Henry King

Bishop of Chichester

1592–1669

Introduction

Although he never officially published his collected verse (the edition of 1657 was, allegedly at any rate, unauthorized), Henry King is among the relatively few 17th-century poets to have left behind reasonably authoritative manuscripts of his main poetical works, one of which bears his autograph corrections. In addition, a few autograph verse exercises by him are preserved, a copy of another poem is corrected by him, and a miscellany bears three autograph attributions by him. Other examples of his hand survive in a small number of letters, in some documents chiefly relating to his ecclesiastical duties, and in a few surviving books from his library.

The Rawlinson Verse Exercises

The autograph verse exercises are preserved among the Rawlinson Papers in the Bodleian Library: i.e. among papers collected by the Oxford antiquary Thomas Hearne (1678-1735) and afterwards acquired by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755). These papers include manuscripts formerly owned by Dr John Fell (1625-86), Bishop of Oxford, whose father Samuel Fell (1584-1649), Dean of Christ Church, was a close friend of Henry King's uncle, Philip King (see Crum, pp. 237-8). The relevant items were described by Percy Simpson in The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, Bodleian Quarterly Record, 5 (1929), 324-40 (and plate after p. 304). Simpson's account there was marred, however, by confusion over the hands of Henry King and his brother John. At the prompting of Margaret Crum, he amended his account in a later note, John and Henry King: A Correction, BLR, 4 (1952-3), 208-9. The same failure to distinguish between the somewhat similar hands of the two brothers had also affected Lawrence Mason's edition of King's English Poems (New Haven, 1914), where some poems by John King are erroneously attributed to Henry (see Crum, p. 249 et seq.).

In sum, it may be established that the following manuscripts are in the hand of John King (1595-1639):

  • (i) Several poems (some probably of John's own composition) in MSS Rawl. D. 317, ff. 147r-58r, 161r, 166r-7r, 171r, 173r-5r, and Rawl. D. 398, ff. 160r-7r, 172r-3v, 177r-v, 178r-9r, 188r-9r, 230r-2v.
  • (ii) Some theological notes in MS Rawl. D. 399, ff. 165r-7r, 188r-91v, 219r-38v.
  • (iii) Some partly autograph political and ecclesiastical documents in MS Rawl. D. 399, ff. 107r-v, 113r, 169r-170v, 179r, 187r, 240r.

The poem by John King in MS Rawl. D. 317, f. 161, is reproduced in facsimile by Simpson in Bodleian Quarterly Record, 5 (1929), after p. 304 (as, erroneously, in the hand of Henry King).

The manuscripts in the hand of Henry King comprise:

  • (i) MS Rawl. D. 317A, f. 73: Pasquinata (beginning Out of the North is come here to be seene); an 18-line satire on Queen Christina of Sweden, unlikely to be of King's composition.
  • (ii) MS Rawl. D. 317B, f. 211v: a six-line verse, beginning A Battaile amongst the Bees, possibly of Henry King's own composition (see *KiH 1).
  • (iii) MS Rawl. D. 317B, f. 176*v: an eight verses on Cromwell's dissolution of the Long Parliament in 1653, possibly of Henry King's own composition (see *KiH 392).
  • (iv) MS Rawl. D. 397, f. 317r: a second autograph copy of A Battaile amongst the Bees (see *KiH 2).
  • (v) MS Rawl. D. 398, f. 195r: a Latin epitaph on the death of King's father, John King, Bishop of London (1621), possibly of Henry King's own composition (see *KiH 803).
  • (vi) MS Rawl. D. 398, ff. 243r-4v: a sequence of Latin epigrams by Henry King addressed to his father and concerning an attack of fever (see *KiH 800).

The Rawlinson Papers also include a copy of Henry King's Elegy Occasioned by Sicknesse with autograph corrections by him (MS Rawl. D. 398, ff. 168r-9v: see *KiH 148) and a scribal copy of a Latin elegy by King on Dr John Spenser (MS Rawl. D. 912, f. 305r; see KiH 801), as well as a scribal copy of King's celebrated Exequy to his wife (MS Rawl. D. 398, ff. 175r-6r: see KiH 332) which may also conceivably derive from his family papers. The same papers also contain (MS Rawl. D. 398, f. 196v) a copy of another (unrelated) poem which is endorsed For Mr Manne — denoting a connection with King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (see below).

Letters

Original letters by Henry King are rare. A few — chiefly dating from his later years — are recorded in CELM (KiH 804-815). These may be supplemented by three further letters which are known only from early printed sources, namely:

  • (i) To James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh, Langley Place, near Colbrook, 30 October 1651.Edited in Richard Parr, The Life of…James Usher (London, 1686), Appendix, Letter cclxv, p. 567. Reprinted from that source in Hannah, pp. 138-40. Recorded in Keynes, p. 85.
  • (ii) To Izaak Walton, from Chichester, 17 November 1664. Edited in Walton, The Life of Mr. Rich. Hooker (London, 1665), sig. A2r-A6r. Reprinted from that source in Hannah, pp. lxix-lxxvi, and in Hobbs, Correspondence, pp. 144-6. Recorded in Keynes, p. 87.
  • (iii) To Mr More of Morehouse, owner of the tithes in the parish of Wivelsfield, Sussex, in 1661.Described, as A long correspondence…in the first year after the Restoration, in W.R.W. Stephens, Diocesan Histories. The South Saxon Diocese, Selsey-Chichester (London, 1881), pp. 226-7. Recorded in Keynes, p. 88.

Documents

King's letters may also be supplemented by a few recorded documents signed by him, ranging from his subscription as a seventeen-year-old student at Oxford to official papers as a bishop in the Restoration period (see KiH 816-827). Some later signatures (chiefly as Bishop of Chichester: Hen: Chichester), which are not given separate entries in CELM, are to be found on official documents in the National Archives, Kew. They include certificates issued by him between 1635 and 1661, in SP 16/290/57; 29/4/106; 29/7/91.I; 29/12/21.I; 29/12/43.I; 29/12/56.II; and 29/34/49.II. King's will also survives, but in a registered copy (KiH 828).

King's Books

Other examples of King's hand are found in a few of the printed books that survive from his library. Following the capture of Chichester by the Parliamentary troops of Sir William Waller on 28 December 1642 — at which time the Cathedral Library itself was somewhat despoiled — King was deprived of many of his goods and rents by a Parliamentary Committee. After April 1643, according to the account in his later petition to the King (KiH 824), his whole Library at Chichester was seized by the regicide William Cawley. In his will of 1653 King later bequeathed what he called a small remainder of a large library taken from me at Chichester to his son, John, excepting only such English bookes which may be fit for my sonne Henryes use. (John King the Younger in turn bequeathed in 1671 his Latin and some other books to the use of Schollers in this Diocese of Chichester hopeing this example will move others to do the same). To other relatives and friends, Henry King bequeathed: to John Millington fower volumes fairely bound, being a description of the world in French, written by Pierre Avity; to Sir Richard Hubert Camdens Brittannia with mapps, K. James his works, and history of the Irish warres, all three in folio; to his sister Anne my great french Bible with prints, which once belonged to my honored Friend Doctor Donne; to his brother Philip (who predeceased Henry) that parcel of books which once belonged to my deceased brother Mr William King, which I redeemed in Oxford; to Francis Tryon (who also predeceased Henry King) the workes of Mr. Samuell Purchas in folio, and Stowes Chronicle, and the History of the Church of Scotland by Io. Spotswood; and to Walter Jones the workes of Barradius in three Vol. in folio, and the last concordance in Latine by Stephanus.

The precise extent of the despoliation of both King's episcopal library and his private library is unclear, although at least some books appear to have been redeemed. Neither is it known what happened to any of the books specifically mentioned in King's will. However, it seems likely that a number of books which would have been owned or used by King are still preserved in the Cathedral Library at Chichester. Almost all the 974 books listed in the Cathedral's Old Catalogue of books before 1735 (which is itself a copy of a much earlier catalogue) date from before King's death and, following yet later dispersal, some 255 of these books are still retained. In addition, fourteen early books from Chichester Cathedral which were recorded in the Old Catalogue have been acquired by the University of London Library. Sales records exist for a further fourteen books from the Cathedral which were sold at Sotheby's on 24-5 November 1947 (lots 5, 18, 19, 27, 35-7, 43, 52, 54-5) and on 25 October 1949 (lots 323, 326).

Of these various books, which were almost certainly associated with King, at least twenty-four volumes (or sets of volumes) still at Chichester bear inscriptions or annotations in his own hand. Though not given separate entries in CELM, these books include a presentation exemplum of Sir Henry Spelman's Archaeologus (London, 1626), a book given to King by his father's erstwhile chaplain Henry Mason; George Buchanan's De iure regni apud Scotos (London, 1583), with quotations from William Barclay copied in by King; editions of St Gregory and St Augustine; and three books inscribed by King in his earlier Christ Church days. One of the volumes sold at Sotheby's (25 October 1949, lot 323) — St Ambrose, Opera (Paris, 1549) — is also recorded as bearing King's signature (with the date 1617). For discussions of this subject, see Francis W. Steer, Chichester Cathedral Library, The Chichester Papers No. 44 (Chichester, 1964); Mary Hobbs, Henry King, John Donne and the Refounding of Chichester Cathedral Library, The Book Collector, 33 (Summer 1984), 189-205 (with a facsimile of one inscribed book); and also Mark Purcell, Master Petypher's Virgil, The Book Collector, 50/4 (Winter 2001), 471-92.

King's bequest to his sister Anne noted above is a reminder that in 1631 King was co-executor of John Donne's will and probably obtained some portion of Donne's library according to the Scedule mentioned in the will. Thus there is always a remote possibility that volumes directly associated with King may once have belonged to Donne. Conversely, some of the two hundred or so widely dispersed books that can be identified as having once been Donne's may have subsequently belonged to King as well. A list of further volumes thought to be owned by Donne and preserved at Chichester Cathedral is given in Mary Hobbs's articles More Books from the Library of John Donne, The Book Collector, 29 (Winter 1980), 590-2, and To a Most Dear Friend — Donne's Bellarmine, Review of English Studies, NS 32 (1981), 435-8, although it must be recorded that, in his subsequent inspection of these particular books, the Donne scholar I.A. Shapiro was very sceptical about this supposed provenance.

In his letter to Izaak Walton noted above, King mentions, furthermore, that three days before his death Donne delivered into King's hands those excellent Sermons of his now made publick…prepared…for the Press; together with…all his Sermon-Notes, and his other Papers, containing an Extract of near Fifteen hundred Authors. The last items are also mentioned in the will of John Donne the Younger (1662), as all those Papers which are of Authors Analysed by my Father; many of which he [King] hath already received with his Common-Place Book. The fate of these papers and commonplace book is not certain except that they were evidently retained neither by King nor by Walton (they were lost both to me and your self, wrote King). They may have been returned to John Donne the Younger (1604-62/3), being by implication contained in the cabinet of his father's papers which he subsequently bequeathed to Mr. Walton's son (see Crum, p. 14, and Hannah, pp. xxx, lxx). In the same letter to Walton, King discusses the fate of Richard Hooker's papers, which had once been in the possession of his father, John King, Bishop of London. One item he mentions — a letter about Hooker by George Cranmer and Sir Edwin Sandys, which King sent on to Walton — can be identified among manuscripts at Christ Church, Oxford (MS 295: see HkR 11).

As for the bulk of King's own papers, it is clear from his letter to Edward Bysshe (*KiH 808) that they suffered the same fate as his library: through the barbarous vsage of a wretched Committee at Chichester, I was not only depriu'd of Those amongst seuerall collections of higher moment, but denyed my owne Priuate Papers, wch had bene the moniments of my course in Study through all my Life.

The Manuscripts of King's Verse

Apart from the exercises among the Rawlinson papers, none of King's poems survives in his own hand. However, it appears that during the 1630s, while Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, and before he became Dean of Rochester (1639), King allowed fair copies to be made of his collected verse for use within a limited coterie centred at Christ Church.

The principal, identifiable figure responsible for such copies was Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), who was Chaplain of Christ Church from 1605 to 1635 and whose signature appears several times in the Disbursements Books there. Manne was the chief scribe responsible for the Hannah MS (Bodleian MS Eng. poet. e. 30), which bears autograph corrections by King himself. Manne also compiled a miscellany of his own (British Library Add. MS 58215), chiefly of verse by Christ Church poets, in which he incorporated 24 poems by King. This manuscript too was handled by King himsel, who has added in his own hand the ascriptions of three poems to Richard Sackville, third Earl of Dorset. In addition, Manne's hand can be recognized in an independent copy of King's Exequy to his wife (KiH 336), and (adopting a variant style) in an independent copy of An Essay on Death and a Prison (KiH 318).

Second in importance to Manne is a scribe who, it is clear, consciously modelled his script on Manne's and can thus, to use Margaret Crum's term, be known as Manne's imitator. He was responsible for part of the Hannah MS (Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. e. 30); for all of the Malone MS (Bodleian, MS Malone 22) and Houghton MS (British Library, Add. MS 62134) and for most of the Stoughton MS (owned by Rosemary Williams). It is not possible to identify this scribe. It has been tentatively suggested by Mary Hobbs that Richard Smith of Warwickshire who, on 14 July 1620, at the age of 22, was admitted to Christ Church and was serviens to Thomas Manne, may have acted as his amanuensis. This date is, however, considerably earlier than the period in which the extant manuscripts were evidently transcribed. The hand of Manne's imitator can, indeed, be found as late as the end of 1647 when he transcribed His Maties Answere to the Bills, & Propositions presented to Him at Carisbrook Castle in the Isle of Wight (Bodleian, MS Jones 56, f. 146r-v).

A third, anonymous scribe, writing slightly later in the 1640s, can be recognized as wholly responsible for the Phillipps MS (Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 8471) and for additions to the Stoughton MS; while a fourth, unidentified scribe was responsible for the Wrest Park MS (Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. e. 127).

From the nature of these collections, the occurrence of common hands, and even their physical appearance (their neat, calligraphic layout and similar morocco bindings on several of them), it is evident that these manuscripts were the product of a coterie and were intended for limited circulation.

That manuscripts from this group, or transcripts thereof, did fall into other hands in due course, however, is clear from other evidence. In their apologetic preface to the author in their allegedly unauthorized edition of King's Poems (1657) (reprinted in Hannah, pp. 1-2), the publishers Richard Marriot and Henry Herringman claim (ingenuously or otherwise) to have prevented the present attempts of others to injure King's reputation by their false copies of these Poems. They themselves, they claim, are publishing at the instigation of King's friends, who have (it is implied) at sundry times unsuccessfully endeavoured to persuade King to publish and who, lest the ill publishing might disfigure these things, have furnished Marriot and Herringman with some papers which they thought Authentick. Again, the identity of these friends must remain conjectural. A possibility that has been tentatively advanced is that Izaak Walton, who was allegedly a friend to King, as also to Richard Marriot, was responsible, but there is no clear evidence of his collusion.

Notable groups of poems by King are also found in certain manuscript miscellanies. Both the quality of their texts and the fact that they are, for the most part, signed with the distinctive HK monogram of King found in the principal manuscript collections, indicate a close interrelationship between these sources. On 3 February 1636/7 it was possible for James Howell to comment on those choice Manuscripts which an Inns of Court correspondent had sent him, among which I find divers rare pieces; but that which afforded me most entertainment in those Miscellanies, was Dr. Henry King's Poems (Familiar Letters, cited in Hannah, p. xxxiv, and in Crum, p. 17). By this time, however, a number of King's earlier poems had followed familiar routes of transmission — through miscellanies initially produced in Christ Church circles and thence to other university and Inns of Court circles — for copies of poems by King, often in relatively early versions, are found in numerous other miscellanies recorded in CELM. Certain occasional pieces — such as King's elegy on Gustavus Adolphus (KiH 223-243) — clearly enjoyed initial circulation by means of individual and separate copies.

Principal Manuscript Collections of King's Verse

The principal manuscripts of poems by King recorded in CELM may be listed briefly as follows, with the delta numbers originally supplied in IELM (plus the addition here of [KiH Δ 13]):

  • Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. e. 30. (Hannah MS: *KiH Δ 1). Collection of 64 poems by King.
  • Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. e. 127. (Wrest Park MS: KiH Δ 2). Collection of 58 poems by King.
  • Bodleian, MS Malone 22. (Malone MS: KiH Δ 3). Collection of 60 poems by King.
  • British Library, Add. MS 62134. (Houghton MS: KiH Δ 4). Collection of 61 poems by King.
  • Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 8471. (Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5). Collection of 78 poems by King.
  • Owned by Rosemary Williams. (Stoughton MS: KiH Δ 6). Includes 56 poems by King.
  • British Library, Add. MS 58215. (Thomas Manne MS: *KiH Δ 7). Includes 24 poems by King.
  • British Library, Add. MS 25707. (Skipwith MS: KiH Δ 8.) Includes 15 poems by King.
  • British Library, Harley MS 6917 and British Library, Harley MS 6918. (Calfe MSS: KiH Δ 9). Includes 17 poems by King.
  • British Library, Sloane MS 1446. (Baskerville MS: KiH Δ 10). Includes 14 poems by King.
  • Folger, MS V.b.43. (Halliwell MS: KiH Δ 11). Includes 17 poems by King.
  • St John's College, Cambridge, MS S. 32 (James 423). (Pike MS: KiH Δ 12). Includes 10 poems by King.
  • Harvard, MS Eng 634. (Hodgkin MS: [KiH Δ 13]). Includes nine poems by King.

Editing King's Poems

With the survival of so many contemporary collections, as well as the 1657 Poems, the task of an editor of King's poems is reasonably circumscribed. Not, however, that the texts in the main manuscripts are identical in every detail, or even that their contents are similar (as is evident from the different number of poems each contains). Margaret Crum has argued that King's original manuscript of his poems (now lost) was the common copy-text for KiH Δ 1, KiH Δ 3 and KiH Δ 5 above (those principal manuscripts known to her), but that King was in the habit of periodically making corrections to his manuscript, with the result that each transcript represents the original at a different stage of correction. She also suggests, plausibly, that King's original manuscript consisted of unbound papers: hence the different arrangement of the poems in each transcript. Crum was not, before 1965, aware of KiH Δ 2, KiH Δ 4 and KiH Δ 6, which might be expected to throw further light on the history of the texts, perhaps in support of her theory of copy-text. In this connection, a major contribution was made in 1973 by the completion of Mary Hobbs's unpublished thesis on the Stoughton MS (see KiH Δ 6), which should be used by future scholars in conjunction with Crum's edition. Besides offering an extensive study of the Stoughton MS itself and of its textual significance, Hobbs offers innumerable original insights into other related manuscripts and into the transmission of texts in miscellanies of the period; she demonstrates the evidently important position of Henry King as a disseminator, not only of his own poems but those of others; she establishes far-reaching connections between King and contemporary musical circles and songbooks (further elaborated in her article John Wilson's Literary Sources, Lute Society Journal, 17 (1975), 6-16); and she also argues, in demonstration of the importance of fine detail in the main manuscripts, that King's peculiar use of capitalization, regarded by Crum as apparently rather capricious, is actually a deliberate system of notation for reading aloud.

With regard to her editing practice, Crum edits, wherever possible, from copies by King's second scribe (i.e. Manne's imitator) [viz. from KiH Δ 1, ff. 64r-86r, and KiH Δ 3], because, she believes, he shows the clearest signs of being the most conscientiously accurate copyist. Otherwise she prints from the best available text, usually the 1657 Poems or the second, slightly expanded, edition of 1664. Those other manuscript texts cited in her Notes are signalled in CELM entries by the phrase This MS collated in Crum, although the collations she gives are usually very selective. Those other miscellaneous manuscript texts which she simply lists without further comment (on pp. 60-2) are signalled as being recorded by her.

The Verse Canon

The canon of King's English verse accepted for present purposes is also based on Crum (to which may be added the lengthy edition of King's version of the Psalms, published in 1651) and includes those verses which may be of King's composition among the Rawlinson Papers (noted above). It excludes those spurious poems sometimes ascribed to King, listed in Crum (pp. 251-2), as well as poems by other members of King's family, notably his brothers John, William and Philip, and his sister Anne, which are to be found in various sources (see Crum, pp. 249-51, and Mary Hobbs's thesis noted above).

Like many of his Oxford contemporaries, King also wrote occasional Latin verse. These verses have never been collected, but entries in CELM are given to a few Latin compositions attributable to King and found in manuscripts (KiH 800-803). For the record, those other Latin verses by Henricus King ex Aede Christi which appeared only in printed sources (i.e. Oxford academic miscellanies) may be listed here briefly (chronologically according to publication) as follows:

(i). Ivsta Oxonjensivm (London, 1612) [Bodleian, 4° 0. 12. Art., sig. G2r-G3r]:
a. Quis mortis horror funebri tristis face (5 lines).
b. Henrice exiguâ iaces quód urnâ (9 lines).
(ii). Epithalamia sive Lusus Palatini in nuptias celsissimi Principis Domini Friderici Comitis Palatini ad Rhenum, &c. et serenissimae Elisabethae Iacobi…filiae primogenitae (Oxford, 1613) [Bodleian, 4° 0. 14. Art.], sig. K3r-K4r:
a. In Auspicatissimas Elizabethae & Principis Palatini Nuptias. Epithalamium (Indulsit Britonum tristitiae satis) (35 lines).
b. Ad Illustrissimum Carolum Principem (Parve nec invideas dîae nova fata Sorori) (4 lines).
c. Ac Princ. Pal. cum coniuge clariss. reversurum (Sic vos Diva potens Cypri) (22 lines).
d. Ad Elizabetham discessuram (Non metus est Helenam summâ de puppe sedentem) (4 lines).
(iii). Ivsta Funebria Ptolomaei Oxoniensis Thomae Bodleii Eqvitis (Oxford, 1613) [Bodleian, 4° 0. 14. Art.], sig. I1r-I3v: In Mortem Nobilissimi Literarum Mecaenatis Thome Bodleij Equitis Aurati Publicae Bibliothecae Fundatoris Epicidium (Quae nova curarum moles? quae tanta recentis) (139 lines) [reprinted in Britanniae natalis (Oxford, 1630), pp. 65-70].
(iv). Iacobi ara (Oxford, 1617) [Bodleian, Mar. 528], sig. D4v-E1r: Dum plectra carmen gravida votivum parant (35 lines).
(v). Academiae Oxoniensis funebria sacra…Reginae Annae (Oxford, 1619) [Bodleian, 4° I. 21. Art.], sig. Q2v-R1r: In mortem luctuosam Serenissimae Principis, Annae Magnae Britanniae Reginae (Dum tot poëtas funeri cerno tuo) (173 lines).
(vi). Oxoniensis Academiae parentalia (Oxford, 1625) [Bodleian, 4° I. 21. Art.], sig. I3v-I4r:
a. In mortem Serenissimi Regi ac Domini sui benignissimi Iacobi (Dum Christianus morte percussus tuâ) (16 lines).
b. Epitaphium (Ne tritam crucies Poëta Musam) (15 lines).

Miscellaneous

A printed exemplum of King's Poems (London, 1664), with the autograph of Anne Howe (the Poet's Sister, see p. 83) was sold at Sotheby's, 1 March 1971 (Sir John Simeon sale, fifth day), lot 1132, to Molini. In his annotated exemplum of his own A Roll of Honor (London, 1908) in the British Library (1655/4, opposite p. 129), W. Carew Hazlitt also mentions Ann King Sister of Bishop Henry King. Her name occurs in a few books of a religious character.

For King's sermons and prose works, none of which is known to survive in manuscript, see Keynes, pp. 51-81, and Mary Hobbs's edition of them (Scolar Press, 1992).

Abbreviations

Crum
The Poems of Henry King, ed. Margaret Crum (Oxford, 1965).
Hannah
Poems and Psalms by Henry King DD, ed. Rev. J. Hannah (Oxford and London, 1843).
Hobbs, Correspondence
Mary Hobbs, The Restoration Correspondence of Bishop Henry King, Sussex Archaeological Collections, 125 (1987), 139-53.
Keynes
Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977).
Poems (1657)
Poems, Elegies, Paradoxes, and Sonnets (London, printed by J.G. for Rich: Marriot and Hn: Herringman, 1657).

Verse

English Poems

'A Battaile amongst the Bees'

First published in Crum (1965), p. 253.

*KiH 1
Autograph

Autograph verse of six lines concerning the Civil War, possibly of King's own composition, untitled, on a single quarto leaf, endorsed An old Prophecy.

Edited in part from this MS in Crum. Recorded by Percy Simpson in BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (p. 335).

A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous papers, 291 leaves.

Owned on 12 August 1709 by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), antiquary.

*KiH 2
Autograph

Autograph copy, untitled, on an oblong octavo-size slip of paper.

Edited in part from this MS in Crum.

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and papers, in various hands and sizes, 440 leaves, in half-calf.

Assembled by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), antiquary, who has inscribed the front pastedown Tho: Hearne. July 31st. 1710.

An Acknowledgment ('My best of Friends! what needes a Chaine to ty')

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 164-6.

KiH 3

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks).

Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's imitator (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657 (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster.

c.1633-58

Thomas Thorpe's sale Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as a most beautifully written volume of Poems in the hand of Bishop King's Daughter). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Hannah MS: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 30 ff. 45v-6v)
KiH 4

Copy.

A quarto volume of 58 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat stylish hand throughout, i + 43 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1638-40

Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), second Earl de Grey, statesman, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, who was descended from the brother of Sir Charles Lucas, on whose death in 1648 King wrote an elegy (Crum, pp. 101-10). Wrest Park was earlier the seat of Anthony Grey, eighth Earl of Kent (1557-1643), and of Henry Grey (1594-1651), ninth Earl of Kent, for whom the scholar and jurist John Selden (1584-1654) served as steward. Once apparently also in the library of the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS 51). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 902 (1970), item 196.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Wrest Park MS: KiH Δ 2. Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 7. Briefly described in BLR (March 1974), pp. 125-6; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96; and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 127 ff. 35r-6r)
KiH 5

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 60 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat hand, that of Thomas Manne's imitator, 46 leaves (including a few blank pages).

c.1635-6 [and some later additions]

Some 18th-century additions including notes in French, some verse and the inscriptions (f. 3r) Henry Dottin His Book and Elie Dottin Her Book. Later owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Malone MS: KiH Δ 3. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 91-3 (with a facsimile of f. 17v: see KiH 321) and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see Rosemary Williams, Stoughton MS).

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 22 f. 39r-v)
KiH 6

Copy.

A quarto volume of 61 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), ii + 33 leaves, in contemporary olive-brown morocco gilt, with remains of green silk ties.

Except for later verses scribbled on f. 33r, all is in a single formal italic hand: i.e. that of Thomas Manne's imitator, who also reproduces King's initials HK in his monogram format as a subscription to nearly every poem.

c.1638

Iinscribed (f. ir) M. Hall / Gainsbro and Miss A. F. Eames / Nottingham. Sotheby's, 21 May 1968, lot 339, to John Fleming, New York. Then owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1907-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 278. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 38.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Houghton MS: KiH Δ 4. For facsimile pages, see KiH 423, KiH 517, KiH 540, and KiH 571. A set of photocopies is also in the British Library, RP 246.

KiH 7

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 8

Copy.

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

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

c.1636-41

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

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

Rosemary Williams (Stoughton MS pp. 183-5)
KiH 9

Copy, subscribed H: King.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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

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

c.1641-9

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

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

The Anniverse. An Elegy ('So soone grow'n old? Hast thou bin six yeares dead?')

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 72-3.

KiH 10

Copy, headed An Elegy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks).

Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's imitator (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657 (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster.

c.1633-58

Thomas Thorpe's sale Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as a most beautifully written volume of Poems in the hand of Bishop King's Daughter). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Hannah MS: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 30 ff. 42v-3r)
KiH 11

Copy, headed An Elegy.

A quarto volume of 58 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat stylish hand throughout, i + 43 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1638-40

Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), second Earl de Grey, statesman, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, who was descended from the brother of Sir Charles Lucas, on whose death in 1648 King wrote an elegy (Crum, pp. 101-10). Wrest Park was earlier the seat of Anthony Grey, eighth Earl of Kent (1557-1643), and of Henry Grey (1594-1651), ninth Earl of Kent, for whom the scholar and jurist John Selden (1584-1654) served as steward. Once apparently also in the library of the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS 51). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 902 (1970), item 196.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Wrest Park MS: KiH Δ 2. Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 7. Briefly described in BLR (March 1974), pp. 125-6; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96; and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 127 f. 19r-v)
KiH 12

Copy, headed An Elegy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 60 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat hand, that of Thomas Manne's imitator, 46 leaves (including a few blank pages).

c.1635-6 [and some later additions]

Some 18th-century additions including notes in French, some verse and the inscriptions (f. 3r) Henry Dottin His Book and Elie Dottin Her Book. Later owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Malone MS: KiH Δ 3. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 91-3 (with a facsimile of f. 17v: see KiH 321) and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see Rosemary Williams, Stoughton MS).

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 22 f. 20r-v.)
KiH 13

Copy, headed An Elegy.

A quarto volume of 61 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), ii + 33 leaves, in contemporary olive-brown morocco gilt, with remains of green silk ties.

Except for later verses scribbled on f. 33r, all is in a single formal italic hand: i.e. that of Thomas Manne's imitator, who also reproduces King's initials HK in his monogram format as a subscription to nearly every poem.

c.1638

Iinscribed (f. ir) M. Hall / Gainsbro and Miss A. F. Eames / Nottingham. Sotheby's, 21 May 1968, lot 339, to John Fleming, New York. Then owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1907-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 278. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 38.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Houghton MS: KiH Δ 4. For facsimile pages, see KiH 423, KiH 517, KiH 540, and KiH 571. A set of photocopies is also in the British Library, RP 246.

KiH 14

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 15

Copy, headed An Elegy.

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

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

c.1636-41

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

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

Rosemary Williams (Stoughton MS pp. 157-8)
KiH 16

Copy, headed An Elegie, subscribed H: King.

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

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

c.1641-9

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

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

KiH 17

Copy, headed An Elegie, subscribed H: K:.

This MS collated in Crum.

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. 59v-60r)
KiH 18

Copy, headed Dr Henry Kings Anniversarie vpon his Wife.

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.

Being waked out of my Sleep by a Snuff of Candle which offended mee, I thus thought ('Perhapps 'twas but Conceit. Erroneous Sense!')

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 169-70.

KiH 19

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks).

Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's imitator (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657 (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster.

c.1633-58

Thomas Thorpe's sale Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as a most beautifully written volume of Poems in the hand of Bishop King's Daughter). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Hannah MS: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 30 f. 63v)
KiH 20

Copy.

A quarto volume of 58 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat stylish hand throughout, i + 43 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1638-40

Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), second Earl de Grey, statesman, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, who was descended from the brother of Sir Charles Lucas, on whose death in 1648 King wrote an elegy (Crum, pp. 101-10). Wrest Park was earlier the seat of Anthony Grey, eighth Earl of Kent (1557-1643), and of Henry Grey (1594-1651), ninth Earl of Kent, for whom the scholar and jurist John Selden (1584-1654) served as steward. Once apparently also in the library of the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS 51). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 902 (1970), item 196.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Wrest Park MS: KiH Δ 2. Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 7. Briefly described in BLR (March 1974), pp. 125-6; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96; and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 127 f. 37r-v)
KiH 21

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 60 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat hand, that of Thomas Manne's imitator, 46 leaves (including a few blank pages).

c.1635-6 [and some later additions]

Some 18th-century additions including notes in French, some verse and the inscriptions (f. 3r) Henry Dottin His Book and Elie Dottin Her Book. Later owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Malone MS: KiH Δ 3. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 91-3 (with a facsimile of f. 17v: see KiH 321) and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see Rosemary Williams, Stoughton MS).

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 22 f. 37r)
KiH 22

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 23

Copy.

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

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

c.1636-41

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

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

Rosemary Williams (Stoughton MS p. 205)
Bishop John King The Latine Epitaph hanging over His Grave-stone Translated ('No Pyramids, nor Panegyrick Verse')

First published in The Poems of Bishop Henry King, ed. John Sparrow (London, 1925), p. 69. Crum, p. 186. Other English versions are in Bodleian, MS Rawl. D. 317, f. 171 (in John King's hand), in the Thomas Manne MS (KiH Δ 7), pp. [185-6], and in the Calfe MS (KiH Δ 9, part ii), f. 8v: see Crum, pp. 241-2, and Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (p. 329).

For the original Latin epitaph, see KiH 803.

KiH 24

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Sparrow and in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

A Blackmore Mayd wooing a faire Boy: sent to the Author by Mr. Hen. Rainolds ('Stay lovely Boy, why fly'st thou mee')

See KiH 25-94.

The Boy's answere to the Blackmore ('Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly')

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 151. The text almost invariably preceded, in both printed and MS versions, by (variously headed) A Blackmore Mayd wooing a faire Boy: sent to the Author by Mr. Hen. Rainolds (Stay, lovely Boy, why fly'st thou mee). Musical settings by John Wilson in Henry Lawes, Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).

KiH 25

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks).

Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's imitator (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657 (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster.

c.1633-58

Thomas Thorpe's sale Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as a most beautifully written volume of Poems in the hand of Bishop King's Daughter). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Hannah MS: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 30 f. 23v)
KiH 26

Copy.

A quarto volume of 58 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat stylish hand throughout, i + 43 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1638-40

Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), second Earl de Grey, statesman, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, who was descended from the brother of Sir Charles Lucas, on whose death in 1648 King wrote an elegy (Crum, pp. 101-10). Wrest Park was earlier the seat of Anthony Grey, eighth Earl of Kent (1557-1643), and of Henry Grey (1594-1651), ninth Earl of Kent, for whom the scholar and jurist John Selden (1584-1654) served as steward. Once apparently also in the library of the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS 51). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 902 (1970), item 196.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Wrest Park MS: KiH Δ 2. Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 7. Briefly described in BLR (March 1974), pp. 125-6; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96; and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 127 f. 13r)
KiH 27

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 60 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat hand, that of Thomas Manne's imitator, 46 leaves (including a few blank pages).

c.1635-6 [and some later additions]

Some 18th-century additions including notes in French, some verse and the inscriptions (f. 3r) Henry Dottin His Book and Elie Dottin Her Book. Later owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Malone MS: KiH Δ 3. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 91-3 (with a facsimile of f. 17v: see KiH 321) and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see Rosemary Williams, Stoughton MS).

KiH 28

Copy.

A quarto volume of 61 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), ii + 33 leaves, in contemporary olive-brown morocco gilt, with remains of green silk ties.

Except for later verses scribbled on f. 33r, all is in a single formal italic hand: i.e. that of Thomas Manne's imitator, who also reproduces King's initials HK in his monogram format as a subscription to nearly every poem.

c.1638

Iinscribed (f. ir) M. Hall / Gainsbro and Miss A. F. Eames / Nottingham. Sotheby's, 21 May 1968, lot 339, to John Fleming, New York. Then owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1907-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 278. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 38.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Houghton MS: KiH Δ 4. For facsimile pages, see KiH 423, KiH 517, KiH 540, and KiH 571. A set of photocopies is also in the British Library, RP 246.

KiH 29

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum. Edited in Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), No. 13 (p. 9).

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 30

Copy, headed The Answer.

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

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

c.1636-41

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

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

Rosemary Williams (Stoughton MS p. 71)
KiH 31

Copy, headed The Boyes answere.

This MS collated in Crum.

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

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

c.1633

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

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

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1446 f. 71r)
KiH 32

Copy, headed The Answere, subscribed in monogram format. HK.

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

Including 15 poems by Carew and 17 poems by King.

c.1630s

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

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

KiH 33

Copy, headed his answeare.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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. 14r-v)
KiH 34

Copy, headed The reply.

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

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

c.1630s

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

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

Aberdeen University Library (MS 29 pp. 159-60)
KiH 35

Copy, headed The answer.

This MS recorded in Crum.

An octavo miscellany of verse and some prose, in five hands, one predominating on ff. 8v-130r, ii + 166 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf.

Compiled in part (ff. 131v-66r) by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.

c.1630s-40s
Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 47 f. 48v)
KiH 36

Copy, untitled, in a musical setting.

This MS collated in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 204); recorded in Crum.

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

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

c.1640s-60s

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

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

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. c. 57 ff. 45v-6v)
KiH 37

Copy, headed The answer.

This MS recorded in Crum.

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, in a single small hand, 31 leaves, in contemporary half-calf over marbled boards, imperfect.

