Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex

Copy, headed Certaine verses made by him [i.e. Essex].

This MS collated in May, pp. 124-5.

Copy, untitled and subscribed J. Deane.

The name George Brown inscribed on p. 14. Inscribed on p. i by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector Feb 13. 1790. I this day purchased this Manuscript Collection of Poems, at the sale of Mr Brander's books, at the exorbitant price of Ten Guineas. EMalone.

This MS text collated in May, pp. 124-5.

Copy, headed Certaine verses made by the Earl of Essex about a weeke before he entered onto this Accon.

An anonymous reader has dated f. 58r Septemb^r 1⁰. 93 / ffebr: 30. [1]700/1.

This MS text collated in May, pp. 124-5.

Copy, headed His Decastick, on retir'd Life and subscribed Quoth Robertus Comes Essexiæ.

Compiled by Thomas Tanner (1674-1735)

This MS collated in May, pp. 124-5.

Copy.

Among scribbling on a flyleaf of the first item is the name John Allen.

This MS collated in May, Poems, pp. 124-5. Edited in May, Courtier Poets.

Copy in an italic hand, headed Certaine verses made by the Earle of Essex not longe before his death.

Copy, transcribed from Harley MS 35, p. 338 (EsR 8).

Copy, in a professional secretary hand.

This MS collated in May, pp. 124-5.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, here beginning Happie hee could finishe forth his fate, incorporated in a copy of Essex's letter to Queen Elizabeth, of 30 August 1599, before his expedition to Ireland (beginning From a mind delighting in sorrow...).

Copy of the poem, untitled, as incorporated in A letter of Robert Deuorex Earle of Essex, to Queene Eliz: vpon his Commande to goe to Ireland.

Copy.

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

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

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

Grosart, I, 97. Collated in May, pp. 124-5.

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, subscribed to a copy of a letter by the Earl of Essex to Queen Elizabeth vppon his Comaund to goe for Ireland in 1599.

This MS text collated in May, pp. 124-5.

Copy, headed Verses made by him.

Copy, headed Verses made by the Earle of Essex.

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

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

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

This MS collated in May, pp. 124-5.

Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, subscribed finis q^d Rob: Essex Comes.

Owned and possibly compiled by Richard Waferer, of Buckinghamshire (name on ff. 43r and 76v).

Also inscribed (f. ii) with names of Marth: Waferer and Walter Jesson.

Edited from this MS in May, Poems and Courtier Poets.

Copy, headed 83. Not attaining to his desire, he complaineth and subscribed E. Oxf.

Made largely by William Herbert (1718-95), bibliographer and printseller (ff. 116-18 in two other hands).

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

This MS collated in May, Poems.

Copy, headed Per eundem.

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

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

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

Edited from this MS in Grosart, I, 97, and in May.

Copy, untitled.

Including 13 poems by Donne and 14 (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett; the scribe is that mainly responsible also for the Thomas Smyth MS (DnJ Δ 48).

Later owned and used extensively as a notebook by Dr William Balam (1651-1726), of Ely, Cambridgeshire, who also annotated Cambridge University Library MS Add. 5778 and Harvard fMS Eng 966.4. Bookplate of N. Micklethwait. Owned in 1931 by the Rev. F.W. Glass, of Taverham Hall, near Norwich (seat in the 17th century of the Sotherton family and later of the Branthwayt and Micklethwait families).

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Welbeck MS: DnJ Δ 57 and CoR Δ 11. Discussed in H. Harvey Wood, A Seventeenth-Century Manuscript of Poems by Donne and Others, Essays & Studies, 16 (1931), 179-90. For Taverham Hall, see Thomas B. Norgate, A History of Taverham from Early Times to 1969 (Aylsham, 1969).

This MS collated in May, p. 125.

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled.

Once owned by Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, antiquary and collector. Among the collections of Richard Gough, FSA (1735-1809), antiquary and topographer.

This MS collated in May, p. 123.

Copy, headed Robert Earle of Essex against S^r Walter Rawleigh, here beginning Muses no more but Marzes be your names.

This MS text collated in May, p. 123.

Copy, subscribed finis. Comes Essex.

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

This MS collated in May, p. 123.

Copy, untitled.

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

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

Edited from this MS in May, Courtier Poets.

Copy, untitled.

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 text collated in May, pp. 123-4.

Copy, with (f. 113r) a musical setting.

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).

Copy, in a musical setting, in an italic hand, untitled.

Inscriptions including (f. 1v) Richard Shinton his booke Witnis Thomas ffowke; (f. 40r, in a court hand) Thomas Shinton of Woluerhamt; (f. 42v) Richard Shinton this Booke did owe. And John Congreue the Same doth know / 1633, Richard Congreve, Jane Hart is my name; and (f. 44v) Martha Congreve, and Elizabeth Congreve Writ this. Purchased from Thomas Rodd, bookseller, 13 April 1844.

This MS collated in May, pp. 123-4.

3 lines. but deade to thee

Copy.

Copy, untitled.

Probably compiled by a member of an Inn of Court.

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

This MS collated in May, pp. 123-4.

Copy, under a general heading Songes & Dittyes to y^e Lute & Viol de gambo, with a sidenote E: Essex Downe.

Compiled by John Ramsay (b.1578), of Peterhouse, Cambridge, and the Middle Temple.

Name (inscribed several times) of Thomas Russell. Given in 1724 by Robert Cook of Bokenham to Francis Blomefield (1705-52), Norfolk topographer, and with Blomefield's bookplate, 1736. Among the collections of Francis Douce (1757-1834), antiquary and collector.

Edited from this MS in May, Courtier Poets.

Copy, chiefly of the incipit only, (v) f. 9r including the complete text, all in a musical setting by W. Wigthorp, untitled.

Edited from MS (v) in May, Courtier Poets.

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

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

Acquired from Joseph Lilly, bookseller, 17 May 1862.

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

This MS collated in May, p. 123.

Copy, untitled and subscribed My Lord of Essex verses.

An anonymous reader has dated f. 58r Septemb^r 1⁰. 93 / ffebr: 30. [1]700/1.

This MS collated in May, p. 125.

Copy, headed Verses by Robert Earl of Essex in his trouble and subscribed R.E.E.

Made largely by William Herbert (1718-95), bibliographer and printseller (ff. 116-18 in two other hands).

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

Copy, in Birch's hand, transcribed from EsR 0000.

Copy, headed Verses made by the Earle of Essex in his Trouble, subscribed R: E: E:.

Edited from this MS in May, Poems and Courtier Poets.

Copy, subscribed R: E: E:.

Copy, ascribed to My Lo: of Essex.

Once belonging to the Sotheby family of London and Ecton Hall, Northamptonshire.

Copy, untitled, here beginning Courtes skorning, states disgracinge. 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 collated in May, p. 127.

Copy, headed The answere to the lye.

Copy, headed An other aunswere by S^r Wal R.

With a few additions in Rawlinson's hand.

Edited from this MS in The Poems of Sir Walter Ralegh, ed. Michael Rudick (Tempe, Arizona, 1999), No. 22, p. 45. Collated in May, p. 127.

Copy, headed Another answeare thought to be made by R Essex.

Compiled by an Oxford University man.

