Robert Herrick

1591–1674

Introduction

Autograph Literary Manuscripts

Only one undisputed literary manuscript in Robert Herrick's own hand is known to survive. It is an early elegy written by Herrick as a student in 1619 on the death of one of his contemporaries at Cambridge, John Browne, and is preserved on a single leaf, bound with another poem on the same subject by R. Constable, among the Harley manuscripts in the British Library (*HeR 305). The manuscript, which is an unsigned autograph fair copy and probably the paper officially submitted on behalf of Herrick's college, Trinity Hall, was first identified by P.J. Croft and published by him in 1973.

Letters

A limited number of other examples of Herrick's hand can be discovered, by which this identification can be confirmed. Chief among them is a series of sixteen undated autograph letters signed by Herrick, written from Cambridge, between c.September 1613 and 1616 or 1617, to his wealthy uncle and guardian, Sir William Herrick, one of them also signed by his brother Thomas. All are petitioning Sir William for money, from the inheritance which he held on Robert's account, towards his support or to pay the bills of booksellers. Fourteen of these letters are preserved in the main archive of the Herrick family of Beaumanor, formerly in the Leicestershire Record Office (DG. 9/2422-2435) and now in the Bodleian (MS Eng. c. 2278), and are edited in Martin, pp. 445-53 (see *HeR 416-429). These letters were offered for sale at Sotheby's, 15 December 1988, lot 14 and are extensively illustrated in the sale catalogue (pp. 13-23). Facsimiles of certain of the letters also appear in Farmer's edition of the Texas Herrick MS (see below), p. 4, and in IELM, II.i (1987), Facsimile XXIII, after p. xxiv.

A fifteenth letter in the series is now in the Pierpont Morgan Library (*HeR 430). A sixteenth letter, one unrecorded by Martin and allegedly dating from 1610 (viz. 1616), is now known only from a facsimile printed in 1829 (*HeR 431).

Herrick's signature in these various letters appears variously as Robert Herick, R Hearick, Robert Hearick, Robin Hearick and Robert Hearicke. Facsimile examples of these signatures have also appeared in such publications as Grosart (frontispiece); Hazlitt, p. ix; John Nichols, The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester, II, ii (1798), Plate CV, facing p. 613; George Walton Scott, Robert Herrick (London, 1974), p. 93; and Ray Rawlins, The Guinness Book of Autographs (London, 1977), p. 105.

Documents

Other documents signed by, or closely associated with, Herrick — some of them unknown to his biographers — are found in various archives (HeR 432-449). The Herrick family papers formerly in the Leicestershire Record Office (DG. 9/2405-2438), described and largely illustrated in Sotheby's catalogue for 15 December 1988, lots 15-20 (pp. 24-38), and now in the Bodleian (MSS Eng. hist. c. 1292-1307), include various legal and financial documents relating to the poet, including papers signed by his father, Nicholas (d.1592), and his uncle and guardian, Sir William Herrick (1562-1653). Formerly among them, but now returned to the Leicestershire Record Office (*HeR 432) is the sixteen-year-old poet's indenture of apprenticeship to his uncle, dated 25 September 1607 and bearing his earliest known signature (Robert Hericke).

Yet another substantial portion of the Herrick family archive came to light earlier in 1968, when it was described (with facsimile examples) as item 27 in Hofmann and Freeman's sale catalogue No. 25. Comprising nearly 1,200 letters and documents bound in eleven volumes, these papers are all now also preserved in the Bodleian (MSS Eng. hist. b. 216, c. 474-484) and a detailed typescript calendar was prepared in 1972 by P.M. Pugh. The papers contain one document signed by the poet: a portion of Sir William Herrick's autograph account book recording four payments to his nephew who signed it in receipt (*HeR 433).

On 19 March 1612/13, the poet appeared in the Court of Aldermen, sitting in the Guildhall as the Orphans' Court, where he was adjudged by inspeccion to be of the full age of xxi^ty yeres and upwards and where he acknowledged having received a total of £424 8s of his inheritance from his uncle (who, however, retained control of the money). He signed three statements to this effect in registers now preserved in the London Metropolitan Archives (*HeR 434-435). The same registers were also signed at other times by his brothers Thomas, Nicholas and William and by his sister Mercie when they variously came of age. These and related records, formerly in the Corporation of London Record Office, were discovered by Mark Eccles and discussed by him in Herrick's Inheritance, N&Q, 230 (March 1985), 74-8.

Herrick's move to Cambridge — where in 1613 he became a fellow-commoner of St John's College, transferring to Trinity Hall in 1616 — is represented not only by his letters mentioned above and by the autograph Harley poem of 1619 but also by two signatures in the University Subscription Books (*HeR 437-437.5).

Some nine or ten years later, as Chaplayne to the late Duke of Buckingham in y^e Isle of Reis, Herrick submitted to Charles I a petition for the vicarage of Deane (viz. Dean Prior) in Devon (HeR 438). This petition was successful and Herrick was duly appointed vicar of Dean Prior until his ejection during the Civil War — an ejection which took place not in 1647, as has been commonly supposed (see Martin, p. xvi), but before 25 March 1646, by which time his successor, John Syms, was officially installed (see Syms's journal in the British Library, Add. MS 35297, f. 178v rev.).

The original parish register of Herrick's church during these years is still preserved there — in what is now the largely rebuilt Church of St George the Martyr of Dean Prior. The register is complete from 1557 to 1738 and naturally contains entries over these years by a large number of different parish clerks and, possibly, rectors. One hand which occurs on seven pages during the 1630s (*HeR 439-445) bears a considerable resemblance to Herrick's hand (witness such features as the footed r, Greek and secretary forms of e, capitals C, F, G, H and R [as in Robert], and a certain versatility of letter formation), although, at the same time, it has a sufficient number of dissimilar features (such as peculiar formations of A, d, f, h, I, L, N, P, y and z) to leave the identification uncertain. If the hand be not Herrick's, it must be accounted an interesting coincidence that a new parish clerk, with a handwriting somewhat similar to Herrick's and quite dissimilar to that of earlier clerks of the parish, should be appointed at just about the time that Herrick himself became rector and when he obviously had access to this register.

With the Restoration of Charles II, Herrick submitted a petition to the House of Lords, on 23 June 1660, requesting the revenues of his vicarage, which had been sequestered during the Commonwealth period (*HeR 446). The petition was successful and he recovered his vicarage, where he stayed until his death in 1674.

Three further documents relating to clerical matters, signed by him and preserved in the Devon Record Office at Exeter bear further witness to his later years at Dean Prior (*HeR 447-449). Yet other Dean Priory parish records relating to Dean Prior in this period are preserved in the same record office — such as the Overseers of the Poor Accounts for c.1610-57 (PO1) and the Settlement Certificates for 1622-99 (PO4-11), as well as parish accounts relating to churchwardens, constables and other officials in 1567-99 (PW 1) — though neither these nor the main parish register after 1636 bear any trace of Herrick's hand. This is despite the fanciful belief once entertained by the Rev. C.J. Perry Keene, who was Vicar of Dean Prior from 1878 to 1926, that an Elizabethan scribbling (thou art my god and sauiour one y^t I awaie all waye) on the end-leaf of the last-named set of accounts (PW1) was Herrick's confession of belief, these accounts being supposedly found by Herrick as loose sheets and sewn together by him roughly, with fine strong thick thread because he was quick to see their value.

The Texas Herrick Manuscript

Another alleged identification of Herrick's hand is somewhat more controversial. In 1965, at Sotheby's, P.J. Croft claimed to have identified beyond doubt the hand of Robert Herrick in a Phillipps manuscript, a miscellany of c.1612-24, which was subsequently acquired by the University of Texas (see the catalogue for further description of University of Texas at Austin, HRC 79).

This miscellany (it is not in any sense a commonplace book) is, as Croft has rightly observed, a manuscript of some importance — because it appears to contain closely contemporary copies of poems and other works (some of a distinctly underground nature) which were in current manuscript circulation and were possibly entered here just as they were received, and because detailed study of the manuscript could well throw light on the nature of miscellany compilation at Cambridge and elsewhere in this period. Croft's identification of the Herrick hand in the manuscript would appear to rest on a limited number of personal and identifying characteristics whose perception is at least partly a matter of intuition developed by experience; on the assumption that all other known examples of the poet's hand are written in a comparatively formal version of Herrick's hand, whereas the entries in the Texas MS tend to be much more cursively written; and on the corresponding hypothesis that, given the opportunity to write informally and with speed, then Herrick would naturally adopt the style found in the Texas MS. Croft points to the underlying identity of this rapid cursive which can be sensed in the slope and in such individual forms as f, g, and Italic long s [and] … Greek e. Because a letter by Bishop Williams in the manuscript is completed in the Herrick hand, and since Herrick speaks in a later poem to Williams (Martin, p. 52) of unkindness he had received from him in the past, then, according to Croft, the Texas MS suggests that he may at this period have been employed as secretary to Williams. Croft further views a change by the Herrick hand in The Welcome to Sack (line 74) as an authorial revision and he claims that several poems written entirely in this hand can now be attributed to Herrick beyond reasonable doubt, his authorship being especially unquestionable for two songs on p. 253 (illustrated in Croft's Autograph Poetry in the English Language, 1973, I, 33) where the character of the writing suggests that Herrick may be here dashing them off in the heat of composition.

Doubts may be cast on Croft's claims on various accounts. Granted some similar features in the Texas MS (such as the slope to the right and certain of the formations of d, Greek e, s, t, b, g, A and J), it is questionable whether such resemblances are really idiosyncratic rather than generic in nature, while, on the other hand, there are a number of dissimilarities (such as the Texas scribe's forms of h, k, L, N, Q, B, D and f, as well as superscript th and his use of ampersands and contractions such as p for per) which Croft overlooks (or else tacitly, and doubtfully, dismisses as mere variants of Herrick's known formations). In the Texas MS there is little sense of deliberation in the forming of any of the words and none of Herrick's stylistic flourishes, his characteristic pen strokes leading into or running out of words. Perhaps the single most characteristic letter form to be found in Herrick's writing — his r with a pronounced foot-serif — is nowhere to be found in the Texas Herrick hand (although, curiously enough, it occurs in most of the other scripts in the manuscript). Croft dismisses the foot-serif as the addition of … a stock calligraphic feature. In fact, on the contrary, this was a normal (and indeed invariable) feature of Herrick's writing and it is the atypical form of the r in the Texas MS, involving a quite different movement of the pen, which he would have been obliged to adopt. Croft also seriously minimizes not only the number of extant examples of Herrick's hand available for comparison (see above) but also the variety of scripts to be found therein. The holographs, ranging over a period from 1607 to 1663, cannot be uniformly stereotyped as formal, either stylistically or with regard to the speed with which they were written. Their style, which is predominantly italic with some admixture of secretary, ranges from a comparatively free, somewhat angular cursive, leaning to the right and with elongated ascenders and descenders, to a comparatively small, tight, rounded script, with variations of individual letter forms apparently adopted (like the different forms of his signature and certain of his spellings) as the mood took him. This flexibility contrasts sharply with the hand in the Texas MS, which (with rare exceptions, such as variant forms of p and f) has a relentless uniformity and, in fact, shows little of Herrick's palpable sense of style and penmanship.

However cursive this hand, there is, moreover, no reason to suppose that any work whatsoever in the Texas MS is in the hand of its author. The manuscript is, from start to finish, a set of copies and there is no evidence of authorial revision at any point. The poem on p. 343, for instance (Now all the news vpo th'xchange is of the golde lady), a poem which Croft does not suggest was composed by Herrick, is scarcely less rapidly written than the exercises on p. 253 which he thinks were Herrick's, while the changes to which Croft draws attention in The Welcome to Sack are found in other sources (as is the earlier version of line 74) and could easily have been made after consultation with some other copy (a practice of scribal emendation far from rare in miscellanies of this period). Such emendations would, too, be wholly consistent with the nature of the Texas scribe's alterations and additions elsewhere in the manuscript, which suggest a somewhat fussy, academic tinkering (see, for instance, the Latin quotation with which he glosses a word on p. 203). Identification of handwriting (even if correct) is never good reason alone to establish authorship of poems in miscellanies such as this in any case, while, as Croft himself partly admits, there are certainly no clear stylistic affinities between any unattributed poems in this manuscript and Herrick's known poems. The suggestion concerning Bishop Williams can, too, be accounted no more than conjecture.

This discussion could be extended considerably, but, in short: Croft's identification is at best unproven, at worst misleading speculation. In the absence of reliable supporting evidence, a direct association between this manuscript and Robert Herrick would seem to be unlikely.

Manuscripts of Herrick's Verse

Whatever the true identity of the Texas manuscript, it is evident that a number of Herrick's poems, particularly those from his Cambridge and London days, had considerable circulation in manuscript, being copied and recopied in miscellanies and songbooks long before he saw fit to collect, revise and publish them himself in 1647-8. One slightly earlier attempt to publish a collection was made on 29 April 1640, when Andrew Crooke made application in the Stationers' register to publish The severall Poems written by Master Robert Herrick (see Martin, p. xv). Herrick himself may have had something to do with this, but it could just as easily have been an unauthorized (and abortive) project by a publisher simply to print some of the manuscript verse currently available. That Hesperides and Noble Numbers were regarded by Herrick as the definitive text of his poems is suggested by one short poem, His request to Julia (Martin p. 21), in which he writes (with what sincerity, one can only speculate):

Julia, if I chance to die
Ere I print my Poetry;
I most humbly thee desire
To commit it to the fire:
Better 'twere my Book were dead,
Then to live not perfected.

Contemporary manuscript texts of Herrick's poems nevertheless have considerable value on several accounts. Manuscripts contain the texts of poems by Herrick in the form in which they were generally known to his contemporaries over a period of twenty years or more. They contain early, unrevised versions, perhaps originally never intended for publication, and enable a view to be taken of the evolution of Herrick's texts and of his poetic craft. Because the 1647-8 volume is essentially a mature poet's (perhaps generous) selection of his own works, manuscripts provide the only textual witnesses to a number of poems which were excluded from that selection or which, in some instances, were published in highly abridged form. The possibility should also at least be considered by editors that those texts which the poet happened to have to hand in 1647-8 were not necessarily his original, uncorrupted versions (compare, for instance, the trouble Donne had to find good texts of his own poems in 1611). It could be argued that variant readings in the printed volume should not automatically be accepted in preference to manuscript texts in every instance. Readers might, in any case, be forgiven for sometimes preferring earlier readings in particular poems.

Of the various mid-seventeenth-century manuscripts recorded in the entries in CELM, seven contain fairly substantial collections of Herrick's poems (i.e. more than ten poems each). They may be briefly listed as follows, with the delta numbers originally supplied in IELM:

Bodleian, MS Don. c. 57. Probert MS: HeR Δ 1. Includes twelve poems by or attributed to Herrick in musical settings.
Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. c. 50. Daniell MS: HeR Δ 2. Includes 19 poems by or attributed to Herrick (and second copies of six of them).
British Library, Add. MS 53723. Henry Lawes MS: HeR Δ 3. Includes 14 poems by or attributed to Herrick in Henry Lawes's musical settings.
Harvard, fMS Eng 626. St John MS: HeR Δ 4. Includes 16 poems by or attributed to Herrick.
Huntington, HM 198, Part I. Haslewood-Kingsborough MS (I): HeR Δ 5. Includes eleven poems by or attributed to Herrick.
National Library of South Africa, Cape Town, MS Grey 7 a 29. Grey MS: HeR Δ 6. Includes 14 poems by or attributed to Herrick.
Yale, Osborn MS b 197. Alston MS: HeR Δ 7. Includes 13 poems by or attributed to Herrick.

The Canon

Since, as already noted, many of Herrick's poems were excluded from the edition of 1647-8, the complete canon has by no means been established with certainty. Any survey must take into account a variety of attributions to Herrick made by past editors on assorted evidence and it is likely that each new editor will have his or her own version of the canon. In view of this, entries in CELM are classified in two categories: (1) Poems published in Hesperides and Noble Numbers (HeR 1-290.5), and (2) Other poems by or attributed to Herrick (HeR 291-415). The latter group includes poems ranging from virtually certain attributions (such as the Chorus in his own hand (*HeR 305) and poems invariably ascribed to Herrick in fairly reliable contemporary sources) to poems whose attributions are little more than modern editorial guesses based on stylistic affinities. The second category includes, in effect, all those Additional Poems printed in Martin (pp. 404-44), with the exception of eighteen poems (on pp. 423-39) Attributed to R. H. in a Seventeenth-Century Manuscript: viz. poems which occur on pp. 251-9 and 287-97 in a verse miscellany of c.1634 which was later Phillipps MS 9536 and is now in the Rosenbach Museum & Library (MS 239/27). Martin's attribution of these poems, which betray inferiority in style and art, has been disputed in R.G. Howarth, Attributions to Herrick, N&Q, 203 (June 1958), 249, where it is plausibly suggested that R.H. might be Robert Heath, and also in John M. Ditsky, A Case of Insufficient Evidence: L.C. Martin's R.H. Poems and Herrick, Ball State University Forum, 11 (1970), 54-9. The poems have also been omitted from Patrick's edition and from Martin's own Oxford Standard Authors edition in 1965.

On the other hand, additions to Martin's version of the canon comprise two poems attributed to Herrick in more recent scholarly articles (HeR 320-2, HeR 332-352.5) and one further, apparently unpublished, poem ascribed to Herrick in the noteworthy Grey MS (HeR 323-7). These additions include the fine verses King Oberon his Cloathing (HeR 332-52), the composition of which is obviously related to one of Herrick's fairy poems (they were published together in 1634). The verses have been traditionally ascribed to Herrick's college friend Sir Simeon Steward (or Stewart), although Hazlitt and, more recently, Norman K. Farmer, Jr have suggested that Steward may have been only an early copyist rather than their author (one of Henry King's poems, for instance, is ascribed to Steward for possibly similar reasons: see KiH 613). Contrary evidence that Steward was indeed known as an original poet himself in the 1620s is provided by references among the poems of Sir Mildmay Fane (d.1629) now at Harvard (fMS Eng 645): see T.G.S. Cain, Robert Herrick, Mildmay Fane, and Sir Simeon Steward, English Literary Renaissance, 15 (1985), 312-17. Thus the circumstances of authorship and possibility of collaboration remain open to investigation.

The general uncertainty of seventeenth-century manuscript ascriptions elsewhere is illustrated by instances of known poems by Herrick being ascribed to such poets as Corbett (HeR 47) and even, in one notable instance, to Philip Massinger (HeR 205), while Herrick's own name could be affixed even to a poem by Donne (DnJ 3682). The equal uncertainty of modern attribution is exemplified by the series of discussions of Two Poems by Herrick? in Notes & Queries (Vol. 200, September 1955, 380-1; November 1955, 500; Vol. 201, February 1956, 89; Vol. 207, October 1962, 394; and Vol. 223, October 1978, 446), where some fourteen lines printed in Joshua Poole's compilation The English Parnassus (1657) were attributed to Herrick by R.G. Howarth, but then found to be largely extracts from Joshua Sylvester, Sir Philip Sidney and Ben Jonson. Six couplets beginning Dote not on that which may but cause thy woe, which appear in Huntington, HM 904, f. 13, are tentatively assigned to Herrick on stylistic grounds in Jenijoy La Belle, The Huntington Aston Manuscript, The Book Collector, 29 (Winter 1980), 542-67 (p. 554). However, it is evident that attributions of this kind could be adduced almost indefinitely.

Answer Poems

Besides Lord Westmorland's answer poem to Herrick's A Christmas Carroll to the Earle of WestmorLand recently discovered by Tom Cain (see HeR 305.5), a few other verse responses to Herrick may be mentioned. A hitherto unrecorded answer to another of Herrick's Christmas poems — presumably, to A Christmas Caroll, sung to the King in the Presence at White-Hall (What sweeter musick can we bring): Martin, pp. 364-5 — occurs in an autograph collection of poems by John Cotton presented to his mother Lady Alice Cotton, c.1648-55. Cotton's poem, in British Library Add. MS 10307, f. 30r-v, is headed To his ingenious Freind Mr. Robert Hirricke. An Ode in answere to his Christmas Caroll (beginning See, see,/How every hoary-headed Tree). Two other little-known poems addressed to Herrick in the 1620s are also found among Mildmay Fane's autograph verse at Harvard (fMS Eng 645) and are quoted by T.G.S. Cain in English Literary Renaissance, 15 (1985), 312-17.

Miscellaneous

An exemplum of Grosart's edition of Herrick (1876) containing copious notes by the Rev. Charles Percival Phinn (d.1906) is in the British Library (11601.k.26) and was used by Martin (see his pp. v-vi). Letters concerning Hazlitt's edition of 1869 are among his collections in the British Library (Add. MS 38900, passim). Other sources that throw some light on Herrick or his circle are cited notably in Delattre (pp. 511-17); and in Karl Josef Höltgen's articles Herrick, the Wheeler Family, and Quarles, Review of English Studies, NS 16 (1965), 399-405, and Herrick and Mrs. Wheeler, TLS (17 March 1966), p. 228.

Abbreviations

Delattre: Floris Delattre, Robert Herrick (Paris, 1912).
Grosart: The Complete Poems of Robert Herrick, ed. Alexander B. Grosart, 3 vols (London, 1876).
Hazlitt: Hesperides The Poems and other Remains of Robert Herrick now first collected, ed. W. Carew Hazlitt, 2 vols (London, 1869).
Martin: The Poetical Works of Robert Herrick, ed. L.C. Martin (Oxford, 1956).
Moorman: F. W. Moorman, Robert Herrick: A Biographical & Critical Study (London, 1910).
Patrick: The Complete Poetry of Robert Herrick, ed. J. Max Patrick (New York, 1963; 2nd edition, 1968).

Verse

Poems included in Hesperides and Noble Numbers

The admonition ('Seest thou those Diamonds which she weares')

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 130-1. Patrick, p. 177.

HeR 1

Copy, untitled, here beginning See'st thou those Jewills that she wears.

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. 76r)

HeR 2

Second copy, headed A fancie.

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

c.1630s-40s

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 50 f. 133r)

HeR 3

Copy, in Lawes's musical setting.

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 f. 29r)

HeR 4

Copy, untitled and here beginning Seest thou those Jewells that shee weares.

This MS collated in Martin.

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. 6v-7r)

HeR 5

Copy, headed A songe. R: H. and here beginning Seest thou those Jewells....

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

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

c.1639 [-c.1728]

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

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

Yale, Osborn MS b 150 through Osborn MS b 199 (Osborn MS b 197 p. 8)

HeR 6

Copy, headed A fancy.

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

c.1635-44

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

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

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, f through end (MS Eng. poet. f. 25 fol. 20r)

HeR 7

Copy, headed On a dressing of hayre stucke w^th jewels and here beginning Seest thou those rubies that shee weares.

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

Probably compiled by a Cambridge University man.

c.1630s

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

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 15000 through 16999 (Add. MS 15227 f. 95v)

HeR 8

Copy, headed On his M^rs adornd with sewerall sorts of jewells and here beginning Seest thou thos rubies w^ch shee weares.

An octavo verse miscellany, including sixteen poems by Strode and one of doubtful authorship, in several hands, including a small mixed hand on ff. 2r-43v, cursive secretary hands thereafter, and Latin entries in italic at the reverse end, 139 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1630s

A flyleaf inscribed [?] Johannes Philips. Acquired from H. Stevens 11 December 1852.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1987), as the John Philips MS: StW Δ 8.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 18000 through 19999 (Add. MS 19268 f. 23r)

HeR 9

Copy, headed On a dresse of hayre w^th Jewells in it and here beginning Seeest thou those rubies w^ch shee weares.

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

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

c.1630s

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

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

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999 (Add. MS 22118 ff. 37v-8r)

HeR 10

Copy, headed A Songe and here beginning Seest thou those Jewells w^c she weares.

