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Henry Constable

1562–1613

Introduction

Henry Constable led an active early public life on diplomatic missions for the English government, writing polemics on their behalf, before he declared his conversion to Roman Catholicism, a step he unsuccessfully hoped that James I would also take. While constantly protesting his loyalty to the Crown, which he supported in polemics urging toleration and opposing more extreme Catholic positions, he oscillated between London and Paris, pursuing an uneasy relationship with the English Court, and enduring more than one spell of imprisonment.

While some of Constable's political polemics were published in his lifetime, others, including one he is known to have sent in manuscript to Anthony Bacon in January 1595/6, have not apparently survived. The prose section below is distinguished by a single entry that denotes the erstwhile existence of a tract by Constable attacking Cardinal Allen, of which only one page, bearing only the title, is preserved (CoH 164).

Verse

A more significant legacy, however, is the substantial body of poems Constable wrote, for which he was justly celebrated by his contemporaries. They comprise principally sonnets, for the most part either paying court to his literary mistress Diana — the first sonnet sequence of its kind to follow Philip Sidney's — or else Spirituall Sonnettes To the honour of God and hys Sayntes. Most of the poems in the former category were published in his lifetime in Diana, the first edition of which in 1592 contained twenty-three sonnets, the 1594 edition being expanded to twenty-eight sonnets (plus poems by others). A few of his other lyrical or commendatory poems in comparable vein were published elsewhere. But for one or two exceptions, however, such as one of his poems To our blessed lady (CoH 100-110) which got incorporated in the 1635 edition of John Donne's Poems — nearly all the religious sonnets in the second category had to wait for publication until the nineteenth century.

Besides the appearance of a few poems in contemporary or near-contemporary manuscript miscellanies, there are three major manuscript collections of poems by Constable. The best-known, containing 38 poems of both categories and generally cited as the Todd MS, is Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39). This was first edited by Park in 1808-13 — and is the principal copy-text for Grundy's edition (1960). The second is British Library, Harley MS 7553, which contains seventeen Spiritual Sonnets and which forms Grundy's copy-text for those poems. The third, not hitherto used by editors, is Berkeley Castle, Select Books 85, which contains twenty-one Spiritual Sonnets, copied out by the household tutor Henry Sanford (d.1616).

As is clear from the entries below, the canon accepted here is that established by Grundy, plus four hitherto unpublished poems found only in the Berkeley MS (CoH 18, CoH 19, CoH 117, CoH 139).

Letters

None of Constable's writings are known to survive in his own hand except for his letters. Ten letters by him in his generally cursive italic hand, chiefly among the Talbot Papers now in Lambeth Palace, one in the National Archives, Kew, were mostly published in Edmund Lodge's Illustrations of British History (1838) – and are given entries below (CoH 165-179). It is quite possible that more letters by Constable will come to light in due course.

Abbreviations

Grundy
The Poems of Henry Constable, ed. Joan Grundy (Liverpool, 1960).
Heliconia
Heliconia, comprising a Selection of English Poetry of the Elizabethan Age: written or published between 1575 and 1604, ed. T[homas] Park, 3 vols (London, 1815), vol. II.
Hughey
The Arundel Harington Manuscript of Tudor Poetry, ed. Ruth Hughey, 2 vols (Columbus, OH, 1960).
Park
The Harleian Miscellany, ed. Thomas Park, 10 vols (London, 1808-13), vol. IX (1812).

Verse

A calculation of the natiuitye of the Ladie Riches daughter borne vpon friday in the yeare 1588, comonly call'd the yeare of wonder. Sonet 6. ('Fayre by inheritance, whom borne we see')

First published in Diana (London, 1592), sig. D3r. Park (1812). Grundy, p. 157.

CoH 1

Copy, headed A Calculation vppon the birth of the Ladye Riches Daughter borne Anno 1588, & on A friday.

This MS collated in Grundy.

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.

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 38 p. 52)
CoH 2

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed A Sonet in manner of a calculation on ye natiuitye of a yonge Ladye borne on a friday, in this yeare. 1588, subscribed H. C.

This MS collated in Grundy.

An octavo composite miscellany of verse and prose, in several secretary, italic and mixed hands, 190 leaves (irregularly numbered), in contemporary limp vellum.

c.1580s-1615

Inscribed (inside front and rear covers) Robert Thornton and William Sherida / Wm Sheridan.

Marsh's Library, Dublin (MS Z 3. 5. 21 f. 28r-v)
CoH 3

Copy, headed The Calculation of the natiuity of the daughter of my Lady Rich borne on a fryday Anno dõ: 1588.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, 248. Collated in Grundy.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 149v)
CoH 4

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 32v)
Complaint of his Ladies melancholynes. Sonet 4. ('If that one care had oure two hearts possest')

First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 162.

CoH 5

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 35r)
Complaynt of his Ladies sicknesse. Sonet 5. ('Vnciuill Sicknesse hast thow no regard')

First published, as Sonnetto sesto, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 163.

CoH 6

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, 249. Collated in Grundy.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 151r)
CoH 7

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 35v)
Conclusion of the whole. Sonet 7. ('Sometymes in verse I prays'd, sometymes I sigh'd')

First published in Diana (London, 1594). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 178.

CoH 8

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 42v)
An excuse to his Mistrisse for resoluing to loe so worthye a creature. Sonet 7. ('Blame not my hearte for flying vp so high')

First published, as Sonnetto terzo, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 121.

CoH 9

Copy, untitled, numbered 2.

This MS collated in Grundy.

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.

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 38 p. 52)
CoH 10

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, 245. Collated in Grundy.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 148r)
CoH 11

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 15v)
The fifth Decad. Sonnet. VII ('Bvt beeing care, thou flyest mee as ill fortune')

First published in Diana (London, 1594). Grundy, pp. 200-1.

CoH 12

Copy of lines 2-5, 7-8, headed Of Care: and here beginning Care the consuminge Canker of the minde, transcribed from the version in Robert Tofte's A Blazon of Iealousie (London, 1615), p. 10.

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).

The first 7 only of the byrth and beginning of his loue. Sonet 1. ('Resolud to loue vnworthie to obtayne')

First published, as Sonetto primo, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 115.

CoH 13

Copy, headed To the Fairest that hath bene 1.

This MS collated in Grundy.

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.

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 38 p. 52)
CoH 14

Copy, untitled, under the general heading for the series Mr Henry Conestables sonets to the Lady Ritche. 1589.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, 244-5. Collated in Grundy.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 148r)
CoH 15

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 12v)
How he encouraged himselfe to proceede in loue and to hope for favoure in the ende at Loues hands. Sonet 6. ('It may be Loue doth not my death pretend')

First published, as Sonnetto secundo, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 120.

CoH 16

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, 248-9. Collated in Grundy.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 150v)
CoH 17

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 15r)
'I doe the wronge (o Queene) in that I saye'

Unpublished.

CoH 18

Copy, untitled.

A quire of poems by Henry Constable, in the mixed hand of Henry Sanford (d.1616), household tutor to the Paget and Carey families, entitled Certen Spirituall Sonnetts to the honner of God and his Sainctes: Withe Nyne other directed by particuler deuotion to :3: blessed Maryes: By Hen. Conestable Esquire, 16 quarto pages.

c.1600
Berkeley Castle (Select Books 85 p. 13)
'It is not pompe of solemne funerall'

Unpublished.

CoH 19

Copy, untitled.

A quire of poems by Henry Constable, in the mixed hand of Henry Sanford (d.1616), household tutor to the Paget and Carey families, entitled Certen Spirituall Sonnetts to the honner of God and his Sainctes: Withe Nyne other directed by particuler deuotion to :3: blessed Maryes: By Hen. Conestable Esquire, 16 quarto pages.

c.1600
Berkeley Castle (Select Books 85 p. 12)
The last 7 of the end and death of his loue. Sonet 1. ('Much sorrowe in it selfe my loue doth move')

First published, as Sonnetto quindeci, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 171.

CoH 20

Copy, headed 8.

This MS collated in Grundy.

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.

