Francis Bacon

Copy, headed An Ode ag^st Mans life, inscribed at the top Stubbs Poems, and followed (ff. 14r-17r) by A Parode in praise of humane life (beginning The worlds a Globe of State, our Life a Reigne), a Latin version (beginning Mundus Bulla lovis, nec vita humana porequat), and a Greek version.

J. Salkeld, sale catalogue No. 222 (17 June 1885), item 273.

Copy headed On mans Mortalite by [Doctor Donn deleted] S^r Fran: Bacon.

Including 18 poems by Carew and two of doubtful authorship, compiled by Nicholas Burghe (d.1670), Royalist Captain during the Civil War and one of the poor Knights of Windsor in 1661 (references to I Nicholas Burgh occurring on ff. 165r, with the date 3^d of June 1638, and 166r, and his name partly in cipher on other pages); predominantly in his hand, with some later additions in other hands.

Afterwards owned by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Burghe MS: CwT Δ 1.

Copy, in the hand of John Aubrey.

Edited from this MS in Aubrey's Brief Lives, ed. Andrew Clark (Oxford, 1898), I, 72-3.

Copy in Fulman's hand, untitled, subscribed F. B., followed (f. 41r) by an untitled Latin version (beginning Mundus bulla levis, nec vita humana peræquat), subscribed G.S. Equit et Baronetti f. A. M., and (f. 42r) by an untitled adaptation beginning The Worlds a Globe of State, all in Fulman's hand.

Second volume of the miscellaneous collections of Richard Davis of Sandford.

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

This MS collated in Grierson, p. 148.

Copy, accompanied by a version in Greek.

Inscribed inside the front cover, apparently by the principal scribe, George Taylar his booke witnesse by him that writ it October y^e :21: Ano domini 1646.

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

Copy, headed Doctor Kinge before his death.

Entitled Miscentur seria iocis. 1647. Elegies, Exequies, Epitaphs, Epigrams, Songs Satires and other Poems, a formal compilation entirely in the hand of the Yorkshire antiquary John Hopkinson (1610-80).

From the library of Cecil Brent, FSA. Sold by P.J. & A.E. Dobell, January 1938.

Copy, untitled.

Including 16 poems (plus second copies of two) by Carew, 19 poems by or attributed to Herrick (and second copies of six of them), 23 poems (plus second copies of two and four of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, 18 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and eleven poems by Waller.

Inscribed on a flyleaf Peeter Daniell and his initials stamped on both covers. Later scribbling including the names Thomas Gardinor, James Leigh and Pettrus Romell. Owned in 1780 by one A. B. when it was given to Thomas Percy (1768-1808), later Bishop of Dromore. Sotheby's, 29 April 1884 (Percy sale), lot 1. Acquired from Quaritch, 1957.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Daniell MS: CwT Δ 5, HeR Δ 2, RnT Δ 1, StW Δ 5, WaE Δ 9. Briefly discussed in Margaret Crum, An Unpublished Fragment of Verse by Herrick, RES, NS 11 (1960), 186-9. A facsimile of f. 22v in Marcy L. North, Amateur Compilers, Scribal Labour, and the Contents of Early Modern Poetic Miscellanies, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 106). Betagraphs of the watermark in f. 65 in Ted-Larry Pebworth, Towards a Taxonomy of Watermarks, in Puzzles in Paper: Concepts in Historical Watermarks, ed. Daniel W. Mosser, Michael Saffle and Ernest W. Sullivan, II (London, 2000), pp. 229-42 (p. 241).

Copy.

Owned in 1619, and probably compiled, by Simon Sloper (b.1596/7), of Magdalen Hall, Oxford.

Bought from Parker, of Oxford, 2 April 1889, by Percy Manning and bequeathed by him in 1917.

Copy, headed On the world. S^r Francis Bacon.

Including 16 poems by Carew and 13 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode. Written in three hands: i.e. A (Codrington's hand, including his own poems) on pp. 1-283, 349-55; B on pp. 284-9; and C on pp. 289-348, 356-60; dated (pp. 1-22) Anno Dom: 1638 and The 30^th of May. 1638.

Acquired from Blackwell's, 1962.

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

Copy, headed The Bubble by RW.

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

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

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

This MS collated in Hannah.

Copy, untitled, subscribed Bac: Vtrulamius.

Probably compiled principally by an Oxford University man.

Names inscribed on rear flyleaf and paste-down Elizabeth hosman and William Blois.

Copy, headed The Lo Keepers verses on the life of man.

The name Edward Michell inscribed later inside the rear cover. Afterwards owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Michell MS: CwT Δ 8. Briefly discussed (in connection with the poem Shall I die? attributed to Shakespeare) by Gary Taylor in The Sunday Times (24 November 1985, pp. 1, 3, with a facsimile example) and by Peter Beal in TLS (3 January 1986, p. 13); and see also letters on 24 January 1986, pp. 87-8.

Copy, untitled.

Including 14 poems by Carew; the main text (ff. 1r-27r) in a non-professional mixed hand of the 1630s (but for later scribbling); the remaining leaves filled by later hands; notes on family history from 1647 to 1664 on ff. 28r-9r.

Inscribed on f. 29v John Peverell Booke 1674 and his name also on ff. 1r and 49r. Fol. 48v containing a receipt dated 30 June 1653 by me Francis Blackitt of bro. William of Hoodcroft, Co. Durham. Other names inside the front cover including John Peves and Railphe Hogwood and, inside the back cover, James Portington, William Steadman 1675, Thomas Meeres, William Diton and Ramond Swift.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Peverell MS: CwT Δ 9.

Copy.

Including 27 poems by Cowley; eleven poems by Katherine Philips, evidently derived from printed sources; 10 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items; twelve poems by Sedley, plus one of doubtful authorship; and 15 poems by Waller, evidently derived from printed sources.

A note on a flyleaf relating to the bookseller John Dunton (1659-1733): John Dunton His Book, for which Mr. Corbet at y^e Addisons Head, accepted One Half Guinea in full Payment for it, as Witness my Hand, Hannah Rakley. A note on f. 1: Since I had transcrib'd this whole Book, I met with some state Poems of these later times, mostly since K. George's Accession to the Crown [1714] which I have here inserted, as a supplement to these state Poems which make a part of this Collection by themselves. Date at the end of the volume: 1718, and some notes on a flyleaf dated 1724.

The M^r. Corbet from whom Dunton purchased this MS was evidently the bookseller Thomas Corbett (fl. 1705-43), who ran his business at the Addison's Head, next to the Rose Tavern, without Temple Bar, from 1719 until his death in 1743. Neither Dunton nor Corbett are known to have used this MS for publication purposes.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dunton MS: PsK Δ 8; RoJ Δ 4; SeC Δ 1; WaE Δ 10.

For John Dunton's career, see Stephen Parks, John Dunton and the English Book Trade: A Study of His Career with a Checklist of His Publications (New York & London, 1970).

Copy of an eight-line version, in an italic hand, headed The Brevitye of Mans lyfe, beginning As a Tale tould w^ch sometymes men attend, and subscribed Fran: Viscount S^t Albons.

Partly in the hand of John Woodnoth (d.1634), antiquary, of Shavington Hall, Cheshire, with additions in a late-17th-century hand.

Later owned by Sir Simeon Stuart, third Baronet, MP (c.1724-c.1779/82), of Hartley Mauduit, Hampshire, Chamberlain of the Exchequer (constituting Volume VIII of the Stuart Collection). Purchased in 1778.

Copy headed Humani casus.

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.

Copy, headed Of the world By s^r H: wotton, transcribed from a printed source.

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 headed Vppon y^e miserie of Man Ld verulam viscoun S^t Albans, but subscribed Henry Harrington; transcribed from BcF 16.

Transcribed from British Library Add. MS 25303 and perhaps associated likewise with the Inns of Court. Including 23 poems by Carew and three of doubtful authorship.

Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 13 May 1856 (Pickering sale), lot 258.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Pickering MS: CwT Δ 11.

This MS the Pickering MS collated in Hannah.

Copy headed Vppon the miserie of Man, subscribed L^d Bacon, this ascription deleted and by Henry Harrington substituted in another hand.

Including 27 poems (and second copies of two poems) by Thomas Carew and three of doubtful authorship.

This MS largely transcribed in British Library, Add. MS 21433. The hand occurs also in British Library, Harley MS 3910, between ff. 112v and 120v, and is possibly associated with the Inns of Court.

Scribbled inscriptions including (f. 1r) M^r John Bowyer; (f. 2r) Jeronomus ffox; and (f. 3r) William Ralph Baesh.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Colchester MS: CwT Δ 13.

Copy, headed of the world.

Inscribed by the compiler, on an elaborate title-page (f. 1r), Abygall Guilford her Booke 1672.

Inscribed (top of f. 1r) This Book was I conclude my Grandmother Hoopers before her Marriage. Acquired from the Rev. H. Hooper, 9 December 1874.

Copy, untitled and unascribed.

Compiled by Sir Thomas Dawes (knighted 1639).

Purchased on 4 July 1873 from William Carew Hazlitt (1834-1913), bibliographer and writer.

Copy, headed De ambiguitate [brevitate deleted] vitæ.

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

This is a poem is by Francis Quarles, not Bacon's poem.

Copy, untitled, subscribed F: B.

Including 14 poems by Donne, six poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Carew, ten poems by Habington and 13 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Randolph. Owned and possibly compiled by Arthur Capell (1631-83), second Earl of Essex, whose name is inscribed in red ink (1*), in a similar roman hand to that on ff. 1r-19r. He married (1653) Elizabeth Percy (1636-1718), daughter of Algernon, tenth Earl of Northumberland; she was therefore the great niece of Habington's mother-in-law, Eleanor Percy, sister of the ninth Earl of Northumberland.

Later among the collections of Robert Harley (1661-1724), first Earl of Oxford, and his son, Edward (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II, i-ii (1987-93), as the Capell MS: DnJ Δ 43, CwT Δ 17, and RnT Δ 3. Discussed in Geoffrey Tillotson, The Commonplace Book of Arthur Capell, MLR, 27 (1932), 381-91.

Copy headed On the misery of man.

Compiled by one Thomas Crosse, whose name appears (f. 1*) in An Acrosticke upon my name, as well as subscribed (Tho: Cro:) to a poem on ff. 23v-4r.

Copy, headed in the margin Of Mortalitie.

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.

Copy of an untitled version, in a neat rounded hand, beginning The longest life of man / Is but a spann, on both sides of a single folio leaf.

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

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

Copy.

A folio volume; ff. 5r-80v constituting a collection of 97 poems by Donne, in a neat mixed hand; the text possibly derived from the same source as Leconfield MS (DnJ Δ 5); ff. 81r-7r containing poems by various writers (including three by Donne) in two other 17th-century hands, 133 leaves in all, in contemporary calf gilt.

The volume later used extensively as a notebook by Dr William Balam (1651-1726), of Ely, Cambridgeshire, filling up ff. 87v-134 (and compare Balam's annotated MSS DnJ Δ 16, DnJ Δ 57, and a miscellany of Robert Stonehouse, dated 10 March 1681/2: Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 5779).

Inscribed on the cover in a 17th-century hand [Thes?] for [M^r Coote?] Att his legeinge in bow street next to bull Couent garden. Donated to the library in 1916 by Geoffrey Keynes.

