Joseph Hall

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

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

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

A microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7698.

A folio composite volume of heraldic and genealogical papers relating to the Scottish nobility, in various hands, 165 leaves, in modern morocco gilt.

A folio composite volume of genealogical collections, including pedigrees of royal and noble houses of Scotland, with some coats of arms drawn in trick, and other matter relating to Scotland, in various hands, 77 leaves.

A folio volume of antiquarian collections, including much verse, in a single neat hand, 238 leaves, in half-morocco.

In the hand of the Rev. William Cole, FSA (1714-82), antiquary (Volume XXXI of the Cole Collection).

An imperfect exemplum of the printed edition of 1603, with MS corrections probably made in the printing house.

Recorded in Davenport, p. lxxv.

An exemplum of the printed edition of 1603, with MS corrections probably made in the printing house.

Recorded in Davenport, p. lxxv.

A duodecimo commonplace book of extracts, in English and Latin, written from both ends, 60 leaves, disbound.

Owned and probably compiled by John Abbott (b.1653/4), of St John's College, Oxford.

An octavo commonplace book of miscellaneous verse and prose, in English, Latin and Greek, in several hands, one mixed hand predominating, written from both ends, lvi + 302 pages, in a recycled medieval vellum document within contemporary vellum.

Possibly compiled in part by Elias Smyth, minor canon of Durham (whose epitaph on his son Richard appears on p. 134).

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.

A quarto miscellany of principally religious verse, in several hands, 213 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary calf.

A folio miscellany entitled Epitaphs Collected 1694, 42 pages.

A quarto miscellany, in more than one hand, 68 leaves, in contemporary calf.

A folio composite volume, chiefly of English and Latin verse, in various hands; vi + 186 leaves, in reversed calf.

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

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

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

A quarto volume of theological and state tracts, written from both ends, the first part (ff. 1r-131r) chiefly in the hand of John Overall (1561-1619), Bishop of Norwich, ii + 131 leaves at one end, x + 132 leaves (plus a number of blanks) at the other.

An octavo verse miscellany, in English and Latin, in a minute cursive hand, ii + 78 leaves, in early 18th-century half-calf.

Compiled by a Cambridge University man, possibly of King's College, and formerly at Eton.

A quarto notebook, in Latin and English, compiled by Brian Twyne (1581-1644), antiquary, 337 leaves.

A quarto composite volume of verse and prose, in various hands, v + 159 leaves, in half-calf.

An autograph manuscript of sixteen poems by Mary Astell, in her semi-calligraphic script, occupies ff. 50r-97v. It is a presentation copy with (f. 50v) a title-page, A Collection of Poems humbly presented and Dedicated To the most Reverend Father in God William [Sancroft] By Divine Providence Lord Archbishop of Canterbury &c 1689 (f. 51r-v), a prose dedicatory epistle to Archbishop Sancroft, and (f. 94r) an address leaf To the most Reverend his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury These humbly present, 49 quarto leaves, bearing traces of a red wax seal.

The Astell MS discussed in Ruth Perry, A seventeenth-century feminist poet, TLS, 20 August 1982, p. 911. It is described also in the online Perdita project.

A duodecimo volume of papers of Dr Francis Bernard and Captain Aston, relating to medicine, astrology, etc., 136 leaves.

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

A large folio volume of chiefly coats of arms and heraldic matters, almost entirely in a single secretary hand, 141 leaves, in half-calf on marbled boards.

Probably compiled by Thomas Dutton, whose name and dates 1603 and 1634 are inscribed on ff. 134v and 138r.

Two lines added in MS to Lib. I, Sat.VIII, in an exemplum of Virgidemiarum Sixe Bookes, 2nd collected edition, 3 vols in one (London, 1597-1602).

Two lines added in a contemporary hand to Lib. I, Sat. VIII, in a printed exemplum of Hall's Virgidemiarum Sixe Bookes, 2nd collected edition, 3 vols in one (London, 1597-1602).

A folio volume comprising some twenty-two religious prose works by Joseph Hall, all published between 1605 and 1623, closely written in a single neat secretary hand, with some titles ornamented, 137 leaves, imperfect at the end, in 18th-century quarter-calf marbled boards (rebacked).

Repeated references in titles to Josep: Hall now B^p. of Exon. indicate a date of transcription after 23 December 1627 and before 15 November 1641, when Hall became Bishop of Norwich. It was possibly copied out before 1633, since it contains his paraphrase on The Song of Songs following the text of the Geneva Bible (HlJ 57), a work which he revised following the text of the Authorized Version and incorporated in An Explication …of all the Hard Texts in the Old and New Testament (1633).

The last page of the MS (f. 137v) contains eight untitled religious aphorisms (beginning The law before o^r sauiour Christs time, was like the rod in Moses hand turned into a serpent…), but it is not clear whether these aphorisms, perhaps an afterthought of the scribe to fill up the volume, derive from Hall's works.

Cited below as the Beal MS.

A folio volume comprising some twenty-two religious prose works by Joseph Hall, all published between 1605 and 1623, closely written in a single neat secretary hand, with some titles ornamented, 137 leaves, imperfect at the end, in 18th-century quarter-calf marbled boards (rebacked).

Repeated references in titles to Josep: Hall now B^p. of Exon. indicate a date of transcription after 23 December 1627 and before 15 November 1641, when Hall became Bishop of Norwich. It was possibly copied out before 1633, since it contains his paraphrase on The Song of Songs following the text of the Geneva Bible (HlJ 57), a work which he revised following the text of the Authorized Version and incorporated in An Explication …of all the Hard Texts in the Old and New Testament (1633).

The last page of the MS (f. 137v) contains eight untitled religious aphorisms (beginning The law before o^r sauiour Christs time, was like the rod in Moses hand turned into a serpent…), but it is not clear whether these aphorisms, perhaps an afterthought of the scribe to fill up the volume, derive from Hall's works.

Cited below as the Beal MS.

Miscellaneous sermon notes, compiled by Elizabeth Cornwallis, Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Henrietta Maria.

A quarto prose miscellany, chiefly a legal tract, almost entirely in a single secretary hand, 35 leaves, in modern quarter crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

Autograph draft of Hall's short and full propositions concerning church government and episcopacy enclosed with his autograph letter on the subject to Archbishop Laud (HlJ 127).

Received 29 December 1639; bearing Laud's additions and alterations and his endorsement These phaps may be thought fitt for a suscriptio of others; a single leaf.

Facsimile of the first page in IELM, I.ii (1980), Facsimile XVII (p. 113).

A folio guard-book of independent Caroline state papers, stamped foliation 1-221.

A folio volume comprising some twenty-two religious prose works by Joseph Hall, all published between 1605 and 1623, closely written in a single neat secretary hand, with some titles ornamented, 137 leaves, imperfect at the end, in 18th-century quarter-calf marbled boards (rebacked).

