A six-line (epitaph) version is ascribed to the Countesse of Faukland
in two MS copies. In some sources it is followed by a further 44 lines (elegy) beginning Yet were bidentalls sacred and the place
. The latter also appears, anonymously, as a separate poem in a number of other sources. The authorship remains uncertain. For an argument for Lady Falkland's authorship of all 50 lines, see Akkerman.
Both sets of verse were first published, as separate but sequential poems, in Poems or Epigrams, Satyrs (London, 1658), pp. 101-2. All 50 lines are edited in Akkerman, pp. 195-6.
Copy of both six-line epitaph and 44-line elegy (here with two extra lines) as separate but sequential poems.
This MS recorded in Akkerman.
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.
Afterwards owned by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Burghe MS
:
Copy of a version headed Upon the Duke of Buckingham
and beginning Reader, beneath this ground interred I am
.
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).
From the library of Cecil Brent, FSA. Sold by P.J. & A.E. Dobell, January 1938.
Copy of the six-line epitaph.
This MS recorded in Akkerman.
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).
From the library of Cecil Brent, FSA. Sold by P.J. & A.E. Dobell, January 1938.
Copy of both six-line epitaph and 44-line elegy as separate but sequential poems.
This MS recorded in Akkerman.
An octavo verse miscellany, including 13 poems by Donne and 14 poems by Corbett, in several hands, probably associated with Oxford University, written from both ends, 102 leaves, in 17th-century calf.
Inscribed (f. 101v) Henry Lawson
(or just possibly Lamson
). Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1836), item 1185. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9257. Sotheby's, 15 June 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 862. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 164 (1896), item 64.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Lawson MS
:
Copy of the six-line epitaph and 44-line elegy as separate but sequential poems, subscribed Docter Juxon (some say) Nondum constat
.
This MS recorded in Akkerman.
A quarto verse miscellany of c.150 poems, in several hands; associated with Oxford, probably Christ Church, 279 pages (plus index and blanks).
Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 32 poems (plus four of doubtful authorship) by Strode.
Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue (1836), item 1044. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9561. Sotheby's, 19 June 1893 (Phillipps sale), lot 628, and 21 March 1895, lot 903. Hodgson's, 23 April 1959, lot 528.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the English Poetry MS
:
Copy of the 44-line elegy beginning Yet were bidentalls sacred and the place
.
This MS recorded in Akkerman.
An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in a secretary hand, vi + 221 pages, in 18th-century diced calf gilt.
Inscribed (f. iiir) by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector, Bought at the sale of Mr. [Jonathan] Boucher's Library in April 1806, for £2. 12. 6. E Malone
.
Copy of the six-line epitaph.
Edited from this MS in online Early Stuart Libels.
An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in a secretary hand, vi + 221 pages, in 18th-century diced calf gilt.
Inscribed (f. iiir) by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector, Bought at the sale of Mr. [Jonathan] Boucher's Library in April 1806, for £2. 12. 6. E Malone
.
Copy of a 50-line version, in two hands, ascribed to Richard Weston, Earl of Portland.
This MS recorded in Akkerman.
A folio composite volume, chiefly of English and Latin verse, in various hands; vi + 186 leaves, in reversed calf.
Scribbling on f. iir including ffor mr William Rabey in New=market...
, ffor my Louing ffriend in G John westhropp at mr Rogers Reringe house Bury in S[uffolk]
, ffor mr John fford at his house in Newmarket in the countey of cambridge
; notes on f. iiiv-ivr, one Recd 22 July 1669
, subscribed John Cooke
and including, on f. vir, ffor mr John Cocke at his howse neere the white harte in Thetford...
. Later owned, in the 1730s, by Charles Barlow, of Emmanuel College, Cambridge (his bookplate f. iiv).
Copy of the six-line epitaph and 44-line elegy as separate but sequential poems.
This MS recorded in Akkerman.
A quarto composite volume comprising three independent MSS bound together, i + 78 leaves.
The first MS a verse miscellany, in an italic hand, 29 leaves. c.1640.
Copy of a 50-line version.
This MS recorded in Akkerman.
A folio volume of miscellaneous historical and genealogical papers and verses, in several hands, x + 158 leaves.
Copy of the six-line epitaph, headed Vppon a monument of George Duke of Buckingham att Porsmouth
.
This MS recorded in Ackerman.
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.
Later owned by Thomas Rodd (1796-1849). Rodd's sale catalogue, February 1850, item 764.
Cited in IELM, II.i, as the Rawdon MS:
For other Rawdon miscellanies, see
Copy of a 50-line version.
This MS recorded in Akkerman.
An octavo verse miscellany, including sixteen poems by Strode and one of doubtful authorship, in several hands, including a small mixed hand on ff. 2r-43v, cursive secretary hands thereafter, and Latin entries in italic at the reverse end, 139 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.