Cited in IELM as Cambridge Balam MS: DnJ Δ 4. Discussed in H.J.L. Robbie, An Undescribed MS of Donne's Poems, RES, 3 (1927), 415-19.

Copy of the last couplet (beginning What then remaines but that wee still should try), subscribed Lo: verulam, deleted.

This leaf is folio 7 extracted from the verse miscellany now Folger MS V.a.96.

Copy, headed Quarles vpon the life of man.

Among the papers of the Gell family, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, including those of the Parliamentary commander and MP Sir John Gell, first Baronet (1593-1671). Formerly D258/31/16.

Copy, on one side of a single quarto leaf.

Copy, headed On the frailty of this Life.

Copy, headed in the margin S^r fr. Baco, with a heading at the top of the page S^r fr. Bacons verses vpo mans brittle & fickle estate.

Inscribed (f. 1r), possibly by the compiler, Richardus Jackson 1623 and Richard Jackson his booke, who is described in a later pencil note as perhaps the brachygrapher. On ff. 113v-16r, in a later hand, is a Catalogue of y^e Books lately belonging to y^e. Rev. M^r Jackson Rect^r of Tatham.

Also inscribed (f. 1r) John Pecke. Sold by Thomas Thorpe, bookseller, in 1831-2. Among collections of James Orchard Halliwell (from 1872 Halliwell-Phillipps) (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Bought by him in 1871 from Sotheran's, London.

A 247-page transcript of this volume made c.1830 is in the Folger Shakespeare Library, MS M.b.26.

Copy, in a neat predominantly secretary hand, untitled.

Inscribed (f. 134v) Anthony Methuen. Later owned by members of the Wyndham family, including probably the Henry Penruddocke Wyndham (1736-1819), topographer. Sotheby's, 11 April 1872, lot 1331, to David Laing.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Laing MS: DnJ Δ 47.

Copy, headed S^r ffrancis Bacon.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) as the Emmanuel College MS: DnJ Δ 65.

Copy, headed The World, subscribed Ignoto.

Inscribed (on the front free endpaper) E libris Johanis Harding ex Aede X^ti Oxon 1672.

Copy, headed Humane life Charactered, imperfect, lacking the ending.

Compiled by University or Inns of Court men.

The extracted fols 7, 8 and 54 are now Chetham's Library Halliwell-Phillipps No. 2757, Chetham's Library Halliwell-Phillipps No. 2216, and Chetham's Library Halliwell-Phillipps No. 2217 respectively. The extracted fol. 9 is now Folger MS V.a.505, p. 27.

Inscribed (f. [104v] Thomas White His Book May y^e 20 Anno Domine 1691. Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps and in his library at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1.21.

Copy, headed Humaine life characted.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Stephen Wellden and Abraham Bassano and (f. 98r) Elizabeth Weldon. Later owned by William John Thoms (1803-85), writer, antiquary and librarian. Sotheby's, 11 February 1887 (Thoms sale), lot 1092. Also owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89). Formerly Folger MS 452.4.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Welden MS: DnJ Δ 49.

Copy, headed Upon the Miserie of Man.

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.

Copy, headed Humane life Charactered by Francis Viscount S^t Albanes, subscribed Lord: virulam.

Including 11 poems by Carew and 14 poems by Randolph.

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

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

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

Copy, headed Of mans misery S^r fr: Bacon:.

Including 11 poems by Donne, and 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett.

Later owned by Edward Jeremiah Curteis, M.P., of Windmill Hill, Sussex. Puttick & Simpson's, 30 June 1884 (Curteis sale), lot 175, to Pearson of Pall Mall for James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89). Formerly Folger MS 452.5.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), and II.i (1987), as the Curteis MS: DnJ Δ 50 and CoR Δ 9. Discussed, with a facsimile example, 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. (Washington, DC, 2001), pp. 44-57. Discussed in Arthur F. Marotti, Christ Church, Oxford, and Beyond: Folger MS V.a.345 and Its Manuscript and Print Sources, SP 113 (2016), 850-78. A facsimile of p. 36 is in Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey, Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper (Washington, DC, 2008), p. 32.

Copy, untitled, subscribed ignoto.

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

Later bookplate of Henry B. Humphrey.

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

Copy, headed Humane Life charactered by Fra. Bacon, Viscount S^t. Albans.

A (misapplied) title-page (f. 1r) possibly in another hand: Copy of Verses upon y^e Government under the Protectour Cromwel -- By Edmund Waller 1650.

Inscribed (f. [ir]) C F[?].

Copy of the first stanza, untitled.

Among papers of the Wittewronge family, originally from Ghent, of Rothamstead House, Hertfordshire, and elsewhere, and related families.

Copy, untitled, introduced by reflections on the miseries of life ending ...in the most retired quiet plentyfull Condition, Something falls out still veryfiing that of of [sic] our Sauiour, Sufficient to y^e day is y^e Sorrow therof. briefly thus, as on expresses it.

A commonplace book of quotations from largely devotional or philosophical texts under subject headings, neatly written in a single hand, with a title-page and table of contents.

Inscriptions in the MS including Crescentius Matherus 1680, Crescentii Matheri Liber 1682, Nathanaelis Matheri Liber 1683, By Mr Oakes, Elijah Warings Book 1734, Jne Daniell 1832, and Thos Alexander -- 1847.

Copy, headed Humane life Charactered by Francis Viscount S'^t Albans.

Including nine poems by Randolph, plus two of doubtful authorship.

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 10110. Bookplate of Robert Hoe (1839-1909), New York businessman and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Huntington MS: RnT Δ 9. Complete microfilm at the Shakespeare Institute, Birmingham (Mic S 15).

Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, untitled.

Copy, headed A description of mans life.

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

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

Copy, headed The World. a fit recitation for Evening.

Copy, headed Vita Misera. Ill. D. Fr. Baconus.

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

Copy, the text followed (f. 9r) by Farnaby's Greek version.

Copy, in a musical setting by Morelli.

Copy in a musical setting.

Copy, headed S^r ffrancis Bacon on the misery of man.

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

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

Copy, in an italic hand, headed Lord Verulam of the World.

Compiled by members of the family of Peter Chamberlen, M.D. (1601-83), Royal Physician, possibly by his son Paul (1635-1717).

Sold c.1851-2 by Thomas Thorpe Jr to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 12399. Sotheby's, 1895 (Phillipps sale), lot 906, to Ridler. Bookplate of Professor Frederic Ives Carpenter.

Calligraphic copy, headed The Worlde, on one side of a folio leaf.

In a hand associated with one Henry Feilde.

Copy, headed S^r Fr: Bacon. / On y^e Vanity of y^e Life of Man.

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 in a different ink Of the World, on a single quarto leaf.

Copy, headed The World, subscribed Fran: L^d Bacon.

Afterwards owned by Charles de Beaumont, the Chevalière d'Éon (1728-1810). Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872): Phillipps MS 9500. In the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, and art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936.

Copy, headed The Lord Verulams' verses and here beginning at line 8 (The rural parts are turned into a den).

Including 45 poems (and a second copy of one) by Carew, 11 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Corbett, and 25 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

The initials T. C. stamped on the front cover. Sold by Thomas Thorpe (1836). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9536, and by Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), of Providence, Rhode Island, industrialist, banker, and art and books collector. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 189.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Rosenbach MS II: CwT Δ 32, CoR Δ 12, and StW Δ 24. Discussed in Scott Nixon, The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 193-5).

Copy of a fourteen-line parodied version beginning What is y^e Life of man a uerry bubble.

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.

Copy, headed Mans life.

Owned and probably compiled by Robert Bishop. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9549. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue, English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 187.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) as the Bishop MS: DnJ Δ 59. Edited in David Coleman Redding, Robert Bishop's Commonplace-Book: An Edition of a Seventeenth Century Miscellany (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1960) [Mic 60-3608].

Copy.

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

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

Copy, with corrections.

Much of the volume (including 24 poems by Donne on ff. 15r-31v) evidently transcribed from the Dalhousie MS I (Texas Tech University, PR 1171 D14) and the text of some poems (including ff. 9r-11r) corrected from that MS.

Inscribed (f. 1r) with the date 28 September 1622 and, in possibly a child's hand (f. 1v), Andrew Ramsey. Formerly among the muniments of the Earl of Dalhousie (descendant of the Maule and Ramsay families), of Brechin Castle, on deposit in the Scottish Record Office (GD45/26/95/2). Sotheby's, 20 July 1981, lot 491, and 12 December1982, lot 49.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Dalhousie MS II: DnJ Δ 12. Complete reduced facsimile and transcription in The First and Second Dalhousie Manuscripts: Poems and Prose by John Donne and Others: A Facsimile Edition, ed. Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Columbia, 1988). Also discussed in The Donne Dalhousie Discovery, ed. Ernest W. Sullivan, II and David J. Murrah (Lubbock, TX, 1987), and in The Renaissance Manuscript Verse Miscellany: Private Party, Private Text, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, ed. W. Speed Hill (Binghamton, 1993), pp. 289-97.

Facsimiles of f. 10v in Sotheby's sale catalogue, and of ff. 20v and 26r in DLB, vol. 121, Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, First Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1992), pp. 320-1. Complete microfilms of the MS are in the National Archives of Scotland and in the Brirish Library, RP 2441.

Copy, headed Of Mans mortality, subscribed ffranc: S^t Albans.

Once owned by the Sir Henry Spelman (1563/4-1641), historian and antiquary, and later by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist, and antiquary. Puttick & Simpson's, 6 June 1859 (Turner sale), lot 164. Afterwards owned by Sir George Grey (1812-98), Governor of Australia, New Zealand and Cape Colony. Formerly MS Grey 2 a 11.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Grey MS: DnJ Δ 60 and HeR Δ 6. Facsimile of p. 119r (HeR 355) in L.F. Casson, The Manuscripts of the Grey Collection in Cape Town, The Book Collector, 10 (Spring 1961), 147-55 (facing p. 153).

Subscribed Made by S^r Francis Bacon k^t. baron Verulam Viscount S^t Albons & late Lord Chancelor of England, among other verses subscribed Finis Q p me Tho: Everardu, on both sides of a single mutilated folio leaf.

Also bearing at an upper corner the name Sarah Amler. Sotheby's, 21 July 1992, lot 9, to Quaritch.

Copy, headed How vaine a thing is Man, subscribed Visc: s^t Alb:.

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

Formerly MS G. 2.21.

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

This MS collated in Grierson, p. 148.

Copy, headed On the Worlds Vanity and subscribed Sir Fran: Bacon.

Copy, untitled.

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

A microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7698.

The first thirteen lines, quoted in Reresby's essay Of vertue, with introductory preamble I cannot giue thee a more worthie Moderne Instance; to make thee detest this base worlds vanities then my Lord Verrulams meditation of mortality, who truely saith:.

Written and composed by Sir John Reresby, first Baronet (1611-46), royalist, of Thribergh Hall, West Yorkshire.

Bookplate of Sir Thomas Brooke, Bt, FSA (1830-1908), Yorkshire antiquary and book collector, of Armitage Bridge.

Copy of a 20-line version, here beginning Some sicke Care overwhelms the husband's joyes, imperfect, lacking the beginning.

Owned in 1667 by Elizabeth Stalham. Owned before 1936 by Miss Alice Law. Sotheby's, 21 December 1936, lot 200, to Myers. Myers' sale catalogue No. 348 (1947), item 109.

