Giles Fletcher the Younger

Verse

A Description of Encolpius
('It was at evening, & in Aprill mild')

First published in Miscellanies of the Fuller Worthies Library, ed. Alexander B. Grosart, III (1872), 510-12. Boas, I, 89-90.

FlG 1

Copy, headed Nisus amore pio pueri &c. and endorsed in another hand 'tis Encolpus in Petronius. I had it of Mr. Blois.

In: A quarto composite miscellany of verse, in English and Latin, compiled by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, who lived in Cambridge as student and Fellow of Emmanuel College from 1633 to 1651, ii + 115 leaves, in calf.

Comprising three separate units: ff. 1r-96v all in Sancroft's hand; ff. 97r-104r in a second hand; and ff. 105r-9r in a third hand.

Including (on ff. 2-23, 27ar-v, 70) 94 Latin poems ascribed to Crashaw (including three of doubtful authorship) and (on ff. 29-41, 43v, 44v-58, 60v, 62v-5v, 67-70v, 72-3, 95-6) 101 English poems (plus a second copy of one of them) attributed to him (including one of doubtful authorship) and (on f. 16r-v) one Greek poem attributed to him; a list of contents on the first page beginning Mr. Crashaw's poems transcrib'd fro his own copie, before the were printed; among wch are some not printed….

c.1640s [and later].

Cited in IELM as the Sancroft MS: CrR Δ 1. Crashaw edited in part from this MS, and collated, in Grosart, in Waller and in Martin (cited as T or T5), and discussed in Waller, pp. vi-ix, and in Martin, pp. lviii-lxxiii. Folios 28-34v, 38v-41, 44v, 52v-6 reproduced in facsimile in Steps to the Temple (1970).

Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Boas.

'Surgens coerulco lotus ab aquore'

An unpublished Latin poem in honour of Frederick V, Elector Palatine.

FlG 2

Copy.

In: Two MS volumes of gratulatory verse presented to the Elector Palatine by the University of Cambridge on 6 March 1612/13. 6 March 1612/13.

This MS recorded in Leicester Bradner, New Poems by George Herbert: The Cambridge Latin Gratulatory Anthology of 1613, RN, 15 (1962), 208-11.

Letters

Letter(s)
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Autograph letter signed by Fletcher, to Sir Nathaniel Bacon of Stiffkey, Norfolk, 21 May 1611. 1611.

Later owned by Harry Lawrence Bradfer-Lawrence (1887-1965), Norfolk and Yorkshire antiquary and manuscript collector. Formerly Bradfer-Lawrence VII b (1).

Facsimile in IELM, I.ii (1980), Facsimile XIV (p. 76).

Documents

Document(s)
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Fletcher's autograph signed subscription for the degree of B.D. on 3 July 1619.

In: The University Subscriptions Book, 1613-38.

Facsimile in IELM, I.ii (1980), Facsimile XIV (p. 76).