Sir William Davenant

1606–1668

Introduction

Letters and Documents

With the exception of his prose Proposition for Advancement of Moralitie (*DaW 79.8), there are no known literary manuscripts in Davenant's own hand. The most substantial body of recorded autograph manuscripts is of original letters by him — although many of these are currently untraced. His various letters, petitions and memoranda, including a few letters which survive in contemporary copies, are given entries in CELM (DaW 120-144). These items may be supplemented by two letters by Davenant which are known only from a printed source: viz. two letters to Bulstrode Whitelocke, dated 9 October 1652 and 3 September 1656, which were published in Whitelocke's Memorials of the English Affairs (London, 1732), pp. 536-7, 650. They are reprinted in Harbage, pp. 117 and 124.

Of a very few other documents bearing Davenant's hand, perhaps the most notable is his signed indenture for the proposed building of a theatre in London in 1639 (*DaW 145). Two other later theatrical agreements signed by him are also recorded (*DaW 146-147).

Gondibert

Davenant's most famous work, his magnum opus (the Mon'ment of my Minde, as he called it), is his verse epic Gondibert, written in 1650-51. This was while he was imprisoned in the Tower of London by the Commonwealth government. Several exempla — or portions of exempla — of the first edition of the work in quarto (1651) are known to have borne his presentation inscriptions to various people in his circle and these are recorded in CELM (*DaW 150-155). In addition, an Aut[ograph] inscription signed [by Davenant] 1651 was sold in the Dawson Turner sale at Puttick and Simpson's, 6 June 1859, in lot 677. This may perhaps correspond to either of items *DaW 154 or *DaW 155, or else be a detached leaf from another, otherwise unrecorded, presentation exemplum.

An interesting feature of virtually every known exemplum of the 1651 quarto edition of Gondibert is that it bears Davenant's neat autograph corrections, the result of his careful proof-reading of all the printer's sheets, whether before or after binding. The autograph corrections do, however, vary considerably in number, ranging from a few basic changes to as many as fifty-four corrections in a single exemplum. For discussions of this phenomenon, besides that in Gladish's edition, see D.H. Woodward, The Manuscript Corrections and Printed Variants in the Quarto Edition of Gondibert (1651), The Library, 5th Ser. 20 (1965), 298-309, and Cornell March Dowlin, The First Edition of Gondibert: Quarto or Octavo?, The Library, 4th Ser. 20 (1939-40), 167-79. In the latter article it is noted that the corrections in one exemplum (at the University of Pennsylvania) are atypical in that they have the blackness of printer's ink, and appear to have been made in the printing-house (where Davenant could not have been since he was still in the Tower) when the sheets were still unfolded.

Facsimile examples of the manuscript changes can be found in Gladish, pp. xxiv-xxv, and in the 1970 facsimile edition of the Selden presentation volume (*DaW 150).

There is no comprehensive census of extant exempla of the 1651 quarto of Gondibert, but — in addition, to the presentation volumes already noted, and DaW 2, DaW 30 and DaW 42 — the locations of exempla known or recorded at various times as bearing Davenant's manuscript corrections (some including corrections in other hands) may be listed as follows:

Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.
Bodleian.
British Library (2).
Folger (3).
Harvard.
Huntington (2).
University of Illinois (2).
Indiana University, Lilly Library, PR2474.G6 1651.
Leeds University Library.
Library of Congress.
National Library of Scotland. See discussion in Niall Allsopp, Lett none our Lombard author rudely blame for's righteous paine: An Annotated Copy of Sir William Davenant's Gondibert (1651), The Library, 7th Ser. 16 (2015), 24-50, with four facsimiles.
Newberry Library.
Robert S Pirie, New York.
University of Pennsylvania (2).
University of Texas at Austin.
Princeton.
Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce Collection).
Wellesley College.
Williams College.
Worcester College, Oxford.
Yale (2).

To this list may be added a few exempla in private ownership or offered in sale catalogues, viz:

one owned by William A. Jackson (1940).
one owned by Emma Va. Unger (1940).
one owned by D.H. Woodward (1965).
one owned by John Sparrow (1906-92), sold at Christie's, 21 October 1992 (Sparrow sale), lot 111, to Hannas.
one owned by Peter Beal (Sotheby's, 29 January 1999, lot 316).
one owned by Arthur Kinney, Amherst, Mass. (Sotheby's, 27 May 2004 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 151).
one sold at Sotheby's, 19 November 1906 (Trentham Hall sale), lot 461.
one in A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), items 243-5 (the first allegedly Abraham Cowley's copy, with his initials on the title-page).
one in Brick Row Bookshop, San Francisco, Special List No. 21 (1946), item 112a.
one in Peter Murray Hill's sale catalogue No. 16 (1946), item 50, sold to Richard Jennings.
one in A.R. Heath's sale catalogue No. 31 (March 1975), item 78.
one in Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1043, Four Centuries of English Books with a few manuscripts (December 1984), item 54.
one in Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1083 (Summer 1988), item 9.
one in Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1165, English Books before 1700, item 97.
one sold at Sotheby's, 8 December 1983, lot 16, to Finch.
one sold at Sotheby's, New York, 1 May 1990 (Bradley Martin sale), lot 2749.
one in Maggs's sale catalogue No. 1272 (1999), item 49.

Evidence of what Professor Nethercot has called an independent manuscript version of Gondibert, or at least a part of it, otherwise unknown is provided by the transcript of two omitted stanzas in his exemplum of the poem (DaW 30), while considerable light is thrown by extant copies of the original version of the companion poems The Philosophers Disquisition directed to the Dying Christian and The Christians Reply to the Phylosopher, which Davenant originally wrote as an additional canto of Gondibert. Gibbs recorded two early manuscripts of the former poem and none of the latter, but seven manuscripts of the former and two of the latter have now come to light (DaW 37-42.3, DaW 1-2). These poems should, as Gibbs notes (p. 431), be distinguished from the lost seventh canto of the third book of Gondibert, two printed texts of which (dated 1685) were discovered before 1940: see James G. McManaway, The Lost Canto of Gondibert, MLQ 1 (1940), 63-78, and Gladish, pp. xliv-xlv, 253-65.

For a series of satirical poems on Gondibert — one incorporating a passage from the poem (DeJ 83-84) — see Sir John Denham, DeJ 1-7, DeJ 51-55.5, and DeJ 110-111.

Related Manuscripts

No other autograph literary manuscripts of Davenant would appear to survive, although original manuscripts of his would not necessarily be in his own hand, for his use of amanuenses is well attested. In one of his poems, To Endimion Porter, published in 1638, he refers to his Man, hot and dry / With fierce transcriptions of my Poesie (Gibbs, p. 36, lines 25-6). In one of the satirical poems on Gondibert published in Certain Verses written by severall of the Authors Friends (London, 1653) humorous reference is made to Davenant's paying £10 to have his poem neatly transcribed for the printer's copy ('Twas hop'd in time thou woulldst despaire / To give ten pounds to write it faire: Gladish, p. 277). Indeed, the name of one of Davenant's amanuenses is known, for in 1651 he employed as his secretary and gentleman attendant the younger Thomas Crosse, whose mother he afterwards married (Nethercot, pp. 260-1). In view of this, possible interest might be excited by a verse miscellany compiled by one Thomas Crosse now in the British Library (Harley MS 6057). However, the identity of this compiler is uncertain, since there were other Thomas Crosses in this period (for instance, Thomas Crosse the apothecary and Thomas Cross, Senior and Junior, music engravers). One other manuscript certainly associated with Davenant's family is the songbook of his sister Elizabeth, compiled at Oxford c.1624-30s and now Christ Church, Oxford, MS Mus. 87. The manuscript contains settings of poems and songs by various of his contemporaries, but nothing, however, by William Davenant himself.

The Verse Canon

Davenant was able to supervise for himself the publication of the great majority of his minor poems in his Madagascar (1638). However, the appearance of some of them, often in relatively early versions, in a number of mid-17th-century miscellanies indicates some degree of manuscript circulation of Davenant's poems, probably before as well as after publication. Among the miscellanies known to him, Gibbs has drawn attention, for instance, to St John's College, Cambridge, MS S. 23 (James 416) (see DaW 4, DaW 8, DaW 26-27, DaW 60, DaW 68), in view of evidence given in the texts that the copyist was well acquainted with Davenant and his circle (p. lxxviii). It is possible, however, that other of the various manuscript texts recorded in the entries in CELM were ultimately derived from the author's own manuscript versions.

Besides the poems published in and just after Davenant's lifetime, a few otherwise unknown poems are ascribed to Davenant in manuscript sources. Although one or two poems have evidently been misattributed to Davenant in manuscripts — On a Gentlewoman dying in Travell and the childe unborne, by William Browne of Tavistock, for instance (BrW 89) or A song made by S^r: W^m D'avenant when confined in Cowet Castle in the Isle of Wight (Beat on proud billows Boreas blow) in Folger, MS X.d.171 (a widely copied poem almost invariably ascribed to Sir Roger L'Estrange) — there is no compelling reason to believe that Davenant was sufficiently popular to have his name readily or carelessly bandied about in miscellanies. Those poems ascribed to Davenant, chiefly recorded in Gibbs, which might at least be worthy of consideration are therefore given entries in CELM under a category of Poems of Uncertain Authorship (DaW 76-79.5).

Dramatic Works: Macbeth and The Tempest

Of the extant manuscripts of Davenant's works, clearly the most important is the full text of his opera Macbeth (DaW 94). As Christopher Spencer has argued, this manuscript was apparently transcribed from Davenant's own foul papers in preparation for a theatrical promptbook. It also supplies evidence that Davenant's adaptation of Shakespeare's play may possibly have been based in part on an unknown manuscript version (see Spencer, pp. 65-71). The full autograph score for the opera is preserved as well (DaW 95).