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

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

c.1640s-50s

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

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999 (Add. MS 22603 ff. 57v-8r)

HeR 11

Copy, headed Vpon a Ladies dresse of Hayre stucke with Jewells.

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 f. 81r)

HeR 12

Copy, untitled and here beginning Seest thou those Jewells which shee weares

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. 151v)

HeR 13

Copy, headed On his M^ris adorned w^th sundry sortes of Jewells and here beginning Seest thou those Rubyes w^ch shee weares.

An octavo miscellany of chiefly verse, in at least two cursive italic hands, with religious verse and prose at the reverse end in another hand, 111 leaves (plus blanks), in old calf gilt.

Including nineteen poems by Corbett and 29 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, the date 1634 occurring on f. 78v.

c.1635

Inscribed on f. 111v rev. Thursday next at Capricks for M^r Pitt. Later among the collections of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724), and his son Edward, second Earl (1689-1741).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Harley MS: CoR Δ 5.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6931 f. 4r)

HeR 14

Copy, headed Vpon a Ladies dresse of hare stuck w^th Jewells.

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

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

c.1633

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

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

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1446 f. 75v)

HeR 15 c.1622

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, on a single folio leaf of verse.

A collection of unbound verse, in various hands.

Probably collected by Dr Samuel Knight (1677/8-1746), clergyman and antiquary.

Cambridge University Library, Additional MSS 1 through 4999 (MS Add. 42 f. 36r)

HeR 16

Copy, here beginning Seest thou those rubies which she weares

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

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

c.late 1630s

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

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

Corpus Christi College, Oxford (MS 328 f. 29r)

HeR 17

Copy, headed Of a proud Ladie that had her hayre drest and stuck with Jewells.

A quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary hand, probably associated with Oxford and afterwards with the Inns of Court, 73 leaves (plus a few blanks and a modern index).

Including 40 poems by Strode and two poems of doubtful authorship.

c.1630s

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9510. (Phillipps sale, lot 1015.) Owned c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914). Percy Dobell's sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 342. Formerly MS 4201. 27. 1.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dobell MS II: StW Δ 19. Formerly Folger MS 1.27.42.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 200 through 299 (MS V.a.245 f. 18v)

HeR 18

Copy, headed Upon a Ladyes dress of heayre stuck w^th Jewells, subscribed in different ink R Hericke.

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

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

c.1630s

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

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

Leeds Archives (WYL156/237 f. 10r)

HeR 19

Copy, in the hand of William Parkhurst, here beginning Seest thou those iewells w^ch she weares.

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

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

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

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

Leicestershire Record Office (DG. 7/Lit. 2 f. 348r)

HeR 19.5

Copy, headed A Phansie.

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 f. [9r rev.])

HeR 20

Copy, headed Of a proud Ladie that had her haire drest & stucke with Iewells.

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. 133-4)

HeR 21

Copy, headed Vpon a scornefull Ladyes dres of haire (with Jewells) written by waye of aduice to a puny louer and here beginning Seest thou those Rubyes....

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

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

c.1634

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

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

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

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 240 through 999 (MS 243/4 p. 156)

HeR 21.5

Copy, run on directly following ten lines headed Vpon parting w^th a deare frend beginning As soules from bodies part, so part wee twoe.

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. 167v)

HeR 22

Copy, headed On his M^rs adorned w^th seuerall Jewells, here beginning Seest thou those rubies which she wears?.

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. 224v)

HeR 23

Copy, headed A fancy.

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

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

c.1630s

Formerly Box 22, item II.

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

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 205 f. 74r-v)

The Apparition of his Mistresse calling him to Elizium ('Come then, and like two Doves with silv'rie wings')

First published, among verse By other Gentlemen, in Poems written by Wil. Shake-speare. Gent. (London, 1640). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 205-7. Patrick, pp. 273-5.

HeR 24

Copy, headed His Mistris Shade.

This MS collated in Martin.

An octavo verse miscellany, largely in a predominantly secretary hand, another hand on ff. 85r-7v, 95v-6r, xiii pages + 104 leaves (including blanks, but lacking ff. 7-9, 54-5, 95), with a table of contents (pp. 1-6), in modern calf, gilt-edged.

Compiled by University or Inns of Court men.

The extracted fols 7, 8 and 54 are now Chetham's Library Halliwell-Phillipps No. 2757, Chetham's Library Halliwell-Phillipps No. 2216, and Chetham's Library Halliwell-Phillipps No. 2217 respectively. The extracted fol. 9 is now Folger MS V.a.505, p. 27.

c.1630s

Inscribed (f. [104v] Thomas White His Book May y^e 20 Anno Domine 1691. Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps and in his library at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1.21.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 1 through 99 (MS V.a.96 ff. 15r-16v)

HeR 25

Copy, headed His Mistris shade.

This MS collated in Martin.

A quarto verse miscellany, written in alternating secretary and italic scripts, probably in a single hand; foliated in ink 1-32 and paginated in pencil 33-96, 32 leaves (lacking final leaf).

Including nine poems by Randolph, plus two of doubtful authorship.

c.1630s

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 10110. Bookplate of Robert Hoe (1839-1909), New York businessman and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Huntington MS: RnT Δ 9. Complete microfilm at the Shakespeare Institute, Birmingham (Mic S 15).

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 172 ff. 9v-10v)

The Bag of the Bee ('About the sweet bag of a Bee')

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 31. Patrick, p. 45. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in John Playford, Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

HeR 26

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

This MS collated in Martin.

A folio songbook, 121 leaves (including c.20 blanks and an index), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

Including ten poems by Carew and twelve poems by or attributed to Herrick, in musical settings, predominantly in a single hand (ff. 2r-63v, 92r-9r, 100r, with a change of style on ff. 64r-5v and in the index probably by the same hand), with 18th-century additions on ff. 81v-7v, 89r-v and 145v-53r, and scribbling elsewhere.

c.1640s-60s

Later owned by Colonel W.G. Probert, of Bevills, Bures, Suffolk. Sold by Quaritch in 1937.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Probert MS: CwT Δ 4, HeR Δ 1. Discussed and analysed in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211. Also briefly discussed in George Thewlis, Some Notes on a Bodleian Manuscript, M&L, 22 (1941) 32-5, and in Willa McClung Evans, Shakespeare's Harke Harke ye Larke, PMLA, 60 (1945), 95-101 (with a facsimile of f. 78r). A facsimile of the volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 6 (New York & London, 1987).

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. c. 57 f. 95v)

HeR 26.5

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

A square-shaped folio volume of vocal and instrumental music, in two or more cursive italic hands, written from both ends, with (ff. 1v-2v, 96v rev) a table of contents, 97 leaves, in modern half red morocco.

c.1760s

Bookplate of Edmund Thomas Warren Horne, publisher, and probably the compiler. Puttick & Simpson's, 24 April 1873.

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 29386 ff. 60v-1v)

HeR 27

Copy, in Lawes's musical setting.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

Mid-17th century

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 53723 f. 75v)

The Bell-man ('From noise of Scare-fires rest ye free')

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 121.

HeR 27.5

Copy.

A printed exemplum of A Selection from the Poetical Works of Thomas Carew, [ed. John Fry] (London, 1810), with interleaved annotations and tipped-in earlier leaves.

Early 19th century

Bodleian Library, other MSS (27980 e. 86 Before p. 57)

The Bubble. A Song ('To my revenge, and to her desp'rate feares')

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 87. Patrick, p. 124.

HeR 28

Copy, untitled.

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

c.1630s-40s

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 50 f. 94v)

HeR 29

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

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

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 626 f. 35v)

HeR 30

Copy, headed To his Scornefull mistris, subscribed Rob: Herricke.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

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

c.1650-9

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

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

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6918 f. 50r-v)

HeR 30.5 c.1622

Copy, in a secretary hand, on a single folio leaf of verse.

A collection of unbound verse, in various hands.

Probably collected by Dr Samuel Knight (1677/8-1746), clergyman and antiquary.

Cambridge University Library, Additional MSS 1 through 4999 (MS Add. 42 f. 36r)

Charon and Phylomel, A Dialogue sung ('Charon! O gentle Charon! let me wooe thee')

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 248. Patrick, p. 327. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in John Playford, Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

HeR 31

Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by William Lawes.

This MS collated in Martin.

A folio songbook, 121 leaves (including c.20 blanks and an index), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

c.1640s-60s

Later owned by Colonel W.G. Probert, of Bevills, Bures, Suffolk. Sold by Quaritch in 1937.

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. c. 57 ff. 57v-8v)

HeR 31.5

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, headed Charon & Philomil A Dialogue by m^r Lawes.

A folio music book, in probably a single hand, 125 leaves, in contemporary brown blind-stamped calf within modern half red morocco gilt.

Owned and probably compiled by one John Channing, whose label IOHN CHANNING 1694 was on the original spine.

c.1694-7

Inscribed in pencil (f. 1r) Alex Tytler 1779. Label on a flyleaf of Alfred Moffat. Edinburgh. 1896.

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 35043 ff. 22v-3r)

HeR 32

Copy, in a musical setting by William Lawes.

A folio music book, ii + 262 pages.

Early 18th century

Bodleian Library, Music MSS (MS Mus. Sch. C. 95 p. 226)

HeR 33

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, II, 464-6; collated in Martin.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single informal hand, a member of St John's College, Oxford, i + 99 leaves, in half-vellum marbled boards.

Including 19 poems by Habington and (ff. 8r-21r, 28v) 21 poems by Katherine Philips transcribed from a edited source.

Late 17th century

Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as Rawlinson MS I: PsK Δ 6.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 50 through 99 (MS Rawl. poet. 65 f. 32r)

HeR 34

Copy, in a musical setting by William Lawes, headed A dialogue between Phylomel & Charon.

This MS collated in Martin.

A narrow oblong duodecimo music book, probably in a single cursive hand, with (ff. 2r-v, 98r-97r rev.)a table of contents, written from both ends, i + 98 leaves, in modern red morocco.

c.1682-90

Bookplate of Ralph Sympsun Esq^r. Puttick & Simpson's, 24 April 1873.

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 29397 ff. 27r-8v)

HeR 35

Autograph copy by Lawes, in his musical setting, headed Dialogue Charon and y^e Nitingale.

This MS collated in Martin.

A folio autograph songbook by William Lawes (1602-45), composer, 49 leaves, in contemporary calf stamped in gilt with arms of Charles I.

c.1638-45

Inscribed (f. 1v) Richard Gibbon his booke giuen to him by Mr William Lawes all of his owne pricking and composeing, and Giuen to me J R by his widdow m^ris Gibbon J R:, and Borrowed of Alderman Fidye by me Jo: Surgenson. Bookplates of William Gostling (1696-1777), antiquary and topographer, and of Julian Marshall (1836-1903), music and print collector and writer.

A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 2 (New York & London, 1986). Discussed in John P. Cutts, British Museum Additional MS. 31432 William Lawes' writing for the Theatre and the Court, The Library, 5th Ser. 7 (1952), 225-34, and in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Texts of William Lawes's Songs in B.M. MS. Add. 31432, The Library, 5th Ser. 9 (1954), 122-7.

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 31432 ff. 34v-5v)

HeR 37

Copy, untitled.

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

Late 17th century

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

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

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 3000 through 3999 (Harley MS 3991 f. 48v)

HeR 38

Copy, untitled.

A sextodecimo miscellany of verse and topographical prose, probably in a single small cursive hand, 78 leaves, written from both ends, Part I foliated 1r-33r, Part II foliated 1r-45r, in old calf.

c.1650s-60s

Inscribed (Part I, f. 1r) M^r John Oldhams Booke [i.e. the poet John Oldham (1653-83)]. Inscribed (Part II, f. 1r) James Bateman [(b.1633/4) of Christ's College, Cambridge], and Robert Pierrepont [either the son of Col. Francis Pierrepont, M.P. (d.1659), or the third Earl of Kingston (1650/1-82), of Holme-Pierrepoint, Nottinghamshire, Oldham's patron]. Formerly Folger MS 621.1.

Described in F.P. Hammond, A Commonplace Book owned by John Oldham, N&Q, 224 (December 1979), 515-18.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 100 through 199 (MS V.a.169 Part II, ff. 27v-8r)

HeR 39

Copies, in a musical setting by William Lawes.

A set of four oblong duodecimo music part books, (i) Cantus Primus, (ii) Cantus Secundus, (iii) Bassus and (iv) Basso Continuo, each written from both ends, compiled by John Playford (1623-86?), 50, 36, 48, and 35 leaves respectively, each volume in limp vellum lettered I. P..

Leaves excised from these volumes are in the Folger, MS V.a.411 (five leaves) and (nine leaves) at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust (Halliwell-Phillipps, Shakespearean scrapbooks).

c.1660

A flyleaf in the Cantus Secundus part book inscribed Decemb. 30. 1674. Note that I Thomas Clifford bought this sett of Musick Books of Mr Richard Price's widow M^rs Dorothy Price for --7^s--6^d.

University of Glasgow (MS Euing R.d.58-61 (i) f. 42v; (iii) f. 42v; (iv) f. 27v)

HeR 39.5

Copy, untitled.

A folio formal verse miscellany, comprising c.406 poems, many of them song lyrics, in various neat hands, compiled probably over a period, 8 blank leaves (pp. [i-xvi]) + 10 unnumbered pages of poems (pp. [xvii-xxvi]) + 9 numbered pages (pp. 1-9) + ff. [9v]-151v + 12 leaves at the end blank but for a poem on the penultimate page (f. [11v]), in contemporary calf gilt.

Once erroneously associated with Thomas Killigrew (1612-83), whose hand does not appear in the volume.

Mid-17th century-c.1702

Inscribed (f. [ir]) S^r Robert Killigrew / 1702. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 9070. Sotheby's, 19 May 1897, lot 455.

Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Nancy Cutbirth, Thomas Killigrew's Commonplace Book?, Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin, NS No. 13 (1980), 31-8.

University of Texas at Austin (Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book f. 107r)

HeR 40

Copy, untitled.

An octavo miscellany, 25 pages, in contemporary vellum (cut from a deed).

Late 17th century

Yale, Osborn MS b 50 through Osborn MS b 99 (Osborn MS b 71 p. 25)

HeR 41

Copy, headed Song. 117. Philomel, and charon.

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

c.1670s

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

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS fb 107 pp. 58-9)

The Cheat of Cupid: Or, The ungentle guest ('One silent night of late')

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 26-7. Patrick, pp. 39-40.

HeR 42

Copy, in Lawes's musical setting.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

Mid-17th century

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 53723 f. 72r)

Comforts in Crosses ('Be not dismaide, though crosses cast thee downe')

The couplet first published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 311. Patrick, p. 411.

HeR 42.5

Copy.

A small quarto book of Dayly Obseruations both Diuine & Morall / The First part by Thomas Grocer Florilegius. 1657, on 215 pages (paginated irregularly, plus five preliminary leaves).

A commonplace book of quotations from largely devotional or philosophical texts under subject headings, neatly written in a single hand, with a title-page and table of contents.

1657

Inscriptions in the MS including Crescentius Matherus 1680, Crescentii Matheri Liber 1682, Nathanaelis Matheri Liber 1683, By Mr Oakes, Elijah Warings Book 1734, Jne Daniell 1832, and Thos Alexander -- 1847.

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 93 p. 26)

A Country life: To his Brother, Master Thomas Herrick ('Thrice, and above, blest (my soules halfe) art thou')

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 34-8. Patrick, pp. 50-3.

HeR 43

Copy, headed M^r: Herricks Country Life.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

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

c.1637

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

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

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 198, Part I pp. 12-14)

HeR 44

Copy, headed M^r. Hericks Countrey life.

c.1639 [-c.1728]

Yale, Osborn MS b 150 through Osborn MS b 199 (Osborn MS b 197 pp. 16-19)

HeR 45

Copy, headed In praise of the Country Life.

Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, II, 456-60; collated in Martin.

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

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

c.1638

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

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

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 38 pp. 90-2)

HeR 46

Copy.

A quarto volume of poems, including 72 by Donne, arranged under genres, probably in two hands, poems by Corbett and others at the reverse end, 160 pages (not numbered consecutively, plus blanks).

Owned, and possibly compiled, by John Cave, of Lincoln College, Oxford (M.A. 28 January 1618/19; d.1657). The first page of text is a poem Vpon M^r Donn's Satires subscribed Io. Ca. Jun. 3. 1620. If John Cave was a member of the Cave family of Stanford, Northamptonshire, he would have been related (by marriage) to the Skipwith family.

c.1620-5

Also inscribed with names of Elizabeth Park [or Parker], John Nedham, and William Adams. Later owned by the Rev. T.R. O' Flahertie (d.1894), of Capel, near Dorking, Surrey, book collector; by Charles Elkin Matthews (1851-19210, bookseller; and by Richard Jennings. Sotheby's, 28 April 1952 (Jennings sale), lot 12.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the John Cave MS, DnJ Δ 27. For a facsimile of page 3 see DnJ 793, DnJ 3858.

New York Public Library, Arents Collection (Cat. No. S 191 (Acc. No. 7167) f. [18r-20r rev.])

HeR 47

Copy, here ascribed to Dr Corbett, transcribed from HeR 46.

Edited from this MS in F.G. Waldron, A Collection of Miscellaneous Poetry (London, 1802), pp. 5-8.

A quarto volume of 72 poems by Donne, together with a poem by John Cave on Donne's satires and four poems by Richard Corbett, in two alternating styles of hand, 84 leaves (including 41 blank pages).

Chiefly in the hand of John Nedham, of Lincoln College, Oxford, and probably transcribed from the John Cave MS (DnJ Δ 27), the title-page dated 31 March 1625.

c.1625

Also owned or used by Millicent Nedham and by one William Edmunde. Possibly the quarto MS of Poems by Dr. Donne and Dr. Corbet in Thomas Rodd's sale catalogue of a Collection of MSS, 1841, item 600, and in his catalogue of MSS, 1846, p. 29. Later owned by Francis Godolphin Waldron (1743-1818), actor and playwright, and by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Nedham MS: DnJ Δ 28. Some poems edited from this MS in F.G. Waldron, A Collection of Miscellaneous Poetry (London, 1802).

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 18 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.17) ff. 73r-4r)

HeR 48

Copy, in a small neat italic hand, headed The Countrie Life, on both sides of a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet.

c.1630

Among papers of the Newdegate family, Viscounts Daventer, of Arbury Hall, Nuneaton.

Warwickshire County Record Office (CR 136/B743)

The Curse. A Song ('Goe perjur'd man. and if thou ere return')

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 49. Patrick, p. 69. Musical setting by John Blow published in John Playford, Choice Ayres and Songs (London, 1683).

HeR 49

Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by Robert Ramsay (fl.1628-44).

Edited from this MS in Major Poets of the Earlier Seventeenth Century, ed. Barbara K. Lewalski and Andrew J. Sabol (New York, 1973), pp. 1253-5; collated in Martin.

A folio songbook, 121 leaves (including c.20 blanks and an index), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

c.1640s-60s

Later owned by Colonel W.G. Probert, of Bevills, Bures, Suffolk. Sold by Quaritch in 1937.

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. c. 57 f. 11r)

HeR 50

Copy, headed y^e womans farewell to her louer who under pretence of trauill forsooke her.

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

c.1630s-40s

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 50 f. 39r)

HeR 51

Second copy, untitled.

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

c.1630s-40s

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 50 f. 113r)

HeR 52

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

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

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 626 f. 73r)

HeR 53

Copy, subscribed Rob: Herrick.

This MS recorded in Martin.

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

c.1637

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 198, Part I p. 53)

HeR 54

Copy, headed Vpon a periured man by a woman, subscribed J. Grange.

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

c.1630s

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

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

National Library of South Africa, Cape Town (MS Grey 7 a 29 p. 81)

HeR 55

Copy.

c.1639 [-c.1728]

Yale, Osborn MS b 150 through Osborn MS b 199 (Osborn MS b 197 p. 10)

HeR 55.5

Copy.

A large folio composite volume of materials relating to Northumberland, 500+ leaves, in contemporary vellum.

17th century

The Duke of Northumberland, Alnwick Castle ([no shelfmark] Flyleaf)

HeR 56

Copy, in a musical setting by John Blow, headed Ritornello for 2 violins to a Bass.

A folio music book.

End of 17th century

University of Birmingham, Barber Institute (MS 5002 pp. 8-11)

HeR 57

Copy, headed A forsaken Ladye that dyde for Loue.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

c.1638

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

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

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 38 p. 4)

HeR 58

Second copy, headed An Epitaphe made by A Gentelwoman att her Death, her louer prouing Inconstant.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

c.1638

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

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

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 38 p. 179)

HeR 59

Copy, headed An Epitaph on a Maide y^t dyed in love.

c.1635-44

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

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, f through end (MS Eng. poet. f. 25 fol. 19v)

HeR 60

Copy in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

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

c.1656

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

Bodleian Library, Music MSS (MS Mus. b. 1 f. 45r)

HeR 61

Copy, in a musical setting by John Blow.

A folio songbook, of works chiefly by Henry Purcell, 143 leaves.

End of 17th century

Bodleian Library, Music MSS (MS Mus. c. 26 ff. 134r-9r)

HeR 62

Copies, in a musical setting by John Blow, untitled.

A set of six folio music part books of Latine & English Songs...by the best Italian and English Authors, ranging from 96 to 162 pages each.

Compiled by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer, with further copies added by Richard Goodson (c.1655-1718), organist and composer.

c.1663-77

Bodleian Library, Music MSS (MS Mus. Sch. C. 12-19 (i) pp. 84-5; (iii) p. 118 rev., (v) pp. 29-30; (vi), pp. 6 and 16; (vii) pp. 6 and 29; (viii) pp. 112-13)

HeR 63

Copy, in a musical setting by John Blow.

A folio music book, ii + 262 pages.

Early 18th century

Bodleian Library, Music MSS (MS Mus. Sch. C. 95 p. 116)

HeR 64

Copy in a musical setting by John Blow, untitled.

A folio songbook, 64 leaves.

Late 17th century

Bodleian Library, Music MSS (MS Mus. Sch. C. 96 ff. 5v-6r)

HeR 65

Copy, untitled.

A quarto miscellany of chiefly amatory verse, in several hands, i + 132 leaves.

Partly in Scottish dialect, one poem by mr. W. Turner.

Early 18th century

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199 (MS Rawl. poet. 196 f. 15r)

HeR 66

Copy, untitled.

A quarto composite miscellany of verse, in English and Latin, compiled by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, who lived in Cambridge as student and Fellow of Emmanuel College from 1633 to 1651, ii + 115 leaves, in calf.

Comprising three separate units: ff. 1r-96v all in Sancroft's hand; ff. 97r-104r in a second hand; and ff. 105r-9r in a third hand.

Including (on ff. 2-23, 27ar-v, 70) 94 Latin poems ascribed to Crashaw (including three of doubtful authorship) and (on ff. 29-41, 43v, 44v-58, 60v, 62v-5v, 67-70v, 72-3, 95-6) 101 English poems (plus a second copy of one of them) attributed to him (including one of doubtful authorship) and (on f. 16r-v) one Greek poem attributed to him; a list of contents on the first page beginning Mr. Crashaw's poems transcrib'd fro his own copie, before the were printed; among w^ch are some not printed….

c.1640s [and later]

Cited in IELM as the Sancroft MS: CrR Δ 1. Crashaw edited in part from this MS, and collated, in Grosart, in Waller and in Martin (cited as T or T5), and discussed in Waller, pp. vi-ix, and in Martin, pp. lviii-lxxiii. Folios 28-34v, 38v-41, 44v, 52v-6 reproduced in facsimile in Steps to the Temple (1970).

Bodleian Library, Tanner Collection (MS Tanner 465 f. 60r)

HeR 67

Copy, headed In perjuratum amatorculum, subscribed R. Ramsey: i.e. Robert Ramsey (c.1595-1644), composer and organist.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

Probably compiled by a Cambridge University man.

c.1630s

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

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 15000 through 16999 (Add. MS 15227 f. 3r)

HeR 68

Copy, headed Her Answere.

