Anon

Copy, with other tracts, in an octavo volume.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 184.

A small quarto volume of state tracts and letters, in a single professional secretary hand, 149 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

A folio volume of state tracts and letters, in a single accomplished mixed hand, i + 352 pages, in contemporary limp vellum with ties.

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

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

A folio composite volume of state tracts and letters, in several largely professional secretary hands, 372 leaves, differing sizes, in modern half-calf.

A folio compendium or entry book of state letters and other documents and memoranda, in various secretary and italic hands, 231 leaves (including numerous blanks), in modern half-calf.

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

A folio composite volume comprising three state letters or tracts, each in a different secretary hand, 87 leaves (plus some blanks), in contemporary vellum.

Copy, in a single secretary hand, i + 155 quarto leaves.

This MS recorded in Peck, p. 226.

A quarto volume of three tracts (two on the Succession written the 6^t [and 4^th] of noveb^r. 1599) respectively), in three different professional secretary hands, 87 quarto leaves (plus two blanks), in contemporary vellum.

A folio volume of state letters, tracts and verse, 177 leaves, in calf gilt.

Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 32 of the Hopkinson MSS.

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

Copy, in a single secretary hand, 62 folio leaves, in modern quarter-morocco.

This MS recorded in Peck, p. 225.

Copy, in several cursive secretary hands, one predominating, with a title-page in a flourished italic hand, 105 quarto leaves, in old calf gilt.

This MS recorded in Peck, p. 225.

Copy, in three predominantly secretary hands, untitled, 57 folio leaves, imperfect, lacking one leaf, formerly in contemporary vellum, in modern half red morocco.

Volume DXCII of the Blenheim Papers, papers principally of John Churchill (1650-1722), first Duke of Marlborough, army commander and politician, his wife Sarah (née Jenyns) (1660-1744), and the related Spencer and Trevor families.

Copy, in a neat predominantly secretary hand, on 90 quarto leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary limp vellum with ties.

A quarto volume of state and philosophical tracts, in several hands, 75 leaves, in modern quarter crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

Copy, in the hand of Ralph Starkey, 81 leaves (plus blanks), with a title-page dated 1584, inscribed (f. 84v) Bonté seueté souuenance sont du Seigneur les sentiers; bound with a separate discourse by Edward Payton, 1633 (Harley MS 3364), in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

This MS recorded in Peck, p. 225. See Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (Oxford, 1998), pp. 254, 273.

A folio volume, comprising two manuscripts of tracts bound together, in two different professional secretary hands, 60 leaves, in half calf on marbled boards.

Copy, in a probably professional cursive secretary hand, with two other secretary hands at the very end (f. 49r-v), 49 folio leaves, lacking a title-page, in modern half crushed morocco gilt.

This MS recorded in Peck, p. 225.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with a title-page (undated), 158 leaves (plus some blanks), in panelled calf gilt.

This MS recorded in Peck, p. 225.

A folio volume comprising two independent MSS, in different hands, 135 leaves, in modern mottled leather gilt.

A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several professional hands, 192 leaves, in modern calf gilt.

A folio composite volume of tracts, in different hands, 100 leaves, in modern calf gilt.

A quarto composite volume of tracts, in various hands, 87 leaves, in modern half red morocco on cloth boards gilt.

Copy, in a professional semi-calligraphic hand, with a lengthy title-page which is subscribed Anno Dni 1616, the Epistle to G.M. in italic, the rest in secretary script, concluding (ff. 96v-7r) with the meditation out of Job, 97 folio leaves, in quarter-calf marbled boards.

This MS recorded in Peck, p. 225.

A folio volume of ten state tracts, in a single professional hand, 437 leaves, in modern quarter-vellum.

A folio composite volume of state tracts, letters and speeches, in various professional hands, with a table of contents (f. 1r-v), 247 leaves.

A folio commonplace book of extracts, in a single cursive hand, written with the volume in oblong format, inscribed in another hand (f. 1r) Historical Collections by the Earl of Derby.

A folio volume of tracts and poems, in a single secretary hand, 73 leaves.

Copy, in a single professional secretary hand, entitled Leicesters Respublica, 83 folio leaves, in half mottled calf on marbled boards.

This MS recorded in Peck, p. 225.