A label on the cover: Dr. Lynnet's Common Place Book: i.e. compiled by Dr William Lynnet (1622/3-1700), of Trinity College, Cambridge.

c.1643

Inscribed Ri. Walker 1758. some years agoe Mr. Brigg bought this Common place book in Smithfield, and gave it to RW. Inscriptions dated 1792 by Thomas Bousefield (or possibly James Simpson), wheelwright of Kendal. Purchased from J.W. Jarvis & Son, 30 January 1891.

Bodleian Library, Eng. misc. MSS (MS Eng. misc. e. 13 f. 24r)
KiH 38

Copy, headed His answer.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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. 20r-v)
KiH 39

Copy, headed Answeare to the same tune.

This MS recorded in Crum.

An octavo verse miscellany, in several hands, written from both ends, i + 141 leaves, in contemporary calf (rebacked).

Compiled, and composed, in part by John Polwhele, of Polwhele and Treworgan, Cornwall, and of Lincoln's Inn, who notes (fol. 141v rev.) Johes Polwheile Lincol ex dono chariss: amici Josephi Maynardi.

c.1623-32

Given to Jessie Glubb by a descendant of John Polwhele in 1843. P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue No. 97 (1947), item 185.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, f through end (MS Eng. poet. f. 16 fol. 8v)
KiH 40

Copy, headed His Answere.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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

c.1635-44

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

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

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, f through end (MS Eng. poet. f. 25 fol. 19r)
KiH 41

Copy, headed The answer.

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 30th 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 pp. 63-4)
KiH 42

Copy, headed The Answer.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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

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

c.1640

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

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

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Firth e. 4 p. 111)
KiH 43

Copy, headed The Answere.

This MS recorded in Crum.

An octavo verse miscellany, in two or more hands, 95 leaves (plus blanks), including two Indexes, in contemporary vellum.

Compiled by an Oxford University man, possibly a member of St John's College.

c.1634-43

A receipt (f. 104r) by John Weston recording payment from his brother Ed: Weston, 3 May 1714. The name John Saunders inscribed on the final leaf.

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 21 f. 63r)
KiH 44

Copy in a musical setting by John Wilson, headed Second Part, following the First part (ff. 90v-1r), Why lovely Boy why flyst thou me.

This MS collated in John P. Cutts, Seventeenth Century Lyrics, MD, 10 (1956), 142-209 (p. 179); recorded in Crum.

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

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

c.1656

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

Bodleian Library, Music MSS (MS Mus. b. 1 ff. 91v-2r)
KiH 45 c.1630

Copy, headed The Fayer Maydes Answere and subscribed Dr Hen: King, in a verse miscellany (ff. 267r-73v) compiled by an Oxford University man.

A quarto composite volume of tracts and other papers, in verse and prose, 349 leaves, in half-calf.

Copy, headed An other lre from Sr Thomas Wiatte the elder to his sonne oute of Spaine aboute the same tyme.

KiH 46

Copy, headed The Reply.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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.

KiH 47

Copy, headed The Answeere.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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

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

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

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

KiH 48

Copy, headed The Reply.

This MS recorded in Crum.

A small quarto verse miscellany, in a single hand, 98 pages (plus some blanks), in reversed calf (rebacked).

c.1620s-30s

Inscribed (f. ir) by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), the date 1741 added.

KiH 49

Copy, headed His Answer, subscribed Dr Henry Kinge.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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

Probably compiled by a member of New College, Oxford.

c.1630s

Some tipped-in notes by Richard Rawlinson.

KiH 50

Copy, headed The fayer boyes answere.

This MS recorded in Crum.

A quarto composite volume of verse, in several hands (the 22 or 23 poems by Carew on ff. 2r-22r in a single hand), with later additions dated 1731-3 by one G. Broughton on ff. 1r and after 44r, a reference to St John's College, Cambridge (in 1731) on f. 83v, 93 leaves (plus blanks), in 19th-century half black morocco.

c.1630s [-1733]

G. Broughton is possibly William (Gulielmus) Broughton (b.1684/5), of Trinity College, Cambridge (one of whose Latin verse compilations was copied in 1704-6 by Richard Robinson in Trinity College, Cambridge, MS 0.6.1 (James 1497). Also the name Jo: Tweedy is inscribed several times on f. 81r. Owned before 1841 by one W. Potter.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Tweedye MS: CwT Δ 10.

KiH 51

Copy, headed the faier Boyes Answere.

A quarto composite volume of verse, in several hands (the 22 or 23 poems by Carew on ff. 2r-22r in a single hand), with later additions dated 1731-3 by one G. Broughton on ff. 1r and after 44r, a reference to St John's College, Cambridge (in 1731) on f. 83v, 93 leaves (plus blanks), in 19th-century half black morocco.

c.1630s [-1733]

G. Broughton is possibly William (Gulielmus) Broughton (b.1684/5), of Trinity College, Cambridge (one of whose Latin verse compilations was copied in 1704-6 by Richard Robinson in Trinity College, Cambridge, MS 0.6.1 (James 1497). Also the name Jo: Tweedy is inscribed several times on f. 81r. Owned before 1841 by one W. Potter.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Tweedye MS: CwT Δ 10.

KiH 52

Copy, headed The Answer.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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.

KiH 53

Copy, headed The faire boys answere to the black mayde.

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

c.1630s

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

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

KiH 54

Copy, headed Her answer to ye blacke boye and here beginning Blacke youth complayne not yt I flye.

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

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

c.1630s

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

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

KiH 55

Copy, headed His Ansur.

This MS recorded in Crum.

A quarto miscellany of verse and medical and household prescriptions, in several cursive secretary hands, one predominating, written from both ends, 117 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

Compiled in part by Brian Fairfax (1633-1711), scholar and courtier.

Mid-late 17th century

Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Bliss sale, 21 August 1858, lot 117. Item 667 in an unidentified sale catalogue.

KiH 56

Copy, headed The answaire and here beginning Black girle complayne not that I fly.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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) Mr 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.

KiH 57

Copy, headed The Boy's answer.

An octavo miscellany of verse, academic exercises and other material, in English and Latin, almost entirely in a single hand, 134 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

Inscribed by the compiler (f. 133v) Anthony Scattergood His booke: i.e. Anthony Scattergood (1611-87), theologian, of Trinity College, Cambridge. Volume XXXII of the Scattergood papers.

c.1632-40

Also inscribed (f. 130v) Elisabeth Scattergood her Booke 1667/8. Booklabel of Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector.

KiH 58

Copy, headed The faire boyes answere to the blacke maide and here beginning ffaire mayde )plaine not yt I fly.

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

c.1630s-40s
The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 923 ff. 60v-1r)
KiH 59

Copy, headed Her answere.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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 Sr. 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. 61v-2r)
KiH 60

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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.

KiH 61

Copy, headed The faire Maides answere.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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 Mr 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.

KiH 62

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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

c.1630s

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

KiH 63

Copy, headed The Reply.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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. 116r)
KiH 64

Copy, headed A.

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.

KiH 65

Copy, headed Answeare.

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.

KiH 66 c.1630s

Copy, with corrections, in the hand of William Strode, untitled.

This MS recorded in Crum.

A quarto volume of autograph poems by Strode, 130 leaves (including 31 blank leaves, plus numerous blanks, stubs of five extracted leaves, and some leaves added later).

A working autograph notebook of poems by Strode, compiled and revised over a considerable period, comprising 101 English poems (including draft fragments, 66 Latin poems and 2 Greek poems by him, together with his copies of a few poems by others (generally paired with Strode's translations or answers) including Richard Corbett, Thomas Carew, Peter Apsley, and Henry King and Henry Reynolds, as well as a lecture in Latin by the Professor of Greek at Oxford; ff. 52r-96r written in Strode's mixed secretary and italic hand, probably early 1620s-30; ff. 96v-129v, and afterwards ff. 1-51v, written in Strode's italic hand, probably for the most part c.1635-7, with additions up to 1643; ff. 129v-30v containing rough jottings in both styles; many of the poems containing Strode's extensive revisions, probably made from the 1630s onwards.

c.1620s-43

Some scribbling on the last page including the name John Herbert. Possibly one of the MS volumes by Strode which, according to Anthony Wood (Athenae Oxonienses, ed. Philip Bliss, 4 vols (London, 1813-20), III, 152), came after Strode's death into the hands of Dr Richard Gardiner (1591-1670), canon of Christ Church, and then into those of Richard Davies, Oxford bookseller (fl.1646-88). Afterwards acquired, probably from Davies between 1665 and 1675, by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, who added pagination, annotations and some further entries throughout.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Corpus MS: StW Δ 1. Collated in part in Dobell. Identified as autograph and discussed in M.C. Crum, William Fulman and an Autograph Manuscript of the Poet Strode, BLR, 4 (1952-3), 324-35. Extensively discussed and the text edited from this MS in Forey. Facsimile of f. 94r in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 42 (see StW 641).

Corpus Christi College, Oxford (MS 325 ff. 127v-8r)
KiH 67

Copy, headed Her answer.

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.

KiH 68

Copy, untitled.

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

c.1630s-40s

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

KiH 69

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in The Works in Verse and Prose of Sir John Davies, ed. A.B. Grosart, I (London, 1869), p. 470.

A folio volume of poems, in several secretary hands, one neat cursive hand predominating, 43 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped brown calf.

Compiled by or for Lucy Hastings (née Davies, 1613-79), Countess of Huntingdon, daughter of Sir John Davies (1569-1626), her name appearing on f. 28v and that of one of her servants, Thomas Bakewell, on f. 31r.

c.1625-30
KiH 70

Copy, headed His Answere.

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).

KiH 71

Copy, headed Answere.

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 ye 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.

KiH 72

Copy, headed (as speaker) Boy.

A verse miscellany, much of it in shorthand, almost entirely closely written in a small cursive mixed hand, written from both ends, in contemporary calf with initials E H in gilt.

16°, 87 leaves (plus two paste-downs); miscellany, including portions of some 42 identifiable English poems by Crashaw, many of the lines here re-arranged in a garbled fashion; compiled by a Cambridge man, possibly a member of Christ's College; probably in a single hand throughout, with variations of style, written from both ends, about thirty pages in shorthand.

c.1650s

Later owned by Edward Hailstone (1818-90) of Walton Hall, near Wakefield, botanist and book collector. Sotheby's 23 April 1891 (Hailstone sale), probably lot 439, to Dobell). Bertram Dobell's sale catalogue No. 103 (June 1902), item 373. Formerly Folger MS 267.1.

Cited in IELM, I.ii, as the Hailstone MS: CrR Δ 6. Crashaw's work selectively collated (cited as Dobell) in Martin and discussed p. lxxxi. Facsimile of f. 22 in Dobell catalogue. The MS discussed by Dobell, in other connections, in Some Unpublished Epigrams by Thomas Fuller, The Athenaeum (27 April 1901), p. 532, and in An Early Variant of a Shakespeare Sonnet, The Athenaeum (2 August 1913), p. 112. Compare CrR Δ 8.

KiH 73

Copy, headed The faire Boyes Answere.

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).

KiH 74.5

Copy, headed His answere.

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 ye two partners of my heart Mr John Wheeler, and Mr 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.

KiH 75

Copy, headed His Answer.

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.

KiH 75.5

Copy, untitled, headed ffaire man complaine not that I fly.

A folio miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, largely in one hand, iv + 544 pages (including numerous blanks), in vellum boards.

Inscribed, and evidently compiled, by Sir Henry Oxinden (1609-70), of Barham, Kent.

c.1642-70

Inscribed Lee Warly. Canterbury. 1764. Booklabel of Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector.

KiH 76

Copy, headed The Answer.

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

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

c.1624-41

Later bookplate of Henry B. Humphrey.

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

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 703 f. 60v)
KiH 77

Copy, headed The reply, here beginning Blacke Girle complaine not yt I fly and subscribed Henry Mollt: KC.

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).

KiH 78

Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, headed His answer, following (f. 23r) A black maid to her lover.

An octavo miscellany of verse and some prose, in several italic and mixed hands, written probably over a period from both ends, 72 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

c.1630s-40s
The University of Manchester Library (English MS 410 f. 23v)
KiH 78.5

Copy, headed An answeare to ye Black-more Wench, following (on pp. 258-9) Of a Black-more Wench in love with a pretty boy.

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.

KiH 79

Copy, headed The boyes answer.

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 Sr John Reresby Barronett these prsent: 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. 70v)
KiH 79.5

Copy, headed A young mans answer to a Blackamoore, with a cross-referencing note vid. pag. supra ab hinc decimâ sextâ.

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

c.1630s

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

London Metropolitan Archives (ACC/1360/528 f. [28v rev.])
KiH 80

Copy, headed The Boy's answer.

A quarto formal anthology of verse, in a single neat rounded hand, arranged by genre, entitled A Collection of Serious Humorous and Affectionate Poems, 131 leaves, on rectos only, in modern cloth.

Early 18th century
Newberry Library, Chicago (MS Y 184. 18 f. 104r)
KiH 81

Copy, headed Boys answere.

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. 53v)
KiH 82

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, on the first page of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, slightly imperfect.

c.1620s
KiH 83

Copy, headed His Answeare.

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).

KiH 84

Copy, headed His answer.

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).

KiH 85

Copy, headed The answer of the Fayre Boy to the black Maide.

A quarto verse miscellany, in three hands (A: pp. 1-56; B: pp. 57-60, 75-122; C: pp. 61-74, 125-7), 127 pages, in contemporary limp vellum.

Including 23 poems (and a second copy of one) by Randolph.

c.1635

Mostyn MS 196: from the library originally founded by Sir Thomas Mostyn (1535-1617) at Mostyn Hall, near Holywell, Flintshire, Wales, the MS possibly acquired by Sir Roger Mostyn (1567-1642) or by his son Sir Roger Mostyn, first Baronet (1625?-90). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 191.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Mostyn MS: RnT Δ 11. Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1873), Appendix, p. 356. Edited in Howard H. Thompson, An Edition of Two Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Poetical Miscellanies (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1959) [Mic 59-4669].

KiH 86

Second copy, headed The Answere.

A quarto verse miscellany, in three hands (A: pp. 1-56; B: pp. 57-60, 75-122; C: pp. 61-74, 125-7), 127 pages, in contemporary limp vellum.

Including 23 poems (and a second copy of one) by Randolph.

c.1635

Mostyn MS 196: from the library originally founded by Sir Thomas Mostyn (1535-1617) at Mostyn Hall, near Holywell, Flintshire, Wales, the MS possibly acquired by Sir Roger Mostyn (1567-1642) or by his son Sir Roger Mostyn, first Baronet (1625?-90). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 191.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Mostyn MS: RnT Δ 11. Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1873), Appendix, p. 356. Edited in Howard H. Thompson, An Edition of Two Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Poetical Miscellanies (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1959) [Mic 59-4669].

KiH 87

Copy, headed His Answere.

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

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

c.1638-42

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

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

KiH 88

Copy, untitled.

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

c.1630s

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

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

KiH 88.5

Copy, untitled.

Facsimile of f. 28v in Culbirth, Thomas Killigrew's Commonplace Book?, p. 36.

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

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

Mid-17th century-c.1702

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

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

University of Texas at Austin (Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book f. 28v)
KiH 89

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Crum.

A folio volume of 121 poems by Donne and his Paradoxes and Problems, in a probably professional, predominantly italic hand (the scribe also probably responsible for the Dublin MS (I) (Trinity College, Dublin, MS 877); some poems by others added at the end (pp. 239-50) in other hands, 250 pages.

c.1623-5

Owned in the mid-late 17th century by E. Puckering (signed f. 1r), probably a man but possibly Elizabeth (d.1689), wife of Sir Henry Newton (afterwards Puckering) (1618-1701), by whose bequest the MS came to Trinity College in 1691 (this Lady Elizabeth being the daughter of Thomas Murray (1564-1623), tutor to Prince Charles).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Puckering MS, DnJ Δ 13. A note by Henry Bradshaw states that this MS was collated in 1861 and 1863 by the Rev. T.R. O' Flahertie (d.1894), of Capel, near Dorking, Surrey, book collector.

Trinity College, Cambridge (MS R. 3. 12 (James 592) p. 239)
KiH 90

Copy, headed The answere of ye fayre Boy to ye black Mayd and beginning Blacke Girle….

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

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

c.1635

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

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

KiH 91

Copy, headed The boyes replye.

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

c.1630s

Formerly MSS 4. 29.

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 123 (II) f. 3v)
KiH 92

Copy, headed Answere.

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
KiH 93

Copy, headed The fayre boyes aunswere and here beginning Black Gyrle, complayne not yt I fly.

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. 7)
KiH 94

Copy, headed Responsio.

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

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

c.1630s

Formerly Box 22, item II.

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

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 205 f. 50r)
By Occasion of the young Prince his happy Birth. May 29. 1630 ('At this glad Triumph, when most Poëts use')

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 73-5.

*KiH 95
Autograph

Copy, with the date May: 29. 1630 in King's hand.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks).

Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's imitator (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657 (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster.

c.1633-58

Thomas Thorpe's sale Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as a most beautifully written volume of Poems in the hand of Bishop King's Daughter). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Hannah MS: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 30 ff. 49r-50v)
KiH 96

Copy.

A quarto volume of 58 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat stylish hand throughout, i + 43 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1638-40

Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), second Earl de Grey, statesman, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, who was descended from the brother of Sir Charles Lucas, on whose death in 1648 King wrote an elegy (Crum, pp. 101-10). Wrest Park was earlier the seat of Anthony Grey, eighth Earl of Kent (1557-1643), and of Henry Grey (1594-1651), ninth Earl of Kent, for whom the scholar and jurist John Selden (1584-1654) served as steward. Once apparently also in the library of the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS 51). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 902 (1970), item 196.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Wrest Park MS: KiH Δ 2. Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 7. Briefly described in BLR (March 1974), pp. 125-6; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96; and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 127 ff. 23v-5r)
KiH 97

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 60 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat hand, that of Thomas Manne's imitator, 46 leaves (including a few blank pages).

c.1635-6 [and some later additions]

Some 18th-century additions including notes in French, some verse and the inscriptions (f. 3r) Henry Dottin His Book and Elie Dottin Her Book. Later owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Malone MS: KiH Δ 3. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 91-3 (with a facsimile of f. 17v: see KiH 321) and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see Rosemary Williams, Stoughton MS).

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 22 ff. 25r-6r)
KiH 98

Copy.

A quarto volume of 61 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), ii + 33 leaves, in contemporary olive-brown morocco gilt, with remains of green silk ties.

Except for later verses scribbled on f. 33r, all is in a single formal italic hand: i.e. that of Thomas Manne's imitator, who also reproduces King's initials HK in his monogram format as a subscription to nearly every poem.

c.1638

Iinscribed (f. ir) M. Hall / Gainsbro and Miss A. F. Eames / Nottingham. Sotheby's, 21 May 1968, lot 339, to John Fleming, New York. Then owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1907-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 278. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 38.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Houghton MS: KiH Δ 4. For facsimile pages, see KiH 423, KiH 517, KiH 540, and KiH 571. A set of photocopies is also in the British Library, RP 246.

KiH 99

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 100

Copy.

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

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

c.1636-41

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

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

Rosemary Williams (Stoughton MS pp. 131-4)
KiH 101

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Crum.

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).

KiH 102

Copy, subscribed H King.

This MS collated in Crum.

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

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

c.1641-9

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

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

KiH 103

Copy, headed By occasion of the yong Prince Charles his happy birth, subscribed H: K:.

This MS collated in Crum.

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. 10-11)
The Change ('We lov'd as friends now twenty years and more')

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 186-7.

KiH 103.5

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

The Defence ('Why slightest thou what I approve?')

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 145-6.

KiH 104

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks).

Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's imitator (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657 (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster.

c.1633-58

Thomas Thorpe's sale Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as a most beautifully written volume of Poems in the hand of Bishop King's Daughter). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Hannah MS: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 30 f. 17r-v)
KiH 105

Copy, untitled.

A quarto volume of 58 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat stylish hand throughout, i + 43 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1638-40

Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), second Earl de Grey, statesman, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, who was descended from the brother of Sir Charles Lucas, on whose death in 1648 King wrote an elegy (Crum, pp. 101-10). Wrest Park was earlier the seat of Anthony Grey, eighth Earl of Kent (1557-1643), and of Henry Grey (1594-1651), ninth Earl of Kent, for whom the scholar and jurist John Selden (1584-1654) served as steward. Once apparently also in the library of the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS 51). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 902 (1970), item 196.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Wrest Park MS: KiH Δ 2. Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 7. Briefly described in BLR (March 1974), pp. 125-6; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96; and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 127 f. 9r-v)
KiH 106

Copy, untitled.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 60 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat hand, that of Thomas Manne's imitator, 46 leaves (including a few blank pages).

c.1635-6 [and some later additions]

Some 18th-century additions including notes in French, some verse and the inscriptions (f. 3r) Henry Dottin His Book and Elie Dottin Her Book. Later owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Malone MS: KiH Δ 3. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 91-3 (with a facsimile of f. 17v: see KiH 321) and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see Rosemary Williams, Stoughton MS).

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 22 f. 11r-v.)
KiH 107

Copy, untitled.

A quarto volume of 61 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), ii + 33 leaves, in contemporary olive-brown morocco gilt, with remains of green silk ties.

Except for later verses scribbled on f. 33r, all is in a single formal italic hand: i.e. that of Thomas Manne's imitator, who also reproduces King's initials HK in his monogram format as a subscription to nearly every poem.

c.1638

Iinscribed (f. ir) M. Hall / Gainsbro and Miss A. F. Eames / Nottingham. Sotheby's, 21 May 1968, lot 339, to John Fleming, New York. Then owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1907-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 278. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 38.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Houghton MS: KiH Δ 4. For facsimile pages, see KiH 423, KiH 517, KiH 540, and KiH 571. A set of photocopies is also in the British Library, RP 246.

KiH 108

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 109

Copy, untitled.

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

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

c.1636-41

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

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

Rosemary Williams (Stoughton MS pp. 166-7)
KiH 110

Copy, imperfect at the end.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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).

KiH 111

Copy, headed The Answere, subscribed in monogram format HK.

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

Including 15 poems by Carew and 17 poems by King.

c.1630s

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

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

KiH 112

Copy, headed A louer to one yt misiudged his Mistriss.

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

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

c.1630s

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

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

Aberdeen University Library (MS 29 pp. 161-2)
KiH 113

Copy, headed A Lover to one yt misiudged & desparaged ye beauety of his Mrs:.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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. 67r)
KiH 114

Copy, headed A censure on one disproving his love.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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

c.1635-44

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

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

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, f through end (MS Eng. poet. f. 25 fol. 10v)
KiH 115

Copy, headed One that was suitour to a gentlewoman more vertuous then faire wrote these verses to a freind that dislikt his choice.

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 30th 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 pp. 225-6)
KiH 116

Copy, untitled, subscribed H: K:.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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

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

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

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

KiH 117

Copy, headed To one that slighted his Mris.

This MS recorded in Crum.

A miscellany of verse and prose, iii + 141 leaves.

Compiled by Matthew Crosse, Oxford University bedell of law.

c.1630s
Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Top. Oxon. e. 380 f. 175v)
KiH 118

Copy, headed A Louer to one dispraising his mistresse.

This MS recorded in Crum.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, in generally small mixed hands, ii + 40 leaves, in 19th-century embossed black leather.

c.1640s

Later owned by Thomas Rodd (1796-1849), bookseller; by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector; and by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 21 August 1858 (Bliss sale), lot 190.

KiH 119

Copy, headed A louer to one yt misiudged his Mrs.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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) Mr 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.

KiH 120

Copy, headed A louer to one yt misiudged of his Mistris.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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. 5r-v)
KiH 121

Copy, headed A true louers amie.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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 ff. 21v-2r)
KiH 122

Second copy, headed To one yt misiudged his Mris.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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.

KiH 123

Copy, headed One to his freind disliking his loue being more vertuous then faire.

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 ye 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.

KiH 124

Copy, headed Vpon his choice.

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.

KiH 125

Copy, headed On a deformed Mrs.

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.

KiH 127

Copy, headed One yt was a Suitor to a Gentlewoman more Vertuous yn faire, wrote these to a freind of his yt disliked ye Choyce.

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).

KiH 127.5

Copy, headed The Answer and subscribed J. K.

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

c.1630s

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

London Metropolitan Archives (ACC/1360/528 f. [46v])
KiH 128

Copy, headed Verses sent to his friend who blameinge him for not likeinge his Mris: and saying she was foule and blacke.

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. 31)
KiH 129

Copy, in a musical setting by John Atkins.

This MS collated in Cutts, Drexel Manuscript 4041, p. 174. Recorded in Crum.

A folio songbook, in a single secretary hand, some items misnumbered, 144 leaves.

c.1640s

Once owned by the Shirley family, Earls Ferrers, of Staunton Harold, Leicestershire. Also owned, and annotated, by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author. Acquired in 1888.

Generally cited as the Earl Ferrers MS. Collated in Cutts, Drexel Manuscript 4041, Musica Disciplina, 18 (1964), 151-202. A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 9 (New York & London, 1987).

New York Public Library, Music Division (Drexel MS 4041 No. 42, ff. 31v-2v)
KiH 130

Copy, in a musical setting by John Atkins.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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

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

c.1630s-50s

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

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

New York Public Library, Music Division (Drexel MS 4257 No. 222)
KiH 131

Copy, headed A Louer to one that misjudg'd his mistresse.

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).

KiH 132

Copy, headed An Answere to a diswasiue freind.

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

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

c.1638-42

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

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

KiH 133 Mid-17th century

Copy of lines 1-8, in a mixed hand, untitled, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves of verse, once folded as a letter or packet.

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 13)
KiH 133.5

Copy, untitled and here beginning Why slight'st thou her whom I approve?.

A folio formal verse miscellany, in a single rounded hand, 259 pages (plus a three-page index), in modern boards.

The contents, the latest of which (on pp. 203-7) can be dated to a marriage that took place in November 1656, reflect the taste of Interregnum Royalist sympathisers.

c.Late 1650s

Formerly in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 4001. Sotheby's, 29 June 1946, lot 164, to Myers. Then in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.

University College London (MS Ogden 42 pp. 110-11)
KiH 133.8

Copy, untitled and here beginning Why slights thou her whom I approue.

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

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

Mid-17th century-c.1702

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

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

University of Texas at Austin (Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book f. 45r-v)
KiH 134

Copy, headed A louer to one dispraising his Mris.

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. 39-40)
The Departure. An Elegy ('Were I to leave no more than a Good Freind')

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 163-4.

KiH 135

Copy, headed An Elegy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks).

Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's imitator (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657 (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster.

c.1633-58

Thomas Thorpe's sale Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as a most beautifully written volume of Poems in the hand of Bishop King's Daughter). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Hannah MS: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 30 ff. 43v-5r)
KiH 136

Copy, headed An Elegy.

A quarto volume of 58 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat stylish hand throughout, i + 43 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1638-40

Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), second Earl de Grey, statesman, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, who was descended from the brother of Sir Charles Lucas, on whose death in 1648 King wrote an elegy (Crum, pp. 101-10). Wrest Park was earlier the seat of Anthony Grey, eighth Earl of Kent (1557-1643), and of Henry Grey (1594-1651), ninth Earl of Kent, for whom the scholar and jurist John Selden (1584-1654) served as steward. Once apparently also in the library of the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS 51). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 902 (1970), item 196.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Wrest Park MS: KiH Δ 2. Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 7. Briefly described in BLR (March 1974), pp. 125-6; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96; and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 127 ff. 33v-5r)
KiH 137

Copy, headed An Elegy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 60 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat hand, that of Thomas Manne's imitator, 46 leaves (including a few blank pages).

c.1635-6 [and some later additions]

Some 18th-century additions including notes in French, some verse and the inscriptions (f. 3r) Henry Dottin His Book and Elie Dottin Her Book. Later owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Malone MS: KiH Δ 3. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 91-3 (with a facsimile of f. 17v: see KiH 321) and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see Rosemary Williams, Stoughton MS).

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 22 ff. 37v-8v.)
KiH 138

Copy, headed An Elegy.

A quarto volume of 61 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), ii + 33 leaves, in contemporary olive-brown morocco gilt, with remains of green silk ties.

Except for later verses scribbled on f. 33r, all is in a single formal italic hand: i.e. that of Thomas Manne's imitator, who also reproduces King's initials HK in his monogram format as a subscription to nearly every poem.

c.1638

Iinscribed (f. ir) M. Hall / Gainsbro and Miss A. F. Eames / Nottingham. Sotheby's, 21 May 1968, lot 339, to John Fleming, New York. Then owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1907-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 278. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 38.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Houghton MS: KiH Δ 4. For facsimile pages, see KiH 423, KiH 517, KiH 540, and KiH 571. A set of photocopies is also in the British Library, RP 246.

KiH 139

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 140

Copy, headed An Elegy.

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

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

c.1636-41

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

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

Rosemary Williams (Stoughton MS pp. 186-88)
KiH 141

Copy, headed An Elegy, subscribed H: King:.

This MS collated in Crum.

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

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

c.1641-9

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

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

The Dirge ('What is th' Existence of Man's Life?')

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 177-8.

KiH 142

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks).

Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's imitator (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657 (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster.

c.1633-58

Thomas Thorpe's sale Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as a most beautifully written volume of Poems in the hand of Bishop King's Daughter). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Hannah MS: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 30 f. 70r-v)
KiH 142.5

Copy.

A quarto verse miscellany, compiled chiefly by Eliza Chapman, 89 leaves.

1788-9 [with additions to 1817]

Among collections of Captain Montagu Montagu, RN (d.1863).

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Montagu e. 14 f. 24r-v)
KiH 142.8

Copy, headed On the fragility of man, subscribed D. H. K.

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English, Latin and Greek, largely in one secretary hand, written from both ends, with indexes (ff. 2r-3r, 168r-v), 168 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum.

Compiled by Sir John Perceval, Bt (1629-65), probably while at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Volume CXCII of the papers of the Perceval family, Earls of Egmont, and the allied Southwell family.

c.1646-9
KiH 143

Copy.

A quarto volume of 61 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), ii + 33 leaves, in contemporary olive-brown morocco gilt, with remains of green silk ties.

Except for later verses scribbled on f. 33r, all is in a single formal italic hand: i.e. that of Thomas Manne's imitator, who also reproduces King's initials HK in his monogram format as a subscription to nearly every poem.

c.1638

Iinscribed (f. ir) M. Hall / Gainsbro and Miss A. F. Eames / Nottingham. Sotheby's, 21 May 1968, lot 339, to John Fleming, New York. Then owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1907-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 278. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 38.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Houghton MS: KiH Δ 4. For facsimile pages, see KiH 423, KiH 517, KiH 540, and KiH 571. A set of photocopies is also in the British Library, RP 246.

KiH 144

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 145

Copy.

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

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

c.1636-41

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

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

Rosemary Williams (Stoughton MS pp. 238-40)
KiH 146

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

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).

KiH 146.5

Copy, in a 19th-century hand, headed From Dr. King's very rare volume of poems. 1657. The Dirge (p: 147).

An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in English, Latin and Greek, predominantly in a single hand, with 19th-century additions (pp. 195 onwards, at least partly from earlier MS sources), 279 pages, in contemporary calf.

c.1644 (and later)

Inscribed (f. [ir]) William Han: 1644, probably by the academic compiler.

Yale, Osborn MS b 150 through Osborn MS b 199 (Osborn MS b 150 pp. 275-6)
An Elegy Occasioned by Sicknesse ('Well did the Prophet ask, Lord what is Man?')

First published in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 12-15]. Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 174-7.

*KiH 147
Autograph

Copy, with some punctuation probably in King's hand.

Edited in part from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks).

Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's imitator (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657 (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster.

c.1633-58

Thomas Thorpe's sale Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as a most beautifully written volume of Poems in the hand of Bishop King's Daughter). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Hannah MS: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 30 ff. 67-9v)
*KiH 148
Autograph

Copy, with King's autograph corrections, on two conjugate folio leaves. Early-mid-17th century.

This MS collated in Crum.

A folio composite volume of letters, verses, academic plays and other documents, in various hands and paper sizes, 253 leaves, in 18th-century black half-calf.

Assembled by Thomas Hearne (178-1735), antiquary, who has inscribed a slip attached to the front pastedown Tho: Hearne Junij 21o. 1709.

KiH 149

Copy.

A quarto volume of 58 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat stylish hand throughout, i + 43 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1638-40

Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), second Earl de Grey, statesman, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, who was descended from the brother of Sir Charles Lucas, on whose death in 1648 King wrote an elegy (Crum, pp. 101-10). Wrest Park was earlier the seat of Anthony Grey, eighth Earl of Kent (1557-1643), and of Henry Grey (1594-1651), ninth Earl of Kent, for whom the scholar and jurist John Selden (1584-1654) served as steward. Once apparently also in the library of the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS 51). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 902 (1970), item 196.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Wrest Park MS: KiH Δ 2. Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 7. Briefly described in BLR (March 1974), pp. 125-6; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96; and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 127 ff. 39v-41v)
KiH 150

Copy.

Edited in part from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 60 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat hand, that of Thomas Manne's imitator, 46 leaves (including a few blank pages).

c.1635-6 [and some later additions]

Some 18th-century additions including notes in French, some verse and the inscriptions (f. 3r) Henry Dottin His Book and Elie Dottin Her Book. Later owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Malone MS: KiH Δ 3. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 91-3 (with a facsimile of f. 17v: see KiH 321) and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see Rosemary Williams, Stoughton MS).

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 22 ff. 42v-4)
KiH 151

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 152

Copy.

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

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

c.1636-41

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

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

Rosemary Williams (Stoughton MS pp. 228-34)
KiH 153

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

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).

KiH 154

Copy.

This MS recorded in Crum.

An octavo miscellany of verse and some prose, in five hands, one predominating on ff. 8v-130r, ii + 166 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf.

Compiled in part (ff. 131v-66r) by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.

c.1630s-40s
Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 47 ff. 31r-3r)
KiH 155

Copy, headed A Definition of Man.

This MS recorded in Crum.

A quarto verse miscellany probably associated with Oxford.

Late 17th century
The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 390 ff. 30v-1r)
KiH 156

Copy.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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.

KiH 157

Copy, headed Vpon ye recouery of a dangerous sickenesse, subscribed Doct: Hen: Kinge.

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

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

c.1636-77

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

Clark Library, Los Angeles (MS. 1950. 024 pp. 28-30)
KiH 158

Copy.

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).

KiH 159

Copy, subscribed Dr H. King.

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 ye two partners of my heart Mr John Wheeler, and Mr 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.

KiH 160

Copy, headed A Coppy of verses composed on the frailty of man.

A small quarto miscellany, in various hands, possibly compiled in part by one William Leigh, in modern leather.

c.1650

Inscribed (f. 1v) Buckley 1772. Acquired in 1950 from P.M. Mill. Formerly MS Leigh, William (?), comp., Commonplace Book (ca. 1650).

This volume offered in Maggs's sale catalogue No. 640 (1937), item 302.

University of Illinois (Pre-1650 MS 0177 pp. 43-5)
KiH 161

Copy.

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

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

c.1638

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

New York Public Library, Arents Collection (Cat. No. S 288 (Acc. No. 5442) pp. 70-2)
An Elegy Upon Mrs. Kirk unfortunately drowned in Thames ('For all the Ship-wracks, and the liquid graves')

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 96-7.

KiH 162

Copy, headed An Elegy: Vpon a Lady vnfortunately drowned in the Thames.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 163

Copy, headed An Elegy Vpon a Lady vnfortunately drowned in Thames.

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

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

c.1636-41

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

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

Rosemary Williams (Stoughton MS pp. 246-7)
KiH 164

Copy, headed An Elegie upon a Lady vnfortunately drowned in the Thames.

This MS collated in Crum.

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).

KiH 165

Copy, headed An Elegy: on A Lady unfortunately drowned in Thames, subscribed Dr Henry Kinge.

This MS collated in Crum.

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.

KiH 166

Copy, headed An Elegie Vppon a Lady unfortunately Drowned in the Thames.

An octavo volume of nine poems by Henry King, written in oblong format in a single stylish hand up to f. 24v, subsequently used in upright format for culinary and medical receipts in other hands, 48 leaves, in later blind-stamped calf.

c.1630s

Bookplate of J. Eliot Hodgkin, FSA (1829-1912), engineer and book collector, of Richmond, Surrey. Sotheby's, 12 May 1914 (Hodgkin sale).

Recorded in HMC, 15th Report, 41-2, and Appendix II [30].

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 634 ff. 8r-11v)
An Elegy Upon my Best Friend L.K.C. ('Should we our Sorrows in this Method range')

First published in Poems (1664). Crum, pp. 133-5.