Edited from this MS in Alice Law, A New Caroline Commonplace Book, Fortnightly Review, NS 66 (September 1899), 395-416 (p. 397). Discussed in Grierson.

Copy, subscribed ffr: vio^t: s^t Alban:.

Including 16 poems (plus second copies of two) by Carew, 19 poems by or attributed to Herrick (and second copies of six of them), 23 poems (plus second copies of two and four of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, 18 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and eleven poems by Waller.

Inscribed on a flyleaf Peeter Daniell and his initials stamped on both covers. Later scribbling including the names Thomas Gardinor, James Leigh and Pettrus Romell. Owned in 1780 by one A. B. when it was given to Thomas Percy (1768-1808), later Bishop of Dromore. Sotheby's, 29 April 1884 (Percy sale), lot 1. Acquired from Quaritch, 1957.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Daniell MS: CwT Δ 5, HeR Δ 2, RnT Δ 1, StW Δ 5, WaE Δ 9. Briefly discussed in Margaret Crum, An Unpublished Fragment of Verse by Herrick, RES, NS 11 (1960), 186-9. A facsimile of f. 22v in Marcy L. North, Amateur Compilers, Scribal Labour, and the Contents of Early Modern Poetic Miscellanies, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 106). Betagraphs of the watermark in f. 65 in Ted-Larry Pebworth, Towards a Taxonomy of Watermarks, in Puzzles in Paper: Concepts in Historical Watermarks, ed. Daniel W. Mosser, Michael Saffle and Ernest W. Sullivan, II (London, 2000), pp. 229-42 (p. 241).

Copy.

Compiled in part (ff. 131v-66r) by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.

Copy, in an italic hand, headed Another, following other verses on Richmond, on the second page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

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

Copy.

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.

Copy.

Pencil inscription on front pastedown: Charles A. Cole[?] June 26 '64. The rear cover stamped R. S. 1705.

Copy, headed On the Duke of Richmond.

Including 15 poems by Carew and 17 poems by King.

Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Bookplate of the Warwick Castle Library. Formerly Folger MS 1.8.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Halliwell MS: CwT Δ 26 and KiH Δ 11. James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Some Account of the Antiquities…illustrating…Shakespeare (1852), No. 8. Facsimile example in Giles Dawson and Laetitia Kennedy-Skipton, Elizabethan Handwriting 1500-1650 (London, 1968), Plate 42. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 195).

Copy.

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).

Copy, headed On the Duke of Richmond, dead sodainely.

Inscribed To my euer honored good Cosen S^r John Reresby Barronett these p^rsent: i.e. presented to Sir John Reresby, first Baronet (1611-46), royalist, of Thribergh Hall.

Among the muniments of Lord Mexborough, descended from the Savile family formerly of Methley Hall, near Pontefract, West Yorkshire. Formerly MX 237.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Mexborough MS: CwT Δ 29.

Copy.

Inscribed At Leith the 4 June 1649 Ro: Carre. Later owned by Professor Douglas Grant (1921-69). Sotheby's, 20-21 July 1981, lot 493, to Quaritch.

Discussed in Tom Lockwood, All Hayle to Hatfield: A New Series of Country House Poems from Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt q 44, ELR, 38, No 2 (Spring 2008), 270-303.

Copy.

Possibly compiled by one W: H:: i.e. probably William Holgate (1618-46), of Queens' College, Cambridge, with late 17th-century additions apparently made by other members of the Holgate family, of Saffron Walden and Great Bardfield, Essex.

Owned in the early 18th century by John Wale, who supplied the index on pp. 330-3. Owned before 1927 by Col. W.G. Carwardine-Probert, of Bures, Suffolk (descendant of the Holgate family).

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Holgate MS: DnJ Δ 58 and StW Δ 22. Briefly discussed in W.G.P., Verses by Francis Beaumont, TLS (15 September 1921), p. 596, and in E.K. Chambers, William Shakespeare, 2 vols (Oxford, 1930), II, 222-4. Also discussed, with facsimiles on pp. 68 and 70 of pp. 181 and 13, in Michael Roy Denbo, Editing a Renaissance Commonplace Book: The Holgate Miscellany, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, III, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2004). pp. 65-73. For facsimile pages see DnJ 2931 and ShW 25. Complete microfilm in the Essex Record Office (T/A 98).

Copy.

Owned and probably compiled by Robert Bishop. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9549. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue, English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 187.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) as the Bishop MS: DnJ Δ 59. Edited in David Coleman Redding, Robert Bishop's Commonplace-Book: An Edition of a Seventeenth Century Miscellany (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1960) [Mic 60-3608].

Copy, headed An Elegey on the Duke of Richmond who died on the Parliament day.

Folios 357r-68v comprising a portion of a quarto verse miscellany, in a neat italic hand, probably associated with the Inns of Court.

Old pressmark F. 4. 20.

Copy.

Given to Middelton on 20 April 1622 by Francis Burgoyne (d.1633), Prebendary of Durham. 19th-century bookplates or labels M. F. Middelton and Ex libris Charles Hervey Hoare. Sold in the 1980s by Joseph & Sawyer, booksellers

Copy, headed Vpon the Duke of Richmond.

Compiled by one Thomas Crosse, whose name appears (f. 1*) in An Acrosticke upon my name, as well as subscribed (Tho: Cro:) to a poem on ff. 23v-4r.

Copy, ascribed to Donne.

Compiled in part by I. N.: i.e. John Newdegate (1600-42), of Arbury Hall, Nuneaton, Warwickshire.

Formerly Long Island Historical Society MS 22, to whom it was bequeathed by Samuel Bowne Duryea. Sotheby's, 21 December 1965, lot 595.

Copy.

Owned in 1619, and probably compiled, by Simon Sloper (b.1596/7), of Magdalen Hall, Oxford.

Bought from Parker, of Oxford, 2 April 1889, by Percy Manning and bequeathed by him in 1917.

Copy.

Including 16 poems by Carew and 13 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode. Written in three hands: i.e. A (Codrington's hand, including his own poems) on pp. 1-283, 349-55; B on pp. 284-9; and C on pp. 289-348, 356-60; dated (pp. 1-22) Anno Dom: 1638 and The 30^th of May. 1638.

Acquired from Blackwell's, 1962.

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

Copy.

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

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

Copy, headed On the Duke of Lennox y^t died the day hee should goe to Parliament. 1624.

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.

Copy, headed An Elegye vpon y^e Duke of Lenox who dyed y^e same day hee should haue gone to Parliament.

Including twenty poems by Carew, eleven poems by Crashaw on ff. 10-30 passim, and fifteen poems by Strode.

Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1834), item 728. Acquired from C. Booth, October 1857.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Thorpe MS: CwT Δ 12, CrR Δ 3, StW Δ 9.

Copy of a twenty-line version, in a secretary hand, untitled.

Copy of the twelve-line version, headed on the Death of the D of R: by J. Elyot.

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

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

Extracts, translated into French.

Extracts.

Extracts.

Compiled by members of the Cartwright family, of Aynho, Northamptonshire, including (ff. 4r-7v) verse by William Cartwright (1634-76).

Inscribed names including Will: Cartwright, Jo: Cartwright, and Katherin Cartwright. Myers, sale catalogue No. 291 (1933), item 120.

Extracts.

Discovered c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914), book dealer and literary scholar. Dobell's sale catalogue No. 106 (1949), item 1.

Abridgement of The Advancement of Learning.

Volume XLIII of the Middleton Papers, acquired by the descendants of Dr Owen Wynne (fl.1680s), clerk in the Secretary of State's office.

Charles I's exemplum of the printed Oxford edition of 1640 with his motto and various comments and annotations by him in his neat rounded hand, a folio in modern crimson velvet gilt.

Bookplate of Sir Richard Brooke, Bt.

Extracts.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Johnes Mauritius Ano...1604: i.e. John Morris (d.1658), antiquary and book collector, probable compiler.

Extracts from Book V.

Extracts, headed S^r ffrancis Bacon his advancement of learning.

Compiled by one William Bright, entitled ffragmenta hic omnigena è varijs excerpta authoribus ad priuatum existunt vsum WB ex anno 1644.

Inscribed also inside the lower cover Will: Bright Novemb 12^th pretiu 8^d 1645.

Extracts.

Compiled principally by one Jo. Tempest.

Inscribed inside the front cover G. J. Farsyde Fylingdales in Whitby 1826 / These M S. were found amongst the papers of my Uncle Watson Farsyde. Peter Murray Hill, sale catalogue No. 72 (1960), item 22.

Extensive extracts, headed Notes out of Bacons advancem^t as 'tis translated by G. Wals. August 11. 1661.

Inscribed (f. [1r rev.]) Gulielmus Cartwright ejus liber praetium -- 0 -- 9 / 1651 and . J. Baddam.

A microfilm of this volume is in the British Library, RP 7250.

Extract from Bac: Aduanc: of Learn, in a predominantly secretary hand, under a heading Tepiditas.

Old pressmark G. 2. 8.

Copious annotations by William Drake in a bound-in set of misnumbered pages 70-103 of the Second Book of a printed exemplum of the 1605 edition of The Advancement of Learning.

Compiled 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).

Facsimile of ff. 17v-18r in Sharpe, p. 77.

Copious annotations by William Drake in a bound-in set of misnumbered pages 79-103 of the Second Book of a printed exemplum of the 1605 edition of The Advancement of Learning.

Compiled 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).

Extracts, headed Sentences out of Bacons Aduancem^t.

Owned 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).

Extracts, headed Concerning Dispersed occasions from some parables of Salomon by L^d Bacon Aduanc. pag 372.

Owned 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).

Extracts, headed Sentences out of Bacons Advancement.

Owned 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).

Extracts, headed Bacons aduancement pag: 73.

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).

Observations and extracts.

Formerly among papers of the Rev. T.W. Webb, of Hardwick Vicarage, Herefordshire.

Recorded in HMC, 7th Report, Part I (1879), Appendix, p. 682.

Formerly recorded in IELM, I.i, as BcF 54.5.

Extracts from Books 10 and 2, in a predominantly secretary hand, in double columns.

Ex dono bookplate of Thomas Sherlock (1678-1761), Bishop of London, 1761.

Used as binder's endpapers in a printed exemplum of John Sharp, Cursus theologicus (Geneva, 1628).

Recorded in Jan Moore, p. 80.

Copy, in a single professional secretary hand.

Extracts, in a mixed hand, headed An advertisement touchinge a holy warre written Anno 1622: by: ffr: S^t Albans.

Partly in the rugged italic hand of Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician, partly in the neat mixed hand of an amanuensis.

Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1.

Copy.

Copy, possibly made for William Rawley (c.1588-1667), Bacon's chaplain, amanuensis and posthumous editor.

Among the collections of Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian, for his edition of works by Bacon (1761).

This MS (erroneously cited as Harl. MSS. 4263) collated in Spedding.

A formal copy, ending The rest was not perfected.

Bookplate of Arthur Hewes Esq.

Copy in an accomplished roman hand (ff. 1r-6v) and neat mixed hand (ff. 7r-28r), on 28 quarto leaves, unfinished, ending The rest was not perfected.

Inscribed (f. 1r) W Hone / xvii.30.15. Among the Bacon collections of Basil Montagu (1770-1851), legal scholar and editor of Bacon's works (1825-37).

Copy in two hands, on 21 leaves.

