John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury

1600/1–1665

Introduction

Microcosmography

John Earle, or Earles (as he himself invariably spelt his name), was a distinguished cleric and man of letters who is remembered today chiefly for one work: namely, his influential book of characters, Microcosmography. By remarkable good fortune, a manuscript of this work entirely in the author's own hand is still preserved (*EaJ 71). Sometimes cited as the Bright MS, it is Earle's own fair copy of fifty-one characters, prepared before, although not directly used for, the first published edition of 1628. That edition comprises a total of fifty-four characters and includes revisions which, as Darwin has argued (pp. 279-81), indicate that Earle himself supervised the printed text. This was also true of the two further editions in 1628, as well as the edition of 1629 in which Earle increased the number of characters to seventy-seven, and probably the reprint of 1633 which contains yet another character. When occasional changes were made in these editions, Darwin notes, they must have been made by Earle himself, when he decided that he preferred an earlier idea [i.e. in the Bright Manuscript] after all.

Although conceivably prepared by Earle for his own use sometime after the composition of the work (? in the summer of 1625), the Bright MS might instead represent, at an early stage, the collection which he was reluctantly induced to assemble for the press to counteract the dispersal of corrupt transcripts of Microcosmography. According to the publisher of the first edition, Edward Blount (in To the Reader), the author left his characters lapt up in loose sheets, as soon as his fancy was delivered of them, written especially for his private recreation, to pass away the time in the country, and by the forcible request of friends drawn from him. Yet, Blount continues, passing severally from hand to hand, in written copies, the characters grew at length to be a pretty number in a little volume: and among so many sundry dispersed transcripts, some very imperfect and surreptitious had like to have passed the press, if the author had not used speedy means of prevention; when, perceiving the hazard he ran to be wronged, was unwillingly willing to let them pass as now they appear to the world (Bliss, p. xix).

Indeed, several examples of these generally imperfect…written copies and sundry dispersed transcripts of Microcosmography have survived, containing between thirteen and sixty-three characters each, as well as manuscripts containing extracts from the work (EaJ 71-83.5). They include at least two manuscripts comprising a pretty number in a little volume (i.e. the Durham duodecimo manuscript (EaJ 76) and the Crewe-Milnes octavo manuscript (EaJ 83)). While none of these transcripts compares in importance with the Bright Manuscript and editions of 1628-33, they are of great interest for the light they throw on the evolution of the work, on its manuscript circulation before 1628 (even though some of the extant texts were evidently transcribed into miscellanies at a later date from earlier texts), and on its dating (two manuscripts are specifically dated April 1627 and 14 December 1627). One of the transcripts (EaJ 72) can even be linked to specific members of Earle's immediate circle, for the subscription has been identified by Colum Hayward as being in the hand of John Newdegate (later Newdigate) of Trinity College, Oxford, who was a close friend and correspondent of Gilbert (later Archbishop) Sheldon, himself a good friend of Earle. In the 1620s Sheldon regularly sent Newdegate copies of literary works from Oxford (see his correspondence among the Newdegate Papers in the Warwickshire Record Office). These evidently included forty-eight characters of Microcosmography, of which Newdegate had his own transcript made (i.e. EaJ 72), this being, he notes, so many of M^r Erles caracters as were bestowed vpon me by M^r G[ilbert] S[heldon]. April 1627.

Letters

The authenticity of the autograph Bright Manuscript can be verified by comparison with a relatively few other surviving examples of Earle's hand. Chief among them are his letters. In addition to his dedicatory epistle to Eikon Basilike (EaJ 69-70), some fourteen original letters by Earle are known to survive in recent times, as well as others that preserve the texts in early copies. These letters are all given entries in CELM (EaJ 87-109).

Earle's letters, which throw considerable light on his life, character and relations with his friends and contemporaries, must be but a minute portion of his original correspondence. There survives, for instance, none of the many letters he wrote to his wife both during the nine years of his exile away from her and during the periods of his journeying even after she had joined him on the continent in 1655. (Sir Edward Nicholas referred on 4/14 September 1658, for instance, to Earle's wife's being much afflicted that she hath not heard from him this sevenight: Bodleian, MS Clarendon 58, f. 279v).

Even more important is the loss of most of his correspondence with members of the intellectual circle to which he belonged during his Oxford days in the 1620s and 1630s. Earle was, in particular, a very prominent member of what may be called the Great Tew Circle: that is, the group of guests regularly invited after 1630 by Lucius Cary (1610-43), second Viscount Falkland, to his estate at Great Tew and Burford Priory in Oxfordshire, which, according to Aubrey, was like a Colledge, full of learned men (Brief Lives, ed. Andrew Clark (Oxford, 1898), I, 151). The guests apparently included such notables as Edward Hyde, later Earl of Clarendon, Thomas Hobbes, Gilbert (later Archbishop) Sheldon, George Sandys, Edmund Waller, George (later Bishop) Morley, Henry Hammond, William Chillingworth and, probably, Sidney Godolphin. For a study of this circle, see Joseph Colum Hayward, The Mores of Great Tew: Literary, Philosophical and Political Idealism in Falkland's Circle (unpub. Ph.D. dissertation, Trinity College, Cambridge, 1982 [Cambridge University Library, Ph.D. 12243]). Only a very few of Earle's letters to such old friends from this circle as Clarendon and Sheldon survive.

The loss of most of his letters to Clarendon, with whom he engaged in an intimate and affectionate correspondence for twenty-five years, is especially regrettable, although light is shed on their exchanges by a few of Clarendon's letters to Earle, written in 1647. These chance to survive in retained copies by Clarendon's secretary, William Edgeman, and are now preserved in the Bodleian (Nos 2396, 2409, 2442, 2466, 2554 and 2674 in MS Clarendon 29, ff. 45r-v, 59, 100r-1v, 147r-8v, and MS Clarendon 30/2, f. 212r). Some of these are edited in Bliss-Irwin, pp. 318-25 and are cited in Darwin, passim. Among other things, it is curious to find Clarendon, who was not the most accomplished or elegant of penmen, remarking on the handwriting in Earle's letters: I haue not thought any one halfe long enough, nor troublesome; otherwise then…under y^e notion of y^e vile Character, w^ch. is almost [a] Cypher w^th. out a Key (MS Clarendon 29, f. 45r). Another letter to Earle, written towards the end of his life, survives in the original rough draft by Sheldon who, as Archbishop of Canterbury, strongly exhorted Earle on 23 January 1664/5 to accept the King's choice for an ecclesiastical appointment (Bodleian, MS Add. c. 305, f. 335v), while the retained copy of Richard Baxter's letter of complaint to Earle, on 12 June 1662 — which prompted Earle's letter to him (EaJ 000) — is still preserved among the Baxter Letters (Vol. I, ff. 98r-9v) in Dr Williams's Library.

Documents

Examples of Earle's signature alone are found in various other academic and ecclesiastical records. His earliest signature, barely distinguishable as his, is that of John Earle in the Oxford University subscription register, when he matriculated at Christ Church in 1619 (*EaJ 110). He was subsequently accepted as a Fellow of Merton College, but that college's records do not appear to include any entries in his own hand. After his return to England at the Restoration in 1660, and during his last few years of ecclesiastical eminence (he became Dean of Westminster in 1660 and was consecrated a bishop in 1662), he signed innumerable documents, notably in response to petitions for benefices from Royalist churchmen who had suffered at the hands of Parliament. In the first three months alone, notes Darwin (p. 194), Earle himself signed over fifty certificates of loyalty and orthodoxy, often adding in his own hand a note which showed how conscientiously he examined the petitions and any other relevant evidence. These certificates and docketed petitions are preserved among the State papers in the National Archives, Kew (chiefly in SP 29/1, 4-8, 10-12 passim; SP 29/58/61.II; and SP 29/69/27).

