Owen Felltham

1602?–1668

Introduction

The merchant, estate manager, essayist and poet Owen Felltham is best remembered for his major, popular, compilation Resolves, which was first published (anonymously) in 1623, went through seven more revised and expanded editions in his lifetime, and four posthumous editions up to 1709. A less important prose work which also went through several editions was his satirical Brief Character of the Low-Countries, written probably in his merchant days in the 1620s, first published in an unauthorized truncated edition in 1648 and then in his authorized edition in 1652. Unlike Resolves, the Character was subject for some years to wide dissemination in manuscript copies, of which thirty-one are currently recorded (FeO 71-100).

Although Felltham published some of his poems during his lifetime, particularly in Lusoria, or, Occasional Pieces appended to the eighth edition of Resolves (1661), his poetry, written over a period on a variety of public and personal topics, some reflecting his literary circle (which included Sir Kenelm Digby, Ben Jonson and Thomas Randolph), was also subject to some measure of circulation in manuscript. His most popular poem, judging by the number of its occurrences in contemporary verse miscellanies, was his lyrical A Farewell (When by sad fate by fate I summoned am) (FeO 23-35). No attempt to collect Felltham's moderately scattered verse and establish a canon was made until the Pebworth-Summers edition of 1973.

Abbreviations

Pebworth & Summers: The Poems of Owen Felltham 1604?-1668, ed. Ted-Larry Pebworth and Claude J. Summers (University Park, Pa., 1973).
Van Strien: Kees Van Strien, Owen Felltham's A Brief Character of the Low-Countries: A Survey of the Texts, English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700, 6 (British Library, London, 1997), 132-74.

Verse

An Answer to the Ode of Come leave the loathed Stage, &c. ('Come leave this saucy way')

A version first published, as Against Ben: Johnson, in Panassus Biceps, ed. Abraham Wright (London, 1656), pp. 154-6. Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, pp. 26-8.

FeO 1

A large folio composite verse miscellany, chiefly folio, partly quarto, 243 pages, in contemporary calf.

Including 18 poems by Carew and two of doubtful authorship, compiled by Nicholas Burghe (d.1670), Royalist Captain during the Civil War and one of the poor Knights of Windsor in 1661 (references to I Nicholas Burgh occurring on ff. 165r, with the date 3^d of June 1638, and 166r, and his name partly in cipher on other pages); predominantly in his hand, with some later additions in other hands.

c.1638

Afterwards owned by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Burghe MS: CwT Δ 1.

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 38 p. 71)

FeO 2

Copy, headed An answer to Ben Johnsons ode in dislike of his new Inne.

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

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

c.1630s-40s

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 47 ff. 108v-10r)

FeO 3

Copy, headed Vpon Ben Johnsons play call'd -- the newe Inne 1629, subscribed Owen Feltham.

A quarto verse miscellany, written in two styles of hand (A: ff. 2r, after first six lines, to 64v; B: ff. 2r, first six lines, 64v-91v, 92v-4r), possibly both in the same hand, with an Index (ff. 93r-4r), 94 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

Including 22 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 13 poems by King, and 24 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and probably associated with Christ Church, Oxford.

c.1633

Inscribed names including (f. 93v, in court hand) ffrancis Baskeruile: i.e. probably the Francis Baskerville who married Margaret Glanvill in 1635 and was in 1640 MP for Marlborough, Wiltshire. Other scribbling including (f. 1r) accounts referring to Wanborough, Wiltshire; (f. 9v) Elizabeth White; (f. 54v) William Walrond his booke 1663; (f. 92r) accounts dated 1658; and (f. 94r) John Wallrond. Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane, Bt (1660-1753), physician and collector.

Recorded in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Baskerville MS: CwT Δ 20, KiH Δ 10, StW Δ 13. Facsimile examples of ff. 55r and 68r in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), Plate 6, after p. 86.

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1446 ff. 56r-7r)

FeO 4

Copy, headed Against Ben: Johnson. p. 154.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single italic hand, 22 leaves, in modern marbled boards.

Inscribed (f. 4r) The following 11 Poems are transcrib'd from a small printed 12^mo voll Cal[led] Parnassus Biceps...1656.

c.1750s

The Folger Shakespeare Library, Miscellaneous manuscripts (MS W.a.118 ff. 9v-10r)

FeO 5

Copy, after a false start, headed vppon B. Johnsonns ode.

A quarto verse miscellany, including ten poems by Thomas Carew, probably in a single accomplished hand (changing to two styles of italic on ff. 42v-4v, 5r-60r, 76r-v), i + 89 leaves (including blanks, stubs of two or three excised leaves, and an index), in contemporary limp vellum.

c.1630s-40s

Later notes and scribbling including the names John Nutting (ff. 26r, 56r) and John M. and John Susan (rear paste-down). The last leaf also containing a list of the titles of 65 poems by Carew together with the number of lines in each poem, this list unrelated to the contents of the rest of the MS.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Nutting MS: CwT Δ 35. The list of poems, probably relating to another MS, is edited, with facsimiles, in Scott Nixon, The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 198-9, 217-19).

St John's College, Cambridge (MS S. 23 (James 416) ff. 59r-60r)

FeO 6

Copy, untitled.

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

c.1630s

Formerly MS G. 2.21.

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

Trinity College, Dublin, numbers 800 through end (MS 877, [Part II] f. 181r)

The Appeal ('Tyrant Cupid! I'le appeale')

First published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, p. 8.

FeO 7

Copy of the three-stanza version, in a musical setting by John Wilson, headed A Dialogue.

This MS collated in Pebworth & Summers.

A large folio volume of songs in musical settings by John Wilson (1595-1674), composer and musician, vi + 214 leaves (plus some blanks), gilt-edged, in contemporary black morocco elaborately gilt, lettered on each cover DR. / I.W, with silver clasps.

Possibly Wilson's formal autograph MS or else in the hand of someone similarly associated with Edward Lowe (c.1610-82).

c.1656

Complete facsimile in Jorgens, Vol. 7 (1987). Discussed in John P. Cutts, Seventeenth Century Lyrics: Oxford, Bodleian, MS. Mus. b. 1, MD, 10 (1956), 142-209.

Bodleian Library, Music MSS (MS Mus. b. 1 f. 80r-v)

FeO 8

Copy.

A folio book of geometrical and mathematical exercises and religious tracts, written from both ends, 20 leaves, in contemporary marbled boards within modern cloth.

Early 18th century

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. D. 737 f. 16v rev.)

FeO 9

Copy of the three-stanza version, untitled.

This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.

A folio composite volume of separate MSS of verse and some prose, in various secretary and italic hands, written over an extended period, with a table of contents (f. 3r-v), 186 leaves.

