Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury

1582?–1648

Introduction

Herbert of Cherbury's papers have survived in considerable number, as have the archives of the Herbert family in general. Most of the main collection, formerly preserved at Powis Castle, Welshpool, is now in the National Library of Wales. A few of the Powis Manuscripts are in the National Archives, Kew, and a few items have been dispersed elsewhere.

There is no collected edition of Herbert's works and a number of his papers remain unpublished. The most extensive account of his work ever undertaken is Rossi's. A useful (though not absolutely accurate) checklist of his published works can also be found in J.M. Shuttleworth, Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1583-1648): A Preliminary, Annotated Checklist of Works by and about him, National Library of Wales Journal, 20 (1977), 151-68.

Verse

Most of Herbert's poems were first published posthumously by his brother, Sir Henry Herbert (1594-1673), in Occasional Verses (1665). This text is the basis of Moore Smith's edition (1923). Moore Smith collates fully one particularly important manuscript of Herbert's poems, now in the British Library (Add. MS 37157). This appears to have been Herbert's own official collection of his poems, and is now bound up in a composite volume of Herbert family papers. It is a fair copy made by an amanuensis, who often left spaces for letters or words he evidently could not decipher in his copy-texts. Herbert then went through the manuscript filling in the lacunae and making a number of minor autograph corrections and revisions. The manuscript is dated by Herbert at the end (f. 25r) 1630, although some of it must have been written a little later (see Moore Smith, pp. xxv-xxvi). Moore Smith also collates a few copies of particular poems in early miscellanies — notably, Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 31. Some of Herbert's poems were evidently in circulation in the Inns of Court and other circles long before the edition of 1665 materialized. A number of manuscript copies not known to Moore Smith are recorded below, as are some additional autograph verses among the Powis Manuscripts.

Rossi (III, 393-8) has argued for the addition to the canon of several poems and verse fragments that were once preserved in a packet of Poems: notes and draft[s] among the Powis Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales (formerly pressmarked 1959 deposit, Series II (Envelope) Taken from Bundle 26). The poems in this packet (a series of loose or detached leaves) are chiefly in Herbert's hand and include, as Rossi notes (III, 398-400), his copies of verses by others. In fact, it is likely that all the poems here are other men's compositions, and none should be accepted as Herbert's without further evidence of authorship. The doubtful or spurious poems that Rossi attributes to Herbert are as follows.

Iris Caeruleo Fluore cingens (14 lines, anon: now Powis MS E 4/9).My Lord, I suit my garments to my mind (4 lines, probably the conclusion of a poem, anon.) On y^e Death of Sr Th. Pelham, beginning Merely for Death to grieve and mourne (by William Strode: see StW 573-591).An opposite to Melancholy, beginning Returne my Joyes, and hither bring (also by Strode: see StW 641-663). The being yours can make even Vices good (17 lines, probably the conclusion of a poem, anon.).Tis not enough for one that is a wife (36 lines, anon.) To Dianas earthly Deputesse of my Worthy Sister M^rs Jane Carye, beginning When daies cleare light his compast course hath runne (23 lines, incomplete?, anon.).

A poem which can certainly be rejected from the canon is Echo to a Rock (beginning Thou heaven-threat'ning Rock, gentler then she) printed in Occasional Verses (1665) and consequently in Moore Smith (pp. 46-7). This poem was written by Henry Reynolds (c.1563/4-1635) and is clearly ascribed to him in the Stoughton MS (p. 73) owned by Rosemary Williams: see Mary Hobbs, Drayton's Most Dearely-Loved friend Henery Reynolds Esq., Review of English Studies, NS 24 (1973), 414-28 (p. 426). It was mistaken in 1665 for one of Herbert's poems since he obviously had a copy among his papers, for he wrote a sequel to it, Echo in a Church, of which three autograph drafts survive (*HrE 8-8.5).

Prose

The Prose section below (HrE 92-143) includes all those works expressly attributed to Herbert in Rossi's bibliography (III, 538-42). One of them, the English Religio Laici, has been previously known from two drafts (HrE 136-137), but what appears to be a more complete text, with two unpublished appendices, exists (HrE 138).

Titles are supplied in the entries for those works without a heading (*HrE 92-3, HrE 128, HrE 139-143). The present reference for each of the relevant Powis Manuscripts is cited in this section as accurately as possible, but most have been rearranged, as well as relocated or renumbered, since Mario Rossi examined them in the 1940s, and indeed since they were catalogued in IELM in 1980. The general disorder of the various drafts, a number of which are not easily recognizable, means that the entries given here for the Powis Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales must be regarded at present as provisional.

It may be noted that one work sometimes attributed to Sir Timothy Baldwin (1620-96) — the Latin version of The Expedition to the Isle of Rhé — is proved to be Herbert's by the existence of his autograph manuscripts (*HrE 117-118) and also by his own testimony. In a letter of 9 February 1638/9 to Secretary Windebank, now in the National Archives, Kew (SP 16/412/77), Herbert specifically refers to his expenses in writing the Expedition to the Isle of Ré in Latin and in Englishe. Another work that has been traditionally rejected from the canon is A Dialogue between a Tutor and his Pupil, a treatise published as Herbert's by Horace Walpole in 1768. Walpole's attribution has been supported by a mistaken belief that one of the five known manuscripts is in the hand of one of Herbert's amanuenses (see R.I. Aaron in Mind, 54 (1945), 355-6) and by the fact that another of the manuscripts was owned by a later member of the Herbert family. Rossi rejected the work in 1947 (III, 530-3) because of its inconsistency with Herbert's philosophy, and he did so again in Herbert of Cherbury's Religio Laici: A Bibliographical Note, Edinburgh Bibliographical Society Transactions, 4, Part 2 (1962), 45-52. On the other hand a case for Herbert's part-authorship has been made more recently by Julia Griffin. The five known manuscripts of the Dialogue are given entries here (HrE 113.2-113.8) since the matter of authorship is still open to debate.

The only prose work of Herbert's that seems to be represented (by extracts) in manuscript miscellanies and commonplace books is The Life and Reign of King Henry VIII, published in 1649 (see HrE 125.1-125.98). Several manuscript copies of the work made by or for Herbert himself also survive, as does his collection of historical documents used in its composition (HrE 121-125). In the letter of 9 February 1638/9 cited earlier, Herbert refers to these papers, noting his expenses in keeping Schollers and Clerkes, for coppyinge Records, and making Transcripts of the History of king H.VIII. Similar copies of historical documents used by Herbert when writing The Expedition to the Isle of Rhé, as well as his copies of the work itself, are also largely preserved among the Powis Manuscripts (HrE 114-120).

Dramatic Works

Although his brother Sir Henry Herbert had connections with the theatre in his capacity as Master of the Revels, Edward Herbert would never have been associated with anything theatrical until a discovery was made in Powis Castle in 2009. Herbert's autograph manuscript of a possibly unfinished dramatic entertainment, The Amazon, reveals at least one attempt by him at dramatic composition, even if the work was never actually staged. The previously unrecorded manuscript has now been acquired by the British Library (*HrE 143.5).

Miscellaneous

The Miscellaneous section of entries below includes a few items such as Herbert's lute-book (*HrE 144) and his will (HrE 147). Various other miscellaneous items among the Powis Manuscripts may have been associated with Herbert but have not been given separate entries. Some papers on state affairs which were owned though probably not composed by him would include works such as A short Narration of occurrences in…Scotland and Questions touching upon Obedience to Magistrate in eminency, both of which were edited in Rossi (III, 492-504). A Herbert manuscript of some peripheral interest which has received attention is the household book (1601) of his mother, Magdalen Herbert (d.1627), Lady Danvers, still in the possession of the Earl of Powis at Powis Castle. It is discussed, with a facsimile example, in Amy Charles, Mrs. Herbert's Kitchin Booke, English Literary Renaissance, 4 (1974), 164-73.

There are also several recorded exempla of the third edition of Herbert's De la verité (1639), that are bound in fine red or brown morocco bearing his own device in gilt and which therefore evidently belonged to him or his family or were his specially bound presentation volumes. One example is in the library of Robert S Pirie, New York. This was sold at Sotheby's, 16 January 1956 (Powis Castle sale), lot 217, and a facsimile of the binding appears in the sale catalogue. Four other examples are cited, with yet another illustration of the binding, in G.D. Hobson, English Bindings, 1490-1940, in the library of J.R. Abbey (London, 1940), p. 40: namely, one with the bookplate of Basil Feilding, Earl of Denbigh, 1703, later in the library of the Rev. W.E. Buckley (sold at Sotheby's in 1893-4); another in Cambridge University Library (Rel. c. 63. 4); another in the British Library (C.46.g.4); and yet another that appeared in the S.W. Singer sale at Sotheby's, 24 May 1860, lot 119.

Letters

The Powis Manuscripts also contain a large amount of Herbert's correspondence. Some of these letters are edited in Rossi (III, 400-5, 408-9, 443-72, 487-8, 521-6), and some in Herbert Correspondence, ed. W.J. Smith (Cardiff, 1963), pp. 71-2, 79-80, 86-8, 97-9, 104-5, 107, 110-12, 117-18, 121-3, 125-30, 132. Thirteen volumes of Herbert family papers, containing the bulk of Lord Herbert's correspondence and diplomatic papers, are now in the National Archives, Kew (PRO 30/53). Those volumes containing his correspondence from 1615 to 1639, together with miscellaneous family papers between 1586 and 1735 (PRO 30/53/10-11), are described in HMC, 10th Report, Appendix IV (1885), pp. 378-99, and edited in part in Old Herbert Papers at Powis Castle and in the British Museum, ed. Morris Charles Jones, Montgomeryshire Collections Vol. 20 (London, 1886). This last publication also includes the text of Herbert's book of despatches for 1619, now in the British Library (Add. MS 7082). Numerous other letters and despatches of Herbert are in the National Archives, Kew, the British Library, the Sheffield Archives, and elsewhere.

Some eighty diplomatic letters written or signed by Herbert, between 1618 and 1624, to William Trumbull, English Resident at Brussels, are now in the British Library (Add. MS 72293), a facsimile example appearing in Sotheby's sale catalogue The Trumbull Papers, 14 December 1989, lot 20 (p. 54). One of Herbert's letters in the British Library, written to Sir Dudley Carleton, 25 June 1617, is reproduced in facsimile in Sir Henry James, Facsimiles of National Manuscripts from William the Conqueror to Queen Anne, 4 vols (Southampton, 1865-8), IV, Plate XXI. A letter of 23 August 1644, apparently sent to Prince Rupert (British Library, Add. MS 18981, f. 229), is partly reproduced in facsimile in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XLIX(c). Four letters sent to Sir George More, and now among the Loseley Manuscripts (Vol. 2014, Nos 98, 100-2) in the Surrey History Centre, Woking, are edited by Alfred John Kempe in The Loseley Manuscripts (London, 1836), pp. 347-59. Two letters to Gerard Voss bound in a presentation exemplum of Walpole's edition of Herbert's Autobiography are discussed in R.W. Chapman, Lord Herbert of Cherbury and the Bodleian, Bodleian Quarterly Record, 7 (1932-4), 174-5. These letters were in the library of the Cowper family at Panshanger, Hertfordshire — a library which was dispersed in 1953 before the house was demolished — but they are printed in Gerardi Joan. Vossii et clarorum virorum ad eum epistolae (London, 1690). Some correspondence of Herbert and his son Richard, now among the Ellesmere Manuscripts in the Huntington Library, is printed and discussed in James H. Hanford, Lord Herbert of Cherbury and his Son, Huntington Library Quarterly, 5 (1942), 317-32. An autograph letter by Herbert appealing to King Charles I for preferment, 8 May 1626, was reproduced in facsimile in British Literary Autographs, ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg et al., Series I (New York, 1981), Plate 30; in Christie's New York sale catalogue, 16 May 1986, lot 104; and in Dictionary of Literary Biography 121, Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, First Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1992), p. 174. This letter is now in the library of Robert S Pirie, New York. Three now untraced letters of 1643 owned in the early nineteenth century by Rebecca Warner are printed in her book Epistolary Curiosities (Bath, 1818), pp. 30-2. A Latin letter of 19/29 October 1625 to Hugo Grotius was once owned by Alfred Morrison (1832-97) and is recorded in the printed catalogue of his autograph collection, Vol. II (1885), p. 286. The same catalogue reproduces Herbert's signature on a receipt of 4 February 1646.