It may be added that these and other examples should be distinguished from documents signed by another John Earle (sic), who was a Norfolk man admitted to Lincoln's Inn on 30 January 1646/7. This Earle wrote letters on 26 February 1651/2 to John Hobart (Bodleian, MS Tanner 55, ff. 151-2v) and to Hatton Rich on 18 September 1664 (British Library, Egerton MS 2649, ff. 106-7v) and he signed (on every page) his will on 18 May 1666 (Bodleian, MS Top. Middlesex b. 3, ff. 39-47v).

Earle's Books and Personal Papers

On his deathbed, Bishop Earle made his wife, Bridget (née Dixey), his sole beneficiary (I give my wife all: EaJ 112). She thus presumably inherited Earle's library. Of this only one volume apparently signed by him on p. 50 (unless by another John Earle) has been recorded in modern times: i.e. a printed exemplum of John Bodenham's Bel-vedere or The Garden of the Muses (London, 1600), sold at Parke Bernet Galleries, New York, 23 April 1946 (Frank Hogan sale), lot 10. Otherwise no trace of Earle's library is currently known, not even in Salisbury Cathedral Library, where he might otherwise have been expected to leave it.

His widow also received his papers — with, it seems, unfortunate results. Writing to Thomas Hearne on 13 September 1705, Thomas Smith relates the fate of the most ambitious of Earle's unpublished works, his Latine translation of Hookers bookes of Ecclesiastical Polity, w^ch was his entertainm^t, during part of his exile, at Cologne (original letter by Smith in Bodleian, MS Smith 62, pp. 129-32; his retained copy MS Smith 127, pp. 87-8). The manuscript of this work, he notes, was utterly destroyed by prodigious heedlesnes and carelessnes: for it being written in Loose papers, onely pinned together, and put into a trunke unlocked after his death, and being looked upon as refuse and wast paper, the servants lighted their fire with them, or else put them under their bread and their pyes. When the second Earl of Clarendon visited Earle's widow about a year after the B^ps death, at the request of his father, Earle's old friend, intending to receive them from her handes, he saw only severall scattered pieces, not following in order, the number of pages being greatly interrupted, that had not then undergone the same fate with the rest. Even these pieces have since disappeared — so little hope may be entertained for the survival of any other of Earle's papers left in her custody. She herself lived on at Stratford-sub-Castra, near Salisbury, until her death on 21 February 1695/6, apparently leaving the portrait of her husband which is now in the National Portrait Gallery to her niece, Charity Duke (née Thompson, d.1719): see Darwin, pp. 203-6, 241-5.

The Verse Canon

It is certain that Earle's extant works represent only a part — albeit, perhaps the greater part — of his original literary output. Anthony Wood notes that Earle's younger years (at Oxford) were adorned with Oratory, Poetry, and witty fancies and that while he continued in the University, several copies of his ingenuity and poetry were greedily gathered up (Athenae Oxonienses (London, 1691-2), II, 251). Clarendon reports that he was considered an excellent poet both in Latin, Greek and English, although, as with so many other writers of his time who entered the clergy, he developed an austerity to those sallies of his youth and suppressed them (Clarendon, Account of his own Life (Oxford, 1759), p. 26, quoted in Bliss, p. 219). Of Earle's English verse, no more than six poems can now be assigned to him — not all, however, with equal confidence: for instance, the elegy on Pembroke (EaJ 44-59) could well be by Jasper Mayne, and doubts have also arisen about the authorship of In Cladem Rhenensem (EaJ 39-40.5). All of these poems are represented in contemporary manuscript texts recorded in the entries in CELM (EaJ 1-59).

A few other poems are occasionally, and erroneously, attributed to Earle. For instance:

Donne's The baite (Come live with mee, and bee my love), in Bodleian, MS Ashmole 47, ff. 100v-1r.
William Strode's I saw faire Cloris walke alone, in British Library, Add. MS 15227, f. 4r.
On the Duke of Buckinghams gallerye (View the long gallery laid with maps and say), ascribed to Earle, of Merton College in Bodleian, MS Ashmole 47, f. 70r, but also found in various other manuscripts usually ascribed to Dr William Lewis (1591/2-1667), Lord Chancellor Francis Bacon's chaplain.

Of Earle's Latin poems, only six are known. Three of them — his Hortus Mertonensis (written c.1620-32), Satyra Itineraria (written c.1625) and Ode ad B[en] J[onson] (written c.1631) — are represented in the entries in CELM (EaJ 60-8). The other three are his contributions to occasional Oxford gratulatory publications: namely,

(i) Congerite fasces struite lignorum pyras in Carolus redux (1623), sig. D3v-4. Reprinted with the title Carolus, Walliae Princeps, ex Hispania Redux Anno 1623 in Musarum Anglicanarum analecta (Oxford, 1699), II, 298-300.
(ii) Magne Puer magni proles Augusta Parentis in Britanniae natalis (1630), sig. H1r-H2v.
(iii) Ad Ioannem Cirenbergivm Dantiscanum Virum Clarissimum, Ode (Foecunda Dantiscum bonis) in Ad magnificvm…Dominvm Iohannem Cirenbergivm…carmen honorarivm (1631), pp. 14-17.

Of Earle's Greek verse, no example at all is known.

In virtually every case, extant manuscript texts of his verses occur in miscellanies associated with Oxford University — either directly so or via the familiar route of transmission through other student circles at Cambridge or the Inns of Court. One of the texts — an apparently unique copy of a mock elegy on Lord Falkland's brother, Lorenzo Cary, written in 1634 (EaJ 38) — occurs in a miscellany (Bodleian, MS Malone 13, pp. 29-30) which could well have been associated with the Great Tew circle. Besides the unlikelihood of this particular poem's having circulation outside this Circle, the manuscript volume includes a number of poems by Sidney Godolphin, Edmund Waller, and Falkland himself.

Another poem by Earle, the celebrated Hortus Mertonensis, occurs in a Christ Church miscellany owned by another member of the Circle: his friend George Morley (EaJ 65).