Comprising papers of the Skipwith family of Cotes, Leicestershire, including 60 poems by John Donne (and one Problem), the text related in part to the Edward Smyth MS (DnJ Δ 45); also 15 poems (and second copies of two) by Henry King; and 19 poems (and two of doubtful authorship) by Carew.

c.1620-50

Including poems ascribed to William Skipwith (? Sir William Skipwith, d.1610, or his grandson, William, or possibly a cousin, William Skipwith, of Ketsby, Lincolnshire, fl.1633); to Sir Henry Skipwith (fl.1609-52); and to Thomas Skipwith, and several poems by Donne's friend Sir Henry Goodyer (1571-1627), to whom a branch of the Skipwith family was related by marriage. Later owned by Robert Sherard (1719-99), fourth Earl of Harborough. Sotheby's, 10 June 1864, lot 605, to Boone.

This MS is the curious folio volume lent to John Nichols (1745-1826) by the late Lord Harborough and cited in Nichols's account of the Skipwith family in his History of Leicestershire, 4 vols (1795-1815), III, part i (1800), 367.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Skipwith MS: DnJ Δ 21; CwT Δ 14; KiH Δ 8. Also described in Mary Hobbs's thesis, pp. 119-29 (see KiH Δ 6). For Sir William Skipwith and his literary connections, see James Knowles, Marston, Skipwith and The Entertainment at Ashby, EMS, 3 (1992), 137-92 (esp. pp. 171-2).

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 25000 through 29999 (Add. MS 25707 f. 23v)

FeO 10

Copy of the three-stanza version, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

This MS collated in Pebworth & Summers.

A folio songbook, in two or more predominantly italic hands, written from both ends, 87 leaves, in remains of contemporary vellum within modern half red morocco.

Possibly compiled in part by one T. C.

c.1641-59

Inscribed (f. 1v) R. Guise [of Abbey] Feb: 12. 1760. Purchased from Thomas Thorpe, bookseller, 17 June 1839.

A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 4 (New York & London, 1986).

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 11608 ff. 67v-8r)

FeO 11

Copy of the three-stanza version, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

This MS collated in Pebworth & Summers.

A folio songbook (First Treble part), in a single hand, written from both ends, viii + 213 pages (paginated 1-191, then 1-22 rev.), lacking pp. 87-8, 115-18, the first two of which are now Birmingham Central Library, Acc. No. 57316, Location No. S747.01, in modern half brown morocco marbled boards.

Compiled entirely by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer.

Mid-late 17th century

Later owned by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author.

Discussed in John P. Cutts, Seventeenth-Century Songs and Lyrics in Edinburgh University Library Music MS. Dc. 1. 69, MD, 13 (1959), 169-94. A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 8 (New York & London, 1987).

Edinburgh University Library (MS Dc. 1. 69 pp. 160-1)

FeO 12

Copy, untitled.

A folio verse miscellany, including 26 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Thomas Carew and poems by Henry King, in several hands, 92 leaves, plus an inserted gathering of eleven leaves after f. 82v (ff. [82a-82k]), but including stubs of some extracted leaves (ff. 74-8, 94-5), in contemporary vellum.

Inscribed To my euer honored good Cosen S^r John Reresby Barronett these p^rsent: i.e. presented to Sir John Reresby, first Baronet (1611-46), royalist, of Thribergh Hall.

c.1630s

Among the muniments of Lord Mexborough, descended from the Savile family formerly of Methley Hall, near Pontefract, West Yorkshire. Formerly MX 237.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Mexborough MS: CwT Δ 29.

Leeds Archives (WYL156/237 f. 10r-v)

FeO 13

Copy, untitled.

A quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary hand, 204 pages, in old calf.

Including ten poems by Carew (and two of doubtful authorship) and 24 poems by Randolph.

c.1630s

Thomas Thorpe, Catalogue of upwards of fourteen hundred manuscripts (1836), item 1030. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9282. Subsequently 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 (Perry sale). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 188.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosenbach MS I: CwT Δ 31 and RnT Δ 10. The complete volume edited in Howard H. Thompson, An Edition of Two Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Poetical Miscellanies (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1959) (Rosenbach Library Mic 59-4669).

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1 through 239 (MS 239/23 p. 165)

The Cause ('Think not, Clarissa, I love thee')

Pebworth & Summers, p. 14.

FeO 14

Copy.

A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands, probably associated with Cambridge University, ii + 78 pages, in contemporary vellum.

c.1625-31

Inscribed (p. i) Ex dono B. R. a^o Jni. i625 [altered to i631] / Broughton / Thomas Gray.

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 16 p. 35)

Condiderations of one design'd for a Nunnery ('Tis to be thought upon')

Pebworth & Summers, pp. 52-4.

FeO 15

Copy.

A folio book of geometrical and mathematical exercises and religious tracts, written from both ends, 20 leaves, in contemporary marbled boards within modern cloth.

Early 18th century

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. D. 737 f. 14 rev.)

Elegie on Henry Earl of Oxford ('When thou didst live and shine, thy Name was then')

First published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, pp. 9-10.

FeO 16

Copy, headed In memoriam Johus comit Oxoniæ.

This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.

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

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

c.1630s-40s

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 47 ff. 73v-4v)

FeO 17

Copy, headed An Elegie of John Earle of Oxford who dyed in the Netherlands, subscribed Owen ffeltham.

This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.

A quarto verse miscellany, largely in a single predominantly secretary hand, with some later additions and annotations, 188 leaves, in quarter-morocco.

Transcribed from British Library Add. MS 25303 and perhaps associated likewise with the Inns of Court. Including 23 poems by Carew and three of doubtful authorship.

c.1620s-30s

Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 13 May 1856 (Pickering sale), lot 258.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Pickering MS: CwT Δ 11.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999 (Add. MS 21433 f. 185r-v)

FeO 18

Copy of lines 22-48, here beginning like lowe Orbes wantinge Primum mobile, subscribed :Owen feltham:, imperfect, lacking a heading and the first 21 lines.

An octavo verse miscellany, chiefly in one predominantly secretary hand, with a series of additions in a second hand, 36 leaves (plus blanks and stubs of extracted leaves), in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1640

Inscribed on a flyleaf (in a different hand) Charles Tyrrell Anno Domini 1643.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 704 f. 34r)

FeO 19

Copy, headed An Epitaph vpon the Earle of Oxforde.

Inscribed To my euer honored good Cosen S^r John Reresby Barronett these p^rsent: i.e. presented to Sir John Reresby, first Baronet (1611-46), royalist, of Thribergh Hall.

c.1630s

Among the muniments of Lord Mexborough, descended from the Savile family formerly of Methley Hall, near Pontefract, West Yorkshire. Formerly MX 237.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Mexborough MS: CwT Δ 29.

Leeds Archives (WYL156/237 f. 37r-v)

An Elegie on the honorable and Excellent Mistress M. Coventry ('I might persuade she were not dead and cry')

First published in Jean Robertson, The Poems of Owen Felltham, MLN, 58 (1943), 388-90. Pebworth & Summers, pp. 77-8, among Manuscript Poems Attributed to Felltham.

FeO 20

Copy, headed An Elegie on y^e ho^ble. & Excellent M^ris M: Coventry. p[er] Owen ffeltham, on a folio leaf.

