Thomas Campion

Verse

(1) English Songs and Poems by Campion

'A daie, a night, an houre of sweete content'

See CmT 7.

'As by the streams of Babilon'

First published in Two Bookes of Ayres (London, [c.1612-13]), Book I, No. xiv. Davis, p. 74.

CmT 1

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

In: A small oblong quarto songbook, in probably several hands, 18 leaves, in paper wrappers, disbound. Late-17th century.

A wrapper inscribed For George Chalmers Esq.: i.e. given probably to George Chalmers, FSA, FRS (1742-1825), antiquary and political writer.

CmT 2

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

In: A quarto book of vocal music, the lyrics largely in a single secretary hand, varying in size, 79 leaves, in modern dark green morocco.

Inscribed (f. 45r) REdwards book: i.e. compiled by Robert Edwards (1616-96), minister of Murroes Parish, though originally belonging to his father, Alexander, merchant of Dundee.

c.1635-70.

Owned in 1687 by Robert Edward's son Alexander (1651-1708). Panmure No. 11 among the Panmure Music Books gathered mainly by Lady Jean Campbell, second Countess of Panmure, and her sons James Maule, fourth Earl of Panmure, and Harie Maule. Subsequently preserved by their descendants, Earls of Dalhousie.

'Awake, thou spring of speaking grace, mute rest become not thee'

First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xiii. Davis, p. 148.

CmT 2.5

Copy, in a musical setting.

In: Music book compiled by Lady Margaret Wemyss, daughter of David, second Earl of Wemyss (1610-79), in contemporary vellum. c.1640s.
'Be thou then my beauty named'

First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xix. Davis, p. 155.

CmT 2.8

Copy, in a musical setting.

In: Music book compiled by Lady Margaret Wemyss, daughter of David, second Earl of Wemyss (1610-79), in contemporary vellum. c.1640s.
'Beauty, since you so much desire'

First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book IV, No. xxii. Davis, pp. 190-2.

CmT 3

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

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

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

This MS recorded in Davis, p. 500.

CmT 4

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

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

One of the part books of the St Andrews Psalter.

Early 17th century.
'Breake now my heart and dye! Oh no, she may relent'

First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. x. Davis, p. 144-5.

CmT 5

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

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

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

This MS recorded in Davis, p. 496.

CmT 6

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

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

One of the part books of the St Andrews Psalter.

Early 17th century.
Canto Quinto
('A daie, a night, an houre of sweete content')

First published among sundry other rare Sonnets of diuerse Noble men and Gentlemen appended to Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophel and Stella (London, 1591). Davis, p. 10.

CmT 7

Copy, untitled.

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

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

This MS recorded in Davis, p. 491.

Canto Tertio
('My Love bound me with a kisse')

First published (first strophe) among sundry other rare Sonnets of diuerse Noble men and Gentlemen appended to Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophel and Stella (London, 1591). Robert Jones, Second Booke of Songs and Ayres (London, 1601). Davis, p. 9. Doughtie, p. 151.

CmT 8

Copy.

In: An octavo miscellany of verse and university exercises, including twelve poems by Carew, in a single hand, compiled by Edward Natley, Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge, 165 leaves (including many blanks), in calf (rebacked). c.1635-44.

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 2592. Sotheby's, 10 June 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 960. Owned in 1896 by George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor. Acquired in 1950 from H.F.B. Brett-Smith, Oxford literary scholar and editor.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Natley MS: CwT Δ 6.

CmT 9

Copy, untitled.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, compiled by the writer Robert Codrington (1602-65) of Magdalen College, Oxford, 360 pages (including stubs of extracted leaves on pp. 297-328 and blanks, plus index), in contemporary calf.

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

c.1638.

Acquired from Blackwell's, 1962.

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

CmT 10

Copy, headed Iames Heruie, in a group of ballads copied from an unprinted MS. written by Lady Robertson of Lude in 1630.

In: A folio volume of ballads, comprising two MSS bound together, in possibly a single hand, 281 leaves, in half red morocco on marbled boards.

Volume II of the compilations of Peter Buchan (1790-1854), the foundation of his Ancient Ballads and Songs of the North of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1828).

c.1820s.

This MS collated in Doughtie, p. 503.

CmT 11

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

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

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

This MS recorded in Davis, p. 491.

CmT 12

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

In: An oblong quarto book of mainly vocal music, the lyrics in several largely secretary hands, one predominating, 90 pages (including blanks), in contemporary brown calf, both covers stamped in gilt I S.

Inscribed several times John Squyer, probably the compiler.

Mid-17th century.

Also inscribed (p. 1) Ane Cattologue of books 1700, and (p. 25) Joanne Squier. Owned by David Laing in June 1855.

This MS collated in Davis, p. 492.

CmT 13

Copy of a four-strophe version, in a musical setting, untitled.

In: An oblong quarto songbook, the lyrics in two or more secretary and italic hands, iv + 43 leaves, in modern quarter-calf.

Inscribed (f. 31r) MAY 1639 and Williane Stirling. A long note (f. iir) in the hand of John Leyden (1775-1811), linguist and poet, dated 5 March 1800, recording his purchase of the MS in 1788 from the library of the Rev. Mr Cranstow, minister of Ancrum; his lending it to Alexander Campbell in 1795 and retrieving it in December 1799; and his now consigning it to Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector.

c.1639.

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

Edited from this MS in Diem (1919), p. 14. Collated in Davis, p. 491, and in Doughtie, p. 503.

CmT 14

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

In: A small oblong quarto songbook, in probably several hands, 18 leaves, in paper wrappers, disbound. Late-17th century.

A wrapper inscribed For George Chalmers Esq.: i.e. given probably to George Chalmers, FSA, FRS (1742-1825), antiquary and political writer.

CmT 15

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

In: An oblong quarto songbook, the lyrics in a single secretary hand, 30 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum gilt, with modern ties. c.1630.

Inscribed inside the front cover Ro Carre of Ferniehurst (1669), later fourth Lord Jedburgh. Initials L. A. K. stamped on the cover possibly denoting his wife, Lady Ann Ker.

CmT 16

Copy, untitled.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, 180 pages, in three secretary hands, in contemporary limp vellum.

Probably compiled by a member of an Inn of Court.

c.1630.

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

CmT 17

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

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

One of the part books of the St Andrews Psalter.

Early 17th century.
'Come let us sound with melody the praises'

First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. xxi. Davis, pp. 48-9.

CmT 18

Copy, headed Saphickes.

In: A folio composite miscellany compiled entirely by William Drummond of Hawthornden, including (ff. 165r-6v, 246r-7v) copies of, or brief extracts from, nineteen poems by Donne, 300 leaves, in 19th-century calf gilt. c.1618-20s.

Among the collections of William Drummond of Hawthornden: Hawthornden Vol. VIII.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Drummond Miscellany: DnJ Δ 66. Some extracts from this MS edited in Laing (1831), pp. 78-82. Drummond's Catalogue of Comedies (ff. 122-3). Recorded in MacDonald, Library of Drummond, pp. 231-2.

'Come, O come, my lifes delight'

First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xxiii. Davis, p. 160.

CmT 18.5

Copy, in a musical setting.

In: Music book compiled by Lady Margaret Wemyss, daughter of David, second Earl of Wemyss (1610-79), in contemporary vellum. c.1640s.
CmT 18.8

Copy, in a musical setting.

In: Music book compiled by Lady Margaret Wemyss, daughter of David, second Earl of Wemyss (1610-79), in contemporary vellum. c.1640s.
'Come, you pretty false-ey'd wanton'

First published in Two Bookes of Ayres (London, [c.1612-13]), Book II, No. xviii. Davis, pp. 109-10.

CmT 19

Copy of the first strophe, in a musical setting, untitled.

In: A folio virginal book, largely in a single italic hand, written from both ends, with a list of contents (f. 1r), 60 leaves, in old brown calf gilt.

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

c.1656.

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

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

This MS collated in Davis, p. 495.

CmT 20

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

In: An oblong quarto songbook, the lyrics largely in a single italic hand, with (ff. 4v-5r) a table of contents, 84 leaves, in 19th-century red morocco gilt.

Inscribed (f. 3v), evidently by the compiler, Giles Earle his booke 1615 (with other notes dated 1610) and (f. 1v) Egidius Earle hunc librum possidet qui compactus fuit mense Septembris. 1626., f. 81r subscribed Anno Dni: 1623 / Mense Augusti: Finis.

c.1615-26.

Acquired from Joseph Lilly, bookseller, 17 May 1862.

A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 1 (New York & London, 1986).

This MS collated in Davis, p. 495.

CmT 21

Copy of the first strophe, in a musical setting.

In: MS songbook.

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

c.1624-30s.

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

This MS collated in Davis, p. 495.

'Could my heart more tongues imploy'

First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xxiv. Davis, p. 160.

CmT 22

Copy, untitled.

In: A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, in a single neat largely italic hand, 155 leaves, in modern half-morocco. c.1630.

The table of contents (f. 155v) subscribed Margrett Bellasys, possibly the daughter of Thomas Belasyse (1577-1652), first Viscount Fauconberg of Henknowle. The front endpaper later inscribed The pieces which I have extracted for The Specimens are, Page 91, 211, 265: i.e. possibly by Thomas Campbell (1777-1844), editor of Specimens of the British Poets first published in 1809. Afterwards owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Evans (Sotheby's), 29 February 1836 (Heber sale, Part VIII), lot 13.

This MS collated in Davis, p. 498.

CmT 23

Copy of an untitled version beginning Could my poore hart whole worlds of toungs employ.

In: A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, in a single neat largely italic hand, 155 leaves, in modern half-morocco. c.1630.

The table of contents (f. 155v) subscribed Margrett Bellasys, possibly the daughter of Thomas Belasyse (1577-1652), first Viscount Fauconberg of Henknowle. The front endpaper later inscribed The pieces which I have extracted for The Specimens are, Page 91, 211, 265: i.e. possibly by Thomas Campbell (1777-1844), editor of Specimens of the British Poets first published in 1809. Afterwards owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Evans (Sotheby's), 29 February 1836 (Heber sale, Part VIII), lot 13.

This MS collated in Davis, p. 480.

'Faine would I wed a faire yong man that day and night could please me'

First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book IV, No. xxiv. Davis, p. 193.

CmT 24

Copy of a parodied version of Campion's song, in his musical setting.

In: An oblong quarto book of mainly vocal music, the lyrics in several largely secretary hands, one predominating, 90 pages (including blanks), in contemporary brown calf, both covers stamped in gilt I S.

Inscribed several times John Squyer, probably the compiler.

Mid-17th century.

Also inscribed (p. 1) Ane Cattologue of books 1700, and (p. 25) Joanne Squier. Owned by David Laing in June 1855.

This MS collated in Davis, p. 500.

CmT 25

Copy of the incipit, here Fayne would I wedd, with a musical setting by Richard Farnaby.

In: A virginal book, probably compiled by Francis Tregian (the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book). c.1609-19.

This MS recorded in Davis, p. 500.

CmT 26

Copy, untitled.

In: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, closely written in possibly several minute predominantly secretary hands, 291 leaves (ff. 212-16 bound out of order after f. 24), in modern calf. c.1640s.

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.

CmT 27

Copy, in a musical setting.

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

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

'Fire, fire, fire, fire!'

First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xx. Davis, p. 156-8. English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), No. 2.

CmT 28

Copy of the first strophe.

In: A large folio composite verse miscellany, chiefly folio, partly quarto, 243 pages, in contemporary calf.

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.

c.1638.

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

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

CmT 29

Copy of the first strophe, untitled, in a musical setting by Nicholas Lanier.

In: A folio songbook, 121 leaves (including c.20 blanks and an index), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

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.

c.1640s-60s.

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 Davis, pp. 497-8.

CmT 30

Copy, untitled.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, compiled by the writer Robert Codrington (1602-65) of Magdalen College, Oxford, 360 pages (including stubs of extracted leaves on pp. 297-328 and blanks, plus index), in contemporary calf.

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

c.1638.

Acquired from Blackwell's, 1962.

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

CmT 31

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

In: A large quarto music part book, 102 leaves. Mid-17th century.

Part of a set of ten volumes, once owned by one John Merro and, in 1673, by one William Iles, who gave them to John Fell (1625-86), Dean of Christ Church and Bishop of Oxford, for the vse of the publicke Musicke Scoole.

CmT 32

Copy of the first strophe, untitled.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single informal hand, a member of St John's College, Oxford, i + 99 leaves, in half-vellum marbled boards.

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

Late 17th century.

Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

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

CmT 33

Copy, in a musical setting by Nicholas Lanier, untitled.

In: A folio virginal book, largely in a single italic hand, written from both ends, with a list of contents (f. 1r), 60 leaves, in old brown calf gilt.

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

c.1656.

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

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

Edited from this MS in Spink. Collated in Davis, pp. 497-8.

CmT 34

Copy, in a musical setting by Nicholas Lanier, untitled.

In: A square-shaped folio songbook, largely in a single rounded secretary hand, with (ff. 1r-v, 69r-v) a table of contents, i + 69 leaves, in modern half red morocco. Mid-17th century.

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

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

This MS collated in Davis, pp. 497-8.

CmT 35

Copy, headed Impatience in Loue incurable.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, including 33 poems by Thomas Carew and sixteen by Henry King, in a single small hand, with (ff. 1r-2v) an alphabetical Index, 105 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt.

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

c.1641-9.

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).

This MS collated in Davis, pp. 497-8.

CmT 36

Copy, headed in the margin Songe.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in one or more secretary hands, with (ff. 244r-54r) a first-line index, 254 leaves, in modern half-morocco, poems on ff. 34v and 242v dated 1637.

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

c.1637.

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

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

CmT 37

Copy, in a musical setting.

In: Two music part books compiled by Thomas Smith (1614-1701) of The Queen's College, Oxford, later Bishop of Carlisle. c.1637.

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

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

Edited from this MS in James Walter Brown, Some Elizabethan Lyrics, CM, 51 (September 1921), 285-96 (p. 290-1). Collated in John P. Cutts, Bishop Smith's Part-Song Books in Carlisle Cathedral Library (American Institute of Musicology, 1972), p. 53.

CmT 38

Copies, in a musical setting by Thomas Ford.

