Charles Cotton

Copy, headed Transl: ex Catallu.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Copy of eleven stanzas, incomplete, on four pages bound at the end of an exemplum of Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler (London, 1676).

This MS recorded in Parks, p. 29.

Copy.

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

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

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 157-8.

Copy, preceded by a title-page (p. 181) and by a commendatory poem by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 182-3), dated at the end (deleted) 29 May 1660 Actum est in Anglia Gloria Deo and some scribbling Carolus sine sans W.F. James sine sans cc.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Copy, headed Ex Catullo Transl: The first Elegy of Cornelius Gallus or rather of Maximanus.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

The title and first stanza in Cotton's hand, the remainder in the hand of Amanuensis C (i.e. William Fitzherbert), with a revision in stanza 29. This MS once formied part of the Derby MS (Derby Central Library, fmss 8470).

Later owned by Mrs D.C. Scratchley. Sotheby's, 31 October 1961, lot 218 (when the hands were misidentified). Formerly in Yale Files/Cotton.

Discussed, and the hands correctly identified, in Parks, with facsimiles (on pp. 7 and 9) of the first page and stanza 27. Facsimile of stanza 27 and Cotton's signature also in Nicolas (1836), I, after p. clxiv, reproduced in Parks, p. 9. The MS edited in full, with a facsimile of the first page (but with hands then still misidentified) in Stephen Parks, A Contentation of Anglers, Yale University Library Gazette, 43 (1969), 157-64, and further discussed (confusedly) in Alvin I. Dust, The Manuscript of Cotton's Contentation, The Library, 5th Ser. 30 (1975), 315-22.

Copy.

P.J. Dobell, sale catalogue Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1283.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, p. 203.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 38-40.

Copy, headed [Made of y^e Lady MC: by y^e Author of this booke added in a different hand] An Elegie [uppon the Lad[ ] by Charles Cotton Esqr added in a different ink and deleted], with lines 6-7 also inserted in a different ink.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 168-70.

This MS once formed part of the Derby MS (Derby Central Library, fmss 8470) and is in in Hand H. Later owned by Mrs D.C. Scratchley. Sotheby's, 31 October 1961, lot 219. Formerly in Files/Cotton.

This MS discussed in Parks.

Formerly MS Vault Shelves/Cotton.

Facsimiles of the second page in Parks, p. 21, and in IELM, II.i (1987), Facsimile IX, after p. xxiv.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 43-5.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Two more lines (beginning For Heaven is Just & will bestow) added in MS to the printed text.

Owned in 1721 by one William Jonge.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Copy, originally headed On a Minument by y^e E[arl of] R[ochester], this inscription later deleted and Squire Cotton and In Print written at the side.

Sotheby's, 21-22 April 1958, lot 397, to Seven Gables bookshop. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Formerly Restoration poetry MS 3.

A microfilm of this volume is in the British Library, M/546.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, p. 137.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, p. 137.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, p. 134.

Copy, headed Jan: 59 An Epitaph on my uncle Port.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, p. 136.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 204-5.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 211-12.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 176-80.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 194-5.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 196-7.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Copy of the first two lines, headed Epigram In Mendacem and here beginning Menda - th'art such a liar growne, deleted.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 41-3.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Edited from this MS by Llewelynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and in Buxton, pp. 95-6.

Extracts, 34 lines in all.

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

Copy, by Amanuensis B, the last stanza by Amanuensis C (i.e. William Fitzherbert).

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 195-6.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 224-7.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 184-6.

Copy, headed Loves World. Transl: out of Astrea. To my Fair Cosen M^ris Anne Stanhope.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Copy, headed Martial: Epigr: transl: Ep 20 Lib 1.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

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Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

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Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

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Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

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Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

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Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Copy, here beginning Chloe, thy face I well could misse.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Edited from this MS in Wallis.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

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Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

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Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

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Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

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Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

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Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

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Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Copy, headed Martial: ep: 93. lib. 11.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 229-30.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 220-2.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 146-7.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 223-4.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 205-6.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 154-6.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 149-50.

Owned c.1845 by J.L. Anderdon. Sotheby's, 17 May 1879, lot 53, to F. Naylor. Sotheby's, 27 July 1885, lot 262. Parke Bernet Galleries, New York, 30 October 1950 (Oliver R. Barrett sale), lot 273.

This MS recorded in Parks, p. 31. Despite the discrepancy of length, it is possibly to be identified with the serious verses by Cotton writ with his own hand, and...never...in print from which Anderdon edited his text. Four lines (corresponding, with variants, to lines 31-4 of Anderdon's printed text) are quoted in the 1950 sale catalogue.

Copy, headed An old mans gvift to a young Lady.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Copy, headed An ould mans Guift to a ffayre Lady.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Copy, headed [C - An Anthem for Xmas day. 59 smudged over in ink] On Christmas day 1658.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 25-7.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Edited from this MS in Buxton.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 135-6.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 129-31.

Copy, probably transcribed from Poems (1689).

J. Salkeld, sale catalogue No. 222 (17 June 1885), item 273.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Copy, headed The Picture: set by M^r Laws.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 143-4.

Copy of the first stanza, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.

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

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

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

This MS discussed, with a facsimile, in Willa McClung Evans, Henry Lawes and Charles Cotton, PMLA, 53 (1938), 724-9.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Four more lines (beginning They are all treacherous in their love) added in MS to the printed text.

Owned in 1721 by one William Jonge.

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 158-9

Copy.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

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Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).