Edited fom this MS in Rudick, p. 41, and in online Early Stuart Libels. Collated in May, Poems, p. 127.

Copy, untitled.

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

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

Copy, untitled, on a tipped-in folio leaf (with folds).

Including 52 poems by Donne (many on pp. 64-109, 167-74 initialled L.C. [? Lord Chancellor], as are some poems by others), 11 poems by Carew, ten poems by Corbett, and 11 poems by or attributed to Herrick, in a single neat hand throughout; the poems dating up to 1637.

Later scribbling and inscriptions including the names Edw Denny [presumably Edward Denny (1569-1637), Baron Denny of Waltham and first Earl of Norwich], Charles Cocks, Edward Randolphe and (on p. 162) Thomas Cassy. Later owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary (sold in the Haslewood sale, London, 1833, lot 1329, to Thorpe); by Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough, antiquary (his sale in Dublin, 1 November 1841, item 624); and by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector (his library catalogue, 1880, IV, pp. 1159-64), and sold at Sotheby's, 17 July 1917 (Huth sale), lot 5873.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Haslewood-Kingsborough MS (I): DnJ Δ 25, CwT Δ 28, CoR Δ 10, and HeR Δ 5. A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 15). Discussed in C.M. Armitage, Donne's Poems in Huntington Manuscript 198: New Light on The Funerall, SP, 63 (1966), 697-707. A facsimile of part of p. 63 in Marcy L. North, Amateur Compilers, Scribal Labour, and the Contents of Early Modern Poetic Miscellanies, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 101).

Edited from this MS in The Poems of Sir Walter Ralegh, ed. Michael Rudick (Tempe, Arizona, 1999), p. 33. Collated in May, pp. 127-8.

Copy, headed in the margin Resp.

Probably compiled by a member of an Inn of Court.

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

Edited from this MS in Samuel L. Tannenbaum, PMLA, 45 (1930), 814. and in May, Courtier Poets. Collated in May, Poems.

Copy, in double columns, untitled.

With a few additions in Rawlinson's hand.

This MS collated in May, pp. 127-8.

Copy, headed Another answere made by an vnknowne author.

Compiled by an Oxford University man.

Edited from this MS in Rudick, pp. 38-40, and in online Early Stuart Libels.

Copy, untitled.

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

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

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

This MS text collated in May, pp. 127-8.

Copy.

Part I probably in several hands, the predominant italic hand that also responsible for the Welbeck MS: DnJ Δ 57), and including 21 poems by Donne.

Part I inscribed (f. 1r) John Smyth his Book 1640, Charles Smyth 1674, Hugh Smyth 1676; (f. 23v) J Smyth 1677 / 1676. Part II inscribed several times Thomas Smith, on f. 19r also Die: Maij 12^o Ano 1659, with a reference on f. 58v to Balliol College, Oxford, 1659/60. Later inscribed (f. [i^r]) by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), who records buying this very curious and interesting MS. of Mess^rs Boone. Afterwards in the library at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1. 28.

Cited in IELM, I.i, as the Thomas Smyth MS: DnJ Δ 48.

This MS collated in May, pp. 127-8.

Copy.

Probably compiled by a member of an Inn of Court.

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

Edited from this MS in May, Courtier Poets.

Copy, headed A Reply to the flying Satyr.

Including 13 poems by Donne and 14 (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett; the scribe is that mainly responsible also for the Thomas Smyth MS (DnJ Δ 48).

Later owned and used extensively as a notebook by Dr William Balam (1651-1726), of Ely, Cambridgeshire, who also annotated Cambridge University Library MS Add. 5778 and Harvard fMS Eng 966.4. Bookplate of N. Micklethwait. Owned in 1931 by the Rev. F.W. Glass, of Taverham Hall, near Norwich (seat in the 17th century of the Sotherton family and later of the Branthwayt and Micklethwait families).

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Welbeck MS: DnJ Δ 57 and CoR Δ 11. Discussed in H. Harvey Wood, A Seventeenth-Century Manuscript of Poems by Donne and Others, Essays & Studies, 16 (1931), 179-90. For Taverham Hall, see Thomas B. Norgate, A History of Taverham from Early Times to 1969 (Aylsham, 1969).

Copy, headed An Answere to the same [i.e. RaW 177] and here beginning Goe Eccho of the wynde.

Owned in 1732 by the Rev. John Jones (1700-70), of Abbots Ripton and Alconbury, near Cambridge.

This MS discussed in Lefranc (1968), pp. 584-5.

Copy of a fifteen-line version, untitled, later headed Song On bees. 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.

Copy of a fourteen-stanza version, headed The buzzeinge Bees complaynt and here beginning There was a tyme when seylley bees could speake.

This MS collated in May, pp. 128-32.

Copy of a fifteen-stanza version, untitled, subscribed Finis Essex:.

This MS collated in May, pp. 128-32.

Copy of a fourteen-stanza version, headed Verses made by The Erle of Essex, in a secretary hand, in a pair of conjugate folio leaves (ff. 20r-1v) of Elizabethan verse.

Given by J. Fowler 19 March 1918 on behalf of the owner Edward Weston Cracroft, J.P. (1849-1933), of Hackthorn Hall, Lincoln.

This MS collated in May, pp. 128-32.

Copy of a fourteen-stanza version, headed Verses or English poemes written by the Lo: the E: of E: and here beginning There was a time....

This MS collated in May, pp. 128-32.

Copy, imperfect, lacking the first four stanzas, here beginning But from those leaues no dram of sweet I drayne, subscribed quod Mr Iohn Lilly.

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).

Printed from this in Doughtie, No. [103], pp. 96-8; discussed pp. 178-80. Recorded in May, p. 111.

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).

This MS text collated in May, pp. 128-32.

Copy, headed My Lord of Essex his Bee.

With a few additions in Rawlinson's hand.

This MS text collated in May, pp. 128-32.

Copy of a fourteen-stanza version, headed Verses made by the Earle of Essex.

An anonymous reader has dated f. 58r Septemb^r 1⁰. 93 / ffebr: 30. [1]700/1.

This MS collated in May, pp. 128-32.

Copy of a 15-stanxa version, headed Henry Cuff made these following verses, his Lord, and Mast^r the Earl of Essex being then in some Disgrace, also headed in a different hand The Apologue of y^e Bee.

Compiled by Thomas Tanner (1674-1735)

This MS text collated in May, pp. 128-32.

Copy of the fourteen-stanza version, in an accomplished secretary hand, untitled but endorsed The ballade of a Bee, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves. Early 17th-century.

Partly compiled by Archbishop Sancroft.

This MS text collated in May, pp. 128-32.

Copy of a fourteen-stanza version, closely written in a minute hand, headed E. Essex with sidenote R: D: E. E. and subscribed p R. D: E:.

Compiled by John Ramsay (b.1578), of Peterhouse, Cambridge, and the Middle Temple.

Name (inscribed several times) of Thomas Russell. Given in 1724 by Robert Cook of Bokenham to Francis Blomefield (1705-52), Norfolk topographer, and with Blomefield's bookplate, 1736. Among the collections of Francis Douce (1757-1834), antiquary and collector.

This MS collated in May, pp. 128-32.