Copy, in a non-professional secretary hand, with a title-page, 82 quarto leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt.

This MS recorded in Peck, p. 225.

A small quarto volume of state tracts and papers, in one or more cursive secretary hands, 236 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

Copy, the main text in a single professional secretary hand, 73 quarto leaves, in modern crushed morocco.

Formally inscribed (f. 1r) De. Re / Priuata et Publia / RCL / Pecet nouisse malum facisse nefandum / Lectori / Emenda Legendo menda / Vale, with a full title-page in secretary and italic scripts (f. 2r), subscribed (f. 71r) finis. written Anno. 1594.

This MS recorded in Peck, p. 225.

A small folio volume containing two works, the second (ff. 49v-79r) a tabular summary of a philosophical Encyclopædia, 79 leaves, in modern crushed morocco.

Copy, in a secretary hand, on 48 folio leaves, imperfect at the end, in quarter-calf.

This MS recorded in Peck, p. 225.

A folio volume comprising four works, all in one secretary hand, 93 leaves (plus 115 blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A small folio composite volume of state tracts and genealogical papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 146 leaves, in old calf (rebacked).

Copy, with a title-page bearing at the foot the date 1648, in a professional cursive hand, on 190 large folio leaves, in quarter-calf.

This MS recorded in Peck, p. 225.

Copy, in a single cursive secretary hand, with a title-page dated 1584, 170 folio pages (plus 34 blanks), in quarter-calf on marbled boards.

This MS recorded in Peck, p. 225.

A quarto volume of state tracts and letters, largely written in one secretary hand, entries at the reverse end in a different hand, 281 leaves (including 90 blanks).

A folio composite volume of legal and state tracts, in various largely professional hands (including the Feathery Scribe), 216 leaves (including some blanks), in modern half-calf.

Described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 218 (No. 8).

Copy.

Copy, in a secretary hand, lacking a title-page, inscribed by the copyist at the end Cutbert Crooke, 133 quarto leaves, in vellum.

Copy, in a single professional secretary hand, the Epistle dated 1592, 157 folio leaves, in contemporary vellum, the date 1598 on the spine changed to 1639.

Warwickshire County Record Office microfilm, M1 351/6, item 33.

Copy, in a professional hand, 62 folio leaves, in a recycled limp vellum membrane comprising earlier accounts.

Copy, in a single secretary hand, with (f. ii^r) a formal title-page with the treatise as by S^r Anth. Brown, dated 1584 and subscribed J. K., with (f. iii^r) a further title Leic: Comon wealth, v + 76 quarto leaves (an additional note on f. 77r deleted), in contemporary vellum.

A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous tracts, including (item 1: 20 leaves) a verse miscellany, in several largely secretary hands, 210 unnumbered leaves.

Copy, in a professional italic hand, headed The Earl of Lesters Commonwealth, 87 leaves (plus some blanks), in contemporary vellum with ties.

Copy, in a single predominantly secretary hand, the normal title preceded (f. [ii^v]) by a supplied heading Leycesters Commonwealth in another hand, iv + 84 pages, in old speckled leather.

Recorded in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, p. 307.

A quarto miscellany, largely in a professional secretary hand, i + 59 leaves (plus numerous blanks and some loose papers), in contemporary vellum.

Copy, in the hands of Sir John Harington (including, pp. 203-26, an addycion), of his servant Thomas Combe, and of Harington's brother Francis, viii + 226 quarto pages, in contemporary vellum with ties.

This MS recorded in Peck, p. 226, and the addycion edited from this MS on pp. 229-44. Harington's hand identified by Peter Beal and the MS discussed in Gerard Kilroy, Advertising the Reader: Sir John Harington's Directions in the Margent, English Literary Renaissance, 41/1 (Winter, 2011), 64-110, with facsimiles of pp. 111, 119 and 203 on p. 89-90. 93.

Copy, in a single secretary hand, 143 quarto leaves, in later calf gilt.

With an initial title-page (f. 1r) De Re priuata & Publica R C L ... before (f. 1v) a second title-page with the usual title, subscribed (f. 141v) ffinis, Written An^o 1594, and with (ff. 142r-3r) the Meditation from Job.

