Queen Elizabeth I

Edited from this MS in Poetry Book Society Bulletin (November 1958); in Collected Works; and in Selected Works. Edited from the 1958 publication in Bradner.

Copy, inscribed lengthways, in three columns, along the margin of a cropped quarto-size leaf otherwise comprising a formal copy of a late medieval Latin text.

Copy, headed certan other verses made by owre sayd soueign, subscribed finis q^d Elizabetha Regina.

Inscribed (f. 1r), in red ink, John Stanhope (possibly John Stanhope, d.1593, of Eccleshill) and from the muniments of the Spencer-Stanhope family of Yorkshire.

Recorded in A.M.W. Stirling, Annals of a Yorkshire House (1911), I, 7. Discussed in Steven W. May and Arthur F. Marotti, Ink, Stink Bait, Revenge, and Queen Elizabeth: A Yorkshire Yeoman's Household Book (Ithaca, 2014), with fascimile examples.

Copy, untitled, subscribed in a different ink (after deleted words) Regina.

Fols 11r-78r, largely in a single secretary hand, comprising a verse miscellany compiled by the antiquary St Loe Kniveton, of Gray's Inn. c.1585-90s.

This MS collated in Bradner and in Collected Works. Cited in Selected Works.

Copy, untitled.

Compiled by Henry Stanford (d.1616), household tutor to the Paget and Carey families, including George Carey, second Lord Hunsdon.

A complete transcription of this volume in Steven W. May, Henry Stanford's Anthology: An Edition of Cambridge University Library Manuscript Dd. 5.75 (New York, 1988).

Edited from this MS in Bradner, in Collected Works, and in Selected Works. May, Stanford, p. 155-6 (No. 222).

Copy.

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, 280-1. Collated in Bradner and in Collected Works. Cited in Selected Works.

Edited from this MS in John Nichols, The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth, 3 vols (London, 1823). Cited (as mostly illegible) in Bradner, in Collected Works, and in Selected Works.

Copy, headed Sonetto, subscribed Eliz. Regina.

Compiled by Thomas Tanner (1674-1735)

Edited from this MS in Bradner, in Collected Works, and in Selected Works.

Copy, headed Sonnet by Queene Elizabeth.

Copy, headed E: R: On Mounsieur^s depture.

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

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

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

This MS collated in Bradner. Cited in Collected Works and in Selected Works.

Copy, headed Queen Elizabeth verses on Monsieur^s departure out of England.

This MS cited in Selected Works.

Copy, headed Sonnett by Queene Elizabeth.

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.

This MS cited in Selected Works.

Formerly part of a composite volume of papers belonging to Sir Henry Spelman (1563/4-1641), historian and antiquary. Later owned by Hudson Gurney (1775-1864), of Keswick Hall, Norfolk, banker and antiquary. Sotheby's, 31 March 1936 (Gurney sale), lot 109, item 111.

Edited from this MS in Collected Works and in Selected Works.

Copy, headed Verses made by the Quenes M^atie.

Inscribed names Elinor Gunter, sister of Ed. Gunter, of Lincoln's Inn, and William Oldisworth (1680-1734), writer and translator.

Described by Philip Bliss in british Bibliography, 1817, II, 609.

Edited from this MS in Bradner. Cited in Collected Works and in Selected Works.

Copy, headed E Reg, here beginning The Dowte of future [force superscribed by] foes. Late 16th-century.

From the library of Sir Kenelm Digby (1603-65), natural philosopher and courtier. Inscribed name Roger Waller.

This MS cited in Bradner and in Selected Works.

Copy, headed certan vses made by the quenes ma^tie Eliz &c. a^o R xii^o[i.e. 1569-70] and subscribed finis q^d Elizabetha.

Inscribed (f. 1r), in red ink, John Stanhope (possibly John Stanhope, d.1593, of Eccleshill) and from the muniments of the Spencer-Stanhope family of Yorkshire.

Recorded in A.M.W. Stirling, Annals of a Yorkshire House (1911), I, 7. Discussed in Steven W. May and Arthur F. Marotti, Ink, Stink Bait, Revenge, and Queen Elizabeth: A Yorkshire Yeoman's Household Book (Ithaca, 2014), with fascimile examples.

Copy, headed Certen verses made by the Queenes moste excellent Ma^tie against the Rebells in the North ptes of England and in Norfolke & other places of the Realme, A^o dni 1569 et 1570.

Compiled by Robert Commaundre (d.1613), rector of Tarporley, Cheshire, and chaplain to Sir Henry Sydney, Lord President of the Marches of Wales.

This MS cited in Selected Works.

Copy, headed The following Ditty on the Factions raised by the Q of Scots while Prisoner in England, was composed by Q Elizabeth and was printed not long after, if not before, the beheading of the said Scots Quen.

This MS cited in Bradner and in Selected Works.

Copy, untitled, subscribed FINIS EL.

Fols 11r-78r, largely in a single secretary hand, comprising a verse miscellany compiled by the antiquary St Loe Kniveton, of Gray's Inn. c.1585-90s.

This MS cited in Bradner and in Selected Works.

Copy, in triple columns, headed Verses made by the Q. Maiestie and here beginning The doubt of future foes, subscribed Viuat Regina.

Inscribed This Manuscript was in y^e Library at y^e late Mr Pitts at Kingston, in Dorsetshire, it was bought at his sale by Mr Rodd y^e bookseller, from whom I had it in 1838. Ev: M: Shirley. Bookplate of Evelyn Philip Shirley, being MS 9 of the Shirley family library at Ettington Hall, Warwickshire. Sotheby's, 31 January 1956, lot 407. Sold by John F. Fleming (1910-87), New York bookseller, in April 1975. Formerly Folger MS Add. 670.

Recorded in HMC, 5th Report (1876), Appendix, p. 00.

Edited from this MS in Collected Works, in Selected Works, and in Steven W. May, Queen Elizabeth's Future Foes: Editing Manuscripts with the First-Line Index of Elizabethan Verse (a Future Friend), in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, III, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2004). pp. 1-12.

Copy, untitled, inscribed in the margin per Reginam.

Including (f. 3r-v) Elizabethan verses inscribed Thomas Aldwell me possidet and (ff. 4r-81r) a formulary of political and legal documents and precedents, in several hands, largely compiled by Francis Alford, MP (c.1530-92).

This MS cited in Collected Works and in Selected Works.

Copy of a garbled version, with a long preamble beginning A Copy of Verses by Queen Elizabeth; on occasion of her first uneasiness, concerning Mary Queen of Scots..., the poem here beginning Watchful, to shun those Snares w^ch: w^d: my peace destroy.

Entitled (f. 4r) A Collection of Verses upon Several Occasions by Several Hands. Begun March 26^th: 1732 / W: Jermy 1732.

Copy, untitled, subscribed Elizabetha Regina.

Among papers of Adam Ottley (1685-1752), Registrar of the diocese of St David's, Wales, and formerly in Pitchford Hall, Shropshire.

This MS discussed. with facsimile examples, in Peter Beal, Poems by Sir Philip Sidney: The Ottley Manuscript, The Library, 5th Ser. 33 (1978), 284-95. See also correspondence with Jean Robertson in The Library, 6th Ser. (June 1980) and (June 1981).

This MS cited in Beal (1978) and in Selected Works.

Copy, here beginning The dread of future foes exyle my present Ioy and subscribed Elizabetha Regina.

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, 276-7. Partly collated in Collected Works. Collated in Bradner. Cited in Selected Works.

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed Certaine verses made by the queenes ma^tie and wryghten w^th hir one hand, on one side of a single leaf.

Copy, incorporated in a letter to a lady apparently by Sir John Harington, introduced as a poem of her Highness own enditing...My Lady Wiloughby did covertly get it on her Majesties tablet, and had much hazard in so doing; for the Queen did find out the thief, and chid for spreading evil bruit of her writing such toyes, when other matters did so occupy her employment at this time; and was fearful of being thought too lightly of for so doing.

Owned by Sir John's descendants Henry Harington (1686-1769) and Dr Henry Harington (1727-1816).

These manuscripts edited in Nugae Antiquae (first published in two volumes, London, 1769); various editions, expanded to 2 vols, ed. Henry Harington [and Thomas Park], London, 1804.

Edited from this MS in Nugae Antiquae (1769), I, 58-9. Cited in Collected Works.

Copy of a version headed On the Sacrament and beginning He was the word that spake itt.

Entitled Collections out of seuerall Authors by Marmaduke Raudon Eboracensis 1662: i.e. compiled by Marmaduke Rawdon (1610-69), traveller and antiquary, of Guiseley, Yorkshire, who later lived with his cousin, also named Marmaduke Rawdon, at Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, the MS including elegies on yet another (Sir) Marmaduke Rawdon (1582-1646), Governor of Basing House.

Later owned by Thomas Rodd (1796-1849). Rodd's sale catalogue, February 1850, item 764.

Cited in IELM, II.i, as the Rawdon MS: CrR Δ 2. Crashaw's work collated in Martin (cited as A1) and discussed pp. lxxx-lxxxi.

For other Rawdon miscellanies, see Yale, Osborn MS fb 150; York Minster, MS Add. 122; and a MS sold at Puttick and Simpson's, 3 March 1870, lot 552, to Nicholls. For the Rawdon family, see H.F. Hayllar, The Chronicles of Hoddesdon (1948), pp. 52-4.

Copy, subscribed Q: Eliz.

Owned and probably compiled at least in part by John Gandye (b.1604/5), of Oriel College, Oxford, who has inscribed f. 2r Si quis me quærat, præsto est / Jo: Gandye.

Name inscribed (f. 1v rev.) Thomas Keen.

Edited from this MS in Collected Works.

Copy, here beginning Christ was the word who spake it, headed in another hand Queen Eliza^s answer to Bishop Gardner.

Compiled by members of Sir Thomas Browne's family, chiefly his daughter Elizabeth Lyttelton (b. c.1648), containing various works in verse and prose including copies of a passage by Sir Thomas on consumptions (p. 43), a list of books which he had Elizabeth read out to him (pp. 44-5), copies of notes by him (pp. 77-76 rev.), his poem Upon a Tempest at Sea (pp. 94-93 rev.) and verses beginning the Almond flourisheth ye Birch trees flowe (p. 72); some of the verses in other hands including poems by Donne, Corbett, Wotton, Cartwright, William Browne, Ralegh, Katherine Phillips and others.

Inscriptions (p. 1) Mary Browne (who d.1676) and James Dodsley and (p. 174) Mar. 11^th 1713/4 The gift of M^rs Lyttelton to Edward Tenison. Percy Dobell's sale catalogue The Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1240. Bookplate of the Royal College of Medicine, London. Owned by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (Bibliotheca Bibliographici, No. 1301).

This MS volume described in [Geoffrey Keynes], A Daughter of Sir Thomas Browne, TLS (4 September 1919), p. 420. Discussed in Victoria E. Burke, Contexts for Women's Manuscript Miscellanies: The Case of Elizabeth Lyttelton and Sir Thomas Browne, Yearbook of English Studies, 33 (2003), 316-28. Edited selectively by Geoffrey Keynes as The Commonplace Book of Elizabeth Lyttelton, Daughter of Sir Thomas Browne (Cambridge, 1919). The passages by Browne also edited in Keynes, I, 120-1, and III, 236-7, 331-2.

Copy of a version beginning He was the Word that spake it, with introduction Likewise Doctor Donnes Ænigmatical Verse written since he was made Minister, to obscure by equivocation the very truth of the Reall presence in the blessed Sacrament of the Alter; such is the Condition of Heretiques to illude simple people, by making that doubtfull, which is of it selfe most apparent, and with a sidenote This I thought good to insert the better to diserne truth from falshood; rectum distingure falsa.

Compiled in his later years by George Barlow (b.c.1558) of Slebech, dedicated (f. 2v) To his Grandchild G: B:, and (f. 416r) showing his original intention to publish the volume.

Later inscriptions including John Barlow his book. Anno Domini 1732 and (f. 313r) a note by W. H. 1761. Bookplate with monogram RFG.

Discussed in J. M. Cleary, The Catholic Recusancy of the Barlow Family of Slebech (Cardiff, 1956).

Copy of a version headed On y^e Sacrament and here beginning He was the word that spake it.

Inscribed (Part II, f. 1*r) A booke of verses collected by mee RDungaruan: i.e. Richard Boyle (1612-98), Viscount Dungarvon and later Earl of Burlington.

Also inscribed Mary Helerd. Subsequently owned by James Tyrrell (1642-1718), historical writer, and by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1782-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 15745. Formerly Folger MS 46. 2.

Copy of a version headed On the Communion and beginning Hee was the word that spake it, following other verses on the subject, on one page of two conjugate long ledger-size leaves, docketed by Anne Sadleir Verses vpon the putting downe of the Book of Common Prayer.

The letters chiefly to Anne Sadleir, of Standon, some to her husband.

Donated by Anne Sadleir in 1669.

Edited from this MS in Autograph Compositions and, together with an English translation, in Steven W. May and Anne Lake Prescott, The French Verses of Elizabeth I, ELR, 24, No. 1 (Winter 1994), 9-43.

Facsimiles of the first page in Collected Works, p. 412, and of f. 151r and the top of f. 152v in May & Prescott, Plates 1 & 2 after p. 32.

Edited from this MS in Collected Works, with a facsimile of f. 207r on p. 412.

