Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex

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

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

A folio volume of state papers and verses relating chiefly to Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, in a single professional secretary hand up to f. 58r, other hands on ff. 59r-65r, 65 leaves, in contemporary calf.

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

Compiled by Thomas Tanner (1674-1735)

A quarto composite volume of state letters and tracts, in various hands, 130 leaves, in calf.

A folio volume of state papers, in two or three hands, 70 leaves, in vellum.

A large quarto composite volume of letters and papers relating to Queen Elizabeth, Francis Bacon and the Earl of Essex, predominantly in the hand of Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian, 44 leaves.

A folio volume of state tracts, in various professional hands, 522 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt.

A folio composite volume of state and legal tracts, papers and speeches, in several hands, with (f. 4r) an Index of contents, 338 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco gilt.

A folio booklet of state letters, in a single predominantly secretary hand, 24 leaves, the last three leaves imperfect, unbound.

A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, in at least seven secretary and italic hands, 118 leaves (plus some blanks), currently disbound.

Possibly compiled by one or more persons connected with the Inns of Court.

The volume edited by Alexander B. Grosart as The Dr. Farmer Chetham MS. being a Commonplace Book in the Chetham Library, Manchester, temp. Elizabeth, James I, and Charles I, Chetham Society, vols 89 and 90 (Manchester, 1873).

A folio composite volume of state papers and proceedings in Parliament, in various hands, 448 leaves (plus blanks), in red morocco gilt.

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.

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

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

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

Copy.

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in possibly several hands, a cursive secretary hand predominating, ii + 77 leaves, imperfect, in contemporary limp vellum, within modern reversed calf.

Owned and possibly compiled by Richard Waferer, of Buckinghamshire (name on ff. 43r and 76v).

Transcript of The Paradise of Dainty Devises (London, 1577), iii + 162 quarto leaves (ff. 119-62 blank), mainly on rectos only, in contemporary vellum boards.

Made largely by William Herbert (1718-95), bibliographer and printseller (ff. 116-18 in two other hands).

A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, in at least seven secretary and italic hands, 118 leaves (plus some blanks), currently disbound.

Possibly compiled by one or more persons connected with the Inns of Court.

The volume edited by Alexander B. Grosart as The Dr. Farmer Chetham MS. being a Commonplace Book in the Chetham Library, Manchester, temp. Elizabeth, James I, and Charles I, Chetham Society, vols 89 and 90 (Manchester, 1873).

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

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

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

A folio volume originally used c.1528 as a manorial rental (up to f. 23) and subsequently, c.1580s, as a commonplace book of miscellaneous entries by Thomas Brampton, of Norfolk and Suffolk, i + 61 leaves, in marbled boards.

A folio volume of tracts and papers largely relating to Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, in several hands, ff. 8r-33r in a single professional secretary hand, 54 leaves (plus blanks), in half red morocco.

A quarto verse miscellany, in an accomplished mixed hand throughout, with headings or incipts in engrossed lettering, 194 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco.

This MS volume discussed in Katherine K. Gottschalk, Discoveries concerning British Library MS Harley 6910, MP, 77 (1979-80), 121-31.

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

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

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

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.

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).

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).

A folio volume of music and verse, in several secretary and italic hands, 46 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in 19th-century half brown calf on marbled boards.

A tall folio composite volume of state tracts, in various professional secretary hands, 339 leaves, in old brown calf (rebacked).

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

Probably compiled by a member of an Inn of Court.

A quarto verse miscellany, made up from a larger book, 184 leaves, stubs of some excised leaves, in green boards.

Compiled by John Ramsay (b.1578), of Peterhouse, Cambridge, and the Middle Temple.

A set of six oblong quarto part-books of principally vocal music, largely in a single italic hand, each volume in modern half-morocco.

An oblong quarto songbook, the lyrics largely in a single italic hand, with (ff. 4v-5r) a table of contents, 84 leaves, in 19th-century red morocco gilt.

Inscribed (f. 3v), evidently by the compiler, Giles Earle his booke 1615 (with other notes dated 1610) and (f. 1v) Egidius Earle hunc librum possidet qui compactus fuit mense Septembris. 1626., f. 81r subscribed Anno Dni: 1623 / Mense Augusti: Finis.

A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 1 (New York & London, 1986).

A folio volume of state papers and verses relating chiefly to Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, in a single professional secretary hand up to f. 58r, other hands on ff. 59r-65r, 65 leaves, in contemporary calf.

Transcript of The Paradise of Dainty Devises (London, 1577), iii + 162 quarto leaves (ff. 119-62 blank), mainly on rectos only, in contemporary vellum boards.

Made largely by William Herbert (1718-95), bibliographer and printseller (ff. 116-18 in two other hands).

A large quarto composite volume of letters and papers relating to Queen Elizabeth, Francis Bacon and the Earl of Essex, predominantly in the hand of Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian, 44 leaves.

A quarto volume of papers relating to Robert, Earl of Essex, in two secretary hands, 30 leaves.

A quarto letterbook, in several neat hands, 191 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in red morocco gilt.

A folio volume of state letters and poems, 65 pages.

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.

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

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

A small octavo miscellany of verse and prose, written from both ends, i + 155 leaves (including numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum.

Compiled by an Oxford University man.

