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Francis Bacon

Baron Verulam, Viscount St Albans

1561–1626

Introduction

In his various capacities as lawyer, politician, essayist, philosopher, and scientist, Bacon was among the most prolific, as well as among the most eminently placed, of English Renaissance writers, and his papers, and scribal copies of them, have survived in considerable numbers.

The Canon

Among Bacon's multifarious writings it is difficult, if not impossible, to isolate a clearly defined body of literary works. For present purposes, the basic canon is taken to be that established in Spedding (although it is recognized that not every attribution made in that edition can be accepted unreservedly), with some degree of selection made vis à vis Bacon's official papers (political and legal) printed by Spedding, and with the addition of some writings by Bacon that have come to light more recently (see BcF 61, BcF 197, BcF 288, *BcF 294, BcF 296-296.5, BcF 322). Entries have also been given to various, often widely circulated, works which in the seventeenth century were doubtfully or spuriously attributed to Bacon (see especially BcF 694-759). These are unlikely to appear in new editions of Bacon's works, but are included for the record, since they still have contextual interest and throw light on, for instance, Bacon's reputation as well as on some aspects of contemporary manuscript publication.

Bacon's Manuscripts

Bacon's handwriting occurs in a considerable number of the manuscripts recorded in the entries below. They include manuscripts of his Essays (*BcF 203); the essay Of the True Greatness of the Kingdom of Britain (*BcF 232); The History of the Reign of King Henry VII (*BcF 215); his Discourse touching Intelligence and the Safety of the Queen's Person (*BcF 199); his discourses on the Church of England (*BcF 121) and on the Plantation in Ireland (*BcF 132); the De vijs mortis, et de senectute retardandâ atq́. instaurandis uiribus discovered in the 1970s (*BcF 294); certain of his legal arguments and writings (*BcF 87, *BcF 261); and various other philosophical and scientific works (*BcF 111, *BcF 214, *BcF 230, *BcF 285, *BcF 289, *BcF 294, *BcF 297, *BcF 303, *BcF 306). Although none of the original manuscripts of the Advancement of Learning and Novum organum is known to have survived, many of the recorded philosophical and scientific manuscripts must represent drafts for Bacon's projected Instauratio magna, his great unfinished survey of human knowledge.

Many other manuscripts recorded in the entries below, though not containing Bacon's handwriting, were probably transcribed by amanuenses in his employment or were copied at some time directly from Bacon's papers, some certainly so. Spedding noticed the recurrence of certain hands found in papers definitely associated with Bacon. This line of investigation, with the help of current technological resources, is already being pursued and developed by scholars and by editors wishing to establish authoritative texts.

Although many of Bacon's writings did eventually become widely copied, it seems likely that — with occasional exceptions such as the polemical tract of 1592 Certain Observations made upon a Libel (BcF 135-152.5) — the circulation of most of Bacon's works in his own lifetime was relatively restricted and controlled, so that perhaps few of the extant manuscript copies would be very far removed from his own manuscripts. Such caution on Bacon's part would be explained not simply by gentlemanly fastidiousness as regards the supposed vulgarity of publishing (for Bacon published those works he wanted to see made widely available) but also by such considerations as the incompleteness of some writings and the political sensitivity or avant-garde nature of others — such as his edition of Certain Considerations touching the Better Pacification and Edification of the Church of England, the suppression of which resulted in a series of partly printed exempla completed by publishers or stationers in manuscript (BcF 121-131.9). Some copies of his works were probably made within the circles of government administration, for Bacon would have had various official scribes who had access to his papers. Some were given to select friends for their personal consideration; some were even sent abroad to scholars on the Continent. Among items in the last category the manuscript of In felicem memoriam Elizabethae which Bacon sent to Sir George Carew in Paris and which he mentions in a letter to Carew (Spedding, VI, 283) can now probably be identified among state papers in the Bibliothèque Nationale (BcF 299). Other manuscripts in this library include copies of Bacon's once lost treatise Abecedarium naturae (BcF 286-287), as well as of other treatises (BcF 295-296.5). An interesting feature of BcF 295 is that it is in the hand of a French scribe very similar to that responsible for a state tract in a composite volume containing certain of Bacon's own manuscripts: namely, Ung discours sur la direction, Management et administration des finances in British Library, Harley MS 7017, ff. 353r-9v (compare *BcF 233, *BcF 269, *BcF 305).

Some of the extant manuscripts may, again, derive from papers that Bacon left at his death, many of which seem to have been retained (and some published) by his secretary and chaplain William Rawley. In his last will and testimony, made 9 April 1626 (*BcF 654), Bacon requested that his executors, his brother-in-law Sir John Constable and his verie good freind Mr Bosvile, should take into theire handes all my papers whatsoeuer, whch are either in Cabinetts Boxes or Presses and them to seale vpp vntill they may att theire leasure pervse them. In an earlier will of 10 April 1621 (BcF 655), Bacon requested that his compositions vnpublished, or the fragments of them should be delivered to Constable to the end, that if any of them be fit in his judgment to be published, he may accordingly dispose of them. And in particular I wish the Elogium which I wrote in felicem memoriam Reginae Elisabethae may be published. Lists of Bacon's works and manuscripts made after his death (British Library, Sloane MS 629, ff. 243r-5v) include, among other familiar titles, such items as The discourse In felicem Memoriam Elizabethae, turned into English by my selfe, since my lords Death, Certaine phisicall Advises, out of the booke de vita et Morte and otherwise, Abecedarium Naturae, some of the Experiments reserved out of the Naturall Historie because they were not fitt to be published in English, some helps and directions for the Preservation of Health, and Touching the cure of desperate and suddain diseases.

Bacon's Notebooks and Collections of Aphorisms

Certain other manuscripts containing Bacon's handwriting reflect his habit of keeping notebooks and commonplace books. Much is known of his activities in this respect, not least because he catalogues, and explains his use of, his paper bookes (most now lost) in Comentarius solutus (see especially Spedding, XI, 59-62). His compilations included legal commonplace books (such as *BcF 233), designed for use in his professional work; formal title bookes in which useful extracts from authors could be entered by scribes in order, and under fitt Titles; and personal memoranda books, like the Promus of Formularies and Elegancies (*BcF 269) and Comentarius solutus itself (*BcF 153), kept as a record of work in progress and for freely jotting down ideas, observations, and personal comments as they occurred to him. His views on commonplace books, and his qualified testimony to their usefulness (provided the selection and arrangement of material be judicious), are probably to be found, besides, in a letter to Fulke Greville (National Archives, Kew, SP 14/59, f. 452v), printed from a contemporary transcript (Bodleian, MS Tanner 79, ff. 29r-30v) in Spedding, IX, 21-6. The original letter is not in Bacon's hand and lacks a signature, but there are strong reasons for attributing it to him: see, inter alia, Vernon F. Snow, Francis Bacon's Advice to Fulke Greville on Research Techniques, Huntington Library Quarterly, 23 (1959-60), 369-78, and Brian Vickers, The Authenticity of Bacon's Earliest Writings, Studies in Philology, 94 (1997), 248-96 (pp. 275-7). For a discussion of Bacon's use of commonplace books and other notebooks, see Angus Vine, Commercial Commonplacing: Francis Bacon, the Waste-book, and the Ledger, English Manuscript Studies, 16 (2011), 197-218.

Bacon was also clearly interested in collecting into his notebooks current sayings, aphorisms, and anecdotes. In A direccon for the readeinge of histories with profitt, ascribed to Bacon in a single known manuscript (BcF 197), he recommended taking note of The apt & sententious speeches & answeres comonly called Apothegmes. His interest in such material is witnessed by the extant collections in BcF 85-86, as well as by his posthumously published Apothegms (Spedding, VII, 111-86). Seventeenth-century lists of Bacon's works and of the manuscripts he left behind (British Library, Sloane MS 629, ff. 243r-5v) include Apothegmes cast out of my lords booke & not prynted, Apothegmes of K. James, and some fewe Apothegmes not chosen. (The second item here possibly relates to British Library Harley MS 6824, ff. 1r-9r: Proverbs and Aphorisms divine and morall, Collected as they were at sundrie times spoken by his most excellent Maiestie James the first, king of England.) These examples are worth citing in view of the special claims made by the Baconians with regard to Bacon's Promus (*BcF 269). Many of the phrases and sayings collected in this manuscript echo phrases found in Shakespeare's works (see, for instance, Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence, Bacon is Shake-speare (London, 1910)). Promus is still cited in literature of the present Bacon Society (The Shakespeare Authorship Information Centre, London) as evidence that Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, on the grounds that Bacon would not be such a fool as to waste his time by making a note of anything that was commonly current. Bacon (like many of his contemporaries who kept commonplace books) was indeed such a fool, and no doubt would have justified the time wasted in recording often very trivial material of this kind by the dictum (expressed in the letter to Greville mentioned above) that excellent Wits will make use of every little thing.

Dramatic Works

Besides a limited incursion into the field of verse composition (most of the poems recorded in entries below under Verse being of dubious attribution), Bacon did get involved in dramatic works of a decidedly non-professional, exclusive nature. He is known to have taken a hand in certain entertainments presented at Gray's Inn (including perhaps BcF 318). In his capacity as a secretary to the Earl of Essex, he certainly contributed to at least one entertainment presented before Queen Elizabeth. Portions of his autograph drafts of the Essex device for Accession Day, 1595, are preserved (*BcF 309), as well as various early transcripts of the device (BcF 308, BcF 310-317.5), which must have attracted a considerable amount of contemporary attention, though it failed to please Elizabeth herself.

The other most notable entertainment by Bacon is Of Tribute, or Giving What is Due, a piece probably presented before the Queen in 1592 (and which was belatedly included in the canon by Spedding: see BcF 319). What appears to be the only complete extant text of this entertainment is a scribal copy now in Japan (BcF 320). Both this entertainment and the 1595 Essex device are included in an important (though, unfortunately, badly damaged) manuscript of works associated with the Elizabethan Court now preserved at Alnwick Castle (reproduced in Burgoyne, Alnwick MS). This manuscript is (after Bacon's Promus) the main manuscript evidence used by the Baconians in support of their theory. The first page contains a large amount of scribbling and the names of various authors in an anonymous hand (which has been erroneously described as that of John Davies of Hereford: see T. Le Marchant Douse, Examination of an Old Manuscript preserved in the library of the Duke of Northumberland (London, 1904)). These scribblings include several references not only to Bacon and the Bacon contents of the manuscript but also to William Shakespeare, a quotation from The Rape of Lucrece (ShW 5), and the titles Rychard the second and Rychard the third, conceivably referring to copies of Shakespeare's plays which may once have formed part of the volume. Even if they made a more specific connection between Bacon and Shakespeare than in fact they do, these scribblings would have little significance in themselves, being the kind of random and indeterminate jottings found in innumerable manuscripts of the period.

Speeches

Entries are also given here to manuscript copies of Bacon's speeches, some of which — such as that delivered on 7 May 1617 when he became Lord Chancellor — became widely circulated. The entries, however, do not necessarily identify the particular speeches in the manuscript recorded. Further examples of speeches, or brief interjections, by Bacon in Parliament can no doubt be found in contemporary parliamentary journals, as also in accounts of various major trials (such as the arraignment of Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset), which are not here recorded.

The early lists of Bacon's manuscripts (British Library, Sloane MS 629, ff. 243-5v) mention A Booke of Speeches conteining 37 sheetes of paper. Bacon's Regester Booke of his speeches mentioned in his will has been noted above. Bacon's speeches found in the British Library and National Archives, Kew, some partly in his own hand, are edited or cited in Spedding. Many transcripts of Bacon's speeches are found elsewhere, however, either in single copies or gathered in groups.

Letters

Bacon engaged in a huge correspondence throughout his career and many original letters, both autograph and in the hands of amanuenses and signed by him, survive. Some hundreds of these letters, dating from 1574 onwards, as well as many early copies of them, are listed in the online Francis Bacon Correspondence Project. Besides the original letters in the National Archives, Kew, and British Library, many of which were edited in Spedding, letters by Bacon are found in numerous other repositories, including Lambeth Palace (also a number of copies); the library of the Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House; the Parliamentary Archives; the Folger; the Huntington; Princeton University; the Bibliotheca Bodmeriana, Cologny-Geneva; the library of the Marquess of Bath, Longleat House; the Somerset Heritage Centre; the Pierpont Morgan Library; the library of Robert S Pirie, New York; the Clark Library, Los Angeles; and the Staatsbibliothek, Berlin, among others. Letters by Bacon also occasionally turn up in auctions — such as three sold at Sotheby's, 9 November 1965, lot 350, 24 June 1975, lot 210, and 5 July 1977, lot 98.

Among the numerous facsimile examples of Bacon's letters (some wholly, some partly autograph) that have been published are those in Isographie des Hommes Célèbres, tome 1 (Paris, 1828-30); Sir Henry James, Facsimiles of National Manuscripts from William the Conqueror to Queen Anne, 4 vols (Southampton, 1865-8), IV, Plate XXIII; Catalogue of the Collection of Autograph Letters and Historical Documents formed between 1865 and 1882 by Alfred Morrison, VI (1892), facing p. 2; Facsimiles of Royal, Historical, and Literary Autographs in the British Museum (1899), No. 24; Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plates LXXVI-LXXVII; Petti, English Literary Hands, No. 45; The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 55; Ann Morton, Men of Letters, Public Record Office Museum Pamphlets No. 6 (London, 1974), Plate II; Autograph Letters & Manuscripts: Major Acquisitions of the Pierpont Morgan Library 1929-1974 (New York, 1974), No. 9; British Literary Manuscripts, Series I (New York, 1981), Plate 23; Margaret Crum, English and American Autographs in the Bodmeriana (Cologny-Geneva, 1977), p. 19; as well as various sale catalogues, including Maggs's, No. 544 (Summer 1930), item 679 (frontispiece), and subsequent catalogues to 1934; and Sotheby's, 9 November 1965, lot 350, and 14 December 1992, Elizabeth and Essex catalogue, lot 7.

For present purposes, only manuscript copies of Bacon's letters — including substantial letterbooks or series of letters which often get copied en bloc — are here recorded. Again, it has been impractical to identify each individual letter.

The authorship of certain of the letters preserved in transcripts is not certain, although they may have been associated with Bacon. Of uncertain or complicated authorship, for instance, is a series of at least three Letters of Advice to the Earl of Rutland on his Travels (Spedding, IX, 2-20). These are normally ascribed to the Earl of Essex but (as with the letter to Greville noted above) Bacon may well have taken a hand in drafting certain of them as Essex's secretary (for which reason they are included in the forthcoming Oxford Francis Bacon edition). For currently known manuscript texts of these letters, see Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, EsR 153-185.

The most widely circulated of all Bacon's letters, and indeed of all Bacon's writings, are the series of Humble Submissions and Supplications he sent to the House of Lords on 19 March 1620/1, 22 April and 30 April 1621, at the time of his indictment for corruption. These pleas are printed in Spedding (XIV, 215-16, 242-5, 252-62) from the Journal of the House of Lords. Among the many extant transcripts of the Supplications (BcF 429-534.5), some are clearly contemporary copies made by parliamentary scribes, although (contrary to statements made in catalogues in the Folger, University of London, and Pierpont Morgan Libraries) none is known to contain Bacon's own hand.

Certain of these various transcripts of letters may conceivably derive from one of the two Regester Bookes which Bacon made vpp and mentioned in his will: the one of my Orations or speeches the other of my Epistles or Letters whereof there may bee vse, And yet because they touch vpon buisines of state they are not fitt to bee putt into the handes but of some Counsellor I doe deuise and bequeath them to the right hoble my verie good Lord the Lord Bishopp of Lincolne. It may be noted that a Booke of Lettres conteining 46 sheetes is mentioned in the early lists of Bacon's manuscripts (British Library, Sloane MS 629, ff. 243r-5v).

Miscellaneous Documents

Many other documents of a miscellaneous nature survive in Bacon's hand, or bear his signature, and are now widely dispersed among numerous libraries and collections world-wide. The documentation relating chiefly to Bacon's official duties — and not given entries below — includies many reports on judicial and financial matters, his legal charges, warrants, memoranda, minutes, circulars, instructions, articles of examination, decrees, breviates, certificates, draft proclamations, propositions, and reports, concerning the business of the Crown, Privy Council, Parliament, and High Court, as well as deeds and indentures relating to his personal property and transactions. Some of these, particularly those in the British Library and National Archives, Kew, are edited or recorded in Spedding. Some of them, as well as additional items, will be edited in the forthcoming Oxford Francis Bacon.

Some notable miscellaneous collections relating to Bacon may briefly be mentioned. Among the extensive resources of the British Library are the papers of Thomas Birch (1705-66) (Add. MSS 4258-63), which also incorporate some papers of Bacon's chaplain and editor Dr William Rawley (1588?-1667). The collection of Bacon's editor Basil Montagu (1770-1851) is now in Cambridge University Library (MSS Add. 4326-4338): see Duncan Wu, Basil Montagu's Manuscripts, Bodleian Library Record, 14 (1992), 246-51, and David McKitterick, The Francis Bacon Papers of Basil Montagu, Bodleian Library Record, 14 (1993), 342-6. One manuscript of biographical interest presented by Montagu to Lady Verulam is now in the Hertfordshire Record Office (D/EV F306). The University of London Library, Senate House, incorporates the library of the Baconian Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence (1837-1914). Interesting manuscripts are found in various other libraries including the Huntington, which now incorporates the Francis Bacon Library, of Claremont, California.

One collection which should be viewed with reservation is the so-called Bacon-Tottel Collection at University College London (MSS Ogden 7). This collection of fifty-four miscellanies and notebooks was owned and chiefly compiled by William Drake (1606-69) of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire, formerly seat of the Tottel family. The volumes are of considerable interest in their own right, and Bacon's works are often quoted in them, but the claim made by Alan Keen at the time of their discovery in 1943 that they were compiled for Bacon himself, by his law-clerk, William Tottel, may be discounted. The collection is discussed at length 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. It is also the subject of an extensive study by Kevin Sharpe, in his Reading Revolutions: The Politics of Reading in Early Modern England (New Haven and London, 2000).

Books and Manuscripts from Bacon's Library

In his last will and testament Bacon requested that there might be bookes faire bound of his own works placed in the Kinges Library, And in the Library of the Vniversitie of Cambridge, And in the Librarie of Trinitie Colledge … And in the Librarie of Bennett Colledge [i.e. Pembroke College] … And in the Library of the Vniversitie of Oxenford, And in the Library of my Lord of Cantorbury [i.e. Lambeth Palace], And in the Library of Eaton, that his Bookes of Orisons or Psalmes curiously Rymed should be given to the Right hoble my worthie freind the Marquis ffiat & late Lord Ambassadour of france, and that all my Bookes should go to Sir John Constable.

Printed volumes which can today be identified as deriving from Bacon's library are rare. Bacon does not seem to have been in the habit of signing his books, so they would not be easily recognizable, although volumes with the binding stamped in gold with the Bacon crest of a boar are occasionally found, as well as a few bearing subsequent owners' inscriptions of provenance (see BcF 657-676), and it is likely that others will come to light in due course. Perhaps the most famous of these volumes is the exemplum of Bacon's own Instauratio magna (1620) presented to Bacon's great rival, Sir Edward Coke, which bears Coke's caustic remark on the title page, It deserveth not to be read in schooles | but to be fraughted in the ship of fooles (BcF 659).

A late-medieval codex given by Bacon to Sir Robert Cotton (BcF 674) is also of particular interest in witnessing the relationship between these two scholars. Like so many intellectual figures of the time, Bacon certainly made use of Cotton's library. In Comentarius solutus Bacon reminded himself. For prsidts and antiquities to acquaint my self and take collections from Sr Rob. Cotton (Spedding, XI, 49), and in The History and Reign of King Henry VII he referred to Cotton as a worthy preserver and treasurer of rare antiquities: from whose manuscripts I have had much light for the furnishing of this work (Spedding, VI, 167). For the Cotton manuscript of Camden's Annales which Bacon annotated at Camden's request, see *CmW 1.

Various other books have been associated with Bacon by librarians or private owners, but with little or no clear evidence of provenance. Some indeed have genuine seventeenth-century inscriptions by one or more Francis Bacon, but they do not correspond with the recognizable signature of Francis Bacon, Viscount St Albans. Examples of such volumes — which have not been given entries below — include the following:

  • Castiglione, Baldassare. The Book of the Courtier, trans. Thomas Hoby (London, 1561): University College London, Ogden B 5.
  • Concordantiæ Bibliorum ([Frankfurt], 1600): University of London, [D-L.L.] G9 [Bible] fol. Strong Room.
  • Diogenes Laertius. Vitae philosophorum (Leiden, 1596), inscribed in an unidentified hand Francis Bacons booke: formerly in the Francis Bacon Library, Claremont, California; now Huntington, RB 601153.
  • Dyer, Sir James. Un abridgement de touts les cases reportes per Mounsier J.D. (London, 1609): Folger, STC 7387.
  • Pliny, Epistolarum (Lyons, 1547): Folger, PA 6638 A2 1547 Cage.
  • Tunstall, Cuthbert. De arte supputandi libri quattuor (London, 1522): Sotheby's, 25 October 2005 (Library of the Earls of Macclesfield removed from Shirburn Castle, Part Six), lot 2022, with a facsimile of the title-page (signed ffrancis Bacons booke) in the sale catalogue.
  • Vergil, Polydore. De inventiboribus rerum prior editio (Paris, 1528: i.e. 1529): University of London Library, Special Collections [D.-L.L.] C4.5 [Vergilius].

To this list of spurious items can be added volumes supposedly associated with Bacon on the evidence of markings and annotations. The principall use of one of Bacon's notebooks, he records in Comentarius solutus, is to receyve such parts and passages of Authors as I shall note and underline in the bookes themselves to be wrytten foorth by a servant and so collected into this book (Spedding, XI, 60). William T. Smedley (The Mystery of Francis Bacon (London, 1912)) refers (p. 157) to a collection made by Mr W.M. Safford of nearly two thousand volumes marked in this way by Bacon. All these volumes were later acquired by the Folger: see Immerito, The Folger Library Shakespeare Collection, The Librarian and Book World, 21 (1932), 262-3. In so far as it relates to Bacon, Safford's collection was based on nothing more than fanciful conjecture. Many people besides Bacon were in the habit of marking their books, and also of using the marginal trefoil which is found in certain of Bacon's manuscripts (e.g. *BcF 153, *BcF 294). Without clear evidence of provenance or positive palaeographical identification it would be impossible to distinguish Bacon's books from those of his contemporaries.

For this reason Bacon's supposed ownership of the following volumes, which cannot be verified, may also probably be dismissed:

  • Bèze, Théodore de. [Commentary on the Book of Job] (1589): Cashel Cathedral. Recorded in The Book Collector, 17 (1968), p. 325, as bearing Bacon's signature in faded brown ink.
  • The Bible (London, 1549): University of London Library, Bacon Society B.S. 1222 deposited in U.L.L. The annotations are not in Bacon's hand.
  • Littleton, Sir Thomas. Les tenures (London, 1591), once owned by W. Longeville, with copious annotations in legal French: University of London Library, [D.-L.L.] H6.4 [Littleton] Strongroom.
  • Vergil, Polydore. Anglicae historiae (Basle, 1534): Untraced, sold at auction in London in 1932. Containing a large number of sketches which were reproduced in J.E. Hodgkin, Fifty pen-and-ink sketches in exact facsimile, by J.E.H. from a copy of Polydore Vergil's History of England in his possession (privately printed, London, 1860). The volume was also discussed in Immerito, A Remarkable Elizabethan Discovery, The Librarian and Book World, 21 (1932), 288-9. The association with Bacon seems to have been based on nothing more than the occurrence of trefoils drawn in the margins.
  • Year Books: a group of early year books bound in three volumes, with Bacon's initials on the title of Vol. I and notes allegedly in his hand. Once owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 3 March 1845 (Bright sale), lot 6178, to Payne.

Exempla of Printed Works by Bacon Annotated by Early Readers

A final group of items of some possible interest — and which have not been given separate entries below — is printed volumes of Bacon's works that were owned and sometimes annotated by early readers. Examples include:

  • Charles I's annotated exemplum of The Advancement of Learning (London, 1640): British Library, C.6.I.1.
  • An exemplum of The Advancement of Learning (London, 1605) with annotations in Latin by Isaac Casaubon (1559-1614), scholar, later owned by Horace Walpole (1717-97), is in the Huntington, RB 56251. Facsimile of the signed title-page in Kiernan's edition, frontispiece.
  • John Evelyn's exemplum of The Advancement of Learning (London, 1640) and other works of Bacon: Christie's, 22 June 1977, lots 76, 78-82.
  • An exemplum of The Advancement of Learning (London, 1605) with annotations possibly made by Thomas Hobbes: Library of the Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth House, 135. B.
  • An exemplum of the 1633 edition of The Advancement of Learning copiously annotated by Charles, second Baron Stanhope of Harrington (1593-1675), and once owned by Horace Walpole (Folger, STC 1166 Copy 6). Recorded in G.P.V. Akrigg, The Curious Marginalia of Charles, Second Lord Stanhope, in Joseph Quincy Adams Memorial Studies, ed. James G. McManaway, Giles E. Dawson, and Edwin E. Willoughby (Washington, DC, 1948), pp. 785-801.
  • Alexander Pope's annotated exemplum of a later octavo edition of Bacon's Essays (lacking a title-page), in elaborately tooled crimson morocco: British Library, Stowe MS 964.

Miscellaneous

A manuscript copy, on sixteen quarto leaves, allegedly transcribed between 1867 and 1883 from the original manuscript of Bacon's Essays by the scholar and forger John Payne Collier (1789-1883) is in the University of London Library (MS 291).

Abbreviations

  • Burgoyne, Alnwick MS — Collotype Facsimile & Type Transcript of an Elizabethan Manuscript preserved at Alnwick Castle, ed. Frank J. Burgoyne (London, 1904).
  • Oxford Francis Bacon — The Oxford Francis Bacon. Vol. IV, The Advancement of Learning, ed. Michael Kiernan (Oxford, 2000). Vol. VI, Philosophical Studies c.1611-c.1619, ed. Graham Rees (Oxford, 1996). Vol. XIII, The Instauratio magna: Last Writings, ed. Graham Rees (Oxford, 2000). Vol. XV, The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall, ed. Michael Kiernan (Oxford, 2000).
  • Spedding — The Works of Francis Bacon, ed. James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, and Douglas Denon Heath, 14 vols (London, 1857-74).

Verse Legitimately or Doubtfully Attributed to Bacon

'The world's a bubble, and the life of man'

First published in Thomas Farnaby, Florilegium epigrammatum Graecorum (London, 1629). Poems by Sir Henry Wotton, Sir Walter Raleigh and others, ed. John Hannah (London, 1845), pp. 76-80. Spedding, VII, 271-2. H.J.C. Grierson, Bacon's Poem, The World: Its Date and Relation to certain other Poems, Modern Language Review, 6 (1911), 145-56.

BcF 1

Copy, headed An Ode agst 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.

In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, in English and Latin, in several hands, ii + 53 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf.
c.1690

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

BcF 2

Copy headed On mans Mortalite by [Doctor Donn deleted] Sr Fran: Bacon.

In: A large folio composite verse miscellany, chiefly folio, partly quarto, 243 pages, in contemporary calf.

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 3d 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.

c.1638

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

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

BcF 3

Copy, in the hand of John Aubrey.

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

In: A folio composite autograph manuscript of the first part of Brief Lives by John Aubrey (1626-97), 121 largely folio leaves, in vellum within modern boards.
c.1679/80-1681
BcF 4

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.

This MS collated in Grierson, p. 148.

In: A large folio composite volume of tracts and miscellaneous papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 229 leaves, in reversed calf.

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

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

BcF 5 c.1640

Copy, accompanied by a version in Greek.

In: A quarto miscellany of sermons and verse, in Greek, Latin and English, written from both ends, 84 leaves.

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

1646

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

BcF 6

Copy, headed Doctor Kinge before his death.

In: A folio verse miscellany, ii + 65 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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).

1647

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

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. d. 58 f. 8v) | Catalogue
BcF 7

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio verse miscellany, comprising nearly 250 poems, in five hands, vii + 135 leaves (with a modern index), in contemporary calf gilt (rebacked), with remains of clasps.

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.

c.1630s-40s

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).

BcF 8

Copy.

In: A duodecimo notebook of verse and prose, comprising 131 interleaves in a printed exemplum of John Sansbury's Ilium in Italiam (Oxford, 1608), in contemporary calf (rebacked), blind-stamped S. S. on the upper cover.

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

c.1620s-30s

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

BcF 9

Copy, headed On the world. Sr Francis Bacon.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, compiled by the writer Robert Codrington (1602-65) of Magdalen College, Oxford, 360 pages (including stubs of extracted leaves on pp. 297-328 and blanks, plus index), in contemporary calf.

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 30th of May. 1638.

c.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.

BcF 10

Copy, headed The Bubble by RW.

This MS collated in Hannah.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, including 37 poems by Donne, in several hands, written from both ends, 279 leaves (including numerous blanks, mostly in ff. 42r-140r), with stubs of extracted leaves, in contemporary calf.

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

Mid-17th century

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.

BcF 12

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

In: A folio verse miscellany, including eleven poems by Carew, in a single professional secretary hand (adopting a different style on ff. 176r-8r), ii + 231 leaves (including numerous blanks), the date 1633 occurring on f. 55r.
c.1630s

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.

BcF 13

Copy, untitled.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, 49 leaves; in contemporary calf gilt.

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.

c.1630s[-75]

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.

BcF 13.5

Copy.

In: A folio verse miscellany, entitled The Muse's Magazine, or Poeticall Miscelanies, in two parts, in a single hand, 189 leaves.

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 ye 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.

Early 18th century

The Mr. 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).

BcF 13.8

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

In: A folio volume chiefly of heraldic arms, 97 leaves, in modern half brown morocco gilt.

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

Chiefly c.1603-34

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.

BcF 14

Copy headed Humani casus.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, entitled Juvenilia Ludicra, in a single small mixed hand, 103 leaves, all now window mounted in a quarto volume, in 19th-century half morocco.

Probably compiled by a Cambridge University man.

c.1630s

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.

BcF 14.5

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

In: An oblong octavo miscellany of largely devotional verse and some prose, including (ff. 7v-22r) twelve poems by Crashaw, probably transcribed from Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652), in a single italic hand, written across the width of the pages with the spine upwards, with (ff. 181r-8r) a table of contents, 188 leaves, in calf gilt.

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.

c.1662

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.

BcF 15

Copy headed Vppon ye miserie of Man Ld verulam viscoun St Albans, but subscribed Henry Harrington; transcribed from BcF 16.

This MS the Pickering MS collated in Hannah.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, largely in a single predominantly secretary hand, with some later additions and annotations, 188 leaves, in quarter-morocco.

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.

c.1620s-30s

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.

BcF 16

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

In: A quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single neat secretary hand, the first page formally inscribed To the righte honoble: the Lorde Thomas Darcy Viscount Colchester (c.1565-1640, Viscount Colchester from 1621 to 1626), 191 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

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.

c.1620s

Scribbled inscriptions including (f. 1r) Mr 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.

BcF 16.5

Copy, headed of the world.

In: A quarto volume of Divine and Morall Observations, in verse and prose, in a neat roman hand varying in style, with later additions at the end, 61 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half black leather.

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

c.1672 [-1714]

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.

BcF 16.8

Copy, untitled and unascribed.

In: A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, chiefly in one mixed hand, 77 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

Compiled by Sir Thomas Dawes (knighted 1639).

c.1623-30

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

BcF 17

Copy, headed De ambiguitate [brevitate deleted] vitæ.

In: A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, predominantly in a single secretary hand, written from both ends, 179 leaves, in 19th-century half blue morocco gilt.
c.1640s

Inscribed (f. 179r) This is Sr. 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.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2725 f. 60r-v) | Catalogue
BcF 18

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

Deleted entry (British Library Harley MS 2311, ff. 24v-5r) | Catalogue
BcF 19

Copy, untitled, subscribed F: B.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in two styles of italic, the last poem (f. 93v) added in a later hand, 93 leaves (plus ten blanks), in modern quarter-morocco gilt.

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.

Mid-17th century

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.

BcF 20

Copy headed On the misery of man.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, largely in a single professional hand, with later additions on ff. 58v-62v in three or four other hands, 65 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt.

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.

c.1630s [-1670s]
BcF 21

Copy, headed in the margin Of Mortalitie.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in one or more secretary hands, with (ff. 244r-54r) a first-line index, 254 leaves, in modern half-morocco, poems on ff. 34v and 242v dated 1637.

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

c.1637

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.

The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 962 f. 169r-v) | Catalogue
BcF 21.5 c.1700

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.

In: An unbound folder of verse MSS, in various hands and paper sizes, 138 leaves.

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.

BcF 22

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.

c.1620-33

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 [Mr 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.

BcF 23

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

In: A single ruled and trimmed octavo leaf of verse, the second (properly first) page containing a copy of William Basse's poem On Mr William Shakespeare.

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

c.1630s
Chetham's Library, Manchester (Halliwell-Phillipps No. 2757 p. 1)
BcF 23.5

Copy, headed Quarles vpon the life of man.

In: A miscellany compiled by Benjamin Brown (1664-1748), of Troutbeck, High Constable of Kendal Ward.
Late 17th century
Cumbria Record Office, Kendal (WD/TE/Box 16/8 [unspecified page numbers])
BcF 24
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in a neat secretary hand, fourteen pages.
c.1620s

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.

Derbyshire Record Office (D258/10/15 pp. 8-9) | Catalogue
BcF 24.5 Mid-17th century

Copy, on one side of a single quarto leaf.

In: A bundle of unbound papers, chiefly verse, of Sir William Dugdale (1605-86), antiquary and herald.
Sir William Dugdale, Merevale Hall (Bundle XVI, Part ii, in Horse-hair trunk [unnumbered item])
BcF 24.8

Copy, headed On the frailty of this Life.

In: A series of quarto leaves of devotional poems, apparently copied by William Dugdale Jr, bound with a printed Book of Common Prayer (1679).
c.1700
Sir William Dugdale, Merevale Hall ([no shelfmark] pp. 229-30)
BcF 25

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

In: A quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single cursive secretary hand, with a later title-page supplied in 1832, x + 116 leaves (plus blanks), in 19th-century black leather elaborately gilt.

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 ye Books lately belonging to ye. Rev. Mr Jackson Rectr of Tatham.

c.1628-30s

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.

Edinburgh University Library (MS H.-P. Coll. 401 f. 62r)
BcF 26

Copy, in a neat predominantly secretary hand, untitled.

In: A folio composite miscellany of verse, prose, and dramatic works, in several hands, an independant unit on ff. 88r-111r, in a single hand, containing, inter alia, twenty poems by Donne, 117 leaves (plus seventeen blanks), in contemporary vellum, with remains of ties.
c.1630

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.

BcF 27

Copy, headed Sr ffrancis Bacon.

In: A quarto composite volume of verse, prose and dramatic MSS, in several hands, the second item (II) constituting an independent quire of six leaves containing copies of, or extracts from, 14 poems by Donne, in a single minute hand, c.160 leaves, in half-calf marbled boards.
c.1630

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

Emmanuel College, Cambridge (MS 68 (I. 3. 16) VI, f. [23r]) | Catalogue
BcF 28

Copy, headed The World, subscribed Ignoto.

In: MS poems, in several hands, on 28 octavo pages, at the end of a composite volume of three printed works, two dated 1659, the third Sir William Davenant's Two Excellent Plays (London, 1665), in contemporary calf.
Late 17th century

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

BcF 29

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

In: An octavo verse miscellany, largely in a predominantly secretary hand, another hand on ff. 85r-7v, 95v-6r, xiii pages + 104 leaves (including blanks, but lacking ff. 7-9, 54-5, 95), with a table of contents (pp. 1-6), in modern calf, gilt-edged.

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.

c.1630s

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

BcF 30

Copy, headed Humaine life characted.

In: A quarto verse miscellany (originally in two separate volumes), including eleven poems by Donne, chiefly in two hands, probably associated with the University of Oxford, 98 leaves, one of the original vellum covers now incorporated in modern red morocco.
Mid-17th century

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.

BcF 31

Copy, headed Upon the Miserie of Man.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, 210 pages, comprising 38 unnumbered pages and 172 numbered pages (plus four blank leaves), perhaps largely in a single predominantly secretary hand, with additions in four other hands on the unnumbered pages and pp. 167-71, including the scribbled title Divers Sonnets & Poems compiled by certaine gentil Clarks and Ryme-Wrightes, probably associated with Oxford University and the Inns of Court, in contemporary vellum.

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

c.1637-51

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.

BcF 32

Copy, headed Humane life Charactered by Francis Viscount St Albanes, subscribed Lord: virulam.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, with later accounts on the last page dated June 1658, 1* + 238 pages (including stubs of extracted pages 191-6, plus numerous blanks), in old calf (rebacked).

Including 11 poems by Carew and 14 poems by Randolph.

c.1630s-40s

Inscribed Jane Wheeler and Tho: Oliver Busfield. Francis Quarles's poem (pp. 209-11) To ye two partners of my heart Mr John Wheeler, and Mr 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.

BcF 33

Copy, headed Of mans misery Sr fr: Bacon:.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, largely in a single mixed hand, with additions in other hands, associated with Oxford University, possibly Christ Church, 315 pages (plus blanks), in modern black morocco gilt.

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

c.1630s

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.

BcF 34

Copy, untitled, subscribed ignoto.

In: A quarto miscellany, in several hands, written over a period, 80 leaves (plus 67 blanks and stubs of numerous extracted leaves), in contemporary vellum gilt.

Compiled by or for Sir Henry Cholmley, brother of Sir Hugh Cholmley (1600-57), the ascription by my brother Sr 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.

c.1624-41

Later bookplate of Henry B. Humphrey.

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

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 703 f. 16r-v) | Catalogue
BcF 34.5

Copy, headed Humane Life charactered by Fra. Bacon, Viscount St. Albans.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in two neat hands, 14 leaves (plus blanks), in modern quarter-calf cloth.

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

Late 17th century

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

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 1035 ff. [12v-13v]) | Catalogue
BcF 35

Copy of the first stanza, untitled.

In: An octavo miscellany, in varying largely italic scripts possibly in one hand, 55 unfoliated leaves, in a vellum wrapper (a recycled legal document).
c.1631

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

Hertfordshire Record Office (DE/Lw Z6/Bdle 1 k f. [47v]) | Catalogue
BcF 36

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 ye day is ye Sorrow therof. briefly thus, as on expresses it.

In: A small quarto book of Dayly Obseruations both Diuine & Morall / The First part by Thomas Grocer Florilegius. 1657, on 215 pages (paginated irregularly, plus five preliminary leaves).

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.

1657

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.

BcF 37

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

In: A quarto verse miscellany, written in alternating secretary and italic scripts, probably in a single hand; foliated in ink 1-32 and paginated in pencil 33-96, 32 leaves (lacking final leaf).

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

c.1630s

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).

BcF 38

Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, untitled.

In: An octavo miscellany of verse and some prose, in several italic and mixed hands, written probably over a period from both ends, 72 leaves, in contemporary vellum.
c.1630s-40s
BcF 38.5

Copy, headed A description of mans life.

In: A folio verse miscellany, comprising 162 poems in English, in a single hand, 273 pages, in brown morocco gilt.
c.late 1640s

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.