Copy of the fifteen-stanza version, headed Th'erle of Essex his Buzze, made in his decayed estate by m^r Henry Cuffe his Secretary, with two lines deleted in the fifth stanza.

Formerly among the F. Bacon Frank MSS at Campsall Hall, Yorkshire. Sotheby's, 11 August 1942, lot 70. Afterwards owned by Annie Winifred Bryher (née Ellerman, d.1983) and by the Ralegh scholar Agnes Latham (1905-96), of Pickering, North Yorkshire.

Recorded, as B. 3, in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, p. 459.

Copy.

Copy of a fourteen-stanza version, untitled, here beginning There was a time when silly bees could speake.

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 May, pp. 128-32.

Copy of a fifteen-stanza version, headed These Verses were pend by Robert late Earle of Essex in his first discontentm^t in y^e moneths of July and August.

This MS text collated in May, pp. 128-32.

Copy of a fourteen-stanza version, in a secretary hand, headed verses made by y^e earle of Essex 1598 in his absence from y^e Courte. Early 17th century.

Possibly assembled by a barrister of the Middle Temple.

This MS collated in May, pp. 128-32.

Copy of a fifteen-stanza version, headed A Poem made on Robt Deuorex Earle of Essex by m^r. Henry Cuff his Chaplaine.

This MS text collated in May, pp. 128-32.

Copy of the fourteen-stanza version, in a secretary hand, untitled, on the first two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed (f. 59v) The Bees Songe.

Among the collections of Randle Holme, probably the third of that name (1627-1700), herald.

This MS text collated in May, pp. 128-32.

Copy, untitled.

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

This MS collated in May, pp. 128-32.

Copy of the fifteen-stanza version, in the hand of Ralph Starkey (c.1568-1628), antiquary, headed A Poem made on the Earle of Essex being in disgrace with Queene Eliz:. by m^r henry Cuffe his Secretary.

Edited from this MS in May, Courtier Poets.

Copy of the first three stanzas, in a musicial setting, untitled.

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

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

This MS text recorded in May, p. 111.

Copy of the 15-stanza version, headed The Earle of Essex his Buzze w^ch he made vpon some discontentment he receiued, a litle before his iourney in to Ireland, Ano Dni 1598, here beginning There was a tyme when Bees Could speake, subscribed Robert Deuoreux.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Sum liber Johannis Botterilli, An^o Dni 1600. Nouembris 27 don Me 18 Augusti 1602 Myles B.

This MS text collated in May, pp. 128-32.

Copy of a fifteen-stanza version, in one secretary and one italic hand, untitled.

Including much Welsh verse and coats of arms, some by or relating to Sir John Salusbury. Compiled, at least in part, by William Cynwal of Penmachno for Catherine of Berain, wife of Sir Richard Clough.

This MS collated in May, pp. 128-32.

Copy, untitled, subscribed Henrie Cuffe.

Among the papers of the Fuller family of Brightling Park. Possibly once owned by Ambrose Trayton of Lewes, Esquire of the Body to James I and Charles I.

Formerly Folger MS 7038.

This MS text collated in May, pp. 128-32.

Copy of the fourteen-stanza version, untitled.

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

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

This MS text collated in May, pp. 128-32.

Copy of an adapted thirteen-stanza version, untitled, here beginning There was a time when sylly Bees coulde speake.

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

This MS text recorded (as very corrupt) in May, p. 111.

Copy of a fifteen-stanza version, with some alterations and a line deleted, headed in another hand Earle of Essex his Complaint.

Given by William Moore.

This MS recorded in May, Poems, p. 111, n. 64.

Copy of a thirteen-stanza version, untitled, on two tipped-in long narrow ledger-size conjugate folio leaves.

Inscribed (p. i) Per me Johannem Fry and Per me Gul: Fry.

This MS collated in May, pp. 128-32.

Copy of a fourteen-stanza version, in a professional secretary hand, headed Intituled the discontented Courtier, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

This MS collated in May, pp. 128-32.

Copy of the fifteen-stanza version, in a small secretary hand, untitled.

Copy of the fifteen-stanza version, headed A Poem made on Robt Deuorex, Earle of Essex by m^r Henry Cuff, his Chaplaine.

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

Copy of a fourteen-stanza version, in a secretary hand, headed By the L. of Essex.

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.

Later owned by James Douglas; by the Rev. John Brand (1744-1806), antiquary and topographer; and by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, 1836, (Heber sale Part VIII), lot 208, to Thomas Thorpe. Afterwards in the Britwell Court Library, at Burnham, Buckinghamshire, founded by William Henry Miller, MP (1789-1848) and maintained by Samuel Christie Miller, MP (1810-89). Britwell sale, 1927, lot 1499.

A complete facsimile in Tobacco: A Catalogue of the Books, Manuscripts and Engravings acquired since 1942 in the Arents Tobacco Collection..., Vol. I [Supplement] (New York, 1961), No. 115, pp. 118-20. This MS recorded in May, p. 111, n. 64.

Owned in 1882 by William A. Bragge, and later by J. Eliot Hodgkin, FSA (1829-1912), of Richmond, Surrey, engineer and book collector. Sotheby's, 12 May 1914 (Hodgkin sale), lot 1499]. Subsequently owned by Francis B. White.

Complete facsimile in Tobacco: A Catalogue of the Books, Manuscripts and Engravings acquired since 1942 in the Arents Tobacco Collection..., Vol. I [Supplement] (New York, 1961), No. 115, pp. 118-20. This MS recorded in May, p. 111, n. 64.

Copy of a fifteen-stanza version, in double columns, headed The Earle of Essex his Bee and here beginning There was a tyme when silly bees could speak.

A formal compilation written throughout in a calligraphic hand, in black and red inks with elaborate black and coloured decorations and patterned layouts, associated with one Henry Feilde, with his inscription (p. 1) N^o 4. Henry Feilde 1642.

Bookplates of Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary, and of the Rev. Charles Winn (1795-1874), of Nostell Priory, Yorkshire. Christie's, 2 July 1975, lot 229, to H.P. Kraus. Sotheby's, New York, 17 December 1992, lot 95.

Facsimile example in Sotheby's sale catalogue.

Copy of the first three stanzas only, untitled, here beginning Ther was a tyme yn sille Bees did speak.

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

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

Copy of the fifteen-stanza version, headed honi soit qui mal y pense, subscribed R Diuereux. Essex.

Probably compiled by a member of an Inn of Court.

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

This MS text collated in May, pp. 128-32.

Copy of the fourteen-stanza version, untitled.

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

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

This MS text collated in May, pp. 128-32.

Copy of a fourteen-stanza version, untitled, subscribed finis Essex.

Chiefly in a single professional secretary hand, some verse written on the front and rear endpapers in a different hand.

Bookplate of James W. Ellsworth.

This MS collated in May, pp. 128-32.

Copy of a fifteen-stanza version, headed The Earle of Essex his Bee, here beginning There was a Time when silly bees coulde speake.

Including 13 poems by Donne and 14 (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett; the scribe is that mainly responsible also for the Thomas Smyth MS (DnJ Δ 48).

