Sir John Denham

Autograph.

Later in the library of the Rev. Thomas Corser, FSA (1793-1876), book collector, of Stand Rectory, near Manchester, and afterwards in the library of Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector. Sotheby's, 7 August 1869, lot 231, and 13 June 1912, lot 2322. Bookplates of G. Walter Steeves and James Stewart Geikie, MD.

This volume cited in W.C. Hazlitt, Inedited Poetical Miscellanies 1584-1700 ([London], 1870), [pp. 270-3]. The insertions identified as autograph in James M. Osborn's announcement, New Poems by Sir John Denham, in the TLS of 1 September 1966 (p. 788). Facsimile of two pages in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 106.

Edited from this MS in Banks.

Copy on two quarto leaves.

Collected by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729). Some pages in the hand of Richard Rawlinson.

Copy, headed On S^r W. Davenant's Gondibert, and subscribed S^r Jo. Denham.

Copy in Fulman's hand, transcribed from Certain Verses (1653).

Compiled and largely written by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.

Copy, headed To S^r Wm Dauenantt in prayse of his Gondiberit.

Compiled by Richard Brathwaite (1587/8-1673), poet, writer and Justice of Peace for Westmoreland.

Among the collections of Christopher Hunter (1675-1757), Durham antiquary and physician.

Copy.

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

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

Copy, headed To S^r William Davenant on his Gondibert.

In a single professional hand but for a few later additions at the very end (pp. 295-8, with some pages tipped-in).

Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Harvard MS: RoJ Δ 7.

Copy, headed To S^r William D'Av'nant on his Gondibert.

Compiled by Theophilus Butler (1669-1723), first Baron Newtown of Newtown-Butler, book collector.

Old pressmark I. 5. 1-3.

Extracts, fourteen lines headed Covetousness in Old Age and beginning Of Ages Avarice I cannot see, subscribed Denham.

Extracts.

Extracts, headed out of Coopers Hill, three lines beginning As Court make not Kings but kings the Court, and twelve lines, headed pag. 3^d, beginning Under his proud sarvey the City lies, on one side of a folio leaf of verse.

Volume XXXIIIA (Series III) of the papers of Sir John Coke (1563-1644), Secretary of State, and his family.

Purchased from the Marquess of Lothian, of Melbourne Hall, Derbyshire, 14 July 1987.

Extract, followed by a Latin translation.

Probably compiled in part by Edmund Killingworth (of Winchester College and New College, Oxford).

Discussed in Hilton Kelliher, Dryden Attributions and Texts from Harley MS. 6054, BLJ, 25.1 (Spring 1999), pp. 1-22, with facsimiles of ff. 20r and 27r on pp. 4 and 10.

Extracts.

Owned by Henry Bracegirdle, of Merton College, Oxford, and in 1674 by one Hugh Massey.

Extracts.

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

Sotheby's, 19 July 1966, lot 518.

An autograph correction in line 97 and six autograph lines inserted between lines 188 and 189 in the printed text.

Later in the library of the Rev. Thomas Corser, FSA (1793-1876), book collector, of Stand Rectory, near Manchester, and afterwards in the library of Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector. Sotheby's, 7 August 1869, lot 231, and 13 June 1912, lot 2322. Bookplates of G. Walter Steeves and James Stewart Geikie, MD.

This volume cited in W.C. Hazlitt, Inedited Poetical Miscellanies 1584-1700 ([London], 1870), [pp. 270-3]. The insertions identified as autograph in James M. Osborn's announcement, New Poems by Sir John Denham, in the TLS of 1 September 1966 (p. 788). Facsimile of two pages in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 106.

These MS insertions printed in Banks, p. xvii, and in O Hehir (in his B Text, Draft IV), p. 150.

In an exemplum of the quarto edition of 1653, in contemporary calf.

Inscribed on the front paste-down Charles Hurt jun: Wirksworth: May: 7: 1823. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1027 (1982), item 55.

An apparently unique recorded exemplum of this edition was isted in Quaritch's catalogue No. 1027 (1982), with a facsimile of the title-page.

Series of pages of the 1709 printed edition of the poem mounted, with MS collations from the 1643 edition on many of the facing pages.

Sotheby's, 18 May 2000, lot 558, to Hugh Pagan.

Copy, with corrections in another hand, imperfect at the beginning and now consisting of 270 lines, on five folio leaves, subscribed in a later hand The above is Part of Sir John Denham's Cooper's Hill - last Edition.

This MS collated in Banks; used to correct Draft I in O Hehir; pp. 77-90, and collated and described on pp. 44-8.

Copy of a 338-line version, beginning Sure we have Poets, that did never dreame.

Folios 62r-78v comprise an independent verse miscellany in the hand of the Feathery Scribe, with his title-page A: Booke;, Off, verses &c.

Later owned by Edward Stillingfleet (1635-99), Bishop of Worcester. Bought by Robert Harley in 1707.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 242 (No. 56).

This MS collated in Banks and in O Hehir, pp. 91-105 et seq. (and described pp. 53-4). Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 232 (No. 56.1).

Copy (on versos only), as By Denham, a version beginning If they were poets who did never dream.

Sotheby's, 13 June 1870, lot 157, to James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector; thence, on 5 July 1870, to Warwick Castle Library. Formerly Folger MS 3.4.

Copy of a 340-line version, beginning Sure we have Poetts that did never dreame, as written by M^r. Denham to M^r. Waller.

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

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

Edited from this MS (as Draft II) in O Hehir, pp. 91-105 (and collated and described pp. 48-51).

Copy of a 340-line version, beginning Sure wee haue poetts that did neuer dreame, subscribed M^r Denham (originally Dodderidge which is deleted).

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.

This MS collated in O Hehir, pp. 91-105 et seq. (and described pp. 51-3).