In: Three music part books: (i), (ii), and (iii). Early-mid-17th century.
CmT 38.5

Copy, headed Impatience in Love incurable.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary hand, probably associated with Oxford and afterwards with the Inns of Court, 73 leaves (plus a few blanks and a modern index).

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

CmT 39

Copy, in a musical setting by Nicholas Lanier.

In: A folio music book, containing 327 songs, in three largely secretary hands, with a Cattalogue of 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 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 Davis, pp. 497-8.

CmT 39.5

Copy, with two other poems run on together, headed Sr R.B..

In: An octavo verse miscellany, in several hands, 89 leaves, in old calf gilt.

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

c.1640s.

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

'Good men, shew, if you can tell'

First published in Two Bookes of Ayres (London, [c.1612-13]), Book II, No. ix. Davis, p. 95.

CmT 40

Copy of the first line, in a musical setting.

In: An octavo musical part book, for the counter-tenor, of the St Andrews Psalter (the Scottish Metrical Psalter of 1566 etc. by Thomas Wode, afterwards Vicar of St Andrews), copied c.1575-8, with a series of secular songs added later (ff. 81v-93v) in a secretary hand, 93 leaves, in old blind-stamped calf.

For three other part books of this Psalter, see Edinburgh University Library MS La. III. 483.

Early 17th century (secular songs).

Purchased from Mrs H.S. Andrews, 14 November 1890.

This MS recorded in Davis, p. 494.

CmT 41

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

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

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

This MS recorded in Davis, p. 494.

CmT 42

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

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

One of the part books of the St Andrews Psalter.

Early 17th century.
'Harke, al you ladies that do sleep'

First published among sundry other rare Sonnets of diuers Noble men and Gentlemen appended to Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophel and Stella (London, 1591). Davis, pp. 5-6 (also pp. 44-5).

CmT 43

Copy, in the secretary hand of Edward Bannister, untitled, on a folio leaf, endorsed A fantasye of Sr Phillyp Sydnys write owt of his Astrophell & stella and owte of mr waterers Booke. c.1587-91.

In: A tall folio composite volume of verse MSS, in various hands and paper sizes, 195 leaves, mounted on guards, in half-morocco.

Compiled chiefly by members of the Caryll family.

Early 17th century (Vol. I); Late 17th-early 18th century (Dorset).

Presented by Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, first Baronet, MP (1810-69).

This MS recorded in Davis, p. 493.

CmT 44

Copy of strophes I and II, in musical settings.

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

Complete facsimile in Jorgens, VI (1987).

This MS collated in Davis, p. 493.

'Her fayre inflaming eyes'

First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book IV, No, xix. Davis, p. 187.

CmT 44.5

Copy, in a musical setting.

In: Music book compiled by Lady Margaret Wemyss, daughter of David, second Earl of Wemyss (1610-79), in contemporary vellum. c.1640s.
'I care not for these Ladies'

First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. iii. Davis, pp. 22-3.

CmT 45

Copy, untitled.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, compiled by the writer Robert Codrington (1602-65) of Magdalen College, Oxford, 360 pages (including stubs of extracted leaves on pp. 297-328 and blanks, plus index), in contemporary calf.

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

c.1638.

Acquired from Blackwell's, 1962.

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

CmT 46

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

In: An oblong quarto songbook, the lyrics largely in a single italic hand, with (ff. 4v-5r) a table of contents, 84 leaves, in 19th-century red morocco gilt.

Inscribed (f. 3v), evidently by the compiler, Giles Earle his booke 1615 (with other notes dated 1610) and (f. 1v) Egidius Earle hunc librum possidet qui compactus fuit mense Septembris. 1626., f. 81r subscribed Anno Dni: 1623 / Mense Augusti: Finis.

c.1615-26.

Acquired from Joseph Lilly, bookseller, 17 May 1862.

A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 1 (New York & London, 1986).

This MS collated in Davis, p. 492.

'I must complain, yet doe enjoy my Love'

First published in John Dowland, Third Book of Aires (London, 1603). Campion, The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book IV, No. xvii. Davis, pp. 184-5. Doughtie, p. 179.

CmT 47

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

In: A folio songbook, in probably two secretary and italic hands, 25 leaves, in a recycled contemporary vellum indenture within modern half red morocco. c.1614-30.

Inscribed (f. 1v) John Shurlane His Booke, and (f. 24v rev.) This Book Do[ ] / Hugh ffloyd / Domn: 11, with dates 28 Nov. 1630 and 1633. Purchased from Thomas Rodd, bookseller, 13 April 1844.

A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 1 (New York & London, 1986).

This MS collated in Davis, pp. 499-500, and in Doughtie, pp. 517-18.

CmT 47.5

Copy, in a musical setting.

In: Music book compiled by Lady Margaret Wemyss, daughter of David, second Earl of Wemyss (1610-79), in contemporary vellum. c.1640s.
CmT 48

Copy, headed A sonnet.

In: An octavo notebook of extracts in verse and prose, in a small untidy hand, written from both ends, 42 leaves (plus three blanks), badly worn, remains of boards and green ties. c.1640.

Includes (f. [31r rev.] a reference to my brother Capstons account book after his death 1632. Given to the library by H.L. Pink, Assistant Under-Librarian, 22 November 1948.

This MS recorded in Doughtie, p. 517.

CmT 49

Copy of a three-strophe version, in a musical setting (a version of that in CmT 50).

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

Complete facsimile in Jorgens, VI (1987).

Edited from this MS in John P. Cutts, Seventeenth Century Songs and Lyrics (Columbia, Missouri, 1959), p. 178. Collated in Davis, pp. 499-500, and in Doughtie, pp. 517-18.

CmT 50

Copy of strophes I and III, in a musical setting (a version of that in CmT 49), subscribed fynis quod Mrs Elyzabeth Hampden.

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

Complete facsimile in Jorgens, VI (1987).

This MS collated in Davis, pp. 499-500, and in Doughtie, pp. 517-18.

CmT 51

Copy, untitled, transcribed from fol. 19 of the original songbook.

In: Copy of Sonnettes &c., in the hand of John Leyden (1775-1811), linguist and poet, made for Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector, on eight quarto leaves.

Transcribed from an earlier musical partbook for the Cantus voice bearing a preface signed Jo. Hiltoun (fl. c.1627-30) which in 1800 was in the possession of Mr. Russell, Grandson of Dr Robertson, late Principal of Edinburgh College [i.e. William Robertson (1721-93), historian].

26 February 1800.
CmT 52

Copy, untitled.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in a Scottish secretary hand, paginated 5-132, bound with a later verse MS on 98 pages, in brown calf. c.1630s-40s.

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.

CmT 53

Copy, untitled.

In: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, closely written in possibly several minute predominantly secretary hands, 291 leaves (ff. 212-16 bound out of order after f. 24), in modern calf. c.1640s.

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 Doughtie, pp. 517-18.

'If any hath the heart to kill'

First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book IV, No. xxl. Vivian, pp. 185-6. Davis, p. 189.

CmT 53.2
In: Music book compiled by Lady Margaret Wemyss, daughter of David, second Earl of Wemyss (1610-79), in contemporary vellum. c.1640s.
CmT 53.5

(ii) Treble or Cantus and (iv) Bass.

In: Part books of David Peebles's settings of the Psalms and Canticles, and other works. Compiled by Thomas Wode, Vicar of St. Andrews. 1562-c.1592.
CmT 53.8

(v) Quintus.

In: Part book of David Peebles's settings of the Psalms and Canticles, and other works. Compiled by Thomas Wode, Vicar of St Andrews. 1562-c.1592.
'If Love loves truth, then women doe not love'

First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xi. Davis, p. 146.

CmT 54

Copy, untitled.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, including 13 poems by Donne and 14 poems by Corbett, in several hands, probably associated with Oxford University, written from both ends, 102 leaves, in 17th-century calf. c.1630s.

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

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

CmT 55

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

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

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

This MS recorded in Davis, p. 496.

CmT 56

Copies, in Campion's musical setting.

In: A set of four oblong duodecimo music part books, (i) Cantus Primus, (ii) Cantus Secundus, (iii) Bassus and (iv) Basso Continuo, each written from both ends, compiled by John Playford (1623-86?), 50, 36, 48, and 35 leaves respectively, each volume in limp vellum lettered I. P..

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

c.1660.

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

CmT 57

Copy, untitled.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, predominantly in two very small hands (A: ff. 1r-44v; B: ff. 44v-87v), with further verse and prose pieces in other hands on ff. 88r-121r, written from both ends, associated with Oxford, possibly New College, and probably afterwards with the Inns of Court, 155 leaves (including 33 blanks), in modern black morocco elaborately gilt.

Including 23 poems by Strode (and second copies of two poems) and one poem of doubtful authorship.

c.1630s.

Including (ff. 98r-100r) a letter by one Pet[er] Wood. Inscribed (ff. 90r-1r), Thease verses I borroed to write out of John Sherly [d. 1666] a booke seller in litle Brittaine, 28th of March 1633. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9235. Sotheby's, 21 February 1938, lot 243.

Cited in IELM II.ii (1993), as the Wood MS: StW Δ 21. Discussed in C.F. Main, New Texts of John Donne, SB, 9 (1957), 225-33.

CmT 58

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

In: An oblong quarto songbook, the lyrics in two or more secretary and italic hands, iv + 43 leaves, in modern quarter-calf.

Inscribed (f. 31r) MAY 1639 and Williane Stirling. A long note (f. iir) in the hand of John Leyden (1775-1811), linguist and poet, dated 5 March 1800, recording his purchase of the MS in 1788 from the library of the Rev. Mr Cranstow, minister of Ancrum; his lending it to Alexander Campbell in 1795 and retrieving it in December 1799; and his now consigning it to Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector.

c.1639.

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

Edited from this MS in Diem (1919), pp. 89-90. Collated in Davis, p. 496.

CmT 59

Copy of the first two lines, in a musical setting, untitled.

In: A quarto book of vocal music, the lyrics largely in a single secretary hand, varying in size, 79 leaves, in modern dark green morocco.

Inscribed (f. 45r) REdwards book: i.e. compiled by Robert Edwards (1616-96), minister of Murroes Parish, though originally belonging to his father, Alexander, merchant of Dundee.

c.1635-70.

Owned in 1687 by Robert Edward's son Alexander (1651-1708). Panmure No. 11 among the Panmure Music Books gathered mainly by Lady Jean Campbell, second Countess of Panmure, and her sons James Maule, fourth Earl of Panmure, and Harie Maule. Subsequently preserved by their descendants, Earls of Dalhousie.

CmT 59.5

Copy, in a musical setting.

In: Music book compiled by Lady Margaret Wemyss, daughter of David, second Earl of Wemyss (1610-79), in contemporary vellum. c.1640s.
CmT 60

Copy, in a musical setting.

In: A folio music book, containing 327 songs, in three largely secretary hands, with a Cattalogue of 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 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 Davis, p. 496.

CmT 61

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

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

One of the part books of the St Andrews Psalter.

Early 17th century.
'If thou longst so much to learne (sweet boy) what 'tis to love'

First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xvi. Davis, p. 151.

CmT 62

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

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

One of the part books of the St Andrews Psalter.

Early 17th century.
CmT 62.5

Copy, in a musical setting.

In: Music book compiled by Lady Margaret Wemyss, daughter of David, second Earl of Wemyss (1610-79), in contemporary vellum. c.1640s.
'It fell on a sommers day'

First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. viii. Davis, p. 31.

CmT 63

Copy.

In: A folio composite miscellany compiled entirely by William Drummond of Hawthornden, including (ff. 165r-6v, 246r-7v) copies of, or brief extracts from, nineteen poems by Donne, 300 leaves, in 19th-century calf gilt. c.1618-20s.

Among the collections of William Drummond of Hawthornden: Hawthornden Vol. VIII.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Drummond Miscellany: DnJ Δ 66. Some extracts from this MS edited in Laing (1831), pp. 78-82. Drummond's Catalogue of Comedies (ff. 122-3). Recorded in MacDonald, Library of Drummond, pp. 231-2.

'My Love bound me with a kisse'

See CmT 8-17.

'Never love unlesse you can'

First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xxvii. Davis, p. 163.

CmT 64

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

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

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

This MS recorded in Davis, p. 498.

CmT 65

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

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

One of the part books of the St Andrews Psalter.

Early 17th century.
'Never weather-beaten Saile more willing bent to shore'

First published in Two Bookes of Ayres (London, [c.1612-13]), Book I, No. xi. Davis, pp. 70-1.

CmT 66

Copy, in a musical setting.

In: An oblong octavo music part book (tenor), 63 leaves. c.1680-1750.

Once owned by Thomas and Mary Withen.

'Now let her change and spare not'

First published in Francis Pilkington, First Booke of Songs or Aires (London, 1605). Campion, The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. ii. Davis, pp. 134-5. Doughtie, pp. 216, 227.

CmT 67

Copies, in a musical setting by Francis Pilkington.

In: A set of four oblong quarto music part books (Cantus, Quintus, Altus, Tenor and Bassus), including verses, ranging from 24 to 30 leaves each, in half-red calf marbled boards.

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

c.1630s.

Also inscribed Marie Hammond.

This MS recorded in Doughtie, p. 537.

CmT 67.8

Copy, in a musical setting.

In: Music book compiled by Lady Margaret Wemyss, daughter of David, second Earl of Wemyss (1610-79), in contemporary vellum. c.1640s.
'O sweet delight, O more then humane blisse'

First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xxi. Davis, p. 159.

CmT 68

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

In: A square-shaped folio songbook, largely in a single rounded secretary hand, with (ff. 1r-v, 69r-v) a table of contents, i + 69 leaves, in modern half red morocco. Mid-17th century.

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

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

This MS collated in Davis, p. 498.

'Respect my faith, regard my service past'

First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book IV, No. ii. Davis, p. 169.

CmT 69

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

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

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

This MS recorded in Davis, p. 498.

CmT 70

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

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

One of the part books of the St Andrews Psalter.

Early 17th century.
'Shall I come, sweet Love, to thee'

First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xvii. Davis, pp. 152-3.

