Sir George Etherege

1636–1691/2

Introduction

There are no known autograph manuscripts of any of Etherege's literary works; nor could any other surviving manuscripts of his works claim authority except, perhaps, for the racy verse epistles he sent to the Earl of Middleton in 1686 which are preserved, among other copies, in texts written by his secretary, Hugo Hughes (see EtG 21, EtG 44, EtG 60). Many examples of Etherege's hand survive, however, to chronicle his somewhat less successful, if no less interesting, career as a diplomat.

Letters and Letterbooks

Etherege's letters form, as Bracher notes, the only considerable [extant] body of personal correspondence by a Restoration dramatist, courtier and wit and provide a vivid and authentic self-portrait of a writer on the fringes of the Restoration court. Indeed they provide, as Brett-Smith notes (I, xxxii-xxxiii), a more substantial source of biographical information than is available for any other poet or dramatist of the century. The texts of over four hundred of his letters survive. All except one early dispatch, written from Turkey in 1670 (*EtG 148), date from between 1685 and 1689: that is, for the most part, during the reign of James II when Etherege was British Resident at the German Imperial Diet at Ratisbon (now Regensburg) in Bavaria. Well over two hundred of his letters thence survive in the originals, the majority of them being sent to his friend and superior, the Earl of Middleton.

Besides the letters given entries below (EtG 127-150), three letters by Etherege are known from early printed texts: namely, two to George Villiers, second Duke of Buckingham, from Ratisbon, 2/12 November 1686 and 11/21 October 1689 [but really earlier], printed in Buckingham, Miscellaneous Works (London, 1704), pp. 124-40 (reprinted from thence in Rosenfeld, pp. 411-21), and one to his Friend in London, from Ratisbon, 23 August 1688, printed in Familiar Letters … by…John late Earl of Rochester, and several other Persons (London, 1697), II, 53-5 (reprinted from thence in Rosenfeld, p. 422).

In addition, certain of Etherege's official diplomatic letterbooks, or copies of them, are preserved (EtG 150.3-156). These are of great interest, not only because they supplement the original correspondence noted below (which is only partly represented in the letterbooks), but because of the extraordinary circumstances in which they were compiled. One (EtG 152) is a selective transcript of Etherege's correspondence, partly copied from EtG 153 but also including many of his other more personal letters, this transcript being made secretly by Etherege's secretary, Hugo Hughes, for his own use. There is ample evidence that Hughes thoroughly disapproved of his master, on account of both his immoral life-style and his pro-Stuart sympathies; that he was working covertly, and indeed treacherously, to undermine Etherege's position at Ratisbon and that he was in league with Whigs (such as William Habord) and Dutch allies (such as Pierre Valkenier, the Dutch Resident at Ratisbon) who were plotting to replace James II with William of Orange. For the clearest account of Hughes's activities, see Frederick Bracher, Sir George Etherege and His Secretary, Harvard Library Bulletin, 15 (1967), 331-44. Hughes's personal transcript included all the material which he might have been able to use to discredit Etherege, for which reason he evidently had further transcripts made of his copy to give to his allies, transcripts which may in turn have been re-copied by their recipients. Entries *EtG 151, EtG 154-156 almost certainly belong to the last category and derive from Hughes's transcript (EtG 152).

Etherege's Papers

When Etherege departed from Ratisbon early in 1689, he left a quantity of his books and papers to the Scottish Benedictine Monastery of St James in Ratisbon, the Abbot of which, Placid Fleming (1642-1720), he had befriended. Investigating in 1965 the fate of this deposit, Bracher was informed that some of Etherege's books were preserved but that his papers had long been destroyed (p. xx). The papers were evidently still in existence in 1795, when an extract from one of them (by Mr. Wigmore, Under Secretary of State [actually Owen Wynne], about the death of Nell Gwynne) was printed in The European Magazine, Vol. 27 (June 1795), pp. 396-7 (see Brett-Smith, I, lxvi). However, according to an article on Scottish Religious Houses Abroad in the Edinburgh Review, 119 (1864), Art. VI, 168-202 (p. 182), a valuable collection of documents, comprising a secret correspondence with the Stuarts for nearly a century, was accidentally burnt a very few years ago at Strahlfeldt, the country house of the Scottish Benedictines. In a letter to Bishop James Kyle written by James McHattie from Regensburg, 18 March 1832, it is reported that the papers destroyed included all James VII [i.e. James II of England's] correspondence with Etheridge, his ambassador…and most of the correspondence of Abbot Fleming (Bracher, p. xx).

These reports prove, in fact, to be untrue. A substantial cache of Etherege's papers was discovered in 1986 by Peter Beal to be still preserved at Regensburg, essentially where it was originally. What was once the Scottish Benedictine Monastery (Schottenkloster) in Ratisbon has been since the 1860s a seminary (present address: Priesterseminar St. Wolfgang, Bismarckplatz 2, 8400 Regensburg). It is, incidentally, situated about 150 steps from where Etherege's house once stood (i.e. his second accommodation, after 10 May 1688, where he held his great feast to celebrate the birth of the Prince of Wales; also known as the Wilde House (Wildische Haus) and now commercial premises at 3/4 Arnulfsplatz: see Bracher, pp. 11-12, 196, and Dorothy Foster in N&Q, 154 (14 January 1928), 28). In 1971 the entire library and collections of the seminary were transferred into the custody of the Episcopal Central Library and Archive (Bischöfliches Zentralbibliothek und Zentralarchiv, St Petersweg 11-13, 8400 Regensburg). Here are now to be found thirteen folders of papers (BZA/Sch. F XVII, Fasz. 1-13) containing over 370 documents associated with Etherege and his circle. Some 340 of these, comprising nearly 900 pages (in Fasz. 1-8, 9 [Nos. 1-11], 11 and 12), are letters, dispatches, newsletters and a few other documents received by Etherege between October 1685 and December 1688 — a number considerably greater, for instance, than that of his own letters represented in Hughes's transcript of his letterbook. Eighteen draft reports written by Etherege's predecessor at Ratisbon, Edmund Poley, between November 1676 and June 1679, and evidently also retained among Etherege's papers, are preserved in Fasz. 10, while nine draft reports written by Etherege's successor, his erstwhile secretary Hugo Hughes, between 18/28 March 1689 and 14 February 1689[/90] are, for some other reason, preserved in Fasz. 9 [Nos. 12-30]. Finally, Fasz. 13 contains five draft letters written by Abbot Fleming after Etherege's departure, between 20 July 1689 (when he refers to his having been put in charge of Etherege's affairs by King James) and 14 January 1698[/9?].

The interest these papers must have for any study of Etherege's life as a diplomat hardly requires elaboration. Even if they do not comprise all the letters he received in Ratisbon (there is no sign, for instance, of any letter by Dryden), nevertheless the papers substantially fill out the two sides of his correspondence. With their news and comments on political, Court and social events, on various of Etherege's old friends, on his wife and on new publications by writers such as Dryden, they throw light on much of what he says in his own letters. Besides including actual reports he received on such notable events as the Siege of Buda and James II's declaration of religious toleration, as well as reactions to Etherege's celebrated three-day feast on the birth of the Prince of Wales in July 1688, the letters clarify the step-by-step process by which he learned of (and indeed warned against) the events leading to William of Orange's invasion and the expulsion of Etherege's master, James II. In view of the traditional acceptance of the unimportance of Etherege's diplomatic post, it is interesting to see how often his correspondents stress the special significance and urgency of his dispatches (You are got into a station, where there is more to be done, & more to bee seen then in all Europe besides, Sir Gabriel Sylvius advised him on 11 January 1685/6 [Fasz. 2, No. 5]), and Wynne emphasized on 15 July 1688 that Etherege's letters were now Longd for y^e most of any (Fasz. 8, No. 4). While Etherege was complimented repeatedly on being a very pretty proficient in letter-writing (Fasz. 1, No. 13) and on having so good a hand, & pen (Fasz. 3, No. 7), it is of interest to note Wynne's strict instructions to him on precisely how his dispatches should be written (…I am bid to desire you to Continue to write your dispatches in folio with a large Margin, & y^t you w^d write in distinct & different paragraphs, as Variety of Matter offers, separating the News-part of your Letter from y^t about buisnesse, relating to your Station, & adding your News, Extracts of Letters &c either by itselfe in the latter part of your Letters or rather in a folio paper apart, since it will be much easier for my Lord [Middleton] in reading Your Dispatches att the Committee to distinguish what is fitt to be layd before y^e King, as Buisnesse y^t may require any orders upon't, & what as News… [25 November 1686: Fasz. 4, No. 16]).

It may be noted, besides, that of the fourteen letters received by Etherege and transcribed on ff. 173r-86v in Hughes's letterbook (EtG 152: see Rosenfeld, pp. 344-65, and Bracher, pp. 269-78), eight are preserved at Regensburg in the originals (i.e. letters by Middleton, Barillon, Mulgrave, Skelton and four by Vaudrey about Buda: in Fasz. 1, No. 13; 2, Nos. 9 and 22; 3, Nos. 16, 20, 23 and 27; and 6, No. 12). The letter by Mulgrave, for instance — one of the few personal rather than diplomatic letters to Etherege preserved in the collection — is that of 7 March 1686/7 in which he makes remarks on the Lady in the Garret and refers to his having seen tother day by chance a letter of [Etherege's] to M^r Driden. The letter by Middleton is that of 7 December 1685 commenting, inter alia, on the continued success at Court of The Man of Mode and reporting the King's wish that Etherege should write another comedy (…he expected you should putt on y^r socks…). However, a second letter by Middleton which Hughes did not transcribe, and which has therefore not been published, was written on 5 March 1685/6 (Fasz. 2, No. 20). Among other things, Middleton emphasizes the King's request reported in his earlier letter: Since you made no answer to what y^e King had commanded me to acquaint you with, I mean y^r writting a play, I should not have troubled you with it, if his Ma^ty had not again renewd his commands in that matter, so that I must tell you, he does seriously expect it from you. Not even the command of King James, however, could kindle a flame of dramatic inspiration in the barren ashes of Etherege's life at Ratisbon. I have given over writing plays, he declared on 27 February/8 March 1687/8, and he confessed to Lord Dorset on 25 July/4 August 1687 that he had lost for want of exerccise the use of fancy and imagination. A few, largely bawdy, verses such as those he sent to Middleton remain the sum of Etherege's literary endeavours after he left the shores of England.

