my brother Sr 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 Cholmley MS
:
Copy, headed
Inscribed To my euer honored good Cosen Sr John Reresby Barronett these prsent
: i.e. presented to Sir John Reresby, first Baronet (1611-46), royalist, of Thribergh Hall.
Among the muniments of Lord Mexborough, descended from the Savile family formerly of Methley Hall, near Pontefract, West Yorkshire. Formerly MX 237.
Cited in Mexborough MS
:
Copy, headed J. Grange
.
J. D.) and fourteen poems by or attributed to Herrick, 158 pages (plus index). c.1630s.
Once owned by the Sir Henry Spelman (1563/4-1641), historian and antiquary, and later by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist, and antiquary. Puttick & Simpson's, 6 June 1859 (Turner sale), lot 164. Afterwards owned by Sir George Grey (1812-98), Governor of Australia, New Zealand and Cape Colony. Formerly MS Grey 2 a 11.
Cited in Grey MS
:
Copy, in a neat roman hand, untitled, subscribed S. R.
[? Samuel Rutter].
Compiled by members of the Salusbury family of Llewenni, Denbighshire, including works by Sir Thomas Salusbury, second Baronet (1612-43), poet and politician.
Early-mid 17th century.Later owned by J. Baskerville-Glegg, of Withington Hall, Chelford. Sotheby's, 14-16 March 1921, lot 421.
Copy, in a musical setting by William Webb.
Cattalogueof contents, 229 leaves.
Owned (in 1659) and partly compiled by the composer John Gamble (d.1687), with some misnumbering.
c.1630s-50s.Later owned by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author. Acquired in 1888.
A complete facsimile is in
Copy.
A book of Verses / Seria mixta Jocis, c.260 pages, in calf blind-stamped
V/I F 1667.
References to Westminster Drollerie
(which was not published until 1671) added on pp. 1 and 242.
Inscribed on the title-page Frendraught Legi
: i.e. by James Crichton (d.1674/5), second Viscount Frendraught. Bookplate of Thomas Fraser Duff (1830-77), of Woodcote, Oxfordshire. Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 9 April 1987, lot 272 (with a facsimile of p. 131 in the sale catalogue), sold to Quaritch.
Copy.
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 (
Formerly MS G. 2.21.
Cited in
This MS text collated in Brown.
Copy, untitled.
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 (
Formerly MS G. 2.21.
Cited in
This MS text collated in Brown.
Copy, untitled.
The contents, the latest of which (on pp. 203-7) can be dated to a marriage that took place in November 1656, reflect the taste of Interregnum Royalist sympathisers.
c.Late 1650s.Formerly in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 4001. Sotheby's, 29 June 1946, lot 164, to Myers. Then in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.
Copy, untitled.
Once erroneously associated with Thomas Killigrew (1612-83), whose hand does not appear in the volume.
Mid-17th century-c.1702.Inscribed (f. [ir]) Sr 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,
Copy, as by Aurelian Townsend
.
A Sin a gilt lozenge on each cover.
The later additions partly compiled by George Clarke (1661-1736), politician and virtuoso (whose bookplate is inside the cover and whose family coat of arms is on f. [iv]), son of Sir William Clarke (1623?-66), Secretary of War to the Commonwealth and Charles II.
c.1662[-1730s].Inside the front cover inscribed E[?] Barrow
, evidently a member of the family of Samuel Barrow (1625-82), Royal Physician and friend of John Milton, Barrow being the second husband of Sir William Clarke's widow, Dorothy (d.1695). Formerly MSS 6. 13.
Cited in Clarke MS
:
This MS recorded in Brown.
Copy, headed
J. D), in a single neat secretary hand, 150 pages, in 17th-century calf gilt. c.1622-33.
Later owned by Major J.B. Whitmore. Hodgson's, 20-21 November 1958, lot 571, with a facsimile page in the sale catalogue.
Cited in Osborn MS
:
First published among commendatory verses in
Copy, headed A. T:
.
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.
c.Late 1650s.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.