Arias in Davenant's Macbeth by Matthew Locke appear in Folger MS W.b.540, pp. 1-48, and, with additions by E.A. Kellner, prepared for Lord Normanby's private theatre at Florence in 1827, at Leeds University Library and Special Collections (MS 265).

A further dramatic work in which Davenant took a hand and which is represented in manuscripts is The Tempest, or The Enchanted Island. Adapted from Shakespeare's play (see ShW 89-103.8), this was written in collaboration by Davenant and John Dryden and was published in London in 1670 (see The Works of John Dryden, Vol. X (University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London, 1970), 1-103, and also After The Tempest, ed. George Robert Guffey (Augustan Reprint Society, Special Publications 4, Los Angeles, 1969), [item 1]).

A modified, operatic version by Thomas Shadwell and others was published in London in 1674. This version was reprinted in Davenant's Dramatic Works, V, 395-521; in Five Restoration Adaptations of Shakespeare, ed. Christopher Spencer (Urbana, 1965), pp. 109-99; and in After The Tempest [item 2].

A further re-scoring of the opera was produced by Henry Purcell shortly before his death in 1695. It is edited by Edward J. Dent in The Works of Henry Purcell, XIX (Purcell Society, London, 1912).

The exact authorship of these respective versions has been a matter of considerable controversy. For his part, Gibbs includes in his edition (pp. 281-3) — as items Of Doubtful Authorship — four songs from the 1670 version of The Tempest. These have not been given entries in CELM, but one of them — Dry those eyes which are o'reflowing (sung by Ariel and Milcha in Act III, scene ii) — is to be found in a musical setting by John Banister in Edward Lowe's songbook in the British Library (Add. MS 29396, f. 112v). Part of a speech by Prospero in Act III, scene v, beginning If fate be not, who can it forsee, is copied in late-seventeenth-century miscellanies in the Bodleian, headed M^r. Dryden's Verses in Sir William Haward's compilation (MS Don. b. 8, p. 499) and in Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt 54, p. 142).

Other songs from later versions of The Tempest may be found in musical settings in the British Library (Add. MSS 19759, f. 10v; 29396, ff. 111-12; 29397, ff. 18r-18r bis rev.; and 31813, f. 33r).

Copies of Purcell's operatic score (many recorded in Dent, p. xxiii) include examples in the Bodleian (MS Tenbury 1226); in the British Council Library (Chor 221); in the British Library (Add. MSS 31450, 37027, and R. M. 24. e. 10 (2)); in the Folger (MS W. b. 534); in the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna (Sm 567.5); in the Royal College of Music (LCM 990); and (in 1912) two manuscripts then in the possession of Dr. W.H. Cummings. The song Dear pretty youth also occurs in manuscripts at the British Library (Add. MS 22099, ff. 46v-7); at Christ Church, Oxford (Mus. MSS 580, ff. 17v-18v, and 960, f. 17r); and in the Folger (MS V.b.197, Part I, pp. 102-3).

Miscellaneous Documents

Various other documents in the National Archives, Kew, and elsewhere relate to Davenant and, on occasions, bear witness to once extant documents written by him. Among them, most not given separate entries in CELM, may be mentioned the following:

Papers relating to a Chancery suit between Davenant and John Urswick, merchant tailor, in 1632, are in the National Archives, Kew (Chancery Proceedings, C. 2, Chas. I, D5/65), and are edited in Nethercot, Appendix III, pp. 433-41.

Legal documents concerning the killing by William Davenant of Thomas Warren in 1633 are edited in Nethercot, Appendix IV, pp. 443-7. An argument that these may, in fact, relate to another William Davenant, of Essex, is presented in J.P. Feil, Davenant Exonerated, Modern Language Review, 58 (1963), 335-42.

A warrant for payment to Davenant in the hand of Abraham Cowley and signed by Davenant's patroness Queen Henrietta Maria in 1647 was sold at Sotheby's, 22 June 1976, lot 105, and is now in the Pierpont Morgan Library (MA 3863). A photocopy is preserved in the British Library (RP 780).

The commission signed by Charles II appointing Davenant as Treasurer in Virginia, in September 1649, as well as a report by Davenant himself on 19 September 1649 concerning arms he delivered to Scarborough Castle in 1645, are briefly described in a contemporary calendar of communications received which is now in the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge (Jersey Papers, Nos 42-3): see Nethercot, pp. 218, 251.

Some of the Master of Revels papers preserved in contemporary transcripts in the British Library (Add. MS 19256) relate to Davenant, as does an assignment of a share in the Duke's Theatre in 1661 (DaW 148).

Most especially, the original Royal Letters Patent by Charles II authorizing Davenant to form two companies of actors, on vellum, illuminated, dated 15 January 1661/2, is now preserved at the Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia (DaW 149).

The original sketches and designs for Davenant's masques executed by Inigo Jones — including several dozens for Britannia Triumphans (1638), Luminalia (1638) and Salmacida Spolia (1640) — are still among the Duke of Devonshire's collections at Chatsworth House. Some are illustrated in Trois Masques à la Cour de Charles I^er d'Angleterre, ed. Murray Lefkowitz (Paris, 1970), after p. 26. More are in Stephen Orgel and Roy Strong, Inigo Jones: The Theatre of the Stuart Court, 2 vols (Sotheby Parke Bernet and University of California Press, 1973), II, 661-785. For other documents relating to these productions, see Bentley, Jacobean & Caroline Stage, III, 193-225 (passim).

Abbreviations

Dramatic Works: The Dramatic Works of Sir William Davenant, ed. J. Maidment and W.H. Logan, 5 vols (Edinburgh and London, 1872-4).
Gibbs: Sir William Davenant, The Shorter Poems and Songs from the Plays and Masques, ed. A.M. Gibbs (Oxford, 1972).
Gladish: Sir William Davenant, Gondibert, ed. David F. Gladish (Oxford, 1971).
Harbage: Alfred Harbage, Sir William Davenant (Philadelphia, 1935).
Nethercot: Arthur H. Nethercot, Sir William D'Avenant (Chicago, 1938).

Verse

Poems by Davenant

'Awake, awake, the morne will never rise'

See DaW 44.

The Christians Reply to the Phylosopher ('The Good in Graves as Heavenly Seed are sown')

First published in Works (London, 1673). Gibbs, pp. 196-8.

DaW 1

Copy of an eleven-stanza version, headed Astragon dying, followed by a copy of stanzas 6 and 7 of the printed version, the whole preceded by a note: At the End of a Quarto Gondibert printed Anno 1651. & given by y^e Author to a Friend, I found these stanzas written by his own hand, & subscibd with his name. Will Davenant....

Twelve unbound quarto leaves, in a single hand, f. 11v inscribed at the foot Dec. 1678.

1678

Sotheby's, 3 July 1973, lot 269.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 23 ff. 11r-12r)

DaW 2

Copy of an eleven-stanza version, headed Astragon Dying, followed by a copy of stanzas 6 and 7 of the printed version, on the last three of 23 quarto pages bound-in at the end of a printed exemplum of Gondibert (first edition, 1651), dated December 1678.

c.1678

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn pb 91)

Elegie on B. Haselrick, slaine in's youth, in a Duell ('Now in the blinde and quiet age of Night')

First published in Madagascar (London, 1638). Gibbs, pp. 59-61.

DaW 3

Copy, headed An Elegye on Captaine Bartin Haslerigge slaine in Duell.

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 S^r. 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. 87r-8r)

DaW 4

Copy, headed An Elegie on Cap: Haslerigge by wi: Dauenon.

This MS collated in Gibbs.

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. 19r-20r)

Elegie, on Francis, Earle of Rutland ('Call not the Winds! nor bid the Rivers stay!')

First published in Madagascar (London, 1638). Gibbs, pp. 62-4.

DaW 5

Copy, headed An Elegie on the death of Francis late Earle of Rutland.

A verse miscellany, i + 25 leaves.

c.1640

Owned before 1959 by the Lingard-Guthrie family.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 53 f. 5r-v)

DaW 6

Copy, headed An Elegy on y^e L^d ffra: Manno^r Earle of Rutland and subscribed W. Davenant.

This MS collated in Gibbs.

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. 5r-6r)

DaW 7

Copy, headed An Elogie on the Earle of Rutland, subscribed W^m Davenant.

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.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 200 through 299 (MS V.a.245 ff. 4v-5v)

DaW 8

Copy, headed Elegie on the Earle of Rutland, subscribed Will: Dauennant.

This MS collated in Gibbs.

c.1630s-40s

St John's College, Cambridge (MS S. 23 (James 416) ff. 70r-1v)

An Elegy on the Duke of Buckingham's Death ('No Poetts triviall rage, that must aspire')

First published in Gibbs (1972), pp. 272-4.

DaW 9

Copy, subscribed Wil: Davenant.

Edited from this MS in Gibbs.

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).

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 30000 through 34999 (Add. MS 33998 ff. 41r-2v)

DaW 10

Copy.

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

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2725 ff. 79r-80v)

DaW 10.5

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. 10-13)

Epitaph On the Daughter of Mr. Richard Turpin ('Stript from her Silks and Lawnes here lies')

First published in Works (London, 1673). Gibbs, p. 167.

DaW 11

Copy.

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

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2725 f. 88v)

An Epitaph Wrot by Sir William Davenant Long Since upon Jeffery Hudson the Queens Dwarf ('Let no rude hand remove this Ston')

First published in The Poetry of Mildmay Fane, Second Earl of Westmorland, ed. Tom Cain (Manchester, 2001), Appendix I, pp. 363-4.