Later owned by Professor Brendan O Hehir (1927-91), literary scholar, of the University of California at Berkeley.

Collated in O Hehir, pp. 91-105, et seq. (and described p. 55).

Among the papers of the Egerton family, Earls of Bridgewater.

Edited from this MS (as his Draft I) in O Hehir, pp. 77-90 (and collated and described pp. 42-4).

An exemplum, which has a MS emendation on p. 19 probably in the hand of Izaak Walton.

Recorded in Brendan O Hehir, Expans'd Hieroglyphicks: A Critical edition of Sir John Denham's Coopers Hill (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1969), pp. 56-7.

Copy, in a rounded hand, of a version headed Coopers Hill [(Betweene this & windsor, whence this Survey.) added in another hand] and beginning Sure, we have Poets that did never dreame, with marginal annotations and scribbling in later hands, docketed as written by an vnknowne Author, inscribed at the end W^m Johnson Carolus dei gra Anglia, on four folio leaves, slightly imperfect.

This MS mentioned in Herbert Berry, Sir John Denham at Law, MP, 71 (1973-4), 266-76 (p. 266n).

Copy of two versions, written out in parallel columns, headed respectively A Copy of Coopers Hill taken in the year 1643 and A Copy of Coopers Hill after the 3^d. Impression in y^e Year 1684.

The later additions partly compiled by George Clarke (1661-1736), politician and virtuoso (whose bookplate is inside the cover and whose family coat of arms is on f. [iv]), son of Sir William Clarke (1623?-66), Secretary of War to the Commonwealth and Charles II.

Inside the front cover inscribed E[?] Barrow, evidently a member of the family of Samuel Barrow (1625-82), Royal Physician and friend of John Milton, Barrow being the second husband of Sir William Clarke's widow, Dorothy (d.1695). Formerly MSS 6. 13.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Clarke MS: PsK Δ 5. See also Elizabeth H. Hageman, Treacherous Accidents, and the Abominable Printing of Katherine Philips's 1664 Poems, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, III, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2004), pp. 85-95.

Copy of a version beginning Sure there are Poets which did never dreame.

Henry Sotheran's sale catalogue Picadilly Notes 29 (Winter 1992), item 178.

Copy of the Latin version by Moses Pengry, on rectos only.

Sotheby's, 13 June 1870, lot 157, to James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector; thence, on 5 July 1870, to Warwick Castle Library. Formerly Folger MS 3.4.

Copy of a Latin translation by Moses Pengry.

Apparently compiled by members of the English College at Douai.

Autograph alteration of one word in the printed text.

Later in the library of the Rev. Thomas Corser, FSA (1793-1876), book collector, of Stand Rectory, near Manchester, and afterwards in the library of Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector. Sotheby's, 7 August 1869, lot 231, and 13 June 1912, lot 2322. Bookplates of G. Walter Steeves and James Stewart Geikie, MD.

This volume cited in W.C. Hazlitt, Inedited Poetical Miscellanies 1584-1700 ([London], 1870), [pp. 270-3]. The insertions identified as autograph in James M. Osborn's announcement, New Poems by Sir John Denham, in the TLS of 1 September 1966 (p. 788). Facsimile of two pages in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 106.

Copy, untitled and here beginning Pooly. Deare Tom, to thee my selfe addressing on two conjugate quarto leaves.

Some items docketed by Ormonde or by his private secretary Sir George Lane.

Formerly British Library Loan MS 37/6. The greater part of the collection sold at Sotheby's, 19 July 1994, lot 276, to C.R. Johnson Rare Books. Photocopies are in the British Library, RP 6829.

Recorded in HMC, 14th Report, Appendix VII, Ormonde I (1895), pp. 105-18.

This MS collated in Banks.

Copy.

Copy, headed A Dialogue between Iack Pooley having got a Clap, and Tom Killigrew.

Among the papers of the Egerton family, Earls of Bridgewater.

Copy, headed A Diologue betweene M^r. Pooley and his Cosen M^r Tho. R. Killygrew.

Owned in 1948 by Raymond Richards, of Oxford House, Birkdale, Southport, and afterwards of Gawsworth Old Rectory, Gawsworth, Cheshire (MS No. 14). (Not among Richards MSS at the University of Keele.)

This item recorded in a list made in 1948 for the National Register of Archives.

Autograph draft with revisions, untitled.

Later in the library of the Rev. Thomas Corser, FSA (1793-1876), book collector, of Stand Rectory, near Manchester, and afterwards in the library of Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector. Sotheby's, 7 August 1869, lot 231, and 13 June 1912, lot 2322. Bookplates of G. Walter Steeves and James Stewart Geikie, MD.

This volume cited in W.C. Hazlitt, Inedited Poetical Miscellanies 1584-1700 ([London], 1870), [pp. 270-3]. The insertions identified as autograph in James M. Osborn's announcement, New Poems by Sir John Denham, in the TLS of 1 September 1966 (p. 788). Facsimile of two pages in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 106.

Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, in Osborn and in Banks. Facsimiles of the first two pages in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 50, and in in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 106.

Copy, subscribed Communicat a frater Tho: Watson Januar: 20: 1669/70.

Compiled by John Watson (d. c.1707), of Queens' College, Cambridge, vicar of Mildenhall, Suffolk.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ex dono D^rs Barb: Rhodes ...M^ri Joan: Rhodes Decemb: 5 1667; Janawary y^e 2 day 1726; W^m faildham London to y^e Land of maderah & from thence to Jamaca. Purchased from Lilly, 13 July 1850.

This MS recorded in Croft. See also Introduction.

Copy, headed An Elegie on Judge Crooke.

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.

Including nine poems in the Marvell canon (plus apocryphal poems); ff. 1-157 a single unit in variant styles of hand; ff. 158-62 in yet another hand on a smaller tipped-in quire of paper.

