Sir John Harington

1560–1612

Introduction

The Principal Manuscripts

Sir John Harington of Kelston, Somerset, was an industrious literary figure who was responsible for the production of a considerable number of manuscripts, both of his own and of other authors' works, many of them evidently intended for presentation. Of his own compositions there survive autograph, or partly autograph, manuscripts of his Orlando Furioso (HrJ 7-10, including the printer's copy); of his collections of Epigrams (HrJ 20-22) and of particular epigrams (*HrJ 84, *HrJ 296, *HrJ 300, *HrJ 302); of his translation of Virgil's Aeneid, Book VI (*HrJ 18); of certain of his Metrical Paraphrases of the Psalms (*HrJ 2-3); of his Metamorphosis of Ajax (*HrJ 317, the printer's copy); of his Supplie or Addicion to the Catalogue of Bishops (*HrJ 328, *HrJ 329); and of his epistolary Short View of the State of Ireland (*HrJ 326). Three of these manuscripts (*HrJ 18, *HrJ 21, *HrJ 328) were written for presentation to Prince Henry. At least four printed exempla of The Metamorphosis of Ajax contain Harington's substantial autograph sidenotes and footnotes (*HrJ 318-321). In addition, among other notable manuscripts, a number of scribal copies were evidently produced at Harington's direction, including The Englishman's Doctor (HrJ 1); his Tract on the Succession to the Crown (HrJ 333); his discourse on Elias (HrJ 315), and his Treatise on Playe (HrJ 336), as well as a scribal draft of an unfinished epistolary discourse addressed to Joseph Hall (HrJ 316).

To all this may be added three particularly notable manuscripts of works by other authors that can be identified as products of Harington and his scribes. One is a copy of the Sidney-Countess of Pembroke Psalms which has long been associated with Harington (SiP 76). The second is the Phillipps Manuscript of Sidney's Arcadia which P.J. Croft identified as produced, and partly witten, by Harington and by two of his scribes (SiP 94). The third is one of the many extant manuscript copies of the notorious and banned treatise Leicester's Commonwealth, a manuscript recently identified by Peter Beal as a product of Harington and his amanuenses (LeC 49).

In these various manuscripts Harington employed at least two accomplished scribes, the principal one of which (sometimes known as Scribe A) has been identified by Gerard Kilroy as Harington's servant Thomas Combe.

Besides these texts, at least seven manuscript miscellanies, or volumes of collectanea, compiled or owned by Harington survive (HrJ 337-344), several containing copies of miscellaneous texts or annotations in his hand. It is, however, not always easy to distinguish Harington's autograph from the writing of his scribes, who were probably encouraged to model their penmanship on his own and, indeed, to make the transitions from one hand to another as imperceptible as possible. This is especially true of one of the most important of the Harington manuscripts, the Arundel Harington miscellany (*HrJ 337). Here is frequent evidence of a characteristic practice of Harington, which was to begin transcribing a poem, then after a line or a few lines (sometimes in the middle of a line) resign the rest of the task to a scribe, possibly making his own corrections afterwards. The common, if understandable, failure of scholars to distinguish Harington's autograph correctly has led in the past to frequent inaccuracies of description (not excluding Peter Beal's).

Four of the Harington miscellanies (HrJ 340-3), as well as manuscripts of four of his prose works (HrJ 315, *HrJ 317, *HrJ 329, HrJ 336), belong to the single most important collection of manuscripts relating to him: namely, the Harington Papers, which were acquired by the British Library in 1947 (Add. MSS 46366-46384). Of these twenty-four volumes, which comprise papers of the Harington family from the 16th to the 19th century, the first eight belonged to him, and certain other documents of his are combined with later papers in the ninth and nineteenth volumes. Some of the papers have been considerably rearranged since the 1920s, when McClure examined them, and they also contain important material to which he makes no reference. Certain of the miscellanies recorded in the entries were previously owned and, in particular instances, perhaps chiefly compiled by Sir John's father, John Harington of Stepney (c.1517-82), whose literary interests and activities were considerable in their own right: see Ruth Hughey, John Harington of Stepney: Tudor Gentleman (Columbus, Ohio, 1971). Another of the miscellanies (*HrJ 342) is of special interest since it contains a notebook relating to the Earl of Essex's expedition to Ireland, a campaign in which Harington took part. His cousin, Robert Markham, advised him to keep an accounte or journal as a matter of precaution (see McClure, p. 19). Probably a similar but more detailed notebook (now unlocated) was the Journale which, according to his own report, he was obliged to show Queen Elizabeth on his return from Ireland and which he later sent to Markham (McClure, pp. 121-2). These notebooks, and the authorship of the main report on Essex's expedition contained in the extant manuscript, are discussed in R.H. Miller, Sir John Harington's Irish Journals, Studes in Bibliography, 32 (1979), 179-86.

Untraced and Misattributed Manuscripts

A number of other works and manuscripts of Harington are known to have existed, though now untraced. References in two of his draft letters (McClure, pp. 142-4) indicate that in or after 1609 Harington presented a manuscript of his Metrical Paraphrases of the Psalms to James I. An earlier and more elaborate gift to the King was his New Year's gift in 1602/3 of a set of verses accompanying a highly ornate and perfumed lantern made of four metals, the silver reflector plate engraved with a series of religious images. The verses (the original presentation manuscript of which may have survived until as late as the 19th century), as well as illustration of the lantern, are preserved in manuscript copies (HrJ 20, *HrJ 21, HrJ 26). What may possibly be yet another manuscript of this New Year's gift was owned by William Drummond of Hawthornden: see The Library of Drummond of Hawthornden, ed. Robert H. Macdonald (Edinburgh, 1971), No. 1363.

Scribal copies made for Harington of three letters sent to him from the Scottish Court partly in response to this gift are among the Harington Papers (Add. MS 46381, ff. 138v, 141v, 145v). At about the same time Harington also sent James an autograph copy of his collected Epigrams, a copy sent by Cap. Hunter and described in the special dedicatory epigram as a present heer of skribled pages…A work in which my pen yt self engages (McClure No. 347, p. 287). Perhaps it was this manuscript that Harington had particularly in mind when he referred in the dedicatory epistle of his Aeneid, Book VI to some other of my toys w^ch yowr Ma^tie was pleased to look on…written of to lyght matters. He probably also sent more manuscripts to Prince Henry besides those which are known. For instance, he sent him by my servant such matters as your Highness did covet to see, in regard to Bishop Gardener of Winchester, which I shall sometime more largely treat of (McClure, p. 127). Fortunately the larger treatise that Harington promised, his Supplie or Addicion to the Catalogue of Bishops, is preserved in the copy later presented to the Prince (*HrJ 328). At an earlier period, Harington must certainly have presented copies of some of his epigrams to Queen Elizabeth, employing contrived stratagems to bring them to her attention, such as on the occasion when he left a copy of his epigram in praise of her reading (HrJ 56-60.5) behinde her cushion at my departinge from her presence (Nugae Antiquae (1804), I, 172). For another notable deployment of a Booke, for the entertainment of the Queen's ladies, see *HrJ 302. Not long before Elizabeth's death he tried to cheer her with some more verses, but by then she was understandably paste [her] relishe for such matters (McClure, p. 97).

Among Harington's lost works, a diary for 1594-1603, entitled Breefe Notes and Remembraunces, survived at least until the early 19th century, for extracts from it are printed in Nugae Antiquae (1804), I, 165-82. In the notes after Book XXIII of Orlando Furioso (1591) Harington mentions having written a litle dialogue of mariage in his young dayes. In the notes after Book XLIV he refers to Foxe's account of the troubles of the future Queen Elizabeth in the reign of Queen Mary, an account which Harington, Thomas Arundell (1560-1639), and Sir Edward Hoby (1560-1617) were obliged to translate at Eton. This litle booke, he says, was given to her Majestie. In the notes after Book XVII he claims that the felicitie of our realme of England and the gracious and myld government of our Soveraigne are subjects requiring an entire treatise…and therefore I reserve it wholly for an other worke of mine owne, if God give me abilitie to performe it. It is not clear whether Harington did performe it or whether his politic desire to praise the reign of Elizabeth manifested itself sufficiently in his known works.

Elsewhere it is evident that more ink must have been spilt in the controversy with Joseph Hall concerning the marriage of clergy and the voluntary separation of married partners. Hall's apologeticall discourse on the subject, published in his Epistles (1608), Decade II, Epistle 3, must have prompted a reply from Harington, to which Hall made a counter-reply in his letter to Harington published in Epistles (1611), Decade V, Epistle 9, a work which in turn provoked Harington's unfinished discourse (HrJ 316).

A more substantial work by Harington is mentioned in the anonymous pamphlet (? by one Young) Ulysses upon Ajax (London, 1596), sig. D3^v. After heartily condemning Harington's Metamorphosis of Ajax, his Orlando Furioso, and his obscene Epigrams, the writer turns for more favourable comment to his succinct collection of historie: his compendious & apt obseruatios in the Emperors liues, for thus much touching his succinct obseruations out of the Emperors liues…I like that [work] best which, is longest. Perhaps the writer's last remark should not be taken literally. It seems unlikely that Harington would ever have produced anything longer than Orlando Furioso, but his work on the Emperors may well have been longer than The Metamorphosis of Ajax, which is the main target of Ulysses upon Ajax. There are many references in Orlando Furioso and Harington's other works indicating his familiarity with the lives of the Emperors. In the notes after Book XXXV, for instance, he says, Of Augustus Caesars faultes both Suetonius and Plutarke have written at large, and I am loth to renew the memorie of them except I did also [i.e. unless I were also to] recite his many vertues which made large recompence for his few vices. Possibly the work was planned as a collection of imperial biographies rather like the Scriptores historiae Augustae, which is cited in The Metamorphosis of Ajax (ed. Elizabeth Donno, p. 107).

It is also possible that Harington even produced a translation of Lucretius's De rerum natura. In a mid-17th-century 45-page octavo commonplace book now in the National Library of Wales (Wynnstay MS 20), a list of books on f. 17r includes the tantalizing reference Lucretus translat. by S^r John Harrington.

The extent of Harington's literary activities and the corresponding dissemination of his manuscripts, as well as printed works, are well attested. In the dedicatory epistle of his Aeneid, Book VI, for instance, he says that he would like to have all his earlier works burnt in one fyer, save that so many of them are so flown abroad in England and Scotland, as not my reclamacion, nay hardly yo^r Ma^ties proclamacion myght call them in. It is indeed possible that more of his manuscripts are to be found, in collections of some of his associates perhaps, although caution is necessary given the occasional spurious attributions that have been made. In his catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), A.S.W. Rosenbach claimed, for instance, that his item 186, a miscellany now in the Rosenbach Museum & Library (MS 1083/15), was perhaps compiled by Harington since one of the hands had certain similarities with his, as indeed it does. Another miscellany, now in the Bodleian (MS Rawl. poet. 31), was inaccurately described by one of its owners as a collection of Sir John Harringtons Poems Written in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. However, since this manuscript (which can date no earlier than the 1620s) contains a number of poems addressed to Harington's cousin, Lucy, Countess of Bedford, it is possible that an owner made his assumption on the basis of some positive connection it had with one branch of the Harington family. Similar associations were responsible for McClure's attributing to Harington the discourse The Prayse of Private Life, although it seems more likely to be the work of his friend Samuel Daniel (see DaS 44.5-46). A manuscript text of one of Harington's epigrams (HrJ 82) is part of a volume (now in the East Sussex Record Office) which may also conceivably have had some association with the Harington family. It is a large volume of state letters and poems, including Donne's obsequy on the Countess of Bedford's brother, Sir John Harington, second Baron Harington of Exton (1592-1614), and a letter of consolation written to their mother by one John Grange.

Harington's Library

Harington must, of course, have possessed a library. His works provide abundant evidence of his wide reading and of the probably nature of his library. Lists of some of his (and perhaps his son's) books — including tracts by Hall, Donne, and Lancelot Andrewes, plays by Shakespeare and others, and such items as Two paper bookes to translate Latin into englishe & englishe into latin and One Booke for Examples of The Educacon of youthe — appear in one of his miscellanies (*HrJ 338). His library must have been dispersed, to other branches of the Harington family and perhaps elsewhere, before the total demolition of his house at Kelston in the 18th century (see Ian Grimble, The Harington Family (London, 1957), pp. 236-7).

Apart from his annotated exemplum of Godwin's Catalogue of Bishops (*HrJ 328), and a single volume of a work by Ubuldini that came to light in 1951 (*HrJ 346), the only extant printed volumes belonging to him known at present are exempla of his own works. The annotated exempla of The Metamorphosis of Ajax (*HrJ 318-21) have already been mentioned, though no doubt he would have presented others to friends and relatives, including one to Sir Robert Cecil (see McClure, pp. 93-4). Various exempla of Orlando Furioso, a number in large folio format, with coloured title-pages and often bearing his autograph corrections, as well as fine binding, were certainly presented to people in his circle. Examples mentioned in Scott-Warren (pp. 49-51) include one inscribed by Harington to Sir Thomas Coningsby, the title-page illustrated in Scott-Warren on p. 53. This was item 392 in Rosenbach's catalogue of English Poetry to 1700 (1941), and is now in the Rosenwald Collection in the Library of Congress. Another, apparently presented to Lord Burghley, is in the British Library (C. 57. h. 1): see Howard M. Nixon, A London Binding for Lord Burghley, 1591, The Book Collector, 26 (Spring 1977), 84-5, and his Five Centuries of English Bookbinding (London, 1978), Plate 24. Another, in the library of Robert S Pirie, New York, is inscribed for my Lady of Sowthampton, and yet another privately owned in the USA is inscribed for Master [John] Ashley Master of the Iewell-howse. For the volume presented by Harington to his mother-in-law, see *HrJ 22. For a single exemplum with Harington's autograph corrections, no doubt characteristic of many other exempla of Orlando Furioso, see *HrJ 8.5. Volumes from Harington's personal library might perhaps otherwise be expected to contain, if not his signature, his rebus (representing his family name) of a hare, with a ring in its mouth, on a barrel (or tun).

It is possible too that some books and manuscript discourses, some dating back to medieval times, possibly owned by Sir John Harington, were among the Harington family papers which were sold by Dr Harington of Bath at Sotheby's on 2 July 1816, lots 70-103.

Letters

Of Harington's correspondence, sixty-two letters are printed from various sources in McClure. The texts of seventeen letters are edited from Nugae Antiquae, and six other letters from other printed sources. The rest are edited from the autograph originals or from manuscript copies. These are given entries in CELM (HrJ 347-412), including a number of more recently discovered letters not in McClure and the originals of some of the letters that McClure edits from printed sources. A Coppy of a lre from m^r Sydney to S^r John Harryngton, [? June 1592], is in Bodleian, MS Add. D. 109, f. 98r-v.

Epigrams

Of all Harington's literary works, those which may have had the widest manuscript circulation among his contemporaries are his Epigrams (which were written under his pseudonym, Misacmos, meaning a hater of filthiness). Copies of individual epigrams or groups of them evidently circulated at Court, within the Inns of Court, and elsewhere, and they were frequently recopied in 17th-century miscellanies. The texts found in miscellanies often represent early versions. Harington made numerous revisions when preparing fair copies of large numbers of epigrams from his scatterd papers, and it was revised versions that were posthumously published (from unspecified copy-texts) in 1615 and 1618. Some eighty or more epigrams found in his own manuscript collections (a number of these epigrams also occuring in miscellanies) were not published until the twentieth century.

A few other epigrams are found ascribed to Harington in manuscript sources, probably without authority, although the instances of patently false ascription are rare. A 26-line poem Against D^r. Prickett (Prickett, ye phisicke doct^r, loues a whore) is subscribed S^r. J: Harrington in an Oxford miscellany of the 1630s now in the New York Public Library, Arents Collection (Cat. No. S288, pp. 111-12). A couplet On a Lawyer (God works wonders now and then), found in innumerable miscellanies, is occasionally ascribed to Harington, or appears among other epigrams of his. It was printed under the heading An Epitaph by a man of his Father as the eighth of nine Epigrammes by Sir I. H. and others appended to I[ohn] C[lapham], Alcilia, Philoparthens Louing Folly (London 1613). This circumstance might account for its connection with Harington, but he is not known to have written any epitaphs, either serious or satirical. The couplet also features in the Jonson apocrypha: see Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy and Evelyn Simpson, VIII (Oxford, 1947), 444, and C.F. Main, Two Items in the Jonson Apocrypha, N&Q, 199 (June 1954), 243-5. Another epitaph associated with Harington is one on his mother, Isabella Markham, beginning A body chast, a vertuous mind, a temperat toung, an humble hart. He quotes this in his notes after Book XXIX of Orlando Furioso as an epitaph written by a better pen then mine, but by someone well acquainted with her conditions. At least one of his contemporaries believed that Harington composed this epitaph himself. On an endpaper in a printed exemplum of Nicolo Contarini, De perfectione rerum (Lyons, 1587), a volume once in Archbishop Sancroft's library and now at Emmanuel College, Cambridge (S. 14. 3. 37.), there is written a slightly variant version subscribed hir son, I am. J. H. vpo his Mother…. This text is followed by a parody, headed Art tho^u hir son whi than in the / We shall the Dams true Image see, the last line containing an allusion to The Metamorphosis of Ajax.

Miscellaneous

As a footnote to Harington's translation of the Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum (see HrJ 1) it may be added that another English translation of the work is to be found in manuscripts. This begins All Salerne Schoole thus write to Englands King and was made by the Translator Generall in his Age, Philemon Holland (1552-1637). This version is found, for instance, in a medical miscellany in the British Library (Sloane MS 738, ff. 114r-26r). A twenty-three page manuscript of what appears to be the same version, described in a sale catalogue as probably the (anonymous) author's autograph and dated c.1650, was sold at Sotheby's, 6 February 1973, lot 270, to Maggs. Holland's translation was first published in 1617, and a new edition appeared in 1649.

Abbreviations

1615: Epigrams Both Pleasant and Serious, Written by that All-worthy Knight, Sir Iohn Harrington (London, 1615).
1618: The most elegant and witty epigrams of Sir Iohn Harrington, digested into foure Bookes (London, 1618).
Craig: Hugh Craig, Sir John Harington: Six Letters, a Postscript, and a Case in Chancery, English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700, 5 (1995), 43-62.
Evans: Robert C. Evans, Sir John Harington and Thomas Sutton: New Letters from the Charterhouse, John Donne Journal, 7/2 (1988), 213-37.
Hughey: Ruth Hughey, The Arundel Harington Manuscript of Tudor Poetry, 2 vols (Columbus, Ohio, 1960).
Kilroy: The Epigrams of Sir John Harington, ed. Gerard Kilroy (Farnham, 2009).
McClure: The Letters and Epigrams of Sir John Harington together with The Prayse of Private Life, ed. Norman Egbert McClure (Philadelphia, 1930; reprinted New York, 1970).
Nugae Antiquae: Nugae Antiquae, ed. Henry Harington, 2 vols (London & Bath, 1769-75); 2nd edition, 3 vols (London & Bath, 1779; reprinted 1792); 3rd edition revised by Thomas Park, 2 vols (London, 1804; reprinted New York, [1970s]).
Scott-Warren: Jason Scott-Warren, Sir John Harington and the Book as Gift (Oxford, 2001).

Verse

(1) Translations

The Englishman's Doctor, or The School of Salerne ('The Salerne Schoole doth by these lines impart')

First published in London, 1607. Edited by Francis R. Packard and Fielding H. Garrison as The School of Salernum (London, 1922). Edited anonymously as The School of Salernum (Salerno, 1953). A version of lines 1-8 quoted in The Metamorphosis of Ajax (see HrJ 317-22.8).

HrJ 1

Copy, with possibly autograph corrections, of Harington's translation of the late 11th-early 12th century poem Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum (by Joannes de Mediolano?), untitled, 28 leaves, in marbled wrappers.

Early 17th century

J. Bindley. Used by Malone. Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1836), item 1307. Formerly Phillipps MS 9132. Sotheby's, 17 May 1897 (Phillipps sale), lot 372. Sotheby's, 19 May 1913, lot 797. Bibliotheca Osleriana No. 7623. Bequeathed by Osler 1928.

This MS recorded but not collated by editors; described by H.F.B. Brett-Smith in BQR, 5 (1926-9), 307. Facsimiles of p. 1 in 1922 edition, facing p. 75, and in 1953 edition, p. 12. The variants in this MS from the early printed text are listed by Edmond Malone (1741-1812) in his exemplum of the edition of 1624 in the Bodleian, Mal. 507.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 32)

The Hermaphrodite

See HrJ 71.

Metrical Paraphrases of the Psalms ('Right happie hee that neither walked hath')

Harington's complete Psalter, intended for publication just before his death, but unpublished.

*HrJ 2

Autograph

Copy of Harington's translation of the Seven Penitential Psalms (Nos. 6, 32, 38, 51, 102, 130, 143), partly autograph, partly in the hand of an amanuensis with autograph revisions. c.1609.

Psalms 38, 102, and 130 edited from this MS in Karl E. Schmutzler, Harington's Metrical Paraphrases of the Seven Penitential Psalms: Three manuscript Versions, PBSA, 53 (1959), 240-51. Facsimile of part of f. 104 (Psalm 6) in Petti, English Literary Hands (1977), No. 31 (where it is mistakenly described as entirely autograph, but see P.J. Croft's review in TLS (24 February 1978), p. 241).

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 ff. 104r-7r)

*HrJ 3

Autograph

Autograph draft, with revisions, of Harington's translation of Psalms 1, 3, and 4.

A folio composite volume of papers, in various hands, 135 leaves, in red half-morocco.

Late 16th century-1612

Inscribed (f. 41r) I ffrancis Harington of Compton Dando in the countie of Somset dated 7 February 1609; (f. 57r) John Brock his Bok; and (f. 121r) John Harington his Book 1689. Acquired from the Rev. J. C. Jackson, 25 May 1867.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 25000 through 29999 (Add. MS 27632 f. 33r)

HrJ 4

Copy of Harington's translation of Psalms 42 and 50.

A quarto volume of miscellaneous papers largely relating to Ireland, in several hands, ii + 65 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum.

Volume IV of the Harington Papers.

c.1599-1609

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 45000 through 49999 (Add. MS 46369 ff. 18v-9v)

HrJ 5

Copy of Harington's complete Psalter, entitled King Davids Psalmes, inscribed in a later hand on a flyleaf The Psalmes putt into verse by S^r John Harrington, iv + 96 folio leaves.

Early 17th century

Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor, dated 1701. Among the collections of Francis Douce (1757-1834), antiquary and collector.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Douce 361)

HrJ 6

Copy of Harington's complete Psalter, in a professional secretary hand, entitled King Davids Psalmes, 231 quarto pages, imperfect, in contemporary vellum.

Early 17th century

Inscribed James Harington: i.e.? Sir James Harington, of Merton, Oxfordshire. and Bickford-Dunland. Dobell's sale catalogue No, 68 (1941), item 380.

This MS discussed in Schmutzler.

Ohio State University, English Department Library (Spec. MS Eng. 16)

Of a faire woman. translated out of Casaneus his Catalogus gloriae mundi

See HrJ 100-101.

Orlando Furioso ('Of Dames, of Knights, of armes, of loves delight')

First published in London, 1591. Edited by Robert McNulty (Oxford, 1972). Printed and manuscript exempla discussed in Gerard Kilroy, Advertising the Reader: Sir John Harington's Directions in the Margent, English Literary Renaissance, 41/1 (Winter, 2011), 64-110.

(2) Epigrams

(i) Collections of Epigrams

Epigrams

Seven Epigrams first published in Epigrammes by Sir J. H. and others appended to J[ohn] C[lapham], Alcilia, Philoparthens Louing Folly (London, 1613). 116 Epigrams published in London, 1615. 346 Epigrams published in London, 1618. 428 Epigrams edited in McClure (1930), pp. 145-322. See also HrJ 26.5-314.8. All the Epigrams published as The Epigrams of Sir John Harington, ed. Gerard Kilroy (Farnham, 2009).

HrJ 20

Copy of 409 Epigrams, in the neat italic hand of one of Harington's amanuenses and in the hand of his brother Francis, ncluding (pp. [256]-266) the English and Latin verses for Harington's new yeeres guifte to King James in 1602/3; with a gilt drawing of the lantern, Harington's welcome to King James and to Queen Anne; and his verses Musa jocosa meos solari assueta dolores.

The epigrams in this MS collated in McClure and in Kilroy. Four previously unpublished epigrams edited from this MS in R.H. Miller, Unpublished Poems by Sir John Harington, ELR, 14 (1984), 148-58. Extracts also edited from this MS by EU. HOOD (i.e. Joseph Haslewood) in Gentleman's Magazine, 97, ii (1827), pp. 191-21, 128, 392. The verses on pp. [256]-266 in Kilroy, pp. 252-8, and Additional material edited from this MS on pp. 295-309.

Facsimiles of p. 27 of the MS in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XLV(d), and of pp. 132-3 in McClure, facing p. 298.

A quarto volume of texts principally by Sir John Harington, including (p. c) Latin and English verses by Francis Harington; (pp. 195-201) Latin exercyses (with translations) by Harington's son, John; (and pp. 203-5) more Latin and English verses, followed by an index to the volume and a Latin epigram on tobacco, with a translation, the MS probably originally prepared as a presentation MS, with (pp. iv-v) a dedication to Prince Henry dated 19 June 1605, 268 pages, imperfect, lacking pp. 11-12, in contemporary calf elaborately gilt.

c.1605

Inscribed (p. [i]) R. Joyner[?] Sandwich.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 10000 through 14999 (Add. MS 12049 pp. 1-254)

*HrJ 21

Autograph

Copy of 408 epigrams (including SuH 42), described by Harington as this Collection or rather confusion of all my ydle Epigrams, comprising four Bookes of (sometimes erratically numbered) 99, 100, 103 and 106 epigrams respectively (including SuH 41), all in the accomplished italic hand of Harington's servant Thomas Combe, with Harington's frequent autograph corrections and insertions.

Edited from this MS in Kilroy. Seven previously unpublished epigrams edited from this MS in R.H. Miller, Unpublished Poems by Sir John Harington, ELR, 14 (1984), 148-58. This MS recorded, and those epigrams which also occur in the Arundel Harington MS are collated, in Hughey. See also HrJ 20, HrJ 26, and HrJ 213.

Facsimile example of p. 60 in R.H. Miller, Sir John Harington's Manuscripts in Italic, SB, 40 (1987), 101-6 (p. 104). Facsimile of pp. 256-7 (including the lantern) in Heather Wolfe, The Pen's Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, 2002), p. 106. Facsimiles of pp. 122, 256 (the lantern) and p. 261 (engraving of the Mystery of the Rosary) in Kilroy, Plates 5, 6 and 9, after p. 178.

A quarto volume of Harington's epigrams, with related poems, in the accomplished italic hand of his servant Thomas Combe, with Harington's frequent autograph corrections and insertions, written as a presentation copy to Prince Henry (via James I), vi + 268 pages (two numbered twice), in contemporary calf elaborately gilt.

Including (pp. 256-63) a watercolour drawing of the lantern, with accompanying English and Latin verses, which Harington gave to King James as a New Year's gift in 1602/3; (p. 264) Harington's welcome to King James and to Queen Anne; (pp. 256-6) his verses Musa jocosa meos solari assueta dolores; and (p. 261) an engraving of the Mysteries of the Rosary, with (p. 1) an address To James the Sixt king of Scotland The dedication of the coppie sent by Captayn Hunter, and (pp. [iv-v]) a dedicatory epistle to Prince Henry, dated in Harington's hand (and probably presented to the Prince shortly after) 19 June 1605.