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 38 p. 54)
CoH 21

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, 247. Collated in Grundy.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 149v)
CoH 22

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 39v)
Of her excellencye both in singing and instruments. Sonet 4. ('Not that thy hand is soft is sweete is white')

First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 125.

CoH 23

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 17v)
Of his Ladies goeing over earlye to bed, so depriving him to soone of her sight. Sonet 6. ('Fayre sun if yow would haue me prayse youre light')

First published, as Vltomo Sonnetto, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 135.

CoH 24

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, 252. Collated in Grundy.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 152v)
CoH 25

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 22r)
Of his Ladies vayle wherewith she covered her. Sonet: 3. ('The fouler hydes as closely as he may')

First published, as Sonnetto deciotto, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 132.

CoH 26

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed To his Ladye wearing a vaile ouer hir heade, unascribed.

This MS collated in Grundy.

An octavo composite miscellany of verse and prose, in several secretary, italic and mixed hands, 190 leaves (irregularly numbered), in contemporary limp vellum.

c.1580s-1615

Inscribed (inside front and rear covers) Robert Thornton and William Sherida / Wm Sheridan.

Marsh's Library, Dublin (MS Z 3. 5. 21 f. 27v)
CoH 27

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, 251-2. Collated in Grundy.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 152v)
CoH 28

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 20v)
Of his Mistrisse vpon occasion of a friend of his which disswaded him from louing. Sonet 5. ('A friend of myne moaning my helplesse loue')

First published, as Sonnetto settimo, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 134.

CoH 29

Copy, headed 3.

This MS collated in Grundy.

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.

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 38 p. 53)
CoH 30

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, 246. Collated in Grundy.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 148v)
CoH 31

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 21v)
Of the byrth of his loue. Sonet 2. ('Fly low (deare Loue) thy sun dost thow not see?')

First published, as Sonnetto quinto, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 116.

CoH 32

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, 245. Collated in Grundy.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 148v)
CoH 33

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 13r)
Of the conspiracie of his Ladies eyes and his owne to ingender loue. Sonet 3. ('Thyne eye the glasse where I behold my hearte')

First published, as Sonnetto nono, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 117.

CoH 34

Copy, headed 7.

This MS collated in Grundy.

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.

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 38 p. 54)
CoH 35

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 13v)
Of the death of my Ladie Riches daughter shewing the reason of her vntimelye death hindred her effecting those things which by the former calculation of her natiuitye he foretold. Sonet 7. ('He that by skill of stars doth fates foretell')

First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 170.

CoH 36

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 39r)
Of the discouragement he had to proceed in loue through the multitude of his Ladies perfections and his owne lownesse. sonet 5. ('When youre perfections to my thoughts appeare')

First published, as Sonnetto decinoue, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 119.

CoH 37

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled and unascribed.

This MS collated in Grundy.

An octavo composite miscellany of verse and prose, in several secretary, italic and mixed hands, 190 leaves (irregularly numbered), in contemporary limp vellum.

c.1580s-1615

Inscribed (inside front and rear covers) Robert Thornton and William Sherida / Wm Sheridan.

Marsh's Library, Dublin (MS Z 3. 5. 21 f. 25r)
CoH 38

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, 247-8. Collated in Grundy.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 150r)
CoH 39

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 14v)
Of the envie others beare to his Ladie for the former perfections. Sonet 6. ('What beautie to the world vouchsafes this blisse')

First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 127.

CoH 40

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 18v)
Of the excellencye of his Ladies voyce. Sonet 3. ('Ladies of Ladies the delight alone')

First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 124.

CoH 41

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 17r)
Of the prowesse of his Ladie. Sonet 5. ('Sweete Soueraigne sith so many mynds remayne')

First published in Diana (London, 1594). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 126.

CoH 42

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 18r)
Of the slander enuye giues him for so highlye praysing his Mistrisse. Sonet 7. ('Falselye doth envie of youre prayses blame')

First published, as Sonnetto tredeci, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 128.

CoH 43

Copy of a version beginning ffalse the report, & vniust is ye blame, untitled and unascribed.

This MS collated and the variant lines (1-8, 13-14) edited in Grundy, pp. 128-9.

An octavo composite miscellany of verse and prose, in several secretary, italic and mixed hands, 190 leaves (irregularly numbered), in contemporary limp vellum.

c.1580s-1615

Inscribed (inside front and rear covers) Robert Thornton and William Sherida / Wm Sheridan.

Marsh's Library, Dublin (MS Z 3. 5. 21 f. 26v)
CoH 44

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, 246-7. Collated in Grundy.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 149r)
CoH 45

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 19r)
Of the suddeyne surprizing of his hearte, and how vnawares he was caught. Sonet 4. ('Delight in youre bright eyes my death did breede')

First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 118.

CoH 46

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 14r)
Of the thoughtes he nourished by night when he was retired to bed. Sonet 7. ('The sun his iourney ending in the west')

First published, as Sonnetto quatro, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 136.

CoH 47

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, 249. Collated in Grundy.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 150v)
CoH 48

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 22v)
The second parte. The first 7 to oure Q: and the K. of Scots. To the Q: after his returne oute of Italye. Sonet 1. ('Not longe agoe in Poland traveiling')

First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 137.

CoH 49

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 23r)
The second 7 of his Ladies prayse. An exhortation to the reader to come and see his Mistrisse beautie. Sonet 1. ('Eyes curiouse to behold what nature can create')

First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 122.

CoH 50

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 16r)
The second 7. To particular Ladies whome he most honoured. to the princes of Orange. Sonet 1. ('If nature for her workes proud euer were')

First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 144.

CoH 51

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 26v)
Sonet 2. ('Ladye in beautye and in favoure rare')

First published, as Sonnetto decimo, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 123.

CoH 52

Copy, headed 2.

This MS collated in Grundy.

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.

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 38 p. 53)
CoH 53

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled and unascribed.

This MS colated in Grundy.

An octavo composite miscellany of verse and prose, in several secretary, italic and mixed hands, 190 leaves (irregularly numbered), in contemporary limp vellum.

c.1580s-1615

Inscribed (inside front and rear covers) Robert Thornton and William Sherida / Wm Sheridan.

Marsh's Library, Dublin (MS Z 3. 5. 21 f. 25r-v)
CoH 54

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, 250. Collated in Grundy.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 151v)
CoH 55

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 16v)
Sonet 2. ('Needs must I leaue and yet needs must I loue')

First published in Diana (London, 1594). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 172.

CoH 56

Copy, headed 9.

This MS collated in Grundy.

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.

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 38 p. 54)
CoH 57

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 40r)
Sonet 2. ('Wonder it is and pitie tis that she')

First published, as Sonnetto quaterdeci, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 160.

CoH 58

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, 251. Collated in Grundy.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 152r)
CoH 59

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 34r)
Sonet 3. ('My reason absent did myne eyes require')

First published, as Sonnetto dodeci, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 173.

CoH 60

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, here beginning Reason absent did mine eyes require, unascribed.

This MS collated in Grundy

An octavo composite miscellany of verse and prose, in several secretary, italic and mixed hands, 190 leaves (irregularly numbered), in contemporary limp vellum.

c.1580s-1615

Inscribed (inside front and rear covers) Robert Thornton and William Sherida / Wm Sheridan.

Marsh's Library, Dublin (MS Z 3. 5. 21 f. 28r)
CoH 61

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, 250. Collated in Grundy.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 151v)
CoH 62

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 40v)
Sonet 3. ('Pittye refusing my poore loue to feed')

First published, as Sonnetto sedeci, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 161.

CoH 63

Copy, headed 5.

This MS collated in Grundy.

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.

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 38 p. 53)
CoH 64

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, 251. Collated in Grundy.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 152r)
CoH 65

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 34v)
Sonet 4. ('Each day new proofes of new dispaire I find')

First published in Diana (London, 1594). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 174.

CoH 66

Copy, headed 12.

This MS collated in Grundy.

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.

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 38 p. 55)
CoH 67

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 41r)
Sonet 5. ('Myne eye with all the deadlie sinnes is fraught')

First published, as Sonnetto vndeci, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, pp. 175-6.

