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John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester

1647–1680

Introduction

Autograph Manuscripts

John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, the most celebrated and most controversial of Charles II's Court wits, has left a small group of autograph drafts, together with a substantial number of autograph letters and a few miscellaneous documents signed. Numerous surviving manuscript copies bear witness to the vigorous circulation of his poems both before and after his death.

The principal extant manuscript of works by Rochester is the Portland MS: University of Nottingham, Pw V 31, which includes, inter alia, autograph drafts of nine poems by him and a fragment of a comedy by him. These papers (as well as British Library, Harley MS 7003 noted below) were formerly in the library of Edward Harley (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford, and were probably inherited from his father, the statesman Robert Harley (1661-1724), first Earl of Oxford.

Letters

Otherwise the most notable series of surviving autograph manuscripts by Rochester is of letters by him. The texts of some 104 letters by him are known today, of which just under half, 46, survive in his originals. Of these, 101 are edited in Treglown (1980). Both autograph letters and the various known copies of letters by Rochester are summarized in entries in CELM (RoJ 648-664).

Over thirty original letters sent to Rochester by various of his cronies, such as Henry Savile, Lord Buckhurst, the Duke of Buckingham, Sir Robert Howard, Lord Clifford, Lord Falkland, John Dryden and others, are also preserved: twenty of them in British Library Harley MS 7003, a further dozen in the library of the Marquess of Bath, Longleat (Portland Papers, Vol. II), and another, in an official copy, in the National Archives, Kew (SP 44/43, p. 59). These are likewise edited in Treglown, as well as three others known only from printed sources.

These surviving letters must, of course, represent only a fraction of the number that Rochester actually wrote and received during his lifetime. It is even rumoured, by Horace Walpole in 1775, that after Rochester's penitent death his devout mother burnt a whole trunk of letters by him — for which, added Walpole characteristically, quoting Bentley, her soul is now burning in heaven (The Letters of Horace Walpole, ed. Mrs Paget Toynbee, 19 vols (Oxford, 1903-25), IX (1904), 308, cited in Treglown, p. xiii).

Documents

A few business and other documents signed by Rochester (or formal copies thereof) are also known to survive: and have been given entries in CELM (*RoJ 665-671). They include Rochester's will in 1680, not seen since 1908 (*RoJ 672).

The Circulation of Rochester's Poems in Manuscript

Except for a few of his more formal and public satires, which got published in broadsides in the 1670s, Rochester's poems remained, for the most part, unprinted during his lifetime. Neither was there anything especially authoritative about the multiple editions of Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R---, an indiscriminate octavo anthology of 61 poems, possibly as many as 34 of them actually by Rochester, the rest by various of his contemporaries, which appeared immediately after his death and whose printer representatives of Rochester's family attempted in vain to discover. As Anthony Wood noted: no sooner was his breath out of his body, but some person, or persons, who had made a collection of his poetry in manuscript, did, meerly for lucre sake (as 'twas conceiv'd) publish them under this title, Poems on several Occasions. Antwerp (alias Lond.) 1680 (Athenae Oxonienses, ed. Philip Bliss, 4 vols (London, 1813-20), III, 1230). Instead, Rochester's poems generally went through the highways and byways of what can justly be described as scribal publication. Like so many of the lampoons, satires and bawdy jeux d'esprit of the late seventeenthth century, they found a ready circulation in the form of manuscript copies, the majority of them produced for purely commercial reasons by professional scribes. Such copies could range from single transcripts of individual poems commissioned by an author for limited circulation within a small, private coterie (according to Robert Wolseley in 1685, Rochester's work was written solely for the private Diversion of those happy Few, whom he us'd to charm with his Company and honour with his Friendship), to wholesale multiplication of copies (so-called factory manuscripts rapidly produced in back-street scriptoria or stationers' shops) for remunerative distribution to a fairly large and receptive public in town and country alike. The manuscripts themselves could vary from, for instance, single leaves, folded, addressed on the outside and sent to people as letters, to small pamphlets containing linked groups of poems, and ultimately to large gilt calf- or morocco-bound folio or quarto volumes containing substantial, neatly arranged collections of such poems. It is clear from extensive evidence that there was a considerable, eager and paying clientele, both open and clandestine, for such literary wares — ranging from the Court and City to families living in the wilds of rural England. Paying readers evidently included both men and women and comprised a fairly wide social spectrum of people with a taste for news, scandal or fashionable gossip, not to mention occasional pornography, whether it were the immediate circle of the royal family, aristocrats, politicians, government officials and bureaucrats, lawyers, merchants, army officers, club and coffee-house frequenters, men-about-town, and others besides.