KiH 167

Copy, headed An Elegy on the right Honourable and my Worthyest Freind the Lady Katherine Countesse of Leinst'r.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks).

Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's imitator (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657 (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster.

c.1633-58

Thomas Thorpe's sale Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as a most beautifully written volume of Poems in the hand of Bishop King's Daughter). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Hannah MS: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 30 f. 106r)
An Elegy Upon Prince Henryes Death ('Keep station Nature, and rest Heaven sure')

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 65.

*KiH 168
Autograph

Copy, with an autograph correction by King, headed Upon Prince Henryes Death.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks).

Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's imitator (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657 (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster.

c.1633-58

Thomas Thorpe's sale Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as a most beautifully written volume of Poems in the hand of Bishop King's Daughter). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Hannah MS: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 30 f. 24r-v)
KiH 169

Copy.

A quarto volume of 58 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat stylish hand throughout, i + 43 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1638-40

Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), second Earl de Grey, statesman, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, who was descended from the brother of Sir Charles Lucas, on whose death in 1648 King wrote an elegy (Crum, pp. 101-10). Wrest Park was earlier the seat of Anthony Grey, eighth Earl of Kent (1557-1643), and of Henry Grey (1594-1651), ninth Earl of Kent, for whom the scholar and jurist John Selden (1584-1654) served as steward. Once apparently also in the library of the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS 51). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 902 (1970), item 196.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Wrest Park MS: KiH Δ 2. Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 7. Briefly described in BLR (March 1974), pp. 125-6; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96; and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 127 f. 15r-v)
KiH 170

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 60 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat hand, that of Thomas Manne's imitator, 46 leaves (including a few blank pages).

c.1635-6 [and some later additions]

Some 18th-century additions including notes in French, some verse and the inscriptions (f. 3r) Henry Dottin His Book and Elie Dottin Her Book. Later owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Malone MS: KiH Δ 3. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 91-3 (with a facsimile of f. 17v: see KiH 321) and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see Rosemary Williams, Stoughton MS).

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 22 ff. 15v-16)
KiH 171

Copy.

A quarto volume of 61 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), ii + 33 leaves, in contemporary olive-brown morocco gilt, with remains of green silk ties.

Except for later verses scribbled on f. 33r, all is in a single formal italic hand: i.e. that of Thomas Manne's imitator, who also reproduces King's initials HK in his monogram format as a subscription to nearly every poem.

c.1638

Iinscribed (f. ir) M. Hall / Gainsbro and Miss A. F. Eames / Nottingham. Sotheby's, 21 May 1968, lot 339, to John Fleming, New York. Then owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1907-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 278. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 38.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Houghton MS: KiH Δ 4. For facsimile pages, see KiH 423, KiH 517, KiH 540, and KiH 571. A set of photocopies is also in the British Library, RP 246.

KiH 172

Copy, headed Vpon Prince Henryes Death.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 173 c.1636

Copy, headed Vpon Prince Henryes Death.

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

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

c.1636-41

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

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

Rosemary Williams (Stoughton MS pp. 147-8)
KiH 174

Copy, headed On prince Henry. An Elegie; c.1625-30s.

This MS collated in Crum.

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).

KiH 175

Copy, headed An Epitaph on Prince Henrys Death, subscribed in monogram format HK.

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

Including 15 poems by Carew and 17 poems by King.

c.1630s

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

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

KiH 176

Copy, headed On Prince Henry.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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. 46r)
KiH 177

Copy, headed On Prince Henry's Death.

This MS collated in Crum.

An octavo verse miscellany, in two or more hands, 95 leaves (plus blanks), including two Indexes, in contemporary vellum.

Compiled by an Oxford University man, possibly a member of St John's College.

c.1634-43

A receipt (f. 104r) by John Weston recording payment from his brother Ed: Weston, 3 May 1714. The name John Saunders inscribed on the final leaf.

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 21 f. 11r)
KiH 178

Copy, headed On Prince Henries death.

This MS collated in Crum.

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.

KiH 179

Copy, headed On Prince Henries death.

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

Compiled by University or Inns of Court men.

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

c.1630s

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

KiH 180

Copy, headed On the death of Prince Henry.

A quarto miscellany, in several hands, including a number of culinary receipts, 255 leaves (including over 65 blanks), written from both ends (Part I, in a rounded italic hand: ff. 1r-117r:; Part II: ff. 1*r-72r), in old calf.

Inscribed (Part II, f. 1*r) A booke of verses collected by mee RDungaruan: i.e. Richard Boyle (1612-98), Viscount Dungarvon and later Earl of Burlington.

c.1630s

Also inscribed Mary Helerd. Subsequently owned by James Tyrrell (1642-1718), historical writer, and by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1782-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 15745. Formerly Folger MS 46. 2.

KiH 181

Copy, headed An other [i.e. on Prince Henry].

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 Sr John Reresby Barronett these prsent: 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. 88v)
KiH 181.5

Copy, headed On Prince Henryes death.

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

c.1630s

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

London Metropolitan Archives (ACC/1360/528 f. [16r])
KiH 182

Copy, headed On Prince Henryes death.

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).

KiH 183

Copy, headed On prince Henries death.

A quarto verse miscellany, in three hands (A: pp. 1-56; B: pp. 57-60, 75-122; C: pp. 61-74, 125-7), 127 pages, in contemporary limp vellum.

Including 23 poems (and a second copy of one) by Randolph.

c.1635

Mostyn MS 196: from the library originally founded by Sir Thomas Mostyn (1535-1617) at Mostyn Hall, near Holywell, Flintshire, Wales, the MS possibly acquired by Sir Roger Mostyn (1567-1642) or by his son Sir Roger Mostyn, first Baronet (1625?-90). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 191.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Mostyn MS: RnT Δ 11. Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1873), Appendix, p. 356. Edited in Howard H. Thompson, An Edition of Two Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Poetical Miscellanies (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1959) [Mic 59-4669].

KiH 184

Copy, headed On ye Death of Prince Henry.

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

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

c.1635

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

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

An Elegy Upon S.W.R. ('I will not weep. For 'twere as great a Sinne')

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 66.

*KiH 185
Autograph

Copy, with autograph corrections by King, headed An Elegy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks).

Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's imitator (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657 (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster.

c.1633-58

Thomas Thorpe's sale Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as a most beautifully written volume of Poems in the hand of Bishop King's Daughter). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Hannah MS: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 30 f. 25r-v)
KiH 186

Copy, untitled.

A quarto volume of 58 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat stylish hand throughout, i + 43 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1638-40

Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), second Earl de Grey, statesman, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, who was descended from the brother of Sir Charles Lucas, on whose death in 1648 King wrote an elegy (Crum, pp. 101-10). Wrest Park was earlier the seat of Anthony Grey, eighth Earl of Kent (1557-1643), and of Henry Grey (1594-1651), ninth Earl of Kent, for whom the scholar and jurist John Selden (1584-1654) served as steward. Once apparently also in the library of the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS 51). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 902 (1970), item 196.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Wrest Park MS: KiH Δ 2. Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 7. Briefly described in BLR (March 1974), pp. 125-6; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96; and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 127 ff. 15v-16r)
KiH 187

Copy, headed An Elegy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 60 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat hand, that of Thomas Manne's imitator, 46 leaves (including a few blank pages).

c.1635-6 [and some later additions]

Some 18th-century additions including notes in French, some verse and the inscriptions (f. 3r) Henry Dottin His Book and Elie Dottin Her Book. Later owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Malone MS: KiH Δ 3. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 91-3 (with a facsimile of f. 17v: see KiH 321) and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see Rosemary Williams, Stoughton MS).

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 22 f. 16r-v.)
KiH 188

Copy, headed An Elegy.

A quarto volume of 61 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), ii + 33 leaves, in contemporary olive-brown morocco gilt, with remains of green silk ties.

Except for later verses scribbled on f. 33r, all is in a single formal italic hand: i.e. that of Thomas Manne's imitator, who also reproduces King's initials HK in his monogram format as a subscription to nearly every poem.

c.1638

Iinscribed (f. ir) M. Hall / Gainsbro and Miss A. F. Eames / Nottingham. Sotheby's, 21 May 1968, lot 339, to John Fleming, New York. Then owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1907-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 278. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 38.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Houghton MS: KiH Δ 4. For facsimile pages, see KiH 423, KiH 517, KiH 540, and KiH 571. A set of photocopies is also in the British Library, RP 246.

KiH 189

Copy, headed An Elegy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 190

Copy, headed An Elegy.

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

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

c.1636-41

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

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

Rosemary Williams (Stoughton MS pp. 162-3)
KiH 191

Copy, headed On Sr. Walter Rawleigh.

This MS collated in Crum.

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).

KiH 192

Copy, headed On Sr. Gual. Rawleigh: J:D:.

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

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

c.1630s

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

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

Aberdeen University Library (MS 29 pp. 89-90)
KiH 193

Copy, headed On Sr Walter Raleigh.

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 30th 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 pp. 165-6)
KiH 194

Copy, headed An Elegy on Sr W. Raleigh.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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

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

c.1670s
KiH 195

Copy, headed on Sr Walter Rawleigh.

This MS collated in Crum.

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.

KiH 195.5

Copy, headed Vpon his death and Elegie.

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 f. 128v)
KiH 196

Copy, headed Vpon the death of Sr Walter Rawleighe beheaded 1619.

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

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

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

Mid-late 17th century

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

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

Bradford Archives (32D86/34 p. 108)
KiH 197

Copy, headed On ye Death of Sr W. Rauley.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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.

KiH 198

Copy, headed On Sr Walter Raleigh by W. R.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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
KiH 199

Copy, headed on the death of Sr: Walter Rawleighe.

This MS recorded in Crum.

A quarto verse miscellany, largely in a single professional hand, with later additions on ff. 58v-62v in three or four other hands, 65 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt.

Compiled by one Thomas Crosse, whose name appears (f. 1*) in An Acrosticke upon my name, as well as subscribed (Tho: Cro:) to a poem on ff. 23v-4r.

c.1630s [-1670s]
KiH 200

Copy, headed Vpon ye Death of Sr Walter Raleigh beheaded 1619, subscribed Dr H: King.

This MS recorded in Crum.

A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous tracts, poems and other papers, in various hands, 329 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

Fols 1r-82r comprise a separate collection of verse and some prose, possibly in a single predominantly secretary hand with some variants of style, the first leaf (f. 1) inscribed in another hand Poems by Wm: Browne of the Inner-Temple Gent &c / 1650, this possibly applying to the poems up to f. 62v, which is subscribed ffinis W Browne.

This volume comprising Parts 1-3, 5, 8-13, of what was formerly a single composite volume but is now bound in three volumes.

c.1637-50

Inscribed (f. 280v) Philip Butler his book.

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 777 ff. 65v-6r)
KiH 201

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

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. 63r-v)
KiH 202

Copy, headed On Sr. Walter Rawleigh.

A quarto miscellany, in several hands, including a number of culinary receipts, 255 leaves (including over 65 blanks), written from both ends (Part I, in a rounded italic hand: ff. 1r-117r:; Part II: ff. 1*r-72r), in old calf.

Inscribed (Part II, f. 1*r) A booke of verses collected by mee RDungaruan: i.e. Richard Boyle (1612-98), Viscount Dungarvon and later Earl of Burlington.

c.1630s

Also inscribed Mary Helerd. Subsequently owned by James Tyrrell (1642-1718), historical writer, and by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1782-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 15745. Formerly Folger MS 46. 2.

KiH 204

Copy, headed On Sr Walter Rawley, by Bp. King added in a different hand.

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 ye two partners of my heart Mr John Wheeler, and Mr 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.

KiH 204.5

Copy, headed On Sr: water Raughlye beheaded. 1619.

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

c.1630s

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

London Metropolitan Archives (ACC/1360/528 f. [17v])
KiH 204.8

Copy, headed Vpon ye death of Sr Walter Raleigh, among other texts relating to Ralegh.

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) No 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.

Estate of Robert S Pirie, New York ([Feilde MS] p. 468)
KiH 204.9

Copy, headed An Elegy vpon Sr Water R:, subscribed Bp. King.

A quarto verse miscellany, in probably a single mixed hand varying over a period, entitled in another hand Recueil Choisi De Pieces fugitives En Vers Anglois, 214 pages, in modern calf.

c.1713

Afterwards owned by Charles de Beaumont, the Chevalière d'Éon (1728-1810). Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872): Phillipps MS 9500. 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.

KiH 205

Copy, headed Vppon the death of Sr Walter Rawleigh who was beheaded Anno Di 1619

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.

An Elegy Upon the Bishopp of London John King ('Sad Relick of a Blessed Soule! whose trust')

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 172-3.

*KiH 206
Autograph

Copy, with a correction possibly in King's autograph.

Edited in part from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks).

Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's imitator (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657 (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster.

c.1633-58

Thomas Thorpe's sale Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as a most beautifully written volume of Poems in the hand of Bishop King's Daughter). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Hannah MS: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 30 f. 65v)
KiH 207

Copy.

A quarto volume of 58 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat stylish hand throughout, i + 43 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1638-40

Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), second Earl de Grey, statesman, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, who was descended from the brother of Sir Charles Lucas, on whose death in 1648 King wrote an elegy (Crum, pp. 101-10). Wrest Park was earlier the seat of Anthony Grey, eighth Earl of Kent (1557-1643), and of Henry Grey (1594-1651), ninth Earl of Kent, for whom the scholar and jurist John Selden (1584-1654) served as steward. Once apparently also in the library of the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS 51). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 902 (1970), item 196.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Wrest Park MS: KiH Δ 2. Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 7. Briefly described in BLR (March 1974), pp. 125-6; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96; and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 127 ff. 37v-8r)
KiH 208

Copy.

Edited in part from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 60 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat hand, that of Thomas Manne's imitator, 46 leaves (including a few blank pages).

c.1635-6 [and some later additions]

Some 18th-century additions including notes in French, some verse and the inscriptions (f. 3r) Henry Dottin His Book and Elie Dottin Her Book. Later owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Malone MS: KiH Δ 3. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 91-3 (with a facsimile of f. 17v: see KiH 321) and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see Rosemary Williams, Stoughton MS).

KiH 209

Copy.

A quarto volume of 61 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), ii + 33 leaves, in contemporary olive-brown morocco gilt, with remains of green silk ties.

Except for later verses scribbled on f. 33r, all is in a single formal italic hand: i.e. that of Thomas Manne's imitator, who also reproduces King's initials HK in his monogram format as a subscription to nearly every poem.

c.1638

Iinscribed (f. ir) M. Hall / Gainsbro and Miss A. F. Eames / Nottingham. Sotheby's, 21 May 1968, lot 339, to John Fleming, New York. Then owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1907-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 278. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 38.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Houghton MS: KiH Δ 4. For facsimile pages, see KiH 423, KiH 517, KiH 540, and KiH 571. A set of photocopies is also in the British Library, RP 246.

KiH 210

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 211

Copy.

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

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

c.1636-41

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

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

Rosemary Williams (Stoughton MS pp. 223-4)
KiH 212

Copy, headed An Elegy.

This MS collated in Crum.

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).

KiH 213

This MS collated in Crum.

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

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

c.1620-50

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

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

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

KiH 214

Copy, subscribed H: King:.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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

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

c.1641-9

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

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

KiH 215

Copy.

An octavo volume of nine poems by Henry King, written in oblong format in a single stylish hand up to f. 24v, subsequently used in upright format for culinary and medical receipts in other hands, 48 leaves, in later blind-stamped calf.

c.1630s

Bookplate of J. Eliot Hodgkin, FSA (1829-1912), engineer and book collector, of Richmond, Surrey. Sotheby's, 12 May 1914 (Hodgkin sale).

Recorded in HMC, 15th Report, 41-2, and Appendix II [30].

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 634 ff. 5v-7v)
An Elegy Upon the death of Mr. Edward Holt ('Whether thy Father's, or Disease's rage')

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 98-9.

KiH 216

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 217

Copy.

An octavo volume of nine poems by Henry King, written in oblong format in a single stylish hand up to f. 24v, subsequently used in upright format for culinary and medical receipts in other hands, 48 leaves, in later blind-stamped calf.

c.1630s

Bookplate of J. Eliot Hodgkin, FSA (1829-1912), engineer and book collector, of Richmond, Surrey. Sotheby's, 12 May 1914 (Hodgkin sale).

Recorded in HMC, 15th Report, 41-2, and Appendix II [30].

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 634 ff. 12r-15r)
An Elegy Upon the immature losse of the most vertuous Lady Anne Riche ('I envy not thy mortall triumphes, Death!')

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 93-5.

KiH 218

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks).

Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's imitator (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657 (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster.

c.1633-58

Thomas Thorpe's sale Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as a most beautifully written volume of Poems in the hand of Bishop King's Daughter). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Hannah MS: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 30 ff. 83v-6r)
KiH 219

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 220

Copy.

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

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

c.1636-41

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

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

Rosemary Williams (Stoughton MS pp. 241-5)
KiH 221

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

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).

KiH 222

Copy, subscribed Dr Hen: King.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto miscellany of poems on the death of Lady Rich, 44 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf gilt.

With a general title-page (f. 1r), The Shadow of the (sometimes) right Faire, Vertuous, and Honourable Lady Anne Rich Now an Happy, Glorious, and Perfected Saint in Heaven, and (ff. 2r-3r) a dedication dated 22 October 1638; the miscellany collected by, and apparently in the hand of, John Gauden (1605-62), later Bishop of Worcester.

1638

Inscribed on a flyleaf Ger. Sleigh. Percy Dobell's sale catalogue No. 106 (1949), item 4.

Bodleian Library, Eng. misc. MSS (MS Eng. misc. e. 262 ff. 37v-8v)
An Elegy Upon the most victorious King of Sweden Gustavus Adolphus ('Like a cold Fatall Sweat which ushers Death')

First published in The Swedish Intelligencer, Third Part (London, 1633). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 77-81.

*KiH 223
Autograph

Copy, with correction possibly in King's autograph.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks).

Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's imitator (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657 (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster.

c.1633-58

Thomas Thorpe's sale Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as a most beautifully written volume of Poems in the hand of Bishop King's Daughter). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Hannah MS: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 30 ff. 58r-61v)
KiH 224

Copy.

A quarto volume of 58 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat stylish hand throughout, i + 43 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1638-40

Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), second Earl de Grey, statesman, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, who was descended from the brother of Sir Charles Lucas, on whose death in 1648 King wrote an elegy (Crum, pp. 101-10). Wrest Park was earlier the seat of Anthony Grey, eighth Earl of Kent (1557-1643), and of Henry Grey (1594-1651), ninth Earl of Kent, for whom the scholar and jurist John Selden (1584-1654) served as steward. Once apparently also in the library of the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS 51). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 902 (1970), item 196.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Wrest Park MS: KiH Δ 2. Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 7. Briefly described in BLR (March 1974), pp. 125-6; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96; and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 127 ff. 27v-30r)
KiH 225

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 60 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat hand, that of Thomas Manne's imitator, 46 leaves (including a few blank pages).

c.1635-6 [and some later additions]

Some 18th-century additions including notes in French, some verse and the inscriptions (f. 3r) Henry Dottin His Book and Elie Dottin Her Book. Later owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Malone MS: KiH Δ 3. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 91-3 (with a facsimile of f. 17v: see KiH 321) and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see Rosemary Williams, Stoughton MS).

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 22 ff. 28v-30v)
KiH 226

Copy.

A quarto volume of 61 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), ii + 33 leaves, in contemporary olive-brown morocco gilt, with remains of green silk ties.

Except for later verses scribbled on f. 33r, all is in a single formal italic hand: i.e. that of Thomas Manne's imitator, who also reproduces King's initials HK in his monogram format as a subscription to nearly every poem.

c.1638

Iinscribed (f. ir) M. Hall / Gainsbro and Miss A. F. Eames / Nottingham. Sotheby's, 21 May 1968, lot 339, to John Fleming, New York. Then owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1907-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 278. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 38.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Houghton MS: KiH Δ 4. For facsimile pages, see KiH 423, KiH 517, KiH 540, and KiH 571. A set of photocopies is also in the British Library, RP 246.

KiH 227

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 228

Copy.

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

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

c.1636-41

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

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

Rosemary Williams (Stoughton MS pp. 211-15)
KiH 229

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

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).

KiH 230

Copy, subscribed D: Hen: Kinge.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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

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

c.1620-50

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

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

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

KiH 231

Copy, on two small folio conjugate leaves.

This MS collated in Crum.

A composite volume of verse collected by John Locke (1632-1704), philosopher, partly in his hand, partly in that of Sylvester Brownover, 50 leaves.

c.1680s-90s
Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Locke c. 32 ff. 3r-4r)
KiH 232

Copy, untitled, later docketed Dr Henry Kinge....

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

Scribbling on f. iir including ffor mr William Rabey in New=market..., ffor my Louing ffriend in G John westhropp at mr Rogers Reringe house Bury in S[uffolk], ffor mr John fford at his house in Newmarket in the countey of cambridge; notes on f. iiiv-ivr, one Recd 22 July 1669, subscribed John Cooke and including, on f. vir, ffor mr 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. iiv).

KiH 233

Copy, headed Elegie vpon the Victorious King of Sweden.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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.

KiH 234

Copy, headed An Elogie on the death of the most victorious King of Sweden Gustavus Adolphus. / by Doctor Hen: King.

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.

KiH 235

Copy, headed An Elegy vpon ye K of Sueden, subscribed D: K:.

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 ye two partners of my heart Mr John Wheeler, and Mr 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.

KiH 236

Copy, subscribed in a different hand Hen Kinge.

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.

KiH 236.5

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Klene (1997), pp. 36-9.

A tall folio composite volume chiefly of verse, entitled The workes of the Lady Ann Southwell Decemb: 2o 1626, assembled from the papers of Lady Ann Southwell (1573-1636), including (ff. 59r, 60v-1r) an inventory of her goods and (f. 64v-5v) a list of her books, in several hands, including hers and that of her second husband Henry Sibthorpe, as well as that of John Sibthorpe (? Henry's father), whose brief contributions date from 1588, 74 leaves (plus a few tipped-in), in 19th-century calf gilt.

c.1626-36

Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue, 1836, item 1032. In the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 8581. Sotheby's, 19808 (Phillipps same), lot 699, to Bertram Dobell. Acquired from P.J. and A.E. Dobell by Henry Clay Folger in 1927. Formerly Folger MS 1669.1.

Complete edition of this volume, with facsimile examples, in The Southwell-Sibthorpe Commonplace Book: Folger MS. V.b.198, ed. Jean Klene, C.S.C. (Tempe, Arizona, 1997). Also discussed by Jean Klene, with facsimile examples, in Monuments of an Endless affection: Folger MS V.b.198 and Lady Anne Southwell, EMS, 9 (2000), 165-86, and discussed, with facsimiles of f. 9r-v, in Victoria E. Burke, Materiality and Form in the Seventeenth-Century Miscellanies of Anne Southwell, Elizabeth Hastings, and Jane Truesdale, EMS, 16 (2011), 219-41.

KiH 237

Copy.

An octavo volume of nine poems by Henry King, written in oblong format in a single stylish hand up to f. 24v, subsequently used in upright format for culinary and medical receipts in other hands, 48 leaves, in later blind-stamped calf.

c.1630s

Bookplate of J. Eliot Hodgkin, FSA (1829-1912), engineer and book collector, of Richmond, Surrey. Sotheby's, 12 May 1914 (Hodgkin sale).

Recorded in HMC, 15th Report, 41-2, and Appendix II [30].

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 634 ff. 15v-24v)
KiH 238 c.1632

Copy, in a neat italic hand, headed An Elegy vpon the most victorious King of Sweden, subscribed OXO: D: K., on two conjugate folio leaves, foliated in pencil 230-231.

A folio composite volume of Caroline state papers relating to Sweden, in various hands, stamped foliation 111-244, in modern boards.

National Archives, Kew (SP 95/3/Part 2 ff. 242r-3v)
KiH 239

Copy, headed An Elegy made by Dr Kinge on ye k: of Sweden. a:d: 1637.

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).

KiH 240

Copy, headed An Epitaph on Gustavus Adolphus Kinge of Sweden.

A quarto verse miscellany, in three hands (A: pp. 1-56; B: pp. 57-60, 75-122; C: pp. 61-74, 125-7), 127 pages, in contemporary limp vellum.

Including 23 poems (and a second copy of one) by Randolph.

c.1635

Mostyn MS 196: from the library originally founded by Sir Thomas Mostyn (1535-1617) at Mostyn Hall, near Holywell, Flintshire, Wales, the MS possibly acquired by Sir Roger Mostyn (1567-1642) or by his son Sir Roger Mostyn, first Baronet (1625?-90). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 191.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Mostyn MS: RnT Δ 11. Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1873), Appendix, p. 356. Edited in Howard H. Thompson, An Edition of Two Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Poetical Miscellanies (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1959) [Mic 59-4669].

KiH 241

Copy, headed Elegie On Gustauus Adolphus victorious king of Sweden, subscribed Dr Hen: King.

This MS (erroneously cited as MS. 417) recorded in Crum.

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

c.1630s-40s

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

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

St John's College, Cambridge (MS S. 23 (James 416) ff. 67v-70r)
KiH 242

Copy, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter.

In a neat hand, untitled, subscribed Dr. Hen. King, and endorsed The kinge of Sweden his Lamentale by Dor Kinge.

c.1630s

Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1083 (Summer 1988), item 26.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osb MSS File 16934)
KiH 243

Copy, in a composite folio volume of verse, 13 leaves in all.

17th century

Dobell, sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 347. Quaritch, sale catalogue No. 1083 (Summer 1988), item 26.

Untraced Dobell MSS ([King MS])
Epigram ('Hammond his Master's Cabbanet broke ope')

First published in The Poems of Bishop Henry King, ed. John Sparrow (London, 1925), p. 154. Crum, p. 101.

KiH 244

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Sparrow and in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

Epigram ('He whose advent'rous keele ploughes the rough Seas')

First published in Hannah (1843), p. 129. Crum, p. 157.

KiH 245

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks).

Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's imitator (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657 (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster.

c.1633-58

Thomas Thorpe's sale Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as a most beautifully written volume of Poems in the hand of Bishop King's Daughter). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Hannah MS: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 30 f. 54v)
KiH 246

Copy.

A quarto volume of 58 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat stylish hand throughout, i + 43 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1638-40

Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), second Earl de Grey, statesman, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, who was descended from the brother of Sir Charles Lucas, on whose death in 1648 King wrote an elegy (Crum, pp. 101-10). Wrest Park was earlier the seat of Anthony Grey, eighth Earl of Kent (1557-1643), and of Henry Grey (1594-1651), ninth Earl of Kent, for whom the scholar and jurist John Selden (1584-1654) served as steward. Once apparently also in the library of the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS 51). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 902 (1970), item 196.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Wrest Park MS: KiH Δ 2. Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 7. Briefly described in BLR (March 1974), pp. 125-6; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96; and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 127 f. 30r-v)
KiH 247

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 60 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat hand, that of Thomas Manne's imitator, 46 leaves (including a few blank pages).

c.1635-6 [and some later additions]

Some 18th-century additions including notes in French, some verse and the inscriptions (f. 3r) Henry Dottin His Book and Elie Dottin Her Book. Later owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Malone MS: KiH Δ 3. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 91-3 (with a facsimile of f. 17v: see KiH 321) and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see Rosemary Williams, Stoughton MS).

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 22 f. 31v.)
KiH 248

Copy.

A quarto volume of 61 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), ii + 33 leaves, in contemporary olive-brown morocco gilt, with remains of green silk ties.

Except for later verses scribbled on f. 33r, all is in a single formal italic hand: i.e. that of Thomas Manne's imitator, who also reproduces King's initials HK in his monogram format as a subscription to nearly every poem.

c.1638

Iinscribed (f. ir) M. Hall / Gainsbro and Miss A. F. Eames / Nottingham. Sotheby's, 21 May 1968, lot 339, to John Fleming, New York. Then owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1907-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 278. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 38.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Houghton MS: KiH Δ 4. For facsimile pages, see KiH 423, KiH 517, KiH 540, and KiH 571. A set of photocopies is also in the British Library, RP 246.

KiH 249

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 250

Copy.

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

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

c.1636-41

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

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

Rosemary Williams (Stoughton MS p. 203)
Epigram ('I would not in my Love too soone prevaile')

First published in The Gentleman's Magazine, 5 (July 1735), 380. The English Poems of Henry King, ed. Lawrence Mason (New Haven, 1914), p. 174. Crum, p. 157.

KiH 251

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks).

Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's imitator (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657 (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster.

c.1633-58

Thomas Thorpe's sale Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as a most beautifully written volume of Poems in the hand of Bishop King's Daughter). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Hannah MS: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 30 f. 55r)
KiH 252

Copy.

A quarto volume of 58 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat stylish hand throughout, i + 43 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1638-40

Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), second Earl de Grey, statesman, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, who was descended from the brother of Sir Charles Lucas, on whose death in 1648 King wrote an elegy (Crum, pp. 101-10). Wrest Park was earlier the seat of Anthony Grey, eighth Earl of Kent (1557-1643), and of Henry Grey (1594-1651), ninth Earl of Kent, for whom the scholar and jurist John Selden (1584-1654) served as steward. Once apparently also in the library of the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS 51). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 902 (1970), item 196.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Wrest Park MS: KiH Δ 2. Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 7. Briefly described in BLR (March 1974), pp. 125-6; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96; and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 127 f. 30v)
KiH 253

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 60 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat hand, that of Thomas Manne's imitator, 46 leaves (including a few blank pages).

c.1635-6 [and some later additions]

Some 18th-century additions including notes in French, some verse and the inscriptions (f. 3r) Henry Dottin His Book and Elie Dottin Her Book. Later owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Malone MS: KiH Δ 3. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 91-3 (with a facsimile of f. 17v: see KiH 321) and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see Rosemary Williams, Stoughton MS).

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 22 f. 31v.)
KiH 254

Copy.

A quarto volume of 61 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), ii + 33 leaves, in contemporary olive-brown morocco gilt, with remains of green silk ties.

Except for later verses scribbled on f. 33r, all is in a single formal italic hand: i.e. that of Thomas Manne's imitator, who also reproduces King's initials HK in his monogram format as a subscription to nearly every poem.

c.1638

Iinscribed (f. ir) M. Hall / Gainsbro and Miss A. F. Eames / Nottingham. Sotheby's, 21 May 1968, lot 339, to John Fleming, New York. Then owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1907-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 278. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 38.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Houghton MS: KiH Δ 4. For facsimile pages, see KiH 423, KiH 517, KiH 540, and KiH 571. A set of photocopies is also in the British Library, RP 246.

KiH 255

Copy.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 256

Copy.

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

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

c.1636-41

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

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

Rosemary Williams (Stoughton MS p. 203)
KiH 256.5

Copy.

An octavo volume of nine poems by Henry King, written in oblong format in a single stylish hand up to f. 24v, subsequently used in upright format for culinary and medical receipts in other hands, 48 leaves, in later blind-stamped calf.

c.1630s

Bookplate of J. Eliot Hodgkin, FSA (1829-1912), engineer and book collector, of Richmond, Surrey. Sotheby's, 12 May 1914 (Hodgkin sale).

Recorded in HMC, 15th Report, 41-2, and Appendix II [30].

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 634 f. 1r)
Epigram ('The fate of Bookes is diverse as man's Sense')

First published in Hannah (1843), p. 130. Crum, p. 156.

KiH 257

Copy, untitled.

A quarto volume of 58 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat stylish hand throughout, i + 43 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1638-40

Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), second Earl de Grey, statesman, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, who was descended from the brother of Sir Charles Lucas, on whose death in 1648 King wrote an elegy (Crum, pp. 101-10). Wrest Park was earlier the seat of Anthony Grey, eighth Earl of Kent (1557-1643), and of Henry Grey (1594-1651), ninth Earl of Kent, for whom the scholar and jurist John Selden (1584-1654) served as steward. Once apparently also in the library of the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS 51). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 902 (1970), item 196.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Wrest Park MS: KiH Δ 2. Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 7. Briefly described in BLR (March 1974), pp. 125-6; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96; and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 127 f. 30v)
KiH 258

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Hannah and chiefly from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 60 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat hand, that of Thomas Manne's imitator, 46 leaves (including a few blank pages).

c.1635-6 [and some later additions]

Some 18th-century additions including notes in French, some verse and the inscriptions (f. 3r) Henry Dottin His Book and Elie Dottin Her Book. Later owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Malone MS: KiH Δ 3. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 91-3 (with a facsimile of f. 17v: see KiH 321) and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see Rosemary Williams, Stoughton MS).

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 22 f. 31r)
KiH 259

Copy.

A quarto volume of 61 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), ii + 33 leaves, in contemporary olive-brown morocco gilt, with remains of green silk ties.

Except for later verses scribbled on f. 33r, all is in a single formal italic hand: i.e. that of Thomas Manne's imitator, who also reproduces King's initials HK in his monogram format as a subscription to nearly every poem.

c.1638

Iinscribed (f. ir) M. Hall / Gainsbro and Miss A. F. Eames / Nottingham. Sotheby's, 21 May 1968, lot 339, to John Fleming, New York. Then owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1907-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 278. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 38.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Houghton MS: KiH Δ 4. For facsimile pages, see KiH 423, KiH 517, KiH 540, and KiH 571. A set of photocopies is also in the British Library, RP 246.

KiH 260

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

Epigram ('To what serve Lawes where only mony reignes?')

First published in Hannah (1843), p. 127. Crum, p. 156.

KiH 261

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks).

Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's imitator (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657 (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster.

c.1633-58

Thomas Thorpe's sale Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as a most beautifully written volume of Poems in the hand of Bishop King's Daughter). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Hannah MS: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 30 f. 54r)
KiH 262

Copy.

A quarto volume of 58 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat stylish hand throughout, i + 43 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1638-40

Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), second Earl de Grey, statesman, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, who was descended from the brother of Sir Charles Lucas, on whose death in 1648 King wrote an elegy (Crum, pp. 101-10). Wrest Park was earlier the seat of Anthony Grey, eighth Earl of Kent (1557-1643), and of Henry Grey (1594-1651), ninth Earl of Kent, for whom the scholar and jurist John Selden (1584-1654) served as steward. Once apparently also in the library of the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS 51). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 902 (1970), item 196.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Wrest Park MS: KiH Δ 2. Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 7. Briefly described in BLR (March 1974), pp. 125-6; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96; and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 127 f. 30r)
KiH 263

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 60 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat hand, that of Thomas Manne's imitator, 46 leaves (including a few blank pages).

c.1635-6 [and some later additions]

Some 18th-century additions including notes in French, some verse and the inscriptions (f. 3r) Henry Dottin His Book and Elie Dottin Her Book. Later owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Malone MS: KiH Δ 3. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 91-3 (with a facsimile of f. 17v: see KiH 321) and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see Rosemary Williams, Stoughton MS).

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 22 f. 31r)
KiH 264

Copy.

A quarto volume of 61 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), ii + 33 leaves, in contemporary olive-brown morocco gilt, with remains of green silk ties.

Except for later verses scribbled on f. 33r, all is in a single formal italic hand: i.e. that of Thomas Manne's imitator, who also reproduces King's initials HK in his monogram format as a subscription to nearly every poem.

c.1638

Iinscribed (f. ir) M. Hall / Gainsbro and Miss A. F. Eames / Nottingham. Sotheby's, 21 May 1968, lot 339, to John Fleming, New York. Then owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1907-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 278. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 38.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Houghton MS: KiH Δ 4. For facsimile pages, see KiH 423, KiH 517, KiH 540, and KiH 571. A set of photocopies is also in the British Library, RP 246.

KiH 265

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 266

Copy.

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

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

c.1636-41

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

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

Rosemary Williams (Stoughton MS p. 202)
Epigram ('When Arria to her Paetus had bequeath'd')

First published in Hannah (1843), p. 128. Crum, p. 156.

KiH 267

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks).

Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's imitator (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657 (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster.

c.1633-58

Thomas Thorpe's sale Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as a most beautifully written volume of Poems in the hand of Bishop King's Daughter). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Hannah MS: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 30 f. 54r)
KiH 268

Copy.