Copy.

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

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

Edited from this MS in Collected Works.

Copy of the Latin lines only, headed Papa ad reginam Elizabetham.

Probably compiled by a Cambridge University man.

Inscribed in engrossed lettering (f. 1r) E Libris Richard Sutclif. Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1830-84), merchant and author. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 194.

This MS cited in Collected Works.

Inscribed on the rectos of two front endpapers in an exemplum of Henry Bull's Christian praiers and Holy Meditations (London, 1570), an octavo in contemporary calf gilt.

Inscribed on the verso of the first endpaper by Thomas Dicker, of Lewes, Sussex., 19th-century banker.

Edited from this MS in Bühler, in Collected Works, and in Selected Works.

Copy, annotated in the margin per reginam Walter Rawley, and deleted.

Including (f. 3r-v) Elizabethan verses inscribed Thomas Aldwell me possidet and (ff. 4r-81r) a formulary of political and legal documents and precedents, in several hands, largely compiled by Francis Alford, MP (c.1530-92).

Edited from this MS in Collected Works and in The Poems of Sir Walter Ralegh, ed. Michael Rudick (Tempe Arizona, 1999), No. 15B, p. 20.

Copy of the complete 24-line poem, in a right-hand column, headed An aunswer.

Among papers of the Troyte-Bullock family, formerly of Zeals House, Mere, and probably deriving from the papers of the Chafyn family of Bulford and Chisenbury or the Reymes family of Waddon, near Dorchester.

Edited from this MS in Queen Elizabeth I: Selected Works, poem 7a, pp. 14-15, and in The Poems of Sir Walter Ralegh, ed. Michael Rudick (Tempe Arizona, 1999), p. 23.

Copy, the heading (deleted) Verses made by the queen when she was supposed to be in love with mounsyre, subscribed Elysabetha regina.

This volume is edited in Cummings, who suggests that the compiler is Sir John Finett (1571-1641), of Fordwich, Kent: hence it is often cited as The John Finett miscellany. The hands do not appear to be his, however, and this attribution is questionable.

Edited from this MS (as Version 2) in Collected Works. Collated in Bradner. Cited in Selected Works.

Copy, untitled, subscribed FINIS. Ely.

Fols 11r-78r, largely in a single secretary hand, comprising a verse miscellany compiled by the antiquary St Loe Kniveton, of Gray's Inn. c.1585-90s.

Edited from this MS in Bradner and in Selected Works. Collated (as Version 2) in Collected Works.

Copy, untitled.

Compiled by Henry Stanford (d.1616), household tutor to the Paget and Carey families, including George Carey, second Lord Hunsdon.

A complete transcription of this volume in Steven W. May, Henry Stanford's Anthology: An Edition of Cambridge University Library Manuscript Dd. 5.75 (New York, 1988).

Edited from this MS in Collected Works. Cited in Bradner and in Selected Works. May, Stanford, p. 129 (No. 202).

Copy, untitled, subscribed l: of oxforde.

Inscribed (on an affixed slip of paper) Anne Cornwaleys her booke [i.e. probably Anne Cornwallis (d.1635), who on 30 November 1610 became Countess of Argyll]; (p. 34) E^d Philips his Book 1740; Robert Thomas not his Book 1740; (p. [xvi]); Sam: Lysons [i.e. Samuel Lysons (1763-1819), antiquary]. Afterwards owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Bright sale, Part II (18 June 1844), to Thorpe. Then owned by Dr Thomas Russell and his son the Rev. John Fuller Russell (1813-84), ecclesiastical historian (who has signed the MS John F. Russell on p.[i]); by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector, and then in the Warwick Castle Library. Formerly Folger MS 1.112.

Discussed in William H. Bond, The Cornwallis-Lysons Manuscript and the Poems of John Bentley, Joseph Quincy Adams Memorial Studies, ed. James G. McManaway, Giles E. Dawson, and Edwin E. Willoughby (Washington, DC, 1948), pp. 683-93, and in Arthur F. Marotti, Folger MSS V.a.89 and V.a.345: Reading Lyric Poetry in Manuscript, in The Reader Revealed, ed. Sabrina Alcorn Baron, et al. (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, 2001), pp. 44-57.

This MS collated in Bradner and in Collected Works. Cited in Selected Works.

Copy, headed Another and here beginning When I was fayre & young then beauty graced mee.

Including 14 poems by Strode (and a second copy of one poem).

Inscribed (front pastedown) Wakelin EeK Hering / Blows of Whitsor, and (rear pastedown) R. J. Cotton. Formerly Folger MS 2073.4.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Cotton MS: StW Δ 20.

This MS collated in Bradner. Cited in Selected Works.

Copy, headed Sonnet by Q. Elizabeth 1555, on one side of a quarto leaf.

Including items once owned by Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725), Yorkshire antiquary and topographer. Collected by Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian.

Presumably from item 47 among the folio MSS recorded in Thoresby's Ducatus Leodiensis, 2nd edition (Leeds, 1816), Appendix, p. 77.

This MS cited in Selected Works.

Copy, followed (f. 740r-v) by a German translation. 1599.

Edited from this MS in Thomas Platters des Jüngeren Englandfahrt im Jahre 1599, ed. Hans Hecht (Leipzig, 1929), pp. 121-2; in Clare Williams, Thomas Platter's Travels in England, 1599 (London, 1937), pp. 220-1; in Thomas Platter, Beschreibung der Reisen durch Frankreich, Spanien, England und die Niederlande 1595-1600, ed. Rut Keiser, 2 vols (Basel, 1968), II, 859; and in Queen Elizabeth I, Selected Works.

Copy of both English and Latin versions, written by Waldstein when he visited Woodstock on 15 July 1600.

Subsequently in the library of Franz Seraph (1570-1636), Cardinal von Dietrichstein, at Nicholsburg; captured and sent during the Thirty Years War to the Royal Library, Stockholm. Retained in the library of Queen Christina (1626-89) when in exile in Rome. Acquired by Pope Alexander VIII (1610-91), in May 1690, for the Vatican Library.

Edited from this MS in The Diary of Baron Waldstein, trans. G.W. Goos (London, 1981), pp. 117, 119. Cited in Selected Works, p. 3.

Copy, in Sir John Harington's hand, with his introduction ...she that wrote in the window at wodstocke with a diamont, subscribed quoth Elizabeth prisoner, and with his longer subscription concluding with her(?) Latin translation, beginning Plurimi de me male suspicantor.

Sotheby's, 1862?, to Boone. Purchased from Boone 24 April 1862.

This MS cited in Selected Works.

Copy, in a roman hand, headed Queen Elizabeth wrot in the glase window at wodstock maner with the Deiamond ston of her ringe when shee was kept prisoner there by her sister Mary in these words.

Compiled, at least in part, by Philip Powell of Brecon (Phillip Powell his booke on p. 2), referring (p. 63) to his being committed to Newgate prison for three years on or by 1 March 1633 (his wife not having come to see him once) and with a reference (p. 45) to My ffather Thomas Powell, a distant cousin of Edward Games, the first recorder of Brecknock. Other names inscribed including Thomas and Richard Powell, and with a note dated 1812 (p. 4) by Thomas Lawrence, who purchased the MS at the sale of the library of Theophilus Jones (1759-1812), Brecknockshire county historian.

Copy, in a mixed hand, headed These verses shee wrott with her diamond in aglass Windowe, with a marginal note by the queen being prisoner at Woodstocke in her sisters time, and subscribed Quoth Elizabeth prisoner with two lines of Latin.

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

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

This MS cited in Selected Works.

MS draft of all five books, with pages or passages in the Queen's cursive hand (including most of the verse), with revisions, alternating throughout with text in the chiefly secretary hand of her amanuensis Thomas Windebank, also with her occasional revisions; with (f. 7r-10r) a series of computations, in roman and secretary hands, addressed to the Queen, recording the time she spent at Windsor on the translation from 10 October to 5 November1593.

Accounts (on f. 105v) of cloth bought from John Willet mercer 18 January 1607.

Edited from this MS in Pemberton, with a facsimile page after p. 32; in Bradner; in Translations (2), with facsimiles of ff. 30r and 49r on pp. 44 and 253; and in Kaylor and Phillips.

A fair copy, in italic and secretary scripts (? Windebanke's hand) of part of the Queen's translation of the first book, both verse and prose, untitled, beginning with the verses Rymes that my growing study once perfourmed.

Accounts (on f. 105v) of cloth bought from John Willet mercer 18 January 1607.

Semi-calligraphic copy.

From the library of Edmund Butler (1771-1846), Earl of Kilkenny, Kilkenny Castle, Ireland.

Autograph rough drafts, with revisions, incomplete, untitled, endorsed (f. 89v) by the Queen's amanuensis Thomas Windebank Her Ma^tes translation of a peece of Horace de arte poëtica written w^t her own hand, and copied by me for her Ma^tie the iiiij^th. of Noueber 1598. and at that day I delyuered it vnto hir own handes.

Accounts (on f. 105v) of cloth bought from John Willet mercer 18 January 1607.

Edited from this MS in Pemberton; in Bradner; and, with a facsimile of the first page on p. 450, in Translations (2).

Copy, headed Triumphe Petrarcke., the last three lines docketed E. R.

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

Edited from this MS in Hughey. Thence in Bradner, and in Translations.

This is the copy made for the Queen by Windebank referred to in his subscription to ElQ 57.

Edited from this MS in Selected Works.

Autograph draft, untitled and here beginning Pchance hit might bi best to Shun at al that ho, subscribed in the hand of the Queen's amanuensis Thomas Windebank 3^o. Noueber. 1598. a^o. xl^o. her Ma^tes translation of a treatise of Curiositie written by Plutark, & putt into English miter. begon the iij^de of this Nouember, & ended the ix^th of the same monith, & copied out by her Ma^tes [order] to me the xiij^to of No., [3-9 November 1598].

Accounts (on f. 105v) of cloth bought from John Willet mercer 18 January 1607.

Edited from this MS in Pemberton; in Bradner; and, with a facsimile of lines 278-99 on p. 368, in Translations (2). Discussed in Selected Works, pp. 327-8.

Copy, headed A Translatio of Q Elizabeth, in a neat secretary hand.

Inscribed (several times), by the principal compiler, ex dono D. Clay: i.e. Dr Robert Clay (1576?-1628), vicar of Halifax.

Edited from this MS in Anglia, 14 (1892), 34; in Bradner; in Selected Works, and in Translations.

Edited from this MS in Translations, with a facsimile of the embroidered binding as frontispiece. Facsimiles of the dedication to Katherine Parr and of the last page in Margaret H. Swain, A New Year's Gift from the Princess Elizabeth, The Connoisseur, 183 (1973, 258-66 (pp. 263-4). The French dedicatory epistle only edited in Autograph Compositions, pp. 9-12.

Autograph MS of the Queen's translation in her cursive hand.

Probably presented to the Bodleian in 1639 by Patrick Young (1584-1652), Royal Librarian.

Edited from this MS in Selected Works and in Translations (2), the latter with a facsimile of f. 6r on p. 2.

MS.

Owned by Sir John's descendants Henry Harington (1686-1769) and Dr Henry Harington (1727-1816).

These manuscripts edited in Nugae Antiquae (first published in two volumes, London, 1769); various editions, expanded to 2 vols, ed. Henry Harington [and Thomas Park], London, 1804.

Edited from this MS in Nugae Antiquae. Printed thence in Translations.

Autograph MS, in the Princess's neat hand, a New Year's Gift presented to Queen Katherine, including (ff. 2r-4v) Elizabeth's prose dedicatory epistle to her and (ff. 5r-6r) a preface to the reader, dated 31 December 1544.

Among collections of Francis Cherry (1665-1713), of Shollesbrooke, Berkshire, nonjuror.

The embroidered binding and dedication to Katherine Parr illustrated in colour in Margaret H. Swain, A New Year's Gift from the Princess Elizabeth, The Connoisseur, 183 (1973, 258-66 (pp. 258-9). Binding also illustrated in colour in Reading Early Modern Women, ed. Helen Ostovich and Elizabeth Sauer (New York & London, 2004), p. 472.

Complete facsimile and transcription in Marc Shell, Elizabeth's Glass (Lincoln, Nebraska, & London, 1993). The dedicatory epistle edited in Collected Works, pp. 6-7, and in Autograph Compositions, pp. 6-7. Edited from this MS in Translations. Facsimile examples of the binding and of f. 2r in The Bodleian Library 1602-2002 (Oxford, 2002), No. 41, pp. 94-5. Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Frances Teague, Princess Elizabeth's Hand in The Glass of the Sinful Soul, EMS, 9 (2000), 33-48.

A semi-calligraphic copy, prepared by or for Thomas Blundeville (1522?-1606?), author and translator, as a formal presentation copy to Catherine Knyvet (1547-1622), Lady Paget, in a professional italic hand, with a title-page, A Godly Meditation of the Soule, concerning a loue towards our Lord Christ. Composed in french, by y^e Vertuous Ladie Margaret Q: of Nauarre, and aptly translated into English, by the right high and most vertuous Princesse, of Late memorie and euer in memorie, Queene Elizabeth -- Who now raigns w^th Christ in heauen; with a dedicatory epistle To the Right Worthy, Vertuous and most honor'd Ladie The Ladie Pagett, Yo^r honors humble deuoted Seruante Thomas Blunville, Wisheth all prosperitie in this life, and life euerlasting in Christ o^r Sauiour; the main text (ff. 4r-29v) followed (f. 30r) by extracts from Ecclesiastes added to the worke, by the Queenes Ma^tie: and (f. 31r) by an anagram on Elizabeth Regina.