DaW 11.5

Copy of a poem headed An Epitaph wrot by S^r William Dauenant Long since vpon Jefferey Hudson y^e Queens Dwarf, 16 lines beginning Let no rude hand remoue this Ston. c.1660s.

The text is followed by Jeffreides or Jeffery y^e Dwarfs answer to S^r william Dauenant in reuenge for the Epitaph he wrot long since on him (36 lines beginning I'm stil aliue as I suppose).

Both poems edited from this MS in Cain, who thinks that Hudson's answer may be a persona poem possibly by Mildmay Fane.

A small folio volume of c.128 pages containing some 180 English and Latin poems dating from c.1649 to 1665.

Written throughout in the hand of Mildmay Fane (1602-66), second Earl of Westmorland.

The British Library: other MSS (Loan MS 121C pp. 61-2)

Epithalamium. The morning after the Marriage of the Earl of Barymore with Mrs. Martha Laurence ('A Lover is a high and mighty Thing!')

First published in Works (London, 1673). Gibbs, pp. 158-62.

DaW 11.8

Copy.

A folio formal verse miscellany, in a single rounded hand, 259 pages (plus a three-page index), in modern boards.

The contents, the latest of which (on pp. 203-7) can be dated to a marriage that took place in November 1656, reflect the taste of Interregnum Royalist sympathisers.

c.Late 1650s

Formerly in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 4001. Sotheby's, 29 June 1946, lot 164, to Myers. Then in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.

University College London (MS Ogden 42 pp. 203-7)

For the Lady, Olivia Porter. A present, upon a New-yeares day ('Goe! hunt the whiter Ermine! and present')

First published in Madagascar (London, 1638). Gibbs, p. 43.

DaW 12

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled.

A small quarto journal of proceedings in Parliament from 20 January to 2 March 1628/9, with additional verses, in three hands, ii + 87 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum.

c.1629-30s

Inscribed (f. 3r) Arth: Langford his booke the first of may 1629; (ff. 3r, 84v) John Slaughter; (f. 86r) Francis Webb and Robert Thurketil. Subsequently in the papers of the Trumbull family, including chiefly William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), diplomat and government official. Later belonging to the Marquess of Downshire, of Easthampstead Park. Formerly Berkshire Record Office Trumbull Add 51.

Sotheby's, 14 December 1989, lot 232, and 13 December 1990, lot 11. Facsimile example in the sale catalogues. Acquired 22 March 1991.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 70639 f. 66v)

DaW 13

Copy, headed Will Dauenants Newyears=guifte to Endimion Porters wife.

This MS collated in Gibbs.

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.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 100 through 149 (MS Rawl. poet. 117 f. 165 rev.)

DaW 14

Copy, headed On Newyeeres day for M^rs Porter, subscribed W. Dauenant.

This MS collated in Gibbs.

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.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999 (Add. MS 22602 f. 32v)

DaW 15

Copy, headed On Endimion Porters wife.

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

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 45000 through 49999 (Add. MS 47111 f. 15r)

DaW 16

Copy, in Lawes's musical setting, headed A New Yeares Guifte for M^res Porter.

A large folio volume of autograph vocal music by Henry Lawes (1596-1662), ix + 184 leaves, in modern black morocco gilt.

Comprising over 300 songs and musical dialogues by Lawes, probably written over an extended period (c.1626-62) in preparation for his eventual publications, including settings of 38 poems by Carew, fourteen poems by or attributed to Herrick, and fifteen by Waller.

Mid-17th century

Bookplates of William Gostling (1696-1777), antiquary and topographer; of Robert Smith, of 3 St Paul's Churchyard; and of Stephen Groombridge, FRS (1755-1832), astronomer. Later owned, until 1966, by Miss Naomi D. Church, of Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. Formerly British Library Loan MS 35.

Recorded in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Henry Lawes MS: CwT Δ 16; HeR Δ 3; WaE Δ 11. Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Pamela J. Willetts, The Henry Lawes Manuscript (London, 1969). Facsimiles of ff. 42r, 78r, 80r, 84r, 111r and 169r in The Poems and Masques of Aurelian Townshend, ed. Cedric C. Brown (Reading, 1983), pp. 59, 60, 62, 64, 66 and 117. Also discussed in Willa McClung Evans, Henry Lawes: Musician and Friend of Poets (New York and London, 1941), and elsewhere. A complete facsimile of the volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 3 (New York & London, 1986).

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 53723 ff. 73v-4r)

DaW 17

Copy, headed For M^ris. Porter on New=yeares day.

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

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2725 ff. 70v-1r)

DaW 18

Copy, headed To the wife of Endimion Porter.

This MS collated in Gibbs.

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. 132v-3)

DaW 19

Copy, headed A Newyeares day to M^ris Porter. Davenant.

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

Cambridge University Library, Additional MSS 1 through 4999 (MS Add. 79 f. 59r)

DaW 20

Copy, headed A New years Gift.

A quarto verse miscellany, in a Scottish secretary hand, paginated 5-132, bound with a later verse MS on 98 pages, in brown calf.

c.1630s-40s

Bookplate of John Pinkerton (1758-1826), historian and poet. Sotheby's, April 1812 (Pinkerton sale), lot 593, to Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, 1836 (Heber sale, Part XI), lot 1104, to Thomas Thorpe. His catalogue, 1836, bought by Laing.

Edinburgh University Library, Laing Collection (MS La. III. 436 pp. 82-3)

DaW 21

Copy, untitled.

A quarto miscellany of verse, state papers and parliamentary speeches, in several secretary and mixed hands, 134 leaves (plus numerous blanks), written from both ends chiefly on rectos only (Part I: ff. 1r-113r, Part II: ff. 1r-21r), disbound.

c.1640s

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 100 through 199 (MS V.a.192 Part II, f. 2r)

DaW 22

Copy, headed A new yeares guift to M^rs. Porter from W^m. Dauenant, subscribed W. D.

An octavo verse miscellany, in several hands, written from both ends, 77 leaves (including blanks), in old calf gilt.

c.1640

Formerly MS 2073.3.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 300 through end (MS V.a.319 f. 58r)

DaW 23

Copy, headed A new-yeeres guift to M^rs Porter from W: Dauenant.

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 y^e two partners of my heart M^r John Wheeler, and M^r 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.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 300 through end (MS V.a.322 p. 47)

DaW 24

Copy, headed Davenats new yeares guift to M^rs Porter, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves. The text followed on the same page by The mock new-yeares guift (Goe hunt y^e stinking fox).

Papers of the Gell family, formerly of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, in different hands and paper sizes, now disbound in folders.

Sotheby's, 16 December 1950, lot 560. Owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1906-90), American businessman and collector. Given to the Houghton Library by Robert S Pirie in 1959.

Harvard, other MSS (bMS Eng 1107 Folder 5A)

DaW 24.5

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 f. [22v rev.])

DaW 25

Copy, headed William Davenants verses upon M^r Endymion Porters Wife for w^ch and other by-respects M^r Porter gave him a hundred pound. 1631.

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. 33r)

DaW 26

Copy, headed A new yeares gift to m^rs Porter.

This MS collated in Gibbs.

c.1630s-40s

St John's College, Cambridge (MS S. 23 (James 416) f. 37r)

DaW 27

Copy, headed a New years guift By M^r Dauenant on S^r Endimions Porters.

This MS collated in Gibbs.

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. 35r)

DaW 28

Copy, headed For M^ris Porter on New yeares day.

A folio miscellany of some 133 poems, including 55 poems by Henry King and nineteen by Thomas Carew, 247 pages.

In the hands of two amanuenses associated with King: i.e. Scribe A (c.1636), pp. 1-214, that of Thomas Manne's imitator using two styles (a: pp. 1-62, 64-6, 133-4, 147-215; and b, the earlier: pp. 63, 67-132, 135-45); and Scribe B (c.1641): pp. 217-47, that of the scribe responsible for the Phillipps MS (Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 8471).

c.1636-41

The flyleaf inscribed Ex dono Eugenii Stoughton Die Octobrii 23 Anno-1738-Domini: i.e. owned before 1738 by the Stoughton family, of St John's House, Warwick.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Stoughton MS: CwT Δ 36 and KiH Δ 6. A complete photocopy deposited by Mary Hobbs in the Bodleian (MS Facs. d. 157). Edited in Mary Hobbs, An Edition of the Stoughton Manuscript (An Early Seventeenth-Century Poetry Collection in Private Hands connected with Henry King and Oxford) seen in relation to other contemporary Poetry and Song Collections (unpub. Ph.D. thesis, University of London, 1973). Also discussed in Mary Hobbs, The Poems of Henry King: Another Authoritative Manuscript, The Library, 5th Ser. 31 (1976), 127-35. Recorded in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King, D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96. A complete facsimile edition in The Stoughton Manuscript, ed. Mary Hobbs (Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1990).

Rosemary Williams (Stoughton MS pp. 92-3)

DaW 29

Copy, headed To y^e wife of M^r Endemion Porter and subscribed Tho: Carewe.

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 p. 23)

DaW 29.5

Copy, headed A poeticall Loue.

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

c.late 1630s

A microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7698.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 356 pp. 79-80)

Gondibert ('Of all the Lombards, by their Trophies knowne')

First published in London, 1651 [i.e. December 1650]. The Seventh and Last Canto of the Third Book published in London, 1685. Gladish (1971).

Poems of Uncertain Authorship

An Epitaph on y^e Lady Merri ('Though 'tis but vain to raise dead stones to her')

Unpublished. Allegedly omitted in [Davenant's] works.

DaW 76

Copy of a poem allegedly omitted in his works, written on a blank page at the end of an exemplum of Davenant's printed Works (London, 1673).