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

Cited in IELM, II.i (1993) as the Douce MS: MaA Δ 3. Marvell contents recorded and selectively collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I and II.

Copy, headed Reader no superscription here I writt / Because y^e verse it selfe entitles it.

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.

Copy, headed vpon Judge Crooke.

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.

This MS collated in Banks.

Copy.

Fols 1r-93v, 95r-100v in the hand of Peter Calfe (1610-67), son of a Dutch merchant in London (whose name is inscribed on a flyleaf: f. 1*); f. 94r-v in an unidentified hand, and ff. 101v-2r in that of Peter Calfe's son, Peter Calfe the Younger (d.1693).

Later owned by John, Baron Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor, and afterwards by Edward Harley (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford. Inscribed (f. 1r) Janu. 6. 1738/9.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), together with British Library, Harley MS 6917 with which it was once bound, as the Calfe MS: CwT Δ 18; KiH Δ 9; RnT Δ 4.

Copy, headed An Elegy on the Death of Judge Crooke by M^r John Denham MS not printed in his Poems.

Edited from this MS in Banks.

Copy, headed An Elegie on the Death of Judge Crooke. by M^r. Denham.

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

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

This MS recorded in O Hehir, Hieroglyphicks, p. 48.

Copy, subscribed M^r Denham Author.

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.

This MS recorded in O Hehir, Hieroglyphicks, p. 51.

Among the papers of the Egerton family, Earls of Bridgewater.

This MS recorded in O Hehir, Harmony, p. 48.

Copy on a single folio leaf.

Assembled by Col. Cyril Hackett Wilkinson (1888-1960), Vice Provost of Worcester College, Oxford, literary scholar. Sotheby's, 26 June 1961, lot 212. At Yale formerly Osborn Box 89. No. 7.

a microfilm of this MS is in the British Library, M/625.

Autograph, headed Ld Crofts.

Later in the library of the Rev. Thomas Corser, FSA (1793-1876), book collector, of Stand Rectory, near Manchester, and afterwards in the library of Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector. Sotheby's, 7 August 1869, lot 231, and 13 June 1912, lot 2322. Bookplates of G. Walter Steeves and James Stewart Geikie, MD.

This volume cited in W.C. Hazlitt, Inedited Poetical Miscellanies 1584-1700 ([London], 1870), [pp. 270-3]. The insertions identified as autograph in James M. Osborn's announcement, New Poems by Sir John Denham, in the TLS of 1 September 1966 (p. 788). Facsimile of two pages in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 106.

Copy in Fulman's hand, transcribed from Certain Verses (1653).

Compiled and largely written by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.

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).

Edited from this MS in Cutts, Drexel Manuscript 4041, p. 185.

Copy, headed Song.

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.

Autograph alteration of one word in the printed text.

Later in the library of the Rev. Thomas Corser, FSA (1793-1876), book collector, of Stand Rectory, near Manchester, and afterwards in the library of Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector. Sotheby's, 7 August 1869, lot 231, and 13 June 1912, lot 2322. Bookplates of G. Walter Steeves and James Stewart Geikie, MD.

This volume cited in W.C. Hazlitt, Inedited Poetical Miscellanies 1584-1700 ([London], 1870), [pp. 270-3]. The insertions identified as autograph in James M. Osborn's announcement, New Poems by Sir John Denham, in the TLS of 1 September 1966 (p. 788). Facsimile of two pages in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 106.

Autograph deletion of one word in the printed text.

Later in the library of the Rev. Thomas Corser, FSA (1793-1876), book collector, of Stand Rectory, near Manchester, and afterwards in the library of Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector. Sotheby's, 7 August 1869, lot 231, and 13 June 1912, lot 2322. Bookplates of G. Walter Steeves and James Stewart Geikie, MD.

This volume cited in W.C. Hazlitt, Inedited Poetical Miscellanies 1584-1700 ([London], 1870), [pp. 270-3]. The insertions identified as autograph in James M. Osborn's announcement, New Poems by Sir John Denham, in the TLS of 1 September 1966 (p. 788). Facsimile of two pages in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 106.

Copy on three pages of two folio leaves.

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

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

Copy, ascribed by S^r. J Denham.

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

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

Copy, headed A ballad vpon one Greene a quaker and a mare.

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

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

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

Copy, headed The Quaker and The Mare.

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 Certain Carnal Passages Betwixt a Quaker & a Colt at Horsly near Colchester in Essex.

Formerly P7455M1 [1712?] Bound.

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.

From the papers of the Trumbull family of Easthampstead Park, Berkshire.

Microfilm of this MS in the British Library, M/690.

Copy in Fulman's hand, headed Chesse.

Compiled and largely written by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.

Copy.

In a single neat rounded hand, largely written lengthways in oblong form.

Name inscribed inside the lower cover John Spearling. Sotheby's, 20 February 1967, lot 185.

Microfilm in the British Library, RP 86.

Two autograph lines inserted between lines 198 and 199 and six autograph lines inserted between lines 202 and 203 in the printed text.

Later in the library of the Rev. Thomas Corser, FSA (1793-1876), book collector, of Stand Rectory, near Manchester, and afterwards in the library of Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector. Sotheby's, 7 August 1869, lot 231, and 13 June 1912, lot 2322. Bookplates of G. Walter Steeves and James Stewart Geikie, MD.

This volume cited in W.C. Hazlitt, Inedited Poetical Miscellanies 1584-1700 ([London], 1870), [pp. 270-3]. The insertions identified as autograph in James M. Osborn's announcement, New Poems by Sir John Denham, in the TLS of 1 September 1966 (p. 788). Facsimile of two pages in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 106.

These MS additions edited in Banks, pp. xvii-xviii.

Copy.

In a single neat rounded hand, largely written lengthways in oblong form.

Name inscribed inside the lower cover John Spearling. Sotheby's, 20 February 1967, lot 185.