Etherege's Books

Some account of the printed books which Etherege also left with Abbot Fleming in 1689 has appeared in A. Wilson Verity's report in the The Athenaeum No. 3426 (24 June 1893), p. 808, and in Dorothy Foster's article, Sir George Etherege Collections [4th Part], N&Q 153 (31 December 1927), 472-8 (pp. 477-8). In the Catalogue of S^r. George's Bookes which Hughes entered in his letterbook (EtG 152) Hughes recorded over sixty titles. Because of the presence of contemporary inscriptions of provenance, it is now possible to identify for certain at Regensburg twelve of Etherege's books (comprising thirty-two volumes in all). A detailed account of this subject, with facsimile examples, is given in Peter Beal, The most constant and best entertainment: Sir George Etherege's Reading in Ratisbon, The Library, 6th Ser. 10/2 (June 1988), 122-44. An addition to this account is Etherege's exemplum of Sir John Chardin's Journal du voyage du Chev^r Chardin en Perse & aux Indes Orientales (London, 1686), also passed on to Abbot Fleming, which corresponds to item 52 in Hughes's list of Etherege's books. This is now in the library of Robert S Pirie, New York.

Dramatic Works

As for Etherege's best known literary works, his plays are unknown today in manuscripts except for copies of certain of the songs, which had some measure of independent circulation. A single recorded Restoration prompt-book of his most famous play, The Man of Mode, is recorded below (EtG 123.4). What may possibly be Etherege's dedication exemplum of the first edition of this play to Mary of Modena, Duchess of York, was sold at Sotheby's, 27 May 2004 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 225, to Quaritch. The reason for suggesting this connection is the volume's remarkably sumptuous morocco binding by Queens' Binder B, illustrated on the cover and on p. 136 of Sotheby's sale catalogue. Of related interest too is a contemporary reaction to the first performance of the play recorded in an unpublished letter by one Peter Killigrew to his sister, 14 March 1675/6. Besides commenting that it had noe deep plott, but a great deal of witt, Killigrew speculates on the persons meant by it: i.e. the well-known public figures he thought were represented by Etherege's characters. This letter too appeared in the Brett-Smith sale at Sotheby's, 27 May 2004, lot 224 (with a facsimile example in the sale catalogue), and is now in the library of Robert S Pirie, New York.

The Verse Canon

Contrary to Etherege's plays, Etherege's poems were frequently copied and widely known, without the aid of any collection and often without the encouragement of an attribution (Thorpe, p. vi). Two letters among Etherege's papers at Regensburg exemplify a case in point, where a poem sent for the amusement of a friend might be shown to other people, with the result that further copies might be made and circulated and the text eventually appear in manuscript collections of Poems on Affairs of State. On 5 March 1685/6, Middleton wrote: Y^rs of Hunting whores etc: [see EtG 21-33], I liked so well, that I could not forbear showing it to some of our acquaintances, which, it seems, has produced y^e matter inclosd [viz. presumably Dryden's reply, though no longer enclosed with the letter: see DrJ 201-11], it may serve to confirme what I told you of y^e dullnesse of this place, so that a reply to it would make some amends (Fasz. 2, No. 20). Later, on 17 December 1686, Owen Wynne wrote to Etherege: I shewd your Letter to my Lord [Middleton], who best knew what you meant about Verses, & what y^e are to doe in obedience to the Kings Command — How farre your Verses were Censured I know not; sure I am M^r Dryden & his Son (who Copied the father's answer to yow) were, for suffering Copyes of y^m to steal abroad, with my Lord's name in the Title-page, & some say they were printed, tho I never saw y^m but in a suffolk-gent[leman's] hand in Writing (Fasz. 4, No. 19). Like so many of his contemporaries, Etherege played the Fool in verse and prose (see Bracher, p. 103) largely for private amusement and would never have anticipated a published collection of his poems. Like his friend, the Earl of Dorset, he very probably cared not what became of them.

In such circumstances, the canon is bound to be problematical. So far as it may be determined, some forty poems are attributed to Etherege with reasonable confidence in Thorpe and are represented in the entries below by various contemporary or later copies (EtG 1-97). Six others are classified in Thorpe as of doubtful authorship (EtG 98-120), while five further poems sometimes ascribed to Etherege are positively rejected from the canon (see Thorpe, pp. 142-6). The list of poems doubtfully or spuriously assigned to Etherege in manuscript sources could be easily extended. For instance, a small early 18th-century verse miscellany now at Yale (Osborn Poetry Box IV/53) contains eight poems ascribed to S^r George Etherege. Two of these are indeed included in the canon in Thorpe (EtG 92 and EtG 97); three others (The Constancy, Indifference and Indifference excused) are generally attributed to Sir Charles Sedley (see SeC 10, SeC 18), while the remaining three are of unknown authorship. Of these last, one, a Song (Prepar'd to rail Resolv'd to part), is not at present traced elsewhere. Another, The Submission (Ah! Pardon Madam, if I ever thought), is also found, as by Etherege or by Sedley or as anonymous, in Yale, Osborn MS b 218, p. 21, and in Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 52, f. 112v; while the third, To a Lady, who ask'd him how long he wou'd love her (It is not Caelia, in our power), is also found in early 18th-century miscellanies in the Bodleian (MS Rawl. poet. 173, f. 74r-v), ascribed to Etherege, and anonymously in Yale, Osborn MS c 549, p. 70, an anonymous copy also appearing among the manuscript verse of the Aston family of Tixall, Staffordshire (printed in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), p. 344 [i.e. 244]).

Documents

One or two early documents signed by Etherege in his younger days when he was an articled clerk at Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, are given entries below (*EtG 157-159), and see *WaE 846 for another also involving, and signed by, Edmund Waller. Otherwise various legal and other papers relating to Etherege's life and family are found in the Public Records and elsewhere. For some account of these, see, in particular, Brett-Smith, I (1927); Dorothy Foster's articles, Sir George Etherege, TLS (16 February 1922), p. 108, and (23 February 1922), p. 124; Concerning the Grandfather and Father of Sir George Etherege, N&Q, 12th Ser. 10 (6 and 12 May 1922), 341-4, 362-5; Sir George Etherege Collections, N&Q, 153 (10-31 December 1927), 417-19, 435-40, 454-9, 472-8, and N&Q, 154 (14 January 1928), 28; Sir George Etherege, TLS (21 May 1928), p. 412; and Sir George Etherege, Review of English Studies, 8 (1932), 458-9; Eleanore Boswell, Sir George Etherege, RES, 7 (1931), 207; John W. Nichol, Dame Mary Etherege, Modern Language Notes, 64 (1949), 419-22; and Rosenfeld (1928) and Bracher (1974).

Miscellaneous

An exemplum of the printed edition of The Works of Sir George Etherege (London, 1704) annotated by George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor, is at Yale, Osborn pc 95.

Abbreviations

Bracher: Letters of Sir George Etherege, ed. Frederick Bracher (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, 1974).
Brett-Smith: The Dramatic Works of Sir George Etherege, ed. H.F.B. Brett-Smith, 2 vols (Oxford, 1927).
Rosenfeld: The Letterbook of Sir George Etherege, ed. Sybil Rosenfeld (London, 1928).
Thorpe: The Poems of Sir George Etherege, ed. James Thorpe (Princeton, 1963).

Verse

Poems by Etherege

Ephelia to Bajazet ('How far are they deceived who hope in vain')

First published in Female Poems On several Occasions: Written by Ephelia (London, 1679). Thorpe, pp. 9-10. Harold Love's edition of Rochester (1999), pp. 94-5.

EtG 1

This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, p. 331.

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

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

c.1680s

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

Bodleian Library, Eng. misc. MSS (MS Eng. misc. e. 536 pp. 115-16)

EtG 2

Copy, headed Epelia (a Deserted Lover) to Bajaset, which may serve as a Caveat to Women. By L^d R[ochester].

This MS collated in Thorpe.

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

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

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

Early 18th century

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

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

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

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199 (MS Rawl. poet. 173 ff. 66v-7v)

EtG 3 Early 18th century

Copy, untitled, on two quarto leaves.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

A tall folio composite volume of verse MSS, in various hands and paper sizes, 195 leaves, mounted on guards, in half-morocco.

Compiled chiefly by members of the Caryll family.

Early 17th century (Vol. I); Late 17th-early 18th century (Dorset)

Presented by Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, first Baronet, MP (1810-69).

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 25000 through 29999 (Add. MS 28253 ff. 158r-9r)

EtG 4

Copy in a small quarto verse miscellany (ff. 78r-82v).

This MS collated in Thorpe.

A folio guard book of miscellaneous MSS, 95 leaves, in 19th-century black morocco gilt.

Collected by John Payne Collier (1789-1883).

Sotheby's, 16-28 November 1885 (Ellis sale).

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2623 f. 78r-v)

EtG 4.5

Copy.

An octavo verse miscellany, principally in a single non-professional hand (pp. 1-119), with additions (pp. 56-71) in later hands of c.1702, 71 leaves (plus blanks).

c.1680s-1702

University of California at Los Angeles (170/68 pp. 63-4)

EtG 5

Copy.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

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

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

c.1680s-1700s

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

Edinburgh University Library (MS Dc. 1. 3/1 pp. 22-3)

EtG 6

This MS collated in Thorpe.

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

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

c.1693-8

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

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

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 602 f. [56r-v])

EtG 7

Copy.

This entry separately classified as EL 8736A. Collated in Thorpe.

A quarto booklet of poems, in a single probably professional hand, on eight leaves, foliated 59-63 (64r-6v blank), unbound.

Late 17th century

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks A through E (EL 8736-8738 ff. 59r-60r)

EtG 7.5

Copy, headed An Epistle from Ephelia to Bajazet: A Satyr: by y^e Earl of Rochester.

A quarto verse miscellany, in a single hand, entitled (p. 1, in engrossed lettering) Tho^s. Walker Book of Miscellanies 1712, 252 pages (jumping from p. 56 to 61), in modern half dark green morocco.

Compiled by Thomas Walker (b.1682), of Mosley, near Ashton under Lyne, Greater Manchester, including (pp. 105-6, 203) verses by him to his parents etc., dated 1720/1-27.

c.1712-27

Later owned by Sir Charles Bradbury (his sale December 1864, lot 2819), to Haywood, thence bought by Sir Thomas Baker. Bernard Halliday, bookseller of Leicester, February 1930.