From the library of Edmund Butler (1771-1846), Earl of Kilkenny, Kilkenny Castle, Ireland.

Elizabeth's translation from Italian into Latin in the Princess's calligraphic roman hand, some words and subheadings rubricated, with a title-page in capitals (f. 1r), Berna/rdini. Oc/hinisene/sis de Chr/isti. Sermo/ ex. Italico, i / Latinv. co/versvs, and dedication to her brother Edward (ff. 2r-4v), dated from Enfeldie, 30 Decembris and signed Elizabeta.

Inscribed (f. v^r) J. Bowle, Idmerston. July 25, 1759.

Edited from this MS in Translations, with a facsimile of f. 19v on p. 298.

A New Year's Gift presented to Henry VIII, with a title-page (f. 1r-v), and a dedicatory prose epistle to the King in Latin (ff. 2r-5r).

The Latin dedicatory epistle edited in Autograph Compositions, pp. 8-9. The whole work edited from this MS in Translations, with a facsimile of ff. 39r and 79r on pp. 128 and 180.

An English translation of this epistle and a facsimile of f. 2r in Collected Works, pp. 8-10. Facsimiles of ff. 5r and 79r in British Museum Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King's Collection, Vol. IV, ed. Sir George Warner and Julius P. Galson (London, 1921), Plate 53. Facsimile examples of the dedicatory epistle and binding in Margaret H. Swain, A New Year's Gift from the Princess Elizabeth, The Connoisseur, 183 (1973, 258-66 (p. 261) and in Felix Pryor, Elizabeth I: Her Life in Letters (British Library, London, 2003), No. 2, p. 18.

MS, with a note This letter was given by Queene Elizabeth, to her servante, John Harington, in token of remembrance of hir Highness painstaking and learned skyll, 1567, and which he did highly prize and esteem in such sort.

Owned by Sir John's descendants Henry Harington (1686-1769) and Dr Henry Harington (1727-1816).

These manuscripts edited in Nugae Antiquae (first published in two volumes, London, 1769); various editions, expanded to 2 vols, ed. Henry Harington [and Thomas Park], London, 1804.

Edited from this MS in Nugae Antiquae. Edited thence in Translations.

Edited from this MS, as if in the Queen's own Hand-writing, in Gentleman's Magazine (1743). The handwriting shown in the facsimile example given on p. 157 is not Elizabeth's.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, untitled, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed (f. 3v) A coople of lres of the Q endyted & written at one tyme.

Copy, in a professional italic hand, untitled, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed (f. 4A^v) A Coople of Letters of the Q. endited & written at one time.

Edited from this MS in Selected Works.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, untitled, on the third page of two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed (f. 3v) A coople of lres of the Q endyted & written at one tyme.

Copy, in a professional italic hand, untitled, on the third page of two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed (f. 4A^v) A Coople of Letters of the Q. endited & written at one time.

Edited from this MS in Selected Works.

With a title-page and lengthy preamble, The royal antiquity and Princely Divinity of Royall Queene Eliza both drawne forth of the Originall Manuscript written w^th hir Ma^tes owne hand shortly after hir Coming to y^e goum^t ... Neuer yet Published But penned by hir Ma^tie for hir owne priuate vse and Contentment.

Modern bookplate of Henry Puckering.

Copy, headed A Prayer made by her Majesty y^e 15^th of August being then in Bristow in hir progress, on two pages of a pair of conjugate quarto leaves.

Volume DXIX of the Portland Papers, owned by the Harley family, of Brampton Bryan, and related families of Vere, Hollis, and Cavendish, and of Cavendish-Bentinck, Dukes of Portland.

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed A praier made by her Ma^tie the 15 of Aug beinge then in Bristowe, on one side of a single folio leaf, endorsed A praier made by Queene Elizabethe.

Among collections of John Strype (1643-1737), ecclesiastical historian and biographer, incorporating papers of William Cecil (1520/21-98), first Baron Burghley, secretary of state.

Edited from this MS in Collected Works. Cited in Selected Works.

Copy, in a neat italic hand, untitled, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed The Q prayer / After a Progress. / Entered / Aug. 15 being then a [sic] Bristow.

Among collections of John Strype (1643-1737), ecclesiastical historian and biographer, incorporating papers of William Cecil (1520/21-98), first Baron Burghley, secretary of state.

Edited from this MS in Selected Works.

Copy, headed A prayer made by the quens ma the 15. of August 1574. beying then in Brysto.

Once owned by one W. Kytton.

Edited from this MS in Michael Brennan, Two Private Prayers by Queen Elizabeth I, N&Q, 230 (March 1985), 26-8 (p. 28). Cited in Selected Works.

Written in a calligraphic script, some letters gilded, containing two miniatures by Nicholas Hilliard, one of Elizabeth, the other of the Duc d'Anjou, bound in shagreen with gold enameled clasps, in the centre of each is a small ruby.

Subsequently given by James II to the Duke of Berwick. Later owned by Horace Walpole and then by the Duchess of Portland, who sold it on 24 May 1786. Bought by Queen Charlotte, who gave it to the dowager Duchess of Leeds. Exhibited in 1902 by J.W. Whitehead, of Southwood, at the Fine Art Society.

Photostats of the volume are in the British Library, Facsimile MS 218, which are annotated with a description by J. W. [Whitehead] dated 3 June 1893.

Edited from this MS in Collected Works. Printed in Autograph Compositions.

Autograph.

Written in a calligraphic script, some letters gilded, containing two miniatures by Nicholas Hilliard, one of Elizabeth, the other of the Duc d'Anjou, bound in shagreen with gold enameled clasps, in the centre of each is a small ruby.

Subsequently given by James II to the Duke of Berwick. Later owned by Horace Walpole and then by the Duchess of Portland, who sold it on 24 May 1786. Bought by Queen Charlotte, who gave it to the dowager Duchess of Leeds. Exhibited in 1902 by J.W. Whitehead, of Southwood, at the Fine Art Society.

Photostats of the volume are in the British Library, Facsimile MS 218, which are annotated with a description by J. W. [Whitehead] dated 3 June 1893.

Printed from the facsimile in Autograph Compositions.

Autograph.

Written in a calligraphic script, some letters gilded, containing two miniatures by Nicholas Hilliard, one of Elizabeth, the other of the Duc d'Anjou, bound in shagreen with gold enameled clasps, in the centre of each is a small ruby.

Subsequently given by James II to the Duke of Berwick. Later owned by Horace Walpole and then by the Duchess of Portland, who sold it on 24 May 1786. Bought by Queen Charlotte, who gave it to the dowager Duchess of Leeds. Exhibited in 1902 by J.W. Whitehead, of Southwood, at the Fine Art Society.

Photostats of the volume are in the British Library, Facsimile MS 218, which are annotated with a description by J. W. [Whitehead] dated 3 June 1893.

Printed from the facsimile in Autograph Compositions.

Autograph.

Written in a calligraphic script, some letters gilded, containing two miniatures by Nicholas Hilliard, one of Elizabeth, the other of the Duc d'Anjou, bound in shagreen with gold enameled clasps, in the centre of each is a small ruby.

Subsequently given by James II to the Duke of Berwick. Later owned by Horace Walpole and then by the Duchess of Portland, who sold it on 24 May 1786. Bought by Queen Charlotte, who gave it to the dowager Duchess of Leeds. Exhibited in 1902 by J.W. Whitehead, of Southwood, at the Fine Art Society.

Photostats of the volume are in the British Library, Facsimile MS 218, which are annotated with a description by J. W. [Whitehead] dated 3 June 1893.

Printed from the facsimile in Autograph Compositions. Facsimile reproductions from that facsimile of the two miniatures in Collected Works on pp. 312 and 320.

Autograph.

Written in a calligraphic script, some letters gilded, containing two miniatures by Nicholas Hilliard, one of Elizabeth, the other of the Duc d'Anjou, bound in shagreen with gold enameled clasps, in the centre of each is a small ruby.

Subsequently given by James II to the Duke of Berwick. Later owned by Horace Walpole and then by the Duchess of Portland, who sold it on 24 May 1786. Bought by Queen Charlotte, who gave it to the dowager Duchess of Leeds. Exhibited in 1902 by J.W. Whitehead, of Southwood, at the Fine Art Society.

Photostats of the volume are in the British Library, Facsimile MS 218, which are annotated with a description by J. W. [Whitehead] dated 3 June 1893.

Printed from the facsimile in Autograph Compositions.

Autograph.

Written in a calligraphic script, some letters gilded, containing two miniatures by Nicholas Hilliard, one of Elizabeth, the other of the Duc d'Anjou, bound in shagreen with gold enameled clasps, in the centre of each is a small ruby.

Subsequently given by James II to the Duke of Berwick. Later owned by Horace Walpole and then by the Duchess of Portland, who sold it on 24 May 1786. Bought by Queen Charlotte, who gave it to the dowager Duchess of Leeds. Exhibited in 1902 by J.W. Whitehead, of Southwood, at the Fine Art Society.

Photostats of the volume are in the British Library, Facsimile MS 218, which are annotated with a description by J. W. [Whitehead] dated 3 June 1893.

Edited from the facsimile in Collected Works. Printed in Autograph Compositions.

Edited from this MS in Selected Works.

Edited from this MS in Autograph Compositions, and in Collected Works, with a facsimile on p. 422.

See Huntington, EL 6162, f. 2a^r.

Copy.

Inscribed names Gilbert Rye and William Norris and a reference (on f. 6a^v) to Doctor Gylbart.

The entries were at one time given separate library EL numbers ranging (intermittently) from EL 1183c to EL 6172 at one end and from EL 1183a to EL 6206 from the reverse end.

This MS entry separately classified as EL 2072. Printed from this MS, in both a diplomatic and an edited version, in Tucker Brooke, Queen Elizabeth's Prayers, HLQ, 2 (1938-9), 69-77 (pp. 71-2). Edited from this MS in Collected Works. Cited in Selected Works.

Copy, headed Her Ma^tie prayer. Early 17th century.

Transcribed from the Yelverton papers chiefly belonging to Sir Christopher Yelverton (1535?-1612), Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), and their family.

Owned in 1679 by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732), annalist and book collector.

This MS cited in Selected Works.

Copy, headed A moste Brief Pithy and Profound Private Prayer for the Prosperus good success and happy returne of this her Maiestyes Navy and Army Royall made and composed by the Queenes Ma^tie.

Owned on 2 July 1709, and largely compiled, by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), antiquary.

This MS collated in Collected Works. Cited in Selected Works.

Copy, headed A prayer composed by the Queenes Ma^tie for the psperous sucese of her highnes forces imbarqued for invading of the kinge of Spaines Dominions vnder the conduct of the Earle of Essex, And the Lo: Admirall, Ao: dno: 1596. et Regni An 38.

Originally used as a commonplace book by T. Metcalf in 1598 (up to f. 63v), and then by James Ussher (1581-1656), Archbishop of Armagh.

This MS cited in Selected Works.

Copy, dated in the margin Anno. 1596 and headed A prayer made by her Ma^tie herself, on the behalf of her Army, sent into Spaine vnder the Conduct of the right honorable Robert Earle of Essex, and charles lo: Howard, Lord high Admirall of England ll^s gen^ralls of the same.

Compiled by Sir Edward Hoby (1560-1617), politician and diplomat.

Bookplate of George Dunn (1865-1912), of Woolley Hall, near Maidenhead, Berkshire, antiquary. Sotheby's, 11 February 1914 (Dunn sale), lot 1198.

Edited from this MS in Collected Works. Cited in Selected Works.

Copy, headed The Prayer w^ch S^r Robert Cicill sent to the Earle of Essex wth afore written letters made by the Queene Elizabeth.

Collected by Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian.

Inscribed (f. 2r) R^d Bankes Anno Dni 1708; (f. 1r) Tho: Birch Januarii 8. 1752; and (f. 96r) Tho. Birch 28. Janua: 1754.

Copy of the prayer, followed (ff. 4v-5r) by Marbeck's homely translation into Latin.

Copy, headed Her ma^ties. pryuat meditation vpon y^e present expedition, sent from S^r Robt Cecyll to y^e Gnalls of her Higes Army, at Plymouth inclosed in this lre heerevnder written, on one side of a single small quarto-size leaf, with a scribbled endorsement in a different hand Praier of her Ma^tie vpo y^e expeditio anents Spaine A^o 96. c.1596.

In various largely professional hands, including (ff. 56r-7v, 336r-8r) that of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), merchant and antiquary.

This MS cited in Selected Works.

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed A praier of the Quene after the Launchinge to sea of thenglysh Navye by the augst hes therle of Esex in June 1596. a^o R...38.

In a folio composite volume of verse, drama and orations, in various hands, 149 leaves, in modern half morocco gilt.

Inscribed by Wanley (ff. 1r and 95r) with date of his acquition for the Harley library, 16 October. 1725. Among the collections of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724), and his son, Edward, second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741).

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Harley Satires MS: DnJ Δ 31.

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled but subscribed The Queenes prayer for the navy. An do. 1596, following a list of army regiments and preachers in 1596.