Microfilm in the British Library, RP 86.

Autograph, headed One Gondibert Vpon the Preface.

Later in the library of the Rev. Thomas Corser, FSA (1793-1876), book collector, of Stand Rectory, near Manchester, and afterwards in the library of Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector. Sotheby's, 7 August 1869, lot 231, and 13 June 1912, lot 2322. Bookplates of G. Walter Steeves and James Stewart Geikie, MD.

This volume cited in W.C. Hazlitt, Inedited Poetical Miscellanies 1584-1700 ([London], 1870), [pp. 270-3]. The insertions identified as autograph in James M. Osborn's announcement, New Poems by Sir John Denham, in the TLS of 1 September 1966 (p. 788). Facsimile of two pages in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 106.

Edited from this MS in Banks.

Copy, headed Vpon the Three Praises of Gondibert not then Published, on a single quarto leaf.

Collected by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729). Some pages in the hand of Richard Rawlinson.

Copy, untitled and here beginning Make roome for the best of Poets Heroicke, on one side of a single quarto leaf.

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

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

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

Copy in Fulman's hand, transcribed from Certain Verses (1653).

Compiled and largely written by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.

Once owned by one Ferdinando Marsh. Later in the Oxford library of John Sparrow (1906-92), literary scholar and book collector. Christie's, 21 October 1992 (Sparrow sale), lot 111, to Hannas.

This volume, or else DeJ 55.5, possibly corresponds to the exemplum of Gondibert (1651) with 118 lines on the fly-leaf sold at Sotheby's, 19 November 1906 (sale of the Trentham Hall Library of the Duke of Sutherland), lot 461.

Sotheby's, New York, 30 April-1 May 1990 (H. Bradley Martin sale), lot 2749.

This volume, or else DeJ 55, possibly corresponds to the exemplum of Gondibert (1651) with 118 lines on the fly-leaf sold at Sotheby's, 19 November 1906 (sale of the Trentham Hall Library of the Duke of Sutherland), lot 461.

Copy in the hand of William Edgeman, secretary of Edward Hyde, first Earl of Clarendon, headed To the Tune of First came my L^d Scroope, he did hallow & hoope &c, on a single quarto leaf.

Printed from this MS in Calendar of the Clarendon State Papers, II (Oxford, 1869), p. 143; collated in Banks.

Copy, in a mixed hand, untitled, on the first page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, addressed pn the fourt page To the right ho^ble. the Lord Conway, and folded, sealed and sent as a letter.

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

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

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

Copy, in a neat professional hand, on a single folio leaf.

Some items docketed by Ormonde or by his private secretary Sir George Lane.

Formerly British Library Loan MS 37/6. The greater part of the collection sold at Sotheby's, 19 July 1994, lot 276, to C.R. Johnson Rare Books. Photocopies are in the British Library, RP 6829.

Recorded in HMC, 14th Report, Appendix VII, Ormonde I (1895), pp. 105-18.

Autograph deletion of one line in the printed text.

Later in the library of the Rev. Thomas Corser, FSA (1793-1876), book collector, of Stand Rectory, near Manchester, and afterwards in the library of Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector. Sotheby's, 7 August 1869, lot 231, and 13 June 1912, lot 2322. Bookplates of G. Walter Steeves and James Stewart Geikie, MD.

This volume cited in W.C. Hazlitt, Inedited Poetical Miscellanies 1584-1700 ([London], 1870), [pp. 270-3]. The insertions identified as autograph in James M. Osborn's announcement, New Poems by Sir John Denham, in the TLS of 1 September 1966 (p. 788). Facsimile of two pages in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 106.

This MS alteration recorded in Banks, p. xvii.

Copy, untitled.

Copy, untitled.

Compiled for the most part by a University of Oxford man, with (f. 1r-v) a list of contents.

Once owned by one John Faith, and by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.

Formerly cited as Corpus Christi College, MS E.i.33.

Copy, headed An Eligie on y^e Earle of Strafford.

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).

Second copy, untitled, on the first page of two conjugate small quarto leaves, endorsed Verses on the Earle of Strafford.

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, headed Wentworth's Tryumph over all. The text followed (f. 8r-v) by a parody.

Including nine poems in the Marvell canon (plus apocryphal poems); ff. 1-157 a single unit in variant styles of hand; ff. 158-62 in yet another hand on a smaller tipped-in quire of paper.

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

Cited in IELM, II.i (1993) as the Douce MS: MaA Δ 3. Marvell contents recorded and selectively collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I and II.

Copy of a twenty-line version, headed An Epitaph on the Earle of Strafford.

Edited from this MS in O Hehir, Harmony, pp. 36-7.

Copy, headed In obitum Thomae Wentworth Comitis de Strafford, D. Locum: Tenent: Hiberniae, &c. qui decollatus est apud Turrem Londinens: Maij 12°. 1641.

Scribbling on f. ii^r including ffor m^r William Rabey in New=market..., ffor my Louing ffriend in G John westhropp at m^r Rogers Reringe house Bury in S[uffolk], ffor m^r John fford at his house in Newmarket in the countey of cambridge; notes on f. iii^v-iv^r, one Recd 22 July 1669, subscribed John Cooke and including, on f. vi^r, ffor m^r John Cocke at his howse neere the white harte in Thetford.... Later owned, in the 1730s, by Charles Barlow, of Emmanuel College, Cambridge (his bookplate f. ii^v).

Copy, headed On Strafford, subscribed J. Denham.

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

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

Copy, headed Upon the same [i.e. Strafford].

Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 27 of the Hopkinson MSS. Chiefly transcribed from papers belonging to John Savile, Baron of Pontefract, and Edward Taylor, of Furnivall's Inn, Holborn.

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

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 298.

Copy, headed An Elegie upon the death of the Earle of Strafford.

Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 34 of the Hopkinson MSS.