A flyleaf inscribed [?] Johannes Philips
. Acquired from H. Stevens 11 December 1852.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1987), as the John Philips MS
:
Copy of a 50-line version, headed Another
.
This MS recorded in Akkerman.
A folio composite volume of separate MSS of verse and some prose, in various secretary and italic hands, written over an extended period, with a table of contents (f. 3r-v), 186 leaves.
Comprising papers of the Skipwith family of Cotes, Leicestershire, including 60 poems by John Donne (and one Problem), the text related in part to the Edward Smyth MS
(
Including poems ascribed to William Skipwith (? Sir William Skipwith, d.1610, or his grandson, William, or possibly a cousin, William Skipwith, of Ketsby, Lincolnshire, fl.1633); to Sir Henry Skipwith (fl.1609-52); and to Thomas Skipwith, and several poems by Donne's friend Sir Henry Goodyer (1571-1627), to whom a branch of the Skipwith family was related by marriage. Later owned by Robert Sherard (1719-99), fourth Earl of Harborough. Sotheby's, 10 June 1864, lot 605, to Boone.
This MS is the curious folio volume
lent to John Nichols (1745-1826) by the late Lord Harborough
and cited in Nichols's account of the Skipwith family in his History of Leicestershire, 4 vols (1795-1815), III, part i (1800), 367.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Skipwith MS
:
Copy of the six-line epitaph, headed Epitaph of the duke of Buckingham
.
This MS recorded in Akkerman.
A small folio volume of motets, with some later political verses, in various hands, c.220 leaves.
Copy of the six-line epitaph.
This MS recorded in Akkerman.
An octavo miscellany of verse, academic exercises and other material, in English and Latin, almost entirely in a single hand, 134 leaves, in contemporary vellum.
Inscribed by the compiler (f. 133v) Anthony Scattergood His booke
: i.e. Anthony Scattergood (1611-87), theologian, of Trinity College, Cambridge. Volume XXXII of the Scattergood papers.
Also inscribed (f. 130v) Elisabeth Scattergood her Booke 1667/8
. Booklabel of Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector.
Copy of the six-line epitaph, headed Another
.
This MS recorded in Akkerman.
A folio volume of tracts and papers chiefly on state matters, largely in one hand, 72 leaves (plus blanks).
Inscribed (f. 10r) with names of Stephen Foster of Wrexham, Buckinghamshire (possibly the principal compiler) and Robert Drake of Topsham, Devon. Bookplate (f. 11r) of Berkeley Seymour of Queens's College, Cambridge. Purchased from the Rev. John C. Jackson 8 December 1866.
Copy of the six-line epitaph, as by the Countesse of Faukland
.
Edited from this MS in Akkerman, p. 197. Recorded in Wolfe, p. 494.
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.
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.
Copy of the 44-line elegy beginning Yet were bidentalls sacred and the place
.
This MS recorded in Akkerman.
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.
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.
Copy of the 44-line elegy beginning Yet were bidentalls sacred and the place
.
This MS recorded in Akkerman.
A quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat predominantly italic hand, occupying ff. 25r-79v, the second of three independent MSS in different hands (including extracts from Hayward's Henry IV and from Sir Edwin Sandys, and parliamentary proceedings 1623/4), in a composite volume, 141 leaves, in modern half morocco gilt.
The verse miscellany, including an Index (ff. 78v-9v), is compiled by John Holles (1595-1666), second Earl of Clare.
Discussed in Andrew McRae, Literature, Satire and the Early Stuart State (Cambridge, 2004), 42, and Thomas Cogswell, The Symptomes and Vapors of a Diseased Time
: the Earl of Clare and Early Stuart Manuscript Culture, RES, NS 57 (2006), 310-336. The parliamentary proceedings published in Christopher Thompson, editor, The Holles Account of Proceedings in the House of Commons in 1624 (Orsett, Essex, 1985).
Copy of the 44-line elegy, here beginning Yet were Bidentalls sacred, and the place
, headed in another hand An answere to ye Verses of Mr [Zouche] Tounley to his friend Mr Felton
.
A folio miscellany of verse and prose, much of it on current events, largely in a single rugged italic hand, 190 leaves, in 18th-century half red morocco gilt.
Inscribed (f. 1v) Dr Benfield of Cor; Xpi his Notes. / The gift of his Executor to Mr B: G. / -30
.
Copy of the 44-line elegy beginning Yet were bidentalls sacred and the place
.
This MS recorded in Akkerman.
A folio volume of state tracts, speeches, and verse, closely written from both ends in a single hand, 260 pages, lacking a number of pages and some fragments (pp. 25-38, 48-64) now removed to MS Gg. 4. 13*, in quarter-calf.