Lord Herbert's Library

As with Herbert's letters, separate entries have not been given to books from Herbert's library. Most of his Greek and Latin books (about 931 volumes, including many with his autograph annotations) were donated to Jesus College, Oxford. A complete catalogue of these can be found in C.J. Fordyce and T.M. Knox, The Library of Jesus College, Oxford, Appendix, Proceedings and Papers of the Oxford Bibliographical Society, 5, Part 2 (1937), 71-115; and see also Gwyn Walters, The Herbert Libraries of Montgomery and Powis, The New Welsh Review, 3/4 (Spring 1991), 10-13. About 230 of Herbert's other books, formerly at Powis Castle, have been dispersed in various sales — notably Sotheby's, 16 January 1956, and 20 March 1967, and see Maggs's catalogue No. 837 (1956); Dawson's catalogues Nos 208, 216, and 217; Hofmann & Freeman's catalogue No. 24 (May 1968), item 22; Sotheby's, 23 July 1987, lot 261, to Maggs; and Sotheby's, New York, 2 February 1985, lot 188. For Herbert's own catalogue of his Library, see *HrE 145.

Abbreviations

Moore Smith: The Poems, English & Latin, of Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, ed. G.C. Moore Smith (Oxford, 1923; reprinted 1968).
Occasional Verses (1665): Occasional Verses of Edward Lord Herbert, Baron of Cherbury and Castle-Island, [ed. Sir Henry Herbert] (London, 1665).
Rossi: Mario M. Rossi, La Vita, le opere, i tempi di Edoardo Herbert di Chirbury, 3 vols (Florence, 1947).

Verse

(1) Poems by Herbert

Another Sonnet to Black it self ('Thou Black, wherein all colours are compos'd')

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, p. 39.

HrE 1

This MS collated in Moore Smith, p. 130.

A double-folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers of the Herbert family, in various hands and paper sizes, 92 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half red morocco.

Including (ff. 1r-25r) a quarto collection of poems by Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury, in a neat predominantly italic hand, subscribed by him (f. 25r) The Verses of Ed. L. Herbert of Cherbery and Castle Island; 1630, with his occasional autograph corrections, deletions and additions.

c.1630-1

Purchased from Mrs Ada C. South, 14 October 1905.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 35000 through 39999 (Add. MS 37157 f. 18r)

The Brown Beauty ('While the two contraries of Black and White')

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, p. 60.

HrE 2

This MS collated in Moore Smith, p. 133.

A double-folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers of the Herbert family, in various hands and paper sizes, 92 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half red morocco.

c.1630-1

Purchased from Mrs Ada C. South, 14 October 1905.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 35000 through 39999 (Add. MS 37157 f. 11r-v)

De Vita coelesti, ex iisdem principiis conjectura ('Toto lustratus Genio, mihi gratulor ipsi')

Moore Smith, pp. 103-6.

A version of this poem appears in Herbert's Autobiography: see HrE 94-5.

De vita humana philosophica disquisitio ('Prima fuit quondam genitali femine Vita')

Moore Smith, pp. 99-102.

A short version of this poem appears in Herbert's Autobiography: see HrE 94-5.

A Description ('I sing her worth and praises hy')

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 2-5.

HrE 3

Copy, headed Idea: Off S^r: Edw: Harbert.

This MS collated in Smith, p. 125.

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 ff. 14r-15v)

HrE 4

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 ff. 6r-7r)

Ditty ('If you refuse me once, and think again')

Stanzas 1-3 first published (prefixed to verses by Sir Robert Ayton) in The Last Remains of S^r John Suckling (London, 1659). First published complete in Occasional Verses (1666). Moore Smith, pp. 31-2.

HrE 5

This MS collated in Moore Smith, pp. 128-9.

A double-folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers of the Herbert family, in various hands and paper sizes, 92 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half red morocco.

c.1630-1

Purchased from Mrs Ada C. South, 14 October 1905.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 35000 through 39999 (Add. MS 37157 ff. 2v-3r)

HrE 6

Copy, transcribed from The Last Remains of S^r John Suckling (1659).

This MS recorded in The Works of Sir John Suckling: The Non-Dramatic Works, ed. Thomas Clayton (Oxford, 1971), p. 98.

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

Late 17th century

Formerly Chest II, No. 21.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 213 pp. 106-7)

Ditty ('Why dost thou hate return instead of love?')

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 56-7.

HrE 7

Copy of the first stanza.

This MS collated in Moore Smith, p. 132.

A double-folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers of the Herbert family, in various hands and paper sizes, 92 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half red morocco.

c.1630-1

Purchased from Mrs Ada C. South, 14 October 1905.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 35000 through 39999 (Add. MS 37157 f. 17r)

Echo in a Church ('Where shall my troubled soul, at large')

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 47-8.

*HrE 8

Autograph

Autograph draft with copious revisions.

This MS discussed in Rossi, III, 389-91. Facsimile in IELM, I.ii, after p. 169, Facsimile XIX.

A folio composite sheaf of autograph writings by Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, 25 leaves, sewn but unbound.

c.1625

From papers of the Herbert family, of Powis Castle.

National Archives, Kew (PRO 30/53/9, No. 10 f. 1r)

*HrE 8.3

Autograph

Autograph draft with some revisions.

This MS discussed in Rossi, III, 389-91.

A folio composite sheaf of autograph writings by Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, 25 leaves, sewn but unbound.

c.1625

From papers of the Herbert family, of Powis Castle.

National Archives, Kew (PRO 30/53/9, No. 10 f. 2r)

*HrE 8.5

Autograph

Autograph draft, with some revisions.

This MS discussed in Rossi, III, 389-91.

A folio composite sheaf of autograph writings by Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, 25 leaves, sewn but unbound.

c.1625

From papers of the Herbert family, of Powis Castle.

National Archives, Kew (PRO 30/53/9, No. 10 f. 25v)

HrE 9

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Moore Smith, p. 131, with a facsimile after p. xxiv.

A double-folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers of the Herbert family, in various hands and paper sizes, 92 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half red morocco.

c.1630-1

Purchased from Mrs Ada C. South, 14 October 1905.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 35000 through 39999 (Add. MS 37157 f. 25r)

HrE 10

Copy, headed The Ecchoe.

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

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

c.1630s-40s

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

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

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 50 f. 55r)

HrE 11

Copy, in Lawes's musical setting.

Facsimile of f. 83 of this MS in Pamela J. Willetts, The Henry Lawes Manuscript (London, 1969), plate I.

A large folio volume of autograph vocal music by Henry Lawes (1596-1662), ix + 184 leaves, in modern black morocco gilt.

Comprising over 300 songs and musical dialogues by Lawes, probably written over an extended period (c.1626-62) in preparation for his eventual publications, including settings of 38 poems by Carew, fourteen poems by or attributed to Herrick, and fifteen by Waller.

Mid-17th century

Bookplates of William Gostling (1696-1777), antiquary and topographer; of Robert Smith, of 3 St Paul's Churchyard; and of Stephen Groombridge, FRS (1755-1832), astronomer. Later owned, until 1966, by Miss Naomi D. Church, of Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. Formerly British Library Loan MS 35.

Recorded in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Henry Lawes MS: CwT Δ 16; HeR Δ 3; WaE Δ 11. Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Pamela J. Willetts, The Henry Lawes Manuscript (London, 1969). Facsimiles of ff. 42r, 78r, 80r, 84r, 111r and 169r in The Poems and Masques of Aurelian Townshend, ed. Cedric C. Brown (Reading, 1983), pp. 59, 60, 62, 64, 66 and 117. Also discussed in Willa McClung Evans, Henry Lawes: Musician and Friend of Poets (New York and London, 1941), and elsewhere. A complete facsimile of the volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 3 (New York & London, 1986).

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 53723 ff. 82v-3r)

HrE 11.5

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

A folio songbook, in at least two secretary hands, dated on the first page June the ffirst 1639, 25 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1639

Bookseller's label of Kenneth Mummery, Bournemouth.

Clark Library, Los Angeles (C6967M4 [1639] Bound ff. 10v-12r)

Echo to a Rock ('Thou heaven-threat'ning Rock, gentler then she')

Moore Smith, pp. 46-7.

Elegy for Doctor Dunn ('What though the vulgar and received praise')

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 57-9.

*HrE 12

Autograph

Copy, with seven autograph corrections and revisions.

This MS collated in Moore Smith, p. 132.

A double-folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers of the Herbert family, in various hands and paper sizes, 92 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half red morocco.

c.1630-1

Purchased from Mrs Ada C. South, 14 October 1905.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 35000 through 39999 (Add. MS 37157 ff. 19r-20v)

Elegy for the Prince ('Must he be ever dead? Cannot we add')

First published among Sundry Funeral Elegies appended to Joshua Sylvester, Lachrymae Lachrymarum, 3rd edition (London, 1613). Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 22-4.

HrE 13

Copy, headed An Elegie uppon y^e Prince is death.

This MS collated in Smith, pp. 127-8.

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. 91r-v)

HrE 14

Copy, headed SCH his Eligie, transcribed from HrE 15.

This MS collated in Smith, pp. 127-8.

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

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

c.1620s-30s

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

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

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999 (Add. MS 21433 ff. 169r-70v)

HrE 15

Copy, headed S^r Ed. H. his Elegy on Prince Harry, subscribed 9^ber 9^th 1612.

This MS collated in Smith, pp. 127-8.

A quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single neat secretary hand, the first page formally inscribed To the righte hono^ble: the Lorde Thomas Darcy Viscount Colchester (c.1565-1640, Viscount Colchester from 1621 to 1626), 191 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

Including 27 poems (and second copies of two poems) by Thomas Carew and three of doubtful authorship.

This MS largely transcribed in British Library, Add. MS 21433. The hand occurs also in British Library, Harley MS 3910, between ff. 112v and 120v, and is possibly associated with the Inns of Court.

c.1620s

Scribbled inscriptions including (f. 1r) M^r John Bowyer; (f. 2r) Jeronomus ffox; and (f. 3r) William Ralph Baesh.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Colchester MS: CwT Δ 13.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 25000 through 29999 (Add. MS 25303 ff. 81v-2v)

HrE 16

Copy, in a mixed hand, headed One Prince Henery an Elegy by S^r Ed: Her:.

This MS collated in Smith, pp. 127-8.

An octavo verse miscellany, in several largely italic hands, closely written, 148 leaves (plus blanks), in modern quarter morocco gilt.