Not available for examination for conservation reasons.

This MS collated in Spedding.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 44.

Copy, in an accomplished italic hand, with a general title-page, as By Fr L. Verulam Vicount S^t Albans. Newly finished.

Inscribed (f. [2r]) W Stonehouse p^rt 5^s.. Donated by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector.

Copy, imperfect.

A complete facsimile of the volume, with transcriptions, in Burgoyne, Alnwick MS (1904).

Copy, imperfect.

A complete facsimile of the volume, with transcriptions, in Burgoyne, Alnwick MS (1904).

Extracts.

This MS probably given to Viscount Preston by Daniel Skinner, his former schoolfellow at Westminster School; Milton's Commonplace Book (MnJ 66), together with the letter addressed to him by Henry Lawes (MnJ 10), were discovered by Alfred J. Horwood in 1874 among the papers of the Graham family at Netherby Hall, Longtown, Cumberland, and recorded in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, p. 320. The state papers of Viscount Preston, among whose muniments Milton's commonplace book (with related material) was found, were sold at Sotheby's on 10 July 1986, lot 303, and are now in the British Library (Add. MSS 63752-63781).

Bookplate of John Moore (1646-1714), Bishop of Norwich and Ely.

Copy, in a professional secretary and italic hand. End of 16th-early 17th century.

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 Spedding.

Copy.

Owned in 1784 by E. Dolben, as a gift of his cousin the Rev. James Afflick. Acquired from Bull & Auvache, August 1893.

Copy, in a professional predominantly italic hand, possibly made for William Rawley (c.1588-1667), Bacon's chaplain, amanuensis and posthumous editor.

Among the collections of Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian, for his edition of works by Bacon (1761).

The text corrected from this MS in Spedding.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, unascribed.

Inscribed (f. 1*r) by Humfrey Wanley Brought in by my Lord Harley, 23 March. 1714/5.

In the same hand as BcF 154, which Spedding describes as that of one of Bacon's scribes.

Copy, in a professional roman hand, on ten quarto leaves (plus three blanks). Early 17th century.

This MS collated in Spedding.

Copy, on twelve folio leaves.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 43.

Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, headed An advertisement touching y^e Controversies of the Ch: of England, 22 quarto pages.

Inscribed on the main title-page Jn^o Dowding. Among the collections of Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence, MP (1837-1914), Baconian scholar and book collector.

This MS collated in Burgoyne, Alnwick MS.

Copy, as Written by S^r: Francis Bacon.

Copy, in a formal secretary hand.

Owned by James Ussher (1581-1656), Archbishop of Armagh, scholar. Old pressmark B. 1. 13.

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

Copy of part of the tract, here beginning The wrongs of ye who are possed of the Government of y^e Church towards y^e others…, inscribed pag. 138 of his Works.

Copy.

In a single calligraphic hand, employing various scripts, a scribe identified or associated with one Henry Feilde.

Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 21 August 1858 (Bliss sale), lot 140.

This MS discussed in Van Strien.

Copy.

A microfilm of this MS is in the British Library, (M/488(2)).

Copy, in a professional secretary hand.

Copy.

Copy, in the hand of an amanuensis, the heading in Bacon's hand.

Copy, the first three and a half lines in the hand of the Feathery Scribe, the rest in another professional secretary hand.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 247-8 (No. 72).

Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 248 (No. 72.15), with a facsimile of f. 46r on p. 81.

Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand.

Bequeathed by Sir Jerome Alexander (c.1600-70), Justice of the Irish Common Pleas. Old pressmark G. 4.12.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 223-4 (No. 19).

Copy, headed Touching Suttons Hospitall / Sir ffrancis Bacon to the King.

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.

Grosvenor MS 36. Eaton Hall bookplate Case XXI no. 25.

Sotheby's, 20 February 1967, lot 266. Hofmann and Freeman's sale catalogue, 21 January 1968, item 1, vol. II.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand.

This MS recorded in Spedding, VII, 775.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as written by S^r. ffra: Bacon knight...at the request of my lord of Northampton. c.1630s.

Copy.

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

Copy.

In a single calligraphic hand, employing various scripts, a scribe identified or associated with one Henry Feilde.

Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 21 August 1858 (Bliss sale), lot 140.

This MS discussed in Van Strien.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, incomplete.

Inscribed (f. 1*r) by Humfrey Wanley Brought in by my Lord Harley, 23 March. 1714/5.

Copy, as written by S^r Francis Bacon...1608.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Sum Edri Umfrevile Jun^ris. Interioris Templi Studentis 1724: i.e. Edward Umfreville (1702?-86), collector of legal manuscripts.

This MS recorded in Spedding, VII, 775.

Copy, chiefly in a professional secretary hand, the ending on ff. 13r-15v in a second hand, as writen by Sir ffrancis Bacon knight, his Maiesties Solicitor Generall, anno Domini 1608.

Owned by John Anstis (1669-1744), Garter King of Arms, antiquary, and by Thomas Astle (1735-1803), archivist and collector of books and manuscripts.

Copy, as Written by S^r ffrancis Bacon.

Bookplate of Frederick Edward Morrice (d.1778). Inscribed (inside front cover) Samuel Swire Plues with the brotherly love of J.W. Watson. M.A. January 11. 1871. Stamp (on f. 1r) of Samuel Swire Plues Belize 1872. Inscribed (f. 1v) Nor^d: [Norwood] Rand from his ffather W^m Rand. Among the collections of Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence, MP (1837-1914), Baconian scholar and book collector.

Copy, headed The coppie of a letter written by Sir ffrauncis Bacon to the Earle of Deuonshire by waye of Apologie concerning his proceeding against the Late Earle of Essex.

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

Extracts.

Four leaves of this commonplace book are in the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, ER 82/1/21.

Owned in 1615-16 by one Bassett and in the 1880s by Richard Savage. At the Neligan sale, 2 August 1888, lot 1098. Bought by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), and his sale 4 July 1889, lot 1257.

All the Shakespearian texts except Othello were edited from this MS in Richard Savage's Shakespearean Extracts (1887). The MS also edited in Juliet Mary Gowan, An Edition of Edward Pudsey's Commonplace Book (c.1600-1615) (unpublished M. Phil., University of London, 1967). It was then found that the miscellany lacked several of its original leaves, including extracts from six plays by Shakespeare. These leaves were rediscovered in 1977 among Savage's papers at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, ER 82/1/21, and the Othello extracts identified by Gowan. The MS also discussed in J. Rees, Shakespeare and Edward Pudsey's Booke, 1600, N&Q, 237 (September 1992), 330-1; in Juliet Gowan, One Man in His Time: The Notebook of Edward Pudsey, Bodleian Library Record, 22 (2009), 94–101; in Fred Schurink, Manuscript Commonplace Books, Literature, and Reading in Early Modern England, HLQ, 73/3 (2010), 453-69 (pp. 465-9), with a facsimile of f. 31r on p. 467; and in Tom Lockwood, At Mr Marston’s Request: Edward Pudsey and the Inns of Court, N&Q, 63 (September 2016), 450-3.

Extracts, translated into French.

Copy, in a secretary hand, subscribed An: Dom: 1623. Octob: 20: per Eduardum Sadleir. 1623.

Sotheby's, 31 March 1875, lot 22, to Sabin. Later in the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Formerly General MSS Misc AM 21463.

This MS unpublished. Conceivably belonging to the Promus of Formularies and Elegancies (BcF 269).

Extracts.

Compiled possibly by one Thomas Parsons, whose name is subscribed to a letter on f. 92v.

Extracts, headed L^d Bacons judgement of Apothegmes.

Owned 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).

Rawley's copies of some apothegmes possibly transcribed from Bacon's papers, as well as various anecdotes about him.

Entirely in the hand of William Rawley (c.1588-1667), Bacon's chaplain, amanuensis, and editor.

Formerly MS 1034.

Selected apothegms edited from this MS in Spedding and in Kiernan, pp. 647-51.

Copy of the four Arguments, largely in the professional secretary hand of one amanuensis, with Bacon's copious autograph insertions and revisions, with a title-page: The Arguments of Lawe of Sir ffrancis Bacon Knight the Kinges Sollicitor generall in certaine great and difficult Cases, initialled by him at the end F. B.

Among the collections of Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian, for his edition of works by Bacon (1761).

Edited from this MS in Blackbourne and in Spedding.

Copy of four Arguments (as in BcF 87); imperfect at the beginning.

Copy of three arguments.

Beal, In Praise of Scribes, Appendix II, p. 260, No. 101.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with no general title.

Copy, in two professional hands.

Copy.

This MS recorded in Spedding.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed Sir Thomas Egertons Arguments &c.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with no general heading.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with a title-page The Cause of the Marches of Wales.

Among collections of Sir John Maynard, MP (1604-90), lawyer and politician.

Copy, headed The Cause of the Marches of Walles.

Inscribed in a rounded hand (f. [iv^r]) This booke was Copyed At S^r Roger Mostyn of Mostyn house [in Flintshire] at my being there from Christomas to May.w^ch was drawen out of the bookes of that truely Noble gent. Richard Grosveno^r Esque sole son, and heire vnto S^r Richard Grosveno^r knight and Barronett of Eathen=boate in chestore. w^ch said Richard Grosveno^r was marryed to m^ris Sidney Mostyn daughter to that honorable knight S^r Roger Mostyn...finished and bound vpp the 25^th of Aprill 1637.

Bookplate of Sir William Betham (1779-1853), Ulster King of Arms. In the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 13219. Among the collections of Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence, MP (1837-1914), Baconian scholar and book collector.

Copy of the arguments by Bacon and others, with second copies of two of the arguments, in three professional secretary hands, 41 folio pages.

Copy.

In several professional hands, including that of the Feathery Scribe.

Once owned by Sir Richard Grosvenor (1585-1645), and Liber 4 (=MS 20) in his list of MS volumes, 18 February 1634/5. Later owned by the Duke of Westminster, Eaton Hall, Cheshire. Eaton Hall booklabel Case XXI n^o 12. Hofmann and Freeman sale catalogue No. 21 (January 1968), item 1 (vols i and ii)i.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, pp. 212-14. Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 252-3 (No. 82). A microfilm of the MS is in the British Library, RP 217.

Formerly among the MSS of Reginald Cholmondeley of Condover Hall, Shropshire.

Recorded in HMC, 5th Report (1876), Appendix, p. 338.

Copy, written in Law French.

An English translation of this MS in Spedding.

Copy, with one or two corrections possibly (but not clearly) in Bacon's hand.

Possibly a manuscript presented by Bacon to James I.

Edited from this MS in Spedding, VII, 637-79.

Extracts, in Drake's hand, headed Notes taken from the Argument of Sir ffrancis Bacon in the Case of the Post Nati of of [sic] Scotland in the Exchequer Chamber he being then Solliciter / M^r Hall hath the Originall.

Compiled in part 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 professional secretary hand, slightly imperfect at the top edges and the heading largely torn away.

Volume XXIV of the papers of the Brockman family, of Beachborough, Newington-next-Hythe, Kent, and related families.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as by S^r ffrancis Bacon knight, incomplete. c.1620.

Volume XXIV of the papers of the Brockman family, of Beachborough, Newington-next-Hythe, Kent, and related families.

Copy, incomplete.

This MS recorded (but not seen) in Spedding, VII, 305-6.