CmT 71

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

In: An oblong quarto songbook, the lyrics largely in a single italic hand, with (ff. 4v-5r) a table of contents, 84 leaves, in 19th-century red morocco gilt.

Inscribed (f. 3v), evidently by the compiler, Giles Earle his booke 1615 (with other notes dated 1610) and (f. 1v) Egidius Earle hunc librum possidet qui compactus fuit mense Septembris. 1626., f. 81r subscribed Anno Dni: 1623 / Mense Augusti: Finis.

c.1615-26.

Acquired from Joseph Lilly, bookseller, 17 May 1862.

A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 1 (New York & London, 1986).

This MS collated in Davis, p. 497.

CmT 72

Copy of the first strophe, in a musical setting, untitled.

In: An oblong folio songbook, the lyrics in two or more secretary and italic hands, 44 leaves, in contemporary vellum within brown calf gilt, stamped with the initials A. B., now within modern half red morocco. c.1630.

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

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

Printed from this MS in Davis, p. 153, and collated, p. 497.

CmT 73

Copy, in a musical setting.

In: MS music book, partly compiled by John Bull (c.1562-1628). Early 17th century.

This MS collated in Davis, p. 497.

CmT 74

Copy of the first strophe, in a musical setting.

In: MS music book, partly compiled by John Bull (c.1562-1628). Early 17th century.

This MS collated in Davis, p. 497.

CmT 74.5

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio formal verse miscellany, in a single rounded hand, 259 pages (plus a three-page index), in modern boards.

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.

CmT 74.8

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio formal verse miscellany, comprising c.406 poems, many of them song lyrics, in various neat hands, compiled probably over a period, 8 blank leaves (pp. [i-xvi]) + 10 unnumbered pages of poems (pp. [xvii-xxvi]) + 9 numbered pages (pp. 1-9) + ff. [9v]-151v + 12 leaves at the end blank but for a poem on the penultimate page (f. [11v]), in contemporary calf gilt.

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, Thomas Killigrew's Commonplace Book?, Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin, NS No. 13 (1980), 31-8.

'Shall I then hope when faith is fled'

First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xxix. Davis, p. 165.

CmT 75

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

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

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

This MS recorded in Davis, p. 498.

CmT 76

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

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

One of the part books of the St Andrews Psalter.

Early 17th century.
'Silly boy, 'tis ful Moone yet, thy night as day shines clearely'

First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xxvi. Davis, p. 162.

CmT 77

Copy, here beginning Silly boy 'tis new moon yet.

In: A large folio composite verse miscellany, chiefly folio, partly quarto, 243 pages, in contemporary calf.

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.

c.1638.

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

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

CmT 78

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

In: An oblong quarto songbook, the lyrics largely in a single italic hand, with (ff. 4v-5r) a table of contents, 84 leaves, in 19th-century red morocco gilt.

Inscribed (f. 3v), evidently by the compiler, Giles Earle his booke 1615 (with other notes dated 1610) and (f. 1v) Egidius Earle hunc librum possidet qui compactus fuit mense Septembris. 1626., f. 81r subscribed Anno Dni: 1623 / Mense Augusti: Finis.

c.1615-26.

Acquired from Joseph Lilly, bookseller, 17 May 1862.

A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 1 (New York & London, 1986).

This MS collated in Davis, p. 498.

CmT 79

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

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

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

MS recorded in Davis, p. 498.

CmT 80

Copy, headed Advice to a young Lover, transcribed from a text in a small MS. Collection in Mr. Bouchers possession [i.e. Jonathan Boucher of Epsom].

In: A composite volume of transcripts of ballads made, from various printed and manuscript sources, by and for Robert Jamieson (1780?-1844) for his edition of Popular Ballads and Songs (Edinburgh, 1806). c.1800.

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

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

This MS recorded in Neilson, A Bundle of Ballads, p. 113.

CmT 81

Copy, headed An aduice to a yonge louer.

In: An oblong quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat hand, written with the volume tilted with the spine to the top, 167 pages (plus blanks), in elaborately tooled green morocco gilt.

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

CmT 82

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

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

One of the part books of the St Andrews Psalter.

Early 17th century.
CmT 82.5

Copy.

In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco. c.1620.

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

'Sleepe, angry beauty, sleep, and feare not me'

First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xxv. Davis, p. 161.

CmT 83

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

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

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

MS recorded in Davis, p. 498.

CmT 84

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

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

One of the part books of the St Andrews Psalter.

Early 17th century.
'So many loves have I neglected'

First published in Two Bookes of Ayres (London, [c.1612-13]), Book II, No. xv. Davis, p. 105.

CmT 85

Copy of the first strophe in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

In: A large folio volume of songs in musical settings by John Wilson (1595-1674), composer and musician, vi + 214 leaves (plus some blanks), gilt-edged, in contemporary black morocco elaborately gilt, lettered on each cover DR. / I.W, with silver clasps.

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

c.1656.

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

This MS collated in Davis, pp. 494-5.

CmT 86

Copy of the first strophe in a musical setting by John Wilson.

In: A folio music part book (2nd treble part), viii + 218 pages, in contemporary calf.

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

c.1650s.

Bookplate of Povert Henley.

CmT 87

Copy of the first strophe, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

In: A folio songbook (First Treble part), in a single hand, written from both ends, viii + 213 pages (paginated 1-191, then 1-22 rev.), lacking pp. 87-8, 115-18, the first two of which are now Birmingham Central Library, Acc. No. 57316, Location No. S747.01, in modern half brown morocco marbled boards.

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

Mid-late 17th century.

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

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

This MS collated in Davis, pp. 494-5.

'So sweet is thy discourse to me'

First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book IV, No. vi. Davis, p. 173.

CmT 87.5

Copy, in a musical setting.

In: Music book compiled by Lady Margaret Wemyss, daughter of David, second Earl of Wemyss (1610-79), in contemporary vellum. c.1640s.
'Tarry sweete love'

First published and attributed to Campion, in Mary Joiner Another Campion Song?, M&L, 48 (1967), 138-9.

CmT 88

Copy, in a musical setting.

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

Complete facsimile in Jorgens, VI (1987).

Edited from this MS in Joyner.

'The man of life upright'

First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. xviii. Davis, p. 43 (also p. 60).

CmT 89

Copy, in a different hand, untitled.

In: A folio volume comprising two independent units, foliated as a single series, xii + 246 leaves (plus 12 further blanks).

Both parts containing antiquarian tracts:

ff. 1r-29v, Matters of Combat 1609, predominantly in a professional secretary hand, with additions in other hands, owned in 1612 by William Crispe (name inscribed in court hand several times) and also by Henry Crispe (inscribed f. 20r-v), one or both also probably responsible for trial exercises in decorative lettering. c.1609-12.

ff. 30r-45v, discourses and copies of Latin documents relating to the offices of Lord Steward, Constable, and Earl Marshal of England, with title-page and (incomplete) list of contents, in the hands of professional scribes: ff. 30r-119v, 132r-45v, 150v-61r, 165v to to half-way down f. 205r in the hand of the Feathery Scribe; the remainder in two other scribal hands. c.1630s.

Once owned by the Isham family, of Lamport Hall, Northamptonshire. Sotheby's, 17 June 1904 (Library of a Gentleman in the Country), lot 89, to Quaritch. P.J. and A.E. Dobell, sale catalogue No. 80 (1928), item 719.

Described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 255 (No. 88). Woudhuysen, Sir Philip Sidney, p. 30.

CmT 90

Second copy, in yet another hand.

In: A folio volume comprising two independent units, foliated as a single series, xii + 246 leaves (plus 12 further blanks).

Both parts containing antiquarian tracts:

ff. 1r-29v, Matters of Combat 1609, predominantly in a professional secretary hand, with additions in other hands, owned in 1612 by William Crispe (name inscribed in court hand several times) and also by Henry Crispe (inscribed f. 20r-v), one or both also probably responsible for trial exercises in decorative lettering. c.1609-12.

ff. 30r-45v, discourses and copies of Latin documents relating to the offices of Lord Steward, Constable, and Earl Marshal of England, with title-page and (incomplete) list of contents, in the hands of professional scribes: ff. 30r-119v, 132r-45v, 150v-61r, 165v to to half-way down f. 205r in the hand of the Feathery Scribe; the remainder in two other scribal hands. c.1630s.

Once owned by the Isham family, of Lamport Hall, Northamptonshire. Sotheby's, 17 June 1904 (Library of a Gentleman in the Country), lot 89, to Quaritch. P.J. and A.E. Dobell, sale catalogue No. 80 (1928), item 719.

Described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 255 (No. 88). Woudhuysen, Sir Philip Sidney, p. 30.

Edited from this MS in Joiner.

CmT 91

Copy.

In: A folio verse miscellany, entirely in the professional secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe, containing some 76 poems, including eleven by Donne, later inscribed (erroneously) Sir John Haringtons Poems Written in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, 56 leaves, in contemporary vellum. c.1620s-33.

From the library of Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755), nonjuring bishop and topographer.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Rawlinson MS: DnJ Δ 38. Also briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 277 (No. 94), with facsimile examples on pp. 102-3.

This MS recorded in Davis, p. 493.

CmT 92

Copy, headed Verses made by Mr. Fra. Bacon, in Birch's hand.

In: A large quarto composite volume of letters and papers relating to Queen Elizabeth, Francis Bacon and the Earl of Essex, predominantly in the hand of Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian, 44 leaves. Chiefly mid-18th century.

Edited from this MS in Joiner. Collated in Davis, p. 493.

CmT 93

Copy; untitled.

In: An independent quarto verse miscellany, including 47 poems by Donne, in two secretary hands.

Constituting ff. 230r-99v in a quarto composite volume of verse and prose, in various hands, 308 leaves, in modern half green morocco gilt.

c.1620-33.

Among the collections of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724), and his son, Edward, second Earl of Oxford (1681-1741), and acquired in 1722 from the bookseller Nathaniel Noel (fl.1681-c.1753).

Cited in IELM I.i as the Harley Noel MS: DnJ Δ 2.

This MS collated in Davis, p. 493.

CmT 94

Copy, headed Verses made by Mr Fra: Bacon.

In: A quarto volume of papers relating to Robert, Earl of Essex, in two secretary hands, 30 leaves. Early 17th century.

This MS collated in Davis, p. 493. A 19th-century transcript made by Samuel Sanders is at Trinity College, Cambridge, MS R. 2. 21 (James 521), (3).

CmT 95

Copy, headed Who liues well.

In: A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, in at least seven secretary and italic hands, 118 leaves (plus some blanks), currently disbound.

Possibly compiled by one or more persons connected with the Inns of Court.

c.1600-1620s.

Later in the library of the Rev. Richard Farmer, FSA (1735-97), Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, literary scholar. Lot 8055 in the sale of his library by Thomas King, 7 May to 16 June 1798. Probably owned afterwards by James Crossley (1800-83), author and book collector. Formerly Chetham's MS 8012.

The volume edited by Alexander B. Grosart as The Dr. Farmer Chetham MS. being a Commonplace Book in the Chetham Library, Manchester, temp. Elizabeth, James I, and Charles I, Chetham Society, vols 89 and 90 (Manchester, 1873).

This MS collated in Davis, p. 493.

CmT 95.5

Copy, headed Verses made by Mr: Francis Bacon.

In: A quarto letterbook, in several neat hands, 191 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in red morocco gilt. c.1745.
'The peacefull westerne winde'

First published in Two Bookes of Ayres (London, [c.1612-13]), Book II, No. xii. Davis, pp. 100-1.

CmT 96

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

In: A folio songbook, in probably two secretary and italic hands, 25 leaves, in a recycled contemporary vellum indenture within modern half red morocco. c.1614-30.

Inscribed (f. 1v) John Shurlane His Booke, and (f. 24v rev.) This Book Do[ ] / Hugh ffloyd / Domn: 11, with dates 28 Nov. 1630 and 1633. Purchased from Thomas Rodd, bookseller, 13 April 1844.

A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 1 (New York & London, 1986).

Edited from this MS in Davis, pp. 479-80.

'The Spyres curten of the night is spread'

First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. ix. Davis, p. 32.

CmT 97

Copy.

In: A folio composite miscellany compiled entirely by William Drummond of Hawthornden, including (ff. 165r-6v, 246r-7v) copies of, or brief extracts from, nineteen poems by Donne, 300 leaves, in 19th-century calf gilt. c.1618-20s.

Among the collections of William Drummond of Hawthornden: Hawthornden Vol. VIII.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Drummond Miscellany: DnJ Δ 66. Some extracts from this MS edited in Laing (1831), pp. 78-82. Drummond's Catalogue of Comedies (ff. 122-3). Recorded in MacDonald, Library of Drummond, pp. 231-2.

'There is a Garden in her face'

First published in Robert Jones, Ultimum Vale (London, 1605). Campion, The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book IV, No. vii. Davis, pp. 174-6. Doughtie, p. 212.

CmT 98

Copy, untitled.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, compiled by the writer Robert Codrington (1602-65) of Magdalen College, Oxford, 360 pages (including stubs of extracted leaves on pp. 297-328 and blanks, plus index), in contemporary calf.

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

c.1638.

Acquired from Blackwell's, 1962.

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

CmT 99

Copies of the incipit only, in a musical setting, untitled.

In: A set of six oblong quarto part-books of principally vocal music, largely in a single italic hand, each volume in modern half-morocco. Early 17th century.

These MSS collated in Davis, p. 498.

CmT 100

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

In: A narrow oblong octavo songbook, the lyrics in a neat italic hand, ii + 37 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum within 19th-century morocco. Early 17th century.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Robius Downes. Bookplates of Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary, and of William Hayman Cummings (1831-1915), singer and musical antiquary. Notes in 1841 (f. 2r) by Joseph Warren (1804-81), composer and music editor. Sotheby's, 9 June 1917 (Cummings sale), lot 1586, to Maggs.

A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 1 (New York & London, 1986).

This MS recorded in Doughtie, p. 531.

CmT 101

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

In: An oblong quarto musical part book, for the Treble voice, the song incipits chiefly in a rounded italic hand, with (ff. 2v-4r) an index, 53 leaves, in 19th-century black calf.

