Queen Elizabeth I

1533–1603

Introduction

Queen Elizabeth I is one of the most celebrated monarchs in British history, her forty-five-year reign being one of the most eventful and remarkable periods in that history. The subject of innumerable studies and biographies, as well as novels, plays, films and operas, virtually every aspect of her character and personal and political life has been scrutinized, if not sometimes romanticized, ever since her death four centuries ago. For present purposes, we are concerned with only one of those aspects: her writings.

These fall into several categories, all dominated by texts in manuscript.

Translations

Perhaps the earliest of her literary writings are the semi-calligraphic and beautifully bound manuscripts of translations that she produced as a young Princess for her brother, Edward VI (*ElQ 64), her father, Henry VIII (*ElQ 65), and her stepmother, Katherine Parr (*ElQ 59, *ElQ 62). Her interest in scholarly learning and her command of several languages would last the rest of her life, resulting, among other things, in a series of translations which she produced as intellectual exercises, for her own diversion, almost throughout her reign. Her renditions, chiefly into English, of classical and continental writers, which still survive in her own handwriting, range from early neat presentation volumes to rough drafts in the degenerated italic scrawl of her later years. From contemporary references, it is also likely that Elizabeth made more translations (from Tacitus, Isocrates, and others) than are currently known.

Interesting light on some of Elizabeth's translations is thrown by an anonymous contemporary memorandum, on a single quarto leaf, in British Library, Lansdowne MS 253, f. 200r. Besides mentioning the Queen's translation of a peece of Sallust's De Bello Jugurthino (in what yeere of her Raigne I knowe not), otherwise apparently unrecorded, the anonymous writer claims that her translation of Boetius was begun at Windsor on 10 October and finished on 5 November 1593; that she translated a peece of Horace de arte poetica about November 1598; and that her translation of a treatise of curiosity written by Plutark was begun on 3 November and finished on 9 November 1598. He notes that she writt all these translations w^t her owne hand.

Verse

A second category is Elizabeth's original verse. As with so many other contemporary poets who neither published nor made any attempt to gather their poems into formal collections in their own lifetime, the canon of Elizabeth's verse remains uncertain, the contemporary or subsequent attributions to her varying in reliability. At present some fifteen poems are consigned to her in Bradford and in the Chicago Collected Works. One or two of these survive in her handwriting (*ElQ 1, *ElQ 33), the rest in contemporary or early-seventeenth-century miscellanies. Of these poems, the best-known, a text of which somehow migrated beyond the Royal Court and was then widely copied, is The doubt of future foes, a poem generally interpreted as referring to the threat imposed by Mary Queen of Scots before her execution in 1587 and which was also singled out for special praise in Puttenham's The Arte of English Poesie. At present twelve manuscript copies of this poem can be recorded (ElQ 14-26).

Speeches

A third and most prolific category is Elizabeth's speeches and orations, which date from the first year of her reign to within two years of her death, many of them of striking eloquence. Again, the question of authorship is complicated. This is partly because at least some of her speeches would have incorporated contributions by her close advisors, such as her principal secretary of state William Cecil, Lord Burghley; and partly because various speeches exist in different versions. One would perhaps be the official version written up for publication after the event rather than the speech she actually delivered in Parliament. Other versions would be determined by the circumstances in which her speeches were copied by different scribes present at their delivery, certain of whom frankly admitted that they could not catch everything she said, and whose texts inevitably vary. The exact process of her speech-making is still not clear, and it has even been speculated that she delivered speeches purely from memory, and that they were only written up afterwards. What is certain, however, whatever their predominant modus operandi, is that Elizabeth took an active, if not always exclusive, part in their composition, as is witnessed by several speeches that exist partly or wholly in her own autograph drafts (*ElQ 140, *ElQ 164, *ElQ 213).

Although there are other reports of statements she made in various conferences or conversations, as well as brief remarks by her in Parliament or statements of her views delivered on her behalf by the Speaker, Elizabeth's formal speeches are here taken to be those printed in Collected Works. While some of her speeches were officially published, most, copied by commercial scribes, enjoyed considerable unofficial circulation in manuscripts, either as separates or as incorporated in scribal copies of parliamentary journals, both during her reign and well into the seventeenth century. Her most popular speech, copies of which abound (ElQ 256-305), was clearly the so-called Golden Speech of 30 November 1601, on the abuses of monopolies, the penultimate speech she ever delivered. Curiously enough, what is today her most celebrated speech, her inspiring address to the forces at Tilbury on 9 August 1588 during the Spanish Armada crisis, was relatively little copied (ElQ 226-229), although what is probably the best text of it was published immediately afterwards. The exact nature of this speech, for all its fame, remains controversial, and it has even been argued that it was scarcely delivered at all but written up afterwards as a propaganda exercise. If so, the propaganda was remarkably successful.

Prayers

Besides a few essays attributed to Elizabeth in early copies (ElQ 68-72), a final category of her prose writings found in manuscript copies is the various prayers which are attributed to her (ElQ 73-107). Curiously enough, her prayers became after her death the most popular texts associated with her, subject to several printed editions in the seventeenth century: see Steven W. May, Queen Elizabeth Prays for the Living and the Dead, in Elizabeth I and the Culture of Writing, ed. Peter Beal and Grace Ioppolo (London, 2007), pp. 201-11.

Letters and Documents

Besides all this, the mound of surviving documentation relating to Elizabeth – her innumerable letters, documents (including execution warrants) signed by her, proclamations and other official papers – is immeasurable and certainly beyond our present purview. If all this material, now widely scattered in libraries, record offices, and private collections world-wide, is ever collected and edited for print publication, what would truly be Elizabeth's Collected Works would probably be an edition running into upwards of a dozen volumes.

One document which is worth drawing attention to is the mock-charter presented to Lord Burghley during a courtly entertainment at Theobalds in 1591, addressed by the Queen too the disconsolate & retired spryte, the hermyte of Tybolles. The vellum document is signed by the Lord Chancellor, Sir Christopher Hatton, and bears the Great Seal. It is quite possible that the Queen had a hand in the preparation of this light-hearted frolic, designed to dissuade her elderly Secretary of State from retiring, and it is more than likely that it was the Queen herself who presented it to Burghley during the entertainment. The document was recorded in the early eighteenth century by John Strype, but was then lost to sight until rediscovered in 1980 in a trunk of old deeds at Sotheby's. It was offered at Sotheby's on 15-16 December 1980, lot 200, with a facsimile in the sale catalogue, and is now at Yale, Elizabethan Club (Eliz Vault). A facsimile of it is in the British Library (RP 2859).

Elizabeth's Library

A comprehensive cataloguing of books and manuscripts presented to Elizabeth, or owned or inscribed by her, would also be considerable. Three examples of Elizabeth's Book Inscriptions, found in Windsor Castle and in the Bodleian Library, are quoted and discussed in Translations, pp. 395-405.

Elizabeth's Handwriting

For discussions of the Queen's variable handwriting over the years, and for facsimile examples of it, see, inter alia, H.R. Woudhuysen, The Queen's Own Hand: A Preliminary Account, in Elizabeth I and the Culture of Writing, ed. Peter Beal and Grace Ioppolo (2007), pp. 1-27, and Katherine Duncan-Jones, Elizabeth I and her Good George: Unpublished Letters, in the same publication, pp. 29-41; Felix Pryor, Elizabeth I: Her Life in Letters (London, 2003); Elizabeth: The Exhibition at the National Maritime Museum, ed. Susan Doran (London, 2003); David Loades, Elizabeth I: The Golden Reign of Gloriana (London, 2003); and Elizabeth I Then and Now, ed. Georgianna Ziegler (Washington, DC, 2003), as well as Collected Works, Autograph Compositions, and Selected Works.

Miscellaneous

Several boxes of working papers of the Chicago edition of The Collected Works are now preserved in the Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, in Amherst.

Abbreviations

Autograph Compositions: Elizabeth I, Autograph Compositions and Foreign Language Originals, ed. Janel Mueller and Leah S. Marcus (Chicago & London, 2003).
Bradner: The Poems of Queen Elizabeth I, ed. Leicester Bradner (Providence, RI, 1964).
Collected Works: Elizabeth I, Collected Works, ed. Leah S. Marcus, Janel Mueller, and Mary Beth Rose (Chicago & London, 2000).
Hartley: Proceedings in the Parliaments of Elizabeth I, ed. T.E. Hartley, 3 vols (Leicester University Press, 1981-95).
Selected Works: Queen Elizabeth I, Selected Works, ed. Steven W. May (New York, London, etc., 2004).
Translations (1): Elizabeth I, Translations 1544-1589, ed. Janel Mueller and Joshua Scodel (Chicago & London, 2009).
Translations (2): Elizabeth I, Translations 1592-1598, ed. Janel Mueller and Joshua Scodel (Chicago & London, 2009).

Verse

(1) Poems by, or possibly by, Elizabeth

Four Knights of Nottinghamshire ('Gervase the gentle, Stanhope the stout')

Bradner, p. 7, among Poems of Doubtful Authorship.

'No crooked leg, no blearèd eye'

First published in Poetry Book Society Bulletin (November 1958). Bradner, p. 4, as Written in her French Psalter. Collected Works, Poem 4, p. 132. Selected Works, Poem 3, pp. 5-6.

*ElQ 1

Autograph

Autograph, inscribed by Elizabeth on the last leaf of her printed French Psalter (Paris, c.1520) which is lacking its front leaves.

c.1565

Edited from this MS in Poetry Book Society Bulletin (November 1958); in Collected Works; and in Selected Works. Edited from the 1958 publication in Bradner.

Royal Library, Windsor ([no shelfmark])

'Now leave and let me rest. Dame Pleasure, be content'

Selected Works, Poems Possibly by Elizabeth 3, pp. 28-30. Bradner, pp. 8-10, among Poems of Doubtful Authorship. Collected Works, Poem 11, pp. 305-6.

ElQ 2 Late 16th century

Copy, inscribed lengthways, in three columns, along the margin of a cropped quarto-size leaf otherwise comprising a formal copy of a late medieval Latin text.

A large folio guardbook of medieval and 16th-century fragments, in paper and vellum, in various hands and folio sizes, iv + 90 leaves.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 70516 f. 52r)

ElQ 3

Copy, headed certan other verses made by owre sayd soueign, subscribed finis q^d Elizabetha Regina.

A quarto miscellany of verse, ballads and some prose, in secretary hands, 49 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum.

Late 16th century

Inscribed (f. 1r), in red ink, John Stanhope (possibly John Stanhope, d.1593, of Eccleshill) and from the muniments of the Spencer-Stanhope family of Yorkshire.

Recorded in A.M.W. Stirling, Annals of a Yorkshire House (1911), I, 7. Discussed in Steven W. May and Arthur F. Marotti, Ink, Stink Bait, Revenge, and Queen Elizabeth: A Yorkshire Yeoman's Household Book (Ithaca, 2014), with fascimile examples.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 82370 f. [45r])

ElQ 4

Copy, untitled, subscribed in a different ink (after deleted words) Regina.

This MS collated in Bradner and in Collected Works. Cited in Selected Works.

A quarto composite verse miscellany, comprising three miscellaneous MSS in different hands, 151 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt.

Fols 11r-78r, largely in a single secretary hand, comprising a verse miscellany compiled by the antiquary St Loe Kniveton, of Gray's Inn. c.1585-90s.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 7000 through end (Harley MS 7392 ff. 49v-50r)

ElQ 5

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Bradner, in Collected Works, and in Selected Works. May, Stanford, p. 155-6 (No. 222).

A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, 63 leaves, partly mounted on guards, in modern quarter-calf on marbled boards.

Compiled by Henry Stanford (d.1616), household tutor to the Paget and Carey families, including George Carey, second Lord Hunsdon.

c.1581-1612

A complete transcription of this volume in Steven W. May, Henry Stanford's Anthology: An Edition of Cambridge University Library Manuscript Dd. 5.75 (New York, 1988).

Cambridge University Library, shelfmarks A through D (MS Dd. 5. 75 f. 44v)

ElQ 6

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, 280-1. Collated in Bradner and in Collected Works. Cited in Selected Works.

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

Mid-late 16th century

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

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

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 167r-v)

'O Governor of all the spheres in motion'

The French text, beginning O Gouuerneur, de la machine ronde, in Autograph Compositions, pp. 137-8. An English translation in Collected Works, Poem 6, pp. 151-2. The authorship is uncertain.

On Monsieur's Departure, circa 1582 ('I grieve and dare not show my discontent')

Collected Works, Poem 9, pp. 302-3. Selected Works, Poem 6, pp. 12-13. Bradner, p. 5.

ElQ 7

Edited from this MS in John Nichols, The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth, 3 vols (London, 1823). Cited (as mostly illegible) in Bradner, in Collected Works, and in Selected Works.

A small quarto colume of state papers and verse, in a closely written hand, i + 170 pages, badly affected by ink seepage.

c.1620s-37

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 781 p. 142)

ElQ 8

Copy, headed Sonetto, subscribed Eliz. Regina.

Edited from this MS in Bradner, in Collected Works, and in Selected Works.

A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 180 leaves, in calf.

Compiled by Thomas Tanner (1674-1735)

17th century

Bodleian Library, Tanner Collection (MS Tanner 76 f. 94r)

ElQ 9

Copy, headed Sonnet by Queene Elizabeth.

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

c.1630s-40s

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 923 f. 18v)

ElQ 10

Copy, headed E: R: On Mounsieur^s depture.

This MS collated in Bradner. Cited in Collected Works and in Selected Works.

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

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

c.1637

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

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

The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 962 f. 231v)

ElQ 11

Copy, headed Queen Elizabeth verses on Monsieur^s departure out of England.

This MS cited in Selected Works.

A folio booklet of state letters and papers, chiefly relating to the Earl of Essex, closely written in a single hand, on two paires of conjugate leaves, in modern boards.

Early 17th century

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 57 f. 3v)

ElQ 12

Copy, headed Sonnett by Queene Elizabeth.

This MS cited in Selected Works.

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. 50-1)

Rebus on Noel's Name ('The word of denial and the letter of fifty')

Bradner, p. 6, among Poems of Doubtful Authorship.

See RaW 340-354.

Song on the Armada Victory, December 1588 ('Look and bow down Thine ear, O Lord')

Collected Works, Poem 14, pp. 410-11. Selected Works, Poem 9, pp. 22-3. Selected Works, Poem 1, pp. 2-3.

ElQ 13

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed A songe made by her Ma^tie and. sung before her at her cominge from white hall to Powles throughe fleetestre in Anno dni 1588 and, at the side, songe in December after the scatteringe of the Spanishe Navy, on one side of a folio leaf, numbered 160.

c.1588

Formerly part of a composite volume of papers belonging to Sir Henry Spelman (1563/4-1641), historian and antiquary. Later owned by Hudson Gurney (1775-1864), of Keswick Hall, Norfolk, banker and antiquary. Sotheby's, 31 March 1936 (Gurney sale), lot 109, item 111.

Edited from this MS in Collected Works and in Selected Works.

National Maritime Museum (SNG/4)

'The doubt of future foes'

A version first published in George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie (London, 1589), sig. 2E2^v (p. 208). Bradner, p. 4. Collected Works, Poem 5, pp. 133-4. Selected Works, Poem 4, pp. 7-9.

ElQ 14

Copy, headed Verses made by the Quenes M^atie.

Edited from this MS in Bradner. Cited in Collected Works and in Selected Works.

A quarto commonplace book of poems, songs, orations, etc., i + 89 leaves, in contemporary calf (with a flyleaf from a 14th-century missal).

c.1570

Inscribed names Elinor Gunter, sister of Ed. Gunter, of Lincoln's Inn, and William Oldisworth (1680-1734), writer and translator.

Described by Philip Bliss in british Bibliography, 1817, II, 609.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 100 through 149 (MS Rawl. poet. 108 f. 44v.)

ElQ 15

Copy, headed E Reg, here beginning The Dowte of future [force superscribed by] foes. Late 16th-century.

This MS cited in Bradner and in Selected Works.

A 15th-century rubricated MS of John Gower's Vox Clamantis, on vellum throughout, 157 folio-size leaves, ff' 158r-69v comprising later additions on paper, in old calf gilt (rebacked).

From the library of Sir Kenelm Digby (1603-65), natural philosopher and courtier. Inscribed name Roger Waller.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Digby 138 f. 159r)

ElQ 16

Copy, headed certan vses made by the quenes ma^tie Eliz &c. a^o R xii^o[i.e. 1569-70] and subscribed finis q^d Elizabetha.

A quarto miscellany of verse, ballads and some prose, in secretary hands, 49 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum.

Late 16th century

Inscribed (f. 1r), in red ink, John Stanhope (possibly John Stanhope, d.1593, of Eccleshill) and from the muniments of the Spencer-Stanhope family of Yorkshire.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 82370 f. [44v])

ElQ 17

Copy, headed Certen verses made by the Queenes moste excellent Ma^tie against the Rebells in the North ptes of England and in Norfolke & other places of the Realme, A^o dni 1569 et 1570.

This MS cited in Selected Works.

A folio miscellany chiefly of heraldic and historical collections, in a single secretary hand, with rubrication, 418 leaves.

Compiled by Robert Commaundre (d.1613), rector of Tarporley, Cheshire, and chaplain to Sir Henry Sydney, Lord President of the Marches of Wales.

Late 16th-early 17th century

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2642 f. 237v)

ElQ 18

Copy, headed The following Ditty on the Factions raised by the Q of Scots while Prisoner in England, was composed by Q Elizabeth and was printed not long after, if not before, the beheading of the said Scots Quen.

This MS cited in Bradner and in Selected Works.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single hand, entitled Poetical Characteristicks Vol 2^d Collected by W O, 35 leaves (plus blanks), in modern black morocco gilt.

c.1730s

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6933 f. 8r)

ElQ 19

Copy, untitled, subscribed FINIS EL.

This MS cited in Bradner and in Selected Works.

A quarto composite verse miscellany, comprising three miscellaneous MSS in different hands, 151 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt.

Fols 11r-78r, largely in a single secretary hand, comprising a verse miscellany compiled by the antiquary St Loe Kniveton, of Gray's Inn. c.1585-90s.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 7000 through end (Harley MS 7392 f. 27v)

ElQ 20

Copy, in triple columns, headed Verses made by the Q. Maiestie and here beginning The doubt of future foes, subscribed Viuat Regina.

Edited from this MS in Collected Works, in Selected Works, and in Steven W. May, Queen Elizabeth's Future Foes: Editing Manuscripts with the First-Line Index of Elizabethan Verse (a Future Friend), in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, III, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2004). pp. 1-12.

A large folio volume of state tracts, speeches and letters, in a single professional secretary hand, 93 leaves, in 19th-century calf gilt.

Late 16th century

Inscribed This Manuscript was in y^e Library at y^e late Mr Pitts at Kingston, in Dorsetshire, it was bought at his sale by Mr Rodd y^e bookseller, from whom I had it in 1838. Ev: M: Shirley. Bookplate of Evelyn Philip Shirley, being MS 9 of the Shirley family library at Ettington Hall, Warwickshire. Sotheby's, 31 January 1956, lot 407. Sold by John F. Fleming (1910-87), New York bookseller, in April 1975. Formerly Folger MS Add. 670.

Recorded in HMC, 5th Report (1876), Appendix, p. 00.

The Folger Shakespeare Library: V.b. series (MS V.b.317 f. 20v)

ElQ 21 c.1600

Copy, untitled, inscribed in the margin per Reginam.

This MS cited in Collected Works and in Selected Works.

A folio composite volume of largely state and parliamentary papers, in several professional secretary hands, 202 leaves, in red morocco gilt.

Including (f. 3r-v) Elizabethan verses inscribed Thomas Aldwell me possidet and (ff. 4r-81r) a formulary of political and legal documents and precedents, in several hands, largely compiled by Francis Alford, MP (c.1530-92).

Inner Temple Library (Petyt MS 538, Vol. 10 f. 3v)

ElQ 22

Copy of a garbled version, with a long preamble beginning A Copy of Verses by Queen Elizabeth; on occasion of her first uneasiness, concerning Mary Queen of Scots..., the poem here beginning Watchful, to shun those Snares w^ch: w^d: my peace destroy.

A folio verse miscellany, in several hands, 96 leaves, in modern boards.

Entitled (f. 4r) A Collection of Verses upon Several Occasions by Several Hands. Begun March 26^th: 1732 / W: Jermy 1732.

c.1732-41

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 20 f. 76v)

ElQ 23

Copy, untitled, subscribed Elizabetha Regina.

This MS cited in Beal (1978) and in Selected Works.

An unbound sheaf of six folio leaves of poems, in a neat secretary hand, in double columns.

Among papers of Adam Ottley (1685-1752), Registrar of the diocese of St David's, Wales, and formerly in Pitchford Hall, Shropshire.

c.1580s

This MS discussed. with facsimile examples, in Peter Beal, Poems by Sir Philip Sidney: The Ottley Manuscript, The Library, 5th Ser. 33 (1978), 284-95. See also correspondence with Jean Robertson in The Library, 6th Ser. (June 1980) and (June 1981).

National Library of Wales (Pitchford Hall (Ottley) English Literary MSS (uncatalogued), B B1 f. 5v)

ElQ 24

Copy, here beginning The dread of future foes exyle my present Ioy and subscribed Elizabetha Regina.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, 276-7. Partly collated in Collected Works. Collated in Bradner. Cited in Selected Works.

Mid-late 16th century

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

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 164v)

ElQ 25

Copy.

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed Certaine verses made by the queenes ma^tie and wryghten w^th hir one hand, on one side of a single leaf.

Late 16th century

University of Reading (MS233/2 NAD5396)

ElQ 26

Copy, incorporated in a letter to a lady apparently by Sir John Harington, introduced as a poem of her Highness own enditing...My Lady Wiloughby did covertly get it on her Majesties tablet, and had much hazard in so doing; for the Queen did find out the thief, and chid for spreading evil bruit of her writing such toyes, when other matters did so occupy her employment at this time; and was fearful of being thought too lightly of for so doing.

Edited from this MS in Nugae Antiquae (1769), I, 58-9. Cited in Collected Works.

A collection of papers of Sir John Harington (1560-12) and his family.

Late 16th-early 17th century

Owned by Sir John's descendants Henry Harington (1686-1769) and Dr Henry Harington (1727-1816).

These manuscripts edited in Nugae Antiquae (first published in two volumes, London, 1769); various editions, expanded to 2 vols, ed. Henry Harington [and Thomas Park], London, 1804.

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

'Twas Christ the Word that spake it'

First published in Alexander Huish, Lectures upon the Lord's Prayer (London, 1626), sig. Y2^v of his sermon on Give us this day our daily bread. Bradner, p. 6, as Christ was the Word, among Poems of Doubtful Authorship. Collected Works, Poem 3, p. 47. Selected Works, among Wrongly Attributed Works 1, p. 330. The authorship discussed with scepticism also in J.E. Neale, Essays in Elizabethan History (London, 1958), pp. 102-3.

A version headed On the Sacrament and beginning He was the Word that spake it published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1635). Grierson, I, 427, among Poems attributed to John Donne.

ElQ 27

Copy of a version headed On the Sacrament and beginning He was the word that spake itt.

An oblong octavo miscellany of largely devotional verse and some prose, including (ff. 7v-22r) twelve poems by Crashaw, probably transcribed from Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652), in a single italic hand, written across the width of the pages with the spine upwards, with (ff. 181r-8r) a table of contents, 188 leaves, in calf gilt.

