Sir William Davenant

Copy of an eleven-stanza version, headed Astragon dying, followed by a copy of stanzas 6 and 7 of the printed version, the whole preceded by a note: At the End of a Quarto Gondibert printed Anno 1651. & given by y^e Author to a Friend, I found these stanzas written by his own hand, & subscibd with his name. Will Davenant....

Sotheby's, 3 July 1973, lot 269.

Copy, headed An Elegye on Captaine Bartin Haslerigge slaine in Duell.

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

Copy, headed An Elegie on Cap: Haslerigge by wi: Dauenon.

Later notes and scribbling including the names John Nutting (ff. 26r, 56r) and John M. and John Susan (rear paste-down). The last leaf also containing a list of the titles of 65 poems by Carew together with the number of lines in each poem, this list unrelated to the contents of the rest of the MS.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Nutting MS: CwT Δ 35. The list of poems, probably relating to another MS, is edited, with facsimiles, in Scott Nixon, The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 198-9, 217-19).

This MS collated in Gibbs.

Copy, headed An Elegie on the death of Francis late Earle of Rutland.

Owned before 1959 by the Lingard-Guthrie family.

Copy, headed An Elegy on y^e L^d ffra: Manno^r Earle of Rutland and subscribed W. Davenant.

Compiled by an Oxford University man, possibly a member of St John's College.

A receipt (f. 104r) by John Weston recording payment from his brother Ed: Weston, 3 May 1714. The name John Saunders inscribed on the final leaf.

This MS collated in Gibbs.

Copy, headed An Elogie on the Earle of Rutland, subscribed W^m Davenant.

Including 40 poems by Strode and two poems of doubtful authorship.

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9510. (Phillipps sale, lot 1015.) Owned c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914). Percy Dobell's sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 342. Formerly MS 4201. 27. 1.

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

Copy, headed Elegie on the Earle of Rutland, subscribed Will: Dauennant.

Later notes and scribbling including the names John Nutting (ff. 26r, 56r) and John M. and John Susan (rear paste-down). The last leaf also containing a list of the titles of 65 poems by Carew together with the number of lines in each poem, this list unrelated to the contents of the rest of the MS.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Nutting MS: CwT Δ 35. The list of poems, probably relating to another MS, is edited, with facsimiles, in Scott Nixon, The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 198-9, 217-19).

This MS collated in Gibbs.

Copy, subscribed Wil: Davenant.

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

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

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

Edited from this MS in Gibbs.

Copy.

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

Copy.

Inscribed (on p. [330]) Robert Lord his book Anno Domini; (on [p. 335]) william Jacob his booke Amen; and, among scribbling on the last leaf, Hugh Gibgans of the same and John Winter of Buckland Dursbane [or husbande?]. Owned in 1788 by Alexander R. Popham. Bloomsbury Book Auction, 23 November 2000, lot 8.

A microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7698.

Copy.

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

Copy of a poem headed An Epitaph wrot by S^r William Dauenant Long since vpon Jefferey Hudson y^e Queens Dwarf, 16 lines beginning Let no rude hand remoue this Ston. c.1660s.

The text is followed by Jeffreides or Jeffery y^e Dwarfs answer to S^r william Dauenant in reuenge for the Epitaph he wrot long since on him (36 lines beginning I'm stil aliue as I suppose).

Written throughout in the hand of Mildmay Fane (1602-66), second Earl of Westmorland.

Both poems edited from this MS in Cain, who thinks that Hudson's answer may be a persona poem possibly by Mildmay Fane.

Copy.

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

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

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled.

Inscribed (f. 3r) Arth: Langford his booke the first of may 1629; (ff. 3r, 84v) John Slaughter; (f. 86r) Francis Webb and Robert Thurketil. Subsequently in the papers of the Trumbull family, including chiefly William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), diplomat and government official. Later belonging to the Marquess of Downshire, of Easthampstead Park. Formerly Berkshire Record Office Trumbull Add 51.

Sotheby's, 14 December 1989, lot 232, and 13 December 1990, lot 11. Facsimile example in the sale catalogues. Acquired 22 March 1991.

Copy, headed Will Dauenants Newyears=guifte to Endimion Porters wife.

Compiled in part by the Oxford printer Christopher Wase (1627-90), fellow of King's College, Cambridge.

Later owned by John Somers (1651-1716), Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor, and his brother-in-law Sir Joseph Jekyll (1662-1738), lawyer and politician.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Wase MS: DnJ Δ 39.

This MS collated in Gibbs.

Copy, headed On Newyeeres day for M^rs Porter, subscribed W. Dauenant.

Later owned by Thomas Rodd (1796-1849), bookseller; by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector; and by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 21 August 1858 (Bliss sale), lot 190.

This MS collated in Gibbs.

Copy, headed On Endimion Porters wife.

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

Copy, in Lawes's musical setting, headed A New Yeares Guifte for M^res Porter.

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

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

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

Copy, headed For M^ris. Porter on New=yeares day.

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

Copy, headed To the wife of Endimion Porter.

Including 14 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 22 poems by Corbett and 36 poems (plus three of doubtful authorship) by Strode. Apparently transcribed in part from Westminster Abbey, MS 41.

Inscribed (f. 1r) by one I A of Christ Church, Oxford, and also Robert Killigrew his booke witnes by his Maiesties ape Gorge Harison. Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane, Bt (1660-1753), physician and collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Killigrew MS: CwT Δ 21; CoR Δ 6; StW Δ 14. Facsimile example of f. 2v in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), Plate 7, after p. 86.