Later owned and used extensively as a notebook by Dr William Balam (1651-1726), of Ely, Cambridgeshire, who also annotated Cambridge University Library MS Add. 5778 and Harvard fMS Eng 966.4. Bookplate of N. Micklethwait. Owned in 1931 by the Rev. F.W. Glass, of Taverham Hall, near Norwich (seat in the 17th century of the Sotherton family and later of the Branthwayt and Micklethwait families).

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Welbeck MS: DnJ Δ 57 and CoR Δ 11. Discussed in H. Harvey Wood, A Seventeenth-Century Manuscript of Poems by Donne and Others, Essays & Studies, 16 (1931), 179-90. For Taverham Hall, see Thomas B. Norgate, A History of Taverham from Early Times to 1969 (Aylsham, 1969).

Edited from this MS in Wood article, pp. 188-90. Collated from that article in May, pp. 128-32.

Copy, in a musical setting.

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

Also inscribed Marie Hammond.

Copy, under a general heading Songes & Dittyes to y^e Lute & Viol de gambo, with a sidenote M^r Jn^o Dowland.

Compiled by John Ramsay (b.1578), of Peterhouse, Cambridge, and the Middle Temple.

Name (inscribed several times) of Thomas Russell. Given in 1724 by Robert Cook of Bokenham to Francis Blomefield (1705-52), Norfolk topographer, and with Blomefield's bookplate, 1736. Among the collections of Francis Douce (1757-1834), antiquary and collector.

Copy.

Compiled and written principally by Dudley North, third Baron North (1581-1666).

Sotheby's, 29 October 1975, lot 149.

Copy, in a musical setting.

Copy of the incipit only, in a musical setting by John Dowland.

A facsimile edition of this volume published as The Folger Dowland Manuscript, intro. Ian Harwood (Lute Society, 2003).

Copy, headed Essex laste Voyage to the hauen of Happiness.

Copy, the full title-page dated Anno: 1598.

Possibly in the hand of Edward Paynton or Peyton, whose name, dated 1633, also appears in A Discourse of Court and Courtiers in HMC MS No. 266.

Woburn bookplate dated 1873, but probably owned earlier at the time of the fourth Earl of Bedford.

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

Copy, in two secretary hands, with various deletions and alterations.

Copy.

Copy in a secretary hand.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand.

Compiled by Thomas Tanner (1674-1735)

A fragment of a copy, on three folio leaves, the rest missing. Early 17th century.

Copy.

A flyleaf inscribed with the text of a settlement between Thomas Bancke of London and John Semens of Yarmouth, Norfolk.

Copy, closely written in Dr Clay's hand.

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

Copy.

Copy.

Among the collections of Browne Willis (1682-1760), antiquary, of Whaddon Hall, near Winslow, Buckinghamshire.

This volume discussed, with a facsimile of f. 92r (Plate IV after p. 272) in H.R. Woudhuysen, Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts 1558-1640 (Oxford, 1996), pp. 176-8.

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled.

Copy, in a predominantly italic hand.

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

Copy.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand.

Inscribed (f. iii^r) OL: Luke. 1679. Xber 8: i.e. by Oliver Luke (1626-1708), son of the parliamentary army officer Sir Samuel Luke (1603-70), of Cople, Bedfordshire. Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 1844 (Bright sale), lot 263. Sir Thomas Phillipps, Phillipps MS 11774. Sotheby's, 24-28 April 1911 (Phillipps sale), lot 1043.

Copy, in three secretary hands. Early 17th century.

In various hands, including the Feathery Scribe.

Yelverton MS 69, among papers of Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), Justice of the Common Pleas, and his family.

Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 43.

Copy, in a professional italic hand, with corrections in another hand, in a sewn quarto booklet of 25 leaves, the first leaf imperfect.

Volume CCCLIX (Series II) of the Dropmore Papers: papers of William Wyndham Grenville, Baron Grenville (1759-1834), Prime Minister, of Dropmore House, Taplow, Buckinghamshire, and associated families.

Volume CLXX of the Trumbull Papers, of the Trumbull family, including chiefly William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), diplomat and government official. Later belonging to the Marquess of Downshire, of Easthampstead Park. Formerly Berkshire Record Office Trumbull Add 16/11.

Copy, headed The Earle of Essexe Appollegy for his proceedinges at Cales, in the hand of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), merchant and antiquary; imperfect. c.1610s-20s.

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

Copy.

Copy.

Copy.

Copy.

Copy.

Among the collections of John Patrick (1632-95), religious controversialist.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand.

Copy.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, the first page numbered at the top 16.

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

Copy, in three or more secretary hands.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand.

Bookplates of Captain Henry B.H. Beaufoy, FRS (1786-1851), and of William T. Smedley (1851-1934), Baconian.

Copy, in several secretary hands.

Copy, 1597 in margin.

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, in a professional secretary hand.

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, in a professional secretary hand, on seven folio leaves, the first page foliated 99, the work dated 1598.

A flyleaf inscribed This belongs to M^rs Carewe of Crowcombe, Co. Somerset / T Philli: i.e.formerly among the Carew MSS at Crowcombe Court, Somerset, and borrowed at some time by Sir Thomas Phillips, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector.

Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 373.

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 also classified as EL 1205d.

Copy.

Phillipps MS 10665.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, on 22 quarto leaves.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand.

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

Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, headed Apology of y^e old Earl of Essex, on 21 quarto leaves.

Among the collections of Thomas Tenison (1636-1715), Archbishop of Canterbury.

Copy, closely written in a cursive secretary hand, on both sides of seven folio leaves, somewhat faded, once folded as a letter or packet.

Volume V of the collections of Edmund Gibson (1669-1748), Bishop of London.

Copy, in two professional secretary hands, on twelve folio leaves, frayed and slightly imperfect.

One in a group of papers here relating to Essex and his rebellion bought at Sotheby's, 20 February 1978, lot 137.

Copy, in a probably professional secretary hand, seven + iii folio leaves, unbound.

Copy.

A formal compilation written throughout in a calligraphic hand, in black and red inks with elaborate black and coloured decorations and patterned layouts, associated with one Henry Feilde, with his inscription (p. 1) N^o 4. Henry Feilde 1642.

Bookplates of Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary, and of the Rev. Charles Winn (1795-1874), of Nostell Priory, Yorkshire. Christie's, 2 July 1975, lot 229, to H.P. Kraus. Sotheby's, New York, 17 December 1992, lot 95.

Facsimile example in Sotheby's sale catalogue.

Copy, headed To M^r Anthonie Bacon An Appollogie of the Earle of Essex againste those w^ch falselie & malitiously take him to be the onlie hindraunce of the peace & quiett of his countrye, on leaves numbered 1-23.

Chiefly in a single professional secretary hand, some verse written on the front and rear endpapers in a different hand.

Bookplate of James W. Ellsworth.

Copy, in an accomplished professional secretary hand.

With a later title-page (f. [iii^r]), Leycesters Common-wealth...Together with other Political Papers written or Collected by M^r Beaupre Bell...De Beauprè Hall in Com: Norf: 1726. Inscribed inside the front cover by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), Oxford antiquary, Sept. 1. 1733. This MS. belongs to Beaupré Bell Junior, Esq. Tho: Hearne.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand.

Old pressmark E. 1. 36.