1605

Inscribed R. Joyce Emmerson Sandwich. Item 14 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Later owned by George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor. Sotheby's, 22 February 1932 (Thorn-Drury sale), lot 2405.

Including (p. [iii]) a 19th-century copy of James I's letter of thanks for this gift, transcribed from the original letter in British Library Add. MS 46381, f. 145r.

Edited from this MS in Kilroy, with colour facsimiles of the lantern, of page 122, of the binding, of the coloured title-page, and the engraving on p. 261 (Kilroy, Plates 5-9, after p. 178). Facsimile of pp. 256-7 (including the lantern) in Heather Wolfe, The Pen's Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, 2002), p. 106. Facsimile of the lantern in Scott-Warren, p. 194.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 200 through 299 (MS V.a.249 pp. 2-254)

*HrJ 22

Autograph

Fair copy, in the italic hand of Harington's servant Thomas Combe, of 52 Epigrams relating to Harington's wife and mother-in-law, on thirty folio pages, subscribed Finis 1600, bound with a printed exemplum of Orlando Furioso (London, 1591) the title-page of which is illuminated in colours, presented to Harington's mother-in-law, Lady Jane Rogers, with a dedicatory epistle to her (...I haue added to it as manie of the toyes I haue formerly written to you and your daughter, as I could collect out of my scattered papers...), dated in Harington's hand 19 December 1600 and signed by him, in red calf elaborately gilt, the name IANE ROGERS on the front cover and MARY HARYNGTON on the rear cover both in gilt.

1600

This MS collated in McClure, and the epistle printed pp. 86-7, and collated in Kilroy (pp. 259-74). Facsimile pages in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XLV(c); in Flower & Munby, English Poetical Autographs, p. 4; and in R.H. Miller, Sir John Harington's Manuscripts in Italic, SB, 40 (1987), 101-6 (pp. 103-4). Facsimiles of the binding and dedication to Lady Jane Rogers in Scott-Warren, pp. 100 and 105.

Cambridge University Library, shelfmarks A through D (Adv. b. 8. 1)

HrJ 23

Fair copy of 65 Epigrams, with no general heading.

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 ff. 120r-32v)

HrJ 24

Epigrams.

Fair copy of eighteen Epigrams (McClure Nos. 261, 5, 67, 308, 262, 326, 338, 121, 122 (same as 329), 142, 356, 337, 366, 246, 270, 263, 248, 421), plus a Latin version of No. 421 (The Like in Latten, beginning Stirpis Haringtoniæ Soboles pulcherrima Sara), in a secretary and italic hand, on six quarto leaves, inscribed on the front paper wrapper in a later hand A Booke of verses made by S^r: John Harrington knight who dwelt at Bathe.

Early 17th century

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 121)

HrJ 25 Early 17th century

Copy of ten Epigrams (McClure Nos. 188, 271, 31, 302, 337, 67, 90, 267, 338, and 329), in an italic hand, headed Certaine Epigram's out of a Pamphlet called Misacmos: Merriments, composed by Sir Jhon Harryngton.

In Harington's letter of 19 December 1600 to Lucy, Countess of Bedford (copy on f. 303v), he presents these epigrams to her. The present MS is probably a copy deriving from the MS he sent to her.

This MS recorded in McClure, p. 390, and the letter printed p. 87; also discussed in Frances Berkeley Young, The Triumphe of Death translated out of Italian by the Countesse of Pembrooke, PMLA, 27 (1912), 47-75.

A folio composite volume of state tracts and miscellaneous papers, in various largely professional hands, 480 leaves, in red morocco gilt.

Inner Temple Library (Petyt MS 538, Vol. 43 ff. 289v-92r)

HrJ 26

Transcript of seven English and Latin poems by Harington written in 1602 to accompany his new year's gift of a lantern to King James, four large quarto leaves (plus blanks), in 19th-century calf (rebacked).

Made by John Leyden (1775-1811), linguist and poet, as an Authentic Copy from the original in the University Library, Edin^r. March 26. 1802.

1802

Edited from this transcript in Nugae Antiquae (1804), I, 325-35. What Leyden calls the original is no longer in Edinburgh University Library and is untraced.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 19.3.2)

Against D^r. Prickett ('Prickett, ye phisicke doct^r, Loues a whore')

(ii) Individual Epigrams

[in addition to those in HrJ 20-6]

Against an extreame flatterer that preached at Bathe on the Queens day the fortith yeare of her Raigne

Kilroy, p. 196.

HrJ 26.5

Copy, in a probably professional secretary hand, with other verses, on one side of a single folio leaf.

A folio composite volume of correspondence and papers, many in Tresham's hand, 250 leaves.

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

c.1598-1605

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 35000 through 39999 (Add. MS 39829 f. 93r)

Against Swearing ('In elder times an ancient custome was')

First published in Henry Fitzsimon, S.J., The Justification and Exposition of the Divine Sacrifice of the Masse (Douai, 1611). 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 9. McClure No. 263, p. 256. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 30, p. 220.

HrJ 27

Copy, headed Of Othes, subscribed Authore Ben: Jonsonio.

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, 64 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum.

Compiled by Leweston Fitzjames (1574-1638), of Leweston, Dorset, and the Middle Temple.

c.1595-early 17th century

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Add. B. 97 f. 39r)

HrJ 28 Late 17th century

Copy, on a single folio leaf of verse.

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. 117v)

HrJ 29 Mid-late 17th century

Second copy.

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.

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 36/37 f. 126r)

HrJ 30

Copy, headed Of swearing.

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. 47r)

HrJ 31

Copy.

A small folio miscellany of medical receipts, chemical experiments, and verse, in a single small hand, 62 leaves (chiefly blank).

Compiled by one John Stansby.

c.1669

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 1463 p. 2)

HrJ 32

Copy, headed The degrees of sweareing.

An octavo verse miscellany compiled by an Oxford University man, i i + 37 leaves, in later half-calf.

c.1630s

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

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Douce f. 5 fol. 34r)

HrJ 33

Copy, headed The degrees of swearinge.

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

c.1620s-30s

The name George Brown inscribed on p. 14. Inscribed on p. i by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector Feb 13. 1790. I this day purchased this Manuscript Collection of Poems, at the sale of Mr Brander's books, at the exorbitant price of Ten Guineas. EMalone.

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 19 p. 51)

HrJ 34

Copy, untitled.

A folio verse miscellany, entirely in the professional secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe, containing some 76 poems, including eleven by Donne, later inscribed (erroneously) Sir John Haringtons Poems Written in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, 56 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

c.1620s-33

From the library of Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755), nonjuring bishop and topographer.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Rawlinson MS: DnJ Δ 38. Also briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 277 (No. 94), with facsimile examples on pp. 102-3.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 1 through 49 (MS Rawl. poet. 31 f. 3r-v)

HrJ 35

Copy.

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

c.1630

The table of contents (f. 155v) subscribed Margrett Bellasys, possibly the daughter of Thomas Belasyse (1577-1652), first Viscount Fauconberg of Henknowle. The front endpaper later inscribed The pieces which I have extracted for The Specimens are, Page 91, 211, 265: i.e. possibly by Thomas Campbell (1777-1844), editor of Specimens of the British Poets first published in 1809. Afterwards owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Evans (Sotheby's), 29 February 1836 (Heber sale, Part VIII), lot 13.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 10000 through 14999 (Add. MS 10309 ff. 62v-3r)

HrJ 36

Copy, headed Juramenta antiqua, subscribed S^r John Har:.

An octavo verse miscellany, entitled Juvenilia Ludicra, in a single small mixed hand, 103 leaves, all now window mounted in a quarto volume, in 19th-century half morocco.

Probably compiled by a Cambridge University man.

c.1630s

Inscribed in engrossed lettering (f. 1r) E Libris Richard Sutclif. Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1830-84), merchant and author. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 194.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 15000 through 16999 (Add. MS 15227 f. 5v)

HrJ 37

Copy, headed On Swearinge.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single neat predominantly italic hand, 72 leaves, in old leather.

Probably compiled by one H.S., a Cambridge man.

c.1640s-50s

Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector, with his bookplate and inscription 1806 Purchased of Lansdown of Bristol. Bliss sale, 21 August 1858, lot 192.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999 (Add. MS 22603 f. 32v)

HrJ 38

Copy, headed Against D^r Patton who preached against swearing by the crosse and masse made by a Papist.

A duodecimo verse miscellany in several hands, written from both ends, 46 leaves, in contemporary calf.

Mid-17th century

Inscribed names (on front paste-down and f. 1r) of Fra: Norreys (? Sir Francis Norris (1609-69)) and Hen. Balle. Purchased from J. Harvey 8 December 1877.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2421 f. 19r)

HrJ 39

Copy, untitled.

An independent quarto verse miscellany, including 47 poems by Donne, in two secretary hands.

Constituting ff. 230r-99v in a quarto composite volume of verse and prose, in various hands, 308 leaves, in modern half green morocco gilt.

c.1620-33

Among the collections of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724), and his son, Edward, second Earl of Oxford (1681-1741), and acquired in 1722 from the bookseller Nathaniel Noel (fl.1681-c.1753).

Cited in IELM I.i as the Harley Noel MS: DnJ Δ 2.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 4000 through 4999 (Harley MS 4064 f. 233r)

HrJ 39.5

Copy, in a secretary hand, words only, untitled, with a general heading in the margin Varietie of Catches.

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

Early 17th century

Inscriptions including (f. 1v) Richard Shinton his booke Witnis Thomas ffowke; (f. 40r, in a court hand) Thomas Shinton of Woluerhamt; (f. 42v) Richard Shinton this Booke did owe. And John Congreue the Same doth know / 1633, Richard Congreve, Jane Hart is my name; and (f. 44v) Martha Congreve, and Elizabeth Congreve Writ this. Purchased from Thomas Rodd, bookseller, 13 April 1844.

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 15118 f. 43r)

HrJ 40

Copy, headed Of Sweaeringe.

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 f. 41v)

HrJ 41

Copy, untitled.

A duodecimo miscellany of verse and jests, in a minute hand, compiled by a Cambridge man, 59 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt.

c.1630

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1489 f. 10r)

HrJ 42

Copy, headed Of Swaring.

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

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

c.1637-51

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

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

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 200 through 299 (MS V.a.262 pp. 83-4)

HrJ 43

Copy, headed The degrees of Swearing.

An octavo verse miscellany, predominantly in two very small hands (A: ff. 1r-44v; B: ff. 44v-87v), with further verse and prose pieces in other hands on ff. 88r-121r, written from both ends, associated with Oxford, possibly New College, and probably afterwards with the Inns of Court, 155 leaves (including 33 blanks), in modern black morocco elaborately gilt.

Including 23 poems by Strode (and second copies of two poems) and one poem of doubtful authorship.

c.1630s

Including (ff. 98r-100r) a letter by one Pet[er] Wood. Inscribed (ff. 90r-1r), Thease verses I borroed to write out of John Sherly [d. 1666] a booke seller in litle Brittaine, 28^th of March 1633. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9235. Sotheby's, 21 February 1938, lot 243.

Cited in IELM II.ii (1993), as the Wood MS: StW Δ 21. Discussed in C.F. Main, New Texts of John Donne, SB, 9 (1957), 225-33.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 686 f. 17v)

HrJ 44

Copy, untitled.

A folio verse miscellany, 148 leaves (foliated 161-206), once bound (reversed) with an independent miscellany (Huntington, HM 198, Part I), rebound with this MS (in continuous form without inversion) in 1832 (by Charles Lewis).

Including 59 poems by Donne (and second copies of six poems), in probably six professional secretary hands: A (ff. 1r-25v, 82r-129r); B (ff. 26r, 42v-7v, 49r-63r, 63v-79r, 130r-48r); C (ff. 27r-36v, 41r-2v; with occasional corrections possibly in hand B); D (ff. 37r-40v); E (ff. 63r-v); and F (f. 129v).

c.1620-33

Scribbling includes the name Meriall Tracy (on f. 148v). Later owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary; by Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough, antiquary; and by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector (his library, lot 624). Sotheby's, 17 July 1917 (Huth sale), lot 5873.

Recorded in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Haslewood-Kingsborough MS (II): DnJ Δ 26. Discussed in C.M. Armitage, Donne's Poems in Huntington Manuscript 198: New Light on The Funerall, SP, 63 (1966), 697-707.

A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 15). Betagraph of the watermark in f. 43 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. 240).

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 198, Part II f. 45v)

HrJ 45

Copy, untitled.

An octavo miscellany of English and Latin verse and prose, in a small secretary hand, 79 leaves (largely blank), disbound.

Early 17th century

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt 25 f. 8r)

HrJ 46

Copy, here beginning In older times an auncient custome was.

An octavo verse miscellany, in two hands, one mixed hand predominating, 128 pages (plus a five-page index).

Inscribed, and probably compiled, by Hugh Barrow (b.1617/18), of Brasenose College, Oxford.

c.1638

Also inscribed names of George Hope, Peter Wynne and [?]Anselm Huff. Later owned by Dr A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952), Philadelphia bookseller and scholar: Rosenbach MS 192.

New York Public Library, Arents Collection (Cat. No. S 288 (Acc. No. 5442) p. 81)

HrJ 46.5

Copy, untitled, here beginning In the elder Time the auncient custome was.

Copy of verse and prose, in a secretary hand, on three pages of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves.

Early 17th century

Northamptonshire Record Office (IL 4259 p. [3])

HrJ 47

Copy, headed Swearing.

A quarto verse miscellany, including fifteen poems by Donne, with a title-page Miscellanies Or A Collection of Diuers Witty and pleasant Epigrams, Adages, poems Epitaphes &c for the recreation of y^e ouertravelled sences: 1630 Robert Bishop, in a single mixed hand, probably associated with the University of Oxford, 306 pages, in old calf.

c.1630

Owned and probably compiled by Robert Bishop. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9549. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue, English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 187.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) as the Bishop MS: DnJ Δ 59. Edited in David Coleman Redding, Robert Bishop's Commonplace-Book: An Edition of a Seventeenth Century Miscellany (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1960) [Mic 60-3608].

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1000 through end (MS 1083/16 p. 119)

HrJ 48

Copy, untitled.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 79v)

HrJ 49

Copy.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, compiled principally in the secretary hand of a University of Oxford man, with additions in one or more other hands, 150 pages, imperfect, disbound.

c.1640

Yale, Osborn MS b 50 through Osborn MS b 99 (Osborn MS b 62 p. 22)

HrJ 50

Copy, headed On Swearing.

A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands (one predominating up to p. 167), probably associated with Oxford, 436 pages (pp. 198-9 and 269-70 skipped in the pagination, and including many blanks and an index) and numerous further blank leaves at the end, in modern black morocco gilt.

Including 14 poems by Carew, 13 poems by Corbett and 25 poems (plus one poem of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1650

Scribbling on the first page including the words Peyton Chester….

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Osborn MS I: CwT Δ 38; CoR Δ 14; StW Δ 29.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 200 pp. 23-4)

HrJ 51

Copy.

A sextodecimo verse miscellany, written from both ends in several hands (two principal ones on ff. 6r-40r, 41r et seq. respectively), 102 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf, with remains of metal clasps.

Including 45 poems by Strode and three poems of doubtful authorship.

c.1630s

Formerly Box 22, item II.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Osborn MS II: StW Δ 30.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 205 f. 47r)

The Author, of his own fortune ('Take fortune as it falles, as one aduiseth')

First published in 1618, Book I, No. 29. McClure No. 30, p. 160. Kilroy, Book I, No. 56, p. 113.

HrJ 52

Copy.

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

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

Mid-late 17th century

Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

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

Bradford Archives (32D86/34 p. 81)

HrJ 53

Copy, headed Of Fortune.

An oblong octavo verse miscellany, in a neat mixed hand up to p. 78, the remainder in later hands, 116 pages, in 19th-century half-leather marbled boards, with remains of crimson velvet.

c.1630[-1700s]

Once owned by Elizabeth Herrick (1684-1745) and her brother William Herrick (1689-1773). Formerly among the papers of the Herrick family, of Beaumanor.

This MS discussed in J.A. Taylor, Two Unpublished Poems on the Duke of Buckingham, RES, NS 40 (May 1989), 232-40.

Leicestershire Record Office (DG. 9/2796 p. 33)

The Author to his wife ('Mall, once in pleasant company by chance')

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 45. McClure No. 299, pp. 268-9. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 85, pp. 240-1, as To his wife a rule for Church house and bed beginning Of late in pleasant company by chaunce.

HrJ 53.5

Copy, headed Coniugium & matrimonium Nuptiæ, subscribed S^r Jo: Harrington Epigram y^e 50^th.

A quarto commonplace book and miscellany of verse and prose, in various hands, with additions up to 1751, ii + 662 pages (some erratically numbered), in contemporary calf.

c.1672-1715 [plus later additions]

Ownership inscriptions (pp. [i] and [662]), dated 1672, by John Digby, of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Other inscribed names including (p. 662) Thomas Digby, Edward Digby, Robert Debnam, and (p. [640]) Josh: Churchill 1694.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 586 p. 205)

HrJ 54

Copy, untitled.

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

Probably compiled by a member of an Inn of Court.

c.1630

Bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork, book collector. Formerly Rosenbach 186.

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1000 through end (MS 1083/15 pp. 172-3)

HrJ 55

Copy, Taken out of Burton's Abstract upon Malincholy.

This epigram is quoted in Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy (Oxford, 1621), Part 2, Sect. 2, Memb. 6, subs. 4.

A folio miscellany entitled Epitaphs Collected 1694, 42 pages.

c.1695

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS fb 143 pp. 32-3)

The Author to Queene Elizabeth, in praise of her reading ('For euer deare, for euer dreaded Prince')

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 13. McClure No. 267, p. 258. This epigram is also quoted in Breefe Notes and Remembraunces (Nugae Antiquae (1804), I, 172). Kilroy, Book IV, No. 88 (p. 243).

HrJ 56

Copy, headed To y^e Prince, subscribed R: corbet.

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. 21r)

HrJ 57

Copy, headed Sir John Harington to Quee: Elizabeth and here beginning Dreade, Soveraigne, and ever loueinge Prince.

c.1620s-33

From the library of Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755), nonjuring bishop and topographer.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 1 through 49 (MS Rawl. poet. 31 f. 3r)

HrJ 58

Copy, headed Ad. reg: Elizab:, subscribed S^r John Harri:.

An octavo verse miscellany, entitled Juvenilia Ludicra, in a single small mixed hand, 103 leaves, all now window mounted in a quarto volume, in 19th-century half morocco.

Probably compiled by a Cambridge University man.

c.1630s

Inscribed in engrossed lettering (f. 1r) E Libris Richard Sutclif. Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1830-84), merchant and author. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 194.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 15000 through 16999 (Add. MS 15227 f. 6r)

HrJ 59

Copy, headed S^r John Harrington to Queene Elizabeth and here beginning Dread Soveraigne and ever loving Prince.

An independent quarto verse miscellany, including 47 poems by Donne, in two secretary hands.

Constituting ff. 230r-99v in a quarto composite volume of verse and prose, in various hands, 308 leaves, in modern half green morocco gilt.

c.1620-33

Cited in IELM I.i as the Harley Noel MS: DnJ Δ 2.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 4000 through 4999 (Harley MS 4064 f. 233r)

HrJ 59.5

Copy, under a general heading Epigrammata, with a sidenote S^r Jo: Har: to y^e late Q:.

A large quarto commonplace book of extracts, proverbs, etc. under headings, chiefly in Latin, largely in a cursive secretary hand, with additions in italic script, possibly associated with Cambridge, 116 leaves (including numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum.

c.1630s

Cambridge University Library, Additional MSS 7000 through end (MS Add. 9221 f. 83r)

HrJ 60

Copy, headed S^r John Harrington to Quee. Eliza. and here beginning Dread Soueraigne & ever Loving Prince.

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

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

c.1600-1620s

Later in the library of the Rev. Richard Farmer, FSA (1735-97), Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, literary scholar. Lot 8055 in the sale of his library by Thomas King, 7 May to 16 June 1798. Probably owned afterwards by James Crossley (1800-83), author and book collector. Formerly Chetham's MS 8012.

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

Chetham's Library, Manchester (Mun. A.4.15 f. 50v (p. 75))

HrJ 60.5

Copy, untitled.

An octavo verse miscellany, written over a period in three hands (A, in alternating secretary and italic, written c.1638: ff. 1-59v; B, written c.1645: ff. 60r-9r; C, written c.1649, ff. 69v-70r), 70 leaves, in old calf.

Including thirteen poems by Strode and three of doubtful authorship.

c.1638-45 [and addition c.1649]

Later sold by Thomas Thorpe (1836). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9569. Bookplate of 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 193.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Rosenbach MS I: CwT Δ 31 and StW Δ 23.

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1 through 239 (MS 239/22 f. 8r)

The authors farewell to his Muse written at Eaton 1603 the 14th of April ('Musa jocosa meos solari assueta dolores')

The Latin version of McClure No. 427, printed in Nugae Antiquae (1804), I, 332-3, appears in the British Library, Add. MS 12049, pp. 217-18 (HrJ 20) and in the Folger, MS V.a.249, pp. 265-6 (HrJ 21). Also in A Short View of the State of Ireland (HrJ 326-327). Kilroy, Book III, No. 19, p. 258, with English version on p. 309.

A comparison of a Booke, with Cheese ('Old Haywood writes, & proues in some degrees')

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 72. McClure No. 326, pp. 276-7. Kilroy, II, Book I, No. 1, p. 130.

HrJ 61

Copy, untitled, here beginning Heiwood affirms & proves in some degrees.

A duodecimo miscellany of verse and jests, in a minute hand, compiled by a Cambridge man, 59 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt.

c.1630

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1489 f. 10v)

HrJ 62

Copy, headed Vt caseus liber and here beginning Heywood affirmes & prooues in some degrees.

A quarto verse miscellany (originally in two separate volumes), including eleven poems by Donne, chiefly in two hands, probably associated with the University of Oxford, 98 leaves, one of the original vellum covers now incorporated in modern red morocco.

Mid-17th century

Inscribed (f. 1r) Stephen Wellden and Abraham Bassano and (f. 98r) Elizabeth Weldon. Later owned by William John Thoms (1803-85), writer, antiquary and librarian. Sotheby's, 11 February 1887 (Thoms sale), lot 1092. Also owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89). Formerly Folger MS 452.4.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Welden MS: DnJ Δ 49.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 100 through 199 (MS V.a.162 f. 34r)

A dish of dainties for the Diuell ('A godly Father, sitting on a draught')

First published in The Metamorphosis of Ajax (London, 1596). 1618, Book I, No. 48. McClure No. 49, p. 166. Kilroy, Book I, No. 90, p. 125. See also HrJ 317-24.

HrJ 63

Copy of an early version, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 197, p. 242.

Mid-late 16th century

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

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 146v)

An Epitaph in commendation of George Turberuill, a learned Gentleman ('When rimes were yet but rude, thy pen endeauored')

First published in 1618, Book ?, No. 42. McClure No. 43, p. 164. Kilroy, Book I, No. 84, p. 123.

HrJ 63.5

Copy, subscribed Sir Jo: Harington, Writ -- (1631).

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

c.1680s-1702

University of California at Los Angeles (170/68 f. 71r)

A good answere of a Gentlewoman to a Lawyer ('A vertuous Dame, that saw a Lawyer rome')

First published in 1618, Book III, No. 39. McClure No. 240, pp. 248-9. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 90, p. 224.

HrJ 64

Copy, headed A gentlewomans answeare to a Lawyer.

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

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

Mid-late 17th century

Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

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

Bradford Archives (32D86/34 p. 76)

HrJ 65

Copy, untitled.

An octavo verse miscellany, entitled Juvenilia Ludicra, in a single small mixed hand, 103 leaves, all now window mounted in a quarto volume, in 19th-century half morocco.

Probably compiled by a Cambridge University man.

c.1630s

Inscribed in engrossed lettering (f. 1r) E Libris Richard Sutclif. Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1830-84), merchant and author. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 194.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 15000 through 16999 (Add. MS 15227 f. 90v)

HrJ 66

Copy, headed Of a Lawyers absence: Epi: 1.

A quarto volume of epigrams, in a single secretary hand, 25 leaves, in modern half black morocco.

c.1630s

Inscriptions (f. 1r) including Ex spolijs Richardi wharfe and Ex spolijs R: W:.

Bookplate of John Hollis (1662-1711), Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne, politician.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 1000 through 1999 (Harley MS 1836 ff. 15v-16r)

HrJ 67

Copy, untitled, imperfect, half a page torn away.

Mid-17th century

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Welden MS: DnJ Δ 49.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 100 through 199 (MS V.a.162 f. 1v)

HrJ 68

Copy, headed a lady to a Lawyer.

An octavo verse miscellany, in several hands, written from both ends, 77 leaves (including blanks), in old calf gilt.

c.1640

Formerly MS 2073.3.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 300 through end (MS V.a.319 f. 51r)

HrJ 69

Copy, headed A Lady to a Lawyer, inscribed in different ink S^r John Harrington.

A quarto verse miscellany, with later accounts on the last page dated June 1658, 1* + 238 pages (including stubs of extracted pages 191-6, plus numerous blanks), in old calf (rebacked).

Including 11 poems by Carew and 14 poems by Randolph.

c.1630s-40s

Inscribed Jane Wheeler and Tho: Oliver Busfield. Francis Quarles's poem (pp. 209-11) To y^e two partners of my heart M^r John Wheeler, and M^r Symon Tue. Item 96 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Formerly Folger MS 2071.6.

A Jo. Wheeler signed the Christ Church, Oxford, disbursement books for 1641-3 (xii, b.85 and 86).

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Wheeler MS: CwT Δ 25 and RnT Δ 7.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 300 through end (MS V.a.322 p. 47)

HrJ 69.5

Copy, headed A Caution ag^t Travelling Husbands.

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

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

c.1712-27

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

The University of Manchester Library (English MS 521 pp. 47-8)

HrJ 70

Copy, untitled.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 65v)

HrJ 70.5

Copy, headed On a lawyers absence.

Including 45 poems by Strode and three poems of doubtful authorship.

c.1630s

Formerly Box 22, item II.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Osborn MS II: StW Δ 30.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 205 f. 96r rev.)

The Hermaphrodite ('When first my mother bore me in her wombe')

A version (a translation of a Latin poem by Pulix) first published in Timothy Kendall, Flowers of Epigrammes (London, 1577). 1615. 1618, Book III, No. 37. McClure No. 238, pp. 246-7. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 32, p. 221.

HrJ 71

Copy, headed The Hermophrodite translated.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single small mixed hand throughout; 425 pages (plus an eight-page index), in contemporary calf.

Including 45 poems (and a second copy of one) by Carew, 11 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Corbett, and 25 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1634

The initials T. C. stamped on the front cover. Sold by Thomas Thorpe (1836). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9536, and by Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), of Providence, Rhode Island, industrialist, banker, and art and books collector. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 189.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Rosenbach MS II: CwT Δ 32, CoR Δ 12, and StW Δ 24. Discussed in Scott Nixon, The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 193-5).

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1 through 239 (MS 239/27 p. 170)

How England may be reformed ('Men say that England late is bankrout grown')

Not published before the 19th century (?). Quoted at the end of the Tract on the Succession to the Crown (see HrJ 333-5). McClure No. 375, p. 301. Kilroy, Book I, No. 1, p. 186.

HrJ 72

Copy, untitled, here beginning England men say of late is Banquerout growen, and subscribed finis S^r J Harrington.

This MS recorded in McCLure, p. 425.

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

c.1620s-37

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 781 p. 134)

HrJ 73

Copy, untitled and here beginning England men say of late is banquerout growne.