Late 17th century

Once owned by Rd Milles.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (Lt q DAV)

E're long we must be cold ('Cold, cold my Love, & wrap't in stubborne sheetes')

Unpublished. Ascribed to D'Avenant by William Burton, but perhaps only because reminiscent of Davenant's song My lodging it is on the Cold ground (Gibbs, p. 267).

DaW 77

Copy, ascribed to D'Avenant.

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

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

c.1637-46

The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House (MS 261 pp. 39-40 rev.)

The Fable of the Potts ('Celestiall Genius of Brittania's Isle')

First published in Gibbs (1972), pp. 279-80.

DaW 78

Copy, in a rounded hand, ascribed to W D, on the first page, followed by other verses, in a pair of conjugate folio leaves. Mid-late 17th century.

Edited from this MS in Gibbs.

A bundle of unbound verse MSS, in various hands.

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

Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, pp. 303-4.

Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone (U269 F36 No. 2)

On a Gentlewoman dying in Travell and the childe unborne ('Within this grave there is a grave intomb'd')

Gibbs, p. 278.

See BrW 77-96.

On the old Lord Broak ('Good Reader, kisse on this stone for look')

Unpublished. Davenant served in the household of Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke (d.1628), c.1624-8.

DaW 79

Copy, ascribed to Davenant (Idem), with a side-note against the first six lines: This is set.

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

Cambridge University Library, Additional MSS 1 through 4999 (MS Add. 79 ff. 59v-60r)

To my honored ffriend M^r Thomas Carew at S^r: Richard Leightons house in Boswell Court these ('Soe the rude Carpenter or Mason may')

First published, and tentatively attributed to Davenant, in Peter Beal, Massinger at Bay: Unpublished Verses in a War of the Theatres, Yearbook of English Studies, 10 (1980), 190-203. The verses reprinted and discussed in Massinger: The Critical Heritage, ed. Martin Garrett (London & New York, 1991), pp. 59-68 (and see also pp. 4-7)

DaW 79.5

Copy, prefaced by a brief prose address to Carew, in a secretary hand.

Edited from this MS in Beal.

A small quarto journal of proceedings in Parliament from 20 January to 2 March 1628/9, with additional verses, in three hands, ii + 87 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum.

c.1629-30s

Sotheby's, 14 December 1989, lot 232, and 13 December 1990, lot 11. Facsimile example in the sale catalogues. Acquired 22 March 1991.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 70639 ff. 67v-8r)

Prose

A Proposition for Advancement of Moralitie By a new way of Entertainment of the People

First published in London, 1654.

*DaW 79.8

Autograph

Autograph summary of Davenant's Proposition, on a single folio leaf.

[1653-1654]

Among the papers of Samuel Hartlib (c.1600/2-1662), educationalist and natural philosopher.

This MS edited, discussed and (correctly) attributed to Davenant, with a facsimile, in James R. Jacob and Timothy Raylor, Opera and Obedience: Thomas Hobbes and A Proposition for Advancement of Moralitie by Sir William Davenant, The Seventeenth Century, 6 (1991), 205-50. A facsimile also in The Hartlib Papers Project Newsletter (March 1994).

University of Sheffield (50H/53/4)

Dramatic Works

Britannia Triumphans. Songs ('Britanocles, the great and good appeares')

First published in London, 1637 [i.e. 1638]. Dramatic Works, III, 245-300 (pp. 286-90). Trois Masques a la Cour de Charles I^er d'Angleterre, ed. Murray Lefkowitz (Paris, 1970), pp. 171-243 (pp. 205-9). Stephen Orgel and Roy Strong, Inigo Jones: The Theatre of the Stuart Court, 2 vols (Sotheby Parke Bernet, University of California Press, 1973), II, 662-7 (pp. 666-7). Gibbs, pp. 223, 225-6.

DaW 80

Copy of the chorus of poets and Fame, Galatea's song and the Valediction, in a musical setting by William Lawes, headed The King's Masque.

Edited from this MS in Sabol, 400 Songs and Dances for the Stuart Masque, Nos. 49-51, and in Lefkowitz, pp. 211-43 (with a facsimile of p. 17 after p. 26, plate XI); recorded in Gibbs, p. 447.

A large folio autograph songbook of the composer William Lawes (1602-45), viii + 114 pages, various leaves excised, in contemporary calf gilt bearing the royal arms.

c.1638-45

Bodleian Library, Music MSS (MS Mus. Sch. B. 2 pp. 16-18)

The Just Italian, Act V, scene i. Song ('This lady, ripe, and calm, and fresh')

First published in London, 1630. Dramatic Works, I, 207-80.

DaW 81

Copy of the song between two boys, in a musical setting by John Atkins.

This MS collated in Cutts, Drexel Manuscript 4041, p. 184.

A folio songbook, in a single secretary hand, some items misnumbered, 144 leaves.

c.1640s

Once owned by the Shirley family, Earls Ferrers, of Staunton Harold, Leicestershire. Also owned, and annotated, by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author. Acquired in 1888.

New York Public Library, Music Division (Drexel MS 4041 No. 77, f. 56r-v)

The Law against Lovers, III, i. Song ('Wake all the dead! what hoa! what hoa!')

First published in Works (London, 1673). Dramatic Works, V, 109-211 (pp. 152-3). Gibbs, p. 260.

DaW 82

Copy of Viola's song, untitled, on a single folio leaf, endorsed with three staves of music.

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.

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 36/37 f. 200r)

DaW 83

Copy, untitled.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single informal hand, a member of St John's College, Oxford, i + 99 leaves, in half-vellum marbled boards.

Including 19 poems by Habington and (ff. 8r-21r, 28v) 21 poems by Katherine Philips transcribed from a edited source.

Late 17th century

Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as Rawlinson MS I: PsK Δ 6.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 50 through 99 (MS Rawl. poet. 65 f. 26r)

DaW 84

Copy, headed ffirst Song.

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.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 3000 through 3999 (Harley MS 3991 f. 66v)

DaW 84.5

Copy, untitled.

Once erroneously associated with Thomas Killigrew (1612-83), whose hand does not appear in the volume.

Mid-17th century-c.1702

Inscribed (f. [ir]) S^r Robert Killigrew / 1702. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 9070. Sotheby's, 19 May 1897, lot 455.

Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Nancy Cutbirth, Thomas Killigrew's Commonplace Book?, Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin, NS No. 13 (1980), 31-8.

University of Texas at Austin (Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book f. 125r)

DaW 85

Copy, untitled.

A folio volume of 51 poems by Edmund Waller, in a probably professional hand, with alterations in another hand (possibly collations with one of the editions of 1645), 149 pages, imperfect (pp. 49-50, 55-6, 61-2 and most of pp. 57-8 excised), in calf.

On pp. 1-3, in the hand of the main scribe, is a prose dedication To the Queene [Henrietta Maria] and, on pp. 147-9, another To my Lady Sophia [Bartie—ye earle of Linseys Daughter added in another hand], and four poems by other writers added in yet another hand on pp. 122-46.

c.1640s

The volume purchased by a later member of the Waller family, in 1868, from the London bookseller F.S. Ellis, who notes in an enclosed letter (dated 20 August 1868) that he bought it from William Carew Hazlitt (1834-1813), bibliographer and writer, who had bought it in a miscellaneous sale of books & furniture at Robinson's Rooms in Bond St. some eight or ten years since. In another enclosed letter (dated 3 August 1868) Ellis expresses the wholly erroneous view that some of the corrections are his [Waller's]… and …the whole was written under his eye — the writing is certainly identical with that of the dedication in the volume of his poems in the British Museum, addressed to the Duchess of York [WaE 610, WaE 688]. The volume was owned in 1893 by Mr Waller, of Farmington Lodge, Northleach.

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Hazlitt MS: WaE Δ 4. Recorded in Thorn-Drury and the dedication To the Queene printed (I, vi-vii).

Mr Richard Waller ([no shelfmark] pp. 125-6)

The Law against Lovers, Act V, scene i. Song ('Our Ruler has got the vertigo of State')

First published in Works (London, 1673). Dramatic Works, V, 109-211 (pp. 191-2). Gibbs, p. 261.

DaW 86

Copy.

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.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 3000 through 3999 (Harley MS 3991 ff. 66v-7r)

Love and Honour, Act IV, scene i. Song ('No morning red, and blushing faire')

First published in London, 1649. Dramatic Works, III, 91-192 (pp. 155-6). Gibbs, pp. 208-9.

DaW 87

Copy of the boy's song.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, in a single small hand, 54 leaves, in vellum boards.

Compiled by a Cambridge University man.

c.1640s

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 50 through 99 (MS Rawl. poet. 62 f. 33r)

DaW 88

Copy, headed Songe.

A folio volume of tracts and papers chiefly on state matters, largely in one hand, 72 leaves (plus blanks).

c.1635

Inscribed (f. 10r) with names of Stephen Foster of Wrexham, Buckinghamshire (possibly the principal compiler) and Robert Drake of Topsham, Devon. Bookplate (f. 11r) of Berkeley Seymour of Queens's College, Cambridge. Purchased from the Rev. John C. Jackson 8 December 1866.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2026 f. 66v)

DaW 89

Copy, headed A Song.

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. 26v-7r)

DaW 90

Copy, headed Song in Love and honour.

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.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 3000 through 3999 (Harley MS 3991 f. 65r-v)

DaW 91

Copy, untitled.

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 M^r 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.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6931 f. 52v)

DaW 91.5

Copy, untitled.

Once erroneously associated with Thomas Killigrew (1612-83), whose hand does not appear in the volume.

Mid-17th century-c.1702

Inscribed (f. [ir]) S^r Robert Killigrew / 1702. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 9070. Sotheby's, 19 May 1897, lot 455.

Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Nancy Cutbirth, Thomas Killigrew's Commonplace Book?, Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin, NS No. 13 (1980), 31-8.

University of Texas at Austin (Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book ff. 25v-6r)

Love and Honour, Act V, scene i. Song ('O draw your Curtains and appeare!')

Published in Works (1673) as a separate song headed Song to Two Lovers Condemn'd to die. Gibbs, p. 156. Dramatic Works, III, 173-4. William Lawes's musical setting first published in New Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1678).

DaW 92

Autograph copy by Lawes, in his musical setting, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Gibbs, pp. 294-5.

A folio autograph songbook by William Lawes (1602-45), composer, 49 leaves, in contemporary calf stamped in gilt with arms of Charles I.

c.1638-45

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 31432 f. 39r)

DaW 93

Copy, in a musical setting by William Lawes.

This MS collated in Cutts, Drexel Manuscript 4041, pp. 166-7.

A folio songbook, in a single secretary hand, some items misnumbered, 144 leaves.

c.1640s

Once owned by the Shirley family, Earls Ferrers, of Staunton Harold, Leicestershire. Also owned, and annotated, by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author. Acquired in 1888.

New York Public Library, Music Division (Drexel MS 4041 No. 10, f. 9r-v)

Macbeth

First published in London, 1673. Dramatic Works, V, 295-394. Edited by Christopher Spencer (New Haven, 1961).

DaW 94

Copy of the full text, with an ornate title-page.

Copy of the full text, with an ornate title-page: Macbeth A Tragedy As it is now acted at the Dukes Theatre 1674; pp. 1-8, 11-15, 22-63 predominantly in a single hand with corrections, deletions and additions, some on pasted-in slips, in three other hands; the title-page and dramatis personae added in another hand, and later additions (supplying missing text) in a modern bookseller's hand; probably copied for the most part from Davenant's foul papers in preparation for a promptbook, 65 large folio pages (plus blanks), in contemporary marbled boards.

c.1664-74

Afterwards owned by Sir William Turner (d.1692), philanthropist, of Kirkleatham, Yorkshire. Acquired in 1948, at the sale of the library of Turner's Hospital and Free School, by Seven Gables Bookshop, New York, and annotated then by Alexander Schultze.

Edited from this MS (with facsimiles of ff. 1, 2, 24, 30v and 34v, between pp. 74 and 79) in Spencer.

Yale (MS Vault Shelves Shakespeare)

DaW 95

A large quarto book of songs in Macbeth set to music by Richard Leveridge, 38 pages, in half morocco marbled boards.

c.1723

Once owned by Thomas Oliphant (1799-1873), music editor and cataloguer. Puttick & Simpson's, 25 April 1873 (Oliphant sale), bought by William Hayman Cummings, FSA (1831-1915), singer and musical antiquary. Sotheby's, 17-24 May 1917 (Cummings sale), lot 1402.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, Miscellaneous manuscripts (MS W.b.537)

DaW 96

Copy of the music score by John Eccles (with words to songs and choruses), apparently transcribed from DaW 95.

A folio volume of vocal music principally by John Eccles, the lyrics largely in a single cursive hand, with (f. 2r) an index, 205 leaves, in contemporary reversed brown calf (rebacked), stamped on the front cover volvm III.

Early 18th century

Inscribed (f. 1v) J.W Windsor Bath 1802; (inside cover) Vincent Novello [(1781-1861), music publisher] / 66 S^t. Queen Street / Lincolns Inn / purchased of M^r Hamilton Jun March 28 1829, with (f. 1r) an affixed letter by Novello dated 28 March 1848. Puttick & Simpson's, 24 April 1873.

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 29378 ff. 57r-95r)

DaW 96.5

A folio MS of The original Play-house Music to Macbeth. A Manuscript of the time of Charles II, with the names of the singers...injured by damp.

Late 17th century

Thomas Rodd's sale catalogue of manuscripts for 1841, item 602.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Macbeth music MS])

Macbeth, II, [v]. Song ('Let's have a dance upon the Heath')

Dramatic Works, V, 348. Gibbs, pp. 263-4. Spencer, pp. 105-6.

DaW 97

Copy of the Witches' Second Song, untitled and here beginning Letts dance a dance upon the Heath.

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.

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 36/37 f. 69v)

DaW 98

Copy, untitled.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single informal hand, a member of St John's College, Oxford, i + 99 leaves, in half-vellum marbled boards.

Including 19 poems by Habington and (ff. 8r-21r, 28v) 21 poems by Katherine Philips transcribed from a edited source.

Late 17th century

Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as Rawlinson MS I: PsK Δ 6.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 50 through 99 (MS Rawl. poet. 65 f. 27v)

DaW 99

Copy.

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.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 3000 through 3999 (Harley MS 3991 f. 87r)

DaW 100

Copy.

Edited from this MS, as The Witches Song, in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), pp. 144-5.

A folio verse miscellany, in vellum.

Late 17th century?

Inscribed on the front cover William Turner his booke, 1662 and, on the rear paste-down Catherine Gage's Booke: i.e. Catherine Gage, Lady Aston (d.1720). Formerly among the papers of the Aston family, of Tixall, Staffordshire.

Poems selectively edited from this MS (as his Third Division: Poems Collected by the Right Honourable Lady Aston) in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), pp. 107-205.

Untraced Tixal MSS (Tixall MS 3 [unspecified page numbers])

DaW 101

Copy, headed The Song of Macbeth, on one side of a single quarto leaf (the other side containing the end of an epilogue), apparently extracted from a MS volume.

Late 17th century

P.J. Dobell, sale catalogue The Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1238, with a facsimile. Collated from this facsimile in Gibbs, pp. lxxvi-lxxvii, 263-4.

Untraced Dobell MSS ([Macbeth song])

The Man's the Master, Act III, scene ii. Song ('The Bread is all bak'd')

First published in London, 1669. Dramatic Works, V, 1-107 (pp. 67-9). Gibbs, pp. 268-9.

DaW 102

Copy of Don John's song, in a musical setting by John Banister, untitled.

A folio volume of vocal music, probably in a single cursive hand, 190 leaves, in remains of vellum boards within modern half red morocco.

c.1682

Inscribed (f. 1*^r) P. Fussell Winton, Liber Caroli Morgan e Coll Magd Dec^mo: 6^to Die 7^bris: Anno Domini 1682, and Vincent Novello [(1781-1861), music publisher] The gift of his kind friend W^m Patten.

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 33234 ff. 28v-30r)

The Platonick Lovers

First published in London, 1636. Dramatic Works, II, 1-105.

DaW 102.4

Extract.

An octavo commonplace book of extracts from various authors, some under headings, compiled by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, written from both ends, iv + 558 pages (the majority blank), in contemporary vellum.

Late 17th century

Bodleian Library, Sancroft MSS (MS Sancroft 29 pp. 108-9)

DaW 102.6

Extracts, headed Out of y^e Platonick louers Tragicomedy By Will: Dauenant, with comments on the play.

See Arthur C. Kirsch, A Caroline Commentary on the Drama, MP, 66 (1968-9), 256-61 (pp. 258-9).

A quarto miscellany of extracts from plays and historical works, with comments on them, entitled Excerpta quædam per A. W. Adolescentem, in a single cursive predominantly italic hand, 119 leaves, in modern quarter-morocco.

Entirely in the hand of the Rev. Abraham Wright (1611-90), of St John's College, Oxford, author.

c.1640

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ja: Wright (Abraham's son) and later of Taylor, Brighton. Bookplate of William Bromley, of Baginton, Warwickshire, 1703. Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 21 August 1858 (Bliss sale), lot 220.

For facsimile examples, see ShW 71 and ShW 44.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999 (Add. MS 22608 ff. 90v-1v)

The Play House to be Lett, Act II. Song ('Ah, love is a delicate ting')

First published in Works (London, 1673). Dramatic Works, IV, 1-104 (48-9). Gibbs, pp. 262-3.

DaW 102.8

Copy in Shenstone's hand.

A volume entitled A Collection of Poems Transcrib'd & Corrected from Original M.S.S. By W. Shenstone [(1714-63), poet].

c.1759

Annotations by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 29 April 1884 (Percy sale), lot 272.

Published as Shenstone's Miscellany 1759-1763, ed. I.A. Gordon (Oxford, 1952).

Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand (Shenstone Miscellany p. 207)

The Prince D'Amour

First published in London, 1635. Dramatic Works, I, 317-40.

See The Triumphs of the Prince D'Amour: DaW 110.5-116.

The Rivals, Act III. Song ('For straight my green Gown into Breeches I'le make')

First published in London, 1668. Dramatic Works, V, 213-93 (p. 262). Gibbs, p. 265.

DaW 103

Copy of Celania's song, here beginning Strait my Green Gown into breeches i'l make, erroneously headed In the Tempest.

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.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 3000 through 3999 (Harley MS 3991 f. 91r)

The Rivals, V. Song ('My lodging it is on the Cold ground')

Dramatic Works, V, 282. Gibbs, p. 267.

DaW 104

Copy of Celania's song, untitled.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single informal hand, a member of St John's College, Oxford, i + 99 leaves, in half-vellum marbled boards.

Including 19 poems by Habington and (ff. 8r-21r, 28v) 21 poems by Katherine Philips transcribed from a edited source.

Late 17th century

Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as Rawlinson MS I: PsK Δ 6.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 50 through 99 (MS Rawl. poet. 65 f. 31v)

DaW 104.5

Copy, headed A song, subscribed M^r S. H. [or S. L.].

An octavo miscellany of drama and amatory songs, in at least three hands, written from both ends, in contemporary panelled calf (rebacked).