A quarto volume of 58 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat stylish hand throughout, i + 43 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1638-40

Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), second Earl de Grey, statesman, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, who was descended from the brother of Sir Charles Lucas, on whose death in 1648 King wrote an elegy (Crum, pp. 101-10). Wrest Park was earlier the seat of Anthony Grey, eighth Earl of Kent (1557-1643), and of Henry Grey (1594-1651), ninth Earl of Kent, for whom the scholar and jurist John Selden (1584-1654) served as steward. Once apparently also in the library of the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS 51). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 902 (1970), item 196.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Wrest Park MS: KiH Δ 2. Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 7. Briefly described in BLR (March 1974), pp. 125-6; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96; and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 127 f. 30v)
KiH 269

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 60 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat hand, that of Thomas Manne's imitator, 46 leaves (including a few blank pages).

c.1635-6 [and some later additions]

Some 18th-century additions including notes in French, some verse and the inscriptions (f. 3r) Henry Dottin His Book and Elie Dottin Her Book. Later owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Malone MS: KiH Δ 3. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 91-3 (with a facsimile of f. 17v: see KiH 321) and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see Rosemary Williams, Stoughton MS).

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 22 f. 31r)
KiH 270

Copy.

A quarto volume of 61 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), ii + 33 leaves, in contemporary olive-brown morocco gilt, with remains of green silk ties.

Except for later verses scribbled on f. 33r, all is in a single formal italic hand: i.e. that of Thomas Manne's imitator, who also reproduces King's initials HK in his monogram format as a subscription to nearly every poem.

c.1638

Iinscribed (f. ir) M. Hall / Gainsbro and Miss A. F. Eames / Nottingham. Sotheby's, 21 May 1968, lot 339, to John Fleming, New York. Then owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1907-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 278. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 38.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Houghton MS: KiH Δ 4. For facsimile pages, see KiH 423, KiH 517, KiH 540, and KiH 571. A set of photocopies is also in the British Library, RP 246.

KiH 271

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 272

Copy.

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

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

c.1636-41

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

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

Rosemary Williams (Stoughton MS p. 202)
An Epitaph on his most honour'd Freind Richard Earle of Dorset ('Let no profane ignoble foot tread neere')

First published, in an abridged version, in Certain Elegant Poems by Dr. Corbet (London, 1647). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 67-8.

KiH 273

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks).

Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's imitator (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657 (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster.

c.1633-58

Thomas Thorpe's sale Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as a most beautifully written volume of Poems in the hand of Bishop King's Daughter). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Hannah MS: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 30 f. 26r-v)
KiH 274

Copy, headed An Elegy Vpon….

A quarto volume of 58 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat stylish hand throughout, i + 43 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1638-40

Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), second Earl de Grey, statesman, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, who was descended from the brother of Sir Charles Lucas, on whose death in 1648 King wrote an elegy (Crum, pp. 101-10). Wrest Park was earlier the seat of Anthony Grey, eighth Earl of Kent (1557-1643), and of Henry Grey (1594-1651), ninth Earl of Kent, for whom the scholar and jurist John Selden (1584-1654) served as steward. Once apparently also in the library of the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS 51). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 902 (1970), item 196.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Wrest Park MS: KiH Δ 2. Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 7. Briefly described in BLR (March 1974), pp. 125-6; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96; and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 127 f. 16r-v)
KiH 275

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 60 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat hand, that of Thomas Manne's imitator, 46 leaves (including a few blank pages).

c.1635-6 [and some later additions]

Some 18th-century additions including notes in French, some verse and the inscriptions (f. 3r) Henry Dottin His Book and Elie Dottin Her Book. Later owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Malone MS: KiH Δ 3. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 91-3 (with a facsimile of f. 17v: see KiH 321) and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see Rosemary Williams, Stoughton MS).

KiH 275.5

Copy, ascribed to Dr. Corbett Bp. of Norwich.

A quarto volume of epitaphs, in Latin and English, apparently compiled by one F. Cumming, 140 leaves.

c.1784-1810
Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Top. gen. e. 32 f. 73r)
KiH 276

Copy.

A quarto volume of 61 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), ii + 33 leaves, in contemporary olive-brown morocco gilt, with remains of green silk ties.

Except for later verses scribbled on f. 33r, all is in a single formal italic hand: i.e. that of Thomas Manne's imitator, who also reproduces King's initials HK in his monogram format as a subscription to nearly every poem.

c.1638

Iinscribed (f. ir) M. Hall / Gainsbro and Miss A. F. Eames / Nottingham. Sotheby's, 21 May 1968, lot 339, to John Fleming, New York. Then owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1907-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 278. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 38.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Houghton MS: KiH Δ 4. For facsimile pages, see KiH 423, KiH 517, KiH 540, and KiH 571. A set of photocopies is also in the British Library, RP 246.

KiH 277

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 278

Copy.

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

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

c.1636-41

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

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

Rosemary Williams (Stoughton MS pp. 149-50)
KiH 279

Copy, headed An Epitaph on the truly Noble Richard Earle of Dorsett.

This MS collated in Crum.

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).

KiH 280

Copy, headed On the same [i.e. the Earl of Dorset], subscribed in monogram format HK.

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

Including 15 poems by Carew and 17 poems by King.

c.1630s

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

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

KiH 281

This MS recorded in Crum.

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 3d 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. 167)
KiH 282

Copy, headed An Epitaph on Rich: -- Earle if Dorset who dyed on Easterday.

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. 59v)
KiH 283

Copy, here ascribed to Dr. Corbett. B: of Oxon.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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. 28)
KiH 284

Copy, headed On the Earle of Dorset by Dr. Corbett.

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 30th 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.

KiH 284.5

Copy, transcribed from KiH 291.

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 ff. 169r-70r)
KiH 285

Copy, headed An Elegie on his most honour'd freind Richard Earle of Dorset.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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.

KiH 286

Copy, headed On the Earle of Dorsetts death.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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) Mr 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.

KiH 287

Copy of lines 7-16 headed A decade of verse in praise of the Ld of Dorsett, among those on his death, by Ric: Corbett, here beginning He lou'd men for his honour, not his ends, and subscribed Ric: Corbett.

A quarto miscellany and memorandum book, in three or more cursive mixed hands, 113 leaves, in modern binding.

Compiled, perhaps largely, by Justinian Paget Es[q.] a Lawyer, whose name is so inscribed on a flyleaf (f. 1*r), a number of the contents relating to the Paget family and also with references (ff. 34v-5v) to my sister Ann Maydwell.

c.1633-1645

The contents suggest an Inns of Court and possible Christ Church, Oxford, connection.

KiH 288

Copy, headed On ye Earle of Dorsett death, subscribed Dr Rich: Corbett.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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 Mr 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.

KiH 289

Copy, headed On the Earle of Dorset his death.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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

c.1630s

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

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 542 f. 13r-v)
KiH 290

Copy, headed On the Earle of Dorsetts death.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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. 60r-v)
KiH 291

Copy, headed An Epitaph on ye trulye Noble Rich: E. of Dorset who leaft this world ye [space] of March. 1624, subscribed Hen King.

A 19th-century transcript of this MS is in the Bodleian, MS Firth d.7, ff. 169-70 (recorded in Crum, p. 60).

A verse miscellany, in long narrow format, 66 leaves (including a number of blanks), in later calf.

Largely in one neat secretary hand; a second hand on ff. 58v-9r, and a third on f. 66r. Compiled chiefly by a University of Cambridge man.

c.1630s

Once owned by F.W. Cosens, FSA (1819-89), of Clapham Park, book collector. Bequeathed in 1894 by Samuel Sandars, of Trinity College, Cambridge.

Discussed in Ted-Larry Pebworth and Claude J. Summers, Recovering an Important Seventeenth-Century Poetical Miscellany: Cambridge Add. MS 4138, TCBS, 7 (1978), 156-69 (pp. 160-1). A 19th-century transcript of much of this MS is in the Bodleian, MS Firth d. 7, ff. 60r-9r.

KiH 292

Copy, headed On ye Ea: of dorsets death.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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 ff. 11v-12r)
KiH 293

Copy, headed On Richard Earle of Dorset.

A quarto miscellany, in several hands, including a number of culinary receipts, 255 leaves (including over 65 blanks), written from both ends (Part I, in a rounded italic hand: ff. 1r-117r:; Part II: ff. 1*r-72r), in old calf.

Inscribed (Part II, f. 1*r) A booke of verses collected by mee RDungaruan: i.e. Richard Boyle (1612-98), Viscount Dungarvon and later Earl of Burlington.

c.1630s

Also inscribed Mary Helerd. Subsequently owned by James Tyrrell (1642-1718), historical writer, and by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1782-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 15745. Formerly Folger MS 46. 2.

KiH 294

Copy, headed On the death of Rich: Earle of Dorsett: R:C:.

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).

KiH 295

Copy, headed On the death of Richard Earle of Dorset. Dr H King.

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.

KiH 296

Copy, headed On the Earle of Dorsett.

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

c.1630[-1700s]

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

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

Leicestershire Record Office (DG. 9/2796 pp. 59-60)
KiH 297

Copy, headed On ye Earle of Dorsets death.

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. 21)
KiH 298

Copy, untitled.

A quarto verse miscellany, including seventeen poems by Donne and fifteen by Strode, the main part in a single hand, 334 pages (but pp. 3-4 extracted, and including a later index).

Possibly compiled by one W: H:: i.e. probably William Holgate (1618-46), of Queens' College, Cambridge, with late 17th-century additions apparently made by other members of the Holgate family, of Saffron Walden and Great Bardfield, Essex.

c.1630s [-late 17th-century]

Owned in the early 18th century by John Wale, who supplied the index on pp. 330-3. Owned before 1927 by Col. W.G. Carwardine-Probert, of Bures, Suffolk (descendant of the Holgate family).

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Holgate MS: DnJ Δ 58 and StW Δ 22. Briefly discussed in W.G.P., Verses by Francis Beaumont, TLS (15 September 1921), p. 596, and in E.K. Chambers, William Shakespeare, 2 vols (Oxford, 1930), II, 222-4. Also discussed, with facsimiles on pp. 68 and 70 of pp. 181 and 13, 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. For facsimile pages see DnJ 2931 and ShW 25. Complete microfilm in the Essex Record Office (T/A 98).

The Pierpont Morgan Library (MA 1057 p. 199)
KiH 299

Copy, headed On the Earle of Dorsetts death.

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).

KiH 300

Copy, headed On the Earle of Dorsets death, imperfect, half torn away.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including 24 poems by Strode, in a single mixed hand, associated with Oxford, 56 leaves (out of an original eight gatherings), in contemporary calf.

c.1630s

Inscriptions inside the covers including the name Phil. Mu (or Mer.). Later in the library of John Sparrow (1906-92), literary scholar and book collector. Acquired in 1969 by Dr Bent Juel-Jensen (1922-2006), Oxford physician and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Sparrow MS: StW Δ 31.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (Juel-Jensen E 7 [item 5] f. 1r)
KiH 301

Copy, headed On ye Earle of Dorcet and subscribed R: Corbet.

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

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

c.1650

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

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

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 200 pp. 220-1)
KiH 301.5

Copy, headed On ye Earle of Dorset.

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. 259-60)
An Epitaph On Niobe turn'd to Stone ('This Pile thou see'st, built out of Flesh not Stone')

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 156.

KiH 302

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks).

Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's imitator (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657 (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster.

c.1633-58

Thomas Thorpe's sale Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as a most beautifully written volume of Poems in the hand of Bishop King's Daughter). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Hannah MS: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 30 f. 37v)
KiH 303

Copy.

A quarto volume of 58 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat stylish hand throughout, i + 43 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1638-40

Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), second Earl de Grey, statesman, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, who was descended from the brother of Sir Charles Lucas, on whose death in 1648 King wrote an elegy (Crum, pp. 101-10). Wrest Park was earlier the seat of Anthony Grey, eighth Earl of Kent (1557-1643), and of Henry Grey (1594-1651), ninth Earl of Kent, for whom the scholar and jurist John Selden (1584-1654) served as steward. Once apparently also in the library of the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS 51). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 902 (1970), item 196.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Wrest Park MS: KiH Δ 2. Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 7. Briefly described in BLR (March 1974), pp. 125-6; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96; and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 127 f. 23r-v)
KiH 304

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 60 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat hand, that of Thomas Manne's imitator, 46 leaves (including a few blank pages).

c.1635-6 [and some later additions]

Some 18th-century additions including notes in French, some verse and the inscriptions (f. 3r) Henry Dottin His Book and Elie Dottin Her Book. Later owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Malone MS: KiH Δ 3. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 91-3 (with a facsimile of f. 17v: see KiH 321) and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see Rosemary Williams, Stoughton MS).

KiH 305

Copy.

A quarto volume of 61 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), ii + 33 leaves, in contemporary olive-brown morocco gilt, with remains of green silk ties.

Except for later verses scribbled on f. 33r, all is in a single formal italic hand: i.e. that of Thomas Manne's imitator, who also reproduces King's initials HK in his monogram format as a subscription to nearly every poem.

c.1638

Iinscribed (f. ir) M. Hall / Gainsbro and Miss A. F. Eames / Nottingham. Sotheby's, 21 May 1968, lot 339, to John Fleming, New York. Then owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1907-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 278. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 38.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Houghton MS: KiH Δ 4. For facsimile pages, see KiH 423, KiH 517, KiH 540, and KiH 571. A set of photocopies is also in the British Library, RP 246.

KiH 306

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 307

Copy.

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

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

c.1636-41

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

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

Rosemary Williams (Stoughton MS p. 148)
KiH 308

Copy, subscribed H K.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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

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

c.1633

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

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

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1446 f. 60r)
KiH 308.5

Copy.

An octavo volume of nine poems by Henry King, written in oblong format in a single stylish hand up to f. 24v, subsequently used in upright format for culinary and medical receipts in other hands, 48 leaves, in later blind-stamped calf.

c.1630s

Bookplate of J. Eliot Hodgkin, FSA (1829-1912), engineer and book collector, of Richmond, Surrey. Sotheby's, 12 May 1914 (Hodgkin sale).

Recorded in HMC, 15th Report, 41-2, and Appendix II [30].

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 634 f. 2r-v)
An Essay on Death and a Prison ('A Prison is in all things like a Grave')

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 139-42.

KiH 309

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks).

Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's imitator (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657 (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster.

c.1633-58

Thomas Thorpe's sale Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as a most beautifully written volume of Poems in the hand of Bishop King's Daughter). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Hannah MS: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 30 ff. 10r-12v)
KiH 310

Copy.

A quarto volume of 58 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat stylish hand throughout, i + 43 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1638-40

Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), second Earl de Grey, statesman, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, who was descended from the brother of Sir Charles Lucas, on whose death in 1648 King wrote an elegy (Crum, pp. 101-10). Wrest Park was earlier the seat of Anthony Grey, eighth Earl of Kent (1557-1643), and of Henry Grey (1594-1651), ninth Earl of Kent, for whom the scholar and jurist John Selden (1584-1654) served as steward. Once apparently also in the library of the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS 51). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 902 (1970), item 196.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Wrest Park MS: KiH Δ 2. Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 7. Briefly described in BLR (March 1974), pp. 125-6; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96; and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 127 ff. 4r-5r)
KiH 311

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 60 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat hand, that of Thomas Manne's imitator, 46 leaves (including a few blank pages).

c.1635-6 [and some later additions]

Some 18th-century additions including notes in French, some verse and the inscriptions (f. 3r) Henry Dottin His Book and Elie Dottin Her Book. Later owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Malone MS: KiH Δ 3. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 91-3 (with a facsimile of f. 17v: see KiH 321) and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see Rosemary Williams, Stoughton MS).

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 22 ff. 6v-8r)
KiH 312

Copy.

A quarto volume of 61 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), ii + 33 leaves, in contemporary olive-brown morocco gilt, with remains of green silk ties.

Except for later verses scribbled on f. 33r, all is in a single formal italic hand: i.e. that of Thomas Manne's imitator, who also reproduces King's initials HK in his monogram format as a subscription to nearly every poem.

c.1638

Iinscribed (f. ir) M. Hall / Gainsbro and Miss A. F. Eames / Nottingham. Sotheby's, 21 May 1968, lot 339, to John Fleming, New York. Then owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1907-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 278. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 38.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Houghton MS: KiH Δ 4. For facsimile pages, see KiH 423, KiH 517, KiH 540, and KiH 571. A set of photocopies is also in the British Library, RP 246.

KiH 313

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 314

Copy.

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

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

c.1636-41

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

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

Rosemary Williams (Stoughton MS pp. 135-40)
KiH 315

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

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).

KiH 316

Copy in the hand of Thomas Manne (in a variant style), on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves.

This MS recorded in Crum.

A folio composite volume of verse MSS, in various hands, 171 leaves, in half brown morocco.

Collected by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King of Arms and antiquary, his brother Oliver, and Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector.

KiH 317

Copy, headed On A prison.

This MS recorded in Crum.

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English, Latin and Greek, largely in one secretary hand, written from both ends, with indexes (ff. 2r-3r, 168r-v), 168 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum.

Compiled by Sir John Perceval, Bt (1629-65), probably while at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Volume CXCII of the papers of the Perceval family, Earls of Egmont, and the allied Southwell family.

c.1646-9
KiH 318

Copy.

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

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

c.1634

The 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).

An Exequy To his Matchlesse never to be forgotten Freind ('Accept, thou Shrine of my Dead Saint!')

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 68-72.

*KiH 319
Autograph

Copy, with autograph corrections by King.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks).

Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's imitator (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657 (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster.

c.1633-58

Thomas Thorpe's sale Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as a most beautifully written volume of Poems in the hand of Bishop King's Daughter). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Hannah MS: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 30 ff. 27r-30v)
KiH 320

Copy.

A quarto volume of 58 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat stylish hand throughout, i + 43 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1638-40

Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), second Earl de Grey, statesman, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, who was descended from the brother of Sir Charles Lucas, on whose death in 1648 King wrote an elegy (Crum, pp. 101-10). Wrest Park was earlier the seat of Anthony Grey, eighth Earl of Kent (1557-1643), and of Henry Grey (1594-1651), ninth Earl of Kent, for whom the scholar and jurist John Selden (1584-1654) served as steward. Once apparently also in the library of the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS 51). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 902 (1970), item 196.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Wrest Park MS: KiH Δ 2. Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 7. Briefly described in BLR (March 1974), pp. 125-6; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96; and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 127 ff. 16v-19r)
KiH 321

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum. Facsimile of f. 27v in Keynes, p. 93.

A quarto volume of 60 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat hand, that of Thomas Manne's imitator, 46 leaves (including a few blank pages).

c.1635-6 [and some later additions]

Some 18th-century additions including notes in French, some verse and the inscriptions (f. 3r) Henry Dottin His Book and Elie Dottin Her Book. Later owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Malone MS: KiH Δ 3. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 91-3 (with a facsimile of f. 17v: see KiH 321) and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see Rosemary Williams, Stoughton MS).

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 22 ff. 17v-19v.)
KiH 322

Copy.

A quarto volume of 61 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), ii + 33 leaves, in contemporary olive-brown morocco gilt, with remains of green silk ties.

Except for later verses scribbled on f. 33r, all is in a single formal italic hand: i.e. that of Thomas Manne's imitator, who also reproduces King's initials HK in his monogram format as a subscription to nearly every poem.

c.1638

Iinscribed (f. ir) M. Hall / Gainsbro and Miss A. F. Eames / Nottingham. Sotheby's, 21 May 1968, lot 339, to John Fleming, New York. Then owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1907-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 278. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 38.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Houghton MS: KiH Δ 4. For facsimile pages, see KiH 423, KiH 517, KiH 540, and KiH 571. A set of photocopies is also in the British Library, RP 246.

KiH 323

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum. Edited in Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), No. 14 (pp. 9-13). Facsimile of p. 37 in Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), facing p. 298.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 324

Copy, headed An Exequy.

Facsimile of two pages in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), pp. 186-7.

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

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

c.1636-41

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

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

Rosemary Williams (Stoughton MS pp. 151-6)
KiH 325

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum. Facsimile of first page in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 26 June 1974, p. 116.

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).

KiH 326

Copy, subscribed D: H: Kinge.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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

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

c.1620-50

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

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

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

KiH 327

Copy of lines 1-49; imperfect, lacking the ending.

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

Including 15 poems by Carew and 17 poems by King.

c.1630s

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

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

KiH 328 c.1630s-40s

Copy, headed An Ellegye by Dr Harry Kinge on the death of his wife, on two conjugate folio leaves.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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. 253r-4r)
KiH 329

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

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 ff. 1r-2v)
KiH 330

Copy, headed An Elegie by Dr H. Kinge vppon his Wife.

This MS recorded in Crum.

A miscellany of verse and prose, in a single hand, originally in two volumes, xxiii + 158 pages, in 19th-century green morocco gilt.

c.1630s

Once owned by one C. Agard and later by F.W. Cosens (1819-89), book collector. The original second volume here bought from Colbeck Radford, sale catalogue No. 24 (1932), item 157.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 37 pp. 87-90)
KiH 331

Copy, headed An Elegie on his departed Mistris.

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 30th 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 pp. 284-9)
KiH 332

Copy, in a neat Roman hand, on two folio leaves probably once conjugate. Early-mid-17th century.

This MS recorded in Crum.

A folio composite volume of letters, verses, academic plays and other documents, in various hands and paper sizes, 253 leaves, in 18th-century black half-calf.

Assembled by Thomas Hearne (178-1735), antiquary, who has inscribed a slip attached to the front pastedown Tho: Hearne Junij 21o. 1709.

KiH 333

Copy on two folio leaves, slightly imperfect; mid-17th century.

This MS collated in Crum.

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

Scribbling on f. iir including ffor mr William Rabey in New=market..., ffor my Louing ffriend in G John westhropp at mr Rogers Reringe house Bury in S[uffolk], ffor mr John fford at his house in Newmarket in the countey of cambridge; notes on f. iiiv-ivr, one Recd 22 July 1669, subscribed John Cooke and including, on f. vir, ffor mr 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. iiv).

KiH 334

Copy, headed Dr: Kinge On his deceased Wife.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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.

KiH 335

Copy, subscribed H: K:.

This MS recorded in Crum.

A quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single neat secretary hand, the first page formally inscribed To the righte honoble: 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) Mr 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.

KiH 336

Copy, in the hand of Thomas Manne, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter.

This MS collated in Crum.

A folio composite volume of verse MSS, in various hands, 171 leaves, in half brown morocco.

Collected by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King of Arms and antiquary, his brother Oliver, and Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector.

KiH 337

Copy, headed An Elegy by Doctour H: King upon the death of his wife.

This MS collated in Crum.

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 Sr. 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. 55r-6v)
KiH 339

Copy, headed Dr Kinge on his wife's death.

This MS collated in Crum.

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 ff. 93r-4r)
KiH 340

Copy, subscribed Doctor Hen: Kinge.

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

Compiled by University or Inns of Court men.

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

c.1630s

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

KiH 341

Copy, headed To his matchlesse neuer to bee forgotten friend, subscribed with a monogram HK.

A quarto miscellany, in several hands, including a number of culinary receipts, 255 leaves (including over 65 blanks), written from both ends (Part I, in a rounded italic hand: ff. 1r-117r:; Part II: ff. 1*r-72r), in old calf.

Inscribed (Part II, f. 1*r) A booke of verses collected by mee RDungaruan: i.e. Richard Boyle (1612-98), Viscount Dungarvon and later Earl of Burlington.

c.1630s

Also inscribed Mary Helerd. Subsequently owned by James Tyrrell (1642-1718), historical writer, and by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1782-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 15745. Formerly Folger MS 46. 2.

KiH 342

Copy, headed Dr Henry King vpon the death of his Wife. i623.

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.

KiH 343

Copy, subscribed in monogram form HK.

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.

KiH 343.5

Copy, in double columns, in a predominantly secretary hand, headed An Elegie Writen by Mr Barnard brother to Mres Jernegan yt dyed at Acton.

Edited from this MS in Klene (1997), pp. 28-32.

A tall folio composite volume chiefly of verse, entitled The workes of the Lady Ann Southwell Decemb: 2o 1626, assembled from the papers of Lady Ann Southwell (1573-1636), including (ff. 59r, 60v-1r) an inventory of her goods and (f. 64v-5v) a list of her books, in several hands, including hers and that of her second husband Henry Sibthorpe, as well as that of John Sibthorpe (? Henry's father), whose brief contributions date from 1588, 74 leaves (plus a few tipped-in), in 19th-century calf gilt.

c.1626-36

Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue, 1836, item 1032. In the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 8581. Sotheby's, 19808 (Phillipps same), lot 699, to Bertram Dobell. Acquired from P.J. and A.E. Dobell by Henry Clay Folger in 1927. Formerly Folger MS 1669.1.

Complete edition of this volume, with facsimile examples, in The Southwell-Sibthorpe Commonplace Book: Folger MS. V.b.198, ed. Jean Klene, C.S.C. (Tempe, Arizona, 1997). Also discussed by Jean Klene, with facsimile examples, in Monuments of an Endless affection: Folger MS V.b.198 and Lady Anne Southwell, EMS, 9 (2000), 165-86, and discussed, with facsimiles of f. 9r-v, in Victoria E. Burke, Materiality and Form in the Seventeenth-Century Miscellanies of Anne Southwell, Elizabeth Hastings, and Jane Truesdale, EMS, 16 (2011), 219-41.

KiH 344

Copy, subscribed Doctor Hen: King.

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

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

c.1630s

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

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

KiH 345

Copy, in Constance Fowler's hand, headed DK on the Death of his wife.

Aldrich-Watson, pp. 116-19. This MS collated in La Belle, pp. 549-50.

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.

KiH 345.5

Copy, headed Dr. Kinges Elegie upon his wife.

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.

KiH 345.8

Copy, headed An Exequie by Mr. H. Kinge on his wife.

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

c.1630s

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

London Metropolitan Archives (ACC/1360/528 ff. [10r-11v])
KiH 346

Copy, headed Dr Kinge on his wifes death.

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

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

c.1638

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

New York Public Library, Arents Collection (Cat. No. S 288 (Acc. No. 5442) pp. 17-20)
KiH 347

Copy, inscribed at the side Mr Henry King.

This MS collated in Crum.

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 pp. 29-31)
KiH 348

Copy, untitled.

A quarto verse miscellany, including seventeen poems by Donne and fifteen by Strode, the main part in a single hand, 334 pages (but pp. 3-4 extracted, and including a later index).

Possibly compiled by one W: H:: i.e. probably William Holgate (1618-46), of Queens' College, Cambridge, with late 17th-century additions apparently made by other members of the Holgate family, of Saffron Walden and Great Bardfield, Essex.

c.1630s [-late 17th-century]

Owned in the early 18th century by John Wale, who supplied the index on pp. 330-3. Owned before 1927 by Col. W.G. Carwardine-Probert, of Bures, Suffolk (descendant of the Holgate family).

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Holgate MS: DnJ Δ 58 and StW Δ 22. Briefly discussed in W.G.P., Verses by Francis Beaumont, TLS (15 September 1921), p. 596, and in E.K. Chambers, William Shakespeare, 2 vols (Oxford, 1930), II, 222-4. Also discussed, with facsimiles on pp. 68 and 70 of pp. 181 and 13, 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. For facsimile pages see DnJ 2931 and ShW 25. Complete microfilm in the Essex Record Office (T/A 98).

The Pierpont Morgan Library (MA 1057 pp. 201-2)
KiH 349

Copy, headed An Elegie.

This MS collated in Crum.

A folio volume of 121 poems by Donne and his Paradoxes and Problems, in a probably professional, predominantly italic hand (the scribe also probably responsible for the Dublin MS (I) (Trinity College, Dublin, MS 877); some poems by others added at the end (pp. 239-50) in other hands, 250 pages.

c.1623-5

Owned in the mid-late 17th century by E. Puckering (signed f. 1r), probably a man but possibly Elizabeth (d.1689), wife of Sir Henry Newton (afterwards Puckering) (1618-1701), by whose bequest the MS came to Trinity College in 1691 (this Lady Elizabeth being the daughter of Thomas Murray (1564-1623), tutor to Prince Charles).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Puckering MS, DnJ Δ 13. A note by Henry Bradshaw states that this MS was collated in 1861 and 1863 by the Rev. T.R. O' Flahertie (d.1894), of Capel, near Dorking, Surrey, book collector.

Trinity College, Cambridge (MS R. 3. 12 (James 592) pp. 247-50)
KiH 350

Copy, headed An Exequie.

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

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

c.1630s

Formerly Box 22, item II.

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

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 205 ff. 84v-7r)
KiH 350.5

Copy, headed Dr Henry King On his Wife.

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. 126-30)
KiH 351

Copy, in a neat italic hand, headed In obitum venerabilis generosae Mae Margaretae Kay nunquam satis deploratae carmen lugubre, on two conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet, endorsed To his much honred: and most worthy ffreind Mr. John Kay Junior: at Denbye grange these prsent

Mid-17th century

Formerly part of Phillipps MS 17696.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn Poetry Box VI/121)
The Farwell ('Farwell fond Love, under whose childish whipp')

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 150.

See also B&F 121-2.

KiH 352

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks).

Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's imitator (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657 (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster.

c.1633-58

Thomas Thorpe's sale Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as a most beautifully written volume of Poems in the hand of Bishop King's Daughter). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Hannah MS: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 30 f. 22r-v)
KiH 353

Copy.

A quarto volume of 58 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat stylish hand throughout, i + 43 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1638-40

Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), second Earl de Grey, statesman, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, who was descended from the brother of Sir Charles Lucas, on whose death in 1648 King wrote an elegy (Crum, pp. 101-10). Wrest Park was earlier the seat of Anthony Grey, eighth Earl of Kent (1557-1643), and of Henry Grey (1594-1651), ninth Earl of Kent, for whom the scholar and jurist John Selden (1584-1654) served as steward. Once apparently also in the library of the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS 51). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 902 (1970), item 196.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Wrest Park MS: KiH Δ 2. Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 7. Briefly described in BLR (March 1974), pp. 125-6; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96; and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 127 f. 12r-v)
KiH 354

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 60 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat hand, that of Thomas Manne's imitator, 46 leaves (including a few blank pages).

c.1635-6 [and some later additions]

Some 18th-century additions including notes in French, some verse and the inscriptions (f. 3r) Henry Dottin His Book and Elie Dottin Her Book. Later owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Malone MS: KiH Δ 3. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 91-3 (with a facsimile of f. 17v: see KiH 321) and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see Rosemary Williams, Stoughton MS).

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 22 f. 13v.)
KiH 355

Copy.

A quarto volume of 61 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), ii + 33 leaves, in contemporary olive-brown morocco gilt, with remains of green silk ties.

Except for later verses scribbled on f. 33r, all is in a single formal italic hand: i.e. that of Thomas Manne's imitator, who also reproduces King's initials HK in his monogram format as a subscription to nearly every poem.

c.1638

Iinscribed (f. ir) M. Hall / Gainsbro and Miss A. F. Eames / Nottingham. Sotheby's, 21 May 1968, lot 339, to John Fleming, New York. Then owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1907-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 278. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 38.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Houghton MS: KiH Δ 4. For facsimile pages, see KiH 423, KiH 517, KiH 540, and KiH 571. A set of photocopies is also in the British Library, RP 246.

KiH 356

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 357

Copy untitled.

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

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

c.1636-41

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

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

Rosemary Williams (Stoughton MS pp. 171-2)
KiH 358

Copy of the last four lines; imperfect, lacking all the beginning, subscribed R. Dorset.

This MS collated in Crum.

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).

KiH 359

Copy, untitled but for the Latin motto, subscribed in monogram format. HK.

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

Including 15 poems by Carew and 17 poems by King.

c.1630s

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

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

KiH 360

Copy, headed A discontented louers passion for the losse of a false Mrs.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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. 30r)
KiH 361 c.1620s-30s

Copy in the hand of the Feathery Scribe, untitled, at the end of his earlier copy of a collection of state letters (ff. 87r-111r).

This MS recorded in Crum. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 257 (No. 92.13), with a facsimile on p. 101.

A folio composite volume of state letters and miscellaneous papers, in various professional hands, including that of the Feathery Scribe, 292 leaves (plus blanks), in panelled calf.

A blank leaf (f. 88r) inscribed William Howard 1635: i.e. Lord William Howard (1563-1640), of Naworth Castle, antiquary. Owned in 1749 by John Murray.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 256-7 (No. 92).

KiH 362

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Crum.

A duodecimo diary recording the progress of the Royalist army from March to September 1644, in a small cursive mixed hand, 80 leaves, in contemporary calf.

Compiled by Richard Symonds (1617-60), royalist soldier and antiquary.

c.1644
KiH 363

Copy, headed Cupids Renegado and here beginning ffarewell fond Boy, under whose churlish whippe.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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 Sr. 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. 93v-4r)
KiH 364

Copy, headed A Sonnet.

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.

KiH 365

Copy, headed A long farewell to Loue.

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.

KiH 366

Copy, in a musical setting by Charles Coleman, untitled.

A folio songbook, in at least two hands, 91 leaves (including numerous blanks), in calf gilt.

c.1640s-50s

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ann Blount and The Lady Ann Blount.

A complete facsimile of this volume is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 11 (New York & London, 1987).

Lambeth Palace Library (MS 1041 ff. 58v-62r)
KiH 367

Copy, untitled.

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 Sr John Reresby Barronett these prsent: 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. 6v)
KiH 368

Copy, headed Her farewell to loue.

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

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

c.1634

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

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

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

KiH 368.5

Copy, headed A farewell to ye world.

An octavo verse miscellany, of English and Welsh verse and prose, in probably several hands, the English verse (on pages 9-70, 93-104) including eleven poems by Strode and two of doubtful authorship, 110 pages (plus stubs of extracted leaves).

Compiled by members of the Griffith family, of Llanddyfnan, the verse probably entered by one or more of the various members of that family who studied in this period at the University of Oxford.

Mid-17th century

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Griffith MS: StW Δ 26.

Bangor University (MS 422 p. 55)
KiH 368.6

Copy, untitled, here beginning Farewell! farewell fond Love under whose childish whipp.

A folio formal verse miscellany, in a single rounded hand, 259 pages (plus a three-page index), in modern boards.

The contents, the latest of which (on pp. 203-7) can be dated to a marriage that took place in November 1656, reflect the taste of Interregnum Royalist sympathisers.

c.Late 1650s

Formerly in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 4001. Sotheby's, 29 June 1946, lot 164, to Myers. Then in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.

University College London (MS Ogden 42 p. 133)
KiH 368.8

Copy, untitled.

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

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

Mid-17th century-c.1702

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

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

University of Texas at Austin (Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book p. 8)
The Forlorne Hope ('How long (vaine Hope!) dost thou my joyes suspend?')

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 168-9.

*KiH 369
Autograph

Copy, with a correction possibly in King's autograph.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks).

Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's imitator (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657 (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster.

c.1633-58

Thomas Thorpe's sale Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as a most beautifully written volume of Poems in the hand of Bishop King's Daughter). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Hannah MS: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 30 ff. 56v-7r)
KiH 370

Copy.

A quarto volume of 58 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat stylish hand throughout, i + 43 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1638-40

Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), second Earl de Grey, statesman, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, who was descended from the brother of Sir Charles Lucas, on whose death in 1648 King wrote an elegy (Crum, pp. 101-10). Wrest Park was earlier the seat of Anthony Grey, eighth Earl of Kent (1557-1643), and of Henry Grey (1594-1651), ninth Earl of Kent, for whom the scholar and jurist John Selden (1584-1654) served as steward. Once apparently also in the library of the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS 51). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 902 (1970), item 196.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Wrest Park MS: KiH Δ 2. Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 7. Briefly described in BLR (March 1974), pp. 125-6; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96; and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 127 f. 33v)
KiH 371

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 60 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat hand, that of Thomas Manne's imitator, 46 leaves (including a few blank pages).

c.1635-6 [and some later additions]

Some 18th-century additions including notes in French, some verse and the inscriptions (f. 3r) Henry Dottin His Book and Elie Dottin Her Book. Later owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Malone MS: KiH Δ 3. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 91-3 (with a facsimile of f. 17v: see KiH 321) and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see Rosemary Williams, Stoughton MS).

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 22 f. 36v.)
KiH 372

Copy.

A quarto volume of 61 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), ii + 33 leaves, in contemporary olive-brown morocco gilt, with remains of green silk ties.

Except for later verses scribbled on f. 33r, all is in a single formal italic hand: i.e. that of Thomas Manne's imitator, who also reproduces King's initials HK in his monogram format as a subscription to nearly every poem.

c.1638

Iinscribed (f. ir) M. Hall / Gainsbro and Miss A. F. Eames / Nottingham. Sotheby's, 21 May 1968, lot 339, to John Fleming, New York. Then owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1907-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 278. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 38.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Houghton MS: KiH Δ 4. For facsimile pages, see KiH 423, KiH 517, KiH 540, and KiH 571. A set of photocopies is also in the British Library, RP 246.

KiH 373

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 374

Copy.