This MS collated in Martin.

c.1630s

A flyleaf inscribed [?] Johannes Philips. Acquired from H. Stevens 11 December 1852.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1987), as the John Philips MS: StW Δ 8.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 18000 through 19999 (Add. MS 19268 f. 22r)

HeR 69

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

This MS recorded in Martin.

A folio songbook, in several hands, one italic hand predominating, with (f. 1v) a list of contents, 46 leaves, in modern half red morocco.

Inscribed (f. 1r), possibly by the compiler, Charles Campelman his book June y^e 9. 1681 (God give him grace 1682 added in another hand).

c.1681 -1700s

Sotheby's, 20 January 1854, lot 1138.

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 19759 f. 43r)

HeR 70

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

This MS recorded in Martin.

A tall folio songbook, the lyrics in a cursive italic hand, with (f. 2r-v) a brief table of contents, 149 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in modern half red morocco.

Compiled by John Walter, organist of Eton College (in 1681-1705) and possibly erstwhile chorister in the Chapel Royal (c.1674-7).

c.1682-1700s

Inscribed (last page, inverted) M^r Dolbins book Anno domini 1681/2 and (on the penultimate page) M^r Dolben^s Booke and M^r James Hart. Bookplate of Robert Smith and (f. 1r) a note signed by him dated 4 June 1813.

This volume discussed in Bruce Wood, A Note on Two Cambridge Manuscripts and their Copyists, M&L, 56 (1975), 308-12.

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 22100 ff. 40v-4r)

HeR 71

Copy, headed On hir periur'd sirvant.

This MS collated in Martin.

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. 110v)

HeR 72

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

This MS recorded in Martin.

A narrow oblong duodecimo music book, probably in a single cursive hand, with (ff. 2r-v, 98r-97r rev.)a table of contents, written from both ends, i + 98 leaves, in modern red morocco.

c.1682-90

Bookplate of Ralph Sympsun Esq^r. Puttick & Simpson's, 24 April 1873.

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 29397 ff. 91r-89v rev.)

HeR 73

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

This MS recorded in Martin.

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

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

c.1678-80s

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

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 30382 ff. 31v-2v)

HeR 74

Copy, headed The answare.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

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

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

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

c.1633 [-late 17th century]

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

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

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

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 30000 through 34999 (Add. MS 30982 f. 42v)

HeR 75

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

This MS collated in Martin.

A folio volume of vocal music, probably in a single cursive hand, 190 leaves, in remains of vellum boards within modern half red morocco.

c.1682

Inscribed (f. 1*^r) P. Fussell Winton, Liber Caroli Morgan e Coll Magd Dec^mo: 6^to Die 7^bris: Anno Domini 1682, and Vincent Novello [(1781-1861), music publisher] The gift of his kind friend W^m Patten.

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 33234 ff. 49r-50v)

HeR 76

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

This MS recorded in Martin.

A large folio music book, almost entirely in a single rounded hand, 146 leaves, in 19th-century half red morocco.

c.1700

Notes (f. 2r) by a son of Dr Williams recording his purchase of the volume from the widdow of Simon Child, organist of New College, Oxford. Inscribed (f. 1v) Phil: Hayes 1757 and The Gift of M^rs Cave. Bookplates of the Rev. John Parker and Stephen Groombridge, FRS. Bought at Groombridge's sale by J. Smith of Deptford and presented by him in November 1832 to Vincent Novello (1781-1861), music publisher. Acquired by his bequest on 21 March 1887.

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 33235 ff. 67v-70r)

HeR 77

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

This MS collated in Martin.

A large folio volume of vocal music, the lyrics in two or more cursive hands, with (ff. 1v, [52bis^v]) a table of contents, 229 leaves, in 19th-century half dark maroon morocco.

c.1716

Bequeathed by William Henry Husk, 10 November 1887.

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 33287 ff. 2r-3r)

HeR 78

Copy, in a musical setting by John Blow.

This MS recorded in John P. Cutts, An Unpublished Purcell Setting, M&L, 38 (1957), 1-13 (p. 9).

A tall folio songbook, largely in a single cursive hand, written from both ends, i + 133 leaves (including numerous blanks), in contemporary reversed calf.

The cover inscribed The Song-Book [of M^r. Montriot added in another hand].

c.1711

Formerly among Lord Leigh's muniments at Stoneleigh Abbey, Warwickshire. Christie's, 16 October 1985, lot 139.

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 63626 ff. 104r-103v rev.)

HeR 79

Copy, headed A forsaken Lady that died for loue.

This MS collated (and four additional lines edited) in Martin, pp. 467-8.

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

Mid-17th century

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

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2421 f. 22v)

HeR 80

Copy, headed On her periured servant.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

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

HeR 81

Copy, headed A forsaken Lady that died for Loue.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

c.1633

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1446 f. 74v)

HeR 82 c.1622

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, on a single folio leaf of verse.

A collection of unbound verse, in various hands.

Probably collected by Dr Samuel Knight (1677/8-1746), clergyman and antiquary.

Cambridge University Library, Additional MSS 1 through 4999 (MS Add. 42 f. 36r)

HeR 83

Copy, headed A forsaken lady y^t dyed for loue.

A small quarto verse miscellany, comprising approximately 80 poems, including eleven poems by Donne, 21 poems by Strode, and one poem of doubtful authorship, in several hands, one small neat hand predominating (ff. 1r-34r), with later receipts for 1658-62 at the end, 161 leaves (including numerous blanks).

c.1630s-40s

Inscriptions include Edwardus Hyde (at the end) and (f. [ir]) Edward Hyde is a knave: i.e. probably Edward Hyde (1607-59), royalist divine, who may be the E. H. responsible for a poem To his Wife (f. 34r) and the Ned Hide who is subject of an Epitaph (f. [18r rev]). Later inscribed Robertus Walker and Elizabeth Walker. Early 18th-century bookplate of Baron Aston of Forfar. Percy Dobell, sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 345. Later owned by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Hyde MS: DnJ Δ 52, StW Δ 15. Discussed in Geoffrey Keynes, A Footnote to Donne, The Book Collector, 22 (Summer 1973), 165-8, with a facsimile of the page with Hyde's signature (which does not correspond to the main handwriting). Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 1863.

Cambridge University Library, Additional MSS 7000 through end (MS Add. 8470 ff. 18v-19r)

HeR 84

Copy, headed On a perjur'd man.

A quarto verse miscellany, the first 21 pages in a small mixed hand, the rest (including a book catalogue dated 1675) in one or two later hands, 33 pages (plus numerous blanks), in old calf.

Inscribed (p. 1) ffran: Wyrley, possibly the principal compiler, whose name is also subscribed to several poems.

c.1636-77

Also inscribed (f. ii) Michaell Keepis. anno Dom: 1636 ffebruarie. 13^th. Me tenet. Later Phillipps MS 9311. Bookplate of Wyrley Birch. Purchased from Peter Murray Hill, 1950. Formerly S4975M1 [1636-75] Bound.

Clark Library, Los Angeles (MS. 1950. 024 p. 30)

HeR 85

Copy, headed An pjurum Amatorem.

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

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

c.1640s

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

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

Corpus Christi College, Oxford (MS 176 f. 8r)

HeR 86

Copy, headed A Curse, here beginning O periured man, and if ye ere returne

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

c.1630s-40s

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

Edinburgh University Library, Laing Collection (MS La. III. 436 p. 79)

HeR 87

Copy, in a musical setting by John Blow.

A folio MS music book.

c.1680

Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (MU MS 118 p. 28)

HeR 88

Copy, in a musical setting by John Blow.

A folio MS music book.

c.1728

Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (MU MS 120 p. 75)

HeR 89

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Martin.

Compiled by University or Inns of Court men.

c.1630s

Inscribed (f. [104v] Thomas White His Book May y^e 20 Anno Domine 1691. Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps and in his library at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1.21.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 1 through 99 (MS V.a.96 f. 45v)

HeR 90

Copy, headed The answere, subscribed M^r. Ro: Herrick.

This MS collated in Martin.

Compiled by University or Inns of Court men.

c.1630s

Inscribed (f. [104v] Thomas White His Book May y^e 20 Anno Domine 1691. Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps and in his library at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1.21.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 1 through 99 (MS V.a.96 f. 72r-v)

HeR 91

Copy, headed To a periurd louer.

This MS collated in Martin.

An octavo verse miscellany, compiled by an Oxford man, possibly a member of Christ Church, pp. 1-202 in a single minute hand, written over a period, with a few later additions (including two lines on p. 7) by other hands; pp. 202-19 containing entries in later hands up to 1789, in half-calf on marbled boards, pp. 77-84 detached in the 19th century and now separately bound as Folger MS V.a.152.

Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 30 poems by Strode (one of them in V.a.152) plus one of doubtful authorship.

c.late 1630s [-1789]

Later sold by Thomas Thorpe. Afterwards owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89) (and No. 27 in his Catalogue of Shakespeare Reliques (Brixton Hill, 1852)) and subsequently in the library of Lord Warwick at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1.27.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Thorpe-Halliwell MS: CoR Δ 7 and StW Δ 17. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 1 through 99 (MS V.a.97 p. 107)

HeR 92

Copy, headed Replye.

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

Including 12 poems by Carew.

c.1650s

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

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

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 100 through 199 (MS V.a.124 f. 42v)

HeR 93

Copy, headed A Reply to the same.

This MS recorded in Martin.

A large folio verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary hand, probably associated with Oxford University, 34 leaves, in modern half-morocco marbled boards.

Including 15 poems by Carew and 17 poems by King.

c.1630s

Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Bookplate of the Warwick Castle Library. Formerly Folger MS 1.8.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Halliwell MS: CwT Δ 26 and KiH Δ 11. James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Some Account of the Antiquities…illustrating…Shakespeare (1852), No. 8. Facsimile example in Giles Dawson and Laetitia Kennedy-Skipton, Elizabethan Handwriting 1500-1650 (London, 1968), Plate 42. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 195).

The Folger Shakespeare Library: V.b. series (MS V.b.43 f. 8v)

HeR 94

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

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

Early 18th century

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

The Folger Shakespeare Library: V.b. series (MS V.b.197 Part I, pp. 32-4)

HeR 94.5

Copy, in a musical setting by John Blow.

A folio song book, in a single hand, 95 pages (slightly misnumbered), in modern boards.

c.1720

Bookplate of William Hayman Cummings, FSA (1831-1915), singer and musical antiquary. Sotheby's, 15 June 1971, lot 1602. Formerly Folger MS cs 1064.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, Miscellaneous manuscripts (MS W.b.515 pp. 57-80)

HeR 95

Copy, headed A forsaken lady y^t dyed for loue, with an emendation in a different ink.

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

c.1630s

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

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

Leeds Archives (WYL156/237 f. 16v)

HeR 95.5

Copy, headed To a false louer.

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

London Metropolitan Archives (ACC/1360/528 f. [22r rev.])

HeR 95.8

Copy, in a musical setting by Morelli.

A folio volume of music by Cesare Morelli.

Late 17th century

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library (MS 2802 ff. 54r-6r)

HeR 96

Copy, untitled.

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

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

c.1630s

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1 through 239 (MS 239/23 p. 44)

HeR 97

Copy, preceded by a fourteen-line songe beginning Lowe in a vale and here sate a sheaperdesse.

This MS collated (and the preceding lines printed) in Patrick, p. 70.

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

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

c.1634

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

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

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1 through 239 (MS 239/27 pp. 121-2)

HeR 98

Copy, headed A curse to a falce loue.

This MS collated in Patrick.

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

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

c.1634

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

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 240 through 999 (MS 243/4 p. 155)

HeR 99

Copy, headed A forsaken Lady y^t dyed for loue.

This MS (erroneously cited as MS 239/22) collated in Patrick.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single predominantly italic hand, 152 leaves (paginated 1-34, thereafter foliated 35-169), plus index, in modern red leather.

Including 85 poems (and second copies of two) by Thomas Carew.

c.1638-42

Inscriptions including Horatio Carey 1642 te deus pardamus [viz. Horatio Carey (1619-ante 1677), eldest son of Sir Richard Carey (1583-1630) and great-grandson of Sir Henry Carey (1524?-96), first Baron Hunsdon ], Thomas Arding, Thomas Arden, William Harrington, Thomas John, John Anthehope and Clement Poxall. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 8270. Bookplates of John William Cole and of the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936 (Perry sale). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 194.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Carey MS: CwT Δ 34. Briefly discussed in Gary Taylor, Some Manuscripts of Shakespeare's Sonnets, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 68 (1985), 210-46 (pp. 220-4). Discussed, with facsimile pages, in Scott Nixon, The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 188, 191-2).

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1000 through end (MS 1083/17 f. 120v)

HeR 100

Copy, headed Sonnett.

A quarto verse miscellany, including ten poems by Henry King, perhaps almost entirely written over a period in a single secretary hand with slightly varying styles, 54 leaves, in limp vellum.

c.1636-40s

The name of the possible compiler John Pike inscribed on f. 1r: i.e. possibly a member of the Pike family of Cambridge (one John Pike (d.1677) matriculating at Peterhouse in 1662).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the Pike MS: KiH Δ 12. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6), pp. 143-7.

St John's College, Cambridge (MS S. 32 (James 423) f. 48v)

HeR 101

Copy, headed Answer.

An octavo verse miscellany, comprising c.118 items, including thirteen poems by Donne, twenty poems by Corbett, and twelve poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, written in several hands over an extended period, associated with Christ Church, Oxford, 99 leaves.

c.1620-40s

Owned and probably compiled in part, in his Oxford days, by George Morley (1598-1684), Bishop of Winchester.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Morley MS: DnJ Δ 62, CoR Δ 13, and StW Δ 27. This MS apparently transcribed in part in the Killigrew MS (British Library, Sloane MS 1792).

Facsimile of f. 49r in William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion, ed. Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor (Oxford, 1987), p. 24.

Westminster Abbey (MS 41 f. 93r)

HeR 102

Copy, headed A Reply to the same.

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 p. 57)

HeR 103

Copy.

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

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

c.1635

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

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

The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania ([Wolf MS] p. 130)

HeR 104

Copy, headed To a false Lover.

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. 931)

HeR 105

Copy, headed The answere.

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

c.1630s

Formerly Box 22, item II.

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

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 205 f. 74r)

HeR 106

Copy, headed On womans Beauty.

A folio verse miscellany, predominantly in one hand, chiefly in double columns, 92 pages, lacking covers.

Early 18th century

Formerly Osborn MS. Chest II, Number 4.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS fb 142 p. 33)

HeR 107

Copy, in a musical setting, headed Go Perjur'd man w^th Symphonies by D^r. John Blow.

A folio songbook of catches, in a rounded hand, ten leaves, in cardboard boards.

Early-mid-18th century

Inscribed inside the front cover Tho: Benson.

York Minster (MS M. 22. S ff. 5r-6r)

A Dialogue betwixt himselfe and Mistrisse Eliza: Wheeler, under the name of Amarillis ('My dearest Love, since thou wilt go')

Martin, pp. 323-4.

An Epithalamie to Sir Thomas Southwell and his Ladie ('Now, now's the time. so oft by truth')

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 53-8. Patrick, pp. 76-81.

HeR 108

Copy, of a twenty-one-stanza version, untitled.

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

c.1630s-40s

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 50 ff. 84-6)

HeR 109

Copy of a twenty-stanza version, headed An Epithalamie.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

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. 23r-6r)

HeR 110

Copy of a twenty-stanza version, headed An Epithalamium:, subscribed Rob: Herrick:.

Edited from this MS in Martin, pp. 455-60, and in Patrick, pp. 81-6.

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

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. 43v-7r)

The fare-well to Sack ('Farewell thou Thing, time-past so knowne, so deare')

First published in Recreations for Ingenious Head-peeces (London, 1645). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 45-6. Patrick, pp. 62-3.

HeR 111

Copy, in a neat secretary hand, subscribed R: Herrick.

A quarto composite miscellany of verse and prose, in various hands, probably associated with the University of Cambridge, 352 pages (including 35 blanks), in 19th-century boards.

Erroneously described in 1965 as a commonplace book of the poet Robert Herrick. The so-called Herrick hand responsible for complete poems or substantial passages on pp. 73-4, 102-3, 253, 312-13, 319-21, 323, 328 and 343, this hand also responsible for corrections and brief insertions in both verse and prose on pp. 55-6, 58-60, 68, 71, 75-6, 78, 83, 89, 91, 93, 97, 99. 108-9, 203, 266, 285, 291, 348 and 350.

c.1612-24

Scribbling on front- and end-leaves including Georgius Cantuarien, Thomas Hobson [?the Cambridge Carrier], Benjamin Broadeface, To my very long friend m^r John Bond, To the right reuerend ffather in God George Archbyshop of Canterbury his grace, Whereas the Bearer hereof Thomas Hall hath serued his sixe weekes…, To the right honor S^r Tho: Moore Whereas the Bearer hereof John Tis[?]sdale, Williamson and Phillip de Maceden. Puttick and Simpson's, 30 May 1849, lot 158 (erroneously described as a commonplace book of George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 12341*. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 146 (as Herrick's commonplace book). House of El Dieff (Lew David Feldman), New York, sale catalogue No. 65 (1965), with facsimile page as frontispiece. Formerly Ms File/(Herrick, R)/Works B.

Also facsimiles of p. 323 in the Sotheby's sale catalogue (frontispiece) and of p. 253 (as if in Herrick's hand) in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 33. Facsimile of all the verse in the MS (viz. pp. 63-83, 85, 87, 89, 91, 93,95, 97, 99, 101-3, 105-9, 113-17, 251-3, 277-82, 291, 317-21, 323, 325-43, 345-50), together with a transcript, in Norman K. Farmer, Jr, Poems from a Seventeenth-century Manuscript with the Hand of Robert Herrick, Texas Quarterly, 16, No. 4 (Supplement) (Winter 1973), 1-185. Microfilm of the complete MS in the British Library, M/751.

The MS discussed by Farmer in loc. cit. and in Robert Herrick's Commonplace Book? Some Observations and Questions, PBSA, 66 (1972), 21-34; in P.J. Croft's critical comments on Farmer's articles in To the Editor, PBSA, 66 (1972), 421-6, and (correcting Farmer's published transcript of the text) in Errata in Poems from a Seventeenth-Century Manuscript, TQ, 19 (1976), 160-73; and in Farmer's A Reply to Mr P. Croft, TQ, 19 (1976), 174. Reasons for rejecting Herrick's alleged association are presented in the Introduction above, under The Texas Herrick Manuscript.

University of Texas at Austin (HRC 79 pp. 106-7)

HeR 112

Copy, headed M^r Herricks farwell to Sack.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

c.1637

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 198, Part I pp. 16-17)

HeR 113

Copy, headed My farewell to Sack, subscribed finis Ro: Herr:.

c.1630s

National Library of South Africa, Cape Town (MS Grey 7 a 29 pp. 131-2)

HeR 114

Copy, headed In prayse of sacke.

c.1639 [-c.1728]

Yale, Osborn MS b 150 through Osborn MS b 199 (Osborn MS b 197 pp. 150-1)

HeR 115

Copy, in a neat predominantly secretary hand, on the first two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter. c.1620s-30s.

Facsimile the last ten lines in Sotheby's catalogue, The Trumbull Papers, lot 39.

An unbound folder of verse MSS, in various hands and paper sizes, 138 leaves.

Volume CCXXXVI of the Trumbull Papers, of the Trumbull family, including chiefly William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), diplomat and government official. Later belonging to the Marquess of Downshire, of Easthampstead Park. Formerly Berkshire Record Office Trumbull Add 17 and 18.

Sotheby's sale catalogue, The Trumbull Papers (14 December 1989), part of lot 39.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 72478 f. 74r-v)

HeR 116

Copy.

A verse miscellany, i + 25 leaves.

c.1640

Owned before 1959 by the Lingard-Guthrie family.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 53 f. 14r-v)

HeR 117

Copy, headed M^r Hearick his farwell to Sacke.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

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

c.1640

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

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

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Firth e. 4 pp. 18-19)

HeR 118

Copy, headed M^r: Herick his farewell to Sacke.

This MS collated in Martin.

A folio verse miscellany, including eleven poems by Carew, in a single professional secretary hand (adopting a different style on ff. 176r-8r), ii + 231 leaves (including numerous blanks), the date 1633 occurring on f. 55r.

c.1630s

The name Edward Michell inscribed later inside the rear cover. Afterwards owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Michell MS: CwT Δ 8. Briefly discussed (in connection with the poem Shall I die? attributed to Shakespeare) by Gary Taylor in The Sunday Times (24 November 1985, pp. 1, 3, with a facsimile example) and by Peter Beal in TLS (3 January 1986, p. 13); and see also letters on 24 January 1986, pp. 87-8.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199 (MS Rawl. poet. 160 f. 165r-v)

HeR 119

Copy, headed Herrickes Farewell to Sacke.

This MS text collated in Martin.

A folio verse miscellany, in a single professional secretary hand associated with the playhouse and possibly inns of court (also responsible for ChG 12.5, HyT 5, and MiT 6), 97 leaves, with a first-line Index at the end, in contemporary vellum boards.

Including fourteen poems by James Shirley, generally ascribed to him, and eleven poems by Strode (and two of doubtful authorship).

c.1636

Inscribed (on the front paste-down) My cousin chute gaue me this book out of his father study at the vine Hampshire (following the same statement in French), indicating that the MS was owned by, and possibly originally compiled for, the family of Chaloner Chute, MP (c.1595-1659), Speaker of the house of Commons, who acquired The Vyne, near Basingstoke, Hampshire, in 1653. Later owned by Sir William Tite (1798-1873), architect. Sotheby's, 30 May 1874, lot 2343. Bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork, book collector. Sotheby's, 21 March 1891 (Crawford sale), lot 2493.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Chute MS: ShJ Δ 2 and StW Δ 11. Briefly discussed, with a facsimile of f. 34v (see ShJ 96 and ShJ 100) in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and their Value for Textual Editors, EMS, 1 (1989), 192-210 (pp. 200-1, 209-10 n. 40). Discussed, with facsimiles of ff. 53r and 80r, in Arthur F. Marotti, Chaloner Chute's Poetical Anthology (British Library, Additional MS 33998) as a Cosmopolitan Collection, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 99).

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 30000 through 34999 (Add. MS 33998 f. 5r-v)

HeR 120

Copy, subscribed R: H:.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

c.1633

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1446 ff. 17v-18r)

HeR 121

Copy, subscribed R J.

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

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

c.1628-30s

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

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

Edinburgh University Library (MS H.-P. Coll. 401 ff. 12v-13v)

HeR 122

Copy, headed M^r Rob: Herricks Farwell to Sacke.

This MS collated in Martin.

Compiled by University or Inns of Court men.

c.1630s

Inscribed (f. [104v] Thomas White His Book May y^e 20 Anno Domine 1691. Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps and in his library at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1.21.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 1 through 99 (MS V.a.96 ff. 56r-7r)

HeR 123

Copy, headed Herrick's farewell to Sacke.

This MS collated in Martin.

A quarto verse miscellany, 170 leaves, paginated 1-8 (Latin text in a small secretary hand), then pp. 1-162 (in one or possibly two largely italic hands; pp. 108-57 blanks; pp. 158-62 containing later notes), in modern red morocco gilt.

The pagination cited below relates to the second, main series of pagination.

c.1640

Inscribed on a flyleaf in red ink Matheus Day me suum vvst: i.e. Matthew Day (d.1661), five times Mayor of Windsor. Later owned by John Payne Collier (1789-1883), literary scholar, editor and forger. Collier's sale, 1884, lot 906. Formerly Folger MS 452.1.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 100 through 199 (MS V.a.160 pp. 23-5)

HeR 124

Copy.