Copy, in a professional italic hand, untitled but with a sidenote Her Ma^ts pryvate Medytacion vppon y^e recent Expedytion against y^e Spaniard in 1596, the second item on one side of a single folio leaf, endorsed Juine 1596 A Prayer made by y^e Q. w^th a lre of m^r secretary [Cecil] to y^e Erl of Essex and y^e L. Admirall.

Papers of William Cecil (1520/21-98), first Baron Burghley, secretary of state.

Bookplate (as Shelburne) of William Petty (1737-1805), second Earl of Shelburne and first Marquess of Lansdowne, Prime Minister.

Edited from this MS in Selected Works.

Copy of the prayer, introduced by Marbeck ...there came to my handes a prayer in Englishe, touchinge this present action, and made by her Ma^tie: as it was voyced, followed (ff. 5v-6r) by My homelie translation (into Latin, beginning Summe prepotens Deus immens...).

By and possibly in the hand of Roger Marbeck (1536-1605), Provost of Oriel College, Oxford, and Physician to Queen Elizabeth.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Michael Reunolds his book Anno 1645, (f. 1v) Fran: Harewell of Birlingha oueth this Booke, and (f. 31r) Liber francisci Harewell De Birlingha Armig^r.

Copy of the prayer, in a professional secretary hand, headed The Praier is thus, and followed (ff. 354v-5r) by a Latin version, in a copy (on ff. 353r-69v) of Roger Marbeck's account of the taking of Cadiz in 1596.

Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor, 1701.

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, subscribed E. R:.

This MS cited in Selected Works.

Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, untitled.

Inscribed (front pastedown) Die veneris. Julij: 1^o 1601. per me Richardu Greenen and Thomas Scott; (f. 3r) G. Scott; (f. 271v) Thomas Scott, Thomas Payne, Will^m Scott. Bookplate Ex Libris Chambrun-Longworth. Formerly Folger MS 6185.1.

This volume discussed in James G. McManaway, Elizabeth, Essex, and James, in Elizabethan and Jacobean Studies Presented to Frank Percy Wilson (Oxford, 1959), pp. 219-30 (p. 221 et seq.).

This MS cited in Selected Works.

Copy, headed her Ma^ties previe admion vpon this p^rsent expedicion, when my L of Essex was generall at the wynning of Colse.

Inscribed names Gilbert Rye and William Norris and a reference (on f. 6a^v) to Doctor Gylbart.

The entries were at one time given separate library EL numbers ranging (intermittently) from EL 1183c to EL 6172 at one end and from EL 1183a to EL 6206 from the reverse end.

This MS entry separately classified as EL 1205c. Printed from this MS, in both a diplomatic and an edited version, in Tucker Brooke, Queen Elizabeth's Prayers, HLQ, 2 (1938-9), 69-77 (p. 75). This MS collated in Collected Works. Cited in Selected Works.

Copy, written lengthways down the margin, headed A praier made by her Ma^tie vpon the Settinge furth of the Army to Cales: 1596.

Including (f. 3r-v) Elizabethan verses inscribed Thomas Aldwell me possidet and (ff. 4r-81r) a formulary of political and legal documents and precedents, in several hands, largely compiled by Francis Alford, MP (c.1530-92).

This MS cited in Collected Works and in Selected Works.

Copy, headed Queene Eliz: lre: or prayer for the prosperous successe of Thear[le] of Essex at Cales.

The text is subscribed This lre being written by her ma^tie: & lieing in her closett vnsent one of her maides of honor priuately tooke the same lre and showed to S^r. Robert Cicill who tooke a Copie therof & laide yt where it was found and then wrott that ler: to gather w^th his owne here vnder written to The Earles at Oates. This is subscribed (f. 33r) with the text of Cecil's letter.

Names inscribed on f. [i^r]: John Humphreys and D [?] Wynn.

This MS cited in Selected Works.

Copy, in an unidentified italic hand, headed A praier made by her Mat^ie.

Among collections of Francis Cherry (1665-1713), of Shollesbrooke, Berkshire, nonjuror.

The embroidered binding and dedication to Katherine Parr illustrated in colour in Margaret H. Swain, A New Year's Gift from the Princess Elizabeth, The Connoisseur, 183 (1973, 258-66 (pp. 258-9). Binding also illustrated in colour in Reading Early Modern Women, ed. Helen Ostovich and Elizabeth Sauer (New York & London, 2004), p. 472.

Edited from this MS, in both a diplomatic and an edited version, in Tucker Brooke, Queen Elizabeth's Prayers, HLQ, 2 (1938-90, 69-77 (p. 77). Cited in Selected Works.

Copy.

Compiled by Sir Edward Hoby (1560-1617), politician and diplomat.

Bookplate of George Dunn (1865-1912), of Woolley Hall, near Maidenhead, Berkshire, antiquary. Sotheby's, 11 February 1914 (Dunn sale), lot 1198.

This MS cited in Collected Works and in Selected Works.

Copy, headed A prayer mayd by the Queenes < > for the prosperos successe of the Journy begonn <> 15<>, on one side of a quarto leaf, damaged by the fire of 1732.

This MS cited in Selected Works.

Copy, in a professional italic hand, on one side of half a folio leaf, endorsed in another hand The Quenes ma prayer at the goinge owt of the navye 1597. c.1597.

Fol. 58 docketed Given by M^r Geo. Holmes.

Edited from this MS (as in the hand of Elizabeth or a capable imitator) in Autograph Compositions. Edited from this MS (as being autograph) in Collected Works. Cited in Selected Works (as a scribal copy that lacks Elizabeth's characteristic letter forms and spellings). This MS prayer is not autograph.

Copy, in a neat hand, headed Queen Elizabeth's Prayer, at the going out of her Navy (upon the Expedition called the Islands Voyage) A^o. 1597, on one side of a single folio leaf.

Copy, in a formal secretary hand, headed in an italic hand somewhat resembling Ralegh's A prayer made by the queene at the departure of the fleet, on the second page of A iournall of all the particularities that fell out in the voyadge vnder the Chardge of the tow lls generally (partly in the same italic hand and occupying ff. 338r-73r).

The first item inscribed (f. 1r) This boke ys myn / Iohn fford. Among papers of the Carew family.

This MS cited in Selected Works.

Copy, headed Quee Elizabeths speech to her Secretary and other her Lords before her Coronation. / Wordes Spoken by her Ma^tie To Mr Cicille.

This MS cited in Heisch.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, on a single folio leaf, endorsed Q Elisabeth spetch to her secretary & other her Lordes befor her coronation.

Edited from this MS in Collected Works and in Selected Works.

Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, on a folio leaf.

This MS cited in Selected Works.

Copy of the Words spoken by the Quene to the Lordes, at her Accession

Owned by Sir John's descendants Henry Harington (1686-1769) and Dr Henry Harington (1727-1816).

These manuscripts edited in Nugae Antiquae (first published in two volumes, London, 1769); various editions, expanded to 2 vols, ed. Henry Harington [and Thomas Park], London, 1804.

Edited from this MS in Nugae Antiquae (1769), I, 114-16; (1804), I, 66-8.

Copy, headed Words Spoken by the Queene. To the Lords. Early 18th century.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, on a single folio leaf, endorsed Q Elisabeth spetch to her secretary & other her Lordes befor her coronation.

Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, on a folio leaf.

Copy, in a neat hand, headed ffrydaie the 10^th of ffebruary 1559 / the answere of y^e queenes highnes to y^e petition proposed vnto her by the lower house concerninge her marriage, and here beginning And to y^e first I maie saye unto y^w..., on one side of a single broadsheet. Late 16th century.

Edited partly from this MS in Hartley.

Copy of Version I, in a professional secretary hand, with deletions, untitled, docketed at the top in January 1558 in the hand of William Cecil, Lord Burghley, on two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed (f. 84v) 1558 Thanswer of the Quenes ma^tie followed in Burghley's hand To y^e Plement howse, requiring...hir to Marry.

Volume DXVIII of the Portland Papers, owned by the Harley family, of Brampton Bryan, and related families of Vere, Hollis, and Cavendish, and of Cavendish-Bentinck, Dukes of Portland.

Formerly Loan MS 29/240.

Recorded in HMC, Portland, II, 5-64.

Copy of a reported form of Version I, introduced The Queene...returned answeare, that shee gaue them greate thankes (as shee saw greate cause) for the loue and care, w^ch they did expresse....

Inscribed (f. [ir]) by Humfrey Wanley with date of accession into the Harley Library 25 Novembris, A.D. 1723.

This MS recorded in Hartley.

Copy of Version 1, in a professional italic hand, headed The answere of y^e Quenes highnes to y^e peticion proposed vnto hir by y^e lower howse concerning hir mariage, on one side of a single folio leaf, docketed Q. Eliz. Speech / Double.

Comprising papers of William Cecil (1520/21-98), first Baron Burghley, secretary of state.

Bookplate (as Shelburne) of William Petty (1737-1805), second Earl of Shelburne and first Marquess of Lansdowne, Prime Minister.

Edited principally from this MS in Hartley and in Collected Works.

Copy, headed The answere of Queene Elyzabeth to the Comons of the Lowe howse who movede her to marrye and to take ordere for the succession the fyrst yer of her Reygne.

Edited in part from this MS in Collected Works.

Copy of Version 1, in a professional secretary hand, untitled, incomplete, endorsed (f. 86v) The Quenes answere to the plamet house, foliated in pencil 22r.

This MS recorded in Hartley.

Copy of Version 1, in a predominantly italic hand, untitled, incomplete, foliated in pencil 4, endorsed on a second folio leaf (f. 7v) The Queens Answer to the Parlement house, presumably a copy of ElQ 121.

This MS recorded in Hartley.

Copy, in a Scottish secretary hand, headed The discourse of the laird of Lethingtouns Negociatioun w^th the quene of ingland..., imperfect at the end. Mid-late 16th century.

Edited in part from this MS in Collected Works.

Copy, in a Scottish secretary hand, imperfect, lacking its first leaf.

Edited in part from this MS in Collected Works.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, imperfect.

This MS cited in Collected Works.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed in another hand Q: Eliz^th: speech in Parliament, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves. Late 16th century.

This MS cited in Hartley.

Copy, headed Queen Elizabeths Answeare to M^r wilbraham the speaker.

Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 18 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. 296-7.

Copy, headed The aunsweare by the Q: ma^tie to William.

Bookplate of Richard Towneley, of Townely Hall, near Burnley, Lancashire, dated 1702. Sotheby's, 27-28 June 1883 (Towneley sale), lot 170, to Quaritch. Quaritch's sale catalogue of English Literature (August-November 1884), item 22349. Presented by William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst (1835-1908), first Baron Amherst of Hackney, 13 April 1887.

Edited partly from this MS in Hartley. Cited in Selected Works.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand.

Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist and book collector. Sotheby's, 14 December 1976, lot 47, to Hofmann & Freeman. Then owned by Peter Beal, London. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 88, with a facsimile example.

A microfilm of this volume is in the British Library, RP 2102.

Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand, untitled, on two conjugate folio leaves, annotated in the hand of William Cecil, following a copy in the same professional hand (ff. 135r-42r) of the Lords' petition, endorsed by Cecil (f. 144v) The orations made in plemet by y^e Lordes and Comons w^t the Q. Mates answer there-to, imperfect. 1563.

Edited principally from this MS in Hartley, in Collected Works, and in Selected Works. Cited in Heisch.

Copy, in an italic hand, probably transcribed from ElQ 130, untitled, dated in the margin 1563, on two folio leaves following a copy in the same hand (ff. 146r-53r) of the Lords' petition, endorsed (f. 154v) The Orations made in the Parlement by the Lords and Commons, with the Q. Ma^ties answer thereto.

Edited in part from this MS in Collected Works and in Selected Works.

This MS cited in Hartley.

Copy.

Owned by Sir John's descendants Henry Harington (1686-1769) and Dr Henry Harington (1727-1816).

These manuscripts edited in Nugae Antiquae (first published in two volumes, London, 1769); various editions, expanded to 2 vols, ed. Henry Harington [and Thomas Park], London, 1804.

Edited from this MS in Nugae Antiquae (1769), II, 199-201; (1804), I, 80-3.

Copy, headed The Quenes Ma^tyes. answere to the Petitions exhibited.

Apparently prepared by Tho: Mynatts for presentation to Sir Christopher Hatton (c.1540-91), Lord Chancellor, with a dedicatory epistle to him (ff. 1r-2r) subscribed with Mynatts's italic signature, he describing himself as a poore clerke whoe have served in her Majestys Courte of Starr Chamber, his sources having come to his hands by y^e guifte of one of his sonnes nowe in France: i.e. Anthony Bacon (1558-1601), political intelligencer.

Later owned by John Payne Collier (1789-1883), literary scholar, editor and forger. Sotheby's, 9 August 1884 (Collier sale), lot 996.

Edited from this MS in Collected Works. Partly from this MS in Hartley (his Text ii).

Copy, headed The Quenes ma^ties Aunswear to the peticons exhibited.

Bookplate of Richard Towneley, of Townely Hall, near Burnley, Lancashire, dated 1702. Sotheby's, 27-28 June 1883 (Towneley sale), lot 170, to Quaritch. Quaritch's sale catalogue of English Literature (August-November 1884), item 22349. Presented by William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst (1835-1908), first Baron Amherst of Hackney, 13 April 1887.

