John Hoskyns

1566–1638

Introduction

John Hoskyns (who invariably spelt his name so) was an outspoken Member of Parliament and a lawyer of the Middle Temple who rose to the office of serjeant at law. He was perhaps almost equally well-known in his lifetime for his wit, which according to Aubrey could be bitterly satyrical as well as convivial. These traits, as well as his scholarly learning and command of Latin, are clearly represented in the poetry he wrote, and for which he is best remembered today.

Verse

As with so many other poets of his time who never published their verse, his writings survive in widely scattered manuscript copies, none of them in his own hand. According to John Aubrey (Bodleian MS Rawl. D. 727, f. 93v) Hoskyns had a booke of Poems neatly written (by one of his Clerks) bigger then D^r Donns Poems, w^ch his sonn Benet lent to he knowes not who about 1653. & could never heare of it since. For lack of such a collection today, the canon of Hoskyns's poems is therefore uncertain. Even the most famous (or notorious) poem associated with him, the hugely popular verses on the Parliament fart, could perhaps be partly by others, or else, as has been suggested, written originally by Hoskyns in Latin and translated by John Reynolds.

The verse canon, both English and Latin, accepted by his editor, Louise Brown Osborn, with a few revisions by Whitlock and Colclough, is consequently based chiefly on ascriptions in manuscript sources. While the majority are probably valid, some of the poems can also be found ascribed to other poets; moreover yet other poems not incorporated by Osborn can be found ascribed to him. One particularly well-known epitaph on Sir Walter Ralegh, for instance, that beginning Great heart who taught thee so to die, is ascribed to Hoskyns in at least one contemporary manuscript copy (Wiltshire and Swindon Archives 865/500, f. [33r]), and Hoskyns knew Ralegh when they were both confined in the Tower. This widely circulated poem is not, however, given entries below.

Osborn also includes (pp. 297-9), among her Doubtful Verses, various epigrams which were published in Camden's Remaines (1605), some of which are found in one of Camden's own compilations (British Library, Cotton MS Julius F. XI, f. 98r). These items are anonymous, however, and must remain among verses on the fringes of this already provisional canon.

Prose

In the field of prose writing, Hoskyns is reported by Aubrey to have written severall Treatises, including a method of the lawe (imperfect) and his own life (which his grandsonne Sir John Hoskyns, knight and baronet haz). The only one of these writings known today is his Directions for Speech and Style, of which four manuscripts survive (HoJ 339-342). His participation in the Middle Temple Christmas revels of 1597-8 led to his comic Fustian Speech (HoJ 342.5-344). Moreover, his career as a Member of Parliament led to him giving sometimes controversial Parliamentary speeches, one of which led to his imprisonment in the Tower from 8 June 1614 to 8 June 1615. As recorded by parliamentary scribes, his speeches generally survive as summary abridgements, a few of which are recorded below (HoJ 345-353). A systematic search of the numerous extant parliamentary journals of the period would no doubt bring many more copies to light. For an extensive account of Hoskyns's participation in Parliamentary debates, see Whitlock, passim.

Letters and Documents

Another notable contribution to Hoskyn's writings is his familiar, or personal, letters, which Aubrey declared were admirable and whose arresting vividness has been warmly praised by the author's modern editor. Of the 34 letters by him recorded below (*HoJ 354-388), thirty of them, dating from 1601 to 1629, preserved in Sizergh Castle, Westmorland, were printed for the first time in Osborn (pp. 62-97). Nearly all of them are autograph, the majority to his first wife, some to his step-daughter. The Sizergh muniments also include the earliest of three extant wills written by Hoskyns (HoJ 391-394).

Various other documents relating to Hoskyns are recorded in Whitlock, passim.

Abbreviations

Colclough — David Colclough, The Muses Recreation: John Hoskyns and the Manuscript Culture of the Seventeenth Century, Huntington Library Quarterly, 61 (1998), 369-400.
Osborn — Louise Brown Osborn, The Life, Letters, and Writings of John Hoskyns 1566-1638 (New Haven & London, 1937).
Whitlock — Baird W. Whitlock, John Hoskyns, Serjeant-at-Law (Washington, DC, 1982).

Verse

(1) English Poems

'A zealous Lock-Smith dy'd of late'

Whitlock, p. 108.

HoJ 1

Copy, headed Vppon A Smith.

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

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

c.1638

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

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

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 38 p. 169) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 2

Copy, headed On a Locke-smith.

In: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in probably three hands, written from both ends, 86 leaves, in 17th-century calf.

c.1648-61

Scribbling on f. 33r rev. including the name Elizabeth keech.

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. f. 37 fol. 69v rev.) | Catalogue

HoJ 3

Copy, headed on a black smith and here beginning a zealous blacksmith died of late.

In: 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. 128v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 4

Copy, headed On y^e death of a locksmith and here beginning Ther was a Locksmith died of late.

In: 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. 85r rev.) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 5

Copy, headed A Puritannical Lock Smith.

In: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, predominantly in one hand, written from both ends, 127 leaves, in contemporary vellum, heavily soiled.

Early-mid-17th century

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. D. 1372 f. 9v rev.) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 6

Copy, headed On a locksmith.

In: 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. 7v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 7

Copy, headed On a locksmith.

In: 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. 2v) | Catalogue

HoJ 8

Copy, headed On a locke smith.

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

c.1630s-40s

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

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

Cambridge University Library, Additional MSS 7000 through end (MS Add. 8470 f. 10v)

HoJ 9

Copy, headed On a locksmith.

In: 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. 7r) | Catalogue

HoJ 10

Copy.

In: 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. 14r) | Catalogue

HoJ 11

Copy, headed On a Lockesmith.

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

Mid-17th century

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

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

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 100 through 199 (MS V.a.162 f. 88v) | Catalogue

HoJ 12

Copy.

In: 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 p. 79) | Catalogue

HoJ 13

Copy, headed Vpon a Lock-Smith.

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

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

c.1637-51

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

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

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 200 through 299 (MS V.a.262 p. 86) | Catalogue

HoJ 14

Copy, in shorthand, headed On a zealous Lock=Smith.

In: 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. 126v) | Catalogue

HoJ 15

Copy, headed Vppon a Locksmith.

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

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

c.1630s

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

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

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 300 through end (MS V.a.345 p. 273) | Catalogue

HoJ 16

Copy, headed Of a locke smith.

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

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

c.1630s

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

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

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 686 f. 54v) | Catalogue

HoJ 17

Copy, headed Vppon a Puritan beeinge a lock smythe and here beginning A zealous brother, dyed of late.

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

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

c.1630s

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

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

HoJ 18

Copy of a version headed Upon a lock-smith and beginning There was a lock-smith died of late.

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

c.1643-50s

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

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

University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 25 f. 41r)

HoJ 19

Copy, headed on a locke smyth.

In: 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. 26r)

Absence ('Absence heare my protestation')

First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602). The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), pp. 428-9. Osborn, No. XXIV (pp. 192-3).

HoJ 20

Copy, headed A Poem vpon Absence, docketed in the margin D: Dun.

c.1630s

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

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 14 ff. 39v-40r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 21

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Cited in Osborn.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, comprising c.128 items, including 94 poems by Donne plus his Paradoxes and Problems, compiled by Henry Champernowne (1600-56), of Dartington, Devon, 243 pages, dated on the first page 1623.

1623

Afterwards owned by other members of the Champernowne family, by Sir Edward Seymour, Bart. (?the third Baronet, 1610-85). Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1836), item 1030. Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872) (MS 9568). Sotheby's, 6 June 1898 (Phillipps sale), lot 749. Bookplate of C.S. Harris and bequeathed by him 1916.

Cited in IELM, I.i (190), as the Phillipps MS: DnJ Δ 20.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, f through end (MS Eng. poet. f. 9 p. 43) | Catalogue

HoJ 22

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson. Cited in Osborn.

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

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

c.1620s

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

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

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 740 f. 107r) | Catalogue

HoJ 23

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Grierson. Cited in Osborn.

In: A small folio volume of 102 poems by Donne, together with a few poems by others, in a professional predominantly italic hand, the poems often subscribed with bunch-of-grapes decorations, 114 leaves (plus blanks), with an alphabetical Table (ff. 112v-14r), in modern half-morocco on cloth boards gilt.

c.1623-33

Among the collections of Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, first Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (1776-1839), of Stowe House, near Buckingham, largely derived from the collections of the antiquary Thomas Astle (1735-1803), which in turn chiefly derived from Astle's father-in-law, the Essex historian Philip Morant (1700-71). Later owned by the fourth Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878).

Cited in IELM as Stowe MS I: DnJ Δ 15.

The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 961 f. 80v) | Catalogue

HoJ 24

Copy, headed Loue in absence.

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

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

c.1637

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

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

The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 962 f. 50v) | Catalogue

HoJ 25

Copy, untitled, subscribed J. D.

This MS collated in Grierson. Cited in Osborn.

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

c.1620s-33

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

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

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 966.1 pp. 65-6) | Catalogue

HoJ 26

Copy, headed Song 2^d.

In: MS copy of twenty-nine poems supposedly by Donne (only six actually by him) plus an epitaph by him, in a single hand, transcribed from the O' Flahertie MS (Harvard MS Eng 966.5), with a title-page Poems on several Occasions Written by the Reverend John Donne, D.D. Late Dean of S^t Pauls, 57 quarto pages, in cardboard wrappers.

19th century

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 966.2 pp. 41-2) | Catalogue

HoJ 27

Copy, untitled.

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

c.1623-30s

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

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

Harvard University, fMS Eng 966.4 (fMS Eng 966.4 p. 425) | Catalogue

HoJ 28

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson. Cited in Osborn.

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

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

[1635]

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

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

Harvard University, MS Eng 966.5 (MS Eng 966.5 p. 309) | Catalogue

HoJ 29

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson. Cited in Osborn.

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

1620

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

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

Harvard University, MS Eng 966.6 (MS Eng 966.6 p. 236) | Catalogue

HoJ 30

Copy, untitled, here beginning That time and absence proves, ascribed at the top to J. D.

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

c.late 1620s

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

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

Harvard University, MS Eng 966.7 (MS Eng 966.7 f. 20r) | Catalogue

HoJ 31

Copy, headed Against Absence.

This MS collated in Grierson. Cited in Osborn.

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

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

c.1622-32

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

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

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks A through E (EL 6893 f. 36r) | Catalogue

HoJ 32

Copy, untitled.

In: 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. 34r-v)

HoJ 33

Copy, headed A Poeme:.

In: A small quarto verse miscellany, including some thirty poems by Donne, in several hands, associated with the Inns of Court, with a 19th-century title-page, A Collection of Original Poetry, written about the time of Ben: Johnson, qui ob. 1637 and erroneously annotated Chiefly in the Autograph of D^r. Donne Dean of S^t. Paul's.67 pages (plus index).

c.1614-25

Later owned by Sir John Simeon, third Baronet, MP (1815-70); by Richard Monckton Milnes (1809-85), first Baron Houghton, author and politician, and by his son, Robert Offley Ashburton Milnes, afterwards Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, politician. Sotheby's, 22 July 1980, lot 585, to Quaritch.

Recorded in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Monckton Milnes MS: DnJ Δ 63. Briefly discussed in Sir John Simeon, Unpublished Poems of Donne, Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, 3 (London, 1856-7), No. 3, and, with selected collations, in Grierson (II, cix et passim). A complete set of photographs of the MS is in the British Library, RP 2031.

Meisei University (MR 0799 p. 47)

HoJ 34

Copy, untitled, subscribed J. H.

This MS collated in Grierson. Cited in Osborn.

In: A quarto volume of 27 poems by Donne, together with a few poems by others, in the hand of William Drummond of Hawthornden, a title-page in another 17th-century hand inscribed Thirre [i.e. These] poems belonginge to Jhon Don Transcribed by William Drummond, 40 leaves, bound with an independent notebook of Drummond's uncle, William Fowler, 96 leaves in all, in 19th-century calf gilt.

c.1613?-33

Among the collections of William Drummond of Hawthornden: Hawthornden Vol. XV.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Hawthornden MS: DnJ Δ 54. Drummond cites Jhone Dones Lyriques in his autograph list of Bookes red be me in Anno 1613 (National Library of Scotland, MS 2059, f. 366r).

National Library of Scotland, MS 2067 (MS 2067 f. 35r-v) | Catalogue

HoJ 35

Copy, untitled, here beginning Absence heare thou my protestation, subscribed J. H.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands, written from both ends, including (ff. 3r-49v) 49 poems by Donne in a single neat secretary hand, also responsible for poems by others on ff. 83r, 88r-90r, 4r-11v rev., later notes and two poems by Donne in other hands on the remaining leaves, 124 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

c.1620[-76]

The later material including medical notes written c.1665-76 by Sir John Wedderburn (1599-1679), royal physician.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Wedderburn MS: DnJ Δ 55. Discussed in Alan MacColl, A New Manuscript of Donne's Poems, RES, NS 19 (1968), 293-5.

National Library of Scotland, MS 6504 (MS 6504 f. 86v) | Catalogue

HoJ 36

Copy, untitled.

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

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

c.1620-5

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

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

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

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

Texas Tech University, Lubbock (PR 1171 D14 f. 45r) | Catalogue

HoJ 37

Copy, headed A Poem.

In: An octavo volume of poems and some prose, including 96 poems by Donne plus his Paradoxes and Problems (many ascribed to J. D), in a single neat secretary hand, 150 pages, in 17th-century calf gilt.

c.1622-33

Later owned by Major J.B. Whitmore. Hodgson's, 20-21 November 1958, lot 571, with a facsimile page in the sale catalogue.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Osborn MS: DnJ Δ 30. For a facsimile page see DnJ 728, DnJ 1205. Complete microfilm in British Library (M/569).

Yale, Osborn MS b 100 through Osborn MS b 149 (Osborn MS b 148 pp. 63-4) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 38

Copy of the last stanza, beginning By absence this good mean I gain.

In: Commonplace book of Lady Christian Kerr (b.1679), 205 folio pages.

c.1716-30

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS c 102 p. 26) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

The Censure of a Parliament Fart ('Downe came graue auncient Sr John Crooke')

Attributed to Hoskyns by John Aubrey. Cited, but unprinted, as No. III of Doubtful Verses in Osborn, p. 300. Early Stuart Libels website.

HoJ 39 c.1620s-30s

Copy, untitled and here beginning Downe came graue auncient Sargeant Croke, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves.

In: 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 ff. 131r-2r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 40

Copy, headed The Parliamentall fart and here beginning Downe came ancient S^r John Crooke.

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

c.1630s

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

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Douce f. 5 fol. 28r-9r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 41

Copy, headed The Censure of the Parliamentary Fart.

Edited from this MS in Early Stuary Libels.

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

c.1630s

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

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 23 pp. 1b-10) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 42

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, on the first two pages of two conjugate folio leaves. Early 17th century.

In: A large double-folio composite volume of literary, political and miscellaneous papers, on paper and parchment, in various hands and sizes, 339 leaves, in modern cloth.

Among papers of the North family, Barons North and Earls of Guilford, seated principally at Wroxton Abbey, Oxfordshire.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS North b. 24 f. 28r-v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 43

Copy, headed Vpon the Fart lett in the Parliament house, subscribed Explicit Crepitus.

In: 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 ff. 7r-8r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 44

Copy.

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

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 1 through 49 (MS Rawl. poet. 26 f. 196 rev.) | Catalogue

HoJ 45

Copy, headed The Parliament fart.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, including 37 poems by Donne, in several hands, written from both ends, 279 leaves (including numerous blanks, mostly in ff. 42r-140r), with stubs of extracted leaves, in contemporary calf.

Compiled in part by the Oxford printer Christopher Wase (1627-90), fellow of King's College, Cambridge.

Mid-17th century

Later owned by John Somers (1651-1716), Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor, and his brother-in-law Sir Joseph Jekyll (1662-1738), lawyer and politician.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Wase MS: DnJ Δ 39.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 100 through 149 (MS Rawl. poet. 117 ff. 196r-194r rev.) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 46

Copy, headed The Fart Sensured in the Lower howse of Parliament and here beginning Puffing downe comes graue auncient S^r. John Crooke.

