Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset

Lord Buckhurst, Fourth Earl of Middlesex, Sixth Earl of Dorset

1638–1706

Introduction

Authorial Manuscripts

Of Dorset's poems — the effusions of a man of wit, as Dr Johnson called them — three are known to survive in his his own hand. His drafts of two poems — his Pindaric Petition to the Lords in Council (*DoC 241) and On the Statue in the Privy Garden (two drafts: *DoC 210-11) — are found among the Portland Manuscripts. They are apparently derived from the papers of one of Dorset's earliest publishers, Jacob Tonson, who has endorsed two of them in his own hand. Yet another autograph draft has a no less interesting provenance. It is a draft of A Song to Chloris, from the blind Archer, now in the Gluck Collection at Buffalo, New York, which was once owned by Alexander Pope, who has inscribed it Earl of Dorsett./ Original/ A. Pope (see *DoC 252). Pope is known to have docketed in a similar way autograph poems by others of his association (for instance, one by Swift, illustrated in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 27 November 1945, lot 520). This, albeit limited, evidence of some measure of access to Dorset's literary papers is interesting in the light of Pope's autograph notes attributing to Dorset certain poems in his printed exemplum of A New Collection of Poems relating to State Affairs (London, 1705) in the British Library (C.28.e.15).

Other manuscripts that have at times been considered as possibly autograph (by Harris and others) prove to be not in his hand. One is a copy of On the Countess Dowager of Manchester on a single folio leaf (DoC 171). Another is a copy of a poem otherwise unassociated with Dorset, The Bashful Lover (Phyllis, I pray, why did you say), which is written on a blank page in A Booke of severall Accompts of Tho: Earle of Dorsett. L^d. High Treasurer of England. 1607 (see Harris, pp. 188-9). This manuscript is among the Sackville muniments now in the Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone (U 269 A1/1, p. [6]).

Letters and Documents

Examples of Dorset's handwriting of a non-literary character are not rare, for besides various of his personal papers which survive, he signed many official and business documents, notably in his capacity as Lord Chamberlain of the Royal Household (1689-97) and occasional acting Regent for King William III. Those Sackville family muniments from Knowle which are now in the Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone, include:

Official and parliamentary papers, draft letters and Privy Council warrants, as well as letters by members of his family and friends, between 1685 and 1703 (U 269 053-082).
Dorset's accounts kept by various accountants, 1671-1705 (U 269 A7).
Some of Dorset's correspondence (U 269 C102-141).

The last includes (U 269 C114 and C124) a series of undated autograph drafts of love letters by him (?to the Countess of Falmouth), all badly damp-stained.

Yet other of Dorset's letters are widely scattered. They include:

An undated letter by Dorset to his son, owned by Mrs Stopford Sackville, Drayton House, Northamptonshire (recorded in HMC, 9th Report, Part III (1884), Appendix, p. 7).
Four autograph letters to his protégé Matthew Prior, 1694-8, in the Library of the Marquess of Bath at Longleat House (Prior Papers, Vol. II, Nos 2 and 64; Vol. 14, Nos. 9 and 15), the last three edited in HMC, 58, Bath III (1908), pp. 71, 190, 199-200.
Two undated autograph letters to John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in the British Library (Harley MS 7003, ff. 268r-70v).
An autograph letter to [?Lord Halifax], 27 August/7 September [1706], in the British Library (Add. MS 7121, ff. 29r-30v).
Various in the collection of the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth House (Halifax Papers, D. 2).
Various, to Joseph Williamson and others, 1670-71, in the National Archives, Kew (SP 29/274/210 and SP 29/295/78).
An autograph letter of 1690 (Sotheby's, 36 October 1916, lot 111, to Dobell).

Numerous official letters and documents signed by Dorset include examples in:

Bodleian, MSS Eng. hist. d.139, ff. 57r-8v, 65r-6v, 99r-101v; Rawl. C. 984, ff. 100r, 107r, 109r.
British Library, Add. MSS 7121, ff. 29r-30v; 22183, f. 139r; 28941, f. 206r; 32476, f. 52r; 38704, f. 18r; 40166, f. 66r; and Egerton MSS 3516-3660 passim (MSS of the Earl Manvers of Thoresby Park, recorded in HMC, 9th Report, Part II (1884), Appendix, p. 3780).
Harvard, bMS Am 1631 (110); fMS Eng 870 (23).
Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Simon Gratz Autograph Collection, British Statesmen, Case 9, Boxes 35 and 38.
Parliamentary Archives, (petition of 22 February 1702/3).
Maine Historical Society (Coll. 420, Fogg v. 28).
National Archives, Kew, L.C. 7/1; LC 7/3, part 1, ff. 7r, 21r, 70r (concerning the theatre, 1695); SP 31/4, f. 196; SP 32/7/17; SP 44/238, pp. 384-7; SP 44/102, pp. 136-7.
Yale, Osb MSS 4508.
Greenwich Hospital (a scroll of inscriptions by original donors in October 1694, including Dorset pledging £500).

Further documents by Dorset were offered for sale at Sotheby's, 17 February 1890 (Alexander Foote sale), lot 285; 19 December 1905, lot 315, to Scott; 27 July 1937, lot 344, to Grimble; 15 December 1987, lot 3; and 17 February 1993, lot 220, to Burgess Browning; at Christie's, 16 April 1980, lot 15 and 29 April 1981, lot 2; and at Christie's, New York, 19 December 1986, lot 224.

Scribal copies of some documents originally signed by Dorset are preserved in A booke of Entrys Conserning the Knight Harbinger's Place at Columbia University (Montgomery MS, 1688-1702, Dorset, Special Collections). Copies of other official documents by him, together with business documents relating to him, are in the British Library (Add. MSS 36913, f. 278r; 38484, ff. 25r6, 282r; 38485, ff. 78r, 139r-51r [court records of his manor at Ringmer, 1692-1705]; Stowe MSS 208, f. 38r, 597, f. 666r) and among the Finch Manuscripts in the Leicestershire Record Office (recorded in HMC, 71, Finch II (1922), p. 348).

Various of Dorset's letters and papers are edited or cited in Harris (1940) [see particularly pp. 19, 32, 48, 58-9, 62-3, 65, 72, 88, 91, 117, 130-2, 167] and in Charles J. Phillipps, History of the Sackville Family, 2 vols (London, [1930]) [see particularly I, pp. 445, 449, 461, 473-4, 482 and, for facsimiles of different versions of Dorset's signature, pp. 483-4].

Dorset also lived for much of his life in Copped (or Copt) Hall in Essex (where for a time the poet Sir Fleetwood Sheppard (1634-98) also lived). Family archives from Copped Hall (chiefly relating to the Conyers family) are now preserved in the Essex Record Office, Chelmsford (D/DW). However, although they contain some Restoration verses (by Waller, Buckingham, Marvell and others), they apparently retain nothing by Dorset.

Books from Dorset's Library

Although Dorset must have had a substantial library, there seems to be little trace of it today, possibly because he was not accustomed to signing his books. An apparently single exception is a quarto manuscript described in Harris (p. 160): In English and French, written about 1635, it contains the arms of the contemporary Sovereign and Knights, and Statutes of the Order [of the Garter] in 1522, with the additions to 1571. It is bound in green leather [morocco] with a gold ornament, and bears Dorset's armorial bookplate. This manuscript is now in the Bodleian (MS Rawl. Statutes 29).

Manuscript Copies of Dorset's Verse

Apart from the autograph poems noted above, Dorset's verse is known from manuscript copies which circulated widely in his own lifetime — possibly through deliberate dissemination on his part — repeated transcripts finding their way into manuscript miscellanies and collections of poems on affairs of state, or else from early printed collections which were based on such copies. According to Matthew Prior, Dorset cared not what became of [his poems], though every body else did and he made no attempt to acknowledge them himself — if only out of vicious modesty, as was Dryden's view (see Harris, pp. xi-xii). For further discussion of relevant manuscript collections of Restoration poems, see the Introduction for John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester.

The Canon

Perhaps the greatest problem facing an editor of Dorset — as indeed so many other poets of this period — is the canon. With the solitary exception of A Rodomontade on his Cruel Mistress (Seek not to know a woman, for she's worse) — which Harris admits into the canon but which was originally written by Ben Jonson (see JnB 425-430) — the canon accepted for present purposed for the main body of entries (DoC 1-304) is based on that established in Harris. (This largely agrees with that outlined in Helen A. Bagley, A Checklist of the Poems of Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset and Middlesex, Modern Language Notes, 47 (1932), 454-61, and see also R.G. Howarth, Some Additions to the Poems of Lord Dorset, MLN, 50 (1935), 457-9.) In addition, Harris (pp. 181-95) lists and discusses (but does not print the text of) some twenty-two poems doubtfully or wrongly attributed to Dorset and these poems too have been recorded in CELM (DoC 305-368). In fact the roll-call of dubious or spurious poems could be extended considerably. The entries for these therefore include a number of additional poems ascribed to Dorset not mentioned in Harris.

Miscellaneous

A New Court Ballad for y^e year 1714. Written [by Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax] in Imitation of y^e Lord Dorset's, To all you Ladies far &c. (To all you Tories far from Court) occurs in eighteenth-century miscellanies in the Bodleian (MSS Eng. poet. e. 87, pp. 43-7, and Rawl. poet. 155, pp. 12-16) and is printed in Phillips, History of the Sackville Family, pp. 441-2. A Latin translation of Dorset's A Song on Black Bess (Methinks the poor town has been troubled too long), written by one Kerny, a kinsman of Sir Robert Southwell, was originally enclosed with a letter by Sir Peter Pett to Sir William Petty, 29 January 1673/4. Among the muniments of the Earl of Shelburne, Bowood House (Petty Papers, Vol. 6, 2nd Series, No. 48), this is now in the British Library (Add. MS 72850).

Abbreviations

Harris: The Poems of Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, ed. Brice Harris (New York and London, 1979).
Harris (1940): Brice Harris, Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset: Patron and Poet of the Restoration (Illinois Studies in Language and Literature, Vol. 26, Nos. 3-4, Urbana, 1940).

Verse

Poems Generally Attributed to Dorset

The Advice ('Phyllis, for shame let us improve')

First published in Westminster Drollery (London, 1671). Harris, pp. 77-8.

DoC 1

Copy, untitled, on the first of two conjugate quarto leaves.

This MS collated in Harris.

A composite volume of papers, mainly verse on separate sheets.

Mid-18th century

Given in 1952 by D. Nichol Smith.

Bodleian Library, Eng. misc. MSS (MS Eng. misc. b. 48 f. 79r-v)

DoC 2

Copy, untitled, on one side of a half-folio leaf, subscribed L^d Buckhurst. Late 17th century.

This MS collated in Harris.

A folio composite volume of verse and some prose, in various hands, v + 179 leaves, in early 18th-century half-calf.

With a few additions in Rawlinson's hand.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199 (MS Rawl. poet. 172 f. 103r)

DoC 3

Copy of the first two stanzas in an annotated exemplum of James Ware, The Writers of Ireland (Dublin, 1746).

18th century

This MS formerly MS Add. 704.

This MS collated in Harris.

Cambridge University Library, shelfmarks A through D (Adv. a. 95. 4)

DoC 4

Copy, in a cursive hand, headed Song by Earl of Dorset on one side of a single folio leaf. Early 18th century.

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.

Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone (U269 F24 [unnumbered])

DoC 5

Copy, headed Song - by y^e E. of Dorset [upon Ms Waldegrave by whom he had a Daughter that was Lady Shannon added in another hand], with other poems, on two conjugate folio leaves.

A folio composite volume of verse MSS, in various hands, 185 leaves.

The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House (Portland Papers, Vol. XVII f. 2r)

DoC 5.5 Late 17th century

Copy, untitled, subscribed Buckhurst, on a single leaf.

Miscellaneous literary papers, unbound, assembled by Adam Ottley (1685-1752), Registrar of the diocese of St David's, Wales.

Among papers formerly at Pitchford Hall, Shropshire.

National Library of Wales (Pitchford Hall (Ottley) English Literary MSS (uncatalogued), A A9)

DoC 6

Copy, headed Song by y^e L^d Dorset, interlineated with a shorthand version.

A single octavo leaf of verse.

c.1700

Among papers of the Newdegate family, Viscounts Daventer, of Arbury Hall, Nuneaton.

Warwickshire County Record Office (CR 136/B755 p. [1])

DoC 7

Copy, headed A song by [L^d. Dorset deleted] (S^r: Charles Hanbury Williams added in another hand), on a single quarto leaf.

Early 18th century

This MS collated in Harris.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn Poetry Box V/9)

DoC 7.5 Late 17th century

Copy, headed Song on Phyllis.

An unbound collection of unbound manuscripts of verse and other writings, in various hands and paper sizes, upwards of 100 items.

Belonging to the family and descendants of Sir William Temple, Bt (1628-99), diplomat and author.

Sotheby's, 13 December 1994, lot 43, to Figgis Rare Books.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Temple MSS] [unnumbered item])

Advice to Lovers ('Damon, if thou wilt believe me')

First published in Banquet of Musick…The Fifth Book (London, 1691). Harris, pp. 83-4. Some texts are preceded by John Howe's song Dy wretched Damon, Dy quickly to ease her.

DoC 8

Copy, headed Answer. By L. Dorset.

This MS collated in Harris.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, largely in a single professional hand (up to f. 372r), with later additions on ff. 372r-203r(c.1738-45), 203 leaves, in contemporary speckled calf (rebacked).

c.1700 [-1745]

Once owned by C. Stuteville (inscribed f. 2r) and later, c.1880, by the Grimston family and by the Byrom family, of Kilnwick Hall, East Yorkshire. Bought from E.L.G. Byrom in 1921.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 18 f. 79r-v)

DoC 9

Copy, headed Advise to Lovers. or, Faint Heart ne're won fair Lady. by S^r. Ch: Sedley.

This MS collated in Harris.

A folio verse miscellany, entitled The Muse's Magazine, or Poeticall Miscelanies, in two parts, in a single hand, 189 leaves.

Including 27 poems by Cowley; eleven poems by Katherine Philips, evidently derived from printed sources; 10 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items; twelve poems by Sedley, plus one of doubtful authorship; and 15 poems by Waller, evidently derived from printed sources.

A note on a flyleaf relating to the bookseller John Dunton (1659-1733): John Dunton His Book, for which Mr. Corbet at y^e Addisons Head, accepted One Half Guinea in full Payment for it, as Witness my Hand, Hannah Rakley. A note on f. 1: Since I had transcrib'd this whole Book, I met with some state Poems of these later times, mostly since K. George's Accession to the Crown [1714] which I have here inserted, as a supplement to these state Poems which make a part of this Collection by themselves. Date at the end of the volume: 1718, and some notes on a flyleaf dated 1724.

Early 18th century

The M^r. Corbet from whom Dunton purchased this MS was evidently the bookseller Thomas Corbett (fl. 1705-43), who ran his business at the Addison's Head, next to the Rose Tavern, without Temple Bar, from 1719 until his death in 1743. Neither Dunton nor Corbett are known to have used this MS for publication purposes.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dunton MS: PsK Δ 8; RoJ Δ 4; SeC Δ 1; WaE Δ 10.

For John Dunton's career, see Stephen Parks, John Dunton and the English Book Trade: A Study of His Career with a Checklist of His Publications (New York & London, 1970).

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199 (MS Rawl. poet. 173 ff. 71v-2r)

DoC 10

Copy, headed Answer By Lord Dors-t.

This MS collated in Harris.

A tall folio formal miscellany of poems and prose on affairs of state, in several rounded hands, with (ff. iv^r-v^r) a Catalogue of titles, 186 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf within modern half-morocco.

c.1700s

Bookplate of Basil Feilding (1668-1717), fourth Earl of Denbigh, dated 1703. Sold in 1834 by Thomas Thorpe. Owned by the Rev. Dr Martin Joseph Routh (1755-1854), scholar, President of Magdalen College, Oxford. Sotheby's, 5 July 1855 (Routh sale), lot 178.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999 (Add. MS 21094 ff. 96v-7r)

DoC 11

Copy, headed Answer, following (pp. 85-6) Song. By E. Dorset [i.e. John Howe] beginning Dy wretched Damon, Dy quickly to ease her.

This MS collated in Harris.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state entitled A Collection of the best Poems, Lampoons, Songs & Satyrs from the Revolucon 1688. to 1692, in at least two professional hands, on 237 pages (plus numerous blanks) and with a two-page table of contents, in blind-stamped calf.

c.late 1690s

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

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks A through E (EL 8770 pp. 86-7)

DoC 12

Copy, headed Answer By L^d. Dors-t.

This MS collated in Harris.

A large folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, probably in several hands, one professional hand predominating, with (ff. 1r-2r) a Table of contents, 200 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf.

c.1695

Bookplate of William, Earl of Craven (1608-97), soldier and Privy Counsellor, of Hampstead Marshall, Berkshire.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 46 ff. 82v-3r)

DoC 13

Copy, headed Answer. By L: Dorset.

This MS collated in Harris.

A large folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Collection of Poems, Lampoons, Songs and Satyrs from the beginning of the Revolucon in 1688 to 1695, in a single professional hand, with (ff. 2r-4r) a Table of contents, 183 leaves, in contemporary calf.

c.late 1690s

Bookplates of Sir John Hynde Cotton, Bt (d.1752), of Lanwade and Maddingley Hall, Cambridgeshire, and of Phil^ia Cotton.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 47 f. 53r)

DoC 14

Copy, headed By my L^d Dorsett, deleted.

This MS (or DoC 15) collated in Harris.

A quarto verse miscellany.

Compiled by Lady Henrietta Harley.

Mid-18th century

University of Nottingham (Pw V 1066 ff. 38v, 37v rev.)

DoC 15

Copy, untitled, here beginning Damon if you will believe me.

A quarto verse miscellany.

Compiled by Lady Henrietta Harley.

Mid-18th century

University of Nottingham (Pw V 1066 ff. 35v, 34v rev.)

DoC 16

Copy (words only).

Folio MS songbook.

Late 17th century

Royal College of Music (MS 1119 f. 21r)

DoC 17

Copy, headed The Answer by L^d Dorset [i.e. to A Song by M^r Wolsly on pp. 81-2].

This MS collated in Harris.

A quarto verse miscellany in English, Latin and French, in two or more hands, 154 pages (plus blanks), in a vellum deed.

Early 18th century

Formerly Box 12, No. 13.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 204 p. 82)

Another Letter by the Lord Buckhurst to Mr. Etherege ('If I can guess the Devil choke me')

First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen [i.e. London], 1680). The Poems of Sir George Etherege, ed. James Thorpe (Princeton, 1963), pp. 40-2. Harris, pp. 112-14.

For other poems in this series see DoC 110-13, EtG 34-8, and EtG 39-43.

DoC 18

Copy, headed Second Letter from the Lord Dorsett.

Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe and collated pp. 113-14. Collated in Harris.

A long, narrow, ledger-size composite miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 112 pages (some misnumbered and pp. 45-6 excised), in 19th-century calf gilt.

A compendium of several separate collections of poems, each with its general heading, including nineteen poems by the Earl of Rochester, copied in a single hand, that of Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), antiquary.

c.1680s-1700s

Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker. Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Edinburgh MS: RoJ Δ 6.

Edinburgh University Library (MS Dc. 1. 3/1 pp. 73-4)

DoC 19

Copy.

Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe (and collated pp. 113-14) and in Harris.

A folio miscellany of poems chiefly on affairs of state, entitled A Collection of Poems, including 27 poems by Rochester (all ascribed to him), xii + 299 pages (plus a number of blanks), including a table of contents, in contemporary calf (rebacked).

In a single professional hand but for a few later additions at the very end (pp. 295-8, with some pages tipped-in).

c.1690s

Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Harvard MS: RoJ Δ 7.

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 636 pp. 106-10)

DoC 20

Copy, headed Lo: Buckhurst to M^r Etherege and here beginning I cannot guesse the Devill choake mee.

Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe (and collated pp. 113-14) and in Harris.

A quarto verse miscellany of Scottish provenance, chiefly in a single cursive hand, written from both ends, including some shorthand, inscribed (f. 1r) Incept. March. 23. 1652/3., 190 leaves, in old brown calf gilt (rebacked).

c.1653-64

Purchased c.1798.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 19.3.4 ff. 136r-7v)

DoC 21

Copy, headed second Letter.

Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe (and collated pp. 113-14) and in Harris.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in several hands, one professional stylish hand predominating, with (ff. 1r, 2r) a Table of contents, 213 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf.

Including 29 poems by Rochester (plus a second copy of one) and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items.

c.1680s

Once owned by Thomas Fermor (1698-1753), first Earl of Pomfret, of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire. Also used by one James Parks.

Recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, and selectively collated in Walker.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 40 ff. 28r-9v)

DoC 22

Copy, headed Second Letter.

This MS collated in Harris.

A formal quarto miscellany, of poems on affairs of state, including 29 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items, in three professional hands (A, pp. 1-278; B, pp. 279-84; C, pp. 285-314), 314 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary red morocco.

c.1680

Once owned by Count Carl Edward Gyldenstolpe (1770-1852) and perhaps originally acquired by Count Nils Gyldenstolpe (1642-1709), Swedish Ambassador at The Hague (in 1679-87).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Gyldenstolpe MS: RoJ Δ 14. A complete facsimile edition in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe (1967).

Royal Library, Stockholm (MS Vu. 69 pp. 107-12)

'At noon in a sunshiny day'

First published in Poems on Affairs of State...Part III (London, 1698). Harris, pp. 72-3.

DoC 22.2 Late 17th century

Copy, in a probably professional rounded hand, untitled, here beginning Att noon, and in a Sumers day, on the first two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, folded as a letter, addressed (f. 110v) For S^r. William Trumbull at his house in Gesard Street, and endorsed L^d Dorsetts verses / The disappointed maid.

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. 109r-v)

A Ballad by the Lord Dorset when at Sea ('To all you ladies now at land')

First published as a broadsheet [1664? no exemplum extant]. Songs [1707?]. Old Songs [1707?]. Harris, pp. 65-8.

DoC 23

Copy, untitled, on the first two pages of two conjugate quarto leaves of verse. Mid-late 18th century.

This MS collated in Harris.

A guardbook of miscellaneous separate papers, chiefly folio, 218 leaves.

Early 18th century

Chiefly collected by W.H. Black. Subsequently bought from Miss N.T. Harrison, 1947.

Bodleian Library, Eng. misc. MSS (MS Eng. misc. c. 292 f. 116r-v)

DoC 23.5 c.1700

Copy, in an accomplished professional hand, untitled, on three pages of a pair of conjugate quarto leaves.

A large folio composite volume of verse MSS, in various hands and paper sizes, 160 leaves, mounted on guards.

Volume XXXIIIA (Series III) of the papers of Sir John Coke (1563-1644), Secretary of State, and his family.

Purchased from the Marquess of Lothian, of Melbourne Hall, Derbyshire, 14 July 1987.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 69968A ff. 116r-17r)

DoC 23.8

Copy, headed A Song.

A quarto verse miscellany, largely in one rounded hand, with later additions in other hands, 169 pages, in a marbled wrapper.

c.1710-30s

Among papers of the Knatchbull family, Barons Brabourne, of Mersham-le-Hatch, Kent.

Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone (U951 Z24 pp. 115-16)

DoC 24 c.1730s

Copy, headed A Ballad written at Sea in y^e first Dutch war the Night before y^e Engagement, in a quarto booklet of verse (ff. 1-23).