Manuscript copies of works by Rochester recorded in the entries in CELM are neither more nor less typical of verse circulation in general in this period and include examples of most of the forms currently used. The hands into which these manuscripts fell — both men and women, to some extent in Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and even on the continent, as well as in England — also represent an extensive cross-section of the reading public — whether it be members of aristocratic families such as those of Lords Beaufort, Derby, Huntingdon, Portland, Bridgewater, Rutland, Craven, Strafford, Buckhurst, Chesterfield and other peers; Lady Cowper, who — using source material perhaps supplied to her by the Duke of Buckingham's secretary, Martin Clifford — compiled her own collection of Restoration verse (including RoJ 32, RoJ 256, RoJ 318, RoJ 538, RoJ 588), and Lady Anne Somerset (RoJ 321-2); other members of the Court circle such as Sir William Haward (Bodleian, MS Don. b. 8) and Mrs: Prise Maid of honour to her Majesty (RoJ 167); foreign diplomats and travellers such as Count Gyldenstolpe (RoJ Δ 14), Friedrich Adolphus Hansen (Yale, Osborn MS b 105) and Lorenzo Magalotti (RoJ 333), as well as possibly early owners of the Ashley MS: (RoJ Δ 5) and the Vienna MS (RoJ Δ 12); Rochester's fellow poets John Oldham, whom he befriended (RoJ 152, RoJ 304), and Edmund Waller (whose family copied RoJ 35, RoJ 86, RoJ 166, RoJ 331-2, RoJ 447, RoJ 600, and RoJ 616); the philosopher John Locke (RoJ 576) and his friend James Tyrrell (RoJ 64, RoJ 315, RoJ 520, RoJ 585); Whitehall officials and politicians such as George Clarke (RoJ 563), and Samuel Pepys, whose copy of Rochester's works (see RoJ 11, RoJ 327) he hid in a drawer as being unfit to mix with my other books; the New England Judge John Saffin (RoJ 598) and the lawyer Godfrey Thacker, in town seeking a suitable heiress for his cousin Lord Huntingdon (RoJ 265); a variety of other professional and Inns of Court men, students, and University men; the physician Sir George Ent (RoJ 430); clerics such as Sancroft (RoJ 3, RoJ 104.6, RoJ 125, RoJ 223, RoJ 578), John Nalson (RoJ 579), and the young George Stanhope (RoJ 30, RoJ 158, RoJ 313, RoJ 494, RoJ 584); various country gentlemen; antiquaries and miscellaneous writers such as Narcissus Luttrell (RoJ 42, RoJ 345), Nathaniel Johnston (RoJ 37, RoJ 124), and, a little later, Thomas Hearne (RoJ 9, RoJ 116, RoJ 130), and Peter and Oliver Le Neve and their circle (RoJ 100, RoJ 133, RoJ 154, RoJ 180, RoJ 301, RoJ 350, RoJ 425, RoJ 457, RoJ 505); or army officers such as captains Robinson (RoJ Δ 8) and Stead (RoJ 27) and Lieutenant Gideon Bonnivert (RoJ 371).

Some of the apparent ascriptions to Rochester's fellow poets found in these texts — for instance, to Buckingham, to Buckhurst and to Fleetwood Sheppard (RoJ 61, RoJ 365, RoJ 592) or to Rochester's cousin Mrs Anne Wharton (RoJ 387) — may actually denote the provenance of the texts (itself a prime source of confusion over the canon), the predominant circle of distribution evidently being Buckingham's Whig faction at Court to which Rochester and virtually all his cronies belonged.

No doubt, too, the hands of individual, though anonymous, professional scribes could be recognized (if extensive comparisons were undertaken) as common to various of the widely scattered texts recorded in these entries — both collections and single poems. For instance, three manuscript collections of poems on affairs of state — Bodleian, MS Firth c. 16, Ohio State University, English Department Library, Spec. MS Eng. 15, and Princeton, RTC01 No. 35 — were identified as being in the same hand by Vieth (Attribution, p. 25). Even so caution is advised against making too ready an identification of particular hands given the probable ability of many scribes in this period to vary their styles or else, conversely, to conform to an agreed model for the sake of consistency.

Scribal publication in the approximate period 1665-1715 (at its height in the 1680s and '90s) is a huge subject, with extensive implications for textual critics, as well as for literary, bibliographical and social historians. Despite important pioneering explorations, it remains open to systematic investigation. Informative and useful studies hitherto undertaken in this field — which affects Rochester perhaps more than any other notable author of the period — include the following:

  • Vieth, Attribution (1963) and Gyldenstolpe (1967), as well as his edition of Rochester (1968).
  • Poems on Affairs of State: Augustan Satirical Verse, 1660-1714, 7 vols (New Haven & London, 1963-75), Vol I, ed. George deF. Lord, 1963, pp. xxxvii-xlii; Vol IV, ed. Galbraith M. Crump, 1968, after p. 190 and pp. 351-2; and Vol V, ed. William J. Cameron, 1971, pp. 528-38.
  • W.J. Cameron, A Late Seventeenth-Century Scriptorium, Renaissance and Modern Studies, 7 (1963), 25-52 [a significant attempt to relate and classify one group of scriptorium manuscripts, chiefly among the Portland MSS at Nottingham].John Harold Wilson, Court Satires of the Restoration (Columbus, Ohio, 1976) [a selective edition of verse circulated in manuscript, with a brief introductory account of the nature of that circulation and useful synopsized biographies].
  • Harold Love, Manuscript versus Print in the Transmission of English Literature, 1600-1700, The Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin, 9 (1985), 95-107 [which analyzes the possible special reasons for Rochester's confining himself to manuscript rather than print].
  • Harold Love, Scribal Publication in Seventeenth-Century England, TCBS, 9 (1987), 130-54 [an important general survey of the field].
  • Harold Love, Scribal Texts and Literary Communities: The Rochester Circle and Osborn b. 105, Studies in Bibliography, 42 (1989), 219-35 [which discusses the Yale MS (RoJ Δ 16) as the communal product of identifiable circles, particularly the Whig faction at Court].
  • Roger Thompson, Unfit for Modern Ears (London, 1979) [a survey of late 17th-century pornography, which incidentally throws light on some of the clientele for work by Rochester: see esp. pp. 117-32, 195-210].
  • Keith Walker, pp. xi-xii [for comments on Rochester's readership].
  • Harold Love, Scribal Publication in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1993) [an especially important survey].
  • Harold Love, The Scribal Transmission of Rochester's Songs, Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, 20 (1996), 161-80.Harold Love, Refining Rochester: Private Texts and Public Reader, Harvard Library Bulletin, NS 7/1 (Spring 1996), 40-9.Various other articles by Harold Love.

Robert Julian and his Brethren

Contemporary evidence about two stationers, John Starkey and Thomas Collins, who operated scriptoria in 1675, is cited in Love, Studies in Bibliography, 42 (1989), p. 231. To these sources might be added articles on a particular scrivener, the most notorious of them all, Captain Robert Julian (fl. 1670s-c.1690), an erstwhile naval clerk turned professional purveyor of manuscript lampoons who formed the butt of many a verse satire on the tastes, vices and follies of the town and who eventually stood in the pillory, if not actually losing his ears, for publishing a manuscript libel. For Julian's career, see Brice Harris, Captain Robert Julian, Secretary to the Muses, English Literary History, 10 (1943), 294-309; Mary Claire Randolph, Mr. Julian, Secretary of the Muses: Pasquil in London, N&Q, 184 (2 January 1943), 2-6; Judith Slater, The Early Career of Captain Robert Julian, Secretary to the Muses, N&Q, 211 (July 1966), 260-2; Wilson, op. cit., pp. 256-7; and Paul Hammond, The Miseries of Visits: An Addition to the Literature on Robert Julian, Secretary to the Muses, The Seventeenth Century, 8 (1993), 161-3.

Julian's products evidently ranged from copies of individual poems to whole books in manuscript. Hitherto only one example of a manuscript volume associated with Julian has been identified in a private collection: namely the Lord Derby MS, a formal quarto volume of poems on affairs of state dating up to 1683 (though none by Rochester). Not the least interesting features of this are the inscriptions by the book's original owner, William Stanley (c.1655-1702), ninth Earl of Derby, I bought this booke of Julian not so much for my own use as to prevent others reading of it, and by his younger brother James Stanley (1664-1736), tenth Earl of Derby, recording its discovery in 1718 when it was found hid in one of ye Chimneys, to be sure by my brother Derby. This volume was identified and discussed, with facsimile examples, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 19-30.

Whether Julian himself transcribed any poems by Rochester (or by anyone else for that matter) is not as yet clear, but it seems likely that he generally employed scribes for that purpose. The few known examples of his handwriting would not appear to correspond to any of the hands of scribal copies of Restoration verse hitherto recorded. Written, it has to be said, with considerable variation of script, letters by Julian are in the National Archives, Kew (SP 29/207/119 [to Pepys, 30 June 1667]; SP 29/244/185 [15 August 1668]; and SP 29/281A/226 [1670?]). One by him which was once among the Sackville papers, but is currently untraced is edited in Brice Harris, Charles Sackville Sixth Earl of Dorset (Urbana, 1940), pp. 178-9. In the Prologue to Edward Ravenscroft's The London Cuckolds (London, 1682) it is recorded that he employed two Clarks (Harris, p. 304), while another report suggests that by 1685 he himself, being an ancient man, was almost blind (Slater, p. 261).

From references in the numerous topical satires on Julian, it seems that he had successors as purveyors of manuscript lampoons: notably Captain Lenthal Warcup (thou second scandal carrier of the town), of the 1st Regiment of Foot Guards, who was killed at the battle of Steinkirk in 1692, and one John Somerton. An interesting possible connection with Warcup, noticed by Harold Love, is that the Robinson MS (RoJ Δ 8) was apparently produced for a fellow member of Warcup's regiment.

Principal Manuscript Collections

There seems little doubt that the surviving manuscript copies of Rochester's poems, numerous though they may be, represent but a fraction of the number once in existence; moreover, it would be surprising if yet more texts did not come to light in the fulness of time. The following is a list, for the sake of convenient reference, of those currently known manuscripts containing substantial numbers of poems generally attributed to him, manuscripts which are described more fully in the relevant entries in CELM. The figures cited for poems by Rochester are provisional given the uncertainty of the canon discussed below, and the delta numbers cited are those originally supplied in IELM, II.ii (1993).