A collection of unbound verse manuscripts, in various hands and paper sizes (chiefly folio), 142 leaves.

Partly compiled by Sir Richard Browne and his father Christopher Browne (1577-1646), of Saye's Court, Deptford.

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

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

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

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

Probably compiled by a member of an Inn of Court.

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

A small octavo miscellany of verse and prose, written from both ends, i + 155 leaves (including numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum.

Compiled by an Oxford University man.

A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, in at least seven secretary and italic hands, 118 leaves (plus some blanks), currently disbound.

Possibly compiled by one or more persons connected with the Inns of Court.

The volume edited by Alexander B. Grosart as The Dr. Farmer Chetham MS. being a Commonplace Book in the Chetham Library, Manchester, temp. Elizabeth, James I, and Charles I, Chetham Society, vols 89 and 90 (Manchester, 1873).

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

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

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

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

Probably compiled by a member of an Inn of Court.

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

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

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

An octavo volume of works by, or attributed to, Ralegh, in several largely secretary hands, 282 pages, in contemporary velum.

This MS discussed in Lefranc (1968), pp. 584-5.

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.

A quarto MS of letters and tracts by or relating to Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, in several probably professional secretary and italic hands, v + 72 leaves (ff. 43v-61v blank), bound with other MSS in contemporary calf.

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

A guardbook of miscellaneous separate papers, chiefly folio, 21 leaves.

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, in more than one hand, written from both ends, in vellum boards.

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).

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).

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).

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).

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

A folio volume of state papers and verses relating chiefly to Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, in a single professional secretary hand up to f. 58r, other hands on ff. 59r-65r, 65 leaves, in contemporary calf.

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

Compiled by Thomas Tanner (1674-1735)

A folio composite volume of verse and academic plays, in English and Latin, in various hands, 493 leaves, now in two volumes, foliated 1-250 and 251-493 respectively.

Partly compiled by Archbishop Sancroft.

A quarto verse miscellany, made up from a larger book, 184 leaves, stubs of some excised leaves, in green boards.

Compiled by John Ramsay (b.1578), of Peterhouse, Cambridge, and the Middle Temple.

A folio volume of state tracts and letters, in several probably professional secretary hands, 225 pages, in marbled boards.

Recorded, as B. 3, in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, p. 459.

MS of a genealogical history of the Neville family of Raby, to c.1647, i + 52 pages, in a composite volume of various tracts bound together.

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.

A folio volume of tracts and papers largely relating to Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, in several hands, ff. 8r-33r in a single professional secretary hand, 54 leaves (plus blanks), in half red morocco.

A tall folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous papers, in verse and prose, in several hands, 87 leaves, in 19th-century mottled leather.

Possibly assembled by a barrister of the Middle Temple.

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

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

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

A quarto verse miscellany, in an accomplished mixed hand throughout, with headings or incipts in engrossed lettering, 194 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco.

This MS volume discussed in Katherine K. Gottschalk, Discoveries concerning British Library MS Harley 6910, MP, 77 (1979-80), 121-31.

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

A folio songbook, in probably two secretary and italic hands, 25 leaves, in a recycled contemporary vellum indenture within modern half red morocco.

A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 1 (New York & London, 1986).

A folio volume of tracts and poems, in a single secretary hand, 73 leaves.

A folio composite verse and heraldic miscellany, in several hands, ii + 302 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf.

Including much Welsh verse and coats of arms, some by or relating to Sir John Salusbury. Compiled, at least in part, by William Cynwal of Penmachno for Catherine of Berain, wife of Sir Richard Clough.

A folio volume of state letters, speeches and verse, in a single neat italic hand.

Copy of a fifteen-stanza version, in a secretary hand, headed Carm Com Essex. 1598, 40 Elizabeth, inscribed in red ink By the Right Hon^ble: Robert Devereux Earle of Essex an Elegiac Apologie, on both sides of a single folio leaf.

This MS text collated in May, pp. 128-32.

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

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

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

A large folio composite volume of state papers, letters and speeches, in English and Latin prose and verse, in various hands, 58 items, i + 449 leaves.

A large coucher-size volume of accounts, state letters, speeches, legal documents and other papers, in several professional secretary hands, 402 pages, in a contemporary vellum wallet binding with remains of ties and a strap.

A folio composite volume of state papers and proceedings in Parliament, in various hands, 448 leaves (plus blanks), in red morocco gilt.

A tall folio composite volume of state tracts, in various professional secretary hands, 339 leaves, in old brown calf (rebacked).

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.

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.

Copy of a fourteen-stanza version, in double columns, headed The Poor Labouring Bee, subscribed Essex, on two quarto pages.

A complete facsimile in Tobacco: A Catalogue of the Books, Manuscripts and Engravings acquired since 1942 in the Arents Tobacco Collection..., Vol. I [Supplement] (New York, 1961), No. 115, pp. 118-20. This MS recorded in May, p. 111, n. 64.

Copy of a fourteen-stanza version, headed The poor labouring Bee, on the rectos of fourteen octavo leaves.

Complete facsimile in Tobacco: A Catalogue of the Books, Manuscripts and Engravings acquired since 1942 in the Arents Tobacco Collection..., Vol. I [Supplement] (New York, 1961), No. 115, pp. 118-20. This MS recorded in May, p. 111, n. 64.