Formerly a Phillipps MS (? MS 29480). Bookplate of the Fairfax family. Christie's, 22 March 1972, lot 306.

Copy of Bacon's letter to the judges for deferring his argument in the Case De Commenda, 25 April 1616, in the professional secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe.

A blank leaf (f. 88r) inscribed William Howard 1635: i.e. Lord William Howard (1563-1640), of Naworth Castle, antiquary. Owned in 1749 by John Murray.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 256-7 (No. 92).

Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand.

Old pressmark E. 2. 7.

Copy, in the professional secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe, headed Touchinge the Comendams att Whitehall the vj^th of June Anno 1616: the xiiij Jacobi.

Owned 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, on seven pages of four folio leaves.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 43.

Copy, headed The History of the raigne of King Henry the eight.

Edited from this MS in Spedding and in Kiernan.

Copy, in the hand of one of Bacon's amanuenses.

Edited from this MS in Spedding.

Copy, in a small mixed hand, varying in style, subscribed Fr: B, possibly made for William Rawley (c.1588-1667), Bacon's chaplain, amanuensis and posthumous editor.

Among the collections of Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian, for his edition of works by Bacon (1761).

Copy, on nine pages of five folio leaves.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 43.

Copy, the title in a large secretary hand, the rest in a roman hand, subscribed An: Dom: 1623: Octob: 24. per me Edwardu Sadleir. 1623.

Extracts, in two cursive italic hands, headed Secunda pars Baconi / of friendship.

Owned 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).

Autograph draft, headed Sequela cartarum sive Inquisitio Legitima de calore et frigore.

Edited from this MS in Stephens and in Spedding.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand.

This MS recorded in Spedding, p. 775.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand.

Inscribed in pencil (f. [i^r]) bought of M^rs. Whitlock.

Copy.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Sum Edri Umfrevile Jun^ris. Interioris Templi Studentis 1724: i.e. Edward Umfreville (1702?-86), collector of legal manuscripts.

This MS recorded in Spedding, VII, 775.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand.

Once owned by John Anstis (1669-1745), Garter King of Arms, antiquary.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, unascribed.

Afterwards owned by Sir Simonds D'Ewes, Bt, MP (1602-50), diarist and antiquary. Inscribed (f. 2r) G Hewett.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 227-8 (No. 27).

Copy, in a neat roman hand, as by S^r ffrancis Bacon Knight.

Book-stamp on cover of Henry Percy (1564-1632), ninth Earl of Northumberland (the Wizard Earl). Formerly Leconfield MS 115, at Petworth House, Sussex. Sotheby's, 23-24 April 1928 (Leconsfield sale), lot 149.

Recorded in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, p. 311.

Copy, on twelve folio leaves.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 43.

Copy, in the hand of the Feathery Scribe.

Sotheby's, 4 July 1955 (André de Coppet sale), lot 950, to Maggs. Formerly Folger MS Add. 35.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 262-5 (No. 108).

Copy, unascribed.

Sotheby's, 15 March 1895, lot 207. In the library of Herbert Somerton Foxwell (1849-1936), economist and bibliographer.

Copy.

Copy.

This MS recorded in Spedding, X, 218.

Extracts.

Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand, with a few corrections possibly in Bacon's hand (inserted words Actors on f. 92v, whereof and hear of on f. 100v, and just possibly But on f. 103r and doe on f. 105r), other corrections probably in the hand of the scribe, on 61 quarto pages plus two blank leaves.

Edited from this MS in Spedding, X, 103-27.

Extracts, in the hand of the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Lo. S^t Albans reformation of the church of Ingland.

Chiefly in the rugged italic hand of Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician, partly in the rounded secretary hand of an amanuensis and two others.

Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1.

Copy, transcribed from the edition of 1604.

Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand. Early 17th century.

Copy, in a professional predominantly italic hand, subscribed Fr: Bacon, possibly made for William Rawley (c.1588-1667), Bacon's chaplain, amanuensis and posthumous editor.

Among the collections of Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian, for his edition of works by Bacon (1761).

Copy, in a professional italic hand, on quarto leaves.

Among the collections of Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian, for his edition of works by Bacon (1761).

Copy, in two hands, one predominantly secretary, the other cursive italic, on quarto leaves, incomplete or imperfect, comprising only the beginning.

Among the collections of Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian, for his edition of works by Bacon (1761).

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, unascribed.

Inscribed (f. 1*r) by Humfrey Wanley Brought in by my Lord Harley, 23 March. 1714/5.

In the same hand as BcF 154, which Spedding describes as that of one of Bacon's scribes.

Copy, closely written in a cursive secretary hand, subscribed Francis Bacon. Early 17th century.

At least partly compiled by John Bagford, London bookseller and antiquary.

Facsimile of sigs D4^v-[E1^r] in Serjeantson and Woolford, p. 146.

Copy, in a probably professional hand, docketed (f. 1r) Bye F: B: but y^e name not added to the Tract, with other markings and comments by one or two readers relating to pages here missing in the printed edition. Early 17th century.

Facsimile example of f. 11v in Serjeantson and Woolford, p. 142.

Extracts, in the secretary hand of Thomas Gell, MP (1595-1657), of the Inner Temple, headed Certaine considerations touching the Church of England dedicated to his most excellent maiestie, transcribed from sigs A3^v-D4^r of the printed edition of 1604.

Among the papers of the Gell family, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, including those of the Parliamentary commander and MP Sir John Gell, first Baronet (1593-1671).

Copy, on fourteen folio leaves.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 43.

Gift of Roland L. Redmond, 1950. Formerly W 01 A.

Facsimile of sigs D4^v-[E1^r] in Serjeantson and Woolford, p. 146.

Once owned by Tobie Matthew (1544?-1628), Archbishop of York. Donated in 1629 by Mrs Frances Matthew.

Copy, headed A discourse of Policye in Church gouernment written to his Ma^tye by S^r. Francis Bacon Knight

Bookplate of John Ludford Esq.

Sotheby's, 1941 (W.M. Safford sale).

Inscribed on the title-page: this booke is not [in] print, only foure s[heets] was printed and the bishop of Lond[on] called it in a[nd] would not suf[fer more] to be printed, [that] wch was not [printed] I got in writt[en] hand as you see.

Sotheby's, 1941 (W.M. Safford sale).

Sigs E1^v, E2^r, E3^v, E4^r in a cursive secretary hand, sig F1^r-v in a rounded secretary hand.

The upper cover inscribed for M^r. Robert Fil[mer?].

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as by S^r: Francis Bacon knight, 35 leaves.

Volume XXIII of the Denmilne Papers, collected by Sir James Balfour, first Baronet (1600-57), of Denmilne and Kinncaird, Lyon King of Arms and antiquary.

Copy, in the secretary hand of an amanuensis, with Bacon's autograph inscription praesented to his M. [by S^r fr 1605 deleted] 1606.

Edited from this MS in Spedding.

Probably a presentation MS, either to Lord Ellesmere or to James I.

A 19th-century transcript of this MS is Huntington, EL 1744.

Copy, with some corrections in another 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 the letter on the Queen's religious policies.

Copy of the letter on the Queen's religious policies.

Constituting Volume LV of the Leeds Papers, chiefly collected by Sir Thomas Osborne (1632-1712), Earl of Danby and first Duke of Leeds, politician.

Copy of the letter on the Queen's religious policies.

Copy of the letter on the Queen's religious policies.

Copy of the letter on the Queen's religious policies.

Formerly MS F. 2. 20.

Copy.

Copy, as Made by Francis Bacon, in two hands, one predominantly italic, the other secretary, at least one of which was employed by William Rawley (c.1588-1667), Bacon's chaplain, amanuensis and posthumous editor, imperfect.

Among the collections of Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian, for his edition of works by Bacon (1761).

This MS collated in Spedding.

Copy, headed Certaine notes & observations vpon a most infamous & diffamatory Libell, written by a most notorious & knowne Traitor....

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, in a cursive secretary hand, imperfect and one leaf misbound.

This MS collated in Spedding.

Copy of the first part, headed An answere to a libillous boke intitled the causes of the troubles of the Commonwealth of England or the Cecillian gouernment, imperfect, lacking the rest.

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

This MS collated in Spedding.

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

This MS collated in Spedding.

Copy, headed Certaine notes and observations vpon a most infamous and knowen Trayter and Intituled A declaration of the causes of the troubles presupposed to bee against England A^o. Dni. 1592, incomplete.

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 of an abridged version.

This MS collated in Spedding.

Copy, in several hands, on 32 folio leaves.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 43.

Copy, in the same hand as BcF 160.

Copy, numbered by the second Earl of Bridgewater 2.

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed Certaine obsuacons vpon a libell...[&c.].

Copy, in a professional secretary hand.

Inscribed (f. ii^r) Thomas Brudenell de Deen: 1607: i.e. Thomas Brudenell (c.1583-1663), first Earl of Cardigan, who has also annotated the first page in brown ink, including inserting the word erroneous between Certayne and Observacons in the heading.

Sotheby's, 20 February 1967, lot 241.

Copy, in two hands.

Folios 5r-217r, 225r-31r in a semi-calligraphic secretary hand, formal title-pages and headings with heavily inked borders and decoration, associated with one Henry Feilde; folios 217v-24v in a different secretary hand; folios 232r-5v in a third hand.

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 8989. Among the collections of Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence, MP (1837-1914), Baconian scholar and book collector.

Copy of the third section, Of the Proceedings against the pretended Catholicks, whether they haue been violent or moderate and necessarie. Early 17th century.

This MS collated in Spedding.

Copy of the third section only, in a professional secretary hand, entitled Of the proceedings against the pretended Catholiques &c.

This MS collated in Spedding.

Copy of part of the fourth and sixth sections, in a small secretary hand, headed Touching the proceedings betweene Spaine and England and certaine true generall notes Vppon the actions of the Lo. Burghley, on three quarto leaves. c.1592-early 1600s.

This volume discussed and printed in part, with facsimile examples, in F. Haverfield, Cotton Iulius F. VI Notes on Reginald Bainbrigg of Appleby, on William Camden and on some Roman Inscriptions, Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, NS 11 (1911), 343-78.

This MS collated in Spedding.

Copy of A letter to a ffrench gent: touching y^e proceedings in Engl: in Ecclesiasticall causes by W.W. (c.1589-90) later incorporated in Certain Observations made upon a Libel, imperfect.

A complete facsimile of the volume, with transcriptions, in Burgoyne, Alnwick MS (1904).

Copy of the introductory Epistle to the Reader, in a stylish secretary hand with some italic for highlighting, on three folio leaves, foliated in pencil 53-55, endorsed on an additional blank leaf A beginning of a / A Discourse.

Autograph notebook, entitled Comentarius solutus siue Pandecta siue Ancilla Memoriæ, containing memoranda in English and Latin transferred from earlier notebooks; originally the first of two such books, with various dates 25-31 July, 6 August 1608, and 28 October 1609.

Later owned by Thomas Tenison (1636-1715), Archbishop of Canterbury. Sotheby's, 1 July 1861 (Tenison sale), lot 11, to John Forster (1812-76), writer. Donated January 1866.

Facsimile pages in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate LXXVII(b); in BC, 15 (Summer 1966), p. 185; and in EMS, 16 (2011), p. 202.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as by M^r Baco.

Inscribed (f. 1*r) by Humfrey Wanley Brought in by my Lord Harley, 23 March. 1714/5.