Edited from this MS in Robertson and in Pebworth & Summers.

A large folio composite volume of verse, in various largely secretary hands, 327 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf.

Collected, and partly written, by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.

Betagraph of the watermark in f. 29 in Ted-Larry Pebworth, Towards a Taxonomy of Watermarks, in Puzzles in Paper: Concepts in Historical Watermarks, ed. Daniel W. Mosser, Michael Saffle and Ernest W. Sullivan, II (London, 2000), pp. 229-42 (p. 239).

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 36/37 f. 172r-v)

Epitaph on Sir John Done, Kt. ('Here (by the world's ill custom) lies asleep')

First published in Pebworth & Summers (1973), p. 76, among Manuscript Poems Attributed to Felltham.

FeO 21

Copy, headed Epitaph on S^r John Done K^t. and subscribed ow: ffeltham.

Edited from this MS in Pebworth & Summers.

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

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

c.1630s-40s

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 47 f. 83v)

An Epitaph To the Eternal Memory of Charles the First, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, &c. Inhumanely murthered by a perfidious Party of His prevalent Subjects, Jan. 30. 1648 ('When He had shewn the world, that He was King')

First published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, pp. 65-6.

FeO 22

Copy, in double columns.

This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.

A folio book of geometrical and mathematical exercises and religious tracts, written from both ends, 20 leaves, in contemporary marbled boards within modern cloth.

Early 18th century

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. D. 737 f. 16v rev.)

A Farewell ('When by sad fate from hence I summon'd am')

First published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, p. 18.

FeO 23

Copy, untitled.

This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.

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

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

c.1630s-40s

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

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

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 50 f. 75v)

FeO 24

Copy, untitled and here beginning When by sad fate from thee I summon'd am.

This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.

A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands, probably associated with Cambridge University, ii + 78 pages, in contemporary vellum.

c.1625-31

Inscribed (p. i) Ex dono B. R. a^o Jni. i625 [altered to i631] / Broughton / Thomas Gray.

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 16 p. 18)

FeO 25

Copy, in Wilson's setting, untitled.

This MS collated in Pebworth & Summers.

Possibly Wilson's formal autograph MS or else in the hand of someone similarly associated with Edward Lowe (c.1610-82).

c.1656

Complete facsimile in Jorgens, Vol. 7 (1987). Discussed in John P. Cutts, Seventeenth Century Lyrics: Oxford, Bodleian, MS. Mus. b. 1, MD, 10 (1956), 142-209.

Bodleian Library, Music MSS (MS Mus. b. 1 ff. 70v-1r)

FeO 26

Copy, headed On a Lovers absence.

This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.

A small quarto verse miscellany, apparently a presentation MS, 133 pages (including blanks), plus index, in half-calf.

Including twenty poems by Randolph, plus ten of doubtful authorship (some here ascribed to T.R.), in two hands (A: pp. 3-99; B: pp. 1, 99-129), with some scribbling and one heading in other hands on pp. 3, 98 and 133; a poem on p. 1 (beginning Loe here a sett of paper=pilgrimes sent) dedicatingthe collection [To y^e] Incomparably vertuous Lady the Lady Harflette: i.e. Afra (d.1664), wife of Sir Christopher Harflete of Canterbury.

c.1640

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

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Harflete MS: RnT Δ 2.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Firth e. 4 p. 117)

FeO 27

Copy, untitled.

This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.

A folio composite volume of separate MSS of verse and some prose, in various secretary and italic hands, written over an extended period, with a table of contents (f. 3r-v), 186 leaves.

c.1620-50

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 25000 through 29999 (Add. MS 25707 f. 110v)

FeO 28

Copy, headed On a Lovers absence.

This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.

An octavo miscellany of verse, academic exercises and other material, in English and Latin, almost entirely in a single hand, 134 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

Inscribed by the compiler (f. 133v) Anthony Scattergood His booke: i.e. Anthony Scattergood (1611-87), theologian, of Trinity College, Cambridge. Volume XXXII of the Scattergood papers.

c.1632-40

Also inscribed (f. 130v) Elisabeth Scattergood her Booke 1667/8. Booklabel of Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 40000 through 44999 (Add. MS 44963 f. 13r)

FeO 29

Copy.

A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, predominantly in a single secretary hand, written from both ends, 179 leaves, in 19th-century half blue morocco gilt.

c.1640s

Inscribed (f. 179r) This is S^r. Thomas Meres [or ? Maiors] Book: i.e. probably Sir Thomas Meres (1634-1715), of Kirton, Lincolnshire. Later bookplate of the Rev. John Curtis. Purchased from Mrs Ann Austin Curtis 12 October 1889.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2725 f. 69r)

FeO 30

Copy, headed Vpon Absence.

A quarto verse miscellany, in a Scottish secretary hand, paginated 5-132, bound with a later verse MS on 98 pages, in brown calf.

c.1630s-40s

Bookplate of John Pinkerton (1758-1826), historian and poet. Sotheby's, April 1812 (Pinkerton sale), lot 593, to Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, 1836 (Heber sale, Part XI), lot 1104, to Thomas Thorpe. His catalogue, 1836, bought by Laing.

Edinburgh University Library, Laing Collection (MS La. III. 436 p. 78)

FeO 31

Copy, untitled.

A folio verse miscellany, in a single probably professional rounded hand (except for a poem on f. 81r and later scribbling); ii + 81 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

Including 16 poems by or attributed to Herrick and 24 poems by Randolph (plus two of doubtful authorship). This MS related to HeR Δ 2 and to RnT Δ 1.

c. late 1630s

Inscriptions including (on a flyleaf) Anthony S^t John/ Ann: S^t John/ 1640 Bletso: i.e. Anthony St John (1618-73), of Christ's College, Cambridge, fourth son of Oliver, fourth Baron St John and first Earl of Bolingbroke (c.1584-1646), of Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, and Anthony's wife, Ann Kensham (married 1639); (flyleaf) Oliver Beeesfor[d]; and (f. 81v) John Watts. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 13187. Sotheby's, 6 June 1910, lot 672, to Quaritch. Item 1415 in an unidentified sale.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the St John MS: HeR Δ 4 and RnT Δ 8. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 72).

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 626 f. 4r-v)

FeO 32

Copy, in Constance Fowler's hand, subscribed H A [i.e. Herbert Aston].

Aldrich-Watson, p. 147.

A quarto miscellany of recusant verse, many of the 65 poems relating to the circle of the Catholic Aston family, in three hands, 200 leaves (including five preliminary blanks, and ff. 53r-135v are blank), in contemporary leather gilt.

Compiled principally by Constance Fowler (d.1664), daughter of the diplomat Walter Aston, Baron Aston of Forfar (1584-1639), of Tixall and Colton, Staffordshire, her roman hand responsible for ff. 6r, 8r-15v, 24v-34v, 46v-52v, 136r-9r, 143v-59r, and 182v-95v. The second, predominantly secretary hand, responsible for fourteen poems on ff. 7r-v, 16r-24r, and 35r-46r, is that of Constance's sister Gertrude Thimelby (1617-68). The third hand, on ff. 196r-200v, is that of Constance's brother-in-law Sir William Pershall.

c.1635-50s

William H. Robinson, sale catalogue (1925), item 472.