Inscribed (f. 1r), in a secretary hand, Sr William Maur: i.e. Sir William Mure, Bt (d.1639), of Rawallan, Ayrshire, or else his son of that name (1594-1657), writer and politician; (f. 1r) Robert Muire ist my hand; and (f. 2r), in later red ink, Thomas Lyle Surgeon.

c.1600s-20.
CmT 102
Copy, in an italic hand, untitled, here beginning There is a gardine in hir face, on one side of a single trimmed folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet. Early 17th century.
CmT 103

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

In: A quarto book of vocal music, the lyrics largely in a single secretary hand, varying in size, 79 leaves, in modern dark green morocco.

Inscribed (f. 45r) REdwards book: i.e. compiled by Robert Edwards (1616-96), minister of Murroes Parish, though originally belonging to his father, Alexander, merchant of Dundee.

c.1635-70.

Owned in 1687 by Robert Edward's son Alexander (1651-1708). Panmure No. 11 among the Panmure Music Books gathered mainly by Lady Jean Campbell, second Countess of Panmure, and her sons James Maule, fourth Earl of Panmure, and Harie Maule. Subsequently preserved by their descendants, Earls of Dalhousie.

'There is none, O none but you'

First published in Two Bookes of Ayres (London, [c.1612-13]), Book II, No. xiii. Davis, p. 102.

CmT 104

Copy in Aubrey's hand, headed For my Lady Eliz: Viscountesse Purbec repeated by her and subscribed made By Rob: E of Essex yt was beheade[d].

In: A folio composite autograph manuscript of the third part of Brief Lives by John Aubrey (1626-97), 106 leaves of various sizes, in half-calf. 1681.

This MS recorded in The Poems of Edward De Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, and of Robert Devereux, Second Earl of Essex, ed. Steven W. May, Studies in Philology, 77, No. 5 (Early Winter 1980), p. 115, where the attribution to Essex is rejected.

CmT 104.5

Copy, transcribed from CmT 104.

In: A quarto miscellany of extracts in verse and prose, ii + 68 pages.

Compiled by Bulkeley Bandinel (1781-1861), librarian and editor.

c.1811.

This MS recorded in May, p. 15.

CmT 104.8

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, on one side of a single quarto leaf, once folded as a letter or packet, in a file of verse MSS.

In: A box of unbound and unnumbered legal and miscellaneous papers.
CmT 105

Copy, in a musical setting, no title.

In: An oblong quarto songbook, the lyrics in two or more secretary and italic hands, iv + 43 leaves, in modern quarter-calf.

Inscribed (f. 31r) MAY 1639 and Williane Stirling. A long note (f. iir) in the hand of John Leyden (1775-1811), linguist and poet, dated 5 March 1800, recording his purchase of the MS in 1788 from the library of the Rev. Mr Cranstow, minister of Ancrum; his lending it to Alexander Campbell in 1795 and retrieving it in December 1799; and his now consigning it to Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector.

c.1639.

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

Edited from this MS in Diem (1919), p. 77. Collated in Davis, p. 494.

'Thou art not faire, for all thy red and white'

First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. xii. Davis, pp. 34-5.

CmT 106

Copy of the first strophe, untitled, in a musical setting.

In: A folio songbook, 121 leaves (including c.20 blanks and an index), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

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.

c.1640s-60s.

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 Davis, p. 492.

CmT 107

Copy, untitled.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, compiled by the writer Robert Codrington (1602-65) of Magdalen College, Oxford, 360 pages (including stubs of extracted leaves on pp. 297-328 and blanks, plus index), in contemporary calf.

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

c.1638.

Acquired from Blackwell's, 1962.

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

CmT 108

Copy of the first strophe, untitled.

In: A quarto composite volume comprising three independent MSS bound together, i + 78 leaves.

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

CmT 109

Copy.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, including (ff. 113r-15r) copies of, or brief extracts from, 30 poems by Donne (plus two apocryphal poems), in a single hand, transcribed from the 1635 or 1639 edition of Donne's Poems, headed Donnes quaintest conceits in several hands, 156 leaves (plus blanks), in modern black morocco gilt. Late 17th century.

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

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

This MS collated in Davis, p. 492.

CmT 110

Copy of a version in sonnet form, headed Beautie without Love deformitie.

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

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

Edited from this MS in Davis, p. 476.

CmT 111

Copy, untitled.

In: A sextodecimo miscellany of verse and topographical prose, probably in a single small cursive hand, 78 leaves, written from both ends, Part I foliated 1r-33r, Part II foliated 1r-45r, in old calf. c.1650s-60s.

Inscribed (Part I, f. 1r) Mr 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.

CmT 112

Copy, headed A Sonnet.

In: A small octavo miscellany of 76 poems by Donne, together with a few poems by others dating up to 1627, in a single italic hand, occasionally marking the end of poems with one or more quatrefoils, 102 leaves (foliation jumping from 55 to 57), gilt-edged, in 19th-century dark green leather gilt. c.late 1620s.

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 IELM, I.i (1980), as the Utterson MS: DnJ Δ 51. Discussed in Sir John Simeon, Unpublished Poems of Donne, Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, 3 (London, 1856-7), No. 3. For an account of Utterson, see Raymond V. Turley, Edward Vernon Utterson, The Book Collector, 25 (1976), 21-44 (and plates after p. 48).

Edited from this MS by Sir John Simeon in Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, 3 (1856-7), No. 3, pp. 23-4.

CmT 113

Copy, headed Sonnett. 12.

In: A quarto verse miscellany of Scottish provenance, chiefly in a single cursive hand, written from both ends, including some shorthand, inscribed (f. 1r) Incept. March. 23. 1652/3., 190 leaves, in old brown calf gilt (rebacked). c.1653-64.

Purchased c.1798.

CmT 114

Copy, in a musical setting.

In: A folio songbook, in a single secretary hand, some items misnumbered, 144 leaves. c.1640s.

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 Davis, p. 492.

CmT 115

Copy, in a musical setting.

In: A folio music book, containing 327 songs, in three largely secretary hands, with a Cattalogue of 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 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 Davis, p. 492.

CmT 116

Copy, headed A scor'nd Bewty.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single predominantly italic hand, 152 leaves (paginated 1-34, thereafter foliated 35-169), plus index, in modern red leather.

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

c.1638-42.

Inscriptions including Horatio Carey 1642 te deus pardamus [viz. Horatio Carey (1619-ante 1677), eldest son of Sir Richard Carey (1583-1630) and great-grandson of Sir Henry Carey (1524?-96), first Baron Hunsdon ], Thomas Arding, Thomas Arden, William Harrington, Thomas John, John Anthehope and Clement Poxall. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 8270. Bookplates of John William Cole and of the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936 (Perry sale). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 194.

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

CmT 116.5

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio formal verse miscellany, comprising c.406 poems, many of them song lyrics, in various neat hands, compiled probably over a period, 8 blank leaves (pp. [i-xvi]) + 10 unnumbered pages of poems (pp. [xvii-xxvi]) + 9 numbered pages (pp. 1-9) + ff. [9v]-151v + 12 leaves at the end blank but for a poem on the penultimate page (f. [11v]), in contemporary calf gilt.

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, Thomas Killigrew's Commonplace Book?, Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin, NS No. 13 (1980), 31-8.

CmT 117

Copy, headed Cant: 27.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, 54 leaves, imperfect (chewed by rodents), lacking covers.

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

c.1634.

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

CmT 118

Copy.

In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, in several hands, showing communal use, 161 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary calf. Late 17th century.

Formerly Chest II, No. 21.

'Thou joy'st, fond boy, to be by many loved'

First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book IV, No. iii. Davis, p. 170.

CmT 119

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

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

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

This MS recorded in Davis, p. 498.

CmT 120

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

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

One of the part books of the St Andrews Psalter.

Early 17th century.
'Though you are yoong and I am olde'

First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. ii. Davis, pp. 20-1.

CmT 121

Copy, headed Old: Young, in a quarto booklet of verse (ff. 136r-45v).

In: A large folio composite volume of verse, in various largely secretary hands, 327 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf.

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).

CmT 122

Copy of the first strophe, headed An old man to a yong Mris.

In: An octavo verse miscellany compiled by an Oxford University man, i i + 37 leaves, in later half-calf. c.1630s.

Among the collections of Francis Douce (1757-1834), antiquary and collector.

CmT 123

Copy of the incipit only, in a musical setting, untitled.

In: A folio songbook, in probably two secretary and italic hands, 25 leaves, in a recycled contemporary vellum indenture within modern half red morocco. c.1614-30.

Inscribed (f. 1v) John Shurlane His Booke, and (f. 24v rev.) This Book Do[ ] / Hugh ffloyd / Domn: 11, with dates 28 Nov. 1630 and 1633. Purchased from Thomas Rodd, bookseller, 13 April 1844.

A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 1 (New York & London, 1986).

CmT 124

Copy of the first strophe, in a musical setting, untitled.

In: An oblong quarto songbook, the lyrics largely in a single italic hand, with (ff. 4v-5r) a table of contents, 84 leaves, in 19th-century red morocco gilt.

Inscribed (f. 3v), evidently by the compiler, Giles Earle his booke 1615 (with other notes dated 1610) and (f. 1v) Egidius Earle hunc librum possidet qui compactus fuit mense Septembris. 1626., f. 81r subscribed Anno Dni: 1623 / Mense Augusti: Finis.

c.1615-26.

Acquired from Joseph Lilly, bookseller, 17 May 1862.

A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 1 (New York & London, 1986).

This MS collated in Davis, p. 492.

CmT 125

Copy of the first strophe, in a musical setting, untitled.

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

Complete facsimile in Jorgens, VI (1987).

This MS collated in Davis, p. 492.

CmT 126

Copy, headed Old wooing.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, largely in a single mixed hand, with additions in other hands, associated with Oxford University, possibly Christ Church, 315 pages (plus blanks), in modern black morocco gilt.

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

c.1630s.

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

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

CmT 126.5

Copy, headed An oulde man to a yonge woman.

In: A quarto miscellany of both bawdy and religious verse and some prose, in several hands, 94 leaves (including a number of blanks), in modern quarter-calf marbled boards. Mid-late 17th century.

Inscribed Charles Shuttleworth His Booke Anno 1691. Peter Murray Hill, London, sale catalogue No. 82 (1962), item 33.

CmT 127

Copy, untitled.

In: A small quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single, minute non-professional italic hand, probably someone associated with Oxford University, comprising 180 pages now all separated and mounted, interleaved, in 19th-century calf. c.late 1630s.

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

CmT 127.5

Copy of the first couplet only, here beginning Though you be yonge & I be old.

In: An octavo miscellany of English and Latin verse and prose, in a small secretary hand, 79 leaves (largely blank), disbound. Early 17th century.
CmT 128

Copy, in a mixed hand, with a fifth stanza added in another mixed hand, untitled.

In: A quarto composite memorandum book of English, Welsh and latin verse and prose, in several hands, 100 leaves, in a contemporary limp vellum wrapper within modern half red morocco.

Compiled over a period, at least in part, by various members of the Lloyd family of Llwydiarth.

Early 17th century-1672.

Inscriptions including (f. 3r) Mounta: Lloyd 1671 and (f. 49r) David Wms. his Book beeing Mrs Anne Lloyds Guift, and with other references to David Lloyd, Elizabeth Lluyd, Robert Lluyd, Jane Lloyd, and Hugh Lloyd. Probably Quaritch's sale Catalogue of English Literature (August-November 1884), item 22351. Formerly Sotheby MS B. 2.

CmT 129

Copy, headed An old man to a maide.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single small mixed hand throughout; 425 pages (plus an eight-page index), in contemporary calf.

Including 45 poems (and a second copy of one) by Carew, 11 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Corbett, and 25 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1634.

The initials T. C. stamped on the front cover. Sold by Thomas Thorpe (1836). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9536, and by Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), of Providence, Rhode Island, industrialist, banker, and art and books collector. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 189.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Rosenbach MS II: CwT Δ 32, CoR Δ 12, and StW Δ 24. Discussed in Scott Nixon, The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 193-5).

CmT 129.5

Copy of the first four lines only, headed A Old Man to his Mrs.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, of English and Welsh verse and prose, in probably several hands, the English verse (on pages 9-70, 93-104) including eleven poems by Strode and two of doubtful authorship, 110 pages (plus stubs of extracted leaves).

Compiled by members of the Griffith family, of Llanddyfnan, the verse probably entered by one or more of the various members of that family who studied in this period at the University of Oxford.

Mid-17th century.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Griffith MS: StW Δ 26.

'Though your strangenesse frets my hart'

First published in Robert Jones, A Musical Dreame (London, 1609). Campion, Two Bookes of Ayres (London, [c.1612-13]), Book II, No. xvi. Davis, pp. 106-7. Doughtie, pp. 319-20.

CmT 130

Copy in a musical setting.

In: A folio music part book (2nd treble part), viii + 218 pages, in contemporary calf.

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

c.1650s.

Bookplate of Povert Henley.

CmT 131

Copy of the first line, in a musical setting.

In: An octavo musical part book, for the counter-tenor, of the St Andrews Psalter (the Scottish Metrical Psalter of 1566 etc. by Thomas Wode, afterwards Vicar of St Andrews), copied c.1575-8, with a series of secular songs added later (ff. 81v-93v) in a secretary hand, 93 leaves, in old blind-stamped calf.

For three other part books of this Psalter, see Edinburgh University Library MS La. III. 483.

Early 17th century (secular songs).

Purchased from Mrs H.S. Andrews, 14 November 1890.

This MS recorded in Davis, p. 495.

CmT 132

Copy, untitled.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, including 18 poems by Donne, in several hands over a period (the predominant secretary hand on ff. 1r-35v, 45v-63r), written from both ends, 91 leaves, in later green morocco. c.1630s [-1777].

Inscribed (f. 1r) E Libris Richardo Glovero pharmacopol. Londinense pertinantibus, the date 1638 possibly added in a different hand. The name William Allen on f. 77v among scribbling. Inscribed (f. 1v) by a later owner, apparently for Mr Thorpe, I was informed by the bookseller of whom I bought this book; that it belonged formerly to a literary gentleman who lived in Burton Crescent and who died about six months ago. 3rd Augt. 1835.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Glover MS: DnJ Δ 42.

This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 573-5; recorded in Davis, p. 495.

