Richard Corbett

Bishop of Oxford and Norwich

1582–1635

Introduction

Richard Corbett, the best Poet of all the Bishops in England as George Garrard called him in 1635, has left behind no autographs of his poems, nor any authoritative collection of them. The nearest approximation to a poetical autograph by him is his copy of part of a Latin gratulatory poem on the election of William Laud as Chancellor of Oxford University in 1630 (StW 1432), a text contained in a letter Corbett wrote to Laud on that occasion (*CoR 780). Corbett notes that theis verses wer brought mee in honor of the Chancellor; sure the man had a good meaning that made them…as yet they haue past no hands but mine owne, and ar not in the memory scarss in the Conscience of the Author. The verses were, in fact, written by Corbett's chaplain, William Strode (1602-45), in whose autograph collection of verse (Corpus Christi College, Oxford, MS 325, f. 35r-v) Strode has copied them out in full (*StW 1431).

Letters

Examples of Corbett's hand are not common, but, besides the letter to Laud noted above, a small number of letters and documents by Corbett, chiefly autograph, are recorded in CELM entries (*CoR 775-779, CoR 781-792).

Besides the letters to Corbett represented in Harley MS 464, a very few other letters addressed to Corbett are preserved. A letter by Sir Dudley Carleton, Viscount Dorchester, dated 9 August 1630, is in the National Archives, Kew (SP 16/172/40), recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. xxx. File copies are preserved of a letter in Latin by Sir Richard Browne, Resident in Paris, in (?) 1623 (British Library, Add. MS 34702, f. 3r) and of one in Latin by Richard James in 1618-19 (Bodleian, MS James 13, pp. 151-2).

Documents

Corbett's earliest known signature (Richard Corrbett) appears in the Oxford subscription book, which he signed (incidentally on the same page as Thomas Middleton) on 7 April 1598 (*CoR 793). His signature also appears in at least six disbursements books of his college, Christ Church, Oxford (*CoR 794-800) A later document signed by him dates from 1633 (*CoR 802), while an unspecified document on vellum signed by him was sold at Sotheby's, 15 March 1916, lot 86, to Dobell.

Also preserved is Corbett's original will, made on 7 July 1635, three weeks before his death, and signed by him twice (*CoR 804).

Harley MS 464

Six of the letters by Corbett recorded in CELM are preserved in contemporary transcripts in a single manuscript: British Library, Harley MS 464. This manuscript is of some interest, since the relevant portion (ff. 1r-15r) was evidently derived or transcribed from Corbett's papers and is the only known collection of any kind to have such authority. Fols 1r-2v comprise an original letter to Corbett by George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury, dated 20 June 1632, and f. 3r is a copy of a Privy Council letter of 31 May 1632, concerning the appointment of ministers, to which Abbot's letter refers. But for later annotations by Dr Hopkins on ff. 10v and 13r, fols 4r-15r comprise a series of transcripts of Corbett's papers. On ff. 10r, 11r, 12r, 13r and 15r are the transcripts of five of the letters by Corbett recorded in CELM (CoR 785-787, CoR 789. CoR 791), one of them (CoR 787) headed A Letter sent from my Lord …. This suggests copying by Corbett's personal secretary at Norwich, whose hand also appears in three other letters by Corbett elsewhere (*CoR 784, *CoR 788, *CoR 790). On ff. 6r, 7r, 8r and 9r-v are copies of four letters and documents sent to Corbett: namely the opinion of Attorney General Noy, in Corbett's favour, concerning the latter's claim to the glebe sown before his vacating his vicarage in Oxfordshire; two Privy Council letters of 13 December 1632 and 6 February 1632/3; and a letter by Thomas Tompson and Hillary Call, bailiffs of Yarmouth, dated 19 March 1632/3. Fol. 14r is a copy of Corbett's elegy on the death of his mother in 1634 (CoR 56). Occurring as it does in this manuscript, this is one of the most authoritative texts of any of Corbett's poems.

The letters on ff. 4r-5r and 15r of Harley 464 are subscribed respectively Concordat cum instrum[en]-to/F[a]c[t]a collac[ati]o[n]e per Nos/Mart. Hirst/No[ta]rium Pub[li]cum/Et/Thomani Martin and Concordat cum original[e]/copia; f[a]c[t]a Collac[ati]o[n]e/Ita testor/Thomas Martin/No[ta]rius Pub[li]cus. A copy of a small collection of Corbett's papers was thus made by two public notaries, and Harley MS 464, ff. 4r-15r, is a transcript of that copy made by Corbett's secretary (it is not the notaries' original certified copy since the subscriptions and signatures are in the same scribal hand as the text). Since the manuscript dates no earlier than 1634 (a year before Corbett's death, on 28 July 1635), it is conceivable that Corbett himself brought in public notaries to tidy up his affairs and make certified copies of some of his more recent papers in his declining months. The more likely option, however, is that the notaries' copies were made in or just after 1635, either at the instigation of Laud's vicar-general, who visited Norwich in that year and found the whole diocese much out of order (see Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. xxxvii), or at the instigation of Corbett's successor at Norwich, the singularly efficient Matthew Wren.

It may be added that one of Corbett's letters in the hand of his secretary (*CoR 790) is preserved in a collection of papers relating to Norwich (Bodleian, MS Tanner 135), which also includes (ff. 85r-96v) several documents dating from the latter part of 1635 and 1636 appertaining to the disordered state of Corbett's affairs as reviewed immediately after his death. They relate notably to the dilapidations of certain buildings in his care and the charges made on Bishop Wren's behalf against Corbett's executrix, his mother-in-law Anne Hutten, concerning Corbett's revenues appropriated by her, together with her answers to these charges.

Other extant documents relating to Corbett's state of affairs include one now in Lambeth Palace Library, MS 943, pp. 125-7. It contains a report Concerninge a Visitatio[n] [to] Norwich, 1627 and Complaint of Bp Corbets favour[in]g of Puritans, inscribed by the recipient as sent me. Octob. 12. 1627, and another concerning Corbett's alleged episcopal rights concerning the felling of woods.

Corbett's Verse and its Circulation

Corbett's poems were, as Anthony Wood notes, made in his younger years, and never intended to be published by their author (Athenae Oxonienses (London, 1691-2), I, 512). He never attempted, so far as is known, to collect his poems or even to take particular care to preserve them. The result is that no collection of his poems was published until twelve years after his death: i.e. in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). As is clear from the original inscribed dedication exemplum to Mary, wife of Christopher Roper, fourth Baron Teynham, which was once owned by George Thorn-Drury and is now at Harvard, the editor of this publication was John Donne the Younger (1604-62) (see Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. xlii-xliii, and Thorn-Drury's transcript of the inscription in Bodleian, Thorn-Drury d. 21, p. lxii, and in N&Q, 10 Ser. 6 (18 August 1906), 126). Donne was at Oxford between 1623 and 1634 and in 1638, and he had, among other things, some acquaintance with Corbett's chaplain, William Strode (who, for instance, gave him a licence in 1638 to publish his father's sermons: see StW 486); thus he might once have had access to good texts of Corbett's poems. Donne was, however, a notoriously unscrupulous literary opportunist (see, for example Geoffrey Keynes's account of him in A Bibliography of Dr. John Donne, 4th edition (Oxford, 1973), pp. 245-51) and, in the event, his edition of Corbett (containing twenty-two poems, some spurious) is little more than a careless patchwork of often poor texts, quite without authority.

Somewhat more important is a second and entirely independent edition of Corbett's poems which appeared in the following year: namely Poëtica Stromata (1648). This edition, which was printed on the Continent, contains twenty-five poems (fourteen of which had appeared in 1647), offers generally superior texts and is, as Bennett & Trevor-Roper point out (p. xlii et seq), clearly the most authoritative early edition. Nevertheless, despite Gilchrist's totally unwarranted supposition from its internal evidence that this edition was published under the eye of the Bishop's family, there is no reason to believe that the unknown editor's copy-texts were anything more than an assembly of nonce manuscript copies of individual poems or groups of poems which had been in circulation for the past twenty years or more. The preface To the Reader virtually implies as much: I heere offer to thy view, a Collection of certaine peices of poetry, which haue flowne from hand to hand, theses [sic] many yeares, in private papers, but were neuer Fixed for the publique eie of the world to looke upon, til now (reprinted in Gilchrist, p. lxiii). Thus, although a notable publication, the edition of 1648 has no more indisputable authority than the many scores of manuscript texts which were in circulation in Corbett's own lifetime. This fact is, to some extent, perceived by Bennett & Trevor-Roper, who view the textual situation as a difficult problem — largely because of their fundamental distrust of manuscript sources per se and their reluctance to abandon printed publications as copy-texts. It is reasonable to assume, they note (pp. lii-liv), that commonplace books in which Corbett's poems were found were compiled from printed sources, and are therefore of purely secondary importance. They add, somewhat contradictorily, that the printed editions must themselves have been derived from just such manuscripts. In fact, the majority of extant manuscript texts of Corbett's poems recorded in CELM certainly pre-date the editions of 1647 and 1648. The assumptions of Bennett & Trevor-Roper lead them to produce a wholly eclectic text of Corbett's poems based primarily on the earliest printed texts and, failing those, on what seems to be the most authoritative manuscript source for each poem, but, in any case, with improvements supplied by manuscript sources frequently…adopted in the text, when their authority seemed sufficient to warrant it.

During his own lifetime and beyond, at least until the 1640s, Corbett's poems had, in fact, a considerable circulation in manuscript and are among the most frequently transcribed poems of the period. They are especially well represented in verse miscellanies associated with Oxford, a number of these being connected with Corbett's own college, Christ Church, which was a notable centre of poetical activity, the college of, for instance, Henry King, George Morley, Brian Duppa, Jasper Mayne, William Cartwright, Martin Lluellyn and Jeramiel Terrent. Among the extant manuscript collections of verse, one of special importance is that of Corbett's chaplain William Strode, noted above (Corpus Christi College, Oxford, MS 325), which includes seven poems by Corbett (CoR 58, CoR 197, CoR 226, CoR 512, CoR 558, CoR 577, CoR 759), most of them immediately followed by Strode's own Latin versions. It may reasonably be assumed that Strode's texts of these poems were acquired at first hand from Corbett and thus that his copies have considerable authority — although, it must be noted, Strode's memory was apt to fail him in supplying headings, since he mistakenly records Corbett's poem On the Birth of Prince Charles in 1630 (CoR 512) as being On the birth of Prince Henry (i.e. either the son of James I, born in 1594, when Corbett was twelve years old, or else the son of Charles I, born in 1640, five years after Corbett's death).

A miscellany which is closely related to Strode's manuscript, and probably in part transcribed from it, was compiled by his cousin, Daniel Leare, also evidently at Christ Church (see British Library, Add. MS 30982: Δ 4). Other miscellanies are clearly related to these two manuscripts — including such compilations as the Elizabeth Lane MS (Aberdeen University Library, MS 29: Δ 1) — although, indeed, most of the main extant miscellanies are likely to be interrelated to some extent. Another miscellany which might be thought to have some possible indirect connection with Corbett is that compiled by Elizabeth Lyttelton, the daughter of Sir Thomas Browne (Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 8460), which contains two of Corbett's poems (CoR 88 and CoR 575) — albeit accompanied on pp. 47-46 rev. by George Morley's King James his Epitaph spuriously ascribed to Bishop Corbett (MoG 20). Browne's tutor — who was responsible for Browne's moving to Norwich — was, in fact, Corbett's Norfolk chaplain and drinking-companion Thomas Lushington (1590-1661). Yet another text of special interest is the calligraphic manuscript of Corbett's elegy on his father, with related verses, which came up for sale at Christie's in 1986 (CoR 93). As was recognized afterwards by Quaritch, this vellum manuscript is evidently the original funerary placard for Vincent Corbett, who died in 1619.

Independent copies of individual poems by Corbett abound. Many, if not most, of his poems are likely to have been circulated in single copies originally. Among those represented by such texts in the entries are, in particular, his widely dispersed Certaine Poeme relating to James I's visit to Cambridge in March 1614/15 (some fourteen texts among CoR 16-55); his well-known Iter Boreale (some six texts among CoR 279-315); and his Against the Opposing the Duke in Parliament (some seven texts among CoR 1-15). Between one and three single texts are also recorded for such poems as An Elegie Upon…Lady Haddington (among CoR 127-162.5), An Elegie on …Lord William Haward (among CoR 71-78.5), A Letter to the Duke of Buckingham (among CoR 342-71), A Letter …to Master Ailesbury (among CoR 316-341), To the Lord Mordant (among CoR 630-647), and, perhaps Corbett's best-known poem in modern times, The Faeryes Farewell (among CoR 552-555). One of the single copies of Iter Boreale (CoR 294) is of some interest since it bears Anthony Wood's autograph note: I remember I had this out of Dr Barten Holydayes studie after his death. Barten Holyday (1593-1661), who lived at the end of his life at Iffley in Oxford, was one of Corbett's close friends during his Christ Church days, although the text of the poem is not actually in his hand (compare the distinctive script of Holyday's autograph letter of 12 March 1660 in Bodleian, MS Montagu d. 1, f. 34r).

The Principal Manuscript Collections

For convenient reference, those manuscripts containing ten or more poems by Corbett are briefly listed below, arranged for the most part alphabetically according to repository, with the delta numbers originally supplied in IELM.

  • Aberdeen University Library, MS 29. (Elizabeth Lane MS: CoR Δ 1). Includes 18 poems by Corbett.
  • Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. e. 14. (Lawson MS: CoR Δ 2). Includes 14 poems by Corbett.
  • Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. e. 97. (English Poetry MS: CoR Δ 3). Includes 12 poems by Corbett and one of uncertain authorship.
  • British Library, Add. MS 30982. (Leare MS: CoR Δ 4). Includes 20 poems by Corbett and two of uncertain authorship.
  • British Library, Harley MS 6931. (Harley MS: CoR Δ 5). Includes 19 poems by Corbett.
  • British Library, Sloane MS 1792. (Killigrew MS: CoR Δ 6). Includes 22 poems by Corbett.
  • Folger, MS V.a.97. (Thorpe-Halliwell MS; Δ 7). Includes 12 poems by Corbett and one of uncertain authorship.
  • Folger, MS V.a.170. (Dobell MS: CoR Δ 8). Includes 15 poems by Corbett and one of uncertain authorship.
  • Folger, MS V.a.345. (Curteis MS: CoR Δ 9). Includes 15 poems by Corbett and one of uncertain authorship.
  • Huntington, HM 198, Part I. (Haslewood-Kingsborough MS (I): CoR Δ 10). Includes 10 poems by Corbett.
  • University of Nottingham, Pw V 37. (Welbeck MS: CoR Δ 11). Includes 14 poems by Corbett and one of uncertain authorship.
  • Rosenbach Museum & Library, MS 239/27. (Rosenbach MS: CoR Δ 12). Includes 11 poems by Corbett and one of doubtful authorship.
  • Westminster Abbey, MS 41. (Morley MS: CoR Δ 13). Includes 20 poems by Corbett.
  • Yale, Osborn MS b 200. (Osborn MS: CoR Δ 14). Includes 13 poems by Corbett.

A manuscript containing unspecified poems by Corbett — one therefore not represented in the entries — is a duodecimo miscellany of poems by Corbett, Strode, Jonson and others compiled by Jeremie Baines (fl.1639-51) of Hampshire, which was formerly owned by the Rev. T.M. Webb of Hardwick Vicarage, Herefordshire. This was last recorded in HMC, 7th Report, Part I (1879), Appendix, p. 691. For another unlocated miscellany, once owned by Constantijn Huygens, containing one and possibly more poems by Corbett, see CoR 315.

The Verse Canon

The figures cited above for the numbers of English poems by Corbett in the main manuscript collections presuppose a consensus on the canon. Although it is recognized that the authorship of some poems is by no means certain, the canon accepted here for present purposes is based on that established in Bennet & Trevor-Roper: viz. in their main text, pp. 1-93, excluding three poems by other authors (such as Daniel Price and John Grange) that are printed in that edition because of their relevance to certain of Corbett's poems. The poems printed in Bennett & Trevor-Roper as Dubia (pp. 94-100) have been given entries in a separate category of Poems of uncertain authorship. To this group has been added one poem which is classified elsewhere in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (pp. 154-5) as possibly written by Corbett: i.e. the poem on Corbett's blind father-in-law, Leonard Hutten, beginning Great Child, who gazest on the world new-showne. Although nowhere specifically ascribed to Corbett, the poem could well be by him since — quite apart from the relevance to him of the subject matter — it appears in William Strode's autograph manuscript noted above (see CoR 759) in the midst of a group of poems by Corbett (on ff. 23v-6v) which Strode copied out evidently as a series in order to add on facing pages his own parallel Latin versions. One poem, on the other hand, which Bennett & Trevor-Roper include in their dubia (on pp. 97-8) but which has been omitted from the entries is An Epitaph On his most honoured Friend Richard Earl of Dorset (Let no profane, ignoble foot tread neer). This elegy undoubtedly belongs in the poetical canon of Henry King, who was one of Dorset's chaplains and among whose authoritative poetical manuscripts it appears (see KiH 273-301.5).

There remain a considerable number of other poems that are attributed to Corbett in various sources on little or no reliable evidence. Those spurious poems mentioned or discussed in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (on pp. 105-6, 141, 168-84) may be listed here, for convenient reference, according to first line:

  • A friend must like a chymney be.
  • All daintie meats I do defie (On Tobacco) [part of a longer poem by Samuel Rowland].
  • All who have eyes, awake and weepe (On the death of James I) [by George Morley].
  • Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie (Elegie XIX) [by John Donne].
  • Come, with our voices let us warre [by Ben Jonson].
  • Fair Chloris sitting by the fire [by Thomas Philipott].
  • For ever dear, for ever dreaded Prince (To the Prince) [by Sir John Harington].
  • Here lies the first that gave England to see (Epitaph on Dr. Fletcher, Bishop of London).
  • I could forgive thy Macharonick rimes.
  • I did unto Appollo goe.
  • I have my Pietie too, and could [by Ben Jonson].
  • I hope at this time 'tis no newes (On ffairford windowes) [by? Jeramiel Terrent].
  • I know no painte of poetry (On Fairford Windows) [by William Strode].
  • I saw fair Chloris walk alone [by William Strode].
  • I went from England into France (Dr Corbet's Journey into France) [by Thomas Goodwyn].
  • If shadows bee a pictures excellence [by Walton Poole].
  • Kisse, lovely Celia, and be kind (Love's Courtship) [by Thomas Carew].
  • Madam, be cover'd; why stand you bare? (A Song upon Naked Breasts).
  • Malevola, since thou'lt needs be my bride (On Mrs Mallet). Mark how the lanthorns cloud mine eyes (A Non Sequitur). Ascribed to Dr. Corbet in Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 142, f. 39r.
  • Our Arts are skoff'd; tis by an Organist.
  • Say, puritane, is't come to pass (The Catechising of a Puritan).
  • Since she must go, and I must mourn, come Night (Elegie XII) [by John Donne].
  • Sir, this my little mistris here (Of the Lady Pope's daughter).
  • Skelton, some rymes and Elderton a Ballet (On Mrs Mallet) [variously ascribed also to J. Smith, Brian Duppa, J. Terrent and J. Stone].
  • Temtation bred those love-attracting flowers (Dr C. to's Mris) [version of lines by Thomas Carew].
  • The Bee is little.
  • Thrice and above blest (my souls halfe!) art thou (The Country Life) [by Robert Herrick].
  • 'Tis true, 'tis day; what though it be? (Breake of Day) [by John Donne].
  • When this fly liv'd, she us'd to play (On a fly drown'd in a lady's eye) [by Thomas Carew].
  • Whoever lov'd man vertuous.
  • Why Death so soon should honest Owen catch [by ? Benjamin Stone].
  • Yet were bidentalls sacred [by John Eliot].

To this list may be added The times whistle or a newe daunce of seven Satires, a manuscript collection of poems by one R.C. gent. now preserved in Canterbury Cathedral (LitMs D10 (3)): see Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 174.

Other poems, not mentioned in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, include the following:

  • Here lies John Cobler whom malignant fate (headed Doctor Corbet upon John Cobler in University of Newcastle upon Tyne, MS Bell/White 24, f. 30v. Anonymous in numerous other sources).I hope by this tis no newes (headed On the same by D Corbett in British Library, Sloane MS 542, f. 59r-v).
  • Man doth a double birth inherit (Upon a Fonte). Ascribed to Corbett, Rich: Bish: of Norwich in Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. e. 97 (CoR Δ 3), p. 12.
  • Man must again be born of quick'ning fire. Headed Idem in Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. e. 97 (CoR Δ 3), p. 12.
  • Methought one night, I went unto my deare. Headed A Dreame: Dr Corbet to his Mistress in Yale, Osborn MS b 62, p. 103.
  • Reader stand still, Loe here I am. Headed An Epitaph on the Duke of Buckingham made by Dr Corbet. B. of Oxford in National Library of Wales, NLW MS 5390 D, p. 500 rev. Ascribed in British Library, Egerton MS 2725, f. 60, to the Countesse of Faukland (see CaE 17). Anonymous in other sources.
  • The King loves you, you him. Headed Doctor Corbet to the Duke of Buckingham in University of Newcastle upon Tyne, MS Bell/White 25, f. 30v, and also ascribed to Corbett in Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. e. 97 (CoR Δ 3), p. 92. Anonymous in other sources (see online Early Stuart Libels).
  • 'Tis so hee's dead, and if to speak't again. Headed Epitaphiu. Mr. Bowlinge Dr. Corbett in Rosenbach Museum & Library, MS 1083/17, p. 7. Usually ascribed to Brian Duppa in other sources.
  • When that rich soil of thine (now Sainted) kept. Headed Antidotum Caecilianum. Dr Corbet in Folger, MS V.a.345 (CoR Δ 9), p. 107.
  • Who shall p[re]sume to move thee (On Dr Dunn). Ascribed to Dr Corbet in Folger MS V.a.97 (CoR Δ 7), pp. 71-3. By Jasper Mayne (see MyJ 5).
  • Within a fleece of silent waters drown'd (On One Drowned in the Snow). Ascribed to Dr Corbett in Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. e. 97 (CoR Δ 3), p. 25. By William Browne (see BrW 152).
  • Within this grave there is a grave entomb'd. Headed Doctor Corbett one a mother wth hir Infant dying in travell in Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 117, f. 174 rev. By William Browne (see BrW 80).

Further ascriptions of this kind are no doubt to be found in other seventeenth-century miscellanies.

Latin Poems

Corbett's Latin poems, which are dismissed in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (p. xv) as uniformly mediocre and sometimes…frankly execrable, have never been collected. They occur in occasional publications relating to Oxford University and are not found in manuscript sources. For reference, they may be listed (chronologically according to publication) as follows:

1.
Academiae Oxoniensis pietas erga serenissimum et potentissimum Iacobum (Oxford, 1603) [Bodleian, 4° 0. 13 Art.], sig. J4v: Anglia dùm queritur de Matris morte, sororem (8 lines).
2.
Musa hospitalis Ecclesiae Christi Oxon. in adventum foelicissimum sereniss. Iacobi Regis, Annae Reginae, & Henrici Principis ad eandem Ecclesiam (Oxford, 1605) [Bodleian, 4° H. 17 Art.], sig. D1v: Est domus ista (domus si fundamenta vocentur) (8 lines).
3.
Ivsta Oxonjensivm (London, 1612) [Bodleian, 4° 0. 12 Art.], sig. B3v-B4r:
a.
Nil opus est Anglis Musâ, tumidouè Poetâ (4 lines).
b.
Henrici Epitaphivm (Hic jacet Henricvs Princeps, cui Scotia vitam) (4 lines).
c.
Carmen Lvgvbre (Ergonè terrenam fugis insatiabilis oram) (31 lines).
d.
Epigramma (Eccum Roma tibi diem petitum) (6 lines).
4.
Ivsta fvnebria Ptolemaei Oxoniensis Thomae Bodleii Eqvitis (Oxford, 1613) [Bodleian, 4° 0. 14 Art.], sig. C1v: In Bodleivm iam humandum (Obrue Bodleivm saxis, prosterne Colossis) (8 lines) [reprinted in Gilchrist, p. 260].
5.
Iacobi ara (Oxford, 1617) [Bodleian, Mar. 528], sig. B2r-v:
a.
Ad Regem de Reditu eius in Angliam (A nobis ad nos properas, Rex magne, quid hoc est) (6 lines).
b.
Ad Eundem (Quòd modò ver duplex sentis, primumq[ue], secundo) (4 lines).
c.
Ad Eundem (Dùm gentes, populumq[ue]; Tuo cum numine lustras) (4 lines).
d.
Ad Eundem (Post Patriam in terris visam, Patria vltima coelum est) (12 lines).
6.
Academiae Oxoniensis funebria sacra aeternae memoriae serenissimae Reginae Annae (Oxford, 1619) [Bodleian, 4° J. 21 Art.], sig. B1v-B2r: In obtium Annae Reginae (Pharmaca nil poterant ad vitam, carmina possunt) (12 lines).
7.
Oxoniensis Academiae parentalia (Oxford, 1625) [Bodleian, 4° J. 21 Art.], sig. K4v: (Qvid increpamus Numina? At scelus nostrum) (14 lines).

One further Latin poem, Qvod Sunamitae redditus puer Matri (26 lines), is ascribed to Rich. Oxon in Britanniae Natalis (Oxford, 1630) [Bodleian, 4° J. 12 Art.], sig. K4r-v. It is in fact William Strode's Latin version of Corbett's poem On the Birth of Prince Charles (CoR 511-512) which appears in his own manuscript (see *StW 1460) duly inscribed Latin'd by W S.

Prose

Only a few prose works by Corbett are known to survive. Some unpublished autograph theological notes and arguments which he sent to the Marquess of Buckingham in 1621/2 or 1622/3 endorsed An answere to Certaine propositions, controuerted Atwixt us and the Popistes: by Dr Corbett etc — are still preserved (*CoR 764.5). So are copies, or notes, of four of his orations, sermons and speeches (CoR 764.8-774). Of these, for whatever reason, the only one quite widely disseminated in manuscript copies is his speech on 29 April 1634 exhorting his clergy to raise contributions for the repair of St Paul's Cathedral in London (CoR 767-774).

Corbett's oration delivered as deputy Public Orator on 13 March 1612/13 on the death of Sir Thomas Bodley (beginning Vtinam, Auditores, vtinam pari virtute, & progenie, quâ homines nati sumus, nasceremur Oratores!…) was published as Oratio Fvnebris Habita in Schola Theologica ab Oratore Publico, in Ovitv Clarissimi Eqvitis Thomae Bodleii (Oxford, 1613) and does not appear in manuscript texts.

A copy of A Funeral Sermon by Dr. Corbet was sold in the Peter Le Neve sale by John Wilcox in London on 19 March 1730/1, lot 70, as were a manuscript of Dr. Corbet's Sermon, Notes (lot 69) and Mr. Corbet, D.D. his Book of Accounts (Folio MSS, lot 12), but no further details of these items are known. Although, according to Anthony Wood, Corbett was a most quaint Preacher and therefore much followed by ingenious men (Athenae Oxonienses, 2 vols (London, 1691-2), I, 512), no text of any other of his sermons is known to survive. This is despite a number of contemporary references to notable sermons he preached: for instance, at Christ Church on Passion Sunday in 1613; before James I at Woodstock on 26 August 1621 (when he lost the thread of his argument, much to everyone's amusement); and before Charles I at Newmarket on 9 March 1633/4 (see Bennett & Trevor-Roper, esp. pp. xvi, xxii and xxxi).

A prose character of Mrs Mallet (a figure cruelly satirized in one of his well-known poems: CoR 652-86) is ascribed to Corbett in New York Public Library, Arents Collection, Cat. No. S 191 (Acc. No. 7167), f. [15a rev.], as well as in its copy, Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce MS 18 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.17), f. 71v; but the attribution probably results from confusion with the poem (see Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 105). A set of ten prose homilies headed Honos alit artes (and beginning My sonne, the virtuous inclination of thy matchlesse Mother…) are ascribed to R:C: in the Holgate MS in the Pierpont Morgan Library (MA 1057, pp. 293-6), but there seems to be no justification for the annotation Corbet made by a later hand.

Miscellaneous and Editorial Papers

Many other allusions to Corbett, including poems and satires on him, are found in seventeenth-century sources: a number of these are cited in Bennett & Trevor-Roper. John Aubrey's autograph brief life of Corbett is in the Bodleian (MS Aubrey 6, f. 106r-v, and also f. 69r and MS Aubrey 8, f. 15v): see Brief Lives, ed. Andrew Clark (Oxford, 1898), I, 183-8. Aubrey's inscribed exemplum of Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647) is likewise in the Bodleian (Ashm. 3. 5 (3)). The heavily annotated and grangerized exemplum of Gilchrist (1807) prepared by George Thorn-Drury (1860-1931) — to which Bennett & Trevor-Roper make reference (p.v.) — is in the Bodleian (Thorn-Drury d. 21). So too is J.A.W. Bennett's own interleaved and annotated exemplum of his and Trevor-Roper's edition of 1955, together with a small folder of related notes and cuttings (Arch. H. d. 8, 8*).

Abbreviations

Bennett & Trevor-Roper
The Poems of Richard Corbett, ed. J.A.W. Bennett and H.R. Trevor-Roper (Oxford, 1955).
Gilchrist
The Poems of Richard Corbet, Late Bishop of Oxford and of Norwich, The Fourth Edition, ed. Octavius Gilchrist (London, 1807).

Verse

Poems by Corbett

Against the Opposing the Duke in Parliament, 1628 ('The wisest King did wonder when hee spy'd')

First published in Poems and Songs relating to George Duke of Buckingham, Percy Society (London, 1850), p. 31. Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 82-3.

Most MS texts followed by an anonymous Answer beginning The warlike king was troubl'd when hee spi'd. Texts of these two poems discussed in V.L. Pearl and M.L. Pearl, Richard Corbett's Against the Opposing of the Duke in Parliament, 1628 and the Anonymous Rejoinder, An Answere to the Same, Lyne for Lyne: The Earliest Dated Manuscript Copies, RES, NS 42 (1991), 32-9, and related correspondence in RES, NS 43 (1992), 248-9.

CoR 1

Copy, here ascribed to Po. Coc., following a list of the MPs committed to the Tower by Charles I.

A composite volume of state papers.

c.1628

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, pp. 68-71.

The Duke of Northumberland, Alnwick Castle (Volume. XIII [unnumbered pages])
CoR 1.5

Copy.

An octavo verse miscellany, in two or more hands, 95 leaves (plus blanks), including two Indexes, in contemporary vellum.

Compiled by an Oxford University man, possibly a member of St John's College.

c.1634-43

A receipt (f. 104r) by John Weston recording payment from his brother Ed: Weston, 3 May 1714. The name John Saunders inscribed on the final leaf.

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 21 f. 94r)
CoR 2

Copy, headed Verses supposed to be made by Doctor Corbett Bishop of Oxford against the opposing the Duke in Parliament. 1628.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 82, 152.

An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in a secretary hand, vi + 221 pages, in 18th-century diced calf gilt.

c.1630s

Inscribed (f. iiir) by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector, Bought at the sale of Mr. [Jonathan] Boucher's Library in April 1806, for £2. 12. 6. E Malone.

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 23 pp. 116-17)
CoR 3

Copy, headed Upon the breach betweene ye King & ye Subiect, at ye dissolution of the Parliament. March. 1628.

A folio composite volume, chiefly of English and Latin verse, in various hands; vi + 186 leaves, in reversed calf.

Scribbling on f. iir including ffor mr William Rabey in New=market..., ffor my Louing ffriend in G John westhropp at mr Rogers Reringe house Bury in S[uffolk], ffor mr John fford at his house in Newmarket in the countey of cambridge; notes on f. iiiv-ivr, one Recd 22 July 1669, subscribed John Cooke and including, on f. vir, ffor mr John Cocke at his howse neere the white harte in Thetford.... Later owned, in the 1730s, by Charles Barlow, of Emmanuel College, Cambridge (his bookplate f. iiv).

CoR 5

Copy, headed On the Parliament 1628.

A quarto verse miscellany and masque, in at least three hands, written from both ends, i + 123 leaves, in contemporary calf.

Mid-late 17th century

Including (f. 1r) an anagram on Frances Pawlett. Inscribed in red ink (f. 123v) Egigius Frampton hunc librum jure tenet non est mortale quod opto: 1659: i.e. by Giles Frampton, who is perhaps responsible for some of the later poems. Also inscribed [?]R. N. 1663. Some later notes in the hand of Richard Rawlinson.

CoR 6

Copy, headed On ye Parleament 1627.

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

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

c.1630s

Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1834), item 728. Acquired from C. Booth, October 1857.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Thorpe MS: CwT Δ 12, CrR Δ 3, StW Δ 9.

CoR 6.2

Copy of the answer to Corbet's poem, in a professional secretary hand, headed Answere to ye Doctr. Corbetts verses and here beginning The warlicke kinge did wonder when he spide, on one side of a single folio leaf.

A folio composite volume of verse and prose, in various hands and paper sizes, 25 leaves, in modern half red calf.

CoR 6.5 c.17 March-12 May 1628/9

Copy, headed An episcopall libell againste the lougher howse, the Bbp of Oxforde is thoughte to bee the author of them.

On f. 30v is An answere to the verses pag: 49 (The warlike Kinge did wonder when hee spide), the page headed Maye 12th 1629.

Edited from this MS in Pearl, pp. 36-8.

Autograph diary of the lawyer Walter Yonge, MP, of Colyton, Devon, in his secretary hand, 90 folio leaves, with (ff. 84r-90r) a Table of contents, in modern half red morocco.

1627-42

Inscribed (f. 3r) This manuscript was founde by me one the 22th day of April, 1644, in the studie of Walter Younge, Esq., in his house of Studcombe [i.e. Stedeombe in Axminster] in Devon, witnes my haunde the day & yeare first aboue-written. E. Fortescue: i.e. probably by Sir Edmund Fortescue, the Royalist defender of Salcombe. Phillipps MS 20757. Sotheby's, 5-10 June 1899 (Phillipps sale), lot 340.

CoR 6.6

Copy, untitled.

A folio book of parliament speeches in 1627/8-1629, in a professional secretary hand, on thirteen pages, in a folio composite volume of state papers and printed tracts.

c.1630s
The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House (Cecil Papers 253/3 f. [7r])
CoR 6.8 c.1629-30s

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, following (f. 67r) The Warlike kinge did wonder when he spide, on the third page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.

A folio composite volume of state, literary and family papers and speeches, in various hands and paper sizes, 93 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half red morocco.

Papers principally of the Boteler family, of Biddenham, Bedfordshire, and of the family of John Hampden, MP (1595-1643), politician, of Great Hampden, Buckinghamshire.

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

CoR 7

Copy in the hand of Sir Edward Nicholas, appended to a copy of Charles I's speech on 10 March 1628/9, on one of two conjugate folio leaves.

A folio composite volume of state papers belonging to Sir Edward Nicholas (1593-1669), Secretary of State.

c.1630
The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2541 f. 118)
CoR 8

Copy, headed Verses made of the Lower house of Parlement 1628. supposed by Dr. Corbett bishop of Oxford at yt time.

A quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat predominantly italic hand, occupying ff. 25r-79v, the second of three independent MSS in different hands (including extracts from Hayward's Henry IV and from Sir Edwin Sandys, and parliamentary proceedings 1623/4), in a composite volume, 141 leaves, in modern half morocco gilt.

The verse miscellany, including an Index (ff. 78v-9v), is compiled by John Holles (1595-1666), second Earl of Clare.

Mid-17th century

Discussed in Andrew McRae, Literature, Satire and the Early Stuart State (Cambridge, 2004), 42, and Thomas Cogswell, The Symptomes and Vapors of a Diseased Time: the Earl of Clare and Early Stuart Manuscript Culture, RES, NS 57 (2006), 310-336. The parliamentary proceedings published in Christopher Thompson, editor, The Holles Account of Proceedings in the House of Commons in 1624 (Orsett, Essex, 1985).

CoR 9 c.1630

Copy, untitled, following The kinges speech 10 March 1628[/9].

A folio composite volume of antiquarian and parliamentary tracts, in various professional secretary hands, 245 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco in cloth boards gilt.

Inscribed (f. 2r) Sum Edw Umfrevile Juneis. Interioris Templi Studentis 1725. 10o Aprilis: i.e. by Edward Umfreville (1702?-86), collector of legal manuscripts. Bookplate (as Shelburne) of William Petty (1737-1805), second Earl of Shelburne and first Marquess of Lansdowne, Prime Minister.

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 491 f. 184v)
CoR 10

Copy, headed Verses supposed to bee made by Dr Corbet Bp of Oxford against the opposing the Duke in Parliament 1628. c.1630.

Edited from this MS in Percy Society volume (1850); in Bennett & Trevor-Roper; and in online Early Stuart Libels.

A quarto composite volume of state papers and speeches, in several hands, ff. 153r-97r in a single professional hand, 197 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards.

c.1630s

Once owned by John Hart and John Ashton.

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 826 f. 153r-v)
CoR 10.5

Copy, untitled.

A duodecimo notebook, in Latin and English, entitled Sales, Facetiæ & Collectiones promiscuæ, in several hands, written from both ends, 56 leaves (plus blanks), in red morocco gilt.

Including numerous medical prescriptions by Sir Théodore Turquet de Mayerne (1573-1654/5), royal physician.

c.1658
The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1179 f. 47r)
CoR 11

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 152.

A duodecimo miscellany of Sales, Facetiæ, & Collectiones promiscuæ, including academic letters, speeches, etc., in English and Latin, in several hands, 56 leaves (plus blanks), the texts dating c.1623-1658, in red crushed morocco gilt.

Compiled at least in part by a Cambridge University man.

Mid-17th century
The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1479 f. 47r)
CoR 12 c.1630

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, with a poem about Corbett, on a single folio leaf.

A collection of unbound verse, in various hands.

Probably collected by Dr Samuel Knight (1677/8-1746), clergyman and antiquary.

CoR 12.3

Copy, headed A Libell found at the Court and presented to the King by the Bp of London Dr Lawde, 8 March 1628, dated 14 March 1628[/9].

A small quarto miscellany, c.360 pages.

Compiled by William Whiteway, Jr (1599-1635).

1623-34
CoR 12.5

Copy, headed Certaine verses inveighing agt ye howse of Comons made vpon their said Disorder.

A folio volume of state tracts, speeches, and verse, closely written from both ends in a single hand, 260 pages, lacking a number of pages and some fragments (pp. 25-38, 48-64) now removed to MS Gg. 4. 13*, in quarter-calf.

Mid-17th century
CoR 12.8

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, with a side-note Ecles: 10, endorsed Vpon dissolucon of the Parliamte. Ao quinto Re Caroli, on a single folio leaf.

A collection of unbound state papers, now in folders.

c.1628

Donated in 1921 by Dr J. R. Tanner.

St John's College, Cambridge (MS K. 56 (James 542) No. 30)
CoR 13

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, on one side of a single folio leaf.

c.1628

Among papers of the Griffith family of Carreglwyd, Anglesey, including papers of John Griffith of Gray's Inn, private secretary to Henry Howard (1540-1614), Earl of Northampton.

This MS recorded in HMC, 5th Report (1876), Appendix, p. 414.

National Library of Wales (Carreglwyd MS II. 339)
CoR 14 c.1620s

Copy, in a mixed hand, untitled but headed Docter Corbett, on one side of a single folio leaf.

A bundle of unbound poems and songs, in various hands and paper sizes.

Among the papers of the Sanford family. Formerly DD/SF C/2635, Box 1 and DD/SF 4516.

Somerset Heritage Centre (DD/SF/18/2/5 item 3)
CoR 15

Copy, headed I had these verses deliuered me and subscried Doctr Kerbie B: Ox, dated 6 August 1629.

Edited from this MS in Diary of John Rous, ed. Mary Ann Everett Green, Camden Society 66 (London, 1856), pp. 42-3. This publication recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 82, 152.

A small quarto diary, in a single secretary hand, 89 leaves, bound with a separately acquired continuation or companion MS (ff. 90r-153r, now Add. MS 28640), in modern half-morocco.

Compiled by the Rev. John Rous (1584-1644), incumbent of Santon Downham, Suffolk, and relating, retrospectively, chiefly to public events and to literary texts in circulation in 1625-42.

c.1625-42

Later owned by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist and antiquary. Turner sale, 7 June 1859, lot 253. The second MS purchased at Sotheby's, 15-25 March 1871 (library of the bookseller Joseph Lilly).

The first MS edited in full in Diary of John Rous, incumbent of Santon Downham, Suffolk, from 1625 to 1642, ed. Mary Anne Everett Green, Camden Society No. 66 (1856).

A Certaine Poeme As it was presented in Latine by Divines and Others, before his Maiestye in Cambridge ('It is not yet a fortnight, since')

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 12-18.

Some texts accompanied by an Answer (A ballad late was made).

CoR 16

Copy.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single italic hand, evidently associated with Oxford, probably Christ Church, 214 pages (skipping p. 177), plus an index.

Including 18 poems by Corbett and 59 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1630s

Inscribed on a flyleaf Elizabeth Lane hir booke and, among scribbling on another flyleaf, Johannes Finch. P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 341.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Elizabeth Lane MS: CoR Δ 1 and StW Δ 4. The Dobell catalogue description recorded in Forey (pp. lxxxv-lxxxvi).

Aberdeen University Library (MS 29 pp. 44-9)
CoR 17

Copy, subscribed R: C.

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.

CoR 18

Copy, headed The Entertainmt. of his Matye at Cambridge, to the Tune of Bonny Nell.

An octavo miscellany of chiefly verse, in at least two cursive italic hands, with religious verse and prose at the reverse end in another hand, 111 leaves (plus blanks), in old calf gilt.

Including nineteen poems by Corbett and 29 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, the date 1634 occurring on f. 78v.

c.1635

Inscribed on f. 111v rev. Thursday next at Capricks for Mr Pitt. Later among the collections of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724), and his son Edward, second Earl (1689-1741).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Harley MS: CoR Δ 5.

CoR 19

Copy, headed Dr Corbett against Cambridge.

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

Including 13 poems by Donne and 14 (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett; the scribe is that mainly responsible also for the Thomas Smyth MS (DnJ Δ 48).

c.1630s

Later owned and used extensively as a notebook by Dr William Balam (1651-1726), of Ely, Cambridgeshire, who also annotated Cambridge University Library MS Add. 5778 and Harvard fMS Eng 966.4. Bookplate of N. Micklethwait. Owned in 1931 by the Rev. F.W. Glass, of Taverham Hall, near Norwich (seat in the 17th century of the Sotherton family and later of the Branthwayt and Micklethwait families).

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Welbeck MS: DnJ Δ 57 and CoR Δ 11. Discussed in H. Harvey Wood, A Seventeenth-Century Manuscript of Poems by Donne and Others, Essays & Studies, 16 (1931), 179-90. For Taverham Hall, see Thomas B. Norgate, A History of Taverham from Early Times to 1969 (Aylsham, 1969).

University of Nottingham (Pw V 37 pp. 364-5)
CoR 19.5

Copy by Stanhope of lines 3-6, here beginning & vented hath a studdyed toy.

Quoted in Akrigg, p. 796.

A printed exemplum of the 1634 edition of Sir Walter Ralegh's Historie of the World copiously annotated by Charles, second Baron Stanhope of Harrington (1593-1675).

c.1640s

Discussed in G.P.V. Akrigg, The Curious Marginalia of Charles, Second Lord Stanhope, in Joseph Quincy Adams Memorial Studies, ed. James G. McManaway, Giles E. Dawson, and Edwin E. Willoughby (Washington, DC, 1948), pp. 785-801.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, Printed books (STC 20641 Copy 3 sig. Ccc4r)
CoR 20

Copy.

An octavo verse miscellany, comprising c.118 items, including thirteen poems by Donne, twenty poems by Corbett, and twelve poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, written in several hands over an extended period, associated with Christ Church, Oxford, 99 leaves.

c.1620-40s

Owned and probably compiled in part, in his Oxford days, by George Morley (1598-1684), Bishop of Winchester.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Morley MS: DnJ Δ 62, CoR Δ 13, and StW Δ 27. This MS apparently transcribed in part in the Killigrew MS (British Library, Sloane MS 1792).

Facsimile of f. 49r in William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion, ed. Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor (Oxford, 1987), p. 24.

Westminster Abbey (MS 41 ff. 15v-17v)
CoR 21

Copy, headed On K: James his entertainment in Cambridge and subscribed R: Corbet.

A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands (one predominating up to p. 167), probably associated with Oxford, 436 pages (pp. 198-9 and 269-70 skipped in the pagination, and including many blanks and an index) and numerous further blank leaves at the end, in modern black morocco gilt.

Including 14 poems by Carew, 13 poems by Corbett and 25 poems (plus one poem of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1650

Scribbling on the first page including the words Peyton Chester….

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Osborn MS I: CwT Δ 38; CoR Δ 14; StW Δ 29.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 200 pp. 346-51)
CoR 22 c.1630s

Copy, in double columns, on the first of two conjugate folio leaves of verse.

A large folio composite volume of verse, in various largely secretary hands, 327 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf.

Collected, and partly written, by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.

Betagraph of the watermark in f. 29 in Ted-Larry Pebworth, Towards a Taxonomy of Watermarks, in Puzzles in Paper: Concepts in Historical Watermarks, ed. Daniel W. Mosser, Michael Saffle and Ernest W. Sullivan, II (London, 2000), pp. 229-42 (p. 239).

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 36/37 f. 258r-v)
CoR 23

Copy, in double columns, headed Of the ks enterteynmt. at Cambridge.

A large folio miscellany of English and Welsh poems, in occasionally alternating black and red ink, 61 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

Compiled by Richard Roberts, Justice of the Peace.

c.1628

Sold by P.J. Dobell in 1936.

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. c. 54 ff. 23v-4r)
CoR 24

Copy.

An octavo verse miscellany compiled by an Oxford University man, i i + 37 leaves, in later half-calf.

c.1630s

Among the collections of Francis Douce (1757-1834), antiquary and collector.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Douce f. 5 fols 22v-5r)
CoR 25

Copy.

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

c.1620s-30s

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

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 19 pp. 112-18)
CoR 25.5

Copy, transcribed from CoR 40.

A transcript of two 17th-century verse MSS, the second a miscellany, 195 large quarto pages, in calf gilt.

19th century

Once owned by F.W. Cosens, FSA (1819-89), of Clapham Park, book collector. Sotheby's, 25 July 1890 (Cosens sale), in lot 136. Among the collections of Sir Charles Harding Firth (1857-1936), historian.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Firth d. 7 ff. 60r-9r)
CoR 26

Copy of the first five stanzas, incomplete.

A duodecimo notebook of verse and prose, in Latin and English, written from both ends, 80 leaves, in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. 1r) Liber de sententijs epistolarum Mearum, quas feci vel postea facicam deo iuuante Finis, and compiled by Joseph Meddus (b.1602/3) of Exeter College, Oxford

c.1619

Scribbling on f. 1b including the name Hen Heardson.

CoR 27

Copy.

A folio composite volume, chiefly of English and Latin verse, in various hands; vi + 186 leaves, in reversed calf.

Scribbling on f. iir including ffor mr William Rabey in New=market..., ffor my Louing ffriend in G John westhropp at mr Rogers Reringe house Bury in S[uffolk], ffor mr John fford at his house in Newmarket in the countey of cambridge; notes on f. iiiv-ivr, one Recd 22 July 1669, subscribed John Cooke and including, on f. vir, ffor mr John Cocke at his howse neere the white harte in Thetford.... Later owned, in the 1730s, by Charles Barlow, of Emmanuel College, Cambridge (his bookplate f. iiv).

CoR 30

Copy, heaed A Certaine graue poeme....

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

Including 14 poems by Carew; the main text (ff. 1r-27r) in a non-professional mixed hand of the 1630s (but for later scribbling); the remaining leaves filled by later hands; notes on family history from 1647 to 1664 on ff. 28r-9r.

c.1630s[-75]

Inscribed on f. 29v John Peverell Booke 1674 and his name also on ff. 1r and 49r. Fol. 48v containing a receipt dated 30 June 1653 by me Francis Blackitt of bro. William of Hoodcroft, Co. Durham. Other names inside the front cover including John Peves and Railphe Hogwood and, inside the back cover, James Portington, William Steadman 1675, Thomas Meeres, William Diton and Ramond Swift.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Peverell MS: CwT Δ 9.

CoR 31

Copy, headed The Oxfd-Ballad: by Dr Corbet.

A quarto composite miscellany of verse, in English and Latin, compiled by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, who lived in Cambridge as student and Fellow of Emmanuel College from 1633 to 1651, ii + 115 leaves, in calf.

Comprising three separate units: ff. 1r-96v all in Sancroft's hand; ff. 97r-104r in a second hand; and ff. 105r-9r in a third hand.

Including (on ff. 2-23, 27ar-v, 70) 94 Latin poems ascribed to Crashaw (including three of doubtful authorship) and (on ff. 29-41, 43v, 44v-58, 60v, 62v-5v, 67-70v, 72-3, 95-6) 101 English poems (plus a second copy of one of them) attributed to him (including one of doubtful authorship) and (on f. 16r-v) one Greek poem attributed to him; a list of contents on the first page beginning Mr. Crashaw's poems transcrib'd fro his own copie, before the were printed; among wch are some not printed….

c.1640s [and later]

Cited in IELM as the Sancroft MS: CrR Δ 1. Crashaw edited in part from this MS, and collated, in Grosart, in Waller and in Martin (cited as T or T5), and discussed in Waller, pp. vi-ix, and in Martin, pp. lviii-lxxiii. Folios 28-34v, 38v-41, 44v, 52v-6 reproduced in facsimile in Steps to the Temple (1970).

Bodleian Library, Tanner Collection (MS Tanner 465 ff. 75r-7r)
CoR 32

Copy.

A miscellany, ii + 182 leaves (ff. 39-130 blank).

Compiled by a Cambridge man, probably James Monson (d.1683), ninth son of Sir John Monson, second Baronet.

Late 17th century
Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Top. Oxon. e. 344 ff. 137r-134r rev.)
CoR 33 c.1630

Copy on a single folio leaf.

A composite volume of printed works and MSS.

Among the collections of Richard Gough, FSA (1735-1809), antiquary and topographer.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (Gough Cambridge 98 at end)
CoR 34

Copy, transcribed from Mr: Martin's MS: i.e. from a MS owned by Cole's Friend Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector.

See CoR 41.

A folio volume of antiquarian collections, in a single neat hand, 247 leaves, in half-morocco.

In the hand of the Rev. William Cole, FSA (1714-82), antiquary (Volume XX of the Cole Collection).

c.1747-52
CoR 35

Copy, headed A graue Parod as it was presented in Latin by certaine Diuines by way of Interlude before his Maiestie in Cambridge....

A tall folio volume of state papers, in probably a single professional rounded hand, 84 leaves, in modern half-calf on marbled boards.

Mid-17th century

Purchased from Messrs Waller, 7 July 1858.

CoR 36

Copy, headed A graue Poeme... [&c.].

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single neat predominantly italic hand, 72 leaves, in old leather.

Probably compiled by one H.S., a Cambridge man.

c.1640s-50s

Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector, with his bookplate and inscription 1806 Purchased of Lansdown of Bristol. Bliss sale, 21 August 1858, lot 192.

CoR 37 c.1620s

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, on both sides of a single folio leaf.

A folio composite volume of verse, entitled Songs & Sonnetts, in various hands, 84 leaves, in half morocco gilt.

Among the collections of Randle Holme, probably the third of that name (1627-1700), herald.

CoR 38 c.1630

Copy, in a secretary hand, on two pages of two conjugate folio leaves.

A collection of unbound verse, in various hands.

Probably collected by Dr Samuel Knight (1677/8-1746), clergyman and antiquary.

CoR 39 c.1620s

Copy, headed After ye Kinges first entertainment att Cambridge, this Oxford ballad was comon, thus intitled A graue poem...[&c.].

A quarto composite miscellany of verse and prose, in two hands, partly associated with the University of Cambridge.

CoR 40

Copy.

An additional stanza in this MS edited in Pebworth and Summers. pp. 160-1.

A verse miscellany, in long narrow format, 66 leaves (including a number of blanks), in later calf.

Largely in one neat secretary hand; a second hand on ff. 58v-9r, and a third on f. 66r. Compiled chiefly by a University of Cambridge man.

c.1630s

Once owned by F.W. Cosens, FSA (1819-89), of Clapham Park, book collector. Bequeathed in 1894 by Samuel Sandars, of Trinity College, Cambridge.

Discussed in Ted-Larry Pebworth and Claude J. Summers, Recovering an Important Seventeenth-Century Poetical Miscellany: Cambridge Add. MS 4138, TCBS, 7 (1978), 156-69 (pp. 160-1). A 19th-century transcript of much of this MS is in the Bodleian, MS Firth d. 7, ff. 60r-9r.

CoR 41

Copy, headed A Libill made by Oxford Men upon Cambridge mens enterteyning the king.

A quarto verse miscellany, in several largely secretary hands, 68 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum.

c.1620s

Once owned by Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector. Later in the library of the Rev. Richard Farmer, FSA (1735-97), Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, literary scholar. Lot 8053 in his sale, 7 May to 16 June 1798. Formerly Chetham's MS 8011.

Chetham's Library, Manchester (Mun. A.4.16 pp. 47-51)
CoR 41.5 c.1630s

Copy, in a possibly professional hand, on two conjugate folio leaves.

A folio composite volume of tracts and papers, in various chiefly professional hands, ii + 235 leaves, in reversed calf.

Compiled, and partly written, by William Fulman (1632-8), Oxford antiquary.

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

Corpus Christi College, Oxford (MS 319 ff. 58r-9v)
CoR 42

Copy.

A folio volume of tracts and letters, many relating to Cambridge affairs, partly compiled by I. Wickstede, mayor of Cambridge.

Early 17th century
Downing College, Cambridge (Bowtell Collection, MS Wickstede Thesaurus, Part II ff. 46r-7r)
CoR 43

Copy, headed March. 7. anno Dni. 1625. A Graue Poem as it was praesented by diuers sheepesheads before his Maiesty in Cambridge.

A copy of An answere to this poem is on ff. 70r-1v.

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

Mid-17th century

Inscribed (f. 1r) Stephen Wellden and Abraham Bassano and (f. 98r) Elizabeth Weldon. Later owned by William John Thoms (1803-85), writer, antiquary and librarian. Sotheby's, 11 February 1887 (Thoms sale), lot 1092. Also owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89). Formerly Folger MS 452.4.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Welden MS: DnJ Δ 49.

CoR 44

Copy, untitled, subscribed R. C.

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

Including 15 poems by Carew and 17 poems by King.

c.1630s

Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Bookplate of the Warwick Castle Library. Formerly Folger MS 1.8.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Halliwell MS: CwT Δ 26 and KiH Δ 11. James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Some Account of the Antiquities…illustrating…Shakespeare (1852), No. 8. Facsimile example in Giles Dawson and Laetitia Kennedy-Skipton, Elizabethan Handwriting 1500-1650 (London, 1968), Plate 42. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 195).

CoR 45

Copy.

An octavo miscellany, comprising Instructions for Justices of the Peace in a roman hand at one end and, from the other end a collection of poems in a secretary hand, much of the MS written in double columns in oblong format, 92 leaves, in calf.

c.1623-30s

Probably compiled by two members of the Calverley family (f. 1r contains a poem headed A new years giuft presented to my father and Mother by my Brother Thomas Calverly).

Later in the library od Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9624. Owned before 1947 by N.M. Broadbent. Later owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1906-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 13 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 135, to Maggs.

CoR 46

Copy, headed Oxford Sonnet / A poeme as it was prsented before his Matie in Cambridge...[etc.], imperfect, lacking the ending.

An oblong octavo composite volume, comprising two independent verse miscellanies, Part I, in Latin and English, largely in a neat secretary hand, paginated 1-22, Part II, in English and Welsh, in several hands, one neat secretary hand predominating, paginated 1-266, the two parts bound together in modern quarter red morocco.

c.1630s

Inscriptions including (Part I, pp. 1, 3 and 42) Edward Lewis his Book 1753, John Parker, P H Warburton, and John Aden, and (Part II, p. 33) Thomas Lloyd Esq. Wigfair MS 43, among papers mainly of the Lloyd family of Hafodunos, Denbighshire, and Wigfair, near St Asaph, Flintshire, purchased in 1926-7 from Colonel H.C. Lloyd Howard, of Wigfair.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 12443 A Part II, pp. 265-6)
CoR 47

Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, beginning at line 43, here Next rode his Lorshipp on a nag, probably transcribed from CoR 48, on both sides of a single folio leaf, imperfect, lacking a title and the beginning.

c.1620

Among papers of the Isham family of Lamport Hall.

CoR 48

Copy, in a neat secretary hand, in double columns, on the first of two unbound conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.

c.1620

Among papers of the Isham family of Lamport Hall.

CoR 49

Copy, in a small secretary hand, in double columns, on the first two pages (the third containing Latin verses) of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.

c.1620s
CoR 50

Copy, headed in the margin The K: entertainmt in Cam:.

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

c.1630

Owned and probably compiled by Robert Bishop. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9549. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue, English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 187.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) as the Bishop MS: DnJ Δ 59. Edited in David Coleman Redding, Robert Bishop's Commonplace-Book: An Edition of a Seventeenth Century Miscellany (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1960) [Mic 60-3608].

CoR 50.5

Copy.

A quarto verse miscellany, 180 pages, in three secretary hands, in contemporary limp vellum.

Probably compiled by a member of an Inn of Court.

c.1630

Bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork, book collector. Formerly Rosenbach 186.

CoR 51

Copy, headed The Oxford ballad.

A quarto formal verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary and italic hand throughout, paginated 1-162 (but lacking some leaves), in modern limp vellum.

Compiled by John Cruso (fl.1595-1655), poet and military writer, who matriculated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, in 1632.

c.1630s

Names inscribed lengthways down margins (pp. 71, 91, 95) including Cuthbert Sewell Esq, Jos. Nicholson, Wm Richardson, and Somers. Donated in 1922 by Gordon Wordsworth who claims that the volume was once owned by the poet William Wordsworth.

St John's College, Cambridge (MS U. 26 (James 548) pp. 72-80)
CoR 52 c.1620s

Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, in double columns, headed A Grave poem...[etc.], unascribed, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.

A bundle of unbound poems and songs, in various hands and paper sizes.

Among the papers of the Sanford family. Formerly DD/SF C/2635, Box 1 and DD/SF 4516.

Somerset Heritage Centre (DD/SF/18/2/5 item 4)
CoR 53

Copy.

MS.

17th century

Recorded in HMC, 7th Report, Part I (1879), Appendix, p. 508. A set of microfilms of the Verney Papers is in the British Library (M/636/1-60).

Sir Ralph Verney, Bt., Claydon House ([no shelfmark] [unspecified item])
CoR 54

Copy.

An octavo verse miscellany, including 13 poems by or attributed to Herrick, almost entirely in a single small predominantly italic hand, 250 pages (plus numerous blanks), originally in contemporary calf, but now disbound.

Inscribed four times on a flyleaf Tobias Alston his booke: i.e. probably Tobias Alston (1620-c.1639) of Sayham Hall, near Sudbury, Suffolk. His half-brother Edward (b.1598) was a contemporary of Herrick at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, while his cousin, Edward Alston, later President of the College of Physicians, was a contemporary of Herrick at St John's College, Cambridge, some of the other contents also relating to Cambridge, besides some relating to Suffolk. The date 1639 occurs on p. 241, and pp. 243-50 contains verses written in two later hands (to c.1728) and some prose pieces written from the reverse end.

c.1639 [-c.1728]

Names inscribed on a flyleaf including Henry Glisson (later Fellow of the College of Physicians); Thomas Avral(?); Horace Norton; Henry Rich; and James Tavor (Registrar of Cambridge University). Later owned by one John Whitehead, and by Dr Mary Pickford. Sotheby's, 27 June 1972, lot 309.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Alston MS: HeR Δ 7. A complete set of photocopies of the MS is in the British Library, RP 772. Facsimile of pp. 6-7 in Sotheby's sale catalogue (see HeR 176, HeR 405) where the MS is described at some length. See also letters by Peter Beal and Donald W. Foster in TLS (24 January 1986), pp. 87-8.

Yale, Osborn MS b 150 through Osborn MS b 199 (Osborn MS b 197 pp. 69-72)
CoR 55

Copy on a single folio leaf.

Early-mid-17th century
Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn Poetry Box VI/108)
Certain true Woords spoken concerning one Benet Corbett after her death. she dyed October the Second Anno 1634 ('Here, or not many feet from hence')

First published in Gilchrist (1807), pp. 154-5. Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 92.

CoR 56

A secretarial copy.

Edited from this MS in Gilchrist and in Bennett & Trevor-Roper.

A folio composite volume of ecclesiastical papers principally relating to Richard Corbett, Bishop of Norwich, 90 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half crushed morocco gilt.

Fols 4r-15r are in the professional secretary hand of Richard Corbett's personal secretary at Norwich.

Later owned by William Hopkins (1647-1700), Prebendary of Worcester, and afterwards by George Hickes (1642-1715), Dean of Worcester.

CoR 57

Copy in Fulman's hand, transcribed from CoR 58.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 160.

The second of two octavo volumes of historical collections, 375 leaves altogether.

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

Mid-late 17th century
Corpus Christi College, Oxford (MS 315b f. 351v)
CoR 58

Copy in the hand of Corbett's chaplain William Strode.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 160.

A quarto volume of autograph poems by Strode, 130 leaves (including 31 blank leaves, plus numerous blanks, stubs of five extracted leaves, and some leaves added later).

A working autograph notebook of poems by Strode, compiled and revised over a considerable period, comprising 101 English poems (including draft fragments, 66 Latin poems and 2 Greek poems by him, together with his copies of a few poems by others (generally paired with Strode's translations or answers) including Richard Corbett, Thomas Carew, Peter Apsley, and Henry King and Henry Reynolds, as well as a lecture in Latin by the Professor of Greek at Oxford; ff. 52r-96r written in Strode's mixed secretary and italic hand, probably early 1620s-30; ff. 96v-129v, and afterwards ff. 1-51v, written in Strode's italic hand, probably for the most part c.1635-7, with additions up to 1643; ff. 129v-30v containing rough jottings in both styles; many of the poems containing Strode's extensive revisions, probably made from the 1630s onwards.

c.1620s-43

Some scribbling on the last page including the name John Herbert. Possibly one of the MS volumes by Strode which, according to Anthony Wood (Athenae Oxonienses, ed. Philip Bliss, 4 vols (London, 1813-20), III, 152), came after Strode's death into the hands of Dr Richard Gardiner (1591-1670), canon of Christ Church, and then into those of Richard Davies, Oxford bookseller (fl.1646-88). Afterwards acquired, probably from Davies between 1665 and 1675, by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, who added pagination, annotations and some further entries throughout.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Corpus MS: StW Δ 1. Collated in part in Dobell. Identified as autograph and discussed in M.C. Crum, William Fulman and an Autograph Manuscript of the Poet Strode, BLR, 4 (1952-3), 324-35. Extensively discussed and the text edited from this MS in Forey. Facsimile of f. 94r in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 42 (see StW 641).

The Distracted Puritane ('Am I madd, o noble Festus')

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 56-9.

CoR 59

Copy.

A folio composite volume, chiefly of English and Latin verse, in various hands; vi + 186 leaves, in reversed calf.

Scribbling on f. iir including ffor mr William Rabey in New=market..., ffor my Louing ffriend in G John westhropp at mr Rogers Reringe house Bury in S[uffolk], ffor mr John fford at his house in Newmarket in the countey of cambridge; notes on f. iiiv-ivr, one Recd 22 July 1669, subscribed John Cooke and including, on f. vir, ffor mr John Cocke at his howse neere the white harte in Thetford.... Later owned, in the 1730s, by Charles Barlow, of Emmanuel College, Cambridge (his bookplate f. iiv).

CoR 61

Copy.

A folio miscellany of verse and some prose, 282 pages, in calf gilt.

Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 34 of the Hopkinson MSS.

Mid-late 17th century

Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

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

Bradford Archives (32D86/34 pp. 15-18)
CoR 62

Copy, here beginning O noble ffestus.

Hales &Furnivall, III, 272-4. Recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 133.

A long narrow ledger-like volume (c.40 x 15 cm) of ballads and metrical romances, in a single predominantly secretary hand, 268 leaves, all mounted on guards, in modern half-morocco.

Mid-17th century

Later owned by Thomas Percy (1768-1808), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor, and bearing copious annotations in his hand throughout, with a list by him at the end dated 20 December 1757.

This volume edited as Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript, ed. John W. Hales and Frederick J. Furnivall, 4 vols (London, 1867-8). Re-edited by I. Gollancz, 4 vols (London, 1905-10). Facsimile example of f. 94r in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 1986), No. 20, p. 31. Discussed, with five facsimile examples, in Joseph Donatelli, The Percy Folio Manuscript: A Seventeenth-Century Context for Medieval Poetry, EMS, 4 (1993), 114-33.

CoR 63

Copy.

A quarto verse miscellany, written from both ends, 192 leaves (including blanks), in old brown calf.

Compiled, over a period, principally by Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), Chaplain of Christ Church, Oxford, and Henry King's amanuensis, including (ff. 7r-61r) 24 poems by King in Manne's formal hand, written c.1625-30s; ff. 61v-72v, 73r-99v, 100r-101v written in a variant style of Manne's hand, c.1630s; and (ff. 72v, 99v, 102r-14v, 190v-169r rev.) additions in six other hands, c.1630s-44, with (ff. 75r, 76r, and 76v) three poems to which the subscription R. Dorset is added in the hand of King himself.

c.1625-46

Inscribed (f. 190v rev.) Ann Littleton. Thomas Rodd's sale catalogue, [June 1848], p. 31. Sotheby's, 4 Februry 1850 (Rodd sale), lot 500, to James Orchard Halliwell[-Phillipps] (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Afterward owned by the Rev. Thomas Corser, FSA (1793-1876), book collector. Sotheby's, 25 June 1873 (Corser sale), lot 325, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Later owned by the bookdealer Philip Robinson. Sotheby's, 26 June 1974, lot 3013, with a facsimile example in the sale catalogue.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Thomas Manne MS: KiH Δ 7. Used in Crum. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

CoR 64

A duodecimo verse miscellany, in several small non-professional hands, 88 leaves, imperfect at the beginning.

c.1630s-40s
The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 923 ff. 12r-14r)
CoR 65

Copy.

A quarto verse miscellany, including (ff. 113r-15r) copies of, or brief extracts from, 30 poems by Donne (plus two apocryphal poems), in a single hand, transcribed from the 1635 or 1639 edition of Donne's Poems, headed Donnes quaintest conceits in several hands, 156 leaves (plus blanks), in modern black morocco gilt.

Late 17th century

Once owned by Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725) and afterwards among the collections of Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741).

Cited in IELM I.i (1980) as the Harley Rawlinson MS: DnJ Δ 64.

CoR 66

Copy.

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

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

c.1633

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

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

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1446 ff. 11v-13r)
CoR 67

Copy, described as to the tune of Tho: of Bedlam.

A verse miscellany, in long narrow format, 66 leaves (including a number of blanks), in later calf.

Largely in one neat secretary hand; a second hand on ff. 58v-9r, and a third on f. 66r. Compiled chiefly by a University of Cambridge man.

c.1630s

Once owned by F.W. Cosens, FSA (1819-89), of Clapham Park, book collector. Bequeathed in 1894 by Samuel Sandars, of Trinity College, Cambridge.

Discussed in Ted-Larry Pebworth and Claude J. Summers, Recovering an Important Seventeenth-Century Poetical Miscellany: Cambridge Add. MS 4138, TCBS, 7 (1978), 156-69 (pp. 160-1). A 19th-century transcript of much of this MS is in the Bodleian, MS Firth d. 7, ff. 60r-9r.

CoR 67.5

Copy, headed The distracted puritan to ye tune of Joviall tinker, partly in double columns.