Yet another Latin poem, the lengthy and lively Satyra Itineraria, describing a journey to York probably undertaken in the summer of 1625, is found in two miscellanies (EaJ 67-8), but the erstwhile existence of other texts is clearly recorded elsewhere. Earle's former friend and correspondent William Sancroft, who was an avid collector of verse, took pains in 1675 to find a perfect text of this poem. In a letter to Sancroft which the recipient endorsed …D^r Earle Iter Bor. MS, Dr Matthew Smallwood (1611/12-83), Dean of Lichfield, wrote on 18 August 1675: Now as to y^r other comands, that concerne that precious MS, the excellent Bps Όδοιπορικόν you may be confident it shall be with all religion restor'd to you; but I brought it downe with me last time before this that I come from London, with purpose to compare it with another Copy w^ch I hope a Freind of mine in cheshire has whom I have not seene yet, but some years agoe he show'd mee, by w^ch I beleive divers defects and errors in y^r copy, may be supplyd. I doe for my owne part remember in one place two whole verses left out, sub ipso initio, & some words mistaken w^ch you will finde corrected in y^r owne Copy (by myselfe) when it is returned to you, w^ch if you dare advertise it, shall be done by the next Post after your orders, though for my part I would rather present it with my owne hands, then hazard a thing of that worth, so vncertainly (Bodleian, MS Tanner 42, ff. 173r-4v). On 20 November in the same year, Smallwood again assured Sancroft: S^r. The Iter Boreale is a Sacred Deposition, & shall bee honestly restord very suddenly (MS Tanner 42, ff. 202r-3v). However, no copy of the poem is known to survive among Sancroft's papers (preserved chiefly in the Bodleian and Emmanuel College, Cambridge), nor is the fate of Smallwood's other copy known. Sancroft may conceivably have intended to submit the poem for inclusion in a collection of Latin verse with which, at about this time, he was assisting his old friend William Dillingham — namely, Poëmata (London, 1678) (see Sancroft's letters in the British Library, Sloane MS 1710, ff. 204-16v). However (assuming he eventually received Smallwood's text) he excluded the poem, perhaps because of its length. Thus the poem has remained unpublished to this day.

Lost Prose Works

What may be the most important of Earle's lost prose works is mentioned by Clarendon in a letter to Earle on 16 March 1646/7: I would desire you (at your leasure) to send mee y^e discourse of your owne w^ch you read to mee at dartmouth, in y^e end of your contemplacons upon y^e Proverbes, in memory of my L^d Falkland, of whom, in its place I intend to speake largely (Bodleian, MS Clarendon 29, f. 148r). Nothing more is known of Earle's Contemplations upon the Proverbs; but he responded to Clarendon's request by sending him the appended Discourse on Lord Falkland, which Clarendon later described, in a letter of 14 October 1647, as Earle's most elegant and political commemoration of him, one which threatened to inspire Clarendon to expatiate at undue length on Falkland in his History of the Rebellion (Bodleian, MS Clarendon 30/2, f. 212v: quoted and discussed in Darwin, pp. 102-3, 119-20). Although no text of this discourse is known, its effect is probably felt, as Darwin points out, in the succinct, generous and majestic tribute which Clarendon actually did pay Falkland in the final version of his History (see W. Dunn Macray's edition (Oxford, 1888), III, Book vii, paragraphs 217-34).

Yet another lost prose work is the translation of the Prayer Book into Latin which, at the request of his fellow bishops, Earle prepared together with John Pearson in 1662-4 and which he then revised with John Dolben in 1664-5 (see Darwin, pp. 197-8, 228-9). The reported loss of another of Earle's major Latin translations, however, may to a large extent be obviated. The destruction of the original manuscript of his prodigious translation into Latin of Hooker's Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, a translation on which he was engaged from about 1654 until probably 1664 and which was intended to bring the supreme defence of the Anglican Church within the grasp of the whole of educated Europe, has been described above. It is not clear whether or not Earle succeeded in translating all eight books of the Polity; but it is agreeable to report that a contemporary manuscript copy of his translation up to the end of Book V was discovered as recently as 1975 (EaJ 85).

One other major Latin translation by Earle — that of the Eikon Basilike, attributed to Charles I — was published in 1649, the year of the King's martyrdom. The edition included a formal dedicatory epistle to Charles II (reprinted in Bliss, pp. 233-6), but contemporary copies of what is likely to have been the original, more succinct, English version — that actually submitted for the King's perusal — are preserved among the papers of two of Earle's friends and correspondents, Clarendon and Sir Edward Nicholas (EaJ 69-70).

Sermons and Orations

An autograph copy of the Latin oration which Earle delivered on 11 April 1632 at the end of his term as a Proctor of Oxford University has been discovered by Mrs Darwin among the Public Records (*EaJ 84). Earle, who, according to Clarendon, was a most eloquent and powerful preacher (Life, quoted in Bliss, p. 219), also preached innumerable sermons, none of which is known to have been published or to survive in any form. Brief accounts of eight of them, preached in Sir Richard Browne's chapel in Paris between 1649 and the early part of 1651/2, and of one more preached in Westminster Abbey on Christmas Day, 1660, are, however, given in John Evelyn's Diary: see the edition by E.S. de Beer, 6 vols (Oxford, 1955), II, 562; III, 37-9, 47, 49, 51, 54, 265; cited in Darwin, pp. 133, 143-9. Evelyn's notes on four of these sermons, as well as two others by Earle, preached at Paris in 1651, also occur in Christ Church, Oxford (Evelyn MS 49, pp. 34-5, 38-40, 43-4, 46-8 [see *EvJ 169]). Evelyn observes of one of Earle's sermons I hardly in my whole life heard a more excellent discourse and of another The Discourse was so passionate, that few could abstaine from teares.

Miscellaneous

Various other documents and materials relating to Earle are to be found in academic, ecclesiastical and public records, as well as accounts of him in the writings of his contemporaries. For a number of references, see Darwin, passim. Earle's register as Bishop of Worcester in 1662-3, for instance — comprising four pages in a scribal hand recording his official acts and institutions — is now in the Worcestershire Record Office (b716.093 BA 2648/10(iii) and pp. 24-7). A brief biographical notice of Earle by White Kennett (1660-1728), Bishop of Peterborough, is in the British Library (Lansdowne MS 986, ff. 38r-9r). A set of silver gilt Communion Plate which Earle bought in Cologne and later presented to the parish church in Bishopstone, Wiltshire, is still preserved there (see Darwin, pp. 159-60, 223-4).

Earle's most important editor hitherto remains Philip Bliss, whose edition of Microcosmography appeared in 1811. Bliss's own heavily annotated exemplum of his edition, with related notes and correspondence (including his transcript of a petitionary letter by Earle's widow, Bridget, to Archbishop Sheldon, on 24 April 1669) is preserved in the Bodleian (MSS Eng. misc. e. 112-13). Another annotated exemplum of Microcosmography, in S.J. Irwin's edition of 1897, is that copiously marked up by George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor, in the Bodleian (Thorn-Drury f. 26).

Jane Darwin's unpublished biographical study of Earle, which contains a large amount of information not gathered elsewhere, is an invaluable scholarly aid. In her bibliography (pp. 278-93), Mrs Darwin makes reference to a number of the manuscript texts given entries in CELM — chiefly those in the Bodleian, British Library and the National Archives, Kew — as does Colum Hayward in his thesis cited above, pp. 308-10.

Abbreviations

Bliss: John Earle, Microcosmography, ed. Philip Bliss (London, 1811).
Bliss-Irwin: John Earle, Microcosmography, ed. Philip Bliss, reprinted with a preface and supplementary appendix by S.T. Irwin (Bristol and London, 1897).
Darwin: Jane S. Darwin, The Life and Works of John Earle (unpub. B. Litt. thesis, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, 1963) [Bodleian, MS B. Litt. d. 950].

Verse

English Poems

An Elegie upon Master Francis Beaumont ('Beaumont lies here, and where now shall wee have')

First published in Poems by Francis Beaumont (London, 1640), sig. K1^r-K2^r. Beaumont and Fletcher, Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Bliss, pp. 229-32.

EaJ 1

Copy, headed on y^e death of M^r. ffrancis Beaumont.

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

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

c.1630s-40s

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 47 ff. 44v-5r)

EaJ 2

Copy of an abridged version, ascribed to Jo: Earles.

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

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

c.1630s-40s

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

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

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 97 pp. 55-6)

EaJ 3

Copy, headed Vpon M^r Francis Beamont.