Edited from this MS in Spedding, VII, 217-26, who describes the hand as that of one of Bacon's scribes.

Copy, imperfect at the end.

Copy, as by ffr: Bacon, in two italic hands, one that of William Rawley (c.1588-1667), Bacon's chaplain, amanuensis and posthumous editor.

Among the collections of Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian, for his edition of works by Bacon (1761).

This MS collated in Spedding.

Copy, headed The Confession of ffaith written by the Late Lord Keeper S^r ffrancis Bacon.

In the collection of Francis Hargrave (1740/1-1821), legal writer. Inscribed by him on f. [i^v] F Hargrave A gift to me this day from my friend George Hardinge Esquire [(1743-1816), judge and writer]. F. H. 16. July 1789.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 232-3 (No. 41).

Copy.

This MS collated in Spedding.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as Written by ffrancis Lord Viscount S^t: Albaⁿs at or before hee was Solicitor Generall. c.1620s-30s.

Copy, on fifteen leaves.

Once owned by Sir Richard Betenson, Bt (? the first Baronet, d.1679, of Hatton Garden, Holborn); by Thomas Brooke, F.S.A., of Armitage Bridge; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 2402; and later by Lord Fairfax of Cameron. Sotheby's, 14 December 1993 (Fairfax sale), lot 30 (unsold), and 13 December 1994, lot 538 (with facsimile examples in both sale catalogues).

Recorded in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 214-15 (No. 3), with facsimile examples on pp. 64, 65, 84-6.

Copy, on three leaves.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 43.

Copy.

Copy.

Copy, headed The Confession of o^r Faith. by S^r: Fran: Bacon.

Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, headed The Confession of our Faith written by S^r. Fran. Bacon.

Copy, eleven leaves.

Once owned by Sir Henry Spelman (1563/4-1641), historian and antiquary, and later by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist, and antiquary. Puttick & Simpson's, 6 June 1859 (Turner sale), lot 19, to Forster.

A brief summary, headed Confession of ffayth by S^r Fr Bacon.

Bookplate of Charles W.G. Howard, The Gift of the Rt. Hon. Sir David Dundas Knt. of Ochtertyre 1877. Formerly Chest II, No. 13.

Copy.

Later owned by Lieutenant-Colonel G. H. W. Carew of Crowcombe Court, Somerset. Sotheby's, 6 May, 1903 (Carew sale), lot 312, to Cotton.

Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 372.

Copy.

Inscribed A.A. June. 15. 1649. 8^sh. Philips, 10 November 1994, lot 388.

Edited from this MS in the forthcoming Oxford Francis Bacon.

Volume CLV of the Trumbull Papers, of the Trumbull family, including chiefly William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), diplomat and government official, and Sir William Trumbull (1639-1716), diplomat. Later belonging to the Marquess of Downshire, of Easthampstead Park.

Formerly Berkshire Record Office Trumbull Add. 19(3). Sotheby's, The Trumbull Papers, lot 7.

Extracts, in the hand of the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Considerations touching a warr with Spayn, indexed in the Earl's hand in the table of headings as by Lo S^t Albons.

Chiefly in the rugged italic hand of Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician, partly in the rounded secretary hand of an amanuensis and two others.

Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1.

Extracts, in a mixed hand, with annotations by the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Considerations touchinge a warre with Spaine by the ho^ble: Lo: Verulam Vicount S^t Alban.

Partly in the rugged italic hand of Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician, partly in the neat mixed hand of an amanuensis.

Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1.

Among the collections of James P.R. Lyell (1871-1948), book collector.

Acquired from Thomas Rodd (1796-1849), bookseller, on 13 April 1844.

Copy, in a professional secretary and italic hand, with a title-page, as written by S^r Fran: Bacon Kn^t Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England.

In professional hands, including items by the Feathery Scribe and by Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), antiquary.

Later owned by Sir Simonds D'Ewes, Bt, MP (1602-50), diarist and antiquary.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 234-5 (No. 43), with facsimiles of ff. 254v and 275r on pp. 95 and 93.

This MS collated in Spedding.

Copy, unascribed.

Edited from this MS in Spedding.

Copy.

Copy, incomplete.

Copy, 33 pages.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, on 40 leaves, the title-page inscribed in another hand By Francis Bacon.

No. 11 inscribed Severall Tracts Selected out of a Booke in y^e hands of Sir Robert Cotton Knight and Baronnet.

Collected in 1674 by one John Witham.

Among the papers of the Phelips family, of Montacute House, Somerset.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 286.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, imperfect, lacking the last section.

Old pressmark N. 2. 12.

Copy.

Microfilm in the British Library, M/325.

Copy.

Copy.

Owned by, and occasionally annotated in the rugged italic hand of, Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician.

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

Copy, in a secretary hand.

Thomas Thorpe, Catalogue of a most important collection of ancient manuscripts (1839), item 184. Purchased 8 June 1839.

Copy.

Volume CCCCXCIV of the papers of the first four Earls of Hardwicke and other members of the Yorke family.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand.

A number of papers in the hand of Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian.

Among Birch's collections for his edition of works by Bacon (1761), incorporating papers formerly owned by Robert Stephens (1665-1732), literary editor, and John Locker (1693-1760), barrister and literary editor, in connection with their intended editions of Bacon's works.

Copy, in a professional predominantly italic hand.

A number of papers in the hand of Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian.

Among Birch's collections for his edition of works by Bacon (1761), incorporating papers formerly owned by Robert Stephens (1665-1732), literary editor, and John Locker (1693-1760), barrister and literary editor, in connection with their intended editions of Bacon's works.

Copy.

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

Copy, in the hand of the Feathery Scribe.

From the papers of the Cartwright family of Aynho. Formerly an unnumbered MS in C(A) Box 56, in the Northamptonshire Record Office.

Recorded in HMC, Salisbury, XIV (1923), pp. 239-42, where it is calendared as Suggestions [by Lord Mountejoy] for the Government of Ireland and dated [1602].

Copy, subscribed ffrancis Bacon.

Once owned by John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 44 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.

This volume (when unnumbered) recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 300.

Copy, subscribed ffran: Bacon.

Later owned by John Locker (1693-1760), barrister and literary editor. Bought at his sale in 1764 by Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian (whose signature on f. ii^r is actually dated 26 September 1763).

Copy.

This MS collated in Spedding.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand. c.1620s-30s.

Stamped crest on the cover of the Finch family, Earls of Winchilsea.

Copy.

Copy.

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

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, subscribed ffrancis Bacon.

Copy, incomplete.

Copy.

Copy.

Copy.

With a title-page: Sundrie Letters Conteyning Matter of Elegancie, Worth & Moment, At seuerall times, & upon seuerall occasions Written to the excell^t. Ma^tie. of King James, & diuers other persons of Hono^r. & Eminencie By S^r Fra Bacon deceased aswell before he was his Mat^ies. Solliciter: as in the after Passages of his life, dignities & fortune wherein are inserted .3. Letters of K. James his owne: & some of others.

Bookplate of William North (d.1734), second Baron Grey of Rolleston.

Copy, subscribed ffrancis Bacon.

Formerly MS F. 2. 20.

Copy.

Inscribed in a rounded hand (f. [iv^r]) This booke was Copyed At S^r Roger Mostyn of Mostyn house [in Flintshire] at my being there from Christomas to May.w^ch was drawen out of the bookes of that truely Noble gent. Richard Grosveno^r Esque sole son, and heire vnto S^r Richard Grosveno^r knight and Barronett of Eathen=boate in chestore. w^ch said Richard Grosveno^r was marryed to m^ris Sidney Mostyn daughter to that honorable knight S^r Roger Mostyn...finished and bound vpp the 25^th of Aprill 1637.

Bookplate of Sir William Betham (1779-1853), Ulster King of Arms. In the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 13219. Among the collections of Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence, MP (1837-1914), Baconian scholar and book collector.

Copy.

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.

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, subscribed Fra: Bacon.

Recorded in HMC, 6th Report, Part I (1877), p. 306.

Copy.

With a letter by James Gairdner (1828-1912), historian, returning this volume to Edward William Cox (1809-79), lawyer and publisher, 20 January 1886.

Gift of Mr Roland L. Redmond, 1942.

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.

A microfilm of this MS is in the British Library, (M/488(2)).

Copy.

In several professional hands, including that of the Feathery Scribe.

Once owned by Sir Richard Grosvenor (1585-1645), and Liber 4 (=MS 20) in his list of MS volumes, 18 February 1634/5. Later owned by the Duke of Westminster, Eaton Hall, Cheshire. Eaton Hall booklabel Case XXI n^o 12. Hofmann and Freeman sale catalogue No. 21 (January 1968), item 1 (vols i and ii)i.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, pp. 212-14. Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 252-3 (No. 82). A microfilm of the MS is in the British Library, RP 217.

MS abstract of the treatise.

Copy, in a formal secretary hand, headed A direccon for the readinge of historie with profitt made by S^r. ffrances Bacon.

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

Edited from this MS, with facsimiles, in Bergeron.

Copy, together with a copy of the covering letter to Sir Henry Savill (My L^d Verulams to M^r Savil), in a predominantly secretary hand, with corrections in another hand (? perhaps Archbishop Tenison's). c.1620s-30s.

Printed from this MS in Spedding, VII, 97-103. A copy of the letter to Savill (but without the discourse) in the hand of one of Bacon's amanuenses is in the British Library, Add. MS 5503.

Two fragments of autograph rough drafts, the first endorsed The first copye of my discourse touchinge the safatye of the Q^s person and once folded as a letter or packet; the second on two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed The first copy or fragm^ts of a discors touching intelligence and y^e safty of the Qs person. [1594].

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

These fragments, the first beginning The first remedy in my poor opinion..., the second beginning These be the principal remedies..., edited in Spedding.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with (f. 127r) a title-page, as written by S^r ffrauncis Knight [sic], Bacon incorporated in the heading (f. 128r).

In various professional hands, including that of the Feathery Scribe.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 242-4 (No. 57).

Edited from this MS in 32nd Report of the Charity Commission, Part VI (1840), pp. 576-8; and in Spedding, VII, 505-16.

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

Papers of Sir Julius Caesar (1558-1636), Master of the Rolls.

Copy, in a clear secretary hand. Early-mid 17th century.

This MS collated in Spedding.

Extracts, headed Out of a Discourse vppon the Commission of Bridewell and beginning The law is that of any Charter that if any Charter be granted by the king....

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

Copy.

Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (Phillipps MS 2892).

Copy, on five pages.

Possibly once owned by the judge Sir Gilbert Gerard (d.1593), whose name appears together with those of Thomas Martin, John Clarke, W. Davies, Thomas Goodfellowe and John Elmes on covers and endpapers.

Later in the library of the Duke of Westminster, Eaton Hall, Cheshire. Sotheby's, 19 July 1966, lot 480, and 21 July 1981, lot 436, sold to the Bacon Library, Claremont, California.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 212. Complete set of photocopies in British Library, RP 2214.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed A Breife Treatise or discourse of y^e vallidity, Strength, and Extent of the Charter of Bridewell, and how farr, Repugnant both in Matter, sence, and meaninge to the great Charter of England / Worthily Composed by M^r Serieant ffleetwood Somtymes Seriant at Lawe. c.1630s.

Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 2898. Formerly Guildhall Library, MS 9384.

