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Chidiock Tichborne

1558?–1586

Introduction

Chidiock Tichborne is known to history as one of the principal Catholic conspirators who was involved in the Babington Plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth in 1586, for which he suffered the full rigours of hanging, drawing and quartering. His few known poems and other writings, including his last letter to his wife (TiC 48-51) and speech on the scaffold (TiC 52-54), all relate to the last few weeks of his life. Most notable is the fine lament My prime of youth is but a frost of cares, which soon became extremely popular in both single-leaf printed publication and manuscript circulation. At present forty-five contemporary or near-contemporary manuscript copies are recorded (TiC 2-46).

Abbreviations

  • Hirsch — Richard S.M. Hirsch, The Works of Chidiock Tichborne, English Literary Renaissance, 16, No. 2 (Spring 1986), 303-18. Additions and corrections in The Text of Tichborne's Lament Reconsidered, English Literary Renaissance, 17, No. 3 (Autumn 1987), between pp. 276 and 277.

Verse

The Housedove ('A silly housedove happed to fall')

Hirsch, p. 308.

TiC 1 c.1586-early 17th century

Copy, in an italic hand, untitled, subscribed Chidiock Ticburne, on the recto side of a single folio leaf.

Edited from this MS in Hirsch.

In: An unbound folder of verse and miscellaneous MSS, in various hands and paper sizes, 46 leaves.
Tichborne's Lament ('My prime of youth is but a frost of cares')

First published in the single sheet Verses of Prayse and Joy Written Upon her Maiesties Preseruation Whereunto is annexed Tychbornes lamentation, written in the Towre with his owne hand, and an answer to the same (London, 1586). Hirsch, pp. 309-10. Also The Text of Tichborne's Lament Reconsidered, ELR, 17, No. 3 (Autumn 1987), between pp. 276 and 277. May EV 15464 (recording 37 MS texts). For the answer to this poem, see KyT 1-2.

TiC 2

Copy, headed The map of man.

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
TiC 4

Copy, headed Tichbourns Elegy in ye Tower before is Execution.

In: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in probably three hands, written from both ends, 86 leaves, in 17th-century calf.
c.1648-61

Scribbling on f. 33r rev. including the name Elizabeth keech.

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. f. 37 fols 54r-53v rev.) | Catalogue
TiC 5

Copy.

This MS collated in Hirsch.

In: 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.

c.1630s-40s

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: CoR Δ 3 and StW Δ 6.

TiC 6

Copy, headed The mapp of man.

This MS recorded in Hirsch.

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.

TiC 7

Copy, headed Tychbornes elegie in the towr before his excecution.

This MS text collated in Hirsch.

In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in three or more hands, probably compiled principally by a member of New College, Oxford, 163 pages, in calf-backed marbled boards.
c.1620s-30s

The name George Brown inscribed on p. 14. Inscribed on p. i by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector Feb 13. 1790. I this day purchased this Manuscript Collection of Poems, at the sale of Mr Brander's books, at the exorbitant price of Ten Guineas. EMalone.

TiC 10

The heading only, Verses made by Chidioc Tichburn the night before his death, in the Tower, the rest of the page left blank.

In: A quarto notebook of ecclesiastical and historical materials, largely in one neat italic hand, 44 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum boards.

Compiled by William Fulman (1632-88), antiquary.

Late 17th century

Inscribed on a flyleaf Ex MSS olim Thomæ Turner, S.T.P. CC Coll. Oxen Præsidij: i.e. of Thomas Turner (1645-1714), President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

TiC 12

Copy, apparently made by one of Powle's clerks directly from Tichborne's autograph MS, the poem headed partly in Powle's hand Tichbornes verses made by him selfe not three dayes before his execution at Tower hill with Babington and 12. more of that confederacy / I haue theise verses written by him sealfe, and subscribed by him similarly Written by him selfe .3. dayes before his exequution: I haue the originall written with his owne hande.

Edited from this MS in Hirsch, with a facsimile of f. 79r on p. 314, and, in a revised transcription, with another facsimile, in ELR, 17, after p. 276.

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

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

TiC 13
Copy, written in a printed exemplum of George Sadleir, Threnodia in obitum E. Lewkenor, 1606.
Early 17th century

Among collections of Anthony Wood (1632-95), Oxford antiquary.

This MS recorded in Hirsch.

TiC 14

Copy of lines 1-15, untitled, imperfect, lacking the last line.

This MS text collated in Hirsch.