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

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

Mid-late 17th century

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

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

Bradford Archives (32D86/34 pp. 41-2)

EaJ 4

Copy.

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

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

c.late 1630s

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

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

Corpus Christi College, Oxford (MS 328 ff. 66v-7v)

EaJ 5

Copy, headed Vpon the death of Beaumont.

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

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

c.1630s

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

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 100 through 199 (MS V.a.125 Part II, ff. 17r-18v)

EaJ 6

Copy, ascribed to John Earle.

A verse miscellany.

c.1674

Owned by Henry Bracegirdle, of Merton College, Oxford, and in 1674 by one Hugh Massey.

King's College, Cambridge (Hayward Collection, H. 11. 13 ff. [28v-9r])

EaJ 6.5

Copy, headed Vpon the Death of Bea^ument by J Earles.

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

c.1630s

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

London Metropolitan Archives (ACC/1360/528 ff. [11r-12v rev.])

EaJ 7

Copy.

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

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

c.1634

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

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

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1 through 239 (MS 239/27 pp. 396-8)

EaJ 8

Copy.

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

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

c.1638-42

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

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

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1000 through end (MS 1083/17 pp. 1-3)

An Elegie, Upon the death of Sir John Burrowes, Slaine at the Isle of Ree ('Oh wound us not with this sad tale, forbear')

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 12-16. Extract in Bliss, pp. 225-6. Edited in James Doelman, John Earle's Funeral Elegy on Sir John Burroughs, English Literary Renaissance, 41/3 (Autumn 2011), 485-502 (pp. 499-502).

EaJ 9

Copy, headed An Elegy on y^e death of S^r Iohn Burrowes: I: E:.

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

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

c.1630s

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

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

Aberdeen University Library (MS 29 pp. 30-4)

EaJ 10

Copy, headed on y^e deplored death of S^r John Burrows, whoe was slaine in y^e Ile of Ree in y^e night w^th a Bullet and ascribed in an endorsement to Joh: Earles Merton: coll: Ox.

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

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

c.1630s-40s

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 47 ff. 97v-100r)

EaJ 11

Copy, headed A ffunerall Elegie vpon y^e death of y^e Noble valiant & experienced Souldier S^r John Borroughs slaine before y^e fort of S^t Martin in The Isle of Ree w^th a Muskett bullet as he was veiwinge y^e worke in the night.

A folio verse miscellany, comprising nearly 250 poems, in five hands, vii + 135 leaves (with a modern index), in contemporary calf gilt (rebacked), with remains of clasps.

Including 16 poems (plus second copies of two) by Carew, 19 poems by or attributed to Herrick (and second copies of six of them), 23 poems (plus second copies of two and four of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, 18 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and eleven poems by Waller.

c.1630s-40s

Inscribed on a flyleaf Peeter Daniell and his initials stamped on both covers. Later scribbling including the names Thomas Gardinor, James Leigh and Pettrus Romell. Owned in 1780 by one A. B. when it was given to Thomas Percy (1768-1808), later Bishop of Dromore. Sotheby's, 29 April 1884 (Percy sale), lot 1. Acquired from Quaritch, 1957.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Daniell MS: CwT Δ 5, HeR Δ 2, RnT Δ 1, StW Δ 5, WaE Δ 9. Briefly discussed in Margaret Crum, An Unpublished Fragment of Verse by Herrick, RES, NS 11 (1960), 186-9. A facsimile of f. 22v in Marcy L. North, Amateur Compilers, Scribal Labour, and the Contents of Early Modern Poetic Miscellanies, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 106). Betagraphs of the watermark in f. 65 in Ted-Larry Pebworth, Towards a Taxonomy of Watermarks, in Puzzles in Paper: Concepts in Historical Watermarks, ed. Daniel W. Mosser, Michael Saffle and Ernest W. Sullivan, II (London, 2000), pp. 229-42 (p. 241).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 50 ff. 56v-8r)

EaJ 12

Copy, headed On the death of S^r John Bourroughs killd att the Ile of Ree, by a bullet from the ffort, in the night, ascribed to John Earles.

Edited from this MS in Doelman.

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

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

c.1630s-40s

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

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 97 pp. 7-9)

EaJ 13

Copy, ascribed to M^r Earles.

An octavo verse miscellany, compiled by the writer Robert Codrington (1602-65) of Magdalen College, Oxford, 360 pages (including stubs of extracted leaves on pp. 297-328 and blanks, plus index), in contemporary calf.

Including 16 poems by Carew and 13 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode. Written in three hands: i.e. A (Codrington's hand, including his own poems) on pp. 1-283, 349-55; B on pp. 284-9; and C on pp. 289-348, 356-60; dated (pp. 1-22) Anno Dom: 1638 and The 30^th of May. 1638.

c.1638

Acquired from Blackwell's, 1962.

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

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, f through end (MS Eng. poet. f. 27 pp. 160-5)

EaJ 14

Copy, headed An Elegye upon y^e Death of S^r John Burrowes.

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

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

c.1634-43

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

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 21 ff. 9r-11r)

EaJ 15

Copy of part of the poem, headed J. Earles on S^r John Burroughs killd by a bullet at Reez and beginning Why did wee thus expose the; whats now all.

Edited from this MS in Bliss.

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, in several hands, written from both ends, 84 leaves, in contemporary calf.

Probably compiled principally by an Oxford University man.

c.1630s-40s

Names inscribed on rear flyleaf and paste-down Elizabeth hosman and William Blois.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 100 through 149 (MS Rawl. poet. 142 f. 43r)

EaJ 16

Copy.

A folio verse miscellany, including eleven poems by Carew, in a single professional secretary hand (adopting a different style on ff. 176r-8r), ii + 231 leaves (including numerous blanks), the date 1633 occurring on f. 55r.

c.1630s

The name Edward Michell inscribed later inside the rear cover. Afterwards owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Michell MS: CwT Δ 8. Briefly discussed (in connection with the poem Shall I die? attributed to Shakespeare) by Gary Taylor in The Sunday Times (24 November 1985, pp. 1, 3, with a facsimile example) and by Peter Beal in TLS (3 January 1986, p. 13); and see also letters on 24 January 1986, pp. 87-8.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199 (MS Rawl. poet. 160 ff. 22r-3r)

EaJ 17

Copy, headed On the death of S^r John Burrowes.

A small quarto verse miscellany, in a single hand, 98 pages (plus some blanks), in reversed calf (rebacked).

c.1620s-30s

Inscribed (f. i^r) by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), the date 1741 added.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199 (MS Rawl. poet. 199 pp. 58-9)

EaJ 18

Copy, headed On the death of S^r John Burghus.

A quarto verse miscellany, predominantly in a single hand, vi + 98 leaves, in calf.

Probably compiled by a member of New College, Oxford.

c.1630s

Some tipped-in notes by Richard Rawlinson.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 200 through end (MS Rawl. poet. 206 pp. 68-71)

EaJ 19

Copy, headed vpon the death of s^r John Boroughe 1628.

A folio verse miscellany, 215 leaves (plus a few blanks), in modern calf gilt.

Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 17 of the Hopkinson MSS.

c.1670

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

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, pp. 295-6.

Bradford Archives (32D86/17 ff. 97v-9r)

EaJ 20

Copy, headed An Elegie upon the Death of S^r John Burrowes who was slaine by an unfortunate bullet at the seidge of the Fort in the Isle of Ree 1627.