In: 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 ff. 157v-8v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 47

Copy, headed The Parliament fart and here beginning Downe came graue auncient Sergeant Crooke.

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

With a few additions in Rawlinson's hand.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199 (MS Rawl. poet. 172 ff. 8r-9v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 48

Copy, headed The Parlement-Fart. 1607 and here beginning Down came grave ancient Serjeant Crook.

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

c.1682-91

Bodleian Library, Sancroft MSS (MS Sancroft 53 pp. 53-6) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 49

Copy, in a secretary hand, on two folio leaves, endorsed The famous ffarte. 1607.

In: A folio composite volume of verse and academic plays, in English and Latin, in various hands, 493 leaves, now in two volumes, foliated 1-250 and 251-493 respectively.

Partly compiled by Archbishop Sancroft.

Bodleian Library, Tanner Collection (MS Tanner 306 Vol. II, ff. 254r-v, 56r-v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 50

Second copy, in a different secretary hand, incomplete.

In: A folio composite volume of verse and academic plays, in English and Latin, in various hands, 493 leaves, now in two volumes, foliated 1-250 and 251-493 respectively.

Partly compiled by Archbishop Sancroft.

Bodleian Library, Tanner Collection (MS Tanner 306 Vol. II, f. 255r-v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 51

Copy, headed The Parliament fart / About this tyme was scattered and dispoesed abroad this worke[?] following compiled (as then was said) by m^r John Hoskins Barraster of the midle Temple London.

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

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

1674

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

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

Bradford Archives (32D86/27 ff. 136v-7v)

HoJ 52

Copy, headed The Parliament fart.

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

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

Mid-late 17th century

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

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

Bradford Archives (32D86/34 pp. 53-5) | Catalogue

HoJ 53

Copy, in Starkey's hand, headed A censure of a Fart (that was lett in the Parleament howse by m^r Henry Ludlowe) by a worshipfull Jurie each speaking in their order as foloweth an^o:.

In: A folio volume of state papers, tracts and verse, in professional secretary hands, predominantly that of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), antiquary, and including the Feathery Scribe, 349 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco.

c.1624-8

Afterwards owned by Sir Simonds D'Ewes, Bt, MP (1602-50), diarist and antiquary. Inscribed (f. 2r) G Hewett.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 227-8 (No. 27).

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 4101 through 4999 (Add. MS 4149 ff. 213r-15r)

HoJ 54

Copy, headed The Parliament Fart.

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

c.1630

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

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 10000 through 14999 (Add. MS 10309 ff. 123r-5r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 55

Copy, headed On the Fart let in the Parliament house, here beginning Downe came Graue ancient Serjeant Crooke.

In: 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 ff. 17v-18v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 55.5 Early 17th century

Copy, untitled, in two italic hands, imperfect, lacking the ending.

In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers in verse and prose, in various hands and paper sizes, 170 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half-morocco.

Including eleven poems by John Donne, three of them (ff. 10r-14v, 55r, 76r-7r) in the italic hand of his friend Sir Henry Goodyer (1571-1627); ff. 95r-8r in the same hand as the Leconfield MS (DnJ Δ 5) and constituting part of what was probably a quarto MS book of Donne's satires; f. 132r-v constituting a set of six verse epistles by Donne, the text related to the Westmoreland MS (DnJ Δ 19).

Early-mid-17th century

From the Conway Papers belonging chiefly to Sir Edward Conway, Baron Conway of Ragley, later Viscount Killultagh and Viscount Conway of Conway Castle (c.1564-1631), and to his son, Edward, second Viscount Conway (1594-1655). Later owned by John Wilson Croker (1780-1857), politician and writer, and presented 10 January 1860.

Cited in IELM, I.i, as the Conway MS: DnJ Δ 40. Cited as A23 by editors. Facsimile of f. 62r in Michael Roy Denbo, Editing a Renaissance Commonplace Book: The Holgate Miscellany, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, III, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2004). pp. 65-73 (p. 71).

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999 (Add. MS 23229 f. 15r-v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 56 Early 17th century

Copy, untitled, but inscribed down the central fold The Parliament Libell and endorsed on a blank leaf (f. 18v) The farte.

This MS cited in Osborn.

In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers in verse and prose, in various hands and paper sizes, 170 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half-morocco.

Early-mid-17th century

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999 (Add. MS 23229 ff. 16r-17v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 57

Copy, headed The parlament fart.

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. 33r-v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 58

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio volume of miscellaneous papers, many relating to Kent, the greater part in a single secretary hand, 228 leaves, in contemporary stamped calf.

Compiled for, and chiefly relating to, Francis Fane (1582-1628), first Earl of Westmorland.

Early 17th century

Christie's, 18 July 1897.

This volume recorded in HMC, 10th Report, Appendix IV (1885), pp. 4-19.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 30000 through 34999 (Add. MS 34218 ff. 20r-1v) | Catalogue

HoJ 60

Copy.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, written from both ends, 192 leaves (including blanks), in old brown calf.

Compiled, over a period, principally by Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), Chaplain of Christ Church, Oxford, and Henry King's amanuensis, including (ff. 7r-61r) 24 poems by King in Manne's formal hand, written c.1625-30s; ff. 61v-72v, 73r-99v, 100r-101v written in a variant style of Manne's hand, c.1630s; and (ff. 72v, 99v, 102r-14v, 190v-169r rev.) additions in six other hands, c.1630s-44, with (ff. 75r, 76r, and 76v) three poems to which the subscription R. Dorset is added in the hand of King himself.

c.1625-46

Inscribed (f. 190v rev.) Ann Littleton. Thomas Rodd's sale catalogue, [June 1848], p. 31. Sotheby's, 4 Februry 1850 (Rodd sale), lot 500, to James Orchard Halliwell[-Phillipps] (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Afterward owned by the Rev. Thomas Corser, FSA (1793-1876), book collector. Sotheby's, 25 June 1873 (Corser sale), lot 325, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Later owned by the bookdealer Philip Robinson. Sotheby's, 26 June 1974, lot 3013, with a facsimile example in the sale catalogue.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Thomas Manne MS: KiH Δ 7. Used in Crum. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 55000 through 59999 (Add. MS 58215 ff. 190v-189r rev.)

HoJ 61

Copy, headed Le Pet:.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, including 18 poems by Donne, in several hands over a period (the predominant secretary hand on ff. 1r-35v, 45v-63r), written from both ends, 91 leaves, in later green morocco.

c.1630s [-1777]

Inscribed (f. 1r) E Libris Richardo Glovero pharmacopol. Londinense pertinantibus, the date 1638 possibly added in a different hand. The name William Allen on f. 77v among scribbling. Inscribed (f. 1v) by a later owner, apparently for M^r Thorpe, I was informed by the bookseller of whom I bought this book; that it belonged formerly to a literary gentleman who lived in Burton Crescent and who died about six months ago. 3^rd Aug^t. 1835.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Glover MS: DnJ Δ 42.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2230 ff. 25r-6v) | Catalogue

HoJ 62

Copy, headed Vpon a Fart let in the Parliament House and here beginning Downe came Ancient S^r John Crooke.

In: 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 ff. 45v-7r) | Catalogue

HoJ 63 c.1640s

Copy of a 34-line version, in an italic hand, headed A Censure upon a fart, let in the House of Comons, in a Parliam^t towards the beginning of King James his raign, by S^r Henry Ludlow, incomplete.

In: A folio composite volume of state papers, parliamentary speeches, and verse, in various hands, with an alphabetical Index (ff. 1r-6v), 144 leaves, in modern mottled leather gilt.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 4000 through 4999 (Harley MS 4931 f. 10r) | Catalogue

HoJ 64

Copy of a 144-line version, in a secretary hand, headed Of a ffart that was lett in the lower house of Parliamt 1607. Early 17th century.

In: A folio composite volume of tracts and miscellaneous papers, in several hands, 32 leaves, in a vellum wrapper comprised of an Elizabethan indenture, within a modern quarter crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 5000 through 5999 (Harley MS 5191 ff. 17r-18v) | Catalogue

HoJ 65

Copy, headed A fart let at y^e parlam^t, in K. James tyme and here beginning Downe came ancient S^r John Crooke.

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

c.1630

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1489 ff. 25r-6r)

HoJ 66

Copy, untitled, here beginning Down came graue auntient S^r John Crooke.

This MS cited in Osborn.

In: An octavo commonplace book of medical materials and verses, chiefly in Latin, probably in a single secretary hand, 80 leaves, in contemporary vellum within modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

Early 17th century

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 2023 ff. 59r-60r)

HoJ 67 Early 17th century

Copy of a 90-line version, untitled, on the first two pages of two conjugate folio leaves.

In: A folio composite volume of parliamentary papers, in various professional hands, 326 leaves, in modern crushed morocco.

The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 354 f. 43r-v) | Catalogue

HoJ 68

Copy, headed The censure of the Parliamet fart, subscribed p Jo: Hoskines.

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

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

c.1637

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

The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 962 ff. 66r-9r) | Catalogue

HoJ 69

Copy, headed Verses giuen mee of M^r S^t John Hoskins Composure / A censure of a fart that was lett in the Parliament howse 3^o Car by a worp^ll Jury each speaking in their order as followeth and here beginning Downe came graue auncient reu^rend S^r John Crook.

In: A duodecimo miscellany, in English and Latin, in several hands, written from both ends, i + 74 leaves, in contemporary calf.

Owned (inscription f.[ir]), and possibly partly compiled, by Sir Henry Rainsford (1599-1641), of Clifford Chambers, near Stratford-upon-Avon.

c. late 1630s-40s

Bookplate of Edward Greenfield Doggett and Hugh Greenfield Doggett, of Bristol, 1893. Later owned by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 15. Discussed in Peter Davidson, The Notebook of Henry Rainsford, N&Q, 229 (June 1984), 247-50.

Cambridge University Library, Additional MSS 7000 through end (MS Add. 8447 ff. [45v-7v])

HoJ 70

Copy, headed The Parlament farte, subscribed Hoskins.

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 ff. 94v-5r) | Catalogue

HoJ 71

Copy, in two small italic hands, headed The Parliament fart.

In: A quarto volume of verse and dramatic works, associated with Cambridge University, in several hands, a small italic hand predominating, 88 leaves, in contemporary calf, once with metal clasps.

c.1620s

Inscribed (f. [i^r]) Fra: Corbet and (f. 88v) 1626 Ja: Rolfe.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, Miscellaneous manuscripts (MS J.a.2 ff. 81r-2r) | Catalogue

HoJ 72

Copy, headed Vpon the fart that was let in the Parliament house.

In: 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. 79-85) | Catalogue

HoJ 73

Copy, headed The Parliam^t ff, here beginning Downe came Graue S^rieaunt Crooke.

In: A folio miscellany of verse and prose, in probably several neat secretary and italic hands, 194 pages.

Compiled, probably at least in part, by George Turner Scoolmaster, as his name is inscribed at the end, a couplet on p. 179 reading Hic liber me pertinet and beare yt well in minde / Per me Georgium Turner so curteous and kinde. Possible contributors are members of the Bancrofte family, whom he might perhaps have tutored.

c.1624-1645

Various inscribed names (sometimes more than once): Anne Bancrofte, and Mary Bancrofte. Also, under 1624, a list of names with perhaps birthdates: Mary Bancrofte Ap. 28. 1611, Rich Bancrofte May 2. 1608, Elis Bancrofte Apr 27. 1614, and John Bancrofte Ap 30 1616. A legal document in the volume, dated 4 November 1645, relates to Willesden, Kilburn and Hampstead.

Formerly Folger MS 1027.2, this MS has been missing since 1991. It can be seen only on microfilm (Film Fo 4376.8).

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 200 through 299 (MS V.a.275 pp. 101-3) | Catalogue

HoJ 74

Copy, headed Verses on a fart lett by S^r Henery Ludlow at a Parliament held: 1628 and here beginning Downe came graue Serieant Crooke.

In: 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. 226-7) | Catalogue

HoJ 75

Copy, headed The ffart.

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

c.1640s

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

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

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 300 through end (MS V.a.339 ff. 255v-6r) | Catalogue

HoJ 76

Copy of the first 24 lines, headed The parliament fart, here beginning Downe came braue ancient S^r John Crooke, imperfect, lacking the last part of the poem.

In: A fragment of an octavo notebook, including verses, in a single rounded hand, nine leaves.

A loose paper wrapper is later inscribed Verses writ in old M^r James Harris's hand: i.e. James Harris (1605-79), of Salisbury, lawyer.

c.1630

Among papers of the Harris (Malmesbury) family.

Hampshire Record Office (9M73/G3(b) f. [9v])

HoJ 77

Copy, headed A fart censured in the Lower house of Parliment and here beginning Puffing doune comes graue ancient S^r John Crook.

In: 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. 3-4)

HoJ 78

Copy, in William Pathurst's hand, headed The Parliament Fart.

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 ff. 257r-8r) | Catalogue

HoJ 79

Copy, headed The Parliament ffart, subscribed Hoskins.

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

Including thirteen poems by Strode and three of doubtful authorship.

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

Later sold by Thomas Thorpe (1836). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9569. Bookplate of the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, and art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936 (Perry sale). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 193.

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

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1 through 239 (MS 239/22 ff. 42v-4r) | Catalogue

HoJ 80

Copy, untitled.

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

Probably compiled by a member of an Inn of Court.

c.1630

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

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1000 through end (MS 1083/15 pp. 109-13) | Catalogue

HoJ 81

Copy, headed On a ffart lett in the Parliament house, here beginning Down came graue Ancient Sergeant Cooke.

In: 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. 9-11)

HoJ 82

Copy, headed D^r. Hoskins his Ballat and docketed Verses on Ludloes part in y^e Parliament House by D^r. Hoskins.

In: A volume of state tracts and papers, in various hands, one secretary hand predominating, with a table of contents and other additions by members of the Hervey family.

c.1630[-1690]

Probably once owned by John Hervey (1665-1751), first Baron Ickworth and first Earl of Bristol, of Ickworth, near Bury St Edmunds.

Suffolk Record Office, Bury St Edmunds (941/73/2 ff. 129v-31r)

HoJ 83

Copy, untitled.

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

c.1630s

Formerly MS G. 2.21.

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

Trinity College, Dublin, numbers 800 through end (MS 877, [Part II] ff. 217v-18v) | Catalogue

HoJ 84

Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, headed The Parlament farte, on two pages (the second inverted) of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.

Early 17th century

University of Nottingham (Cl LM 30) | Catalogue

HoJ 85

Copy, headed The lybell of y^e fart so supposed by M^r Ludlo in y^e Parlem house.

In: A quarto volume of transcripts of correspondence of John Holles (1587-1637), first Earl of Clare, and his son John (1595-1666), second Earl of Clare, with other tracts and verse, almost entirely in a single predominantly italic hand, 228 leaves (paginated 1-3, 14-238), in modern boards.

Mid-17th century

Among papers of the Cavendish-Bentinck family, Dukes of Portland, of Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire, incorporating papers of the related Holles, Harley and Cavendish families, and purchases made by J.A.C.J. Cavendish-Bentinck (1857-1943), sixth Duke of Portland.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 2 pp. 33-9) | Catalogue

HoJ 86

Copy, headed The parliament fart.

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 ff. 49v-50v)

HoJ 87

Copy, headed A fart censured in the lower House of Parliamente and here beginning Puffinge comes down, graue Auncient S^r John Crooke.

In: 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 pp. 99-102) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 88

Copy, headed On a fart let in Parliament and here beginning Quoth Sir Harry prole it was a bold tricke.

In: 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. 295-9) | First Lines Index

HoJ 89

Copy.

Early 17th century

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn Poetry Box VII/38)

De quodam Nephritico. Translated thus ('Thou diedst, y^e stone broiling thy consum'd reines')

Unpublished.

HoJ 90

Copy.

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

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

c.1630s

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

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

University of Nottingham (Pw V 37 p. 171) | Catalogue

A Dreame ('Me thought I walked in a dreame')

Osborn, No. XXXIV (pp. 206-8). Whitlock, pp. 480-2.