Probably compiled by university or inns of court men.

c.1620s-30s

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 3000 through 3999 (Harley MS 3910 ff. 119v-20v)

HrE 17

Copy, headed Elegye, subscribed S^r Edwarde Harbort one the Prince.

This MS collated in Smith, pp. 127-8.

A folio collection of 28 poems by Donne, together with a few poems by others, in two independent units (ff. 1-60v, 61r-78r), each in a different secretary hand, bound with a tract (MS Ee. 4. 13), in quarter-calf on boards.

c.1620-33

From the library of John Moore, Bishop of Norwich and Ely (1646-1714), which was given to the University of Cambridge by King George I.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Moore MS: DnJ Δ 46.

Cambridge University Library, shelfmarks E through F (MS Ee. 4. 14 ff. 70v-1r)

HrE 18 c.1612-20s

Copy, in the cursive italic hand of Sir Robert Phelips (1586?-1638), politician, untitled, on both sides of a single folio leaf, endorsed S^r. E^d Herbert of the prin[ce].

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

Among the papers of the Phelips family, of Montacute House, Somerset.

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

Somerset Heritage Centre (DD/PH/221 f. 96r-v)

HrE 19

Copy, headed An Elegy upon y^e princes death.

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

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

c.1681

Formerly Osborn MS Chest II, Number 14.

Yale, Osborn MS b 50 through Osborn MS b 99 (Osborn MS b 54 p. 882)

HrE 19.5

Extracts, headed M^r Ed Harbert of the prince and beginning at line 3 (here My Soule Layd up in you).

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

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

c.1620s-30s

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

The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS No. 26 ff. 54v-5r)

Elegy over a Tomb ('Must I then see, alas! eternal night')

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 32-4.

*HrE 20

Autograph

Copy, with three autograph corrections or revisions.

This MS collated in Moore Smith, p. 129.

A double-folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers of the Herbert family, in various hands and paper sizes, 92 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half red morocco.

c.1630-1

Purchased from Mrs Ada C. South, 14 October 1905.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 35000 through 39999 (Add. MS 37157 ff. 3v-4r)

Epitaph. Caecil. Boulstr. ('Methinks Death like one laughing lyes')

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 20-1.

HrE 21

Copy, headed On Mrs. Bulstreed.

This MS collated in Smith, p. 127.

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. 207)

HrE 22

Copy, headed Another Sir Edw: Harbert.

This MS collated in Smith, p. 127.

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. 36v-7r)

HrE 23

Copy, headed Another.

This MS collated in Smith, p. 127.

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 ff. 261v-2r)

HrE 24

Copy of lines 11-21, untitled, here beginning This mightie warrier was deceived yet.

c.1620-33

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 198, Part II f. 8r)

HrE 25

Copy of lines 1-2, headed One M^rs Boulstreed, imperfect, lacking the rest.

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. 150)

Epitaph of a stinking Poet ('Here stinks a Poet, I confess')

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, p. 29.

HrE 26

Copy, headed An Epitaph on one who had a stinking breath and here beginning Here lyes one stinks I must confesse.

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. 166)

HrE 27

Copy, headed On a stinking breath and here beginning Haere lies one stinks I must confesse.

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. 105)

Epitaph on Sir Edward Saquevile's Child, who dyed in his Birth ('Reader, here lies a Child that never cry'd')

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, p. 30.

*HrE 28

Autograph

Copy, headed On my L. of Dorsets first sonne, with Herbert's autograph addition who dyed in his birth.

This MS collated in Moore Smith, p. 128.

A double-folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers of the Herbert family, in various hands and paper sizes, 92 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half red morocco.

c.1630-1

Purchased from Mrs Ada C. South, 14 October 1905.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 35000 through 39999 (Add. MS 37157 f. 1v)

Epitaph on Sir Philip Sidney lying in St. Paul's without a Monument ('Within this Church Sir Philip Sidney lies')

First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, p. 53.

HrE 29

Copy, untitled, subscribed S^r Ed: Herberte.

This MS collated in Smith, p. 132.

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. 127)

Euryale maerens ('Depressae valles piceis irriguae fontibus')

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, p. 93.

*HrE 30

Autograph

Four autograph drafts, early versions of parts of the poem, on both sides of a folio leaf.

This MS discussed in Rossi, III, 391.

National Library of Wales (Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E3/2)

The first Meeting ('As sometimes with a sable Cloud')

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 39-42.

*HrE 31

Autograph

Copy with four autograph corrections and revisions.

This MS collated in Moore Smith, p. 130.

A double-folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers of the Herbert family, in various hands and paper sizes, 92 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half red morocco.

c.1630-1

Purchased from Mrs Ada C. South, 14 October 1905.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 35000 through 39999 (Add. MS 37157 ff. 7v-8v)

For a Dyal ('Discurrens dubiae placidus compendia vitae')

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, p. 89.

HrE 32

Autograph, with one alteration, dated 12 September 1612, written on the rear endpaper of Herbert's printed exemplum of Antonio de Herrera, Tercera parte de la historia general del mundo (Madrid, 1612), a folio, in calf.

1612

Sotheby's, 20 March 1967 (Powis Castle Sale), lot 176. Dawson's sale catalogue No. 208 (1970), item 108, sold to Deighton Bell. Purchased in 1991 from Quaritch.

Facsimile of this MS in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 20 March 1967.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 22829 D)

The Green-Sickness Beauty ('From thy pale look, while angry Love doth seem')

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 68-9.

*HrE 33

Autograph

Copy of a seven-stanza version, with an autograph correction.

First pub in Occasional Verses (1665); Moore Smith, pp. 68-9. This MS collated and the last two stanzas printed in Moore Smith, pp. 134-5.

A double-folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers of the Herbert family, in various hands and paper sizes, 92 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half red morocco.

c.1630-1

Purchased from Mrs Ada C. South, 14 October 1905.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 35000 through 39999 (Add. MS 37157 ff. 11v-12r)

The Green-Sickness Beauty ('Though the pale white within your cheeks compos'd')

First published in Le Prince d'Amour (London, 1660). Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 67-8.

*HrE 34

Autograph

Copy, with an autograph alteration.

This MS collated and the last two stanzas edited in Moore Smith, pp. 134-5.

A double-folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers of the Herbert family, in various hands and paper sizes, 92 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half red morocco.

c.1630-1

Purchased from Mrs Ada C. South, 14 October 1905.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 35000 through 39999 (Add. MS 37157 ff. 12v-13r)

Haered. ac nepot. suis praecepta & consilia ('Si tibi chara Dei sunt Jussa, & Jussa Parentis')

First published subjoined to De causis errorum (London, 1645). Moore Smith, pp. 106-18.

*HrE 35

Autograph

Copy of an early 110-line version, in the neat italic hand of an amanuensis, with Herbert's autograph revisions, subscribed Eduardus Baro Herbert de Cherbury...An^no. Dni 1642, on all four pages of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet, imperfect.

1642

This MS discussed in Rossi, III, 391-2.

National Library of Wales (Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E3/1)

The Idea, Made of Alnwick in his Expedition to Scotland with the Army, 1639 ('All Beauties vulgar eyes on earth do see')

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 75-9.

HrE 36

Fair copy of an early 84-line version, in a predominantly italic hand, on both sides of a single folio leaf.

c.1639

Found in the vicarage of Chirbury and given to Lord Powis by the Rev. John Bard.

This MS discussed in Frank J. Warnke, Two Previously Unnoted MSS. of Poems by Lord Herbert of Cherbury, N&Q, 199 (April 1954), 141-2.

National Library of Wales (Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E3/4)

Imilce pleads that her son may not be sacrificed ('What is this with blood to stain')

Moore Smith, p. 99.

This translation of Silius Italicus's lines appears in A Dialogue between a Tutor and his Pupil, first published in 1768: see HrE 113.2-113.8.

In Answer to the Verses of Guit for the Pucelle d'Orleans, quasi extempore ('Quod nequiere viri, potuit si fæmina, quid ni')

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 89-90.

HrE 36.5

Copy of the elegiac distich, headed Anglus, and six elegiac couplets headed Respons. Gallo supradicto qui Joanna[m] Aurelian[am] Virginem et plenam Deo fuisse contendit and beginning Define, Galle, tuam tandem jactare Bubulcam.

These verses follow in the MS a text of François Duiet's epigram in praise of Joan of Arc to which they are a response.

A folio composite volume of letters sent to William Camden by numerous correspondents, with some of his replies, 394 leaves (plus a later table of contents), in modern crushed morocco gilt.

The British Library: Cotton MSS (Cotton MS Julius C. V f. 393r)

Kissing ('Come hither Womankind, and all their worth')

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 30-1.

HrE 37

Copy of a version headed More deiuersity of kissing and beginning at line 5 (here The sweetly melting kisse that doth consume).

c.1630

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1000 through end (MS 1083/16 pp. 279-80)

An Ode upon a Question moved, Whether Love should continue for ever? ('Having interr'd her Infant-birth')

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 61-6.

*HrE 38

Autograph

Copy of a 38-stanza version, with several autograph corrections and revisions.

This MS collated and the last three stanzas printed in Moore Smith, pp. 133-4, with a facsimile of f. 13 after p. xxiv.

A double-folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers of the Herbert family, in various hands and paper sizes, 92 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half red morocco.

c.1630-1

Purchased from Mrs Ada C. South, 14 October 1905.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 35000 through 39999 (Add. MS 37157 ff. 13v-16v)

HrE 38.5

Copy, headed The L. Herbert.

A small quarto verse miscellany, in probably a single non-professional mixed hand, written from both ends, 90 leaves, in vellum (lacking spine).

c.1630s

Among papers of the Clitherow family of London, which included Sir Christopher Clitherow (1578-1642), Lord Mayor of London in 1635. Bookplate of James Clitherow Esq. of Boston House, Middlesex: i.e. either Christopher's son, James Clitherow (1618-82), merchant and banker, who purchased Boston Manor, in the parish of Hanwell, in 1670, or James Clitherow (1694-1752).

London Metropolitan Archives (ACC/1360/528 ff. [34v-7r rev.])

Sonnet ('Innumerable Beauties, thou white haire')

First published in Moore Smith (1923), p. 97.

HrE 39

Edited from this MS in Moore Smith.

A double-folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers of the Herbert family, in various hands and paper sizes, 92 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half red morocco.

c.1630-1

Purchased from Mrs Ada C. South, 14 October 1905.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 35000 through 39999 (Add. MS 37157 f. 17r)

Sonnet ('You well compacted Groves, whose light & shade')

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, p. 54.

*HrE 40

Autograph

Copy, with an autograph revision, headed Sonnet, with Herbert's autograph addition at Merlou 1620 in France.

This MS collated in Moore Smith, p. 132.

A double-folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers of the Herbert family, in various hands and paper sizes, 92 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half red morocco.

c.1630-1

Purchased from Mrs Ada C. South, 14 October 1905.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 35000 through 39999 (Add. MS 37157 f. 10v)

Sonnet of Black Beauty ('Black beauty, which above that common light')

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, p. 38.

HrE 41

Printed from this MS in Norman Ault, Seventeenth Century Lyrics, 2nd edition (New York, 1950), p. 3; collated in Moore Smith, p. 130.

A double-folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers of the Herbert family, in various hands and paper sizes, 92 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half red morocco.

c.1630-1

Purchased from Mrs Ada C. South, 14 October 1905.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 35000 through 39999 (Add. MS 37157 f. 7r)

'Tears, flow no more, or if you needs must flow'

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, p. 26.