This MS cited in Hartley.

Copy, in a cursive hand, headed The Queens speech in y^e Parlam^t uttered by y^e L^d Keeper Apr. X. 1563. Being y^e Queens own M.S., on two pages of a pair of conjugate quarto leaves, endorded on the forth page The Queens Speech to y^e Parlam^t vpon a message concerning her marriage & y^e succession.

Volume DXIX of the Portland Papers, owned by the Harley family, of Brampton Bryan, and related families of Vere, Hollis, and Cavendish, and of Cavendish-Bentinck, Dukes of Portland.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed A Speach deliuered by her Ma^tie: vnto the Lord Keeper S^r Nichas Bacon in presence of y^e vpper house of Parliam^t.

This MS cited in Hartley.

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed A speech deliuered by her Ma^ty: unto the Lo. Keeper S^r Nicholas Bacon in presence of the vpper hous of Parlm^t:.

Humphrey Wanley's date of acquisition in the Harley library, 4 May 1721, inscribed on f. 1*.

This MS cited in Hartley.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed A speach vsed by her Ma^tie vnto my Lord Keeper in the Parliament howse in the ende of a Session.

Including some papers owned or annotated by Sir Robert Cotton.

Edited principally from this MS in Hartley (Text ii).

Autograph draft, on the first page of two once conjugate folio leaves, endorsed by Burghley (f. 31v) x. ap'll, 1563. 25 The Q. speche -- yⁿ y^e Parliam^t vttred by y^e L. kepur Q. Elizab^s. hand.

Comprising papers of William Cecil (1520/21-98), first Baron Burghley, secretary of state.

Bookplate (as Shelburne) of William Petty (1737-1805), second Earl of Shelburne and first Marquess of Lansdowne, Prime Minister.

Edited from this MS in Hartley (Text i) and in Autograph Compositions, pp. 34-7. Edited in Selected Works. Collated in Collected Works, with a facsimile on p. 78.

Facsimiles also in Heisch, p. 38; in Felix Pryor, Elizabeth I: Her Life in Letters (British Library, London, 2003), No. 14, p. 42; and in Philip Mould Fine Paintings catalogue [c.2008], p. 15.

Copy, headed A Speach vsed by her Maiestie vnto my Lo. Keeper in the Parliment house in the end of a session.

A flyleaf inscribed W. Bayntun Grays Inn. Phillipps MS 4776.

Copy, as read out by the Lord Keeper.

Given by William Moore.

Copy, headed A Speech deliu^red by her ma^tie. vnto the Lo: keep S^r Nichas Bacon in presence of the vpper house of Parliam^t. in An^o. Elizabeth

Given by William Moore.

This MS cited in Hartley.

Copy, headed A bill deliuered by her Ma^tie: vnto my lady Bacon to be delivered by her hi: comaundem^t vnto my lo: Keep.

This MS cited in Collected Works and in Selected Works.

Copy, headed A speech vsed by her Ma^tie vnto my lo: kep. in y^e parliamente howse in thende of a Cession.

This MS cited in Hartley. Recorded in HMC, Salisbury, I, 272.

Copy, headed Oratio Illustrissimæ reginæ Elizabetha apud Cantabrigienses in [heclæ?] beatæ Maria habita.

This volume is edited in Cummings, who suggests that the compiler is Sir John Finett (1571-1641), of Fordwich, Kent: hence it is often cited as The John Finett miscellany. The hands do not appear to be his, however, and this attribution is questionable.

This MS selectively collated in Autograph Compositions.

Copy, headed Oratio Serenissimæ Principis, D. Elisabethæ Angliæ franciæ & Reginæ, habita Cantabrigiæ...anno Domini 1564^o. Mensis Augusti 10.

Fuller Hist Camb p. 138. see Sloane 401, f. 38. Nichols Progresses 1788 I p. 212 5th pagination.

Copy of the Latin oration, untitled.

Inscribed (f. 1r), probably by the compiler, Radolphus Wilkinsonns.

Edited from this MS in Autograph Compositions.

Copy, headed Elizabethæ Reginæ Oratio Cantabrigiæ publice habitæ coram vniverso Academiæ cætu anno 1564.

Compiled chiefly by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.

Copy, headed Oratio sereniss: Reginæ Elizabethæ Academiæ Oxoniensi habita.

This volume is edited in Cummings, who suggests that the compiler is Sir John Finett (1571-1641), of Fordwich, Kent: hence it is often cited as The John Finett miscellany. The hands do not appear to be his, however, and this attribution is questionable.

Copy.

Compiled by John Rogers, minister of Chacombe, Northamptonshire, chiefly while he was a student at oxford.

This MS collated in Autograph Compositions.

Copy of a version, subscribed sub ex Lauretio hufredo in libro de vita et obitu Juelle [i.e. from a biographical account of John Jewel (1522-71), Bishop of Salisbury, by Laurence Humphreys, President of Magdalen College and Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford].

Compiled by John Rogers, minister of Chacombe, Northamptonshire, chiefly while he was a student at oxford.

This MS cited in Autograph Compositions.

Copy.

By John Bereblock, fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, written in a semi-calligraphic predominantly secretary script.

Owned before 30 May 1864 by the Rev. John C. Jackson.

Edited from this MS in Autograph Compositions.

Copy, in the hand of William Fulman, headed Orat. II. Ad Oxonienses, Sept. v. M DL XVI.

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

Copy of Version 2, in a professional secretaty hand, headed The Queenes Ma^ts answear to the Comon house touching her Mariage and the limitico of succession.. Late 16th century.

Edited from this MS in J.E. Neale, Parliament and the Succession Question in 1562/3 and 1566, EHR, 36, No. 144 (October 1921), 497-520 (pp. 514-17). Cited in Hartley and in Selected Works.

Copy, based on a memorial account by an MP present at the occasion, headed The speeche of the queens ma^tie ...to the Duke of Norfolk, the Archbishope of yowrke [&c.]...as followynge as I could carrye awaye by remembrans.

Edited from this MS in Hartley (version ii) and (as Version 2) in Collected Works. Cited in Selected Works and in Heisch.

Copy of a version, in a professional secretary hand.

Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist and book collector. Sotheby's, 14 December 1976, lot 47, to Hofmann & Freeman. Then owned by Peter Beal, London. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 88, with a facsimile example.

A microfilm of this volume is in the British Library, RP 2102.

Autograph draft of the opening of the speech, untitled, on one folio page, a second leaf endorsed (f. 9v) by William Cecil a part of y^e begyng of y^e Q. Ma^tes speche to y^e 30. lordes and 30. co^mons o tewsday, y^e v^th. of Novemb. 1566. / X a^o 9^o 8. / The Q. own had.

Edited from this MS in Hartley (version i), in Collected Works (as Version 1), with a facsimile on p. 92, and in Selected Works.

Copy of the autograph draft (ElQ 159), untitled but docketed Qu. Elizab. own hand, on a folio page, endorsed (f. 9v) A part of the beginning of the Q. Ma^ties Speech to the 30 Lords, and 30. Commons on Thursday [sic] the v^th. of Novembr 1566. Anno 8. twas The Q. own hand.

This MS cited in Selected Works.

William Cecil's autograph draft memorandum on the Queen's speech, untitled, beginning first hir Ma^ty toke vppon hir y^t knowledg of a petition..., on two folio leaves, endorsed (f. 11v) v. Nov^br. 1566. A^o 8 a breeff of y^e substance of y^e Q. Ma^ty answer. to y^e llordes and Coms Asemy[?] in novr lx. this was not reported.

Autograph rough notes by William Cecil on the speech, headed V. Novembr 1566 a breef note of sodry thyges c^otened in y^e Q. Ma^tes aswer made, on a folio page.

William Cecil's autograph report to Parliament on the Queen's speech, headed V Noveb. The soe of y^e Q. Ma^tes speche to y Lordes and coens assebled to y^e novre of lx., beginning She tooke knolledg of y^e petition..., on two folio pages, endorsed on a second leaf (f. 15v) 5 Novebre 1566 The report made to y^e coen hows of y^e Q. Ma^tes answer by y^e mouth of me, y^e Secretary W^m. Cecill w^t the cosent of 30. lordes. and 29. comoners.

Edited from this MS in Collected Works, pp. 98-100.

Formerly Cotton MS Titus F. 1, f. 92.

Edited from this MS (as a Separate version) in Hartley (pp. 174-5), (as Version 1) in Collected Works, with a facsimile on p. 104, and in Selected Works. Printed in Autograph Compositions, pp. 40-2. Cited in Heisch. A facsimile of the first page in Andrew Prescott, English Historical Documents (British Library, 1988), p. 42.

Copy of Version II, in a professional secretary hand.

This MS cited in Hartley.

Copy of Version 2, untitled, with introduction ...Then the Queene standinge said.

This MS cited in Hartley.

Copy of Version 2, untitled, with introduction ...Then the Queene standinge said.

Edited from this MS in Hartley (pp. 172-3) and (as Version 2) in Collected Works.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed A letter sent by my Lady Bacon from the Queene to my Lord Keep who carried his submission to her being in displeasure about Succession.

This MS cited in Hartley.

Copy of Version I, in a secretary hand, headed The coppie of a letter (taken from ites originall, w^ch was written in the Queenes owne hand, and by her selfe drawne) to the Comons in Parliament about their peticon conc^rning mariage and liberties. Late 16th-early 17th century.

Humphrey Wanley's date of acquisition in the Harley library, 4 May 1721, inscribed on f. 1*.

This MS cited in Hartley and (misprinted Harley 2125) in Selected Works.

Copy of Version I, in a professional italic hand, headed A bille deliuered by her Ma^tie vnto my Ladie Bacon to be deliuered by her highnes commaundemente vnto my Lo: Keeper. Late 16th-early 17the century.

Including some papers owned or annotated by Sir Robert Cotton.

This MS cited in Hartley.

Copy of Version 2.

This MS cited in Hartley.

Copy, introduced by Then the Queene standing sayd: and here beginning My L^s and others the comons of this assembly, Although the Lord keep hath according to order very well answered in my name....

Given by William Moore.

Edited from this MS in HMC, Salisbury, XIII, 214-15. Cited in Hartley.

Copy.

This MS cited in Hartley.

Copy, untitled, with introduction ...she spake a fewe words to this effect.

Edited from this MS in Collected Works. Collated in Hartley.

Copy, introduced by ...after a longe stay she spake in fewe words to this effect.

This MS cited in Hartley.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, introduced ...The Queen began to speake a fewe wordes to this effect or thus:....

Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor, dated 1701.

Copy, incomplete.

Given by William Moore.

This MS cited in Hartley.

Copy, introduced ...After a long stay shee spake a fewe words to this effect, or thus.

Old pressmark E. 2. 9.

Edited from this MS in Hartley.

A formal account of the Queen's visit and speeches, in the hand of a civic clerk.

The formal book of records of Warwick Corporation, with accounts of civic events, ordnances, etc. from 1556 onwards.

This volume edited in full in The Black Book of Warwick, ed. Thomas Kemp (Warwick, [1899]).

Kemp edition, pp. 91-2. Edited in Collected Works from this MS account as printed in Nichols.

Copy, headed The Queenes most excellent mat^es: oration in the pliam^t house Martij 15, A^o: Dni 1576.

Transcribed from the Yelverton papers chiefly belonging to Sir Christopher Yelverton (1535?-1612), Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), and their family.

Owned in 1679 by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732), annalist and book collector.

Copy, in a professional hand, headed The Oration the Queenes Ma^tie made in the end of the Parliament the 15^th of March. 1576.

Compiled over a period, and partly written, by Sir Stephen Powle (c.1553-1630), Clerk of the Crown.

This MS cited in Hartley and in Selected Works.

Copy, headed Queene Elizabeth in the Parliam^t house march 15^th 1576.

Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 18 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. 296-7.

Copy of Version I, headed in another hand A speache of Quene Elizabethe in Pliament.

Comprising copies of letters principally received by Sir Christopher Hatton (c.1540-91), Vice-Chamberlain of the Household and Lord Chancellor.

Later in the possession of William Upcott (1779-1845), antiquary and autograph collector. Upcott sale (22 June 1846), lot 83.

This MS collated in part in Collected Works. Cited in Hartley, in Selected Works, and in Heisch.

Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, headed The Queenes most excellent Maiesties Oration in the Parliam^t howse martij 1576, with an endorsement on the blank leaf f. 6v.

This MS cited in Hartley and in Selected Works.

Copy of Version I, headed The Quenes moste excellent ma^ties. Oration in the Parliament howse 15 martij anno dni 1576.

Apparently prepared by Tho: Mynatts for presentation to Sir Christopher Hatton (c.1540-91), Lord Chancellor, with a dedicatory epistle to him (ff. 1r-2r) subscribed with Mynatts's italic signature, he describing himself as a poore clerke whoe have served in her Majestys Courte of Starr Chamber, his sources having come to his hands by y^e guifte of one of his sonnes nowe in France: i.e. Anthony Bacon (1558-1601), political intelligencer.

Later owned by John Payne Collier (1789-1883), literary scholar, editor and forger. Sotheby's, 9 August 1884 (Collier sale), lot 996.

This MS collated in part in Hartley and in Collected Works. Cited in Selected Works and in Heisch.