This volume discussed, with a complete first-line index and a facsimile of f. 25r, in Jenijoy La Belle, The Huntington Aston Manuscript, The Book Collector, 29 (Winter 1980), 542-67. See also Jenijoy La Belle, A True Love's Knot: The Letters of Constance Fowler and the Poems of Herbert Aston, JEGP, 79 (1980), 13-31. The complete volume edited in The Verse Miscellany of Constance Aston Fowler: A Diplomatic Edition, ed. Deborah Aldrich-Watson (Tempe, Arizona, 2000), with a facsimile of f. 28v on p. lxiv.

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 904 f. 188v)

FeO 33

Copy, headed On Absence and here beginning When by sad fate from thee I summon'd am.

A folio verse miscellany, comprising 162 poems in English, in a single hand, 273 pages, in brown morocco gilt.

c.late 1640s

Formerly (before 1686) in the Palatine Library at Heidelberg. Possibly acquired by Charles Louis (1617-80), Elector Palatine, while at the English court of his uncle, Charles I, from 1635 to 1649.

This volume discovered, and announced in the TLS, 23 July 2010, pp. 14-15, by June Schlueter and Paul Schlueter.

Landesbibliothek und Murhardsche Bibliothek der Stadt Kassel (2^o Ms. poet. et roman. 4 p. 11)

FeO 34

Copy, headed Departing from My M^ris.

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. 17)

FeO 35

Copy, untitled.

A quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary hand, 204 pages, in old calf.

Including ten poems by Carew (and two of doubtful authorship) and 24 poems by Randolph.

c.1630s

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1 through 239 (MS 239/23 p. 45)

On a Hopeful Youth ('Stay Passenger, and lend a tear')

First published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, p. 25.

FeO 36

Copy, in double columns.

A folio book of geometrical and mathematical exercises and religious tracts, written from both ends, 20 leaves, in contemporary marbled boards within modern cloth.

Early 18th century

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. D. 737 f. 17r rev.)

On a Jewel given at parting ('When cruel time enforced me')

A sixteen-line version first published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, p. 11.

FeO 37

Copy, untitled.

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

c.1630s-40s

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 50 f. 82r-v)

FeO 38

Copy of the song, the First Part (lines 1-16), followed by a Second Part (15 lines beginning Why by such a brittle Stone), both parts, in Wilson's musical setting, untitled.

This MS discussed, and the Second Part attributed to Felltham, in John P. Cutts, Seventeenth-Century Lyrics: Oxford, Bodleian, Ms. Mus. b. 1, Musica Disciplina, 10 (1956), 173-4. The MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.

Possibly Wilson's formal autograph MS or else in the hand of someone similarly associated with Edward Lowe (c.1610-82).

c.1656

Complete facsimile in Jorgens, Vol. 7 (1987). Discussed in John P. Cutts, Seventeenth Century Lyrics: Oxford, Bodleian, MS. Mus. b. 1, MD, 10 (1956), 142-209.

Bodleian Library, Music MSS (MS Mus. b. 1 ff. 68v-70r)

FeO 39

Copy, in double columns.

A folio book of geometrical and mathematical exercises and religious tracts, written from both ends, 20 leaves, in contemporary marbled boards within modern cloth.

Early 18th century

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. D. 737 f. 17r rev.)

FeO 40

Copy of both parts of the song, in a setting by John Wilson.

This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.

A folio songbook, in two or more predominantly italic hands, written from both ends, 87 leaves, in remains of contemporary vellum within modern half red morocco.

Possibly compiled in part by one T. C.

c.1641-59

Inscribed (f. 1v) R. Guise [of Abbey] Feb: 12. 1760. Purchased from Thomas Thorpe, bookseller, 17 June 1839.

A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 4 (New York & London, 1986).

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 11608 ff. 21v-3r)

FeO 41

Copy of both parts of the song, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.

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 ff. 94v-5r)

FeO 42

Copy, untitled.

A quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary hand, 204 pages, in old calf.

Including ten poems by Carew (and two of doubtful authorship) and 24 poems by Randolph.

c.1630s

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1 through 239 (MS 239/23 pp. 74-5)

On his beloved friend the Author, and his ingenious Poems ('What need these busy wits? who hath a Mine')

FeO 43

A six-line extract, No. 5 in a series of 45 extracts (on ff. 25v-9r) Out of the poems written vpon Thom: Rand:.

A quarto miscellany of verse extracts, in a single italic hand (but for additions on f. 35r-v), foliated 14-52, in contemporary vellum.

Mid-17th century

Inscribed inside the front cover F. C. Wellstood / Oxford. Inscribed (f. 35r) W. C. 1789.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 200 through 299 (MS V.a.219 f. 25v)

On the Duke of Buckingham slain by Felton, the 23. Aug. 1628 ('Sooner I may some fixed Statue be')

First published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, pp. 6-7.

FeO 44

Copy, headed On the Murder of the Ducke of Buck 1628.

Edited from this MS in Poems and Songs relating to George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham; and his Assassination by John Felton, August 23, 1628, ed. Frederick W. Fairholt (Percy Society, London, 1850), pp. 54-5. The MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.

A large folio composite verse miscellany, chiefly folio, partly quarto, 243 pages, in contemporary calf.

c.1638

Afterwards owned by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Burghe MS: CwT Δ 1.

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 38 p. 20)

FeO 45

Copy, headed In Buckinghamiæ Ducem. vltimo Aug: 1628 and subscribed per Owen Feltham.

This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers. Edited from this MS in the online Early Stuart Libels.

An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in a secretary hand, vi + 221 pages, in 18th-century diced calf gilt.

c.1630s

Inscribed (f. iii^r) by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector, Bought at the sale of M^r. [Jonathan] Boucher's Library in April 1806, for £2. 12. 6. E Malone.

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 23 pp. 132-3)

FeO 46

Copy.

This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.

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. 17v-18r)

FeO 47

Copy.

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

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

c.late 1630s

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

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

Corpus Christi College, Oxford (MS 328 f. 51v)

FeO 48

Copy, headed Verses made upon the death of the Ducke of Buckingham.

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

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

c.1630s

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

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 100 through 199 (MS V.a.125 Part II, ff. 1r-2v)

FeO 49

Copy, headed On the Duke of Buckinggame.

Inscribed To my euer honored good Cosen S^r John Reresby Barronett these p^rsent: i.e. presented to Sir John Reresby, first Baronet (1611-46), royalist, of Thribergh Hall.

c.1630s

Among the muniments of Lord Mexborough, descended from the Savile family formerly of Methley Hall, near Pontefract, West Yorkshire. Formerly MX 237.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Mexborough MS: CwT Δ 29.

Leeds Archives (WYL156/237 ff. 82v-3r)

FeO 50

Copy, headed In compassion of the Duke, among other poems on Buckingham.