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

A formal compilation written throughout in a calligraphic hand, in black and red inks with elaborate black and coloured decorations and patterned layouts, associated with one Henry Feilde, with his inscription (p. 1) N^o 4. Henry Feilde 1642.

Facsimile example in Sotheby's sale catalogue.

An octavo verse miscellany, in various hands, including seventeen poems by Carew, a title-page inscribed A book of Verses / Seria mixta Jocis, c.260 pages, in calf blind-stamped V/I F 1667.

References to Westminster Drollerie (which was not published until 1671) added on pp. 1 and 242.

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

Probably compiled by a member of an Inn of Court.

An octavo verse miscellany, in several hands, 89 leaves, in old calf gilt.

Partly compiled (pp. 75-99) by one Robert Berkeley, who has inscribed the first page Rob Berkeley his booke An^o. 1640.

A quarto volume of verse and prose by or relating to Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, iv + 39 leaves, in limp vellum.

Chiefly in a single professional secretary hand, some verse written on the front and rear endpapers in a different hand.

Copy of a nine-stanza version, in a cursive secretary hand, inscribed in another hand S^r Walter Rawley, untitled, here beginning There was a tyme when sillie bees could speake, on both sides of a single folio leaf.

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

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

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

A set of four oblong quarto music part books (Cantus, Quintus, Altus, Tenor and Bassus), including verses, ranging from 24 to 30 leaves each, in half-red calf marbled boards.

Compiled chiefly by Thomas Hamond (d.1662), of Cressners, in the parish of Hawkdons, Suffolk.

A quarto verse miscellany, made up from a larger book, 184 leaves, stubs of some excised leaves, in green boards.

Compiled by John Ramsay (b.1578), of Peterhouse, Cambridge, and the Middle Temple.

A notebook of verse and prose, in several hands, written from both ends over a period, 73 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum.

Compiled and written principally by Dudley North, third Baron North (1581-1666).

MS volume of musical pieces.

The lute book of John Dowland, partly in his hand, 34 leaves.

A facsimile edition of this volume published as The Folger Dowland Manuscript, intro. Ian Harwood (Lute Society, 2003).

A quarto MS of letters and tracts by or relating to Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, in several probably professional secretary and italic hands, v + 72 leaves (ff. 43v-61v blank), bound with other MSS in contemporary calf.

A folio volume of state tracts and letters, in a single accomplished mixed hand, i + 352 pages, in contemporary limp vellum with ties.

Possibly in the hand of Edward Paynton or Peyton, whose name, dated 1633, also appears in A Discourse of Court and Courtiers in HMC MS No. 266.

Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 2.

A quarto MS of letters and tracts by or relating to Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, in several probably professional secretary and italic hands, v + 72 leaves (ff. 43v-61v blank), bound with other MSS in contemporary calf.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, 26 octavo leaves (plus blanks).

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in various secretary and italic hands, 90 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum.

A quarto composite volume of state tracts, in various hands, 160 leaves, in half-calf.

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

Compiled by Thomas Tanner (1674-1735)

A folio composite volume of letters and state papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 237 leaves, in 17th-century calf (rebacked).

A folio volume of state letters and tracts, in professional hands, 64 leaves (plus blanks).

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

A folio volume of state papers, in two or three hands, 70 leaves, in vellum.

A large folio composite volume of state tracts, in English and Latin, in various professional hands, i + 488 leaves, in modern calf.

This volume discussed, with a facsimile of f. 92r (Plate IV after p. 272) in H.R. Woudhuysen, Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts 1558-1640 (Oxford, 1996), pp. 176-8.

A large quarto composite volume of letters and papers relating to Queen Elizabeth, Francis Bacon and the Earl of Essex, predominantly in the hand of Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian, 44 leaves.

A folio composite volume of state tracts and verses, in two or more hands, 18 leaves, in 19th-century half-calf on marbled boards.

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

A folio volume of tracts and papers largely relating to Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, in several hands, ff. 8r-33r in a single professional secretary hand, 54 leaves (plus blanks), in half red morocco.

A folio letterbook of Sir Henry Unton (c.1558-96), diplomat and soldier, as Ambassador to France from 25 June 1591 to 12 June 1592, in several professional secretary hands, iii + 174 leaves, in modern half red morocco.

A folio composite volume of state tracts, in various hands, 263 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary limp vellum, with ties.

In various hands, including the Feathery Scribe.

Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 43.

A quarto composite volume of state tracts, speeches and sermons, in various hands, 141 leaves, unbound.

Volume CCCLIX (Series II) of the Dropmore Papers: papers of William Wyndham Grenville, Baron Grenville (1759-1834), Prime Minister, of Dropmore House, Taplow, Buckinghamshire, and associated families.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, entitled The Earle of Essex his Apologie and dated 1601, on 14 folio leaves.

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.

A quarto volume of state and philosophical tracts, in several hands, 75 leaves, in modern quarter crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

A quarto volume of tracts relating to Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, in a professional cursive secretary hand, 72 leaves, in old calf gilt within modern quarter-morocco.

A quarto volume of state tracts, 30 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

A small folio volume of state tracts and letters, in a professional secretary hand, sixteen leaves, in modern crushed morocco.