Entitled Collections out of seuerall Authors by Marmaduke Raudon Eboracensis 1662: i.e. compiled by Marmaduke Rawdon (1610-69), traveller and antiquary, of Guiseley, Yorkshire, who later lived with his cousin, also named Marmaduke Rawdon, at Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, the MS including elegies on yet another (Sir) Marmaduke Rawdon (1582-1646), Governor of Basing House.

c.1662

Later owned by Thomas Rodd (1796-1849). Rodd's sale catalogue, February 1850, item 764.

Cited in IELM, II.i, as the Rawdon MS: CrR Δ 2. Crashaw's work collated in Martin (cited as A1) and discussed pp. lxxx-lxxxi.

For other Rawdon miscellanies, see Yale, Osborn MS fb 150; York Minster, MS Add. 122; and a MS sold at Puttick and Simpson's, 3 March 1870, lot 552, to Nicholls. For the Rawdon family, see H.F. Hayllar, The Chronicles of Hoddesdon (1948), pp. 52-4.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 18000 through 19999 (Add. MS 18044 f. 159r)

ElQ 28

Copy, subscribed Q: Eliz.

Edited from this MS in Collected Works.

A duodecimo notebook, in Latin and English, in several hands, written from both ends, 88 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

Owned and probably compiled at least in part by John Gandye (b.1604/5), of Oriel College, Oxford, who has inscribed f. 2r Si quis me quærat, præsto est / Jo: Gandye.

c.1620s

Name inscribed (f. 1v rev.) Thomas Keen.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. D. 947 f. 86v rev.)

ElQ 29

Copy, here beginning Christ was the word who spake it, headed in another hand Queen Eliza^s answer to Bishop Gardner.

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

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

Late 17th century

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

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

Cambridge University Library, Additional MSS 7000 through end (MS Add. 8460 p. 17)

ElQ 30

Copy of a version beginning He was the Word that spake it, with introduction Likewise Doctor Donnes Ænigmatical Verse written since he was made Minister, to obscure by equivocation the very truth of the Reall presence in the blessed Sacrament of the Alter; such is the Condition of Heretiques to illude simple people, by making that doubtfull, which is of it selfe most apparent, and with a sidenote This I thought good to insert the better to diserne truth from falshood; rectum distingure falsa.

A folio composite volume of verse and prose, much of it Catholic, in several hands, one semi-calligraphic secretary hand predominating, with a formal title-page The Garden of Pleasure Comprehending the Choice Flowers of all my Readeinge though otherwise distinguished as hereafter appeareth Anno Dni 1636, ii + 437 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf.

Compiled in his later years by George Barlow (b.c.1558) of Slebech, dedicated (f. 2v) To his Grandchild G: B:, and (f. 416r) showing his original intention to publish the volume.

1636-40

Later inscriptions including John Barlow his book. Anno Domini 1732 and (f. 313r) a note by W. H. 1761. Bookplate with monogram RFG.

Discussed in J. M. Cleary, The Catholic Recusancy of the Barlow Family of Slebech (Cardiff, 1956).

Cardiff Central Library (MS 4.97 f. 370v)

ElQ 31

Copy of a version headed On y^e Sacrament and here beginning He was the word that spake it.

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, f. 20r)

ElQ 32

Copy of a version headed On the Communion and beginning Hee was the word that spake it, following other verses on the subject, on one page of two conjugate long ledger-size leaves, docketed by Anne Sadleir Verses vpon the putting downe of the Book of Common Prayer.

A folio composite volume of letters and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 86 items, in quarter-calf marbled boards.

The letters chiefly to Anne Sadleir, of Standon, some to her husband.

Donated by Anne Sadleir in 1669.

Trinity College, Cambridge (MS R. 5. 5 (James 699) No. 83)

Twenty-seven stanzas in French, composed circa 1590 ('With the blinding so strange')

The French text, beginning Avecq l'aueugler si estrange, in Autograph Compositions, pp. 85-94. An English verse translation in Collected Works, Poem 15, pp. 413-21.

*ElQ 33

Autograph

Autograph draft, with deletions and revisions, on nine folio pages.

c.1590

Edited from this MS in Autograph Compositions and, together with an English translation, in Steven W. May and Anne Lake Prescott, The French Verses of Elizabeth I, ELR, 24, No. 1 (Winter 1994), 9-43.

Facsimiles of the first page in Collected Works, p. 412, and of f. 151r and the top of f. 152v in May & Prescott, Plates 1 & 2 after p. 32.

The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House (Cecil Papers 147/150-154)

*ElQ 34

Autograph

Autograph MS, with revisions, on seven leaves.

c.1590

Edited from this MS in Collected Works, with a facsimile of f. 207r on p. 412.

The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House (Cecil Papers 147/207-213)

Verse Exchange between Queen Elizabeth and King Philip of Spain, circa Spring 1588 ('When Greeks do measure months by the moon')

First published in George Ballard, Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain (Oxford, 1752), p. 227. Bradner, p. 7, one line as A Latin Hexameter, among Poems of Doubtful Authorship. Collected Works, Poem 13, pp. 409-10. Autograph Compositions, pp. 85-94.

ElQ 35

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Collected Works.

A quarto verse miscellany, in a single hand, 114 leaves, bound with a printed exemplum of Thomas Watson's <GREEK> or Passionate Centurie of Love (London, [1581?]).

Compiled by John Lilliat (c.1550-c.1599).

c.1590s

This MS volume printed in full, with facsimile examples, in Liber Lilliati: Elizabethan Verse and Song (Bodleian MS Rawlinson Poetry 148), ed. Edward Doughtie (Newark, DE, 1985).

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 100 through 149 (MS Rawl. poet. 148 f. 3v)

ElQ 36

Copy of the Latin lines only, headed Papa ad reginam Elizabetham.

This MS cited in Collected Works.

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 f. 81v)

Verse Exchange between Queen Elizabeth and Sir Thomas Heneage, Gentleman of the Privy Chamber, circa 1572 ('A hapless kind of life is this I wear')

Latin elegiacs beginning Genus infoelix vitae, followed by the English version, and Heneage's sonnet to Elizabeth beginning Madam, but mark the labors of our life first published in Curt F. Bühler, Libri Impressi Cum Notis Manuscriptis, MLN, 53 (1938), 245-9. Collected Works, Poem 7, pp. 299-300. Selected Works, Poem 5, pp. 10-11.

ElQ 37

Copy of the two sets of verse, the first subscribed This aboue was written in a book by the Queenes Ma^tie, the second apparently signed by, and in the hand of, Sir Thomas Heneage (c.1532-95), courtier.

Inscribed on the rectos of two front endpapers in an exemplum of Henry Bull's Christian praiers and Holy Meditations (London, 1570), an octavo in contemporary calf gilt.

Late 16th century

Inscribed on the verso of the first endpaper by Thomas Dicker, of Lewes, Sussex., 19th-century banker.

Edited from this MS in Bühler, in Collected Works, and in Selected Works.

The Pierpont Morgan Library (7768)

Verse Exchange between Queen Elizabeth and Sir Walter Ralegh, circa 1587 ('Ah, silly Pug, wert thou so sore afraid?')

Collected Works, Poem 12, pp. 307-9. Selected Works, Poem 7, pp. 14-18.

For Ralegh's Fortune hath taken away my love, see RaW 133-5.

ElQ 38 c.1600

Copy, annotated in the margin per reginam Walter Rawley, and deleted.

Edited from this MS in Collected Works and in The Poems of Sir Walter Ralegh, ed. Michael Rudick (Tempe Arizona, 1999), No. 15B, p. 20.

A folio composite volume of largely state and parliamentary papers, in several professional secretary hands, 202 leaves, in red morocco gilt.

Inner Temple Library (Petyt MS 538, Vol. 10 f. 3r)

ElQ 39

Copy of the complete 24-line poem, in a right-hand column, headed An aunswer.

Edited from this MS in Queen Elizabeth I: Selected Works, poem 7a, pp. 14-15, and in The Poems of Sir Walter Ralegh, ed. Michael Rudick (Tempe Arizona, 1999), p. 23.

A folio miscellany of poems and state papers, in secretary hands, written from both ends, 50 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

c.1620s

Among papers of the Troyte-Bullock family, formerly of Zeals House, Mere, and probably deriving from the papers of the Chafyn family of Bulford and Chisenbury or the Reymes family of Waddon, near Dorchester.

Wiltshire and Swindon Archives (865/500 f. [27r])

[Verse Exchange between Queen Elizabeth and Sir Walter Ralegh] ('If thou art afraid climb not at all')

See RaW 381-383.5.

'When I was fair and young, and favor graced me'

Collected Works, Poem 10, pp. 303-4 (Version 1), 304-5 (Version 2). Selected Works, Poems Possibly by Elizabeth 2, pp. 26-7. Bradner, p. 7, among Poems of Doubtful Authorship.

ElQ 40

Copy, the heading (deleted) Verses made by the queen when she was supposed to be in love with mounsyre, subscribed Elysabetha regina.

Edited from this MS (as Version 2) in Collected Works. Collated in Bradner. Cited in Selected Works.

A quarto miscellany chiefly of verse, largely in a single secretary hand, compiled by a Cambridge student, vii + 130 leaves, in later calf.

c.1586-91

This volume is edited in Cummings, who suggests that the compiler is Sir John Finett (1571-1641), of Fordwich, Kent: hence it is often cited as The John Finett miscellany. The hands do not appear to be his, however, and this attribution is questionable.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 50 through 99 (MS Rawl. poet. 85 f. 1r)

ElQ 41

Copy, untitled, subscribed FINIS. Ely.

Edited from this MS in Bradner and in Selected Works. Collated (as Version 2) in Collected Works.

A quarto composite verse miscellany, comprising three miscellaneous MSS in different hands, 151 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt.

Fols 11r-78r, largely in a single secretary hand, comprising a verse miscellany compiled by the antiquary St Loe Kniveton, of Gray's Inn. c.1585-90s.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 7000 through end (Harley MS 7392 f. 21v)

ElQ 42

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Collected Works. Cited in Bradner and in Selected Works. May, Stanford, p. 129 (No. 202).

A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, 63 leaves, partly mounted on guards, in modern quarter-calf on marbled boards.

Compiled by Henry Stanford (d.1616), household tutor to the Paget and Carey families, including George Carey, second Lord Hunsdon.

c.1581-1612

A complete transcription of this volume in Steven W. May, Henry Stanford's Anthology: An Edition of Cambridge University Library Manuscript Dd. 5.75 (New York, 1988).

Cambridge University Library, shelfmarks A through D (MS Dd. 5. 75 f. 38v)

ElQ 43

Copy, untitled, subscribed l: of oxforde.

This MS collated in Bradner and in Collected Works. Cited in Selected Works.

An oblong quarto verse miscellany, in three accomplished secretary hands, xvi + 52 pages (including blanks), being a fragment of a larger volume, now mounted in an album, in russia gilt.

c.1590-1600s

Inscribed (on an affixed slip of paper) Anne Cornwaleys her booke [i.e. probably Anne Cornwallis (d.1635), who on 30 November 1610 became Countess of Argyll]; (p. 34) E^d Philips his Book 1740; Robert Thomas not his Book 1740; (p. [xvi]); Sam: Lysons [i.e. Samuel Lysons (1763-1819), antiquary]. Afterwards owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Bright sale, Part II (18 June 1844), to Thorpe. Then owned by Dr Thomas Russell and his son the Rev. John Fuller Russell (1813-84), ecclesiastical historian (who has signed the MS John F. Russell on p.[i]); by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector, and then in the Warwick Castle Library. Formerly Folger MS 1.112.

Discussed in William H. Bond, The Cornwallis-Lysons Manuscript and the Poems of John Bentley, Joseph Quincy Adams Memorial Studies, ed. James G. McManaway, Giles E. Dawson, and Edwin E. Willoughby (Washington, DC, 1948), pp. 683-93, and 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. (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, 2001), pp. 44-57.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 1 through 99 (MS V.a.89 p. 12)

ElQ 44

Copy, headed Another and here beginning When I was fayre & young then beauty graced mee.

This MS collated in Bradner. Cited in Selected Works.

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

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

c.1637-51

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

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

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 200 through 299 (MS V.a.262 p. 169)

Written on a Window Frame at Woodstock ('O Fortune, thy wresting, wavering state')

First published, in a garbled version, in Paul Hentzner, Itinerarivm Germaniae, Galliae; Angliae; Italiae (Nuremberg, 1612), pp. 144-5. Bradner, p. 3, as Written on a Wall at Woodstock. Collected Works, Poem 1, pp. 45-6. Selected Works, Poem 1, pp. 2-3.

ElQ 45 Early 18th century

Copy, headed Sonnet by Q. Elizabeth 1555, on one side of a quarto leaf.

This MS cited in Selected Works.

A folio composite volume of verse MSS, in various hands and paper sizes, 231 leaves, in 19th-century half black morocco.

Including items once owned by Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725), Yorkshire antiquary and topographer. Collected by Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian.

Presumably from item 47 among the folio MSS recorded in Thoresby's Ducatus Leodiensis, 2nd edition (Leeds, 1816), Appendix, p. 77.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 4101 through 4999 (Add. MS 4457 f. 6r)

ElQ 46

Copy, followed (f. 740r-v) by a German translation. 1599.

Edited from this MS in Thomas Platters des Jüngeren Englandfahrt im Jahre 1599, ed. Hans Hecht (Leipzig, 1929), pp. 121-2; in Clare Williams, Thomas Platter's Travels in England, 1599 (London, 1937), pp. 220-1; in Thomas Platter, Beschreibung der Reisen durch Frankreich, Spanien, England und die Niederlande 1595-1600, ed. Rut Keiser, 2 vols (Basel, 1968), II, 859; and in Queen Elizabeth I, Selected Works.

A travel journal compiled by Thomas Platter, 1595-1600, bound in two folio volumes.

University of Basle, Switzerland (A V 7 and A V 8 Vol. 2, f. 740r)

ElQ 47

Copy of both English and Latin versions, written by Waldstein when he visited Woodstock on 15 July 1600.

Edited from this MS in The Diary of Baron Waldstein, trans. G.W. Goos (London, 1981), pp. 117, 119. Cited in Selected Works, p. 3.

A quarto diary, compiled by the Moravian baron Zdenëk Brtnický z Valdstejna (Baron Waldstein) during his continental tour from 1 January 1597 to 31 December 1603, in vellum.

Subsequently in the library of Franz Seraph (1570-1636), Cardinal von Dietrichstein, at Nicholsburg; captured and sent during the Thirty Years War to the Royal Library, Stockholm. Retained in the library of Queen Christina (1626-89) when in exile in Rome. Acquired by Pope Alexander VIII (1610-91), in May 1690, for the Vatican Library.

Vatican Library (MS Reg lat. 666 ff. 161-2)

Written with a Diamond ('Much suspected by me')

First published in John Foxe, Acts and Monuments (London, 1563), p. 1714. Bradner, p. 3, as Written with a Diamond on her Window at Woodstock. Collected Works, Poem 2, p. 46. Selected Works, Poem 2, p. 4.

ElQ 48

Copy, in Sir John Harington's hand, with his introduction ...she that wrote in the window at wodstocke with a diamont, subscribed quoth Elizabeth prisoner, and with his longer subscription concluding with her(?) Latin translation, beginning Plurimi de me male suspicantor.

This MS cited in Selected Works.

A largely autograph MS by Sir John Harington, 338 quarto leaves, in half morocco.

c.1590-1

Sotheby's, 1862?, to Boone. Purchased from Boone 24 April 1862.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 18000 through 19999 (Add. MS 18920 f. 322r)

ElQ 49

Copy, in a roman hand, headed Queen Elizabeth wrot in the glase window at wodstock maner with the Deiamond ston of her ringe when shee was kept prisoner there by her sister Mary in these words.

A folio miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Welsh, in several hands, 161 pages, in contemporary limp vellum.

Compiled, at least in part, by Philip Powell of Brecon (Phillip Powell his booke on p. 2), referring (p. 63) to his being committed to Newgate prison for three years on or by 1 March 1633 (his wife not having come to see him once) and with a reference (p. 45) to My ffather Thomas Powell, a distant cousin of Edward Games, the first recorder of Brecknock. Other names inscribed including Thomas and Richard Powell, and with a note dated 1812 (p. 4) by Thomas Lawrence, who purchased the MS at the sale of the library of Theophilus Jones (1759-1812), Brecknockshire county historian.

c.1632-48

Cardiff Central Library (MS 3.42 p. 26)

ElQ 50

Copy, in a mixed hand, headed These verses shee wrott with her diamond in aglass Windowe, with a marginal note by the queen being prisoner at Woodstocke in her sisters time, and subscribed Quoth Elizabeth prisoner with two lines of Latin.

This MS cited in Selected Works.

A quarto composite memorandum book of English, Welsh and latin verse and prose, in several hands, 100 leaves, in a contemporary limp vellum wrapper within modern half red morocco.

Compiled over a period, at least in part, by various members of the Lloyd family of Llwydiarth.

Early 17th century-1672

Inscriptions including (f. 3r) Mounta: Lloyd 1671 and (f. 49r) David W^ms. his Book beeing M^rs Anne Lloyds Guift, and with other references to David Lloyd, Elizabeth Lluyd, Robert Lluyd, Jane Lloyd, and Hugh Lloyd. Probably Quaritch's sale Catalogue of English Literature (August-November 1884), item 22351. Formerly Sotheby MS B. 2.

National Library of Wales (Wynne (Bodewryd) MS 6 f. 59v)

(2) Verse Translations by or attributed to Elizabeth

Boethius's The Consolation of Philosophy ('Righmes that my groing studie ons perfourmed')

Elizabeth's translation of all five books of Boethius's De consolatione philosophiae, verse Myters alternating with prose passages throughout. First published complete in Queen Elizabeth's Englishings, ed. Caroline Pemberton, Early English Text Society, 113 (London, 1899), pp. 1-120. Bradner (verse only), as The Metres of Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy, pp. 19-46. Complete text, with facing modern spelling version, in Translations (2), pp. 72-365. Edited by Noel Harold Kaylor Jr and Philip Edward Phillips, as Elizabeth I, The Consolation of Queen Elizabeth: The Queen's Translation of Boethius's De Consolatio Philosophiæ (Tempe, AZ, 2009).

*ElQ 51 1593

Autograph

MS draft of all five books, with pages or passages in the Queen's cursive hand (including most of the verse), with revisions, alternating throughout with text in the chiefly secretary hand of her amanuensis Thomas Windebank, also with her occasional revisions; with (f. 7r-10r) a series of computations, in roman and secretary hands, addressed to the Queen, recording the time she spent at Windsor on the translation from 10 October to 5 November1593.

Edited from this MS in Pemberton, with a facsimile page after p. 32; in Bradner; in Translations (2), with facsimiles of ff. 30r and 49r on pp. 44 and 253; and in Kaylor and Phillips.

A folio volume of partly autograph translations by Queen Elizabeth, 105 leaves (ff. 1r-5r 19th-century notes on the MS), all mounted on guards, in 19th-century red morocco gilt.

1593-8

Accounts (on f. 105v) of cloth bought from John Willet mercer 18 January 1607.

National Archives, Kew (SP 12/289 ff. 13r-83v)

ElQ 52

A fair copy, in italic and secretary scripts (? Windebanke's hand) of part of the Queen's translation of the first book, both verse and prose, untitled, beginning with the verses Rymes that my growing study once perfourmed.

A folio volume of partly autograph translations by Queen Elizabeth, 105 leaves (ff. 1r-5r 19th-century notes on the MS), all mounted on guards, in 19th-century red morocco gilt.

1593-8

Accounts (on f. 105v) of cloth bought from John Willet mercer 18 January 1607.

National Archives, Kew (SP 12/289 ff. 100r-2v)

The Metres of Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy ('Righmes that my groing studie ons perfourmed')

See Boethius's The Consolation of Philosophy, ElQ 51-52.

Certaine Sentences out of the Xiiij Psalme, written by the Queenes Maiestie, in Latine, french and Italian ('Stultus dixit in corde suo: non est')

Three quatrains, beginning respectively Stultus dixit in corde suo: non est, Le fol dit en son coeur, il n'ya point de, and Le stolto disse ne'l suo cuore, Egli non. Unpublished.

ElQ 53

Semi-calligraphic copy.

A posthumous presentation copy of Elizabeth's translation of Margarite de Navarre's devotional treatise and of passages from Scripture, 32 quarto leaves, in contemporary vellum gilt, with remains of ties.

c.1603-6

From the library of Edmund Butler (1771-1846), Earl of Kilkenny, Kilkenny Castle, Ireland.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 942 f. [3v])

Horace's Art of Poetry ('If to a mans hed a pantar wold')

Elizabeth's translation of Horace's De arte poetica, in 194 lines. First published in Queen Elizabeth's Englishings, ed. Caroline Pemberton, Early English Text Society, 113 (London, 1899), pp. 142-9. Bradner, pp. 46-51. Translations (2), with facing modern-spelling version, pp. 462-83.

*ElQ 54 1598

Autograph

Autograph rough drafts, with revisions, incomplete, untitled, endorsed (f. 89v) by the Queen's amanuensis Thomas Windebank Her Ma^tes translation of a peece of Horace de arte poëtica written w^t her own hand, and copied by me for her Ma^tie the iiiij^th. of Noueber 1598. and at that day I delyuered it vnto hir own handes.

Edited from this MS in Pemberton; in Bradner; and, with a facsimile of the first page on p. 450, in Translations (2).

A folio volume of partly autograph translations by Queen Elizabeth, 105 leaves (ff. 1r-5r 19th-century notes on the MS), all mounted on guards, in 19th-century red morocco gilt.

1593-8

Accounts (on f. 105v) of cloth bought from John Willet mercer 18 January 1607.

National Archives, Kew (SP 12/289 ff. 84r-8v)

Francesco Petrarch's Trionfo dell' Eternità

Lines 1-90 only. First published in The Arundel Manuscript of Tudor Poetry, ed. Ruth Hughey, 2 vols (Columbus, OH, 1960), I, 360-3. Bradner, pp. 13-16. Translations, pp. 469-74.

ElQ 55

Copy, headed Triumphe Petrarcke., the last three lines docketed E. R.

Edited from this MS in Hughey. Thence in Bradner, and in Translations.

Mid-late 16th century

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

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. ff. 219v-20v)

Plutarch's On Curiosity ('Perchance hit might be best to shun at al that home')

Elizabeth's verse translation of Desiderius Erasmus's Latin version of Plutarch's De curiositate, in sixteen chapters. First published in Queen Elizabeth's Englishings, ed. Caroline Pemberton, Early English Text Society, 113 (London, 1899), pp. 121-41. Bradner, pp. 51-68. Selected Works, pp. 296-328. Translations (2), pp. 390-447, with facing modernized spelling version.

ElQ 56

Copy, in the accomplished italic hand of the Queen's amanuensis Thomas Windebank, untitled, on twelve quarto leaves, bound with two unrelated MSS (Royal MSS 17 A. XLII-III).

This is the copy made for the Queen by Windebank referred to in his subscription to ElQ 57.

[11 November 1598]

Edited from this MS in Selected Works.

The British Library: Royal MSS (Royal MS 17 A. XLIV)

*ElQ 57 1598

Autograph

Autograph draft, untitled and here beginning Pchance hit might bi best to Shun at al that ho, subscribed in the hand of the Queen's amanuensis Thomas Windebank 3^o. Noueber. 1598. a^o. xl^o. her Ma^tes translation of a treatise of Curiositie written by Plutark, & putt into English miter. begon the iij^de of this Nouember, & ended the ix^th of the same monith, & copied out by her Ma^tes [order] to me the xiij^to of No., [3-9 November 1598].

Edited from this MS in Pemberton; in Bradner; and, with a facsimile of lines 278-99 on p. 368, in Translations (2). Discussed in Selected Works, pp. 327-8.