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

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 299.

Copy of a twenty-line version, headed vpon my Lo Straford.

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.

Edited from this MS in Banks, p. 153 (footnote).

Copy, headed May 1641 An offering to the sacred memory of the never sufficiently admired E. of Strafford.

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 lines 1-2, 11-20, 27-30.

This MS recorded in Banks, p. 153.

Copy, in two secretary hands, headed in probably another hand An epitaph of y^e Earl of Strafford.

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

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

Copy, headed Vpon y^e Death of Thomas wentworth Earl of Strafford beheaded ye < > of May 1641, subscribed by M^r Sidney Godolpin.

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

Later bookplate of Henry B. Humphrey.

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

Copy.

Copy of a twenty-line version, headed E. of Straffords Epitaphe.

Compiled by Sir James Balfour, first Baronet (1600-57), of Denmilne and Kinncaird, Lyon King of Arms and antiquary.

Edited from this MS in H.L. Hamilton, Lines by Denham, TLS (22 September 1966), p. 888. Recorded in Banks, p. xiv.

Copy, in a roman hand, headed Lord Straufords Elegie.

Compiled by members of the Salusbury family of Llewenni, Denbighshire, including works by Sir Thomas Salusbury, second Baronet (1612-43), poet and politician.

Later owned by J. Baskerville-Glegg, of Withington Hall, Chelford. Sotheby's, 14-16 March 1921, lot 421.

Copy.

References to Westminster Drollerie (which was not published until 1671) added on pp. 1 and 242.

Inscribed on the title-page Frendraught Legi: i.e. by James Crichton (d.1674/5), second Viscount Frendraught. Bookplate of Thomas Fraser Duff (1830-77), of Woodcote, Oxfordshire. Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 9 April 1987, lot 272 (with a facsimile of p. 131 in the sale catalogue), sold to Quaritch.

Copy, headed Verses made upon the Earle of Strafford.

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

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

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, among other poems on Strafford.

Inscribed (f. 141r) John: Saunders is the trew owner of this booke, Captaine Christo: Blounte, and Valentine LLawless.

Owned by John Madden, MD (1649-1703/4), physician and manuscript collector. Old pressmark F. 1. 20.

Copy, headed In obitu Thomæ wentworth comitis se Strafford; D. Locu tenent: Hiberniæ &sc. qui de collabus erat aput turro Londinensem. maii 12^o. 1641.

In non-professional hands, the miscellany entitled A Collection of Witt and Learning…consisting of verses, poems, songs, sonnetts, Ballads, Lampoons, Libells, Dialouges...from the year 1600, to this present year: 1677.

Formerly Osborn MS Chest II, Number 14.

Copy, untitled.

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

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

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

Copy, headed Wentworth Triumphe over all, on two folio leaves. The text accompanied by a parody.

Assembled by Col. Cyril Hackett Wilkinson (1888-1960), Vice Provost of Worcester College, Oxford, literary scholar. Sotheby's, 26 June 1961, lot 212. At Yale formerly Osborn Box 89. No. 7.

a microfilm of this MS is in the British Library, M/625.

Copy, including the Preface.

In a single neat rounded hand, largely written lengthways in oblong form.

Name inscribed inside the lower cover John Spearling. Sotheby's, 20 February 1967, lot 185.

Microfilm in the British Library, RP 86.

written upright

Autograph, untitled.

Later in the library of the Rev. Thomas Corser, FSA (1793-1876), book collector, of Stand Rectory, near Manchester, and afterwards in the library of Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector. Sotheby's, 7 August 1869, lot 231, and 13 June 1912, lot 2322. Bookplates of G. Walter Steeves and James Stewart Geikie, MD.

This volume cited in W.C. Hazlitt, Inedited Poetical Miscellanies 1584-1700 ([London], 1870), [pp. 270-3]. The insertions identified as autograph in James M. Osborn's announcement, New Poems by Sir John Denham, in the TLS of 1 September 1966 (p. 788). Facsimile of two pages in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 106.

Edited from this MS in Banks.

Copy in Fulman's hand, headed Canto 2, transcribed from Certain Verses (1653).

Compiled and largely written by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.

Autograph alterations in two lines in the printed text.

Later in the library of the Rev. Thomas Corser, FSA (1793-1876), book collector, of Stand Rectory, near Manchester, and afterwards in the library of Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector. Sotheby's, 7 August 1869, lot 231, and 13 June 1912, lot 2322. Bookplates of G. Walter Steeves and James Stewart Geikie, MD.

This volume cited in W.C. Hazlitt, Inedited Poetical Miscellanies 1584-1700 ([London], 1870), [pp. 270-3]. The insertions identified as autograph in James M. Osborn's announcement, New Poems by Sir John Denham, in the TLS of 1 September 1966 (p. 788). Facsimile of two pages in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 106.

These MS alterations recorded in Banks, p. xvii.

Copy, untitled.

Inscribed (p. 211) I ended this book Nov^r. 13^th 1723.

Copy, in double columns, headed The Westerne Wonder; The second part to the same Tune, here beginning You haue hard of that wonder, subscribed S^r John Hotham, on a folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet, in a file of verse MSS.

Autograph altertions in three lines in the printed text.

Later in the library of the Rev. Thomas Corser, FSA (1793-1876), book collector, of Stand Rectory, near Manchester, and afterwards in the library of Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector. Sotheby's, 7 August 1869, lot 231, and 13 June 1912, lot 2322. Bookplates of G. Walter Steeves and James Stewart Geikie, MD.

This volume cited in W.C. Hazlitt, Inedited Poetical Miscellanies 1584-1700 ([London], 1870), [pp. 270-3]. The insertions identified as autograph in James M. Osborn's announcement, New Poems by Sir John Denham, in the TLS of 1 September 1966 (p. 788). Facsimile of two pages in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 106.