This MS recorded in Peck, p. 226.

Copy, in a single neat secretary hand, with (f. 1r) the arms of the Earl of Leicester in pen and ink, 109 quarto leaves, imperfect, lacking a title-page, f. 54, and the ending, in contemporary limp vellum, with ties.

This MS recorded in Peck, p. 226.

Copy, in a single secretary hand, with an initial title-page in roman script Robert Dvdley Earle of Leicester, his Life and Gouernment commonly called His Commonwealth before (f. 2r) the usual title dated 1584, 221 quarto leaves, imperfect, a number of leaves defective and lacking the ending, in modern vellum boards gilt, with ties.

This MS recorded in Peck, p. 226.

Copy, in a single cursive secretary hand, on 56 tall folio leaves, including (f. 55r) the meditation from Job, inscribed (f. 56v) in a different hand a booke of many Extraordinary thinges concerne y^e lord of Lester in y^e time of Queene Elisabeth, in old calf gilt (rebacked).

This MS recorded in Peck, p. 226.

Copy of a version, in a single professional secretary hand, with some (faded) rubrication, 42 tall folio leaves, lacking a title-page, in modern boards.

Including at the end (ff. 40v-2r) Certaine Notes taken out of some other Authors Concerning my Lord of Leycesters Comon wealth.

This MS text recorded in Peck, p. 226.

Copy of a version, in a single small, probably professional, mixed hand, 46 folio leaves, in contemporary limp vellum.

With no title-page or heading, but with a title written on the front cover in a roman hand A conference in which is described the wickedness, baseness, and Treasonous Designs of Rob^t. Dudley E. of Lecester, some time the cheif Minister to Q. Elizabeth. written at the time of his highest elevation.

This MS text recorded in Peck, p. 226.

A large volio volume of state papers, tracts and speeches, in several professional largely secretary hands, 484 pages (including numerous blanks), in half calf on marbled boards.

A large folio volume comprising two tracts in different hands, the second (ff. [31r-42r]) Vox Populi, 43 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum.

Copy, in a probably professional secretary hand, iii + 73 folio leaves, in contemporary limp vellum, with traces of ties.

With a title-page, Leicestrenseni Rempublicane Anno Dom. 1584, the dedicatory epistle, and the meditation from Job.

This MS recorded in Peck, p. 226.

Copy, in three secretary hands, 63 folio leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum.

This MS recorded in Peck, p. 226.

Copy, in a probably professional secretary hand, i + 84 + ii quarto leaves, in contemporary vellum.

This MS recorded in Peck, p. 226.

A folio volume of state tracts, in three secretary hands except for an addition on the last leaf in italic, c.125 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

An octavo commonplace book of miscellaneous extracts, 54 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum.

A folio composite volume of tracts and papers, in various hands, 486 leaves, in red morocco gilt.

A quarto volume of state and miscellaneous tracts, two by women, in a single predominantly secretary hand, one EA, 274 leaves, in contemporary calf (rebacked), with traces of clasps.

Copy, in a probably professional secretary hand, lacking a title, 83 folio pages, in contemporary vellum.

A folio volume of state tracts and works associated with the Royal Court, in a single formal secretary hand except for an addition by a cursive secretary hand on p. 61 and subsequent scribbling on the first three pages, i + 90 pages, imperfect, all leaves damaged and lacking some text, all now in window mounts.

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

Copy, in a single secretary hand, with a title-page Licesters Comon Wealth, on 24 folio leaves, incomplete, followed (ff. [25r-6r]) by Certaine notes taken out of some other authour concerninge my Lor: of Leicesters Comon wealth, in modern morocco gilt.

This MS recorded in Peck. p. 226.

Copy, 230 folio pages, imperfect, disbound.

Pages numbered 4-230 in the hand of the Feathery Scribe; sixteen unnumbered preliminary pages supplied in another, apparently non-professional hand on a different stock of paper, presumably to replace text missing from the original copy; with many corrections, alterations and sidenotes in other hands, a series of addresses scribbled in the margin of p. 10 and on an end-leaf suggesting possible use in a professional London scriptorium.

This MS text recorded in Peck, p. 226. Discussed in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 74-7, 254 (No. 84), with facsimile examples on pp. 75-6.