A folio volume chiefly comprising a journal of parliamentary speeches and proceedings in 1627-8, 187 pages (plus blank pages 288-656), in contemporary vellum.

Mid-late 17th century

Dr Williams's Library (MS Morrice E pp. 177-8)

Song ('Away, away, vex me no more')

First published in Norman Ault (ed.), Seventeenth Century Lyrics from the Original Texts (London, 1928), p. 291. Pebworth & Summers (1973), p. 79, among Manuscript Poems Attributed to Felltham. Attributed to Felltham in John P. Cutts, Seventeenth-Century Lyrics: Oxford, Bodleian, Ms. Mus. b. 1, Musica Disciplina, 10 (1956), 174.

FeO 51

Copy in Wilson's setting, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Ault, in Cutts, and in Pebworth & Summers.

Possibly Wilson's formal autograph MS or else in the hand of someone similarly associated with Edward Lowe (c.1610-82).

c.1656

Complete facsimile in Jorgens, Vol. 7 (1987). Discussed in John P. Cutts, Seventeenth Century Lyrics: Oxford, Bodleian, MS. Mus. b. 1, MD, 10 (1956), 142-209.

Bodleian Library, Music MSS (MS Mus. b. 1 ff. 71v-2r)

Song ('Now (as I live) I love thee much')

First published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, pp. 50-1.

FeO 52

Copy, in double columns.

A folio book of geometrical and mathematical exercises and religious tracts, written from both ends, 20 leaves, in contemporary marbled boards within modern cloth.

Early 18th century

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. D. 737 f. 17r rev.)

The Spring in the Rock ('Harsh Maid! suppose not this clear Spring')

First published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, p. 23.

FeO 53

Copy in Wilson's setting, untitled.

This MS collated in Pebworth & Summers.

Possibly Wilson's formal autograph MS or else in the hand of someone similarly associated with Edward Lowe (c.1610-82).

c.1656

Complete facsimile in Jorgens, Vol. 7 (1987). Discussed in John P. Cutts, Seventeenth Century Lyrics: Oxford, Bodleian, MS. Mus. b. 1, MD, 10 (1956), 142-209.

Bodleian Library, Music MSS (MS Mus. b. 1 ff. 72v-3r)

FeO 54

Copy, headed To his cruell Mistrisse; on a Spring rising in the midst of a Rock:, subscribed M^r Reynalds:.

This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.

A quarto verse miscellany, including 33 poems by Thomas Carew and sixteen by Henry King, in a single small hand, with (ff. 1r-2v) an alphabetical Index, 105 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt.

Compiled by Peter Calfe (1610-67), son of a Dutch merchant in London.

c.1641-9

Later owned by John, Baron Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor, and afterwards by Edward Harley (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford.

Cited in IELM II.i-ii (1987-93), together with British Library, Harley MS 6918 with which it was once bound, as the Calfe MS: CwT Δ 18; KiH Δ 9; RnT Δ 4. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis, pp 129-35, 444-5 (see KiH Δ 6).

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6917 f. 73v)

FeO 55

Copy, headed To his Cruell M^rs. On a springe riseinge in the midst of a Rocke.

This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.

Including 22 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 13 poems by King, and 24 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and probably associated with Christ Church, Oxford.

c.1633

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1446 f. 20r-v)

The Sun and Wind ('Why think'st thou (fool) thy Beauties rayes')

First published, in a musical setting by John Wilson, in his Cheerfull Ayres or Ballads (Oxford, 1660), pp. 96-7. Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, p. 5.

FeO 56

Copy.

A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands, probably associated with Cambridge University, ii + 78 pages, in contemporary vellum.

c.1625-31

Inscribed (p. i) Ex dono B. R. a^o Jni. i625 [altered to i631] / Broughton / Thomas Gray.

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 16 p. 34)

FeO 57

Copy, in Wilson's musical setting, untitled.

This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.

Possibly Wilson's formal autograph MS or else in the hand of someone similarly associated with Edward Lowe (c.1610-82).

c.1656

Complete facsimile in Jorgens, Vol. 7 (1987). Discussed in John P. Cutts, Seventeenth Century Lyrics: Oxford, Bodleian, MS. Mus. b. 1, MD, 10 (1956), 142-209.

Bodleian Library, Music MSS (MS Mus. b. 1 ff. 104v-5r)

FeO 58

Copy, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.

Compiled entirely by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer.

Mid-late 17th century

Later owned by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author.

Edinburgh University Library (MS Dc. 1. 69 pp. 130-1)

This ensuing Copy the late Printer hath been pleased to honour, by mistaking it among those of the most ingenious and too early lost, Sir John Suckling ('When, dearest, I but think on thee')

Fitst published in The Last Remains of S^r John Suckling (London, 1659), pp. 32-3. Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, pp. 48-9.

FeO 59

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

c.1630s-40s

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 50 f. 75v)

FeO 60

Copy, docketed This Copy y^e late Printer hath been pleased to mistake for one of Sir John Suckling.

A folio book of geometrical and mathematical exercises and religious tracts, written from both ends, 20 leaves, in contemporary marbled boards within modern cloth.

Early 18th century

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. D. 737 f. 16v rev.)

FeO 61

Copy, untitled, here beginning When deare I doe but thinke on thee.

This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.

A folio composite volume of separate MSS of verse and some prose, in various secretary and italic hands, written over an extended period, with a table of contents (f. 3r-v), 186 leaves.

c.1620-50

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 25000 through 29999 (Add. MS 25707 f. 103v)

FeO 62

Copy, headed To his mistrisse.

This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.

A quarto verse miscellany, in three hands, including eight poems by Randolph (one twice), 102 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt.

Fols 1r-93v, 95r-100v in the hand of Peter Calfe (1610-67), son of a Dutch merchant in London (whose name is inscribed on a flyleaf: f. 1*); f. 94r-v in an unidentified hand, and ff. 101v-2r in that of Peter Calfe's son, Peter Calfe the Younger (d.1693).

c.1650-9

Later owned by John, Baron Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor, and afterwards by Edward Harley (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford. Inscribed (f. 1r) Janu. 6. 1738/9.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), together with British Library, Harley MS 6917 with which it was once bound, as the Calfe MS: CwT Δ 18; KiH Δ 9; RnT Δ 4.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6918 f. 17r)

FeO 63

Copy, headed To his loue, here beginning When (deare) I doe but thinke on thie, subscribed John Done.

An oblong quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat hand, written with the volume tilted with the spine to the top, 167 pages (plus blanks), in elaborately tooled green morocco gilt.

Including ten poems by Carew and twelve poems by Strode (and two poems of doubtful authorship).

c.1634

The initials M W stamped on each cover: i.e. M[aidstone] and W[inchilsea]. Evidently compiled by or for Sir Thomas Finch, Viscount Maidstone and Earl of Winchilsea (who succeeded to the peerage in 1633 and died in 1634). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 190.