An octavo miscellany of tracts, in a single predominantly secretary hand, 52 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

A folio composite volume of state letters and tracts, in various professional hands, 240 leaves (plus blanks), now in four volumes, in modern quarter-calf.

A folio composite volume of state tracts, in various professional hands, 124 leaves (including blanks), in half-calf on marbled boards.

A tall folio composite volume of state tracts and a Latin play and verses, in various hands, 510 largely unnumbered pages, in reversed calf.

A folio composite volume of tracts and papers, in various hands, 250 leaves, in modern leather.

Copy, in a secretary hand, on twelve quarto leaves, in modern red morocco gilt.

A large volio volume of state papers, tracts and speeches, in several professional largely secretary hands, 484 pages (including numerous blanks), in half calf on marbled boards.

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

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).

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.).

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).

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.).

A folio composite volume of state letters, tracts, parliamentary speeches, etc., in various professional hands, c.160 leaves, in contemporary calf.

Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 373.

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.

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.

An oblong quarto volume of transcripts of state letters up to 1627, closely written in two professional secretary hands, 39 leaves, in a late 16th-century vellum deed wrapper (now within modern green morocco gilt).

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, on nine large folio leaves (plus one blank), disbound.

A folio composite volume of state papers and proceedings in Parliament, in various hands, 448 leaves (plus blanks), in red morocco gilt.

A folio composite volume of state letters and tracts, in various hands, 488 leaves (plus blanks), in red morocco gilt.

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

A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous verse and prose, in various hands, 24 items, unfoliated, in old calf (rebacked).

A tall folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 127 items, unfoliated, in old black morocco gilt.

A tall folio guardbook of miscellaneous letters and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 208 leaves.

Copy, in a probably professional secretary hand, seven + iii folio leaves, unbound.

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

A formal compilation written throughout in a calligraphic hand, in black and red inks with elaborate black and coloured decorations and patterned layouts, associated with one Henry Feilde, with his inscription (p. 1) N^o 4. Henry Feilde 1642.

Facsimile example in Sotheby's sale catalogue.

A quarto volume of verse and prose by or relating to Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, iv + 39 leaves, in limp vellum.

Chiefly in a single professional secretary hand, some verse written on the front and rear endpapers in a different hand.

A folio composite volume of state tracts and letters, in several hands, 121 leaves, in 17th-century calf.

A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several professional secretary hand, with a table of contents, i + 221 pages (including some blanks), in old vellum boards.

Copy, in one professional secretary hand, 64 octavo pages, in (now tipped-in at the end) a recycled vellum indenture, within later boards.

A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several professional hands, 118 leaves, in vellum boards.

A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several professional secretary hands, with (ff. 4r-6r) a table of contents, 222 leaves, in old half-calf.

A folio volume of texts relating to Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, in two or more professional hands, 150 leaves, in modern boards.

Copy.

Recorded in Edward Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ, [ed. Humphrey Wanley] (Oxford, 1697).

Autograph draft, with copious revisions, written on board his ship the Due Repulse on Essex's return from the Cadiz expedition, with some deletions and additions in another hand, 32 folio leaves, imperfect, [c.early August 1596].

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.

A tall folio commonplace book of miscellaneous extracts, in a single hand, 139 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

Entirely in the rugged italic hand of Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician.

Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1. Recorded (as the Bedford MS) in Peter Beal, More Donne Manuscripts, John Donne Journal, 6/2 (1987), 213-18 (p. 213).

A folio volume of political tracts and letters, in a single secretary hand, 57 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

The lower vellum cover inscribed Book of noates collected out of M^r Traffords Sermons & others.

A folio composite volume of state tracts and letters, in various hands, 297 leaves, in calf (rebacked).

A folio volume of state letters and tracts, in professional hands, 64 leaves (plus blanks).

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.

A folio volume of state papers, in two or three hands, 70 leaves, in vellum.

A folio composite volume of political speeches and tracts, in various professional hands, 108 leaves, in old vellum.

A double-folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 174 leaves, in modern half red morocco.

A folio letterbook of Sir Henry Unton (c.1558-96), diplomat and soldier, as Ambassador to France from 25 June 1591 to 12 June 1592, in several professional secretary hands, iii + 174 leaves, in modern half red morocco.

A quarto composite volume of twelve folio and quarto leaves, in three hands, in 19th-century half red morocco gilt.

An octavo volume of transcripts of state tracts and letters, iii + 227 leaves (including blanks) in all, in calf.

Mainly in three hands, with later additions in c.1683-99.

A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various hands, 200 leaves, in modern crushed morocco gilt.

A folio composite volume of state tracts, speeches and miscellaneous papers, in several hands, vi + 361 leaves, in modern half morocco gilt.

A folio volume of state papers and speeches, in several secretary hands, 124 leaves, in modern mottled calf gilt.

A folio miscellany of tracts, letters, plays and verse, for the most part in a single secretary hand, partly on inserted sheaves of long narrow ledger-size leaves, written from both ends, 248 leaves, in contempoary vellum with metal clasps.

Compiled by a University of Cambridge man.

A folio volume of state tracts and letters, c.480 pages.

Recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, pp. 47-8.