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

c.1643-50s

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

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

University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 25 ff. 30v-1v)

HeR 125

Copy, headed M^r Hericks farewell to sack.

This MS collated in Patrick.

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

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

c.1634

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1 through 239 (MS 239/27 pp. 413-15)

HeR 126

Copy.

This MS collated in Patrick.

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 pp. 121-3)

HeR 127

Copy, headed M^r Herricks farewell to Sacke.

This MS collated in Patrick.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single predominantly italic hand, 152 leaves (paginated 1-34, thereafter foliated 35-169), plus index, in modern red leather.

Including 85 poems (and second copies of two) by Thomas Carew.

c.1638-42

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1000 through end (MS 1083/17 ff. 95r-6v)

HeR 127.5

Copy, headed Herricks farewell to sack.

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

c.late 1630s

Inscribed (on p. [330]) Robert Lord his book Anno Domini; (on [p. 335]) william Jacob his booke Amen; and, among scribbling on the last leaf, Hugh Gibgans of the same and John Winter of Buckland Dursbane [or husbande?]. Owned in 1788 by Alexander R. Popham. Bloomsbury Book Auction, 23 November 2000, lot 8.

A microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7698.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 356 pp. 318-21)

His age, dedicated to his peculiar friend, Master John Wickes, under the name of Posthumus ('Ah Posthumus! Our yeares hence flye')

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 132-6. Patrick, pp. 179-83.

HeR 128

Copy, headed His ould age to M^r. Weeks.

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

c.1630s-40s

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 50 ff. 89r-91r)

HeR 128.5

Copy of a version in which some lines of the poem are reworked into a song of seven sestains plus a chorus, headed 11^th Song and beginning Come hether my Lads a while.

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

c.1638

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

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

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 38 p. 114)

HeR 129

Copy, headed His old Age to M^r Weekes.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

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. 29r-31v)

HeR 130

Copy, headed To his peculiar frend m^r John Weekes his Age he dedicates, subscribed R: Herrick.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

c.1637

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 198, Part I pp. 23-6)

HeR 131

Copy, headed To his peculiar friend M^r John Weeks he dedicates his age —.

This MS collated in Martin.

c.1630s

National Library of South Africa, Cape Town (MS Grey 7 a 29 pp. 84-7)

HeR 132

Copy, untitled.

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

c.1640

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

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

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Firth e. 4 pp. 7-13)

HeR 133

Copy, headed M^r Herrickes old age to M^r. Weekes.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2725 ff. 72v-4v)

HeR 134

Copy, headed His old age to M^r Weekes, subscribed Ro: Herrick:.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

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. 47r-50r)

HeR 135

Copy, headed His old Age to M^r. Weekes.

This MS (erroneously cited as MS 239/22) collated in Patrick.

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

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

c.1630s

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1 through 239 (MS 239/23 pp. 48-55)

HeR 136

Copy, headed m^r Herick to his friend m^r. Weeks.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

c.1630s-40s

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

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

St John's College, Cambridge (MS S. 23 (James 416) ff. 77v-81r)

His Meditation upon Death ('Be those few hours, which I have yet to spend')

First published in Noble Numbers (London, 1647) appended to Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 392. Patrick, pp. 520-1.

HeR 136.5

Copy of lines 9-22, here beginning Might I make choise long life should be w^thstood, subscribed Hericke Cat[?] Hall Cambridge.

A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, chiefly in one mixed hand, 77 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

Compiled by Sir Thomas Dawes (knighted 1639).

c.1623-30

Purchased on 4 July 1873 from William Carew Hazlitt (1834-1913), bibliographer and writer.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 25000 through 29999 (Add. MS 29492 f. 5r)

HeR 137

Copy, headed M^r Herricks Age, dedicated to his peculiar friend M^r John Wicks, under the name of Posthumus. pag: 152.

This MS collated in Martin.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

The later additions partly compiled by George Clarke (1661-1736), politician and virtuoso (whose bookplate is inside the cover and whose family coat of arms is on f. [iv]), son of Sir William Clarke (1623?-66), Secretary of War to the Commonwealth and Charles II.

c.1662[-1730s]

Inside the front cover inscribed E[?] Barrow, evidently a member of the family of Samuel Barrow (1625-82), Royal Physician and friend of John Milton, Barrow being the second husband of Sir William Clarke's widow, Dorothy (d.1695). Formerly MSS 6. 13.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Clarke MS: PsK Δ 5. See also Elizabeth H. Hageman, Treacherous Accidents, and the Abominable Printing of Katherine Philips's 1664 Poems, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, III, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2004), pp. 85-95.

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 58 pp. 275-6)

HeR 137.5

Copy, headed M^r Herricke to M^r Weekes.

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

c.late 1630s

A microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7698.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 356 pp. 5-10)

How Lillies came white ('White though ye be. yet, Lillies, know')

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 74. Patrick, p. 106. Musical setting by Nicholas Lanier published in Henry Lawes, The Treasury of Musick, part II (London, 1669), p. 58.

HeR 138

Autograph copy by Lawes, in his musical setting, headed On the Lillyes.

A folio autograph songbook by William Lawes (1602-45), composer, 49 leaves, in contemporary calf stamped in gilt with arms of Charles I.

c.1638-45

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 31432 f. 33v)

An Hymne to Love ('I will confesse')

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 296. Patrick, pp. 389-90.

HeR 139

Copy, apparently transcribed from the text in Wits Recreations (London, 1663), in a small octavo verse miscellany.

A composite volume of verse, i + 126 leaves.

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

Late 17th century

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

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. d. 152 f. 108v)

The Kisse. A Dialogue ('Among thy Fancies, tell me this')

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 130. Patrick, pp. 176-7.

HeR 140

Copy, subscribed Rob: Herricke.

This MS text collated in Martin.

Including fourteen poems by James Shirley, generally ascribed to him, and eleven poems by Strode (and two of doubtful authorship).

c.1636

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 30000 through 34999 (Add. MS 33998 f. 82r-v)

Leanders Obsequies ('When as Leander young was drown'd')

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 42. Patrick, p. 59. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

HeR 141

Copy, in Lawes's musical setting.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

Mid-17th century

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 53723 f. 158r)

The Lilly in a Christal ('You have beheld a smiling Rose')

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 75-6. Patrick, pp. 107-9.

HeR 142

Copy, untitled.

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

c.1630s-40s

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 50 ff. 93v-4v)

HeR 143

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

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. 34v-5v)

HeR 144

Copy, untitled, subscribed finis Ro: Herrick.

c.1630s

National Library of South Africa, Cape Town (MS Grey 7 a 29 pp. 115-17)

Long and lazie ('That was the proverb. Let my mistresse be')

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 141. Patrick, p. 191.

HeR 145

Copy, apparently transcribed from the text in Wits Recreations (London, 1663), in a small octavo verse miscellany.

A composite volume of verse, i + 126 leaves.

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

Late 17th century

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

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. d. 152 f. 107r)

The mad Maids song ('Good morrow to the Day so fair')

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 156-7. Patrick, pp. 211-12.

HeR 146

Copy, headed A Songe, subscribed Rob: Herrick.

Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, II, 463-4; collated in Martin.

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

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

c.1641-9

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

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

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6917 ff. 48v-9r)

Mistresse Elizabeth Wheeler, under the name of the lost Shepardesse ('Among the Mirtles, as I walkt')

First published in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 106-7. Patrick, p. 147. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

HeR 147

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

This MS collated in Martin.

A folio songbook, 121 leaves (including c.20 blanks and an index), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

c.1640s-60s

Later owned by Colonel W.G. Probert, of Bevills, Bures, Suffolk. Sold by Quaritch in 1937.

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. c. 57 f. 97r)

HeR 148

Copy, in Lawes's musical setting, untitled.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

Mid-17th century

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 53723 f. 78r)

HeR 149

Copy, untitled and here beginning Amongst the Myrtles as I walkt.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single informal hand, a member of St John's College, Oxford, i + 99 leaves, in half-vellum marbled boards.

Including 19 poems by Habington and (ff. 8r-21r, 28v) 21 poems by Katherine Philips transcribed from a edited source.

Late 17th century

Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as Rawlinson MS I: PsK Δ 6.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 50 through 99 (MS Rawl. poet. 65 f. 30v)

HeR 150

Copy, here beginning Amongst the Mirtles....

Hales & Furnivall, II, 35-6.

A long narrow ledger-like volume (c.40 x 15 cm) of ballads and metrical romances, in a single predominantly secretary hand, 268 leaves, all mounted on guards, in modern half-morocco.

Mid-17th century

Later owned by Thomas Percy (1768-1808), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor, and bearing copious annotations in his hand throughout, with a list by him at the end dated 20 December 1757.

This volume edited as Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript, ed. John W. Hales and Frederick J. Furnivall, 4 vols (London, 1867-8). Re-edited by I. Gollancz, 4 vols (London, 1905-10). Facsimile example of f. 94r in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 1986), No. 20, p. 31. Discussed, with five facsimile examples, in Joseph Donatelli, The Percy Folio Manuscript: A Seventeenth-Century Context for Medieval Poetry, EMS, 4 (1993), 114-33.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 25000 through 29999 (Add. MS 27879 ff. 97v-8r)

HeR 151

Copy, headed The Enquiry and here beginning Amidst the mirtles as I walkt.

A quarto verse miscellany, in two styles of italic, the last poem (f. 93v) added in a later hand, 93 leaves (plus ten blanks), in modern quarter-morocco gilt.

Including 14 poems by Donne, six poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Carew, ten poems by Habington and 13 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Randolph. Owned and possibly compiled by Arthur Capell (1631-83), second Earl of Essex, whose name is inscribed in red ink (1*), in a similar roman hand to that on ff. 1r-19r. He married (1653) Elizabeth Percy (1636-1718), daughter of Algernon, tenth Earl of Northumberland; she was therefore the great niece of Habington's mother-in-law, Eleanor Percy, sister of the ninth Earl of Northumberland.

Mid-17th century

Later among the collections of Robert Harley (1661-1724), first Earl of Oxford, and his son, Edward (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II, i-ii (1987-93), as the Capell MS: DnJ Δ 43, CwT Δ 17, and RnT Δ 3. Discussed in Geoffrey Tillotson, The Commonplace Book of Arthur Capell, MLR, 27 (1932), 381-91.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 3000 through 3999 (Harley MS 3511 f. 48r-v)

HeR 152

Copy, untitled and here beginning Within the mirtles as I walkt.

Late 17th century

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

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

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 3000 through 3999 (Harley MS 3991 f. 43r)

HeR 153

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled, here beginning Amongst the mirtles as I walkt.

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. 2v-3r)

HeR 154

Copy, headed A louers contemplation of his m^ris and here beginning Amongst y^e Myrtills as I walk'd.

A quarto verse miscellany, the first 21 pages in a small mixed hand, the rest (including a book catalogue dated 1675) in one or two later hands, 33 pages (plus numerous blanks), in old calf.

Inscribed (p. 1) ffran: Wyrley, possibly the principal compiler, whose name is also subscribed to several poems.

c.1636-77

Clark Library, Los Angeles (MS. 1950. 024 p. 1)

HeR 155

Copy, untitled and here beginning Amidst the mirtles as I walk.

A sextodecimo miscellany of verse and topographical prose, probably in a single small cursive hand, 78 leaves, written from both ends, Part I foliated 1r-33r, Part II foliated 1r-45r, in old calf.

c.1650s-60s

Described in F.P. Hammond, A Commonplace Book owned by John Oldham, N&Q, 224 (December 1979), 515-18.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 100 through 199 (MS V.a.169 Part II, f. 15r)

HeR 155.5

Copy, untitled.

Two folio leaves of MS verse, in double columns, in a neat roman hand, at the end of a printed exemplum of Thomas Campion's The First Booke of Ayres (London, [1613?]) bound with The third and fourth booke of Aires (London, [1617]), in panelled calf.

Mid-17th century

Sotheby's, 16-19 June 1930, lot 326, to Quaritch. From the library of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).

The Folger Shakespeare Library, Printed books (STC 4547 f. [1r])

HeR 156

Copies, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, here beginning Amidst the mirtles....

Leaves excised from these volumes are in the Folger, MS V.a.411 (five leaves) and (nine leaves) at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust (Halliwell-Phillipps, Shakespearean scrapbooks).

c.1660

A flyleaf in the Cantus Secundus part book inscribed Decemb. 30. 1674. Note that I Thomas Clifford bought this sett of Musick Books of Mr Richard Price's widow M^rs Dorothy Price for --7^s--6^d.

University of Glasgow (MS Euing R.d.58-61 (i) f. 1v; (ii) f. 1v; (iii) f. 1v)

HeR 157

Copy, headed Sonnett ⁸ and here beginning All in the Myrtells as I walked.

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

c.1653-64

Purchased c.1798.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 19.3.4 f. 12r)

HeR 158

Copy, headed On his M^ris and here beginning Amg y^e woods as I walked.

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

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

c.1638

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

New York Public Library, Arents Collection (Cat. No. S 288 (Acc. No. 5442) pp. 31-2)

HeR 159

Copy, in a musical setting, here beginning Amidst the Mirtles, as I walkt.

This MS collated in Martin.

A folio music book, containing 327 songs, in three largely secretary hands, with a Cattalogue of contents, 229 leaves.

Owned (in 1659) and partly compiled by the composer John Gamble (d.1687), with some misnumbering.

c.1630s-50s

Later owned by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author. Acquired in 1888.

A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 10 (New York & London, 1987). Discussed in Charles W. Hughes, John Gamble's Commonplace Book, M&L, 26 (1945), 215-29.

New York Public Library, Music Division (Drexel MS 4257 No. 38)

HeR 160

Copy, untitled and here beginning Amongst y^e Myrtles as I walked.

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in several hands, written from both ends, with a list of contents, 108 leaves.

Late 17th century

Bookplate of Charles W.G. Howard, The Gift of the Rt. Hon. Sir David Dundas Knt. of Ochtertyre 1877. Formerly Osborn MS. Chest II, No. 13. vol. 2.

Yale, Osborn MS b 50 through Osborn MS b 99 (Osborn MS b 52/2 p. 122)

HeR 161

Copy, untitled and here beginning Amongst the mirtles as I walkt.

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

Late 17th century

Formerly Chest II, No. 21.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 213 p. 16)

The Night-piece, to Julia ('Her Eyes the Glow-worme lend thee')

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 217. Patrick, pp. 287-8.

HeR 162

Copy, in Lawes's musical setting, untitled.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

Mid-17th century

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 53723 f. 160v)

Not to love ('He that will not love, must be')

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 102-3. Patrick, pp. 142-3. See also Louise Schleiner, Herrick's Songs and the Character of Hesperides, ELR, 6 (1976), 77-91 (pp. 83-5).

HeR 163

Autograph copy by Lawes, in his musical setting, headed Perswasions not to loue.

This MS collated (and the second stanza printed) in Martin, pp. 474-5.

A folio autograph songbook by William Lawes (1602-45), composer, 49 leaves, in contemporary calf stamped in gilt with arms of Charles I.

c.1638-45

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 31432 f. 32v)

HeR 163.5

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.

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. 4v-5r)

A Nuptiall Song, or Epithalamie, on Sir Clipseby Crew and his Lady ('What's that we see from far?')

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 112-16. Patrick, pp. 154-8.

HeR 164

Copy of a nineteen-stanza version, headed Epithalamie.

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

c.1630s-40s

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 50 ff. 86v-9r)

HeR 165

Copy of a twenty-stanza version, headed An Epithalamie.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

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. 26r-9r)

HeR 166

Copy of a nineteen-stanza version, headed An Epithalamye, subscribed (first part) finis R: Her: and (at the end) finis Ro: Herrick.

c.1630s

National Library of South Africa, Cape Town (MS Grey 7 a 29 pp. 121-2, 124-7)

HeR 167

Copy of a nineteen-stanza version, headed Epithalamium.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

c.1640

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

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

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Firth e. 4 pp. 75-82)

HeR 168

Copy of a twenty-three-stanza version, headed Epithalamie, subscribed R. Her, transcribed from HeR 169.

This MS collated in Martin.

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. 126r-31v)

HeR 169

Copy of a twenty-three-stanza version, headed Epithalamie, subscribed RHer:.

This MS collated in Martin.

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. 141v-5r)

HeR 170

Copy of a twenty-three stanza version, headed An Epithalamium, subscribed R: Herrick.

Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, II, 448-55; collated in Martin.

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

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

c.1641-9

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

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6917 ff. 10r-13v)

HeR 171

Copy in the hand of Thomas Gell, MP (1595-1657), of the Inner Temple, headed Hericks Epithalamie:, imperfect, on the remains of two conjugate quarto leaves.

Papers of the Gell family, formerly of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, in different hands and paper sizes, now disbound in folders.

Sotheby's, 16 December 1950, lot 560. Owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1906-90), American businessman and collector. Given to the Houghton Library by Robert S Pirie in 1959.

Harvard, other MSS (bMS Eng 1107 Folder 14)

Oberons Feast ('A Little mushroome table spred')

First published complete, with six preliminary lines beginning Shapcot! To thee the Fairy State, in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 119-20. Patrick, pp. 161-3. An earlier version, entitled A Description of his Dyet, published in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Martin, pp. 454-5.

HeR 172

Copy, headed in the margin The feast Oberon Kinge of fayries and without the preliminary lines.

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

c.1630s-40s

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 50 f. 46r-v)

HeR 173

Second copy, headed The feast of Obron Kinge of the ffayries, without the preliminary lines, subscribed S^r Simon Stewarde.

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

c.1630s-40s

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 50 ff. 63v-4r)

HeR 174

Copy, without the preliminary lines, subscribed R Herrick.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

c.1637

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 198, Part I pp. 26-7)

HeR 175

Copy, without the preliminary lines.

c.1630s

National Library of South Africa, Cape Town (MS Grey 7 a 29 pp. 87-8)

HeR 176

Copy, complete with the preliminary lines.

Facsimile in Sotheby's sale catalogue (hardback), 27 June 1972, lot 309, facing p. 55.

c.1639 [-c.1728]

Yale, Osborn MS b 150 through Osborn MS b 199 (Osborn MS b 197 pp. 6-7)

HeR 177

Copy, headed Kinge Obrons Feast and without the preliminary lines.

Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, II, 470-2; collated in Martin.

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

c.1638

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

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

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 38 pp. 100-1)

HeR 178

Copy, headed Oberon his Banquet and without the preliminary lines.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

c.1640

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

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

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Firth e. 4 pp. 23-5)

HeR 179

Copy, without the preliminary lines and subscribed Rich: Hiericke of Clare Hall.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

c.1625-31

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

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 16 pp. 3-4)

HeR 180

Extracts, comprising eighteen lines beginning at line 19 (here Now you must imagine first), garbled with HeR 339 under the common heading The Fayrie Kings diet, & apparrell.

Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, II, 481-2.

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

Probably compiled principally by an Oxford University man.

c.1630s-40s

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

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 100 through 149 (MS Rawl. poet. 142 f. 45r-v)

HeR 181

Copy, headed King Oberons Feast and without the preliminary lines, subscribed Rob: Herrick.

This MS collated in Martin.

c.1630s

The name Edward Michell inscribed later inside the rear cover. Afterwards owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199 (MS Rawl. poet. 160 ff. 169v-70r)

HeR 182

Copy, without the preliminary lines.

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

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

c.1670

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

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

Bradford Archives (32D86/17 f. 38r-v)

HeR 183

Copy, imperfect, lacking a heading and the first four lines.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

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

c.1630s

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

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

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999 (Add. MS 22118 ff. 1v-2v)

HeR 184

Copy, headed King Oberons his feast and without the preliminary lines, subscribed Herricke.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

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

c.1640s-50s

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

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999 (Add. MS 22603 ff. 61r-2r)

HeR 185

Copy, headed The fayries feast att his mariage and without the preliminary lines.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

c.1630s-40s

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 923 ff. 43v-4v)

HeR 186

Copy, without the preliminary lines, headed The Pharyes Clothing by Sir Simion Steward. Immediately preceding this neat little trif[l]e is the Pharyes Supper by Robert Herrick, some parts of which is pleasing enough; for instance:.

This MS recorded in Neilson, A Bundle of Ballads, p. 113.

A composite volume of transcripts of ballads made, from various printed and manuscript sources, by and for Robert Jamieson (1780?-1844) for his edition of Popular Ballads and Songs (Edinburgh, 1806).

c.1800

Owned in 1921 by George Neilson, then by Charles R. Cowie, and now in the John Cowie Collection.

Discussed in G. Neilson, A Bundle of Ballads, E&S, 7 (1921), 108-42.

Mitchell Library, Glasgow (SR 241 308897 pp. 33-4)

HeR 187

Copy, headed The fayrie's feast att his mariage and without the preliminary lines.

An oblong octavo composite volume, comprising two independent verse miscellanies, Part I, in Latin and English, largely in a neat secretary hand, paginated 1-22, Part II, in English and Welsh, in several hands, one neat secretary hand predominating, paginated 1-266, the two parts bound together in modern quarter red morocco.

c.1630s

Inscriptions including (Part I, pp. 1, 3 and 42) Edward Lewis his Book 1753, John Parker, P H Warburton, and John Aden, and (Part II, p. 33) Thomas Lloyd Esq. Wigfair MS 43, among papers mainly of the Lloyd family of Hafodunos, Denbighshire, and Wigfair, near St Asaph, Flintshire, purchased in 1926-7 from Colonel H.C. Lloyd Howard, of Wigfair.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 12443 A Part II, pp. 259-63)

HeR 188

Copy, headed The Pharyes Supper and without the preliminary lines.

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

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

c.1634

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

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 240 through 999 (MS 243/4 pp. 150-2)

HeR 188.5

Copy, headed Oberon his dyet.

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

c.late 1630s

A microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7698.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 356 pp. 3-5)

Oberons Palace ('Full as a Bee with Thyme, and Red')

First published, with eight preliminary lines beginning After the Feast (my Shapcot) see, in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 165-8. Patrick, pp. 222-5.

HeR 189

Copy, without the preliminary lines.

c.1639 [-c.1728]

Yale, Osborn MS b 150 through Osborn MS b 199 (Osborn MS b 197 pp. 2-5)

HeR 190

Copy in two hands, without the preliminary lines and with lines 69-107 first copied on p. 105 and repeated on p. 103.

Edited evidently from this MS in Hazlitt, II, 466-70; collated in Martin.

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

c.1638

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

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

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 38 pp. 101-3, 105)

HeR 191

Copy, headed Oberon his Pallace: by M^r Herrick and without the preliminary lines.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

c.1640

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

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

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Firth e. 4 pp. 52-7)

HeR 192

Copy, headed King Oberons Pallace and without the preliminary lines, subscribed R: Herick.

This MS collated in Martin.

c.1630s

The name Edward Michell inscribed later inside the rear cover. Afterwards owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199 (MS Rawl. poet. 160 ff. 167r-8v)

HeR 193

Copy, headed King Oberons his Pallace and without the preliminary lines, subscribed Hericke.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

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

c.1640s-50s

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

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999 (Add. MS 22603 ff. 59r-61r)

HeR 194

Copy, without the preliminary lines, subscribed Exp: R: H.

This MS collated in Martin.

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. 157r-9r)

HeR 194.5 c.1620s-30s

Copy of lines 1-26, without the eight introductory lines, incomplete.

Facsimile of this MS in Raylor, p. 106.

A small quarto composite volume of miscellaneous works, in five hands, including Memorials of the Holles family in the hand of Gervase Holles (1607-75), leaves (a few excised), in 19th-century calf gilt.

Early-mid-17th century

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Timothy Raylor, The Lost Essex House Masque (1621): A Manuscript Text Discovered, EMS, 7 (1998), 86-130 (esp. pp. 95-110).

University of Nottingham (Pw V 6 f. 120r)

The parting Verse, or charge to his supposed Wife when he travelled ('Go hence, and with this parting kisse')

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 174-6. Patrick, pp. 233-5.