Copy, in a bold mixed hand, of an unfinished essay, headed An Essay of ffame Begun by the Lord Bacon & left imperfect, inscribed f. 86r Thus farr the Lord Bacon, then the rest headed f. 87r To follow though not with Equall excellency the Lord Bacons Essay of ffame left imperfect, on eight quarto leaves.

With alterations in a cursive secretary hand (notably on ff. 13r, 29r), those on f. 27r (inserted word properties) and f. 20r (nine-line insertion in the margin) probably in Bacon's hand.

This MS partly collated and one essay (Of Seditions and Troubles) edited from it in Spedding, VI, 535-91. Discussed in Kiernan, pp. lxii, lxxi-lxxvii, with a facsimile of f. 20r as frontispiece.

A complete transcript made by John Payne Collier (1789-1883) is in the University of London Library, MS 291.

Copy of Bacon's intended dedication of the Essays to Prince Henry, in the same secretary hand as BcF 203.

Some papers in the hand of Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian.

Among Birch's collections for his edition of works by Bacon (1761), incorporating papers formerly owned by Robert Stephens (1665-1732), literary editor, and John Locker (1693-1760), barrister and literary editor, in connection with their intended editions of Bacon's works.

Edited from this MS in Spedding.

Extracts.

Extracts.

Volume XI of the papers of George Berkeley (1685-1753), Bishop of Cloyne, philosopher.

Extracts, headed Collections from S^r ffrancis Bacons essayes or Counsells civill and Moralle.

Compiled by Sir Samuel Tuke, first Baronet (c.1615-74), royalist army officer and playwright, cousin and friend of John Evelyn.

Volume CCLVI 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, as Evelyn MS 254. Purchased March 1995.

Recorded (as the Tuke MS) in Peter Beal, More Donne Manuscripts, John Donne Journal, 6/2 (1987), 213-18 (p. 214).

Copy of ten essays, in a professional secretary hand, with no general heading, beginning with Studies, Essayes.

Kiernan, p. lv.

Extracts from some 45 Essays, headed Essayes Ciuill and Morall of Francis lord Verulam, Viscount Sn^it Alban. Printed. 1625.

Copy of two essays, of Faction and Negotiatinge, deleted.

Extracts, headed S^r fra: Bacons Essayes.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Johnes Mauritius Ano...1604: i.e. John Morris (d.1658), antiquary and book collector, probable compiler.

Extracts, headed Out of the L^d. Bacon's Essays.

Compiled by Sir Edward Sherburne (1616-1702), translator and poet.

Copy of Italian translations of the essays Of Religion and Of Superstition.

Collected by Pierre Dupuy (1582-1651) and his brother Jacques (1591-1656), successively Gardes de la Bibliothèque du Roi.

Copy of French translations of the essays Of Religion and Of Superstition.

Collected by Pierre Dupuy (1582-1651) and his brother Jacques (1591-1656), successively Gardes de la Bibliothèque du Roi.

Copy of French translations of the essays Of Religion and Of Superstition.

Originally owned by Pierre Séguier (1588-1672).

Copy of French translations of the essays Of Religion and Of Superstition.

Once owned by Pierre Séguier, chancelier de France.

See Michèle Le Doeuff, Bacon chez les grands au siècle de Louis XIII, in Francis Bacon: terminologia e fortuna nel XVII secolo, ed. Marta Fattori (Rome, 1984), pp. 155-78 (p. 163).

Extracts.

Four leaves of this commonplace book are in the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, ER 82/1/21.

Owned in 1615-16 by one Bassett and in the 1880s by Richard Savage. At the Neligan sale, 2 August 1888, lot 1098. Bought by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), and his sale 4 July 1889, lot 1257.

All the Shakespearian texts except Othello were edited from this MS in Richard Savage's Shakespearean Extracts (1887). The MS also edited in Juliet Mary Gowan, An Edition of Edward Pudsey's Commonplace Book (c.1600-1615) (unpublished M. Phil., University of London, 1967). It was then found that the miscellany lacked several of its original leaves, including extracts from six plays by Shakespeare. These leaves were rediscovered in 1977 among Savage's papers at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, ER 82/1/21, and the Othello extracts identified by Gowan. The MS also discussed in J. Rees, Shakespeare and Edward Pudsey's Booke, 1600, N&Q, 237 (September 1992), 330-1; in Juliet Gowan, One Man in His Time: The Notebook of Edward Pudsey, Bodleian Library Record, 22 (2009), 94–101; in Fred Schurink, Manuscript Commonplace Books, Literature, and Reading in Early Modern England, HLQ, 73/3 (2010), 453-69 (pp. 465-9), with a facsimile of f. 31r on p. 467; and in Tom Lockwood, At Mr Marston’s Request: Edward Pudsey and the Inns of Court, N&Q, 63 (September 2016), 450-3.

Extracts.

Owned in 1619, and probably compiled, by Simon Sloper (b.1596/7), of Magdalen Hall, Oxford.

Bought from Parker, of Oxford, 2 April 1889, by Percy Manning and bequeathed by him in 1917.

Copy of twenty Essays.

Inscription in pencil (f. 1r) J. Payne Collier / Maidenhead: i.e. owned by John Payne Collier (1789-1883), literary scholar, editor and forger. Bookplate of William Aldis Wright, MP, 1901.

Described in Kiernan, pp. lvi-lvii.

Extracts.

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

Copy of ten essays, numbered Cap: 1 to Cap: 10, namely Of Studies, Of Discourse, Of Cerimonies, and Respectes, Of followers and friendes, Of Suitors, Of Expence, Of Regiment of health,Of Honour, and Reputation, Of Faction, and Of Negoatiating.

Extracts from five essays, headed Essaies of s^r Francis Bacon.

Compiled by Robert Marsham, fourth Baronet.

Among papers of Sir John Marsham, first Baronet (1605-85), of Whornes Place, Cuxton, Kent, Clerk in Chancery and antiquary, and his successors, later Earls of Romney.

Extracts from Lo. Bacon's Essays p. 39 and from J. J.'s Preface to a Book Entit. Baconiana &c. p. 57.

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.

Extracts, on numerous pages throughout the volume.

Various extracts.

Extracts.

Compiled possibly by one Thomas Parsons, whose name is subscribed to a letter on f. 92v.

Copy of ten Essays (Of Studies, Of Discourse, Of Ceremonies and Respects, Of Followers and Friends, Of Suitors, Of Expense, Of Regiment of Health, Of Honour and Reputation, Of Faction and Of Negotiating), in a secretary hand, headed Essayes. By L^d Bacon.

Inscribed (f. 1r), possibly by compilers, Johannem Lvyt de purleigh [Essex] 1598, Edmunde Thurston, Edmund Skorie 1597, and John Clearke 1598, and (f. 194v) Jo: Levitt again and Johis Leviticus me possidet.

Extracts from various essays.

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.

Series of extracts from Bacon's Essays, interspersed with passages from Fuller (FuT 6.5) and the Bible.

Among the Stowe Papers of the Brydges and related families, brought together at Stowe House, Buckinghamshire. Bookplate of James Brydges of Wilton Castle, Herefordshire.

Numerous extracts from Bacon, principally from the Essays, including entries and citations on pp. 31-2, 39, 42-3, 56, 59, 62, 65-7, 85, 88-9, 233-4.

Among papers of the Clifton family, of Clifton Hall, Nottinghamshire.

Copy of Three Essayes of Revendge. Aduersitie [and] Innouations by the Lord S_t Alban, in the cursive italic hand of Sir Robert Phelips (1586?-1638), politician, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves.

Among the papers of the Phelips family, of Montacute House, Somerset.

Recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 58.

Extracts, headed Lord Bacons Essays.

Compiled 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).

Extracts, in Drake's hand, headed Of Negotiating, inscribed in the margin Bacon.

Partly compiled 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).

Extracts, headed Bacons Essays.

Owned 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).

Extracts, headed Notes taken out of Bacons Essayes Relateing to Gouernm^t and, on f. 134v, Obseruat. out of seueral Essaies.

Owned 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).

Extract from Bacon's essay Of Innovations, untitled.

Owned 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 predominantly secretary hand, on three pages of two folio leaves.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 43.

Copy, headed S^r Fran: Bacons essay of Travell.

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

Copy, in a secretary hand, with corrections, on eight folio pages.

Copy, on three folio leaves.

Extracts.

Compiled by Sir Edward Sherburne (1616-1702), translator and poet.

Copy of an English version, in the secretary hand of an amanuensis, with Bacon's autograph corrections and revisions.

Edited from this MS in Stephens and in Spedding.

Edited from this MS in Spedding. Edited partly from this MS in Kiernan, with facsimiles of ff. 122r and 2r on pp. xcv-xcvi.

Extracts, in a mixed hand, with annotations by the fourth Earl of Bedford.

Partly in the rugged italic hand of Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician, partly in the neat mixed hand of an amanuensis.

Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1.

Extracts, in a secretary hand, headed Notes of Hen: y^e .7. raigne sett downe in manuscript by the Lord Chancello^r Bacon.

Extracts, headed Hen: the 7. written by Francis Viscount S^t Albons.

Recorded in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, p. 312.

Extracts.

Extracts, in Drake's hand, headed Bacons Hen: 7. pag: 204.

Partly compiled 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).

Extracts, headed Collecons out of my l. of St Albans H. 7.

Extracts.

Extracts, in a secretary hand, in double columns, headed Notes out of the lord verulams Historie of Henrie. 7.

Assembled by, and partly 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.

Extracts, translated into French.

Extracts.

Extracts, headed The Raigne of King Henry the 7^th. by y^e L^d Verulam.

Extracts, headed Notes taken out of the Historye of the Raigne of King H. 7 Written by ...Francis Lord Verulam Viscount S^t Alban.

Extracts.

Extracts.

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

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

For facsimile examples, see ShW 71 and ShW 44.

Extract.

Copy, incomplete.

Edited from this MS in Spedding.

Copy, untitled.

Acquired from M.C. Hamilton 11 November 1873.

Copy, on three folio leaves.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 43.

Copy of 21 Rules, headed A Colleccon of the Rules of the Common Lawes of England. F: B:.

This MS recorded in Spedding, VII, 309.

Copy of 22 rules, untitled, with dedication to the Queen dated 1596, incomplete.

This MS recorded in Spedding, VII, 309.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Tho: Corie Hosp: Graij 1630.

This MS collated in Spedding.

Copy of 25 Rules, in a secretary hand.

The second Bacon item owned on 24 January 1659 by a lawyer, apparently Anthony Smithson, of Gray's Inn.

This MS collated in Spedding.

In a quarto volume of 68 leaves, the last 37 leaves occupied by extracts from legal Year Books written from the reverse end in another hand, in modern quarter-leather vellum boards.

Among collections of Sir John Maynard, MP (1604-90), lawyer and politician.

An unspecified MS in Lincoln's Inn Library is recorded in Spedding, VII, 309.

Copy of 25 rules, in a neat secretary hand, untitled, a list of the rules (pp. 16-18) in italic script.

The Moote Cases at the reverse end are inscribed collect p mey John Barton...de Middle Temple. M. 13^o Carolij 1637. Presented to Lincoln's Inn by E.J. Brevir, QC, June 1883.

See BcF 226.

Copy of the Dedication to the Queen and the Preface only, dated 8 February 1596.

Extract, headed Out of S^r fra. Bacons New Atlantis.

Owned 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.