The original wrapper is an indenture of Sir Edward Osborne, leasing land in Harthill, Yorkshire, to Humfry Bark, 14 November 1586. The volume was once owned by Sir Julius Caesar (1558-1636), Master of the Rolls. His sale December 1757. Bookplate of Horace Walpole (1717-97), fourth Earl of Orford, author, politician, and patron. Bought at his sale in 1842. In the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 11788. Among the collections of Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence, MP (1837-1914), Baconian scholar and book collector.

Copy, in two professional secretary hands.

Inscribed (f. [i^r]) Given me by T.H.L. from The Library of his gt Grand.father. the Rev^d. J[ohn]. Parkhurst, M.A. [1728-97] The Hebrew Lexicographer.In the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 16896. Bookplate of Frederick Leigh Colvile (1818-86). Among the collections of Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence, MP (1837-1914), Baconian scholar and book collector.

Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand, dated 1599, inscribed imprinted at 1633.

Stamped (f. 1r) with name of Sir Richard Betenson, Bt (? the first Baronet, d.1679, of Hatton Garden, Holborn). Thomas Thorpe, Catalogue of books, ancient and modern...[and] manuscripts, Part 2 (1823), item 5903. In the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 2519. Sotheby's, 21 March 1895 (Phillipps sale), lot 301. Among the collections of Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence, MP (1837-1914), Baconian scholar and book collector.

Copy, the work dated 1598.

Owned before 1697 by Thomas Brotherton, of Hey, Lancashire.

Recorded in Edward Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ, [ed. Humphrey Wanley] (Oxford, 1697).

From the Hulton papers relating to Essex. Sotheby's sale catalogue Elizabeth and Essex. The Hulton Papers (14 December 1992), lot 4, with facsimiles of two pages. Phillips's sale catalogue The Earl of Essex to Elizabeth I (11 June 1999), lot 250, with facsimiles of two pages.

Copy, untitled but subscribed The Earle of Essex to the Earle of Rutland. 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.

Copy, headed The Erle of Essex letter to the Erle of Rutland.

Entirely in the rugged italic hand of Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician.

Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1. Recorded (as the Bedford MS) in Peter Beal, More Donne Manuscripts, John Donne Journal, 6/2 (1987), 213-18 (p. 213).

Copy, headed A letter sent by the Earle of Essex to the Earle of Rutland before his travaile beyond the seas in Anno 1595.

The lower vellum cover inscribed Book of noates collected out of M^r Traffords Sermons & others.

Copy, headed The Earle of Essex letter to the Earle of Rutland before his Travell very learnedly pennd, in a mixed hand, undated. Early 17th century.

Copy, headed The Earle of Essex to the Earle of Rutland, and dated 4 January 1594.

A flyleaf inscribed with the text of a settlement between Thomas Bancke of London and John Semens of Yarmouth, Norfolk.

Copy, headed in another hand A letter I suppose from the Ld Chancellor Bacon to a young Lord intending to travell.

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.

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed The Earle of Essex advice to the Earle of Rutland in his Travailes, the letter dated this 4^th of Ju..

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed The late Earle of Essex his Advice to the Earle of Rutland in his Trauailes, dated from Greenwich the 4^th of Jan: 1596, with the postscript. c.1630.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Sum Umfreville 1740: i.e. by Edward Umfreville (1702?-86), collector of legal manuscripts. Bookplate of Horace Walpole (1717-97), fourth Earl of Orford, author, politician and patron. Strawberry Hill sale, 30 April 1842, lot 86.

Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand, headed A letter of my Lo; of Essex Written to the Earle of Rutland going to travell, dated Ano 1597, on seven pages of four folio leaves. Early 17th century.

Assembled from various sources.

Copy, in a professional flourished secretary hand, imperfect.

Inscribed (f. iii^r) OL: Luke. 1679. Xber 8: i.e. by Oliver Luke (1626-1708), son of the parliamentary army officer Sir Samuel Luke (1603-70), of Cople, Bedfordshire. Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 1844 (Bright sale), lot 263. Sir Thomas Phillipps, Phillipps MS 11774. Sotheby's, 24-28 April 1911 (Phillipps sale), lot 1043.

Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, headed To the Right H: y^e Erle of Rutland By Henry Savall, on four quarto leaves, imperfect, lacking the last section.

Acquired from M.C. Hamilton 11 November 1873.

Copy, in two coloured inks, headed Robart Earle of Essex to the late Earle of Rutland, the letter here dated from Greenwich 4 January 1594, under a general heading (on f. 191r) Three lres concerninge Travaile & Travailors.

Mainly in three hands, with later additions in c.1683-99.

Inscribed names including Anthony, Thomas and John Marshall, Jonas Ramsden, Jenkinson, Thomas Maleverer, and Lawson. Owned c.1670s-90s by the family of Sir Thomas Seyliard, third Baronet (d.1701), of Delawarre, Kent. Later note: Bought this Manuscript at Montague's Book warehouse near Queen Street Lincoln's Inn Fields Tuesday Feb: 12 1739. Later armorial bookplate apparently of the Appleyard family of either Yorkshire or Norfolk. Phillips, 20 March 1998, lot 467, to Quaritch.

Copy, closely written in a cursive mixed hand, headed The Earle of Essex advice to the Earle of Rutl: in his travels.

Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, headed The Earle of Essex his aduise to the Earle of Rutland in his Journey. Early 17th century.

Copy, in a small secretary hand, headed The Earle of Essex advise to the Earle of Rutland in his Jorny, and dated Jan: 4:.

Copy, headed A letter written by the late Earle of Essex to the late Earle of Rutland, wherein he giues him directions how to make the best vse of his travailes, the second of Three Letters conserning one subiect...All giueing directions to their said frinds how to make the best of their Travailles.

Compiled by a University of Cambridge man.

Inscribed at the end Josephus Diggins me possedit: i.e. by Joseph Diggins, of Clare Hall, Cambridge (matric. 1607, d.1658). Christie's, 5 December 1973, lot 84, to Hofmann & Freeman.

Copy, lacking the first paragraph, here beginning Your lordship's purpose is to travel....

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, untitled., subscribed Jan: 4: H: S:.

Compiled by Sir Francis Fane (c.1612-80), of Fulbeck Hall, Northamptonshire, with his signed dedications to his son Henry (ff. 2r-v, 130r) dated respectively 1 January 1655 and 20^th. of Aug^t: 1663.

Copy, headed The Earle of Essex to the Earle of Rutland. Jan: 4: 1594.

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, with postscript.

Copy, headed The Erle of Essex his aduice to y^e E: of R: in his Travels, dated from Greenwich, 4 January 1596.

This MS recorded in BC, 15 (Summer 1966), p. 156.

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, subscribed R. E., and with a postscript.

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.

Copy, headed The Erle of Essex advise to the Erle of rutlande in his travell.

Copy, untitled, the letter dated 4 January [no year] and subscribed H: S:.

Inscribed by Fane to his son, as a book of travels to comfort him, dated from Aston, 1 January 1655. One later entry dated 1659.

Sold by Maggs, 29 May 1930.

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed A lre written by the Earle of Essex to the Earle of Rutland touching the direction of his travell Januarie 1594.