HeR 195

Copy, headed My Charge and here beginning Go & with this partinge Kisse.

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

c.1630s-40s

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 50 ff. 92v-3v)

HeR 196

Copy, headed My Charge and here beginning Goe and with this parting kisse.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

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. 33v-4v)

HeR 197

Copy, headed The husband charge departing from home, to his wife and here beginning Go and with this parting Kiss, subscribed Robert Herrick.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

c.1637

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 198, Part I pp. 5-6)

HeR 198

Copy, headed My Charge and here beginning Goe, and with this parting kisse, subscribed finis Ro: Herrick.

c.1630s

National Library of South Africa, Cape Town (MS Grey 7 a 29 pp. 117-18)

HeR 199

Copy, headed His chardge to his wife and here beginning Goe & with this parting kisse.

c.1639 [-c.1728]

Yale, Osborn MS b 150 through Osborn MS b 199 (Osborn MS b 197 pp. 8-10)

HeR 200

Copy, headed M^r Hericke his charge to his wife and here beginning Goe: and with....

Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, II, 460-3; collated in Martin.

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

c.1638

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

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

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 38 pp. 93-4)

HeR 201

Copy, headed R: Herrick: his charge vnto his wife and here beginning Go & with....

This MS collated in Martin.

c.1630s

The name Edward Michell inscribed later inside the rear cover. Afterwards owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199 (MS Rawl. poet. 160 ff. 47v-8v)

HeR 202

Copy, headed M^r Herickes Charge to his Wife and here beginning Goe and w^th this partinge Kisse.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

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

c.1640s-50s

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

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999 (Add. MS 22603 ff. 41v-3r)

A Pastorall upon the birth of Prince Charles, Presented to the King, and Set by Master Nicholas Laniere ('Good day, Mirtillo. And to you no lesse')

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 85-7. Patrick, pp. 120-1.

HeR 203

Copy.

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

c.1630s

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

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

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 14 f. 48r-v)

HeR 204

Copy, headed Myrtillo, Amyntas, Amarillis.

An octavo notebook of extracts, chiefly verse, compiled by one or two University of Cambridge men, 69 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf.

c.1653-60s

Cambridge University Library, Additional MSS 1 through 4999 (MS Add. 79 ff. 46r-7r)

HeR 205

Copy, headed An Eclogue on y^e birth day of Prince Charles, subscribed Phil: Massenger.

A quarto verse miscellany, the first 21 pages in a small mixed hand, the rest (including a book catalogue dated 1675) in one or two later hands, 33 pages (plus numerous blanks), in old calf.

Inscribed (p. 1) ffran: Wyrley, possibly the principal compiler, whose name is also subscribed to several poems.

c.1636-77

Clark Library, Los Angeles (MS. 1950. 024 p. 16)

HeR 206

Copy, headed In Nat: Prin: &c..

Edited from this MS in Patrick, pp. 122-3.

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

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

c.1630s

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1 through 239 (MS 239/23 pp. 93-6)

HeR 207

Copy, headed A dialogue on Prince Charles his birth betwene 4 sheaphards....

Printed from this MS in Martin, pp. 460-1.

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

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

c.1634

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1 through 239 (MS 239/27 pp. 250-1)

HeR 207.5

Copy, headed A Dialogue vpon the Princes Birth song betweene Amintus, Myrtillo, Amarillis.

Once erroneously associated with Thomas Killigrew (1612-83), whose hand does not appear in the volume.

Mid-17th century-c.1702

Inscribed (f. [ir]) S^r Robert Killigrew / 1702. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 9070. Sotheby's, 19 May 1897, lot 455.

Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Nancy Cutbirth, Thomas Killigrew's Commonplace Book?, Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin, NS No. 13 (1980), 31-8.

University of Texas at Austin (Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book ff. 21v-2r)

HeR 207.8

Copy, headed A Diologue vpon the Princes Birth sung betweene Amintas, Mirtillo & Amarillis.

A folio formal verse miscellany, in a single rounded hand, 259 pages (plus a three-page index), in modern boards.

The contents, the latest of which (on pp. 203-7) can be dated to a marriage that took place in November 1656, reflect the taste of Interregnum Royalist sympathisers.

c.Late 1650s

Formerly in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 4001. Sotheby's, 29 June 1946, lot 164, to Myers. Then in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.

University College London (MS Ogden 42 pp. 9-10)

HeR 207.9

Copy, headed Vpon y^e birth of y^e Prince Eclogue.

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

c.late 1630s

A microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7698.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 356 pp. 202-4)

The Present: or, The Bag of the Bee ('Fly to my Mistresse, pretty pilfring Bee')

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 100. Patrick, p. 140.

HeR 208

Copy, untitled and here beginning Flye to my M^ris yealowe footed bee

This MS collated in Martin.

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

c.1638

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

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

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 38 p. 152)

HeR 209

Copy, headed Nuncius amoris Apes and here beginning Fly to my Mistresse yellow footed Bee.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

Probably compiled by a Cambridge University man.

c.1630s

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

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 15000 through 16999 (Add. MS 15227 f. 3v)

HeR 209.5

Copy, headed Of one in despaire of his M^rs, and here beginning Fly to my mistresse yellow-footed bee.

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. 78-9)

The Primrose ('Ask me why I send you here')

First published in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640) and, among verse By other Gentlemen, in Poems written by Wil. Shake-speare. Gent. (London, 1640). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 208. Patrick, pp. 276-7. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

HeR 210

Copy, in Lawes's musical setting.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

Mid-17th century

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 53723 f. 80v)

HeR 210.5

Copy, as by Herrick.

A printed exemplum of A Selection from the Poetical Works of Thomas Carew, [ed. John Fry] (London, 1810), with interleaved annotations and tipped-in earlier leaves.

Early 19th century

Bodleian Library, other MSS (27980 e. 86 Opposite p. 50)

HeR 211

Copy.

A quarto verse miscellany, in two styles of italic, the last poem (f. 93v) added in a later hand, 93 leaves (plus ten blanks), in modern quarter-morocco gilt.

Mid-17th century

Later among the collections of Robert Harley (1661-1724), first Earl of Oxford, and his son, Edward (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II, i-ii (1987-93), as the Capell MS: DnJ Δ 43, CwT Δ 17, and RnT Δ 3. Discussed in Geoffrey Tillotson, The Commonplace Book of Arthur Capell, MLR, 27 (1932), 381-91.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 3000 through 3999 (Harley MS 3511 f. 57v)

A Ring presented to Julia ('Julia, I bring')

First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1641). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 65-6.

HeR 211.5

Copy, headed A Weding Ring presented to julia, followed by an answer headed To this writen by a gentlewoeman y^e answer underneath was given (beginning Believe not him...) which is itself followed by His Answer (Yet trust him...).

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

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

Early 18th century

Northamptonshire Record Office (W(A) Misc Vol 28 p. 211)

To a Gentlewoman, objecting to him his gray haires ('Am I despis'd because you say')

First published, among verse By other Gentlemen, in Poems written by Wil. Shake-speare. Gent. (London, 1640). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 63. Patrick, pp. 91-2. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

HeR 212

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

Edited from this MS in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 200); collated in Martin.

A folio songbook, 121 leaves (including c.20 blanks and an index), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

c.1640s-60s

Later owned by Colonel W.G. Probert, of Bevills, Bures, Suffolk. Sold by Quaritch in 1937.

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. c. 57 f. 28v)

HeR 213

Copy, in Lawes's musical setting.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

Mid-17th century

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 53723 f. 70r)

HeR 214

Copy, headed An old man to his younge M^rs, subscribed Herricke.

This MS probably the unspecified MS from which the text printed in Hazlitt, II, 466; collated from Hazlitt in Martin, pp. 468-9.

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 p. 14)

HeR 215

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

This MS collated in Martin.

A square-shaped folio songbook, largely in a single rounded secretary hand, with (ff. 1r-v, 69r-v) a table of contents, i + 69 leaves, in modern half red morocco.

Mid-17th century

Puttick & Simpson's, 2 March 1866, lot 230.

A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 2 (New York & London, 1986).

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Egerton MS 2013 ff. 16v-17r)

HeR 216

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS (erroneously cited as MS 239/22) in Patrick.

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

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

c.1630s

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1 through 239 (MS 239/23 p. 11)

To Anthea, who may command him any thing ('Bid me to live, and I will live')

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 108-9. Patrick, pp. 149-50. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

HeR 217

Copy, in Lawes's musical setting.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

Mid-17th century

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 53723 f. 75r)

HeR 218

Copy, untitled.

A sextodecimo miscellany of verse and topographical prose, probably in a single small cursive hand, 78 leaves, written from both ends, Part I foliated 1r-33r, Part II foliated 1r-45r, in old calf.

c.1650s-60s

Described in F.P. Hammond, A Commonplace Book owned by John Oldham, N&Q, 224 (December 1979), 515-18.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 100 through 199 (MS V.a.169 Part II, f. 17r)

HeR 219

Copy, in a musical setting.

This MS collated in Martin.

A folio music book, containing 327 songs, in three largely secretary hands, with a Cattalogue of contents, 229 leaves.

Owned (in 1659) and partly compiled by the composer John Gamble (d.1687), with some misnumbering.

c.1630s-50s

Later owned by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author. Acquired in 1888.

New York Public Library, Music Division (Drexel MS 4257 No. 133)

To Blossoms ('Faire pledges of a fruitfull Tree')

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 176.

HeR 219.2

Copy.

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, i + 200 leaves (ff. 129-199 blank), in quarter-vellum over boards.

Compiled by John Phillipps, of Exeter College, Oxford, and the Middle Temple, who has inscribed the front pastedown John Phillipps. med: Temp: Lond: 1776.

c.1776-1804

Acquired from Cumming of Exeter, 1941.

Bodleian Library, Eng. misc. MSS (MS Eng. misc e. 241 f. 60v)

HeR 219.8

Copy, as by Herrick.

A printed exemplum of A Selection from the Poetical Works of Thomas Carew, [ed. John Fry] (London, 1810), with interleaved annotations and tipped-in earlier leaves.

Early 19th century

Bodleian Library, other MSS (27980 e. 86 Opposite p. 3)

To Dewes. A Song ('I Burn, I burn. and beg of you')

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 50. Patrick, p. 71.

HeR 220

Autograph copy by Lawes, in his musical setting, headed To the Desert.

This MS collated in Martin.

A folio autograph songbook by William Lawes (1602-45), composer, 49 leaves, in contemporary calf stamped in gilt with arms of Charles I.

c.1638-45

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 31432 f. 33r)

To God: an Anthem, sung in the Chappell at White-Hall, before the King ('My God, I'm wounded by my sin')

First published in Noble Numbers (London, 1647) appended to Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 342. Patrick, p. 454.

HeR 221

Copy, headed An Anthem by M^r. Herricke.

This MS collated in Martin.

The pagination cited below relates to the second, main series of pagination.

c.1640

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 100 through 199 (MS V.a.160 p. 22)

To Musick. A Song ('Musick, thou Queen of Heaven, Care-charming-spel')

First published (in a six-line version) in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 103. Patrick, p. 143.

HeR 222

Copy of an untitled eight-line version, in a musical setting.

Printed from this MS in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 206); collated in Martin.

A folio songbook, 121 leaves (including c.20 blanks and an index), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

c.1640s-60s

Later owned by Colonel W.G. Probert, of Bevills, Bures, Suffolk. Sold by Quaritch in 1937.

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. c. 57 f. 52v)

HeR 223

Copy of a sixteen-line version.

Edited from this MS in Margaret Crum, An Unpublished Fragment of Verse by Herrick, RES, NS 11 (1960), 186-9 (p. 89).

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

c.1630s-40s

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 50 f. 65r)

HeR 224

Copy of an eight-line version, in a musical setting.

This MS collated in Martin.

MS songbook.

Owned and probably compiled by Elizabeth Davenant (sister of Sir William Davenant), of Oxford.

c.1624-30s

Complete facsimile of this MS volume in Jorgens, VII (1987). Discussed in John P. Cutts, M^ris Elizabeth Davenant 1624: Christ Church MS. Mus. 87, RES, NS 10 (1959), 26-37.

Christ Church, Oxford (MS Mus. 87 ff. 13v-14r)

To Pansies ('Ah cruell Love! must I endure')

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 74. Patrick, p. 107.

HeR 225

Autograph copy by Lawes, in his musical setting, untitled.

This MS collated (and the second stanza printed) in Martin, p. 469.

A folio autograph songbook by William Lawes (1602-45), composer, 49 leaves, in contemporary calf stamped in gilt with arms of Charles I.

c.1638-45

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 31432 f. 32r)

HeR 225.5

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.

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. 5v-6r)

To Sycamores ('I'm sick of Love. O let me lie')

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 158. Patrick, p. 214.

HeR 226

Autograph copy by Lawes, in his musical setting, headed To the Sicamour.

A folio autograph songbook by William Lawes (1602-45), composer, 49 leaves, in contemporary calf stamped in gilt with arms of Charles I.

c.1638-45

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 31432 f. 34r)

HeR 227

Copy, in a musical setting by William Lawes, untitled.

This MS collated in Martin.

A square-shaped folio songbook, largely in a single rounded secretary hand, with (ff. 1r-v, 69r-v) a table of contents, i + 69 leaves, in modern half red morocco.

Mid-17th century

Puttick & Simpson's, 2 March 1866, lot 230.

A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 2 (New York & London, 1986).

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Egerton MS 2013 f. 21v)

HeR 227.5

Copy, untitled and here beginning O I am sick of Loue, heere Lett mee lye.

Once erroneously associated with Thomas Killigrew (1612-83), whose hand does not appear in the volume.

Mid-17th century-c.1702

Inscribed (f. [ir]) S^r Robert Killigrew / 1702. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 9070. Sotheby's, 19 May 1897, lot 455.

Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Nancy Cutbirth, Thomas Killigrew's Commonplace Book?, Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin, NS No. 13 (1980), 31-8.

University of Texas at Austin (Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book f. 39r)

To the Virgins, to make much of Time ('Gather ye Rose-budd while ye may')

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 84. Patrick, pp. 117-18. Musical setting by William Lawes published in John Playford, Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

HeR 228

Copy in a musical setting by William Lawes.

This MS collated in Martin.

A folio songbook, 121 leaves (including c.20 blanks and an index), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

c.1640s-60s

Later owned by Colonel W.G. Probert, of Bevills, Bures, Suffolk. Sold by Quaritch in 1937.

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. c. 57 f. 72v)

HeR 229

Copy in a musical setting by William Lawes, untitled.

A folio music part book (2nd treble part), viii + 218 pages, in contemporary calf.

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

c.1650s

Bookplate of Povert Henley.

Bodleian Library, Music MSS (MS Mus. d. 238 p. 81)

HeR 230

Copy of the first two lines, in a three-part musical setting by William Lawes, untitled.

An oblong quarto songbook, written from both ends, ii + 384 pages (including blanks), in contemporary vellum.

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

Mid-late-17th century

Bodleian Library, Music MSS (MS Mus. Sch. E. 451 p. 335)

HeR 231

Copy, untitled.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single informal hand, a member of St John's College, Oxford, i + 99 leaves, in half-vellum marbled boards.

Including 19 poems by Habington and (ff. 8r-21r, 28v) 21 poems by Katherine Philips transcribed from a edited source.

Late 17th century

Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as Rawlinson MS I: PsK Δ 6.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 50 through 99 (MS Rawl. poet. 65 f. 30r)

HeR 231.5

Copy.

An octavo volume of verse and related notes compiled by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary, for his Lyrical Gleanings published in 1817.

c.1817

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 18000 through 19999 (Add. MS 19269 f. 166r)

HeR 232

Copy, in a musical setting by William Lawes, untitled.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

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

c.1654-70s

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

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

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 29396 ff. 18r, 17v)

HeR 233

Autograph copy by Lawes, in his musical setting, untitled.

This MS collated in Martin.

A folio autograph songbook by William Lawes (1602-45), composer, 49 leaves, in contemporary calf stamped in gilt with arms of Charles I.

c.1638-45

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 31432 f. 33v)

HeR 233.5

Copy, in a musical setting by William Lawes.

An oblong folio book of vocal music, largely in one hand, 165 leaves, in modern half red morocco.

Mid-18th century

Acquired from Julian Marshall (1836-1903), music and print collector and writer, 1880-81.

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 31813 ff. 1r-2r)

HeR 234

Copy, headed Loose No time.

This MS recorded in Martin.

Late 17th century

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

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

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 3000 through 3999 (Harley MS 3991 ff. 145v-6r)

HeR 235

Copy, headed A Sonnet.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

c.1650-9

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

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

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6918 f. 25r)

HeR 236

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, 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. 7v-8r)

HeR 237

Copy of the incipit, in a musical setting for the Viol da Gamba, in the hand of A. J. Wighton.

Transcript, made by A.J. Wighton (d.c.1884), of a transcript (then belonging to James Davie of Aberdeen) of the original Blaikie MS, a music book dated [Glasgow] 1692.

Mid-19th century

Owned in the early 19th century by Andrew Blaikie, engraver in Paisley. Bequeathed c.1884 by A.J. Wighton.

This MS recorded in Nelly Diem, Beiträge zur Geschichte der Schottischen Musik im XVII Jahrhundert (Zürich & Leipzig, 1919), pp. 27-8. The original Blaikie MS is untraced. Another transcript of the Blaikie MS, made by Alfred Moffat, was item 436 in an unidentified sale catalogue (c.1940s).

Dundee Central Library (10455H No. 56)

HeR 238

Copy, in a musical setting by William Lawes, untitled.

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

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

Mid-late 17th century

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

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

Edinburgh University Library (MS Dc. 1. 69 p. 89)

HeR 239

Copy of the first two lines, in a musical setting by William Lawes, untitled.

An oblong quarto book of mainly vocal music, the lyrics in several largely secretary hands, one predominating, 90 pages (including blanks), in contemporary brown calf, both covers stamped in gilt I S.

Inscribed several times John Squyer, probably the compiler.

Mid-17th century

Also inscribed (p. 1) Ane Cattologue of books 1700, and (p. 25) Joanne Squier. Owned by David Laing in June 1855.

Edinburgh University Library, Laing Collection (MS La. III. 490 p. 33)

HeR 240

Copy, untitled.

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

c.1730

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

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 300 through end (MS V.a.308 f. 37r-v)

HeR 241

Copy of lines 1-4, untitled.

This MS collated in Martin.

A folio miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, largely in one hand, iv + 544 pages (including numerous blanks), in vellum boards.

Inscribed, and evidently compiled, by Sir Henry Oxinden (1609-70), of Barham, Kent.

c.1642-70

Inscribed Lee Warly. Canterbury. 1764. Booklabel of Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector.

The Folger Shakespeare Library: V.b. series (MS V.b.110 p. 49)

HeR 242

Copies, in a musical setting by William Lawes, untitled.

Leaves excised from these volumes are in the Folger, MS V.a.411 (five leaves) and (nine leaves) at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust (Halliwell-Phillipps, Shakespearean scrapbooks).

c.1660

A flyleaf in the Cantus Secundus part book inscribed Decemb. 30. 1674. Note that I Thomas Clifford bought this sett of Musick Books of Mr Richard Price's widow M^rs Dorothy Price for --7^s--6^d.

University of Glasgow (MS Euing R.d.58-61 (i) f. 16; (ii) f. 15r; (iii) f. 18r; (iv) f. 10v)

HeR 243

Copy in a musical setting by William Lawes, in an italic hand, untitled.

An oblong duodecimo book of chiefly vocal music, in at least three hands, one rounded hand predominating, 33 leaves, in old calf (rebacked).

Mid-late 17th century

Inscriptions including (f. 1v) Janet Glesone; (ff. 2r and 33v) Heline ffergusone; (f. 5v) Andrew Gardner Est Hujus Liber Anno domini; (f. 9v) John Patsen; and (f. 32r) John Watson. Purchased at the sale of the books of David Constable in 1828, lot 2905.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 5.2.11 ff. 30r, 31r)

HeR 244

Copy in a musical setting by William Lawes, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Nelly Diem, Beiträge zur Geschichte der Schottischen Musik im XVII Jahrhundert (Zürich & Leipzig, 1919), p. 119.

An oblong quarto songbook, the lyrics in at least two secretary and italic hands, 21 leaves (plus blanks), in modern cloth.

Mid-17th century-1704

Inscribed (f. 9v) M^rs Agnes Hume her book Anno Dom 1704.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 5.2.17 f. 16r)

HeR 245

Copy, in a musical setting by William Lawes.

This MS collated in Cutts, Drexel Manuscript 4041, p. 178.

A folio songbook, in a single secretary hand, some items misnumbered, 144 leaves.

c.1640s

Once owned by the Shirley family, Earls Ferrers, of Staunton Harold, Leicestershire. Also owned, and annotated, by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author. Acquired in 1888.

Generally cited as the Earl Ferrers MS. Collated in Cutts, Drexel Manuscript 4041, Musica Disciplina, 18 (1964), 151-202. A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 9 (New York & London, 1987).

New York Public Library, Music Division (Drexel MS 4041 No. 59, f. 43r)

HeR 246

Copy, in a musical setting by William Lawes.

This MS recorded in Martin.

A folio music book, containing 327 songs, in three largely secretary hands, with a Cattalogue of contents, 229 leaves.

Owned (in 1659) and partly compiled by the composer John Gamble (d.1687), with some misnumbering.

c.1630s-50s

Later owned by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author. Acquired in 1888.

New York Public Library, Music Division (Drexel MS 4257 No. 141)

HeR 247

Copy of the incipit, in a musical setting.

A music book for the lyra-viol.

c.1690s

Later owned by John Leyden (1775-1811).

Discussed in Christopher Hunt, Scottish ballads and music in the Robert White Collection in the University Library, Newcastle upon Tyne, The Bibliotheck, 5 (1968), 138-41. A transcript of the MS made in 1844 by George Farquhar Graham is in the National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS. 5. 2. 19.

University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 42 f. [60r])

HeR 247.5

Copy, in William Lawes's musical setting.

A quarto songbook, 138 leaves.

Mid-18th-century

Once owned by John Henry Mee.

Oxford Music Faculty (MS Mee e.1 f. 106r)

HeR 248

Copy, in a musical setting, among the appended Italian songs.

MS transcript of the first printed edition (Aberdeen, 1662) of John Forbes, Cantus, Songs and Fancies.

c.1662

In the Atholl Collection of Music, assembled by Lady Dorothea Stewart-Murray (1866-1937), daughter of John Stewart-Murray (1840-1917), seventh Duke of Atholl. Formerly in the Sandeman Library, Perth.

A K Bell Library, Perth (N16 [no item number])

HeR 248.5

Copy, untitled.

Once erroneously associated with Thomas Killigrew (1612-83), whose hand does not appear in the volume.

Mid-17th century-c.1702

Inscribed (f. [ir]) S^r Robert Killigrew / 1702. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 9070. Sotheby's, 19 May 1897, lot 455.

Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Nancy Cutbirth, Thomas Killigrew's Commonplace Book?, Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin, NS No. 13 (1980), 31-8.

University of Texas at Austin (Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book ff. 40v-1r)

Upon his kinswoman Mistris Elizabeth Herrick ('Sweet virgin, that I do not set')

First published in John Stow, Survey of London (London, 1633), p. 812. Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 145-6. Patrick, pp. 197-8. The memorial tablet of c.1630 bearing this epitaph at St Margaret's Church, Westminster, was restored there in 1955: see Charles Smyth, A Herrick Epitaph, TLS (13 May 1955), p. 253.

HeR 249

Copy.

An octavo commonplace book of extracts, in English and Latin, compiled by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, iv + 302 pages.

Mid-late 17th century

Bodleian Library, Sancroft MSS (MS Sancroft 59 p. 284 rev.)

HeR 249.5

Copy, headed In memory of the late deceased Virgin Mistris Elizabeth Hereicke, transcribed from Stow's printed text.