CmT 133

Copy of the first strophe, in a musical setting.

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

Complete facsimile in Jorgens, VI (1987).

This MS collated in Davis, p. 495, and in Doughtie, pp. 573-5.

CmT 134

Copy of strophes I and III, in a musical setting, untitled.

In: A folio songbook (First Treble part), in a single hand, written from both ends, viii + 213 pages (paginated 1-191, then 1-22 rev.), lacking pp. 87-8, 115-18, the first two of which are now Birmingham Central Library, Acc. No. 57316, Location No. S747.01, in modern half brown morocco marbled boards.

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

Mid-late 17th century.

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

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

This MS collated in Davis, p. 495.

CmT 135

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

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

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

This MS recorded in Davis, p. 495.

CmT 136

Copy, in a musical setting by Robert Jones.

In: A folio songbook, largely in a single secretary hand, with poems and (reversed) culinary and medical receipts in later hands at the end, imperfect or incomplete, now 27 leaves, lacking half the songs listed in a Table at the end. c.1620s-30s.

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

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

This MS collated in Davis, p. 495, and in Doughtie, pp. 573-5.

CmT 137

Copy, in a musical setting.

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

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

CmT 138

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

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

One of the part books of the St Andrews Psalter.

Early 17th century.
CmT 139

Copies in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

In: Three oblong quarto music part books (4/a, 4/b, and 4/c), 103, 93, and 75 leaves (including numerous blanks) respectively, in contemporary calf gilt.

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

Mid-17th century.

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

This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 573-5.

'Thrice tosse these Oaken ashes in the ayre'

First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xviii. Davis, p. 154.

CmT 140

Copy of a version in sonnet form.

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

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

Printed from this MS in Davis, p. 476.

CmT 141

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

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

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

This MS recorded in Davis, p. 497.

CmT 142

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

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

One of the part books of the St Andrews Psalter.

Early 17th century.
'Thus I resolve, and time hath taught me so'

First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xxii. Davis, p. 159.

CmT 142.5

Copy, in a musical setting.

In: Music book compiled by Lady Margaret Wemyss, daughter of David, second Earl of Wemyss (1610-79), in contemporary vellum. c.1640s.
'Turne all thy thoughts to eyes'

First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book IV, No. xx. Davis, p. 188.

CmT 143

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

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

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

This MS recorded in Davis, p. 500.

CmT 144

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

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

One of the part books of the St Andrews Psalter.

Early 17th century.
'Vaine man, whose follies make a God of Love'

First published in Two Bookes of Ayres (London, [c.1612-13]), Book II, No. i. Davis, p. 85.

CmT 145

Copy of the first line, in a musical setting.

In: An octavo musical part book, for the counter-tenor, of the St Andrews Psalter (the Scottish Metrical Psalter of 1566 etc. by Thomas Wode, afterwards Vicar of St Andrews), copied c.1575-8, with a series of secular songs added later (ff. 81v-93v) in a secretary hand, 93 leaves, in old blind-stamped calf.

For three other part books of this Psalter, see Edinburgh University Library MS La. III. 483.

Early 17th century (secular songs).

Purchased from Mrs H.S. Andrews, 14 November 1890.

This MS recorded in Davis, p. 494.

CmT 146

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

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

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

This MS recorded in Davis, p. 494.

CmT 147

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

In: An oblong quarto songbook, the lyrics in two or more secretary and italic hands, iv + 43 leaves, in modern quarter-calf.

Inscribed (f. 31r) MAY 1639 and Williane Stirling. A long note (f. iir) in the hand of John Leyden (1775-1811), linguist and poet, dated 5 March 1800, recording his purchase of the MS in 1788 from the library of the Rev. Mr Cranstow, minister of Ancrum; his lending it to Alexander Campbell in 1795 and retrieving it in December 1799; and his now consigning it to Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector.

c.1639.

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

Edited from this MS in Diem (1919), p. 78. Collated in Davis, p. 494.

'Were my hart as some mens are, thy errours would not move me'

First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. iii. Davis, p. 137.

CmT 148

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

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

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

This MS recorded in Davis, p. 496.

CmT 149

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

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

One of the part books of the St Andrews Psalter.

Early 17th century.
'What is it that all men possesse, among themselves conversing?'

First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xiv. Davis, p. 149.

CmT 150

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

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

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

This MS recorded in Davis, p. 497.

CmT 151

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

In: An oblong quarto songbook, the lyrics in two or more secretary and italic hands, iv + 43 leaves, in modern quarter-calf.

Inscribed (f. 31r) MAY 1639 and Williane Stirling. A long note (f. iir) in the hand of John Leyden (1775-1811), linguist and poet, dated 5 March 1800, recording his purchase of the MS in 1788 from the library of the Rev. Mr Cranstow, minister of Ancrum; his lending it to Alexander Campbell in 1795 and retrieving it in December 1799; and his now consigning it to Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector.

c.1639.

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

Edited from this MS in Diem (1919), p. 84. Collated in Davis, p. 497.

CmT 152

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

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

One of the part books of the St Andrews Psalter.

Early 17th century.
'When thou must home to shades of vnder ground'

First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. xx. Davis, p. 46.

CmT 152.5

Copy.

In: A folio composite miscellany compiled entirely by William Drummond of Hawthornden, including (ff. 165r-6v, 246r-7v) copies of, or brief extracts from, nineteen poems by Donne, 300 leaves, in 19th-century calf gilt. c.1618-20s.

Among the collections of William Drummond of Hawthornden: Hawthornden Vol. VIII.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Drummond Miscellany: DnJ Δ 66. Some extracts from this MS edited in Laing (1831), pp. 78-82. Drummond's Catalogue of Comedies (ff. 122-3). Recorded in MacDonald, Library of Drummond, pp. 231-2.

This MS recorded in David Lindley, Campion and Rosseter: The Ascription of A Booke of Ayres, N&Q, 228 (October 1983), 416.

'When to her lute Corrina sings'

First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. vi. Davis, pp. 28-9.

CmT 153

Copy, headed On Corinna singing.

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

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

1647.

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

CmT 154

Copy of lines 1-2, 5-6, headed Of Corrina her Lute.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single neat predominantly italic hand, 72 leaves, in old leather.

Probably compiled by one H.S., a Cambridge man.

c.1640s-50s.

Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector, with his bookplate and inscription 1806 Purchased of Lansdown of Bristol. Bliss sale, 21 August 1858, lot 192.

This MS recorded in Davis, p. 492.

CmT 155

Copy, untitled, here beginning When to her lute my Mistres singes.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in a Scottish secretary hand, paginated 5-132, bound with a later verse MS on 98 pages, in brown calf. c.1630s-40s.

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.

CmT 156

Copy, headed Sympathy and here beginning When to her lute Althea sings.

In: A verse miscellany, much of it in shorthand, almost entirely closely written in a small cursive mixed hand, written from both ends, in contemporary calf with initials E H in gilt.

16°, 87 leaves (plus two paste-downs); miscellany, including portions of some 42 identifiable English poems by Crashaw, many of the lines here re-arranged in a garbled fashion; compiled by a Cambridge man, possibly a member of Christ's College; probably in a single hand throughout, with variations of style, written from both ends, about thirty pages in shorthand.

c.1650s.

Later owned by Edward Hailstone (1818-90) of Walton Hall, near Wakefield, botanist and book collector. Sotheby's 23 April 1891 (Hailstone sale), probably lot 439, to Dobell). Bertram Dobell's sale catalogue No. 103 (June 1902), item 373. Formerly Folger MS 267.1.

Cited in IELM, I.ii, as the Hailstone MS: CrR Δ 6. Crashaw's work selectively collated (cited as Dobell) in Martin and discussed p. lxxxi. Facsimile of f. 22 in Dobell catalogue. The MS discussed by Dobell, in other connections, in Some Unpublished Epigrams by Thomas Fuller, The Athenaeum (27 April 1901), p. 532, and in An Early Variant of a Shakespeare Sonnet, The Athenaeum (2 August 1913), p. 112. Compare CrR Δ 8.

'Where are all thy beauties now, all harts enchayning?'

First published in Two Bookes of Ayres (London, [c.1612-13]), Book I, No. iii. Davis, p. 61.

CmT 157

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

In: A small oblong quarto songbook, in probably several hands, 18 leaves, in paper wrappers, disbound. Late-17th century.

A wrapper inscribed For George Chalmers Esq.: i.e. given probably to George Chalmers, FSA, FRS (1742-1825), antiquary and political writer.

CmT 158

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

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

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

This MS recorded in Davis, p. 49

CmT 159

Copy in a musical setting.

In: An oblong quarto songbook, the lyrics in two or more secretary and italic hands, iv + 43 leaves, in modern quarter-calf.

Inscribed (f. 31r) MAY 1639 and Williane Stirling. A long note (f. iir) in the hand of John Leyden (1775-1811), linguist and poet, dated 5 March 1800, recording his purchase of the MS in 1788 from the library of the Rev. Mr Cranstow, minister of Ancrum; his lending it to Alexander Campbell in 1795 and retrieving it in December 1799; and his now consigning it to Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector.

c.1639.

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

Edited from this MS in Diem (1919), p. 85. Collated in Davis, p. 496.

CmT 160

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

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

One of the part books of the St Andrews Psalter.

Early 17th century.
'Where shall I refuge seeke, if you refuse mee?'

First published in Two Bookes of Ayres (London, [c.1612-13]), Book II, No. xxi. Davis, p. 112.

CmT 160.5
In: Music book compiled by Lady Margaret Wemyss, daughter of David, second Earl of Wemyss (1610-79), in contemporary vellum. c.1640s.
'Young and simple though I am'

First published in Alfonso Ferrabosco, Ayres (London, 1609). Campion, The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book IV, No. ix. Davis, p. 177. Doughtie, p. 295.

CmT 161

Copy in the hand of Elias Ashmole, untitled.

In: A large folio composite volume of verse, in various largely secretary hands, 327 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf.

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).

CmT 162

Two copies, one inverted, of the first strophe, in a musical setting by Nicholas Lanier, for cantus and bassus parts, untitled.

In: A folio songbook, in two or more predominantly italic hands, written from both ends, 87 leaves, in remains of contemporary vellum within modern half red morocco.

Possibly compiled in part by one T. C.

c.1641-59.

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

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

This MS recorded in Davis, p. 499.

CmT 163

Copy of the first strophe, in a musical setting by Alfonso Ferrabosco, untitled.

In: An oblong quarto songbook, the lyrics largely in a single italic hand, with (ff. 4v-5r) a table of contents, 84 leaves, in 19th-century red morocco gilt.

Inscribed (f. 3v), evidently by the compiler, Giles Earle his booke 1615 (with other notes dated 1610) and (f. 1v) Egidius Earle hunc librum possidet qui compactus fuit mense Septembris. 1626., f. 81r subscribed Anno Dni: 1623 / Mense Augusti: Finis.

c.1615-26.

Acquired from Joseph Lilly, bookseller, 17 May 1862.

A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 1 (New York & London, 1986).

This MS recorded in Davis, p. 499, and in Doughtie, p. 564.

CmT 164

Copy, headed A Songe and here beginning Young and tender though I am.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, largely in a single professional hand, with later additions on ff. 58v-62v in three or four other hands, 65 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt.

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

c.1630s [-1670s].

This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 565-6.

CmT 165

Copy, headed A Sonnet.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, including 33 poems by Thomas Carew and sixteen by Henry King, in a single small hand, with (ff. 1r-2v) an alphabetical Index, 105 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt.

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

c.1641-9.

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).

CmT 166

Copy of a six-stanza version, untitled.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, chiefly (ff. 1r-14r) in a single small mixed hand, i + 15 leaves, the eighth and last item in a composite volume of otherwise printed amatory poems and pamphlets, in 19th-century quarter brown calf. c.1620s.

The volume inscribed (on flyleaves) E Bedford, W Monteagle, Fra: Goodwin, Edw nedwarde.

The MS poems here edited in Frederick J. Furnivall, Love-Poems and Humourous Ones, The Ballad Society (Hertford, 1874; reprinted New York, 1977).

Furnivall, pp. 5-6.

CmT 167

Copy, in a musical setting by Alfonso Ferrabosco, untitled.

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

Complete facsimile in Jorgens, VI (1987).

This MS collated in Davis, p. 499.

CmT 168

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

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

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

This MS recorded in Davis, p. 499.

CmT 169

Copy, headed A Maydes deliberation, with four additional strophes.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary hand, probably associated with Oxford and afterwards with the Inns of Court, 73 leaves (plus a few blanks and a modern index).

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

This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 565-7.

CmT 170

Copy, untitled.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands, a neat mixed hand predominating up to f. 55r, 151 leaves (including a few blanks), in contemporary calf. c.1730.

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

CmT 171

Copies, in a musical setting by Nicholas Lanier.

In: A set of four oblong duodecimo music part books, (i) Cantus Primus, (ii) Cantus Secundus, (iii) Bassus and (iv) Basso Continuo, each written from both ends, compiled by John Playford (1623-86?), 50, 36, 48, and 35 leaves respectively, each volume in limp vellum lettered I. P..

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

c.1660.

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

CmT 172

Copy, untitled.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, predominantly in two very small hands (A: ff. 1r-44v; B: ff. 44v-87v), with further verse and prose pieces in other hands on ff. 88r-121r, written from both ends, associated with Oxford, possibly New College, and probably afterwards with the Inns of Court, 155 leaves (including 33 blanks), in modern black morocco elaborately gilt.

Including 23 poems by Strode (and second copies of two poems) and one poem of doubtful authorship.

c.1630s.

Including (ff. 98r-100r) a letter by one Pet[er] Wood. Inscribed (ff. 90r-1r), Thease verses I borroed to write out of John Sherly [d. 1666] a booke seller in litle Brittaine, 28th of March 1633. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9235. Sotheby's, 21 February 1938, lot 243.

Cited in IELM II.ii (1993), as the Wood MS: StW Δ 21. Discussed in C.F. Main, New Texts of John Donne, SB, 9 (1957), 225-33.

CmT 173

Copy, headed A maides delibertion and resolucion.