CoH 68

This MS collated in Grundy.

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.

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 38 p. 53)
CoH 69

Copy of a probably early version, in a secretary hand, untitled and unascribed.

This MS collated in Grundy and printed in full (as a possible first draft), pp. 175-6.

An octavo composite miscellany of verse and prose, in several secretary, italic and mixed hands, 190 leaves (irregularly numbered), in contemporary limp vellum.

c.1580s-1615

Inscribed (inside front and rear covers) Robert Thornton and William Sherida / Wm Sheridan.

Marsh's Library, Dublin (MS Z 3. 5. 21 f. 25v)
CoH 70

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, 246. Collated in Grundy.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 149r)
CoH 71

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 41v)
Sonet 6. ('Deare though from me youre gratiouse lookes depart')

First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 164.

CoH 72

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 36r)
Sonet 6. ('If true loue might true loues reward obtayne')

First published, as Sonnetto ottauo, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 177.

CoH 73

Copy, headed 11.

This MS collated in Grundy.

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.

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 38 p. 55)
CoH 74

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, 249-50. Collated in Grundy.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 151r)
CoH 75

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 42r)
Sonet 7. ('If euer any iustlye might complayne')

First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 165.

CoH 76

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 36v)
The thyrd parte. The first 7 of seuerall complaynts of misfortune in loue onlye. Sonet 1. ('Now now I loue indeed and suffer more')

First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 159.

CoH 77

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 33v)
The thyrd 7 of seuerall occasions and accidents happening in the life tyme of his loue Of his Mistrisse vpon occasion of her walking in a garden. Sonet 1. ('My Ladies presence makes the roses red')

First published, as Sonnetto decisette, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 130.

CoH 78

Copy, headed H. Constables verses of his mris vpo occasion of her walking in a garden.

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. 105v)
CoH 79

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled and unascribed.

This MS collated in Grundy.

An octavo composite miscellany of verse and prose, in several secretary, italic and mixed hands, 190 leaves (irregularly numbered), in contemporary limp vellum.

c.1580s-1615

Inscribed (inside front and rear covers) Robert Thornton and William Sherida / Wm Sheridan.

Marsh's Library, Dublin (MS Z 3. 5. 21 ff. 27v-8r)
CoH 80

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, 247. Collated in Grundy.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 149v)
CoH 81

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 19v)
The thyrd 7 to seuerall persons vpon sundrye occasions. To the princesse of Orange vpon occasion of the murther of her father and husband Sonet 1. ('When murdring hands, to quench the thirst of tyrannie')

First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 152.

CoH 82

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 30r)
To God the Father ('Greate God: within whose symple essence, wee')

First published in Heliconia (1815), II, Spirituall Sonnetts, p. 3. Grundy, p. 183.

CoH 83

A quire of poems by Henry Constable, in the mixed hand of Henry Sanford (d.1616), household tutor to the Paget and Carey families, entitled Certen Spirituall Sonnetts to the honner of God and his Sainctes: Withe Nyne other directed by particuler deuotion to :3: blessed Maryes: By Hen. Conestable Esquire, 16 quarto pages.

c.1600
Berkeley Castle (Select Books 85 p. 3)
CoH 84

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Heliconia and in Grundy. Facsimile example of f. 32r in Grundy, facing p. 183.

A quarto composite volume of papers relating to religious matters, in various hands, 42 leaves, in moderrn crushed morocco gilt.

Incorporating (ff. 31r-40r) a series of seventeen Spirituall Sonnettes To the honour of God: and hys Sayntes. by H: C: [i.e. Henry Constable], in a single secretary hand of the late 16th-early 17th century.

Facsimile of the first page of the Spiritual Sonnets in DLB, vol. 136, Sixteenth-Century British Non-Dramatic Writers. Second Series, ed. David A. Richardson (Detroit, 1994), p. 50.

To God the Holy-ghost. ('Aeternall spryght: which art in heaven the Love')

First published in Heliconia (1815), II, Spirituall Sonnetts, p. 4. Grundy, p. 184.

CoH 85

Copy.

A quire of poems by Henry Constable, in the mixed hand of Henry Sanford (d.1616), household tutor to the Paget and Carey families, entitled Certen Spirituall Sonnetts to the honner of God and his Sainctes: Withe Nyne other directed by particuler deuotion to :3: blessed Maryes: By Hen. Conestable Esquire, 16 quarto pages.

c.1600
Berkeley Castle (Select Books 85 p. 4)
CoH 86

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Heliconia and in Grundy.

A quarto composite volume of papers relating to religious matters, in various hands, 42 leaves, in moderrn crushed morocco gilt.

Incorporating (ff. 31r-40r) a series of seventeen Spirituall Sonnettes To the honour of God: and hys Sayntes. by H: C: [i.e. Henry Constable], in a single secretary hand of the late 16th-early 17th century.

Facsimile of the first page of the Spiritual Sonnets in DLB, vol. 136, Sixteenth-Century British Non-Dramatic Writers. Second Series, ed. David A. Richardson (Detroit, 1994), p. 50.

To God the Sonne ('Greate Prynce of heaven begotten of that kyng')

First published in Heliconia (1815), II, Spirituall Sonnetts, p. 4. Grundy, pp. 183-4.

CoH 87

Copy, here beginning Younge Prince of Heauen begotten of that Kinge.

A quire of poems by Henry Constable, in the mixed hand of Henry Sanford (d.1616), household tutor to the Paget and Carey families, entitled Certen Spirituall Sonnetts to the honner of God and his Sainctes: Withe Nyne other directed by particuler deuotion to :3: blessed Maryes: By Hen. Conestable Esquire, 16 quarto pages.

c.1600
Berkeley Castle (Select Books 85 p. 3)
CoH 88

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Heliconia and in Grundy.

A quarto composite volume of papers relating to religious matters, in various hands, 42 leaves, in moderrn crushed morocco gilt.

Incorporating (ff. 31r-40r) a series of seventeen Spirituall Sonnettes To the honour of God: and hys Sayntes. by H: C: [i.e. Henry Constable], in a single secretary hand of the late 16th-early 17th century.

Facsimile of the first page of the Spiritual Sonnets in DLB, vol. 136, Sixteenth-Century British Non-Dramatic Writers. Second Series, ed. David A. Richardson (Detroit, 1994), p. 50.

To his Ladies hand vpon occasion of her gloue which in her absence he kissed. Sonet 2. ('Sweet hand the sweet (yet cruell) bowe thow art')

First published, as Sonnetto vinti, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 131.

CoH 89

Copy, headed Vpon ocasion of his mris gloue wch in her absence he kissed, here beginning Sweetest hand....

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. 105v)
CoH 90

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed To his Ladyes hand, unascribed.

This MS collated in Grundy.

An octavo composite miscellany of verse and prose, in several secretary, italic and mixed hands, 190 leaves (irregularly numbered), in contemporary limp vellum.

c.1580s-1615

Inscribed (inside front and rear covers) Robert Thornton and William Sherida / Wm Sheridan.

Marsh's Library, Dublin (MS Z 3. 5. 21 f. 27v)
CoH 91

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, 252. Collated in Grundy.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 153r)
CoH 92

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 20r)
To his Mistrisse ('Grace full of grace though in these verses heere')

First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 113.

CoH 93

Copy, the first of the sequence headed H. C. Sonets and followed by the prose summary The order of the booke.

Edited from this MS in Park and in Grundy. Facsimiles of f. 12r in Grundy, facing p. 113, and in DLB, vol. 136, Sixteenth-Century British Non-Dramatic Writers. Second Series, ed. David A. Richardson (Detroit, 1994), p. 48.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 12r)
To his mistris curteously intertayning him after hard & disgratious words. ('My hope laye gasping on his dying bedd')

First published in Edward Dowden, An Elizabethan MS. Collection: Henry Constable, Modern Quarterly of Language and Literature, 1, No. 1 (March 1898), 3-4. Grundy, p. 180.

CoH 94

Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand, unascribed.

Edited from this MS in Dowden and in Grundy.