An octavo verse miscellany, including fourteen poems by Donne, almost entirely in a single hand, 33 leaves (plus six blanks), in contemporary vellum.

c.1630

Possibly associated with the Inns of Court. Later used, and annotated in the margin, by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) as the Fulman MS: DnJ Δ 36. Formerly Bodleian MS CCC 327.

Corpus Christi College, Oxford (MS 327 f. 24r)

HrJ 74

Copy, untitled and here beginning Englande (men say) of late is bankerupte growne.

A duodecimo notebook of verse and prose, comprising 131 interleaves in a printed exemplum of John Sansbury's Ilium in Italiam (Oxford, 1608), in contemporary calf (rebacked), blind-stamped S. S. on the upper cover.

Owned in 1619, and probably compiled, by Simon Sloper (b.1596/7), of Magdalen Hall, Oxford.

c.1620s-30s

Bought from Parker, of Oxford, 2 April 1889, by Percy Manning and bequeathed by him in 1917.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, f through end (MS Eng. poet. f. 10 fol. 97r)

HrJ 75

Copy, untitled and here beginning England men say of late is bankerupt growne.

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 p. 121)

HrJ 76

Copy, untitled and here beginning England men say of late is bankroute growne.

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

Compiled by an Oxford University man.

Early 17th century

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 200 through end (MS Rawl. poet. 212 f. 87v)

HrJ 77

Copy, headed S^r Jo. Harrington On K. James his Coming in and here beginning England (Men say) of late is banckrupt grown.

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

c.1682-91

Bodleian Library, Sancroft MSS (MS Sancroft 53 f. 47)

HrJ 78

Second copy, untitled and here beginning England, Men say, of late is Bankrupt grown.

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

c.1682-91

Bodleian Library, Sancroft MSS (MS Sancroft 53 p. 57)

HrJ 79

Copy, untitled and here beginning England (men say) of late is bankrupt growne.

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

c.1630

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 10000 through 14999 (Add. MS 10309 f. 120r)

HrJ 79.5

Copy, in a probably professional secretary hand, here beginning England of late men[?] said is bankerupte growne, with other verses, on one side of a single folio leaf.

A folio composite volume of correspondence and papers, many in Tresham's hand, 250 leaves.

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

c.1598-1605

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 35000 through 39999 (Add. MS 39829 f. 93r)

HrJ 80

Copy, untitled and here beginning England, men say of late, is bankrupte growne.

Printed from this MS in James Orchard Halliwell, Poetical Miscellanies from a Manuscript Collection of the time of James I, Percy Society (London, 1845), p. 37.

A duodecimo miscellany of verse and some prose, in one or possibly two hands, in varying secretary and italic scripts, 107 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

Compiled by someone probably connected with the Royal Court.

c.1605

Owned in 1845 by James Orchard Halliwell[-Phillipps] (1820-89), with his inscription of Andrews Bristol 1845 at the enormous Price of 6.6.0. Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Bliss sale, 21 August 1858, lot 189.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999 (Add. MS 22601 f. 60v)

HrJ 81

Copy, untitled, here beginning England men say of late is bankrout growen, inscribed S^r. J H.

A quarto miscellany of English and Latin verse and prose, largely in a neat secretary hand, 91 leaves, in limp vellum.

Early 17th century

Among the papers of the Gell family, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, including those of the Parliamentary commander and MP Sir John Gell, first Baronet (1593-1671). Formerly D258/60/26a.

Derbyshire Record Office (D258/34/26/1 f. [38v])

HrJ 82

Copy, untitled, here beginning England, men say of late is banquerot growne, subscribed S^r Jo: Harringtoⁿ.

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

c.1620s

Among the papers of the Fuller family of Brightling Park. Possibly once owned by Ambrose Trayton of Lewes, Esquire of the Body to James I and Charles I.

East Sussex Record Office (RAF/F/13/1 [unnumbered page])

HrJ 83

Copy, headed Upon England and here beginning England men say of late is Bankrupt growne.

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

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

c.1630s

Later owned and used extensively as a notebook by Dr William Balam (1651-1726), of Ely, Cambridgeshire, who also annotated Cambridge University Library MS Add. 5778 and Harvard fMS Eng 966.4. Bookplate of N. Micklethwait. Owned in 1931 by the Rev. F.W. Glass, of Taverham Hall, near Norwich (seat in the 17th century of the Sotherton family and later of the Branthwayt and Micklethwait families).

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

University of Nottingham (Pw V 37 p. 174)

HrJ 83.5

Copy, headed An Epigram showing how England might be reformed and here beginning England men say of late is bancrout grown, subscribed with the date 10 December 1602.

A quarto volume of ecclesiastical treatises, in three secretary hands, 96 leaves, in vellum boards.

Early 17th century

York Minster (MS XVI. K. 18 f. [83r])

HrJ 83.8

Copy, headed An Epigram shewing how England might be reformed and here beginning England men say of late is bankerout grown, dated 18. December. .1602.

A quarto volume, comprising a treatise by Sir John Harington, to which was subsequently added (pp. 263-8), in a cursive secretary hand, after 1623, a tract relating to a prognostication by Sebalt Brandt Schweizer, xiv + 268 pages, in contemporary vellum.

The treatise in the hands of Harington's servant Thomas Combe and of Harington's brother Francis.

1602 (and later)

York Minster (MS XVI. L. 6 p. 261)

In defence of Lent ('Our belly-gods dispraise the Lenton fast')

First published in 1618, Book II, No. 90. McClure No. 186, pp. 222-3. Kilroy, Book III, No. 30, pp. 179-80.

*HrJ 84

Autograph

Copy, lines 1-4 in Harington's autograph, the rest probably autograph, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 91, p. 142.

Mid-late 16th century

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

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 59v)

HrJ 84.5

Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis. Jo. Har.

A tall folio volume, comprising a transcript of D^r Harington's Manuscript N^o. 2: i.e. of The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. (the Arundel-Harington MS).

c.1810

Owned by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor.

Typed and MS notes relating to this volume made in the 1920s by Professor Hyder Edward Rollins (1889-1958) are in Harvard MS Eng 1613.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 25000 through 29999 (Add. MS 28635 f. 36v)

In prayse of the Countesse of Darby, married to the Lord Keeper ('This noble Countesse liued many yeeres')

First published in 1618, Book III, No. 47. McClure No. 248, p. 251. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 74, p. 237.

HrJ 85

Copy, headed The praise of the Countess of Derby married to the Lord Chancellour.

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

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

Mid-late 17th century

Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

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

Bradford Archives (32D86/34 p. 80)

HrJ 86

Copy, headed The sam Author vppon y^e countes of Darby the wiff of ffernando.

A quarto miscellany, largely in a professional secretary hand, i + 59 leaves (plus numerous blanks and some loose papers), in contemporary vellum.

Late 16th-early 17th century

Once owned by the Draycott family.

Emmanuel College, Cambridge (MS 80 (I. 3. 28) f. 56r)

In Romam ('Hate, and debate, Rome through the world hath spread')

First published in 1618, Book IV, No. 92. McClure No. 346, p. 286. Authorship uncertain.

HrJ 87

Copy, headed Roma, Amor.

An octavo verse miscellany, entitled Juvenilia Ludicra, in a single small mixed hand, 103 leaves, all now window mounted in a quarto volume, in 19th-century half morocco.

Probably compiled by a Cambridge University man.

c.1630s

Inscribed in engrossed lettering (f. 1r) E Libris Richard Sutclif. Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1830-84), merchant and author. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 194.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 15000 through 16999 (Add. MS 15227 f. 76v)

HrJ 88

Copy, headed Of Rome.

A quarto verse miscellany, including ten poems by Carew and one of doubtful authorship, in a single neat non-professional hand, 72 leaves (plus a later index).

c.1643-50s

Later owned by the Newcastle antiquarian collectors John Bell (1783-1864) and Robert White (1802-74).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Bell-White MS, CwT Δ 30. Described, with facsimiles of ff. 30r and 56v, in T.G.S. Cain, The Bell/White MS: Some Unpublished Poems, ELR, 2 (1972), 260-70.

University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 25 f. 42v)

HrJ 89

Copy, headed An Epigram of Rome.

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. 3)

HrJ 90

Copy, headed of Rome and subscribed Colb. Claney. 30^th. Aug^t. 63.

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English, French, Latin and Greek, written from both ends in various hands, with a list of contents, 117 leaves, in half-calf.

Late 17th century

Bookplate of Charles W.G. Howard, The Gift of the Rt. Hon. Sir David Dundas Knt. of Ochtertyre 1877. Formerly Chest II, No. 13.

Yale, Osborn MS b 50 through Osborn MS b 99 (Osborn MS b 52/1 p. 120)

Of a certaine Man ('There was (not certain when) a certaine preacher')

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 23. McClure No. 277, p. 262. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 105, p. 250.

HrJ 90.5

Copy, untitled, here beginning It is vncertaine when a Certaine Preacher, followed (pp. 61-2) by The Womans answer (beginning That in the Scripture non could ever finde)

A quarto verse miscellany, predominantly in a single hand, vi + 98 leaves, in calf.

Probably compiled by a member of New College, Oxford.

c.1630s

Some tipped-in notes by Richard Rawlinson.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 200 through end (MS Rawl. poet. 206 p. 61)

HrJ 91

Copy, headed On Quidam Homo and here beginning There was not certaine, when a Certaine Teacher.

This MS text followed by The Answ: to it by the Lady cheeke (here beginning That noe man yet could in the Bible find).

An octavo verse miscellany, entitled Juvenilia Ludicra, in a single small mixed hand, 103 leaves, all now window mounted in a quarto volume, in 19th-century half morocco.

Probably compiled by a Cambridge University man.

c.1630s

Inscribed in engrossed lettering (f. 1r) E Libris Richard Sutclif. Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1830-84), merchant and author. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 194.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 15000 through 16999 (Add. MS 15227 f. 16r)

HrJ 91.5

Copy, headed Erat Quidam homo and here beginning It is not certaine, when, a certaine Preacher.

The text followed by an answer headed Erat quedam mulier and here beginning That no man yet could in the Scripture finde.

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

c.1630

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 10000 through 14999 (Add. MS 10309 f. 108v)

HrJ 91.6

Copy, headed Erat quidam homo and here beginning It is not certain when a certain preacher.

The text followed by an answer headed Erat quaedam Mulier and here beginning That noe man yett could in the scripture find.

An octavo verse miscellany, written predominantly in a single italic hand (on ff. 2r-19v, 20v-134v, 139r-43r); another hand on ff. 20r-v, 135v, 136v, 137v, 138v, with verbal alterations in yet another hand and scribbling elsewhere; f. 137v (rev.) containing a receipt of one Richard Bull signed by one Thomas Johnson and dated 1676; 143 leaves.

Including 14 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 22 poems by Corbett and 36 poems (plus three of doubtful authorship) by Strode. Apparently transcribed in part from Westminster Abbey, MS 41.

c.early 1630s

Inscribed (f. 1r) by one I A of Christ Church, Oxford, and also Robert Killigrew his booke witnes by his Maiesties ape Gorge Harison. Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane, Bt (1660-1753), physician and collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Killigrew MS: CwT Δ 21; CoR Δ 6; StW Δ 14. Facsimile example of f. 2v in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), Plate 7, after p. 86.

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1792 f. 4r)

HrJ 91.8

Copy, headed a certain woman, the text followed by an untitled answer beginning That we yet could in the bible find.

A quarto miscellany of English and Latin verse and prose, largely in a neat secretary hand, 91 leaves, in limp vellum.

Early 17th century

Among the papers of the Gell family, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, including those of the Parliamentary commander and MP Sir John Gell, first Baronet (1593-1671). Formerly D258/60/26a.

Derbyshire Record Office (D258/34/26/1 f. [36v])

HrJ 92

Copy, headed in the margin vpo a certaine man.

A quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single cursive secretary hand, with a later title-page supplied in 1832, x + 116 leaves (plus blanks), in 19th-century black leather elaborately gilt.

Inscribed (f. 1r), possibly by the compiler, Richardus Jackson 1623 and Richard Jackson his booke, who is described in a later pencil note as perhaps the brachygrapher. On ff. 113v-16r, in a later hand, is a Catalogue of y^e Books lately belonging to y^e. Rev. M^r Jackson Rect^r of Tatham.

c.1628-30s

Also inscribed (f. 1r) John Pecke. Sold by Thomas Thorpe, bookseller, in 1831-2. Among collections of James Orchard Halliwell (from 1872 Halliwell-Phillipps) (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Bought by him in 1871 from Sotheran's, London.

A 247-page transcript of this volume made c.1830 is in the Folger Shakespeare Library, MS M.b.26.

Edinburgh University Library (MS H.-P. Coll. 401 f. 100v)

HrJ 93

Copy.

A quarto verse miscellany, largely in a single mixed hand, with additions in other hands, associated with Oxford University, possibly Christ Church, 315 pages (plus blanks), in modern black morocco gilt.

Including 11 poems by Donne, and 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett.

c.1630s

Later owned by Edward Jeremiah Curteis, M.P., of Windmill Hill, Sussex. Puttick & Simpson's, 30 June 1884 (Curteis sale), lot 175, to Pearson of Pall Mall for James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89). Formerly Folger MS 452.5.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), and II.i (1987), as the Curteis MS: DnJ Δ 50 and CoR Δ 9. Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Arthur F. Marotti, Folger MSS V.a.89 and V.a.345: Reading Lyric Poetry in Manuscript, in The Reader Revealed, ed. Sabrina Alcorn Baron, et al. (Washington, DC, 2001), pp. 44-57. Discussed in Arthur F. Marotti, Christ Church, Oxford, and Beyond: Folger MS V.a.345 and Its Manuscript and Print Sources, SP 113 (2016), 850-78. A facsimile of p. 36 is in Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey, Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper (Washington, DC, 2008), p. 32.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 300 through end (MS V.a.345 p. 171)

HrJ 94

Copy, untitled, here beginning A time not certaine when a certaine preacher..

c.1620-33

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 198, Part II f. 38v)

HrJ 95

Copy, headed Erat quidam Homo. Or An invective against Women and here beginning It is not certaine when, a certaine Preacher. The text followed by Erat quaedam Mulier. Or The Womans Reply (here beginning That no man yet could in the scripture find).

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

c.1630s

University of Nottingham (Pw V 37 p. 172)

HrJ 96

Copy, headed A Certaine Woman and here beginning It was not certaine when a certaine Preacher. The text followed by The reply (here beginning That noe man yet could in the Bible find).

c.1630

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1000 through end (MS 1083/16 p. 16)

HrJ 96.5

Copy, headed Erat quidam homo and here beginning Ther was no certayne when a Certyne teacher, followed (p. 17) by an answear (here beginning That noe man yet Could in the Bible find).

A quarto formal verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary and italic hand throughout, paginated 1-162 (but lacking some leaves), in modern limp vellum.

Compiled by John Cruso (fl.1595-1655), poet and military writer, who matriculated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, in 1632.

c.1630s

Names inscribed lengthways down margins (pp. 71, 91, 95) including Cuthbert Sewell Esq, Jos. Nicholson, Wm Richardson, and Somers. Donated in 1922 by Gordon Wordsworth who claims that the volume was once owned by the poet William Wordsworth.

St John's College, Cambridge (MS U. 26 (James 548) p. 116)

HrJ 97

Copy, untitled and here beginning It is of certaine that a ceraine preacher, followed (pp. 157-8) by an answer (here beginning That no man yett could in the Scriptures find).

A quarto miscellany of epitaphs and poems, in several hands, the main collection of verse (ff. 46-147) in a single hand and including 54 poems by Donne (all subscribed J. D.) and fourteen poems by or attributed to Herrick, 158 pages (plus index).

c.1630s

Once owned by the Sir Henry Spelman (1563/4-1641), historian and antiquary, and later by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist, and antiquary. Puttick & Simpson's, 6 June 1859 (Turner sale), lot 164. Afterwards owned by Sir George Grey (1812-98), Governor of Australia, New Zealand and Cape Colony. Formerly MS Grey 2 a 11.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Grey MS: DnJ Δ 60 and HeR Δ 6. Facsimile of p. 119r (HeR 355) in L.F. Casson, The Manuscripts of the Grey Collection in Cape Town, The Book Collector, 10 (Spring 1961), 147-55 (facing p. 153).

National Library of South Africa, Cape Town (MS Grey 7 a 29 p. 157)

HrJ 98

Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand, untitled and here beginning It was not certaine when a cteine teacher.

A duodecimo miscellany, of verse and generally religious prose, in Latin and English, in several hands, largely in one small cursive predominantly italic hand, written from both ends, 151 leaves, in old blind-stamped calf.

Compiled by a Cambridge University man.

c.late 1630s

Inscribed name (f. 151v) John graves. Old pressmark F. 5. 24.

Trinity College, Dublin, numbers 200 through 799 (MS 690 f. 150v rev.)

HrJ 98.5

Copy, untitled and here beginning A tyme vncertayne when as a certayne preacher.

The text followed (f. 72v) by an answer (here beginning That no man yet could in y^e bible finde) and subscribed S^r. J.H..

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 72r)

HrJ 98.8

Copy, headed Quidam homo and here beginning There was a time when that a certain techer. The text followed (f. 48r-v) by An answer by y^e Lady checke (here beginning That no man yet could in y^e bible find).

Including 45 poems by Strode and three poems of doubtful authorship.

c.1630s

Formerly Box 22, item II.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Osborn MS II: StW Δ 30.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 205 f. 48r)

Of a faire Shrew ('Faire, rich, and yong? how rare is her perfection')

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 37. McClure No. 291, p. 266. Kilroy, Book II, No. 88, p. 162.

HrJ 99

Copy, headed Upon a shrewd m^rs.

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

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

Mid-late 17th century

Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

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

Bradford Archives (32D86/34 p. 8)

Of a faire woman. translated out of Casaneus his Catalogus gloriae mundi ('These thirty things that Hellens fame did raise')

First published in 1618, Book I, No. 15. McClure No. 16, p. 154. Kilroy, Book I, No. 24, p. 102.

HrJ 100

Copy, headed in another hand Calmeydas verses translated by Iohn Harington. The text followed by a copy of the original Latin verses by Barthélemy de Chasseneux (lines 1-10 in Sir John Harington's hand.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 226, p. 257.

Mid-late 16th century

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

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. ff. 156v-7r)

HrJ 101

Copy.

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

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

Mid-late 17th century

Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

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

Bradford Archives (32D86/34 p. 75)

Of a Lady that giues the cheek ('Is't for a grace, or is't for some disleeke')

First published in 1615. 1618, Book III, No. 3. McClure No. 201, p. 230. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 84, p. 201.

HrJ 102

Copy, headed To his M^rs.

A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, predominantly in a single hand (up to f. 34v), with additions in four subsequent hands (ff. 37-50v), 50 leaves, in vellum.

Compiled for the most part by a University of Oxford man, with (f. 1r-v) a list of contents.

c.1640s

Once owned by one John Faith, and by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.

Formerly cited as Corpus Christi College, MS E.i.33.

Corpus Christi College, Oxford (MS 176 f. 29v)

HrJ 103

Copy, headed On a gentel woman tha pained her face and here beginning If for a grace, or if for some mislike.

An octavo verse miscellany, including 13 poems by Donne and 14 poems by Corbett, in several hands, probably associated with Oxford University, written from both ends, 102 leaves, in 17th-century calf.

c.1630s

Inscribed (f. 101v) Henry Lawson (or just possibly Lamson). Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1836), item 1185. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9257. Sotheby's, 15 June 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 862. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 164 (1896), item 64.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Lawson MS: DnJ Δ 37 and CoR Δ 2.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 14 f. 81v rev.)

HrJ 104

Copy, untitled.

c.1620s-33

From the library of Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755), nonjuring bishop and topographer.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 1 through 49 (MS Rawl. poet. 31 f. 4r)

HrJ 105

Copy, headed To a proud Lady.

A quarto composite volume of four MSS, in English and Latin, iii + 187 leaves, in vellum boards.

Part B (ff. 16d-86v): A quarto miscellany of poems and letters, in several hands, compiled by William Elyott (a nephew of Sir Simonds D'Ewes). c.1640-55.

Part C (ff. 86 bis-120r): A quarto verse miscellany compiled by Thomas Axton, M.A. (b.1699/1700), of Trinity College, Cambridge. c.1718-22.

Part C sold at the Thomas Rawlinson sale in March 1733/4, lot 289.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 100 through 149 (MS Rawl. poet. 116 f. 53r)

HrJ 106

Copy, headed Coynesse.

A folio verse miscellany, 215 leaves (plus a few blanks), in modern calf gilt.

Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 17 of the Hopkinson MSS.

c.1670

Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, pp. 295-6.

Bradford Archives (32D86/17 f. 9v)

HrJ 107

Copy, headed vpon a gentlewoman painted.

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

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

Mid-late 17th century

Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

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

Bradford Archives (32D86/34 p. 33)

HrJ 108

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

This MS collated in John P. Cutts, Sir John Harington's Epigrammatic Lyric, N&Q, 205 (February 1960), 60-1.

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

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

c.1615-26

Acquired from Joseph Lilly, bookseller, 17 May 1862.

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

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 24665 ff. 46v-7r)

HrJ 108.5

Copy, in a musical setting for treble and bass.

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

c.1615-26

Acquired from Joseph Lilly, bookseller, 17 May 1862.

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

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 24665 f. 49r-v)

HrJ 109

Copy of lines 1-4, in a musical setting, untitled and here beginning Ist for a grace or ist for some mislicke.

Edited from this MS in Cutts, N&Q (1960), 60-1.

An oblong folio songbook, the lyrics in two or more secretary and italic hands, 44 leaves, in contemporary vellum within brown calf gilt, stamped with the initials A. B., now within modern half red morocco.

c.1630

Inscribed (f. 1r) Richard Elliotts his Booke and William Wilkins 1743. The cover initials A. B. conjecturally attributed to Adrian Batten (1591-1637), composer. Puttick & Simpson's, 30 June 1873.

Facsimile of ff. 2r-26v in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 1 (New York & London, 1986).

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 29481 f. 12r)

HrJ 110

Copy, headed On a gentlewoman who painted her face.

A small octavo verse miscellany, written from both ends, predominantly in a single hand in variant styles (ff. 1v-79v, 80r, 88v-96v, 119r-117r rev.), with additions in later hands (ff. 97r-104v, 116v-106r rev.), 164 leaves, in modern half red morocco.

Inscribed (f. 1v, in a court hand) Daniell Leare his Booke, witnesse William Strode, and (f. 164r) M^r Daniell Leare eius Liber: i.e. compiled chiefly by Daniel Leare, a distant cousin of the poet William Strode, probably at Christ Church, Oxford, before he entered the Middle Temple in 1633.

This suggestion, by Mary Hobbs, is supported by entries in the Caution Book of 1625-41 at Christ Church, where Strode is found (p. 22) paying £10 as college security for Leare and where Leare signs (p. 23) on this sum's repayment by Dr Fell on 13 May 1633. Forey suggests (p. lxxix) that he was the Daniell Leare of St Andrews, Holburne, whose will was proved in 1652; but it is more likely that he was the Daniel Leare to whom Henry King, Dean of Rochester, leased property at Chatham on 19 July 1655 (National Archives, Kew, SP 18/99/61). Daniel Leare's wife, Dorothy, was a member of the Hubert family with whom King was associated by virtue of the marriage of his sister Dorothy.

The volume includes 12 poems by Donne; 15 poems (plus a second copy of one and three of doubtful authorship) by Carew; 20 poems (plus two of uncertain authorship) by Corbett; and 84 poems (plus second copies of eight poems, four poems of doubtful authorship and some apocryphal poems) by Strode, the texts being closely related to, and in part probably transcribed from, the Corpus MS of Strode's poems (StW Δ 1).

c.1633 [-late 17th century]

Inscribed also John Leare (probably Daniel's younger brother); (f. 1r) Anthony Euans his booke (who married Daniel Leare's niece Dorothy Leare in 1663); (f. 1v) Alexander Croke his Book 1773; and (f. 164v) John Scott (who matriculated at Christ Church in 1632). Rimell & Son, 9 November 1878.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), and II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Leare MS: DnJ Δ 41, CwT Δ 15, CoR Δ 4, and StW Δ 10.

Discussed in Mary Hobbs, An Edition of the Stoughton Manuscript (unpub. Ph.D. thesis, University of London, 1973), pp. 185-90; in her Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and their Value for Textual Editors, EMS, 1 (1989), 192-210 (pp. 189-90); and in her Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), passim, with facsimile examples of ff. 79-80 facing p. 87.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 30000 through 34999 (Add. MS 30982 f. 23r)

HrJ 111

Copy, headed Of a Painted Lady.

Printed from this MS in Grosart, The Dr Farmer MS (1873), I, 82.

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

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

c.1600-1620s

Chetham's Library, Manchester (Mun. A.4.15 f. 50v (p. 75))

HrJ 112

Copy, headed To a Scornefull Ladye.

A sextodecimo pocket miscellany, ff. 3r-53r in a single hand, other hands and scribbling on ff. 1r-2r, 54v, 87v-90v, 90 leaves in all (including blanks ff. 55r-87r), in contemporary calf, with remains of clasps.

Including 12 poems by Carew.

c.1650s

Inscribed Richard Archard his booke Amen 1650; Richard Archard his penn Amen 1657; to Mr Satars[?] towads the Casting of y^e lead 1657; Tho: Wise; John Smith of halmortaine and I…went to Thornebury; and Edward Watt. Bookplate of William Harris Arnold.

Cited in IELM, II.i, as the Archard MS: CwT Δ 24.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 100 through 199 (MS V.a.124 f. 41v)

HrJ 113

Copy, headed To a paynted Lady and here beginning If for a grace, or if for some dislike.

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

c.1637-51

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

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

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 200 through 299 (MS V.a.262 p. 102)

HrJ 114

Copy, headed Of a gentlewoman that painted her face.

Including 23 poems by Strode (and second copies of two poems) and one poem of doubtful authorship.

c.1630s

Cited in IELM II.ii (1993), as the Wood MS: StW Δ 21. Discussed in C.F. Main, New Texts of John Donne, SB, 9 (1957), 225-33.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 686 f. 54r)

HrJ 115

Copy, headed Of Kissing and here beginning Its for a grace or else for some dislike.

A small quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single, minute non-professional italic hand, probably someone associated with Oxford University, comprising 180 pages now all separated and mounted, interleaved, in 19th-century calf.

c.late 1630s

Later in the libraries (with bookplates) of the book collector Richard Heber (1774-1833); of the bibliographer and antiquary Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833); of the biographer and literary editor Alexander Chalmers (1759-1834); and of the antiquary Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough (his sale by Charles Sharpe in Dublin, 1 November 1842, lot 577).

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 116 p. 53)

HrJ 116

Copy, in a musical setting.

This MS collated in John P. Cutts, Sir John Harington's Eppigrammatic Lyric, N&Q, 205 (February 1960), 60-1.

A folio songbook, largely in a single secretary hand, with poems and (reversed) culinary and medical receipts in later hands at the end, imperfect or incomplete, now 27 leaves, lacking half the songs listed in a Table at the end.

c.1620s-30s

The original cover inscribed Ann Twice her booke. Inscribed on the first page My Cosen Twice Leftte this Booke with me...which is to be returne to her AGhaine.... Later owned by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author.

A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 11 (New York & London, 1987). Discussed in John P. Cutts, Songs Vnto the Violl and Lute—Drexel Ms. 4175, Musica Disciplina, 16 (1962), 73-92.

New York Public Library, Music Division (Drexel MS 4175 No. xx)

HrJ 117

Copy, headed A woman giving her cheek to be Kissed.