*HrE 42

Autograph

Copy, with an autograph revision, headed by Herbert Ditty.

This MS collated in Moore Smith, p. 128.

A double-folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers of the Herbert family, in various hands and paper sizes, 92 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half red morocco.

c.1630-1

Purchased from Mrs Ada C. South, 14 October 1905.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 35000 through 39999 (Add. MS 37157 f. 2r)

HrE 43

Copy, untitled.

Formerly MS G. 2. 21, p. 357; this MS collated in Smith, p. 128.

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

c.1630s

Formerly MS G. 2.21.

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

Trinity College, Dublin, numbers 800 through end (MS 877, [Part II] f. 191v)

HrE 44

Copy.

A folio miscellany of some 133 poems, including 55 poems by Henry King and nineteen by Thomas Carew, 247 pages.

In the hands of two amanuenses associated with King: i.e. Scribe A (c.1636), pp. 1-214, that of Thomas Manne's imitator using two styles (a: pp. 1-62, 64-6, 133-4, 147-215; and b, the earlier: pp. 63, 67-132, 135-45); and Scribe B (c.1641): pp. 217-47, that of the scribe responsible for the Phillipps MS (Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 8471).

c.1636-41

The flyleaf inscribed Ex dono Eugenii Stoughton Die Octobrii 23 Anno-1738-Domini: i.e. owned before 1738 by the Stoughton family, of St John's House, Warwick.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Stoughton MS: CwT Δ 36 and KiH Δ 6. A complete photocopy deposited by Mary Hobbs in the Bodleian (MS Facs. d. 157). Edited in Mary Hobbs, An Edition of the Stoughton Manuscript (An Early Seventeenth-Century Poetry Collection in Private Hands connected with Henry King and Oxford) seen in relation to other contemporary Poetry and Song Collections (unpub. Ph.D. thesis, University of London, 1973). Also discussed in Mary Hobbs, The Poems of Henry King: Another Authoritative Manuscript, The Library, 5th Ser. 31 (1976), 127-35. Recorded in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King, D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96. A complete facsimile edition in The Stoughton Manuscript, ed. Mary Hobbs (Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1990).

Rosemary Williams (Stoughton MS pp. 95-6)

The Thought ('If you do love, as well as I')

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 43-4.

HrE 45

Copy.

This MS collated in Moore Smith, p. 131.

A double-folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers of the Herbert family, in various hands and paper sizes, 92 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half red morocco.

c.1630-1

Purchased from Mrs Ada C. South, 14 October 1905.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 35000 through 39999 (Add. MS 37157 f. 9r-v)

HrE 46

Copy in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

This MS collated in John P. Cutts, Seventeenth Century Lyrics, MD, 10 (1956), 142-209, (p. 168).

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

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

c.1656

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

Bodleian Library, Music MSS (MS Mus. b. 1 ff. 51v-3r)

HrE 47

This MS collated in Smith, p. 131.

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

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

c.1620-50

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

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

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

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 25000 through 29999 (Add. MS 25707 f. 156r-v)

HrE 48

Copy.

This MS collated in Smith, p. 131.

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

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

c.1650-9

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

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

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6918 ff. 20v-1)

HrE 49

Copy.

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

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

c. late 1630s

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

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

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 626 ff. 18v-19r)

HrE 50

Copy.

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

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

c.1630s

Thomas Thorpe, Catalogue of upwards of fourteen hundred manuscripts (1836), item 1030. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9282. Subsequently in the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, and art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936 (Perry sale). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 188.

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

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1 through 239 (MS 239/23 pp. 47-8)

HrE 51

Copy, subscribed finis Ro: Herrick.

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 pp. 134-5)

To a Lady who did sing excellently ('When our rude & unfashion'd words, that long')

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 44-5.

HrE 52

Copy.

This MS collated in Moore Smith, p. 131.

A double-folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers of the Herbert family, in various hands and paper sizes, 92 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half red morocco.

c.1630-1

Purchased from Mrs Ada C. South, 14 October 1905.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 35000 through 39999 (Add. MS 37157 f. 1r-v)

To her Body ('Regardful Presence! whose fix'd Majesty')

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp 5-6.

HrE 53

Copy.

This MS collated in Smith, p. 126.

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. 15v-16r)

To her Eyes ('Black eyes if you seem dark')

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 35-6.

*HrE 54

Autograph

Copy, with three autograph corrections.

This MS collated in Moore Smith, p. 129.

A double-folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers of the Herbert family, in various hands and paper sizes, 92 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half red morocco.

c.1630-1

Purchased from Mrs Ada C. South, 14 October 1905.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 35000 through 39999 (Add. MS 37157 f. 5r-v)

To her Face ('Fatal Aspect! that hast an Influence')

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, p. 5.

HrE 55

Copy.

This MS collated in Smith, p. 125.

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. 15v)

HrE 56

Copy.

c.1620-33

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 198, Part II ff. 7r-v)

To her Hair ('Black beamy hairs, which so seem to arise')

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 37-8.

*HrE 57

Autograph

Copy, with eight autograph corrections and revisions.

This MS collated in Moore Smith, p. 130.

A double-folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers of the Herbert family, in various hands and paper sizes, 92 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half red morocco.

c.1630-1

Purchased from Mrs Ada C. South, 14 October 1905.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 35000 through 39999 (Add. MS 37157 f. 6r-v)

To her Mind.l ('Exalted Mind! whose Character doth bear')

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, p. 6.

HrE 58

Copy, here beginning Exalted minde, that guid'st thee beautious spheare.

This MS collated in Smith, p. 126.

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. 16r)

HrE 59

Copy.

c.1620-33

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 198, Part II f. 7v)

To his Friend Ben. Johnson, of his Horace made English (''Twas not enough, Ben Johnson, to be thought')

First published in Ben Jonson, Horace: his Art of Poetry (London, 1640). Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 19-20.

HrE 60

Copy.

A small duodecimo pocket-book volume (c.12 x 7cm) of poems by Ben Jonson, in a single small secretary hand, written from both ends, 28 leaves, in old brown calf.

Transcribed principally by one S. H. (born 20 October 1665) from John Benson's duodecimo edition of Horace: his Art of Poetry (London, 1640), the medicinal receipts on ff. 23v-8v partly in another hand.

c.1680

Edinburgh University Library (MS Dc. 7. 94 f. 19v)

To his Mistress for her true Picture ('Death, my lifes Mistress, and the soveraign Queen')

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 48-53.

*HrE 61

Autograph

Copy, with at least twelve autograph corrections and revisions, headed To my M^tris &c.

This MS collated in Moore Smith, pp. 131-2.

A double-folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers of the Herbert family, in various hands and paper sizes, 92 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half red morocco.

c.1630-1

Purchased from Mrs Ada C. South, 14 October 1905.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 35000 through 39999 (Add. MS 37157 ff. 21v-4r)

To Mrs. Diana Cecyll ('Diana Cecyll, that rare beauty thou dost show')

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 34-5.

*HrE 62

Autograph

Copy, with two autograph revisions.

This MS collated in Moore Smith, p. 129.

A double-folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers of the Herbert family, in various hands and paper sizes, 92 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half red morocco.

c.1630-1

Purchased from Mrs Ada C. South, 14 October 1905.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 35000 through 39999 (Add. MS 37157 ff. 4v-5r)

HrE 63

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Smith, p. 129.

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. 305r)

HrE 64

Copy, headed To Lady Diana Cecill.

This MS collated in Smith, p. 129.

A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, in two or more cursive hands, written from both ends, iv + 278 pages, in contemporary calf.

Compiled principally by one H. S., a Cambridge University man.

c.1640s-60s

This MS volume edited in Diana Julia Rose, MS Rawlinson Poetical 147: An Annotated Volume of Seventeenth-Century Cambridge Verse (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Leicester, 1992), of which a copy is in Cambridge University Library, Manuscript Department, A8f.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 100 through 149 (MS Rawl. poet. 147 pp. 75-6)

HrE 65

Copy, the first two words centred as a heading, transcribed from HrE 66.

This MS collated in Smith, p. 129.

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

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

c.1620s-30s

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

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

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999 (Add. MS 21433 ff. 96v-7r)

HrE 66

Copy, the first two words centred as a heading.

This MS collated in Smith, p. 129.

Including 27 poems (and second copies of two poems) by Thomas Carew and three of doubtful authorship.

This MS largely transcribed in British Library, Add. MS 21433. The hand occurs also in British Library, Harley MS 3910, between ff. 112v and 120v, and is possibly associated with the Inns of Court.

c.1620s

Scribbled inscriptions including (f. 1r) M^r John Bowyer; (f. 2r) Jeronomus ffox; and (f. 3r) William Ralph Baesh.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Colchester MS: CwT Δ 13.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 25000 through 29999 (Add. MS 25303 f. 92v)

HrE 67

Copy, omitting the first two words.

This MS collated in Smith, p. 129.

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

c.1640s

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

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2725 f. 65r)

HrE 68

Copy, in an uneven italic hand, untitled, subscribed S^r Ed: Harbert.

This MS collated in Smith, p. 129.

An octavo verse miscellany, in several largely italic hands, closely written, 148 leaves (plus blanks), in modern quarter morocco gilt.

Probably compiled by university or inns of court men.

c.1620s-30s

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 3000 through 3999 (Harley MS 3910 ff. 59v-60r)

HrE 69

Copy, untitled, subscribed By S^r. Ed: Harbert.

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. 27r-v)

HrE 70

Copy, untitled, subscribed S^r Edward Harbert.

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. 52)

HrE 71

Copy, untitled and omitting the first two words, subscribed by S^r Edward Herbert.

A quarto miscellany, in several hands, written over a period, 80 leaves (plus 67 blanks and stubs of numerous extracted leaves), in contemporary vellum gilt.

Compiled by or for Sir Henry Cholmley, brother of Sir Hugh Cholmley (1600-57), the ascription by my brother S^r Hugh Cholmley (1600-57) inserted on f. 19r in a cursive hand responsible for entries on ff. 3r-12v, 15v-29r, 41r-v, 75v-7r, the contents including twelve poems by Thomas Carew and poems by members of the circle of Lucius Cary (1610?-43), second Viscount Falkland, of Great Tew, Oxfordshire, by the St Leger family of Ulcombe, Kent, and by Sir William Twysden of Kent.

c.1624-41

Later bookplate of Henry B. Humphrey.

Recorded in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Cholmley MS: CwT Δ 27.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 703 f. 19r)

HrE 72

Copy, untitled and omitting the first two words in the first line, in double columns.

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 p. 166)

HrE 73

Copy, untitled, subscribed Lord Herbert.

Formerly MS G. 2. 21, p. 307, this MS collated in Smith, p. 129.

c.1630s

Formerly MS G. 2.21.

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

Trinity College, Dublin, numbers 800 through end (MS 877, [Part II] f. 166r-v)

HrE 73.5

Copy, headed My Lord Herbert of my Lady of Oxford, here beginning That rare beauty thou dost show.

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

c.late 1640s

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

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

Landesbibliothek und Murhardsche Bibliothek der Stadt Kassel (2^o Ms. poet. et roman. 4 pp. 260-1)

To one Blacke, and not very Hansome, who expected comendation ('What though your eyes bee starres, your haire, bee night')

First published in Moore Smith (1923), pp. 97-8.