A folio volume of partly autograph translations by Queen Elizabeth, 105 leaves (ff. 1r-5r 19th-century notes on the MS), all mounted on guards, in 19th-century red morocco gilt.

1593-8

Accounts (on f. 105v) of cloth bought from John Willet mercer 18 January 1607.

National Archives, Kew (SP 12/289 ff. 90r-9v)

The Second Chorus from Seneca's Hercules Oetaeus ('What harming hurl of fortune's arm thou dreadest')

Bradner, pp. 16-19. Selected Works, pp. 287-95. Translations, pp. 447-56.

ElQ 58 c.1589

Copy, headed A Translatio of Q Elizabeth, in a neat secretary hand.

Edited from this MS in Anglia, 14 (1892), 34; in Bradner; in Selected Works, and in Translations.

A folio composite volume of state tracts, in English and Latin, in various hands, 155 leaves, in limp vellum.

Inscribed (several times), by the principal compiler, ex dono D. Clay: i.e. Dr Robert Clay (1576?-1628), vicar of Halifax.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS e. Mus. 55 ff. 48r-9r)

Prose

(1) Prose Translations attributed to Elizabeth

Boethius's De consolatione philosophiæ

See Boethius's The Consolation of Philosophy, ElQ 51-52.

John Calvin's Institution de la Religion Chrestienne

An English translation by the young Princess Elizabeth of Chapter 1 of Calvin's Institution (Geneva, 1541). Translations, pp. 212-87, in both original and modern spelling versions, with a translation of the French dedicatory letter to Katherine Parr.

*ElQ 59

Autograph

Autograph, on vellum, 89 leaves, in elaborately embroidered binding.

1543

Edited from this MS in Translations, with a facsimile of the embroidered binding as frontispiece. Facsimiles of the dedication to Katherine Parr and of the last page in Margaret H. Swain, A New Year's Gift from the Princess Elizabeth, The Connoisseur, 183 (1973, 258-66 (pp. 263-4). The French dedicatory epistle only edited in Autograph Compositions, pp. 9-12.

National Archives of Scotland (RH13/78)

Cicero's oration titled Pro Marcello

Translations (2), pp. 16-41, facing a modernized spelling version. Selected Works, pp. 268-86.

*ElQ 60 c.1592

Autograph

Autograph MS of the Queen's translation in her cursive hand.

Edited from this MS in Selected Works and in Translations (2), the latter with a facsimile of f. 6r on p. 2.

A folio composite volume, comprising three MSS, in English and Latin, i + 12 leaves, in limp vellum.

Probably presented to the Bodleian in 1639 by Patrick Young (1584-1652), Royal Librarian.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Bodl. 900 ff. 2r-8v)

[Cicero] Translation, by Q. Elizabeth, of one of Tullies Familiar Epistles, given by her to John Haryngton, 1579

First published in Nugae Antiquae, [ed. Henry Harington] (London, 1769), II, 235-7; (1804 edition), I, 140-3. Translations (I), pp. 433-6.

ElQ 61

MS.

Edited from this MS in Nugae Antiquae. Printed thence in Translations.

A collection of papers of Sir John Harington (1560-12) and his family.

Late 16th-early 17th century

Owned by Sir John's descendants Henry Harington (1686-1769) and Dr Henry Harington (1727-1816).

These manuscripts edited in Nugae Antiquae (first published in two volumes, London, 1769); various editions, expanded to 2 vols, ed. Henry Harington [and Thomas Park], London, 1804.

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

Marguerite de Navarre's Le Miroir de l'Âme Pécheresse (The Glass of the Sinful Soul)

The translation first published, edited by John Bale, in A Godly Medytacyon of the Christen Sowle (Marburg, 1548). Translations, pp. 23-125.

*ElQ 62

Autograph

Autograph MS, in the Princess's neat hand, a New Year's Gift presented to Queen Katherine, including (ff. 2r-4v) Elizabeth's prose dedicatory epistle to her and (ff. 5r-6r) a preface to the reader, dated 31 December 1544.

Complete facsimile and transcription in Marc Shell, Elizabeth's Glass (Lincoln, Nebraska, & London, 1993). The dedicatory epistle edited in Collected Works, pp. 6-7, and in Autograph Compositions, pp. 6-7. Edited from this MS in Translations. Facsimile examples of the binding and of f. 2r in The Bodleian Library 1602-2002 (Oxford, 2002), No. 41, pp. 94-5. Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Frances Teague, Princess Elizabeth's Hand in The Glass of the Sinful Soul, EMS, 9 (2000), 33-48.

Autograph MS by Princess Elizabeth, with a prayer by her added by someone else later, on vellum throughout, 65 small quarto-size leaves (including 2 blanks), in an elaborately embroidered binding.

1544

Among collections of Francis Cherry (1665-1713), of Shollesbrooke, Berkshire, nonjuror.

The embroidered binding and dedication to Katherine Parr illustrated in colour in Margaret H. Swain, A New Year's Gift from the Princess Elizabeth, The Connoisseur, 183 (1973, 258-66 (pp. 258-9). Binding also illustrated in colour in Reading Early Modern Women, ed. Helen Ostovich and Elizabeth Sauer (New York & London, 2004), p. 472.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Cherry 36 ff. 2r-63r)

ElQ 63

A semi-calligraphic copy, prepared by or for Thomas Blundeville (1522?-1606?), author and translator, as a formal presentation copy to Catherine Knyvet (1547-1622), Lady Paget, in a professional italic hand, with a title-page, A Godly Meditation of the Soule, concerning a loue towards our Lord Christ. Composed in french, by y^e Vertuous Ladie Margaret Q: of Nauarre, and aptly translated into English, by the right high and most vertuous Princesse, of Late memorie and euer in memorie, Queene Elizabeth -- Who now raigns w^th Christ in heauen; with a dedicatory epistle To the Right Worthy, Vertuous and most honor'd Ladie The Ladie Pagett, Yo^r honors humble deuoted Seruante Thomas Blunville, Wisheth all prosperitie in this life, and life euerlasting in Christ o^r Sauiour; the main text (ff. 4r-29v) followed (f. 30r) by extracts from Ecclesiastes added to the worke, by the Queenes Ma^tie: and (f. 31r) by an anagram on Elizabeth Regina.

c.1603-6

From the library of Edmund Butler (1771-1846), Earl of Kilkenny, Kilkenny Castle, Ireland.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 942 ff. [1r-31r])

Bernardino Ochino's Sermo de Christo

Elizabeth's translation from Italian into Latin. Translations, pp. 300-27, with a translation of the Latin into modern English.

*ElQ 64

Autograph

Autograph manuscript volume prepared by Princess Elizabeth in her italic hand as 64a New Year's gift to Edward VI, 30 December [1547], vii + 36 small quarto-size leaves (plus six blanks at the end), on vellum throughout, in modern crimson velvet.

Elizabeth's translation from Italian into Latin in the Princess's calligraphic roman hand, some words and subheadings rubricated, with a title-page in capitals (f. 1r), Berna/rdini. Oc/hinisene/sis de Chr/isti. Sermo/ ex. Italico, i / Latinv. co/versvs, and dedication to her brother Edward (ff. 2r-4v), dated from Enfeldie, 30 Decembris and signed Elizabeta.

[1547-8]

Inscribed (f. v^r) J. Bowle, Idmerston. July 25, 1759.

Edited from this MS in Translations, with a facsimile of f. 19v on p. 298.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Bodl. 6)

Katharine Parr's Prayers and Meditations

A translation by the young Princess Elizabeth from English into French, Italian and Latin. Translations, pp. 135-99.

*ElQ 65

Autograph

Autograph, on 118 vellum leaves (c.140 x 90 mm.), in crimson velvet, heavily embroidered with silk, gold and silver thread, with the initial H.

A New Year's Gift presented to Henry VIII, with a title-page (f. 1r-v), and a dedicatory prose epistle to the King in Latin (ff. 2r-5r).

30 December 1545

The Latin dedicatory epistle edited in Autograph Compositions, pp. 8-9. The whole work edited from this MS in Translations, with a facsimile of ff. 39r and 79r on pp. 128 and 180.

An English translation of this epistle and a facsimile of f. 2r in Collected Works, pp. 8-10. Facsimiles of ff. 5r and 79r in British Museum Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King's Collection, Vol. IV, ed. Sir George Warner and Julius P. Galson (London, 1921), Plate 53. Facsimile examples of the dedicatory epistle and binding in Margaret H. Swain, A New Year's Gift from the Princess Elizabeth, The Connoisseur, 183 (1973, 258-66 (p. 261) and in Felix Pryor, Elizabeth I: Her Life in Letters (British Library, London, 2003), No. 2, p. 18.

The British Library: Royal MSS (Royal MS 7 D. X)

[Seneca, Epist. cvii] A letter of the Queenes Majesties Translation out of Seneca

First published in Nugae Antiquae, ed. Henry Harington [and Thomas Park], 2 vols (London, 1804), I, 109-14. Translations, pp. 415-21.

ElQ 66

MS, with a note This letter was given by Queene Elizabeth, to her servante, John Harington, in token of remembrance of hir Highness painstaking and learned skyll, 1567, and which he did highly prize and esteem in such sort.

Edited from this MS in Nugae Antiquae. Edited thence in Translations.

A collection of papers of Sir John Harington (1560-12) and his family.

Late 16th-early 17th century

Owned by Sir John's descendants Henry Harington (1686-1769) and Dr Henry Harington (1727-1816).

These manuscripts edited in Nugae Antiquae (first published in two volumes, London, 1769); various editions, expanded to 2 vols, ed. Henry Harington [and Thomas Park], London, 1804.

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

A Dialogue out of Xenophon

First published, as a Translation made by Queen Elizabeth and in her own Hand-writing in Gentleman's Magazine, Miscellaneous Correspondence, No. 2 (1743), 139-57. The attribution rejected outright in Select Works, p. 331.

ElQ 67

MS, in an italic hand.

16th century?

Edited from this MS, as if in the Queen's own Hand-writing, in Gentleman's Magazine (1743). The handwriting shown in the facsimile example given on p. 157 is not Elizabeth's.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Xenophon MS])

(2) Essays and Tracts

Essay 1

Beginning Even such good health, my friend, as never can appair is wished.... First published in Sir John Harington, Nugae Antiquae, 2 vols (London, 1769), I, 11-18. Selected Works, Essay 1, pp. 262-4.

ElQ 68 Late 16th-early 17th century

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, untitled, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed (f. 3v) A coople of lres of the Q endyted & written at one tyme.

A folio guard-book of independent Elizabethan state papers, stamped foliation 1-301.

National Archives, Kew (SP 12/235 f. 2r)

ElQ 69 Late 16th-early 17th century

Copy, in a professional italic hand, untitled, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed (f. 4A^v) A Coople of Letters of the Q. endited & written at one time.

Edited from this MS in Selected Works.

A folio guard-book of independent Elizabethan state papers, stamped foliation 1-301.

National Archives, Kew (SP 12/235 f. 4r)

Essay 2

Beginning A question once was asked me thus: must ought be denied a friend's request?.... First published in Sir John Harington, Nugae Antiquae, 2 vols (London, 1769), I, 11-18. Selected Works, Essay 2, pp. 265-6.

ElQ 70 Late 16th-early 17th century

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, untitled, on the third page of two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed (f. 3v) A coople of lres of the Q endyted & written at one tyme.

A folio guard-book of independent Elizabethan state papers, stamped foliation 1-301.

National Archives, Kew (SP 12/235 f. 3r)

ElQ 71 Late 16th-early 17th century

Copy, in a professional italic hand, untitled, on the third page of two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed (f. 4A^v) A Coople of Letters of the Q. endited & written at one time.

Edited from this MS in Selected Works.

A folio guard-book of independent Elizabethan state papers, stamped foliation 1-301.

National Archives, Kew (SP 12/235 f. 4A^r)

The royal antiquity and Princely Divinity of Royall Queene Eliza

A treatise, beginning When Princes come to their gouernment..., allegedly written by the Queen's own hand. Unpublished.

ElQ 72

Copy, in a secretary hand, 156 octavo pages, in quarter-vellum boards.

With a title-page and lengthy preamble, The royal antiquity and Princely Divinity of Royall Queene Eliza both drawne forth of the Originall Manuscript written w^th hir Ma^tes owne hand shortly after hir Coming to y^e goum^t ... Neuer yet Published But penned by hir Ma^tie for hir owne priuate vse and Contentment.

Early 17th century

Modern bookplate of Henry Puckering.

Trinity College, Cambridge (MS R. 7. 30 (James 772))

(3) Prayers

Queen Elizabeth's Prayer at Bristol, August 15, 1574

Beginning I render unto thee, O merciful and heavenly Father, most humble and hearty thanks.... Collected Works, Prayers 29, pp. 310-11. Selected Works, Prayer 1, pp. 246-8.

ElQ 73 Late 17th century

Copy, headed A Prayer made by her Majesty y^e 15^th of August being then in Bristow in hir progress, on two pages of a pair of conjugate quarto leaves.

An unbound collection of copies of royal letters and papers, in various hands.

Volume DXIX of the Portland Papers, owned by the Harley family, of Brampton Bryan, and related families of Vere, Hollis, and Cavendish, and of Cavendish-Bentinck, Dukes of Portland.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 70519 No. LXXIII)

ElQ 74 c.1574

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed A praier made by her Ma^tie the 15 of Aug beinge then in Bristowe, on one side of a single folio leaf, endorsed A praier made by Queene Elizabethe.

Edited from this MS in Collected Works. Cited in Selected Works.

A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 272 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

Among collections of John Strype (1643-1737), ecclesiastical historian and biographer, incorporating papers of William Cecil (1520/21-98), first Baron Burghley, secretary of state.

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 115 f. 108r)

ElQ 75 c.1574

Copy, in a neat italic hand, untitled, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed The Q prayer / After a Progress. / Entered / Aug. 15 being then a [sic] Bristow.

Edited from this MS in Selected Works.

A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 87 leaves, in modern crushed morocco gilt.

Among collections of John Strype (1643-1737), ecclesiastical historian and biographer, incorporating papers of William Cecil (1520/21-98), first Baron Burghley, secretary of state.

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 116 f. 71r)

ElQ 76

Copy, headed A prayer made by the quens ma the 15. of August 1574. beying then in Brysto.

Edited from this MS in Michael Brennan, Two Private Prayers by Queen Elizabeth I, N&Q, 230 (March 1985), 26-8 (p. 28). Cited in Selected Works.

A small quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in three or more hands, 142 leaves, in quarter-calf.

c.1580

Once owned by one W. Kytton.

Cambridge University Library, shelfmarks E through F (MS Ff. 5. 14 f. 109r-v)

The First English Prayer

Beginning O most glorious king and Creator of the whole world, to whom all things be subject.... Collected Works, Prayers 30, pp. 311-13. Autograph Compositions, pp. 44-5.

*ElQ 77

Autograph

Edited from this MS in Collected Works. Printed in Autograph Compositions.

A small prayer book, 38 vellum leaves, 2 inches wide by 3 inches long.

Written in a calligraphic script, some letters gilded, containing two miniatures by Nicholas Hilliard, one of Elizabeth, the other of the Duc d'Anjou, bound in shagreen with gold enameled clasps, in the centre of each is a small ruby.

c.1579-82

Subsequently given by James II to the Duke of Berwick. Later owned by Horace Walpole and then by the Duchess of Portland, who sold it on 24 May 1786. Bought by Queen Charlotte, who gave it to the dowager Duchess of Leeds. Exhibited in 1902 by J.W. Whitehead, of Southwood, at the Fine Art Society.

Photostats of the volume are in the British Library, Facsimile MS 218, which are annotated with a description by J. W. [Whitehead] dated 3 June 1893.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Elizabeth Prayer Book] ff. 3r-8r)

The French Prayer

Beginning Mon Dieu et mon pere puie qu'il ta pleu desployer les tresore de ta grande miserecorde..., in Autograph Compositions, pp. 46-7. The English translation beginning My God and my Father, since it has pleased thee to extend the treasures of Thy great mercy..., in Collected Works, Prayers 31, pp. 313-15.

*ElQ 78

Autograph

Autograph.

Printed from the facsimile in Autograph Compositions.

A small prayer book, 38 vellum leaves, 2 inches wide by 3 inches long.

c.1579-82

Photostats of the volume are in the British Library, Facsimile MS 218, which are annotated with a description by J. W. [Whitehead] dated 3 June 1893.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Elizabeth Prayer Book] ff. 8r-14v)

The Italian Prayer

Beginning Riconoscendo veramente sinceramente io confesso hauer date solo o sommo Imperador e clementissimo mio Padre riceuuto..., in Autograph Compositions, pp. 48-9. The English translation beginning Acknowledging truly, sincerely, I confess to having received from Thee alone..., in Collected Works, Prayers 32, pp. 315-17.

*ElQ 79

Autograph

Autograph.

Printed from the facsimile in Autograph Compositions.

A small prayer book, 38 vellum leaves, 2 inches wide by 3 inches long.

c.1579-82

Photostats of the volume are in the British Library, Facsimile MS 218, which are annotated with a description by J. W. [Whitehead] dated 3 June 1893.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Elizabeth Prayer Book] ff. 15r-20v)

The Latin Prayer

Beginning Domine Deus, aeterne Pater, cuius est potentia imperium et gloria..., in Autograph Compositions, pp. 49-50. The English translation beginning Lord God, everlasting Father, whose is the power, the kingdom, and the glory..., in Collected Works, Prayers 33, pp. 317-18.

*ElQ 80

Autograph

Autograph.

Printed from the facsimile in Autograph Compositions. Facsimile reproductions from that facsimile of the two miniatures in Collected Works on pp. 312 and 320.

A small prayer book, 38 vellum leaves, 2 inches wide by 3 inches long.

c.1579-82

Photostats of the volume are in the British Library, Facsimile MS 218, which are annotated with a description by J. W. [Whitehead] dated 3 June 1893.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Elizabeth Prayer Book] ff. 21r-6v)

The Greek Prayer

The Greek text in Autograph Compositions, pp. 51-2. The English translation beginning Whenever I reflect upon the evils of this world, the doings of the wicked.... Collected Works, Prayers 34, pp. 318-19.

*ElQ 81

Autograph

Autograph.

Printed from the facsimile in Autograph Compositions.

A small prayer book, 38 vellum leaves, 2 inches wide by 3 inches long.

c.1579-82

Photostats of the volume are in the British Library, Facsimile MS 218, which are annotated with a description by J. W. [Whitehead] dated 3 June 1893.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Elizabeth Prayer Book] ff. 27r-30r)

The Second English Prayer

Beginning O Lord God, Father everlasting, which reignest over the kingdoms of men.... Collected Works, Prayers 35, pp. 319-21. Autograph Compositions, pp. 52-3.

*ElQ 82

Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from the facsimile in Collected Works. Printed in Autograph Compositions.

A small prayer book, 38 vellum leaves, 2 inches wide by 3 inches long.

c.1579-82

Photostats of the volume are in the British Library, Facsimile MS 218, which are annotated with a description by J. W. [Whitehead] dated 3 June 1893.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Elizabeth Prayer Book] ff. 31r-6r)

On the Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 1588

Beginning Most powerful and largest-giving God, whose ears it hath pleased so benignly to grace the petitions of us Thy devoted servant.... Collected Works, Prayer 36, p. 423. Autograph Compositions, pp. 84-5. Selected Works, Prayer 3, pp. 252-3 (as Undated, possibly written after the 1591 expedition to France).

*ElQ 83

Autograph

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

c.1590s

Edited from this MS in Selected Works.

The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House (Cecil Papers 147/155)

ElQ 83.5

Autograph draft.

Edited from this MS in Autograph Compositions, and in Collected Works, with a facsimile on p. 422.

The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House (Cecil Papers 147/214)

On the Defeat of the Spanish Armada, September 1588

Beginning Everlasting and omnipotent Creator, Redeemer, and Concerver, when it seemed most fit time.... First published in Thomas Sorocold, Supplication of Saints (London, 1612), sig. N7-8v. Collected Works, Prayer 37, pp. 424-5. Selected Works, Prayer 2, pp. 249-51 (giving date as August 1588).

ElQ 84

Copy.

See Huntington, EL 6162, f. 2a^r.

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks A through E (EL 1205c)

ElQ 85

Copy.

This MS entry separately classified as EL 2072. Printed from this MS, in both a diplomatic and an edited version, in Tucker Brooke, Queen Elizabeth's Prayers, HLQ, 2 (1938-9), 69-77 (pp. 71-2). Edited from this MS in Collected Works. Cited in Selected Works.

A large folio volume of prose tracts, verse, and devotional material, in a single secretary hand but for a series of engrossed indentures in a formal professional hand on ff. 3r-17v, written from both ends (ff. 1r-84v and ff. 1a^r-51a^v respectively), 134 leaves in all.

c.1603

Inscribed names Gilbert Rye and William Norris and a reference (on f. 6a^v) to Doctor Gylbart.

The entries were at one time given separate library EL numbers ranging (intermittently) from EL 1183c to EL 6172 at one end and from EL 1183a to EL 6206 from the reverse end.

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks A through E (EL 6162 f. 2a^r)

On the Sailing of the Cadiz Expedition, May 1596

Beginning Most omnipotent Maker and Guider of all our world's mass, that only searchest and fathomest.... Collected Works, Prayer 38, pp. 425-6. Selected Works, Prayer 4, pp. 254-6 (as For the success of the expedition against Spain, June 1596).

ElQ 86

Copy, headed Her Ma^tie prayer. Early 17th century.

This MS cited in Selected Works.

A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous state tracts, speeches, and verse, in various largely professional hands, iv + 413 leaves (including a thirty-page index and some blanks), in half-calf (rebacked).

Transcribed from the Yelverton papers chiefly belonging to Sir Christopher Yelverton (1535?-1612), Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), and their family.

Owned in 1679 by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732), annalist and book collector.

All Souls College, Oxford (MS 155 f. 10r)

ElQ 87

Copy, headed A moste Brief Pithy and Profound Private Prayer for the Prosperus good success and happy returne of this her Maiestyes Navy and Army Royall made and composed by the Queenes Ma^tie.

This MS collated in Collected Works. Cited in Selected Works.

A folio volume of historical collections, 113 leaves, in 18th-century half calf.

Owned on 2 July 1709, and largely compiled, by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), antiquary.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. B. 259 ff. 53v-4r)

ElQ 88

Copy, headed A prayer composed by the Queenes Ma^tie for the psperous sucese of her highnes forces imbarqued for invading of the kinge of Spaines Dominions vnder the conduct of the Earle of Essex, And the Lo: Admirall, Ao: dno: 1596. et Regni An 38.

This MS cited in Selected Works.

A folio commonplace book of miscellaneous historical material, in Latin and English, iii + 145 leaves (including blanks), in vellum.

Originally used as a commonplace book by T. Metcalf in 1598 (up to f. 63v), and then by James Ussher (1581-1656), Archbishop of Armagh.

First half of 17th century

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Add. C. 299 f. 67a^r)

ElQ 89

Copy, dated in the margin Anno. 1596 and headed A prayer made by her Ma^tie herself, on the behalf of her Army, sent into Spaine vnder the Conduct of the right honorable Robert Earle of Essex, and charles lo: Howard, Lord high Admirall of England ll^s gen^ralls of the same.

Edited from this MS in Collected Works. Cited in Selected Works.

A folio miscellany of state papers, verse and prose, in several hands, vi + 105 leaves, in a recycled 13th-century vellum text, now within modern half dark red morocco.