A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, much relating to the Fane and Mildmay families, in a single predominantly italic hand, 130 leaves, in contemporary calf, remains of silk ties.

Compiled by Sir Francis Fane (c.1612-80), of Fulbeck Hall, Northamptonshire, with his signed dedications to his son Henry (ff. 2r-v, 130r) dated respectively 1 January 1655 and 20^th. of Aug^t: 1663.

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).

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.).

A large folio volume of state letters and of speeches in the Star Chamber, in a single secretary hand, 45 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum, damaged by corrosive seepage of ink.

An octavo volume of essays on travel, largely in one professional secretary hand, a Table and some notes in other hands, with a formal title-page Itineraria Collectanea or Instructions for A Traveler Directing him how to make the best use of his Travels Together with the Politique survay of A Kingdome, 107 pages (plus blanks), in old vellum boards.

This MS recorded in BC, 15 (Summer 1966), p. 156.

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.

An account book of the Cartwright estates in Nottinghamshire, 161 leaves, in contemporary leather.

A small octavo prose miscellany, compiled by Sir Francis Fane (c.1612-80), ii + 242 pages (plus 182 blank pages).

Inscribed by Fane to his son, as a book of travels to comfort him, dated from Aston, 1 January 1655. One later entry dated 1659.

A folio composite volume of state tracts and letters, in several hands, 121 leaves, in 17th-century calf.

A quarto commonplace book of extracts from state and legal writings, in a single cursive hand, written from both ends, 118 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

Compiled entirely by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire.

Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the Bacon-Tottel Commonplace Books, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).

Copy, in a small secretary hand, headed The Earle of Essex to y^e Earle of Rutlande before his travell..., on all four pages of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves.

A folio autograph letterbook of Sir Thomas Hoby (1539-66), courtier and translater, as Ambassador to France, with later additions in a secretary hand and annotations by his second son, Sir Thomas Posthumus Hoby, 90 pages, in paper covers.

A tall folio composite volume of letters and papers of Francis Bacon, in various hands and paper sizes, with a fourteen-leaf table of contents, 282 items, unfoliated, in old black morocco gilt.

Volume VIII of the collections of Edmund Gibson (1669-1748), Bishop of London.

The original letter sent by Essex to Rutland.

In the secretary hand of an amanuensis, with an eleven-line autograph addition signed by Essex (beginning This was written yester=night att S^t Albons...), on two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, addressed on the fourth page.

A double-folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 174 leaves, in modern half red morocco.

A folio composite volume of letters and state papers, in various professional largely secretary hands, ff. 80r-160v an imperfect single unit, 346 leaves, in modern half red morocco gilt.

Autograph letter signed, two conjugate folio leaves, dated 26 May [1596?].

A large quarto composite volume of letters and papers relating to Queen Elizabeth, Francis Bacon and the Earl of Essex, predominantly in the hand of Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian, 44 leaves.

A quarto volume of papers relating to Robert, Earl of Essex, in two secretary hands, 30 leaves.

A quarto letterbook, in several neat hands, 191 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in red morocco gilt.

A small quarto volume of state tracts and letters, in a single professional secretary hand, 149 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

A folio composite volume of state letters, speeches and other papers, in various hands and paper sizes, x + 315 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf.

A folio composite volume of copies of state letters and papers, in several professional hands, i + 23 leaves, in 19th-century half-calf.

Copy, fourteen leaves.

A folio volume of state papers and verses relating chiefly to Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, in a single professional secretary hand up to f. 58r, other hands on ff. 59r-65r, 65 leaves, in contemporary calf.

A folio composite volume of state tracts and letters, in several largely professional secretary hands, 372 leaves, differing sizes, in modern half-calf.

A folio composite volume of state tracts and letters, in several largely professional secretary hands, 372 leaves, differing sizes, in modern half-calf.

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

Compiled by Thomas Tanner (1674-1735)

A double-folio-size composite volume of historical tracts and papers, many relating to state arraignments, in a single professional secretary hand up to p. 527, xxiv + 552 pages (plus blank pp. 553-684), in red morocco elaborately gilt.

A folio composite volume of papers on antiquarian and state matters, in various hands, 207 leaves, in half-calf.

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

A folio volume of state tracts and letters, in several probably professional secretary hands, 225 pages, in marbled boards.

Recorded, as B. 3, in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, p. 459.

A folio volume of state papers, in two or three hands, 70 leaves, in vellum.

A folio volume of miscellaneous and historical tracts and papers, chiefly written by Robert Nalson, 607 leaves.

A large folio composite volume of state tracts, in English and Latin, in various professional hands, i + 488 leaves, in modern calf.

This volume discussed, with a facsimile of f. 92r (Plate IV after p. 272) in H.R. Woudhuysen, Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts 1558-1640 (Oxford, 1996), pp. 176-8.

A folio volume of state documents, speeches and verse, 284 leaves (plus blanks), in modern calf gilt.

Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 27 of the Hopkinson MSS. Chiefly transcribed from papers belonging to John Savile, Baron of Pontefract, and Edward Taylor, of Furnivall's Inn, Holborn.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 298.

A tall folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous papers, in verse and prose, in several hands, 87 leaves, in 19th-century mottled leather.

Possibly assembled by a barrister of the Middle Temple.