An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, closely written in possibly several minute predominantly secretary hands, 291 leaves (ff. 212-16 bound out of order after f. 24), in modern calf.

c.1640s

Inscribed (f. 1r) Joseph Hall (not the bishop). Later owned by John Payne Collier (1789-1883), literary scholar, editor and forger, who has entered in pseudo-17th-century secretary script copies of various ballads on ff. 39r-41r, 107v-79r, 181r-v, 227r-8v, 243r-6r, as well as adding foliation (1-284) before the more recent foliation (1-291, used below). Quaritch's sale catalogue of English Literature (August-November 1884), item 22350, Collier's transcript of the MS made c.1860 being item 22352. Formerly Folger MS 2071.7.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Giles E. Dawson, John Payne Collier's Great Forgery, SB, 24 (1971), 1-26.

CoR 68

Copy.

A quarto miscellany of both bawdy and religious verse and some prose, in several hands, 94 leaves (including a number of blanks), in modern quarter-calf marbled boards.

Mid-late 17th century

Inscribed Charles Shuttleworth His Booke Anno 1691. Peter Murray Hill, London, sale catalogue No. 82 (1962), item 33.

CoR 69

Copy, subscribed R C.

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

Including 15 poems by Carew and 17 poems by King.

c.1630s

Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Bookplate of the Warwick Castle Library. Formerly Folger MS 1.8.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Halliwell MS: CwT Δ 26 and KiH Δ 11. James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Some Account of the Antiquities…illustrating…Shakespeare (1852), No. 8. Facsimile example in Giles Dawson and Laetitia Kennedy-Skipton, Elizabethan Handwriting 1500-1650 (London, 1968), Plate 42. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 195).

CoR 70

Copy; imperfect, lacking pp. 37-8.

An oblong octavo composite volume, comprising two independent verse miscellanies, Part I, in Latin and English, largely in a neat secretary hand, paginated 1-22, Part II, in English and Welsh, in several hands, one neat secretary hand predominating, paginated 1-266, the two parts bound together in modern quarter red morocco.

c.1630s

Inscriptions including (Part I, pp. 1, 3 and 42) Edward Lewis his Book 1753, John Parker, P H Warburton, and John Aden, and (Part II, p. 33) Thomas Lloyd Esq. Wigfair MS 43, among papers mainly of the Lloyd family of Hafodunos, Denbighshire, and Wigfair, near St Asaph, Flintshire, purchased in 1926-7 from Colonel H.C. Lloyd Howard, of Wigfair.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 12443 A Part II, pp. 31-9)
An Elegie on the late Lord William Haward Baron of Effingham, dead the tenth of December. 1615 ('I did not know thee, Lord, nor do I striue')

First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 9th impression (London, 1616). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 20-3.

CoR 71

Copy, the date in the title rendered as 20 December 1615, subscribed R. Corbet.

A folio miscellany of verse and some prose, 282 pages, in calf gilt.

Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 34 of the Hopkinson MSS.

Mid-late 17th century

Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

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

Bradford Archives (32D86/34 pp. 27-8)
CoR 72 c.1620s-30s

Copy, in a mixed hand, on a single folio leaf.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 115.

A folio composite volume of verse MSS, in various hands, 171 leaves, in half brown morocco.

Collected by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King of Arms and antiquary, his brother Oliver, and Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector.

CoR 72.5 c.1629-30s

Copy, in a professopnal secretary hand, headed An Eleagie on the death of E Howard Baron of Ethingham, on the first two pages of two conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.

A folio composite volume of state, literary and family papers and speeches, in various hands and paper sizes, 93 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half red morocco.

Papers principally of the Boteler family, of Biddenham, Bedfordshire, and of the family of John Hampden, MP (1595-1643), politician, of Great Hampden, Buckinghamshire.

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

CoR 73

Copy, headed An Elegie vpon the death of the Lord: Effingham 1615, ascribed in the margin to R: Cor.

This MS recorded (as N1) in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 114.

A folio volume of 143 poems by Donne, plus his Paradoxes and Problems, in a single neat hand, 270 pages (plus a three-page index), in contemporary calf.

Transcribed from Trinity College, Dublin, MS 877, [Part I], pp. 13r-161v (Dublin MS I: DnJ Δ 14) before the extraction from that MS of pages containing two poems by Donne but before the addition of the Hamilton elegy of 1625.

c.1623-5

Acquired in 1895 from Bernard Quaritch by Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908), American professor and art historian. Formerly MS Nor 4503.

Recorded in IELM as the Norton MS: DnJ Δ 9. 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. 11-13). Cited as N by most modern editors and as H4 in Variorum.

Harvard, fMS Eng 966.3 (fMS Eng 966.3 pp. 90-2)
CoR 74

Copy, headed An Elegye on the late Lo: Willm Howard Baron Efingham who dyed Decem: 10. 1615. Dr Corbet.

This MS probably that recorded (as N2) in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 114.

A small octavo miscellany of 76 poems by Donne, together with a few poems by others dating up to 1627, in a single italic hand, occasionally marking the end of poems with one or more quatrefoils, 102 leaves (foliation jumping from 55 to 57), gilt-edged, in 19th-century dark green leather gilt.

c.late 1620s

Inscriptions including (f. 6r) Hannah Lewis Junr; Thomas Turner his Book (three times, ff. 8r, 14v, 48v, dated 1750, 58 and 1760); (f. 12r) Edmund Baxter att Mrs Nortons; (ff. 20r, 59v) John Jones; (f. 40r) Jon: Pryse 1729; (f. 59v) Robt. Was[?]; and (f. 79r) Edmund Baxter 1729. Later owned by Edward Vernon Utterson (1776-1856), of Shanklin and Ryde, Isle of Wight, artist, literary antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 24 April 1852 (Utterson sale), lot 1317, sold to Lelly. Then owned by Sir John Simeon, third Baronet (1815-70), M.P. Sotheby's, 3 March 1871 (Simeon sale), lot 638, to Pickering. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 436 (1930), item 576. Formerly MS Nor 4620.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Utterson MS: DnJ Δ 51. Discussed in Sir John Simeon, Unpublished Poems of Donne, Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, 3 (London, 1856-7), No. 3. For an account of Utterson, see Raymond V. Turley, Edward Vernon Utterson, The Book Collector, 25 (1976), 21-44 (and plates after p. 48).

Harvard University, MS Eng 966.7 (MS Eng 966.7 ff. 99r-100v)
CoR 75

Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, headed An elegie on the death of the late Lo: Howard Baron of Effingham deceased the .10. of Decemb:, on the first two pages of two unbound conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.

c.1615-20s
CoR 76

Copy.

A folio verse miscellany, containing 89 poems, including 43 by Donne, in several hands (ff. 21r-62r in a single accomplished secretary hand), 69 leaves, in paper wrappers.

The text of the poems by Donne derived from the same source as the Lansdowne MS (British Library, Lansdowne MS 740) and related in part to the Haslewood-Kingsborough MS II (Huntington, HM 198, Part II).

c.1620-5

Formerly among the muniments of the Earl of Dalhousie (descendant of the Maule and Ramsay families), of Brechin Castle, on deposit in the Scottish Record Office [now National Archives of Scotland] (GD45/26/95/1). Sotheby's, 20 July 1981, lot 490.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the the Dalhousie MS I: DnJ Δ 11. Complete reduced facsimile and transcription in The First and Second Dalhousie Manuscripts: Poems and Prose by John Donne and Others: A Facsimile Edition, ed. Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Columbia, 1988). Also discussed by Ernest W. Sullivan, II in Donne Manuscripts: Dalhousie I, John Donne Journal, 3/2 (1984), 204-19; in And, having done that, Thou hast done: Locating, Acquiring, and Studying the Dalhousie Manuscripts, in The Donne Dalhousie Discovery: Proceedings of a Symposium on the Acquisition and Study of the John Donne and Joseph Conrad Collections at Texas Tech University, ed. Ernest W. Sullivan II and David J. Murrah (Lubbock, TX, 1987), pp. 1-10; and in The Renaissance Manuscript Verse Miscellany: Private Party, Private Text, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, ed. W. Speed Hill (Binghamton, 1993), pp. 289-97.

Facsimiles of f. 15v in DLB, vol. 121, Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, First Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1992), p. 13, and of f. 42r in Sotheby's sale catalogue and in Peter Beal, A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology 1450-2000 (Oxford, 2008), p. 431, Illus. 91. A complete microfilm of the MS is in the National Archives of Scotland.

Sullivan suggests that the miscellany derives from sources preserved by members of the Earl of Essex's circle, their most likely conduit to the Dalhousie family being John Ramsay (1580-1626), Viscount Haddington and Earl of Holderness.

Texas Tech University, Lubbock (PR 1171 D14 ff. 64r-5r)
CoR 77

Copy, headed An Elegie vpon the death of the Lo: Effingham, inscribed in the margin R: Cor.

A folio collection of verse containing 143 poems by Donne and his Paradoxes and Problems, in a single predominantly italic hand (except for two poems on f. 104r-v, added afterwards by two other italic and secretary hands), the main scribe also probably responsible for the Puckering MS (DnJ Δ 13); this collection constituting ff. 13r-161v of a single folio volume containing also Part II, with an index on ff. 2r-11v (covering both Parts) in another hand, ii + 279 leaves in all, in old blind-stamped calf (rebacked).

c.1623-5

Old pressmark MS G. 2. 21.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Dublin MS (Part I): DnJ Δ 14.

Trinity College, Dublin, numbers 800 through end (MS 877, [Part I] ff. 59r-60r)
CoR 78

Copy, subscribed Fran: Beaumont.

A folio verse miscellany, including 15 poems by Donne, f. 162r-v in a rounded italic hand, ff. 164r-74v in a slightly erratic italic hand, ff. 175r-279v in a neat formal italic hand (also responsible for the index on ff. 2r-11v), this miscellany constituting ff. 162r-279v of a single folio volume containing also Part I (DnJ Δ 15), ii + 279 leaves in all (lacking one or more leaves at the end), in old blind-stamped calf (rebacked).

c.1630s

Formerly MS G. 2.21.

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

Trinity College, Dublin, numbers 800 through end (MS 877, [Part II] ff. 251v-3r)
CoR 78.5

Copy of the first six lines, headed An Elegie made by Dr Corbet on the late lord Sr William Howard baron of Effingham; imperfect, lacking the rest.

An octavo verse miscellany, of English and Welsh verse and prose, in probably several hands, the English verse (on pages 9-70, 93-104) including eleven poems by Strode and two of doubtful authorship, 110 pages (plus stubs of extracted leaves).

Compiled by members of the Griffith family, of Llanddyfnan, the verse probably entered by one or more of the various members of that family who studied in this period at the University of Oxford.

Mid-17th century

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Griffith MS: StW Δ 26.

Bangor University (MS 422 p. 30)
An Elegie Upon the death of his owne Father ('Vincent Corbet, farther knowne')

First published (omitting the last four lines) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Published with the last four lines in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 67-9.

CoR 79

Copy, headed On Doctor Corbetts Father: R: C:.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single italic hand, evidently associated with Oxford, probably Christ Church, 214 pages (skipping p. 177), plus an index.

Including 18 poems by Corbett and 59 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1630s

Inscribed on a flyleaf Elizabeth Lane hir booke and, among scribbling on another flyleaf, Johannes Finch. P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 341.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Elizabeth Lane MS: CoR Δ 1 and StW Δ 4. The Dobell catalogue description recorded in Forey (pp. lxxxv-lxxxvi).

Aberdeen University Library (MS 29 pp. 56-7)
CoR 80

Copy, headed On Dr Corbets father.

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.

CoR 81

Copy in two hands, headed On Dr Corbets father, subscribed Dr R: Corbett.

An octavo miscellany of chiefly verse, in at least two cursive italic hands, with religious verse and prose at the reverse end in another hand, 111 leaves (plus blanks), in old calf gilt.

Including nineteen poems by Corbett and 29 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, the date 1634 occurring on f. 78v.

c.1635

Inscribed on f. 111v rev. Thursday next at Capricks for Mr Pitt. Later among the collections of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724), and his son Edward, second Earl (1689-1741).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Harley MS: CoR Δ 5.

CoR 82

Copy, headed In Eundem [i.e. on Vincent Corbett]. R:C:.

An octavo verse miscellany, written predominantly in a single italic hand (on ff. 2r-19v, 20v-134v, 139r-43r); another hand on ff. 20r-v, 135v, 136v, 137v, 138v, with verbal alterations in yet another hand and scribbling elsewhere; f. 137v (rev.) containing a receipt of one Richard Bull signed by one Thomas Johnson and dated 1676; 143 leaves.

Including 14 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 22 poems by Corbett and 36 poems (plus three of doubtful authorship) by Strode. Apparently transcribed in part from Westminster Abbey, MS 41.

c.early 1630s

Inscribed (f. 1r) by one I A of Christ Church, Oxford, and also Robert Killigrew his booke witnes by his Maiesties ape Gorge Harison. Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane, Bt (1660-1753), physician and collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Killigrew MS: CwT Δ 21; CoR Δ 6; StW Δ 14. Facsimile example of f. 2v in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), Plate 7, after p. 86.

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1792 ff. 62r-3r)
CoR 83

Copy, headed Dr. C: Vpon his Father.

A quarto verse miscellany, pp. 13-244 in a single largely roman hand, the remainder in varying styles in one or more other hands (up to c.1655), probably associated with Oxford University, 541 pages (of which pp. 1-12, 87-8 have been extracted and pp. 251-68, 334, 400, 410-540 are blank, with stubs of other extracted leaves at the end), in contemporary brown calf.

Including 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 57 poems (plus a second copy of one poem and four poems of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1630s[-55]

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: possibly his MS 18123. Owned c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914), literary scholar and bookseller. Formerly MS 646.4.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Dobell MS: CoR Δ 8 and StW Δ 18. Discussed in Bertram Dobell in The Athenaeum, No. 4475 (2 August 1913), p. 112. A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).

CoR 84

Copy, headed On Dr Corbets ffather and subscribed R: Corbet.

A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands (one predominating up to p. 167), probably associated with Oxford, 436 pages (pp. 198-9 and 269-70 skipped in the pagination, and including many blanks and an index) and numerous further blank leaves at the end, in modern black morocco gilt.

Including 14 poems by Carew, 13 poems by Corbett and 25 poems (plus one poem of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1650

Scribbling on the first page including the words Peyton Chester….

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Osborn MS I: CwT Δ 38; CoR Δ 14; StW Δ 29.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 200 pp. 216-17)
CoR 85

Copy, headed An Epitaph on Dr Corbets father, subscribed Dor Corbett.

An octavo verse miscellany, including sixteen poems by Strode and one of doubtful authorship, in several hands, including a small mixed hand on ff. 2r-43v, cursive secretary hands thereafter, and Latin entries in italic at the reverse end, 139 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1630s

A flyleaf inscribed [?] Johannes Philips. Acquired from H. Stevens 11 December 1852.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1987), as the John Philips MS: StW Δ 8.

CoR 86

Copy, headed Another vpon the same [i.e. on Vincent Corbett].

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

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

c.1637-51

Inscribed (front pastedown) Wakelin EeK Hering / Blows of Whitsor, and (rear pastedown) R. J. Cotton. Formerly Folger MS 2073.4.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Cotton MS: StW Δ 20.

CoR 87

Copy, headed On Dr Corbets father.

A small quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single, minute non-professional italic hand, probably someone associated with Oxford University, comprising 180 pages now all separated and mounted, interleaved, in 19th-century calf.

c.late 1630s

Later in the libraries (with bookplates) of the book collector Richard Heber (1774-1833); of the bibliographer and antiquary Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833); of the biographer and literary editor Alexander Chalmers (1759-1834); and of the antiquary Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough (his sale by Charles Sharpe in Dublin, 1 November 1842, lot 577).

CoR 88

Copy, headed Dr R. Corbet's Elegy on his own Father.

A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, predominantly in one female roman hand, written from both ends, 174 pages, in contemporary calf.

Compiled by members of Sir Thomas Browne's family, chiefly his daughter Elizabeth Lyttelton (b. c.1648), containing various works in verse and prose including copies of a passage by Sir Thomas on consumptions (p. 43), a list of books which he had Elizabeth read out to him (pp. 44-5), copies of notes by him (pp. 77-76 rev.), his poem Upon a Tempest at Sea (pp. 94-93 rev.) and verses beginning the Almond flourisheth ye Birch trees flowe (p. 72); some of the verses in other hands including poems by Donne, Corbett, Wotton, Cartwright, William Browne, Ralegh, Katherine Phillips and others.

Late 17th century

Inscriptions (p. 1) Mary Browne (who d.1676) and James Dodsley and (p. 174) Mar. 11th 1713/4 The gift of Mrs Lyttelton to Edward Tenison. Percy Dobell's sale catalogue The Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1240. Bookplate of the Royal College of Medicine, London. Owned by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (Bibliotheca Bibliographici, No. 1301).

This MS volume described in [Geoffrey Keynes], A Daughter of Sir Thomas Browne, TLS (4 September 1919), p. 420. Discussed in Victoria E. Burke, Contexts for Women's Manuscript Miscellanies: The Case of Elizabeth Lyttelton and Sir Thomas Browne, Yearbook of English Studies, 33 (2003), 316-28. Edited selectively by Geoffrey Keynes as The Commonplace Book of Elizabeth Lyttelton, Daughter of Sir Thomas Browne (Cambridge, 1919). The passages by Browne also edited in Keynes, I, 120-1, and III, 236-7, 331-2.

CoR 89

Copy, untitled, subscribed R: C:.

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 Pierpont Morgan Library (MA 1057 pp. 10-11)
CoR 90

Copy, here beginning Dear Vincent Corbett....

A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, in probably two or more secretary hands, 108 pages, in half brown morocco.

Mid-17th century

Later owned by F.W. Cosens (1819-89). Bookplate of James W. Ellsworth.

CoR 91

Copy, headed Dr. Corbett on his father.

A quarto verse miscellany, including ten poems by Thomas Carew, probably in a single accomplished hand (changing to two styles of italic on ff. 42v-4v, 5r-60r, 76r-v), i + 89 leaves (including blanks, stubs of two or three excised leaves, and an index), in contemporary limp vellum.

c.1630s-40s

Later notes and scribbling including the names John Nutting (ff. 26r, 56r) and John M. and John Susan (rear paste-down). The last leaf also containing a list of the titles of 65 poems by Carew together with the number of lines in each poem, this list unrelated to the contents of the rest of the MS.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Nutting MS: CwT Δ 35. The list of poems, probably relating to another MS, is edited, with facsimiles, in Scott Nixon, The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 198-9, 217-19).

St John's College, Cambridge (MS S. 23 (James 416) ff. 52r-3r)
CoR 92

Copy, headed Dr. Corbetts Epitaph on his Father.

An octavo verse miscellany, including 13 poems by or attributed to Herrick, almost entirely in a single small predominantly italic hand, 250 pages (plus numerous blanks), originally in contemporary calf, but now disbound.

Inscribed four times on a flyleaf Tobias Alston his booke: i.e. probably Tobias Alston (1620-c.1639) of Sayham Hall, near Sudbury, Suffolk. His half-brother Edward (b.1598) was a contemporary of Herrick at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, while his cousin, Edward Alston, later President of the College of Physicians, was a contemporary of Herrick at St John's College, Cambridge, some of the other contents also relating to Cambridge, besides some relating to Suffolk. The date 1639 occurs on p. 241, and pp. 243-50 contains verses written in two later hands (to c.1728) and some prose pieces written from the reverse end.

c.1639 [-c.1728]

Names inscribed on a flyleaf including Henry Glisson (later Fellow of the College of Physicians); Thomas Avral(?); Horace Norton; Henry Rich; and James Tavor (Registrar of Cambridge University). Later owned by one John Whitehead, and by Dr Mary Pickford. Sotheby's, 27 June 1972, lot 309.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Alston MS: HeR Δ 7. A complete set of photocopies of the MS is in the British Library, RP 772. Facsimile of pp. 6-7 in Sotheby's sale catalogue (see HeR 176, HeR 405) where the MS is described at some length. See also letters by Peter Beal and Donald W. Foster in TLS (24 January 1986), pp. 87-8.

CoR 92.5

Copy, headed Dr Corbett on his father.

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

c.late 1630s

Inscribed (on p. [330]) Robert Lord his book Anno Domini; (on [p. 335]) william Jacob his booke Amen; and, among scribbling on the last leaf, Hugh Gibgans of the same and John Winter of Buckland Dursbane [or husbande?]. Owned in 1788 by Alexander R. Popham. Bloomsbury Book Auction, 23 November 2000, lot 8.

A microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7698.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 356 pp. 260-2)
CoR 93

Copy, the first two words in engrossed and decorated lettering, subscribed Rich: Corbet, in the left column.

Calligraphic funerary placard for Vincent Corbett, on a membrane of vellum, c.58.5 x 54.5cm, with pin holes.

Comprising three English and Latin elegies on Vincent Corbett (He Dyed the xxvith: of Aprill in the Yeare of our Lord 1619), by his son Richard Corbett, John Selden, and Ben Jonson, arranged in columns under the engrossed title Sacred to the Memory of Vincent Corbet, with an unattributed four-line epitaph at the foot To the Reader (Reader whose life and name did ere become), in the form of a memorial tablet, with borders decorated in colours. This is evidently the original funerary placard for Vincent Corbett hung up in St Mary's Church, Twickenham, after 26 April 1619.

1619

This MS once owned by John Evelyn. Thomas Rodd, Catalogue of a Collection of Manuscripts (1838), item 317. Afterwards owned by William Upcott and sold at the Duke of Berwick sale 1843. Christie's 29 May 1986, lot 199 (with facsimile example in the sale catalogue). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1066 (Winter 1986), item 99 (with colour facsimile).

A photograph is in the British Library, RP 3523.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS fb 230 First verses)
An Elegy Upon the death of Queene Anne ('Noe. not a quatch, sad Poets. doubt you')

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 65-7.

CoR 94

Copy.

A quarto verse miscellany of c.150 poems, in several hands; associated with Oxford, probably Christ Church, 279 pages (plus index and blanks).

Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 32 poems (plus four of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1630s-40s

Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue (1836), item 1044. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9561. Sotheby's, 19 June 1893 (Phillipps sale), lot 628, and 21 March 1895, lot 903. Hodgson's, 23 April 1959, lot 528.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the English Poetry MS: CoR Δ 3 and StW Δ 6.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 97 pp. 77-8)
CoR 95

Copy, headed On the death of Q: Anne: R: Co:.

This MS collated in part in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 66.

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.

CoR 96

Copy, headed On the same [i.e. death of Queen Anne], subscribed Dr Rich: Corbett.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 66, 140.

An octavo miscellany of chiefly verse, in at least two cursive italic hands, with religious verse and prose at the reverse end in another hand, 111 leaves (plus blanks), in old calf gilt.

Including nineteen poems by Corbett and 29 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, the date 1634 occurring on f. 78v.

c.1635

Inscribed on f. 111v rev. Thursday next at Capricks for Mr Pitt. Later among the collections of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724), and his son Edward, second Earl (1689-1741).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Harley MS: CoR Δ 5.

CoR 97

Copy, headed An Elegy on Q: Anns Death.

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

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

c.1630s

Later owned by Edward Jeremiah Curteis, M.P., of Windmill Hill, Sussex. Puttick & Simpson's, 30 June 1884 (Curteis sale), lot 175, to Pearson of Pall Mall for James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89). Formerly Folger MS 452.5.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), and II.i (1987), as the Curteis MS: DnJ Δ 50 and CoR Δ 9. Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Arthur F. Marotti, Folger MSS V.a.89 and V.a.345: Reading Lyric Poetry in Manuscript, in The Reader Revealed, ed. Sabrina Alcorn Baron, et al. (Washington, DC, 2001), pp. 44-57. Discussed in Arthur F. Marotti, Christ Church, Oxford, and Beyond: Folger MS V.a.345 and Its Manuscript and Print Sources, SP 113 (2016), 850-78. A facsimile of p. 36 is in Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey, Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper (Washington, DC, 2008), p. 32.

CoR 98

Copy, headed On ye Death of Q. Anne.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 66.

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

Including 13 poems by Donne and 14 (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett; the scribe is that mainly responsible also for the Thomas Smyth MS (DnJ Δ 48).

c.1630s

Later owned and used extensively as a notebook by Dr William Balam (1651-1726), of Ely, Cambridgeshire, who also annotated Cambridge University Library MS Add. 5778 and Harvard fMS Eng 966.4. Bookplate of N. Micklethwait. Owned in 1931 by the Rev. F.W. Glass, of Taverham Hall, near Norwich (seat in the 17th century of the Sotherton family and later of the Branthwayt and Micklethwait families).

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Welbeck MS: DnJ Δ 57 and CoR Δ 11. Discussed in H. Harvey Wood, A Seventeenth-Century Manuscript of Poems by Donne and Others, Essays & Studies, 16 (1931), 179-90. For Taverham Hall, see Thomas B. Norgate, A History of Taverham from Early Times to 1969 (Aylsham, 1969).

University of Nottingham (Pw V 37 pp. 26-7)
CoR 99

Copy.

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

Including 45 poems (and a second copy of one) by Carew, 11 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Corbett, and 25 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1634

The initials T. C. stamped on the front cover. Sold by Thomas Thorpe (1836). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9536, and by Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), of Providence, Rhode Island, industrialist, banker, and art and books collector. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 189.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Rosenbach MS II: CwT Δ 32, CoR Δ 12, and StW Δ 24. Discussed in Scott Nixon, The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 193-5).

CoR 100

Copy, headed On ye Same [i.e. the death of Queen Anne].

A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands (one predominating up to p. 167), probably associated with Oxford, 436 pages (pp. 198-9 and 269-70 skipped in the pagination, and including many blanks and an index) and numerous further blank leaves at the end, in modern black morocco gilt.

Including 14 poems by Carew, 13 poems by Corbett and 25 poems (plus one poem of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1650

Scribbling on the first page including the words Peyton Chester….

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Osborn MS I: CwT Δ 38; CoR Δ 14; StW Δ 29.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 200 pp. 236-8)
CoR 100.5

Copy, headed On Queene Anne.

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

c.late 1630s

Inscribed (on p. [330]) Robert Lord his book Anno Domini; (on [p. 335]) william Jacob his booke Amen; and, among scribbling on the last leaf, Hugh Gibgans of the same and John Winter of Buckland Dursbane [or husbande?]. Owned in 1788 by Alexander R. Popham. Bloomsbury Book Auction, 23 November 2000, lot 8.

A microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7698.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 356 pp. 27-9)
CoR 101

Copy, headed An Exhortacion to ye vniursitie concerning their printed poetry more especiallie at ye queens death.

An octavo verse miscellany compiled by an Oxford University man, i i + 37 leaves, in later half-calf.

c.1630s

Among the collections of Francis Douce (1757-1834), antiquary and collector.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Douce f. 5 fol. 12v)
CoR 102

Copy, headed On the Queene.

A folio composite volume of separate MSS of verse and some prose, in various secretary and italic hands, written over an extended period, with a table of contents (f. 3r-v), 186 leaves.

Comprising papers of the Skipwith family of Cotes, Leicestershire, including 60 poems by John Donne (and one Problem), the text related in part to the Edward Smyth MS (DnJ Δ 45); also 15 poems (and second copies of two) by Henry King; and 19 poems (and two of doubtful authorship) by Carew.

c.1620-50

Including poems ascribed to William Skipwith (? Sir William Skipwith, d.1610, or his grandson, William, or possibly a cousin, William Skipwith, of Ketsby, Lincolnshire, fl.1633); to Sir Henry Skipwith (fl.1609-52); and to Thomas Skipwith, and several poems by Donne's friend Sir Henry Goodyer (1571-1627), to whom a branch of the Skipwith family was related by marriage. Later owned by Robert Sherard (1719-99), fourth Earl of Harborough. Sotheby's, 10 June 1864, lot 605, to Boone.

This MS is the curious folio volume lent to John Nichols (1745-1826) by the late Lord Harborough and cited in Nichols's account of the Skipwith family in his History of Leicestershire, 4 vols (1795-1815), III, part i (1800), 367.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Skipwith MS: DnJ Δ 21; CwT Δ 14; KiH Δ 8. Also described in Mary Hobbs's thesis, pp. 119-29 (see KiH Δ 6). For Sir William Skipwith and his literary connections, see James Knowles, Marston, Skipwith and The Entertainment at Ashby, EMS, 3 (1992), 137-92 (esp. pp. 171-2).

CoR 103

Copy, headed Elegy on Queene Anne's Death.

A folio verse miscellany, in a single professional secretary hand associated with the playhouse and possibly inns of court (also responsible for ChG 12.5, HyT 5, and MiT 6), 97 leaves, with a first-line Index at the end, in contemporary vellum boards.

Including fourteen poems by James Shirley, generally ascribed to him, and eleven poems by Strode (and two of doubtful authorship).

c.1636

Inscribed (on the front paste-down) My cousin chute gaue me this book out of his father study at the vine Hampshire (following the same statement in French), indicating that the MS was owned by, and possibly originally compiled for, the family of Chaloner Chute, MP (c.1595-1659), Speaker of the house of Commons, who acquired The Vyne, near Basingstoke, Hampshire, in 1653. Later owned by Sir William Tite (1798-1873), architect. Sotheby's, 30 May 1874, lot 2343. Bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork, book collector. Sotheby's, 21 March 1891 (Crawford sale), lot 2493.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Chute MS: ShJ Δ 2 and StW Δ 11. Briefly discussed, with a facsimile of f. 34v (see ShJ 96 and ShJ 100) in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and their Value for Textual Editors, EMS, 1 (1989), 192-210 (pp. 200-1, 209-10 n. 40). Discussed, with facsimiles of ff. 53r and 80r, in Arthur F. Marotti, Chaloner Chute's Poetical Anthology (British Library, Additional MS 33998) as a Cosmopolitan Collection, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 99).

CoR 104

Copy, headed An Elegie on Queene Anne, subscribed R: C:.

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

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

c.1633

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

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

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1446 ff. 13r-14r)
CoR 105

Copy, headed On the Death of Queene Anne.

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

Compiled by University or Inns of Court men.

The extracted fols 7, 8 and 54 are now Chetham's Library Halliwell-Phillipps No. 2757, Chetham's Library Halliwell-Phillipps No. 2216, and Chetham's Library Halliwell-Phillipps No. 2217 respectively. The extracted fol. 9 is now Folger MS V.a.505, p. 27.

c.1630s

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

CoR 106

Copy.

A quarto verse miscellany, arranged (Part I) as an anthology, under genre headings, the reverse end (Part II) largely occupied by a later series of Latin verses, epistles, and other exercises, 168 leaves, in old calf (rebacked).

Part I probably in several hands, the predominant italic hand that also responsible for the Welbeck MS: DnJ Δ 57), and including 21 poems by Donne.

c.1630 [-1677]

Part I inscribed (f. 1r) John Smyth his Book 1640, Charles Smyth 1674, Hugh Smyth 1676; (f. 23v) J Smyth 1677 / 1676. Part II inscribed several times Thomas Smith, on f. 19r also Die: Maij 12o Ano 1659, with a reference on f. 58v to Balliol College, Oxford, 1659/60. Later inscribed (f. [ir]) by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), who records buying this very curious and interesting MS. of Messrs Boone. Afterwards in the library at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1. 28.

Cited in IELM, I.i, as the Thomas Smyth MS: DnJ Δ 48.

CoR 107

Copy.

A small quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single, minute non-professional italic hand, probably someone associated with Oxford University, comprising 180 pages now all separated and mounted, interleaved, in 19th-century calf.

c.late 1630s

Later in the libraries (with bookplates) of the book collector Richard Heber (1774-1833); of the bibliographer and antiquary Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833); of the biographer and literary editor Alexander Chalmers (1759-1834); and of the antiquary Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough (his sale by Charles Sharpe in Dublin, 1 November 1842, lot 577).

CoR 107.5

Copy, headed Dr: Corbett on the Queenes death.

A small quarto verse miscellany, in probably a single non-professional mixed hand, written from both ends, 90 leaves, in vellum (lacking spine).

c.1630s

Among papers of the Clitherow family of London, which included Sir Christopher Clitherow (1578-1642), Lord Mayor of London in 1635. Bookplate of James Clitherow Esq. of Boston House, Middlesex: i.e. either Christopher's son, James Clitherow (1618-82), merchant and banker, who purchased Boston Manor, in the parish of Hanwell, in 1670, or James Clitherow (1694-1752).

London Metropolitan Archives (ACC/1360/528 f. [15r-v])
CoR 108

Copy, headed Epitaph on the late Queene Anne.

A folio composite miscellany compiled entirely by William Drummond of Hawthornden, including (ff. 165r-6v, 246r-7v) copies of, or brief extracts from, nineteen poems by Donne, 300 leaves, in 19th-century calf gilt.

c.1618-20s

Among the collections of William Drummond of Hawthornden: Hawthornden Vol. VIII.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Drummond Miscellany: DnJ Δ 66. Some extracts from this MS edited in Laing (1831), pp. 78-82. Drummond's Catalogue of Comedies (ff. 122-3). Recorded in MacDonald, Library of Drummond, pp. 231-2.

CoR 109

Copy, headed An Epitaph on Q. Anne.

An octavo verse miscellany, including 13 poems by or attributed to Herrick, almost entirely in a single small predominantly italic hand, 250 pages (plus numerous blanks), originally in contemporary calf, but now disbound.

Inscribed four times on a flyleaf Tobias Alston his booke: i.e. probably Tobias Alston (1620-c.1639) of Sayham Hall, near Sudbury, Suffolk. His half-brother Edward (b.1598) was a contemporary of Herrick at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, while his cousin, Edward Alston, later President of the College of Physicians, was a contemporary of Herrick at St John's College, Cambridge, some of the other contents also relating to Cambridge, besides some relating to Suffolk. The date 1639 occurs on p. 241, and pp. 243-50 contains verses written in two later hands (to c.1728) and some prose pieces written from the reverse end.

c.1639 [-c.1728]

Names inscribed on a flyleaf including Henry Glisson (later Fellow of the College of Physicians); Thomas Avral(?); Horace Norton; Henry Rich; and James Tavor (Registrar of Cambridge University). Later owned by one John Whitehead, and by Dr Mary Pickford. Sotheby's, 27 June 1972, lot 309.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Alston MS: HeR Δ 7. A complete set of photocopies of the MS is in the British Library, RP 772. Facsimile of pp. 6-7 in Sotheby's sale catalogue (see HeR 176, HeR 405) where the MS is described at some length. See also letters by Peter Beal and Donald W. Foster in TLS (24 January 1986), pp. 87-8.

Yale, Osborn MS b 150 through Osborn MS b 199 (Osborn MS b 197 pp. 165-7)
An Elegie vpon the Death of Sir Thomas Ouerbury Knight poysoned in the Tower ('Hadst thou, like other Sirs and Knights of worth')

First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 9th impression (London, 1616). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 18-19.

CoR 110

Copy, headed On Sr Thomas Ouerbury, subscribed Rich: Corbett.

An octavo miscellany of chiefly verse, in at least two cursive italic hands, with religious verse and prose at the reverse end in another hand, 111 leaves (plus blanks), in old calf gilt.

Including nineteen poems by Corbett and 29 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, the date 1634 occurring on f. 78v.

c.1635

Inscribed on f. 111v rev. Thursday next at Capricks for Mr Pitt. Later among the collections of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724), and his son Edward, second Earl (1689-1741).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Harley MS: CoR Δ 5.

CoR 111

Copy.

An octavo verse miscellany, written predominantly in a single italic hand (on ff. 2r-19v, 20v-134v, 139r-43r); another hand on ff. 20r-v, 135v, 136v, 137v, 138v, with verbal alterations in yet another hand and scribbling elsewhere; f. 137v (rev.) containing a receipt of one Richard Bull signed by one Thomas Johnson and dated 1676; 143 leaves.

Including 14 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 22 poems by Corbett and 36 poems (plus three of doubtful authorship) by Strode. Apparently transcribed in part from Westminster Abbey, MS 41.

c.early 1630s

Inscribed (f. 1r) by one I A of Christ Church, Oxford, and also Robert Killigrew his booke witnes by his Maiesties ape Gorge Harison. Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane, Bt (1660-1753), physician and collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Killigrew MS: CwT Δ 21; CoR Δ 6; StW Δ 14. Facsimile example of f. 2v in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), Plate 7, after p. 86.

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1792 f. 74r-v)
CoR 111.5

Copy.

A transcript of two 17th-century verse MSS, the second a miscellany, 195 large quarto pages, in calf gilt.

19th century

Once owned by F.W. Cosens, FSA (1819-89), of Clapham Park, book collector. Sotheby's, 25 July 1890 (Cosens sale), in lot 136. Among the collections of Sir Charles Harding Firth (1857-1936), historian.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Firth d. 7 f. 138r)
CoR 112

Copy, headed On Sr Thomas Ouerbury.

Edited from this MS in online Early Stuart Libels.

An octavo verse miscellany, compiled by an Oxford man, possibly a member of Christ Church, pp. 1-202 in a single minute hand, written over a period, with a few later additions (including two lines on p. 7) by other hands; pp. 202-19 containing entries in later hands up to 1789, in half-calf on marbled boards, pp. 77-84 detached in the 19th century and now separately bound as Folger MS V.a.152.

Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 30 poems by Strode (one of them in V.a.152) plus one of doubtful authorship.

c.late 1630s [-1789]

Later sold by Thomas Thorpe. Afterwards owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89) (and No. 27 in his Catalogue of Shakespeare Reliques (Brixton Hill, 1852)) and subsequently in the library of Lord Warwick at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1.27.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Thorpe-Halliwell MS: CoR Δ 7 and StW Δ 17. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).

CoR 113

Copy, headed In obitum Domi Thomae Ouerbury. Dr Corbet.

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

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

c.1630s

Later owned by Edward Jeremiah Curteis, M.P., of Windmill Hill, Sussex. Puttick & Simpson's, 30 June 1884 (Curteis sale), lot 175, to Pearson of Pall Mall for James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89). Formerly Folger MS 452.5.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), and II.i (1987), as the Curteis MS: DnJ Δ 50 and CoR Δ 9. Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Arthur F. Marotti, Folger MSS V.a.89 and V.a.345: Reading Lyric Poetry in Manuscript, in The Reader Revealed, ed. Sabrina Alcorn Baron, et al. (Washington, DC, 2001), pp. 44-57. Discussed in Arthur F. Marotti, Christ Church, Oxford, and Beyond: Folger MS V.a.345 and Its Manuscript and Print Sources, SP 113 (2016), 850-78. A facsimile of p. 36 is in Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey, Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper (Washington, DC, 2008), p. 32.

CoR 114

Copy, ascribed to Corbet.

An octavo verse miscellany, comprising c.118 items, including thirteen poems by Donne, twenty poems by Corbett, and twelve poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, written in several hands over an extended period, associated with Christ Church, Oxford, 99 leaves.

c.1620-40s

Owned and probably compiled in part, in his Oxford days, by George Morley (1598-1684), Bishop of Winchester.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Morley MS: DnJ Δ 62, CoR Δ 13, and StW Δ 27. This MS apparently transcribed in part in the Killigrew MS (British Library, Sloane MS 1792).

Facsimile of f. 49r in William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion, ed. Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor (Oxford, 1987), p. 24.

Westminster Abbey (MS 41 ff. 51v-2r)
CoR 115

Copy, headed on ye Death of Sr Thomas overburye poysen'd in ye tower.

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

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

c.1630s-40s
Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 47 ff. 112a-b)
CoR 115.5

Copy, transcribed from CoR 121.

A transcript of two 17th-century verse MSS, the second a miscellany, 195 large quarto pages, in calf gilt.

19th century

Once owned by F.W. Cosens, FSA (1819-89), of Clapham Park, book collector. Sotheby's, 25 July 1890 (Cosens sale), in lot 136. Among the collections of Sir Charles Harding Firth (1857-1936), historian.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Firth d. 7 ff. 138r-9r)
CoR 116

Copy, untitled.

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

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

Mid-17th century

Later owned by John Somers (1651-1716), Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor, and his brother-in-law Sir Joseph Jekyll (1662-1738), lawyer and politician.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Wase MS: DnJ Δ 39.

CoR 117

Copy.

A folio miscellany of verse and some prose, 282 pages, in calf gilt.

Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 34 of the Hopkinson MSS.

Mid-late 17th century

Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

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

Bradford Archives (32D86/34 p. 48)
CoR 118

Copy, headed An Elegie on Sr Thos Ouerbury poysoned in the Tower 16i4 and as By Dr Corbet.

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.

CoR 119

Copy, untitled.

A quarto verse miscellany, including 18 poems by Donne, in several hands over a period (the predominant secretary hand on ff. 1r-35v, 45v-63r), written from both ends, 91 leaves, in later green morocco.

c.1630s [-1777]

Inscribed (f. 1r) E Libris Richardo Glovero pharmacopol. Londinense pertinantibus, the date 1638 possibly added in a different hand. The name William Allen on f. 77v among scribbling. Inscribed (f. 1v) by a later owner, apparently for Mr Thorpe, I was informed by the bookseller of whom I bought this book; that it belonged formerly to a literary gentleman who lived in Burton Crescent and who died about six months ago. 3rd Augt. 1835.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Glover MS: DnJ Δ 42.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2230 ff. 72v-3r)
CoR 121

Copy, headed Of Sr. Tho: Ouerburie and subscribed Beamond.

A verse miscellany, in long narrow format, 66 leaves (including a number of blanks), in later calf.

Largely in one neat secretary hand; a second hand on ff. 58v-9r, and a third on f. 66r. Compiled chiefly by a University of Cambridge man.

c.1630s

Once owned by F.W. Cosens, FSA (1819-89), of Clapham Park, book collector. Bequeathed in 1894 by Samuel Sandars, of Trinity College, Cambridge.

Discussed in Ted-Larry Pebworth and Claude J. Summers, Recovering an Important Seventeenth-Century Poetical Miscellany: Cambridge Add. MS 4138, TCBS, 7 (1978), 156-69 (pp. 160-1). A 19th-century transcript of much of this MS is in the Bodleian, MS Firth d. 7, ff. 60r-9r.

CoR 122

Copy, headed Mr. Dr. Corbets Elegy on Sr. Thomas Ouerburie.

A quarto miscellany, in several hands, including a number of culinary receipts, 255 leaves (including over 65 blanks), written from both ends (Part I, in a rounded italic hand: ff. 1r-117r:; Part II: ff. 1*r-72r), in old calf.

Inscribed (Part II, f. 1*r) A booke of verses collected by mee RDungaruan: i.e. Richard Boyle (1612-98), Viscount Dungarvon and later Earl of Burlington.

c.1630s

Also inscribed Mary Helerd. Subsequently owned by James Tyrrell (1642-1718), historical writer, and by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1782-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 15745. Formerly Folger MS 46. 2.

CoR 124

Copy, headed On Sr Thomas Ouerbury.

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

Including 11 poems by Carew and 14 poems by Randolph.

c.1630s-40s

Inscribed Jane Wheeler and Tho: Oliver Busfield. Francis Quarles's poem (pp. 209-11) To ye two partners of my heart Mr John Wheeler, and Mr Symon Tue. Item 96 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Formerly Folger MS 2071.6.

A Jo. Wheeler signed the Christ Church, Oxford, disbursement books for 1641-3 (xii, b.85 and 86).

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Wheeler MS: CwT Δ 25 and RnT Δ 7.

CoR 125

Copy, headed An Elegie vpon the death of Sr. Thomas Overbury Knight. Dr. Corbett.

A small octavo miscellany of 76 poems by Donne, together with a few poems by others dating up to 1627, in a single italic hand, occasionally marking the end of poems with one or more quatrefoils, 102 leaves (foliation jumping from 55 to 57), gilt-edged, in 19th-century dark green leather gilt.

c.late 1620s

Inscriptions including (f. 6r) Hannah Lewis Junr; Thomas Turner his Book (three times, ff. 8r, 14v, 48v, dated 1750, 58 and 1760); (f. 12r) Edmund Baxter att Mrs Nortons; (ff. 20r, 59v) John Jones; (f. 40r) Jon: Pryse 1729; (f. 59v) Robt. Was[?]; and (f. 79r) Edmund Baxter 1729. Later owned by Edward Vernon Utterson (1776-1856), of Shanklin and Ryde, Isle of Wight, artist, literary antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 24 April 1852 (Utterson sale), lot 1317, sold to Lelly. Then owned by Sir John Simeon, third Baronet (1815-70), M.P. Sotheby's, 3 March 1871 (Simeon sale), lot 638, to Pickering. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 436 (1930), item 576. Formerly MS Nor 4620.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Utterson MS: DnJ Δ 51. Discussed in Sir John Simeon, Unpublished Poems of Donne, Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, 3 (London, 1856-7), No. 3. For an account of Utterson, see Raymond V. Turley, Edward Vernon Utterson, The Book Collector, 25 (1976), 21-44 (and plates after p. 48).

Harvard University, MS Eng 966.7 (MS Eng 966.7 ff. 100v-1r)
CoR 125.5

Copy, headed Doctor Corbet upon Ouerbury death.

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

A formal compilation written throughout in a calligraphic hand, in black and red inks with elaborate black and coloured decorations and patterned layouts, associated with one Henry Feilde, with his inscription (p. 1) No 4. Henry Feilde 1642.

c.1642

Bookplates of Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary, and of the Rev. Charles Winn (1795-1874), of Nostell Priory, Yorkshire. Christie's, 2 July 1975, lot 229, to H.P. Kraus. Sotheby's, New York, 17 December 1992, lot 95.

Facsimile example in Sotheby's sale catalogue.

Estate of Robert S Pirie, New York ([Feilde MS] p. 572)
CoR 126

Copy, headed D.C. on Sr Tho: Ouerbury.

An octavo verse miscellany, written over a period in three hands (A, in alternating secretary and italic, written c.1638: ff. 1-59v; B, written c.1645: ff. 60r-9r; C, written c.1649, ff. 69v-70r), 70 leaves, in old calf.

Including thirteen poems by Strode and three of doubtful authorship.

c.1638-45 [and addition c.1649]

Later sold by Thomas Thorpe (1836). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9569. Bookplate of the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, and art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936 (Perry sale). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 193.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Rosenbach MS I: CwT Δ 31 and StW Δ 23.

CoR 126.5

Copy, headed On Sr Tho: Ouerbury.

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

c.late 1630s

Inscribed (on p. [330]) Robert Lord his book Anno Domini; (on [p. 335]) william Jacob his booke Amen; and, among scribbling on the last leaf, Hugh Gibgans of the same and John Winter of Buckland Dursbane [or husbande?]. Owned in 1788 by Alexander R. Popham. Bloomsbury Book Auction, 23 November 2000, lot 8.

A microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7698.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 356 pp. 29-30)
An Elegie Upon the death of the Lady Haddington who dyed of the small Pox ('Deare Losse, to tell the world I greiue were true')

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 59-62. The last 42 lines, beginning O thou deformed unwomanlike disease, in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 48.

CoR 127

Copy.

A quarto verse miscellany of c.150 poems, in several hands; associated with Oxford, probably Christ Church, 279 pages (plus index and blanks).

Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 32 poems (plus four of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1630s-40s

Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue (1836), item 1044. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9561. Sotheby's, 19 June 1893 (Phillipps sale), lot 628, and 21 March 1895, lot 903. Hodgson's, 23 April 1959, lot 528.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the English Poetry MS: CoR Δ 3 and StW Δ 6.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 97 pp. 65-7)
CoR 128

Copy, headed Upon the Lady Haddington dying of the small Poxe, subscribed Rich: Corbett.

An octavo miscellany of chiefly verse, in at least two cursive italic hands, with religious verse and prose at the reverse end in another hand, 111 leaves (plus blanks), in old calf gilt.

Including nineteen poems by Corbett and 29 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, the date 1634 occurring on f. 78v.

c.1635

Inscribed on f. 111v rev. Thursday next at Capricks for Mr Pitt. Later among the collections of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724), and his son Edward, second Earl (1689-1741).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Harley MS: CoR Δ 5.

CoR 129

Copy.

An octavo verse miscellany, written predominantly in a single italic hand (on ff. 2r-19v, 20v-134v, 139r-43r); another hand on ff. 20r-v, 135v, 136v, 137v, 138v, with verbal alterations in yet another hand and scribbling elsewhere; f. 137v (rev.) containing a receipt of one Richard Bull signed by one Thomas Johnson and dated 1676; 143 leaves.

Including 14 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 22 poems by Corbett and 36 poems (plus three of doubtful authorship) by Strode. Apparently transcribed in part from Westminster Abbey, MS 41.

c.early 1630s

Inscribed (f. 1r) by one I A of Christ Church, Oxford, and also Robert Killigrew his booke witnes by his Maiesties ape Gorge Harison. Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane, Bt (1660-1753), physician and collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Killigrew MS: CwT Δ 21; CoR Δ 6; StW Δ 14. Facsimile example of f. 2v in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), Plate 7, after p. 86.

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1792 ff. 47v-9v, 54r)
CoR 130

Copy of the last 42 lines, headed On ye Lady Haddington who died of the small pox and here beginning Oh thou deformed vnwomanlike disease, subscribed Dr Corbet.

An octavo verse miscellany, compiled by an Oxford man, possibly a member of Christ Church, pp. 1-202 in a single minute hand, written over a period, with a few later additions (including two lines on p. 7) by other hands; pp. 202-19 containing entries in later hands up to 1789, in half-calf on marbled boards, pp. 77-84 detached in the 19th century and now separately bound as Folger MS V.a.152.

Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 30 poems by Strode (one of them in V.a.152) plus one of doubtful authorship.

c.late 1630s [-1789]

Later sold by Thomas Thorpe. Afterwards owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89) (and No. 27 in his Catalogue of Shakespeare Reliques (Brixton Hill, 1852)) and subsequently in the library of Lord Warwick at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1.27.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Thorpe-Halliwell MS: CoR Δ 7 and StW Δ 17. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).

CoR 131

Copy, headed Vpon the lady Haddington, dying of the small poxe. R: C:.

A quarto verse miscellany, pp. 13-244 in a single largely roman hand, the remainder in varying styles in one or more other hands (up to c.1655), probably associated with Oxford University, 541 pages (of which pp. 1-12, 87-8 have been extracted and pp. 251-68, 334, 400, 410-540 are blank, with stubs of other extracted leaves at the end), in contemporary brown calf.

Including 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 57 poems (plus a second copy of one poem and four poems of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1630s[-55]

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: possibly his MS 18123. Owned c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914), literary scholar and bookseller. Formerly MS 646.4.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Dobell MS: CoR Δ 8 and StW Δ 18. Discussed in Bertram Dobell in The Athenaeum, No. 4475 (2 August 1913), p. 112. A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).

CoR 131.5

Copy of lines 59-82, headed On a woman deformed wth ye Pocks, here beginning O thou deformd unwoman like disease, docketed in the top margin see more of these verses page 88.

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

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

c.1630s

Later owned by Edward Jeremiah Curteis, M.P., of Windmill Hill, Sussex. Puttick & Simpson's, 30 June 1884 (Curteis sale), lot 175, to Pearson of Pall Mall for James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89). Formerly Folger MS 452.5.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), and II.i (1987), as the Curteis MS: DnJ Δ 50 and CoR Δ 9. Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Arthur F. Marotti, Folger MSS V.a.89 and V.a.345: Reading Lyric Poetry in Manuscript, in The Reader Revealed, ed. Sabrina Alcorn Baron, et al. (Washington, DC, 2001), pp. 44-57. Discussed in Arthur F. Marotti, Christ Church, Oxford, and Beyond: Folger MS V.a.345 and Its Manuscript and Print Sources, SP 113 (2016), 850-78. A facsimile of p. 36 is in Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey, Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper (Washington, DC, 2008), p. 32.

CoR 132

Copy, headed Dr Corbet on the death of ye Lady Hay.

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

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

c.1630s

Later owned by Edward Jeremiah Curteis, M.P., of Windmill Hill, Sussex. Puttick & Simpson's, 30 June 1884 (Curteis sale), lot 175, to Pearson of Pall Mall for James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89). Formerly Folger MS 452.5.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), and II.i (1987), as the Curteis MS: DnJ Δ 50 and CoR Δ 9. Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Arthur F. Marotti, Folger MSS V.a.89 and V.a.345: Reading Lyric Poetry in Manuscript, in The Reader Revealed, ed. Sabrina Alcorn Baron, et al. (Washington, DC, 2001), pp. 44-57. Discussed in Arthur F. Marotti, Christ Church, Oxford, and Beyond: Folger MS V.a.345 and Its Manuscript and Print Sources, SP 113 (2016), 850-78. A facsimile of p. 36 is in Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey, Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper (Washington, DC, 2008), p. 32.

CoR 132.5

Copy of lines 83-100, headed On a woman disfigured wth ye smal pocks, here beginning Thou shouldst haue wrought on som such Lady mould, superscribed Part of ye former verses sup pag 6.

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

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

c.1630s

Later owned by Edward Jeremiah Curteis, M.P., of Windmill Hill, Sussex. Puttick & Simpson's, 30 June 1884 (Curteis sale), lot 175, to Pearson of Pall Mall for James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89). Formerly Folger MS 452.5.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), and II.i (1987), as the Curteis MS: DnJ Δ 50 and CoR Δ 9. Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Arthur F. Marotti, Folger MSS V.a.89 and V.a.345: Reading Lyric Poetry in Manuscript, in The Reader Revealed, ed. Sabrina Alcorn Baron, et al. (Washington, DC, 2001), pp. 44-57. Discussed in Arthur F. Marotti, Christ Church, Oxford, and Beyond: Folger MS V.a.345 and Its Manuscript and Print Sources, SP 113 (2016), 850-78. A facsimile of p. 36 is in Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey, Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper (Washington, DC, 2008), p. 32.

CoR 133

Copy, headed A Funerall Elegye on the Lady Haddington who dyed of the Small Pox, marked L C.

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

Including 52 poems by Donne (many on pp. 64-109, 167-74 initialled L.C. [? Lord Chancellor], as are some poems by others), 11 poems by Carew, ten poems by Corbett, and 11 poems by or attributed to Herrick, in a single neat hand throughout; the poems dating up to 1637.

c.1637

Later scribbling and inscriptions including the names Edw Denny [presumably Edward Denny (1569-1637), Baron Denny of Waltham and first Earl of Norwich], Charles Cocks, Edward Randolphe and (on p. 162) Thomas Cassy. Later owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary (sold in the Haslewood sale, London, 1833, lot 1329, to Thorpe); by Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough, antiquary (his sale in Dublin, 1 November 1841, item 624); and by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector (his library catalogue, 1880, IV, pp. 1159-64), and sold at Sotheby's, 17 July 1917 (Huth sale), lot 5873.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Haslewood-Kingsborough MS (I): DnJ Δ 25, CwT Δ 28, CoR Δ 10, and HeR Δ 5. A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 15). Discussed in C.M. Armitage, Donne's Poems in Huntington Manuscript 198: New Light on The Funerall, SP, 63 (1966), 697-707. A facsimile of part of p. 63 in Marcy L. North, Amateur Compilers, Scribal Labour, and the Contents of Early Modern Poetic Miscellanies, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 101).

CoR 134

Copy of the last 42 lines, headed On the smallpox.

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

Including 45 poems (and a second copy of one) by Carew, 11 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Corbett, and 25 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1634

The initials T. C. stamped on the front cover. Sold by Thomas Thorpe (1836). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9536, and by Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), of Providence, Rhode Island, industrialist, banker, and art and books collector. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 189.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Rosenbach MS II: CwT Δ 32, CoR Δ 12, and StW Δ 24. Discussed in Scott Nixon, The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 193-5).

CoR 135

Copy, headed An Elegy on the Lady Hayes death by Dr Corbett.

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

Including 45 poems (and a second copy of one) by Carew, 11 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Corbett, and 25 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1634

The initials T. C. stamped on the front cover. Sold by Thomas Thorpe (1836). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9536, and by Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), of Providence, Rhode Island, industrialist, banker, and art and books collector. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 189.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Rosenbach MS II: CwT Δ 32, CoR Δ 12, and StW Δ 24. Discussed in Scott Nixon, The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 193-5).

CoR 136

Copy.

An octavo verse miscellany, comprising c.118 items, including thirteen poems by Donne, twenty poems by Corbett, and twelve poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, written in several hands over an extended period, associated with Christ Church, Oxford, 99 leaves.

c.1620-40s

Owned and probably compiled in part, in his Oxford days, by George Morley (1598-1684), Bishop of Winchester.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Morley MS: DnJ Δ 62, CoR Δ 13, and StW Δ 27. This MS apparently transcribed in part in the Killigrew MS (British Library, Sloane MS 1792).

Facsimile of f. 49r in William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion, ed. Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor (Oxford, 1987), p. 24.

Westminster Abbey (MS 41 ff. 19r-20r, 25v)
CoR 137

Copy, headed Dor Corbett on the Lady Haddington who dyed on the Smalpox.

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

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

c.1630s-40s
Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 47 f. 116r-v)
CoR 138

Copy.

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

Entitled Miscentur seria iocis. 1647. Elegies, Exequies, Epitaphs, Epigrams, Songs Satires and other Poems, a formal compilation entirely in the hand of the Yorkshire antiquary John Hopkinson (1610-80).

1647

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

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. d. 58 ff. 5r-6v)
CoR 139

Copy, subscribed Dr Corbett.

An octavo verse miscellany, in two or more hands, 95 leaves (plus blanks), including two Indexes, in contemporary vellum.

Compiled by an Oxford University man, possibly a member of St John's College.

c.1634-43

A receipt (f. 104r) by John Weston recording payment from his brother Ed: Weston, 3 May 1714. The name John Saunders inscribed on the final leaf.

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 21 ff. 17v-19r)
CoR 140

Copy, headed Doctor Corbet one my Lady Haddington who dyed of the small pox.

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

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

Mid-17th century

Later owned by John Somers (1651-1716), Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor, and his brother-in-law Sir Joseph Jekyll (1662-1738), lawyer and politician.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Wase MS: DnJ Δ 39.

CoR 141

Copy, headed Vpon my Lady Harringtons death who dyed of the small poxe by Dr Corbet.

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.

CoR 142

Copy, headed An Elegie on ye Lady Haddington, subscribed Ric Corbett, transcribed from CoR 143.

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

Transcribed from British Library Add. MS 25303 and perhaps associated likewise with the Inns of Court. Including 23 poems by Carew and three of doubtful authorship.

c.1620s-30s

Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 13 May 1856 (Pickering sale), lot 258.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Pickering MS: CwT Δ 11.

CoR 143

Copy, headed An Elegy on ye Lady Haddington, subscribed Ric: Corbett.

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

Including 27 poems (and second copies of two poems) by Thomas Carew and three of doubtful authorship.

This MS largely transcribed in British Library, Add. MS 21433. The hand occurs also in British Library, Harley MS 3910, between ff. 112v and 120v, and is possibly associated with the Inns of Court.

c.1620s

Scribbled inscriptions including (f. 1r) Mr John Bowyer; (f. 2r) Jeronomus ffox; and (f. 3r) William Ralph Baesh.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Colchester MS: CwT Δ 13.

CoR 144 c.1630s

Copy, in a professional predominantly italic hand, headed An Elegie Upon the Lady Haddington, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves.

A folio composite volume of verse MSS, in various hands, 171 leaves, in half brown morocco.

Collected by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King of Arms and antiquary, his brother Oliver, and Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector.

CoR 145

Copy.

A quarto verse miscellany, written from both ends, 192 leaves (including blanks), in old brown calf.

Compiled, over a period, principally by Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), Chaplain of Christ Church, Oxford, and Henry King's amanuensis, including (ff. 7r-61r) 24 poems by King in Manne's formal hand, written c.1625-30s; ff. 61v-72v, 73r-99v, 100r-101v written in a variant style of Manne's hand, c.1630s; and (ff. 72v, 99v, 102r-14v, 190v-169r rev.) additions in six other hands, c.1630s-44, with (ff. 75r, 76r, and 76v) three poems to which the subscription R. Dorset is added in the hand of King himself.

c.1625-46

Inscribed (f. 190v rev.) Ann Littleton. Thomas Rodd's sale catalogue, [June 1848], p. 31. Sotheby's, 4 Februry 1850 (Rodd sale), lot 500, to James Orchard Halliwell[-Phillipps] (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Afterward owned by the Rev. Thomas Corser, FSA (1793-1876), book collector. Sotheby's, 25 June 1873 (Corser sale), lot 325, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Later owned by the bookdealer Philip Robinson. Sotheby's, 26 June 1974, lot 3013, with a facsimile example in the sale catalogue.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Thomas Manne MS: KiH Δ 7. Used in Crum. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

CoR 146

Copy, headed An Elegie vpon the Lady Haddington, subscribed A R C.

An octavo verse miscellany, in several largely italic hands, closely written, 148 leaves (plus blanks), in modern quarter morocco gilt.

Probably compiled by university or inns of court men.

c.1620s-30s
CoR 147

Copy, headed On the death of the La: Haddington, subscribed R: C:.

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

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

c.1633

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

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

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1446 ff. 14r-15v)
CoR 148

Copy.

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 ff. 45v-7r)
CoR 149

Copy.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single small neat predominantly secretary hand but for additions in a second hand on ff. 35v and 58r, compiled by an Oxford man, possibly a member of Wadham College, 97 leaves (inclusing two blanks), in half-calf.

Including 14 poems by Carew (and a second copy of one poem), eight poems (plus 3 of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, and 28 poems by Strode (plus a second copy of one and two of doubtful authorship).

c.late 1630s

Later used and annotated by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, and entries in his hand on f. 97r. Formerly Bodleian, MS CCC.328.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Fulman MS: CwT Δ 2; RnT Δ 6; StW Δ 16.

Corpus Christi College, Oxford (MS 328 ff. 53r-4r)
CoR 150

Copy, headed An Elegie on the Lady Hayes her Death by Dr: Corbett.

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

Compiled by University or Inns of Court men.

The extracted fols 7, 8 and 54 are now Chetham's Library Halliwell-Phillipps No. 2757, Chetham's Library Halliwell-Phillipps No. 2216, and Chetham's Library Halliwell-Phillipps No. 2217 respectively. The extracted fol. 9 is now Folger MS V.a.505, p. 27.

c.1630s

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

CoR 151

Copy, headed On the Lady Harrington who dyed of the Small Pox. by Dr: Corbett.

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

Compiled by University or Inns of Court men.

The extracted fols 7, 8 and 54 are now Chetham's Library Halliwell-Phillipps No. 2757, Chetham's Library Halliwell-Phillipps No. 2216, and Chetham's Library Halliwell-Phillipps No. 2217 respectively. The extracted fol. 9 is now Folger MS V.a.505, p. 27.

c.1630s

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

CoR 152

Copy, headed Vpon the Lady Haddington, who dyed of the small Pox.

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

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

c.1637-51

Inscribed (front pastedown) Wakelin EeK Hering / Blows of Whitsor, and (rear pastedown) R. J. Cotton. Formerly Folger MS 2073.4.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Cotton MS: StW Δ 20.

CoR 153

Copy, as by Dr Corbett.

An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, closely written in possibly several minute predominantly secretary hands, 291 leaves (ff. 212-16 bound out of order after f. 24), in modern calf.

c.1640s

Inscribed (f. 1r) Joseph Hall (not the bishop). Later owned by John Payne Collier (1789-1883), literary scholar, editor and forger, who has entered in pseudo-17th-century secretary script copies of various ballads on ff. 39r-41r, 107v-79r, 181r-v, 227r-8v, 243r-6r, as well as adding foliation (1-284) before the more recent foliation (1-291, used below). Quaritch's sale catalogue of English Literature (August-November 1884), item 22350, Collier's transcript of the MS made c.1860 being item 22352. Formerly Folger MS 2071.7.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Giles E. Dawson, John Payne Collier's Great Forgery, SB, 24 (1971), 1-26.

CoR 154

Copy on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed Sr Arthur Terringham An Elegy upon lady Haddington.

c.1630

Among the papers of the Egerton family, Earls of Bridgewater.

CoR 155

Copy, headed An Elogie on the Ladie Hayes her death by Doctor Corbett.

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

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

c.1630s

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 10110. Bookplate of Robert Hoe (1839-1909), New York businessman and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Huntington MS: RnT Δ 9. Complete microfilm at the Shakespeare Institute, Birmingham (Mic S 15).

CoR 156

Copy of the last 42 lines, headed On the pox in the Face.

An oblong octavo verse miscellany, in a neat mixed hand up to p. 78, the remainder in later hands, 116 pages, in 19th-century half-leather marbled boards, with remains of crimson velvet.

c.1630[-1700s]

Once owned by Elizabeth Herrick (1684-1745) and her brother William Herrick (1689-1773). Formerly among the papers of the Herrick family, of Beaumanor.

This MS discussed in J.A. Taylor, Two Unpublished Poems on the Duke of Buckingham, RES, NS 40 (May 1989), 232-40.

Leicestershire Record Office (DG. 9/2796 p. 50)
CoR 157

Copy, headed An Elegie on the Lady.

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 Pierpont Morgan Library (MA 1057 pp. 39-41)
CoR 158

Copy, headed On ye Lady Haddington who dyed of ye small poxe, inscribed at the side DC.

An octavo verse miscellany, written over a period in three hands (A, in alternating secretary and italic, written c.1638: ff. 1-59v; B, written c.1645: ff. 60r-9r; C, written c.1649, ff. 69v-70r), 70 leaves, in old calf.

Including thirteen poems by Strode and three of doubtful authorship.

c.1638-45 [and addition c.1649]

Later sold by Thomas Thorpe (1836). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9569. Bookplate of the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, and art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936 (Perry sale). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 193.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Rosenbach MS I: CwT Δ 31 and StW Δ 23.

CoR 159

Copy, with the last 42 lines sub-headed Aliter.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single predominantly italic hand, 152 leaves (paginated 1-34, thereafter foliated 35-169), plus index, in modern red leather.

Including 85 poems (and second copies of two) by Thomas Carew.

c.1638-42

Inscriptions including Horatio Carey 1642 te deus pardamus [viz. Horatio Carey (1619-ante 1677), eldest son of Sir Richard Carey (1583-1630) and great-grandson of Sir Henry Carey (1524?-96), first Baron Hunsdon ], Thomas Arding, Thomas Arden, William Harrington, Thomas John, John Anthehope and Clement Poxall. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 8270. Bookplates of John William Cole and of the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936 (Perry sale). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 194.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Carey MS: CwT Δ 34. Briefly discussed in Gary Taylor, Some Manuscripts of Shakespeare's Sonnets, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 68 (1985), 210-46 (pp. 220-4). Discussed, with facsimile pages, in Scott Nixon, The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 188, 191-2).

CoR 160

Copy, headed An Elegie on the death of the La: Haddington; Dr: Corbett.

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

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

c.1620s-30s

Old pressmark F. 4. 20.

CoR 161

Copy of the last 42 lines, headed On ye Lady Harrington diing on ye smale pox and here beginning O ye deformed vnwomanlike disease.

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

c.1640
Yale, Osborn MS b 50 through Osborn MS b 99 (Osborn MS b 62 pp. 106-7)
CoR 162

Copy, headed An Epitaph on the Lady Haddington and subscribed Corbett.

An octavo verse miscellany, including 13 poems by or attributed to Herrick, almost entirely in a single small predominantly italic hand, 250 pages (plus numerous blanks), originally in contemporary calf, but now disbound.

Inscribed four times on a flyleaf Tobias Alston his booke: i.e. probably Tobias Alston (1620-c.1639) of Sayham Hall, near Sudbury, Suffolk. His half-brother Edward (b.1598) was a contemporary of Herrick at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, while his cousin, Edward Alston, later President of the College of Physicians, was a contemporary of Herrick at St John's College, Cambridge, some of the other contents also relating to Cambridge, besides some relating to Suffolk. The date 1639 occurs on p. 241, and pp. 243-50 contains verses written in two later hands (to c.1728) and some prose pieces written from the reverse end.

c.1639 [-c.1728]

Names inscribed on a flyleaf including Henry Glisson (later Fellow of the College of Physicians); Thomas Avral(?); Horace Norton; Henry Rich; and James Tavor (Registrar of Cambridge University). Later owned by one John Whitehead, and by Dr Mary Pickford. Sotheby's, 27 June 1972, lot 309.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Alston MS: HeR Δ 7. A complete set of photocopies of the MS is in the British Library, RP 772. Facsimile of pp. 6-7 in Sotheby's sale catalogue (see HeR 176, HeR 405) where the MS is described at some length. See also letters by Peter Beal and Donald W. Foster in TLS (24 January 1986), pp. 87-8.