Repeated references in titles to Josep: Hall now B^p. of Exon. indicate a date of transcription after 23 December 1627 and before 15 November 1641, when Hall became Bishop of Norwich. It was possibly copied out before 1633, since it contains his paraphrase on The Song of Songs following the text of the Geneva Bible (HlJ 57), a work which he revised following the text of the Authorized Version and incorporated in An Explication …of all the Hard Texts in the Old and New Testament (1633).

The last page of the MS (f. 137v) contains eight untitled religious aphorisms (beginning The law before o^r sauiour Christs time, was like the rod in Moses hand turned into a serpent…), but it is not clear whether these aphorisms, perhaps an afterthought of the scribe to fill up the volume, derive from Hall's works.

Cited below as the Beal MS.

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

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

A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, in a single neat largely italic hand, 155 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

A folio volume comprising seven devotional tracts, in the accomplished hand of Thomas Robinson (d.1624), Mayor (in 1594) of Sandwich, Kent, who subscribes the first item Manu Script Thome Robinson, 367 folio leaves, in contemporary calf heavily gilt bearing the initials T R.

This MS volume originally included, as item 8, Robinson's own Sundrye other most excellent...and Holy Obseruations collected after the finishing of this booke and originally comprised 750 pages.

A folio commonplace book of extracts, in secretary hand(s), 255 pages, in contemporary calf.

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

A folio volume chiefly of speeches and proceedings in the House of Commons chiefly from March to June 1628, in a professional secretary hand, iv + 64 leaves (plus blanks), in later half calf.

A quarto volume of speeches and proceedings in the House of Commons from March to April 1628, in a professional hand, 353 pages, in contemporary calf.

A folio volume of letters and state papers, in various professional hands, one secretary hand predominating, with a table of contents, 354 leaves, in black leather gilt.

A quarto volume of state letters, in several hands, 543 pages, in calf gilt.

This volume (when unnumbered) recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 300.

A folio volume of speeches and proceedings in Parliament from 17 March 1627/8 to 26 June 1628, in several professional secretary hands, 387 leaves, with (ff. 2r-11r) a neat table of contents, in contemporary vellum boards.

A folio composite volume of state letters and papers, in several professional secretary hands, with (ff. 1r-12v) a Tabula of contents, 315 leaves (including blanks), in old calf gilt.

A folio volume of proceedings in Parliament in 1628-29, in professional secretary hands, 339 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

A folio composite volume of parliamentary papers and speeches, 1627-28, in various professional hands, 113 leaves, in modern panelled calf.

A folio volume comprising chiefly a parliamentary journal, 1627-8, in a single professional secretary hand but for a tipped-in calendar (f. [305 bis]), 401 leaves, in mottled leather gilt.

A folio composite volume of parliamentary speeches and related papers, in various professional hands, in modern red morocco gilt.

A folio volume of parliamentary proceedings and speeches, 1623-8, in a single professional secretary hand, with a table of contents (ff. 2*^r-5*^r), 731 pages, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

A folio composite volume of parliamentary speeches and related papers, in various professional hands, in modern red morocco gilt.

A large folio guard-book of independent state tracts and miscellaneous papers, in various hands, 229 leaves.

A folio volume of state tracts, speeches, and verse, closely written from both ends in a single hand, 260 pages, lacking a number of pages and some fragments (pp. 25-38, 48-64) now removed to MS Gg. 4. 13*, in quarter-calf.

A folio volume of state letters and papers, in several professional secretary hands, 1050 pages (plus a 24-page Tabula of contents at the end), in calf.

A folio volume of proceedings in parliament in 1628, in several professional hands.

Copy, on a single leaf.

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

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

A folio volume of speeches and proceedings in Parliament 1627-29, in several professional hands, 380 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

A quarto volume of speeches in Parliament 1627-8, in a single professional secretary hand, 388 pages (plus numerous blanks), bound with a twenty-page printed pamphlet, in contemporary calf (repaired).

A folio journal of the House of Commons from 17 March 1627/8 to 26 June 1628, in a single professional secretary hand, including (ff. 420r-9r) a Table of contents, 429 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt with traces of ties.

A folio volume of parliamentary debates in 1627/8-9, in several professional secretary hands, 351 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt, with traces of ties.

A folio volume of speeches and proceedings in Parliament 1628, in a single professional secretary hand, viii + 459 pages, in contemporary calf.

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

Volume of speeches and proceedings in the House of Commons in 1627-8.

A duodecimo volume of state and ecclesiastical letters and papers, in a single hand, 222 pages, in later black morocco gilt.

In the hand of William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, the first page (f. [i^r] inscribed Z / Sylloge Epistolarum quarundam insignium, aliorumque aliquot Monumentorum, facta manu RRP. Wilhelmi Sancroft. Archiepi Cantuar. Accesserunt Orationes eiusdem nonnulla in Academiâ Cantabrig. habitæ.

A folio volume of state letters, in several professional secretary hands, with a lengthy Tabula of contents, xxx + 558 pages, in old vellum boards.

Recorded in HMC, 6th Report, Part I (1877), p. 306.

Copies of two parliamentary speeches and one letter, in a predominantly italic hand, on two conjugate folio leaves, unbound.

A folio volume of parliamentary proceedings for 1627-8.

A microfilm in the British Library, M/353.

A collection of unbound state papers, now in folders.

A quarto volume of state letters, in a single professional hand, xxvi + c.955 pages (misnumbered around pp. 895-6), including a table of contents (and plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, remains of ties.

A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, with a table of contents, 599 leaves.

Inscribed (f. 141r) John: Saunders is the trew owner of this booke, Captaine Christo: Blounte, and Valentine LLawless.

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.

A Composite volume of speeches and proceedings in the House of Commons, in various professional hands, 170 pages, of various sizes.

A folio volume principally of proceedings in Parliament from 17 March to 26 June 1628, in various professional hands, 476 pages (plus blanks), in 17th-century reversed calf.

A folio composite volume of speeches and proceedings in the House of Commons in 1628, c.225 pages, in modern calf.

Volume of state letters.

Recorded in HMC 15, 10th Report, Appendix VI (1887), p. 116.

A folio volume comprising some twenty-two religious prose works by Joseph Hall, all published between 1605 and 1623, closely written in a single neat secretary hand, with some titles ornamented, 137 leaves, imperfect at the end, in 18th-century quarter-calf marbled boards (rebacked).

Repeated references in titles to Josep: Hall now B^p. of Exon. indicate a date of transcription after 23 December 1627 and before 15 November 1641, when Hall became Bishop of Norwich. It was possibly copied out before 1633, since it contains his paraphrase on The Song of Songs following the text of the Geneva Bible (HlJ 57), a work which he revised following the text of the Authorized Version and incorporated in An Explication …of all the Hard Texts in the Old and New Testament (1633).