This MS collated in Gibbs.

Copy, headed A Newyeares day to M^ris Porter. Davenant.

Copy, headed A New years Gift.

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

Copy, untitled.

Copy, headed A new yeares guift to M^rs. Porter from W^m. Dauenant, subscribed W. D.

Formerly MS 2073.3.

Copy, headed A new-yeeres guift to M^rs Porter from W: Dauenant.

Including 11 poems by Carew and 14 poems by Randolph.

Inscribed Jane Wheeler and Tho: Oliver Busfield. Francis Quarles's poem (pp. 209-11) To y^e two partners of my heart M^r John Wheeler, and M^r Symon Tue. Item 96 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Formerly Folger MS 2071.6.

A Jo. Wheeler signed the Christ Church, Oxford, disbursement books for 1641-3 (xii, b.85 and 86).

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Wheeler MS: CwT Δ 25 and RnT Δ 7.

Copy, headed Davenats new yeares guift to M^rs Porter, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves. The text followed on the same page by The mock new-yeares guift (Goe hunt y^e stinking fox).

Sotheby's, 16 December 1950, lot 560. Owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1906-90), American businessman and collector. Given to the Houghton Library by Robert S Pirie in 1959.

Copy.

Among papers of the Clitherow family of London, which included Sir Christopher Clitherow (1578-1642), Lord Mayor of London in 1635. Bookplate of James Clitherow Esq. of Boston House, Middlesex: i.e. either Christopher's son, James Clitherow (1618-82), merchant and banker, who purchased Boston Manor, in the parish of Hanwell, in 1670, or James Clitherow (1694-1752).

Copy, headed William Davenants verses upon M^r Endymion Porters Wife for w^ch and other by-respects M^r Porter gave him a hundred pound. 1631.

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

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

Copy, headed A new yeares gift to m^rs Porter.

Later notes and scribbling including the names John Nutting (ff. 26r, 56r) and John M. and John Susan (rear paste-down). The last leaf also containing a list of the titles of 65 poems by Carew together with the number of lines in each poem, this list unrelated to the contents of the rest of the MS.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Nutting MS: CwT Δ 35. The list of poems, probably relating to another MS, is edited, with facsimiles, in Scott Nixon, The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 198-9, 217-19).

This MS collated in Gibbs.

Copy, headed a New years guift By M^r Dauenant on S^r Endimions Porters.

The name of the possible compiler John Pike inscribed on f. 1r: i.e. possibly a member of the Pike family of Cambridge (one John Pike (d.1677) matriculating at Peterhouse in 1662).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Pike MS: KiH Δ 12. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6), pp. 143-7.

This MS collated in Gibbs.

Copy, headed For M^ris Porter on New yeares day.

In the hands of two amanuenses associated with King: i.e. Scribe A (c.1636), pp. 1-214, that of Thomas Manne's imitator using two styles (a: pp. 1-62, 64-6, 133-4, 147-215; and b, the earlier: pp. 63, 67-132, 135-45); and Scribe B (c.1641): pp. 217-47, that of the scribe responsible for the Phillipps MS (Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 8471).

The flyleaf inscribed Ex dono Eugenii Stoughton Die Octobrii 23 Anno-1738-Domini: i.e. owned before 1738 by the Stoughton family, of St John's House, Warwick.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Stoughton MS: CwT Δ 36 and KiH Δ 6. A complete photocopy deposited by Mary Hobbs in the Bodleian (MS Facs. d. 157). Edited in Mary Hobbs, An Edition of the Stoughton Manuscript (An Early Seventeenth-Century Poetry Collection in Private Hands connected with Henry King and Oxford) seen in relation to other contemporary Poetry and Song Collections (unpub. Ph.D. thesis, University of London, 1973). Also discussed in Mary Hobbs, The Poems of Henry King: Another Authoritative Manuscript, The Library, 5th Ser. 31 (1976), 127-35. Recorded in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King, D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96. A complete facsimile edition in The Stoughton Manuscript, ed. Mary Hobbs (Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1990).

Copy, headed To y^e wife of M^r Endemion Porter and subscribed Tho: Carewe.

Inscribed four times on a flyleaf Tobias Alston his booke: i.e. probably Tobias Alston (1620-c.1639) of Sayham Hall, near Sudbury, Suffolk. His half-brother Edward (b.1598) was a contemporary of Herrick at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, while his cousin, Edward Alston, later President of the College of Physicians, was a contemporary of Herrick at St John's College, Cambridge, some of the other contents also relating to Cambridge, besides some relating to Suffolk. The date 1639 occurs on p. 241, and pp. 243-50 contains verses written in two later hands (to c.1728) and some prose pieces written from the reverse end.

Names inscribed on a flyleaf including Henry Glisson (later Fellow of the College of Physicians); Thomas Avral(?); Horace Norton; Henry Rich; and James Tavor (Registrar of Cambridge University). Later owned by one John Whitehead, and by Dr Mary Pickford. Sotheby's, 27 June 1972, lot 309.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Alston MS: HeR Δ 7. A complete set of photocopies of the MS is in the British Library, RP 772. Facsimile of pp. 6-7 in Sotheby's sale catalogue (see HeR 176, HeR 405) where the MS is described at some length. See also letters by Peter Beal and Donald W. Foster in TLS (24 January 1986), pp. 87-8.

Copy, headed A poeticall Loue.