The University of Manchester Library (English MS 521 p. 236)

EtG 8

Copy, subscribed in a different ink Rochester.

An octavo miscellany of chiefly satirical poems, including at least twelve by Rochester, in a single rounded hand but for an addition at the end (pp. 141-50) in a stylish italic hand, the greater part written along the length of the page with the spine uppermost, with an Index, xii + 150 pages (lacking pp. 135-40), in contemporary calf.

Possibly associated with the court circle of James Butler (1610-88), first Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

c.1680s

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dublin MS: RoJ Δ 10.

National Library of Ireland (MS 2093 pp. 70-3)

EtG 9

Copy.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

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

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

c.1680s

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

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

University of Nottingham (Pw V 40 ff. 33v-4r)

EtG 10

Copy, headed Ephelia's letter to her Love.

A large quarto miscellany of poems chiefly on affairs of state, in a single neat italic hand, 81 leaves (including blanks), unbound.

Mid-late 18th century

University of Nottingham (Pw 2 V 7 ff. 66r-7r)

EtG 11

Copy.

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

c.1680

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

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

Royal Library, Stockholm (MS Vu. 69 pp. 119-22)

EtG 12

This MS collated in Thorpe.

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

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

c.1681

Formerly Osborn MS Chest II, Number 14.

Yale, Osborn MS b 50 through Osborn MS b 99 (Osborn MS b 54 pp. 1180-1)

EtG 13

Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe and collated, pp. 84-5.

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

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

c.1680

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

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

Yale, Osborn MS b 100 through Osborn MS b 149 (Osborn MS b 105 pp. 340-3)

EtG 13.5

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

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

c.1705

Private owners in the UK (Mylne MS pp. 60-2)

EtG 14

Copy.

Edited from this MS, as Ephelia, in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), pp. 220-2.

A miscellaneous collection of MS verse, totally unconnected with each other, and written on backs of letters, or other scraps of paper.

17th century

Formerly among the papers of the Aston family, of Tixall, Staffordshire.

Selectively edited (as his Fourth Division: Miscellaneous Poems) in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), pp. 207-324.

Untraced Tixal MSS (Tixall MS 4 [unspecified item number])

The Forsaken Mistress: A Dialogue between Phillis and Strephon ('Tell me, gentle Strephon, why')

First published in The New Academy of Complements (London, 1669). Thorpe, pp. 3-4.

EtG 15

Copy, headed third Song.

A quarto verse miscellany, including (ff. 113r-15r) copies of, or brief extracts from, 30 poems by Donne (plus two apocryphal poems), in a single hand, transcribed from the 1635 or 1639 edition of Donne's Poems, headed Donnes quaintest conceits in several hands, 156 leaves (plus blanks), in modern black morocco gilt.

Late 17th century

Once owned by Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725) and afterwards among the collections of Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741).

Cited in IELM I.i (1980) as the Harley Rawlinson MS: DnJ Δ 64.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 3000 through 3999 (Harley MS 3991 ff. 129v-30)

EtG 16

Copy, headed Song 56. Loue Trick's.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

A folio verse miscellany, with a title-page: The Theatre of Complements erected Collectection of Songs composed and compiled by A Schollar of Oxford. Printed for S.S. 167, 80 pages.

c.1670s

The title-page inscribed Nar. Lutterell: His Book 1682, i.e. owned by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732), annalist and book collector. At Yale formerly Chest II, No. 39.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS fb 107 p. 29)

The Imperfect Enjoyment ('After a pretty amorous discourse')

First published in A Collection of Poems, Written upon several Occasions (London, 1672). Thorpe, pp. 7-8.

EtG 17

Copy, partly written lengthways down the margins, on p. [1] of a pair of conjugate quarto leaves, and ascribed to S^r George Etherege. Late 17th century.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

A quarto composite volume of letters, historical and heraldic collections, 103 leaves, in 18th-century quarter-vellum boards.

Owned on 21 August 1709 by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), antiquary.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. D. 1171 f. 40r)

EtG 18

Copy, ascribed to Etherege.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

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

Early 18th century

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

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

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199 (MS Rawl. poet. 173 f. 97r-v)

EtG 19

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Thorpe.

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

c.1653-64

Purchased c.1798.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 19.3.4 ff. 122r-v)

EtG 20

Copy.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

A quarto verse miscellany, in a stylish professional hand, with some rubricated headings, 58 pages, in contemporary calf, now disbound.

c.1690s

Formerly Chest II, No. 36.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 218 pp. 42-3)

A Letter to Lord Middleton ('From hunting whores and haunting play')

First published, as Another from Sir G.E. to the E. of M--Greeting, in The History of Adolphus (London, 1691). Thorpe, pp. 46-7.

EtG 21

Copy in the hand of Hugo Hughes, headed Ratisbonne 9/19 Jan. 1685/6 To my Lord Middleton with the following Copie of Verses.

Edited from this MS in Thorpe and in Bracher, pp. 22-3.

Copy of Sir George Etherege's Letter Book, 1685-8, 202 quarto leaves, in half-morocco.

Acquired from the bookseller Wilkes, 3 December 1838.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 10000 through 14999 (Add. MS 11513 ff. 5v-6r)

EtG 22

Copy.

Transcript of Sir George Etherege's Letter Book, 1685-8, 128 folio leaves (plus c.200 blanks).

c.1688

University of Birmingham (MSS 5/ii/3 [unnumbered pages])

EtG 23

Copy.

Portion of a copy of Etherege's letterbook, on eighteen quarto leaves, unbound.

c.1686-8

This MS later brought from Ratisbon by Thomas Walpole, Envoy to the Court of Bavaria, and sent by him to Sir James Bland Burges (1752-1824) on 30 May 1795. Walpole's letter, in which he says Inclosed I have the Honor to send you the only part of the copy of Sir G. Etheredge's papers which I have hitherto received from Ratisbon, is f. 136r.

Recorded in IELM, II.i (1987) as L 4.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Dep. Bland Burges 44 ff. 140v-1v)

EtG 24

Copy.

Transcript of Etherege's letterbook.

Two quarto volumes, c.350 pages (plus blanks); transcript of the letters, verse and accounts in British Library, Add. MS 11513, in a single contemporary scribal hand.

Late 17th century

Sotheby's, 20 July 1981, lot 8, to Pickering & Chatto. Owned by the bookseller John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003). Sotheby's, 27 May 2004 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 226, unsold.

Estate of John R.B. Brett-Smith, Princeton ([Etherege letterbook 1] [unspecified page numbers])

EtG 25

Copy.

Transcript of Etherege's letterbook.

Folio, 114 leaves (plus 2 blanks); transcript of the letters, verse and accounts in British Library, Add. MS 11513, in at least two contemporary scribal hands.

Late 17th century

Later bookplate of Viscount Downe. Christie's, 3 November 1981, lot 99, sold to Pickering & Chatto.

Estate of John R.B. Brett-Smith, Princeton ([Etherege letterbook 2] ff. 3v-4r)

EtG 26

Copy of lines 1-8, deleted.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

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

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

c.1686-9 [with additions to 1738]

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

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

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Firth c. 16 p. 86)

EtG 27

Copy, headed Sir George Etheredge to the Earl of Middleton Greeting.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

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

c.1686-9 [with additions to 1738]

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

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Firth c. 16 pp. 172-3)

EtG 28

Copy, headed S^r . George Etheridge to the Earl of Middleton.

This MS collated in Thorpe

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single hand, 63 leaves (plus blanks), in modern calf gilt.

c.1700

The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 969 ff. 53r-4r)

EtG 29

Copy, headed S^r. George Etheridge to the Earl of Middleton. 2^d. Letter.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

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

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

c.1690

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

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

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 585 pp. 390-1)

EtG 30 c.1680s-90s

Copy, in a professional hand, headed Sir George Etheredge to the Earl of Middleton, greeting, on four pages of two pairs of conjugate quarto leaves.

A collection of unbound verse MSS and other papers of the Crofts and Sebright families of Norfolk.

Sotheby's, 6 November 1984, lot 1185.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 48 Envelope 1, ff. 8r-9v)

EtG 31

Copy.

This MS collated in Hammond, Robinson, p. 319.

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

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

c.1680s-90s

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

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

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

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt 54 pp. 341-3)

EtG 32

Copy, headed S^r. George Etheridge to the Earl of Middleton. 2^d. Letter.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

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

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

c.1680s

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

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 19.1.12 f. 152r-v)

EtG 33

Copy.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

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

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

c.1690s-1700

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

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

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 43 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.37-38) pp. 672-4)

Mr. Etherege's Answer [to A Letter from Lord Buckhurst] ('As crafty harlots use to shrink')

First published in Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen [i.e. London], 1680). Thorpe, pp. 38-9.

For other poems in this series, see EtG 39-43, DoC 18-22, and DoC 110-13.

EtG 34

Copy, headed The Answer by S^r. Geo: Etheridge.

Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe (and collated, p. 113).

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

c.1680s-1700s

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

Edinburgh University Library (MS Dc. 1. 3/1 p. 73)

EtG 35

Copy, headed The Answer.

Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe and collated p. 113.

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

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

c.1690s

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

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 636 pp. 103-5)

EtG 36

Copy, headed Answer.

Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe and collated, p. 113.

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

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

c.1680s

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

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

University of Nottingham (Pw V 40 ff. 26v-7v)

EtG 37

Copy.

c.1680

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

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

Royal Library, Stockholm (MS Vu. 69 pp. 102-5)

EtG 38

Copy, headed Answer by G.E..

An octavo verse miscellany, 148 pages (lacking pp. 55-8, 117-26).

Late 17th century

Dobell's sale catalogue The Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1284. Afterwards owned by John Sparrow (1906-92), literary scholar and book collector.

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. e. 176 p. 116)

EtG 38.5

Copy, headed The Ansuer by sr George Etheridge.

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

c.1705

Private owners in the UK (Mylne MS pp. 236-8)

Mr. Etherege's Answer [to Another Letter from Lord Buckhurst] ('So soft and amorously you write')

First published in Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen [i.e. London], 1680). Thorpe, pp. 43-5.

For other poems in this series, see EtG 34-8, DoC 18-22, and DoC 110-13.