The last page of the MS (f. 137v) contains eight untitled religious aphorisms (beginning The law before o^r sauiour Christs time, was like the rod in Moses hand turned into a serpent…), but it is not clear whether these aphorisms, perhaps an afterthought of the scribe to fill up the volume, derive from Hall's works.

Cited below as the Beal MS.

A folio volume comprising some twenty-two religious prose works by Joseph Hall, all published between 1605 and 1623, closely written in a single neat secretary hand, with some titles ornamented, 137 leaves, imperfect at the end, in 18th-century quarter-calf marbled boards (rebacked).

Repeated references in titles to Josep: Hall now B^p. of Exon. indicate a date of transcription after 23 December 1627 and before 15 November 1641, when Hall became Bishop of Norwich. It was possibly copied out before 1633, since it contains his paraphrase on The Song of Songs following the text of the Geneva Bible (HlJ 57), a work which he revised following the text of the Authorized Version and incorporated in An Explication …of all the Hard Texts in the Old and New Testament (1633).

The last page of the MS (f. 137v) contains eight untitled religious aphorisms (beginning The law before o^r sauiour Christs time, was like the rod in Moses hand turned into a serpent…), but it is not clear whether these aphorisms, perhaps an afterthought of the scribe to fill up the volume, derive from Hall's works.

Cited below as the Beal MS.

Copy of part of the epistle, headed Ex J: Hall: Epist ad: Com: Essex: in Gall...Observations profitable, and necessarye for those that intent to travell forraine countries and here beginning Thinke it not enough that you see..., in a non-professional italic hand, on two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed with the date February y^e 25^t 1633.

A folio volume comprising some twenty-two religious prose works by Joseph Hall, all published between 1605 and 1623, closely written in a single neat secretary hand, with some titles ornamented, 137 leaves, imperfect at the end, in 18th-century quarter-calf marbled boards (rebacked).

Repeated references in titles to Josep: Hall now B^p. of Exon. indicate a date of transcription after 23 December 1627 and before 15 November 1641, when Hall became Bishop of Norwich. It was possibly copied out before 1633, since it contains his paraphrase on The Song of Songs following the text of the Geneva Bible (HlJ 57), a work which he revised following the text of the Authorized Version and incorporated in An Explication …of all the Hard Texts in the Old and New Testament (1633).

The last page of the MS (f. 137v) contains eight untitled religious aphorisms (beginning The law before o^r sauiour Christs time, was like the rod in Moses hand turned into a serpent…), but it is not clear whether these aphorisms, perhaps an afterthought of the scribe to fill up the volume, derive from Hall's works.

Cited below as the Beal MS.

A duodecimo miscellany principally of pious, holy Godly and Christian Letters, in a single italic hand, with (ff. 200r-5r) a Table, 209 leaves, in modern half-crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

Compiled by Nehemiah Wallington (1598-1658), puritan London turner and diarist.

Including (ff. 34r-51v) Some Epiesels or Letters of Ios Hall D of Diuinitie and Deane of Worchester in 1620, transcribed from the edition of Hall's collected works printed in 1620, with a note at the end Their be many more excellent letters in D Halls Booke which I let passe for preuitis sake.

Recorded in Paul S. Seaver, Wallington's World: A Puritan Artisan in Seventeenth-Century London (Stanford, 1985).

A folio volume comprising seven devotional tracts, in the accomplished hand of Thomas Robinson (d.1624), Mayor (in 1594) of Sandwich, Kent, who subscribes the first item Manu Script Thome Robinson, 367 folio leaves, in contemporary calf heavily gilt bearing the initials T R.

This MS volume originally included, as item 8, Robinson's own Sundrye other most excellent...and Holy Obseruations collected after the finishing of this booke and originally comprised 750 pages.

A folio volume comprising some twenty-two religious prose works by Joseph Hall, all published between 1605 and 1623, closely written in a single neat secretary hand, with some titles ornamented, 137 leaves, imperfect at the end, in 18th-century quarter-calf marbled boards (rebacked).

Repeated references in titles to Josep: Hall now B^p. of Exon. indicate a date of transcription after 23 December 1627 and before 15 November 1641, when Hall became Bishop of Norwich. It was possibly copied out before 1633, since it contains his paraphrase on The Song of Songs following the text of the Geneva Bible (HlJ 57), a work which he revised following the text of the Authorized Version and incorporated in An Explication …of all the Hard Texts in the Old and New Testament (1633).

The last page of the MS (f. 137v) contains eight untitled religious aphorisms (beginning The law before o^r sauiour Christs time, was like the rod in Moses hand turned into a serpent…), but it is not clear whether these aphorisms, perhaps an afterthought of the scribe to fill up the volume, derive from Hall's works.

Cited below as the Beal MS.

A duodecimo miscellany principally of pious, holy Godly and Christian Letters, in a single italic hand, with (ff. 200r-5r) a Table, 209 leaves, in modern half-crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

Compiled by Nehemiah Wallington (1598-1658), puritan London turner and diarist.

Including (ff. 34r-51v) Some Epiesels or Letters of Ios Hall D of Diuinitie and Deane of Worchester in 1620, transcribed from the edition of Hall's collected works printed in 1620, with a note at the end Their be many more excellent letters in D Halls Booke which I let passe for preuitis sake.

Recorded in Paul S. Seaver, Wallington's World: A Puritan Artisan in Seventeenth-Century London (Stanford, 1985).

A folio volume comprising seven devotional tracts, in the accomplished hand of Thomas Robinson (d.1624), Mayor (in 1594) of Sandwich, Kent, who subscribes the first item Manu Script Thome Robinson, 367 folio leaves, in contemporary calf heavily gilt bearing the initials T R.

This MS volume originally included, as item 8, Robinson's own Sundrye other most excellent...and Holy Obseruations collected after the finishing of this booke and originally comprised 750 pages.

A duodecimo miscellany principally of pious, holy Godly and Christian Letters, in a single italic hand, with (ff. 200r-5r) a Table, 209 leaves, in modern half-crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

Compiled by Nehemiah Wallington (1598-1658), puritan London turner and diarist.

Including (ff. 34r-51v) Some Epiesels or Letters of Ios Hall D of Diuinitie and Deane of Worchester in 1620, transcribed from the edition of Hall's collected works printed in 1620, with a note at the end Their be many more excellent letters in D Halls Booke which I let passe for preuitis sake.

Recorded in Paul S. Seaver, Wallington's World: A Puritan Artisan in Seventeenth-Century London (Stanford, 1985).