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

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

c.1636-41

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

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

Rosemary Williams (Stoughton MS p. 198)
KiH 375

Copy, subscribed H: King.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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

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

c.1641-9

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

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

The Labyrinth ('Life is a crooked Labyrinth, and wee')

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 173-4.

KiH 376

Copy.

Edited in part from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks).

Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's imitator (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657 (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster.

c.1633-58

Thomas Thorpe's sale Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as a most beautifully written volume of Poems in the hand of Bishop King's Daughter). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Hannah MS: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 30 f. 66r-v)
KiH 377

Copy.

A quarto volume of 58 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat stylish hand throughout, i + 43 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1638-40

Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), second Earl de Grey, statesman, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, who was descended from the brother of Sir Charles Lucas, on whose death in 1648 King wrote an elegy (Crum, pp. 101-10). Wrest Park was earlier the seat of Anthony Grey, eighth Earl of Kent (1557-1643), and of Henry Grey (1594-1651), ninth Earl of Kent, for whom the scholar and jurist John Selden (1584-1654) served as steward. Once apparently also in the library of the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS 51). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 902 (1970), item 196.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Wrest Park MS: KiH Δ 2. Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 7. Briefly described in BLR (March 1974), pp. 125-6; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96; and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 127 ff. 38v-9)
KiH 378

Copy.

Edited in part from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 60 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat hand, that of Thomas Manne's imitator, 46 leaves (including a few blank pages).

c.1635-6 [and some later additions]

Some 18th-century additions including notes in French, some verse and the inscriptions (f. 3r) Henry Dottin His Book and Elie Dottin Her Book. Later owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Malone MS: KiH Δ 3. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 91-3 (with a facsimile of f. 17v: see KiH 321) and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see Rosemary Williams, Stoughton MS).

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 22 ff. 41v-2)
KiH 379

Copy.

A quarto volume of 61 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), ii + 33 leaves, in contemporary olive-brown morocco gilt, with remains of green silk ties.

Except for later verses scribbled on f. 33r, all is in a single formal italic hand: i.e. that of Thomas Manne's imitator, who also reproduces King's initials HK in his monogram format as a subscription to nearly every poem.

c.1638

Iinscribed (f. ir) M. Hall / Gainsbro and Miss A. F. Eames / Nottingham. Sotheby's, 21 May 1968, lot 339, to John Fleming, New York. Then owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1907-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 278. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 38.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Houghton MS: KiH Δ 4. For facsimile pages, see KiH 423, KiH 517, KiH 540, and KiH 571. A set of photocopies is also in the British Library, RP 246.

KiH 380

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 381

Copy.

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

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

c.1636-41

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

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

Rosemary Williams (Stoughton MS pp. 225-7)
KiH 382

Copy, subscribed H: King.

This MS collated in Crum.

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

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

c.1641-9

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

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

KiH 382.5

Copy, subscribed Bp. King.

A quarto verse miscellany, in probably a single mixed hand varying over a period, entitled in another hand Recueil Choisi De Pieces fugitives En Vers Anglois, 214 pages, in modern calf.

c.1713

Afterwards owned by Charles de Beaumont, the Chevalière d'Éon (1728-1810). Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872): Phillipps MS 9500. 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.

The Legacy ('My dearest Love! When Thou and I must part')

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 170-2.

KiH 383

Copy.

Edited in part from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks).

Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's imitator (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657 (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster.

c.1633-58

Thomas Thorpe's sale Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as a most beautifully written volume of Poems in the hand of Bishop King's Daughter). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Hannah MS: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 30 f. 64r)
KiH 384

Copy.

Edited in part from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 60 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat hand, that of Thomas Manne's imitator, 46 leaves (including a few blank pages).

c.1635-6 [and some later additions]

Some 18th-century additions including notes in French, some verse and the inscriptions (f. 3r) Henry Dottin His Book and Elie Dottin Her Book. Later owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Malone MS: KiH Δ 3. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 91-3 (with a facsimile of f. 17v: see KiH 321) and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see Rosemary Williams, Stoughton MS).

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 22 ff. 44v-5v.)
KiH 385

Copy.

A quarto volume of 61 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), ii + 33 leaves, in contemporary olive-brown morocco gilt, with remains of green silk ties.

Except for later verses scribbled on f. 33r, all is in a single formal italic hand: i.e. that of Thomas Manne's imitator, who also reproduces King's initials HK in his monogram format as a subscription to nearly every poem.

c.1638

Iinscribed (f. ir) M. Hall / Gainsbro and Miss A. F. Eames / Nottingham. Sotheby's, 21 May 1968, lot 339, to John Fleming, New York. Then owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1907-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 278. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 38.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Houghton MS: KiH Δ 4. For facsimile pages, see KiH 423, KiH 517, KiH 540, and KiH 571. A set of photocopies is also in the British Library, RP 246.

KiH 386

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 387

Copy.

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

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

c.1636-41

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

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

Rosemary Williams (Stoughton MS pp. 235-8)
KiH 388

Copy.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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).

KiH 389

This MS recorded in Crum.

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

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

c.1620-50

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

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

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

KiH 390

This MS recorded in Crum.

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 Sr. 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. 149v-50r)
KiH 391

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.

KiH 391.5

Copy, subscribed Bp. King.

A quarto verse miscellany, in probably a single mixed hand varying over a period, entitled in another hand Recueil Choisi De Pieces fugitives En Vers Anglois, 214 pages, in modern calf.

c.1713

Afterwards owned by Charles de Beaumont, the Chevalière d'Éon (1728-1810). Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872): Phillipps MS 9500. 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.

'Let Faux his Powder-plot amaze no more'

First published by Percy Simpson in BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (p. 336). Crum, p. 253.

*KiH 392
Autograph

Autograph verse of eight lines on Cromwell's dissolution of the Long Parliament, possibly of King's own composition, untitled, on a single slip of paper.

Edited from this MS in Simpson, loc. cit., and in Crum. Facsimile in Simpson, BLR, 4 (1952-3), after p. 208 (Plate XIV).

A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous papers, 291 leaves.

Owned on 12 August 1709 by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), antiquary.

A Letter ('I ne're was drest in Formes. nor can I bend')

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 152-4.

KiH 393

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks).

Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's imitator (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657 (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster.

c.1633-58

Thomas Thorpe's sale Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as a most beautifully written volume of Poems in the hand of Bishop King's Daughter). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Hannah MS: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 30 ff. 32r-4r)
KiH 394

Copy.

A quarto volume of 58 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat stylish hand throughout, i + 43 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1638-40

Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), second Earl de Grey, statesman, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, who was descended from the brother of Sir Charles Lucas, on whose death in 1648 King wrote an elegy (Crum, pp. 101-10). Wrest Park was earlier the seat of Anthony Grey, eighth Earl of Kent (1557-1643), and of Henry Grey (1594-1651), ninth Earl of Kent, for whom the scholar and jurist John Selden (1584-1654) served as steward. Once apparently also in the library of the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS 51). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 902 (1970), item 196.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Wrest Park MS: KiH Δ 2. Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 7. Briefly described in BLR (March 1974), pp. 125-6; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96; and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 127 ff. 20r-1v)
KiH 395

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 60 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat hand, that of Thomas Manne's imitator, 46 leaves (including a few blank pages).

c.1635-6 [and some later additions]

Some 18th-century additions including notes in French, some verse and the inscriptions (f. 3r) Henry Dottin His Book and Elie Dottin Her Book. Later owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Malone MS: KiH Δ 3. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 91-3 (with a facsimile of f. 17v: see KiH 321) and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see Rosemary Williams, Stoughton MS).

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 22 ff. 21v-2v.)
KiH 396

Copy.

A quarto volume of 61 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), ii + 33 leaves, in contemporary olive-brown morocco gilt, with remains of green silk ties.

Except for later verses scribbled on f. 33r, all is in a single formal italic hand: i.e. that of Thomas Manne's imitator, who also reproduces King's initials HK in his monogram format as a subscription to nearly every poem.

c.1638

Iinscribed (f. ir) M. Hall / Gainsbro and Miss A. F. Eames / Nottingham. Sotheby's, 21 May 1968, lot 339, to John Fleming, New York. Then owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1907-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 278. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 38.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Houghton MS: KiH Δ 4. For facsimile pages, see KiH 423, KiH 517, KiH 540, and KiH 571. A set of photocopies is also in the British Library, RP 246.

KiH 397

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 398

Copy.

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

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

c.1636-41

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

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

Rosemary Williams (Stoughton MS pp. 179-82)
KiH 399

Copy, subscribed H: King.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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

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

c.1641-9

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

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

KiH 400

Copy, subscribed H: K:.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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. 15v-16v)
Love's Harvest ('Fond Lunatick forbeare. WHy dost thou sue')

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 169.

KiH 401

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks).

Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's imitator (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657 (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster.

c.1633-58

Thomas Thorpe's sale Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as a most beautifully written volume of Poems in the hand of Bishop King's Daughter). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Hannah MS: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 30 f. 57v)
KiH 402

Copy.

A quarto volume of 58 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat stylish hand throughout, i + 43 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1638-40

Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), second Earl de Grey, statesman, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, who was descended from the brother of Sir Charles Lucas, on whose death in 1648 King wrote an elegy (Crum, pp. 101-10). Wrest Park was earlier the seat of Anthony Grey, eighth Earl of Kent (1557-1643), and of Henry Grey (1594-1651), ninth Earl of Kent, for whom the scholar and jurist John Selden (1584-1654) served as steward. Once apparently also in the library of the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS 51). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 902 (1970), item 196.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Wrest Park MS: KiH Δ 2. Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 7. Briefly described in BLR (March 1974), pp. 125-6; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96; and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 127 f. 33r)
KiH 403

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 60 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat hand, that of Thomas Manne's imitator, 46 leaves (including a few blank pages).

c.1635-6 [and some later additions]

Some 18th-century additions including notes in French, some verse and the inscriptions (f. 3r) Henry Dottin His Book and Elie Dottin Her Book. Later owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Malone MS: KiH Δ 3. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 91-3 (with a facsimile of f. 17v: see KiH 321) and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see Rosemary Williams, Stoughton MS).

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 22 f. 36r)
KiH 404

Copy.

A quarto volume of 61 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), ii + 33 leaves, in contemporary olive-brown morocco gilt, with remains of green silk ties.

Except for later verses scribbled on f. 33r, all is in a single formal italic hand: i.e. that of Thomas Manne's imitator, who also reproduces King's initials HK in his monogram format as a subscription to nearly every poem.

c.1638

Iinscribed (f. ir) M. Hall / Gainsbro and Miss A. F. Eames / Nottingham. Sotheby's, 21 May 1968, lot 339, to John Fleming, New York. Then owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1907-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 278. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 38.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Houghton MS: KiH Δ 4. For facsimile pages, see KiH 423, KiH 517, KiH 540, and KiH 571. A set of photocopies is also in the British Library, RP 246.

KiH 405

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 406

Copy.

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

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

c.1636-41

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

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

Rosemary Williams (Stoughton MS p. 197)
KiH 407 Mid-17th century

Copy, in a mixed hand, subscribed Doctor Kinge, headed Sonnett 3, on the second page of two conjugate folio leaves.

This MS collated in Crum.

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).

KiH 408

Copy, headed Sonnet: 3:, subscribed Dr: H: King:.

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 ye two partners of my heart Mr John Wheeler, and Mr 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.

KiH 408.5

Copy, headed On A man that wold have lyen with his Mirs a night or two befor there marriage.

An octavo verse miscellany, in various hands, including seventeen poems by Carew, a title-page inscribed A book of Verses / Seria mixta Jocis, c.260 pages, in calf blind-stamped V/I F 1667.

References to Westminster Drollerie (which was not published until 1671) added on pp. 1 and 242.

c.1667-8

Inscribed on the title-page Frendraught Legi: i.e. by James Crichton (d.1674/5), second Viscount Frendraught. Bookplate of Thomas Fraser Duff (1830-77), of Woodcote, Oxfordshire. Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 9 April 1987, lot 272 (with a facsimile of p. 131 in the sale catalogue), sold to Quaritch.

Estate of Robert S Pirie, New York ([Frendraught MS] p. 200)
Madam Gabrina, Or the Ill-favourd Choice ('I have oft wondred, why thou didst elect')

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 144-5.

*KiH 409
Autograph

Copy, with a correction probably in King's autograph, untitled.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks).

Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's imitator (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657 (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster.

c.1633-58

Thomas Thorpe's sale Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as a most beautifully written volume of Poems in the hand of Bishop King's Daughter). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Hannah MS: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 30 ff. 15v-16v)
KiH 410

Copy, untitled.

A quarto volume of 58 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat stylish hand throughout, i + 43 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1638-40

Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), second Earl de Grey, statesman, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, who was descended from the brother of Sir Charles Lucas, on whose death in 1648 King wrote an elegy (Crum, pp. 101-10). Wrest Park was earlier the seat of Anthony Grey, eighth Earl of Kent (1557-1643), and of Henry Grey (1594-1651), ninth Earl of Kent, for whom the scholar and jurist John Selden (1584-1654) served as steward. Once apparently also in the library of the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS 51). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 902 (1970), item 196.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Wrest Park MS: KiH Δ 2. Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 7. Briefly described in BLR (March 1974), pp. 125-6; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96; and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 127 ff. 7v-8v)
KiH 411

Copy, untitled.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 60 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat hand, that of Thomas Manne's imitator, 46 leaves (including a few blank pages).

c.1635-6 [and some later additions]

Some 18th-century additions including notes in French, some verse and the inscriptions (f. 3r) Henry Dottin His Book and Elie Dottin Her Book. Later owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Malone MS: KiH Δ 3. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 91-3 (with a facsimile of f. 17v: see KiH 321) and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see Rosemary Williams, Stoughton MS).

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 22 f. 10r-v.)
KiH 412

Copy, untitled.

A quarto volume of 61 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), ii + 33 leaves, in contemporary olive-brown morocco gilt, with remains of green silk ties.

Except for later verses scribbled on f. 33r, all is in a single formal italic hand: i.e. that of Thomas Manne's imitator, who also reproduces King's initials HK in his monogram format as a subscription to nearly every poem.

c.1638

Iinscribed (f. ir) M. Hall / Gainsbro and Miss A. F. Eames / Nottingham. Sotheby's, 21 May 1968, lot 339, to John Fleming, New York. Then owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1907-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 278. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 38.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Houghton MS: KiH Δ 4. For facsimile pages, see KiH 423, KiH 517, KiH 540, and KiH 571. A set of photocopies is also in the British Library, RP 246.

KiH 413

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 414

Copy, untitled.

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

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

c.1636-41

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

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

Rosemary Williams (Stoughton MS pp. 164-6)
KiH 415

Copy, untitled before the Spanish motto, subscribed in monogram format HK.

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

Including 15 poems by Carew and 17 poems by King.

c.1630s

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

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

KiH 416

Copy, headed On hauing married an Ill fauored Woman his frind wrighte thus to hymm.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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 3d 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.

KiH 417

Copy, headed Verses in Comendacions of an others wife.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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.

KiH 418

Copy, headed On one that got him an vgly wife.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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.

KiH 418.5

Copy, headed with the Spanish epigram (here rendered as Cor mala muger at remedio / Mucha Tietra por et medio).

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

c.1630s

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

London Metropolitan Archives (ACC/1360/528 ff. [45v-6r])
KiH 419

Copy, headed To his Freind that was enamour'd on a Deformed woeman.

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).

My Midd-night Meditation ('Ill busy'd Man! why should'st thou take such care')

First published, as Man's Miserie, by Dr. K, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 5-6]. Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 157-8.

KiH 420

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks).

Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's imitator (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657 (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster.

c.1633-58

Thomas Thorpe's sale Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as a most beautifully written volume of Poems in the hand of Bishop King's Daughter). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Hannah MS: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 30 f. 39r)
KiH 421

Copy.

A quarto volume of 58 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat stylish hand throughout, i + 43 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1638-40

Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), second Earl de Grey, statesman, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, who was descended from the brother of Sir Charles Lucas, on whose death in 1648 King wrote an elegy (Crum, pp. 101-10). Wrest Park was earlier the seat of Anthony Grey, eighth Earl of Kent (1557-1643), and of Henry Grey (1594-1651), ninth Earl of Kent, for whom the scholar and jurist John Selden (1584-1654) served as steward. Once apparently also in the library of the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS 51). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 902 (1970), item 196.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Wrest Park MS: KiH Δ 2. Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 7. Briefly described in BLR (March 1974), pp. 125-6; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96; and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 127 f. 14v)
KiH 422

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 60 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat hand, that of Thomas Manne's imitator, 46 leaves (including a few blank pages).

c.1635-6 [and some later additions]

Some 18th-century additions including notes in French, some verse and the inscriptions (f. 3r) Henry Dottin His Book and Elie Dottin Her Book. Later owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Malone MS: KiH Δ 3. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 91-3 (with a facsimile of f. 17v: see KiH 321) and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see Rosemary Williams, Stoughton MS).

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 22 f. 14v.)
KiH 423

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Christie's sale catalogue, 14 June 1979, Plate 43.

A quarto volume of 61 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), ii + 33 leaves, in contemporary olive-brown morocco gilt, with remains of green silk ties.

Except for later verses scribbled on f. 33r, all is in a single formal italic hand: i.e. that of Thomas Manne's imitator, who also reproduces King's initials HK in his monogram format as a subscription to nearly every poem.

c.1638

Iinscribed (f. ir) M. Hall / Gainsbro and Miss A. F. Eames / Nottingham. Sotheby's, 21 May 1968, lot 339, to John Fleming, New York. Then owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1907-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 278. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 38.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Houghton MS: KiH Δ 4. For facsimile pages, see KiH 423, KiH 517, KiH 540, and KiH 571. A set of photocopies is also in the British Library, RP 246.

KiH 424

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 425

Copy.

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

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

c.1636-41

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

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

Rosemary Williams (Stoughton MS p. 173)
KiH 426

Copy.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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).

KiH 427

Copy, subscribed in monogram format HK.

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

Including 15 poems by Carew and 17 poems by King.

c.1630s

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

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

KiH 428

Copy, headed A meditation and ascribed to Dr [Jhon King deleted] Hen: King.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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. 3v)
KiH 429

Copy, headed on man.

This MS recorded in Crum.

An octavo miscellany of verse and some prose, in five hands, one predominating on ff. 8v-130r, ii + 166 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf.

Compiled in part (ff. 131v-66r) by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.

c.1630s-40s
Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 47 f. 38r-v)
KiH 430

Copy, headed Mans miserie

This MS recorded in Crum.

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)
KiH 431

Copy.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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. 46r)
KiH 432

Copy, headed On Mans Life. Dr Kinge.

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 30th 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.

KiH 433

Copy, headed A Midnights meditation and subscribed ffinis JK.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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. ao Jni. i625 [altered to i631] / Broughton / Thomas Gray.

KiH 434

Copy, headed Of mans misery and subscribed Dr John King.

This MS recorded in Crum.

An octavo verse miscellany, in two or more hands, 95 leaves (plus blanks), including two Indexes, in contemporary vellum.

Compiled by an Oxford University man, possibly a member of St John's College.

c.1634-43

A receipt (f. 104r) by John Weston recording payment from his brother Ed: Weston, 3 May 1714. The name John Saunders inscribed on the final leaf.

KiH 435

Copy, headed A song.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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.

KiH 437

Copy, here ascribed to J:K:, transcribed from KiH 440.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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.

KiH 438

Copy.

This MS recorded in Crum.

A quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single neat secretary hand, the first page formally inscribed To the righte honoble: 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) Mr 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.

KiH 439

Copy, headed on mans frailetie.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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) Mr 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.

KiH 440

Copy, headed On man's curiositie to prolong his daies.

An octavo miscellany of verse, academic exercises and other material, in English and Latin, almost entirely in a single hand, 134 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

Inscribed by the compiler (f. 133v) Anthony Scattergood His booke: i.e. Anthony Scattergood (1611-87), theologian, of Trinity College, Cambridge. Volume XXXII of the Scattergood papers.

c.1632-40

Also inscribed (f. 130v) Elisabeth Scattergood her Booke 1667/8. Booklabel of Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector.

KiH 441

Copy headed on the Misery of man, subscribed H: Kinge.

This MS recorded in Crum.

A quarto verse miscellany, largely in a single professional hand, with later additions on ff. 58v-62v in three or four other hands, 65 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt.

Compiled by one Thomas Crosse, whose name appears (f. 1*) in An Acrosticke upon my name, as well as subscribed (Tho: Cro:) to a poem on ff. 23v-4r.

c.1630s [-1670s]
KiH 442

Copy, headed Mans misery, subscribed Dr John King.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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 Mr 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.

KiH 443

Copy, headed A meditation of Death, subscribed Hen: King.

A verse miscellany, in long narrow format, 66 leaves (including a number of blanks), in later calf.

Largely in one neat secretary hand; a second hand on ff. 58v-9r, and a third on f. 66r. Compiled chiefly by a University of Cambridge man.

c.1630s

Once owned by F.W. Cosens, FSA (1819-89), of Clapham Park, book collector. Bequeathed in 1894 by Samuel Sandars, of Trinity College, Cambridge.

Discussed in Ted-Larry Pebworth and Claude J. Summers, Recovering an Important Seventeenth-Century Poetical Miscellany: Cambridge Add. MS 4138, TCBS, 7 (1978), 156-69 (pp. 160-1). A 19th-century transcript of much of this MS is in the Bodleian, MS Firth d. 7, ff. 60r-9r.

KiH 444

Copy, headed Mans miserie.

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.

KiH 445

Copy, untitled, subscribed Doctor King, and deleted.

A single ruled and trimmed octavo leaf of verse, the second (properly first) page containing a copy of William Basse's poem On Mr William Shakespeare.

This leaf is folio 7 extracted from the verse miscellany now Folger MS V.a.96.

c.1630s
Chetham's Library, Manchester (Halliwell-Phillipps No. 2757 p. 1)
KiH 446

Copy, headed Of mortality, subscribed Dr Henry King.

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

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

c.1636-77

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

Clark Library, Los Angeles (MS. 1950. 024 p. 15)
KiH 447

Copy, headed A Midnight Meditation by Dr Jo: king.

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.

KiH 448

Copy, headed On the life of man and here beginning All bruised man….

This MS recorded in Crum.

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.

KiH 449

Second copy, headed On mans misery.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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.

KiH 450

Copy, headed On Man.

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).

KiH 451

Copy, untitled, under a running head Dr. Jo: King &c.

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).

KiH 452

Copy, headed Of Mans misery. by Dr J: King.

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.

KiH 452.5

Copy, headed On Man. pag. 80.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single italic hand, 22 leaves, in modern marbled boards.

Inscribed (f. 4r) The following 11 Poems are transcrib'd from a small printed 12mo voll Cal[led] Parnassus Biceps...1656.

c.1750s
KiH 453

Copy, untitled.

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

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

1657

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

KiH 454

Copy, untitled, subscribed Doctor King.

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

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

c.1630s

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

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

KiH 455

Copy, in Constance Fowler's hand, untitled, subscribed B. I.

Aldrich-Watson, p. 64. This MS recorded in Jenijoy La Belle, The Huntington Aston Manuscript, BC, 29 (Winter 1980), 542-67 (p. 557).

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.

KiH 456

Copy, headed Verses compos'd one the ffrailty of mans life Made by J:H..

A small quarto miscellany, in various hands, possibly compiled in part by one William Leigh, in modern leather.

c.1650

Inscribed (f. 1v) Buckley 1772. Acquired in 1950 from P.M. Mill. Formerly MS Leigh, William (?), comp., Commonplace Book (ca. 1650).

This volume offered in Maggs's sale catalogue No. 640 (1937), item 302.

University of Illinois (Pre-1650 MS 0177 p. 82)
KiH 457

Copy, headed A midnights Meditation.

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 Sr John Reresby Barronett these prsent: 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. 80v)
KiH 458

Copy, headed Upon mans life.

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. 24v)
KiH 459

Copy, headed On the shortness of mans life.

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).

KiH 460

Copy, headed Of Mans misery and here ascribed to Dr John King.

A quarto verse miscellany, in three hands (A: pp. 1-56; B: pp. 57-60, 75-122; C: pp. 61-74, 125-7), 127 pages, in contemporary limp vellum.

Including 23 poems (and a second copy of one) by Randolph.

c.1635

Mostyn MS 196: from the library originally founded by Sir Thomas Mostyn (1535-1617) at Mostyn Hall, near Holywell, Flintshire, Wales, the MS possibly acquired by Sir Roger Mostyn (1567-1642) or by his son Sir Roger Mostyn, first Baronet (1625?-90). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 191.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Mostyn MS: RnT Δ 11. Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1873), Appendix, p. 356. Edited in Howard H. Thompson, An Edition of Two Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Poetical Miscellanies (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1959) [Mic 59-4669].

KiH 460.5

Copy, headed A midnight meditation.

An octavo verse miscellany, of English and Welsh verse and prose, in probably several hands, the English verse (on pages 9-70, 93-104) including eleven poems by Strode and two of doubtful authorship, 110 pages (plus stubs of extracted leaves).

Compiled by members of the Griffith family, of Llanddyfnan, the verse probably entered by one or more of the various members of that family who studied in this period at the University of Oxford.

Mid-17th century

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Griffith MS: StW Δ 26.

Bangor University (MS 422 p. 22)
KiH 461

Copy, untitled.

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

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

c.1635

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

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

KiH 462

Copy, headed On Man's life and subscribed Dr. John: King.

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. 122)
On the Earl of Essex ('Essex twice made unhappy by a Wife')

First published in Poems (London, 1664). Crum, pp. 99-100.

KiH 463 c.1646

Copy, headed An Epitaph Vpon the Erle of Essex.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

On two Children dying of one Disease, and buryed in one Grave ('Brought forth in Sorrow, and bred up in Care')

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 72.

KiH 464

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks).

Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's imitator (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657 (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster.

c.1633-58

Thomas Thorpe's sale Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as a most beautifully written volume of Poems in the hand of Bishop King's Daughter). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Hannah MS: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 30 f. 31r-v)
KiH 465

Copy.

A quarto volume of 58 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat stylish hand throughout, i + 43 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1638-40

Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), second Earl de Grey, statesman, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, who was descended from the brother of Sir Charles Lucas, on whose death in 1648 King wrote an elegy (Crum, pp. 101-10). Wrest Park was earlier the seat of Anthony Grey, eighth Earl of Kent (1557-1643), and of Henry Grey (1594-1651), ninth Earl of Kent, for whom the scholar and jurist John Selden (1584-1654) served as steward. Once apparently also in the library of the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS 51). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 902 (1970), item 196.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Wrest Park MS: KiH Δ 2. Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 7. Briefly described in BLR (March 1974), pp. 125-6; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96; and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 127 ff. 19v-20r)
KiH 466

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 60 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat hand, that of Thomas Manne's imitator, 46 leaves (including a few blank pages).

c.1635-6 [and some later additions]

Some 18th-century additions including notes in French, some verse and the inscriptions (f. 3r) Henry Dottin His Book and Elie Dottin Her Book. Later owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Malone MS: KiH Δ 3. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 91-3 (with a facsimile of f. 17v: see KiH 321) and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see Rosemary Williams, Stoughton MS).

KiH 467

Copy.

A quarto volume of 61 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), ii + 33 leaves, in contemporary olive-brown morocco gilt, with remains of green silk ties.

Except for later verses scribbled on f. 33r, all is in a single formal italic hand: i.e. that of Thomas Manne's imitator, who also reproduces King's initials HK in his monogram format as a subscription to nearly every poem.

c.1638

Iinscribed (f. ir) M. Hall / Gainsbro and Miss A. F. Eames / Nottingham. Sotheby's, 21 May 1968, lot 339, to John Fleming, New York. Then owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1907-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 278. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 38.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Houghton MS: KiH Δ 4. For facsimile pages, see KiH 423, KiH 517, KiH 540, and KiH 571. A set of photocopies is also in the British Library, RP 246.

KiH 468

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 469

Copy.

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

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

c.1636-41

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

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

Rosemary Williams (Stoughton MS p. 159)
KiH 470

Copy, subscribed H: King.

This MS collated in Crum.

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

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

c.1641-9

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

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

KiH 471

Copy.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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

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

c.1633

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

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

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1446 f. 17r-v)
KiH 472

Copy, headed Dr Henry King Vpon two little children of his dying of one disease and buryed both in one graue.

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.

Paradox. That Fruition destroyes Love ('Love is our Reason's Paradox, which still')

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 182-5.

KiH 473

Copy, headed The Paradoxe.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 474

Copy.

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

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

c.1636-41

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

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

Rosemary Williams (Stoughton MS pp. 217-22)
KiH 475

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

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).

Paradox. That it is best for a Young Maid to marry an Old Man ('Fair one, why cannot you an old man love?')

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 180-2.

KiH 476

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 477

Copy.

This MS (erroneously cited for The Pink) recorded in Crum.

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).

A Penitentiall Hymne ('Hearken, O God! unto a wretche's cryes')

First published in The Psalmes of David, 2nd edition (London, 1654). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 161-2.

KiH 478

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks).

Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's imitator (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657 (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster.

c.1633-58

Thomas Thorpe's sale Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as a most beautifully written volume of Poems in the hand of Bishop King's Daughter). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Hannah MS: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 30 f. 5r-v)
KiH 479

Copy.

A quarto volume of 58 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat stylish hand throughout, i + 43 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1638-40

Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), second Earl de Grey, statesman, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, who was descended from the brother of Sir Charles Lucas, on whose death in 1648 King wrote an elegy (Crum, pp. 101-10). Wrest Park was earlier the seat of Anthony Grey, eighth Earl of Kent (1557-1643), and of Henry Grey (1594-1651), ninth Earl of Kent, for whom the scholar and jurist John Selden (1584-1654) served as steward. Once apparently also in the library of the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS 51). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 902 (1970), item 196.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Wrest Park MS: KiH Δ 2. Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 7. Briefly described in BLR (March 1974), pp. 125-6; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96; and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 127 f. 25r-v)
KiH 480

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 60 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat hand, that of Thomas Manne's imitator, 46 leaves (including a few blank pages).

c.1635-6 [and some later additions]

Some 18th-century additions including notes in French, some verse and the inscriptions (f. 3r) Henry Dottin His Book and Elie Dottin Her Book. Later owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Malone MS: KiH Δ 3. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 91-3 (with a facsimile of f. 17v: see KiH 321) and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see Rosemary Williams, Stoughton MS).

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 22 f. 27r-v.)
KiH 481

Copy.

A quarto volume of 61 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), ii + 33 leaves, in contemporary olive-brown morocco gilt, with remains of green silk ties.

Except for later verses scribbled on f. 33r, all is in a single formal italic hand: i.e. that of Thomas Manne's imitator, who also reproduces King's initials HK in his monogram format as a subscription to nearly every poem.

c.1638

Iinscribed (f. ir) M. Hall / Gainsbro and Miss A. F. Eames / Nottingham. Sotheby's, 21 May 1968, lot 339, to John Fleming, New York. Then owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1907-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 278. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 38.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Houghton MS: KiH Δ 4. For facsimile pages, see KiH 423, KiH 517, KiH 540, and KiH 571. A set of photocopies is also in the British Library, RP 246.

KiH 482

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 483

Copy.

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

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

c.1636-41

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

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

Rosemary Williams (Stoughton MS pp. 209-10)
KiH 484

Copy, subscribed H: King:.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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

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

c.1641-9

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

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

KiH 485

Copy.

This MS recorded in Crum.

A folio volume of the words of anthems used in the Chapel Royal at Whitehall, 310 leaves, in contemporary brown leather stamped with the royal arms.

c.1635

Owned in 1732 by John, Earl of Leicester, Constable of the Tower. Bought by Rawlinson at an auction in St Paul's Churchyard 15 January 1742/3.

KiH 486.5

Copy, subscribed Bp King.

A quarto verse miscellany, in probably a single mixed hand varying over a period, entitled in another hand Recueil Choisi De Pieces fugitives En Vers Anglois, 214 pages, in modern calf.

c.1713

Afterwards owned by Charles de Beaumont, the Chevalière d'Éon (1728-1810). Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872): Phillipps MS 9500. 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.

The Pink ('Faire one, you did on mee bestow')

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 167.

*KiH 487 c.1633-40
Autograph

Copy, originally headed Sonnet, the heading The Pink added in King's autograph.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks).

Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's imitator (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657 (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster.

c.1633-58

Thomas Thorpe's sale Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as a most beautifully written volume of Poems in the hand of Bishop King's Daughter). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Hannah MS: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 30 f. 53v)
KiH 488

Copy.

A quarto volume of 58 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat stylish hand throughout, i + 43 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1638-40

Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), second Earl de Grey, statesman, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, who was descended from the brother of Sir Charles Lucas, on whose death in 1648 King wrote an elegy (Crum, pp. 101-10). Wrest Park was earlier the seat of Anthony Grey, eighth Earl of Kent (1557-1643), and of Henry Grey (1594-1651), ninth Earl of Kent, for whom the scholar and jurist John Selden (1584-1654) served as steward. Once apparently also in the library of the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS 51). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 902 (1970), item 196.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Wrest Park MS: KiH Δ 2. Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 7. Briefly described in BLR (March 1974), pp. 125-6; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96; and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 127 f. 31v)
KiH 489

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 60 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat hand, that of Thomas Manne's imitator, 46 leaves (including a few blank pages).

c.1635-6 [and some later additions]

Some 18th-century additions including notes in French, some verse and the inscriptions (f. 3r) Henry Dottin His Book and Elie Dottin Her Book. Later owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Malone MS: KiH Δ 3. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 91-3 (with a facsimile of f. 17v: see KiH 321) and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see Rosemary Williams, Stoughton MS).

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 22 f. 33v.)
KiH 490

Copy.

A quarto volume of 61 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), ii + 33 leaves, in contemporary olive-brown morocco gilt, with remains of green silk ties.

Except for later verses scribbled on f. 33r, all is in a single formal italic hand: i.e. that of Thomas Manne's imitator, who also reproduces King's initials HK in his monogram format as a subscription to nearly every poem.

c.1638

Iinscribed (f. ir) M. Hall / Gainsbro and Miss A. F. Eames / Nottingham. Sotheby's, 21 May 1968, lot 339, to John Fleming, New York. Then owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1907-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 278. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 38.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Houghton MS: KiH Δ 4. For facsimile pages, see KiH 423, KiH 517, KiH 540, and KiH 571. A set of photocopies is also in the British Library, RP 246.

KiH 491

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 492

Copy.

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

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

c.1636-41

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

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

Rosemary Williams (Stoughton MS p. 194)
KiH 493

Copy, subscribed H: King:.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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

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

c.1641-9

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

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

Psalme CXXX paraphrased for an Antheme ('Out of the horrour of the lowest Deep')

First published in The Psalmes of David (London, 1651). Crum, p. 190.

KiH 494

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

A square-shaped folio songbook, largely in a single rounded secretary hand, with (ff. 1r-v, 69r-v) a table of contents, i + 69 leaves, in modern half red morocco.

Mid-17th century

Puttick & Simpson's, 2 March 1866, lot 230.

A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 2 (New York & London, 1986).

KiH 495

Copy, in a musical setting.

This MS recorded in Crum.

A quarto volume of anthems.

Late 17th century

Once owned by one Edward Yonge.

Christ Church, Oxford (MS Mus. 440 ff. 37r-36v rev.)
The Retreit ('Pursue no more (My Thoughts!) that False Unkind')

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 168.

*KiH 496 c.1633-40
Autograph

Copy, with autograph corrections by King, originally headed Sonnet, the heading The Retreit added by King.

This MS collated in Crum. Facsimile in Keynes, p. 90.

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks).

Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's imitator (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657 (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster.

c.1633-58

Thomas Thorpe's sale Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as a most beautifully written volume of Poems in the hand of Bishop King's Daughter). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Hannah MS: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 30 f. 56r)
KiH 497

Copy.

A quarto volume of 58 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat stylish hand throughout, i + 43 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1638-40

Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), second Earl de Grey, statesman, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, who was descended from the brother of Sir Charles Lucas, on whose death in 1648 King wrote an elegy (Crum, pp. 101-10). Wrest Park was earlier the seat of Anthony Grey, eighth Earl of Kent (1557-1643), and of Henry Grey (1594-1651), ninth Earl of Kent, for whom the scholar and jurist John Selden (1584-1654) served as steward. Once apparently also in the library of the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS 51). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 902 (1970), item 196.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Wrest Park MS: KiH Δ 2. Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 7. Briefly described in BLR (March 1974), pp. 125-6; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96; and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 127 ff. 32v-3r)
KiH 498

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 60 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat hand, that of Thomas Manne's imitator, 46 leaves (including a few blank pages).

c.1635-6 [and some later additions]

Some 18th-century additions including notes in French, some verse and the inscriptions (f. 3r) Henry Dottin His Book and Elie Dottin Her Book. Later owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Malone MS: KiH Δ 3. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 91-3 (with a facsimile of f. 17v: see KiH 321) and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see Rosemary Williams, Stoughton MS).