An octavo composite miscellany of verse and prose, in several secretary, italic and mixed hands, 190 leaves (irregularly numbered), in contemporary limp vellum.

c.1580s-1615

Inscribed (inside front and rear covers) Robert Thornton and William Sherida / Wm Sheridan.

Marsh's Library, Dublin (MS Z 3. 5. 21 f. 25r)
To his Mistrisse vpon occasion of a Petrarch he gaue her, shewing her the reason why the Italian Commenters dissent so much in the exposition thereof. Sonet 4. ('Miracle of the world I neuer will denye')

First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 133.

CoH 95

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 21r)
To Mr. Hilliard vpon occasion of a picture he made of my Ladie Rich. Sonet 7. ('If Michael the archpainter now did liue')

First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 158.

CoH 96

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 33r)
To my Ladye Arbella. Sonet 4 ('That worthie Marquesse pride of Italie')

First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 148.

CoH 97

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 28r)
To my Ladie Rich. Sonet 6. ('O that my songe like to a ship might be')

First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 150.

CoH 98

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled and unascribed.

This MS collated in Grundy.

An octavo composite miscellany of verse and prose, in several secretary, italic and mixed hands, 190 leaves (irregularly numbered), in contemporary limp vellum.

c.1580s-1615

Inscribed (inside front and rear covers) Robert Thornton and William Sherida / Wm Sheridan.

Marsh's Library, Dublin (MS Z 3. 5. 21 f. 27r)
CoH 99

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 29r)
To our blessed Lady ('In that (O Queene of queenes) thy byrth was free')

First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1635). Heliconia (1815), II, Spirituall Sonnettes, p. 5. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J. C. Grierson (2 vols, Oxford, 1912), I, 427. Grundy, p. 185.

CoH 100

Copy, headed To our Ladye.

A quire of poems by Henry Constable, in the mixed hand of Henry Sanford (d.1616), household tutor to the Paget and Carey families, entitled Certen Spirituall Sonnetts to the honner of God and his Sainctes: Withe Nyne other directed by particuler deuotion to :3: blessed Maryes: By Hen. Conestable Esquire, 16 quarto pages.

c.1600
Berkeley Castle (Select Books 85 p. 5)
CoH 101

Copy, headed Vpon the virgin Mary.

This MS collated in Grierson.

A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, in a single neat largely italic hand, 155 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

c.1630

The table of contents (f. 155v) subscribed Margrett Bellasys, possibly the daughter of Thomas Belasyse (1577-1652), first Viscount Fauconberg of Henknowle. The front endpaper later inscribed The pieces which I have extracted for The Specimens are, Page 91, 211, 265: i.e. possibly by Thomas Campbell (1777-1844), editor of Specimens of the British Poets first published in 1809. Afterwards owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Evans (Sotheby's), 29 February 1836 (Heber sale, Part VIII), lot 13.

CoH 102

Copy, headed A Sonnet on the virgin.

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.

CoH 103

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Heliconia and in Grundy.

A quarto composite volume of papers relating to religious matters, in various hands, 42 leaves, in moderrn crushed morocco gilt.

Incorporating (ff. 31r-40r) a series of seventeen Spirituall Sonnettes To the honour of God: and hys Sayntes. by H: C: [i.e. Henry Constable], in a single secretary hand of the late 16th-early 17th century.

Facsimile of the first page of the Spiritual Sonnets in DLB, vol. 136, Sixteenth-Century British Non-Dramatic Writers. Second Series, ed. David A. Richardson (Detroit, 1994), p. 50.

CoH 104

Copy.

This MS recorded in Grierson, I, 427.

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. 114r)
CoH 105

Copy.

This MS recorded in Grierson, I, 427.

A quarto volume of 169 poems by Donne, plus some prose works by him, together with a few poems by others, almost entirely in a single hand, with a table of contents, viiii + 440 pages (plus blanks, the pagination jumping from 156 to 161 and from 339 to 400), with an alphabetical first-line index (pp. [iii-vi]), in modern calf.

Mainly transcribed from Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8468 (the Luttrell MS: DnJ Δ 18), with a title-page (p. i) inscribed The Poems of D.J. Donne (not yet imprinted)...finished this 12 of October 1632. It bears corrections in two hands (one possibly the original scribe) made from the 1633 edition of Donne's Poems, many of the poems headed P. (signifying Printed), with some annotated in red ink Not Printed. The largest known MS collection of Donne's poems and apparently used in the preparation of the second edition of the Poems (1635).

[1635]

According to the compiler of the partial transcript of this MS (Harvard MS Eng 966.2), the O'Flahertie MS belonged to the late Dr Parnel, Arch Deacon of Clogher: i.e. Thomas Parnell (1679-1718), poet and essayist, and after his decease to Mr. Thos: Burton of Dublin, and [was] obtained from him by the Editor. Sold at Puttick & Simpson's, 28 April 1856 (Francis Moore sale), lot 975. Later owned by the Rev. T.R. O'Flahertie (fl.1861-94), vicar of Capel, near Dorking, Surrey, book collector. Sotheby's, 25-27 July 1899, lot 384, to Ellis. Described in Ellis and Elvey's sale catalogue No. 93 (November 1899), the relevant pages of which are inserted in the MS. Formerly MS Nor 4504.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) as the O'Flahertie MS: DnJ Δ 17.

Harvard University, MS Eng 966.5 (MS Eng 966.5 [unspecified page number])
CoH 106

Copy.

This MS recorded in Grierson, I, p. 427.

A quarto volume of 84 poems by Donne, plus some prose works by him, together with a few poems by others, in a single secretary hand, 343 pages, in later half purple morocco marbled boards, dated at the end (p. 343) 19th, Julij 1620.

1620

Bookplate of Thomas Stephens of the Inner Temple (perhaps the Thomas Stephens who was at the Inner Temple in 1717 or else his son, Thomas, who was there in 1725). Later owned by F.W. Cosens (1819-89), book collector; and purchased from Bernard Quaritch in 1896 by Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908), American professor and art historian. Formerly MS Nor 4500.

Cited in IELM, I.i, as the Stephens MS: DnJ Δ 23. Used extensively in The Complete Poems of John Donne, D.D., ed. Alexander B. Grosart, 2 vols (privately printed, 1872-3). Briefly discussed in C. E. Norton, The Text of Donne's Poems, [Harvard] Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature, 5 (1896), 1-22 (pp. 6-10).

Harvard University, MS Eng 966.6 (MS Eng 966.6 [unspecified page number])
CoH 107

Copy, headed On the blessed virgin.

This MS collated in Grierson.

A small quarto volume of 123 poems by Donne plus some of his Paradoxes, Problems and characters, together with some poems by others, 185 leaves (including blanks on ff. 141r-61v) plus nine further blanks on ff. 185v-94v, inscribed L: ll: N: 6./6 on f. 1r and Dr: Donne within a gilt grid on f. 3r, in contemporary vellum with initials F B [Frances Bridgewater] in gilt and a smudged watercolour central lozenge on the upper cover.

In a single, neat, predominantly roman hand (but for entries on ff. 105v-15r in a less neat cursive hand), and with various corrections or emendations throughout possibly in another hand.

c.1622-32

Once owned by Frances (née Stanley) Egerton (1583-1636), Countess of Bridgewater, and her husband John Egerton (1579-1649), first Earl of Bridgewater. Listed in A Catalogue of my Ladies Bookes at London Taken October .27th 1627 (Huntington, EL 6495) as No. 3, The Lamentaons of Jeremy in verse by Dr Donne, 8o, among Paper Bookes of diverse volumes after the date 26 April 1631 and before a new list in a different hand under the date 17 April 1632.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Bridgewater MS: DnJ Δ 24.

CoH 108

Copy, 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 f. 286r)
CoH 109

Copy.

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in a single italic hand, entitled Gospell Obseruations & Religius manifestations, 370 pages, in contemporary calf.

Entirely in the hand of Robert Overton (1608/9-1678/9), parliamentarian army officer, whose signature appears on a flyleaf. Prepared as a memorial and tribute to his wife, Ann Gardiner (d.1665), and written when in prison, either on Jersey or in the Tower of London.

c.1671/2

Inscribed inside the front cover Saml Atkins Wykeham and inside the rear cover 17 Feby 1879. Purchased this Book of Prescot Bookseller. Upper Arcade. Bristol...Edwd G. Doggett.