A duodecimo miscellany principally of pious, holy Godly and Christian Letters, in a single italic hand, with (ff. 200r-5r) a Table, 209 leaves, in modern half-crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

Compiled by Nehemiah Wallington (1598-1658), puritan London turner and diarist.

Including (ff. 34r-51v) Some Epiesels or Letters of Ios Hall D of Diuinitie and Deane of Worchester in 1620, transcribed from the edition of Hall's collected works printed in 1620, with a note at the end Their be many more excellent letters in D Halls Booke which I let passe for preuitis sake.

Recorded in Paul S. Seaver, Wallington's World: A Puritan Artisan in Seventeenth-Century London (Stanford, 1985).

A duodecimo miscellany principally of pious, holy Godly and Christian Letters, in a single italic hand, with (ff. 200r-5r) a Table, 209 leaves, in modern half-crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

Compiled by Nehemiah Wallington (1598-1658), puritan London turner and diarist.

Including (ff. 34r-51v) Some Epiesels or Letters of Ios Hall D of Diuinitie and Deane of Worchester in 1620, transcribed from the edition of Hall's collected works printed in 1620, with a note at the end Their be many more excellent letters in D Halls Booke which I let passe for preuitis sake.

Recorded in Paul S. Seaver, Wallington's World: A Puritan Artisan in Seventeenth-Century London (Stanford, 1985).

A duodecimo miscellany principally of pious, holy Godly and Christian Letters, in a single italic hand, with (ff. 200r-5r) a Table, 209 leaves, in modern half-crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

Compiled by Nehemiah Wallington (1598-1658), puritan London turner and diarist.

Including (ff. 34r-51v) Some Epiesels or Letters of Ios Hall D of Diuinitie and Deane of Worchester in 1620, transcribed from the edition of Hall's collected works printed in 1620, with a note at the end Their be many more excellent letters in D Halls Booke which I let passe for preuitis sake.

Recorded in Paul S. Seaver, Wallington's World: A Puritan Artisan in Seventeenth-Century London (Stanford, 1985).

A duodecimo miscellany principally of pious, holy Godly and Christian Letters, in a single italic hand, with (ff. 200r-5r) a Table, 209 leaves, in modern half-crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

Compiled by Nehemiah Wallington (1598-1658), puritan London turner and diarist.

Including (ff. 34r-51v) Some Epiesels or Letters of Ios Hall D of Diuinitie and Deane of Worchester in 1620, transcribed from the edition of Hall's collected works printed in 1620, with a note at the end Their be many more excellent letters in D Halls Booke which I let passe for preuitis sake.

Recorded in Paul S. Seaver, Wallington's World: A Puritan Artisan in Seventeenth-Century London (Stanford, 1985).

A folio volume comprising seven devotional tracts, in the accomplished hand of Thomas Robinson (d.1624), Mayor (in 1594) of Sandwich, Kent, who subscribes the first item Manu Script Thome Robinson, 367 folio leaves, in contemporary calf heavily gilt bearing the initials T R.

This MS volume originally included, as item 8, Robinson's own Sundrye other most excellent...and Holy Obseruations collected after the finishing of this booke and originally comprised 750 pages.

A folio volume comprising some twenty-two religious prose works by Joseph Hall, all published between 1605 and 1623, closely written in a single neat secretary hand, with some titles ornamented, 137 leaves, imperfect at the end, in 18th-century quarter-calf marbled boards (rebacked).

Repeated references in titles to Josep: Hall now B^p. of Exon. indicate a date of transcription after 23 December 1627 and before 15 November 1641, when Hall became Bishop of Norwich. It was possibly copied out before 1633, since it contains his paraphrase on The Song of Songs following the text of the Geneva Bible (HlJ 57), a work which he revised following the text of the Authorized Version and incorporated in An Explication …of all the Hard Texts in the Old and New Testament (1633).

The last page of the MS (f. 137v) contains eight untitled religious aphorisms (beginning The law before o^r sauiour Christs time, was like the rod in Moses hand turned into a serpent…), but it is not clear whether these aphorisms, perhaps an afterthought of the scribe to fill up the volume, derive from Hall's works.

Cited below as the Beal MS.

A folio volume comprising some twenty-two religious prose works by Joseph Hall, all published between 1605 and 1623, closely written in a single neat secretary hand, with some titles ornamented, 137 leaves, imperfect at the end, in 18th-century quarter-calf marbled boards (rebacked).

Repeated references in titles to Josep: Hall now B^p. of Exon. indicate a date of transcription after 23 December 1627 and before 15 November 1641, when Hall became Bishop of Norwich. It was possibly copied out before 1633, since it contains his paraphrase on The Song of Songs following the text of the Geneva Bible (HlJ 57), a work which he revised following the text of the Authorized Version and incorporated in An Explication …of all the Hard Texts in the Old and New Testament (1633).

The last page of the MS (f. 137v) contains eight untitled religious aphorisms (beginning The law before o^r sauiour Christs time, was like the rod in Moses hand turned into a serpent…), but it is not clear whether these aphorisms, perhaps an afterthought of the scribe to fill up the volume, derive from Hall's works.

Cited below as the Beal MS.

A duodecimo miscellany principally of pious, holy Godly and Christian Letters, in a single italic hand, with (ff. 200r-5r) a Table, 209 leaves, in modern half-crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

Compiled by Nehemiah Wallington (1598-1658), puritan London turner and diarist.

Including (ff. 34r-51v) Some Epiesels or Letters of Ios Hall D of Diuinitie and Deane of Worchester in 1620, transcribed from the edition of Hall's collected works printed in 1620, with a note at the end Their be many more excellent letters in D Halls Booke which I let passe for preuitis sake.

Recorded in Paul S. Seaver, Wallington's World: A Puritan Artisan in Seventeenth-Century London (Stanford, 1985).

A duodecimo miscellany principally of pious, holy Godly and Christian Letters, in a single italic hand, with (ff. 200r-5r) a Table, 209 leaves, in modern half-crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

Compiled by Nehemiah Wallington (1598-1658), puritan London turner and diarist.

Including (ff. 34r-51v) Some Epiesels or Letters of Ios Hall D of Diuinitie and Deane of Worchester in 1620, transcribed from the edition of Hall's collected works printed in 1620, with a note at the end Their be many more excellent letters in D Halls Booke which I let passe for preuitis sake.

Recorded in Paul S. Seaver, Wallington's World: A Puritan Artisan in Seventeenth-Century London (Stanford, 1985).

A folio volume comprising seven devotional tracts, in the accomplished hand of Thomas Robinson (d.1624), Mayor (in 1594) of Sandwich, Kent, who subscribes the first item Manu Script Thome Robinson, 367 folio leaves, in contemporary calf heavily gilt bearing the initials T R.