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 22 f. 35v.)
KiH 499

Copy.

A quarto volume of 61 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), ii + 33 leaves, in contemporary olive-brown morocco gilt, with remains of green silk ties.

Except for later verses scribbled on f. 33r, all is in a single formal italic hand: i.e. that of Thomas Manne's imitator, who also reproduces King's initials HK in his monogram format as a subscription to nearly every poem.

c.1638

Iinscribed (f. ir) M. Hall / Gainsbro and Miss A. F. Eames / Nottingham. Sotheby's, 21 May 1968, lot 339, to John Fleming, New York. Then owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1907-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 278. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 38.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Houghton MS: KiH Δ 4. For facsimile pages, see KiH 423, KiH 517, KiH 540, and KiH 571. A set of photocopies is also in the British Library, RP 246.

KiH 500

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 501

Copy.

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

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

c.1636-41

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

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

Rosemary Williams (Stoughton MS p. 196)
KiH 502

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Crum.

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

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

c.1620-50

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

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

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

KiH 503

Copy, subscribed H: King.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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

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

c.1641-9

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

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

KiH 504

Copy, in a mixed hand, headed Sonnett 2, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves.

This MS collated in Crum.

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).

KiH 505

Copy, headed Sonnet 2.

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 ye two partners of my heart Mr John Wheeler, and Mr 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.

KiH 506

Copy, headed Sonet 2.

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 Sr John Reresby Barronett these prsent: 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. 85r)
St. Valentine's Day ('Now that each feather'd Chorister doth sing')

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 187-8.

KiH 507

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

A Salutation of His Majestye's Shipp The Soveraigne ('Move on thou Floating Trophee built to Fame!')

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 92-3.

KiH 508

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks).

Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's imitator (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657 (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster.

c.1633-58

Thomas Thorpe's sale Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as a most beautifully written volume of Poems in the hand of Bishop King's Daughter). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Hannah MS: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 30 ff. 82r-3r)
KiH 509

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 510

Copy, deleted.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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 3d 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. 139)
KiH 511

Second copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

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 3d 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. 141)
KiH 512 c.1630s

Copy, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves.

This MS collated in Crum.

A large folio composite volume of papers on public affairs, in English and Latin, in various hands, 180 leaves, in half-vellum marbled boards.

The first leaf inscribed by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), Oxford antiquary.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Jones 56 f. 11r)
The short Wooing ('Like an Oblation set before a Shrine')

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 179-80.

KiH 513 c.1646

Copy, headed The Wooing.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

Sic Vita ('Like to the Falling of a Starr')

First published in Poems by Francis Beaumont (London, 1640). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 148-9.

KiH 514

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks).

Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's imitator (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657 (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster.

c.1633-58

Thomas Thorpe's sale Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as a most beautifully written volume of Poems in the hand of Bishop King's Daughter). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Hannah MS: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 30 f. 20v)
KiH 515

Copy.

A quarto volume of 58 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat stylish hand throughout, i + 43 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1638-40

Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), second Earl de Grey, statesman, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, who was descended from the brother of Sir Charles Lucas, on whose death in 1648 King wrote an elegy (Crum, pp. 101-10). Wrest Park was earlier the seat of Anthony Grey, eighth Earl of Kent (1557-1643), and of Henry Grey (1594-1651), ninth Earl of Kent, for whom the scholar and jurist John Selden (1584-1654) served as steward. Once apparently also in the library of the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS 51). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 902 (1970), item 196.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Wrest Park MS: KiH Δ 2. Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 7. Briefly described in BLR (March 1974), pp. 125-6; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96; and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 127 f. 11r)
KiH 516

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 60 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat hand, that of Thomas Manne's imitator, 46 leaves (including a few blank pages).

c.1635-6 [and some later additions]

Some 18th-century additions including notes in French, some verse and the inscriptions (f. 3r) Henry Dottin His Book and Elie Dottin Her Book. Later owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Malone MS: KiH Δ 3. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 91-3 (with a facsimile of f. 17v: see KiH 321) and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see Rosemary Williams, Stoughton MS).

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 22 f. 14v.)
KiH 517

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Christie's sale catalogue, 14 June 1979, Plate 43.

A quarto volume of 61 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), ii + 33 leaves, in contemporary olive-brown morocco gilt, with remains of green silk ties.

Except for later verses scribbled on f. 33r, all is in a single formal italic hand: i.e. that of Thomas Manne's imitator, who also reproduces King's initials HK in his monogram format as a subscription to nearly every poem.

c.1638

Iinscribed (f. ir) M. Hall / Gainsbro and Miss A. F. Eames / Nottingham. Sotheby's, 21 May 1968, lot 339, to John Fleming, New York. Then owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1907-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 278. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 38.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Houghton MS: KiH Δ 4. For facsimile pages, see KiH 423, KiH 517, KiH 540, and KiH 571. A set of photocopies is also in the British Library, RP 246.

KiH 518

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 519

Copy.

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

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

c.1636-41

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

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

Rosemary Williams (Stoughton MS p. 174)
KiH 520

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

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).

KiH 521

Copy, subscribed H K:.

This MS collated in Crum.

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

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

c.1633

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

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

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1446 f. 17r)
KiH 522

Copy, subscribed in monogram format HK

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

Including 15 poems by Carew and 17 poems by King.

c.1630s

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

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

KiH 523

Copy, headed Sonnett.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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. 48r)
KiH 524

This is not the poem by Henry King but a 60-line version of Francis Quarles's Like to the damask rose you see.

Deleted entry (St Catharine's College, Cambridge, MS F. III. 16 (James 18), after f. 120v)
KiH 525

Copy, untitled.

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

Late 17th century

Formerly Chest II, No. 21.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 213 p. 63)
Silence. A Sonnet ('Peace my Hearte's blabb, be ever dumbe')

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 159.

KiH 526

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks).

Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's imitator (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657 (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster.

c.1633-58

Thomas Thorpe's sale Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as a most beautifully written volume of Poems in the hand of Bishop King's Daughter). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Hannah MS: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 30 f. 41r-v)
KiH 527

Copy, headed Sonnett and here beginning at line 13 (But yf imparting it I doe).

A quarto volume of 58 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat stylish hand throughout, i + 43 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1638-40

Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), second Earl de Grey, statesman, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, who was descended from the brother of Sir Charles Lucas, on whose death in 1648 King wrote an elegy (Crum, pp. 101-10). Wrest Park was earlier the seat of Anthony Grey, eighth Earl of Kent (1557-1643), and of Henry Grey (1594-1651), ninth Earl of Kent, for whom the scholar and jurist John Selden (1584-1654) served as steward. Once apparently also in the library of the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS 51). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 902 (1970), item 196.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Wrest Park MS: KiH Δ 2. Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 7. Briefly described in BLR (March 1974), pp. 125-6; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96; and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 127 f. 14r)
KiH 528

Copy, headed Sonnet.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 60 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat hand, that of Thomas Manne's imitator, 46 leaves (including a few blank pages).

c.1635-6 [and some later additions]

Some 18th-century additions including notes in French, some verse and the inscriptions (f. 3r) Henry Dottin His Book and Elie Dottin Her Book. Later owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Malone MS: KiH Δ 3. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 91-3 (with a facsimile of f. 17v: see KiH 321) and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see Rosemary Williams, Stoughton MS).

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 22 f. 32v.)
KiH 529

Copy, headed Silence.

A quarto volume of 61 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), ii + 33 leaves, in contemporary olive-brown morocco gilt, with remains of green silk ties.

Except for later verses scribbled on f. 33r, all is in a single formal italic hand: i.e. that of Thomas Manne's imitator, who also reproduces King's initials HK in his monogram format as a subscription to nearly every poem.

c.1638

Iinscribed (f. ir) M. Hall / Gainsbro and Miss A. F. Eames / Nottingham. Sotheby's, 21 May 1968, lot 339, to John Fleming, New York. Then owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1907-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 278. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 38.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Houghton MS: KiH Δ 4. For facsimile pages, see KiH 423, KiH 517, KiH 540, and KiH 571. A set of photocopies is also in the British Library, RP 246.

KiH 530

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 531

Copy, headed Sonnet.

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

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

c.1636-41

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

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

Rosemary Williams (Stoughton MS pp. 199-200)
KiH 532

Copy, headed Sonnet.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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).

KiH 533

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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

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

c.1620-50

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

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

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

KiH 534

Copy, headed A Sonet, subscribed H: King.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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

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

c.1641-9

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

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

KiH 535

Copy, headed Sonnett.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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. 51r)
KiH 536

Copy, headed Sonnet.

A quarto verse miscellany, in a neat secretary hand, fourteen pages.

c.1620s

Among the papers of the Gell family, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, including those of the Parliamentary commander and MP Sir John Gell, first Baronet (1593-1671). Formerly D258/31/16.

Derbyshire Record Office (D258/10/15 pp. 7-8)
Sonnet ('Dry those faire, those Christall Eyes')

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 147-8.

KiH 537

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks).

Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's imitator (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657 (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster.

c.1633-58

Thomas Thorpe's sale Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as a most beautifully written volume of Poems in the hand of Bishop King's Daughter). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Hannah MS: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 30 f. 19v)
KiH 538

Copy.

A quarto volume of 58 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat stylish hand throughout, i + 43 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1638-40

Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), second Earl de Grey, statesman, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, who was descended from the brother of Sir Charles Lucas, on whose death in 1648 King wrote an elegy (Crum, pp. 101-10). Wrest Park was earlier the seat of Anthony Grey, eighth Earl of Kent (1557-1643), and of Henry Grey (1594-1651), ninth Earl of Kent, for whom the scholar and jurist John Selden (1584-1654) served as steward. Once apparently also in the library of the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS 51). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 902 (1970), item 196.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Wrest Park MS: KiH Δ 2. Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 7. Briefly described in BLR (March 1974), pp. 125-6; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96; and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 127 f. 10v)
KiH 539

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 60 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat hand, that of Thomas Manne's imitator, 46 leaves (including a few blank pages).

c.1635-6 [and some later additions]

Some 18th-century additions including notes in French, some verse and the inscriptions (f. 3r) Henry Dottin His Book and Elie Dottin Her Book. Later owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Malone MS: KiH Δ 3. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 91-3 (with a facsimile of f. 17v: see KiH 321) and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see Rosemary Williams, Stoughton MS).

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 22 f. 12v.)
KiH 540

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 21 May 1968, lot 339.

A quarto volume of 61 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), ii + 33 leaves, in contemporary olive-brown morocco gilt, with remains of green silk ties.

Except for later verses scribbled on f. 33r, all is in a single formal italic hand: i.e. that of Thomas Manne's imitator, who also reproduces King's initials HK in his monogram format as a subscription to nearly every poem.

c.1638

Iinscribed (f. ir) M. Hall / Gainsbro and Miss A. F. Eames / Nottingham. Sotheby's, 21 May 1968, lot 339, to John Fleming, New York. Then owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1907-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 278. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 38.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Houghton MS: KiH Δ 4. For facsimile pages, see KiH 423, KiH 517, KiH 540, and KiH 571. A set of photocopies is also in the British Library, RP 246.

KiH 541

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 542

Copy.

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

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

c.1636-41

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

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

Rosemary Williams (Stoughton MS p. 175)
KiH 543

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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

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

c.1620-50

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

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

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

KiH 544

Copy, untitled, subscribed in monogram format HK.

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

Including 15 poems by Carew and 17 poems by King.

c.1630s

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

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

KiH 545

Copy.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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. 47r)
KiH 546

Copy, headed on his discontented mrs.

This MS recorded in Crum.

An octavo miscellany of verse and some prose, in five hands, one predominating on ff. 8v-130r, ii + 166 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf.

Compiled in part (ff. 131v-66r) by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.

c.1630s-40s
Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 47 f. 44v)
KiH 547

Copy, headed To his discontented mrs.

This MS recorded in Crum.

An octavo verse miscellany, in two or more hands, 95 leaves (plus blanks), including two Indexes, in contemporary vellum.

Compiled by an Oxford University man, possibly a member of St John's College.

c.1634-43

A receipt (f. 104r) by John Weston recording payment from his brother Ed: Weston, 3 May 1714. The name John Saunders inscribed on the final leaf.

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 21 f. 46r)
KiH 548

Copy in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

This MS collated in Cutts, MD, 10 (1956), p. 177; recorded in Crum.

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

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

c.1656

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

Bodleian Library, Music MSS (MS Mus. b. 1 ff. 83v-4r)
KiH 549

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

A folio songbook, almost entirely in a single rounded italic hand, with (ff. 3r-7v) a table of contents, 113 leaves, in 19th-century half dark red morocco.

Compiled by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer (his signature f. 2v).

c.1654-70s

Arms of Eleanor Bursh on a seal affixed to f. 56r. Later owned and annotated in pencil by Thomas Oliphant (1799-1873), music editor and cataloguer.

A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 5 (New York & London, 1986).

KiH 550

Copy.

This MS recorded in Crum.

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English, Latin and Greek, largely in one secretary hand, written from both ends, with indexes (ff. 2r-3r, 168r-v), 168 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum.

Compiled by Sir John Perceval, Bt (1629-65), probably while at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Volume CXCII of the papers of the Perceval family, Earls of Egmont, and the allied Southwell family.

c.1646-9
KiH 551

Copy, headed To a faire Lady weeping.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2725 f. 104r)
KiH 552

Copy, headed To his Mes weeping.

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 ye 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.

KiH 553

Copy, untitled, subscribed with the monogram HK.

A quarto miscellany, in several hands, including a number of culinary receipts, 255 leaves (including over 65 blanks), written from both ends (Part I, in a rounded italic hand: ff. 1r-117r:; Part II: ff. 1*r-72r), in old calf.

Inscribed (Part II, f. 1*r) A booke of verses collected by mee RDungaruan: i.e. Richard Boyle (1612-98), Viscount Dungarvon and later Earl of Burlington.

c.1630s

Also inscribed Mary Helerd. Subsequently owned by James Tyrrell (1642-1718), historical writer, and by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1782-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 15745. Formerly Folger MS 46. 2.

KiH 554

Copy, headed Vpon a weeping Gentlewoeman.

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.

KiH 555

Copy, headed To a weeping gentlewoeman.

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

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

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

c.1674-84

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

KiH 556

Copy, headed One to his Mrs Weeping.

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).

KiH 557

Copy, headed On his discontented Mrs.

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

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

c.1635

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

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

Sonnet ('Go Thou, that vainly dost mine eyes invite')

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 162.

KiH 558

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks).

Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's imitator (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657 (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster.

c.1633-58

Thomas Thorpe's sale Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as a most beautifully written volume of Poems in the hand of Bishop King's Daughter). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Hannah MS: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 30 f. 42)
KiH 559

Copy, untitled.

A quarto volume of 58 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat stylish hand throughout, i + 43 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1638-40

Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), second Earl de Grey, statesman, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, who was descended from the brother of Sir Charles Lucas, on whose death in 1648 King wrote an elegy (Crum, pp. 101-10). Wrest Park was earlier the seat of Anthony Grey, eighth Earl of Kent (1557-1643), and of Henry Grey (1594-1651), ninth Earl of Kent, for whom the scholar and jurist John Selden (1584-1654) served as steward. Once apparently also in the library of the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS 51). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 902 (1970), item 196.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Wrest Park MS: KiH Δ 2. Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 7. Briefly described in BLR (March 1974), pp. 125-6; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96; and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 127 f. 14r-v)
KiH 560

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 60 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat hand, that of Thomas Manne's imitator, 46 leaves (including a few blank pages).

c.1635-6 [and some later additions]

Some 18th-century additions including notes in French, some verse and the inscriptions (f. 3r) Henry Dottin His Book and Elie Dottin Her Book. Later owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Malone MS: KiH Δ 3. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 91-3 (with a facsimile of f. 17v: see KiH 321) and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see Rosemary Williams, Stoughton MS).

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 22 f. 32r)
KiH 561

Copy.

A quarto volume of 61 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), ii + 33 leaves, in contemporary olive-brown morocco gilt, with remains of green silk ties.

Except for later verses scribbled on f. 33r, all is in a single formal italic hand: i.e. that of Thomas Manne's imitator, who also reproduces King's initials HK in his monogram format as a subscription to nearly every poem.

c.1638

Iinscribed (f. ir) M. Hall / Gainsbro and Miss A. F. Eames / Nottingham. Sotheby's, 21 May 1968, lot 339, to John Fleming, New York. Then owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1907-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 278. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 38.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Houghton MS: KiH Δ 4. For facsimile pages, see KiH 423, KiH 517, KiH 540, and KiH 571. A set of photocopies is also in the British Library, RP 246.

KiH 562

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 563

Copy.

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

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

c.1636-41

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

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

Rosemary Williams (Stoughton MS p. 193)
KiH 564

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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

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

c.1620-50

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

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

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

KiH 565

Copy, subscribed H: King.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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

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

c.1641-9

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

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

KiH 566

Copy, subscribed H: K.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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

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

c.1633

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

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

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1446 f. 59v)
KiH 566.5

Copy, subscribed Dr: King.

A quarto verse miscellany, in probably a single mixed hand varying over a period, entitled in another hand Recueil Choisi De Pieces fugitives En Vers Anglois, 214 pages, in modern calf.

c.1713

Afterwards owned by Charles de Beaumont, the Chevalière d'Éon (1728-1810). Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872): Phillipps MS 9500. 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.

KiH 567

Copy in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

This MS collated in Cutts, MD, 10 (1956), p. 184; recorded in Crum.

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

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

c.1656

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

Bodleian Library, Music MSS (MS Mus. b. 1 ff. 111v-12r)
Sonnet ('I prethee turne that face away')

First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1641). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 149.

Musical setting by John Wilson published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (Oxford, 1659).

KiH 568

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks).

Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's imitator (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657 (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster.

c.1633-58

Thomas Thorpe's sale Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as a most beautifully written volume of Poems in the hand of Bishop King's Daughter). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Hannah MS: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 30 f. 21r)
KiH 569

Copy.

A quarto volume of 58 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat stylish hand throughout, i + 43 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1638-40

Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), second Earl de Grey, statesman, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, who was descended from the brother of Sir Charles Lucas, on whose death in 1648 King wrote an elegy (Crum, pp. 101-10). Wrest Park was earlier the seat of Anthony Grey, eighth Earl of Kent (1557-1643), and of Henry Grey (1594-1651), ninth Earl of Kent, for whom the scholar and jurist John Selden (1584-1654) served as steward. Once apparently also in the library of the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS 51). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 902 (1970), item 196.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Wrest Park MS: KiH Δ 2. Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 7. Briefly described in BLR (March 1974), pp. 125-6; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96; and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 127 f. 11v)
KiH 570

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 60 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat hand, that of Thomas Manne's imitator, 46 leaves (including a few blank pages).

c.1635-6 [and some later additions]

Some 18th-century additions including notes in French, some verse and the inscriptions (f. 3r) Henry Dottin His Book and Elie Dottin Her Book. Later owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Malone MS: KiH Δ 3. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 91-3 (with a facsimile of f. 17v: see KiH 321) and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see Rosemary Williams, Stoughton MS).

KiH 571

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 21 May 1968, lot 339.

A quarto volume of 61 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), ii + 33 leaves, in contemporary olive-brown morocco gilt, with remains of green silk ties.

Except for later verses scribbled on f. 33r, all is in a single formal italic hand: i.e. that of Thomas Manne's imitator, who also reproduces King's initials HK in his monogram format as a subscription to nearly every poem.

c.1638

Iinscribed (f. ir) M. Hall / Gainsbro and Miss A. F. Eames / Nottingham. Sotheby's, 21 May 1968, lot 339, to John Fleming, New York. Then owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1907-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 278. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 38.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Houghton MS: KiH Δ 4. For facsimile pages, see KiH 423, KiH 517, KiH 540, and KiH 571. A set of photocopies is also in the British Library, RP 246.

KiH 572

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 573

Copy.

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

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

c.1636-41

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

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

Rosemary Williams (Stoughton MS p. 176)
KiH 574

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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

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

c.1620-50

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

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

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

KiH 575

Copy, subscribed H: K:.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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. 58v-9R)
KiH 576

Copy, untitled, subscribed in monogram format HK.

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

Including 15 poems by Carew and 17 poems by King.

c.1630s

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

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

KiH 576.5

Copy, subscribed Dr King.

A quarto verse miscellany, in probably a single mixed hand varying over a period, entitled in another hand Recueil Choisi De Pieces fugitives En Vers Anglois, 214 pages, in modern calf.

c.1713

Afterwards owned by Charles de Beaumont, the Chevalière d'Éon (1728-1810). Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872): Phillipps MS 9500. 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.

KiH 577

Copy.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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. 47r)
KiH 578

Copy, untitled, in a musical setting.

This MS collated in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 207); recorded in Crum.

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

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

c.1640s-60s

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

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

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. c. 57 f. 59v)
KiH 579

Copy, headed To a faire but unkind Mistrisse.

A composite volume of verse, i + 126 leaves.

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

Late 17th century

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

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. d. 152 f. 107r)
KiH 580

Copy in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

This MS collated in Cutts, MD, 10 (1956), p. 177; recorded in Crum.

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

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

c.1656

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

Bodleian Library, Music MSS (MS Mus. b. 1 ff. 84v-5r)
KiH 581

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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. 225r)
KiH 582

Copy, untitled, subscribed with the monogram HK.

A quarto miscellany, in several hands, including a number of culinary receipts, 255 leaves (including over 65 blanks), written from both ends (Part I, in a rounded italic hand: ff. 1r-117r:; Part II: ff. 1*r-72r), in old calf.

Inscribed (Part II, f. 1*r) A booke of verses collected by mee RDungaruan: i.e. Richard Boyle (1612-98), Viscount Dungarvon and later Earl of Burlington.

c.1630s

Also inscribed Mary Helerd. Subsequently owned by James Tyrrell (1642-1718), historical writer, and by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1782-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 15745. Formerly Folger MS 46. 2.

KiH 583

Copy, headed A sad Louer to his Mrs.

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

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

c.1638-42

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

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

KiH 583.5

Copy, untitled.

A folio formal verse miscellany, in a single rounded hand, 259 pages (plus a three-page index), in modern boards.

The contents, the latest of which (on pp. 203-7) can be dated to a marriage that took place in November 1656, reflect the taste of Interregnum Royalist sympathisers.

c.Late 1650s

Formerly in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 4001. Sotheby's, 29 June 1946, lot 164, to Myers. Then in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.

University College London (MS Ogden 42 p. 109)
KiH 583.8

Copy, untitled.

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

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

Mid-17th century-c.1702

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

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

University of Texas at Austin (Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book f. 44v)
KiH 584

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Crum.

A folio volume of 121 poems by Donne and his Paradoxes and Problems, in a probably professional, predominantly italic hand (the scribe also probably responsible for the Dublin MS (I) (Trinity College, Dublin, MS 877); some poems by others added at the end (pp. 239-50) in other hands, 250 pages.

c.1623-5

Owned in the mid-late 17th century by E. Puckering (signed f. 1r), probably a man but possibly Elizabeth (d.1689), wife of Sir Henry Newton (afterwards Puckering) (1618-1701), by whose bequest the MS came to Trinity College in 1691 (this Lady Elizabeth being the daughter of Thomas Murray (1564-1623), tutor to Prince Charles).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Puckering MS, DnJ Δ 13. A note by Henry Bradshaw states that this MS was collated in 1861 and 1863 by the Rev. T.R. O' Flahertie (d.1894), of Capel, near Dorking, Surrey, book collector.

Trinity College, Cambridge (MS R. 3. 12 (James 592) p. 242)
Sonnet ('Tell mee no more how faire shee is')

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 158.

KiH 585

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks).

Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's imitator (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657 (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster.

c.1633-58

Thomas Thorpe's sale Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as a most beautifully written volume of Poems in the hand of Bishop King's Daughter). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Hannah MS: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 30 ff. 39v-40r)
KiH 586

Copy.

A quarto volume of 58 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat stylish hand throughout, i + 43 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1638-40

Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), second Earl de Grey, statesman, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, who was descended from the brother of Sir Charles Lucas, on whose death in 1648 King wrote an elegy (Crum, pp. 101-10). Wrest Park was earlier the seat of Anthony Grey, eighth Earl of Kent (1557-1643), and of Henry Grey (1594-1651), ninth Earl of Kent, for whom the scholar and jurist John Selden (1584-1654) served as steward. Once apparently also in the library of the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS 51). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 902 (1970), item 196.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Wrest Park MS: KiH Δ 2. Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 7. Briefly described in BLR (March 1974), pp. 125-6; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96; and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 127 f. 13r-v)
KiH 587

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 60 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat hand, that of Thomas Manne's imitator, 46 leaves (including a few blank pages).

c.1635-6 [and some later additions]

Some 18th-century additions including notes in French, some verse and the inscriptions (f. 3r) Henry Dottin His Book and Elie Dottin Her Book. Later owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Malone MS: KiH Δ 3. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 91-3 (with a facsimile of f. 17v: see KiH 321) and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see Rosemary Williams, Stoughton MS).

KiH 588

Copy.

A quarto volume of 61 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), ii + 33 leaves, in contemporary olive-brown morocco gilt, with remains of green silk ties.

Except for later verses scribbled on f. 33r, all is in a single formal italic hand: i.e. that of Thomas Manne's imitator, who also reproduces King's initials HK in his monogram format as a subscription to nearly every poem.

c.1638

Iinscribed (f. ir) M. Hall / Gainsbro and Miss A. F. Eames / Nottingham. Sotheby's, 21 May 1968, lot 339, to John Fleming, New York. Then owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1907-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 278. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 38.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Houghton MS: KiH Δ 4. For facsimile pages, see KiH 423, KiH 517, KiH 540, and KiH 571. A set of photocopies is also in the British Library, RP 246.

KiH 589

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum. Facsimile in Keynes, p. 95.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 590

Copy.

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

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

c.1636-41

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

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

Rosemary Williams (Stoughton MS p. 178)
KiH 591

Copy, untitled, subscribed H: K:.

This MS collated in Crum.

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

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

c.1620-50

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

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

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

KiH 592

Copy, subscribed H: K.

This MS collated in Crum.

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

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

c.1633

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

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

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1446 f. 59r)
KiH 593

Copy, subscribed in monogram format HK.

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

Including 15 poems by Carew and 17 poems by King.

c.1630s

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

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

KiH 594

Copy.

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. 47v)
KiH 595

Copy in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

This MS collated (no variants) in Cutts, MD, 10 (1956), p. 181); recorded in Crum.

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

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

c.1656

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

Bodleian Library, Music MSS (MS Mus. b. 1 ff. 101v-2r)
KiH 596

Copy, untitled, subscribed by Jer: Savill.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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

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

Late 17th century

Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

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

KiH 597

Copy, headed The despayringe louer.

This MS recorded in Crum.

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English, Latin and Greek, largely in one secretary hand, written from both ends, with indexes (ff. 2r-3r, 168r-v), 168 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum.

Compiled by Sir John Perceval, Bt (1629-65), probably while at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Volume CXCII of the papers of the Perceval family, Earls of Egmont, and the allied Southwell family.

c.1646-9
KiH 598

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

This MS recorded in Crum.

A square-shaped folio songbook, largely in a single rounded secretary hand, with (ff. 1r-v, 69r-v) a table of contents, i + 69 leaves, in modern half red morocco.

Mid-17th century

Puttick & Simpson's, 2 March 1866, lot 230.

A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 2 (New York & London, 1986).

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Egerton MS 2013 ff. 15v-16r)
KiH 599

Copy, untitled.

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

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

c.1624-41

Later bookplate of Henry B. Humphrey.

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

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 703 f. 61r)
KiH 599.3

Copy, subscribed Bp King.

A quarto verse miscellany, in probably a single mixed hand varying over a period, entitled in another hand Recueil Choisi De Pieces fugitives En Vers Anglois, 214 pages, in modern calf.

c.1713

Afterwards owned by Charles de Beaumont, the Chevalière d'Éon (1728-1810). Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872): Phillipps MS 9500. 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.

KiH 599.5

Copy, untitled.

A folio formal verse miscellany, in a single rounded hand, 259 pages (plus a three-page index), in modern boards.

The contents, the latest of which (on pp. 203-7) can be dated to a marriage that took place in November 1656, reflect the taste of Interregnum Royalist sympathisers.

c.Late 1650s

Formerly in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 4001. Sotheby's, 29 June 1946, lot 164, to Myers. Then in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.

University College London (MS Ogden 42 pp. 109-10)
KiH 599.8

Copy, untitled.

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

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

Mid-17th century-c.1702

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

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

University of Texas at Austin (Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book f. 45r)
KiH 600

Copy, untitled.

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

Late 17th century

Formerly Chest II, No. 21.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 213 p. 66)
Sonnet ('Tell mee you Starrs that our affections move')

First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales & Ayres (London, 1632). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 149.

KiH 601

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks).

Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's imitator (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657 (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster.

c.1633-58

Thomas Thorpe's sale Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as a most beautifully written volume of Poems in the hand of Bishop King's Daughter). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Hannah MS: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 30 f. 21v)
KiH 602

Copy.

A quarto volume of 58 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat stylish hand throughout, i + 43 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1638-40

Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), second Earl de Grey, statesman, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, who was descended from the brother of Sir Charles Lucas, on whose death in 1648 King wrote an elegy (Crum, pp. 101-10). Wrest Park was earlier the seat of Anthony Grey, eighth Earl of Kent (1557-1643), and of Henry Grey (1594-1651), ninth Earl of Kent, for whom the scholar and jurist John Selden (1584-1654) served as steward. Once apparently also in the library of the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS 51). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 902 (1970), item 196.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Wrest Park MS: KiH Δ 2. Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 7. Briefly described in BLR (March 1974), pp. 125-6; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96; and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 127 f. 11v)
KiH 603

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 60 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat hand, that of Thomas Manne's imitator, 46 leaves (including a few blank pages).

c.1635-6 [and some later additions]

Some 18th-century additions including notes in French, some verse and the inscriptions (f. 3r) Henry Dottin His Book and Elie Dottin Her Book. Later owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Malone MS: KiH Δ 3. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 91-3 (with a facsimile of f. 17v: see KiH 321) and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see Rosemary Williams, Stoughton MS).

KiH 604

Copy.

A quarto volume of 61 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), ii + 33 leaves, in contemporary olive-brown morocco gilt, with remains of green silk ties.

Except for later verses scribbled on f. 33r, all is in a single formal italic hand: i.e. that of Thomas Manne's imitator, who also reproduces King's initials HK in his monogram format as a subscription to nearly every poem.

c.1638

Iinscribed (f. ir) M. Hall / Gainsbro and Miss A. F. Eames / Nottingham. Sotheby's, 21 May 1968, lot 339, to John Fleming, New York. Then owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1907-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 278. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 38.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Houghton MS: KiH Δ 4. For facsimile pages, see KiH 423, KiH 517, KiH 540, and KiH 571. A set of photocopies is also in the British Library, RP 246.

KiH 605

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 606

Copy.

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

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

c.1636-41

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

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

Rosemary Williams (Stoughton MS p. 192)
KiH 607

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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

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

c.1620-50

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

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

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

KiH 608

Copy, headed Loue ill Requited.

This MS collated in Crum.

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

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

c.1633

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

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

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1446 f. 84r)
KiH 609

Copy, untitled, subscribed in monogram format HK.

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

Including 15 poems by Carew and 17 poems by King.

c.1630s

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

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

KiH 609.5

Copy, subscribed Dr. K.

A quarto verse miscellany, in probably a single mixed hand varying over a period, entitled in another hand Recueil Choisi De Pieces fugitives En Vers Anglois, 214 pages, in modern calf.

c.1713

Afterwards owned by Charles de Beaumont, the Chevalière d'Éon (1728-1810). Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872): Phillipps MS 9500. 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.

KiH 610

Copy.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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. 48r)
KiH 611

Copy, untitled, in a musical setting.

This MS collated in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 207); recorded in Crum.

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

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

c.1640s-60s

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

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

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. c. 57 ff. 61v-2r)
KiH 612

Copy in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

This MS collated (no variants) in Cutts, MD, 10 (1956), p. 179; recorded in Crum.

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

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

c.1656

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

Bodleian Library, Music MSS (MS Mus. b. 1 ff. 89v-90r)
KiH 613

Copy, heared On his coy mistresse and subscribed Sr Simeon Steward.

This MS recorded in Crum.

A quarto composite volume of verse, in several hands (the 22 or 23 poems by Carew on ff. 2r-22r in a single hand), with later additions dated 1731-3 by one G. Broughton on ff. 1r and after 44r, a reference to St John's College, Cambridge (in 1731) on f. 83v, 93 leaves (plus blanks), in 19th-century half black morocco.

c.1630s [-1733]

G. Broughton is possibly William (Gulielmus) Broughton (b.1684/5), of Trinity College, Cambridge (one of whose Latin verse compilations was copied in 1704-6 by Richard Robinson in Trinity College, Cambridge, MS 0.6.1 (James 1497). Also the name Jo: Tweedy is inscribed several times on f. 81r. Owned before 1841 by one W. Potter.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Tweedye MS: CwT Δ 10.

KiH 614

Copy, headed Loue ill-requited.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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

c.1630s

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

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

KiH 615

Copy, transcribed from KiH 618.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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.

KiH 616

Copy.

This MS recorded in Crum.

A quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single neat secretary hand, the first page formally inscribed To the righte honoble: 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) Mr 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.

KiH 617

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

A folio songbook, almost entirely in a single rounded italic hand, with (ff. 3r-7v) a table of contents, 113 leaves, in 19th-century half dark red morocco.

Compiled by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer (his signature f. 2v).

c.1654-70s

Arms of Eleanor Bursh on a seal affixed to f. 56r. Later owned and annotated in pencil by Thomas Oliphant (1799-1873), music editor and cataloguer.

A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 5 (New York & London, 1986).

KiH 618

Copy, headed Song.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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.

KiH 619

Copy, untitled.

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.

KiH 620

Copy, untitled, subscribed with the monogram HK.

A quarto miscellany, in several hands, including a number of culinary receipts, 255 leaves (including over 65 blanks), written from both ends (Part I, in a rounded italic hand: ff. 1r-117r:; Part II: ff. 1*r-72r), in old calf.

Inscribed (Part II, f. 1*r) A booke of verses collected by mee RDungaruan: i.e. Richard Boyle (1612-98), Viscount Dungarvon and later Earl of Burlington.

c.1630s

Also inscribed Mary Helerd. Subsequently owned by James Tyrrell (1642-1718), historical writer, and by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1782-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 15745. Formerly Folger MS 46. 2.

KiH 621

Copy, headed Loue ill requited.

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 Sr John Reresby Barronett these prsent: 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. 12r)
KiH 622

Copy, headed To the scornfull Mrs.

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

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

c.1638-42

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

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

KiH 622.5

Copy, headed Upon his cruell Mrs.

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 p. 132)
Sonnet ('Were thy heart soft, as Thou art faire')

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 158-9.

KiH 623

Copy.

A quarto volume of 58 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat stylish hand throughout, i + 43 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1638-40

Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), second Earl de Grey, statesman, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, who was descended from the brother of Sir Charles Lucas, on whose death in 1648 King wrote an elegy (Crum, pp. 101-10). Wrest Park was earlier the seat of Anthony Grey, eighth Earl of Kent (1557-1643), and of Henry Grey (1594-1651), ninth Earl of Kent, for whom the scholar and jurist John Selden (1584-1654) served as steward. Once apparently also in the library of the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS 51). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 902 (1970), item 196.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Wrest Park MS: KiH Δ 2. Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 7. Briefly described in BLR (March 1974), pp. 125-6; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96; and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 127 f. 32r-v)
KiH 624

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 60 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat hand, that of Thomas Manne's imitator, 46 leaves (including a few blank pages).

c.1635-6 [and some later additions]

Some 18th-century additions including notes in French, some verse and the inscriptions (f. 3r) Henry Dottin His Book and Elie Dottin Her Book. Later owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Malone MS: KiH Δ 3. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 91-3 (with a facsimile of f. 17v: see KiH 321) and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see Rosemary Williams, Stoughton MS).

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 22 f. 32r)
KiH 625

Copy.