A quarto verse miscellany, including ten poems by Carew and one of doubtful authorship, in a single neat non-professional hand, 72 leaves (plus a later index).

c.1643-50s

Later owned by the Newcastle antiquarian collectors John Bell (1783-1864) and Robert White (1802-74).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Bell-White MS, CwT Δ 30. Described, with facsimiles of ff. 30r and 56v, in T.G.S. Cain, The Bell/White MS: Some Unpublished Poems, ELR, 2 (1972), 260-70.

University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 25 f. 44v)

HrJ 118

Copy, untitled.

Including thirteen poems by Strode and three of doubtful authorship.

c.1638-45 [and addition c.1649]

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Rosenbach MS I: CwT Δ 31 and StW Δ 23.

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1 through 239 (MS 239/22 f. 7v)

HrJ 119

Copy, headed On a painted Lady.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single small mixed hand throughout; 425 pages (plus an eight-page index), in contemporary calf.

Including 45 poems (and a second copy of one) by Carew, 11 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Corbett, and 25 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1634

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1 through 239 (MS 239/27 p. 202)

HrJ 120

Copy, headed A painted creature Kist.

c.1630

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1000 through end (MS 1083/16 p. 59)

HrJ 121

Copy, untitled and here beginning Yst for a fauor, or for some dislike.

A folio verse miscellany, containing 89 poems, including 43 by Donne, in several hands (ff. 21r-62r in a single accomplished secretary hand), 69 leaves, in paper wrappers.

The text of the poems by Donne derived from the same source as the Lansdowne MS (British Library, Lansdowne MS 740) and related in part to the Haslewood-Kingsborough MS II (Huntington, HM 198, Part II).

c.1620-5

Formerly among the muniments of the Earl of Dalhousie (descendant of the Maule and Ramsay families), of Brechin Castle, on deposit in the Scottish Record Office [now National Archives of Scotland] (GD45/26/95/1). Sotheby's, 20 July 1981, lot 490.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the the Dalhousie MS I: DnJ Δ 11. Complete reduced facsimile and transcription in The First and Second Dalhousie Manuscripts: Poems and Prose by John Donne and Others: A Facsimile Edition, ed. Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Columbia, 1988). Also discussed by Ernest W. Sullivan, II in Donne Manuscripts: Dalhousie I, John Donne Journal, 3/2 (1984), 204-19; in And, having done that, Thou hast done: Locating, Acquiring, and Studying the Dalhousie Manuscripts, in The Donne Dalhousie Discovery: Proceedings of a Symposium on the Acquisition and Study of the John Donne and Joseph Conrad Collections at Texas Tech University, ed. Ernest W. Sullivan II and David J. Murrah (Lubbock, TX, 1987), pp. 1-10; and in The Renaissance Manuscript Verse Miscellany: Private Party, Private Text, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, ed. W. Speed Hill (Binghamton, 1993), pp. 289-97.

Facsimiles of f. 15v in DLB, vol. 121, Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, First Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1992), p. 13, and of f. 42r in Sotheby's sale catalogue and in Peter Beal, A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology 1450-2000 (Oxford, 2008), p. 431, Illus. 91. A complete microfilm of the MS is in the National Archives of Scotland.

Sullivan suggests that the miscellany derives from sources preserved by members of the Earl of Essex's circle, their most likely conduit to the Dalhousie family being John Ramsay (1580-1626), Viscount Haddington and Earl of Holderness.

Texas Tech University, Lubbock (PR 1171 D14 f. 18r)

HrJ 122

Copy, untitled and here beginning Yst for a fauour, or for some dislike, probably transcribed from HrJ 121.

A folio verse miscellany comprising 56 poems, including 29 by Donne, in several hands (two predominating), 34 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern cloth.

Much of the volume (including 24 poems by Donne on ff. 15r-31v) evidently transcribed from the Dalhousie MS I (Texas Tech University, PR 1171 D14) and the text of some poems (including ff. 9r-11r) corrected from that MS.

c.1622-9

Inscribed (f. 1r) with the date 28 September 1622 and, in possibly a child's hand (f. 1v), Andrew Ramsey. Formerly among the muniments of the Earl of Dalhousie (descendant of the Maule and Ramsay families), of Brechin Castle, on deposit in the Scottish Record Office (GD45/26/95/2). Sotheby's, 20 July 1981, lot 491, and 12 December1982, lot 49.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Dalhousie MS II: DnJ Δ 12. Complete reduced facsimile and transcription in The First and Second Dalhousie Manuscripts: Poems and Prose by John Donne and Others: A Facsimile Edition, ed. Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Columbia, 1988). Also discussed in The Donne Dalhousie Discovery, ed. Ernest W. Sullivan, II and David J. Murrah (Lubbock, TX, 1987), and in The Renaissance Manuscript Verse Miscellany: Private Party, Private Text, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, ed. W. Speed Hill (Binghamton, 1993), pp. 289-97.

Facsimiles of f. 10v in Sotheby's sale catalogue, and of ff. 20v and 26r in DLB, vol. 121, Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, First Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1992), pp. 320-1. Complete microfilms of the MS are in the National Archives of Scotland and in the Brirish Library, RP 2441.

Texas Tech University, Lubbock (PR 1171 S4 f. 13r)

HrJ 122.5

Copy, untitled.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 64v)

HrJ 123

Copy, headed On a Gentlewoman paynted.

A small quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat italic hand, with rubrication, 144 pages (plus later index).

Including twelve poems by Carew, nine poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Randolph and nineteen (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, the miscellany associated with Oxford University and possibly related to Bodleian MS Malone 21, the latest date occuring in a poem on pp. 63-6 Vpon y^e great Frost 1634.

c.1635

Inscribed inside the front cover by a later owner: April 1853 Read to Lit[erary] & Philosophical] Soc[iet]y of L[iver]pool. Acquired in 1940 by Edwin Wolf II (1911-91), Philadelphia librarian.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Wolf MS: CwT Δ 37; RnT Δ 12; StW Δ 28.

The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania ([Wolf MS] pp. 88-9)

HrJ 124

Copy, headed Another and here beginning I'st for a fau^r or for some dislike.

A fragment of a quarto verse miscellany, in a single italic hand, seven leaves, the second item in a quarto composite volume also containing (item 1) a MS translation of the Song of Solomon written on nine leaves in 1622 by one Robert Eliot, and (item 3) Greek verse, on thirteen leaves subscribed J: Malet, in modern cloth.

c.1630s

Formerly MSS 4. 29.

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 123 (II) f. 5r)

HrJ 124.5

Copy, headed On a Gentlewoman, who paynted her face.

Including 14 poems by Carew, 13 poems by Corbett and 25 poems (plus one poem of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1650

Scribbling on the first page including the words Peyton Chester….

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Osborn MS I: CwT Δ 38; CoR Δ 14; StW Δ 29.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 200 p. 18)

Of a Lady that left open her Cabbinett ('A vertuose Lady sitting in a muse')

First published in Epigrammes appended to J[ohn] C[lapham], Alcilia, Philoparthens Louing Folly (London, 1613). McClure No. 404, p. 312. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 57, p. 231.

HrJ 125

Copy, headed On a Ladye.

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. 53v)

HrJ 126

Copy, headed A Lady musinge, with two additional lines.

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. 44r)

HrJ 127

Copy, untitled and here beginning A Gentle Lady sitting in a muse, transcribed by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729) from a MS. written 1612.

A composite volume of verse, i + 126 leaves.

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

Late 17th century

Given to the library in 1954 by N.R. Ker.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. d. 152 f. 96r)

HrJ 128

Copy, with four additional lines.

c.1630s

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Lawson MS: DnJ Δ 37 and CoR Δ 2.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 14 f. 81v rev.)

HrJ 129

Copy, headed S^r. John Keys to his Lady and here beginning A gallant lady sitting in a muse.

Owned in 1619, and probably compiled, by Simon Sloper (b.1596/7), of Magdalen Hall, Oxford.

c.1620s-30s

Bought from Parker, of Oxford, 2 April 1889, by Percy Manning and bequeathed by him in 1917.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, f through end (MS Eng. poet. f. 10 fol. 89r)

HrJ 130

Copy.

An octavo miscellany of verse and university exercises, including twelve poems by Carew, in a single hand, compiled by Edward Natley, Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge, 165 leaves (including many blanks), in calf (rebacked).

c.1635-44

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 2592. Sotheby's, 10 June 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 960. Owned in 1896 by George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor. Acquired in 1950 from H.F.B. Brett-Smith, Oxford literary scholar and editor.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Natley MS: CwT Δ 6.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, f through end (MS Eng. poet. f. 25 f. 15v)

HrJ 131

Copy, headed On a Lady which sate museing.

An octavo verse miscellany, compiled by the writer Robert Codrington (1602-65) of Magdalen College, Oxford, 360 pages (including stubs of extracted leaves on pp. 297-328 and blanks, plus index), in contemporary calf.

Including 16 poems by Carew and 13 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode. Written in three hands: i.e. A (Codrington's hand, including his own poems) on pp. 1-283, 349-55; B on pp. 284-9; and C on pp. 289-348, 356-60; dated (pp. 1-22) Anno Dom: 1638 and The 30^th of May. 1638.

c.1638

Acquired from Blackwell's, 1962.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Codrington MS: CwT Δ 7 and StW Δ 7.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, f through end (MS Eng. poet. f. 27 p. 50)

HrJ 132

Copy.

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

c.1620s-30s

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 19 p. 75)

HrJ 133

Copy, untitled.

A quarto composite volume of four MSS, in English and Latin, iii + 187 leaves, in vellum boards.

Part B (ff. 16d-86v): A quarto miscellany of poems and letters, in several hands, compiled by William Elyott (a nephew of Sir Simonds D'Ewes). c.1640-55.

Part C (ff. 86 bis-120r): A quarto verse miscellany compiled by Thomas Axton, M.A. (b.1699/1700), of Trinity College, Cambridge. c.1718-22.

Part C sold at the Thomas Rawlinson sale in March 1733/4, lot 289.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 100 through 149 (MS Rawl. poet. 116 f. 53r)

HrJ 134

Copy, untitled.

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, in several hands, written from both ends, 84 leaves, in contemporary calf.

Probably compiled principally by an Oxford University man.

c.1630s-40s

Names inscribed on rear flyleaf and paste-down Elizabeth hosman and William Blois.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 100 through 149 (MS Rawl. poet. 142 f. 40r)

HrJ 135

Copy, headed A Ladies Answere to... and here beginning A beutuouse ladie sittinge in a muse.

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

With a few additions in Rawlinson's hand.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199 (MS Rawl. poet. 172 f. 2r)

HrJ 136

Copy, headed Upon a vertuous Ladye falling asleepe.

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

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

Mid-late 17th century

Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

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

Bradford Archives (32D86/34 p. 9)

HrJ 137

Copy, headed S^r John Harrington on his wife.

An octavo verse miscellany, entitled Juvenilia Ludicra, in a single small mixed hand, 103 leaves, all now window mounted in a quarto volume, in 19th-century half morocco.

Probably compiled by a Cambridge University man.

c.1630s

Inscribed in engrossed lettering (f. 1r) E Libris Richard Sutclif. Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1830-84), merchant and author. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 194.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 15000 through 16999 (Add. MS 15227 f. 6r)

HrJ 138

Copy, headed A Ladyes answer to her husband.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single predominantly italic hand, 49 leaves, outer leaves imperfect, in modern calf gilt.

Including twenty poems by Carew, eleven poems by Crashaw on ff. 10-30 passim, and fifteen poems by Strode.

c.1630s

Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1834), item 728. Acquired from C. Booth, October 1857.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Thorpe MS: CwT Δ 12, CrR Δ 3, StW Δ 9.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999 (Add. MS 22118 f. 34v)

HrJ 139

Copy, headed Vpon a Lady.

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

c.1630s-40s

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 923 f. 52r)

HrJ 140

Copy, headed On a lady and her Knight.

A duodecimo verse miscellany in several hands, written from both ends, 46 leaves, in contemporary calf.

Mid-17th century

Inscribed names (on front paste-down and f. 1r) of Fra: Norreys (? Sir Francis Norris (1609-69)) and Hen. Balle. Purchased from J. Harvey 8 December 1877.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2421 f. 15r)

HrJ 141

Copy by Barbon, with general heading in the margin Epigramata. Early 17th century.

A folio composite volume of verse, in various hands, 280 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

Incorporating (ff. 40r-51v) a quarto verse miscellany compiled allegedly for the mendinge of his hand in wrighting, when Idle and wanting Employment, by Feargod Barbon of Daventry, Northamptonshire (? a relation of the Anabaptist politician Praisegod Barbon (1598-1679/80)).

In preliminary verses (f. 40r), Barbon records that This Booke [i.e. presumably the exemplar for his verse transcripts] was giuen me by A frende / To reade and overlooke.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 7000 through end (Harley MS 7332 f. 46r)

HrJ 142

Copy, headed in the margin On a Lady.

A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, in Latin and English, one cursive hand predominating, 69 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half black crushed morocco.

c.1630s

Inscribed (f. 62r) Nathaniel Heighmore: i.e. presumably Nathaniel Highmore (1613-85), chemical physician and anatomist; John Sacheverell his hand and pen Amen; and John Sacheverell the Author of this....

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 542 f. 12r)

HrJ 143

Copy, untitled, here beginning A uirtuouse ladie sittinge in a muse.

Furnivall, p. 21.

An octavo verse miscellany, chiefly (ff. 1r-14r) in a single small mixed hand, i + 15 leaves, the eighth and last item in a composite volume of otherwise printed amatory poems and pamphlets, in 19th-century quarter brown calf.

c.1620s

The volume inscribed (on flyleaves) E Bedford, W Monteagle, Fra: Goodwin, Edw nedwarde.

The MS poems here edited in Frederick J. Furnivall, Love-Poems and Humourous Ones, The Ballad Society (Hertford, 1874; reprinted New York, 1977).

The British Library: Rare Books Room (C.39.a.37 f. 13r)

HrJ 144

Copy, untitled.

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. 58)

HrJ 145

Copy, headed On a Museing lady.

Including 12 poems by Carew.

c.1650s

Cited in IELM, II.i, as the Archard MS: CwT Δ 24.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 100 through 199 (MS V.a.124 f. 5r)

HrJ 146

Copy, headed Vpon a Knight and his Lady and here beginning A gallant Lady sitting in a muse.

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

c.1637-51

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

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

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 200 through 299 (MS V.a.262 p. 80)

HrJ 147

Copy, headed On y^e lady J: S. musinge, subscribed JL.

A large quarto verse miscellany, 76 leaves, in old vellum wrappers within modern quarter red morocco on marbled boards.

Part I, including some Welsh, comprises sixteen leaves, all (but for f. 15r-v) in the cursive hand of William Jordan, schoolmaster of Denbigh or Caernarvon, whose name (Gulielmus Jordan) is inscribed, the dates 1680-83 occurring.

Part II comprises 60 leaves, ff. 1-50v in a neat italic hand, ff. 51r-60r in several other cursive hands.

c.1674-84

The vellum wrapper on Part II bears notes on a debt by William Jordan in 1674 relating to Evan Thomas and M^r Richard Wilkin^sn in pepper street. Formerly Folger MS 1669.2.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 200 through 299 (MS V.a.276 Part II, f. 50v)

HrJ 148

Copy, headed On a musing Lady.

An octavo verse miscellany, in several hands, written from both ends, 77 leaves (including blanks), in old calf gilt.

c.1640

Formerly MS 2073.3.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 300 through end (MS V.a.319 f. 9v)

HrJ 149

Copy, untitled, with four additional lines and the marginal note A couplet or two fastned to S^r Io: Harrington his Epigra, to doe his Townes knight yeomans seruice?.

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.

c.1640s

Inscribed (f. 1r) Joseph Hall (not the bishop). Later owned by John Payne Collier (1789-1883), literary scholar, editor and forger, who has entered in pseudo-17th-century secretary script copies of various ballads on ff. 39r-41r, 107v-79r, 181r-v, 227r-8v, 243r-6r, as well as adding foliation (1-284) before the more recent foliation (1-291, used below). Quaritch's sale catalogue of English Literature (August-November 1884), item 22350, Collier's transcript of the MS made c.1860 being item 22352. Formerly Folger MS 2071.7.

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

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 300 through end (MS V.a.339 f. 282r)

HrJ 150

Copy, headed Of a Lady musing, with four additional lines.

Including 11 poems by Donne, and 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett.

c.1630s

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 300 through end (MS V.a.345 pp. 29-30)

HrJ 151

Copy, untitled.

Including 23 poems by Strode (and second copies of two poems) and one poem of doubtful authorship.

c.1630s

Cited in IELM II.ii (1993), as the Wood MS: StW Δ 21. Discussed in C.F. Main, New Texts of John Donne, SB, 9 (1957), 225-33.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 686 f. 34v)

HrJ 152

Copy, in the hand of William Parkhurst, untitled.

A folio composite volume of state letters, tracts, and verse, collected by, and mostly in the hand of, William Parkhurst (fl.1604-67), Sir Henry Wotton's secretary in Venice and later Master of the Mint, including various works in verse and prose attributed to Donne, chiefly in a scribal hand, partly in Parkhurst's hand, 373 leaves (including blanks), in old calf.

Among the papers of the Finch family of Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland. Mistakenly reported by Grierson and Logan Pearsall Smith to have been destroyed in a fire at Burley c.1908.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Burley MS: DnJ Δ 53. Recorded in HMC, 7th Report (1879), Appendix, p. 516. A complete microfilm of the MS is at the University of Sheffield, Microfilm 737.

A neat transcript of parts of the Burley MS (including principally poems on ff. 255r-v, 278v, [279r]-288v, 342v-3r, 294r-300r, 301r-8v), made before 1908, on 35 leaves, is in the Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. c. 80.

Leicestershire Record Office (DG. 7/Lit. 2 f. 351v)

HrJ 153

Copy, headed On a lady, among poems on a single folio leaf.

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

Among papers formerly at Pitchford Hall, Shropshire.

National Library of Wales (Pitchford Hall (Ottley) English Literary MSS (uncatalogued), A A1)

HrJ 154

Copy, headed Upon a Vertuous Lady.

A quarto verse miscellany, including ten poems by Carew and one of doubtful authorship, in a single neat non-professional hand, 72 leaves (plus a later index).

c.1643-50s

Later owned by the Newcastle antiquarian collectors John Bell (1783-1864) and Robert White (1802-74).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Bell-White MS, CwT Δ 30. Described, with facsimiles of ff. 30r and 56v, in T.G.S. Cain, The Bell/White MS: Some Unpublished Poems, ELR, 2 (1972), 260-70.

University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 25 f. 45r-v)

HrJ 154.5

Copy.

A folio composite volume of Percy family poems, in various hands, in half red morocco.

Early-mid-18th century

The Duke of Northumberland, Alnwick Castle (MS 118 f. 239v)

HrJ 155

Copy, headed Vpon a Ladie, with four additional lines.

A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, in probably two or more secretary hands, 108 pages, in half brown morocco.

Mid-17th century

Later owned by F.W. Cosens (1819-89). Bookplate of James W. Ellsworth.

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1 through 239 (MS 239/18 p. 45)

HrJ 156

Copy, untitled.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single small mixed hand throughout; 425 pages (plus an eight-page index), in contemporary calf.

Including 45 poems (and a second copy of one) by Carew, 11 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Corbett, and 25 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1634

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1 through 239 (MS 239/27 p. 159)

HrJ 157

Copy, headed A Knight to his Lady beeing in a muse.

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

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. 17)

HrJ 158

Copy, headed A Lady.

c.1630

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1000 through end (MS 1083/16 p. 19)

HrJ 159

Copy, untitled.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 82r)

HrJ 159.5

Copy, headed On a Lady sitting stradling and here beginning A gallant Lady sitting in A muse.

Including 14 poems by Carew, 13 poems by Corbett and 25 poems (plus one poem of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1650

Scribbling on the first page including the words Peyton Chester….

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Osborn MS I: CwT Δ 38; CoR Δ 14; StW Δ 29.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 200 p. 430)

HrJ 160

Copy, headed Vir ad Dominam.

Including 45 poems by Strode and three poems of doubtful authorship.

c.1630s

Formerly Box 22, item II.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Osborn MS II: StW Δ 30.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 205 f. 46v)

HrJ 160.5

Copy, headed Of a Lady and here beginning A vertuous Lady sittinge in a muse, in an oblong volume of cittern music compiled in part by the Bedfordshire Parliamentarian Sir William Boteler (d.1656).

Mid-17th century

Christie's, 2 April 1982, lot 4, to Richard McNutt.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Boteler MS])

Of a Lady that sought remedy at the Bathe ('A Lady that none name, nor blame none hath')

First published in 1618, Book III, No. 8. McClure No. 206, pp. 232-3. Kilroy, Book I, II No. 99ter, pp. 207-8.

HrJ 161

Copy, inscribed in the margin Harrington.

Including 11 poems by Donne, and 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett.

c.1630s

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 300 through end (MS V.a.345 p. 51)

Of a Preacher that sings Placebo ('A smooth-tong'd Preacher that did much affect')

First published in 1618, Book II, No. 56. McClure No. 152, p. 207. Kilroy, Book II, No. 90, p. 163.

HrJ 162

Copy, headed On a Preacher.

An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, closely written from both ends in several hands, 144 leaves (plus entries on inside covers), in contemporary calf.

Owned (name inscribed on f. 1r), and probably compiled in part, by one Thomas Watson.

c.1680s

Formerly MS P. 3. 1.

Merton College, Oxford (MS D. 1. 2 f. 13r)

Of a Precise Cobler, and an ignorant Curat ('A Cobler, and a Curat, once disputed')

First published in 1618, Book I, No. 66. McClure No. 67, p. 173. Kilroy, Book I, No. 10, p. 97.

HrJ 163

Copy, headed On a Curate & a Cobbl^r.

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

c.1620s-30s

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 19 p. 55)

HrJ 163.8

Copy, untitled.

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

c.1630

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 10000 through 14999 (Add. MS 10309 f. 142v)

HrJ 164

Copy, headed On a Curate and a Cobler.

An octavo verse miscellany, entitled Juvenilia Ludicra, in a single small mixed hand, 103 leaves, all now window mounted in a quarto volume, in 19th-century half morocco.

Probably compiled by a Cambridge University man.

c.1630s

Inscribed in engrossed lettering (f. 1r) E Libris Richard Sutclif. Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1830-84), merchant and author. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 194.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 15000 through 16999 (Add. MS 15227 f. 6v)

HrJ 164.3

Copy, with a sidenote S^r JH of a cobler & curate.

c.1630s

Cambridge University Library, Additional MSS 7000 through end (MS Add. 9221 f. 83r)

HrJ 164.4

Copy, untitled.

A quarto miscellany of English and Latin verse and prose, largely in a neat secretary hand, 91 leaves, in limp vellum.

Early 17th century

Among the papers of the Gell family, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, including those of the Parliamentary commander and MP Sir John Gell, first Baronet (1593-1671). Formerly D258/60/26a.

Derbyshire Record Office (D258/34/26/1 f. [39r])

HrJ 164.5

Copy, untitled and here beginning A curate & a Cobler longe disputed.

Mid-17th century

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Welden MS: DnJ Δ 49.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 100 through 199 (MS V.a.162 f. 65v)

HrJ 165

Copy, headed vppon a cobler & a curate.

A quarto formal verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary and italic hand throughout, paginated 1-162 (but lacking some leaves), in modern limp vellum.

Compiled by John Cruso (fl.1595-1655), poet and military writer, who matriculated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, in 1632.

c.1630s

St John's College, Cambridge (MS U. 26 (James 548) p. 44)

Of a Precise Lawyer ('A Lawyer call'd vnto the Barre but lately')

First published in 1618, Book I, No. 82. McClure No. 83, pp. 179-80. Kilroy, Book I, No. 72, pp. 118-19.

HrJ 166

Copy.

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

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

Mid-late 17th century

Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

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

Bradford Archives (32D86/34 p. 129)

Of a Precise Tayler ('A Taylor, thought a man of vpright dealling')

First published in 1618, Book I, No. 20. McClure No. 21, pp. 156-7. Kilroy, Book I, No. 40, pp. 107-8.

HrJ 167

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. 85)

HrJ 168

Copy, headed In Johannem Sartorem.

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

Scribbling on f. ii^r including ffor m^r William Rabey in New=market..., ffor my Louing ffriend in G John westhropp at m^r Rogers Reringe house Bury in S[uffolk], ffor m^r John fford at his house in Newmarket in the countey of cambridge; notes on f. iii^v-iv^r, one Recd 22 July 1669, subscribed John Cooke and including, on f. vi^r, ffor m^r John Cocke at his howse neere the white harte in Thetford.... Later owned, in the 1730s, by Charles Barlow, of Emmanuel College, Cambridge (his bookplate f. ii^v).

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 1 through 49 (MS Rawl. poet. 26 f. 3v)

HrJ 169

Copy, headed A Translation.

c.1620s-33

From the library of Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755), nonjuring bishop and topographer.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 1 through 49 (MS Rawl. poet. 31 ff. 4r-5r)

HrJ 170

Copy, headed A precise Taylor and here beginning A Taylor tane to be of vpright dealinge.

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

With a few additions in Rawlinson's hand.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199 (MS Rawl. poet. 172 f. 12r)

HrJ 171

Copy, headed Of A Puritane taylour made by S^r JH: and here beginning A Taylor held a man of vpright dealinge.

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

Compiled by an Oxford University man.

Early 17th century

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 200 through end (MS Rawl. poet. 212 f. 101r-v)

HrJ 172

Copy, headed Upon a precise Taylor.

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

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

Mid-late 17th century

Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

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

Bradford Archives (32D86/34 p. 92)

HrJ 173

Copy, headed The Taylors reformation.

An octavo verse miscellany, entitled Juvenilia Ludicra, in a single small mixed hand, 103 leaves, all now window mounted in a quarto volume, in 19th-century half morocco.

Probably compiled by a Cambridge University man.

c.1630s

Inscribed in engrossed lettering (f. 1r) E Libris Richard Sutclif. Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1830-84), merchant and author. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 194.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 15000 through 16999 (Add. MS 15227 f. 14r)

HrJ 174

Copy, headed A reformed Taylor.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single neat predominantly italic hand, 72 leaves, in old leather.

Probably compiled by one H.S., a Cambridge man.

c.1640s-50s

Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector, with his bookplate and inscription 1806 Purchased of Lansdown of Bristol. Bliss sale, 21 August 1858, lot 192.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999 (Add. MS 22603 ff. 52v-3r)

HrJ 175

Copy, headed A Translation.

An independent quarto verse miscellany, including 47 poems by Donne, in two secretary hands.

Constituting ff. 230r-99v in a quarto composite volume of verse and prose, in various hands, 308 leaves, in modern half green morocco gilt.

c.1620-33

Cited in IELM I.i as the Harley Noel MS: DnJ Δ 2.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 4000 through 4999 (Harley MS 4064 f. 233v)

HrJ 176

Copy, untitled.

A quarto verse miscellany, including 50 poems by Donne, in a single neat secretary hand except for ff. 70r-2r, which are in another secretary hand.

Comprising folios 57r-137v in a quarto composite volume of MSS, in various hands, 173 leaves, in 19th-century leather gilt.

c.1620s

Later owned by Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725), Yorkshire antiquary and topographer. Among the collections of William Petty (1737-1805), first Marquess of Lansdowne, Lord Shelburne.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Lansdowne MS: DnJ Δ 8. Recorded as item 133 among Manuscripts in Quarto in the list at the end of Thoresby's Ducatus Leodensis, 2nd edition (Leeds, 1816), Appendix, p. 85.

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 740 f. 128v)

HrJ 177

Copy, headed A Reformed Taylour.