BcF 38.8

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

In: An octavo verse miscellany, chiefly translations of classical texts, predominantly in one clear hand up to p. 151, with additions in other hands over a period, written from both ends, 273 pages (plus a number of blanks), in half-calf marbled boards.
Early 18th century
BcF 39

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

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in Latin and English, written from both ends, 181 pages.

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

c.1637-46
The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House (MS 261 pp. 9-10 rev)
BcF 40

Copy in a musical setting.

In: A folio songbook compiled by Cesare Morelli for the use of Samuel Pepys, 113 leaves, in contemporary calf.
c.1680-93
BcF 41 c.1630s-40s

Copy, headed Sr ffrancis Bacon on the misery of man.

In: A folio composite volume of verse, prose and dramatic works, in various hands, written over a period from both ends, 543 pages (including blanks), in contemporary panelled calf with remains of metal clasps.

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

Early-mid 17th century

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

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 5390 D pp. 534-533 rev.) | Catalogue
BcF 41.2

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

In: A folio verse miscellany, in possibly several hands, one italic hand predominating, largely in double columns and written from both ends, on sixteen leaves of vellum, in modern stiff paper wrappers.

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

c.1690s

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.

Newberry Library, Chicago (MS Y 1845. 7 f. [14r rev.]) | Catalogue
BcF 41.3

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

In: A folio miscellany of chiefly religious verse, in a calligraphic hand adopting various secretary and italic scripts and decorative motifs, in black and red ink, on fifteen leaves (plus three blanks), in modern quarter-morocco.

In a hand associated with one Henry Feilde.

c.1630s
Newberry Library, Chicago (Wing MS fZW 5451. 001C f. 14v) | Catalogue
BcF 42

Copy, headed Sr Fr: Bacon. / On ye Vanity of ye Life of Man.

In: A small quarto verse anthology, in a single minute hand (but for p. 206), arranged under genre headings (Epitaphs, Satyricall, Love Sonnets, etc.), probably associated with Oxford University, possibly Christ Church, 382 pages (including numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt.

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).

c.1630s

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).

BcF 42.5

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

In: A composite verse miscellany.
Early 18th century
BcF 43

Copy, headed The World, subscribed Fran: Ld Bacon.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in probably a single mixed hand varying over a period, entitled in another hand Recueil Choisi De Pieces fugitives En Vers Anglois, 214 pages, in modern calf.
c.1713

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.

BcF 44

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

In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single small mixed hand throughout; 425 pages (plus an eight-page index), in contemporary calf.

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.

c.1634

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).

BcF 45

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

In: An octavo verse miscellany, in several hands, 89 leaves, in old calf gilt.

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

c.1640s

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

BcF 46

Copy, headed Mans life.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, including fifteen poems by Donne, with a title-page Miscellanies Or A Collection of Diuers Witty and pleasant Epigrams, Adages, poems Epitaphes &c for the recreation of ye ouertravelled sences: 1630 Robert Bishop, in a single mixed hand, probably associated with the University of Oxford, 306 pages, in old calf.
c.1630

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].

BcF 47

Copy.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, including ten poems by Henry King, perhaps almost entirely written over a period in a single secretary hand with slightly varying styles, 54 leaves, in limp vellum.
c.1636-40s

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.

St John's College, Cambridge (MS S. 32 (James 423) f. 42r)
BcF 48

Copy, with corrections.

In: A folio verse miscellany comprising 56 poems, including 29 by Donne, in several hands (two predominating), 34 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern cloth.

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.

c.1622-9

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.

BcF 49

Copy, headed Of Mans mortality, subscribed ffranc: St Albans.

In: A quarto miscellany of epitaphs and poems, in several hands, the main collection of verse (ff. 46-147) in a single hand and including 54 poems by Donne (all subscribed J. D.) and fourteen poems by or attributed to Herrick, 158 pages (plus index).
c.1630s

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).

BcF 49.5
Copy of a four-stanza version, untitled.

Subscribed Made by Sr Francis Bacon kt. baron Verulam Viscount St 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.

c.1620s-30s

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

BcF 50

Copy, headed How vaine a thing is Man, subscribed Visc: st Alb:.

This MS collated in Grierson, p. 148.

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).

c.1630s

Formerly MS G. 2.21.

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

BcF 51

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

In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, compiled principally in the secretary hand of a University of Oxford man, with additions in one or more other hands, 150 pages, imperfect, disbound.
c.1640
BcF 51.5

Copy, untitled.

In: A small quarto verse miscellany, predominantly in one secretary hand, erratically paginated up to 333, 250 leaves, in 18th-century boards.
c.late 1630s

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.

BcF 52

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:.

In: A quarto volume of poems and essays, in a single hand, written from both ends, xi + 26 pages and iii + 37 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf.

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

c.1638-45

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

BcF 53

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

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.

In: An octavo commonplace book, 116 pages, containing names of members of the Choate family.
Early-mid-17th century

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.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Stalham MS] [unspecified page numbers])
A Translation of certain Psalms. Psalm 104 ('Father and King of pow'rs, both high and low')

First published in London, 1625. Spedding, VII, 273-86 (pp. 281-4). Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. VIII (Oxford, 2012), pp. 281-9 (p. 289).

BcF 54

Copy, subscribed ffr: viot: st Alban:.

In: A folio verse miscellany, comprising nearly 250 poems, in five hands, vii + 135 leaves (with a modern index), in contemporary calf gilt (rebacked), with remains of clasps.

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.

c.1630s-40s

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).

Upon the Death of the Duke of Richmond and Lennox ('Are all diseases dead? or will death say')

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 400. For a contemporary attribution to Bacon see BcF 54.117.

BcF 54.1

Copy.

In: An octavo miscellany of verse and some prose, in five hands, one predominating on ff. 8v-130r, ii + 166 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf.

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

c.1630s-40s
BcF 54.102 c.1620s

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

In: A bundle of unbound verse MSS, in various hands.

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

BcF 54.104

Copy.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in one or more secretary hands, with (ff. 244r-54r) a first-line index, 254 leaves, in modern half-morocco, poems on ff. 34v and 242v dated 1637.

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

c.1637

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.

BcF 54.105

Copy.

In: A folio volume comprising a collection of epitaphs, in a single neat italic hand, entitled Delectus Epitaphiorum Anglo-Latinorum Tam Veterum quam Recentiu, 74 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf.
c.1664-1705

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

BcF 54.106

Copy, headed On the Duke of Richmond.

In: A large folio verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary hand, probably associated with Oxford University, 34 leaves, in modern half-morocco marbled boards.

Including 15 poems by Carew and 17 poems by King.

c.1630s

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).

BcF 54.107

Copy.

In: A folio verse miscellany, 206 pages (plus blanks), rebound in 1832 (by Charles Lewis) with an independent miscellany (Huntington, HM 198, Part II).

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.

c.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).

BcF 54.108

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

In: A folio verse miscellany, including 26 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Thomas Carew and poems by Henry King, in several hands, 92 leaves, plus an inserted gathering of eleven leaves after f. 82v (ff. [82a-82k]), but including stubs of some extracted leaves (ff. 74-8, 94-5), in contemporary vellum.

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

c.1630s

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.

Leeds Archives (WYL156/237 f. 2v)
BcF 54.109

Copy.

In: A folio volume of verse, some of it relating to the Cecil family, in a professional secretary hand up to f. 47r, with additions in two other hands thereafter, 60 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum.
c.1626-40s

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.

BcF 54.11

Copy.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, including seventeen poems by Donne and fifteen by Strode, the main part in a single hand, 334 pages (but pp. 3-4 extracted, and including a later index).

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.

c.1630s [-late 17th-century]

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).

BcF 54.112

Copy.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, including fifteen poems by Donne, with a title-page Miscellanies Or A Collection of Diuers Witty and pleasant Epigrams, Adages, poems Epitaphes &c for the recreation of ye ouertravelled sences: 1630 Robert Bishop, in a single mixed hand, probably associated with the University of Oxford, 306 pages, in old calf.
c.1630

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].

BcF 54.113

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

In: A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous MSS, in various hands, 368 leaves, in old blind-stamped calf (rebacked).

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

c.1620s-30s

Old pressmark F. 4. 20.

BcF 54.115

Copy.

In: A small quarto commonplace book, of verse and prose, c.120 pages.
Late 17th-early 18th century
Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborne MS b 256 pp. [250-1])
BcF 54.117
Copy of a five-quatrain version, in the hand of Peter Middelton (fl.1620s), Royal Chaplain, headed In obitum Ducis Lenox & Richmondiæ p Clarissimum virum vic. Comite StAlbons, inscribed in Middelton's printed exemplum of Bacon's The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh (London, 1622), in contemporary calf lettered P M.

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

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Bacon/Middelton volume])
BcF 54.15

Copy, headed Vpon the Duke of Richmond.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, largely in a single professional hand, with later additions on ff. 58v-62v in three or four other hands, 65 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt.

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.

c.1630s [-1670s]
BcF 54.2

Copy, ascribed to Donne.

In: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in several neat hands, ii + 142 leaves (ff. 111v-42v blank), in contemporary calf gilt.

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

c.1627-35

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

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 112 f. 79r) | Catalogue
BcF 54.3

Copy.

In: A duodecimo notebook of verse and prose, comprising 131 interleaves in a printed exemplum of John Sansbury's Ilium in Italiam (Oxford, 1608), in contemporary calf (rebacked), blind-stamped S. S. on the upper cover.

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

c.1620s-30s

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

BcF 54.4

Copy.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, compiled by the writer Robert Codrington (1602-65) of Magdalen College, Oxford, 360 pages (including stubs of extracted leaves on pp. 297-328 and blanks, plus index), in contemporary calf.

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 30th of May. 1638.

c.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.

BcF 54.5

Copy.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, in two or more cursive hands, written from both ends, iv + 278 pages, in contemporary calf.

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

c.1640s-60s

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.

BcF 54.6

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

In: An octavo verse miscellany, entitled Juvenilia Ludicra, in a single small mixed hand, 103 leaves, all now window mounted in a quarto volume, in 19th-century half morocco.

Probably compiled by a Cambridge University man.

c.1630s

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.

BcF 54.7

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

In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single predominantly italic hand, 49 leaves, outer leaves imperfect, in modern calf gilt.

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

c.1630s

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.

BcF 54.9

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

In: A quarto notebook of verse and prose, in English, Latin and French, in several hands over a period, much in a small cursive hand, 50 leaves, in quarter-morocco gilt.

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

Late 17th-early 18th century

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.

Verses Made by Mr. Francis Bacon ('The man of life upright, whose guiltless heart is free')

[Spedding, VII, 269].

See CmT 89-95.

Prose

(1) English works

Additions and Corrections inserted by Bacon in a Manuscript Copy of Camden's Annales

[Spedding, VII, 349-64].

See CmW 1.

The Advancement of Learning

First published, as The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the proficience and aduancement of Learning, diuine and humane, in London, 1605. Spedding, III, 253-491. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. IV (Oxford, 2000).

BcF 54.919

Extracts, translated into French.

In: A MS volume.
?17th century
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (fonds français n° 2532 ff. 1r-81r, 85r-106v, 108r-v)
BcF 54.923

Extracts.

In: A quarto miscellany, in several hands, written from both ends, 77 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

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

Mid-17th century

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

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. e. 6 ff. 65v-63v rev.) | Catalogue
BcF 54.924

Extracts.

In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in several hands, written from both ends (ff. 1-19, then ff. 82-20 rev.), the forty-three sonnets on ff. 1r-11r in a single neat secretary hand and headed Sonetts by Alablaster vppo ye ensignes of Christes Crucifyinge, iii + 82 leaves (plus three blanks), in contemporary vellum.
Early-mid-17th century

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

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 57 f. 14v) | Catalogue
BcF 54.925 c.1700

Abridgement of The Advancement of Learning.

In: An octavo composite notebook of extracts, chiefly in one cursive hand, 95 leaves, in half dark red morocco.

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

BcF 54.926

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.

1640

Bookplate of Sir Richard Brooke, Bt.

BcF 54.927

Extracts.

In: A quarto commonplace book, with entries largely under headings, in Latin and English, 163 leaves (including many blanks), in half-morocco.

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

1604-5
The British Library: Royal MSS (Royal MS 12 B. V f. 17r)
BcF 54.928

Extracts from Book V.

In: A quarto miscellany of extracts, in a cursive mixed hand, compiled by Sir Maurice Williams, MD (fl.1621-58), Physician to Lord Strafford, Viceroy of Ireland, 85 leaves, in 19th century quarter calf.
Mid-17th century
BcF 54.929

Extracts, headed Sr ffrancis Bacon his advancement of learning.

In: An octavo notebook of extracts, in a single small mixed hand, written from both ends, 165 leaves, in contemporary calf.

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

c.1644-76

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

BcF 54.931

Extracts.

In: A folio miscellany of verse and prose, in several hands, 283 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

Compiled principally by one Jo. Tempest.

Mid-17th century

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.

BcF 54.933

Extensive extracts, headed Notes out of Bacons advancemt as 'tis translated by G. Wals. August 11. 1661.

In: A folio miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, including academic orations, in one or more largely italic hands, written partly in oblong format and from both ends, unfoliated, 154 leaves, in dark brown morocco.
c.1651-61

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.

Smith College (MS 91 ff. [70r-108r]) | Catalogue
BcF 54.934

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

In: A folio composite commonplace book, arranged under subject headings, much in double columns, in possibly several secretary and italic hands, two predominating, 156 leaves, in contemporary vellum boards.
Early-mid-17th century

Old pressmark G. 2. 8.

BcF 54.935

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.

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

In: A quarto commonplace book of extracts, with a tipped-in insert, written from both ends, 171 leaves, in contemporary calf with green ties.

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

c.Mid-late 1630s

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).

University College London (MS Ogden 7/7 ff. 3r-39v passim) | Catalogue
BcF 54.9365

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.

In: A quarto commonplace book of extracts, in English and Latin, written from both ends, 209 leaves, in contemporary vellum with traces of ties.

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

c.1638

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).

University College London (MS Ogden 7/8 ff. 13r-30v) | Catalogue
BcF 54.937

Extracts, headed Sentences out of Bacons Aduancemt.

In: An octavo commonplace book, in at least two cursive italic hands, 187 leaves, in contemporary calf.
c.1650

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).

University College London (MS Ogden 7/22 ff. 125r-6r)
BcF 54.938

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

In: An octavo commonplace book of extracts, in a single cursive hand, 198 leaves, in contemporary calf.
c.1640s

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).

University College London (MS Ogden 7/25 f. 129r-v)
BcF 54.939

Extracts, headed Sentences out of Bacons Advancement.

In: An octavo commonplace book, in a single cursive mixed hand, 197 leaves (including numerous blanks), in old reversed calf.
c.1650

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).

University College London (MS Ogden 7/27 ff. 22r-34r)
BcF 54.941

Extracts, headed Bacons aduancement pag: 73.

In: An octavo commonplace book, in a single cursive hand, written from both ends, 193 leaves (including numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum boards.

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

c.1635-40s

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).

University College London (MS Ogden 7/29 f. 63r-v) | Catalogue
BcF 54.942

Observations and extracts.

In: A duodecimo commonplace book, compiled by James, Earl of Derby [presumably James Stanley (1607-51), seventh Earl of Derby], x or xii + 295 pages.
17th century

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

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

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Webb MS (I)] [unspecified pages])
BcF 54.943
Two original proof-sheets (sigs. Gg3v, Gg2, Ggv, Gg4) for the edition of 1605 with several MS corrections, bound at the end of an exemplum of St Augustine, The Citie of God (London, 1610).
1605

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

BcF 54.944

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

In: A folio miscellany of Latin and English ecclesiastical writings, in several neat secretary and italic hands, one small neat italic hand predominating, ii + 151 leaves (including blanks), in quarter-calf boards.
Mid-17th century

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

St Catharine's College (MS F. III. 16 (James 18) ff. 10v-12r)
BcF 54.945
An original proofsheet (sigs 2b3r and 2c3r) for the English edition of 1640 (i.e. 1639: STC 1167).

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

c.1639

Recorded in Jan Moore, p. 80.

Advertisement touching a Holy War

First published in Certaine Miscellany Works of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, ed. William Rawley (London, 1629). Spedding, VII, 1-36. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. VIII (Oxford, 2012), pp. 183-206.

BcF 55.2

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

In: A tall folio commonplace book, chiefly of naval tracts and sermons, in two hands, begun 23 May 1629, 322 pages of text (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt.

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.

c.1629-30s

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

The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS No. 23 pp. 9-17)
BcF 55.8
Copy of the address to Bishop Andrewes and beginning of the dialogue, in probably two professional secretary hands, incomplete, on i + three folio leaves (foliated 18-20), disbound, endorsed Considerations of a warre with Spaine and numbered 25.
c.1630
BcF 56 Early-mid-17th century

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

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

In: A folio composite volume of works chiefly by Bacon, in various hands, 225 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

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

BcF 57

A formal copy, ending The rest was not perfected.

In: A quarto volume comprising two works by Francis Bacon, in one or more professional italic and mixed hands, 54 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary red velvet gilt.
Early 17th century

Bookplate of Arthur Hewes Esq.

BcF 58

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.

In: Two works by Bacon, 36 quarto leaves, in later half calf on marbled boards.
c.1630

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).

BcF 60
Copy, with Dedication to Lancelot Andrewes, in a professional hand (the same as MS Hardwick 55: BcF 143.5), on 19 folio leaves (plus blanks).
c.1620s-30s

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

BcF 60.5

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

In: A quarto volume of three tracts, in three separate hands, 33 leaves (plus blanks), unfoliated, in modern cloth.
c.1620s

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

Plymouth Proprietary Library (Halliwell-Phillipps No. 13 ff. [1r-9r])
An Advertisement touching Private Censure

First published, and attributed to Bacon, in Burgoyne, Alnwick MS (1904), pp. 32-4.

BcF 61

Copy, imperfect.

In: 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.
c.1597

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

An Advertisement touching the Controversies of the Church of England

A tract beginning It is but ignorance if any man find it strange that the state of religion (especially in the days of peace) should be exercised.... First published as A Wise and Moderate Discourse concerning Church-Affaires ([London], 1641). Spedding, VIII, 74-95.

BcF 62

Copy, imperfect.

In: 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.
c.1597

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

BcF 62.2

Extracts.

In: John Milton's Commonplace Book.
c.1632-60s

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).

BcF 62.6
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, untitled and unascribed, on ten folio leaves, unbound.
Early 17th century
BcF 62.8
Copy, in a single neat hand, on sxteeni quarto leaves, in modern half-calf.
c.1620s-30s
St John's College, Cambridge (MS S. 11 (James 408))
BcF 63

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

Edited from this MS in Spedding.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, in English and Latin, in various hands, 155 leaves, in limp vellum.

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

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS e. Mus. 55 ff. 26r-35r) | Catalogue
BcF 64

Copy.

In: A quarto volume chiefly of sermons, compiled by one Jeremy Allen, xii + 630 pages.
c.1630

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

Bodleian Library, Eng. th. MSS (MS Eng. th. e. 14 pp. 597-617) | Catalogue
BcF 66 Early-mid-17th century

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

The text corrected from this MS in Spedding.

In: A folio composite volume of works chiefly by Bacon, in various hands, 225 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

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

BcF 67 c.1600s

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, unascribed.

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

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several professional hands, 93 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt.

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

BcF 68

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

This MS collated in Spedding.

In: A large folio composite volume of ecclesiastical tracts and papers, in various hands, 100 leaves, in half red morocco on cloth boards gilt.
BcF 69

Copy, on twelve folio leaves.

In: A large folio volume of works by Francis Bacon, the greater part in a single professional hand, in contemporary vellum.
c.1620s-30s

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

BcF 70 c.1630

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

This MS collated in Burgoyne, Alnwick MS.

In: A quarto composite volume of ten largely printed works, chiefly Bacon's Certaine Miscellany Works, ed. William Rawley (London, 1629), in quarter-vellum marbled boards.

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

University of London, Senate House Library (MS 1018 [Special Collections [D.-L.L.] (XVII) [Bc {Bacon-Two or more works-1629}] item 5, ff. 1r-22r)
BcF 71

Copy, as Written by Sr: Francis Bacon.

In: A quarto volume of state tracts and papers, in a single professional secretary hand, with (f. 2r) a formal title-page A Missellany Or Collection of Seuerall things 1625, and (ff. 3r-4r) a table of contents, 194 leaves, in contemporary vellum.
1625
BcF 73 Early 17th century

Copy, in a formal secretary hand.

In: A tall folio composite volume of ecclesiastical writings chiefly by Hooker, in several hands, 91 leaves, in old vellum boards.

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

BcF 74
Copy, closely written in a professional secretary hand, on five folio leaves, in modern vellum boards.

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

c.1592
BcF 75

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

In: Volume of three theological tracts.
Early-mid-17th century
Dr Williams's Library (MSS 61. 12 ff. 39r-44v)
Advice to the King touching Sutton's Estate

Written c.January 1611/12. First published in Resuscitatio (London, 1657), pp. 265-70. Spedding, XI, 249-54.

BcF 75.1

Copy.

In: A square-shaped folio volume of antiquarian and state tracts, with a table of contents (ff. 374r-7v) and occasional engraved borders by John Sudbury and George Humble, 377 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

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

c.1640s

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.

BcF 75.11

Copy.

In: A folio volume of transcripts of Bacon's correspondence, in a single professional hand, vi + 62 leaves, disbound.
c.1630

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

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS fb 37 [unspecified page numbers])
*BcF 75.5
Autograph

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

In: A folio composite volume of works by Francis Bacon, principally his own papers probably collected by his executors, in various secretary hands, a heading on ff. 12r A Book of Speeches in Parliamt or otherwise deliuered by Sr fr. Bacon the K Sollicitor, 199 leaves.
BcF 75.6

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

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

In: A folio volume of state letters and tracts, dating up to 1628, in three professional hands, one that of the Feathery Scribe, 214 leaves.
c.1630

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

The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 151 ff. 45r-53v) | Catalogue
BcF 75.7

Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand.

In: A folio volume of state letters and tracts, in various professional hands, 390 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in old calf.
c.1635-40

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).

BcF 75.8

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

In: An octavo commonplace book of tracts and extracts, in a single cursive hand, written from both ends, 186 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary limp vellum.

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

c.1640s

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).

University College London (MS Ogden 7/45 ff. 3r-5r) | Catalogue
BcF 75.9

Copy.

In: A quarto composite volume of state tracts, in several professional hands, 118 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary calf with clasps.
c.1630s

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.

Yale, Osborn MS b 50 through Osborn MS b 99 (Osborn MS b 50 ff. 17r-30v)
Answers to Questions touching the Office of Constables

First published in Cases of Treason (London 1641). Spedding, VII, 745-54.

BcF 76 c.1620s-30s

Copy, in a professional secretary hand.

This MS recorded in Spedding, VII, 775.

In: A folio composite volume of works by Francis Bacon, principally his own papers probably collected by his executors, in various secretary hands, a heading on ff. 12r A Book of Speeches in Parliamt or otherwise deliuered by Sr fr. Bacon the K Sollicitor, 199 leaves.
BcF 76.5

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

In: A folio composite volume of legal tracts, in several probably professional hands, 75 leaves (plus loose inserts), in stiff paper wrappers.
c.1640
BcF 77 c.1630

Copy.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and estate papers, in English and Latin, in various largely professional hands, i + 527 leaves, in modern calf.

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

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Willis 57 ff. 451r-4v) | Catalogue
BcF 78

Copy.

In: A square-shaped folio volume of antiquarian and state tracts, with a table of contents (ff. 374r-7v) and occasional engraved borders by John Sudbury and George Humble, 377 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

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

c.1640s

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.

BcF 79 c.1600s

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, incomplete.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several professional hands, 93 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt.

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

BcF 80

Copy, as written by Sr Francis Bacon...1608.

This MS recorded in Spedding, VII, 775.

In: A folio volume of works by Francis Bacon, in four professional hands, 80 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

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

c.1630s
The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 612 ff. 11v-16v) | Catalogue
BcF 81

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.

In: A quarto volume of antiquarian tracts and papers, 40 leaves, in contemporary vellum gilt.
Early 17th century

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

The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 1044 ff. 2r-15v) | Catalogue
BcF 82

Copy, as Written by Sr ffrancis Bacon.

In: A folio volume of state tracts and papers, in several professional secretary hands, 103 leaves, in half-calf marbled boards.
c.mid-1630s

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) Nord: [Norwood] Rand from his ffather Wm Rand. Among the collections of Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence, MP (1837-1914), Baconian scholar and book collector.

Apology in Certain Imputations concerning the late Earl of Essex

First published in London, 1604. Spedding, X, 139-60.

BcF 83

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.

In: A folio volume of political tracts and letters, in a single secretary hand, 57 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

The lower vellum cover inscribed Book of noates collected out of Mr Traffords Sermons & others.

Early 17th century
BcF 83.5

Extracts.

In: The greater part of a quarto commonplace book of extracts, compiled by Edward Pudsey (1573-1613), iii + 104 leaves, in 19th-century green morocco gilt.

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

c.1604-9

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.

BcF 84

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

In: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 270 leaves (including some blanks), in quarter-calf marbled boards.
Trinity College, Cambridge (MS R. 5. 12 (James 707) ff. 200r-8v) | Catalogue
Apothegms New and Old

A collection of Bacon's Apothegmes first published in London, 1625. An enlarged collection published in Resuscitatio, 2nd edition (London, 1661). Further enlarged in Spedding, VII, 111-86. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. VIII (Oxford, 2012), pp. 209-78, 647-52.

*BcF 85
Autograph
Autograph MS of a dozen aphorisms and anecdotes, headed Elegancies Miscellany. Apr. 22. 1601, on both sides of a single quarto leaf.
1601

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).

Princeton (RTC01 Box 2, fl. 1, [item 2])
BcF 85.5

Extracts.

In: A quarto commonplace book of notes and extracts, closely written in a small mixed hand, from both ends, 146 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary limp vellum.

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

c.1630s
The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 1338 ff. 64r-78r passim)
BcF 85.8

Extracts, headed Ld Bacons judgement of Apothegmes.

In: An octavo commonplace book of extracts, in a single cursive hand, 198 leaves, in contemporary calf.
c.1640s

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).

University College London (MS Ogden 7/25 f. 3v)
BcF 86

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

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

In: A folio volume comprising a collection of apothegms and anecdotes, in a single hand, 90 pages, in modern quarter-calf marbled boards.

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

c.1626-41

Formerly MS 1034.

Lambeth Palace Library (MS 2086 pp. 1-83 passim) | Catalogue
Arguments of Law. Four Arguments

Four Arguments (on the Case of the Impeachment of Waste, on Lowe's Case of Tenures, on the Case of Revocation of Uses, and on the Jurisdiction of the Council of the Marches). First published in Opera omnia, ed. J. Blackbourne (London, 1730). Spedding, VII, 517-611.

*BcF 87 c.1615-16
Autograph

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.

Edited from this MS in Blackbourne and in Spedding.

In: A folio composite volume of works chiefly by Bacon, in various hands, 225 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

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

BcF 88.5

Copy of three arguments.

In: A folio composite volume of legal and political tracts, in various professionall hands (including the Feathery Scribe), 170 leaves (including thirteen blanks), in vellum.

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

Free Library of Philadelphia (MS LC 14:44 ff. 150r-70r)
Arguments of Law. The Arguments on the Jurisdiction of the Council of the Marches

Spedding, VII, 567-611.

BcF 89 Early 17th century

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

In: A folio composite volume of works by Francis Bacon, principally his own papers probably collected by his executors, in various secretary hands, a heading on ff. 12r A Book of Speeches in Parliamt or otherwise deliuered by Sr fr. Bacon the K Sollicitor, 199 leaves.
BcF 92

This MS recorded in Spedding.

In: A folio composite volume of state papers, relating to the Marches of Wales, in various hands, c.303 leaves.
Early 17th century
The British Library: Cotton MSS (Cotton MS Vitellius C. I ff. 151r-7r) | Catalogue
BcF 93 c.1620s

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

In: A folio composite volume of state and legal tracts, papers and speeches, in several hands, with (f. 4r) an Index of contents, 338 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco gilt.
BcF 94 c.1630

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

In: A folio composite volume of legal and state tracts, chiefly by Bacon, in several professional hands, 168 leaves, bound with an independent MS (Harley MS 1858) in mottled leather with gilt lettering and initials M.B. on the front cover.
BcF 94.5

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

In: A folio composite collection of legal and state tracts, in various hands, now bound in two volumes, foliated 1-307 and 308-617 respectively, in modern quarter-calf vellum boards.

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

Lincoln's Inn Library (Maynard MS 59 Part I, ff. 197r-224v) | Catalogue
BcF 94.8
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed The proofes and presidentes which we demaunde, on the first page of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed Sr Francis Bacons notes dd to ye judges.
BcF 95

Copy, headed The Cause of the Marches of Walles.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several professional predominantly secretary hands, with (f. 1r-v) a table of contents, 428 leaves, in half-calf marbled boards.

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

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.

BcF 95.5 c.1608-9

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

In: A folio composite volume of state and legal tracts, in various hands.
Trinity College, Cambridge (MS R. 5. 13 (James 708) Item 3) | Catalogue
BcF 96

Copy.

In: A folio composite volume of 23 state tracts and papers, 476 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

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 no 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.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS fb 60 ff. 206r-32v)
BcF 97
Copy, in a folio volume of legal tracts.
17th century

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

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

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Cholmondeley MS])
Arguments of Law. Argument in Chudleigh's Case

First published (in an English translation) in Spedding, VII, 613-36.

BcF 98

Copy, written in Law French.

An English translation of this MS in Spedding.

In: A folio volume of judicial readings and other matter.
c.1594
The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 1121 ff. 112r-20v) | Catalogue
Arguments of Law. Argument in the Case of the Post-Nati of Scotland

First published in Three Speeches of The Right Honorable, Sir Francis Bacon (London, 1641). Spedding, VII, 637-79.

*BcF 99
Autograph

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

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

In: A quarto volume of works by Francis Bacon, in a professional secretary hand, with occasional use of italic, 103 leaves, in modern half brown morocco.

Possibly a manuscript presented by Bacon to James I.

c.1608
The British Library: Royal MSS (Royal MS 17 A. LVI ff. 1r-61v)
BcF 100

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 / Mr Hall hath the Originall.

In: An octavo commonplace book, in several hands, 198 leaves, in contemporary calf with traces of ties.

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

c.1630s-48

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).

University College London (MS Ogden 7/21 ff. 15r-16r) | Catalogue
Arguments of Law. The Argument on the Writ De Non precedendo Rege Inconsulto

First published in Collectanea juridica, ed. F. Hargrave, I (London, 1791), pp. 168-213. Spedding, VII, 681-725.

BcF 101 c.1620

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

In: A folio composite volume comprising two MSS of a work by Francis Bacon, in different hands, 52 leaves, in modern half brown morocco.

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

c.1616
BcF 102

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

In: A folio composite volume comprising two MSS of a work by Francis Bacon, in different hands, 52 leaves, in modern half brown morocco.

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

c.1616
BcF 103

Copy, incomplete.

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

In: A small quarto volume of legal tracts, 150 leaves.
The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 423 ff. 15r-22r) | Catalogue
Arguments of Law. Arguments in the Case De Commenda

Unpublished.

BcF 104
Arguments and opinions (including Bacon's) in the case de commenda of Colt and Glover against Richard Neile, Bishop of Lincoln, et al. (1616), in a professional secretary hand, v + 37 folio leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum boards.
c.1616

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

BcF 104.2

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.

In: A folio composite volume of state letters and miscellaneous papers, in various professional hands, including that of the Feathery Scribe, 292 leaves (plus blanks), in panelled calf.

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).

BcF 104.8

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

In: A folio volume of state and antiquarian tracts, entirely in the professional secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe, 27 leaves, in paper wrapper.
c.1625-40

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).

University College London (MS Ogden 7/3 ff. [1r-11r]) | Catalogue
The Beginning of the History of Great Britain

An unfinished history, beginning By the decease of Elizabeth, Queen of England, the issues of King Henry the Eighth failed.... First published in Resuscitatio, ed. William Rawley (London, 1657). Spedding, VI, 275-9.

BcF 105

Copy, on seven pages of four folio leaves.

In: A large folio volume of works by Francis Bacon, the greater part in a single professional hand, in contemporary vellum.
c.1620s-30s

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

The Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth House (MS Hardwick 51 item 10)
The Beginning of the History of the Reign of King Henry VIII

An unfinished history beginning After the decease of that wise and fortunate King, King Henry the Seventh.... First published in Certaine Miscellany Works of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, ed. William Rawley (London, 1629). Spedding, VI, 269-70. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. VIII (Oxford, 2012), pp. 179-80.

BcF 106

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

Edited from this MS in Spedding and in Kiernan.

In: A folio volume of transcripts chiefly of letters by and to Francis Bacon, in a single professional secretary hand, 132 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco.
c.1630s
A Brief Discourse touching the Happy Union of the Kingdoms of England and Scotland

A tract beginning I do not find it strange (excellent King).... First published in London, 1603. Spedding, X, 90-9.

BcF 108 Early-mid-17th century

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.

In: A folio composite volume of works chiefly by Bacon, in various hands, 225 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

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

BcF 109

Copy, on nine pages of five folio leaves.

In: A large folio volume of works by Francis Bacon, the greater part in a single professional hand, in contemporary vellum.
c.1620s-30s

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

BcF 110

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.

In: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 270 leaves (including some blanks), in quarter-calf marbled boards.
Trinity College, Cambridge (MS R. 5. 12 (James 707) ff. 208v-12v) | Catalogue
BcF 110.2

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

In: An octavo commonplace book, in at least two cursive italic hands, 187 leaves, in contemporary calf.
c.1650

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).

University College London (MS Ogden 7/22 ff. 130r-47v)
Calor et Frigus

First published in Letters and Remains of the Lord Chancellor Bacon, ed. Robert Stephens (London, 1734). Spedding, III, 641-52.

*BcF 111
Autograph

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

Edited from this MS in Stephens and in Spedding.

In: A folio composite volume of tracts, in various professional hands, 145 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.
Cases of the King's Prerogative

First published in Cases of Treason (London, 1641). Spedding, VII, 776-8.

See also BcF 233.

BcF 112 c.1608-1620s

Copy, in a professional secretary hand.

This MS recorded in Spedding, p. 775.

In: A folio composite volume of works by Francis Bacon, principally his own papers probably collected by his executors, in various secretary hands, a heading on ff. 12r A Book of Speeches in Parliamt or otherwise deliuered by Sr fr. Bacon the K Sollicitor, 199 leaves.
BcF 114

Copy.

This MS recorded in Spedding, VII, 775.

In: A folio volume of works by Francis Bacon, in four professional hands, 80 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

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

c.1630s
The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 612 ff. 10r-11v) | Catalogue
BcF 115

Copy, in a professional secretary hand.

In: A folio composite volume of legal tracts and speeches, in various professional hands, 136 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco.

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

The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 422 ff. 133v-6r) | Catalogue
Certain Articles or Considerations touching the Union of England and Scotland

First published in Resuscitatio, ed. William Rawley (London, 1657). Spedding, X, 218-34.

BcF 116

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, unascribed.

In: A folio volume of state papers, tracts and verse, in professional secretary hands, predominantly that of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), antiquary, and including the Feathery Scribe, 349 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco.
c.1624-8

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).

BcF 117

Copy, in a neat roman hand, as by Sr ffrancis Bacon Knight.

In: A tall folio volume of state tracts and papers, in several formal roman and secretary hands, i + 229 leaves, in contemporary leather gilt.
c.1620s

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.

BcF 118

Copy, on twelve folio leaves.

In: A large folio volume of works by Francis Bacon, the greater part in a single professional hand, in contemporary vellum.
c.1620s-30s

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

BcF 118.5

Copy, in the hand of the Feathery Scribe.

In: A folio volume of state letters and tracts, in two professional secretary hands, predominantly that of the Feathery Scribe, 334 leaves, plus an index in an italic hand (f. 375r), in modern half vellum on marbled boards.

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).

BcF 119

Copy, unascribed.

In: A folio volume of state tracts and papers relating chiefly to Privy Council matters, in several largely professional secretary hands, 266 leaves, in half-vellum marbled boards.
c.1620s-30s

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

BcF 120

Copy.

This MS recorded in Spedding, X, 218.

In: A large folio composite volume of state letters and papers, iv + 207 leaves, in contemporary calf.
Certain Considerations touching the Better Pacification and Edification of the Church of England

First published in London, 1604. Spedding, X, 103-27. The circumstances of the original publication and the book's suppression by the Bishop of London discussed, with a census of relevant exempla, in Richard Serjeantson and Thomas Woolford, The Scribal Publication of a Printed Book: Francis Bacon's Certaine Considerations Touching...the Church of England (1604), The Library, 7th Ser. 10/2 (June 2009), 119-56.

*BcF 121 c.1602
Autograph

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.

In: A folio guard-book of independent Jacobean state papers, stamped foliation 1-196.
National Archives, Kew (SP 14/5 ff. 92r-121v (item 51)) | Catalogue
BcF 121.5
Exemplum of the printed edition of 1604 with the unprinted pages supplied in MS.
Armagh Public Library (KE VIII 23 (item 1))
BcF 121.8

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

In: A folio commonplace book, in several hands, written from both ends, with a table of subject headings, begun 7 March 1624/5, 358 pages of text (plus blanks),

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.

c.1625-30s

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

The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS No. 21 pp. 70-1)
BcF 123.5
Exemplum of the quarto printed edition of 1604 with the six unprinted pages, sigs E1r-E3v, supplied in MS in a single secretary hand, inscribed on a flyleaf Sr francis Bacon his booke dedicated to ye king, bound with other quarto printed tracts, in modern quarter-morocco.
c.1604
BcF 124 Early-mid-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.

In: A folio composite volume of works chiefly by Bacon, in various hands, 225 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

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

BcF 125

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

In: A folio composite volume of works chiefly by Bacon, in various hands, 225 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

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

BcF 126

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

In: A folio composite volume of works chiefly by Bacon, in various hands, 225 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

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

BcF 127 c.1600s

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, unascribed.

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

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several professional hands, 93 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt.

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

BcF 128

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

In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous tracts and papers, in various hands, 203 leaves, in modern calf gilt.

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

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1435 ff. 125r-30r)
BcF 128.5
Exemplum of the printed quarto edition of 1604 with the unprinted pages (sigs E1v-E2r, E3v-E4r, F1r-F3r) supplied in MS.
1604

Facsimile of sigs D4v-[E1r] in Serjeantson and Woolford, p. 146.

BcF 129

Copy, in a probably professional hand, docketed (f. 1r) Bye F: B: but ye 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.

In: A quarto composite volume of ecclesiastical tracts and sermons, in various hands, in modern quarter-calf.
BcF 129.5

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 A3v-D4r of the printed edition of 1604.

In: A quarto booklet of prose works chiefly by Donne, on seventeen leaves (plus two blanks).
c.1620s

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).

Derbyshire Record Office (D258/7/13/6 (vi) ff. [13r-17v]) | Catalogue
BcF 129.8
Exemplum of the printed edition of 1604 with the unprinted pages (E1v-E2r, E3v-E4r, E5r-E6v) supplied in MS in two professional secretary hands.
c.1604
Christ Church, Oxford (Hyp.M.7917)
BcF 130

Copy, on fourteen folio leaves.