Mid-late 17th century

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 200 through end (MS Rawl. poet. 214 f. 83r rev.)

DaW 105

Copy, headed Song in the Rivalls.

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.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 3000 through 3999 (Harley MS 3991 ff. 82v-3)

DaW 106

Copy, headed The Slighted Maid.

A folio verse miscellany, in two hands, possibly compiled principally by Robert Clarke of Wadham College, Oxford.

c.1663

Duke University (MS 12-14-71 p. 94)

DaW 106.5

Copy, untitled.

Once erroneously associated with Thomas Killigrew (1612-83), whose hand does not appear in the volume.

Mid-17th century-c.1702

Inscribed (f. [ir]) S^r Robert Killigrew / 1702. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 9070. Sotheby's, 19 May 1897, lot 455.

Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Nancy Cutbirth, Thomas Killigrew's Commonplace Book?, Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin, NS No. 13 (1980), 31-8.

University of Texas at Austin (Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book ff. 119v-20r)

DaW 106.8

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, in several hands, showing communal use, 161 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary calf.

Late 17th century

Formerly Chest II, No. 21.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 213 p. 128)

The Siege of Rhodes, Parts I and II

First published (First Part) in London, 1656. The expanded version in two parts published in London, 1663. Dramatic Works, III, 231-365. Edited by Ann-Mari Hedbäck (Studia Anglistica Upsaliensia 14, Uppsala, 1973).

DaW 107

Proof-sheet, with a printer's corrections, of four pages in the first edition of Part I (1656), comprising sigs. D1^v, D2^r, D3^v and D4^r, in an exemplum of that edition.

c.1656

This sheet discussed, with a facsimile, in Ann-Mari Hedbäck, The Printing of The Siege of Rhodes, SN, 45 (1973), 68-79.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, Printed books (D339.2)

DaW 107.5

Copy of the first 32 lines, by the Admiral and Villerius, in the First Entry of Part I, untitled and here beginning Arme arme Valerious arme.

Dramatic Works, III, 260-1.

Once erroneously associated with Thomas Killigrew (1612-83), whose hand does not appear in the volume.

Mid-17th century-c.1702

Inscribed (f. [ir]) S^r Robert Killigrew / 1702. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 9070. Sotheby's, 19 May 1897, lot 455.

Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Nancy Cutbirth, Thomas Killigrew's Commonplace Book?, Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin, NS No. 13 (1980), 31-8.

University of Texas at Austin (Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book p. [xxvi])

DaW 108

Copy of Part II, headed The Siege of Rhodes by Solyman the Magnificent Fourth Emperour of the Turks. The Second Part. By Sir William D'avenant, probably transcribed largely from a printed source (the quarto of 1663) and prepared as an acting version.

This MS collated in Hedbäck's edition, pp. xxiv-xxvii, 108-10; also discussed by her in The Douai Manuscript Reexamined, PBSA, 73 (1979), 1-18.

MS volume of plays, used for amateur staging by one of the English colleges in Douai.

1694/5

This MS described in G. Blakemore Evans, The Douai Manuscript - Six Shakespearean Transcripts (1694-95), PQ, 41.1 (1962), 158-72.

Bibliothèque Municipale, Douai, France (MS 787 ff. 287v-317r)

The Siege of Rhodes, Part II, iv. Song ('Beauty, retire! Thou dost my pity move!')

Dramatic Works, III, 350-1.

DaW 109

Copy of Solyman's declamation, in a musical setting by Morelli.

This MS discussed in Macdonald Emslie, Pepys' Shakespeare Song, SQ, 6 (1955), 159-70 (pp. 160-1). Facsimiles of f. 6r (erroneously said to be Pepys's setting) in The Diary of Samuel Pepys, ed. H.B. Wheatley (London, 1920), V, facing p. 165, and in Geoffrey Tease, Samuel Pepys and his World (London, 1972), p. 69.

A folio volume of music compiled by Cesare Morelli for the use of Samuel Pepys, 169 leaves, in contemporary black morocco gilt.

c.1680-93

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library (MS 2591 ff. 6r-7r)

DaW 110

Copy, in a musical setting by Samuel Pepys.

Pepys records in his diary completing his setting on 6 December 1665. This MS discussed in Emslie, loc. cit. Facsimile in The Diary of Samuel Pepys, ed. Robert Latham & William Matthews, VI (London, 1972), between pp. 320 & 321. The song is shown in the portrait of Pepys in the National Portrait Gallery.

A folio songbook compiled by Cesare Morelli for the use of Samuel Pepys, 113 leaves, in contemporary calf.

c.1680-93

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library (MS 2803 ff. 111v-12v)

The Tempest, or The Enchanted Island

See Introduction.

The Triumphs of the Prince D'Amour

First published in London, 1635. Dramatic Works, I, 317-40. Trois Masques à la Cour de Charles I^er d'Angleterre, ed. Murray Lefkowitz (Paris, 1970), pp. 111-69.

DaW 110.5 Mid-17th century

Copy of the opening speech, headed The master of the Ceremonies of the Prince D'Amour to the Prince Elector (here beginning S^r this shorte Journey from my prince's throne), in a neat predominantly secretary hand, on one side of a single folio leaf; together with (f. 80r), in another secretary hand, Certaine quæries of the Prince D'Amour and his officers, queries which formed no part of Davenant's printed text but which were also probably part of the entertainment.

Dramatic Works, I, 328-9.

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

Volume CCXXXVI of the Trumbull Papers, of the Trumbull family, including chiefly William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), diplomat and government official. Later belonging to the Marquess of Downshire, of Easthampstead Park. Formerly Berkshire Record Office Trumbull Add 17 and 18.

Sotheby's sale catalogue, The Trumbull Papers (14 December 1989), part of lot 39.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 72478 f. 81r)

The Triumphs of the Prince d'Amour. Song ('Whither so gladly, and so fast')

Dramatic Works, I, 333-4. Lefkowitz, pp. 130-1. Gibbs, p. 219.

Henry Lawes's musical setting published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669). Reprinted in Sabol, 400 Songs & Dances from the Stuart Masque, No. 45.

DaW 111

Copy of Cupid's song, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.

This MS collated in John P. Cutts, Seventeenth-Century Songs and Lyrics in Paris Conservatoire MS. Rés. 2489, MD, 23 (1969), 117-39 (p. 128).

Portion of a folio songbook compiled by John Playford (1623-86?).

c.1660

Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, Département de la Musique (MS Conservatoire Rés. 2489 p. 290 [f. 21r])

DaW 112

Copy, in Lawes's musical setting, inscribed Cupid to y^e Knights Templers in a Maske at y^e Midle Temple.

This MS recorded in Sabol.

A large folio volume of autograph vocal music by Henry Lawes (1596-1662), ix + 184 leaves, in modern black morocco gilt.

Mid-17th century

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 53723 f. 42r)

The Triumphs of the Prince d'Amour. Song ('Behold, how this conjunction thrives!')

Dramatic Works, I, 338. Lefkowitz, pp. 134-5. Gibbs, p. 221.

DaW 113

Copy of the song of the Priests of Apollo in a musical setting by William Lawes.

Edited in part from this MS in Sabol, No. 415, and in Lefkowitz, pp. 142-9.

A folio music part book (2nd treble part), viii + 218 pages, in contemporary calf.

Compiled by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer.

c.1650s

Bookplate of Povert Henley.

Bodleian Library, Music MSS (MS Mus. d. 238 pp. 189-188 rev.)

DaW 114

Copy in a musical setting by William Lawes.

Edited from this MS in Sabol, No. 46

A large folio autograph songbook of the composer William Lawes (1602-45), viii + 114 pages, various leaves excised, in contemporary calf gilt bearing the royal arms.

c.1638-45

Bodleian Library, Music MSS (MS Mus. Sch. B. 2 pp. 41-2)

DaW 115

Copy, in a musical setting by William Lawes, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Sabol, No. 415. Collated in John P. Cutts, Seventeenth Century Songs and Lyrics in Edinburgh University Library Music MS. Dc. 1. 69, MD, 13 (1959), 169-94 (p. 194).

Compiled entirely by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer.

Mid-late 17th century

Later owned by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author.

Edinburgh University Library (MS Dc. 1. 69 pp. 20-1 rev.)

The Triumphs of the Prince d'Amour. Song ('The furious steed, the Phyph and Drum')

Dramatic Works, I, 339. Lefkowitz, pp. 135-6. Gibbs, pp. 221-2.

DaW 116

Copy of the songs of valediction and final chorus sung by the Priests of Mars, Venus and Apollo, here beginning The angry steed..., in a musical setting by William Lawes (d.1645).

Edited from this MS in Sabol, No. 47, and in Lefkowitz, pp. 150-69; recorded in Gibbs, p. 446.

A large folio autograph songbook of the composer William Lawes (1602-45), viii + 114 pages, various leaves excised, in contemporary calf gilt bearing the royal arms.

c.1638-45

Bodleian Library, Music MSS (MS Mus. Sch. B. 2 pp. 42-3)

The Unfortunate Lovers, Act III. Song ('Run to Loves Lott'ry! Run, Maids, and rejoyce')

The play first published London, 1643. This song first published in Davenant, Works (London, 1673). Dramatic Works, III, 11-90 (pp. 86-7). Gibbs, pp. 234-5 (music on pp. 331-6).

DaW 116.5

Copy, untitled.

Once erroneously associated with Thomas Killigrew (1612-83), whose hand does not appear in the volume.

Mid-17th century-c.1702

Inscribed (f. [ir]) S^r Robert Killigrew / 1702. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 9070. Sotheby's, 19 May 1897, lot 455.

Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Nancy Cutbirth, Thomas Killigrew's Commonplace Book?, Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin, NS No. 13 (1980), 31-8.