Compiled by Sir Edward Hoby (1560-1617), politician and diplomat.

c.1580s-90s

Bookplate of George Dunn (1865-1912), of Woolley Hall, near Maidenhead, Berkshire, antiquary. Sotheby's, 11 February 1914 (Dunn sale), lot 1198.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 35000 through 39999 (Add. MS 38823 f. 96r)

ElQ 90

Copy, headed The Prayer w^ch S^r Robert Cicill sent to the Earle of Essex wth afore written letters made by the Queene Elizabeth.

A quarto composite volume of state papers and printed material relating to Queen Elizabeth and the Earl of Essex, in various hands, ff. 3r-87r in the neat secretary hand possibly of one M. K. whose initials appear on the title-page (f. 3r), 161 leaves, with a table of contents (ff. 4r-5v), in modern half-morocco.

Collected by Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian.

Early 17th century-1630s

Inscribed (f. 2r) R^d Bankes Anno Dni 1708; (f. 1r) Tho: Birch Januarii 8. 1752; and (f. 96r) Tho. Birch 28. Janua: 1754.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 4101 through 4999 (Add. MS 4130 f. 32r-v)

ElQ 91

Copy of the prayer, followed (ff. 4v-5r) by Marbeck's homely translation into Latin.

A formal copy of an account of the sacking of Cadiz in 1596, by Roger Marbeck, prebendary of Hereford, formerly Provost of Oriel College, Oxford, in a professional secretary and italic hand, with (f. 2v) a sidenote giving apparently printing instructions (Original of her declaration & lords decree to be set down), 24 quarto leaves, in vellum gilt.

c.1600

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. D. 124 f. 4r-v)

ElQ 92

Copy, headed Her ma^ties. pryuat meditation vpon y^e present expedition, sent from S^r Robt Cecyll to y^e Gnalls of her Higes Army, at Plymouth inclosed in this lre heerevnder written, on one side of a single small quarto-size leaf, with a scribbled endorsement in a different hand Praier of her Ma^tie vpo y^e expeditio anents Spaine A^o 96. c.1596.

This MS cited in Selected Works.

A folio composite volume of state papers and tracts relating to Admiralty matters principally during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, 458 leaves, badly damaged by the fire of 1732, in modern crushed morocco gilt.

In various largely professional hands, including (ff. 56r-7v, 336r-8r) that of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), merchant and antiquary.

The British Library: Cotton MSS (Cotton MS Otho E. IX f. 209r)

ElQ 93 Early 17th century

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed A praier of the Quene after the Launchinge to sea of thenglysh Navye by the augst hes therle of Esex in June 1596. a^o R...38.

An independent quire of seven folio leaves containing three satires by Donne, in two hands, headed Jhon Dunne his Satires Anno Domini 1593, on ff. 95r-101v.

In a folio composite volume of verse, drama and orations, in various hands, 149 leaves, in modern half morocco gilt.

Early 17th century

Inscribed by Wanley (ff. 1r and 95r) with date of his acquition for the Harley library, 16 October. 1725. Among the collections of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724), and his son, Edward, second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741).

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Harley Satires MS: DnJ Δ 31.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 5000 through 5999 (Harley MS 5110 f. 10r)

ElQ 94 c.1596

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled but subscribed The Queenes prayer for the navy. An do. 1596, following a list of army regiments and preachers in 1596.

A folio composite volume of state papers and parliamentary speeches, in various hands, 337 leaves, in modern red morocco gilt.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6849 f. 257r)

ElQ 95

Copy, in a professional italic hand, untitled but with a sidenote Her Ma^ts pryvate Medytacion vppon y^e recent Expedytion against y^e Spaniard in 1596, the second item on one side of a single folio leaf, endorsed Juine 1596 A Prayer made by y^e Q. w^th a lre of m^r secretary [Cecil] to y^e Erl of Essex and y^e L. Admirall.

Edited from this MS in Selected Works.

A folio composite volume of state letters and papers, in various largely professional hands, 236 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

Papers of William Cecil (1520/21-98), first Baron Burghley, secretary of state.

Bookplate (as Shelburne) of William Petty (1737-1805), second Earl of Shelburne and first Marquess of Lansdowne, Prime Minister.

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 82 f. 161r)

ElQ 96

Copy of the prayer, introduced by Marbeck ...there came to my handes a prayer in Englishe, touchinge this present action, and made by her Ma^tie: as it was voyced, followed (ff. 5v-6r) by My homelie translation (into Latin, beginning Summe prepotens Deus immens...).

A formal copy, in an accomplished secretary hand, of A Breefe and a true Discourse of the late honorable voyage vnto Spaine and of the wynning, sacking and burning of the famous Towne of Cadiz...by Docter Marbeck attending vpon...the Lorde High Admirall..., 31 quarto leaves, in modern half morocco on cloth boards gilt.

By and possibly in the hand of Roger Marbeck (1536-1605), Provost of Oriel College, Oxford, and Physician to Queen Elizabeth.

c.1596

Inscribed (f. 1r) Michael Reunolds his book Anno 1645, (f. 1v) Fran: Harewell of Birlingha oueth this Booke, and (f. 31r) Liber francisci Harewell De Birlingha Armig^r.

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 226 f. 5r-v)

ElQ 96.5

Copy of the prayer, in a professional secretary hand, headed The Praier is thus, and followed (ff. 354v-5r) by a Latin version, in a copy (on ff. 353r-69v) of Roger Marbeck's account of the taking of Cadiz in 1596.

A folio volume of state and miscellaneous tracts, dating from 1572 to 1635, in various professional secretary hands, 386 leaves.

Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor, 1701.

The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 159 f. 354v)

ElQ 97 c.1600

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, subscribed E. R:.

This MS cited in Selected Works.

A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, ii + 91 leaves, virtually disbound.

The Folger Shakespeare Library: V.b. series (MS V.b.142 f. 20r)

ElQ 98

Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, untitled.

This MS cited in Selected Works.

A thick folio volume of state letters and tracts, a number relating to Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, in several largely secretary hands, 271 leaves, in contemporary calf (rebacked).

Early 1600s

Inscribed (front pastedown) Die veneris. Julij: 1^o 1601. per me Richardu Greenen and Thomas Scott; (f. 3r) G. Scott; (f. 271v) Thomas Scott, Thomas Payne, Will^m Scott. Bookplate Ex Libris Chambrun-Longworth. Formerly Folger MS 6185.1.

This volume discussed in James G. McManaway, Elizabeth, Essex, and James, in Elizabethan and Jacobean Studies Presented to Frank Percy Wilson (Oxford, 1959), pp. 219-30 (p. 221 et seq.).

The Folger Shakespeare Library: V.b. series (MS V.b.214 f. 226r)

ElQ 99

Copy, headed her Ma^ties previe admion vpon this p^rsent expedicion, when my L of Essex was generall at the wynning of Colse.

This MS entry separately classified as EL 1205c. Printed from this MS, in both a diplomatic and an edited version, in Tucker Brooke, Queen Elizabeth's Prayers, HLQ, 2 (1938-9), 69-77 (p. 75). This MS collated in Collected Works. Cited in Selected Works.

c.1603

Inscribed names Gilbert Rye and William Norris and a reference (on f. 6a^v) to Doctor Gylbart.

The entries were at one time given separate library EL numbers ranging (intermittently) from EL 1183c to EL 6172 at one end and from EL 1183a to EL 6206 from the reverse end.

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks A through E (EL 6162 f. 2a^r)

ElQ 100 c.1600

Copy, written lengthways down the margin, headed A praier made by her Ma^tie vpon the Settinge furth of the Army to Cales: 1596.

This MS cited in Collected Works and in Selected Works.

A folio composite volume of largely state and parliamentary papers, in several professional secretary hands, 202 leaves, in red morocco gilt.

Inner Temple Library (Petyt MS 538, Vol. 10 f. 6r)

ElQ 101

Copy, headed Queene Eliz: lre: or prayer for the prosperous successe of Thear[le] of Essex at Cales.

The text is subscribed This lre being written by her ma^tie: & lieing in her closett vnsent one of her maides of honor priuately tooke the same lre and showed to S^r. Robert Cicill who tooke a Copie therof & laide yt where it was found and then wrott that ler: to gather w^th his owne here vnder written to The Earles at Oates. This is subscribed (f. 33r) with the text of Cecil's letter.

This MS cited in Selected Works.

A folio volume of transcripts of state papers, in a secretary hand, i + 41 leaves, in contemporary vellum with remains of ties.

c.1610

Names inscribed on f. [i^r]: John Humphreys and D [?] Wynn.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS fb 9 f. 33r)

On the Sailing of the Azores Expedition, July 1597

Beginning O God, All-maker, Keeper, and Guider, inurement of thy rare-seen, unused and seld-heard-of goodness.... Collected Works, Prayer 39, pp. 426-7. Autograph Compositions, pp. 104-5. Selected Works, Prayer 5, pp. 257-9.

ElQ 102 c.1597

Copy, in an unidentified italic hand, headed A praier made by her Mat^ie.

Edited from this MS, in both a diplomatic and an edited version, in Tucker Brooke, Queen Elizabeth's Prayers, HLQ, 2 (1938-90, 69-77 (p. 77). Cited in Selected Works.

Autograph MS by Princess Elizabeth, with a prayer by her added by someone else later, on vellum throughout, 65 small quarto-size leaves (including 2 blanks), in an elaborately embroidered binding.

1544

Among collections of Francis Cherry (1665-1713), of Shollesbrooke, Berkshire, nonjuror.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Cherry 36 ff. 63v-4r)

ElQ 103

Copy.

This MS cited in Collected Works and in Selected Works.

A folio miscellany of state papers, verse and prose, in several hands, vi + 105 leaves, in a recycled 13th-century vellum text, now within modern half dark red morocco.

Compiled by Sir Edward Hoby (1560-1617), politician and diplomat.

c.1580s-90s

Bookplate of George Dunn (1865-1912), of Woolley Hall, near Maidenhead, Berkshire, antiquary. Sotheby's, 11 February 1914 (Dunn sale), lot 1198.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 35000 through 39999 (Add. MS 38823 f. 96r)

ElQ 104

Copy, headed A prayer mayd by the Queenes < > for the prosperos successe of the Journy begonn <> 15<>, on one side of a quarto leaf, damaged by the fire of 1732.

This MS cited in Selected Works.

A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 338 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

The British Library: Cotton MSS (MS Galba D. XII f. 139r)

ElQ 105

Copy, in a professional italic hand, on one side of half a folio leaf, endorsed in another hand The Quenes ma prayer at the goinge owt of the navye 1597. c.1597.

Edited from this MS (as in the hand of Elizabeth or a capable imitator) in Autograph Compositions. Edited from this MS (as being autograph) in Collected Works. Cited in Selected Works (as a scribal copy that lacks Elizabeth's characteristic letter forms and spellings). This MS prayer is not autograph.

A folio composite volume of royal letters and papers, in various hands, 219 leaves.

Fol. 58 docketed Given by M^r Geo. Holmes.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6986 f. 58r)

ElQ 106 1st half 18th century

Copy, in a neat hand, headed Queen Elizabeth's Prayer, at the going out of her Navy (upon the Expedition called the Islands Voyage) A^o. 1597, on one side of a single folio leaf.

A folio composite volume of state and parliamentary papers, in various hands, 296 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 7000 through end (Harley MS 7188 f. 235r)

ElQ 107

Copy, in a formal secretary hand, headed in an italic hand somewhat resembling Ralegh's A prayer made by the queene at the departure of the fleet, on the second page of A iournall of all the particularities that fell out in the voyadge vnder the Chardge of the tow lls generally (partly in the same italic hand and occupying ff. 338r-73r).

This MS cited in Selected Works.

A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, relating to Elizabethan voyages, in various hands, 475 leaves, in modern calf.

The first item inscribed (f. 1r) This boke ys myn / Iohn fford. Among papers of the Carew family.

Lambeth Palace Library (MS 250 f. 338v)

(4) Speeches

Queen Elizabeth's First Speech, Hatfield, November 20, 1558

Words spoken by her majesty to Mr. Cecil beginning I give you this charge, that you shall be of my privy Council.... Collected Works, Speech 1, p. 51. Selected Works, Speeches 1, pp. 32-3.

ElQ 109 Early 18th century

Copy, headed Quee Elizabeths speech to her Secretary and other her Lords before her Coronation. / Wordes Spoken by her Ma^tie To Mr Cicille.

This MS cited in Heisch.

A folio composite volume of chiefly Elizabethan and Jacobean parliamentary proceedings, in various hands, 128 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco.

The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 361 f. 1r)

ElQ 110 c.1560

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, on a single folio leaf, endorsed Q Elisabeth spetch to her secretary & other her Lordes befor her coronation.

Edited from this MS in Collected Works and in Selected Works.

A folio guard-book of independendent Elizabethan state papers, stamped foliation 1-163.

National Archives, Kew (SP 12/1 f. 12r (item 7))

ElQ 111 Late 16th century

Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, on a folio leaf.

This MS cited in Selected Works.

A folio guard-book of independendent Elizabethan state papers, stamped foliation 1-163.

National Archives, Kew (SP 12/1 f. 13r (item 7))

ElQ 112

Copy of the Words spoken by the Quene to the Lordes, at her Accession

Edited from this MS in Nugae Antiquae (1769), I, 114-16; (1804), I, 66-8.

A collection of papers of Sir John Harington (1560-12) and his family.

Late 16th-early 17th century

Owned by Sir John's descendants Henry Harington (1686-1769) and Dr Henry Harington (1727-1816).

These manuscripts edited in Nugae Antiquae (first published in two volumes, London, 1769); various editions, expanded to 2 vols, ed. Henry Harington [and Thomas Park], London, 1804.

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

Words Spoken by the Queen to the Lords, January 1559

Words spoken by the queen to the lords beginning My lords, the law of nature moveth me to sorrow for my sister.... Collected Works, pp. 51-2 (linked to Speech 1 as if spoken on 20 November 1558). Selected Works, Speech 2, pp. 34-6 (and dated January 1559).

ElQ 113

Copy, headed Words Spoken by the Queene. To the Lords. Early 18th century.

A folio composite volume of chiefly Elizabethan and Jacobean parliamentary proceedings, in various hands, 128 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco.

The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 361 f. 1r-v)

ElQ 114

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, on a single folio leaf, endorsed Q Elisabeth spetch to her secretary & other her Lordes befor her coronation.

A folio guard-book of independendent Elizabethan state papers, stamped foliation 1-163.

National Archives, Kew (SP 12/1 f. 12r (item 7))

ElQ 115 Late 16th century

Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, on a folio leaf.

A folio guard-book of independendent Elizabethan state papers, stamped foliation 1-163.

National Archives, Kew (SP 12/1 f. 13r-v (item 7))

Queen Elizabeth's First Speech before Parliament, February 10, 1559

First published in Richard Grafton, An Abridgement of the Chronicles of England (London, 1563), 179v-80.

Version I. Beginning As I have good cause, so do I give you all my hearty thanks.... Hartley, I, 44-5. Collected Works, Speech 3, pp. 56-8 (Version 1).

Version II. Beginning In a thing which is not much pleasing unto me.... Collected Works, pp. 58-60 (Version 2).

ElQ 116

Copy, in a neat hand, headed ffrydaie the 10^th of ffebruary 1559 / the answere of y^e queenes highnes to y^e petition proposed vnto her by the lower house concerninge her marriage, and here beginning And to y^e first I maie saye unto y^w..., on one side of a single broadsheet. Late 16th century.

Edited partly from this MS in Hartley.

A folio composite volume of proceedings and speeches in parliament, in various hands, 385 leaves.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. D. 723 f. 31r)

ElQ 117 c.1558

Copy of Version I, in a professional secretary hand, with deletions, untitled, docketed at the top in January 1558 in the hand of William Cecil, Lord Burghley, on two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed (f. 84v) 1558 Thanswer of the Quenes ma^tie followed in Burghley's hand To y^e Plement howse, requiring...hir to Marry.

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous state letters and papers, in various hands, viii + 390 leaves, in dark blue morocco gilt.

Volume DXVIII of the Portland Papers, owned by the Harley family, of Brampton Bryan, and related families of Vere, Hollis, and Cavendish, and of Cavendish-Bentinck, Dukes of Portland.

Formerly Loan MS 29/240.

Recorded in HMC, Portland, II, 5-64.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 70518 f. 83r-v)

ElQ 118

Copy of a reported form of Version I, introduced The Queene...returned answeare, that shee gaue them greate thankes (as shee saw greate cause) for the loue and care, w^ch they did expresse....

This MS recorded in Hartley.

A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several professional hands, 192 leaves, in modern calf gilt.

Inscribed (f. [ir]) by Humfrey Wanley with date of accession into the Harley Library 25 Novembris, A.D. 1723.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6021 ff. 76r-7r)

ElQ 119

Copy of Version 1, in a professional italic hand, headed The answere of y^e Quenes highnes to y^e peticion proposed vnto hir by y^e lower howse concerning hir mariage, on one side of a single folio leaf, docketed Q. Eliz. Speech / Double.

Edited principally from this MS in Hartley and in Collected Works.

A folio composite volume of state letters and papers, in various hands, 196 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt.

Comprising papers of William Cecil (1520/21-98), first Baron Burghley, secretary of state.

Bookplate (as Shelburne) of William Petty (1737-1805), second Earl of Shelburne and first Marquess of Lansdowne, Prime Minister.

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 94 f. 29r)

ElQ 120

Copy, headed The answere of Queene Elyzabeth to the Comons of the Lowe howse who movede her to marrye and to take ordere for the succession the fyrst yer of her Reygne.

Edited in part from this MS in Collected Works.

A folio volume of state tracts, largely in one secretary hand, 409 pages (including a later index and blanks), in contemporary calf gilt.

Late 16th century

Cambridge University Library, shelfmarks G through L (MS Gg. 3. 34 pp. 199-201)

ElQ 121 c.1559

Copy of Version 1, in a professional secretary hand, untitled, incomplete, endorsed (f. 86v) The Quenes answere to the plamet house, foliated in pencil 22r.

This MS recorded in Hartley.

A folio guard-book of independent Elizabethan state papers, stamped foliation 1-214.

National Archives, Kew (SP 12/2 f. 85r (item 22))

ElQ 122 Early 17th century

Copy of Version 1, in a predominantly italic hand, untitled, incomplete, foliated in pencil 4, endorsed on a second folio leaf (f. 7v) The Queens Answer to the Parlement house, presumably a copy of ElQ 121.

This MS recorded in Hartley.

A folio guard-book of independent Elizabethan state papers, stamped foliation 1-230.

National Archives, Kew (SP 12/41 f. 6r-v)

Queen Elizabeth's Conversations with the Scottish Ambassador, William Maitland, Laird of Lethington, September and October 1561

Collected Works, Speech 4, pp. 60-70.

ElQ 123

Copy, in a Scottish secretary hand, headed The discourse of the laird of Lethingtouns Negociatioun w^th the quene of ingland..., imperfect at the end. Mid-late 16th century.

Edited in part from this MS in Collected Works.

A folio composite volume of Scottish state papers and tracts, chiefly relating to Mary Queen of Scots, in various hands, 301 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

The British Library: Royal MSS (Royal MS 18 B. VI ff. 263r-5r)

ElQ 124 c.1561

Copy, in a Scottish secretary hand, imperfect, lacking its first leaf.

Edited in part from this MS in Collected Works.

A folio composite volume of Scottish state papers and tracts, chiefly relating to Mary Queen of Scots, in various hands, 301 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

The British Library: Royal MSS (Royal MS 18 B. VI ff. 270r-1v)

ElQ 125

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, imperfect.

This MS cited in Collected Works.

A large folio register of the Scottish Privy Council, in various professional secretary hands, 76 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in later blind-stamped calf.

Late 16th century

National Archives of Scotland (PC5/2 ff. 12r-14v)

Queen Elizabeth's Answer to the Commons' Petition that she Marry, January 28, 1563

Beginning Williams, I have heard by you the common request of my Commons.... First published (from a lost MS) in Nugae Antiquae, ed. Henry Harington (London, 1804), I, 80-3. Hartley, I, 94-5. Collected Works, Speech 5, pp. 70-2. Selected Works, Speech 3, pp. 37-41.

ElQ 126

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed in another hand Q: Eliz^th: speech in Parliament, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves. Late 16th century.

This MS cited in Hartley.

A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 209 leaves.

The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House (Dudley Papers, Vol. 3 ff. 37r-8r)

ElQ 127

Copy, headed Queen Elizabeths Answeare to M^r wilbraham the speaker.

A folio volume of Speeches in Parliam^t and other speeches with seuerall letters of Concernm^t being of great Antiquitie...And some other speeches and Letters relateing to these late distracted tymes, iv + 165 leaves, in calf gilt.

Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 18 of the Hopkinson MSS.

1660

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. 296-7.

Bradford Archives (32D86/18 ff. 11r-12r)

ElQ 128

Copy, headed The aunsweare by the Q: ma^tie to William.

Edited partly from this MS in Hartley. Cited in Selected Works.

A large double-folio formal volume of state papers of c.1545-80, arranged according to subject, in a single professional secretary hand, on 46 leaves of vellum, in half green morocco.

c.1590s

Bookplate of Richard Towneley, of Townely Hall, near Burnley, Lancashire, dated 1702. Sotheby's, 27-28 June 1883 (Towneley sale), lot 170, to Quaritch. Quaritch's sale catalogue of English Literature (August-November 1884), item 22349. Presented by William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst (1835-1908), first Baron Amherst of Hackney, 13 April 1887.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 30000 through 34999 (Add. MS 33271 f. 13r)

ElQ 129

Copy, in a professional secretary hand.

A folio volume of state letters and tracts, in several professional secretary hands, the letters on pp. 877-1039 arranged under genre headings (Aduise, Aunsweares, Comendatory, etc.), 1039 pages, in old blind-stamped calf (rebacked).

c.1595-1620s

Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist and book collector. Sotheby's, 14 December 1976, lot 47, to Hofmann & Freeman. Then owned by Peter Beal, London. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 88, with a facsimile example.

A microfilm of this volume is in the British Library, RP 2102.

Meisei University (MR 0840 pp. 946-8)

ElQ 130

Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand, untitled, on two conjugate folio leaves, annotated in the hand of William Cecil, following a copy in the same professional hand (ff. 135r-42r) of the Lords' petition, endorsed by Cecil (f. 144v) The orations made in plemet by y^e Lordes and Comons w^t the Q. Mates answer there-to, imperfect. 1563.

Edited principally from this MS in Hartley, in Collected Works, and in Selected Works. Cited in Heisch.

A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 288 leaves, in red morocco.

National Archives, Kew (SP 12/27 ff. 143r-4r)

ElQ 131 Late 16th-early 17th-century

Copy, in an italic hand, probably transcribed from ElQ 130, untitled, dated in the margin 1563, on two folio leaves following a copy in the same hand (ff. 146r-53r) of the Lords' petition, endorsed (f. 154v) The Orations made in the Parlement by the Lords and Commons, with the Q. Ma^ties answer thereto.

Edited in part from this MS in Collected Works and in Selected Works.

A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 288 leaves, in red morocco.

National Archives, Kew (SP 12/27 ff. 153r-4v)

ElQ 132

Copy, in the cursive secretary hand of Sir Francis Knollys (1511/12-96), Privy Counsellor, untitled, on three pages of a pair of unbound conjugate folio leaves, endosed The Q late at the Parlamentt, once folded as a letter or packet.

c.1563

This MS cited in Hartley.

Northamptonshire Record Office (F(M) P 170)

ElQ 133

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Nugae Antiquae (1769), II, 199-201; (1804), I, 80-3.

A collection of papers of Sir John Harington (1560-12) and his family.

Late 16th-early 17th century

Owned by Sir John's descendants Henry Harington (1686-1769) and Dr Henry Harington (1727-1816).