In: A large folio volume of works by Francis Bacon, the greater part in a single professional hand, in contemporary vellum.
c.1620s-30s

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

BcF 130.4
Exemplum of the 1604 edition with the unprinted pages (sigs E1v-E2r, E3v-E4r, E5r-v, F1r-v) supplied in MS in two professional secretary hands, the quarto volume in modern quarter-calf boards.
c.1604

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

BcF 130.5
Exemplum of the printed edition of 1604 with the unprinted pages supplied in MS.
c.1604

Facsimile of sigs D4v-[E1r] in Serjeantson and Woolford, p. 146.

BcF 130.6
An exemplum of the printed edition of 1604 with the unprinted pages (sigs E1v-2r, E3v-4r, F1r-2v) supplied in MS in a secretary hand, the printed text also containing a reader's marginal markings and underlinings.
c.1604
BcF 130.8
An exemplum of the printed edition of 1604 with the unprinted pages (sigs E1v, E2r, E3v, E4r, [F1r-3r]) supplied in MS, bound with nine other printed works.

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

York Minster (V/3.K.199)
BcF 131

Copy, headed A discourse of Policye in Church gouernment written to his Matye by Sr. Francis Bacon Knight

In: A folio volume comprising two state tracts, the first relating to France, in a single professional secretary hand, 50 unfoliated leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary reversed calf, with metal clasps.
Early 17th century

Bookplate of John Ludford Esq.

Edinburgh University Library, Laing Collection (MS La. III. 787 ff. [41r-50r])
BcF 131.2
An exemplum of the 1604 edition with the unprinted pages supplied in MS: i.e. sigs E1v-E2r, E3v-E4r in one secretary hand, and F1r-F3r in another, a quarto in modern vellum boards.
c.1604

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

BcF 131.4
An exemplum of the 1604 edition with the unprinted pages supplied in MS: i.e. sigs E1v-E2r, E3v-E4r in one secretary hand, and F1r-F4r in another, a quarto in modern brown morocco gilt.

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.

c.1604

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

BcF 131.5
Exemplum of the 1604 edition with the six unprinted pages supplied in MS in two probably professional hands.

Sigs E1v, E2r, E3v, E4r in a cursive secretary hand, sig F1r-v in a rounded secretary hand.

c.1604
BcF 131.8
Exemplum of the edition of 1604 with the unprinted pages, sigs E1v-E2r, E3v-E4r, F1r-F3r, supplied in MS in three secretary hands, in contemporary limp vellum with remains of ties.
c.1604

The upper cover inscribed for Mr. Robert Fil[mer?].

BcF 131.9 Early 17th century

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

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various hands, thirteen unpaginated items, modern quarter red morocco on marbled boards with ties.

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.

Certain Considerations touching the Plantation in Ireland

First published in Resuscitatio, ed. W. Rawley (London, 1657). Spedding, XI, 116-26.

*BcF 132 c.1606
Autograph

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

Edited from this MS in Spedding.

In: A folio composite volume of works by Francis Bacon, principally his own papers probably collected by his executors, in various secretary hands, a heading on ff. 12r A Book of Speeches in Parliamt or otherwise deliuered by Sr fr. Bacon the K Sollicitor, 199 leaves.
BcF 133
A formal copy, in an accomplished professional italic hand, with a title-page, 46 octavo leaves, in contemporary vellum, stamped in gilt with a royal device.

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

c.1608/9

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

Certain Observations made upon a Libel published this present year, 1592

A tract beginning It were just and honourable for princes being in war together, that howsever they prosecute their quarrels.... First published in Resuscitatio, ed. W. Rawley (London, 1657). Spedding, VIII, 146-208.

A letter to M. Critoy, Secretary of France, c.1589, A Letter on the Queen's religious policies, was later incorporated in Certain Observations made upon a Libel, and first published in Cabala, sive scrinia sacra (London, 1654), pp. 38-41.

For the Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles (also known as Cecil's Commonwealth), the Libel that Bacon answered, see RaW 383.8.

BcF 135

Copy, with some corrections in another hand.

In: A folio volume of state letters and tracts, in several professional secretary hands, the letters on pp. 877-1039 arranged under genre headings (Aduise, Aunsweares, Comendatory, etc.), 1039 pages, in old blind-stamped calf (rebacked).
c.1595-1620s

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.

Meisei University (MR 0840 pp. 1-58)
BcF 135.2

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

In: A folio volume of letters and state papers, in various professional hands, one secretary hand predominating, with a table of contents, 354 leaves, in black leather gilt.
c.1630s
BcF 135.4

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

In: A folio volume of state tracts and papers, in a single hand, 80 leaves, in vellum.

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

c.1640
The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3378 ff. 35r-7v)
BcF 135.5

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

In: A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous tracts and state papers, in English and Latin, in various hands, 254 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.
The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1775 ff. 75r-8r)
BcF 135.6

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

In: A quarto volume of state letters, in a single professional hand, xxvi + c.955 pages (misnumbered around pp. 895-6), including a table of contents (and plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, remains of ties.
c.1630s
BcF 135.8

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

In: A folio volume of state letters and papers, in several professional secretary hands, 1050 pages (plus a 24-page Tabula of contents at the end), in calf.
c.1630s

Formerly MS F. 2. 20.

BcF 137 Early-mid-17th century

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.

This MS collated in Spedding.

In: A folio composite volume of works chiefly by Bacon, in various hands, 225 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

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

BcF 137.5

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

In: An octavo volume of transcripts of state tracts and letters, iii + 227 leaves (including blanks) in all, in calf.

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.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3876 ff. 163r-90v)
BcF 138 Early 17th century

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

This MS collated in Spedding.

In: A quarto composite volume of state tracts and papers, in several professional hands, 123 leaves (but ff. 50-5 removed), in modern panelled calf gilt.
BcF 138.5 c.1599

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.

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

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

BcF 140.5
Copy, in a secretary and italic hand, headed Obseruations Apon a Libell intituled; the declaracons of the causes of troubles prsupposed to be against England 1592, on eight folio leaves.
c.1600
University of Calgary (Osborne Collection, Box/Files No. MsC 132-4 (Item 1, Accession No. 25/72.1.4)) | Catalogue
BcF 141

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 Ao. Dni. 1592, incomplete.

In: A folio miscellany of tracts, letters, plays and verse, for the most part in a single secretary hand, partly on inserted sheaves of long narrow ledger-size leaves, written from both ends, 248 leaves, in contempoary vellum with metal clasps.

Compiled by a University of Cambridge man.

Early 17th century

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.

BcF 143

Copy, in several hands, on 32 folio leaves.

In: A large folio volume of works by Francis Bacon, the greater part in a single professional hand, in contemporary vellum.
c.1620s-30s

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

BcF 143.5

Copy, in the same hand as BcF 160.

In: A folio volume of tracts by Bacon and others, in a professional hand (the same as MS Hardwick 43: BcF 60).
c.1620s-30s
The Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth House (MS Hardwick 55 ff. 86r-127r)
BcF 144

Copy, numbered by the second Earl of Bridgewater 2.

In: A folio volume, comprising two political tracts, each in a different professional secretary hand, the titles added in the hand of John Egerton, second Earl of Bridgewater, 86 leaves of text (plus numerous blanks) in all, in contemporary vellum.
c.1590s-early 1600s
BcF 145

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

In: 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.
Early 17th century
The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 267 3rd series, ff. 1r-27v)
BcF 146 c.1600

Copy, in a professional secretary hand.

In: A folio composite volume of state and antiquarian tracts, in various hands, 378 leaves (the first 29 paginated), in red morocco gilt.
Inner Temple Library (Petyt MS 538, Vol. 39 pp. 1-57) | Catalogue
BcF 147
Copy, in two or more professional secretary hands, iii + 34 folio leaves, in contemporary vellum wrapper within modern cloth boards.
[1592-1607]

Inscribed (f. iir) 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.

BcF 148

Copy, in two hands.

In: 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.

c.1630s

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.

BcF 149

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.

In: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 248 leaves, in modern crushed morocco gilt.
The British Library: Cotton MSS (Cotton MS Titus C. VII ff. 59v-61v) | Catalogue
BcF 150

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.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several professional hands, 164 leaves, in modern speckled calf gilt.
BcF 151

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 MS collated in Spedding.

In: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 468 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on roan boards.
End 16th-early 17th century

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.

The British Library: Cotton MSS (Cotton MS Julius F. VI ff. 164r-6v) | Catalogue
BcF 152

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

In: 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.
c.1597

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

BcF 152.5 c.1592

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.

In: A folio guard-book of independent Elizabethan state papers, stamped foliation 1-241.
National Archives, Kew (SP 12/242 ff. 45r-7r (item 18)) | Catalogue
Commentarius solutus sive pandecta, sive ancilla memoriae

Extracts edited in Spedding, XI, 39-95 (discussed pp. 18-37).

See also BcF 303.

*BcF 153
Autograph

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.

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

In: A quarto autograph memorandum book of Francis Bacon, 40 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in modern green morocco.
c.1608-9

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.

A Confession of Faith

First published in London, 1641. Spedding, VII, 217-26.

BcF 154 c.1600s

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as by Mr Baco.

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

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several professional hands, 93 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt.

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

BcF 156 Early-mid-17th century

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

This MS collated in Spedding.

In: A folio composite volume of works chiefly by Bacon, in various hands, 225 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

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

BcF 157

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

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, speeches and letters dating up to 1631, in various professional hands, including the Feathery Scribe, 313 leaves.

In the collection of Francis Hargrave (1740/1-1821), legal writer. Inscribed by him on f. [iv] 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).

The British Library: other MSS (Hargrave MS 226 ff. 193r-207v) | Catalogue
BcF 159

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

In: A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous tracts and papers, in verse and prose, in various hands, 99 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.
The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 363 ff. 81r-93v)
BcF 159.5 c.1620s-30s

Copy, on fifteen leaves.

In: A folio composite volume of seventeen state tracts, in the hands of professional scribes, nearly 600 pages, in half-calf marbled boards.
c.1620s-30s

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.

BcF 160

Copy, on three leaves.

In: A large folio volume of works by Francis Bacon, the greater part in a single professional hand, in contemporary vellum.
c.1620s-30s

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

BcF 161

Copy.

In: A folio volume principally of works by Francis Bacon, in a single professional secretary hand, 253 pages, in contemporary calf.
c.1620s-30s
BcF 162

Copy, headed The Confession of or Faith. by Sr: Fran: Bacon.

In: A quarto volume of sermons and devotional works, with (pp. [ii-iii]) a table of contents, viii + 279 pages, in contemporary vellum with green ties.
c.1632-4
BcF 163

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

In: A folio booklet of texts by Francis Bacon, in three secretary hands, 15 + iv leaves, unbound.
c.1620s
Northamptonshire Record Office (IL 3477 ff. [7r-16r])
BcF 164

Copy, eleven leaves.

In: A quarto volume containing two works by Francis Bacon.
Early 17th century

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.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Forster MS 21 (Pressmark 48.D.3) item 1) | Catalogue
BcF 164.5

A brief summary, headed Confession of ffayth by Sr Fr Bacon.

In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English, French, Latin and Greek, written from both ends in various hands, with a list of contents, 117 leaves, in half-calf.
Late 17th century

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

BcF 165

Copy.

In: A folio volume of state papers.
17th century

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.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Crowcombe MS] between pp. 262 and 283)
BcF 165.5

Copy.

In: A folio volume of state tracts.
c.1620s-40s

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

Untraced, miscellaneous ([A.A. MS] pp. 269-80)
A consideration of the laws of this realm concerning the transportation of gold and silver and of the remedies by law now in force against the same

To be published for the first time in the Oxford Francis Bacon.

BcF 165.8
Copy, in a probably professional secretary hand, headed A consideracon of the lawes of this Realme concerninge the transportacon of goulde & silver, and of the remedyes by lawe nowe in force againste the same, on two pairs of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a packet, endorsed per Fra. Bacon and used by Lord Ellesmere.
Late 16th-early 17th century

Edited from this MS in the forthcoming Oxford Francis Bacon.

Considerations touching a War with Spain

A tract dedicated to Prince Charles, beginning Your Highness hath an imperial name. It was a Charles that brought the empire first into France.... First published in Certaine Miscellany Works, ed. William Rawley (London, 1629). Spedding, XIV, 469-505.

BcF 166
Copy, in a professional predominantly secretary hand, unascribed, the heading added in the hand of the Rev. Ralph Bridges (d.1724), chaplain to the Bishop of London, 22 folio leaves (plus four blanks).

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.

c.1620s

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

BcF 166.5

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 St Albons.

In: A folio commonplace book, in several hands, written from both ends, with a table of subject headings, begun 7 March 1624/5, 358 pages of text (plus blanks),

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.

c.1625-30s

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

The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS No. 21 pp. 72-5)
BcF 166.8

Extracts, in a mixed hand, with annotations by the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Considerations touchinge a warre with Spaine by the hoble: Lo: Verulam Vicount St Alban.

In: A tall folio commonplace book, chiefly of naval tracts and sermons, in two hands, begun 23 May 1629, 322 pages of text (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt.

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.

c.1629-30s

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

The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS No. 23 pp. 1-9)
BcF 167
Copy, iii + 39 leaves (including six blanks).
c.1624-8

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

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Lyell empt. 21)
BcF 169

Copy, in a professional secretary and italic hand, with a title-page, as written by Sr Fran: Bacon Knt Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England.

This MS collated in Spedding.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and speeches, 321 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

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.

BcF 171.5

Copy, incomplete.

In: A folio volume of state tracts and parliamentary proceedings, in varying styles of script, both secretary and roman, possibly in the same hand, 283 leaves (of which ff. 98-283 are blank), in contemporary limp vellum, with ties.
c.1630
Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 981 ff. 58r-97r) | Catalogue
BcF 173

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

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and letters, in professional hands, including that of the Feathery Scribe, 517 leaves, in reversed calf.

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

Collected in 1674 by one John Witham.

BcF 174
Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand, on 34 quarto leaves, in 19th-century half black morocco gilt.
c.1624-8

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

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

BcF 175 c.1620s-30s

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

In: A folio composite volume of state papers, tracts and speeches, in various hands, 298 leaves (plus blanks), in old reversed calf.

Old pressmark N. 2. 12.

BcF 175.5

Copy.

In: A folio volume of speeches and letters by Francis Bacon, in a single professional secretary hand.
c.1630

Microfilm in the British Library, M/325.

The Duke of Northumberland, Alnwick Castle (MS 526 ff. 20r-7r (2nd series))
Considerations touching the Queen's Service in Ireland

First published in Remaines (London, 1648). Spedding, X, 46-51.

BcF 176

Copy.

In: A folio volume of letters and state papers, in various professional hands, one secretary hand predominating, with a table of contents, 354 leaves, in black leather gilt.
c.1630s
BcF 176.2

Copy.

In: A folio volume of letters by Francis Bacon, in a single professional predominantly secretary hand, 79 leaves (plus 64 blanks), in contemporary vellum gilt.

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

c.1620s-30s

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

The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS No. 190 ff. 46r-55r)
BcF 176.3

Copy, in a secretary hand.

In: A folio volume of miscellaneous tracts and papers, in several professional secretary hands, written from both ends, 287 leaves, in modern calf gilt.
c.1630s

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

BcF 176.4

Copy.

In: A tall folio volume comprising principally letters by Francis Bacon 1595-1622, largely in a single probably professional secretary hand, a letter by Sir Thomas Bodley to Bacon (ff. 41r-4v) in another secretary hand, 44 leaves, now mounted on guards, in contemporary vellum, now within modern half red morocco.
c.1620s-30s

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

BcF 176.5 c.1630s

Copy, in a professional secretary hand.

In: A folio composite volume of papers relating to Francis Bacon, in various hands, 306 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

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.

BcF 176.6 c.1620s-30s

Copy, in a professional predominantly italic hand.

In: A folio composite volume of papers relating to Francis Bacon, in various hands, 306 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

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.

BcF 176.7

Copy.

In: A folio composite volume of letters and state papers, in various professional largely secretary hands, ff. 80r-160v an imperfect single unit, 346 leaves, in modern half red morocco gilt.
c.1630s

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

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 238 ff. 253v-7v) | Catalogue
BcF 176.8

Copy, in the hand of the Feathery Scribe.

In: A worn folio volume of transcripts of state letters and tracts, the majority by or relating to Francis Bacon, in a single professional secretary hand (the Feathery Scribe), 101 leaves, in contemporary vellum.
c.1625-30s

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

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Aynho MS] ff. 29v-35r)
BcF 176.9
Copy, in a secretary hand, on six pages of two conjugate folio leaves, with an endorsement, once folded as a packet.
c.1602

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].

The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House (Cecil Papers 139/136-138)
BcF 177

Copy, subscribed ffrancis Bacon.

In: A quarto volume of state letters, in several hands, 543 pages, in calf gilt.
Mid-17th century

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.

Bradford Archives (32D86/44 pp 71-81)
BcF 178

Copy, subscribed ffran: Bacon.

In: A small folio volume of state letters, in a probably professional secretary hand, ii + 114 leaves, in half-morocco.
c.1625-30s

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. iir is actually dated 26 September 1763).

BcF 180

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

In: A folio composite volume of state letters and papers, in several professional secretary hands, with (ff. 1r-12v) a Tabula of contents, 315 leaves (including blanks), in old calf gilt.

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

BcF 182

Copy.

In: A folio composite volume of letters and state papers, in various professional largely secretary hands, ff. 80r-160v an imperfect single unit, 346 leaves, in modern half red morocco gilt.
c.1630s

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

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 238 ff. 89v-93v) | Catalogue
BcF 183

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

In: A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous tracts and state papers, in English and Latin, in various hands, 254 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.
The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1775 ff. 47r-50r)
BcF 185

Copy.

In: A folio volume principally of works by Francis Bacon, in a single professional secretary hand, 253 pages, in contemporary calf.
c.1620s-30s
Edinburgh University Library, Laing Collection (MS La. III. 348 pp. 173-92)
BcF 187

Copy.

In: A folio volume of state letters principally by Bacon, entirely in the predominantly secretary hand of Ralph Crane (fl.1589-1632), poet and scribe, v + 109 leaves, with an Index (pp. iii-v), in old quarter vellum boards.

With a title-page: Sundrie Letters Conteyning Matter of Elegancie, Worth & Moment, At seuerall times, & upon seuerall occasions Written to the excellt. Matie. of King James, & diuers other persons of Honor. & Eminencie By Sr Fra Bacon deceased aswell before he was his Maties. Solliciter: as in the after Passages of his life, dignities & fortune wherein are inserted .3. Letters of K. James his owne: & some of others.

c.1630

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

BcF 188

Copy, subscribed ffrancis Bacon.

In: A folio volume of state letters and papers, in several professional secretary hands, 1050 pages (plus a 24-page Tabula of contents at the end), in calf.
c.1630s

Formerly MS F. 2. 20.

BcF 189

Copy.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several professional predominantly secretary hands, with (f. 1r-v) a table of contents, 428 leaves, in half-calf marbled boards.

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

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.

BcF 190 c.1620s

Copy.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several professional hands, 118 leaves, in vellum boards.

Inscribed (f. [ir]) Given me by T.H.L. from The Library of his gt Grand.father. the Revd. 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.

BcF 191 c.1620s-30s

Copy.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several professional secretary hands, with (ff. 4r-6r) a table of contents, 222 leaves, in old half-calf.

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.

BcF 192

Copy, subscribed Fra: Bacon.

In: A folio volume of state letters, in several professional secretary hands, with a lengthy Tabula of contents, xxx + 558 pages, in old vellum boards.
c.1637

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

Lord Egremont, Petworth House (HMC MS 61 pp. 82-94)
BcF 193

Copy.

In: A small quarto volume of state letters and papers, in a single secretary hand, 704 pages, in quarter-calf boards.

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

Mid-17th century

Gift of Mr Roland L. Redmond, 1942.

BcF 193.5

Copy.

In: A folio miscellany of verse and prose on state matters, entitled Ephemeris Chirographoru quorudam Memorabiliam Succincta, 703 pages, in modern calf gilt.

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) No 4. Henry Feilde 1642.

c.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.

BcF 194

Copy.

In: A folio volume of transcripts of Bacon's correspondence, in a single professional hand, vi + 62 leaves, disbound.
c.1630

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

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS fb 37 ff. 20v-7v)
BcF 195

Copy.

In: A folio composite volume of 23 state tracts and papers, 476 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

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 no 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.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS fb 60 ff. 344v-51v)
BcF 196

MS abstract of the treatise.

In: An octavo volume of transcripts of state tracts and documents in the minute hand of Robert Horn of Shropshire, two items (ff. 19-30, dated 20 January 1620/1) added by Herbert Jenks of Newhall, 104 leaves, in contemporary vellum.
c.1618-30s
A Direccon for the readeinge of histories with profitt made by Sr. ffrances Bacon

Directions beginning First you shall observe any law or custome wch shalbe worth the noteing.... First published in David M. Bergeron, Francis Bacon: An Unpublished Manuscript, PBSA, 84 (1990).

BcF 197

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

Edited from this MS, with facsimiles, in Bergeron.

In: A folio volume of state letters and poems, 65 pages.
c.1625-30s

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

University of Kansas (MS 4A:1 pp. 16-17)
A Discourse touching Helps for the Intellectual Powers

First published in Resuscitatio, ed. W. Rawley (London, 1657). Spedding, VII, 97-103.

BcF 198

Copy, together with a copy of the covering letter to Sir Henry Savill (My Ld Verulams to Mr 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.

In: A quarto composite volume of state and ecclesiastical tracts and papers, in various hands, 371 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt.
The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 629 ff. 246r-50r)
A Discourse touching Intelligence and the Safety of the Queen's Person

Written in 1594. The complete discourse unknown. Spedding, VIII, 305-7.

*BcF 199
Autograph

Two fragments of autograph rough drafts, the first endorsed The first copye of my discourse touchinge the safatye of the Qs 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 fragmts of a discors touching intelligence and ye safty of the Qs person. [1594].

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

In: A tall folio composite volume of letters and papers of Francis Bacon, in various hands and paper sizes, with a fourteen-leaf table of contents, 282 items, unfoliated, in old black morocco gilt.

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

Discourse upon the Commission of Bridewell

A tract beginning Inter magnalia regni, amongst the greatest and most haughty things of this kingdom.... First published in Briefe Collections out of Magna Charta (London, 1643) [Wing B4557]. Spedding, VII, 505-16.

BcF 200

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

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

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, 285 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt.

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).

BcF 200.5

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

In: A large folio composite volume of state papers and tracts, in various hands, 412 leaves, in 19th-century half red morocco.

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

BcF 201.2

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....

In: A folio commonplace book of extracts and private journal, in a single cursive hand, written from both ends, 46 leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf.

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

c.1631-44
BcF 201.3

Copy.

In: A small folio volume of legal texts, 380 pages.
17th century

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

Guildhall Library (MS 9384 ff. 1r-9v)
BcF 201.6

Copy, on five pages.

In: A folio volume of legal and state tracts, letters and reports, principally in one secretary hand, c.127 leaves (including a number of blanks) in all, in contemporary limp vellum.
End of 16th century

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.

BcF 201.8

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed A Breife Treatise or discourse of ye 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 Mr Serieant ffleetwood Somtymes Seriant at Lawe. c.1630s.

In: A folio composite volume of legal, civic and parliamentary tracts relating to London, in several professional hands, i + 192 leaves, in modern half red morocco.

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

London Metropolitan Archives (CLC/539/MS09384 ff. 1r-9v) | Catalogue
An Essay of Fame

First published in Resuscitatio, ed. William Rawley (London, 1657). Spedding, VI, 519-20.

BcF 202 c.1630

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.

In: A folio composite volume of works by Francis Bacon, principally his own papers probably collected by his executors, in various secretary hands, a heading on ff. 12r A Book of Speeches in Parliamt or otherwise deliuered by Sr fr. Bacon the K Sollicitor, 199 leaves.
Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral

Ten Essayes first published in London, 1597. 38 Essaies published in London, 1612. 58 Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall published in London, 1625. Spedding, VI, 365-591. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. XV (Oxford, 2000).

*BcF 203
Autograph
Copy of 34 Essays, in a professional secretary hand, with a title-page in engrossed lettering The Writings of Sr ffrancis Bacon Knt: the Kinges Sollicitor Generall in Moralitie Policie and Historie, 29 leaves (plus numerous blanks), slightly imperfect (f. 16), in modern black morocco gilt.

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.

[c.1607-12]

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.

BcF 204 Early 17th century

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

Edited from this MS in Spedding.

In: A folio volume of papers relating to Francis Bacon, in various hands, 168 leaves, bound with British Library, Add. MS 4260 in modern half-morocco.

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.

BcF 204.4

Extracts, headed Collections from Sr ffrancis Bacons essayes or Counsells civill and Moralle.

In: A folio commonplace book of miscellaneous extracts from printed sources, in English and French, in a single cursive hand, written from both ends, i + 95 leaves, in contemporary vellum gilt.

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

c.1656

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).

BcF 204.5

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

Kiernan, p. lv.

In: A folio volume of state papers and speeches, in several secretary hands, 124 leaves, in modern mottled calf gilt.
Early 17th century
BcF 205 c.1590s

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

In: A folio composite volume of works by Francis Bacon, principally his own papers probably collected by his executors, in various secretary hands, a heading on ff. 12r A Book of Speeches in Parliamt or otherwise deliuered by Sr fr. Bacon the K Sollicitor, 199 leaves.
BcF 205.2

Extracts, headed Sr fra: Bacons Essayes.

In: A quarto commonplace book, with entries largely under headings, in Latin and English, 163 leaves (including many blanks), in half-morocco.

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

1604-5
The British Library: Royal MSS (Royal MS 12 B. V f. 7r)
BcF 205.3

Extracts, headed Out of the Ld. Bacon's Essays.

In: A quarto commonplace book of extracts, ff. 1r-39v in a professional hand, the rest almost entirely in a single hand, with some revisions, i + 100 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt.

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

c.1690s
The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 836 ff. 51r-v, 54r-9v)
BcF 205.4

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

In: A composite volume of miscellaneous tracts and state papers, in various hands, mounted on guards.

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

c.1633
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (fonds Dupuy no 5 f. 39r-v)
BcF 205.5

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

In: A composite volume of miscellaneous tracts and state papers, in various hands, mounted on guards.

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

c.1633
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (fonds Dupuy no 5 f. 40r-v)
BcF 205.6

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

In: A folio volume of French miscellaneous and state papers from 1315 to 1645, in a neat French hand, 218 leaves.

Originally owned by Pierre Séguier (1588-1672).

Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (fonds français n° 4745 [unspecified page numbers])
BcF 205.7

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

In: A MS volume.
?17th century

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).

Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (fonds français n° 17874 ff. 144r-5r)
BcF 205.8

Extracts.

In: The greater part of a quarto commonplace book of extracts, compiled by Edward Pudsey (1573-1613), iii + 104 leaves, in 19th-century green morocco gilt.

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

c.1604-9

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.

BcF 205.9

Extracts.

In: A duodecimo notebook of verse and prose, comprising 131 interleaves in a printed exemplum of John Sansbury's Ilium in Italiam (Oxford, 1608), in contemporary calf (rebacked), blind-stamped S. S. on the upper cover.

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

c.1620s-30s

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

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, f through end (MS Eng. poet. f. 10 ff. 2v, 58v-66v) | Catalogue
BcF 206

Copy of twenty Essays.

In: Copy of twenty-one Essays by Bacon, in a professional secretary hand, on ten folio leaves, in modern morocco.
Early 17th century

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.

Trinity College, Cambridge (MS O. 4. 52 (James 1502) ff. 1r-6r, 7v-10r) | Catalogue
BcF 206.2

Extracts.

In: A duodecimo commonplace book of extracts from philosophical works, under headings, in a single minute hand, xx + 327 pages (including a number of blanks), with an index, in modern calf gilt.
1687-8

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

Cambridge University Library, Additional MSS 7000 through end (MS Add. 8451 [Unspecified page numbers])
BcF 206.3 Early 17th century

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.

In: A small quarto volume comprising two separate MSS, 24 leaves, in later half-calf boards.
BcF 206.5

Extracts from five essays, headed Essaies of sr Francis Bacon.

In: A quarto formal commonplace book, in Latin, Greek and English, in a single predominantly secretary hand, written from both ends, including numerous blanks, unfoliated, in contemporary limp vellum, with traces of ties.

Compiled by Robert Marsham, fourth Baronet.

Late 17th century

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.

BcF 206.6

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

In: A folio volume of verse and prose extracts, those on pp. 321-7 headed Observables of a Miscellaneous Nature, those on pp. 367-77 Witty Sentences, in a single cursive secretary hand, 377 pages (including numerous blanks), in reversed brown calf.

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.

1699-1711
Durham University Library (Mickleton & Spearman MS 5 pp. 371)
BcF 206.7

Extracts, on numerous pages throughout the volume.

In: An octavo commonplace book, with entries under headings, in a single cursive hand, 512 pages (plus numerous blanks), in vellum boards.
c.1705
Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 1400 passim) | Catalogue
BcF 206.8

Various extracts.

In: A folio composite compilation of extracts from various works, in a single cursive hand, originally on folded and docketed pairs of conjugate leaves of differing sizes before being opened out and mounted, the pages unnumbered, in contemporary calf.
Mid-late 17th century
Harvard Law School Library (HLS MS 1169 (Hollis No. 005905616) passim) | Catalogue
BcF 206.9

Extracts.

In: A quarto commonplace book of notes and extracts, closely written in a small mixed hand, from both ends, 146 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary limp vellum.

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

c.1630s
BcF 207

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 Ld Bacon.

In: A folio miscellany of tracts and papers on heraldic, genealogical and other subjects, in several secretary hands, 193 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco gilt.
c.1598-9

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.

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 775 ff. 160r-4r) | Catalogue
BcF 207.2

Extracts from various essays.

In: A quarto miscellany, in two or more predominantly secretary hands, 86 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary calf.
c.1660

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.

BcF 207.5

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

In: A large folio volume containing autograph Observations Out of ye Old & New Testament also out of Lord Bacons Essays & Fuller's Holy State Jan: 16: 1696/7 by Samuel Brydges, afterwards first Duke of Chandos, with some pages relating to naval matters in a scribal hand, 176 pages (plus a few blanks), in contemporary panelled calf.

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

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks N through Z (ST 13 pp. 6-7, 9, 11-12, 14-16, 34-6, 38, 40-3, 50-2, 54-5, 57, 59, 61-5, 67-8, 70-2)
BcF 207.8

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.

In: A quarto commonplace book, in a single mixed hand, 319 pages (including blanks, plus a few more), in brown calf.
c.1620s-40s
Inner Temple Library (Miscellaneous MS No. 17 passim)
BcF 208
Copy of four Essays, namely Of Adversity, Of Revenge, Of Delays, and Of Innovations, in a cursive predominantly secretary hand, on all four pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.
Early 17th century

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

BcF 209
Copy of four Essays, namely (Of Adversity, Of Revenge, Of Delays, and Of Innovations, in a secretary hand, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.
Early 17th century
BcF 210 c.1620s

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

In: A folio guardbook of state letters and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 70 items, 139 leaves.

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

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

Somerset Heritage Centre (DD/PH/221 ff. 68r-9r) | Catalogue
BcF 210.1

Extracts, headed Lord Bacons Essays.

In: A quarto commonplace book of extracts, with a tipped-in insert, written from both ends, 171 leaves, in contemporary calf with green ties.

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

c.Mid-late 1630s

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).

University College London (MS Ogden 7/7 f. 43r-v) | Catalogue
BcF 210.3

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

In: An octavo commonplace book, in several hands, written from both ends, 181 leaves, in contemporary calf.

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

c.1640s

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).

University College London (MS Ogden 7/26 ff. 179v-175v rev.) | Catalogue
BcF 210.4

Extracts, headed Bacons Essays.

In: An octavo commonplace book, in a single cursive italic hand, 101 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.
c.1630s

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).

University College London (MS Ogden 7/28 f. 5r-v)
BcF 210.6

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

In: An octavo commonplace book of extracts, in two or more cursive hands, 184 leaves, in contemporary vellum boards.
c.1640s-50s

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).

University College London (MS Ogden 7/30 ff. 110v-41r) | Catalogue
BcF 210.8

Extract from Bacon's essay Of Innovations, untitled.

In: A duodecimo commonplace book of extracts, in one cursive hand, written from both ends, 117 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum boards gilt.
c.1630

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).

University College London (MS Ogden 7/38 f. 115v) | Catalogue
Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral. Of Seditions and Troubles

Spedding, VI, 535-91. The Oxford Francis Bacon, XV, 43-50.

BcF 211

Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand, on three pages of two folio leaves.

In: A large folio volume of works by Francis Bacon, the greater part in a single professional hand, in contemporary vellum.
c.1620s-30s

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

The Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth House (MS Hardwick 51 item 12)
Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral. Of Travaile

The Oxford Francis Bacon, XV, 56-8.

BcF 211.5

Copy, headed Sr Fran: Bacons essay of Travell.

In: An octavo volume of essays on travel, largely in one professional secretary hand, a Table and some notes in other hands, with a formal title-page Itineraria Collectanea or Instructions for A Traveler Directing him how to make the best use of his Travels Together with the Politique survay of A Kingdome, 107 pages (plus blanks), in old vellum boards.
c.1630

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

Bodleian Library, other MSS (Juel-Jensen E 6 [item 5] ff. 81-6)
Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral. Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates

Spedding, VI, 444-52. The Oxford Francis Bacon, XV, 89-99.

BcF 212 Early 17th century

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

In: A large folio guard-book of independent Jacobean state papers, stamped foliation 1-242.
National Archives, Kew (SP 14/205 ff. 213r-16v (item 37)) | Catalogue
BcF 213 c.1620s-30s

Copy, on three folio leaves.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, letters and speeches, in various hands, 614 pages (including blanks), in contemporary vellum.
The Queen's College, Oxford (MS 121 pp. 388-92)
BcF 213.5

Extracts.

In: A quarto commonplace book of extracts, ff. 1r-39v in a professional hand, the rest almost entirely in a single hand, with some revisions, i + 100 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt.

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

c.1690s
The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 836 ff. 42r-3v)
Filum labyrinthi, sive formula inquisitionis

First published in Letters and Remains of the Lord Chancellor Bacon, ed. Robert Stephens (London, 1734). Spedding, III, 493-504.

*BcF 214 Early 17th century
Autograph

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.

In: A folio composite volume of works by Francis Bacon, principally his own papers probably collected by his executors, in various secretary hands, a heading on ff. 12r A Book of Speeches in Parliamt or otherwise deliuered by Sr fr. Bacon the K Sollicitor, 199 leaves.
The History of Great Britain

See BcF 105.

The History of the Reign of King Henry VII

First published in London, 1622. Spedding, VI, 23-245. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. VIII (Oxford, 2012), pp. 3-169.

*BcF 215
Autograph
Copy, in the roman hand of an amanuensis, with Bacon's occasional autograph deletions and insertions, untitled, 136 folio leaves, imperfect at the beginning and end, in 19th-century leather.
c.1621

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

BcF 215.1

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

In: A tall folio commonplace book, chiefly of naval tracts and sermons, in two hands, begun 23 May 1629, 322 pages of text (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt.

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.

c.1629-30s

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

The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS No. 23 p. 18)
BcF 215.11 c.1620s

Extracts, in a secretary hand, headed Notes of Hen: ye .7. raigne sett downe in manuscript by the Lord Chancellor Bacon.

In: A folio composite volume of state papers, tracts and speeches, in several secretary hands and paper sizes, 89 leaves, in modern half-morocco.
BcF 215.12

Extracts, headed Hen: the 7. written by Francis Viscount St Albons.

In: A duodecimo notebook of extracts from historical works, in a single cursive italic hand, 149 pages (plus 70 blanks), in contemporary calf.
Mid-17th century

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

Lord Egremont, Petworth House (HMC MS 128 pp. 94-108)
BcF 215.125

Extracts.

In: A quarto commonplace book, in a single mixed hand, 319 pages (including blanks, plus a few more), in brown calf.
c.1620s-40s
Inner Temple Library (Miscellaneous MS No. 17 passim)
BcF 215.13

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

In: An octavo commonplace book, in several hands, written from both ends, 181 leaves, in contemporary calf.

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

c.1640s

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).

University College London (MS Ogden 7/26 ff. 175r-174v rev.) | Catalogue
BcF 215.135

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

In: A folio volume of extracts from English historical works, in three hands, one secretary hand predominating, c.240 pages, in contemporary calf gilt.
c.1630
Yale, Osborn MS b 100 through Osborn MS b 149 (Osborn MS b 145 f. [174r])
BcF 215.2 c.1620s-30s

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

In: A tall folio composite volume of state and antiquarian tracts and papers, in several hands, with a table of contents, 153 pages, in contemporary vellum.

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.

The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS No. 27 pp. 135-8)
BcF 215.5

Extracts, headed The Raigne of King Henry the 7th. by ye Ld Verulam.

In: A folio volume of Collections out of the Histories of England. 1670, extracted from printed sources, in a single hand, 87 leaves, in mottled leather gilt.
c.1670
The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 273 ff. 12v-17v, 63v-5v)
BcF 215.6

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

In: A duodecimo volume of extracts from printed books, in a single mixed hand, 80 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half morocco.
Mid-17th century
BcF 215.8

Extracts.

In: A quarto miscellany of extracts from plays and historical works, with comments on them, entitled Excerpta quædam per A. W. Adolescentem, in a single cursive predominantly italic hand, 119 leaves, in modern quarter-morocco.

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

c.1640

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.

The History of the Reign of King Henry VIII

See BcF 106.

The History of the reign of K. Henry the Eighth, K. Edward, Q. Mary, and part of the reign of Q. Elizabeth

A brief history beginning The books which are written do in their hands represent the faculties of the mind of man.... Quoted in John Speed, History of Great Britain (London, 1611). First published complete in Cabala (London 1663). Spedding, VI, 17-22.

BcF 216.5

Copy, untitled.

In: A quarto composite volume of twelve folio and quarto leaves, in three hands, in 19th-century half red morocco gilt.
Early-mid-17th centry

Acquired from M.C. Hamilton 11 November 1873.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2262 ff. 5r-7v) | Catalogue
BcF 217

Copy, on three folio leaves.

In: A large folio volume of works by Francis Bacon, the greater part in a single professional hand, in contemporary vellum.
c.1620s-30s

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

Letter and Discourse to Sir Henry Savill, touching Helps for the Intellectual Powers

See BcF 198.

Letters of Advice to the Earl of Rutland on his Travels

See EsR 153-184.

Maxims of the Law

First published in The Elements of the Common Lawes of England (London, 1630). Spedding, VII, 307-87.

Bacon claimed to have collected 300 of them, of which only some few (25 maxims) were subsequently published. For an attempt to track down the missing maxims, see John C. Hogan and Mortimer D. Schwartz, On Bacon's Rules and Maximes of the Common Law, Law Library Journal, 76/1 (Chicago, Winter 1983), 48-77.

BcF 218
Copy of 25 Rules, including (ff. 1r-7r) a dedication to Queen Elizabeth dated 8 January 1596 and (ff. 8r-15r) a Preface, in secretary and italic hands, on 82 quarto leaves, in modern half-calf.
Early 17th century
BcF 220
Folio copy of 25 rules, untitled, with (ff. 1r-3v) the Dedication to Queen Elizabeth and Preface in one professional secretary hand, the main text (on ff. 4r-52r) in another, in modern speckled calf gilt.
Early 17th century

This MS recorded in Spedding, VII, 309.