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

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

c.1637

Later scribbling and inscriptions including the names Edw Denny [presumably Edward Denny (1569-1637), Baron Denny of Waltham and first Earl of Norwich], Charles Cocks, Edward Randolphe and (on p. 162) Thomas Cassy. Later owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary (sold in the Haslewood sale, London, 1833, lot 1329, to Thorpe); by Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough, antiquary (his sale in Dublin, 1 November 1841, item 624); and by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector (his library catalogue, 1880, IV, pp. 1159-64), and sold at Sotheby's, 17 July 1917 (Huth sale), lot 5873.

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

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 198, Part I pp. 27-8)

HrJ 178

Copy, headed A storie of a Taylor by S^r. John Harrington.

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. 18v)

HrJ 179

Copy, in the hand of William Parkhurst, untitled.

Among the papers of the Finch family of Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland. Mistakenly reported by Grierson and Logan Pearsall Smith to have been destroyed in a fire at Burley c.1908.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Burley MS: DnJ Δ 53. Recorded in HMC, 7th Report (1879), Appendix, p. 516. A complete microfilm of the MS is at the University of Sheffield, Microfilm 737.

Leicestershire Record Office (DG. 7/Lit. 2 f. 322r)

HrJ 180

Copy.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single small mixed hand throughout; 425 pages (plus an eight-page index), in contemporary calf.

Including 45 poems (and a second copy of one) by Carew, 11 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Corbett, and 25 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1634

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1 through 239 (MS 239/27 pp. 170-1)

HrJ 181

Copy, headed A Taylor, here beginning A Taylor, a man of vpright dealling.

c.1630

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1000 through end (MS 1083/16 pp. 186-7)

HrJ 182

Copy, headed Vppon a Puritan Taylor.

A quarto formal verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary and italic hand throughout, paginated 1-162 (but lacking some leaves), in modern limp vellum.

Compiled by John Cruso (fl.1595-1655), poet and military writer, who matriculated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, in 1632.

c.1630s

St John's College, Cambridge (MS U. 26 (James 548) pp. 22-3)

HrJ 183

Copy, untitled.

A folio verse miscellany, containing 89 poems, including 43 by Donne, in several hands (ff. 21r-62r in a single accomplished secretary hand), 69 leaves, in paper wrappers.

c.1620-5

Texas Tech University, Lubbock (PR 1171 D14 f. 57r)

HrJ 183.5

Copy, untitled and here beginning A taylor ta'ne to be of vpright dealing.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 84r)

HrJ 184

Copy, headed Vpon a precise Taylor.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, compiled principally in the secretary hand of a University of Oxford man, with additions in one or more other hands, 150 pages, imperfect, disbound.

c.1640

Yale, Osborn MS b 50 through Osborn MS b 99 (Osborn MS b 62 pp. 94-5)

HrJ 185

Copy, headed A reformed Taylor.

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.

c.1639 [-c.1728]

Names inscribed on a flyleaf including Henry Glisson (later Fellow of the College of Physicians); Thomas Avral(?); Horace Norton; Henry Rich; and James Tavor (Registrar of Cambridge University). Later owned by one John Whitehead, and by Dr Mary Pickford. Sotheby's, 27 June 1972, lot 309.

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.

Yale, Osborn MS b 150 through Osborn MS b 199 (Osborn MS b 197 p. 99)

HrJ 186

Copy.

Including 45 poems by Strode and three poems of doubtful authorship.

c.1630s

Formerly Box 22, item II.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Osborn MS II: StW Δ 30.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 205 ff. 47v-8r)

Of a pregnant pure sister ('I learned a tale more fitt to be forgotten')

First published (13-line version) in The Epigrams of Sir John Harington, ed. N.E. McClure (Philadelphia, 1926), but see HrJ 197. McClure (1930), No. 413, p. 315. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 80, p. 239.

HrJ 187

Copy of a ten-line version, headed On a maid gott w^th child and here beginning A godlie maid w^th one of her societie.

A folio verse miscellany, ii + 65 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

Entitled Miscentur seria iocis. 1647. Elegies, Exequies, Epitaphs, Epigrams, Songs Satires and other Poems, a formal compilation entirely in the hand of the Yorkshire antiquary John Hopkinson (1610-80).

1647

From the library of Cecil Brent, FSA. Sold by P.J. & A.E. Dobell, January 1938.

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. d. 58 f. 35r)

HrJ 188

Copy of a ten-line version, headed On a precise mayd w^th childe and here beginning A godly mayd by one of her societie.

c.1630s

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Lawson MS: DnJ Δ 37 and CoR Δ 2.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 14 f. 89v rev.)

HrJ 189

Copy of a ten-line version, headed On a holy sister got with childe by a holy brother and here beginning A sister once by one of her society.

c.1638

Acquired from Blackwell's, 1962.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Codrington MS: CwT Δ 7 and StW Δ 7.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, f through end (MS Eng. poet. f. 27 p. 167)

HrJ 190

Copy of a ten-line version, untitled and here beginning A Puritan, with one of her society.

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

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 1 through 49 (MS Rawl. poet. 26 f. 8v)

HrJ 191

Copy of a ten-line version, headed The Godlye mayde and here beginning A godlye Mayde w^th one of her societye.

c.1620s-33

From the library of Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755), nonjuring bishop and topographer.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 1 through 49 (MS Rawl. poet. 31 f. 3v)

HrJ 192

Copy of a variant 16-line version, headed A saintlike sister and here beginning A saintlike sister late turnd votarie.

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

With a few additions in Rawlinson's hand.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199 (MS Rawl. poet. 172 f. 12r)

HrJ 193

Copy of a ten-line version, headed Parturiens Puritana and here beginning A godly sister, by one of her Society.

Edited partly from this MS in John Wardroper, Love and Drollery (London, 1969), p. 174.

An octavo verse miscellany, entitled Juvenilia Ludicra, in a single small mixed hand, 103 leaves, all now window mounted in a quarto volume, in 19th-century half morocco.

Probably compiled by a Cambridge University man.

c.1630s

Inscribed in engrossed lettering (f. 1r) E Libris Richard Sutclif. Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1830-84), merchant and author. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 194.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 15000 through 16999 (Add. MS 15227 f. 14v)

HrJ 193.5

Copy of a version headed On a Puritan and beginning A Puritan of late, and eke a holy Sister, imperfect.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single neat predominantly italic hand, 72 leaves, in old leather.

Probably compiled by one H.S., a Cambridge man.

c.1640s-50s

Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector, with his bookplate and inscription 1806 Purchased of Lansdown of Bristol. Bliss sale, 21 August 1858, lot 192.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999 (Add. MS 22603 f. 50r)

HrJ 193.8

Copy (words only), untitled and here beginning A Puritan of late & eke a holy sister.

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

c.1615-26

Acquired from Joseph Lilly, bookseller, 17 May 1862.

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

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 24665 ff. 74v-5r)

HrJ 194

Copy of a ten-line version, headed On a Puritan maide and here beginning A Puritan maide by one of hir societie.

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. 36v)

HrJ 195

Copy of a variant fourteen-line version, headed On a Puritaine and here beginning A s^t like sister, late turne votary.

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

c.1630s-40s

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 923 f. 71r-v)

HrJ 196

Copy of a ten-line version, untitled and here beginning A godlye maide w^th one of her societye.

A quarto verse miscellany, including 18 poems by Donne, in several hands over a period (the predominant secretary hand on ff. 1r-35v, 45v-63r), written from both ends, 91 leaves, in later green morocco.

c.1630s [-1777]

Inscribed (f. 1r) E Libris Richardo Glovero pharmacopol. Londinense pertinantibus, the date 1638 possibly added in a different hand. The name William Allen on f. 77v among scribbling. Inscribed (f. 1v) by a later owner, apparently for M^r Thorpe, I was informed by the bookseller of whom I bought this book; that it belonged formerly to a literary gentleman who lived in Burton Crescent and who died about six months ago. 3^rd Aug^t. 1835.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Glover MS: DnJ Δ 42.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2230 f. 13v)

HrJ 197

Copy of a ten-line version, untitled and here beginning A puritane, with one of hir societie.

Furnivall, p. 22.

c.1620s

The volume inscribed (on flyleaves) E Bedford, W Monteagle, Fra: Goodwin, Edw nedwarde.

The MS poems here edited in Frederick J. Furnivall, Love-Poems and Humourous Ones, The Ballad Society (Hertford, 1874; reprinted New York, 1977).

The British Library: Rare Books Room (C.39.a.37 f. 13v)

HrJ 198

Copy of a ten-line version, headed Upon A Holy Sister and here beginning A Godly sister by one of her society.

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

c.1637-51

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

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

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 200 through 299 (MS V.a.262 p. 147)

HrJ 199

Copy of a ten-line version, untitled and here beginning A [ ] sister w^th one of her society, partly deleted.

Including 11 poems by Donne, and 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett.

c.1630s

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 300 through end (MS V.a.345 p. 47)

HrJ 200

Copy of a ten-line version, headed On a maiden conceived by a scholler and here beginning A godly maiden w^th one of her societie.

Including 23 poems by Strode (and second copies of two poems) and one poem of doubtful authorship.

c.1630s

Cited in IELM II.ii (1993), as the Wood MS: StW Δ 21. Discussed in C.F. Main, New Texts of John Donne, SB, 9 (1957), 225-33.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 686 f. 54v)

HrJ 201

Copy of a ten-line version, headed On a Mayd got w^th child and here beginning A godly Maid w^th one of her society.

c.late 1630s

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 116 p. 49)

HrJ 202

Copy of a ten-line version, headed Upon a Puritan mayde and here beginning A puritan mayde by one of her society.

A quarto verse miscellany, including ten poems by Carew and one of doubtful authorship, in a single neat non-professional hand, 72 leaves (plus a later index).

c.1643-50s

Later owned by the Newcastle antiquarian collectors John Bell (1783-1864) and Robert White (1802-74).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Bell-White MS, CwT Δ 30. Described, with facsimiles of ff. 30r and 56v, in T.G.S. Cain, The Bell/White MS: Some Unpublished Poems, ELR, 2 (1972), 260-70.

University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 25 ff. 40v-1r)

HrJ 203

Copy of a ten-line version headed A Puritan maide and here beginning A Puritan maide by one of her society.

A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, in probably two or more secretary hands, 108 pages, in half brown morocco.

Mid-17th century

Later owned by F.W. Cosens (1819-89). Bookplate of James W. Ellsworth.

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1 through 239 (MS 239/18 p. 46)

HrJ 204

Copy of a ten-line version, untitled and here beginning A godly maide by one of her society.

Including thirteen poems by Strode and three of doubtful authorship.

c.1638-45 [and addition c.1649]

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Rosenbach MS I: CwT Δ 31 and StW Δ 23.

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1 through 239 (MS 239/22 f. 8r)

HrJ 205

Copy of a ten-line version, headed On a Puritan and here beginning A holy made, by one of her society.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single small mixed hand throughout; 425 pages (plus an eight-page index), in contemporary calf.

Including 45 poems (and a second copy of one) by Carew, 11 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Corbett, and 25 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1634

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1 through 239 (MS 239/27 p. 206)

HrJ 206

Copy of a ten-line version, untitled and here beginning A holy maide by one of her society.

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

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

c.1640s

Formerly owned by Henry Huth (1815-78). Formerly Rosenbach 195.

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 240 through 999 (MS 240/2 p. 147)

HrJ 207

Copy of a ten-line version, headed On A Purytan Maide and here beginning A vertuous maide (with one of her society).

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

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. 15)

HrJ 208

Copy of a ten-line version, untitled and here beginning A Godly maide with one of her society.

c.1630

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1000 through end (MS 1083/16 p. 29)

HrJ 208.5

Copy, headed Vppon a puritane and here beginning A holie maide by one of her societie.

An octavo verse miscellany, of English and Welsh verse and prose, in probably several hands, the English verse (on pages 9-70, 93-104) including eleven poems by Strode and two of doubtful authorship, 110 pages (plus stubs of extracted leaves).

Compiled by members of the Griffith family, of Llanddyfnan, the verse probably entered by one or more of the various members of that family who studied in this period at the University of Oxford.

Mid-17th century

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Griffith MS: StW Δ 26.

Bangor University (MS 422 p. 65)

HrJ 208.8

Copy of a ten-line version, untitled and here beginning A godlie mayde w^th one of her societie.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 64r)

HrJ 209

Copy of a ten-line version, headed On a puritan maide and here beginning A holy maid with one of her society.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, compiled principally in the secretary hand of a University of Oxford man, with additions in one or more other hands, 150 pages, imperfect, disbound.

c.1640

Yale, Osborn MS b 50 through Osborn MS b 99 (Osborn MS b 62 p. 41)

HrJ 209.3

Copy of a version headed A Puritan his zeale for his Sister and beginning A Puritane of late / And eake an holy Sister.

Including 14 poems by Carew, 13 poems by Corbett and 25 poems (plus one poem of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1650

Scribbling on the first page including the words Peyton Chester….

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Osborn MS I: CwT Δ 38; CoR Δ 14; StW Δ 29.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 200 pp. 342-3)

HrJ 209.5

Copy of a ten-line version, headed parturiens puritana and here beginning A godly sister by one of hir society.

Including 45 poems by Strode and three poems of doubtful authorship.

c.1630s

Formerly Box 22, item II.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Osborn MS II: StW Δ 30.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 205 f. 43v)

HrJ 209.7

Copy of a ten-line version, headed Vpon a woman gotten with child by a Scholler and here beginning A puritane maide with her society.

An octavo verse miscellany, originally written in two hands (A: ff. 1r-22r, 27v-8v; B: ff. 22r-7v, predominantly italic), with late 17th-century additions in three other hands on ff. 28v-33v, 52r and f. 34r, associated with Cambridge, 35 leaves (plus 17 blanks), in contemporary calf gilt.

Including 13 poems by Randolph, plus three of doubtful authorship. Initials stamped on both covers of F R and the inside of the cover inscribed Francis Rolfe Anno dni 1637: i.e. Francis Rolfe (1618-78), Town Clerk of [King's] Lynn, Norfolk.

c.1637

Sotheby's, 21 July 1988, lot 18.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rolfe MS: RnT Δ 5. Briefly described in E.S. Leedham-Green, Francis Rolfe's poetical miscellany: Add.Ms 8684, Bulletin of the Friends of Cambridge University Library, 9 (1988), 20-2. A facsimile of f. 9v in Sotheby's sale catalogue: see RnT 123, RnT 239. For the Rolfe family (whose later papers are in the Norfolk Record Office, NRS 27114, 404 x 3), see R.T. and A. Gunther, Rolfe Family Records, 2 vols (London & Aylesbury, 1914), and Veronica Berry, The Rolfe Papers: The Chronicle of a Norfolk Family 1559-1908 (Brentwood, Essex, 1979; 2nd impression 1986).

Cambridge University Library, Additional MSS 7000 through end (MS Add. 8684 f. 21r)

Of a pure preaching Phisition ('The zealous preacher Lalus as they tell')

Kilroy, Book IV, No. 20, p. 216.

HrJ 209.8

Copy, untitled, here beginning Lalus the zealous preacher as they tell.

A quarto miscellany of English and Latin verse and prose, largely in a neat secretary hand, 91 leaves, in limp vellum.

Early 17th century

Among the papers of the Gell family, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, including those of the Parliamentary commander and MP Sir John Gell, first Baronet (1593-1671). Formerly D258/60/26a.

Derbyshire Record Office (D258/34/26/1 f. [38v])

Of a sawcy Cator ('A Cator had of late some wild-fowle bought')

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 22. McClure No. 276, p. 261. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 82, p. 239.

HrJ 210

Copy, headed Of a Catour.

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

c.1637-51

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

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

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 200 through 299 (MS V.a.262 p. 103)

HrJ 210.5

Copy, in a secretary hand, words only, untitled.

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

Early 17th century

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 15118 f. 43v)

HrJ 211

Copy.

Including 11 poems by Donne, and 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett.

c.1630s

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 300 through end (MS V.a.345 p. 171)

HrJ 211.5

Copy, docketed S^r J.H. of a Cater.

c.1630s

Cambridge University Library, Additional MSS 7000 through end (MS Add. 9221 f. 83r)

HrJ 212

Copy, headed A sawcy Catour.

c.1630

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1000 through end (MS 1083/16 p. 176)

Of a word in welch mistaken in English ('An English lad long Woode a lasse of wales')

Kilroy, Book IV, No. 38, p. 224.

HrJ 213

Copy, headed Nil refert loqui du vbi liceat and here ascribed to JD.

An octavo verse miscellany, comprising c.128 items, including 94 poems by Donne plus his Paradoxes and Problems, compiled by Henry Champernowne (1600-56), of Dartington, Devon, 243 pages, dated on the first page 1623.

1623

Afterwards owned by other members of the Champernowne family, by Sir Edward Seymour, Bart. (?the third Baronet, 1610-85). Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1836), item 1030. Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872) (MS 9568). Sotheby's, 6 June 1898 (Phillipps sale), lot 749. Bookplate of C.S. Harris and bequeathed by him 1916.

Cited in IELM, I.i (190), as the Phillipps MS: DnJ Δ 20.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, f through end (MS Eng. poet. f. 9 p. 18)

HrJ 214

Copy, in a secretary hand, words only, headed in the margin An English ma and a Welsh Lasse.

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

Early 17th century

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 15118 f. 43v)

HrJ 215

Copy by Barbon, headed Epigr. and here beginning And English lad long woed A lasse of Wales. Early 17th century.

A folio composite volume of verse, in various hands, 280 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

In preliminary verses (f. 40r), Barbon records that This Booke [i.e. presumably the exemplar for his verse transcripts] was giuen me by A frende / To reade and overlooke.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 7000 through end (Harley MS 7332 f. 45r)

HrJ 216

Copy, headed Of mistaking of a word, deleted.

A verse miscellany, in long narrow format, 66 leaves (including a number of blanks), in later calf.

Largely in one neat secretary hand; a second hand on ff. 58v-9r, and a third on f. 66r. Compiled chiefly by a University of Cambridge man.

c.1630s

Once owned by F.W. Cosens, FSA (1819-89), of Clapham Park, book collector. Bequeathed in 1894 by Samuel Sandars, of Trinity College, Cambridge.

Discussed in Ted-Larry Pebworth and Claude J. Summers, Recovering an Important Seventeenth-Century Poetical Miscellany: Cambridge Add. MS 4138, TCBS, 7 (1978), 156-69 (pp. 160-1). A 19th-century transcript of much of this MS is in the Bodleian, MS Firth d. 7, ff. 60r-9r.

Cambridge University Library, Additional MSS 1 through 4999 (MS Add. 4138 f. 49r-v)

HrJ 217

Copy, untitled.

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

c.1637

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 198, Part I p. 165)

HrJ 218

Copy, headed Nil refert loqui dum vbi liceat.

An octavo volume of poems and some prose, including 96 poems by Donne plus his Paradoxes and Problems (many ascribed to J. D), in a single neat secretary hand, 150 pages, in 17th-century calf gilt.

c.1622-33

Later owned by Major J.B. Whitmore. Hodgson's, 20-21 November 1958, lot 571, with a facsimile page in the sale catalogue.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Osborn MS: DnJ Δ 30. For a facsimile page see DnJ 728, DnJ 1205. Complete microfilm in British Library (M/569).

Yale, Osborn MS b 100 through Osborn MS b 149 (Osborn MS b 148 p. 3)

HrJ 219

Copy, headed An Epigram.

c.1639 [-c.1728]

Yale, Osborn MS b 150 through Osborn MS b 199 (Osborn MS b 197 p. 111)

Of bagge and baggage ('A man appointed, vpon losse of life')

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 42. McClure no. 296, p. 267. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 35, p. 223.

HrJ 220

Copy, headed Bagg and baggage.

c.1630

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1000 through end (MS 1083/16 p. 33)

Of Blessing without a crosse ('A Priest that earst was riding on the way')

First published in 1618, Book I, No. 17. McClure No. 18, p. 155. Kilroy, Book I, No. 30, p. 104.

HrJ 221

Copy, headed Of Blessing w^thout the Crosse.

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

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

Mid-late 17th century

Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

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

Bradford Archives (32D86/34 p. 81)

HrJ 222

Copy, headed Sacerdotis benedictio and here beginning A certaine preist once riding on the way, subscribed Ibid.

An octavo verse miscellany, entitled Juvenilia Ludicra, in a single small mixed hand, 103 leaves, all now window mounted in a quarto volume, in 19th-century half morocco.

Probably compiled by a Cambridge University man.

c.1630s

Inscribed in engrossed lettering (f. 1r) E Libris Richard Sutclif. Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1830-84), merchant and author. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 194.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 15000 through 16999 (Add. MS 15227 f. 6r)

HrJ 223

Copy, headed On A Vicar and here beginning An honest Viccar riding by the way.

An octavo verse miscellany, compiled by an Oxford man, possibly a member of Christ Church, pp. 1-202 in a single minute hand, written over a period, with a few later additions (including two lines on p. 7) by other hands; pp. 202-19 containing entries in later hands up to 1789, in half-calf on marbled boards, pp. 77-84 detached in the 19th century and now separately bound as Folger MS V.a.152.

Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 30 poems by Strode (one of them in V.a.152) plus one of doubtful authorship.

c.late 1630s [-1789]

Later sold by Thomas Thorpe. Afterwards owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89) (and No. 27 in his Catalogue of Shakespeare Reliques (Brixton Hill, 1852)) and subsequently in the library of Lord Warwick at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1.27.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Thorpe-Halliwell MS: CoR Δ 7 and StW Δ 17. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 1 through 99 (MS V.a.97 p. 54)

HrJ 224

Copy, untitled and here beginning An honest Vicar ridinge by the way.

Mid-17th century

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Welden MS: DnJ Δ 49.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 100 through 199 (MS V.a.162 f. 34r)

HrJ 225

Copy, headed A Vicar and a blind man and here beginning An honest vicar riding on the way.

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. 73v)

HrJ 226

Copy, headed Of Blessinge and here beginning A Preist in hast was riding on ye waye.

An oblong octavo verse miscellany, in a neat mixed hand up to p. 78, the remainder in later hands, 116 pages, in 19th-century half-leather marbled boards, with remains of crimson velvet.

c.1630[-1700s]

Once owned by Elizabeth Herrick (1684-1745) and her brother William Herrick (1689-1773). Formerly among the papers of the Herrick family, of Beaumanor.

This MS discussed in J.A. Taylor, Two Unpublished Poems on the Duke of Buckingham, RES, NS 40 (May 1989), 232-40.

Leicestershire Record Office (DG. 9/2796 p. 34)

HrJ 227

Copy, here beginning A certayne priest once riding on y^e way.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco.

c.1620

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39) f. 79v)

HrJ 228

Copy, here beginning A certaine preist once riding on the way.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, compiled principally in the secretary hand of a University of Oxford man, with additions in one or more other hands, 150 pages, imperfect, disbound.

c.1640

Yale, Osborn MS b 50 through Osborn MS b 99 (Osborn MS b 62 p. 114)

Of certain puritan wenches ('Six of the weakest sex and purest sect')

First published (anonymously) in Rump: or An Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs (London, 1662), II, 158-9. McClure No. 356, p. 292. Kilroy, Book II, No. 94, p. 164.

HrJ 229

Copy, headed The conference of 6 Puritanicall wenches.

An octavo verse miscellany compiled by an Oxford University man, i i + 37 leaves, in later half-calf.

c.1630s

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

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Douce f. 5 fol. 19v)

HrJ 230

Copy, untitled.

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

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 1 through 49 (MS Rawl. poet. 26 f. 6r)

HrJ 231

Copy, untitled.

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

c.1630

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 10000 through 14999 (Add. MS 10309 f. 148r)

HrJ 232

Copy, untitled.

A tall folio volume of state papers, in various largely secretary hands, ii + 267 leaves, in modern half red morocco.

Collected by Sir Peter Manwood, MP (1571-1625), of Hackington, Kent, judge and antiquary.

c.1618-25

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 35000 through 39999 (Add. MS 38139 f. 58r)

HrJ 232.5

Copy, untitled, here beginning Six of the weaker sex but purer sect.

An octavo miscellany, 47 leaves, the greater part (ff. 1r-26, 42r-5v) in a single small mixed hand, with other hands on ff. 27r-41r, including a Catalogus Librorum on ff. 29v-40r, and accounts c.1705 on ff. 46v-7r, in black morocco gilt.

Compiled principally by Henry George, while a student at Christ's College, Cambridge.

c.1639-43

Inscribed (f. 1*^v) Meliora Spero dum Spiro / Henricus George / nec ut mortale / quod opto.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6396 f. 17r)

HrJ 233

Copy, headed Upon six holy Sisters that mett at a Conuenticle to alter the Popish word of Preaching.

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

c.late 1680s

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6913 f. 55r-v)

HrJ 234

Copy, headed The conference of 6 puritanicall wenches, partly deleted.

Including 11 poems by Donne, and 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett.

c.1630s

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 300 through end (MS V.a.345 p. 43)

HrJ 234.1

Copy, headed The Holy Sisters and here beginning Six holy sisters of y^e purest Sect.

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, almost entirely in a single hand, compiled by a university man, 134 leaves, in modern vellum.

End of 17th century-1700s

In a family library at Bath before 1924. Sotheby's, 23 July 1987, lot 11, to Quaritch.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt 79 ff. 129v-30r)

HrJ 234.2 c.1640s

Copy, in a roman hand, headed The Conventicle, here beginning Sixe of our Purer and our weaker sect, and subscribed Jo: Taylor.

A folio composite volume of verse, prose and dramatic works, in various hands, written over a period from both ends, 543 pages (including blanks), in contemporary panelled calf with remains of metal clasps.

Compiled by members of the Salusbury family of Llewenni, Denbighshire, including works by Sir Thomas Salusbury, second Baronet (1612-43), poet and politician.

Early-mid 17th century

Later owned by J. Baskerville-Glegg, of Withington Hall, Chelford. Sotheby's, 14-16 March 1921, lot 421.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 5390 D p. 6)

HrJ 234.3

Copy, headed Epig: and here beginning Six of the weaker sex, but purer sect.

An oblong octavo composite volume, comprising two independent verse miscellanies, Part I, in Latin and English, largely in a neat secretary hand, paginated 1-22, Part II, in English and Welsh, in several hands, one neat secretary hand predominating, paginated 1-266, the two parts bound together in modern quarter red morocco.

c.1630s

Inscriptions including (Part I, pp. 1, 3 and 42) Edward Lewis his Book 1753, John Parker, P H Warburton, and John Aden, and (Part II, p. 33) Thomas Lloyd Esq. Wigfair MS 43, among papers mainly of the Lloyd family of Hafodunos, Denbighshire, and Wigfair, near St Asaph, Flintshire, purchased in 1926-7 from Colonel H.C. Lloyd Howard, of Wigfair.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 12443 A Part II, pp. 22-3)

HrJ 234.4

Copy, untitled.

Copy of verse and prose, in a secretary hand, on three pages of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves.

Early 17th century

Northamptonshire Record Office (IL 4259 p. [3])

HrJ 234.5

Copy of a version beginning first of the weakest sex and purest secte.

c.1620-33

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 198, Part II ff. 38v-9r)

HrJ 234.6

Copy, headed Vpon Six holy Sisters that mett att a Conventicle to alter the Popish word of Preaching, here beginning Six of the female Sex and purest Sect.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional rounded hand, including (pp. 269-71) an Index, iv + 271 pages (including blanks), in contemporary black morocco gilt.

c.1690s

University of Nottingham (Pw V 38 pp. 105-6)

HrJ 234.8

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, here beginning Six of the female sex & purest Sect, on one side of a single quarto leaf, once folded as a letter or packet.

Mid-late 17th century

University of Nottingham (Pw V 571)

HrJ 235

Copy, headed The conference of 6 Puritan wenches.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single small mixed hand throughout; 425 pages (plus an eight-page index), in contemporary calf.