EtG 39

Copy, headed Answer to y^e 2^d. letter by S^r Geo: Etheridge, lacking the end.

Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe (and collated, p. 114).

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

c.1680s-1700s

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

Edinburgh University Library (MS Dc. 1. 3/1 p. 74)

EtG 40

Copy, untitled.

Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe and collated, p. 114.

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

c.1690s

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

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 636 pp. 110-14)

EtG 41

Copy.

Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe and collated p. 114.

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

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

c.1680s

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

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

University of Nottingham (Pw V 40 ff. 32r-3r)

EtG 42

Copy.

c.1680

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

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

Royal Library, Stockholm (MS Vu. 69 pp. 113-18)

EtG 43

Copy of the last six lines, here beginning In whom there dwell Diviner Charmes, imperfect, lacking all the previous portion.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

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

c.1680

Yale, Osborn MS b 100 through Osborn MS b 149 (Osborn MS b 105 p. 185)

EtG 43.5

Copy, headed Ansuer to y^e 2^d=letter By Sir George Etheridge.

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

c.1705

Private owners in the UK (Mylne MS pp. 241-3)

Second Letter to Lord Middleton ('Since love and verse, as well as wine')

First published in The History of Adolphus (London, 1691). Thorpe, pp. 48-50.

EtG 44

Copy in the hand of Hugo Hughes, the poem dated 19/29 April 1686.

Edited from this MS in Thorpe and in Bracher, pp. 32-4.

Copy of Sir George Etherege's Letter Book, 1685-8, 202 quarto leaves, in half-morocco.

Acquired from the bookseller Wilkes, 3 December 1838.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 10000 through 14999 (Add. MS 11513 ff. 15r-16r)

EtG 45

Copy.

Transcript of Sir George Etherege's Letter Book, 1685-8, 128 folio leaves (plus c.200 blanks).

c.1688

University of Birmingham (MSS 5/ii/3 [unnumbered pages])

EtG 46

Copy.

Portion of a copy of Etherege's letterbook, on eighteen quarto leaves, unbound.

c.1686-8

Recorded in IELM, II.i (1987) as L 4.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Dep. Bland Burges 44 ff. 150r-1v)

EtG 47

Copy.

Transcript of Etherege's letterbook.

Two quarto volumes, c.350 pages (plus blanks); transcript of the letters, verse and accounts in British Library, Add. MS 11513, in a single contemporary scribal hand.

Late 17th century

Sotheby's, 20 July 1981, lot 8, to Pickering & Chatto. Owned by the bookseller John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003). Sotheby's, 27 May 2004 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 226, unsold.

Estate of John R.B. Brett-Smith, Princeton ([Etherege letterbook 1] [unspecified page numbers])

EtG 48

Copy, headed To My L^d Middleton, with y^e Duke of Zells letter to y^e Emp^r (a Copie of verses)...

Transcript of Etherege's letterbook.

Folio, 114 leaves (plus 2 blanks); transcript of the letters, verse and accounts in British Library, Add. MS 11513, in at least two contemporary scribal hands.

Late 17th century

Later bookplate of Viscount Downe. Christie's, 3 November 1981, lot 99, sold to Pickering & Chatto.

Estate of John R.B. Brett-Smith, Princeton ([Etherege letterbook 2] ff. 11r-12r)

EtG 49

Copy.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

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

c.1686-9 [with additions to 1738]

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

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Firth c. 16 pp. 170-2)

EtG 50

Copy, headed S^r George Etheridge to the Earl of Middleton.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single hand, 63 leaves (plus blanks), in modern calf gilt.

c.1700

The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 969 ff. 47r-9r)

EtG 51

Copy, headed Sir George Etheridge to the Earl of Middleton.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

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

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

c.1690

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

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

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 585 pp. 382-5)

EtG 52 c.1680s-90s

Copy, in a professional hand, headed Sir George Etheredge's Letter to my Lord Middleton, on seven pages of three pairs of conjugate quarto leaves.

A collection of unbound verse MSS and other papers of the Crofts and Sebright families of Norfolk.

Sotheby's, 6 November 1984, lot 1185.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 48 Envelope 1, ff. 2r-5r)

EtG 53

Copy.

This MS collated in Hammond, Robinson, p. 318.

c.1680s-90s

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt 54 pp. 333-6)

EtG 54

Copy, headed S^r. George Etheridge to the Earle of Mifddleton 1686.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

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

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

c.1680s

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

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 19.1.12 ff. 151r-2r)

EtG 55

Copy.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

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

c.1690s-1700

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

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

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 43 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.37-38) pp. 666-9)

EtG 56

Copy, addressed on the back (p. 102) For M^rs. Weatherly att the Countesse of mnchesters house in Downing Street in Westminster, dated 10 May 1686, on two conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

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

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

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS fb 68 pp. 99-101)

EtG 57

Copy on two conjugate folio leaves.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

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

Late 17th century

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

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS fb 70 pp. 53-5)

Song ('Cease, ansious World, your fruitless pain')

First published, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, in The Theater of Music, Fourth Book (London, 1687). Thorpe, p. 33.

EtG 58

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell.

This MS recorded in Franklin B. Zimmerman, Henry Purcell: An Analytical Catalogue (London & New York, 1963), No. 362.

Purcell's predominantly autograph folio Score Booke Containing Severall Anthems w^th. Sy[m]phonies.

c.1690

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (R.M. 20. h. 8 ff. 175r-174v rev.)

EtG 59

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, untitled.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

A folio songbook, largely in one hand, written from both ends, vi + 241 pages including blanks(Part I: pp. 1-207; Part II: pp. 1-34), in contemporary panelled calf gilt (rebacked).

Early 18th century

Inscribed (Part I, p. [iii]) Liber Georgij Forman Anno Domini April 8^th 1721; John Ladds Book October the 9 in the year of our Lord 1764; and (Part II, p. 2) Liber Georgij Forman Anno Domini 1717 November Undecimo Die; Thomas Lea Southgate, Gipsy Hill, Kent; and Johannes Gilbert A. M. Coll. Christ. Cantab. Puttick & Simpson's, 1890. Formerly Folger MS 1634.4.

The Folger Shakespeare Library: V.b. series (MS V.b.197 Part I, pp. 48-9)

Song ('Garde le secret de ton Ame')

First published in Rosenfeld (1928), p. 129. Thorpe, p. 13.

EtG 60

Copy, in the hand of Hugo Hughes, written before a letter of 31 December 1686.

Edited from this MS in Rosenfeld, in Thorpe and in Bracher, pp. 78-9.

Copy of Sir George Etherege's Letter Book, 1685-8, 202 quarto leaves, in half-morocco.

Acquired from the bookseller Wilkes, 3 December 1838.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 10000 through 14999 (Add. MS 11513 f. 43r)

EtG 61

Copy.

Transcript of Sir George Etherege's Letter Book, 1685-8, 128 folio leaves (plus c.200 blanks).

c.1688

University of Birmingham (MSS 5/ii/3 [unnumbered pages])

EtG 62

Copy.

Transcript of Etherege's letterbook.

Two quarto volumes, c.350 pages (plus blanks); transcript of the letters, verse and accounts in British Library, Add. MS 11513, in a single contemporary scribal hand.

Late 17th century

Sotheby's, 20 July 1981, lot 8, to Pickering & Chatto. Owned by the bookseller John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003). Sotheby's, 27 May 2004 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 226, unsold.

Estate of John R.B. Brett-Smith, Princeton ([Etherege letterbook 1] [unspecified page numbers])

EtG 63

Copy.

Transcript of Etherege's letterbook.

Folio, 114 leaves (plus 2 blanks); transcript of the letters, verse and accounts in British Library, Add. MS 11513, in at least two contemporary scribal hands.

Late 17th century

Later bookplate of Viscount Downe. Christie's, 3 November 1981, lot 99, sold to Pickering & Chatto.

Estate of John R.B. Brett-Smith, Princeton ([Etherege letterbook 2] f. 29r)

Song ('In some kind dream upon her slumbers steal')

First published, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, in The Theater of Music, Fourth Book (London, 1687). The Works of Henry Purcell, XXII (London, 1922), pp. 59-61. Thorpe, p. 34.

EtG 64

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, untitled.

This MS recorded in Franklin B. Zimmerman, Henry Purcell: An Analytical Catalogue (London & New York, 1963), No. 497.

A folio music book of vocal compositions, the lyrics in English and Latin almost entirely in a single italic hand, with a contemporary index (f. 93r), 94 leaves, in 19th-century half red leather.

Compiled by the composer Henry Bowman, those songs set by himself listed by him on f. 93r.

c.1678-80s

Bookplate of Katherine Sedley (1657-1717), daughter of Sir Charles Sedley and later Countess of Dorchester, of Southfleet, Kent. Inscribed (f. 93r) John James. Purchased from J. Harvey, 13 July 1877.

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 30382 ff. 35-6)

EtG 65

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell.

This MS recorded in Works of Purcell and in Zimmerman.

Purcell's predominantly autograph folio Score Booke Containing Severall Anthems w^th. Sy[m]phonies.

c.1690

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (R.M. 20. h. 8 f. 169v-r rev.)

EtG 66

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, in a MS songbook.

Late 17th century

Later owned by William Hayman Cummings (1831-1915), singer and musical antiquary.

This MS recorded in Zimmerman, No. 497.

Nanki Music Library ([unspecified shelfmark])

EtG 67

Copy, headed A Song by S^r. George Etheridge.

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

c.1713

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

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1 through 239 (MS 239/16 p. 153)

Song ('See how fair Corinna lies')

First published in Thomas Southerne, The Disappointment, or The Mother in Fashion (London, 1684). Thorpe, p. 31.

EtG 68

Copy, untitled, under a general heading The Songs In y^e Theater of Musick.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in a single hand, 133 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

c.1700

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 3752 f. 2v)

Song ('Tell me no more I am deceived')

First published in Nahum Tate, A Duke and No Duke (London, 1685). Thorpe, p. 30.

For the song by Congreve with the same opening line, see CgW 43-4.

EtG 69

This MS collated in Thorpe.

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

c.1693-8

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

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

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 602 f. [12r])

Song ('Tell me no more you love. in vain')

First published in The New Academy of Complements (London, 1669). Thorpe, p. 24.