Copy of Version I, headed in the margin The Queenes most excellent Ma^ties oration in the Parliament howse Martij 15. A^o. Dni 1576.

Bookplate of Richard Towneley, of Townely Hall, near Burnley, Lancashire, dated 1702. Sotheby's, 27-28 June 1883 (Towneley sale), lot 170, to Quaritch. Quaritch's sale catalogue of English Literature (August-November 1884), item 22349. Presented by William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst (1835-1908), first Baron Amherst of Hackney, 13 April 1887.

This MS cited in Hartley, in Collected Works, and in Selected Works.

Copy of Version I, headed Queen Elizabeths Speech in y^e Parl^t house y^e 13. of March. 1575.

According to an inscription on f. 1*r this MS comprises (presumably a transcript of) Severall papers found in M^r: Deas Study Secretary to Bishop Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury.

This MS cited in Hartley, in Selected Works, and in Heisch.

Copy of Version I, headed Queen Elizabeths Speech in the Parliament house the 13^th: of March 1575.

Inscribed (f. [i^r] M^r Noel from Lord Fitz-Williams. A.D. 1719.

This MS cited in Selected Works.

Copy, headed Oratio Elizabethæ reginæ habitu in regni conventu convocato ad die 15. Martij. anno. 1575.

Compiled by Henry Stanford (d.1616), household tutor to the Paget and Carey families, including George Carey, second Lord Hunsdon.

A complete transcription of this volume in Steven W. May, Henry Stanford's Anthology: An Edition of Cambridge University Library Manuscript Dd. 5.75 (New York, 1988).

Edited from this MS in Collected Works and in Selected Works. May, Stanford, pp. 84-8 (No. 112).

Copy of Version I, in a secretary hand, headed The Q. Ma^tyes oration in the plament howse martij 15 Ano dni 1575.

Bookplate of Jacobi Mickleton de Crook Hall in Com Dunelm A D 1718: i.e. James Mickleton (1688-1719), lawyer and antiquary. 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.

This MS cited in Selected Works.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed Quene Elizabeths Answer to the L. and others in the Parliament .15.7.5. howse vpon Thursday xv^o martij.

Edited from this MS (as Text ii) in Hartley. Cited in Selected Works.

Copy of Version I, in a professional secretary hand.

Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist and book collector. Sotheby's, 14 December 1976, lot 47, to Hofmann & Freeman. Then owned by Peter Beal, London. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 88, with a facsimile example.

A microfilm of this volume is in the British Library, RP 2102.

Copy of Version I, in a cursive secretary hand, headed The speech vttered by her m^at in the parlam^t house at the eande of the cession held en iij march 1576 the xviij^th of hir raine vppo pointes both in the speaker oratio and also in the Lorde Kepers, on all four pages of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves.

Edited from this MS (as Text i) in Hartley, I, 471-5. Cited (mistakenly as in Cambridgeshire Record Office) in Selected Works.

Copy, headed Queen Elizabeth's speech in the Parliament House y^e 13 of March 1575.

Flyleaf inscribed Stamford 1693: i.e. Thomas Grey (c.1654-1720), second Earl of Stamford, Privy Counsellor. Bookplate of John Towneley (1697-1782), translator, of Towneley Hall, near Burnley, Lancashire.

MS Extract from a Speech of Q. Elizabeth, to her Parliament, relating to her Celibacy, 1575, here beginning --Now, to rehearse my meaninge...and ending ...cannot dispose of themselves to another lyfe--.

Owned by Sir John's descendants Henry Harington (1686-1769) and Dr Henry Harington (1727-1816).

These manuscripts edited in Nugae Antiquae (first published in two volumes, London, 1769); various editions, expanded to 2 vols, ed. Henry Harington [and Thomas Park], London, 1804.

Edited from this MS in Nugae Antiquae (1769), I, 116. Cited in Collected Works.

Copy of the complete speech, with a note by John Harington explaining that it was given him by the Queen who she says had made a clerk write fair her poor words for his use.

Owned by Sir John's descendants Henry Harington (1686-1769) and Dr Henry Harington (1727-1816).

These manuscripts edited in Nugae Antiquae (first published in two volumes, London, 1769); various editions, expanded to 2 vols, ed. Henry Harington [and Thomas Park], London, 1804.

Edited from this MS in Nugae Antiquae (1769), II, 149-54; (1804), I, 120-8. Cited and the note printed in Collected Works.

Copy of Version I, in an italic hand, untitled, on two conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet, endorsed A speache of her ma^ty in the end of a plam^t.

Volume II of a collection of Miscellanea Curiosa assembled by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist and antiquary.

Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, headed A brief effect of hir ma^ties speech vnto y^e B. & other of y^e Clergie offring vnto hir their subsedy in her pryvie chamb at Somset place 27 feb. 1584 at what tyme there were of y^e Clergy my L. Archb. of Cantbury, the B. of wo^rcestre... [etc.], on a folio leaf, foliated in pencil 91.

Edited from this MS in Collected Works. Cited in Heisch.

Copy, in a professional predominantly italic hand, headed A brief effect of hir ma^ties speech unto the Bpps. and other of the Clergy offring unto hir their Subsidy in her privy Chamber at Somerset place 27. Febr. 1584, at what tyme there were of the Clergy my L. Archb. of Canterbury y^e B. of worcestre... [etc.], on two folio leaves, foliated in pencil 69-70 and 192-3, endorsed on a third leaf (f. 218v) Febr. 27. 1584. The Queens Conference with the B^pps. upon Graunt of Subsedy &c..

Cited in Heisch.

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, on two conjugate folio leaves. Late 16th century.

This MS partly collated in Hartley.

Copy, headed Her Ma^tes speche in the parliamete howse at the progation of the laste Session 29 Martij 1584, with sidenotes.

Comprising copies of letters principally received by Sir Christopher Hatton (c.1540-91), Vice-Chamberlain of the Household and Lord Chancellor.

Later in the possession of William Upcott (1779-1845), antiquary and autograph collector. Upcott sale (22 June 1846), lot 83.

Edited from this MS in Collected Works. Partly collated in Hartley.

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed in italic Her Ma^ties Oration the last day of the first Session of Parliament: 1585.

Compiled by Sir Edward Hoby (1560-1617), politician and diplomat.

Bookplate of George Dunn (1865-1912), of Woolley Hall, near Maidenhead, Berkshire, antiquary. Sotheby's, 11 February 1914 (Dunn sale), lot 1198.

This MS cited in Hartley and in Collected Works.

Copy, in the hand of John Stow, headed The qwenes maiesties oration, made in the parliament howse, at the breakyneg vp thore of, the xxix day of marche, in ann^o dom. 1585. a^o 27^o. Eliz., on one side of a quarto leaf.

Edited from this MS in Hartley. Cited in Collected Works and in Heisch.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed A speech of Q. Elizabeth made in the Parliament at y^e breakeing vp thereof 29^o. March. 1585. Anno Elizabeth 27^o.

This MS cited in Hartley.

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed Her Ma^tes Speche dely^red by her owne mowthe in the Parlam^t Last holde at Westm^r.

This MS partly collated in Hartley.

Copy, headed A speech of Quee [sic] Elyzabeths made in y^e Parliament at the breaking up theire-of 29^o march: 1585 Ano Elyzab: 27^o. p.

Inscribed (p. i), probably in the late 17th century, John Peck His Book.

This MS cited in Hartley and in Collected Works.

Copy, headed Her Ma^ties: speech delivered by her owne mouth in y^e Parliam^t last holden at Westm: Anno Regin &c. 27:/ 1584.

Inscribed names including Noah Duckett 1706, J Stockdale...Gift of M^rs Duckett, and William Brookes. According to a note on the flyleaf the MS was once in an old house in Leicester, then owned by Dr John Barcley, MD; bought from him by his brother-in-law George Cardale 5 March 1884; then owned by Joseph Green of Jayshill House, Stansted, Essex, who sold it to Charles Lowe, bookseller of Birmingham; offered in his sale catalogue in 1889, and purchased by Mildmay's descendant Mary, Viscountess Falmouth.

A bound set of photocopies of this volume is in the Parliamentary Archives, HL/PO/RO/1/49.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed The Q [of England added in red ink] ma^tie speache in the parliamen^t house 1585 Martij 29, on one side of a folio leaf.

Among the Warrender Papers, formerly classified as Vol. B.

Edited from this MS in Scottish History Society (1931), 174-6. Cited in Hartley.

Copy of Version II, in a small secretary hand, headed in italic Her Ma^ties first answere made by her self to the petition vttered in the names of the whole Court of parliament in hir chamber of presence att Richmond .12. 1686.

Compiled by Sir Edward Hoby (1560-1617), politician and diplomat.

Bookplate of George Dunn (1865-1912), of Woolley Hall, near Maidenhead, Berkshire, antiquary. Sotheby's, 11 February 1914 (Dunn sale), lot 1198.

This MS cited in Hartley and in Collected Works.

Copy of Version II, in a cursive hand, headed Her Ma^ties most Gracious answer delivered by her self verbally to y^e Petitions of y^e Lords & Commons, being y^e estates of Parlament Nov. 12. 1586. A Copy corrected by her own hand. It toucheth y^e Queen of Scots, & ye Treason plotted against herself, on two conjugate folio leaves.

Volume DXIX of the Portland Papers, owned by the Harley family, of Brampton Bryan, and related families of Vere, Hollis, and Cavendish, and of Cavendish-Bentinck, Dukes of Portland.

Copy of Version I, in two secretary hands, introduced ...Ytt plesed hir highenes...in her owne pson most gratiouslye & wisely to giue aunswere as followeth:, on two folio leaves. Late 16th century.

This MS partly quoted (as Text iv) in Hartley, II, 261. Cited in Heisch.

Copy, in a neat italic hand, with autograph revisions by Elizabeth, on two folio leaves, imperfect.

Comprising papers of William Cecil (1520/21-98), first Baron Burghley, secretary of state.

Bookplate (as Shelburne) of William Petty (1737-1805), second Earl of Shelburne and first Marquess of Lansdowne, Prime Minister.

Edited from this MS (as Text i) in Hartley and (as Version 2) in Autograph Compositions. This MS collated in Collected Works (as Version 2), with a facsimile of the first page on p. 191, and in Selected Works. Edited in part diplomatically in Heisch, pp. 49-51.

Copy of Extractions taken by the Queens order in reformation of somme errours in report of her speeche, the 12 of November 1586 in her withdrawing chamber.

Papers of William Cecil (1520/21-98), first Baron Burghley, secretary of state.

Bookplate (as Shelburne) of William Petty (1737-1805), second Earl of Shelburne and first Marquess of Lansdowne, Prime Minister.

This MS discussed in Hartley (II, 253).

Copy of a version, untitled, in a professional secretary hand, on two pages of two conjugate folio leaves. Late 16th century.

Edited from this MS (as Text iii) in Hartley.

Copy, headed An Answer by ow^r quene to the peticion of the pliament house for the speedye execution of the scottyshe queene and here beginning When I consider the profound and bottomless depth of God's wonderful and miraculous work.... Late 16th century.

This MS collated in Hartley.

Copy, with a sidenote The Queenes Speech to y^e Comittees of both houses.

Edited from this MS (as Version 1) in Collected Works. Cited in Hartley.

Copy of Version II, headed Notes of the Queenes speeche to the Lordes and comons of the Parliam^t in answer of their peticon exhibited the xij of November 1586: by the Lo: Chancello^r vnto her Ma^tie: for y^e speedie execucon of the Scotish Queene, as neere as my Capacity w^thout tables could serve to note them, and my memory next morning might avayle to set them downe.

Edited from this MS (as Text ii) in Hartley (pp. 254-8).

Copy of Version II, headed A speech Spoken by Queen Eliz: to her Parliam^t Concerning The Treasons of Mary, Queen of Scots, inscribed in the margin Ex MS penes Meipsum.

Compiled by William Petyt (1640/1-1707), lawyer and political propagandist.

Copy of Version II, headed in the margin A speech made By her ma^tie tochinge the Treasons of the Queene of Scottes.

Including (f. 3r-v) Elizabethan verses inscribed Thomas Aldwell me possidet and (ff. 4r-81r) a formulary of political and legal documents and precedents, in several hands, largely compiled by Francis Alford, MP (c.1530-92).

This MS partly collated in Hartley. Cited in Collected Works.

Copy of Version II, in a small secretary hand, headed in italic Her Ma^ties seconde answere deliuered by her owne mouth to the second speech vttered in the names of the Lords and Comons of the plament in her chamber of presence att Richmond the 24. day of Nouember. 1586.

Compiled by Sir Edward Hoby (1560-1617), politician and diplomat.

Bookplate of George Dunn (1865-1912), of Woolley Hall, near Maidenhead, Berkshire, antiquary. Sotheby's, 11 February 1914 (Dunn sale), lot 1198.

This MS cited in Hartley and in Collected Works.

Copy of Version II, headed The Queens second speech to y^e Parlam^t, Nov. 24. 1586. Corrected by her own hand, touching y^e Queen of Scots, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

Volume DXIX of the Portland Papers, owned by the Harley family, of Brampton Bryan, and related families of Vere, Hollis, and Cavendish, and of Cavendish-Bentinck, Dukes of Portland.

Copy of Version I, in a secretary hand, introduced ......her Maiestie then spake as foloweth:, on three folio leaves. Late 16th century.