Copy of a six-line version of the epitaph beginning Lo, in this marble I entombed am
.
This MS recorded in Akkerman.
An octavo verse miscellany, in a single small neat predominantly secretary hand but for additions in a second hand on ff. 35v and 58r, compiled by an Oxford man, possibly a member of Wadham College, 97 leaves (inclusing two blanks), in half-calf.
Including 14 poems by Carew (and a second copy of one poem), eight poems (plus 3 of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, and 28 poems by Strode (plus a second copy of one and two of doubtful authorship).
Later used and annotated by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, and entries in his hand on f. 97r. Formerly Bodleian, MS CCC.328.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Fulman MS
:
Copy, headed Written On the Duke of Buckingham's statut
.
A quarto miscellany, in two or more predominantly secretary hands, 86 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary calf.
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.
Copy of the six-line epitaph.
This MS recorded in Akkerman.
Collection of papers relating to George Villiers, first Duke of Buckingham.
Copy, headed An Epitaph on the Duke of Buckingham
.
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.
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
:
Copy of the 44-line elegy beginning Yet were bidentalls sacred and the place
.
This MS recorded in Akkerman.
An oblong octavo verse miscellany, in a neat mixed hand up to p. 78, the remainder in later hands, 116 pages, in 19th-century half-leather marbled boards, with remains of crimson velvet.
Once owned by Elizabeth Herrick (1684-1745) and her brother William Herrick (1689-1773). Formerly among the papers of the Herrick family, of Beaumanor.
This MS discussed in J.A. Taylor, Two Unpublished Poems on the Duke of Buckingham, RES, NS 40 (May 1989), 232-40.
Copy of the six-line epitaph, here ascribed to Richard Corbett.
This MS recorded in Akkerman.
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.
Later owned by J. Baskerville-Glegg, of Withington Hall, Chelford. Sotheby's, 14-16 March 1921, lot 421.
Headed An Epitaph on the Duke of Buckingham made by Dr Corbet. B. of Oxford
.
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.
Later owned by J. Baskerville-Glegg, of Withington Hall, Chelford. Sotheby's, 14-16 March 1921, lot 421.
Copy of the six-line epitaph, headed Epitaph on Buckingham by ye La: Faukland
.
This MS recorded in Akkerman.
A folio volume of miscellaneous verse and prose, in Latin and English, largely in one hand, with additions in other hands, written from both ends, dates ranging from 1633 to 1649, 43 unfoliated leaves, in paper wrappers.
Principally composed and copied by Mildmay Fane (1602-66), second Earl of Westmorland, politician and writer.
This MS recorded in Gerald W. Morton, Two Literary and Historical Manuscripts in the Westmorland Collection, ELN, 26 (1988), 13-17 (pp. 13-14).
Copy of the 44-line elegy beginning Yet were bidentalls sacred and the place
, here ascribed to Richard Weston, Earl of Portland.
A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, with a title-page, 385 pages numbered 858-1243 (pp. 914-29, 966-7, 981-2, 995-6, 1023-4, 1041-2, 1083-4, 1135-6, and 1173-6 excised), in 17th-century calf.
In non-professional hands, the miscellany entitled A Collection of Witt and Learning…consisting of verses, poems, songs, sonnetts, Ballads, Lampoons, Libells, Dialouges...from the year 1600, to this present year: 1677.
Formerly Osborn MS Chest II, Number 14.
Copy of the 44-line elegy beginning Yet were bidentalls sacred and the place
, headed In laude eiusdem
[on Buckingham].
A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands (one predominating up to p. 167), probably associated with Oxford, 436 pages (pp. 198-9 and 269-70 skipped in the pagination, and including many blanks and an index) and numerous further blank leaves at the end, in modern black morocco gilt.
Including 14 poems by Carew, 13 poems by Corbett and 25 poems (plus one poem of doubtful authorship) by Strode.
Scribbling on the first page including the words Peyton Chester…
.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Osborn MS I
:
Copy of the 44-line elegy beginning Yet were bidentalls sacred and the place
.
A small quarto verse miscellany, predominantly in one secretary hand, erratically paginated up to 333, 250 leaves, in 18th-century boards.
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.
Copy of a version beginning Reader here underneath this place I am
.
A small quarto verse miscellany, predominantly in one secretary hand, erratically paginated up to 333, 250 leaves, in 18th-century boards.
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.
Copy of the 50-line version, headed On the Duke of Buckingham
.
Edited from this MS in Donald W. Foster, Resurrecting the Author: Elizabeth Tanfield Cary, in Privileging Gender in Early Modern England, ed. Jean R. Brink (Kirksville, MO: Sixteenth Century Journal, 1993), 141-73, and in Akermann, pp. 195-6. Recorded in Wolfe, p. 494.
Small group of poems on two conjugate folio leaves.