A shortened version of the poem, of lines 43-68, beginning the worst is tolld, the best is hidd and ending he errd but once, once king forgiue, was widely circulated.

HoJ 91 c.1620s-30s

Copy, headed M^r Hoskins his Dreame in the Tower, on a single folio leaf of verse.

This MS recorded in Osborn.

In: 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. 213r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 92

Copy, headed M^r Hoskins Dreame.

This MS recorded in Osborn.

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

c.1620s-37

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 781 pp. 129-31) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 93

Copy of the shortened version of lines 43-68, headed M^rs Hoskins to his ma^tie for her husband and beginning The worst is told, the best is hid.

This MS recorded in Osborn.

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

c.1620s-37

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 781 p. 131) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 94

Copy of the short version, headed M^rs Hoskins to the king and here beginning The worst is told, the best is hid.

c.1630s

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

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 14 f. 88r rev.) | Catalogue

HoJ 95

Copy of the shortened version of lines 43-68, headed Verses presented to y^e King by M^rs. Horskins in the behalfe of her husband prisoner and here beginning The worst is told, the best is hidd.

Edited from this MS in Hannah, p. 121. Recorded in Osborn.

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

c.1625-31

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

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 16 p. 20) | Catalogue

HoJ 96

Copy, headed M^r. Hoskins his Dreame and subscribed J. Hoskins.

This MS cited in Osborn.

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

c.1620s-30s

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

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 19 pp. 71-3) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 97

Copy, headed M^r Hoskins his dream in the Tower. 1614.

In: An octavo volume of transcripts of state tracts and documents in the minute hand of Robert Horn of Shropshire, two items (ff. 19-30, dated 20 January 1620/1) added by Herbert Jenks of Newhall, 104 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

c.1618-30s

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. B. 151 f. 103r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 98

Copy of the shortened version, lines 43-68, headed M^rs Hoskins petition to y^e king, her husband being imprisoned vpon y^e kings high indignation in y^e tower, here beginning The worst is knowne y^e best is hid, and subscribed (mistakenly) vpon y^e sight of it the kinges ma^tie: most graciously granted her suite and her husband was forth with released.

In: A quarto volume of state tracts, in a single neat italic hand up to f. 15 (ff. 16-19 inserted and in a different hand), 19 leaves, in old vellum wrappers within modern cloth.

c.1620s

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. D. 160 f. 3v) | Catalogue

HoJ 99

Copy of a version of lines 43-68, beginning the worst is tolld, the best is hidd.

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

c.1682-91

Bodleian Library, Sancroft MSS (MS Sancroft 53 p. 50) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 100

Copy of a version of lines 43-68, headed M^ris Hoskins petition for her Husband and here beginning The worst is told, y^e Best is sed.

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

c.1682-91

Bodleian Library, Sancroft MSS (MS Sancroft 53 p. 52) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 101

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed Insomniu.

In: A quarto composite volume of state papers and printed material relating to Queen Elizabeth and the Earl of Essex, in various hands, ff. 3r-87r in the neat secretary hand possibly of one M. K. whose initials appear on the title-page (f. 3r), 161 leaves, with a table of contents (ff. 4r-5v), in modern half-morocco.

Collected by Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian.

Early 17th century-1630s

Inscribed (f. 2r) R^d Bankes Anno Dni 1708; (f. 1r) Tho: Birch Januarii 8. 1752; and (f. 96r) Tho. Birch 28. Janua: 1754.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 4101 through 4999 (Add. MS 4130 ff. 93v-4v)

HoJ 102

Copy, in Starkey's hand, headed M^r John Hoskins the lawier of the midle Temple, being comitted to the Tower for a speeche, spoken by him in the Parleament howse, writt this Sonnett, intituled his Dreame being presen^td by his wife to the Kings ma^tie: in an^o. 1614.

This MS recorded in Osborn.

c.1624-8

Afterwards owned by Sir Simonds D'Ewes, Bt, MP (1602-50), diarist and antiquary. Inscribed (f. 2r) G Hewett.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 227-8 (No. 27).

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 4101 through 4999 (Add. MS 4149 ff. 211r-13r)

HoJ 103

Copy, headed M^r John Hoskins bewailing his owne his wifes his Mothers and his Childrens woefull case, y^e one borne y^e other yet vnborne.

This MS recorded in Osborn.

In: 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. 145v-7r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 104

Copy, headed M^r John Hoskins bewailinge his owne his wifes his Mothers & his childrens wofull case the one borne the-other yet vnborne 1616.

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

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

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

c.1620s

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

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

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 25000 through 29999 (Add. MS 25303 ff. 162r-3r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 104.5

Copy of the shortened version of lines 43-68, headed M^r. Hoskins to the king sent by his wife.

This MS recorded in Osborn.

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

c.1630s-40s

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 923 f. 11r) | Catalogue

HoJ 105 c.1620s-30s

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed M^r John Hoskins of the Middle temple, Counsello^r at Law, being comitted to the Tower by the king for certaine speeches vttered in the Parliament house, not long after his comittm^t (w^ch was in the yeare of o^r Lord 1614.) wrote these ensuing verses w^ch he caused his wife to p^rsent to the kings Ma^tie. entituling the same / A Dreame, on two leaves once folded as a letter or packet.

Edited from this MS is Osborn.

In: A large folio guardbook of chiefly verse MSS, in Latin, English and Greek, in various hands, at least some relating to Cambridge University, 408 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6947 ff. 252r-3r) | Catalogue

HoJ 106

Copy of the six-line version, headed M^rs Hoskins to his M^ty for her Husband.

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

c.1630

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

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

Corpus Christi College, Oxford (MS 327 f. 23v) | Catalogue

HoJ 107

Copy.

Derbyshire Record Office (D 258/31/3) | Catalogue

HoJ 108

Copy of the short version, headed M^ris Hoskins to the King in behafe of her Husband and here beginning The worst is told, the best is hid.

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

c.1637-51

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

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

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 200 through 299 (MS V.a.262 p. 90) | Catalogue

HoJ 109

Copy of a version of lines 43-68, here beginning The worst is known, the best is hid.

In: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, closely written in probably a single secretary hand, ii + 393 pages, in old calf.

c.1620

Inscribed (p. [i]) This curious Manuscript was bought by me of M^r Muskett the Bookseller. Norwich - J. P. B. Unidentified Dobell sale catalogue, item 182.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 628 p. 331) | Catalogue

HoJ 110

Copy of the shortened version of the poem, of lines 43-68, headed M^rs Hoskins Petition to his Ma^ty for her husbande and here beginning The worst is told, the best is hidd.

In: A folio miscellany of verse and prose on state matters, entitled Ephemeris Chirographoru quorudam Memorabiliam Succincta, 703 pages, in modern calf gilt.

A formal compilation written throughout in a calligraphic hand, in black and red inks with elaborate black and coloured decorations and patterned layouts, associated with one Henry Feilde, with his inscription (p. 1) N^o 4. Henry Feilde 1642.

c.1642

Bookplates of Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary, and of the Rev. Charles Winn (1795-1874), of Nostell Priory, Yorkshire. Christie's, 2 July 1975, lot 229, to H.P. Kraus. Sotheby's, New York, 17 December 1992, lot 95.

Facsimile example in Sotheby's sale catalogue.

The Folger Shakespeare Library: V.b. series (V.b.383 p. 629)

HoJ 111

Copy of the abbreviated version, headed A gentlewoman for her husband in y^e Tower to King James and here beginning The most is told, the best is hid.

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

c.1643-50s

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

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

University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 25 f. 40r)

HoJ 112

Copy, headed Verses of M^r Hoskins in the Tower.

Mid-17th century

University of Nottingham (Pw V 2 pp. 57-9) | Catalogue

HoJ 113

Copy of the shortened version, headed M^rs hoskins petition to the kings ma^tie: her husband. being imprisoned in the tower vpon the kings high indignation An: 1615., here beginning The worst is knowne the best is hid.

In: A folio miscellany of poems and state papers, in secretary hands, written from both ends, 50 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

c.1620s

Among papers of the Troyte-Bullock family, formerly of Zeals House, Mere, and probably deriving from the papers of the Chafyn family of Bulford and Chisenbury or the Reymes family of Waddon, near Dorchester.

Wiltshire and Swindon Archives (865/500 f. [26r]) | Catalogue

HoJ 114

Copy of a version of lines 43-68, headed M^rs Hoskins to his M^ty for her Husband and beginning The worst is tolde, y^e best is hidde.

In: 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 p. 100)

The Dying Louer ('Some powers Regard me or my hart will burne')

Osborn, No. XXIII (pp. 191-2).

HoJ 115

Copy, subscribed J. H.

In: 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 ff. 120v-1v) | Catalogue

Epitaph of the parliament fart ('Reader I was born and cried')

HoJ 116

Copy, headed On a fart in y^e Parlianent.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single italic hand, evidently associated with Oxford, probably Christ Church, 214 pages (skipping p. 177), plus an index.

Including 18 poems by Corbett and 59 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1630s

Inscribed on a flyleaf Elizabeth Lane hir booke and, among scribbling on another flyleaf, Johannes Finch. P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 341.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Elizabeth Lane MS: CoR Δ 1 and StW Δ 4. The Dobell catalogue description recorded in Forey (pp. lxxxv-lxxxvi).

Aberdeen University Library (MS 29 p. 141) | Catalogue

HoJ 117

Copy, headed One a fart lett in a parliament.

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

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

c.1638

Acquired from Blackwell's, 1962.

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

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, f through end (MS Eng. poet. f. 27 p. 23) | Catalogue

HoJ 118

Copy, headed M^r F^s Epitaph and here beginning Reader it was borne and cryd.

In: A quarto composite volume comprising three independent MSS bound together, i + 78 leaves.

The first MS a verse miscellany, in an italic hand, 29 leaves. c.1640.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199 (MS Rawl. poet. 153 f. 28r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 119

Copy, headed The farts Epitaph in the Parliament howse.

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. 158v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 120

Copy, headed On a fart lett in the Parliament house.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single stylish cursive hand, ii + 176 pages, in contemporary calf gilt bearing a V within a lozenge.

c.1640s

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 50 through 99 (MS Rawl. poet. 71 p. 4) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 121

Copy, headed The Fart's Epitaph and here beginning Reader, I was born, & cry'd.

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

c.1682-91

Bodleian Library, Sancroft MSS (MS Sancroft 53 p. 56) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 122

Copy, headed The Farts Epitaph.

Edited from this MS In Early Stuart Libels.

In: A folio composite volume of verse and academic plays, in English and Latin, in various hands, 493 leaves, now in two volumes, foliated 1-250 and 251-493 respectively.

Partly compiled by Archbishop Sancroft.

Bodleian Library, Tanner Collection (MS Tanner 306 Vol. II, f. 256v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 123

Copy, headed The Parliament Farte.

In: 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. 79r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 124

Copy, headed An epitaph vpon a fart.

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. 157v rev.) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 125

Copy, headed On a fart in y^e Parliament house and here beginning Reader I was borne & cri'de.

In: 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. 2v) | Catalogue

HoJ 126

Copy, headed On a fart lett in the parliament house.

In: 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. 34v) | Catalogue

HoJ 127

Copy, headed A fart in the Parliament.

In: 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. 35v) | Catalogue

HoJ 128

Copy.

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

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

c.early 1630s

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

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

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1792 f. 95r)

HoJ 129

Copy, headed in the margin Epitaph of the pliamet fart.

Edited from this MS in Colclough, p. 377.

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

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

c.1637

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

The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 962 f. 219r) | Catalogue

HoJ 130

Copy, headed On a fart in the Parliament howse.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, originally written in two hands (A: ff. 1r-22r, 27v-8v; B: ff. 22r-7v, predominantly italic), with late 17th-century additions in three other hands on ff. 28v-33v, 52r and f. 34r, associated with Cambridge, 35 leaves (plus 17 blanks), in contemporary calf gilt.

Including 13 poems by Randolph, plus three of doubtful authorship. Initials stamped on both covers of F R and the inside of the cover inscribed Francis Rolfe Anno dni 1637: i.e. Francis Rolfe (1618-78), Town Clerk of [King's] Lynn, Norfolk.

c.1637

Sotheby's, 21 July 1988, lot 18.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rolfe MS: RnT Δ 5. Briefly described in E.S. Leedham-Green, Francis Rolfe's poetical miscellany: Add.Ms 8684, Bulletin of the Friends of Cambridge University Library, 9 (1988), 20-2. A facsimile of f. 9v in Sotheby's sale catalogue: see RnT 123, RnT 239. For the Rolfe family (whose later papers are in the Norfolk Record Office, NRS 27114, 404 x 3), see R.T. and A. Gunther, Rolfe Family Records, 2 vols (London & Aylesbury, 1914), and Veronica Berry, The Rolfe Papers: The Chronicle of a Norfolk Family 1559-1908 (Brentwood, Essex, 1979; 2nd impression 1986).

Cambridge University Library, Additional MSS 7000 through end (MS Add. 8684 f. 15v)

HoJ 131

Copy, headed On a Fart in the Parl. House, written lengthways down the margin by Fulman.

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. 94v) | Catalogue

HoJ 132

Copy, headed A fart in y^e Parlim^t house.

In: 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. 128) | Catalogue

HoJ 133

Copy, headed On a fart in y^e Parliam^t house.

Mid-17th century

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

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 100 through 199 (MS V.a.162 f. 86r) | Catalogue

HoJ 134

Copy, headed On a Farte lett in the Parlm^t house.

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]

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 100 through 199 (MS V.a.170 p. 68bis) | Catalogue

HoJ 135

Copy, headed An Epitaphe on a fart in the Parliament house.

In: 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. 61r) | Catalogue

HoJ 136

Copy.

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

c.late 1630s

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

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 116 p. 11)

HoJ 137

Copy, headed On a fart in y^e Parliament house.

c.late 1630s

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 116 p. 112)

HoJ 138

Copy, headed On a Parliament Fart, beginning Reader, it was born and cryed.

In: A quarto miscellany of Latin and English verse and prose, in several hands, written from both ends, 57 leaves, in contemporary calf.

c.1719-50

Purchased from Peter Murray Hill, January 1963.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt 13 f. 32v) | Catalogue

HoJ 139

Copy, headed On a fart in y^e parliament house.

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

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

c.1638

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

New York Public Library, Arents Collection (Cat. No. S 288 (Acc. No. 5442) p. 20)

HoJ 140

Copy, headed On the Parliament fart.

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

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

c.1634

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

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

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

HoJ 141

Copy, headed Epitaph.

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

Probably compiled by a member of an Inn of Court.

c.1630

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

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1000 through end (MS 1083/15 p. 113) | Catalogue

HoJ 142

Copy.

In: 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. 7r)

HoJ 143

Copy, headed On a fart let in the Parliament.

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

c.1640

Yale, Osborn MS b 50 through Osborn MS b 99 (Osborn MS b 62 pp. 24-5)

HoJ 144

Copy, headed The farts Epitaph in the parliament house.

c.1639 [-c.1728]

Yale, Osborn MS b 150 through Osborn MS b 199 (Osborn MS b 197 p. 58) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 145

Copy.

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

c.1650

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

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

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 200 p. 218) | First Lines Index

HoJ 146

Copy, headed Epitaph.

In: 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 p. 299) | First Lines Index

An Ep: one a man for doyinge nothinge ('Here lyes the man was borne and cryed')

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1605). Osborn, No. XII (p. 171).

HoJ 147

Copy, headed Vppon an old man noted for nothing butt his Age and here beginning Here lieth one was Borne and Cried.

This MS recorded in Osborn.

In: 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. 172) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 148

Copy, untitled but inscribed Ignoti cuiusdam.

This MS recorded in Osborn.

In: 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. 11v) | Catalogue

HoJ 149

Copy, here beginning He that lies heer was borne & cried.

In: A folio composite volume of original papers of the Society of Antiquaries, in various hands, 221 leaves, in modern half-morocco on cloth boards gilt.

The British Library: Cotton MSS (Cotton MS Faustina E. V f. 171r) | Catalogue

HoJ 150

In: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 219 folios, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

Papers of William Cecil (1520/21-98), first Baron Burghley, secretary of state.