In: A quarto notebook and miscellany, in Latin and English, chiefly in a small cursive largely secretary hand, closely written, 71 leaves, heavily damp-stained, in a recycled vellum sheet from a 15th-16th-century antiphoner, now within 19th-century half green morocco.

Compiled by Robert Dobbes, vicar of Runcorn, Cheshire.

c.1601-7

Acquired from L. Stock, 1 July 1876.

TiC 15

Copy, headed Mr fishbournes elegy in the Tower.

This MS text collated in Hirsch.

In: A small octavo verse miscellany, written from both ends, predominantly in a single hand in variant styles (ff. 1v-79v, 80r, 88v-96v, 119r-117r rev.), with additions in later hands (ff. 97r-104v, 116v-106r rev.), 164 leaves, in modern half red morocco.

Inscribed (f. 1v, in a court hand) Daniell Leare his Booke, witnesse William Strode, and (f. 164r) Mr Daniell Leare eius Liber: i.e. compiled chiefly by Daniel Leare, a distant cousin of the poet William Strode, probably at Christ Church, Oxford, before he entered the Middle Temple in 1633.

This suggestion, by Mary Hobbs, is supported by entries in the Caution Book of 1625-41 at Christ Church, where Strode is found (p. 22) paying £10 as college security for Leare and where Leare signs (p. 23) on this sum's repayment by Dr Fell on 13 May 1633. Forey suggests (p. lxxix) that he was the Daniell Leare of St Andrews, Holburne, whose will was proved in 1652; but it is more likely that he was the Daniel Leare to whom Henry King, Dean of Rochester, leased property at Chatham on 19 July 1655 (National Archives, Kew, SP 18/99/61). Daniel Leare's wife, Dorothy, was a member of the Hubert family with whom King was associated by virtue of the marriage of his sister Dorothy.

The volume includes 12 poems by Donne; 15 poems (plus a second copy of one and three of doubtful authorship) by Carew; 20 poems (plus two of uncertain authorship) by Corbett; and 84 poems (plus second copies of eight poems, four poems of doubtful authorship and some apocryphal poems) by Strode, the texts being closely related to, and in part probably transcribed from, the Corpus MS of Strode's poems (StW Δ 1).

c.1633 [-late 17th century]

Inscribed also John Leare (probably Daniel's younger brother); (f. 1r) Anthony Euans his booke (who married Daniel Leare's niece Dorothy Leare in 1663); (f. 1v) Alexander Croke his Book 1773; and (f. 164v) John Scott (who matriculated at Christ Church in 1632). Rimell & Son, 9 November 1878.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), and II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Leare MS: DnJ Δ 41, CwT Δ 15, CoR Δ 4, and StW Δ 10.

Discussed in Mary Hobbs, An Edition of the Stoughton Manuscript (unpub. Ph.D. thesis, University of London, 1973), pp. 185-90; in her Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and their Value for Textual Editors, EMS, 1 (1989), 192-210 (pp. 189-90); and in her Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), passim, with facsimile examples of ff. 79-80 facing p. 87.

TiC 16

Copy of the first stanza only, headed Songe. Jo: Ward.

This MS text collated in Hirsch.

In: A small octavo verse miscellany, written from both ends, predominantly in a single hand in variant styles (ff. 1v-79v, 80r, 88v-96v, 119r-117r rev.), with additions in later hands (ff. 97r-104v, 116v-106r rev.), 164 leaves, in modern half red morocco.

Inscribed (f. 1v, in a court hand) Daniell Leare his Booke, witnesse William Strode, and (f. 164r) Mr Daniell Leare eius Liber: i.e. compiled chiefly by Daniel Leare, a distant cousin of the poet William Strode, probably at Christ Church, Oxford, before he entered the Middle Temple in 1633.

This suggestion, by Mary Hobbs, is supported by entries in the Caution Book of 1625-41 at Christ Church, where Strode is found (p. 22) paying £10 as college security for Leare and where Leare signs (p. 23) on this sum's repayment by Dr Fell on 13 May 1633. Forey suggests (p. lxxix) that he was the Daniell Leare of St Andrews, Holburne, whose will was proved in 1652; but it is more likely that he was the Daniel Leare to whom Henry King, Dean of Rochester, leased property at Chatham on 19 July 1655 (National Archives, Kew, SP 18/99/61). Daniel Leare's wife, Dorothy, was a member of the Hubert family with whom King was associated by virtue of the marriage of his sister Dorothy.