With a later title-page (f. [iii^r]), Leycesters Common-wealth...Together with other Political Papers written or Collected by M^r Beaupre Bell...De Beauprè Hall in Com: Norf: 1726. Inscribed inside the front cover by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), Oxford antiquary, Sept. 1. 1733. This MS. belongs to Beaupré Bell Junior, Esq. Tho: Hearne.

Extracts, headed Notes taken out of a letter of the Earle of Essex to the Earle of Rutland being to travill.

Compiled entirely by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire.

Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.

Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the Bacon-Tottel Commonplace Books, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).

Copy, in a secretary hand.

Christie's, 3 December 1986, lot 279, with a facsimile example in the sale catalogue, p. 37.

Copy of a variant version, in a predominantly italic hand, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, the second leaf with possible signature partly torn away, the verso bearing a spot of red wax.

Volume VIII of the collections of Edmund Gibson (1669-1748), Bishop of London.

Edited from this MS in The Works of Francis Bacon, ed. James Spedding et al. (London, (1857-74), IX, 16-18.

In the secretary hand of an amanuensis, with an eleven-line autograph addition signed by Essex (beginning This was written yester=night att S^t Albons...), on two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, addressed on the fourth page.

From the papers of the Hulton family, probably deriving from the third Earl of Essex's papers via his executors' lawyer, William Jessop, whose daughter married William Hulton in 1694. Sotheby's, Elizabeth and Essex: The Hulton Papers, 14 December 1992, lot 7, with a facsimile of the second page in the sale catalogue. Photocopies are in the British Library, RP 6340 (iv). Formerly MS Add 1039.

Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand, headed Another of the E of Essex lres written to the same Earle vppon his departure, on two pages of two folio leaves, endorsed on f. 99v Letters ffrom my lo: of Essex to the E: of Rutlans going to travell:. Early 17th century.

Assembled from various sources.

Copy, headed A Letter of aduice touching trauell written to the Earl of Essex by a frend, subscribed Essex.

Inscribed (f. 3r) Sum Ed: Umfrevile Jan^rio 1727: i.e. Edward Umfreville (1702?-(1702?-86), collector of legal manuscripts.

Formerly among the Hulton papers relating to the Earl of Essex. Donated by the owner of Hulton Park, Lancashire, to Rossall School, Fleetwood, in 1903. Sotheby's, 16 December 2004, lot 28, with a facsimile of the first page in the sale catalogue.

Copy, in Birch's hand, transcribed from EsR 0000.

Copy, headed Meditacon, and indexed (in the table of contents on f. 1v in another hand) as The Earle of Essex Meditacon.

Copy.

Copy.

Copy.

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

Copy, in a secretary hand.

The majority of the MS items here once owned by Sir Edward Dering, first Baronet (1598-1644), antiquary and religious controversialist. Portions of this volume once in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MSS 22355 snd 34574. Sotheby's, 6 June 1898 (Phillipps sale), lot 847. Bequeathed in 1816 by Captain C. S. Harris.

Copy.

An anonymous reader has dated f. 58r Septemb^r 1⁰. 93 / ffebr: 30. [1]700/1.

Copy.

Scribbling before and in the first item including Thomas Rastewell hys Booke, Johannes Barker (in court hand), Thomas Tamkine (? Thomas Tomkins), and Thomas Cooke.

Copy.

Scribbling before and in the first item including Thomas Rastewell hys Booke, Johannes Barker (in court hand), Thomas Tamkine (? Thomas Tomkins), and Thomas Cooke.

Copy.

Compiled by Thomas Tanner (1674-1735)

Copy.

Presented to the Bodleian in 1620 by Sir Peter Manwood (1571-1625), judge and antiquary.

Copy.

Copy.

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

Copy.

Formerly among the F. Bacon Frank MSS at Campsall Hall, Yorkshire. Sotheby's, 11 August 1942, lot 70. Afterwards owned by Annie Winifred Bryher (née Ellerman, d.1983) and by the Ralegh scholar Agnes Latham (1905-96), of Pickering, North Yorkshire.

Recorded, as B. 3, in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, p. 459.

Copy.

Copy.

Owned by another Robert Nalson in 1686 and later by Edward Taylor.

Copy.

Among the collections of Browne Willis (1682-1760), antiquary, of Whaddon Hall, near Winslow, Buckinghamshire.

This volume discussed, with a facsimile of f. 92r (Plate IV after p. 272) in H.R. Woudhuysen, Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts 1558-1640 (Oxford, 1996), pp. 176-8.

Copy.

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

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

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

Copy, in a secretary hand.

Possibly assembled by a barrister of the Middle Temple.

Copy, in a neat italic hand.

Purchased from Boone, 14 March 1857.

Copy of an account of the speeches on 8 February 1600/1, in a rounded hand, inscribed in a later hand Another Account from another contemporary MS. in the same collection.

Sotheby's, 21 November 1863, in lot 248.

Copy of an account of the arraignment, in three hands.

Sotheby's, 21 November 1863, in lot 248.

Copy, in a secretary hand.

Compiled for, and chiefly relating to, Francis Fane (1582-1628), first Earl of Westmorland.

Christie's, 18 July 1897.

This volume recorded in HMC, 10th Report, Appendix IV (1885), pp. 4-19.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, on eight quarto leaves.

Volume III of the papers of Sir Thomas Tresham (1543-1605), of Rushton Hall, Northamptonshire, recusant.

Presented by T.B. Clarke-Thornhill.

Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand.

In various hands, including the Feathery Scribe.

Yelverton MS 69, among papers of Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), Justice of the Common Pleas, and his family.

Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 43.

Volume CLXVIII of the Trumbull Papers, of the Trumbull family, including chiefly William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), diplomat and government official. Later belonging to the Marquess of Downshire, of Easthampstead Park. Formerly in Berkshire Record Office, part of Add 21.

Copy.

Copy.

Copy.

Copy.

Copy, in a secretary hand.

Copy, in a professional secretary 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.

Copy of a summary.

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.

Copy.

Copy.

Copy, imperfect.

Copy.

Copy.

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

Copy.

Copy.

Compiled in large part by William Jackson, one of the Custome Masters of Great Yarmouth.

Copy, imperfect.

Among papers of the Knatchbull family, Barons Brabourne, of Mersham-le-Hatch, Kent.

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.

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

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

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

Copy, in a professional secretary hand.

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

Copy of an abridged version, in a professional secretary hand.

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

Copy, in a professional secretary hand.

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

Copy of the 8 February arraignment, headed The manner of the proceedings of Robert Earle of Essex, and Henry Earle of Southampton, with their Arreignement...Written by Francis ap. Rice, and by him aproued of.

Copy.

Copy.

Compiled, probably at least in part, by George Turner Scoolmaster, as his name is inscribed at the end, a couplet on p. 179 reading Hic liber me pertinet and beare yt well in minde / Per me Georgium Turner so curteous and kinde. Possible contributors are members of the Bancrofte family, whom he might perhaps have tutored.

Various inscribed names (sometimes more than once): Anne Bancrofte, and Mary Bancrofte. Also, under 1624, a list of names with perhaps birthdates: Mary Bancrofte Ap. 28. 1611, Rich Bancrofte May 2. 1608, Elis Bancrofte Apr 27. 1614, and John Bancrofte Ap 30 1616. A legal document in the volume, dated 4 November 1645, relates to Willesden, Kilburn and Hampstead.