  • The Duke of Beaufort, Badminton, FmE 3/12. (Badminton MS: RoJ Δ 1). Includes thirty poems by Rochester.
  • Bodleian, MS Don. b. 8. (Haward MS: RoJ Δ 2). Includes eleven poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items.
  • Bodleian, MS Eng. misc. e. 536. (Gilpin MS: RoJ Δ 3). Includes sixteen poems by Rochester.
  • Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 173. (Dunton MS: RoJ Δ 4). Includes ten poems by Rochester as well as apocryphal items.
  • British Library, Add. MS 73540.(Brown-Crewe MS). Includes some seventeen poems by Rochester.
  • Professor Pierre Danchin, [Ashley MS]. (Ashley MS: RoJ Δ 5). Includes eight remaining poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items.
  • Edinburgh University Library, MS Dc. 1. 3/1. (Edinburgh MS: RoJ Δ 6). Includes nineteen poems by Rochester (two of them copied twice).
  • Harvard, fMS Eng 636. (Harvard MS: RoJ Δ 7). Includes 27 poems by Rochester.
  • Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 54. (Robinson MS: RoJ Δ 8). Includes 22 poems by Rochester.
  • The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House, Thynne Papers, Vol. XXVII (ff. 38r-60v). (Harbin MS: RoJ Δ 9). Includes nineteen poems and eight letters by Rochester.
  • National Library of Ireland, MS 2093. (Dublin MS: RoJ Δ 10). Includes twelve poems by or attributed to Rochester.
  • University of Nottingham, Pw V 40. (Pomfret MS: RoJ Δ 11). Includes 29 poems by Rochester (one of them copied twice) as well as apocryphal items.
  • Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Cod. 14090. (Vienna MS: RoJ Δ 12). Includes eleven poems by Rochester as well as apocryphal items.
  • Princeton, RTC01 No. 38. (Cambridge Miscellany MS: RoJ Δ 13). Includes nine poems by Rochester as well as apocryphal items.
  • Royal Library, Stockholm, MS Vu. 69. (Gyldenstolpe MS: RoJ Δ 14). Includes 29 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items.
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce MS 43 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.37-38). (Dyce MS: RoJ Δ 15). Includes twelve poems by Rochester as well as apocryphal items.
  • Yale, Osborn MS b 105. (Yale MS: RoJ Δ 16). Includes thirty remaining poems by Rochester.
  • Yale, Osborn MS b 334. (Hartwell MS: RoJ Δ 17). Includes 25 poems by Rochester as well as other works by him.
  • In private ownership. Mylne MS. Includes 21 poems by Rochester as well as apocryphal items.

Certain of these and other recorded manuscript volumes once contained poems by Rochester on leaves subsequently excised. Some are mentioned by title in contemporary indexes to those manuscripts or else are conjectured in his various studies by Vieth, passim. These lost texts have not, however, been given entries in CELM. Prominent among the manuscript volumes so affected is the Yale MS (RoJ Δ 16), followed by the Ashley MS (RoJ Δ 5). What would, in its original state, have been a major manuscript volume of poems on affairs of state, including probably several by Rochester, is now in the Suffolk Record Office, Lowestoft, 194/F1/1. A portion of this quarto volume, containing the play Sodom (RoJ 641.5) and three other poems survives; otherwise all the leaves have been excised except for an index listing some 122 poems that were once there.

The Hartwell Manuscript

The Yale MS (RoJ Δ 16) has a special status as providing the principal copy-text for both Vieth and Walker. What must be the single most important manuscript copy of Rochester's poems, however, is the more recently discovered Hartwell MS (RoJ Δ 17). Among other things, this is the only known manuscript which credibly purports to be of works almost exclusively by Rochester rather than being in reality a miscellany. It includes a substantial number of poems originally classified by Vieth, for want of conclusive evidence, as uncertain; and it contains highly interesting texts with some otherwise unknown variants, as well as innovations of layout (the stanza format of RoJ 45, RoJ 456, and RoJ 458, for instance, or the 35-line version of his Pastoral Dialogue, RoJ 271). It also, incidentally, supports Walker's argument (p. xix) that Rochester's lyrics should be editorially grouped together. In fact the Songs from p. 178 of the manuscript to p. 195 are numbered (in darker ink) 1 to 13, the number 14 being added apparently afterwards to the Song on pp. 195-6.

The manuscript contains only one text that is clearly not by Rochester. Added at the end on pp. 219-31 and, in any case, directly related to him, it is the masque written for Valentinian by Rochester's friend and devoted admirer Sir Francis Fane (d.1689/91). First published in 1685, it is a masque allegedly made at the Request of Rochester (see RoJ 644).

One other item in the manuscript (on pp. 147-52) which would initially seem alien to Rochester is a largely prose address To the Reader supposedly by one William Lovesey, vicar of Bampton, near Tiverton, Devon, in which he rails against the profusion of seditious, profane, scandalous, rebellious, atheistical, blasphemous and nonsensical libels and pamphlets circulating in the town in taverns, coffee houses and the streets. He goes on to quote the 21-line poem The Freeborne English generous and wise, a poem (dated 1679 in other sources) which, he claims has Layne by me these seaven Yeares and which he thinks might well become the Pulpitt as Reasonable, morrall and orthodox. The current consensus of opinion on this harangue, originally suggested by Harold Love, is that this is another of Rochester's jokes (like his Alexander Bendo masquerade), while the poem quoted here — and widely circulated in manuscript in two different versions — may well also be originally by Rochester (see Love, p. 481).