A printed exemplum of A Selection from the Poetical Works of Thomas Carew, [ed. John Fry] (London, 1810), with interleaved annotations and tipped-in earlier leaves.

Early 19th century

Bodleian Library, other MSS (27980 e. 86 After p. 75)

HeR 249.8

Copy, headed An Epitaph in memory of y^e late deceas'd virgin, M^rs: Elizabeth Hereicke.

A collection of epitaphs, principally from churches in and about London, at least up to f. 193 in a single large rounded hand, an epitaph on f. 309 dated 1760, 244 folio leaves.

Late 18th century

Owned in 1785 by Mary Windsor of Tottenham High Cross, Owned in 1821 by one John Marris [i.e. Morris?]. Bookplate of James Walsh, FSA, FRAS. Purchased from J. R. Smith 9 December 1848.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 1160 f. 78r)

Upon Mistresse Elizabeth Wheeler, under the name of Amarillis ('Sweet Amarillis, by a Spring's')

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 46. Patrick, p. 65.

HeR 250

Copy of an untitled version beginning Amarillis by a spring's, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.

Printed from this MS in Martin, p. 467.

A folio songbook, 121 leaves (including c.20 blanks and an index), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

c.1640s-60s

Later owned by Colonel W.G. Probert, of Bevills, Bures, Suffolk. Sold by Quaritch in 1937.

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. c. 57 ff. 94v-5r)

HeR 251

Copy of a version beginning Amarillis, by A Springes, in Lawes's musical setting.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

Mid-17th century

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 53723 f. 73r)

HeR 252

Copy of a version beginning Amarillis by a springe, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, untitled.

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

Possibly compiled in part by one T. C.

c.1641-59

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

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

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 11608 ff. 10v-11r)

HeR 253

Copy of a version beginning Amarillis by a springe in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

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

c.1654-70s

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

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

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 29396 ff. 27v-8r)

HeR 254

Copy of a version beginning Amarillis, by a springe, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

A square-shaped folio songbook, largely in a single rounded secretary hand, with (ff. 1r-v, 69r-v) a table of contents, i + 69 leaves, in modern half red morocco.

Mid-17th century

Puttick & Simpson's, 2 March 1866, lot 230.

A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 2 (New York & London, 1986).

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Egerton MS 2013 f. 22r-v)

Upon the death of his Sparrow. An Elegie ('Why doe not all fresh maids appeare')

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 103-4. Patrick, pp. 143-4.

HeR 255

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

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. 38v-9r)

HeR 256

Copy, untitled, subscribed Finis Ro: Herrick.

c.1630s

National Library of South Africa, Cape Town (MS Grey 7 a 29 p. 91)

HeR 257

Copy, headed A Sonnet, subscribed Rob: Herrick.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

c.1650-9

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

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

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6918 f. 51r-v)

The Welcome to Sack ('So soft streams meet, so springs with gladder smiles')

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 77-9. Patrick, pp. 110-12.

HeR 258

Copy, in a neat secretary hand, headed The Welcome againe.

A quarto composite miscellany of verse and prose, in various hands, probably associated with the University of Cambridge, 352 pages (including 35 blanks), in 19th-century boards.

c.1612-24

University of Texas at Austin (HRC 79 pp. 107-9)

HeR 259

Copy, headed The time expired thus he welcomes his m^rs: Sacke.

This MS collated in part in Martin.

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

c.1637

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 198, Part I pp. 17-19)

HeR 260

Copy, headed My wellcome to Sacke, subscribed finis Ro: Herrick.

c.1630s

National Library of South Africa, Cape Town (MS Grey 7 a 29 pp. 132-4)

HeR 261

Copy, headed Hericks wellcome to sack:.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single italic hand, evidently associated with Oxford, probably Christ Church, 214 pages (skipping p. 177), plus an index.

Including 18 poems by Corbett and 59 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1630s

Inscribed on a flyleaf Elizabeth Lane hir booke and, among scribbling on another flyleaf, Johannes Finch. P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 341.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Elizabeth Lane MS: CoR Δ 1 and StW Δ 4. The Dobell catalogue description recorded in Forey (pp. lxxxv-lxxxvi).

Aberdeen University Library (MS 29 pp. 25-8)

HeR 262

Copy, in a neat predominantly secretary hand, headed The Welcome again, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter.

An unbound folder of verse MSS, in various hands and paper sizes, 138 leaves.

Sotheby's sale catalogue, The Trumbull Papers (14 December 1989), part of lot 39.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 72478 ff. 74v-5v)

HeR 263

Copy, headed His reconciliation to Sacke.

A verse miscellany, i + 25 leaves.

c.1640

Owned before 1959 by the Lingard-Guthrie family.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 53 ff. 14v-15v)

HeR 264

Copy, headed M^r Hearick his welcome to Sack.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

c.1640

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

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

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Firth e. 4 pp. 14-17)

HeR 265

Copy, headed Herick's Welcome to Sack.

This MS collated in Martin.

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. 89r-v)

HeR 266

Copy of an abridged version, headed Herricks Sack and here beginning Springs meet with Smiles

Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, II, 455-6; recorded in Martin.

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

Probably compiled principally by an Oxford University man.

c.1630s-40s

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

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 100 through 149 (MS Rawl. poet. 142 f. 44v)

HeR 267

Copy, headed The Time expired, he welcomes his M^rs. Sacke as followeth.

This MS collated in Martin.

c.1630s

The name Edward Michell inscribed later inside the rear cover. Afterwards owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199 (MS Rawl. poet. 160 ff. 165v-6v)

HeR 268

Copy, headed Mr Herrickes welcome to Sacke.

This MS collated in Martin.

c.1630s

A flyleaf inscribed [?] Johannes Philips. Acquired from H. Stevens 11 December 1852.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1987), as the John Philips MS: StW Δ 8.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 18000 through 19999 (Add. MS 19268 ff. 39v-41)

HeR 269

Copy, headed The time expired, he Welcomes his M^rs (Sacke) as followeth.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

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

c.1640s-50s

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

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999 (Add. MS 22603 ff. 37r-8v)

HeR 270

Copy, headed M^r Herricks wellcome to Sacke.

This MS collated in Martin.

c.1633 [-late 17th century]

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

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 30000 through 34999 (Add. MS 30982 ff. 140r-139r rev.)

HeR 271

Copy, headed The Time of his vow expird, he thus welcomes it againe.

This MS collated in Martin.

Including fourteen poems by James Shirley, generally ascribed to him, and eleven poems by Strode (and two of doubtful authorship).

c.1636

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 30000 through 34999 (Add. MS 33998 ff. 5v-7r)

HeR 272

Copy, headed M^r Herricks welcome to Sacke.

This MS collated in Martin.

An octavo miscellany of chiefly verse, in at least two cursive italic hands, with religious verse and prose at the reverse end in another hand, 111 leaves (plus blanks), in old calf gilt.

Including nineteen poems by Corbett and 29 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, the date 1634 occurring on f. 78v.

c.1635

Inscribed on f. 111v rev. Thursday next at Capricks for M^r Pitt. Later among the collections of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724), and his son Edward, second Earl (1689-1741).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Harley MS: CoR Δ 5.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6931 ff. 61r-2v)

HeR 273

Copy, headed The welcome to Sacke, subscribed R: H:.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

c.1633

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1446 ff. 18v-19v)

HeR 274

Copy, headed M^r Herricks welcome to sacke.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

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

c.early 1630s

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

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

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1792 ff. 125v-7v)

HeR 275

Copy, untitled.

A quarto miscellany chiefly of chiefly verse, in English and Latin, in probably a single secretary and italic hand, 50 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

Recorded as being compiled by Thomas Smyth, of Manchester.

c.1630

Bookplate of the Rev. Richard Farmer, FSA (1735-97), Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, literary scholar. Lot 8055 in the sale of his library by Thomas King, 7 May to 16 June 1798. Afterwards owned by James Crossley (1800-83), author and book collector. Formerly Chetham's MS 8010.

Chetham's Library, Manchester (Mun. A.3.47 ff. 47v-8r)

HeR 276

Copy, subscribed R. J.

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

c.1628-30s

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

Edinburgh University Library (MS H.-P. Coll. 401 ff. 13v-15r)

HeR 277

Copy, headed M^r: Herricks welcome to Sacke.

This MS collated in part in Martin.

Compiled by University or Inns of Court men.

c.1630s

Inscribed (f. [104v] Thomas White His Book May y^e 20 Anno Domine 1691. Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps and in his library at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1.21.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 1 through 99 (MS V.a.96 ff. 57v-9v)

HeR 278

Copy, headed M^r Herricks welcome to sack.

This MS collated in part in Martin.

Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 30 poems by Strode (one of them in V.a.152) plus one of doubtful authorship.

c.late 1630s [-1789]

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Thorpe-Halliwell MS: CoR Δ 7 and StW Δ 17. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 1 through 99 (MS V.a.97 pp. 103-4)

HeR 279

Copy, headed M^r Herricks welcome to Sacke.

This MS collated in part in Martin.

A quarto verse miscellany, pp. 13-244 in a single largely roman hand, the remainder in varying styles in one or more other hands (up to c.1655), probably associated with Oxford University, 541 pages (of which pp. 1-12, 87-8 have been extracted and pp. 251-68, 334, 400, 410-540 are blank, with stubs of other extracted leaves at the end), in contemporary brown calf.

Including 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 57 poems (plus a second copy of one poem and four poems of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1630s[-55]

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: possibly his MS 18123. Owned c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914), literary scholar and bookseller. Formerly MS 646.4.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Dobell MS: CoR Δ 8 and StW Δ 18. Discussed in Bertram Dobell in The Athenaeum, No. 4475 (2 August 1913), p. 112. A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 100 through 199 (MS V.a.170 pp. 164-7)

HeR 280

This MS collated in part, and six additional lines printed, in Martin, pp. 469-73.

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

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

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

c.1674-84

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

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 200 through 299 (MS V.a.276 Part II, ff. 4r-6r)

HeR 281

Copy, headed His Return and Welcome to Sacke.

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

c.1643-50s

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

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

University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 25 ff. 31v-3)

HeR 282

Copy, headed The time beinge expired Hericks wellcome to sacke.

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

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

c.1634

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1 through 239 (MS 239/27 pp. 415-17)

HeR 283

Copy, headed A Welcome to Sack.

This MS collated in part in Patrick.

c.1630

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1000 through end (MS 1083/16 pp. 123-6)

HeR 284

Copy, headed His Returne.

This MS collated in part in Patrick.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single predominantly italic hand, 152 leaves (paginated 1-34, thereafter foliated 35-169), plus index, in modern red leather.

Including 85 poems (and second copies of two) by Thomas Carew.

c.1638-42

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1000 through end (MS 1083/17 ff. 96v-8v)

HeR 285

Copy, headed M^r Herricks wellcome to sacke.

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

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

c.1650

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

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

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 200 pp. 252-3)

HeR 285.5

Copy, headed M^r Herricks Wellcome to sacke.

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

c.late 1630s

A microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7698.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 356 pp. 322-6)

The Willow Garland ('A Willow Garland thou did'st send')

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 161. Patrick, p. 217. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in John Playford, Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

HeR 286

Copy in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, untitled.

This MS collated in Martin.

A folio songbook, 121 leaves (including c.20 blanks and an index), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

c.1640s-60s

Later owned by Colonel W.G. Probert, of Bevills, Bures, Suffolk. Sold by Quaritch in 1937.

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. c. 57 f. 72v)

HeR 287

Copy, in Lawes's musical setting, untitled.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

Mid-17th century

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 53723 f. 183r)

HeR 288

Copy, untitled.

A sextodecimo miscellany of verse and topographical prose, probably in a single small cursive hand, 78 leaves, written from both ends, Part I foliated 1r-33r, Part II foliated 1r-45r, in old calf.

c.1650s-60s

Described in F.P. Hammond, A Commonplace Book owned by John Oldham, N&Q, 224 (December 1979), 515-18.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 100 through 199 (MS V.a.169 Part II, f. 29v)

The wounded Cupid. Song ('Cupid as he lay among')

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 50. Patrick, pp. 70-1.

HeR 289

Copy, in Lawes's musical setting, untitled.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

Mid-17th century

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 53723 ff. 71v-2r)

The Wounded Heart ('Come bring your sampler, and with Art')

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 10-11. Patrick, p. 18.

HeR 290

Copy, headed To his Mistresse, subscribed Rob: Herricke.

This MS text collated in Martin.

Including fourteen poems by James Shirley, generally ascribed to him, and eleven poems by Strode (and two of doubtful authorship).

c.1636

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 30000 through 34999 (Add. MS 33998 ff. 61v-2r)

HeR 290.5

Copy, headed Sonet.

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English, Latin and Greek, largely in one secretary hand, written from both ends, with indexes (ff. 2r-3r, 168r-v), 168 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum.

Compiled by Sir John Perceval, Bt (1629-65), probably while at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Volume CXCII of the papers of the Perceval family, Earls of Egmont, and the allied Southwell family.

c.1646-9

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 45000 through 49999 (Add. MS 47111 f. 25r)

Other Poems by or Attributed to Herrick

Advice to a Maid ('Love in thy youth fayre Mayde bee wise')

First published, in a musical setting, in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Airs (London, 1632). Martin, p. 443 (in his section Not attributed to Herrick hitherto). Not included in Patrick.

HeR 291

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

c.1638

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

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

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 38 p. 141)

HeR 292

Copy, untitled.

c.1635-44

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

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, f through end (MS Eng. poet. f. 25 fol. 61r)

HeR 293

Copy in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

This MS collated in Martin.

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. 33v-4r)

HeR 294

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Martin.

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

c.1620-50

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 25000 through 29999 (Add. MS 25707 f. 149r)

HeR 295

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

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

c.1654-70s

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

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

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 29396 ff. 93v-4r)

HeR 296

Copy, closely written in a minute mixed hand, untitled, on the first page of two conjugate octavo leaves probably extracted from a verse miscellany.

This MS collated in Martin.

A large folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 128 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half red morocco.

Presented by F. Stevens, FSA.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 40000 through 44999 (Add. MS 41996 f. 18r)

HeR 297

Copy, headed Perswasion to Loue. A song.

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

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2725 f. 98r)

HeR 298

Copy, headed Sonnet.

This MS recorded in Martin.

A large folio verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary hand, probably associated with Oxford University, 34 leaves, in modern half-morocco marbled boards.

Including 15 poems by Carew and 17 poems by King.

c.1630s

Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Bookplate of the Warwick Castle Library. Formerly Folger MS 1.8.

The Folger Shakespeare Library: V.b. series (MS V.b.43 f. 7v)

HeR 299

Copy, untitled.

An octavo miscellany, comprising Instructions for Justices of the Peace in a roman hand at one end and, from the other end a collection of poems in a secretary hand, much of the MS written in double columns in oblong format, 92 leaves, in calf.

c.1623-30s

Probably compiled by two members of the Calverley family (f. 1r contains a poem headed A new years giuft presented to my father and Mother by my Brother Thomas Calverly).

Later in the library od Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9624. Owned before 1947 by N.M. Broadbent. Later owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1906-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 13 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 135, to Maggs.

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 46323 f. 14v)

HeR 300

Copy, headed To his yonger M^rs.

This MS collated in part in T.G.S. Cain, The Bell/White MS: Some Unpublished Poems, ELR, 2 (1972), 260-70 (p. 265).

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

c.1643-50s

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

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

University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 25 ff. 26v-7r)

HeR 301

Copy, headed To his loue.

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

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

c.1634

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

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 240 through 999 (MS 243/4 p. 27)

HeR 302

Copy, headed In imitation of the former, in a verse miscellany appended to a MS volume of poems by Donne.

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. 243v)

HeR 303

Copy, headed Sonnet.

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

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.

Rosemary Williams (Stoughton MS p. 47)

A Charroll presented to Dr. Williams Bp. of Lincolne as a Newyears guift ('Fly hence Pale Care, noe more remember')

First published in Hazlitt (1869), II, 445-6. Martin, p. 413. Patrick, pp. 74-5.

HeR 304 c.1630s

Copy, on one side of a single folio leaf.

Edited from this MS in Hazlitt (erroneously cited as Ashmole MS. 38), in Martin and in Patrick.

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. 298r)

Chorus ('Is, is there nothing cann withstand')

First published in Croft, Autograph Poetry (1973), I, 32.

*HeR 305 [1619]

Autograph

Autograph fair copy of an elegy on John Browne, Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, on a single folio leaf, unsigned and subscribed Trinitall halls/Exequies, with folds and tears, possibly one of the papers originally attached to Browne's coffin.

Edited from this MS, with a facsimile, in Croft. Facsimile and transcript also in Petti, English Literary Hands, No. 53. Facsimile in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 1986), No. 16, p. 16, and in Chris Fletcher et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 2003), p. 65.

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers, in verse and prose, in various hands, including that of John Stow (1524/5-1605), London historian, 192 leaves, in 19th-century half-leather gilt.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 1 through 999 (Harley MS 367 f. 154r)

A Christmas Carroll to the Earle of WestmorLand ('Now Christmas comes')

First published, and attributed to Herrick, in Tom Cain, Herrick's Christmas Carol: A New Poem, and its Implications for Patronage, ELR, 29/1 (Winter 1999), 131-53 (pp. 134-5).

HeR 305.5

Copy, followed by [Fane's] response His answære to the Caroll (beginning Robin--Like Copper guilded ore).

Edited from this MS in Cain, the answære edited on pp. 135-7.

A folio volume of miscellaneous verse and prose, in Latin and English, largely in one hand, with additions in other hands, written from both ends, dates ranging from 1633 to 1649, 43 unfoliated leaves, in paper wrappers.

Principally composed and copied by Mildmay Fane (1602-66), second Earl of Westmorland, politician and writer.

c.1640s-50s

This MS recorded in Gerald W. Morton, Two Literary and Historical Manuscripts in the Westmorland Collection, ELN, 26 (1988), 13-17 (pp. 13-14).

Northamptonshire Record Office (W(A) Box 6 Parcel VI, No. 1 [unnumbered pages])

The Descripcion: of a Woman ('Whose head befringed with bescattered tresses')

First published in Recreations for Ingenious Head-peeces (London, 1645). Hazlitt, II, 433-6. Martin, pp. 404-6. Patrick, pp. 549-51.

HeR 306

Copy.

Edited in part from this MS in Patrick; collated in Martin.

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

c.1637

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 198, Part I pp. 8-10)

HeR 307

Copy.

c.1639 [-c.1728]

Yale, Osborn MS b 150 through Osborn MS b 199 (Osborn MS b 197 pp. 13-16)

HeR 308

Edited from this MS in Hazlitt; edited in part in Patrick; collated in Martin.

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

c.1638

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

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

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 38 pp. 88-90)

HeR 309

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Martin; edited in part from this MS in Patrick.

c.1630s

The name Edward Michell inscribed later inside the rear cover. Afterwards owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199 (MS Rawl. poet. 160 ff. 105r-6r)

HeR 310

Copy, subscribed R: W.

Edited in part from this MS in Patrick; collated in Martin.

A quarto verse miscellany, largely in a single professional hand, with later additions on ff. 58v-62v in three or four other hands, 65 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt.

Compiled by one Thomas Crosse, whose name appears (f. 1*) in An Acrosticke upon my name, as well as subscribed (Tho: Cro:) to a poem on ff. 23v-4r.

c.1630s [-1670s]

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6057 ff. 42r-3r)

'Dote not on that which may but cause thy woe'

The Eclipse ('Vaile thou thine eyes a while my Deare')

First published in Norman Ault, A Treasury of Unfamiliar Lyrics (London, 1938), pp. 238-9. Martin, pp. 440-1 (in his section Not attributed to Herrick hitherto). Not included in Patrick.

HeR 311

Copy in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Ault, and in Martin.

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. 110v-11r)

HeR 312

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

This MS collated in Martin.

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

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

c.1654-70s

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

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

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 29396 ff. 80v-1r)

Elegy ('Since, louely sweete, much like vnto a Dewe')

First published in Martin (1956), pp. 443-4 (in his section Not attributed to Herrick hitherto). Not included in Patrick.

HeR 313

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Margaret Crum, An Unpublished Fragment of Verse by Herrick, RES, NS. 11 (1960), 186-9 (p. 189).

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

c.1630s-40s

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 50 ff. 116v-17v)

HeR 314

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Martin.

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

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. 36v-7v)

HeR 315

Copy, headed Elegye, subscribed finis Ro: Herrick.

c.1630s

National Library of South Africa, Cape Town (MS Grey 7 a 29 pp. 127-8)

Epitaph on a man who had a Scold to his Wife ('Nay, read, and spare not, Passenger')

First published, as An Epitaph on Himself, in Thomas Jordan, Claraphil and Clarinda (London, [1650?]). Martin, p. 420. Patrick, p. 554.

HeR 316

Copy.

Edited from this MS text in Martin and in Patrick.

Including fourteen poems by James Shirley, generally ascribed to him, and eleven poems by Strode (and two of doubtful authorship).

c.1636

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 30000 through 34999 (Add. MS 33998 f. 33v)

The farewell ('Sweetest Loue since wee must part')

First published in Martin (1956), pp. 441-2 (in his section Not attributed to Herrick hitherto). Not included in Patrick.

HeR 317

Copy, untitled.

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

c.1630s-40s

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 50 f. 95r-v)

HeR 318

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

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. 37v-8r)

HeR 319

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Martin.

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

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. 50v-1r)

Herracke on a Kisse to his M^rs ('Why what are lips but earth burnt read')

First published, and attributed to Herrick, in T.G.S. Cain, The Bell/White MS: Some Unpublished Poems, ELR, 2 (1972), 260-70 (pp. 261-3).

HeR 320

Copy.

Edited from this MS, with a facsimile of f. 56v, in Cain.

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

c.1643-50s

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

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

University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 25 ff. 56v-7r)

HeR 321

Copy of lines 1-4, headed On the Lipps, with other verse on a single quarto leaf.

This MS recorded in Cain.

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

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

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 36/37 f. 176v)

HeR 322

Copy of lines 1-4, headed on the lips and here beginning Why were your ffresh lip^s. but earth burn'd red.

This MS recorded in Cain.

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

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

c.1630s-40s

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 47 f. 31r)

'Hide not thy love and mine shall be'

First published in Aurelian Townshend's poems and Masks, ed. E.K. Chambers (Oxford, 1912), pp. 28-32. The Poems and Masques of Aurelian Townshend, ed. Cedric R. Brown (Reading, 1983), pp. 34-41 (Version One, First Part, pp. 35-7; Second Part pp. 35-7; Version Two, pp. 38-41). Ascribed to Herrick in several MSS.

HeR 323

Copy, untitled.

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

c.1630s-40s

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 50 f. 78r)

HeR 323.5

Copy of the second part, here beginning Though hand and eyes may proue.

This MS collated in Brown.

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

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2725 ff. 136v-7r)

HeR 323.8

Copy, untitled and unascribed.

A small quarto verse miscellany, in probably several hands over a period, one predominating, 31 leaves (plus blanks), in modern calf.

Including (ff. 3v-12r), in a single hand, fourteen poems, headed Verses of Madam Orindas and most subscribed Orinda, in relatively early versions, none dating later than 1650-51, subscribed (f. 12v) thus Farr Madam Orinda.

c.1651-86

Owned, in 1927 by Percy Dobell, and item 14 in one of his sale catalogues of poetical manuscripts.

Recorded in IELM as the Cardiff MS: PsK Δ 3. Recorded, collated and the text of three otherwise unknown poems by Philips printed in Thomas (1990); these three poems also edited in Thomas (1988), pp. 54-7. A complete microfilm of the MS is in the National Library of Wales.

Cardiff Central Library (MS 2.1073 ff. 19r-21r)

HeR 324

Copy, untitled.