Yale, Osborn MS b 150 through Osborn MS b 199 (Osborn MS b 197 pp. 163-5)
CoR 162.5

Copy.

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

c.late 1630s

Inscribed (on p. [330]) Robert Lord his book Anno Domini; (on [p. 335]) william Jacob his booke Amen; and, among scribbling on the last leaf, Hugh Gibgans of the same and John Winter of Buckland Dursbane [or husbande?]. Owned in 1788 by Alexander R. Popham. Bloomsbury Book Auction, 23 November 2000, lot 8.

A microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7698.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 356 pp. 13-16)
An Elegie written upon the death of Dr. Ravis Bishop of London ('When I past Paules, and travell'd in that walke')

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 3-4.

CoR 163

Copy, headed On Byshopp Rains: R: C:.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single italic hand, evidently associated with Oxford, probably Christ Church, 214 pages (skipping p. 177), plus an index.

Including 18 poems by Corbett and 59 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1630s

Inscribed on a flyleaf Elizabeth Lane hir booke and, among scribbling on another flyleaf, Johannes Finch. P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 341.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Elizabeth Lane MS: CoR Δ 1 and StW Δ 4. The Dobell catalogue description recorded in Forey (pp. lxxxv-lxxxvi).

Aberdeen University Library (MS 29 pp. 49-50)
CoR 164

Copy, headed On Dr Ravis Bpp of London, docketed in the margin Dr Corbett.

An octavo verse miscellany, including 13 poems by Donne and 14 poems by Corbett, in several hands, probably associated with Oxford University, written from both ends, 102 leaves, in 17th-century calf.

c.1630s

Inscribed (f. 101v) Henry Lawson (or just possibly Lamson). Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1836), item 1185. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9257. Sotheby's, 15 June 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 862. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 164 (1896), item 64.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Lawson MS: DnJ Δ 37 and CoR Δ 2.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 14 f. 98r rev.)
CoR 165

Copy, headed on Byshop Rains. R: C..

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.

CoR 166

Copy, headed On Doctor Rauis Bpp of london, subscribed Rich: Corbett.

An octavo miscellany of chiefly verse, in at least two cursive italic hands, with religious verse and prose at the reverse end in another hand, 111 leaves (plus blanks), in old calf gilt.

Including nineteen poems by Corbett and 29 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, the date 1634 occurring on f. 78v.

c.1635

Inscribed on f. 111v rev. Thursday next at Capricks for Mr Pitt. Later among the collections of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724), and his son Edward, second Earl (1689-1741).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Harley MS: CoR Δ 5.

CoR 167

Copy.

An octavo verse miscellany, written predominantly in a single italic hand (on ff. 2r-19v, 20v-134v, 139r-43r); another hand on ff. 20r-v, 135v, 136v, 137v, 138v, with verbal alterations in yet another hand and scribbling elsewhere; f. 137v (rev.) containing a receipt of one Richard Bull signed by one Thomas Johnson and dated 1676; 143 leaves.

Including 14 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 22 poems by Corbett and 36 poems (plus three of doubtful authorship) by Strode. Apparently transcribed in part from Westminster Abbey, MS 41.

c.early 1630s

Inscribed (f. 1r) by one I A of Christ Church, Oxford, and also Robert Killigrew his booke witnes by his Maiesties ape Gorge Harison. Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane, Bt (1660-1753), physician and collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Killigrew MS: CwT Δ 21; CoR Δ 6; StW Δ 14. Facsimile example of f. 2v in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), Plate 7, after p. 86.

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1792 ff. 65r-6r)
CoR 168

Copy, headed On Dr Rauis Bp of London.

An octavo verse miscellany, compiled by an Oxford man, possibly a member of Christ Church, pp. 1-202 in a single minute hand, written over a period, with a few later additions (including two lines on p. 7) by other hands; pp. 202-19 containing entries in later hands up to 1789, in half-calf on marbled boards, pp. 77-84 detached in the 19th century and now separately bound as Folger MS V.a.152.

Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 30 poems by Strode (one of them in V.a.152) plus one of doubtful authorship.

c.late 1630s [-1789]

Later sold by Thomas Thorpe. Afterwards owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89) (and No. 27 in his Catalogue of Shakespeare Reliques (Brixton Hill, 1852)) and subsequently in the library of Lord Warwick at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1.27.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Thorpe-Halliwell MS: CoR Δ 7 and StW Δ 17. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).

CoR 169

Copy, headed On Dr. Ravis Bishpp of London. R:C., imperfect, lacking the ending on excised pp. 87-8.

A quarto verse miscellany, pp. 13-244 in a single largely roman hand, the remainder in varying styles in one or more other hands (up to c.1655), probably associated with Oxford University, 541 pages (of which pp. 1-12, 87-8 have been extracted and pp. 251-68, 334, 400, 410-540 are blank, with stubs of other extracted leaves at the end), in contemporary brown calf.

Including 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 57 poems (plus a second copy of one poem and four poems of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1630s[-55]

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: possibly his MS 18123. Owned c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914), literary scholar and bookseller. Formerly MS 646.4.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Dobell MS: CoR Δ 8 and StW Δ 18. Discussed in Bertram Dobell in The Athenaeum, No. 4475 (2 August 1913), p. 112. A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).

CoR 170

Copy, headed Dr Corbet on Bp Ravis.

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

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

c.1630s

Later owned by Edward Jeremiah Curteis, M.P., of Windmill Hill, Sussex. Puttick & Simpson's, 30 June 1884 (Curteis sale), lot 175, to Pearson of Pall Mall for James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89). Formerly Folger MS 452.5.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), and II.i (1987), as the Curteis MS: DnJ Δ 50 and CoR Δ 9. Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Arthur F. Marotti, Folger MSS V.a.89 and V.a.345: Reading Lyric Poetry in Manuscript, in The Reader Revealed, ed. Sabrina Alcorn Baron, et al. (Washington, DC, 2001), pp. 44-57. Discussed in Arthur F. Marotti, Christ Church, Oxford, and Beyond: Folger MS V.a.345 and Its Manuscript and Print Sources, SP 113 (2016), 850-78. A facsimile of p. 36 is in Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey, Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper (Washington, DC, 2008), p. 32.

CoR 171

Copy, headed Doctor Cor: An Ellegy of Doctor Rauis bishop of london, marked L C.

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

Including 52 poems by Donne (many on pp. 64-109, 167-74 initialled L.C. [? Lord Chancellor], as are some poems by others), 11 poems by Carew, ten poems by Corbett, and 11 poems by or attributed to Herrick, in a single neat hand throughout; the poems dating up to 1637.

c.1637

Later scribbling and inscriptions including the names Edw Denny [presumably Edward Denny (1569-1637), Baron Denny of Waltham and first Earl of Norwich], Charles Cocks, Edward Randolphe and (on p. 162) Thomas Cassy. Later owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary (sold in the Haslewood sale, London, 1833, lot 1329, to Thorpe); by Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough, antiquary (his sale in Dublin, 1 November 1841, item 624); and by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector (his library catalogue, 1880, IV, pp. 1159-64), and sold at Sotheby's, 17 July 1917 (Huth sale), lot 5873.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Haslewood-Kingsborough MS (I): DnJ Δ 25, CwT Δ 28, CoR Δ 10, and HeR Δ 5. A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 15). Discussed in C.M. Armitage, Donne's Poems in Huntington Manuscript 198: New Light on The Funerall, SP, 63 (1966), 697-707. A facsimile of part of p. 63 in Marcy L. North, Amateur Compilers, Scribal Labour, and the Contents of Early Modern Poetic Miscellanies, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 101).

CoR 172

Copy, headed Dr. Corbett. / On Dr Ravis Bishop of London.

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

Including 13 poems by Donne and 14 (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett; the scribe is that mainly responsible also for the Thomas Smyth MS (DnJ Δ 48).

c.1630s

Later owned and used extensively as a notebook by Dr William Balam (1651-1726), of Ely, Cambridgeshire, who also annotated Cambridge University Library MS Add. 5778 and Harvard fMS Eng 966.4. Bookplate of N. Micklethwait. Owned in 1931 by the Rev. F.W. Glass, of Taverham Hall, near Norwich (seat in the 17th century of the Sotherton family and later of the Branthwayt and Micklethwait families).

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Welbeck MS: DnJ Δ 57 and CoR Δ 11. Discussed in H. Harvey Wood, A Seventeenth-Century Manuscript of Poems by Donne and Others, Essays & Studies, 16 (1931), 179-90. For Taverham Hall, see Thomas B. Norgate, A History of Taverham from Early Times to 1969 (Aylsham, 1969).

University of Nottingham (Pw V 37 p. 6)
CoR 173

Copy.

An octavo verse miscellany, comprising c.118 items, including thirteen poems by Donne, twenty poems by Corbett, and twelve poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, written in several hands over an extended period, associated with Christ Church, Oxford, 99 leaves.

c.1620-40s

Owned and probably compiled in part, in his Oxford days, by George Morley (1598-1684), Bishop of Winchester.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Morley MS: DnJ Δ 62, CoR Δ 13, and StW Δ 27. This MS apparently transcribed in part in the Killigrew MS (British Library, Sloane MS 1792).

Facsimile of f. 49r in William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion, ed. Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor (Oxford, 1987), p. 24.

Westminster Abbey (MS 41 f. 10r-v)
CoR 174

Copy, headed On Dr Ravis, Bpp of London and subscribed R: Corbet.

A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands (one predominating up to p. 167), probably associated with Oxford, 436 pages (pp. 198-9 and 269-70 skipped in the pagination, and including many blanks and an index) and numerous further blank leaves at the end, in modern black morocco gilt.

Including 14 poems by Carew, 13 poems by Corbett and 25 poems (plus one poem of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1650

Scribbling on the first page including the words Peyton Chester….

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Osborn MS I: CwT Δ 38; CoR Δ 14; StW Δ 29.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 200 pp. 243-4)
CoR 175

Copy, headed On Dr Ravis Bishop of London.

A small quarto verse miscellany, in a single hand, 98 pages (plus some blanks), in reversed calf (rebacked).

c.1620s-30s

Inscribed (f. ir) by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), the date 1741 added.

CoR 176

Copy, headed Vpon Docter Rauis Bishop of London.

A folio miscellany of verse and some prose, 282 pages, in calf gilt.

Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 34 of the Hopkinson MSS.

Mid-late 17th century

Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

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

Bradford Archives (32D86/34 p. 29)
CoR 177

Copy of the last four lines, headed Dr: Corbett, in his last 4 vses on Dr: Rauis Bp: of London, speaking of his want of a monument, sayth and here beginning Nor neede the Chauncellour boast, whose Pyramis.

A quarto miscellany and memorandum book, in three or more cursive mixed hands, 113 leaves, in modern binding.

Compiled, perhaps largely, by Justinian Paget Es[q.] a Lawyer, whose name is so inscribed on a flyleaf (f. 1*r), a number of the contents relating to the Paget family and also with references (ff. 34v-5v) to my sister Ann Maydwell.

c.1633-1645

The contents suggest an Inns of Court and possible Christ Church, Oxford, connection.

CoR 178

Copy, headed On Dr King Bishopp of London, subscribed R: C:.

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

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

c.1633

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

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

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1446 f. 54r-v)
CoR 179

Copy, headed On Dr Ravis Bishop of London and ascribed at the side to Dr Corbett.

A quarto verse miscellany, arranged (Part I) as an anthology, under genre headings, the reverse end (Part II) largely occupied by a later series of Latin verses, epistles, and other exercises, 168 leaves, in old calf (rebacked).

Part I probably in several hands, the predominant italic hand that also responsible for the Welbeck MS: DnJ Δ 57), and including 21 poems by Donne.

c.1630 [-1677]

Part I inscribed (f. 1r) John Smyth his Book 1640, Charles Smyth 1674, Hugh Smyth 1676; (f. 23v) J Smyth 1677 / 1676. Part II inscribed several times Thomas Smith, on f. 19r also Die: Maij 12o Ano 1659, with a reference on f. 58v to Balliol College, Oxford, 1659/60. Later inscribed (f. [ir]) by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), who records buying this very curious and interesting MS. of Messrs Boone. Afterwards in the library at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1. 28.

Cited in IELM, I.i, as the Thomas Smyth MS: DnJ Δ 48.

CoR 180

Copy, headed An Elegie on Dr. Rauis by Dr. Corbet.

A quarto miscellany, in several hands, including a number of culinary receipts, 255 leaves (including over 65 blanks), written from both ends (Part I, in a rounded italic hand: ff. 1r-117r:; Part II: ff. 1*r-72r), in old calf.

Inscribed (Part II, f. 1*r) A booke of verses collected by mee RDungaruan: i.e. Richard Boyle (1612-98), Viscount Dungarvon and later Earl of Burlington.

c.1630s

Also inscribed Mary Helerd. Subsequently owned by James Tyrrell (1642-1718), historical writer, and by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1782-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 15745. Formerly Folger MS 46. 2.

CoR 182

Copy, headed On Doctor Ravis Bishop of London, by Dr Corbet added in another hand.

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

Including 11 poems by Carew and 14 poems by Randolph.

c.1630s-40s

Inscribed Jane Wheeler and Tho: Oliver Busfield. Francis Quarles's poem (pp. 209-11) To ye two partners of my heart Mr John Wheeler, and Mr Symon Tue. Item 96 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Formerly Folger MS 2071.6.

A Jo. Wheeler signed the Christ Church, Oxford, disbursement books for 1641-3 (xii, b.85 and 86).

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Wheeler MS: CwT Δ 25 and RnT Δ 7.

CoR 183

Copy, headed Dr: C: Elegy on Bp. Rauis of London who dyed 1607.

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 Pierpont Morgan Library (MA 1057 p. 194)
CoR 184

Copy, headed On Doctor Raines Bish: of London.

A quarto verse miscellany, including ten poems by Thomas Carew, probably in a single accomplished hand (changing to two styles of italic on ff. 42v-4v, 5r-60r, 76r-v), i + 89 leaves (including blanks, stubs of two or three excised leaves, and an index), in contemporary limp vellum.

c.1630s-40s

Later notes and scribbling including the names John Nutting (ff. 26r, 56r) and John M. and John Susan (rear paste-down). The last leaf also containing a list of the titles of 65 poems by Carew together with the number of lines in each poem, this list unrelated to the contents of the rest of the MS.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Nutting MS: CwT Δ 35. The list of poems, probably relating to another MS, is edited, with facsimiles, in Scott Nixon, The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 198-9, 217-19).

St John's College, Cambridge (MS S. 23 (James 416) f. 58r-v)
CoR 185

Copy, headed On Dr Dauis Bishop of London.

A sextodecimo verse miscellany, written from both ends in several hands (two principal ones on ff. 6r-40r, 41r et seq. respectively), 102 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf, with remains of metal clasps.

Including 45 poems by Strode and three poems of doubtful authorship.

c.1630s

Formerly Box 22, item II.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Osborn MS II: StW Δ 30.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 205 ff. 80v-1r)
An Epitaph on Doctor Donne, Deane of Pauls ('Hee that would write an Epitaph for thee')

First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1633). Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 89.

CoR 186

Copy, headed On Doctor Donne an epitaph. R: C.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single italic hand, evidently associated with Oxford, probably Christ Church, 214 pages (skipping p. 177), plus an index.

Including 18 poems by Corbett and 59 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1630s

Inscribed on a flyleaf Elizabeth Lane hir booke and, among scribbling on another flyleaf, Johannes Finch. P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 341.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Elizabeth Lane MS: CoR Δ 1 and StW Δ 4. The Dobell catalogue description recorded in Forey (pp. lxxxv-lxxxvi).

Aberdeen University Library (MS 29 pp. 141-2)
CoR 187

Copy, headed On ye Death of Dr Dun.

An octavo verse miscellany, including 13 poems by Donne and 14 poems by Corbett, in several hands, probably associated with Oxford University, written from both ends, 102 leaves, in 17th-century calf.

c.1630s

Inscribed (f. 101v) Henry Lawson (or just possibly Lamson). Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1836), item 1185. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9257. Sotheby's, 15 June 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 862. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 164 (1896), item 64.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Lawson MS: DnJ Δ 37 and CoR Δ 2.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 14 f. 87v rev.)
CoR 188

Copy, headed On Dr Donne a Epitapht by R: Corbet.

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.

CoR 189

Copy, headed His Epitaph.

An octavo verse miscellany, compiled by an Oxford man, possibly a member of Christ Church, pp. 1-202 in a single minute hand, written over a period, with a few later additions (including two lines on p. 7) by other hands; pp. 202-19 containing entries in later hands up to 1789, in half-calf on marbled boards, pp. 77-84 detached in the 19th century and now separately bound as Folger MS V.a.152.

Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 30 poems by Strode (one of them in V.a.152) plus one of doubtful authorship.

c.late 1630s [-1789]

Later sold by Thomas Thorpe. Afterwards owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89) (and No. 27 in his Catalogue of Shakespeare Reliques (Brixton Hill, 1852)) and subsequently in the library of Lord Warwick at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1.27.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Thorpe-Halliwell MS: CoR Δ 7 and StW Δ 17. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).

CoR 190

Copy, headed Dr Dunne Deane of Powles.

A large folio composite volume of verse, in various largely secretary hands, 327 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf.

Collected, and partly written, by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.

Betagraph of the watermark in f. 29 in Ted-Larry Pebworth, Towards a Taxonomy of Watermarks, in Puzzles in Paper: Concepts in Historical Watermarks, ed. Daniel W. Mosser, Michael Saffle and Ernest W. Sullivan, II (London, 2000), pp. 229-42 (p. 239).

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 36/37 f. 60r)
CoR 191

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. 194)
CoR 192

Copy.

A folio composite volume, chiefly of English and Latin verse, in various hands; vi + 186 leaves, in reversed calf.

Scribbling on f. iir including ffor mr William Rabey in New=market..., ffor my Louing ffriend in G John westhropp at mr Rogers Reringe house Bury in S[uffolk], ffor mr John fford at his house in Newmarket in the countey of cambridge; notes on f. iiiv-ivr, one Recd 22 July 1669, subscribed John Cooke and including, on f. vir, ffor mr John Cocke at his howse neere the white harte in Thetford.... Later owned, in the 1730s, by Charles Barlow, of Emmanuel College, Cambridge (his bookplate f. iiv).

CoR 193

Copy, headed On the same [i.e. John Donne].

A quarto verse miscellany, written from both ends, 192 leaves (including blanks), in old brown calf.

Compiled, over a period, principally by Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), Chaplain of Christ Church, Oxford, and Henry King's amanuensis, including (ff. 7r-61r) 24 poems by King in Manne's formal hand, written c.1625-30s; ff. 61v-72v, 73r-99v, 100r-101v written in a variant style of Manne's hand, c.1630s; and (ff. 72v, 99v, 102r-14v, 190v-169r rev.) additions in six other hands, c.1630s-44, with (ff. 75r, 76r, and 76v) three poems to which the subscription R. Dorset is added in the hand of King himself.

c.1625-46

Inscribed (f. 190v rev.) Ann Littleton. Thomas Rodd's sale catalogue, [June 1848], p. 31. Sotheby's, 4 Februry 1850 (Rodd sale), lot 500, to James Orchard Halliwell[-Phillipps] (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Afterward owned by the Rev. Thomas Corser, FSA (1793-1876), book collector. Sotheby's, 25 June 1873 (Corser sale), lot 325, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Later owned by the bookdealer Philip Robinson. Sotheby's, 26 June 1974, lot 3013, with a facsimile example in the sale catalogue.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Thomas Manne MS: KiH Δ 7. Used in Crum. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

CoR 194

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, in several small non-professional hands, 88 leaves, imperfect at the beginning.

c.1630s-40s
The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 923 f. 32r)
CoR 195

Copy, headed Dr Corbett upon the death of Dr Donne. Print.

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

c.1640s

Inscribed (f. 179r) This is Sr. Thomas Meres [or ? Maiors] Book: i.e. probably Sir Thomas Meres (1634-1715), of Kirton, Lincolnshire. Later bookplate of the Rev. John Curtis. Purchased from Mrs Ann Austin Curtis 12 October 1889.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2725 f. 110r)
CoR 196

Copy, headed Corbett Bishop of Oxfords verses on Dr. Donne late Deane of Powles.

A quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat predominantly italic hand, occupying ff. 25r-79v, the second of three independent MSS in different hands (including extracts from Hayward's Henry IV and from Sir Edwin Sandys, and parliamentary proceedings 1623/4), in a composite volume, 141 leaves, in modern half morocco gilt.

The verse miscellany, including an Index (ff. 78v-9v), is compiled by John Holles (1595-1666), second Earl of Clare.

Mid-17th century

Discussed in Andrew McRae, Literature, Satire and the Early Stuart State (Cambridge, 2004), 42, and Thomas Cogswell, The Symptomes and Vapors of a Diseased Time: the Earl of Clare and Early Stuart Manuscript Culture, RES, NS 57 (2006), 310-336. The parliamentary proceedings published in Christopher Thompson, editor, The Holles Account of Proceedings in the House of Commons in 1624 (Orsett, Essex, 1985).

CoR 197

Copy in the hand of Corbett's chaplain William Strode.

A quarto volume of autograph poems by Strode, 130 leaves (including 31 blank leaves, plus numerous blanks, stubs of five extracted leaves, and some leaves added later).

A working autograph notebook of poems by Strode, compiled and revised over a considerable period, comprising 101 English poems (including draft fragments, 66 Latin poems and 2 Greek poems by him, together with his copies of a few poems by others (generally paired with Strode's translations or answers) including Richard Corbett, Thomas Carew, Peter Apsley, and Henry King and Henry Reynolds, as well as a lecture in Latin by the Professor of Greek at Oxford; ff. 52r-96r written in Strode's mixed secretary and italic hand, probably early 1620s-30; ff. 96v-129v, and afterwards ff. 1-51v, written in Strode's italic hand, probably for the most part c.1635-7, with additions up to 1643; ff. 129v-30v containing rough jottings in both styles; many of the poems containing Strode's extensive revisions, probably made from the 1630s onwards.

c.1620s-43

Some scribbling on the last page including the name John Herbert. Possibly one of the MS volumes by Strode which, according to Anthony Wood (Athenae Oxonienses, ed. Philip Bliss, 4 vols (London, 1813-20), III, 152), came after Strode's death into the hands of Dr Richard Gardiner (1591-1670), canon of Christ Church, and then into those of Richard Davies, Oxford bookseller (fl.1646-88). Afterwards acquired, probably from Davies between 1665 and 1675, by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, who added pagination, annotations and some further entries throughout.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Corpus MS: StW Δ 1. Collated in part in Dobell. Identified as autograph and discussed in M.C. Crum, William Fulman and an Autograph Manuscript of the Poet Strode, BLR, 4 (1952-3), 324-35. Extensively discussed and the text edited from this MS in Forey. Facsimile of f. 94r in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 42 (see StW 641).

CoR 198

Copy.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single small neat predominantly secretary hand but for additions in a second hand on ff. 35v and 58r, compiled by an Oxford man, possibly a member of Wadham College, 97 leaves (inclusing two blanks), in half-calf.

Including 14 poems by Carew (and a second copy of one poem), eight poems (plus 3 of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, and 28 poems by Strode (plus a second copy of one and two of doubtful authorship).

c.late 1630s

Later used and annotated by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, and entries in his hand on f. 97r. Formerly Bodleian, MS CCC.328.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Fulman MS: CwT Δ 2; RnT Δ 6; StW Δ 16.

Corpus Christi College, Oxford (MS 328 f. 94r-v)
CoR 199

Copy, headed An Epitaph made by Dr Corbett Bishop of Oxford; on Dr Dun Deane of Paules, here beginning Hee that will write an Epitaph on thee.

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

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

c.1630s

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

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

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 686 f. 86r)
CoR 199.5

Copy, headed Doctor Donnes Epitaph.

A folio verse miscellany, comprising 162 poems in English, in a single hand, 273 pages, in brown morocco gilt.

c.late 1640s

Formerly (before 1686) in the Palatine Library at Heidelberg. Possibly acquired by Charles Louis (1617-80), Elector Palatine, while at the English court of his uncle, Charles I, from 1635 to 1649.

This volume discovered, and announced in the TLS, 23 July 2010, pp. 14-15, by June Schlueter and Paul Schlueter.

CoR 200

Copy, headed An Epitaphe made uppon Doctor Donne Deane of Paules by Doctor Corbet Bishoppe of Oxforde.

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

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

c.1630s

Among the muniments of Lord Mexborough, descended from the Savile family formerly of Methley Hall, near Pontefract, West Yorkshire. Formerly MX 237.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Mexborough MS: CwT Δ 29.

Leeds Archives (WYL156/237 f. [82hr])
CoR 200.5

Copy, headed Vpon the Deane of Paules: D.D. and subscribed R. Corbett.

A small quarto verse miscellany, in probably a single non-professional mixed hand, written from both ends, 90 leaves, in vellum (lacking spine).

c.1630s

Among papers of the Clitherow family of London, which included Sir Christopher Clitherow (1578-1642), Lord Mayor of London in 1635. Bookplate of James Clitherow Esq. of Boston House, Middlesex: i.e. either Christopher's son, James Clitherow (1618-82), merchant and banker, who purchased Boston Manor, in the parish of Hanwell, in 1670, or James Clitherow (1694-1752).

London Metropolitan Archives (ACC/1360/528 f. [2r rev.])
CoR 201

Copy.

An oblong octavo composite volume, comprising two independent verse miscellanies, Part I, in Latin and English, largely in a neat secretary hand, paginated 1-22, Part II, in English and Welsh, in several hands, one neat secretary hand predominating, paginated 1-266, the two parts bound together in modern quarter red morocco.

c.1630s

Inscriptions including (Part I, pp. 1, 3 and 42) Edward Lewis his Book 1753, John Parker, P H Warburton, and John Aden, and (Part II, p. 33) Thomas Lloyd Esq. Wigfair MS 43, among papers mainly of the Lloyd family of Hafodunos, Denbighshire, and Wigfair, near St Asaph, Flintshire, purchased in 1926-7 from Colonel H.C. Lloyd Howard, of Wigfair.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 12443 A Part II, pp. 133-4)
CoR 202

Copy.

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

c.1636-40s

The name of the possible compiler John Pike inscribed on f. 1r: i.e. possibly a member of the Pike family of Cambridge (one John Pike (d.1677) matriculating at Peterhouse in 1662).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Pike MS: KiH Δ 12. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6), pp. 143-7.

St John's College, Cambridge (MS S. 32 (James 423) ff. 21v-2r)
An Epitaph on Tho. Jonce ('Here for the nonce')

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 74.

CoR 203

Copy, headed Epitaph: on Tho: Jone's Clarke.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 145.

An octavo verse miscellany, written predominantly in a single italic hand (on ff. 2r-19v, 20v-134v, 139r-43r); another hand on ff. 20r-v, 135v, 136v, 137v, 138v, with verbal alterations in yet another hand and scribbling elsewhere; f. 137v (rev.) containing a receipt of one Richard Bull signed by one Thomas Johnson and dated 1676; 143 leaves.

Including 14 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 22 poems by Corbett and 36 poems (plus three of doubtful authorship) by Strode. Apparently transcribed in part from Westminster Abbey, MS 41.

c.early 1630s

Inscribed (f. 1r) by one I A of Christ Church, Oxford, and also Robert Killigrew his booke witnes by his Maiesties ape Gorge Harison. Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane, Bt (1660-1753), physician and collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Killigrew MS: CwT Δ 21; CoR Δ 6; StW Δ 14. Facsimile example of f. 2v in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), Plate 7, after p. 86.

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1792 ff. 25v-6r)
CoR 204

Copy, headed Epi: vpon Tho: Jones Clarke of St Giles Parish.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 145.

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.

An Exhortation to Mr. John Hammon minister in the parish of Bewdly, for the battering downe of the Vanityes of the Gentiles, which are comprehended in a May-pole… ('The mighty Zeale which thou hast new put on')

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 52-6.

An exemplum of Poëtica Stromata at Christ Church, Oxford, has against this poem the MS marginal note None of Dr Corbets and an attribution to John Harris of Christ Church.

CoR 205

Copy, headed A godly exhortation....

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single italic hand, evidently associated with Oxford, probably Christ Church, 214 pages (skipping p. 177), plus an index.

Including 18 poems by Corbett and 59 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1630s

Inscribed on a flyleaf Elizabeth Lane hir booke and, among scribbling on another flyleaf, Johannes Finch. P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 341.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Elizabeth Lane MS: CoR Δ 1 and StW Δ 4. The Dobell catalogue description recorded in Forey (pp. lxxxv-lxxxvi).

Aberdeen University Library (MS 29 pp. 51-4)
CoR 206

Copy, headed To Mr John Hammond parson of Bewdly for the beating down of the maypole....

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.

CoR 207

Copy, headed To Mr Hamond of Bewdley For meating downe ye May=pole, subscribed Geo: Morleye.

An octavo miscellany of chiefly verse, in at least two cursive italic hands, with religious verse and prose at the reverse end in another hand, 111 leaves (plus blanks), in old calf gilt.

Including nineteen poems by Corbett and 29 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, the date 1634 occurring on f. 78v.

c.1635

Inscribed on f. 111v rev. Thursday next at Capricks for Mr Pitt. Later among the collections of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724), and his son Edward, second Earl (1689-1741).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Harley MS: CoR Δ 5.

CoR 208

Copy.

An octavo verse miscellany, written predominantly in a single italic hand (on ff. 2r-19v, 20v-134v, 139r-43r); another hand on ff. 20r-v, 135v, 136v, 137v, 138v, with verbal alterations in yet another hand and scribbling elsewhere; f. 137v (rev.) containing a receipt of one Richard Bull signed by one Thomas Johnson and dated 1676; 143 leaves.

Including 14 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 22 poems by Corbett and 36 poems (plus three of doubtful authorship) by Strode. Apparently transcribed in part from Westminster Abbey, MS 41.

c.early 1630s

Inscribed (f. 1r) by one I A of Christ Church, Oxford, and also Robert Killigrew his booke witnes by his Maiesties ape Gorge Harison. Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane, Bt (1660-1753), physician and collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Killigrew MS: CwT Δ 21; CoR Δ 6; StW Δ 14. Facsimile example of f. 2v in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), Plate 7, after p. 86.

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1792 ff. 50r-2r)
CoR 209

Copy, headed To Mr Hammon parson of Bewdly for pulling down the maypole, subscribed R: Corbet.

An octavo verse miscellany, compiled by an Oxford man, possibly a member of Christ Church, pp. 1-202 in a single minute hand, written over a period, with a few later additions (including two lines on p. 7) by other hands; pp. 202-19 containing entries in later hands up to 1789, in half-calf on marbled boards, pp. 77-84 detached in the 19th century and now separately bound as Folger MS V.a.152.

Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 30 poems by Strode (one of them in V.a.152) plus one of doubtful authorship.

c.late 1630s [-1789]

Later sold by Thomas Thorpe. Afterwards owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89) (and No. 27 in his Catalogue of Shakespeare Reliques (Brixton Hill, 1852)) and subsequently in the library of Lord Warwick at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1.27.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Thorpe-Halliwell MS: CoR Δ 7 and StW Δ 17. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).

CoR 210

Copy, headed To Mr Hammond, Parson of Bewdly: for the beating down of the Maypole.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 130.

A quarto verse miscellany, pp. 13-244 in a single largely roman hand, the remainder in varying styles in one or more other hands (up to c.1655), probably associated with Oxford University, 541 pages (of which pp. 1-12, 87-8 have been extracted and pp. 251-68, 334, 400, 410-540 are blank, with stubs of other extracted leaves at the end), in contemporary brown calf.

Including 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 57 poems (plus a second copy of one poem and four poems of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1630s[-55]

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: possibly his MS 18123. Owned c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914), literary scholar and bookseller. Formerly MS 646.4.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Dobell MS: CoR Δ 8 and StW Δ 18. Discussed in Bertram Dobell in The Athenaeum, No. 4475 (2 August 1913), p. 112. A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).

CoR 210.5

Copy.

A folio verse miscellany, comprising 162 poems in English, in a single hand, 273 pages, in brown morocco gilt.

c.late 1640s

Formerly (before 1686) in the Palatine Library at Heidelberg. Possibly acquired by Charles Louis (1617-80), Elector Palatine, while at the English court of his uncle, Charles I, from 1635 to 1649.

This volume discovered, and announced in the TLS, 23 July 2010, pp. 14-15, by June Schlueter and Paul Schlueter.

Landesbibliothek und Murhardsche Bibliothek der Stadt Kassel (2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4 pp. 249-53)
CoR 211

Copy, headed A godly exhortation....

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

Including 45 poems (and a second copy of one) by Carew, 11 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Corbett, and 25 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1634

The initials T. C. stamped on the front cover. Sold by Thomas Thorpe (1836). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9536, and by Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), of Providence, Rhode Island, industrialist, banker, and art and books collector. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 189.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Rosenbach MS II: CwT Δ 32, CoR Δ 12, and StW Δ 24. Discussed in Scott Nixon, The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 193-5).

CoR 212

Copy, headed A godly Exhortation....

An octavo verse miscellany, comprising c.118 items, including thirteen poems by Donne, twenty poems by Corbett, and twelve poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, written in several hands over an extended period, associated with Christ Church, Oxford, 99 leaves.

c.1620-40s

Owned and probably compiled in part, in his Oxford days, by George Morley (1598-1684), Bishop of Winchester.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Morley MS: DnJ Δ 62, CoR Δ 13, and StW Δ 27. This MS apparently transcribed in part in the Killigrew MS (British Library, Sloane MS 1792).

Facsimile of f. 49r in William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion, ed. Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor (Oxford, 1987), p. 24.

Westminster Abbey (MS 41 ff. 22v-4r)
CoR 213

Copy, headed To Mr Hammond of Bewdly for beating downe ye Maypole and subscribed John Harris.

A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands (one predominating up to p. 167), probably associated with Oxford, 436 pages (pp. 198-9 and 269-70 skipped in the pagination, and including many blanks and an index) and numerous further blank leaves at the end, in modern black morocco gilt.

Including 14 poems by Carew, 13 poems by Corbett and 25 poems (plus one poem of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1650

Scribbling on the first page including the words Peyton Chester….

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Osborn MS I: CwT Δ 38; CoR Δ 14; StW Δ 29.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 200 pp. 238-42)
CoR 214

Copy, headed An ehortacon to mr John Hamond at Bewdley for the battring downe the Maypole.

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

Entitled Miscentur seria iocis. 1647. Elegies, Exequies, Epitaphs, Epigrams, Songs Satires and other Poems, a formal compilation entirely in the hand of the Yorkshire antiquary John Hopkinson (1610-80).

1647

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

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. d. 58 ff. 49r-50r)
CoR 215

Copy, headed To Mr Hammond Parson of Beaudly for ye beating downe of ye May-pole and subscribed Dr Corb:.

An octavo verse miscellany, in two or more hands, 95 leaves (plus blanks), including two Indexes, in contemporary vellum.

Compiled by an Oxford University man, possibly a member of St John's College.

c.1634-43

A receipt (f. 104r) by John Weston recording payment from his brother Ed: Weston, 3 May 1714. The name John Saunders inscribed on the final leaf.

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 21 ff. 80v-2)
CoR 216

Copy of an abridged 38-line version, headed To Mr Hamon of Beaudly. Dr Corbet and beginning at line 5 (here My verse is gone, I haue all rimes defied).

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, in several hands, written from both ends, 84 leaves, in contemporary calf.

Probably compiled principally by an Oxford University man.

c.1630s-40s

Names inscribed on rear flyleaf and paste-down Elizabeth hosman and William Blois.

CoR 217

Copy.

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

c.1630s

The name Edward Michell inscribed later inside the rear cover. Afterwards owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Michell MS: CwT Δ 8. Briefly discussed (in connection with the poem Shall I die? attributed to Shakespeare) by Gary Taylor in The Sunday Times (24 November 1985, pp. 1, 3, with a facsimile example) and by Peter Beal in TLS (3 January 1986, p. 13); and see also letters on 24 January 1986, pp. 87-8.

CoR 219

Copy, headed a godly exhortation... and here ascribed to John Harris of Christchurch.

A quarto verse miscellany, written from both ends, 192 leaves (including blanks), in old brown calf.

Compiled, over a period, principally by Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), Chaplain of Christ Church, Oxford, and Henry King's amanuensis, including (ff. 7r-61r) 24 poems by King in Manne's formal hand, written c.1625-30s; ff. 61v-72v, 73r-99v, 100r-101v written in a variant style of Manne's hand, c.1630s; and (ff. 72v, 99v, 102r-14v, 190v-169r rev.) additions in six other hands, c.1630s-44, with (ff. 75r, 76r, and 76v) three poems to which the subscription R. Dorset is added in the hand of King himself.

c.1625-46

Inscribed (f. 190v rev.) Ann Littleton. Thomas Rodd's sale catalogue, [June 1848], p. 31. Sotheby's, 4 Februry 1850 (Rodd sale), lot 500, to James Orchard Halliwell[-Phillipps] (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Afterward owned by the Rev. Thomas Corser, FSA (1793-1876), book collector. Sotheby's, 25 June 1873 (Corser sale), lot 325, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Later owned by the bookdealer Philip Robinson. Sotheby's, 26 June 1974, lot 3013, with a facsimile example in the sale catalogue.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Thomas Manne MS: KiH Δ 7. Used in Crum. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

CoR 219.5

Copy, in a mixed hand, on the first three pages (two following leaves unopened) of a quarto booklet. c.1620s-30s.

A collection of unbound verse manuscripts, in various hands and paper sizes (chiefly folio), 142 leaves.

Partly compiled by Sir Richard Browne and his father Christopher Browne (1577-1646), of Saye's Court, Deptford.

Volume LXVII of the Evelyn Papers, of John Evelyn (1620-1706), diarist and writer, of Wootton House, Surrey, and his family, also incorporating papers of his father-in-law, Sir Richard Browne, Bt (1605-83), diplomat, and his family. Formerly preserved at Christ Church, Oxford. Acquired March 1995.

CoR 220

Copy, headed To Mr Hamond Parson for the beating downe of the Maypole.

A quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary hand, probably associated with Oxford and afterwards with the Inns of Court, 73 leaves (plus a few blanks and a modern index).

Including 40 poems by Strode and two poems of doubtful authorship.

c.1630s

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9510. (Phillipps sale, lot 1015.) Owned c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914). Percy Dobell's sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 342. Formerly MS 4201. 27. 1.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dobell MS II: StW Δ 19. Formerly Folger MS 1.27.42.

CoR 221

Copy, headed A Godly Exhortation to Mr John Haymond in the parish of Beudly for the battering downe of the Vanities of the Gentiles; which are comprehended in a maypole, written by a zealous Brother from the Black-ffrires, subscribed John Harris of Christ-Church.

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

Including 15 poems by Carew and 17 poems by King.

c.1630s

Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Bookplate of the Warwick Castle Library. Formerly Folger MS 1.8.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Halliwell MS: CwT Δ 26 and KiH Δ 11. James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Some Account of the Antiquities…illustrating…Shakespeare (1852), No. 8. Facsimile example in Giles Dawson and Laetitia Kennedy-Skipton, Elizabethan Handwriting 1500-1650 (London, 1968), Plate 42. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 195).

CoR 221.5

Copy.

A small quarto verse miscellany, in probably a single non-professional mixed hand, written from both ends, 90 leaves, in vellum (lacking spine).

c.1630s

Among papers of the Clitherow family of London, which included Sir Christopher Clitherow (1578-1642), Lord Mayor of London in 1635. Bookplate of James Clitherow Esq. of Boston House, Middlesex: i.e. either Christopher's son, James Clitherow (1618-82), merchant and banker, who purchased Boston Manor, in the parish of Hanwell, in 1670, or James Clitherow (1694-1752).

London Metropolitan Archives (ACC/1360/528 ff. [38r-9v])
CoR 222

Copy, headed A goodly exhortation....

A quarto verse miscellany, including ten poems by Carew and one of doubtful authorship, in a single neat non-professional hand, 72 leaves (plus a later index).

c.1643-50s

Later owned by the Newcastle antiquarian collectors John Bell (1783-1864) and Robert White (1802-74).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Bell-White MS, CwT Δ 30. Described, with facsimiles of ff. 30r and 56v, in T.G.S. Cain, The Bell/White MS: Some Unpublished Poems, ELR, 2 (1972), 260-70.

University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 25 ff. 13v-15r)
CoR 223

Copy, headed To mr. John Hammond Parson of Beudly for the beating doune of the Maypole.

A quarto verse miscellany, including ten poems by Thomas Carew, probably in a single accomplished hand (changing to two styles of italic on ff. 42v-4v, 5r-60r, 76r-v), i + 89 leaves (including blanks, stubs of two or three excised leaves, and an index), in contemporary limp vellum.

c.1630s-40s

Later notes and scribbling including the names John Nutting (ff. 26r, 56r) and John M. and John Susan (rear paste-down). The last leaf also containing a list of the titles of 65 poems by Carew together with the number of lines in each poem, this list unrelated to the contents of the rest of the MS.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Nutting MS: CwT Δ 35. The list of poems, probably relating to another MS, is edited, with facsimiles, in Scott Nixon, The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 198-9, 217-19).

St John's College, Cambridge (MS S. 23 (James 416) ff. 46r-8r)
CoR 224

Copy, headed A godly exhortation to Mr. John Hammond minister of the word of God in the parish of Beawdly for the battering downe of uanities of the Gentiles wch are comprehended in a May-poole by a zealous brother from ye Black ffriars, imperfect, lacking the last eighteen lines.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including 24 poems by Strode, in a single mixed hand, associated with Oxford, 56 leaves (out of an original eight gatherings), in contemporary calf.

c.1630s

Inscriptions inside the covers including the name Phil. Mu (or Mer.). Later in the library of John Sparrow (1906-92), literary scholar and book collector. Acquired in 1969 by Dr Bent Juel-Jensen (1922-2006), Oxford physician and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Sparrow MS: StW Δ 31.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (Juel-Jensen E 7 [item 5] ff. 49v-51v)
For Trinity Sunday, an Anthymne ('Blessed forever may he bee')

First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 93.

CoR 225

Copy in Fulman's hand, transcribed from CoR 226.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 161.

The second of two octavo volumes of historical collections, 375 leaves altogether.

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

Mid-late 17th century
Corpus Christi College, Oxford (MS 315b f. 352r)
CoR 226

Copy in the hand of Corbett's chaplain William Strode.

Edited from this MS in Bennett & Trevor-Roper.

A quarto volume of autograph poems by Strode, 130 leaves (including 31 blank leaves, plus numerous blanks, stubs of five extracted leaves, and some leaves added later).

A working autograph notebook of poems by Strode, compiled and revised over a considerable period, comprising 101 English poems (including draft fragments, 66 Latin poems and 2 Greek poems by him, together with his copies of a few poems by others (generally paired with Strode's translations or answers) including Richard Corbett, Thomas Carew, Peter Apsley, and Henry King and Henry Reynolds, as well as a lecture in Latin by the Professor of Greek at Oxford; ff. 52r-96r written in Strode's mixed secretary and italic hand, probably early 1620s-30; ff. 96v-129v, and afterwards ff. 1-51v, written in Strode's italic hand, probably for the most part c.1635-7, with additions up to 1643; ff. 129v-30v containing rough jottings in both styles; many of the poems containing Strode's extensive revisions, probably made from the 1630s onwards.

c.1620s-43

Some scribbling on the last page including the name John Herbert. Possibly one of the MS volumes by Strode which, according to Anthony Wood (Athenae Oxonienses, ed. Philip Bliss, 4 vols (London, 1813-20), III, 152), came after Strode's death into the hands of Dr Richard Gardiner (1591-1670), canon of Christ Church, and then into those of Richard Davies, Oxford bookseller (fl.1646-88). Afterwards acquired, probably from Davies between 1665 and 1675, by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, who added pagination, annotations and some further entries throughout.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Corpus MS: StW Δ 1. Collated in part in Dobell. Identified as autograph and discussed in M.C. Crum, William Fulman and an Autograph Manuscript of the Poet Strode, BLR, 4 (1952-3), 324-35. Extensively discussed and the text edited from this MS in Forey. Facsimile of f. 94r in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 42 (see StW 641).

In Poetam Exauctoratum et Emeritum ('Nor is it griev'd (graue youth) the memory')

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 10-11.

For related poems see CoR 247-78.

CoR 227

Copy, headed An Answear to Dctr. Price his reply.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single italic hand, evidently associated with Oxford, probably Christ Church, 214 pages (skipping p. 177), plus an index.

Including 18 poems by Corbett and 59 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1630s

Inscribed on a flyleaf Elizabeth Lane hir booke and, among scribbling on another flyleaf, Johannes Finch. P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 341.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Elizabeth Lane MS: CoR Δ 1 and StW Δ 4. The Dobell catalogue description recorded in Forey (pp. lxxxv-lxxxvi).

CoR 228

Copy, headed To Dr. Preice.

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.

CoR 229

Copy, headed The answere to Dr. Price, subscribed R: Corbett.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 11.

An octavo miscellany of chiefly verse, in at least two cursive italic hands, with religious verse and prose at the reverse end in another hand, 111 leaves (plus blanks), in old calf gilt.

Including nineteen poems by Corbett and 29 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, the date 1634 occurring on f. 78v.

c.1635

Inscribed on f. 111v rev. Thursday next at Capricks for Mr Pitt. Later among the collections of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724), and his son Edward, second Earl (1689-1741).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Harley MS: CoR Δ 5.

CoR 230

Copy, headed An answer to Dr Price.

An octavo verse miscellany, written predominantly in a single italic hand (on ff. 2r-19v, 20v-134v, 139r-43r); another hand on ff. 20r-v, 135v, 136v, 137v, 138v, with verbal alterations in yet another hand and scribbling elsewhere; f. 137v (rev.) containing a receipt of one Richard Bull signed by one Thomas Johnson and dated 1676; 143 leaves.

Including 14 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 22 poems by Corbett and 36 poems (plus three of doubtful authorship) by Strode. Apparently transcribed in part from Westminster Abbey, MS 41.

c.early 1630s

Inscribed (f. 1r) by one I A of Christ Church, Oxford, and also Robert Killigrew his booke witnes by his Maiesties ape Gorge Harison. Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane, Bt (1660-1753), physician and collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Killigrew MS: CwT Δ 21; CoR Δ 6; StW Δ 14. Facsimile example of f. 2v in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), Plate 7, after p. 86.

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1792 ff. 60v-1r)
CoR 231

Copy, headed R: C: againe, to Dr Price.

A quarto verse miscellany, pp. 13-244 in a single largely roman hand, the remainder in varying styles in one or more other hands (up to c.1655), probably associated with Oxford University, 541 pages (of which pp. 1-12, 87-8 have been extracted and pp. 251-68, 334, 400, 410-540 are blank, with stubs of other extracted leaves at the end), in contemporary brown calf.

Including 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 57 poems (plus a second copy of one poem and four poems of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1630s[-55]

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: possibly his MS 18123. Owned c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914), literary scholar and bookseller. Formerly MS 646.4.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Dobell MS: CoR Δ 8 and StW Δ 18. Discussed in Bertram Dobell in The Athenaeum, No. 4475 (2 August 1913), p. 112. A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).

CoR 232

Copy, headed A Reply to ye Defence.

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

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

c.1630s

Later owned by Edward Jeremiah Curteis, M.P., of Windmill Hill, Sussex. Puttick & Simpson's, 30 June 1884 (Curteis sale), lot 175, to Pearson of Pall Mall for James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89). Formerly Folger MS 452.5.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), and II.i (1987), as the Curteis MS: DnJ Δ 50 and CoR Δ 9. Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Arthur F. Marotti, Folger MSS V.a.89 and V.a.345: Reading Lyric Poetry in Manuscript, in The Reader Revealed, ed. Sabrina Alcorn Baron, et al. (Washington, DC, 2001), pp. 44-57. Discussed in Arthur F. Marotti, Christ Church, Oxford, and Beyond: Folger MS V.a.345 and Its Manuscript and Print Sources, SP 113 (2016), 850-78. A facsimile of p. 36 is in Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey, Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper (Washington, DC, 2008), p. 32.

CoR 233

Copy, headed Doctor Corbetts reply.

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

Including 52 poems by Donne (many on pp. 64-109, 167-74 initialled L.C. [? Lord Chancellor], as are some poems by others), 11 poems by Carew, ten poems by Corbett, and 11 poems by or attributed to Herrick, in a single neat hand throughout; the poems dating up to 1637.

c.1637

Later scribbling and inscriptions including the names Edw Denny [presumably Edward Denny (1569-1637), Baron Denny of Waltham and first Earl of Norwich], Charles Cocks, Edward Randolphe and (on p. 162) Thomas Cassy. Later owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary (sold in the Haslewood sale, London, 1833, lot 1329, to Thorpe); by Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough, antiquary (his sale in Dublin, 1 November 1841, item 624); and by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector (his library catalogue, 1880, IV, pp. 1159-64), and sold at Sotheby's, 17 July 1917 (Huth sale), lot 5873.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Haslewood-Kingsborough MS (I): DnJ Δ 25, CwT Δ 28, CoR Δ 10, and HeR Δ 5. A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 15). Discussed in C.M. Armitage, Donne's Poems in Huntington Manuscript 198: New Light on The Funerall, SP, 63 (1966), 697-707. A facsimile of part of p. 63 in Marcy L. North, Amateur Compilers, Scribal Labour, and the Contents of Early Modern Poetic Miscellanies, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 101).

CoR 234

Copy, headed Ad Poetam exauctoratum et emeritum.

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

Including 13 poems by Donne and 14 (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett; the scribe is that mainly responsible also for the Thomas Smyth MS (DnJ Δ 48).

c.1630s

Later owned and used extensively as a notebook by Dr William Balam (1651-1726), of Ely, Cambridgeshire, who also annotated Cambridge University Library MS Add. 5778 and Harvard fMS Eng 966.4. Bookplate of N. Micklethwait. Owned in 1931 by the Rev. F.W. Glass, of Taverham Hall, near Norwich (seat in the 17th century of the Sotherton family and later of the Branthwayt and Micklethwait families).

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Welbeck MS: DnJ Δ 57 and CoR Δ 11. Discussed in H. Harvey Wood, A Seventeenth-Century Manuscript of Poems by Donne and Others, Essays & Studies, 16 (1931), 179-90. For Taverham Hall, see Thomas B. Norgate, A History of Taverham from Early Times to 1969 (Aylsham, 1969).

University of Nottingham (Pw V 37 pp. 144-5)
CoR 235

Copy.

An octavo verse miscellany, comprising c.118 items, including thirteen poems by Donne, twenty poems by Corbett, and twelve poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, written in several hands over an extended period, associated with Christ Church, Oxford, 99 leaves.

c.1620-40s

Owned and probably compiled in part, in his Oxford days, by George Morley (1598-1684), Bishop of Winchester.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Morley MS: DnJ Δ 62, CoR Δ 13, and StW Δ 27. This MS apparently transcribed in part in the Killigrew MS (British Library, Sloane MS 1792).

Facsimile of f. 49r in William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion, ed. Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor (Oxford, 1987), p. 24.

Westminster Abbey (MS 41 f. 11r-v)
CoR 236

Copy, headed The aunswere to Dr Price and subscribed R: Corbet.

A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands (one predominating up to p. 167), probably associated with Oxford, 436 pages (pp. 198-9 and 269-70 skipped in the pagination, and including many blanks and an index) and numerous further blank leaves at the end, in modern black morocco gilt.

Including 14 poems by Carew, 13 poems by Corbett and 25 poems (plus one poem of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1650

Scribbling on the first page including the words Peyton Chester….

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Osborn MS I: CwT Δ 38; CoR Δ 14; StW Δ 29.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 200 pp. 213-14)
CoR 237

Copy, untitled.

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

c.1620s-30s

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

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 19 pp. 101-2)
CoR 238

Copy, headed A replie to the defence.

A quarto verse miscellany, nearly all in a single mixed hand, 19 leaves, in a wrapper comprising a recycled vellum leaf bearing a rubricated (?)15th-century religious text in Latin.

c.1630

Among the papers of the Stanhope family, of Horsforth, near Leeds. Formerly Spencer-Stanhope MSS, Calendar No. 2795 (Bundle 10, No. 34).

Bradford Archives (SpSt/9/1a f. [7r-v])
CoR 239

Copy, headed Ad Poetam exauctorata et emerita.

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.

CoR 240

Copy, headed Ad Poetam exeustoratum et emeritum.

A quarto verse miscellany, arranged (Part I) as an anthology, under genre headings, the reverse end (Part II) largely occupied by a later series of Latin verses, epistles, and other exercises, 168 leaves, in old calf (rebacked).

Part I probably in several hands, the predominant italic hand that also responsible for the Welbeck MS: DnJ Δ 57), and including 21 poems by Donne.

c.1630 [-1677]

Part I inscribed (f. 1r) John Smyth his Book 1640, Charles Smyth 1674, Hugh Smyth 1676; (f. 23v) J Smyth 1677 / 1676. Part II inscribed several times Thomas Smith, on f. 19r also Die: Maij 12o Ano 1659, with a reference on f. 58v to Balliol College, Oxford, 1659/60. Later inscribed (f. [ir]) by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), who records buying this very curious and interesting MS. of Messrs Boone. Afterwards in the library at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1. 28.

Cited in IELM, I.i, as the Thomas Smyth MS: DnJ Δ 48.

CoR 241

Copy, headed In Authorum Exauctoratum et Emeritum, subscribed R: C.

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

Including 15 poems by Carew and 17 poems by King.

c.1630s

Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Bookplate of the Warwick Castle Library. Formerly Folger MS 1.8.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Halliwell MS: CwT Δ 26 and KiH Δ 11. James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Some Account of the Antiquities…illustrating…Shakespeare (1852), No. 8. Facsimile example in Giles Dawson and Laetitia Kennedy-Skipton, Elizabethan Handwriting 1500-1650 (London, 1968), Plate 42. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 195).

CoR 242

Copy, headed The reply and subscribed R C.

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

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

c.1630s

Among the muniments of Lord Mexborough, descended from the Savile family formerly of Methley Hall, near Pontefract, West Yorkshire. Formerly MX 237.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Mexborough MS: CwT Δ 29.

Leeds Archives (WYL156/237 ff. 89v-90r)
CoR 243

Copy, headed An answere to Price.

A quarto verse miscellany, including ten poems by Carew and one of doubtful authorship, in a single neat non-professional hand, 72 leaves (plus a later index).

c.1643-50s

Later owned by the Newcastle antiquarian collectors John Bell (1783-1864) and Robert White (1802-74).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Bell-White MS, CwT Δ 30. Described, with facsimiles of ff. 30r and 56v, in T.G.S. Cain, The Bell/White MS: Some Unpublished Poems, ELR, 2 (1972), 260-70.

University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 25 f. 13r-v)
CoR 244

Copy of lines 17-30, headed The Replye and here beginning But for a Cobler to goe burne his Cappe.

A quarto verse miscellany, in three hands (A: pp. 1-56; B: pp. 57-60, 75-122; C: pp. 61-74, 125-7), 127 pages, in contemporary limp vellum.

Including 23 poems (and a second copy of one) by Randolph.

c.1635

Mostyn MS 196: from the library originally founded by Sir Thomas Mostyn (1535-1617) at Mostyn Hall, near Holywell, Flintshire, Wales, the MS possibly acquired by Sir Roger Mostyn (1567-1642) or by his son Sir Roger Mostyn, first Baronet (1625?-90). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 191.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Mostyn MS: RnT Δ 11. Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1873), Appendix, p. 356. Edited in Howard H. Thompson, An Edition of Two Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Poetical Miscellanies (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1959) [Mic 59-4669].

CoR 245

Copy, headed Dr Corbetts Answeare.

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

c.1636-40s

The name of the possible compiler John Pike inscribed on f. 1r: i.e. possibly a member of the Pike family of Cambridge (one John Pike (d.1677) matriculating at Peterhouse in 1662).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Pike MS: KiH Δ 12. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6), pp. 143-7.

St John's College, Cambridge (MS S. 32 (James 423) ff. 43v-4r)
CoR 246

Copy, headed Doctor Corbetts Replye.

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

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

c.1620s-30s

Old pressmark F. 4. 20.

In Quendam Anniversariorum Scriptorem ('Even soe dead Hector thrice was triumph'd on')

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 8-9.

The poem is usually followed in MSS by Dr Daniel Price's Answer (So to dead Hector boyes may doe disgrace), and see also CoR 227-46.

CoR 247

Copy, headed Against Price his Anniversary upon Prince Henry: R:C:.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single italic hand, evidently associated with Oxford, probably Christ Church, 214 pages (skipping p. 177), plus an index.

Including 18 poems by Corbett and 59 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1630s

Inscribed on a flyleaf Elizabeth Lane hir booke and, among scribbling on another flyleaf, Johannes Finch. P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 341.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Elizabeth Lane MS: CoR Δ 1 and StW Δ 4. The Dobell catalogue description recorded in Forey (pp. lxxxv-lxxxvi).

Aberdeen University Library (MS 29 pp. 38-9)
CoR 248

Copy, headed Song, on Dr Pricees annivers. R:C:.

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.

CoR 249

Copy, headed An Antianniversary, subscribed Rich: Corbett.

An octavo miscellany of chiefly verse, in at least two cursive italic hands, with religious verse and prose at the reverse end in another hand, 111 leaves (plus blanks), in old calf gilt.

Including nineteen poems by Corbett and 29 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, the date 1634 occurring on f. 78v.

c.1635

Inscribed on f. 111v rev. Thursday next at Capricks for Mr Pitt. Later among the collections of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724), and his son Edward, second Earl (1689-1741).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Harley MS: CoR Δ 5.

CoR 250

Copy, headed Docter Corbet against Prices aniuersary on Prince Henery.

An octavo verse miscellany, written predominantly in a single italic hand (on ff. 2r-19v, 20v-134v, 139r-43r); another hand on ff. 20r-v, 135v, 136v, 137v, 138v, with verbal alterations in yet another hand and scribbling elsewhere; f. 137v (rev.) containing a receipt of one Richard Bull signed by one Thomas Johnson and dated 1676; 143 leaves.

Including 14 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 22 poems by Corbett and 36 poems (plus three of doubtful authorship) by Strode. Apparently transcribed in part from Westminster Abbey, MS 41.

c.early 1630s

Inscribed (f. 1r) by one I A of Christ Church, Oxford, and also Robert Killigrew his booke witnes by his Maiesties ape Gorge Harison. Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane, Bt (1660-1753), physician and collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Killigrew MS: CwT Δ 21; CoR Δ 6; StW Δ 14. Facsimile example of f. 2v in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), Plate 7, after p. 86.

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1792 f. 12v)
CoR 251

Copy, headed Against Dr Prices Anniuersaries vpon Prince Henrie, subscribed Dr Corbet.

An octavo verse miscellany, compiled by an Oxford man, possibly a member of Christ Church, pp. 1-202 in a single minute hand, written over a period, with a few later additions (including two lines on p. 7) by other hands; pp. 202-19 containing entries in later hands up to 1789, in half-calf on marbled boards, pp. 77-84 detached in the 19th century and now separately bound as Folger MS V.a.152.

Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 30 poems by Strode (one of them in V.a.152) plus one of doubtful authorship.

c.late 1630s [-1789]

Later sold by Thomas Thorpe. Afterwards owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89) (and No. 27 in his Catalogue of Shakespeare Reliques (Brixton Hill, 1852)) and subsequently in the library of Lord Warwick at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1.27.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Thorpe-Halliwell MS: CoR Δ 7 and StW Δ 17. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).

CoR 252

Copy, headed R:C: on Dr. Price his Aniversary on Prince Henry.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 107.

A quarto verse miscellany, pp. 13-244 in a single largely roman hand, the remainder in varying styles in one or more other hands (up to c.1655), probably associated with Oxford University, 541 pages (of which pp. 1-12, 87-8 have been extracted and pp. 251-68, 334, 400, 410-540 are blank, with stubs of other extracted leaves at the end), in contemporary brown calf.

Including 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 57 poems (plus a second copy of one poem and four poems of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1630s[-55]

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: possibly his MS 18123. Owned c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914), literary scholar and bookseller. Formerly MS 646.4.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Dobell MS: CoR Δ 8 and StW Δ 18. Discussed in Bertram Dobell in The Athenaeum, No. 4475 (2 August 1913), p. 112. A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).

CoR 253

Copy, headed Dr Corbet agt Dr Price Aniversaryes on Prince Henry.

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

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

c.1630s

Later owned by Edward Jeremiah Curteis, M.P., of Windmill Hill, Sussex. Puttick & Simpson's, 30 June 1884 (Curteis sale), lot 175, to Pearson of Pall Mall for James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89). Formerly Folger MS 452.5.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), and II.i (1987), as the Curteis MS: DnJ Δ 50 and CoR Δ 9. Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Arthur F. Marotti, Folger MSS V.a.89 and V.a.345: Reading Lyric Poetry in Manuscript, in The Reader Revealed, ed. Sabrina Alcorn Baron, et al. (Washington, DC, 2001), pp. 44-57. Discussed in Arthur F. Marotti, Christ Church, Oxford, and Beyond: Folger MS V.a.345 and Its Manuscript and Print Sources, SP 113 (2016), 850-78. A facsimile of p. 36 is in Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey, Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper (Washington, DC, 2008), p. 32.

CoR 253.5

Copy, untitled, subscribed R: C:.

A quarto volume of poems, including 72 by Donne, arranged under genres, probably in two hands, poems by Corbett and others at the reverse end, 160 pages (not numbered consecutively, plus blanks).

Owned, and possibly compiled, by John Cave, of Lincoln College, Oxford (M.A. 28 January 1618/19; d.1657). The first page of text is a poem Vpon Mr Donn's Satires subscribed Io. Ca. Jun. 3. 1620. If John Cave was a member of the Cave family of Stanford, Northamptonshire, he would have been related (by marriage) to the Skipwith family.

c.1620-5

Also inscribed with names of Elizabeth Park [or Parker], John Nedham, and William Adams. Later owned by the Rev. T.R. O' Flahertie (d.1894), of Capel, near Dorking, Surrey, book collector; by Charles Elkin Matthews (1851-19210, bookseller; and by Richard Jennings. Sotheby's, 28 April 1952 (Jennings sale), lot 12.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the John Cave MS, DnJ Δ 27. For a facsimile of page 3 see DnJ 793, DnJ 3858.

New York Public Library, Arents Collection (Cat. No. S 191 (Acc. No. 7167) f. [22r-v])
CoR 254

Copy, headed Dr Corbet Against Dr Price.

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

Including 13 poems by Donne and 14 (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett; the scribe is that mainly responsible also for the Thomas Smyth MS (DnJ Δ 48).

c.1630s

Later owned and used extensively as a notebook by Dr William Balam (1651-1726), of Ely, Cambridgeshire, who also annotated Cambridge University Library MS Add. 5778 and Harvard fMS Eng 966.4. Bookplate of N. Micklethwait. Owned in 1931 by the Rev. F.W. Glass, of Taverham Hall, near Norwich (seat in the 17th century of the Sotherton family and later of the Branthwayt and Micklethwait families).

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Welbeck MS: DnJ Δ 57 and CoR Δ 11. Discussed in H. Harvey Wood, A Seventeenth-Century Manuscript of Poems by Donne and Others, Essays & Studies, 16 (1931), 179-90. For Taverham Hall, see Thomas B. Norgate, A History of Taverham from Early Times to 1969 (Aylsham, 1969).

University of Nottingham (Pw V 37 p. 144)
CoR 255

Copy, headed Dr Corb. against Prices Anniversary vpon Prince Henry.

An octavo verse miscellany, comprising c.118 items, including thirteen poems by Donne, twenty poems by Corbett, and twelve poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, written in several hands over an extended period, associated with Christ Church, Oxford, 99 leaves.

c.1620-40s

Owned and probably compiled in part, in his Oxford days, by George Morley (1598-1684), Bishop of Winchester.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Morley MS: DnJ Δ 62, CoR Δ 13, and StW Δ 27. This MS apparently transcribed in part in the Killigrew MS (British Library, Sloane MS 1792).

Facsimile of f. 49r in William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion, ed. Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor (Oxford, 1987), p. 24.

Westminster Abbey (MS 41 f. 10v)
CoR 256

Copy, headed An Antianiversary and subscribed R: Corbet.

A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands (one predominating up to p. 167), probably associated with Oxford, 436 pages (pp. 198-9 and 269-70 skipped in the pagination, and including many blanks and an index) and numerous further blank leaves at the end, in modern black morocco gilt.

Including 14 poems by Carew, 13 poems by Corbett and 25 poems (plus one poem of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1650

Scribbling on the first page including the words Peyton Chester….

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Osborn MS I: CwT Δ 38; CoR Δ 14; StW Δ 29.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 200 pp. 211-12)
CoR 257

Copy, headed Doctor Corbett: agt. one Price an idle writer as beneth, dated at the end 23 June 1628.

A large folio miscellany of English and Welsh poems, in occasionally alternating black and red ink, 61 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

Compiled by Richard Roberts, Justice of the Peace.

c.1628

Sold by P.J. Dobell in 1936.

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. c. 54 f. 29r)
CoR 258

Copy.

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

Entitled Miscentur seria iocis. 1647. Elegies, Exequies, Epitaphs, Epigrams, Songs Satires and other Poems, a formal compilation entirely in the hand of the Yorkshire antiquary John Hopkinson (1610-80).

1647

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

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. d. 58 f. 4r-v)
CoR 259

Copy, headed Ad Autorem de anniversarijs eiusdem In Henricum Principem.

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

c.1620s-30s

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

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 19 p. 101)
CoR 260

Copy, headed On Dr P: Price his 3 Anniversary vpon ye death of prince Henry.

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

Including 14 poems by Carew; the main text (ff. 1r-27r) in a non-professional mixed hand of the 1630s (but for later scribbling); the remaining leaves filled by later hands; notes on family history from 1647 to 1664 on ff. 28r-9r.

c.1630s[-75]

Inscribed on f. 29v John Peverell Booke 1674 and his name also on ff. 1r and 49r. Fol. 48v containing a receipt dated 30 June 1653 by me Francis Blackitt of bro. William of Hoodcroft, Co. Durham. Other names inside the front cover including John Peves and Railphe Hogwood and, inside the back cover, James Portington, William Steadman 1675, Thomas Meeres, William Diton and Ramond Swift.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Peverell MS: CwT Δ 9.

CoR 261

Copy, headed Doctor Corbett against Doctor Prince his Anniversary upon this princes death.

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A folio volume of state documents, speeches and verse, 284 leaves (plus blanks), in modern calf gilt.

Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 27 of the Hopkinson MSS. Chiefly transcribed from papers belonging to John Savile, Baron of Pontefract, and Edward Taylor, of Furnivall's Inn, Holborn.

1674

Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 298.

Bradford Archives (32D86/27 ff. 116v-17)
CoR 262

Copy, headed Dr Corbett against Dr Brice's annyversaries on P: Henrie.

A quarto verse miscellany, nearly all in a single mixed hand, 19 leaves, in a wrapper comprising a recycled vellum leaf bearing a rubricated (?)15th-century religious text in Latin.

c.1630

Among the papers of the Stanhope family, of Horsforth, near Leeds. Formerly Spencer-Stanhope MSS, Calendar No. 2795 (Bundle 10, No. 34).

Bradford Archives (SpSt/9/1a f. [6v])
CoR 263

Copy, headed Ad Authorem....

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.

CoR 264

Copy, headed Vpon Dr Price his Anniursary, subscribed Dr Corbett.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, in generally small mixed hands, ii + 40 leaves, in 19th-century embossed black leather.

c.1640s

Later owned by Thomas Rodd (1796-1849), bookseller; by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector; and by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 21 August 1858 (Bliss sale), lot 190.

CoR 265

Copy, headed On the Anauersy of Mr Price who writt on the death of Prince Henery D:C..

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English, Latin and Greek, largely in one secretary hand, written from both ends, with indexes (ff. 2r-3r, 168r-v), 168 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum.

Compiled by Sir John Perceval, Bt (1629-65), probably while at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Volume CXCII of the papers of the Perceval family, Earls of Egmont, and the allied Southwell family.

c.1646-9
CoR 265.5

Copy, in a rounded italic hand, headed Ad Authorem..., on the first two pages of two conjugate quarto leaves. c.1620s-30s.