Copy, in a probably professional mixed hand, headed The Westerne Wonder The second part to the same tune, here beginning You have herd of that wonder, subscribed S^r John Hotham, on two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

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

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

Copy, headed The 2^d part of a Westerne Wonder. ⁴⁰ and here beginning You have heard of the Wonder, when Lightning & Thunder.

Purchased c.1798.

Autograph, headed Song.

Later in the library of the Rev. Thomas Corser, FSA (1793-1876), book collector, of Stand Rectory, near Manchester, and afterwards in the library of Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector. Sotheby's, 7 August 1869, lot 231, and 13 June 1912, lot 2322. Bookplates of G. Walter Steeves and James Stewart Geikie, MD.

This volume cited in W.C. Hazlitt, Inedited Poetical Miscellanies 1584-1700 ([London], 1870), [pp. 270-3]. The insertions identified as autograph in James M. Osborn's announcement, New Poems by Sir John Denham, in the TLS of 1 September 1966 (p. 788). Facsimile of two pages in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 106.

Edited from this MS in Banks.

Copy in Fulman's hand, headed To Sir W. Davenant, transcribed from Certain Verses (1653).

Compiled and largely written by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.

Autograph, headed Song to y^e tune of Walsi[n]gham.

Later in the library of the Rev. Thomas Corser, FSA (1793-1876), book collector, of Stand Rectory, near Manchester, and afterwards in the library of Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector. Sotheby's, 7 August 1869, lot 231, and 13 June 1912, lot 2322. Bookplates of G. Walter Steeves and James Stewart Geikie, MD.

This volume cited in W.C. Hazlitt, Inedited Poetical Miscellanies 1584-1700 ([London], 1870), [pp. 270-3]. The insertions identified as autograph in James M. Osborn's announcement, New Poems by Sir John Denham, in the TLS of 1 September 1966 (p. 788). Facsimile of two pages in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 106.

Edited from this MS in Osborn and in Banks.

Autograph alteration in one line in the printed text.

Later in the library of the Rev. Thomas Corser, FSA (1793-1876), book collector, of Stand Rectory, near Manchester, and afterwards in the library of Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector. Sotheby's, 7 August 1869, lot 231, and 13 June 1912, lot 2322. Bookplates of G. Walter Steeves and James Stewart Geikie, MD.

This volume cited in W.C. Hazlitt, Inedited Poetical Miscellanies 1584-1700 ([London], 1870), [pp. 270-3]. The insertions identified as autograph in James M. Osborn's announcement, New Poems by Sir John Denham, in the TLS of 1 September 1966 (p. 788). Facsimile of two pages in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 106.

Copy, headed M^r Hampdens Speech ag^st peace, on two folio leaves.

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, headed A Libell agst y^e Parliam^t.

Including nine poems in the Marvell canon (plus apocryphal poems); ff. 1-157 a single unit in variant styles of hand; ff. 158-62 in yet another hand on a smaller tipped-in quire of paper.

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

Cited in IELM, II.i (1993) as the Douce MS: MaA Δ 3. Marvell contents recorded and selectively collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I and II.

Copy, headed A speech against peace.

Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 27 of the Hopkinson MSS. Chiefly transcribed from papers belonging to John Savile, Baron of Pontefract, and Edward Taylor, of Furnivall's Inn, Holborn.

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

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 298.

Copy, headed A speech against peace.

Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 34 of the Hopkinson MSS.

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

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 299.

Copy, headed Hampdens Ghost.

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.

Recorded in HMC 9, Salisbury (Cecil) MSS, XXIV (1976), p. 283.

Among the papers of the Egerton family, Earls of Bridgewater.

This MS recorded in O Hehir, Hieroglyphicks, p. 43.

Copy, headed M^r. Hampden's Speech against peace at a Close Comittee, to y^e tune of I went from England.

The upper cover stamped in gilt with the crest of Edward Conway (1594-1655), second Viscount Conway and second Viscount Killultagh, politician and book collector.

Copy, in double columns, untitled, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed Libell aga^t. the parl./am^t..

Formerly MSS. 6. 16: shelfmark MSS 5.27.

Copy, headed M^r Hamdens speech occasioned upo y^e Londoners petition for peace, on a single broadsheet.

Assembled by Col. Cyril Hackett Wilkinson (1888-1960), Vice Provost of Worcester College, Oxford, literary scholar. Sotheby's, 26 June 1961, lot 212. At Yale formerly Osborn Box 89. No. 7.

a microfilm of this MS is in the British Library, M/625.

Autograph, untitled.

Later in the library of the Rev. Thomas Corser, FSA (1793-1876), book collector, of Stand Rectory, near Manchester, and afterwards in the library of Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector. Sotheby's, 7 August 1869, lot 231, and 13 June 1912, lot 2322. Bookplates of G. Walter Steeves and James Stewart Geikie, MD.

This volume cited in W.C. Hazlitt, Inedited Poetical Miscellanies 1584-1700 ([London], 1870), [pp. 270-3]. The insertions identified as autograph in James M. Osborn's announcement, New Poems by Sir John Denham, in the TLS of 1 September 1966 (p. 788). Facsimile of two pages in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 106.

Edited from this MS in Banks.

Copy in Fulman's hand, transcribed from Certain Verses (1653).

Compiled and largely written by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.

Autograph alteration of one word in the printed text.

Later in the library of the Rev. Thomas Corser, FSA (1793-1876), book collector, of Stand Rectory, near Manchester, and afterwards in the library of Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector. Sotheby's, 7 August 1869, lot 231, and 13 June 1912, lot 2322. Bookplates of G. Walter Steeves and James Stewart Geikie, MD.

This volume cited in W.C. Hazlitt, Inedited Poetical Miscellanies 1584-1700 ([London], 1870), [pp. 270-3]. The insertions identified as autograph in James M. Osborn's announcement, New Poems by Sir John Denham, in the TLS of 1 September 1966 (p. 788). Facsimile of two pages in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 106.