This MS volume originally included, as item 8, Robinson's own Sundrye other most excellent...and Holy Obseruations collected after the finishing of this booke and originally comprised 750 pages.

A folio volume comprising some twenty-two religious prose works by Joseph Hall, all published between 1605 and 1623, closely written in a single neat secretary hand, with some titles ornamented, 137 leaves, imperfect at the end, in 18th-century quarter-calf marbled boards (rebacked).

Repeated references in titles to Josep: Hall now B^p. of Exon. indicate a date of transcription after 23 December 1627 and before 15 November 1641, when Hall became Bishop of Norwich. It was possibly copied out before 1633, since it contains his paraphrase on The Song of Songs following the text of the Geneva Bible (HlJ 57), a work which he revised following the text of the Authorized Version and incorporated in An Explication …of all the Hard Texts in the Old and New Testament (1633).

The last page of the MS (f. 137v) contains eight untitled religious aphorisms (beginning The law before o^r sauiour Christs time, was like the rod in Moses hand turned into a serpent…), but it is not clear whether these aphorisms, perhaps an afterthought of the scribe to fill up the volume, derive from Hall's works.

Cited below as the Beal MS.

A folio volume comprising seven devotional tracts, in the accomplished hand of Thomas Robinson (d.1624), Mayor (in 1594) of Sandwich, Kent, who subscribes the first item Manu Script Thome Robinson, 367 folio leaves, in contemporary calf heavily gilt bearing the initials T R.

This MS volume originally included, as item 8, Robinson's own Sundrye other most excellent...and Holy Obseruations collected after the finishing of this booke and originally comprised 750 pages.

A duodecimo miscellany principally of pious, holy Godly and Christian Letters, in a single italic hand, with (ff. 200r-5r) a Table, 209 leaves, in modern half-crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

Compiled by Nehemiah Wallington (1598-1658), puritan London turner and diarist.

Including (ff. 34r-51v) Some Epiesels or Letters of Ios Hall D of Diuinitie and Deane of Worchester in 1620, transcribed from the edition of Hall's collected works printed in 1620, with a note at the end Their be many more excellent letters in D Halls Booke which I let passe for preuitis sake.

Recorded in Paul S. Seaver, Wallington's World: A Puritan Artisan in Seventeenth-Century London (Stanford, 1985).

A folio volume comprising some twenty-two religious prose works by Joseph Hall, all published between 1605 and 1623, closely written in a single neat secretary hand, with some titles ornamented, 137 leaves, imperfect at the end, in 18th-century quarter-calf marbled boards (rebacked).

Repeated references in titles to Josep: Hall now B^p. of Exon. indicate a date of transcription after 23 December 1627 and before 15 November 1641, when Hall became Bishop of Norwich. It was possibly copied out before 1633, since it contains his paraphrase on The Song of Songs following the text of the Geneva Bible (HlJ 57), a work which he revised following the text of the Authorized Version and incorporated in An Explication …of all the Hard Texts in the Old and New Testament (1633).

The last page of the MS (f. 137v) contains eight untitled religious aphorisms (beginning The law before o^r sauiour Christs time, was like the rod in Moses hand turned into a serpent…), but it is not clear whether these aphorisms, perhaps an afterthought of the scribe to fill up the volume, derive from Hall's works.

Cited below as the Beal MS.

A duodecimo miscellany principally of pious, holy Godly and Christian Letters, in a single italic hand, with (ff. 200r-5r) a Table, 209 leaves, in modern half-crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

Compiled by Nehemiah Wallington (1598-1658), puritan London turner and diarist.

Including (ff. 34r-51v) Some Epiesels or Letters of Ios Hall D of Diuinitie and Deane of Worchester in 1620, transcribed from the edition of Hall's collected works printed in 1620, with a note at the end Their be many more excellent letters in D Halls Booke which I let passe for preuitis sake.

Recorded in Paul S. Seaver, Wallington's World: A Puritan Artisan in Seventeenth-Century London (Stanford, 1985).

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

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

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, pp. 296-7.

A folio volume comprising some twenty-two religious prose works by Joseph Hall, all published between 1605 and 1623, closely written in a single neat secretary hand, with some titles ornamented, 137 leaves, imperfect at the end, in 18th-century quarter-calf marbled boards (rebacked).

Repeated references in titles to Josep: Hall now B^p. of Exon. indicate a date of transcription after 23 December 1627 and before 15 November 1641, when Hall became Bishop of Norwich. It was possibly copied out before 1633, since it contains his paraphrase on The Song of Songs following the text of the Geneva Bible (HlJ 57), a work which he revised following the text of the Authorized Version and incorporated in An Explication …of all the Hard Texts in the Old and New Testament (1633).

The last page of the MS (f. 137v) contains eight untitled religious aphorisms (beginning The law before o^r sauiour Christs time, was like the rod in Moses hand turned into a serpent…), but it is not clear whether these aphorisms, perhaps an afterthought of the scribe to fill up the volume, derive from Hall's works.

Cited below as the Beal MS.

Miscellaneous sermon notes, compiled by Elizabeth Cornwallis, Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Henrietta Maria.

A folio volume comprising some twenty-two religious prose works by Joseph Hall, all published between 1605 and 1623, closely written in a single neat secretary hand, with some titles ornamented, 137 leaves, imperfect at the end, in 18th-century quarter-calf marbled boards (rebacked).

Repeated references in titles to Josep: Hall now B^p. of Exon. indicate a date of transcription after 23 December 1627 and before 15 November 1641, when Hall became Bishop of Norwich. It was possibly copied out before 1633, since it contains his paraphrase on The Song of Songs following the text of the Geneva Bible (HlJ 57), a work which he revised following the text of the Authorized Version and incorporated in An Explication …of all the Hard Texts in the Old and New Testament (1633).

The last page of the MS (f. 137v) contains eight untitled religious aphorisms (beginning The law before o^r sauiour Christs time, was like the rod in Moses hand turned into a serpent…), but it is not clear whether these aphorisms, perhaps an afterthought of the scribe to fill up the volume, derive from Hall's works.

Cited below as the Beal MS.

MS of an English translation by Moses Wall, written for presentation to Elizabeth St John, 89 octavo leaves (plus some blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, stamped E S on each cover.

With a formal title-page, Henochisme: Or A Treatise Shewinge Howe to walke with God: Written in Latin by Ioseph Hall Bishop of Exeter And Translated into English By M: W:; a five-page dedicatory epistle to Hall; a seven-page presentation epistle to Mrs Elizabeth St John; and 75 pages of text; the presentation epistle in a very small hand, signed Moses Wall and dated Octob: 2. an. 1639, evidently in Wall's hand; all the rest in a neat secretary hand.