Inscribed (on p. [330]) Robert Lord his book Anno Domini; (on [p. 335]) william Jacob his booke Amen; and, among scribbling on the last leaf, Hugh Gibgans of the same and John Winter of Buckland Dursbane [or husbande?]. Owned in 1788 by Alexander R. Popham. Bloomsbury Book Auction, 23 November 2000, lot 8.

A microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7698.

Extract from Book 2, Canto 1, line 63 et seq., headed The Description of a Great City, beginning From wider gates oppressors sally there.

Compiled, at least in part, by George Sacheverell (d.1715), including letters by him to women, begun when he was resident at Oriel College, Oxford, in August 1651.

Other inscriptions include W Hippisley his Book, Lucey Hippisley, Frank Hippisley 1662, George Pudsey, Herbert Pudsey, Robert Pudsey, Sarah Chapman, G. Chapman, and Hob Knowle 1662 / 1663.

Extracts, on pages including pp. 88, 315, 356, 572.

Later owned by one Charles Boynton, and in 1970 by Arthur Hobart Nethercot (1895-1981), Professor of English Literature, Northwestern University.

This MS printed and discussed in Arthur H. Nethercot, Scribblings in a Copy of D'Avenant's Gondibert, N&Q, 215 (July 1970), 249-51.

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

Copy, headed On the young Duke of Buckingham and here beginning When Nature saw Men thought her old.

Copy, preceded by a deleted copy of lines 6-14, on two of three folio leaves containing extracts from Davenant.

Assembled by the traveller Lorenzo Magalotti (1637-1712).

Sotheby's, 19 July 1966, lot 518.

Copy, headed To the lady hopkins Singing, subscribed S: Will: Dau.

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

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

This MS collated in Berry and in Gibbs.

Copy of the version beginning Sing fair Clorinda..., in a musical setting by Lawes, headed Words Sir W^m. Davenant.

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

Copy, headed To a Lady singing.

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

Copy, subscribed W: Dauenant.

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

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

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

Edited from this MS in Berry and in Gibbs.

Copy, headed The Rationall Sceptist by a Person of Honour and here beginning Vnlesse by Death, you nu knowledge gain.

Formerly Phillipps MS 10984. Sotheby's, 5 June 1899, lot 995. Then owned by F.W. Cock. Sotheby's, 8 May 1944 (Cock sale), lot 235. P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue 97 (1947), item 179.

Copy of stanzas 24-90, headed S^r. William Davenant's Reason and here beginning Tell if you found your Faith, e're you it sought, with two additional stanzas, on five quarto leaves.

This MS collated in Gibbs.

Copy of a 57-stanza version, headed Ratio et Fides S^r: W^m Daven^ts Addition to Gondibert and beginning at stanza 24 (here Tell if you found y^r faith ere you it sought), followed by an explanation: Among some Notes of my L^d Mordants [i.e. John, Viscount Mordaunt (1627-75)] I found this. S W^m Davenets out of Complem^t sent me severall Canto's of y^e 2^d part of Gondibert...[&], this followed by The Argument and first stanza (The griefe of Astragon & whence it springs) and lines 1-3 of stanza 24 again.

Formerly owned by Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 19.

Copy of a version comprising an introductory Argument and first stanza (beginning The Grief of Astragon, & whence it springs), followed by 92 stanzas numbered 11-102, the whole preceded by a lengthy explanation: The Following Poem I found not alltogether, but gleand it up, out of Severall Papers. Among my Ld Mordaunts Papers, I found, thus. S^r W^m Davenant out of Complemt sent me severall Cantos of y^e. 2^d Part of Gondibert...I dissuaded y^e Printing...I could never find out y^e whole Canto, but believe I want now only y^e 9 Stanzas after y^e first....

Sotheby's, 3 July 1973, lot 269.

Recorded in HMC, 7th Report, Part I (1879), Appendix, p. 467. Discussed in Vivian de Sola Pinto, An Unpublished Poem Attributed to Rochester, TLS (22 November 1934), p. 824, and (6 December 1934), p. 875. Collated and the additional lines edied in Gibbs.

A set of microfilms of the Verney Papers is in the British Library (M/636/1-60). For a letter by John Verney to Sir Ralph Verney, 23 March 1675/6, referring to this MS, see Gibbs, p. 431 (and microfilm M/636/29).

See also DaW 2.

Sotheby's, 27 November 1807, lot 260, to Clarke & Sons.

In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector.

Copy, subscribed in the hand of Elias Ashmole (1617-92) Will: Davenant.

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

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

Edited from this MS in Gibbs (bis).

Copy, with the preliminary refrain Awake, awake, the morne will never rise..., in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

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

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

Edited from this MS in Gibbs, pp. 322-4.

Copy, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled and here beginning The Larke forsakes her wat'ry nest.

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

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

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

Copy, in a musical setting by William Lawes.

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

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

Edited from this MS in Gibbs, pp. 290-2. Collated in Cutts, Drexel Manuscript 4041, p. 171.

Copy of the first two stanzas, headed The Broken heart.

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

Copy, in a musical setting by Lawes.

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

Copy, headed Phill: Porters Rant, Sonnett . ¹⁷.

Purchased c.1798.

Copy, in a musical setting.

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

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

This MS collated in Cutts, Drexel Manuscript 4041, pp. 176-7.

Copy, in a musical setting, here beginning Dear let me now this evening die.

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

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

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

Copy, untitled.

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

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

Copy, untitled.

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

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

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

Copy, headed D'avenant when he went to Warre.

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

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

This MS collated in Gibbs.

Copy, headed To his Mistris at his going to y^e warres, subscribed Wil: Davenant.