An octavo verse miscellany, entitled Juvenilia Ludicra, in a single small mixed hand, 103 leaves, all now window mounted in a quarto volume, in 19th-century half morocco.

Probably compiled by a Cambridge University man.

c.1630s

Inscribed in engrossed lettering (f. 1r) E Libris Richard Sutclif. Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1830-84), merchant and author. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 194.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 15000 through 16999 (Add. MS 15227 ff. 25r-6v)

EaJ 21

Copy, headed On the death of S^r John Burroughs knight.

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

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

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

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

c.1633 [-late 17th century]

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

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

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

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 30000 through 34999 (Add. MS 30982 ff. 83v-5v)

EaJ 22

Copy, headed An Elegy on y^e death of S^r John Burgh, slayne at the Ile of Rey.

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

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

c.1636

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

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

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 30000 through 34999 (Add. MS 33998 ff. 86r-7v)

EaJ 23

Copy.

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

c.1630s-40s

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 923 ff. 35r-7r)

EaJ 24

Copy of the first half of the poem, headed On the death of S^r John Buroughs, incomplete.

A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, in Latin and English, one cursive hand predominating, 69 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half black crushed morocco.

c.1630s

Inscribed (f. 62r) Nathaniel Heighmore: i.e. presumably Nathaniel Highmore (1613-85), chemical physician and anatomist; John Sacheverell his hand and pen Amen; and John Sacheverell the Author of this....

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 542 ff. 26r-7r)

EaJ 25

Copy.

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

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

c.early 1630s

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

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

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1792 ff. 13r-16r)

EaJ 26

Copy.

c.late 1630s

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

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

Corpus Christi College, Oxford (MS 328 ff. 65v-6v)

EaJ 27

Copy, headed On S^r John Burrows.

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

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

c.late 1630s [-1789]

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

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

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 1 through 99 (MS V.a.97 pp. 87-90)

EaJ 28

Copy, headed An Elegie on the deathof S^r John Burrowes slayne in the Iland of Rez, 1627, imperfect at the end.

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

c.late 1620s

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

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

Harvard University, MS Eng 966.7 (MS Eng 966.7 ff. 101v-2v)

EaJ 28.5

Copy.

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

c.1630s

London Metropolitan Archives (ACC/1360/528 ff. [40r-2r])

EaJ 29

Copy, headed An Elegie vpon the death of S^r John Burrowes.

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

c.1630s

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

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 12443 A Part II, pp. 145-53)

EaJ 30

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

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

c.1634

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1 through 239 (MS 239/27 pp. 381-4)

EaJ 31

Copy, ascribed to J. E..

A quarto verse miscellany, including ten poems by Henry King, perhaps almost entirely written over a period in a single secretary hand with slightly varying styles, 54 leaves, in limp vellum.

c.1636-40s

The name of the possible compiler John Pike inscribed on f. 1r: i.e. possibly a member of the Pike family of Cambridge (one John Pike (d.1677) matriculating at Peterhouse in 1662).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Pike MS: KiH Δ 12. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6), pp. 143-7.

St John's College, Cambridge (MS S. 32 (James 423) ff. 23r-4r)

EaJ 32

Copy, headed An Elegy vpon y^e Death of S_r John Burrows.

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

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

c.1630s

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

St John's College, Cambridge (MS U. 26 (James 548) pp. 120-5)

EaJ 33

Copy, headed An Elegy on the death of S^r. John Burrowe.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including 24 poems by Strode, in a single mixed hand, associated with Oxford, 56 leaves (out of an original eight gatherings), in contemporary calf.

c.1630s

Inscriptions inside the covers including the name Phil. Mu (or Mer.). Later in the library of John Sparrow (1906-92), literary scholar and book collector. Acquired in 1969 by Dr Bent Juel-Jensen (1922-2006), Oxford physician and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Sparrow MS: StW Δ 31.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (Juel-Jensen E 7 [item 5] ff. 14r-16v)

EaJ 33.5

Copy, headed On the death of s^r John Burroughes slaine in the night at y^e Ile Rhees by a Musket bullet from y^e fort.

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

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

Mid-17th century

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

Bangor University (MS 422 pp. 34-7)

EaJ 34

Copy, ascribed to John Earles.

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

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

c.1636-41

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

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

Rosemary Williams (Stoughton MS pp. 103-10)

EaJ 35

Copy.

A small quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat italic hand, with rubrication, 144 pages (plus later index).

Including twelve poems by Carew, nine poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Randolph and nineteen (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, the miscellany associated with Oxford University and possibly related to Bodleian MS Malone 21, the latest date occuring in a poem on pp. 63-6 Vpon y^e great Frost 1634.

c.1635

Inscribed inside the front cover by a later owner: April 1853 Read to Lit[erary] & Philosophical] Soc[iet]y of L[iver]pool. Acquired in 1940 by Edwin Wolf II (1911-91), Philadelphia librarian.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Wolf MS: CwT Δ 37; RnT Δ 12; StW Δ 28.

The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania ([Wolf MS] pp. 19-25)

EaJ 36

Copy.

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

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

c.1639 [-c.1728]

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

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

Yale, Osborn MS b 150 through Osborn MS b 199 (Osborn MS b 197 pp. 40-3)

EaJ 37

Copy, headed On y^e death of S^r John Burroughes at y^e Isle of Ree killed in y^e night by A Musket-bullet fro y^e ffort and subscribed John Earles.

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

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

c.1650

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

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

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 200 pp. 248-52)

EaJ 37.5

Copy.

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

c.late 1630s

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

A microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7698.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 356 pp. 17-21)

An Epitaph on the Living S^r. Lorenza Carew ('Here lies Lorenza, my dear brother')

First published in K. Weber, Lucius Cary, Second Viscount Falkland (New York, 1940), pp. 42-5. Edited in Colum Hayward, John Earles (privately printed booklet, London College of Printing, 1982-3), pp. 6-7.

EaJ 38

Copy of a mock epitaph, subscribed Earles.

Printed from this MS in Weber and in Hayward.

A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands, ii + 318 pages (pp. 103-290 largely blank).

Including many poems by Sidney Godolphin (1610-43), poet and courtier, and associated with the circle of Lucius Cary (1609/10-1643), second Viscount Falkland, politician and author, of Great Tew, Oxfordshire.

c.late 1630s-early 1640s

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 13 pp. 29-30)

EaJ 38.5

Copy, untitled.

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 ff. 20v-1r)

In Cladem Rhenensem ('Thus sick men feare their Cure, and startle move')

Unpublished. Discussed, and Earle's authorship rejected, in James Doelman, John Earle's Funeral Elegy on Sir John Burroughs, English Literary Renaissance, 41/3 (Autumn 2011), 485-502 (pp. 496-7).

EaJ 39

Copy, subscribed m^r Earles. Merton.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, in generally small mixed hands, ii + 40 leaves, in 19th-century embossed black leather.

c.1640s

Later owned by Thomas Rodd (1796-1849), bookseller; by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector; and by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 21 August 1858 (Bliss sale), lot 190.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999 (Add. MS 22602 ff. 1r-2v)

EaJ 40

Copy on two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed Verses vpon the slaughter at the Isle of Rheis, bound in a miscellany of poems by John Donne and others.

A folio verse miscellany, including 35 poems by Donne, in several hands, written from both ends, 30 leaves (plus stubs of ten extracted leaves), damp-stained, in modern boards.