In: A folio verse miscellany, including 26 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Thomas Carew and poems by Henry King, in several hands, 92 leaves, plus an inserted gathering of eleven leaves after f. 82v (ff. [82a-82k]), but including stubs of some extracted leaves (ff. 74-8, 94-5), in contemporary vellum.

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.

c.1630s.

Among the muniments of Lord Mexborough, descended from the Savile family formerly of Methley Hall, near Pontefract, West Yorkshire. Formerly MX 237.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Mexborough MS: CwT Δ 29.

CmT 174

Copy of a six-strophe version, in a musical setting, untitled.

In: An oblong quarto songbook, the lyrics in two or more secretary and italic hands, iv + 43 leaves, in modern quarter-calf.

Inscribed (f. 31r) MAY 1639 and Williane Stirling. A long note (f. iir) in the hand of John Leyden (1775-1811), linguist and poet, dated 5 March 1800, recording his purchase of the MS in 1788 from the library of the Rev. Mr Cranstow, minister of Ancrum; his lending it to Alexander Campbell in 1795 and retrieving it in December 1799; and his now consigning it to Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector.

c.1639.

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

Edited from this MS in Diem (1919), pp. 80-1. Collated and the sixth strophe edited in Davis, p. 499.

CmT 174.5

Copy, in a musical setting.

In: Music book compiled by Lady Margaret Wemyss, daughter of David, second Earl of Wemyss (1610-79), in contemporary vellum. c.1640s.

Facsimile and transcription of this MS in Reading Early Modern Women, ed. Helen Ostovich and Elizabeth Sauer (New York & London, 2004), pp. 482-3.

CmT 175

Copy, headed A maydes Deliberation, with four additional strophes.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary hand, 204 pages, in old calf.

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

c.1630s.

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

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

This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 565-7.

CmT 176

Copy of a 48 line version headed A Maydes deliberate Resolucon and here beginning Although I'me younge, yet not so ignorant am I….

In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single predominantly italic hand, 152 leaves (paginated 1-34, thereafter foliated 35-169), plus index, in modern red leather.

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

c.1638-42.

Inscriptions including Horatio Carey 1642 te deus pardamus [viz. Horatio Carey (1619-ante 1677), eldest son of Sir Richard Carey (1583-1630) and great-grandson of Sir Henry Carey (1524?-96), first Baron Hunsdon ], Thomas Arding, Thomas Arden, William Harrington, Thomas John, John Anthehope and Clement Poxall. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 8270. Bookplates of John William Cole and of the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936 (Perry sale). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 194.

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

This MS recorded in Doughtie, f. 565.

CmT 176.5

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio formal verse miscellany, comprising c.406 poems, many of them song lyrics, in various neat hands, compiled probably over a period, 8 blank leaves (pp. [i-xvi]) + 10 unnumbered pages of poems (pp. [xvii-xxvi]) + 9 numbered pages (pp. 1-9) + ff. [9v]-151v + 12 leaves at the end blank but for a poem on the penultimate page (f. [11v]), in contemporary calf gilt.

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, Thomas Killigrew's Commonplace Book?, Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin, NS No. 13 (1980), 31-8.

CmT 177

Copy in a musical setting.

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

One of the part books of the St Andrews Psalter.

Early 17th century.
CmT 177.5

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio formal verse miscellany, in a single rounded hand, 259 pages (plus a three-page index), in modern boards.

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.

(2) English Songs and Poems of Doubtful Authorship

'And would you see my Mistris face?'

First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), Part II, No. ii. Davis, p. 451.

CmT 178

Copy, untitled.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, compiled by the writer Robert Codrington (1602-65) of Magdalen College, Oxford, 360 pages (including stubs of extracted leaves on pp. 297-328 and blanks, plus index), in contemporary calf.

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

c.1638.

Acquired from Blackwell's, 1962.

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

CmT 179

Copy, in an italic hand, untitled.

In: A folio volume of historical collections, largely in a single small hand, with an Index (ff. 2r-5v), 178 leaves, in leather gilt.

Compiled by the antiquary St Loe Kniveton, of Gray's Inn.

c.1600s.

According to two long notes (ff. 6r, 178v) by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), herald and antiquary, identifying the hand as Kniveton's, the MS was after possest by the Lord Chaworth [i.e. George Chaworth (d.1639), first Viscount Chaworth] who gaue this & severall other books to Doctor Thoreton of Carcolston in the County of Nottingham whose grandson Robert Sherard gave this & 8o others in Kniveton's handwriting to Le Neve, 21 March 1712.

This MS collated in Davis, p. 506.

CmT 180

Copy, headed Song.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in a Scottish secretary hand, paginated 5-132, bound with a later verse MS on 98 pages, in brown calf. c.1630s-40s.

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.

'Art thou that shee then whome noe fayrer is?'

First published in More Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age, ed. A.H. Bullen (London, 1888), pp. 6-7. Davis, p. 478.

CmT 181

Copy of the first strophe, in a musical setting, untitled.

In: An oblong quarto songbook, the lyrics largely in a single italic hand, with (ff. 4v-5r) a table of contents, 84 leaves, in 19th-century red morocco gilt.

Inscribed (f. 3v), evidently by the compiler, Giles Earle his booke 1615 (with other notes dated 1610) and (f. 1v) Egidius Earle hunc librum possidet qui compactus fuit mense Septembris. 1626., f. 81r subscribed Anno Dni: 1623 / Mense Augusti: Finis.

c.1615-26.

Acquired from Joseph Lilly, bookseller, 17 May 1862.

A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 1 (New York & London, 1986).

This MS collated in Davis, p. 508.

CmT 182

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

In: A narrow oblong octavo songbook, the lyrics in a neat italic hand, ii + 37 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum within 19th-century morocco. Early 17th century.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Robius Downes. Bookplates of Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary, and of William Hayman Cummings (1831-1915), singer and musical antiquary. Notes in 1841 (f. 2r) by Joseph Warren (1804-81), composer and music editor. Sotheby's, 9 June 1917 (Cummings sale), lot 1586, to Maggs.

A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 1 (New York & London, 1986).

CmT 183

Copy, in a musical setting.

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

Complete facsimile in Jorgens, VI (1987).

Edited from this MS in Davis.

'As on a day Sabina fell asleepe'

First published in Vivian (1909), p. 356. Davis, p. 479.

CmT 184

Copy, untitled, imperfect.

In: A folio composite volume of verse and some prose, in various hands, v + 179 leaves, in early 18th-century half-calf.

With a few additions in Rawlinson's hand.

CmT 185

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

In: An oblong quarto songbook, the lyrics largely in a single italic hand, with (ff. 4v-5r) a table of contents, 84 leaves, in 19th-century red morocco gilt.

Inscribed (f. 3v), evidently by the compiler, Giles Earle his booke 1615 (with other notes dated 1610) and (f. 1v) Egidius Earle hunc librum possidet qui compactus fuit mense Septembris. 1626., f. 81r subscribed Anno Dni: 1623 / Mense Augusti: Finis.

c.1615-26.

Acquired from Joseph Lilly, bookseller, 17 May 1862.

A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 1 (New York & London, 1986).

Printed from this MS in Vivian and in Davis.

CmT 185.5

Copy, transcribed from fol. 20 of the original songbook.

In: Copy of Sonnettes &c., in the hand of John Leyden (1775-1811), linguist and poet, made for Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector, on eight quarto leaves.

Transcribed from an earlier musical partbook for the Cantus voice bearing a preface signed Jo. Hiltoun (fl. c.1627-30) which in 1800 was in the possession of Mr. Russell, Grandson of Dr Robertson, late Principal of Edinburgh College [i.e. William Robertson (1721-93), historian].

26 February 1800.
CmT 186

Copy, headed In Sabinam.

In: A quarto formal verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary and italic hand throughout, paginated 1-162 (but lacking some leaves), in modern limp vellum.

Compiled by John Cruso (fl.1595-1655), poet and military writer, who matriculated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, in 1632.

c.1630s.

Names inscribed lengthways down margins (pp. 71, 91, 95) including Cuthbert Sewell Esq, Jos. Nicholson, Wm Richardson, and Somers. Donated in 1922 by Gordon Wordsworth who claims that the volume was once owned by the poet William Wordsworth.

A Ballad
('Dido was the Carthage Queene')

First published in George Mason & John Earsden, The Ayres That Were Sung and Played, at Brougham Castle in Westmerland, in the Kings Entertainment (London, 1618). Davis, p. 467.

CmT 187

Copy, headed Aeneas & Dido.

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

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

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

This MS collated in Davis, p. 507.

CmT 188

Copy, headed The song of Dido sung to k. James whe he was at Broome castle in Westmrland.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single cursive secretary hand, with a later title-page supplied in 1832, x + 116 leaves (plus blanks), in 19th-century black leather elaborately gilt.

Inscribed (f. 1r), possibly by the compiler, Richardus Jackson 1623 and Richard Jackson his booke, who is described in a later pencil note as perhaps the brachygrapher. On ff. 113v-16r, in a later hand, is a Catalogue of ye Books lately belonging to ye. Rev. Mr Jackson Rectr of Tatham.

c.1628-30s.

Also inscribed (f. 1r) John Pecke. Sold by Thomas Thorpe, bookseller, in 1831-2. Among collections of James Orchard Halliwell (from 1872 Halliwell-Phillipps) (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Bought by him in 1871 from Sotheran's, London.

A 247-page transcript of this volume made c.1830 is in the Folger Shakespeare Library, MS M.b.26.

CmT 189

Copy, untitled, transcribed from fol. 22 of the original songbook.

In: Copy of Sonnettes &c., in the hand of John Leyden (1775-1811), linguist and poet, made for Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector, on eight quarto leaves.

Transcribed from an earlier musical partbook for the Cantus voice bearing a preface signed Jo. Hiltoun (fl. c.1627-30) which in 1800 was in the possession of Mr. Russell, Grandson of Dr Robertson, late Principal of Edinburgh College [i.e. William Robertson (1721-93), historian].

26 February 1800.
CmT 190

Copy, headed Dido, here beginning Dido was a Carthage queene.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in a Scottish secretary hand, paginated 5-132, bound with a later verse MS on 98 pages, in brown calf. c.1630s-40s.

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.

CmT 190.5

Copy, headed Counsell, not for men to bee constant, a Songe.

In: An oblong quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat hand, written with the volume tilted with the spine to the top, 167 pages (plus blanks), in elaborately tooled green morocco gilt.

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

CmT 191

Copy.

In: A folio verse miscellany, containing 89 poems, including 43 by Donne, in several hands (ff. 21r-62r in a single accomplished secretary hand), 69 leaves, in paper wrappers.

The text of the poems by Donne derived from the same source as the Lansdowne MS (British Library, Lansdowne MS 740) and related in part to the Haslewood-Kingsborough MS II (Huntington, HM 198, Part II).

c.1620-5.

Formerly among the muniments of the Earl of Dalhousie (descendant of the Maule and Ramsay families), of Brechin Castle, on deposit in the Scottish Record Office [now National Archives of Scotland] (GD45/26/95/1). Sotheby's, 20 July 1981, lot 490.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the the Dalhousie MS I: DnJ Δ 11. Complete reduced facsimile and transcription in The First and Second Dalhousie Manuscripts: Poems and Prose by John Donne and Others: A Facsimile Edition, ed. Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Columbia, 1988). Also discussed by Ernest W. Sullivan, II in Donne Manuscripts: Dalhousie I, John Donne Journal, 3/2 (1984), 204-19; in And, having done that, Thou hast done: Locating, Acquiring, and Studying the Dalhousie Manuscripts, in The Donne Dalhousie Discovery: Proceedings of a Symposium on the Acquisition and Study of the John Donne and Joseph Conrad Collections at Texas Tech University, ed. Ernest W. Sullivan II and David J. Murrah (Lubbock, TX, 1987), pp. 1-10; and in The Renaissance Manuscript Verse Miscellany: Private Party, Private Text, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, ed. W. Speed Hill (Binghamton, 1993), pp. 289-97.

Facsimiles of f. 15v in DLB, vol. 121, Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, First Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1992), p. 13, and of f. 42r in Sotheby's sale catalogue and in Peter Beal, A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology 1450-2000 (Oxford, 2008), p. 431, Illus. 91. A complete microfilm of the MS is in the National Archives of Scotland.

Sullivan suggests that the miscellany derives from sources preserved by members of the Earl of Essex's circle, their most likely conduit to the Dalhousie family being John Ramsay (1580-1626), Viscount Haddington and Earl of Holderness.

Beautie without Love deformitie
('Thou are not fayer for all thy red and white')

See CmT 110.

'Could my poore hart whole worlds of toungs employ'

See CmT 23.

'Do not, O do not prize thy beauty at too high a rate'

First published in Robert Jones, Ultimum Vale (London, 1605). Davis, p. 477. Doughtie, pp. 205-6.

CmT 192

Copy, in a musical setting, inscribed Cantus & Bassus, untitled.

In: An oblong quarto songbook, the lyrics largely in a single italic hand, with (ff. 4v-5r) a table of contents, 84 leaves, in 19th-century red morocco gilt.

Inscribed (f. 3v), evidently by the compiler, Giles Earle his booke 1615 (with other notes dated 1610) and (f. 1v) Egidius Earle hunc librum possidet qui compactus fuit mense Septembris. 1626., f. 81r subscribed Anno Dni: 1623 / Mense Augusti: Finis.

c.1615-26.

Acquired from Joseph Lilly, bookseller, 17 May 1862.

A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 1 (New York & London, 1986).

This MS collated in Doughtie, p. 527.

CmT 193

Copy of the incipit only, in a musical setting, untitled.

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

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

These MSS recorded in Davis, p. 508.

CmT 194

Copy of the incipit with a musical setting.

In: An oblong quarto musical part book, for the Treble voice, the song incipits chiefly in a rounded italic hand, with (ff. 2v-4r) an index, 53 leaves, in 19th-century black calf.

Inscribed (f. 1r), in a secretary hand, Sr William Maur: i.e. Sir William Mure, Bt (d.1639), of Rawallan, Ayrshire, or else his son of that name (1594-1657), writer and politician; (f. 1r) Robert Muire ist my hand; and (f. 2r), in later red ink, Thomas Lyle Surgeon.

c.1600s-20.
CmT 195

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

In: An oblong quarto book of mainly vocal music, the lyrics in several largely secretary hands, one predominating, 90 pages (including blanks), in contemporary brown calf, both covers stamped in gilt I S.