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

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

c. late 1630s

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

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 626 f. 10r-v)

HeR 324.5

Copy, headed Dedicated to the La: L: B:.

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

c.1637

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 198, Part I pp. 42-3)

HeR 324.8

Copy, in two hands.

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

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

c.1620-33

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

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

A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 15). Betagraph of the watermark in f. 43 in Ted-Larry Pebworth, Towards a Taxonomy of Watermarks, in Puzzles in Paper: Concepts in Historical Watermarks, ed. Daniel W. Mosser, Michael Saffle and Ernest W. Sullivan, II (London, 2000), pp. 229-42 (p. 240).

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 198, Part II f. 129r)

HeR 325

Copy, untitled, subscribed finis Ro: Herrick.

c.1630s

National Library of South Africa, Cape Town (MS Grey 7 a 29 pp. 135-6)

HeR 326

Copy of the six stanzas version, untitled.

Edited in part from this MS in Brown. Recorded in Chambers.

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

c.1620-50

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 25000 through 29999 (Add. MS 25707 f. 149r-v)

HeR 327

Copy of the six stanza version, headed A Sonnet.

Partly edited from this MS in Brown. Recorded in Chambers.

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

c.1650-9

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

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

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6918 f. 19r-v)

HeR 327.2

Copy, headed To his loue.

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

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

c.1634

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

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 240 through 999 (MS 243/4 pp. 26-7)

HeR 327.4

Copy, untitled, subscribed Aurelian Tounshind.

Version Two edited from this MS in Brown.

c.1630s-40s

St John's College, Cambridge (MS S. 23 (James 416) f. 42v-4v)

HeR 327.6

Copy, headed Pure Simple Loue, here beginning Hide not thy Face and myne shal be, the word Face underlined and the word Love written in the margin in another hand, the poem subscribed Townesend.

Edited from this MS in Chambers and in Brown.

c.1630s

Formerly MS G. 2.21.

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

Trinity College, Dublin, numbers 800 through end (MS 877, [Part II] ff. 172r-4r)

HeR 327.7

Copy, headed Upon a harmlesse payre of unskilfull lovers.

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

c.1643-50s

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

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

University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 25 ff. 22r-3r)

HeR 327.8

Copy of the six-stanza version, headed To his M^rs entreating her to shunn the concealem^t: of her affection.

This MS recorded in Chambers and in Brown.

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. 247r-v)

HeR 327.9

Copy, headed Innocent Love, subscribed in another hand AT.

A folio formal verse miscellany, in a single rounded hand, 259 pages (plus a three-page index), in modern boards.

The contents, the latest of which (on pp. 203-7) can be dated to a marriage that took place in November 1656, reflect the taste of Interregnum Royalist sympathisers.

c.Late 1650s

University College London (MS Ogden 42 pp. 33-4)

His Mistris to him at his farwell ('You may vow Ile not forgett')

First published in Hazlitt (1869), II, 445. Martin, p. 414. Patrick, p. 46.

HeR 328

Copy, untitled.

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

c.1630s-40s

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 50 f. 84r)

HeR 329

Copy, untitled.

Edited in part from this MS in Patrick. Collated in Martin.

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

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. 22v-3r)

HeR 330

Copy, subscribed Ro herrick.

Edited from this MS in Hazlitt and in Martin; edited in part in Patrick.

A quarto composite volume of verse, in several hands (the 22 or 23 poems by Carew on ff. 2r-22r in a single hand), with later additions dated 1731-3 by one G. Broughton on ff. 1r and after 44r, a reference to St John's College, Cambridge (in 1731) on f. 83v, 93 leaves (plus blanks), in 19th-century half black morocco.

c.1630s [-1733]

G. Broughton is possibly William (Gulielmus) Broughton (b.1684/5), of Trinity College, Cambridge (one of whose Latin verse compilations was copied in 1704-6 by Richard Robinson in Trinity College, Cambridge, MS 0.6.1 (James 1497). Also the name Jo: Tweedy is inscribed several times on f. 81r. Owned before 1841 by one W. Potter.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Tweedye MS: CwT Δ 10.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 10000 through 14999 (Add. MS 11811 f. 37r)

HeR 331

Copy, headed A Sonnet.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Patrick; collated in Martin.

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

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. 23v-4r)

HeR 331.5

Copy, headed M^r Herricke to his M^rs going a iourney.

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

c.late 1630s

A microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7698.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 356 pp. 42-3)

King Oberon his Cloathing ('When the monethly horned Queene')

First published, as A Description of the King of Fayries Clothes and attributed to Sir Simeon Steward, in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Musarum Deliciae (London, 1656), p. 32. Attributed to Herrick in Hazlitt, II, 473-7, and in Norman K. Farmer, Jr, Robert Herrick and King Oberon's Clothing: New Evidence for Attribution, Yearbook of English Studies 1 (1971), 68-77. Not included in Martin or in Patrick. See also T.G.S. Cain, Robert Herrick, Mildmay Fane, and Sir Simeon Steward, ELR, 15 (1985), 312-17.

HeR 332

Copy, headed in the margin Kinge Oberons apparrell.

This MS collated in Farmer.

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

c.1630s-40s

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 50 ff. 45v-6r)

HeR 333

Copy, headed Kinge Obrons Apparell, subscribed S^r Simon Stewarde.

This MS collated in Farmer.

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

c.1630s-40s

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 50 f. 63r-v)

HeR 334

Copy, headed Oberons Cloathing, the original subscription Ro: Herrick deleted and replaced by S^r Si: Steward.

c.1630s

National Library of South Africa, Cape Town (MS Grey 7 a 29 pp. 113-14)

HeR 335

Copy, headed King Oberons Apparell and subscribed S^r. Simmion Steward.

c.1639 [-c.1728]

Yale, Osborn MS b 150 through Osborn MS b 199 (Osborn MS b 197 pp. 1-2)

HeR 336

Copy, headed King Oberons Apparell and here ascribed to S^r. Simon steward.

Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, collated in Farmer.

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

c.1638

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

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

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 38 pp. 99-100)

HeR 337

Copy, headed Oberon attired.

This MS collated in Farmer.

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

c.1640

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

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

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Firth e. 4 pp. 20-2)

HeR 338

Copy, headed The clothing of Oberon King of Fairies by S^r Simeon Steward.

This MS collated in Farmer.

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

c.1625-31

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

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 16 pp. 1-2)

HeR 339

Extracts, comprising twenty lines beginning at line 11 (here In a Cobweb shirt most thin), garbled with HeR 180 under the common heading The Fayrie Kings diet & apparrell.

Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, II, 481; recorded in Farmer.

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

Probably compiled principally by an Oxford University man.

c.1630s-40s

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

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 100 through 149 (MS Rawl. poet. 142 f. 45r)

HeR 340

Copy, headed The Faerey King, subscribed Sir Simeon Steward.

This MS collated in Farmer.

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

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 100 through 149 (MS Rawl. poet. 147 pp. 102-3)

HeR 341

Copy, headed King Oberons Apparel, subscribed S^r Simon Stewards.

This MS collated in Farmer.

c.1630s

The name Edward Michell inscribed later inside the rear cover. Afterwards owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199 (MS Rawl. poet. 160 ff. 168v-9v)

HeR 342

Copy of an abridged version, headed The ffayry King and here beginning On a time the fayry elues.

A miscellany of verse and prose, iii + 141 leaves.

Compiled by Matthew Crosse, Oxford University bedell of law.

c.1630s

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Top. Oxon. e. 380 ff. 175v-6)

HeR 343

Copy, headed The Fairy King, subscribed S^r Simeon Steward.

Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, II, 476-7; collated in Farmer.

c.1630s [-1733]

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Tweedye MS: CwT Δ 10.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 10000 through 14999 (Add. MS 11811 ff. 18v, 20rr)

HeR 344

Copy, headed The apparrelling of Oberon king of y^e Fayries.

This MS collated in Farmer.

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

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

c.1630s

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

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

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999 (Add. MS 22118 f. 1r-v)

HeR 345

Copy, headed K. Oberons his Apparrell, subscribed S^r Edmond Steward.

This MS collated in Farmer.

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

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

c.1640s-50s

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

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999 (Add. MS 22603 ff. 62r-3r)

HeR 346

Copy, headed The Fayres Reuellinge.

This MS collated in Farmer.

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. 172r-3r)

HeR 347 c.1630s

Copy, headed Oberon King of the fairies by Sr Simon Stewart.

This MS collated in Farmer.

An octavo volume of chiefly verse, in at least two cursive hands, 102 leaves (plus blanks), in half brown morocco on marbled boards.

Including principally autograph poems by Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax (1661-1715), but also (ff. 72v-7v) some poems apparently in a much earlier hand.

Later owned by John Lilly, bookseller. Sotheby's, 15-25 March 1871 (Lilly sale), lot 1366.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 25000 through 29999 (Add. MS 28644 ff. 72v-3r)

HeR 348

Copy, untitled.

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

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2725 ff. 144r-5r)

HeR 349

Copy, subscribed Ro: Herricke.

Printed from this MS in Farmer.

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 pp. 184-7)

HeR 349.5

Copy, headed Oberon Kinge of the Fairyes, his apparrell.

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. 16-18)

HeR 350 c.1630s

Copy, headed The kinge of ffairies Dresse on both sides of a single folio leaf.

A disbound collection of chiefly verse MSS, in several hands, largely folio.

Once belonging to the Newdegate family of Arbury Hall, Nuneaton, Warwickshire. Hodgson's, 20-21 November 1958, lot 572.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 11 No. 29)

HeR 351

Copy, headed The Pharyes Clothing and here ascribed to Sir Simion Steward.

This MS recorded in Neilson, A Bundle of Ballads, p. 114.

A composite volume of transcripts of ballads made, from various printed and manuscript sources, by and for Robert Jamieson (1780?-1844) for his edition of Popular Ballads and Songs (Edinburgh, 1806).

c.1800

Owned in 1921 by George Neilson, then by Charles R. Cowie, and now in the John Cowie Collection.

Discussed in G. Neilson, A Bundle of Ballads, E&S, 7 (1921), 108-42.

Mitchell Library, Glasgow (SR 241 308897 pp. 34-6)

HeR 351.5

Copy of part of the poem, headed The Fairy King's apparell and beginning at line 11, here In a cobweb shirt more thin.

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

Early-mid-18th century

The Duke of Northumberland, Alnwick Castle (MS 118 f. 240r)

HeR 352

Copy, headed The Pharyes clothing and here ascribed to S^r Simion Steward.

This MS collated in Farmer.

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

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

c.1634

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

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 240 through 999 (MS 243/4 pp. 152-4)

HeR 352.5

Copy, headed Oberon His Clothing.

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

c.late 1630s

A microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7698.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 356 pp. 1-3)

Mr Hericke his daughter's Dowrye ('Ere I goe hence and bee noe more')

First published in Hazlitt (1869), II, 436-9. Martin, pp. 407-9. Patrick, pp. 539-42.

HeR 353

Copy, headed My Daughters Dourie.

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

c.1630s-40s

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 50 ff. 91v-2v)

HeR 354

Copy, headed My [The deleted] Daughters Dowry.

Edited from this MS in Patrick. Collated in Martin.

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

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. 31v-3v)

HeR 355

Copy, headed My Daughters Dowrye, here beginning 'ffore I go hence, & be no more, subscribed finis Ro: Herr:.

Facsimile of p. 119 in L.F. Casson, The Manuscripts of the Grey Collection in Cape Town, BC, 10 (Spring 1961), 147-55 (facing p. 153).

c.1630s

National Library of South Africa, Cape Town (MS Grey 7 a 29 pp. 119-21)

HeR 356

Copy, headed R: Hericks daughters dowrie.

c.1639 [-c.1728]

Yale, Osborn MS b 150 through Osborn MS b 199 (Osborn MS b 197 pp. 11-13)

HeR 357

Copy, headed M^r Hericke his daughter's Dowrye.

Edited from this MS in Hazlitt and in Martin; collated in Patrick.

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

c.1638

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

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

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 38 pp. 94-6)

M^r Robert Hericke his farwell vnto Poetrie ('I have behelde two louers in a night')

First published in Hazlitt (1869), II, 439-42. Martin, pp. 410-12. Patrick, pp. 543-5.

HeR 358

Copy, headed M^r Herriks farwell to Poetry.

This MS collated in Martin and in Patrick.

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

c.1637

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 198, Part I pp. 14-16)

HeR 359

Copy, headed R: Hericks farwell to poetry.

c.1639 [-c.1728]

Yale, Osborn MS b 150 through Osborn MS b 199 (Osborn MS b 197 pp. 20-2)

HeR 360

Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, in Martin, and in Patrick.

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

c.1638

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

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

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 38 pp. 106-7)

HeR 361

Copy, here beginning Euen as yow see two lovers in a night.

This MS collated in Martin and in Patrick.

c.1630s

The name Edward Michell inscribed later inside the rear cover. Afterwards owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199 (MS Rawl. poet. 160 ff. 46v-7v)

HeR 362

Copy, headed Herickes Farewell to Poetrie.

This MS collated in Martin and in Patrick.

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

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

c.1640s-50s

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

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999 (Add. MS 22603 ff. 30v-2r)

The New Charon, Upon the death of Henry Lord Hastings ('Charon, O Charon, draw thy Boat to th' shore')

First published in Richard Brome, Lachrymae Musarum (London, 1649). Martin, pp. 416-17. Patrick, pp. 538-9.

HeR 363

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, here beginning Charon oh Charon, steere thy boate vp to the shore, on one side of a single folio leaf, the first line repeated (or else a false start) on the verso, once folded as a letter or package.

c.1620s-30s

Among the papers of the Isham family of Lamport Hall.

Northamptonshire Record Office (IL 4302)

Of one comeinge into the Springe Garden ('Blasted w^th sighes and surrounded w^th Cares')

See DnJ 3682.

Orpheus and Pluto ('How! not you Ghosts and Furies while I sing')

First published in Norman Ault, A Treasury of Unfamiliar Lyrics (London, 1938), p. 135. Martin, pp. 421-2. Patrick, p. 555.

HeR 364

Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by Robert Ramsay.

Edited from this MS in Ault, in Martin, and in Patrick.

A folio songbook, 121 leaves (including c.20 blanks and an index), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

c.1640s-60s

Later owned by Colonel W.G. Probert, of Bevills, Bures, Suffolk. Sold by Quaritch in 1937.

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. c. 57 ff. 53v-5)

Parkinsons shade to the house of M^r Pallauicine takeing his death ill ('Will you still lament and rayse')

First published in Martin (1956), pp. 422-3. Patrick, p. 556.

HeR 365

Copy, subscribed R: Herrick.

Edited from this MS in Martin and in Patrick.

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

c.1637

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 198, Part I p. 30)

HeR 366

Copy.

c.1639 [-c.1728]

Yale, Osborn MS b 150 through Osborn MS b 199 (Osborn MS b 197 pp. 10-11)

The Showre of Roses ('My Mistris blush'de, and therewithall')

First published, and attributed to Herrick, in Willa McClung Evans, Henry Lawes (New York, 1941), pp. 157-8. Martin, p. 440. Not included in Patrick.

HeR 367

Copy, in Lawes's musical setting, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Evans and in Martin. Facsimiles in Evans, p. 159, and in Pamela J. Willetts, The Henry Lawes Manuscript (London, 1969), plate XXII.

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

Mid-17th century

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 53723 f. 72v)

HeR 368

Copy, untitled.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single informal hand, a member of St John's College, Oxford, i + 99 leaves, in half-vellum marbled boards.

Including 19 poems by Habington and (ff. 8r-21r, 28v) 21 poems by Katherine Philips transcribed from a edited source.

Late 17th century

Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as Rawlinson MS I: PsK Δ 6.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 50 through 99 (MS Rawl. poet. 65 f. 34r)

A Song ('Loose no time nor youth but be')

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Martin, p. 442 (in his section Not attributed to Herrick hitherto). Not included in Patrick.

HeR 369

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

Edited from this MS in Martin.

A folio songbook, 121 leaves (including c.20 blanks and an index), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

c.1640s-60s

Later owned by Colonel W.G. Probert, of Bevills, Bures, Suffolk. Sold by Quaritch in 1937.

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. c. 57 f. 17v)

HeR 370

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

This MS collated in Martin.

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

c.1656

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

Bodleian Library, Music MSS (MS Mus. b. 1 f. 39v)

A Sonnet ('Ile dote noe more, nor shall mine eyes')

First published in Martin (1956), p. 442 (in his section Not attributed to Herrick hitherto). Not included in Patrick.

HeR 371

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

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

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 626 f. 38r-v)

HeR 372

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Martin.

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

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. 51v-2r)

To a disdaynefull fayre ('Thou maist be proud, and be thou so for me')

First published in Norman Ault, A Treasury of Unfamiliar Lyrics (London, 1938), p. 134. Martin, p. 421. Patrick, pp. 553-4.

HeR 373

Copy of an untitled three-stanza version, ascribed to Herrick, in a musical setting by Robert Ramsey.

Edited from this MS in Ault, in Martin, in Patrick and in Buchan, p. 102.

A folio songbook, 121 leaves (including c.20 blanks and an index), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

c.1640s-60s

Later owned by Colonel W.G. Probert, of Bevills, Bures, Suffolk. Sold by Quaritch in 1937.

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. c. 57 f. 41r)

HeR 374

Copy of a three-stanza version, headed Of a proud M^rs.

This MS colalted in Margaret Crum, An Unpublished Fragment of Verse by Herrick, RES, NS 11 (1960), 186-9 (p. 189).

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

c.1630s-40s

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 50 f. 64v)

HeR 375

Copy of the first stanza, in a musical setting by John Hilton.

This MS collated in John P. Cutts, Seventeenth-Century Songs and Lyrics in Paris Conservatoire MS. Rés. 2489, MD, 23 (1969), 117-39 (pp. 138-9).

Portion of a folio songbook compiled by John Playford (1623-86?).

c.1660

Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, Département de la Musique (MS Conservatoire Rés. 2489 p. 353 [f. 51v])

HeR 376

Copy of the first stanza.

This MS text collated in Martin and in Patrick.

Including fourteen poems by James Shirley, generally ascribed to him, and eleven poems by Strode (and two of doubtful authorship).

c.1636

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 30000 through 34999 (Add. MS 33998 f. 82v)

HeR 377

Copy of the first stanza, in a musical setting by John Hilton, untitled.

This MS collated in Martin and in Patrick.

A square-shaped folio songbook, largely in a single rounded secretary hand, with (ff. 1r-v, 69r-v) a table of contents, i + 69 leaves, in modern half red morocco.

Mid-17th century

Puttick & Simpson's, 2 March 1866, lot 230.

A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 2 (New York & London, 1986).

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Egerton MS 2013 f. 10r)

HeR 377.5

Copy of an adapted version of Herrick's poem, headed The patchd Song. 1636 and beginning Thou mayst be proud, & bee thou so for mee.

Edited from this MS text in The Poems of Thomas Pestell, ed. Hannah Buchan (Oxford, 1940), pp. 59-60, and see also R.G. Howarth, Attributions to Herrick, N&Q, 203 (June 1958), 249.

A quarto volume of poems by Thomas Pestell (1584-1659), royal chaplain, headed Perditi poëmata, in a single neat roman hand (?autograph), 57 leaves, in paper wrappers.

c.1637

Maggs's sale catalogue No. 481 (1940?), item 1496.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 228 f. 29v)

HeR 377.8 c.1620s-30s

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed On a proud M^rs., subscribed Ro: Herick.

A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous papers, in various languages, in various hands and paper sizes, 277 leaves, in modern cloth.

Among the papers of Robert Boyle (1627-91), natural philosopher.

Royal Society, London (RB/1/42 f. 111r)

To a Mayd ('Fayre Mayd, you did but cast your eyes erewhile')

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Martin, p. 419. Patrick, p. 553.

HeR 378

Copy, subscribed Rob: Herricke.

Edited from this MS text in Martin and in Patrick.

Including fourteen poems by James Shirley, generally ascribed to him, and eleven poems by Strode (and two of doubtful authorship).

c.1636

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 30000 through 34999 (Add. MS 33998 f. 82v)

To his false Mistris ('Whither are all her false oathes blowne')

First published in Martin (1956), p. 420. Patrick, pp. 68-9.

HeR 379

Copy, untitled.

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

c.1630s-40s

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 50 f. 113r)

HeR 380

Second copy, headed a Complaint.

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

c.1630s-40s

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 50 f. 133r)

HeR 381

Copy, in Lawes's musical setting.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

Mid-17th century

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 53723 f. 46r)

HeR 382

Copy, untitled and here beginning Wheer are all ower falce Oath blowne, in double columns.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

c.1637

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 198, Part I p. 63)

HeR 383

Copy, headed A complaint of his piurd M^rs.

This MS collated in Martin.

c.1630s

A flyleaf inscribed [?] Johannes Philips. Acquired from H. Stevens 11 December 1852.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1987), as the John Philips MS: StW Δ 8.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 18000 through 19999 (Add. MS 19268 f. 22r)

HeR 384

Copy, headed on his periur'd M^ris.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

c.1620-50

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

HeR 385

Copy, headed A complaint.

This MS collated in Martin.

c.1633 [-late 17th century]

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

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 30000 through 34999 (Add. MS 30982 f. 42v)

HeR 386

Copy, subscribed Rob: Herricke.

Edited from this MS text in Martin and in Patrick.

Including fourteen poems by James Shirley, generally ascribed to him, and eleven poems by Strode (and two of doubtful authorship).

c.1636

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 30000 through 34999 (Add. MS 33998 ff. 82v-3r)

HeR 387

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

This MS collated in Martin.

A square-shaped folio songbook, largely in a single rounded secretary hand, with (ff. 1r-v, 69r-v) a table of contents, i + 69 leaves, in modern half red morocco.

Mid-17th century

Puttick & Simpson's, 2 March 1866, lot 230.

A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 2 (New York & London, 1986).

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Egerton MS 2013 ff. 8v-9r)

HeR 388

Copy, headed On a periured M^ris.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2725 ff. 68v-9r)

HeR 389

Copy, headed On a false M^rs.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

c.1633

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1446 f. 88r)

HeR 390

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Martin.

Compiled by University or Inns of Court men.

c.1630s

Inscribed (f. [104v] Thomas White His Book May y^e 20 Anno Domine 1691. Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps and in his library at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1.21.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 1 through 99 (MS V.a.96 f. 44r)

HeR 391

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Martin.

Compiled by University or Inns of Court men.

c.1630s

Inscribed (f. [104v] Thomas White His Book May y^e 20 Anno Domine 1691. Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps and in his library at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1.21.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 1 through 99 (MS V.a.96 f. 72r)

HeR 392

Copy, headed In Perjuram.

Including 12 poems by Carew.

c.1650s

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

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 100 through 199 (MS V.a.124 f. 42v)

HeR 393

Copy, headed Upon his periured Mistris and here beginning Whether bee all her false oathes.

This MS recorded in Martin.

A large folio verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary hand, probably associated with Oxford University, 34 leaves, in modern half-morocco marbled boards.

Including 15 poems by Carew and 17 poems by King.

c.1630s

Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Bookplate of the Warwick Castle Library. Formerly Folger MS 1.8.

The Folger Shakespeare Library: V.b. series (MS V.b.43 f. 8v)

HeR 394

Copy, headed On a falce m^rs.

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

c.1630s

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

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

Leeds Archives (WYL156/237 f. 52r)

HeR 395

Copy, untitled.

This MS (erroneously cited as MS 239/22) collated in Patrick.

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

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

c.1630s

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1 through 239 (MS 239/23 pp. 37-8)

HeR 396

Second copy, headed To his false Mistresse.

This MS (erroneously cited as MS 239/22) collated in Patrick.

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

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

c.1630s

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1 through 239 (MS 239/23 p. 156)

HeR 397

Copy, headed Of his periur'd M^rs.

This MS collated in Patrick.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single predominantly italic hand, 152 leaves (paginated 1-34, thereafter foliated 35-169), plus index, in modern red leather.