A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous documents, in several professional hands, 230 leaves.

Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, 12 folio leaves, in modern half-calf on marbled boards.

A quarto volume of accounts relating to Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, in three hands, 36 leaves, in modern half-calf.

A quarto volume of accounts relating to Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, in three hands, 36 leaves, in modern half-calf.

A folio volume of miscellaneous papers, many relating to Kent, the greater part in a single secretary hand, 228 leaves, in contemporary stamped calf.

Compiled for, and chiefly relating to, Francis Fane (1582-1628), first Earl of Westmorland.

This volume recorded in HMC, 10th Report, Appendix IV (1885), pp. 4-19.

A double-folio composite volume of historical and theological tracts and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 214 leaves, mounted on guards, in half green morocco.

Volume III of the papers of Sir Thomas Tresham (1543-1605), of Rushton Hall, Northamptonshire, recusant.

A folio composite volume of state tracts, in various hands, 263 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary limp vellum, with ties.

In various hands, including the Feathery Scribe.

Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 43.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, on 17 leaves of an unbound quarto booklet in paper wrappers, ff. 18r-20r occupied by Certaine other obseruacons taken out of some other coppies and here incerted.

A folio volume of texts relating to the second Earl of Essex, closely written in a professional secretary hand, 17 leaves (plus blanks), in 19th-century half-calf marbled boards.

A folio volume of state tracts and speeches, in two or more professional mixed hands, 91 leaves, in old calf gilt.

A quarto volume of tracts relating to Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, in a professional cursive secretary hand, 72 leaves, in old calf gilt within modern quarter-morocco.

A folio composite volume of state papers, in various professional hands, 380 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

A folio composite volume of state papers, in various professional hands, 380 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

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.

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.

A folio composite volume of papers relating to the rebellion of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, in professional secretary hands, sixteen leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt.

A folio volume of state tracts, in four probably professional secretary hands, 101 leaves, in modern quarter-morocco gilt.

A quarto composite volume of state papers and tracts, in various hands, 212 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

A quarto volume of state papers, nearly all in a single secretary hand, 74 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt.

A small folio volume of state tracts, in a professional cursive secretary hand, 73 leaves, in old mottled leather.

A folio volume of state tracts, speeches and accounts, written from both ends, 86 leaves, in contemporary calf.

A folio composite volume of tracts and miscellaneous papers, in several hands, 160 leaves (including numerous blanks), in 19th-century half-calf.

Compiled in large part by William Jackson, one of the Custome Masters of Great Yarmouth.

A folio MS relating to the Essex Rebellion, in a professional secretary hand, 21 pages, in modern quarter-morocco.

A folio volume of state tracts and letters, c.480 pages.

Recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, pp. 47-8.

A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, in at least seven secretary and italic hands, 118 leaves (plus some blanks), currently disbound.

Possibly compiled by one or more persons connected with the Inns of Court.

The volume edited by Alexander B. Grosart as The Dr. Farmer Chetham MS. being a Commonplace Book in the Chetham Library, Manchester, temp. Elizabeth, James I, and Charles I, Chetham Society, vols 89 and 90 (Manchester, 1873).

A tall folio composite volume of state tracts and a Latin play and verses, in various hands, 510 largely unnumbered pages, in reversed calf.

A tall folio composite volume of state tracts and a Latin play and verses, in various hands, 510 largely unnumbered pages, in reversed calf.

A tall folio composite volume of state tracts and a Latin play and verses, in various hands, 510 largely unnumbered pages, in reversed calf.

A quarto volume of writings relating to the Earl of Essex and his rebellion, in two professional secretary hands, 162 leaves (including many blanks), in modern half morocco marbled boards.

A quarto volume of writings relating to the Earl of Essex and his rebellion, in two professional secretary hands, 162 leaves (including many blanks), in modern half morocco marbled boards.

A folio miscellany of verse and prose, in probably several neat secretary and italic hands, 194 pages.

Compiled, probably at least in part, by George Turner Scoolmaster, as his name is inscribed at the end, a couplet on p. 179 reading Hic liber me pertinet and beare yt well in minde / Per me Georgium Turner so curteous and kinde. Possible contributors are members of the Bancrofte family, whom he might perhaps have tutored.

Formerly Folger MS 1027.2, this MS has been missing since 1991. It can be seen only on microfilm (Film Fo 4376.8).

A large volio volume of state papers, tracts and speeches, in several professional largely secretary hands, 484 pages (including numerous blanks), in half calf on marbled boards.

A folio volume of state tracts, in several secretary hands, with a title-page A manuscript containing seuerall Discourses the heades thereof are in the next Page following...1641, 350 pages, in half calf marbled boards.

A microfilm is in the British Library (RP 154).

A quarto composite volume of state and ecclesiastical tracts, speeches and letters, in several professional hands, 653 pages (including blanks), in contemporary vellum boards.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, i + thirteen folio leaves, disbound.

A large quarto MS of arraignments, iv + 42 leaves, in modern reversed calf.

This MS described in Spedding, I, 322-3.

A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, with (ff. 1r-2v) a table of contents, ii + 266 leaves, in red morocco gilt.

Copy, on ten quarto leaves.

A folio composite volume of ecclesiastical and state papers from 1586 to 1709, in several hands, 228 leaves, rebound in two volumes in modern cloth.