EtG 70

Copy, headed A Song by S^r. Geo: Etherege. Love's last Tryall.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

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

Early 18th century

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

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

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199 (MS Rawl. poet. 173 f. 75r)

EtG 71

Copy.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

Late 17th century

Once owned by Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725) and afterwards among the collections of Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741).

Cited in IELM I.i (1980) as the Harley Rawlinson MS: DnJ Δ 64.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 3000 through 3999 (Harley MS 3991 f. 135r)

EtG 71.5 Late 17th century

Copy, untitled, on one side of a single folio leaf.

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

Among papers formerly at Pitchford Hall, Shropshire.

National Library of Wales (Pitchford Hall (Ottley) English Literary MSS (uncatalogued), A A3)

EtG 71.8

Copy, in a musical setting.

A quarto songbook, 138 leaves.

Mid-18th-century

Once owned by John Henry Mee.

Oxford Music Faculty (MS Mee e.1 ff. 5r-6r)

Song ('Ye happy Youths, whose hearts are free')

First published in Choice Ayres and Songs, Fifth Book (London, 1684). Thorpe, p. 32.

EtG 72

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Thorpe.

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

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

c.1690

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

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

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 585 p. 107)

A Song on Basset ('Let equipage and dress despair')

First published (lines 1-16 only) in Choice Ayres and Songs, Fourth Book (London, 1683). Published complete in Lycidas (London, 1688). Thorpe, pp. 11-12.

EtG 73

Copy.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

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

c.1686-9 [with additions to 1738]

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

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Firth c. 16 pp. 55-6)

EtG 74

This MS collated in Thorpe.

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

c.1710

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6914 f. 52r-v)

EtG 75

Copy.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single accomplished professional hand, ii + 222 pages, with an Index, in contemporary calf.

c.early 1700s

Inscribed on the front pastedown to be left at Inbourg's Muff-shop / Pall-Mall and S^t hov^r Singleton. Formerly Folger MS 473.1.

The Folger Shakespeare Library: V.b. series (MS V.b.94 pp. 104-6)

EtG 76

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Thorpe.

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

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

c.1690

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

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

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 585 pp. 326-7)

EtG 77

Copy, the poem dated in the margin 1685.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

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

c.1705

University of Nottingham (Pw V 43 pp. 133-5)

EtG 78

Copy.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

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

c.1690s

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

Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna (Cod. 14090 f. 334r-v)

EtG 79

Copy.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

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

c.1690s-1700

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

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

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 43 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.37-38) pp. 620-2)

Sylvia ('The nymph that undoes me is fair and unkind')

First published in A Collection of Poems, Written upon several Occasions (London, 1672). Thorpe, p. 26.

EtG 80

Copy, headed Charming Sylvia sett by D^r Green, being No. 9 of a series of 42 poems on seven folio leaves on ff. 104, 106-11v (lacking an eighth leaf after f. 109 with poems 21-23). Early 18th century.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

A folio composite volume of verse in Latin and English, some relating to Oxford, in various hands, 215 leaves, in contemporary quarter-calf gilt vellum boards.

Early-mid-18th century

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Ballard 50 f. 108r)

EtG 81

Copy, in a musical setting by Thomas Stafford, untitled.

A folio songbook, almost entirely in a single rounded italic hand, with (ff. 3r-7v) a table of contents, 113 leaves, in 19th-century half dark red morocco.

Compiled by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer (his signature f. 2v).

c.1654-70s

Arms of Eleanor Bursh on a seal affixed to f. 56r. Later owned and annotated in pencil by Thomas Oliphant (1799-1873), music editor and cataloguer.

A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 5 (New York & London, 1986).

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 29396 f. 90v)

EtG 82

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands, a neat mixed hand predominating up to f. 55r, 151 leaves (including a few blanks), in contemporary calf.

c.1730

Inscribed (in another hand) on the front pastedown Thomas Boydell. Formerly Folger MS 4108.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 300 through end (MS V.a.308 f. 15v)

EtG 82.3

Copy.

An octavo volume of Psalms of David by Isaac Watts (1674-1748), 115 pages, in calf.

1729

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS c 358 p. 2)

EtG 82.5

Copy, as By the same Author [i.e. Sir George Etherege].

A small quarto miscellany, in a single neat hand, 34 pages, in marbled stiff paper wrapper.

c.1720

In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Formerly cited as the Addison Miscellany.

Princeton (RTC01 No. 178 p. 16)

EtG 82.8

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, 150 pages.

1720

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS c 549 p. 94)

EtG 83

Copy of lines 1-8, headed The pleasant Death.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

A folio verse miscellany, with a title-page: The Theatre of Complements erected Collectection of Songs composed and compiled by A Schollar of Oxford. Printed for S.S. 167, 80 pages.

c.1670s

The title-page inscribed Nar. Lutterell: His Book 1682, i.e. owned by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732), annalist and book collector. At Yale formerly Chest II, No. 39.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS fb 107 p. 15)

EtG 84

Second copy of lines 1-8, headed The Beauty.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

A folio verse miscellany, with a title-page: The Theatre of Complements erected Collectection of Songs composed and compiled by A Schollar of Oxford. Printed for S.S. 167, 80 pages.

c.1670s

The title-page inscribed Nar. Lutterell: His Book 1682, i.e. owned by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732), annalist and book collector. At Yale formerly Chest II, No. 39.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS fb 107 p. 31)

EtG 84.5

Copy, in a musical setting.

A narrow oblong octavo songbook, in two hands, 38 leaves (including numerous blanks), in contemporary calf.

c.1676

In a collection of MS music books associated with the Filmer family, baronets, of Kent, members of whom included the political philosopher Sir Robert Filmer (1588-1653), his brother Edward (d.1650, compiler of French Court Aires, 1628) and son Sir Edward (d.1668), and the playwright Edward Filmer (fl.1700).

Yale Music Library (Misc. MS 170, Filmer MS 26 ff. 37v-8v)

To a Lady, Asking Him How Long He Would Love Her ('Cloris, it is not in our power')

First published in Catch that Catch Can (London, 1667). Thorpe, p. 2.

EtG 85

Copy of stanzas 1 and 3, here ascribed to Etherege.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

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

Early 18th century

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

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

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199 (MS Rawl. poet. 173 f. 74r-v)

EtG 86

Copy, headed seaventh Song.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

Late 17th century

Once owned by Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725) and afterwards among the collections of Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741).

Cited in IELM I.i (1980) as the Harley Rawlinson MS: DnJ Δ 64.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 3000 through 3999 (Harley MS 3991 ff. 131v-2r)

To a Lady Who Fled the Sight of Him ('If I my Celia could persuade')

First published in A Collection of Poems, Written upon several Occasions (London, 1672). Thorpe, p. 5.

EtG 87

Copy, as by S^r. George Etherege.

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

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

c.1703-9

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

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

Edinburgh University Library (MS Dc. 3. 76 f. 80r-v)

EtG 88

Copy.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

A quarto verse miscellany, in a stylish professional hand, with some rubricated headings, 58 pages, in contemporary calf, now disbound.

c.1690s

Formerly Chest II, No. 36.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 218 p. 21)

To a Very Young Lady ('Sweetest bud of beauty, may')

First published in The New Academy of Complements (London, 1669). Thorpe, p. 1.

EtG 88.5

Copy, headed To a Very Young Lady.

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

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

Late 17th century

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

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 73540 f. 70v)

EtG 89

Copy, as by S^r: Geo: Etherege.

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

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

c.1703-9

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

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

Edinburgh University Library (MS Dc. 3. 76 f. 52v)

EtG 90

Copy.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

A quarto miscellany of Restoration verse, prose and dramatic works, in a single cursive predominantly italic hand, 417 pages.

c.1670s-80s

Formerly Princeton General MSS Misc AM 14401.

This MS discussed in A.S.G. Edwards, Libertine Literature in Restoration England: Princeton MS AM 14401, BC, 25 (Autumn 1976), 354-68, and in PBSA (1977).

Princeton (CO199 No. 895 pp. 385-6)

EtG 90.5

Copy, as By Sir George Etherege.

A small quarto miscellany, in a single neat hand, 34 pages, in marbled stiff paper wrapper.

c.1720

In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Formerly cited as the Addison Miscellany.

Princeton (RTC01 No. 178 p. 15)

EtG 91

Copy.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

A quarto verse miscellany, in a stylish professional hand, with some rubricated headings, 58 pages, in contemporary calf, now disbound.

c.1690s

Formerly Chest II, No. 36.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 218 p. 23)

EtG 92

Copy.

A small verse miscellany.

Early 18th century

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn Poetry Box IV/53 p. 6)

To Her Excellence the Marchioness of Newcastle After the Reading of Her Incomparable Poems ('With so much wonder we are struck')

First published in A Collection of Poems, Written upon several Occasions (London, 1672). Thorpe, pp. 14-15.

EtG 93

Copy, headed On y^e Dutchess of Newcastle.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

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

c.1682-91

Bodleian Library, Sancroft MSS (MS Sancroft 53 pp. 3-4)

EtG 94

Copy.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

Late 17th century

Once owned by Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725) and afterwards among the collections of Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741).

Cited in IELM I.i (1980) as the Harley Rawlinson MS: DnJ Δ 64.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 3000 through 3999 (Harley MS 3991 f. 128r-v)

Voiture's Urania ('Hopeless I languish out my days')

First published in A Collection of Poems, Written upon several Occasions (London, 1672). Thorpe, p. 6.

EtG 95

Copy, headed Voitures Urania. Love more prevalent than Reason.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

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

Early 18th century

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

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

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199 (MS Rawl. poet. 173 f. 62r)

EtG 96

Copy, as by S^r. George Etheridge.

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

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

c.1703-9

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

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

Edinburgh University Library (MS Dc. 3. 76 ff. 79v-80r)

EtG 97

Copy.

A small verse miscellany.

Early 18th century

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn Poetry Box IV/53 p. 7)

Poems of Doubtful Authorship

Mrs. Nelly's Complaint ('If Sylla's ghost made bloody Catiline start')

First published in Miscellaneous Works, Written by…Buckingham, Vol. I (London, 1704). Thorpe, pp. 62-4.

EtG 98

Copy.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

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

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

Mid-late 17th century

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

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

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Douce 357 ff. 145v-6v)

EtG 99

Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe and collated pp. 141-2.