A quarto volume of 61 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), ii + 33 leaves, in contemporary olive-brown morocco gilt, with remains of green silk ties.

Except for later verses scribbled on f. 33r, all is in a single formal italic hand: i.e. that of Thomas Manne's imitator, who also reproduces King's initials HK in his monogram format as a subscription to nearly every poem.

c.1638

Iinscribed (f. ir) M. Hall / Gainsbro and Miss A. F. Eames / Nottingham. Sotheby's, 21 May 1968, lot 339, to John Fleming, New York. Then owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1907-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 278. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 38.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Houghton MS: KiH Δ 4. For facsimile pages, see KiH 423, KiH 517, KiH 540, and KiH 571. A set of photocopies is also in the British Library, RP 246.

KiH 626

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 627

Copy in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

This MS collated in Cutts, MD, 10 (1956), p. 200; recorded in Crum.

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

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

c.1656

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

Bodleian Library, Music MSS (MS Mus. b. 1 f. 150r-v)
Sonnet ('When I entreat, either thou wilt not heare')

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 148.

KiH 628

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks).

Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's imitator (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657 (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster.

c.1633-58

Thomas Thorpe's sale Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as a most beautifully written volume of Poems in the hand of Bishop King's Daughter). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Hannah MS: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 30 f. 20r)
KiH 629

Copy.

A quarto volume of 58 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat stylish hand throughout, i + 43 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1638-40

Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), second Earl de Grey, statesman, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, who was descended from the brother of Sir Charles Lucas, on whose death in 1648 King wrote an elegy (Crum, pp. 101-10). Wrest Park was earlier the seat of Anthony Grey, eighth Earl of Kent (1557-1643), and of Henry Grey (1594-1651), ninth Earl of Kent, for whom the scholar and jurist John Selden (1584-1654) served as steward. Once apparently also in the library of the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS 51). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 902 (1970), item 196.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Wrest Park MS: KiH Δ 2. Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 7. Briefly described in BLR (March 1974), pp. 125-6; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96; and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 127 f. 11r)
KiH 630

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 60 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat hand, that of Thomas Manne's imitator, 46 leaves (including a few blank pages).

c.1635-6 [and some later additions]

Some 18th-century additions including notes in French, some verse and the inscriptions (f. 3r) Henry Dottin His Book and Elie Dottin Her Book. Later owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Malone MS: KiH Δ 3. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 91-3 (with a facsimile of f. 17v: see KiH 321) and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see Rosemary Williams, Stoughton MS).

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 22 f. 12v.)
KiH 631

Copy.

A quarto volume of 61 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), ii + 33 leaves, in contemporary olive-brown morocco gilt, with remains of green silk ties.

Except for later verses scribbled on f. 33r, all is in a single formal italic hand: i.e. that of Thomas Manne's imitator, who also reproduces King's initials HK in his monogram format as a subscription to nearly every poem.

c.1638

Iinscribed (f. ir) M. Hall / Gainsbro and Miss A. F. Eames / Nottingham. Sotheby's, 21 May 1968, lot 339, to John Fleming, New York. Then owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1907-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 278. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 38.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Houghton MS: KiH Δ 4. For facsimile pages, see KiH 423, KiH 517, KiH 540, and KiH 571. A set of photocopies is also in the British Library, RP 246.

KiH 632

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 633

Copy.

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

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

c.1636-41

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

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

Rosemary Williams (Stoughton MS p. 177)
KiH 634

Copy, headed The discouraged suitor.

This MS collated in Crum.

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

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

c.1633

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

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

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1446 f. 84r)
KiH 635

Copy, untitled, subscribed in monogram format HK.

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

Including 15 poems by Carew and 17 poems by King.

c.1630s

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

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

KiH 636

Copy.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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. 47v)
KiH 637

Copy in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

This MS collated in Cutts, MD, 10 (1956), p. 180; recorded in Crum.

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

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

c.1656

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

Bodleian Library, Music MSS (MS Mus. b. 1 ff. 93v-4r)
KiH 638

Copy, headed To a Discouraged Sutor transcribed from KiH 641.

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.

KiH 639

Copy, headed To A discouraged Sutor, subscribed partly as a monogram D: HK.

A quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single neat secretary hand, the first page formally inscribed To the righte honoble: 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) Mr 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.

KiH 640

Copy, untitled, subscribed with the monogram HK.

A quarto miscellany, in several hands, including a number of culinary receipts, 255 leaves (including over 65 blanks), written from both ends (Part I, in a rounded italic hand: ff. 1r-117r:; Part II: ff. 1*r-72r), in old calf.

Inscribed (Part II, f. 1*r) A booke of verses collected by mee RDungaruan: i.e. Richard Boyle (1612-98), Viscount Dungarvon and later Earl of Burlington.

c.1630s

Also inscribed Mary Helerd. Subsequently owned by James Tyrrell (1642-1718), historical writer, and by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1782-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 15745. Formerly Folger MS 46. 2.

KiH 641

Copy, headed The discoraged Sutor.

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 Sr John Reresby Barronett these prsent: 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 ff. 11v-12)
Sonnet. The Double Rock ('Since Thou hast view'd some Gorgon, and art grow'n')

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 167-8.

*KiH 642 c.1633-40
Autograph

Copy with autograph corrections by King, originally headed Sonnet, the heading The Double Rock added by King.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks).

Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's imitator (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657 (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster.

c.1633-58

Thomas Thorpe's sale Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as a most beautifully written volume of Poems in the hand of Bishop King's Daughter). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Hannah MS: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 30 f. 55v)
KiH 643

Copy, headed The double Rocke.

A quarto volume of 58 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat stylish hand throughout, i + 43 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1638-40

Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), second Earl de Grey, statesman, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, who was descended from the brother of Sir Charles Lucas, on whose death in 1648 King wrote an elegy (Crum, pp. 101-10). Wrest Park was earlier the seat of Anthony Grey, eighth Earl of Kent (1557-1643), and of Henry Grey (1594-1651), ninth Earl of Kent, for whom the scholar and jurist John Selden (1584-1654) served as steward. Once apparently also in the library of the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS 51). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 902 (1970), item 196.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Wrest Park MS: KiH Δ 2. Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 7. Briefly described in BLR (March 1974), pp. 125-6; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96; and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 127 f. 32v)
KiH 644

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 60 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat hand, that of Thomas Manne's imitator, 46 leaves (including a few blank pages).

c.1635-6 [and some later additions]

Some 18th-century additions including notes in French, some verse and the inscriptions (f. 3r) Henry Dottin His Book and Elie Dottin Her Book. Later owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Malone MS: KiH Δ 3. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 91-3 (with a facsimile of f. 17v: see KiH 321) and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see Rosemary Williams, Stoughton MS).

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 22 f. 35r)
KiH 645

Copy, headed The Double Rock.

A quarto volume of 61 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), ii + 33 leaves, in contemporary olive-brown morocco gilt, with remains of green silk ties.

Except for later verses scribbled on f. 33r, all is in a single formal italic hand: i.e. that of Thomas Manne's imitator, who also reproduces King's initials HK in his monogram format as a subscription to nearly every poem.

c.1638

Iinscribed (f. ir) M. Hall / Gainsbro and Miss A. F. Eames / Nottingham. Sotheby's, 21 May 1968, lot 339, to John Fleming, New York. Then owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1907-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 278. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 38.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Houghton MS: KiH Δ 4. For facsimile pages, see KiH 423, KiH 517, KiH 540, and KiH 571. A set of photocopies is also in the British Library, RP 246.

KiH 646

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 647

Copy, headed The Double Rock.

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

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

c.1636-41

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

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

Rosemary Williams (Stoughton MS p. 195)
KiH 648

Copy, headed Sonnet.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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

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

c.1620-50

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

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

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

KiH 649

Second copy, untitled.

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

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

c.1620-50

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

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

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

KiH 650

Copy, headed A Sonnet.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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

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

c.1640

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

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

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Firth e. 4 p. 121)
KiH 651

Copy in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

This MS collated in Cutts, MD, 10 (1956), p. 203; recorded in Crum.

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

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

c.1656

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

Bodleian Library, Music MSS (MS Mus. b. 1 ff. 159v-60r)
KiH 652

Copy, in a mixed hand, headed Sonnett 1, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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).

KiH 653

Copy, headed A sonnet against a Mistris, subscribed Dr. H: King.

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.

KiH 654

Copy, headed A sonnet against his Mrs:.

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 ye two partners of my heart Mr John Wheeler, and Mr 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.

KiH 655

Copy, headed Sonet 1.

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 Sr John Reresby Barronett these prsent: 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. 85r)
Sonnet. To Patience ('Downe stormy Passions, downe: no more')

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 160.

KiH 656

Copy headed Sonnet.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks).

Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's imitator (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657 (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster.

c.1633-58

Thomas Thorpe's sale Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as a most beautifully written volume of Poems in the hand of Bishop King's Daughter). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Hannah MS: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 30 f. 38v)
KiH 657

Copy, headed To Patience.

A quarto volume of 58 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat stylish hand throughout, i + 43 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1638-40

Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), second Earl de Grey, statesman, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, who was descended from the brother of Sir Charles Lucas, on whose death in 1648 King wrote an elegy (Crum, pp. 101-10). Wrest Park was earlier the seat of Anthony Grey, eighth Earl of Kent (1557-1643), and of Henry Grey (1594-1651), ninth Earl of Kent, for whom the scholar and jurist John Selden (1584-1654) served as steward. Once apparently also in the library of the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS 51). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 902 (1970), item 196.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Wrest Park MS: KiH Δ 2. Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 7. Briefly described in BLR (March 1974), pp. 125-6; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96; and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 127 f. 32r)
KiH 658

Copy, headed To Patience.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 60 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat hand, that of Thomas Manne's imitator, 46 leaves (including a few blank pages).

c.1635-6 [and some later additions]

Some 18th-century additions including notes in French, some verse and the inscriptions (f. 3r) Henry Dottin His Book and Elie Dottin Her Book. Later owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Malone MS: KiH Δ 3. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 91-3 (with a facsimile of f. 17v: see KiH 321) and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see Rosemary Williams, Stoughton MS).

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 22 f. 33r)
KiH 659

Copy, headed To Patience.

A quarto volume of 61 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), ii + 33 leaves, in contemporary olive-brown morocco gilt, with remains of green silk ties.

Except for later verses scribbled on f. 33r, all is in a single formal italic hand: i.e. that of Thomas Manne's imitator, who also reproduces King's initials HK in his monogram format as a subscription to nearly every poem.

c.1638

Iinscribed (f. ir) M. Hall / Gainsbro and Miss A. F. Eames / Nottingham. Sotheby's, 21 May 1968, lot 339, to John Fleming, New York. Then owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1907-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 278. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 38.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Houghton MS: KiH Δ 4. For facsimile pages, see KiH 423, KiH 517, KiH 540, and KiH 571. A set of photocopies is also in the British Library, RP 246.

KiH 660

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 661

Copy, headed To Patience.

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

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

c.1636-41

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

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

Rosemary Williams (Stoughton MS p. 191)
KiH 662

Copy, headed To Patience, subscribed H: King.

This MS collated in Crum.

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

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

c.1641-9

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

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

KiH 662.5

Copy, subscribed Bp K:.

A quarto verse miscellany, in probably a single mixed hand varying over a period, entitled in another hand Recueil Choisi De Pieces fugitives En Vers Anglois, 214 pages, in modern calf.

c.1713

Afterwards owned by Charles de Beaumont, the Chevalière d'Éon (1728-1810). Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872): Phillipps MS 9500. 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.

The Surrender ('My once Deare Love. Happlesse that I no more')

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 146-7.

KiH 663

Copy headed An Elegy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks).

Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's imitator (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657 (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster.

c.1633-58

Thomas Thorpe's sale Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as a most beautifully written volume of Poems in the hand of Bishop King's Daughter). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Hannah MS: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 30 ff. 18r-19v)
KiH 664

Copy, headed An Elegie.

A quarto volume of 58 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat stylish hand throughout, i + 43 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1638-40

Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), second Earl de Grey, statesman, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, who was descended from the brother of Sir Charles Lucas, on whose death in 1648 King wrote an elegy (Crum, pp. 101-10). Wrest Park was earlier the seat of Anthony Grey, eighth Earl of Kent (1557-1643), and of Henry Grey (1594-1651), ninth Earl of Kent, for whom the scholar and jurist John Selden (1584-1654) served as steward. Once apparently also in the library of the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS 51). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 902 (1970), item 196.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Wrest Park MS: KiH Δ 2. Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 7. Briefly described in BLR (March 1974), pp. 125-6; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96; and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 127 ff. 9v-10v)
KiH 665

Copy, headed An Elegy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 60 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat hand, that of Thomas Manne's imitator, 46 leaves (including a few blank pages).

c.1635-6 [and some later additions]

Some 18th-century additions including notes in French, some verse and the inscriptions (f. 3r) Henry Dottin His Book and Elie Dottin Her Book. Later owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Malone MS: KiH Δ 3. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 91-3 (with a facsimile of f. 17v: see KiH 321) and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see Rosemary Williams, Stoughton MS).

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 22 ff. 11v-12)
KiH 666

Copy, headed An Elegy.

A quarto volume of 61 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), ii + 33 leaves, in contemporary olive-brown morocco gilt, with remains of green silk ties.

Except for later verses scribbled on f. 33r, all is in a single formal italic hand: i.e. that of Thomas Manne's imitator, who also reproduces King's initials HK in his monogram format as a subscription to nearly every poem.

c.1638

Iinscribed (f. ir) M. Hall / Gainsbro and Miss A. F. Eames / Nottingham. Sotheby's, 21 May 1968, lot 339, to John Fleming, New York. Then owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1907-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 278. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 38.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Houghton MS: KiH Δ 4. For facsimile pages, see KiH 423, KiH 517, KiH 540, and KiH 571. A set of photocopies is also in the British Library, RP 246.

KiH 667

Copy headed The Surrender: An Elegy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 668

Copy, headed An Elegy.

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

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

c.1636-41

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

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

Rosemary Williams (Stoughton MS pp. 160-1)
KiH 669

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Crum.

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).

KiH 670

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Crum.

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

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

c.1620-50

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

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

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

KiH 671

Copy, untitled, subscribed J. B..

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

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

c.1633

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

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

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1446 f. 89r)
KiH 672

Copy, headed On two Loures yt must forsake each othr, with other poems on a folio leaf.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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.

KiH 673

Copy, headed A farewell to his mistress.

This MS recorded in Crum.

A miscellany of verse and prose, iii + 141 leaves.

Compiled by Matthew Crosse, Oxford University bedell of law.

c.1630s
Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Top. Oxon. e. 380 ff. 179-80)
KiH 674

Copy, headed The mournefull parting of 2 Louers being caused by ye disproportion of Estates, transcribed from KiH 678.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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.

KiH 675

Copy, headed A ffarwell to his beloued Mistris.

This MS recorded in Crum.

A quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single neat secretary hand, the first page formally inscribed To the righte honoble: 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) Mr 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.

KiH 676

Copy, headed The mournefull partinge of tow Louers beinge caused by ye disproportion of estates, a subscription Dr HK deleted.

This MS recorded in Crum.

A quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single neat secretary hand, the first page formally inscribed To the righte honoble: 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) Mr 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.

KiH 677

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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 Sr. 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. 113v-14r)
KiH 678

Copy, headed The mournfull partinge of two Lovers Caused by the disproportion of estates, subscribed T: Car.

This MS recorded in Crum.

A quarto verse miscellany, largely in a single professional hand, with later additions on ff. 58v-62v in three or four other hands, 65 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt.

Compiled by one Thomas Crosse, whose name appears (f. 1*) in An Acrosticke upon my name, as well as subscribed (Tho: Cro:) to a poem on ff. 23v-4r.

c.1630s [-1670s]
KiH 679

Copy, headed The mournful parting of Two Louers being caused by the disproportion of estates.

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.

KiH 680

Copy, untitled.

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

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).

KiH 681

Copy, with corrections in a different ink, headed A departing betweene two Louars.

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 Sr John Reresby Barronett these prsent: 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. 68r-v.)
KiH 681.5

Copy, subscribed Bp. King.

A quarto verse miscellany, in probably a single mixed hand varying over a period, entitled in another hand Recueil Choisi De Pieces fugitives En Vers Anglois, 214 pages, in modern calf.

c.1713

Afterwards owned by Charles de Beaumont, the Chevalière d'Éon (1728-1810). Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872): Phillipps MS 9500. 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.

KiH 682

Copy, headed To his Mrs.

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

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

c.1635

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

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

To a Freind upon Overburie's Wife given to Hir ('I know no fitter Subject for your view')

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 155.

KiH 683

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks).

Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's imitator (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657 (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster.

c.1633-58

Thomas Thorpe's sale Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as a most beautifully written volume of Poems in the hand of Bishop King's Daughter). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Hannah MS: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 30 f. 36r)
KiH 684

Copy.

A quarto volume of 58 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat stylish hand throughout, i + 43 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1638-40

Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), second Earl de Grey, statesman, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, who was descended from the brother of Sir Charles Lucas, on whose death in 1648 King wrote an elegy (Crum, pp. 101-10). Wrest Park was earlier the seat of Anthony Grey, eighth Earl of Kent (1557-1643), and of Henry Grey (1594-1651), ninth Earl of Kent, for whom the scholar and jurist John Selden (1584-1654) served as steward. Once apparently also in the library of the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS 51). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 902 (1970), item 196.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Wrest Park MS: KiH Δ 2. Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 7. Briefly described in BLR (March 1974), pp. 125-6; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96; and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 127 ff. 22v-3r)
KiH 685

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 60 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat hand, that of Thomas Manne's imitator, 46 leaves (including a few blank pages).

c.1635-6 [and some later additions]

Some 18th-century additions including notes in French, some verse and the inscriptions (f. 3r) Henry Dottin His Book and Elie Dottin Her Book. Later owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Malone MS: KiH Δ 3. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 91-3 (with a facsimile of f. 17v: see KiH 321) and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see Rosemary Williams, Stoughton MS).

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 22 f. 23v.)
KiH 686

Copy.

A quarto volume of 61 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), ii + 33 leaves, in contemporary olive-brown morocco gilt, with remains of green silk ties.

Except for later verses scribbled on f. 33r, all is in a single formal italic hand: i.e. that of Thomas Manne's imitator, who also reproduces King's initials HK in his monogram format as a subscription to nearly every poem.

c.1638

Iinscribed (f. ir) M. Hall / Gainsbro and Miss A. F. Eames / Nottingham. Sotheby's, 21 May 1968, lot 339, to John Fleming, New York. Then owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1907-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 278. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 38.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Houghton MS: KiH Δ 4. For facsimile pages, see KiH 423, KiH 517, KiH 540, and KiH 571. A set of photocopies is also in the British Library, RP 246.

KiH 687

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

To a Lady who sent me a copy of verses at my going to bed ('Lady, your art, or wit could nere devise')

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 178-9, 240.

KiH 688

Copy of an early version, beginning Doubtlesse the Thespian Spring doth overflow.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks).

Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's imitator (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657 (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster.

c.1633-58

Thomas Thorpe's sale Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as a most beautifully written volume of Poems in the hand of Bishop King's Daughter). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Hannah MS: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 30 ff. 52v-3r)
KiH 689 c.1635-6

Copy of an early version, beginning Doubtlesse the Thespian Spring doth overflow.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 60 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat hand, that of Thomas Manne's imitator, 46 leaves (including a few blank pages).

c.1635-6 [and some later additions]

Some 18th-century additions including notes in French, some verse and the inscriptions (f. 3r) Henry Dottin His Book and Elie Dottin Her Book. Later owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Malone MS: KiH Δ 3. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 91-3 (with a facsimile of f. 17v: see KiH 321) and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see Rosemary Williams, Stoughton MS).

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 22 f. 34r)
KiH 690

Copy of the revised version; c.1638.

A quarto volume of 61 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), ii + 33 leaves, in contemporary olive-brown morocco gilt, with remains of green silk ties.

Except for later verses scribbled on f. 33r, all is in a single formal italic hand: i.e. that of Thomas Manne's imitator, who also reproduces King's initials HK in his monogram format as a subscription to nearly every poem.

c.1638

Iinscribed (f. ir) M. Hall / Gainsbro and Miss A. F. Eames / Nottingham. Sotheby's, 21 May 1968, lot 339, to John Fleming, New York. Then owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1907-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 278. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 38.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Houghton MS: KiH Δ 4. For facsimile pages, see KiH 423, KiH 517, KiH 540, and KiH 571. A set of photocopies is also in the British Library, RP 246.

KiH 691

Copy of the revised version.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 692

Copy of an early version, beginning Doubtlesse the Thespian Spring doth overflow.

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

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

c.1636-41

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

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

Rosemary Williams (Stoughton MS p. 170)
To A.R. upon the same ('Not that I would instruct or tutor you')

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 155.

KiH 693

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks).

Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's imitator (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657 (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster.

c.1633-58

Thomas Thorpe's sale Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as a most beautifully written volume of Poems in the hand of Bishop King's Daughter). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Hannah MS: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 30 f. 36v)
KiH 694

Copy, headed To A R in Eandem.

A quarto volume of 58 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat stylish hand throughout, i + 43 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1638-40

Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), second Earl de Grey, statesman, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, who was descended from the brother of Sir Charles Lucas, on whose death in 1648 King wrote an elegy (Crum, pp. 101-10). Wrest Park was earlier the seat of Anthony Grey, eighth Earl of Kent (1557-1643), and of Henry Grey (1594-1651), ninth Earl of Kent, for whom the scholar and jurist John Selden (1584-1654) served as steward. Once apparently also in the library of the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS 51). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 902 (1970), item 196.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Wrest Park MS: KiH Δ 2. Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 7. Briefly described in BLR (March 1974), pp. 125-6; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96; and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 127 f. 23r)
KiH 695

Copy, headed To A.R. in eandem.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 60 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat hand, that of Thomas Manne's imitator, 46 leaves (including a few blank pages).

c.1635-6 [and some later additions]

Some 18th-century additions including notes in French, some verse and the inscriptions (f. 3r) Henry Dottin His Book and Elie Dottin Her Book. Later owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Malone MS: KiH Δ 3. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 91-3 (with a facsimile of f. 17v: see KiH 321) and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see Rosemary Williams, Stoughton MS).

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 22 f. 23v.)
KiH 696

Copy, headed To A.R. in eandem.

A quarto volume of 61 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), ii + 33 leaves, in contemporary olive-brown morocco gilt, with remains of green silk ties.

Except for later verses scribbled on f. 33r, all is in a single formal italic hand: i.e. that of Thomas Manne's imitator, who also reproduces King's initials HK in his monogram format as a subscription to nearly every poem.

c.1638

Iinscribed (f. ir) M. Hall / Gainsbro and Miss A. F. Eames / Nottingham. Sotheby's, 21 May 1968, lot 339, to John Fleming, New York. Then owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1907-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 278. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 38.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Houghton MS: KiH Δ 4. For facsimile pages, see KiH 423, KiH 517, KiH 540, and KiH 571. A set of photocopies is also in the British Library, RP 246.

KiH 697

Copy, headed To A.R: in eandem.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

To his Freinds of Christchurch upon the mislike of the Marriage of the Artes, acted at Woodstock ('But is it true, the Court mislik't the Play')

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 67.

KiH 698

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks).

Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's imitator (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657 (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster.

c.1633-58

Thomas Thorpe's sale Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as a most beautifully written volume of Poems in the hand of Bishop King's Daughter). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Hannah MS: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 30 f. 35r-v)
KiH 699

Copy.

A quarto volume of 58 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat stylish hand throughout, i + 43 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1638-40

Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), second Earl de Grey, statesman, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, who was descended from the brother of Sir Charles Lucas, on whose death in 1648 King wrote an elegy (Crum, pp. 101-10). Wrest Park was earlier the seat of Anthony Grey, eighth Earl of Kent (1557-1643), and of Henry Grey (1594-1651), ninth Earl of Kent, for whom the scholar and jurist John Selden (1584-1654) served as steward. Once apparently also in the library of the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS 51). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 902 (1970), item 196.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Wrest Park MS: KiH Δ 2. Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 7. Briefly described in BLR (March 1974), pp. 125-6; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96; and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 127 ff. 21v-2r)
KiH 700

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 60 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat hand, that of Thomas Manne's imitator, 46 leaves (including a few blank pages).

c.1635-6 [and some later additions]

Some 18th-century additions including notes in French, some verse and the inscriptions (f. 3r) Henry Dottin His Book and Elie Dottin Her Book. Later owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Malone MS: KiH Δ 3. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 91-3 (with a facsimile of f. 17v: see KiH 321) and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see Rosemary Williams, Stoughton MS).

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 22 f. 24v.)
KiH 701

Copy.

A quarto volume of 61 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), ii + 33 leaves, in contemporary olive-brown morocco gilt, with remains of green silk ties.

Except for later verses scribbled on f. 33r, all is in a single formal italic hand: i.e. that of Thomas Manne's imitator, who also reproduces King's initials HK in his monogram format as a subscription to nearly every poem.

c.1638

Iinscribed (f. ir) M. Hall / Gainsbro and Miss A. F. Eames / Nottingham. Sotheby's, 21 May 1968, lot 339, to John Fleming, New York. Then owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1907-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 278. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 38.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Houghton MS: KiH Δ 4. For facsimile pages, see KiH 423, KiH 517, KiH 540, and KiH 571. A set of photocopies is also in the British Library, RP 246.

KiH 702

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 703

Copy.

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

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

c.1636-41

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

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

Rosemary Williams (Stoughton MS pp. 168-9)
KiH 704

Copy, subscribed H: King.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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

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

c.1641-9

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

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

KiH 705

Copy, headed Vpon the mislike of Christchurch Mariage of the Artes at Woodstock, subscribed in monogram format. HK.

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

Including 15 poems by Carew and 17 poems by King.

c.1630s

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

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

To his unconstant Freind ('But say, thou very Woman, why to mee')

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 142-4.

KiH 706

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks).

Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's imitator (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657 (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster.

c.1633-58

Thomas Thorpe's sale Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as a most beautifully written volume of Poems in the hand of Bishop King's Daughter). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Hannah MS: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 30 ff. 13r-15r)
KiH 707

Copy.

A quarto volume of 58 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat stylish hand throughout, i + 43 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1638-40

Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), second Earl de Grey, statesman, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, who was descended from the brother of Sir Charles Lucas, on whose death in 1648 King wrote an elegy (Crum, pp. 101-10). Wrest Park was earlier the seat of Anthony Grey, eighth Earl of Kent (1557-1643), and of Henry Grey (1594-1651), ninth Earl of Kent, for whom the scholar and jurist John Selden (1584-1654) served as steward. Once apparently also in the library of the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS 51). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 902 (1970), item 196.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Wrest Park MS: KiH Δ 2. Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 7. Briefly described in BLR (March 1974), pp. 125-6; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96; and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 127 ff. 6r-7v)
KiH 708

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 60 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat hand, that of Thomas Manne's imitator, 46 leaves (including a few blank pages).

c.1635-6 [and some later additions]

Some 18th-century additions including notes in French, some verse and the inscriptions (f. 3r) Henry Dottin His Book and Elie Dottin Her Book. Later owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Malone MS: KiH Δ 3. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 91-3 (with a facsimile of f. 17v: see KiH 321) and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see Rosemary Williams, Stoughton MS).

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 22 ff. 8v-9v)
KiH 709

Copy.

A quarto volume of 61 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), ii + 33 leaves, in contemporary olive-brown morocco gilt, with remains of green silk ties.

Except for later verses scribbled on f. 33r, all is in a single formal italic hand: i.e. that of Thomas Manne's imitator, who also reproduces King's initials HK in his monogram format as a subscription to nearly every poem.

c.1638

Iinscribed (f. ir) M. Hall / Gainsbro and Miss A. F. Eames / Nottingham. Sotheby's, 21 May 1968, lot 339, to John Fleming, New York. Then owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1907-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 278. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 38.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Houghton MS: KiH Δ 4. For facsimile pages, see KiH 423, KiH 517, KiH 540, and KiH 571. A set of photocopies is also in the British Library, RP 246.

KiH 710

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 711

Copy.

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

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

c.1636-41

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

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

Rosemary Williams (Stoughton MS pp. 141-5)
KiH 712

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Crum.

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).

KiH 713

Copy, subscribed in monogram format HK.

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

Including 15 poems by Carew and 17 poems by King.

c.1630s

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

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

KiH 714

Copy, transcribed from KiH 717.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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.

KiH 715

Copy.

This MS recorded in Crum.

A quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single neat secretary hand, the first page formally inscribed To the righte honoble: 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) Mr 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.

KiH 716

Copy, headed To his vnconstant Mrs:, subscribed Th: Ca..

Edited from this MS in The Poems of Thomas Carew, ed. W. Carew Hazlitt ([London], 1870), pp. 101-3; recorded in Crum.

A quarto verse miscellany, largely in a single professional hand, with later additions on ff. 58v-62v in three or four other hands, 65 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt.

Compiled by one Thomas Crosse, whose name appears (f. 1*) in An Acrosticke upon my name, as well as subscribed (Tho: Cro:) to a poem on ff. 23v-4r.

c.1630s [-1670s]
KiH 717

Copy, headed To A Gentlewoman who prmising him marriage marryed another.

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

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

c.1650

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

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

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 200 pp. 144-6)
To my Dead Friend Ben: Johnson ('I see that Wreath, which doth the Wearer arme')

First published in Jonsonus Virbius, or the Memorie of Ben Johnson Revived by the friends of the Muses, ed. Brian Duppa (London, 1638). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 87-8.

KiH 718

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks).

Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's imitator (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657 (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster.

c.1633-58

Thomas Thorpe's sale Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as a most beautifully written volume of Poems in the hand of Bishop King's Daughter). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Hannah MS: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 30 ff. 76r-7v)
KiH 719

Copy.

A quarto volume of 61 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), ii + 33 leaves, in contemporary olive-brown morocco gilt, with remains of green silk ties.

Except for later verses scribbled on f. 33r, all is in a single formal italic hand: i.e. that of Thomas Manne's imitator, who also reproduces King's initials HK in his monogram format as a subscription to nearly every poem.

c.1638

Iinscribed (f. ir) M. Hall / Gainsbro and Miss A. F. Eames / Nottingham. Sotheby's, 21 May 1968, lot 339, to John Fleming, New York. Then owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1907-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 278. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 38.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Houghton MS: KiH Δ 4. For facsimile pages, see KiH 423, KiH 517, KiH 540, and KiH 571. A set of photocopies is also in the British Library, RP 246.

KiH 720

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

To my honourd friend Mr. George Sandys ('It is, Sir, a confess'd intrusion here')

First published in George Sandys, A Paraphrase upon the Divine Poems (London, 1638). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 89-92.

KiH 721

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks).

Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's imitator (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657 (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster.

c.1633-58

Thomas Thorpe's sale Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as a most beautifully written volume of Poems in the hand of Bishop King's Daughter). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Hannah MS: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 30 ff. 78r-81v)
KiH 722

Copy of lines 1-54, incomplete, subscribed Job.

A quarto volume of 61 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), ii + 33 leaves, in contemporary olive-brown morocco gilt, with remains of green silk ties.

Except for later verses scribbled on f. 33r, all is in a single formal italic hand: i.e. that of Thomas Manne's imitator, who also reproduces King's initials HK in his monogram format as a subscription to nearly every poem.

c.1638

Iinscribed (f. ir) M. Hall / Gainsbro and Miss A. F. Eames / Nottingham. Sotheby's, 21 May 1968, lot 339, to John Fleming, New York. Then owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1907-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 278. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 38.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Houghton MS: KiH Δ 4. For facsimile pages, see KiH 423, KiH 517, KiH 540, and KiH 571. A set of photocopies is also in the British Library, RP 246.

KiH 723

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

To my Noble and Judicious Friend Mr Henry Blount upon his Voyage ('Sir I must ever owne my self to be')

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 83-7.

KiH 724

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks).

Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's imitator (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657 (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster.

c.1633-58

Thomas Thorpe's sale Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as a most beautifully written volume of Poems in the hand of Bishop King's Daughter). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Hannah MS: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 30 ff. 71r-5v)
KiH 725

Copy.

A quarto volume of 61 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), ii + 33 leaves, in contemporary olive-brown morocco gilt, with remains of green silk ties.

Except for later verses scribbled on f. 33r, all is in a single formal italic hand: i.e. that of Thomas Manne's imitator, who also reproduces King's initials HK in his monogram format as a subscription to nearly every poem.

c.1638

Iinscribed (f. ir) M. Hall / Gainsbro and Miss A. F. Eames / Nottingham. Sotheby's, 21 May 1968, lot 339, to John Fleming, New York. Then owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1907-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 278. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 38.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Houghton MS: KiH Δ 4. For facsimile pages, see KiH 423, KiH 517, KiH 540, and KiH 571. A set of photocopies is also in the British Library, RP 246.

KiH 726

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 727

Copy, headed To Mr. Henry Blount, vpon his Voyage to the Levant.

This MS text recorded in Crum.

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).

To my Sister Anne King who chid mee in verse for being angry ('Deare Nan! I would not have thy Counsaile lost')

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 166.

KiH 728

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks).

Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's imitator (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657 (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster.

c.1633-58

Thomas Thorpe's sale Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as a most beautifully written volume of Poems in the hand of Bishop King's Daughter). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Hannah MS: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 30 f. 52r-v)
KiH 729

Copy.

A quarto volume of 58 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat stylish hand throughout, i + 43 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1638-40

Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), second Earl de Grey, statesman, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, who was descended from the brother of Sir Charles Lucas, on whose death in 1648 King wrote an elegy (Crum, pp. 101-10). Wrest Park was earlier the seat of Anthony Grey, eighth Earl of Kent (1557-1643), and of Henry Grey (1594-1651), ninth Earl of Kent, for whom the scholar and jurist John Selden (1584-1654) served as steward. Once apparently also in the library of the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS 51). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 902 (1970), item 196.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Wrest Park MS: KiH Δ 2. Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 7. Briefly described in BLR (March 1974), pp. 125-6; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96; and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 127 f. 31r)
KiH 730

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 60 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat hand, that of Thomas Manne's imitator, 46 leaves (including a few blank pages).

c.1635-6 [and some later additions]

Some 18th-century additions including notes in French, some verse and the inscriptions (f. 3r) Henry Dottin His Book and Elie Dottin Her Book. Later owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Malone MS: KiH Δ 3. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 91-3 (with a facsimile of f. 17v: see KiH 321) and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see Rosemary Williams, Stoughton MS).

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 22 f. 34v.)
KiH 731

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 732

Copy.

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

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

c.1636-41

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

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

Rosemary Williams (Stoughton MS p. 204)
To One demanding why Wine sparkles ('So Diamonds sparkle, and thy Mistriss' eyes')

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 188-9, 243.

KiH 733

Copy of an early version, beginning Wee doe not give the Wine a sparkling name.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks).

Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's imitator (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657 (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster.

c.1633-58

Thomas Thorpe's sale Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as a most beautifully written volume of Poems in the hand of Bishop King's Daughter). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Hannah MS: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 30 f. 37r)
KiH 734

Copy of an early version, beginning Wee doe not give the wine a sparkling name.

A quarto volume of 58 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat stylish hand throughout, i + 43 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1638-40

Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), second Earl de Grey, statesman, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, who was descended from the brother of Sir Charles Lucas, on whose death in 1648 King wrote an elegy (Crum, pp. 101-10). Wrest Park was earlier the seat of Anthony Grey, eighth Earl of Kent (1557-1643), and of Henry Grey (1594-1651), ninth Earl of Kent, for whom the scholar and jurist John Selden (1584-1654) served as steward. Once apparently also in the library of the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS 51). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 902 (1970), item 196.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Wrest Park MS: KiH Δ 2. Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 7. Briefly described in BLR (March 1974), pp. 125-6; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96; and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 127 f. 22v)
KiH 735 c.1635-6

Copy of an early version, beginning Wee doe not give the Wine a sparkling name.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 60 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat hand, that of Thomas Manne's imitator, 46 leaves (including a few blank pages).

c.1635-6 [and some later additions]

Some 18th-century additions including notes in French, some verse and the inscriptions (f. 3r) Henry Dottin His Book and Elie Dottin Her Book. Later owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Malone MS: KiH Δ 3. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 91-3 (with a facsimile of f. 17v: see KiH 321) and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see Rosemary Williams, Stoughton MS).

KiH 736

Copy of an early version, beginning Wee doe not give the Wine a Sparkling name.

A quarto volume of 61 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), ii + 33 leaves, in contemporary olive-brown morocco gilt, with remains of green silk ties.