Inscribed several times John Squyer, probably the compiler.

Mid-17th century.

Also inscribed (p. 1) Ane Cattologue of books 1700, and (p. 25) Joanne Squier. Owned by David Laing in June 1855.

This MS collated in Davis, p. 508.

CmT 196

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

In: An oblong quarto songbook, the lyrics in two or more secretary and italic hands, iv + 43 leaves, in modern quarter-calf.

Inscribed (f. 31r) MAY 1639 and Williane Stirling. A long note (f. iir) in the hand of John Leyden (1775-1811), linguist and poet, dated 5 March 1800, recording his purchase of the MS in 1788 from the library of the Rev. Mr Cranstow, minister of Ancrum; his lending it to Alexander Campbell in 1795 and retrieving it in December 1799; and his now consigning it to Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector.

c.1639.

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

Edited from this MS in Diem (1919), p. 75. Collated in Davis, p. 508, and in Doughtie, p. 527.

CmT 197

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

In: A small oblong quarto songbook, in probably several hands, 18 leaves, in paper wrappers, disbound. Late-17th century.

A wrapper inscribed For George Chalmers Esq.: i.e. given probably to George Chalmers, FSA, FRS (1742-1825), antiquary and political writer.

CmT 198

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

In: An oblong quarto songbook, the lyrics in a single secretary hand, 30 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum gilt, with modern ties. c.1630.

Inscribed inside the front cover Ro Carre of Ferniehurst (1669), later fourth Lord Jedburgh. Initials L. A. K. stamped on the cover possibly denoting his wife, Lady Ann Ker.

CmT 199

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

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

One of the part books of the St Andrews Psalter.

Early 17th century.
Dolus
('Thou shalt not love mee, neither shall these eyes')

First published in Vivian (1909), p. 356. Davis, p. 475.

CmT 200

Copy.

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

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

Edited from this MS in Vivian and in Davis.

CmT 201

Copy, headed in the margin Satyre.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in one or more secretary hands, with (ff. 244r-54r) a first-line index, 254 leaves, in modern half-morocco, poems on ff. 34v and 242v dated 1637.

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

c.1637.

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

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

CmT 202

Copy, headed A Sonnet.

In: A quarto formal verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary and italic hand throughout, paginated 1-162 (but lacking some leaves), in modern limp vellum.

Compiled by John Cruso (fl.1595-1655), poet and military writer, who matriculated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, in 1632.

c.1630s.

Names inscribed lengthways down margins (pp. 71, 91, 95) including Cuthbert Sewell Esq, Jos. Nicholson, Wm Richardson, and Somers. Donated in 1922 by Gordon Wordsworth who claims that the volume was once owned by the poet William Wordsworth.

'Hide not, sweetest Love, a sight so pleasing'

First published in The Works of Dr. Thomas Campion, ed. A. H. Bullen (London, 1889), p. 405. Davis, p. 481.

CmT 203
Copy, in a miscellany. Mid-17th century.

Owned in 1889 by the Duke of Buccleuch, Drumlanrig Castle, Dumfriesshire.

Edited from this MS in Bullen.

'Long have mine eies gaz'd with delight'

First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), Part II, No. x. Davis, pp. 455-6.

CmT 204

Copy of a five-strophe version, in a musical setting.

In: A folio music book, containing 327 songs, in three largely secretary hands, with a Cattalogue of 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 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 and the fourth and fifth strophes edited in Davis, p. 506.

CmT 204.5

Copy.

In: Music book compiled by Lady Margaret Wemyss, daughter of David, second Earl of Wemyss (1610-79), in contemporary vellum. c.1640s.
'No graue for woe, yet earth my watrie teares deuoures'

First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), Part II. Davis, p. 451.

CmT 204.8

Copy, here ascribed to Philip Rosseter.

In: A folio composite miscellany compiled entirely by William Drummond of Hawthornden, including (ff. 165r-6v, 246r-7v) copies of, or brief extracts from, nineteen poems by Donne, 300 leaves, in 19th-century calf gilt. c.1618-20s.

Among the collections of William Drummond of Hawthornden: Hawthornden Vol. VIII.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Drummond Miscellany: DnJ Δ 66. Some extracts from this MS edited in Laing (1831), pp. 78-82. Drummond's Catalogue of Comedies (ff. 122-3). Recorded in MacDonald, Library of Drummond, pp. 231-2.

This MS discussed in David Lindley, Campion and Rosseter: The Ascription of A Booke of Ayres, N&Q, 228 (October 1983), 416.

'Shadowes before the shining sunne do vanish'

First published in Gesta Grayorum (London, 1688). Edited by W. W. Greg, Malone Society (Oxford, 1914). Davis, p. 475.

CmT 205

Copy, in an italic hand, headed The song at ye ending, at the end of a copy (on ff. 138r-45r) of Francis Davison's Masque of Proteus. Late 16th-early 17th century.

In: A quarto composite volume of tracts, in various hands, 232 leaves, in modern half calf gilt.

Owned, at least in part, by Sir Simonds D'Ewes.

Edited from this MS in Davis and in Greg, p. xxi. Discussed in Greg, pp. vii-viii.

'Sweete, come againe'

First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), Part II, No. i. Davis, p. 450.

CmT 206

Copy of the first strophe, in a musical setting.

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

Complete facsimile in Jorgens, VI (1987).

This MS collated in Davis, p. 506.

'The peacefull westerne winde the wintrye stormes hath calmde'

See CmT 96.

'Thou shalt not love mee, neither shall these eyes'

See CmT 200-1.

'Thrice tosse those oaken ashes in the ayer'

See CmT 140-2.

'What if a day, or a month, or a yeare'

Possibly first published as a late 16th-century broadside. Philotus (Edinburgh, 1603). Richard Alison, An Howres Recreation in Musicke (London, 1606). Davis, p. 473. The different versions and attributions discussed in A.E.H. Swaen, The Authorship of What if a Day, and its Various Versions, MP, 4 (1906-7), 397-422, and in David Greer, What if a Day — An Examination of the Words and Music, M&L, 43 (1962), 304-19.

See also CmT 239-41.

CmT 207

Copy of the first line, with a musical setting by one R: Cr. (? R. Creighton).

In: A virginal book.

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

c.1635-8.

This MS recorded in Greer, p. 309.

CmT 208

Copy of a three-strophe version, headed A Songe.

In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, 64 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum.

Compiled by Leweston Fitzjames (1574-1638), of Leweston, Dorset, and the Middle Temple.

c.1595-early 17th century.
CmT 209

Copy of a three-strophe version, headed The fickle estate of our vncartayn lyfe to A pleasant new tune.

In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, in more than one hand, written from both ends, in vellum boards. c.1595-1600s.

This MS recorded in Greer, p. 305.

CmT 210

Copy of a two-strophe version.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in a single hand, 114 leaves, bound with a printed exemplum of Thomas Watson's <GREEK> or Passionate Centurie of Love (London, [1581?]).

Compiled by John Lilliat (c.1550-c.1599).

c.1590s.

This MS volume printed in full, with facsimile examples, in Liber Lilliati: Elizabethan Verse and Song (Bodleian MS Rawlinson Poetry 148), ed. Edward Doughtie (Newark, DE, 1985).

Edited from this MS in Greer, p. 305.

CmT 211

Copy of a three-strophe version, in the secretary hand of Richard Wigley, untitled.

In: A folio miscellany and memorandum book, in several secretary hands, one predominating, 214 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

Compiled by Henry Wigley (fl.1600), of Middleton, Lancashire, and Richard Wigley (1591-1643), of Wigwall.

Early 17th century.

Edited from this MS in Swaen, pp. 408-9.

CmT 212

Copy of a two-strophe version, in a musical setting, untitled.

In: An oblong quarto songbook, the lyrics largely in a single italic hand, with (ff. 4v-5r) a table of contents, 84 leaves, in 19th-century red morocco gilt.

Inscribed (f. 3v), evidently by the compiler, Giles Earle his booke 1615 (with other notes dated 1610) and (f. 1v) Egidius Earle hunc librum possidet qui compactus fuit mense Septembris. 1626., f. 81r subscribed Anno Dni: 1623 / Mense Augusti: Finis.

c.1615-26.

Acquired from Joseph Lilly, bookseller, 17 May 1862.

A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 1 (New York & London, 1986).

Edited from this MS in Peter Warlock, Giles Earle his Booke (London, 1932), p. 34, and in Swaen, pp. 404-5. Recorded in Greer, p. 308.

CmT 213

Copy of an eight-strophe version, in a musical setting, here beginning Goe silly note to ye eares of my deare.

In: An oblong quarto songbook, the lyrics largely in a single italic hand, with (ff. 4v-5r) a table of contents, 84 leaves, in 19th-century red morocco gilt.

Inscribed (f. 3v), evidently by the compiler, Giles Earle his booke 1615 (with other notes dated 1610) and (f. 1v) Egidius Earle hunc librum possidet qui compactus fuit mense Septembris. 1626., f. 81r subscribed Anno Dni: 1623 / Mense Augusti: Finis.

c.1615-26.

Acquired from Joseph Lilly, bookseller, 17 May 1862.

A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 1 (New York & London, 1986).

Edited from this MS in Peter Warlock, op. cit., pp. 89-92. Recorded in Greer, p. 308.

CmT 214

Copy of a two-strophe version, in a musical setting.

In: An octavo musical part book, for the counter-tenor, of the St Andrews Psalter (the Scottish Metrical Psalter of 1566 etc. by Thomas Wode, afterwards Vicar of St Andrews), copied c.1575-8, with a series of secular songs added later (ff. 81v-93v) in a secretary hand, 93 leaves, in old blind-stamped calf.

For three other part books of this Psalter, see Edinburgh University Library MS La. III. 483.

Early 17th century (secular songs).

Purchased from Mrs H.S. Andrews, 14 November 1890.

Edited from this MS in Swaen, pp. 400-1. Recorded in Greer, pp. 306, 316.

CmT 214.5

Copy of an eight-strophe version, in a secretary hand, untitled, on two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter.

In: A folio composite volume of state, literary and family papers and speeches, in various hands and paper sizes, 93 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half red morocco.

Papers principally of the Boteler family, of Biddenham, Bedfordshire, and of the family of John Hampden, MP (1595-1643), politician, of Great Hampden, Buckinghamshire.

Volume DLXXXIII of the Blenheim Papers, papers principally of John Churchill (1650-1722), first Duke of Marlborough, army commander and politician, his wife Sarah (née Jenyns) (1660-1744), and the related Spencer and Trevor families.

CmT 215

Copy, in a musical setting.

In: A folio lute book compiled by one Jane Pickering.

Inscribed on the flyleaf by the compiler Jane Pickering owe this Booke, 1616 and her unitials I. P. stamped on covers.

c.1616.

This MS recorded in Greer, p. 307.

CmT 216

Copy, here beginning What yf a day or a night, or an hower.

In: A folio diary and notebook, in several hands, from 1560 to 1610, 411 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

Compiled by John Sanderson, a merchant at Constantinople.

Edited from this MS in Swaen, pp. 401-2.

CmT 217

Copy, untitled and here beginning What if a day or a night or a yeare.

In: An octavo notebook of extracts, chiefly verse, compiled by one or two University of Cambridge men, 69 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf. c.1653-60s.
CmT 218

Copy of the first line, here What is a day or a night or an hower, in a musical setting.

In: A long quarto MS music book, 35 leaves of music, each doubled. c.1610.

Edited from this MS in Greer, pp. 306-7.

CmT 219

Copy, here beginning Quhat giff a day or a nyt or a yeir.

In: A folio volume comprising two MSS bound together, the first (iii + 323 leaves) a 15th-century MS of John Lydgate's Destruction of Troy, the second (v + 82 leaves, including blanks) a verse miscellany in various hands, in modern quarter-calf on marbled boards.

The volume owned and possibly partly compiled by Sir James Murray, of Tibbermure, or by someone in his household, dated at the end anno 1612 ye 24 of Maij.

Inscriptions including Marie Moorray wt my hand,Kathrin Morton with my hand, and Capitane James Lyell.

Edited from this MS text in Swaen, pp. 403-4.

CmT 220

Copy of the first strophe, in a musical setting, untitled.

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

Complete facsimile in Jorgens, VI (1987).

This MS recorded in Greer, p. 309.

CmT 221

Copy, in a musical setting.

In: A quarto songbook, in a secretary and italic hand, 193 leaves (including ten blanks).

Compiled by Robert Taitt, schoolmaster and precenter in the Church of Lauder, Berwickshire.

c.1676-90.

Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist and book collector. Formerly T 135Z. B724 1677-89 Bound.

Discussed in Walter H. Rubsamen, Scottish and English Music in the Renaissance in a Newly-Discovered Manuscript, Festschrift Heinrich Besseler (Leipzig, 1961), 259-84.

CmT 222

Copy of the incipit, with a musical setting for the viol da Gamba, in the hand of A.J. Wighton.

In:

Transcript, made by A.J. Wighton (d.c.1884), of a transcript (then belonging to James Davie of Aberdeen) of the original Blaikie MS, a music book dated [Glasgow] 1692.

Mid-19th century.

Owned in the early 19th century by Andrew Blaikie, engraver in Paisley. Bequeathed c.1884 by A.J. Wighton.

This MS recorded in Nelly Diem, Beiträge zur Geschichte der Schottischen Musik im XVII Jahrhundert (Zürich & Leipzig, 1919), pp. 27-8. The original Blaikie MS is untraced. Another transcript of the Blaikie MS, made by Alfred Moffat, was item 436 in an unidentified sale catalogue (c.1940s).

CmT 223

Copy, untitled.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in a Scottish secretary hand, paginated 5-132, bound with a later verse MS on 98 pages, in brown calf. c.1630s-40s.

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.

CmT 224

Copies, in a musical setting, the lyrics in secretary script, untitled.

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

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

CmT 225

Copy of a five-strophe version, in a musical setting, untitled.

In: An oblong quarto book of mainly vocal music, the lyrics in several largely secretary hands, one predominating, 90 pages (including blanks), in contemporary brown calf, both covers stamped in gilt I S.