The volume includes 12 poems by Donne; 15 poems (plus a second copy of one and three of doubtful authorship) by Carew; 20 poems (plus two of uncertain authorship) by Corbett; and 84 poems (plus second copies of eight poems, four poems of doubtful authorship and some apocryphal poems) by Strode, the texts being closely related to, and in part probably transcribed from, the Corpus MS of Strode's poems (StW Δ 1).

c.1633 [-late 17th century]

Inscribed also John Leare (probably Daniel's younger brother); (f. 1r) Anthony Euans his booke (who married Daniel Leare's niece Dorothy Leare in 1663); (f. 1v) Alexander Croke his Book 1773; and (f. 164v) John Scott (who matriculated at Christ Church in 1632). Rimell & Son, 9 November 1878.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), and II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Leare MS: DnJ Δ 41, CwT Δ 15, CoR Δ 4, and StW Δ 10.

Discussed in Mary Hobbs, An Edition of the Stoughton Manuscript (unpub. Ph.D. thesis, University of London, 1973), pp. 185-90; in her Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and their Value for Textual Editors, EMS, 1 (1989), 192-210 (pp. 189-90); and in her Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), passim, with facsimile examples of ff. 79-80 facing p. 87.

TiC 17

Copy, in a small secretary hand, headed in italic Verses of T during his imprisonment in the tower 1586.

This MS recorded in Hirsch.

In: A folio miscellany of state papers, verse and prose, in several hands, vi + 105 leaves, in a recycled 13th-century vellum text, now within modern half dark red morocco.

Compiled by Sir Edward Hoby (1560-1617), politician and diplomat.

c.1580s-90s

Bookplate of George Dunn (1865-1912), of Woolley Hall, near Maidenhead, Berkshire, antiquary. Sotheby's, 11 February 1914 (Dunn sale), lot 1198.

TiC 18

Copy of lines 1-11, imperfect.

In: A quarto volume of antiquarian collections of Camden, 126 leaves; one page (f. 119v) dated 1580, another (f. 100v) dated 1581.
c.1580s
The British Library: Cotton MSS (Cotton MS Cleopatra A. IV f. 11r) | Catalogue
TiC 19

Copy, headed Tillhburnes Elegie and here beginning My prime of youth, is but a feast of cares.

This MS text collated in Hirsch.

In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, in several small non-professional hands, 88 leaves, imperfect at the beginning.
c.1630s-40s
TiC 20 c.1620s

Copy, in the hand of Ralph Starkey, headed verses made by Chediock Tucheburne of him selfe in the Tower the nighte before hee suffered death who was Executed in Lincolnes Inne feilds for Treason.

This MS recorded in Hirsch.

In: A folio volume of state papers and tracts, in various professional hands, 396 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

Chiefly in the hand of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), antiquary, and also including the Feathery Scribe.

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

TiC 21

Copy, headed mr Tytchborns verses.

This MS recorded in Hirsch.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in an accomplished mixed hand throughout, with headings or incipts in engrossed lettering, 194 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco.
c.1596-1601

This MS volume discussed in Katherine K. Gottschalk, Discoveries concerning British Library MS Harley 6910, MP, 77 (1979-80), 121-31.

TiC 22

Copy, headed Throgmortons verses a little before he was executed.

This MS text recorded in Hirsch.

In: A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous tracts, poems and other papers, in various hands, 329 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

Fols 1r-82r comprise a separate collection of verse and some prose, possibly in a single predominantly secretary hand with some variants of style, the first leaf (f. 1) inscribed in another hand Poems by Wm: Browne of the Inner-Temple Gent &c / 1650, this possibly applying to the poems up to f. 62v, which is subscribed ffinis W Browne.

This volume comprising Parts 1-3, 5, 8-13, of what was formerly a single composite volume but is now bound in three volumes.

c.1637-50

Inscribed (f. 280v) Philip Butler his book.

TiC 23

Copy, in an italic hand, headed Verses of mr Tychborns before his execution, subscribed Tychborne.

In: A folio volume of heraldic, genealogical and antiquarian papers, in various hands, 200 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth gilt.
c.1593
The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 863 f. 194r) | Catalogue
TiC 24

Copy, untitled, here beginning My springe of youth is but a frost of care.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, written in two styles of hand (A: ff. 2r, after first six lines, to 64v; B: ff. 2r, first six lines, 64v-91v, 92v-4r), possibly both in the same hand, with an Index (ff. 93r-4r), 94 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

Including 22 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 13 poems by King, and 24 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and probably associated with Christ Church, Oxford.

c.1633

Inscribed names including (f. 93v, in court hand) ffrancis Baskeruile: i.e. probably the Francis Baskerville who married Margaret Glanvill in 1635 and was in 1640 MP for Marlborough, Wiltshire. Other scribbling including (f. 1r) accounts referring to Wanborough, Wiltshire; (f. 9v) Elizabeth White; (f. 54v) William Walrond his booke 1663; (f. 92r) accounts dated 1658; and (f. 94r) John Wallrond. Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane, Bt (1660-1753), physician and collector.