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

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

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

This MS text collated in Gibbs.

Copy, headed A song takeing leave of my Mistresse for a voyage.

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

Copy, headed To my Mistris taking leave for a voyage.

Copy, headed To his m^rs when readie for a voyage, subscribed Will: Dauenant.

Inscribed (p. 1) ffran: Wyrley, possibly the principal compiler, whose name is also subscribed to several poems.

Also inscribed (f. ii) Michaell Keepis. anno Dom: 1636 ffebruarie. 13^th. Me tenet. Later Phillipps MS 9311. Bookplate of Wyrley Birch. Purchased from Peter Murray Hill, 1950. Formerly S4975M1 [1636-75] Bound.

Copy in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

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

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

Edited from this MS in Berry and in Gibbs.

Copy, subscribed W: Dauenant.

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

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

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

Edited from this MS in Berry and in Gibbs, p. 275.

Copy, headed An Incitation to M^r: Endymion Porter's Morning Muse and subscribed S^r William Dauenant.

Among papers of the Clitherow family of London, which included Sir Christopher Clitherow (1578-1642), Lord Mayor of London in 1635. Bookplate of James Clitherow Esq. of Boston House, Middlesex: i.e. either Christopher's son, James Clitherow (1618-82), merchant and banker, who purchased Boston Manor, in the parish of Hanwell, in 1670, or James Clitherow (1694-1752).

Copy of lines 1-4, headed To M^r Porter.

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

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

Copy, headed To M^r Endymion Porter.

In the hands of two amanuenses associated with King: i.e. Scribe A (c.1636), pp. 1-214, that of Thomas Manne's imitator using two styles (a: pp. 1-62, 64-6, 133-4, 147-215; and b, the earlier: pp. 63, 67-132, 135-45); and Scribe B (c.1641): pp. 217-47, that of the scribe responsible for the Phillipps MS (Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 8471).

The flyleaf inscribed Ex dono Eugenii Stoughton Die Octobrii 23 Anno-1738-Domini: i.e. owned before 1738 by the Stoughton family, of St John's House, Warwick.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Stoughton MS: CwT Δ 36 and KiH Δ 6. A complete photocopy deposited by Mary Hobbs in the Bodleian (MS Facs. d. 157). Edited in Mary Hobbs, An Edition of the Stoughton Manuscript (An Early Seventeenth-Century Poetry Collection in Private Hands connected with Henry King and Oxford) seen in relation to other contemporary Poetry and Song Collections (unpub. Ph.D. thesis, University of London, 1973). Also discussed in Mary Hobbs, The Poems of Henry King: Another Authoritative Manuscript, The Library, 5th Ser. 31 (1976), 127-35. Recorded in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King, D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96. A complete facsimile edition in The Stoughton Manuscript, ed. Mary Hobbs (Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1990).

Copy, by Dawson Turner.

Copy, headed To my noble friend m^r John Croftes newly robde, subscribed W Dauenon.

Later notes and scribbling including the names John Nutting (ff. 26r, 56r) and John M. and John Susan (rear paste-down). The last leaf also containing a list of the titles of 65 poems by Carew together with the number of lines in each poem, this list unrelated to the contents of the rest of the MS.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Nutting MS: CwT Δ 35. The list of poems, probably relating to another MS, is edited, with facsimiles, in Scott Nixon, The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 198-9, 217-19).

This MS collated in Gibbs.

Copy in a small verse miscellany.

Collected by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), herald and antiquary.

Given to the library in 1954 by N.R. Ker.

Copy, headed M^r Davenants Newyeares gvifte to kinge Charles: 1631.

Comprising papers of the Skipwith family of Cotes, Leicestershire, including 60 poems by John Donne (and one Problem), the text related in part to the Edward Smyth MS (DnJ Δ 45); also 15 poems (and second copies of two) by Henry King; and 19 poems (and two of doubtful authorship) by Carew.

Including poems ascribed to William Skipwith (? Sir William Skipwith, d.1610, or his grandson, William, or possibly a cousin, William Skipwith, of Ketsby, Lincolnshire, fl.1633); to Sir Henry Skipwith (fl.1609-52); and to Thomas Skipwith, and several poems by Donne's friend Sir Henry Goodyer (1571-1627), to whom a branch of the Skipwith family was related by marriage. Later owned by Robert Sherard (1719-99), fourth Earl of Harborough. Sotheby's, 10 June 1864, lot 605, to Boone.

This MS is the curious folio volume lent to John Nichols (1745-1826) by the late Lord Harborough and cited in Nichols's account of the Skipwith family in his History of Leicestershire, 4 vols (1795-1815), III, part i (1800), 367.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Skipwith MS: DnJ Δ 21; CwT Δ 14; KiH Δ 8. Also described in Mary Hobbs's thesis, pp. 119-29 (see KiH Δ 6). For Sir William Skipwith and his literary connections, see James Knowles, Marston, Skipwith and The Entertainment at Ashby, EMS, 3 (1992), 137-92 (esp. pp. 171-2).

Copy headed Dauenats newyeares guift to K Charles 1631.

This MS collated in Gibbs.

Copy, headed To the King. A newyeares guift, subscribed W: Davenant.

Including 40 poems by Strode and two poems of doubtful authorship.

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9510. (Phillipps sale, lot 1015.) Owned c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914). Percy Dobell's sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 342. Formerly MS 4201. 27. 1.

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

Copy, headed Dauenat's newyeares guift to K Charles 1631.