These manuscripts edited in Nugae Antiquae (first published in two volumes, London, 1769); various editions, expanded to 2 vols, ed. Henry Harington [and Thomas Park], London, 1804.

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

Queen Elizabeth's Answer to the Lords' Petition that she Marry, April 10, 1563, delivered by Lord Keeper Nicholas Bacon

First published in Simonds D'Ewes, The Journalls of All the Parliaments during the Raign of Queen Elizabeth (London, 1682), pp. 107-8.

Beginning Since there can be no duer debt than princes' words.... Hartley, I, 114-15 (2 texts). Collected Works, Speech 6, pp. 79-80. Selected Works, Speech 4, pp. 42-4.

ElQ 134

Copy, headed The Quenes Ma^tyes. answere to the Petitions exhibited.

Edited from this MS in Collected Works. Partly from this MS in Hartley (his Text ii).

A quarto volume of state papers, principally letters and speeches of Sir Nicholas Bacon (1510-79), Lord Keeper, in several professional secretary hands, 81 leaves, in contemporary vellum gilt, now within 19th-century half red morocco.

Apparently prepared by Tho: Mynatts for presentation to Sir Christopher Hatton (c.1540-91), Lord Chancellor, with a dedicatory epistle to him (ff. 1r-2r) subscribed with Mynatts's italic signature, he describing himself as a poore clerke whoe have served in her Majestys Courte of Starr Chamber, his sources having come to his hands by y^e guifte of one of his sonnes nowe in France: i.e. Anthony Bacon (1558-1601), political intelligencer.

c.1585

Later owned by John Payne Collier (1789-1883), literary scholar, editor and forger. Sotheby's, 9 August 1884 (Collier sale), lot 996.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 30000 through 34999 (Add. MS 32379 f. 21r-v)

ElQ 135

Copy, headed The Quenes ma^ties Aunswear to the peticons exhibited.

This MS cited in Hartley.

A large double-folio formal volume of state papers of c.1545-80, arranged according to subject, in a single professional secretary hand, on 46 leaves of vellum, in half green morocco.

c.1590s

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 30000 through 34999 (Add. MS 33271 f. 2v)

ElQ 136 Late 17th century

Copy, in a cursive hand, headed The Queens speech in y^e Parlam^t uttered by y^e L^d Keeper Apr. X. 1563. Being y^e Queens own M.S., on two pages of a pair of conjugate quarto leaves, endorded on the forth page The Queens Speech to y^e Parlam^t vpon a message concerning her marriage & y^e succession.

An unbound collection of copies of royal letters and papers, in various hands.

Volume DXIX of the Portland Papers, owned by the Harley family, of Brampton Bryan, and related families of Vere, Hollis, and Cavendish, and of Cavendish-Bentinck, Dukes of Portland.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 70519 No. XLIX)

ElQ 137

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed A Speach deliuered by her Ma^tie: vnto the Lord Keeper S^r Nichas Bacon in presence of y^e vpper house of Parliam^t.

This MS cited in Hartley.

A folio volume of transcripts of parliamentary rolls during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, from 1558 to 1587, in various professional hands, including that of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), antiquary, 295 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt.

c.1620s

The British Library: Cotton MSS (Cotton MS Titus F. 1 f. 83r-v)

ElQ 138 Late 16th-early 17th century

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed A speech deliuered by her Ma^ty: unto the Lo. Keeper S^r Nicholas Bacon in presence of the vpper hous of Parlm^t:.

This MS cited in Hartley.

A folio volume of parliamentary speeches, in a single cursive secretary hand but for a tipped-in two-leaf list of contents in another secretary hand, 48 leaves, in modern quarter crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

Humphrey Wanley's date of acquisition in the Harley library, 4 May 1721, inscribed on f. 1*.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 2000 through 2999 (Harley MS 2185 ff. 41r)

ElQ 139 Early 17th century

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed A speach vsed by her Ma^tie vnto my Lord Keeper in the Parliament howse in the ende of a Session.

Edited principally from this MS in Hartley (Text ii).

A folio composite volume of state tracts, papers and speeches, in various hands, in modern leather gilt.

Including some papers owned or annotated by Sir Robert Cotton.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 5000 through 5999 (Harley MS 5176 f. 97r-v)

*ElQ 140

Autograph

Autograph draft, on the first page of two once conjugate folio leaves, endorsed by Burghley (f. 31v) x. ap'll, 1563. 25 The Q. speche -- yⁿ y^e Parliam^t vttred by y^e L. kepur Q. Elizab^s. hand.

Edited from this MS in Hartley (Text i) and in Autograph Compositions, pp. 34-7. Edited in Selected Works. Collated in Collected Works, with a facsimile on p. 78.

Facsimiles also in Heisch, p. 38; in Felix Pryor, Elizabeth I: Her Life in Letters (British Library, London, 2003), No. 14, p. 42; and in Philip Mould Fine Paintings catalogue [c.2008], p. 15.

A folio composite volume of state letters and papers, in various hands, 196 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt.

Comprising papers of William Cecil (1520/21-98), first Baron Burghley, secretary of state.

Bookplate (as Shelburne) of William Petty (1737-1805), second Earl of Shelburne and first Marquess of Lansdowne, Prime Minister.

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 94 f. 30r)

ElQ 141

Copy, headed A Speach vsed by her Maiestie vnto my Lo. Keeper in the Parliment house in the end of a session.

A quarto-shaped folio volume of Elizabethan parliamentary speeches, in a single professional secretary hand, 117 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary limp vellum.

Late 16th century

A flyleaf inscribed W. Bayntun Grays Inn. Phillipps MS 4776.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 100 through 199 (MS V.a.143 p. 116)

ElQ 142

Copy, as read out by the Lord Keeper.

A folio volume of parliamentary speeches, in a professional largely italic hand, 76 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in modern half-calf on marbled boards.

Early 17th century

Given by William Moore.

Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (MS 64/158 ff. 45v-6r)

ElQ 143

Copy, headed A Speech deliu^red by her ma^tie. vnto the Lo: keep S^r Nichas Bacon in presence of the vpper house of Parliam^t. in An^o. Elizabeth

This MS cited in Hartley.

A folio volume of parliamentary speeches, in a professional largely italic hand, 76 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in modern half-calf on marbled boards.

Early 17th century

Given by William Moore.

Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (MS 64/158 f. 47r-v)

ElQ 144

Copy, headed A bill deliuered by her Ma^tie: vnto my lady Bacon to be delivered by her hi: comaundem^t vnto my lo: Keep.

This MS cited in Collected Works and in Selected Works.

A folio volume of speeches and letters chiefly by Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper, in at least two professional secretary hands, including material relating to the death in 1576? of Walter Devereux, first Earl of Essex, on 95 leaves (plus numerous blanks and a five-page table of contents at the end), in contemporary calf.

c.1580

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 1340 f. 84r-v)

ElQ 145

Copy, headed A speech vsed by her Ma^tie vnto my lo: kep. in y^e parliamente howse in thende of a Cession.

c.1580

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 1340 f. 85r)

ElQ 146

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

Late 16th century

This MS cited in Hartley. Recorded in HMC, Salisbury, I, 272.

The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House (Cecil Papers 153/138)

Queen Elizabeth's Latin Oration at Cambridge University, August 7, 1564

Beginning Etsi foeminilis pudor, (subditi fidelissimi, et Academia clarissima) rudem et incultum sermonem prohibet..., in Autograph Compositions, pp. 123-5. An English translation, beginning Although feminine modesty, and most faithful subjects and most celebrated university, prohibits the delivery of a rude and uncultivated speech..., in Collected Works, Speech 7, pp. 87-9.

ElQ 147

Copy, headed Oratio Illustrissimæ reginæ Elizabetha apud Cantabrigienses in [heclæ?] beatæ Maria habita.

This MS selectively collated in Autograph Compositions.

A quarto miscellany chiefly of verse, largely in a single secretary hand, compiled by a Cambridge student, vii + 130 leaves, in later calf.

c.1586-91

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 50 through 99 (MS Rawl. poet. 85 ff. 37v-8r)

ElQ 148

Copy, headed Oratio Serenissimæ Principis, D. Elisabethæ Angliæ franciæ & Reginæ, habita Cantabrigiæ...anno Domini 1564^o. Mensis Augusti 10.

A folio volume comprising two speeches in Latin at Queen Elizabeth's visit to Cambridge in August 1564, in a neat italic hand, six folio leaves, in half red leather on marbled boards.

c.1564

Fuller Hist Camb p. 138. see Sloane 401, f. 38. Nichols Progresses 1788 I p. 212 5th pagination.

The British Library: Royal MSS (Royal MS 12 A. LXIX f. 1r-v)

ElQ 149

Copy of the Latin oration, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Autograph Compositions.

A commonplace book, in Latin, English and Greek, in possibly a single cursive hand with variations of style, written from both ends, 65 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt.

Inscribed (f. 1r), probably by the compiler, Radolphus Wilkinsonns.

Mid-17th century

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 401 f. 38r-v)

ElQ 150

Copy, headed Elizabethæ Reginæ Oratio Cantabrigiæ publice habitæ coram vniverso Academiæ cætu anno 1564.

A quarto composite volume of historical memorials of English affairs up to 1625, 193 leaves, in half-vellum on marbled boards.

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

Mid-late 17th century

Corpus Christi College, Oxford (MS 297 f. 19r)

Queen Elizabeth's Latin Oration at Oxford University, September 5, 1566

Beginning Qui male agunt oderunt lucem et idcirco..., in Autograph Compositions, pp. 125-6. An English translation, beginning Those who do bad things hate the light..., in Collected Works, Speech 8, pp. 89-91.

ElQ 151

Copy, headed Oratio sereniss: Reginæ Elizabethæ Academiæ Oxoniensi habita.

A quarto miscellany chiefly of verse, largely in a single secretary hand, compiled by a Cambridge student, vii + 130 leaves, in later calf.

c.1586-91

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 50 through 99 (MS Rawl. poet. 85 ff. 38v-9a^r)

ElQ 152

Copy.

This MS collated in Autograph Compositions.

An octavo volume of academic orations and sermons, in English and Latin, in secretary hands, 193 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

Compiled by John Rogers, minister of Chacombe, Northamptonshire, chiefly while he was a student at oxford.

c.1600

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. D. 273 f. 111r)

ElQ 153

Copy of a version, subscribed sub ex Lauretio hufredo in libro de vita et obitu Juelle [i.e. from a biographical account of John Jewel (1522-71), Bishop of Salisbury, by Laurence Humphreys, President of Magdalen College and Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford].

This MS cited in Autograph Compositions.

An octavo volume of academic orations and sermons, in English and Latin, in secretary hands, 193 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

Compiled by John Rogers, minister of Chacombe, Northamptonshire, chiefly while he was a student at oxford.

c.1600

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. D. 273 f. 205r)

ElQ 154

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Autograph Compositions.

Account in Latin of Queen Elizabeth's visit to Oxford from 31 August to 6 September 1566, on twenty small quarto leaves, cropped.

By John Bereblock, fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, written in a semi-calligraphic predominantly secretary script.

c.1566

Owned before 30 May 1864 by the Rev. John C. Jackson.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Add. A. 63 ff. 16v-17r)

ElQ 155

Copy, in the hand of William Fulman, headed Orat. II. Ad Oxonienses, Sept. v. M DL XVI.

A quarto composite volume of state papers, tracts and speeches, 183 leaves, in half-vellum on marbled boards.

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

Corpus Christi College, Oxford (MS 298 f. 155r-v)

Queen Elizabeth's Speech to a Joint Delegation of Lords and Commons, November 5, 1566

First published in J.E. Neale, Parliament and the Succession Question in 1562/3 and 1566, EHR, 36, No. 144 (October 1921), 497-520 (pp. 514-17).

Version I. Beginning If the order of your causes had matched the weight of your matter.... Hartley, I, 145 (Text i). Collected Works, Speech 9, pp. 93-4 (Version 1). Selected Works, Speech 5, pp. 45-6.

Version II. Beginning If the order had been observed in the beginning of the matter.... Hartley, I, 146-9 (Text ii). Collected Works, Speech 9, pp. 94-8 (Version 2).

ElQ 156

Copy of Version 2, in a professional secretaty hand, headed The Queenes Ma^ts answear to the Comon house touching her Mariage and the limitico of succession.. Late 16th century.

Edited from this MS in J.E. Neale, Parliament and the Succession Question in 1562/3 and 1566, EHR, 36, No. 144 (October 1921), 497-520 (pp. 514-17). Cited in Hartley and in Selected Works.

A folio composite volume of parliamentary papers, in various professional hands, 326 leaves, in modern crushed morocco.

The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 354 f. 18r-19r)

ElQ 157

Copy, based on a memorial account by an MP present at the occasion, headed The speeche of the queens ma^tie ...to the Duke of Norfolk, the Archbishope of yowrke [&c.]...as followynge as I could carrye awaye by remembrans.

Edited from this MS in Hartley (version ii) and (as Version 2) in Collected Works. Cited in Selected Works and in Heisch.

A folio volume of state tracts, largely in one secretary hand, 409 pages (including a later index and blanks), in contemporary calf gilt.

Late 16th century

Cambridge University Library, shelfmarks G through L (MS Gg. 3. 34 pp. 208 to the third 212)

ElQ 158

Copy of a version, in a professional secretary hand.

c.1595-1620s

A microfilm of this volume is in the British Library, RP 2102.

Meisei University (MR 0840 pp. 884-5)

*ElQ 159 1566

Autograph

Autograph draft of the opening of the speech, untitled, on one folio page, a second leaf endorsed (f. 9v) by William Cecil a part of y^e begyng of y^e Q. Ma^tes speche to y^e 30. lordes and 30. co^mons o tewsday, y^e v^th. of Novemb. 1566. / X a^o 9^o 8. / The Q. own had.

Edited from this MS in Hartley (version i), in Collected Works (as Version 1), with a facsimile on p. 92, and in Selected Works.

A folio guard-book of independent Elizabethan state papers, stamped foliation 1-230.

National Archives, Kew (SP 12/41 f. 8r)

ElQ 160 Late 16th century

Copy of the autograph draft (ElQ 159), untitled but docketed Qu. Elizab. own hand, on a folio page, endorsed (f. 9v) A part of the beginning of the Q. Ma^ties Speech to the 30 Lords, and 30. Commons on Thursday [sic] the v^th. of Novembr 1566. Anno 8. twas The Q. own hand.

This MS cited in Selected Works.

A folio guard-book of independent Elizabethan state papers, stamped foliation 1-230.

National Archives, Kew (SP 12/41 f. 9r)

ElQ 161 1566

William Cecil's autograph draft memorandum on the Queen's speech, untitled, beginning first hir Ma^ty toke vppon hir y^t knowledg of a petition..., on two folio leaves, endorsed (f. 11v) v. Nov^br. 1566. A^o 8 a breeff of y^e substance of y^e Q. Ma^ty answer. to y^e llordes and Coms Asemy[?] in novr lx. this was not reported.

A folio guard-book of independent Elizabethan state papers, stamped foliation 1-230.

National Archives, Kew (SP 12/41 ff. 10r-11r)

ElQ 162 1566

Autograph rough notes by William Cecil on the speech, headed V. Novembr 1566 a breef note of sodry thyges c^otened in y^e Q. Ma^tes aswer made, on a folio page.

A folio guard-book of independent Elizabethan state papers, stamped foliation 1-230.

National Archives, Kew (SP 12/41 f. 12r)

ElQ 163 1566

William Cecil's autograph report to Parliament on the Queen's speech, headed V Noveb. The soe of y^e Q. Ma^tes speche to y Lordes and coens assebled to y^e novre of lx., beginning She tooke knolledg of y^e petition..., on two folio pages, endorsed on a second leaf (f. 15v) 5 Novebre 1566 The report made to y^e coen hows of y^e Q. Ma^tes answer by y^e mouth of me, y^e Secretary W^m. Cecill w^t the cosent of 30. lordes. and 29. comoners.

Edited from this MS in Collected Works, pp. 98-100.

A folio guard-book of independent Elizabethan state papers, stamped foliation 1-230.

National Archives, Kew (SP 12/41 ff. 14r-15v)

Queen Elizabeth's Speech Dissolving Parliament, January 2, 1567

First published in Simonds D'Ewes, The Journalls of All the Parliaments during the Raign of Queen Elizabeth (London, 1682), pp. 113-17.

Version I. Beginning I love so evil counterfeiting and hate so much dissimulation that I may not suffer you depart.... Hartley, I, 174-5 (Separate version). Collected Works, Speech 10, pp. 105-6 (Version 1). Selected Works, Speech 6, pp. 47-51.

Version II. Beginning My lords and others, the Commons of this Assembly, although the lord keeper hath, according to order, very well answered in my name.... Hartley, I, 172-3. Collected Works, Speech 10, pp. 107-8 (Version 2).

*ElQ 164

Autograph

Autograph draft, with revisions, on both sides of a single folio leaf, erroneously dated at the top 1563 and docketed at the end All this Letter was the Queenes owne hand and the draught she framed her selfe, now mounted in a booklet guard-book of fifteen state papers.

1567

Formerly Cotton MS Titus F. 1, f. 92.

Edited from this MS (as a Separate version) in Hartley (pp. 174-5), (as Version 1) in Collected Works, with a facsimile on p. 104, and in Selected Works. Printed in Autograph Compositions, pp. 40-2. Cited in Heisch. A facsimile of the first page in Andrew Prescott, English Historical Documents (British Library, 1988), p. 42.

The British Library: Cotton MSS (Cotton Charter IV.38 (2))

ElQ 165

Copy of Version II, in a professional secretary hand.

This MS cited in Hartley.

A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 248 leaves, in modern crushed morocco gilt.

The British Library: Cotton MSS (Cotton MS Titus C. VII ff. 53v-4r)

ElQ 166

Copy of Version 2, untitled, with introduction ...Then the Queene standinge said.

This MS cited in Hartley.

c.1620s

The British Library: Cotton MSS (Cotton MS Titus F. 1 f. 115v-16r)

ElQ 167

Copy of Version 2, untitled, with introduction ...Then the Queene standinge said.

Edited from this MS in Hartley (pp. 172-3) and (as Version 2) in Collected Works.

c.1620s

The British Library: Cotton MSS (Cotton MS Titus F. 1 ff. 121v-2r)

ElQ 168 c.1620

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed A letter sent by my Lady Bacon from the Queene to my Lord Keep who carried his submission to her being in displeasure about Succession.

This MS cited in Hartley.

A folio composite volume of state papers, tracts and speeches, in several secretary hands and paper sizes, 89 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 1000 through 1999 (Harley MS 1877 f. 26r)

ElQ 169

Copy of Version I, in a secretary hand, headed The coppie of a letter (taken from ites originall, w^ch was written in the Queenes owne hand, and by her selfe drawne) to the Comons in Parliament about their peticon conc^rning mariage and liberties. Late 16th-early 17th century.

This MS cited in Hartley and (misprinted Harley 2125) in Selected Works.

Humphrey Wanley's date of acquisition in the Harley library, 4 May 1721, inscribed on f. 1*.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 2000 through 2999 (Harley MS 2185 f. 40r-v)

ElQ 170

Copy of Version I, in a professional italic hand, headed A bille deliuered by her Ma^tie vnto my Ladie Bacon to be deliuered by her highnes commaundemente vnto my Lo: Keeper. Late 16th-early 17the century.

This MS cited in Hartley.

A folio composite volume of state tracts, papers and speeches, in various hands, in modern leather gilt.

Including some papers owned or annotated by Sir Robert Cotton.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 5000 through 5999 (Harley MS 5176 ff. 96v-7r)

ElQ 171

Copy of Version 2.

This MS cited in Hartley.

A large folio volume of Elizabethan parliamentary proceedings, in several professional secretary hands, 452 leaves, in modern calf gilt.

Early 17th century

The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 358 f. 99r-v)

ElQ 172

Copy, introduced by Then the Queene standing sayd: and here beginning My L^s and others the comons of this assembly, Although the Lord keep hath according to order very well answered in my name....

A folio volume of parliamentary speeches, in a professional largely italic hand, 76 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in modern half-calf on marbled boards.

Early 17th century

Given by William Moore.

Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (MS 64/158 ff. 67v-8r)

ElQ 173

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

Late 16th century

Edited from this MS in HMC, Salisbury, XIII, 214-15. Cited in Hartley.

The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House (Cecil Papers 138/163)

Queen Elizabeth's Speech Opening the 1571 Parliament, April 2, 1571

Brief speech beginning My right loving lords and you all, our right faithful and obedient subjects, we in the name of God..... First published in Simonds D'Ewes, The Journalls of All the Parliaments during the Raign of Queen Elizabeth (London, 1682), p. 137. Hartley, I, 195. Collected Works, Speech 11, pp. 108-9.

ElQ 174

Copy.

This MS cited in Hartley.

A folio volume of state tracts and proceedings and speeches in Parliament from 2 to 21 April 1572, in a single professional hand, 152 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt stamped with arms.

c.1620s

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. C. 680 f. 3v)

ElQ 175

Copy, untitled, with introduction ...she spake a fewe words to this effect.

Edited from this MS in Collected Works. Collated in Hartley.

c.1620s

The British Library: Cotton MSS (Cotton MS Titus F. 1 f. 129v)

ElQ 176

Copy, introduced by ...after a longe stay she spake in fewe words to this effect.

This MS cited in Hartley.

A large folio volume of Elizabethan parliamentary proceedings, in several professional secretary hands, 452 leaves, in modern calf gilt.

Early 17th century

The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 358 f. 107v)

ElQ 177

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, introduced ...The Queen began to speake a fewe wordes to this effect or thus:....

A large folio of state tracts and parliamentary speeches and proceedings, in several professional hands, 263 leaves, in modern calf gilt.

Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor, dated 1701.

The Folger Shakespeare Library: V.b. series (MS V.b.173 f. 38r)

ElQ 178

Copy, incomplete.

This MS cited in Hartley.

A folio volume of parliamentary speeches, in a professional largely italic hand, 76 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in modern half-calf on marbled boards.

Early 17th century

Given by William Moore.

Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (MS 64/158 f. 72r-v)

ElQ 179

Copy, introduced ...After a long stay shee spake a fewe words to this effect, or thus.

Edited from this MS in Hartley.

A folio volume of parliamentary proceedings on 2 April 1571, in a single professional secretary hand, 36 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum.

Late 16th century

Old pressmark E. 2. 9.

Trinity College, Dublin, numbers 200 through 799 (MS 535 f. 1v)

Queen Elizabeth's Speeches and Responses during her Visit to Warwick, August 12, 1572

Beginning Bailiff, I thank you, and you all, with all my heart.... published in The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth, ed. John Nichols, 3 vols (London, 1823), I, 315-16. Collected Works, Speech 12, pp. 109-10.

ElQ 180

A formal account of the Queen's visit and speeches, in the hand of a civic clerk.

Kemp edition, pp. 91-2. Edited in Collected Works from this MS account as printed in Nichols.

The Black Book of Warwick.

The formal book of records of Warwick Corporation, with accounts of civic events, ordnances, etc. from 1556 onwards.

This volume edited in full in The Black Book of Warwick, ed. Thomas Kemp (Warwick, [1899]).

Warwickshire County Record Office (CR 1618/W19/6 ff. 65r-70r)

Queen Elizabeth's Speech at the Close of the Parliamentary Session, March 15, 1576

First published (from a lost MS) in Nugae Antiquae, ed. Henry Harington (London, 1804), I, 120-7.

Version I. Beginning Do I see God's most sacred, holy Word and text of holy Writ drawn to so divers senses.... Hartley, I, 471-3 (Text i). Collected Works, Speech 13, pp. 167-71. Selected Works, Speech 7, pp. 52-60.