Recorded in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Baskerville MS: CwT Δ 20, KiH Δ 10, StW Δ 13. Facsimile examples of ff. 55r and 68r in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), Plate 6, after p. 86.

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1446 f. 42r-v)
TiC 25

Copy, headed Verses on the brittle Estate of man.

This MS text recorded in Hirsch.

In: A duodecimo miscellany chiefly of verse, in one or more secretary hands, with a few later additions in other hands, 29 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt.
c.1665
TiC 26

Copy, headed Mors certa, incerta dies, interior hora!.

This MS text recorded in Hirsch.

In: A folio composite verse and heraldic miscellany, in several hands, ii + 302 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf.

Including much Welsh verse and coats of arms, some by or relating to Sir John Salusbury. Compiled, at least in part, by William Cynwal of Penmachno for Catherine of Berain, wife of Sir Richard Clough.

c.1591-1609
Christ Church, Oxford (MS 184 f. 49r)
TiC 27

Copy, headed ye map of man.

This MS text recorded in Hirsch.

In: 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).

c.late 1630s

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: CwT Δ 2; RnT Δ 6; StW Δ 16.

TiC 28

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

In: A folio volume of largely vocal music, mainly in a single secretary hand, 120 pages, in mottled calf.
Early 17th century

Complete facsimile in Jorgens, VI (1987).

Christ Church, Oxford (MS Mus. 439 pp. 108-10)
TiC 29

Copy, untitled, subscribed Chidiock Tichborne.

In: A folio volume of state letters, speeches and verse, in a single neat italic hand.
c.1620s

Among the papers of the Fuller family of Brightling Park. Possibly once owned by Ambrose Trayton of Lewes, Esquire of the Body to James I and Charles I.

East Sussex Record Office (RAF/F/13/1 [unnumbered page]) | Catalogue
TiC 30 c.1586-early 17th century

Copy, in an italic hand, untitled, subscribed finis qd Chidiok Ticburne, on the recto side of a single folio leaf.

Edited from this MS in Hirsch.

In: An unbound folder of verse and miscellaneous MSS, in various hands and paper sizes, 46 leaves.
TiC 31

Copy, written in oblong format, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Richard Barnfield, The Complete Poems, ed. George Klawitter (London & Toronto, 1990), p. 189. Recorded in Hirsch.

In: A duodecimo miscellany of verse and some prose, in a secretary hand, largely written in oblong format, 36 pages (including blanks), in vellum wrappers (a recycled medieval religious text).
Early 17th century

Formerly among the manuscripts of the Isham family at Lamport Hall, Northamptonshire.

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

TiC 32

Copy, headed Tichbornes Elegy in ye tower befors execution.

This MS text collated in Hirsch.

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.

TiC 33

Copy, headed On Tichbourn in the Tower before his Execution.

This MS text recorded in Hirsch.

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.

TiC 34

Copy, headed Mr Tichbornes Elegy in the tower.

This MS text collated in Hirsch.

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.

TiC 35

Copy of the last two lines, untitled and here beginning The day is past & yet I saw no sunne.

Facsimile in Zarnowiecki, p. 59.

In: A quarto booklet of chiefly verse, in probably three secretary and italic hands, written over a period of three generations, eight leaves, sewn but unbound, subscribed (f. 8v) finis in the three twentieth yeare of my age Tricessimo septimo Elizabethæ.

Compiled in part probably by Hugh Lottisham (b.c.1572), of Brasenose College, Oxford; one section relating to expenses of Oliver Lottisham in 1616; the last section in the later italic hand of their distant cousin Elizabeth Clarke.

c.1595-1650s

Inscribed (f. 1r) Elizabeth Clarke (several times) and Chatham Hordinant. Formerly Folger MS 1072.1.

Discussed, with facsimiles of ff. 1r and 8v, in Kathryn Dezur, Faire Phillis, The Marchants Wife, and the Tailers Wife: Representation of Women in a Woman's Early Modern Manuscript Commonplace Book, New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, IV, ed. Michael Denbo (Tempe, AZ, 2008), 155-64, and in Matthew Zarnowiecki, A Blurred Notebook: Ephemeral Literature and the Lyric Moment in Folger Manuscript X.d.177, EMS, 16 (2011), 48-69, with facsimile examples.