This MS partly quoted (as Text ii) in Hartley (p. 271).

Copy, in a neat italic hand, with extensive autograph revisions by Elizabeth.

Comprising papers of William Cecil (1520/21-98), first Baron Burghley, secretary of state.

Bookplate (as Shelburne) of William Petty (1737-1805), second Earl of Shelburne and first Marquess of Lansdowne, Prime Minister.

Edited from this MS (as Text i) in Hartley and (as Version 2) in Autograph Compositions. Edited in Selected Works. Collated (as Version 2) in Collected Works, with a facsimile of f. 87v on p. 203. Part edited diplomatically in Heisch, p. 52.

Copy.

Edited from this MS (as Version 1) in Collected Works. Cited (as version ii) in Hartley.

Copy, headed Queen Elizabeths Speech to her Army Att Tilbury Camp on y^e Spaniards coming to Inuade the Land in y^e year 1588, subscribed This Account the Earle of Leicester gaue ro D^r Sharp that hee might publish it to y^e Army in a Sermon.

Compiled by Henry Sturmy, who in November 1686 was bound apprentice to the London bookseller Ricard Hunt.

Christopher Edwards, Short List 9 (1997), item 88.

Copy, in the hand of Lionell Sharpe (1560-1631), clergyman employed by both the Earl of Leicester and Earl of Essex and present at the Queen's visit to Tilbury, untitled, on the first two pages of two conjugate quarto leaves, endorsed (f. 88v) The Queenes speech at Tilburie camp.

Fol. 87 inscribed Bought of M^r. G. Pauls Landlady and fol. 89 Giuen by M^r Geo. Holmes.

Edited from this MS, discussed and the hand identified in Janet M. Green, I My Self: Queen Elizabeth's Oration at Tilbury Camp, Sixteenth Century Journal, 28 (1997), 421-45. Edited from this MS in Collected Works. Cited in Selected Works.

Facsimiles of the first page in Felix Pryor, Elizabeth I: Her Life in Letters (British Library, London, 2003), No. 42, p. 98, and in Henry VIII Man and Monarch, ed. Susan Doran (British Library, London, 2009), p. 268.

Copy, with a ten-line introduction, Queene Elizabeth cominge to her army at Tilbury where shee lay in the Earle of Leisters Pavillion...whervppon shee toke occation of this speach.

A facsimile of f. 85r is in Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey, Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, 2008), p. 33.

Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand, headed The oration or speech that Queene Elizabeth made to the soldiers in her Campe at Tylbury in August 1688 [sic], here beginning My good people I have byn warned by some..., subscribed Queene Elizabeths speech at Tilbury Anno 1686 [sic], on two conjugate folio leaves.

This MS recorded in Selected Works, p. 81.

Castillion's account of Elizabeth's visit to the army at Tilbury, I myselfe beinge there a Captayne and an eye Witnesse. F. C.

The front pastedown inscribed Thomas Hugh Markham From his Mother. Sep^r 11^th. 1846 and, in pencil, Darker Esq^r. Gayton.

Copy of the Latin speech, headed Reginae Elisabethae Valedictoria ad Oxonienses. Sept. 28. 1592, with Henry Savile's oration on the same occasion (ff. 169r-71r), both in the hand of Archbishop Sancroft, docketed by him Transcrib'd fro S^r Ja. Ware's MS. Collections Vol. 47 being pt of Q. Eliz^s Entertainm^t at Oxford 1592, on two pairs of conjugate quarto leaves.

Compiled, and partly written, by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury.

Copy of the original Latin version, in a professional hand.

Probably presented to the Bodleian in 1639 by Patrick Young (1584-1652), Royal Librarian.

Edited from this MS in Autograph Compositions.

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, subscribed Regina dixi 1593, on the recto of a single folio leaf; together with an untitled English translation, beginning Youre desertes and gratitude do Alter mye purpose..., in a different secretary hand, on both sides of another folio leaf.

Copy, in a professional roman hand, headed Queene Elizabeth her Oration made to the Vniuersity of Oxford. 1592. Early 17th century.

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed Oratio Rne Elizabeth ad academicos Oxonienses Sabita 28. Septem 1592.

In a folio composite volume of verse, drama and orations, in various hands, 149 leaves, in modern half morocco gilt.

Inscribed by Wanley (ff. 1r and 95r) with date of his acquition for the Harley library, 16 October. 1725. Among the collections of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724), and his son, Edward, second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741).

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Harley Satires MS: DnJ Δ 31.

Copy, in the hand of William Fulman, headed Orat. III. Ad Oxonienses M D XCVII.

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

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, untitled. Early 17th century.

Copy, added at the foot of the two pages in an italic hand, headed in the margin Oratio Reginæ Elizabethæ ad Oxoniæ studiosos.

Inscribed (front pastedown) Die veneris. Julij: 1^o 1601. per me Richardu Greenen and Thomas Scott; (f. 3r) G. Scott; (f. 271v) Thomas Scott, Thomas Payne, Will^m Scott. Bookplate Ex Libris Chambrun-Longworth. Formerly Folger MS 6185.1.

This volume discussed in James G. McManaway, Elizabeth, Essex, and James, in Elizabethan and Jacobean Studies Presented to Frank Percy Wilson (Oxford, 1959), pp. 219-30 (p. 221 et seq.).

Copy of the speech in Latin, in a secretary hand.

Inscribed on the first page F Welles.

Copy of the English Version 2, in a professional secretary hand, untitled, on the first two pages of two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed A reporte of her Ma^ties speache in the pliament house at the dissolving of the pliament.

Given to the Bodleian in 1952 by J.C.B. Gamlen via Ruth Waterhouse.

Edited from this MS (as Version 2) in Collected Works, pp. 330-2. Cited in Hartley.

Copy of the English Version 1, with a lengthy introduction by the original parliamentary scribe, who could not hear most of the speech but learned from others the cheife substance of her oration.

Edited from this MS (as Version 1) in Collected Works. Recorded in Hartley.

Copy of Version I, headed in the margin Queene Eliz. speech and here dated 5 April 1592/3.

Copy of Version I, headed The Queenes speech, here beginning This kingdome hath had many wise noble and victorious princes..., after the date 7 Aprill [1593] Saturday.

Once owned by Sir Richard Grosvenor (1585-1645); later by the Duke of Westminster, Eaton Hall, Cheshire, with his bookplate (inscribed XXI n^o. 21) and a label with No. 24 on the spine. Assembled largely from Liber 8 (= MS 24). Sotheby's, 20 February 1967, lot 263. Formerly House of Lords Record Office, Historical Collection No. 53.

Recorded in HMC. 3rd Report (187-), Appendix, p. 214b.

Copy of the English version, headed The Queenes speech in pliment and introduced by the original scribe's explanation The ffirst words I heard not all tell yt came to this sayeinge.

Names inscribed on f. [i^r]: John Humphreys and D [?] Wynn.

Copy, headed The queenes to her Spanish embasado^r.

Transcribed from the Yelverton papers chiefly belonging to Sir Christopher Yelverton (1535?-1612), Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), and their family.

Owned in 1679 by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732), annalist and book collector.

Copy, in a roman hand, untitled, endorsed in a cursive secretary hand (f. 9v) A speache of Q. Eliz to a Poland Ambassador.

Copy, headed A copie of Queene Elizabeth her Answer to y^e kinge of Polandes Embassador in the p^rsence Chamber at Greenewich the .25^th. of July. 1597. openly & ex tempore.

Associated with the Freville family and probably assembled by Gilbert Frevile, of Bishop Middleham, Co. Durham, whose name appears on the cover with the date 1591. A pen-and-ink ornamental drawing at the end inscribed Finis quoth G. W.

Copy of the Latin version, in a secretary hand, the heading with dates anno 1597 v^l 1598.

In a folio composite volume of verse, drama and orations, in various hands, 149 leaves, in modern half morocco gilt.

Inscribed by Wanley (ff. 1r and 95r) with date of his acquition for the Harley library, 16 October. 1725. Among the collections of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724), and his son, Edward, second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741).

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Harley Satires MS: DnJ Δ 31.

Copy of the Latin speech, headed Oratio siue responsio dni Regine [fowfa?] Oratori Regi Polome vicessimo quinto die JuliJ. 1597., on one side of a single folio leaf, endorsed on f. 89v The Quenes ma. speche to the Poloniom embassador. 1597.

Fol. 87 inscribed Bought of M^r. G. Pauls Landlady and fol. 89 Giuen by M^r Geo. Holmes.

Copy of an English translation of the speech, headed The answere of the Queene, to the orator of the Kinge of Polonia, the 25 day of July. 1597 and here beginning Oh, how I was beguiled..., on one side of a single folio leaf, endorsed on f. 90v The quenes ma. speche to the Polonia embassador englished by Harry Capell. c.1597.

Fol. 87 inscribed Bought of M^r. G. Pauls Landlady and fol. 89 Giuen by M^r Geo. Holmes.

This MS cited in Collected Works.

Inscribed in a later hand Giuen by M^r Geo. Holmes.

Copy, in a professional italic hand, headed Oratio siue responsio Dnæ Reginæ, facta Oratori regis Poloniæ die Lunæ, 26. Julij. 1597, on one side of a folio leaf, endorsed Responsio Reginæ. ad pau'l de Jaline Legatu Regis Poloniæ Sigismondi tertii.

Comprising papers of William Cecil (1520/21-98), first Baron Burghley, secretary of state.

Bookplate (as Shelburne) of William Petty (1737-1805), second Earl of Shelburne and first Marquess of Lansdowne, Prime Minister.

Copy, in the hand of William Fulman, headed Orat. IV. Ad Orationem Pauli Dzialina Sigismundi Polonae Regis Legati Responsio Grenovici, Jul. XXV. M DXC VII.

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

Copy of an English translation.

Evidently the MS from which selected items are transcribed in Cardiff Central Library MS 1.172, pp. 1-162, which is inscribed (p. 162) Hitherto from the beginning of the Book, from a Manuscript in 4^to: belonging to John Arden of Stockport Esq^r: i.e. probably John Arden (1742-1823), of Harden, Utkinton and Pepper Halls, High Sheriff of Cheshire. Acquired in 1942.

This volume discussed and various letters printed in Bertram Dobell, Newly Discovered Documents of the Elizabethan and Jacobean Periods, The Athenaeum (1901: 23 March, pp. 369-70; 30 March, pp. 403-4; 6 April, pp. 433-4; 13 April, pp. 465-7). A complete transcription and facsimile of the volume in A Seventeenth-Century Letter-Book: A Facsimile Edition of Folger MS. V.a.321, ed. A.R. Braunmuller (Newark, London & Toronto, 1983).

Edited from this MS in Autograph Compositions.

Copy, in an italic hand, headed Oratio seu responsio Dnæ Reginæ facta oratori regis Poloniæ die lunæ 25^to Julij 1597^o.

Inscribed (front pastedown) Die veneris. Julij: 1^o 1601. per me Richardu Greenen and Thomas Scott; (f. 3r) G. Scott; (f. 271v) Thomas Scott, Thomas Payne, Will^m Scott. Bookplate Ex Libris Chambrun-Longworth. Formerly Folger MS 6185.1.

This volume discussed in James G. McManaway, Elizabeth, Essex, and James, in Elizabethan and Jacobean Studies Presented to Frank Percy Wilson (Oxford, 1959), pp. 219-30 (p. 221 et seq.).

This MS cited in Collected Works.

Copy, headed Oratio sive Responsio Dne Regine facta oratori...polome die...25 Julij 1591.

Inscribed names Gilbert Rye and William Norris and a reference (on f. 6a^v) to Doctor Gylbart.

The entries were at one time given separate library EL numbers ranging (intermittently) from EL 1183c to EL 6172 at one end and from EL 1183a to EL 6206 from the reverse end.

Copy, in a professional italic hand, headed Responsio Reginæ Angliæ ad Legatu Poloniæ, on one page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed Responce de la Reyne a L' Ambassadeur pollonois. le mois d'aoust 1597, once folded as a letter or packet.

Volume XV of the papers of Anthony Bacon (1558-1601), political intelligencer, subsequently among the collections of Thomas Tenison (1636-1715), Archbishop of Canterbury.

Copy of Version 2, headed The Queene to the speaker at Whitehall in the pliamente, Anno 43. set downe by M^r Phillips, followed (ff. 2v-4r) by a summary of the speech penned by M^r Attorney generall At thende of the pliament in Anno. 43. [i.e.19 December 1601]. Early 17th century.

Transcribed from the Yelverton papers chiefly belonging to Sir Christopher Yelverton (1535?-1612), Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), and their family.

Owned in 1679 by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732), annalist and book collector.

This MS cited in Hartley.

Copy of Version I, on several pages.

Bookplate of William, Earl of Bedford, 1867.

Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 2.

Copy in the hand of the Feathery Scribe.

In the hand of the Feathery Scribe but for the heading which is in the hand of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), antiquary.

Once owned Sir Robert Oxenbridge, MP (1595-1638) of Hurstbourne Priors, Hampshire; later by Thomas Tanner (1674-1735), Bishop of St Asaph, ecclesiastical historian, scholar and book collector. It was once bought from John Jackson of Tottenham High Cross.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 255 (No. 90).

Edited from this MS in Hartley, III, 412-14; (as Version 1) in Collected Works, and in Selected Works.