University of Texas at Austin (Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book f. 124v)

The Unfortunate Lovers, Act V, scene i. The Song to a horrid Tune ('You Fiends and Furies come along')

First published in London, 1643. Dramatic Works, III, 11-90 (p. 78). Gibbs, p. 145.

Lawes's musical setting published in New Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1678).

DaW 117

Autograph copy by Lawes, in his musical setting, untitled.

Edited in part from this MS in Gibbs, pp. 298-302.

A folio autograph songbook by William Lawes (1602-45), composer, 49 leaves, in contemporary calf stamped in gilt with arms of Charles I.

c.1638-45

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 31432 ff. 41v-2r)

DaW 118

Copy.

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.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 3000 through 3999 (Harley MS 3991 f. 87r-v)

The Wits

First published in London, 1636. Dramatic Works, II, 107-244.

DaW 119

Extracts, headed Out of y^e witts. A Comedie by Will. Dauenant, with comments on the play.

Entirely in the hand of the Rev. Abraham Wright (1611-90), of St John's College, Oxford, author.

c.1640

For facsimile examples, see ShW 71 and ShW 44.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999 (Add. MS 22608 ff. 91v-3r)

Letters

Letter(s)

DaW 120

Copy of a letter by Davenant to George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, from London, [c.1628].

Among papers of Dudley Carleton (1574-1632), Viscount Dorchester, diplomat.

c.1628

Edited in Harbage, p. 38. Quoted in Nethercot, pp. 70-1.

National Archives, Kew (SP 16/126/42)

*DaW 121

Autograph

Autograph letter signed by Davenant, to [Edward, second Viscount Conway], from Newcastle, 24 [August 1640].

1640

Puttick & Simpson, 3 June 1878, lot 91. Sotheby's, 27 February, 1882, lot 20. Sotheby's, 9 November 1965, lot 358, to Dobell.

Quoted in Nethercot, pp. 187-8.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS fb 219)

DaW 122

Copy of a letter by Davenant to William Legge, from London, 1 January 1641[/2].

c.1642

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS fb 190/1)

*DaW 123

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Alderman James Watkinson, from Scarborough, 21 September 1643, (at night).

1643

Sotheby's, 4 April 1938, lot 117, to Doran. Christie's, 12 July 2000 (William Foyle sale, Part III), lot 329, the detached inscribed leaf only, in an extra-illustrated printed exemplum of Peter Cunningham, The Story of Nell Gwyn (London, 1852), opposite p. 11.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Davenant letter (I)])

*DaW 124

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Alderman James Watkinson, from Amsterdam, 19 October 1643.

1643

Formerly in Files/Davenant.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osb MSS File 4171)

*DaW 125 1644

Autograph

Autograph letter signed by Davenant, to Prince Rupert, from Haleford, 13 June 1644.

Facsimiles in Garnett & Gosse (1903), III, 79; in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XXVI; and in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 92. Ciited in Nethercot, p. 213.

A folio guardbook of original letters, in varius hands, 65 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco gilt.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999 (Add. MS 20723 ff. 20r-1v)

DaW 126 1646

Letter by Davenant, in the hand of an amanuensis, unsigned, to John, first Lord Colepepper, and Sir Edward Hyde, from Paris, 17 January 1645/6.

Quoted in Harbage, pp. 96-7, and in Nethercot, p. 220.

A folio composite volume of a collection of state letters and papers, in various hands, 592 leaves, now in two volumes, foliated 1-321 and 322-592 respectively.

Bodleian Library, Tanner Collection (MS Tanner 60 Vol. II, ff. 371r-2v)

DaW 127 1646

Copy of a letter by Davenant, to Sir Hugh Pollard, [from Paris, February 1645/6], as Intercepted and deciphered…By S^r Walter Erle 28 Febr: 1645.

Cited in Nethercot, p. 220.

A folio composite volume of a collection of state letters and papers, in various hands, 592 leaves, now in two volumes, foliated 1-321 and 322-592 respectively.

Bodleian Library, Tanner Collection (MS Tanner 60 Vol. II, ff. 489r-90v)

*DaW 128 1646

Autograph

Autograph letter signed by Davenant, to Sir Edward Hyde, from Paris, 5 May 1646.

A composite volume of letters and papers of the Earl of Clarendon, for May-December 1646, 310 leaves.

Bodleian Library, Clarendon MSS (MS Clarendon 28 ff. 5r-6v)

*DaW 129 1646

Autograph

Autograph letter signed by Davenant, to Sir Edward Hyde, from St Germain, 2 June 1646.

Unpublished.

A composite volume of letters and papers of the Earl of Clarendon, for May-December 1646, 310 leaves.

Bodleian Library, Clarendon MSS (MS Clarendon 28 ff. 72r-3v)

*DaW 130 1646

Autograph

Autograph letter signed by Davenant, to Sir Richard Browne, from St Germains, 14 August [1646].

Edited in Harbage, p. 104, and in Nethercot, pp. 224-5.

A large quarto composite volume, comprising c.230 letters of British poets, 234 leaves (including blanks), in 19th-century half-calf.

Assembled in 1824 by William Upcott (1779-1845), antiquary and autograph collector.

Among collections of Captain Montagu Montagu, RN (d.1863).

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Montagu d. 1 ff. 40r-1v)

*DaW 131

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to an unspecified correspondent, from St Germains, 1 September 1646.

1646

Formerly among the Egerton-Warburton MSS at Arley Hall, Cheshire. Sotheby's, 16 March 1937, lot 483, to King.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 291.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Davenant letter (II)])

*DaW 132 1648

Autograph

Autograph letter signed by Davenant, to the Marquess of Ormond, from Paris, 25 October 1648, endorsed By M^r Fanshaw.

A folio composite volume of state letters and papers for the period January 1647/8 to November 1648, 699 leaves.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Carte 22 ff. 436r-7r)

*DaW 133 1649

Autograph

Autograph letter signed by Davenant, to Sir George Hamilton, from Kinsale, 3 March 1648/9.

A folio composite volume of state letters and papers for the period March 1648/9 to May 1649, in various hands, 801 leaves.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Carte 24 ff. 21r-2r)

DaW 134

Copy of a petition by Davenant, to the Council of State, from the Tower, [1650].

1650

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 192. Cited in Nethercot, p. 279.

The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House (Whitelocke Papers, Vol. X, f. 220)

*DaW 135

Autograph

Autograph petition signed, to Parliament, from the Tower, [1652].

1652

Harvard, other MSS (bMS Eng 870 (11))

*DaW 136

Autograph

Autograph letter signed by Davenant, to Colonel Henry Marten, from the Tower, 8 July 1652.

1652

Recorded in HMC, 13th Report (1892), Appendix IV, p. 389. Quoted in Nethercot, pp. 284-5.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (Marten/Loder-Symonds MSS, Political and Miscellaneous, Vol. 2, 1651-1658, f. 112r-v)

*DaW 137

Autograph

Autograph note by Davenant, from the Tower, 19 December 1652.

1652

Sotheby's, 7 August 1884 (J.P. Collier sale), lot 1052, to B. J. Stevens.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Davenant letter (III)])

*DaW 138

Autograph

Autograph petition signed by Davenant, to Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector, with largely autograph enclosures, 18 April 1654.

1654

Facsimile in IELM, II.i (1987), Facsimile XII, after p. xxiv, and in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 93. Quoted in Nethercot, pp. 293-4.

National Archives, Kew (SP 18/69/75, and I, II, III, and /76)

*DaW 139 1655

Autograph

Autograph letter signed by Davenant, to John Thurloe, 15 June 1655.

Edited in A Collection of the State Papers of John Thurloe Esq, ed. Thomas Birch, 7 vols (London, 1742), III, 554. Reprinted in Harbage, p. 120. Quoted in Nethercot, pp. 295-6.

A folio composite volume of the state letters and papers of John Thurloe (1616-68), government official, for June-July 1655, in various hands, 430 leaves.

Volume XXVII of the Thurloe Papers.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. A. 27 pp. 345-8)

*DaW 140 1656

Autograph

Autograph petition unsigned, [to John Thurloe], for the allowance of stage plays, endorsed by Thurloe Some observations concerning the people of this nation, [1656].

Identified as Davenant's and edited in Sir Charles Firth, Sir William Davenant and the Revival of the Drama during the Protectorate, EHR, 18 (1903), 319-21. Quoted in Harbage, pp. 125-6.

A folio composite volume of state papers of John Thurloe (1616-68), government official, in various hands, 284 leaves.

1656-7

Volume XLVI of the Thurloe Papers.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. A. 46 f. 293r)

*DaW 141

Autograph

Autograph petition unsigned, by Davenant and Sir William Killigrew, in a secretary's hand throughout, to King Charles II, from Whitehall, 16 January 1661/2.

1662

Recorded in Nethercot, p. 344.

National Archives, Kew (SP 29/49/45)

DaW 142 c.1662

Copy of an unsigned petition by Davenant and Sir William Killigrew to King Charles II, from Whitehall, 16 January 1661/2.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 18000 through 19999 (Add. MS 19256 f. 74r)

*DaW 143

Autograph

Autograph petition signed, [? to Sir Edward Nicholas], concerning actors, with autograph enclosure.

c.6 August 1662

Recorded in Nethercot, p. 365.

National Archives, Kew (SP 29/58/15 and I)

*DaW 144

Autograph

Autograph petition by Davenant, [? to the Counci], for compensation, 25 April 1664.

1664

Edited in E.S. de Beer, A Statement by Sir William D'Avenant, N&Q, 153 (5 November 1927), 327.