TiC 36

Copy, headed Tichbournes Elegy in the Tower before his execution.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, predominantly in two very small hands (A: ff. 1r-44v; B: ff. 44v-87v), with further verse and prose pieces in other hands on ff. 88r-121r, written from both ends, associated with Oxford, possibly New College, and probably afterwards with the Inns of Court, 155 leaves (including 33 blanks), in modern black morocco elaborately gilt.

Including 23 poems by Strode (and second copies of two poems) and one poem of doubtful authorship.

c.1630s

Including (ff. 98r-100r) a letter by one Pet[er] Wood. Inscribed (ff. 90r-1r), Thease verses I borroed to write out of John Sherly [d. 1666] a booke seller in litle Brittaine, 28th of March 1633. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9235. Sotheby's, 21 February 1938, lot 243.

Cited in IELM II.ii (1993), as the Wood MS: StW Δ 21. Discussed in C.F. Main, New Texts of John Donne, SB, 9 (1957), 225-33.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 686 f. 29r) | Catalogue
TiC 37

Copy, headed Verses made by Mr Titchburne before he suffered death.

In: A quarto volume of Catholic tracts, in a probably professional secretary hand, 163 leaves (plus blanks), in 18th-century calf gilt.
Late 16th-early 17th century

Inscribed on a flyleaf John Burns, November 30 1926: i.e. the Rt. Hon. John Elliott Burns (1858-1943), labour leader and politician. Acquired in 1944 from Quaritch.

Some verse contents of the volume briefly discussed or edited in Peter J. Seng, Recusant Poems in a More Circle Manuscript, Moreana, 19 (March 1982), 21-4.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 749 f. 163r) | Catalogue
TiC 38

Copy, headed Stycheborns Vearce.

This MS page separately categorized as EL 6196.

In: A large folio volume of prose tracts, verse, and devotional material, in a single secretary hand but for a series of engrossed indentures in a formal professional hand on ff. 3r-17v, written from both ends (ff. 1r-84v and ff. 1ar-51av respectively), 134 leaves in all.
c.1603

Inscribed names Gilbert Rye and William Norris and a reference (on f. 6av) to Doctor Gylbart.

The entries were at one time given separate library EL numbers ranging (intermittently) from EL 1183c to EL 6172 at one end and from EL 1183a to EL 6206 from the reverse end.

TiC 39

Copy.

In: A collection of recusant verse, 16 leaves.
c.1586

Among the Scarsbrick, Blundell and Crosby papers.

Lancashire Record Office (DDS. 19/11 pp. 7-8)
TiC 40

Copy, headed Tichborns verses.

In: A quarto composite memorandum book of English, Welsh and latin verse and prose, in several hands, 100 leaves, in a contemporary limp vellum wrapper within modern half red morocco.

Compiled over a period, at least in part, by various members of the Lloyd family of Llwydiarth.

Early 17th century-1672

Inscriptions including (f. 3r) Mounta: Lloyd 1671 and (f. 49r) David Wms. his Book beeing Mrs Anne Lloyds Guift, and with other references to David Lloyd, Elizabeth Lluyd, Robert Lluyd, Jane Lloyd, and Hugh Lloyd. Probably Quaritch's sale Catalogue of English Literature (August-November 1884), item 22351. Formerly Sotheby MS B. 2.

National Library of Wales (Wynne (Bodewryd) MS 6 f. 65r-v)
TiC 41

Copy.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, in two hands, one mixed hand predominating, 128 pages (plus a five-page index).

Inscribed, and probably compiled, by Hugh Barrow (b.1617/18), of Brasenose College, Oxford.

c.1638

Also inscribed names of George Hope, Peter Wynne and [?]Anselm Huff. Later owned by Dr A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952), Philadelphia bookseller and scholar: Rosenbach MS 192.

New York Public Library, Arents Collection (Cat. No. S 288 (Acc. No. 5442) p. 84)
TiC 42

Calligraphic copy, with decorative roundels, headed Chidiok Tichbourne verses which he made in the Tower before his execucon .

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. 6v) | Catalogue
TiC 43

Copy, headed in the margin A Song which Childock Tichborne traytor made of himselfe in the Towre ye night before hee sufferd.

This MS text recorded in Hirsch.

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).

TiC 44

Copy, headed in the margin verses made by Tichborne in ye Tower two daies beefore his Deathe.