Copy of Version I, headed The Queenes answere.

Copy of Version 2, here beginning M^r Speaker, Y^r comming is to present thanckes to vs…, in a secretary hand, on a folded folio leaf (conjunct with a blank half-leaf).

Among the collections of Gilbert Sheldon (1598-1677), Archbishop of Canterbury. Subsequently owned by members of the Dolben family, including probably John Dolben (1625-86), Archbishop of York.

This MS cited in Hartley and in Collected Works.

Copy of Version I, in a professional secretary hand, in a parliamentary journal and introduced ...her Ma^tie begann thus to answer herselfe, viz.

Yelverton MS 31, among papers of Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), Justice of the Common Pleas, and his family.

Copy of Version III, with a lengthy heading, Her Ma^ties most Princely Answer, Delivered by her self at the Court at Whitehall y^e last day of November 1601...The same being taken Verbatim in writing by A.B. as neer as hee could possibly set it down, on both sides of a large quarto leaf.

Volume DXIX of the Portland Papers, owned by the Harley family, of Brampton Bryan, and related families of Vere, Hollis, and Cavendish, and of Cavendish-Bentinck, Dukes of Portland.

Copy of Version I, introduced The Queen answered her selfe.

Inscribed (f. 2r) Stamford 1693. Inscribed in pencil (f. 1r) by Alfred John Kempe, 4 June 1836. Purchased from Sotheby's, January/February 1873.

Copy of Version I, with introduction (...And her Majestie beganne thus to answer her Selfe: viz^t./.

Inscribed (f. 2r) Stamford 1693. Inscribed in pencil (f. 1r) by Alfred John Kempe, 4 June 1836. Purchased from Sotheby's, January/February 1873.

This MS cited in Hartley.

Copy of Version 2, headed Quene Elizabeths speeche to her last parliament. the .30. of november i60i.

Associated with the Freville family and probably assembled by Gilbert Frevile, of Bishop Middleham, Co. Durham, whose name appears on the cover with the date 1591. A pen-and-ink ornamental drawing at the end inscribed Finis quoth G. W.

This MS cited (as third version) in Hartley.

Copy of Version II, in the hand of Ralph Starkey, headed Queene Elizabethes Speeche in the parlemente time one Mondaye the xxx^th. of Nouembere .1601. hir Ma^tie beinge sete vnder state in the Counsell chamber at Whitehall...[etc.].

All in the hand of Ralph Starkey except for two other hands on ff. 94r-100v, 205r, 207r and 208r.

Edited from this MS (as third version) in Hartley (pp. 294-7)

Copy of Version IV, headed The Queens Speach.

According to an inscription on f. 1*r this MS comprises (presumably a transcript of) Severall papers found in M^r: Deas Study Secretary to Bishop Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury.

Edited from this MS (as first version) in Hartley (pp. 289-91).

Copy of Version I, introduced (f. 72v) In the afternoone the Comons attended the Queene att Whitehall about three of the clocke, to the nomber of seavenscrore.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Thomas ward, George Withers his booke Anno Dni 1633, and Robert Daye, and (f. 134v) Hugh Parsons / i633.

This MS partly collated in Hartley.

Copy of Version IV, headed The Queens speech.

Inscribed (f. [i^r] M^r Noel from Lord Fitz-Williams. A.D. 1719.

This MS cited (as first Version) in Hartley.

Copy of Version II, in a professional rounded hand, headed Queen Elizabeths Speech to her last Parliam^t 29 October 1601.

This MS cited (as his third version) in Hartley.

Copy of Version I, introduced ...And her Ma^tie beganne thus to answere her Selfe: vizt.

A note of receipt for half a guinea, 13 July 1727, on p. 278.

This MS cited in Hartley.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed Her maiesties most princely answere, delyuered by her self at the court at whitehall on the last day of nouember 1601. when the Speaker of the lower house of parliament asisted with the most pte of the knights and burgesses had presented ther humble thankes for her fre and gracious fauour in preuenting and reforminge of sundrie greiuances, by abuse of many grants commonly called Monopolies, the same beinge taken verbatim in wrytinge by A: B: as neer as he could possiblie set yt downe, on both sides of a single folio leaf, docketed Vlt Nouvbris 1601 Hir Ma^ty Speache to y^e Speaker and the knights and Burgesses of the Lower howse.

Comprising papers of William Cecil (1520/21-98), first Baron Burghley, secretary of state.

Bookplate (as Shelburne) of William Petty (1737-1805), second Earl of Shelburne and first Marquess of Lansdowne, Prime Minister.

Edited from this MS (as second version) in Hartley (pp. 292-3). Cited in Collected Works.

Copy of a version, headed The Queenes answere, dated 30 November 1602.

Inscribed (f. 2r) Sum Edw Umfrevile Jun^eis. Interioris Templi Studentis 1725. 10^o Aprilis: i.e. by Edward Umfreville (1702?-86), collector of legal manuscripts. Bookplate (as Shelburne) of William Petty (1737-1805), second Earl of Shelburne and first Marquess of Lansdowne, Prime Minister.

Copy of Version 1, headed The last Speech of Queen Elizabeth to her last Parliament held Anno 43^o. of her Reigne. Annoque Domini 1601. Late 17th century.

A second volume of parliamentary collections by William Petyt (1637-1707), Keeper of the Records in the Tower of London.

This MS cited in Selected Works.

Copy of version 1, introduced ...her Ma^tie began thus to Answer her self viz. Late 17th-century.

A fifth volume of parliamentary collections by William Petyt (1640/1-1707), lawyer and political propagandist.

This MS cited in Selected Works.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 248-9 (No. 73).

This MS cited in Hartley, in Collected Works, and in Heisch.

Copy of Version 1, in a professional hand, introduced ...After .3. lowe obeyances/reverences made he with the rest kneeled downe, and her Ma^tie. began thus to answere (vizt).

Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor, 1701.

This MS cited in Hartley.

Copy of Version 2, with an introduction The 30^th of Novemb. 1601 her ma^ties being set vnder State in the Councill Chamber at White hall...as followeth.

This MS cited in Hartley and in Collected Works.

Copy, introduced by The Queene answered her selfe.

This MS cited in Hartley, III, 494-6.

Copy.

Inscribed on the rear cover Robert Wingfield his Booke witnes Barbary Wingfield. Among the Tabley House MSS and once owned by Sir Peter Leycester (1614-78), antiquary.

Recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, pp. 47-8.

Copy of Version I, with introduction: ...And her ma^tie began thus to answere (vizt).

Inscribed (f. 165v) To be returned vp in Michaelmas Terme to [deleted] 1635. Bookplate of W^m A. Armstrong White Lincoln's Inn.

In a formal roman hand, headed Her Ma^ties: most Excelent Speech vnto m^r Speaker & the rest of the lower House, being knights & Burgesses, to the full nember of Eight Scoore, on Munday the 30^th of Nouember: 1601.

Sotheby's, 28 October-5 November 1902, lot 957.

Copy of Version I, introduced ...her Majestie began thus to Answ^r herselfe vizt....

Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor, dated 1701.

Copy of an eclectic text combining Versions I and II, headed The Queenes Answere, following (on 23v-4v) the Speaker's address to the Queen.

Copy of Version I, with introduction The Queene answered herselfe.

This MS cited in Hartley.

Here beginning M^r Speaker wee pceive yo^r comming is to p^rsent thanckes vnto me..., in a secretary hand, docketed in another hand Q. Eliz. Speech.

Edited from this MS (as Version 2) in Collected Works. Edited partly from this MS (as third version) in Hartley.

Copy of Version I, in Starkey's hand, introduced ...The Queene Answered herselfe.

Copy of Version I, in Starkey's hand, introduced ...And her Ma^tie begane thus to Answere her selfe (viz).

This MS cited in Hartley.

Copy of Version I, entitled The last Speech of Queen Elizabeth to her last Parliament held Anno 43^o of her Reigne Annoque Domini 1601.

Compiled by William Petyt (1640/1-1707), lawyer and political propagandist.

Copy of Version II, in a professional rounded hand, introduced Her Gratious Ma^tie vsed a most Excellent speech to the effect following.

This MS cited in Hartley.

Copy of a version.

Owned in 1633-5, and partly compiled, by William Heveningham, of Heveningham Hall, Suffolk.

Among the manuscripts of the Coke family, Earls of Leicester, including collections of Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), lawyer and politician.

Recorded in HMC, 9th Report (1883), Appendix, pp. 369-70.

Copy of Version III, in a professional italic hand, headed Her Maiestes most Princely answer, deliuered by his selfe at the Court at Whitehall, on the last day of Nouember 1601. When the Speaker of the lower howse of Parliamemnt (assisted w^th the greatest part of the knightes & burgesses had presented their humble thankes for hir free and gracious fauour, in preuentinge and reforminge of sundry greiuances, by abuse of many grauntes, comonly called Monopolies: The same beinge taken Verbatim in writinge by A: B. as neere as he could possibly sett it downe, on the first two pages of two conjugate folio leaves, foliated in pencil 147-8, endorsed The Que Speach to y^e Parl: House.

This MS, the heading of which conforms to the title of the printed edition of the speech (London, 1601), is cited (as second version) in Hartley (pp. 292-3) and (as version 3) in Collected Works.

A second copy, apparently in the same italic hand as ElQ 292 and with the same heading, on both sides of a single folio leaf, foliated in pencil 149.

This MS cited (as second version) in Hartley and (as version 3) in Collected Works. It is followed (ff. 137-41, item 67) by an unbound exemplum of the quarto printed edition of 1601.

Copy of Version I, introduced The Queene deliuered her selfe.

This MS cited in Hartley

This MS cited in Hartley.

Copy of Version III, in a professional cursive secretary hand, headed The Qu: Speech in the Parliam^t house to the Speaker &c. touching the wronges offered to her sub^ts by her graunts of Monopolies Vlt^o. Nouembris 1601, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

Among papers of the Montagu family, Barons and Dukes of Montagu, of Boughton House.

Copy of Version I, with introduction After three lowe reverences made, hee [the Speaker] w^th the rest kneeled Downe, and her Mai^tie begune thus to answere her self.

As collected by Hayward Townshend (c.1577-1603/21), parliamentary diarist.

Copy of a version headed The Queens Speech and beginning M^r Speaker I well understand by that you haue deliuered, that you with these Gent of the lower House came to giue vs thanks....

Flyleaf inscribed Stamford 1693: i.e. Thomas Grey (c.1654-1720), second Earl of Stamford, Privy Counsellor. Bookplate of John Towneley (1697-1782), translator, of Towneley Hall, near Burnley, Lancashire.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed The Queenes Speech at Whitehall to the speaker of the Lower house the 30^th: of November 1602.

This MS cited in Hartley.

Copy, headed The Queenes Speech at Whitehall to the speaker of the Lower house the 30^th of Nouember 1602.

Largely (but not entirely) a duplicate of MS 121.

Copy of Version II, headed Queen Elizabethes speech to her last Parliament. The 30^th of November. 1602., followed by the rubric her Maiestie being set vnder state in her Councell Chamber at whitehall ... proclaymed the same in their hearing as followeth.

The front wrapper inscribed Tom Hodges his Book. The rear wrapper addressed To my very Loving friend M^r Thomas Cave Marchant, at his howse in Amsterdam this be .dd. Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector.

Copy of Version II, headed Queene Elizabeths speech in Parliamt.

In a bundle among the papers of the Mildmay family, including those of Colonel Carew Harvey Mildmay (fl.1625-67), officer of the Jewel House, of Marks, Somerset.

Recorded in HMC, 7th Report (1879), Appendix, p. 596.

Copy.

Owned in 1709 by Browne Willis, MP, FSA (1682-1760), of Whaddon Hall, near Winslow, Buckinghamshire, antiquary. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 11936. Bookplate of W.A. Foyle (1885-1963), of Beeleigh Abbey, Essex, bookseller. Christie's, 12-13 July 2000 (W.A. Foyle sale, Part III), lot 317.

Among papers of the Newdegate family, Viscounts Daventer, of Arbury Hall, Nuneaton.

Copy of Version 3, headed Her Maiesties most Princely answere deliuered by herselfe at the Court att Whitehall on the last day of November 1601 when the Speaker of the lower house of Parliam^t assisted w^th the greatest part of knights and Burgesses had presented their humble thankes for her free and gracious fauour in preventing and reforming of sundry greiuances by abuse of many graunts called monopolies, in a professional hand.

Includes arms and genealogy of Helsby Cherleton & Acton Co. Lest^r and of The Lords of Hatton Co. Lest^r. Inscribed Thomas Helsby Lincoln's Inn London 1855.

Copy, in the italic hand of Lord Henry Howard (later Earl of Northampton), headed Q Eliz speech in parlament and, in the margin, The Q last speche, on two trimmed conjugate folio leaves. c.1601-14.

Edited from this MS in Hartley and in Collected Works. Cited in Heisch. Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Leah S. Marcus, The Veil of Manuscript, Renaissance Drama, NS 30 (1999-2001), 115-31, where it is erroneously stated that the MS is not in Northampton's own hand.

Copy of Version II.

Owned in 1902 by the Earl of Latham.

Edited from this MS by Harold Spencer Scott in The Camden Miscellany, Camden Society, 3rd series, 10 (1902).

Camden edition, pp. 44-7, whence edited in Collected Works.