The text related to the Skipwith MS (DnJ Δ 21).

c.1620-33

Inscribed name (f. 8r) of Edward Smyth and (along margin of f. 11v) in M^r Templers. Among the collections of John Patrick (1632-95), religious controversialist.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Edward Smyth MS: DnJ Δ 45.

Cambridge University Library, Additional MSS 1 through 4999 (MS Add. 29 ff. 34r-5r)

EaJ 40.5

Copy of a version.

Edited from this MS in online Early Stuart Libels.

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

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

c.1634

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1 through 239 (MS 239/27 pp. 14-17)

On the Death of Toby Mathew, Archbishop of York. 29 March 1628 ('And why should I not share my tears and be')

Unpublished.

EaJ 41

Copy, ascribed to Jo: Earles.

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

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

c.1630s-40s

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

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 97 pp. 50-3)

EaJ 42

Copy.

c.late 1630s

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

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

Corpus Christi College, Oxford (MS 328 ff. 67v-9r)

EaJ 43

Copy.

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

c.1640

Yale, Osborn MS b 50 through Osborn MS b 99 (Osborn MS b 62 pp. 81-5)

On the Earle of Pembroke's Death ('Did not my sorrows sighd into a verse')

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 40-2. Extract in Bliss, pp. 227-8. Possibly written by Jasper Mayne (1604-72).

EaJ 44

Copy.

c.1638

Acquired from Blackwell's, 1962.

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

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, f through end (MS Eng. poet. f. 27 pp. 9-11)

EaJ 45

Copy of part of the poem, untitled, here beginning Come, Pembroke liues, ôh! doe not fright our ears, subscribed M^r Earles, Merton.

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, in several hands, written from both ends, 84 leaves, in contemporary calf.

Probably compiled principally by an Oxford University man.

c.1630s-40s

Names inscribed on rear flyleaf and paste-down Elizabeth hosman and William Blois.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 100 through 149 (MS Rawl. poet. 142 f. 35r)

EaJ 46

Copy, here ascribed to Cl[ement] P[aman].

A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, in two or more cursive hands, written from both ends, iv + 278 pages, in contemporary calf.

Compiled principally by one H. S., a Cambridge University man.

c.1640s-60s

This MS volume edited in Diana Julia Rose, MS Rawlinson Poetical 147: An Annotated Volume of Seventeenth-Century Cambridge Verse (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Leicester, 1992), of which a copy is in Cambridge University Library, Manuscript Department, A8f.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 100 through 149 (MS Rawl. poet. 147 pp. 151-2)

EaJ 47

Copy, headed On the death of W: Earle of P:.

A small quarto verse miscellany, in a single hand, 98 pages (plus some blanks), in reversed calf (rebacked).

c.1620s-30s

Inscribed (f. i^r) by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), the date 1741 added.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199 (MS Rawl. poet. 199 pp. 66-7)

EaJ 48

Copy, headed Vpon y^e death of y^e Earle of Pembrocke.

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

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

c.1630s[-75]

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

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

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 200 through end (MS Rawl. poet. 209 ff. 10r-11r)

EaJ 49

Copy, headed On y^e death of Will: Earle of Pembroke Ann. 1630, subscribed J. Earles.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, in generally small mixed hands, ii + 40 leaves, in 19th-century embossed black leather.

c.1640s

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999 (Add. MS 22602 ff. 20v-1v)

EaJ 50

Copy, headed on the death of the Earle of Penbrocke L^d Chanceller of Oxford.

A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, in Latin and English, one cursive hand predominating, 69 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half black crushed morocco.

c.1630s

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 542 f. 14r-v)

EaJ 50.5

Copy, headed On y^e Death of y^e Earle of Pembroke, subscribed Jasper Maine X' Ch: Oxon.

A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, predominantly in a single hand (up to f. 34v), with additions in four subsequent hands (ff. 37-50v), 50 leaves, in vellum.

Compiled for the most part by a University of Oxford man, with (f. 1r-v) a list of contents.

c.1640s

Once owned by one John Faith, and by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.

Formerly cited as Corpus Christi College, MS E.i.33.

Corpus Christi College, Oxford (MS 176 f. 3r-v)

EaJ 51

Copy, here ascribed to G. Maine.

c.late 1630s

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

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

Corpus Christi College, Oxford (MS 328 f. 52r-v)

EaJ 52

Copy, headed On y^e Earle of Pembrook, subscribed Maine.

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

c.late 1630s [-1789]

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

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 1 through 99 (MS V.a.97 pp. 167-8)

EaJ 53

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

Mid-17th century

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

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

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 100 through 199 (MS V.a.162 f. 85r-v)

EaJ 54

Copy, headed Vpon the Hearse of W^lm Ea: of Pembrooke.

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

c.1640s

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

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

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 300 through end (MS V.a.339 ff. 286v-7r)

EaJ 55

Copy.

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

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

c.1634

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1 through 239 (MS 239/27 pp. 344-5)

EaJ 56

Copy.

A quarto verse miscellany, including ten poems by Henry King, perhaps almost entirely written over a period in a single secretary hand with slightly varying styles, 54 leaves, in limp vellum.

c.1636-40s

The name of the possible compiler John Pike inscribed on f. 1r: i.e. possibly a member of the Pike family of Cambridge (one John Pike (d.1677) matriculating at Peterhouse in 1662).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Pike MS: KiH Δ 12. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6), pp. 143-7.

St John's College, Cambridge (MS S. 32 (James 423) ff. 14v-15v)

EaJ 57

Copy, headed Vpon the death of the Earle of Pembroke Lo: Steward of the Kings house who dyed 10^mo: Apr: 1630.

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

c.1630s

Formerly MS G. 2.21.

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

Trinity College, Dublin, numbers 800 through end (MS 877, [Part II] ff. 209v-11r)

EaJ 57.5

Copy, headed Vppon the death of y^e Earle of Pembroke.

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

Mid-17th century

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

Bangor University (MS 422 pp. 29-30)

EaJ 58

Copy, here ascribed to Jasper Mayne.

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

c.1636-41

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

Rosemary Williams (Stoughton MS pp. 111-14)

EaJ 59

Copy, headed In obitur Gulielmi Pembrocensis Cancellarij Oxonij. Erles^o Merton.

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

c.1640

Yale, Osborn MS b 50 through Osborn MS b 99 (Osborn MS b 62 pp. 56-8)

Latin Poems

Hortus Mertonensis ('Hortus delitiae domus politae')

First published in John Aubrey, The Natural History and Antiquities of the County of Surrey, ed. Richard Rawlinson (London, 1718-19), IV, 166-71.

EaJ 60

Copy.

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

c.1630s

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

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Douce f. 5 fols 31v-3r)

EaJ 61

Copy, untitled, with other verses, on one page of two conjugate folio leaves.

A folio composite volume of MSS, eighteen leaves, in modern cloth.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Jones 27* f. 18r)

EaJ 62

Copy, transcribed from EaJ 64, the heading and ascription to Earle deleted.

A quarto composite volume of papers, 127 pages, in contemporary marbled boards.

Comprising a transcript of MS Wood D. 9 (Fulman's notes on the writings on Oxford University by Anthony Wood) made for Rawlinson, with related correspondence.

Early 18th century

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. C. 866 pp. 109-13)

EaJ 63

Copy, on three quarto leaves. Mid-late 17th century.