This MS alteration recorded in Banks, p. xvii.

Autograph alteration in one line in the printed text.

Later in the library of the Rev. Thomas Corser, FSA (1793-1876), book collector, of Stand Rectory, near Manchester, and afterwards in the library of Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector. Sotheby's, 7 August 1869, lot 231, and 13 June 1912, lot 2322. Bookplates of G. Walter Steeves and James Stewart Geikie, MD.

This volume cited in W.C. Hazlitt, Inedited Poetical Miscellanies 1584-1700 ([London], 1870), [pp. 270-3]. The insertions identified as autograph in James M. Osborn's announcement, New Poems by Sir John Denham, in the TLS of 1 September 1966 (p. 788). Facsimile of two pages in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 106.

Copy, headed To y^e Author of this Translation and transcribed from the 1660 edition of Fanshawe's Pastor Fido.

Copy, headed The Humble Peticon of the Poets to the 5 Members, on one side of a single folio leaf.

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

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

Copy, in a probably professional hand, on both sides of a single folio leaf. Mid-late-17th century.

Assembled by Thomas Hearne (178-1735), antiquary, who has inscribed a slip attached to the front pastedown Tho: Hearne Junij 21^o. 1709.

Copy, headed The humble Peticon of the Poetts to the fiue cheife Members of the house of Commons.

Compiled by a Cambridge University man.

Copy on a single folio leaf.

Some items docketed by Ormonde or by his private secretary Sir George Lane.

Formerly British Library Loan MS 37/6. The greater part of the collection sold at Sotheby's, 19 July 1994, lot 276, to C.R. Johnson Rare Books. Photocopies are in the British Library, RP 6829.

Recorded in HMC, 14th Report, Appendix VII, Ormonde I (1895), pp. 105-18.

Copy.

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

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

Copy, headed To y^e 5 principell Members of y^e ho^ble:House of Commons. The humble Petition of the Poetts, subscribed Jo Denham in another hand.

The upper cover stamped in gilt with the crest of Edward Conway (1594-1655), second Viscount Conway and second Viscount Killultagh, politician and book collector.

Once owned by two Cambridge men. Stuart Bennett's sale catalogue No. 2: English Verse from Chaucer to Hardy (1981), item 41.

Autograph.

Later in the library of the Rev. Thomas Corser, FSA (1793-1876), book collector, of Stand Rectory, near Manchester, and afterwards in the library of Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector. Sotheby's, 7 August 1869, lot 231, and 13 June 1912, lot 2322. Bookplates of G. Walter Steeves and James Stewart Geikie, MD.

This volume cited in W.C. Hazlitt, Inedited Poetical Miscellanies 1584-1700 ([London], 1870), [pp. 270-3]. The insertions identified as autograph in James M. Osborn's announcement, New Poems by Sir John Denham, in the TLS of 1 September 1966 (p. 788). Facsimile of two pages in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 106.

Edited from this MS in Osborn and in Banks.

Autograph.

Later in the library of the Rev. Thomas Corser, FSA (1793-1876), book collector, of Stand Rectory, near Manchester, and afterwards in the library of Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector. Sotheby's, 7 August 1869, lot 231, and 13 June 1912, lot 2322. Bookplates of G. Walter Steeves and James Stewart Geikie, MD.

This volume cited in W.C. Hazlitt, Inedited Poetical Miscellanies 1584-1700 ([London], 1870), [pp. 270-3]. The insertions identified as autograph in James M. Osborn's announcement, New Poems by Sir John Denham, in the TLS of 1 September 1966 (p. 788). Facsimile of two pages in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 106.

Edited from this MS in Banks.

Copy in Fulman's hand, headed Canto 1, transcribed from Certain Verses (1653).

Compiled and largely written by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.

Autograph, crossed out.

Later in the library of the Rev. Thomas Corser, FSA (1793-1876), book collector, of Stand Rectory, near Manchester, and afterwards in the library of Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector. Sotheby's, 7 August 1869, lot 231, and 13 June 1912, lot 2322. Bookplates of G. Walter Steeves and James Stewart Geikie, MD.

This volume cited in W.C. Hazlitt, Inedited Poetical Miscellanies 1584-1700 ([London], 1870), [pp. 270-3]. The insertions identified as autograph in James M. Osborn's announcement, New Poems by Sir John Denham, in the TLS of 1 September 1966 (p. 788). Facsimile of two pages in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 106.

Edited from this MS in Banks.

Copy in Fulman's hand, transcribed from Certain Verses (1653).

Compiled and largely written by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.

Copy, untitled, on a single folio leaf, endorsed by Edward Hyde, first Earl of Clarendon, Lybell of the psons impryson'd 1655.

Edited from this MS in Firth and in Banks.

Copy, untitled.

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

Copy, headed S^t Jame's prisoners 1655.

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, in double columns, 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 two folio leaves, endorsed by Dugdale Verses concerning the Prisonors at S^t James Gr.

Copy of Denham's early translation, in two italic hands, principally Hutchinson's, the second on pp. 110-35, untitled, subscribed by Hutchinson Finis Denham / W Virgilis Æneis.

Later owned by Lucy Hutchinson's nephew Julius Hutchinson (1678-1738).

This MS is described in the online Perdita Project.

This MS discussed in the Rev. Francis E. Hutchinson, Sir John Denham's Translations of Virgil, TLS (7 July 1927), p. 472; in Banks, pp. 41-3; and in O Hehir, Harmony, pp. 12-13.

Autograph alteration in one line in the printed text.

Later in the library of the Rev. Thomas Corser, FSA (1793-1876), book collector, of Stand Rectory, near Manchester, and afterwards in the library of Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector. Sotheby's, 7 August 1869, lot 231, and 13 June 1912, lot 2322. Bookplates of G. Walter Steeves and James Stewart Geikie, MD.