Tis but a while
First published in Chambers (1912), pp. 36-7. Brown, pp. 50-1.
Copy, in a professional mixed hand, untitled, on a single folio leaf, subscribed A. Tounshend
.
Later owned by Frederic Ouvry (1814-81), antiquary and lawyer.
Edited from this MS in Brown. Facsimile in Gabriel Heaton, His Acts Transmit to After Days
: Two Unpublished Poems by Aurelian Townshend
First published, in a musical setting by Lawes, in Henry Lawes,
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.
Mid-17th century.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 Henry Lawes MS
:
Edited in part from this MS in Brown, with a facsimile.
Copy, headed A T
.
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.
c.Late 1650s.Formerly in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 4001. Sotheby's, 29 June 1946, lot 164, to Myers. Then in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.
Copy, untitled.
Once erroneously associated with Thomas Killigrew (1612-83), whose hand does not appear in the volume.
Mid-17th century-c.1702.Inscribed (f. [ir]) Sr 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,
First published in A.H. Bullen,
Copy, subscribed Au: Townsend
.
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.
c.late 1630s-early 1640s.Edited from this MS in Brown.
Copy, headed
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.
c.Late 1650s.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.
Verse of Doubtful Authorship
First published in John Cotgrave,
Copy.
Once owned by Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725) and afterwards among the collections of Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741).
Cited in Harley Rawlinson MS
:
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Copy, untitled.
Once erroneously associated with Thomas Killigrew (1612-83), whose hand does not appear in the volume.
Mid-17th century-c.1702.Inscribed (f. [ir]) Sr 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,
First published in
Copy, headed Mr. Souch Townlye
.
Including 18 poems by Carew and two of doubtful authorship, compiled by Nicholas Burghe (d.1670), Royalist Captain during the Civil War and one of the poor Knights of Windsor in 1661 (references to I Nicholas Burgh
occurring on ff. 165r, with the date 3d of June 1638
, and 166r, and his name partly in cipher on other pages); predominantly in his hand, with some later additions in other hands.
Afterwards owned by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.
Cited in Burghe MS
:
Copy, headed Townly
.
Compiled principally by one H. S.
, a Cambridge University man.
This MS volume edited in Diana Julia Rose,
Copy, headed
Compiled and largely written by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.
Mid-17th century.Copy, headed
Including 40 poems by Strode and two poems of doubtful authorship.
c.1630s.Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9510. (Phillipps sale, lot 1015.) Owned c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914). Percy Dobell's sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 342. Formerly MS 4201. 27. 1.
Cited in Dobell MS II
:
Copy, headed
Formerly MS 2073.3.
Copy, headed
Including 11 poems by Carew and 14 poems by Randolph.
c.1630s-40s.Inscribed Jane Wheeler
and Tho: Oliver Busfield
. Francis Quarles's poem (pp. 209-11)
A Jo. Wheeler
signed the Christ Church, Oxford, disbursement books for 1641-3 (xii, b.85 and 86).
Cited in Wheeler MS
:
Copy, incomplete, headed
Including 14 poems by Carew, 13 poems by Corbett and 25 poems (plus one poem of doubtful authorship) by Strode.
c.1650.Scribbling on the first page including the words Peyton Chester…
.
Cited in Osborn MS I
:
A poem of 69 iambic pentameters. First published in
Copy, in Constance Fowler's hand, subscribed Mr AT
.
Compiled principally by Constance Fowler (d.1664), daughter of the diplomat Walter Aston, Baron Aston of Forfar (1584-1639), of Tixall and Colton, Staffordshire, her roman hand responsible for ff. 6r, 8r-15v, 24v-34v, 46v-52v, 136r-9r, 143v-59r, and 182v-95v. The second, predominantly secretary hand, responsible for fourteen poems on ff. 7r-v, 16r-24r, and 35r-46r, is that of Constance's sister Gertrude Thimelby (1617-68). The third hand, on ff. 196r-200v, is that of Constance's brother-in-law Sir William Pershall.
c.1635-50s.William H. Robinson, sale catalogue (1925), item 472.