Bookplate (as Shelburne) of William Petty (1737-1805), second Earl of Shelburne and first Marquess of Lansdowne, Prime Minister.

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 104 f. 11) | Catalogue

HoJ 151

Copy, here beginning Here lyes a man was borne, then cryed.

This MS recorded in Osborn.

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

c.1630

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1489 f. 11r)

HoJ 152

Copy of a version.

This MS recorded in Osborn. May, Stanford, pp. 38-9 (No. 29).

In: A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, 63 leaves, partly mounted on guards, in modern quarter-calf on marbled boards.

Compiled by Henry Stanford (d.1616), household tutor to the Paget and Carey families, including George Carey, second Lord Hunsdon.

c.1581-1612

A complete transcription of this volume in Steven W. May, Henry Stanford's Anthology: An Edition of Cambridge University Library Manuscript Dd. 5.75 (New York, 1988).

Cambridge University Library, shelfmarks A through D (MS Dd. 5. 75 f. 12v)

HoJ 153

Copy, subscribed per Eundem [i.e. Hoskyns].

Edited from this MS in Osborn.

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

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

c.1600-1620s

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

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

Chetham's Library, Manchester (Mun. A.4.15 f. 97r (p. 158)) | Catalogue

An Epitaphe on Mr Sandes ('Who wo'ld live in other's breath')

HoJ 154

Copy, headed Vppon on Sands.

In: 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. 176) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 155

Copy, headed On one Sands.

In: A folio verse miscellany, ii + 65 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

Entitled Miscentur seria iocis. 1647. Elegies, Exequies, Epitaphs, Epigrams, Songs Satires and other Poems, a formal compilation entirely in the hand of the Yorkshire antiquary John Hopkinson (1610-80).

1647

From the library of Cecil Brent, FSA. Sold by P.J. & A.E. Dobell, January 1938.

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. d. 58 f. 15r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 156

Copy, headed On M^r Sands.

c.1630s

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

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 14 f. 94r rev.) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 157

Copy, headed 338 an Epitaph on One of the Name if Sandes.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, 171 leaves, with an index, imperfect at the beginning, in contemporary calf (rebacked).

Compiled by Colonel Gabriel Lepipre, being the 4^th Vol. of his compilations.

c.1748-50s

Donated in 1938 by F.F. Madan.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 40 f. 121r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 158

Copy, headed Epit on M^r Sandes.

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

c.1630s-40s

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 923 f. 9r) | Catalogue

HoJ 159

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

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

c.1637

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

The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 962 f. 201v) | Catalogue

HoJ 160

Copy, subscribed M^r Hoskynes: medij Templi.

Grosart, II, 181.

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

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

c.1600-1620s

Chetham's Library, Manchester (Mun. A.4.15 f. 96v (p. 157)) | Catalogue

Epitaph On S^r Walter Pye, Attorney of the Wardes, dying on Christmas Day, in the morning ('If Any aske, who here doth lye')

Osborn, No. XLVI (p. 214).

HoJ 161

Copy, headed Epitaph on S^r Walter Pye Atturney of y^e Wards, who dyed on Christmas day.

In: A large folio formal miscellany of verse and prose, in a single rounded hand throughout, the margins ruled in red, and with an alphabetical index (pp. 719-21), 738 pages (pp. 722-38 blank), plus 40 pages of preliminary inserted material, in contemporary elaborately tooled leather.

Including thirteen poems and a mock-speech in the Marvell canon and eleven poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items, compiled — in stages, probably for the most part in chronological sequence, over a period of up to fifteen years — by Sir William Haward (or Hawarde or Hayward) of Tandridge, Surrey (his signature, dated 21 January 1676/7, on p. 66).

c.1667-82 [the poems by Marvell and Rochester c.1670s]

Sir William Haward was knighted in 1643, served as a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to Charles I, Charles II, James II and William III, was M.P. for Bletchingley (1661-78), a Fellow of the Royal Society (1665) and a Commissioner for the Sale of Fee Farm Rents (1670 onwards); he lived sometime in Scotland Yard and was still living in 1702 (see, inter alia, W. Paley Baildon, The Hawardes of Tandridge Co. Surrey (London, 1894), pp. 23-31). John Evelyn described him as a greate pretender to English antiquities &c:. An autograph letter by him, dated 23 March 1688/9, is in the British Library (Add. MS 29563, f. 453).

Later owned by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), by his wife Frances Le Neve (signature on p. vii), by their servant Joseph Allen, who entered additional items in 1729, and by her second husband Thomas Martin (1697-1771) of Palgrave. Later in the library of the Aston family of Tixall, Staffordshire (and sold in the Tixall sale at Sotheby's, 7 November 1899, lot 430 to Bertram Dobell (1842-1914)). Afterwards owned by George Thorn-Drury (1860-1931) and sold in 1935 by P.J. Dobell.

Cited in IELM as the Haward MS: MaA Δ 2. The Marvell canon selectively collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I and II and the Rochester canon selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker. See also Paul Hammond, The Dating of Three Poems by Rochester from the Evidence of Bodleian MS. Don. b. 8, BLR, 11 (1982), 58-9.

Facsimile of p. 277 in POAS, I, facing p. 228 (see MaA 98).

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. b. 8 p. 212) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 162

Second copy, headed On S^r Walter Pye Atturney of y^e Court of Wards, who died on Christmas day.

c.1667-82 [the poems by Marvell and Rochester c.1670s]

Facsimile of p. 277 in POAS, I, facing p. 228 (see MaA 98).

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. b. 8 p. 368) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 163

Copy, headed Vppon S^r Walter Pye Attorney of the Court of Wards, who died in Christmasse.

This MS recorded in Osborn.

In: 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. 62r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 164 Mid-17th century

Copy, in a cursive italic hands, on one side of a quarto leaf.

Edited from this MS in Osborn.

In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers in verse and prose, in various hands and paper sizes, 170 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half-morocco.

Early-mid-17th century

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999 (Add. MS 23229 f. 50r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 165

Copy, untitled, here beginning If any do aske where here doth lye.

This MS recorded in Osborn.

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. 151r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

'Here lyes the man w^thoute repentaunce'

Osborn, No. IV (p. 169).

HoJ 166

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Osborn.

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

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

c.1600-1620s

Chetham's Library, Manchester (Mun. A.4.15 f. 97r (p. 158)) | Catalogue

'Here lyeth the bodie of Hugh Poache'

Osborn, No. III (p. 169).

HoJ 167

Copy, untitled, subscribed per eundem.

Edited from this MS in Osborn.

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

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

c.1600-1620s

Chetham's Library, Manchester (Mun. A.4.15 f. 96v (p. 157)) | Catalogue

'Here the bodie of that man lyes'

Osborn, No. VIII (p. 170).

HoJ 168

Copy, untitled, subscribed J: Hoskynes.

Edited from this MS in Osborn.

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

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

c.1600-1620s

Chetham's Library, Manchester (Mun. A.4.15 f. 96v (p. 157)) | Catalogue

Hoskins conualescens ad Giffordu medicinæ Doctorem et suum ('Docte Jacoboru decimas Gifforde meorum')

Osborn, No. XLV (p. 213).

HoJ 169

Copy, in an uneven italic hand.

Edited from this MS in Osborn.

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

Probably compiled by university or inns of court men.

c.1620s-30s

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 3000 through 3999 (Harley MS 3910 f. 54v) | Catalogue

Hoskins reply ('Euen so y^r dubelet is too short in the wast')

A single line in response to the verse As at a banaquett some meates haue sweet, some soure tast. Osborn, p. 211.

HoJ 170

Copy, headed Hoskins reply.

following verses As at a banaqett some meales haue sweet, some soure last.

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

c.1620s-30s

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 19 p. 149) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

Incipit Johannes Hoskins ('Even as the waues of brainelesse butter'd fish')

Osborn, No. XXIX (pp. 199-202), in English and Latin.

HoJ 171

Copy, headed Cabalisticall verses, which by transposition of wordes, syllables, & letters make excellent sense, oth^rwise none in laudem Coriatti.

This MS cited in Osborn.

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

c.1620s-30s

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 19 p. 137) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 172

Copy, headed Cabilisticall verses w^ch by transpocitio of words, letters, & syllables make excellent sence other wise none at all in laude Coriati.

In: An octavo notebook of extracts in verse and prose, in a small untidy hand, written from both ends, 42 leaves (plus three blanks), badly worn, remains of boards and green ties.

c.1640

Includes (f. [31r rev.] a reference to my brother Capstons account book after his death 1632. Given to the library by H.L. Pink, Assistant Under-Librarian, 22 November 1948.

Cambridge University Library, Additional MSS 7000 through end (MS Add. 7196 f. [25v rev.])

HoJ 173

Copy, headed in the margin Nosense and here beginning Even as the Waues of breaneles batterd fish.

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

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

c.1628-30s

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

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

Edinburgh University Library (MS H.-P. Coll. 401 f. 56v)

HoJ 174 c.1620s

Copy, headed John Hoskins in Coriat.

In: A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous MSS, in various hands, 368 leaves, in old blind-stamped calf (rebacked).

Folios 357r-68v comprising a portion of a quarto verse miscellany, in a neat italic hand, probably associated with the Inns of Court.

c.1620s-30s

Old pressmark F. 4. 20.

Trinity College, Dublin, numbers 200 through 799 (MS 652 f. 357r) | Catalogue

'Loue is a foolish melancholie'

Osborn, No. XXII (p. 190).

HoJ 175

Copy, headed His melancholy, subscribed M^r Hoskins.

This MS recorded in Osborn.

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

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

c.1600-1620s

Chetham's Library, Manchester (Mun. A.4.15 f. 52r-v (pp. 78-9)) | Catalogue

HoJ 176

Copy, untitled, subscribed J. H.

Edited from this MS in Osborn.

c.1613?-33

Among the collections of William Drummond of Hawthornden: Hawthornden Vol. XV.

National Library of Scotland, MS 2067 (MS 2067 ff. 6v-7r) | Catalogue

HoJ 177

Copy, untitled, subscribed J: H.

c.1620[-76]

The later material including medical notes written c.1665-76 by Sir John Wedderburn (1599-1679), royal physician.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Wedderburn MS: DnJ Δ 55. Discussed in Alan MacColl, A New Manuscript of Donne's Poems, RES, NS 19 (1968), 293-5.

National Library of Scotland, MS 6504 (MS 6504 f. 87r-v) | Catalogue

'Martin is fled, Farewell my friend'

A single couplet.

HoJ 178

Copy, headed M^r. Hoskins a lawyer in the Middle Temple made these two verses of four gentlemem of the Temple (M^r. Martin M^r. Farwell M^r. Musket M^r. Warre).

In: A folio commonplace book cum letterbook, predominantly in one hand, compiled by Sir Francis Castillion (1561-1638), 241 pages (plus many blanks).

c.1620s-30s

The front pastedown inscribed Thomas Hugh Markham From his Mother. Sep^r 11^th. 1846 and, in pencil, Darker Esq^r. Gayton.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS fb 69 p. 200) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

M^r Hoskines, his own Epitaphe when he was sicke beinge fellow in New Colledge in Oxford ('Reader I wold not haue the[e] mistake')

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1605). Osborn, No. X (p. 171).

HoJ 179

Copy, headed Hoskins dreame of N. Coll.

This MS recorded in Osborn.

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

c.1620s-30s

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 19 p. 95) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 180

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Osborn.

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

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

c.1600-1620s

Chetham's Library, Manchester (Mun. A.4.15 f. 97v (p. 159)) | Catalogue

Mr. Hoskins one a dull Lawyer ('As a louse as we cracke, hath a list one his backe')

Osborn, No. XL (p. 211).

HoJ 181

Copy, headed M^r Hoskins one a dull Lawyer.

Edited from this MS in Osborn.

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

c.1620s-30s

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 19 p. 148) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

Mr. Hoskins one M^r Permenter at the Chancerye in London ('M^r Permentor stands at y^e Cent^er')

Osborn, p. 211.

HoJ 182

Copy.

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

c.1620s-30s

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 19 p. 149) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 183

Copy, headed Hoskins on M^r Permenter at the Chancery in L:.

Mid-17th century

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

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 100 through 199 (MS V.a.162 f. 59v) | Catalogue

Of a Cosener ('And was not death a lusty struggler')

HoJ 184

Copy, subscribed per eundem.

Grosart, II, 185.

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

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

c.1600-1620s

Chetham's Library, Manchester (Mun. A.4.15 f. 97r (p. 158)) | Catalogue

Of One y^t kepte runinge Horses ('Here lyes that man whose horse did gayne')

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1605). Osborn, No. XX (p. 189).

HoJ 185

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Osborn.

In: 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. 170) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 186

Copy, headed 232. Epitaph.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, 171 leaves, with an index, imperfect at the beginning, in contemporary calf (rebacked).

Compiled by Colonel Gabriel Lepipre, being the 4^th Vol. of his compilations.

c.1748-50s

Donated in 1938 by F.F. Madan.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 40 f. 119r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 187

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Osborn.

In: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, predominantly in one hand, written from both ends, 127 leaves, in contemporary vellum, heavily soiled.

Early-mid-17th century

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. D. 1372 f. 9v rev.) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 188

Copy, subscribed per eundem [i.e. Hoskyns].

Edited from this MS in Osborn.

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

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

c.1600-1620s

Chetham's Library, Manchester (Mun. A.4.15 f. 97r (p. 158)) | Catalogue

Of S^r Tho. Gressam ('Here lyes Gressam under the ground')

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1605). Osborn, No. XIII (p. 171).

HoJ 189

Copy, headed 230 Epitaph on a hard Drinker and here beginning Here lyeth C. under Ground.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, 171 leaves, with an index, imperfect at the beginning, in contemporary calf (rebacked).

Compiled by Colonel Gabriel Lepipre, being the 4^th Vol. of his compilations.

c.1748-50s

Donated in 1938 by F.F. Madan.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 40 f. 118r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 190

Copy.

In: A transcript of two 17th-century verse MSS, the second a miscellany, 195 large quarto pages, in calf gilt.

19th century

Once owned by F.W. Cosens, FSA (1819-89), of Clapham Park, book collector. Sotheby's, 25 July 1890 (Cosens sale), in lot 136. Among the collections of Sir Charles Harding Firth (1857-1936), historian.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Firth d. 7 f. 157r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 191

Copy, headed On Gresham a Drunkard and here beginning Heere lyeth Gresham vnder ground.

This MS recorded in Osborn.

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

c.1620s-30s

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 19 p. 150) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 192

Copy, subscribed per Eundem [i.e. Hoskyns].

Edited from this MS in Osborn.

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

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

c.1600-1620s

Chetham's Library, Manchester (Mun. A.4.15 f. 97r (p. 158)) | Catalogue

Of Swifte ('Here lyes Swifte that swiftlie fledd')

Osborn, No. XI (p. 171).

HoJ 193

Copy, subscribed per eundem [i.e. Hoskyns].

Edited from this MS in Osborn.

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

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

c.1600-1620s

Chetham's Library, Manchester (Mun. A.4.15 f. 97r (p. 158)) | Catalogue

Of the B. of London ('I was the first that made Christendom see')

Osborn, No. XIX (p. 189).

HoJ 193.5

Copy, headed Vppon D^r Fletcher B[...].

This MS recorded in Osborn.

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

With a few additions in Rawlinson's hand.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199 (MS Rawl. poet. 172 f. 15v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 194

Copy of a version headed Ep. D^ris ffletcher Epi Londi: and beginning Here lyes the first y^t gaue England to see.

This MS recorded in Osborn.

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

c.1630

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 10000 through 14999 (Add. MS 10309 f. 140r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 195

Copy, headed An Eph. on D^r Fletcher bishop of L: R. C: and here beginning Here lyes the first y^t gaue England her see.

This MS recorded in Osborn.

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. 28r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 196

Copy, headed An Epitaph on D^r flecher byshop of London and here beginning Here lyes the first y^t gaue England to see

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. 57r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 197

This MS recorded in Osborn.