Except for later verses scribbled on f. 33r, all is in a single formal italic hand: i.e. that of Thomas Manne's imitator, who also reproduces King's initials HK in his monogram format as a subscription to nearly every poem.

c.1638

Iinscribed (f. ir) M. Hall / Gainsbro and Miss A. F. Eames / Nottingham. Sotheby's, 21 May 1968, lot 339, to John Fleming, New York. Then owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1907-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 278. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 38.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Houghton MS: KiH Δ 4. For facsimile pages, see KiH 423, KiH 517, KiH 540, and KiH 571. A set of photocopies is also in the British Library, RP 246.

KiH 737 c.1646

Copy of an early version, beginning Wee doe not give the Wine a sparkling name.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 738 c.1648

Copy of the revised version.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 738.5

Copy of an early version, headed Vpon a Demand why the Wyne sparkles and beginning Wee doe not giue this wyne a sparkling name.

An octavo volume of nine poems by Henry King, written in oblong format in a single stylish hand up to f. 24v, subsequently used in upright format for culinary and medical receipts in other hands, 48 leaves, in later blind-stamped calf.

c.1630s

Bookplate of J. Eliot Hodgkin, FSA (1829-1912), engineer and book collector, of Richmond, Surrey. Sotheby's, 12 May 1914 (Hodgkin sale).

Recorded in HMC, 15th Report, 41-2, and Appendix II [30].

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 634 ff. 2v-3v)
To the Queen at Oxford ('Great Lady! That thus quite against our use')

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 97-8.

KiH 739 c.1646

Copy, headed To the Queene.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

To the same Lady Upon Mr. Burton's Melancholy ('If in this Glasse of Humours you doe find')

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 154.

KiH 740

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks).

Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's imitator (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657 (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster.

c.1633-58

Thomas Thorpe's sale Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as a most beautifully written volume of Poems in the hand of Bishop King's Daughter). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Hannah MS: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 30 f. 51v)
KiH 741

Copy, headed To A Lady….

A quarto volume of 58 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat stylish hand throughout, i + 43 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1638-40

Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), second Earl de Grey, statesman, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, who was descended from the brother of Sir Charles Lucas, on whose death in 1648 King wrote an elegy (Crum, pp. 101-10). Wrest Park was earlier the seat of Anthony Grey, eighth Earl of Kent (1557-1643), and of Henry Grey (1594-1651), ninth Earl of Kent, for whom the scholar and jurist John Selden (1584-1654) served as steward. Once apparently also in the library of the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS 51). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 902 (1970), item 196.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Wrest Park MS: KiH Δ 2. Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 7. Briefly described in BLR (March 1974), pp. 125-6; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96; and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 127 f. 22r-v)
KiH 742

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 60 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat hand, that of Thomas Manne's imitator, 46 leaves (including a few blank pages).

c.1635-6 [and some later additions]

Some 18th-century additions including notes in French, some verse and the inscriptions (f. 3r) Henry Dottin His Book and Elie Dottin Her Book. Later owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Malone MS: KiH Δ 3. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 91-3 (with a facsimile of f. 17v: see KiH 321) and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see Rosemary Williams, Stoughton MS).

KiH 743

Copy, headed To a Lady....

A quarto volume of 61 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), ii + 33 leaves, in contemporary olive-brown morocco gilt, with remains of green silk ties.

Except for later verses scribbled on f. 33r, all is in a single formal italic hand: i.e. that of Thomas Manne's imitator, who also reproduces King's initials HK in his monogram format as a subscription to nearly every poem.

c.1638

Iinscribed (f. ir) M. Hall / Gainsbro and Miss A. F. Eames / Nottingham. Sotheby's, 21 May 1968, lot 339, to John Fleming, New York. Then owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1907-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 278. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 38.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Houghton MS: KiH Δ 4. For facsimile pages, see KiH 423, KiH 517, KiH 540, and KiH 571. A set of photocopies is also in the British Library, RP 246.

KiH 744

Copy, headed To a Lady vpon Mr Burtons Melancholly.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 745

Copy, headed To the same vpon….

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

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

c.1636-41

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

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

Rosemary Williams (Stoughton MS p. 201)
To the same Lady Upon Overburye's Wife ('Madam, who understands you well, would sweare')

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 154.

KiH 746

Copy.

A quarto volume of 58 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat stylish hand throughout, i + 43 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1638-40

Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), second Earl de Grey, statesman, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, who was descended from the brother of Sir Charles Lucas, on whose death in 1648 King wrote an elegy (Crum, pp. 101-10). Wrest Park was earlier the seat of Anthony Grey, eighth Earl of Kent (1557-1643), and of Henry Grey (1594-1651), ninth Earl of Kent, for whom the scholar and jurist John Selden (1584-1654) served as steward. Once apparently also in the library of the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS 51). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 902 (1970), item 196.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Wrest Park MS: KiH Δ 2. Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 7. Briefly described in BLR (March 1974), pp. 125-6; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96; and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 127 f. 22r)
KiH 747

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 60 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat hand, that of Thomas Manne's imitator, 46 leaves (including a few blank pages).

c.1635-6 [and some later additions]

Some 18th-century additions including notes in French, some verse and the inscriptions (f. 3r) Henry Dottin His Book and Elie Dottin Her Book. Later owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Malone MS: KiH Δ 3. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 91-3 (with a facsimile of f. 17v: see KiH 321) and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see Rosemary Williams, Stoughton MS).

KiH 748

Copy.

A quarto volume of 61 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), ii + 33 leaves, in contemporary olive-brown morocco gilt, with remains of green silk ties.

Except for later verses scribbled on f. 33r, all is in a single formal italic hand: i.e. that of Thomas Manne's imitator, who also reproduces King's initials HK in his monogram format as a subscription to nearly every poem.

c.1638

Iinscribed (f. ir) M. Hall / Gainsbro and Miss A. F. Eames / Nottingham. Sotheby's, 21 May 1968, lot 339, to John Fleming, New York. Then owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1907-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 278. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 38.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Houghton MS: KiH Δ 4. For facsimile pages, see KiH 423, KiH 517, KiH 540, and KiH 571. A set of photocopies is also in the British Library, RP 246.

KiH 749

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

Upon a Braid of Haire in a sent by Mris. E.H. ('In this small Character is sent')

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 155.

KiH 750

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks).

Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's imitator (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657 (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster.

c.1633-58

Thomas Thorpe's sale Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as a most beautifully written volume of Poems in the hand of Bishop King's Daughter). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Hannah MS: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 30 f. 38r)
KiH 751

Copy.

A quarto volume of 58 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat stylish hand throughout, i + 43 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1638-40

Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), second Earl de Grey, statesman, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, who was descended from the brother of Sir Charles Lucas, on whose death in 1648 King wrote an elegy (Crum, pp. 101-10). Wrest Park was earlier the seat of Anthony Grey, eighth Earl of Kent (1557-1643), and of Henry Grey (1594-1651), ninth Earl of Kent, for whom the scholar and jurist John Selden (1584-1654) served as steward. Once apparently also in the library of the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS 51). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 902 (1970), item 196.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Wrest Park MS: KiH Δ 2. Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 7. Briefly described in BLR (March 1974), pp. 125-6; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96; and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 127 f. 23v)
KiH 752

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 60 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat hand, that of Thomas Manne's imitator, 46 leaves (including a few blank pages).

c.1635-6 [and some later additions]

Some 18th-century additions including notes in French, some verse and the inscriptions (f. 3r) Henry Dottin His Book and Elie Dottin Her Book. Later owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Malone MS: KiH Δ 3. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 91-3 (with a facsimile of f. 17v: see KiH 321) and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see Rosemary Williams, Stoughton MS).

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 22 f. 23v.)
KiH 753

Copy.

A quarto volume of 61 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), ii + 33 leaves, in contemporary olive-brown morocco gilt, with remains of green silk ties.

Except for later verses scribbled on f. 33r, all is in a single formal italic hand: i.e. that of Thomas Manne's imitator, who also reproduces King's initials HK in his monogram format as a subscription to nearly every poem.

c.1638

Iinscribed (f. ir) M. Hall / Gainsbro and Miss A. F. Eames / Nottingham. Sotheby's, 21 May 1968, lot 339, to John Fleming, New York. Then owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1907-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 278. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 38.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Houghton MS: KiH Δ 4. For facsimile pages, see KiH 423, KiH 517, KiH 540, and KiH 571. A set of photocopies is also in the British Library, RP 246.

KiH 754

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 754.5

Copy.

An octavo volume of nine poems by Henry King, written in oblong format in a single stylish hand up to f. 24v, subsequently used in upright format for culinary and medical receipts in other hands, 48 leaves, in later blind-stamped calf.

c.1630s

Bookplate of J. Eliot Hodgkin, FSA (1829-1912), engineer and book collector, of Richmond, Surrey. Sotheby's, 12 May 1914 (Hodgkin sale).

Recorded in HMC, 15th Report, 41-2, and Appendix II [30].

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 634 ff. 3v-4r)
Upon a Table-book presented to a Lady ('When your faire hand receaves this Little Book')

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 154.

KiH 755

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks).

Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's imitator (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657 (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster.

c.1633-58

Thomas Thorpe's sale Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as a most beautifully written volume of Poems in the hand of Bishop King's Daughter). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Hannah MS: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 30 f. 51r)
KiH 756

Copy.

A quarto volume of 58 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat stylish hand throughout, i + 43 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1638-40

Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), second Earl de Grey, statesman, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, who was descended from the brother of Sir Charles Lucas, on whose death in 1648 King wrote an elegy (Crum, pp. 101-10). Wrest Park was earlier the seat of Anthony Grey, eighth Earl of Kent (1557-1643), and of Henry Grey (1594-1651), ninth Earl of Kent, for whom the scholar and jurist John Selden (1584-1654) served as steward. Once apparently also in the library of the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS 51). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 902 (1970), item 196.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Wrest Park MS: KiH Δ 2. Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 7. Briefly described in BLR (March 1974), pp. 125-6; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96; and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 127 f. 2r)
KiH 757

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 60 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat hand, that of Thomas Manne's imitator, 46 leaves (including a few blank pages).

c.1635-6 [and some later additions]

Some 18th-century additions including notes in French, some verse and the inscriptions (f. 3r) Henry Dottin His Book and Elie Dottin Her Book. Later owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Malone MS: KiH Δ 3. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 91-3 (with a facsimile of f. 17v: see KiH 321) and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see Rosemary Williams, Stoughton MS).

KiH 758

Copy.

A quarto volume of 61 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), ii + 33 leaves, in contemporary olive-brown morocco gilt, with remains of green silk ties.

Except for later verses scribbled on f. 33r, all is in a single formal italic hand: i.e. that of Thomas Manne's imitator, who also reproduces King's initials HK in his monogram format as a subscription to nearly every poem.

c.1638

Iinscribed (f. ir) M. Hall / Gainsbro and Miss A. F. Eames / Nottingham. Sotheby's, 21 May 1968, lot 339, to John Fleming, New York. Then owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1907-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 278. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 38.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Houghton MS: KiH Δ 4. For facsimile pages, see KiH 423, KiH 517, KiH 540, and KiH 571. A set of photocopies is also in the British Library, RP 246.

KiH 759

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 760

Copy.

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

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

c.1636-41

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

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

Rosemary Williams (Stoughton MS p. 200)
KiH 761

Copy, here beginning When that fairie hand receiues this Little booke.

An octavo volume of nine poems by Henry King, written in oblong format in a single stylish hand up to f. 24v, subsequently used in upright format for culinary and medical receipts in other hands, 48 leaves, in later blind-stamped calf.

c.1630s

Bookplate of J. Eliot Hodgkin, FSA (1829-1912), engineer and book collector, of Richmond, Surrey. Sotheby's, 12 May 1914 (Hodgkin sale).

Recorded in HMC, 15th Report, 41-2, and Appendix II [30].

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 634 ff. 4v-5r)
Upon the Death of my ever Desired Freind Dr. Donne Dean of Paules ('To have liv'd Eminent, in a degree')

First published in John Donne, Deaths Duell (London, 1632). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 76-7.

KiH 762

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks).

Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's imitator (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657 (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster.

c.1633-58

Thomas Thorpe's sale Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as a most beautifully written volume of Poems in the hand of Bishop King's Daughter). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Hannah MS: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 30 ff. 47r-8v)
KiH 763

Copy, headed An Elegie Vpon the Death….

A quarto volume of 58 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat stylish hand throughout, i + 43 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1638-40

Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), second Earl de Grey, statesman, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, who was descended from the brother of Sir Charles Lucas, on whose death in 1648 King wrote an elegy (Crum, pp. 101-10). Wrest Park was earlier the seat of Anthony Grey, eighth Earl of Kent (1557-1643), and of Henry Grey (1594-1651), ninth Earl of Kent, for whom the scholar and jurist John Selden (1584-1654) served as steward. Once apparently also in the library of the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS 51). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 902 (1970), item 196.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Wrest Park MS: KiH Δ 2. Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 7. Briefly described in BLR (March 1974), pp. 125-6; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96; and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 127 ff. 26r-7v)
KiH 764

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 60 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat hand, that of Thomas Manne's imitator, 46 leaves (including a few blank pages).

c.1635-6 [and some later additions]

Some 18th-century additions including notes in French, some verse and the inscriptions (f. 3r) Henry Dottin His Book and Elie Dottin Her Book. Later owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Malone MS: KiH Δ 3. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 91-3 (with a facsimile of f. 17v: see KiH 321) and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see Rosemary Williams, Stoughton MS).

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 22 ff. 27v-8v.)
KiH 765

Copy, headed An Elegy. Vpon the Death of my ever Desired Friend Dr Donne Deane of Paules.

A quarto volume of 61 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), ii + 33 leaves, in contemporary olive-brown morocco gilt, with remains of green silk ties.

Except for later verses scribbled on f. 33r, all is in a single formal italic hand: i.e. that of Thomas Manne's imitator, who also reproduces King's initials HK in his monogram format as a subscription to nearly every poem.

c.1638

Iinscribed (f. ir) M. Hall / Gainsbro and Miss A. F. Eames / Nottingham. Sotheby's, 21 May 1968, lot 339, to John Fleming, New York. Then owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1907-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 278. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 38.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Houghton MS: KiH Δ 4. For facsimile pages, see KiH 423, KiH 517, KiH 540, and KiH 571. A set of photocopies is also in the British Library, RP 246.

KiH 766

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 767

Copy.

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

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

c.1636-41

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

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

Rosemary Williams (Stoughton MS pp. 206-8)
KiH 768

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

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).

KiH 768.5

Adapted exracts.

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

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

c.1671/2

Inscribed inside the front cover Saml Atkins Wykeham and inside the rear cover 17 Feby 1879. Purchased this Book of Prescot Bookseller. Upper Arcade. Bristol...Edwd G. Doggett.

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

Princeton (CO199 No. 812 pp. 229-30)
KiH 769

Copy, headed vppon my euer desired friend Dr. Dunne, subscribed in a different hand D. H. kinge.

This MS (erroneously cited as MS. 417) collated in Crum, p. 200.

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

c.1630s-40s

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

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

St John's College, Cambridge (MS S. 23 (James 416) ff. 41r-2r)
Upon the King's happy Returne from Scotland ('So breakes the Day, when the Returning Sun')

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 81-2.

KiH 770

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks).

Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's imitator (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657 (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster.

c.1633-58

Thomas Thorpe's sale Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as a most beautifully written volume of Poems in the hand of Bishop King's Daughter). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Hannah MS: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 30 ff. 62r-3r)
KiH 771

Copy.

A quarto volume of 58 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat stylish hand throughout, i + 43 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1638-40

Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), second Earl de Grey, statesman, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, who was descended from the brother of Sir Charles Lucas, on whose death in 1648 King wrote an elegy (Crum, pp. 101-10). Wrest Park was earlier the seat of Anthony Grey, eighth Earl of Kent (1557-1643), and of Henry Grey (1594-1651), ninth Earl of Kent, for whom the scholar and jurist John Selden (1584-1654) served as steward. Once apparently also in the library of the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS 51). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 902 (1970), item 196.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Wrest Park MS: KiH Δ 2. Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 7. Briefly described in BLR (March 1974), pp. 125-6; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96; and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 127 ff. 36r-7r)
KiH 772

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 60 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat hand, that of Thomas Manne's imitator, 46 leaves (including a few blank pages).

c.1635-6 [and some later additions]

Some 18th-century additions including notes in French, some verse and the inscriptions (f. 3r) Henry Dottin His Book and Elie Dottin Her Book. Later owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Malone MS: KiH Δ 3. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 91-3 (with a facsimile of f. 17v: see KiH 321) and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see Rosemary Williams, Stoughton MS).

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 22 f. 40r-v.)
KiH 773

Copy.

A quarto volume of 61 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), ii + 33 leaves, in contemporary olive-brown morocco gilt, with remains of green silk ties.

Except for later verses scribbled on f. 33r, all is in a single formal italic hand: i.e. that of Thomas Manne's imitator, who also reproduces King's initials HK in his monogram format as a subscription to nearly every poem.

c.1638

Iinscribed (f. ir) M. Hall / Gainsbro and Miss A. F. Eames / Nottingham. Sotheby's, 21 May 1968, lot 339, to John Fleming, New York. Then owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1907-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 278. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 38.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Houghton MS: KiH Δ 4. For facsimile pages, see KiH 423, KiH 517, KiH 540, and KiH 571. A set of photocopies is also in the British Library, RP 246.

KiH 774

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 775

Copy.

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

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

c.1636-41

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

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

Rosemary Williams (Stoughton MS pp. 189-90)
KiH 776

Copy, subscribed D: H: Kinge and with the date 1633.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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

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

c.1620-50

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

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

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

KiH 777

Copy.

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

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

c.1620-50

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

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

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

KiH 778

This MS recorded in Crum.

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 3d 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. 51)
KiH 779

Copy, headed Vpon the King's happy returne From Scotland, Anno Dom: 1633, subscribed Dr Henry King.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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 Mr 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.

KiH 780

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.

KiH 781

Copy, headed Vppon his maties returne from Scotland.

Edited from this MS in Pafford, pp. 153-4.

A folio notebook of verse and prose, predominantly in one hand, written from both ends, 45 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

Compiled by John Clavell (1601-43), writer and highwayman.

c.1633-42

Among papers of the Troyte-Bullock and Chafyn Grove families, of Zeals House, Mere.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in John Pafford, John Clavell 1601-43 Highwayman, Author, Lawyer, Doctor (Oxford, 1993).

Wiltshire and Swindon Archives (865/502 f. [5v])
KiH 782

Copy, subscribed in another flourished hand (possibly autograph) Henry: Kinge: mee fecit, on a leaf bound in a printed exemplum of Solis Britannici perigaeum, sive Itinerantis Caroli auspicatissima periodus (Oxford, 1633).

c.1633

From the Tollemache Library of Helmingham Hall. Sotheby's, 14 June 1965, lot 213, with a facsimile of the subscription in the sale catalogue.

Yale (1975 2318)
The Vow-Breaker ('When first the Magick of thine Ey')

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 160-1.

*KiH 783
Autograph

Copy, originally headed Sonnet, with the heading The Vow-Breaker added in King's autograph.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks).

Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's imitator (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657 (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster.

c.1633-58

Thomas Thorpe's sale Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as a most beautifully written volume of Poems in the hand of Bishop King's Daughter). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Hannah MS: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 30 f. 40r-v)
KiH 784

Copy.

A quarto volume of 58 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat stylish hand throughout, i + 43 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1638-40

Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), second Earl de Grey, statesman, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, who was descended from the brother of Sir Charles Lucas, on whose death in 1648 King wrote an elegy (Crum, pp. 101-10). Wrest Park was earlier the seat of Anthony Grey, eighth Earl of Kent (1557-1643), and of Henry Grey (1594-1651), ninth Earl of Kent, for whom the scholar and jurist John Selden (1584-1654) served as steward. Once apparently also in the library of the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS 51). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 902 (1970), item 196.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Wrest Park MS: KiH Δ 2. Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 7. Briefly described in BLR (March 1974), pp. 125-6; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96; and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 127 ff. 25v-6r)
KiH 785

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 60 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat hand, that of Thomas Manne's imitator, 46 leaves (including a few blank pages).

c.1635-6 [and some later additions]

Some 18th-century additions including notes in French, some verse and the inscriptions (f. 3r) Henry Dottin His Book and Elie Dottin Her Book. Later owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Malone MS: KiH Δ 3. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 91-3 (with a facsimile of f. 17v: see KiH 321) and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see Rosemary Williams, Stoughton MS).

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 22 f. 26v.)
KiH 786

Copy.

A quarto volume of 61 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), ii + 33 leaves, in contemporary olive-brown morocco gilt, with remains of green silk ties.

Except for later verses scribbled on f. 33r, all is in a single formal italic hand: i.e. that of Thomas Manne's imitator, who also reproduces King's initials HK in his monogram format as a subscription to nearly every poem.

c.1638

Iinscribed (f. ir) M. Hall / Gainsbro and Miss A. F. Eames / Nottingham. Sotheby's, 21 May 1968, lot 339, to John Fleming, New York. Then owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1907-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 278. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 38.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Houghton MS: KiH Δ 4. For facsimile pages, see KiH 423, KiH 517, KiH 540, and KiH 571. A set of photocopies is also in the British Library, RP 246.

KiH 787

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 788

Copy, headed To an inconstant mris:, subscribed in monogram form HK.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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

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

c.1620-50

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

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

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

KiH 789

Copy, headed To an inconstant Mrs., subscribed H: K.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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

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

c.1633

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

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

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1446 f. 58r-v)
KiH 790

Copy, headed To an Inconstant Mistris, subscribed in monogram format HK.

Copy, subscribed in monogram format HK.

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

Including 15 poems by Carew and 17 poems by King.

c.1630s

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

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

The Woes of Esay ('Woe to the worldly men, whose covetous')

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 136-9.

KiH 791

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks).

Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's imitator (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657 (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster.

c.1633-58

Thomas Thorpe's sale Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as a most beautifully written volume of Poems in the hand of Bishop King's Daughter). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Hannah MS: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 30 ff. 6r-9v)
KiH 792

Copy.

A quarto volume of 58 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat stylish hand throughout, i + 43 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1638-40

Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), second Earl de Grey, statesman, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, who was descended from the brother of Sir Charles Lucas, on whose death in 1648 King wrote an elegy (Crum, pp. 101-10). Wrest Park was earlier the seat of Anthony Grey, eighth Earl of Kent (1557-1643), and of Henry Grey (1594-1651), ninth Earl of Kent, for whom the scholar and jurist John Selden (1584-1654) served as steward. Once apparently also in the library of the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS 51). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 902 (1970), item 196.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Wrest Park MS: KiH Δ 2. Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 7. Briefly described in BLR (March 1974), pp. 125-6; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96; and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 127 ff. 1r-3v)
KiH 793

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

A quarto volume of 60 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat hand, that of Thomas Manne's imitator, 46 leaves (including a few blank pages).

c.1635-6 [and some later additions]

Some 18th-century additions including notes in French, some verse and the inscriptions (f. 3r) Henry Dottin His Book and Elie Dottin Her Book. Later owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Malone MS: KiH Δ 3. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 91-3 (with a facsimile of f. 17v: see KiH 321) and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see Rosemary Williams, Stoughton MS).

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 22 ff. 4r-6r)
KiH 794

Copy.

A quarto volume of 61 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), ii + 33 leaves, in contemporary olive-brown morocco gilt, with remains of green silk ties.

Except for later verses scribbled on f. 33r, all is in a single formal italic hand: i.e. that of Thomas Manne's imitator, who also reproduces King's initials HK in his monogram format as a subscription to nearly every poem.

c.1638

Iinscribed (f. ir) M. Hall / Gainsbro and Miss A. F. Eames / Nottingham. Sotheby's, 21 May 1968, lot 339, to John Fleming, New York. Then owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1907-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 278. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 38.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Houghton MS: KiH Δ 4. For facsimile pages, see KiH 423, KiH 517, KiH 540, and KiH 571. A set of photocopies is also in the British Library, RP 246.

KiH 795

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt.

In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand.

c.1646-8

Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Phillipps MS: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

KiH 796

Copy.

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

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

c.1636-41

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

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

Rosemary Williams (Stoughton MS pp. 123-30)
KiH 797

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum, pp. 220-1.

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).

KiH 798

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

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

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

c.1674-84

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

KiH 799

Copy, headed Esaihs woes by Dr. Hen: Kinge.

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).

Latin Poems

'Concipit audacem patientia Laesa furorem'

Unpublished.

*KiH 800
Autograph

Autograph sequence of epigrams chiefly in Latin elegiacs prepared by King while at Christ Church for his father, John King, Bishop of London, comprising: (1) an unheaded opening quatrain; (2) 16 lines, headed In Febrem Epigram: (Morboru Proteu, monstrum versatile, Febris); (3) a Greek couplet, headed Aliter in Febrem; (4) a quatrain, headed Aliter (Extinctam reparant Epidauria pharmaca vitim); (5) a quatrain, headed Coelu non morbu mutat &cet. (Mutandi ventosus amor qui corripit agros); (6) a couplet, headed Aliter (Morbosi errones, du coelu aut aëra mutant); (7) ten lines, headed Ad Galenum consolatio de comuni dicterio Febris opprobriu medici (Sollicitus minium nesis de Febre Galene); subscribed Languida si numeris currant Epigramata claudis,/Credas et Musa febricitare meam./Amplitudinis vestrae filius obseruantissimus/Henricus King; neatly written on two conjugate folio leaves, originally folded as a packet and endorsed Reuerendo admodu in Christo patri, Johani Episcopo Londinensi, Patri meo benignissimo. [1608-16].

This MS recorded by Percy Simpson in BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 334-5).

A folio composite volume of letters, verses, academic plays and other documents, in various hands and paper sizes, 253 leaves, in 18th-century black half-calf.

Assembled by Thomas Hearne (178-1735), antiquary, who has inscribed a slip attached to the front pastedown Tho: Hearne Junij 21o. 1709.

In obitum sanctissimi viri Di Dris: Spenseri C: C: C. nuper Praesidis et spectatissimi sui amici Elegvs ('Si dolor hic uerus, crimem damnare cupresso')

Unpublished.

KiH 801 c.1614

Copy, formally drawn up in a neat italic script, with a correction in a different hand (? King's), of a 28-line elegy on the death of Dr John Spenser (1559-1614), subscribed Mærens posuit Hen: Kinge ex Æde Chri:, within wide black vertical and horizontal strips, in the form of a funerary placard, on a single broadsheet, and endorsed in a different hand with an English translation (beginning If this tru sorrow counted be with fatall Cypresse bowes).

A folio composite volume of tracts and papers largely relating to the University of Oxford, in various hands, 691 leaves, folio- and quarto-size, in 18th-century half-calf.

Including notes by Anthony Wood.

'Non Dani vt Danai: istorum vel dona timentur'

Unpublished.

KiH 802

Copy of an untitled Latin quatrain by H.King.

This MS recorded in Crum, p. 6.

A volume of Latin complimentary verses by 98 members of the University of Oxford, entitled Charites Oxonienses siue Laetitia Musarum, presented to King Christian IV of Denmark by the University in 1606.

1606
The British Library: Royal MSS (Royal MS 12 A. LXIV f. 44r)
'Non hic Pyramides. non sculpta Panegyris ambit'

First published in Sir William Dugdale, History of St. Paul's Cathedral (London, 1658), p. 73. Crum, p. 242.

See also KiH 24.

*KiH 803 c.1621
Autograph

Autograph copy of the Latin Epitaphium on John King, Bishop of London, which was originally hung near his tomb in St Paul's Cathedral, the epitaph possibly of Henry King's own composition, on a single folio leaf, the verso bearing a portion of an address panel To the Right < > Mr Henrie D< > these.

This MS recorded in Crum.

A folio composite volume of letters, verses, academic plays and other documents, in various hands and paper sizes, 253 leaves, in 18th-century black half-calf.

Assembled by Thomas Hearne (178-1735), antiquary, who has inscribed a slip attached to the front pastedown Tho: Hearne Junij 21o. 1709.

Letters

Letter(s)
KiH 804 1618

Autograph letter signed by Henry King, to William Trumbull, 16 April 1618.

A folio composite volume of letters and papers of William Trumbull (c.1580-1635), English Resident at Brussels, in various hands, 163 leaves, 1618.

Volume CXI of the Trumbull Papers. Formerly Berkshire Record Office, Trumbull MS Misc. IX

*KiH 805
Autograph

Autograph letter signed by King, to Mr [Richard] Powell at Fosthill, from London, 13 December 1639, in a collection of papers (upwards of 80 items), including letters by Sir Henry Wotton and others, of the Rev. John Hannah (1818-88), schoolmaster and editor.

1639

Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue of manuscripts for 1833, item 769. Sotheby's, 9 December 1929, in lot 152, to Dobell.

Edited, with a facsimile of the signature, in Hannah, pp. xxxviii-xxxix. Recorded in Keynes, p. 8.

Untraced Dobell MSS ([Hannah MS])
KiH 806

A letter by King (? autograph), to an unidentified recipient, one quarto page, dated 1641.

1641

Sotheby's, 26 July 1887, lot 40, to Preston.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([King letter (II)])
*KiH 807
Autograph

Autograph? letter signed by King, to Sir Henry Garwaye, 18 January 1644[/5].

1645

Puttick & Simpson's, 11 July 1878, lot 122 (the date of the letter given as 18 June 1644), to Stamp. Later in the collection of Robert Borthwick Adam (1863-1940), American book collector. Subsequently in the collections of Donald and Mary Hyde (Lady Eccles).

Recorded in The R.B. Adam Library, 3 vols (London & New York, 1929), III, 145.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([King letter (I)])
*KiH 808
Autograph

Autograph letter signed by King, to Edward Bysshe, from Hitcham, near Maidenhead, 22 January 1656/7, enclosing four pages of autograph notes on the repairs done to St Paul's Cathedral in 1620, intended for the use of William Dugdale and containing Dugdale's autograph annotations.

1657

The letter (but not the accompanying notes) edited in William Hamper, The Life, Diary, and Correspondence of Sir William Dugdale (London, 1827), No. cxii (pp. 317-18). Recorded in Keynes, p. 86. Facsimiles in IELM, II.i (1987), Facsimile XXV, after p. xxiv, and in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 189.

Sir William Dugdale, Merevale Hall (Bundle III C/4 (1))
*KiH 809 1661
Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Mrs Anne Sadleir, from London, 14 August 1661.

Ciited in Crum, p. 21. Edited in Hobbs, Correspondence, p. 143.

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

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

Donated by Anne Sadleir in 1669.

Trinity College, Cambridge (MS R. 5. 5 (James 699) No. 45)
*KiH 810 1666
Autograph

Autograph letter signed by King, to Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury, from Chichester, 21 February 1665/6.

Cited by Percy Simpson in BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (p. 338). Recorded in Keynes, p. 88. Edited in Hobbs, Correspondence, p. 146.

A folio composite volume of state letters, chiefly for 1665-7, in various hands, 296 leaves.

Bodleian Library, Tanner Collection (MS Tanner 45 ff. 64r-5v)
*KiH 811 1666
Autograph

Autograph letter signed by King, to Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury, [from Chichester], 23 April 1666.

Edited in Lawrence Mason, The Life and Works of Henry King, D.D., Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 18 (November 1913), 225-89 (p. 289). Recorded in Keynes, p. 87. Edited in Hobbs, Correspondence, p. 147.

A folio composite volume of state letters, chiefly for 1665-7, in various hands, 296 leaves.

Bodleian Library, Tanner Collection (MS Tanner 45 ff. 73r-4v)
*KiH 812
Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Joseph Williamson, [from Chichester], 7 July 1668.

1668

Edited in Hobbs, Correspondence, p. 148.

National Archives, Kew (SP 29/242/161)
*KiH 813 1668
Autograph

Autograph letter signed by King, to Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury, from Chichester, 23 July 1668.

Ciited by Percy Simpson in BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (p. 339). Recorded in Keynes, p. 88. Edited in Hobbs, Correspondence, pp. 148-9.

A folio composite volume of letters and papers, chiefly 1668-71, in various hands, 287 leaves.

Bodleian Library, Tanner Collection (MS Tanner 44 ff. 20r-1v)
*KiH 814 1668
Autograph

Autograph letter signed by King, to Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury, from Chichester, 16 August 1668.

Cited by Percy Simpson in BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (p. 339). Recorded in Keynes, p. 88. Edited in Hobbs, Correspondence, pp. 149-50.

A folio composite volume of letters and papers, chiefly 1668-71, in various hands, 287 leaves.

Bodleian Library, Tanner Collection (MS Tanner 44 ff. 24r-5v)
*KiH 815 1669
Autograph

Autograph letter signed by King, to Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury, from Chichester, 3 February 1668/9.

Edited in Lawrence Mason, The Life and Works of Henry King, D.D., Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 18 (November 1913), 225-89 (p. 289). Recorded in Keynes, p. 88. Edited in Hobbs, Correspondence, p. 152, with a facsimile on p. 151.

A folio composite volume of letters and papers, chiefly 1668-71, in various hands, 287 leaves.

Bodleian Library, Tanner Collection (MS Tanner 44 ff. 80r-1v)

Document(s)

Document(s)
*KiH 816
Autograph

King's signature, 14 July 1626.

Sub-Dean's Book for 1549-1643.

Christ Church, Oxford (MS i. b. 2 p. 387)
*KiH 817
Autograph

Two deeds signed by both Henry and John King, 3-4 June 1622.

A group of indentures relating to Henry and John King (Henry King of London Clarke Archdeacon of Coulchester and John Kinge of Christe Church in Oxford Master of Artes brother of the said Henry), relating to a transaction between the two brothers and George and Robert More concerning land at Godalming and Artington, between 3 June 1622 and 17 November 1624.

1620s

Among the Loseley Papers of the More family.

Surrey History Centre, Woking (LM/349/139/1-10 Nos 1B and 4)
*KiH 818 1609
Autograph

King's autograph signature (Henry Kinge), upon his matriculation at Christ Church, 20 January 1608/9.

Subscription Register.

1581-1615
Oxford University Archives (S.P.38, Register Ab f. 144v)
*KiH 819
Autograph

King's signature.

Disbursements book for 1624-5.

1624-25
Christ Church, Oxford (MS xii. b. 69 passim)
*KiH 820 1628
Autograph

A letter signed by Guiana Company shareholders, including Henry King and Sir Robert Naunton, to William Trumbull, Clerk of the Privy Council, 30 March 1628.

Facsimile in Sotheby's catalogue The Trumbull Papers, 14 December 1989, lot 18.

A folio composite volume of letters and papers of William Trumbull (c.1580-1635), English Resident at Brussels, in various hands, 110 leaves, 1628-32.

Volume CXXXII of the Trumbull Papers.

*KiH 821
Autograph

A letter by the Council of the Virginia Company, to Sir Edward Conway, signed by King and other members of the council, 30 March 1628.

1628
*KiH 822
Autograph

Two agreements signed by Henry King and others as witnesses, relating to William Norton and to the will of Norton's deceased grandfather William Wickham, one document dated 6 April 1635.

1635

Photocopies owned by Peter Beal, London.

Untraced Dobell MSS ([King documents])
KiH 823

Copy, unsigned, of a lease by King, as Dean of Rochester, to Daniel Leare, concerning land at Chatham, 19 July 1655.

1655
National Archives, Kew (SP 18/99/61)
KiH 824

A petition to Charles II, in a secretary's hand, subscribed in bold italic Hen: Chichester, [?September 1660].

In the same hand as the Phillipps MS (Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 8471).

1660

Cited in Crum, p. 19. Edited in Hobbs, Correspondence, p. 142.

National Archives, Kew (SP 29/17/24)
KiH 825

A licence by Henry King, as Bishop of Chichester, entirely in the hand of a clerk, allowing Walter Hendley to eat meat in Lent, 25 February 1662/3.

1663
*KiH 826
Autograph

A genealogy of the King family, prepared for Sir Edward Bysshe and signed by King.

c.1662-8

Recorded in Hannah, pp. lxxxiii-lxxxiv, and the signature is reproduced on p. lxxvi.

College of Arms (D. 16, fol. 2)
*KiH 827 1667
Autograph

An Exchequer receipt signed by King, 5 December 1667.

A folio composite volume of Exchequer documents.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 895 ff. 48r-9v)
Will
KiH 828

A registered copy of King's last will and testament, 14 July 1653, proved 16 November 1669.

1669

Edited in Hannah, pp. cviii-cxiv.

National Archives, Kew (PROB 11/331/136)