A quarto composite volume of verse, in English, Latin and Greek, in various hands, ii + 174 leaves.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199 (MS Rawl. poet. 194 ff. 161r-3r)

EaJ 64

Copy in Fulman's hand, with a note Wood's hand By Joh. Earls of M^t. coll. afterwards Bp of Sarum.

A quarto volume of notes on Wood's historical writings on Oxford made by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, xv + 170 pages.

c.1675-8

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

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Wood D. 9 ff. 149r-52r)

EaJ 65

Copy.

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

c.1620-40s

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

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

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

Westminster Abbey (MS 41 ff. 93v-5r)

Ode ad B: J: ('Quin te Theatri sordibus, et magis')

First published in Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford & Percy and Evelyn Simpson, X (Oxford, 1950), 333-4.

EaJ 66

Copy, subscribed Jo: Earles.

An octavo verse miscellany, entitled Juvenilia Ludicra, in a single small mixed hand, 103 leaves, all now window mounted in a quarto volume, in 19th-century half morocco.

Probably compiled by a Cambridge University man.

c.1630s

Inscribed in engrossed lettering (f. 1r) E Libris Richard Sutclif. Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1830-84), merchant and author. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 194.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 15000 through 16999 (Add. MS 15227 ff. 44-5)

Satyra Itineraria ('Mensis erat cum cana seges per pinguia rura')

Unpublished.

EaJ 67

Copy, inscribed Jo: Earls:.

This MS recorded in The Poems of Richard Corbett, ed. J.A.W. Bennett and H.R. Trevor-Roper (Oxford, 1955), p. 118. Transcript by G. Thorn-Drury in Bodleian, Thorn-Drury e. 26 (end leaves).

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

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

c.1630s[-55]

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

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

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 100 through 199 (MS V.a.170 pp. 127-53)

EaJ 68

Copy, headed _______ Iter Boreale and ascribed to J: Earle.

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

Including thirteen poems by Strode and three of doubtful authorship.

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

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

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

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1 through 239 (MS 239/22 ff. 20r-5r)

Prose

Eikon Basilike

First published in The Hague, 1649. London, 1649. The English version of Earle's dedication first published in Eikon Basilike, ed. Edward J.L. Scott (London, 1880), pp. xxxiv-xxxvii. Reprinted in Edward Almack, A Bibliography of The King's Book or Eikon Basilike (London, 1896), pp. 138-40. The Latin version of the dedication is in Bliss, pp. 233-6.

EaJ 69

Copy of the original English version of Earle's dedicatory epistle to Charles II on two folio leaves, endorsed by Edward Hyde, later first Earl of Clarendon (1609-74), D^r. Earles translation of his owne Epistle before the K^s. booke.

A composite volume of letters and papers of the Earl of Clarendon, for February 1648/9-August 1649, 220 leaves.

Bodleian Library, Clarendon MSS (MS Clarendon 37 ff. 16r-17r)

EaJ 70

Copy of the original English version of Earle's dedicatory epistle to Charles II, on two pairs of conjugate quarto leaves.

Edited from this MS in Scott and in Almack.

A folio composite volume of papers relating to Eikon Basilike, 27 leaves.

c.1649

Among the papers of Sir Edward Nicholas (1593-1669), Secretary of State.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2547 ff. 1r-3v)

Microcosmography

First published (anonymously), comprising 54 characters and with a preface by Edward Blount, London, 1628. 77 characters in the edition of 1629. 78 characters in the edition of 1664. Edited by Philip Bliss (London, 1811).

*EaJ 71

Autograph

Autograph fair copy of 51 characters, with corrections, 174 octavo pages (with later additions, 98 leaves in all), in modern green morocco gilt.

Entitled Micro-Cosmographie or a peece of the world discouerd.

c.1627

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 83. Subsequently by F.W. Cosens (1819-89), book collector. Sotheby's, 25 July 1890 (Cosens sale), lot 121. Owned in 1901 by C.W. Holgate. Sotheby's, 31 July 1947, lot 347. Myers & Co., sale catalogue No. 350 (1947), item 201. Bequeathed to the Bodleian by E.H.W. Meyerstein (1889-1952), writer and scholar.

This MS collated in Bliss's annotated exemplum of his edition (Bodleian, MS Eng. misc. e. 112), and some of Bliss's collations printed in Bliss-Irwin (1897). The character of A shee-Puritan (pp. 115-21) edited from this MS (in an expurgated version) by Peter Lombard in Varia, The Church Times, No. 1832 (4 March 1898), p. 250.

A complete facsimile of the MS published by the Scolar Press, Menston, 1966.

Bodleian Library, Eng. misc. MSS (MS Eng. misc. f. 89)

EaJ 72

Copy of 48 characters, in a neat secretary hand, untitled, subscribed in the hand of John Newdigate The end of so many of M^r Erles caracters as were bestowed vpon me by M^r G.S. [i.e. Gilbert (later Archbishop) Sheldon] April 1627 [in M^r Erles own copie added in a different ink].

An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in several neat hands, ii + 142 leaves (ff. 111v-42v blank), in contemporary calf gilt.

Compiled in part by I. N.: i.e. John Newdegate (1600-42), of Arbury Hall, Nuneaton, Warwickshire.

c.1627-35

Formerly Long Island Historical Society MS 22, to whom it was bequeathed by Samuel Bowne Duryea. Sotheby's, 21 December 1965, lot 595.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 112 ff. 83r-102r)

EaJ 73

Copy of two characters, here entitled The comon Viccars or Singingmen in Cathederall Churches and A character of A Childe, together with (ff. 183v-4) an (anonymous) A charector of a London Scriuenor (beginning A London Scrivenor is the deerest childe of his Mother Mony...).

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

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

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

c.1620s

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

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

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 25000 through 29999 (Add. MS 25303 ff. 181v-3r)

EaJ 74

Copy of 13 characters, with no general heading, beginning with A Childe.

A quarto verse miscellany, in one or more secretary hands, with (ff. 244r-54r) a first-line index, 254 leaves, in modern half-morocco, poems on ff. 34v and 242v dated 1637.

Including 91 poems and some prose works by John Donne and fourteen poems by Thomas Carew.

c.1637

Among the collections of Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (1776-1839), first Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, of Stowe House, near Buckingham, largely derived from the collection of the antiquary Thomas Astle (1735-1803), which in turn chiefly derived from Astle's father-in-law, the Essex historian Philip Morant (1700-70) (see DnJ Δ 15). Later owned by Bertram, fourth Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878).

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as Stowe MS II: DnJ Δ 44 and Stowe MS: CwT Δ 22.

The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 962 ff. 21r-9v)

EaJ 75

Extracts from about 27 characters, headed Earle his Caracters 1645.

An octavo notebook of extracts, in a single small mixed hand, written from both ends, 165 leaves, in contemporary calf.

Compiled by one William Bright, entitled ffragmenta hic omnigena è varijs excerpta authoribus ad priuatum existunt vsum WB ex anno 1644.

c.1644-76

Inscribed also inside the lower cover Will: Bright Novemb 12^th pretiu 8^d 1645.

Cambridge University Library, Additional MSS 5000 through 6999 (MS Add. 6160 ff. 16v-17v)

EaJ 76

Copy of 46 characters, in a small predominantly italic hand, the first page inscribed in a different hand Edw. Blunt, Author, concluding (f. 32v) ffinis. December this 14^th day Anno Domini 1627, and with (f. 33r) a list of the characters in a later hand, 33 duodecimo leaves (plus 55 blanks), in contemporary brown calf (rebacked).

c.1627

Among the collections of Christopher Hunter (1675-1757), Durham antiquary and physician.