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

c.1700

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

This MS collated in POAS, I.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Firth c. 15 pp. 129-32)

EtG 100

Copy.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

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

c.1686-9 [with additions to 1738]

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

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Firth c. 16 pp. 13-15)

EtG 101

Copy, headed M^rs Nelly's complaint. An Elegy.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

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

c.late 1680s

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6913 ff. 155r-7r)

EtG 102

Copy, the poem dated 1682.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

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

c.1703

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

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 7000 through end (Harley MS 7319 ff. 83r-5r)

EtG 103

Copy, headed Nellys Complaint.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

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

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

c.1690

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

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

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 585 pp. 145-9)

EtG 104

Copy.

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

c.1688

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

Lincolnshire Archives Office (Anc 15/B/4 pp. 127, 129)

EtG 105

Copy, the poem dated in the margin 1682.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

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

c.1705

University of Nottingham (Pw V 42 pp. 170-5)

EtG 106

Copy, the poem here dated 1682.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

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

c.1700

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

Ohio State University, English Department Library (Spec. MS Eng. 15 pp. 105-8)

EtG 107

Copy.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

c.1690s

Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna (Cod. 14090 ff. 212v-14v)

EtG 108

Copy, the poem dated 1682.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

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

c.1690s

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

This MS collated in POAS, I.

Princeton (RTC01 No. 35 pp. 117-21)

EtG 108.5

Title only ([N]elly's complaint an Elegy), of what is probably this poem, in the table of contents for a text which originally appeared on p. 211 but has been excised

A folio volume of poems chiefly on affairs of state, in a non-professional hand, with a table of contents (listing some 125 poems), once containing upwards of 240 pages, but all of which after p. 22 have been excised.

Late 17th century

Suffolk Record Office, Lowestoft (194/F1/1 p. 211 (now missing))

EtG 109

Copy.

Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe and collated pp. 141-2.

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

c.1690s-1700

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

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

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 43 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.37-38) pp. 407-10)

EtG 110

Formerly Osborn Box 22, No. 3.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional hand, with some rubrication and decoration, 358 pages (including over 60 blanks), with a table of contents, in contemporary black morocco gilt bearing a coronet.

c.1680s

Formerly Phillipps MS 7740 and Osborn MS. Box XXII, Number 3.

Yale, Osborn MS b 100 through Osborn MS b 149 (Osborn MS b 113 pp. 35-41)

EtG 110.5

Copy.

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

c.1705

Private owners in the UK (Mylne MS pp. 142-4)

The Rival ('Of all the torments, all the cares')

First published in A Collection of New Songs, Second Book (London, 1699). Thorpe, p. 61.

See VaJ 1-3. Formerly EtG 111-114.

EtG 111

Now catalogued as VaJ 2.

Deleted entry (Folger MS M.b.12, ff. 215v-16r)

EtG 112

Now catalogued as VaJ 2.5.

Deleted entry (Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection MS Lt. q. 38, pp. 248-9)

EtG 113

Now catalogued as VaJ 2.8.

Deleted entry (University of Nottingham Portland MS Pw V 44, pp. 302-4)

EtG 114

Now catalogued as VaJ 3.

Deleted entry (University of Nottingham Portand MS Pw V 48, pp. 241-2)

Song ('Since Death on all lays his impartial hand')

First published in Examen Miscellaneum (London, 1702). Thorpe, pp. 59-60.

EtG 115

Copy, ascribed to S^r. Geo: Etherege.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

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

Early 18th century

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

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

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199 (MS Rawl. poet. 173 ff. 139v-40r)

EtG 116

Copy, headed Song. By Cha: Blount Esq^r 1691.

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

c.1700s

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

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999 (Add. MS 21094 f. 42v)

EtG 117

Copy, headed Song, on the first of two conjugate folio leaves.

Edited from this MS in Thorpe.

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

Late 17th century

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

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS fb 70 pp. 89-90)

Upon Love: In Imitation of Cowley ('Whether we mortals love or no')

First published in Poems on Affairs of State, Part III (London, 1698). Thorpe, pp. 55-68.

EtG 118

This MS collated in Thorpe.

c.1705

University of Nottingham (Pw V 43 pp. 215-18)

EtG 119

Copy.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

c.1690s

Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna (Cod. 14090 ff. 765r-7r)

EtG 120

This MS collated in Thorpe.

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

c.1690s-1700

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

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

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 43 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.37-38) pp. 729-31)

Dramatic Works

The Comical Revenge. or Love in a Tub, Act II, scene ii, lines 153-69. Song ('When Phillis watch'd her harmless Sheep')

First published in London, 1664. Brett-Smith, I, 1-88 (pp. 21-2). The song in Thorpe, p. 20.

EtG 121

Copy of the song sung by Aurelia and Letitia, headed Song 134. The Carefull Shepherdesse.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

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

Late 17th century

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

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS fb 70 pp. 67-8)

EtG 121.5

Copy, in a musical setting.

Edited from this MS in Johnstone, pp. 187-8, and in Charteris, p. 274.

A folio composite music book, comprising (A) three printed works by Henry Lawes and others (1655-9), with MS additions, together with (B) 32 MS leaves of vocal music (plus stubs of eight excised leaves), in a single hand, bound together in brown leather.

Owned by, and the MS pages in the hand of, the Rev. John Patrick (1632-95), religious controversialist.

c.1660s

Bookplate of Charles Barlow (fl.1720s-30s), of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Leo Liepmannssohn's sale catalogue 183 (1913), item 183 (possibly from MSS purchased in 1907 by James E. Matthew). Library stamp of the Königliche Bibliothek (now Preussische Staatsbibliothek), Berlin. Moved to Kraków in 1946.

Discussed, with various facsimile examples, in H. Diack Johnstone, Ayres and Arias: A Hitherto Unknown Seventeenth-Century English Songbook, Early Music History, 16 (1997), 167-201, and in Richard Charteris, A Newly Discovered Songbook in Poland with Works by Henry Lawes and his Contemporaries, EMS, 8 (2000), 225-79.

Biblioteka Jagiellońska (Mus. ant. pract. P 970 B. pp. 59-[60])

The Comical Revenge. or Love in a Tub, Act II, scene iii, lines 174-87. Song ('If she be not as kind as fair')

Brett-Smith, I, 28-9. Thorpe, p. 22.

EtG 122

Copy of Palmer's song.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

Late 17th century

Once owned by Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725) and afterwards among the collections of Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741).

Cited in IELM I.i (1980) as the Harley Rawlinson MS: DnJ Δ 64.

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

The Comical Revenge. or Love in a Tub, Act V, scene iii, lines 9-20. Song ('Ladies, though to your Conqu'ring eyes')

Brett-Smith, I, 76. Thorpe, p. 21.

EtG 123

Copy.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

Late 17th century

Once owned by Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725) and afterwards among the collections of Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741).

Cited in IELM I.i (1980) as the Harley Rawlinson MS: DnJ Δ 64.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 3000 through 3999 (Harley MS 3991 f. 133v)

The Man of Mode, or Sir Fopling Flutter

First published in London, 1676. Brett-Smith, II, 181-288.

EtG 123.4

An exemplum of the first printed edition (London, 1676) with a MS cast list and prompt notes, evidently relating to the visit by members of the King's Company to Edinburgh in 1679-80.

1679-80

Discussed in Edward A. Langhans, An Edinburgh Promptbook from 1679-80, Theatre Notebook, 37 (1983), 101-4.

National Library of Scotland, other MSS (1. 81 (2))

The Man of Mode. or Sir Fopling Flutter, Act IV, scene 1, lines 413-34. Song ('The pleasures of love and the joys of good wine')

The drinking song. Thorpe, p. 28. Brett-Smith, II, 256-7.

EtG 123.6

Extracts, inscribed S^r Fopling.

A folio miscellany of extracts, in a single cursive hand, 351 leaves, in modern half brown morocco on marbled boards.

c.1685-1700s

Sotheby's, 13 July 1855, lot 1364.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999 (Add. MS 21107 f. 159r-v)

EtG 123.8

Copy of the drinking song, headed Song in S^r Foppling Flutter.

A small quarto miscellany of chiefly Restoration songs and ballads, many from plays, in one or more small hands, 48 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary brown calf.

Folios 1r-32r copied c.1686-8 in a single hand; ff. 33v-48r copied c.1688-94 in four other hands.

c.1686-94

Later owned by Sir Francis Freeling, first Baronet (1764-1836), postal administrator and book collector. Evans (Sotheby's), 25 November 1836 (Freeling sale), lot 1156. Acquired from Leo S. Olschki, 6 November 1986.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 64060 f. 3v)

She wou'd if she cou'd, Act V, scene i, lines 312-23. Song ('To little or no purpose I spent many days')

First published in London, 1668. Brett-Smith, II, 1-179 (p. 169). Thorpe, p. 23.

EtG 124

Copy of Gatty's song, untitled.

An octavo volume of heraldic arms, chiefly in trick, 64 leaves, in calf, stamped in gilt M. B.

Compiled by Samuel Waker, painter stainer, of London.

Late 17th century

Later owned by Sir Simeon Stuart, third Baronet, MP (c.1724-c.1779/82), of Hartley Mauduit, Hampshire, Chamberlain of the Exchequer (constituting Volume XI of the Stuart Collection). Purchased in 1778.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 4101 through 4999 (Add. MS 4968 f. 49r)

EtG 125

Copy.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

Late 17th century

Once owned by Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725) and afterwards among the collections of Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741).

Cited in IELM I.i (1980) as the Harley Rawlinson MS: DnJ Δ 64.

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

EtG 125.5

Copy, untitled and here beginning To litle or no purpos I have spent.

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.

c.1667-8

Inscribed on the title-page Frendraught Legi: i.e. by James Crichton (d.1674/5), second Viscount Frendraught. Bookplate of Thomas Fraser Duff (1830-77), of Woodcote, Oxfordshire. Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 9 April 1987, lot 272 (with a facsimile of p. 131 in the sale catalogue), sold to Quaritch.