This volume discussed extensively, with facsimile examples (of pp. 85-6, 151-2, 162, 166, 190-2), in David Norbrook, This blushinge tribute of a borrowed muse: Robert Overton and his Overturning of the Poetic Canon, EMS, 4 (1993), 220-66.

Princeton (CO199 No. 812 p. 273)
CoH 109.5

MS copy.

A copy of some 24 poems by Donne, with other material, in a single neat hand, transcribed and emended from the 1669 edition of the Poems, headed Additions to Dr. Donne in ye Edition, 1669 8vo, 80 quarto pages (pp. [407-86]), bound with a printed exemplum of Donne's Poems (1633), a number of which bear MS emendations and additions in the same hand.

Late 17th century

The printed title-page inscribed H. Mapletoft: ?perhaps Hugh Mapletoft (d.1731), rector of All Saints, Huntingdon, who was related to the Ferrar family, George Herbert's friends. Later owned by Augustus Jessopp (1823-1914), schoolmaster and historical writer, who gave it on 25 August 1895 to Sir Edmund Gosse (1849-1928), writer. Sotheby's, 30 July 1928, lot 36, to Edwards.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Mapletoft Volume: DnJ Δ 68 (before its present location was known). Briefly recorded in William E. McCarron and Jack M. Shuttleworth, A Newly Recovered Donne First Edition, Seventeenth Century News, 37 (1979), 72. Its MS Donne contents listed in Ernest W. Sullivan II, Updating the Donne Listings in Peter Beal's Index of English Literary Manuscripts, John Donne Journal, 6 (1987), 219-34.

United States Air Force Academy (STC 7045 pp. 408-9)
CoH 110

Copy, headed A sonnet on the blessed Virgin Mary.

A small oblong-octavo volume of 60 poems by Donne plus six of his Problems, together with a few poems by others, in a single hand, 336 pages (but numbering skipping pp. 49-51, 182-90, 241-9, 322, with 332 twice, and the last leaf missing), in contemporary vellum, remains of green silk ties.

c.1620-33

Possibly associated with the Inns of Court (see use of Law French on p. 238). Hodgson's, 27 April 1950, lot 257. Raphael King, sale catalogue No. 51 (1950), item 73. Formerly Chest II/68.

Cited in IELM, I as the King MS: DnJ Δ 29. Complete microfilm in the British Library (M/569).

To our blessed Lady ('Sovereigne of Queenes: If vayne Ambition move')

First published in Heliconia (1815), II, Spirituall Sonnettes, p. 9. Grundy, p. 189.

CoH 111

A quire of poems by Henry Constable, in the mixed hand of Henry Sanford (d.1616), household tutor to the Paget and Carey families, entitled Certen Spirituall Sonnetts to the honner of God and his Sainctes: Withe Nyne other directed by particuler deuotion to :3: blessed Maryes: By Hen. Conestable Esquire, 16 quarto pages.

c.1600
Berkeley Castle (Select Books 85 p. 9)
CoH 112

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Heliconia and in Grundy.

A quarto composite volume of papers relating to religious matters, in various hands, 42 leaves, in moderrn crushed morocco gilt.

Incorporating (ff. 31r-40r) a series of seventeen Spirituall Sonnettes To the honour of God: and hys Sayntes. by H: C: [i.e. Henry Constable], in a single secretary hand of the late 16th-early 17th century.

Facsimile of the first page of the Spiritual Sonnets in DLB, vol. 136, Sixteenth-Century British Non-Dramatic Writers. Second Series, ed. David A. Richardson (Detroit, 1994), p. 50.

To our blessed Lady. ('Sweete Queene: although thy beuty rayse vpp mee')

First published in Heliconia (1815), II, Spirituall Sonnettes, p. 10. Grundy, pp. 190-1.

CoH 113

Copy, untitled.

A quire of poems by Henry Constable, in the mixed hand of Henry Sanford (d.1616), household tutor to the Paget and Carey families, entitled Certen Spirituall Sonnetts to the honner of God and his Sainctes: Withe Nyne other directed by particuler deuotion to :3: blessed Maryes: By Hen. Conestable Esquire, 16 quarto pages.

c.1600
Berkeley Castle (Select Books 85 p. 10)
CoH 114

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Heliconia and in Grundy.

A quarto composite volume of papers relating to religious matters, in various hands, 42 leaves, in moderrn crushed morocco gilt.

Incorporating (ff. 31r-40r) a series of seventeen Spirituall Sonnettes To the honour of God: and hys Sayntes. by H: C: [i.e. Henry Constable], in a single secretary hand of the late 16th-early 17th century.

Facsimile of the first page of the Spiritual Sonnets in DLB, vol. 136, Sixteenth-Century British Non-Dramatic Writers. Second Series, ed. David A. Richardson (Detroit, 1994), p. 50.

To our blessed Lady. ('Why should I any love O queene but thee?')

First published in Heliconia (1815), II, Spirituall Sonnettes, p. 9. Grundy, p. 190.

CoH 115

Copy, untitled.

A quire of poems by Henry Constable, in the mixed hand of Henry Sanford (d.1616), household tutor to the Paget and Carey families, entitled Certen Spirituall Sonnetts to the honner of God and his Sainctes: Withe Nyne other directed by particuler deuotion to :3: blessed Maryes: By Hen. Conestable Esquire, 16 quarto pages.

c.1600
Berkeley Castle (Select Books 85 p. 9)
CoH 116

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Heliconia and in Grundy.

A quarto composite volume of papers relating to religious matters, in various hands, 42 leaves, in moderrn crushed morocco gilt.

Incorporating (ff. 31r-40r) a series of seventeen Spirituall Sonnettes To the honour of God: and hys Sayntes. by H: C: [i.e. Henry Constable], in a single secretary hand of the late 16th-early 17th century.

Facsimile of the first page of the Spiritual Sonnets in DLB, vol. 136, Sixteenth-Century British Non-Dramatic Writers. Second Series, ed. David A. Richardson (Detroit, 1994), p. 50.

To St Collett on the day of her ffeaste and his natiuitye ('This day (oh blessed virgin) is the daye')

Unpublished.

CoH 117

Copy.

A quire of poems by Henry Constable, in the mixed hand of Henry Sanford (d.1616), household tutor to the Paget and Carey families, entitled Certen Spirituall Sonnetts to the honner of God and his Sainctes: Withe Nyne other directed by particuler deuotion to :3: blessed Maryes: By Hen. Conestable Esquire, 16 quarto pages.

c.1600
Berkeley Castle (Select Books 85 p. 8)
To St Iohn the Baptist. ('As Anne longe barren, Mother dyd become')

First published in Heliconia (1815), II, Spitituall Sonnettes, p. 6. Grundy, pp. 186-7.

CoH 118

Copy.

A quire of poems by Henry Constable, in the mixed hand of Henry Sanford (d.1616), household tutor to the Paget and Carey families, entitled Certen Spirituall Sonnetts to the honner of God and his Sainctes: Withe Nyne other directed by particuler deuotion to :3: blessed Maryes: By Hen. Conestable Esquire, 16 quarto pages.

c.1600
Berkeley Castle (Select Books 85 p. 6)
CoH 119

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Heliconia and in Grundy.

A quarto composite volume of papers relating to religious matters, in various hands, 42 leaves, in moderrn crushed morocco gilt.

Incorporating (ff. 31r-40r) a series of seventeen Spirituall Sonnettes To the honour of God: and hys Sayntes. by H: C: [i.e. Henry Constable], in a single secretary hand of the late 16th-early 17th century.

Facsimile of the first page of the Spiritual Sonnets in DLB, vol. 136, Sixteenth-Century British Non-Dramatic Writers. Second Series, ed. David A. Richardson (Detroit, 1994), p. 50.

To St Kathayne. ('Because thow wast the daughter of a kyng')

First published in Heliconia (1815), II, Spirituall Sonnettes, p. 8. Grundy, p. 188.