This MS collated in Harris.

A large folio guardbook of miscellaneous papers, in verse and prose, in various hands, ii + 104 leaves.

Papers owned by John Randolph (1749-1813), Bishop of Oxford, Bangor and London, and by his son Thomas, rector of Much Hadham.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Top. Oxon. b. 170 ff. 4v-6r)

DoC 25

Copy of a variant version, headed A Ballad Made by the Late Earl of Dorset in the Dutch Warrs revived and Adapted to the present Time, subscribed March: 1710/11.

This MS collated in Harris.

A quarto miscellany of verse, chiefly poems on affairs of state, in a single cursive rounded hand, i + 88 leaves, in modern half black morocco.

c.1701-12

Anonymous note of purchase in London (f. i) on 17 November 1701. Presented by Sir Thomas Barrett Lennard, Bt, 7 May 1921.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 40000 through 44999 (Add. MS 40060 ff. 84v-6r)

DoC 25.5

Copy.

A quarto miscellany of lyrics of chiefly naval songs, compiled by Richard Blechynden (d.1822), Surveyor to of the East India Company, Calcutta, 60 leaves.

1781

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 45000 through 49999 (Add. MS 45580 ff. 27v-8v)

DoC 26

Copy, headed Shackley Hayes [? referring to the preceding poem].

Edited from this MS in Harris.

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 ff. 78v-9v)

DoC 27

Copy, headed Lord Dorset at Sea in the Dutch War An old Song, not Edited.

This MS collated in Harris.

A large folio composite miscellany of poems generally on affairs of state, in one or more professional hands, 289 leaves, in half crushed morocco on marbled boards.

c.1730

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 852 f. 55r-v)

DoC 28

Copy, in a stylish professional hand, headed Lord Dorset[s Ballad added in a second hand] at Sea [in y^e Dutch War added in second hand] An Old Song [deleted] not Printed, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves. Early 18th century.

A folio composite volume of verse MSS, in various hands, 185 leaves.

The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House (Portland Papers, Vol. XVII ff. 21r-2r)

DoC 29 Late 17th century

Copy, in a neat hand, headed Song, on one side of a folio leaf, once folded as a letter.

This MS collated in Harris.

A folio composite guardbook of miscellaneous verse MSS, in various hands and paper sizes, v + 107 leaves, mounted on guards.

Compiled in part by Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), Scottish antiquary.

National Library of Scotland, other MSS (MS 2092 f. 78r)

DoC 29.5 Late 17th-early 18th century

Copy, in a rounded hand, untitled, the first poem (on three pages) in a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.

A large double-folio-size guardbook of miscellaneous verse, in various hands and paper sizes, 186 leaves.

From the library of the Ormsby Gore family, Barons Harlech, of Brogyntyn (or Porkington), Oswestry, Shropshire.

National Library of Wales (Brogyntyn MS II. 57 Vol. I f. 128r-9r)

DoC 29.8

Copy, headed Second Letter from the Lord Dorset.

A large octavo verse miscellany, chiefly lampoons and poems on affairs of state, including 21 poems by Rochester and various others in the Rochester apocrypha, nearly 600 pages in all, with a 14-page index.

Written in a single hand which can be identified as that of the Scottish pasquil-writer and antiquary Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), who was also responsible for RoJ Δ 6.

c.1705

Private owners in the UK (Mylne MS pp. 238-41)

DoC 30

Copy, headed A Song, subscribed Charles Sidley.

This MS collated in Harris.

A quarto miscellany of poems and plays by Corbet Owen (1645/6-71) and others, a Catalogus Librorum at the reverse end, in probably several cursive predominantly italic hands, possibly associated with Oxford University, 166 leaves, in contemporary calf.

c.1671

Owned in 1671 by one J. H.. P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue The Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1253. Purchased from Dobell in 1935.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 30 ff. 8r-9v)

DoC 31

This is not Dorset's poem but one based on it, to the tune of To all you Ladies and beginnng To all you Tories far from Court.

Deleted entry (Worcester College, Oxford, MS TC. 20. 11, item [32])

DoC 32

Copy, untitled, on a single folio leaf.

c.1700

From the papers of the Malet family of Somerset.

Private owners in the UK (Malet MS)

Catch ('When rebels first push'd at the Crown')

First published in Harris (1979), p. 49.

DoC 33

Copy, headed Catch by L^d. Buckhurst.

This MS collated in Harris.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in six chiefly professional hands, 124 leaves (plus numerous blanks) and including, ff. 123r-4r, two tipped-in octavo leaves, in modern half red crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

c.1710

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6914 f. 21r)

DoC 34

Copy, headed Catch, here beginning When first Rebellion struck at y^e Crowne and ascribed to Rochester.

This MS collated in Harris.

In a single professional hand but for a few later additions at the very end (pp. 295-8, with some pages tipped-in).

c.1690s

Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Harvard MS: RoJ Δ 7.

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 636 pp. 54-5)

DoC 35

Copy.

This MS collated in Harris.

A formal folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, including eleven by Rochester and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items, probably in a single professional hand, 444 leaves (including a six-leaf index).

c.1690s

Cited in IELM, II.ii as the Vienna MS: RoJ Δ 12. Discussed in Rudolf Brotanek, Beschreibung der Handschrift 14090 (Supplement 1776) der Nationalbibliothek in Wien, in Festschrift der Nationalbibliothek in Wien (Vienna, 1926), 145-62. Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker.

Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna (Cod. 14090 f. 128r)

DoC 36

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Harris.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional hand, in two volumes: Vol. I, including twelve poems by Rochester and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items, pp. 1-461 (plus index); Vol. II, pp. 462-842 (with irregularities of pagination).

This MS is closely related to Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Cod. 14090.

c.1690s-1700

Later owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor, who records that £50 was given by Perry, for these 2 volumes.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dyce MS: RoJ Δ 15.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 43 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.37-38) p. 241)

Colon ('As Colon drove his sheep along')

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). POAS, II (1965), 167-75. Harris, pp. 124-35.

DoC 37

Copy, headed A Satyre.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

A large folio formal miscellany of verse and prose, in a single rounded hand throughout, the margins ruled in red, and with an alphabetical index (pp. 719-21), 738 pages (pp. 722-38 blank), plus 40 pages of preliminary inserted material, in contemporary elaborately tooled leather.

Including thirteen poems and a mock-speech in the Marvell canon and eleven poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items, compiled — in stages, probably for the most part in chronological sequence, over a period of up to fifteen years — by Sir William Haward (or Hawarde or Hayward) of Tandridge, Surrey (his signature, dated 21 January 1676/7, on p. 66).

c.1667-82 [the poems by Marvell and Rochester c.1670s]

Sir William Haward was knighted in 1643, served as a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to Charles I, Charles II, James II and William III, was M.P. for Bletchingley (1661-78), a Fellow of the Royal Society (1665) and a Commissioner for the Sale of Fee Farm Rents (1670 onwards); he lived sometime in Scotland Yard and was still living in 1702 (see, inter alia, W. Paley Baildon, The Hawardes of Tandridge Co. Surrey (London, 1894), pp. 23-31). John Evelyn described him as a greate pretender to English antiquities &c:. An autograph letter by him, dated 23 March 1688/9, is in the British Library (Add. MS 29563, f. 453).

Later owned by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), by his wife Frances Le Neve (signature on p. vii), by their servant Joseph Allen, who entered additional items in 1729, and by her second husband Thomas Martin (1697-1771) of Palgrave. Later in the library of the Aston family of Tixall, Staffordshire (and sold in the Tixall sale at Sotheby's, 7 November 1899, lot 430 to Bertram Dobell (1842-1914)). Afterwards owned by George Thorn-Drury (1860-1931) and sold in 1935 by P.J. Dobell.

Cited in IELM as the Haward MS: MaA Δ 2. The Marvell canon selectively collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I and II and the Rochester canon selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker. See also Paul Hammond, The Dating of Three Poems by Rochester from the Evidence of Bodleian MS. Don. b. 8, BLR, 11 (1982), 58-9.

Facsimile of p. 277 in POAS, I, facing p. 228 (see MaA 98).

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. b. 8 pp. 598-600)

DoC 38

Copy, headed A Satyr.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

A folio volume of poems chiefly on affairs of state, in professional hands, ff. 1-49 comprising poems of the 1640s, ff. 49v onwards Restoration poems up to 1681, 174 leaves (including twelve blanks), in contemporary calf, both covers stamped 1642, with remains of clasps.

Including nine poems in the Marvell canon (plus apocryphal poems); ff. 1-157 a single unit in variant styles of hand; ff. 158-62 in yet another hand on a smaller tipped-in quire of paper.

Mid-late 17th century

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

Cited in IELM, II.i (1993) as the Douce MS: MaA Δ 3. Marvell contents recorded and selectively collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I and II.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Douce 357 ff. 66v-8v)

DoC 39

Copy, headed A Satyre, on quarto leaves.

This MS collated in Harris.

A composite volume of verse, i + 126 leaves.

Collected by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), herald and antiquary.

Late 17th century

Given to the library in 1954 by N.R. Ker.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. d. 152 ff. 52r-v, 54r-v, 56r-v, 58)

DoC 40

Copy, the poem dated 1679.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single neat hand, 79 leaves (plus an index), in modern black leather gilt.

Including eleven poems in the Marvell canon (plus further apocryphal poems).

c.1680

Later owned by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist and antiquary. Puttick & Simpson's, 9 June 1859 (Turner sale), lot 389. Purchased from Boone, 9 June 1860.

Recorded in IELM, II.ii, as the Turner MS: MaA Δ 4. The Marvell poems recorded and selectively collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I and II.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999 (Add. MS 23722 ff. 23v-5v)

DoC 41

Copy, headed A Satyre, with annotations in another hand, on two conjugate long ledger leaves.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

A folio composite volume of verse and drama MSS, in various hands, 155 leaves, in 19th-century half brown morocco.

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

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 25000 through 29999 (Add. MS 27407 ff. 22r-3v)

DoC 41.5

An octavo miscellany of Restoration poems, chiefly upon affairs of state, ii + 89 octavo leaves, in 19th-century red morocco.

Predominantly in a single professional hand, with subsequent corrections or annotations in other hands or inks, and (f. 89v) with a pencil note after a table of contents This Book is written by Brown.

Late 17th century

Bookplate of Edward Vernon Utterson (1776?-1856), of the Isle of Wight, artist, book collector and literary antiquary. Sotheby's, 19 April 1852, lot 1318. Owned after 1911 by Robert Ashburton Milnes, afterwards Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, politician. Christie's, 26 November 1997, lot 75.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 73540 ff. 39r-43r)

DoC 42

Copy, as by Lord Buckhurst, dated in another hand 1679.

Edited from this MS in POAS and in Harris.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in two or more professional hands, 222 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary red panelled morocco gilt.

c.late 1680s

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6913 ff. 40r-3v)

DoC 43

Copy, headed On the Dutchess of Portsmouth's place expos'd to Sale.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled Satyrs & Lampoons, in a single neat hand, i + 130 leaves, subscribed (f. 130v) Finis. 25, March 1691-2., in modern black morocco gilt.

c.1692

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 7000 through end (Harley MS 7317 ff. 54v-7r)

DoC 44

Copy of lines 1-36, headed A Satyr, incomplete, on the first of two conjugate folio leaves. Late 17th century.

This MS collated in Harris.

A large folio guard-book of miscellaneous verse and prose, in various hands and sizes of paper, 214 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

Collected by Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753).

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 3516 f. 169r)

DoC 45

Copy, headed A Satyr, deleted in pencil.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, p. 350.

A quarto verse miscellany, inscribed (f. 1r) Poems & Satires in the Time of Charles the 2^d. &c. Collected & written by Oliver Le Neve Esq^r., in a single rounded hand, 80 leaves, in 19th-century half brown calf.

Compiled by Oliver Le Neve (d.1711), younger brother of Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King of Arms and antiquary.

c.1690

Bookplate of the Rev. Richard Farmer, FSA (1735-97), Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, literary scholar. Lot 8055 in the sale of his library by Thomas King, 7 May to 16 June 1798. Formerly Chetham's MS 8013.

Chetham's Library, Manchester (Mun. A.4.14 ff. 29v-32r)

DoC 46

Copy, headed Colon A Satyr.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

A long, narrow, ledger-size composite miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 112 pages (some misnumbered and pp. 45-6 excised), in 19th-century calf gilt.

c.1680s-1700s

Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker. Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Edinburgh MS: RoJ Δ 6.

Edinburgh University Library (MS Dc. 1. 3/1 pp. 53-4)

DoC 47 Late 17th century

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

A collection of unbound separate verse manuscripts.

Harvard, other MSS (bMS Eng 1143 [unnumbered folder])

DoC 48

Copy, headed Satyr.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

In a single professional hand but for a few later additions at the very end (pp. 295-8, with some pages tipped-in).

c.1690s

Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Harvard MS: RoJ Δ 7.

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 636 pp. 286-93)

DoC 48.5

Copy, headed Satyr, on five pages of two pairs of conjugate folio leaves.

Sent as a letter in 1676 to Lord Ferrers in Great Haywood, Staffordshire.

1676

Among the archives of the Hastings family, Earls of Huntingdon.

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HA Literature Box 1 (7))

DoC 49

Copy, headed Colon; a Satyr.

This MS collated in part in Hammond, Robinson, pp. 298-9.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Booke of Paragrafts, including 22 poems by Rochester, 445 pages plus stubs of extracted leaves (originally 463 numbered pages and now lacking pp. 59-68, 147-54 and parts of pp. 155-8), with a two-leaf index; in contemporary red morocco.

In professional hands: A, pp. 1-194; B, in a different style and probably a different hand, pp. 195-432; C, probably yet another hand, with additions on pp. 75, 90, 102, 125, 142, 175, 195, and pp. 433-63.

c.1680s-90s

Inscribed (on stubs and endpapers) matt Calihan, To C^pt Robinson att Ca^pt Eloass [Elwes] near y^e Watch house in Marlbur^hroagh street, For Cap^t. Robinson at his Lodginges in Charing Cross. Christie's, 27 June 1979, lot 16.

Various commissioned officers named Robinson are recorded in Charles Dalton, English Army Lists and Commission Registers, 1661-1714 (6 vols, London, 1892-1904): see esp. I, 276. The volume was most probably owned by Charles Robinson of the King's Regiment of Foot Guards, who became Captain and then Lieutenant-Colonel in 1688 and was killed at Namur in 1695. A member of the same regiment in 1684 was the purveyor of MS lampoons Captain Lenthal Warcup. The Captain Eloass mentioned in one inscription was possibly William Elwes, who served as a Lieutenant in Viscount Colchester's Regiment of Horse, c.1692-4, and as a Captain in Lord Windsor's Regiment of Horse in 1702.

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Robinson MS: RoJ Δ 8. Discussed with facsimiles of pp. 1-10 in Paul Hammond, The Robinson Manuscript Miscellany of Restoration Verse in the Brotherton Collection, Leeds, Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, 18 (1982), 275-324 [cited in entries as Hammond, Robinson]. Facsimiles of p. 1 also in Christie's sale catalogue, Plate 1, after p. 48, and in The Brotherton Collection University of Leeds: Its contents described with illustrations of fifty books and manuscripts (Leeds, 1986), p. 17. Selectively collated in Walker.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt 54 pp. 29-36)

DoC 49.5

Copy, headed Satyre.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, predominantly in one probably professional cursive hand, with additions by others, 77 leaves (plus blanks), in brown morocco gilt.

c.1680s

Later owned by Robert Offley Ashburton Milnes, afterwards Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, politician. Sold in 1979 by Henry Sotheran, bookseller, to Michael Phillips.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt 87 ff. 27v-30r)

DoC 50 Late 17th century

Copy, in double columns, headed Satyr, with annotations, on both sides of a single folio leaf.

A disbound collection of chiefly verse MSS, in several hands, largely folio.

Once belonging to the Newdegate family of Arbury Hall, Nuneaton, Warwickshire. Hodgson's, 20-21 November 1958, lot 572.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 11 No. 30)

DoC 51

Copy, headed A Satyr on Women about Towne, imperfect at the end.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, largely in a neat italic hand, with additions by others, iii + 232 pages (some pages excised), in contemporary vellum.

c.1688

Inscribed John Brownlowe His Booke: i.e. (? Sir John Brownlow, third Baronet, 1659-97). Among the muniments of the Earl of Ancaster.

Lincolnshire Archives Office (Anc 15/B/4 pp. 13-14)

DoC 52

Copy, headed Colon, a Satyr on the Court Ladies 1679, here beginning As Colon was driving his Sheep along, subscribed Buck. & Dorset.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

A folio volume comprising two apparently independent miscellanies of poems on affairs of state, each in probably more than one professional hand, in variant styles, 199 pages, in modern cloth.

Part I, ff. 1r-110v (poems dated 1667-83); Part II, ff. 111r-99r, on larger paper (poems dated 1680-7).

c.1680s

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Advocates MS: MaA Δ 8. Works by Marvell recorded and some poems collated in POAS, I.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 19.1.12 ff. 98r-100r)

DoC 53

Copy in two hands, headed Satyr.

This MS collated in Harris.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Suplement to some of my Lord Rochesters Poems, in two neat rounded hands, 47 pages, in modern quarter-morocco.

Late 17th century

University of Nottingham (Pw V 32 pp. 24-31)

DoC 54

Copy.

This MS collated in Harris.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional rounded hand, including (pp. 269-71) an Index, iv + 271 pages (including blanks), in contemporary black morocco gilt.

c.1690s

University of Nottingham (Pw V 38 pp. 75-82)

DoC 55

Copy, headed Satyr.

This MS collated in Harris.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in several hands, one professional stylish hand predominating, with (ff. 1r, 2r) a Table of contents, 213 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf.

Including 29 poems by Rochester (plus a second copy of one) and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items.

c.1680s

Once owned by Thomas Fermor (1698-1753), first Earl of Pomfret, of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire. Also used by one James Parks.

Recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, and selectively collated in Walker.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 40 ff. 70v-3r)

DoC 56

Copy, headed Satir on Severall Women.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

c.1690s

Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna (Cod. 14090 ff. 158r-60v)

DoC 57

Copy.

This MS colated (as No. 1) in Harris.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, largely in a single hand, 304 pages (plus an Index and blanks), in contemporary calf.

c.1680s-90s

Sotheby's, 21-22 April 1958, lot 397, to Seven Gables bookshop. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Formerly Restoration poetry MS 3.

A microfilm of this volume is in the British Library, M/546.

Princeton (RTC01 No. 36 pp. 14-20)

DoC 58

Copy.

This MS collated in Harris.

c.1680

Once owned by Count Carl Edward Gyldenstolpe (1770-1852) and perhaps originally acquired by Count Nils Gyldenstolpe (1642-1709), Swedish Ambassador at The Hague (in 1679-87).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Gyldenstolpe MS: RoJ Δ 14. A complete facsimile edition in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe (1967).

Royal Library, Stockholm (MS Vu. 69 pp. 237-44)

DoC 58.5

Copy.

A quarto volume of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional hand, 136 pages (lacking pp. 49-50), in paper wrappers.

c.1680s

Among the archives of the Bridgeman family, Earls of Bradford.

Staffordshire Record Office (D 1287/19/6, [uncatalogued volume] pp. 51-5)

DoC 59

Copy, headed A Satyr on severall Women. 1679.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

This MS is closely related to Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Cod. 14090.

c.1690s-1700

Later owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor, who records that £50 was given by Perry, for these 2 volumes.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dyce MS: RoJ Δ 15.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 43 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.37-38) pp. 297-302)

DoC 60

Copy, headed A Satyre 1679.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, with a title-page, 385 pages numbered 858-1243 (pp. 914-29, 966-7, 981-2, 995-6, 1023-4, 1041-2, 1083-4, 1135-6, and 1173-6 excised), in 17th-century calf.

In non-professional hands, the miscellany entitled A Collection of Witt and Learning…consisting of verses, poems, songs, sonnetts, Ballads, Lampoons, Libells, Dialouges...from the year 1600, to this present year: 1677.

c.1681

Formerly Osborn MS Chest II, Number 14.

Yale, Osborn MS b 50 through Osborn MS b 99 (Osborn MS b 54 pp. 1143-7)

DoC 61

Copy, headed Satyr.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled Songs & Verses - Upon severall occasions, 406 pages (but pp. 35-44, 63-6, 77-86, 115-32, 153-8, 161-84, and 195-212 excised).

Including 30 poems by Rochester (and probably others by him on missing leaves); pp. 1-392 in a single professional hand (that also responsible for Princeton, RTC01 No. 34); pp. 392-406 in a second hand.

c.1680

Inscribed on the title-page Hansen: i.e. very probably the diplomat Friedrich Adolphus Hansen, who visited England in September 1680 in the entourage of Charles, electoral Prince Palatine. Owned, in 1951 by Dr A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952), Philadelphia book dealer, collector and scholar.

Cited in IELM, II as the Yale MS: RoJ Δ 16. The MS was identified by David M. Vieth as an independent scribal transcript of the copy-text used for the first edition of Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R— (Antwerp [i.e. London], 1680): see Attribution, pp. 56-100, and The Text of Rochester and the Editions of 1680, PBSA, 50 (1956), 243-63. Discussed extensively, and Hansen identified, in Harold Love, Scribal Texts and Literary Communities: The Rochester Circle and Osborn b. 105, SB, 42 (1989), 219-35. Facsimile of p. 62 in Vieth (1968), frontispiece. Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth (1968) and in Walker.

Yale, Osborn MS b 100 through Osborn MS b 149 (Osborn MS b 105 pp. 382-91)

DoC 62

Copy, headed A Bathe Lampoon and dated 1698, on two conjugate folio leaves.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

A folio composite volume of poems on affairs of state, 319 pages, disbound.

Late 17th century

This MS owned in 1682 by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732). Later Phillipps MS 8301 and Osborn MS. Chest II, Number 52.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS fb 70 pp. 31-3)

DoC 63

Copy, headed A Satyr.

This MS collated in Harris.

A guard book of separate copies of poems, 72 pages, various sizes.

Chiefly late 17th century

Assembled by Col. Cyril Hackett Wilkinson (1888-1960), Vice Provost of Worcester College, Oxford, literary scholar. Sotheby's, 26 June 1961, lot 212. At Yale formerly Osborn Box 89. No. 7.

a microfilm of this MS is in the British Library, M/625.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS fb 106 No. 27)

DoC 63.5

Copy, on five pages of four disbound quarto leaves.

Headed A Satyr and here beginning As Colen drove his hogs along.

Late 17th century

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn poetry Box VII/4)

DoC 63.8

Copy.

Written in a single hand which can be identified as that of the Scottish pasquil-writer and antiquary Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), who was also responsible for RoJ Δ 6.

c.1705

Private owners in the UK (Mylne MS pp. 168-72)

DoC 64

Copy, on five quarto pages.

Late 17th century

P.J. Dobell, sale catalogue Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1273.

Untraced Dobell MSS ([Dorset MS])

The Duel ('Of Clineas' and Dametas' sharper fight')

First published in Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1698). Harris, pp. 21-4. This poem is part of a series by William Wharton and Robert Wolseley.

DoC 65

Copy, headed The Quarell and here beginning Of Chineas & Dorinda.

This MS collated in Harris.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, originally entitled Astrea's Booke of Songs & Satyr's 1686, in probably seven hands, vi + 332 pages (including 23 blanks), in half-calf.