National Archives, Kew (SP 84/170/85-6)

Documents

Document(s)

*DaW 145

Autograph

Original indenture signed by Davenant, concerning the building of a theatre originally planned to be near the Three Kings' Ordinary in Fleet Street, London, 2 October 1639.

1639

Sotheby's, 14 March 1920, lot 518, to Hope, with a reduced facsimile in the sale catalogue.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Davenant document])

*DaW 146

Autograph

An agreements, signed by Davenant, for the forming of a theatre company with Thomas Betterton and others, 5 November 1660.

Signed by Davenant.

1660

The British Library: Additional Charters (Add. Ch. 9295)

*DaW 147

Autograph

An agreement, signed by Davenant, for the forming of a theatre company with Thomas Betterton and others, 11 March 1660.

1661

The British Library: Additional Charters (Add. Ch. 9296)

DaW 148

An assignment of a share in the Duke's theatre, 1661.

1661

The British Library: Additional Charters (Add. Ch. 26514)

DaW 149

The original letters patent by Charles II, authorizing Davenant to form two companies of actors, on vellum, illuminated.

15 January 1661/2

The charter is illustrated in Clive E. Driver, A Selection from our Shelves: Books, manuscripts and drawings from the Philip H. & A.S.W. Rosenbach Foundation Museum (Philadelphia, 1973), No. 44; a highly reduced facsimile also appeared in The Sunday Times (5 December 1982).

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1 through 239 ([framed item])

Inscribed Presentaton Exempla of Gondibert

Gondibert (4to, London, 1651)

*DaW 150

Autograph

A printed exemplum of the 1651 quarto edition with Davenant's autograph inscription For the most honor'd and Learned John Selden Esquire.

c.1651

A complete facsimile edition of this exemplum published by the Scolar Press, 1970.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (4° D.8.Art.Seld.)

*DaW 151

Autograph

A printed exemplum with Davenant's autograph inscription For the right Ho^ble. [Martha] the Countesse of Munmouth.

c.1651

Inscribed Margaret Simeon 1700. Bookplate of Thomas Weld. Maggs, sale catalogue No. 640 (1937), item 357, with facsimile of the inscribed flyleaf and title-page.

Yale (1977 2355)

*DaW 152

Autograph

Printed exemplum with Davenant's autograph inscription For the much Honourd Charles Cotton Esquire [the Elder, d.1658].

c.1651

Later owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1906-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part 1), lot 161, to Borg.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Gondibert (I)])

*DaW 153

Autograph

A printed exemplum with Davenant's autograph inscription For the much honour'd Serjeant Major [John] Wildman, dated 19 December 1651.

c.1651

Sotheby's, 21 July 1983, lot 18, to Blackwell, with a facsimile of the inscription in the sale catalogue. Owned at some time by Howes Bookshop Ltd, Hastings, Sussex.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Gondibert (II)])

*DaW 154

Autograph

A detached flyleaf with Davenant's autograph inscription For my much honour'd and old friend Robert Brereton Esquire…Tower the 22^th 1651, the rest of the volume untraced.

1651

Possibly the Aut[ograph] inscription signed [by Davenant] 1651 once owned by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist and antiquary. Puttick and Simpson's, 6 June 1859 (Turner sale), in lot 677.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, Miscellaneous manuscripts (MS X.d.314)

*DaW 155

Autograph

Detached flyleaf with Davenant's autograph inscription For his most worthy and Learned friend M^r Lambert Osbertson [i.e. presumably Lambert Osbaldeston (1594-1659), headmaster of Westminster School], the rest of the volume untraced.

c.1651

Formerly Literary File, Acc. 121750.

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 50977)

Extracts from Works by Davenant

Extracts

DaW 156

A quarto verse miscellany, largely in one hand, with additions by others, written from both ends, material at the reverse end dated 1708-9, ii + 114 leaves, in 19th-century half-calf.

Inscribed (f. [ii^r]), probably by the compiler, Ex Libris Georgij Wright [b.1685/6] S^ti Johannis Collegis Cantabrigiensis Alumni, Decimo quarto Junij. Annoq. Domini 1703.

c.1703-9

Also inscribed (f.[ii^r]) M^rs Frances Wright 1708. A postal address on f. 95r (rev.) reads: Direct to Marg^tt Borrett att M^rs. Borretts In Kirkby=stephen Westmoorland p brough bag _ These.

Recorded in IELM, II.ii, as the Wright MS: WaE Δ 12.

Edinburgh University Library (MS Dc. 3. 76 f. 67r)

DaW 157

Extracts from Davenant's plays.

A quarto commonplace book of extracts illustrating specified topics, largely in a single cursive hand, entitled Miscellanea Tragica Theatrical Index of Sentim^ts. & Descriptions Vol. 7, 244 pages (including blanks, plus a seven-page index and further blanks), in quarter crushed morocco on marbled boards.

Inscribed W. Harte 1726: i.e. by Walter Harte (1709-41), compiler of the MS, which also has his bookplate.

c.1726

The Folger Shakespeare Library, Miscellaneous manuscripts (MS M.a.47 pp. 133c-e, 150-2, 156, 162-5, 170, 174)

DaW 158

A large untitled folio anthology of quotations chiefly from Elizabethan and Stuart plays, alphabetically arranged under subject headings, in a single mixed hand, in double columns, 900 pages (lacking pp. 1-4, 379-80, 667-8, 715-20 and 785-8), including (pp. 893-7) an alphabetical index of some 351 titles of plays, in modern boards.

This is the longest known extant version of the unpublished anthology Hesperides or The Muses Garden, by John Evans, entered in the Stationers' Register on 16 August 1655 and subsequently advertised c.1660, among works he purposed to print, by Humphrey Moseley. Another version of this work, in the same hand, dissected by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), is now distributed between Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Halliwell-Phillipps, Notes upon the Works of Shakespeare, Folger, MS V.a.75, Folger, MS V.a.79, and Folger, MS V.a.80.

c.1656-66

Formerly MS 469.2.

This MS identified in IELM, II.i (1980), p. 450. Discussed, as the master draft, with a facsimile of p. 7 on p. 381, in Hao Tianhu, Hesperides, or the Muses' Garden and its Manuscript History, The Library, 7th Ser. 10/4 (December 2009), 372-404 (the full index printed as Catalogue A on pp. 385-94).

The Folger Shakespeare Library: V.b. series (MS V.b.93 passim)

DaW 159

Extracts from Davenant's plays and poems.

An octavo miscellany chiefly of verse, in several hands, with two tables of contents, 207 leaves (lacking ff. 1-4), in calf.

c.1725

Inscribed (f. 207v) James Dyson and James Thompson.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, Miscellaneous manuscripts (MS W.a.135 passim)

DaW 160

A folio volume principally of poems, the majority (at least 20) by Edmund Waller, some probably by members of his family, 73 unnumbered leaves, in calf gilt.

Including copies of various drafts, fragments and extracts, as well as poems by other writers such as Anne Wharton, Sir Charles Berkeley, Sir Thomas Higgons (including part of a play by him), Elizabeth Taylor (Lady Wythens, afterwards Lady Colepeper), Ephelia, George Granville, the Duke of Buckingham, Sir George Etherege, the Earl of Rochester, James Shirley, and Thomas Rymer, also extracts from Dryden and Davenant; almost entirely in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, with considerable variation of style; an apparently second, unidentified, hand copying verse and prose (Memoire…par le Sieur Lycelot…Le 9^me de Decembre 1687 and Instructions to the Judges of Assize &c Lent 1687/8) on ff. [23r, 62r-7v, 70v]; two of these leaves ([65r and 70v]) docketed in a later hand (after 1713) The Handwriting of D^r Atterbury and Bish^p Atterbury [meaning perhaps copied from Atterbury's writing (see WaE Δ 15)]; a draft letter addressed (as is clear from the content) to Catherine, Lady Ranelagh (1614-91), sister of the noble and learned…M^r [Robert] Boyle, on f. [16v], enclosing ffathers last verses [not specified], noting his reluctance to write anything for the forthcoming marriage of Princess Anne and Prince George of Denmark [which took place on 28 July 1684], and observing that he has now consecrated his remayning facullty in vers to devotion; a poem Of his voyage vp the river to vissett (beginning In my breast Eternall flames) on f. [71r] ascribed to M^rs M Waller (presumably Waller's second wife, Mary Bresse or Breaux, d. 1677); some scribbling and calculations on ff. 3r, 71v, 72v, 73v, a label on the spine erroneously identifying the volume as a compilation by Brian Fairfax (1637-1711).

c.1693-8

Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1798-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9096.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Harvard MS: WaE Δ 6.

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 602 ff. [52v-5v])

DaW 161

A quarto volume, in two hands.

274 leaves, unnumbered.

Comprising:

[Part I, ff. 12r-168r], five sermons, the first four by Donne, in the hand of Knightley Chetwode, son of Richard Chetwode, of Chetwode, Buckinghamshire, and Oakley, Staffordshire. 1625/6.

[Part II, ff. 1r-78r rev.], a verse miscellany, produced when the original blank pages were later filled from the reverse end, probably by one Katherine Butler. 1696.

1626-96

The volume inscribed as having been given to Katherine Butler by her father in May 1693.

Described in Potter & Simpson, I, 41-2.

St Paul's Cathedral (MS 52. D. 14 Part II, passim)

Sir William Davenant

Introduction

Letters and Documents

Gondibert

Related Manuscripts

The Verse Canon

Dramatic Works: Macbeth and The Tempest

Miscellaneous Documents

Abbreviations

Verse

Poems by Davenant

Poems of Uncertain Authorship

Prose

Dramatic Works

Letters

Documents

Inscribed Presentaton Exempla of Gondibert

Extracts from Works by Davenant

Contents