A collection of unbound verse manuscripts, in various hands and paper sizes (chiefly folio), 142 leaves.

Partly compiled by Sir Richard Browne and his father Christopher Browne (1577-1646), of Saye's Court, Deptford.

Volume LXVII of the Evelyn Papers, of John Evelyn (1620-1706), diarist and writer, of Wootton House, Surrey, and his family, also incorporating papers of his father-in-law, Sir Richard Browne, Bt (1605-83), diplomat, and his family. Formerly preserved at Christ Church, Oxford. Acquired March 1995.

CoR 266

Copy, headed Ad authorem de anniuersarijs eisdem siue anmadversarijs, siue adversarijs In Henricum principem.

A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous tracts and papers, in various hands, in modern red morocco gilt.

CoR 267

Copy, headed Ad Authorem..., subscribed Dr: C:.

A large quarto volume of verse and prose, in several hands, a cursive mixed hand predominating on ff. 1r -51, 53r-8v, with a later addition dated 1694 on f. 78r, 82 leaves, in modern half green morocco.

Mid-17th century
CoR 268 c.1630s

Copy, probably in the secretary hand of Thomas Carre (d.1641), rector of Himsworth and vicar of Aycliffe, Co. Durham, headed Vpon Dr Price his Anniversary for noble prince Henrie, subscribed Dr. Corbit.

This MS recorded in P.G. Stanwood, Poetry Manuscripts of the Seventeenth Century in the Durham Cathedral Library, DUJ, 62 (1969-70), 81-90 (p. 84).

A tall folio composite volume of largely ecclesiastical verse and prose documents, in English and Latin, in various hands and paper sizes, with dates from 1613 to 1669, 238 leaves, in reversed calf.

Among the collections of Christopher Hunter (1675-1757), Durham antiquary and physician.

Durham Cathedral Library (Hunter MS 27 f. 92r-v)
CoR 269

Copy, headed Ad Authorem de Anniversarijs ejusdem, sive adiversarijs in Henricum Prin:.

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A quarto verse miscellany, arranged (Part I) as an anthology, under genre headings, the reverse end (Part II) largely occupied by a later series of Latin verses, epistles, and other exercises, 168 leaves, in old calf (rebacked).

Part I probably in several hands, the predominant italic hand that also responsible for the Welbeck MS: DnJ Δ 57), and including 21 poems by Donne.

c.1630 [-1677]

Part I inscribed (f. 1r) John Smyth his Book 1640, Charles Smyth 1674, Hugh Smyth 1676; (f. 23v) J Smyth 1677 / 1676. Part II inscribed several times Thomas Smith, on f. 19r also Die: Maij 12o Ano 1659, with a reference on f. 58v to Balliol College, Oxford, 1659/60. Later inscribed (f. [ir]) by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), who records buying this very curious and interesting MS. of Messrs Boone. Afterwards in the library at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1. 28.

Cited in IELM, I.i, as the Thomas Smyth MS: DnJ Δ 48.

CoR 270

Copy, subscribed RC.

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

Including 15 poems by Carew and 17 poems by King.

c.1630s

Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Bookplate of the Warwick Castle Library. Formerly Folger MS 1.8.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Halliwell MS: CwT Δ 26 and KiH Δ 11. James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Some Account of the Antiquities…illustrating…Shakespeare (1852), No. 8. Facsimile example in Giles Dawson and Laetitia Kennedy-Skipton, Elizabethan Handwriting 1500-1650 (London, 1968), Plate 42. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 195).

CoR 271

Copy, headed Ad Authorem de Anniversarijs ejusdem in Henricu Principem.

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

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

c.1630s

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

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

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 686 f. 28v)
CoR 272

Copy, headed Against Dr Price his Aniuersarys vppon Prince Henry 1613: 1614 and subscribed R. C.

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

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

c.1630s

Among the muniments of Lord Mexborough, descended from the Savile family formerly of Methley Hall, near Pontefract, West Yorkshire. Formerly MX 237.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Mexborough MS: CwT Δ 29.

Leeds Archives (WYL156/237 f. 89r)
CoR 273

Copy, headed Ter circum Iliacos raptaverat Hectora Muros.

An oblong octavo composite volume, comprising two independent verse miscellanies, Part I, in Latin and English, largely in a neat secretary hand, paginated 1-22, Part II, in English and Welsh, in several hands, one neat secretary hand predominating, paginated 1-266, the two parts bound together in modern quarter red morocco.

c.1630s

Inscriptions including (Part I, pp. 1, 3 and 42) Edward Lewis his Book 1753, John Parker, P H Warburton, and John Aden, and (Part II, p. 33) Thomas Lloyd Esq. Wigfair MS 43, among papers mainly of the Lloyd family of Hafodunos, Denbighshire, and Wigfair, near St Asaph, Flintshire, purchased in 1926-7 from Colonel H.C. Lloyd Howard, of Wigfair.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 12443 A Part I, pp. 12-13)
CoR 274

In Quendam Anniversariorum Scriptorem.

This entry in IELM, II.i, is a typographically garbled repetition of CoR 272.

Deleted entry (Leeds Archives, MX 237 [now WYL156/237])
CoR 275

Copy, headed Docter Corbet against Prices Universary upon Prince Henry.

A quarto verse miscellany, including ten poems by Carew and one of doubtful authorship, in a single neat non-professional hand, 72 leaves (plus a later index).

c.1643-50s

Later owned by the Newcastle antiquarian collectors John Bell (1783-1864) and Robert White (1802-74).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Bell-White MS, CwT Δ 30. Described, with facsimiles of ff. 30r and 56v, in T.G.S. Cain, The Bell/White MS: Some Unpublished Poems, ELR, 2 (1972), 260-70.

University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 25 f. 12r)
CoR 276

Copy, headed Dr: Corbett to Dr: Pryce touchinge his Anniversaryes.

A quarto verse miscellany, in three hands (A: pp. 1-56; B: pp. 57-60, 75-122; C: pp. 61-74, 125-7), 127 pages, in contemporary limp vellum.

Including 23 poems (and a second copy of one) by Randolph.

c.1635

Mostyn MS 196: from the library originally founded by Sir Thomas Mostyn (1535-1617) at Mostyn Hall, near Holywell, Flintshire, Wales, the MS possibly acquired by Sir Roger Mostyn (1567-1642) or by his son Sir Roger Mostyn, first Baronet (1625?-90). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 191.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Mostyn MS: RnT Δ 11. Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1873), Appendix, p. 356. Edited in Howard H. Thompson, An Edition of Two Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Poetical Miscellanies (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1959) [Mic 59-4669].

CoR 277

Copy, headed Against Dr Prices Anniversaries of P Henry.

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

c.1636-40s

The name of the possible compiler John Pike inscribed on f. 1r: i.e. possibly a member of the Pike family of Cambridge (one John Pike (d.1677) matriculating at Peterhouse in 1662).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Pike MS: KiH Δ 12. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6), pp. 143-7.

St John's College, Cambridge (MS S. 32 (James 423) ff. 42v-3r)
CoR 278

Copy, headed Dr. Corbett against Dr. Price's Anniversarys on Prince Henery.

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

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

c.1620s-30s

Old pressmark F. 4. 20.

Iter Boreale ('Foure Clerkes of Oxford, Doctours two, and two')

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 31-49.

CoR 279

Copy, headed Iter Boreale: R: C:.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single italic hand, evidently associated with Oxford, probably Christ Church, 214 pages (skipping p. 177), plus an index.

Including 18 poems by Corbett and 59 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1630s

Inscribed on a flyleaf Elizabeth Lane hir booke and, among scribbling on another flyleaf, Johannes Finch. P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 341.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Elizabeth Lane MS: CoR Δ 1 and StW Δ 4. The Dobell catalogue description recorded in Forey (pp. lxxxv-lxxxvi).

Aberdeen University Library (MS 29 pp. 1-15)
CoR 280

Copy, headed Dr. Corbetts Journey.

An octavo verse miscellany, including 13 poems by Donne and 14 poems by Corbett, in several hands, probably associated with Oxford University, written from both ends, 102 leaves, in 17th-century calf.

c.1630s

Inscribed (f. 101v) Henry Lawson (or just possibly Lamson). Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1836), item 1185. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9257. Sotheby's, 15 June 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 862. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 164 (1896), item 64.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Lawson MS: DnJ Δ 37 and CoR Δ 2.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 14 ff. 2r-8v)
CoR 281

Copy.

A quarto verse miscellany of c.150 poems, in several hands; associated with Oxford, probably Christ Church, 279 pages (plus index and blanks).

Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 32 poems (plus four of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1630s-40s

Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue (1836), item 1044. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9561. Sotheby's, 19 June 1893 (Phillipps sale), lot 628, and 21 March 1895, lot 903. Hodgson's, 23 April 1959, lot 528.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the English Poetry MS: CoR Δ 3 and StW Δ 6.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 97 pp. 14-25)
CoR 282

Copy, subscribed Dr R: Corbett.

An octavo miscellany of chiefly verse, in at least two cursive italic hands, with religious verse and prose at the reverse end in another hand, 111 leaves (plus blanks), in old calf gilt.

Including nineteen poems by Corbett and 29 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, the date 1634 occurring on f. 78v.

c.1635

Inscribed on f. 111v rev. Thursday next at Capricks for Mr Pitt. Later among the collections of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724), and his son Edward, second Earl (1689-1741).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Harley MS: CoR Δ 5.

CoR 283

Copy, with corrections in another hand.

An octavo verse miscellany, written predominantly in a single italic hand (on ff. 2r-19v, 20v-134v, 139r-43r); another hand on ff. 20r-v, 135v, 136v, 137v, 138v, with verbal alterations in yet another hand and scribbling elsewhere; f. 137v (rev.) containing a receipt of one Richard Bull signed by one Thomas Johnson and dated 1676; 143 leaves.

Including 14 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 22 poems by Corbett and 36 poems (plus three of doubtful authorship) by Strode. Apparently transcribed in part from Westminster Abbey, MS 41.

c.early 1630s

Inscribed (f. 1r) by one I A of Christ Church, Oxford, and also Robert Killigrew his booke witnes by his Maiesties ape Gorge Harison. Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane, Bt (1660-1753), physician and collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Killigrew MS: CwT Δ 21; CoR Δ 6; StW Δ 14. Facsimile example of f. 2v in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), Plate 7, after p. 86.

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1792 ff. 28r-38r)
CoR 284

Copy, headed A iourney into the North.

An octavo verse miscellany, compiled by an Oxford man, possibly a member of Christ Church, pp. 1-202 in a single minute hand, written over a period, with a few later additions (including two lines on p. 7) by other hands; pp. 202-19 containing entries in later hands up to 1789, in half-calf on marbled boards, pp. 77-84 detached in the 19th century and now separately bound as Folger MS V.a.152.

Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 30 poems by Strode (one of them in V.a.152) plus one of doubtful authorship.

c.late 1630s [-1789]

Later sold by Thomas Thorpe. Afterwards owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89) (and No. 27 in his Catalogue of Shakespeare Reliques (Brixton Hill, 1852)) and subsequently in the library of Lord Warwick at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1.27.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Thorpe-Halliwell MS: CoR Δ 7 and StW Δ 17. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).

CoR 285

Copy, headed Dr. Corbets Iter Boreale.

A quarto verse miscellany, pp. 13-244 in a single largely roman hand, the remainder in varying styles in one or more other hands (up to c.1655), probably associated with Oxford University, 541 pages (of which pp. 1-12, 87-8 have been extracted and pp. 251-68, 334, 400, 410-540 are blank, with stubs of other extracted leaves at the end), in contemporary brown calf.

Including 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 57 poems (plus a second copy of one poem and four poems of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1630s[-55]

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: possibly his MS 18123. Owned c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914), literary scholar and bookseller. Formerly MS 646.4.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Dobell MS: CoR Δ 8 and StW Δ 18. Discussed in Bertram Dobell in The Athenaeum, No. 4475 (2 August 1913), p. 112. A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).

CoR 286

Copy in double columns, headed The Itinnary in ye North, 10mo: Aug: 1618.

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

Including 52 poems by Donne (many on pp. 64-109, 167-74 initialled L.C. [? Lord Chancellor], as are some poems by others), 11 poems by Carew, ten poems by Corbett, and 11 poems by or attributed to Herrick, in a single neat hand throughout; the poems dating up to 1637.

c.1637

Later scribbling and inscriptions including the names Edw Denny [presumably Edward Denny (1569-1637), Baron Denny of Waltham and first Earl of Norwich], Charles Cocks, Edward Randolphe and (on p. 162) Thomas Cassy. Later owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary (sold in the Haslewood sale, London, 1833, lot 1329, to Thorpe); by Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough, antiquary (his sale in Dublin, 1 November 1841, item 624); and by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector (his library catalogue, 1880, IV, pp. 1159-64), and sold at Sotheby's, 17 July 1917 (Huth sale), lot 5873.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Haslewood-Kingsborough MS (I): DnJ Δ 25, CwT Δ 28, CoR Δ 10, and HeR Δ 5. A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 15). Discussed in C.M. Armitage, Donne's Poems in Huntington Manuscript 198: New Light on The Funerall, SP, 63 (1966), 697-707. A facsimile of part of p. 63 in Marcy L. North, Amateur Compilers, Scribal Labour, and the Contents of Early Modern Poetic Miscellanies, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 101).

CoR 287

Copy of lines 1-46, headed Dr Corbett. / The description of a Northerne Journey.

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

Including 13 poems by Donne and 14 (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett; the scribe is that mainly responsible also for the Thomas Smyth MS (DnJ Δ 48).

c.1630s

Later owned and used extensively as a notebook by Dr William Balam (1651-1726), of Ely, Cambridgeshire, who also annotated Cambridge University Library MS Add. 5778 and Harvard fMS Eng 966.4. Bookplate of N. Micklethwait. Owned in 1931 by the Rev. F.W. Glass, of Taverham Hall, near Norwich (seat in the 17th century of the Sotherton family and later of the Branthwayt and Micklethwait families).

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Welbeck MS: DnJ Δ 57 and CoR Δ 11. Discussed in H. Harvey Wood, A Seventeenth-Century Manuscript of Poems by Donne and Others, Essays & Studies, 16 (1931), 179-90. For Taverham Hall, see Thomas B. Norgate, A History of Taverham from Early Times to 1969 (Aylsham, 1969).

University of Nottingham (Pw V 37 p. 323)
CoR 288

Copy.

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

Including 45 poems (and a second copy of one) by Carew, 11 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Corbett, and 25 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1634

The initials T. C. stamped on the front cover. Sold by Thomas Thorpe (1836). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9536, and by Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), of Providence, Rhode Island, industrialist, banker, and art and books collector. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 189.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Rosenbach MS II: CwT Δ 32, CoR Δ 12, and StW Δ 24. Discussed in Scott Nixon, The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 193-5).

CoR 289

Copy.

An octavo verse miscellany, comprising c.118 items, including thirteen poems by Donne, twenty poems by Corbett, and twelve poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, written in several hands over an extended period, associated with Christ Church, Oxford, 99 leaves.

c.1620-40s

Owned and probably compiled in part, in his Oxford days, by George Morley (1598-1684), Bishop of Winchester.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Morley MS: DnJ Δ 62, CoR Δ 13, and StW Δ 27. This MS apparently transcribed in part in the Killigrew MS (British Library, Sloane MS 1792).

Facsimile of f. 49r in William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion, ed. Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor (Oxford, 1987), p. 24.

Westminster Abbey (MS 41 ff. 3r-9v)
CoR 290

Copy, in two hands, headed Iter Boreale by Dr Corbet.

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

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

c.1630s-40s
Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 47 ff. 8r-16v)
CoR 291

Copy headed Docter Corbets Journey.

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

Including 16 poems (plus second copies of two) by Carew, 19 poems by or attributed to Herrick (and second copies of six of them), 23 poems (plus second copies of two and four of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, 18 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and eleven poems by Waller.

c.1630s-40s

Inscribed on a flyleaf Peeter Daniell and his initials stamped on both covers. Later scribbling including the names Thomas Gardinor, James Leigh and Pettrus Romell. Owned in 1780 by one A. B. when it was given to Thomas Percy (1768-1808), later Bishop of Dromore. Sotheby's, 29 April 1884 (Percy sale), lot 1. Acquired from Quaritch, 1957.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Daniell MS: CwT Δ 5, HeR Δ 2, RnT Δ 1, StW Δ 5, WaE Δ 9. Briefly discussed in Margaret Crum, An Unpublished Fragment of Verse by Herrick, RES, NS 11 (1960), 186-9. A facsimile of f. 22v in Marcy L. North, Amateur Compilers, Scribal Labour, and the Contents of Early Modern Poetic Miscellanies, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 106). Betagraphs of the watermark in f. 65 in Ted-Larry Pebworth, Towards a Taxonomy of Watermarks, in Puzzles in Paper: Concepts in Historical Watermarks, ed. Daniel W. Mosser, Michael Saffle and Ernest W. Sullivan, II (London, 2000), pp. 229-42 (p. 241).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 50 ff. 47r-51v)
CoR 292 c.1630s

Copy, in a professional hand, docketed Dr Corbett Iter Boreale, on sixteen quarto leaves.

A folio composite volume of verse and some prose, in various hands, v + 179 leaves, in early 18th-century half-calf.

With a few additions in Rawlinson's hand.

CoR 293

Copy, headed A iourney into the North by Ri. Corbet.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 44.

A quarto verse miscellany, predominantly in a single hand, vi + 98 leaves, in calf.

Probably compiled by a member of New College, Oxford.

c.1630s

Some tipped-in notes by Richard Rawlinson.

CoR 294 c.1630s

Copy, untitled, on eight quarto leaves, with a note on a preliminary leaf (f. 71v) by Wood identifying it as Iter boreale by Rich. Corbet, D.D., afterwards Bp of Norwich and recording I remember I had this out of Dr Barten Holydayes studie after his death [i.e. Barten Holyday (1593-1661), poet and cleric].

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. xxi-xxii.

A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous MSS, in various hands, ii + 117 leaves, in half-calf.

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

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Wood D. 19 ff. 72r-9v)
CoR 295

Copy.

A folio miscellany of verse and some prose, 282 pages, in calf gilt.

Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 34 of the Hopkinson MSS.

Mid-late 17th century

Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

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

Bradford Archives (32D86/34 pp. 138-50)
CoR 296 Mid-17th century

Copy of lines 1-474, in a mixed hand, on eight folio leaves, inscribed at the top of the first leaf Ralph Thoresby, imperfect, lacking lines 475 onwards.

A folio composite volume of verse MSS, in various hands and paper sizes, 231 leaves, in 19th-century half black morocco.

Including items once owned by Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725), Yorkshire antiquary and topographer. Collected by Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian.

Presumably from item 47 among the folio MSS recorded in Thoresby's Ducatus Leodiensis, 2nd edition (Leeds, 1816), Appendix, p. 77.

CoR 297 c.1630s-40s

Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, in double columns, headed Secundum Iter Boreale, on a single folio leaf.

A folio composite volume of verse MSS, in various hands and paper sizes, 126 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half green morocco.

Volume II of the papers of Peter Alfred Taylor, MP (fl.1875).

CoR 298

Copy, headed Dor. Corbett's Northerne Journey.

A quarto verse miscellany, written from both ends, 192 leaves (including blanks), in old brown calf.

Compiled, over a period, principally by Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), Chaplain of Christ Church, Oxford, and Henry King's amanuensis, including (ff. 7r-61r) 24 poems by King in Manne's formal hand, written c.1625-30s; ff. 61v-72v, 73r-99v, 100r-101v written in a variant style of Manne's hand, c.1630s; and (ff. 72v, 99v, 102r-14v, 190v-169r rev.) additions in six other hands, c.1630s-44, with (ff. 75r, 76r, and 76v) three poems to which the subscription R. Dorset is added in the hand of King himself.

c.1625-46

Inscribed (f. 190v rev.) Ann Littleton. Thomas Rodd's sale catalogue, [June 1848], p. 31. Sotheby's, 4 Februry 1850 (Rodd sale), lot 500, to James Orchard Halliwell[-Phillipps] (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Afterward owned by the Rev. Thomas Corser, FSA (1793-1876), book collector. Sotheby's, 25 June 1873 (Corser sale), lot 325, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Later owned by the bookdealer Philip Robinson. Sotheby's, 26 June 1974, lot 3013, with a facsimile example in the sale catalogue.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Thomas Manne MS: KiH Δ 7. Used in Crum. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

CoR 299

Copy, headed Doctour Corbetts iter boreale to Newarke.

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

c.1640s

Inscribed (f. 179r) This is Sr. Thomas Meres [or ? Maiors] Book: i.e. probably Sir Thomas Meres (1634-1715), of Kirton, Lincolnshire. Later bookplate of the Rev. John Curtis. Purchased from Mrs Ann Austin Curtis 12 October 1889.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2725 ff. 47v-54r)
CoR 300

Copy, headed Dr Corbets Iter Boreale.

A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, in Latin and English, one cursive hand predominating, 69 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half black crushed morocco.

c.1630s

Inscribed (f. 62r) Nathaniel Heighmore: i.e. presumably Nathaniel Highmore (1613-85), chemical physician and anatomist; John Sacheverell his hand and pen Amen; and John Sacheverell the Author of this....

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 542 ff. 29v-36r)
CoR 301

Copy, subscribed R: C:.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 47.

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

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

c.1633

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

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

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1446 ff. 2r-9v)
CoR 301.5

Copy, subscribed Dr Rich. Corbet.

A small quarto verse miscellany, comprising approximately 80 poems, including eleven poems by Donne, 21 poems by Strode, and one poem of doubtful authorship, in several hands, one small neat hand predominating (ff. 1r-34r), with later receipts for 1658-62 at the end, 161 leaves (including numerous blanks).

c.1630s-40s

Inscriptions include Edwardus Hyde (at the end) and (f. [ir]) Edward Hyde is a knave: i.e. probably Edward Hyde (1607-59), royalist divine, who may be the E. H. responsible for a poem To his Wife (f. 34r) and the Ned Hide who is subject of an Epitaph (f. [18r rev]). Later inscribed Robertus Walker and Elizabeth Walker. Early 18th-century bookplate of Baron Aston of Forfar. Percy Dobell, sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 345. Later owned by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Hyde MS: DnJ Δ 52, StW Δ 15. Discussed in Geoffrey Keynes, A Footnote to Donne, The Book Collector, 22 (Summer 1973), 165-8, with a facsimile of the page with Hyde's signature (which does not correspond to the main handwriting). Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 1863.

CoR 302 c.1620s

Copy, in a neat italic hand, headed Secundum iter Boreale, inscribed at the side Per Dre. Corbet.

A quarto composite volume of verse and dramatic works, in various hands, 200 leaves, each of the fifteen items now bound separately in modern boards.

Sotheby's, 19 March 1930, lot 450.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, Miscellaneous manuscripts (MS J.a.1 ff. 93r-104v (MS J.a.1.8))
CoR 303

Copy, headed The Northeirne voyadge, subscribed R.C.

A quarto miscellany, in several hands, including a number of culinary receipts, 255 leaves (including over 65 blanks), written from both ends (Part I, in a rounded italic hand: ff. 1r-117r:; Part II: ff. 1*r-72r), in old calf.

Inscribed (Part II, f. 1*r) A booke of verses collected by mee RDungaruan: i.e. Richard Boyle (1612-98), Viscount Dungarvon and later Earl of Burlington.

c.1630s

Also inscribed Mary Helerd. Subsequently owned by James Tyrrell (1642-1718), historical writer, and by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1782-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 15745. Formerly Folger MS 46. 2.

CoR 304

Copy, headed Dr Corbett his relation of his iourney Northward from Oxford.

A quarto volume of poems, including 72 by Donne, arranged under genres, probably in two hands, poems by Corbett and others at the reverse end, 160 pages (not numbered consecutively, plus blanks).

Owned, and possibly compiled, by John Cave, of Lincoln College, Oxford (M.A. 28 January 1618/19; d.1657). The first page of text is a poem Vpon Mr Donn's Satires subscribed Io. Ca. Jun. 3. 1620. If John Cave was a member of the Cave family of Stanford, Northamptonshire, he would have been related (by marriage) to the Skipwith family.

c.1620-5

Also inscribed with names of Elizabeth Park [or Parker], John Nedham, and William Adams. Later owned by the Rev. T.R. O' Flahertie (d.1894), of Capel, near Dorking, Surrey, book collector; by Charles Elkin Matthews (1851-19210, bookseller; and by Richard Jennings. Sotheby's, 28 April 1952 (Jennings sale), lot 12.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the John Cave MS, DnJ Δ 27. For a facsimile of page 3 see DnJ 793, DnJ 3858.

New York Public Library, Arents Collection (Cat. No. S 191 (Acc. No. 7167) ff. [4r-14v rev.])
CoR 305

Copy.

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

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

c.1638

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

New York Public Library, Arents Collection (Cat. No. S 288 (Acc. No. 5442) pp. 54-67)
CoR 306

Copy.

A quarto verse miscellany, including ten poems by Carew and one of doubtful authorship, in a single neat non-professional hand, 72 leaves (plus a later index).

c.1643-50s

Later owned by the Newcastle antiquarian collectors John Bell (1783-1864) and Robert White (1802-74).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Bell-White MS, CwT Δ 30. Described, with facsimiles of ff. 30r and 56v, in T.G.S. Cain, The Bell/White MS: Some Unpublished Poems, ELR, 2 (1972), 260-70.

University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 25 ff. 1r-8r)
CoR 307

Copy, headed Dr: Corbet's Iter Boreale.

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 Pierpont Morgan Library (MA 1057 pp. 25-36)
CoR 308

Copy, beginning at line 23 (here Ther had wee venison such as Virgill slew).

An octavo verse miscellany, written over a period in three hands (A, in alternating secretary and italic, written c.1638: ff. 1-59v; B, written c.1645: ff. 60r-9r; C, written c.1649, ff. 69v-70r), 70 leaves, in old calf.

Including thirteen poems by Strode and three of doubtful authorship.

c.1638-45 [and addition c.1649]

Later sold by Thomas Thorpe (1836). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9569. Bookplate of the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, and art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936 (Perry sale). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 193.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Rosenbach MS I: CwT Δ 31 and StW Δ 23.

CoR 309

Copy.

A quarto verse miscellany, in three hands (A: pp. 1-56; B: pp. 57-60, 75-122; C: pp. 61-74, 125-7), 127 pages, in contemporary limp vellum.

Including 23 poems (and a second copy of one) by Randolph.

c.1635

Mostyn MS 196: from the library originally founded by Sir Thomas Mostyn (1535-1617) at Mostyn Hall, near Holywell, Flintshire, Wales, the MS possibly acquired by Sir Roger Mostyn (1567-1642) or by his son Sir Roger Mostyn, first Baronet (1625?-90). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 191.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Mostyn MS: RnT Δ 11. Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1873), Appendix, p. 356. Edited in Howard H. Thompson, An Edition of Two Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Poetical Miscellanies (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1959) [Mic 59-4669].

CoR 310

Copy, headed Dr Corbetts Iter Boreale.

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

c.1630

Owned and probably compiled by Robert Bishop. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9549. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue, English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 187.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) as the Bishop MS: DnJ Δ 59. Edited in David Coleman Redding, Robert Bishop's Commonplace-Book: An Edition of a Seventeenth Century Miscellany (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1960) [Mic 60-3608].

CoR 311

Copy, headed Iter Boriale. D. Corbet.

A quarto verse miscellany, including ten poems by Thomas Carew, probably in a single accomplished hand (changing to two styles of italic on ff. 42v-4v, 5r-60r, 76r-v), i + 89 leaves (including blanks, stubs of two or three excised leaves, and an index), in contemporary limp vellum.

c.1630s-40s

Later notes and scribbling including the names John Nutting (ff. 26r, 56r) and John M. and John Susan (rear paste-down). The last leaf also containing a list of the titles of 65 poems by Carew together with the number of lines in each poem, this list unrelated to the contents of the rest of the MS.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Nutting MS: CwT Δ 35. The list of poems, probably relating to another MS, is edited, with facsimiles, in Scott Nixon, The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 198-9, 217-19).

St John's College, Cambridge (MS S. 23 (James 416) ff. 4r-14v)
CoR 312 Early 17th century

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled.

A quarto composite volume of ecclesiastical tracts and sermons, in different hands, possibly associated with Lancelot Andrewes, 98 leaves, in quarter-calf marbled boards.

Inscribed on the last page (f. 98v) by Andrewes's secretary samMVel. WrIght of LonDon 1616.

This MS discussed, with facsimiles of ff. 36r, 40v and 44v, in P.J. Klemp, Betwixt the Hammer and the Anvill: Lancelot Andrewes's Revision Techniques in the Manuscript of His 1620 Easter Sermon, PBSA, 89/2 (June 1995), 149-82.

Trinity College, Cambridge (MS B. 14. 22 (James 307) ff. 62r-71r)
CoR 313

Copy, headed Dr Corbett his relation of his iourney Northwarde from Oxforde, transcribed from CoR 304.

A quarto volume of 72 poems by Donne, together with a poem by John Cave on Donne's satires and four poems by Richard Corbett, in two alternating styles of hand, 84 leaves (including 41 blank pages).

Chiefly in the hand of John Nedham, of Lincoln College, Oxford, and probably transcribed from the John Cave MS (DnJ Δ 27), the title-page dated 31 March 1625.

c.1625

Also owned or used by Millicent Nedham and by one William Edmunde. Possibly the quarto MS of Poems by Dr. Donne and Dr. Corbet in Thomas Rodd's sale catalogue of a Collection of MSS, 1841, item 600, and in his catalogue of MSS, 1846, p. 29. Later owned by Francis Godolphin Waldron (1743-1818), actor and playwright, and by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Nedham MS: DnJ Δ 28. Some poems edited from this MS in F.G. Waldron, A Collection of Miscellaneous Poetry (London, 1802).

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 18 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.17) ff. 65r-71v)
CoR 314

Copy, headed Secundum Iter horale [sic] DCor.

A group of poems by Corbett, in a single hand, in a folio booklet of fifteen leaves presumably once part of a larger collection, foliated in pencil 49-63, numbered 22, disbound.

c.1620s-30s
Dr Williams's Library (MSS 12. 54 ff. 49r-55v)
CoR 314.5

Copy, headed Corbetts Iter Boreale. with a side note Dr Hutton and dr Corbett, imperfect, part of pp. 62-3 torn away.

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

c.late 1630s

Inscribed (on p. [330]) Robert Lord his book Anno Domini; (on [p. 335]) william Jacob his booke Amen; and, among scribbling on the last leaf, Hugh Gibgans of the same and John Winter of Buckland Dursbane [or husbande?]. Owned in 1788 by Alexander R. Popham. Bloomsbury Book Auction, 23 November 2000, lot 8.

A microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7698.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 356 pp. 49-65)
CoR 315

Copy, described as The itinerarij in to the North, 10. Aug. 1618. by Richard Corbett. En Vers. & quantités d'autres Poëmes, sur toute sorte de sujets par les Meilleurs Auteurs Anglois; à sçavoir par Edward Lapworth, John Squijer, Tomkis, Sr. Henry Godyer, John Donne, & autres; tous en Anglois.

Ex Bibliotheca Constantini Hugenii: i.e. the Dutch diplomatist and poet Constantijn Huygens (1596-1687). Janus Albinus, Catalogus...librorum (Dordrecht, 1696), p. 325, as item 41 in the section Libri Manuscripti in Folio.

17th century
Untraced, miscellaneous ([Huygens MS])
The Ladyes Answer ('Blacke Cypresse vailes are shrouds of night')

Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 91.

See GrJ 14-37.

A letter sent from Doctor Corbet to Master Ailesbury, Decem. 9. 1618 ('My Brother and much more had'st thou bin mine')

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 63-5.

CoR 316

Copy, headed To Sr. Thomas Aylesbury: R: C.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single italic hand, evidently associated with Oxford, probably Christ Church, 214 pages (skipping p. 177), plus an index.

Including 18 poems by Corbett and 59 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1630s

Inscribed on a flyleaf Elizabeth Lane hir booke and, among scribbling on another flyleaf, Johannes Finch. P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 341.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Elizabeth Lane MS: CoR Δ 1 and StW Δ 4. The Dobell catalogue description recorded in Forey (pp. lxxxv-lxxxvi).

Aberdeen University Library (MS 29 pp. 78-80)
CoR 317

Copy, headed A letter of Dr Corbet to mr Alisbury.

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.

CoR 318

Copy, headed Dr Corbet to Mr Aylsbury.

An octavo verse miscellany, written predominantly in a single italic hand (on ff. 2r-19v, 20v-134v, 139r-43r); another hand on ff. 20r-v, 135v, 136v, 137v, 138v, with verbal alterations in yet another hand and scribbling elsewhere; f. 137v (rev.) containing a receipt of one Richard Bull signed by one Thomas Johnson and dated 1676; 143 leaves.

Including 14 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 22 poems by Corbett and 36 poems (plus three of doubtful authorship) by Strode. Apparently transcribed in part from Westminster Abbey, MS 41.

c.early 1630s

Inscribed (f. 1r) by one I A of Christ Church, Oxford, and also Robert Killigrew his booke witnes by his Maiesties ape Gorge Harison. Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane, Bt (1660-1753), physician and collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Killigrew MS: CwT Δ 21; CoR Δ 6; StW Δ 14. Facsimile example of f. 2v in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), Plate 7, after p. 86.

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1792 ff. 68r-9r)
CoR 319

Copy, headed A Letter of Dr. Corbett's, to Mr. Alisbury.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 65.

A quarto verse miscellany, pp. 13-244 in a single largely roman hand, the remainder in varying styles in one or more other hands (up to c.1655), probably associated with Oxford University, 541 pages (of which pp. 1-12, 87-8 have been extracted and pp. 251-68, 334, 400, 410-540 are blank, with stubs of other extracted leaves at the end), in contemporary brown calf.

Including 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 57 poems (plus a second copy of one poem and four poems of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1630s[-55]

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: possibly his MS 18123. Owned c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914), literary scholar and bookseller. Formerly MS 646.4.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Dobell MS: CoR Δ 8 and StW Δ 18. Discussed in Bertram Dobell in The Athenaeum, No. 4475 (2 August 1913), p. 112. A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).

CoR 320

Copy, headed Dr Corbet to Mr Alesbury on ye Comet ibid.

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

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

c.1630s

Later owned by Edward Jeremiah Curteis, M.P., of Windmill Hill, Sussex. Puttick & Simpson's, 30 June 1884 (Curteis sale), lot 175, to Pearson of Pall Mall for James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89). Formerly Folger MS 452.5.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), and II.i (1987), as the Curteis MS: DnJ Δ 50 and CoR Δ 9. Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Arthur F. Marotti, Folger MSS V.a.89 and V.a.345: Reading Lyric Poetry in Manuscript, in The Reader Revealed, ed. Sabrina Alcorn Baron, et al. (Washington, DC, 2001), pp. 44-57. Discussed in Arthur F. Marotti, Christ Church, Oxford, and Beyond: Folger MS V.a.345 and Its Manuscript and Print Sources, SP 113 (2016), 850-78. A facsimile of p. 36 is in Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey, Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper (Washington, DC, 2008), p. 32.

CoR 321

Copy, headed Doctor Corbett to Mr: Alsburye upon ye Comett Noue: 1628, marked L C.

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

Including 52 poems by Donne (many on pp. 64-109, 167-74 initialled L.C. [? Lord Chancellor], as are some poems by others), 11 poems by Carew, ten poems by Corbett, and 11 poems by or attributed to Herrick, in a single neat hand throughout; the poems dating up to 1637.

c.1637

Later scribbling and inscriptions including the names Edw Denny [presumably Edward Denny (1569-1637), Baron Denny of Waltham and first Earl of Norwich], Charles Cocks, Edward Randolphe and (on p. 162) Thomas Cassy. Later owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary (sold in the Haslewood sale, London, 1833, lot 1329, to Thorpe); by Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough, antiquary (his sale in Dublin, 1 November 1841, item 624); and by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector (his library catalogue, 1880, IV, pp. 1159-64), and sold at Sotheby's, 17 July 1917 (Huth sale), lot 5873.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Haslewood-Kingsborough MS (I): DnJ Δ 25, CwT Δ 28, CoR Δ 10, and HeR Δ 5. A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 15). Discussed in C.M. Armitage, Donne's Poems in Huntington Manuscript 198: New Light on The Funerall, SP, 63 (1966), 697-707. A facsimile of part of p. 63 in Marcy L. North, Amateur Compilers, Scribal Labour, and the Contents of Early Modern Poetic Miscellanies, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 101).

CoR 322

Copy, as by Dr Corbett.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 65.

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

Including 13 poems by Donne and 14 (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett; the scribe is that mainly responsible also for the Thomas Smyth MS (DnJ Δ 48).

c.1630s

Later owned and used extensively as a notebook by Dr William Balam (1651-1726), of Ely, Cambridgeshire, who also annotated Cambridge University Library MS Add. 5778 and Harvard fMS Eng 966.4. Bookplate of N. Micklethwait. Owned in 1931 by the Rev. F.W. Glass, of Taverham Hall, near Norwich (seat in the 17th century of the Sotherton family and later of the Branthwayt and Micklethwait families).

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Welbeck MS: DnJ Δ 57 and CoR Δ 11. Discussed in H. Harvey Wood, A Seventeenth-Century Manuscript of Poems by Donne and Others, Essays & Studies, 16 (1931), 179-90. For Taverham Hall, see Thomas B. Norgate, A History of Taverham from Early Times to 1969 (Aylsham, 1969).

University of Nottingham (Pw V 37 pp. 312-13)
CoR 323

Copy.

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

Including 45 poems (and a second copy of one) by Carew, 11 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Corbett, and 25 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1634

The initials T. C. stamped on the front cover. Sold by Thomas Thorpe (1836). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9536, and by Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), of Providence, Rhode Island, industrialist, banker, and art and books collector. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 189.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Rosenbach MS II: CwT Δ 32, CoR Δ 12, and StW Δ 24. Discussed in Scott Nixon, The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 193-5).

CoR 324

Copy.

An octavo verse miscellany, comprising c.118 items, including thirteen poems by Donne, twenty poems by Corbett, and twelve poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, written in several hands over an extended period, associated with Christ Church, Oxford, 99 leaves.

c.1620-40s

Owned and probably compiled in part, in his Oxford days, by George Morley (1598-1684), Bishop of Winchester.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Morley MS: DnJ Δ 62, CoR Δ 13, and StW Δ 27. This MS apparently transcribed in part in the Killigrew MS (British Library, Sloane MS 1792).

Facsimile of f. 49r in William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion, ed. Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor (Oxford, 1987), p. 24.

Westminster Abbey (MS 41 ff. 66v-7r)
CoR 325

Copy in the hand of Elias Ashmole, in an interleaved printed exemplum of Lilly's Englands Propheticall Merline (1644). Mid-17th century.

A composite collection of quarto tracts published by William Lilly (1602-81), astrologer.

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 313 ff. 32v-3r)
CoR 326

Copy, in a roman hand, headed Decem '90 from Mr Corbett to Mr Alesburie, on both sides of a single folio leaf of verse.

A folio composite volume of discourses, notes, of verses, and letters by Camden, mainly autograph, viii + 226 pages, different sizes, in early 18th-century half-calf.

Including papers on barons in connection with the case of Lord Roos, 27 April 1616, on the judicial proceedings in 1616 after the death of Sir Thomas Overbury (1613), on the punishment of peers, on Rathlin Island, and an anonymous tract on Geoffrey of Monmouth (pp. 133-8).

c.1615-20s

Owned or used by Edward Walker, Garter King of Arms; by Francis Sandford, Lancaster Herald; and by Mr Howell (herald painter). Acquired by Thomas Smith (1638-1710), Oxford scholar and editor, at Christmas 1703. Inscribed by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), on 2 March 1710/11, as having been bequeathed by Smith to him.

Extracts from this MS (concerning the trial of the Earl of Somerset) printed in Beatrice White, Cast of Ravens (London, 1965), pp. 213-16.

Bodleian Library, Smith MSS (MS Smith 17 pp. 140-1)
CoR 327

Copy, on a long ledger leaf, headed A letter written from a Gentleman in Oxford to a Mithemati: his friend being at Sion and docketed Dr. Corbet.

A folio composite volume of verse and academic plays, in English and Latin, in various hands, 493 leaves, now in two volumes, foliated 1-250 and 251-493 respectively.

Partly compiled by Archbishop Sancroft.

Bodleian Library, Tanner Collection (MS Tanner 306 Vol. II, f. 251r)
CoR 328

Copy, headed Vpon the blasing starr by Doctor Corbett to Mr Alesbane.

A folio miscellany of verse and some prose, 282 pages, in calf gilt.

Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 34 of the Hopkinson MSS.

Mid-late 17th century

Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

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

Bradford Archives (32D86/34 pp. 37-8)
CoR 329

Copy, headed To my Lord Admirall Mr Alisbury vppon ye Comett R Corbett, transcribed from CoR 331.

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

Transcribed from British Library Add. MS 25303 and perhaps associated likewise with the Inns of Court. Including 23 poems by Carew and three of doubtful authorship.

c.1620s-30s

Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 13 May 1856 (Pickering sale), lot 258.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Pickering MS: CwT Δ 11.

CoR 330

A duodecimo verse miscellany, in generally small mixed hands, ii + 40 leaves, in 19th-century embossed black leather.

c.1640s

Later owned by Thomas Rodd (1796-1849), bookseller; by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector; and by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 21 August 1858 (Bliss sale), lot 190.

CoR 331

Copy, headed To my Lorde Admiralls Mr Alisbury vppon the Comett. R. Corbett.

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

Including 27 poems (and second copies of two poems) by Thomas Carew and three of doubtful authorship.

This MS largely transcribed in British Library, Add. MS 21433. The hand occurs also in British Library, Harley MS 3910, between ff. 112v and 120v, and is possibly associated with the Inns of Court.

c.1620s

Scribbled inscriptions including (f. 1r) Mr John Bowyer; (f. 2r) Jeronomus ffox; and (f. 3r) William Ralph Baesh.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Colchester MS: CwT Δ 13.

CoR 332

Copy, headed A Letter to Mr. Alesbury.

A folio verse miscellany, in a single professional secretary hand associated with the playhouse and possibly inns of court (also responsible for ChG 12.5, HyT 5, and MiT 6), 97 leaves, with a first-line Index at the end, in contemporary vellum boards.

Including fourteen poems by James Shirley, generally ascribed to him, and eleven poems by Strode (and two of doubtful authorship).

c.1636

Inscribed (on the front paste-down) My cousin chute gaue me this book out of his father study at the vine Hampshire (following the same statement in French), indicating that the MS was owned by, and possibly originally compiled for, the family of Chaloner Chute, MP (c.1595-1659), Speaker of the house of Commons, who acquired The Vyne, near Basingstoke, Hampshire, in 1653. Later owned by Sir William Tite (1798-1873), architect. Sotheby's, 30 May 1874, lot 2343. Bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork, book collector. Sotheby's, 21 March 1891 (Crawford sale), lot 2493.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Chute MS: ShJ Δ 2 and StW Δ 11. Briefly discussed, with a facsimile of f. 34v (see ShJ 96 and ShJ 100) in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and their Value for Textual Editors, EMS, 1 (1989), 192-210 (pp. 200-1, 209-10 n. 40). Discussed, with facsimiles of ff. 53r and 80r, in Arthur F. Marotti, Chaloner Chute's Poetical Anthology (British Library, Additional MS 33998) as a Cosmopolitan Collection, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 99).

CoR 333

Copy.

A quarto verse miscellany, written from both ends, 192 leaves (including blanks), in old brown calf.

Compiled, over a period, principally by Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), Chaplain of Christ Church, Oxford, and Henry King's amanuensis, including (ff. 7r-61r) 24 poems by King in Manne's formal hand, written c.1625-30s; ff. 61v-72v, 73r-99v, 100r-101v written in a variant style of Manne's hand, c.1630s; and (ff. 72v, 99v, 102r-14v, 190v-169r rev.) additions in six other hands, c.1630s-44, with (ff. 75r, 76r, and 76v) three poems to which the subscription R. Dorset is added in the hand of King himself.

c.1625-46

Inscribed (f. 190v rev.) Ann Littleton. Thomas Rodd's sale catalogue, [June 1848], p. 31. Sotheby's, 4 Februry 1850 (Rodd sale), lot 500, to James Orchard Halliwell[-Phillipps] (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Afterward owned by the Rev. Thomas Corser, FSA (1793-1876), book collector. Sotheby's, 25 June 1873 (Corser sale), lot 325, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Later owned by the bookdealer Philip Robinson. Sotheby's, 26 June 1974, lot 3013, with a facsimile example in the sale catalogue.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Thomas Manne MS: KiH Δ 7. Used in Crum. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

CoR 334

Copy, in an uneven italic hand, headed To my Lord Admiralls mr Alesbury vppon the Comet R Corbet.

An octavo verse miscellany, in several largely italic hands, closely written, 148 leaves (plus blanks), in modern quarter morocco gilt.

Probably compiled by university or inns of court men.

c.1620s-30s
CoR 335

Copy, headed A Letter from Doctor Corbett: to a freind.

A quarto formal verse miscellany, in a single professional secretary hand, 83 pages, in modern quarter-calf.

c.1630s
National Library of Wales (Peniarth MS 500 B pp. 1-4)
CoR 336

Copy.

A quarto volume of poems, including 72 by Donne, arranged under genres, probably in two hands, poems by Corbett and others at the reverse end, 160 pages (not numbered consecutively, plus blanks).

Owned, and possibly compiled, by John Cave, of Lincoln College, Oxford (M.A. 28 January 1618/19; d.1657). The first page of text is a poem Vpon Mr Donn's Satires subscribed Io. Ca. Jun. 3. 1620. If John Cave was a member of the Cave family of Stanford, Northamptonshire, he would have been related (by marriage) to the Skipwith family.

c.1620-5

Also inscribed with names of Elizabeth Park [or Parker], John Nedham, and William Adams. Later owned by the Rev. T.R. O' Flahertie (d.1894), of Capel, near Dorking, Surrey, book collector; by Charles Elkin Matthews (1851-19210, bookseller; and by Richard Jennings. Sotheby's, 28 April 1952 (Jennings sale), lot 12.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the John Cave MS, DnJ Δ 27. For a facsimile of page 3 see DnJ 793, DnJ 3858.

New York Public Library, Arents Collection (Cat. No. S 191 (Acc. No. 7167) ff. [3r-4r rev.])
CoR 337

Copy, headed A Letter from Dr. C: to a friend.

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 Pierpont Morgan Library (MA 1057 pp. 92-3)
CoR 338

Copy, headed ffrom Doctor Corbett to Mr Alesburye on ye Comett.

An octavo verse miscellany, written over a period in three hands (A, in alternating secretary and italic, written c.1638: ff. 1-59v; B, written c.1645: ff. 60r-9r; C, written c.1649, ff. 69v-70r), 70 leaves, in old calf.

Including thirteen poems by Strode and three of doubtful authorship.

c.1638-45 [and addition c.1649]

Later sold by Thomas Thorpe (1836). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9569. Bookplate of the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, and art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936 (Perry sale). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 193.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Rosenbach MS I: CwT Δ 31 and StW Δ 23.

CoR 339

Copy, transcribed from CoR 336.

A quarto volume of 72 poems by Donne, together with a poem by John Cave on Donne's satires and four poems by Richard Corbett, in two alternating styles of hand, 84 leaves (including 41 blank pages).

Chiefly in the hand of John Nedham, of Lincoln College, Oxford, and probably transcribed from the John Cave MS (DnJ Δ 27), the title-page dated 31 March 1625.

c.1625

Also owned or used by Millicent Nedham and by one William Edmunde. Possibly the quarto MS of Poems by Dr. Donne and Dr. Corbet in Thomas Rodd's sale catalogue of a Collection of MSS, 1841, item 600, and in his catalogue of MSS, 1846, p. 29. Later owned by Francis Godolphin Waldron (1743-1818), actor and playwright, and by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Nedham MS: DnJ Δ 28. Some poems edited from this MS in F.G. Waldron, A Collection of Miscellaneous Poetry (London, 1802).

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 18 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.17) f. 72r-v)
CoR 340

Copy, headed To Mr Hilsbury at London from Dor Corbett.

A group of poems by Corbett, in a single hand, in a folio booklet of fifteen leaves presumably once part of a larger collection, foliated in pencil 49-63, numbered 22, disbound.

c.1620s-30s
Dr Williams's Library (MSS 12. 54 ff. 61r, 62r)
CoR 341

Copy, in a secretary hand, on both sides of a single folio leaf.

Among papers of the Middletons, a Yorkshire recusant family. Formerly MD59/22/B/3.

A letter To the Duke of Buckingham, being with the Prince of Spaine ('I've read of Ilands floating, and remov'd')

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 76-9.

CoR 342

Copy, headed To ye Marquis on his iourney into spaine: R: C:.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single italic hand, evidently associated with Oxford, probably Christ Church, 214 pages (skipping p. 177), plus an index.

Including 18 poems by Corbett and 59 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1630s

Inscribed on a flyleaf Elizabeth Lane hir booke and, among scribbling on another flyleaf, Johannes Finch. P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 341.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Elizabeth Lane MS: CoR Δ 1 and StW Δ 4. The Dobell catalogue description recorded in Forey (pp. lxxxv-lxxxvi).

Aberdeen University Library (MS 29 pp. 21-4)
CoR 343

Copy, headed To ye Marquesse on his iourney into Spaine, subscribed Dr Rich: Corbett.

An octavo miscellany of chiefly verse, in at least two cursive italic hands, with religious verse and prose at the reverse end in another hand, 111 leaves (plus blanks), in old calf gilt.

Including nineteen poems by Corbett and 29 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, the date 1634 occurring on f. 78v.

c.1635

Inscribed on f. 111v rev. Thursday next at Capricks for Mr Pitt. Later among the collections of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724), and his son Edward, second Earl (1689-1741).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Harley MS: CoR Δ 5.

CoR 344

Copy, headed By Mr Doctor Corbet [To the Marquis vpon his iourney into Spain added in different ink].

An octavo verse miscellany, written predominantly in a single italic hand (on ff. 2r-19v, 20v-134v, 139r-43r); another hand on ff. 20r-v, 135v, 136v, 137v, 138v, with verbal alterations in yet another hand and scribbling elsewhere; f. 137v (rev.) containing a receipt of one Richard Bull signed by one Thomas Johnson and dated 1676; 143 leaves.

Including 14 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 22 poems by Corbett and 36 poems (plus three of doubtful authorship) by Strode. Apparently transcribed in part from Westminster Abbey, MS 41.

c.early 1630s

Inscribed (f. 1r) by one I A of Christ Church, Oxford, and also Robert Killigrew his booke witnes by his Maiesties ape Gorge Harison. Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane, Bt (1660-1753), physician and collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Killigrew MS: CwT Δ 21; CoR Δ 6; StW Δ 14. Facsimile example of f. 2v in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), Plate 7, after p. 86.

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1792 ff. 42-3v)
CoR 345

Copy, headed Dr Corbet of ye Princes iorney into Spaine.

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

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

c.1630s

Later owned by Edward Jeremiah Curteis, M.P., of Windmill Hill, Sussex. Puttick & Simpson's, 30 June 1884 (Curteis sale), lot 175, to Pearson of Pall Mall for James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89). Formerly Folger MS 452.5.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), and II.i (1987), as the Curteis MS: DnJ Δ 50 and CoR Δ 9. Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Arthur F. Marotti, Folger MSS V.a.89 and V.a.345: Reading Lyric Poetry in Manuscript, in The Reader Revealed, ed. Sabrina Alcorn Baron, et al. (Washington, DC, 2001), pp. 44-57. Discussed in Arthur F. Marotti, Christ Church, Oxford, and Beyond: Folger MS V.a.345 and Its Manuscript and Print Sources, SP 113 (2016), 850-78. A facsimile of p. 36 is in Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey, Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper (Washington, DC, 2008), p. 32.

CoR 346

Copy, headed Docter Corbets Letter to the Duke of Buckingham in Spaine.

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

Including 52 poems by Donne (many on pp. 64-109, 167-74 initialled L.C. [? Lord Chancellor], as are some poems by others), 11 poems by Carew, ten poems by Corbett, and 11 poems by or attributed to Herrick, in a single neat hand throughout; the poems dating up to 1637.

c.1637

Later scribbling and inscriptions including the names Edw Denny [presumably Edward Denny (1569-1637), Baron Denny of Waltham and first Earl of Norwich], Charles Cocks, Edward Randolphe and (on p. 162) Thomas Cassy. Later owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary (sold in the Haslewood sale, London, 1833, lot 1329, to Thorpe); by Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough, antiquary (his sale in Dublin, 1 November 1841, item 624); and by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector (his library catalogue, 1880, IV, pp. 1159-64), and sold at Sotheby's, 17 July 1917 (Huth sale), lot 5873.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Haslewood-Kingsborough MS (I): DnJ Δ 25, CwT Δ 28, CoR Δ 10, and HeR Δ 5. A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 15). Discussed in C.M. Armitage, Donne's Poems in Huntington Manuscript 198: New Light on The Funerall, SP, 63 (1966), 697-707. A facsimile of part of p. 63 in Marcy L. North, Amateur Compilers, Scribal Labour, and the Contents of Early Modern Poetic Miscellanies, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 101).

CoR 347

Copy, headed Dr Corbett. / To the Duke of Buckingham in Spaine.

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

Including 13 poems by Donne and 14 (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett; the scribe is that mainly responsible also for the Thomas Smyth MS (DnJ Δ 48).

c.1630s

Later owned and used extensively as a notebook by Dr William Balam (1651-1726), of Ely, Cambridgeshire, who also annotated Cambridge University Library MS Add. 5778 and Harvard fMS Eng 966.4. Bookplate of N. Micklethwait. Owned in 1931 by the Rev. F.W. Glass, of Taverham Hall, near Norwich (seat in the 17th century of the Sotherton family and later of the Branthwayt and Micklethwait families).

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Welbeck MS: DnJ Δ 57 and CoR Δ 11. Discussed in H. Harvey Wood, A Seventeenth-Century Manuscript of Poems by Donne and Others, Essays & Studies, 16 (1931), 179-90. For Taverham Hall, see Thomas B. Norgate, A History of Taverham from Early Times to 1969 (Aylsham, 1969).

University of Nottingham (Pw V 37 pp. 317-19)
CoR 348

Copy, untitled.

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

Including 45 poems (and a second copy of one) by Carew, 11 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Corbett, and 25 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1634

The initials T. C. stamped on the front cover. Sold by Thomas Thorpe (1836). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9536, and by Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), of Providence, Rhode Island, industrialist, banker, and art and books collector. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 189.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Rosenbach MS II: CwT Δ 32, CoR Δ 12, and StW Δ 24. Discussed in Scott Nixon, The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 193-5).

CoR 349

Copy, untitled.

An octavo verse miscellany, comprising c.118 items, including thirteen poems by Donne, twenty poems by Corbett, and twelve poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, written in several hands over an extended period, associated with Christ Church, Oxford, 99 leaves.

c.1620-40s

Owned and probably compiled in part, in his Oxford days, by George Morley (1598-1684), Bishop of Winchester.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Morley MS: DnJ Δ 62, CoR Δ 13, and StW Δ 27. This MS apparently transcribed in part in the Killigrew MS (British Library, Sloane MS 1792).

Facsimile of f. 49r in William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion, ed. Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor (Oxford, 1987), p. 24.

Westminster Abbey (MS 41 ff. 12v-13v)
CoR 350

Copy, headed Dr Corbet to Marques Buckingham 1618.

A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands (one predominating up to p. 167), probably associated with Oxford, 436 pages (pp. 198-9 and 269-70 skipped in the pagination, and including many blanks and an index) and numerous further blank leaves at the end, in modern black morocco gilt.

Including 14 poems by Carew, 13 poems by Corbett and 25 poems (plus one poem of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1650

Scribbling on the first page including the words Peyton Chester….

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Osborn MS I: CwT Δ 38; CoR Δ 14; StW Δ 29.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 200 pp. 24-7)
CoR 351

Copy, headed Dr Corbet to the marriage in spaine.

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

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

c.1630s-40s
Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 47 ff. 83v-5v)
CoR 352

Copy, headed Dr. Corbett to the Duke of Buckingham.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 146.

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

c.1620s-30s

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

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 19 pp. 27-30)
CoR 353

Copy, headed Dr Corbets verses: Spayne.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 146.

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in various secretary and italic hands, 90 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum.

c.1625
CoR 354

Copy, headed Docter Corbett to the Duke of Buckingham may 1mo 1623°.

A folio miscellany of verse and some prose, 282 pages, in calf gilt.

Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 34 of the Hopkinson MSS.

Mid-late 17th century

Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

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

Bradford Archives (32D86/34 pp. 49-51)
CoR 355

Copy, headed Dr Corbets lr to ye D. of Buck: beinge in Spaine.

Edited from this MS in online Early Stuart Libels.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single neat predominantly italic hand, 72 leaves, in old leather.

Probably compiled by one H.S., a Cambridge man.

c.1640s-50s

Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector, with his bookplate and inscription 1806 Purchased of Lansdown of Bristol. Bliss sale, 21 August 1858, lot 192.

CoR 356

Copy, headed A Letter of Doctor Corbettes to ye duke then wth ye Prince in Spayne.

A folio verse miscellany, in a single professional secretary hand associated with the playhouse and possibly inns of court (also responsible for ChG 12.5, HyT 5, and MiT 6), 97 leaves, with a first-line Index at the end, in contemporary vellum boards.

Including fourteen poems by James Shirley, generally ascribed to him, and eleven poems by Strode (and two of doubtful authorship).

c.1636

Inscribed (on the front paste-down) My cousin chute gaue me this book out of his father study at the vine Hampshire (following the same statement in French), indicating that the MS was owned by, and possibly originally compiled for, the family of Chaloner Chute, MP (c.1595-1659), Speaker of the house of Commons, who acquired The Vyne, near Basingstoke, Hampshire, in 1653. Later owned by Sir William Tite (1798-1873), architect. Sotheby's, 30 May 1874, lot 2343. Bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork, book collector. Sotheby's, 21 March 1891 (Crawford sale), lot 2493.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Chute MS: ShJ Δ 2 and StW Δ 11. Briefly discussed, with a facsimile of f. 34v (see ShJ 96 and ShJ 100) in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and their Value for Textual Editors, EMS, 1 (1989), 192-210 (pp. 200-1, 209-10 n. 40). Discussed, with facsimiles of ff. 53r and 80r, in Arthur F. Marotti, Chaloner Chute's Poetical Anthology (British Library, Additional MS 33998) as a Cosmopolitan Collection, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 99).

CoR 356.5

Copy, in a professional italic hand, untitled, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed Verses. Dr. Corbet. c.1620s.

A collection of unbound verse manuscripts, in various hands and paper sizes (chiefly folio), 142 leaves.

Partly compiled by Sir Richard Browne and his father Christopher Browne (1577-1646), of Saye's Court, Deptford.

Volume LXVII of the Evelyn Papers, of John Evelyn (1620-1706), diarist and writer, of Wootton House, Surrey, and his family, also incorporating papers of his father-in-law, Sir Richard Browne, Bt (1605-83), diplomat, and his family. Formerly preserved at Christ Church, Oxford. Acquired March 1995.

CoR 357

Copy, headed To the Duke of Buckingham, subscribed Dr Rich: Corbett.

A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, predominantly in a single hand (up to f. 34v), with additions in four subsequent hands (ff. 37-50v), 50 leaves, in vellum.

Compiled for the most part by a University of Oxford man, with (f. 1r-v) a list of contents.

c.1640s

Once owned by one John Faith, and by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.

Formerly cited as Corpus Christi College, MS E.i.33.

CoR 358

Copy, headed By Mr. Dr. Corbet.

A quarto miscellany, in several hands, including a number of culinary receipts, 255 leaves (including over 65 blanks), written from both ends (Part I, in a rounded italic hand: ff. 1r-117r:; Part II: ff. 1*r-72r), in old calf.

Inscribed (Part II, f. 1*r) A booke of verses collected by mee RDungaruan: i.e. Richard Boyle (1612-98), Viscount Dungarvon and later Earl of Burlington.

c.1630s

Also inscribed Mary Helerd. Subsequently owned by James Tyrrell (1642-1718), historical writer, and by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1782-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 15745. Formerly Folger MS 46. 2.

CoR 359

Copy, headed Dr: Corbett: on the Princes & Duke of Buckingham goinge into Spayne.

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

Mid-17th century

Inscribed (f. 1r) Stephen Wellden and Abraham Bassano and (f. 98r) Elizabeth Weldon. Later owned by William John Thoms (1803-85), writer, antiquary and librarian. Sotheby's, 11 February 1887 (Thoms sale), lot 1092. Also owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89). Formerly Folger MS 452.4.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Welden MS: DnJ Δ 49.

CoR 360

Copy, headed Dr. Corbet to the Duke of Buckingham being in Spayne.

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

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

c.1637-51

Inscribed (front pastedown) Wakelin EeK Hering / Blows of Whitsor, and (rear pastedown) R. J. Cotton. Formerly Folger MS 2073.4.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Cotton MS: StW Δ 20.

CoR 361

Copy, headed On the Spanish Match Dr Corbet to the Duke of Buckingame.

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

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

c.1630s

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

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

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 686 ff. 5r-6)
CoR 361.5

Copy, headed Dr Corbett.

A small quarto verse miscellany, in probably a single non-professional mixed hand, written from both ends, 90 leaves, in vellum (lacking spine).

c.1630s

Among papers of the Clitherow family of London, which included Sir Christopher Clitherow (1578-1642), Lord Mayor of London in 1635. Bookplate of James Clitherow Esq. of Boston House, Middlesex: i.e. either Christopher's son, James Clitherow (1618-82), merchant and banker, who purchased Boston Manor, in the parish of Hanwell, in 1670, or James Clitherow (1694-1752).

London Metropolitan Archives (ACC/1360/528 ff. [1r-2r])
CoR 362

Copy, headed To the Lord Marquess Buckingha, vpon his Journey into Spayn Richard Corbett.

A quarto volume of poems, including 72 by Donne, arranged under genres, probably in two hands, poems by Corbett and others at the reverse end, 160 pages (not numbered consecutively, plus blanks).

Owned, and possibly compiled, by John Cave, of Lincoln College, Oxford (M.A. 28 January 1618/19; d.1657). The first page of text is a poem Vpon Mr Donn's Satires subscribed Io. Ca. Jun. 3. 1620. If John Cave was a member of the Cave family of Stanford, Northamptonshire, he would have been related (by marriage) to the Skipwith family.

c.1620-5

Also inscribed with names of Elizabeth Park [or Parker], John Nedham, and William Adams. Later owned by the Rev. T.R. O' Flahertie (d.1894), of Capel, near Dorking, Surrey, book collector; by Charles Elkin Matthews (1851-19210, bookseller; and by Richard Jennings. Sotheby's, 28 April 1952 (Jennings sale), lot 12.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the John Cave MS, DnJ Δ 27. For a facsimile of page 3 see DnJ 793, DnJ 3858.

New York Public Library, Arents Collection (Cat. No. S 191 (Acc. No. 7167) f. [2r-v rev.])
CoR 363 c.1630s

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed Dr Corbet To ye Duke of Buckingham.

A quarto composite volume of plays, poems and tracts, in various hands.

Owned in 1702 by John Newdegate, of the Inner Temple. Among papers of the Newdegate family, Viscounts Daventry, of Arbury Hall, Nuneaton.

Warwickshire County Record Office, microfilm M1 351/3 & /5, No. 20.

Viscount Daventry, Arbury Hall (CR 136/A414 ff. 71r-2r)
CoR 364

Copy, headed Dr Corbet to the Duke of Buckingham in Spaine: 1623.

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 Pierpont Morgan Library (MA 1057 pp. 87-9)
CoR 365

Copy, headed D.C. his verses to the Duke of Buckingham being in Spaine.

An octavo verse miscellany, written over a period in three hands (A, in alternating secretary and italic, written c.1638: ff. 1-59v; B, written c.1645: ff. 60r-9r; C, written c.1649, ff. 69v-70r), 70 leaves, in old calf.

Including thirteen poems by Strode and three of doubtful authorship.

c.1638-45 [and addition c.1649]

Later sold by Thomas Thorpe (1836). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9569. Bookplate of the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, and art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936 (Perry sale). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 193.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Rosenbach MS I: CwT Δ 31 and StW Δ 23.

CoR 365.5

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, here beginning I have heard of Ilands flotinge and remoud, on the first two pages of two conjugate folio leaves of verse relating to Corbett, endorsed Dor. Corbetts verses.

A collection of unbound state papers, now in folders.

c.1628

Donated in 1921 by Dr J. R. Tanner.

St John's College, Cambridge (MS K. 56 (James 542) No. 65)
CoR 366

Copy, headed To the Marques of Buck on his iourney to Spaine R Corbet.

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

c.1636-40s

The name of the possible compiler John Pike inscribed on f. 1r: i.e. possibly a member of the Pike family of Cambridge (one John Pike (d.1677) matriculating at Peterhouse in 1662).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Pike MS: KiH Δ 12. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6), pp. 143-7.

St John's College, Cambridge (MS S. 32 (James 423) ff. 38v-9v)
CoR 367

Copy, headed A Coppy of Dr Corbetts Letter to the Duke of Buckingham, on two pages of two conjugate folio leaves. c.1620s-30s.

A bundle of unbound verse and prose MSS, in various hands and paper sizes.

Among the papers of the Wentworth family, Earls of Strafford.

Sheffield Archives (WWM Str P 40/91 [item 17])
CoR 368

Copy, headed in the margin D C verses, on wch the former were made.

A quarto composite miscellany of verse and prose, in various hands, probably associated with the University of Cambridge, 352 pages (including 35 blanks), in 19th-century boards.

Erroneously described in 1965 as a commonplace book of the poet Robert Herrick. The so-called Herrick hand responsible for complete poems or substantial passages on pp. 73-4, 102-3, 253, 312-13, 319-21, 323, 328 and 343, this hand also responsible for corrections and brief insertions in both verse and prose on pp. 55-6, 58-60, 68, 71, 75-6, 78, 83, 89, 91, 93, 97, 99. 108-9, 203, 266, 285, 291, 348 and 350.

c.1612-24

Scribbling on front- and end-leaves including Georgius Cantuarien, Thomas Hobson [?the Cambridge Carrier], Benjamin Broadeface, To my very long friend mr John Bond, To the right reuerend ffather in God George Archbyshop of Canterbury his grace, Whereas the Bearer hereof Thomas Hall hath serued his sixe weekes…, To the right honor Sr Tho: Moore Whereas the Bearer hereof John Tis[?]sdale, Williamson and Phillip de Maceden. Puttick and Simpson's, 30 May 1849, lot 158 (erroneously described as a commonplace book of George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 12341*. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 146 (as Herrick's commonplace book). House of El Dieff (Lew David Feldman), New York, sale catalogue No. 65 (1965), with facsimile page as frontispiece. Formerly Ms File/(Herrick, R)/Works B.

Also facsimiles of p. 323 in the Sotheby's sale catalogue (frontispiece) and of p. 253 (as if in Herrick's hand) in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 33. Facsimile of all the verse in the MS (viz. pp. 63-83, 85, 87, 89, 91, 93,95, 97, 99, 101-3, 105-9, 113-17, 251-3, 277-82, 291, 317-21, 323, 325-43, 345-50), together with a transcript, in Norman K. Farmer, Jr, Poems from a Seventeenth-century Manuscript with the Hand of Robert Herrick, Texas Quarterly, 16, No. 4 (Supplement) (Winter 1973), 1-185. Microfilm of the complete MS in the British Library, M/751.

The MS discussed by Farmer in loc. cit. and in Robert Herrick's Commonplace Book? Some Observations and Questions, PBSA, 66 (1972), 21-34; in P.J. Croft's critical comments on Farmer's articles in To the Editor, PBSA, 66 (1972), 421-6, and (correcting Farmer's published transcript of the text) in Errata in Poems from a Seventeenth-Century Manuscript, TQ, 19 (1976), 160-73; and in Farmer's A Reply to Mr P. Croft, TQ, 19 (1976), 174. Reasons for rejecting Herrick's alleged association are presented in the Introduction above, under The Texas Herrick Manuscript.