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

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

Mid-18th century

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 5000 through 5999 (Add. MS 5832 f. 205r)

HoJ 198

Copy.

In: A folio composite volume of genealogical, historical and antiquarian tracts and papers, in various hands, 323 leaves, in modern half crushed calf on cloth boards gilt.

Largely comprising notes and materials either written by Camden or used by him for his various works, particularly Remaines.

Names inscribed (f. 207r) Bryan Tukerson and George Wiseman.

The British Library: Cotton MSS (Cotton MS Julius F. XI f. 99r) | Catalogue

HoJ 199

Copy, in a professional mixed hand, headed An other in Fletcheru.

In: A folio volume of heraldic papers, in several hands, 92 leaves, in panelled mottled calf (rebacked).

Compiled by, or for, William Penson (d.1637), claimant Chester Herald and Lancaster Herald.

c.1620s

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 1000 through 1999 (Harley MS 1107 f. 11r) | Catalogue

HoJ 200

Copy, subscribed per eundem.

Edited from this MS in Osborn.

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

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

c.1600-1620s

Chetham's Library, Manchester (Mun. A.4.15 f. 96v (p. 157)) | Catalogue

Of y^e losse of time ('If life be time that here is spent')

Osborn, No. IX (p. 170).

HoJ 201

Copy, as Per J: Hoskins.

Edited from this MS in Osborn.

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

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

c.1600-1620s

Chetham's Library, Manchester (Mun. A.4.15 f. 51r (p. 76)) | Catalogue

On a young Gentlewoman ('Nature in this small volume was about')

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Facetiæ (London, 1655). Osborn, No. XLIV (p. 213), ascribed to John Hoskyns.

See BrW 108.

On Dreames ('Yo^u nimble dreames w^th cob webb winges')

Osborn, No. XXI (p. 189).

HoJ 202

Copy, headed On Dreames.

c.1630s

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

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 14 f. 64v) | Catalogue

HoJ 203

Copy, headed On Dreames.

In: A quarto verse miscellany and masque, in at least three hands, written from both ends, i + 123 leaves, in contemporary calf.

Mid-late 17th century

Including (f. 1r) an anagram on Frances Pawlett. Inscribed in red ink (f. 123v) Egigius Frampton hunc librum jure tenet non est mortale quod opto: 1659: i.e. by Giles Frampton, who is perhaps responsible for some of the later poems. Also inscribed [?]R. N. 1663. Some later notes in the hand of Richard Rawlinson.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 50 through 99 (MS Rawl. poet. 84 f. 94r rev.) | Catalogue

HoJ 204

Copy.

This MS recorded in Osborn.

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

c.1630

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 10000 through 14999 (Add. MS 10309 f. 47r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 205

Copy.

This MS recorded in Osborn.

In: 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. 10v-11r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 206

Copy, with an additional stanza.

This MS recorded in Osborn and the additional stanza printed, p. 284.

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. 138v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 207

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Osborn.

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

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

c.1633

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

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

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1446 ff. 28v-9r)

HoJ 208

This MS recorded in Osborn.

c.early 1630s

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1792 ff. 6v-7r)

HoJ 209

Copy, untitled, subscribed J: H.

This MS recorded in Osborn.

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

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

c.1600-1620s

Chetham's Library, Manchester (Mun. A.4.15 f. 51v (p. 77)) | Catalogue

The same in English ('An hundred nights twice told are come & gone')

Osborn, No. XXXIII (pp. 205-6). Whitlock, pp. 483-4.

HoJ 210

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Osborn.

In: A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous tracts and papers, in various hands, in modern red morocco gilt.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 1000 through 1999 (Harley MS 1221 f. 77r-v) | Catalogue

HoJ 211

Copy.

This MS cited in Osborn.

In: A large quarto volume of verse and prose, in several hands, a cursive mixed hand predominating on ff. 1r -51, 53r-8v, with a later addition dated 1694 on f. 78r, 82 leaves, in modern half green morocco.

Mid-17th century

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6038 ff. 21r-v) | Catalogue

S^r Fra: Bacon. L: Verulam. Vicount S^t Albons ('Lord Verulam is very lame, the gout of go-out feeling')

Osborn, No. XXXIX (p. 210). Whitlock, pp. 558-9.

HoJ 212

Copy, headed S^r francis Bacon Lo: chan: of England deposed and here beginning Greate Virulam is verie lame the gout of goe out feeleing.

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

c.1630s

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

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Douce f. 5 fol. 37v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 213

Copy, here beginning Greate Verulm is very lame y^e gout of god not feelinge.

In: 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. 32v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 214

Copy, untitled. here beginning Great Verulam is very lame y^e goute of go-out feeling.

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

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

c.1620s-30s

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

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, f through end (MS Eng. poet. f. 10 fol. 96r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 215

Copy, headed Vpon the fall of S^r, Francis Bacon Lo. verulam & viscount S^t: Alban Lo: Chancellour.

Edited from this MS in Early Stuart Libels.

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

c.1630s

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

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 23 p. 23) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 216

Copy, dated April. 1621 and subscribed Thought to be done by M^r Hoskins of Hereford.

Edited from this MS in Osborn.

c.1618-30s

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. B. 151 f. 102v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 217

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Osborn.

Compiled in part by the Oxford printer Christopher Wase (1627-90), fellow of King's College, Cambridge.

Mid-17th century

Later owned by John Somers (1651-1716), Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor, and his brother-in-law Sir Joseph Jekyll (1662-1738), lawyer and politician.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Wase MS: DnJ Δ 39.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 100 through 149 (MS Rawl. poet. 117 f. 22v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 218

Copy of a 28-line version, headed on the Lord chancellor and here beginning Greate Verulam is verie lame, the goute of goe=out feeling.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, nearly all in a single mixed hand, 19 leaves, in a wrapper comprising a recycled vellum leaf bearing a rubricated (?)15th-century religious text in Latin.

c.1630

Among the papers of the Stanhope family, of Horsforth, near Leeds. Formerly Spencer-Stanhope MSS, Calendar No. 2795 (Bundle 10, No. 34).

Bradford Archives (SpSt/9/1a ff. [10v-11r])

HoJ 219 1620s

Copy, in the secretary hand of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), antiquary, with full title, on one side of a single folio leaf.

In: 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. 187r) | Catalogue

HoJ 220

Copy, untitled, here beginning Great verulam is very lame, the goute of go-feeling, and subscribed ffranciscan Martir.

In: A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous tracts and papers, in various hands, in modern red morocco gilt.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 1000 through 1999 (Harley MS 1221 f. 80v) | Catalogue

HoJ 221

Copy, untitled, here beginning Great Verulam is very lame, the gout of go=out feeling, subscribed ffranciscan Martir.

This MS recorded in Osborn.

Mid-17th century

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6038 f. 27r-8r) | Catalogue

HoJ 222

Copy, in a cursive italic hand, untitled, here beginning Great Verulam is very lame, the Gout of go=out feeling, subscribed ffranciscan Martir. Mid-17th century.

In: A large folio composite volume of original state letters, in various hands, iv + 488 leaves (plus blanks), in half morocco gilt.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 7000 through end (Harley MS 7002 f. 325r-v) | Catalogue

HoJ 222.5

Copy, headed verses made vpon the Lo: Chancellor Bacon and here beginning Great Verulam is very lame, the Gowte of gold out-feeling, among other verse on a sheaf of folio leaves (now removed to MS Gg. 4. 13*).

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

Mid-17th century

Cambridge University Library, shelfmarks G through L (MS Gg. 4. 13 p. 49) | Catalogue

HoJ 223

Copy, headed Vpon Carr. l. of Somerset & S^r francis Bacon then l. keep^r lord Verulam, here beginning Great Verulame is very lame the gout of toe not feeling.

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 f. 43rbis)

HoJ 224

Copy, untitled, here beginning Great Verulam is very lame y^e Goute or goe out feelinge.

In: A quarto miscellany of verse, state papers and parliamentary speeches, in several secretary and mixed hands, 134 leaves (plus numerous blanks), written from both ends chiefly on rectos only (Part I: ff. 1r-113r, Part II: ff. 1r-21r), disbound.

c.1640s

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 100 through 199 (MS V.a.192 Part II, f. 7r) | Catalogue

HoJ 225

Copy, headed On y^e Lord Chancelour and here beginning Great Verulam is very lame y^e gout of goout feeling.

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

c.1630s

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 300 through end (MS V.a.345 p. 127) | Catalogue

HoJ 226 c.1620s

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, here beginning Great Verulam is very lame, the, Gout, of goe out, feeling, on one side of a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet, in a file of verse MSS.

In: A box of unbound and unnumbered legal and miscellaneous papers.

National Archives, Kew (C 108/63 unnumbered item) | Catalogue

HoJ 227

Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, untitled, here beginning Great Verulam is very laime the goute of goe out feelinge, on one side of a folio leaf.

c.1620s

The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House (Cecil Papers 144/275)

HoJ 228 c.1620s

Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, untited, here beginning Greate Verulame is very lame y^e goute of gorout feeling, on the fourth page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

In: A bundle of unbound poems and songs, in various hands and paper sizes.

Among the papers of the Sanford family. Formerly DD/SF C/2635, Box 1 and DD/SF 4516.

Somerset Heritage Centre (DD/SF/18/2/5 item 6) | Catalogue

HoJ 229

Copy, headed On y^e fall of S^r Francis Bacon L. Chancellour, and of his Followers, here beginning Great Verulam is very lame, the Gout of Goe-out feeling.

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

c.1630s

University of Nottingham (Pw V 37 p. 152) | Catalogue

Sir Henry Wotton, and Serjeant Hoskins, riding on the way ('Noble, lovely, vertuous Creature')

First published in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (London, 1651), p. 517. Osborn, pp. 211-12.

HoJ 230

Copy, headed Verses extempore betweene Sir. H. Wotton & M^r. Hoskins, as they rode together from Oxford to London. y^e theame a mistris.

In: 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. 2-3)

Song vppon a bellowes mender ('Here lyes Tom short y^e king of good fellowes')

Osborn, No. VI (p. 170).

See DaJ 125-152.5.

To his Son Benedict Hoskins ('Sweet Benedict whilst thou art younge')

Osborn, No. XXXI (p. 203).

HoJ 231 c.1620s-30s

Copy, untitled, on a single folio leaf of verse.

This MS recorded in Osborn.

In: 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. 213r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 232

Copy, the two Latin verses first, headed M^r Hoskins to his Sonne.

This MS recorded in Osborn.

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

c.1620s-30s

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 19 p. 149) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 233

Copy, following the two Latin verses.

This MS cited in Osborn.

c.1618-30s

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. B. 151 f. 103r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 234

Copy by Aubrey of a version beginning My little Ben, whilst thou art young and including the two Latin verses.

This MS cited in Osborn.

In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous, genealogical and heraldic papers, in various hands, including John Aubrey, and on various sizes of paper, 126 leaves, in modern half-calf.

Chiefly from the collection of Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), herald and antiquary.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. D. 727 f. 94v) | Catalogue

HoJ 235

Copy, headed Hoskins (imprison'd) to his Sonne.

This MS recorded in Osborn.

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

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 1 through 49 (MS Rawl. poet. 26 f. 2v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 236

Copy, headed Hoskins in the Tower to his little sonne Beniamen and here beginning My little Ben nowe thou art yonge.

This MS recorded in Osborn.

Compiled in part by the Oxford printer Christopher Wase (1627-90), fellow of King's College, Cambridge.

Mid-17th century

Later owned by John Somers (1651-1716), Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor, and his brother-in-law Sir Joseph Jekyll (1662-1738), lawyer and politician.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Wase MS: DnJ Δ 39.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 100 through 149 (MS Rawl. poet. 117 f. 16r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 237

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed Ad Beniaminu filium and here beginning Sweete Beniamin, whilest thowe art younge.

This MS recorded in Osborn.

Collected by Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian.

Early 17th century-1630s

Inscribed (f. 2r) R^d Bankes Anno Dni 1708; (f. 1r) Tho: Birch Januarii 8. 1752; and (f. 96r) Tho. Birch 28. Janua: 1754.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 4101 through 4999 (Add. MS 4130 f. 93v)

HoJ 238

Copy, headed Hosckins in the Tower to his little son Beniamin, here beginning My little Ben, now y^u art young.

This MS recorded in Osborn.

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

c.1630

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 10000 through 14999 (Add. MS 10309 f. 148r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 239

Copy, headed Ad filiolum Suum Beniamin, the English preceded by the Latin version beginning Dum pueres vant ne seiq incomoda vocis.

This MS cited in Osborn.

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

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

c.1620s-30s

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

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

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999 (Add. MS 21433 f. 147r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 240

Copy of the Latin version, headed Ad filiolum suum Beniamin, followed by the English version which is untitled.

This MS cited in Osborn.

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. 163r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 241

Copy, headed Johnson to his sonne Benn and here beginning Sweet Beniamin while thou art younge.

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

c.1630

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

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

Corpus Christi College, Oxford (MS 327 f. 23v) | Catalogue

HoJ 242

Copy.

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. 23v) | Catalogue

HoJ 243

Copy, following the Latin version, which is headed M^r: Hoskins to his sonne.

Mid-17th century

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

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 100 through 199 (MS V.a.162 f. 56r) | Catalogue

HoJ 244

Copy, headed M^r Hoskins in the Tower to his Son and here beginning My little Ben, while thou art young.

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

c.1637-51

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

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

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 200 through 299 (MS V.a.262 p. 90) | Catalogue

HoJ 245

Copy, headed M^r Hoskins to his sonne and here beginning My little sonne whilst thou art yong.

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

c.1640

Formerly MS 2073.3.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 300 through end (MS V.a.319 f. 20r) | Catalogue

HoJ 246

Copy, headed M^r Hoskins to his sonne and here beginning Sonne Baniamin while thou art yong.

c.late 1620s

Harvard University, MS Eng 966.7 (MS Eng 966.7 f. 30v) | Catalogue

HoJ 247

Copy, headed Hoskin ith Tower to his son.

c.late 1630s

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 116 p. 66)

HoJ 248

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Osborn

In: A folio leaf of verse (on one side), in an italic hand, endorsed Verses made by Sergeant Hoskins, once folded as a letter or packet.

c.1634

Among papers of the Griffith family of Carreglwyd, Anglesey, including papers of John Griffith of Gray's Inn, private secretary to Henry Howard (1540-1614), Earl of Northampton.

National Library of Wales (Carreglwyd MS II. 218 item 2) | Catalogue

HoJ 249

Copy, headed M^r Hoskins in the Tower to his Sonne, here beginning My little Ben whilst thou art yong.

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

c.1630s

University of Nottingham (Pw V 37 p. 170) | Catalogue

HoJ 250

Copy of a version headed Ben: Johnson to his Sonne Ben and beginning Sweet Beniamin, while thou art young.

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

c.1650

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

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

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 200 p. 412) | First Lines Index

Vppon on of the Mayds of Honor to Queen Elizabeth ('Here lies, the lord haue Mercie vppon hur!')

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1623), p. 349. Osborn, No. VII (p. 170).

HoJ 251

Copy, headed Vppon on of the Mayds of Honor to Queen Elizabeth, subscribed Serg^t Hoskins.

Edited from this MS in Osborn.

In: 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. 181) | Catalogue

HoJ 252

Copy, headed On a Young Noble Gentlewoman and here beginning Here lies y^e Lord have mercy upon her.

c.1630s

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

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 14 f. 93v rev.) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 253

Copy, under a general heading Epitaphes.

Compiled in part by the Oxford printer Christopher Wase (1627-90), fellow of King's College, Cambridge.

Mid-17th century

Later owned by John Somers (1651-1716), Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor, and his brother-in-law Sir Joseph Jekyll (1662-1738), lawyer and politician.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Wase MS: DnJ Δ 39.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 100 through 149 (MS Rawl. poet. 117 f. 179r rev.) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 254

Copy, untitled and here beginning Heare lyeth Lord haue mercie vppon her!

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

With a few additions in Rawlinson's hand.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199 (MS Rawl. poet. 172 f. 15v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 255

Copy, in the hand of William Camden, headed Vpon one Margarett Radcliffe I found theise Verses, written along the length of a margin.