The MS came to Rosenbach with a printed exemplum of William Wishcart, An Exposition of the Lord's Prayer (London, 1633), and the two clearly share the same provenance. The printed volume is similarly bound, with the initials M W; it is inscribed Lord Winchilsea for M^r Locker 1634; it bears the late 17th-century signatures of Stephen Locker and Alexander Campbell, and the bookplates of Captain William Locker (1731-1800) and Edward Hawke Locker (1777-1849).

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Winchelsea MS: CwT Δ 33 and StW Δ 25.

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 240 through 999 (MS 243/4 p. 145)

FeO 64

Copy, untitled.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, in several hands, showing communal use, 161 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary calf.

Late 17th century

Formerly Chest II, No. 21.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 213 p. 105)

FeO 65

Copy, ascribed to T. R.

A small quarto verse miscellany, apparently a presentation MS, 133 pages (including blanks), plus index, in half-calf.

c.1640

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

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Harflete MS: RnT Δ 2.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Firth e. 4 p. 69)

To the Lady D.S. ('Madam, / I would but praise, not flatter: yet')

First published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, pp. 4-5.

FeO 66

Copy, headed To his M^rs, ascribed to T. R..

This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.

A small quarto verse miscellany, apparently a presentation MS, 133 pages (including blanks), plus index, in half-calf.

c.1640

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

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Harflete MS: RnT Δ 2.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Firth e. 4 pp. 69-71)

To this written by a Gentleman, the Answer underneath was given...His Answer ('Yet trust him that a sad tale tells')

First published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, p. 46.

FeO 67

Copy, following the poem By a Gentlewoman (Believe not him...) to which it is His Answer, in double columns.

A folio book of geometrical and mathematical exercises and religious tracts, written from both ends, 20 leaves, in contemporary marbled boards within modern cloth.

Early 18th century

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. D. 737 f. 17r rev.)

True Happiness ('Long have I sought the wish of all')

First published, in a six-stanza version headed Vpon the Vanitie of the World, in Edward Benlowes, Theophila, Or Loves Sacrifice. A Divine Poem (London, 1652), p. 175. The twelve-stanza version in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, pp. 1-3.

FeO 68

Copy of stanzas 1-4, 7-12, headed A Description of true happynesse.

This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.

A quarto verse miscellany entitled A Collection of Verses Fancyes and Poems, Morrall and Devine, in a single hand, i + 180 leaves, (including index), in contemporary calf.

Including 15 poems (and a second copy of one poem) by Cowley and 15 poems by Katherine Philips transcribed from a edited source.

Early 18th century

Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as Rawlinson MS II: PsK Δ 7.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 50 through 99 (MS Rawl. poet. 90 ff. 32v-3r)

Upon a breach of Promise. Song ('I am confirm'd in my belief')

First published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, p. 45.

FeO 69

Copy in Wilson's setting, untitled.

This MS collated in Pembroke & Summers.

Possibly Wilson's formal autograph MS or else in the hand of someone similarly associated with Edward Lowe (c.1610-82).

c.1656

Complete facsimile in Jorgens, Vol. 7 (1987). Discussed in John P. Cutts, Seventeenth Century Lyrics: Oxford, Bodleian, MS. Mus. b. 1, MD, 10 (1956), 142-209.

Bodleian Library, Music MSS (MS Mus. b. 1 f. 145r)

FeO 70

Copy, in double columns.

A folio book of geometrical and mathematical exercises and religious tracts, written from both ends, 20 leaves, in contemporary marbled boards within modern cloth.

Early 18th century

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. D. 737 f. 17r rev.)

Prose

A Brief Character of the Low-Countries

First published as Three Monethes observation of the low Countries especially Holland by a traveller whose name I know not more then by the two letters of J:S: at the bottome of the letter. Egipt this 22th of Jannuary (London, 1648). Expanded text printed as A brief Character of the Low-Countries under the States. Being three weeks observation of the Vices and Vertues of the Inhabitants... (for Henry Seile: London, 1652).

FeO 71

Copy, based on the edition of 1652 with additions, written as part of Fraser's description of Holland, where he travelled in 1659.

This MS discussed in Van Strien.

A MS travel journal.

The Triennial Travels of James Fraser (1634-1709), minister of Wardlaw, near Inverness.

Mid-late 17th century

Probably owned (before 1905) by Miss H.M. Paterson, of Birkwood, Banchory, a descendant of Fraser.

Aberdeen University Library (MS 2538 Vol. III, ff. 106r-26r)

FeO 72 c.1620s-30s

Copy, in a non-professional secretary hand, headed Three monthes obseruation of the Low Contryes especiallie Holland, lacking a dedicatory epistle.

This MS discussed in Van Strien.

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous tracts and papers, in various hands, 222 leaves, in 18th-century half-calf.

Entitled (on an oblong octavo vellum strip attached to f. ii^r)Collection of Papers relating to Foreign Kingdoms.

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

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. D. 867 ff. 185r-188b)

FeO 73 c.1620s

Copy, in a probably professional secretary hand, headed Obseruations of the Lowe Countries especially Holland, with the dedicatory epistle by J.S..

This MS discussed in Van Strien, with a facsimile of f. 8v on p. 156.

A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous tracts, an academic play and other papers, in various hands, 401 leaves, in 18th-century half-calf.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. D. 1361 ff. 1r-11r)

FeO 74 Mid-17th century

Copy in the hand of William Sancroft, headed Owen Felltham's Three weekes observations of the Low Countries / states-country; especially Holland. transcribed long before it was printed.

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers, in various hands, 254 leaves, in contemporary calf.

Compiled in part by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury.

Bodleian Library, Tanner Collection (MS Tanner 88 ff. 15r-17r)

FeO 75

Copy, headed Three Moneths Obseruation of the Lowe Countries especially Holland, docketed No. 35.

This MS discussed in Van Strien.

A folio volume of tracts and letters, in a single professional secretary hand, 22 leaves, in modern calf gilt.

Owned until 10 May 1851 by the Fielding family, Earls of Denbigh and Desmond, of Newnham Paddex, Warwickshire. Possibly the MS containing Felltham's Observations owned by the Denbigh family and recorded by Edward Bernard in Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ [ed. Humphrey Wanley] (Oxford, 1697).

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 18000 through 19999 (Add. MS 18648 ff. 1r-8v)

FeO 76

Copy, headed Three Monthes Obseruations of y^e lowe countryes especialy Holland.

A square-shaped folio volume of antiquarian and state tracts, with a table of contents (ff. 374r-7v) and occasional engraved borders by John Sudbury and George Humble, 377 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

In a single calligraphic hand, employing various scripts, a scribe identified or associated with one Henry Feilde.

c.1640s

Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 21 August 1858 (Bliss sale), lot 140.

This MS discussed in Van Strien.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999 (Add. MS 22591 ff. 320r-3v)

FeO 77 c.1630s

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed Observations of Holland, numbered 2, imperfect, lacking one leaf.