Including 45 poems (and a second copy of one) by Carew, 11 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Corbett, and 25 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1634

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1 through 239 (MS 239/27 p. 165)

HrJ 236

Copy, untitled and here beginning Sixe of the weakest sort & purest sect.

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

Probably compiled by a member of an Inn of Court.

c.1630

Bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork, book collector. Formerly Rosenbach 186.

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1000 through end (MS 1083/15 p. 103)

HrJ 237

Copy, headed Six Puritane wenches.

c.1630

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1000 through end (MS 1083/16 p. 17)

HrJ 237.5 Early 17th century

Copy, in the secretary hand of George Faulcon, receiver or secretary to Roger Manners (1576-1612), fifth Earl of Rutland, and to George Manners (1580-1641), seventh Earl of Rutland, headed Six holie Sisters, here beginning Six holie sisters of the Purest sect, with another epigram on a single quarto leaf.

A folio composite volume of verse MSS, in various hands.

c.1612-20

In collections of the Manners family, Dukes of Rutland.

Recorded (erroneously as Volume XXIV) in HMC, 12th Report, Appendix V, Rutland II (1889), pp. 316-31.

The Duke of Rutland, Belvoir Castle (Letters & Papers, Verses, Vol. XXV f. 18r)

HrJ 238

Copy, untitled, here beginning Six of y^e weakest sex yet purest secte.

A quarto formal verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary and italic hand throughout, paginated 1-162 (but lacking some leaves), in modern limp vellum.

Compiled by John Cruso (fl.1595-1655), poet and military writer, who matriculated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, in 1632.

c.1630s

St John's College, Cambridge (MS U. 26 (James 548) p. 91)

HrJ 238.5

Copy, headed Upon Six holy Sisters that mett at a Conventicle to alter the popish word of Preaching.

A quarto volume of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional hand, 136 pages (lacking pp. 49-50), in paper wrappers.

c.1680s

Among the archives of the Bridgeman family, Earls of Bradford.

Staffordshire Record Office (D 1287/19/6, [uncatalogued volume] p. 69)

HrJ 239

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] ff. 203v-4r)

HrJ 239.5

Copy, headed The Holy Sisters and here beginning Six Holy Sisters of y^e purest Sect.

A folio miscellany of verse and some prose, principally on affairs of state, 320 pages (plus blanks), with a table of contents, in contemporary vellum.

c.1701

The name Edward H. Finch-Hatton inscribed on a flyleaf. Bookplate of Alfred Morrison (1821-97), autograph manuscript and art collector. Sotheby's, May 1919 (Morrison sale Part IV), lot 2942, sold to George D. Smith for Carl H. Pforzheimer (1879-1957), financier and book collector.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS fb 207 1st Book, p. 8)

Of cursing Cuckolds ('A Lord that talked late in way of scorne')

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 26. McClure No. 280, p. 263. Kilroy, Book II, No. 59, p. 151, a version beginning A gallant talking late in way of skorne.

HrJ 240

Copy, untitled and here beginning A great man speaking one day in scorne.

An octavo miscellany of English and Latin verse and prose, in a small secretary hand, 79 leaves (largely blank), disbound.

Early 17th century

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt 25 f. 7v)

HrJ 240.5

Copy.

An octavo verse miscellany, in two hands, one mixed hand predominating, 128 pages (plus a five-page index).

Inscribed, and probably compiled, by Hugh Barrow (b.1617/18), of Brasenose College, Oxford.

c.1638

Also inscribed names of George Hope, Peter Wynne and [?]Anselm Huff. Later owned by Dr A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952), Philadelphia bookseller and scholar: Rosenbach MS 192.

New York Public Library, Arents Collection (Cat. No. S 288 (Acc. No. 5442) p. 84)

Of Don Pedros debts ('Don Pedro's out of debt be bold to say it')

McClure, No. 65. Kilroy II, 18, p. 138.

HrJ 240.8

Copy.

A quarto miscellany of English and Latin verse and prose, largely in a neat secretary hand, 91 leaves, in limp vellum.

Early 17th century

Among the papers of the Gell family, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, including those of the Parliamentary commander and MP Sir John Gell, first Baronet (1593-1671). Formerly D258/60/26a.

Derbyshire Record Office (D258/34/26/1 f. [39r])

Of Fortune ('Fortune, men say, doth giue too much to many')

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 56. McClure No. 310, p. 272. Authorship uncertain.

HrJ 241

Copy of an early version, untitled and here beginning [blynde added in another hand] ffortune gevs tomoche to manye.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 56, p. 103.

Mid-late 16th century

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

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 29r)

HrJ 242

Copy, untitled.

A duodecimo miscellany of verse and jests, in a minute hand, compiled by a Cambridge man, 59 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt.

c.1630

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1489 f. 10r)

Of Galla's goodly Periwigge ('You see the goodly hayre that Galla weares')

First published in Orlando Furioso (London, 1591), in notes at the end of Book XXXII. 1618, Book II, No. 66. McClure No. 162, p. 211. Kilroy, Book III, No. 3, p. 168.

HrJ 243

Copy of four-line version, untitled and here beginning The goodly heare Gella doth weare.

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

Probably compiled by a member of an Inn of Court.

c.1630

Bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork, book collector. Formerly Rosenbach 186.

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1000 through end (MS 1083/15 p. 58)

Of Garlick to my Lady Rogers ('If Leekes you like, and doe the smell disleeke')

First published in The Metamorphosis of Ajax (London, 1596): see HrJ 317-24. 1618, Book I, No. 47. McClure No. 48, p. 166. Kilroy, Book I, No. 89, p. 125.

HrJ 244

Copy, untitled.

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.

c.1640s

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

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 300 through end (MS V.a.339 f. 281r)

Of inclosing a Common ('A Lord, that purpos'd for his more auaile')

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 68. McClure No. 322, p. 275. Authorship uncertain.

HrJ 245

Copy, headed Vpon a Lord who would haue inclosed a Common.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single small mixed hand throughout; 425 pages (plus an eight-page index), in contemporary calf.

Including 45 poems (and a second copy of one) by Carew, 11 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Corbett, and 25 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1634

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1 through 239 (MS 239/27 p. 51)

HrJ 246

Copy, headed On A Lord who would haue inclosed a Commons.

c.1630

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1000 through end (MS 1083/16 p. 177)

Of Lynus borrowing ('Lynus came late to me, sixe crownes to borrow')

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 16. McClure No. 270, p. 259.

HrJ 247

Copy, imperfect, lacking the beginning.

An octavo miscellany of English and Latin verse and prose, in a small secretary hand, 79 leaves (largely blank), disbound.

Early 17th century

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt 25 f. 9r)

HrJ 247.5

Copy.

A quarto miscellany, in one or possibly two hands, one of which may be Sir Charles Calthorpe (d.1616), judge and Attorney-General of ireland, 279 leaves, imperfect.

c.1600

Trinity College, Dublin, numbers 200 through 799 (MS 676 p. 160)

Of one that vow'd to dis-inherit his sonne, and giue his goods to the poore ('A citizen that dwelt neere Temple-barre')

First published in 1618, Book I, No. 65. McClure No. 66, pp. 172-3. Kilroy, Book I, No. 5, pp. 95-6.

HrJ 248

Copy.

An oblong octavo verse miscellany, in a neat mixed hand up to p. 78, the remainder in later hands, 116 pages, in 19th-century half-leather marbled boards, with remains of crimson velvet.

c.1630[-1700s]

Once owned by Elizabeth Herrick (1684-1745) and her brother William Herrick (1689-1773). Formerly among the papers of the Herrick family, of Beaumanor.

This MS discussed in J.A. Taylor, Two Unpublished Poems on the Duke of Buckingham, RES, NS 40 (May 1989), 232-40.

Leicestershire Record Office (DG. 9/2796 p. 35)

Of Plaine dealing ('My writings oft displease you: what's the matter?')

First published in 1618, Book I, No. 59. McClure No. 60, p. 170. This epigram is also quoted in the Tract on the Succession to the Crown (see HrJ 333-5). Kilroy, Book II, No. 8, p. 133.

HrJ 249

Copy, headed Of plaine dealings and here beginning My writings still displease thee, what the matter?.

An oblong octavo verse miscellany, in a neat mixed hand up to p. 78, the remainder in later hands, 116 pages, in 19th-century half-leather marbled boards, with remains of crimson velvet.

c.1630[-1700s]

Once owned by Elizabeth Herrick (1684-1745) and her brother William Herrick (1689-1773). Formerly among the papers of the Herrick family, of Beaumanor.

This MS discussed in J.A. Taylor, Two Unpublished Poems on the Duke of Buckingham, RES, NS 40 (May 1989), 232-40.

Leicestershire Record Office (DG. 9/2796 p. 34)

Of sixe sorts of Fasters ('Sixe sorts of folkes I find vse fasting dayes')

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 30. McClure No. 284, p. 264. Authorship uncertain.

HrJ 250

Copy.

c.1630

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1000 through end (MS 1083/16 pp. 178-9)

Of swearing first betweene the wife and the Husband ('Cis, by that Candle, in my sleepe, I thought')

First published in 1618, Book II, No. 80. McClure No. 176, p. 218. Kilroy, Book III, No. 19, p. 174.

HrJ 251

Copy.

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

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

Mid-late 17th century

Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

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

Bradford Archives (32D86/34 p. 76)

Of taking a Hare ('Vnto a Lawyer rich, a Client poore')

McClure No. 331, p. 278. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 45, p. 226, a version headed Of a Lawier that would take a Hare for a fee and beginning Late to a Lawier rich a Client poore.

HrJ 251.5

A paraphrase by Dyott from memory presumably of this poem: Sir Jo: Harrington in his epigrammes brings in a country fellow who had taken advise of a lawyer and when his deeds 3 weekes had bin perused told the lawyer he had no mony to give him….

A notebook, probably compiled by Sir Richard Dyott (1590-1659), MP for Stafford and Lichfield.

Early-mid-17th century

Staffordshire Record Office (D 661/11/1/7 p. 84)

Of the Bishopricke of Landaffe ('A learned Prelate late dispos'd to laffe')

First published in 1618, Book II, No. 2. McClure No. 98, p. 187. Kilroy, Book II, No. 21, p. 138.

HrJ 252

Copy.

A verse miscellany, in long narrow format, 66 leaves (including a number of blanks), in later calf.

Largely in one neat secretary hand; a second hand on ff. 58v-9r, and a third on f. 66r. Compiled chiefly by a University of Cambridge man.

c.1630s

Once owned by F.W. Cosens, FSA (1819-89), of Clapham Park, book collector. Bequeathed in 1894 by Samuel Sandars, of Trinity College, Cambridge.

Cambridge University Library, Additional MSS 1 through 4999 (MS Add. 4138 f. 49v)

Of the commodities that men haue by their Marriage ('A fine yong Clerke, of kinne to Fryer Frappert')

First published in 1618, Book II, No. 70. McClure No. 166, pp. 213-14. Kilroy, Book III, No. 7, pp. 169-70.

HrJ 253

Copy, headed Ludicru of marriage and here beginning A fine younge Preist of kin to ffryar ffrapp.

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, 64 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum.

Compiled by Leweston Fitzjames (1574-1638), of Leweston, Dorset, and the Middle Temple.

c.1595-early 17th century

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Add. B. 97 f. 38v)

HrJ 254

Copy, untitled and here beginning A ffine yong priest of kin to ffrier ffrapper.

A quarto verse miscellany, including 50 poems by Donne, in a single neat secretary hand except for ff. 70r-2r, which are in another secretary hand.

Comprising folios 57r-137v in a quarto composite volume of MSS, in various hands, 173 leaves, in 19th-century leather gilt.

c.1620s

Later owned by Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725), Yorkshire antiquary and topographer. Among the collections of William Petty (1737-1805), first Marquess of Lansdowne, Lord Shelburne.

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 740 f. 128r)

HrJ 255

Copy, here beginning A fine yong Priest of kin to frier ffrapper.

A folio verse miscellany, containing 89 poems, including 43 by Donne, in several hands (ff. 21r-62r in a single accomplished secretary hand), 69 leaves, in paper wrappers.

c.1620-5

Texas Tech University, Lubbock (PR 1171 D14 f. 56v)

Of Treason ('Treason doth neuer prosper, what's the reason?')

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 5. McClure No. 259, p. 255. This epigram also quoted in a letter to Prince Henry, 1609 (McClure, p. 136). Kilroy, Book III, No. 43, p. 185.

HrJ 256

Copy, headed Vpon Treason:.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single italic hand, evidently associated with Oxford, probably Christ Church, 214 pages (skipping p. 177), plus an index.

Including 18 poems by Corbett and 59 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1630s

Inscribed on a flyleaf Elizabeth Lane hir booke and, among scribbling on another flyleaf, Johannes Finch. P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 341.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Elizabeth Lane MS: CoR Δ 1 and StW Δ 4. The Dobell catalogue description recorded in Forey (pp. lxxxv-lxxxvi).

Aberdeen University Library (MS 29 p. 57)

HrJ 257

Copy, headed On y^e same [i.e. Treason], in a quarto booklet of verse (ff. 136r-45v).

First published in 1615; 1618, Book IV, No. 5; McClure No.l 259, p. 255.

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.

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 36/37 f. 145r)

HrJ 258

Second copy, headed On Treason and here beginning Treason did neu psp; what's y^e Reason.

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.

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 36/37 f. 159v)

HrJ 259

Copy.

An octavo verse miscellany compiled by an Oxford University man, i i + 37 leaves, in later half-calf.

c.1630s

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

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Douce f. 5 fol. 31r)

HrJ 260

Copy, untitled (but under the general heading On Treason &).

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

c.1620s-30s

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 19 p. 40)

HrJ 261

Copy of a version beginning Some say treason is unlawful; what's the reason?

A set of five oblong quarto music part books (Cantus, Altus, Sextus, Tenor, Bassus), ranging from 40 to 110 leaves each (including blanks), in half-red calf marbled boards.

Compiled largely by Thomas Hamond (d.1662), of Cressners, in the parish of Hawkedon, near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.

1630-3

Bequeathed in 1800 by Osborne Wight, of New College, Oxford.

Discussed in M.C. Crum, A Seventeenth-Century Collection of Music Belonging to Thomas Hamond, a Suffolk Landowner, BLR, 6, No. 1 (October 1957), 373-86, and in Ian Payne, George Kirbye (c. 1565-1634): Two Important Repertories of English Secular Vocal Music Surviving Only in Manuscript, MQ, 73, No. 3 (1989), 401-16.

Bodleian Library, Music MSS (MS Mus. f. 20-24 (v), fol. 108v)

HrJ 262

Copy.

A miscellany relating to Oxford, in several hands, i + 705 pages (including many blanks).

Late 17th century

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Top. Oxon. e. 280 p. 707)

HrJ 263

Copy, headed On Treason.

c.1633 [-late 17th century]

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), and II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Leare MS: DnJ Δ 41, CwT Δ 15, CoR Δ 4, and StW Δ 10.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 30000 through 34999 (Add. MS 30982 f. 39r)

HrJ 263.5

Quoted in the copy of Harington's letter to Prince Henry (HrJ 402).

A broadsheet-size guardbook of miscellaneous papers of the Harington family, 15 + 24 leaves.

18th-19th century

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 45000 through 49999 (Add. MS 46382B f. 12r)

HrJ 264

A duodecimo verse miscellany in several hands, written from both ends, 46 leaves, in contemporary calf.

Mid-17th century

Inscribed names (on front paste-down and f. 1r) of Fra: Norreys (? Sir Francis Norris (1609-69)) and Hen. Balle. Purchased from J. Harvey 8 December 1877.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2421 f. 46v rev.)

HrJ 265

Copy, in Haward's hand, untitled, subscribed S^r Ioⁿ. Harrington.

A folio volume, in the neat roman hand of Sir William Haward, FRS (c.1617-1704), of Tandridge Hall, Surrey, courtier and antiquary, 290 pages, in contemporary calf gilt within modern half-morocco gilt.

c.1658-67

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6193 f. iii^r)

HrJ 266

Copy.

c.early 1630s

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1792 f. 22v)

HrJ 266.5

Copy, untitled and running directly on from Greville's epigram on the subject (GrF 36).

A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, predominantly in a single hand (up to f. 34v), with additions in four subsequent hands (ff. 37-50v), 50 leaves, in vellum.

Compiled for the most part by a University of Oxford man, with (f. 1r-v) a list of contents.

c.1640s

Once owned by one John Faith, and by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.

Formerly cited as Corpus Christi College, MS E.i.33.

Corpus Christi College, Oxford (MS 176 f. 8v)

HrJ 267

Copy, untitled.

Mid-17th century

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Welden MS: DnJ Δ 49.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 100 through 199 (MS V.a.162 f. 35v)

HrJ 268

Copy, headed Aliter.

Including 23 poems by Strode (and second copies of two poems) and one poem of doubtful authorship.

c.1630s

Cited in IELM II.ii (1993), as the Wood MS: StW Δ 21. Discussed in C.F. Main, New Texts of John Donne, SB, 9 (1957), 225-33.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 686 f. 10r)

HrJ 268.5

Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, following directly on from GrF 43.

An octavo miscellany of verse and some prose, in several italic and mixed hands, written probably over a period from both ends, 72 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

c.1630s-40s

The University of Manchester Library (English MS 410 f. 22v)

HrJ 268.8

Copy, headed Prosperous treason.

A volume containing parallel translations from Latin of Martial's Epigrams, Other epigrammes ancient and moderne, Epigrammes or sentences epigrammelike out of classical heathen authors, and the anonymous author's own epigrams, in a single hand, with some emendations.

c.1650

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 18 f. 5v)

HrJ 269

Copy, headed Or thus:, following GrF 45.

c.1630

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1000 through end (MS 1083/16 p. 146)

HrJ 270

Copy, here beginning Treason nere prospers, true, but what's the reason.

A notebook, probably compiled by Sir Richard Dyott (1590-1659), MP for Stafford and Lichfield.

Early-mid-17th century

Staffordshire Record Office (D 661/11/1/7 p. 20)

HrJ 271

Copy, headed One Treason.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, compiled principally in the secretary hand of a University of Oxford man, with additions in one or more other hands, 150 pages, imperfect, disbound.

c.1640

Yale, Osborn MS b 50 through Osborn MS b 99 (Osborn MS b 62 p. 96)

Of two Welsh Gentlemen ('I heard among some other pretty Tales')

First published (the short version) in 1615. the longer version in 1618, Book I, No. 62. McClure No. 63, p. 171. Kilroy, Book II, No. 15, p. 136.

HrJ 272

Copy of a 12-line version, in a neat mixed hand, headed An Epigram of S^r John Harrington and here beginning Two Squires of Wales came ridinge to a Towne.

The MS text followed by The replie, twenty lines beginning Once out of England ridde a companie, subscribed Ignoto.

Compiled by members of the Salusbury family of Llewenni, Denbighshire, including works by Sir Thomas Salusbury, second Baronet (1612-43), poet and politician.

Early-mid 17th century

Later owned by J. Baskerville-Glegg, of Withington Hall, Chelford. Sotheby's, 14-16 March 1921, lot 421.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 5390 D p. 163)

Of Women learned in the tongues ('You wisht me to a wife, faire, rich and young')

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 7. McClure No. 261, pp. 255-6. Kilroy, Book I, No. 7, p. 96.

HrJ 273

Copy, headed A refusall of a Learned wife.

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. 48r)

HrJ 274

Copy, headed A learned wife.

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. 47v)

HrJ 275

Copy, untitled.

c.1630s

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Lawson MS: DnJ Δ 37 and CoR Δ 2.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 14 f. 87r rev.)

HrJ 276

Copy, headed A refusall of a learned wife and here beginning You wish me to a wife that's faire & young.

c.1638

Acquired from Blackwell's, 1962.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Codrington MS: CwT Δ 7 and StW Δ 7.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, f through end (MS Eng. poet. f. 27 p. 133)

HrJ 277

Copy, headed Vpon Comending a wife to a gent. and here beginning I wish yo^w to a wife rich, faire & younge.

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

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

Mid-late 17th century

Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

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

Bradford Archives (32D86/34 p. 83)

HrJ 278

Copy, headed A refusall of a learned wife and here beginning You wish me to a wife thats faire & younge.

c.1633 [-late 17th century]

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), and II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Leare MS: DnJ Δ 41, CwT Δ 15, CoR Δ 4, and StW Δ 10.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 30000 through 34999 (Add. MS 30982 f. 20v)

HrJ 279

Copy, headed In amorosom. Epi. 7: and here beginning A wife you wisht me (Sir) rich, faire, and young.

Edited from this MS in The Complete Poems of Sir John Davies, ed. Alexander B. Grosart (London, 1876), II, 48-9.

A quarto volume of epigrams, in a single secretary hand, 25 leaves, in modern half black morocco.

c.1630s

Inscriptions (f. 1r) including Ex spolijs Richardi wharfe and Ex spolijs R: W:.

Bookplate of John Hollis (1662-1711), Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne, politician.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 1000 through 1999 (Harley MS 1836 f. 16v)

HrJ 279.2

Copy, headed On the refusall of a learned wife and here beginning You wishe mee to a wife thats faire and younge.

A quarto verse miscellany, largely in a single professional hand, with later additions on ff. 58v-62v in three or four other hands, 65 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt.

Compiled by one Thomas Crosse, whose name appears (f. 1*) in An Acrosticke upon my name, as well as subscribed (Tho: Cro:) to a poem on ff. 23v-4r.

c.1630s [-1670s]

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6057 f. 27v)

HrJ 279.5

Copy, headed On a learned wife and here beginning You wish to me a wife thats faire & younge.

Compiled principally by Henry George, while a student at Christ's College, Cambridge.

c.1639-43

Inscribed (f. 1*^v) Meliora Spero dum Spiro / Henricus George / nec ut mortale / quod opto.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6396 f. 20v)

HrJ 279.8

Copy, untitled, here beginning You wisht me to a wife both faire and yonge.

A quarto miscellany of English and Latin verse and prose, largely in a neat secretary hand, 91 leaves, in limp vellum.

Early 17th century

Among the papers of the Gell family, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, including those of the Parliamentary commander and MP Sir John Gell, first Baronet (1593-1671). Formerly D258/60/26a.

Derbyshire Record Office (D258/34/26/1 f. [88v])

HrJ 280

Copy, untitled and here beginning You wish mee to a wife, rich, fare, & younge.

Mid-17th century

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Welden MS: DnJ Δ 49.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 100 through 199 (MS V.a.162 f. 32v)

HrJ 281

Copy, headed Upon one that would not marry a Learned wife and here beginning You wisht mee to a wife that's fayre and young.

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

c.1637-51

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

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

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 200 through 299 (MS V.a.262 p. 69)

HrJ 282

Copy, untitled and here beginning Youle wishe mee to a wife that is rich faire & yonge.

Including 23 poems by Strode (and second copies of two poems) and one poem of doubtful authorship.

c.1630s

Cited in IELM II.ii (1993), as the Wood MS: StW Δ 21. Discussed in C.F. Main, New Texts of John Donne, SB, 9 (1957), 225-33.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 686 f. 85r)

HrJ 283

Copy, headed Of a learned wife.

c.late 1630s

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 116 p. 13)

HrJ 284

Copy, headed A refusall of a learned wife and here beginning You wish mee to a wife that's faire & young.

A small quarto verse miscellany, comprising approximately 80 poems, including eleven poems by Donne, 21 poems by Strode, and one poem of doubtful authorship, in several hands, one small neat hand predominating (ff. 1r-34r), with later receipts for 1658-62 at the end, 161 leaves (including numerous blanks).

c.1630s-40s

Inscriptions include Edwardus Hyde (at the end) and (f. [ir]) Edward Hyde is a knave: i.e. probably Edward Hyde (1607-59), royalist divine, who may be the E. H. responsible for a poem To his Wife (f. 34r) and the Ned Hide who is subject of an Epitaph (f. [18r rev]). Later inscribed Robertus Walker and Elizabeth Walker. Early 18th-century bookplate of Baron Aston of Forfar. Percy Dobell, sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 345. Later owned by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Hyde MS: DnJ Δ 52, StW Δ 15. Discussed in Geoffrey Keynes, A Footnote to Donne, The Book Collector, 22 (Summer 1973), 165-8, with a facsimile of the page with Hyde's signature (which does not correspond to the main handwriting). Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 1863.

Cambridge University Library, Additional MSS 7000 through end (MS Add. 8470 f. 8v)

HrJ 285

Copy, untitled and here beginning S^r I do wish to you a wife, rich, faire & yong.

An octavo miscellany of English and Latin verse and prose, in a small secretary hand, 79 leaves (largely blank), disbound.

Early 17th century

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt 25 f. 7v)

HrJ 286

Copy, headed On a Learned wife and here beginning One proferd mee a wife, rich, faire & yonge.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single small mixed hand throughout; 425 pages (plus an eight-page index), in contemporary calf.

Including 45 poems (and a second copy of one) by Carew, 11 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Corbett, and 25 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1634

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1 through 239 (MS 239/27 p. 187)

HrJ 287

Copy, headed Learned Wife.

c.1630

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1000 through end (MS 1083/16 p. 20)

HrJ 288

Copy, untitled.

A folio verse miscellany, containing 89 poems, including 43 by Donne, in several hands (ff. 21r-62r in a single accomplished secretary hand), 69 leaves, in paper wrappers.

c.1620-5

Texas Tech University, Lubbock (PR 1171 D14 f. 57r)

HrJ 289

Copy, witten along the length of the page with the spine uppermost, untitled.

Compiled by a Cambridge University man.

c.late 1630s

Inscribed name (f. 151v) John graves. Old pressmark F. 5. 24.

Trinity College, Dublin, numbers 200 through 799 (MS 690 f. 140v)

HrJ 289.5

Copy, headed In Amorosum Epig: and here beginning A wife you wisht me s^r rich, faire, & young.

Including 45 poems by Strode and three poems of doubtful authorship.

c.1630s

Formerly Box 22, item II.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Osborn MS II: StW Δ 30.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 205 f. 40v)

Of writing with double pointing ('Dames are indude with vertues excellent?')

First published in 1618, Book I, Nos. 33 and 35. McClure Nos. 34 and 36, pp. 161-2. Kilroy, Book I, No. 65, pp. 116-17.

HrJ 290

Copy of a version beginning Wemen or noble vertuos excellent.

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. 84)

HrJ 291

Copy, untitled.

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

With a few additions in Rawlinson's hand.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199 (MS Rawl. poet. 172 f. 9v)

HrJ 292

Copy, headed Another [i.e. verse employing a double sense], with a prose preamble concerning King Edward at Berkeley Castle, inscribed in the margin Harrington.

Including 11 poems by Donne, and 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett.

c.1630s

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 300 through end (MS V.a.345 pp. 13-14)

HrJ 293

Copy, headed Of Women in a double sense.

An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, closely written from both ends in several hands, 144 leaves (plus entries on inside covers), in contemporary calf.

Owned (name inscribed on f. 1r), and probably compiled in part, by one Thomas Watson.

c.1680s

Formerly MS P. 3. 1.

Merton College, Oxford (MS D. 1. 2 f. 12v)

HrJ 294

Copy of a four-line version beginning Weomen are godely wyse & excellent.

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

Probably compiled by a member of an Inn of Court.

c.1630

Bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork, book collector. Formerly Rosenbach 186.

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1000 through end (MS 1083/15 p. 77)

HrJ 295

Copy, untitled.

A small quarto miscellany of anecdotes, aphorisms, verses, etc., in two hands, compiled by Sir Francis Fane (c.1612-80), 193 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

Inscribed by Fane on f. 1r Aug: 24: 1629 / Franciscus Fane and, later, as a bequest to his three grandsons to be read by them when aged 21, dated from Fulbeck, 5 May 1672.

c.1629-72

Sold by Maggs, 29 May 1930.

Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office (ER 93/2 f. 192v)

Ouids confession translated into English for Generall Norreys. 1593 ('To liue in Lust I make not my profession')

First published in 1618, Book II, No. 85. McClure No. 181, pp. 219-21. Kilroy, Book III, No. 26, pp. 177-8.

*HrJ 296

Autograph

An early version, lines 1-6 in Sir John Harington's hand, the rest in the hand of an amanuensis with autograph revisions, headed by Harington Ovids Confession. Non ego mendosos ausim defendere mores.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 222, pp. 253-4.

Mid-late 16th century

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

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 153r-v)

A pretty questions of Lazarus soule well answered ('Once on occasion two good friends of mine')

First published in 1615. 1618, Book II, No. 46. McClure No. 142, pp. 203-4. Kilroy, Book II, No. 80, p. 159.

HrJ 297

Copy.

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

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

Mid-late 17th century

Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

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

Bradford Archives (32D86/34 p. 76)

A Tale of a Bayliffe distraining for rent. To my Ladie Rogers ('I heard a pleasant tale at Cammington')

First published in 1618, Book I, No. 91. McClure No. 93, pp. 183-5. Kilroy, Book II, No. 2, pp. 130-1.

HrJ 298

Copy.

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

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

Mid-late 17th century

Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

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

Bradford Archives (32D86/34 pp. 77-8)

HrJ 299

Copy of a shortened version beginning I hard the Tale once of an arrant Baily.

c.1630

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1000 through end (MS 1083/16 pp. 187-8)

To her Daughter, vpon the same point, reading the same verse with another point ('Dames are indude with vertues excellent')

See HrJ 290-295.

To his Wife ('Because I once in verse did hap to call')

First published in 1618, Book II, No. 81. McClure No. 177, p. 218. Kilroy, Book III, No. 20bis, p. 175.

HrJ 299.5

Copy, headed S^r Jo: Harringtonn to his wife.

A quarto formal verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary and italic hand throughout, paginated 1-162 (but lacking some leaves), in modern limp vellum.

Compiled by John Cruso (fl.1595-1655), poet and military writer, who matriculated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, in 1632.

c.1630s

St John's College, Cambridge (MS U. 26 (James 548) p. 149)

To Master Cooke, the Queenes Atturney, that was incited to call Misacmos into the Starre-chamber, but refused it ('Those that of dainty fare make deare prouision')

First published in 1618, Book I, No. 45. McClure No. 46, p. 165. Kilroy, Book I, No. 87, p. 124.

*HrJ 300

Autograph

Autograph, untitled and here beginning They that of dainty food make deer provision; imperfect, with part of lines 5-6, 7-8, and a title added in an 18th-century hand.

A printed exemplum of Harington's The Metamorphosis of Ajax (London, 1596), in modern calf gilt.

c.1596

Once owned by William Herbert (1718-95), bibliographer and printseller, and in 1841 by William Pickering (1796-1954). Bookplate of John Henry Wrenn (1841-1911), Chicago industrialist and book collector.

University of Texas at Austin (Wh H224 596n WRE unnumbered rear flyleaf)

HrJ 300.5

Copy, in an unidentified hand, headed Epilogue and here beginning They that of dainty food make deer prouision.

A large-paper printed exemplum of the first edition (1596) of A new discovrse of a stale svbiect called the matamorphosis of Aiax, inscribed on the title-page in red ink Seen and dissalowed, dated (on the verso of the title-page) 3 August 1596.

1596

Five loosely inserted pages of notes in the hand of Isaac Reed (1742-1807), literary editor and book collector. Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. In the Britwell Court Library of William Henry Christie Miller, MP (1789-1848) and Samuel Christie Miller, MP (1810-89), at Burnham, Buckinghamshire. Sold by John R. B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector.

This volume described in William Beloe, Anecdotes of Literature and Scarce Books, 2 vols (London, 1814), II, 372-84. Also recorded in Proceedings and Papers of the Oxford Bibliographical Society, 2 (1927-30), 212.

Princeton (RHT 16^th-45 blank page at the end of the Apologie)

To Mr. Bastard, the minister that writes the pleasant Epigrams ('Had yow been known to me ear yow wear maryd')

First published in The Epigrams of Sir John Harington, ed. N.E. McClure (Philadelphia, 1926). McClure (1930), No. 358, p. 293. Kilroy, Book III, No. 10, p. 171.

HrJ 301

Copy, headed In Thom: Bastard Theolog: and here beginning Bastard had I knowne ere thou hadst bene married.

c.1630

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1000 through end (MS 1083/16 p. 245)

To the ladies of the Queenes Priuy-Chamber, at the making of their perfumed priuy at Richmond, The Booke hanged in chaines saith thus: ('Faire Dames, if any tooke in scorne, and spite')

First published in 1618, Book I, No. 44. McClure No. 45, p. 165. Kilroy, Book I, No. 86, p. 124.

*HrJ 302

Autograph

Autograph, headed An Epigram of the booke hanging in cheyns. to y^e Ladyes and here beginning Fayr dames yf any tooke in skorn or spyte.

A printed exemplum of Harington's The Metamorphosis of Ajax (London, 1596), in modern calf gilt.

c.1596

University of Texas at Austin (Wh H224 596n WRE sig. A1^v)

HrJ 302.5

Copy, in an unidentified hand, headed An Epigram of the Book - Hanging in Cheyns. To the Lady, here beginning Fair Dames yf any took in scorn or spite.

1596

Princeton (RHT 16^th-45 blank page at the end of the Apologie)

A Tragicall Epigram ('When doome of Peeres & Iudges fore-appointed')

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 82. McClure No. 336, pp. 280-1. Kilroy, Book III, No. 44, p. 185. This epigram is also quoted in the Tract on the Succession to the Crown (see HrJ 333-5).

HrJ 303

Copy, headed On y^e beheading of Mary Q. of Scots and here beginning When doome of death by Judgem^t foreappointed.

c.1630s

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Lawson MS: DnJ Δ 37 and CoR Δ 2.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 14 f. 100r rev.)

HrJ 304

Copy, untitled and here beginning When doome of death by Judgment foreappointed.

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

Compiled by an Oxford University man.

Early 17th century

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 200 through end (MS Rawl. poet. 212 f. 87v)

HrJ 305

Copy, untitled and here beginning When doome of Death by Judgem^t fore-appointed.

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

c.1630

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 10000 through 14999 (Add. MS 10309 f. 148v)

HrJ 306

Copy, untitled and here beginning When doome of death by iudgm^ts force appointed.

Printed from this MS in James Orchard Halliwell, Poetical Miscellanies from a Manuscript Collection of the time of James I, Percy Society (London, 1845), p. 38.

A duodecimo miscellany of verse and some prose, in one or possibly two hands, in varying secretary and italic scripts, 107 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

Compiled by someone probably connected with the Royal Court.

c.1605

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999 (Add. MS 22601 ff. 60v-1r)

HrJ 306.5

Copy, in a probably professional secretary hand, headed Of hangmen, with other verses, on one side of a single folio leaf.

A folio composite volume of correspondence and papers, many in Tresham's hand, 250 leaves.

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

c.1598-1605

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 35000 through 39999 (Add. MS 39829 f. 93r)

HrJ 306.8

Copy, untitled, here beginning When doome of death by iudgment fore appointed.

A quarto miscellany of English and Latin verse and prose, largely in a neat secretary hand, 91 leaves, in limp vellum.

Early 17th century

Among the papers of the Gell family, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, including those of the Parliamentary commander and MP Sir John Gell, first Baronet (1593-1671). Formerly D258/60/26a.

Derbyshire Record Office (D258/34/26/1 f. [38v])

HrJ 307

Copy, in a mixed hand, here beginning When Doome of Death by Judgem^t foreappoynted, subscribed S^r John Harrington vpon the Death of the Queen of Scotts.

A large quarto volume of tracts on Mary Queen of Scots, in several hands, 75 unnumbered leaves (including blanks, plus a number of other blanks), in contemporary vellum.

Early 17th century

Among the collections of Christopher Hunter (1675-1757), Durham antiquary and physician.

Durham Cathedral Library (Hunter MS 51 f. 31v)

HrJ 308

Copy, headed S^r John Harringtons epigram vppon the deathe of his magesties Mother Mary quen of Scotland.

A quarto miscellany, largely in a professional secretary hand, i + 59 leaves (plus numerous blanks and some loose papers), in contemporary vellum.

Late 16th-early 17th century

Once owned by the Draycott family.

Emmanuel College, Cambridge (MS 80 (I. 3. 28) f. 56r)

HrJ 309

Copy, headed On the beheading of Mary Queene of Scotts and here beginning When doome of death by judgment foreappointed.

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

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

c.1630 [-1677]

Part I inscribed (f. 1r) John Smyth his Book 1640, Charles Smyth 1674, Hugh Smyth 1676; (f. 23v) J Smyth 1677 / 1676. Part II inscribed several times Thomas Smith, on f. 19r also Die: Maij 12^o Ano 1659, with a reference on f. 58v to Balliol College, Oxford, 1659/60. Later inscribed (f. [i^r]) by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), who records buying this very curious and interesting MS. of Mess^rs Boone. Afterwards in the library at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1. 28.

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

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 100 through 199 (MS V.a.103 Part I, f. 2v)

HrJ 310

Copy, headed An elegie on y^e queene of Scots and here beginning When doome of death by iudgment foreappointed.

An octavo verse miscellany, in several hands, written from both ends, 77 leaves (including blanks), in old calf gilt.

c.1640

Formerly MS 2073.3.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 300 through end (MS V.a.319 f. 21r)

HrJ 311

Copy, headed An elegye on y^e Queene of Scotts and here beginning When doome of death by iudgment foreappointed.

A quarto verse miscellany, with later accounts on the last page dated June 1658, 1* + 238 pages (including stubs of extracted pages 191-6, plus numerous blanks), in old calf (rebacked).

Including 11 poems by Carew and 14 poems by Randolph.

c.1630s-40s

A Jo. Wheeler signed the Christ Church, Oxford, disbursement books for 1641-3 (xii, b.85 and 86).

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Wheeler MS: CwT Δ 25 and RnT Δ 7.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 300 through end (MS V.a.322 p. 35)

HrJ 312

Copy, headed On y^e Q. of Scots Execution and here beginning When doom of death by iudgment soe appointed, inscribed in the margin Harrington.

Including 11 poems by Donne, and 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett.

c.1630s

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 300 through end (MS V.a.345 p. 103)

HrJ 313

Copy, headed On the beheading of Mary Queene of Scots and here beginning When doome of death by judgment foreappointed.

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

c.1630s

University of Nottingham (Pw V 37 p. 2)

HrJ 313.2

Copy, untitled.

A quarto volume of ecclesiastical treatises, in three secretary hands, 96 leaves, in vellum boards.

Early 17th century

York Minster (MS XVI. K. 18 f. [81r])

HrJ 313.4

Copy, untitled.

The treatise in the hands of Harington's servant Thomas Combe and of Harington's brother Francis.

1602 (and later)

York Minster (MS XVI. L. 6 p. 257)

HrJ 313.5

Copy, headed Vpon y^e death of y^e Queen of Scots and here beginning When doome of death by iudgm^t. foreappointed.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single predominantly italic hand, 152 leaves (paginated 1-34, thereafter foliated 35-169), plus index, in modern red leather.

Including 85 poems (and second copies of two) by Thomas Carew.

c.1638-42

Inscriptions including Horatio Carey 1642 te deus pardamus [viz. Horatio Carey (1619-ante 1677), eldest son of Sir Richard Carey (1583-1630) and great-grandson of Sir Henry Carey (1524?-96), first Baron Hunsdon ], Thomas Arding, Thomas Arden, William Harrington, Thomas John, John Anthehope and Clement Poxall. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 8270. Bookplates of John William Cole and of the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, 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 194.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Carey MS: CwT Δ 34. Briefly discussed in Gary Taylor, Some Manuscripts of Shakespeare's Sonnets, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 68 (1985), 210-46 (pp. 220-4). Discussed, with facsimile pages, in Scott Nixon, The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 188, 191-2).

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1000 through end (MS 1083/17 p. 6)

HrJ 314

Copy, untitled and here beginning when peeres and judges had by doome appointed.

A quarto composite miscellany of verse and prose, in various hands, probably associated with the University of Cambridge, 352 pages (including 35 blanks), in 19th-century boards.

Erroneously described in 1965 as a commonplace book of the poet Robert Herrick. The so-called Herrick hand responsible for complete poems or substantial passages on pp. 73-4, 102-3, 253, 312-13, 319-21, 323, 328 and 343, this hand also responsible for corrections and brief insertions in both verse and prose on pp. 55-6, 58-60, 68, 71, 75-6, 78, 83, 89, 91, 93, 97, 99. 108-9, 203, 266, 285, 291, 348 and 350.

c.1612-24

Scribbling on front- and end-leaves including Georgius Cantuarien, Thomas Hobson [?the Cambridge Carrier], Benjamin Broadeface, To my very long friend m^r John Bond, To the right reuerend ffather in God George Archbyshop of Canterbury his grace, Whereas the Bearer hereof Thomas Hall hath serued his sixe weekes…, To the right honor S^r Tho: Moore Whereas the Bearer hereof John Tis[?]sdale, Williamson and Phillip de Maceden. Puttick and Simpson's, 30 May 1849, lot 158 (erroneously described as a commonplace book of George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 12341*. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 146 (as Herrick's commonplace book). House of El Dieff (Lew David Feldman), New York, sale catalogue No. 65 (1965), with facsimile page as frontispiece. Formerly Ms File/(Herrick, R)/Works B.

Also facsimiles of p. 323 in the Sotheby's sale catalogue (frontispiece) and of p. 253 (as if in Herrick's hand) in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 33. Facsimile of all the verse in the MS (viz. pp. 63-83, 85, 87, 89, 91, 93,95, 97, 99, 101-3, 105-9, 113-17, 251-3, 277-82, 291, 317-21, 323, 325-43, 345-50), together with a transcript, in Norman K. Farmer, Jr, Poems from a Seventeenth-century Manuscript with the Hand of Robert Herrick, Texas Quarterly, 16, No. 4 (Supplement) (Winter 1973), 1-185. Microfilm of the complete MS in the British Library, M/751.

The MS discussed by Farmer in loc. cit. and in Robert Herrick's Commonplace Book? Some Observations and Questions, PBSA, 66 (1972), 21-34; in P.J. Croft's critical comments on Farmer's articles in To the Editor, PBSA, 66 (1972), 421-6, and (correcting Farmer's published transcript of the text) in Errata in Poems from a Seventeenth-Century Manuscript, TQ, 19 (1976), 160-73; and in Farmer's A Reply to Mr P. Croft, TQ, 19 (1976), 174. Reasons for rejecting Herrick's alleged association are presented in the Introduction above, under The Texas Herrick Manuscript.

University of Texas at Austin (HRC 79 p. 63)

A witty choice of a Country fellow ('A rich Lord had a poore Lout to his ghest')

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 70. McClure No. 324, p. 276. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 56, pp. 230-1.

HrJ 314.5

Copy.

1605

Including (p. [iii]) a 19th-century copy of James I's letter of thanks for this gift, transcribed from the original letter in British Library Add. MS 46381, f. 145r.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 200 through 299 (MS V.a.249 pp. 265)

HrJ 314.8

Copy, headed Vpon a lord and a Countryman.

Including 45 poems by Strode and three poems of doubtful authorship.

c.1630s

Formerly Box 22, item II.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Osborn MS II: StW Δ 30.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 205 f. 47r)

Prose

A Briefe Apologie of Poetrie

See HrJ 16.

Breefe Notes and Remembraunces

Breife Notes upon the Sixth Booke of Virgils Aeneads

See HrJ 18-19.

A Briefe View of the State of the Church of England

See HrJ 328-332.

A Discowrse shewing that Elyas must personally come before the Day of Judgment

First published in Nugae Antiquae (1775), pp. 39-56. Nugae Antiguae (1804), II, 281-304.

HrJ 315

Copy, in the hand of an amanuensis.

Edited probably from this MS in Nugae Antiquae (1775). Briefly described in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444 (p. 402).

An octavo volume, comprising two tracts by Sir John Harington, iii + 45 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

Volume VI of the Harington Papers.

c.1597-1600s

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 45000 through 49999 (Add. MS 46371 ff. 31r-45v)

A Journal of my lords Jorney, beginning the 9. of May. 1599

An account of the Irish expedition of the Earl of Essex, different from the Report concerning…Essex's Journeys attributed (probably incorrectly) to Harington in Nugae Antiquae (1804), I, 268-93: see Timothy G. A. Nelson, Sir John Harington — A Mistaken Attribution, N&Q, 214 (December 1969), 457. The Journal here is edited in R. H. Miller, An Unpublished journal of Essex's Munster Campaign of 1599, ELR, 10 (1980), 96-119.

(f. 7r-v and sidenotes throughout in Harington's hand)

*HrJ 315.5

Autograph

Copy, with sidenotes throughout in Harington's hand.

Edited from this MS, with a facsimile of f. 7r, in Miller.

A quarto volume of miscellaneous papers largely relating to Ireland, in several hands, ii + 65 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum.

Volume IV of the Harington Papers.

c.1599-1609

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 45000 through 49999 (Add. MS 46369 ff. 7r-18r)

Letter to the Rev. Joseph Hall, on the Marriage of the Clergy

First published in M. H. M. MacKinnon, Sir John Harington and Bishop Hall, PQ, 37 (1958), 80-6.

HrJ 316

Unfinished draft, in the secretary hands of several amanuenses, of an epistle to Joseph Hall, probably intended for publication.

Edited from this MS in MacKinnon.

A folio composite volume of papers, in various hands, 135 leaves, in red half-morocco.

Late 16th century-1612

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 25000 through 29999 (Add. MS 27632 ff. 35r-40r)

The Metamorphosis of Ajax

First published in London, 1596. Edited by Elizabeth Story Donno (New York, 1962).

*HrJ 317

Autograph

A quarto MS, largely autograph, with deletions and revisions, some pages in the hand of Harington's servant Thomas Combe and at least one addition in the hand of Harington's brother Francis, being the printer's copy for the first edition, i + 60 leaves, imperfect, in 19th-century half calf.

Volume III of the Harington Papers.

1596

Inscribed (f. 60v) Ric Bancroft.

This MS collated in Donno. Described in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444 (pp. 403-4).

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 45000 through 49999 (Add. MS 46368)

HrJ 317.5

Extracts.

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

c.1596-1601

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

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6910 f. 123r)

*HrJ 318

Autograph

Autograph marginal additions and annotations by Harington in a large paper exemplum of one of the octavo editions of 1596, in modern red morocco gilt.

c.1596

Once owned by John, first Baron Lumley (c.1533-1609), collector, and later by The Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857, antiquary and book collector. Bookplates of Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector; E. M. Cox; and Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).

This item (the Lumley-Folger copy) collated in Donno, with a facsimile of the title-page as frontispiece.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, Printed books (STC 12772.3 copy 1, Bd w STC 12774.2 copy 1 and STC 12779)

*HrJ 319

Autograph

Autograph marginal additions and annotations by Harington in an imperfect exemplum of one of the octavo editions of 1596, the missing first part (A New Discourse) supplied from an exemplum of the third edition (1814) and two pages missing from the Appolgie supplied in MS in a roman hand, in old russia.

c.1596

Inscribed in 1813 by Robert Nares (1753-1829), philologist. Bookplates of J. Knight and John William Cole. Label of James Camden Hotten (1832-73), bookseller, writer and publisher.

This item (the Nares-Folger copy) collated in Donno.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, Printed books (STC 12772.3 copy 2 Bd. w STC 12774.2 copy 2 and STC 12781.2)

*HrJ 320

Autograph

Exemplum of one of the printed octavo editions of 1596 with Harington's autograph sidenotes, in his small italic hand, on sig. A5^r, pp. 3, 5, 11, 17, 29, 35, 51, and sig. N6^v, imperfect.

c.1596

Among extensive scribbling and inscriptions in various hands throughout the volume are Robert Eton bringeth x^l x^s the vi^th day of October [1602], Thomas Hares of Hentor in the countie of Waltes [part of his will], a record of the birth of Robert Pantinge the night before Whit Sunday 1600, Robert Pantinge, By me Thomas Pantinge, Anthony Pantinge, Richard Pantinge, John dimmacke, John Needham, Barklay Needham 1756, Barbra Needham Book 1759, and John Rogers not his book. Later owned by F. Bowman.

This item collated in Donno.

University of Sheffield (827.32.)

*HrJ 321

Autograph

Exemplum of one of the editions of 1596 with Harington's autograph additions, including (facing the title-page) his dedication to his uncle, Thomas Markham, dated 3 August 1596.

This item (the Markham-Wrenn copy) collated in Donno.

A printed exemplum of Harington's The Metamorphosis of Ajax (London, 1596), in modern calf gilt.

c.1596

University of Texas at Austin (Wh H224 596n WRE The volume as a whole)

*HrJ 322

Autograph

Harington's autograph marginal annotations and additions throughout, including his autograph dedication to his uncle Thomas Markham.

1596

Princeton (RHT 16^th-45 The volume as a whole)

HrJ 323

An exemplum of one of the printed editions of 1596 containing transcripts of Harington's autograph dedication to Thomas Markham and marginal annotationa in HrJ 322.

Early 19th century

Inscribed (erroneously) inside the front cover, in another hand, Note. written by Walter Scott April 18 1815. Bookplate of the Carleton House Library: i.e. of the Prince Regent, afterwards George IV (1762-1830).

Royal Library, Windsor (III. 34. E)

HrJ 324

Exemplum of one of the editions of 1596, in 19th-century calf, containing a transcripts of Harington's autograph dedication to Thomas Markham in HrJ 322; the MS notes here on three front flyleaves in the hands of Richard Farmer (1735-97), James Bindley (1737-1818), and Sir Francis Freeling (1764-1836).

c.1800

Sotheby's, 29 January 1873, lot 748. Bookplate of John Henry Wrenn (1841-1911), Chicago industrialist and book collector.

University of Texas at Austin (Wh/H224 596nb WRE)

HrJ 325

Copy of a historical narrative, headed The Fall of Nero and beginning of Galba and beginning Galerius, Trachalus, and Silius Italicus being Consuls: Caius Julius Vindex, Lieutenant of Gallia Lugdunensis, perceyuing that priuate conspiracies..., in the hand of an amanuensis, with a few marginal annotations in an italic hand.

This is not part of Harington's lost succinct collection of historie: his compendious & apt obseruatios in the Emperors liues but a work by Sir Henry Savile, published with his 1591 translation of Tacitus's History and Adricola.

Deleted entry (Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 139/194-203v)

The Prayse of Private Life

See DaS 45-46.

A Short View of the State of Ireland

First published, edited by W.D. Macray (Oxford, 1879). Facsimile of f. 13 (which includes the epigram Musa Jocosa, meos solari assueta dolores) in Kathleen M. Lea, Harington's Folly, Elizabethan and Jacobean Studies Presented to F.P. Wilson (Oxford, 1959), pp. 42-58 (facing p. 48).

*HrJ 326

Autograph

Autograph copy, with revisions, of Harington's letter to Charles Blount, Earl of Devonshire, and Sir Robert Cecil, Viscount Cranborne, applying for the Chancellorship of Ireland, 1605.

Edited from this MS in Macray. Facsimile example in R. H. Miller, Sir John Harington's Manuscripts in Italic, SB, 40 (1987), 101-6 (p. 102).

The original autograph letter which accompanied the copy of this memorial (now unlocated) sent by Harington to Sir Robert Cecil on 20 April 1605 is owned by the Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 110/97, and is printed in McClure, p. 118.

A quarto composite volume, comprising two tracts (the second on the Commonwealth of Scotland), in two different hands, 19 leaves (plus blanks), in vellum boards.

A lengthy inscription, on an unopened front endpaper, by Edward Umfreville (1702?-86), collector of legal manuscripts, addressed to Rawlinson, 1748.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. B. 162 ff. 1r-14v)

HrJ 327 c.1635

Copy.

A folio composite volume of state tracts, ii + 296 leaves, with a table of contents, in contemporary calf, with metal clasps.

In various professional hands, the predominant and distinctive secretary hand in Harvard MS Eng 1266 (v. 1) here responsible for ff. 1r-41v, 142r-9r, 202r-54r, 257r-73r, 283r-94v.

Owned by Sir Richard Grosvenor (1585-1645); later by the Duke of Westminster, Eaton Hall, Cheshire, with his bookplate (inscribed XXI No. 4) and a label with No.15 on the spine. Assembled largely from Liber 7 (= MS 15). Sotheby's, 19 July 1966, lot 482.

This volume recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 212.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 1266 (v.2) ff. 283r-94v)

A Supplie or Addicion to the Catalogue of Bishops, to y^e Yeare 1608

First published, as A Briefe View of the State of the Church of England, edited by John Chetwind (London, 1653). Edited by R.H. Miller (Potomac, 1979).

*HrJ 328

Autograph

Autograph fair copy, on 88 quarto leaves, appended (ff. 314r-407r) to a printed exemplum of Francis Godwin, Bishop of Hereford, A Catalogue of Bishops of England (London, 1601).

Presented to Prince Henry, the remains of the original leather binding bearing his arms. The printed volume (ff. 1r-279r) contains Harington's extensive autograph marginal annotations, with an index (ff. 230r-301v) in the hand of an manuensis and A table Alphabeticall annexed to the Booke of the Catalogue of Bishops (ff. 302r-13r) also in Harington's hand.

18 February 1607/8

Edited probably from this MS in Nugae Antiquae (London, 1804), II, 1-278. Edited from this MS in Miller's edition. Also discussed in R.H. Miller, Sir John Harington's A Supplie or Addicion to the Catalogue of Bishops, to the Yeare 1608: Composition and Text, SB, 30 (1977), 145-61. Facsimile example in R.H. Miller, Sir John Harington's Manuscripts in Italic, SB, 40 (1987), 101-6 (p. 105).

The British Library: Royal MSS (Royal MS 17 B. XXII)

HrJ 328.5

Extracts, in the hand of the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed S^r John Haritons addishons to Goodwins works about Bishops.

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.

c.1625-30s

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

The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS No. 21 pp. 133-6)

*HrJ 329

Autograph

Copy of an early version, in the hand of Harington's servant Thomas Combe, with some italic headings in Harington's hand, a tipped-in leaf at the end in another hand, untitled, ii + 62 quarto leaves, imperfect, lacking various leaves.

Volume V of the Harington Papers.

1607-8

This MS discussed in R.H. Miller, Sir John Harington's A Supplie or Addicion to the Catalogue of Bishops, to the Yeare 1608: Composition and Text, SB, 30 (1977), 145-61. Facsimile example in R.H. Miller, Sir John Harington's Manuscripts in Italic, SB, 40 (1987), 101-6 (p. 105).

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 45000 through 49999 (Add. MS 46370)

HrJ 330

Copy, in two hands: ff. 169r-248v in an early 17th century secretary hand; ff. 134r-68v in a later professional secretary hand, c.1620s, probably replacing a lost portion of the earlier copy; with a title-page (f. 134r), the inscription by S^r John Harrington written for the service of Prince Henry and Printed in smal octavo 16<blank> added in a later hand.

This MS discussed and some previously unpublished portions of the text printed from it in Miller.

A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various professional hands, 248 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 1000 through 1999 (Harley MS 1220 ff. 134r-268v)

HrJ 331

Copy, 72 quarto leaves.

Mid-late 17th century

Once owned by Moses Pitt (1639-97), bookseller and printer.