Inscribed several times John Squyer, probably the compiler.

Mid-17th century.

Also inscribed (p. 1) Ane Cattologue of books 1700, and (p. 25) Joanne Squier. Owned by David Laing in June 1855.

This MS collated in Davis, p. 507.

CmT 226

Copy, untitled.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, largely in a single mixed hand, with additions in other hands, associated with Oxford University, possibly Christ Church, 315 pages (plus blanks), in modern black morocco gilt.

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

c.1630s.

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

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

This MS collated in Curt F. Bühler, Four Elizabethan Poems, Joseph Quincy Adams Memorial Studies, ed. James G. McManaway, Giles E. Dawson, and Edwin E. Willoughby (Washington, DC, 1948), 695-706 (p. 705).

CmT 227

Copy, untitled, here beginning What if a day or a weeke or a year.

In: A quarto miscellany of both bawdy and religious verse and some prose, in several hands, 94 leaves (including a number of blanks), in modern quarter-calf marbled boards. Mid-late 17th century.

Inscribed Charles Shuttleworth His Booke Anno 1691. Peter Murray Hill, London, sale catalogue No. 82 (1962), item 33.

CmT 228

Copy of the incipit only, in a musical setting.

In: An oblong octavo book of chiefly vocal music, the lyrics mostly in a single italic hand, 252 pages (including blanks), in 19th-century calf gilt.

Inscribed, possibly by the compiler, (p. 1) Magister Johannes Skine (in a semi-court hand) and (p. 189) Mr Joannes Skeine His book: i.e. John Skene of Hallyards. Bequeathed in 1818 by Miss Elizabeth Skene of Curriehill and Hallyards.

c.1620s-30s.

Edited from this MS in William Dauney, Ancient Scotish Melodies (Edinburgh, 1838), p. 246. Recorded in Greer, p. 307.

CmT 229

Copy of the first strophe, in a musical setting, untitled.

In: An oblong quarto songbook, the lyrics in a single secretary hand, 30 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum gilt, with modern ties. c.1630.

Inscribed inside the front cover Ro Carre of Ferniehurst (1669), later fourth Lord Jedburgh. Initials L. A. K. stamped on the cover possibly denoting his wife, Lady Ann Ker.

CmT 230

Copy of the incipit only, here Quhat if a day, in a musical setting, untitled.

In: A quarto book of vocal music, the lyrics largely in a single secretary hand, varying in size, 79 leaves, in modern dark green morocco.

Inscribed (f. 45r) REdwards book: i.e. compiled by Robert Edwards (1616-96), minister of Murroes Parish, though originally belonging to his father, Alexander, merchant of Dundee.

c.1635-70.

Owned in 1687 by Robert Edward's son Alexander (1651-1708). Panmure No. 11 among the Panmure Music Books gathered mainly by Lady Jean Campbell, second Countess of Panmure, and her sons James Maule, fourth Earl of Panmure, and Harie Maule. Subsequently preserved by their descendants, Earls of Dalhousie.

CmT 231

Copy of the incipit only, here What if a day, in a musical setting, untitled.

In: A quarto book of vocal music, the lyrics largely in a single secretary hand, varying in size, 79 leaves, in modern dark green morocco.

Inscribed (f. 45r) REdwards book: i.e. compiled by Robert Edwards (1616-96), minister of Murroes Parish, though originally belonging to his father, Alexander, merchant of Dundee.

c.1635-70.

Owned in 1687 by Robert Edward's son Alexander (1651-1708). Panmure No. 11 among the Panmure Music Books gathered mainly by Lady Jean Campbell, second Countess of Panmure, and her sons James Maule, fourth Earl of Panmure, and Harie Maule. Subsequently preserved by their descendants, Earls of Dalhousie.

CmT 232

Copy of a two-strophe version, untitled, headed in a later hand in red ink On the Brevity of Humane Happyness and here beginning What if a daie, or an night, or an hower, among other verse in one secretary hand on a single folio leaf.

In: A collection of separate state papers and poems, in folders.

Edited from this MS in Curt F. Bühler, Four Elizabethan Poems, in Joseph Quincy Adams Memorial Studies, ed. James G. McManaway, Giles E. Dawson, and Edwin E. Willoughby (Washington, DC, 1948), p. 705.

CmT 233

Copy, headed A Sonnett.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, including fifteen poems by Donne, with a title-page Miscellanies Or A Collection of Diuers Witty and pleasant Epigrams, Adages, poems Epitaphes &c for the recreation of ye ouertravelled sences: 1630 Robert Bishop, in a single mixed hand, probably associated with the University of Oxford, 306 pages, in old calf. c.1630.

Owned and probably compiled by Robert Bishop. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9549. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue, English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 187.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) as the Bishop MS: DnJ Δ 59. Edited in David Coleman Redding, Robert Bishop's Commonplace-Book: An Edition of a Seventeenth Century Miscellany (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1960) [Mic 60-3608].

This MS collated in Bühler, p. 705.

CmT 234

Copy, in a musical setting.

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

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

CmT 235

Copy of five strophes, imperfect, lacking a leaf with the title and first strophe, here therefore begininning What yf a smile, or a becke, or a looke.

In: A small quarto volume of 80 English ballads and songs, in probably two variable secretary hands, transcribed from edited black-letter broadsides, iii + 162 leaves, originally foliated 98-257, imperfect, lacking the original first 97 leaves, in 19th-century half-calf gilt.

This volume edited in full in The Shirburn Ballads, ed. Andrew Clark (Oxford, 1907), with facsimile examples opposite pp. 236, 246 and 272.

c.1609-16.

Inscribed (f. 59r) Edwarde Hull, possibly the main scribe of the MS. Also variously inscribed Thomas Sturgies is the right Oner of this booke and the names of Edward Sturgis, Thomas Manton, Richard Manton, Richard Halford, William Halford, Dorothy Halford, William Wagstaffe and Thomas Wagstaffe. Later in the library of the Parker family, Earls of Macclesfield, at Shirburn Castle, Oxfordshire. Acquired 30 March 2007.

Clark, No. LIX (pp. 238-40). Recorded in Greer, p. 311.

CmT 236

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

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

One of the part books of the St Andrews Psalter.

Early 17th century.
CmT 237

Copy of a four-strophe version.

In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco. c.1620.

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

CmT 238
Copy, headed Sonnetto, on the last page of a pair of conjugate oblong octavo leaves. Early-mid-17th century.
'What is a day, what is a yeere'

First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), Part II, No. xviii. Davis, p. 459.

See also CmT 207-38.

CmT 239

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

In: An oblong quarto songbook, the lyrics largely in a single italic hand, with (ff. 4v-5r) a table of contents, 84 leaves, in 19th-century red morocco gilt.

Inscribed (f. 3v), evidently by the compiler, Giles Earle his booke 1615 (with other notes dated 1610) and (f. 1v) Egidius Earle hunc librum possidet qui compactus fuit mense Septembris. 1626., f. 81r subscribed Anno Dni: 1623 / Mense Augusti: Finis.

c.1615-26.

Acquired from Joseph Lilly, bookseller, 17 May 1862.

A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 1 (New York & London, 1986).

This MS collated in Davis, p. 506.

CmT 240

Copy, untitled, transcribed from fol. 6 of the original songbook.

In: Copy of Sonnettes &c., in the hand of John Leyden (1775-1811), linguist and poet, made for Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector, on eight quarto leaves.

Transcribed from an earlier musical partbook for the Cantus voice bearing a preface signed Jo. Hiltoun (fl. c.1627-30) which in 1800 was in the possession of Mr. Russell, Grandson of Dr Robertson, late Principal of Edinburgh College [i.e. William Robertson (1721-93), historian].

26 February 1800.
CmT 241

Copy of the incipit only, here What is a day, in a musical setting, untitled.

In: An oblong quarto musical part book, for the Treble voice, the song incipits chiefly in a rounded italic hand, with (ff. 2v-4r) an index, 53 leaves, in 19th-century black calf.

Inscribed (f. 1r), in a secretary hand, Sr William Maur: i.e. Sir William Mure, Bt (d.1639), of Rawallan, Ayrshire, or else his son of that name (1594-1657), writer and politician; (f. 1r) Robert Muire ist my hand; and (f. 2r), in later red ink, Thomas Lyle Surgeon.

c.1600s-20.
'What thing is love but mourning?'

First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), Part II, No. xx. Davis, p. 460.

CmT 242

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

In: An oblong quarto songbook, the lyrics largely in a single italic hand, with (ff. 4v-5r) a table of contents, 84 leaves, in 19th-century red morocco gilt.

Inscribed (f. 3v), evidently by the compiler, Giles Earle his booke 1615 (with other notes dated 1610) and (f. 1v) Egidius Earle hunc librum possidet qui compactus fuit mense Septembris. 1626., f. 81r subscribed Anno Dni: 1623 / Mense Augusti: Finis.

c.1615-26.

Acquired from Joseph Lilly, bookseller, 17 May 1862.

A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 1 (New York & London, 1986).

The text corrected from this MS in Davis.

'When Laura smiles'

First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), Part II, No. ix. Davis, p. 455.

CmT 242.5

Copy, here ascribed to Philip Rosseter.

In: A folio composite miscellany compiled entirely by William Drummond of Hawthornden, including (ff. 165r-6v, 246r-7v) copies of, or brief extracts from, nineteen poems by Donne, 300 leaves, in 19th-century calf gilt. c.1618-20s.

Among the collections of William Drummond of Hawthornden: Hawthornden Vol. VIII.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Drummond Miscellany: DnJ Δ 66. Some extracts from this MS edited in Laing (1831), pp. 78-82. Drummond's Catalogue of Comedies (ff. 122-3). Recorded in MacDonald, Library of Drummond, pp. 231-2.

This MS discussed in David Lindley, Campion and Rosseter: The Ascription of A Booke of Ayres, N&Q, 228 (October 1983), 416

'Whether away my sweetest deerest?'

First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), Part II. Davis, p. 481. John P. Cutts, Mris Elizabeth Davenant 1624: Christ Church MS. Mus. 87, RES, NS 10 (1959), 26-37 (p. 30).

CmT 243

Copy, in a musical setting.

In: MS songbook.

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

c.1624-30s.

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

Edited from this MS in Cutts and in Davis, p. 481.

'Whether men doe laugh or weepe'

First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), Part II, No. xxi. Davis, p. 461.

CmT 244

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio verse miscellany, comprising nearly 250 poems, in five hands, vii + 135 leaves (with a modern index), in contemporary calf gilt (rebacked), with remains of clasps.

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

c.1630s-40s.

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

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

CmT 245

Copy, untitled.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, compiled by the writer Robert Codrington (1602-65) of Magdalen College, Oxford, 360 pages (including stubs of extracted leaves on pp. 297-328 and blanks, plus index), in contemporary calf.

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

c.1638.

Acquired from Blackwell's, 1962.

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

CmT 246

Copy of the first strophe, in a musical setting, untitled.

In: An oblong quarto book of mainly vocal music, the lyrics in several largely secretary hands, one predominating, 90 pages (including blanks), in contemporary brown calf, both covers stamped in gilt I S.

Inscribed several times John Squyer, probably the compiler.

Mid-17th century.

Also inscribed (p. 1) Ane Cattologue of books 1700, and (p. 25) Joanne Squier. Owned by David Laing in June 1855.

This MS recorded in Davis, p. 507.

(3) Latin Poems by Campion

De puluerea coniuratione
('Patroni magnum cano, mirum opus omnipotentis')

First published as Thomas Campion: De Puluerea (On the Gunpowder Plot), ed. David Lindley, with translation and additional notes by Robin Sowerby, Leeds Texts and Monograph Series, NS 10 (Leeds Studies in English, 1987).

CmT 247
Copy of a Latin poem of Thomae Campiani Londinatis, D: Med: on the Gunpowder Plot, comprising two books of about 680 lines and 560 lines respectively (each with an Argumentum), with a dedicatory poem Ad augustissimu, serenissimu Jacobum magnae Britanniae regem (beginning Querna corona Joui datur olim, Laurea Phoebo) and five preliminary epigrams on the Jesuits, in a probably professional hand, revisions possibly in another hand written on numerous pasted-on slips, vi + 29 leaves. c.1615-20.

This MS recorded in IELM, I.i (1980), p. 189. Edited from this MS in Lindley & Sowerby.

Dramatic works

The Ayres That Were Sung and Played at Brougham Castle. v. Ballad
('Dido was the Carthage Queene')

See CmT 187-91.

Gesta Grayorum. Song
('Shadowes before the shining sunne do vanish')

See CmT 205.

The Lord Hay's Masque

First published as The Discription of a Maske...in honour of the Lord Hayes (London, 1607). Davis, pp. 203-30. Also published, with illustrations of costume designs [?], in Stephen Orgel and Roy Strong, Inigo Jones: The Theatre of the Stuart Court, 2 vols (University of California Press, 1973), I, 115-20.

CmT 248
Copy of some of the songs in the masque, beginning with Flora's songe (Now hath Flora rob'd her bowres), in a neat secretary hand, untitled, on three pages of two pairs of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed Verses of the Maske 1606, once folded as a packet. 1606.

Recorded in HMC, 9 Salisbury (Cecil) MSS, XIX (1965), p. 2.

The Lords' Masque. Song
('Wooe her, and win her, he that can')

First published together with A Relation of the Late Royall Entertainment given By The Right Honorable The Lord Knowles (London, 1613). Davis, pp. 249-62 (p. 257). Also edited, with illustrations of costume designs [?], in Stephen Orgel and Roy Strong, Inigo Jones: The Theatre of the Stuart Court, 2 vols (University of California Press, 1973), I, 240-52.

CmT 249

Copy in a musical setting.

In: A folio volume of songs, madrigals and motets, 48 leaves, the leaves now mounted with other MSS (1015-1019) in a double-folio guardbook. Early 17th century.

Formerly at St Michael's College, Tenbury Wells.

A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 6 (New York & London, 1987).

Documents

Document(s)
CmT 250
Official deposition, signed by Campion, relating to the alleged implication of Sir Thomas Monson in the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury, dated 26 October 1615. 1615.

Facsimile in Vivian (frontispiece).