A quarto miscellany, containing eleven texts in verse and prose, in several hands, including seven poems by Donne in a single hand, 114 pages (plus blanks), in a vellum wrapper.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) as the Heneage MS: DnJ Δ 34.

Copy, entitled The Book called the lord of Leicesters Comon wealthe with the date 1584 on the title-page, 111 folio pages, in modern vellum boards.

In probably two or more hands, a neat predominantly italic hand (pp. 1-7) and at least one cursive mixed hand (pp. 7-111), with a secretary hand adding the meditation on Job on the last page.

Copy, in a single seceretary hand, 53 folio leaves, in contemporary limp vellum (a recycled deed of 1568 between Thomas Wentworth and Robert Darly).

The tract is here untitled, the initial epistle set out separately on f. 1r, and the deed cover inscribed inside in large letters Have mercye on vs Lord amen, as if to conceal, or at least minimize detection of, the true character of the work.

Copy, in two probably non-professional secretary hands, the title-page bearing the date 1584, 294 quarto leaves, in old reversed calf.

This MS recorded in Peck, p. 225.

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, probably in several hands, ii + 176 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

Copy, in a probably professional secretary hand, with a modern title-page (otherwise untitled), 142 folio pages (plus blanks), in later calf.

This MS recorded in Peck, p. 225.

A folio composite volume of state tracts and letters, in several hands, 121 leaves, in 17th-century calf.

Copy, in at least two probably professional cursive secretary hands, with a formal title-page Leicesters Comon=Wealth / The Coppie of a Letter...[etc.], 65 tall folio leaves, in contemporary vellum.

This MS recorded in Peck, p. 226.

Copy, in a single professional secretary hand, untitled, with a supplied title roughly inscribed in another hand Leycesters comonwealth a Better Copy see (*: 3 :/, 53 folio pages, in later calf.

This MS recorded in Peck, p. 226.

Copy, in a single secretary hand, with a title-page Leicesters Comon Weale / The Coppie of a letter...Anno Dni. 1593, including the meditation of Job, 60 small quarto leaves, in old blind-stamped calf.

The title-page subscribed John Aynworth, probably the copyist of the MS.

This MS recorded in Peck. p. 226.

Copy, mainly in a probably professional secretary hand, a mixed hand on ff. 48r-50v, on the first 69 leaves in a quarto volume comprising two MSS bound together, 109 leaves in all (plus blanks) including (ff. 69v-109v) notes, tracts and a catalogue in later hands, with additions dated 1693/4, in old vellum boards.

This MS recorded in Peck, p. 226.

A duodecimo commonplace book of extracts, in one cursive hand, written from both ends, 117 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum boards gilt.

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).

A folio volume of legal and state tracts, 246 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum boards, with initial H in a gilt lozenge on the front cover and F on a similar lozenge on the rear cover.

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.

A folio miscellany, entitled A Booke of Memorable Accidents and famous Arraignements with other worthy matters touchinge great personages agitated wthin this Realme of England in the Reignes of Queene Elizabeth and Kinge James, compiled by William Bull, of the Middle Temple, 104 leaves, bound with other material by Henry Bull, Jr, and others, in half-calf.

A quarto volume containing at least two tracts.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix p. 253.

Copy, dated on the first page 1620, c.300 small quarto pages, in vellum wrappers.

Copy, quarto.

Recorded in Ducatus Leodiensis, 2nd edition (Leeds, 1816), Appendix, p. 85, No. 121.

Copy.

Copy.

A duodecimo commonplace book, compiled by James, Earl of Derby [presumably James Stanley (1607-51), seventh Earl of Derby], x or xii + 295 pages.

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

Copy, in a single secretary hand, densely written on 53 folio pages, imperfect, lacking the beginning and ending, disbound.

This MS recorded in Peck. p. 226.

A folio volume of state tracts and speeches, 380 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt, now disbound.

A folio volume comprising two tracts relating to the Earl of Leicester (the second The Earle of Lecisters Ghoast), probably in a single mixed hand with variations, 292 pages, in contemporary calf gilt.

Copy, in a single secretary hand, on 283 quarto leaves, in contemporary vellum.

Copy, in a single cursive secretary hand, 93 quarto leaves, in contemporary calf.