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

A formal compilation written throughout in a calligraphic hand, in black and red inks with elaborate black and coloured decorations and patterned layouts, associated with one Henry Feilde, with his inscription (p. 1) N^o 4. Henry Feilde 1642.

Facsimile example in Sotheby's sale catalogue.

A folio miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, in a single neat hand but for additions in other hands on pp. 183-226, 226 pages (including numerous blanks), in modern cloth.

Compiled by Sir George Ent (1604-89), physician, a founding member of the Royal Society, to whom is addressed an inscription, sending the last item in the volume, on p. 226.

A composite volume of state letters and papers.

A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 270 leaves (including some blanks), in quarter-calf marbled boards.

A folio volume of texts relating to Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, in one professional secretary hand, 22 leaves, in later boards.

A quarto volume of state trials, largely in a single semi-calligraphic secretary hand associated with Henry Feilde, with decorated and patterned headings, probably another secretary hand on ff. 59r-76r, with (f. 2r) a list of contents in a flourished italic hand, 81 leaves (including numerous blanks), in contemporary limp vellum.

A folio miscellany, entitled A Booke of Memorable Accidents and famous Arraignements with other worthy matters touchinge great personages agitated wthin this Realme of England in the Reignes of Queene Elizabeth and Kinge James, compiled by William Bull, of the Middle Temple, 104 leaves, bound with other material by Henry Bull, Jr, and others, in half-calf.

A folio booklet of texts relating to Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, in two secretary hands, eleven leaves, in a paper wrapper.

Accounts of the Earl of Essex's arraignment and execution, in a formal secretary hand, on 51 folio pages.

A microfilm of this MS is in the British Library, RP 1683.

Accounts of the Earl of Essex's arraignment and execution, in two MSS, in three hands, together with a quarto document signed by William Parr, Earl of Essex, 14 August 1544.

Copy, in the professional secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe, 25 folio leaves, in paper wrappers.

A facsimile opening in the sale catalogue.

A quarto MS of letters and tracts by or relating to Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, in several probably professional secretary and italic hands, v + 72 leaves (ff. 43v-61v blank), bound with other MSS in contemporary calf.

A folio composite volume of state letters, speeches and other papers, in various hands and paper sizes, x + 315 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf.

A folio composite volume of copies of state letters and papers, in several professional hands, i + 23 leaves, in 19th-century half-calf.

A folio composite volume of copies of state letters and papers, in several professional hands, i + 23 leaves, in 19th-century half-calf.

A folio composite volume of copies of state letters and papers, in several professional hands, i + 23 leaves, in 19th-century half-calf.

A folio volume of state papers and verses relating chiefly to Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, in a single professional secretary hand up to f. 58r, other hands on ff. 59r-65r, 65 leaves, in contemporary calf.

A folio composite volume of state tracts and letters, in several largely professional secretary hands, 372 leaves, differing sizes, in modern half-calf.

A folio composite volume of state tracts and letters, in several largely professional secretary hands, 372 leaves, differing sizes, in modern half-calf.

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in various secretary and italic hands, 90 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum.

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

Compiled by Thomas Tanner (1674-1735)

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.

A double-folio-size composite volume of historical tracts and papers, many relating to state arraignments, in a single professional secretary hand up to p. 527, xxiv + 552 pages (plus blank pp. 553-684), in red morocco elaborately gilt.

A double-folio-size composite volume of historical tracts and papers, many relating to state arraignments, in a single professional secretary hand up to p. 527, xxiv + 552 pages (plus blank pp. 553-684), in red morocco elaborately gilt.

A folio composite volume of papers on antiquarian and state matters, in various hands, 207 leaves, in half-calf.

A folio volume of state tracts and letters, in several probably professional secretary hands, 225 pages, in marbled boards.

Recorded, as B. 3, in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, p. 459.

A folio volume of state documents, speeches and verse, 284 leaves (plus blanks), in modern calf gilt.

Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 27 of the Hopkinson MSS. Chiefly transcribed from papers belonging to John Savile, Baron of Pontefract, and Edward Taylor, of Furnivall's Inn, Holborn.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 298.

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

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

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

A tall folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous papers, in verse and prose, in several hands, 87 leaves, in 19th-century mottled leather.

Possibly assembled by a barrister of the Middle Temple.

A tall folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous papers, in verse and prose, in several hands, 87 leaves, in 19th-century mottled leather.

Possibly assembled by a barrister of the Middle Temple.

A quarto volume of accounts relating to Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, in three hands, 36 leaves, in modern half-calf.

A large folio composite volume og miscellaneous papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 205 leaves, mounted on guards, in red morocco gilt.

Papers of the Hatton and Finch families, including notably Christopher Hatton (1632-1706), first Viscount Hatton, Governor of Guernsey, and his son-in-law Daniel Finch (1647-1730), second Earl of Nottingham, Secretary of State.

A double-folio composite volume of historical and theological tracts and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 214 leaves, mounted on guards, in half green morocco.

Volume III of the papers of Sir Thomas Tresham (1543-1605), of Rushton Hall, Northamptonshire, recusant.

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

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.

A folio volume of texts relating to the second Earl of Essex, closely written in a professional secretary hand, 17 leaves (plus blanks), in 19th-century half-calf marbled boards.