Predominantly in two alternating semi-professional hands, the second of which (on altogether 117 pages) is probably that of the author Aphra Behn (1640?-89); poems on pp. 307-8 added by a later hand in 1736-8.

c.1686-9 [with additions to 1738]

Bookplate of William Busby. Among the collections of Sir Charles Harding Firth (1857-1936), historian.

This MS volume discussed, and the second hand identified as Aphra Behn's, in Mary Ann O'Donnell, A Verse Miscellany of Aphra Behn: Bodleian Library MS Firth c. 16, EMS, 2 (1990), 189-218, with facsimile examples of the title-page, and of pp. 50, 119, 180, 226, 238, 261, 307. Also discussed by her in Private jottings, public utterances: Aphra Behn's published writings and her commonplace book, in Aphra Behn Studies, ed. Janet Todd (Cambridge, 1996), pp. 285-309.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Firth c. 16 pp. 243-5)

DoC 66

Copy, here beginning Of Chineas & Dametis.

This MS collated in Harris.

c.1700s

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999 (Add. MS 21094 ff. 12v-13r)

DoC 67

Copy, here beginning Of Chineas & Dametas, on two conjugate quarto leaves possibly extracted from a miscellany.

End of 17th century

This MS collated in Harris.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, Miscellaneous manuscripts (MS X.d.184)

DoC 68

Copy, here beginning Of Chineas & Dameta's sharper Fight.

This MS collated in Harris.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Collection of Poems and Lampoons &c^a Not yet Edited, in a single professional rounded hand (the same as in University of Nottingham, Pw V 42 and University of Nottingham, Pw V 44), 463 pages plus a twelve-page index, in contemporary blind-stamped calf.

c.1705

University of Nottingham (Pw V 43 pp. 195-8)

DoC 69

Copy.

This MS collated in Harris.

c.1690s

Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna (Cod. 14090 ff. 375r-6r)

DoC 70

Copy, here beginning Of Chineas & Dametas.

This MS collated in Harris.

This MS is closely related to Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Cod. 14090.

c.1690s-1700

Later owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor, who records that £50 was given by Perry, for these 2 volumes.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dyce MS: RoJ Δ 15.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 43 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.37-38) pp. 708-10)

DoC 71

Copy, headed The Quarrell.

This MS collated in Harris.

A quarto miscellany of familiar epistles and poems on affairs of state, in a professional hand, 36 pages, in light brown wrappers.

Late 17th century

Formerly Chest II, No. 51.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 219 pp. 33-6)

The Duel of the Crabs ('In Milford Lane near to St. Clement's steeple')

First published, ascribed to Henry Savile, in The Annual Miscellany: for the year 1694 (London, 1694). Harris, pp. 118-23.

DoC 72

Copy, in a probably professionalcursive hand, headed A Duell betwixt two Crablice vpon my Lady Bennetts - concludinge w^th the change of the governm^t. from Monarchicall to democraticall, subscribed from the Rose in Cursito^rs Alley August 5. 68::, on two conjugate folio leaves, folded as a letter.

An unbound collection of verse MSS, in various hands, 145 generally folio leaves.

Volume CCXXXVII 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 in Berkshire Record Office, in Trumbull Add 17 and 18.

Once owned by Sir William Trumbull (1639-1716), lawyer and government official. Sotheby's, The Trumbull Papers, 14 December 1989, part of lot 39.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 72479 ff. 28r-9r)

DoC 72.5

Copy.

A large folio miscellany of verse and prose, in a single accomplished professional hand, 756 pages (including over 200 blank leaves).

Including (pp. 217-429) 87 poems, chiefly on affairs of state, of which thirty are by Rochester; other contents comprising (pp. 1-71) a transcript of a Royal Household Establishment Book of William and Mary (1689-97); (pp. 75-212) a collection of legal precedents; and (pp. 442-543) copies of documents relating to the New Forest.

c.1698-1700s

Evidently compiled either for Henry Somerset (1629-1700), first Duke of Beaufort, Privy Councillor, or for his son Henry (1661-98), Marquess of Worcester, or else for his grandson, Henry Somerset (1684-1714), second Duke of Beaufort, who was Warden of the New Forest.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Badminton MS: RoJ Δ 1. Discussed and contents listed, with facsimile examples, in Michael Brennan and Paul Hammond, The Badminton Manuscript: A New Miscellany of Restoration Verse, EMS, 5 (1995), 171-207.

The Duke of Beaufort, Badminton (FmE 3/12 p. 248)

DoC 73

Copy, headed A Duel between two Monsters upon my Lady Bennets C-t with their Change of Governm^t. from Monarchical to Democraticall. By Hen Savile. Esq^r.

This MS collated in Harris.

c.1700 [-1745]

Once owned by C. Stuteville (inscribed f. 2r) and later, c.1880, by the Grimston family and by the Byrom family, of Kilnwick Hall, East Yorkshire. Bought from E.L.G. Byrom in 1921.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 18 ff. 21r-3r)

DoC 74

Copy, headed A Duell Between two Monsters upon my Lady Be^nnets C-t with their change of Government from Monarchical to Democraticall [By L^d. Dorset & H. Savile added in pencil].

This MS collated in Harris.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in two or more professional hands, 222 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary red panelled morocco gilt.

c.late 1680s

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6913 ff. 62r-4v)

DoC 75

Copy, headed The duell of the Crablice.

This MS collated in Harris.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional hand, 151 pages (plus 128 blank pages), with a table of contents (f. 1*^r), in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

End of 17th century

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 7000 through end (Harley MS 7312 pp. 96-9)

DoC 76

Copy, headed The Duell of the Crablice.

This MS collated in Harris.

A long, narrow, ledger-size composite miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 112 pages (some misnumbered and pp. 45-6 excised), in 19th-century calf gilt.

c.1680s-1700s

Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker. Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Edinburgh MS: RoJ Δ 6.

Edinburgh University Library (MS Dc. 1. 3/1 p. 72)

DoC 77

Copy, subscribed L^d Buckhorst.

This MS collated in Harris.

A folio volume comprising two apparently independent miscellanies of poems on affairs of state, each in probably more than one professional hand, in variant styles, 199 pages, in modern cloth.

Part I, ff. 1r-110v (poems dated 1667-83); Part II, ff. 111r-99r, on larger paper (poems dated 1680-7).

c.1680s

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Advocates MS: MaA Δ 8. Works by Marvell recorded and some poems collated in POAS, I.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 19.1.12 ff. 72r-3v)

DoC 77.5

Copy, headed The Duell of the Crab Lice in Imitation of the Duel of the Staggs: by H. Savill Esqr: 4 Miscell. Pag: 293.

An unbound collection of poems chiefly of a bawdy nature or on affairs of state (including a number in the Rochester and apocryphal Rochester canon), in a non-professional hand, possibly derived at least in part from printed sources, 29 folio leaves.

c.1700

Among the papers of the Turner family of Kirkleatham.

North Yorkshire Record Office, Northallerton (ZK MIC 1275/9785 ff. [16v-17r])

DoC 78

Copy, headed A Duell between two Monsters upon my Lady Bennets C-t with change of Governm^t: from Monarchicall to Democraticall.

This MS collated in Harris.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Suplement to some of my Lord Rochesters Poems, in two neat rounded hands, 47 pages, in modern quarter-morocco.

Late 17th century

University of Nottingham (Pw V 32 pp. 3-7)

DoC 79

Copy, headed A Duell between two Monsters upon my Lady Bennets C-t with their change of Government from Monarchicall to Democraticall. The Duell, By M^r. Hen: Savile added in different ink.

This MS collated in Harris.

c.1695

Bookplate of William, Earl of Craven (1608-97), soldier and Privy Counsellor, of Hampstead Marshall, Berkshire.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 46 ff. 15v-18r)

DoC 80

Copy, headed A Duell, between two Mon^strs on My Lady Bennets C-t. &c.

This MS collated in Harris.

c.1690s

Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna (Cod. 14090 ff. 68v-70v)

DoC 81

Copy, headed A Duell betwixt 2 Monsters upon my Lady Bettys Cunt w^th y^e Chainge of Goverⁿment from Monarchical to Democratical.

This MS collated in Harris (as No. 1).

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, largely in a single hand, 304 pages (plus an Index and blanks), in contemporary calf.

c.1680s-90s

Sotheby's, 21-22 April 1958, lot 397, to Seven Gables bookshop. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Formerly Restoration poetry MS 3.

A microfilm of this volume is in the British Library, M/546.

Princeton (RTC01 No. 36 pp. 2-5)

DoC 82

Copy, headed A Duell Between Two Monsters upon my Lady Be-ts C-t.

This MS collated in Harris.

c.1680

Once owned by Count Carl Edward Gyldenstolpe (1770-1852) and perhaps originally acquired by Count Nils Gyldenstolpe (1642-1709), Swedish Ambassador at The Hague (in 1679-87).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Gyldenstolpe MS: RoJ Δ 14. A complete facsimile edition in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe (1967).

Royal Library, Stockholm (MS Vu. 69 pp. 63-9)

DoC 82.5

Copy, headed A Duell Betweene two Monsters upon my Lady Bets C--t with their Change of Government from Monarchicall to Democraticall.

A quarto volume of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional hand, 136 pages (lacking pp. 49-50), in paper wrappers.

c.1680s

Among the archives of the Bridgeman family, Earls of Bradford.

Staffordshire Record Office (D 1287/19/6, [uncatalogued volume] pp. 75-8)

DoC 82.8

Copy, as By Lord Buckhurst, after Earl of Dorset.

A quarto formal verse anthology entitled The Whimsical Medley or A Miscellaneous Collection of severall Pieces in Prose & Verse [etc.], in a single stylish italic hand, with a tipped-in six-leaf table of contents, bound in three volumes, also incorporating printed pamphlets, 217 + 232 + 216 leaves (plus blanks), each volume in contemporary calf gilt.

Compiled by Theophilus Butler (1669-1723), first Baron Newtown of Newtown-Butler, book collector.

c.1720

Old pressmark I. 5. 1-3.

Trinity College, Dublin, numbers 800 through end (MS 879 Vol. I, ff. 145v-6v)

DoC 83

Copy, headed A Duell between two Monsters upon my Lady Bennets C-t with their Change of Government from Monarchical to Democratical The Duell and here ascribed to Dorset & H Savile.

This MS collated in Harris.

This MS is closely related to Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Cod. 14090.

c.1690s-1700

Later owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor, who records that £50 was given by Perry, for these 2 volumes.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dyce MS: RoJ Δ 15.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 43 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.37-38) pp. 124-8)

DoC 83.5

Copy, headed The Duell of y^e crablice.

Written in a single hand which can be identified as that of the Scottish pasquil-writer and antiquary Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), who was also responsible for RoJ Δ 6.

c.1705

Private owners in the UK (Mylne MS pp. 232-4)

Epilogue to Every Man in his Humour ('Entreaty shall not serve, nor violence')

First published in A Collection of Poems, Written upon Several Occasions, by Several Persons (London, 1672). Harris, pp. 10-12.

DoC 84

This MS collated in Harris.

An octavo book of jests and verse compiled by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, vi + 374 pages (pp. 72-306 blank), in contemporary calf.

c.1682-91

Bodleian Library, Sancroft MSS (MS Sancroft 53 pp. 6-7)

Epilogue to Tartuffe ('Many have been the vain attempts of wit')

First published in Molière's Tartuffe, translated by Matthew Medbourne (London, 1670). Harris pp. 13-14.

DoC 85

This MS collated in Harris.

An octavo book of jests and verse compiled by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, vi + 374 pages (pp. 72-306 blank), in contemporary calf.

c.1682-91

Bodleian Library, Sancroft MSS (MS Sancroft 53 pp. 5-6)

Epit: on H: Savile ('Under this stone')

A six-line satirical epitaph on Henry Savile (1642-87), courtier and diplomat. Unpublished.

DoC 85.5

Copy, headed Epit: on H: Savile by the Lord Buckhurst, over a bottle upon Savils bragging of his mighty performances with the ladies.

A quarto notebook of verse and prose, in English, Latin and French, in several hands over a period, much in a small cursive hand, 50 leaves, in quarter-morocco gilt.

Probably compiled in part by Edmund Killingworth (of Winchester College and New College, Oxford).

Late 17th-early 18th century

Discussed in Hilton Kelliher, Dryden Attributions and Texts from Harley MS. 6054, BLJ, 25.1 (Spring 1999), pp. 1-22, with facsimiles of ff. 20r and 27r on pp. 4 and 10.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6054 f. 35v)

Epitaph on Mrs. Lundy ('Here lies little Lundy a yard deep or more')

First published in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704). The Literary Works of Matthew Prior, ed. H. Bunker Wright and Monroe K. Spears, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1971), II, 777-8 (among Works of Doubtful Authenticity). Harris pp. 93-4.

DoC 86

Copy, headed An Epitaph by the Earl of Dorset.

Edited from this MS in Harris; collated in Wright & Spears.

c.1710

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6914 f. 84r-v)

DoC 87

Copy, in Prior's hand, untitled, on the first page of two conjugate quarto leaves.

Edited from this MS in Wright & Spears. Collated in Harris.

A tall folio guardbook of papers of Matthew Prior (1664-1721), poet and diplomat, largely in his hand, partly in that of his secretary Adrian Drift, iii + 193 leaves of various sizes, in modern black morocco gilt.

c.1700s

Volume CCCLXVIII of the Portland Papers, owned by the Harley family, of Brampton Bryan, and related families of Vere, Hollis, and Cavendish, and of Cavendish-Bentinck, Dukes of Portland. Formerly Loan MS 29/336.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 70368 f. 101r)

DoC 88

Copy, headed An Epitaph and here beginning Here lyes little Patty, a yard deep & more.

This MS collated in Harris. Recorded in Wright & Spears.

A large folio verse miscellany, headed (p. 1) Poems on Severall Occasions, 298 pages, in contemporary calf (rebacked).

c.1735

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 629 pp. 53-4)

DoC 89

Copy, untitled, on the first of two conjugate folio leaves.

This MS collated in Harris.

A composite volume of separate verse MSS, in various hands and paper sizes, 142 pages, disbound.

Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 8302. Sotheby's, 25 June 1935, lot 342, to Maggs. Formerly Chest II, 2.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS fb 68 p. 123)

A Faithful Catalogue of our Most Eminent Ninnies ('Curs'd be those dull, unpointed, doggerel rhymes')

First published in The Works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, and Dorset (London, 1707). POAS, IV (1968), 189-214. Harris, pp. 136-67.

DoC 90

Copy, the poem here dated 1687.

This MS collated in Harris.

c.1700 [-1745]

Once owned by C. Stuteville (inscribed f. 2r) and later, c.1880, by the Grimston family and by the Byrom family, of Kilnwick Hall, East Yorkshire. Bought from E.L.G. Byrom in 1921.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 18 ff. 44r-54r)

DoC 91

Copy, the poem dated 1686.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state entitled A Choice Collection of Poems, Lampoons, Satyrs &c^a, xx + 412 pages (339-411 blank).

c.1700

Among the collections of Sir Charles Harding Firth (1857-1936), historian.

This MS collated in POAS, I.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Firth c. 15 pp. 232-53)

DoC 92

Copy.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, originally entitled Astrea's Booke of Songs & Satyr's 1686, in probably seven hands, vi + 332 pages (including 23 blanks), in half-calf.

c.1686-9 [with additions to 1738]

Bookplate of William Busby. Among the collections of Sir Charles Harding Firth (1857-1936), historian.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Firth c. 16 pp. 201-14)

DoC 93

Copy, the poem here dated 1687.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

A large quarto miscellany of poems chiefly on affairs of state, entitled Collection of Choice Poemes, in a single neat hand, with a Catalogue of contents (ff. 382v-6v), 387 leaves, in half brown morocco gilt.

c.1703

Note of purchase (f. 1r) p^d - 6 - 9 -/ April 24 1703.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 7000 through end (Harley MS 7319 ff. 237r-49r)

DoC 94

Copy.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 475 pages (plus a six-page index and a number of blanks), in contemporary black morocco gilt.

In two professional hands (A: pp. 1-126; B: pp. 129-45 and probably the Index).

c.1690

Once owned by James Bindley. Sale December 1818 (Bindley sale). Phillipps MS 8418. Sotheby's, 18 June 1908, lot 627.

A transcript of this volume made by George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor, is Harvard MS Eng 633.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 585 pp. 445-66)

DoC 95

Copy, the poem here dated March 1676/7.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

A folio volume comprising two apparently independent miscellanies of poems on affairs of state, each in probably more than one professional hand, in variant styles, 199 pages, in modern cloth.

Part I, ff. 1r-110v (poems dated 1667-83); Part II, ff. 111r-99r, on larger paper (poems dated 1680-7).

c.1680s

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Advocates MS: MaA Δ 8. Works by Marvell recorded and some poems collated in POAS, I.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 19.1.12 ff. 193v-9r)

DoC 96

Copy, the poem dated in the margin 1687.

This MS colated in POAS and in Harris.

A large folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Collection of Poems and Lampoons &c^a Not yet Edited, in a single professional rounded hand (the same as in University of Nottingham, Pw V 43 and University of Nottingham, Pw V 44), 461 pages plus an eight-page Table of contents, in contemporary blind-stamped calf.

c.1705

University of Nottingham (Pw V 42 pp. 335-62)

DoC 97

Copy, the poem dated 1687.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

c.1695

Bookplate of William, Earl of Craven (1608-97), soldier and Privy Counsellor, of Hampstead Marshall, Berkshire.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 46 ff. 41r-52r)

DoC 98

Copy.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Choyce Collection of Poems. &c., 325 pages, the verse on pp. 324-5 added c.1762.

c.1700

Owned in 1712 by Thomas Wentworth (1672-1739), Baron Raby and third Earl of Strafford.

Ohio State University, English Department Library (Spec. MS Eng. 15 pp. 243-64)

DoC 99

Copy, the poem here dated 1686/7.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

c.1690s

Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna (Cod. 14090 ff. 395v-405v)

DoC 100

Copy, the poem here dated 1686/7.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional rounded hand, entitled A Collection of Choyce Poems, Lampoons, and Satyrs from 1673 to 1689. Never Extant in Print, 335 pages (plus a Table of contents and blanks), in modern red morocco.

c.1690s

In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Formerly Restoration poetry MS 2.

This MS collated in POAS, I.

Princeton (RTC01 No. 35 pp. 315-35)

DoC 101

Copy, the poem here dated 1686/7.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

This MS is closely related to Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Cod. 14090.

c.1690s-1700

Later owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor, who records that £50 was given by Perry, for these 2 volumes.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dyce MS: RoJ Δ 15.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 43 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.37-38) pp. 748-66)

DoC 102

Copy, including corrections and notes in a second hand supplying calculations and markings for copyists and evidently used as a scriptorium master copy or exemplar from which further transcripts were made, on two folio leaves.

Edited from this MS in POAS and in Harris. Facsimile of first page in POAS, IV, after p. 190, and discussed pp. 351-2.

A folio composite volume of poems on affairs of state, 319 pages, disbound.

Late 17th century

This MS owned in 1682 by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732). Later Phillipps MS 8301 and Osborn MS. Chest II, Number 52.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS fb 70 pp. 173-6)

DoC 103

Copy, headed A Satyr on The Most Eminent Court Ninnys, on fifteen folio leaves.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

A folio composite volume of separate copies of poems, in various hands and paper sizes, c.257 pages, now disbound.

Late 17th century

Sotheby's, 14 March 1961, lot 573. Formerly at Yale Box 89, No. 3.

Microfilm in the British Library, M/608.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS fb 108 pp. 207-36)

The Fire of Love ('The fire of love in youthful blood')

First published in Thomas Shadwell, The Amorous Bigot (London, 1690). Harris, p. 86.

DoC 104

Copy, headed Songs.

This MS collated in Harris.

A quarto miscellany of chiefly amatory verse, in several hands, i + 132 leaves.

Partly in Scottish dialect, one poem by mr. W. Turner.

Early 18th century

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199 (MS Rawl. poet. 196 f. 28v)

DoC 105

Second copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Harris.

A quarto miscellany of chiefly amatory verse, in several hands, i + 132 leaves.

Partly in Scottish dialect, one poem by mr. W. Turner.

Early 18th century

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199 (MS Rawl. poet. 196 f. 28v)

The Innocent Conjugates or The Maiden Bridegroom and Virgin Bride ('Inflam'd by love and led by blind desires')

First published in Harris (1979), p. 176.

DoC 106

Copy, headed The Maiden Conjugates…English^d by L^d. Dorsett.

Edited from this MS in Harris.

A quarto miscellany, principally of poems on affairs of state, xvi + 130 leaves.

Entitled Horæ subsecivæ, or Misselanies in Prose & Verse and arranged in four books.

Early 18th century

Given by J. Cater in 1756 to the Rev. William Cole (1714-82). In the Dalrymple sale. Afterwards owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary. Haslewood sale (16 December 1833), lot 1386. Evans, 1834. Owned in 1836 by Reginald Peacock (his bookplate). Bought from George A. Johnston, Edinburgh bookseller, 18 March 1885.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Add. A. 301 f. ix^v)

DoC 107

Copy.

This MS collated in Harris.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, originally entitled Astrea's Booke of Songs & Satyr's 1686, in probably seven hands, vi + 332 pages (including 23 blanks), in half-calf.

c.1686-9 [with additions to 1738]

Bookplate of William Busby. Among the collections of Sir Charles Harding Firth (1857-1936), historian.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Firth c. 16 p. 135)

DoC 108

Copy, in the same hand as DoC 106, following Latin verses beginning Captuo amore cæcaq Cupidine ductus and then headed English'd by y^e Earle of Dorsett.

This MS collated in Harris.

A folio miscellany of poems on y^e Governm^t. of y^e Passions, in six books, 373 leaves, in contemporary calf (rebacked).

In a non-professional hand with amateur engrossing and decoration, compiled by someone with a daughter named Cater.

Early 18th century

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. D 361 ff. 262v-3r)

DoC 109

Copy, on a single quarto leaf.

Late 17th century

This MS recorded in Harris.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, Miscellaneous manuscripts (MS X.d.181)

A Letter from the Lord Buckhurst to Mr. George Etherege ('Dreaming last night on Mrs. Farley')

For other poems in this series see DoC 18-22, EtG 34-8, and EtG 39-43.

DoC 110

Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe (and collated pp. 112-13) and in Harris.

A long, narrow, ledger-size composite miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 112 pages (some misnumbered and pp. 45-6 excised), in 19th-century calf gilt.

c.1680s-1700s

Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker. Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Edinburgh MS: RoJ Δ 6.

Edinburgh University Library (MS Dc. 1. 3/1 pp. 72-3)

DoC 111

Copy.

Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe (and collated pp. 112-13) and in Harris.

In a single professional hand but for a few later additions at the very end (pp. 295-8, with some pages tipped-in).

c.1690s

Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Harvard MS: RoJ Δ 7.

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 636 pp. 99-102)

DoC 112

Copy, under the general heading ffamiliar Lett^rs.

Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe (and collated pp. 112-13) and in Harris.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in several hands, one professional stylish hand predominating, with (ff. 1r, 2r) a Table of contents, 213 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf.

Including 29 poems by Rochester (plus a second copy of one) and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items.

c.1680s

Once owned by Thomas Fermor (1698-1753), first Earl of Pomfret, of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire. Also used by one James Parks.

Recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, and selectively collated in Walker.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 40 ff. 25r-6v)

DoC 113

Copy, under the general heading Familliar Letters.

This MS collated in Harris.

c.1680

Once owned by Count Carl Edward Gyldenstolpe (1770-1852) and perhaps originally acquired by Count Nils Gyldenstolpe (1642-1709), Swedish Ambassador at The Hague (in 1679-87).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Gyldenstolpe MS: RoJ Δ 14. A complete facsimile edition in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe (1967).

Royal Library, Stockholm (MS Vu. 69 pp. 97-101)

DoC 113.5

Copy, headed Letter from y^e Lord Dorset to Sir George Etheridge.

Written in a single hand which can be identified as that of the Scottish pasquil-writer and antiquary Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), who was also responsible for RoJ Δ 6.

c.1705

Private owners in the UK (Mylne MS pp. 234-6)

Madam Maintenon's Advice to the French King. Paraphrase on the French ('In gray-hair'd Celia's wither'd arms')

First published in Examen Poeticum (London, 1693). Harris, pp. 171-5.

DoC 114

Copy, headed On the Fr. King & Madam Maintenon. By L^d Dorset. 1692..

This MS collated in Harris.

c.1700 [-1745]

Once owned by C. Stuteville (inscribed f. 2r) and later, c.1880, by the Grimston family and by the Byrom family, of Kilnwick Hall, East Yorkshire. Bought from E.L.G. Byrom in 1921.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 18 ff. 125r-6r)

DoC 115

Copy, headed A Catch on the French King, out of French. by M^r. Dryden.

This MS collated in Harris.

A folio verse miscellany, entitled The Muse's Magazine, or Poeticall Miscelanies, in two parts, in a single hand, 189 leaves.

Early 18th century

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dunton MS: PsK Δ 8; RoJ Δ 4; SeC Δ 1; WaE Δ 10.

For John Dunton's career, see Stephen Parks, John Dunton and the English Book Trade: A Study of His Career with a Checklist of His Publications (New York & London, 1970).

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199 (MS Rawl. poet. 173 ff. 61v-2r)

DoC 116

Copy, headed On the French K- by Lord Dorsett (1692).

This MS collated in Harris.

c.1700s

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999 (Add. MS 21094 ff. 120v-1r)

DoC 117

Copy, in a neat hand, headed Song [upon the French Kings returne out of flanders into France added in another cursive hand], on two long folio leaves, endorsed Translations out of french. 1693.

This MS collated in Harris.

A large folio guardbook of chiefly verse MSS, in Latin, English and Greek, in various hands, at least some relating to Cambridge University, 408 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6947 ff. 167r, 168r)

DoC 118

Copy, headed The hasty returne.

This MS collated in Harris.

A folio partly composite miscellany of verse and prose, chiefly on affairs of state, in a single closely written hand (up to f. 294v) but for a second hand on ff. 220v-31v, a third hand on ff. 315r, 316r-25. 325 leaves (plus blanks), in quarter-vellum.

Early 18th century

The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 305 f. 203v)

DoC 118.5

Copy, headed A Paraphrase on the French: La Jeane Iris aux &cc: 3 Mis: 419.

c.1700

Among the papers of the Turner family of Kirkleatham.

North Yorkshire Record Office, Northallerton (ZK MIC 1275/9785 f. [17v])

DoC 119

Copy, headed On the French K. By L^d. Dorset 1692.

This MS collated in Harris.

c.1695

Bookplate of William, Earl of Craven (1608-97), soldier and Privy Counsellor, of Hampstead Marshall, Berkshire.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 46 f. 130r-v)

DoC 120

Copy, headed On the French King. by E. Dorset.

This MS collated in Harris.

c.late 1690s

Bookplates of Sir John Hynde Cotton, Bt (d.1752), of Lanwade and Maddingley Hall, Cambridgeshire, and of Phil^ia Cotton.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 47 ff. 102v-3r)

DoC 121

Copy, in a rounded hand, headed Song / Translated out of French / Upon the French Kings returne out of Flandres to France, on one side of a single folio leaf of verse, once folded as a letter or packet.

Late 17th century

This MS collated in Harris.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 617)

DoC 122

Copy, headed A paraphrase on y^e French.

This MS collated in Harris.

An octavo miscellany, principally in two hands, written from both ends, 177 pages, in contemporary calf.

Compiled by Samuel Estwick (c.1657-1739), minor canon at St Paul's and sacrist and rector of St Helen's, Bishopsgate, London. Inscribed on p. 101 Rob: Fysher Decemb: 30^th 1713.

c.1700-1714

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 201 pp. 144-5)

My Opinion ('After thinking this fortnight of Whig and of Tory')

First published in Miscellaneous Works, Written by…George, late Duke of Buckingham (London, 1704-5). POAS, II (1965), 391-2. Harris, pp. 55-6.

DoC 123

Copy, headed My Opinion: Or the nine pins.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

Including nine poems in the Marvell canon (plus apocryphal poems); ff. 1-157 a single unit in variant styles of hand; ff. 158-62 in yet another hand on a smaller tipped-in quire of paper.

Mid-late 17th century

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

Cited in IELM, II.i (1993) as the Douce MS: MaA Δ 3. Marvell contents recorded and selectively collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I and II.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Douce 357 ff. 116v-17r)

DoC 124

Copy, here beginning After fourteen days thinking of whigg and of Tory, on a single quarto-size leaf.

This MS collated in Harris.

A composite volume of verse, i + 126 leaves.

Collected by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), herald and antiquary.

Late 17th century

Given to the library in 1954 by N.R. Ker.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. d. 152 f. 186r)

DoC 125

Copy, headed The Opinion and here ascribed to D^k B [Duke of Buckingham].

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, originally entitled Astrea's Booke of Songs & Satyr's 1686, in probably seven hands, vi + 332 pages (including 23 blanks), in half-calf.

c.1686-9 [with additions to 1738]

Bookplate of William Busby. Among the collections of Sir Charles Harding Firth (1857-1936), historian.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Firth c. 16 p. 29)

DoC 126

Copy, headed y^e E-l of Dors-ts opinion of y^e Tories 1716.

This MS collated in Harris.

A folio volume of chiefly poems and prose on affairs of state, in several hands, one predominating, 165 leaves, in old reversed calf.

Compiled by John Greene, of King's Lynn, Norfolk (probably the John Greene who was Mayor there in 1709).

c.1720

Sotheby's, 23 December 1958, lot 224.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999 (Add. MS 22640 f. 113v)

DoC 127

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

c.1710

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6914 f. 48r-v)

DoC 128

Copy, the poem dated 1682.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

c.1703

Note of purchase (f. 1r) p^d - 6 - 9 -/ April 24 1703.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 7000 through end (Harley MS 7319 ff. 103v-4r)

DoC 129

Copy, headed (at a later date) BucKinghams Thoughts, subscribed Buckingham.

Compiled by Oliver Le Neve (d.1711), younger brother of Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King of Arms and antiquary.

c.1690

Chetham's Library, Manchester (Mun. A.4.14 f. 68v)

DoC 130

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

A long, narrow, ledger-size composite miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 112 pages (some misnumbered and pp. 45-6 excised), in 19th-century calf gilt.

c.1680s-1700s

Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker. Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Edinburgh MS: RoJ Δ 6.

Edinburgh University Library (MS Dc. 1. 3/1 p. 78)

DoC 131

Copy.

Edited from this MS in POAS and in Harris.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 475 pages (plus a six-page index and a number of blanks), in contemporary black morocco gilt.

In two professional hands (A: pp. 1-126; B: pp. 129-45 and probably the Index).

c.1690

Once owned by James Bindley. Sale December 1818 (Bindley sale). Phillipps MS 8418. Sotheby's, 18 June 1908, lot 627.

A transcript of this volume made by George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor, is Harvard MS Eng 633.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 585 pp. 141-2)

DoC 132

Copy.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, largely in a neat italic hand, with additions by others, iii + 232 pages (some pages excised), in contemporary vellum.

c.1688

Inscribed John Brownlowe His Booke: i.e. (? Sir John Brownlow, third Baronet, 1659-97). Among the muniments of the Earl of Ancaster.

Lincolnshire Archives Office (Anc 15/B/4 p. 76)

DoC 133

Copy, the poem here dated 1682.

This MS collated in Harris.

A folio volume comprising two apparently independent miscellanies of poems on affairs of state, each in probably more than one professional hand, in variant styles, 199 pages, in modern cloth.

Part I, ff. 1r-110v (poems dated 1667-83); Part II, ff. 111r-99r, on larger paper (poems dated 1680-7).

c.1680s

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Advocates MS: MaA Δ 8. Works by Marvell recorded and some poems collated in POAS, I.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 19.1.12 f. 4r)

DoC 134

Copy.

This MS collated in Harris.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, probably in a single rounded hand, 140 pages (including blanks), in old half-calf on marbled boards.

Late 17th century

Later used by George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor, with his loosely inserted index. Sold in April 1934 by Dobell.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 39 pp. 134-5)

DoC 135

This MS collated in Harris.

c.1705

University of Nottingham (Pw V 43 pp. 74-6)

DoC 135.5

Copy.

A quarto volume of Poems upon Affairs of State, 170 pages (plus 80 blanks), in contemporary black morocco gilt.

Predominantly in a single professional hand, with a table of contents at the end, the volume produced under the auspices of the manuscript purveyor Captain Robert Julian (fl. c.1650-90), Secretary of the Muses, with a few additions in two other professional hands and by subsequent owners.

c.1680s

Inscribed by William Stanley (c.1655-1702), ninth Earl of Derby, I bought this booke of Julian not so much for my own use as to prevent others reading of it. Inscribed later by his brother James Stanley (1664-1736), tenth Earl of Derby, When Knowsley House was puled doune (for else it would soon haue faln of it self) this Book was found hid in one of y^e Chimneys, to be sure by my Brother Derby.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 20-30.

Private owners in the UK ([Lord Derby MS] pp. 173-4)

DoC 136

Copy.

This MS collated in Harris.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional hand, 82 pages (plus numerous blanks), in vellum boards.

c.1680s

University of Nottingham (Pw V 45 pp. 7-8)

DoC 137

Copy.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

c.1690s

Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna (Cod. 14090 ff. 305v-6r)

DoC 137.5

Copy.

An octavo miscellany of poems on affairs of state, largely in one small neat hand, with additions (pp. 71-5 plus 20 pages at the reverse end) in later hands c.1709, 95 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum gilt.

c.1680-1700s

A label: Sold by Robert Paske Stationer in the Piatza on y^e North side of the Royal Exchange London.

This volume is probably that sold at Sotheby's, 1 March 1871 (Sir John Simeon sale, 7th day), lot 1675, to Quaritch, and probably item 1279 in Dobell's sale catalogue The Literature of the Restoration (1918). In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Restoration poetry MS 4.

Princeton (RTC01 No. 167 pp. 69-70)

DoC 138

Copy.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

This MS is closely related to Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Cod. 14090.

c.1690s-1700

Later owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor, who records that £50 was given by Perry, for these 2 volumes.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dyce MS: RoJ Δ 15.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 43 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.37-38) pp. 575-6)

DoC 139

Copy, headed My Opinion on y^e nine pinn's, on a sikngle quarto leaf.

This MS collated in Harris.

A guard book of separate copies of poems, 72 pages, various sizes.

Chiefly late 17th century

Assembled by Col. Cyril Hackett Wilkinson (1888-1960), Vice Provost of Worcester College, Oxford, literary scholar. Sotheby's, 26 June 1961, lot 212. At Yale formerly Osborn Box 89. No. 7.

a microfilm of this MS is in the British Library, M/625.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS fb 106 No. 21)

DoC 140

Copy, untitled, on a single quarto leaf.

Late 17th century

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn Poetry Box X/38)

DoC 140.5

Copy, headed My opinion, with inserted sub-title or comment Ag^t york & Monmouth.

Written in a single hand which can be identified as that of the Scottish pasquil-writer and antiquary Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), who was also responsible for RoJ Δ 6.

c.1705

Private owners in the UK (Mylne MS pp. 255-6)

On King William's Happy Deliverance from the Intended Assassination ('The youth whose fortune the vast globe obey'd')

First published in Harris (1979), pp 61-2.

DoC 141 Late 17th century

Copy, in a professional hand, untitled, on a single folio leaf, folded as a letter.

An unbound collection of verse MSS, in various hands, 145 generally folio leaves.

Once owned by Sir William Trumbull (1639-1716), lawyer and government official. Sotheby's, The Trumbull Papers, 14 December 1989, part of lot 39.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 72479 f. 68r)

DoC 142

Copy, headed On K: W^m: By E. of Dorset.

Edited from this MS in Harris.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state entitled A Choice Collection of Poems, Lampoons, Satyrs &c^a, xx + 412 pages (339-411 blank).

c.1700

Among the collections of Sir Charles Harding Firth (1857-1936), historian.

This MS collated in POAS, I.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Firth c. 15 p. 338)

DoC 142.5 Late 17th century

Copy, headed On the intended Assassination of K^g W^m, on one side of a single folio leaf.

A collection of unbound verse MSS.

Assembled by John Gibson (1630-1711), of Welburn, near Kirkby Moorside, North Yorkshire.

Sotheby's, 18 July 1991, lot 164, to Quaritch.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 52 f. 74r)

DoC 143

Copy, the poem here dated 1696.

This MS collated in Harris.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Choyce Collection of Poems. &c., 325 pages, the verse on pp. 324-5 added c.1762.

c.1700

Owned in 1712 by Thomas Wentworth (1672-1739), Baron Raby and third Earl of Strafford.

Ohio State University, English Department Library (Spec. MS Eng. 15 p. 323)

DoC 144

Copy, headed On K. William. By L^d Dorset. occasion'd by his deliverance from the Barbarous Assassinacon.

This MS collated in Harris.

c.1690s

In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Formerly Restoration poetry MS 2.

This MS collated in POAS, I.

Princeton (RTC01 No. 35 p. 305)

On Love ('Love is a dreame of mighty treasure')

Unpublished?

DoC 144.5

Copy, subscribed By y^e Earle of Dorcet.

A quarto verse miscellany, in probably a single mixed hand varying over a period, entitled in another hand Recueil Choisi De Pieces fugitives En Vers Anglois, 214 pages, in modern calf.

c.1713

Afterwards owned by Charles de Beaumont, the Chevalière d'Éon (1728-1810). Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872): Phillipps MS 9500. In the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, and art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936.

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1 through 239 (MS 239/16 p. 83)

On Mr. Edward Howard upon his New Utopia ('Thou damn'd antipodes to common sense!')

First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen [i.e. London], 1680). POAS, I (1963), 340-1. Harris, pp. 15-17.

DoC 145

Copy, headed Upon the same [i.e. Edward Howard].

This MS collated in Harris.

A quarto composite miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, in several hands, 11 + 109 leaves.

Early-mid-18th century

Owned in 1812 by Miss Elizabeth Mansel. Given to Henry Gough, of Redhill, who presented it to the Bodleian in December 1884.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Add. B. 105 ff. 72v-3v)

DoC 146

Copy, headed On the same Author upon his New Vt-.

A quarto composite miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 137 pages (plus eight pages of later additions and eight blank pages), in modern cloth.

In a single hand, including sixteen poems by Rochester, pp. 139-46 occupied by charges of the Grand Jury added after 1714.

c.1680s

Recorded in IELM II.ii as the Gilpin MS: RoJ Δ 3.

Bodleian Library, Eng. misc. MSS (MS Eng. misc. e. 536 pp. 81-2)

DoC 147

Copy, headed On M^r Edward Howards New Utopia, subscribed Charles L. Buckhurst.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single neat hand, iv + 248 pages, imperfect at the end, in contemporary calf.

Compiled by an Oxford University man.

End of 17th century

Sold by J.W. Jarvis & Sons, 5 December 1888.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 4 pp. 188-9)

DoC 148

Copy, headed A Satyr on M^r Edward Howard. by the E of Dorset.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

A folio verse miscellany, entitled The Muse's Magazine, or Poeticall Miscelanies, in two parts, in a single hand, 189 leaves.

Early 18th century

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dunton MS: PsK Δ 8; RoJ Δ 4; SeC Δ 1; WaE Δ 10.

For John Dunton's career, see Stephen Parks, John Dunton and the English Book Trade: A Study of His Career with a Checklist of His Publications (New York & London, 1970).

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199 (MS Rawl. poet. 173 ff. 136v-7)

DoC 149

Copy, headed On M^r. Edward Howard.

This MS collated in Harris.

A long, narrow, ledger-size composite miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 112 pages (some misnumbered and pp. 45-6 excised), in 19th-century calf gilt.

c.1680s-1700s

Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker. Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Edinburgh MS: RoJ Δ 6.

Edinburgh University Library (MS Dc. 1. 3/1 p. 26)

DoC 149.5

Copy, headed Upon M^r Edward Howards Vtopia &c., on a single folio leaf.

An unbound bundle of verse MSS, in various hands.

Late 17th century

Among archives of the Copped (or Copt) Hall estate, chiefly relating to the Conyers family.

Essex Record Office, Chelmsford (D/DW Z3 item xlii)

DoC 150

Copy, headed Vpon M^r Edward Howards Playes and here ascribed to Witherley.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

In a single professional hand but for a few later additions at the very end (pp. 295-8, with some pages tipped-in).

c.1690s

Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Harvard MS: RoJ Δ 7.

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 636 pp. 253-5)

DoC 151

Copy, in a rounded hand, headed Vppon M^r Edward Howard's Utopia, on both sides of a single folio leaf.

A folio guardbook of separate verse manuscripts and printed poems, in various hands and paper sizes, in modern red cloth.

Among collections principally of Sarah Cowper (née Holled, 1644-1720), Lady Cowper, wife of Sir William Cowper, MP (1639-1706).

Hertfordshire Record Office (DE/P F27 item [13])

DoC 152

Copy, headed On the same Author upon his New Ut-.

An octavo verse miscellany.

End of 17th century

Once owned by Henry Bracegirdle of Merton College, Oxford, who gave it to Hugh Massey in 1674. Dobell's catalogue Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1274. Colbeck, Radford & Co., The Ingatherer No. 38 (1934), item 224.

King's College, Cambridge (Hayward Collection, H. 11. 14 pp. 23-4)

DoC 153

Copy, headed Satyr on Ned. Howard. By the Earl of Dorset.

This MS collated in part in Hammond, Robinson, pp. 297-8.

c.1680s-90s

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt 54 pp. 25-7)

DoC 153.5

Copy, headed To Ned H--d by y^e Ld R-- 4 Miscell: pag: 3.

c.1700

Among the papers of the Turner family of Kirkleatham.

North Yorkshire Record Office, Northallerton (ZK MIC 1275/9785 f. [15r-v])

DoC 154

Copy, headed On M^r E: H- upon his New Vt-.

This MS collated in Harris.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in several hands, one professional stylish hand predominating, with (ff. 1r, 2r) a Table of contents, 213 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf.

Including 29 poems by Rochester (plus a second copy of one) and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items.

c.1680s

Once owned by Thomas Fermor (1698-1753), first Earl of Pomfret, of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire. Also used by one James Parks.

Recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, and selectively collated in Walker.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 40 ff. 125v-6r)

DoC 155

Copy, headed On M^r Edw Howards New Vtopia, subscribed Buckhurst.

A duodecimo miscellany of verse, on affairs of state etc., and prose, including Latin academic exercises, in a single small hand, compiled by an Oxford University man, written from both ends, iii + 87 leaves, in old morocco.

c.1670s

Bookplate of Arthur Ashpitel, FSA, and bequeathed by him 1869.

Society of Antiquaries (MS 330 f. 40r-v)

DoC 156

Copy, here ascribed to M^r Hen: Savill.

Edited from this MS in POAS and in Harris.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled Songs & Verses - Upon severall occasions, 406 pages (but pp. 35-44, 63-6, 77-86, 115-32, 153-8, 161-84, and 195-212 excised).

c.1680

Yale, Osborn MS b 100 through Osborn MS b 149 (Osborn MS b 105 pp. 189-91)

DoC 156.5

Copy, headed On Ned Howard upon his late Comedy.

A quarto miscellany of poems, and some prose satires, upon affairs of state, in several hands, the predominant one probably professional, c.130 leaves (including 36 blanks), in contemporary mottled calf.

c.1680s

Inscription (on f. 1^r) JH [or 14] Conduit St. Bonham's, 13 March 2002, lot 918 (with facsimile of an opening in the sale catalogue).

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 371 f. [64r-v])

DoC 156.8

Copy, headed On m^r Edward Howard.

Written in a single hand which can be identified as that of the Scottish pasquil-writer and antiquary Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), who was also responsible for RoJ Δ 6.

c.1705

Private owners in the UK (Mylne MS pp. 71-2)

On Mrs. Anne Roche when she Lost Sir John Daws ('Like a true Irish merlin that has lost her flight')

First published in The Roxburghe Ballads, ed. J. Woodfall Ebsworth, V (Hertford, 1885), p. 219. The Literary Works of Matthew Prior, ed. H. Bunker Wright and Monroe K. Spears, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1971) II, 778 (among Works of Doubtful Authenticity). Harris, pp. 101-2.

DoC 157

Copy, headed A Prophecy by the E of Dorset found amongst his papers upon M^rs Roch having been contracted in Ireland and the Match after broke off.

This MS collated in Wright & Spears and in Harris.

A quarto miscellany of verse, chiefly poems on affairs of state, in a single cursive rounded hand, i + 88 leaves, in modern half black morocco.

c.1701-12

Anonymous note of purchase in London (f. i) on 17 November 1701. Presented by Sir Thomas Barrett Lennard, Bt, 7 May 1921.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 40000 through 44999 (Add. MS 40060 f. 66v)

DoC 157.5 Early 18th century

Copy, in a cursive hand, headed On M^rs Harry Roche missing a Match with one Cap^t. John Daw. made by the Earle of Dorset & found in his Owne hand on y^e backside of an Inventory of his Plate -- write in 1691, on an oblong octavo-size slip of paper.

An unbound collection of verse manuscripts, in various hands and paper sizes, 212 leaves.

Volume CCCLV of the Evelyn Papers.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78522 f. 17r)

DoC 158

Copy, headed M^rs Anne Roche, when she Lost S^r John Daws by E: of Dorset.

Edited from this MS in Ebsworth and in Harris; collated in Wright & Spears.

c.1710

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6914 f. 80r)

DoC 159

Copy, headed On M^rs: Roche by My L^d: Dorset found among his Papers after his Death.

This MS collated in Wright & Spears and in Harris.

A large folio composite miscellany of poems generally on affairs of state, in one or more professional hands, 289 leaves, in half crushed morocco on marbled boards.

c.1730

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 852 f. 61r)

DoC 160

Copy, headed These by Lord Dorsett and subscribed These made by L^d. Dors: on his last wife before Married to her...[&c].

A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands, one cursive hand predominating, entitled at one end Poems Collected at several Times from the year 1670 and at the other end Collections of several things out of History. begun about the year 1670, written over a period, 336 largely unnumbered pages (plus blanks), 205 pages from one end and 131 pages from the reverse end, in contemporary vellum boards.