BcF 221
Copy of 22 Rules, in probably two secretary hands, as Written by Sir Francis Bacon, with the date January 8th Anno Dni 1596 added in another hand, on 118 quarto leaves, with (ff. 118v-23v) three additional rules in yet another secretary hand, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.
Early 17th century
BcF 224 Early 17th century

Copy of 25 Rules, in a secretary hand.

This MS collated in Spedding.

In: A small quarto volume comprising two works by Bacon bound together, in different hands, 72 leaves, (ff. 65r-72v in other hands), bound with MS Hh. 6. 7 (a 27-leaf tract owned in 1578 by Dr Robert Phipps), in quarter-calf.

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

BcF 225
Copy of 22 Rules, lacking a title, with a dedication to Queen Elizabeth, as by ffrancis Bacon, dated 8 January 1596, in a professional predominantly secretary hand, 115 quarto leaves (plus stubs of excised leaves at the beginning), in contemporary vellum.
Early 17th century
BcF 226
Copy of 25 Rules, closely written in a mixed hand, with a title-page A Collection of the Rules of the Comon Lawes of England by Francis Drake, on 31 quarto leaves.

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.

Early 17th century

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.

BcF 227

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

See BcF 226.

In: A quarto volume of legal works, in three hands, written from both ends, 138 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary limp vellum with ties.
c.1630s

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

Lincoln's Inn Library (Misc. MS 164 pp. 1-111)
BcF 228 Early 17th century

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

In: A folio volume of three works, each in a different secretary hand, 50 leaves (including blanks, plus more blanks), in brown morocco.
Inner Temple Library (Petyt MS 526 ff. 33r-5v) | Catalogue
New Atlantis

First published, edited by William Rawley (as A Worke unfinished), with Sylva Sylvarum (London, 1627). Spedding, III, 125-66.

BcF 228.1

Extract, headed Out of Sr fra. Bacons New Atlantis.

In: An octavo commonplace book of extracts from religious and philosophical works, in English and Latin, in a cursive mixed hand, 207 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf.
c.1640s

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.

University College London (MS Ogden 7/31 f. 202v)
Objections against the Change of the Name of England into the Name of Britain

Written 25 April 1604. To be published in the forthcoming The Oxford Francis Bacon.

BcF 228.3

Copy of an early report.

In: A folio composite volume of verse MSS, in various hands, 171 leaves, in half brown morocco.

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.

BcF 228.4

Copy.

In: A folio volume of state papers, tracts and verse, in professional secretary hands, predominantly that of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), antiquary, and including the Feathery Scribe, 349 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco.
c.1624-8

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).

BcF 228.5

Copy of a version of Bacon's first report.

In: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 468 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on roan boards.
End 16th-early 17th century

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.

The British Library: Cotton MSS (Cotton MS Julius F. VI ff. 67v, 158v-60v) | Catalogue
BcF 228.6

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

In: A folio volume of state letters and tracts, in two professional secretary hands, predominantly that of the Feathery Scribe, 334 leaves, plus an index in an italic hand (f. 375r), in modern half vellum on marbled boards.

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).

Of Magnanimity or Heroical Virtue

First published in Burgoyne, Alnwick MS (1904), pp. 28-9.

BcF 229

Copy, imperfect.

In: 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.
c.1597

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

Of the Colours of Good and Evil

First published with Essayes (London, 1597). Spedding, VII, 65-92. Spedding, VII, 67-8.

*BcF 230
Autograph

Autograph notes, headed Semblances or popularities of good & evill, wth 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.

In: A large folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and tracts, in various hands, 360 leaves, in modern morocco gilt.
BcF 231 c.1590s

Copy of a letter, headed Mr Fran: Bacon of the Collors 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.

In: A folio composite volume of works by Francis Bacon, principally his own papers probably collected by his executors, in various secretary hands, a heading on ff. 12r A Book of Speeches in Parliamt or otherwise deliuered by Sr fr. Bacon the K Sollicitor, 199 leaves.
BcF 231.5

Extracts.

In: The greater part of a quarto commonplace book of extracts, compiled by Edward Pudsey (1573-1613), iii + 104 leaves, in 19th-century green morocco gilt.

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

c.1604-9

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.

BcF 231.8

Extracts, headed Out of ye same Authors Table of Collours.

In: A folio commonplace book of miscellaneous extracts from printed sources, in English and French, in a single cursive hand, written from both ends, i + 95 leaves, in contemporary vellum gilt.

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

c.1656

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).

Of the True Greatness of the Kingdom of Britain

First published in Letters and Remains of the Lord Chancellor Bacon, ed. Robert Stephens (London, 1734). Spedding, VII, 45-64.

*BcF 232 c.1608
Autograph

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

Edited from this MS in Spedding.

In: A folio composite volume of tracts and papers, in various hands, 432 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt.
Offer to the King of a Digest to be made of the Laws of England

Spedding, XIV, 358-64.

BcF 232.1

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

In: A folio commonplace book, in several hands, written from both ends, with a table of subject headings, begun 7 March 1624/5, 358 pages of text (plus blanks),

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.

c.1625-30s

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

The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS No. 21 pp. 4-5 rev.)
BcF 232.15

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

In: A folio volume of transcripts chiefly of letters by and to Francis Bacon, in a single professional secretary hand, 132 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco.
c.1630s
BcF 232.2

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

In: A tall folio commonplace book, chiefly of naval tracts and sermons, in two hands, begun 23 May 1629, 322 pages of text (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt.

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.

c.1629-30s

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

The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS No. 23 pp. 17-18)
BcF 232.5

Copy.

In: An octavo volume of state tracts, in several mixed hands, one predominating, 68 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary limp vellum, now within modern half dark red morocco.
c.1620s

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

*BcF 232.7
Autograph

Copy in an accomplished predominantly italic hand.

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.

In: Two works by Bacon, 36 quarto leaves, in later half calf on marbled boards.
c.1630

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).

BcF 232.8

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of three tracts, in three separate hands, 33 leaves (plus blanks), unfoliated, in modern cloth.
c.1620s

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

Plymouth Proprietary Library (Halliwell-Phillipps No. 13 ff. [30r-3v])
*BcF 232.9
Autograph
Copy, on nine folio pages.
Early 17th century

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.

On the King's Prerogative

Unpublished.

Ordinances in Chancery

First published as Ordinances made by...Sir Francis Bacon Knight...being then Lord Chancellor For the better and more regular Administration of Iustice in the Chancery (London, 1642), beginning No decree shall be reversed, altered, or explained, being once under the Great Seale.... Spedding, VII, 755-74 (mentioning, on p. 757, having seen some MSS and editions of this work but without specifying them or his copy-text).

BcF 234 c.1620s

Copy of 100 rules.

In: A folio composite volume of legal and state tracts and papers, in professional hands, ii + 266 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

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.

All Souls College, Oxford (MS 180 ff. 18r-27v) | Catalogue
BcF 235 c.1640

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

In: A folio composite volume of works chiefly by Bacon, in various hands, 225 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

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

BcF 237

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

In: A folio volume of legal tracts, in several secretary and court hands, 172 leaves, in 19th-century morocco.
c.1630

Inscribed (f. 1r) Sum Edm Umfrevile Junr's Interioris Templi Studtie 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.

BcF 238

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

In: A large folio composite volume of legal tracts and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 274 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half red morocco.

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.

BcF 239

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

In: A quarto composite volume comprising three legal tracts, in different hands, with (ff. 108r-13r) an index, 113 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half red morocco.

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

BcF 239.5

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

In: A large folio composite volume of papers chiefly relating to the Court of Chancery, in various professional secretary hands and paper sizes, ix + 355 leaves, once in a recycled ?15th-century vellum document, now in modern half red morocco.

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. iiv), by Mr Deaues (?Charles Deaves of Lincoln's Inn) This Book must be delivered to Mr. 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.

BcF 239.8

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

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

In: A folio composite volume of state papers and tracts, in English and Latin, in various hands, ii + 380 leaves, in contemporary vellum, with traces of ties.

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

BcF 240

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

In: A folio volume of papers relating to the Court of Chancery, in one or more professional secretary hands, 156 leaves, in vellum boards.
c.1640

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.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2254 ff. 116r-27r) | Catalogue
BcF 240.5 c.1620s

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

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, letters and speeches, in several professional hands, 432 leaves (plus blanks), in modern crushed morocco gilt.

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).

BcF 241

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

In: A folio composite volume of state, legal and antiquarian tracts and papers, in various hands, 225 leaves, in modern green half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

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

BcF 242 c.1620s

Copy of 101 Ordinances, as made by the Lo. Chauncellor, 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

In: A folio composite volume of state and legal tracts, papers and speeches, in several hands, with (f. 4r) an Index of contents, 338 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco gilt.
BcF 242.5

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

In: A folio volume of tracts relating to the Chancery, in a single cursive secretary hand, 35 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.
c.1620s-30s
BcF 243
Copy of 100 Ordinances, in a professional hand, with a formal title-page, Ordinances made by the right honorable ffrancis Lord verulam Lord chancelor of England...1618, an address to the Recorder of London subscribed T: H:, and (ff. 18r-21r) an alphabetical Table of contents, on 21 quarto leaves, in quarter calf on marbled boards.
c.1618-20s

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

BcF 244

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

In: A folio volume of tracts and papers relating to the Court of Chancery, in several professional hands, 613 leaves, in reversed calf.
c.1620s

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

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 613 ff. 78r-95v) | Catalogue
BcF 244.5

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

In: A quarto volume of state papers, nearly all in a single secretary hand, 74 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt.
Early-mid-17th century
The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1856 ff. 42v et seq.)
BcF 245

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

In: A tall folio volume of tracts relating to the Court of Chancery, apparently based on collections of William Lambarde, in a professional mixed hand, with (ff. 258v-63v) a table of contents, 263 leaves, in old calf now within 19th-century half-morocco.
Mid-17th century

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

The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 415 ff. 75r-82r) | Catalogue
BcF 245.5

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

In: A folio volume of state and Chancery tracts and letters, in several professional secretary hands, 89 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum with ties.
c.1620s

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

Exeter College, Oxford (MS 113 ff. 43r-7r)
BcF 246

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

In: A quarto volume of legal tracts and papers, in one or more cursive secretary hands, 309 leaves (plus 42 blanks), in contemporary vellum.
c.1620s

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.

BcF 246.5

Copy of 95 ordinances, headed Ordinances made by ye Lord Chancellor for ye 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 cort. 23o Jan: 1618, followed (ff. 45v-6v) by Addiconall Rules.

In: A folio composite volume of tracts relating to the Court of Chancery, in professional hands, including that of the Feathery Scribe, vi + 97 leaves (including 51 blanks).

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

Free Library of Philadelphia (MS LC 14:46 ff. 38v-45r)
BcF 246.8

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. 31o: Octob Anno. 1620:.

In: A folio composite volume of legal tracts.
Free Library of Philadelphia (MS LC 14:60 ff. 121r-8v)
BcF 247
Copy of the Ordinances, unnumbered, on 22 quarto leaves, dated 1618, with Additionall Rules on ff. 22v-3v, in a secretary hand, with various corrections and emendations in another hand, disbound.

Copy, with corrections in another hand; the text followed by additional Ordinances.

c.1619

Acquired from Frank Hollings, London bookdealer.

BcF 247.2

Copy of 100 Ordinances, dated the xxiij daye of January 1618, followed (ff. 172v-4v) by fifteen Addiconall Rules, in the professional secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe.

Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 220 (No. 13.5).

In: A large folio volume of tracts on Chancery, entirely in the hand of the Feathery Scribe, 570 leaves (some misnumbered, plus loose inserts), in half-calf marbled boards.
c.1630

Inscribed (f. 1r) J Trevor, probably Sir John Trevor (1637-1717), Speaker of the House of Commons and Master of the Rolls. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 15141. The MS cited as in the possession of Mr. Rooke in a four-page index added c.1839. Acquired from Sweet & Maxwell on 14 February 1950 together with MSS belonging to Thomas Powys (d.1671), Sergeant at Law. Formerly MS 1034.

Recorded in J. H. Baker, English Legal Manuscripts in the United States of America, Part II: 1558-1902 (London, 1990), pp. 117-19 (No. 559). Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers (Oxford, 1998), pp. 219-21 (No. 13), with a facsimile of f. 32v on p. 100.

Harvard Law School Library (HLS MS 1026, Vol. I (Hollis No. 003758283) ff. 156r-72r) | Catalogue
BcF 247.4

Copy of 101 Ordinances.

In: A folio volume of legal tracts relating to Chancery, in professional secretary hands, 89 leaves (including numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum.
c.1620

Formerly MS 1156.

Baker, p. 138.

Harvard Law School Library (HLS MS 1121 (Hollis No. 003529219) ff. [67r-74r]) | Catalogue
BcF 247.6

Copy of 101 Ordinances, as published in open Cort .23o Jann: i6i8, followed (pp. 33-7) by fifteen Additionall Rules as published in open Court 31o October 1620.

In: A quarto volume of legal tracts relating to Chancery, in a single professional secretary hand, 202 pages, including an index, in 19th-century half-calf.
c.1627-35

Formerly MS 4025.

Baker, p. 109.

Harvard Law School Library (HLS MS 4107 (Hollis No. 004574888) pp. 1-33) | Catalogue
BcF 247.8

Copy of 101 Ordinances, as Orders made by the Lord Chancellor, followed (on ff. 184v-7r) by fifteen Addicionall rules, in a professional secretary hand.

In: A folio volume of legal tracts relating chiefly to the Court of Chancery, in several professional secretary hands (including that of the Feathery Scribe), 216 leaves (plus a few blanks), in contemporary calf.
c.1620s-30s

Inscribed on a flyleaf M: Bayley. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt I1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 15142. Bookplate of F. William Cock, MD (1858-1943), surgeon, of Appledore, Kent. Acquired 25 October 1944. Formerly shelved as LAW MS. 14.

Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 267-8 (No. 111).

Law Library of Congress (LCCN: 93170789 / Call Number: KD6937 .L53 1640 ff. 169r-84v) | Catalogue
BcF 248

Copy of 101 Ordinances, in a secretary hand, as made by ye lord Chanc:...Tempore Bacon Cancell: 1619, the text followed (ff. 14v-16v) by fifteen additional Ordinances dated 31 October 1620.

In: A quarto volume of papers relating to the Court of Chancery, in a single neat secretary hand, v + 60 leaves (including sixteen blanks, plus a further 137 blanks), in contemporary vellum.
c.1635

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 2785. Among the collections of Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence, MP (1837-1914), Baconian scholar and book collector.

BcF 248.5

Copy of 101 Ordinances made by the Lord Chancellor...the first first day of Candlemas Terme. 1618.

In: An octavo volume of tracts and papers relating to the Court of Chancery, in a single predominantly secretary hand, 203 pages (plus blanks), in modern calf.
c.1635-40s

Name inscribed on flyleaf of Joseph [?]Manson.

National Archives, Kew (SP 9/12 ff. 170r-93v) | Catalogue
BcF 249
Copy of 101 ordinances, in a professional secretary hand, with corrections in another hand, as by Francis Lord verulam, on 15 folio leaves, followed (ff. [16r-18r]) by fifteen Additional Rules and (f. [18v]) by an index, unbound.
c.1620s

This MS recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 31.

BcF 249.5
Copy of 101 Ordinances (or Decrees) made by the Lord Chancellor, in a professional secretary hand, on nine folio leaves, bound with two other MSS (MSS B. 10. 41 and B. 11. 34), in quarter-vellum boards.

Together with (ff. 9v-11r) Additionall Rules in the same hand.

c.1620s
BcF 250
Copy of 101 Ordinances, together with fifteen additional Ordinances, in a professional secretary hand, on eleven folio leaves, bound with two unrelated manuscripts, in modern boards.
c.1620s
Trinity College, Cambridge (MS R. 5. 8 (James 702), (III)) | Catalogue
BcF 250.5

Copy, with Additional rules in 6, 13r-6, 15r.

In: A quarto volume of chiefly tracts and speeches, in various hands, 175 leaves, in contemporary vellum.
University of Glasgow (MS Hunter 506 5, 16v-6r, 12v) | Catalogue
BcF 251
Copy, on pages 18-30 of a quarto volume (labelled Y) also containing a tract on the Court of Chancery by George Norburye.
17th century

Formerly among the MSS of John Harvey of Ickwell Bury, Hertfordshire, and Finningley Park, Yorkshire. Possibly destroyed in a fire in 1937.

Recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 63.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Harvey MS (I)])
BcF 252
Copy, the last item in a folio volume of tracts on the Court of Chancery.
17th century

Later owned by Lieutenant-Colonel G.H.W. Carew of Crowcombe Court, Somerset.

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

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Carew Chancery MS])
BcF 253
Copy, with addic'onall rules, in a folio volume of state and legal papers.
17th century

Formerly Mostyn MS 151, from the library of Mostyn Hall, near Holywell, Flintshire, Wales, seat of Sir Thomas Mostyn, second Baronet (c.1651-1700?) and of Sir Roger Mostyn, third Baronet (1675-1739). Sotheby's, 13 July 1920, lot 121, to Dobell.

Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 353.

Untraced Dobell MSS ([Mostyn MS 151])
The Praise of Knowledge and The Praise of his Sovereign

See BcF 321.

A Prayer, or Psalm

First published in Remaines (London, 1648). Spedding, XIV, 229-31.

BcF 254

Copy, headed A prayer wth confession and faith by vicom[t] S. Albans; and something added in the end by another and inscribed In March. 1621, a litle before Easter.

In: An octavo volume of transcripts of state tracts and documents in the minute hand of Robert Horn of Shropshire, two items (ff. 19-30, dated 20 January 1620/1) added by Herbert Jenks of Newhall, 104 leaves, in contemporary vellum.
c.1618-30s
BcF 254.5 c.1620s-30s

Copy, in a neat predominantly italic hand, on two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves once folded as a letter or packet.

In: A tall folio composite volume of state and antiquarian tracts and papers, in several hands, with a table of contents, 153 pages, in contemporary vellum.

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.

The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS No. 27 pp. 1-2)
BcF 254.8

Copy.

In: Three texts relating to Bacon, comprising four folio leaves, in a probably professional secretary hand, once folded as a letter and addressed on the outer leaf (p. [7]) ffor James Jackson these, bound out of order, in a folio composite volume of sixteen parliamentary papers in various hands, in modern half-morocco.
c.1620s

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

BcF 255 Early-mid-17th century

Copy, in a small mixed hand, on one side of a folio leaf, possibly made for William Rawley (c.1588-1667), Bacon's chaplain, amanuensis and posthumous editor.

Edited from this MS in Spedding.

In: A folio composite volume of works chiefly by Bacon, in various hands, 225 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

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

BcF 255.5

Copy, headed A Prayer or Psalm made by Ld. Bacon Ld. Chancelor of England.

In: A small quarto miscellany chiefly of verse, in several neat hands, 61 leaves (including a number of blanks), in contemporary calf.
Early 18th century
University of Chicago (MS 873 ff. 18v-17v rev.) | Catalogue
BcF 257

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of sermons and devotional works, with (pp. [ii-iii]) a table of contents, viii + 279 pages, in contemporary vellum with green ties.
c.1632-4
BcF 257.5

Copy, headed A Prayer or Psalme by the Lo: Chancellor.

In: A folio miscellany of verse and prose on state matters, entitled Ephemeris Chirographoru quorudam Memorabiliam Succincta, 703 pages, in modern calf gilt.

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) No 4. Henry Feilde 1642.

c.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.

BcF 258

Copy, headed The Lo: Chancelors prayer.

In: A folio volume of parliamentary tracts and speeches, in two or more secretary hands, 37 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary limp vellum.
c.1624-8

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).

University College London (MS Ogden 7/4 f. [8r-v]) | Catalogue
BcF 258.5

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed The Lord Chancellor his Psalme or Praier, dated in the margin March 162i.

In: A quarto volume of chiefly state tracts, speeches and letters, in several hands, with (ff. 94r-5r) a Table of contents, ff. [96r-107v] occupied by tracts in later hands, 107 leaves, frayed towards the end, in contemporary calf gilt.
c.1625[-1730]

The last item subscribed (f. 107v) in the same hand Finis Jne phillipson 1730 / Transcribed...in December Anno Dominij i689 p me Georgium Dixon p pastorle phillipsono, this hand also responsible for various marginal inscriptions elsewhere including (f. 55v) Jno: Phillipson Elizabeth Green Coppy. Item 422 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Acquired in 1930.

Wellcome Library, London (MS 805 ff. 14v-15v) | Catalogue
BcF 259

Copy.

In: A folio volume of state papers.
17th century

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.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Crowcombe MS] between pp. 262 and 283)
BcF 259.5

Copy, headed A Prayer or Psalme written by the Lord Chancellor Bacon since his trobles.

In: A folio volume of state tracts.
c.1620s-40s

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

Untraced, miscellaneous ([A.A. MS] pp. 281-3)
Prayers

First published in Baconiana. Or Certain Genuine Remains of Sr Francis Bacon (London, 1679). Spedding, VII, 259-60.

BcF 260

Copy of Two Prayers compos'd by Sr Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, and Viscount St Albans, in Aubrey's hand, The first Prayer called by his Lordship, The Student's Prayer and beginning To God the Father, God the Word, God ye Spirit, we pour forth most humble and heartie Supplications…, The Second Prayer called by his Lordship, The Writer's Prayer and beginning Thou, O Father! who gavest the Visible Light as the First-born of thy Creatures, and didst put into Man the Intellectual light….

In: A folio composite volume of papers of John Aubrey (1626-97), i + 195 leaves.
c.1684-90
Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Aubrey 10 ff. 128-9) | Catalogue
A Preparation for the Union of Laws

A discourse beginning Your Majesty's desire of proceeding towards the union of this whole island.... First published in Cases of Treason (London, 1641). Spedding, VII, 731-43 (and see p. 775 et seq.).

*BcF 261 c.1603
Autograph

Copy, f. 20r-v in one secretary hand, the rest in the secretary hand of an amanuensis, on versos only, with Bacon's autograph corrections and revisions.

Edited from this MS in Spedding.

In: A folio composite volume of works by Francis Bacon, principally his own papers probably collected by his executors, in various secretary hands, a heading on ff. 12r A Book of Speeches in Parliamt or otherwise deliuered by Sr fr. Bacon the K Sollicitor, 199 leaves.
BcF 262 c.1608-1620s

Copy, a title-page in italic script Sr Francis Bacons. Collectionis touching Cases of Paræmunire Treason. etc., the main text in a professional secretary hand.

This MS recorded in Spedding, VII, 775.

In: A folio composite volume of works by Francis Bacon, principally his own papers probably collected by his executors, in various secretary hands, a heading on ff. 12r A Book of Speeches in Parliamt or otherwise deliuered by Sr fr. Bacon the K Sollicitor, 199 leaves.
BcF 263

Copy of Pleas of the Crowne Offices of Sh[e]riffs Escheators...written by ye right honoble ffrauncis lo: Verulam viscount st Albon at ye request of the Earle of northa:) when he was Sollicitor Ano Dom: 1608, inscribed in the margin cases of Highe Treason.

In: A square-shaped folio volume of antiquarian and state tracts, with a table of contents (ff. 374r-7v) and occasional engraved borders by John Sudbury and George Humble, 377 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

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

c.1640s

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.

BcF 264 c.1620s-30s

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as written by Sir ffrancis Bacon.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and speeches, in various professional hands, 427 leaves, in modern half morocco gilt.

Inscribed in pencil (f. [ir]) bought of Mrs. Whitlock.

BcF 265

Copy.

This MS recorded in Spedding, VII, 775.

In: A folio volume of works by Francis Bacon, in four professional hands, 80 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

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

c.1630s
The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 612 ff. 2r-10r) | Catalogue
BcF 266 c.1630s

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed Cases of high Treason...[&c.]...written by Chanc. Bacon.

In: A folio composite volume of legal tracts and speeches, in various professional hands, 136 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco.

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

The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 422 ff. 121r-33v) | Catalogue
BcF 267 Mid-17th century

Copy, in a secretary hand, incomplete.

In: A small quarto volume comprising two works by Bacon bound together, in different hands, 72 leaves, (ff. 65r-72v in other hands), bound with MS Hh. 6. 7 (a 27-leaf tract owned in 1578 by Dr Robert Phipps), in quarter-calf.

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

BcF 268

Copy, headed The equalling of Lawes done by Sr Fran: Bacon knt his maties Sollicitor generall, 1607.

In: A folio volume of state tracts and letters, in several probably professional secretary hands, 225 pages, in marbled boards.
c.1630

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

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

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Eng d. 2912 pp. 215-17) | Catalogue
Promus of Formularies and Elegancies

Extracts in Spedding, VII, 187-211. Complete in Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence, Bacon is Shake-speare (London, 1910), pp. 190-275.

See also BcF 85, BcF 305.

*BcF 269
Autograph

Miscellaneous autograph notes and drafts, in English and Latin (incorporating BcF 85 and BcF 305); f. 85r dated 5 December 1594, and f. 114r dated 21 January 1595. c.1594-7.

Extracts edited from this MS in Spedding. Edited complete (with facsimile examples of f. 85r) in Durning-Lawrence.

In: A large folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and tracts, in various hands, 360 leaves, in modern morocco gilt.
Reading on the Statute of Advocations

Unpublished?

BcF 270

Copy.

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

In: A folio volume of legal and state tracts, in vellum.
Mid-late 17th century

Later owned by Joseph Edmondson (1732-86), Mowbray Herald of Arms Extraordinary, and by Thomas Astle (1735-1803), archivist and collector of books and manuscripts.

The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 424 ff. 145r-50r) | Catalogue
Reading on the Statute of Uses

First published as The Learned Reading of Sir Francis Bacon...upon the Statute of Uses (London, 1642). Spedding, VII, 389-450.

BcF 271 c.1630

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with several annotations by a reader, headed Lectura ffrancisci Bacon vnius..., endorsed (f. 167v) Sr ffrancis Bacons Readinge vpon the Statute of vses, slightly imperfect.

Edited partly from this MS (erroneously cited as No. 1858) in Spedding, VII, 389-450.

In: A folio composite volume of legal and state tracts, chiefly by Bacon, in several professional hands, 168 leaves, bound with an independent MS (Harley MS 1858) in mottled leather with gilt lettering and initials M.B. on the front cover.
BcF 272

Copy.

In: A folio volume of legal and state tracts, in vellum.
Mid-late 17th century

Later owned by Joseph Edmondson (1732-86), Mowbray Herald of Arms Extraordinary, and by Thomas Astle (1735-1803), archivist and collector of books and manuscripts.

The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 424 ff. 133r-44r) | Catalogue
BcF 273

Copy of about half the treatise, headed Lectura secunda francisci Bacon militis, vnius de consilio quondam Regine Elisabethe & nunc dni regis Jacobi in legibus eruditi duplicis....

Edited partly from this MS in Spedding.

In: A large folio volume of legal tracts, in one closely written secretary hand, 20 leaves, in modern half morocco gilt.
Early 17th century
BcF 274

Copy of the last division, in a secretary hand, headed Lectio 25 Raysinge of vses, unascribed, very damp-stained. Early 17th century.

Edited partly from this MS in Spedding.

In: A folio composite volume of legal and state tracts, in various hands, 177 leaves, in modern morocco gilt.
Short Notes for Civil Conversation

First published in Remaines (London, 1648). Spedding, VII, 105-10. Spedding notes (VII, 107) Basil Montagu's reference to an unspecified MS in the British Museum, but he could not find it.

BcF 275

Copy.

In: A folio composite volume of works by Francis Bacon, including charges and reports by him, in professional secretary hands, 221 leaves, bound with an independent sixteen-leaf tract of 1608 (Lansdowne MS 235), in modern red morocco gilt.
c.1620s-30s

Inscribed (f. 1r) Sum EUmfreville 1740: i.e. by Edward Umfreville (1702?-86), collector of legal manuscripts.

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 236 f. 221r-v) | Catalogue
BcF 276 Early 17th century

Copy, on two folio pages.

Edited from this MS in HMC, 9 Salisbury (Cecil) MSS, XXII (1971), p. 437.

In: A folio volume of state papers, in probably professional cursive secretary hands, 74 leaves.
c.1620s-30s
The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House (Cecil Papers 242 ff. 22v-3v)
BcF 277

Copy.

In: A volume of state letters and tracts.
1st half 17th century

Among the papers of the Finch family, of Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland.

Leicestershire Record Office (DG. 7/Lit. 1 [unnumbered pages]) | Catalogue
BcF 277.5

Copy, headed short notes of ciuill conversation made by Sr. Fr. B.

In: A folio volume of moralistic essays, in a single neat secretary hand, 24 leaves, in stiff paper wrappers.
Early 17th century
BcF 278

Extracts.

In: A quarto commonplace book of extracts, in English and Latin, written from both ends, 209 leaves, in contemporary vellum with traces of ties.

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

c.1638

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).

University College London (MS Ogden 7/8 f. 32r) | Catalogue
BcF 279

Copy, headed Digested notes of Ciuill Conuersation.

In: Copy of twenty-one Essays by Bacon, in a professional secretary hand, on ten folio leaves, in modern morocco.
Early 17th century

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.

Trinity College, Cambridge (MS O. 4. 52 (James 1502) ff. 6v-7r) | Catalogue
BcF 280

Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand, as By Syr ffrances Bacon.

In: A folio volume of state letters and tracts, in various professional hands, 390 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in old calf.
c.1635-40

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).

A Short View to be taken of Great Britain and Spain

First published in Spedding, XIV (1874), 22-8.

BcF 281 Early-mid-17th century

Copy, in a small mixed hand, as by Sr ffrancis Bacon, possibly made for William Rawley (c.1588-1667), Bacon's chaplain, amanuensis and posthumous editor.

Edited partly from this MS in Spedding.

In: A folio composite volume of works chiefly by Bacon, in various hands, 225 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

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

BcF 281.1

Copy.

In: An octavo volume of state tracts, in several mixed hands, one predominating, 68 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary limp vellum, now within modern half dark red morocco.
c.1620s

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

BcF 281.2

Copy, in the secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe, unascribed. c.1620s-30s.

Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 229 (No. 33.1).

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, in various hands, 430 leaves, in contemporary calf, with ties.

In various hands, including early items docketed by Robert Beale (1541-1601), Clerk of the Privy Council.

Yelverton MS 68, including papers of Beale descending to Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), Justice of the Common Pleas, and his family.

Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 43. Described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 228-9 (No.33).

BcF 281.5 c.1620s-30s

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, unascribed.

In: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, c.380 leaves, in a recycled ?15th-century vellum document.

Yelverton MS 131, among papers of Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), Justice of the Common Pleas, and his family.

BcF 281.8

Copy.

In: A folio volume of state and miscellaneous tracts, dating from 1572 to 1635, in various professional secretary hands, 386 leaves.

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

The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 159 ff. 262r-5v) | Catalogue
BcF 282.5

Copy, in the hand of the Feathery Scribe.

Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 217 (No. 6.8).

In: A folio volume of state tracts, in several professional hands, including the Feathery Scribe and Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), 374 leaves (plus blanks), in modern quarter-calf.
c.1620s-30s

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

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 216-17 (No. 6).

BcF 282.8

Copy, unascribed.

In: A folio volume of state tracts relating to Spain, in a single, probably professional, predominantly secretary hand, II + 59 leaves, in contemporary brown sheepskin with the royal arms in gilt.
c.1620s

Inscribed (f.ir) with the name Charles Arnot. Among the collections of Sir James Balfour, first Baronet (1600-57), of Denmilne and Kinncaird, Lyon King of Arms and antiquary (his cipher on f. 59r). Purchased in 1698.

Sylva Sylvarum: or A Natural History

First published in London, 1626. Spedding, II, 323-680.

BcF 283

An early version of portions of Sylva Sylvarum or of experiments later used in that work, mainly in the rounded hand of William Rawley (c.1588-1667), Bacon's chaplain, amanuensis, and editor, partly (ff. 37r-8v) in the secretary hand of a scribe, with Rawley's alterations, on folio leaves. Early 17th century.

Edited from this MS, and discussed, with a facsimile of f. 33r, in Graham Rees, An Unpublished Manuscript by Francis Bacon: Sylva Sylvarum Drafts and Other Working Notes, Annals of Science, 38 (1981), 377-412 (pp. 395-412).

In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers, in various hands and paper sizes, iii + 150 leaves, in half-calf.

Collected by Thomas Tenison (1636-1715), Archbishop of Canterbury.

1st half 17th century

Sotheby's, 1 July 1861 (Tenison sale), lot 61, to Boone. Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 15733. Sotheby's, 1913 (Phillipps sale), lot 532.

BcF 283.4

Extract, headed Bacon's Natural History, dated March 26 1673.

In: A quarto commonplace book of extracts from theological and historical works, largely in a single minute hand, 116 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.
c.1673

Inscribed (f. 10v) Gaue these Book to Mr Norman to Couer.

BcF 283.6

Extracts from Bacon's Natural History.

In: A quarto miscellany, entitled Usefull collections made in the years, 1674, 1675, 1676, &c. by Henry Coley. Vol. I., 75 leaves.
Late 17th century
The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 2283 ff. 65v-8r)
BcF 283.8

Extracts.

In: A duodecimo commonplace book of extracts from philosophical works, under headings, in a single minute hand, xx + 327 pages (including a number of blanks), with an index, in modern calf gilt.
1687-8

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

Cambridge University Library, Additional MSS 7000 through end (MS Add. 8451 [Unspecified page numbers])
Usury and the Use thereof

A version of this essay first published in Essayes or Counsels Civill and Morall (London, 1625). Spedding, VI, 473-7.

BcF 284 1623

Copy, in the cursive predominantly secretary hand of one of Bacon's amanuenses, on two folio leaves, endorsed Vsurie and the vse thereof / Proiects / 1623, together with (ff. 97r-8v: item 59) Bacon's autograph letter signed, 29 March 1623, sending this (as one of the short papers of mine towching vsury) to Sir Edward Conway (c.1564-1631), secretary of state.

Edited from this MS in Spedding, XIV, 415-19.

In: A folio guard-book of independent Jacobean state papers, stamped foliation 1-136.
National Archives, Kew (SP 14/140 ff. 99r-100r (item 60)) | Catalogue
Valerius Terminus

First published in Letters and Remains of the Lord Chancellor Bacon, ed. Robert Stephens (London, 1734). Spedding, III, 199-252.

*BcF 285
Autograph

Copy, in a small cursive secretary hand, with the title and list of contents (ff. 1*r-[2*r]) in Bacon's hand and his occasional autograph corrections or revisions, especially to headings (on pp. 18, 33, 35), with his substatial marginal additions on pp. 49 and 51.

Edited from this MS in Stephens and in Spedding.

In: A quarto volume comprising two works by Francis Bacon, in professional hands of amanuenses and bearing his autograph revisions, a list of contents at the beginning covering both works also in his hand, 73 pages, in modern speckled calf gilt.
c.1603-8

Facsimiles of the list of contents in Spedding, III, frontispiece; in J.G. Crowther, Francis Bacon: The First Statesman of Science (London, 1960), after p. 48; and in DLB, vol. 252, British Philosophers 1500-1799, ed. Philip B. Damatteis and Peter S. Fosl (Detroit, 2002), pp. 22-3

BcF 285.5

Copy of the opening passage of the first chapter of the work.

Discussed in Richard Serjeantson, The Philosophy of Francis Bacon in Early Jacobean Oxford, with an Edition of an Unknown Manuscript of the Valerius Terminus, The Historical Journal, 56, (December 2013), pp. 1087-1106.

In: A notebook of Edmund Leigh (c.1585-1658), MA, of Brasenose College, Oxford.
[After 1607]

(2) Latin Works (including English translations)

Abecedarium novum naturae

A four-page fragment published in Baconiana (London, 1679), p. 77; reprinted in Spedding, II, 85-8 (translation in V, 208-11). The full text edited by Graham Rees, with an English translation, in The Instauratio magna: Last Writings, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. XIII (Oxford, 2000), pp. 171-225.

BcF 286 Early-mid-17th century

Copy of the complete work, beginning Ocurrit mihi Interdum dictum non Insultum; in a single hand, transcribed from BcF 287.

In: A folio volume of French miscellaneous and state papers from 1315 to 1645, in a neat French hand, 218 leaves.

Originally owned by Pierre Séguier (1588-1672).

Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (fonds français n° 4745 ff. 39r-62r)
BcF 287

Copy of the complete work, in the hand of Nicolas Rigault (1577-1654), Garde de la Bibliothèque.

Edited from this MS by Graham Rees in Oxford Francis Bacon, XIII, with a facsimile of f. 24r on p. lxiii. Discussed earlier by him in Bacon's Philosophy: Some New Sources with Special Reference to the Abecedarium Novum Naturae, in Francis Bacon: Terminologia e Fortuna nel XVII Secolo, ed. Marta Fattori (1984), pp. 233-44.

In: A composite volume of miscellaneous tracts and state papers, in various hands, mounted on guards.

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

c.1633
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (fonds Dupuy no 5 ff. 24r-37v)
Aphorismi de dissolutione reru, quae fit per aetatem, in inanimatis, et consistentibus

See BcF 294.

Aphorismi de jure gentium maiore siue de fontibus justiciae & juris

Unpublished in this form. Adapted and incorporated in Book VIII of De augmentis scientiarum first published in Opera, tomus primus (London, 1623). Spedding, I, 413-840 (p. 803 et seq.).

BcF 288

Copy, comprising twenty aphorisms on justice beginning Qui de legibus verba fecerunt, omnes fere vel ad Philosophorum delicias…, on ten folio leaves.

In: A large folio volume of works by Francis Bacon, the greater part in a single professional hand, in contemporary vellum.
c.1620s-30s

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

The Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth House (MS Hardwick 51 item 11)
Cogitata et visa de interpretatione naturae

First published in Scripta in naturali et universali philosophia, ed. I. Gruter (Amsterdam, 1653). Spedding, III, 587-620.

*BcF 289 c.1607
Autograph

Copy, in the professional roman hand of an amanuensis, with Bacon's autograph corrections and revisions.

Edited from this MS in Spedding, III, 587-620.

In: A folio composite volume of state letters and papers, 308 leaves, in boards.

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

Once owned by Thomas Barlow (1607-91), Bishop of Lincoln, book collector.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 259-60 (No. 99).

The Queen's College, Oxford (MS 280 ff. 212r-39r)
Cogitationes de scientia humana

First published in Spedding, III (1857), 177-98.

BcF 290 Late 17th century

Copy of a series of short philosophical essays by Bacon, in an italic hand, transcribed from three original MS fragments (now unlocated), with corrections in the hand of John Locker.

Edited from this MS in Spedding.

In: A folio composite volume of papers relating to Francis Bacon, in various hands, 231 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

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.

Comentarius solutus sive pandecta, sive ancilla memoriae

See BcF 153.

De augmentis scientiarum

First published in Opera, tomus primus (London, 1623). Spedding, I, 413-840.

See also BcF 288.

BcF 290.4

Extensive extracts.

In: Autograph octavo notebook by Thomas Traherne, in prose and verse, in English and Latin, written during and after his university days, 388 pages (mostly blank after p. 240), in contemporary calf, with remains of metal clasps.