In: A folio composite volume of original papers of the Society of Antiquaries, in various hands, 221 leaves, in modern half-morocco on cloth boards gilt.

The British Library: Cotton MSS (Cotton MS Faustina E. V f. 162v) | Catalogue

HoJ 256

Copy, in Sir John Davies's hand, introduced as the newest pleasant Epitaph that I know.

In: A folio composite volume of original papers of the Society of Antiquaries, in various hands, 221 leaves, in modern half-morocco on cloth boards gilt.

The British Library: Cotton MSS (Cotton MS Faustina E. V f. 171r) | Catalogue

Vpon the birth of the Prince ('While at the Altar of St Pauls y^e King')

See HoJ 296-303.

'Whosoever is contented'

See HoJ 260-270.

(2) Latin Poems

Ad chutum & sharpum ('Chute meæ infoelix consors et Acute ruinæ')

Osborn, No. XXX (pp. 202-3).

HoJ 257

Copy, in a secretary hand.

Edited from this MS in Osborn.

Collected by Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian.

Early 17th century-1630s

Inscribed (f. 2r) R^d Bankes Anno Dni 1708; (f. 1r) Tho: Birch Januarii 8. 1752; and (f. 96r) Tho. Birch 28. Janua: 1754.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 4101 through 4999 (Add. MS 4130 f. 92v)

HoJ 258

Copy, headed J. Hoskins incarceratus. M^ro Chute et D^ri Sharpe concarceratis.

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

c.1630s

University of Nottingham (Pw V 37 p. 176) | Catalogue

Ad has reliquias illustrissimi amicissimique Richardi Martini, Recordatoris Londinens., qui fato concessit ult^o Octob. 1618 ('Tu liber æternæ complectens verba salutis')

Clark, II, 48. Osborn, No. XXXVI (p. 209).

HoJ 259

Copy by Aubrey, recording that these veses were written in the bible of Richard Martin.

Edited from this MS in Aubrey's Brief Lives, ed. Andrew Clark, 2 vols (Oxford, 1898), II, 48; thence in Osborn.

In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous, genealogical and heraldic papers, in various hands, including John Aubrey, and on various sizes of paper, 126 leaves, in modern half-calf.

Chiefly from the collection of Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), herald and antiquary.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. D. 727 f. 96r) | Catalogue

Convivium philosophicum ('Quilibet si sit contentus')

Osborn, No. XXVIII (pp. 196-9), with an English version (beginning Whosoever is contented), on pp. 288-91.

HoJ 260

Copy, imperfect, half of the second leaf torn away.

In: A folio volume of poems, in a single accomplished hand, 61 leaves (plus stubs of fifteen extracted leaves), imperfect, in quarter-vellum.

Including 49 pems by Thomas Carew and one of doubtful authorship.

c.1640s

Later owned by F. Wyburd who, according to W.C. Hazlitt (1870, p. xv), obtained it about three years ago of a dealer at Knightsbridge. Owned c.1927 by P.J. Dobell, who sold it in 1936.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Wyburd MS: CwT Δ 3. Reduced facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969). Briefly discussed in Evelyn M. Simpson, Two Manuscripts of Donne's Paradoxes and Problems, RES, 3 (1927), 129-45 (pp. 131-3).

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. b. 9 ff. 18v-19v) | Catalogue

HoJ 260.5

Copy.

In: A large folio miscellany of English and Welsh poems, in occasionally alternating black and red ink, 61 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

Compiled by Richard Roberts, Justice of the Peace.

c.1628

Sold by P.J. Dobell in 1936.

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. c. 54 ff. 21r-2r) | Catalogue

HoJ 261

Copy, in double columns.

This MS cited in Osborn.

Compiled in part by the Oxford printer Christopher Wase (1627-90), fellow of King's College, Cambridge.

Mid-17th century

Later owned by John Somers (1651-1716), Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor, and his brother-in-law Sir Joseph Jekyll (1662-1738), lawyer and politician.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Wase MS: DnJ Δ 39.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 100 through 149 (MS Rawl. poet. 117 ff. 192r-191v rev.) | Catalogue

HoJ 262

Copy, as autore doctore Rodolpho Colfabio Æneonasensi.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, 49 leaves; in contemporary calf gilt.

Including 14 poems by Carew; the main text (ff. 1r-27r) in a non-professional mixed hand of the 1630s (but for later scribbling); the remaining leaves filled by later hands; notes on family history from 1647 to 1664 on ff. 28r-9r.

c.1630s[-75]

Inscribed on f. 29v John Peverell Booke 1674 and his name also on ff. 1r and 49r. Fol. 48v containing a receipt dated 30 June 1653 by me Francis Blackitt of bro. William of Hoodcroft, Co. Durham. Other names inside the front cover including John Peves and Railphe Hogwood and, inside the back cover, James Portington, William Steadman 1675, Thomas Meeres, William Diton and Ramond Swift.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Peverell MS: CwT Δ 9.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 200 through end (MS Rawl. poet. 209 ff. 13r-15r) | Catalogue

HoJ 263 c.1640s

Copy, in a small italic hand, in double columns, as Autore Rodulpho Golfabio, subscribed Joh. Reinoles.

In: A folio composite volume of state papers, parliamentary speeches, and verse, in various hands, with an alphabetical Index (ff. 1r-6v), 144 leaves, in modern mottled leather gilt.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 4000 through 4999 (Harley MS 4931 ff. 18r, 19r) | Catalogue

HoJ 264

In: A duodecimo miscellany, in English and Latin, in several hands, written from both ends, i + 74 leaves, in contemporary calf.

Owned (inscription f.[ir]), and possibly partly compiled, by Sir Henry Rainsford (1599-1641), of Clifford Chambers, near Stratford-upon-Avon.

c. late 1630s-40s

Bookplate of Edward Greenfield Doggett and Hugh Greenfield Doggett, of Bristol, 1893. Later owned by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 15. Discussed in Peter Davidson, The Notebook of Henry Rainsford, N&Q, 229 (June 1984), 247-50.

Cambridge University Library, Additional MSS 7000 through end (MS Add. 8447 ff. [47v-50r])

HoJ 265 Early 17th century

Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, in double columns, followed by other Latin verse and a play in English.

In: A quarto composite volume of verse and dramatic works, in various hands, 200 leaves, each of the fifteen items now bound separately in modern boards.

Sotheby's, 19 March 1930, lot 450.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, Miscellaneous manuscripts (MS J.a.1 f. 183r-v (MS J.a.1.15)) | Catalogue

HoJ 266

Copy, in William Parkhurst's hand.

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

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

Leicestershire Record Office (DG. 7/Lit. 2 ff. 258v-60r) | Catalogue

HoJ 267 Early 17th century

Copy, in an italic hand, headed Conuiuium (a) Philosophicum tent in Clausi Terminv michis in crastino festi s^ti egidij in Campis Authore Dno Radulpho Colphabio: Æneo-nasensi, followed by a list of the revellers, on both sides of a single folio leaf, endorsed Latin Rimes of Tom Corriat.

This MS cited in Osborn.

In: A folio guard-book of independent Jacobean state papers, stamped foliation 1-188.

National Archives, Kew (SP 14/66 f. 2r-v) | Catalogue

HoJ 268 Early 17th century

Copy.

In: A folio composite volume of verse MSS, in various hands.

c.1612-20

In collections of the Manners family, Dukes of Rutland.

Recorded (erroneously as Volume XXIV) in HMC, 12th Report, Appendix V, Rutland II (1889), pp. 316-31.

The Duke of Rutland, Belvoir Castle (Letters & Papers, Verses, Vol. XXV f. 27r)

HoJ 269

Copy, in double columns, endorsed in another hand (p. [4]) Latine verses made at A Philosophicall Banquet.

In: A pair of conjugate folio leaves of verse, in a secretary hand, in a bundle of unbound miscellaneous papers.

c.1620s

Among papers of the related Trevelyan and Willoughby families

Somerset Heritage Centre (DD/WO/53/5/13 pp. [1-2]) | Catalogue

HoJ 270

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Aubrey's Brief Lives, ed. Andrew Clark, 2 vols (Oxford, 1898), II, 50-3.

17th century

Recorded in 1898 as being at Lincoln College, Oxford.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([unnamed commonplace book] f. 185v)

De quodam Nephritico ('Occidis exesos renes torrente lapillo')

Unpublished.

HoJ 271

Copy, as by J. Hoskins.

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

c.1630s

University of Nottingham (Pw V 37 p. 171) | Catalogue

[Epitaph on Anne, Countess of Oxford] ('Anna soror soror Anna suæ charissima Elisæ')

Osborn, No. XVI (pp. 184-8).

HoJ 272

Copy, in a fine italic hand (the same hand as in HoJ 273).

In: A composite folio volume of antiquarian and state papers, by Camden and others, in various hands, 197 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

Largely comprising notes and materials either written by Camden or used by him for his various works.

c.1580s-90s

The British Library: Cotton MSS (Cotton MS Julius F. X f. 115r-v) | Catalogue

HoJ 273

A fair copy, in a fine italic hand (the same hand as in HoJ 272), probably the formal copy delivered to the Cecil family, headed Anna Vera vxor Eduardi Veri Comitis Oxoniæ, filia Guil. Burghlæi summi Angliæ Quæ storis, mulier pietate, prudentia patientia, publicitia & in Coniuge amore singulari, principi, parentibus, fratribus & vniuersæ Aulæ regiæ admodu chara. Obijt in Aula regia Greenwici Tres filias superstitus reliquit, subscribed V. M. Pergaman / Joh. Hoskins, on four folio leaves, among other elegies and funereal verses on Anne Cecil.

Edited from this MS in Osborn.

In: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 219 folios, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

Papers of William Cecil (1520/21-98), first Baron Burghley, secretary of state.

Bookplate (as Shelburne) of William Petty (1737-1805), second Earl of Shelburne and first Marquess of Lansdowne, Prime Minister.

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 104 ff. 195r-8v) | Catalogue

Epitaph on Benedicta Hoskyns ('Hic Benedicta jacet, de qua maledicere nemo')

First published in Clark, I, 424. First stanza of Osborn, No. XLII (p. 212).

HoJ 274

Copy by Aubrey, headed The Serjeant's Epitaph on his Wife at Bowe-church-Heriff.

Edited from this MS in Clark, I, 424. Cited in Osborn.

In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous, genealogical and heraldic papers, in various hands, including John Aubrey, and on various sizes of paper, 126 leaves, in modern half-calf.

Chiefly from the collection of Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), herald and antiquary.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. D. 727 f. 95v) | Catalogue

'Hic jacet Egremundus Rarus'

Clark, I, 424. Osborn, No. V (p. 169).

HoJ 275 Early-mid-17th century

Copy, headed An Epitaph made vpon Egrimond Thyn by S^riant Hoskins and here beginning Hic iacet Egrimontanus, on one side of a half-folio leaf of verse.

In: 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. 121r) | Catalogue

HoJ 276

Copy, ascribed by Aubrey to Serjeant Hoskins.

Edited from this MS in Clark and in Osborn.

In: A folio composite autograph manuscript of the third part of Brief Lives by John Aubrey (1626-97), 106 leaves of various sizes, in half-calf.

1681

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Aubrey 8 f. 15v) | Catalogue

In eundem Audoenum ('Non expers salis ambulator audi')

Osborn, No. XXXVIII (p. 210).

HoJ 277

Copy, in an uneven italic hand, headed In eundem Audoenum Joh. Hoskins.

Edited from this MS in Osborn.

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

Probably compiled by university or inns of court men.

c.1620s-30s

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 3000 through 3999 (Harley MS 3910 f. 57r) | Catalogue

In Syllabam Cos; in Pentecost Dom. in Schola Wintoniensi ('Dic mihi Semesas Lipsi serutate figuras')

Osborn, No. II (pp. 168-9).

HoJ 278

Copy, subscribed Hosequinus.

Edited from this MS in Osborn.

In: 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 ff. 48v-9r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 279

Copy, with additional verses and endorsed Mr. Hoskins' verses, sent on 1 December 1598 to M^r Percivall...at the house of...Sir Robert Cecill by a Mr Warwicke of Winton.

This MS cited, and additional verses edited, in Osborn, pp. 280-1.

The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House (Cecil Papers 204/43)

Jacobo Magnæ Britanniæ Regi Maximo, Clementissimo ('Jam mihi bis centum fluxere in carcere noctes')

Osborn, No. XXXII (pp. 203-4).

HoJ 280

Copy, in an italic hand, subscribed in a different hand presented (it seemes) a New-yeares Gift & Petition to the King and, in yet another hand, These verses were made by M^r Hoskins Counsello^r of Law, when he was a Prisoner.

This MS cited in Osborn.

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

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 1 through 49 (MS Rawl. poet. 26 f. 41r-v) | Catalogue

HoJ 281

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed Jo: Hoskyns / Ad Regem.

This MS cited in Osborn.

Collected by Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian.

Early 17th century-1630s

Inscribed (f. 2r) R^d Bankes Anno Dni 1708; (f. 1r) Tho: Birch Januarii 8. 1752; and (f. 96r) Tho. Birch 28. Janua: 1754.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 4101 through 4999 (Add. MS 4130 f. 92r-v)

HoJ 282

Copy, headed John Hoskins Newyeares gift to the Kings Ma^tie:.

This MS cited in Osborn.

In: A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous tracts and papers, in various hands, in modern red morocco gilt.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 1000 through 1999 (Harley MS 1221 ff. 76v-7r) | Catalogue

HoJ 283

Copy, headed John Hoskins new=yeares-gift to the Kings Ma^ty:, subscribed J: H:.

This MS cited in Osborn.

Mid-17th century

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6038 ff. 20r-1v) | Catalogue

*HoJ 284

Autograph

A formal copy, in an accomplished italic hand, signed by Hoskyns himself (J: Hoskyns), on the first two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter and evidently presented to James I.

In: A folio composite volume principally of original letters to King James VI from Learnid Men & Staitsmen, in various hands and paper sizes, 110 leaves, in modern quarter red morocco on marbled boards.

Vol. XX of the Denmilne Papers, collected by Sir James Balfour, first Baronet (1600-57), of Denmilne and Kinncaird, Lyon King of Arms and antiquary.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 33.1.6 f. 23r-v)

HoJ 285

Copy, in an italic hand, subscribed in an expansive cursive style J Hoskins, on two pages of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed Verses to k James by J Hoskins, once folded as a letter or packet.

Early 17th century

University of Nottingham (Cl LM 22) | Catalogue

HoJ 286

Copy, headed J. Hoskins incarceratus / Jacobo M. Britanniæ Regi Opt: Max:.

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

c.1630s

University of Nottingham (Pw V 37 p. 175) | Catalogue

Mr Hoskins wrott in the windowe when he came out of the Tower ('Sic luo, sic merui; sed quod meruique luoque')

Osborn, No. XXXV (p. 208).

HoJ 287

Copy, headed M^r Hoskins wrott in the windowe when he came out of the Tower.

Edited from this MS in Osborn.

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

c.1620s-30s

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 19 p. 148) | Catalogue

HoJ 288

Copy.

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

c.1630s

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

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 686 f. 14r) | Catalogue

HoJ 289

Copy, headed Traditus in custodia A^o: dni 1614 12^o Jacobi. Re 8^o die Juij, subscribed J. Hoskins Liberatus 8 die Junij 1615 13 Ja: Re.

This MS cited in Osborn.

In: A folio leaf of verse (on one side), in an italic hand, endorsed Verses made by Sergeant Hoskins, once folded as a letter or packet.

c.1634

Among papers of the Griffith family of Carreglwyd, Anglesey, including papers of John Griffith of Gray's Inn, private secretary to Henry Howard (1540-1614), Earl of Northampton.

National Library of Wales (Carreglwyd MS II. 218 item 1) | Catalogue

'Nobilis innocuos transegit Bournius annos'

First published in Clark, I, 424. Osborn, second stanza of No. XLII (p. 212).

HoJ 290

Copy by Aubrey, headed On M^r Bourne his sonne-in-law: by him.

Clark's edition of Aubrey cited in Osborn.