This MS described and collated in J.T. F[owler], The Durham MS of Earle's Microcosmographie, N&Q, 4th Ser. 8 (4 & 18 November, 9 & 16 December 1871), pp. 363-4, 411-12, 475-6, 508; 4th Ser. 9 (13 January 1872), 33-4. Some readings printed in Bliss-Irwin, pp. 303-15, and three characters edited in Earle, Microcosmography, ed. Alfred S. West (Cambridge, 1897), pp. 149-51.

Durham Cathedral Library (Hunter MS 130)

EaJ 77

Extracts from 29 characters, headed Blounts characters.

A quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single cursive secretary hand, with a later title-page supplied in 1832, x + 116 leaves (plus blanks), in 19th-century black leather elaborately gilt.

Inscribed (f. 1r), possibly by the compiler, Richardus Jackson 1623 and Richard Jackson his booke, who is described in a later pencil note as perhaps the brachygrapher. On ff. 113v-16r, in a later hand, is a Catalogue of y^e Books lately belonging to y^e. Rev. M^r Jackson Rect^r of Tatham.

c.1628-30s

Also inscribed (f. 1r) John Pecke. Sold by Thomas Thorpe, bookseller, in 1831-2. Among collections of James Orchard Halliwell (from 1872 Halliwell-Phillipps) (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Bought by him in 1871 from Sotheran's, London.

A 247-page transcript of this volume made c.1830 is in the Folger Shakespeare Library, MS M.b.26.

Edinburgh University Library (MS H.-P. Coll. 401 ff. 103r-4v)

EaJ 78

Copy of 45 characters, with a title-page and list of charactes.

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

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

c.1630s

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

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

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 300 through end (MS V.a.345 pp. 181-218)

EaJ 79

Copy of 35 characters, untitled.

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

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

c.1630s

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

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

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 686 ff. 155v-137v rev.)

EaJ 80

Extracts from 40 characters.

A quarto commonplace book of notes and extracts, closely written in a small mixed hand, from both ends, 146 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary limp vellum.

Compiled possibly by one Thomas Parsons, whose name is subscribed to a letter on f. 92v.

c.1630s

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 1338 ff. 53r-8r)

EaJ 81

Copy of 29 characters, headed M^r Earl's Characters.

A quarto verse miscellany, including seventeen poems by Donne and fifteen by Strode, the main part in a single hand, 334 pages (but pp. 3-4 extracted, and including a later index).

Possibly compiled by one W: H:: i.e. probably William Holgate (1618-46), of Queens' College, Cambridge, with late 17th-century additions apparently made by other members of the Holgate family, of Saffron Walden and Great Bardfield, Essex.

c.1630s [-late 17th-century]

Owned in the early 18th century by John Wale, who supplied the index on pp. 330-3. Owned before 1927 by Col. W.G. Carwardine-Probert, of Bures, Suffolk (descendant of the Holgate family).

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Holgate MS: DnJ Δ 58 and StW Δ 22. Briefly discussed in W.G.P., Verses by Francis Beaumont, TLS (15 September 1921), p. 596, and in E.K. Chambers, William Shakespeare, 2 vols (Oxford, 1930), II, 222-4. Also discussed, with facsimiles on pp. 68 and 70 of pp. 181 and 13, in Michael Roy Denbo, Editing a Renaissance Commonplace Book: The Holgate Miscellany, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, III, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2004). pp. 65-73. For facsimile pages see DnJ 2931 and ShW 25. Complete microfilm in the Essex Record Office (T/A 98).

The Pierpont Morgan Library (MA 1057 pp. 309-28)

EaJ 82

Extracts from several characters, headed Blounts Characters.

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

Mid-17th century

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

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1 through 239 (MS 239/18 pp. 8, 23-6)

EaJ 83

Copy of 45 characters, headed Characters, in three hands (A: pp. 1-66, 70-84, 89-95, 101-10; B: pp. 67-9, 96-100; C: pp. 85-8), on 110 octavo pages (plus 87 blank leaves), in contemporary stamped calf.

c.1630

Once owned by E. Almack, FSA (his bookplate); by V. Almack; by Clive Coates of Helperley, Yorkshire; and by the Crewe-Milne family(possibly from the library of Robert Monckton Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, or from that of Anthony Crewe-Milnes. Sold by Quaritch, 1 August 1989.

Estate of Dr Bent E. Juel-Jensen, Oxford ([no shelfmark])

EaJ 83.5

Copy of The character of a church Papist, subscribed by M^r Erle.

An octavo volume of transcripts of state tracts and documents in the minute hand of Robert Horn of Shropshire, two items (ff. 19-30, dated 20 January 1620/1) added by Herbert Jenks of Newhall, 104 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

c.1618-30s

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. B. 151 f. 97v)

Proctorial Oration, 11 April 1632

Unpublished.

*EaJ 84

Autograph

Autograph fair copy of a Latin oration.

Untitled and beginning Benè quòd leuissimus jam restat provinciae nostrae labor, vt nos ipsos in ordinem cogamús..., on five folio pages, endorsed in another hand April: 11. 1632. M^r Earls his Oration Why he left the Proctership in Oxford.

National Archives, Kew (SP 16/215/31)

Richard Hooker, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Translated

Unpublished.

EaJ 85

Copy of Earle's translation into Latin of the Preface and Books I-V of Hooker's Polity, almost entirely in a single cursive italic hand, lacking a general title, 224 folio leaves, in contemporary calf.

c.1650s-60s

This MS recorded by W. Speed Hill in TLS (31 January 1975), p. 112.

The Folger Shakespeare Library: V.b. series (MS V.b.314)

Sermons

EaJ 86

Evelyn's notes on six sermons by Earle, delivered in Paris in 1651, on texts in Psalms 116 and 119, 1 Peter 4, 2 Samuel, and 6 Roman, on ff. 18v-, 20v-1v, 23r-v, 24v-5v.

A folio volume of sermon notes in Evelyn's hand, iii + 151 leaves, in contemporary calf.

c.1650-87

Volume CXCVII of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 49.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78364 passim)

Letters

Letter(s)

*EaJ 87 1640

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Edward Hyde, from Bishopstone, 9 December [1640].

Edited in Bliss-Irwin, pp. 317-18. Quoted in Darwin, p. 88. Facsimile in IELM, II.i (1987), Facsimile XVI, after p. xxiv.

A composite volume of letters and papers of the Earl of Clarendon, for September 1640-January 1640/1, 284 leaves.

Bodleian Library, Clarendon MSS (MS Clarendon 19 ff. 128r-9v)

*EaJ 88 1641

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Edward Hyde, from Bishopstone, 15 January 1640/1.

Quoted in Darwin, p. 89.

A composite volume of letters and papers of the Earl of Clarendon, for September 1640-January 1640/1, 284 leaves.

Bodleian Library, Clarendon MSS (MS Clarendon 19 ff. 276r-7v)

EaJ 89

Autograph letter signed, to Deare H [?Hyde], from Paris, 29 January [1651/2].

1652

Sotheby's, 4 April 1955, lot 202, to Maggs.

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

*EaJ 90

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Sir Richard Browne, [from Paris], 9 July [1654].

1654

Formerly Osborn Files /Earle.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osb MSS File 4794)

EaJ 91 1656

Autograph letter signed by Earle, to Sir Richard Browne, in Latin, from Bruges, 20 July 1656.