Including 85 poems (and second copies of two) by Thomas Carew.

c.1638-42

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1000 through end (MS 1083/17 ff. 115v-16r)

HeR 398

Copy, untitled.

c.1620-40s

Owned and probably compiled in part, in his Oxford days, by George Morley (1598-1684), Bishop of Winchester.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Morley MS: DnJ Δ 62, CoR Δ 13, and StW Δ 27. This MS apparently transcribed in part in the Killigrew MS (British Library, Sloane MS 1792).

Facsimile of f. 49r in William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion, ed. Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor (Oxford, 1987), p. 24.

Westminster Abbey (MS 41 f. 93r)

HeR 399

Copy, headed Vpon his periur'd Mistresse.

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

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.

Rosemary Williams (Stoughton MS p. 57)

HeR 400

Copy, headed A complaint.

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

c.1630s

Formerly Box 22, item II.

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

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 205 f. 73v)

Upon a Cherrystone sent to the tip of the Lady Jemmonia Walgraves eare ('Lady I intreate yow weare')

First published in Delattre (1912), 519-21. Martin, pp. 417-18. Patrick, pp. 547-8.

HeR 401

Copy, headed in the margin One a Cherrie stone sent to y^e tip of m^rs Jemiammas werldgraues eare one y^e one side a delicate face on y^e other side a deathes head.

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

c.1630s-40s

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 50 f. 37r-v)

HeR 402

Second copy, headed On a Carued Cherrie Stone.

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

c.1630s-40s

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 50 ff. 94v-5r)

HeR 403

Copy, headed Vpon a Carued Cherriestone.

Edited in part from this MS in Patrick. Collated in Martin.

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

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. 35v-6v)

HeR 404

Copy, headed Vpon a Carved cherrystone, subscribed finis Ro: Herrick.

c.1630s

National Library of South Africa, Cape Town (MS Grey 7 a 29 pp. 114-15)

HeR 405

Copy, in double columns.

Facsimile of p. 7 in Sotheby's sale catalogue (hardback), 27 June 1972, lot 309, facing p. 55.

c.1639 [-c.1728]

Yale, Osborn MS b 150 through Osborn MS b 199 (Osborn MS b 197 pp. 7-8)

HeR 406

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Delattre and in Martin; edited in part from this MS in Patrick.

c.1630s

The name Edward Michell inscribed later inside the rear cover. Afterwards owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199 (MS Rawl. poet. 160 f. 28r-v)

HeR 407

Copy, headed On a Cherrie-stone having a Deaths-head on y^e one side and a Gentlewomans on the other.

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

Probably compiled by a member of New College, Oxford.

c.1630s

Some tipped-in notes by Richard Rawlinson.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 200 through end (MS Rawl. poet. 206 pp. 66-7)

HeR 408

Copy, headed On a cherry stone haueing a deaths head on y^e one side & a Gentlewoman on y^e other side.

Edited in part from this MS in Patrick; collated in Martin.

c.1633 [-late 17th century]

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

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 30000 through 34999 (Add. MS 30982 ff. 66r-7v)

HeR 409

Copy, headed On a cherry stone sent to weare in his M^rs eare, a deaths head on the one side & her face on the other, subscribed Rog: Hericke.

Edited in part from this MS in Patrick; collated in Martin.

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

c.1633

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1446 ff. 62v-3r)

HeR 410

Copy, headed A cherry stone sent to weare in his M^ris eare a deaths head on one side her owne face on y^e other.

This MS collated in Martin.

c.early 1630s

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1792 ff. 20r-v)

HeR 411

Copy, headed One a cherry stone haueinge a deaths head one the one side, & a gentle woman on the other.

This MS collated in Patrick.

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

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

c.1634

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1 through 239 (MS 239/27 pp. 310-12)

HeR 411.5

Copy, headed On a cherystone hauing the picture of death on one side and a gentlewoman on y^e other.

An octavo verse miscellany, of English and Welsh verse and prose, in probably several hands, the English verse (on pages 9-70, 93-104) including eleven poems by Strode and two of doubtful authorship, 110 pages (plus stubs of extracted leaves).

Compiled by members of the Griffith family, of Llanddyfnan, the verse probably entered by one or more of the various members of that family who studied in this period at the University of Oxford.

Mid-17th century

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Griffith MS: StW Δ 26.

Bangor University (MS 422 pp. 103-4)

HeR 412

Copy, headed On a cherry stone haveing a deaths on the one side, and a gentlewoman on the other.

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

c.1630s

Formerly Box 22, item II.

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

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 205 ff. 76r-7v)

Vpon parting ('Goe hence away, and in thy parting know')

First published in Hazlitt (1869), II, 446-7. Martin, p. 414. Patrick, p. 552.

HeR 413

Copy, subscribed R. Herrick:.

Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, in Martin, and in Patrick.

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

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

c.1641-9

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

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6917 f. 82v)

HeR 414

Copy, subscribed Ro Herrick.

This MS recorded in Martin.

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

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

c.1674-84

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

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 200 through 299 (MS V.a.276 Part II, f. 6r)

HeR 415

Copy, in Constance Fowler's hand, untitled.

Aldrich-Watson, p. 16. This MS collated in Martin, p. 494. Discussed in Jenijoy La Belle, The Huntington Aston Manuscript, BC, 29 (Winter 1980), 542-67 (p. 555).

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

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

c.1635-50s

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

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

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 904 f. 13r)

Letters

Letter(s)

*HeR 416 1613

Autograph

Autograph letter signed by Herrick, to his uncle, subscribed by Robert's older brother Thomas, acknowledging receipt of £15 from Sir William on 1 October 1613, [September 1613].

Martin, p. 445. Sotheby's (i).

Collection of fourteen letters by Robert Herrick, all written in his student days at Cambridge, to his uncle, Sir William Herrick.

For other letters from this series, see HeR 430 and HeR 431.

Formerly in the Leicestershire Record Office, DG 9/2422-2435. Sotheby's, 5 December 1988, lot 14 (i-xiv), with facsimile examples.

Martin, pp. 445-53. Facsimile examples also in Grosart (frontispiece); in Hazlitt, p. ix; in John Nicols, The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester, II, ii (1798), Plate CV, facing p. 613; in George Walton Scott, Robert Herrick (London, 1974), p. 93; and in Ray Rawlins, The Guinness Book of Autographs (London, 1977), p. 105.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Eng. c. 2278 Letter 1: ff. 3r-4v (2422/1-2))

*HeR 417 c.1613

Autograph

Autograph letter signed by Herrick, to his uncle, from St John's College, Cambridge.

Martin, pp. 445-6. Sotheby's (ii), with a facsimile in the sale catalogue, p. 16.

Collection of fourteen letters by Robert Herrick, all written in his student days at Cambridge, to his uncle, Sir William Herrick.

For other letters from this series, see HeR 430 and HeR 431.

Formerly in the Leicestershire Record Office, DG 9/2422-2435. Sotheby's, 5 December 1988, lot 14 (i-xiv), with facsimile examples.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Eng. c. 2278 Letter 2: ff. 5r-6v (2423/1-2)

*HeR 418

Autograph

Autograph letter signed by Herrick, to his uncle, from St John's College, Cambridge.

Martin, pp. 446-7. Sotheby's (iii).

Collection of fourteen letters by Robert Herrick, all written in his student days at Cambridge, to his uncle, Sir William Herrick.

For other letters from this series, see HeR 430 and HeR 431.

Formerly in the Leicestershire Record Office, DG 9/2422-2435. Sotheby's, 5 December 1988, lot 14 (i-xiv), with facsimile examples.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Eng. c. 2278 Letter 3: ff. 9r-10v (2424/1-2))

*HeR 419 c.1613

Autograph

Autograph letter signed by Herrick, to his uncle.

Martin, p. 447. Sotheby's (iv), with a facsimile of Herrick's signature and subscription by Robert Martine acknowledging receipt from Sir William of £10.

Collection of fourteen letters by Robert Herrick, all written in his student days at Cambridge, to his uncle, Sir William Herrick.

For other letters from this series, see HeR 430 and HeR 431.

Formerly in the Leicestershire Record Office, DG 9/2422-2435. Sotheby's, 5 December 1988, lot 14 (i-xiv), with facsimile examples.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Eng. c. 2278 Letter 4: ff. 13-14v (24245/1-2))

*HeR 420 1617

Autograph

Autograph letter signed by Herrick, to his uncle [end of 1616 or beginning of 1616/7].

Martin, pp. 447-8. Sotheby's (v), with facsimiles in the sale catalogue, p. 18 and cover. Facsimiles also in IELM, II.i (1987), Facsimile XXIII, after p. xxiv, and in in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 170.

Collection of fourteen letters by Robert Herrick, all written in his student days at Cambridge, to his uncle, Sir William Herrick.

For other letters from this series, see HeR 430 and HeR 431.

Formerly in the Leicestershire Record Office, DG 9/2422-2435. Sotheby's, 5 December 1988, lot 14 (i-xiv), with facsimile examples.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Eng. c. 2278 Letter 5: f. 17r (2426/1-2))

*HeR 421 1617

Autograph

Autograph letter signed by Herrick, to his uncle, [early 1616/7].

Martin, p. 448. Sotheby's (vii).

Collection of fourteen letters by Robert Herrick, all written in his student days at Cambridge, to his uncle, Sir William Herrick.

For other letters from this series, see HeR 430 and HeR 431.

Formerly in the Leicestershire Record Office, DG 9/2422-2435. Sotheby's, 5 December 1988, lot 14 (i-xiv), with facsimile examples.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Eng. c. 2278 Letter 6: ff. 20r-1v (2427/1-2))

*HeR 422 1617

Autograph

Autograph letter signed by Herrick, to his uncle, [March-April 1617].

Martin, p. 449. Sotheby's (vii), with a facsimile of Herrick's signature and the subscription by Anthony Uphill acknowledging receipt from Sir William of £10 on 11 April 1617.

Collection of fourteen letters by Robert Herrick, all written in his student days at Cambridge, to his uncle, Sir William Herrick.

For other letters from this series, see HeR 430 and HeR 431.

Formerly in the Leicestershire Record Office, DG 9/2422-2435. Sotheby's, 5 December 1988, lot 14 (i-xiv), with facsimile examples.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Eng. c. 2278 Letter 7: ff. 24r-5v (2428/1-2))

*HeR 423

Autograph

Autograph letter signed by Herrick, to his uncle.

Martin, p. 449. Sotheby's (viii).

Collection of fourteen letters by Robert Herrick, all written in his student days at Cambridge, to his uncle, Sir William Herrick.

For other letters from this series, see HeR 430 and HeR 431.

Formerly in the Leicestershire Record Office, DG 9/2422-2435. Sotheby's, 5 December 1988, lot 14 (i-xiv), with facsimile examples.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Eng. c. 2278 Letter 8: f. 26r (2429))

*HeR 424

Autograph

Autograph letter signed by Herrick, to his uncle.

Martin, p. 450. Sotheby's (ix), with a facsimile example in the sale catalogue, p. 21.

Collection of fourteen letters by Robert Herrick, all written in his student days at Cambridge, to his uncle, Sir William Herrick.

For other letters from this series, see HeR 430 and HeR 431.

Formerly in the Leicestershire Record Office, DG 9/2422-2435. Sotheby's, 5 December 1988, lot 14 (i-xiv), with facsimile examples.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Eng. c. 2278 Letter 9: ff. 29r-30v (2430/1-2))

*HeR 425

Autograph

Autograph letter signed by Herrick, to his uncle.

Martin, p. 450. Sotheby's (x).

Collection of fourteen letters by Robert Herrick, all written in his student days at Cambridge, to his uncle, Sir William Herrick.

For other letters from this series, see HeR 430 and HeR 431.

Formerly in the Leicestershire Record Office, DG 9/2422-2435. Sotheby's, 5 December 1988, lot 14 (i-xiv), with facsimile examples.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Eng. c. 2278 Letter 10: ff. 33r-34v (2431/1-2))

*HeR 426

Autograph

Autograph letter signed by Herrick, to his uncle, from St John's College, Cambridge.

Martin, 451. Sotheby's (xi).

Collection of fourteen letters by Robert Herrick, all written in his student days at Cambridge, to his uncle, Sir William Herrick.

For other letters from this series, see HeR 430 and HeR 431.

Formerly in the Leicestershire Record Office, DG 9/2422-2435. Sotheby's, 5 December 1988, lot 14 (i-xiv), with facsimile examples.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Eng. c. 2278 Letter 11: ff. 37r-8v (2432/1-2))

*HeR 427 c.1616

Autograph

Autograph letter signed by Herrick, to his uncle, 11 October [no year].

Martin, p. 451. Sotheby's (xii), with a facsimile in the sale catalogue, p. 22. Facsimile also in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 171.

Collection of fourteen letters by Robert Herrick, all written in his student days at Cambridge, to his uncle, Sir William Herrick.

For other letters from this series, see HeR 430 and HeR 431.

Formerly in the Leicestershire Record Office, DG 9/2422-2435. Sotheby's, 5 December 1988, lot 14 (i-xiv), with facsimile examples.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Eng. c. 2278 Letter 12: ff. 41r-2v (2433/1-2))

*HeR 428 c.1616

Autograph

Autograph letter signed by Herrick, to his uncle.

Martin, p. 452. Sotheby's (xiii).

Collection of fourteen letters by Robert Herrick, all written in his student days at Cambridge, to his uncle, Sir William Herrick.

For other letters from this series, see HeR 430 and HeR 431.

Formerly in the Leicestershire Record Office, DG 9/2422-2435. Sotheby's, 5 December 1988, lot 14 (i-xiv), with facsimile examples.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Eng. c. 2278 Letter 13: ff. 45r (2434)

*HeR 429 c.1616

Autograph

Autograph letter signed by Herrick, to his uncle, from Trinity hall, Cambridge, [c.1616].

Martin, pp. 452-3. Sotheby's (xiv), with a facsimile of Herrick's signed subscription in the sale catalogue, p. 23.

Collection of fourteen letters by Robert Herrick, all written in his student days at Cambridge, to his uncle, Sir William Herrick.

For other letters from this series, see HeR 430 and HeR 431.

Formerly in the Leicestershire Record Office, DG 9/2422-2435. Sotheby's, 5 December 1988, lot 14 (i-xiv), with facsimile examples.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Eng. c. 2278 Letter 14: f. 48r (2435))

*HeR 430

Autograph

Autograph letter signed by Herrick, to Sir William Herrick, from St John's College, Cambridge.

c.1615-16

Given by a proprietor of Beaumanor early in the 19th century to Lady Sitwell of Rempstone, Derbyshire, and afterwards owned by her grandson, Canon Egerton Leigh. Later in the collection of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1906-90), American business man and collector. Christie's 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 256, with a facsimile in the sale catalogue, Plate 37.

Martin, p. 452 (No. XIIA), and Moorman, pp. 37-8. A facsimile is also in British Literary Autographs, Series I, ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (New York, 1981), No. 36.

The Pierpont Morgan Library (MA 3268)

*HeR 431

Autograph

Autograph letter signed by Herrick, to his uncle Sir William Herrick, undated.

c.1613-16

Alleged by Nichols to be from the collection of Miss Anne Nichols.

A facsimile in John Gough Nichols, Autographs of Royal, Noble, Learned, and Remarkable Personages conspicuous in English History (London, 1829), facing p. [93].

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Herrick letter])

Documents

Document(s)

*HeR 432 1607

Autograph

The sixteen-year-old poet's indenture of apprenticeship to his uncle, on vellum, bearing the poet's earliest known signature (Robert Hericke), 25 September 1607.

Edited in F.W. Moorman, Robert Herrick: A Biographical & Critical Study (London, 1910), pp. 331-2. Facsimiles in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 15 December 1988, lot 15, p. 24, and in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 169.

Legal and financial documents relating to Robert Herrick.

Including papers signed by his father, Nicholas (d.1592), and his uncle and guardian, Sir William Herrick (1562-1653).

Leicestershire Record Office (DG. 9/2405-2421 DG. 9/2419)

*HeR 433

Autograph

A portion of Sir William Herrick's autograph account book, recording four payments to his nephew Robert Herrick (totalling £74 8s) between 1 September 1610 and 5 March 1612/13, the last of the payments (for £42 10s) being signed in receipt by the poet himself (Robert Hearick) and the account then cancelled by his uncle with two pen strokes, 19 March 1612/13.

1613

Among papers of the Herrick family.

Facsimile in Hofmann & Freeman's sale catalogue No. 25 (1968), item 27.

Bodleian Library, Eng. hist. MSS (MS Eng. hist c. 474, f. 117r)

*HeR 434 1613

Autograph

A statement in Latin, in a professional secretary hand, signed by Herrick (Robert Hearicke), acknowledging receipt of money from his uncle, 19 March 1612/13.

A negative microfiche of this document also in London Metropolitan Archives, COL/AC/19/188. Discussed in Mark Eccles, Herrick's Inheritance, N&Q, 230 (March 1985), 74-8.

A double-folio-size civic register of entries, in the professional hands of clerks, with numerous signatures by others, 402 leaves (including blanks), in modern vellum.

Formerly Corporation of London Records Office, Journal 29.

London Metropolitan Archives (COL/CC/O1/030 f. 28r)

*HeR 435 1613

Autograph

A statement in Latin, in a professional secretary hand, signed by Herrick (Robert Hearick), acknowledging receipt of money from his uncle, 19 March 1612/13; together with similar or related statements signed by his brothers Thomas Heyrick, Nicholas Hericke, and William Hericke, and by his sister Mercie Hericke, 19 March 1612/13.

A negative microfiche of this document is also in London Metropolitan Archives, COL/AC/19/187. Discussed in Mark Eccles, Herrick's Inheritance, N&Q, 230 (March 1985), 74-8.

A double-folio-size civic register of entries, in the professional hands of clerks, with numerous signatures by others, vi + 368 vellum leaves (plus 21 blanks), in modern vellum.

Formerly Corporation of London Records Office, Letter Book AB.

London Metropolitan Archives (COL/AD/01/026 f. 189v)

*HeR 436 1616

Autograph

Herrick's autograph signature (as Robertus Heareck or Hearick, the dot on the i perhaps being accidentally extended) under the heading Aula Trinitatis for 1616.

The University Subscriptions Book, 1613-38.

Cambridge University Archives (Subscriptiones I p. 18)

*HeR 437 1620

Autograph

Herrick's autograph signature (as Robert Hearick) under the heading Aula Trinitatis, also in his hand, for 1620.

The University Subscriptions Book, 1613-38.

Cambridge University Archives (Subscriptiones I p. 79)

*HeR 437.5 1620

Autograph

Herrick's signature (Robert Hearick). The signature appears under a similar heading to the poet's previous entry (which in this instance is in Herrick's hand). [1620].

St John's College, Cambridge (Subscriptiones I, 1613-38 p. 79)

HeR 438

A petition by Herrick for the vicarage of Deane (viz. Dean Prior) in Devon, entirely in professional hand, undated but with a modern pencil inscription 15 Mar 1628/9 and Sept 1630?.

1629-30

Edited in Delattre, pp. 514-15, and in Martin, p. xiv. Erroneously described as autograph in Moorman, p. 88.

National Archives, Kew (SP 16/173/93)

*HeR 439

Autograph

The last ten lines of this page written in a hand similar to Herrick's.

Parish Register for Dean Prior, for 1557-1738.

Containing entries over these years by a large number of different parish clerks and, possibly, rectors, seven pages recording baptisms, burials and marriages between 25 March 1630 and September 1636 bearing some resemblance to Herrick's hand.

1630-6

A few extracts edited in Delattre, pp. 516-17. A complete microfilm is in the Devon Record Office at Exeter.

Church of St George the Martyr ([no shelfmark] f. 12v)

*HeR 440

Autograph

This whole page, some 51 lines, written in a hand similar to Herrick's.

Parish Register for Dean Prior, for 1557-1738.

1630-6

A few extracts edited in Delattre, pp. 516-17. A complete microfilm is in the Devon Record Office at Exeter.

Church of St George the Martyr ([no shelfmark] f. 13r)

*HeR 441

Autograph

The first 29 lines written in a hand similar to Herrick's.

Parish Register for Dean Prior, for 1557-1738.

1630-6

A few extracts edited in Delattre, pp. 516-17. A complete microfilm is in the Devon Record Office at Exeter.

Church of St George the Martyr ([no shelfmark] f. 13v)

*HeR 442

Autograph

The last seventeen lines and a name inserted in line 29 written in a hand similar to Herrick's.

Parish Register for Dean Prior, for 1557-1738.

1630-6

A few extracts edited in Delattre, pp. 516-17. A complete microfilm is in the Devon Record Office at Exeter.

Church of St George the Martyr ([no shelfmark] f. 37r)

*HeR 443

Autograph

The whole page but for the last four lines, some 42 lines in all, written in a hand similar to Herrick's.

Parish Register for Dean Prior, for 1557-1738.

1630-6

A few extracts edited in Delattre, pp. 516-17. A complete microfilm is in the Devon Record Office at Exeter.

Church of St George the Martyr ([no shelfmark] f. 37v)

*HeR 444

Autograph

Line 22 onwards, some 26 lines, written in a hand similar to Herrick's.

Parish Register for Dean Prior, for 1557-1738.

1630-6

A few extracts edited in Delattre, pp. 516-17. A complete microfilm is in the Devon Record Office at Exeter.

Church of St George the Martyr ([no shelfmark] f. 59r)

*HeR 445

Autograph

The first two lines written in a hand similar to Herrick's.

Parish Register for Dean Prior, for 1557-1738.

1630-6

A few extracts edited in Delattre, pp. 516-17. A complete microfilm is in the Devon Record Office at Exeter.

Church of St George the Martyr ([no shelfmark] f. 59v)

*HeR 446

Autograph

A petition by Herrick, to the House of Lords, requesting that the revenues of his vicarage, which had been sequestered during the Commonwealth period, might be newly sequestered into the hands of the churchwardens or overseers of the poor until he could prove his title to it by law, in a professional hand and signed by Herrick (Robert Herrick), 23 June 1660.

In a guardbook of petitions to Parliament.

1660

Formerly House of Lords Record Office, Main Papers, H.L., 23 June 1660.

Edited in Delattre, pp. 515-16 and in Martin, pp. xvi-xvii.

Parliamentary Archives (HL/PO/JO/10/1/289 (D-K, item 49))

*HeR 447

Autograph

A certificate of orthodoxy, in Latin, for one Edward Goswell, Herrick's signature (Robertus Herrick) appearing as the first of six in support of the testament, 12 October 1661.

1661

Devon Record Office, Exeter (Basket D/67/99)

*HeR 448 1662

Autograph

The signature of Robert Herrick Rector of Deane Prior on a leaf in the middle of twenty-five signatures by clerics and academics (eighth in the right-hand column), 31 August 1662.

Book of Subscriptions to the Act of Conformity.

Devon Record Office, Exeter (Chanter 151 f. 43r)

*HeR 449

Autograph

Herrick's signature (Robert Herrick Minister), on a leaf in the Bishop's Transcripts for 1613-1811 relating to Dean Prior, the leaf, probably written shortly after 20 April 1663, containing The names of those which haue beene buried since the first day of Aprill one thousand sixhundred sixtie and Two, counter-signed by Herrick's churchwardens Thomas Mudge and Samuel Hore.

1663

Devon Record Office, Exeter (The Bishop's Transcripts for 1613-1811)

Miscellaneous Extracts from Herrick's Poems

Extracts

HeR 450

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

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

c.1656-66

Formerly MS 469.2.

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

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

HeR 451

Extract, a couplet by Rob Herrick.

A verse miscellany.

c.1674

Owned by Henry Bracegirdle, of Merton College, Oxford, and in 1674 by one Hugh Massey.

King's College, Cambridge (Hayward Collection, H. 11. 13 f. [30r])