Estate of Robert S Pirie, New York ([Frendraught MS] p. 242)

EtG 126

Copy, headed Song 60. The Rambling Lady.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

A folio verse miscellany, with a title-page: The Theatre of Complements erected Collectection of Songs composed and compiled by A Schollar of Oxford. Printed for S.S. 167, 80 pages.

c.1670s

The title-page inscribed Nar. Lutterell: His Book 1682, i.e. owned by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732), annalist and book collector. At Yale formerly Chest II, No. 39.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS fb 107 pp. 30-1)

Letters

Letter(s)

*EtG 127

Autograph

A folio composite volume containing a series of c.124 letters signed by Etherege, to Charles, second Earl of Middleton, Secretary of State, nearly all from Ratisbon, 263 leaves, in modern half-morocco, 25 September/5 October 1685 to 14/24 April 1687.

Volume XXXIV of the Middleton Papers, descended from Dr Owen Wynne (fl.1680s), clerk in the Secretary of State's Office.

1685-7

Discussed in Sybil Rosenfeld, Sir George Etherege in Ratisbon, RES, 10 (1934), 177-89. Selected letters edited in Bracher. Reduced facsimile of a letter of 31 January/10 February 1686/7 on ff. 232r-3v) in Peter Barber, Diplomacy: The World of the Honest Spy (London, 1979), p. 84.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 40000 through 44999 (Add. MS 41836)

*EtG 128

Autograph

A folio composite volume containing a series of c.124 letters by Etherege, nearly all to Charles, second Earl of Middleton, Secretary of State for the Northern Department, a few addressed to his secretary Dr Owen Wynne or to P. Valckenier, chiefy autograph and signed, some in the hand of Etherege's secretary Hugo Hughes and including a few copies of other letters and dispatches, from Ratisbon, 263 leaves, in modern half-morocco, April 1687 to October 1688.

Volume XXXV of the Middleton Papers, acquired by the descendants of Dr Owen Wynne (fl.1680s), clerk in the Secretary of State's office.

1687-88

Discussed in Sybil Rosenfeld, Sir George Etherege in Ratisbon, RES, 10 (1934), 177-89. Selected letters edited in Bracher.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 40000 through 44999 (Add. MS 41837)

*EtG 129

Autograph

A folio composite volume of copies of c.122 diplomatic reports and newsletters, many as from Vienna, in secretarial hands, evidently sent by Etherege to Charles, second Earl of Middleton, Secretary of State for the Northern Departmen, as originally enclosures with Etherege's letters (British Library, Add. MS 41836 and British Library, Add. MS 41837), including (between ff. 204r and 249v) eight reports in Etherege's own hand, 291 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

Volume XXXVIII of the Middleton Papers, acquired by the descendants of Dr Owen Wynne (fl.1680s), clerk in the Secretary of State's office.

1684-7

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 40000 through 44999 (Add. MSS 41840)

*EtG 130

Autograph

A folio composite volume of copies of diplomatic reports and newsletters, many as from Vienna, in secretarial hands, evidently sent on by Etherege to Charles, second Earl of Middleton, Secretary of State for the Northern Department, as originally enclosures with Etherege's letters (British Library, Add. MS 41836 and British Library, Add. MS 41837), one letter (f. 26r) docketed in Etherege's hand From my Lord Dangan to me, 394 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

Volume XXXIX of the Middleton Papers, acquired by the descendants of Dr Owen Wynne (fl.1680s), clerk in the Secretary of State's office.

1687-8

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 40000 through 44999 (Add. MSS 41841)

*EtG 131

Autograph

Two letters by Etherege, to Richard Graham, Viscount Preston (Middleton's successor as Secretary of State for the Northern Department), and his secretary [Rowland] Tempest, the first letter in Hugo Hughes's hand and signed by Etherege, from Ratisbon, [17/27 December 1688 but docketed with date of receipt, 28 January 1688/9]; the second autograph, from Ratisbon, 24 December 1688/3 January 1688/9; and one autograph letter to Tempest, from Ratisbon, 24 December 1688/3 January 1688/9.

Abridged versions edited in HMC, 7th Report (1879), Part I, Appendix, p. 428. The three letters edited in Bracher, pp. 262-5, from the texts in Letterbook No. 1 (EtG 153), and see also EtG 000. Facsimile of one page in Sotheby's sale catalogue.

A folio composite volume of letters and papers of Richard Graham (1648-95), first Viscount Preston, politician, in various hands, 358 leaves.

Volume XXIX of the Preston Papers, formerly owned by Sir Charles Graham, Netherby Hall, Preston Papers, vol. 1688 Letters from England [etc.]. Sotheby's, 10 July 1986, lot 303, to Quaritch, with facsimile examples in the sale catalogue.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 63780 ff. 323r-30v)

EtG 132

Copy, by Mackintosh, of two letters by Etherege to Preston, from Ratisbon, [17/27 December 1688] and 24 December 1688/3 January 1688/9.

Edited from this MS in Rosenfeld, pp. 432-4 (the date of the first letter given as 28 January 1688/9). For original letters, see EtG 000.

A folio volume of extracts from the papers of Richard Graham, first Viscount Preston, compiled by Sir James Mackintosh (1765-1832), political writer and politician, 107 leaves.

Volume XXXI of the Mackintosh Collections.

Late 18th-early 19th century

Recorded in HMC. 7th Report (1879), Appendix, p. 261.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 30000 through 34999 (Add. MS 34517 ff. 31r-4r)

*EtG 133 1685

Autograph

Autograph letter signed by Etherge, to Sir William Trumbull, from Ratisbon, 8/18 December 1685.

Bracher, pp. 14-15.

An unbound collection of correspondence of Sir William Trumbull, Envoy to Turkey, in various hands and paper sizes, 237 leaves.

1685

Formerly in the Berkshire Record Office, among Trumbull Miscellaneous Correspondence, Vols. XXIII and XXV Sotheby's, The Trumbull Papers, 14 December 1989, in lot 49, pp. 132-3, with a facsimile example of one letter. Now Trumbull Vol. CCLXXX.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 72521 ff. 160r-1v)

*EtG 134 1686

Autograph

Autograph letter signed by Etherge, to Sir William Trumbull, from Ratisbon, 5/15 January 1685/6.

A collection of correspondence of Sir William Trumbull, Envoy to Turkey, in various hands and paper sizes, 216 leaves.

1685-6

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 72522 ff. 62r-3v)

*EtG 135 1686

Autograph

Autograph letter signed by Etherge, to Sir William Trumbull, from Ratisbon, 2/12 February 1685/6.

A collection of correspondence of Sir William Trumbull, Envoy to Turkey, in various hands and paper sizes, 216 leaves.

1685-6

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 72522 ff. 158r-9v)

*EtG 136 1686

Autograph

Autograph letter signed by Etherge, to Sir William Trumbull, from Ratisbon, 23 February/5 March 1685/6.

A collection of correspondence of Sir William Trumbull, Envoy to Turkey, in various hands and paper sizes, 216 leaves.

1685-6

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 72522 ff. 207r-8v)

*EtG 137 1686

Autograph

Autograph letter signed by Etherge, to Sir William Trumbull, from Ratisbon, 2/12 March 1685/6.

A collection of correspondence of Sir William Trumbull, Envoy to Turkey, in various hands and paper sizes, 232 leaves.

1686

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 72523 ff. 9r-10v)

*EtG 138 1686

Autograph

Autograph letter signed by Etherge, to Sir William Trumbull, from Ratisbon, 9/19 March 1685/6.

A collection of correspondence of Sir William Trumbull, Envoy to Turkey, in various hands and paper sizes, 232 leaves.

1686

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 72523 ff. 21r-2v)

*EtG 139 1686

Autograph

Autograph letter signed by Etherge, to Sir William Trumbull, from Ratisbon, 20/30 April 1686.

A collection of correspondence of Sir William Trumbull, Envoy to Turkey, in various hands and paper sizes, 232 leaves.

1686

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 72523 ff. 119r-20v)

*EtG 140 1686

Autograph

Autograph letter signed by Etherge, to Sir William Trumbull, from Ratisbon, 1/11 June 1686.

A collection of correspondence of Sir William Trumbull, Envoy to Turkey, in various hands and paper sizes, 223 leaves.

1686

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 72524 ff. 19r-20v)

*EtG 141 1686

Autograph

Autograph letter signed by Etherge, to Sir William Trumbull, from Ratisbon, 20/30 July 1686.

A collection of correspondence of Sir William Trumbull, Envoy to Turkey, in various hands and paper sizes, 223 leaves.

1686

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 72524 ff. 132r-3v)

*EtG 142 1686

Autograph

Autograph letter signed by Etherge, to Sir William Trumbull, from Ratisbon, 24 August/3 September 1686.

A collection of correspondence of Sir William Trumbull, Envoy to Turkey, in various hands and paper sizes, 212 leaves.

1686

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 72525 ff. 1r-4v)

*EtG 143 1686

Autograph

Autograph letter signed by Etherge, to Sir William Trumbull, from Ratisbon, 31 August/10 September 1686.

Facsimile pages IELM, II.i (1987), XVII, after p. xxiv.

A collection of correspondence of Sir William Trumbull, Envoy to Turkey, in various hands and paper sizes, 212 leaves.

1686

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 72525 ff. 21r-2v)

*EtG 144 1686

Autograph

Autograph letter signed by Etherge, to Sir William Trumbull, from Ratisbon, 8/18 November 1686.

Bracher, pp. 70-1.

A collection of correspondence of Sir William Trumbull, Envoy to Turkey, in various hands and paper sizes, 212 leaves.

1686

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 72525 ff. 114r-15v)

*EtG 145

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Sir Richard Bulstrode, Envoy at Brussels, from Ratisbon, 12/20 February 1685/6.

1686

Owned in 1870 by T.E.P. Lefroy, of Hillcote, Bournemouth, Hampshire. Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1852, lot 105, and 25 January 1853, lot 183. Waller's sale catalogue for 1871, item 85. Sotheby's, 3 May 1889, lot 33, to Bennett.

Recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 56.

Harvard, other MSS (bMS Eng 870 (22))

*EtG 146

Autograph

Autograph letter signed by Etherege, to Ignatius White, Marquis d'Albeville, from Ratisbon, 5/15 March 1687/8.

1688

In a large collection of letters acquired in 1977.

Indiana University, Lilly Library (LMC 1008)

*EtG 147

Autograph

Three autograph letters by Etherege, to Robert Spencer, second Earl of Sunderland, Principal Secretary of State, from Ratisbon, dated respectively 23 November/3 December 1685; 14/24 December 1685; and 1/11 January 1686/7.