As for the provenance of this manuscript, the only distant connection between its early owners, the Lee family, and Rochester is that he had a nephew named Edward Lee (Earl of Lichfield) and a niece named Ellen Lee (Lady Abingdon), but whether they have any connection with the Lee family of Hartwell is not at present clear.

Unidentified Manuscripts

A manuscript of A Letter fancy'd from Artemise in Town to Cloe in the country is mentioned in Phillipps MS 8101, a nineteenth-century Catalogue of books and Pamphlets being part of the Library of Sir Roger Twysden Bart of Roydon Hall in the 17th Century (now at the University of Salford). It is not clear if this Twysden MS corresponds with any of the entries for this poem (RoJ 135-166). Satirical Verses by the Earl of Rochester, on Sir Charles Scroop (possibly RoJ 257) were sold at Puttick and Simpson's, 29 July 1851 (Donnadieu sale), lot 1015, to Toovey, while an eight-page quarto copy of A Satire by Rochester was sold at Sotheby's, 31 March 1875, lot 430, to Passie. An octavo manuscript verse miscellany associated with the Brownlow family of Lincolnshire offered in Myers's catalogue No. 348 (1947), item 344, included, besides RoJ 270 and RoJ 604, Verses on Charles II, which might well be RoJ 113-122 or RoJ 338-358.

The Canon

The Rochester canon accepted for present purposes is based largely on the 1968 edition by David Vieth, whose extensive labours in this field, in his various publications, have justly been described as magisterial and to whom all subsequent Rochester studies are deeply indebted. An exception to the canon he establishes is A Rodomontade on His cruel Mistress (Trust not that thing called woman: she is worse), which can now be shown to be a recycled version of a poem by Ben Jonson (see Ben Jonson, JnB 425-430.5). On the other hand, entries are given in CELM to a few additional poems — mainly incorporated in Walker's and Harold Love's respective editions — whose authorship remains in dispute. It is understood in any case that there is less than certainty about many of the poems included, which editors can designate as only probably by Rochester at best. Certainly Vieth's study, in his Attribution (1963), of the posthumously published Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R— (Antwerp [i.e. London], 1680), remains a remarkable overview of the canon with respect to the Rochester apocrypha, which includes by his count no fewer than 177 poems.

Walker's conservative re-examination resulted in his tentative readmission into the canon of a tiny handful of uncertain candidates. Among those five poems he chose to designate as Poems Possibly by Rochester (pp. 125-31) he includes two which Vieth had positively consigned to the Rochester apocrypha, namely:

  • (i) Anacreontic (The Heaven drinks each Day a Cup), first published in 1705. Walker, p. 129. Manuscript copies: University of Nottingham, Pw V 43, pp. 38-9, and Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce MS 43 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.37-38), p. 545.
  • (ii) Regime d'viver (I Rise at Eleven, I Dine about Two). Walker, pp. 130-1. Arguably either by Rochester or by the Earl of Dorset. Recorded above in entries for the latter (DoC 314-318.5).
  • (iii) A Session of the Poets (Since the Sons of the Muses, grow num'rous and lowd). Walker, pp. 133-5. Generally attributed to Elkanah Settle. Various manuscript texts discussed and listed in Vieth, Attribution, pp. 296-321, 455-8, to which may be added the Robinson MS (Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 54, pp. 15-20) and Hertfordshire Record Office (DE/P F36, pp. [157-60 rev.]).
  • (iv) In defence of Satyr (When Shakespeare, Johnson, Fletcher, rul'd the stage). Walker, pp. 136-9. Sometimes attributed to Rochester (see, for instance, Paul C. Davies, Who Wrote In Defence of Satyr, EA, 23 (1970), 410-14). Conceded by Walker, as also by Love (pp. 102-5), as most likely by Rochester's old rival Sir Carr Scroope. Manuscript copies are recorded in Vieth, Attribution, pp. 390-4, to which may be added the Dublin MS (National Library of Ireland, MS 2093, pp. 25-32); University of California at Los Angeles, 170/68, pp. 13-15; King's College, Cambridge, Hayward Collection, H. 11. 14, pp. 25-9; Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 87, ff. 2v-5r; Bodleian, MS Don. e. 176, pp. 127-31; and British Library, Sloane MS 182, ff. 94r-5r.

None of these poems is included in Love's edition, which adds, however (besides The freeborn English Generous and wise discussed above) Lord Moulgrave's character. By Lord Rochester (see RoJ 167.5-167.8) and a few poems and impromptus of dubious authorship in his Appendix Roffensis (pp. 264-301). With a few exceptions (such as On the Lady Mary Stewart who Eateing a hony comb a Bee flew out & stung her neck, RoJ 240.8), the latter poems have not been given separate entries. On the other hand, The History of Insipids, rejected from the canon by all editors and attributed to John Freke, has been given entries in CELM as an act of pure indulgence (RoJ 104.2-104.9).