Version II. Beginning My lords, Do I see the Scriptures, God's word, in so many ways interpreted.... Hartley, I, 473-5 (Text ii).

ElQ 181 Early 17th century

Copy, headed The Queenes most excellent mat^es: oration in the pliam^t house Martij 15, A^o: Dni 1576.

Transcribed from the Yelverton papers chiefly belonging to Sir Christopher Yelverton (1535?-1612), Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), and their family.

Owned in 1679 by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732), annalist and book collector.

All Souls College, Oxford (MS 155 ff. 282r-4r)

ElQ 182

Copy, in a professional hand, headed The Oration the Queenes Ma^tie made in the end of the Parliament the 15^th of March. 1576.

This MS cited in Hartley and in Selected Works.

A folio compendium or entry book of state letters and other documents and memoranda, in various secretary and italic hands, 231 leaves (including numerous blanks), in modern half-calf.

Compiled over a period, and partly written, by Sir Stephen Powle (c.1553-1630), Clerk of the Crown.

Bodleian Library, Tanner Collection (MS Tanner 169 ff. 175r-6v)

ElQ 183

Copy, headed Queene Elizabeth in the Parliam^t house march 15^th 1576.

Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 18 of the Hopkinson MSS.

1660

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. 296-7.

Bradford Archives (32D86/18 ff. 17v-20r)

ElQ 184

Copy of Version I, headed in another hand A speache of Quene Elizabethe in Pliament.

This MS collated in part in Collected Works. Cited in Hartley, in Selected Works, and in Heisch.

A large square-shaped folio letterbook, in several secretary hands, 248 leaves, in embossed calf.

Comprising copies of letters principally received by Sir Christopher Hatton (c.1540-91), Vice-Chamberlain of the Household and Lord Chancellor.

c.1640

Later in the possession of William Upcott (1779-1845), antiquary and autograph collector. Upcott sale (22 June 1846), lot 83.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 15000 through 16999 (Add. MS 15891 ff. 198r-9r)

ElQ 185 Late 16th century

Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, headed The Queenes most excellent Maiesties Oration in the Parliam^t howse martij 1576, with an endorsement on the blank leaf f. 6v.

This MS cited in Hartley and in Selected Works.

A large folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 157 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half green morocco.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 25000 through 29999 (Add. MS 29975 ff. 3r-5v)

ElQ 186

Copy of Version I, headed The Quenes moste excellent ma^ties. Oration in the Parliament howse 15 martij anno dni 1576.

This MS collated in part in Hartley and in Collected Works. Cited in Selected Works and in Heisch.

c.1585

Later owned by John Payne Collier (1789-1883), literary scholar, editor and forger. Sotheby's, 9 August 1884 (Collier sale), lot 996.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 30000 through 34999 (Add. MS 32379 ff. 22r-4r)

ElQ 187

Copy of Version I, headed in the margin The Queenes most excellent Ma^ties oration in the Parliament howse Martij 15. A^o. Dni 1576.

This MS cited in Hartley, in Collected Works, and in Selected Works.

A large double-folio formal volume of state papers of c.1545-80, arranged according to subject, in a single professional secretary hand, on 46 leaves of vellum, in half green morocco.

c.1590s

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 30000 through 34999 (Add. MS 33271 f. 2r-v)

ElQ 188

Copy of Version I, headed Queen Elizabeths Speech in y^e Parl^t house y^e 13. of March. 1575.

This MS cited in Hartley, in Selected Works, and in Heisch.

A folio volume of state letters and papers, in a single professional secretary hand (but for f. 98r-v), 128 leaves, in black morocco gilt.

According to an inscription on f. 1*r this MS comprises (presumably a transcript of) Severall papers found in M^r: Deas Study Secretary to Bishop Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury.

c.1650

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 1 through 999 (Harley MS 787 ff. 125r-6r)

ElQ 189

Copy of Version I, headed Queen Elizabeths Speech in the Parliament house the 13^th: of March 1575.

This MS cited in Selected Works.

A folio volume of state papers and speeches, in a single accomplished cursive hand, 235 leaves, in later vellum boards gilt.

Mid-late-17th century

Inscribed (f. [i^r] M^r Noel from Lord Fitz-Williams. A.D. 1719.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 4000 through 4999 (Harley MS 4808 ff. 205v-16r)

ElQ 190

Copy, headed Oratio Elizabethæ reginæ habitu in regni conventu convocato ad die 15. Martij. anno. 1575.

Edited from this MS in Collected Works and in Selected Works. May, Stanford, pp. 84-8 (No. 112).

A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, 63 leaves, partly mounted on guards, in modern quarter-calf on marbled boards.

Compiled by Henry Stanford (d.1616), household tutor to the Paget and Carey families, including George Carey, second Lord Hunsdon.

c.1581-1612

A complete transcription of this volume in Steven W. May, Henry Stanford's Anthology: An Edition of Cambridge University Library Manuscript Dd. 5.75 (New York, 1988).

Cambridge University Library, shelfmarks A through D (MS Dd. 5. 75 ff. 28r-9r)

ElQ 191

Copy of Version I, in a secretary hand, headed The Q. Ma^tyes oration in the plament howse martij 15 Ano dni 1575.

This MS cited in Selected Works.

A folio volume of state tracts, in several hands, with (p. I) a list of contents subscribed Comunicated to me by M^r Shotbolt, 183 pages, in contemporary limp vellum.

Late 16th century

Bookplate of Jacobi Mickleton de Crook Hall in Com Dunelm A D 1718: i.e. James Mickleton (1688-1719), lawyer and antiquary. Among the family collection established by Christopher Mickleton (1612-69), Durham attorney, and by his eldest son James (1638-93), lawyer and antiquary, which was later incorporated in the collections of Gilbert Spearman (1675-1738), lawyer and antiquary.

Durham University Library (Mickleton & Spearman MS 73 pp. 177-9)

ElQ 192

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed Quene Elizabeths Answer to the L. and others in the Parliament .15.7.5. howse vpon Thursday xv^o martij.

Edited from this MS (as Text ii) in Hartley. Cited in Selected Works.

A folio composite volume of state tracts and speeches, in various hands, xxiii + 149 leaves (and three blanks), in contemporary vellum with silk ties.

Exeter College, Oxford (MS 92 f. 62r-v)

ElQ 193

Copy of Version I, in a professional secretary hand.

c.1595-1620s

A microfilm of this volume is in the British Library, RP 2102.

Meisei University (MR 0840 pp. 881-4)

ElQ 194

Copy of Version I, in a cursive secretary hand, headed The speech vttered by her m^at in the parlam^t house at the eande of the cession held en iij march 1576 the xviij^th of hir raine vppo pointes both in the speaker oratio and also in the Lorde Kepers, on all four pages of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves.

c.1576

Edited from this MS (as Text i) in Hartley, I, 471-5. Cited (mistakenly as in Cambridgeshire Record Office) in Selected Works.

Northamptonshire Record Office (F(M) P 177)

ElQ 195

Copy, headed Queen Elizabeth's speech in the Parliament House y^e 13 of March 1575.

A folio volume of state letters, in a single hand, 490 pages, in contemporary calf.

Mid-late 17th century

Flyleaf inscribed Stamford 1693: i.e. Thomas Grey (c.1654-1720), second Earl of Stamford, Privy Counsellor. Bookplate of John Towneley (1697-1782), translator, of Towneley Hall, near Burnley, Lancashire.

The Pierpont Morgan Library (MA 664 pp. 474-81)

ElQ 196

MS Extract from a Speech of Q. Elizabeth, to her Parliament, relating to her Celibacy, 1575, here beginning --Now, to rehearse my meaninge...and ending ...cannot dispose of themselves to another lyfe--.

Edited from this MS in Nugae Antiquae (1769), I, 116. Cited in Collected Works.

A collection of papers of Sir John Harington (1560-12) and his family.

Late 16th-early 17th century

Owned by Sir John's descendants Henry Harington (1686-1769) and Dr Henry Harington (1727-1816).

These manuscripts edited in Nugae Antiquae (first published in two volumes, London, 1769); various editions, expanded to 2 vols, ed. Henry Harington [and Thomas Park], London, 1804.

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

ElQ 197

Copy of the complete speech, with a note by John Harington explaining that it was given him by the Queen who she says had made a clerk write fair her poor words for his use.

Edited from this MS in Nugae Antiquae (1769), II, 149-54; (1804), I, 120-8. Cited and the note printed in Collected Works.

A collection of papers of Sir John Harington (1560-12) and his family.

Late 16th-early 17th century

Owned by Sir John's descendants Henry Harington (1686-1769) and Dr Henry Harington (1727-1816).

These manuscripts edited in Nugae Antiquae (first published in two volumes, London, 1769); various editions, expanded to 2 vols, ed. Henry Harington [and Thomas Park], London, 1804.

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

ElQ 198 Early 17th century

Copy of Version I, in an italic hand, untitled, on two conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet, endorsed A speache of her ma^ty in the end of a plam^t.

A guardbook of miscellaneious documents.

Volume II of a collection of Miscellanea Curiosa assembled by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist and antiquary.

Virginia Historical Society (Mss I T8525 a2 pp.[3-6])

Queen Elizabeth's Speech to Bishops and other Clergy at Somerset Place, February 27, 1585, while Parliament was in Session

Collected Works, Speech 15, pp. 177-81. Speech beginning (to the Lord Treasurer) I esteem more of their mites than of your pounds... and (to the Archbishop of Canterbury) We understand that some of the Nether House have used diverse reproachful speeches against you....

ElQ 199 c.1585

Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, headed A brief effect of hir ma^ties speech vnto y^e B. & other of y^e Clergie offring vnto hir their subsedy in her pryvie chamb at Somset place 27 feb. 1584 at what tyme there were of y^e Clergy my L. Archb. of Cantbury, the B. of wo^rcestre... [etc.], on a folio leaf, foliated in pencil 91.

Edited from this MS in Collected Works. Cited in Heisch.

A folio guard-book of independent Elizabethan state papers, stamped foliaton 1-237.

National Archives, Kew (SP 12/176 f. 215r-v (item 68))

ElQ 200 c.1585

Copy, in a professional predominantly italic hand, headed A brief effect of hir ma^ties speech unto the Bpps. and other of the Clergy offring unto hir their Subsidy in her privy Chamber at Somerset place 27. Febr. 1584, at what tyme there were of the Clergy my L. Archb. of Canterbury y^e B. of worcestre... [etc.], on two folio leaves, foliated in pencil 69-70 and 192-3, endorsed on a third leaf (f. 218v) Febr. 27. 1584. The Queens Conference with the B^pps. upon Graunt of Subsedy &c..

Cited in Heisch.

A folio guard-book of independent Elizabethan state papers, stamped foliaton 1-237.

National Archives, Kew (SP 12/176 ff. 216r-17v)

Queen Elizabeth's Speech at the Closing of Parliament, March 29, 1585

Beginning My lords and you of the Lower House: My silence must not injure the owner.... Hartley, II, 31-3. Collected Works, Speech 16, pp. 181-3.

ElQ 201

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, on two conjugate folio leaves. Late 16th century.

This MS partly collated in Hartley.

A folio composite volume of letters and state papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 237 leaves, in 17th-century calf (rebacked).

Bodleian Library, Tanner Collection (MS Tanner 79 ff. 190r-1r)

ElQ 202

Copy, headed Her Ma^tes speche in the parliamete howse at the progation of the laste Session 29 Martij 1584, with sidenotes.

Edited from this MS in Collected Works. Partly collated in Hartley.

A large square-shaped folio letterbook, in several secretary hands, 248 leaves, in embossed calf.

Comprising copies of letters principally received by Sir Christopher Hatton (c.1540-91), Vice-Chamberlain of the Household and Lord Chancellor.

c.1640

Later in the possession of William Upcott (1779-1845), antiquary and autograph collector. Upcott sale (22 June 1846), lot 83.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 15000 through 16999 (Add. MS 15891 f. 148r)

ElQ 203

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed in italic Her Ma^ties Oration the last day of the first Session of Parliament: 1585.

This MS cited in Hartley and in Collected Works.

A folio miscellany of state papers, verse and prose, in several hands, vi + 105 leaves, in a recycled 13th-century vellum text, now within modern half dark red morocco.

Compiled by Sir Edward Hoby (1560-1617), politician and diplomat.

c.1580s-90s

Bookplate of George Dunn (1865-1912), of Woolley Hall, near Maidenhead, Berkshire, antiquary. Sotheby's, 11 February 1914 (Dunn sale), lot 1198.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 35000 through 39999 (Add. MS 38823 f. 25r-v)

ElQ 204 c.1587

Copy, in the hand of John Stow, headed The qwenes maiesties oration, made in the parliament howse, at the breakyneg vp thore of, the xxix day of marche, in ann^o dom. 1585. a^o 27^o. Eliz., on one side of a quarto leaf.

Edited from this MS in Hartley. Cited in Collected Works and in Heisch.

A quarto composite volume of historical papers, in several hands, the majority in the small cursive secretary hand of John Stow (1524/5-1605), London historian, 123 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 1 through 999 (Harley MS 540 f. 115r)

ElQ 205 c.1620s

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed A speech of Q. Elizabeth made in the Parliament at y^e breakeing vp thereof 29^o. March. 1585. Anno Elizabeth 27^o.

This MS cited in Hartley.

A folio composite volume of state papers, tracts and speeches, in several secretary hands and paper sizes, 89 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 1000 through 1999 (Harley MS 1877 f. 70r-v)

ElQ 206 c.1585

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed Her Ma^tes Speche dely^red by her owne mowthe in the Parlam^t Last holde at Westm^r.

This MS partly collated in Hartley.

A folio composite volume of state tracts, speeches and miscellaneous papers, in several hands, vi + 361 leaves, in modern half morocco gilt.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 4000 through 4999 (Harley MS 4888 f. 18r-v)

ElQ 207

Copy, headed A speech of Quee [sic] Elyzabeths made in y^e Parliament at the breaking up theire-of 29^o march: 1585 Ano Elyzab: 27^o. p.

This MS cited in Hartley and in Collected Works.

A folio miscellany, begun as a commonplace book and then used for transcribing state papers, letters and verses, in several hands, 560 pages (including numerous blanks), in quarter-calf marbled boards.

Early-mid-17th century

Inscribed (p. i), probably in the late 17th century, John Peck His Book.

Cambridge University Library, shelfmarks E through F (MS Ee. 5. 23 p. 460)

ElQ 208

Copy, headed Her Ma^ties: speech delivered by her owne mouth in y^e Parliam^t last holden at Westm: Anno Regin &c. 27:/ 1584.

A folio volume principally of speeches by Sir Walter Mildmay (1520/1-1589), Chancellor of the Exchequer, in a single professional secretary hand, 52 leaves.

Late 16th century

Inscribed names including Noah Duckett 1706, J Stockdale...Gift of M^rs Duckett, and William Brookes. According to a note on the flyleaf the MS was once in an old house in Leicester, then owned by Dr John Barcley, MD; bought from him by his brother-in-law George Cardale 5 March 1884; then owned by Joseph Green of Jayshill House, Stansted, Essex, who sold it to Charles Lowe, bookseller of Birmingham; offered in his sale catalogue in 1889, and purchased by Mildmay's descendant Mary, Viscountess Falmouth.

A bound set of photocopies of this volume is in the Parliamentary Archives, HL/PO/RO/1/49.

Viscount Falmouth ([Mildmay MS] ff. 24r-5r)

ElQ 209 Early 17th century

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed The Q [of England added in red ink] ma^tie speache in the parliamen^t house 1585 Martij 29, on one side of a folio leaf.

Edited from this MS in Scottish History Society (1931), 174-6. Cited in Hartley.

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous state letters and papers, in generally professional secretary hands, with (ff. ii^r-iii^r) a list of contents, v + 529 leaves, in modern cloth.

Among the Warrender Papers, formerly classified as Vol. B.

National Archives of Scotland (GD1/371/3 f. 52v)

Queen Elizabeth's First Reply to the Parliamentary Petitions Urging the Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, November 12, 1586

First published in Robert Cecil, The copie of a letter to the right honourable the Earle of Leycester (London, 1586).

Version I. Beginning When I remember the bottomless depth of God's great benefits towards me.... Hartley, II, 254-8 (Text ii, a summary) and II, 261 (cited only, as Text iv). Collected Works, Speech 17, pp. 186-90 (Version 1).

Version II. Beginning The bottomless graces and immeasurable benefits bestowed upon me by the Almighty.... Hartley, II, 247-53 (Text i). Collected Works, Speech 17, pp. 190-6. Autograph Compositions, pp. 67-72 (Version 2). Selected Works, Speech 8, pp. 61-9.

Version III. Beginning My lords and gentlemen, I cannot but accept with much kindness this your petition, wherein I perceive the great love you bear towards me.... Hartley, II, 259-60 (Text iii).

ElQ 210

Copy of Version II, in a small secretary hand, headed in italic Her Ma^ties first answere made by her self to the petition vttered in the names of the whole Court of parliament in hir chamber of presence att Richmond .12. 1686.

This MS cited in Hartley and in Collected Works.

A folio miscellany of state papers, verse and prose, in several hands, vi + 105 leaves, in a recycled 13th-century vellum text, now within modern half dark red morocco.

Compiled by Sir Edward Hoby (1560-1617), politician and diplomat.

c.1580s-90s

Bookplate of George Dunn (1865-1912), of Woolley Hall, near Maidenhead, Berkshire, antiquary. Sotheby's, 11 February 1914 (Dunn sale), lot 1198.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 35000 through 39999 (Add. MS 38823 ff. 76r-7r)

ElQ 211 Late 17th century

Copy of Version II, in a cursive hand, headed Her Ma^ties most Gracious answer delivered by her self verbally to y^e Petitions of y^e Lords & Commons, being y^e estates of Parlament Nov. 12. 1586. A Copy corrected by her own hand. It toucheth y^e Queen of Scots, & ye Treason plotted against herself, on two conjugate folio leaves.

An unbound collection of copies of royal letters and papers, in various hands.

Volume DXIX of the Portland Papers, owned by the Harley family, of Brampton Bryan, and related families of Vere, Hollis, and Cavendish, and of Cavendish-Bentinck, Dukes of Portland.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 70519 No. LVII)

ElQ 212

Copy of Version I, in two secretary hands, introduced ...Ytt plesed hir highenes...in her owne pson most gratiouslye & wisely to giue aunswere as followeth:, on two folio leaves. Late 16th century.

This MS partly quoted (as Text iv) in Hartley, II, 261. Cited in Heisch.

A folio composite volume of state pqpers, in various hands, 295 leaves, in 19th-century calf gilt.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 1 through 999 (Harley MS 158 ff. 156r-7v)

*ElQ 213

Autograph

Copy, in a neat italic hand, with autograph revisions by Elizabeth, on two folio leaves, imperfect.

Edited from this MS (as Text i) in Hartley and (as Version 2) in Autograph Compositions. This MS collated in Collected Works (as Version 2), with a facsimile of the first page on p. 191, and in Selected Works. Edited in part diplomatically in Heisch, pp. 49-51.

A folio composite volume of state letters and papers, in various hands, 196 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt.

Comprising papers of William Cecil (1520/21-98), first Baron Burghley, secretary of state.

Bookplate (as Shelburne) of William Petty (1737-1805), second Earl of Shelburne and first Marquess of Lansdowne, Prime Minister.

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 94 ff. 84r-5r)

ElQ 214

Copy of Extractions taken by the Queens order in reformation of somme errours in report of her speeche, the 12 of November 1586 in her withdrawing chamber.

This MS discussed in Hartley (II, 253).

A folio composite volume of state letters and papers, in various hands, 320 leaves, in modern crushed morocco gilt.

Papers of William Cecil (1520/21-98), first Baron Burghley, secretary of state.

Bookplate (as Shelburne) of William Petty (1737-1805), second Earl of Shelburne and first Marquess of Lansdowne, Prime Minister.

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (MS Lansdowne 103 f. 64)

ElQ 215

Copy of a version, untitled, in a professional secretary hand, on two pages of two conjugate folio leaves. Late 16th century.

Edited from this MS (as Text iii) in Hartley.

A folio composite volume of chiefly Elizabethan and Jacobean parliamentary proceedings, in various hands, 128 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco.

The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 361 f. 2r-v)

ElQ 216

Copy, headed An Answer by ow^r quene to the peticion of the pliament house for the speedye execution of the scottyshe queene and here beginning When I consider the profound and bottomless depth of God's wonderful and miraculous work.... Late 16th century.

This MS collated in Hartley.

A folio volume of state and antiquarian papers and accounts, in secretary hands, 70 leaves, in modern quarter-calf marbled boards.

Cambridge University Library, shelfmarks E through F (MS Ee. 2. 12 ff. 64v-6r)

ElQ 217

Copy, with a sidenote The Queenes Speech to y^e Comittees of both houses.

Edited from this MS (as Version 1) in Collected Works. Cited in Hartley.

A folio volume of state tracts, largely in one secretary hand, 409 pages (including a later index and blanks), in contemporary calf gilt.

Late 16th century

Cambridge University Library, shelfmarks G through L (MS Gg. 3. 34 pp. 304-8)

ElQ 218

Copy of Version II, headed Notes of the Queenes speeche to the Lordes and comons of the Parliam^t in answer of their peticon exhibited the xij of November 1586: by the Lo: Chancello^r vnto her Ma^tie: for y^e speedie execucon of the Scotish Queene, as neere as my Capacity w^thout tables could serve to note them, and my memory next morning might avayle to set them downe.

Edited from this MS (as Text ii) in Hartley (pp. 254-8).

A folio volume of political speeches, in one or more professional secretary hands, 53 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum with ties.

c.1620s

Exeter College, Oxford (MS 127 ff. 51v-3v)

ElQ 219

Copy of Version II, headed A speech Spoken by Queen Eliz: to her Parliam^t Concerning The Treasons of Mary, Queen of Scots, inscribed in the margin Ex MS penes Meipsum.

A folio volume of proceedings in Parliament, largely in a single rounded hand, ff. 1r-4r and 19r-41v in a clerk's hand, 246 leaves, in red morocco gilt.

Compiled by William Petyt (1640/1-1707), lawyer and political propagandist.

Late 17th century-1700s

Inner Temple Library (Petyt MS 538, Vol. 1 ff. 43r-6v)

ElQ 220 c.1600

Copy of Version II, headed in the margin A speech made By her ma^tie tochinge the Treasons of the Queene of Scottes.

This MS partly collated in Hartley. Cited in Collected Works.

A folio composite volume of largely state and parliamentary papers, in several professional secretary hands, 202 leaves, in red morocco gilt.

Inner Temple Library (Petyt MS 538, Vol. 10 ff. 6v-7v)

Queen Elizabeth's Second Reply to the Parliamentary Petitions Urging the Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, November 24, 1586

First published in Robert Cecil, The copie of a letter to the right honourable the Earle of Leycester (London, 1586).

Version I. Beginning I perceive you have well considered of my last message.... Hartley, II, 266-71 (2 versions). Hartley, II, 271 (cited only, as Text ii). Collected Works, Speech 18, pp. 196-200 (Version 1).

Version II. Beginning Full grievous is the way whose going on and end breed cumber for the hire of a laborious journey.... Hartley, II, 266-70 (Text i). Collected Works, Speech 18, pp. 200-4 (Version 2). Autograph Compositions, pp. 73-8. Selected Works, Speech 9, pp. 70-6.

ElQ 221

Copy of Version II, in a small secretary hand, headed in italic Her Ma^ties seconde answere deliuered by her owne mouth to the second speech vttered in the names of the Lords and Comons of the plament in her chamber of presence att Richmond the 24. day of Nouember. 1586.