CoH 120

Copy.

A quire of poems by Henry Constable, in the mixed hand of Henry Sanford (d.1616), household tutor to the Paget and Carey families, entitled Certen Spirituall Sonnetts to the honner of God and his Sainctes: Withe Nyne other directed by particuler deuotion to :3: blessed Maryes: By Hen. Conestable Esquire, 16 quarto pages.

c.1600
Berkeley Castle (Select Books 85 p. 7)
CoH 121

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Heliconia and in Grundy.

A quarto composite volume of papers relating to religious matters, in various hands, 42 leaves, in moderrn crushed morocco gilt.

Incorporating (ff. 31r-40r) a series of seventeen Spirituall Sonnettes To the honour of God: and hys Sayntes. by H: C: [i.e. Henry Constable], in a single secretary hand of the late 16th-early 17th century.

Facsimile of the first page of the Spiritual Sonnets in DLB, vol. 136, Sixteenth-Century British Non-Dramatic Writers. Second Series, ed. David A. Richardson (Detroit, 1994), p. 50.

To St Margarett. ('Fayre Amazon of heaven: who took'st in hand')

First published in Heliconia (1815), II, Spirituall Sonnettes, p. 8. Grundy, pp. 188-9.

CoH 122

Copy.

A quire of poems by Henry Constable, in the mixed hand of Henry Sanford (d.1616), household tutor to the Paget and Carey families, entitled Certen Spirituall Sonnetts to the honner of God and his Sainctes: Withe Nyne other directed by particuler deuotion to :3: blessed Maryes: By Hen. Conestable Esquire, 16 quarto pages.

c.1600
Berkeley Castle (Select Books 85 p. 8)
CoH 123

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Heliconia and in Grundy.

A quarto composite volume of papers relating to religious matters, in various hands, 42 leaves, in moderrn crushed morocco gilt.

Incorporating (ff. 31r-40r) a series of seventeen Spirituall Sonnettes To the honour of God: and hys Sayntes. by H: C: [i.e. Henry Constable], in a single secretary hand of the late 16th-early 17th century.

Facsimile of the first page of the Spiritual Sonnets in DLB, vol. 136, Sixteenth-Century British Non-Dramatic Writers. Second Series, ed. David A. Richardson (Detroit, 1994), p. 50.

To St Mary Magdalen. ('Blessed Offendour: who thyselfe haist try'd')

First published in Heliconia (1815), II, Spirituall Sonnettes, p. 10. Grundy, p. 191.

CoH 124

Copy, headed To the Blessed sinner St Mary Mawdlyn.

A quire of poems by Henry Constable, in the mixed hand of Henry Sanford (d.1616), household tutor to the Paget and Carey families, entitled Certen Spirituall Sonnetts to the honner of God and his Sainctes: Withe Nyne other directed by particuler deuotion to :3: blessed Maryes: By Hen. Conestable Esquire, 16 quarto pages.

c.1600
Berkeley Castle (Select Books 85 p. 10)
CoH 125

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Heliconia and in Grundy.

A quarto composite volume of papers relating to religious matters, in various hands, 42 leaves, in moderrn crushed morocco gilt.

Incorporating (ff. 31r-40r) a series of seventeen Spirituall Sonnettes To the honour of God: and hys Sayntes. by H: C: [i.e. Henry Constable], in a single secretary hand of the late 16th-early 17th century.

Facsimile of the first page of the Spiritual Sonnets in DLB, vol. 136, Sixteenth-Century British Non-Dramatic Writers. Second Series, ed. David A. Richardson (Detroit, 1994), p. 50.

To St Mary Magdalen ('For fewe nyghtes solace in delitious bedd')

First published in Heliconia (1815), II, Spirituall Sonnettes, p. 7. Grundy, pp. 187-8.

CoH 126

Copy, headed To St Mary Maudlyn.

A quire of poems by Henry Constable, in the mixed hand of Henry Sanford (d.1616), household tutor to the Paget and Carey families, entitled Certen Spirituall Sonnetts to the honner of God and his Sainctes: Withe Nyne other directed by particuler deuotion to :3: blessed Maryes: By Hen. Conestable Esquire, 16 quarto pages.

c.1600
Berkeley Castle (Select Books 85 p. 7)
CoH 127

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Heliconia and in Grundy.

A quarto composite volume of papers relating to religious matters, in various hands, 42 leaves, in moderrn crushed morocco gilt.

Incorporating (ff. 31r-40r) a series of seventeen Spirituall Sonnettes To the honour of God: and hys Sayntes. by H: C: [i.e. Henry Constable], in a single secretary hand of the late 16th-early 17th century.

Facsimile of the first page of the Spiritual Sonnets in DLB, vol. 136, Sixteenth-Century British Non-Dramatic Writers. Second Series, ed. David A. Richardson (Detroit, 1994), p. 50.

To St Mary Magdalen ('Such as retyr'd from sight of men, lyke thee')

First published in Heliconia (1815), II, Spirituall Sonnettes, p. 11. Grundy, pp. 191-2.

CoH 128

Copy, untitled.

A quire of poems by Henry Constable, in the mixed hand of Henry Sanford (d.1616), household tutor to the Paget and Carey families, entitled Certen Spirituall Sonnetts to the honner of God and his Sainctes: Withe Nyne other directed by particuler deuotion to :3: blessed Maryes: By Hen. Conestable Esquire, 16 quarto pages.

c.1600
Berkeley Castle (Select Books 85 p. 11)
CoH 129

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Heliconia and in Grundy.

A quarto composite volume of papers relating to religious matters, in various hands, 42 leaves, in moderrn crushed morocco gilt.

Incorporating (ff. 31r-40r) a series of seventeen Spirituall Sonnettes To the honour of God: and hys Sayntes. by H: C: [i.e. Henry Constable], in a single secretary hand of the late 16th-early 17th century.

Facsimile of the first page of the Spiritual Sonnets in DLB, vol. 136, Sixteenth-Century British Non-Dramatic Writers. Second Series, ed. David A. Richardson (Detroit, 1994), p. 50.

To St Mary Magdalen ('Sweete Saynt: Thow better canst declare to me')

This poem deliberately omitted from Heliconia because of its indecorous (i.e. erotic) elements. Grundy, p. 192.

CoH 130

Copy, untitled.

A quire of poems by Henry Constable, in the mixed hand of Henry Sanford (d.1616), household tutor to the Paget and Carey families, entitled Certen Spirituall Sonnetts to the honner of God and his Sainctes: Withe Nyne other directed by particuler deuotion to :3: blessed Maryes: By Hen. Conestable Esquire, 16 quarto pages.

c.1600
Berkeley Castle (Select Books 85 p. 11)
CoH 131

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Grundy.

A quarto composite volume of papers relating to religious matters, in various hands, 42 leaves, in moderrn crushed morocco gilt.

Incorporating (ff. 31r-40r) a series of seventeen Spirituall Sonnettes To the honour of God: and hys Sayntes. by H: C: [i.e. Henry Constable], in a single secretary hand of the late 16th-early 17th century.

Facsimile of the first page of the Spiritual Sonnets in DLB, vol. 136, Sixteenth-Century British Non-Dramatic Writers. Second Series, ed. David A. Richardson (Detroit, 1994), p. 50.

To St Mychaell the Archangel. ('When as the prynce of Angells puft'd with pryde')

First published in Heliconia (1815), II, Spitituall Sonnettes, p. 6. Grundy, p. 186.

CoH 132

Copy.

A quire of poems by Henry Constable, in the mixed hand of Henry Sanford (d.1616), household tutor to the Paget and Carey families, entitled Certen Spirituall Sonnetts to the honner of God and his Sainctes: Withe Nyne other directed by particuler deuotion to :3: blessed Maryes: By Hen. Conestable Esquire, 16 quarto pages.

c.1600
Berkeley Castle (Select Books 85 p. 5)
CoH 133

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Heliconia and in Grundy.

A quarto composite volume of papers relating to religious matters, in various hands, 42 leaves, in moderrn crushed morocco gilt.