Formerly Folger MS 1027.2, this MS has been missing since 1991. It can be seen only on microfilm (Film Fo 4376.8).

Copy, in a professional secretary hand.

Bookplates of Captain Henry B.H. Beaufoy, FRS (1786-1851), and of William T. Smedley (1851-1934), Baconian.

Copy.

Bookplate of the Honourable Frederic North. Phillipps MS 7511. Sotheby's, 26 June 1967, lot 596 (incorrectly described as a commonplace book of Sir Thomas Crewe, Speaker of the House of Commons (d.1634)). Formerly Folger MS Add. 538.

A microfilm is in the British Library (RP 154).

Copy.

Inscribed names of John Paman (p. 57), Rob Hare (p. 81), Rob Toynton (p. 294), and Henry Myrielle (p. 656). Donated by William Moore by 1681.

Formerly MS 5119.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand.

Inscribed Lionel Tolmach -- 1600 of Bently.

This MS described in Spedding, I, 322-3.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand.

Copy of the arraignment on 28 February 1600/1, in a mixed hand, endorsed in italic Essex and Southamptouns arreigment.

Among the working papers and collections of Robert Wodrow (1679-1734), ecclesiastical historian.

Copy.

A formal compilation written throughout in a calligraphic hand, in black and red inks with elaborate black and coloured decorations and patterned layouts, associated with one Henry Feilde, with his inscription (p. 1) N^o 4. Henry Feilde 1642.

Bookplates of Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary, and of the Rev. Charles Winn (1795-1874), of Nostell Priory, Yorkshire. Christie's, 2 July 1975, lot 229, to H.P. Kraus. Sotheby's, New York, 17 December 1992, lot 95.

Facsimile example in Sotheby's sale catalogue.

Copy.

Compiled by Sir George Ent (1604-89), physician, a founding member of the Royal Society, to whom is addressed an inscription, sending the last item in the volume, on p. 226.

Copy.

Recorded in HMC 12th Report, Part IV, Rutland I (1888), pp. 370-3.

Copy.

Copy.

In the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 26199. Among the collections of Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence, MP (1837-1914), Baconian scholar and book collector.

Copy, in a secretary hand, dated 29_th of February Ano Dni 1600, subscribed with a note about the time of the arraignment in a rounded hand.

Among the collections of Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence, MP (1837-1914), Baconian scholar and book collector.

Copy.

Puttick & Simpson's, 11 November 1887, lot 1050. Briefly owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Bequeathed to his nephew and executor Ernest E. Baker. Acquired in 1960 from Emily Driscoll, manuscript dealer, New York.

Copy.

Copy, with a formal title-page in italic script.

A microfilm of this MS is in the British Library, RP 1683.

Copy, in two hands, twenty folio pages, disbound.

Later owned by W.A. Foyle (1885-1963), bookseller, of Beeleigh Abbey, Essex. Christie's, 12-13 July 2000 (W.A. Foyle sale, Part III), lot 313.

Later in the collection of Donald Frizell Hyde (1909-66) and Mary Hyde (1912-2003), Viscountess Eccles. Christie's, New York, 14 April 2004 (Lady Eccles sale), lot 34.

A facsimile opening in the sale catalogue.

Copy.

Copy, untitled.

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

Copy, in a secretary hand.

The majority of the MS items here once owned by Sir Edward Dering, first Baronet (1598-1644), antiquary and religious controversialist. Portions of this volume once in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MSS 22355 snd 34574. Sotheby's, 6 June 1898 (Phillipps sale), lot 847. Bequeathed in 1816 by Captain C. S. Harris.

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed The mann^r of the Executio of my L: of Essex.

The majority of the MS items here once owned by Sir Edward Dering, first Baronet (1598-1644), antiquary and religious controversialist. Portions of this volume once in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MSS 22355 snd 34574. Sotheby's, 6 June 1898 (Phillipps sale), lot 847. Bequeathed in 1816 by Captain C. S. Harris.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed The manner of the execution of the sentence of death vppon the Late famous Robert Earlle of Essex w^thin her Ma^ties Touer of Londonn and the affecte of his speeches w^ch he vttered immediately before his death, on the first two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

The majority of the MS items here once owned by Sir Edward Dering, first Baronet (1598-1644), antiquary and religious controversialist. Portions of this volume once in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MSS 22355 snd 34574. Sotheby's, 6 June 1898 (Phillipps sale), lot 847. Bequeathed in 1816 by Captain C. S. Harris.

Copy, headed The manner of the Earle of Essex his death in the Tower of London and his prayer.

An anonymous reader has dated f. 58r Septemb^r 1⁰. 93 / ffebr: 30. [1]700/1.

Copy, headed The Earle of Essex suffered upon Ashwednesday the .25. of ffebruarie 1600 within y^e Tower of London betweene .7. and 8 of the Clocke in the Morninge / The manner of his death and the whole summe of such words as he did speake to the Guard ouernight before he died and his speeches from his chamber to the scaffold to the houre of his death.... Early 17th century.

Scribbling before and in the first item including Thomas Rastewell hys Booke, Johannes Barker (in court hand), Thomas Tamkine (? Thomas Tomkins), and Thomas Cooke.

Copy, headed The beheadinge of the Earl of Essex. Early 17th century.

Scribbling before and in the first item including Thomas Rastewell hys Booke, Johannes Barker (in court hand), Thomas Tamkine (? Thomas Tomkins), and Thomas Cooke.

Copy, headed The maner of my Lord of Essex his execucon.

Copy, with sidenotes (? in Archbishop Sancroft's hand), imperfect, lacking the ending.

Compiled by Thomas Tanner (1674-1735)

Copy, headed The Earl of Essex his behavio^r speache and prayer at the tyme of his deathe.

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

Copy of an account of the execution.

Presented to the Bodleian in 1620 by Sir Peter Manwood (1571-1625), judge and antiquary.

Copy.

Presented to the Bodleian in 1620 by Sir Peter Manwood (1571-1625), judge and antiquary.

Copy of an account of Essex's execution and prayer at his death, in a professional hand.

Copy, headed The maner of his death.

Formerly among the F. Bacon Frank MSS at Campsall Hall, Yorkshire. Sotheby's, 11 August 1942, lot 70. Afterwards owned by Annie Winifred Bryher (née Ellerman, d.1983) and by the Ralegh scholar Agnes Latham (1905-96), of Pickering, North Yorkshire.

Recorded, as B. 3, in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, p. 459.

Copy, headed The Execution of Robert Earle of Essex in the Tower the 25^th of ffebruary 1600.

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

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

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

Copy, headed my Lord of Essex his confession before his death the 25^th of February vpon the scaffold Anno 43^o Regine Elizabeth, including His prayer before his execution.

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

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

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

Copy, in a secretary hand.

Possibly assembled by a barrister of the Middle Temple.

Copy, untitled, in a secretary hand.

Possibly assembled by a barrister of the Middle Temple.

Copy, in a rounded hand, inscribed in a later hand From a Contemporary Manuscript in the Collection of Mr Wilson.