HrE 74

Edited from this MS in Moore Smith.

A double-folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers of the Herbert family, in various hands and paper sizes, 92 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half red morocco.

c.1630-1

Purchased from Mrs Ada C. South, 14 October 1905.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 35000 through 39999 (Add. MS 37157 ff. 17v-18r)

To the C. of D. ('Since in your face, as in a beauteous sphere')

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, p. 55.

*HrE 75

Autograph

Copy, with an autograph correction.

This MS collated in Moore Smith, p. 132.

A double-folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers of the Herbert family, in various hands and paper sizes, 92 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half red morocco.

c.1630-1

Purchased from Mrs Ada C. South, 14 October 1905.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 35000 through 39999 (Add. MS 37157 f. 21r)

HrE 76

Copy, untitled and deleted.

A double-folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers of the Herbert family, in various hands and paper sizes, 92 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half red morocco.

c.1630-1

Purchased from Mrs Ada C. South, 14 October 1905.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 35000 through 39999 (Add. MS 37157 f. 10r)

(2) Poems of Uncertain Authorship

Inconstancy ('Inconstancy's the greatest of synns')

First published in Moore Smith (1923), p. 119.

HrE 77

Copy, untitled and ascribed to Sir Edw: Harbert.

Edited from this MS in Moore Smith.

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. 36r)

HrE 78

Copy, untitled.

Printed from this MS in Frank J. Warnke, Two Previously Unnoted MSS. of Poems by Lord Herbert of Cherbury, N&Q, 199 (April 1954), 141-2.

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. 259v)

HrE 78.5

Copy, the first stanza headed Of Inconstancy, the second headed The Aunswere, in praise of itt.

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. 204)

Ode: Of our Sense of Sinne ('Vengeance will sit above our faults. but till')

First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1635). The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson (Oxford, 1912), I, 350. Moore Smith, pp. 119-20.

HrE 79

Copy, untitled and here ascribed to JD.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Smith, p. 139.

1623

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 pp. 81-2)

HrE 80

Copy, ascribed to S^r Edw. Herbert.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Smith, p. 139.

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. 13v)

HrE 81

This MS collated in Grierson and in Smith, p. 139.

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. 241v)

HrE 82

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Smith, p. 139.

A quarto verse miscellany, in one or more secretary hands, with (ff. 244r-54r) a first-line index, 254 leaves, in modern half-morocco, poems on ff. 34v and 242v dated 1637.

Including 91 poems and some prose works by John Donne and fourteen poems by Thomas Carew.

c.1637

Among the collections of Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (1776-1839), first Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, of Stowe House, near Buckingham, largely derived from the collection of the antiquary Thomas Astle (1735-1803), which in turn chiefly derived from Astle's father-in-law, the Essex historian Philip Morant (1700-70) (see DnJ Δ 15). Later owned by Bertram, fourth Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878).

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as Stowe MS II: DnJ Δ 44 and Stowe MS: CwT Δ 22.

The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 962 f. 209r)

HrE 83

Copy, untitled, subscribed J. D.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Smith, p. 139.

A folio volume of 69 poems by Donne, together with a few poems by others, in a single neat hand, 99 pages, in contemporary limp vellum.

c.1620s-33

Inscribed inside the rear cover J. D. Dune Rainsford …Chiltearns probably by a member of the family of Sir Henry Goodyer's brother-in-law Sir Henry Rainsford (1575-1622), of Clifford Chambers, Stratford-upon-Avon. Later owned by J. Carnaby. Puttick and Simpson's, 25 November 1886, lot 334. Then owned by the Rev. T.R. O'Flahertie (d.1894), of Capel, near Dorking, Surrey, book collector, and by Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908), American professor and art historian. Formerly MS Nor 4502.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Carnaby MS: DnJ Δ 22. Briefly discussed in C.E. Norton, The Text of Donne's Poems, [Harvard] Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature, 5 (1896), 1-22 (pp. 10-11).

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 966.1 pp. 81-2)

HrE 84

Copy, untitled.

A folio volume of 119 poems by Donne, plus some prose works by him, in a single neat secretary hand, each poem usually ending with a trefoil or triangular group of trefoils, 536 pages, in modern calf elaborately gilt.

c.1623-30s

Like Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 5778 (DnJ Δ 4) and University of Nottingham, Pw V 37 (DnJ Δ 57), this volume was extensively used as a notebook by Dr William Balam (1651-1726), of Ely, Cambridgeshire. Sotheby's 10-12 June 1914, lot 1095. Then owned until 1932 by Percy J. Dobell (1871-1956), bookseller. Formerly MS Nor 4506.

Recorded in IELM as the Dobell MS: DnJ Δ 16. Discussed, with a facsimile of f. 194r (see DnJ 2104) by Mabel Potter in A Seventeenth-Century Literary Critic of John Donne: The Dobell Manuscript Re-examined, HLB, 22 (1975), 63-89, and in A Letter of Tom Browne, N&Q, ? (October 1973), 393. A facsimile of the last page (see DnJ 4011) is in Potter & Simpson, X, 428-30. The extensive MS and typescript papers on this MS by George Reuben Potter and Mabel H. Potter, donated by George R. Potter in 1962, are Harvard, MS Eng 966.4.1.

Harvard University, fMS Eng 966.4 (fMS Eng 966.4 p. 424)

HrE 85

Copy, headed Ode.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Smith, p. 139.

A quarto volume of 169 poems by Donne, plus some prose works by him, together with a few poems by others, almost entirely in a single hand, with a table of contents, viiii + 440 pages (plus blanks, the pagination jumping from 156 to 161 and from 339 to 400), with an alphabetical first-line index (pp. [iii-vi]), in modern calf.

Mainly transcribed from Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8468 (the Luttrell MS: DnJ Δ 18), with a title-page (p. i) inscribed The Poems of D.J. Donne (not yet imprinted)...finished this 12 of October 1632. It bears corrections in two hands (one possibly the original scribe) made from the 1633 edition of Donne's Poems, many of the poems headed P. (signifying Printed), with some annotated in red ink Not Printed. The largest known MS collection of Donne's poems and apparently used in the preparation of the second edition of the Poems (1635).

[1635]

According to the compiler of the partial transcript of this MS (Harvard MS Eng 966.2), the O'Flahertie MS belonged to the late D^r Parnel, Arch Deacon of Clogher: i.e. Thomas Parnell (1679-1718), poet and essayist, and after his decease to M^r. Tho^s: Burton of Dublin, and [was] obtained from him by the Editor. Sold at Puttick & Simpson's, 28 April 1856 (Francis Moore sale), lot 975. Later owned by the Rev. T.R. O'Flahertie (fl.1861-94), vicar of Capel, near Dorking, Surrey, book collector. Sotheby's, 25-27 July 1899, lot 384, to Ellis. Described in Ellis and Elvey's sale catalogue No. 93 (November 1899), the relevant pages of which are inserted in the MS. Formerly MS Nor 4504.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) as the O'Flahertie MS: DnJ Δ 17.

Harvard University, MS Eng 966.5 (MS Eng 966.5 p. 50)

HrE 86

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Smith, p. 139.

A quarto volume of 84 poems by Donne, plus some prose works by him, together with a few poems by others, in a single secretary hand, 343 pages, in later half purple morocco marbled boards, dated at the end (p. 343) 19^th, Julij 1620.

1620

Bookplate of Thomas Stephens of the Inner Temple (perhaps the Thomas Stephens who was at the Inner Temple in 1717 or else his son, Thomas, who was there in 1725). Later owned by F.W. Cosens (1819-89), book collector; and purchased from Bernard Quaritch in 1896 by Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908), American professor and art historian. Formerly MS Nor 4500.

Cited in IELM, I.i, as the Stephens MS: DnJ Δ 23. Used extensively in The Complete Poems of John Donne, D.D., ed. Alexander B. Grosart, 2 vols (privately printed, 1872-3). Briefly discussed in C. E. Norton, The Text of Donne's Poems, [Harvard] Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature, 5 (1896), 1-22 (pp. 6-10).

Harvard University, MS Eng 966.6 (MS Eng 966.6 p. 260)

HrE 87

Copy, untitled, ascribed at the top to J D.

A small octavo miscellany of 76 poems by Donne, together with a few poems by others dating up to 1627, in a single italic hand, occasionally marking the end of poems with one or more quatrefoils, 102 leaves (foliation jumping from 55 to 57), gilt-edged, in 19th-century dark green leather gilt.

c.late 1620s

Inscriptions including (f. 6r) Hannah Lewis Jun^r; Thomas Turner his Book (three times, ff. 8r, 14v, 48v, dated 1750, 58 and 1760); (f. 12r) Edmund Baxter att M^rs Nortons; (ff. 20r, 59v) John Jones; (f. 40r) Joⁿ: Pryse 1729; (f. 59v) Robt. W^as[?]; and (f. 79r) Edmund Baxter 1729. Later owned by Edward Vernon Utterson (1776-1856), of Shanklin and Ryde, Isle of Wight, artist, literary antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 24 April 1852 (Utterson sale), lot 1317, sold to Lelly. Then owned by Sir John Simeon, third Baronet (1815-70), M.P. Sotheby's, 3 March 1871 (Simeon sale), lot 638, to Pickering. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 436 (1930), item 576. Formerly MS Nor 4620.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Utterson MS: DnJ Δ 51. Discussed in Sir John Simeon, Unpublished Poems of Donne, Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, 3 (London, 1856-7), No. 3. For an account of Utterson, see Raymond V. Turley, Edward Vernon Utterson, The Book Collector, 25 (1976), 21-44 (and plates after p. 48).

Harvard University, MS Eng 966.7 (MS Eng 966.7 f. 22v)

HrE 88

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Smith, p. 139.

A small quarto volume of 123 poems by Donne plus some of his Paradoxes, Problems and characters, together with some poems by others, 185 leaves (including blanks on ff. 141r-61v) plus nine further blanks on ff. 185v-94v, inscribed L: ll: N: 6./6 on f. 1r and Dr: Donne within a gilt grid on f. 3r, in contemporary vellum with initials F B [Frances Bridgewater] in gilt and a smudged watercolour central lozenge on the upper cover.

In a single, neat, predominantly roman hand (but for entries on ff. 105v-15r in a less neat cursive hand), and with various corrections or emendations throughout possibly in another hand.

c.1622-32

Once owned by Frances (née Stanley) Egerton (1583-1636), Countess of Bridgewater, and her husband John Egerton (1579-1649), first Earl of Bridgewater. Listed in A Catalogue of my Ladies Bookes at London Taken October .27^th 1627 (Huntington, EL 6495) as No. 3, The Lamentaons of Jeremy in verse by D^r Donne, 8^o, among Paper Bookes of diverse volumes after the date 26 April 1631 and before a new list in a different hand under the date 17 April 1632.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Bridgewater MS: DnJ Δ 24.

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks A through E (EL 6893 f. 32r)

HrE 89

Copy, untitled and here ascribed to J[ohn] D[onne].

c.1620-33

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 198, Part II ff. 11v-12)

HrE 90

Copy, headed Ode, subscribed J. D.

MS verse, in an italic hand, written in a printed exemplum of Donne's Deaths Dvell (London, 1633), in modern half-leather.

c.1633-40

In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector.

Princeton (RHT 17^th-188 title-page verso)

HrE 91

Copy, untitled.

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 pp. 93-4)

To a Lady that desired I would love her ('Now you have freely given me leave to love')

Moore Smith, pp. 122-3.