A folio volume of state tracts and speeches, in two or more professional mixed hands, 91 leaves, in old calf gilt.

A folio composite volume of state tracts, papers and speeches, in various hands, 215 leaves, in modern morocco gilt.

A quarto volume of tracts relating to Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, in a professional cursive secretary hand, 72 leaves, in old calf gilt within modern quarter-morocco.

A folio composite volume of state papers, in various professional hands, 380 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

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.

A folio composite volume of papers relating to the rebellion of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, in professional secretary hands, sixteen leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt.

A folio volume of state tracts, in four probably professional secretary hands, 101 leaves, in modern quarter-morocco gilt.

A quarto composite volume of state papers and tracts, in various hands, 212 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

A small folio volume of state tracts, in a professional cursive secretary hand, 73 leaves, in old mottled leather.

A folio composite volume of state letters and tracts, in various professional hands, 240 leaves (plus blanks), now in four volumes, in modern quarter-calf.

A folio volume of transcripts of historical and antiquarian papers, in Latin and English, made by Thomas Baker (1656-1740), Cambridge antiquary, 476 pages, in old reversed calf.

MS Baker 33.

A folio composite volume of tracts and miscellaneous papers, in several hands, 160 leaves (including numerous blanks), in 19th-century half-calf.

Compiled in large part by William Jackson, one of the Custome Masters of Great Yarmouth.

A folio MS relating to the Essex Rebellion, in a professional secretary hand, 21 pages, in modern quarter-morocco.

A folio volume of state tracts and letters, c.480 pages.

Recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, pp. 47-8.

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.

A tall folio composite volume of state tracts and a Latin play and verses, in various hands, 510 largely unnumbered pages, in reversed calf.

A tall folio composite volume of state tracts and a Latin play and verses, in various hands, 510 largely unnumbered pages, in reversed calf.

Twelve unbound folio leaves, comprising two sets of texts (ff. 1r-8v a copy of a charter relating to Somerset), in a single cursive secretary hand, in paper wrappers.

Twelve unbound folio leaves, comprising two sets of texts (ff. 1r-8v a copy of a charter relating to Somerset), in a single cursive secretary hand, in paper wrappers.

A quarto volume of writings relating to the Earl of Essex and his rebellion, in two professional secretary hands, 162 leaves (including many blanks), in modern half morocco marbled boards.

A large volio volume of state papers, tracts and speeches, in several professional largely secretary hands, 484 pages (including numerous blanks), in half calf on marbled boards.

A quarto composite volume of state and ecclesiastical tracts, speeches and letters, in several professional hands, 653 pages (including blanks), in contemporary vellum boards.

A large coucher-size volume of accounts, state letters, speeches, legal documents and other papers, in several professional secretary hands, 402 pages, in a contemporary vellum wallet binding with remains of ties and a strap.

A large quarto MS of arraignments, iv + 42 leaves, in modern reversed calf.

This MS described in Spedding, I, 322-3.

A volume of state papers relating to criminal trials, in three secretary hands, 392 pages.

A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, with (ff. 1r-2v) a table of contents, ii + 266 leaves, in red morocco gilt.

A folio volume of legal and historical tracts and verse, largely in one formal hand employing variant secretary, roman and court scripts, with a few later additions by others, 78 leaves, in 19th-century calf.

Compiled by one Robert Hassall, who signs and dates many of the texts as wrytten...per me.

A small quarto volume of texts relating to Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, in a professional secretary hand, 78 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

A folio composite volume of state tracts and letters, in various hands, 763 pages, in contemporary calf elaborately stamped.

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

A formal compilation written throughout in a calligraphic hand, in black and red inks with elaborate black and coloured decorations and patterned layouts, associated with one Henry Feilde, with his inscription (p. 1) N^o 4. Henry Feilde 1642.

Facsimile example in Sotheby's sale catalogue.

A folio composite volume of state tracts, letters and speeches, in various hands, 614 pages (including blanks), in contemporary vellum.

A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 270 leaves (including some blanks), in quarter-calf marbled boards.

A folio volume of texts relating to Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, in one professional secretary hand, 22 leaves, in later boards.

A quarto volume of state trials, largely in a single semi-calligraphic secretary hand associated with Henry Feilde, with decorated and patterned headings, probably another secretary hand on ff. 59r-76r, with (f. 2r) a list of contents in a flourished italic hand, 81 leaves (including numerous blanks), in contemporary limp vellum.

A folio miscellany, entitled A Booke of Memorable Accidents and famous Arraignements with other worthy matters touchinge great personages agitated wthin this Realme of England in the Reignes of Queene Elizabeth and Kinge James, compiled by William Bull, of the Middle Temple, 104 leaves, bound with other material by Henry Bull, Jr, and others, in half-calf.

A folio booklet of texts relating to Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, in two secretary hands, eleven leaves, in a paper wrapper.

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

Accounts of the Earl of Essex's arraignment and execution, in a formal secretary hand, on 51 folio pages.

A microfilm of this MS is in the British Library, RP 1683.

Accounts of the Earl of Essex's arraignment and execution, in two MSS, in three hands, together with a quarto document signed by William Parr, Earl of Essex, 14 August 1544.