It would hardly be cause for surprise to discover that Vieth's list of dubia and apocrypha, long as it is, can still be extended. Examples are:

  • The Earle of Rochester on Sr Char Scrope (Half man half Brute, for foole is both between). Ascribed to Rochester in a manuscript in private ownership. The poem recalls Rochester's other truculent attacks on Sir Carr Scroope.
  • On the Court Ladyes (Roger told his brother clowne). Tentatively attributed to Rochester, although not ascribed to him in manuscripts, and published in Elmer L. Brooks, An Unpublished Restoration Satire on the Court Ladies, English Language Notes, 10 (1973), 201-8. Manuscript copies include British Library, Add. MS 30982, ff. 97v-8v; Duke University, MS 12-14-71, pp. 86-90; Harvard, MS Eng 624, pp. [56-60]; National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 19.3.4, ff. 125v-7r; and Yale, Osborn MS fb 140, p. 22 (first two stanzas).
  • Another (Go thy wayes thou merry King). Four lines, docketed these were writen in Kg Charles ye 2ds Window by ye late Ld Rochester in British Library, Add. MS 78233, f. 105v.

The manuscript texts recorded in CELM of poems attributed to Rochester in Harold Love's edition are generally collated by him but are not recorded as such in each individual entry.

Dramatic Works

Rochester's most ambitious attempt at drama was his adaptation of Fletcher's Valentinian. In addition to the later and variant printed version of 1685, three manuscript copies of the play are now known (RoJ 644-646). One folio manuscript of the play, together with the scene he wrote for Sir Robert Howard's The Conquest of China by the Tartars, was offered for sale in Thomas Rodd's catalogue of books and manuscripts in June 1848 (p. 34), but this may well correspond with one of the two recorded copies of this pair of works (RoJ 634-5, RoJ 645-6). Rochester also dabbled, with mixed success, with a comedy — of which one autograph draft scene remains (*RoJ 633). None of these works was published in his lifetime.

The most controversial dramatic work with which his name is associated, however, is the piece of humorous and satirical pornography Sodom. According to Anthony Wood, a most wretched and obscene and scandalously infamous play, not wholly completed, passed some hands privately in MS. under the name of Sodom and [was] fathered upon the earl (as most of this kind were, right or wrong, which came out at any time, after he had once obtained the name of an excellent smooth, but withall a most lewd poet) as the author of it (Athenae Oxonienses, ed. Bliss, III, 1230). Although most commentators have tended to concur with Wood's scepticism about its supposed authorship, the association with Rochester persists (being most recently and most vigorously argued by J.W. Johnson), especially since two versions of the play survive, and one argument even postulates that the play might have been subject to some degree of multiple authorship. Wood's remark about its being not wholly completed also suggests that he had only the shorter, four-act version in mind. First circulated in manuscript probably in 1676, the piece seems to have been published in 1684 — the apparently unique exemplum of this edition being reportedly destroyed in the 1830s by the executors of Richard Heber, evidently with the same zeal that Murray destroyed Byron's memoirs. It was republished before 1690, when the printers Benjamin Crayle and Joseph Streater were prosecuted for it. The single known extant early printed exemplum, probably published in the early eighteenth century is an octavo entitled Sodom, or the Gentleman Instructed. A Comedy. By the E. of R. which came to light and was sold at Sotheby's 16 December 2004, lot 54. Otherwise the work, in one version or another, now survives in ten manuscript copies (RoJ 636-643.5). In addition, and not given separate entries in CELM, a collection of papers of Henry Spencer Ashbee (1834-1900), book collector and bibliographer, relating to Sodom — and partly used in his Centuria Librorum Manuscriptorum (1879), pp. 326-41 — is now in the British Library (Add. MS 57732). It includes his complete transcripts of two of the recorded seventeenth-century manuscript copies.

Adaptations, Answers, and other Poems on Rochester

In addition to the many imitations of Rochester, as well as poems which contemporaries simply thought were characteristic of his style and so attributed to him, are poems which were unashamedly adapted from his work. Examples are On Nothing in British Library Add. MS 28253, ff. 135r-6r, and Reflections on some verses in Allusion to Hor. 10th. Sat. lib. 1. Sermon (True, Sir, I'll own yt. Dryden has sometimes) in University of Nottingham, Pw V 1077, with which compare RoJ 12-37.

There are also a number of poems on Rochester by his contemporaries or near-contemporaries, most of which circulated in manuscript. Perhaps the best-known, found in innumerable sources, is Thomas Flatman's On the Death of my Lord Rochester, Pastorall (As on his deathbed gasping Strephon lay). Among the less well-known is To Tho: Smith of Beconsfield, at returning Waller's & Rochester's Poems, borrowed of him (fill'd with sense; my valued ffriend) by the Quaker Thomas Ellwood (1679-1713), which appears, dated 22 September 1691, in Ellwood's autograph verse collection Rhapsodia (Society of Friends, MS Vol. S. 80, pp. 88-9). Another is An Elegy on Ossory, Rochester, & Bedlow (The Brave lopt of, the Wit, ye Witnesse too) in an unbound verse collection of John Gibson (1630-1711) of Welburn, North Yorkshire (Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt q 52, ff. 48r-9r).