See CwT 1021-1022.

Prose

Address to the King on the Present Estate of the Kingdom and Foreign Affairs

A memorial beginning My most gratious Soveraine. It is observd amonge Statesmen that wise Princes have ever receivd their Counsailors advises in forraine affaires.... First published, in a condensed form, in W.J. Smith, Herbert Correspondence (Cardiff, 1963), pp. 86-8.

*HrE 92

Autograph

Autograph fair copy, with alterations, on three leaves, dated 10 April 1635.

1635

Edited from this MS in Smith. Discussed in Rossi, II, 475-85, and III, 542.

National Library of Wales (Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E5/4/16)

Advice to the King during the War with Spain

Unpublished.

*HrE 93

Autograph

Autograph draft, with copious revisions, of a memorial to the King, 1624.

This MS discussed in Rossi, II, 407-16, and III, 542.

A folio composite sheaf of autograph writings by Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, 25 leaves, sewn but unbound.

c.1625

From papers of the Herbert family, of Powis Castle.

National Archives, Kew (PRO 30/53/9, No. 10 ff. 3r-20r)

Autobiography

First published at Strawberry Hill, 1764, ed. Horace Walpole. Edited in The Life of Edward, First Lord Herbert of Cherbury written by himself, ed. J.M. Shuttleworth (London, 1976).

The various MSS also discussed in N.W. Bawcutt, The Manuscripts of Lord Herbert of Cherbury's Autobiography, The Library, 6th Ser. 12, No. 2 (June 1990), 133-6.

HrE 94

A folio draft, principally in the hand of Herbert's secretary Rowland Evans, with corrections and revisions, a few probably in Herbert's hand, untitled, imperfect, comprising only pages 13-28, 33-72, 85-100, 105-20, 137-44, in modern blue half-morocco.

c.1643

Edited from this MS and discussed (as AuE) in Shuttleworth, with a facsimile of p. 58 facing p. 4. Discussed (as Draft A) in R.I. Aaron, The Autobiography of Edward, First Lord Herbert of Cherbury: The Original Manuscript Material, MLR, 36 (1941), 184-94, with a facsimile of p. 59 facing p. 161; and (as MS E) in Rossi, III, 508-20. Also discussed in N. W. Bawcutt, The Manuscripts of Lord Herbert of Cherbury's Autobiography, The Library, 6th Ser. 12 (1990), 133-6.

Other facsimile examples in DLB, vol. 121, Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, First Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1992), p. 174, and in DLB, vol. 252, British Philosophers 1500-1799, ed. Philip B. Damatteis and Peter S. Fosl (Detroit, 2002), p. 180.

National Library of Wales (Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E1/1)

HrE 95

Copy of the complete work, in the neat italic hand of an amanuensis, transcribed from a lost intermediate MS (AuX), with alterations in three other hands, including that of Horace Walpole, with his title-page (f. iv^r) The Life of Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury written by Himself, iv + 177 folio pages, in contemporary calf.

c.1700

A copy probably made for the Herbert family and left at Stokes Manor, Buckinghamshire, which was sold in 1713 by Henry Herbert to James Howe, whose son John sent the MS c.1737 to the Earl of Powis.

The copy-text for Horace Walpole's edition (1764). The text corrected from this MS in Shuttleworth and discussed (as AuW) pp. xx-xxi. Discussed (as Draft B) in Aaron, and (as MS W) in Rossi, III, 508-20. Also discussed in N.W. Bawcutt, The Manuscripts of Lord Herbert of Cherbury's Autobiography, The Library, 6th Ser. 12 (1990), 133-6.

National Library of Wales (Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E1/2)

HrE 95.3

MS.

17th century?

A lost MS of the Autobiography once in a trunk in the Herbert family house at Ribbesford, near Bewdley, Worcestershire, until c.1818.

Evidence for this MS discussed in N.W. Bawcutt, The Manuscripts of Lord Herbert of Cherbury's Autobiography, The Library, 6th Ser. 12 (1990), 133-6.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Ribbesford MS])

HrE 95.5

Extracts made by Birch on 7 February 1755 from a transcript of Herbert's autograph (?) made in 1718 (? HrE 95).

A large quarto composite volume of transcripts of letters by John Chamberlain, 592 leaves.

Almost entirely in the hand of Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian.

Mid-18th century

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 4101 through 4999 (Add. MS 4173 ff. 5r-20v)

De causis errorum

First published in the 3rd edition of De veritate (London, 1645). Facsimile of this edition introduced by Günter Gawlick (Stuttgart, 1966).

*HrE 96

Autograph

Autograph, with deletions and revisions, on both sides of a folio leaf, part of the first draft.

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 490-1.

National Library of Wales (Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/2/5)

*HrE 97

Autograph

A portion of the autograph first draft, 46 folio pages, irregularly numbered from 104 to 128, now united with HrE 131.

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 490-1.

National Library of Wales (Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/2/9)

*HrE 98

Autograph

Autograph portion of the second draft, with deletions and revisions, headed at the side Rectu Judex sui et obliqui, on two pages of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves.

c.1645

National Library of Wales (Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/2/3)

*HrE 99

Autograph

Part of the autograph second draft of the work, with copious deletions and revisions, iii + 46 folio leaves, unbound.

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 490-1.

National Library of Wales (Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/2/6)

*HrE 100

Autograph

Part of the autograph third draft of the work, with copious deletions and revisions, 43 folio leaves (plus blanks), chiefly on rectos only, unbound.

c.1643

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 490-1.

National Library of Wales (Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/2/1)

*HrE 101

Autograph

Part of the autograph third draft of the work, with copious deletions and revisions, 35 folio leaves, foliated 41-65 (plus eleven blanks), on rectos only, unbound.

c.1645

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 490-1.

National Library of Wales (Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/2/8)

*HrE 102

Autograph

A portion of a fair copy of the work, in the italic hand of an amanuensis, with Herbert's autograph corrections and revisions, 34 folio leaves, on rectos only, unbound.

Inscribed (f. ⁱr) by the third Baron Herbert of Cherbury De Causis Erroru manuscripts of my Grand fathers giuen me by M^r Edw: Griffith of Sutten June. 29. 1680 wherof I have not yet taken a Catalogue

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 490-1

National Library of Wales (Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/2/4)

*HrE 103

Autograph

Copy of part of the work, with autograph revisions, on pages numbered 42-59.

Formerly Powis MSS (1959 deposit), Series II, Bundle XIX, No. 5c.

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 490-1.

National Library of Wales (Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/2/2)

*HrE 104

Autograph

Fair copy of the complete work, chiefly in the italic hands of amanuenses, partly autograph and with Herbert's copious deletions and revisions, 143 folio leaves. on rectos only, unbound.

1640

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 490-1.

National Library of Wales (Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/2/7)

De religione Gentilium

First published in Amsterdam, 1663.

*HrE 105

Autograph

Autograph draft of the table of contents and part of Chapter I, with deletions and revisions, on five folio leaves.

c.1642-4

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 560.

National Library of Wales (Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/3/2)

HrE 105.5

Copy of a list of chapters, in an italic hand, subscribed in another hand De Religione Gentilu Erroruq apud eos Caussis Authore Edoardo Barone Herbert &c., on one page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

National Library of Wales (Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/4/3)

*HrE 106

Autograph

Draft of Chapters II-X, chiefly autograph, partly in the hand of an amanuensis, with copious autograph deletions and revisions, 126 folio leaves, chiefly on rectos only, unbound.

c.1642-4

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 506.

National Library of Wales (Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/3/1)

*HrE 107

Autograph

A large portion of an autograph draft, comprising Pars secunda and Pars tertia, with copious deletions and revisions, 241 folio leaves, chiefly rectos only, foliated 126-271, 271bis-342, + 5 unfoliated, + ff. 1-18 (plus blanks), unbound.

c.1642-4

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 506.

National Library of Wales (Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/3/3)

*HrE 108

Autograph

Portion of an original draft, comprising text in the predominantly italic hand of an amanuensis, with Herbert's autograph corrections and revisions in black ink, on four pages (rectos only of two pairs of conjugate folio leaves).

c.1642-4

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 506.

National Library of Wales (Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/3/6)

*HrE 109

Autograph

Copy of almost the complete work, in the italic hands of two amanuenses, with some autograph corrections or revisions by Herbert (notably on f. [13r], on 21 folio leaves (largely rectos only, plus blanks), unbound.

c.1641-4

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 507.

National Library of Wales (Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/3/4)

De religione laici

See HrE 130-135.

De veritate

First published in Paris, 1624. Translated by Meyrick H. Carré (Bristol, 1937). Facsimile of the London edition of 1645 introduced by Günter Gawlick (Stuttgart, 1966).

*HrE 110

Autograph

Autograph early draft, with copious deletions and revisions, untitled, subscribed 20 Julij 1619 EHerbert, on 126 folio leaves, in old calf gilt.

1619

This MS discussed in Rossi, III, 412-16, and in Gawlick, pp. xi-xii. For an account of its history see H.F.J. Vaughan, Lord Herbert of Chirbury's MSS., Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological Society, 1st Ser. 3 (1880), 353-77.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 5000 through 5999 (Add. MS 7081)

*HrE 111

Autograph

Copy, with autograph revisions, 232 folio leaves, imperfect, the dedication dated 15 December 1622.

[1622-3]

This MS discussed in Rossi, III, 416-17, and in Gawlick, pp. xii-xiii. Facsimile of two pages in Greg, English Literary Autographs, plate XLIX (a-b).

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 3957)

*HrE 112

Autograph

Autograph draft, with copious autograph revisions, ff. 283r-6r in the hand of an amanuensis, 327 folio leaves, written on rectos only, bound in two volumes, in contemporary vellum.

Inscribed at the beginning of the second volume (f. [i^v]) Authore Ed. Herbert...1619 and at the end (f. 327r) Parisji consum. 20/30 Juni. 1623.

c.1619-23

Later owned by Thomas Wagstaffe (1645-1712), nonjuror bishop, and by Thomas Baker (1656-1740), Cambridge antiquary.

These MSS discussed in Rossi, III, 417, and in Gawlick, p. xiii.

St John's College, Cambridge (MSS I. 5, 6 (James 306, 307))

HrE 113

Autograph draft, headed A designe for a perpetuall entertainment of about 15000 Foote and 3000 Horse for his Ma^ties service. 14 February [1624/5].

Edited from this MS in Rossi, III, 484-6.

A folio composite sheaf of autograph writings by Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, 25 leaves, sewn but unbound.

c.1625

From papers of the Herbert family, of Powis Castle.

National Archives, Kew (PRO 30/53/9, No. 10 ff. 21r-2v)

A Dialogue between a Tutor and his Pupil

First published and attributed to Herbert in an edition by Horace Walpole (Strawberry Hill, 1768).

Commonly rejected from the canon, but see arguments for possible authorial involvement of Herbert (as well as Charles Blount) in Julia Griffin, Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury's A Dialogue between a Tutor and his Pupil: Some New Questions, EMS, 7 (1998), 162-201, where the various MS texts are discussed.

HrE 113.2

Copy, chiefly in a mixed hand, partly in a second hand, ii + 293 folio leaves.

The two main hands also in HrE 113.2.

Mid-17th century

Griffin's B text. Facsimile of the first page in Griffin, p. 172.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Ballard 54)

HrE 113.4

Copy, largely in one mixed hand, partly in two other hands, with a few pejorative annotations by a contemporary reader, 239 folio leaves, on rectos only, in old black morocco (rebacked).