University of Texas at Austin (HRC 79 pp. 348-50)
CoR 369

Copy, untitled, in a verse miscellany appended to a MS volume of poems by Donne.

A folio verse miscellany, including 15 poems by Donne, f. 162r-v in a rounded italic hand, ff. 164r-74v in a slightly erratic italic hand, ff. 175r-279v in a neat formal italic hand (also responsible for the index on ff. 2r-11v), this miscellany constituting ff. 162r-279v of a single folio volume containing also Part I (DnJ Δ 15), ii + 279 leaves in all (lacking one or more leaves at the end), in old blind-stamped calf (rebacked).

c.1630s

Formerly MS G. 2.21.

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

Trinity College, Dublin, numbers 800 through end (MS 877, [Part II] ff. 193r-5r)
CoR 369.5

Copy, headed To the Marquesse of Buckingham on his returne from Spaine.

An octavo verse miscellany, of English and Welsh verse and prose, in probably several hands, the English verse (on pages 9-70, 93-104) including eleven poems by Strode and two of doubtful authorship, 110 pages (plus stubs of extracted leaves).

Compiled by members of the Griffith family, of Llanddyfnan, the verse probably entered by one or more of the various members of that family who studied in this period at the University of Oxford.

Mid-17th century

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Griffith MS: StW Δ 26.

Bangor University (MS 422 pp. 24-6)
CoR 370

Copy, headed Dr Corbetts letter to the Duke of Buckingham being in Spaine.

An octavo verse miscellany, including 13 poems by or attributed to Herrick, almost entirely in a single small predominantly italic hand, 250 pages (plus numerous blanks), originally in contemporary calf, but now disbound.

Inscribed four times on a flyleaf Tobias Alston his booke: i.e. probably Tobias Alston (1620-c.1639) of Sayham Hall, near Sudbury, Suffolk. His half-brother Edward (b.1598) was a contemporary of Herrick at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, while his cousin, Edward Alston, later President of the College of Physicians, was a contemporary of Herrick at St John's College, Cambridge, some of the other contents also relating to Cambridge, besides some relating to Suffolk. The date 1639 occurs on p. 241, and pp. 243-50 contains verses written in two later hands (to c.1728) and some prose pieces written from the reverse end.

c.1639 [-c.1728]

Names inscribed on a flyleaf including Henry Glisson (later Fellow of the College of Physicians); Thomas Avral(?); Horace Norton; Henry Rich; and James Tavor (Registrar of Cambridge University). Later owned by one John Whitehead, and by Dr Mary Pickford. Sotheby's, 27 June 1972, lot 309.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Alston MS: HeR Δ 7. A complete set of photocopies of the MS is in the British Library, RP 772. Facsimile of pp. 6-7 in Sotheby's sale catalogue (see HeR 176, HeR 405) where the MS is described at some length. See also letters by Peter Beal and Donald W. Foster in TLS (24 January 1986), pp. 87-8.

Yale, Osborn MS b 150 through Osborn MS b 199 (Osborn MS b 197 pp. 119-21)
CoR 371

Copy, headed D:C: To D of B.

A quarto commonplace book of miscellaneous extracts, largely in one small hand, with a few additions in three other hands, 257 pages, in contemporary vellum.

c.1620s
Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 208 pp. 252-5)
Little Lute ('Little lute, when I am gone')

First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 8.

Some texts followed by an answer beginning Little booke, when I am gone.

CoR 372

Copy, headed Dr. Cor: To his Mris: Lute.

Edited from this MS in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 107.

An octavo verse miscellany, including 13 poems by Donne and 14 poems by Corbett, in several hands, probably associated with Oxford University, written from both ends, 102 leaves, in 17th-century calf.

c.1630s

Inscribed (f. 101v) Henry Lawson (or just possibly Lamson). Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1836), item 1185. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9257. Sotheby's, 15 June 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 862. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 164 (1896), item 64.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Lawson MS: DnJ Δ 37 and CoR Δ 2.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 14 f. 71r)
CoR 372.5

Copy, headed To his Mrs Lute and here beginning Pretty lute when I am gone.

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

Including 16 poems by Carew and 13 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode. Written in three hands: i.e. A (Codrington's hand, including his own poems) on pp. 1-283, 349-55; B on pp. 284-9; and C on pp. 289-348, 356-60; dated (pp. 1-22) Anno Dom: 1638 and The 30th of May. 1638.

c.1638

Acquired from Blackwell's, 1962.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Codrington MS: CwT Δ 7 and StW Δ 7.

CoR 373

Copy, headed Vpon a Curtesants lute and here beginning Pretty lute when I am gone.

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.

CoR 374

Copy, headed To a Curtezan and here beginning My pretty lute when I am gone.

An octavo verse miscellany, written predominantly in a single italic hand (on ff. 2r-19v, 20v-134v, 139r-43r); another hand on ff. 20r-v, 135v, 136v, 137v, 138v, with verbal alterations in yet another hand and scribbling elsewhere; f. 137v (rev.) containing a receipt of one Richard Bull signed by one Thomas Johnson and dated 1676; 143 leaves.

Including 14 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 22 poems by Corbett and 36 poems (plus three of doubtful authorship) by Strode. Apparently transcribed in part from Westminster Abbey, MS 41.

c.early 1630s

Inscribed (f. 1r) by one I A of Christ Church, Oxford, and also Robert Killigrew his booke witnes by his Maiesties ape Gorge Harison. Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane, Bt (1660-1753), physician and collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Killigrew MS: CwT Δ 21; CoR Δ 6; StW Δ 14. Facsimile example of f. 2v in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), Plate 7, after p. 86.

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1792 f. 44r)
CoR 375

Copy, headed Verses written on a lute she yt. owed it being absent and here beginning Pretty lute when I am gon.

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

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

c.1630s

Later owned by Edward Jeremiah Curteis, M.P., of Windmill Hill, Sussex. Puttick & Simpson's, 30 June 1884 (Curteis sale), lot 175, to Pearson of Pall Mall for James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89). Formerly Folger MS 452.5.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), and II.i (1987), as the Curteis MS: DnJ Δ 50 and CoR Δ 9. Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Arthur F. Marotti, Folger MSS V.a.89 and V.a.345: Reading Lyric Poetry in Manuscript, in The Reader Revealed, ed. Sabrina Alcorn Baron, et al. (Washington, DC, 2001), pp. 44-57. Discussed in Arthur F. Marotti, Christ Church, Oxford, and Beyond: Folger MS V.a.345 and Its Manuscript and Print Sources, SP 113 (2016), 850-78. A facsimile of p. 36 is in Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey, Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper (Washington, DC, 2008), p. 32.

CoR 376

Copy, headed To a courtesan and here beginning My prety lute when I am gon.

An octavo verse miscellany, comprising c.118 items, including thirteen poems by Donne, twenty poems by Corbett, and twelve poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, written in several hands over an extended period, associated with Christ Church, Oxford, 99 leaves.

c.1620-40s

Owned and probably compiled in part, in his Oxford days, by George Morley (1598-1684), Bishop of Winchester.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Morley MS: DnJ Δ 62, CoR Δ 13, and StW Δ 27. This MS apparently transcribed in part in the Killigrew MS (British Library, Sloane MS 1792).

Facsimile of f. 49r in William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion, ed. Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor (Oxford, 1987), p. 24.

Westminster Abbey (MS 41 f. 26r)
CoR 377

Copy, headed These written upon a lute the gentlewoman being absent who was the owner and here beginning I pray thee lute when I am gone.

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

Entitled Miscentur seria iocis. 1647. Elegies, Exequies, Epitaphs, Epigrams, Songs Satires and other Poems, a formal compilation entirely in the hand of the Yorkshire antiquary John Hopkinson (1610-80).

1647

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

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. d. 58 f. 36r)
CoR 378

Copy, headed Verses inscript upon a Lute and here beginning Pretty Lute when I am gone.

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

Probably compiled by a Cambridge University man.

c.1630s

Inscribed in engrossed lettering (f. 1r) E Libris Richard Sutclif. Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1830-84), merchant and author. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 194.

CoR 379

Copy, headed Upon one comminge to visit his Mrs and shee being absent hee wrote upon her lute thus, deleted.

Edited from this MS in Bennett & Trevor-Roper.

A duodecimo verse miscellany in several hands, written from both ends, 46 leaves, in contemporary calf.

Mid-17th century

Inscribed names (on front paste-down and f. 1r) of Fra: Norreys (? Sir Francis Norris (1609-69)) and Hen. Balle. Purchased from J. Harvey 8 December 1877.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2421 f. 14v)
CoR 380

Copy of the first stanza, headed A Gentle woman on a Lute or Little Book of a Gentleman whom she entirely loved, inscribed in the book.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 106-7.

Printed exemplum of Poëtica Stromata (1648).

Mid-17th century
Christ Church, Oxford (a. 3. 130 p. 120)
CoR 381

Copy, untitled and here beginning I prithee lute when I am gone; mid-late 17th century.

An octavo verse miscellany, including fourteen poems by Donne, almost entirely in a single hand, 33 leaves (plus six blanks), in contemporary vellum.

c.1630

Possibly associated with the Inns of Court. Later used, and annotated in the margin, by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) as the Fulman MS: DnJ Δ 36. Formerly Bodleian MS CCC 327.

CoR 382

Copy, headed One wrote in his loues absence on her lute.

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

Mid-17th century

Inscribed (f. 1r) Stephen Wellden and Abraham Bassano and (f. 98r) Elizabeth Weldon. Later owned by William John Thoms (1803-85), writer, antiquary and librarian. Sotheby's, 11 February 1887 (Thoms sale), lot 1092. Also owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89). Formerly Folger MS 452.4.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Welden MS: DnJ Δ 49.

CoR 383

Copy, headed Vpon A Lute and here beginning Pretty lute when I am gone.

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

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

c.1637-51

Inscribed (front pastedown) Wakelin EeK Hering / Blows of Whitsor, and (rear pastedown) R. J. Cotton. Formerly Folger MS 2073.4.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Cotton MS: StW Δ 20.

CoR 385

Copy, headed One wrot this in his loves asence on her lute.

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

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

c.1630s

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

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

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 686 f. 33r)
CoR 386

Copy, untitled.

A small quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single, minute non-professional italic hand, probably someone associated with Oxford University, comprising 180 pages now all separated and mounted, interleaved, in 19th-century calf.

c.late 1630s

Later in the libraries (with bookplates) of the book collector Richard Heber (1774-1833); of the bibliographer and antiquary Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833); of the biographer and literary editor Alexander Chalmers (1759-1834); and of the antiquary Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough (his sale by Charles Sharpe in Dublin, 1 November 1842, lot 577).

CoR 387

Copy, headed Dr C. to Mrs. Os. Lute.

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

c.1630

Owned and probably compiled by Robert Bishop. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9549. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue, English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 187.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) as the Bishop MS: DnJ Δ 59. Edited in David Coleman Redding, Robert Bishop's Commonplace-Book: An Edition of a Seventeenth Century Miscellany (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1960) [Mic 60-3608].

CoR 387.5

Copy of a two-line version, headed verses uerste on his Mrs lecke and beginning Pretty lute when I am gon tell thy Mrs there was one.

An octavo verse miscellany, of English and Welsh verse and prose, in probably several hands, the English verse (on pages 9-70, 93-104) including eleven poems by Strode and two of doubtful authorship, 110 pages (plus stubs of extracted leaves).

Compiled by members of the Griffith family, of Llanddyfnan, the verse probably entered by one or more of the various members of that family who studied in this period at the University of Oxford.

Mid-17th century

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Griffith MS: StW Δ 26.

Bangor University (MS 422 p. 50)
CoR 388

Copy, headed Dr Corbet on his Mris Lute and here beginning I prethee Lute when I am gone.

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

c.1640
CoR 388.5

Copy, headed Vpon a Lute and here beginning I prethee Lute when I am gone, followed by Her Answer (with same first line).

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

c.late 1630s

Inscribed (on p. [330]) Robert Lord his book Anno Domini; (on [p. 335]) william Jacob his booke Amen; and, among scribbling on the last leaf, Hugh Gibgans of the same and John Winter of Buckland Dursbane [or husbande?]. Owned in 1788 by Alexander R. Popham. Bloomsbury Book Auction, 23 November 2000, lot 8.

A microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7698.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 356 p. 305)
A New-Yeares Gift To my Lorde Duke of Buckingham ('When I can pay my Parents, or my King')

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 71-2.

CoR 389

Copy, headed To ye Duke of Buckingham: R: C:.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single italic hand, evidently associated with Oxford, probably Christ Church, 214 pages (skipping p. 177), plus an index.

Including 18 poems by Corbett and 59 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1630s

Inscribed on a flyleaf Elizabeth Lane hir booke and, among scribbling on another flyleaf, Johannes Finch. P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 341.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Elizabeth Lane MS: CoR Δ 1 and StW Δ 4. The Dobell catalogue description recorded in Forey (pp. lxxxv-lxxxvi).

Aberdeen University Library (MS 29 pp. 24-5)
CoR 390

Copy, headed Dr: Corbett to ye Marquess of Bucking: on a New-yeares Day.

An octavo verse miscellany, including 13 poems by Donne and 14 poems by Corbett, in several hands, probably associated with Oxford University, written from both ends, 102 leaves, in 17th-century calf.

c.1630s

Inscribed (f. 101v) Henry Lawson (or just possibly Lamson). Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1836), item 1185. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9257. Sotheby's, 15 June 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 862. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 164 (1896), item 64.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Lawson MS: DnJ Δ 37 and CoR Δ 2.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 14 f. 9v)
CoR 391

Copy, headed Docter Corbett. To the Duke of Buckingham.

A quarto verse miscellany of c.150 poems, in several hands; associated with Oxford, probably Christ Church, 279 pages (plus index and blanks).

Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 32 poems (plus four of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1630s-40s

Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue (1836), item 1044. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9561. Sotheby's, 19 June 1893 (Phillipps sale), lot 628, and 21 March 1895, lot 903. Hodgson's, 23 April 1959, lot 528.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the English Poetry MS: CoR Δ 3 and StW Δ 6.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 97 p. 154)
CoR 392

Copy, headed To the Duke of Buckingame by R C:.

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.

CoR 393

Copy, headed To ye Duke of Buckingham, subscribed Dr Rich: Corbet.

An octavo miscellany of chiefly verse, in at least two cursive italic hands, with religious verse and prose at the reverse end in another hand, 111 leaves (plus blanks), in old calf gilt.

Including nineteen poems by Corbett and 29 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, the date 1634 occurring on f. 78v.

c.1635

Inscribed on f. 111v rev. Thursday next at Capricks for Mr Pitt. Later among the collections of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724), and his son Edward, second Earl (1689-1741).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Harley MS: CoR Δ 5.

CoR 394

Copy, headed To the Duke of Buckingham.

An octavo verse miscellany, written predominantly in a single italic hand (on ff. 2r-19v, 20v-134v, 139r-43r); another hand on ff. 20r-v, 135v, 136v, 137v, 138v, with verbal alterations in yet another hand and scribbling elsewhere; f. 137v (rev.) containing a receipt of one Richard Bull signed by one Thomas Johnson and dated 1676; 143 leaves.

Including 14 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 22 poems by Corbett and 36 poems (plus three of doubtful authorship) by Strode. Apparently transcribed in part from Westminster Abbey, MS 41.

c.early 1630s

Inscribed (f. 1r) by one I A of Christ Church, Oxford, and also Robert Killigrew his booke witnes by his Maiesties ape Gorge Harison. Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane, Bt (1660-1753), physician and collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Killigrew MS: CwT Δ 21; CoR Δ 6; StW Δ 14. Facsimile example of f. 2v in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), Plate 7, after p. 86.

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1792 ff. 49v-50r)
CoR 395

Copy, headed Dr Corbet. A Newyeares gift to ye Duke of Buckingham 1621.

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

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

c.1630s

Later owned by Edward Jeremiah Curteis, M.P., of Windmill Hill, Sussex. Puttick & Simpson's, 30 June 1884 (Curteis sale), lot 175, to Pearson of Pall Mall for James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89). Formerly Folger MS 452.5.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), and II.i (1987), as the Curteis MS: DnJ Δ 50 and CoR Δ 9. Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Arthur F. Marotti, Folger MSS V.a.89 and V.a.345: Reading Lyric Poetry in Manuscript, in The Reader Revealed, ed. Sabrina Alcorn Baron, et al. (Washington, DC, 2001), pp. 44-57. Discussed in Arthur F. Marotti, Christ Church, Oxford, and Beyond: Folger MS V.a.345 and Its Manuscript and Print Sources, SP 113 (2016), 850-78. A facsimile of p. 36 is in Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey, Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper (Washington, DC, 2008), p. 32.

CoR 396

Copy, in double columns, headed Doctor Corbet to ye Lo: Marques Buckingham Christchurch this present new Years Day 1624, marked L C.

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

Including 52 poems by Donne (many on pp. 64-109, 167-74 initialled L.C. [? Lord Chancellor], as are some poems by others), 11 poems by Carew, ten poems by Corbett, and 11 poems by or attributed to Herrick, in a single neat hand throughout; the poems dating up to 1637.

c.1637

Later scribbling and inscriptions including the names Edw Denny [presumably Edward Denny (1569-1637), Baron Denny of Waltham and first Earl of Norwich], Charles Cocks, Edward Randolphe and (on p. 162) Thomas Cassy. Later owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary (sold in the Haslewood sale, London, 1833, lot 1329, to Thorpe); by Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough, antiquary (his sale in Dublin, 1 November 1841, item 624); and by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector (his library catalogue, 1880, IV, pp. 1159-64), and sold at Sotheby's, 17 July 1917 (Huth sale), lot 5873.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Haslewood-Kingsborough MS (I): DnJ Δ 25, CwT Δ 28, CoR Δ 10, and HeR Δ 5. A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 15). Discussed in C.M. Armitage, Donne's Poems in Huntington Manuscript 198: New Light on The Funerall, SP, 63 (1966), 697-707. A facsimile of part of p. 63 in Marcy L. North, Amateur Compilers, Scribal Labour, and the Contents of Early Modern Poetic Miscellanies, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 101).

CoR 397

Copy, headed To the Marquess.

An octavo verse miscellany, comprising c.118 items, including thirteen poems by Donne, twenty poems by Corbett, and twelve poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, written in several hands over an extended period, associated with Christ Church, Oxford, 99 leaves.

c.1620-40s

Owned and probably compiled in part, in his Oxford days, by George Morley (1598-1684), Bishop of Winchester.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Morley MS: DnJ Δ 62, CoR Δ 13, and StW Δ 27. This MS apparently transcribed in part in the Killigrew MS (British Library, Sloane MS 1792).

Facsimile of f. 49r in William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion, ed. Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor (Oxford, 1987), p. 24.

Westminster Abbey (MS 41 f. 20r)
CoR 398

Copy, headed Dr Corbet to ye Duke of Buckingham.

A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands (one predominating up to p. 167), probably associated with Oxford, 436 pages (pp. 198-9 and 269-70 skipped in the pagination, and including many blanks and an index) and numerous further blank leaves at the end, in modern black morocco gilt.

Including 14 poems by Carew, 13 poems by Corbett and 25 poems (plus one poem of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1650

Scribbling on the first page including the words Peyton Chester….

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Osborn MS I: CwT Δ 38; CoR Δ 14; StW Δ 29.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 200 p. 215)
CoR 399

Copy, headed To the Duke of Buckingam Dr. Corbet.

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

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

c.1630s-40s
Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 47 f. 91r-v)
CoR 400

Copy, headed (in margin) To the Duke of Buckingham. Ld. George Villiers Rich: Corbet Christes-Church, this present New-yeares day 1621.

A folio composite volume, chiefly of English and Latin verse, in various hands; vi + 186 leaves, in reversed calf.

Scribbling on f. iir including ffor mr William Rabey in New=market..., ffor my Louing ffriend in G John westhropp at mr Rogers Reringe house Bury in S[uffolk], ffor mr John fford at his house in Newmarket in the countey of cambridge; notes on f. iiiv-ivr, one Recd 22 July 1669, subscribed John Cooke and including, on f. vir, ffor mr John Cocke at his howse neere the white harte in Thetford.... Later owned, in the 1730s, by Charles Barlow, of Emmanuel College, Cambridge (his bookplate f. iiv).

CoR 402

Copy, headed D:C: To the D: of Buckingham.

A small quarto verse miscellany, in a single hand, 98 pages (plus some blanks), in reversed calf (rebacked).

c.1620s-30s

Inscribed (f. ir) by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), the date 1741 added.

CoR 403

Copy, headed A New Yeares guifte to the marquess of Buckingham by Doctor Corbett.

A folio miscellany of verse and some prose, 282 pages, in calf gilt.

Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 34 of the Hopkinson MSS.

Mid-late 17th century

Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

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

Bradford Archives (32D86/34 p. 33)
CoR 403.5

Copy, in an italic hand, untitled, on one side of a single quarto leaf, folded as a letter. c.1620s-30s.

A collection of unbound verse manuscripts, in various hands and paper sizes (chiefly folio), 142 leaves.

Partly compiled by Sir Richard Browne and his father Christopher Browne (1577-1646), of Saye's Court, Deptford.

Volume LXVII of the Evelyn Papers, of John Evelyn (1620-1706), diarist and writer, of Wootton House, Surrey, and his family, also incorporating papers of his father-in-law, Sir Richard Browne, Bt (1605-83), diplomat, and his family. Formerly preserved at Christ Church, Oxford. Acquired March 1995.

CoR 404

Copy, headed The Deane of Christs Church to marques Buckingham and subscribed Christs church this present newyeares day 1621.

This MS recorded (and erroneously described as a holograph) in J.E.V. Crofts, A Life of Bishop Corbett 1582-1635, E&S, 10 (1924), 61-96 (p. 81); recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 143.

A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous tracts and papers, in various hands, in modern red morocco gilt.

CoR 405

Copy, headed The Deane of Christs-Church to Marquesse of Buckingham and subscribed Christs-church this present newyeares day 1621 Rich: Corbett..

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 72, 143.

A large quarto volume of verse and prose, in several hands, a cursive mixed hand predominating on ff. 1r -51, 53r-8v, with a later addition dated 1694 on f. 78r, 82 leaves, in modern half green morocco.

Mid-17th century
CoR 406

Copy, headed To the Duke of Buckingham, subscribed R. C.

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

Including 15 poems by Carew and 17 poems by King.

c.1630s

Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Bookplate of the Warwick Castle Library. Formerly Folger MS 1.8.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Halliwell MS: CwT Δ 26 and KiH Δ 11. James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Some Account of the Antiquities…illustrating…Shakespeare (1852), No. 8. Facsimile example in Giles Dawson and Laetitia Kennedy-Skipton, Elizabethan Handwriting 1500-1650 (London, 1968), Plate 42. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 195).

CoR 407

Copy, headed D.C. to ye M:B:1622:.

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 Pierpont Morgan Library (MA 1057 p. 47)
CoR 408

Copy, untitled.

A quarto composite miscellany of verse and prose, in various hands, probably associated with the University of Cambridge, 352 pages (including 35 blanks), in 19th-century boards.

Erroneously described in 1965 as a commonplace book of the poet Robert Herrick. The so-called Herrick hand responsible for complete poems or substantial passages on pp. 73-4, 102-3, 253, 312-13, 319-21, 323, 328 and 343, this hand also responsible for corrections and brief insertions in both verse and prose on pp. 55-6, 58-60, 68, 71, 75-6, 78, 83, 89, 91, 93, 97, 99. 108-9, 203, 266, 285, 291, 348 and 350.

c.1612-24

Scribbling on front- and end-leaves including Georgius Cantuarien, Thomas Hobson [?the Cambridge Carrier], Benjamin Broadeface, To my very long friend mr John Bond, To the right reuerend ffather in God George Archbyshop of Canterbury his grace, Whereas the Bearer hereof Thomas Hall hath serued his sixe weekes…, To the right honor Sr Tho: Moore Whereas the Bearer hereof John Tis[?]sdale, Williamson and Phillip de Maceden. Puttick and Simpson's, 30 May 1849, lot 158 (erroneously described as a commonplace book of George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 12341*. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 146 (as Herrick's commonplace book). House of El Dieff (Lew David Feldman), New York, sale catalogue No. 65 (1965), with facsimile page as frontispiece. Formerly Ms File/(Herrick, R)/Works B.

Also facsimiles of p. 323 in the Sotheby's sale catalogue (frontispiece) and of p. 253 (as if in Herrick's hand) in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 33. Facsimile of all the verse in the MS (viz. pp. 63-83, 85, 87, 89, 91, 93,95, 97, 99, 101-3, 105-9, 113-17, 251-3, 277-82, 291, 317-21, 323, 325-43, 345-50), together with a transcript, in Norman K. Farmer, Jr, Poems from a Seventeenth-century Manuscript with the Hand of Robert Herrick, Texas Quarterly, 16, No. 4 (Supplement) (Winter 1973), 1-185. Microfilm of the complete MS in the British Library, M/751.

The MS discussed by Farmer in loc. cit. and in Robert Herrick's Commonplace Book? Some Observations and Questions, PBSA, 66 (1972), 21-34; in P.J. Croft's critical comments on Farmer's articles in To the Editor, PBSA, 66 (1972), 421-6, and (correcting Farmer's published transcript of the text) in Errata in Poems from a Seventeenth-Century Manuscript, TQ, 19 (1976), 160-73; and in Farmer's A Reply to Mr P. Croft, TQ, 19 (1976), 174. Reasons for rejecting Herrick's alleged association are presented in the Introduction above, under The Texas Herrick Manuscript.

University of Texas at Austin (HRC 79 pp. 251-2)
On Christ-Church Play at Woodstock ('If wee, at Woodstock, haue not pleased those')

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 70.

CoR 409

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 140.

An octavo verse miscellany, written predominantly in a single italic hand (on ff. 2r-19v, 20v-134v, 139r-43r); another hand on ff. 20r-v, 135v, 136v, 137v, 138v, with verbal alterations in yet another hand and scribbling elsewhere; f. 137v (rev.) containing a receipt of one Richard Bull signed by one Thomas Johnson and dated 1676; 143 leaves.

Including 14 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 22 poems by Corbett and 36 poems (plus three of doubtful authorship) by Strode. Apparently transcribed in part from Westminster Abbey, MS 41.

c.early 1630s

Inscribed (f. 1r) by one I A of Christ Church, Oxford, and also Robert Killigrew his booke witnes by his Maiesties ape Gorge Harison. Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane, Bt (1660-1753), physician and collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Killigrew MS: CwT Δ 21; CoR Δ 6; StW Δ 14. Facsimile example of f. 2v in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), Plate 7, after p. 86.

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1792 f. 66r-v)
CoR 410

Copy, headed In ye Person of Ch. Ch..

An octavo verse miscellany, comprising c.118 items, including thirteen poems by Donne, twenty poems by Corbett, and twelve poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, written in several hands over an extended period, associated with Christ Church, Oxford, 99 leaves.

c.1620-40s

Owned and probably compiled in part, in his Oxford days, by George Morley (1598-1684), Bishop of Winchester.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Morley MS: DnJ Δ 62, CoR Δ 13, and StW Δ 27. This MS apparently transcribed in part in the Killigrew MS (British Library, Sloane MS 1792).

Facsimile of f. 49r in William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion, ed. Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor (Oxford, 1987), p. 24.

Westminster Abbey (MS 41 f. 24v)
CoR 411

Copy, headed On Ch: Ch: Play.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including 24 poems by Strode, in a single mixed hand, associated with Oxford, 56 leaves (out of an original eight gatherings), in contemporary calf.

c.1630s

Inscriptions inside the covers including the name Phil. Mu (or Mer.). Later in the library of John Sparrow (1906-92), literary scholar and book collector. Acquired in 1969 by Dr Bent Juel-Jensen (1922-2006), Oxford physician and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Sparrow MS: StW Δ 31.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (Juel-Jensen E 7 [item 5] f. 14r)
On Francis Beaumont's death ('He that hath Youth, and Friends, and so much Wit')

First published in Francis Beaumont, Poems (London, 1640). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 23.

CoR 412

Copy, headed On Mr Fran Beaumont.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 23.

An octavo verse miscellany, including 13 poems by Donne and 14 poems by Corbett, in several hands, probably associated with Oxford University, written from both ends, 102 leaves, in 17th-century calf.

c.1630s

Inscribed (f. 101v) Henry Lawson (or just possibly Lamson). Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1836), item 1185. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9257. Sotheby's, 15 June 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 862. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 164 (1896), item 64.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Lawson MS: DnJ Δ 37 and CoR Δ 2.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 14 f. 93v rev.)
CoR 413

Copy, headed Epitaph: on Beamont.

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

Probably compiled by a Cambridge University man.

c.1630s

Inscribed in engrossed lettering (f. 1r) E Libris Richard Sutclif. Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1830-84), merchant and author. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 194.

CoR 414

Copy, headed On Sr francis Beaumont's death.

An octavo verse miscellany, including sixteen poems by Strode and one of doubtful authorship, in several hands, including a small mixed hand on ff. 2r-43v, cursive secretary hands thereafter, and Latin entries in italic at the reverse end, 139 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1630s

A flyleaf inscribed [?] Johannes Philips. Acquired from H. Stevens 11 December 1852.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1987), as the John Philips MS: StW Δ 8.

CoR 415

Copy, headed On Mr Beaumont's death, here beginning He that hath such greatness & such wit.

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

Transcribed from British Library Add. MS 25303 and perhaps associated likewise with the Inns of Court. Including 23 poems by Carew and three of doubtful authorship.

c.1620s-30s

Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 13 May 1856 (Pickering sale), lot 258.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Pickering MS: CwT Δ 11.

CoR 415.5

Copy, headed On Mr Beaumonts death and here beginning Hee that hath such acutenesse & such witt.

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

Including 27 poems (and second copies of two poems) by Thomas Carew and three of doubtful authorship.

This MS largely transcribed in British Library, Add. MS 21433. The hand occurs also in British Library, Harley MS 3910, between ff. 112v and 120v, and is possibly associated with the Inns of Court.

c.1620s

Scribbled inscriptions including (f. 1r) Mr John Bowyer; (f. 2r) Jeronomus ffox; and (f. 3r) William Ralph Baesh.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Colchester MS: CwT Δ 13.

CoR 416

Copy, headed Epitaph on ffrancis Beaumont and here beginning He that hath such Acutenesse & such witt.

A folio verse miscellany, in a single professional secretary hand associated with the playhouse and possibly inns of court (also responsible for ChG 12.5, HyT 5, and MiT 6), 97 leaves, with a first-line Index at the end, in contemporary vellum boards.

Including fourteen poems by James Shirley, generally ascribed to him, and eleven poems by Strode (and two of doubtful authorship).

c.1636

Inscribed (on the front paste-down) My cousin chute gaue me this book out of his father study at the vine Hampshire (following the same statement in French), indicating that the MS was owned by, and possibly originally compiled for, the family of Chaloner Chute, MP (c.1595-1659), Speaker of the house of Commons, who acquired The Vyne, near Basingstoke, Hampshire, in 1653. Later owned by Sir William Tite (1798-1873), architect. Sotheby's, 30 May 1874, lot 2343. Bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork, book collector. Sotheby's, 21 March 1891 (Crawford sale), lot 2493.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Chute MS: ShJ Δ 2 and StW Δ 11. Briefly discussed, with a facsimile of f. 34v (see ShJ 96 and ShJ 100) in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and their Value for Textual Editors, EMS, 1 (1989), 192-210 (pp. 200-1, 209-10 n. 40). Discussed, with facsimiles of ff. 53r and 80r, in Arthur F. Marotti, Chaloner Chute's Poetical Anthology (British Library, Additional MS 33998) as a Cosmopolitan Collection, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 99).

CoR 417

Copy, headed On Mr. ffr: Beaumonts Death.

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

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

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

c.1637-50

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

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 777 f. 67r)
CoR 417.5

Copy, headed On Mr: Francis Beaumonts death, by Dr Corbet added in another hand.

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

Including 11 poems by Carew and 14 poems by Randolph.

c.1630s-40s

Inscribed Jane Wheeler and Tho: Oliver Busfield. Francis Quarles's poem (pp. 209-11) To ye two partners of my heart Mr John Wheeler, and Mr Symon Tue. Item 96 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Formerly Folger MS 2071.6.

A Jo. Wheeler signed the Christ Church, Oxford, disbursement books for 1641-3 (xii, b.85 and 86).

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Wheeler MS: CwT Δ 25 and RnT Δ 7.

CoR 418

Copy, here beginning He yt hath such acuteness, & such wit.

A verse miscellany.

c.1674

Owned by Henry Bracegirdle, of Merton College, Oxford, and in 1674 by one Hugh Massey.

King's College, Cambridge (Hayward Collection, H. 11. 13 f. [30r])
CoR 418.8

Copy, headed On Mr Beaumont.

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

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

c.1630s

Later owned by Edward Jeremiah Curteis, M.P., of Windmill Hill, Sussex. Puttick & Simpson's, 30 June 1884 (Curteis sale), lot 175, to Pearson of Pall Mall for James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89). Formerly Folger MS 452.5.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), and II.i (1987), as the Curteis MS: DnJ Δ 50 and CoR Δ 9. Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Arthur F. Marotti, Folger MSS V.a.89 and V.a.345: Reading Lyric Poetry in Manuscript, in The Reader Revealed, ed. Sabrina Alcorn Baron, et al. (Washington, DC, 2001), pp. 44-57. Discussed in Arthur F. Marotti, Christ Church, Oxford, and Beyond: Folger MS V.a.345 and Its Manuscript and Print Sources, SP 113 (2016), 850-78. A facsimile of p. 36 is in Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey, Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper (Washington, DC, 2008), p. 32.

CoR 419

Copy, headed On Mr Francis Beaumonts death.

A quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary hand, 204 pages, in old calf.

Including ten poems by Carew (and two of doubtful authorship) and 24 poems by Randolph.

c.1630s

Thomas Thorpe, Catalogue of upwards of fourteen hundred manuscripts (1836), item 1030. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9282. Subsequently in the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, and art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936 (Perry sale). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 188.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosenbach MS I: CwT Δ 31 and RnT Δ 10. The complete volume edited in Howard H. Thompson, An Edition of Two Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Poetical Miscellanies (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1959) (Rosenbach Library Mic 59-4669).

CoR 420

Copy, headed An Epitaph on Fras: Beamont and here beginning He yt hath such acutenes & such witt.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single predominantly italic hand, 152 leaves (paginated 1-34, thereafter foliated 35-169), plus index, in modern red leather.

Including 85 poems (and second copies of two) by Thomas Carew.

c.1638-42

Inscriptions including Horatio Carey 1642 te deus pardamus [viz. Horatio Carey (1619-ante 1677), eldest son of Sir Richard Carey (1583-1630) and great-grandson of Sir Henry Carey (1524?-96), first Baron Hunsdon ], Thomas Arding, Thomas Arden, William Harrington, Thomas John, John Anthehope and Clement Poxall. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 8270. Bookplates of John William Cole and of the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936 (Perry sale). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 194.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Carey MS: CwT Δ 34. Briefly discussed in Gary Taylor, Some Manuscripts of Shakespeare's Sonnets, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 68 (1985), 210-46 (pp. 220-4). Discussed, with facsimile pages, in Scott Nixon, The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 188, 191-2).

On Great Tom of Christ-Church ('Bee dum, you infant chimes. thump not the mettle')

First published (omitting lines 25-48) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 79-82. Ithuriel, Great Tom of Oxford, N&Q, 2nd Ser. 10 (15 December 1860), 465-6 (printing (from a MS collection) which bears the signature of Jerom Terrent).

CoR 421

Copy, headed Vpon Tom Bell of C: Ch:.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single italic hand, evidently associated with Oxford, probably Christ Church, 214 pages (skipping p. 177), plus an index.

Including 18 poems by Corbett and 59 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1630s

Inscribed on a flyleaf Elizabeth Lane hir booke and, among scribbling on another flyleaf, Johannes Finch. P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 341.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Elizabeth Lane MS: CoR Δ 1 and StW Δ 4. The Dobell catalogue description recorded in Forey (pp. lxxxv-lxxxvi).

CoR 422

Copy.

An octavo verse miscellany, including 13 poems by Donne and 14 poems by Corbett, in several hands, probably associated with Oxford University, written from both ends, 102 leaves, in 17th-century calf.

c.1630s

Inscribed (f. 101v) Henry Lawson (or just possibly Lamson). Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1836), item 1185. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9257. Sotheby's, 15 June 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 862. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 164 (1896), item 64.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Lawson MS: DnJ Δ 37 and CoR Δ 2.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 14 f. 46v)
CoR 423

Copy, headed On younge Tom of ch: ch: by Dr Corbet.

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.

CoR 424

Copy, headed On the casting of Greate Tom of ch: ch:, subscribed Jeram: Terrent.

An octavo miscellany of chiefly verse, in at least two cursive italic hands, with religious verse and prose at the reverse end in another hand, 111 leaves (plus blanks), in old calf gilt.

Including nineteen poems by Corbett and 29 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, the date 1634 occurring on f. 78v.

c.1635

Inscribed on f. 111v rev. Thursday next at Capricks for Mr Pitt. Later among the collections of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724), and his son Edward, second Earl (1689-1741).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Harley MS: CoR Δ 5.

CoR 425

Copy.

An octavo verse miscellany, written predominantly in a single italic hand (on ff. 2r-19v, 20v-134v, 139r-43r); another hand on ff. 20r-v, 135v, 136v, 137v, 138v, with verbal alterations in yet another hand and scribbling elsewhere; f. 137v (rev.) containing a receipt of one Richard Bull signed by one Thomas Johnson and dated 1676; 143 leaves.

Including 14 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 22 poems by Corbett and 36 poems (plus three of doubtful authorship) by Strode. Apparently transcribed in part from Westminster Abbey, MS 41.

c.early 1630s

Inscribed (f. 1r) by one I A of Christ Church, Oxford, and also Robert Killigrew his booke witnes by his Maiesties ape Gorge Harison. Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane, Bt (1660-1753), physician and collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Killigrew MS: CwT Δ 21; CoR Δ 6; StW Δ 14. Facsimile example of f. 2v in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), Plate 7, after p. 86.

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1792 f. 52v)
CoR 426

Copy, headed On the Casting of great Tom of ch; ch:, subscribed Dr Corbet.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 149.

An octavo verse miscellany, compiled by an Oxford man, possibly a member of Christ Church, pp. 1-202 in a single minute hand, written over a period, with a few later additions (including two lines on p. 7) by other hands; pp. 202-19 containing entries in later hands up to 1789, in half-calf on marbled boards, pp. 77-84 detached in the 19th century and now separately bound as Folger MS V.a.152.

Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 30 poems by Strode (one of them in V.a.152) plus one of doubtful authorship.

c.late 1630s [-1789]

Later sold by Thomas Thorpe. Afterwards owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89) (and No. 27 in his Catalogue of Shakespeare Reliques (Brixton Hill, 1852)) and subsequently in the library of Lord Warwick at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1.27.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Thorpe-Halliwell MS: CoR Δ 7 and StW Δ 17. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).

CoR 427

Copy, headed On Tom of Christchurch. J: Warm. &c.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 149.

A quarto verse miscellany, pp. 13-244 in a single largely roman hand, the remainder in varying styles in one or more other hands (up to c.1655), probably associated with Oxford University, 541 pages (of which pp. 1-12, 87-8 have been extracted and pp. 251-68, 334, 400, 410-540 are blank, with stubs of other extracted leaves at the end), in contemporary brown calf.

Including 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 57 poems (plus a second copy of one poem and four poems of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1630s[-55]

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: possibly his MS 18123. Owned c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914), literary scholar and bookseller. Formerly MS 646.4.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Dobell MS: CoR Δ 8 and StW Δ 18. Discussed in Bertram Dobell in The Athenaeum, No. 4475 (2 August 1913), p. 112. A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).

CoR 428

Copy, headed Do: Corbet on Tom ye great bell of C:C:.

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

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

c.1630s

Later owned by Edward Jeremiah Curteis, M.P., of Windmill Hill, Sussex. Puttick & Simpson's, 30 June 1884 (Curteis sale), lot 175, to Pearson of Pall Mall for James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89). Formerly Folger MS 452.5.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), and II.i (1987), as the Curteis MS: DnJ Δ 50 and CoR Δ 9. Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Arthur F. Marotti, Folger MSS V.a.89 and V.a.345: Reading Lyric Poetry in Manuscript, in The Reader Revealed, ed. Sabrina Alcorn Baron, et al. (Washington, DC, 2001), pp. 44-57. Discussed in Arthur F. Marotti, Christ Church, Oxford, and Beyond: Folger MS V.a.345 and Its Manuscript and Print Sources, SP 113 (2016), 850-78. A facsimile of p. 36 is in Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey, Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper (Washington, DC, 2008), p. 32.

CoR 429

Copy, headed vpon Tom of Chri: chu: new cast.

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

Including 52 poems by Donne (many on pp. 64-109, 167-74 initialled L.C. [? Lord Chancellor], as are some poems by others), 11 poems by Carew, ten poems by Corbett, and 11 poems by or attributed to Herrick, in a single neat hand throughout; the poems dating up to 1637.

c.1637

Later scribbling and inscriptions including the names Edw Denny [presumably Edward Denny (1569-1637), Baron Denny of Waltham and first Earl of Norwich], Charles Cocks, Edward Randolphe and (on p. 162) Thomas Cassy. Later owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary (sold in the Haslewood sale, London, 1833, lot 1329, to Thorpe); by Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough, antiquary (his sale in Dublin, 1 November 1841, item 624); and by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector (his library catalogue, 1880, IV, pp. 1159-64), and sold at Sotheby's, 17 July 1917 (Huth sale), lot 5873.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Haslewood-Kingsborough MS (I): DnJ Δ 25, CwT Δ 28, CoR Δ 10, and HeR Δ 5. A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 15). Discussed in C.M. Armitage, Donne's Poems in Huntington Manuscript 198: New Light on The Funerall, SP, 63 (1966), 697-707. A facsimile of part of p. 63 in Marcy L. North, Amateur Compilers, Scribal Labour, and the Contents of Early Modern Poetic Miscellanies, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 101).

CoR 430

Copy.

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

Including 45 poems (and a second copy of one) by Carew, 11 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Corbett, and 25 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1634

The initials T. C. stamped on the front cover. Sold by Thomas Thorpe (1836). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9536, and by Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), of Providence, Rhode Island, industrialist, banker, and art and books collector. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 189.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Rosenbach MS II: CwT Δ 32, CoR Δ 12, and StW Δ 24. Discussed in Scott Nixon, The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 193-5).

CoR 431

Copy.

An octavo verse miscellany, comprising c.118 items, including thirteen poems by Donne, twenty poems by Corbett, and twelve poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, written in several hands over an extended period, associated with Christ Church, Oxford, 99 leaves.

c.1620-40s

Owned and probably compiled in part, in his Oxford days, by George Morley (1598-1684), Bishop of Winchester.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Morley MS: DnJ Δ 62, CoR Δ 13, and StW Δ 27. This MS apparently transcribed in part in the Killigrew MS (British Library, Sloane MS 1792).

Facsimile of f. 49r in William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion, ed. Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor (Oxford, 1987), p. 24.

Westminster Abbey (MS 41 f. 24r)
CoR 432

Copy, headed On ye casting of great Tom of xt Church and subscribed Jer: Jerrent [i.e. Jeramiel Terrent].

A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands (one predominating up to p. 167), probably associated with Oxford, 436 pages (pp. 198-9 and 269-70 skipped in the pagination, and including many blanks and an index) and numerous further blank leaves at the end, in modern black morocco gilt.

Including 14 poems by Carew, 13 poems by Corbett and 25 poems (plus one poem of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1650

Scribbling on the first page including the words Peyton Chester….

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Osborn MS I: CwT Δ 38; CoR Δ 14; StW Δ 29.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 200 pp. 16-18)
CoR 433 c.1630s

Copy, headed To Yonge Tom, on two conjugate quarto leaves.

Edited from this MS in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 149; printed in H.T. Ellacombe, Great Tom of Oxford, N&Q, 3rd Ser. 2 (20 December 1862), 493-5.

A large folio composite volume of verse, in various largely secretary hands, 327 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf.

Collected, and partly written, by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.

Betagraph of the watermark in f. 29 in Ted-Larry Pebworth, Towards a Taxonomy of Watermarks, in Puzzles in Paper: Concepts in Historical Watermarks, ed. Daniel W. Mosser, Michael Saffle and Ernest W. Sullivan, II (London, 2000), pp. 229-42 (p. 239).

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 36/37 ff. 260r, 261r, 260v)
CoR 434

Copy of lines 1-20.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 149.

An octavo verse miscellany compiled by an Oxford University man, i i + 37 leaves, in later half-calf.

c.1630s

Among the collections of Francis Douce (1757-1834), antiquary and collector.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Douce f. 5 fol. 10r)
CoR 435

Copy, complete.

An octavo verse miscellany compiled by an Oxford University man, i i + 37 leaves, in later half-calf.

c.1630s

Among the collections of Francis Douce (1757-1834), antiquary and collector.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Douce f. 5 fols 27r-8r)
CoR 436

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

Including 16 poems (plus second copies of two) by Carew, 19 poems by or attributed to Herrick (and second copies of six of them), 23 poems (plus second copies of two and four of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, 18 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and eleven poems by Waller.

c.1630s-40s

Inscribed on a flyleaf Peeter Daniell and his initials stamped on both covers. Later scribbling including the names Thomas Gardinor, James Leigh and Pettrus Romell. Owned in 1780 by one A. B. when it was given to Thomas Percy (1768-1808), later Bishop of Dromore. Sotheby's, 29 April 1884 (Percy sale), lot 1. Acquired from Quaritch, 1957.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Daniell MS: CwT Δ 5, HeR Δ 2, RnT Δ 1, StW Δ 5, WaE Δ 9. Briefly discussed in Margaret Crum, An Unpublished Fragment of Verse by Herrick, RES, NS 11 (1960), 186-9. A facsimile of f. 22v in Marcy L. North, Amateur Compilers, Scribal Labour, and the Contents of Early Modern Poetic Miscellanies, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 106). Betagraphs of the watermark in f. 65 in Ted-Larry Pebworth, Towards a Taxonomy of Watermarks, in Puzzles in Paper: Concepts in Historical Watermarks, ed. Daniel W. Mosser, Michael Saffle and Ernest W. Sullivan, II (London, 2000), pp. 229-42 (p. 241).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 50 f. 131r)
CoR 437

Copy, headed On young Tom of Christ Church by Dr Corbet.

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

Including 16 poems by Carew and 13 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode. Written in three hands: i.e. A (Codrington's hand, including his own poems) on pp. 1-283, 349-55; B on pp. 284-9; and C on pp. 289-348, 356-60; dated (pp. 1-22) Anno Dom: 1638 and The 30th of May. 1638.

c.1638

Acquired from Blackwell's, 1962.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Codrington MS: CwT Δ 7 and StW Δ 7.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, f through end (MS Eng. poet. f. 27 pp. 144-6)
CoR 438 c.1630

Copy, here ascribed to Jer: Terrent, in a verse miscellany (ff. 267r-73v) compiled by an Oxford University man.

A quarto composite volume of tracts and other papers, in verse and prose, 349 leaves, in half-calf.

Copy, headed An other lre from Sr Thomas Wiatte the elder to his sonne oute of Spaine aboute the same tyme.

CoR 439

Copy, on two pairs of conjugate quarto leaves of verse. After 1660.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 149.

A composite quarto verse miscellany, 199 leaves, in calf.

Compiled (and ff. 2-39 written) by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop Canterbury; the rest in other hands.

Mid-17th century
Bodleian Library, Tanner Collection (MS Tanner 466 f. 67v)
CoR 440

Copy, headed On Tom the great Bell of Christ Church Oxford.

A folio verse miscellany, 215 leaves (plus a few blanks), in modern calf gilt.

Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 17 of the Hopkinson MSS.

c.1670

Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, pp. 295-6.

Bradford Archives (32D86/17 ff. 15r-16r)
CoR 441

Copy, headed On yong Tom of C: C: Dr Corbet.

A quarto verse miscellany, nearly all in a single mixed hand, 19 leaves, in a wrapper comprising a recycled vellum leaf bearing a rubricated (?)15th-century religious text in Latin.

c.1630

Among the papers of the Stanhope family, of Horsforth, near Leeds. Formerly Spencer-Stanhope MSS, Calendar No. 2795 (Bundle 10, No. 34).

Bradford Archives (SpSt/9/1a f. [10r-v])
CoR 442

Copy, headed Dr Corbet on the second castinge of the great bell at Christchurch caled great Tom.

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English, Latin and Greek, largely in one secretary hand, written from both ends, with indexes (ff. 2r-3r, 168r-v), 168 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum.

Compiled by Sir John Perceval, Bt (1629-65), probably while at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Volume CXCII of the papers of the Perceval family, Earls of Egmont, and the allied Southwell family.

c.1646-9
CoR 443

Copy, headed Tom: christchurch great bell new fownded: To young Tom.

A duodecimo verse miscellany in several hands, written from both ends, 46 leaves, in contemporary calf.

Mid-17th century

Inscribed names (on front paste-down and f. 1r) of Fra: Norreys (? Sir Francis Norris (1609-69)) and Hen. Balle. Purchased from J. Harvey 8 December 1877.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2421 f. 19r)
CoR 444

Copy, headed On Tom of Christchurch.

A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, in Latin and English, one cursive hand predominating, 69 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half black crushed morocco.

c.1630s

Inscribed (f. 62r) Nathaniel Heighmore: i.e. presumably Nathaniel Highmore (1613-85), chemical physician and anatomist; John Sacheverell his hand and pen Amen; and John Sacheverell the Author of this....

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 542 ff. 49v-50r)
CoR 445

Copy, headed On Young Tom of Ch: Ch:, inscribed in the margin by Fulman Corb.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 80 et seq.

A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, predominantly in a single hand (up to f. 34v), with additions in four subsequent hands (ff. 37-50v), 50 leaves, in vellum.

Compiled for the most part by a University of Oxford man, with (f. 1r-v) a list of contents.

c.1640s

Once owned by one John Faith, and by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.

Formerly cited as Corpus Christi College, MS E.i.33.

Corpus Christi College, Oxford (MS 176 ff. 14v-15v)
CoR 446

Copy.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single small neat predominantly secretary hand but for additions in a second hand on ff. 35v and 58r, compiled by an Oxford man, possibly a member of Wadham College, 97 leaves (inclusing two blanks), in half-calf.

Including 14 poems by Carew (and a second copy of one poem), eight poems (plus 3 of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, and 28 poems by Strode (plus a second copy of one and two of doubtful authorship).

c.late 1630s

Later used and annotated by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, and entries in his hand on f. 97r. Formerly Bodleian, MS CCC.328.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Fulman MS: CwT Δ 2; RnT Δ 6; StW Δ 16.

CoR 447

Copy, headed On greate Tom, subscribed R. W.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 80.

A quarto miscellany, in several hands, including a number of culinary receipts, 255 leaves (including over 65 blanks), written from both ends (Part I, in a rounded italic hand: ff. 1r-117r:; Part II: ff. 1*r-72r), in old calf.

Inscribed (Part II, f. 1*r) A booke of verses collected by mee RDungaruan: i.e. Richard Boyle (1612-98), Viscount Dungarvon and later Earl of Burlington.

c.1630s

Also inscribed Mary Helerd. Subsequently owned by James Tyrrell (1642-1718), historical writer, and by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1782-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 15745. Formerly Folger MS 46. 2.

CoR 448

Copy, headed Tom of Christchurch newly cast.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 80.

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

Mid-17th century

Inscribed (f. 1r) Stephen Wellden and Abraham Bassano and (f. 98r) Elizabeth Weldon. Later owned by William John Thoms (1803-85), writer, antiquary and librarian. Sotheby's, 11 February 1887 (Thoms sale), lot 1092. Also owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89). Formerly Folger MS 452.4.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Welden MS: DnJ Δ 49.

CoR 449

Copy, headed On great Tom, subscribed Jer Wermistrie.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 149.

A quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary hand, probably associated with Oxford and afterwards with the Inns of Court, 73 leaves (plus a few blanks and a modern index).

Including 40 poems by Strode and two poems of doubtful authorship.

c.1630s

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9510. (Phillipps sale, lot 1015.) Owned c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914). Percy Dobell's sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 342. Formerly MS 4201. 27. 1.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dobell MS II: StW Δ 19. Formerly Folger MS 1.27.42.

CoR 450

Copy, headed Vpon Tom of Christchurch, the greate Bell newly cast.

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

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

c.1637-51

Inscribed (front pastedown) Wakelin EeK Hering / Blows of Whitsor, and (rear pastedown) R. J. Cotton. Formerly Folger MS 2073.4.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Cotton MS: StW Δ 20.

CoR 451

Copy, headed On ye great Bell of Ch: Church. D.C.

A small quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single, minute non-professional italic hand, probably someone associated with Oxford University, comprising 180 pages now all separated and mounted, interleaved, in 19th-century calf.

c.late 1630s

Later in the libraries (with bookplates) of the book collector Richard Heber (1774-1833); of the bibliographer and antiquary Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833); of the biographer and literary editor Alexander Chalmers (1759-1834); and of the antiquary Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough (his sale by Charles Sharpe in Dublin, 1 November 1842, lot 577).

CoR 452

Copy, headed On Tom of Christ-Church the great Bell newly cast.

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

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

c.1630s

Among the muniments of Lord Mexborough, descended from the Savile family formerly of Methley Hall, near Pontefract, West Yorkshire. Formerly MX 237.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Mexborough MS: CwT Δ 29.

Leeds Archives (WYL156/237 ff. 29v-30r)
CoR 453

Copy.

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

c.1636-40s

The name of the possible compiler John Pike inscribed on f. 1r: i.e. possibly a member of the Pike family of Cambridge (one John Pike (d.1677) matriculating at Peterhouse in 1662).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Pike MS: KiH Δ 12. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6), pp. 143-7.

St John's College, Cambridge (MS S. 32 (James 423) f. 3r)
CoR 454

Copy.

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

c.1640
CoR 454.5

Copy, headed On Tom by of Chr: Chur:.

An octavo verse miscellany, of English and Welsh verse and prose, in probably several hands, the English verse (on pages 9-70, 93-104) including eleven poems by Strode and two of doubtful authorship, 110 pages (plus stubs of extracted leaves).

Compiled by members of the Griffith family, of Llanddyfnan, the verse probably entered by one or more of the various members of that family who studied in this period at the University of Oxford.

Mid-17th century

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Griffith MS: StW Δ 26.

Bangor University (MS 422 pp. 21-2)
CoR 455

Copy.

A sextodecimo verse miscellany, written from both ends in several hands (two principal ones on ff. 6r-40r, 41r et seq. respectively), 102 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf, with remains of metal clasps.

Including 45 poems by Strode and three poems of doubtful authorship.

c.1630s

Formerly Box 22, item II.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Osborn MS II: StW Δ 30.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 205 f. 32r)
On Henry Bowling ('If gentlenesse could tame the fates, or wit')

First published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 74.

CoR 456

Copy, headed On Mr Bowling: R: C:.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single italic hand, evidently associated with Oxford, probably Christ Church, 214 pages (skipping p. 177), plus an index.

Including 18 poems by Corbett and 59 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1630s

Inscribed on a flyleaf Elizabeth Lane hir booke and, among scribbling on another flyleaf, Johannes Finch. P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 341.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Elizabeth Lane MS: CoR Δ 1 and StW Δ 4. The Dobell catalogue description recorded in Forey (pp. lxxxv-lxxxvi).

CoR 457

Copy, headed On Mr Henry Boling, docketed in the margin Dr Corbett.

An octavo verse miscellany, including 13 poems by Donne and 14 poems by Corbett, in several hands, probably associated with Oxford University, written from both ends, 102 leaves, in 17th-century calf.

c.1630s

Inscribed (f. 101v) Henry Lawson (or just possibly Lamson). Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1836), item 1185. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9257. Sotheby's, 15 June 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 862. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 164 (1896), item 64.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Lawson MS: DnJ Δ 37 and CoR Δ 2.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 14 f. 97v rev.)
CoR 458

Copy.

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.

CoR 459

Copy.

An octavo verse miscellany, written predominantly in a single italic hand (on ff. 2r-19v, 20v-134v, 139r-43r); another hand on ff. 20r-v, 135v, 136v, 137v, 138v, with verbal alterations in yet another hand and scribbling elsewhere; f. 137v (rev.) containing a receipt of one Richard Bull signed by one Thomas Johnson and dated 1676; 143 leaves.

Including 14 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 22 poems by Corbett and 36 poems (plus three of doubtful authorship) by Strode. Apparently transcribed in part from Westminster Abbey, MS 41.

c.early 1630s

Inscribed (f. 1r) by one I A of Christ Church, Oxford, and also Robert Killigrew his booke witnes by his Maiesties ape Gorge Harison. Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane, Bt (1660-1753), physician and collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Killigrew MS: CwT Δ 21; CoR Δ 6; StW Δ 14. Facsimile example of f. 2v in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), Plate 7, after p. 86.

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1792 f. 44v)
CoR 460

Copy, headed Dr Corbett / On Mr Henry Boling his Death.

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

Including 13 poems by Donne and 14 (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett; the scribe is that mainly responsible also for the Thomas Smyth MS (DnJ Δ 48).

c.1630s

Later owned and used extensively as a notebook by Dr William Balam (1651-1726), of Ely, Cambridgeshire, who also annotated Cambridge University Library MS Add. 5778 and Harvard fMS Eng 966.4. Bookplate of N. Micklethwait. Owned in 1931 by the Rev. F.W. Glass, of Taverham Hall, near Norwich (seat in the 17th century of the Sotherton family and later of the Branthwayt and Micklethwait families).

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Welbeck MS: DnJ Δ 57 and CoR Δ 11. Discussed in H. Harvey Wood, A Seventeenth-Century Manuscript of Poems by Donne and Others, Essays & Studies, 16 (1931), 179-90. For Taverham Hall, see Thomas B. Norgate, A History of Taverham from Early Times to 1969 (Aylsham, 1969).

University of Nottingham (Pw V 37 p. 7)
CoR 461

Copy.

An octavo verse miscellany, comprising c.118 items, including thirteen poems by Donne, twenty poems by Corbett, and twelve poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, written in several hands over an extended period, associated with Christ Church, Oxford, 99 leaves.

c.1620-40s

Owned and probably compiled in part, in his Oxford days, by George Morley (1598-1684), Bishop of Winchester.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Morley MS: DnJ Δ 62, CoR Δ 13, and StW Δ 27. This MS apparently transcribed in part in the Killigrew MS (British Library, Sloane MS 1792).

Facsimile of f. 49r in William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion, ed. Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor (Oxford, 1987), p. 24.

Westminster Abbey (MS 41 f. 49r)
CoR 462

Copy, headed On Mr Henrie Boling his death by Dr Corbett.

An octavo verse miscellany compiled by an Oxford University man, i i + 37 leaves, in later half-calf.

c.1630s

Among the collections of Francis Douce (1757-1834), antiquary and collector.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Douce f. 5 fol. 34v)
CoR 463

Copy, headed On Mr Henry Boling.

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

Including 16 poems by Carew and 13 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode. Written in three hands: i.e. A (Codrington's hand, including his own poems) on pp. 1-283, 349-55; B on pp. 284-9; and C on pp. 289-348, 356-60; dated (pp. 1-22) Anno Dom: 1638 and The 30th of May. 1638.

c.1638

Acquired from Blackwell's, 1962.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Codrington MS: CwT Δ 7 and StW Δ 7.

CoR 464

Copy, headed On Mr Henry Boling.

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.

CoR 465

Copy, headed Vppon Mr Henery Bowlinge an Epitaph by R C.

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

Including 27 poems (and second copies of two poems) by Thomas Carew and three of doubtful authorship.

This MS largely transcribed in British Library, Add. MS 21433. The hand occurs also in British Library, Harley MS 3910, between ff. 112v and 120v, and is possibly associated with the Inns of Court.

c.1620s

Scribbled inscriptions including (f. 1r) Mr John Bowyer; (f. 2r) Jeronomus ffox; and (f. 3r) William Ralph Baesh.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Colchester MS: CwT Δ 13.

CoR 467

Copy, headed On Mr Henry Boling his death, ascribed at the side to Dr Corbett.

A quarto verse miscellany, arranged (Part I) as an anthology, under genre headings, the reverse end (Part II) largely occupied by a later series of Latin verses, epistles, and other exercises, 168 leaves, in old calf (rebacked).

Part I probably in several hands, the predominant italic hand that also responsible for the Welbeck MS: DnJ Δ 57), and including 21 poems by Donne.

c.1630 [-1677]

Part I inscribed (f. 1r) John Smyth his Book 1640, Charles Smyth 1674, Hugh Smyth 1676; (f. 23v) J Smyth 1677 / 1676. Part II inscribed several times Thomas Smith, on f. 19r also Die: Maij 12o Ano 1659, with a reference on f. 58v to Balliol College, Oxford, 1659/60. Later inscribed (f. [ir]) by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), who records buying this very curious and interesting MS. of Messrs Boone. Afterwards in the library at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1. 28.

Cited in IELM, I.i, as the Thomas Smyth MS: DnJ Δ 48.

CoR 468

Copy, headed On Mr. Henry Boling.

A quarto miscellany, in several hands, including a number of culinary receipts, 255 leaves (including over 65 blanks), written from both ends (Part I, in a rounded italic hand: ff. 1r-117r:; Part II: ff. 1*r-72r), in old calf.

Inscribed (Part II, f. 1*r) A booke of verses collected by mee RDungaruan: i.e. Richard Boyle (1612-98), Viscount Dungarvon and later Earl of Burlington.

c.1630s

Also inscribed Mary Helerd. Subsequently owned by James Tyrrell (1642-1718), historical writer, and by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1782-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 15745. Formerly Folger MS 46. 2.

CoR 468.5

Copy, headed Vpon the death of Mr Boling.

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

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

c.1637-51

Inscribed (front pastedown) Wakelin EeK Hering / Blows of Whitsor, and (rear pastedown) R. J. Cotton. Formerly Folger MS 2073.4.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Cotton MS: StW Δ 20.

CoR 469

Copy, headed Dr Corbett on Henr Booling.

A quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary hand, 204 pages, in old calf.

Including ten poems by Carew (and two of doubtful authorship) and 24 poems by Randolph.

c.1630s

Thomas Thorpe, Catalogue of upwards of fourteen hundred manuscripts (1836), item 1030. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9282. Subsequently in the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, and art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936 (Perry sale). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 188.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosenbach MS I: CwT Δ 31 and RnT Δ 10. The complete volume edited in Howard H. Thompson, An Edition of Two Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Poetical Miscellanies (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1959) (Rosenbach Library Mic 59-4669).

CoR 470

Copy.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single predominantly italic hand, 152 leaves (paginated 1-34, thereafter foliated 35-169), plus index, in modern red leather.

Including 85 poems (and second copies of two) by Thomas Carew.

c.1638-42

Inscriptions including Horatio Carey 1642 te deus pardamus [viz. Horatio Carey (1619-ante 1677), eldest son of Sir Richard Carey (1583-1630) and great-grandson of Sir Henry Carey (1524?-96), first Baron Hunsdon ], Thomas Arding, Thomas Arden, William Harrington, Thomas John, John Anthehope and Clement Poxall. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 8270. Bookplates of John William Cole and of the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936 (Perry sale). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 194.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Carey MS: CwT Δ 34. Briefly discussed in Gary Taylor, Some Manuscripts of Shakespeare's Sonnets, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 68 (1985), 210-46 (pp. 220-4). Discussed, with facsimile pages, in Scott Nixon, The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 188, 191-2).

CoR 471

Copy.

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

c.1636-40s

The name of the possible compiler John Pike inscribed on f. 1r: i.e. possibly a member of the Pike family of Cambridge (one John Pike (d.1677) matriculating at Peterhouse in 1662).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Pike MS: KiH Δ 12. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6), pp. 143-7.

St John's College, Cambridge (MS S. 32 (James 423) f. 40r)
CoR 471.5

Copy, headed Dr Corbett vpon Henry Boline.

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

c.late 1630s

Inscribed (on p. [330]) Robert Lord his book Anno Domini; (on [p. 335]) william Jacob his booke Amen; and, among scribbling on the last leaf, Hugh Gibgans of the same and John Winter of Buckland Dursbane [or husbande?]. Owned in 1788 by Alexander R. Popham. Bloomsbury Book Auction, 23 November 2000, lot 8.

A microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7698.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 356 p. 142)
On John Dawson, Butler at Christ-Church. 1622 ('Dawson the Butler's dead. although I thinke')

First published (omitting lines 7-10) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 72-3.

CoR 472

Copy, headed On John Dawson ye Butlers Death. W: S:.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single italic hand, evidently associated with Oxford, probably Christ Church, 214 pages (skipping p. 177), plus an index.

Including 18 poems by Corbett and 59 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1630s

Inscribed on a flyleaf Elizabeth Lane hir booke and, among scribbling on another flyleaf, Johannes Finch. P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 341.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Elizabeth Lane MS: CoR Δ 1 and StW Δ 4. The Dobell catalogue description recorded in Forey (pp. lxxxv-lxxxvi).

Aberdeen University Library (MS 29 pp. 122-3)
CoR 473

Copy.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 144.

An octavo verse miscellany, including 13 poems by Donne and 14 poems by Corbett, in several hands, probably associated with Oxford University, written from both ends, 102 leaves, in 17th-century calf.

c.1630s

Inscribed (f. 101v) Henry Lawson (or just possibly Lamson). Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1836), item 1185. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9257. Sotheby's, 15 June 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 862. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 164 (1896), item 64.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Lawson MS: DnJ Δ 37 and CoR Δ 2.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 14 f. 93r rev.)
CoR 474

Copy.

A quarto verse miscellany of c.150 poems, in several hands; associated with Oxford, probably Christ Church, 279 pages (plus index and blanks).

Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 32 poems (plus four of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1630s-40s

Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue (1836), item 1044. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9561. Sotheby's, 19 June 1893 (Phillipps sale), lot 628, and 21 March 1895, lot 903. Hodgson's, 23 April 1959, lot 528.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the English Poetry MS: CoR Δ 3 and StW Δ 6.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 97 p. 170)
CoR 475

Copy, headed On John Dawson ye buttlers deth.

Edited from this MS in Bennett & Trevor-Roper.

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.

CoR 476

Copy, subscribed W: Stroud.

An octavo verse miscellany, compiled by an Oxford man, possibly a member of Christ Church, pp. 1-202 in a single minute hand, written over a period, with a few later additions (including two lines on p. 7) by other hands; pp. 202-19 containing entries in later hands up to 1789, in half-calf on marbled boards, pp. 77-84 detached in the 19th century and now separately bound as Folger MS V.a.152.

Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 30 poems by Strode (one of them in V.a.152) plus one of doubtful authorship.

c.late 1630s [-1789]

Later sold by Thomas Thorpe. Afterwards owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89) (and No. 27 in his Catalogue of Shakespeare Reliques (Brixton Hill, 1852)) and subsequently in the library of Lord Warwick at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1.27.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Thorpe-Halliwell MS: CoR Δ 7 and StW Δ 17. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).

CoR 477

Copy, inscribed W: S.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 144.

A quarto verse miscellany, pp. 13-244 in a single largely roman hand, the remainder in varying styles in one or more other hands (up to c.1655), probably associated with Oxford University, 541 pages (of which pp. 1-12, 87-8 have been extracted and pp. 251-68, 334, 400, 410-540 are blank, with stubs of other extracted leaves at the end), in contemporary brown calf.

Including 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 57 poems (plus a second copy of one poem and four poems of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1630s[-55]

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: possibly his MS 18123. Owned c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914), literary scholar and bookseller. Formerly MS 646.4.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Dobell MS: CoR Δ 8 and StW Δ 18. Discussed in Bertram Dobell in The Athenaeum, No. 4475 (2 August 1913), p. 112. A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).

CoR 478

Copy.