Inscriptions including (Part I, pp. 1, 3 and 42) Edward Lewis his Book 1753, John Parker, P H Warburton, and John Aden, and (Part II, p. 33) Thomas Lloyd Esq. Wigfair MS 43, among papers mainly of the Lloyd family of Hafodunos, Denbighshire, and Wigfair, near St Asaph, Flintshire, purchased in 1926-7 from Colonel H.C. Lloyd Howard, of Wigfair.

Copy, headed To the King on Newyeares day. 1631.

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

Formerly MS G. 2.21.

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

Copy, headed Sent (with mellons) to the Lady Kingsmell, after a report of my death, subscribed W. Dauenon.

Later notes and scribbling including the names John Nutting (ff. 26r, 56r) and John M. and John Susan (rear paste-down). The last leaf also containing a list of the titles of 65 poems by Carew together with the number of lines in each poem, this list unrelated to the contents of the rest of the MS.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Nutting MS: CwT Δ 35. The list of poems, probably relating to another MS, is edited, with facsimiles, in Scott Nixon, The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 198-9, 217-19).

This MS collated in Gibbs.

Among the papers of the Middleton family, a Yorkshire recusant family. Formerly MD59/22/B/2.

Copy.

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

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

Copy, headed Comendacons of a Lady.

This MS collated in Gibbs.

Copy on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves, imperfect, chewed by rodents.

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

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

This MS collated in Gibbs.

Copy, subscribed Dauenant.

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

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

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

Edited from this MS in Berry and in Gibbs.

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

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

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

Edited from this MS in Gibbs, p. 293.

Copy, in a musical setting by William Lawes.

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

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

Copy, in a musical setting by William 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.

Copy, untitled.

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

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

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

Once owned by Rd Milles.

Copy, ascribed to D'Avenant.

Compiled by, and principally in the hand of, William Burton (1609-57), antiquary.

Copy, in a rounded hand, ascribed to W D, on the first page, followed by other verses, in a pair of conjugate folio leaves. Mid-late 17th century.

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

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

Edited from this MS in Gibbs.

Copy, ascribed to Davenant (Idem), with a side-note against the first six lines: This is set.

Copy, prefaced by a brief prose address to Carew, in a secretary hand.

Inscribed (f. 3r) Arth: Langford his booke the first of may 1629; (ff. 3r, 84v) John Slaughter; (f. 86r) Francis Webb and Robert Thurketil. Subsequently in the papers of the Trumbull family, including chiefly William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), diplomat and government official. Later belonging to the Marquess of Downshire, of Easthampstead Park. Formerly Berkshire Record Office Trumbull Add 51.

Sotheby's, 14 December 1989, lot 232, and 13 December 1990, lot 11. Facsimile example in the sale catalogues. Acquired 22 March 1991.

Edited from this MS in Beal.

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

This MS edited, discussed and (correctly) attributed to Davenant, with a facsimile, in James R. Jacob and Timothy Raylor, Opera and Obedience: Thomas Hobbes and A Proposition for Advancement of Moralitie by Sir William Davenant, The Seventeenth Century, 6 (1991), 205-50. A facsimile also in The Hartlib Papers Project Newsletter (March 1994).

Copy of the chorus of poets and Fame, Galatea's song and the Valediction, in a musical setting by William Lawes, headed The King's Masque.

Edited from this MS in Sabol, 400 Songs and Dances for the Stuart Masque, Nos. 49-51, and in Lefkowitz, pp. 211-43 (with a facsimile of p. 17 after p. 26, plate XI); recorded in Gibbs, p. 447.

Copy of the song between two boys, in a musical setting by John Atkins.

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

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

This MS collated in Cutts, Drexel Manuscript 4041, p. 184.

Copy of Viola's song, untitled, on a single folio leaf, endorsed with three staves of music.

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

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

Copy, untitled.

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

Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

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

Copy, headed ffirst Song.

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

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

Copy, untitled.

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

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

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

Copy, untitled.

On pp. 1-3, in the hand of the main scribe, is a prose dedication To the Queene [Henrietta Maria] and, on pp. 147-9, another To my Lady Sophia [Bartie—ye earle of Linseys Daughter added in another hand], and four poems by other writers added in yet another hand on pp. 122-46.

The volume purchased by a later member of the Waller family, in 1868, from the London bookseller F.S. Ellis, who notes in an enclosed letter (dated 20 August 1868) that he bought it from William Carew Hazlitt (1834-1813), bibliographer and writer, who had bought it in a miscellaneous sale of books & furniture at Robinson's Rooms in Bond St. some eight or ten years since. In another enclosed letter (dated 3 August 1868) Ellis expresses the wholly erroneous view that some of the corrections are his [Waller's]… and …the whole was written under his eye — the writing is certainly identical with that of the dedication in the volume of his poems in the British Museum, addressed to the Duchess of York [WaE 610, WaE 688]. The volume was owned in 1893 by Mr Waller, of Farmington Lodge, Northleach.

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Hazlitt MS: WaE Δ 4. Recorded in Thorn-Drury and the dedication To the Queene printed (I, vi-vii).

Copy.

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

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

Copy of the boy's song.

Compiled by a Cambridge University man.

Copy, headed Songe.

Inscribed (f. 10r) with names of Stephen Foster of Wrexham, Buckinghamshire (possibly the principal compiler) and Robert Drake of Topsham, Devon. Bookplate (f. 11r) of Berkeley Seymour of Queens's College, Cambridge. Purchased from the Rev. John C. Jackson 8 December 1866.

Copy, headed A Song.