Original Latin version first published London, 1635; Wynter, X, 188-207. Wall's translation unpublished.

A folio volume comprising some twenty-two religious prose works by Joseph Hall, all published between 1605 and 1623, closely written in a single neat secretary hand, with some titles ornamented, 137 leaves, imperfect at the end, in 18th-century quarter-calf marbled boards (rebacked).

Repeated references in titles to Josep: Hall now B^p. of Exon. indicate a date of transcription after 23 December 1627 and before 15 November 1641, when Hall became Bishop of Norwich. It was possibly copied out before 1633, since it contains his paraphrase on The Song of Songs following the text of the Geneva Bible (HlJ 57), a work which he revised following the text of the Authorized Version and incorporated in An Explication …of all the Hard Texts in the Old and New Testament (1633).

The last page of the MS (f. 137v) contains eight untitled religious aphorisms (beginning The law before o^r sauiour Christs time, was like the rod in Moses hand turned into a serpent…), but it is not clear whether these aphorisms, perhaps an afterthought of the scribe to fill up the volume, derive from Hall's works.

Cited below as the Beal MS.

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

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

A quarto miscellany of extracts chiefly from historical works, in Latin and English, in a single small mixed hand, compiled by one Thomas Gybbons, armiger, 237 leaves, in modern quarter-morocco gilt.

A large folio volume of ecclesiastical and historical tracts, in a mixed hand, 418 pages (including numerous blanks, plus many blanks at the end), in modern calf.

A folio volume comprising some twenty-two religious prose works by Joseph Hall, all published between 1605 and 1623, closely written in a single neat secretary hand, with some titles ornamented, 137 leaves, imperfect at the end, in 18th-century quarter-calf marbled boards (rebacked).

Repeated references in titles to Josep: Hall now B^p. of Exon. indicate a date of transcription after 23 December 1627 and before 15 November 1641, when Hall became Bishop of Norwich. It was possibly copied out before 1633, since it contains his paraphrase on The Song of Songs following the text of the Geneva Bible (HlJ 57), a work which he revised following the text of the Authorized Version and incorporated in An Explication …of all the Hard Texts in the Old and New Testament (1633).

The last page of the MS (f. 137v) contains eight untitled religious aphorisms (beginning The law before o^r sauiour Christs time, was like the rod in Moses hand turned into a serpent…), but it is not clear whether these aphorisms, perhaps an afterthought of the scribe to fill up the volume, derive from Hall's works.

Cited below as the Beal MS.

A folio commonplace book, in an least two secretary hands, inscribed at one point (p. 133) Heere wee left 30^th Nov. 1628, 238 pages, in remains of contemporary vellum.

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

Autograph MS of the Autobiography of Alice Thornton, including some verses, 303 duodecimo pages, in contemporary calf gilt.

A microfilm of this MS is also in the British Library, RP 2346.

Copy of Certaine Collections of the Right hon^ble: Elizabeth late Countesse of Huntingdon for her owne private vse, 31 quarto leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum, gnawed by rodents.

A compilation of prayers and devotional meditations, in a single predominantly secretary hand.

Copy of Certaine Collections of the Right Hon^ble: Elizabeth late Countesse of Huntingdon for her owne private vse, 33 quarto leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum, heavily damp-stained.

A compilation of prayers and devotional meditations, transcribed in a professional rounded hand by or for Edward Sandys and with his dedicatory address For the now R^t Hon^ble Elizabeth Countess of Huntingdon July 20^th 1676.

Copy of Certaine Collections of the Right Hon^ble: Elizabeth late Countesse of Huntingdon for her owne private vse, 30 quarto leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum, mutilated.

A compilation of prayers and devotional meditations, in a single rounded hand.

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

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

Copy of Certaine Collections of the right hon^ble: Elizabeth late Countesse of Huntingdon for her owne private vse, 29 quarto leaves (plus blanks), in vellum.

A compilation of prayers and devotional meditations, in a single mixed hand.

Discussed, with a facsimile of f. 1r, in Victoria E. Burke, Materiality and Form in the Seventeenth-Century Miscellanies of Anne Southwell, Elizabeth Hastings, and Jane Truesdale, EMS, 16 (2011), 219-41.

A folio volume comprising some twenty-two religious prose works by Joseph Hall, all published between 1605 and 1623, closely written in a single neat secretary hand, with some titles ornamented, 137 leaves, imperfect at the end, in 18th-century quarter-calf marbled boards (rebacked).

Repeated references in titles to Josep: Hall now B^p. of Exon. indicate a date of transcription after 23 December 1627 and before 15 November 1641, when Hall became Bishop of Norwich. It was possibly copied out before 1633, since it contains his paraphrase on The Song of Songs following the text of the Geneva Bible (HlJ 57), a work which he revised following the text of the Authorized Version and incorporated in An Explication …of all the Hard Texts in the Old and New Testament (1633).

The last page of the MS (f. 137v) contains eight untitled religious aphorisms (beginning The law before o^r sauiour Christs time, was like the rod in Moses hand turned into a serpent…), but it is not clear whether these aphorisms, perhaps an afterthought of the scribe to fill up the volume, derive from Hall's works.

Cited below as the Beal MS.

A folio volume comprising some twenty-two religious prose works by Joseph Hall, all published between 1605 and 1623, closely written in a single neat secretary hand, with some titles ornamented, 137 leaves, imperfect at the end, in 18th-century quarter-calf marbled boards (rebacked).

Repeated references in titles to Josep: Hall now B^p. of Exon. indicate a date of transcription after 23 December 1627 and before 15 November 1641, when Hall became Bishop of Norwich. It was possibly copied out before 1633, since it contains his paraphrase on The Song of Songs following the text of the Geneva Bible (HlJ 57), a work which he revised following the text of the Authorized Version and incorporated in An Explication …of all the Hard Texts in the Old and New Testament (1633).

The last page of the MS (f. 137v) contains eight untitled religious aphorisms (beginning The law before o^r sauiour Christs time, was like the rod in Moses hand turned into a serpent…), but it is not clear whether these aphorisms, perhaps an afterthought of the scribe to fill up the volume, derive from Hall's works.

Cited below as the Beal MS.

A folio volume comprising seven devotional tracts, in the accomplished hand of Thomas Robinson (d.1624), Mayor (in 1594) of Sandwich, Kent, who subscribes the first item Manu Script Thome Robinson, 367 folio leaves, in contemporary calf heavily gilt bearing the initials T R.

This MS volume originally included, as item 8, Robinson's own Sundrye other most excellent...and Holy Obseruations collected after the finishing of this booke and originally comprised 750 pages.

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

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

A folio volume comprising some twenty-two religious prose works by Joseph Hall, all published between 1605 and 1623, closely written in a single neat secretary hand, with some titles ornamented, 137 leaves, imperfect at the end, in 18th-century quarter-calf marbled boards (rebacked).