Copy of an early report.

Collected by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King of Arms and antiquary, his brother Oliver, and Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector.

Copy.

Afterwards owned by Sir Simonds D'Ewes, Bt, MP (1602-50), diarist and antiquary. Inscribed (f. 2r) G Hewett.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 227-8 (No. 27).

Copy of a version of Bacon's first report.

This volume discussed and printed in part, with facsimile examples, in F. Haverfield, Cotton Iulius F. VI Notes on Reginald Bainbrigg of Appleby, on William Camden and on some Roman Inscriptions, Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, NS 11 (1911), 343-78.

Copy, in the professional secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe.

Sotheby's, 4 July 1955 (André de Coppet sale), lot 950, to Maggs. Formerly Folger MS Add. 35.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 262-5 (No. 108).

Copy, in a neat italic hand, probably transcribed from BcF 228.7.

Copy, imperfect.

A complete facsimile of the volume, with transcriptions, in Burgoyne, Alnwick MS (1904).

Autograph notes, headed Semblances or popularities of good & evill, w^th their redargution, for Deliberacions, on a pair of conjugate quarto leaves, endorsed (f. 129v) Philologia Colors of good and euill, in the Promus of Formularies and Elegancies (BcF 269), the notes subsequently developed into Bacon's essay on the subject. c.1595-6.

These notes edited from this MS in Spedding.

Copy of a letter, headed M^r Fran: Bacon of the Collo^rs of good and evyll to the Lo: Mountioye possibly intended as a prefix to his essay on that subject, in a professional secretary hand, the verso page deleted.

Edited from this MS in Spedding, VII, 69-71.

Extracts.

Four leaves of this commonplace book are in the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, ER 82/1/21.

Owned in 1615-16 by one Bassett and in the 1880s by Richard Savage. At the Neligan sale, 2 August 1888, lot 1098. Bought by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), and his sale 4 July 1889, lot 1257.

All the Shakespearian texts except Othello were edited from this MS in Richard Savage's Shakespearean Extracts (1887). The MS also edited in Juliet Mary Gowan, An Edition of Edward Pudsey's Commonplace Book (c.1600-1615) (unpublished M. Phil., University of London, 1967). It was then found that the miscellany lacked several of its original leaves, including extracts from six plays by Shakespeare. These leaves were rediscovered in 1977 among Savage's papers at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, ER 82/1/21, and the Othello extracts identified by Gowan. The MS also discussed in J. Rees, Shakespeare and Edward Pudsey's Booke, 1600, N&Q, 237 (September 1992), 330-1; in Juliet Gowan, One Man in His Time: The Notebook of Edward Pudsey, Bodleian Library Record, 22 (2009), 94–101; in Fred Schurink, Manuscript Commonplace Books, Literature, and Reading in Early Modern England, HLQ, 73/3 (2010), 453-69 (pp. 465-9), with a facsimile of f. 31r on p. 467; and in Tom Lockwood, At Mr Marston’s Request: Edward Pudsey and the Inns of Court, N&Q, 63 (September 2016), 450-3.

Extracts, headed Out of y^e same Authors Table of Collours.

Compiled by Sir Samuel Tuke, first Baronet (c.1615-74), royalist army officer and playwright, cousin and friend of John Evelyn.

Volume CCLVI 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, as Evelyn MS 254. Purchased March 1995.

Recorded (as the Tuke MS) in Peter Beal, More Donne Manuscripts, John Donne Journal, 6/2 (1987), 213-18 (p. 214).

Copy, in the secretary hands of two amanuenses, with Bacon's autograph corrections and revisions, unfinished.

Edited from this MS in Spedding.

Extracts, in the hand of the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed My Lo: S^t Albans of a digest to be made of the laws of england.

Chiefly in the rugged italic hand of Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician, partly in the rounded secretary hand of an amanuensis and two others.

Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1.

Copy, headed To the King of a Digest to be made of the Lawes of England.

Extracts, in a mixed hand, headed Of a digest to be made of the lawes of England.

Partly in the rugged italic hand of Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician, partly in the neat mixed hand of an amanuensis.

Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1.

Copy.

Copy.

Copy.

Inscribed (f. 2r) Henry Wotten His Book Anno Dom 1742 Novem and Sam^l Kenrick [of Bewdley, Worcestershire] 1765. Presented by W.A. Sharp.

Copy, in a stylish italic hand

Bookplate of Arthur Hewes Esq.

Copy in an accomplished predominantly italic hand.

Inscribed (f. 1r) W Hone / xvii.30.15. Among the Bacon collections of Basil Montagu (1770-1851), legal scholar and editor of Bacon's works (1825-37).

A transcript is printed in The Works of Francis Bacon, ed. James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, and Douglas Denon Heath, 14 vols (London, 1857-74), XIV, pp. 358-64.

Copy.

Inscribed (f. [2r]) W Stonehouse p^rt 5^s.. Donated by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector.

A transcript is printed in The Works of Francis Bacon, ed. James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, and Douglas Denon Heath, 14 vols (London, 1857-74) XIV, pp. 358-64.

Autograph legal commonplace book, chiefly in Law French.

This MS recorded in Spedding, VII, 305. See also BcF 112-15.

Copy of 100 rules.

Inscribed (f. 1v) Nar. Luttrell: His Book 1682 [i.e. by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732), annalist and book collector], with similar inscriptions throughout the volume with dates ranging from 1678 to 1685.

Copy of 102 Ordinances, in a professional small secretary hand.

Among the collections of Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian, for his edition of works by Bacon (1761).

Copy of 101 Ordinances, in a professional secretary hand, as made by the Lo: Chancelor...1618.

Purchased from Lord R. Montagu, MP, 27 June 1863.

Copy of 100 Ordinances, in a professional predominantly secretary hand, as by Francis Lord Verulam...23^o Januarij 1618.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Sum Edm Umfrevile Jun^r's Interioris Templi Stud^tie 1724: i.e. Edward Umfreville (1702?-86), collector of legal manuscripts. Bookplate of Horace Walpole (1717-97), fourth Earl of Orford, author, politician and patron. Presented by the Earl of Derby, 11 February 1871.

Copy of 100 ordinances, in a professional secretary hand, as made by the Lord Chancellor...24 January, 1618.

Collected by Sir Nicholas Lechmere (1613-1701), judge and politician.

Volume DCCXXXIII of the papers of the first four Earls of Hardwicke and other members of the Yorke family.

Copy of 101 ordinances, in a cursive predominantly italic hand, as made by the Right Hon^rable ffrancis Lord Verulam. Mid-17th century.

Volume DCCLV of the papers of the first four Earls of Hardwicke and other members of the Yorke family.

Copy of 101 ordinances, as made by Frauncis lord Verulam lord high Chancellor of England...1616. c.1620s-30s.

Formerly MS Claudius B. 8 in the library of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, first Baronet (1571-1631), antiquary and politician, and his signature (Robertus Cotton Bruceus) on f. 3r. Inscribed (f. ii^v), by Mr Deaues (?Charles Deaves of Lincoln's Inn) This Book must be delivered to M^r. Mitford. Bookplate and note of John Freeman-Mitford (1748-1830), first Baron Redesdale, Lord Chancellor or Ireland and Speaker of the House of Commons. Also annotated by Francis Hargrave (1740/1-1821), legal writer. Sotheby's, 28 July 1947, lot 177.

Copy of ordinances 1-58, 73-6 only, in a professional secretary hand, unascribed. c.1620s-30s.

Yelverton MS 49, among papers of Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), Justice of the Common Pleas, and his family.

Edited from this MS in G.W. Sanders, Orders of the High Court of Chancery (London, 1845), Part i, pp. 109-22, 129-31.

Copy of 101 Ordinances, unnumbered, headed Ordinances for the Chancery made by the Lord Bacon.

Presentation inscription (f. 1r) by Wilmot Buxton, counsellor, to his friend William Henry Black, FSA (1808-72), antiquary, Assistant Keeper of the Public Records, with Black's inscription of similar date, 8 May 1860, supposedly identifying the writer as Elias Ashmole and saying he found it in Ashmole's chambers at 77 Chancery Lane.

Copy of 101 Ordinances, in a professional secretary hand, as made by the Lord Chancellor...1618.

In professional hands, including those of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), merchant and antiquary, and the Feathery Scribe.

Later owned, and annotated, by Sir Simonds D'Ewes, BT, MP (1602-50), diarist and antiquary. A note (f. 432v) by Humfrey Wanley (1672-1726), scholar and librarian, records on 30 July 1714 that eight or nine years earlier Robert Harley lent this book to Queen Anne upon the account of divers Original Letters &c. written by the Royal Family, which, on its return, Wanley extracted and inserted into a separate collection.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 235-6 (No. 45).

Copy of 97 Ordinances, followed (ff. 9v-10v) by 15 Addicyonall Rules, in a cursive secretary hand.

Among antiquarian collections compiled by Sir Simonds D'Ewes (1602-50)

Copy of 101 Ordinances, as made by the Lo. Chauncello^r, otherwise unascribed, in at least two secretary hands, followed (ff. 104r-5r) by fifteen Addiconal rules.

This MS recorded in Spedding, VII, 757. The text

Copy of the first Ordinance only, headed Ordinances by the Lord Chancello^r...1618, incomplete, the rest of the page left blank.

Inscribed (f. 1r) J: Rock 1689.

Copy of 101 ordinances, as by the Lord Chauncellor, in a secretary hand.

Copy of 100 ordinances, in a secretary hand, untitled, subscribed ffranc: verulam Canc.

Copy of 100 Ordinances, as made by the Lord Chaunceller, subscribed Fran: verulam Canc., and inscribed in the margin Bacon's Hecatomb.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Sum Edri Umfrevile Jun^ris. Interioris Templi Studentis 1724: i.e. by Edward Umfreville (1702?-86), collector of legal manuscripts. Bookplate of Shelburne

Copy of 61 ordinances, headed The rules and ordinances obserued in the high Court of Chancery sauing the Prerogatiue of the Court, unascribed.

Copy of 100 Ordinances, the text followed (ff. 82v-3v) by fourteen Additional Rules.

Arms of the Wright family of Essex on the original cover.

Copy.

Copy of 100 ordinances, headed Ter: Hillar: 16to Jacob: Regis. 1618 / Ordinances made by S^r francis Bacon..., followed (ff. 48r-9r) by fifteen Addicionall rules.

Inscriptions include (f. 1v) John Charles Jones and Thomas Stockton and (f. 2r) W. G.

Copy of 101 Ordinances, in a secretary hand, as made by the Lord Chancellor...25 January 1618.

Bookplates of F.W. Cosens, FSA (1819-89), of Clapham Park, book collector; of Charles H. Hayley; and of Sir Thomas Brooke, Bt, FSA (1830-1908), of Armitage Bridge, Yorkshire antiquary and book collector.

Copy of 95 ordinances, headed Ordinances made by y^e Lord Chancellor for y^e better & more reguler administration of Justice in the Chancery to be duly obserued sauinge the Prerogatiue of the Courte by ffrancis Lord Verulam published in open co^rt. 23^o Jan: 1618, followed (ff. 45v-6v) by Addiconall Rules.

Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 260 (No. 101).

Copy of 100 ordinances, followed (ff. 129r-32v) by Addiconall Rules for the better governing of the Courte of Chanc and the greate Seale published in open courte. 31^o: Octob Anno. 1620:.