This MS cited in Hartley and in Collected Works.

A folio miscellany of state papers, verse and prose, in several hands, vi + 105 leaves, in a recycled 13th-century vellum text, now within modern half dark red morocco.

Compiled by Sir Edward Hoby (1560-1617), politician and diplomat.

c.1580s-90s

Bookplate of George Dunn (1865-1912), of Woolley Hall, near Maidenhead, Berkshire, antiquary. Sotheby's, 11 February 1914 (Dunn sale), lot 1198.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 35000 through 39999 (Add. MS 38823 ff. 77r-8r)

ElQ 222 Late 17th century

Copy of Version II, headed The Queens second speech to y^e Parlam^t, Nov. 24. 1586. Corrected by her own hand, touching y^e Queen of Scots, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

An unbound collection of copies of royal letters and papers, in various hands.

Volume DXIX of the Portland Papers, owned by the Harley family, of Brampton Bryan, and related families of Vere, Hollis, and Cavendish, and of Cavendish-Bentinck, Dukes of Portland.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 70519 No. LVII)

ElQ 223

Copy of Version I, in a secretary hand, introduced ......her Maiestie then spake as foloweth:, on three folio leaves. Late 16th century.

This MS partly quoted (as Text ii) in Hartley (p. 271).

A folio composite volume of state pqpers, in various hands, 295 leaves, in 19th-century calf gilt.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 1 through 999 (Harley MS 158 ff. 158r-60r)

*ElQ 224

Autograph

Copy, in a neat italic hand, with extensive autograph revisions by Elizabeth.

Edited from this MS (as Text i) in Hartley and (as Version 2) in Autograph Compositions. Edited in Selected Works. Collated (as Version 2) in Collected Works, with a facsimile of f. 87v on p. 203. Part edited diplomatically in Heisch, p. 52.

A folio composite volume of state letters and papers, in various hands, 196 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt.

Comprising papers of William Cecil (1520/21-98), first Baron Burghley, secretary of state.

Bookplate (as Shelburne) of William Petty (1737-1805), second Earl of Shelburne and first Marquess of Lansdowne, Prime Minister.

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 94 ff. 86r-8r)

ElQ 225

Copy.

Edited from this MS (as Version 1) in Collected Works. Cited (as version ii) in Hartley.

A folio volume of state tracts, largely in one secretary hand, 409 pages (including a later index and blanks), in contemporary calf gilt.

Late 16th century

Cambridge University Library, shelfmarks G through L (MS Gg. 3. 34 pp. 312-16)

Queen Elizabeths Armada speech to the Troops at Tilbury, August 9, 1588

Beginning My loving people, I have been persuaded by some that are careful of my safety to take heed. how I committed myself to armed multitudes.... Collected Works, Speech 19, pp. 325-6. Selected Works, Speech 10, pp. 77-83. The Queen's authorship supported in J.E. Neale, Essays in Elizabethan History (London, 1958), pp. 103-6.

ElQ 226

Copy, headed Queen Elizabeths Speech to her Army Att Tilbury Camp on y^e Spaniards coming to Inuade the Land in y^e year 1588, subscribed This Account the Earle of Leicester gaue ro D^r Sharp that hee might publish it to y^e Army in a Sermon.

A small (114 x 60 mm.) almanac for 1680 and notebook, in a single rounded hand, ii + 83 leaves, in vellum boards.

Compiled by Henry Sturmy, who in November 1686 was bound apprentice to the London bookseller Ricard Hunt.

c.1680-85

Christopher Edwards, Short List 9 (1997), item 88.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 73165 ff. 54r-6v)

ElQ 227

Copy, in the hand of Lionell Sharpe (1560-1631), clergyman employed by both the Earl of Leicester and Earl of Essex and present at the Queen's visit to Tilbury, untitled, on the first two pages of two conjugate quarto leaves, endorsed (f. 88v) The Queenes speech at Tilburie camp.

Edited from this MS, discussed and the hand identified in Janet M. Green, I My Self: Queen Elizabeth's Oration at Tilbury Camp, Sixteenth Century Journal, 28 (1997), 421-45. Edited from this MS in Collected Works. Cited in Selected Works.

Facsimiles of the first page in Felix Pryor, Elizabeth I: Her Life in Letters (British Library, London, 2003), No. 42, p. 98, and in Henry VIII Man and Monarch, ed. Susan Doran (British Library, London, 2009), p. 268.

A folio composite volume of tracts and papers chiefly relating to dealings with foreign states, in various largely professional hands, 365 leaves, in modern morocco gilt.

Fol. 87 inscribed Bought of M^r. G. Pauls Landlady and fol. 89 Giuen by M^r Geo. Holmes.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6798 f. 87r-v)

ElQ 227.5

Copy, with a ten-line introduction, Queene Elizabeth cominge to her army at Tilbury where shee lay in the Earle of Leisters Pavillion...whervppon shee toke occation of this speach.

A quarto miscellany, in two or more predominantly secretary hands, 86 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary calf.

c.1660

A facsimile of f. 85r is in Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey, Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, 2008), p. 33.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, Miscellaneous manuscripts (MS E.a.6 f. 2r-v)

ElQ 228 Mid-17th century

Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand, headed The oration or speech that Queene Elizabeth made to the soldiers in her Campe at Tylbury in August 1688 [sic], here beginning My good people I have byn warned by some..., subscribed Queene Elizabeths speech at Tilbury Anno 1686 [sic], on two conjugate folio leaves.

This MS recorded in Selected Works, p. 81.

Muniments of the Duchess of Norfolk.

National Archives, Kew (C115/101 M. 21, No. 7631)

ElQ 229

Castillion's account of Elizabeth's visit to the army at Tilbury, I myselfe beinge there a Captayne and an eye Witnesse. F. C.

A folio commonplace book cum letterbook, predominantly in one hand, compiled by Sir Francis Castillion (1561-1638), 241 pages (plus many blanks).

c.1620s-30s

The front pastedown inscribed Thomas Hugh Markham From his Mother. Sep^r 11^th. 1846 and, in pencil, Darker Esq^r. Gayton.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS fb 69 [unspecified page numbers])

Queen Elizabeth's Latin Speech to the Heads of Oxford University, September 28, 1592

Beginning Merita et gratitudo sic meam rationem captiuam duxerunt..., in Autograph Compositions, pp. 163-5. An English translation, beginning Merits and gratitude have so captured my reason..., in Collected Works, Speech 20, pp. 327-8.

ElQ 230

Copy of the Latin speech, headed Reginae Elisabethae Valedictoria ad Oxonienses. Sept. 28. 1592, with Henry Savile's oration on the same occasion (ff. 169r-71r), both in the hand of Archbishop Sancroft, docketed by him Transcrib'd fro S^r Ja. Ware's MS. Collections Vol. 47 being pt of Q. Eliz^s Entertainm^t at Oxford 1592, on two pairs of conjugate quarto leaves.

A quarto composite volume of state letters and tracts, in various hands, 180 leaves, in 17th-century calf.

Compiled, and partly written, by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury.

Bodleian Library, Tanner Collection (MS Tanner 461 f. 171v)

ElQ 231 c.1593

Copy of the original Latin version, in a professional hand.

Edited from this MS in Autograph Compositions.

A folio composite volume, comprising three MSS, in English and Latin, i + 12 leaves, in limp vellum.

Probably presented to the Bodleian in 1639 by Patrick Young (1584-1652), Royal Librarian.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Bodl. 900 f. 1r-v)

ElQ 232 c.1593

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, subscribed Regina dixi 1593, on the recto of a single folio leaf; together with an untitled English translation, beginning Youre desertes and gratitude do Alter mye purpose..., in a different secretary hand, on both sides of another folio leaf.

A folio composite volume of historical papers, chiefly relating to the University of Oxford, in various hands, 221 leaves, in modern morocco gilt.

The British Library: Cotton MSS (Cotton MS Faustina C. VII ff. 215r, 216r-v)

ElQ 233

Copy, in a professional roman hand, headed Queene Elizabeth her Oration made to the Vniuersity of Oxford. 1592. Early 17th century.

A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 248 leaves, in modern crushed morocco gilt.

The British Library: Cotton MSS (Cotton MS Titus C. VII f. 141r-v)

ElQ 234 Early 17th century

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed Oratio Rne Elizabeth ad academicos Oxonienses Sabita 28. Septem 1592.

An independent quire of seven folio leaves containing three satires by Donne, in two hands, headed Jhon Dunne his Satires Anno Domini 1593, on ff. 95r-101v.

In a folio composite volume of verse, drama and orations, in various hands, 149 leaves, in modern half morocco gilt.

Early 17th century

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Harley Satires MS: DnJ Δ 31.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 5000 through 5999 (Harley MS 5110 f. 9r-v)

ElQ 235

Copy, in the hand of William Fulman, headed Orat. III. Ad Oxonienses M D XCVII.

A quarto composite volume of state papers, tracts and speeches, 183 leaves, in half-vellum on marbled boards.

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

Corpus Christi College, Oxford (MS 298 ff. 155v-7v)

ElQ 236

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, untitled. Early 17th century.

A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, ii + 91 leaves, virtually disbound.

The Folger Shakespeare Library: V.b. series (MS V.b.142 f. 62r)

ElQ 237

Copy, added at the foot of the two pages in an italic hand, headed in the margin Oratio Reginæ Elizabethæ ad Oxoniæ studiosos.

A thick folio volume of state letters and tracts, a number relating to Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, in several largely secretary hands, 271 leaves, in contemporary calf (rebacked).

Early 1600s

This volume discussed in James G. McManaway, Elizabeth, Essex, and James, in Elizabethan and Jacobean Studies Presented to Frank Percy Wilson (Oxford, 1959), pp. 219-30 (p. 221 et seq.).

The Folger Shakespeare Library: V.b. series (MS V.b.214 ff. 67v-8r)

ElQ 238

Copy of the speech in Latin, in a secretary hand.

A folio commonplace book of miscellaneous entries under headings, in Latin, 694 pages (including blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

Inscribed on the first page F Welles.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS fb 13 p. 407)

Queen Elizabeth's Speech at the Closing of Parliament, April 10, 1593

First published (Version II) in John Stow, Annales; or a General Chronicle of England (London, 1601), pp. 1272-3.

Version I. Beginning This kingdom hath had many noble and victorious princes.... Hartley, III, 173-5. Collected Works, Speech 21, pp. 328-30 (Version 1)

Version II. Beginning My Lords and you, my Commons of the Lower House, were it not that I know no speeches presented by any other.... Hartley, III, 28-9. Collected Works, Speech 21, pp. 330-2.

ElQ 239 c.1593

Copy of the English Version 2, in a professional secretary hand, untitled, on the first two pages of two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed A reporte of her Ma^ties speache in the pliament house at the dissolving of the pliament.

Edited from this MS (as Version 2) in Collected Works, pp. 330-2. Cited in Hartley.

A composite volume of state tracts and speeches, in various hands, folio and quarto sizes, 79 leaves, in modern cloth.

Given to the Bodleian in 1952 by J.C.B. Gamlen via Ruth Waterhouse.

Bodleian Library, Eng. hist. MSS (MS Eng. hist. c. 319 ff. 1r-2v)

ElQ 240

Copy of the English Version 1, with a lengthy introduction by the original parliamentary scribe, who could not hear most of the speech but learned from others the cheife substance of her oration.

Edited from this MS (as Version 1) in Collected Works. Recorded in Hartley.

A folio volume of transcripts of parliamentary rolls during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, from 1588 to 1601, in various professional hands, 202 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

Early 17th century

The British Library: Cotton MSS (Cotton MS Titus F. II ff. 98v-9v)

ElQ 241

Copy of Version I, headed in the margin Queene Eliz. speech and here dated 5 April 1592/3.

A folio volume of parliamentary speeches and proceedings in 1592-93, in a professional secretary hand, 121 leaves, in vellum boards.

Early 17th century

Northamptonshire Record Office (FH 46 ff. 120r-1v)

ElQ 242

Copy of Version I, headed The Queenes speech, here beginning This kingdome hath had many wise noble and victorious princes..., after the date 7 Aprill [1593] Saturday.

A folio volume of parliamentary proceedings and state tracts, in several professional secretary hands, with (f. iii^r) a table of contents, iv + 200 leaves, in contemporary calf with remains of metal clasps.

c.1635

Once owned by Sir Richard Grosvenor (1585-1645); later by the Duke of Westminster, Eaton Hall, Cheshire, with his bookplate (inscribed XXI n^o. 21) and a label with No. 24 on the spine. Assembled largely from Liber 8 (= MS 24). Sotheby's, 20 February 1967, lot 263. Formerly House of Lords Record Office, Historical Collection No. 53.

Recorded in HMC. 3rd Report (187-), Appendix, p. 214b.

Parliamentary Archives (GRO/1 ff. 140v-1v)

ElQ 243

Copy of the English version, headed The Queenes speech in pliment and introduced by the original scribe's explanation The ffirst words I heard not all tell yt came to this sayeinge.

A folio volume of transcripts of state papers, in a secretary hand, i + 41 leaves, in contemporary vellum with remains of ties.

c.1610

Names inscribed on f. [i^r]: John Humphreys and D [?] Wynn.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS fb 9 ff. 34r-5r)

Queen Elizabeth's Latin Rebuke to the Polish Ambassador, Paul de Jaline, July 25, 1597

Beginning Oh quam decepta fui: Expectaui Legationem tu vero querelam, mihi adduxisti..., in Autograph Compositions, pp. 168-9. An English version, beginning O how I have been deceived! I expected an embassage, but you have brought to me a complaint..., in Collected Works, Speech 22, pp. 332-4.

ElQ 244 Early 17th century

Copy, headed The queenes to her Spanish embasado^r.

Transcribed from the Yelverton papers chiefly belonging to Sir Christopher Yelverton (1535?-1612), Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), and their family.

Owned in 1679 by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732), annalist and book collector.

All Souls College, Oxford (MS 155 f. 74v)

ElQ 245 Late 16th century

Copy, in a roman hand, untitled, endorsed in a cursive secretary hand (f. 9v) A speache of Q. Eliz to a Poland Ambassador.

A large folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 157 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half green morocco.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 25000 through 29999 (Add. MS 29975 f. 9r)

ElQ 246

Copy, headed A copie of Queene Elizabeth her Answer to y^e kinge of Polandes Embassador in the p^rsence Chamber at Greenewich the .25^th. of July. 1597. openly & ex tempore.

A large folio miscellaneous compilation of verse and prose, chiefly in a single neat hand, written from both ends, 189 leaves, in contemporary vellum (rebound).

Associated with the Freville family and probably assembled by Gilbert Frevile, of Bishop Middleham, Co. Durham, whose name appears on the cover with the date 1591. A pen-and-ink ornamental drawing at the end inscribed Finis quoth G. W.

c.1620s

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2877 f. 16r)

ElQ 247 Early 17th century

Copy of the Latin version, in a secretary hand, the heading with dates anno 1597 v^l 1598.

An independent quire of seven folio leaves containing three satires by Donne, in two hands, headed Jhon Dunne his Satires Anno Domini 1593, on ff. 95r-101v.

In a folio composite volume of verse, drama and orations, in various hands, 149 leaves, in modern half morocco gilt.

Early 17th century

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Harley Satires MS: DnJ Δ 31.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 5000 through 5999 (Harley MS 5110 f. 9r)

ElQ 248

Copy of the Latin speech, headed Oratio siue responsio dni Regine [fowfa?] Oratori Regi Polome vicessimo quinto die JuliJ. 1597., on one side of a single folio leaf, endorsed on f. 89v The Quenes ma. speche to the Poloniom embassador. 1597.

A folio composite volume of tracts and papers chiefly relating to dealings with foreign states, in various largely professional hands, 365 leaves, in modern morocco gilt.

Fol. 87 inscribed Bought of M^r. G. Pauls Landlady and fol. 89 Giuen by M^r Geo. Holmes.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6798 f. 89r)

ElQ 249

Copy of an English translation of the speech, headed The answere of the Queene, to the orator of the Kinge of Polonia, the 25 day of July. 1597 and here beginning Oh, how I was beguiled..., on one side of a single folio leaf, endorsed on f. 90v The quenes ma. speche to the Polonia embassador englished by Harry Capell. c.1597.

This MS cited in Collected Works.

Inscribed in a later hand Giuen by M^r Geo. Holmes.

A folio composite volume of tracts and papers chiefly relating to dealings with foreign states, in various largely professional hands, 365 leaves, in modern morocco gilt.

Fol. 87 inscribed Bought of M^r. G. Pauls Landlady and fol. 89 Giuen by M^r Geo. Holmes.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6798 f. 90r)

ElQ 250

Copy, in a professional italic hand, headed Oratio siue responsio Dnæ Reginæ, facta Oratori regis Poloniæ die Lunæ, 26. Julij. 1597, on one side of a folio leaf, endorsed Responsio Reginæ. ad pau'l de Jaline Legatu Regis Poloniæ Sigismondi tertii.

A folio composite volume of state letters and papers, in various hands, 196 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt.

Comprising papers of William Cecil (1520/21-98), first Baron Burghley, secretary of state.

Bookplate (as Shelburne) of William Petty (1737-1805), second Earl of Shelburne and first Marquess of Lansdowne, Prime Minister.

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 94 f. 120r)

ElQ 250.5

Copy, in the hand of William Fulman, headed Orat. IV. Ad Orationem Pauli Dzialina Sigismundi Polonae Regis Legati Responsio Grenovici, Jul. XXV. M DXC VII.

A quarto composite volume of state papers, tracts and speeches, 183 leaves, in half-vellum on marbled boards.

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

Corpus Christi College, Oxford (MS 298 ff. 157v-8r)

ElQ 251

Copy, in a professional roman hand, headed Oratio Dnæ nræ Reginæ facta Regis Poloniæ Legato die Lune xxv^to Julij: 1597, subscribed E. Regina, on one side of a folio leaf (the verso a letter by Elizabeth to Lady Norris in a secretary hand), numbered 11, extracted from a longer MS.

c.1630

The Folger Shakespeare Library, Miscellaneous manuscripts (MS X.d.178)

ElQ 252

Copy of an English translation.

Edited from this MS in Autograph Compositions.

A quarto volume of transcripts of letters by various people, in several secretary and italic hands, 95 leaves (plus a few blanks), in modern calf gilt.

c.1620s

Evidently the MS from which selected items are transcribed in Cardiff Central Library MS 1.172, pp. 1-162, which is inscribed (p. 162) Hitherto from the beginning of the Book, from a Manuscript in 4^to: belonging to John Arden of Stockport Esq^r: i.e. probably John Arden (1742-1823), of Harden, Utkinton and Pepper Halls, High Sheriff of Cheshire. Acquired in 1942.

This volume discussed and various letters printed in Bertram Dobell, Newly Discovered Documents of the Elizabethan and Jacobean Periods, The Athenaeum (1901: 23 March, pp. 369-70; 30 March, pp. 403-4; 6 April, pp. 433-4; 13 April, pp. 465-7). A complete transcription and facsimile of the volume in A Seventeenth-Century Letter-Book: A Facsimile Edition of Folger MS. V.a.321, ed. A.R. Braunmuller (Newark, London & Toronto, 1983).

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 300 through end (MS V.a.321 f. 36r)

ElQ 253

Copy, in an italic hand, headed Oratio seu responsio Dnæ Reginæ facta oratori regis Poloniæ die lunæ 25^to Julij 1597^o.

This MS cited in Collected Works.

A thick folio volume of state letters and tracts, a number relating to Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, in several largely secretary hands, 271 leaves, in contemporary calf (rebacked).

Early 1600s

This volume discussed in James G. McManaway, Elizabeth, Essex, and James, in Elizabethan and Jacobean Studies Presented to Frank Percy Wilson (Oxford, 1959), pp. 219-30 (p. 221 et seq.).

The Folger Shakespeare Library: V.b. series (MS V.b.214 f. 67v)

ElQ 254

Copy, headed Oratio sive Responsio Dne Regine facta oratori...polome die...25 Julij 1591.

c.1603

Inscribed names Gilbert Rye and William Norris and a reference (on f. 6a^v) to Doctor Gylbart.

The entries were at one time given separate library EL numbers ranging (intermittently) from EL 1183c to EL 6172 at one end and from EL 1183a to EL 6206 from the reverse end.

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks A through E (EL 6162 f. [2a^r bis])

ElQ 255 c.1597

Copy, in a professional italic hand, headed Responsio Reginæ Angliæ ad Legatu Poloniæ, on one page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed Responce de la Reyne a L' Ambassadeur pollonois. le mois d'aoust 1597, once folded as a letter or packet.

A folio guardbook of state letters and papers, in various hands, 284 leaves, in modern half-calf marbled boards.

Volume XV of the papers of Anthony Bacon (1558-1601), political intelligencer, subsequently among the collections of Thomas Tenison (1636-1715), Archbishop of Canterbury.

Lambeth Palace Library (MS 661 f. 260r)

Elizabeth's Golden Speech, November 30, 1601

First published (Version III), as Her maiesties most princelie answere, deliuered by her selfe at White-hall, on the last day of November 1601 (London, 1601: STC 7578).

Version I. Beginning Mr. Speaker, we have heard your declaration and perceive your care of our estate.... Hartley, III, 412-14. Hartley, III, 495-6. Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 337-40 (Version 1). Selected Works, Speech 11, pp. 84-92.

Version II. Beginning Mr. Speaker, we perceive your coming is to present thanks unto me.... Hartley, III, 294-7 (third version). Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 340-2 (Version 2).

Version III. Beginning Mr. Speaker, we perceive by you, whom we did constitute the mouth of our Lower House, how with even consent.... Hartley, III, 292-3 (second version). Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 342-4 (Version 3). STC 7578.

Version IV. Beginning Mr Speaker, I well understand by that you have delivered, that you with these gentlemen of the Lower House come to give us thankes for benefitts receyved.... Hartley, III, 289-91 (first version).

ElQ 256

Copy of Version 2, headed The Queene to the speaker at Whitehall in the pliamente, Anno 43. set downe by M^r Phillips, followed (ff. 2v-4r) by a summary of the speech penned by M^r Attorney generall At thende of the pliament in Anno. 43. [i.e.19 December 1601]. Early 17th century.

This MS cited in Hartley.

Transcribed from the Yelverton papers chiefly belonging to Sir Christopher Yelverton (1535?-1612), Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), and their family.

Owned in 1679 by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732), annalist and book collector.

All Souls College, Oxford (MS 155 ff. 1r-2r)

ElQ 257

Copy of Version I, on several pages.

A folio volume of Hayward Townsend's journal of parliamentary proceedings from 27 October to 19 December 1601, in two or more secretary hands, unfoliated (2 inches thick), in later speckled leather gilt.

Early 17th century

Bookplate of William, Earl of Bedford, 1867.

Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 2.

The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS No. 189 unnumbered pages)

ElQ 258

Copy in the hand of the Feathery Scribe.

Edited from this MS in Hartley, III, 412-14; (as Version 1) in Collected Works, and in Selected Works.

Copy of Hayward Townshend's parliamentary journal for 27 October to 19 December 1601, 206 folio leaves, in near-contemporary calf gilt.

In the hand of the Feathery Scribe but for the heading which is in the hand of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), antiquary.

c.1630

Once owned Sir Robert Oxenbridge, MP (1595-1638) of Hurstbourne Priors, Hampshire; later by Thomas Tanner (1674-1735), Bishop of St Asaph, ecclesiastical historian, scholar and book collector. It was once bought from John Jackson of Tottenham High Cross.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 255 (No. 90).

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. A. 100 ff. 97v-101r)

ElQ 258.5

Copy of Version I, headed The Queenes answere.