Largely autograph, with a few pages at the beginning in the hand of Philip Traherne, who inscribed it (p. iii) Philip Traherne is the true owner of this booke Amen Ano Domi 1655, used some pages for neat examples of his penmanship as a child and, in later years (after 1689), copied on pp. 237-40 an extract from Thomas Burnet's Telluris Theoria Sacra.

c.1655-early 1660s

Scribbling at the ends of the volume including names of Thomas and Philip Traherne, Holway and Warmeston. Later owned on 30 April 1841 by Rashleigh Duke of Salisbury: i.e.[son of Edward Duke (1779-1852), Wiltshire antiquary. Hodgson's, 13 December 1935, lot 137, to P.J. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as Early Notebook: TrT Δ 4. Twelve poems edited from this MS, and attributed to Thomas Traherne, in Margoliouth, II, 204-11. The remainder of the MS unpublished. Six of the poems edited in Ridler, pp. 159-63; the incomplete Epitaphium of uncertain authorship (TrT 138) omitted by her, and the other five poems rejected outright (i.e. What e're I have from God alone I have, Oh how injurious is this wall of sin, As fragrant Mirrhe within the bosom hid, and To bee a Monarch is a glorious thing, all by Francis Quarles, and a Serious and a Curious night-Meditation, by William Austin). Discussed in Anne Ridler, Traherne: Some Wrong Attributions, RES, NS 18 (1967), 48-9, and in Carol L. Marks, Traherne's Early Studies, PBSA, 62 (1968), 511-36. Facsimile of p. 209 in Margoliouth, II, frontispiece.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Lat. misc. f. 45 pp. 69-170) | Catalogue
BcF 290.6

Extracts, headed Ex Bacono de Augmentis Scientiarum.

In: A quarto commonplace book of extracts, in English and Latin, written from both ends, 209 leaves, in contemporary vellum with traces of ties.

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

c.1638

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).

University College London (MS Ogden 7/8 f. 196v-r rev.) | Catalogue
De Fluxu et Refluxu Maris

First published in Francisci Baconi...Scripta in naturali et universali philosophia, [ed. Isaac Gruter] (Amsterdam, 1653). Edited by Graham Rees in The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. VI (Oxford, 1996), pp. 63-93, with an English translation.

BcF 290.8

Copy of the last 170 words or so, in the hand of one of Bacon's amanuenses (now overlaid by HrG 313), lacking the rest of the treatise.

This MS recorded in Oxford Francis Bacon.

In: A folio volume of partly autograph drafts by Bacon, 30 leaves (including blanks), a number lacking the bottom half of the page, all now disjunct and mounted on guards.
The Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth House (MS Hardwick 72A f. 1r [overlaid])
De sapientia veterum

First published in London, 1609. Spedding, VI, 605-764.

BcF 291
Copy, apparently transcribed from the edition of 1609, 51 quarto pages, in an elaborate binding.
Early-mid-17th century

Sotheby's, 17 June 1969, lot 489, to Dobell. Privately owned in 1990.

check cat desc

Untraced, miscellaneous ([De Sapientia MS])
BcF 292.5
Copy, with an English translation.

Inscribed Valued by Cooper, the bookseller, at the Pellican, Little Britain, 1678, at 15l.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 122. Microfilm in the British Library, M/336 (2nd item).

BcF 293
An octavo copy of an English translation by Michael Newman, in a predominantly italic hand (possibly Newman's), headed A treatise of the Lord ffranc: Bacon of Verulam, High Chancelour of England concerning the Wisedome of the Ancients translated p MN, iv + 101 leaves (including a table of contents), in half-morocco, dated 7 August to 2 October 1668.
1668
BcF 293.5
Copy, in a secretary hand, on 51 quarto pages (and one blank), in later brown morocco elaborately gilt.

A transcript of the edition of 1609, headed Francisci Baconi equitis auratij procuratoris secundi Jacobi regis Magna Britania, de sapientia veterum liber, ad inititam Academiam Cantabrigiensem. Londini excudebat Robertus Bakerus serenissimæ regiæ maiestatis typographus. Anno 1609, complete with the dedications to Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, and Bacon's alma mater at Cambridge.

Early 17th century
De vijs mortis, et de senectute retardandâ atq́. instaurandis uiribus

First published by Graham Rees assisted by Christopher Upton, Francis Bacon's Natural Philosophy: A New Source. A Transcription of manuscript Hardwick 72A with translation and commentary (The British Society for the History of Science, Monograph 5, 1984). Edited by Rees, with a translation into English (An Inquiry concerning the Ways of Death the postponing of Old Age, and the Restoring of the Vital powers), in The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. VI (Oxford, 1996), pp. 270-359.

*BcF 294
Autograph

A working draft, beginning Quod ali perpetuo potest, et alendo restitui in integru…, ff. 1-15a in the neat hand of one of Bacon's amanuenses, with extensive autograph revisions and additions by Bacon; ff. 16r-30v entirely in Bacon's hand.

Edited from this MS in Rees (1984) and in Oxford Francis Bacon, VI, with facsimiles of ff. 8v and 16r [formerly 17r] in both publications. Formerly recorded in IELM, I.i, as two works (BcF 284 and BcF 287), but in fact it is one work.

In: A folio volume of partly autograph drafts by Bacon, 30 leaves (including blanks), a number lacking the bottom half of the page, all now disjunct and mounted on guards.
The Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth House (MS Hardwick 72A ff. 1v-31v)
Filum labyrinthi. sive inquisitio legitima de motu

See BcF 303.

Fragmentum libri Verulamiani, cui titulus Abecedarium naturae

See BcF 286.

Historia densi et rari

First published in Operum moralium et civilium, ed. William Rawley (London, 1638). Spedding, II, 227-305 (pp. 245-304). His translation in V, 337-400. Edited by Graham Rees in The Instauratio magna: Last Writings, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. XIII (Oxford, 2000), pp. 1-34 (early manuscript version, with an English translation), and pp. 35-169 (Rawley's printed version, with an English translation).

BcF 295 Early-mid-17th century

Copy, untitled, here beginning at the Tabula expansionis et coitionis materiae and ending …impostura & Imitatione fluxus et refluxus maris et omnium, in a single hand, transcribed from BcF 295.5.

In: A folio volume of French miscellaneous and state papers from 1315 to 1645, in a neat French hand, 218 leaves.

Originally owned by Pierre Séguier (1588-1672).

Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (fonds français n° 4745 ff. 9r-38v)
BcF 295.5

Copy of an early version, in the hand of Nicolas Rigault (1577-1654), Garde de la Bibliothèque.

Edited from this MS by Graham Rees, with an English translation, in Oxford Francis Bacon, XIII, 1-34, with a facsimile of f. 38r on p. lxvi.

In: A composite volume of miscellaneous tracts and state papers, in various hands, mounted on guards.

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

c.1633
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (fonds Dupuy no 5 ff. 7r-23v)
Historia et inquisitio de animato et inanimato

Edited by Graham Rees, with an English translation, in The Instauratio magna: Last Writings, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. XIII (Oxford, 2000), pp. 227-41.

BcF 296 Early-mid-17th century

Copy, beginning Inquisitio de animis et vitis profunda est…; in a single hand, transcribed from BcF 296.5.

In: A folio volume of French miscellaneous and state papers from 1315 to 1645, in a neat French hand, 218 leaves.

Originally owned by Pierre Séguier (1588-1672).

Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (fonds français n° 4745 ff. 5r-8r)
BcF 296.5

Copy, in the hand of an amanuensis who contributed to BcF 294.

Facsimile of f. 3r in Oxford Francis Bacon, XIII, lxi.

In: A composite volume of miscellaneous tracts and state papers, in various hands, mounted on guards.

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

c.1633
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (fonds Dupuy no 5 ff. 3r-5v)
Historia vitae et mortis

First published in London, 1623. Spedding, II, 89-226 (pp. 111-12).

*BcF 297
Autograph

Autograph draft of parts 4 and 23 of the section headed Natura durabilis, on one side of a folio leaf. Early 17th century.

Facsimile of this page in Graham Rees, An Unpublished Manuscript by Francis Bacon: Sylva Sylvarum Drafts and Other Working Notes, Annals of Science, 38 (1981), 377-412 (p. 409).

In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers, in various hands and paper sizes, iii + 150 leaves, in half-calf.

Collected by Thomas Tenison (1636-1715), Archbishop of Canterbury.

1st half 17th century

Sotheby's, 1 July 1861 (Tenison sale), lot 61, to Boone. Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 15733. Sotheby's, 1913 (Phillipps sale), lot 532.

BcF 297.5

Extracts, headed The Historie of Life & death Written in Latin by the Lord Verulam Viscount St Alban, englisht by Doctor Rawley.

William Rawley's English translation of the Historia vitae et mortis was published in 1638.

In: A folio commonplace book of miscellaneous extracts from printed sources, in English and French, in a single cursive hand, written from both ends, i + 95 leaves, in contemporary vellum gilt.

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

c.1656

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).

In felicem memoriam Elizabethae, Angliae Reginae

First published in Opuscula varia, ed. William Rawley (London, 1658). Spedding, VI, 281-303. His translation pp. 305-18.

For the English translation by Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, see HrE 142.

BcF 298 c.1608-9

Copy, in a professional small secretary hand, with a later sidenote printed by Dr Rawley in the Opuscula p. 177.

Edited from this MS in Spedding, VI, 281-303 (translation pp. 305-18).

In: A folio composite volume of works by Francis Bacon, principally his own papers probably collected by his executors, in various secretary hands, a heading on ff. 12r A Book of Speeches in Parliamt or otherwise deliuered by Sr fr. Bacon the K Sollicitor, 199 leaves.
BcF 299 [1608-9]

Copy in the hand of an amanuensis, endorsed in another hand (p. 592) for ye l. Ambassador in france; the copy sent by Bacon to Sir George Carew; 28 pages (pp. 565-6, 589-92 blank).

Bacon's letter to Carew originally accompanying this memorial is cited in Spedding, VI, 283 (a copy is in the British Library, Add. MS 5503, ff. 41v-2r).

In: A folio composite volume of French state papers, in various hands.
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (fonds français n° 4142 pp. 565-92)
BcF 299.5

Copy, in a professional italic hand, on eight folio leaves, with eight words deleted on p. 12, numbered 3. by the second Earl of Bridgewater.

In: A disbound collection of MS tracts.
BcF 300

Copy of an English translation, headed The carracter of Queen Elizabeth. Written by way of Essay, by ye Ld Verulam, on 21 pages

An English translation of this work first published in The Felicity of Queen Elizabeth: And Her Times (London, 1651).

In: A quarto volume, in two hands.

274 leaves, unnumbered.

Comprising:

[Part I, ff. 12r-168r], five sermons, the first four by Donne, in the hand of Knightley Chetwode, son of Richard Chetwode, of Chetwode, Buckinghamshire, and Oakley, Staffordshire. 1625/6.

[Part II, ff. 1r-78r rev.], a verse miscellany, produced when the original blank pages were later filled from the reverse end, probably by one Katherine Butler. 1696.

1626-96

The volume inscribed as having been given to Katherine Butler by her father in May 1693.

Described in Potter & Simpson, I, 41-2.

St Paul's Cathedral (MS 52. D. 14 Part II, [unnumbered pages])
In Henricum Principem Walliae elogium

First published in Letters, Speeches, &c. of Francis Bacon, ed. Thomas Birch (London, 1763). Spedding, VI, 319-25. His translation pp. 327-9.

BcF 301 c.1600s

Copy, in a professional italic hand, as by ffran: Bacon.

Edited from this MS in Birch and in Spedding.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several professional hands, 93 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt.

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

Inquisitio de magnete

First published in Opuscula varia, ed. William Rawley (London, 1658). Spedding, II, 307-12. His translation in V, 401-5.

BcF 302

Versions of Present Experiments touching the Loadstone, later used for a section of Inquisitio de Magnete, in the rounded hand of William Rawley (c.1588-1667), Bacon's chaplain, amanuensis, and editor, on two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves. Early 17th century.

Edited from this MS, and discussed, in Graham Rees, An Unpublished Manuscript by Francis Bacon: Sylva Sylvarum Drafts and Other Working Notes, Annals of Science, 38 (1981), 377-412 (pp. 394-5).

In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers, in various hands and paper sizes, iii + 150 leaves, in half-calf.

Collected by Thomas Tenison (1636-1715), Archbishop of Canterbury.

1st half 17th century

Sotheby's, 1 July 1861 (Tenison sale), lot 61, to Boone. Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 15733. Sotheby's, 1913 (Phillipps sale), lot 532.

Inquisitio legitima de motu

A sketch of this enquiry first published in Francisci Baconi...Scripta in naturali et universali philosophia, [ed. Isaac Gruter] (Amsterdam, 1653). Spedding, III, 621-40.

*BcF 303
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Spedding, III, 625-31.

In: A quarto autograph memorandum book of Francis Bacon, 40 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in modern green morocco.
c.1608-9

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.

Meditationes sacrae

First published with Essayes (London, 1597). Spedding, VII, 227-42. His translation, pp. 243-54.

BcF 304

Copy, on five folio leaves.

In: A large folio volume of works by Francis Bacon, the greater part in a single professional hand, in contemporary vellum.
c.1620s-30s

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

BcF 304.5

Copy of a French translation of the second of the Meditationes sacrae.

In: A composite volume of miscellaneous tracts and state papers, in various hands, mounted on guards.

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

c.1633
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (fonds Dupuy no 5 f. 38r)
BcF 304.8

Extracts.

In: The greater part of a quarto commonplace book of extracts, compiled by Edward Pudsey (1573-1613), iii + 104 leaves, in 19th-century green morocco gilt.

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

c.1604-9

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.

Meditationes sacrae. De spe terrestri

Spedding, VII, 230.

*BcF 305 c.1594-7
Autograph

Autograph notes, later developed into the meditation on hope (De spe terrestri), on one page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, in the Promus of Formularies and Elegancies (BcF 269).

Edited from this MS in Spedding.

In: A large folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and tracts, in various hands, 360 leaves, in modern morocco gilt.
Novum organum

First published in the unfinished Instauratio magna (London 1620). Spedding, I, 119-363.

BcF 305.4
The exemplum of the printed Novum Organum (London, 1620) presented by Bacon to Trinity College, Cambridge, in velvet bearing Bacon's boar device in gilt.

The autograph letter signed by Bacon presenting this volume to the college is Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 7565.

c.1620
BcF 305.6

Extracts in a French translation, headed Methodes et conceptions de sieur Verulam chaner d'Angleterre.

In: MS.
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (fonds français n° 19092 passim)
Partis instaurationis secundae delineatio et argumentum, et redargutio philosophiarum

See BcF 306.

Redargutio philosophiarum

First published in Letters and Remains of the Lord Chacellor Bacon, ed. Robert Stephens (London, 1734). Spedding, III, 557-85.

*BcF 306
Autograph

Copy, in the professional italic hand of an amanuensis, with Bacon's autograph corrections, deletions and revisions, copious on ff. 7v-8r, 14v, incomplete. c.1608.

Edited from this MS in Stephens and in Spedding.

In: A folio composite volume of tracts, in various professional hands, 145 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.
Temporis partus masculus

First published in Francisci Baconi...Scripta in naturali et universali philosophia, [ed. Isaac Gruter](Amsterdam, 1653). Spedding, III, 521-39.

BcF 307

Copy of the first chapter, in a neat italic hand.

This MS recorded in Spedding, III, 523.

In: A quarto volume comprising two works by Francis Bacon, in professional hands of amanuenses and bearing his autograph revisions, a list of contents at the beginning covering both works also in his hand, 73 pages, in modern speckled calf gilt.
c.1603-8

Facsimiles of the list of contents in Spedding, III, frontispiece; in J.G. Crowther, Francis Bacon: The First Statesman of Science (London, 1960), after p. 48; and in DLB, vol. 252, British Philosophers 1500-1799, ed. Philip B. Damatteis and Peter S. Fosl (Detroit, 2002), pp. 22-3

Dramatic works

A Device to Entertain the Queen at Essex House, 17 November 1595

First published in Letters, Speeches &c. of Francis Bacon, ed. Thomas Birch (London, 1763). Spedding, VIII, 378-86. Probably written partly by the Earl of Essex, partly by his secretariat, including Bacon. See The Poems of Edward De Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, and of Robert Devereux, Second Earl of Essex, ed. Steven W. May, Studies in Philology, 77, No. 5 (Early Winter 1980), pp. 88-90, and Paul E.J. Hammer, Upstaging the Queen: the Earl of Essex, Francis Bacon and the Accession Day celebrations of 1595, in The Politics of the Stuart Court Masque, ed. David Bevington and Peter Holbrook (New York & Cambridge, 1998), pp. 41-66.

BcF 308 c.1595

Copy of five speeches, of the Squire (twice), Hermit, Soldier, and Statesman, in a professional secretary hand, on all pages of two pairs of conjugate folio leaves.

Edited from this MS in Birch and in Spedding (where it is erroneously described as autograph).

In: A tall folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 127 items, unfoliated, in old black morocco gilt.

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

*BcF 309
Autograph

Fragments of Bacon's autograph draft, with revisions, including The speech of ye Heremite or Philosopher, on four pages of three folio leaves. [1595].

Edited from this MS in Spedding, VIII, 376-8. Facsimiles of the first page in IELM, I.i (1980), Facsimile II (p. 25), and in Brian Vickers, The Authenticity of Bacon's Earliest Writings, SP, 94/2 (Spring 1997), 248-96 (p. 267). Also discussed, with a facsimile page, in Gabriel Heaton, Writing and Reading Royal Entertainments (Oxford, 2010).

Thomas Birch's transcript is in the British Library, Add. MS 4164, f. 167.

In: A tall folio composite volume of letters and papers of Francis Bacon, in various hands and paper sizes, with a fourteen-leaf table of contents, 282 items, unfoliated, in old black morocco gilt.

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

BcF 310

Copy of five speeches, imperfect.

In: 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.
c.1597

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

BcF 310.5

Copy of speeches by the Squire, the Hermit and the Soldier, in the hand of Thomas Birch, transcribed from BcF 308, imperfect, lacking the rest.

In: A folio composite volume of verse MSS, in various hands and paper sizes, 231 leaves, in 19th-century half black morocco.

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

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

BcF 311

Copy of five speeches.

In: A folio volume of state papers and speeches, in a single professional mixed hand, 56 leaves, in half dark red morocco.

Volume LXVIII of the Vernon Papers, collected principally by James Vernon (1646-1727), government official and politician, and his son Edward (1684-1757), Admiral. Presented by T.S. Vernon Cocks.

c.1630s
BcF 311.5

Copy of speeches by the Squire, the Hermit (2), the Soldier, and the Secretary, headed The Earle of Essex his deuice one the Queens day before he was to run at Tilte: the 17th Nobr. 34 Eliz.

In: A tall folio volume of state and historical tracts, letters and speeches, largely in a single rounded hand, ff. 35v-6r in an italic hand, with (f. 92v) a later index, ii + 92 leaves, frayed and damp-stained, in contemporary limp vellum.

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

c.1620s-40s

Inscribed on the rear cover the name of Sir Henry Anderson, Bt (d.1653).

BcF 312 Early 17th century

Copy of six speeches, in a professional cursive secretary hand, headed Reminbrances for the king of Spaine Speaches Deliuered to her Matie: on the 17th: Day of Nouember 1595 A Dialogue Betweene A 1. Melancholy dreaming Hermite. 2. A Mutinous brainesicke Soldier and 3. A busie, tedious-Secretarie, including two speeches by the Squire.

Edited from this MS in Birch.

In: Two Elizabethan works bound together (the second being parliamentary speeches in 1558-63), in two different secretary hands, 25 folio pages, remains of later half-calf marbled boards.
BcF 313

Copy of six speeches by the Squire (2), the Hermit (2), the Soldier, and the Secretary, headed The Earle of Essex his deuice one the Queenes day præsented before he rann at Tilt.

In: A folio volume of state papers and tracts, in a professional cursive secretary hand, 346 leaves, in red morocco gilt.
c.1620s-30s
Inner Temple Library (Petyt MS 538, Vol. 36 ff. 111r-14r) | Catalogue
BcF 314

Copy of six speeches, headed A Dialogue betweene A Melancholly dreaming Hermet A Mutinous Brainesick Soldiour & A Busie teadious Secretarie, recorded in the table of contents (f. 1r) as Written by Mr [Henry] Cuffe seruant to the Earle of Essex.

In: A duodecimo volume of state tracts and speeches, in a single probably professional hand, 49 leaves, in contemporary vellum.
c.1630

Bookplate of John Harvey, of Ickwell Bury, Hertfordshire, and Finningley Park, Yorkshire. Pencil inscription inside the lower cover Robinson Aug. /94.

Recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 62.

The Pierpont Morgan Library (MA 1201 Engl. Lit. ff. 12r-21v) | Catalogue
BcF 315 c.1620s

Copy of six speeches, of the Squire (2), Hermit (2), Souldier, and Secretary, in a neat predominantly secretary hand, headed The Earle of Essex device on the Queene day before he was to runne at Tilt. 17 of Novem: 39 of Eliza., with a side-note near the end saying This is imperfect.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, letters and speeches, in various hands, 614 pages (including blanks), in contemporary vellum.
The Queen's College, Oxford (MS 121 pp. 450-7)
BcF 315.5

Copy of six speeches, headed The Earle of Essex device on the Queene day before he was to runne at Tilt. 17 of Novem: 39 of Eliza., with a side-note near the end saying this is not perfect.

In: A folio volume of state tracts and speeches, in professional secretary hands, iv + 311 pages, in contemporary vellum gilt.

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

c.1620s-30s
The Queen's College, Oxford (MS 130 pp. 57-63)
BcF 316

Copy of the Secretary's speech, headed (as an addition in a cursive secretary hand) A speach at ye tilt by ye of Essex.

In: A thick folio volume of state letters and tracts, a number relating to Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, in several largely secretary hands, 271 leaves, in contemporary calf (rebacked).
Early 1600s

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

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

BcF 317 c.1595

Copy of The Squiers speeche and that of The attendant, or conductor to the Indian Prince, in a professional cursive secretary hand, untitled, on two once conjugate folio leaves, endorsed A deuice made by the Earle of Essex for the entertainmt of the Queene.

Edited from this MS in Spedding, VIII, 388-90. Spedding thought these speeches belonged to some other entertainment, but see Chambers, Elizabethan Stage, III, 213. In fact the speeches are from an entirely different masque.

The verses beginning Seated betweene the olde world and the newe are printed from this MS and attributed to Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, in The Poems of Edward De Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, and of Robert Devereux, Second Earl of Essex, ed. Steven W. May, Studies in Philology, 77, No. 5 (Early Winter 1980), pp. 44-5.

In: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 159 leaves, in red morocco.
National Archives, Kew (SP 12/254 ff. 139r-40r) | Catalogue
BcF 317.5

Copy.

In: A folio volume of state tracts.
17th century

Once among the family papers of Sir Thomas Winnington, M.P. (1811-72), of Stanford Court, Worcestershire, which was partly destroyed by fire in 1882.

Recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 54.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Stanford Court MS (II)] item 2: p. 11 et seq.)
Gesta Grayorum

Performed at Christmas 1594-5. First published in London, 1688. Edited by W.W. Greg, Malone Society (Oxford, 1914), (pp. 32-7). Bacon possibly the author of the Prince's speech to the Counsellors and of the speeches of the six Counsellors: see Spedding, VIII, 325-42.

BcF 318

Copy of Bacon's possible contribution, the Prince's speech to the Counsellors and the speeches of the first two Counsellors, with what claims to be the speech of the third Counsellor but which is a somewhat mangled version of the speeches of the third and fourth Counsellors.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and miscellaneous papers, in various largely professional hands, 480 leaves, in red morocco gilt.
Inner Temple Library (Petyt MS 538, Vol. 43 ff. 294r-5r) | Catalogue
Of Tribute, or Giving What is Due

The third and fourth speeches first published in Letters and Remains of the Lord Chancellor Bacon, ed. Robert Stephens (London, 1734). Spedding, VIII, 123-43. A defective text of the whole entertainment, with missing text conjecturally supplied, published as A Conference of Pleasure, composed for some festive occasion about the year 1592 by Francis Bacon, ed. James Spedding (London, 1870). Full text edited in Francis Bacon: A Critical Edition of the Major Works, ed. Brian Vickers (Oxford, 1996), pp. 22-51.

BcF 319

Copy of the complete entertainment, headed Mr ffra: Bacon of tribute or giuing that wch is due, imperfect, lacking portions of every leaf.

In: 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.
c.1597

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

BcF 320

Copy of the complete entertainment, in a professional secretary hand, with corrections in another hand, headed Tribuit or Givinge that wch is due; inscribed in the second hand printed by F B. in edibus Georgij fistuli.

Edited from this MS in Vickers.

In: A folio volume of state letters and tracts, in several professional secretary hands, the letters on pp. 877-1039 arranged under genre headings (Aduise, Aunsweares, Comendatory, etc.), 1039 pages, in old blind-stamped calf (rebacked).
c.1595-1620s

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.

Meisei University (MR 0840 pp. 63-100)
BcF 321 c.1590s

Copy of the third and fourth speeches, namely Mr Bacon in prayse of knowledge and Mr Bacons Discourse in the praise of his Soueraigne), in a professional secretary hand.

Edited from this MS in Stephens (1734) and in Spedding, VIII, 123-43.

In: A folio composite volume of works by Francis Bacon, principally his own papers probably collected by his executors, in various secretary hands, a heading on ff. 12r A Book of Speeches in Parliamt or otherwise deliuered by Sr fr. Bacon the K Sollicitor, 199 leaves.
Speech for a Tournament in 1596

A speech of apology for the absence of the Earl of Essex spoken by Henry Radcliffe at a royal tournament in 1596. First published in Burgoyne, Alnwick MS (1904), pp. 64-5. Conjecturally attributed to Bacon in Chambers, Elizabethan Stage, III, 213.

BcF 322

Copy, headed ffor the Earle of Sussex at ye tilt an: 96, imperfect.

In: 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.
c.1597

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

Speeches by Bacon

Speech(es)
BcF 323

Copy of a series of charges by Bacon, including those touching Duells...against Preist and Wright, in the Star Chamber, against William Talbot, in the case of Lady Shrewsbury, against Whitlock, against the Countess and Earl of Somerset, against Owen, and in the Irish Parliament.

In: A folio volume of speeches principally by Francis Bacon, in two or more neat secretary hands, 204 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary limp vellum.

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

c.1628-30s

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

The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS No. 192 pp. 1-111, 143-65)
BcF 324

Copy of a series of speeches by Bacon, including those when he received the seal of Lord Chancellor (1617), in the Star Chamber (1617), to Sir William Jones, Sir John Denham and Sergeant Hatton, and on the first day of Parliament 17 March 1618/19.

In: A folio volume of speeches principally by Francis Bacon, in two or more neat secretary hands, 204 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary limp vellum.

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

c.1628-30s

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

The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS No. 192 pp. 111bis-42, 179-82)
BcF 325

Copy of a speech by Bacon.

In: A folio composite volume of political letters and speeches (up to 1640), in various hands, 259 leaves (ff. 8-20 and 212-59 blank), in contemporary calf.

Assembled by the astrologer and antiquary Elias Ashmole (1617-92).

BcF 326

Copy of a speech by Bacon.

In: An octavo volume of transcripts of state tracts and documents in the minute hand of Robert Horn of Shropshire, two items (ff. 19-30, dated 20 January 1620/1) added by Herbert Jenks of Newhall, 104 leaves, in contemporary vellum.
c.1618-30s
BcF 327

Copy of a speech by Bacon on considerations touching the peace, 1598, imperfect at the end.

In: A quarto volume of state tracts, in a single neat italic hand up to f. 15 (ff. 16-19 inserted and in a different hand), 19 leaves, in old vellum wrappers within modern cloth.
c.1620s
BcF 328 c.1620s

Copy of Bacon's inaugural speech as Lord Chancellor, 7 May 1617 (here dated 7 March), in a professional secretary hand.

In: A folio composite volume of state letters, speeches and other papers, in various largely professional hands, folio- and quarto-size leaves, 577 leaves.
BcF 329

Notes of a speech by Bacon to James I on presenting a petition against recusants, 1620/1.

In: A folio composite volume of state papers and parliamentary proceedings, in various hands, 181 leaves.

Once owned by one John Holland.

BcF 330 Early-mid-17th century

Copy of Bacon's speech on becoming Lord Keeper, 1617.

In: An octavo miscellany, chiefly relating to state matters, written from both ends, 102 leaves (plus blanks), in half-calf.
Late 17th century

Once owned by John and William Ayshcombe. A receipt relating to Edmun Savage, 5 October 1630, on f. 103r.

Bodleian Library, Tanner Collection (MS Tanner 395 f. 48 et seq.) | Catalogue
BcF 331

Copy of Bacon's speech on the naturalization of the Scots.

In: A large folio composite volume of state tracts, in English and Latin, in various professional hands, i + 488 leaves, in modern calf.

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

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

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Willis 58 f. 313r et seq.) | Catalogue
BcF 332

Copies of speeches by Bacon.

In: A folio composite volume of papers relating to Francis Bacon, 389 chiefly quarto leaves, in modern half brown morocco.

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

Mid-18th century
BcF 333

Copy of a speech by Bacon in the Star Chamber, 14 February 1618/19, endorsed (f. 8v) by Caesar.

In: A large folio composite volume of state and legal papers, in various hands, 486 leaves, in half brown morocco.

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

Sale of Julius Caesar's MSS, December 1757, lot 73. Bookplate of Horace Walpole (1717-97), fourth Earl of Orford, author, politician and patron. Strawberry Hill sale, 30 April 1842, lot 155.

BcF 334 c.1620s-30s

Copy of speeches by Bacon, to the Judges in Star Chamber, Trinity 1617, and at the arraignment of Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset, in two professional secretary hands.

In: A folio composite volume of state letters and tracts and parliamentary speeches, in several professional secretary hands, 188 leaves, in modern red calf.

Bought at the sale in February 1850 of the stock of Thiomas Rodd (1796-1849), bookseller.

BcF 335

Copies of nine speeches by Bacon, chiefly 1612-17, including his inaugural speech as Lord Chancellor, 7 May 1617.

In: A square-shaped folio volume of antiquarian and state tracts, with a table of contents (ff. 374r-7v) and occasional engraved borders by John Sudbury and George Humble, 377 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

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

c.1640s

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.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999 (Add. MS 22591 ff. 258r-65r, 268r-71r, 274r-9v) | Catalogue
BcF 336
Copy of Bacon's speech on becoming Lord Chancellor, 7 May 1617, in a professional secretary hand, headed The Lord Chancellor's Speech, i + 17 folio leaves, in modern quarter-vellum.

Volume VI of the papers of John Scudamore (1601-71), first Viscount Scudamore, politician and diplomat.

c.1620s-30s

Evans (i.e. Sotheby's), 3 December 1821 (Scudamore sale), various lots, to Thomas Thorpe. Phillipps MS 22283. Sotheby's, 16 June 1896 (Phillipps sale). Dobell's sale catalogue No. 238 (1914), item 603. Presented by Wilfred Merton, FSA (1888-1957), book and manuscript collector

sale details correct?

BcF 337

Copy of Bacon's speech at the arraignment of Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset, 25 May 1616, in the professional secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, speeches and letters dating up to 1631, in various professional hands, including the Feathery Scribe, 313 leaves.

In the collection of Francis Hargrave (1740/1-1821), legal writer. Inscribed by him on f. [iv] 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).

The British Library: other MSS (Hargrave MS 226 ff. 2r-17v) | Catalogue
BcF 337.5

Copy of Bacon's speech on taking his place in Chancery.

In: A folio volume of treatises and papers relating to the Court of Chancery, in a professional predominantly italic hand, with a list of contents and some marginal annotations probably by Hargrave, 341 leaves, in late 19th-century morocco.
Mid-late 17th century

In the collection of Francis Hargrave (1740/1-1821), legal writer. Inscribed by him on f. [1v] F. Hargrave Bot. by me of Mr Lynch of Dublin with [?]t manuscripts for which together I gave £60 F. H. and with his list of contents (f. 2r-v).

The British Library: other MSS (Hargrave MS 227 ff. 306v-14v) | Catalogue
BcF 338

Copy of Bacon's inaugural speech as Lord Chancellor, 7 May 1617.

In: A folio volume of tracts and records relating to the Court of Chancery.
c.1630
The British Library: other MSS (Hargrave MS 249 ff. 188v-93v) | Catalogue
BcF 339

Copy of speeches by Bacon, including his inaugural speech as Lord Chancellor on 7 May 1617, all in the secretary hand of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628).

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, letters and speeches, in several professional hands, 432 leaves (plus blanks), in modern crushed morocco gilt.

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).

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 1 through 999 (Harley MS 39 ff. 248r-8r, 279r-85v, 287r-8v) | Catalogue
BcF 341

Copy of Bacon's inaugural speech as Lord Chancellor, 7 May 1617, in a professional secretary hand, with a separate title-page.

In: A folio composite volume of state and legal tracts and speeches, in various professional hands, 229 leaves, in modern calf gilt.
BcF 342 c.1620s

Copy of three speeches by Bacon, to Sir William Jones (1617), and in the Star Chamber (10 July 1617 and 13 February 1617/18), in two secretary hands.

In: A folio composite volume of state and legal tracts, papers and speeches, in several hands, with (f. 4r) an Index of contents, 338 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco gilt.
BcF 343

Copy of a speech by Bacon in Chauncery to Mr Whitlock 29 Junij 1620, in a secretary hand.

In: A folio composite volume of state and legal tracts, papers and speeches, in several hands, with (f. 4r) an Index of contents, 338 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco gilt.
BcF 345

Copy of parliamentary speeches and interjections by Bacon, including one concerning subsidies.

In: A folio volume of parliamentary speeches and state papers, in several professional secretary hands, 118 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt.
Early 17th century
*BcF 348 Early 17th century
Autograph

Copies of various speeches by Bacon, in the hands of amanuenses, mostly with Bacon's autograph revisions and additions

In: A folio composite volume of works by Francis Bacon, principally his own papers probably collected by his executors, in various secretary hands, a heading on ff. 12r A Book of Speeches in Parliamt or otherwise deliuered by Sr fr. Bacon the K Sollicitor, 199 leaves.
The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6797 ff. 128r-38r, 147r-52v, 159r-76r, 178r-99v) | Catalogue
BcF 349

Copy of two speeches by Bacon, the first on the Union, the second dated 25 November 1606, in a professional italic hand.

In: A large folio composite volume of state papers, tracts and speeches, in various professional hands, 312 leaves.

In various professional hands, including those of Ralph Starkey (c.1568-1628), antiquary, and the Feathery Scribe.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 245 (No. 61).

*BcF 350 1597
Autograph

Copy of a speech by Bacon in the House of Commons, on a motion of subsidy, 1597, in the hand. of an amanuensis with Bacon's autograph revisions.

In: A large folio composite volume of state papers, tracts and speeches, in various professional hands, 312 leaves.

In various professional hands, including those of Ralph Starkey (c.1568-1628), antiquary, and the Feathery Scribe.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 245 (No. 61).

BcF 351 c.1618

Copy of a speech by Bacon to the judges in Star Chamber, 26 June 1618, in the cursive hand of Sir Julius Caesar, written on folio leaves in oblong format.

In: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, compiled by Sir Julius Caesar (1558-1636), Master of the Rolls, 432 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco gilt.
The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 160 ff. 331r-3v) | Catalogue
BcF 352 c.1617

Copy of Bacon's inaugural speech as Lord Chancellor, 7 May 1617, in a secretary hand.

In: A folio composite volume of Chancery and state papers, in various hands, compiled by Sir Julius Caesar (1558-1636), Master of the Rolls, 405 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco gilt.
The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (MS Lansdowne 163 ff. 236r-40r) | Catalogue
BcF 353

Copies of some fifteen speeches by Bacon, including (ff. 17r-35) on the naturalization of the Scots, (ff. 36r-42r) on the union of laws, (ff. 162r-71v) on his becoming Lord Chancellor (7 May 1617), and (ff. 176r-83v) to Sir William Jones, to John Denham, and to Sergeant Hutton (1617).

In: A folio composite volume of works by Francis Bacon, including charges and reports by him, in professional secretary hands, 221 leaves, bound with an independent sixteen-leaf tract of 1608 (Lansdowne MS 235), in modern red morocco gilt.
c.1620s-30s

Inscribed (f. 1r) Sum EUmfreville 1740: i.e. by Edward Umfreville (1702?-86), collector of legal manuscripts.

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 236 ff. 5r-100r passim) | Catalogue
BcF 354

Copy of three speeches by Bacon, including his inaugural speech as Lord Chancellor, 7 May 1617.

In: A folio volume of works by Francis Bacon, in four professional hands, 80 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

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

c.1630s
The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 612 ff. 20r-40r) | Catalogue
*BcF 355
Autograph

Copy of Bacon's speech (on naturalization) in the House of Commons, 17 February 1606/7, with one or two corrections possibly in Bacon's hand.

In: A quarto volume of works by Francis Bacon, in a professional secretary hand, with occasional use of italic, 103 leaves, in modern half brown morocco.

Possibly a manuscript presented by Bacon to James I.

c.1608
The British Library: Royal MSS (Royal MS 17 A. LVI ff. 62r-95r)
BcF 356

Copy of Bacon's speech concerning the union of laws, 28 March 1607.

In: A quarto volume of works by Francis Bacon, in a professional secretary hand, with occasional use of italic, 103 leaves, in modern half brown morocco.

Possibly a manuscript presented by Bacon to James I.

c.1608
The British Library: Royal MSS (Royal MS 17 A. LVI ff. 96r-103r)
BcF 357

Copy of Bacon's inaugural speech as Lord Chancellor, 7 May 1617.

In: A quarto volume of state papers, nearly all in a single secretary hand, 74 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt.
Early-mid-17th century
The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1856 f. 73 et seq.)
BcF 358

Copy of five speeches by Bacon, concerning the naturalization of the Scots, to Denham, to Sergeant Hutton, to Sir William Jones, and in the Star Chamber (1617).

In: A folio volume of letters and speeches chiefly by Francis Bacon, 41 leaves.
Mid-17th century
The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 3522 ff. 4r-33)
BcF 359

Copy of Bacon's inaugural speech as Lord Chancellor, 7 May 1617.

In: A tall folio volume of tracts relating to the Court of Chancery, apparently based on collections of William Lambarde, in a professional mixed hand, with (ff. 258v-63v) a table of contents, 263 leaves, in old calf now within 19th-century half-morocco.
Mid-17th century

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

The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 415 ff. 70v-4v) | Catalogue
BcF 360

Copy of an abridged version of Bacon's inaugural speech as Lord Chancellor, 7 May 1617.

In: A folio composite volume of legal tracts and speeches, in various professional hands, 136 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco.

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

The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 422 ff. 70v-1r) | Catalogue
BcF 363

Copy of a speech by Bacon in 1617.

In: A folio volume of papers, relating to proceedings in the Court of Star Chamber, collected by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, 204 leaves.
Mid-late 17th century
BcF 364
Copy of Bacon's speech on the naturalization of the Scots, untitled.
Early 17th century

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).

BcF 365
Copy of a speech by Bacon in the House of Commons on the union of the laws of England and Scotland, in the secretary hand of Thomas Gell, MP (1595-1657), of the Inner Temple.
c.1620s

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).

BcF 368

Copy of Bacon's speech, 7 May 1617.

In: A folio volume principally of works by Francis Bacon, in a single professional secretary hand, 253 pages, in contemporary calf.
c.1620s-30s
BcF 369

Copy of Bacon's speech at the arraignment of the Earl of Somerset.

In: A folio volume principally of works by Francis Bacon, in a single professional secretary hand, 253 pages, in contemporary calf.
c.1620s-30s
BcF 370

Copy of Bacon's speech on the naturalization of the Scots, 24 leaves.