Compiled chiefly by Sarah Cowper (née Holled, 1644-1720), Lady Cowper, wife of Sir William Cowper, MP (1639-1706), possibly in part from texts supplied by Martin Clifford (c.1624-77), erstwhile secretary of the Duke of Buckingham and Master of the Charterhouse. Including (pp. [91-116]) 26 poems by Sir Charles Sedley as a single group (and copies of a poem of doubtful authorship on pp. [165] and [179]).

c.1670-1705

Recorded in IELM, II.ii, as the Cowper MS: SeC Δ 2. Discussed in Allan Pritchard, Editing from Manuscript: Cowley and the Cowper Papers, in Editing Poetry from Spenser to Dryden, ed. A.H. De Quehen (New York & London, 1981), pp. 47-76, esp. pp. 62-5, and in Harold Love, Two Rochester Manuscripts Circulated from the Charterhouse, The Library, 6th Ser. 16/3 (September 1994), 225-9.

Hertfordshire Record Office (DE/P F36 p. [126 rev.])

DoC 161 c.1700s

Copy, in the neat italic hand of Matthew Prior's secretary, Adrian Drift, headed Epigram.

This MS collated in Wright & Spears and in Harris.

A folio composite volume of verse MSS and papers, in various hands, 147 leaves.

Among the papers of Matthew Prior (1664-1721), poet and diplomat.

The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House (Prior Papers, Vol. XXIX f. 47r)

DoC 162 c.1700s

Copy, in an unidentified hand, untitled, docketed at the top Transcribed D, on a single oblong-octavo leaf, once folded as a letter or packet.

Edited from this MS in Wright & Spears. Collated in Harris.

A folio composite volume of verse MSS and papers, in various hands, 147 leaves.

Among the papers of Matthew Prior (1664-1721), poet and diplomat.

The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House (Prior Papers, Vol. XXIX f. 57r)

DoC 162.5

Copy.

Copy, untitled, here beginning like a true Irish Merlin that mist of her flight, on a small octavo-size slip of paper, once folded as a letter or packet.

Late 17th-early 18th century

Among the archives of the Mansell family of Margam and Penrice.

National Library of Wales (Margam & Penrice MS 6120)

DoC 162.8

Copy, headed My Lord Dorsset on M^s Ann Roch and here beginning Like a true Irish Merlin y^t Misses her flyht.

A folio formal verse miscellany, comprising c.406 poems, many of them song lyrics, in various neat hands, compiled probably over a period, 8 blank leaves (pp. [i-xvi]) + 10 unnumbered pages of poems (pp. [xvii-xxvi]) + 9 numbered pages (pp. 1-9) + ff. [9v]-151v + 12 leaves at the end blank but for a poem on the penultimate page (f. [11v]), in contemporary calf gilt.

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. [xx])

On the Countess Dowager of Manchester ('Courage, dear Moll, and drive away despair')

First published (among poems of Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax) in Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1698). POAS, V (1971), 378-81. Harris, pp. 37-40.

DoC 163

Copy, headed A Madame, Madame, B, Beaute Sexagenaire (Ldy Manchester) By L^d Dorset.

This MS collated in Harris.

c.1700 [-1745]

Once owned by C. Stuteville (inscribed f. 2r) and later, c.1880, by the Grimston family and by the Byrom family, of Kilnwick Hall, East Yorkshire. Bought from E.L.G. Byrom in 1921.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 18 ff. 135v-6r)

DoC 164

Copy, headed Upon an affected Court Lady. By M^r. Fleetwood shepherd.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

A folio verse miscellany, entitled The Muse's Magazine, or Poeticall Miscelanies, in two parts, in a single hand, 189 leaves.

Early 18th century

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dunton MS: PsK Δ 8; RoJ Δ 4; SeC Δ 1; WaE Δ 10.

For John Dunton's career, see Stephen Parks, John Dunton and the English Book Trade: A Study of His Career with a Checklist of His Publications (New York & London, 1970).

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199 (MS Rawl. poet. 173 ff. 69v.-70r)

DoC 165

Copy, headed A Madam, Madam B Beaute Sexagenaire, Lady Manchaster By Lord Dorset. 1693.

Edited from this MS in Harris. Collated in POAS.

c.1700s

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999 (Add. MS 21094 f. 122r)

DoC 166

Copy, headed My Lord Dorsets Verses on Lady N.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

A quarto composite volume of verse, in several (possibly female) rounded hands, 79 leaves, in 19th-cntury half-morocco.

c.1730

The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 970 ff. 45r, 46r)

DoC 166.5

Copy, untitled.

A small narrow folio miscellany of verse and some prose, in several hands, 136 leaves, in vellum boards.

Compiled probably over a period by members of the Stringer family of Sharlston.

Early 18th century

Among archives of the Fane family, Earls of Westmorland, of Apethorpe.

Northamptonshire Record Office (W(A) Misc Vol 20 f. 92v)

DoC 167

Copy, untitled and here beginning Courage dear Dol, and drive away despair.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Collection Of the choicest Poems, Satyrs, and Lampoons from the beginning of the late Revolution in 1688 to 1698, x + 336 pages plus index.

c.1700

Probably once owned by the Heveningham family. Among the manuscripts of the Coke family, Earls of Leicester, including collections of Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), lawyer and politician.

Recorded in HMC, 9th Report (1883), Appendix.

The Earl of Leicester, Holkham Hall (MS 686 p. 262)

DoC 168

Copy, headed Upon y^e Countess of Manchester suppos'd to be written by her Husband. Mr. Montagu. 94 - To Mrs D-P. and here beginning Courage Dr. Doll & drive away despair.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

c.1671

Owned in 1671 by one J. H.. P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue The Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1253. Purchased from Dobell in 1935.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 30 ff. 152v-3r)

DoC 169

Copy, headed A Madame Madame. B. Beaute Sexagenaire. Lady Manchester. By Lord Dorset. 1693.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

c.1695

Bookplate of William, Earl of Craven (1608-97), soldier and Privy Counsellor, of Hampstead Marshall, Berkshire.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 46 ff. 132v-3v)

DoC 170

Copy, headed A Madame Madame L^d Beaute Sexagenair. (by L^d Dorset) La: Manch-tr.

Edited from this MS in POAS. Collated in Harris.

c.late 1690s

Bookplates of Sir John Hynde Cotton, Bt (d.1752), of Lanwade and Maddingley Hall, Cambridgeshire, and of Phil^ia Cotton.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 47 f. 118r-v)

DoC 171

Copy, in a cursive hand, headed A Madame, Madame Black-stair sexagenaire and here beginning Courage Dear Doll, & drive away Dispaire, on one page of the unbound remains of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.

Late 17th century

This MS collated in Harris.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 373)

DoC 172

Copy, headed On y^e Countess of Mack- by y^e E. of Dor:.

This MS collated in POAS and (as No. 1) in Harris.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, largely in a single hand, 304 pages (plus an Index and blanks), in contemporary calf.

c.1680s-90s

Sotheby's, 21-22 April 1958, lot 397, to Seven Gables bookshop. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Formerly Restoration poetry MS 3.

A microfilm of this volume is in the British Library, M/546.

Princeton (RTC01 No. 36 pp. 302-3)

On the Countess of Dorchester (II) ('Dorinda's sparkling wit and eyes')

First published in A Collection of Miscellany Poems, by Mr. Brown (London, 1699). POAS, V (1971), 384. Harris, pp. 43-4.

DoC 173

Copy, headed A Satyr: Or, Dorsett on Dorchest^er.

Edited from this MS in Harris. Collated in POAS.

A quarto miscellany, principally of poems on affairs of state, xvi + 130 leaves.

Entitled Horæ subsecivæ, or Misselanies in Prose & Verse and arranged in four books.

Early 18th century

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Add. A. 301 f. 65v rev.)

DoC 174

Copy, headed Dorsett on Dorchester. This MS in the same hand as DoC 173.

This MS collated in Harris.

A folio miscellany of poems on y^e Governm^t. of y^e Passions, in six books, 373 leaves, in contemporary calf (rebacked).

In a non-professional hand with amateur engrossing and decoration, compiled by someone with a daughter named Cater.

Early 18th century

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. D 361 f. 263v)

DoC 175

Copy, headed On the Countess of [Dorchester 1694 by E: Dorset added in another hand].

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in two or more professional hands, 303 leaves, in modern black morocco gilt.

In two parts: Part I on ff. 1r-149r (followed by blanks and then an index on ff. 150-1); Part II, on ff. 152-302 (with an addition in another hand on f. 303), entitled A Collection of the most choice and Private Poems, Lampoons &c from the withdrawing of the late King James 1688 to the year 1701 Collected by a Person of Quality.

c.1703

A note of payment (f. 1r) for purchase on 25 March 1703. Owned by Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724).

Cited in IELM, II.i, as the Harley MS: MaA Δ 6. Marvell recorded and selectively collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I and II.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 7000 through end (Harley MS 7315 f. 234r)

DoC 176

Copy, headed On the Countesse of Dorchester. 1694 By E: Dorset.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

A large folio composite miscellany of poems generally on affairs of state, in one or more professional hands, 289 leaves, in half crushed morocco on marbled boards.

c.1730

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 852 f. 113r)

DoC 177

Copy, untitled but subscribed verces by the Earle of D-s vpon the Countess of D-, signed and probably in the hand of C Port [i.e. probably the daughter of John Port of Ilam, Staffordshire].

Edited from this MS and discussed in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; collated in Harris.

A folio volume of 124 poems by Charles Cotton (with second copies of three poems), including a few poems by others, 258 pages.

Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one Posthumus, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (Posthumus) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature WF and date 1660 appearing on p. 216 and the signature WF, the inscription Vivat Poeta and date Jan. 14 1666 on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 C. Port (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4).

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

c.1651-66 [with later additions]

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature Charles Cotton written twice and the inscriptions Elizabeth Fitzherbert; Madam Barterenia; madam ursenia; Cathrine Cotton (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]; Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),; Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687; M.B. 1688; I Port his Booke; C: Port; Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660; Aug 12 [66; and M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (WF).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by Mr. Pickering at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Derby MS. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerized exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, Cotton's Poems, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and Contentation Re-Considered, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

Derby Central Library (fmss 8470 p. 248)

DoC 178

Copy, headed On the Lady Dorchester. By E. Dorset 1694.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

A tall folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in professional hands, 257 leaves, in modern calf gilt.

In three sections each with its own title-page.

First section: A Collection of Poems and Lampoons &c^a Not yet Printed.

Second section (f. 102r): A Collection of Choice Poems, Satyrs, & Lampoons From 1672 to 1688 Never printed.

Third section (f. 146r): A Collection of Poems. From 1688 to 1699. 1703/4.

Early 1700s

The Folger Shakespeare Library, Miscellaneous manuscripts (MS M.b.12 f. 181r)

DoC 179

Copy, headed On the Countesse of Dorchester. 1694.

Edited from this MS in POAS. Collated in Harris.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Collection Of the choicest Poems, Satyrs, and Lampoons from the beginning of the late Revolution in 1688 to 1698, x + 336 pages plus index.

c.1700

Probably once owned by the Heveningham family. Among the manuscripts of the Coke family, Earls of Leicester, including collections of Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), lawyer and politician.

Recorded in HMC, 9th Report (1883), Appendix.

The Earl of Leicester, Holkham Hall (MS 686 pp. 161-2)

DoC 180

Copy, headed On the Countess of Dorc-r. 1694.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single neat hand, entitled A Collection of the most choice and Private Poems, Lampoons &c^a. from the withdrawing of the late King James 1688 to the year 1701. Collected by a person of Quality, 298 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary calf.

Early 18th century

From the library of the Cowper family of Panshanger, Hertfordshire, and possibly once belonging to Sarah Cowper (née Holled, 1644-1720), Lady Cowper, and her husband Sir William Cowper, MP (1639-1706).

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 38 p. 159)

DoC 181

Copy, headed On the Lady Dorchester. By the Earl of Dorset.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Collection of Poems and Lampoons &c^a Not yet Edited, in a single professional rounded hand (the same as in University of Nottingham, Pw V 42 and University of Nottingham, Pw V 43), 444 pages (plus blanks and an eleven-page index), in contemporary calf.

c.1705

University of Nottingham (Pw V 44 p. 121)

DoC 182

Copy.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

c.late 1690s

Bookplates of Sir John Hynde Cotton, Bt (d.1752), of Lanwade and Maddingley Hall, Cambridgeshire, and of Phil^ia Cotton.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 47 f. 137r)

DoC 183

Copy, headed On the Countesse of Dorch-tr 1694.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

A tall folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in probably a single professional rounded hand, with (ff. 3r-5r) a Table of contents, 152 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf.

c.early 1700s

Bookplate of Sir William Augustus Fraser, Bt (1826-98), of Ledeclune and Morar.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 48 f. 83v)

DoC 184

Copy, headed On a Lady who fancy'd her self a beauty by Tho: Brown.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, in a largely secretary hand, 222 pages, in calf.

c.1705

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS c 189 p. 1)

DoC 184.5

Copy, headed A Satyr or Dorset on Dorchester.

A folio miscellany of verse and some prose, principally on affairs of state, 320 pages (plus blanks), with a table of contents, in contemporary vellum.

c.1701

The name Edward H. Finch-Hatton inscribed on a flyleaf. Bookplate of Alfred Morrison (1821-97), autograph manuscript and art collector. Sotheby's, May 1919 (Morrison sale Part IV), lot 2942, sold to George D. Smith for Carl H. Pforzheimer (1879-1957), financier and book collector.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS fb 207 3rd Book, p. 37)

DoC 185

Copy, untitled, on a single oblong octavo leaf, endorsed L^d Dorset on my Lady Dorchester. 94/5.

c.1700

From the papers of the Trumbull family of Easthampstead Park, Berkshire.

Microfilm of this MS in the British Library, M/690.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn Poetry Box XIII/63)

On the Countess of Dorchester (III) ('Proud with the spoils of royal cully')

First published in A Collection of Miscellany Poems, by Mr. Brown (London, 1699). POAS, V (1971), 384-5. Harris, pp. 43-4. In most texts the poem runs directly on from the previous poem on the Countess of Dorchester (DoC 173-85).

DoC 186

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Harris.

A quarto miscellany, principally of poems on affairs of state, xvi + 130 leaves.

Entitled Horæ subsecivæ, or Misselanies in Prose & Verse and arranged in four books.

Early 18th century

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Add. A. 301 ff. 65v-64v rev.)

DoC 187

Copy, in the same hand as DoC 186, untitled and following on directly from DoC 174 (as if stanzas 3-5 of a single poem).

This MS collated in Harris.

A folio miscellany of poems on y^e Governm^t. of y^e Passions, in six books, 373 leaves, in contemporary calf (rebacked).

In a non-professional hand with amateur engrossing and decoration, compiled by someone with a daughter named Cater.

Early 18th century

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. D 361 ff. 263v-4r)

DoC 187.5

Copy, headed in the margin Dorcester Countess of (Sidley).

A folio formal miscellany of verse and prose, partly under headings, labelled on the spine Adversaria, in at least three hands, one predominating, with (ff. 178r-86v) an index, 186 leaves, in contemporary vellum boards.

Compiled by John Perceval (1683-1748), first Earl of Egmont, politician. Volume CCIX of the papers of the Perceval family, Earls of Egmont, and the allied Southwell family.

c.1730

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 45000 through 49999 (Add. MS 47128 f. 133r)

DoC 188

Copy, untitled, as stanzas 3 and 4 of DoC 175.

This MS collated in Harris.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in two or more professional hands, 303 leaves, in modern black morocco gilt.

c.1703

A note of payment (f. 1r) for purchase on 25 March 1703. Owned by Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724).

Cited in IELM, II.i, as the Harley MS: MaA Δ 6. Marvell recorded and selectively collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I and II.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 7000 through end (Harley MS 7315 f. 234r)

DoC 189

Copy.

This MS collated in Harris.

A large folio composite miscellany of poems generally on affairs of state, in one or more professional hands, 289 leaves, in half crushed morocco on marbled boards.

c.1730

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 852 f. 113r)

DoC 190

Copy of the third stanza, beginning Her Bed is like the Marriage Feast, in the hand of Alexander Pope.

Printed octavo exemplum of A New Collection of Poems relating to State Affairs, from Oliver Cromwel to this present Time (London, 1705), annotated, and the lacunae supplied in MS throughout, by the poet Alexander Pope (1688-1744), in old speckled leather (rebacked).

Early 18th century

Inscribed (f. [ii^r]) Ex libris Alexandri Pope and (f. [i^r]) J. Mitford, 1849.

Described and the annotations edited in Maynard Mack, A Finding List of Books Surviving from Pope's Library with a Few That May Not Have Survived, Collected in Himself: Essays Critical, Biographical, and Bibliographical on Pope and Some of His Contemporaries (Newark, Delaware, 1982), 394-460 [434-437].

The British Library: Rare Books Room (C.28.e.15 p. 562)

DoC 191

Copy, headed On y^e. Countess of D--r.

This MS collated in POAS.

A folio verse miscellany, in possibly two neat rounded hands, 366 pages plus a five-page index, dated at the end Finis August y^e. 6^th 1717.

1715-17

University of Chicago (MS 553 p. 110)

DoC 192

Copy, untitled, run on directly from Dorinda's sparkling wit and eyes (DoC 178).

This MS collated in Harris.

A tall folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in professional hands, 257 leaves, in modern calf gilt.

In three sections each with its own title-page.

First section: A Collection of Poems and Lampoons &c^a Not yet Printed.

Second section (f. 102r): A Collection of Choice Poems, Satyrs, & Lampoons From 1672 to 1688 Never printed.

Third section (f. 146r): A Collection of Poems. From 1688 to 1699. 1703/4.

Early 1700s

The Folger Shakespeare Library, Miscellaneous manuscripts (MS M.b.12 f. 181r)

DoC 193

Copy.

This MS collated in Harris.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Collection Of the choicest Poems, Satyrs, and Lampoons from the beginning of the late Revolution in 1688 to 1698, x + 336 pages plus index.

c.1700

Probably once owned by the Heveningham family. Among the manuscripts of the Coke family, Earls of Leicester, including collections of Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), lawyer and politician.

Recorded in HMC, 9th Report (1883), Appendix.

The Earl of Leicester, Holkham Hall (MS 686 p. 162)

DoC 194

Copy, untitled, run on directly from DoC 181.

This MS collated in Harris.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Collection of Poems and Lampoons &c^a Not yet Edited, in a single professional rounded hand (the same as in University of Nottingham, Pw V 42 and University of Nottingham, Pw V 43), 444 pages (plus blanks and an eleven-page index), in contemporary calf.

c.1705

University of Nottingham (Pw V 44 p. 122)

DoC 195

Copy, untitled, run on directly from DoC 182.

This MS collated in Harris.

c.late 1690s

Bookplates of Sir John Hynde Cotton, Bt (d.1752), of Lanwade and Maddingley Hall, Cambridgeshire, and of Phil^ia Cotton.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 47 f. 137r-v)

DoC 196

Copy, untitled, run on directly as stanzas 3 and 4 of DoC 183.

This MS collated in Harris.

A tall folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in probably a single professional rounded hand, with (ff. 3r-5r) a Table of contents, 152 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf.

c.early 1700s

Bookplate of Sir William Augustus Fraser, Bt (1826-98), of Ledeclune and Morar.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 48 f. 84r)

On the Countess of Dorchester (IV) ('Tell me, Dorinda, why so gay')

First published in A Collection of Miscellany Poems, by Mr. Brown (London, 1699). POAS, V (1971), 385. Harris, pp. 45-6.

DoC 197

Copy, headed On the Countess of - Mistress to K. J. 2. 1680. by E. of Dorset.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

A folio verse miscellany, entitled The Muse's Magazine, or Poeticall Miscelanies, in two parts, in a single hand, 189 leaves.

Early 18th century

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dunton MS: PsK Δ 8; RoJ Δ 4; SeC Δ 1; WaE Δ 10.

For John Dunton's career, see Stephen Parks, John Dunton and the English Book Trade: A Study of His Career with a Checklist of His Publications (New York & London, 1970).

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199 (MS Rawl. poet. 173 f. 8r)

DoC 198

Copy, headed On the Countess of Dorchester. 1696 by E: Dorset.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

c.1700s

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999 (Add. MS 21094 f. 55v)

DoC 198.5

Copy, headed in the margin On the Countess of Dorchester, Mistress to k. James the 2. by the E. of Dorset 1680.

Compiled by John Perceval (1683-1748), first Earl of Egmont, politician. Volume CCIX of the papers of the Perceval family, Earls of Egmont, and the allied Southwell family.

c.1730

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 45000 through 49999 (Add. MS 47128 f. 147r)

DoC 199

Copy, headed Epigram by y^e late E. of Dorset on Lady Dorchester.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

c.1710

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6914 f. 82v)

DoC 200

Copy, headed Another on the same Lady, inscribed afterwards By E Dorset.

Edited from this MS in Harris; collated in POAS.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in two or more professional hands, 303 leaves, in modern black morocco gilt.

c.1703

A note of payment (f. 1r) for purchase on 25 March 1703. Owned by Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724).

Cited in IELM, II.i, as the Harley MS: MaA Δ 6. Marvell recorded and selectively collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I and II.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 7000 through end (Harley MS 7315 f. 234v)

DoC 201

Copy, headed On y^e Countess of Dorchester.

Edited from this MS in POAS; collated in Harris.

c.1703

Note of purchase (f. 1r) p^d - 6 - 9 -/ April 24 1703.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 7000 through end (Harley MS 7319 f. 371r)

DoC 202

Copy, headed Another on the same Lady By E. Dorset.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

A large folio composite miscellany of poems generally on affairs of state, in one or more professional hands, 289 leaves, in half crushed morocco on marbled boards.

c.1730

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 852 f. 113r)

DoC 203

Copy, in Prior's hand, untitled, on the second page of two conjugate quarto leaves.

This MS collated in Harris.

c.1700s

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 70368 f. 101v)

DoC 204

Copy, headed Another By the same Hand.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

A tall folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in professional hands, 257 leaves, in modern calf gilt.

In three sections each with its own title-page.

First section: A Collection of Poems and Lampoons &c^a Not yet Printed.

Second section (f. 102r): A Collection of Choice Poems, Satyrs, & Lampoons From 1672 to 1688 Never printed.

Third section (f. 146r): A Collection of Poems. From 1688 to 1699. 1703/4.

Early 1700s

The Folger Shakespeare Library, Miscellaneous manuscripts (MS M.b.12 f. 181v)

DoC 204.5

Copy, headed To the Lady Dorchester.

An octavo composite miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, relating to angling, 284 pages (lacking pp. 161-84), in quarter-calf marbled boards.

In several neat, small, chiefly italic hands, one on pp. 1-203 that of Nathaniel Bridges, of Magdalen College, Oxford, whose inscription on f. [iii^r] is dated 1694.

c.1691-early 18th century

Bookplate of George Weare Braikenridge, Broomwell House. A flyleaf is inscribed by him, November 1834, The Book belonged to the late D^r. Nath^l. Bridges Lecturer of S^t Mary Radcliffe & S^t Nicholas in the City of Bristol & purchased out of a private sale of his library at his decease. Other names inscribed after p. 212 including William Trumbu[ll], Joseph Brampton 1691, and Hen Sacheverell / Coll. Magd.. A later bookplate inside the lower cover: Gift of Daniel B. Fearing of Newport, 1915.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 1490 2nd section, f. [28v])

DoC 205

Copy, headed On the Lady Dorchester. 1696.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Collection Of the choicest Poems, Satyrs, and Lampoons from the beginning of the late Revolution in 1688 to 1698, x + 336 pages plus index.

c.1700

Probably once owned by the Heveningham family. Among the manuscripts of the Coke family, Earls of Leicester, including collections of Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), lawyer and politician.