Repeated references in titles to Josep: Hall now B^p. of Exon. indicate a date of transcription after 23 December 1627 and before 15 November 1641, when Hall became Bishop of Norwich. It was possibly copied out before 1633, since it contains his paraphrase on The Song of Songs following the text of the Geneva Bible (HlJ 57), a work which he revised following the text of the Authorized Version and incorporated in An Explication …of all the Hard Texts in the Old and New Testament (1633).

The last page of the MS (f. 137v) contains eight untitled religious aphorisms (beginning The law before o^r sauiour Christs time, was like the rod in Moses hand turned into a serpent…), but it is not clear whether these aphorisms, perhaps an afterthought of the scribe to fill up the volume, derive from Hall's works.

Cited below as the Beal MS.

A folio volume comprising seven devotional tracts, in the accomplished hand of Thomas Robinson (d.1624), Mayor (in 1594) of Sandwich, Kent, who subscribes the first item Manu Script Thome Robinson, 367 folio leaves, in contemporary calf heavily gilt bearing the initials T R.

This MS volume originally included, as item 8, Robinson's own Sundrye other most excellent...and Holy Obseruations collected after the finishing of this booke and originally comprised 750 pages.

A duodecimo notebook of extracts from English books, 85 leaves.

A folio volume comprising some twenty-two religious prose works by Joseph Hall, all published between 1605 and 1623, closely written in a single neat secretary hand, with some titles ornamented, 137 leaves, imperfect at the end, in 18th-century quarter-calf marbled boards (rebacked).

Repeated references in titles to Josep: Hall now B^p. of Exon. indicate a date of transcription after 23 December 1627 and before 15 November 1641, when Hall became Bishop of Norwich. It was possibly copied out before 1633, since it contains his paraphrase on The Song of Songs following the text of the Geneva Bible (HlJ 57), a work which he revised following the text of the Authorized Version and incorporated in An Explication …of all the Hard Texts in the Old and New Testament (1633).

The last page of the MS (f. 137v) contains eight untitled religious aphorisms (beginning The law before o^r sauiour Christs time, was like the rod in Moses hand turned into a serpent…), but it is not clear whether these aphorisms, perhaps an afterthought of the scribe to fill up the volume, derive from Hall's works.

Cited below as the Beal MS.

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

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

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

A MS volume of sermons, 48 folio leaves (plus 5 blanks).

In a semi-calligraphic hand, in black and red ink, by or associated with one Henry Feilde.

A tall folio commonplace book, chiefly of naval tracts and sermons, in two hands, begun 23 May 1629, 322 pages of text (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt.

Partly in the rugged italic hand of Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician, partly in the neat mixed hand of an amanuensis.

Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1.

A folio commonplace book of extracts from devotional and miscellaneous works, largely in two secretary hands, 241 pages (plus 37 blank pages), in contemporary reversed calf with remains of metal clasps.

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

Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1.

Copy, in a secretary hand, with a title-page, The progresse to Parnassus as it was acted in St John's Colledge in Cambridge Ano 160i, 26 quarto leaves, in late 18th-century half calf.

The third part of a trilogy, possibly partly written by Hall. This play was twice printed in Cambridge in 1606. For the first two parts see ShW 118. The whole trilogy is edited from the MS and printed sources by J.B. Leishman in The Three Parnassus Plays (1598-1601) (London, 1949).

A folio commonplace book, in several hands, written from both ends, with a table of subject headings, begun 7 March 1624/5, 358 pages of text (plus blanks),

Chiefly in the rugged italic hand of Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician, partly in the rounded secretary hand of an amanuensis and two others.

Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1.

A folio commonplace book, in several hands, begun 18 May 1626, written from both ends, with two tables of contents, 415 pages of text, in contemporary leather with traces of metal clasps.

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

Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1.

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

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

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

A tall folio composite volume of state and antiquarian tracts and papers, in several hands, with a table of contents, 153 pages, in contemporary vellum.

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

Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

A folio commonplace book of entries arranged under subject headings, in a single hand, written from both ends, 652 pages (plus some unnumbered), in modern cloth.

A folio commonplace book of verse and prose, in a single neat hand.

A small (?sextodecimo) pocket notebook, in probably a single small cursive mixed hand, 134 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary calf.

Compiled by Richard Brathwaite (1587/8-1673), poet, writer and Justice of Peace for Westmoreland.

A quarto commonplace book of extracts, proverbs and aphorisms, in a single secretary hand, 70 leaves, in vellum boards.

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

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

A formal commonplace book, with a running heading Things New & Old.

A small quarto commonplace book of largely devotional verse and prose, in a single cursive hand, viii + 335 pages (including blanks, plus numerous others to p. [374]), in contemporary calf with remains of metal clasps.

Compiled by Thomas Fane (1683-1736), sixth Earl of Westmorland.

A MS volume.

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in a single italic hand, entitled Gospell Obseruations & Religiu^s manifestations, 370 pages, in contemporary calf.

Entirely in the hand of Robert Overton (1608/9-1678/9), parliamentarian army officer, whose signature appears on a flyleaf. Prepared as a memorial and tribute to his wife, Ann Gardiner (d.1665), and written when in prison, either on Jersey or in the Tower of London.

This volume discussed extensively, with facsimile examples (of pp. 85-6, 151-2, 162, 166, 190-2), in David Norbrook, This blushinge tribute of a borrowed muse: Robert Overton and his Overturning of the Poetic Canon, EMS, 4 (1993), 220-66.

A quarto composite commonplace book of extracts chiefly from religious works, in probably several hands, one predominating, ff. 115r-27r occupied by a sporadic journal for 1715-21 in later hands, 131 leaves (including blanks), in old half-calf.

Compiled by Dr Thomas Lewis (d.1746), of the Royal College of Physicians.

A small quarto commonplace book of extracts, compiled by probably two members of the Fane family, Earls of Westmorland, of Apethorpe, Northamptonshire, 120 leaves.

A folio composite volume of letters to William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury and manuscript collector.

Autograph letter signed, to Lady Anne Drury, [c. January 1608/9?].

A folio collection of state papers, in various hands, 257 leaves, once in stamped calf, now disbound in folders.

Autograph letter signed, to Sir Dudley Carlton, from Waltham, 25 April 1619.

Wynter, X, 505-6. Facsimile example in Petti, No. 51.

Autograph letter signed, to Sir Dudley Carleton, from Waltham, 22 September 1619 NS.

Wynter, X, 506.

A small narrow ledger-size volume of copies of letters, made by Thomas James (1572-1629), Bodley's Librarian, xix + 233 leaves (including blanks), in vellum boards.