In: A folio composite volume of seventeen state tracts, in the hands of professional scribes, nearly 600 pages, in half-calf marbled boards.
c.1620s-30s

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.

BcF 370.5

Copies of five speeches by Bacon, including his inaugural speech as Lord Chancellor, 7 May 1617, and his speeches to Sir John Denham, to Serjeant Hutton, and to Sir William Jones, 19 May 1617.

In: A folio volume of state and Chancery tracts and letters, in several professional secretary hands, 89 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum with ties.
c.1620s

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

Exeter College, Oxford (MS 113 ff. 27r-42r)
BcF 371

Copy of five speeches by Bacon, including his inaugural speech as Lord Chancellor, 7 May 1617, and his speeches to Sir John Denham, to Serjeant Hutton and to Sir William Jones, 19 May 1617.

In: A folio volume of political speeches, in one or more professional secretary hands, 53 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum with ties.
c.1620s
Exeter College, Oxford (MS 127 ff. 1r-16v)
BcF 372

Copy of Bacon's speech on the naturalization of the Scots.

In: A MS volume.
17th century
Exeter College, Oxford (MS 137 f. 276r)
BcF 373

Copy of Bacon's speech at the arraignment of Lord Sanquer, 27 June 1612, in the professional secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe.

In: A folio volume of state letters and tracts, in two professional secretary hands, predominantly that of the Feathery Scribe, 334 leaves, plus an index in an italic hand (f. 375r), in modern half vellum on marbled boards.

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).

BcF 374
An octavo volume of speeches by Bacon, in at least three professionalsecretary hands, 66 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum, with ties.
c.1640

Bookplate of John Harvey, of Ickwell Bury, Bedfordshire, and Finningley Park, Yorkshire. Myers sale catalogue, undated, item 65 (illustrating a page of the speech of 7 May 1617). Formerly Folger MS 471027.

BcF 375

Copy of Bacon's speech in the Lords, 19 March 1620.

In: An octavo volume of state tracts, papers speeches, relating particularly to Spain, closely written in possibly a single cursive mixed hand, v + 175 leaves, in modern half calf on marbled boards.
c.1630

Inscribed (f. iv) Ex Dono Egid: Clotterbooke [i.e. Giles Clutterbuck] and Robt: Hyde 1678. Phillipps MS 6902. Inscription on f. ir: This MS. was given by the Rev Mr Chapman (son to Dr Chapman of Holy=well) to J Price Sept. 7th., 1790. late of Trinity College State Keeper of the Bodleian Library at Oxford lately deceased.

BcF 376

Copy of Bacon's speech in Parliament, 16 January 1620/1.

In: A quarto volume of state letters and speeches, in a single professional italic hand, 69 leaves, in old half calf on marbled boards.
c.1626

Inscribed on a flyleaf 1626: scriptu est Bri: Caue: forke, references to Brian Cave elsewhere also suggesting he was the compiler.

BcF 377

Copy of a speech by Bacon, in a professional secretary hand.

In: A large folio of state tracts and parliamentary speeches and proceedings, in several professional hands, 263 leaves, in modern calf gilt.

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

BcF 378

Copy of Bacon's speech, 8 March 1592, in a professional secretary hand.

In: A large folio of state tracts and parliamentary speeches and proceedings, in several professional hands, 263 leaves, in modern calf gilt.

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

BcF 379

Copy of a speech by Bacon in the Star Chamber, 1617.

In: A folio composite volume of legal tracts.
c.1630s-40s
Free Library of Philadelphia (MS LC 14:41 ff. 124r-8v)
BcF 380

Copy of Bacon's speech when he became Lord Keeper.

In: A folio composite volume of legal tracts.
c.1630s-40s
Free Library of Philadelphia (MS LC 14:41 ff. 225r-38v)
BcF 381

Copy of Bacon's speech on the naturalisation of the Scots.

In: A folio composite volume of legal tracts.
Free Library of Philadelphia (MS LC 14:60 ff. 105r-14r)
BcF 382

Copy of Bacon's inaugural speech as Lord Chancellor, 7 May 1617, in the professional secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe.

Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 220 (No. 13.4).

In: A large folio volume of tracts on Chancery, entirely in the hand of the Feathery Scribe, 570 leaves (some misnumbered, plus loose inserts), in half-calf marbled boards.
c.1630

Inscribed (f. 1r) J Trevor, probably Sir John Trevor (1637-1717), Speaker of the House of Commons and Master of the Rolls. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 15141. The MS cited as in the possession of Mr. Rooke in a four-page index added c.1839. Acquired from Sweet & Maxwell on 14 February 1950 together with MSS belonging to Thomas Powys (d.1671), Sergeant at Law. Formerly MS 1034.

Recorded in J. H. Baker, English Legal Manuscripts in the United States of America, Part II: 1558-1902 (London, 1990), pp. 117-19 (No. 559). Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers (Oxford, 1998), pp. 219-21 (No. 13), with a facsimile of f. 32v on p. 100.

Harvard Law School Library (HLS MS 1026, Vol. I (Hollis No. 003758283) ff. 147r-55v) | Catalogue
BcF 383

Copy of Bacon's inaugural spech as Lord Chancellor, 7 May 1617.

In: A quarto volume of legal tracts relating to Chancery, in a single professional secretary hand, 202 pages, including an index, in 19th-century half-calf.
c.1627-35

Formerly MS 4025.

Baker, p. 109.

Harvard Law School Library (HLS MS 4107 (Hollis No. 004574888) pp. 83-6) | Catalogue
BcF 386

Copy of Bacon's report in the House of Commons on speeches delivered by the Earls of Salisbury and Northampton, 17 June 1607.

In: A folio volume of parliamentary proceedings, in three secretary hands, 163 leaves, in red morocco gilt.
c.1620s-30s
Inner Temple Library (Petyt MS 538, Vol. 8 ff. 67v-85r) | Catalogue
BcF 387 c.1620s

Copy of a speech by Bacon at the arraignment of Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset, 1616, in a secretary hand.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various hands, 273 leaves (plus blanks), in red morocco gilt.
Inner Temple Library (Petyt MS 538, Vol. 27 ff. 96r-110r) | Catalogue
BcF 388 c.1616

Copy of The Lo: Chancillor Sr ffrancis Bacons reporte to the lls concerning the staple of wooll in Irelande Julij 22 1616, in a professional secretary hand, on a folio leaf.

In: A folio composite volume of state letters and papers, in various hands, 208 leaves, in morocco stamped in gilt on each cover MMM.

Among papers of George Carew (1555-1629), Earl of Totnes, soldier and administrator.

Lambeth Palace Library (MS 619 f. 188r-v) | Catalogue
BcF 389

Copy of Bacon's speech on 17 May 161, on three pages.

In: A duodecimo volume of four tracts.
Early 17th century

Formerly in the library of the Harvey family, of Ickwell Bury, Bedfordshire, and of Finningley Park, Yorkshire. Maggs's sale catalogue No. 536 (1930), item 2129. Then owned by André de Coppet (1892-1953), New York financial broker. Sotheby's, 4 July 1955 (de Coppet sale), lot 888, to Quaritch.

Recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 62, and in The Book Collector, 15 (Summer 1966), p. 156.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (Juel-Jensen E 7 [item 1] [No. 3])
BcF 390

Copy of summaries of three parliamentary speeches delivered by Bacon on 2 and 13 March 1592/3.

In: A folio volume of proceedings in Parliament from 19 February 1592/3 to 9 April 1593, in a professional cursive secretary hand, 259 pages, in modern cloth.
c.1620s-30s

Formerly Misc. MS 25. (Not owned by Hale).

Lincoln's Inn Library (Hale MS 138 pp. 87-90, 178, 179-84) | Catalogue
BcF 391
Copy of a speech by Bacon in Chancery, on a large sheet of paper, 1607.
Early 17th century

Among papers of principally the Monson family, Barons Monson, of Burton by Lincoln.

BcF 392

Copy of Bacon's speech on the naturalization of the Scots, in a professional secretary hand, on ff. [2r-17v] in a folio sewn booklet in wrappers.

In: A box of papers and commonplace books of the Cary family, including the Rev. Francis Henry Cary (1642-1712), rector of Brinkworth, Wiltshire.
National Archives, Kew (C 104/63 [unnumbered item])
BcF 393

Copy of Bacon's inaugural speech as Lord Chancellor, 7 May 1617.

In: An octavo volume of tracts and papers relating to the Court of Chancery, in a single predominantly secretary hand, 203 pages (plus blanks), in modern calf.
c.1635-40s

Name inscribed on flyleaf of Joseph [?]Manson.

National Archives, Kew (SP 9/12 ff. 123r-31v) | Catalogue
BcF 394
Copy of Bacon's speeches to Sir John Denham and to Serjeant Jones, 19 May 1617.
c.1617
National Archives, Kew (SP 14/92/6)
BcF 396 Early 17th century

Copy of a speech, by Sr ffrancis Bacon, on the naturalisation of the Scots, in a professional secretary hand, nineteen leaves.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various hands, thirteen unpaginated items, modern quarter red morocco on marbled boards with ties.

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.

BcF 397
Copy of Bacon's speech on the naturalization of the Scots, in a professional secretary hand, 25 folio leaves, unbound.
c.1620s-30s
National Library of Wales (Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E5/3/1) | Catalogue
BcF 399
Copy of Bacon's speech in Chancery on receiving the Great Seal, 1617.
c.1620

Among papers of the Le Strange family, of Hunstanton.

BcF 400

Copy of a speech by Bacon, to Sir William Jones, Chief Justice of the King's Bench in Ireland, on three leaves.

In: A quarto volume of state tracts and papers.

In the Walter Rye Collection.

Norfolk Record Office (Rye MS 20 item 3)
BcF 401
Copy of a speech by Sr Francis Bacon Lord Keeper of the great Seale of England delivered in the Star Chamber, 1617, in a professional secretary hand, i + 5 folio leaves, unbound.
c.1620
BcF 402

Various speeches and interjections by Bacon, between 26 February and 31 March 1592/3, including speeches on ff. 20v-1r, 42r-3v (on subsidies), 65r-6r (on subsidies), 84v-7r, 107r-v

In: A folio volume of parliamentary speeches and proceedings in 1592-93, in a professional secretary hand, 121 leaves, in vellum boards.
Early 17th century
BcF 403

Copies of summaries of two speeches by Bacon, on enclosures and on subsidies, 5 November 1597.

In: A folio volume of parliamentary speeches and proceedings in 1597-98, in a single professional secretary hand, 57 leaves foliated 1r-35r, 1r-32v, in vellum boards.
Early 17th century
Northamptonshire Record Office (FH 47 ff. 8r-11r (second series)) | Catalogue
BcF 404
Copy of five speeches by Bacon, at the arraignment of Lord Sanqueir (27 June 1612), to Sir John Denham (19 May 1617), to Sergeant Hutton when becoming a Justice of the Common Pleas, to Sir William Jones, and in the Star Chamber 1617 respectively, in a professional mixed hand, i + thirteen folio leaves, unbound.
c.1620
BcF 405

Copy of five speeches by Bacon, to Denham, Serjeant Hutton, Sir William James, in the Star Chamber, and at the arraignmentof Lord Sanquer in 1612.

In: A folio volume of speeches and letters by Francis Bacon, in a single professional secretary hand.
c.1630

Microfilm in the British Library, M/325.

The Duke of Northumberland, Alnwick Castle (MS 526 ff. 1r-16r (1st series))
BcF 406

Copy of a speech by Bacon at the arraignment of the Earl of Somerset, in a professional secretary hand, on seventeen leaves (foliated 92r-106v).

In: A folio volume comprising three treatises, in a single professional secretary hand.
c.1630

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 120. Microfilm in the British Library, M/346 (1st item).

BcF 408
Copy of speeches by Bacon, including his inaugural speech as Lord Chancellor, 7 May 1617, and speeches to Sir John Denham and to Serjeant Jones (19 May 1617).
BcF 409

Copy.

In: A folio miscellany of verse and prose on state matters, entitled Ephemeris Chirographoru quorudam Memorabiliam Succincta, 703 pages, in modern calf gilt.

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) No 4. Henry Feilde 1642.

c.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.

BcF 410

Copy of Bacon's inaugural speech as Lord Chancellor, 7 May 1617.

In: A folio volume of tracts (one A vew of the State of Religion by Sir Edwin Sandys, 1599, on ff. 2v-89r) and a speech, in different hands, 130 leaves (plus 126 blanks), in contemporary calf gilt with stamped crest, traces of green silk ties.
c.1617

Inscribed (f. 1r) En dieu est tout: Et tout en tout / ThWentworth: i.e. by Thomas Wentworth (1593-1641), first Earl of Strafford. Among the Wentworth Woodhouse Muniments.

Sheffield Archives (WWM MS 1 ff. 90r-4r)
BcF 411 c.1620s-30s

Copy of Bacon's speech on the naturalisation of the Scots, in a professional secretary hand.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and speeches, in various professional hands including the Feathery Scribe, 155 leaves, in modern half-vellum marbled boards.

Among the papers of the Acland Hood family, of Fairfield, Stogursey.

Somerset Heritage Centre (DD/AH/51/4 ff. 1r-24r) | Catalogue
BcF 412 c.1620s-30s

Copy of Bacon's speech on the naturalization of the Scots, in a professional secretary hand.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various professional hands, including the Feathery Scribe, 708 pages (plus blanks).

Old pressmark G. 3. 15.

BcF 413

Copy of Bacon's inaugural speech as Lord Chancellor, 7 May 1617, in the professional secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe.

In: A folio volume of state and antiquarian tracts, entirely in the professional secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe, 27 leaves, in paper wrapper.
c.1625-40

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).

University College London (MS Ogden 7/3 ff. [18r-27r]) | Catalogue
BcF 414

Extracts, in Drake's hand, headed Ex eodem libro Mr Hall, A speech of Naturalization. by Bacon.

In: An octavo commonplace book, in several hands, 198 leaves, in contemporary calf with traces of ties.

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

c.1630s-48

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).

University College London (MS Ogden 7/21 ff. 17r-18r) | Catalogue
BcF 415

Copies of, or extracts from, several speeches by Bacon, headed Notes taken out of Sir ffrancis Bacons speeches vppon seuerall occasions out of a Mascript, including speeches addressed to Sergeant Hutton, to Sir William Jones, to the judges in Star Chamber, at the arraignments of Lord Sanquier and the Earl of Somerset, and when he became Lord Chancellor (1617).

In: An octavo commonplace book of extracts, in one cursive hand, written from both ends, 156 leaves (including numerous blanks), in contemporary calf.

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

c.1641

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).

University College London (MS Ogden 7/52 ff. 2r-15v)
BcF 416

Copy of five speeches by Bacon, on becoming Lord Chancellor (7 May 1617), to Sir John Denham, to Sergeant Hutton, to Sir William Jones (19 May 1617), and in the Star Chamber (Trinity 1617).

In: A quarto volume of chiefly tracts and speeches, in various hands, 175 leaves, in contemporary vellum.
University of Glasgow (MS Hunter 506 ff. 4r, 14v-15r, 16v) | Catalogue
BcF 417

Copy of four speeches by Bacon, delivered repectively to Sir John Denham (1617), to Sergeant Hutton, to Sir William Jones, and to the Star Chamber (1617).

In: A folio volume of state tracts and papers relating chiefly to Privy Council matters, in several largely professional secretary hands, 266 leaves, in half-vellum marbled boards.
c.1620s-30s

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

BcF 419

Copy of Bacon's speech, 7 May 1617.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several professional predominantly secretary hands, with (f. 1r-v) a table of contents, 428 leaves, in half-calf marbled boards.

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

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.

BcF 420

Copy of a speech by Bacon in the star Chamber, 8 July 1617.

In: A folio volume of state tracts and papers, in several professional secretary hands, 103 leaves, in half-calf marbled boards.
c.mid-1630s

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) Nord: [Norwood] Rand from his ffather Wm Rand. Among the collections of Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence, MP (1837-1914), Baconian scholar and book collector.

BcF 421 c.1620s

Copy of five speeches by Bacon, addressed respecively to Denham, to Serjeant Hutton, to Sir William Jones, to the Star Chamber (1617), and at the arraignment of Lord Sanquer (27 June 1612).

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several professional hands, 118 leaves, in vellum boards.

Inscribed (f. [ir]) Given me by T.H.L. from The Library of his gt Grand.father. the Revd. 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.

BcF 422 c.1630s

Copy of a speech by Bacon on the naturalization of the Scots, 17 February 1606/7, in the professional secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe.

Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 78.4 (p. 251).

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several professional secretary hands including that of the Feathery Scribe, ii + 281 leaves (including blanks), in calf.

In the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 10464. Among the collections of Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence, MP (1837-1914), Baconian scholar and book collector.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 250-1 (No. 78).

BcF 423

Extract from a speech by Bacon, 7 May 1617, in a predominantly italic hand.

In: A quarto composite volume of ten largely printed works, chiefly Bacon's Certaine Miscellany Works, ed. William Rawley (London, 1629), in quarter-vellum marbled boards.

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

University of London, Senate House Library (MS 1018 [Special Collections [D.-L.L.] (XVII) [Bc {Bacon-Two or more works-1629}] item 5, f. 23r)
BcF 424
Copy of a speech by Bacon, in a professional secretary hand, headed The Lord Chancelor his speeche, on two pages of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves (the last one imperfect).
c.1620
BcF 425

Copy of a speech by The lo: Chanc. Bacon, in a professional secretary hand, on three pages of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.

BcF 426
Copy of The Lo: Keepers speech at the meetinge of the Lordes & other Comissioners for the Subsidies of London at Guyldhall. July 30th. 1621, in a professional secretary hand, on all four pages of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.
c.1621-30
BcF 427

Copy of a speech by Bacon in Parliament concerning the union.

In: A quarto volume of transcripts of correspondence of John Holles (1587-1637), first Earl of Clare, and his son John (1595-1666), second Earl of Clare, with other tracts and verse, almost entirely in a single predominantly italic hand, 228 leaves (paginated 1-3, 14-238), in modern boards.
Mid-17th century

Among papers of the Cavendish-Bentinck family, Dukes of Portland, of Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire, incorporating papers of the related Holles, Harley and Cavendish families, and purchases made by J.A.C.J. Cavendish-Bentinck (1857-1943), sixth Duke of Portland.

BcF 428

Copy of Bacon's inaugural speech as Lord Chancellor, 7 May 1617, in the professional secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe.

Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 82.7 (p. 253).

In: A folio composite volume of 23 state tracts and papers, 476 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

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 no 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.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS fb 60 ff. 448r-56r)
BcF 428.5

Copy of a reply by Bacon to James I's speech in Parliament 30 January 1620.

In: A duodecimo volume of speeches and tracts, closely written in a single hand, with a later table of contents, 228 pages (foliated 1-144), in contemporary mottled calf gilt within modern green morocco gilt.

Inscribed by Thomas Rundall and, in 1937, by Sir Walter Oakeshott, FBA (1903-87), Oxford college head. Bookplate of W.A. Foyle (1885-1963), bookseller, of Beeleigh Abbey, Essex. Christie's, 12-13 July 2000 (W.A. Foyle sale, Part III), lot 320 (item 1). Quaritch's catalogue No. 1415 (2012), item 51, with a facsimile opening in the sale catalogue.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Rundall MS] [unspecified pages])

Letters by Bacon

Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications

The Humble Submissions and Supplications Bacon sent to the House of Lords, on 19 March 1620/1 (beginning I humbly pray your Lordships all to make a favourable and true construction of my absence...); 22 April 1621 (beginning It may please your Lordships, I shall humbly crave at your Lordships' hands a benign interpretation...); and 30 April 1621 (beginning Upon advised consideration of the charge, descending into mine own conscience...), written at the time of his indictment for corruption. Spedding, XIV, 215-16, 242-5, 252-62.

BcF 429 c.1620s

Copy of Bacon's submissions on 19 March 1620/1 and 22 April 1622, in a professional secretary hand, on two pairs of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as letters or packets, the first bifolium endorsed by the fourth Earl of Bedford for my lo: Russell. Lo. Chancers Letter to the London parlement.

In: A tall folio composite volume of state and antiquarian tracts and papers, in several hands, with a table of contents, 153 pages, in contemporary vellum.

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.

The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS No. 27 pp. 122-7)
BcF 430

Copy of two of Bacon's submissions.

In: A folio composite volume of state letters, speeches and other papers, in various hands and paper sizes, x + 315 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf.

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

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 830 ff. 129r-32v) | Catalogue
BcF 431

Second copy of one of Bacon's submissions.

In: A folio composite volume of state letters, speeches and other papers, in various hands and paper sizes, x + 315 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf.

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

BcF 432

Copy of all Bacon's submissions.

In: A folio composite volume of papers, chiefly correspondence of the fifth and seventh Earls of Huntingdon, on state affairs, 723 leaves, in half-calf.
Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Carte 77 ff. 183r-v, 235r-v, 237r-8v) | Catalogue
BcF 434

Copy.

In: An octavo volume of transcripts of state tracts and documents in the minute hand of Robert Horn of Shropshire, two items (ff. 19-30, dated 20 January 1620/1) added by Herbert Jenks of Newhall, 104 leaves, in contemporary vellum.
c.1618-30s
BcF 435

Copy of Bacon's submission on 22 April 1621.

In: A quarto volume of state tracts, in a single neat italic hand up to f. 15 (ff. 16-19 inserted and in a different hand), 19 leaves, in old vellum wrappers within modern cloth.
c.1620s
BcF 436

Copy of Bacon's submissions, in secretary hands

In: A folio composite volume of original state papers, in numerous hands, 529 leaves, now in two volumes foliated 1-264 and 265-529 respectively, in half-calf.
Bodleian Library, Tanner Collection (MS Tanner 73 Vol. I, ff. 5r-14r) | Catalogue
BcF 437

Copy of Bacon's submission on 22 April 1620/1.

In: A folio volume of letters and state papers, in various professional hands, one secretary hand predominating, with a table of contents, 354 leaves, in black leather gilt.
c.1630s
BcF 439

Copy, in an account of the proceedings against Bacon.

In: A folio guardbook of separate state papers, in various hands, 271 leaves (but some removed to MS Tanner 89*).
Bodleian Library, Tanner Collection (MS Tanner 89 ff. 122r-41r) | Catalogue
BcF 440

Copy of Bacon's submissions on 19 March 1620/1 and 22 April 1622.

In: A folio composite volume of state papers and parliamentary proceedings, in various hands, 181 leaves.

Once owned by one John Holland.

BcF 441

Copy of Bacon's submissions on 22 and 30 April 1621.

In: A quarto volume of letters, tracts and speeches, 208 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf.

All in the hand of William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury.

Mid-late 17th century
Bodleian Library, Tanner Collection (MS Tanner 299 ff. 33r-43v) | Catalogue
BcF 442

Copy of two of Bacon's submissions in April 1621.

In: A quarto volume of letters and state papers, in a secretary hand, xii + 209 pages (plus blank pp. 211-472, 475-6), in contemporary calf.
c.1620s-30s

Owned in the 17th century by William Goswell, his friend James Bedford, and Gerard Langbaine [? Gerard Langbaine (1608/9-58), head of Queen's College, Oxford]. Also inscribed (f. 376) Amy Wigmore.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS University College 152 pp. 182r-8r)
BcF 443

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of state letters, in several hands, 543 pages, in calf gilt.
Mid-17th century

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.

Bradford Archives (32D86/44 pp. 178-84)
BcF 445

Copy of Bacon's submissions on 22 and 30 April 1621, in a secretary hand.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 124 leaves, mounted on guards, in 19th-century half red morocco.

Collected by members of the Oxinden family, Baronets, of Deane and Barham, Kent, including Henry Oxinden (1609-70) and his brother Richard (b.1613).

BcF 446

Copy of Bacon's submission.

In: A tall folio volume of legal and state papers, largely in a single cursive secretary hand, 259 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half red morocco.

Probably compiled by Timothy Tourneur, reader in Gray's Inn (in 1632), who records (f. 124r) the births of his daughter Susan Tourneur at Salop in 1622, of his son Timothy in 1624, and of his daughter May in 1625.

c.1622-5

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

BcF 447 c.1620s-30s

Copy.

In: A folio composite volume of state letters and papers, in several professional secretary hands, with (ff. 1r-12v) a Tabula of contents, 315 leaves (including blanks), in old calf gilt.

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

BcF 448 c.1621-30s

Copy of Bacon's submission, 12 March 1620/1 (here dated 9 Martij. 1620), in a secretary hand, on one side of a folio leaf.

In: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, mostly in the hand of Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian, 276 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco.
BcF 449

Copy of Bacon's humble submission, 22 April 1622.

In: A small folio volume of state letters, in a probably professional secretary hand, ii + 114 leaves, in half-morocco.
c.1625-30s

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. iir is actually dated 26 September 1763).

BcF 450

Copy.

In: A folio volume of papers relating to Francis Bacon, in various hands, 168 leaves, bound with British Library, Add. MS 4260 in modern half-morocco.

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.

BcF 451

Copy of Bacon's submission on 22 April 1620/1, in a predominantly secretary hand, untitled.

In: A folio composite volume of works chiefly by Bacon, in various hands, 225 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

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

BcF 452

Copy of Bacon's submissions on 19 March 1620/1 and 22 April 1621.

In: A folio volume of transcripts chiefly of letters by and to Francis Bacon, in a single professional secretary hand, 132 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco.
c.1630s
BcF 453 c.1620s-30s

Copy of Bacon's submission on 22 April 1621, in a professional secretary hand.

In: A folio composite volume of state papers and tracts, in English and Latin, in various hands, ii + 380 leaves, in contemporary vellum, with traces of ties.

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

BcF 454 c.1620s

Copy of Bacon's submission, 22 April 1621, in a secretary hand, on folio leaves originally folded as a letter.

In: A folio composite volume of state, literary and family papers and speeches, in various hands and paper sizes, 93 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half red morocco.

Papers principally of the Boteler family, of Biddenham, Bedfordshire, and of the family of John Hampden, MP (1595-1643), politician, of Great Hampden, Buckinghamshire.

Volume DLXXXIII 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.

BcF 455

Copy of Bacon's submission on 22 April 1621, in a professional secretary hand.

In: A folio volume of state letters and tracts, almost entirely in two professional secretary hands, predominantly that of the Feathery Scribe, iv + 232 leaves, in reversed calf.
c.1628-30s

Once owned by Ric: Tichbone, probably Sir Richard Tichborne, second Baronet, MP (c.1578-1652). James Tregaskis, sale catalogue No. 1022 (1948), item 29. Bought from Maggs, 4 November 1948, by Annie Winifred Bryher (née Ellerman, d.1983). Afterwards owned by the Ralegh scholar Agnes Latham (1905-96), of Pickering, North Yorkshire.

Briefly described in Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 229-31 (No. 35).

BcF 455.5 c.1620s

Copy of Bacon's letter to the House of Lords, 19 March 1620/1, in the predominantly italic hand of Christopher Brown, on a folio leaf, folded as a letter.

In: An unbound collection of miscellaneous letters and papers, in various hands, 81 generally folio leaves.

Chiefly papers of Christopher Browne (1577-1646), of Saye's Court, Deptford, father of Sir Richard Browne.

Volume XIX 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. Purchased March 1995.

BcF 456

Copy of Bacon's submission on 22 April 1621, in a professional secretary hand, on two folio leaves once folded as a letter or packet.

In: A folio composite volume of state papers and correspondence, in various hands, 240 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco.
The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2651 ff. 27r-8r) | Catalogue
BcF 460

Copy.

In: A folio composite volume of works by Francis Bacon, principally his own papers probably collected by his executors, in various secretary hands, a heading on ff. 12r A Book of Speeches in Parliamt or otherwise deliuered by Sr fr. Bacon the K Sollicitor, 199 leaves.
BcF 461

Copy of Bacon's submission on 19 May 1620/1, in a professional secretary hand.

In: A folio composite volume of works by Francis Bacon, principally his own papers probably collected by his executors, in various secretary hands, a heading on ff. 12r A Book of Speeches in Parliamt or otherwise deliuered by Sr fr. Bacon the K Sollicitor, 199 leaves.
BcF 462

Copy of Bacon's submissions on 19 March 1620/1, 22 April and 30 April 1621, in an account (ff. 55r-81r) of the proceedings against him.

In: A folio volume of parliamentary and state papers, in professional hands, 224 leaves, in modern morocco gilt.

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

Late 17th century
The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 514 ff. 59v-60r, 61v-6v, 71r-7v) | Catalogue
BcF 463

Copy of Bacon's supplication on 22 April 1621.

In: A quarto composite volume of state papers and speeches, in several hands, ff. 153r-97r in a single professional hand, 197 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards.
c.1630s

Once owned by John Hart and John Ashton.

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 826 ff. 6r-7r)
BcF 464

Copies of a submission by Bacon and his supplication on 22 April 1621.

In: A small folio volume of state tracts and papers, in one or more probably professional hands.
c.1620s-30s

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, pp. 203-4.

The Marquess of Bute (D 18 items 35 & 36)
BcF 466

Copy of a submission by Bacon in 1621.

In: A quarto volume of theological and state tracts, written from both ends, the first part (ff. 1r-131r) chiefly in the hand of John Overall (1561-1619), Bishop of Norwich, ii + 131 leaves at one end, x + 132 leaves (plus a number of blanks) at the other.
Mid-17th century

Once owned by John Moore (1646-1714), Bishop of Norwich and Ely.

BcF 468

Copy of Bacon's submission 22 April 1621.

In: Three texts relating to Bacon, comprising four folio leaves, in a probably professional secretary hand, once folded as a letter and addressed on the outer leaf (p. [7]) ffor James Jackson these, bound out of order, in a folio composite volume of sixteen parliamentary papers in various hands, in modern half-morocco.
c.1620s

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

BcF 469

Copy of Bacon's submission on 19 March 1621/2.

In: Three texts relating to Bacon, comprising four folio leaves, in a probably professional secretary hand, once folded as a letter and addressed on the outer leaf (p. [7]) ffor James Jackson these, bound out of order, in a folio composite volume of sixteen parliamentary papers in various hands, in modern half-morocco.
c.1620s

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

BcF 470
Copy of Bacon's submission on 22 April 1621, in a professional secretary hand, on three folio pages, in a folio composite volume of 31 parliamentary papers, in modern quarter-morocco.
c.1620s

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

BcF 471

Copy of Bacon's submissions, untitled.

In: A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, in at least seven secretary and italic hands, 118 leaves (plus some blanks), currently disbound.

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

c.1600-1620s

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

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

Chetham's Library, Manchester (Mun. A.4.15 ff. 37r-40r (pp. 59-65)) | Catalogue
BcF 472

Copy of Bacon's submission on 22 April 1621.

In: A folio composite volume of state letters, in at least three professional secretary hands, 97 pages, in modern red morocco gilt.
c.1630

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector (unnumbered Phillipps MS). Maggs's sale catalogue No. 1086 (1988), item 7.

Briefly discussed, with a facsimile example, in Kenneth A. Lohf, A Manuscript of Sir Francis Bacon's State Papers and Letters, Columbia Library Columns, 38 (1989), 30-2. Facsimiles of the MS are in the British Library, RP 3883.

Columbia University, New York (J. H. Samuels MS Coll. Sir Francis Bacon Letterbook pp. 26-32)
BcF 473

Copy of Bacon's submission on 22 April 1621.

In: A folio volume principally of works by Francis Bacon, in a single professional secretary hand, 253 pages, in contemporary calf.
c.1620s-30s
BcF 474

Copy of Bacon's submission on 22 April 1621.

In: A folio volume of state letters, in several professional secretary hands, with a lengthy Tabula of contents, xxx + 558 pages, in old vellum boards.
c.1637

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

Lord Egremont, Petworth House (HMC MS 61 pp. 198-203)
BcF 475

Copies of Bacon's submissions on 19 March 1620/1 and 22 April 1621.

In: A folio volume of state and Chancery tracts and letters, in several professional secretary hands, 89 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum with ties.
c.1620s

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

Exeter College, Oxford (MS 113 ff. 65r-7v)
BcF 477 c.1621

Copy of the submission of 22 April 1621 (here dated May), in Smyth's accomplished secretary hand, on both sides of a single folio leaf.

In: A double-folio-size guardbook, containing state letters and papers, in various hands, largely written or collected by John Smyth (1567-1641), antiquary and parliamentary diarist, of Nibley, Gloucestershire, in modern red morocco gilt.

From the papers of the Cholmondeley family, of Condover Hall, Shropshire. Owned in 1889 by Hungerford Crewe (1812-94), third Baron Crewe, of Crewe Hall, Cheshire.

Recorded in HMC, 5th Report (1876), Appendix, pp. 354-5.

BcF 478

Copy of Bacon's submission on 22 April 1621.

In: A quarto miscellany of verse, state papers and parliamentary speeches, in several secretary and mixed hands, 134 leaves (plus numerous blanks), written from both ends chiefly on rectos only (Part I: ff. 1r-113r, Part II: ff. 1r-21r), disbound.
c.1640s
BcF 479
Copy, in a secretary hand, on thirty large sheets of paper tied head to head (Exchequer-style), subscribed ffr.St. Alban Canc.

Headed To the Right Honorable the Lordes of Parliamt: in the vpper house assembled. The humble submission and Supplicacon of the L: Chancellor.

1621

From the archives of the Hastings family. Eevidently an official copy owned by Henry Hastings (1586-1643), fifth Earl of Huntingdon, who was chairman of the Lords committee relating to the case.

BcF 480

Copy of Bacon's supplication on 22 April 1621.

In: A folio volume of state letters and papers, in several professional secretary hands, 1050 pages (plus a 24-page Tabula of contents at the end), in calf.
c.1630s

Formerly MS F. 2. 20.

BcF 482

Copy of Bacon's submission on 22 April 1621, in a secretary hand, the first page foliated 52.

In: A folio composite volume of state letters, tracts, parliamentary speeches, etc., in various professional hands, c.160 leaves, in contemporary calf.

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

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

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 1266.2 f. [106r-v]) | Catalogue
BcF 483

Copy.

In: A folio composite volume of state letters, tracts, parliamentary speeches, etc., in various professional hands, c.160 leaves, in contemporary calf.

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

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

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 1266.2 f. 112r-v) | Catalogue
BcF 485

Copy of Bacon's supplication 22 April 1621.

In: A quarto volume of parliamentary letters and speeches, mostly (up to p. 94) in probably two professional secretary hands, a later second secretary hand from p. 109 onwards, 295 pages (including numerous blanks), in contemporary limp vellum.
c.1620s-40s

Formerly among the MSS of John Harvey of Ickwell Bury, Hertfordshire, and Finningley Park, Yorkshire. Sotheby's, 19 June 1922. lot 522.

Recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 62.

BcF 486

Copy of Bacon's submission, 22 April 1621, and subsequent confession and answers to the articles against him.

In: A folio volume of parliamentary journals, in several hands, one secretary hand predominating, 338 leaves, in leather gilt.
c.1620s
Inner Temple Library (Petyt MS 537, Vol. 21 ff. 143v-7r, 154v-6v) | Catalogue
BcF 487

Copy of Bacon's submissions on 20 March 1620/1 and 22 April 1621 and his subsequent confession and answers to the articles against him.

In: A folio volume of parliamentary proceedings, largely in a single rounded hand, 182 leaves (plus blanks), in red morocco.

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

Late 17th century-1700s
Inner Temple Library (Petyt MS 538, Vol. 3 ff. 132r, 145v-6v, 159v-62r, 169r-79v) | Catalogue
BcF 488 c.1620s-30s

Copy of an account of The Passages in Parliament Against Frauncis Viscount St: Albanes Lord Chauncellor of England; with his Confession, Submission, And Censure. Anno Dni: 1620:, incorporating his various submissions, in a professional secretary hand.

In: A folio composite volume of parliamentary proceedings, in various hands, 735 leaves (plus blanks), in red morocco gilt.
Inner Temple Library (Petyt MS 538, Vol. 20 ff. 694r-715v) | Catalogue
BcF 489 c.1621

Copy of Bacon's supplication on 22 April 1621, in a professional secretary hand, on all four pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, docketed probably in the italic hand of Archbishop Laud The Defence of Francis Ld Viscount Verula made by himself to the Lords.

In: A folio guardbook of ecclesiastical and state papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 939 pages, in half black morocco gilt.

Comprising mainly papers of William Laud (1573-1645), Archbishop of Canterbury.

Lambeth Palace Library (MS 943 pp. 113-16) | Catalogue
BcF 490

Copy of two submissions by Bacon, here dated 24 and 26 April 1621.

In: A folio volume of proceedings in Parliament, 406 pages.
c.1625-30s

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

Recorded in HMC, 9th Report (1883), Appendix, p. 361.

The Earl of Leicester, Holkham Hall (MS 256 pp. 91-9, 122-38)
BcF 491

Copy of Bacon's submission on 22 April 1621, in William Parkhurst's hand.

A folio composite volume of state letters, tracts, and verse, collected by, and mostly in the hand of, William Parkhurst (fl.1604-67), Sir Henry Wotton's secretary in Venice and later Master of the Mint, including various works in verse and prose attributed to Donne, chiefly in a scribal hand, partly in Parkhurst's hand, 373 leaves (including blanks), in old calf.

Among the papers of the Finch family of Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland. Mistakenly reported by Grierson and Logan Pearsall Smith to have been destroyed in a fire at Burley c.1908.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Burley MS: DnJ Δ 53. Recorded in HMC, 7th Report (1879), Appendix, p. 516. A complete microfilm of the MS is at the University of Sheffield, Microfilm 737.

A neat transcript of parts of the Burley MS (including principally poems on ff. 255r-v, 278v, [279r]-288v, 342v-3r, 294r-300r, 301r-8v), made before 1908, on 35 leaves, is in the Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. c. 80.

Leicestershire Record Office (DG. 7/Lit. 2 ff. 90r-1v) | Catalogue
BcF 492
MS of Bacon's submission on 19 March 1620/1, in a secretary hand, on one side of a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet.
1621
National Archives, Kew (SP 14/120/28)
BcF 494

Copy.

In: A folio composite miscellany compiled entirely by William Drummond of Hawthornden, including (ff. 165r-6v, 246r-7v) copies of, or brief extracts from, nineteen poems by Donne, 300 leaves, in 19th-century calf gilt.
c.1618-20s

Among the collections of William Drummond of Hawthornden: Hawthornden Vol. VIII.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Drummond Miscellany: DnJ Δ 66. Some extracts from this MS edited in Laing (1831), pp. 78-82. Drummond's Catalogue of Comedies (ff. 122-3). Recorded in MacDonald, Library of Drummond, pp. 231-2.

BcF 496

Copy.

In: A folio autograph composite volume of verse by William Drummond, 251 leaves of varying paper sizes, in reversed calf.
c.1612-45

Among the collections of William Drummond of Hawthornden: Hawthornden Vol. X.

BcF 497
Copy of Bacon's submission on 30 April 1621, in a cursive secretary hand, written across the width of fourteen large sheets, unbound.
c.1621
National Library of Wales (Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers MS E5/3/5) | Catalogue
BcF 499

Copy of Bacon's submission of 22 April 1621, in a cursive secretary hand, as by the Lord Chancellor of England Sr. Fran: Bacon.

In: A folio booklet of texts by Francis Bacon, in three secretary hands, 15 + iv leaves, unbound.
c.1620s
Northamptonshire Record Office (IL 3477 ff. [1r-5r])
BcF 500

Copy of Bacon's submission of 19 March 1620/1, in a florid secretary hand.