Recorded in HMC, 9th Report (1883), Appendix.

The Earl of Leicester, Holkham Hall (MS 686 p. 177)

DoC 206

Copy, headed Another on the same Lady By E. D-t.

Early 18th century

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 38 p. 160)

DoC 206.5

Copy, headed Dorset on Dorshester.

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, almost entirely in a single hand, compiled by a university man, 134 leaves, in modern vellum.

End of 17th century-1700s

In a family library at Bath before 1924. Sotheby's, 23 July 1987, lot 11, to Quaritch.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt 79 ff. 133v-4r)

DoC 207

Copy, headed Another By the same hand, the poem dated in the margin 1694.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Collection of Poems and Lampoons &c^a Not yet Edited, in a single professional rounded hand (the same as in University of Nottingham, Pw V 42 and University of Nottingham, Pw V 43), 444 pages (plus blanks and an eleven-page index), in contemporary calf.

c.1705

University of Nottingham (Pw V 44 pp. 122-3)

DoC 208

Copy, headed Another on the same Lady. by E. Dors-t.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

A tall folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in probably a single professional rounded hand, with (ff. 3r-5r) a Table of contents, 152 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf.

c.early 1700s

Bookplate of Sir William Augustus Fraser, Bt (1826-98), of Ledeclune and Morar.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 48 f. 84r-v)

DoC 209

Copy, untitled.

A folio letterbook of Sir Richard Bulstrode (1610-1711) chiefly when he was British envoy at Brussels, in several hands, 226 pages, in contemporary vellum.

c.1678-82 [and later additions]

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS fb 88 p. 119v)

DoC 209.8

Copy, headed A Satyr Dorset on Dorchester.

A folio miscellany of verse and some prose, principally on affairs of state, 320 pages (plus blanks), with a table of contents, in contemporary vellum.

c.1701

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS fb 207 1st Book, p. 38)

On the Statue in the Privy Garden ('When Israel first provoked the living Lord')

First published in Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1698). Harris, pp. 57-60.

*DoC 210

Autograph

Autograph draft of the complete ten-line poem, on one page of an unbound pair of conjugate quarto leaves, once folded as a letter or packet, endorsed by Jacob Tonson (1656?-1736), publisher, Dorset on Tyburn.

[1686]

Edited from this MS in Harris, with a facsimile on p. 58.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 363)

*DoC 211

Autograph

Autograph draft of a six-line version, headed Vnder the statue in the Privy Garden, on a single oblong quarto leaf, once folded as a letter or packet, imperfect.

[1686]

This MS collated in Harris, with a facsimile on p. 59.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 364)

DoC 212

Copy, in a professional hand, untitled, on a single oblong octavo-size leaf, endorsed Tenisons prayer. Early 18th century.

A double-folio guardbook of political and miscellaneous letters and other papers, in verse and prose, in various hands, 150 leaves, in 18th-century quarter-calf on marbled boards.

Early 18th century

Inscribed on a flyleaf Ex Bibliotheca dom. Catharinæ Bridgeman anno 1742.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. D. 383 f. 64r)

DoC 213

Copy, headed The Second Saul and here beginning When Israel disobey'd their sovereign Lord.

A quarto volume of poems on affairs of state entitled A Collection of loyal Poems Satyrs and Lampoons In the Reign of Taurus [i.e. ? George I], vol. 1, viii + 256 pages.

c.1712-20

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199 (MS Rawl. poet. 155 f. 121r)

DoC 214 c.1700

Copy, untitled, on an oblong octavo-size slip of paper, endorsed On the succession.

This MS collated in Harris.

A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 201 leaves, in old calf gilt.

Purchased from Joseph Lilly, 20 February 1844.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 10000 through 14999 (Add. MS 14854 f. 139r)

DoC 215

Copy, untitled, on a single quarto leaf.

This MS collated in Harris.

A double-folio-size album of separate mounted letters, in various hands, 239 leaves, in modern calf gilt.

Volume V of the letters belonging to Henrietta Hobart (1681-1767), Countess of Suffolk.

Later owned by John Wilson Croker (1780-1857), politician and writer.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999 (Add. MS 22629 f. 215r)

DoC 216

Copy, headed An Allusion.

This MS collated in Harris.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, with a title-page (f. 2r) A Collection of Loyal Poems. Made in the Years 1714 1715 and 1716, almost entirely in a single neat hand, 157 leaves, with (ff. 3r-6v) a table of contents, in modern half-green morocco.

c.1720

Inscribed (f. 1*^v) Elizabeth Susannah Hall July 22^th 1778. Purchased from William Carew Hazlitt (1834-1913), bibliographer and writer, 5 April 1876.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 25000 through 29999 (Add. MS 29981 f. 36v)

DoC 217

Copy, headed The Allusion.

This MS collated in Harris.

A quarto miscellany of poems chiefly on affairs of state, in a single neat rounded hand, including (ff. 126r-9v) a list of contents, 129 leaves, in half brown morocco.

Inscribed (f. 1r) The following Collection has been the Employment of some leisure Hours; several of the Pieces have since appear'd in Print....

c.1730s

Presented by Edward Gilbertson, 9 May 1885.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 30000 through 34999 (Add. MS 32463 ff. 17v-18r)

DoC 217.5

Copy, headed in the margin On James the Second.

Compiled by John Perceval (1683-1748), first Earl of Egmont, politician. Volume CCIX of the papers of the Perceval family, Earls of Egmont, and the allied Southwell family.

c.1730

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 45000 through 49999 (Add. MS 47128 f. 135r)

DoC 218

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Harris.

A large folio composite miscellany of poems generally on affairs of state, in one or more professional hands, 289 leaves, in half crushed morocco on marbled boards.

c.1730

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 852 f. 183)

On the Young Statesmen ('Clarendon had law and sense')

First published in A Third Collection of…Poems, Satyrs, Songs (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 339-41. Harris, pp. 50-4.

DoC 218.5

Copy.

A collection of unbound verse manuscripts, in various hands and paper sizes (chiefly folio), 142 leaves.

Partly compiled by Sir Richard Browne and his father Christopher Browne (1577-1646), of Saye's Court, Deptford.

Volume LXVII of the Evelyn Papers, of John Evelyn (1620-1706), diarist and writer, of Wootton House, Surrey, and his family, also incorporating papers of his father-in-law, Sir Richard Browne, Bt (1605-83), diplomat, and his family. Formerly preserved at Christ Church, Oxford. Acquired March 1995.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78233 f. 109r)

DoC 219

Copy, headed On our Ministers of State.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in at least three professional hands, ii + 124 leaves, in half-calf marbled boards.

c.1680s

Owned by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732), annalist and book collector.

All Souls College, Oxford (MS 116 f. 64v)

DoC 220

Copy, headed A short poeme upon y^e Chitts.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

c.1667-82 [the poems by Marvell and Rochester c.1670s]

Facsimile of p. 277 in POAS, I, facing p. 228 (see MaA 98).

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. b. 8 p. 645)

DoC 221

Copy, headed The Game at Chess and the text here preceded by three stanzas beginning My Muse and I are drunk tonight.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

Including nine poems in the Marvell canon (plus apocryphal poems); ff. 1-157 a single unit in variant styles of hand; ff. 158-62 in yet another hand on a smaller tipped-in quire of paper.

Mid-late 17th century

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

Cited in IELM, II.i (1993) as the Douce MS: MaA Δ 3. Marvell contents recorded and selectively collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I and II.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Douce 357 f. 113r)

DoC 222

Copy, headed The Game at Chesse and preceded by three stanzas beginning My muse & I are drunke to Night, on a single folio leaf. End of 17th century.

Edited in part from this MS in Harris.

A large double-folio composite volume of literary, political and miscellaneous papers, on paper and parchment, in various hands and sizes, 339 leaves, in modern cloth.

Among papers of the North family, Barons North and Earls of Guilford, seated principally at Wroxton Abbey, Oxfordshire.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS North b. 24 f. 146r-v)

DoC 223

Copy, headed The 3 Chitts in Story.

This MS collated in Harris.

An octavo book of jests and verse compiled by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, vi + 374 pages (pp. 72-306 blank), in contemporary calf.

c.1682-91

Bodleian Library, Sancroft MSS (MS Sancroft 53 p. 40)

DoC 224

Copy, untitled, on a single quarto leaf. Late 17th century.

This MS collated in Harris.

A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous MSS, in various hands, ii + 117 leaves, in half-calf.

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

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Wood D. 19 f. 106v)

DoC 225

Copy of lines 26-30, headed 1715 and here beginning Protect us Mighty Providence.

This MS collated in Harris.

A folio volume of chiefly poems and prose on affairs of state, in several hands, one predominating, 165 leaves, in old reversed calf.

Compiled by John Greene, of King's Lynn, Norfolk (probably the John Greene who was Mayor there in 1709).

c.1720

Sotheby's, 23 December 1958, lot 224.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999 (Add. MS 22640 f. 91r)

DoC 226

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single neat hand, 79 leaves (plus an index), in modern black leather gilt.

Including eleven poems in the Marvell canon (plus further apocryphal poems).

c.1680

Later owned by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist and antiquary. Puttick & Simpson's, 9 June 1859 (Turner sale), lot 389. Purchased from Boone, 9 June 1860.

Recorded in IELM, II.ii, as the Turner MS: MaA Δ 4. The Marvell poems recorded and selectively collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I and II.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999 (Add. MS 23722 f. 77v)

DoC 227

Copy, headed Upon the Ministers and here beginning Clarendon had some pedantick sence.

This MS collated in POAS and (? mistakenly cited as Add. MS 22640) in Harris.

A quarto miscellany of poems chiefly on affairs of state, ff. 4r-153v in a single neat predominantly italic hand, ff. 154r-63 in another hand dated 1687, with (ff. 2r-3v, 165r-6r) a table of contents, 166 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half morocco.

Including eight poems in the Marvell canon and his mock-speech by the King (plus apocryphal poems).

c.1680s

Inscribed (f. 1r) Sam^ll. Danvers. 1664; and (f. 164v) F Danvers, Samuel Danvers his book, and W D'anvers: i.e. probably the family of Sir Samuel Danvers, Bt. (d.1683) of Culworth, Northamptonshire (though not in his hand).

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Danvers MS: MaA Δ 5. Marvell contents recorded and selectively collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I and II.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 30000 through 34999 (Add. MS 34362 ff. 117v-18r)

DoC 228 Late 17th century

Copy of lines 1-10, in a non-professional hand, untitled, on a single quarto leaf.

A folio composite volume of MS poems presented to, or owned by, James Butler (1610-88), first Duke of Ormonde, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, c.120 pages, of various sizes, in 19th-century calf.

Some items docketed by Ormonde or by his private secretary Sir George Lane.

Mid-late 17th century

Formerly British Library Loan MS 37/6. The greater part of the collection sold at Sotheby's, 19 July 1994, lot 276, to C.R. Johnson Rare Books. Photocopies are in the British Library, RP 6829.

Recorded in HMC, 14th Report, Appendix VII, Ormonde I (1895), pp. 105-18.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS fb 228 p. 157)

DoC 229

Copy, untitled, on a small oblong quarto leaf.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

A folio composite volume of poems, chiefly on affairs of state, in various hands, 67 leaves, in modern quarter crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

Late 17th century

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 655 f. 48r)

DoC 229.5

Copy, headed The game at Chesse, or A Character of our Statesmen.

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English, Latin and French, in several hands, written from both ends, 360 pages (the majority blank), in old calf.

Inscribed (p. [41 rev.]) J. Tyrell and compiled at least in part by James Tyrrell (1642-1718), historical writer and friend of the philosopher John Locke (1632-1704), a poem by whom (ff. [16v-17r]) he dockets as By my dear Friend M^r J. Lock.

c.1670s-80s

Later in the library of Richard Monckton Milnes (1809-85), first Baron Houghton, author and politician, and his son Robert Offley Ashburton Milnes, afterwards Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, politician.

Nicholas Fisher ([Tyrrell MS] ff. [15v-16r])

DoC 230

Copy of lines 26-30, untitled, beginning Protect us, mighty Providence, dated Tuesday June 29. 1714.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

A quarto commonplace book and miscellany of verse and prose, in various hands, with additions up to 1751, ii + 662 pages (some erratically numbered), in contemporary calf.

c.1672-1715 [plus later additions]

Ownership inscriptions (pp. [i] and [662]), dated 1672, by John Digby, of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Other inscribed names including (p. 662) Thomas Digby, Edward Digby, Robert Debnam, and (p. [640]) Josh: Churchill 1694.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 586 p. 190)

DoC 231

Copy, untitled and here beginning Clarendon had witt & sence.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in several cursive hands, viii + 136 pages, in contemporary calf.

Late 17th century

Ownership inscription (p. [iv]) by Edward Dowden (1843-1913), of Trinity College, Dublin. Colbeck Radford & Co., undated sale catalogue, item 207. Item 117 in an unidentified sale catalogue.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 624 p. [101])

DoC 232

Copy, headed On our young Statesmen.

This MS collated in part in Hammond, Robinson, p. 303.

c.1680s-90s

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt 54 p. 85)

DoC 232.5

Copy of stanzas 1, 2 and 6, untitled.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, predominantly in one probably professional cursive hand, with additions by others, 77 leaves (plus blanks), in brown morocco gilt.

c.1680s

Later owned by Robert Offley Ashburton Milnes, afterwards Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, politician. Sold in 1979 by Henry Sotheran, bookseller, to Michael Phillips.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt 87 f. 60r)

DoC 233

Copy, the poem here dated 1680, subscribed Dryden.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

A folio volume comprising two apparently independent miscellanies of poems on affairs of state, each in probably more than one professional hand, in variant styles, 199 pages, in modern cloth.

Part I, ff. 1r-110v (poems dated 1667-83); Part II, ff. 111r-99r, on larger paper (poems dated 1680-7).

c.1680s

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Advocates MS: MaA Δ 8. Works by Marvell recorded and some poems collated in POAS, I.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 19.1.12 ff. 105v-6r)

DoC 233.5

Copy, untitled.

A small narrow folio miscellany of verse and some prose, in several hands, 136 leaves, in vellum boards.

Compiled probably over a period by members of the Stringer family of Sharlston.

Early 18th century

Among archives of the Fane family, Earls of Westmorland, of Apethorpe.

Northamptonshire Record Office (W(A) Misc Vol 20 ff. 88v-9r)

DoC 234

Copy, headed The Chess.

This MS collated in Harris.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, probably in a single rounded hand, 140 pages (including blanks), in old half-calf on marbled boards.

Late 17th century

Later used by George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor, with his loosely inserted index. Sold in April 1934 by Dobell.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 39 pp. 90-2)

DoC 235

Copy, in a cursive hand, untitled, here beginning Clarendon had some Lawe & sense, in a single column, with other verse on one side of a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet.

Late 17th century

This MS collated in Harris.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 635)

DoC 236

Copy, headed Satyr.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

c.1690s

Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna (Cod. 14090 f. 24v)

DoC 237

Copy, headed A Lampoon on y^e Court.

This MS collated (as No. 1) in Harris.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, largely in a single hand, 304 pages (plus an Index and blanks), in contemporary calf.

c.1680s-90s

Sotheby's, 21-22 April 1958, lot 397, to Seven Gables bookshop. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Formerly Restoration poetry MS 3.

A microfilm of this volume is in the British Library, M/546.

Princeton (RTC01 No. 36 pp. 137-9)

DoC 238

Copy, untitled.

A quarto verse miscellany, in probably a single mixed hand varying over a period, entitled in another hand Recueil Choisi De Pieces fugitives En Vers Anglois, 214 pages, in modern calf.

c.1713

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1 through 239 (MS 239/16 p. 99)

DoC 239

Copy, headed Satyr.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

This MS is closely related to Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Cod. 14090.

c.1690s-1700

Later owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor, who records that £50 was given by Perry, for these 2 volumes.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dyce MS: RoJ Δ 15.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 43 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.37-38) pp. 34-5)

DoC 239.5 Late 17th-early 18th century

Copy, headed The Game att Chesse, on one side of a single folio leaf.

A collection of songs and poems, unbound, in folders.

Among papers of the Clarke family, of Littlecote.

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 267/II Fasc. 2, Doc. No. 31 [f. 58r])

DoC 240

Copy, untitled, followed by the note D^r Stillingfleet his Sermon of y^e Mischeif of Separation - 2 May. 1680..

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English, French, Latin and Greek, written from both ends in various hands, with a list of contents, 117 leaves, in half-calf.

Late 17th century

Bookplate of Charles W.G. Howard, The Gift of the Rt. Hon. Sir David Dundas Knt. of Ochtertyre 1877. Formerly Chest II, No. 13.

Yale, Osborn MS b 50 through Osborn MS b 99 (Osborn MS b 52/1 p. 135)

DoC 240.5

Copy, headed The Game att Chess and here beginning My Muse and I are drunk to night.

A quarto volume of Poems upon Affairs of State, 170 pages (plus 80 blanks), in contemporary black morocco gilt.

c.1680s

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 20-30.

Private owners in the UK ([Lord Derby MS] pp. 119-22)

Pindaric Petition to the Lords in Council ('Humbly Sheweth / Should you order Tom Brown')

First published in Flying Post (23-25 November 1697). Harris, pp. 99-100.

*DoC 241

Autograph

Autograph, headed To the Lords in Councill asembled the Pindarique Petition of Thomas Browne, on a single folio leaf, endorsed by Jacob Tonson (1656?-1736), publisher, This is the handwriting of Charles, Earle of Dorset. Ja: Tonson.

c.1700

Edited from this MS in Harris, with a facsimile on p. 98.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 168)

DoC 242

Copy, headed To the L^ds Justices in Councel assembled The Petition of Thom. Bro[wn], on one side of a single folio leaf.

This MS collated in Harris.

A folio composite volume of verse and academic plays, in English and Latin, in various hands, 493 leaves, now in two volumes, foliated 1-250 and 251-493 respectively.

Partly compiled by Archbishop Sancroft.

Bodleian Library, Tanner Collection (MS Tanner 306 Vol. II, f. 434r)

DoC 243 c.1700

Copy, headed To the Lords assembled...The Petition of Tho Brown, on one side of a single quarto leaf.

This MS collated in Harris.

A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 201 leaves, in old calf gilt.

Purchased from Joseph Lilly, 20 February 1844.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 10000 through 14999 (Add. MS 14854 f. 178r)

A Rodomontade on his Cruel Mistress ('Seek not to know a woman, for she's worse')

Harris, pp. 177-8.

See JnB 425-30.

A Song ('May the ambitious ever find')

First published in Choice Ayres and Songs (London, [1684]). Harris, pp. 79-80.

DoC 244

Copy, in a musical setting by James Hart, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Harris.

A folio songbook, in several hands, one italic hand predominating, with (f. 1v) a list of contents, 46 leaves, in modern half red morocco.

Inscribed (f. 1r), possibly by the compiler, Charles Campelman his book June y^e 9. 1681 (God give him grace 1682 added in another hand).

c.1681 -1700s

Sotheby's, 20 January 1854, lot 1138.

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 19759 f. 34r)

DoC 245

Copy.

This MS collated in Harris.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 475 pages (plus a six-page index and a number of blanks), in contemporary black morocco gilt.

In two professional hands (A: pp. 1-126; B: pp. 129-45 and probably the Index).

c.1690

Once owned by James Bindley. Sale December 1818 (Bindley sale). Phillipps MS 8418. Sotheby's, 18 June 1908, lot 627.

A transcript of this volume made by George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor, is Harvard MS Eng 633.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 585 p. 108)

DoC 246

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Harris.

A quarto verse miscellany.

Compiled by Lady Henrietta Harley.

Mid-18th century

University of Nottingham (Pw V 1066 f. 44r)

A Song ('Phyllis, the fairest of love's foes')

First published in Miscellaneous Works, Written by…George, late Duke of Buckingham (London, 1704-5). Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704). Harris, pp. 81-2.

DoC 247

Copy, headed Catch by L^d. Dorset.

This MS collated in in Harris.

A folio verse miscellany, entitled The Muse's Magazine, or Poeticall Miscelanies, in two parts, in a single hand, 189 leaves.

Early 18th century

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dunton MS: PsK Δ 8; RoJ Δ 4; SeC Δ 1; WaE Δ 10.

For John Dunton's career, see Stephen Parks, John Dunton and the English Book Trade: A Study of His Career with a Checklist of His Publications (New York & London, 1970).

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199 (MS Rawl. poet. 173 f. 72r)

DoC 248 Early 18th century

Copy, untitled and with the second stanza appearing first (here beginning Compell'd thrô Want this Wretched maid) on one side of a single octavo leaf.

This MS collated in Harris.

A tall folio composite volume of verse MSS, in various hands and paper sizes, 195 leaves, mounted on guards, in half-morocco.

Compiled chiefly by members of the Caryll family.

Early 17th century (Vol. I); Late 17th-early 18th century (Dorset)

Presented by Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, first Baronet, MP (1810-69).

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 25000 through 29999 (Add. MS 28253 f. 189r)

DoC 249

Copy, headed Philis by Lord Dorset.

This MS collated in Harris.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, largely in a single neat hand, with later hands at the end, 114 leaves (some leaves excised), wth an index (f. 114r-v), in 19th-century half black morocco.

c.1700

Purchased on 4 July 1873 from William Carew Hazlitt (1834-1913), bibliographer and writer.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 25000 through 29999 (Add. MS 29497 f. 108v)

DoC 250

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Harris.

c.1710

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6914 f. 82r)

A Song on Black Bess ('Methinks the poor town has been troubled too long')

First published in Methinks the Poor Town (London, 1673). Choice Songs and Ayres…The First Book (London, 1673). Harris, pp. 90-2.

Poems of Doubtful Authorship

Actus Primus, Scena Prima ('For standing tarses we kind nature thank')

First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen [i.e. London], 1680). Discussed in Harris, p. 185, and in Vieth, Attribution, pp. 437-8.

DoC 305

Copy, headed Tarsander: in imitation of the L^d: Orreryes Poetry, subscribed Buckhurst.

This MS recorded in Harris and in Vieth.

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in at least three professional hands, 39 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum.

Late 17th century

Owned by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732), annalist and book collector.

All Souls College, Oxford (MS 174 ff. 35v-6r)

DoC 306

Copy of lines 1-7, imperfect, lacking the rest.

This MS recorded in Vieth.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, in English and Latin, in several hands, ii + 53 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf.

c.1690

J. Salkeld, sale catalogue No. 222 (17 June 1885), item 273.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Add. B. 106 f. 44v)

DoC 307

Copy.

This MS recorded in Harris.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in several hands, one professional stylish hand predominating, with (ff. 1r, 2r) a Table of contents, 213 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf.

Including 29 poems by Rochester (plus a second copy of one) and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items.

c.1680s

Once owned by Thomas Fermor (1698-1753), first Earl of Pomfret, of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire. Also used by one James Parks.

Recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, and selectively collated in Walker.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 40 ff. 30v-1r)

DoC 307.5

Copy, headed A Dialogue between Tassander Cœlia and Suivanthe.

c.1670s

Bookplate of Arthur Ashpitel, FSA, and bequeathed by him 1869.

Society of Antiquaries (MS 330 ff. 2v-3r)

'As far in Vertues race att Thirty two'

First published in Harris (1940), p. 166.