The two main hands also in HrE 113.2.

Mid-17th century

Inscribed Anglesey his booke and Let this book be restored to the owner. Edm. Rassingham.

Griffin's R text. Facsimile of the first page (the caption misprinted as MS B) in Griffin, p. 170.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. C. 95)

HrE 113.5

Copy, in two hands, untitled, i + 60 folio leaves, imperfect, lacking the first few leaves, in modern half morocco.

Early-mid-18th century

Inscribed (f. i^r) Pembroke: i.e. Henry Herbert (c.1689-1750), ninth Earl of Pembroke, architect and patron.

Griffin's P text.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 4101 through 4999 (Add. MS 4366)

HrE 113.6

Copy, in a single neat rounded hand, with corrections and underlining in black ink apparently in another hand, ff. 84v-91v in another, mixed hand, headed A Dialogue / Tutor. Pupil, 91 leaves, in half black morocco.

Mid-late 17th century

Acquired from R. E. Lonsdale, 10 April 1875.

Griffin's A text.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 25000 through 29999 (Add. MS 29770)

HrE 113.8

Portions of a draft of the work, in two or three mixed hands, with corrections or emendations in another hand, untitled but endorsed Dialogue / Master & Pupill, twelve folio leaves, foliated or paginated 15, 16, 29, 30, 9-12, 15-18, 230-1, 55, in modern brown morocco gilt.

Mid-17th century

Among papers of the Herbert family, of Powis Castle, including particularly papers of Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1582?-1648). Acquired in 1916.

Griffin's W text. Facsimiles of pp. 11 and 55 of the MS are in Griffin, pp. 181-2.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 5296 E)

Expeditio in Ream Insulam

See HrE 114-120.

The Expedition to the Isle of Rhé

Latin version (Expeditio in Ream Insulam) first published in London, 1656, edited by Timothy Baldwin. English version first published by the Philobiblon Society in London, 1860, edited by Lord Powis.

*HrE 114

Autograph

Autograph fair copy of the complete English version, with the dedicatory epistle to the King but without the preface, with some alterations and underlinings in another hand, the MS prepared by Herbert for presentation to Charles I, 268 folio pages, in olive green calf elaborately gilt.

c.1630

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 486-7.

National Library of Wales (Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E5/2/6)

*HrE 115

Autograph

Copy of Chapters III-VIII of the English version, in the predominantly secretary hand of an amanuensis, with corrections and revisions probably in Herbert's hand, 57 folio leaves, imperfect, some leaves gnawed by rodents, unbound.

c.1630

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 486.

National Library of Wales (Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E5/2/3)

HrE 116

Fair copy of the beginning of Chapter I of the English version, in the neat italic hand of an amanuensis, headed To the Corte, on all four pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

c.1630

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 487.

National Library of Wales (Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E5/2/1)

HrE 116.5

Historical documents used by Herbert when writing The Expedition to the Isle of Rhé.

c.1630

Formerly in Powis MSS (1959 deposit), Series II, Bundle XII, Nos. 3-6.

National Library of Wales (Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E5/3/8)

HrE 116.8

Historical documents used by Herbert when writing The Expedition to the Isle of Rhé.

Formerly in Powis MSS (1959 deposit), Series II, Bundle XII, Nos. 3-6.

National Library of Wales (Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E5/4/13-15)

*HrE 117

Autograph

Autograph draft of the complete Latin version, with copious deletions and revisions, 122 leaves (including blanks) on rectos only, unbound.

1630/1

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 487.

National Library of Wales (Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E5/2/2)

*HrE 118

Autograph

Autograph draft of the complete Latin version, with revisions, 169 folio pages, in vellum.

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 487.

National Library of Wales (Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E5/2/7)

HrE 119

Copy of the complete Latin version, with a dedicatory epistle to the King dated 10 August 1630 and a preface Ad Lectorem, in a professional hand, 165 folio leaves, in dark blue calf gilt.

c.1630

Edited from this MS in Select Works (1849).

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS e. Mus. 95)

*HrE 119.2

Autograph

A portion of an autograph draft of the Latin version, on three pages of two folio leaves.

National Library of Wales (Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E5/2/5)

HrE 119.5

Autograph draft by Sir John Coke of his critique of Herbert's treatise, addressed to Your Lordship and endorsed Memorial for the Lord Harbert Castl Isle.

A folio composite volume of state papers. and correspondence, in various hands, 136 leaves.

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

1629-30

Recorded in HMC, 12th Report (Earl Cowper), I, 398.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 64900 ff. 44r-5v)

HrE 119.8

Autograph fair copy by Sir John Coke of the final version of his critique of Herbert's treatise.

A folio composite volume of state papers. and correspondence, in various hands, 136 leaves.

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

1629-30

Recorded in HMC, 12th Report (Earl Cowper), I, 398.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 64900 ff. 46r-8r)

*HrE 120

Autograph

Copy of the dedicatory epistle to Charles I, in English, dated 10 August 1630. Mid-late 17th century.

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 487.

National Library of Wales (Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E5/2/4)

The Life and Reign of King Henry VIII

First published in London, 1649. Published in London, 1880 (with Autobiography).

*HrE 121

Autograph

Draft of the complete work, partly autograph, in 4 large folio volumes, 1090 + 388 leaves, the first dated 1634, the third 1638, each in contemporary calf (rebacked).

Principally in the hands of three or four of Herbert's amanuenses, one of them Thomas Master (1602/3-43), poet, of New College, Oxford, who has written the dedicatory epistle; some pages are in Herbert's hand and with his frequent corrections and revisions; the last volume comprising a composite collection of related historical documents in various hands, including a number of pages written by Herbert, many of the documents transcribed by Thomas Master, and labelled Collectorum liber secundus.

1634-8

Later inscriptions including Hen. Topp. Jan. 10. 1652 and Maii 2, 1653, Jam tandem acquisita ab Tho. Earle, rectore de Shorncot, Wilts. ita nunc opus completum et perfectum hoc est (historiæ Henrici 8) in originali suo manuscripto a magistro Th. Master, Neo-Gymnasii Oxon.

These MSS described in Rossi, III, 488-90.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MSS Jesus College 71-4)

*HrE 122

Autograph

Copy in the hand of an accomplished amanuensis, with autograph corrections, deletions and insertions, comprising two large folio volumes bound together, xxii + 800 leaves, almost entirely on rectos only, in contemporary calf.

Headed The Life and Raigne of K. Henry the VIII^th. Together with which is brieflie represented a Generall Historie of the times, and with a dedication to Charles I.

c.1638

This MS described in Rossi, III, 490.

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 1143)

*HrE 123

Autograph

Copy, in an accomplished professional roman hand, xxvi + 966 folio pages, in dark blue calf elaborately gilt.

1638

Prefixed (p. iii) by an autograph letter to John Rouse, Bodley's Librarian, 31 January 1643, presenting the volume to the Bodleian via Thomas Master.

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 490.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Bodl. 910)

*HrE 124

Autograph

Part of an autograph draft of the work, with copious revisions, on all eight pages of two pairs of conjugate folio leaves.

c.1634-8

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 490.

National Library of Wales (Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E5/1/2)

HrE 125

Copy of part of the work, in a secretary hand, on 26 folio leaves (plus blanks).

c.1634-8

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 490.

National Library of Wales (Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E5/1/1)

HrE 125.1 c.1700

Quotations.

A quarto volume of notes on kings of England, 186 leaves.

18th century

Armorial bookplate of Russell Robartes, MP (d.1718), father of Henry (c.1695-1741), third Earl of Radnor.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. C. 848 pp. 143-95)

HrE 125.2

Extracts. Early 18th century.

A folio composite volume of tracts and miscellaneous collections, in various hands, 383 leaves, in contemporary reversed calf.

Owned in 1730, and largely compiled as Vol III of his collections, by the Rev. John Lewis (1675-1747), of Margate. Owned in 1749 by Thomas Lewis. Acquired from Peter Thompson.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. D. 787 ff. 216r-20r)

HrE 125.3

Extracts, headed The History of H. 8^t by my L^d cherbury.

A folio commonplace book of miscellaneous extracts, in English and French, chiefly in a single cursive hand, with some pages in the hand of an amanuensis, written from both ends, i + 134 leaves, originally in contemporary calf (now detached), in modern half red morocco.

Compiled by Sir Samuel Tuke, first Baronet (c.1615-74), royalist army officer and playwright, cousin and friend of John Evelyn. Inscribed by him (f. 134r rev.) I began these Collections the 9^th of July, 1662 / By S^r Samuel Tuke: Bar^t:.

c.1662-5

Volume CCLVII of the Evelyn Papers, of John Evelyn (1620-1706), diarist and writer, of Wootton House, Surrey, and his family, also incorporating papers of his father-in-law, Sir Richard Browne, Bt (1605-83), diplomat, and his family. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 164.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78424 ff. 22r, 21r rev.)

HrE 125.4

Extracts, headed The Life of Henry y^e 8th by y^e L^d. Herbert of Cherbury, those beginning on f. 84r under the general heading Witty Sayinges.

A folio volume of Collections out of the Histories of England. 1670, extracted from printed sources, in a single hand, 87 leaves, in mottled leather gilt.

c.1670

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 273 ff. 18r-34r, 65v-9r, 84r-v, 85v-8r)

HrE 125.5

Extracts, including entries on pp. 52, 79, 185, 188, 201, 258, 308, 310, 488, 519, 618, and 623.

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

Mid-17th century

A modern pencil note on a flyleaf claims to identify the compiler as one Raworth.

Chetham's Library, Manchester (Mun. A.6.33 passim)

HrE 125.6

Extracts, headed Hen: 8 written by Lo: Harbert.

A duodecimo notebook of extracts from historical works, in a single cursive italic hand, 149 pages (plus 70 blanks), in contemporary calf.

Mid-17th century

Recorded in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, p. 312.

Lord Egremont, Petworth House (HMC MS 128 pp. 109-40)

HrE 125.7

A quarto commonplace book, in a single mixed hand, 319 pages (including blanks, plus a few more), in brown calf.

c.1620s-40s

Inner Temple Library (Miscellaneous MS No. 17 passim)

HrE 125.8

Extracts.

An octavo commonplace book relating to military history, in probably a single mixed hand, 230 pages (including many blanks), in contemporary brown calf.

c.1630

Inner Temple Library (Miscellaneous MS No. 38 pp. 31, 87)

HrE 125.9

Extracts.

A folio volume chiefly of Acts of Parliament from 1483 to 1546, in a single rounded hand, 349 leaves, in brown morocco gilt.

Compiled by William Petyt (1640/1-1707), lawyer and political propagandist.

Late 17th century-1700s

Inner Temple Library (Petyt MS 535, Vol. 6 ff. 267r-70r)

HrE 125.93

Extracts, headed L. Cherbury's Hen, 8^t.

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

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

c.1644-76

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

Cambridge University Library, Additional MSS 5000 through 6999 (MS Add. 6160 ff. 51r-2r)

HrE 125.95

Extracts.

Inner Temple Library (Petyt MS 536, Vol. 10 ff. 245r-8r)

HrE 125.98

Extracts.

Miscellany.

17th century

University College London (MS Ogden 7/10 passim)

The Life of Edward, First Lord Herbert of Cherbury written by himself

See HrE 94-94.5.

The new Philosophy of Beauty

First published in Rossi (1947), III, 442-3.