Inscribed names (on front paste-down and f. 1r) of Fra: Norreys (? Sir Francis Norris (1609-69)) and Hen. Balle. Purchased from J. Harvey 8 December 1877.

Copy, headed Song in Love and honour.

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

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

Copy, untitled.

Including nineteen poems by Corbett and 29 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, the date 1634 occurring on f. 78v.

Inscribed on f. 111v rev. Thursday next at Capricks for M^r Pitt. Later among the collections of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724), and his son Edward, second Earl (1689-1741).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Harley MS: CoR Δ 5.

Copy, untitled.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Edited from this MS in Gibbs, pp. 294-5.

Copy, in a musical setting by William Lawes.

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

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

This MS collated in Cutts, Drexel Manuscript 4041, pp. 166-7.

Copy of the full text, with an ornate title-page: Macbeth A Tragedy As it is now acted at the Dukes Theatre 1674; pp. 1-8, 11-15, 22-63 predominantly in a single hand with corrections, deletions and additions, some on pasted-in slips, in three other hands; the title-page and dramatis personae added in another hand, and later additions (supplying missing text) in a modern bookseller's hand; probably copied for the most part from Davenant's foul papers in preparation for a promptbook, 65 large folio pages (plus blanks), in contemporary marbled boards.

Afterwards owned by Sir William Turner (d.1692), philanthropist, of Kirkleatham, Yorkshire. Acquired in 1948, at the sale of the library of Turner's Hospital and Free School, by Seven Gables Bookshop, New York, and annotated then by Alexander Schultze.

Edited from this MS (with facsimiles of ff. 1, 2, 24, 30v and 34v, between pp. 74 and 79) in Spencer.

Once owned by Thomas Oliphant (1799-1873), music editor and cataloguer. Puttick & Simpson's, 25 April 1873 (Oliphant sale), bought by William Hayman Cummings, FSA (1831-1915), singer and musical antiquary. Sotheby's, 17-24 May 1917 (Cummings sale), lot 1402.

Copy of the music score by John Eccles (with words to songs and choruses), apparently transcribed from DaW 95.

Inscribed (f. 1v) J.W Windsor Bath 1802; (inside cover) Vincent Novello [(1781-1861), music publisher] / 66 S^t. Queen Street / Lincolns Inn / purchased of M^r Hamilton Jun March 28 1829, with (f. 1r) an affixed letter by Novello dated 28 March 1848. Puttick & Simpson's, 24 April 1873.

Thomas Rodd's sale catalogue of manuscripts for 1841, item 602.

Copy of the Witches' Second Song, untitled and here beginning Letts dance a dance upon the Heath.

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

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

Copy, untitled.

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

Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

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

Copy.

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

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

Copy.

Inscribed on the front cover William Turner his booke, 1662 and, on the rear paste-down Catherine Gage's Booke: i.e. Catherine Gage, Lady Aston (d.1720). Formerly among the papers of the Aston family, of Tixall, Staffordshire.

Poems selectively edited from this MS (as his Third Division: Poems Collected by the Right Honourable Lady Aston) in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), pp. 107-205.

Edited from this MS, as The Witches Song, in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), pp. 144-5.

P.J. Dobell, sale catalogue The Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1238, with a facsimile. Collated from this facsimile in Gibbs, pp. lxxvi-lxxvii, 263-4.

Copy of Don John's song, in a musical setting by John Banister, untitled.

Inscribed (f. 1*^r) P. Fussell Winton, Liber Caroli Morgan e Coll Magd Dec^mo: 6^to Die 7^bris: Anno Domini 1682, and Vincent Novello [(1781-1861), music publisher] The gift of his kind friend W^m Patten.

Extract.

Extracts, headed Out of y^e Platonick louers Tragicomedy By Will: Dauenant, with comments on the play.

Entirely in the hand of the Rev. Abraham Wright (1611-90), of St John's College, Oxford, author.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ja: Wright (Abraham's son) and later of Taylor, Brighton. Bookplate of William Bromley, of Baginton, Warwickshire, 1703. Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 21 August 1858 (Bliss sale), lot 220.

For facsimile examples, see ShW 71 and ShW 44.

See Arthur C. Kirsch, A Caroline Commentary on the Drama, MP, 66 (1968-9), 256-61 (pp. 258-9).

Copy in Shenstone's hand.

Annotations by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 29 April 1884 (Percy sale), lot 272.

Published as Shenstone's Miscellany 1759-1763, ed. I.A. Gordon (Oxford, 1952).

Copy of Celania's song, here beginning Strait my Green Gown into breeches i'l make, erroneously headed In the Tempest.

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

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

Copy of Celania's song, untitled.

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

Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

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

Copy, headed A song, subscribed M^r S. H. [or S. L.].

Copy, headed Song in the Rivalls.

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

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

Copy, headed The Slighted Maid.

Copy, untitled.

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

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

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

Copy.

Formerly Chest II, No. 21.

This sheet discussed, with a facsimile, in Ann-Mari Hedbäck, The Printing of The Siege of Rhodes, SN, 45 (1973), 68-79.

Copy of the first 32 lines, by the Admiral and Villerius, in the First Entry of Part I, untitled and here beginning Arme arme Valerious arme.

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

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

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

Dramatic Works, III, 260-1.

Copy of Part II, headed The Siege of Rhodes by Solyman the Magnificent Fourth Emperour of the Turks. The Second Part. By Sir William D'avenant, probably transcribed largely from a printed source (the quarto of 1663) and prepared as an acting version.