Of particular interest is perhaps the Answers to Rochester's major, pessimistic outpouring, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind. The most savage answer was by Thomas Lessey of Wadham College, Oxford (beginning Were I spirit to chuse for my own share). This satire is edited, from British Library Harley MS 6207, ff. 60r-5v, in Nicholas Fisher's discussion of the subject The Contemporary Reception of Rochester's A Satyr against Mankind, Review of English Studies, NS 57 (2006), 185-220 (pp. 206-15). Another, anonymous, answer beginning A Courtly Buffoon [?one] of ye half-witted fellows is edited from Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 42, f. 24r-v in the same article (pp. 215-20). Yet another answer is by Dr. P, Edward Pococke, beginning Were I to Chuse what sort of Corps I'de Wear. Manuscript copies of such answers, chiefly Thomas Lessey's, include British Library, Harley MS 7312, pp. 18-24; Harley MS 6207, ff. 66r-70v, and Sloane MS 1458, ff. 43r-6v; Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 6339, ff. 17r-19v; Edinburgh University Library, MS Dc.1.3/1, pp. 27-8; Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 110, ff. 19v-32v; and Princeton, RTC01 No. 36, pp. 222-30, and RTC01 No. 38, pp. 130-6.

Family Documents

There also survives a considerable number of Wilmot family papers, chiefly by Rochester's mother, Anne (née St John: 1614-96), Countess (Dowager) of Rochester, including the following (not given entries in CELM):

  • A collection of about forty of the Countess's letters to her steward John Cary. National Archives, Kew (C 104/110 Part 3).
  • Twenty-four letters by the Countess, chiefly to members of her family, 1685-6. University of Rochester, Rochester, New York (D. 29).
  • A few papers of the Countess, with related documents (1660s-1703), including her paper of some writings and papers in my one custody. Sold at Sotheby's, 20 November 1973, lot 11, to Graham Greene. Two pages from these papers are illustrated in Greene, p. 163.
  • An indenture signed, inter alia, by the Countess, for the lease to Dr Henry Alworth of Stowells at Milborne, Wiltshire, 28 April 1677. Sold at Sotheby's, 20 November 1973, lot 177, to Miss Gell.
  • A document signed by the poet's daughter Anne Baynton and her husband, releasing the poet's mother from all debts arising from her guardianship of her; 13 July 1688, together with a document of 18 June 1692, discharging the poet's mother from a debt of £4,000 due to his second daughter, Elizabeth, who married Edward Montagu, third Earl of Sandwich. Sold at Sotheby's, 20 November 1973, lot 12, to Graham Greene.
  • Information about Rochester's Income from the Crown, drawn chiefly from Treasury records in the National Archives at Kew, offered in an article by Ken Robinson in N&Q, 227 (February 1982), 46-50.
  • A 33-page statement of accounts drawn up for Rochester for apparel supplied to him and members of his household by William Wattes, 14 August 1667 to 25 January 1671/2. Yale (Osb MSS File 15841, formerly Osborn files Wattes).
  • Royal letters patent concerning Lady Anne Wilmot and Mallett Wilmot, the poet's daughters, 6 November 1683. Somerset Heritage Center (DD/SF 12/15/35. Formerly DD/SF/1140).
  • Documents relating to Lady Anne Wilmot and Lady Elizabeth Wilmot, on seven large sheets of paper, 19 February 1682[/3]. Somerset Heritage Centre (DD/SF 12/15/33. Formerly DD/SF/1029).

Not the least interesting texts by a member of Rochester's family are the poems by his wife, Elizabeth (née Mallet, d.1698), drafted in the Portland MS (University of Nottingham, Pw V 31), notably (on f. 15r) that beginning Nothing adds to your fond fire, written in answer to his Song Give me leave to rail at you. This poem is edited in Love, pp. 18-19, with his collations of various other manuscript copies of it on p. 524.

The text of a remarkable and previously unknown letter by Elizabeth came to light in Bonham's auction on 27 June 2006, lot 383, and is now owned by Nicholas Fisher. Among a collection of copies of letters by Rochester (RoJ 649) is a copy of an undated and unsigned letter, listed as Letter from his Wife, in which she briefly voices her unhappiness and disapproval of his continued absence in London. This revealing letter is edited for the first time in Nicholas Fisher's discussion of the collection Copies of Letters From, and To The Earl of Rochester: An unexpected assemblage commissioned by Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741), English Manuscript Studies, 17 (forthcoming).