A quarto volume of parliamentary speeches, in a single hand, 92 pages, in contemporary calf gilt.

Early 17th century

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. D. 1045 pp. 84-92)

ElQ 259 Early 1600s

Copy of Version 2, here beginning M^r Speaker, Y^r comming is to present thanckes to vs…, in a secretary hand, on a folded folio leaf (conjunct with a blank half-leaf).

This MS cited in Hartley and in Collected Works.

A folio composite volume of state tracts and speeches, 81 leaves, in modern binding.

Among the collections of Gilbert Sheldon (1598-1677), Archbishop of Canterbury. Subsequently owned by members of the Dolben family, including probably John Dolben (1625-86), Archbishop of York.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Add. C. 304b f. 16r-v)

ElQ 260

Copy of Version I, in a professional secretary hand, in a parliamentary journal and introduced ...her Ma^tie begann thus to answer herselfe, viz.

A composite folio volume of state tracts, in several professional hands, 612 leaves, in contemporary vellum, with traces of ties.

c.1620s-30s

Yelverton MS 31, among papers of Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), Justice of the Common Pleas, and his family.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 45000 through 49999 (Add. MS 48041 ff. 307r-9v)

ElQ 261 Late 17th century

Copy of Version III, with a lengthy heading, Her Ma^ties most Princely Answer, Delivered by her self at the Court at Whitehall y^e last day of November 1601...The same being taken Verbatim in writing by A.B. as neer as hee could possibly set it down, on both sides of a large quarto leaf.

An unbound collection of copies of royal letters and papers, in various hands.

Volume DXIX of the Portland Papers, owned by the Harley family, of Brampton Bryan, and related families of Vere, Hollis, and Cavendish, and of Cavendish-Bentinck, Dukes of Portland.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 70519 No. LXX)

ElQ 262

Copy of Version I, introduced The Queen answered her selfe.

A folio volume of proceedings and speeches in the House of Commons in 1601-2, principally from Hayward Townshend's journal, in a single professional hand, 279 leaves.

Late 17th century

Inscribed (f. 2r) Stamford 1693. Inscribed in pencil (f. 1r) by Alfred John Kempe, 4 June 1836. Purchased from Sotheby's, January/February 1873.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2222 ff. 126r-8r)

ElQ 263

Copy of Version I, with introduction (...And her Majestie beganne thus to answer her Selfe: viz^t./.

This MS cited in Hartley.

A folio volume of proceedings and speeches in the House of Commons in 1601-2, principally from Hayward Townshend's journal, in a single professional hand, 279 leaves.

Late 17th century

Inscribed (f. 2r) Stamford 1693. Inscribed in pencil (f. 1r) by Alfred John Kempe, 4 June 1836. Purchased from Sotheby's, January/February 1873.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2222 ff. 250r-3r)

ElQ 264

Copy of Version 2, headed Quene Elizabeths speeche to her last parliament. the .30. of november i60i.

This MS cited (as third version) in Hartley.

A large folio miscellaneous compilation of verse and prose, chiefly in a single neat hand, written from both ends, 189 leaves, in contemporary vellum (rebound).

c.1620s

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2877 f. 15v)

ElQ 265

Copy of Version II, in the hand of Ralph Starkey, headed Queene Elizabethes Speeche in the parlemente time one Mondaye the xxx^th. of Nouembere .1601. hir Ma^tie beinge sete vnder state in the Counsell chamber at Whitehall...[etc.].

Edited from this MS (as third version) in Hartley (pp. 294-7)

A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, 209 leaves, in modern morocco gilt.

All in the hand of Ralph Starkey except for two other hands on ff. 94r-100v, 205r, 207r and 208r.

c.1620s

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 1 through 999 (Harley MS 169 f. 45r-v)

ElQ 266

Copy of Version IV, headed The Queens Speach.

Edited from this MS (as first version) in Hartley (pp. 289-91).

A folio volume of state letters and papers, in a single professional secretary hand (but for f. 98r-v), 128 leaves, in black morocco gilt.

According to an inscription on f. 1*r this MS comprises (presumably a transcript of) Severall papers found in M^r: Deas Study Secretary to Bishop Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury.

c.1650

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 1 through 999 (Harley MS 787 ff. 127r-8v)

ElQ 267

Copy of Version I, introduced (f. 72v) In the afternoone the Comons attended the Queene att Whitehall about three of the clocke, to the nomber of seavenscrore.

This MS partly collated in Hartley.

A folio volume, comprising almost entirely a parliamentary journal for 27 October to 19 December 1601, chiefly in two or more professional secretary hands, with a mixed hand on f. 131v and later tipped-in leaves as ff. 132-3, 134 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in mottled leather gilt.

Early 17th century [to c.1633]

Inscribed (f. 1r) Thomas ward, George Withers his booke Anno Dni 1633, and Robert Daye, and (f. 134v) Hugh Parsons / i633.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 2000 through 2999 (Harley MS 2283 ff. 73r-5r)

ElQ 268

Copy of Version IV, headed The Queens speech.

This MS cited (as first Version) in Hartley.

A folio volume of state papers and speeches, in a single accomplished cursive hand, 235 leaves, in later vellum boards gilt.

Mid-late-17th century

Inscribed (f. [i^r] M^r Noel from Lord Fitz-Williams. A.D. 1719.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 4000 through 4999 (Harley MS 4808 ff. 221v-32r)

ElQ 269

Copy of Version II, in a professional rounded hand, headed Queen Elizabeths Speech to her last Parliam^t 29 October 1601.

This MS cited (as his third version) in Hartley.

A large quarto volume of verse and prose, in several hands, a cursive mixed hand predominating on ff. 1r -51, 53r-8v, with a later addition dated 1694 on f. 78r, 82 leaves, in modern half green morocco.

Mid-17th century

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6038 ff. 72r-4r)

ElQ 270

Copy of Version I, introduced ...And her Ma^tie beganne thus to answere her Selfe: vizt.

This MS cited in Hartley.

A folio volume comprising a parliamentary journal for 1601, in a professional hand, 397 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

c.1690s

A note of receipt for half a guinea, 13 July 1727, on p. 278.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 7000 through end (Harley MS 7203 ff. 362r-7v)

ElQ 271

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed Her maiesties most princely answere, delyuered by her self at the court at whitehall on the last day of nouember 1601. when the Speaker of the lower house of parliament asisted with the most pte of the knights and burgesses had presented ther humble thankes for her fre and gracious fauour in preuenting and reforminge of sundrie greiuances, by abuse of many grants commonly called Monopolies, the same beinge taken verbatim in wrytinge by A: B: as neer as he could possiblie set yt downe, on both sides of a single folio leaf, docketed Vlt Nouvbris 1601 Hir Ma^ty Speache to y^e Speaker and the knights and Burgesses of the Lower howse.

Edited from this MS (as second version) in Hartley (pp. 292-3). Cited in Collected Works.

A folio composite volume of state letters and papers, in various hands, 196 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt.

Comprising papers of William Cecil (1520/21-98), first Baron Burghley, secretary of state.

Bookplate (as Shelburne) of William Petty (1737-1805), second Earl of Shelburne and first Marquess of Lansdowne, Prime Minister.

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 94 f. 123r-v)

ElQ 272 c.1630

Copy of a version, headed The Queenes answere, dated 30 November 1602.

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

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

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 491 ff. 222r-5r)

ElQ 273

Copy of Version 1, headed The last Speech of Queen Elizabeth to her last Parliament held Anno 43^o. of her Reigne. Annoque Domini 1601. Late 17th century.

This MS cited in Selected Works.

A folio volume of Elizabethan and Jacobean parliamentary papers, in professional hands, 265 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

A second volume of parliamentary collections by William Petyt (1637-1707), Keeper of the Records in the Tower of London.

Late 17th century

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 512 ff. 37v-41r)

ElQ 274

Copy of version 1, introduced ...her Ma^tie began thus to Answer her self viz. Late 17th-century.

This MS cited in Selected Works.

A folio composite volume of chiefly Elizabethan, Jacobean and Caroline parliamentary papers, in professional hands, c.250 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

A fifth volume of parliamentary collections by William Petyt (1640/1-1707), lawyer and political propagandist.

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 515 ff. 140r-4v)

ElQ 275

Copy, in a professional secretary hand.

This MS cited in Hartley, in Collected Works, and in Heisch.

A folio volume of parliamentary journals for 1597 and 1601-1601/2, in three professional hands, including that of the Feathery Scribe, 288 leaves.

c.1630s

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 248-9 (No. 73).

The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 362 ff. 168r-72r)

ElQ 276

Copy of Version 1, in a professional hand, introduced ...After .3. lowe obeyances/reverences made he with the rest kneeled downe, and her Ma^tie. began thus to answere (vizt).

A folio volume of the parliamentary journal of Hayward Townshend for 27 October to 19 December 1601, in a single professional hand, 241 leaves, in mottled leather.

c.1630s

Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor, 1701.

This MS cited in Hartley.

The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 363 ff. 115r-19r)

ElQ 277

Copy of Version 2, with an introduction The 30^th of Novemb. 1601 her ma^ties being set vnder State in the Councill Chamber at White hall...as followeth.

This MS cited in Hartley and in Collected Works.

A folio volume of state tracts, speeches and accounts, written from both ends, 86 leaves, in contemporary calf.

Cambridge University Library, Additional MSS 1 through 4999 (MS Add. 335 f. 39r-v)

ElQ 278

Copy, introduced by The Queene answered her selfe.

This MS cited in Hartley, III, 494-6.

A folio volume comprising two manuscripts of proceedings and speeches in Parliament, from 27 October to 19 December 1601 (212 leaves) and in 1638/9 (64 leaves), each in a professional secretary hand, in reversed calf.

c.1640

Cambridge University Library, shelfmarks A through D (MS Dd. 2. 39 I, ff. 118r-19v)

ElQ 279

Copy.

A folio volume of state tracts and letters, c.480 pages.

c.1625-30s

Inscribed on the rear cover Robert Wingfield his Booke witnes Barbary Wingfield. Among the Tabley House MSS and once owned by Sir Peter Leycester (1614-78), antiquary.

Recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, pp. 47-8.

Cheshire Record Office (DLT/B8 p. 140 et seq.)

ElQ 280

Copy of Version I, with introduction: ...And her ma^tie began thus to answere (vizt).

A folio volume of parliamentary debates in 1601, in a single secretary hand, 165 leaves, originally in vellum, now in modern quarter black leather marbled boards.

c.1635

Inscribed (f. 165v) To be returned vp in Michaelmas Terme to [deleted] 1635. Bookplate of W^m A. Armstrong White Lincoln's Inn.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, Miscellaneous manuscripts (MS G.b.3 ff. 77v-9v)

ElQ 281

Copy of an apparently hybrid version, between Versions I and II, in a secretary hand, headed The queens Answere to S^r Robt Phillipps speech and beginning We have heard yo^r declaration and doe perceave that your coming is present thanks unto you..., on ff. [4r-8v], following (ff. [2r-3v]) a copy of the Speaker Sir Edward Phelips's speech to her, ten quarto leaves in all (including two blanks), unbound.

c. early 1600s

The Folger Shakespeare Library, Miscellaneous manuscripts (MS X.d.152)

ElQ 282

Copy of Version II, following the Speaker's oration, on three of four quarto leaves, in marbled boards.

In a formal roman hand, headed Her Ma^ties: most Excelent Speech vnto m^r Speaker & the rest of the lower House, being knights & Burgesses, to the full nember of Eight Scoore, on Munday the 30^th of Nouember: 1601.

Early 17th century

Sotheby's, 28 October-5 November 1902, lot 957.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 100 through 199 (MS V.a.142)

ElQ 283

Copy of Version I, introduced ...her Majestie began thus to Answ^r herselfe vizt....

A large folio volume of speeches and proceedings in Parliament, in one or more professional hands, 600 pages (plus blanks), in mottled calf.

Mid-late 17th century

Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor, dated 1701.

The Folger Shakespeare Library: V.b. series (MS V.b.215 pp. 388-95)

ElQ 284

Copy of an eclectic text combining Versions I and II, headed The Queenes Answere, following (on 23v-4v) the Speaker's address to the Queen.

A folio volume of parliamentary speeches, in a single professional secretary hand, with a title-page A Booke of seuerall speaches and answers, 27 unnumbered leaves, unbound.

c.1620s-30s

Hertfordshire Record Office (XII B 5 ff. [24v-7r])

ElQ 285

Copy of Version I, with introduction The Queene answered herselfe.

This MS cited in Hartley.

A folio volume of speeches and proceeding in Parliament in 1601 (the journal of Hayward Townshend), in several professional secretary hands, with a decorative title-page, 451 pages, in a limp vellum wrapper.

Early 17th century

Hertfordshire Record Office (XII B 16 pp. 235-9)

ElQ 286

Copy, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves.

Here beginning M^r Speaker wee pceive yo^r comming is to p^rsent thanckes vnto me..., in a secretary hand, docketed in another hand Q. Eliz. Speech.

c.early 1600s

Edited from this MS (as Version 2) in Collected Works. Edited partly from this MS (as third version) in Hartley.

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks A through E (EL 2571)

ElQ 287

Copy of Version I, in Starkey's hand, introduced ...The Queene Answered herselfe.

A parliamentary journal of the Elizabethan and Jacobean period, in two professional secretary hands, the second (ff. 295r-524r) that of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), antiquary, 524 folio leaves (plus blanks), in brown leather gilt.

c.1620

Inner Temple Library (Petyt MS 537, Vol. 16 ff. 401v-3r)

ElQ 288

Copy of Version I, in Starkey's hand, introduced ...And her Ma^tie begane thus to Answere her selfe (viz).

This MS cited in Hartley.

c.1620

Inner Temple Library (Petyt MS 537, Vol. 16 ff. 500r-3r)

ElQ 289

Copy of Version I, entitled The last Speech of Queen Elizabeth to her last Parliament held Anno 43^o of her Reigne Annoque Domini 1601.

A folio volume of proceedings in Parliament, largely in a single rounded hand, ff. 1r-4r and 19r-41v in a clerk's hand, 246 leaves, in red morocco gilt.

Compiled by William Petyt (1640/1-1707), lawyer and political propagandist.

Late 17th century-1700s

Inner Temple Library (Petyt MS 538, Vol. 1 ff. 51r-4v)

ElQ 290 Mid-late 17th century

Copy of Version II, in a professional rounded hand, introduced Her Gratious Ma^tie vsed a most Excellent speech to the effect following.

This MS cited in Hartley.

A folio composite volume of state letters, papers and proceedings in Parliament, in various hands, 570 leaves, in red morocco gilt.

Inner Temple Library (Petyt MS 538, Vol. 17 ff. 33r-5r)

ElQ 291

Copy of a version.

A folio volume of state papers.

Owned in 1633-5, and partly compiled, by William Heveningham, of Heveningham Hall, Suffolk.

c.1633-49

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

Recorded in HMC, 9th Report (1883), Appendix, pp. 369-70.

The Earl of Leicester, Holkham Hall (MS 684 item 1)

ElQ 292 Early 17th century

Copy of Version III, in a professional italic hand, headed Her Maiestes most Princely answer, deliuered by his selfe at the Court at Whitehall, on the last day of Nouember 1601. When the Speaker of the lower howse of Parliamemnt (assisted w^th the greatest part of the knightes & burgesses had presented their humble thankes for hir free and gracious fauour, in preuentinge and reforminge of sundry greiuances, by abuse of many grauntes, comonly called Monopolies: The same beinge taken Verbatim in writinge by A: B. as neere as he could possibly sett it downe, on the first two pages of two conjugate folio leaves, foliated in pencil 147-8, endorsed The Que Speach to y^e Parl: House.

This MS, the heading of which conforms to the title of the printed edition of the speech (London, 1601), is cited (as second version) in Hartley (pp. 292-3) and (as version 3) in Collected Works.

A folio guard-book of independent Elizabethan state papers, stamped foliation 1-160.

National Archives, Kew (SP 12/282 f. 134r-v (item 65))

ElQ 293 Early 17th century

A second copy, apparently in the same italic hand as ElQ 292 and with the same heading, on both sides of a single folio leaf, foliated in pencil 149.

This MS cited (as second version) in Hartley and (as version 3) in Collected Works. It is followed (ff. 137-41, item 67) by an unbound exemplum of the quarto printed edition of 1601.

A folio guard-book of independent Elizabethan state papers, stamped foliation 1-160.

National Archives, Kew (SP 12/282 f. 136r-v (item 66))

ElQ 294

Copy of Version I, introduced The Queene deliuered her selfe.

This MS cited in Hartley

A folio volume of parliamentary speeches and proceedings in 1601, in a single professional secretary hand, 277 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary boards.

Early 17th century

Northamptonshire Record Office (FH 48 ff. 143v-5v)

ElQ 295

Copy of Version I.

This MS cited in Hartley.

Northamptonshire Record Office (FH 48)

ElQ 296 c.1620s-30s

Copy of Version III, in a professional cursive secretary hand, headed The Qu: Speech in the Parliam^t house to the Speaker &c. touching the wronges offered to her sub^ts by her graunts of Monopolies Vlt^o. Nouembris 1601, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

A folio composite volume of parliamentary speeches, letters and documents, in various hands and paper sizes, 81 items, all mounted on guards, in 19th-century brown morocco.

Among papers of the Montagu family, Barons and Dukes of Montagu, of Boughton House.

Northamptonshire Record Office (Montagu (Boughton) Letterbook 29 item 49)

ElQ 297

Copy of Version I, with introduction After three lowe reverences made, hee [the Speaker] w^th the rest kneeled Downe, and her Mai^tie begune thus to answere her self.

A folio volume of proceedings of the House of Commons from 27 October to 19 December 1600, in several professional secretary hands, 414 leaves, in half-calf marbled boards.

As collected by Hayward Townshend (c.1577-1603/21), parliamentary diarist.

c.1620s

Parliamentary Archives (TOW pp. 232-9)

ElQ 298

Copy of a version headed The Queens Speech and beginning M^r Speaker I well understand by that you haue deliuered, that you with these Gent of the lower House came to giue vs thanks....

A folio volume of state letters, in a single hand, 490 pages, in contemporary calf.

Mid-late 17th century

The Pierpont Morgan Library (MA 664 pp. 484-90)

ElQ 299 c.1620s-30s

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed The Queenes Speech at Whitehall to the speaker of the Lower house the 30^th: of November 1602.

This MS cited in Hartley.

A folio composite volume of state tracts, letters and speeches, in various hands, 614 pages (including blanks), in contemporary vellum.

The Queen's College, Oxford (MS 121 pp. 474-6)

ElQ 300

Copy, headed The Queenes Speech at Whitehall to the speaker of the Lower house the 30^th of Nouember 1602.

A folio volume of state tracts and speeches, in professional secretary hands, iv + 311 pages, in contemporary vellum gilt.

Largely (but not entirely) a duplicate of MS 121.

c.1620s-30s

The Queen's College, Oxford (MS 130 pp. 89-91)

ElQ 301

Copy of Version II, headed Queen Elizabethes speech to her last Parliament. The 30^th of November. 1602., followed by the rubric her Maiestie being set vnder state in her Councell Chamber at whitehall ... proclaymed the same in their hearing as followeth.

A quarto volume of parliamentary speeches, in two or more secretary hands, 24 leaves (plus stubs of extracted leaves), in paper wrappers.

c.1630

The front wrapper inscribed Tom Hodges his Book. The rear wrapper addressed To my very Loving friend M^r Thomas Cave Marchant, at his howse in Amsterdam this be .dd. Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector.

Royal Society, London (MS 36 ff. 1r-2r)

ElQ 302 c.1640

Copy of Version II, headed Queene Elizabeths speech in Parliamt.

A sewn folio booklet of parliamentary speeches, in one or more professional secretary hands, twelve leaves, in a paper wrapper.

c.1640

In a bundle among the papers of the Mildmay family, including those of Colonel Carew Harvey Mildmay (fl.1625-67), officer of the Jewel House, of Marks, Somerset.

Recorded in HMC, 7th Report (1879), Appendix, p. 596.

Somerset Heritage Centre (DD/MI/18/96 f. [11r-v])

ElQ 303

Copy.

A folio guardbook of state tracts and papers, in various hands, c.1160 pages (plus blanks), in half-morocco.

c.1601-40

Owned in 1709 by Browne Willis, MP, FSA (1682-1760), of Whaddon Hall, near Winslow, Buckinghamshire, antiquary. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 11936. Bookplate of W.A. Foyle (1885-1963), of Beeleigh Abbey, Essex, bookseller. Christie's, 12-13 July 2000 (W.A. Foyle sale, Part III), lot 317.

Untraced, Phillipps MS (MS 11936 [unspecified page numbers])

ElQ 304

Copy of Version II, in a minute secretary hand, untitled, on two pages of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed Queen Elizabeths last [speach] in Parliam^t.

Early 17th century

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

Warwickshire County Record Office (CR 136/B772)

ElQ 305

Copy of Version 3, headed Her Maiesties most Princely answere deliuered by herselfe at the Court att Whitehall on the last day of November 1601 when the Speaker of the lower house of Parliam^t assisted w^th the greatest part of knights and Burgesses had presented their humble thankes for her free and gracious fauour in preventing and reforming of sundry greiuances by abuse of many graunts called monopolies, in a professional hand.

A folio volume of state tracts and speeches, 380 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt, now disbound.

Early-mid-17th century

Includes arms and genealogy of Helsby Cherleton & Acton Co. Lest^r and of The Lords of Hatton Co. Lest^r. Inscribed Thomas Helsby Lincoln's Inn London 1855.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS fb 23 ff. 203r-4r)

Queen Elizabeth's Final Speech before Parliament, December 19, 1601

Version I. Beginning Before your going down at the end of the Parliament, I thought good to deliver unto you certain notes.... Hartley, III, 278-81. Collected Works, Speech 24, pp. 346-51 (Version 1).

Version II. Beginning My lords, we have thought it expedient in this general assembly to let you know out of our own mouth.... Collected Works, Speech 24, pp. 351-4 (Version 2).

ElQ 306

Copy, in the italic hand of Lord Henry Howard (later Earl of Northampton), headed Q Eliz speech in parlament and, in the margin, The Q last speche, on two trimmed conjugate folio leaves. c.1601-14.

Edited from this MS in Hartley and in Collected Works. Cited in Heisch. Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Leah S. Marcus, The Veil of Manuscript, Renaissance Drama, NS 30 (1999-2001), 115-31, where it is erroneously stated that the MS is not in Northampton's own hand.

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and papers principally in the hand of Lord Henry Howard, including some letters to him and some parliamentary speeches, 585 leaves, in 19th-century morocco gilt.

c.1580s-1614

The British Library: Cotton MSS (Cotton MS Titus C. VI ff. 410r-11v)

ElQ 307

Copy of Version II.

Camden edition, pp. 44-7, whence edited in Collected Works.

Journal of Sir Roger Wilbraham, the Queen's solicitor for Ireland, for 1593-1616. c.300 duodecimo pages, in vellum.

Owned in 1902 by the Earl of Latham.

Edited from this MS by Harold Spencer Scott in The Camden Miscellany, Camden Society, 3rd series, 10 (1902).

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Wilbraham journal] [unspecified page numbers])

Queen Elizabeth I

Introduction

Translations

Verse

Speeches

Prayers

Letters and Documents

Elizabeth's Library

Elizabeth's Handwriting

Miscellaneous

Abbreviations

Verse

(1) Poems by, or possibly by, Elizabeth

(2) Verse Translations by or attributed to Elizabeth

Prose

(1) Prose Translations attributed to Elizabeth

(2) Essays and Tracts

(3) Prayers

(4) Speeches

Contents