In: A folio booklet of texts by Francis Bacon, in three secretary hands, 15 + iv leaves, unbound.
c.1620s
Northamptonshire Record Office (IL 3477 f. [6r-v])
BcF 501

Copy of Bacon's submission on 22 April 1621.

In: A quarto volume of parliamentary speeches 1621-25, in one or more professional secretary hands, written from both ends, with (at the front) a table of contents, 146 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum with ties.
c.1625-30s
Parliamentary Archives (BRY/92 ff. 67v-70r) | Catalogue
BcF 502

Copy of Bacon's Submission and Confession on April 1621.

In: A folio volume of parliamentary proceedings and state tracts, in several professional secretary hands, with (f. iiir) a table of contents, iv + 200 leaves, in contemporary calf with remains of metal clasps.
c.1635

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

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

Parliamentary Archives (GRO/1 ff. 30r-1r) | Catalogue
BcF 503 c.1621

Copy of Bacon's submission on 22 April 1621, in a professional secretary hand, on two conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.

In: A large guardbook of parliamentary papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 161 leaves.
Parliamentary Archives (HL/PO/JO/10/1/17 ff. 98r-9r) | Catalogue
BcF 505

Copy.

In: A small quarto volume of state letters and papers, in a single secretary hand, 704 pages, in quarter-calf boards.

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

Mid-17th century

Gift of Mr Roland L. Redmond, 1942.

BcF 506

Copy of Bacon's submissions on 22 and 30 Apri 1621.

In: A folio miscellany of verse and prose on state matters, entitled Ephemeris Chirographoru quorudam Memorabiliam Succincta, 703 pages, in modern calf gilt.

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) No 4. Henry Feilde 1642.

c.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.

BcF 507

Copy of Bacon's supplication on 22 April 1621.

In: A folio volume of letters by and to Francis Bacon, in a single professional secretary hand, 60 pages, in modern stiff paper wrapper.
c.1620s-30s

Donated by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector.

Plymouth Proprietary Library (Halliwell-Phillipps No. 130 pp. 53-60)
BcF 511 1621

Copy of Bacon's submission, 22 April 1621.

In: A quarto volume of state papers, in two secretary hands, 53 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum with traces of ties.

Inscribed inside the front cover Ex Libris J J Cumberstone MCCCCCCC.

Society of Antiquaries (MS 291 ff. 2v-4v) | Catalogue
BcF 512 c.1620s

Copy of Bacon's supplication on 22 April 1621, in a professional secretary hand.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and speeches, in various professional hands, 121 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half-vellum marbled boards.

Among the papers of the Acland Hood family, of Fairfield, Stogursey.

Somerset Heritage Centre (DD/AH/51/3 ff. 34r-5r) | Catalogue
BcF 513 c.1620s

Copy of Bacon's submission on 19 March 1620/1, in a secretary hand, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves.

In: A tall folio guardbook of state letters and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 89 items, 249 leaves, in 19th-century black leather.

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

BcF 514

Copy of Bacon's submission on 22 April 1620/1, in a professional secretary hand.

In: A folio volume of state letters and tracts, in various professional hands, 390 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in old calf.
c.1635-40

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).

BcF 515

Copy of all Bacon's submissions on 19 March 1620/1, 22 and 30 April 1621, in a professional

In: A folio composite volume of parliamentary speeches from 1609 to 1628, in several professional secretary hands, c.414 leaves (plus blanks), in old calf.

Three interim title-pages for separate groups in the hand of the Feathery Scribe, namely Divers Speeches and passages in Parliament viz:, Divers Passages and Speeches Off Parliamte viz:, and A: Collection Off such Thinges, As Robte Earle of Salisburye thought fitt to offer vnto his Matie: vppon the occasion of callinge a Parliamte: viz.

One later section (A Booke of the last Parliament, 44 leaves) inscribed Tho: Becke. Old pressmark G. 3. 4.

Trinity College, Dublin, numbers 800 through end (MS 858 Unnumbered section, ff. 70v-2v, 73v-81r, 83r-99v) | Catalogue
BcF 516

Copy of Bacon's submission on 22 April 1621.

In: A folio volume of parliamentary tracts and speeches, in two or more secretary hands, 37 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary limp vellum.
c.1624-8

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).

University College London (MS Ogden 7/4 ff. [5r-6v]) | Catalogue
BcF 517
Copy of Bacon's supplication 21 April 1621, in a professional italic hand, on the first three rectos of two unbound pairs of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet, endorsed on the eighth page in another hand 1621 / Submission de Mil: Chanceler faite au Parlemt.
University of Chicago (Miscellaneous Manuscript Collection / Bacon, Francis [ca. 1621 April 22])
BcF 518

Copy of Bacon's submissions on 19 March 1620/1 and 22 April 1621.

In: A quarto volume of chiefly tracts and speeches, in various hands, 175 leaves, in contemporary vellum.
University of Glasgow (MS Hunter 506 ff. 8, 2r-8, 6r) | Catalogue
BcF 519

Copy of the submission, 22 April 1621.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several professional secretary hands including that of the Feathery Scribe, ii + 281 leaves (including blanks), in calf.

In the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 10464. Among the collections of Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence, MP (1837-1914), Baconian scholar and book collector.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 250-1 (No. 78).

BcF 520

Copy of Bacon's submission on 22 April 1620/1.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several professional secretary hands, with (ff. 4r-6r) a table of contents, 222 leaves, in old half-calf.

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.

BcF 521
Copy of Bacon's submission on 30 April 1621, in a professional cursive secretary hand, 123 folio pages, written across 31 broadsheets with the spine uppermost, imperfect, lacking the last sheet, in later boards.
c.1621

In the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 25945. Among the collections of Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence, MP (1837-1914), Baconian scholar and book collector.

Once erroneously described as a draft in Bacon's own hand.

BcF 522
Copy of Bacon's submission of 22 April 1621, in an italic hand, on three pages of two unbound pairs of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.
c.1621-30
BcF 523
Copy of Bacon's submission on 30 April 1621, in a small secretary hand, on five pages of two unbound pairs of conjugate folio leaves.
c.1621-30
BcF 524

Copy.

In: A quarto volume containing two works by Francis Bacon.
Early 17th century

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.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Forster MS 21 (Pressmark 48.D.3) item 2) | Catalogue
BcF 525

Copy of Bacon's submission on 19 March 1620/1, in a secretary hand.

In: A quarto volume of chiefly state tracts, speeches and letters, in several hands, with (ff. 94r-5r) a Table of contents, ff. [96r-107v] occupied by tracts in later hands, 107 leaves, frayed towards the end, in contemporary calf gilt.
c.1625[-1730]

The last item subscribed (f. 107v) in the same hand Finis Jne phillipson 1730 / Transcribed...in December Anno Dominij i689 p me Georgium Dixon p pastorle phillipsono, this hand also responsible for various marginal inscriptions elsewhere including (f. 55v) Jno: Phillipson Elizabeth Green Coppy. Item 422 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Acquired in 1930.

Wellcome Library, London (MS 805 ff. 13r-14r) | Catalogue
BcF 526

Copy of Bacon's submission on 22 April 1621, in a secretary hand.

In: A quarto volume of chiefly state tracts, speeches and letters, in several hands, with (ff. 94r-5r) a Table of contents, ff. [96r-107v] occupied by tracts in later hands, 107 leaves, frayed towards the end, in contemporary calf gilt.
c.1625[-1730]

The last item subscribed (f. 107v) in the same hand Finis Jne phillipson 1730 / Transcribed...in December Anno Dominij i689 p me Georgium Dixon p pastorle phillipsono, this hand also responsible for various marginal inscriptions elsewhere including (f. 55v) Jno: Phillipson Elizabeth Green Coppy. Item 422 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Acquired in 1930.

Wellcome Library, London (MS 805 ff. 17r-20r) | Catalogue
BcF 527

Copy of The Confession and submission of Sr Francis Bacon on 30 April 1621, in a secretary hand, dated in the margin Ao Domini 162i.

In: A quarto volume of chiefly state tracts, speeches and letters, in several hands, with (ff. 94r-5r) a Table of contents, ff. [96r-107v] occupied by tracts in later hands, 107 leaves, frayed towards the end, in contemporary calf gilt.
c.1625[-1730]

The last item subscribed (f. 107v) in the same hand Finis Jne phillipson 1730 / Transcribed...in December Anno Dominij i689 p me Georgium Dixon p pastorle phillipsono, this hand also responsible for various marginal inscriptions elsewhere including (f. 55v) Jno: Phillipson Elizabeth Green Coppy. Item 422 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Acquired in 1930.

Wellcome Library, London (MS 805 ff. 39v-47v) | Catalogue
BcF 528

Copy of Bacon's submission on 22 April 1621.

In: A miscellany, including state papers, in several hands, in vellum.

Compiled by members of the Benett family, of Pythouse, Tisbury.

c.1660

Inscribed inside the cover Chaloner freville.

BcF 529

Copy of Bacon's submission on 22 April 1621.

In: A folio miscellany of poems and state papers, in secretary hands, written from both ends, 50 leaves, in contemporary vellum.
c.1620s

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

BcF 530

Copy.

In: A folio volume of state tracts and speeches, 380 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt, now disbound.
Early-mid-17th century

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

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS fb 23 ff. 267r-8r) | Catalogue
BcF 531

Copy of Bacon's submission on 22 April 1621, on six pages.

In: A folio composite volume of parliamentary papers, in various professional hands and paper sizes, c.440 pages.
17th century

Formerly among the Braye Manuscripts, descending from John Browne (1608-91), Clerk of the Parliaments, whose daughter Martha married Sir Roger Cave, Bt, of Stanford Hall, Rugby, seat of successive Lords Braye. Christie's, 23 June 1954, lot 111.

Recorded in HMC, 10th Report, Appendix VI. A complete photocopy is in the Parliamentary Archives, Braye MS/51.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS fb 158 [unspecified page numbers]) | Catalogue
BcF 532
Copy of Bacon's submission on 22 April 1621, in a professional secretary hand, untitled, on all four pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed Bacon, Earle of St Albans The Late Lord Chancelor - his confession ingenerell & submissiue, to ye vpper house of Parliamente.
c.1621

Among papers of the Middletons, a Yorkshire recusant family. Formerly MD59/22/B/4.

BcF 533

Copy.

In: A folio volume of state tracts.
c.1620s-40s

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

Untraced, miscellaneous ([A.A. MS] pp. 261-6)
BcF 534

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

In: A worn folio volume of transcripts of state letters and tracts, the majority by or relating to Francis Bacon, in a single professional secretary hand (the Feathery Scribe), 101 leaves, in contemporary vellum.
c.1625-30s

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

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Aynho MS] ff. 66r-9r)
BcF 534.5

Copy of Bacon's submission on 22 April 1621.

In: A duodecimo volume of speeches and tracts, closely written in a single hand, with a later table of contents, 228 pages (foliated 1-144), in contemporary mottled calf gilt within modern green morocco gilt.

Inscribed by Thomas Rundall and, in 1937, by Sir Walter Oakeshott, FBA (1903-87), Oxford college head. Bookplate of W.A. Foyle (1885-1963), bookseller, of Beeleigh Abbey, Essex. Christie's, 12-13 July 2000 (W.A. Foyle sale, Part III), lot 320 (item 1). Quaritch's catalogue No. 1415 (2012), item 51, with a facsimile opening in the sale catalogue.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Rundall MS] [unspecified pages])
A Letter of Advice to the Queen (1584)

Advice beginning Most Gracious Soveraign and most worthy to be a Soveraign / Care, one of the natural and true-bred children of unfeigned affection.... First published in The Felicity of Queen Elizabeth (London, 1651), pp. 121-56. Spedding, VIII, 43-56.

BcF 535

Copy.

In: A folio volume of state tracts and papers, in a single hand, 80 leaves, in vellum.

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

c.1640
The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3378 ff. 42r-7v)
BcF 539

Copy, headed An Excellent Treatise against Papists. Written by the Ld Treasurer Burleigh Afterwards Earle of Salisbury. Address'd by him vnto Queene Elizabeth.

In: A folio volume of state tracts and papers, dating up to 1663, in a single semi-calligraphic hand, except for ff. 224r-95r in two other professional hands, 445 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco gilt.

The principal scribe associated with Henry Feilde.

c.1660s
The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 213 ff. 1r-6r) | Catalogue
BcF 541

Copy, headed An excellent Treatise against Jesuits and Recusants, written by the Earle of Salisbury or rather the Lord Treasurer Burleigh, to Queene Elizabeth.

In: A folio composite volume of state tract and speeches, in various hands, 332 leaves (including blanks).
BcF 542 Mid-17th century

Copy, in a secretary hand.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several hands, 216 leaves (plus blanks), in red morocco gilt.
Inner Temple Library (Petyt MS 538, Vol. 37 ff. 171r-82r) | Catalogue
BcF 543

Copy.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and miscellaneous papers, in various largely professional hands, 480 leaves, in red morocco gilt.
Inner Temple Library (Petyt MS 538, Vol. 43 ff. 304r-14r) | Catalogue
BcF 544

Copy.

In: A duodecimo volume of state tracts and speeches, in a single probably professional hand, 49 leaves, in contemporary vellum.
c.1630

Bookplate of John Harvey, of Ickwell Bury, Hertfordshire, and Finningley Park, Yorkshire. Pencil inscription inside the lower cover Robinson Aug. /94.

Recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 62.

The Pierpont Morgan Library (MA 1201 Engl. Lit. ff. 22r-8v) | Catalogue
BcF 545

Copy.

In: A folio volume of tracts, in various hands, iv + 107 leaves.
c.1590s

From the library of the Tollemache family, of Helmingham Hall, Suffolk. Acquired in 1980 from Laurence Witten Rare Books, Southport, Connecticut.

Yale (MS 621 ff. 79v-81r)
Letter(s)
BcF 546

Copy of letters by Bacon to James I.

In: A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous state tracts, speeches, and verse, in various largely professional hands, iv + 413 leaves (including a thirty-page index and some blanks), in half-calf (rebacked).

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

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

All Souls College, Oxford (MS 155 ff. 6r-v, 110r-v) | Catalogue
BcF 547

Copy of a series of letters by Bacon, to Queen Elizabeth, James I, Burghley, Essex, Robert Cecil, Northampton, Buckhurst, Edward Coke, Sir John Davies, Toby Mathews and others, with a title-page A true Copie of the Lord Chancellor Bacons Letters of State from the time of his being Sollicitor till his Death.

In: A folio volume of letters by Francis Bacon, in a single professional predominantly secretary hand, 79 leaves (plus 64 blanks), in contemporary vellum gilt.

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

c.1620s-30s

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

The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS No. 190 ff. 4r-45v, 55v-79r)
BcF 548

Copy of a letter by Bacon.

In: An octavo volume of transcripts of state tracts and documents in the minute hand of Robert Horn of Shropshire, two items (ff. 19-30, dated 20 January 1620/1) added by Herbert Jenks of Newhall, 104 leaves, in contemporary vellum.
c.1618-30s
BcF 549

Copy of a letter by Bacon to James I.

In: An octavo volume of transcripts of state tracts and documents in the minute hand of Robert Horn of Shropshire, two items (ff. 19-30, dated 20 January 1620/1) added by Herbert Jenks of Newhall, 104 leaves, in contemporary vellum.
c.1618-30s
BcF 550

Copies of two letters by Bacon, 1604-10.

In: A folio volume of copies of letters and papers of Sir Robert Cotton, transcribed from British Library, Cotton MS Julius C. III, including (p. 1 et seq,) Dr Thomas Smith's Short Life of Cotton, viii + 174 pages.
c.1680-1700
Bodleian Library, Smith MSS (MS Smith 71 pp. 39, 61) | Catalogue
BcF 552

Copies of two letters by Bacon, to James I.

In: A folio composite volume of original state papers, in numerous hands, 529 leaves, now in two volumes foliated 1-264 and 265-529 respectively, in half-calf.
Bodleian Library, Tanner Collection (MS Tanner 73 Vol. I, ff. 3r, 109r) | Catalogue
BcF 553

Copy of a letter by Bacon, to James I, 2 January 1618/19.

In: A folio collection of state papers, in various hands, 257 leaves, once in stamped calf, now disbound in folders.
BcF 554

Copy of letters by Bacon, to various recipients, including Queen Elizabeth, Essex, Northampton, Davies, Northumberland, Colr, Tobie Matthews, Burghley, Robert Cecil, Ellesmere, and James I.

In: A folio volume of letters and state papers, in various professional hands, one secretary hand predominating, with a table of contents, 354 leaves, in black leather gilt.
c.1630s
Bodleian Library, Tanner Collection (MS Tanner 82 ff. 45v-53v, 118v-33r, 142r-6v) | Catalogue
BcF 556
A folio volume of copies of some 24 letters by Bacon dating between 1616 and 1624, 144 leaves.
c.1630

Once owned by by the Hon. George Matthew Fortescue.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Add. D. 112)
BcF 557

Copy.

In: A folio volume of Speeches in Parliamt and other speeches with seuerall letters of Concernmt being of great Antiquitie...And some other speeches and Letters relateing to these late distracted tymes, iv + 165 leaves, in calf gilt.

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

1660

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

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, pp. 296-7.

Bradford Archives (32D86/18 ff. 129v-30v)
BcF 558

Copy.

In: A folio volume of state letters, 155 leaves, in modern calf gilt.

Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 19 of the Hopkinson MSS

c.1665-70s

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

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 297.

Bradford Archives (32D86/19 ff. 19v-21r)
BcF 559

Copy of various letters by Bacon.

In: A quarto volume of state letters, in several hands, 543 pages, in calf gilt.
Mid-17th century

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.

Bradford Archives (32D86/44 pp. 55-71, 144-51, 153-78, 184-99, 539-41)
BcF 560 c.1620s

Copy of a letter by Bacon, to Lord Henry Howard, in a secretary hand.

In: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, mostly in the hand of Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian, 276 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco.
BcF 561 Mid-17th century

Another copy of a letter by Bacon, to Lord Henry Howard, 3 December 1599, in a secretary hand.

In: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, mostly in the hand of Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian, 276 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco.
BcF 562 Mid-18th century

Copies of various letters by Bacon, to James I, Buckingham, and others, in the hand of Thomas Birch, on pages including ff. 92r-8v, 100r-11r.

In: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, mostly in the hand of Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian, 276 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco.
BcF 562.5

Two copies of Bacon's letter to Lord Henry Howard, 3 December 1599.

In: A composite volume of transcripts by Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian, of state papers for 1598-1745, 289 leaves.
Mid-18th century
BcF 563

Copy of three letters of advice by Bacon to the Earl of Essex.

In: A small folio volume of state letters, in a probably professional secretary hand, ii + 114 leaves, in half-morocco.
c.1625-30s

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. iir is actually dated 26 September 1763).

BcF 564

Copy of various letters by Bacon, to Essex, Cecil, Egerton, James I, Sir John Davies, Coke, Northumberland, Buckhurst and others, on pages including ff. 15v-17v, 38r, 40v-6v, 52r-5r, and 58v-9r.

In: A small folio volume of state letters, in a probably professional secretary hand, ii + 114 leaves, in half-morocco.
c.1625-30s

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. iir is actually dated 26 September 1763).

BcF 565

Copy of letters by Bacon, including (f. 161r) one to James I, 5 June 1616.

In: A folio volume of papers relating to Francis Bacon, in various hands, 168 leaves, bound with British Library, Add. MS 4260 in modern half-morocco.

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.

BcF 566 Mid-18th century

Abstracts of various letters by Bacon, in Birch's hand.

In: A folio composite volume of papers relating to Francis Bacon, in several hands, 69 leaves, bound with British Library, Add. MS 4259 in modern half-morocco.

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.

BcF 567

Copy of three letters of advice by Bacon to the Earl of Essex.

In: A folio composite volume of papers relating to Francis Bacon, in various hands, 306 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

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.

BcF 568

Copy of three letters of advice by Bacon to the Earl of Essex.

In: A folio composite volume of papers relating to Francis Bacon, in various hands, 306 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

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.

BcF 569

Copies of numerous letters by Bacon, to Queen Elizabeth, Essex, James I, Buckingham, Cecil, Sir John Davies, Northampton, and various others, in several 17th- and 18th-century hands, on pages including ff. 174r-5v, 228r-9r.

In: A folio composite volume of papers relating to Francis Bacon, in various hands, 306 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

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.

BcF 570

Copies of letters by Bacon.

In: A folio composite volume of papers relating to Francis Bacon, 389 chiefly quarto leaves, in modern half brown morocco.

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

Mid-18th century
BcF 571 Early 18th century

Copy of Bacon's letter of advice to Buckingham, unascribed.

In: A folio composite volume of works chiefly by Bacon, in various hands, 225 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

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

BcF 572

Copies by Birch of various letters by and to Bacon.

In: A folio composite volume of state letters and papers, compiled, and the majority copied, by Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian, 279 leaves, in modern half-morocco.
BcF 573

Copies of numerous letters by Bacon, to Queen Elizabeth, Burghley, Essex, James I, Robert Cecil, Sir Thomas Bodley, Sir John Davies, Sir Edward Coke, Buckingham, Northumberland, Tobie Matthew, and others.

In: A folio volume of transcripts chiefly of letters by and to Francis Bacon, in a single professional secretary hand, 132 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco.
c.1630s
BcF 574

Copy of two formal letters by Bacon in Latin, to the University of Cambridge, dated 31 October 1620 and 1623, transcribed by Cole from Sancroft MSS.

In: A folio volume of antiquarian collections, in a single neat hand, 128 leaves, in half-morocco.

In the hand of the Rev. William Cole, FSA (1714-82), antiquary.

c.1777
BcF 574.5

Copies of numerous letters by Francis Bacon, to Elizabeth I, Burghley, Essex, Robert Cecil, James I, Sir John Davies, Northampton, Ellesmere, Tobie Matthews, Buckhurst, Lancelot Andrewes, Bodley and others.

In: A folio volume of miscellaneous tracts and papers, in several professional secretary hands, written from both ends, 287 leaves, in modern calf gilt.
c.1630s

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

BcF 575

Copy of a letter by Bacon to Queen Elizabeth.

In: A large square-shaped folio letterbook, in several secretary hands, 248 leaves, in embossed calf.

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

c.1640

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

BcF 578

Copy of a letter by Bacon, to Lord Henry Howard, [3 December 1599].

In: A square-shaped folio volume of state letters, in a single hand, 52 leaves.

A transcript, according to Malone, taken from one made by Robert Sterne Tighe Esq from the originals [at Longleat] by the permission of Thomas, the 2nd Marquis of Bath.

Mid-18th century

With (f. 2r) a lengthy note by Mr Malone [presumably Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector], and (f. 1r) a copy of it by Samuel Weller Singer, FSA (1783-1858), literary scholar, dated 1833. Purchased at the Singer sale, 3 August 1858, lot 219.

BcF 579
A quarto volume of copies of eight letters by Francis Bacon, to Lord Ellesmere and James I, 1605-15, in a professional secretary hand, eight leaves, in modern black morocco.
c.1620s

Later owned by Frederic Ouvry, FSA (1815-81), lawyer and antiquary. Sotheby's, 30 March-5 April 1882 (Ouvry sale), lot 183.

BcF 580

Copy of a letter by Francis Bacon To the L: Amb:, [? March 1579]; another letter by him on a final leaf (f. 47) now missing.

In: A large double-folio formal volume of state papers of c.1545-80, arranged according to subject, in a single professional secretary hand, on 46 leaves of vellum, in half green morocco.
c.1590s

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

BcF 581

Copy of a letter by Francis Bacon, to Lord Henry Howard, followed (f. 186r-v) by Howard's reply.

In: A folio volume of miscellaneous papers, many relating to Kent, the greater part in a single secretary hand, 228 leaves, in contemporary stamped calf.

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

Early 17th century

Christie's, 18 July 1897.

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

BcF 582

Copy of numerous letters by Francis Bacon, to Burghley, Queen Elizabeth, Essex, Robert Cecil, Northampton, James I, Sir Edward Coke, Buckingham, Tobie Mathews, Sir John Davies, Northumberland, and others.

In: A tall folio volume comprising principally letters by Francis Bacon 1595-1622, largely in a single probably professional secretary hand, a letter by Sir Thomas Bodley to Bacon (ff. 41r-4v) in another secretary hand, 44 leaves, now mounted on guards, in contemporary vellum, now within modern half red morocco.
c.1620s-30s

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

BcF 583 c.1620s-30s

Copies of numerous letters by Francis Bacon, to Essex, Sir Robert Cecil, Northumberland, Sir John Davies, James I, Southampton, Sir Edward Coke, Ellesmere, Buckingham, Tobie Mathews, Queen Elizabeth, and others.

In: A folio composite volume of state letters and papers, in several professional secretary hands, with (ff. 1r-12v) a Tabula of contents, 315 leaves (including blanks), in old calf gilt.

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

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 40000 through 44999 (Add. MS 44848 ff. 38v-46v, 80v-2v, 83v-91r, 97r-100v, 105r-v, 170v-1r)
BcF 584 c.1630

Copy of a letter by Bacon to George Villiers, late Earl of Buckingham, in a small predominantly italic hand, on eleven quarto leaves.

In: A tall folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous papers, in various hands, 292 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco gilt.

Among the papers of Sir Robert Heath (1575-1649), Chief Justice, and his sons, and of the Greville and Verney families, Barons Willoughby de Broke.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2982 ff. 255v-65v) | Catalogue
BcF 585

Copy of two letters by Bacon, the second to James I.

In: A large folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, 176 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt.

In professional hands, including those of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), antiquary, the Feathery Scribe, Sir Simonds D'Ewes, Bt, MP (1602-50), diarist and antiquary, and Sir William Dugdale (1605-86), antiquary and herald.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 239 (No. 51).

BcF 586

Copies of several letters by Bacon, to Essex, Cecil, Northampton, Davies and others, in two secretary hands.

In: A folio composite volume of state letters, in vavious professional hands, 194 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.
Early-mid-17th century
BcF 589

Copies of various letters by Bacon, to Lord Keeper Puckering, from 5 April 1594 to 3 July 1595.

In: A tall folio volume of state letters and papers, in the hand of Thomas Baker (1656-1750), Cambridge antiquary, with some tipped-in inserts, 247 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco gilt.
Early 18th century
BcF 590

Copy of a letter by Bacon to George Villiers, Marquess of Buckingham, 1616.

In: A folio volume of state tracts and papers, dating up to 1663, in a single semi-calligraphic hand, except for ff. 224r-95r in two other professional hands, 445 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco gilt.

The principal scribe associated with Henry Feilde.

c.1660s
The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 213 ff. 90r-100r) | Catalogue
BcF 591

Copy of a collection of letters by Bacon, to Essex, Queen Elizabeth, Burghley, Sir John Davies, Ellesmere, Northumberland, James I, Buckhurst, Northampton, Robert Cecil, Buckingham, and others.

In: A folio composite volume of letters and state papers, in various professional largely secretary hands, ff. 80r-160v an imperfect single unit, 346 leaves, in modern half red morocco gilt.
c.1630s

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

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 238 ff. 80r-9v, 93v-129r) | Catalogue
BcF 592

Copy of a collection of letters by Bacon, to Essex, Queen Elizabeth, Sir John Davies, Ellesmere, Northumberland, James I, Northampton, Robert Cecil, Sir Edward Coke, and others.

In: A folio composite volume of letters and state papers, in various professional largely secretary hands, ff. 80r-160v an imperfect single unit, 346 leaves, in modern half red morocco gilt.
c.1630s

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

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 238 ff. 242r-53v, 257v-70r) | Catalogue
BcF 593

Copy of a letter by Bacon, to Queen Elizabeth.

In: A quarto volume of papers relating to Robert, Earl of Essex, in two secretary hands, 30 leaves.
Early 17th century
The British Library: Royal MSS (Royal MS 17 B. L. f. 13r)
BcF 594

Copies of letters by Bacon to the Lord Chancellor (Egerton), about his History of Britain, and to George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham (1623).

In: A folio composite volume of state papers, in English and Latin, in various hands and paper sizes, 49 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt.
The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 972 ff. 1r-5v)
BcF 595

Copy of a letter by Bacon to Sir Edward Coke.

In: A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous tracts and state papers, in English and Latin, in various hands, 254 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.
The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1775 f. 78r et seq.)
BcF 596

Copy of three letters of advice by Bacon to the Earl of Essex.

In: A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous tracts and state papers, in English and Latin, in various hands, 254 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.
The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1775 ff. 83r-6r)
BcF 597

Copy of a letter by Bacon to James I.

In: A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous tracts and state papers, in English and Latin, in various hands, 254 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.
The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1775 f. 86r)
BcF 598

Copies of some 38 letters by Bacon, to various correspondents including Lord Burghley, Queen Elizabeth, Essex, Northampton, Sir John Davies, Northumberland, Robert Cecil, Buckhurst, and others.

In: A folio volume of transcripts of letters by Bacon, 53 leaves.
c.1620s-30s
The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 3078 passim)
BcF 599

Copy of a letter by Bacon, to the Earl of Essex, 1599.

In: A folio volume of letters and speeches chiefly by Francis Bacon, 41 leaves.
Mid-17th century
The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 3522 ff. 1r-3v)
BcF 600

Copy of a letter by Bacon, to James I, concerning his Mats Estate xijo Januarij Anno 1610.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, speeches and letters dating up to 1631, in various professional hands, including the Feathery Scribe, 313 leaves.

In the collection of Francis Hargrave (1740/1-1821), legal writer. Inscribed by him on f. [iv] 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).

The British Library: other MSS (Hargrave MS 226 ff. 93r-100r) | Catalogue
BcF 601

Copy of letter(s) by Bacon.

In: A small folio volume of state tracts and papers, in one or more probably professional hands.
c.1620s-30s

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, pp. 203-4.

The Marquess of Bute (D 18 [unspecified item])
BcF 604

Copy by Baker of two letters to Cambridge University by Francis Bacon, 12 April 1617 and undated.

In: A folio volume of transcripts of historical and antiquarian papers, in Latin and English, relating to Ely, made by Thomas Baker (1656-1740), Cambridge antiquary, 454 pages, in old reversed calf.

MS Baker 30.

c.1723
BcF 606

Copy of a letter by Bacon to Lord Henry Howard.

In: A folio volume of state tracts and letters, c.480 pages.
c.1625-30s

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

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

Cheshire Record Office (DLT/B8 pp. 107-8) | Catalogue
BcF 607

Copy of a letter by Bacon to Lord Henry Howard.

In: A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, in at least seven secretary and italic hands, 118 leaves (plus some blanks), currently disbound.

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

c.1600-1620s

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

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

Chetham's Library, Manchester (Mun. A.4.15 f. 32r-v (pp. 51-2)) | Catalogue
BcF 608 c.1630

Copy of a series of 26 letters by Bacon, to James I, Sir John Davies, Northumberland, Southampton, Robert Cecil, Buckhurst, Sir Thomas Egerton, Sir Edward Coke, Tobie Mathews, and others, in two professional secretary hands.

In: A folio composite volume of state letters, in at least three professional secretary hands, 97 pages, in modern red morocco gilt.
c.1630

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector (unnumbered Phillipps MS). Maggs's sale catalogue No. 1086 (1988), item 7.

Briefly discussed, with a facsimile example, in Kenneth A. Lohf, A Manuscript of Sir Francis Bacon's State Papers and Letters, Columbia Library Columns, 38 (1989), 30-2. Facsimiles of the MS are in the British Library, RP 3883.

Columbia University, New York (J. H. Samuels MS Coll. Sir Francis Bacon Letterbook pp. 1-25, 48-52, 61-3)
BcF 609

Copy of a letter by Bacon.

In: A folio volume of tracts and letters, many relating to Cambridge affairs, partly compiled by I. Wickstede, mayor of Cambridge.
Early 17th century
Downing College, Cambridge (Bowtell Collection, MS Wickstede Thesaurus, Part II f. 115v)
BcF 610

Copies of numerous letters by Bacon, to Burghley, Robert Cecil, Ellesmere, James I, Essex, Davies, Northumberland, Edward Coke, Toby Mathew, and others.

In: A folio volume principally of works by Francis Bacon, in a single professional secretary hand, 253 pages, in contemporary calf.
c.1620s-30s
Edinburgh University Library, Laing Collection (MS La. III. 348 pp. 101-72, 192-220)
BcF 611

Copy of numerous letters by Bacon, to James I, Essex, Cecil, Sir John Davies, Northampton, Ellesmere, Sir Edward Coke, Tobie Mathews, and others, in three professional secretary hands.

In: A folio volume of state letters, in several professional secretary hands, with a lengthy Tabula of contents, xxx + 558 pages, in old vellum boards.
c.1637

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

Lord Egremont, Petworth House (HMC MS 61 pp. 64-82, 154-63, 66-98,403-6)
BcF 612

Copies of letters by Bacon.

In: A folio volume of state letters, in several professional secretary hands, with a lengthy Tabula of contents, xxx + 558 pages, in old vellum boards.
c.1637

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

Lord Egremont, Petworth House (HMC MS 61 pp. 166-98)
BcF 613

Copy of a letter by Bacon to James I.

In: A folio volume of state papers, in one or more professional predominantly secretary hands, 116 leaves (including blanks ff. 36-50, 90-101, plus some more blanks), in contemporary limp vellum.
c.1620s

Inscribed (f. 1r) Sum D Burtone.

BcF 616

Copy of various letters by Bacon, to Essex, Cecil, Northampton, Tobie Matthew, Davies, Northumberland, Queen Elizabeth, and others.

In: A quarto volume of state letters, in a single professional hand, xxvi + c.955 pages (misnumbered around pp. 895-6), including a table of contents (and plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, remains of ties.
c.1630s
The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 200 through 299 (MS V.a.239 pp. 128-66, 315-16, 329-84, 953-5) | Catalogue
BcF 617

Copy of Bacon's letter to Lord Henry Howard, 3 December 1599.

In: A quarto volume of transcripts of letters by various people, in several secretary and italic hands, 95 leaves (plus a few blanks), in modern calf gilt.
c.1620s

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

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

BcF 618

Copy of numerous letters by Bacon to Queen Elizabeth, Burghley, Essex, James I, Cecil, Northumberland, Tobie Mathew, Sir John Davies, Edward Coke, Bodley, and others.

In: A folio volume of state letters principally by Bacon, entirely in the predominantly secretary hand of Ralph Crane (fl.1589-1632), poet and scribe, v + 109 leaves, with an Index (pp. iii-v), in old quarter vellum boards.

With a title-page: Sundrie Letters Conteyning Matter of Elegancie, Worth & Moment, At seuerall times, & upon seuerall occasions Written to the excellt. Matie. of King James, & diuers other persons of Honor. & Eminencie By Sr Fra Bacon deceased aswell before he was his Maties. Solliciter: as in the after Passages of his life, dignities & fortune wherein are inserted .3. Letters of K. James his owne: & some of others.

c.1630

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

The Folger Shakespeare Library: V.b. series (MS V.b.132 pp. 1-15, 7-10, 20-101, 104-9) | Catalogue
BcF 619
A folio volume of state letters, the great majority by Francis Bacon to James I, comprising warrants for the King to pass grants in 1607-9, in a single professional secretary hand, 75 leaves (plus 41 blanks), in contemporary limp vellum with remains of ties.
c.1620s-30s
BcF 620

Copy of a letter by Bacon to Essex, inscribed in the margin An answer to ye precedent Lre: Both written by Fra. Bacon., following (on ff. 195r-6v a letter ny Anthony Bacon (?) dated 17 February 1600/1.

In: A thick folio volume of state letters and tracts, a number relating to Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, in several largely secretary hands, 271 leaves, in contemporary calf (rebacked).
Early 1600s

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

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

BcF 621

Copy of numerous letters by Bacon, to Queen Elizabeth, Essex, Cecil, Northumberland, John Davies, James I, Edward Coke, Tobie Mathew, and others.

In: A folio volume of state letters and papers, in several professional secretary hands, 1050 pages (plus a 24-page Tabula of contents at the end), in calf.
c.1630s

Formerly MS F. 2. 20.

The Folger Shakespeare Library: V.b. series (MS V.b.234 pp. 88-113, 222-4, 237-97, 696-9) | Catalogue
BcF 622

Copies of two letters by Bacon to George Villiers, Marquess of Buckingham.

In: A folio guardbook of state letters and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 176 leaves, in old black morocco gilt.

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

Lambeth Palace Library (MS 942 Nos. 9 and 12) | Catalogue
BcF 623

Copy of a letter by Bacon to Sir Edward Coke.

In: A folio volume of state tracts, in several secretary hands, with a title-page A manuscript containing seuerall Discourses the heades thereof are in the next Page following...1641, 350 pages, in half calf marbled boards.
c.1642

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

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

BcF 624 c.1620s

Copy of two letters by Bacon, one to Lord Burghley, 6 June 1595, the other to Lord Chancellor Ellesmere, undated, in a professional predominantly secretary hand, on all four pages of a pair on conjugate folio leaves.

In: A folio guardbook of miscellaneous family letters and papers, in various hands.
BcF 625

Copy of a letter by Bacon, to the Secretary, 1 December [no year].

In: An oblong quarto volume of transcripts of state letters up to 1627, closely written in two professional secretary hands, 39 leaves, in a late 16th-century vellum deed wrapper (now within modern green morocco gilt).
c.1627-30s

Phillipps MS 10665.

BcF 626

A collection of copies of correspondence of Bacon in 1616.

In: A folio volume of proceedings in Parliament and related papers, 296 leaves, in red morocco gilt.
17th century
Inner Temple Library (Petyt MS 538, Vol. 2 ff. 274r-90) | Catalogue
BcF 627

Copy of a letter beginning Sir at our last conference I remembered unto you..., in a professional secretary hand, subscribed Frances Bacon.

In: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, with (ff. 1r-2v) a table of contents, ii + 266 leaves, in red morocco gilt.
Inner Temple Library (Petyt MS 538, Vol. 51 ff. 188r-93v) | Catalogue
BcF 628 1593-1600s

Copies of letters by Francis Bacon, probably in the hands of amanuenses.

In: Two folio guardbooks of 166 state letters, in various hands, 515 leaves, in modern half-calf marbled boards.

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

Lambeth Palace Library (MS 649 Vol. I, ff. 60r, 94r, 113r) | Catalogue
BcF 629 c.1600s

Letters by Francis Bacon, partly autograph, chiefly in hands probably of amanuenses.

In: Two folio guardbooks of 166 state letters, in various hands, 515 leaves, in modern half-calf marbled boards.

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

Lambeth Palace Library (MS 649 Vol. II, ff 346, 347, 409, 410, 411, 432, 449) | Catalogue
BcF 630

Copies of three letters by Bacon, two of them to Essex.

In: A tall folio composite volume of state tracts, in various professional secretary hands, 339 leaves, in old brown calf (rebacked).
c.1623-41
BcF 631

Copy of a letter by Bacon to Queen Elizabeth.

In: A quarto letterbook, in several neat hands, 191 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in red morocco gilt.
c.1745
BcF 632

Copies of c.39 letters by Bacon to various correspondents, including Burghley, Queen Elizabeth, King James, and Robert Cecil, headed A collection of severall lres written by Sr ffrancis Bacon, with a five-page table.

In: A folio volume of speeches and letters by Francis Bacon, in a single professional secretary hand.
c.1630

Microfilm in the British Library, M/325.