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1675)

HrJ 332 c.1620s

Copy of about four-fifths of the work, in a secretary hand, headed A Supply or Additiou to the Cataloge of Bishops to the yeare 1618: And ferste of M^r Docto Parker, stained and imperfect, breaking off in the section on Dr Edwin Sandys.

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.

Owned by John Madden, MD (1649-1703/4), physician and manuscript collector. Old pressmark F. 1. 20.

Trinity College, Dublin, numbers 800 through end (MS 806 ff. 142r-75v)

A Tract on the Succession to the Crown

First published, edited by Clements R. Markham (Roxburghe Club, London, 1880). Reprinted in New York, 1969.

HrJ 333

Copy, in the formal secretary hand of Harington's servant Thomas Combe, untitled and beginning To all trew Englishmen that feare God and honor the Queene. the protesting, Catholique, Puritan sendeth greeting. The MS presumably presented to Tobie Matthew (1544?-1628), Archbishop of York.

Incorporating (p. 3) a copy of King James VI's letter to Harington of 23 December 1591.

Edited from this MS, and the title supplied, in Markham's edition (1880). Scott-Warren (pp. 158-67) thinks that the evidence that this MS was a presentation copy is equivocal. Facsimile of pp. 80-1 in Gerard Kilroy, Advertising the Reader: Sir John Harington's Directions in the Margent, English Literary Renaissance, 41/1 (Winter, 2011), 64-110 (p. 101).

The treatise in the hands of Harington's servant Thomas Combe and of Harington's brother Francis.

1602 (and later)

York Minster (MS XVI. L. 6 pp. 3-261)

HrJ 334

Extracts from the introduction, concerning the 3 sorts of religions in Engla[nd]e, closely written in a small mixed hand, on all four pages of two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed by Thomas Phelippes (c.1556-1626?), a servant of Sir Robert Cecil, Some notes for remembrance out of Sir Jo. Harringtons booke on the behalfe of the K. of Sc. succession, once folded as a packet.

Early 17th century

This MS recorded in McClure, p. 29 (n). Discussed in Scott-Warren, pp. 167-8.

The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House (Cecil Papers 139/108)

HrJ 335

Copy of the last chapter, in a secretary hand, headed The eight chapiter; of quyeting the contrauersies of Religion, inscribed in a different hand Out of S^r John Haringtons boke.

A quarto volume of ecclesiastical treatises, in three secretary hands, 96 leaves, in vellum boards.

Early 17th century

York Minster (MS XVI. K. 18 ff. [66r-82v])

A Treatise on Playe

First published (from this MS) in Nugae Antiquae, (1775), pp. 3-38. Nugae Antiquae (1804), I, 186-232.

HrJ 336

Copy, in the hand of an amanuensis, headed Of Play.

Edited probably from this MS in Nugae Antiquae (1775). Briefly described in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444 (p. 402).

An octavo volume, comprising two tracts by Sir John Harington, iii + 45 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

Volume VI of the Harington Papers.

c.1597-1600s

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 45000 through 49999 (Add. MS 46371 ff. 1r-30r)

Miscellany

*HrJ 337

Autograph

The Harington Arundel MS.

Mid-late 16th century

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

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. The MS as a whole)

*HrJ 338

Autograph

Assembled by Sir John Harington, a large part in the hand of one of his amanuenses, comprising miscellaneous tracts, notes, drafts of letters, and memoranda; including (ff. 11v, 30r, 43r-v, 47r) lists of books (my masters bookes carryed w^th him to Eaton) and plays owned by Harington and (f. 30r) A note of things sent to London the 29^th of Jan: 1609; (ff. 54r-60v, 116v-21r) two copies of an anonymous tract entitled The Order of a Christian Common wealth; and (ff. 61r-8v) anonymous tracts entitled Of the Trinitie, (ff. 72r-93r)A question of the Trynytye, Dialogue wyse, (ff. 94v-103r) Whether usurye be Lawfull among Christians, (ff. 105r-9v)Of the Sabbothe, (ff. 110r-15v)A Dialogue betwene Neshama, the Sowle, Nephes, the Bodye, and Orthodoxus, and (ff. 122r-5v)Whether it be dampnation for a man to kill hymself, Harington's handwriting occurring chiefly on ff. 30r-2r (including a book list of 1609, notes, and letters), 33r-v (Psalms), 34r (notes), and 41r-6r (notes and letters, including Names of Comedies).

A folio composite volume of papers, in various hands, 135 leaves, in red half-morocco.

Late 16th century-1612

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 25000 through 29999 (Add. MS 27632 The MS as a whole)

*HrJ 339

Autograph

Signs of Sir John Harington's use of this volume, including (f. 46v) six anonymous lines of verse in his hand beginning Now hope, now feare, now ioye, now wofull care, and (f. 69r) sidenotes apparently in his small italic hand.

A folio verse miscellany, in several hands, 88 leaves, in contemporary leather gilt (rebacked).

Mid-late 16th century

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 35000 through 39999 (Add. MS 36529 passim)

HrJ 340

A folio volume of state tracts and papers, chiefly relating to Queen Elizabeth and Mary Queen of Scots, in two or three secretary hands.

This MS briefly discussed by Hughey in The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 399-400 et passim, and in McClure, p. 11 (n).

Volume I of the Harington Papers, i + 126 leaves (including blanks), in modern calf gilt, Prose N° I stamped on the spine.

Late 16th century

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 45000 through 49999 (Add. MS 46366 The MS as a whole)

HrJ 341

A MS volume owned by Sir John Harington (and probably also by his father), comprising letters chiefly by Sir John Cheke (1514-57), with some by Sir Christopher Hatton and others, and extracts from Seneca's Epistles, written mainly in three scribal hands, with some additional matter probably in later hands, including a Dialogue of Plato, Prose N° II stamped on the spine, imperfect, now comprising 140 leaves (some original leaves probably extracted by the printers of Nugae Antiquae).

Volume II of the Harington Papers.

Late 16th century

Portions printed in the various editions of Nugae Antiquae. This MS briefly discussed by Hughey in The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 399-401 et passim.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 45000 through 49999 (Add. MS 46367)

*HrJ 342

Autograph

A notebook, chiefly in the hands of amanuenses, partly in Harington's hand, entitled on the cover S^r John Harringtons own MSS relating to the war in Ireland 1599; containing copies of state letters and documents relating to Ireland in 1597-1600 and reports of events at that time; including (f. 20r) a copy of letters of Captain MacDermon to the Constable of Boyle, 15 August 1599, in Harington's hand; (ff. 21r-3r) a Report on my Jorney into the North to Justice Cary. In Ierland in Harington's hand); and (ff. 41r-3v) The chiefe causes of the wante of reformation of Irelande.

Some texts in this MS (notably the Report…to Justice Cary and Harington's letters) edited in the various editions of Nugae Antiquae.

A quarto volume of miscellaneous papers largely relating to Ireland, in several hands, ii + 65 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum.

Volume IV of the Harington Papers.

c.1599-1609

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 45000 through 49999 (Add. MS 46369 The volume as a whole)

*HrJ 343

Autograph

A folio volume of transcripts of documents relating to lands formerly belonging to Sir James Harington of Brierley from the time of their forfeiture in 1485 until the grant of their reversion to John Harington of Stepney in 1570, compiled by Sir John Harington of Kelston apparently for Sir Henry Hobart and inscribed The booke of Haryngtons Lands for S^r Henry Hubbert [his] Ma^ties attorney general, chiefly in the hands of amanuenses, with Harington's autograph annotations and with some pages or substantial additions in his hand (notably ff. 25r, 26v, 33r, 35v-6r, 37v-8r), 44 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

Volume VIII of the Harington Papers.

c.1606-12

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 45000 through 49999 (Add. MS 46373A)

*HrJ 344

Autograph

Copy.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

c.1530s

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711)

Books possibly from Harington's Library

Contarini, Nicola. De perfectione rerum (Lyon, 1587)

HrJ 345

A printed exemplum inscribed on an endleaf hir son, I am. J. H. vpo his Mother…, this text followed by a parody, headed Art tho^u hir son whi than in the ' We shall the Dams true Image see, the last line containing an allusion to The Metamorphosis of Ajax.

c.1587-1600s

Emmanuel College, Cambridge (S. 14.3.37)

Ubuldini, Petruccio. Descrittione del Regno di Scotia, et delle Isole sue adiacenti (Antwerp, 1588)

*HrJ 346

Autograph

Harington's exemplum, inscribed by him John Haryngton and the date iij^o. M.ay. 1588.

1588

Sotheby's, 9 July 1951, lot 184, to Maggs, with a facsimile of the inscription in the sale catalogue.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Ubuldini volume])

Letters

Letter(s)

*HrJ 347 1571

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Mrs Penn, from Eton, 19 May 1571.

McClure, No. 1, p. 61.

A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 196 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco.

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 13 f. 115r)

HrJ 348 1580

Copy of a letter by Harington, to Edward Dyer, [from Cambridge, 1588].

McClure, No. 2, pp. 61-2.

A folio compendium or entry book of state letters and other documents and memoranda, in various secretary and italic hands, 231 leaves (including numerous blanks), in modern half-calf.

Compiled over a period, and partly written, by Sir Stephen Powle (c.1553-1630), Clerk of the Crown.

Bodleian Library, Tanner Collection (MS Tanner 169 f. 62r)

*HrJ 349

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Sir Francis Walsingham, [from King's College, Cambridge, 2 November 1580.

1580

McClure, No. 3, p. 63.

National Archives, Kew (SP 12/102/325)

*HrJ 350 1596

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Lady Russell, [14 August 1596].

McClure, No. 5, pp. 65-6. Facsimiles in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XLV(a), and in P. J. Croft, Autographs, in The Concise Encyclopædia of Antiques, Vol. IV (London, 1959), pp. 236-41 (Plate 148).

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

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

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

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 82 No. 88)

*HrJ 351 1597

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, concerning Harington's pedigree, to Sir William Dethick, [14/24 June 1597].

McClure, No. 6, pp. 66-7. The postscript in this letter is edited in Craig, p. 48.

A folio composite volume of heraldic and genealogical material, in various hands, 37 leaves.

Inscribed (f. 3r) M^r Knight, May, 1644.

Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (MS 606/513 f. 61r)

HrJ 352 c.1599

Copy of a letter by Harington, to Sir Anthony Standen, [from Athlone, 7 Augu st1599], in a secretary hand.

McClure, No. 8, pp. 68-70, edited from Nugæ Antiquæ.

A quarto volume of miscellaneous papers largely relating to Ireland, in several hands, ii + 65 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum.

Volume IV of the Harington Papers.

c.1599-1609

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 45000 through 49999 (Add. MS 46369 f. 49r-v)

HrJ 353 1599

Copy of a letter by Harington, to Thomas Combe, [from Ireland, 24/31 August 1599].

McClure, No. 9, pp. 71-6, edited from Nugæ Antiquæ.

A quarto volume of miscellaneous papers largely relating to Ireland, in several hands, ii + 65 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum.

Volume IV of the Harington Papers.

c.1599-1609

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 45000 through 49999 (Add. MS 46369 ff. 45r-8v)

HrJ 354 c.1599

Copy of a letter by Harington, to Justice Cary, in the secretary hand of an amanuensis, headed Report of my Jorney into the North to Justic Cary. In Ierland, [October 1599].

McClure, No. 10, pp. 76-9, edited from Nugæ Antiquæ.

A quarto volume of miscellaneous papers largely relating to Ireland, in several hands, ii + 65 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum.

Volume IV of the Harington Papers.

c.1599-1609

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 45000 through 49999 (Add. MS 46369 ff. 21r-3r)

HrJ 355

Copy of a letter by Harington, to Sir Anthony Standen, [from Kelston, 20 February 1599/1600], in a secretary hand.

McClure, No. 11, pp. 79-80, edited from Nugæ Antiquæ.

A quarto volume of miscellaneous papers largely relating to Ireland, in several hands, ii + 65 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum.

Volume IV of the Harington Papers.

c.1599-1609

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 45000 through 49999 (Add. MS 46369 f. 51v)

*HrJ 356

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Cecil, [12 June 1600].

1600

Edited in CSP Ireland, 1600, March-October, pp. 233-4. Recorded in R.H. Miller, Sir John Harington's Irish Journals, SB, 32 (1979), 179-86.

National Archives, Kew (SP 63/207 Pt 3/105)

*HrJ 357

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Cecil, [from Greenwich, 25 June 1600].

1600

McClure, No. 12, pp. 81-3.

The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House (Cecil Papers 80/62)

*HrJ 358

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Cecil, [3 July 1600].

1600

McClure No. 13, p. 83.

The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House (Cecil Papers 251/121)

HrJ 359

Copy of a letter by Harington, to an unidentified person, [1600].

McClure, No. 14, p. 84, edited from a family transcript.

A broadsheet-size guardbook of miscellaneous papers of the Harington family, 15 + 24 leaves.

18th-19th century

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 45000 through 49999 (Add. MS 46382B f. 3v)

HrJ 360 18th century

Copy of a letter by Harington, to Sir John Stanhope, [20 November 1600].

McClure, No. 15, pp. 84-5, edited from a family transcript.

A broadsheet-size guardbook of miscellaneous papers of the Harington family, 15 + 24 leaves.

18th-19th century

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 45000 through 49999 (Add. MS 46382B f. 4r)

HrJ 361

Copy of a letter by Harington, to an unidentified lady, [8 December 1600].

McClure, No. 16, p. 85, edited probably from this family transcript.

A broadsheet-size guardbook of miscellaneous papers of the Harington family, 15 + 24 leaves.

18th-19th century

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 45000 through 49999 (Add. MS 46382B f. 4r)

HrJ 362

Copy of a letter by Harington, to an unidentified person, [1600].

McClure, No. 17, p. 85, edited from a family transcript.

A broadsheet-size guardbook of miscellaneous papers of the Harington family, 15 + 24 leaves.

18th-19th century

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 45000 through 49999 (Add. MS 46382B f. 4r-v)

*HrJ 363 1600

Autograph

Autograph letter signed by Harington, to Lady Jane Rogers, [19 December 1600].

McClure, No. 18, pp. 86-7.

MS.

Cambridge University Library, Additional MSS 1 through 4999 (MS Add. 337 f. 1R)

HrJ 363.5 1601

Copy of a letter by Harington, to Lucy, Countess of Bedford, enclosing psalms, [19 December 1600].

McClure, No. 19, p. 87.

A folio composite volume of state tracts and miscellaneous papers, in various largely professional hands, 480 leaves, in red morocco gilt.

Inner Temple Library (Petyt MS 538, Vol. 43 f. 303v)

*HrJ 364

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Cecil, [31 January 1600/1.

1601

McClure, No. 20, p. 88.

The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House (Cecil Papers 76/29)

*HrJ 365

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Cecil, [7 September 1601].

McClure, No. 21, pp. 88-90.

The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House (Cecil Papers 88/28)

*HrJ 366

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Cecil, [from London, 7 June 1602].

1602

McClure, No. 23, pp. 91-3.

The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House (Cecil Papers 93/117)

*HrJ 367

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Cecil, [22 June 1602].

1602

McClure, No. 24, pp. 93-4.

The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House (Cecil Papers 93/150)

*HrJ 368 1602

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Gilbert Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, [from Greenwich, July 1602].

McClure, No. 25, pp. 94-5, where it is edited from Edmund Lodge, Illustrations of British History, Biography, and Manners, 3 vols (London, 1791), II, 552-4.

A folio guardbook of letters, in various hands and paper sizes, 593 leaves, in modern morocco gilt.

Volume M of the Talbot Papers, formerly owned by the College of Arms.

Lambeth Palace Library (MS 3203 ff. 61r-2v)

*HrJ 369

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Thomas Sutton, [19 November 1602].

1602

Evans, p. 215.

London Metropolitan Archives (Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/145)

HrJ 369.5

Copy of a letter by Harington, to his wife Lady Mary Harington, [7/27 December 1602], here dated Decemb^r 20^th 1602, in a neat 18th-century hand, on a single broadsheet.

McClure, No. 27, pp. 96-100, edited from Nugæ Antiquæ.

A broadsheet-size guardbook of miscellaneous papers of the Harington family, 15 + 24 leaves.

18th-19th century

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 45000 through 49999 (Add. MS 46382B f. 13r)

*HrJ 370

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to the Earl of Shrewsbury. Undated.

A folio guardbook of letters, in various hands and paper sizes, 593 leaves, in modern morocco gilt.

Volume M of the Talbot Papers, formerly owned by the College of Arms.

Lambeth Palace Library (MS 3203 ff. 85r-6v)

*HrJ 371

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Robert Cecil, Baron Cecil of Essingdon, [from London, 21 May 1603].

1603

McClure, No. 29, p. 101.

The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House (Cecil Papers 100/28)

*HrJ 372

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Robert Cecil, Baron Cecil of Essingdon, [from London, June 1603].

1603

McClure, No. 30, pp. 101-2.

The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House (Cecil Papers 187/66)

*HrJ 373

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Robert Cecil, Baron Cecil of Essingdon, [from London, 10 June 1603].

1603

McClure, No. 31, pp. 102-3.

The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House (Cecil Papers 187/69)

*HrJ 374

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Robert Cecil, Baron Cecil of Essingdon, [October 1603].

1603

McClure, No. 33, pp. 104-7.

The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House (Cecil Papers 97/54-55)

*HrJ 375 1604

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Gilbert Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, 11 March 1603/4.

Craig, pp. 49-50.

A folio guardbook of letters, in various hands and paper sizes, 593 leaves, in modern morocco gilt.

Volume M of the Talbot Papers, formerly owned by the College of Arms.

Lambeth Palace Library (MS 3203 ff. 204r-5v)

*HrJ 376 1604

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Gilbert Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, 12 March 1603/4.

Craig, pp. 50-1.

A folio guardbook of letters, in various hands and paper sizes, 593 leaves, in modern morocco gilt.

Volume M of the Talbot Papers, formerly owned by the College of Arms.

Lambeth Palace Library (MS 3203 ff. 210r-11v)

*HrJ 377 1604

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Gilbert Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, [31 March 1604].

McClure, No. 36, p. 112, where it is edited from Nugæ Antiquæ.

A folio guardbook of letters, in various hands and paper sizes, 593 leaves, in modern morocco gilt.

Volume M of the Talbot Papers, formerly owned by the College of Arms.

Lambeth Palace Library (MS 3203 f. 285r)

*HrJ 378

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Robert Cecil, Baron Cecil of Essingdon, [20 May 1604].

1604

McClure, No. 37, pp. 112-14.

The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House (Cecil Papers 188/110)

*HrJ 379

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Robert Cecil, Baron Cecil of Essingdon, [from London, 27 June 1603].

1603

McClure, No. 32, pp. 103-4.

The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House (Cecil Papers 101/99)

*HrJ 380

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Robert Cecil, Baron Cecil of Essingdon, [from London, 7 June 1604].

1604

McClure, No. 38, p. 114.

The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House (Cecil Papers 188/126)

*HrJ 381

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Robert Cecil, Baron Cecil of Essingdon, [from London, 12 June 1604].

1604

McClure, No. 39, p. 115.

The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House (Cecil Papers 188/129)

*HrJ 382

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Robert Cecil, Baron Cecil of Essingdon, [17 June 1604].

1604

McClure, No. 40, pp. 115-16.

The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House (Cecil Papers 188/2)

*HrJ 383

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Robert Cecil, Baron Cecil of Essendon, [8 July 1604].

1604

McClure, No. 41, pp. 116-17.

The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House (Cecil Papers 188/137)

*HrJ 384

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Robert Cecil, Viscount Cranborne, [3 November 1604].

1604

McClure, No. 42, pp. 117-18.

The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House (Cecil Papers 189/38)

*HrJ 385

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Robert Cecil, Viscount Cranborne, [from Kelston, 20 April 1605].

1605

McClure, No. 43, p. 118.

The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House (Cecil Papers 110/97)

*HrJ 386 1602

Autograph

Autograph draft of a letter by Harington, to Richard Langley, [3 December 1602].

McClure, No. 26, pp. 95-6.

c.1605

Inscribed (p. [i]) R. Joyner[?] Sandwich.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 10000 through 14999 (Add. MS 12049 p. 194)

*HrJ 387

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Thomas Sutton, [4 June 1606].

1606

Evans, p. 216.

London Metropolitan Archives (Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/146)

*HrJ 388 1606

Autograph

Autograph draft of a letter by Harington, to Prince Henry, [1606].

For the letter actually presented to Prince Henry, see HrJ 21.

McClure, No. 46, p. 126.

c.1605

Inscribed (p. [i]) R. Joyner[?] Sandwich.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 10000 through 14999 (Add. MS 12049 p. e)

*HrJ 389

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Thomas Sutton, [June 1607].

1607

Evans, p. 217.

London Metropolitan Archives (Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/147)

*HrJ 390

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Thomas Sutton, [July 1607].

1607

Evans, pp. 221-2.

London Metropolitan Archives (Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/148)

*HrJ 391

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Thomas Sutton, [22 July 1607].

1607

Evans, pp. 218-19.

London Metropolitan Archives (Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/149)

*HrJ 392

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Sir William Smith, [31 July 1607].

1607

Evans, pp. 219-20.

London Metropolitan Archives (Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/150)

*HrJ 393

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Thomas Sutton, [17 September 1607].

1607

Evans, pp. 223-4.

London Metropolitan Archives (Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/317)

*HrJ 394

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, [9 November 1607].

1607

McClure, No. 50, pp. 129-30.

The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House (Cecil Papers 191/68)

*HrJ 395

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Thomas Sutton, [13 November 1607].

1607

Evans, pp. 225-6.

London Metropolitan Archives (Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/153)

*HrJ 396 1607?

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Lady Arbella Stuart, 19 November [probably 1607].

Craig, pp. 52-3, with a facsimile.

A folio composite volume of original letters and documents.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (Autograph Letters 1585-1617 No. 169)

*HrJ 397

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Thomas Sutton, [4 June 1608].

1608

Evans, p. 226.

London Metropolitan Archives (Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/151)

HrJ 398 Mid-18th century

Copy of a letter by Harington, to Prince Henry, [from Kelston, 14 June 1608].

McClure, No. 52, pp. 132-4, edited from Nugæ Antiquæ.

A folio composite volume of papers of Henry Harington (1727-1816), composer and physician, 75 leaves.

Volume XX of the Harington Papers.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 45000 through 49999 (Add. MS 46382A ff. 1r-2v)

*HrJ 399

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Thomas Sutton, [13 June 1608].

1608

McClure, No. 51, pp. 130-1, edited from Philip Bearcroft, Thomas Sutton (London, 1737), p. 23. Evans, pp. 227-8.

London Metropolitan Archives (Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/154)

*HrJ 400

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Thomas Sutton, [from Bath, 5 September1608].

1608

McClure, No. 53, pp. 134-5, edited from James Peller Malcolm, Londinium Redivivum (London, 1803). Evans, pp. 229-30.

London Metropolitan Archives (Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/155)

*HrJ 401

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Thomas Sutton, [21 December 1608].

1608

McClure, No. 56, p. 139 (here dated 21 December 1609), edited from James Peller Malcolm, Londinium Redivivum (London, 1803). Evans, pp. 230-1.

London Metropolitan Archives (Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/156)

HrJ 402

Copy of part of Harington's letter to Prince Henry, [1609], in a neat 18th-century hand, on a broadsheet.

McClure, No. 54, pp. 135-7, edited in full from Nugæ Antiquæ.

A broadsheet-size guardbook of miscellaneous papers of the Harington family, 15 + 24 leaves.

18th-19th century

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 45000 through 49999 (Add. MS 46382B f. 12r)

*HrJ 403

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, [15 November 1609].

1609

McClure, No. 55, p. 138.

National Archives, Kew (SP 14/49/33)

*HrJ 404

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, 23 November 1609.

1609

Craig, p. 54.

London Metropolitan Archives (Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F5/42)

*HrJ 405 1610

Autograph

Autograph rough draft of a letter by Harington, to Thomas Sutton, [5 February 1609/10].

McClure, No. 57, p. 140. For the letter actually sent, see HrJ 406.

A folio composite volume of papers, in various hands, 135 leaves, in red half-morocco.

Late 16th century-1612

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 25000 through 29999 (Add. MS 27632 ff. 31r)

*HrJ 406

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Thomas Sutton, [5 February 1609/10].

1610

McClure, No. 57, p. 140, edited from Harington's rough draft (HrJ 405). Evans, pp. 232-3.

London Metropolitan Archives (Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/157)

*HrJ 407 1610

Autograph

Autograph rough draft of a letter by Harington, to an unidentified person, [5 February 1610].

McClure, No. 58, pp. 140-1.

A folio composite volume of papers, in various hands, 135 leaves, in red half-morocco.

Late 16th century-1612

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 25000 through 29999 (Add. MS 27632 f. 31v)

*HrJ 408 1610?

Autograph

Autograph rough draft of a letter by Harington, to Lord Compton, [1610?].

McClure, No. 59, pp. 141-2.

A folio composite volume of papers, in various hands, 135 leaves, in red half-morocco.

Late 16th century-1612

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 25000 through 29999 (Add. MS 27632 ff. 42r)

*HrJ 409 1612?

Autograph

Autograph rough draft of a letter by Harington, to Cosen Sheldon, [1610?].

McClure, No. 60, p. 142.

A folio composite volume of papers, in various hands, 135 leaves, in red half-morocco.

Late 16th century-1612

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 25000 through 29999 (Add. MS 27632 f. 42v)

*HrJ 410 1611-12

Autograph

Autograph rough draft of a letter by Harington, to an unspecified lord, [1611 or 1612].

Recorded in a review in TLS (4 September 1930), p. 697. Craig, pp. 55-7 with a facsimile.

A folio composite volume of papers, in various hands, 135 leaves, in red half-morocco.

Late 16th century-1612

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 25000 through 29999 (Add. MS 27632 f. 46r)

*HrJ 411 1612?

Autograph

Autograph rough draft of a letter by Harington, to an unidentified person. [1612?].

McClure, No. 61, pp. 142-3.

A folio composite volume of papers, in various hands, 135 leaves, in red half-morocco.

Late 16th century-1612

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 25000 through 29999 (Add. MS 27632 f. 37r)

*HrJ 412 1612?

Autograph

Autograph rough draft of a letter by Harington, to King James I, [1612?].

McClure, No. 62, pp. 143-4.

A folio composite volume of papers, in various hands, 135 leaves, in red half-morocco.

Late 16th century-1612

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 25000 through 29999 (Add. MS 27632 f. 45r)

Documents

Document(s)

*HrJ 413

Autograph

A conveyance of land, signed by Harington, containing his pedigree, dated 30 September 1588.

1588

Sotheby's, 12 December 1977, Lot 87, to J.F. Fleming.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Harington pedigree])

*HrJ 414 c.1600-12

Autograph

Autograph pedigree of the Harington family from the 13th to 16th century by Sir John Harington.

A folio composite volume of chiefly 17th-century papers, both MSS and printed, relating to the Harington family, 40 leaves.

Volume IX of the Harington Papers.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 45000 through 49999 (Add. MS 46373B f. 1r)

HrJ 415 1604

A summary of a law suit involving Harington, in a professional hand.

A folio guardbook of letters, in various hands and paper sizes, 593 leaves, in modern morocco gilt.

Volume M of the Talbot Papers, formerly owned by the College of Arms.

Lambeth Palace Library (MS 3203 f. 249r)

HrJ 416 c.1606-12

An abstract of Sir John Harington's claim to lands formerly owned by Sir James Harington of Brierley.

A folio composite volume of chiefly 17th-century papers, both MSS and printed, relating to the Harington family, 40 leaves.

Volume IX of the Harington Papers.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 45000 through 49999 (Add. MS 46373B f. 2r)