Inscribed in another hand as given by The Rev.^rd M^r. Jo: Hall's (d.1707, prebendary of St Paul's) as a gift to Ra: Thoresby (1658-1725, Yorkshire antiquary and Topographer).

This MS discussed in Van Strien.

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous tracts and papers, in various hands, 142 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 4101 through 4999 (Add. MS 4214 ff. 95r-105r)

FeO 78

Copy of the beginning only, in a predominantly secretary hand, headed Three months observacions of the Lowe Countrys especially Holland, on both sides of a single quarto leaf, imperfect, lacking the rest. Mid-17th century.

This MS discussed in Van Strien.

A large folio composite volume of miscellaneous tracts and papers, principally relating to Mary Queen of Scots and William Davison, in various hands, 283 leaves, in modern morocco gilt.

Owned, and annotated, by Sir Simonds D'Ewes, Bt (1602-50), diarist and antiquary.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 1 through 999 (Harley MS 290 f. 273r-v)

FeO 79

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed Touching the Lowe Countries. c.1630s.

This MS discussed in Van Strien.

A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various hands, 122 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

In various professional hands, including that of the Feathery Scribe.

Inscribed by Wanley (f. 1r and elsewhere) with date of accession into the Harley library 16 October 1725. In the Harley Library, formed by the politician and book collector Robert Harley (1661-1724), first Earl of Oxford, and his son Edward (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford; the volume docketed 16 October 1725, a year after the library was moved from Brampton Bryan to London.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 244-5 (No. 59).

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 5000 through 5999 (Harley MS 5111 ff. 1r-13r)

FeO 80 c.1630s-40s

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed Three weekes obseruation of the states Countryes specially Holland, on 30 quarto leaves.

This MS discussed in Van Strien.

A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous tracts and papers, in various hands, 243 leaves, in modern calf gilt.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6824 ff. 195r-224v)

FeO 81

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed Three weekess observation of the States Countries Especially Holland. Mid-17th century.

This MS discussed in Van Strien.

A quarto composite volume of state tracts and speeches, in various professional hands, 295 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco gilt.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6893 ff. 63r-90r)

FeO 82

Copy, in a mixed hand, headed Three monthes observation of y^e States Countrey Especially Holland. Mid-17th century.

This MS discussed in Van Strien.

A quarto composite volume of state tracts and speeches, in various professional hands, 295 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco gilt.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6893 ff. 91r-5v)

FeO 83

Copy, with a title-page A Breife Description of the Low Countryes especially Holland Obseru'd in a three Moneths abode in those Parts And dedicated to a very Noble Person. Written by J.S., the dedication to B.B. subscribed I.S. Roterdam.

This MS discussed in Van Strien, with a facsimile of f. 83r on p. 152.

A folio volume of state tracts and papers, dating up to 1663, in a single semi-calligraphic hand, except for ff. 224r-95r in two other professional hands, 445 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco gilt.

The principal scribe associated with Henry Feilde.

c.1660s

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 213 ff. 81r-9r)

FeO 84 c.1630s

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed Three weekes Obseruacons of the States Countries especially Holland.

This MS recorded in Van Strien.

A folio composite volume of political, legal and antiquarian tracts, 500 leaves.

In various professional hands, including that of the Feathery Scribe.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 245 (No. 62).

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 254 ff. 164r-70r)

FeO 85

Copy, headed 3 moneths obseruations of y^e low Countryes especially Holland.

This MS discussed in Van Strien.

A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous tracts, poems and other papers, in various hands, 329 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

Fols 1r-82r comprise a separate collection of verse and some prose, possibly in a single predominantly secretary hand with some variants of style, the first leaf (f. 1) inscribed in another hand Poems by W^m: Browne of the Inner-Temple Gent &^c / 1650, this possibly applying to the poems up to f. 62v, which is subscribed ffinis W Browne.

This volume comprising Parts 1-3, 5, 8-13, of what was formerly a single composite volume but is now bound in three volumes.

c.1637-50

Inscribed (f. 280v) Philip Butler his book.

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 777 ff. 74r-82r)

FeO 86

Copy of the first half of the work, incomplete, originally paginated 1-12.

This MS discussed in Van Strien.

A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous tracts and papers, in various hands, 219 leaves.

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1818 ff. 171r-6v)

FeO 87

This MS discussed in Van Strien.

An octavo composite volume comprising two works, in the same hand, 32 leaves originally paginated 95-126.

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 3213 ff. 11r-32v)

FeO 88

Copy.

This MS discussed in Van Strien.

A folio volume of state letters and tracts, dating up to 1628, in three professional hands, one that of the Feathery Scribe, 214 leaves.

c.1630

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 247-8 (No. 72).

The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 151 ff. 101r-12v)

FeO 89

Copy, headed Thre Moneths obseruacons of y^e [Low] Countries especially Holland, in a cursive secretary hand, on nine leaves, imperfect, gnawed at the top outer corner by rodents.

This MS discussed in Van Strien.

4°, composite volume of MSS in several hands, including (items 4, 9, 10, 16, 17, 21, 24) eight sermons by Donne in six hands; used by members of the Egerton family, Earls of Bridgewater. The Ellesmere MS. in contemporary calf.

c.1620-30s

Bridgewater Library. Sold at Sotheby's, 19 March 1951, lot 174. Owned in 1957 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes.

Described in Geoffrey Keynes, John Donne's Sermons, TLS (28 May 1954), p. 351, and in Potter & Simpson, II, 365-71. Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 1862.

Cambridge University Library, Additional MSS 7000 through end (MS Add. 8469 Item 6)

FeO 90

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed Observations on the States contryes especially Holland / 1621, subscribed with the autograph signature HarGrimston [i.e. Sir Harbottle Grimston, second Baronet (1603-85), lawyer and parliamentarian], 23 small quarto leaves (plus numerous blanks), in limp vellum with ties, later inscribed on the cover Observations on y^e States of Holland by H: G:.

c.1625-30

Among papers of the Grimston family, Earls of Verulam, of Gorhambury, Hertfordshire.

This MS discussed in Van Strien, with a facsimile of f. [16r] on p. 136.

Hertfordshire Record Office (IX A 6)

FeO 91

Copy, in a professional predominantly secretary hand, with corrections, headed Three weekes Obseruations of the states cuntryes, especially Holland, subscribed with the autograph signature Harb Grimeston [i.e. Sir Harbottle Grimston, first Baronet (d.1648)], on i + eight small quarto leaves, in a vellum wrapper (a recycled indenture).

c.1625-9

Edited from this MS in HMC, Verulam (1906), pp. 221-9. Discussed in Van Strien, with a facsimile of f. [5v] on p. 150.

Hertfordshire Record Office (IX A 6a)

FeO 92

Copy, in a professional secretary hand.

Headed Three monethes observation of the Lowe Countries especially Holland, numbered 5 in the hand of the Earl of Bridgewater, twelve folio leaves (plus one blank), disbound.

Edited from this MS by Albert Peel in Transactions of the Congregational Historical Society, 15 (1947), pp. 135-44. Discussed in Van Strien, with a facsimile of f. 3r on p. 138.