This volume discussed, with a complete first-line index and a facsimile of f. 25r, in Jenijoy La Belle,
Edited from this MS in Aldrich-Watson, pp. 97-103. This MS discussed in Jenijoy La Belle,
Published in John Cotgrave,
Copy.
Once owned by Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725) and afterwards among the collections of Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741).
Cited in Harley Rawlinson MS
:
This MS cited in Chambers.
Copy, untitled.
Once erroneously associated with Thomas Killigrew (1612-83), whose hand does not appear in the volume.
Mid-17th century-c.1702.Inscribed (f. [ir]) Sr 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,
Dramatic Works
First published in London, 1631.
J Bridgewater / ex dono Authoris [ ] Townsend [ ]). c.1631.
A photocopy of this volume is in the Huntington, RB 69679.
First published, in a musical setting by Lawes, in Henry Lawes,
Copy, headed
S. S.on the upper cover.
Owned in 1619, and probably compiled, by Simon Sloper (b.1596/7), of Magdalen Hall, Oxford.
c.1620s-30s.Bought from Parker, of Oxford, 2 April 1889, by Percy Manning and bequeathed by him in 1917.
Copy, headed
Inscribed (f. 179r) This is Sr. 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.
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting, headed
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.
Mid-17th century.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 Henry Lawes MS
:
Edited from this MS in Brown, with a facsimile.
Copy, headed AT.
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.
c.Late 1650s.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.
Inscribed (on p. [330]) Robert Lord his book Anno Domini
; (on [p. 335]) william Jacob his booke Amen
; and, among scribbling on the last leaf, Hugh Gibgans of the same
and John Winter of Buckland Dursbane [or husbande?]
. Owned in 1788 by Alexander R. Popham. Bloomsbury Book Auction, 23 November 2000, lot 8.
A microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7698.
First published in Peter Beal,
Copy of the song in the hand of Sir Henry Herbert, Master of the Revels, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves.
Among papers of the Herbert family, of Powis Castle, including particularly papers of Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1582?-1648). Acquired in 1916.
Cited in Herbert MS
:
Edited from this MS, with a facsimile, in Beal.
First published in Peter Beal,
Copy of the song in the hand of Sir Henry Herbert, Master of the Revels, on the second page of two conjugate folio leaves.
Among papers of the Herbert family, of Powis Castle, including particularly papers of Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1582?-1648). Acquired in 1916.
Cited in Herbert MS
:
Edited from this MS, with a facsimile, in Beal.
First published in Peter Beal,
Copy of the song in the hand of Sir Henry Herbert, Master of the Revels, on the second page of two conjugate folio leaves.
Among papers of the Herbert family, of Powis Castle, including particularly papers of Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1582?-1648). Acquired in 1916.
Cited in Herbert MS
:
Edited from this MS, with a facsimile, in Beal.
Letters
Facsimile in Gabriel Heaton, His Acts Transmit to After Days
: Two Unpublished Poems by Aurelian Townshend
Edited in Chambers, p. xxxix.
in Chambers, p. xxxix.
Edited in Chambers, p. xl.
Edited in Chambers, p. xli.
Edited in Chambers, pp. xlii-xliii.
Facsimile of the first page in Gabriel Heaton, His Acts Transmit to After Days
: Two Unpublished Poems by Aurelian Townshend
Edited in Chambers, pp.xliii-xliv.
Edited in Chambers, pp. xlv-xlvi.
Edited in Chambers, pp. xlvi-xlvii.
Autograph letter signed, to William Trumbull, from Hampton Court, 13 March 1620/1.
Trumbull Papers Volume CXIX, of the Trumbull family, including chiefly William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), diplomat and government official. Later belonging to the Marquess of Downshire, of Easthampstead Park.
1621.Sotheby's, 14 December 1989 (The Trumbull Papers
catalogue), lot 36, with a facsimile of the first page on p. 36. Facsimile page also in Gabriel Heaton, His Acts Transmit to After Days
: Two Unpublished Poems by Aurelian Townshend