This volume cited in W.C. Hazlitt, Inedited Poetical Miscellanies 1584-1700 ([London], 1870), [pp. 270-3]. The insertions identified as autograph in James M. Osborn's announcement, New Poems by Sir John Denham, in the TLS of 1 September 1966 (p. 788). Facsimile of two pages in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 106.

Copy, headed A Libell Concerning a Misreport of S^r. Raeph Hoptons death.

Including nine poems in the Marvell canon (plus apocryphal poems); ff. 1-157 a single unit in variant styles of hand; ff. 158-62 in yet another hand on a smaller tipped-in quire of paper.

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

Cited in IELM, II.i (1993) as the Douce MS: MaA Δ 3. Marvell contents recorded and selectively collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I and II.

Copy, headed Strange wonders, subscribed F.

Copy, untitled, subscribed Rich: Fanshaw.

The upper cover stamped in gilt with the crest of Edward Conway (1594-1655), second Viscount Conway and second Viscount Killultagh, politician and book collector.

Copy, headed The first part of a Westerne Wonder. ³⁹.

Purchased c.1798.

Copy, in Sir William Dugdale's hand, untitled, on a single folio leaf.

Copy, as written by John Denham Esq., subscribed Aprill 21^th. Finis. Anno. 1651.

In a family library at Bath before 1924. Sotheby's, 23 July 1987, lot 11, to Quaritch.

Autograph alterations on nine pages in the printed text.

Later in the library of the Rev. Thomas Corser, FSA (1793-1876), book collector, of Stand Rectory, near Manchester, and afterwards in the library of Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector. Sotheby's, 7 August 1869, lot 231, and 13 June 1912, lot 2322. Bookplates of G. Walter Steeves and James Stewart Geikie, MD.

This volume cited in W.C. Hazlitt, Inedited Poetical Miscellanies 1584-1700 ([London], 1870), [pp. 270-3]. The insertions identified as autograph in James M. Osborn's announcement, New Poems by Sir John Denham, in the TLS of 1 September 1966 (p. 788). Facsimile of two pages in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 106.

These MS alterations recorded in Banks, p. xviii. See also DeJ 126.

Extracts.

Booklabel of the John Dryden Collection formed by Percy J. Dobell (1876-1956), bookseller.

Extracts.

Booklabel of the John Dryden Collection formed by Percy J. Dobell (1876-1956), bookseller.

Extracts.

Compiled over a period (entries dated between 1621 and 1667) by members of the family of Sir Marmaduke Rawdon (1583-1646), merchant, shipowner and royalist soldier.

Inscribed (f. 278r) Mary Elliston october the 27 1763 and Mary Elliston Collchester. Later owned by Edward Hailstone (1818-90), of Walton Hall, Wakefield, botanist and book collector.

Transcript of the edition of 1642.

Transcript of an edition.

Inscribed names of Will. Randolph and William Burry '67 [who matriculated at Christ Church on 26 October 1666], and including (ff. 72v-59v rev.) verses by G. Yalden [? William Yalden, who matriculated at Queen's College on 21 November 1687].

Autograph alteration of the first word of the song (changing Somnus to Morpheus) in the printed text.

Later in the library of the Rev. Thomas Corser, FSA (1793-1876), book collector, of Stand Rectory, near Manchester, and afterwards in the library of Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector. Sotheby's, 7 August 1869, lot 231, and 13 June 1912, lot 2322. Bookplates of G. Walter Steeves and James Stewart Geikie, MD.

This volume cited in W.C. Hazlitt, Inedited Poetical Miscellanies 1584-1700 ([London], 1870), [pp. 270-3]. The insertions identified as autograph in James M. Osborn's announcement, New Poems by Sir John Denham, in the TLS of 1 September 1966 (p. 788). Facsimile of two pages in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 106.

Copy of the song, headed Song and here beginning Morpheus y^e humble God y^t dwells.

Copy of the song, 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, p. 171.

Autograph letter signed MK, to James Butler, Marquess of Ormonde, from London, 28 February [1647/8].

Edited in Kelliher, p. 5.

Autograph letter signed, to Lady Isabella Thynne, from The Hague, 27 December [1651].

Edited in Kelliher, pp. 9-11, with a facsimile of the first page. Facsimile also in IELM, II.i (1987), Facsimile XIII, after p. xxiv.

Autograph letter signed, to Isabella Thynne, 8 February [1651/2].

Edited in Kelliher, pp. 11-12.

Autograph letter signed, in cipher, [to King Charles II], [February] 1659/60.

Edited in O Hehir, Harmony, pp. 143-4.

Autograph letter signed, partly in cipher, [to Edward Hyde], [February]1659/60.

Edited in O Hehir, Harmony, p. 145.

Summarized in HMC, 36, Ormonde NS III (1904), pp. 19-20.

Edited in O Hehir, Harmony, p. 202.

Edited in O Hehir, Harmony, p. 253.

Denham's signature, aged sixteen, upon matriculating at Trinity College, 16 November 1631.

Puttick & Simpson's, 3 June 1878, lot 93.

Recorded in The R.B. Adam Library (London & New York, 1929) vol. III, p. 81.

Edited in Wills from Doctors' Commons, ed. John Gough Nichols and John Bruce, Camden Society No. 83 (1863), pp. 119-23, Cited in O Hehir, Harmony, pp. 253, 256.

Extract from Denham's last will and testament of 13 March 1668/9, proved 9 May 1670.

Extracts from works by Denham.

Extracts from works by Denham.

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.

Extracts from works by Denham.

Belonging to the family and descendants of Sir William Temple, Bt (1628-99), diplomat and author.

Sotheby's, 13 December 1994, lot 43, to Figgis Rare Books.