The Duke of Northumberland, Alnwick Castle (MS 526 ff. 1r-51v (2nd series))
BcF 633

Copies of various letters by Bacon.

In: A small quarto volume of state letters and papers, in a single secretary hand, 704 pages, in quarter-calf boards.

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

Mid-17th century

Gift of Mr Roland L. Redmond, 1942.

The Pierpont Morgan Library (MA 1162 pp. 52-65, 138-9, 149-71, 192-202, 214-16, 436-68, 477-80) | Catalogue
BcF 634

Copy of a letter by Bacon, to Lord Henry Howard.

In: A folio miscellany of verse and prose on state matters, entitled Ephemeris Chirographoru quorudam Memorabiliam Succincta, 703 pages, in modern calf gilt.

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) No 4. Henry Feilde 1642.

c.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.

BcF 635

Copy of a series of letters by Bacon, to the Earl of Essex and others.

In: A folio miscellany of verse and prose on state matters, entitled Ephemeris Chirographoru quorudam Memorabiliam Succincta, 703 pages, in modern calf gilt.

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) No 4. Henry Feilde 1642.

c.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.

The Folger Shakespeare Library: V.b. series (V.b.383 pp. 573-82, 587-96)
BcF 636

Copy of a series of twenty letters by Bacon, to Northumberland, Davies, Coke, Tobie Mathew, Robert Cecil, Buckhurst, Ellesmere, James I, Queen Elizabeth, and others.

In: A folio volume of letters by and to Francis Bacon, in a single professional secretary hand, 60 pages, in modern stiff paper wrapper.
c.1620s-30s

Donated by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector.

Plymouth Proprietary Library (Halliwell-Phillipps No. 130 pp. 1-30, 47-52)
BcF 637

Copies of various letters by Bacon.

In: A large folio composite volume of state letters and papers, iv + 207 leaves, in contemporary calf.
The Queen's College, Oxford (MS 32 ff. 1r-4v, 121r, 191r, 194r-202r,) | Catalogue
BcF 638

Copy of a letter by Bacon to Sir Edward Coke.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, letters and speeches, in various hands, 614 pages (including blanks), in contemporary vellum.
The Queen's College, Oxford (MS 121 p. 480)
BcF 639

Copy of a letter of advice by Bacon to Sir Edward Coke, in two professional secretary hands.

In: A folio volume of state letters and tracts, in various professional hands, 390 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in old calf.
c.1635-40

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).

BcF 640

Copy of various letters by Bacon, to Burghley, Essex, James I, Northampton, Sir John Davies, Tobie Mathews, Sir Edward Coke, and others, in a prefessional secretary hand, with a general title-page (f. 335r) Remarkable letters of the Lord Chancellors Bacons and others followed by a list of them partly in another hand.

In: A folio volume of state letters and tracts, in various professional hands, 390 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in old calf.
c.1635-40

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).

Trinity College, Dublin, numbers 200 through 799 (MS 734 ff. 335r, 343r-57v, 359r-60r, 378v-87v) | Catalogue
BcF 641

Copy of several letters by Bacon, to Queen Elizabeth, Essex, Northumberland, and Tobie Mathews, headed Sr franc. Bacons Letts.

In: An octavo commonplace book, in a single cursive mixed hand, 197 leaves (including numerous blanks), in old reversed calf.
c.1650

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).

University College London (MS Ogden 7/27 ff. 3r-10r)
BcF 642

Copy of over thirty letters by Bacon, to Queen Elizabeth, Essex, Robert Cecil, Sir John Davies, Edward Coke, Northumberland, Toby Mathew, and others.

In: An octavo volume of state letters, largely in a single mixed hand, 76 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf.

Owned, and annotated at the end, by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire.

c.1635

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).

University College London (MS Ogden 7/41 ff. 38r-[73v]) | Catalogue
BcF 643

Copy of three letters by Bacon, to Robert Cecil, to the Earl of Essex, and to Queen Elizabeth.

In: A folio volume of state letters and poems, 65 pages.
c.1625-30s

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

University of Kansas (MS 4A:1 pp. 1, 6, 49)
BcF 644

Copy of a large number of letters by Bacon, to Queen Elizabeth, Essex, Burghley, Buckhurst, Southampton, Sir Robert Cecil, Sir John Davies, James I, Northampton, Northumberland, Tobie Mathews, and others.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several professional predominantly secretary hands, with (f. 1r-v) a table of contents, 428 leaves, in half-calf marbled boards.

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

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.

University of London, Senate House Library (MS 285 ff. 291r-309r, 316r-39r)
BcF 645 c.1620s

Copy of about forty letters, headed A Collection of certen Letters written by Sr ffrauncis Bacon knight and others, including (81r-2v) The Table, addressed to Queen Elizabeth, Burghley, Essex, Robert Cecil, Buckhurst, James I, Sir John Davies, Northumberland, Northampton, Coke, Tobie Mathews, and others.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several professional hands, 118 leaves, in vellum boards.

Inscribed (f. [ir]) Given me by T.H.L. from The Library of his gt Grand.father. the Revd. 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.

University of London, Senate House Library (MS 300 ff. 80r-97r, 102r-18r)
BcF 646
Copy of a letter Conceived to bee writt to the Late Duke of Buckingham when hee first became a fauourite to K: James / By Sr. ffrancis Bacon, in a cursive secretary hand, 70 quarto leaves (plus blanks), in old calf.
c.1630

Bookplate of Sir William Gregory (1625-96), of Woothope, Herefordshire, judge and Speaker of the House of Commons. In the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 6987. Among the collections of Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence, MP (1837-1914), Baconian scholar and book collector.

BcF 647 c.1620s-30s

Copy of numerous letters by Bacon, as a collection of divers letters...by that famous Councellor at lawe Sr ffrancis Bacon Knt late Lord Chancellor of England, including (ff. 307r-8v) a Table of contents, addressed to Queen Elizabeth, Burghley, Essex, Ellesmere, Robert Cecil, Buckhurst, James I, Sir John Davies, Northumberland, Northampton, Coke, Tobie Mathews, and others.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several professional secretary hands, with (ff. 4r-6r) a table of contents, 222 leaves, in old half-calf.

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.

University of London, Senate House Library (MS 309 ff. 305r-32v, 340r-8v)
BcF 648
Copy of a letter by Bacon, to Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, in a professional secretary hand, on the first page (the second a letter by Howard) of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.
c.1620s-30s
BcF 649
Copy of a letter, in a cursive secretary hand, on an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, headed A lr forged by Sr F. B. to ye erle of E. in the name of his brothr Mr A. B and ye Earle his answer wch was likwise forged by him.
BcF 650

Copy of letters by Bacon.

In: A miscellany, including state papers, in several hands, in vellum.

Compiled by members of the Benett family, of Pythouse, Tisbury.

c.1660

Inscribed inside the cover Chaloner freville.

BcF 651

Copy of letter(s) by Bacon.

In: A quarto volume of transcripts of state letters, in a single predominantly secretary hand, 93 pages, imperfect, in 17th-century calf.
c.1630

Bookplate of George Folliott.

Yale, Osborn MS b 1 through Osborn MS b 49 (Osborn MS b 8 [unspecified pages])
BcF 652

Copies of numerous letters by Bacon, to various recipients.

In: A folio volume of transcripts of Bacon's correspondence, in a single professional hand, vi + 62 leaves, disbound.
c.1630

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

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS fb 37 passim)
BcF 653

Copies of numerous letters by Francis Bacon, in the professional secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe.

In: A worn folio volume of transcripts of state letters and tracts, the majority by or relating to Francis Bacon, in a single professional secretary hand (the Feathery Scribe), 101 leaves, in contemporary vellum.
c.1625-30s

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

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Aynho MS] passim)

Documents

Will

Spedding, XIV, 228-9.

*BcF 654
Autograph
Bacon's last will and testament, signed by him 19 December 1625, proved 13 July 1627.
1626

The text printed in Spedding, XIV, 539-45.

BcF 656 1621

Copy of Bacon's last will and testament made by him 10 April 1621, in the hand of John Locker (1693-1760), barrister and literary editor.

Edited from this MS in Spedding, XIV, 228-9.

In: A folio volume of papers relating to Francis Bacon, in various hands, 168 leaves, bound with British Library, Add. MS 4260 in modern half-morocco.

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.

Books and Codices from Bacon's Library

Bacon, Francis. The History of the Reign of King Henry VII (London, 1622)
*BcF 657
Autograph
Exemplum of the second issue of the first edition, with Bacon's six-line autograph signed presentation inscription, in Latin, to Tobie Matthew, Archbishop of York.
1622
Bacon, Francis. Instauratio magna (London, 1620)
BcF 659
An exemplum of the first edition (1620), a folio bearing Bacon's boar crest in gilt.

Presented to Bacon's great rival, Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), and bearing Coke's caustic remark inscribed on the title page, It deserveth not to be read in schooles | but to be fraughted in the ship of fooles).

1620
BcF 662
An exemplum of the first edition (1620), a folio bearing Bacon's boar crest in gilt.
1620

Maggs's sale catalogue No. 493 (1927), item 282A.

Facsimile of the boar's crest cover in Maggs's sale catalogue, Plate LIX.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Instauratio magna (I)])
BcF 663
An exemplum of the first edition (1620), a folio bearing Bacon's boar crest in gilt.
1620

Sotheby's, 21 December 1937, lot 552.

Facsimile of the boar crest and cover in Sotheby's sale catalogue.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Instauratio magna (II)])
BcF 664
An exemplum of the first issue of the first edition, with Bacon's boar crest on the contemporary limp vellum cover.
1620

Sotheby's. 18 February 1947, lot 292.

Facsimile of the boar crest and cover in Sotheby's sale catalogue, Plate II.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Instauratio magna (III)])
BcF 665
An exemplum of the first edition, with Bacon's boar crest on the cover.
1620

Sotheby's, 11 May 1953, lot 52.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Instauratio magna (IV)])
BcF 666
An exemplum of the first edition (1620), a folio in contemporary vellum bearing Bacon's boar crest in gilt.
1620

bookplate of Sir Willoughby Jones and inscribed by him in 1859. Also bookplate of Frank Brewer Bemis (1861-1935), Boston banker and book collector. Later owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1906-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 13 June 1979 (Houghton sale), lot 22, to Kraus.

Facsimile of the boar's crest and cover in the sale catalogue, Plate 5 opposite p. 32.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Instauratio magna (V)])
BcF 667
An exemplum of the printed edition bearing Bacon's boar crest on the cover.
1620

The crest on this volume illustrated in Peter Dawkins, Dedication to the Light (The Francis Bacon Research Trust Journal, Ser. I, vol. 3, 1984), p. 145.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Bacon Novum Organum])
Bacon, Francis. Sylva Sylvarum (London, 1626)
*BcF 668
Autograph
Exemplum of the first edition, with Bacon's autograph signed presentation inscription, in Latin, to Tobie Matthew, Archbishop of York.
1626
Camden, William. Annales

See CmW 1.

Catullus. Tibullus. Propertius. His accesserunt Corn. Galli fragmenta (Lyons, 1546)
BcF 669
Exemplum allegedly containing Bacon's signature.

The authenticity of the signature cannot be confirmed, but the volume's association with Spedding suggests its likelihood.

Late 16th century?

Formerly owned by James Spedding (1808-81), literary editor and biographer, and later by Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist and book collector. Afterwards at University College London (Ogden A 303), but now untraced.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Catullus, &c. volume])
Discovrs par lequel est amplement monstré l'utilité, & proffit que peult apporter une affinité, et alliance par mariage entre les … Rois de France, et de la grand Bretagne
BcF 670
A formal anonymous MS, in a professional hand, dedicated and addressed A Illvstrissime, et tres honnorable Seigneur. Monseigneur François Bacon Cheualier, Procureur general du Roy, et Conseiller en ses Conseils d'Estat et priué.

Probably a MS presented to the dedicatee, Bacon.

Early 17th century
Douai-Reims Bible
BcF 671
Bacon's exemplum of The Holie Bible (2 vols, Douai, [1609-10]).

Inscribed on the first title-page Liber Francisci Bacon ex dono Richardi Chamberlayne Armigeri: i.e. presented to Bacon by Richard Chamberlayne, Clerk of the Court of Wards and Liveries.

c.1610

Later owned by Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire, book collector, and by Sir M.R.H. Wilson, Bt.

This volume is discussed in Edwin Eliott Willoughby, Bacon's Copy of a Douai-Reims Bible, The Library, 5th Ser. 3 (1948-9), 54-6.

Genealogical History of the Kings of England
BcF 672
An untitled illuminated genealogy of English monarchs, written to celebrate the triumph of Queen Elizabeth and possibly prepared as a New Year's gift for her, written, as well as illuminated, in the accomplished secretary hand of Morgan Colman (secretary to Sir John Puckering, Lord Keeper) and bearing on p. 67 the arms of Francis Bacon dated 1592, 71 folio pages, partly on vellum, in 19th-century half-morocco marbled boards.
1592

Inscribed name of H[arriet] Crofts. Bookplate of Sir John Saunders Sebright, seventh Baronet, MP (1767-1846), of Beechwood, Hertfordshire. Phillips, 11 November 1993, lot 603.

Illustrated in the Phillips sale catalogue and in Peter Dawkins, Dedication to the Light (The Francis Bacon Research Trust Journal, Ser. I, vol. 3, 1984), p. 146.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Bacon genealogy])
Howard, Henry, Earl of Northampton. A Defensative against the poyson of supposed prophecies (London, 1620)
BcF 673
Bacon's exemplum of the second printed edition, folio, in contemporary calf with Bacon's boar crest in gilt on both covers.
c.1620

Inscriptions including Thomas machon his Booke 1667, Henrique Gudrique, and John Sparke His Book Anno Dom 1699. Sotheby's, 11 December 1997, lot 65, to Rick Adams.

Facsimiles of the boar crest and cover in Sotheby's sale catalogue.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Bacon/Howard volume])
Lives of the Abbots of St Albans
BcF 674
A late 14th-century codex, in Latin, 157 folio leaves, bearing Sir Robert Cotton's inscription Liber ex dono viscomitis sti Albani 1623.
c.1623
The Statutes at large...until the sixteenth yeere of the Raigne of...Iames (London, 1618)
Strozii poetæ, pater et filius (Paris, 1530)
BcF 676
Exemplum of the 1530 edition, the cover bearing Bacon's boar crest in gilt.
Late 16th century

Maggs's sale catalogue No. 600 (1934), item 20.

A facsimile of the boar's crest and cover in Maggs's sale catalogue.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Strozii poetæ])

Miscellaneous Extracts from Bacon's Works

Extracts
BcF 677

Extracts, in the hand of the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Lo St Albanse.

In: A folio commonplace book, in several hands, written from both ends, with a table of subject headings, begun 7 March 1624/5, 358 pages of text (plus blanks),

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.

c.1625-30s

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

The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS No. 21 pp. 57-9)
BcF 678

Extracts from work by Bacon.

In: A tall folio commonplace book of miscellaneous extracts, in a single hand, 139 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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

c.1620s-30s

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

The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS No. 26 f. 73v)
BcF 679

Extracts, headed My Lo: St Albans / Historia....

In: A tall folio commonplace book of miscellaneous extracts, in a single hand, 139 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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

c.1620s-30s

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

The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS No. 26 ff. 136r-8r)
BcF 680

Extracts from works by Bacon translated into French.

In: A MS volume.
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (fonds français n° 2530 ff. 129r-51r)
BcF 681

Extracts from works by Bacon translated into French.

In: A MS volume.
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (fonds français n° 2537 ff. 82r, 90r)
BcF 684

Extracts, headed Propositiones ponderum rerum ejusdem Magnitudinis, ex opusculis philosophicis Verulamis.

In: A quarto volume of chiefly Latin medical and philosophical tracts and extracts, 475 leaves.
17th century
The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1733 f. 7r-v)
BcF 685

Extracts from various works by Bacon, the first headed Mr Bacons historicall discourse of ye gouernment of England, another headed ffrancis Bacons Nat. hist. 1649.

In: An octavo notebook of extracts, in a single small mixed hand, written from both ends, 165 leaves, in contemporary calf.

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

c.1644-76

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

Cambridge University Library, Additional MSS 5000 through 6999 (MS Add. 6160 ff. 27v-30r, 36r-40r, 50r-v, 63v, 74v-6v)
BcF 686

Extracts from works by Bacon including The History of the Reign of King Henry VII and his 1621 Humble Submission, including entries on pp. 327, 449abis, and 519.

In: A folio commonplace book of entries arranged under subject headings, in a single hand, written from both ends, 652 pages (plus some unnumbered), in modern cloth.
Mid-17th century

A modern pencil note on a flyleaf claims to identify the compiler as one Raworth.

BcF 687

Extracts from works by Bacon.

In: An octavo notebook of proverbs, extracts, &c., in Latin and English, in a cursive hand, written from both ends, 167 leaves, in old calf.

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

Mid-17th century

Identified and cited in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions: The Politics of Reading in Early Modern England (New Haven & London, 2000), pp. 73-4 et passim.

BcF 688

Extracts from several works by Bacon.

In: A large untitled folio anthology of quotations chiefly from Elizabethan and Stuart plays, alphabetically arranged under subject headings, in a single mixed hand, in double columns, 900 pages (lacking pp. 1-4, 379-80, 667-8, 715-20 and 785-8), including (pp. 893-7) an alphabetical index of some 351 titles of plays, in modern boards.

This is the longest known extant version of the unpublished anthology Hesperides or The Muses Garden, by John Evans, entered in the Stationers' Register on 16 August 1655 and subsequently advertised c.1660, among works he purposed to print, by Humphrey Moseley. Another version of this work, in the same hand, dissected by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), is now distributed between Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Halliwell-Phillipps, Notes upon the Works of Shakespeare, Folger, MS V.a.75, Folger, MS V.a.79, and Folger, MS V.a.80.

c.1656-66

Formerly MS 469.2.

This MS identified in IELM, II.i (1980), p. 450. Discussed, as the master draft, with a facsimile of p. 7 on p. 381, in Hao Tianhu, Hesperides, or the Muses' Garden and its Manuscript History, The Library, 7th Ser. 10/4 (December 2009), 372-404 (the full index printed as Catalogue A on pp. 385-94).

BcF 688.5
In: A folio miscellany of verse and prose, compiled by Sarah Cowper (née Holled, 1644-1720), Lady Cowper, wife of Sir William Cowper, MP (1639-1706), begun in 1690 and resumed in 1698, dedicated to her son William's wife Judith, 369 leaves erratically foliated and paginated, in contemporary calf.
c.1690-1700s
BcF 690

Extracts, headed Bacon.

In: An octavo commonplace book, in at least two cursive italic hands, 187 leaves, in contemporary calf.
c.1650

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).

University College London (MS Ogden 7/22 f. 24v)
BcF 691

Extracts, headed Certaine choice places out of Seneca, Aristot & Bacon.

In: An octavo commonplace book, in at least two cursive italic hands, 187 leaves, in contemporary calf.
c.1650

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).

University College London (MS Ogden 7/22 ff. 126v-9v)
BcF 692

Extracts, in a non-professional secretary hand, headed Sir ffrancis Bacon and beginning There be two things which the King cannot doe without Parlament....

In: A folio volume of state treatises, chiefly in two professional secretary hands, 210 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf with remains of metal clasps.
c.1620s-30s

Owned by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham. 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).

University College London (MS Ogden 7/46 f. [1r-v]) | Catalogue
BcF 693

Extracts.

In: A small quarto commonplace book of extracts, compiled by probably two members of the Fane family, Earls of Westmorland, of Apethorpe, Northamptonshire, 120 leaves.
Mid-17th century

Later owned by Professor A. Stanton Whitfield. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 271.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Fane MS] [unspecified page numbers])

Prose Works Doubtfully or Spuriously Attributed to Bacon

An Advertisement Towching Seditious Writings

First published in Brother Kenneth Cardwell, An Overlooked Tract by Francis Bacon, HLQ, 65 (2002), 421-33. The attached separate memorandum, Certen Notes of remembrance owt of the examinacions of H. Walpoole, Jhon Boast & others first published in Unpublished Documents relating to the English Martyrs, CRS, Records Series, Vol. 5 (1908), p. 268.

BcF 694
Copy in a professional hand.
[1594]

Edited from this MS in Cardwell, with facsimile examples. Attributed by him to Bacon, but the MS is not in his hand.

National Archives, Kew (SP 12/235/81 (ff. 178r-9r))
A Brief Discourse touching the Low Countries, the King of Spain, the King of Scots, the French King, and Queen Elizabeth

Unpublished tract, beginning Lodwick Sforza holding by tyrannous usurpation the Dukedom of Milan....

BcF 695
Copy, in the professional secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe, 31 folio leaves, in modern half-morocco.

Headed A Breiffe Discours Touchinge the Lowe Countryes; The Kinge of Spayn; The Kinge of Scotts, the ffrench Kinge; And Queene Elizabeth, wth some other Remarkeable passages of State, Wrytten by Sr. ffrauncis Bacon, knight, &c.

c.1620s-30s

Beal, In Praise of Scribes, pp. 245-6 (No. 65).

The Character of a believing Christian in paradoxes and seeming contradictions

The work written by Herbert Palmer and first published in London, 1645. Edited by Alexander B. Grosart (1872).

BcF 696
MS, apparently by Herbert Palmer (1601-47), clergyman, President of Queens' College, Cambridge.
c.1645

Owned in 1872 by Alexander B. Grosart (1827-99), literary scholar and theologian.

Edited from this MS by Grosart. Discussed in Spedding, VII, 289-97.

An Essay of a King

Essay, beginning A king is a mortal god on earth.... Spedding, VI, 595-7 (discussed pp. 592-4).

BcF 697

Copy.

In: A folio composite volume of historical and miscellaneous MSS, in various hands, iii + 250 leaves.

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

Mid-17th century
Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 826 ff. 177r-8v) | Catalogue
BcF 698

Spedding, VI, 595-7, discussed pp. 592-4.

In: A folio composite volume of political tracts, speeches and other papers, many relating to Spain and the Netherlands, v + 138 pages, in 19th-century reversed calf.

Once owned by Sir Henry Spelman (1564?-1641), historian and antiquary. Later owned by Cox Macro (1683-1767), antiquary. Christie's, February 1820 (Macro sale, Part VI), lot 112. Subsequently owned by Hudson Gurney (1775-1864), banker and antiquary, of Keswick Hall, Norfolk (Gurney MS XXX), Vol. 4, pp. 308-75). Sotheby's, 30 March 1936 (Gurney sale), lot 163.

HMC, 1891, Appendix, Pt IX, pp. 144-7.

Bodleian Library, Eng. hist. MSS (MS Eng. hist. c. 272 pp. 58-61) | Catalogue
BcF 699 Early 17th century

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed A character of a king.

In: A folio guardbook of separate state papers, in various hands, 271 leaves (but some removed to MS Tanner 89*).
BcF 702

Copy.

In: A folio volume of state tracts and papers, in a single hand, 80 leaves, in vellum.

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

c.1640
The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3378 ff. 26r-7r)
BcF 707

Copy, as By Sr ffrancis Bacon.

Spedding, VI, 595-7; discussed 592-4.

In: A folio composite volume of works by Francis Bacon, including charges and reports by him, in professional secretary hands, 221 leaves, bound with an independent sixteen-leaf tract of 1608 (Lansdowne MS 235), in modern red morocco gilt.
c.1620s-30s

Inscribed (f. 1r) Sum EUmfreville 1740: i.e. by Edward Umfreville (1702?-86), collector of legal manuscripts.

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 236 ff. 218r-20r) | Catalogue
BcF 708
In: A folio composite volume of antiquarian and parliamentary tracts, in various professional secretary hands, 245 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco in cloth boards gilt.

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

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 491 ff. 46r-8r) | Catalogue
BcF 710

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of theological and state tracts, written from both ends, the first part (ff. 1r-131r) chiefly in the hand of John Overall (1561-1619), Bishop of Norwich, ii + 131 leaves at one end, x + 132 leaves (plus a number of blanks) at the other.
Mid-17th century

Once owned by John Moore (1646-1714), Bishop of Norwich and Ely.

BcF 711

Copy.

In: A folio booklet of state letters, in a single predominantly secretary hand, 24 leaves, the last three leaves imperfect, unbound.
c.1630
Cardiff Central Library (MS 4.424 f. 10r-v) | Catalogue
BcF 712

Copy.

In: A double-folio-size volume of state papers, royal revenues, verses and other writings, partly relating to Flintshire, in various secretary hands, ix + 125 leaves (including blanks and a tipped-in bifolium), in modern vellum boards.

Compiled, at least in part, by Robert Davies (1616-66), of Gwysaney, and his father.

c.1630s
Cardiff Central Library (MS 5.50 [unspecified page numbers]) | Catalogue
BcF 713

Copy, headed The King.

In: A quarto commonplace book and miscellany of verse and prose, in various hands, with additions up to 1751, ii + 662 pages (some erratically numbered), in contemporary calf.
c.1672-1715 [plus later additions]

Ownership inscriptions (pp. [i] and [662]), dated 1672, by John Digby, of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Other inscribed names including (p. 662) Thomas Digby, Edward Digby, Robert Debnam, and (p. [640]) Josh: Churchill 1694.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 586 pp. [577-8]) | Catalogue
BcF 713.5

Copy.

In: A duodecimo volume of four tracts.
Early 17th century

Formerly in the library of the Harvey family, of Ickwell Bury, Bedfordshire, and of Finningley Park, Yorkshire. Maggs's sale catalogue No. 536 (1930), item 2129. Then owned by André de Coppet (1892-1953), New York financial broker. Sotheby's, 4 July 1955 (de Coppet sale), lot 888, to Quaritch.

Recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 62, and in The Book Collector, 15 (Summer 1966), p. 156.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (Juel-Jensen E 7 [item 1] [No. 4])
BcF 714

(Finch Papers) Spedding, VI, 595-7; discussed 592-4.

In: A volume of state letters and tracts.
1st half 17th century

Among the papers of the Finch family, of Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland.

Leicestershire Record Office (DG. 7/Lit. 1 [unnumbered pages]) | Catalogue
BcF 715

Copy, headed Character of a Kinge.

In: A quarto volume of state tracts and papers, in a single professional secretary hand, with (f. 2r) a formal title-page A Missellany Or Collection of Seuerall things 1625, and (ff. 3r-4r) a table of contents, 194 leaves, in contemporary vellum.
1625
BcF 716

Copy.

In: A duodecimo volume of state tracts and speeches, in a single probably professional hand, 49 leaves, in contemporary vellum.
c.1630

Bookplate of John Harvey, of Ickwell Bury, Hertfordshire, and Finningley Park, Yorkshire. Pencil inscription inside the lower cover Robinson Aug. /94.

Recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 62.

The Pierpont Morgan Library (MA 1201 Engl. Lit. ff. 3r-5r) | Catalogue
BcF 717

Copy, in a mixed hand, on folio pages.

In: A bundle of unbound verse and prose MSS, in various hands and paper sizes.

Among the papers of the Wentworth family, Earls of Strafford.

Sheffield Archives (WWM Str P 40/91 item [15])
BcF 718

Copy, headed An Essaij of a kinge, by Sr ffrances Bacon.

In: A quarto volume of state tracts and speeches, in possibly a single professional secretary hand, with a table of contents, 129 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum.
c.1630s

Inscribed on the last page Elizabeth Tyrrell. Old pressmark K. 4. 15.

BcF 719

Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand, as writen by Sir francis Bacon.

Spedding, VI, 595-7; discussed 592-4.

In: A folio volume of state letters and tracts, in various professional hands, 390 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in old calf.
c.1635-40

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).

BcF 720

An abridgement, headed Frs Bacons Essay of a King.

In: An octavo commonplace book, in a single cursive mixed hand, 197 leaves (including numerous blanks), in old reversed calf.
c.1650

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).

University College London (MS Ogden 7/27 f. 10v)
An Essay on Death

Spedding, VI, 600-4 (discussed p. 594).

BcF 721

Spedding, VI, 600-4; discussed p. 594.

In: A folio volume of poems, in a single accomplished hand, 61 leaves (plus stubs of fifteen extracted leaves), imperfect, in quarter-vellum.

Including 49 pems by Thomas Carew and one of doubtful authorship.

c.1640s

Later owned by F. Wyburd who, according to W.C. Hazlitt (1870, p. xv), obtained it about three years ago of a dealer at Knightsbridge. Owned c.1927 by P.J. Dobell, who sold it in 1936.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Wyburd MS: CwT Δ 3. Reduced facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969). Briefly discussed in Evelyn M. Simpson, Two Manuscripts of Donne's Paradoxes and Problems, RES, 3 (1927), 129-45 (pp. 131-3).

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. b. 9 ff. 37v-9v) | Catalogue
BcF 722

Copy.

In: A volume of state letters and tracts.
1st half 17th century

Among the papers of the Finch family, of Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland.

Leicestershire Record Office (DG. 7/Lit. 1 [unnumbered pages]) | Catalogue
BcF 723

Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand, as by the Lo: Chancellor. Bacon.

In: A folio volume of state letters and tracts, in various professional hands, 390 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in old calf.
c.1635-40

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).

An explanation what manner of persons those should be, that are to execute the power or Ordinance of the King's Prerogative

An essay beginning That absolute prerogative according to the king's pleasure revealed by his laws.... Spedding, VI, 597-600 (discussed pp. 592-4). Probably by Thomas Egerton, Lord Ellesmere.

BcF 724

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of letters and state papers, in a secretary hand, xii + 209 pages (plus blank pp. 211-472, 475-6), in contemporary calf.
c.1620s-30s

Owned in the 17th century by William Goswell, his friend James Bedford, and Gerard Langbaine [? Gerard Langbaine (1608/9-58), head of Queen's College, Oxford]. Also inscribed (f. 376) Amy Wigmore.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS University College 152 pp. 136-40)
BcF 725

Spedding, VI, 597-600; discussed 592-4

In: A square-shaped folio volume of antiquarian and state tracts, with a table of contents (ff. 374r-7v) and occasional engraved borders by John Sudbury and George Humble, 377 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

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

c.1640s

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.

BcF 726

Copy.

In: A small folio volume of state tracts and papers, in one or more probably professional hands.
c.1620s-30s

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, pp. 203-4.

The Marquess of Bute (D 18 item 27)
BcF 727

Copy.

Spedding, VI, 597-600. Discussed pp. 592-4. (Finch Papers).

In: A volume of state letters and tracts.
1st half 17th century

Among the papers of the Finch family, of Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland.

Leicestershire Record Office (DG. 7/Lit. 1 [unnumbered pages]) | Catalogue
BcF 728

Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand, as written by the saide Sr frances Bacon late Lo: Chanc: of St Albans.

Spedding, VI, 597-600; discussed 592-4.

In: A folio volume of state letters and tracts, in various professional hands, 390 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in old calf.
c.1635-40

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).

Notes on the Present State of Christendom [1582]

Beginning In the consideration of the present estate of Christendom.... Spedding, VIII, 18-30 (discussed pp. 16-17).

Observations Political and Civil

See Sir Walter Ralegh, The Cabinet-Council: containing the Chief Arts of Empire and Mysteries of State (RaW 1042-1057.6).

Of the jurisdiction of Justices itinerant in the principality of Wales

Spedding, VII, 778-81 (discussed pp. 773-4). An adaptation of part of Sir John Doddridge, History of the Principality of Wales, possibly used by Bacon and printed with works by him in Cases of Treason (London, 1641).

BcF 729.5

Copy.

In: A square-shaped folio volume of antiquarian and state tracts, with a table of contents (ff. 374r-7v) and occasional engraved borders by John Sudbury and George Humble, 377 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

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

c.1640s

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.

BcF 730

Copy.

In: A folio composite volume of works by Francis Bacon, principally his own papers probably collected by his executors, in various secretary hands, a heading on ff. 12r A Book of Speeches in Parliamt or otherwise deliuered by Sr fr. Bacon the K Sollicitor, 199 leaves.
BcF 731

An adaptation of part of Sir John Doddridge, History of the Principality of Wales, possibly used by Bacon.

Printed in Cases of Treason (London, 1641). Spedding, VII, 778-81; discussed pp. 773-4.

In: A folio volume of works by Francis Bacon, in four professional hands, 80 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

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

c.1630s
The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 612 ff. 17-19) | Catalogue
BcF 732

An adaptation of part of Sir John Doddridge, History of the Principality of Wales, possibly used by Bacon.

Printed in Cases of Treason (London, 1641). Spedding, VII, 778-81; discussed pp. 773-4.

In: A quarto volume of antiquarian tracts and papers, 40 leaves, in contemporary vellum gilt.
Early 17th century

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

The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 1044 ff. 16r-23r) | Catalogue
Of ye title of great Britt: drawne by Sr ffrancis Bacon

A tract beginning As it is a manifest token or rather a substantiall effect of ye wrath & indignation of God when Kingdomes are devided.... Unpublished?

BcF 732.5 Early 17th century

Copy.

In: A folio volume of state tracts and letters, in a single probably professional cursive hand up to f. 81r, in another hand afterwards, 100 leaves, in old half-calf (rebacked).
Late 17th century

Labelled on the spine Owen Wynne Vol 8.

The Office of Compositions for Alienations

A tract, beginning All the finances of revenues of the imperial crown of this realm of England.... Discussed in Spedding, IX, 120-1. By William Lambarde (1536-1601), whose partly autograph MS (1590) is in the Folger (MS V.a.208), but the work is frequently ascribed to Bacon, who may have used and adapted it at the time of the debate on alienations in October 1601.

BcF 734

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed Of the lately erected Service called the Office of Compositions for Alyenations, unascribed. c.1620s-30s.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, in various hands, 263 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary limp vellum, with ties.

In various hands, including the Feathery Scribe.

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

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

BcF 736

Copy.

In: A folio composite volume of legal tracts and speeches, in various professional hands, 136 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco.

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

The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 422 ff. 83r-107v) | Catalogue
BcF 737
Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, headed Of the latelie Erected Service called the office of Composicons for Alienacons Written by the right honble ffrancis Lord Verulam, visc St. Alban late Lord Chancellor of England, on ten folio leaves, in modern cloth.
c.1620s-30s

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

BcF 740

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with a title-page Of the Lately erected service called the office of Composicons for Alienacons.

In: A folio volume comprising two independent tracts bound together, in two separate hands, 81 leaves (plus a number of blanks), in contemporary limp vellum.
c.1620s-30s

Inscribed (f. iir) by the second Earl of Bridgewater, misidentifying the first item as A Treatise about Impositions.

BcF 741 c.1620s-30s

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed Of the lately erected seruice called the Office of Composicons for Alyenacons. Written by the Right hoble ffrancis Lord Verulam late Chancellor of England.

In: A folio composite volume of tracts and papers, in various hands, 486 leaves, in red morocco gilt.
Inner Temple Library (Petyt MS 538, Vol. 45 ff. 153r-76r) | Catalogue
BcF 742 Early 17th century

Copy.

In: A folio composite volume of seventeen legal tracts and papers, 240 leaves.
Inner Temple Library (Petyt MS 538, Vol. 55 ff. 228r-34v) | Catalogue
BcF 743 c.1630s

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed Of the Lately erected Seruice Called the office of Composicons for Alienacons.

In: A folio composite collection of legal and state tracts, in various hands, now bound in two volumes, foliated 1-307 and 308-617 respectively, in modern quarter-calf vellum boards.

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

Lincoln's Inn Library (Maynard MS 59 Part I, ff. 164r-96v) | Catalogue
BcF 744
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed Of the lately erected service called the Office of Composicons for Alyenacons, ascribed to Bacon, 26 folio leaves.
Early 17th century

Inscribed Tho Parker For my son George Parker. Acquired from the bookseller Gilbertson, May 1965.

BcF 745

Copy, in an accomplished professional secretary hand, headed Of the lately Erected seruice called the Office of Compositions for Alyenations / Written by The Right Honoble: ffrancis Lord Verulam late Chauncellour of England.

In: A folio volume of state and antiquarian tracts and parliamentary speeches, in several professional hands, written and paginated from both ends, 238 pages, in contemporary vellum with traces of ties.
c.1630s-40s

Purchased in December 1806 from Mr Mercier. Old pressmark I. 3. 18.

BcF 746

Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand, headed Of the lately erected Service called the Office of Composicons for Alyenacons / Written by the Right honble: ffrancis Lord Verulam late Chauncellor of England.

In: A folio volume of legal and state tracts, in several professional hands, 500 leaves.
c.1620s-30s

Old pressmark F. 1. 21.

BcF 747

Extracts, headed Notes taken out of a Manscript called the Office of Compositions for Alienations. supposed to be written by Lo Bacon.

In: A quarto commonplace book of extracts from state and legal writings, in a single cursive hand, written from both ends, 118 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

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

c.Mid-1630s

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).

University College London (MS Ogden 7/11 ff. 99v-98v rev.) | Catalogue
BcF 748

Extracts.

In: A quarto commonplace book of extracts from state and legal writings, in a single cursive hand, written from both ends, 118 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

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

c.Mid-1630s

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).

University College London (MS Ogden 7/11 [ff. 20r-1r]) | Catalogue
BcF 749

Copy, as Written by the right honoble ffrancis Lord Verulam late Lord Chancellor of England.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several professional predominantly secretary hands, with (f. 1r-v) a table of contents, 428 leaves, in half-calf marbled boards.

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

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.

The Use of the Law

A discourse beginning The use of the Law consisteth principally in these two things.... Spedding, VII, 459-504 (and discussed pp. 302, 453-7). Probably by Sir Robert Forster (1589-1663), judge.

BcF 750

Copy, headed In what things the vse of the Law consisteth.

In: A folio volume of state tracts and letters, in several probably professional secretary hands, 225 pages, in marbled boards.
c.1630

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

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

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Eng d. 2912 pp. 175-213) | Catalogue
BcF 751 Late 16th-early 17th century

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, untitled, on 55 quarto leaves.

In: A folio composite volume of works chiefly by Bacon, in various hands, 225 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

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

BcF 752

Copy, in a neat roman hand, headed in the margin A discourse of the Laws of England.

The use of law... anon

In: A tall folio volume of state tracts and papers, in several formal roman and secretary hands, i + 229 leaves, in contemporary leather gilt.
c.1620s

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.

BcF 753

Copy, headed A briefe and Compendious abstract of the Summe of the Common Lawe of England.

In: A folio volume of legal and state tracts and papers, in a single professional secretary hand, 92 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum, with remains of green silk ties.

Yelverton MS 166, among papers of Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), Justice of the Common Pleas, and his family.

c.1620s
BcF 755
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed A brief Declaracon of the vse of the Lawe by Justice ffoster, 27 quarto leaves, in paper wrapper.
Late 16th-early 17th century

From the papers of the Gell family, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire.

BcF 757
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed IIn what thinges the vse of the Lawe consisteth, on nineteen folio leaves, in wrappers.

Facsimile example in Giles E. Dawson and Laetitia Kennedy-Skipton, Elizabethan Handwriting 1500-1650 (London, 1968), plate 26.B.

BcF 758
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed A breife declaracon concerning the vse of the Lawe, with a later title-page in roman lettering The Use of the Law...By the Lord Verulam Vicount of S. Albons &c And was printed att London 1639 / This Manuscript does not exactly agree with The printed coppy throuout, 68 quarto leaves, pagination cropped by binder, in later vellum.
Early 17th century

Hatton MS, recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 31.

BcF 759
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, entitled A Breife Declaracon Concerning the vse of the Lawe, unascribed, 43 folio leaves, in modern cloth.
c.1620s-30s

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