Sotheby's, 21 November 1863, in lot 248.

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed The manner & end of the Earle of Essex in the tower of london the 25^th of ffe: 1600, on the first two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter.

Papers of the Hatton and Finch families, including notably Christopher Hatton (1632-1706), first Viscount Hatton, Governor of Guernsey, and his son-in-law Daniel Finch (1647-1730), second Earl of Nottingham, Secretary of State.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed A noate of what was done & of the speaches of the Earle of Essex at his deathe.

Volume III of the papers of Sir Thomas Tresham (1543-1605), of Rushton Hall, Northamptonshire, recusant.

Presented by T.B. Clarke-Thornhill.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, untitled.

Copy of an account, headed The execution of Rob^t Devereux late Earle of Essex the 25^th of feb: 1600 w^thin y^e tower of London.

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, headed Speeches of my Lo. of Essex the night before his execution out of his Chamber Wyndow to the yard and from his chamber to the place of execution and their as ffolloweth / 1600.

Copy of an account of the speech and execution, untitled, run on directly after the arraignment (EsR 214).

Copy, closely written in a secretary hand, headed The executinge of the Erle of Essex, on a single folio leaf with fold marks.

Copy, headed The true Copie in substance of Robert Devereux lat Earle of Essex his behevior speache and preyer at the tyme of his execution w^thin the Tower of london 1600.

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed A description of thexecucon of the Earle of Essex at the tower the 25 of ffebruary 1600.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, on a folio leaf.

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, headed The man^r of the Earle of Essexe his deathe [etc.], on a single folio leaf.

Copy.

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed The Man[ner of] the death of the Earle of Essex...to his best Remembrance that hard it, imperfect.

Copy, headed The speeches of Robert Earle of Essex the night before his execution out of his Chamber windowe to the guard, and from his chamber going to the place of Execution, including an account of the execution itself.

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

Copy, in a secretary hand.

Copy by Baker.

MS Baker 33.

Copy, headed The Last Speech of Robert Devereux Earle of Essex Within The Tower of London the 25^th day of ffebruary 1600, including The Earl of Essex his Prayer.

Compiled in large part by William Jackson, one of the Custome Masters of Great Yarmouth.

Copy, headed The description of y^e executione of y^e E: of Essex w^thin y^e tower the 25 of February / 1600/.

Among papers of the Knatchbull family, Barons Brabourne, of Mersham-le-Hatch, Kent.

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, headed The Execution of the Earle of Essex.

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

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed Concerning the Earle of Essex execution and arrainement.

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

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed The Manner and death of the Earll of Essex one A wensdaie the 25^th of febriari 1600 in the Towr of London: as follow &c.

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

Copy of an account of Essex's execution, including his speech and prayer.

Inscribed (f. 12v) Elizabeth James.

Copy of another account.

Inscribed (f. 12v) Elizabeth James.

Copy, headed The manner of Robert Ea: of Ess: his / The manner of Robert Earle of Essex his execution.

Facsimile of ff. 86v-7r in Elizabeth I Then and Now, ed. Georgianna Ziegler (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, 2003), p. 70.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed The manner & ende of Robte Earle of Essex in the Tower of London, inscribed in the margin 25 febuarij 1600.

Bookplates of Captain Henry B.H. Beaufoy, FRS (1786-1851), and of William T. Smedley (1851-1934), Baconian.

Copy, headed The true copy in substance of the late Earle of Essex, his behauiour, speach and prayer, at the time of his execution.

Inscribed names of John Paman (p. 57), Rob Hare (p. 81), Rob Toynton (p. 294), and Henry Myrielle (p. 656). Donated by William Moore by 1681.

Copy, headed Speeches vsed by the Earle of Essex at his deathe.

Inscribed (p. i) Per me Johannem Fry and Per me Gul: Fry.

Copy, headed Thexecucon of Robert Earle of Essex,the xxv^th of ffebruary beinge Ashwenday .1600. w^thin y^e Tow^r.

Inscribed Lionel Tolmach -- 1600 of Bently.

This MS described in Spedding, I, 322-3.

Copy, headed The manner of the Earle of Essex his death, the whole sume of all words as hee spake to the Guard overnight before hee dyed, and his speeches from his Chamber to the Scaffoulde, and alsoe vpon the Scaffould at the howre of his death.

Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, headed The speech and Execution of the Earle of Essex, on both sides of a single folio leaf.

Copy of a verse account of Essex's speech and execution, in double columns, headed Vppon the death of Robert Deuereux late Erle of Essex attaynted of treason (beginning Swete Englands pride is gone), subscribed Finis. 29 die Decembr: 1606, among other verses relating to him including (f. 60r-v) A Lamentable mone of a Souldier for the losse of his derely beloued Lorde (beginning Gallants all come mourne with me) which is subscribed Finis tertio die Octobris 1601.

Compiled by one Robert Hassall, who signs and dates many of the texts as wrytten...per me.

Inscribed on a flyleaf J H Lecke / Carden Park / Chester / Found at Carden 1886 and rebound 1886.

Copy.

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed The Manner of the death of Robert Earle of Essex, who was beheaded w^thin the Tower of London vppon Ashewednesday, 1600, on a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

Copy, headed The Speeches of the Earle of Essex and his Behaviovr vs:ed the night befor and at the Tyme of his Execvcion. A^o. 1600.

A formal compilation written throughout in a calligraphic hand, in black and red inks with elaborate black and coloured decorations and patterned layouts, associated with one Henry Feilde, with his inscription (p. 1) N^o 4. Henry Feilde 1642.

Bookplates of Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary, and of the Rev. Charles Winn (1795-1874), of Nostell Priory, Yorkshire. Christie's, 2 July 1975, lot 229, to H.P. Kraus. Sotheby's, New York, 17 December 1992, lot 95.

Facsimile example in Sotheby's sale catalogue.

Copy, among other papers relating to the Essex rebellion.

Copy, in a secretary hand.

Copy, headed The manner of the Demeaner of the Earle of Essex att the time of his Deathe.

In the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 26199. Among the collections of Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence, MP (1837-1914), Baconian scholar and book collector.

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed in a rounded hand The Speeches of the Earle of Essex and his behauiour vsed the night before, and at the tyme of his execucon. Ano 1600.

Among the collections of Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence, MP (1837-1914), Baconian scholar and book collector.

Copy.

Puttick & Simpson's, 11 November 1887, lot 1050. Briefly owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Bequeathed to his nephew and executor Ernest E. Baker. Acquired in 1960 from Emily Driscoll, manuscript dealer, New York.

Copy, headed The manner and end of the Earle of Essex in the Tower of London the xxv^th of ffebruarie 1600.

Copy.

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.

Copy, headed Thexecution of Robert Erle of Essex the xxv^th of ffebruary beinge Ashwenday 1600. w^thin y^e Tow^r.

A microfilm of this MS is in the British Library, RP 1683.

Copy, in a single hand, eleven octavo pages, disbound.

Later owned by W.A. Foyle (1885-1963), bookseller, of Beeleigh Abbey, Essex. Christie's, 12-13 July 2000 (W.A. Foyle sale, Part III), lot 313.