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

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

c.1630s

Later owned by Edward Jeremiah Curteis, M.P., of Windmill Hill, Sussex. Puttick & Simpson's, 30 June 1884 (Curteis sale), lot 175, to Pearson of Pall Mall for James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89). Formerly Folger MS 452.5.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), and II.i (1987), as the Curteis MS: DnJ Δ 50 and CoR Δ 9. Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Arthur F. Marotti, Folger MSS V.a.89 and V.a.345: Reading Lyric Poetry in Manuscript, in The Reader Revealed, ed. Sabrina Alcorn Baron, et al. (Washington, DC, 2001), pp. 44-57. Discussed in Arthur F. Marotti, Christ Church, Oxford, and Beyond: Folger MS V.a.345 and Its Manuscript and Print Sources, SP 113 (2016), 850-78. A facsimile of p. 36 is in Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey, Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper (Washington, DC, 2008), p. 32.

CoR 479

Copy, headed Mr Strowd / On John Dawson the Butler his death.

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

Including 13 poems by Donne and 14 (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett; the scribe is that mainly responsible also for the Thomas Smyth MS (DnJ Δ 48).

c.1630s

Later owned and used extensively as a notebook by Dr William Balam (1651-1726), of Ely, Cambridgeshire, who also annotated Cambridge University Library MS Add. 5778 and Harvard fMS Eng 966.4. Bookplate of N. Micklethwait. Owned in 1931 by the Rev. F.W. Glass, of Taverham Hall, near Norwich (seat in the 17th century of the Sotherton family and later of the Branthwayt and Micklethwait families).

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Welbeck MS: DnJ Δ 57 and CoR Δ 11. Discussed in H. Harvey Wood, A Seventeenth-Century Manuscript of Poems by Donne and Others, Essays & Studies, 16 (1931), 179-90. For Taverham Hall, see Thomas B. Norgate, A History of Taverham from Early Times to 1969 (Aylsham, 1969).

University of Nottingham (Pw V 37 p. 43)
CoR 480

Copy.

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

Including 45 poems (and a second copy of one) by Carew, 11 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Corbett, and 25 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1634

The initials T. C. stamped on the front cover. Sold by Thomas Thorpe (1836). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9536, and by Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), of Providence, Rhode Island, industrialist, banker, and art and books collector. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 189.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Rosenbach MS II: CwT Δ 32, CoR Δ 12, and StW Δ 24. Discussed in Scott Nixon, The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 193-5).

CoR 481

Copy.

An octavo verse miscellany, comprising c.118 items, including thirteen poems by Donne, twenty poems by Corbett, and twelve poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, written in several hands over an extended period, associated with Christ Church, Oxford, 99 leaves.

c.1620-40s

Owned and probably compiled in part, in his Oxford days, by George Morley (1598-1684), Bishop of Winchester.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Morley MS: DnJ Δ 62, CoR Δ 13, and StW Δ 27. This MS apparently transcribed in part in the Killigrew MS (British Library, Sloane MS 1792).

Facsimile of f. 49r in William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion, ed. Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor (Oxford, 1987), p. 24.

Westminster Abbey (MS 41 f. 54v)
CoR 482

Copy.

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

Entitled Miscentur seria iocis. 1647. Elegies, Exequies, Epitaphs, Epigrams, Songs Satires and other Poems, a formal compilation entirely in the hand of the Yorkshire antiquary John Hopkinson (1610-80).

1647

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

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. d. 58 f. 18r)
CoR 483

Copy.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, 144.

An octavo verse miscellany compiled by an Oxford University man, i i + 37 leaves, in later half-calf.

c.1630s

Among the collections of Francis Douce (1757-1834), antiquary and collector.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Douce f. 5 fols 3v-4r)
CoR 484

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

Including 16 poems (plus second copies of two) by Carew, 19 poems by or attributed to Herrick (and second copies of six of them), 23 poems (plus second copies of two and four of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, 18 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and eleven poems by Waller.

c.1630s-40s

Inscribed on a flyleaf Peeter Daniell and his initials stamped on both covers. Later scribbling including the names Thomas Gardinor, James Leigh and Pettrus Romell. Owned in 1780 by one A. B. when it was given to Thomas Percy (1768-1808), later Bishop of Dromore. Sotheby's, 29 April 1884 (Percy sale), lot 1. Acquired from Quaritch, 1957.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Daniell MS: CwT Δ 5, HeR Δ 2, RnT Δ 1, StW Δ 5, WaE Δ 9. Briefly discussed in Margaret Crum, An Unpublished Fragment of Verse by Herrick, RES, NS 11 (1960), 186-9. A facsimile of f. 22v in Marcy L. North, Amateur Compilers, Scribal Labour, and the Contents of Early Modern Poetic Miscellanies, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 106). Betagraphs of the watermark in f. 65 in Ted-Larry Pebworth, Towards a Taxonomy of Watermarks, in Puzzles in Paper: Concepts in Historical Watermarks, ed. Daniel W. Mosser, Michael Saffle and Ernest W. Sullivan, II (London, 2000), pp. 229-42 (p. 241).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 50 f. 128r)
CoR 485

Copy, headed On the death of John Dawson Butler of Christ Church, subscribed W. S.

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

Including 16 poems by Carew and 13 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode. Written in three hands: i.e. A (Codrington's hand, including his own poems) on pp. 1-283, 349-55; B on pp. 284-9; and C on pp. 289-348, 356-60; dated (pp. 1-22) Anno Dom: 1638 and The 30th of May. 1638.

c.1638

Acquired from Blackwell's, 1962.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Codrington MS: CwT Δ 7 and StW Δ 7.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, f through end (MS Eng. poet. f. 27 pp. 222-3)
CoR 486

Copy.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 72, 144.

A duodecimo verse miscellany in several hands, written from both ends, 46 leaves, in contemporary calf.

Mid-17th century

Inscribed names (on front paste-down and f. 1r) of Fra: Norreys (? Sir Francis Norris (1609-69)) and Hen. Balle. Purchased from J. Harvey 8 December 1877.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2421 f. 16r-v)
CoR 487

Copy, subscribed W: S:.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 144.

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

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

c.1633

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

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

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1446 f. 22v)
CoR 488

Copy.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 144.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single small neat predominantly secretary hand but for additions in a second hand on ff. 35v and 58r, compiled by an Oxford man, possibly a member of Wadham College, 97 leaves (inclusing two blanks), in half-calf.

Including 14 poems by Carew (and a second copy of one poem), eight poems (plus 3 of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, and 28 poems by Strode (plus a second copy of one and two of doubtful authorship).

c.late 1630s

Later used and annotated by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, and entries in his hand on f. 97r. Formerly Bodleian, MS CCC.328.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Fulman MS: CwT Δ 2; RnT Δ 6; StW Δ 16.

Corpus Christi College, Oxford (MS 328 ff. 30v-1r)
CoR 489

Copy, ascribed at the side to Mr Strowde.

A quarto verse miscellany, arranged (Part I) as an anthology, under genre headings, the reverse end (Part II) largely occupied by a later series of Latin verses, epistles, and other exercises, 168 leaves, in old calf (rebacked).

Part I probably in several hands, the predominant italic hand that also responsible for the Welbeck MS: DnJ Δ 57), and including 21 poems by Donne.

c.1630 [-1677]

Part I inscribed (f. 1r) John Smyth his Book 1640, Charles Smyth 1674, Hugh Smyth 1676; (f. 23v) J Smyth 1677 / 1676. Part II inscribed several times Thomas Smith, on f. 19r also Die: Maij 12o Ano 1659, with a reference on f. 58v to Balliol College, Oxford, 1659/60. Later inscribed (f. [ir]) by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), who records buying this very curious and interesting MS. of Messrs Boone. Afterwards in the library at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1. 28.

Cited in IELM, I.i, as the Thomas Smyth MS: DnJ Δ 48.

CoR 490

Copy, subscribed W: Stroud.

A quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary hand, probably associated with Oxford and afterwards with the Inns of Court, 73 leaves (plus a few blanks and a modern index).

Including 40 poems by Strode and two poems of doubtful authorship.

c.1630s

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9510. (Phillipps sale, lot 1015.) Owned c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914). Percy Dobell's sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 342. Formerly MS 4201. 27. 1.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dobell MS II: StW Δ 19. Formerly Folger MS 1.27.42.

CoR 491

Copy, headed Vpon John Dawson Butler of Christchurch.

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

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

c.1637-51

Inscribed (front pastedown) Wakelin EeK Hering / Blows of Whitsor, and (rear pastedown) R. J. Cotton. Formerly Folger MS 2073.4.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Cotton MS: StW Δ 20.

CoR 492

Copy, untitled.

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

Including 15 poems by Carew and 17 poems by King.

c.1630s

Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Bookplate of the Warwick Castle Library. Formerly Folger MS 1.8.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Halliwell MS: CwT Δ 26 and KiH Δ 11. James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Some Account of the Antiquities…illustrating…Shakespeare (1852), No. 8. Facsimile example in Giles Dawson and Laetitia Kennedy-Skipton, Elizabethan Handwriting 1500-1650 (London, 1968), Plate 42. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 195).

CoR 493

Copy, with other poems on a single folio leaf.

Miscellaneous literary papers, unbound, assembled by Adam Ottley (1685-1752), Registrar of the diocese of St David's, Wales.

Among papers formerly at Pitchford Hall, Shropshire.

National Library of Wales (Pitchford Hall (Ottley) English Literary MSS (uncatalogued), A A1)
CoR 494

Copy, headed On ye Death of John Dawson Butler of Christ=church.

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

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

c.1638

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

New York Public Library, Arents Collection (Cat. No. S 288 (Acc. No. 5442) p. 23)
CoR 495

Copy, headed in the margin Butler of Ch:Ch: In Oxon: John.

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 Pierpont Morgan Library (MA 1057 p. 198)
CoR 496

Copy, here ascribed to W. Stroud.

A quarto verse miscellany, in three hands (A: pp. 1-56; B: pp. 57-60, 75-122; C: pp. 61-74, 125-7), 127 pages, in contemporary limp vellum.

Including 23 poems (and a second copy of one) by Randolph.

c.1635

Mostyn MS 196: from the library originally founded by Sir Thomas Mostyn (1535-1617) at Mostyn Hall, near Holywell, Flintshire, Wales, the MS possibly acquired by Sir Roger Mostyn (1567-1642) or by his son Sir Roger Mostyn, first Baronet (1625?-90). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 191.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Mostyn MS: RnT Δ 11. Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1873), Appendix, p. 356. Edited in Howard H. Thompson, An Edition of Two Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Poetical Miscellanies (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1959) [Mic 59-4669].

CoR 497

Copy.

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

c.1630

Owned and probably compiled by Robert Bishop. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9549. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue, English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 187.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) as the Bishop MS: DnJ Δ 59. Edited in David Coleman Redding, Robert Bishop's Commonplace-Book: An Edition of a Seventeenth Century Miscellany (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1960) [Mic 60-3608].

CoR 498

Copy.

A sextodecimo verse miscellany, written from both ends in several hands (two principal ones on ff. 6r-40r, 41r et seq. respectively), 102 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf, with remains of metal clasps.

Including 45 poems by Strode and three poems of doubtful authorship.

c.1630s

Formerly Box 22, item II.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Osborn MS II: StW Δ 30.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 205 f. 80r)
On Mr. Rice the Manciple of Christ-Church In Oxford ('Who can doubt Rice to which Eternall place')

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 73.

CoR 499

Copy.

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.

CoR 500

Copy, subscribed Rich: Corbett.

An octavo miscellany of chiefly verse, in at least two cursive italic hands, with religious verse and prose at the reverse end in another hand, 111 leaves (plus blanks), in old calf gilt.

Including nineteen poems by Corbett and 29 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, the date 1634 occurring on f. 78v.

c.1635

Inscribed on f. 111v rev. Thursday next at Capricks for Mr Pitt. Later among the collections of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724), and his son Edward, second Earl (1689-1741).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Harley MS: CoR Δ 5.

CoR 501

Copy, subscribed Dr Corbet.

An octavo verse miscellany, compiled by an Oxford man, possibly a member of Christ Church, pp. 1-202 in a single minute hand, written over a period, with a few later additions (including two lines on p. 7) by other hands; pp. 202-19 containing entries in later hands up to 1789, in half-calf on marbled boards, pp. 77-84 detached in the 19th century and now separately bound as Folger MS V.a.152.

Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 30 poems by Strode (one of them in V.a.152) plus one of doubtful authorship.

c.late 1630s [-1789]

Later sold by Thomas Thorpe. Afterwards owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89) (and No. 27 in his Catalogue of Shakespeare Reliques (Brixton Hill, 1852)) and subsequently in the library of Lord Warwick at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1.27.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Thorpe-Halliwell MS: CoR Δ 7 and StW Δ 17. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).

CoR 502

Copy, headed On Mr. Rice Manciple of Ch: Ch:.

A quarto verse miscellany, pp. 13-244 in a single largely roman hand, the remainder in varying styles in one or more other hands (up to c.1655), probably associated with Oxford University, 541 pages (of which pp. 1-12, 87-8 have been extracted and pp. 251-68, 334, 400, 410-540 are blank, with stubs of other extracted leaves at the end), in contemporary brown calf.

Including 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 57 poems (plus a second copy of one poem and four poems of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1630s[-55]

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: possibly his MS 18123. Owned c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914), literary scholar and bookseller. Formerly MS 646.4.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Dobell MS: CoR Δ 8 and StW Δ 18. Discussed in Bertram Dobell in The Athenaeum, No. 4475 (2 August 1913), p. 112. A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).

CoR 503

Copy, headed On ye death of Mr Rice, Manciple of Ch: Ch: and subscribed R: Corbet.

A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands (one predominating up to p. 167), probably associated with Oxford, 436 pages (pp. 198-9 and 269-70 skipped in the pagination, and including many blanks and an index) and numerous further blank leaves at the end, in modern black morocco gilt.

Including 14 poems by Carew, 13 poems by Corbett and 25 poems (plus one poem of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1650

Scribbling on the first page including the words Peyton Chester….

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Osborn MS I: CwT Δ 38; CoR Δ 14; StW Δ 29.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 200 p. 211)
CoR 504

Copy, headed On the death of Mr Rice.

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

Including 16 poems by Carew and 13 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode. Written in three hands: i.e. A (Codrington's hand, including his own poems) on pp. 1-283, 349-55; B on pp. 284-9; and C on pp. 289-348, 356-60; dated (pp. 1-22) Anno Dom: 1638 and The 30th of May. 1638.

c.1638

Acquired from Blackwell's, 1962.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Codrington MS: CwT Δ 7 and StW Δ 7.

CoR 505

An octavo verse miscellany, including sixteen poems by Strode and one of doubtful authorship, in several hands, including a small mixed hand on ff. 2r-43v, cursive secretary hands thereafter, and Latin entries in italic at the reverse end, 139 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1630s

A flyleaf inscribed [?] Johannes Philips. Acquired from H. Stevens 11 December 1852.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1987), as the John Philips MS: StW Δ 8.

CoR 506

Copy, subscribed R: Corbet:.

A quarto verse miscellany, including 33 poems by Thomas Carew and sixteen by Henry King, in a single small hand, with (ff. 1r-2v) an alphabetical Index, 105 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt.

Compiled by Peter Calfe (1610-67), son of a Dutch merchant in London.

c.1641-9

Later owned by John, Baron Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor, and afterwards by Edward Harley (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford.

Cited in IELM II.i-ii (1987-93), together with British Library, Harley MS 6918 with which it was once bound, as the Calfe MS: CwT Δ 18; KiH Δ 9; RnT Δ 4. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis, pp 129-35, 444-5 (see KiH Δ 6).

CoR 507

Copy, subscribed R: C:.

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

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

c.1633

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

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

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1446 f. 53v)
CoR 508

Copy, headed On the death of Mr. Rice Manciple, subscribed R.C.

A quarto miscellany, in several hands, including a number of culinary receipts, 255 leaves (including over 65 blanks), written from both ends (Part I, in a rounded italic hand: ff. 1r-117r:; Part II: ff. 1*r-72r), in old calf.

Inscribed (Part II, f. 1*r) A booke of verses collected by mee RDungaruan: i.e. Richard Boyle (1612-98), Viscount Dungarvon and later Earl of Burlington.

c.1630s

Also inscribed Mary Helerd. Subsequently owned by James Tyrrell (1642-1718), historical writer, and by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1782-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 15745. Formerly Folger MS 46. 2.

CoR 509

Copy, the heading cropped by a binder.

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

Mid-17th century

Inscribed (f. 1r) Stephen Wellden and Abraham Bassano and (f. 98r) Elizabeth Weldon. Later owned by William John Thoms (1803-85), writer, antiquary and librarian. Sotheby's, 11 February 1887 (Thoms sale), lot 1092. Also owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89). Formerly Folger MS 452.4.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Welden MS: DnJ Δ 49.

CoR 510

Copy, headed on the death of Rice manciple of Ch: Church. R. Corbet.

A quarto verse miscellany, including ten poems by Thomas Carew, probably in a single accomplished hand (changing to two styles of italic on ff. 42v-4v, 5r-60r, 76r-v), i + 89 leaves (including blanks, stubs of two or three excised leaves, and an index), in contemporary limp vellum.

c.1630s-40s

Later notes and scribbling including the names John Nutting (ff. 26r, 56r) and John M. and John Susan (rear paste-down). The last leaf also containing a list of the titles of 65 poems by Carew together with the number of lines in each poem, this list unrelated to the contents of the rest of the MS.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Nutting MS: CwT Δ 35. The list of poems, probably relating to another MS, is edited, with facsimiles, in Scott Nixon, The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 198-9, 217-19).

St John's College, Cambridge (MS S. 23 (James 416) f. 45r)
On the Birth of Prince Charles ('What joy that Shunamite did once inherit')

First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), pp. 85-6.

CoR 511

Copy in Fulman's hand, transcribed from CoR 512.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 154.

The second of two octavo volumes of historical collections, 375 leaves altogether.

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

Mid-late 17th century
Corpus Christi College, Oxford (MS 315b f. 349r-v)
CoR 512

Copy in the hand of Corbet's chaplain William Strode, headed (erroneously) On the birth of Prince Henry.

Edited from this MS in Bennett & Trevor-Roper.

A quarto volume of autograph poems by Strode, 130 leaves (including 31 blank leaves, plus numerous blanks, stubs of five extracted leaves, and some leaves added later).

A working autograph notebook of poems by Strode, compiled and revised over a considerable period, comprising 101 English poems (including draft fragments, 66 Latin poems and 2 Greek poems by him, together with his copies of a few poems by others (generally paired with Strode's translations or answers) including Richard Corbett, Thomas Carew, Peter Apsley, and Henry King and Henry Reynolds, as well as a lecture in Latin by the Professor of Greek at Oxford; ff. 52r-96r written in Strode's mixed secretary and italic hand, probably early 1620s-30; ff. 96v-129v, and afterwards ff. 1-51v, written in Strode's italic hand, probably for the most part c.1635-7, with additions up to 1643; ff. 129v-30v containing rough jottings in both styles; many of the poems containing Strode's extensive revisions, probably made from the 1630s onwards.

c.1620s-43

Some scribbling on the last page including the name John Herbert. Possibly one of the MS volumes by Strode which, according to Anthony Wood (Athenae Oxonienses, ed. Philip Bliss, 4 vols (London, 1813-20), III, 152), came after Strode's death into the hands of Dr Richard Gardiner (1591-1670), canon of Christ Church, and then into those of Richard Davies, Oxford bookseller (fl.1646-88). Afterwards acquired, probably from Davies between 1665 and 1675, by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, who added pagination, annotations and some further entries throughout.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Corpus MS: StW Δ 1. Collated in part in Dobell. Identified as autograph and discussed in M.C. Crum, William Fulman and an Autograph Manuscript of the Poet Strode, BLR, 4 (1952-3), 324-35. Extensively discussed and the text edited from this MS in Forey. Facsimile of f. 94r in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 42 (see StW 641).

On the Birth of the Young Prince Charles ('When private men get sonnes they gette a spoone')

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 86.

CoR 513

Copy.

A quarto verse miscellany of c.150 poems, in several hands; associated with Oxford, probably Christ Church, 279 pages (plus index and blanks).

Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 32 poems (plus four of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1630s-40s

Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue (1836), item 1044. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9561. Sotheby's, 19 June 1893 (Phillipps sale), lot 628, and 21 March 1895, lot 903. Hodgson's, 23 April 1959, lot 528.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the English Poetry MS: CoR Δ 3 and StW Δ 6.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 97 p. 96)
CoR 514

Copy.

An octavo miscellany of chiefly verse, in at least two cursive italic hands, with religious verse and prose at the reverse end in another hand, 111 leaves (plus blanks), in old calf gilt.

Including nineteen poems by Corbett and 29 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, the date 1634 occurring on f. 78v.

c.1635

Inscribed on f. 111v rev. Thursday next at Capricks for Mr Pitt. Later among the collections of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724), and his son Edward, second Earl (1689-1741).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Harley MS: CoR Δ 5.

CoR 515

Copy, headed On the Birth of Prince Charles. R:C.

A quarto verse miscellany, pp. 13-244 in a single largely roman hand, the remainder in varying styles in one or more other hands (up to c.1655), probably associated with Oxford University, 541 pages (of which pp. 1-12, 87-8 have been extracted and pp. 251-68, 334, 400, 410-540 are blank, with stubs of other extracted leaves at the end), in contemporary brown calf.

Including 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 57 poems (plus a second copy of one poem and four poems of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1630s[-55]

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: possibly his MS 18123. Owned c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914), literary scholar and bookseller. Formerly MS 646.4.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Dobell MS: CoR Δ 8 and StW Δ 18. Discussed in Bertram Dobell in The Athenaeum, No. 4475 (2 August 1913), p. 112. A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).

CoR 516

Copy.

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

Including 45 poems (and a second copy of one) by Carew, 11 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Corbett, and 25 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1634

The initials T. C. stamped on the front cover. Sold by Thomas Thorpe (1836). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9536, and by Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), of Providence, Rhode Island, industrialist, banker, and art and books collector. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 189.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Rosenbach MS II: CwT Δ 32, CoR Δ 12, and StW Δ 24. Discussed in Scott Nixon, The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 193-5).

CoR 517

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

Including 16 poems (plus second copies of two) by Carew, 19 poems by or attributed to Herrick (and second copies of six of them), 23 poems (plus second copies of two and four of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, 18 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and eleven poems by Waller.

c.1630s-40s

Inscribed on a flyleaf Peeter Daniell and his initials stamped on both covers. Later scribbling including the names Thomas Gardinor, James Leigh and Pettrus Romell. Owned in 1780 by one A. B. when it was given to Thomas Percy (1768-1808), later Bishop of Dromore. Sotheby's, 29 April 1884 (Percy sale), lot 1. Acquired from Quaritch, 1957.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Daniell MS: CwT Δ 5, HeR Δ 2, RnT Δ 1, StW Δ 5, WaE Δ 9. Briefly discussed in Margaret Crum, An Unpublished Fragment of Verse by Herrick, RES, NS 11 (1960), 186-9. A facsimile of f. 22v in Marcy L. North, Amateur Compilers, Scribal Labour, and the Contents of Early Modern Poetic Miscellanies, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 106). Betagraphs of the watermark in f. 65 in Ted-Larry Pebworth, Towards a Taxonomy of Watermarks, in Puzzles in Paper: Concepts in Historical Watermarks, ed. Daniel W. Mosser, Michael Saffle and Ernest W. Sullivan, II (London, 2000), pp. 229-42 (p. 241).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 50 f. 129r)
CoR 518

Copy.

A folio composite volume, chiefly of English and Latin verse, in various hands; vi + 186 leaves, in reversed calf.

Scribbling on f. iir including ffor mr William Rabey in New=market..., ffor my Louing ffriend in G John westhropp at mr Rogers Reringe house Bury in S[uffolk], ffor mr John fford at his house in Newmarket in the countey of cambridge; notes on f. iiiv-ivr, one Recd 22 July 1669, subscribed John Cooke and including, on f. vir, ffor mr John Cocke at his howse neere the white harte in Thetford.... Later owned, in the 1730s, by Charles Barlow, of Emmanuel College, Cambridge (his bookplate f. iiv).

CoR 519

Copy, headed Vpon ye Prince.

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

Probably compiled by a Cambridge University man.

c.1630s

Inscribed in engrossed lettering (f. 1r) E Libris Richard Sutclif. Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1830-84), merchant and author. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 194.

CoR 520

Copy, untitled.

An octavo verse miscellany, including sixteen poems by Strode and one of doubtful authorship, in several hands, including a small mixed hand on ff. 2r-43v, cursive secretary hands thereafter, and Latin entries in italic at the reverse end, 139 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1630s

A flyleaf inscribed [?] Johannes Philips. Acquired from H. Stevens 11 December 1852.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1987), as the John Philips MS: StW Δ 8.

CoR 521

Copy.

A quarto verse miscellany, written from both ends, 192 leaves (including blanks), in old brown calf.

Compiled, over a period, principally by Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), Chaplain of Christ Church, Oxford, and Henry King's amanuensis, including (ff. 7r-61r) 24 poems by King in Manne's formal hand, written c.1625-30s; ff. 61v-72v, 73r-99v, 100r-101v written in a variant style of Manne's hand, c.1630s; and (ff. 72v, 99v, 102r-14v, 190v-169r rev.) additions in six other hands, c.1630s-44, with (ff. 75r, 76r, and 76v) three poems to which the subscription R. Dorset is added in the hand of King himself.

c.1625-46

Inscribed (f. 190v rev.) Ann Littleton. Thomas Rodd's sale catalogue, [June 1848], p. 31. Sotheby's, 4 Februry 1850 (Rodd sale), lot 500, to James Orchard Halliwell[-Phillipps] (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Afterward owned by the Rev. Thomas Corser, FSA (1793-1876), book collector. Sotheby's, 25 June 1873 (Corser sale), lot 325, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Later owned by the bookdealer Philip Robinson. Sotheby's, 26 June 1974, lot 3013, with a facsimile example in the sale catalogue.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Thomas Manne MS: KiH Δ 7. Used in Crum. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

CoR 522

Copy, headed On the same [i.e. the Prince's birth] R: C.

A duodecimo verse miscellany in several hands, written from both ends, 46 leaves, in contemporary calf.

Mid-17th century

Inscribed names (on front paste-down and f. 1r) of Fra: Norreys (? Sir Francis Norris (1609-69)) and Hen. Balle. Purchased from J. Harvey 8 December 1877.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2421 ff. 16v-17r)
CoR 523

Copy, headed Corbett ye Bishop of Oxfords verses of Prince Charles his birth, 1630 endorsed by my Lo. his Foolish & Episcopall verses.

A quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat predominantly italic hand, occupying ff. 25r-79v, the second of three independent MSS in different hands (including extracts from Hayward's Henry IV and from Sir Edwin Sandys, and parliamentary proceedings 1623/4), in a composite volume, 141 leaves, in modern half morocco gilt.

The verse miscellany, including an Index (ff. 78v-9v), is compiled by John Holles (1595-1666), second Earl of Clare.

Mid-17th century

Discussed in Andrew McRae, Literature, Satire and the Early Stuart State (Cambridge, 2004), 42, and Thomas Cogswell, The Symptomes and Vapors of a Diseased Time: the Earl of Clare and Early Stuart Manuscript Culture, RES, NS 57 (2006), 310-336. The parliamentary proceedings published in Christopher Thompson, editor, The Holles Account of Proceedings in the House of Commons in 1624 (Orsett, Essex, 1985).

CoR 524

Copy.

A quarto verse miscellany, including 33 poems by Thomas Carew and sixteen by Henry King, in a single small hand, with (ff. 1r-2v) an alphabetical Index, 105 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt.

Compiled by Peter Calfe (1610-67), son of a Dutch merchant in London.

c.1641-9

Later owned by John, Baron Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor, and afterwards by Edward Harley (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford.

Cited in IELM II.i-ii (1987-93), together with British Library, Harley MS 6918 with which it was once bound, as the Calfe MS: CwT Δ 18; KiH Δ 9; RnT Δ 4. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis, pp 129-35, 444-5 (see KiH Δ 6).

CoR 525

Copy, subscribed R: C:.

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

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

c.1633

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

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

CoR 526

Copy, headed Dr Corbett Bp. of Ox: on ye Prince's birth.

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

Mid-17th century

Inscribed (f. 1r) Stephen Wellden and Abraham Bassano and (f. 98r) Elizabeth Weldon. Later owned by William John Thoms (1803-85), writer, antiquary and librarian. Sotheby's, 11 February 1887 (Thoms sale), lot 1092. Also owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89). Formerly Folger MS 452.4.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Welden MS: DnJ Δ 49.

CoR 527

Copy.

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

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

c.1638

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

New York Public Library, Arents Collection (Cat. No. S 288 (Acc. No. 5442) p. 103)
CoR 528

Copy, untitled, dated 27 June 1630.

Edited from this MS in Diary of John Rous, ed. Mary Ann Everett Green, Camden Society 66 (London, 1856), pp. 54-5. Reprinted from this publication in Bennett & Trevor-Roper.

A small quarto diary, in a single secretary hand, 89 leaves, bound with a separately acquired continuation or companion MS (ff. 90r-153r, now Add. MS 28640), in modern half-morocco.

Compiled by the Rev. John Rous (1584-1644), incumbent of Santon Downham, Suffolk, and relating, retrospectively, chiefly to public events and to literary texts in circulation in 1625-42.

c.1625-42

Later owned by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist and antiquary. Turner sale, 7 June 1859, lot 253. The second MS purchased at Sotheby's, 15-25 March 1871 (library of the bookseller Joseph Lilly).

The first MS edited in full in Diary of John Rous, incumbent of Santon Downham, Suffolk, from 1625 to 1642, ed. Mary Anne Everett Green, Camden Society No. 66 (1856).

On the Lady Arabella ('How doe I thanke thee, Death, & blesse thy power')

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 18.

CoR 529

Copy.

An octavo verse miscellany, including 13 poems by Donne and 14 poems by Corbett, in several hands, probably associated with Oxford University, written from both ends, 102 leaves, in 17th-century calf.

c.1630s

Inscribed (f. 101v) Henry Lawson (or just possibly Lamson). Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1836), item 1185. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9257. Sotheby's, 15 June 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 862. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 164 (1896), item 64.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Lawson MS: DnJ Δ 37 and CoR Δ 2.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 14 f. 99v rev.)
CoR 530

Copy.

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.

CoR 531

Copy.

An octavo verse miscellany, written predominantly in a single italic hand (on ff. 2r-19v, 20v-134v, 139r-43r); another hand on ff. 20r-v, 135v, 136v, 137v, 138v, with verbal alterations in yet another hand and scribbling elsewhere; f. 137v (rev.) containing a receipt of one Richard Bull signed by one Thomas Johnson and dated 1676; 143 leaves.

Including 14 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 22 poems by Corbett and 36 poems (plus three of doubtful authorship) by Strode. Apparently transcribed in part from Westminster Abbey, MS 41.

c.early 1630s

Inscribed (f. 1r) by one I A of Christ Church, Oxford, and also Robert Killigrew his booke witnes by his Maiesties ape Gorge Harison. Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane, Bt (1660-1753), physician and collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Killigrew MS: CwT Δ 21; CoR Δ 6; StW Δ 14. Facsimile example of f. 2v in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), Plate 7, after p. 86.

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1792 f. 70v)
CoR 532

Copy, as by Dr Corb:.

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

Including 13 poems by Donne and 14 (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett; the scribe is that mainly responsible also for the Thomas Smyth MS (DnJ Δ 48).

c.1630s

Later owned and used extensively as a notebook by Dr William Balam (1651-1726), of Ely, Cambridgeshire, who also annotated Cambridge University Library MS Add. 5778 and Harvard fMS Eng 966.4. Bookplate of N. Micklethwait. Owned in 1931 by the Rev. F.W. Glass, of Taverham Hall, near Norwich (seat in the 17th century of the Sotherton family and later of the Branthwayt and Micklethwait families).

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Welbeck MS: DnJ Δ 57 and CoR Δ 11. Discussed in H. Harvey Wood, A Seventeenth-Century Manuscript of Poems by Donne and Others, Essays & Studies, 16 (1931), 179-90. For Taverham Hall, see Thomas B. Norgate, A History of Taverham from Early Times to 1969 (Aylsham, 1969).

University of Nottingham (Pw V 37 p. 3)
CoR 533

Copy.

An octavo verse miscellany, comprising c.118 items, including thirteen poems by Donne, twenty poems by Corbett, and twelve poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, written in several hands over an extended period, associated with Christ Church, Oxford, 99 leaves.

c.1620-40s

Owned and probably compiled in part, in his Oxford days, by George Morley (1598-1684), Bishop of Winchester.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Morley MS: DnJ Δ 62, CoR Δ 13, and StW Δ 27. This MS apparently transcribed in part in the Killigrew MS (British Library, Sloane MS 1792).

Facsimile of f. 49r in William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion, ed. Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor (Oxford, 1987), p. 24.

Westminster Abbey (MS 41 f. 61r)
CoR 534

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. 168)
CoR 535

Copy, headed on ye death of ye Lady Arabella.

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

Including 16 poems (plus second copies of two) by Carew, 19 poems by or attributed to Herrick (and second copies of six of them), 23 poems (plus second copies of two and four of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, 18 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and eleven poems by Waller.

c.1630s-40s

Inscribed on a flyleaf Peeter Daniell and his initials stamped on both covers. Later scribbling including the names Thomas Gardinor, James Leigh and Pettrus Romell. Owned in 1780 by one A. B. when it was given to Thomas Percy (1768-1808), later Bishop of Dromore. Sotheby's, 29 April 1884 (Percy sale), lot 1. Acquired from Quaritch, 1957.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Daniell MS: CwT Δ 5, HeR Δ 2, RnT Δ 1, StW Δ 5, WaE Δ 9. Briefly discussed in Margaret Crum, An Unpublished Fragment of Verse by Herrick, RES, NS 11 (1960), 186-9. A facsimile of f. 22v in Marcy L. North, Amateur Compilers, Scribal Labour, and the Contents of Early Modern Poetic Miscellanies, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 106). Betagraphs of the watermark in f. 65 in Ted-Larry Pebworth, Towards a Taxonomy of Watermarks, in Puzzles in Paper: Concepts in Historical Watermarks, ed. Daniel W. Mosser, Michael Saffle and Ernest W. Sullivan, II (London, 2000), pp. 229-42 (p. 241).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 50 f. 133v)
CoR 536

Copy.

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

c.1630s

The name Edward Michell inscribed later inside the rear cover. Afterwards owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Michell MS: CwT Δ 8. Briefly discussed (in connection with the poem Shall I die? attributed to Shakespeare) by Gary Taylor in The Sunday Times (24 November 1985, pp. 1, 3, with a facsimile example) and by Peter Beal in TLS (3 January 1986, p. 13); and see also letters on 24 January 1986, pp. 87-8.

CoR 537

Copy.

A folio miscellany of verse and some prose, 282 pages, in calf gilt.

Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 34 of the Hopkinson MSS.

Mid-late 17th century

Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

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

Bradford Archives (32D86/34 p. 35)
CoR 538

Copy.

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

Including 27 poems (and second copies of two poems) by Thomas Carew and three of doubtful authorship.

This MS largely transcribed in British Library, Add. MS 21433. The hand occurs also in British Library, Harley MS 3910, between ff. 112v and 120v, and is possibly associated with the Inns of Court.

c.1620s

Scribbled inscriptions including (f. 1r) Mr John Bowyer; (f. 2r) Jeronomus ffox; and (f. 3r) William Ralph Baesh.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Colchester MS: CwT Δ 13.

CoR 539

Copy, headed Lady Arbella's Epitaph.

A folio verse miscellany, in a single professional secretary hand associated with the playhouse and possibly inns of court (also responsible for ChG 12.5, HyT 5, and MiT 6), 97 leaves, with a first-line Index at the end, in contemporary vellum boards.

Including fourteen poems by James Shirley, generally ascribed to him, and eleven poems by Strode (and two of doubtful authorship).

c.1636

Inscribed (on the front paste-down) My cousin chute gaue me this book out of his father study at the vine Hampshire (following the same statement in French), indicating that the MS was owned by, and possibly originally compiled for, the family of Chaloner Chute, MP (c.1595-1659), Speaker of the house of Commons, who acquired The Vyne, near Basingstoke, Hampshire, in 1653. Later owned by Sir William Tite (1798-1873), architect. Sotheby's, 30 May 1874, lot 2343. Bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork, book collector. Sotheby's, 21 March 1891 (Crawford sale), lot 2493.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Chute MS: ShJ Δ 2 and StW Δ 11. Briefly discussed, with a facsimile of f. 34v (see ShJ 96 and ShJ 100) in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and their Value for Textual Editors, EMS, 1 (1989), 192-210 (pp. 200-1, 209-10 n. 40). Discussed, with facsimiles of ff. 53r and 80r, in Arthur F. Marotti, Chaloner Chute's Poetical Anthology (British Library, Additional MS 33998) as a Cosmopolitan Collection, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 99).

CoR 540

Copy, headed Vpon the Lady Arabella.

An octavo verse miscellany, in several largely italic hands, closely written, 148 leaves (plus blanks), in modern quarter morocco gilt.

Probably compiled by university or inns of court men.

c.1620s-30s
CoR 541

Copy, ascribed at the side to Dr Corbett.

A quarto verse miscellany, arranged (Part I) as an anthology, under genre headings, the reverse end (Part II) largely occupied by a later series of Latin verses, epistles, and other exercises, 168 leaves, in old calf (rebacked).

Part I probably in several hands, the predominant italic hand that also responsible for the Welbeck MS: DnJ Δ 57), and including 21 poems by Donne.

c.1630 [-1677]

Part I inscribed (f. 1r) John Smyth his Book 1640, Charles Smyth 1674, Hugh Smyth 1676; (f. 23v) J Smyth 1677 / 1676. Part II inscribed several times Thomas Smith, on f. 19r also Die: Maij 12o Ano 1659, with a reference on f. 58v to Balliol College, Oxford, 1659/60. Later inscribed (f. [ir]) by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), who records buying this very curious and interesting MS. of Messrs Boone. Afterwards in the library at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1. 28.

Cited in IELM, I.i, as the Thomas Smyth MS: DnJ Δ 48.

CoR 542

Copy.

A quarto miscellany, in several hands, including a number of culinary receipts, 255 leaves (including over 65 blanks), written from both ends (Part I, in a rounded italic hand: ff. 1r-117r:; Part II: ff. 1*r-72r), in old calf.

Inscribed (Part II, f. 1*r) A booke of verses collected by mee RDungaruan: i.e. Richard Boyle (1612-98), Viscount Dungarvon and later Earl of Burlington.

c.1630s

Also inscribed Mary Helerd. Subsequently owned by James Tyrrell (1642-1718), historical writer, and by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1782-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 15745. Formerly Folger MS 46. 2.

CoR 544

Copy, headed The Lady Arabella, inscribed in a different hand Dr Corbet.

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

Including 11 poems by Carew and 14 poems by Randolph.

c.1630s-40s

Inscribed Jane Wheeler and Tho: Oliver Busfield. Francis Quarles's poem (pp. 209-11) To ye two partners of my heart Mr John Wheeler, and Mr Symon Tue. Item 96 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Formerly Folger MS 2071.6.

A Jo. Wheeler signed the Christ Church, Oxford, disbursement books for 1641-3 (xii, b.85 and 86).

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Wheeler MS: CwT Δ 25 and RnT Δ 7.

CoR 545

Copy, headed An Epitaph on the Lady Arbella, by Dr Corbet.

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

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

c.1630s

Among the muniments of Lord Mexborough, descended from the Savile family formerly of Methley Hall, near Pontefract, West Yorkshire. Formerly MX 237.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Mexborough MS: CwT Δ 29.

Leeds Archives (WYL156/237 f. 2v)
CoR 546

Copy.

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

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

c.1638

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

New York Public Library, Arents Collection (Cat. No. S 288 (Acc. No. 5442) p. 109)
CoR 547

Copy.

An octavo verse miscellany, written over a period in three hands (A, in alternating secretary and italic, written c.1638: ff. 1-59v; B, written c.1645: ff. 60r-9r; C, written c.1649, ff. 69v-70r), 70 leaves, in old calf.

Including thirteen poems by Strode and three of doubtful authorship.

c.1638-45 [and addition c.1649]

Later sold by Thomas Thorpe (1836). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9569. Bookplate of the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, and art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936 (Perry sale). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 193.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Rosenbach MS I: CwT Δ 31 and StW Δ 23.

CoR 548

Copy.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single predominantly italic hand, 152 leaves (paginated 1-34, thereafter foliated 35-169), plus index, in modern red leather.

Including 85 poems (and second copies of two) by Thomas Carew.

c.1638-42

Inscriptions including Horatio Carey 1642 te deus pardamus [viz. Horatio Carey (1619-ante 1677), eldest son of Sir Richard Carey (1583-1630) and great-grandson of Sir Henry Carey (1524?-96), first Baron Hunsdon ], Thomas Arding, Thomas Arden, William Harrington, Thomas John, John Anthehope and Clement Poxall. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 8270. Bookplates of John William Cole and of the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936 (Perry sale). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 194.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Carey MS: CwT Δ 34. Briefly discussed in Gary Taylor, Some Manuscripts of Shakespeare's Sonnets, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 68 (1985), 210-46 (pp. 220-4). Discussed, with facsimile pages, in Scott Nixon, The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 188, 191-2).

CoR 549

Copy.

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

c.1636-40s

The name of the possible compiler John Pike inscribed on f. 1r: i.e. possibly a member of the Pike family of Cambridge (one John Pike (d.1677) matriculating at Peterhouse in 1662).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Pike MS: KiH Δ 12. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6), pp. 143-7.

St John's College, Cambridge (MS S. 32 (James 423) f. 40v)
CoR 550

Copy, headed The lady Arrabells Epiyaph and subscribed Sr: W Rawleigh.

An octavo verse miscellany, including 13 poems by or attributed to Herrick, almost entirely in a single small predominantly italic hand, 250 pages (plus numerous blanks), originally in contemporary calf, but now disbound.

Inscribed four times on a flyleaf Tobias Alston his booke: i.e. probably Tobias Alston (1620-c.1639) of Sayham Hall, near Sudbury, Suffolk. His half-brother Edward (b.1598) was a contemporary of Herrick at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, while his cousin, Edward Alston, later President of the College of Physicians, was a contemporary of Herrick at St John's College, Cambridge, some of the other contents also relating to Cambridge, besides some relating to Suffolk. The date 1639 occurs on p. 241, and pp. 243-50 contains verses written in two later hands (to c.1728) and some prose pieces written from the reverse end.

c.1639 [-c.1728]

Names inscribed on a flyleaf including Henry Glisson (later Fellow of the College of Physicians); Thomas Avral(?); Horace Norton; Henry Rich; and James Tavor (Registrar of Cambridge University). Later owned by one John Whitehead, and by Dr Mary Pickford. Sotheby's, 27 June 1972, lot 309.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Alston MS: HeR Δ 7. A complete set of photocopies of the MS is in the British Library, RP 772. Facsimile of pp. 6-7 in Sotheby's sale catalogue (see HeR 176, HeR 405) where the MS is described at some length. See also letters by Peter Beal and Donald W. Foster in TLS (24 January 1986), pp. 87-8.

A Poeme Upon Tom Coriatts Crudities. in Commendation of the Author, and Worke ('I do not wonder Coryate that thou hast')

First published in Coryats Crudities (London, 1611). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 4-5.

CoR 551

Copy, headed On Tom Coriat. Dr Corbet.

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

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

c.1620s-30s

Old pressmark F. 4. 20.

A Proper New Ballad intituled The Faeryes Farewell: Or God-a-Mercy Will ('Farewell, Rewards & Faeries')

First published (omitting lines 57-64) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Published complete in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 49-52.

CoR 552

Copy, headed The ffairies Farewell. or God haue merrye will.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 128.

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

c.1620s-30s

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

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 19 pp. 84-7)
CoR 553

Copy, in a neat hand in double columns, with corrections in different ink, headed A proper new ballad, intituled the ffaeries farewell or Soe A merry Will: to be sung or whistled to the tune of the Meddowe Browe by the learned, by the vnlearned to the tune of Fortune, on a single folio leaf. Early-mid-17th century.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 128.

A folio composite volume of letters, verses, academic plays and other documents, in various hands and paper sizes, 253 leaves, in 18th-century black half-calf.

Assembled by Thomas Hearne (178-1735), antiquary, who has inscribed a slip attached to the front pastedown Tho: Hearne Junij 21o. 1709.

CoR 554

Copy, beginning at stanza 2 (here Lament, Lament old Abbyes).

A folio verse miscellany, 215 leaves (plus a few blanks), in modern calf gilt.

Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 17 of the Hopkinson MSS.

c.1670

Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, pp. 295-6.

Bradford Archives (32D86/17 f. 44r-v)
CoR 554.5

Copy, headed The Fayries farwell.

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

Mid-17th century

Inscribed (f. 1r) Stephen Wellden and Abraham Bassano and (f. 98r) Elizabeth Weldon. Later owned by William John Thoms (1803-85), writer, antiquary and librarian. Sotheby's, 11 February 1887 (Thoms sale), lot 1092. Also owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89). Formerly Folger MS 452.4.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Welden MS: DnJ Δ 49.

CoR 554.8

Copy, headed An Old Ballad made in 1647, by Bishop Corbett entitul'd the Fairies Farewel.

A large folio verse miscellany, headed (p. 1) Poems on Severall Occasions, 298 pages, in contemporary calf (rebacked).

c.1735
Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 629 pp. 75-6)
CoR 555

Copy, in a neat rounded hand, in double columns, on both sides of a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet.

Mid-17th century
Replye to the Answere ('Yff nought but love-charmes power have')

First published in Gilchrist (1807), p. 234. Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 91-2.

CoR 556

Copy, subscribed finis D D. Corbett.

Edited from this MS in Gilchrist and in Bennett & Trevor-Roper.

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. 65)
A small Remembrance of the great King of Sweden ('What now! already are those wagers layd')

First published (from MSS (not in a public library)) in Eu. Hood [i.e. Joseph Haslewood], Bishop Corbet's Poems, Gentleman's Magazine, 93.i (April 1823), 308-9. Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 89-90.

CoR 557

Copy, subscribed R: Corbett.

Edited from this MS in Bennett & Trevor-Roper.

A quarto verse miscellany, including 33 poems by Thomas Carew and sixteen by Henry King, in a single small hand, with (ff. 1r-2v) an alphabetical Index, 105 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt.

Compiled by Peter Calfe (1610-67), son of a Dutch merchant in London.

c.1641-9

Later owned by John, Baron Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor, and afterwards by Edward Harley (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford.

Cited in IELM II.i-ii (1987-93), together with British Library, Harley MS 6918 with which it was once bound, as the Calfe MS: CwT Δ 18; KiH Δ 9; RnT Δ 4. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis, pp 129-35, 444-5 (see KiH Δ 6).

CoR 558

Copy in the hand of Corbett's chaplain William Strode.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 90, 158.

A quarto volume of autograph poems by Strode, 130 leaves (including 31 blank leaves, plus numerous blanks, stubs of five extracted leaves, and some leaves added later).

A working autograph notebook of poems by Strode, compiled and revised over a considerable period, comprising 101 English poems (including draft fragments, 66 Latin poems and 2 Greek poems by him, together with his copies of a few poems by others (generally paired with Strode's translations or answers) including Richard Corbett, Thomas Carew, Peter Apsley, and Henry King and Henry Reynolds, as well as a lecture in Latin by the Professor of Greek at Oxford; ff. 52r-96r written in Strode's mixed secretary and italic hand, probably early 1620s-30; ff. 96v-129v, and afterwards ff. 1-51v, written in Strode's italic hand, probably for the most part c.1635-7, with additions up to 1643; ff. 129v-30v containing rough jottings in both styles; many of the poems containing Strode's extensive revisions, probably made from the 1630s onwards.

c.1620s-43

Some scribbling on the last page including the name John Herbert. Possibly one of the MS volumes by Strode which, according to Anthony Wood (Athenae Oxonienses, ed. Philip Bliss, 4 vols (London, 1813-20), III, 152), came after Strode's death into the hands of Dr Richard Gardiner (1591-1670), canon of Christ Church, and then into those of Richard Davies, Oxford bookseller (fl.1646-88). Afterwards acquired, probably from Davies between 1665 and 1675, by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, who added pagination, annotations and some further entries throughout.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Corpus MS: StW Δ 1. Collated in part in Dobell. Identified as autograph and discussed in M.C. Crum, William Fulman and an Autograph Manuscript of the Poet Strode, BLR, 4 (1952-3), 324-35. Extensively discussed and the text edited from this MS in Forey. Facsimile of f. 94r in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 42 (see StW 641).

CoR 559

Copy, subscribed Rich: Corbett Bipp: Norwicen.

This MS recorded in Bennett & trevor-Roper, p. 158.

A quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary hand, probably associated with Oxford and afterwards with the Inns of Court, 73 leaves (plus a few blanks and a modern index).

Including 40 poems by Strode and two poems of doubtful authorship.

c.1630s

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9510. (Phillipps sale, lot 1015.) Owned c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914). Percy Dobell's sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 342. Formerly MS 4201. 27. 1.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dobell MS II: StW Δ 19. Formerly Folger MS 1.27.42.

To his sonne Vincent Corbett ('What I shall leave thee none can tell')

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 88.

CoR 560

Copy, headed R: C. to his sonne Vincent.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single italic hand, evidently associated with Oxford, probably Christ Church, 214 pages (skipping p. 177), plus an index.

Including 18 poems by Corbett and 59 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1630s

Inscribed on a flyleaf Elizabeth Lane hir booke and, among scribbling on another flyleaf, Johannes Finch. P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 341.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Elizabeth Lane MS: CoR Δ 1 and StW Δ 4. The Dobell catalogue description recorded in Forey (pp. lxxxv-lxxxvi).

Aberdeen University Library (MS 29 pp. 142-3)
CoR 560.5

Copy, headed Bishop Corbet to his young Sonne Vincent.

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

c.1648-61

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

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. f. 37 fol. 59r rev.)
CoR 561

Copy.

A quarto verse miscellany of c.150 poems, in several hands; associated with Oxford, probably Christ Church, 279 pages (plus index and blanks).

Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 32 poems (plus four of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1630s-40s

Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue (1836), item 1044. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9561. Sotheby's, 19 June 1893 (Phillipps sale), lot 628, and 21 March 1895, lot 903. Hodgson's, 23 April 1959, lot 528.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the English Poetry MS: CoR Δ 3 and StW Δ 6.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 97 p. 97)
CoR 562

Copy, headed Dr Corbet to his sonne.

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.

CoR 562.5

Copy.

A composite volume of miscellaneous papers, in verse and prose, mainly in the hands of the Rev. Dr Philip Francis (1708-73), writer and translator, and his son Sir Philip Francis (1740-1818), politician and political writer, 477 leaves.

Mid-18th century
CoR 563

Copy.

An octavo verse miscellany, written predominantly in a single italic hand (on ff. 2r-19v, 20v-134v, 139r-43r); another hand on ff. 20r-v, 135v, 136v, 137v, 138v, with verbal alterations in yet another hand and scribbling elsewhere; f. 137v (rev.) containing a receipt of one Richard Bull signed by one Thomas Johnson and dated 1676; 143 leaves.

Including 14 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 22 poems by Corbett and 36 poems (plus three of doubtful authorship) by Strode. Apparently transcribed in part from Westminster Abbey, MS 41.

c.early 1630s

Inscribed (f. 1r) by one I A of Christ Church, Oxford, and also Robert Killigrew his booke witnes by his Maiesties ape Gorge Harison. Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane, Bt (1660-1753), physician and collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Killigrew MS: CwT Δ 21; CoR Δ 6; StW Δ 14. Facsimile example of f. 2v in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), Plate 7, after p. 86.

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1792 ff. 127v-8R)
CoR 564

Copy, ascribed to R: C:.

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

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

c.1630s-40s
Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 47 ff. 33v-4r)
CoR 565.5

Copy.

A quarto verse miscellany, compiled chiefly by Eliza Chapman, 89 leaves.

1788-9 [with additions to 1817]

Among collections of Captain Montagu Montagu, RN (d.1863).

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Montagu e. 14 f. 157v)
CoR 566

Copy in the first column of the recto of a single folio leaf. Early-mid-17th century.

A folio composite volume of letters, verses, academic plays and other documents, in various hands and paper sizes, 253 leaves, in 18th-century black half-calf.

Assembled by Thomas Hearne (178-1735), antiquary, who has inscribed a slip attached to the front pastedown Tho: Hearne Junij 21o. 1709.

CoR 567

Copy, headed To his son Vincent Corbett on his birthday Nov 10 1630, being then 3 yeeres of age.

A quarto verse miscellany and masque, in at least three hands, written from both ends, i + 123 leaves, in contemporary calf.

Mid-late 17th century

Including (f. 1r) an anagram on Frances Pawlett. Inscribed in red ink (f. 123v) Egigius Frampton hunc librum jure tenet non est mortale quod opto: 1659: i.e. by Giles Frampton, who is perhaps responsible for some of the later poems. Also inscribed [?]R. N. 1663. Some later notes in the hand of Richard Rawlinson.

CoR 568

Copy, headed Dr Corbett to his sonne Vincent on his birth-day, Nouemb. 10. 1630.

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

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

c.1640s-60s

This MS volume edited in Diana Julia Rose, MS Rawlinson Poetical 147: An Annotated Volume of Seventeenth-Century Cambridge Verse (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Leicester, 1992), of which a copy is in Cambridge University Library, Manuscript Department, A8f.

CoR 569

Copy, headed B: C: to his Sonne Vincent.

A small quarto verse miscellany, in a single hand, 98 pages (plus some blanks), in reversed calf (rebacked).

c.1620s-30s

Inscribed (f. ir) by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), the date 1741 added.

CoR 570

Copy, headed To my sonn Vincent on his birth-day, being now 3 yeer olde, subscribed by Richard Corbet Ld B of Oxford.

A quarto verse miscellany, predominantly in a single hand, vi + 98 leaves, in calf.

Probably compiled by a member of New College, Oxford.

c.1630s

Some tipped-in notes by Richard Rawlinson.

CoR 571

Copy, headed vpon the birth of my Sonne vincent Corbett.

A folio composite volume of separate MSS of verse and some prose, in various secretary and italic hands, written over an extended period, with a table of contents (f. 3r-v), 186 leaves.

Comprising papers of the Skipwith family of Cotes, Leicestershire, including 60 poems by John Donne (and one Problem), the text related in part to the Edward Smyth MS (DnJ Δ 45); also 15 poems (and second copies of two) by Henry King; and 19 poems (and two of doubtful authorship) by Carew.

c.1620-50

Including poems ascribed to William Skipwith (? Sir William Skipwith, d.1610, or his grandson, William, or possibly a cousin, William Skipwith, of Ketsby, Lincolnshire, fl.1633); to Sir Henry Skipwith (fl.1609-52); and to Thomas Skipwith, and several poems by Donne's friend Sir Henry Goodyer (1571-1627), to whom a branch of the Skipwith family was related by marriage. Later owned by Robert Sherard (1719-99), fourth Earl of Harborough. Sotheby's, 10 June 1864, lot 605, to Boone.

This MS is the curious folio volume lent to John Nichols (1745-1826) by the late Lord Harborough and cited in Nichols's account of the Skipwith family in his History of Leicestershire, 4 vols (1795-1815), III, part i (1800), 367.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Skipwith MS: DnJ Δ 21; CwT Δ 14; KiH Δ 8. Also described in Mary Hobbs's thesis, pp. 119-29 (see KiH Δ 6). For Sir William Skipwith and his literary connections, see James Knowles, Marston, Skipwith and The Entertainment at Ashby, EMS, 3 (1992), 137-92 (esp. pp. 171-2).

CoR 572

Copy, headed To his Son Vincent, on his Birth day.

A folio verse miscellany, in a single professional secretary hand associated with the playhouse and possibly inns of court (also responsible for ChG 12.5, HyT 5, and MiT 6), 97 leaves, with a first-line Index at the end, in contemporary vellum boards.

Including fourteen poems by James Shirley, generally ascribed to him, and eleven poems by Strode (and two of doubtful authorship).

c.1636

Inscribed (on the front paste-down) My cousin chute gaue me this book out of his father study at the vine Hampshire (following the same statement in French), indicating that the MS was owned by, and possibly originally compiled for, the family of Chaloner Chute, MP (c.1595-1659), Speaker of the house of Commons, who acquired The Vyne, near Basingstoke, Hampshire, in 1653. Later owned by Sir William Tite (1798-1873), architect. Sotheby's, 30 May 1874, lot 2343. Bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork, book collector. Sotheby's, 21 March 1891 (Crawford sale), lot 2493.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Chute MS: ShJ Δ 2 and StW Δ 11. Briefly discussed, with a facsimile of f. 34v (see ShJ 96 and ShJ 100) in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and their Value for Textual Editors, EMS, 1 (1989), 192-210 (pp. 200-1, 209-10 n. 40). Discussed, with facsimiles of ff. 53r and 80r, in Arthur F. Marotti, Chaloner Chute's Poetical Anthology (British Library, Additional MS 33998) as a Cosmopolitan Collection, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 99).

CoR 573

Copy.

A quarto verse miscellany, written from both ends, 192 leaves (including blanks), in old brown calf.

Compiled, over a period, principally by Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), Chaplain of Christ Church, Oxford, and Henry King's amanuensis, including (ff. 7r-61r) 24 poems by King in Manne's formal hand, written c.1625-30s; ff. 61v-72v, 73r-99v, 100r-101v written in a variant style of Manne's hand, c.1630s; and (ff. 72v, 99v, 102r-14v, 190v-169r rev.) additions in six other hands, c.1630s-44, with (ff. 75r, 76r, and 76v) three poems to which the subscription R. Dorset is added in the hand of King himself.

c.1625-46

Inscribed (f. 190v rev.) Ann Littleton. Thomas Rodd's sale catalogue, [June 1848], p. 31. Sotheby's, 4 Februry 1850 (Rodd sale), lot 500, to James Orchard Halliwell[-Phillipps] (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Afterward owned by the Rev. Thomas Corser, FSA (1793-1876), book collector. Sotheby's, 25 June 1873 (Corser sale), lot 325, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Later owned by the bookdealer Philip Robinson. Sotheby's, 26 June 1974, lot 3013, with a facsimile example in the sale catalogue.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Thomas Manne MS: KiH Δ 7. Used in Crum. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

CoR 574

Copy, headed To his Sonne Vincent Corbett on his birth-day, Nou .10. 1630. being then 3 yeeres of age, subscribed B: Oxon:.

A quarto miscellany and memorandum book, in three or more cursive mixed hands, 113 leaves, in modern binding.

Compiled, perhaps largely, by Justinian Paget Es[q.] a Lawyer, whose name is so inscribed on a flyleaf (f. 1*r), a number of the contents relating to the Paget family and also with references (ff. 34v-5v) to my sister Ann Maydwell.

c.1633-1645

The contents suggest an Inns of Court and possible Christ Church, Oxford, connection.

CoR 575

Copy.

This MS recorded in Geoffrey Keynes, The Commonplace Book of Elizabeth Lyttelton, Daughter of Sir Thomas Browne (Cambridge, 1919).

A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, predominantly in one female roman hand, written from both ends, 174 pages, in contemporary calf.

Compiled by members of Sir Thomas Browne's family, chiefly his daughter Elizabeth Lyttelton (b. c.1648), containing various works in verse and prose including copies of a passage by Sir Thomas on consumptions (p. 43), a list of books which he had Elizabeth read out to him (pp. 44-5), copies of notes by him (pp. 77-76 rev.), his poem Upon a Tempest at Sea (pp. 94-93 rev.) and verses beginning the Almond flourisheth ye Birch trees flowe (p. 72); some of the verses in other hands including poems by Donne, Corbett, Wotton, Cartwright, William Browne, Ralegh, Katherine Phillips and others.

Late 17th century

Inscriptions (p. 1) Mary Browne (who d.1676) and James Dodsley and (p. 174) Mar. 11th 1713/4 The gift of Mrs Lyttelton to Edward Tenison. Percy Dobell's sale catalogue The Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1240. Bookplate of the Royal College of Medicine, London. Owned by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (Bibliotheca Bibliographici, No. 1301).

This MS volume described in [Geoffrey Keynes], A Daughter of Sir Thomas Browne, TLS (4 September 1919), p. 420. Discussed in Victoria E. Burke, Contexts for Women's Manuscript Miscellanies: The Case of Elizabeth Lyttelton and Sir Thomas Browne, Yearbook of English Studies, 33 (2003), 316-28. Edited selectively by Geoffrey Keynes as The Commonplace Book of Elizabeth Lyttelton, Daughter of Sir Thomas Browne (Cambridge, 1919). The passages by Browne also edited in Keynes, I, 120-1, and III, 236-7, 331-2.

CoR 576

Copy, headed To his sonne Vincent on his birth he being .3. yeeres old, subscribed Dr Corbett Bishopp of Oxford.

A quarto verse miscellany, the first 21 pages in a small mixed hand, the rest (including a book catalogue dated 1675) in one or two later hands, 33 pages (plus numerous blanks), in old calf.

Inscribed (p. 1) ffran: Wyrley, possibly the principal compiler, whose name is also subscribed to several poems.

c.1636-77

Also inscribed (f. ii) Michaell Keepis. anno Dom: 1636 ffebruarie. 13th. Me tenet. Later Phillipps MS 9311. Bookplate of Wyrley Birch. Purchased from Peter Murray Hill, 1950. Formerly S4975M1 [1636-75] Bound.

Clark Library, Los Angeles (MS. 1950. 024 p. 12)
CoR 577

Copy in the hand of Corbett's chaplain William Strode.

A quarto volume of autograph poems by Strode, 130 leaves (including 31 blank leaves, plus numerous blanks, stubs of five extracted leaves, and some leaves added later).

A working autograph notebook of poems by Strode, compiled and revised over a considerable period, comprising 101 English poems (including draft fragments, 66 Latin poems and 2 Greek poems by him, together with his copies of a few poems by others (generally paired with Strode's translations or answers) including Richard Corbett, Thomas Carew, Peter Apsley, and Henry King and Henry Reynolds, as well as a lecture in Latin by the Professor of Greek at Oxford; ff. 52r-96r written in Strode's mixed secretary and italic hand, probably early 1620s-30; ff. 96v-129v, and afterwards ff. 1-51v, written in Strode's italic hand, probably for the most part c.1635-7, with additions up to 1643; ff. 129v-30v containing rough jottings in both styles; many of the poems containing Strode's extensive revisions, probably made from the 1630s onwards.

c.1620s-43

Some scribbling on the last page including the name John Herbert. Possibly one of the MS volumes by Strode which, according to Anthony Wood (Athenae Oxonienses, ed. Philip Bliss, 4 vols (London, 1813-20), III, 152), came after Strode's death into the hands of Dr Richard Gardiner (1591-1670), canon of Christ Church, and then into those of Richard Davies, Oxford bookseller (fl.1646-88). Afterwards acquired, probably from Davies between 1665 and 1675, by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, who added pagination, annotations and some further entries throughout.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Corpus MS: StW Δ 1. Collated in part in Dobell. Identified as autograph and discussed in M.C. Crum, William Fulman and an Autograph Manuscript of the Poet Strode, BLR, 4 (1952-3), 324-35. Extensively discussed and the text edited from this MS in Forey. Facsimile of f. 94r in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 42 (see StW 641).

CoR 578

Copy, headed To my sonne Vincent on his birth day the 10th of November 1630 being then three yeares of age / Doctor Corbet Bishop of Oxon.

A quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary hand, probably associated with Oxford and afterwards with the Inns of Court, 73 leaves (plus a few blanks and a modern index).

Including 40 poems by Strode and two poems of doubtful authorship.

c.1630s

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9510. (Phillipps sale, lot 1015.) Owned c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914). Percy Dobell's sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 342. Formerly MS 4201. 27. 1.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dobell MS II: StW Δ 19. Formerly Folger MS 1.27.42.

CoR 578.5

Copy, headed To his Son Vincent Corbet by the same hand.

A large folio verse miscellany, headed (p. 1) Poems on Severall Occasions, 298 pages, in contemporary calf (rebacked).

c.1735
Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 629 p. 77)
CoR 579

Copy, headed Dr Corbet on his son Vincents Birthday, ye 10th of December, being then 3. yeares of age.

A small quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single, minute non-professional italic hand, probably someone associated with Oxford University, comprising 180 pages now all separated and mounted, interleaved, in 19th-century calf.

c.late 1630s

Later in the libraries (with bookplates) of the book collector Richard Heber (1774-1833); of the bibliographer and antiquary Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833); of the biographer and literary editor Alexander Chalmers (1759-1834); and of the antiquary Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough (his sale by Charles Sharpe in Dublin, 1 November 1842, lot 577).

CoR 580

Copy, headed The Bp of Oxon his wishes to his little sonne Vincent.

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

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

c.1630s

Among the muniments of Lord Mexborough, descended from the Savile family formerly of Methley Hall, near Pontefract, West Yorkshire. Formerly MX 237.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Mexborough MS: CwT Δ 29.

Leeds Archives (WYL156/237 f. 38v)
CoR 581

Copy, headed To my sonne Vincent the 10th of 9ber 1630, being then 3 years of age.

An oblong octavo composite volume, comprising two independent verse miscellanies, Part I, in Latin and English, largely in a neat secretary hand, paginated 1-22, Part II, in English and Welsh, in several hands, one neat secretary hand predominating, paginated 1-266, the two parts bound together in modern quarter red morocco.

c.1630s

Inscriptions including (Part I, pp. 1, 3 and 42) Edward Lewis his Book 1753, John Parker, P H Warburton, and John Aden, and (Part II, p. 33) Thomas Lloyd Esq. Wigfair MS 43, among papers mainly of the Lloyd family of Hafodunos, Denbighshire, and Wigfair, near St Asaph, Flintshire, purchased in 1926-7 from Colonel H.C. Lloyd Howard, of Wigfair.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 12443 A Part I, pp. 9-10)
CoR 582

Copy, headed Dr. Corbett to Vincent on his birthday ye third yeare of his age.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single predominantly italic hand, 152 leaves (paginated 1-34, thereafter foliated 35-169), plus index, in modern red leather.

Including 85 poems (and second copies of two) by Thomas Carew.

c.1638-42

Inscriptions including Horatio Carey 1642 te deus pardamus [viz. Horatio Carey (1619-ante 1677), eldest son of Sir Richard Carey (1583-1630) and great-grandson of Sir Henry Carey (1524?-96), first Baron Hunsdon ], Thomas Arding, Thomas Arden, William Harrington, Thomas John, John Anthehope and Clement Poxall. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 8270. Bookplates of John William Cole and of the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936 (Perry sale). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 194.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Carey MS: CwT Δ 34. Briefly discussed in Gary Taylor, Some Manuscripts of Shakespeare's Sonnets, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 68 (1985), 210-46 (pp. 220-4). Discussed, with facsimile pages, in Scott Nixon, The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 188, 191-2).

CoR 583

Copy, headed Dr. Corbett to his sonne vincent Cor:.

A quarto verse miscellany, including ten poems by Thomas Carew, probably in a single accomplished hand (changing to two styles of italic on ff. 42v-4v, 5r-60r, 76r-v), i + 89 leaves (including blanks, stubs of two or three excised leaves, and an index), in contemporary limp vellum.

c.1630s-40s

Later notes and scribbling including the names John Nutting (ff. 26r, 56r) and John M. and John Susan (rear paste-down). The last leaf also containing a list of the titles of 65 poems by Carew together with the number of lines in each poem, this list unrelated to the contents of the rest of the MS.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Nutting MS: CwT Δ 35. The list of poems, probably relating to another MS, is edited, with facsimiles, in Scott Nixon, The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 198-9, 217-19).

St John's College, Cambridge (MS S. 23 (James 416) ff. 51v-2r)
CoR 583.5

Copy, in a 19th-century hand.

An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in English, Latin and Greek, predominantly in a single hand, with 19th-century additions (pp. 195 onwards, at least partly from earlier MS sources), 279 pages, in contemporary calf.

c.1644 (and later)

Inscribed (f. [ir]) William Han: 1644, probably by the academic compiler.

Yale, Osborn MS b 150 through Osborn MS b 199 (Osborn MS b 150 pp. 206-7)
To the Ghost of Robert Wisdome ('Thou, once a Body, now, but Aire')

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 75.

CoR 584

Copy.

A quarto verse miscellany of c.150 poems, in several hands; associated with Oxford, probably Christ Church, 279 pages (plus index and blanks).

Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 32 poems (plus four of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1630s-40s

Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue (1836), item 1044. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9561. Sotheby's, 19 June 1893 (Phillipps sale), lot 628, and 21 March 1895, lot 903. Hodgson's, 23 April 1959, lot 528.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the English Poetry MS: CoR Δ 3 and StW Δ 6.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 97 p. 122)
CoR 585

Copy.

An octavo verse miscellany, written predominantly in a single italic hand (on ff. 2r-19v, 20v-134v, 139r-43r); another hand on ff. 20r-v, 135v, 136v, 137v, 138v, with verbal alterations in yet another hand and scribbling elsewhere; f. 137v (rev.) containing a receipt of one Richard Bull signed by one Thomas Johnson and dated 1676; 143 leaves.

Including 14 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 22 poems by Corbett and 36 poems (plus three of doubtful authorship) by Strode. Apparently transcribed in part from Westminster Abbey, MS 41.

c.early 1630s

Inscribed (f. 1r) by one I A of Christ Church, Oxford, and also Robert Killigrew his booke witnes by his Maiesties ape Gorge Harison. Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane, Bt (1660-1753), physician and collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Killigrew MS: CwT Δ 21; CoR Δ 6; StW Δ 14. Facsimile example of f. 2v in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), Plate 7, after p. 86.

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1792 f. 66r)
CoR 586

Copy, headed An Invocation of ye Ghost of Robert wisdom.

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

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

c.1630s

Later owned by Edward Jeremiah Curteis, M.P., of Windmill Hill, Sussex. Puttick & Simpson's, 30 June 1884 (Curteis sale), lot 175, to Pearson of Pall Mall for James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89). Formerly Folger MS 452.5.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), and II.i (1987), as the Curteis MS: DnJ Δ 50 and CoR Δ 9. Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Arthur F. Marotti, Folger MSS V.a.89 and V.a.345: Reading Lyric Poetry in Manuscript, in The Reader Revealed, ed. Sabrina Alcorn Baron, et al. (Washington, DC, 2001), pp. 44-57. Discussed in Arthur F. Marotti, Christ Church, Oxford, and Beyond: Folger MS V.a.345 and Its Manuscript and Print Sources, SP 113 (2016), 850-78. A facsimile of p. 36 is in Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey, Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper (Washington, DC, 2008), p. 32.

CoR 587

Copy, headed That Authors Invocation on ye Ghost of Robert Wisdome.

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

Including 13 poems by Donne and 14 (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett; the scribe is that mainly responsible also for the Thomas Smyth MS (DnJ Δ 48).

c.1630s

Later owned and used extensively as a notebook by Dr William Balam (1651-1726), of Ely, Cambridgeshire, who also annotated Cambridge University Library MS Add. 5778 and Harvard fMS Eng 966.4. Bookplate of N. Micklethwait. Owned in 1931 by the Rev. F.W. Glass, of Taverham Hall, near Norwich (seat in the 17th century of the Sotherton family and later of the Branthwayt and Micklethwait families).

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Welbeck MS: DnJ Δ 57 and CoR Δ 11. Discussed in H. Harvey Wood, A Seventeenth-Century Manuscript of Poems by Donne and Others, Essays & Studies, 16 (1931), 179-90. For Taverham Hall, see Thomas B. Norgate, A History of Taverham from Early Times to 1969 (Aylsham, 1969).

University of Nottingham (Pw V 37 p. 149)
CoR 588

Copy, headed Inuocation on ye Ghost of Robert Wisdom.

An octavo verse miscellany, comprising c.118 items, including thirteen poems by Donne, twenty poems by Corbett, and twelve poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, written in several hands over an extended period, associated with Christ Church, Oxford, 99 leaves.

c.1620-40s

Owned and probably compiled in part, in his Oxford days, by George Morley (1598-1684), Bishop of Winchester.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Morley MS: DnJ Δ 62, CoR Δ 13, and StW Δ 27. This MS apparently transcribed in part in the Killigrew MS (British Library, Sloane MS 1792).

Facsimile of f. 49r in William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion, ed. Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor (Oxford, 1987), p. 24.

Westminster Abbey (MS 41 f. 26v)
CoR 588.5

Copy, transcribed from CoR 591.

A transcript of two 17th-century verse MSS, the second a miscellany, 195 large quarto pages, in calf gilt.

19th century

Once owned by F.W. Cosens, FSA (1819-89), of Clapham Park, book collector. Sotheby's, 25 July 1890 (Cosens sale), in lot 136. Among the collections of Sir Charles Harding Firth (1857-1936), historian.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Firth d. 7 f. 172r)
CoR 589

Copy, headed Vpon Robert Wisedome, on one side of a half-folio leaf.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 75.

A folio composite volume of discourses, notes, of verses, and letters by Camden, mainly autograph, viii + 226 pages, different sizes, in early 18th-century half-calf.

Including papers on barons in connection with the case of Lord Roos, 27 April 1616, on the judicial proceedings in 1616 after the death of Sir Thomas Overbury (1613), on the punishment of peers, on Rathlin Island, and an anonymous tract on Geoffrey of Monmouth (pp. 133-8).

c.1615-20s

Owned or used by Edward Walker, Garter King of Arms; by Francis Sandford, Lancaster Herald; and by Mr Howell (herald painter). Acquired by Thomas Smith (1638-1710), Oxford scholar and editor, at Christmas 1703. Inscribed by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), on 2 March 1710/11, as having been bequeathed by Smith to him.

Extracts from this MS (concerning the trial of the Earl of Somerset) printed in Beatrice White, Cast of Ravens (London, 1965), pp. 213-16.

Bodleian Library, Smith MSS (MS Smith 17 p. 119a)
CoR 590

Copy, subscribed R: C:.

A quarto verse miscellany, including 33 poems by Thomas Carew and sixteen by Henry King, in a single small hand, with (ff. 1r-2v) an alphabetical Index, 105 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt.

Compiled by Peter Calfe (1610-67), son of a Dutch merchant in London.

c.1641-9

Later owned by John, Baron Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor, and afterwards by Edward Harley (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford.

Cited in IELM II.i-ii (1987-93), together with British Library, Harley MS 6918 with which it was once bound, as the Calfe MS: CwT Δ 18; KiH Δ 9; RnT Δ 4. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis, pp 129-35, 444-5 (see KiH Δ 6).

CoR 591

Copy.

A verse miscellany, in long narrow format, 66 leaves (including a number of blanks), in later calf.

Largely in one neat secretary hand; a second hand on ff. 58v-9r, and a third on f. 66r. Compiled chiefly by a University of Cambridge man.

c.1630s

Once owned by F.W. Cosens, FSA (1819-89), of Clapham Park, book collector. Bequeathed in 1894 by Samuel Sandars, of Trinity College, Cambridge.

Discussed in Ted-Larry Pebworth and Claude J. Summers, Recovering an Important Seventeenth-Century Poetical Miscellany: Cambridge Add. MS 4138, TCBS, 7 (1978), 156-69 (pp. 160-1). A 19th-century transcript of much of this MS is in the Bodleian, MS Firth d. 7, ff. 60r-9r.

CoR 592

Copy.

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

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

c.1637-51

Inscribed (front pastedown) Wakelin EeK Hering / Blows of Whitsor, and (rear pastedown) R. J. Cotton. Formerly Folger MS 2073.4.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Cotton MS: StW Δ 20.

CoR 593

Copy, headed Robert Wisedomes Ghost.

An octavo miscellany, comprising Instructions for Justices of the Peace in a roman hand at one end and, from the other end a collection of poems in a secretary hand, much of the MS written in double columns in oblong format, 92 leaves, in calf.

c.1623-30s

Probably compiled by two members of the Calverley family (f. 1r contains a poem headed A new years giuft presented to my father and Mother by my Brother Thomas Calverly).

Later in the library od Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9624. Owned before 1947 by N.M. Broadbent. Later owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1906-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 13 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 135, to Maggs.

CoR 594

Copy, untitled.

A quarto volume of poems, including 72 by Donne, arranged under genres, probably in two hands, poems by Corbett and others at the reverse end, 160 pages (not numbered consecutively, plus blanks).

Owned, and possibly compiled, by John Cave, of Lincoln College, Oxford (M.A. 28 January 1618/19; d.1657). The first page of text is a poem Vpon Mr Donn's Satires subscribed Io. Ca. Jun. 3. 1620. If John Cave was a member of the Cave family of Stanford, Northamptonshire, he would have been related (by marriage) to the Skipwith family.

c.1620-5

Also inscribed with names of Elizabeth Park [or Parker], John Nedham, and William Adams. Later owned by the Rev. T.R. O' Flahertie (d.1894), of Capel, near Dorking, Surrey, book collector; by Charles Elkin Matthews (1851-19210, bookseller; and by Richard Jennings. Sotheby's, 28 April 1952 (Jennings sale), lot 12.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the John Cave MS, DnJ Δ 27. For a facsimile of page 3 see DnJ 793, DnJ 3858.

New York Public Library, Arents Collection (Cat. No. S 191 (Acc. No. 7167) f. [21r rev.])
To the Ladyes of the New Dresse ('Ladyes that weare black cypresse vailes')

First published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 90.

This poem is usually followed in MSS by The Ladyes Answer (Blacke Cypresse vailes are shrouds of night): see GrJ 14.

CoR 595

Copy, headed R.C. on the new fashsiond vails and gorgets.

An octavo verse miscellany, including 13 poems by Donne and 14 poems by Corbett, in several hands, probably associated with Oxford University, written from both ends, 102 leaves, in 17th-century calf.

c.1630s

Inscribed (f. 101v) Henry Lawson (or just possibly Lamson). Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1836), item 1185. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9257. Sotheby's, 15 June 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 862. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 164 (1896), item 64.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Lawson MS: DnJ Δ 37 and CoR Δ 2.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 14 f. 78r rev.)
CoR 596

Copy, headed To the Gentlewomen of the New dresse.

A quarto verse miscellany of c.150 poems, in several hands; associated with Oxford, probably Christ Church, 279 pages (plus index and blanks).

Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 32 poems (plus four of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1630s-40s

Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue (1836), item 1044. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9561. Sotheby's, 19 June 1893 (Phillipps sale), lot 628, and 21 March 1895, lot 903. Hodgson's, 23 April 1959, lot 528.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the English Poetry MS: CoR Δ 3 and StW Δ 6.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 97 p. 29)
CoR 597

Copy, headed Dr Corbett to ye ladyes of ye new dresse, in a pair of quarto conjugate leaves (ff. 173r-4v).

A large folio composite volume of verse, in various largely secretary hands, 327 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf.

Collected, and partly written, by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.

Betagraph of the watermark in f. 29 in Ted-Larry Pebworth, Towards a Taxonomy of Watermarks, in Puzzles in Paper: Concepts in Historical Watermarks, ed. Daniel W. Mosser, Michael Saffle and Ernest W. Sullivan, II (London, 2000), pp. 229-42 (p. 239).

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 36/37 f. 174r)
CoR 598

Copy, headed Docter Corbettes verses on the Ladies of the New dress.

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. 65)
CoR 599

Copy, headed Dr Corbet on womens wearing of long white robes.

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

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

c.1630s-40s
Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 47 f. 111v)
CoR 600

Copy, headed Ladies yt weare black Cypresse vailes.

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

Including 16 poems (plus second copies of two) by Carew, 19 poems by or attributed to Herrick (and second copies of six of them), 23 poems (plus second copies of two and four of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, 18 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and eleven poems by Waller.

c.1630s-40s

Inscribed on a flyleaf Peeter Daniell and his initials stamped on both covers. Later scribbling including the names Thomas Gardinor, James Leigh and Pettrus Romell. Owned in 1780 by one A. B. when it was given to Thomas Percy (1768-1808), later Bishop of Dromore. Sotheby's, 29 April 1884 (Percy sale), lot 1. Acquired from Quaritch, 1957.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Daniell MS: CwT Δ 5, HeR Δ 2, RnT Δ 1, StW Δ 5, WaE Δ 9. Briefly discussed in Margaret Crum, An Unpublished Fragment of Verse by Herrick, RES, NS 11 (1960), 186-9. A facsimile of f. 22v in Marcy L. North, Amateur Compilers, Scribal Labour, and the Contents of Early Modern Poetic Miscellanies, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 106). Betagraphs of the watermark in f. 65 in Ted-Larry Pebworth, Towards a Taxonomy of Watermarks, in Puzzles in Paper: Concepts in Historical Watermarks, ed. Daniel W. Mosser, Michael Saffle and Ernest W. Sullivan, II (London, 2000), pp. 229-42 (p. 241).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 50 f. 26r)
CoR 601

Copy, headed Dr Corbet on weareing longe white vailes.

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

Including 16 poems by Carew and 13 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode. Written in three hands: i.e. A (Codrington's hand, including his own poems) on pp. 1-283, 349-55; B on pp. 284-9; and C on pp. 289-348, 356-60; dated (pp. 1-22) Anno Dom: 1638 and The 30th of May. 1638.

c.1638

Acquired from Blackwell's, 1962.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Codrington MS: CwT Δ 7 and StW Δ 7.

CoR 602

Copy, headed On or new-fashion'd Ladyes and subscribed Dr Corbett.

An octavo verse miscellany, in two or more hands, 95 leaves (plus blanks), including two Indexes, in contemporary vellum.

Compiled by an Oxford University man, possibly a member of St John's College.

c.1634-43

A receipt (f. 104r) by John Weston recording payment from his brother Ed: Weston, 3 May 1714. The name John Saunders inscribed on the final leaf.

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 21 ff. 46v-7r)
CoR 603

Copy.

A folio composite volume, chiefly of English and Latin verse, in various hands; vi + 186 leaves, in reversed calf.

Scribbling on f. iir including ffor mr William Rabey in New=market..., ffor my Louing ffriend in G John westhropp at mr Rogers Reringe house Bury in S[uffolk], ffor mr John fford at his house in Newmarket in the countey of cambridge; notes on f. iiiv-ivr, one Recd 22 July 1669, subscribed John Cooke and including, on f. vir, ffor mr John Cocke at his howse neere the white harte in Thetford.... Later owned, in the 1730s, by Charles Barlow, of Emmanuel College, Cambridge (his bookplate f. iiv).

CoR 604

Copy, headed Dr Corbett to the Ladyes of the new dresse Night Rayles.

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

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

Mid-17th century

Later owned by John Somers (1651-1716), Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor, and his brother-in-law Sir Joseph Jekyll (1662-1738), lawyer and politician.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Wase MS: DnJ Δ 39.

CoR 605

Copy, headed Upon the Ladyes of Honour, subscribed By my L. of Norwidge.

A quarto verse miscellany, predominantly in a single hand, vi + 98 leaves, in calf.

Probably compiled by a member of New College, Oxford.

c.1630s

Some tipped-in notes by Richard Rawlinson.

CoR 606

Copy.

A quarto composite miscellany of verse, in English and Latin, compiled by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, who lived in Cambridge as student and Fellow of Emmanuel College from 1633 to 1651, ii + 115 leaves, in calf.

Comprising three separate units: ff. 1r-96v all in Sancroft's hand; ff. 97r-104r in a second hand; and ff. 105r-9r in a third hand.

Including (on ff. 2-23, 27ar-v, 70) 94 Latin poems ascribed to Crashaw (including three of doubtful authorship) and (on ff. 29-41, 43v, 44v-58, 60v, 62v-5v, 67-70v, 72-3, 95-6) 101 English poems (plus a second copy of one of them) attributed to him (including one of doubtful authorship) and (on f. 16r-v) one Greek poem attributed to him; a list of contents on the first page beginning Mr. Crashaw's poems transcrib'd fro his own copie, before the were printed; among wch are some not printed….

c.1640s [and later]

Cited in IELM as the Sancroft MS: CrR Δ 1. Crashaw edited in part from this MS, and collated, in Grosart, in Waller and in Martin (cited as T or T5), and discussed in Waller, pp. vi-ix, and in Martin, pp. lviii-lxxiii. Folios 28-34v, 38v-41, 44v, 52v-6 reproduced in facsimile in Steps to the Temple (1970).

Bodleian Library, Tanner Collection (MS Tanner 465 f. 58v)
CoR 607

Copy, headed Bishop Corbet to ye ladies of ye new dresse.

A quarto composite volume of verse, in several hands (the 22 or 23 poems by Carew on ff. 2r-22r in a single hand), with later additions dated 1731-3 by one G. Broughton on ff. 1r and after 44r, a reference to St John's College, Cambridge (in 1731) on f. 83v, 93 leaves (plus blanks), in 19th-century half black morocco.

c.1630s [-1733]

G. Broughton is possibly William (Gulielmus) Broughton (b.1684/5), of Trinity College, Cambridge (one of whose Latin verse compilations was copied in 1704-6 by Richard Robinson in Trinity College, Cambridge, MS 0.6.1 (James 1497). Also the name Jo: Tweedy is inscribed several times on f. 81r. Owned before 1841 by one W. Potter.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Tweedye MS: CwT Δ 10.

CoR 608

Copy, headed Dr Corbitts uerses on ye Ladyes of [sic].

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

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

c.1630s

Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1834), item 728. Acquired from C. Booth, October 1857.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Thorpe MS: CwT Δ 12, CrR Δ 3, StW Δ 9.

CoR 609

Copy, headed On Ladies Veiles, subscried Dr Corbet.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, in generally small mixed hands, ii + 40 leaves, in 19th-century embossed black leather.

c.1640s

Later owned by Thomas Rodd (1796-1849), bookseller; by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector; and by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 21 August 1858 (Bliss sale), lot 190.

CoR 610

Copy, headed Dr Corbet's verses to ye Ladies & Gentlewomen of ye Newdresse.

An octavo miscellany of verse, academic exercises and other material, in English and Latin, almost entirely in a single hand, 134 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

Inscribed by the compiler (f. 133v) Anthony Scattergood His booke: i.e. Anthony Scattergood (1611-87), theologian, of Trinity College, Cambridge. Volume XXXII of the Scattergood papers.

c.1632-40

Also inscribed (f. 130v) Elisabeth Scattergood her Booke 1667/8. Booklabel of Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector.

CoR 611

Copy, ascribed to Dr Corbet.

A duodecimo verse miscellany in several hands, written from both ends, 46 leaves, in contemporary calf.

Mid-17th century

Inscribed names (on front paste-down and f. 1r) of Fra: Norreys (? Sir Francis Norris (1609-69)) and Hen. Balle. Purchased from J. Harvey 8 December 1877.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2421 f. 34v)
CoR 612

Copy, ascribed to Bishop Corbett.

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

c.1640s

Inscribed (f. 179r) This is Sr. Thomas Meres [or ? Maiors] Book: i.e. probably Sir Thomas Meres (1634-1715), of Kirton, Lincolnshire. Later bookplate of the Rev. John Curtis. Purchased from Mrs Ann Austin Curtis 12 October 1889.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2725 ff. 108v-9r)
CoR 613

Copy, untitled.

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

Including 14 poems by Donne, six poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Carew, ten poems by Habington and 13 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Randolph. Owned and possibly compiled by Arthur Capell (1631-83), second Earl of Essex, whose name is inscribed in red ink (1*), in a similar roman hand to that on ff. 1r-19r. He married (1653) Elizabeth Percy (1636-1718), daughter of Algernon, tenth Earl of Northumberland; she was therefore the great niece of Habington's mother-in-law, Eleanor Percy, sister of the ninth Earl of Northumberland.

Mid-17th century

Later among the collections of Robert Harley (1661-1724), first Earl of Oxford, and his son, Edward (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II, i-ii (1987-93), as the Capell MS: DnJ Δ 43, CwT Δ 17, and RnT Δ 3. Discussed in Geoffrey Tillotson, The Commonplace Book of Arthur Capell, MLR, 27 (1932), 381-91.

CoR 614

Copy, headed To the Ladyes with new dresse.

Edited from this MS in Gilchrist, p. 233.

An octavo miscellany, 47 leaves, the greater part (ff. 1r-26, 42r-5v) in a single small mixed hand, with other hands on ff. 27r-41r, including a Catalogus Librorum on ff. 29v-40r, and accounts c.1705 on ff. 46v-7r, in black morocco gilt.

Compiled principally by Henry George, while a student at Christ's College, Cambridge.

c.1639-43

Inscribed (f. 1*v) Meliora Spero dum Spiro / Henricus George / nec ut mortale / quod opto.

CoR 616

Copy, headed Bp: Corbetts verses, directed to ye ladies of ye new dresse.

A folio volume of state tracts, speeches, and verse, closely written from both ends in a single hand, 260 pages, lacking a number of pages and some fragments (pp. 25-38, 48-64) now removed to MS Gg. 4. 13*, in quarter-calf.

Mid-17th century
CoR 617

Copy, headed Dr Corbett to ye Ldies of ye new dresse.

A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, predominantly in a single hand (up to f. 34v), with additions in four subsequent hands (ff. 37-50v), 50 leaves, in vellum.

Compiled for the most part by a University of Oxford man, with (f. 1r-v) a list of contents.

c.1640s

Once owned by one John Faith, and by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.

Formerly cited as Corpus Christi College, MS E.i.33.

CoR 617.5

Copy, untitled, here beginning Ladyes yt haue black Cypresse vails.

An octavo commonplace book of miscellaneous verse and prose, in English, Latin and Greek, in several hands, one mixed hand predominating, written from both ends, lvi + 302 pages, in a recycled medieval vellum document within contemporary vellum.

Possibly compiled in part by Elias Smyth, minor canon of Durham (whose epitaph on his son Richard appears on p. 134).

c.1644-67

Among the collections of Christopher Hunter (1675-1757), Durham antiquary and physician.

Durham Cathedral Library (Hunter MS 125 p. 54)
CoR 618

Copy, headed Dr: Corbet to the Ladies of new dress.

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, including parliamentary speeches, in several largely secretary hands, 165 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum, stamped with the monogram TSB, within modern half-calf on marbled boards.

Inscribed (inside the front cover) Thomas Bowdler his booke wrytten wth his owne bloode 1634 and, in engrossed and decorated lettering, Thomas Bowdler his booke Ao Do: 1635, his name occurring several times elsewhere: the MS probably compiled in part by him.

c.1634-43
CoR 619

Copy, headed Doctor Corbet [against the Ladies / gentlewomens new fashion deleted] to the Ladies of the new dresse.

A quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary hand, probably associated with Oxford and afterwards with the Inns of Court, 73 leaves (plus a few blanks and a modern index).

Including 40 poems by Strode and two poems of doubtful authorship.

c.1630s

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9510. (Phillipps sale, lot 1015.) Owned c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914). Percy Dobell's sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 342. Formerly MS 4201. 27. 1.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dobell MS II: StW Δ 19. Formerly Folger MS 1.27.42.

CoR 620

Copy, headed By Corbett to the ladyes of the new dresse.

A large quarto verse miscellany, 76 leaves, in old vellum wrappers within modern quarter red morocco on marbled boards.

Part I, including some Welsh, comprises sixteen leaves, all (but for f. 15r-v) in the cursive hand of William Jordan, schoolmaster of Denbigh or Caernarvon, whose name (Gulielmus Jordan) is inscribed, the dates 1680-83 occurring.

Part II comprises 60 leaves, ff. 1-50v in a neat italic hand, ff. 51r-60r in several other cursive hands.

c.1674-84

The vellum wrapper on Part II bears notes on a debt by William Jordan in 1674 relating to Evan Thomas and Mr Richard Wilkinsn in pepper street. Formerly Folger MS 1669.2.

CoR 621

Copy, headed To you Ladyes & Yor. women that doe black Cyprus vayles.

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

Including 11 poems by Carew and 14 poems by Randolph.

c.1630s-40s

Inscribed Jane Wheeler and Tho: Oliver Busfield. Francis Quarles's poem (pp. 209-11) To ye two partners of my heart Mr John Wheeler, and Mr Symon Tue. Item 96 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Formerly Folger MS 2071.6.

A Jo. Wheeler signed the Christ Church, Oxford, disbursement books for 1641-3 (xii, b.85 and 86).

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Wheeler MS: CwT Δ 25 and RnT Δ 7.

CoR 622

Copy, headed Dr Corbet on Ladyes attire.

A small quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single, minute non-professional italic hand, probably someone associated with Oxford University, comprising 180 pages now all separated and mounted, interleaved, in 19th-century calf.

c.late 1630s

Later in the libraries (with bookplates) of the book collector Richard Heber (1774-1833); of the bibliographer and antiquary Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833); of the biographer and literary editor Alexander Chalmers (1759-1834); and of the antiquary Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough (his sale by Charles Sharpe in Dublin, 1 November 1842, lot 577).

CoR 623

Copy, headed Agst. Ladies wearing great bands.

A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, in probably two or more secretary hands, 108 pages, in half brown morocco.

Mid-17th century

Later owned by F.W. Cosens (1819-89). Bookplate of James W. Ellsworth.

CoR 624

Copy.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single predominantly italic hand, 152 leaves (paginated 1-34, thereafter foliated 35-169), plus index, in modern red leather.

Including 85 poems (and second copies of two) by Thomas Carew.

c.1638-42

Inscriptions including Horatio Carey 1642 te deus pardamus [viz. Horatio Carey (1619-ante 1677), eldest son of Sir Richard Carey (1583-1630) and great-grandson of Sir Henry Carey (1524?-96), first Baron Hunsdon ], Thomas Arding, Thomas Arden, William Harrington, Thomas John, John Anthehope and Clement Poxall. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 8270. Bookplates of John William Cole and of the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936 (Perry sale). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 194.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Carey MS: CwT Δ 34. Briefly discussed in Gary Taylor, Some Manuscripts of Shakespeare's Sonnets, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 68 (1985), 210-46 (pp. 220-4). Discussed, with facsimile pages, in Scott Nixon, The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 188, 191-2).

CoR 625

Copy.

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

c.1636-40s

The name of the possible compiler John Pike inscribed on f. 1r: i.e. possibly a member of the Pike family of Cambridge (one John Pike (d.1677) matriculating at Peterhouse in 1662).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Pike MS: KiH Δ 12. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6), pp. 143-7.

St John's College, Cambridge (MS S. 32 (James 423) f. 43r)
CoR 626

Copy, headed Bishop Corbett to the ladies of the new dress that weare gorgets and vailes downe to ther waste.

MS.

17th century

Recorded in HMC, 7th Report, Part I (1879), Appendix, p. 508. A set of microfilms of the Verney Papers is in the British Library (M/636/1-60).

Sir Ralph Verney, Bt., Claydon House ([no shelfmark] [unspecified item])
CoR 627

Copy, headed To or new fashiond Ladyes.

A small quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat italic hand, with rubrication, 144 pages (plus later index).

Including twelve poems by Carew, nine poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Randolph and nineteen (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, the miscellany associated with Oxford University and possibly related to Bodleian MS Malone 21, the latest date occuring in a poem on pp. 63-6 Vpon ye great Frost 1634.

c.1635

Inscribed inside the front cover by a later owner: April 1853 Read to Lit[erary] & Philosophical] Soc[iet]y of L[iver]pool. Acquired in 1940 by Edwin Wolf II (1911-91), Philadelphia librarian.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Wolf MS: CwT Δ 37; RnT Δ 12; StW Δ 28.

CoR 628

Copy, headed Vpon ye ladyes of ye newe dresses

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

c.1640
CoR 629

Copy, headed D.C. To the Gentlewomen of the Newe Dresse, dated 1 April 1633.

Edited from this MS in Diary of John Rous, ed. Mary Ann Everett Green, Camden Society 66 (London, 1856), pp. 71-2. This publication recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 159.

A small quarto diary, in a single secretary hand, 89 leaves, bound with a separately acquired continuation or companion MS (ff. 90r-153r, now Add. MS 28640), in modern half-morocco.

Compiled by the Rev. John Rous (1584-1644), incumbent of Santon Downham, Suffolk, and relating, retrospectively, chiefly to public events and to literary texts in circulation in 1625-42.

c.1625-42

Later owned by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist and antiquary. Turner sale, 7 June 1859, lot 253. The second MS purchased at Sotheby's, 15-25 March 1871 (library of the bookseller Joseph Lilly).

The first MS edited in full in Diary of John Rous, incumbent of Santon Downham, Suffolk, from 1625 to 1642, ed. Mary Anne Everett Green, Camden Society No. 66 (1856).

To the Lord Mordant upon his returne from the North ('My Lord, I doe confesse, at the first newes')

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 23-31.

CoR 630

Copy, headed To my Lord Mordant: R: C:.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single italic hand, evidently associated with Oxford, probably Christ Church, 214 pages (skipping p. 177), plus an index.

Including 18 poems by Corbett and 59 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1630s

Inscribed on a flyleaf Elizabeth Lane hir booke and, among scribbling on another flyleaf, Johannes Finch. P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 341.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Elizabeth Lane MS: CoR Δ 1 and StW Δ 4. The Dobell catalogue description recorded in Forey (pp. lxxxv-lxxxvi).

Aberdeen University Library (MS 29 pp. 15-21)
CoR 631

Copy.

A quarto verse miscellany of c.150 poems, in several hands; associated with Oxford, probably Christ Church, 279 pages (plus index and blanks).

Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 32 poems (plus four of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1630s-40s

Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue (1836), item 1044. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9561. Sotheby's, 19 June 1893 (Phillipps sale), lot 628, and 21 March 1895, lot 903. Hodgson's, 23 April 1959, lot 528.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the English Poetry MS: CoR Δ 3 and StW Δ 6.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 97 pp. 44-8)
CoR 632

Copy, subscribed R. Corbett.

An octavo miscellany of chiefly verse, in at least two cursive italic hands, with religious verse and prose at the reverse end in another hand, 111 leaves (plus blanks), in old calf gilt.

Including nineteen poems by Corbett and 29 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, the date 1634 occurring on f. 78v.

c.1635

Inscribed on f. 111v rev. Thursday next at Capricks for Mr Pitt. Later among the collections of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724), and his son Edward, second Earl (1689-1741).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Harley MS: CoR Δ 5.

CoR 633

Copy.

An octavo verse miscellany, written predominantly in a single italic hand (on ff. 2r-19v, 20v-134v, 139r-43r); another hand on ff. 20r-v, 135v, 136v, 137v, 138v, with verbal alterations in yet another hand and scribbling elsewhere; f. 137v (rev.) containing a receipt of one Richard Bull signed by one Thomas Johnson and dated 1676; 143 leaves.

Including 14 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 22 poems by Corbett and 36 poems (plus three of doubtful authorship) by Strode. Apparently transcribed in part from Westminster Abbey, MS 41.

c.early 1630s

Inscribed (f. 1r) by one I A of Christ Church, Oxford, and also Robert Killigrew his booke witnes by his Maiesties ape Gorge Harison. Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane, Bt (1660-1753), physician and collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Killigrew MS: CwT Δ 21; CoR Δ 6; StW Δ 14. Facsimile example of f. 2v in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), Plate 7, after p. 86.

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1792 ff. 76v-80v)
CoR 634

Copy in double columns, headed To the Lo. Mordant: Doct: Corbett:.

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

Including 52 poems by Donne (many on pp. 64-109, 167-74 initialled L.C. [? Lord Chancellor], as are some poems by others), 11 poems by Carew, ten poems by Corbett, and 11 poems by or attributed to Herrick, in a single neat hand throughout; the poems dating up to 1637.

c.1637

Later scribbling and inscriptions including the names Edw Denny [presumably Edward Denny (1569-1637), Baron Denny of Waltham and first Earl of Norwich], Charles Cocks, Edward Randolphe and (on p. 162) Thomas Cassy. Later owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary (sold in the Haslewood sale, London, 1833, lot 1329, to Thorpe); by Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough, antiquary (his sale in Dublin, 1 November 1841, item 624); and by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector (his library catalogue, 1880, IV, pp. 1159-64), and sold at Sotheby's, 17 July 1917 (Huth sale), lot 5873.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Haslewood-Kingsborough MS (I): DnJ Δ 25, CwT Δ 28, CoR Δ 10, and HeR Δ 5. A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 15). Discussed in C.M. Armitage, Donne's Poems in Huntington Manuscript 198: New Light on The Funerall, SP, 63 (1966), 697-707. A facsimile of part of p. 63 in Marcy L. North, Amateur Compilers, Scribal Labour, and the Contents of Early Modern Poetic Miscellanies, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 101).

CoR 635

Copy, headed Dr Corbett. / Verses against the Guard; Or, A Satyricall Relation (by way of Letter to the Lord Mordant) concerning the ill entertainment the Guard gave him at his being att Winsore.

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

Including 13 poems by Donne and 14 (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett; the scribe is that mainly responsible also for the Thomas Smyth MS (DnJ Δ 48).

c.1630s

Later owned and used extensively as a notebook by Dr William Balam (1651-1726), of Ely, Cambridgeshire, who also annotated Cambridge University Library MS Add. 5778 and Harvard fMS Eng 966.4. Bookplate of N. Micklethwait. Owned in 1931 by the Rev. F.W. Glass, of Taverham Hall, near Norwich (seat in the 17th century of the Sotherton family and later of the Branthwayt and Micklethwait families).

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Welbeck MS: DnJ Δ 57 and CoR Δ 11. Discussed in H. Harvey Wood, A Seventeenth-Century Manuscript of Poems by Donne and Others, Essays & Studies, 16 (1931), 179-90. For Taverham Hall, see Thomas B. Norgate, A History of Taverham from Early Times to 1969 (Aylsham, 1969).

University of Nottingham (Pw V 37 pp. 307-12)
CoR 636

Copy, headed Dr Corbetts verses on the guard to the Lord Mordant.

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

Including 45 poems (and a second copy of one) by Carew, 11 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Corbett, and 25 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1634

The initials T. C. stamped on the front cover. Sold by Thomas Thorpe (1836). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9536, and by Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), of Providence, Rhode Island, industrialist, banker, and art and books collector. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 189.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Rosenbach MS II: CwT Δ 32, CoR Δ 12, and StW Δ 24. Discussed in Scott Nixon, The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 193-5).

CoR 637

Copy, headed Dr Corbet on ye guard dedicated to my Ld. Mordant.

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

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

c.1630s-40s
Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 47 ff. 17r-21r)
CoR 638

Copy, headed Doctor Corbett to the Lord Mordant.

A folio miscellany of verse and some prose, 282 pages, in calf gilt.

Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 34 of the Hopkinson MSS.

Mid-late 17th century

Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

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

Bradford Archives (32D86/34 pp. 57-62)
CoR 639

Copy, headed Dr Corbett to the Lord Mordant.

A quarto verse miscellany, nearly all in a single mixed hand, 19 leaves, in a wrapper comprising a recycled vellum leaf bearing a rubricated (?)15th-century religious text in Latin.

c.1630

Among the papers of the Stanhope family, of Horsforth, near Leeds. Formerly Spencer-Stanhope MSS, Calendar No. 2795 (Bundle 10, No. 34).

Bradford Archives (SpSt/9/1a ff. [2v-5r])
CoR 640

Copy, headed Dr Corbet to my Ld. Mordant vpon his returne from Scotland.

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.

CoR 641

Copy, headed Dor: Corbet to the honerable Lo: Mordant.

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 ff. 72r-5v)
CoR 642

Copy, in a cursive predominantly italic hand, headed Doctor Corbett to the Lord Mordant, here beginning My Lord, I must confess at ye first newes, subscribed Rich: Corbett, on twelve folio pages, unbound.

c.1620s

Among papers of Sir John Marsham, first Baronet (1602-85), of Whornes Place, Cuxton, Kent, Clerk in Chancery and antiquary, and his successors, later Earls of Romney.

CoR 643

Copy, headed Dr: C: of Oxford beinge kept out of the Haule on St George his day at Windsor by the Guard, Wrote ths verses vnto the Lord Mordent.

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 Pierpont Morgan Library (MA 1057 pp. 73-7)
CoR 644

Copy, headed Doctor Corbet to the Lord Mordaunt.

An octavo verse miscellany, written over a period in three hands (A, in alternating secretary and italic, written c.1638: ff. 1-59v; B, written c.1645: ff. 60r-9r; C, written c.1649, ff. 69v-70r), 70 leaves, in old calf.

Including thirteen poems by Strode and three of doubtful authorship.

c.1638-45 [and addition c.1649]

Later sold by Thomas Thorpe (1836). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9569. Bookplate of the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, and art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936 (Perry sale). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 193.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Rosenbach MS I: CwT Δ 31 and StW Δ 23.

CoR 645

Copy, headed Dr. Corbet on the Guard to my Lo: Mordant.

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

c.1630

Owned and probably compiled by Robert Bishop. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9549. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue, English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 187.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) as the Bishop MS: DnJ Δ 59. Edited in David Coleman Redding, Robert Bishop's Commonplace-Book: An Edition of a Seventeenth Century Miscellany (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1960) [Mic 60-3608].

CoR 645.5

Copy, transcribed from CoR 649.

A transcript of two 17th-century verse MSS, the second a miscellany, 195 large quarto pages, in calf gilt.

19th century

Once owned by F.W. Cosens, FSA (1819-89), of Clapham Park, book collector. Sotheby's, 25 July 1890 (Cosens sale), in lot 136. Among the collections of Sir Charles Harding Firth (1857-1936), historian.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Firth d. 7 ff. 127r-8r)
CoR 646

Copy, headed Doctor Corbetts encounter wth the Guarde at winsor and here beginning at line 111 (Here might I end my Lo: and then subscribe).

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

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

c.1620s-30s

Old pressmark F. 4. 20.

CoR 647

Copy, headed Dr Corbet to ye lo: Mordaunt.

A group of poems by Corbett, in a single hand, in a folio booklet of fifteen leaves presumably once part of a larger collection, foliated in pencil 49-63, numbered 22, disbound.

c.1620s-30s
Dr Williams's Library (MSS 12. 54 ff. 57r, 58r-60v)
To the New-Borne Prince, Upon the Apparition of a Starr, and the following Ecclypse ('Was Heav'ne afray'd to be out-done on Earth')

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 84-5.

CoR 648

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. 145)
CoR 649

Copy, headed On ye birth of Pr: Charles May 29, 1630 wn a star appeared next day at noone, w an Eclipse of ye Sun the next day following.

An octavo verse miscellany, in two or more hands, 95 leaves (plus blanks), including two Indexes, in contemporary vellum.

Compiled by an Oxford University man, possibly a member of St John's College.

c.1634-43

A receipt (f. 104r) by John Weston recording payment from his brother Ed: Weston, 3 May 1714. The name John Saunders inscribed on the final leaf.

CoR 649.5

Copy, headed To the newe borne Prince Charles Maye 1630 uppon the apparrition of the starre and the following Eclipse of the Sunn and Moon, subscribed Ralphe Godwyn Secretary to the Earle of Northampton fecit hos versicolos.

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

Compiled by Sir Thomas Dawes (knighted 1639).

c.1623-30

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

CoR 650

Copy, headed Another [i.e. on the birth of Prince Charles].

An octavo notebook of extracts, chiefly verse, compiled by one or two University of Cambridge men, 69 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf.

c.1653-60s
CoR 651

Copy, headed On the Princes birth 29 May 1630 A starre appearing the next day at noone: And an Ecclipse of the Sunn ye next day following.

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

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

c.1630s

Among the muniments of Lord Mexborough, descended from the Savile family formerly of Methley Hall, near Pontefract, West Yorkshire. Formerly MX 237.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Mexborough MS: CwT Δ 29.

Leeds Archives (WYL156/237 f. 87r)
Upon An Unhandsome Gentlewoman, who made Love unto him ('Have I renounc't my faith, or basely sold')

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 6-7.

CoR 652

Copy, headed On Mistris Mallet: R: C..

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single italic hand, evidently associated with Oxford, probably Christ Church, 214 pages (skipping p. 177), plus an index.

Including 18 poems by Corbett and 59 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1630s

Inscribed on a flyleaf Elizabeth Lane hir booke and, among scribbling on another flyleaf, Johannes Finch. P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 341.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Elizabeth Lane MS: CoR Δ 1 and StW Δ 4. The Dobell catalogue description recorded in Forey (pp. lxxxv-lxxxvi).

Aberdeen University Library (MS 29 pp. 154-6)
CoR 653

Copy, headed Dr: Co: on Mrs Mallett.

An octavo verse miscellany, including 13 poems by Donne and 14 poems by Corbett, in several hands, probably associated with Oxford University, written from both ends, 102 leaves, in 17th-century calf.

c.1630s

Inscribed (f. 101v) Henry Lawson (or just possibly Lamson). Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1836), item 1185. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9257. Sotheby's, 15 June 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 862. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 164 (1896), item 64.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Lawson MS: DnJ Δ 37 and CoR Δ 2.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 14 f. 25r-v)
CoR 654

Copy, headed On Mrs Mallet: R:C:.

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.

CoR 655

Copy, headed On Mris Mallet, subscribed Rich: Corbett.

An octavo miscellany of chiefly verse, in at least two cursive italic hands, with religious verse and prose at the reverse end in another hand, 111 leaves (plus blanks), in old calf gilt.

Including nineteen poems by Corbett and 29 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, the date 1634 occurring on f. 78v.

c.1635

Inscribed on f. 111v rev. Thursday next at Capricks for Mr Pitt. Later among the collections of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724), and his son Edward, second Earl (1689-1741).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Harley MS: CoR Δ 5.

CoR 656

Copy, headed On Mrs Mallet.

An octavo verse miscellany, written predominantly in a single italic hand (on ff. 2r-19v, 20v-134v, 139r-43r); another hand on ff. 20r-v, 135v, 136v, 137v, 138v, with verbal alterations in yet another hand and scribbling elsewhere; f. 137v (rev.) containing a receipt of one Richard Bull signed by one Thomas Johnson and dated 1676; 143 leaves.

Including 14 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 22 poems by Corbett and 36 poems (plus three of doubtful authorship) by Strode. Apparently transcribed in part from Westminster Abbey, MS 41.

c.early 1630s

Inscribed (f. 1r) by one I A of Christ Church, Oxford, and also Robert Killigrew his booke witnes by his Maiesties ape Gorge Harison. Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane, Bt (1660-1753), physician and collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Killigrew MS: CwT Δ 21; CoR Δ 6; StW Δ 14. Facsimile example of f. 2v in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), Plate 7, after p. 86.

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1792 ff. 26r-7r)
CoR 657

Copy, headed On Mrs Mallet Bp. Corbet.

An octavo verse miscellany, compiled by an Oxford man, possibly a member of Christ Church, pp. 1-202 in a single minute hand, written over a period, with a few later additions (including two lines on p. 7) by other hands; pp. 202-19 containing entries in later hands up to 1789, in half-calf on marbled boards, pp. 77-84 detached in the 19th century and now separately bound as Folger MS V.a.152.

Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 30 poems by Strode (one of them in V.a.152) plus one of doubtful authorship.

c.late 1630s [-1789]

Later sold by Thomas Thorpe. Afterwards owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89) (and No. 27 in his Catalogue of Shakespeare Reliques (Brixton Hill, 1852)) and subsequently in the library of Lord Warwick at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1.27.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Thorpe-Halliwell MS: CoR Δ 7 and StW Δ 17. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).

CoR 658

Copy of the last four lines, here beginning Not Tigresse like, shee feeds vpon a Man:, under a running head R: C: on Mris. Mallet, imperfect, lacking the rest.

A quarto verse miscellany, pp. 13-244 in a single largely roman hand, the remainder in varying styles in one or more other hands (up to c.1655), probably associated with Oxford University, 541 pages (of which pp. 1-12, 87-8 have been extracted and pp. 251-68, 334, 400, 410-540 are blank, with stubs of other extracted leaves at the end), in contemporary brown calf.

Including 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 57 poems (plus a second copy of one poem and four poems of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1630s[-55]

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: possibly his MS 18123. Owned c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914), literary scholar and bookseller. Formerly MS 646.4.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Dobell MS: CoR Δ 8 and StW Δ 18. Discussed in Bertram Dobell in The Athenaeum, No. 4475 (2 August 1913), p. 112. A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).

CoR 659

Copy, headed In Eandem [i.e. on Mrs Mallet] Dr. Corbet.

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

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

c.1630s

Later owned by Edward Jeremiah Curteis, M.P., of Windmill Hill, Sussex. Puttick & Simpson's, 30 June 1884 (Curteis sale), lot 175, to Pearson of Pall Mall for James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89). Formerly Folger MS 452.5.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), and II.i (1987), as the Curteis MS: DnJ Δ 50 and CoR Δ 9. Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Arthur F. Marotti, Folger MSS V.a.89 and V.a.345: Reading Lyric Poetry in Manuscript, in The Reader Revealed, ed. Sabrina Alcorn Baron, et al. (Washington, DC, 2001), pp. 44-57. Discussed in Arthur F. Marotti, Christ Church, Oxford, and Beyond: Folger MS V.a.345 and Its Manuscript and Print Sources, SP 113 (2016), 850-78. A facsimile of p. 36 is in Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey, Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper (Washington, DC, 2008), p. 32.

CoR 660

Copy, headed Dr Corbett / On Mrs Mallett; an ill-favour'd Creature, yt would needs bee in love with the Author.

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

Including 13 poems by Donne and 14 (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett; the scribe is that mainly responsible also for the Thomas Smyth MS (DnJ Δ 48).

c.1630s

Later owned and used extensively as a notebook by Dr William Balam (1651-1726), of Ely, Cambridgeshire, who also annotated Cambridge University Library MS Add. 5778 and Harvard fMS Eng 966.4. Bookplate of N. Micklethwait. Owned in 1931 by the Rev. F.W. Glass, of Taverham Hall, near Norwich (seat in the 17th century of the Sotherton family and later of the Branthwayt and Micklethwait families).

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Welbeck MS: DnJ Δ 57 and CoR Δ 11. Discussed in H. Harvey Wood, A Seventeenth-Century Manuscript of Poems by Donne and Others, Essays & Studies, 16 (1931), 179-90. For Taverham Hall, see Thomas B. Norgate, A History of Taverham from Early Times to 1969 (Aylsham, 1969).

University of Nottingham (Pw V 37 pp. 149-50)
CoR 661

Copy, headed Vpon Mrs Mallet.

An octavo verse miscellany, comprising c.118 items, including thirteen poems by Donne, twenty poems by Corbett, and twelve poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, written in several hands over an extended period, associated with Christ Church, Oxford, 99 leaves.

c.1620-40s

Owned and probably compiled in part, in his Oxford days, by George Morley (1598-1684), Bishop of Winchester.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Morley MS: DnJ Δ 62, CoR Δ 13, and StW Δ 27. This MS apparently transcribed in part in the Killigrew MS (British Library, Sloane MS 1792).

Facsimile of f. 49r in William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion, ed. Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor (Oxford, 1987), p. 24.

Westminster Abbey (MS 41 ff. 29v-30r)
CoR 662

Copy, headed On Mris Mallet and subscribed Rich: Corbett.

A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands (one predominating up to p. 167), probably associated with Oxford, 436 pages (pp. 198-9 and 269-70 skipped in the pagination, and including many blanks and an index) and numerous further blank leaves at the end, in modern black morocco gilt.

Including 14 poems by Carew, 13 poems by Corbett and 25 poems (plus one poem of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1650

Scribbling on the first page including the words Peyton Chester….

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Osborn MS I: CwT Δ 38; CoR Δ 14; StW Δ 29.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 200 pp. 173-5)
CoR 663

Copy, headed Dr Corbett to Mrs. Mallet.

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

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

c.1630s-40s
Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 47 ff. 69v-70r)
CoR 664

Copy, headed Dr Corbet on Mrs Mallet.

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

Including 16 poems by Carew and 13 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode. Written in three hands: i.e. A (Codrington's hand, including his own poems) on pp. 1-283, 349-55; B on pp. 284-9; and C on pp. 289-348, 356-60; dated (pp. 1-22) Anno Dom: 1638 and The 30th of May. 1638.

c.1638

Acquired from Blackwell's, 1962.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Codrington MS: CwT Δ 7 and StW Δ 7.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, f through end (MS Eng. poet. f. 27 pp. 92-3)
CoR 665

Copy, headed On Mrs Mallett and subscribed Dr Corbett.

An octavo verse miscellany, in two or more hands, 95 leaves (plus blanks), including two Indexes, in contemporary vellum.

Compiled by an Oxford University man, possibly a member of St John's College.

c.1634-43

A receipt (f. 104r) by John Weston recording payment from his brother Ed: Weston, 3 May 1714. The name John Saunders inscribed on the final leaf.

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 21 ff. 48v-9r)
CoR 666

Copy, headed Vppon Mris Mallet.

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

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

Mid-17th century

Later owned by John Somers (1651-1716), Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor, and his brother-in-law Sir Joseph Jekyll (1662-1738), lawyer and politician.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Wase MS: DnJ Δ 39.

CoR 667

Copy, headed On Mrs Mallet, subscribed R: Corbet.

A small quarto verse miscellany, in a single hand, 98 pages (plus some blanks), in reversed calf (rebacked).

c.1620s-30s

Inscribed (f. ir) by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), the date 1741 added.

CoR 668

Copy, headed Vpon Mrs m. An invectiue against her.

A folio miscellany of verse and some prose, 282 pages, in calf gilt.

Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 34 of the Hopkinson MSS.

Mid-late 17th century

Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

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

Bradford Archives (32D86/34 p. 82)
CoR 669

Copy, headed vpon mrs Mallett.

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.

CoR 670

Copy, headed On Mrs Mallett.

An octavo verse miscellany, including sixteen poems by Strode and one of doubtful authorship, in several hands, including a small mixed hand on ff. 2r-43v, cursive secretary hands thereafter, and Latin entries in italic at the reverse end, 139 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1630s

A flyleaf inscribed [?] Johannes Philips. Acquired from H. Stevens 11 December 1852.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1987), as the John Philips MS: StW Δ 8.

CoR 671

Copy, headed On Mrs Mallet: Dr Corbett.

A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, in Latin and English, one cursive hand predominating, 69 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half black crushed morocco.

c.1630s

Inscribed (f. 62r) Nathaniel Heighmore: i.e. presumably Nathaniel Highmore (1613-85), chemical physician and anatomist; John Sacheverell his hand and pen Amen; and John Sacheverell the Author of this....

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 542 f. 17r-v)
CoR 672

Copy, headed On Mrs Mallet.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single small neat predominantly secretary hand but for additions in a second hand on ff. 35v and 58r, compiled by an Oxford man, possibly a member of Wadham College, 97 leaves (inclusing two blanks), in half-calf.

Including 14 poems by Carew (and a second copy of one poem), eight poems (plus 3 of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, and 28 poems by Strode (plus a second copy of one and two of doubtful authorship).

c.late 1630s

Later used and annotated by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, and entries in his hand on f. 97r. Formerly Bodleian, MS CCC.328.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Fulman MS: CwT Δ 2; RnT Δ 6; StW Δ 16.

Corpus Christi College, Oxford (MS 328 f. 12r-v)
CoR 673

Copy, headed Dr. Corbett. On Mris Malett, an ill favour'd Creature, that would needs bee on love with the Author.

A quarto verse miscellany, arranged (Part I) as an anthology, under genre headings, the reverse end (Part II) largely occupied by a later series of Latin verses, epistles, and other exercises, 168 leaves, in old calf (rebacked).

Part I probably in several hands, the predominant italic hand that also responsible for the Welbeck MS: DnJ Δ 57), and including 21 poems by Donne.

c.1630 [-1677]

Part I inscribed (f. 1r) John Smyth his Book 1640, Charles Smyth 1674, Hugh Smyth 1676; (f. 23v) J Smyth 1677 / 1676. Part II inscribed several times Thomas Smith, on f. 19r also Die: Maij 12o Ano 1659, with a reference on f. 58v to Balliol College, Oxford, 1659/60. Later inscribed (f. [ir]) by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), who records buying this very curious and interesting MS. of Messrs Boone. Afterwards in the library at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1. 28.

Cited in IELM, I.i, as the Thomas Smyth MS: DnJ Δ 48.

CoR 674

Copy, headed Verses on Mrs Mallet, subscribed R. C.

A quarto miscellany, in several hands, including a number of culinary receipts, 255 leaves (including over 65 blanks), written from both ends (Part I, in a rounded italic hand: ff. 1r-117r:; Part II: ff. 1*r-72r), in old calf.

Inscribed (Part II, f. 1*r) A booke of verses collected by mee RDungaruan: i.e. Richard Boyle (1612-98), Viscount Dungarvon and later Earl of Burlington.

c.1630s

Also inscribed Mary Helerd. Subsequently owned by James Tyrrell (1642-1718), historical writer, and by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1782-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 15745. Formerly Folger MS 46. 2.

CoR 675

Copy, headed On Mrs Mallett, subscribed R: Corbett.

A quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary hand, probably associated with Oxford and afterwards with the Inns of Court, 73 leaves (plus a few blanks and a modern index).

Including 40 poems by Strode and two poems of doubtful authorship.

c.1630s

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9510. (Phillipps sale, lot 1015.) Owned c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914). Percy Dobell's sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 342. Formerly MS 4201. 27. 1.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dobell MS II: StW Δ 19. Formerly Folger MS 1.27.42.

CoR 676

Copy, headed On Mris Mallett.

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

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

c.1637-51

Inscribed (front pastedown) Wakelin EeK Hering / Blows of Whitsor, and (rear pastedown) R. J. Cotton. Formerly Folger MS 2073.4.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Cotton MS: StW Δ 20.

CoR 678

Copy, headed Dr Corbett to Madam Mallett.

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

Including 11 poems by Carew and 14 poems by Randolph.

c.1630s-40s

Inscribed Jane Wheeler and Tho: Oliver Busfield. Francis Quarles's poem (pp. 209-11) To ye two partners of my heart Mr John Wheeler, and Mr Symon Tue. Item 96 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Formerly Folger MS 2071.6.

A Jo. Wheeler signed the Christ Church, Oxford, disbursement books for 1641-3 (xii, b.85 and 86).

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Wheeler MS: CwT Δ 25 and RnT Δ 7.

CoR 679

Copy, headed Vpon Mistris Mallet, subscribed R C.

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

Including 15 poems by Carew and 17 poems by King.

c.1630s

Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Bookplate of the Warwick Castle Library. Formerly Folger MS 1.8.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Halliwell MS: CwT Δ 26 and KiH Δ 11. James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Some Account of the Antiquities…illustrating…Shakespeare (1852), No. 8. Facsimile example in Giles Dawson and Laetitia Kennedy-Skipton, Elizabethan Handwriting 1500-1650 (London, 1968), Plate 42. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 195).

CoR 679.5

Copy, untitled.

A small octavo miscellany of 76 poems by Donne, together with a few poems by others dating up to 1627, in a single italic hand, occasionally marking the end of poems with one or more quatrefoils, 102 leaves (foliation jumping from 55 to 57), gilt-edged, in 19th-century dark green leather gilt.

c.late 1620s

Inscriptions including (f. 6r) Hannah Lewis Junr; Thomas Turner his Book (three times, ff. 8r, 14v, 48v, dated 1750, 58 and 1760); (f. 12r) Edmund Baxter att Mrs Nortons; (ff. 20r, 59v) John Jones; (f. 40r) Jon: Pryse 1729; (f. 59v) Robt. Was[?]; and (f. 79r) Edmund Baxter 1729. Later owned by Edward Vernon Utterson (1776-1856), of Shanklin and Ryde, Isle of Wight, artist, literary antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 24 April 1852 (Utterson sale), lot 1317, sold to Lelly. Then owned by Sir John Simeon, third Baronet (1815-70), M.P. Sotheby's, 3 March 1871 (Simeon sale), lot 638, to Pickering. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 436 (1930), item 576. Formerly MS Nor 4620.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Utterson MS: DnJ Δ 51. Discussed in Sir John Simeon, Unpublished Poems of Donne, Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, 3 (London, 1856-7), No. 3. For an account of Utterson, see Raymond V. Turley, Edward Vernon Utterson, The Book Collector, 25 (1976), 21-44 (and plates after p. 48).

Harvard University, MS Eng 966.7 (MS Eng 966.7 ff. 65v-6v)
CoR 680

Copy, headed Vpon Mrs Malletts being in loue wth him.

A quarto volume of poems, including 72 by Donne, arranged under genres, probably in two hands, poems by Corbett and others at the reverse end, 160 pages (not numbered consecutively, plus blanks).

Owned, and possibly compiled, by John Cave, of Lincoln College, Oxford (M.A. 28 January 1618/19; d.1657). The first page of text is a poem Vpon Mr Donn's Satires subscribed Io. Ca. Jun. 3. 1620. If John Cave was a member of the Cave family of Stanford, Northamptonshire, he would have been related (by marriage) to the Skipwith family.

c.1620-5

Also inscribed with names of Elizabeth Park [or Parker], John Nedham, and William Adams. Later owned by the Rev. T.R. O' Flahertie (d.1894), of Capel, near Dorking, Surrey, book collector; by Charles Elkin Matthews (1851-19210, bookseller; and by Richard Jennings. Sotheby's, 28 April 1952 (Jennings sale), lot 12.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the John Cave MS, DnJ Δ 27. For a facsimile of page 3 see DnJ 793, DnJ 3858.

New York Public Library, Arents Collection (Cat. No. S 191 (Acc. No. 7167) f. [15v rev.])
CoR 681

Copy, headed Dr Corbett to his Mris: Mallett.

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

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

c.1638

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

New York Public Library, Arents Collection (Cat. No. S 288 (Acc. No. 5442) pp. 96-7)
CoR 682

Copy, headed Of Mrs Mallet.

A quarto verse miscellany, including ten poems by Carew and one of doubtful authorship, in a single neat non-professional hand, 72 leaves (plus a later index).

c.1643-50s

Later owned by the Newcastle antiquarian collectors John Bell (1783-1864) and Robert White (1802-74).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Bell-White MS, CwT Δ 30. Described, with facsimiles of ff. 30r and 56v, in T.G.S. Cain, The Bell/White MS: Some Unpublished Poems, ELR, 2 (1972), 260-70.

University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 25 ff. 15r-16r)
CoR 683

Copy, headed On Mris Mallett: R:C:.

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 Pierpont Morgan Library (MA 1057 pp. 202-3)
CoR 684

Copy, headed On Mres Mallett.

A quarto verse miscellany, in three hands (A: pp. 1-56; B: pp. 57-60, 75-122; C: pp. 61-74, 125-7), 127 pages, in contemporary limp vellum.

Including 23 poems (and a second copy of one) by Randolph.

c.1635

Mostyn MS 196: from the library originally founded by Sir Thomas Mostyn (1535-1617) at Mostyn Hall, near Holywell, Flintshire, Wales, the MS possibly acquired by Sir Roger Mostyn (1567-1642) or by his son Sir Roger Mostyn, first Baronet (1625?-90). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 191.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Mostyn MS: RnT Δ 11. Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1873), Appendix, p. 356. Edited in Howard H. Thompson, An Edition of Two Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Poetical Miscellanies (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1959) [Mic 59-4669].

CoR 685

Copy, headed Dr Corbett on Mrs Mallett.

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

c.1636-40s

The name of the possible compiler John Pike inscribed on f. 1r: i.e. possibly a member of the Pike family of Cambridge (one John Pike (d.1677) matriculating at Peterhouse in 1662).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Pike MS: KiH Δ 12. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6), pp. 143-7.

St John's College, Cambridge (MS S. 32 (James 423) f. 44r-v)
CoR 685.5

Copy of lines 1-10, untitled; imperfect, lacking the rest of the poem.

An octavo verse miscellany, of English and Welsh verse and prose, in probably several hands, the English verse (on pages 9-70, 93-104) including eleven poems by Strode and two of doubtful authorship, 110 pages (plus stubs of extracted leaves).

Compiled by members of the Griffith family, of Llanddyfnan, the verse probably entered by one or more of the various members of that family who studied in this period at the University of Oxford.

Mid-17th century

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Griffith MS: StW Δ 26.

Bangor University (MS 422 p. 106)
CoR 686

Copy, headed Dr Corbett on Mrs Mallett a very deformed Gentlewoman, yt was in love wth him.

A small quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat italic hand, with rubrication, 144 pages (plus later index).

Including twelve poems by Carew, nine poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Randolph and nineteen (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, the miscellany associated with Oxford University and possibly related to Bodleian MS Malone 21, the latest date occuring in a poem on pp. 63-6 Vpon ye great Frost 1634.

c.1635

Inscribed inside the front cover by a later owner: April 1853 Read to Lit[erary] & Philosophical] Soc[iet]y of L[iver]pool. Acquired in 1940 by Edwin Wolf II (1911-91), Philadelphia librarian.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Wolf MS: CwT Δ 37; RnT Δ 12; StW Δ 28.

CoR 686.5

Copy, headed Doctor Corbett on mrs Mallett.

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

c.late 1630s

Inscribed (on p. [330]) Robert Lord his book Anno Domini; (on [p. 335]) william Jacob his booke Amen; and, among scribbling on the last leaf, Hugh Gibgans of the same and John Winter of Buckland Dursbane [or husbande?]. Owned in 1788 by Alexander R. Popham. Bloomsbury Book Auction, 23 November 2000, lot 8.

A microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7698.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 356 pp. 40-2)
Upon Faireford Windowes ('Tell mee, you Anti-Saintes, why glasse')

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 87.

CoR 687

Copy, headed On Fayrford windowes R: C.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single italic hand, evidently associated with Oxford, probably Christ Church, 214 pages (skipping p. 177), plus an index.

Including 18 poems by Corbett and 59 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1630s

Inscribed on a flyleaf Elizabeth Lane hir booke and, among scribbling on another flyleaf, Johannes Finch. P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 341.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Elizabeth Lane MS: CoR Δ 1 and StW Δ 4. The Dobell catalogue description recorded in Forey (pp. lxxxv-lxxxvi).

Aberdeen University Library (MS 29 pp. 113-14)
CoR 688

Copy, headed An other on the same [i.e. Fairford Windows].

A quarto verse miscellany of c.150 poems, in several hands; associated with Oxford, probably Christ Church, 279 pages (plus index and blanks).

Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 32 poems (plus four of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1630s-40s

Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue (1836), item 1044. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9561. Sotheby's, 19 June 1893 (Phillipps sale), lot 628, and 21 March 1895, lot 903. Hodgson's, 23 April 1959, lot 528.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the English Poetry MS: CoR Δ 3 and StW Δ 6.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 97 pp. 35-6)
CoR 689

Copy.

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.

CoR 690

Copy, subscribed Dr Rich: Corbett.

An octavo miscellany of chiefly verse, in at least two cursive italic hands, with religious verse and prose at the reverse end in another hand, 111 leaves (plus blanks), in old calf gilt.

Including nineteen poems by Corbett and 29 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, the date 1634 occurring on f. 78v.

c.1635

Inscribed on f. 111v rev. Thursday next at Capricks for Mr Pitt. Later among the collections of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724), and his son Edward, second Earl (1689-1741).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Harley MS: CoR Δ 5.

CoR 691

Copy.

An octavo verse miscellany, written predominantly in a single italic hand (on ff. 2r-19v, 20v-134v, 139r-43r); another hand on ff. 20r-v, 135v, 136v, 137v, 138v, with verbal alterations in yet another hand and scribbling elsewhere; f. 137v (rev.) containing a receipt of one Richard Bull signed by one Thomas Johnson and dated 1676; 143 leaves.

Including 14 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 22 poems by Corbett and 36 poems (plus three of doubtful authorship) by Strode. Apparently transcribed in part from Westminster Abbey, MS 41.

c.early 1630s

Inscribed (f. 1r) by one I A of Christ Church, Oxford, and also Robert Killigrew his booke witnes by his Maiesties ape Gorge Harison. Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane, Bt (1660-1753), physician and collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Killigrew MS: CwT Δ 21; CoR Δ 6; StW Δ 14. Facsimile example of f. 2v in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), Plate 7, after p. 86.

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1792 f. 73v)
CoR 692

Copy, headed On Fairefoord Windowes, subscribed Dr Corbet.

An octavo verse miscellany, compiled by an Oxford man, possibly a member of Christ Church, pp. 1-202 in a single minute hand, written over a period, with a few later additions (including two lines on p. 7) by other hands; pp. 202-19 containing entries in later hands up to 1789, in half-calf on marbled boards, pp. 77-84 detached in the 19th century and now separately bound as Folger MS V.a.152.

Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 30 poems by Strode (one of them in V.a.152) plus one of doubtful authorship.

c.late 1630s [-1789]

Later sold by Thomas Thorpe. Afterwards owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89) (and No. 27 in his Catalogue of Shakespeare Reliques (Brixton Hill, 1852)) and subsequently in the library of Lord Warwick at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1.27.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Thorpe-Halliwell MS: CoR Δ 7 and StW Δ 17. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).

CoR 693

Copy, headed On Farford windowes: Dr. Corbett.

A quarto verse miscellany, pp. 13-244 in a single largely roman hand, the remainder in varying styles in one or more other hands (up to c.1655), probably associated with Oxford University, 541 pages (of which pp. 1-12, 87-8 have been extracted and pp. 251-68, 334, 400, 410-540 are blank, with stubs of other extracted leaves at the end), in contemporary brown calf.

Including 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 57 poems (plus a second copy of one poem and four poems of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1630s[-55]

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: possibly his MS 18123. Owned c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914), literary scholar and bookseller. Formerly MS 646.4.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Dobell MS: CoR Δ 8 and StW Δ 18. Discussed in Bertram Dobell in The Athenaeum, No. 4475 (2 August 1913), p. 112. A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).

CoR 694

Copy, headed On fayrford windowes, subscribed D: R: Corbett.

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

Including 52 poems by Donne (many on pp. 64-109, 167-74 initialled L.C. [? Lord Chancellor], as are some poems by others), 11 poems by Carew, ten poems by Corbett, and 11 poems by or attributed to Herrick, in a single neat hand throughout; the poems dating up to 1637.

c.1637

Later scribbling and inscriptions including the names Edw Denny [presumably Edward Denny (1569-1637), Baron Denny of Waltham and first Earl of Norwich], Charles Cocks, Edward Randolphe and (on p. 162) Thomas Cassy. Later owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary (sold in the Haslewood sale, London, 1833, lot 1329, to Thorpe); by Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough, antiquary (his sale in Dublin, 1 November 1841, item 624); and by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector (his library catalogue, 1880, IV, pp. 1159-64), and sold at Sotheby's, 17 July 1917 (Huth sale), lot 5873.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Haslewood-Kingsborough MS (I): DnJ Δ 25, CwT Δ 28, CoR Δ 10, and HeR Δ 5. A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 15). Discussed in C.M. Armitage, Donne's Poems in Huntington Manuscript 198: New Light on The Funerall, SP, 63 (1966), 697-707. A facsimile of part of p. 63 in Marcy L. North, Amateur Compilers, Scribal Labour, and the Contents of Early Modern Poetic Miscellanies, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 101).

CoR 695

Copy.

An octavo verse miscellany, comprising c.118 items, including thirteen poems by Donne, twenty poems by Corbett, and twelve poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, written in several hands over an extended period, associated with Christ Church, Oxford, 99 leaves.

c.1620-40s

Owned and probably compiled in part, in his Oxford days, by George Morley (1598-1684), Bishop of Winchester.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Morley MS: DnJ Δ 62, CoR Δ 13, and StW Δ 27. This MS apparently transcribed in part in the Killigrew MS (British Library, Sloane MS 1792).

Facsimile of f. 49r in William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion, ed. Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor (Oxford, 1987), p. 24.

Westminster Abbey (MS 41 f. 53r)
CoR 696

Copy, headed On Faireford Windowes and subscribed R. Corbet.

A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands (one predominating up to p. 167), probably associated with Oxford, 436 pages (pp. 198-9 and 269-70 skipped in the pagination, and including many blanks and an index) and numerous further blank leaves at the end, in modern black morocco gilt.

Including 14 poems by Carew, 13 poems by Corbett and 25 poems (plus one poem of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1650

Scribbling on the first page including the words Peyton Chester….

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Osborn MS I: CwT Δ 38; CoR Δ 14; StW Δ 29.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 200 pp. 203-4)
CoR 698

Copy, headed On ye same [i.e. Fairford Windows].

An octavo verse miscellany, in two or more hands, 95 leaves (plus blanks), including two Indexes, in contemporary vellum.

Compiled by an Oxford University man, possibly a member of St John's College.

c.1634-43

A receipt (f. 104r) by John Weston recording payment from his brother Ed: Weston, 3 May 1714. The name John Saunders inscribed on the final leaf.

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 21 f. 2r-v)
CoR 700

Copy, headed On the preserueing of Lincolns Inn Chappell windowes in the tyme of the warr.