DoC 308

Copy of a series of untitled verses, the first six lines beginning The Queen so Greatly dies, the King so grieves subscribed Lord Dorset; the next four lines beginning As far in Vertues race att Thirty two subscribed M^r Dryden; followed by three sets of anonymous lines: two beginning Nor shalt thou pass unmourned, not euen by those, six lines beginning The Queen is dead, and we great S^r suruiue, and, on the next flyleaf, sixteen lines beginning The Queen reuoluing on y^e powers of Fate.

Dorset's verses edited from this MS in Harris (1940). Discussed in Harris (1979), p. 181.

A folio composite volume of printed and MS verse, principally on the death of Queen Mary.

c.1695

Bookplate of Beverly Chew.

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks N through Z (RB 143290-96 [flyleaf])

The Bashful Lover ('Phyllis, I pray, why did you say')

See Harris, pp. 188-9.

Caesar's Ghost (''Twas still low ebb of night, when not a star')

First published in The Muses Farewell to Poetry and Slavery (London, 1690), pp. 200-10. Lines 1-12 published, ascribed to Dors [i.e. Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset], in Edward Bysshe, Art of English Poetry, 2nd edition (London, 1705). Published complete, and attributed to Aphra Behn, in John Burrows and Harold Love, Did Aphra Behn write Cæsar's Ghost?, in The Culture of the Book: Essays from Two Hemispheres in honour of Wallace Kirsop, Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, occasional publication No. 8 (Melbourne, 1999), pp. 146-72 (poem on pp. 163-9). Also discussed in Harris, pp. 193-4.

DoC 309

Copy, apparently in the hand of Aphra Behn.

Edited from this MS in Burrows & Love.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, originally entitled Astrea's Booke of Songs & Satyr's 1686, in probably seven hands, vi + 332 pages (including 23 blanks), in half-calf.

c.1686-9 [with additions to 1738]

Bookplate of William Busby. Among the collections of Sir Charles Harding Firth (1857-1936), historian.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Firth c. 16 pp. 217-26)

'Cloe's the wonder of her sex'

See Harris, pp. 181-2. By George Granville, Lord Lansdowne.

The Conditional Recantation or A Dialogue between the Oracle of St. Patrick and King James After his Abdication ('If both the Indies were my own')

Unpublished. Discussed in Harris, p. 187.

DoC 310

Copy.

This MS recorded in Harris.

A quarto miscellany of largely Jacobite poems on affairs of state, x + 187 leaves, in red morocco gilt.

c.1688-91

Later owned by F.W. Cosens (1819-89), book collector. Sotheby's, 25 July 1890 (Cosens sale), in lot 93. Afterwards owned by William Hayman Cummings, FSA (1831-1915), singer and musical antiquary. Among the collections of Sir Charles Harding Firth (1857-1936), historian.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Firth e. 6 ff. 119v-22v)

DoC 311 c.1690

Copy, in a professional hand, on three quarto leaves, endorsed Conditional Recantation. 1689/90.

This MS recorded in Harris.

A quarto composite volume chiefly of poems on affairs of state, largely in professional hands, iii + 242 leaves, in vellum boards.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199 (MS Rawl. poet. 159 ff. 57^c-59r)

DoC 312

Copy.

This MS recorded in Harris.

A folio verse miscellany, entitled The Muse's Magazine, or Poeticall Miscelanies, in two parts, in a single hand, 189 leaves.

Early 18th century

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dunton MS: PsK Δ 8; RoJ Δ 4; SeC Δ 1; WaE Δ 10.

For John Dunton's career, see Stephen Parks, John Dunton and the English Book Trade: A Study of His Career with a Checklist of His Publications (New York & London, 1970).

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199 (MS Rawl. poet. 173 ff. 125v-6v)

DoC 313

This MS recorded in Harris.

c.1703

Note of purchase (f. 1r) p^d - 6 - 9 -/ April 24 1703.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 7000 through end (Harley MS 7319 ff. 331r-3r)

The Debauchee ('I rise at eleven, I dine about two')

First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen [i.e. London], 1680). Vieth, Attribution, pp. 169-70. The Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed. Keith Walker (Oxford, 1984), p. 130 (as Regime d'viver among Poems possibly by Rochester). Discussed in Harris, pp. 186-7.

DoC 314

Copy, headed The Debauch.

This MS recorded in Vieth, p. 411; collated in Walker, pp. 221-2.

A folio composite volume of verse, in various hands, i + 250 leaves.

Collected by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729). Some pages in the hand of Richard Rawlinson.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199 (MS Rawl. poet. 152 f. 89v)

DoC 315

Copy, headed Regine d. vive.

This MS recorded in Vieth, p. 411. Collated in Walker, pp. 221-2.

A long, narrow, ledger-size composite miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 112 pages (some misnumbered and pp. 45-6 excised), in 19th-century calf gilt.

c.1680s-1700s

Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker. Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Edinburgh MS: RoJ Δ 6.

Edinburgh University Library (MS Dc. 1. 3/1 p. 95)

DoC 316

Copy of a six-line version, headed My Lord Buckhurst and Lord Rochester being in company, a suddaine Malancholly possesst him Rochester inquiring the reason hee answered hee was troubled at Rochesters lude way of living, and in thes verses over the leafe expresst it, and here beginning You rise at Eleaven.

Edited from this MS in Hook (p. 480); in Vieth (pp. 411-12); and in Walker (p. 222). Recorded in Harris.

Autograph letter by the London solicitor Godfrey Thacker to his cousin Theophilus Hastings, seventh Earl of Huntingdon, including verses.

20 March 1672/3

Edited in Lucyle Hook, Something More About Rochester, MLN, 75 (1960), 478-85.

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HA 12525 [poem 1])

DoC 316.5

Copy, headed Malden.

A small pocket notebook (11.5 x 5.5 cm.), largely in one small hand, unpaginated, in contemporary calf.

Probably compiled by Patrick Senhouse (fl.1712-34): his inscription Patricious Senhouse 1722.

c.1720s

Also inscribed Humphray Senhouse. Together with another commonplace book probably compiled by Patrick Senhouse (Patt Senhouse 1720), an octavo in contemporary limp vellum, also inscribed John Senhouse.

University of Chicago (MS 690 [unnumbered pages])

DoC 316.8

Copy.

Walker, pp. 130-1.

c.1680s-90s

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt 54 pp. 15-20)

DoC 317

Copy, headed Song.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, p. 323.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in several hands, one professional stylish hand predominating, with (ff. 1r, 2r) a Table of contents, 213 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf.

Including 29 poems by Rochester (plus a second copy of one) and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items.

c.1680s

Once owned by Thomas Fermor (1698-1753), first Earl of Pomfret, of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire. Also used by one James Parks.

Recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, and selectively collated in Walker.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 40 f. 125r-v)

DoC 318

Copy, headed Regime d'viver.

This MS collated in Walker, pp. 221-2.

c.1680

Once owned by Count Carl Edward Gyldenstolpe (1770-1852) and perhaps originally acquired by Count Nils Gyldenstolpe (1642-1709), Swedish Ambassador at The Hague (in 1679-87).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Gyldenstolpe MS: RoJ Δ 14. A complete facsimile edition in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe (1967).

Royal Library, Stockholm (MS Vu. 69 p. 35)

DoC 318.5

Copy, headed Reginae de vive.

Written in a single hand which can be identified as that of the Scottish pasquil-writer and antiquary Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), who was also responsible for RoJ Δ 6.

c.1705

Private owners in the UK (Mylne MS pp. 311-12)

The Deist: A Satyr on the Parsons ('Religion's a politic law')

Unpublished. Discussed in Harris, pp. 189-90.

DoC 319

Copy, headed The Atheist.

This MS recorded in Harris.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, originally entitled Astrea's Booke of Songs & Satyr's 1686, in probably seven hands, vi + 332 pages (including 23 blanks), in half-calf.

c.1686-9 [with additions to 1738]

Bookplate of William Busby. Among the collections of Sir Charles Harding Firth (1857-1936), historian.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Firth c. 16 pp. 130-4)

DoC 320

Copy, headed The Priest Moderator.

This MS recorded in Harris.

c.1700

Purchased on 4 July 1873 from William Carew Hazlitt (1834-1913), bibliographer and writer.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 25000 through 29999 (Add. MS 29497 ff. 42r-3r)

DoC 321

Copy, headed A Satyr on the Parsons, inscribed in a different ink By the L^d. Dorset: or Cha: Blount.

This MS recorded in Harris.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in two or more professional hands, 303 leaves, in modern black morocco gilt.

c.1703

A note of payment (f. 1r) for purchase on 25 March 1703. Owned by Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724).

Cited in IELM, II.i, as the Harley MS: MaA Δ 6. Marvell recorded and selectively collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I and II.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 7000 through end (Harley MS 7315 ff. 146r-9r)

DoC 322

Copy, untitled, on three folio pages.

A folio guardbook of separate verse manuscripts and printed poems, in various hands and paper sizes, in modern red cloth.

Among collections principally of Sarah Cowper (née Holled, 1644-1720), Lady Cowper, wife of Sir William Cowper, MP (1639-1706).

Hertfordshire Record Office (DE/P F27 item [21])

DoC 322.5

Copy, untitled and here beginning Tho Religions an Pollitick Law.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, predominantly in one probably professional cursive hand, with additions by others, 77 leaves (plus blanks), in brown morocco gilt.

c.1680s

Later owned by Robert Offley Ashburton Milnes, afterwards Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, politician. Sold in 1979 by Henry Sotheran, bookseller, to Michael Phillips.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt 87 ff. 67r-8r)

DoC 323

Copy, headed The Deist.

This MS recorded in Harris.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Collection of Poems and Lampoons &c^a Not yet Edited, in a single professional rounded hand (the same as in University of Nottingham, Pw V 42 and University of Nottingham, Pw V 43), 444 pages (plus blanks and an eleven-page index), in contemporary calf.

c.1705

University of Nottingham (Pw V 44 pp. 344-52)

DoC 324

Copy, headed A Satyr on the Parsons.

This MS collated (as No. 2) in Harris.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, including twelve poems in the Marvell canon (plus prose and apocryphal poems), in probably a single professional hand with variations of style (but for another hand on pp. 189-92), 192 pages (plus over 90 blank leaves and an Index), in modern red morocco.

The predominant hand in the MS is the same as that in Yale Osborn MS b 105.

c.1680s

In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Formerly Restoration poetry MS 1.

Cited in IELM as the Taylor MS: MaA Δ 9. Marvell items recorded and some poems collated in POAS, I.

Princeton (RTC01 No. 34 pp. 189-92)

DoC 325

Copy, headed A Ballet and here beginning Tho: Religeon's a Pollertick law.

This MS recorded (as No. 1) in Harris.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, largely in a single hand, 304 pages (plus an Index and blanks), in contemporary calf.

c.1680s-90s

Sotheby's, 21-22 April 1958, lot 397, to Seven Gables bookshop. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Formerly Restoration poetry MS 3.

A microfilm of this volume is in the British Library, M/546.

Princeton (RTC01 No. 36 pp. 109-12)

DoC 326

Copy, headed The Deist, on five pages of two conjugate pairs of folio leaves.

This MS recorded in Harris.

A folio composite volume of poems on affairs of state, 319 pages, disbound.

Late 17th century

This MS owned in 1682 by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732). Later Phillipps MS 8301 and Osborn MS. Chest II, Number 52.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS fb 70 pp. 147-9 (bis))

The Disabled Debauchee ('As some brave admiral in former war')

Discussed in Harris, p. 181.

See RoJ 46-67.

Distich ('This was y^e house y^t was built by Harris')

Unpublished? Dorset's burlesue of one of the many Latin elegiac distichs which were composed in 1671 in response to a competition instituted by Colbert.

DoC 326.1

Copy of the couplet, at the end of a sequence beginning with a distich beginning Par domus haec urbi est, urbs urbi, neutra triumphis and its English translation (The Louvre to Paris, that to y^e world compare) followed by the heading Burlesqued by my L^d Buckhurst.

An oblong quarto miscellany chiefly of poems on affairs of state, including ten in the Marvell canon and other works attributed to him, largely in a single hand, with later additions in other hands, written along the length of the page with the spine upwards, i + 92 leaves, in contemporary calf.

Used from the reverse end, for a 79-page catalogue of c.1400 books dating from 1519 to the mid-18th century, in two hands, headed Catalogue of M^r. Okeover's Library taken Sept^r: 1760 with a supplement headed Found in London in Feby 1764 by M^r. Walhouse — after M^r. Leeke Okeover's death in M^r. Okeover's house in John Street, Gray's Inn Lane, London.

c.late 1670s [-1764]

Inscribed (f. i^r) tho may. Sotheby's, 22 July 1980, lot 541.

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Okeover MS: MaA Δ 7.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt 55 f. 36r)

DoC 326.2

Copy of the second verse of the couplet (beginning A Fart for the Louvre, a T--d for Paris), at the end of a sequence beginning with a distich (Non Orbis Gentem, Non Urbem Gens habet ulla) and its English translation (No Earth such Realm, No Realms such Town afford) followed by Thus Ironically by L^d. Buckhurst (Fraudibus, ac fastu, Levitate, Libidinis aestu).

Compiled by Theophilus Butler (1669-1723), first Baron Newtown of Newtown-Butler, book collector.

c.1720

Old pressmark I. 5. 1-3.

Trinity College, Dublin, numbers 800 through end (MS 879 Vol. I, part I, pp. 63-4)

Dorsetts Lamentation for Moll Howards Absence ('Dorset no gentle Nimph can find')

Recorded in Harris, p. 55, as obviously not by Dorset.

DoC 326.3

Copy.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, originally entitled Astrea's Booke of Songs & Satyr's 1686, in probably seven hands, vi + 332 pages (including 23 blanks), in half-calf.

c.1686-9 [with additions to 1738]

Bookplate of William Busby. Among the collections of Sir Charles Harding Firth (1857-1936), historian.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Firth c. 16 p. 8)

DoC 326.4

Copy.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in two or more professional hands, 222 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary red panelled morocco gilt.

c.late 1680s

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6913 f. 147r-v)

DoC 326.5

Copy.

c.1710

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6914 ff. 47v-8r)

DoC 326.6

Copy.

c.1703

Note of purchase (f. 1r) p^d - 6 - 9 -/ April 24 1703.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 7000 through end (Harley MS 7319 f. 103r-v)

DoC 326.7

Copy.

A long, narrow, ledger-size composite miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 112 pages (some misnumbered and pp. 45-6 excised), in 19th-century calf gilt.

c.1680s-1700s

Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker. Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Edinburgh MS: RoJ Δ 6.

Edinburgh University Library (MS Dc. 1. 3/1 p. [75])

DoC 326.8

Copy.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 475 pages (plus a six-page index and a number of blanks), in contemporary black morocco gilt.

In two professional hands (A: pp. 1-126; B: pp. 129-45 and probably the Index).

c.1690

Once owned by James Bindley. Sale December 1818 (Bindley sale). Phillipps MS 8418. Sotheby's, 18 June 1908, lot 627.

A transcript of this volume made by George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor, is Harvard MS Eng 633.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 585 p. 140)

DoC 326.9

Copy.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, largely in a neat italic hand, with additions by others, iii + 232 pages (some pages excised), in contemporary vellum.

c.1688

Inscribed John Brownlowe His Booke: i.e. (? Sir John Brownlow, third Baronet, 1659-97). Among the muniments of the Earl of Ancaster.

Lincolnshire Archives Office (Anc 15/B/4 p. 106)

DoC 326.91

Copy.

A folio volume comprising two apparently independent miscellanies of poems on affairs of state, each in probably more than one professional hand, in variant styles, 199 pages, in modern cloth.

Part I, ff. 1r-110v (poems dated 1667-83); Part II, ff. 111r-99r, on larger paper (poems dated 1680-7).

c.1680s

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Advocates MS: MaA Δ 8. Works by Marvell recorded and some poems collated in POAS, I.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 19.1.12 ff. 4v-5r)

DoC 326.92

Copy.

c.1690s

Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna (Cod. 14090 f. 305r-v)

DoC 326.93

Copy.

Written in a single hand which can be identified as that of the Scottish pasquil-writer and antiquary Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), who was also responsible for RoJ Δ 6.

c.1705

Private owners in the UK (Mylne MS pp. 245-6)

DoC 326.94

Copy.

c.1705

University of Nottingham (Pw V 43 pp. 73-4)

DoC 326.95

Copy.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional hand, 82 pages (plus numerous blanks), in vellum boards.

c.1680s

University of Nottingham (Pw V 45 pp. 9-10)

DoC 326.96

Copy.

This MS is closely related to Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Cod. 14090.

c.1690s-1700

Later owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor, who records that £50 was given by Perry, for these 2 volumes.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dyce MS: RoJ Δ 15.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 43 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.37-38) p. 575)

A Hue and Cry After Fair Amoret ('Fair Amoret has gone astray')

See Harris, pp. 182-3. See CgW 11-21.

Lilliburlero ('Ho, Brother Teague, dost hear de decree')

See Harris, p. 186. By Thomas, Marquess of Wharton.

A Mock Song ('I swive as well as others do')

See Harris, p. 186. See RoJ 187-190.

On the Day of Judgment ('The day of wrath that dreadful day')

Unpublished?

DoC 326.97

Copy, as per Buckhurst.

A quarto verse miscellany, in a single hand, entitled (p. 1, in engrossed lettering) Tho^s. Walker Book of Miscellanies 1712, 252 pages (jumping from p. 56 to 61), in modern half dark green morocco.

Compiled by Thomas Walker (b.1682), of Mosley, near Ashton under Lyne, Greater Manchester, including (pp. 105-6, 203) verses by him to his parents etc., dated 1720/1-27.

c.1712-27

Later owned by Sir Charles Bradbury (his sale December 1864, lot 2819), to Haywood, thence bought by Sir Thomas Baker. Bernard Halliday, bookseller of Leicester, February 1930.

The University of Manchester Library (English MS 521 pp. 54-6)

On the Death of the Duke of Gloucester ('For Gloucester's death, which sadly we deplore')

First published in Tom Browne, Remains (London, 1720), p. 143. Edited and discussed in Harris, pp. 184-5. Possibly by another Lord Dorset.

DoC 326.98

Copy.

Copies mainly of verse, transcribed from a MS formerly owned by William, Baron Craven, and (pp. 62-148) from the Fraser MS, ii + 158 pages.

Among papers of George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor.

c.1923

The transcript lent to Thorn-Drury by P.J. Dobell, c.1923. Donated by Mrs Thorn-Drury, 1947.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 50 p. 148)

DoC 326.99

Copy.

Recorded in Harris.

A folio miscellany of poems on y^e Governm^t. of y^e Passions, in six books, 373 leaves, in contemporary calf (rebacked).

In a non-professional hand with amateur engrossing and decoration, compiled by someone with a daughter named Cater.

Early 18th century

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. D 361 f. 55v)

DoC 326.991 c.1700s

Copy, headed On the immature Death of the D of Gloucester.

A large folio guardbook of letters and verse, in Latin, English and French, in various hands and paper sizes, 224 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco.

Late 17th century

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 25000 through 29999 (Add. MS 28955 f. 43r)

DoC 326.992

Copy.

Recorded in harris.

c.1700

Purchased on 4 July 1873 from William Carew Hazlitt (1834-1913), bibliographer and writer.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 25000 through 29999 (Add. MS 29497 f. 109v)

DoC 326.993

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Harris.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in two or more professional hands, 303 leaves, in modern black morocco gilt.

c.1703

A note of payment (f. 1r) for purchase on 25 March 1703. Owned by Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724).

Cited in IELM, II.i, as the Harley MS: MaA Δ 6. Marvell recorded and selectively collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I and II.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 7000 through end (Harley MS 7315 f. 298v)

DoC 326.994

Copy, untitled.

Recorded in Harris.

A folio miscellany of largely poems on affairs of state, in two professional hands, with others on six tipped-in leaves at the end, 205 leaves (plus blanks), in black morocco gilt.

c.1730

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 7000 through end (Harley MS 7316 f. 68r)

DoC 326.995

Copy.

Recorded in Harris.

A folio composite volume of papers, 171 leaves.

Assembled by Dr W. Wall.

c.1700

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1731 A, f. 115r)

DoC 326.996

Copy, untitled.

Recorded in Harris.

Early 18th century

The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 305 f. 242v)

DoC 326.997

Copy.

Early 18th century

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 38 p. 288)

DoC 326.998

Copy.

Recorded in Harris.

A tall folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in probably a single professional rounded hand, with (ff. 3r-5r) a Table of contents, 152 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf.

c.early 1700s

Bookplate of Sir William Augustus Fraser, Bt (1826-98), of Ledeclune and Morar.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 48 [unspecified page number])

DoC 326.999

Copy.

Recorded in Harris.

A verse miscellany, in a single hand, in calf.

c.1700s

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS c 111 p. 60)

DoC 326.9991

Copy.

Late 17th century

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn Poetry Box VII/73)

On the Duchess of Portsmouth's Absence ('When Portsmouth did from England fly')

First published (in part) in The Roxburghe Ballads, ed. J. Woodfall Ebsworth, IV (Hertford, 1883), 286. Discussed in Harris, p. 194.

DoC 327

Copy.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in at least three professional hands, ii + 124 leaves, in half-calf marbled boards.

c.1680s

Owned by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732), annalist and book collector.

All Souls College, Oxford (MS 116 f. 119r)

DoC 327.5

Copy, headed on-portsmouths departure.

Written in a single hand which can be identified as that of the Scottish pasquil-writer and antiquary Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), who was also responsible for RoJ Δ 6.

c.1705

Private owners in the UK (Mylne MS pp. 106-7)

DoC 328

Copy, untitled, on a single quarto leaf.

A composite volume of verse, i + 126 leaves.

Collected by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), herald and antiquary.

Late 17th century

Given to the library in 1954 by N.R. Ker.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. d. 152 f. 79v)

DoC 329

Copy, in a professional hand, in a quarto booklet of verse (ff. 156-69). Late 17th century.

A quarto composite volume chiefly of poems on affairs of state, largely in professional hands, iii + 242 leaves, in vellum boards.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199 (MS Rawl. poet. 159 f. 161v)

DoC 330

Copy, headed On y^e Dutchess of Portsmouth's absence 1682.

This MS (incorrectly cited as Harley MS 7315) recorded in Harris.

c.1703

Note of purchase (f. 1r) p^d - 6 - 9 -/ April 24 1703.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 7000 through end (Harley MS 7319 f. 107v)

DoC 331

Copy, headed On the Dutches of Portsmouths Leaving England, subscribed M^r Shepperd.

Compiled by Oliver Le Neve (d.1711), younger brother of Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King of Arms and antiquary.

c.1690

Chetham's Library, Manchester (Mun. A.4.14 f. 64v)

DoC 332

Copy, headed On Portsmouths Departure.

A long, narrow, ledger-size composite miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 112 pages (some misnumbered and pp. 45-6 excised), in 19th-century calf gilt.

c.1680s-1700s

Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker. Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Edinburgh MS: RoJ Δ 6.

Edinburgh University Library (MS Dc. 1. 3/1 p. 25 bis)

DoC 333

Copy, headed The Dutchess of Portsmouth 1682.

Edited from this MS (?) in Ebsworth.

A folio volume comprising two apparently independent miscellanies of poems on affairs of state, each in probably more than one professional hand, in variant styles, 199 pages, in modern cloth.