This MS recorded in Hirsch.

In: A quarto volume of state papers and tracts, in an accomplished closely written secretary hand, i + 29 leaves, in modern quarter-vellum boards.
c.1600
Trinity College, Cambridge (MS O. 1. 27 (James 1051) f. 9v) | Catalogue
TiC 45
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, subscribed finis qd Ant. Bab. [i.e. ascribed to Anthony Babington (1561-86), Catholic conspirator, who was executed with Tichborne on 20 September 1586].

On the recto of the last blank leaf in a printed exemplum of Giovanni Boccaccio, The Tragedies gathered by Ihon Bochas (London, [1558]), a folio in contemporary calf.

Late 16th century

Inscribed names at the end of the volume of Cropley 1595 and John Edwardes. Later inscribed Presented by Peter Haztie Esq On the 30t day of October 1848. by his friend Philip Hone. Bookplate of Edwin B. Holden.

John Wolfson, New York ([Boccaccio])
TiC 46

Copy, here beginning My prince of youth...

In: A folio volume of transcripts of state papers, in a secretary hand, i + 41 leaves, in contemporary vellum with remains of ties.
c.1610

Names inscribed on f. [ir]: John Humphreys and D [?] Wynn.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS fb 9 f. 30r)
To his Friend ('Good sorrow cease, false hope be gone, misfortune once farewell')

Hirsch, p. 307.

TiC 47 c.1586-early 17th century

Copy, in an italic hand, untitled, subscribed Chidiok Tichburne, on the verso side of a single folio leaf.

Edited from this MS in Hirsch.

In: An unbound folder of verse and miscellaneous MSS, in various hands and paper sizes, 46 leaves.

Prose

A letter written by Chidiock Tichborne to his wife, the night before he suffered

Hirsch, pp. 311-12.

TiC 48 c.1620s

Copy, in the hand of Ralph Starkey, headed A lre written by Chediock Tuchburne the night before he suffered Death, vnto his wife as hereafter followeth Dated the <space> of ano. 1586.

In: A folio volume of state papers and tracts, in various professional hands, 396 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

Chiefly in the hand of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), antiquary, and also including the Feathery Scribe.

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

TiC 49

Copy, headed A Lr written by Mr Tichborne to his wife ye night before he dyed, subscribed Chidiocke Tichbourne.

In: A folio volume of state letters and papers, in a single professional secretary hand (but for f. 98r-v), 128 leaves, in black morocco gilt.

According to an inscription on f. 1*r this MS comprises (presumably a transcript of) Severall papers found in Mr: Deas Study Secretary to Bishop Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury.

c.1650
TiC 50

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Hirsch.

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).

TiC 51

Copy, headed A Lr written by mr Tichborne to his wife the night before he dyed.

In: A folio volume of state letters, in a single hand, 490 pages, in contemporary calf.
Mid-late 17th century

Flyleaf inscribed Stamford 1693: i.e. Thomas Grey (c.1654-1720), second Earl of Stamford, Privy Counsellor. Bookplate of John Towneley (1697-1782), translator, of Towneley Hall, near Burnley, Lancashire.

Tichborne's Speech at his Execution

First published in George Whetstone, The Censure of a Loyall Subiecte (London, 1587). Hirsch, p. 313.

TiC 52

Copy, in a section relating to the history of the Church of England.

Edited from this MS in Hirsch.

In: A quarto notebook of ecclesiastical and historical materials, largely in one neat italic hand, 44 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum boards.

Compiled by William Fulman (1632-88), antiquary.

Late 17th century

Inscribed on a flyleaf Ex MSS olim Thomæ Turner, S.T.P. CC Coll. Oxen Præsidij: i.e. of Thomas Turner (1645-1714), President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

TiC 53

Copy, headed The Oration of chidiake Thickbarne at his executon.

In: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in several largely secretary hands, written from both ends over a long period, 149 leaves, in modern half blue morocco.
c.1627-c.1673

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1830-84), merchant and author. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 190, to Thomas Rodd (1796-1849), bookseller.

TiC 54

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed The confessio of Tichburne in like sorte, in an account of the Babington conspiracy (occupying ff. 159r-73v). Late 16th century.

This MS recorded in Hirsch.

In: A large folio composite volume of miscellaneous tracts and papers, principally relating to Mary Queen of Scots and William Davison, in various hands, 283 leaves, in modern morocco gilt.

Owned, and annotated, by Sir Simonds D'Ewes, Bt (1602-50), diarist and antiquary.

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