This MS described in G. Blakemore Evans, The Douai Manuscript - Six Shakespearean Transcripts (1694-95), PQ, 41.1 (1962), 158-72.

This MS collated in Hedbäck's edition, pp. xxiv-xxvii, 108-10; also discussed by her in The Douai Manuscript Reexamined, PBSA, 73 (1979), 1-18.

Copy of Solyman's declamation, in a musical setting by Morelli.

This MS discussed in Macdonald Emslie, Pepys' Shakespeare Song, SQ, 6 (1955), 159-70 (pp. 160-1). Facsimiles of f. 6r (erroneously said to be Pepys's setting) in The Diary of Samuel Pepys, ed. H.B. Wheatley (London, 1920), V, facing p. 165, and in Geoffrey Tease, Samuel Pepys and his World (London, 1972), p. 69.

Copy, in a musical setting by Samuel Pepys.

Pepys records in his diary completing his setting on 6 December 1665. This MS discussed in Emslie, loc. cit. Facsimile in The Diary of Samuel Pepys, ed. Robert Latham & William Matthews, VI (London, 1972), between pp. 320 & 321. The song is shown in the portrait of Pepys in the National Portrait Gallery.

Copy of the opening speech, headed The master of the Ceremonies of the Prince D'Amour to the Prince Elector (here beginning S^r this shorte Journey from my prince's throne), in a neat predominantly secretary hand, on one side of a single folio leaf; together with (f. 80r), in another secretary hand, Certaine quæries of the Prince D'Amour and his officers, queries which formed no part of Davenant's printed text but which were also probably part of the entertainment.

Volume CCXXXVI of the Trumbull Papers, of the Trumbull family, including chiefly William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), diplomat and government official. Later belonging to the Marquess of Downshire, of Easthampstead Park. Formerly Berkshire Record Office Trumbull Add 17 and 18.

Sotheby's sale catalogue, The Trumbull Papers (14 December 1989), part of lot 39.

Dramatic Works, I, 328-9.

Copy of Cupid's song, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.

This MS collated in John P. Cutts, Seventeenth-Century Songs and Lyrics in Paris Conservatoire MS. Rés. 2489, MD, 23 (1969), 117-39 (p. 128).

Copy, in Lawes's musical setting, inscribed Cupid to y^e Knights Templers in a Maske at y^e Midle Temple.

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

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

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

This MS recorded in Sabol.

Copy of the song of the Priests of Apollo in a musical setting by William Lawes.

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

Bookplate of Povert Henley.

Edited in part from this MS in Sabol, No. 415, and in Lefkowitz, pp. 142-9.

Copy in a musical setting by William Lawes.

Edited from this MS in Sabol, No. 46

Copy, in a musical setting by William Lawes, untitled.

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

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

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

Edited from this MS in Sabol, No. 415. Collated in John P. Cutts, Seventeenth Century Songs and Lyrics in Edinburgh University Library Music MS. Dc. 1. 69, MD, 13 (1959), 169-94 (p. 194).

Copy of the songs of valediction and final chorus sung by the Priests of Mars, Venus and Apollo, here beginning The angry steed..., in a musical setting by William Lawes (d.1645).

Edited from this MS in Sabol, No. 47, and in Lefkowitz, pp. 150-69; recorded in Gibbs, p. 446.

Copy, untitled.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Edited in part from this MS in Gibbs, pp. 298-302.

Copy.

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

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

Extracts, headed Out of y^e witts. A Comedie by Will. Dauenant, with comments on the play.

Entirely in the hand of the Rev. Abraham Wright (1611-90), of St John's College, Oxford, author.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ja: Wright (Abraham's son) and later of Taylor, Brighton. Bookplate of William Bromley, of Baginton, Warwickshire, 1703. Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 21 August 1858 (Bliss sale), lot 220.

For facsimile examples, see ShW 71 and ShW 44.

Among papers of Dudley Carleton (1574-1632), Viscount Dorchester, diplomat.

Edited in Harbage, p. 38. Quoted in Nethercot, pp. 70-1.

Puttick & Simpson, 3 June 1878, lot 91. Sotheby's, 27 February, 1882, lot 20. Sotheby's, 9 November 1965, lot 358, to Dobell.

Quoted in Nethercot, pp. 187-8.

Sotheby's, 4 April 1938, lot 117, to Doran. Christie's, 12 July 2000 (William Foyle sale, Part III), lot 329, the detached inscribed leaf only, in an extra-illustrated printed exemplum of Peter Cunningham, The Story of Nell Gwyn (London, 1852), opposite p. 11.

Formerly in Files/Davenant.

Autograph letter signed by Davenant, to Prince Rupert, from Haleford, 13 June 1644.

Facsimiles in Garnett & Gosse (1903), III, 79; in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XXVI; and in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 92. Ciited in Nethercot, p. 213.

Letter by Davenant, in the hand of an amanuensis, unsigned, to John, first Lord Colepepper, and Sir Edward Hyde, from Paris, 17 January 1645/6.

Quoted in Harbage, pp. 96-7, and in Nethercot, p. 220.

Copy of a letter by Davenant, to Sir Hugh Pollard, [from Paris, February 1645/6], as Intercepted and deciphered…By S^r Walter Erle 28 Febr: 1645.

Cited in Nethercot, p. 220.

Autograph letter signed by Davenant, to Sir Edward Hyde, from Paris, 5 May 1646.

Autograph letter signed by Davenant, to Sir Edward Hyde, from St Germain, 2 June 1646.

Unpublished.