A small narrow ledger-size volume of copies of letters, made by Thomas James (1572-1629), Bodley's Librarian, xix + 233 leaves (including blanks), in vellum boards.

A small narrow ledger-size volume of copies of letters, made by Thomas James (1572-1629), Bodley's Librarian, xix + 233 leaves (including blanks), in vellum boards.

A folio collection of state papers, in various hands, 257 leaves, once in stamped calf, now disbound in folders.

A folio collection of state papers, in various hands, 257 leaves, once in stamped calf, now disbound in folders.

Autograph letter signed, to Sir Edward Conway, from Waltham, 21 December 1623.

Wynter, X, 597-8.

Autograph letter signed, to Lady Huncks, from Waltham, 3 May 1624.

Wynter, X, 508.

Copy of a letter by Valentine Cary, Hall's predecessor as Bishop of Exeter, dated 23 February 1624/5, with Hall's subscription endorsing Cary's Certificate regarding a school and teachers, itself subscribed and supported by the Dean and Chapter of Exeter Cathedral, all in a professional secretary hand, on both sides of a folio leaf.

Autograph letter signed, to Lord Conway, from Waltham, 29 March 1627.

Wynter, X, 509.

Autograph letter signed by Hall, to Sir Henry Spelman, 21 September 1628.

Edited in The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library: English Literature 1475-1700 (New York, 1940), III, 1263-4.

Autograph letter signed, to Sir Richard Bulwer, from Exeter, 4 October 1628.

Wynter, X, 509-10.

Autograph letter signed, to Mr Mewtis, Clerk of the Council, from Exeter, 28 January 1629/30.

Wynter, X, 510-11.

A folio composite volume of state letters and papers, in various hands, 213 leaves (plus some blanks), in 19th-century diced calf gilt.

Volume 10 of the papers of Sir John Eliot (1592-1632), politician.

Autograph letter signed, to Thomas Turner, Laud's chaplain, [?February 1628/9].

Giving Turner authority to omit certain passages in Hall's The Reconciler (published in London 1629).

Autograph letter signed, to the Lord Mayor of Exeter, 10 August 1629.

Autograph letter signed, to the Lord Mayor of Exeter, [1629].

Autograph letter signed, to the Lord Mayor of Exeter, undated.

Autograph letter signed, to the Lord Mayor of Exeter, 8 June [no year].

Autograph letter signed, to the Lord Mayor of Exeter, 4 September [no year].

Autograph letter signed, to Bishop (later Archbishop) Laud, from Exeter, 8 May 1630.

Wynter, X, 511-13.

Autograph letter signed, to Bishop (later Archbishop) Laud, from Exeter, 14 May 1630.

Wynter, X, 513-14.

A joint letter to the Corporation of Exeter, in a professional secretary hand, signed by Hall and others, 19 July 1630.

Autograph letter signed, to Bishop (later Archbishop) Laud, from Exeter, 11 June 1631.

Wynter, X, 515-16.

A quarto volume of Latin ecclesiastical treatises, compiled by John Dury (1596-1680), preacher.

Autograph letter signed, to Archbishop Laud, 31 December 1634.

A folio composite volume of state letters and papers for 1636, in various hands, 93 leaves, in modern half red morocco.

Volume XLIII of the papers of Sir John Coke (1563-1644), Secretary of State.

A petition signed by Hall, to King Charles I, 12 June 1636.

Letter signed by Hall, with others, supporrting a petition sent to the Privy Council by Western clothiers, January 1637/8.

Autograph letter signed, to Archbishop Laud, from Exeter, 10 November 1638.

Wynter, X, 517-19.

Autograph letter signed, to Archbishop Laud, from Exeter, 28 September 1639.

Wynter, X, 533-5 (from Prynne's Compleat History, and misdated 1629).

Autograph letter signed, to Archbishop Laud, from Exeter, 8 October 1639.

Wynter, X, 519-20.

Autograph letter signed, to Sir Dudley Carleton, from Exeter, 8 October 1639.

Wynter, X, 520.

Autograph letter signed, to Archbishop Laud, from Exeter, 12 October 1639.

Wynter, X, 535-6 (from Prynne's Compleat History).

Autograph letter signed, to Archbishop Laud, from Exeter, 28 October 1639.

Wynter, X, 537-9 (from Prynne's Compleat History).

Autograph letter signed, to Archbishop Laud, from Exeter, 16 November 1639.

Wynter, X, 540-1 (from Prynne's Compleat History).

Letter signed by Hall and by Sir Nicholas Martyn, to the Privy Council, 17 January 1639/40.

Autograph letter signed, to Archbishop Laud, from Exeter, 18 January 1639/40.

Wynter, X, 543-4 (from Prynne's Compleat History).

Autograph letter signed, to Archbishop Laud, from Exeter, sent with a draft of Certain Irrefragable Propositions (HlJ 12), received 30 January 1639/40.

Wynter, X, 541-2 (from Prynne's Compleat History).

Autograph letter or memorandum explaining the clauses stuck at in the oath appointed by the recent synod, 18 August 1640.

A folio composite volume of correspondence of Sir Edward Nicholas (1593-1669), Secretary of State, in various hands, c.450 leaves.

Edmund Lynolde's own MS compilation (consisting of 47 leaves).

Meditations Vnmused and Vowes Vnvoted In An Epistle written to Doctor Joseph Hall late Bishop of Exceter wherein he is argued for a great wrong done to A Man of His Owne Profession in y^e late High Commission Court about an vniust and illegall sentence there passed.

A folio composite volume of chiefly state letters and papers for 1646, in various hands, 826 leaves, now in two volumes, foliated 1-422 and 424-826 respectively.

Autograph letter signed, to James Calthorp, 21 December 1649.

Facsimiles in British Literary Manuscripts Series I, ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 1981), No. 28, and in Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, First Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester, DLB 121 (Detroit, 1992), p. 159.

A quarto volume of collections in the hand of William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, 127 leaves.

A folio volume of state letters, 155 leaves, in modern calf gilt.

Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 19 of the Hopkinson MSS

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 297.

Autograph letter signed by Hall, to a lady (a long letter of condolence on the death of her son), on four octavo pages, from Higham, 23 September 1651.

A folio composite volume of letters to William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury and manuscript collector.

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

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

A folio guardbook of state letters and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 70 items, 139 leaves.

Recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 58.

Hall's partly autograph and signed last will and testament, dated 21 July 1654, emended on 7 September 1656, and proved 18 September 1656.

Wynter, I, lxxvii-lxxxi.

Probate copy of Hall's last will and testament, made by him on 21 July 1654, emended 7 September 1656, and proved 18 September 1656.

Registered copy of Hall's last will and testament, made by him on 21 July 1654, emended 7 September 1656, and proved 18 September 1656.