1685-7

Edited in Rosenfeld, pp. 408-11, and in Bracher, pp. 11-12, 17-18, 79-80.

National Archives, Kew (SP 81/86, ff. 271r-v, 273r-4v, 281r-v)

*EtG 148

Autograph

Letter, in the hand of a secretary and signed by Etherege, to Joseph Williamson, Secretary to Lord Arlington, from Constantinople, [early 1670: received 3 May].

1670

Edited in Rosenfeld, pp. 405-8 (with a facsimile of part of the last page, misleadingly captioned Specimen of Etherege's Handwriting), and in Bracher, pp. 3-5. Discussed in Thomas H. Fujimura, Etherege at Constantinople, PMLA, 71.i (1956), 465-81.

National Archives, Kew (SP 97/19 (ff. 150r-1v))

*EtG 149

Autograph

Two autograph letters signed by Etherege, to Sir Richard Bulstrode, Envoy at Brussels, [from Ratisbon], the first dated December 1685.

1685

Owned in 1870 by T.E.P. Lefroy, of Hillcote, Bournemouth, Hampshire. One of the letters possibly that to an unspecified correspondent, dated from Ratisbon, 21 December 1685, offered at Sotheby's, 26 November 1891, lot 133. See EtG 000.

Recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 56.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Etherege letters])

*EtG 150

Autograph

Three autograph letters signed, to Edmund Poley (Etherege's predecessor at Ratisbon), from Ratisbon, dated respectively 28 July/7 August 1687; 12 September 1687; and 2/12 January 1687/8.

Among a collection of Poley's papers.

1687-8

Sotheby's, 20 November 1973, lot 184. Formerly Osborn Collection, Shelves, Poley Papers.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MSS 1, Series I, Box 2, unnumbered items in folders 63, 66 and 75)

Letterbooks

Letterbook(s)

EtG 150.3

Copy of Etherege's letterbook, in a professional hand, including texts of c.230 letters by Etherege, written between 19/29 November 1685 and 1/11 March 1687/8, together with other contents of the original letterbook, 2 quarto volumes, c.350 pages (plus blanks, in contemporary boards covered with pages from a 16th-century printed book.

c.1687-8

Sotheby's, 20 July 1981, lot 8, to Pickering & Chatto. Then owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 27 May 2004 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 226, with facsimile of an opening on p. 138. Unsold and returned to Brett-Smith's executors.

Recorded in IELM, II.i (1987) as L. 5.

Privately owned in the USA ([Etherege letterbook (I)])

EtG 150.5

Copy of Etherege's letterbook, in at least two professional hands, including texts of c.230 letters by Etherege, written between 19/29 November 1685 and 1/11 March 1687/8, together with other contents of the original letterbook, c.225 folio pages in contemporary boards covered with pages from a 16th-century printed book overlaid with marbled paper.

c.1687-8

18th-century bookplate of Viscount Downe. Christie's, 4 November 1981, lot 99, to Pickering & Chatto. Then owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 27 May 2004 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 227, with a facsimile page on p. 139. Unsold and returned to Brett-Smith's executors.

Recorded in IELM, II.i (1987) as L. 6.

Privately owned in the USA ([Etherege letterbook (II)])

*EtG 151 1687-8

Autograph

A quarto volume of copies of over 225 letters by Etherege (some abridged), from Ratisbon, 19/29 November 1685 to 1/11 March 1687/8 (ff. 1-171), together with a verse satire on Etherege [by Hughes] (f. 172r-v), transcripts of fourteen letters sent to Etherege by correspondents (ff. 173r-86v), his accounts (f. 187r-v), Sir Georg^s acc^t. of the Feast on the B[irth] of y^e P[rince] of W[ales] (ff. 188r-91v, A Catalogue of Sr. George's Bookes (f. 192r), and An acc^t. of S^r G^s. life, & manner of living, writt in severall Letters, from Ratisbonne (ff. 192v-200r), all in the hand of Etherege's secretary Hugo Hughes, and (according to his note at the beginning) begun on 5/15 March 1686/7.

Recorded in IELM, II.i (1987) as L 2. Edited complete in Rosenfeld (1928), with a facsimile of part of f. 66v facing p. 170. Selected letters printed in Bracher; also discussed by Bracher in HLB, 15 (1967), 238-45. The Catalogue of S^r. George's Bookes on f. 192 reproduced and discussed, with a facsimile, in Peter Beal, The most constant and best entertainement: Sir George Etherege's Reading in Ratisbon, The Library, 6th Ser. 10/2 (June 1988), 122-44.

Copy of Sir George Etherege's Letter Book, 1685-8, 202 quarto leaves, in half-morocco.

Acquired from the bookseller Wilkes, 3 December 1838.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 10000 through 14999 (Add. MS 11513 The MS as a whole)

EtG 152

Portion of a transcript of Etherege's letterbook, comprising some twenty letters (plus verse) dated from Ratisbon, 19/29 November 1685 to 1/11 July 1686, in a single professional hand.

Portion of a copy of Etherege's letterbook, on eighteen quarto leaves, unbound.

c.1686-8

Recorded in IELM, II.i (1987) as L 4.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Dep. Bland Burges 44 The MS as a whole)

EtG 153

Sir George Etherege's official letterbooks, two folio volumes, 394 pages (plus blanks), the first volume in quarter-vellum marbled boards, the second volume disbound.

Containing copies of letters by him, from Ratisbon, 30 November/10 December 1685 to 9/19 January 1688/9, together with his A Relation of the great Feast Kept at Ratisbonnethe 15^th/25 July being S^t. James's day. 1688 on a separate sheaf, and his accounts, all in the hand of his secretary Hugo Hughes, with Etherege's occasional autograph corrections, a list of 29 letters written by him from Paris between 20 February 1688/9 and 28 September 1689 added in another hand.

1685-9

The first volume (with letters until 26 February/8 March 1687/8) bearing the bookplate of Philip Southcote. William H. Robinson's sale catalogue No. 77 (1948), item 188, with reduced facsimiles of two pages.

The second volume (with letters from 1/11 March 1687/8 onwards) offered for sale in P. J. Dobell, The Manuscript Repository, No. 1 (May 1947).

Recorded in IELM, II.i (1987) as L 1. Selected letters printed from both volumes in Bracher. The second volume discussed in Sybil Rosenfeld, The Second Letterbook of Sir George Etherege, RES, NS 3 (1952), 19-27. Both volumes also discussed by Frederick Bracher in The Letterbooks of Sir George Etherege, HLB, 15 (1967), 238-45.

Harvard Theatre Collection (fMS Thr 11 and 11.1)

EtG 154

Transcript of Etherege's letterbook L 5 from 5/15 March 1686/7 to 1/11 March 1687/8.

Transcript of Etherege's letterbook.

Two quarto volumes, c.350 pages (plus blanks); transcript of the letters, verse and accounts in British Library, Add. MS 11513, in a single contemporary scribal hand.

Late 17th century

Sotheby's, 20 July 1981, lot 8, to Pickering & Chatto. Owned by the bookseller John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003). Sotheby's, 27 May 2004 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 226, unsold.

Estate of John R.B. Brett-Smith, Princeton ([Etherege letterbook 1] The MS as a whole)

EtG 155

Transcript of Etherege's letterbook L 6 from 5/15 March 1686/7 to 1/11 March 1687/8.

Transcript of Etherege's letterbook.

Folio, 114 leaves (plus 2 blanks); transcript of the letters, verse and accounts in British Library, Add. MS 11513, in at least two contemporary scribal hands.

Late 17th century

Later bookplate of Viscount Downe. Christie's, 3 November 1981, lot 99, sold to Pickering & Chatto.

Estate of John R.B. Brett-Smith, Princeton ([Etherege letterbook 2] The MS as a whole)

EtG 156

Copy of all the letters, verse and accounts in Sir George Etherege's letterbook from 5/15 March 1686/7 to 1/11 March 1687/8, in several contemporary professional hands.

Recorded in IELM, II.i (1987) as L 3. Recorded in Bracher, p. xii.

Transcript of Sir George Etherege's Letter Book, 1685-8, 128 folio leaves (plus c.200 blanks).

c.1688

University of Birmingham (MSS 5/ii/3 The manuscript as a whole)

Documents

Document(s)

*EtG 157

Autograph

Etherege's signature as witness to a deed of purchase of Widgenden and Diffield by George Gosnold of Beaconsfield, on vellum, also signed by Waller and his second wife Mary, and others, 8 June 1655 (see WaE 846).

1655

Puttick & Simpson's, 13 May 1867 (the Rev. F.B. Woodward sale), 4th day, lot 1346. Sotheby's, 8 May 1868, lot 545, to Waller. Maggs's sale catalogue No. 536 (1930), item 2401.

Estate of Robert S Pirie, New York ([Waller/Etherege deed])

*EtG 158

Autograph

Two indentures for the sale of the manor of Thomlins (or Tomlyns) in Amersham, Buckinghsmshire, by Richard Stydolfe of Norbury, Surrey, to Sir William Drake of Shardeloes, Buckinghamshire, both signed as witnesses in the attestation on the verso by the attorney George Gosnold and by his apprenticed articled clerk the twenty-one year-old Etherege, both on vellum, dated 1 November 1657.

1657

Sotheby's, 17 December 1998, lot 70, unsold. Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh, 11 July 2006, lot 271.

Facsimiles of the signatures in Sotheby's sale catalogue, p. 70, and in Peter Beal, A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology 1450-2000 (Oxford, 2008), p. 442. Photocopies are in the British Library, RP 8989.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Etherege documents (I)])

*EtG 159

Autograph

A document relating to the purchase by the attorney George Gosnold of the manor of Thomlins in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, belonging to Edmund Waller, signed in the attestation by the nineteen year-old Etherege, as Gosnold's apprenticed articled clerk, 1657.

1657

Sotheby's, 17 December 1998, lot 70, unsold. Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh, 11 July 2006, lot 271. Photocopies are in the British Library, RP 8989.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Etherege documents (II)])

Sir George Etherege

Introduction

Letters and Letterbooks

Etherege's Papers

Etherege's Books

Dramatic Works

The Verse Canon

Documents

Miscellaneous

Abbreviations

Verse

Poems by Etherege

Poems of Doubtful Authorship

Dramatic Works

Letters

Letterbooks

Documents

Contents