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks A through E (EL 1181)

FeO 93

Copy, in the professional secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe, with a title-page Three weekes Observation of the States Country, and especiallye Holland, inscribed in another hand This was written by m^r. Jo: Selden to M^r Farnaby the Eminent schoolma^r, 24 folio leaves, numbered 2., disbound.

c.1625-30s

Apparently owned in 1922 by E. Williams, of Hove, Sussex.

This MS discussed in Van Kies, with a facsimile of f. 2r on p. 146. Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 260 (No. 103).

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 1420)

FeO 94 c.1630s

Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand, with copious corrections and additions, headed (after the introductory letter) Three Moneths, Observations of the Low Countreys, Especially Holland, on six folio leaves.

This MS discussed in Van Strien, with a facsimile of f. 82r on p. 143.

A folio composite volume of state papers relating to Holland in 1621, in various hands, 219 leaves, in modern cloth.

National Archives, Kew (SP 84/99 ff. 82r-7r)

FeO 95 c.1630s-40s

Copy, in a professional mixed hand, headed Three weekes observation of States Countries Especiallie Holland.

This MS discussed in Van Strien.

A folio composite volume, comprising two tracts in different hands, 28 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

Bookplate of the Carr (or Ker) family, Marquesses of Lothian.

National Library of Scotland, other MSS (MS 5740 ff. 3r-14r)

FeO 96

Copy, in a probably professional cursive secretary hand, headed Three monethes observacon of the Lowe Countries especyallye Holland, on fifteen pages of eight folio leaves, unbound.

c.1630s-40s

This MS discussed in Van Strien, with a facsimile of f. 6v on p. 155.

Northamptonshire Record Office (IL 3478)

FeO 97

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed (after the preliminary letter) Three moneths Observations of y^e Lowe Countryes, especially Holland.

This MS discussed in Van Strien.

An octavo miscellany of Latin orations and other works, in several secretary and italic hands, 111 pages, in old brown calf stamped in gilt 1619.

Signed (p. 12 and elsewhere) by Mildmay Fane (1602-66), second Earl of Westmorland, politician and writer.

c.1618-32

Northamptonshire Record Office (W(A) Misc Vol 26 pp. 92-109)

FeO 98

Copy.

This MS discussed in Van Strien.

Two folio composite volumes of state tracts and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, in 19th-century half-vellum marbled boards gilt.

Mostyn MS 177: from the library of the Mostyn family, of Mostyn Hall, Flintshire, and Gloddaeth, Denbighshire, whose notable book and manuscript collectors included Sir Thomas Mostyn (1651-1700?) and his grandson Sir Thomas Mostyn, fourth Baronet (1704-58).

Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 355.

University of Kansas (MS E205 Vol. I, ff. 33r-43r)

FeO 99

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed Three weekes Observation of the states countries especially Holland, on 62 quarto pages, unbound.

c.1630s

Sold by Dobell in 1952.

This MS discussed in Van Strien.

Yale, Osborn MS b 1 through Osborn MS b 49 (Osborn MS b 13)

FeO 100

Copy.

A quarto composite volume of state tracts, in several professional hands, 118 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary calf with clasps.

c.1630s

Grosvenor MS 36. Eaton Hall bookplate Case XXI no. 25.

Sotheby's, 20 February 1967, lot 266. Hofmann and Freeman's sale catalogue, 21 January 1968, item 1, vol. II.

Yale, Osborn MS b 50 through Osborn MS b 99 (Osborn MS b 50 ff. 1r-14v)

Resolves

FeO 101

Extracts, inscribed Feltham's Resolves.

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 ff. 34r-5v)

FeO 102

Various extracts.

A duodecimo commonplace book of largely devotional verse and prose, in a single rounded hand, in black and red ink, i + 88 leaves, in contemporary brown calf gilt.

Compiled by Henry Sturmy, who in November 1686 was bound apprentice to the London bookseller Richard Hunt.

c.1696

Inscribed (inside front cover) Susanna Hayward her Booke.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 63075 passim)

FeO 103

Various extracts.

A duodecimo commonplace book of largely devotional verse and prose, mainly in a single rounded hand, in black and red ink, i + 137 leaves, in contemporary black morocco gilt.

Compiled by Henry Sturmy, who in November 1686 was bound apprentice to the London bookseller Ricard Hunt, and inscribed (f. 31r) Intended for my own meaditations.

c.1696

Bookplate of Charles Lilburn. Sotheby's, 28 May 1986, lot 198.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 63782 passim)

FeO 104

Extracts, headed ffeltham's Resolues.

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

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

c.1644-76

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

Cambridge University Library, Additional MSS 5000 through 6999 (MS Add. 6160 f. 93r-v)

FeO 105

Extracts.

A large untitled folio anthology of quotations chiefly from Elizabethan and Stuart plays, alphabetically arranged under subject headings, in a single mixed hand, in double columns, 900 pages (lacking pp. 1-4, 379-80, 667-8, 715-20 and 785-8), including (pp. 893-7) an alphabetical index of some 351 titles of plays, in modern boards.

This is the longest known extant version of the unpublished anthology Hesperides or The Muses Garden, by John Evans, entered in the Stationers' Register on 16 August 1655 and subsequently advertised c.1660, among works he purposed to print, by Humphrey Moseley. Another version of this work, in the same hand, dissected by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), is now distributed between Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Halliwell-Phillipps, Notes upon the Works of Shakespeare, Folger, MS V.a.75, Folger, MS V.a.79, and Folger, MS V.a.80.

c.1656-66

Formerly MS 469.2.

This MS identified in IELM, II.i (1980), p. 450. Discussed, as the master draft, with a facsimile of p. 7 on p. 381, in Hao Tianhu, Hesperides, or the Muses' Garden and its Manuscript History, The Library, 7th Ser. 10/4 (December 2009), 372-404 (the full index printed as Catalogue A on pp. 385-94).

The Folger Shakespeare Library: V.b. series (MS V.b.93 passim)

FeO 106

Extracts, headed Fellthams Resolves.

An octavo commonplace book of prose extracts, many under subject headings, written from both ends on rectos only, in contemporary calf.

Inscribed, evidently by the compiler, Henry Harpur An: Do: 1674.

c.1675

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS Hey 7 f. [48r])

Letters

Letter(s)

*FeO 107

Autograph

A series of eight autograph letters signed by Felltham, to Barnabas O'Brien (c.1590-1657), sixth Earl of Thomond, from London and Billing Brien, dated 8 May 1639, 11 April 1641, 4 May 1641, 2 June 1641, 6 June 1641, 23 June 1641, 6 July 1641, and 13 July 1641, a ninth letter by Fwlltham to Henry O'Brien (c.1620-91), seventh Earl of Thomond, dated 28 March 1657.

1639-57

These letters discussed, with extracts, in Kees van Strien, Autograph Letters by Owen Felltham, N&Q, 238 (September 1993), 310-13.

Lord Egremont, Petworth House (PHA C6/1)