A folio verse miscellany, 215 leaves (plus a few blanks), in modern calf gilt.

Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 17 of the Hopkinson MSS.

c.1670

Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, pp. 295-6.

Bradford Archives (32D86/17 ff. 25v-6r)
CoR 701

Copy.

A folio verse miscellany, in a single professional secretary hand associated with the playhouse and possibly inns of court (also responsible for ChG 12.5, HyT 5, and MiT 6), 97 leaves, with a first-line Index at the end, in contemporary vellum boards.

Including fourteen poems by James Shirley, generally ascribed to him, and eleven poems by Strode (and two of doubtful authorship).

c.1636

Inscribed (on the front paste-down) My cousin chute gaue me this book out of his father study at the vine Hampshire (following the same statement in French), indicating that the MS was owned by, and possibly originally compiled for, the family of Chaloner Chute, MP (c.1595-1659), Speaker of the house of Commons, who acquired The Vyne, near Basingstoke, Hampshire, in 1653. Later owned by Sir William Tite (1798-1873), architect. Sotheby's, 30 May 1874, lot 2343. Bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork, book collector. Sotheby's, 21 March 1891 (Crawford sale), lot 2493.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Chute MS: ShJ Δ 2 and StW Δ 11. Briefly discussed, with a facsimile of f. 34v (see ShJ 96 and ShJ 100) in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and their Value for Textual Editors, EMS, 1 (1989), 192-210 (pp. 200-1, 209-10 n. 40). Discussed, with facsimiles of ff. 53r and 80r, in Arthur F. Marotti, Chaloner Chute's Poetical Anthology (British Library, Additional MS 33998) as a Cosmopolitan Collection, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 99).

CoR 702

Copy, headed On the same [i.e. Fairford Windows].

A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, in Latin and English, one cursive hand predominating, 69 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half black crushed morocco.

c.1630s

Inscribed (f. 62r) Nathaniel Heighmore: i.e. presumably Nathaniel Highmore (1613-85), chemical physician and anatomist; John Sacheverell his hand and pen Amen; and John Sacheverell the Author of this....

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 542 ff. 59v-60r)
CoR 703

Copy, subscribed R: C:.

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

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

c.1633

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

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

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1446 f. 11r-v)
CoR 704

Copy, headed On faireford Windowes, subscribed D. Corbet.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single small neat predominantly secretary hand but for additions in a second hand on ff. 35v and 58r, compiled by an Oxford man, possibly a member of Wadham College, 97 leaves (inclusing two blanks), in half-calf.

Including 14 poems by Carew (and a second copy of one poem), eight poems (plus 3 of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, and 28 poems by Strode (plus a second copy of one and two of doubtful authorship).

c.late 1630s

Later used and annotated by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, and entries in his hand on f. 97r. Formerly Bodleian, MS CCC.328.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Fulman MS: CwT Δ 2; RnT Δ 6; StW Δ 16.

Corpus Christi College, Oxford (MS 328 ff. 12v-13r)
CoR 705

Copy, headed On Faireford windowes, subscribed Rich: Corbett.

A quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary hand, probably associated with Oxford and afterwards with the Inns of Court, 73 leaves (plus a few blanks and a modern index).

Including 40 poems by Strode and two poems of doubtful authorship.

c.1630s

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9510. (Phillipps sale, lot 1015.) Owned c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914). Percy Dobell's sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 342. Formerly MS 4201. 27. 1.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dobell MS II: StW Δ 19. Formerly Folger MS 1.27.42.

CoR 706

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

Including 15 poems by Carew and 17 poems by King.

c.1630s

Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Bookplate of the Warwick Castle Library. Formerly Folger MS 1.8.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Halliwell MS: CwT Δ 26 and KiH Δ 11. James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Some Account of the Antiquities…illustrating…Shakespeare (1852), No. 8. Facsimile example in Giles Dawson and Laetitia Kennedy-Skipton, Elizabethan Handwriting 1500-1650 (London, 1968), Plate 42. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 195).

CoR 707

A small quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single, minute non-professional italic hand, probably someone associated with Oxford University, comprising 180 pages now all separated and mounted, interleaved, in 19th-century calf.

c.late 1630s

Later in the libraries (with bookplates) of the book collector Richard Heber (1774-1833); of the bibliographer and antiquary Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833); of the biographer and literary editor Alexander Chalmers (1759-1834); and of the antiquary Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough (his sale by Charles Sharpe in Dublin, 1 November 1842, lot 577).

CoR 708

Copy, headed On the same [i.e. Fairford Windows] by Ric. Corbett.

A quarto verse miscellany, in three hands (A: pp. 1-56; B: pp. 57-60, 75-122; C: pp. 61-74, 125-7), 127 pages, in contemporary limp vellum.

Including 23 poems (and a second copy of one) by Randolph.

c.1635

Mostyn MS 196: from the library originally founded by Sir Thomas Mostyn (1535-1617) at Mostyn Hall, near Holywell, Flintshire, Wales, the MS possibly acquired by Sir Roger Mostyn (1567-1642) or by his son Sir Roger Mostyn, first Baronet (1625?-90). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 191.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Mostyn MS: RnT Δ 11. Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1873), Appendix, p. 356. Edited in Howard H. Thompson, An Edition of Two Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Poetical Miscellanies (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1959) [Mic 59-4669].

CoR 709

Copy.

An oblong quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat hand, written with the volume tilted with the spine to the top, 167 pages (plus blanks), in elaborately tooled green morocco gilt.

Including ten poems by Carew and twelve poems by Strode (and two poems of doubtful authorship).

c.1634

The initials M W stamped on each cover: i.e. M[aidstone] and W[inchilsea]. Evidently compiled by or for Sir Thomas Finch, Viscount Maidstone and Earl of Winchilsea (who succeeded to the peerage in 1633 and died in 1634). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 190.

The MS came to Rosenbach with a printed exemplum of William Wishcart, An Exposition of the Lord's Prayer (London, 1633), and the two clearly share the same provenance. The printed volume is similarly bound, with the initials M W; it is inscribed Lord Winchilsea for Mr Locker 1634; it bears the late 17th-century signatures of Stephen Locker and Alexander Campbell, and the bookplates of Captain William Locker (1731-1800) and Edward Hawke Locker (1777-1849).

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Winchelsea MS: CwT Δ 33 and StW Δ 25.

CoR 710

Copy.

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

c.1636-40s

The name of the possible compiler John Pike inscribed on f. 1r: i.e. possibly a member of the Pike family of Cambridge (one John Pike (d.1677) matriculating at Peterhouse in 1662).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Pike MS: KiH Δ 12. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6), pp. 143-7.

St John's College, Cambridge (MS S. 32 (James 423) f. 40r)
CoR 711

Copy, headed On ye same [i.e. Fairford Windows] by another.

A small quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat italic hand, with rubrication, 144 pages (plus later index).

Including twelve poems by Carew, nine poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Randolph and nineteen (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, the miscellany associated with Oxford University and possibly related to Bodleian MS Malone 21, the latest date occuring in a poem on pp. 63-6 Vpon ye great Frost 1634.

c.1635

Inscribed inside the front cover by a later owner: April 1853 Read to Lit[erary] & Philosophical] Soc[iet]y of L[iver]pool. Acquired in 1940 by Edwin Wolf II (1911-91), Philadelphia librarian.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Wolf MS: CwT Δ 37; RnT Δ 12; StW Δ 28.

CoR 712

Copy.

A facsimile of f. 54v in Laurence Witten, Contemporary Collectors XXIII: James Marshall Osborn, The Book Collector, 8 (Winter 1959), 383-96 (facing p. 392).

A sextodecimo verse miscellany, written from both ends in several hands (two principal ones on ff. 6r-40r, 41r et seq. respectively), 102 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf, with remains of metal clasps.

Including 45 poems by Strode and three poems of doubtful authorship.

c.1630s

Formerly Box 22, item II.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Osborn MS II: StW Δ 30.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 205 ff. 54v-5r)
Upon the Same Starre ('A Starre did late appeare in Virgo's trayne')

First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 65.

CoR 713

Copy, headed Vpon a Commet, by Dr. Lapworth and here beginning A Starre did late arise in Virgoe's traine.

This MS recorded in Benntt & Trevor-Roper, p. 138.

An octavo verse miscellany, including 13 poems by Donne and 14 poems by Corbett, in several hands, probably associated with Oxford University, written from both ends, 102 leaves, in 17th-century calf.

c.1630s

Inscribed (f. 101v) Henry Lawson (or just possibly Lamson). Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1836), item 1185. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9257. Sotheby's, 15 June 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 862. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 164 (1896), item 64.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Lawson MS: DnJ Δ 37 and CoR Δ 2.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 14 f. 76v rev.)
CoR 714

Copy.

A quarto verse miscellany of c.150 poems, in several hands; associated with Oxford, probably Christ Church, 279 pages (plus index and blanks).

Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 32 poems (plus four of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1630s-40s

Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue (1836), item 1044. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9561. Sotheby's, 19 June 1893 (Phillipps sale), lot 628, and 21 March 1895, lot 903. Hodgson's, 23 April 1959, lot 528.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the English Poetry MS: CoR Δ 3 and StW Δ 6.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 97 p. 11)
CoR 715

Copy, headed Song.

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.

CoR 716

Copy, headed On a blazinge Starre, subscribed Dr R: C:.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 138.

An octavo miscellany of chiefly verse, in at least two cursive italic hands, with religious verse and prose at the reverse end in another hand, 111 leaves (plus blanks), in old calf gilt.

Including nineteen poems by Corbett and 29 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, the date 1634 occurring on f. 78v.

c.1635

Inscribed on f. 111v rev. Thursday next at Capricks for Mr Pitt. Later among the collections of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724), and his son Edward, second Earl (1689-1741).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Harley MS: CoR Δ 5.

CoR 716.5

Copy, headed On the Commet and subscribed D.R.C.

A small quarto verse miscellany, comprising approximately 80 poems, including eleven poems by Donne, 21 poems by Strode, and one poem of doubtful authorship, in several hands, one small neat hand predominating (ff. 1r-34r), with later receipts for 1658-62 at the end, 161 leaves (including numerous blanks).

c.1630s-40s

Inscriptions include Edwardus Hyde (at the end) and (f. [ir]) Edward Hyde is a knave: i.e. probably Edward Hyde (1607-59), royalist divine, who may be the E. H. responsible for a poem To his Wife (f. 34r) and the Ned Hide who is subject of an Epitaph (f. [18r rev]). Later inscribed Robertus Walker and Elizabeth Walker. Early 18th-century bookplate of Baron Aston of Forfar. Percy Dobell, sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 345. Later owned by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Hyde MS: DnJ Δ 52, StW Δ 15. Discussed in Geoffrey Keynes, A Footnote to Donne, The Book Collector, 22 (Summer 1973), 165-8, with a facsimile of the page with Hyde's signature (which does not correspond to the main handwriting). Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 1863.

CoR 717

Copy, headed Dr Corbett: on the blazing starre.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 138.

A quarto verse miscellany, pp. 13-244 in a single largely roman hand, the remainder in varying styles in one or more other hands (up to c.1655), probably associated with Oxford University, 541 pages (of which pp. 1-12, 87-8 have been extracted and pp. 251-68, 334, 400, 410-540 are blank, with stubs of other extracted leaves at the end), in contemporary brown calf.

Including 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 57 poems (plus a second copy of one poem and four poems of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1630s[-55]

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: possibly his MS 18123. Owned c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914), literary scholar and bookseller. Formerly MS 646.4.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Dobell MS: CoR Δ 8 and StW Δ 18. Discussed in Bertram Dobell in The Athenaeum, No. 4475 (2 August 1913), p. 112. A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).

CoR 718

Copy, headed Dr Corbet, on Com:.

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

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

c.1630s

Later owned by Edward Jeremiah Curteis, M.P., of Windmill Hill, Sussex. Puttick & Simpson's, 30 June 1884 (Curteis sale), lot 175, to Pearson of Pall Mall for James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89). Formerly Folger MS 452.5.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), and II.i (1987), as the Curteis MS: DnJ Δ 50 and CoR Δ 9. Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Arthur F. Marotti, Folger MSS V.a.89 and V.a.345: Reading Lyric Poetry in Manuscript, in The Reader Revealed, ed. Sabrina Alcorn Baron, et al. (Washington, DC, 2001), pp. 44-57. Discussed in Arthur F. Marotti, Christ Church, Oxford, and Beyond: Folger MS V.a.345 and Its Manuscript and Print Sources, SP 113 (2016), 850-78. A facsimile of p. 36 is in Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey, Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper (Washington, DC, 2008), p. 32.

CoR 719

Copy, headed on ye blasinge starr.

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

Including 16 poems (plus second copies of two) by Carew, 19 poems by or attributed to Herrick (and second copies of six of them), 23 poems (plus second copies of two and four of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, 18 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and eleven poems by Waller.

c.1630s-40s

Inscribed on a flyleaf Peeter Daniell and his initials stamped on both covers. Later scribbling including the names Thomas Gardinor, James Leigh and Pettrus Romell. Owned in 1780 by one A. B. when it was given to Thomas Percy (1768-1808), later Bishop of Dromore. Sotheby's, 29 April 1884 (Percy sale), lot 1. Acquired from Quaritch, 1957.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Daniell MS: CwT Δ 5, HeR Δ 2, RnT Δ 1, StW Δ 5, WaE Δ 9. Briefly discussed in Margaret Crum, An Unpublished Fragment of Verse by Herrick, RES, NS 11 (1960), 186-9. A facsimile of f. 22v in Marcy L. North, Amateur Compilers, Scribal Labour, and the Contents of Early Modern Poetic Miscellanies, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 106). Betagraphs of the watermark in f. 65 in Ted-Larry Pebworth, Towards a Taxonomy of Watermarks, in Puzzles in Paper: Concepts in Historical Watermarks, ed. Daniel W. Mosser, Michael Saffle and Ernest W. Sullivan, II (London, 2000), pp. 229-42 (p. 241).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 50 f. 129r)
CoR 720

Copy, headed On Prince Charles.

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

Including 16 poems by Carew and 13 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode. Written in three hands: i.e. A (Codrington's hand, including his own poems) on pp. 1-283, 349-55; B on pp. 284-9; and C on pp. 289-348, 356-60; dated (pp. 1-22) Anno Dom: 1638 and The 30th of May. 1638.

c.1638

Acquired from Blackwell's, 1962.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Codrington MS: CwT Δ 7 and StW Δ 7.

CoR 721

Copy, untitled and here beginning A starre of late appear'd in virgoes traine.

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in various secretary and italic hands, 90 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum.

c.1625
CoR 722 c.1630

Copy, headed The Blazing starre and here beginning A starre of Late appear'd in Virgoes Traine, in a verse miscellany (ff. 267r-73v) compiled by an Oxford University man.

A quarto composite volume of tracts and other papers, in verse and prose, 349 leaves, in half-calf.

Copy, headed An other lre from Sr Thomas Wiatte the elder to his sonne oute of Spaine aboute the same tyme.

CoR 722.5

Copy of a version beginning The Star that rose in virgo's train.

A folio composite volume, chiefly of English and Latin verse, in various hands; vi + 186 leaves, in reversed calf.

Scribbling on f. iir including ffor mr William Rabey in New=market..., ffor my Louing ffriend in G John westhropp at mr Rogers Reringe house Bury in S[uffolk], ffor mr John fford at his house in Newmarket in the countey of cambridge; notes on f. iiiv-ivr, one Recd 22 July 1669, subscribed John Cooke and including, on f. vir, ffor mr John Cocke at his howse neere the white harte in Thetford.... Later owned, in the 1730s, by Charles Barlow, of Emmanuel College, Cambridge (his bookplate f. iiv).

CoR 722.8

Copy of a version beginning The star that rose in Virgo's train.

A folio composite volume, chiefly of English and Latin verse, in various hands; vi + 186 leaves, in reversed calf.

Scribbling on f. iir including ffor mr William Rabey in New=market..., ffor my Louing ffriend in G John westhropp at mr Rogers Reringe house Bury in S[uffolk], ffor mr John fford at his house in Newmarket in the countey of cambridge; notes on f. iiiv-ivr, one Recd 22 July 1669, subscribed John Cooke and including, on f. vir, ffor mr John Cocke at his howse neere the white harte in Thetford.... Later owned, in the 1730s, by Charles Barlow, of Emmanuel College, Cambridge (his bookplate f. iiv).

CoR 723

Copy, untitled.

A quarto composite volume of four MSS, in English and Latin, iii + 187 leaves, in vellum boards.

Part B (ff. 16d-86v): A quarto miscellany of poems and letters, in several hands, compiled by William Elyott (a nephew of Sir Simonds D'Ewes). c.1640-55.

Part C (ff. 86 bis-120r): A quarto verse miscellany compiled by Thomas Axton, M.A. (b.1699/1700), of Trinity College, Cambridge. c.1718-22.

Part C sold at the Thomas Rawlinson sale in March 1733/4, lot 289.

CoR 723.5

Copy of a version headed Est natura hominum nouitatis auida 1618 and beginning The starr that rose from Virgo's trayne.

A folio verse miscellany, 215 leaves (plus a few blanks), in modern calf gilt.

Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 17 of the Hopkinson MSS.

c.1670

Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, pp. 295-6.

Bradford Archives (32D86/17 f. 37r)
CoR 723.8

Copy, headed These verses were found by k: James 1618 scattered by whome vn certaine, vpon the blasing starr and here beginning The starre itt rose in Virgins traine.

A folio miscellany of verse and some prose, 282 pages, in calf gilt.

Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 34 of the Hopkinson MSS.

Mid-late 17th century

Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

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

Bradford Archives (32D86/34 p. 36)
CoR 724

Copy.

A folio verse miscellany, in a single professional secretary hand associated with the playhouse and possibly inns of court (also responsible for ChG 12.5, HyT 5, and MiT 6), 97 leaves, with a first-line Index at the end, in contemporary vellum boards.

Including fourteen poems by James Shirley, generally ascribed to him, and eleven poems by Strode (and two of doubtful authorship).

c.1636

Inscribed (on the front paste-down) My cousin chute gaue me this book out of his father study at the vine Hampshire (following the same statement in French), indicating that the MS was owned by, and possibly originally compiled for, the family of Chaloner Chute, MP (c.1595-1659), Speaker of the house of Commons, who acquired The Vyne, near Basingstoke, Hampshire, in 1653. Later owned by Sir William Tite (1798-1873), architect. Sotheby's, 30 May 1874, lot 2343. Bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork, book collector. Sotheby's, 21 March 1891 (Crawford sale), lot 2493.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Chute MS: ShJ Δ 2 and StW Δ 11. Briefly discussed, with a facsimile of f. 34v (see ShJ 96 and ShJ 100) in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and their Value for Textual Editors, EMS, 1 (1989), 192-210 (pp. 200-1, 209-10 n. 40). Discussed, with facsimiles of ff. 53r and 80r, in Arthur F. Marotti, Chaloner Chute's Poetical Anthology (British Library, Additional MS 33998) as a Cosmopolitan Collection, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 99).

CoR 725

Copy, headed A blazing starr and here beginning A starre of late appeerd' in Virgos traine.

A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, in Latin and English, one cursive hand predominating, 69 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half black crushed morocco.

c.1630s

Inscribed (f. 62r) Nathaniel Heighmore: i.e. presumably Nathaniel Highmore (1613-85), chemical physician and anatomist; John Sacheverell his hand and pen Amen; and John Sacheverell the Author of this....

CoR 725.3

Copy, headed Vpon the comett and here beginning A Starre of late was seene in virgoe's trayne.

A quarto verse miscellany, 170 leaves, paginated 1-8 (Latin text in a small secretary hand), then pp. 1-162 (in one or possibly two largely italic hands; pp. 108-57 blanks; pp. 158-62 containing later notes), in modern red morocco gilt.

The pagination cited below relates to the second, main series of pagination.

c.1640

Inscribed on a flyleaf in red ink Matheus Day me suum vvst: i.e. Matthew Day (d.1661), five times Mayor of Windsor. Later owned by John Payne Collier (1789-1883), literary scholar, editor and forger. Collier's sale, 1884, lot 906. Formerly Folger MS 452.1.

CoR 725.5

Copy, headed On a Blazing starre, subscribed R. C.

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

Mid-17th century

Inscribed (f. 1r) Stephen Wellden and Abraham Bassano and (f. 98r) Elizabeth Weldon. Later owned by William John Thoms (1803-85), writer, antiquary and librarian. Sotheby's, 11 February 1887 (Thoms sale), lot 1092. Also owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89). Formerly Folger MS 452.4.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Welden MS: DnJ Δ 49.

CoR 725.8

Copy, headed On the blasinge starre and here beginning A starre of late appeared in Virgoes traine.

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

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

c.1630s

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

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

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 686 f. 52r)
CoR 726

Copy, headed On the Blazing starr and here beginning A starre of late appeared in virgo's traine.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including 24 poems by Strode, in a single mixed hand, associated with Oxford, 56 leaves (out of an original eight gatherings), in contemporary calf.

c.1630s

Inscriptions inside the covers including the name Phil. Mu (or Mer.). Later in the library of John Sparrow (1906-92), literary scholar and book collector. Acquired in 1969 by Dr Bent Juel-Jensen (1922-2006), Oxford physician and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Sparrow MS: StW Δ 31.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (Juel-Jensen E 7 [item 5] f. 43r)
CoR 727

Copy, untitled and here beginning The starre yt rose in Virgo's traine.

A quarto composite miscellany of verse and prose, in various hands, probably associated with the University of Cambridge, 352 pages (including 35 blanks), in 19th-century boards.

Erroneously described in 1965 as a commonplace book of the poet Robert Herrick. The so-called Herrick hand responsible for complete poems or substantial passages on pp. 73-4, 102-3, 253, 312-13, 319-21, 323, 328 and 343, this hand also responsible for corrections and brief insertions in both verse and prose on pp. 55-6, 58-60, 68, 71, 75-6, 78, 83, 89, 91, 93, 97, 99. 108-9, 203, 266, 285, 291, 348 and 350.

c.1612-24

Scribbling on front- and end-leaves including Georgius Cantuarien, Thomas Hobson [?the Cambridge Carrier], Benjamin Broadeface, To my very long friend mr John Bond, To the right reuerend ffather in God George Archbyshop of Canterbury his grace, Whereas the Bearer hereof Thomas Hall hath serued his sixe weekes…, To the right honor Sr Tho: Moore Whereas the Bearer hereof John Tis[?]sdale, Williamson and Phillip de Maceden. Puttick and Simpson's, 30 May 1849, lot 158 (erroneously described as a commonplace book of George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 12341*. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 146 (as Herrick's commonplace book). House of El Dieff (Lew David Feldman), New York, sale catalogue No. 65 (1965), with facsimile page as frontispiece. Formerly Ms File/(Herrick, R)/Works B.

Also facsimiles of p. 323 in the Sotheby's sale catalogue (frontispiece) and of p. 253 (as if in Herrick's hand) in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 33. Facsimile of all the verse in the MS (viz. pp. 63-83, 85, 87, 89, 91, 93,95, 97, 99, 101-3, 105-9, 113-17, 251-3, 277-82, 291, 317-21, 323, 325-43, 345-50), together with a transcript, in Norman K. Farmer, Jr, Poems from a Seventeenth-century Manuscript with the Hand of Robert Herrick, Texas Quarterly, 16, No. 4 (Supplement) (Winter 1973), 1-185. Microfilm of the complete MS in the British Library, M/751.

The MS discussed by Farmer in loc. cit. and in Robert Herrick's Commonplace Book? Some Observations and Questions, PBSA, 66 (1972), 21-34; in P.J. Croft's critical comments on Farmer's articles in To the Editor, PBSA, 66 (1972), 421-6, and (correcting Farmer's published transcript of the text) in Errata in Poems from a Seventeenth-Century Manuscript, TQ, 19 (1976), 160-73; and in Farmer's A Reply to Mr P. Croft, TQ, 19 (1976), 174. Reasons for rejecting Herrick's alleged association are presented in the Introduction above, under The Texas Herrick Manuscript.

CoR 727.5

Copy, headed On a comet which appeared before I: fines death and the prince his goinge to Spaine.

An octavo verse miscellany, of English and Welsh verse and prose, in probably several hands, the English verse (on pages 9-70, 93-104) including eleven poems by Strode and two of doubtful authorship, 110 pages (plus stubs of extracted leaves).

Compiled by members of the Griffith family, of Llanddyfnan, the verse probably entered by one or more of the various members of that family who studied in this period at the University of Oxford.

Mid-17th century

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Griffith MS: StW Δ 26.

Bangor University (MS 422 p. 67)
CoR 728

Copy, untitled and here beginning The star that sits in Charles his wayne.

An octavo verse miscellany, including 13 poems by or attributed to Herrick, almost entirely in a single small predominantly italic hand, 250 pages (plus numerous blanks), originally in contemporary calf, but now disbound.

Inscribed four times on a flyleaf Tobias Alston his booke: i.e. probably Tobias Alston (1620-c.1639) of Sayham Hall, near Sudbury, Suffolk. His half-brother Edward (b.1598) was a contemporary of Herrick at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, while his cousin, Edward Alston, later President of the College of Physicians, was a contemporary of Herrick at St John's College, Cambridge, some of the other contents also relating to Cambridge, besides some relating to Suffolk. The date 1639 occurs on p. 241, and pp. 243-50 contains verses written in two later hands (to c.1728) and some prose pieces written from the reverse end.

c.1639 [-c.1728]

Names inscribed on a flyleaf including Henry Glisson (later Fellow of the College of Physicians); Thomas Avral(?); Horace Norton; Henry Rich; and James Tavor (Registrar of Cambridge University). Later owned by one John Whitehead, and by Dr Mary Pickford. Sotheby's, 27 June 1972, lot 309.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Alston MS: HeR Δ 7. A complete set of photocopies of the MS is in the British Library, RP 772. Facsimile of pp. 6-7 in Sotheby's sale catalogue (see HeR 176, HeR 405) where the MS is described at some length. See also letters by Peter Beal and Donald W. Foster in TLS (24 January 1986), pp. 87-8.

CoR 728.5

Copy, headed On Dr Lapworth's Comett, while Prince Charles was wth ye Span: Lady and here beginning A Star of late was seene in Bergoes trayne.

A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands (one predominating up to p. 167), probably associated with Oxford, 436 pages (pp. 198-9 and 269-70 skipped in the pagination, and including many blanks and an index) and numerous further blank leaves at the end, in modern black morocco gilt.

Including 14 poems by Carew, 13 poems by Corbett and 25 poems (plus one poem of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1650

Scribbling on the first page including the words Peyton Chester….

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Osborn MS I: CwT Δ 38; CoR Δ 14; StW Δ 29.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 200 p. 411)

Poems of Uncertain Authorship

Cuffe's Speech at his Execution ('For plotting of a plot which never was')

First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), pp. 94-5.

CoR 729 c.1630s

Copy, following Cuffs speech at his execution thus delivered by himself and headed The same speech turned into an Elegia by, R. Corbet, in a booklet (ff. 53r-77v) of historical Miscellanea dating up to 1632.

Edited from this MS in Bennett & Trevor-Roper.

A quarto composite volume of state and religious tracts, 375 leaves.

An Epitaph On his most honoured Friend Richard Earl of Dorset ('Let no profane, ignorable foot tread neer')

Bennet & Trevor-Roper, pp. 97-8.

See KiH 273-301.

A Non Sequitir ('Marke how the Lanterns clowd mine eyes!')

First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 96-7.

CoR 730

Copy.

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, in several hands, written from both ends, 84 leaves, in contemporary calf.

Probably compiled principally by an Oxford University man.

c.1630s-40s

Names inscribed on rear flyleaf and paste-down Elizabeth hosman and William Blois.

Nonsence ('Like to the thund'ring tone of unspoke speeches')

First published in Witts' Recreations Augmented (London, 1641). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 95-6.

CoR 731

Copy, here beginning Like to ye silent tone of vnspoke speeches.

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.

CoR 732

Copy, untitled and here beginning Like to the fiery touchstone of a Cabage.

Edited from this MS in Gilchrist, pp. 220-1; recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 163.

A large folio composite volume of verse, in various largely secretary hands, 327 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf.

Collected, and partly written, by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.

Betagraph of the watermark in f. 29 in Ted-Larry Pebworth, Towards a Taxonomy of Watermarks, in Puzzles in Paper: Concepts in Historical Watermarks, ed. Daniel W. Mosser, Michael Saffle and Ernest W. Sullivan, II (London, 2000), pp. 229-42 (p. 239).

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 36/37 f. 70r)
CoR 733 c.1630s

Copy, headed Dr: Corbets nonsence, on a single folio leaf.

A large folio composite volume of verse, in various largely secretary hands, 327 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf.

Collected, and partly written, by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.

Betagraph of the watermark in f. 29 in Ted-Larry Pebworth, Towards a Taxonomy of Watermarks, in Puzzles in Paper: Concepts in Historical Watermarks, ed. Daniel W. Mosser, Michael Saffle and Ernest W. Sullivan, II (London, 2000), pp. 229-42 (p. 239).

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 36/37 f. 256r)
CoR 734

Copy, headed A mock song to, like to the Damaske Rose you see and here beginning Like to the melting tone....

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

Including 16 poems by Carew and 13 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode. Written in three hands: i.e. A (Codrington's hand, including his own poems) on pp. 1-283, 349-55; B on pp. 284-9; and C on pp. 289-348, 356-60; dated (pp. 1-22) Anno Dom: 1638 and The 30th of May. 1638.

c.1638

Acquired from Blackwell's, 1962.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Codrington MS: CwT Δ 7 and StW Δ 7.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, f through end (MS Eng. poet. f. 27 pp. 70-1)
CoR 735

Copy, here beginning Like to the silent tone....

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

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

Mid-17th century

Later owned by John Somers (1651-1716), Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor, and his brother-in-law Sir Joseph Jekyll (1662-1738), lawyer and politician.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Wase MS: DnJ Δ 39.

CoR 736

Copy, headed Sence and here beginning Like to the silent tone of vnspoke speeches.

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

c.1630s

The name Edward Michell inscribed later inside the rear cover. Afterwards owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Michell MS: CwT Δ 8. Briefly discussed (in connection with the poem Shall I die? attributed to Shakespeare) by Gary Taylor in The Sunday Times (24 November 1985, pp. 1, 3, with a facsimile example) and by Peter Beal in TLS (3 January 1986, p. 13); and see also letters on 24 January 1986, pp. 87-8.

CoR 737

Copy, headed Non=sence By Dr Corbett and here beginning Like to the silent tone of vnspoke speeches

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 163.

A quarto composite miscellany of verse, in English and Latin, compiled by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, who lived in Cambridge as student and Fellow of Emmanuel College from 1633 to 1651, ii + 115 leaves, in calf.

Comprising three separate units: ff. 1r-96v all in Sancroft's hand; ff. 97r-104r in a second hand; and ff. 105r-9r in a third hand.

Including (on ff. 2-23, 27ar-v, 70) 94 Latin poems ascribed to Crashaw (including three of doubtful authorship) and (on ff. 29-41, 43v, 44v-58, 60v, 62v-5v, 67-70v, 72-3, 95-6) 101 English poems (plus a second copy of one of them) attributed to him (including one of doubtful authorship) and (on f. 16r-v) one Greek poem attributed to him; a list of contents on the first page beginning Mr. Crashaw's poems transcrib'd fro his own copie, before the were printed; among wch are some not printed….

c.1640s [and later]

Cited in IELM as the Sancroft MS: CrR Δ 1. Crashaw edited in part from this MS, and collated, in Grosart, in Waller and in Martin (cited as T or T5), and discussed in Waller, pp. vi-ix, and in Martin, pp. lviii-lxxiii. Folios 28-34v, 38v-41, 44v, 52v-6 reproduced in facsimile in Steps to the Temple (1970).

Bodleian Library, Tanner Collection (MS Tanner 465 f. 83r)
CoR 738

Copy, headed A mess of non-sence, and here beginning Like to the tone...

A composite volume of verse collected by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), his brother Oliver, and Thomas Martin (1697-1771) of Palgrave.

Mid-17th century
CoR 739

Copy, untitled and here beginning Like to ye silent Tone of unspoke speeches.

An octavo miscellany of verse, academic exercises and other material, in English and Latin, almost entirely in a single hand, 134 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

Inscribed by the compiler (f. 133v) Anthony Scattergood His booke: i.e. Anthony Scattergood (1611-87), theologian, of Trinity College, Cambridge. Volume XXXII of the Scattergood papers.

c.1632-40

Also inscribed (f. 130v) Elisabeth Scattergood her Booke 1667/8. Booklabel of Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector.

CoR 740

Copy, headed Pure Nonsence and here beginning Like to the silent tone of unspoke speeches.

A duodecimo verse miscellany in several hands, written from both ends, 46 leaves, in contemporary calf.

Mid-17th century

Inscribed names (on front paste-down and f. 1r) of Fra: Norreys (? Sir Francis Norris (1609-69)) and Hen. Balle. Purchased from J. Harvey 8 December 1877.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2421 ff. 11v-12r)
CoR 741

Copy, headed Pure noncence, here beginning Like to the silent tone..., and subscribed in another hand Fra: Qarles. in print.

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

c.1640s

Inscribed (f. 179r) This is Sr. Thomas Meres [or ? Maiors] Book: i.e. probably Sir Thomas Meres (1634-1715), of Kirton, Lincolnshire. Later bookplate of the Rev. John Curtis. Purchased from Mrs Ann Austin Curtis 12 October 1889.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2725 ff. 169r-168r rev.)
CoR 743

Copy, headed (possibly in another hand) Noncense verses, here beginning Like to the silent tone of unspoke speeches.

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

Including 14 poems by Donne, six poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Carew, ten poems by Habington and 13 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Randolph. Owned and possibly compiled by Arthur Capell (1631-83), second Earl of Essex, whose name is inscribed in red ink (1*), in a similar roman hand to that on ff. 1r-19r. He married (1653) Elizabeth Percy (1636-1718), daughter of Algernon, tenth Earl of Northumberland; she was therefore the great niece of Habington's mother-in-law, Eleanor Percy, sister of the ninth Earl of Northumberland.

Mid-17th century

Later among the collections of Robert Harley (1661-1724), first Earl of Oxford, and his son, Edward (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II, i-ii (1987-93), as the Capell MS: DnJ Δ 43, CwT Δ 17, and RnT Δ 3. Discussed in Geoffrey Tillotson, The Commonplace Book of Arthur Capell, MLR, 27 (1932), 381-91.

CoR 744

Copy, in double columns, headed Eloquent Nonesence, nonesuch and here beginning Like to a silent Tone of vnspoke speeches.

A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, predominantly in a single hand (up to f. 34v), with additions in four subsequent hands (ff. 37-50v), 50 leaves, in vellum.

Compiled for the most part by a University of Oxford man, with (f. 1r-v) a list of contents.

c.1640s

Once owned by one John Faith, and by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.

Formerly cited as Corpus Christi College, MS E.i.33.

CoR 745

Copy, here beginning Like to ye silent tone of vnspoke speeches.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single small neat predominantly secretary hand but for additions in a second hand on ff. 35v and 58r, compiled by an Oxford man, possibly a member of Wadham College, 97 leaves (inclusing two blanks), in half-calf.

Including 14 poems by Carew (and a second copy of one poem), eight poems (plus 3 of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, and 28 poems by Strode (plus a second copy of one and two of doubtful authorship).

c.late 1630s

Later used and annotated by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, and entries in his hand on f. 97r. Formerly Bodleian, MS CCC.328.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Fulman MS: CwT Δ 2; RnT Δ 6; StW Δ 16.

Corpus Christi College, Oxford (MS 328 f. 25r-v)
CoR 746

Copy, untitled and here beginning Like to the silent tone of vnspoke speeches.

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. 104v)
CoR 746.5

Copy, headed A Messe of Nonsence and here beginning Like to ye graceful tone of inspoke speeches.

A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands, a neat mixed hand predominating up to f. 55r, 151 leaves (including a few blanks), in contemporary calf.

c.1730

Inscribed (in another hand) on the front pastedown Thomas Boydell. Formerly Folger MS 4108.

CoR 746.8

Copy, headed in the margin a messe of nonsense and here beginning Like to the tone of unspoke speeches.

An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, closely written in possibly several minute predominantly secretary hands, 291 leaves (ff. 212-16 bound out of order after f. 24), in modern calf.

c.1640s

Inscribed (f. 1r) Joseph Hall (not the bishop). Later owned by John Payne Collier (1789-1883), literary scholar, editor and forger, who has entered in pseudo-17th-century secretary script copies of various ballads on ff. 39r-41r, 107v-79r, 181r-v, 227r-8v, 243r-6r, as well as adding foliation (1-284) before the more recent foliation (1-291, used below). Quaritch's sale catalogue of English Literature (August-November 1884), item 22350, Collier's transcript of the MS made c.1860 being item 22352. Formerly Folger MS 2071.7.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Giles E. Dawson, John Payne Collier's Great Forgery, SB, 24 (1971), 1-26.

CoR 747

Copy, here beginning Like to ye silent Tone of unspoke speeches.

A small quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single, minute non-professional italic hand, probably someone associated with Oxford University, comprising 180 pages now all separated and mounted, interleaved, in 19th-century calf.

c.late 1630s

Later in the libraries (with bookplates) of the book collector Richard Heber (1774-1833); of the bibliographer and antiquary Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833); of the biographer and literary editor Alexander Chalmers (1759-1834); and of the antiquary Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough (his sale by Charles Sharpe in Dublin, 1 November 1842, lot 577).

CoR 748

Copy, headed Nonsence and here beginning Like to the silent tones of vnspoke speeches.

A fragment of a quarto verse miscellany, in a single italic hand, seven leaves, the second item in a quarto composite volume also containing (item 1) a MS translation of the Song of Solomon written on nine leaves in 1622 by one Robert Eliot, and (item 3) Greek verse, on thirteen leaves subscribed J: Malet, in modern cloth.

c.1630s

Formerly MSS 4. 29.

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 123 (II) f. 4r)
CoR 749

Copy, headed Pure Nonsence Dr Corbet and here beginning Like to the silent tone of vnspoke speeches.

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

c.1640
CoR 750

Copy, headed Sense and here beginning Like to the silent tone....

Edited from this MS in C.W. Brodribb, Bishop Corbet's Nonsense, N&Q, 150 (6 February 1926), 97-8. Recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 162.

A miscellany, compiled chiefly by Valentine Cabeck, of Pembroke College, Cambridge.

c.1680

Owned in 1926 by C.W. Brodribb.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Cabeck MS] [unspecified page numbers])
[On Henry Bowling] (''Tis so hee's dead, and if to speak't again')

Unpublished? Usually ascribed in MS sources to Brian Duppa.

CoR 750.5

Headed Epitaphiu. Mr. Bowlinge Dr. Corbett.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single predominantly italic hand, 152 leaves (paginated 1-34, thereafter foliated 35-169), plus index, in modern red leather.

Including 85 poems (and second copies of two) by Thomas Carew.

c.1638-42

Inscriptions including Horatio Carey 1642 te deus pardamus [viz. Horatio Carey (1619-ante 1677), eldest son of Sir Richard Carey (1583-1630) and great-grandson of Sir Henry Carey (1524?-96), first Baron Hunsdon ], Thomas Arding, Thomas Arden, William Harrington, Thomas John, John Anthehope and Clement Poxall. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 8270. Bookplates of John William Cole and of the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936 (Perry sale). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 194.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Carey MS: CwT Δ 34. Briefly discussed in Gary Taylor, Some Manuscripts of Shakespeare's Sonnets, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 68 (1985), 210-46 (pp. 220-4). Discussed, with facsimile pages, in Scott Nixon, The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 188, 191-2).

On the Proctors Plotts ('When plotts are Proctors vertues, and the gift')

First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 100.

CoR 751

Copy, headed To the intricate Example of policy, even in ye Vniversity; The delight & defendrs of ffactions...[etc.].

A quarto verse miscellany of c.150 poems, in several hands; associated with Oxford, probably Christ Church, 279 pages (plus index and blanks).

Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 32 poems (plus four of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1630s-40s

Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue (1836), item 1044. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9561. Sotheby's, 19 June 1893 (Phillipps sale), lot 628, and 21 March 1895, lot 903. Hodgson's, 23 April 1959, lot 528.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the English Poetry MS: CoR Δ 3 and StW Δ 6.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 97 p. 63)
CoR 752

Copy.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 166.

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.

CoR 753

Copy, as by R: C.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper.

A quarto verse miscellany, pp. 13-244 in a single largely roman hand, the remainder in varying styles in one or more other hands (up to c.1655), probably associated with Oxford University, 541 pages (of which pp. 1-12, 87-8 have been extracted and pp. 251-68, 334, 400, 410-540 are blank, with stubs of other extracted leaves at the end), in contemporary brown calf.

Including 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 57 poems (plus a second copy of one poem and four poems of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1630s[-55]

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: possibly his MS 18123. Owned c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914), literary scholar and bookseller. Formerly MS 646.4.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Dobell MS: CoR Δ 8 and StW Δ 18. Discussed in Bertram Dobell in The Athenaeum, No. 4475 (2 August 1913), p. 112. A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).

CoR 754

Copy, headed To the intricate example of policy, euen in this vniversity. ye plot of vnion, ye delighte & defenders of factions, ye freind of ppetual Rage, The reuiuers of Mallavil & macro, The subtil & sublimed corporacon of plot... [etc.].

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 166.

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

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

c.1630s

Later owned by Edward Jeremiah Curteis, M.P., of Windmill Hill, Sussex. Puttick & Simpson's, 30 June 1884 (Curteis sale), lot 175, to Pearson of Pall Mall for James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89). Formerly Folger MS 452.5.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), and II.i (1987), as the Curteis MS: DnJ Δ 50 and CoR Δ 9. Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Arthur F. Marotti, Folger MSS V.a.89 and V.a.345: Reading Lyric Poetry in Manuscript, in The Reader Revealed, ed. Sabrina Alcorn Baron, et al. (Washington, DC, 2001), pp. 44-57. Discussed in Arthur F. Marotti, Christ Church, Oxford, and Beyond: Folger MS V.a.345 and Its Manuscript and Print Sources, SP 113 (2016), 850-78. A facsimile of p. 36 is in Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey, Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper (Washington, DC, 2008), p. 32.

CoR 755

Copy, headed To the intricate example of plotting...[etc].

This MS (Rosenbach 189) recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 166.

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

Including 45 poems (and a second copy of one) by Carew, 11 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Corbett, and 25 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1634

The initials T. C. stamped on the front cover. Sold by Thomas Thorpe (1836). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9536, and by Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), of Providence, Rhode Island, industrialist, banker, and art and books collector. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 189.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Rosenbach MS II: CwT Δ 32, CoR Δ 12, and StW Δ 24. Discussed in Scott Nixon, The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 193-5).

CoR 756

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 166.

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

Mid-17th century

Inscribed (f. 1r) Stephen Wellden and Abraham Bassano and (f. 98r) Elizabeth Weldon. Later owned by William John Thoms (1803-85), writer, antiquary and librarian. Sotheby's, 11 February 1887 (Thoms sale), lot 1092. Also owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89). Formerly Folger MS 452.4.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Welden MS: DnJ Δ 49.

CoR 757

Copy, untitled.

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

c.1630

Owned and probably compiled by Robert Bishop. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9549. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue, English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 187.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) as the Bishop MS: DnJ Δ 59. Edited in David Coleman Redding, Robert Bishop's Commonplace-Book: An Edition of a Seventeenth Century Miscellany (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1960) [Mic 60-3608].

On the same [Dr. Leonard Hutten] ('Great Child, who gazest on the world new-showne')

First published, as possibly written by Corbett, in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), pp. 154-5.

CoR 758

Copy in Fulman's hand, headed On the same. For Dr Leonard Hutton (being blind), transcribed from CoR 759.

The second of two octavo volumes of historical collections, 375 leaves altogether.

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

Mid-late 17th century
Corpus Christi College, Oxford (MS 315b f. 350r)
CoR 759

Copy in the hand of Corbett's chaplain William Strode, headed On the same and subscribed For Dr Leonard Hutton.

Edited from this MS in Bennett & Trevor-Roper.

A quarto volume of autograph poems by Strode, 130 leaves (including 31 blank leaves, plus numerous blanks, stubs of five extracted leaves, and some leaves added later).

A working autograph notebook of poems by Strode, compiled and revised over a considerable period, comprising 101 English poems (including draft fragments, 66 Latin poems and 2 Greek poems by him, together with his copies of a few poems by others (generally paired with Strode's translations or answers) including Richard Corbett, Thomas Carew, Peter Apsley, and Henry King and Henry Reynolds, as well as a lecture in Latin by the Professor of Greek at Oxford; ff. 52r-96r written in Strode's mixed secretary and italic hand, probably early 1620s-30; ff. 96v-129v, and afterwards ff. 1-51v, written in Strode's italic hand, probably for the most part c.1635-7, with additions up to 1643; ff. 129v-30v containing rough jottings in both styles; many of the poems containing Strode's extensive revisions, probably made from the 1630s onwards.

c.1620s-43

Some scribbling on the last page including the name John Herbert. Possibly one of the MS volumes by Strode which, according to Anthony Wood (Athenae Oxonienses, ed. Philip Bliss, 4 vols (London, 1813-20), III, 152), came after Strode's death into the hands of Dr Richard Gardiner (1591-1670), canon of Christ Church, and then into those of Richard Davies, Oxford bookseller (fl.1646-88). Afterwards acquired, probably from Davies between 1665 and 1675, by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, who added pagination, annotations and some further entries throughout.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Corpus MS: StW Δ 1. Collated in part in Dobell. Identified as autograph and discussed in M.C. Crum, William Fulman and an Autograph Manuscript of the Poet Strode, BLR, 4 (1952-3), 324-35. Extensively discussed and the text edited from this MS in Forey. Facsimile of f. 94r in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 42 (see StW 641).

To a Lady whose Husband was jealous of her cares of his Visits ('When too much zeale doth fire devotion')

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 97.

CoR 760

Copy, subscribed R Clark.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 97, 164.

A quarto miscellany of verse and medical and household prescriptions, in several cursive secretary hands, one predominating, written from both ends, 117 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

Compiled in part by Brian Fairfax (1633-1711), scholar and courtier.

Mid-late 17th century

Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Bliss sale, 21 August 1858, lot 117. Item 667 in an unidentified sale catalogue.

To the Bell-Founder of Great Tom of Christ-Church in Oxford ('Thou that by ruine doest repaire')

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 98-100.

CoR 761

Copy, headed Dr Corbett to Brontes ye Bell-founder.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 100, 165.

An octavo verse miscellany, including 13 poems by Donne and 14 poems by Corbett, in several hands, probably associated with Oxford University, written from both ends, 102 leaves, in 17th-century calf.

c.1630s

Inscribed (f. 101v) Henry Lawson (or just possibly Lamson). Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1836), item 1185. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9257. Sotheby's, 15 June 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 862. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 164 (1896), item 64.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Lawson MS: DnJ Δ 37 and CoR Δ 2.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 14 f. 88v rev.)
CoR 762

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 165.

An octavo verse miscellany, compiled by an Oxford man, possibly a member of Christ Church, pp. 1-202 in a single minute hand, written over a period, with a few later additions (including two lines on p. 7) by other hands; pp. 202-19 containing entries in later hands up to 1789, in half-calf on marbled boards, pp. 77-84 detached in the 19th century and now separately bound as Folger MS V.a.152.

Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 30 poems by Strode (one of them in V.a.152) plus one of doubtful authorship.

c.late 1630s [-1789]

Later sold by Thomas Thorpe. Afterwards owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89) (and No. 27 in his Catalogue of Shakespeare Reliques (Brixton Hill, 1852)) and subsequently in the library of Lord Warwick at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1.27.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Thorpe-Halliwell MS: CoR Δ 7 and StW Δ 17. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).

CoR 763

Copy, headed Dr Corbett. / On the casting of great Tom. 1621. To Brontes the Bell = Founder.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 165.

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

Including 13 poems by Donne and 14 (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett; the scribe is that mainly responsible also for the Thomas Smyth MS (DnJ Δ 48).

c.1630s

Later owned and used extensively as a notebook by Dr William Balam (1651-1726), of Ely, Cambridgeshire, who also annotated Cambridge University Library MS Add. 5778 and Harvard fMS Eng 966.4. Bookplate of N. Micklethwait. Owned in 1931 by the Rev. F.W. Glass, of Taverham Hall, near Norwich (seat in the 17th century of the Sotherton family and later of the Branthwayt and Micklethwait families).

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Welbeck MS: DnJ Δ 57 and CoR Δ 11. Discussed in H. Harvey Wood, A Seventeenth-Century Manuscript of Poems by Donne and Others, Essays & Studies, 16 (1931), 179-90. For Taverham Hall, see Thomas B. Norgate, A History of Taverham from Early Times to 1969 (Aylsham, 1969).

University of Nottingham (Pw V 37 p. 177)
CoR 764

Copy, headed To Brontes &c: Bell-Founder, subscribed D. Corbett.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 165.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, in generally small mixed hands, ii + 40 leaves, in 19th-century embossed black leather.

c.1640s

Later owned by Thomas Rodd (1796-1849), bookseller; by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector; and by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 21 August 1858 (Bliss sale), lot 190.

'When that rich soil of thine (now Sainted) kept'

Edited in online Early Stuart Libels.

CoR 764.2

Copy, headed Antidotum Cæcilianam. Dr Corbet.

Edited from this MS in online Early Stuart Libels.

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

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

c.1630s

Later owned by Edward Jeremiah Curteis, M.P., of Windmill Hill, Sussex. Puttick & Simpson's, 30 June 1884 (Curteis sale), lot 175, to Pearson of Pall Mall for James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89). Formerly Folger MS 452.5.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), and II.i (1987), as the Curteis MS: DnJ Δ 50 and CoR Δ 9. Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Arthur F. Marotti, Folger MSS V.a.89 and V.a.345: Reading Lyric Poetry in Manuscript, in The Reader Revealed, ed. Sabrina Alcorn Baron, et al. (Washington, DC, 2001), pp. 44-57. Discussed in Arthur F. Marotti, Christ Church, Oxford, and Beyond: Folger MS V.a.345 and Its Manuscript and Print Sources, SP 113 (2016), 850-78. A facsimile of p. 36 is in Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey, Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper (Washington, DC, 2008), p. 32.

Prose

An answere to Certaine propositions, controuerted Atwixt us and the Popistes

Unpublished.

*CoR 764.5 1621/2 or 1622/3
Autograph

Autograph theological notes and arguments sent to the Marquess of Buckingham, beginning For your other Quaestion wher our church was before Luthers time I answer…, on four folio leaves, endorsed An answere to Certaine propositions, controuerted Atwixt us and the Popistes: by Dr Corbett etc.

A folio composite volume of state papers and tracts relating to Roman Catholicism in England, in various hands, 179 leaves.

Consecration of Lincoln College Chapel

A ceremony at Lincoln College, Oxford, at which Corbett was the officiating prelate, on 15 September 1631. The ceremony and speeches were first published by Andrew Clark in Collectanea: Fourth Series (Oxford Historical Society, 1905), pp. 136-155 (text on pp. 141-55).

CoR 764.8

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Clark.

A folio volume, lettered Miscell: Divin: M: S.

c.1690

Later owned by Falconer Madan (1851-1935), librarian and bibliographer.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Madan MS] pp. 275-89)
Oratio Domini Doctoris Corbet, ex Aede Christi, In Funus Henrici Principis

First published in Gilchrist (1807), pp. 249-59.

CoR 765

Copy of Corbett's Latin oration (beginning Quam sit semper vrbis facile, et pronum, justo servire...).

Edited from this MS in Gilchrist.

A quarto composite volume of state papers and tracts, in various hands, 140 leaves.

c.1617
Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 1153 ff. 64v-5v)
Sermon at Court, on 2 Corinthians 4. 8

Unpublished.

CoR 765.5

Extracts, in the hand of the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Corbet at court / 2 Corin. 4: 8 and indexed in the table of headings as by Dr Corbett.

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

Chiefly in the rugged italic hand of Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician, partly in the rounded secretary hand of an amanuensis and two others.

c.1625-30s

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

The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS No. 21 p. 16)
Sermon at Whitehall, 1621

Unpublished.

CoR 766

Copy or extracts, headed Whithall D: Corbet:: 1621, here beginning Sorow is the elder brother to prayer....

A tall folio commonplace book of miscellaneous extracts, in a single hand, 139 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

Entirely in the rugged italic hand of Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician.

c.1620s-30s

Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1. Recorded (as the Bedford MS) in Peter Beal, More Donne Manuscripts, John Donne Journal, 6/2 (1987), 213-18 (p. 213).

The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS No. 26 f. 92r, 93r)
A speech made by Doctor Corbet Bpp of Norwich to the Clergie of his Diocesse about theire Benevolence for the repayre of St Paules Church London [29 April] Anno domini 1634

Sermon, beginning My worthy freinds & brethren of the Clergy, I did not send for you before, though I had a commission..., first published in James Peller Malcolm, Londinium Redivivum, 4 vols (London, 1802-7), II (1803), 77-80. Edited (with omissions) in Gilchrist, pp. xli-xlviii.

CoR 767 c.1634

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed Doctor Corbett the Byshop of Norwich his Speech to the Clergy of ye Dyocesse for their benevolence towards Paules deliuered at a Synod in the Chathedrall of Norwich on the 29 of Aprill. 1634.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. xl.

A folio composite volume of political letters and speeches (up to 1640), in various hands, 259 leaves (ff. 8-20 and 212-59 blank), in contemporary calf.

Assembled by the astrologer and antiquary Elias Ashmole (1617-92).

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 800 ff. 74v-82v)
CoR 768

Copy, headed A Speach deliured at Norwich to the Clergy at a Synod April .29. 1634. By Dr Corbet Bp of Norwich.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. xl.

A quarto volume chiefly of sermons, in English and Latin, in a single hand, 122 leaves (plus blanks), in 18th-century half-calf over mottled boards.

c.1634
CoR 768.5

Copy, headed Dr Corbett Bp. of Norwich his speech for Paules and subscribed Deliuer'd att Norwich to the Clergye at a Synode theie held Apr: i9th. 1634, on four pages.

A quarto miscellany of political material, principally of parliamentary speeches and letters for 1640-1, neatly written in a rounded hand, 310 pages, in 17th-century calf.

Mid-17th century

Formerly Osborn Collection, Box 45, 19.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 297 item 7)
CoR 769 c.1634

Copy, closely written in a small predominantly italic hand, untitled, on a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet.

A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous papers and Latin verse, including papers of Meric Casaubon (1599-1671), 142 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 368 f. 141r-v)
CoR 770

Copy of an abridged version, headed D. C. B. of N: to his Clergie, here beginning One word in ye behalfe of St Paul..., subscribed D. C. B of N: to his Charge.

Edited from this MS in Malcolm and in Gilchrist. Recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. xl.

A large quarto theological miscellany, in English and Latin, 177 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

Volume III of the collections of Dr James Wedderburn (1585-1639), Bishop of Dunblane.

c.1634
CoR 771

Copy, untitled, but subscribed diured at Norwich to ye cleagye att a Synode, Aprill ye 29 1634 and endorsed Bpp Corbetts speech to the cleargy about St Pauls, on two folio leaves.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. xl.

A folio composite volume of tracts and papers, in various chiefly professional hands, ii + 235 leaves, in reversed calf.

Compiled, and partly written, by William Fulman (1632-8), Oxford antiquary.

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

Corpus Christi College, Oxford (MS 319 ff. 50r-1r)
CoR 771.5 c.1635

Copy, headed Doctor Corbett Bishop of Norwich his speeche...Anno: 1634.

A large folio composite volume of state papers, letters and speeches, in English and Latin prose and verse, in various hands, 58 items, i + 449 leaves.

Given by William Moore.

Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (MS 73/40 ff. 304r-8r)
CoR 772 c.1635

Copy.

A folio composite volume of state tracts, ii + 317 leaves (plus numerous ruled blanks), with a table of contents, in contemporary calf, with metal clasps.

In various professional hands (including the Feathery Scribe), one distinctive secretary hand responsible for ff. 1r-141v, 177r-8v, 206r-11r, 230r-5r.

Owned by Sir Richard Grosvenor (1585-1645); later by the Duke of Westminster, Eaton Hall, Cheshire, with his bookplate (inscribed XXI No. 6) and a label with No. 4 on the spine. Assembled largely from Liber 9 (= MS 4). Sotheby's, 19 July 1966, lot 486, to Hofmann.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 212. Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 218-19 (No. 12). A microfilm of the MS is in the British Library, RP170.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 1266 (v. 1) ff. 206r-11r)
CoR 773

Copy in four hands on four folio pages.

c.1634

Edited from this MS in Documents illustrating the History of S. Paul's Cathedral, ed. W. Sparrow Simpson, Camden Society, NS 26 (London, 1880), pp. 134-9. Recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. xl.

National Archives, Kew (SP 16/266/58)
CoR 773.5

Copy, in a mixed hand, untitled, subscribed Deliuered at Norwich to the Cleargye at a Synod Apr: 29. 1634., on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed Dr Corbet, Bp of Norwich his speech to his clearge concerning a Beneuolens to Pauls.

c.1634
CoR 774

Copy.

A quarto academic miscellany, in English and Latin, in a single hand, associated with Oxford, iv + 206 + iv pages, in half-leather marbled boards.

Mid-late 17th century

A doubtful later inscription (p. 23) Common-Place -book by G [altered in pencil to H] Vaughan. Given to the library in 1877 by Professor J.E.B. Mayor.

St John's College, Cambridge (MS K. 38 (James 347) pp. 146-8)

Letters

Letter(s)
*CoR 775 1622-23
Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to George Villiers, Marquess of Buckingham, enclosing CoR 764.5 (an autograph answere to Certaine propositions, controuerted Atwixt us and the Popistes), from Christ Church, 2 January [1621/2 or 1622/3].

The letter alone edited in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. xxiv.

A folio composite volume of state papers and tracts relating to Roman Catholicism in England, in various hands, 179 leaves.

*CoR 776 1624
Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, from Christ Church, 26 February [1623/4].

Edited in Cabala (London, 1663), p. 220; in Gilchrist, pp. xx-xxi, and in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. xxvi.

A folio composite volume of state letters, most addressed to George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, in various hands, 483 leaves (plus list of contents), in modern half-morocco.

*CoR 777
Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Sir Dudley Carleton, Viscount Dorchester, from Cassington, 1 June [1629].

1629

Recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. xxx.

National Archives, Kew (SP 16/144/8)
*CoR 778
Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Dudley Carleton, Viscount Dorchester, from Cassington, 29 June 1629.

1629

Recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. xxx.

National Archives, Kew (SP 16/145/81)
*CoR 779
Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Dudley Carleton, Viscount Dorchester, 20 October 1629.

1629

Recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. xxx.

National Archives, Kew (SP 16/150/80)
*CoR 780 1628-1630
Autograph

Autograph letter signed by Corbett, as Bishop of Oxford, to William Laud, Chancellor of the University of Oxford, from Cassington, 27 April 1628 or 1630. See also StW 1432.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. xxxi. Facsimile in IELM, II.i (1987), Facsimile VIII after p. xxiv.

A letter by Richard Corbett.

Sotheby's, 14 April 1875, lot 532.

The Pierpont Morgan Library (MA 420 (St. Paul's Cathedral vol. I, p. 59) The letter as a whole)
CoR 781 1632

Copy of a formal grant by Corbett, in Latin, to Archbishop Abbott, accepting the latter's nominee for the Archdeaconry of Norwich, 15 May 1632.

A folio composite volume of ecclesiastical papers principally relating to Richard Corbett, Bishop of Norwich, 90 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half crushed morocco gilt.

Fols 4r-15r are in the professional secretary hand of Richard Corbett's personal secretary at Norwich.

Later owned by William Hopkins (1647-1700), Prebendary of Worcester, and afterwards by George Hickes (1642-1715), Dean of Worcester.

*CoR 782
Autograph

Letter, in the hand of an amanuensis and signed by Corbett, in Latin, to the Council, from Ludham, 1 January 1632/3.

1633
National Archives, Kew (SP 16/231/1)
*CoR 783 1633-1635
Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to William Sancroft, from Norwich, 27 February [1632/3-1634/5].

A folio composite volume of letters to William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury and manuscript collector.

*CoR 784
Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to William Laud, Bishop of London, incorporating a secretarial copy of minutes of a meeting before Corbett by citizens of Yarmouth and others on 19 March 1632/3.

1633
National Archives, Kew (SP 16/234/20)
CoR 785 1633

A secretarial copy of a letter by Corbett to Sir Hamond Le Strange, 31 March 1633.

Recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. xxxvi.

A folio composite volume of ecclesiastical papers principally relating to Richard Corbett, Bishop of Norwich, 90 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half crushed morocco gilt.

Fols 4r-15r are in the professional secretary hand of Richard Corbett's personal secretary at Norwich.

Later owned by William Hopkins (1647-1700), Prebendary of Worcester, and afterwards by George Hickes (1642-1715), Dean of Worcester.

CoR 786 1633

A secretarial copy of a letter by Corbett, in Latin, to [John Parvish], Vicar of St Mary the Virgin, Holme-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, 11 April 1633.

A folio composite volume of ecclesiastical papers principally relating to Richard Corbett, Bishop of Norwich, 90 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half crushed morocco gilt.

Fols 4r-15r are in the professional secretary hand of Richard Corbett's personal secretary at Norwich.

Later owned by William Hopkins (1647-1700), Prebendary of Worcester, and afterwards by George Hickes (1642-1715), Dean of Worcester.

CoR 787 1633

A secretarial copy of a letter by Corbett to Dr Jones (A Letter sent from my Lord to Mr Dcon Jones beinge almost 80tie years of age), 26 July 1633.

A folio composite volume of ecclesiastical papers principally relating to Richard Corbett, Bishop of Norwich, 90 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half crushed morocco gilt.

Fols 4r-15r are in the professional secretary hand of Richard Corbett's personal secretary at Norwich.

Later owned by William Hopkins (1647-1700), Prebendary of Worcester, and afterwards by George Hickes (1642-1715), Dean of Worcester.

*CoR 788
Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to William Laud, Bishop of London, incorporating a secretarial copy of a letter by Hugh Peters in Rotterdam to Mr Phillips, Minister of Wrentham, dated 23 June 1633, which Corbett says he had intercepted att Yarmouth), endorsed by Laud as received on 30 August 1633.

1633
National Archives, Kew (SP 16/241/52)
CoR 789 1633

A secretarial copy of a letter by Corbett, to Samuel Ward, from Ludham, 6 October 1633.

Edited in Gilchrist, p. xxxv, and in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. xxxvi.

A folio composite volume of ecclesiastical papers principally relating to Richard Corbett, Bishop of Norwich, 90 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half crushed morocco gilt.

Fols 4r-15r are in the professional secretary hand of Richard Corbett's personal secretary at Norwich.

Later owned by William Hopkins (1647-1700), Prebendary of Worcester, and afterwards by George Hickes (1642-1715), Dean of Worcester.

*CoR 790 1634
Autograph

A letter, in the hand of an amanuensis, signed by Corbett, to Mr Turfett, from Norwich, 4 October 1634.

A folio composite volume of papers relating to the diocese of Norwich, in various hands, 189 leaves.

Bodleian Library, Tanner Collection (MS Tanner 135 f. 163r)
CoR 791 1634

A secretarial copy of a letter by Corbett, to the Ministers and Elders of the French Church in Norwich, 26 December 1634.

Edited in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. xxxviii-xxxix.

A folio composite volume of ecclesiastical papers principally relating to Richard Corbett, Bishop of Norwich, 90 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half crushed morocco gilt.

Fols 4r-15r are in the professional secretary hand of Richard Corbett's personal secretary at Norwich.

Later owned by William Hopkins (1647-1700), Prebendary of Worcester, and afterwards by George Hickes (1642-1715), Dean of Worcester.

CoR 792 Mid-17th century

Copy, in the hand of William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, manuscript collector, of a letter by Corbett, in Latin, to Archbishop Ussher, from Cassington, die Julij novisso [1 July, no year].

A duodecimo volume of state and ecclesiastical letters and papers, in a single hand, 222 pages, in later black morocco gilt.

In the hand of William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, the first page (f. [ir] inscribed Z / Sylloge Epistolarum quarundam insignium, aliorumque aliquot Monumentorum, facta manu RRP. Wilhelmi Sancroft. Archiepi Cantuar. Accesserunt Orationes eiusdem nonnulla in Academiâ Cantabrig. habitæ.

Mid-late 17th century

Among collections of Henry Wharton (1664-94), Sancroft's chaplain (in 1688-9).

Lambeth Palace Library (MS 595 p. 93)

Documents

Document(s)
*CoR 793 1598
Autograph

Corbett's autograph signature (Richard Corrbett) upon matriculating at Broadgates Hall (Pembroke College), 7 April 1598.

Subscription Register.

1581-1615
Oxford University Archives (S.P.38, Register Ab f. 93r)
*CoR 794
Autograph

Autograph signature.

Disbursements book for 1619-20.

1619-20
Christ Church, Oxford (MS xii. b. 64 passim)
*CoR 795
Autograph

Eight signatures by Corbett.

Disbursements book for 1620-1.

1620-21
Christ Church, Oxford (MS xii .b. 65 passim)
*CoR 796
Autograph

Eight signatures by Corbett.

Disbursements Book for 1622-3.

1622-3
Christ Church, Oxford (MS xii. b. 67 passim)
*CoR 797
Autograph

Six signatures by Corbett.

Disbursements book for 1623-4.

1623-24
Christ Church, Oxford (MS xii. b. 68 passim)
*CoR 798
Autograph

Seven signatures by Corbett.

Disbursements book for 1624-5.

1624-25
Christ Church, Oxford (MS xii. b. 69 passim)
*CoR 799
Autograph

Several signatures by Corbett.

Disbursements Book for 1625-6.

Christ Church, Oxford (MS xii. b. 70 passim)
*CoR 800
Autograph

Six signatures by Corbett.

Disbursements book for 1626-7.

1626-27
Christ Church, Oxford (MS xii. b. 71 passim)
*CoR 801
Autograph

A series of statements on several pages signed by Corbett or on his behalf.

Sub-Dean's Book for 1549-1643.

Christ Church, Oxford (MS i. b. 2 pp. 365, 387, 391, 393, 395)
*CoR 802
Autograph

An ecclesiastical certificate relating to one Richard Neech, signed by Corbett at Ludham, 22 December 1633.

Bound in one of Thorn-Drury's books, after p. xxxiii.

1633

This may, perhaps, be the unspecified document signed by Corbett as Bishop of Norwich sold at Sotheby's, 15 March 1916, lot 82, to Dobell.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (Thorn-Drury d. 21, after p. xxxiii)
CoR 803 Late 17th-early 18th century

The Interpretation and Declaration of the Reverend Father in God Richd: Lord Bishop of Norwich made the Ninth day of November Anno Dom. 1632, Upon a Clause in the 25th Chapter of the Local Statutes of the Cathedral Church of Norwich.

A square-shaped folio composite volume of chiefly ecclesiastical papers, in Latin and English, in several neat hands, 25 items on several hundred pages.

Durham Cathedral Library (MS C. IV. 35 pp. 103-4)
Will
*CoR 804
Autograph

Corbett's last will and testament, signed by him twice, dated 7 July 1635; proved 5 September 1635.

1635
National Archives, Kew (PROB 10/541)
CoR 805

A registered copy of Corbett's last will and testament, dated 7 July 1635, proved 5 September 1635.

1635
National Archives, Kew (PROB 11/169)

Miscellaneous Extracts from Works by Corbett

Extracts
CoR 806

Extracts, in the hand of the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Docter Corbet at Oxford Parlement.

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

Chiefly in the rugged italic hand of Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician, partly in the rounded secretary hand of an amanuensis and two others.

c.1625-30s

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

The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS No. 21 pp. 103-4)
CoR 807

Extracts (from a sermon?), in the hand of the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Docter Corbet and beginning That Creture which hase last made service....

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

Chiefly in the rugged italic hand of Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician, partly in the rounded secretary hand of an amanuensis and two others.

c.1625-30s

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

The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS No. 21 p. 181)
CoR 808

Brief notes on a sermon by Corbett.

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

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

c.1626-41

Formerly MS 1034.

Lambeth Palace Library (MS 2086 p. 21)