In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous, genealogical and heraldic papers, in various hands, including John Aubrey, and on various sizes of paper, 126 leaves, in modern half-calf.

Chiefly from the collection of Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), herald and antiquary.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. D. 727 f. 95v) | Catalogue

To his Son Benedict Hoskins ('Dum Puer es, vanæ nesisque incomoda Linguæ')

See To his Son Benedict Hoskins: HoJ 231-250.

'Undecies senos exegi strenuus annos'

The Latin poem followed by an Englished version, beginning Years sixty six, I have with vigour Past. Osborn, No. XLVIII (pp. 214-15).

HoJ 291

Copy by Aubrey.

Edited from this MS in Osborn and in Clark, I, 417.

In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous, genealogical and heraldic papers, in various hands, including John Aubrey, and on various sizes of paper, 126 leaves, in modern half-calf.

Chiefly from the collection of Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), herald and antiquary.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. D. 727 f. 94r) | Catalogue

HoJ 292

Copy, with an introductory note about y^e ingenious M^r. Joⁿ. Hoskyns and as verses drawn 6 years before he dy'd.

In: A quarto notebook, closely written in a single cursive hand, 108 leaves, in modern quarter morocco on cloth gilt.

Compiled by Thomas Rawlins, of Pophills, near Wixford, Warwickshire.

c.1730s

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 702 f. 54v) | Catalogue

HoJ 293

Copy, headed De Seipso 1634.

In: A folio leaf of verse (on one side), in an italic hand, endorsed Verses made by Sergeant Hoskins, once folded as a letter or packet.

c.1634

Among papers of the Griffith family of Carreglwyd, Anglesey, including papers of John Griffith of Gray's Inn, private secretary to Henry Howard (1540-1614), Earl of Northampton.

National Library of Wales (Carreglwyd MS II. 218 item 3) | Catalogue

HoJ 294

Copy of both Latin and English versions, headed Verse composed by Serjeant Hoskyns. 1632 or 1633

Recorded in Osborn, p. 296.

In: Owned by Henry Hornyold-Strickland, Sizergh Castle.

Sizergh Castle (Collection of papers of John Hoskyns Verses)

HoJ 295

Copy of both Latin and English versions, headed Verse composed by Serjeant Hoskyns. 1632 or 1633.

Among the papers of Hoskyns owned in 1937 by Henry Hornyold-Strickland.

In: A collection of papers of Sir John Harington (1560-12) and his family.

Late 16th-early 17th century

Owned by Sir John's descendants Henry Harington (1686-1769) and Dr Henry Harington (1727-1816).

These manuscripts edited in Nugae Antiquae (first published in two volumes, London, 1769); various editions, expanded to 2 vols, ed. Henry Harington [and Thomas Park], London, 1804.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Harington MSS] [unnumbered item])

Vpon the birth of the Prince ('Cum Rex Paulinas accessit gratus ad aras')

The Latin poem followed by the English version, beginning While at the Alter of S^t Pauls y^e King. Osborn, No. XLVII (p. 214).

HoJ 296

Headed Vpon the birth of the Said Prince. The Latin poem followed by the English version, beginning While at the Alter of S^t Pauls y^e King. Osborn, No. XLVII (p. 214).

Edited from this MS in Osborn.

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

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 1 through 49 (MS Rawl. poet. 26 f. 11r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 297

Copy of a Latin and an English version, the former headed 30^o: May 1630, here beginning (correctly) Dum Rex Paulinas accessit Gratus ad Aras, subscribed Ser: Hoskins; Med: Temp; the latter headed In English thus, and here beginning Where as o^r gratefull king went to Paules shrine.

This MS cited in Osborn.

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. 30v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 298

Copy of both Latin and English versions, headed Certaine verses sent from Serjeant Hotchkins to one M^r Hyrne of Bramford who then preached at Pauls crosse, on that day the King came thither to offer up his oblation at the altar for the birth of his sonne, inscribed in the margin Mar: 30 Ano: 1630.

This MS cited in Osborn.

In: 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. 37v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 299

Copy of the English version only, headed On the Princes birth.

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. 28v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 300

Copy of the Latin version only, introduced ...Serjeant Hoskins after sermon sent the Preacher [M^r Herne Vicar of Henly] these verses.

This MS cited in Osborn.

In: A folio volume of genealogies, in a single secretary hand, with an Index (ff. 2r-7r) and two leaves tipped-in at the end, 277 leaves, in modern calf gilt.

Late 17th century

Inscribed (f. 1r) Jacobus Locke apprentice de la Ley in Grayes Inn dedit mihi chartaceum hoc amoris erga me...20^o: July...Ani: 1642 / Ita Testor Robert Appleton. Also inscribed (f. 1r) by Wanley Bought of M^r Noel. 7 July 1716.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6071 f. 16v) | Catalogue

HoJ 301

Copy, in a mixed hand, untitled, here beginning Du Rex Paulinas accedit gratus ad Aras, subscribed Joh: Hoskins, the second of two poems on one side of a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet, endorsed in a cursive hand 6^o Junij 1630 / A coppie of verses made by D^r. Sharpe & Sergeant Hoskins upon y^e appearance of a starr that day in y^e sermontyme at Poules [?church] y^e Kinges ma^tie: beinge present at the byrth of y^e prince.

c.1630

Among papers of the Griffith family of Carreglwyd, Anglesey, including papers of John Griffith of Gray's Inn, private secretary to Henry Howard (1540-1614), Earl of Northampton.

National Library of Wales (Carreglwyd MS II. 217) | Catalogue

HoJ 302

Copy.

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

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

c.1630s

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

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

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1 through 239 (MS 239/23 p. 91) | Catalogue

HoJ 303

Copy, untitled, here beginning Dum Rex Paulinas..., subscribed S: H.

In: 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. 91) | Catalogue

Verses at Morehampton ('Grates ades quisquis descendis, amicus et hospes:')

Osborn, No. XLIII (pp. 212-13). Clark, I, 419.

HoJ 304

Copy by Aubrey

In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous, genealogical and heraldic papers, in various hands, including John Aubrey, and on various sizes of paper, 126 leaves, in modern half-calf.

Chiefly from the collection of Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), herald and antiquary.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. D. 727 f. 94r) | Catalogue

(3) Poems of Doubtful Authorship

An Anima sit ex traduce ('What is the soule of man? or where created')

Ascribed to Hoskyns in one MS source.

HoJ 305

Copy, ascribed to Hoskins.

Including thirteen poems by Strode and three of doubtful authorship.

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

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

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1 through 239 (MS 239/22 f. 49v) | Catalogue

Censure ('Down came graue Sir John Crooke And read his message out of Booke')

Cited, but unprinted (as probably the result of collaboration), as No. III of Doubtful Verses in Osborn, p. 300.

See The Censure of a Parliament Fart, HoJ 39-89.

'He that hath heard a princes Secrecy'

Osborn, p. 302.

HoJ 306

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous tracts and papers, in various hands, in modern red morocco gilt.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 1000 through 1999 (Harley MS 1221 f. 71v) | Catalogue

HoJ 307

Copy, untitled, subscribed J: H:.

Edited from this MS in Osborn.

Mid-17th century

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6038 f. 12r) | Catalogue

Impossibilities ('Embrace a Sun-beame, and on it')

Osborn, p. 299.

HoJ 308

This MS recorded in Osborn.

In: 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 ff. 30v-1r) | Catalogue

HoJ 309

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Osborn.

In: 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. 71v) | Catalogue

John Hoskins to the Lady Jacob ('Oh loue whose powre & might non euer yet w^thstood')

Osborn, p. 301.

HoJ 310

Copy, in double columns, headed M^r Poldens delight of N: Coll: Oxf: and here beginning O loue whose force & might, in a quarto booklet of verse (ff. 136r-45v).

In: 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. 145v) | Catalogue

HoJ 311

Copy.

In: A quarto verse miscellany of c.150 poems, in several hands; associated with Oxford, probably Christ Church, 279 pages (plus index and blanks).

Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 32 poems (plus four of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1630s-40s

Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue (1836), item 1044. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9561. Sotheby's, 19 June 1893 (Phillipps sale), lot 628, and 21 March 1895, lot 903. Hodgson's, 23 April 1959, lot 528.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the English Poetry MS: CoR Δ 3 and StW Δ 6.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 97 p. 164) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 312

Copy.

1623

Cited in IELM, I.i (190), as the Phillipps MS: DnJ Δ 20.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, f through end (MS Eng. poet. f. 9 p. 19) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 313

Copy, headed M^r <deleted> delight of <deleted> in Oxford and here beginning O loue whose force & might / Noe power euer w^thstode.

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

c.1620s-30s

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 19 pp. 105-6) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 314

Copy, in double columns, headed M^r Lawson of S^t. John's Colledge his verses to his mistrisse, followed by Her answere (beginning Yo^r letters I receiv'd).

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

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 1 through 49 (MS Rawl. poet. 26 f. 5r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 315

Copy, untitled.

In: 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. 39v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 316

Copy, headed A songe and here beginning O Loue whose force & might.

In: 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. 63) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 317

Copy, headed Carelesse Affection and here beginning O loue whose force and might.

This MS cited in Osborn.

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

With a few additions in Rawlinson's hand.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199 (MS Rawl. poet. 172 f. 4v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 318

Copy, headed A song and here beginning Oh love whose force & might.

In: A small quarto verse miscellany, in a single hand, 98 pages (plus some blanks), in reversed calf (rebacked).

c.1620s-30s

Inscribed (f. i^r) by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), the date 1741 added.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199 (MS Rawl. poet. 199 p. 75) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 319

Copy, headed Drollery and here beginning Oh Loue, whose force & might, the seventh stanza deleted.

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.

c.1640s [and later]

Bodleian Library, Tanner Collection (MS Tanner 465 f. 84r) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 320

Copy, in the margins on ff. 50v, 59r-65r of a 15th-century MS on parchment of Petrarch's Quatuor invectivarum libri.

Mid-17th century

Inscribed names of Sampson Walker (f. 2v) and Roger and Richard Martin.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Jones 58) | Catalogue

HoJ 321

Copy, headed Juuenis delicantem quandam ancillam illudens and here beginning O Loue whose forces might none euer yet withstood.

In: 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. 7v) | Catalogue

HoJ 322

Copy, headed Exp^rience & examples dailie proue that my man can be well aduised & loue.

This MS cited in Osborn.

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

Compiled by someone probably connected with the Royal Court.

c.1605

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

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999 (Add. MS 22601 ff. 106r-7v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 323

Copy, headed John Hoskins to the Lady Jacob, followed (f. 71r) by The Lady Jacobs Answer beginning Yo^r letter I receiu'd bedeckt w^th florishinge quarters.

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. 70v) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 324

Copy (words only), headed A letter from a louer to his beloued, here beginning O Loue whose power & might none yet withstood, followed (f. 82r) by Her answeare.

This MS cited in Osborn.

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

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

c.1615-26

Acquired from Joseph Lilly, bookseller, 17 May 1862.

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

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 24665 f. 81v) | Catalogue

HoJ 325

Copy, untitled.

Furnivall, pp. 7-9.

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

c.1620s

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

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

The British Library: Rare Books Room (C.39.a.37 ff. 2v-3v)

HoJ 326

Copy, headed To his mistriss.

In: An octavo notebook of extracts in verse and prose, in a small untidy hand, written from both ends, 42 leaves (plus three blanks), badly worn, remains of boards and green ties.

c.1640

Includes (f. [31r rev.] a reference to my brother Capstons account book after his death 1632. Given to the library by H.L. Pink, Assistant Under-Librarian, 22 November 1948.

Cambridge University Library, Additional MSS 7000 through end (MS Add. 7196 ff. [19v-20r rev.])

HoJ 327

Copy, headed A gearinge fellow to his scornefull loue and here beginning O loue whose force & might.

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. 91v) | Catalogue

HoJ 328

Copy, headed D^r. Dun to his m^rs y^t scorn'd him and here beginning O love whose force & might.

In: 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 ff. 36r-7r) | Catalogue

HoJ 329

Copy, headed M^r. Poulden's delight of N: Coll. in Oxon[i.e. ascribed to Robert Polden, who matriculated at New College, Oxford, 14 October 1597], here beginning O Loue whose force & might.

Mid-17th century

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

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 100 through 199 (MS V.a.162 f. 39r) | Catalogue

HoJ 330

Copy, headed In Loves contempt and here beginning O Love whose force and might.

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

c.1630s

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

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 686 ff. 36v-7r) | Catalogue

HoJ 331

Copy, in Constance Fowler's hand.

Aldrich-Watson, p. 139.

In: 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. 185r)

HoJ 332

Copy, in double columns, headed A Clownes Loue letter.

In: 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. 82r)

HoJ 333

Copy, in double columns, headed in the margin Love, here beginning Love whose pow^r & might.

c.1614-25

Meisei University (MR 0799 p. 42)

HoJ 334

Copy, headed A flout for his mistresse.

In: 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. 93-4)

HoJ 335

Copy, headed Beast his Sonnet.

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

Probably compiled by a member of an Inn of Court.

c.1630

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

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1000 through end (MS 1083/15 p. 45) | Catalogue

HoJ 336

Copy, headed M^r Poldens delight of New Coll: Oxon, here beginning O loue whose force & might, with a verse-for-verse reply in a second column on each page.

c.1630

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1000 through end (MS 1083/16 pp. 31-2)

HoJ 337

Copy, headed To his mistress, followed by an answer.

c.1622-33

Later owned by Major J.B. Whitmore. Hodgson's, 20-21 November 1958, lot 571, with a facsimile page in the sale catalogue.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Osborn MS: DnJ Δ 30. For a facsimile page see DnJ 728, DnJ 1205. Complete microfilm in British Library (M/569).

Yale, Osborn MS b 100 through Osborn MS b 149 (Osborn MS b 148 p. 6) | Catalogue | First Lines Index

HoJ 338

Copy.

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

c.1650

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

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

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 200 p. 129) | First Lines Index

Of one y^t had stolne much out of Seneca ('Put of thy buskins Sophocles y^e greate')

First published in Henry Parrot, Laquei ridiculosi: Or Springes for Woodcocks (London, 1613), p. 163. Osborn, pp. 299-300.

See DaJ 77-78.

Prose

Directions for Speech and Style

First published, as Directions for Speech and Style by John Hoskins, ed. Hoyt H. Hudson (Princeton, 1935). Osborn (1937), pp. 114-66.

HoJ 339

Copy, in a professional hand, with a title-page, on 23 folio leaves, in early 18th-century half-calf.

c.1630s

This MS selectively collated in Osborn.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Ash. Mus. d. 1)

HoJ 340

Copy, in one professional secretary hand, 28 folio leaves, in marbled boards.

c.1620s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1830-84), merchant and author. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 217, to Thomas Rodd (1796-1849), bookseller.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 15000 through 16999 (Add. MS 15230) | Catalogue

HoJ 341 c.1620s

Copy of the first part of the work, lacking a title-page and imperfect at the end.

This MS collated in Hudson edition (pp. 103-7). Selectively collated in Osborn.

In: A folio volume comprising two tracts, in a professional secretary hand, i + 83 leaves, bound with Harley MS 1298, an independent MS of Memoirs of Sir Henry Wotton when ambassador in Italy and Holland, in worn half calf on marbled boards.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 1 through 999 (Harley MS 850 ff. 2r-10v) | Catalogue

HoJ 342

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with a title-page, ascribed to Jo: Hoskins, on 28 folio leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt.

c.1630

Inscribed in red pencil (f. 1*^r)D. M. Dan: Manwaring's Booke. A^o. Domini MDCXXX.

Edited from this MS in Hudson edition and in Osborn, with a facsimile of f. 7r facing p. 125. Facsimiles of f. 7r also in DLB, vol. 121, Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, First Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1992), p. 181, and in DLB, vol. 281, British Rhetoricians and Logicians 1500-1660. Second Series, ed. Edward A. Malone (Detroit, 2003), p. 158.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 4000 through 4999 (Harley MS 4604) | Catalogue

Dramatic Works and Speeches

Fustian Speech

Hoskyns's Fustian Speech, or Tuftaffeta Speech, features in the Middle Temple's Christmas season revels Le Prince d'Amour alias Noctes Templariæ, the Christmas Revels of the Middle Temple in 1597-8. The entertainment was first published, as written by Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, as Le Prince d'Amour, or The Prince of Love (London, 1660), Hoskyns's speech on pp. 37-40. Hoyt, pp. 108-13. Osborn, pp. 98-102. Whitlock, pp. 121-3.