*HrE 126

Autograph

Autograph draft of the beginning of an unfinished treatise in English on aesthetics, on both sides of a a single quarto leaf.

c.1630-48

Edited from this MS in Rossi.

National Library of Wales (Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/6/3)

Of Knowledge and the Power cognitive in general

First published in Mario M. Rossi, L'evoluzione del pensiero di Hobbes alla luce di un nuovo manuscritto, Civilità Moderna, 13 (1941), 125-50, 217-46, 366-402. Reprinted in Rossi, Alle fonti del deismo e del materialismo moderno (Florence, 1942), pp. 104-19.

HrE 127

Copy of part of an English redaction, in twelve chapters, of an early version of Thomas Hobbes's De corpore (here Chapters VII, VIII, XI, XII), in a cursive italic hand, possibly that of Francis Herbert, with the sub-headings 1° De principiis cognitionis| 2° De principiis actionis, four tall folio leaves, in modern brown morocco gilt.

c.1637-40

Among papers of the Herbert family, of Powis Castle, including particularly papers of Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1582?-1648). Acquired in 1916.

Edited from this MS in Rossi's article and in Thomas Hobbes, Critique du De Mundo de Thomas White, ed. Jean Jacquot and Harold Whitmore Jones (Paris, 1973), Appendix II, pp. 448-60. Also discussed in R.I. Aaron, A Possible Early Draft of Hobbes' De Corpore, Mind, 54 (1945), 342-56, and in Arrigo Pacchi, Convenzione e ipotesi nella formazione della filosofia naturale di Thomas Hobbes (Florence, 1965), pp. 15-18, 42 et seq.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 5297 E)

On the King's Supremacy in the Church

First published in Edward Herbert, De religione laici, ed. Harold R. Hutcheson (New Haven, 1944), pp. 183-6.

HrE 128

Copy, inscribed by someone on 14 May 1635 shewed to his Grace the Arch Bpp of Canterbury by the Kings Command.

[1635]

Edited from this MS in Hutcheson and discussed in Rossi, II, 485-95, and III, 542.

National Archives, Kew (SP 16/288/88)

HrE 129

Copy, the work dated 1635, indexed (No. 51) as My Lord Herberts paper about y^e Kings Supremacy showed to y^e Arch B^p. of Canterbury by y^e Kings Comand.

The text corrected from this MS in Hutcheson. Recorded in Rossi, II, 493, and III, 542.

A folio volume of state papers, 465 pages, with a later inserted list of contents (after p. 4), in contemporary vellum.

Inscribed (p. 1) Collected out of his Majesties papers of state, Anno 1677. by J Brydall, being a series of transcripts in the cursive hand of John Brydall (c.1635-c.1705), lawyer and secretary to the Master of the Rolls.

1677

The Queen's College, Oxford (MS 157 pp. 158-66)

Opinion concerninge a designe in the Indies

Unpublished.

*HrE 129.5

Autograph

Two autograph revised working drafts of a memorial, on fifteen folio pages.

Addressed to the King [Charles I?], giving, at the monarch's request, his opinion concerninge a designe in the Indies, being Herbert's scheme to establish an English colony in northern Brazil.

c.1630?

University of Liverpool (MS 5.21 (12-13))

Quid laicus

See HrE 130-135.

Religio laici [in Latin]

First published, as De religione laici, with De causis errorum &c (London, 1645). Facsimile of this edition introduced by Günter Gawlick (Stuttgart, 1966). Edited and translated by Harold R. Hutcheson (New Haven, 1944).

*HrE 130

Autograph

Autograph first draft, with copious deletions and revisions, headed Appendix, incomplete, on seven pages of two pairs of conjugate folio leaves, unbound.

c.1643-4

This MS described in Rossi, III, 504.

National Library of Wales (Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/4/4)

*HrE 131

Autograph

Portion of the second autograph draft, headed Appendix, twelve folio leaves, in a paper wrapper, and ten additional unbound folio leaves of autograph drafts heavily revised; now united with HrE 97.

c.1643-4

This MS described in Rossi, III, 504.

National Library of Wales (Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/2/9)

*HrE 131.5

Autograph

Autograph draft, with copious deletions and revisions, untitled, comprising the Appendix ad Sacerdotes and Quid Laicus, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

c.1643-8

National Library of Wales (Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/4/5)

*HrE 132

Autograph

A fair copy of the complete work, in the italic hand of an amanuensis, headed Appendix, on eight folio leaves, in a paper wrapper.

c.1643-4

This MS described in Rossi, III, 504-5.

National Library of Wales (Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/4/2)

*HrE 133

Autograph

A portion of a fair copy, in the italic hand of an amanuensis, with Herbert's autograph corrections and revisions, on fourteen unbound folio leaves.

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 505. title deleted

National Library of Wales (Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/4/6)

*HrE 134

Autograph

Autograph early draft of the Quid laicus, with revisions, entitled Resp. J. G. petentis Quod Laicus de relligione optima statuerit, on the rectos of seven unbound folio leaves.

c.1643-4

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 505.

National Library of Wales (Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/4/1)

HrE 135

A fair copy of the complete work, in the neat italic hand of an amanuensis, entitled Appendix Libr. De Veritate, comprising (ff. 1-8) Religio laici and (ff. 8v-10v) Quid laicus, ten folio leaves, in modern half brown morocco.

c.1643-8

National Library of Wales (Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/4/7)

Religio Laici [in English]

First published in Herbert G. Wright, An Unpublished Manuscript by Lord Herbert of Cherbury Entitled Religio Laici, MLR, 28 (1933), 295-307.

HrE 136

Copy of an independent English work entitled Religio Laici and beginning Having [formerly] spoken of all Learning fitt to bee obtaynd in youth I shall say something of Religion..., in a neat predominantly secretary hand, with corrections or revisions in another hand, the last leaf in yet another hand, nine folio leaves, in modern brown morocco gilt.

c.1642-4

Among papers of the Herbert family, of Powis Castle, including particularly papers of Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1582?-1648). Acquired in 1916.

Edited from this MS in Wright. Discussed in Rossi, III, 505; in R.I. Aaron, A Possible Early Draft of Hobbes' De Corpore, Mind, 54 (1945), 342-56 (pp. 354-5); in Gawlick, pp. xlvii-xlviii; and in Rossi, Herbert of Cherbury's Religio Laici: A Bibliographical Note, Edinburgh Bibliographical Society Transactions, 5, Part 2 (1962), 45-52 (where it is argued that the piece may belong to the Autobiography, but see HrE 138).

This MS also misidentified as a work by John Dryden's (reporting hearsay in a belated note) in Hugh Macdonald, John Dryden: A Bibliography of Early Editions and of Drydeniana (Oxford, 1939), p. 323, Repeated in James M. Osborn, John Dryden: Some Biographical Facts and Problems (New York, 1940); revised edition (Gainesville, Florida, 1965), p. 289.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 5295 E)

*HrE 137

Autograph

Copy of a version of the English Religio Laici, with autograph revisions; 18 leaves (written on one side).

c.1642-5

This MS discussed in S.E. Sprott, The Osler Manuscript of Herbert's Religio Laici, The Library, 5th Ser. 11 (1956), 120-2; but see also Rossi, Edinburgh Bibliographical Society Transactions (1962), 45-6 (n).

McGill University, Montreal, Osler Library (Cat. No. 4589)

HrE 138

Copy of a version of the English Religio Laici, in a single secretary hand, inscribed (p. 1) in another hand Lord Harbert, ii + 64 duodecimo pages (plus stubs of excised leaves at the end), in contemporary leather with traces of ties.

Entitled Religio Laici offered to the consideration of all men (whether Dependants, or Independants) for the setling of some ffundamentall grounds of Religion (pp. 1-40), followed (pp. 41-59) by An Appendix to the Preists touching Religio Laici (beginning If, notwithstanding the Preists of whatsoever Religious order in whatsoever Country...) and (pp. 60-4)The common notions touching Religion (beginning Being about to speake of Revelation, wee thinke fitt to premise certaine præcognita thereof...).

Mid-17th century

Recorded in HMC, 6th Report (1877), pp. 312-13. The appendices, which may or may not be by Herbert, are unpublished.

Lord Egremont, Petworth House (HMC MS 129)

Reply to D. Molin

Reply to a friend of Luise Molina concerning observations on De Veritate. Unpublished.

*HrE 139

Autograph

A fair copy, in the neat italic hand of an amanuensis, with corrections probably in Herbert's hand, 22 folio pages, in a paper wrapper.

September 1633

This MS discussed in Rossi, I, 474-5, 589 et seq.; I, 524-5, and III, 542.

National Library of Wales (Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers MS E2/1/5)

*HrE 140

Autograph

Autograph draft for the first five pages of Herbert's reply, in Latin, with deletions and revisions.

September 1633

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 542 (n).

National Library of Wales (Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/2/1)

Reply to P. Mersenne

Unpublished.

*HrE 141

Autograph

Autograph draft of Herbert's reply to Mersenne's objections to De veritate, including a list of corrections to the printed edition.

This MS discussed in Rossi, I, 481; II, 529-39, and III, 542.

National Library of Wales (Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/1/6)

Translation of Bacon's Elogium Elizabethae

Unpublished.

Dramatic Works

The Amazon

Unpublished play or entertainment, possibly unfinished.

*HrE 143.5

Autograph

Autograph working manuscript, begun probably as a fair copy and then copiously revised, headed (f. [3r] The Amazon, with (f. 1r) a list of Dramatis Personæ, the text on eleven pages, unfinished or incomplete, 26 folio leaves (including 18 blanks), sewn in a paper wrapper.

c.1617-30s

Formerly owned by the Earl of Powis, at Powis Castle. Bonhams, London, 10 November 2009, lot 56.

Facsimile examples in the sale catalogue (of ff. [5v-6r], [8r]) and in Bonham Magazine, issue 21 (Winter 2009), pp. 44-5 (of ff. [4v-5r] and [6v]).

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 88926)

Miscellaneous

Lute-book

*HrE 144

Autograph

Herbert's MS lute-book, mainly autograph, partly in the hand of an amanuensis; inscribed by Herbert The Lutebooke of Edward Lord Herbert, of Cherbury and Castle Island, containing diverse selected Lessons of excellent Authors in severall Countreys. Wherein also are some few of my owne Composition.

c.1624-40

Formerly among Herbert's papers preserved at Powis Castle.

Described in Thurston Dart, Lord Herbert of Cherbury's Lute-Book, M&L, 38 (1957), 136-48, and in Rossi, III, 405-7.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (MU 3 - 1956)

Library Catalogue

*HrE 145

Autograph

Herbert's catalogue of his Library, partly autograph (ff. 1r-4v), chiefly in the cursive hand of a secretary, untitled, 32 folio leaves, in modern brown morocco gilt.

c.1636-7

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 5298 E)

Memorandum

HrE 145.5

An autograph memorandum, headed I find that 7 Manners in generall are found, for opposinge an enemie, endorsed in Coke's hand collected by the L^d Herbert.

A folio composite volume of state papers. and correspondence, in various hands, 136 leaves.

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

1629-30

Recorded in HMC, 12th Report (Earl Cowper), I, 398.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 64900 f. 50r)

Negotiations

HrE 146

An account apparently by Herbert of negotiations concerning the English liturgy at St Germain-en-Laye.

Early-mid 17th century

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 550 B)

Will

HrE 147

Herbert's last will and testament, proved October 1648.

1648

National Archives, Kew (PROB 10/697)