Incorporating (ff. 31r-40r) a series of seventeen Spirituall Sonnettes To the honour of God: and hys Sayntes. by H: C: [i.e. Henry Constable], in a single secretary hand of the late 16th-early 17th century.

Facsimile of the first page of the Spiritual Sonnets in DLB, vol. 136, Sixteenth-Century British Non-Dramatic Writers. Second Series, ed. David A. Richardson (Detroit, 1994), p. 50.

To St Peter and St Paul ('He that for feare hys mayster dyd denye')

First published in Heliconia (1815), II, Spitituall Sonnettes, p. 7. Grundy, p. 187.

CoH 134

Copy.

A quire of poems by Henry Constable, in the mixed hand of Henry Sanford (d.1616), household tutor to the Paget and Carey families, entitled Certen Spirituall Sonnetts to the honner of God and his Sainctes: Withe Nyne other directed by particuler deuotion to :3: blessed Maryes: By Hen. Conestable Esquire, 16 quarto pages.

c.1600
Berkeley Castle (Select Books 85 p. 6)
CoH 135

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Heliconia and in Grundy.

A quarto composite volume of papers relating to religious matters, in various hands, 42 leaves, in moderrn crushed morocco gilt.

Incorporating (ff. 31r-40r) a series of seventeen Spirituall Sonnettes To the honour of God: and hys Sayntes. by H: C: [i.e. Henry Constable], in a single secretary hand of the late 16th-early 17th century.

Facsimile of the first page of the Spiritual Sonnets in DLB, vol. 136, Sixteenth-Century British Non-Dramatic Writers. Second Series, ed. David A. Richardson (Detroit, 1994), p. 50.

To Sir Philip Sydneyes soule. Sonet 4. ('Giue pardon blessed soule to my bold cryes')

First published in Sir Philip Sidney, Apologie for Poetrie (London, 1595). Grundy, p. 167.

CoH 136

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 37v)
To Sir Philip Sidneyes soule. Sonet 5. ('Great Alexander then did well declare')

First published in Sir Philip Sidney, Apologie for Poetrie (London, 1595). Grundy, p. 168.

CoH 137

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 38r)
To Sir Philip Sydneyes soule Sonet 6. ('Euen as when great mens heyres cannot agree')

First published in Sir Philip Sidney, Apologie for Poetrie (London, 1595). Grundy, p. 169.

CoH 138

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 38v)
To the Blessed Martir Marye Queene of Scotland ('I write of tears, and blud at on time shed')

Unpublished.

CoH 139

Copy.

A quire of poems by Henry Constable, in the mixed hand of Henry Sanford (d.1616), household tutor to the Paget and Carey families, entitled Certen Spirituall Sonnetts to the honner of God and his Sainctes: Withe Nyne other directed by particuler deuotion to :3: blessed Maryes: By Hen. Conestable Esquire, 16 quarto pages.

c.1600
Berkeley Castle (Select Books 85 p. 12)
To the blessed Sacrament. ('When thee (O holy sacrificed Lambe)')

First published in Heliconia (1815), II, Spirituall Sonnetts, p. 5. Grundy, pp. 184-5.

CoH 140

Copy.

A quire of poems by Henry Constable, in the mixed hand of Henry Sanford (d.1616), household tutor to the Paget and Carey families, entitled Certen Spirituall Sonnetts to the honner of God and his Sainctes: Withe Nyne other directed by particuler deuotion to :3: blessed Maryes: By Hen. Conestable Esquire, 16 quarto pages.

c.1600
Berkeley Castle (Select Books 85 p. 4)
CoH 141

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Heliconia and in Grundy.

A quarto composite volume of papers relating to religious matters, in various hands, 42 leaves, in moderrn crushed morocco gilt.

Incorporating (ff. 31r-40r) a series of seventeen Spirituall Sonnettes To the honour of God: and hys Sayntes. by H: C: [i.e. Henry Constable], in a single secretary hand of the late 16th-early 17th century.

Facsimile of the first page of the Spiritual Sonnets in DLB, vol. 136, Sixteenth-Century British Non-Dramatic Writers. Second Series, ed. David A. Richardson (Detroit, 1994), p. 50.

To the Countesses of Cumberland and Warwicke sisters. Sonet 3. ('Yow sisters Muses doe not ye repine')

First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rhapsody (London, 1602). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 146.

CoH 142

Copy, headed To the two sisters Margarett Countess of Cumberland And Anne Countess of Warwicke and numbered 3.

This MS collated in Grundy.

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.

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 38 p. 52)
CoH 143

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed To ye most honorable Ladyes the Countesses of Comb. & War. sisters, here beginning Yee sister Muses doe not ye repine, unascribed.

This MS collated and variant lines 9-14 printed in Grundy, pp. 146-7.

An octavo composite miscellany of verse and prose, in several secretary, italic and mixed hands, 190 leaves (irregularly numbered), in contemporary limp vellum.

c.1580s-1615

Inscribed (inside front and rear covers) Robert Thornton and William Sherida / Wm Sheridan.

Marsh's Library, Dublin (MS Z 3. 5. 21 f. 26r)
CoH 144

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 27v)
To the Countesse of Essex vpon occasion of the death of her first husband Sir Philip Sydney Sonet 4. ('Sweetest of Ladies if thy pleasure be')

First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 155.

CoH 145

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 31v)
To the Countesse of Pembroke. Sonet 3. ('Ladie whome by reporte, I only knowe')

First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 154.

CoH 146

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 31r)
To the Countesse of Shrewsburye. Sonet 2. ('Playnlie I write because I will write true')

First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 145.

CoH 147

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 27r)
To the Countesse of Shrewsburye vpon occasion of his deare Mistrisse whoe liu'd vnder her gouer[n]ment. Sonet 2. ('True worthie dame if I thee chieftayne call')

First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 153.

CoH 148

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 30v)
To the K. of Scots touching the subiect of his poems dedicated wholie to heauenly matters. Sonet 5. ('When others hooded with blind loue doe flye')

First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 141.

CoH 149

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 25r)
To the diuine protection of the Ladie Arbella the author commendeth both his Graces honoure and his Muses aeternitye ('My Mistrisse worth gaue wings vnto my Muse')

First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 179.

CoH 150

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 43r)
To the K: of Scots vpon occasion of a sonet the K: wrote in complaint of a contrarie winde which hindred the arriuall of the Queene oute of Denmark. Sonet 6. ('If I durst sigh still as I had begun')

First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 142.

CoH 151

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 25v)
To the K: of Scots vpon occasion of his longe stay in Denmarke by reason of the coldnesse of the winter and freezing of the sea. Sonet 7. ('If I durst loue as heertofore I haue')

First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 143.

CoH 152

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 26r)
To the K. of Scots whome as yet he had not seene. Sonet ('Bloome of the rose I hope those hands to kisse')

First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 140.

CoH 153

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed To the kinge of Scotts, unascribed.

This MS collated in Grundy.

An octavo composite miscellany of verse and prose, in several secretary, italic and mixed hands, 190 leaves (irregularly numbered), in contemporary limp vellum.

c.1580s-1615

Inscribed (inside front and rear covers) Robert Thornton and William Sherida / Wm Sheridan.

Marsh's Library, Dublin (MS Z 3. 5. 21 f. 27v)
CoH 154

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 24v)
To the Ladye Arbella. Sonet 5. ('Only hope of oure age that vertues dead')

First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 149.

CoH 155

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 28v)
To the Ladie Clinton. Sonet 5. ('Once onlye I sweet Ladie ye beheld')

First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 156.

CoH 156

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 32r)
To the Ladie Rich. Sonet 7. ('Heralds at armes doe three perfections quote')

First published in Diana (London, 1594). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 151.

CoH 157

Copy, headed 10.

This MS collated in Grundy.

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.

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 38 p. 54)
CoH 158

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 29v)
To the Marquesse of Piscats soule endued in her life tyme with infinite perfections as her diuine poems doe testefie. Sonet 3. ('Sweete soule which now with heauenly songs dost tell')

First published in Sir Philip Sidney, Apologie for Poetrie (London, 1595). Grundy, p. 166.