HoJ 342.5

Copy of the speech, headed Refused to answer at extempore being importuned by y^e prince and S^r Walter Rawlegh: Began.

This MS collated in Osborn, pp. 258-9.

In: 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. 74-5) | Catalogue

HoJ 343

Copy, headed Refused to answer at extempore beinge importuned by y^e Prince & S^r Walter Raleigh began, subscribed Jo: Has: his Tuffe:.

This MS cited in Hudson.

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. 184v-5v) | Catalogue

HoJ 344

Copy, untitled, subscribed John Hoskins.

This MS recorded in Hudson.

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

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

c.1630s

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 1338 f. 146r-v rev.)

Speech in the House of Commons, 2 April 1628

Speech, beginning (in a brief summary) That knowing our own rights we might be better enabled to give....

HoJ 345

Copy of a brief summary.

In: An unbound collection of papers largely relating to parliamentary proceedings, in various hands, 108 generally folio leaves.

Volume CCCCLXXXV of the Evelyn Papers.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78652 [unnumbered pages])

HoJ 346

Copy of a brief summary.

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

c.1630

Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor, dated 1701.

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 917 Item 2, f. 50v) | Catalogue

HoJ 347

Copy of a six-line summary.

In: A folio volume of speeches in Parliament 1627/8-1638, in a single professional hand, 163 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum.

c.1630

Phillipps MS 20758. Donated by William Appleton Coolidge.

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 1081 f. 44v) | Catalogue

HoJ 348

Copy of a seven-line summary, ascribed to Serieaunt Hoskins.

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

Bookplate of the Earl of Aylesford, Packington, Warwickshire. Bernard Halliday, Leicester, sale catalogue 1930, item 568.

The University of Manchester Library (English MS 522 f. 76r)

HoJ 349

Copy of a seven-line summary, ascribed to Serieant Hoskins.

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

c.1630

Among the Braye Manuscripts, descending from John Browne (1608-91), Clerk of the Parliaments, whose daughter, Martha, married Sir Roger Cave, Bt, of Stanford Hall, Rugby, seat of successive Lords Braye.

Parliamentary Archives (BRY/89 f. 82r) | Catalogue

HoJ 350

Copy of a four-line summary, in a mixed hand, ascribed to Sergeant Hoskins, with other speeches, on two quarto leaves, in modern half-morocco marbled boards.

c.1630

University of London, Senate House Library (MS 31)

Speech in the House of Commons, 1 May 1628

Speech (14 lines), beginning I am against a Remonstrance....

HoJ 351

Copy, fourteen lines, ascribed to Serieant Hoskins.

In: A folio volume of parliamentary proceedings, 17 May 1627/8 to 26 June 1628, in several professional predominantly secretary hands, 660 leaves, in half brown morocco.

c.1630

Presented by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), American financier and collector.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 35000 through 39999 (Add. MS 36825 f. 272v) | Catalogue

Speech in the House of Commons, 6 May 1628

Speech, beginning The question is not what we have now more then before....

HoJ 352

Copy, ascribed to Serieant Hoskins.

In: A folio volume of parliamentary proceedings, 17 May 1627/8 to 26 June 1628, in several professional predominantly secretary hands, 660 leaves, in half brown morocco.

c.1630

Presented by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), American financier and collector.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 35000 through 39999 (Add. MS 36825 f. 286v) | Catalogue

HoJ 353

Copy of an eight-line summary, ascribed to Seriant Hoskins.

In: A folio volume comprising proceedings and speeches in Parliament, 17 March to 22 May 1628, in two or more professional mixed hands, 201 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

Mid-17th century

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

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 4000 through 4999 (Harley MS 4771 f. 138r) | Catalogue

Tuftaffeta Speech

See Fustian Speech: HoJ 342.5-344.

Letters

Letter(s)

*HoJ 354 1601

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Hoskyns's wife Benedicta, from the Middle Temple, London, 13 November 1601.

Osborn, No. I, pp. 63-4. Whitlock, pp. 172-3.

In: Owned by Henry Hornyold-Strickland, Sizergh Castle.

Sizergh Castle (Collection of papers of John Hoskyns [Letter 1])

*HoJ 355 1609

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Hoskyns's wife Benedicta, [25 March 1609].

Osborn No. II, pp. 64-5.

In: Owned by Henry Hornyold-Strickland, Sizergh Castle.

Sizergh Castle (Collection of papers of John Hoskyns [Letter 2])

*HoJ 356 c.1606-11

Autograph

Copy of a note by Hoskyns giving instructions to his steward William Taylor, docketed by Taylor, undated, [c.1606-11?].

Osborn No. III, pp. 65-7.

In: Owned by Henry Hornyold-Strickland, Sizergh Castle.

Sizergh Castle (Collection of papers of John Hoskyns [Letter 3])

*HoJ 357 1611

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Hoskyns's wife Benedicta, 1 August 1611.

Osborn No. IV, pp. 67-8.

In: Owned by Henry Hornyold-Strickland, Sizergh Castle.

Sizergh Castle (Collection of papers of John Hoskyns [Letter 4])

*HoJ 358

Autograph

Autograph letter signed (with initials), to Hoskyns's wife Benedicta, written on the back of a letter sent to him by John Clarke dated 14 October 1611.

1611

Whitlock, pp. 402-4.

Hereford City Library (204 L.C. No. 9)

*HoJ 359 1611

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Hoskyns's wife Benedicta, 6 November 1611.

Osborn No. V, pp. 68-9. Whitlock, pp. 405-6.

In: Owned by Henry Hornyold-Strickland, Sizergh Castle.

Sizergh Castle (Collection of papers of John Hoskyns [Letter 5])

*HoJ 360 1614

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Hoskyns's wife Benedicta, from the Tower, 23 November 1614.

Osborn No. VI, p. 70. Whitlock, pp. 478-9.

In: Owned by Henry Hornyold-Strickland, Sizergh Castle.

Sizergh Castle (Collection of papers of John Hoskyns [Letter 6])

*HoJ 361 1615

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Hoskyns's wife Benedicta, 2 March 1614/15.

Osborn No. VII, pp. 70-2, with a facsimile of the first page opposite p. 70.

In: Owned by Henry Hornyold-Strickland, Sizergh Castle.

Sizergh Castle (Collection of papers of John Hoskyns [Letter 7])

*HoJ 362 1615

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Hoskyns's wife Benedicta, 14 October 1615.

Osborn No. VIII, pp. 72-3.

In: Owned by Henry Hornyold-Strickland, Sizergh Castle.

Sizergh Castle (Collection of papers of John Hoskyns [Letter 8])

*HoJ 363 1615

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Hoskyns's wife Benedicta, 27-28 October 1615.

Osborn No. IX, pp. 73-5. Whitlock, pp. 502-3, 567 n. 17.

In: Owned by Henry Hornyold-Strickland, Sizergh Castle.

Sizergh Castle (Collection of papers of John Hoskyns [Letter 9])

*HoJ 364

Autograph

Autograph letter signed (J Hoskyns), to Lord Cranfield, 2 March [1616/17].

1617

Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone (U269/1 0o 44[i])

*HoJ 365 1617

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Hoskyns's wife Benedicta, 6 June 1617.

Osborn No. X, pp. 75-6. Whitlock, pp. 517-18.

In: Owned by Henry Hornyold-Strickland, Sizergh Castle.

Sizergh Castle (Collection of papers of John Hoskyns [Letter 10])

*HoJ 366 1617

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Hoskyns's wife Benedicta, 29 June 1617.

Osborn No. XI, pp. 76-7.

In: Owned by Henry Hornyold-Strickland, Sizergh Castle.

Sizergh Castle (Collection of papers of John Hoskyns [Letter 11])

*HoJ 367 1617

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Hoskyns's wife Benedicta, 16 October 1617.

Osborn No. XII, p. 77. Whitlock, pp. 520-1.

In: Owned by Henry Hornyold-Strickland, Sizergh Castle.

Sizergh Castle (Collection of papers of John Hoskyns [Letter 12])

*HoJ 368 1617

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Hoskyns's wife Benedicta, 30 October 1617.

Osborn No. XIII, p. 78.

In: Owned by Henry Hornyold-Strickland, Sizergh Castle.

Sizergh Castle (Collection of papers of John Hoskyns [Letter 13])

*HoJ 369 1617

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Hoskyns's wife Benedicta, 11 November 1617.

Osborn No. XIV, pp. 78-9.

In: Owned by Henry Hornyold-Strickland, Sizergh Castle.

Sizergh Castle (Collection of papers of John Hoskyns [Letter 14])

*HoJ 370 1618

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Hoskyns's wife Benedicta, 6 February 1617/18.

Osborn No. XV, pp. 79-81. Whitlock, pp. 526-8.

In: Owned by Henry Hornyold-Strickland, Sizergh Castle.

Sizergh Castle (Collection of papers of John Hoskyns [Letter 15])

*HoJ 371 1618

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Hoskyns's wife Benedicta, from the Middle Temple, London, 8 May 1618.

Osborn No. XVI, p. 82.

In: Owned by Henry Hornyold-Strickland, Sizergh Castle.

Sizergh Castle (Collection of papers of John Hoskyns [Letter 16])

*HoJ 372 1618

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Hoskyns's wife Benedicta, 19 May 1618.

Osborn No. XVII, pp. 82-3.

In: Owned by Henry Hornyold-Strickland, Sizergh Castle.

Sizergh Castle (Collection of papers of John Hoskyns [Letter 17)

*HoJ 373 1618

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Hoskyns's wife Benedicta, 23 May 1618.

Osborn No. XVIII, p. 83.

In: Owned by Henry Hornyold-Strickland, Sizergh Castle.

Sizergh Castle (Collection of papers of John Hoskyns [Letter 18])

*HoJ 374 1618

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Hoskyns's wife Benedicta, 24 October 1618.

Osborn No. XIX, pp. 83-4.

In: Owned by Henry Hornyold-Strickland, Sizergh Castle.

Sizergh Castle (Collection of papers of John Hoskyns [Letter 19])

*HoJ 375

Autograph

Autograph letter signed (J Hoskyns), to Lord Cranfield, from Hereford, 15 March 1618[/19].

1619

Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone (U269/1 0o 44[ii])

*HoJ 376 1621

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Hoskyns's wife Benedicta, 3 February 1620/1.

Osborn No. XXI, p. 87. Whitlock, pp. 555-6.

In: Owned by Henry Hornyold-Strickland, Sizergh Castle.

Sizergh Castle (Collection of papers of John Hoskyns [Letter 20])

*HoJ 377 1621

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Hoskyns's wife Benedicta, 12 May 1621.

Osborn No. XXII, p. 88.

In: Owned by Henry Hornyold-Strickland, Sizergh Castle.

Sizergh Castle (Collection of papers of John Hoskyns [Letter 21])

*HoJ 378 1621

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Hoskyns's wife Benedicta, 5 June 1621.

Osborn No. XXIII, pp. 88-9.

In: Owned by Henry Hornyold-Strickland, Sizergh Castle.

Sizergh Castle (Collection of papers of John Hoskyns [Letter 22])

*HoJ 379 1621

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Hoskyns's wife Benedicta, 26 June 1621.

Osborn No. XXIV, pp. 89-90.

In: Owned by Henry Hornyold-Strickland, Sizergh Castle.

Sizergh Castle (Collection of papers of John Hoskyns [Letter 23])

*HoJ 380

Autograph

Autograph letter signed (J Hoskyns), to Lord Cranfield, docketed 16 March 1623[/4].

1624

Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone (U269/1 0o 44[iii])

*HoJ 381 1626

Autograph

Letter, in the hand of an amanuensis, with Hoskyns's autograph subscription and signature, to hs step-daughter Elizabeth Bourne, from the Middle Temple, London, 16 February 1625/6.

Osborn No. XXV, pp. 90-1.

In: Owned by Henry Hornyold-Strickland, Sizergh Castle.

Sizergh Castle (Collection of papers of John Hoskyns [Letter 24])

*HoJ 382 1627

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to [Hoskyns's step-daughter Elizabeth Bourne], from the Middle Temple, London, [9 December 1627].

Osborn No. XXVI, pp. 91-2.

In: Owned by Henry Hornyold-Strickland, Sizergh Castle.

Sizergh Castle (Collection of papers of John Hoskyns [Letter 25])

*HoJ 383 1627

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Hoskyns's step-daughter Elizabeth Bourne, from Risington, 11 December 1627.

Osborn No. XXVII, p. 92.

In: Owned by Henry Hornyold-Strickland, Sizergh Castle.

Sizergh Castle (Collection of papers of John Hoskyns [Letter 26])

*HoJ 384 c.1620s-30s?

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Hoskyns's step-daughter Elizabeth Bourne, undated, [c.1620s-30s?].

Osborn No. XXVIII, p. 93.

In: Owned by Henry Hornyold-Strickland, Sizergh Castle.

Sizergh Castle (Collection of papers of John Hoskyns [Letter 27])

*HoJ 385 c.1620s-30s?

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Hoskyns's step-daughter Elizabeth Bourne, undated. [c.1620s-30s?].

Osborn No. XXIX, pp. 93-4.

In: Owned by Henry Hornyold-Strickland, Sizergh Castle.

Sizergh Castle (Collection of papers of John Hoskyns [Letter 28])

*HoJ 386

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, giving instructions to James Dalley, from Morehapton, 26 September 1628.

1628

Whitlock, p. 652, with a facsimile on p. xiii.

Winchester College (WCM 19024)

*HoJ 387 1629

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Hoskyns's step-daughter Elizabeth Bourne, from the Middle Temple, London, 6 June 1629.

Osborn No. XXX, pp. 94-7.

In: Owned by Henry Hornyold-Strickland, Sizergh Castle.

Sizergh Castle (Collection of papers of John Hoskyns [Letter 29])

*HoJ 388 1629

Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Hoskyns's step-daughter Elizabeth Bourne, from Burnithen, 6 September 1629.

Osborn No. XXXI, p. 97.

In: Owned by Henry Hornyold-Strickland, Sizergh Castle.

Sizergh Castle (Collection of papers of John Hoskyns [Letter 30])

Documents

Document(s)

*HoJ 389

Autograph

A document in a professional secretary hand and signed JHoskyns, relating to a replication of Henry Hoskyns in a case relating to Launcelot Mills and his wife, on a large membrane of vellum, 3 May 1622?.

1622

National Archives, Kew (REQ 2/436, [unnumbered item]) | Catalogue

*HoJ 390

Autograph

Autograph formal letter of commission signed, appointing Richard Knight to look after Hoskyns's manor of Titley, 28 June 1628.

1628

Winchester College (WCM 18957)

Will

*HoJ 391 1619

Autograph

Hoskyns's first last will and testament, in the hand of an amanuensis, subscribed and signed by Hoskyns, dated 23 March 1618/19.

Osborn No. XX, pp. 85-6. Whitlock, pp. 542-4.

In: Owned by Henry Hornyold-Strickland, Sizergh Castle.

Sizergh Castle (Collection of papers of John Hoskyns Will)

*HoJ 392

Autograph

Autograph codicil to Hoskyns's last will and testament, 23 June 1627.

1627

Whitlock, p, 628.

Sir Benedict Leigh Hoskyns ([unnumbered Harewood MS])

*HoJ 393

Autograph

Hoskyns's last will and testament, in the hand of an amanuensis, the last few lines and signature in Hoskyns's hand, 31 July 1632.

1627

Whitlock, pp. 677-80.

Sir Benedict Leigh Hoskyns ([unnumbered Harewood MS])

*HoJ 394

Autograph

A registered copy of Hoskyns's last will and testament, dated 31 January 1635[/6].

Osborn, pp. 241-2.

National Archives, Kew (PROB 11/78, s. 127) | Catalogue