Part I, ff. 1r-110v (poems dated 1667-83); Part II, ff. 111r-99r, on larger paper (poems dated 1680-7).

c.1680s

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Advocates MS: MaA Δ 8. Works by Marvell recorded and some poems collated in POAS, I.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 19.1.12 f. 10r)

DoC 334

Copy.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional hand, 82 pages (plus numerous blanks), in vellum boards.

c.1680s

University of Nottingham (Pw V 45 p. 21)

DoC 335

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Harris.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

The later additions partly compiled by George Clarke (1661-1736), politician and virtuoso (whose bookplate is inside the cover and whose family coat of arms is on f. [iv]), son of Sir William Clarke (1623?-66), Secretary of War to the Commonwealth and Charles II.

c.1662[-1730s]

Inside the front cover inscribed E[?] Barrow, evidently a member of the family of Samuel Barrow (1625-82), Royal Physician and friend of John Milton, Barrow being the second husband of Sir William Clarke's widow, Dorothy (d.1695). Formerly MSS 6. 13.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Clarke MS: PsK Δ 5. See also Elizabeth H. Hageman, Treacherous Accidents, and the Abominable Printing of Katherine Philips's 1664 Poems, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, III, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2004), pp. 85-95.

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 58 p. 95)

On the Revolution in 1688 ('Of a splenetic nation I sing')

Edited in Harris (1940), pp. 152-3. Discussed in Harris (1979), p. 188. Unlikely to be by Dorset.

DoC 335.1

Copy, in Prior's hand, untitled, on the third and fourth pages of two conjugate quarto leaves.

c.1700s

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 70368 f. 102r-v)

DoC 335.3

Copy, headed A satire by Lord Dorset.

Recorded in Harris.

c.1710

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6914 f. 83r-v)

DoC 335.4

Copy, untitled.

Recorded in Harris.

A folio miscellany of largely poems on affairs of state, in two professional hands, with others on six tipped-in leaves at the end, 205 leaves (plus blanks), in black morocco gilt.

c.1730

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 7000 through end (Harley MS 7316 f. 24v)

DoC 335.5

Copy of lines 1-8.

Recorded in Harris.

Papers of John Boyle, fifth Earl of Cork and Orrery.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 218.2 (v.3) [unspecified page number])

Phryne ('Phryne had Talents for Mankind')

Unpublished.

DoC 335.7

Copy, subscribed Earl of Dorset.

A quarto account book of George Downing relating to legal matters, subsequently used as a commonplace book by a member of the Willes or Lovell families, 80 pages.

1785-9 [-c.1800]

Wiltshire and Swindon Archives (161/198 f. [11r-v])

'Poor Tom of Lincoln'

A twelve-line poem. Unpublished?

DoC 335.8

Copy, superscribed By y^e E. of Dorset at Bugden. Ordinat. at y^e. Mitre in 88 -- written w^th a coal on y^e Wall.

An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, chiefly on affairs of state, including nine poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items, in a single small hand, 356 pages (misnumbered in pencil 1-344 and lacking the first few original leaves), in contemporary boards.

Probably compiled by an Anglican cleric (or student before taking orders) associated with Cambridge University.

c.late 1690s-1704

Later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Formerly Restoration poetry MS 5.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Cambridge Miscellany MS: RoJ Δ 13.

Princeton (RTC01 No. 38 p. 2 et seq.)

Rochester's Farewell ('Tir'd with the noisome follies of the age')

First published in A Third Collection of the Newest and Most Ingenious Poems, Satyrs, Songs &c (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 217-27. Discussed and Dorset's authorship rejected in Harris, pp. 190-2. The poem is noted by Alexander Pope as being probably by the L^d Dorset in Pope's exemplum of A New Collection of Poems Relating to State Affairs (London, 1705), British Library, C.28.e.15, p. 121.

DoC 336 Late 17th century

Copy, in a small hand, in double columns, on the first two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, folded as a letter.

An unbound collection of verse MSS, in various hands, 145 generally folio leaves.

Once owned by Sir William Trumbull (1639-1716), lawyer and government official. Sotheby's, The Trumbull Papers, 14 December 1989, part of lot 39.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 72479 f. 40r-v)

DoC 337

Copy.

This MS collated in POAS.

c.1667-82 [the poems by Marvell and Rochester c.1670s]

Facsimile of p. 277 in POAS, I, facing p. 228 (see MaA 98).

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. b. 8 pp. 640-4)

DoC 338

Copy.

This MS collated in POAS.

Including nine poems in the Marvell canon (plus apocryphal poems); ff. 1-157 a single unit in variant styles of hand; ff. 158-62 in yet another hand on a smaller tipped-in quire of paper.

Mid-late 17th century

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

Cited in IELM, II.i (1993) as the Douce MS: MaA Δ 3. Marvell contents recorded and selectively collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I and II.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Douce 357 ff. 81v-4r)

DoC 339

Copy, headed The E: of Rochest^rs: last Fairewell to y^e Co^rt. 1686.

A miscellany of verse and prose, mainly on affairs of state, 176 pages, in Middle Hill boards.

c.1700

Formerly Phillipps MS 10984. Sotheby's, 5 June 1899, lot 995. Then owned by F.W. Cock. Sotheby's, 8 May 1944 (Cock sale), lot 235. P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue 97 (1947), item 179.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. d. 53 ff. 86-93)

DoC 340

Copy.

This MS collated in POAS.

c.1700

Purchased on 4 July 1873 from William Carew Hazlitt (1834-1913), bibliographer and writer.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 25000 through 29999 (Add. MS 29497 ff. 2r-3v)

DoC 341

Copy.

This MS collated in POAS.

Including eight poems in the Marvell canon and his mock-speech by the King (plus apocryphal poems).

c.1680s

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Danvers MS: MaA Δ 5. Marvell contents recorded and selectively collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I and II.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 30000 through 34999 (Add. MS 34362 ff. 78r-81v)

DoC 342

Copy.

Edited from this MS in POAS.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in two or more professional hands, 222 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary red panelled morocco gilt.

c.late 1680s

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6913 ff. 44r-9v)

DoC 343

Copy, headed The Lord Rochesters Farewell and here beginning Fill'd with the noisome Folly of the Age.

This MS collated in POAS.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in two or more professional hands, 303 leaves, in modern black morocco gilt.

c.1703

A note of payment (f. 1r) for purchase on 25 March 1703. Owned by Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724).

Cited in IELM, II.i, as the Harley MS: MaA Δ 6. Marvell recorded and selectively collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I and II.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 7000 through end (Harley MS 7315 ff. 135v-41r)

DoC 344

Copy.

This MS collated in POAS.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled Satyrs & Lampoons, in a single neat hand, i + 130 leaves, subscribed (f. 130v) Finis. 25, March 1691-2., in modern black morocco gilt.

c.1692

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 7000 through end (Harley MS 7317 ff. 26v-30r)

DoC 345

Copy, in a professional hand, on four folio leaves.

This MS collated in POAS.

A folio composite volume of poems, chiefly on affairs of state, in various hands, 67 leaves, in modern quarter crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

Late 17th century

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 655 ff. 4r-7r)

DoC 346

Copy, headed Lord Rochesters Farrewell.

This MS collated in POAS.

A long, narrow, ledger-size composite miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 112 pages (some misnumbered and pp. 45-6 excised), in 19th-century calf gilt.

c.1680s-1700s

Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker. Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Edinburgh MS: RoJ Δ 6.

Edinburgh University Library (MS Dc. 1. 3/1 pp. 102-3)

DoC 347

Copy, here beginning Filld with y^e noysome follyes of y^e age.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in several cursive hands, viii + 136 pages, in contemporary calf.

Late 17th century

Ownership inscription (p. [iv]) by Edward Dowden (1843-1913), of Trinity College, Dublin. Colbeck Radford & Co., undated sale catalogue, item 207. Item 117 in an unidentified sale catalogue.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 624 pp. [102-7])

DoC 348

Copy, headed The E. of R^s farewell.

An octavo verse miscellany, 22 leaves plus numerous blanks, in calf.

Late 17th century

P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue, The Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1280. Acquired from Quaritch, 23 July 1959. Formerly Uncat. MSS. Rochester, Commonplace book and 821 R58c.

A microfilm of the MS volume is in the British Library, M/573.

University of Illinois (Post-1650 MS 0001 ff. [6r-9r])

DoC 349

Copy.

c.1680s-90s

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt 54 pp. 166-75)

DoC 350 Late 17th century

Copy, on three folio leaves.

A disbound collection of chiefly verse MSS, in several hands, largely folio.

Once belonging to the Newdegate family of Arbury Hall, Nuneaton, Warwickshire. Hodgson's, 20-21 November 1958, lot 572.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 11 No. 1)

DoC 351

Copy.

A formal folio miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, chiefly on affairs of state, in a single professional hand, individual items dated as late as 1697, 286 pages.

c.late 1690s

University of Minnesota (MS 690235f pp. 33-9)

DoC 351.8 Late 17th century

Copy, headed The L R^s farewell, on six pages of two conjugate folio leaves, in a folder of unbound verse (at the top of the box).

A box of papers and commonplace books of the Cary family, including the Rev. Francis Henry Cary (1642-1712), rector of Brinkworth, Wiltshire.

National Archives, Kew (C 104/63 [unnumbered item])

DoC 352

Copy.

This MS collated in POAS.

A folio volume comprising two apparently independent miscellanies of poems on affairs of state, each in probably more than one professional hand, in variant styles, 199 pages, in modern cloth.

Part I, ff. 1r-110v (poems dated 1667-83); Part II, ff. 111r-99r, on larger paper (poems dated 1680-7).

c.1680s

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Advocates MS: MaA Δ 8. Works by Marvell recorded and some poems collated in POAS, I.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 19.1.12 ff. 117v-20r)

DoC 353

Copy, here beginning Fill'd with the noisome folly of the Age.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional rounded hand, including (pp. 269-71) an Index, iv + 271 pages (including blanks), in contemporary black morocco gilt.

c.1690s

University of Nottingham (Pw V 38 pp. 83-94)

DoC 353.5

A small narrow folio miscellany of verse and some prose, in several hands, 136 leaves, in vellum boards.

Compiled probably over a period by members of the Stringer family of Sharlston.

Early 18th century

Among archives of the Fane family, Earls of Westmorland, of Apethorpe.

Northamptonshire Record Office (W(A) Misc Vol 20 ff. 85r-8v)

DoC 354

Copy, in a mixed hand, in double columns, untitled, here beginning Filld w^th y^e noysome ffolly of y^e age, on two pages of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves.

Late 17th century

University of Nottingham (Pw V 508)

DoC 355

Copy, headed The Lord Rochesters farewell and here beginning Fill'd w^th y^e noisome folly of the Age.

This MS (or DoC 356) collated in POAS.

The predominant hand in the MS is the same as that in Yale Osborn MS b 105.

c.1680s

In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Formerly Restoration poetry MS 1.

Cited in IELM as the Taylor MS: MaA Δ 9. Marvell items recorded and some poems collated in POAS, I.

Princeton (RTC01 No. 34 pp. 173-81)

DoC 356

Copy, here beginning Fild w^th y^e noise & folly of y^e Age.

This MS (or DoC 355) collated in POAS.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, largely in a single hand, 304 pages (plus an Index and blanks), in contemporary calf.

c.1680s-90s

Sotheby's, 21-22 April 1958, lot 397, to Seven Gables bookshop. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Formerly Restoration poetry MS 3.

A microfilm of this volume is in the British Library, M/546.

Princeton (RTC01 No. 36 pp. 38-47)

DoC 356.2

Copy.

c.1680

Once owned by Count Carl Edward Gyldenstolpe (1770-1852) and perhaps originally acquired by Count Nils Gyldenstolpe (1642-1709), Swedish Ambassador at The Hague (in 1679-87).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Gyldenstolpe MS: RoJ Δ 14. A complete facsimile edition in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe (1967).

Royal Library, Stockholm (MS Vu. 69 pp. 285-94)

DoC 356.5

Copy.

A quarto volume of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional hand, 136 pages (lacking pp. 49-50), in paper wrappers.

c.1680s

Among the archives of the Bridgeman family, Earls of Bradford.

Staffordshire Record Office (D 1287/19/6, [uncatalogued volume] pp. 56-62)

DoC 356.8

Copy, headed Rochester's Farewell to D. Cantab..

A small quarto booklet of Restoration verse and prose, in a single non-professional hand, ii + 32 leaves (including a few blanks), in contemporary limp vellum, inscribed on the front cover State Lampoons &c. and on the rear cover begunn March 1668.

c.1668-85

Among the Leigh papers of Stoneleigh, Warwickshire. Inscribed names of William Leigh and of Thomas Leigh (1652-1710), Baron Leigh (E. Libris Tho: Leigh 1684/5).

Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office (DR 18/26/6 (Part), [quarto-size box, unnumbered item] ff. [15r-18r])

DoC 357

Copy, here beginning Filld w^th the noisome folly of the age, subscribed L^d Dorset.

c.1662[-1730s]

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 58 pp. 90-3)

DoC 358

Copy, inscribed from M^r Ellesby Min^r. of Chiswick. 18^th. septb^r. 80 /Returnd y^e originale to him agen 22^th Septb^r. by y^e boy sealed vp.

Two unspecified Osborn MSS collated in POAS.

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in several hands, written from both ends, with a list of contents, 108 leaves.

Late 17th century

Bookplate of Charles W.G. Howard, The Gift of the Rt. Hon. Sir David Dundas Knt. of Ochtertyre 1877. Formerly Osborn MS. Chest II, No. 13. vol. 2.

Yale, Osborn MS b 50 through Osborn MS b 99 (Osborn MS b 52/2 pp. 180-7)

DoC 359

See DoC 358.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional hand, with some rubrication and decoration, 358 pages (including over 60 blanks), with a table of contents, in contemporary black morocco gilt bearing a coronet.

c.1680s

Formerly Phillipps MS 7740 and Osborn MS. Box XXII, Number 3.

Yale, Osborn MS b 100 through Osborn MS b 149 (Osborn MS b 113 pp. 79-93)

DoC 359.5

Copy, here beginning Fild with y^e noysome folly of y^e Age.

c.1680s

Inscription (on f. 1^r) JH [or 14] Conduit St. Bonham's, 13 March 2002, lot 918 (with facsimile of an opening in the sale catalogue).

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 371 ff. [54r-8v])

DoC 360

Copy, here beginning Filld with the noysome folly of the age, on three of four folio leaves.

See DoC 358.

A guard book of separate copies of poems, 72 pages, various sizes.

Chiefly late 17th century

Assembled by Col. Cyril Hackett Wilkinson (1888-1960), Vice Provost of Worcester College, Oxford, literary scholar. Sotheby's, 26 June 1961, lot 212. At Yale formerly Osborn Box 89. No. 7.

a microfilm of this MS is in the British Library, M/625.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS fb 106 No. 31)

DoC 361 c.1700

Copy, in a neat italic hand, here beginning Fill'd with the noysome folly of the age, on six quarto pages.

A quarto composite volume of largely printed tracts, in old calf.

Late 17th century

Inscribed on the first page Cuthbert Constable.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn pb 52 Item 12)

DoC 361.1

Copy, headed The Lord Rochesters Fairweill.

Written in a single hand which can be identified as that of the Scottish pasquil-writer and antiquary Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), who was also responsible for RoJ Δ 6.

c.1705

Private owners in the UK (Mylne MS pp. 332-8)

A Rodomontade on his Cruel Mistress ('Seek not to know a woman, for she's worse')

See Harris, pp. 177-8.

See JnB 425-430.

Royal Resolutions ('When plate was at pawn and fob was at ebb')

See Harris, p. 194.

See MaA 171-190.

Signior Dildo ('You ladies all of merry England')

See Harris, p. 195.

See RoJ 359-367.

Song. Old Rowley the King ('This making of bastards great')

See Harris, p. 190. Not by Dorset.

To Celia ('Not, Celia that I juster am')

See SeC 39-42.

The Town Life ('Once how I doted on this jilting town')

First published in State Poems (London, 1697). POAS, IV, 62-7. An argument for Dorset's authorship advanced in O.S. Pickering, An Attribution of the Poem The Town Life (1686) to Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset, N&Q, 235 (September 1990), 296-7.

DoC 361.2

A composite volume of verse, i + 126 leaves.

Collected by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), herald and antiquary.

Late 17th century

Given to the library in 1954 by N.R. Ker.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. d. 152 f. 36r et seq.)

DoC 361.3

Copy.

This MS collated in POAS.

A folio verse miscellany, entitled The Muse's Magazine, or Poeticall Miscelanies, in two parts, in a single hand, 189 leaves.

Early 18th century

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dunton MS: PsK Δ 8; RoJ Δ 4; SeC Δ 1; WaE Δ 10.

For John Dunton's career, see Stephen Parks, John Dunton and the English Book Trade: A Study of His Career with a Checklist of His Publications (New York & London, 1970).

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199 (MS Rawl. poet. 173 f. 163v et seq.)

DoC 361.4

Copy, once folded as a letter or packet.

This MS collated in POAS.

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

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

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 25000 through 29999 (Add. MS 27408 f. 41r-9r)

DoC 361.5

Copy.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single accomplished professional hand, ii + 222 pages, with an Index, in contemporary calf.

c.early 1700s

Inscribed on the front pastedown to be left at Inbourg's Muff-shop / Pall-Mall and S^t hov^r Singleton. Formerly Folger MS 473.1.

The Folger Shakespeare Library: V.b. series (MS V.b.94 p. 141 et seq,)

DoC 361.6

Copy.

This MS collated in POAS.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 475 pages (plus a six-page index and a number of blanks), in contemporary black morocco gilt.

In two professional hands (A: pp. 1-126; B: pp. 129-45 and probably the Index).

c.1690

Once owned by James Bindley. Sale December 1818 (Bindley sale). Phillipps MS 8418. Sotheby's, 18 June 1908, lot 627.

A transcript of this volume made by George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor, is Harvard MS Eng 633.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 585 p. 188 et seq.)

DoC 361.7

Copy, with a side note referring to Copt Hall.

This MS discussed in Pickering.

c.1680s-90s

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt 54 pp. 321-8)

DoC 361.8

Copy.

This MS collated in POAS.

A folio volume comprising two apparently independent miscellanies of poems on affairs of state, each in probably more than one professional hand, in variant styles, 199 pages, in modern cloth.

Part I, ff. 1r-110v (poems dated 1667-83); Part II, ff. 111r-99r, on larger paper (poems dated 1680-7).

c.1680s

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Advocates MS: MaA Δ 8. Works by Marvell recorded and some poems collated in POAS, I.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 19.1.12 [unspecified page numbers])

DoC 361.9

Copy.

c.1690s

Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna (Cod. 14090 f. 389v et seq.)

DoC 361.95

Copy.

This MS collated in POAS.

This MS is closely related to Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Cod. 14090.

c.1690s-1700

Later owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor, who records that £50 was given by Perry, for these 2 volumes.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dyce MS: RoJ Δ 15.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 43 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.37-38) p. 736 et seq.)

Under the King's Picture ('First Heaven resolv'd William should reign, and then')

First published in J. J. Alexander, An Otterton Notebook, Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature, and Art, 50 (1918), 493-502 (p. 495). Edited in Harris (1940), p. 118. Discussed in Harris (1979), pp. 183-4.

DoC 362

Copy, headed On King W^m y^e. 3^d's Comming over & settled and here beginning Heaven first ordain'd William should Reign & then.

This MS recorded in Harris.

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 f. 9v)

DoC 363

Copy.

This MS recorded in Harris.

A folio composite volume of separate copies of poems, in various hands and paper sizes, c.257 pages, now disbound.

Late 17th century

Sotheby's, 14 March 1961, lot 573. Formerly at Yale Box 89, No. 3.

Microfilm in the British Library, M/608.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS fb 108 p. 83)

DoC 364

Edited from this MS in Alexander.

An octavo miscellany compiled by Richard Duke (1652-1733), of Otterton, Devon.

Owned in 1918 by A. de Castro Glubb, of Pendean, Liskeard, Cornwall.

Discussed in J.J. Alexander, An Otterton Notebook, Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature, and Art, 50 (1918), 493-502.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Duke MS] [unspecified page numbers])

The Vision in King James's Reign ('Twas at an hour when busy nature lay')

First published in Collection of the Newest …Poems…against Popery (London, 1689). Discussed in Harris, pp. 192-3. Lines 1-5 in Edward Bysshe, The Art of English Poetry (London, 1702).

DoC 365

Copy.

This MS recorded in Harris.

A folio verse miscellany, entitled The Muse's Magazine, or Poeticall Miscelanies, in two parts, in a single hand, 189 leaves.

Early 18th century

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dunton MS: PsK Δ 8; RoJ Δ 4; SeC Δ 1; WaE Δ 10.

For John Dunton's career, see Stephen Parks, John Dunton and the English Book Trade: A Study of His Career with a Checklist of His Publications (New York & London, 1970).

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199 (MS Rawl. poet. 173 ff. 117v-18v)

DoC 366 c.1700

Copy, in a probably professional hand, headed The Vision, on three pages of two conjugate long ledger leaves.

This MS recorded in Harris (who erroneously records two copies present).

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

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

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 25000 through 29999 (Add. MS 27408 ff. 142v-3v)

DoC 367

Copy of lines 1-5, subscribed Dors[et].

This MS recorded in Harris.

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. 73r)

'Whilst w^th such various bounty you are able'

DoC 368 1669

Copy, headed My Lord Buckhursts first Coppy, with two other satires on Edward Howard, in the hand of one William Ball, on a single leaf sent as a letter to Parry, docketed by the recipient London June 21. 1669 ffrom M^r Ball Rec^d Aug^t 9….

A composite volume of correspondence of Francis Parry, Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Portugal, in various hands.

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector. Sotheby's, 26 June 1974, lot 3005.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Eng. lett. c. 328 f. 512r)

Documents

Will

DoC 369

An abstract of Dorset's last will and testament, made c.1678.

c.1678

Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone (U269 T84/9)

*DoC 370

Autograph

Dorset's last will and testament, signed by him, 1704.

1705

Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone (U269 T84/11)

*DoC 371

Autograph

Dorset's last will and testament, signed by him, 1679.

1679

Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone (U269 T83/15)

*DoC 372

Autograph

Dorset's last will and testament, signed by him, 1680, with a codicil added 1681.

1680-1

Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone (U269 T83/16)

*DoC 373

Autograph

Dorset's last will and testament, signed by him, 1688, together with a draft and copy of it.

1688

Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone (U269 T83/17)

*DoC 374

Autograph

Dorset's last will and testament, signed by him, 1690.

1690

Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone (U269 T83/18)

DoC 375

Dorset's last will and testament dated 1704.

1704

Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone (U 269 T84/112)

*DoC 376

Autograph

Dorset's last will and testament, signed by him and sealed on every leaf, 1705.

1705

Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone (U269 T84/12)

*DoC 377

Autograph

The administration of Dorset's last will and testament of 1705, made in 1707.

1707

Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone (U269 T84/13)

DoC 378

A registered copy of Dorset's last will and testament, proved 21 April 1708.

1708

National Archives, Kew (PROB 11/494/105)

Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset

Introduction

Authorial Manuscripts

Letters and Documents

Books from Dorset's Library

Manuscript Copies of Dorset's Verse

The Canon

Miscellaneous

Abbreviations

Verse

Poems Generally Attributed to Dorset

Poems of Doubtful Authorship

Documents

Contents