CoH 159

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 37r)
To the Q: vpon occasion of a booke he wrote in an answer to certayne obiections against her proceeding in the Low countryes. Sonet 3. ('The loue wherewith youre vertues chayne my sprite')

First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 139.

CoH 160

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed To hir maiesty for a pface to his booke, unascribed.

This MS collated in Grundy.

An octavo composite miscellany of verse and prose, in several secretary, italic and mixed hands, 190 leaves (irregularly numbered), in contemporary limp vellum.

c.1580s-1615

Inscribed (inside front and rear covers) Robert Thornton and William Sherida / Wm Sheridan.

Marsh's Library, Dublin (MS Z 3. 5. 21 f. 26r)
CoH 161

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 24r)
To the Queene touching the cruell effects of her perfections. Sonet 2. ('Most sacred prince why should I thee thus prayse')

First published in Park (1812). Grundy, p. 138.

CoH 162

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 23v)
To the same Ladyes in imitation of Petrarch, riminge only with two wordes in eight significations. ('In Eden grew many a pleasant springe')

First published in Edward Dowden, An Elizabethan MS. Collection: Henry Constable, Modern Quarterly of Language and Literature, 1, No. 1 (March 1898), 3-4. Grundy, p. 181.

CoH 163

Copy, in a seccretary hand, unascribed.

Edited from this MS in Dowden and in Grundy.

An octavo composite miscellany of verse and prose, in several secretary, italic and mixed hands, 190 leaves (irregularly numbered), in contemporary limp vellum.

c.1580s-1615

Inscribed (inside front and rear covers) Robert Thornton and William Sherida / Wm Sheridan.

Marsh's Library, Dublin (MS Z 3. 5. 21 f. 26v)

Prose

A short vew of a large examinatio of Cardinsall Allen his trayterous iustificatio of Sr W. Stanley and Yorck
CoH 164

Copy of a title and part of a treatise, in a small italic hand, headed A short vew of a large examinatio of Cardinsall Allen his trayterous iustificatio of Sr W. Stanley and Yorck, written by mr H. Const. and this gathered out of his own draught, including an incomplete dedication To my uerry Louing freand Samuell Ghilbart his hand and seale, and a heading Caput.4. Of the Lawfulnes of the Warrs (The only causes of lawfull Warrs in Flaunders).

An octavo composite miscellany of verse and prose, in several secretary, italic and mixed hands, 190 leaves (irregularly numbered), in contemporary limp vellum.

c.1580s-1615

Inscribed (inside front and rear covers) Robert Thornton and William Sherida / Wm Sheridan.

Marsh's Library, Dublin (MS Z 3. 5. 21 ff. 93v, 95r-109v)

Letters

Letter(s)
*CoH 165 1584
Autograph

Autograph letter signed by Constable, to the Earl of Rutland, 16 January 1583[/4].

Recorded in HMC, 12th Report, Part IV, Rutland I (1888), pp. 158-9.

A composite volume of state letters and papers.

The Duke of Rutland, Belvoir Castle (Letters & Papers, Vol. VII [unspecified page numbers])
*CoH 166 1584
Autograph

Autograph letter signed by Constable, to his father, Sir Robert Constable, 12 September 1584.

Recorded in HMC, 12th Report, Part IV, Rutland I (1888), p. 168.

A composite volume of state letters and papers.

The Duke of Rutland, Belvoir Castle (Letters & Papers, Vol. VII [unspecified page numbers])
*CoH 167 1585
Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Sir Francis Walsingham, from Paris, 17 April 1585.

A folio guardbook of miscellaneous Elizabethan papers, stamped foliation 1-280.

National Archives, Kew (SP 15/29 f. 13r)
*CoH 168 1603
Autograph

Autograph letter signed by Constable, to the Earl of Rutland, from Paris, 13 March 1585[/6].

Recorded in HMC, 12th Report, Part IV, Rutland I (1888), p. 173.

A composite volume of state letters and papers.

The Duke of Rutland, Belvoir Castle (Letters & Papers, Vol. VII [unspecified page numbers])
*CoH 169 1591
Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to the Earl of Shrewsbury, from France, 7 September 1591.

A tall folio guardbook of letters and state papers, in various hands, 128 leaves, in later half-morocco.

Volume X of Papers of the Talbot family, Earls of Shrewsbury, subsequently among the collections of Thomas Tenison (1636-1715), Archbishop of Canterbury.

Lambeth Palace Library (MS 703 f. 74r-v)
*CoH 170 1595
Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Anthony Bacon, 6 October 1595.

A volume of state papers and correspondence.

Volume VI 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 652 ff. 38r-9v)
CoH 171 1595

A letter by Constable, to the Earl of Essex, in a secretary hand, sent on to Anthony Bacon, endorsed Lo of Essex & H. Constable to my / 7 December. 1595 at paris.

A volume of state papers and correspondence.

Volume VI 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 652 ff. 278r-9v)
*CoH 172 1597
Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Anthony Bacon, from Rouen, 8 January 1596[/7].

A folio guardbook of state letters, in various hands and paper sizes, 288 leaves, in modern half-calf marbled boards.

Volume XIV 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 660 ff. 161r-2v)
*CoH 172.5
Autograph

Autograph letter signed by Constable, to the Earl of Rutland, from Paris, 11 ?June 1603.

Recorded in HMC, 12th Report, Part IV, Rutland I (1888), p. 391.

A composite volume of state letters and papers.

The Duke of Rutland, Belvoir Castle (Letters & Papers, Vol. XIV [unspecified page numbers])
*CoH 173 1604
Autograph

Copy of a letter by Constable to Dr Bagshaw in Paris, from Kingston, 9 January 1604, endorsed Copy of a lre fro Mr H Constable to Dr. Bagshaw. 1603.

A folio composite volume of state letters, in various hands, 170 leaves.

The British Library: Cotton MSS (Cotton MS Caligula E. XI f. 84r)
*CoH 174 1604
Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to the Earl of Shrewsbury, frpm the Tower, 14 May 1604.

A tall folio composite volume of letters, in various hands, 231 leaves.

Volume XV of Papers of the Talbot family, Earls of Shrewsbury, subsequently among the collections of Thomas Tenison (1636-1715), Archbishop of Canterbury.

Lambeth Palace Library (MS 708 f. 125r-v)
*CoH 175 1608
Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to the Countess of Shrewsbury, from the Fleet Prison, 9 February 1607[/8]. on one folio leaf.

A folio guardbook of letters, in various hands and paper sizes, 593 leaves, in modern morocco gilt.

Volume M of the Talbot Papers, formerly owned by the College of Arms.

Lambeth Palace Library (MS 3203 f. 493r-v)
*CoH 176 1608
Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to the Earl of Shrewsbury, from the Fleet Prison, 9 February 1607[/8].

Facsimile of this letter in Grundy, frontispiece.

A folio guardbook of letters, in various hands and paper sizes, 593 leaves, in modern morocco gilt.

Volume M of the Talbot Papers, formerly owned by the College of Arms.

Lambeth Palace Library (MS 3203 f. 495r)
*CoH 177 [1608]
Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to the Countess of Shrewsbury, [1608], on two conjugate quarto leaves.

Lodge (1838), II, 498.

A folio guardbook of letters, in various hands and paper sizes, 160 leaves, in modern morocco gilt.

Volume O of the Talbot papers, formerly owned by the College of Arms.

Lambeth Palace Library (MS 3205 ff. 92r-3v)
*CoH 178 1608
Autograph

Autograph letter signed by Constable, to [? the Earl of Rutland], 1608?.

Recorded in HMC, Rutland IV (1905), p. 211.

A composite volume of state letters and papers.

The Duke of Rutland, Belvoir Castle (Letters & Papers Supplementary [unspecified page numbers])
*CoH 179 [1608]
Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to the Countess of Shrewsbury, from France, [1608], on a single folio leaf.

Lodge (1838), II, 499.

A folio guardbook of letters, in various hands and paper sizes, 160 leaves, in modern morocco gilt.

Volume O of the Talbot papers, formerly owned by the College of Arms.

Lambeth Palace Library (MS 3205 f. 94r-v)

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