Autograph letter signed by Davenant, to Sir Richard Browne, from St Germains, 14 August [1646].

Assembled in 1824 by William Upcott (1779-1845), antiquary and autograph collector.

Among collections of Captain Montagu Montagu, RN (d.1863).

Edited in Harbage, p. 104, and in Nethercot, pp. 224-5.

Formerly among the Egerton-Warburton MSS at Arley Hall, Cheshire. Sotheby's, 16 March 1937, lot 483, to King.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 291.

Autograph letter signed by Davenant, to the Marquess of Ormond, from Paris, 25 October 1648, endorsed By M^r Fanshaw.

Autograph letter signed by Davenant, to Sir George Hamilton, from Kinsale, 3 March 1648/9.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 192. Cited in Nethercot, p. 279.

Autograph petition signed, to Parliament, from the Tower, [1652].

Recorded in HMC, 13th Report (1892), Appendix IV, p. 389. Quoted in Nethercot, pp. 284-5.

Sotheby's, 7 August 1884 (J.P. Collier sale), lot 1052, to B. J. Stevens.

Facsimile in IELM, II.i (1987), Facsimile XII, after p. xxiv, and in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 93. Quoted in Nethercot, pp. 293-4.

Autograph letter signed by Davenant, to John Thurloe, 15 June 1655.

Volume XXVII of the Thurloe Papers.

Edited in A Collection of the State Papers of John Thurloe Esq, ed. Thomas Birch, 7 vols (London, 1742), III, 554. Reprinted in Harbage, p. 120. Quoted in Nethercot, pp. 295-6.

Autograph petition unsigned, [to John Thurloe], for the allowance of stage plays, endorsed by Thurloe Some observations concerning the people of this nation, [1656].

Volume XLVI of the Thurloe Papers.

Identified as Davenant's and edited in Sir Charles Firth, Sir William Davenant and the Revival of the Drama during the Protectorate, EHR, 18 (1903), 319-21. Quoted in Harbage, pp. 125-6.

Recorded in Nethercot, p. 344.

Copy of an unsigned petition by Davenant and Sir William Killigrew to King Charles II, from Whitehall, 16 January 1661/2.

Recorded in Nethercot, p. 365.

Edited in E.S. de Beer, A Statement by Sir William D'Avenant, N&Q, 153 (5 November 1927), 327.

Sotheby's, 14 March 1920, lot 518, to Hope, with a reduced facsimile in the sale catalogue.

Signed by Davenant.

The charter is illustrated in Clive E. Driver, A Selection from our Shelves: Books, manuscripts and drawings from the Philip H. & A.S.W. Rosenbach Foundation Museum (Philadelphia, 1973), No. 44; a highly reduced facsimile also appeared in The Sunday Times (5 December 1982).

A complete facsimile edition of this exemplum published by the Scolar Press, 1970.

Inscribed Margaret Simeon 1700. Bookplate of Thomas Weld. Maggs, sale catalogue No. 640 (1937), item 357, with facsimile of the inscribed flyleaf and title-page.

Later owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1906-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part 1), lot 161, to Borg.

Sotheby's, 21 July 1983, lot 18, to Blackwell, with a facsimile of the inscription in the sale catalogue. Owned at some time by Howes Bookshop Ltd, Hastings, Sussex.

Possibly the Aut[ograph] inscription signed [by Davenant] 1651 once owned by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist and antiquary. Puttick and Simpson's, 6 June 1859 (Turner sale), in lot 677.

Formerly Literary File, Acc. 121750.

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

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

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

Extracts from Davenant's plays.

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

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

Formerly MS 469.2.

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

Extracts from Davenant's plays and poems.

Inscribed (f. 207v) James Dyson and James Thompson.

Including copies of various drafts, fragments and extracts, as well as poems by other writers such as Anne Wharton, Sir Charles Berkeley, Sir Thomas Higgons (including part of a play by him), Elizabeth Taylor (Lady Wythens, afterwards Lady Colepeper), Ephelia, George Granville, the Duke of Buckingham, Sir George Etherege, the Earl of Rochester, James Shirley, and Thomas Rymer, also extracts from Dryden and Davenant; almost entirely in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, with considerable variation of style; an apparently second, unidentified, hand copying verse and prose (Memoire…par le Sieur Lycelot…Le 9^me de Decembre 1687 and Instructions to the Judges of Assize &c Lent 1687/8) on ff. [23r, 62r-7v, 70v]; two of these leaves ([65r and 70v]) docketed in a later hand (after 1713) The Handwriting of D^r Atterbury and Bish^p Atterbury [meaning perhaps copied from Atterbury's writing (see WaE Δ 15)]; a draft letter addressed (as is clear from the content) to Catherine, Lady Ranelagh (1614-91), sister of the noble and learned…M^r [Robert] Boyle, on f. [16v], enclosing ffathers last verses [not specified], noting his reluctance to write anything for the forthcoming marriage of Princess Anne and Prince George of Denmark [which took place on 28 July 1684], and observing that he has now consecrated his remayning facullty in vers to devotion; a poem Of his voyage vp the river to vissett (beginning In my breast Eternall flames) on f. [71r] ascribed to M^rs M Waller (presumably Waller's second wife, Mary Bresse or Breaux, d. 1677); some scribbling and calculations on ff. 3r, 71v, 72v, 73v, a label on the spine erroneously identifying the volume as a compilation by Brian Fairfax (1637-1711).

Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1798-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9096.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Harvard MS: WaE Δ 6.

274 leaves, unnumbered.

Comprising:

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

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

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

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