Rochester's Death

Some items relating to Rochester's death (in addition to his valedictory letters, RoJ 659-664) may be listed briefly as follows:

  • Five letters by Anne, Countess Dowager, written when she was eighty years old, giving her sister-in-law Lady St John an account of her son's behaviour during his final illness. Edited in Treglown, pp. 248-55, from a mid-eighteenth-century transcript, allegedly copied from the originals in the hands of Mrs Meredith, granddaughter to Lady St. John, in the British Library (Add. MS 6269, ff. 33r-6v). An earlier transcript of the same letters is among the papers of the Jones and Boothby families, later of Fonmon Castle, now in the Glamorgan Archives, Cardiff (D/DF F/45-46).
  • A copy of Mr Parson's address at Rochester's funeral in 1680, made by Lady Cowper c.1698. Hertfordshire Record Office (DE/P F43, pp. 660-6).
  • A presentation printed exemplum of Gilbert Burnet's Some Passages of the Life and Death of the Right Honourable John Earl of Rochester (London, 1680), given by the author and with the recipient's inscription From The Worthy Author 1681. Pickering & Chatto's sale catalogue No. 652 (January 1984), item 17.
  • Another exemplum of Gilbert Burnet's Some Passages of the Life and Death of the Right Honourable John Earl of Rochester (London, 1680) bearing Burnet's own bookplate. Pierpont Morgan Library (7670).
  • A contemporary transcript of Burnet's Some Passages of the Life and Death of the Right Honourable John Earl of Rochester apparently made by the Quaker John Jack, on 112 small quarto pages. University of Chicago (MS 593).
  • A passage from Rochester's penitence as reported in Burnet's Some Passages, quoted in a letter by William Ball to Francis Parry, 27 September 1680. Bodleian (MS Eng. lett. c. 328, ff. 519r-20v). No doubt other copies of, or extracts from, this celebrated classic of repentance literature are to be found elsewhere.
  • The deposition of Sarah Blancourt, made on 9 November 1680, concerning Rochester's death. Bodleian (MS Eng. misc. b. 27, f. 30r).
  • A copy of William Thomas's account of Rochester's death. British Library (Harley MS 7003, f. 181), and a transcript of this by Thomas Birch (British Library, Add. MS 4162, ff. 255r-6r).

Miscellaneous

A brief dismissive note on Rochester by Joseph Hunter (1783-1861) in his Chorus Vatum Anglicanorum (Volume V) is in the British Library (Add. MS 24491, f. 97). Critical comments on Rochester are in the autograph manuscript of Remarks & Observations on the most celebrated Authors & Artists by Philip Bliss (1787-1857), sold at Sotheby's, 15 December 1982, lot 117, to Quaritch, and now in the Bodleian (MS Don. e. 132). An exemplum of Works by Rochester, Roscommon and others (2 vols in 1, London, 1752) with annotations by the literary scholar and editor George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931) is in the Bodleian (Thorn-Drury f. 3). Some of John Hayward's papers relating to his edition of Rochester's Collected Works (1926), as well as some manuscript texts of poems by Rochester collected by him (given entries in CELM) are in the Hayward Collection at King's College, Cambridge.

Abbreviations

Danchin
Pierre Danchin, A Late Seventeenth-century Miscellany, Cahiers Élisabéthains, 22 (Université Paul Valéry-Montpellier, October 1982), 51-86.
Greene
Graham Greene, Lord Rochester's Monkey being the Life of John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester (Oxford, 1974; reprinted London, 1976).
Love
The Works of John Wilmot Earl of Rochester, ed. Harold Love (Oxford, 1999).
Prinz
Johannes Prinz, John Wilmot Earl of Rochester His Life and Writings (Leipzig, 1927).
Treglown
The Letters of John Wilmot Earl of Rochester, ed. Jeremy Treglown (Oxford, 1980).
Vieth
The Complete Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed. David M. Vieth (New Haven & London, 1968; reprinted 1974).
Vieth, Attribution
David M. Vieth, Attribution in Restoration Poetry: A Study of Rochester's Poems of 1680 (New Haven & London, 1963).
Vieth, Gyldenstolpe
The Gyldenstolpe Manuscript Miscellany of Poems by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, and other Restoration Authors, ed. Bror Danielsson and David M. Vieth, Stockholm Studies in English 17 (Stockholm, 1967).
Walker
The Poems of John Wilmot Earl of Rochester, ed. Keith Walker (Oxford, 1984).

Verse

The Advice ('All things submit themselves to your command')

First published in A Collection of Poems, Written upon several Occasions, By several Persons (London, 1672). Poems, &c. on Several Occasions (London, 1691). Vieth, pp. 18-19. Walker, pp. 16-17. Love, pp. 8-9.

RoJ 1

Copy.

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and papers.

Papers of the Rev. George Harbin (c.1665-1744), historical writer and librarian to Sir Thomas Thynne (1640-1714), first Viscount Weymouth, at Longleat House, including (ff. 38r-60v) 23 quarto leaves of poems and letters by Rochester in a single hand.

Early 18th century

Inscribed (several times) Alex: Malet: i.e. the Rev Alexander Malet, Harbin's nephew and executor, a later note stating that the Marquess of Bath purchased part of the papers from Malet's descendant, Sir Alexander Malet, in 1873. Another inscription (f. 37r) reads: Some of Dr Harbin's Papers obtained from Mr. Waller of Fleet St by J.E. Jackson, after the sale of the Papers by Puttick & Simpson April 1874.

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Harbin MS: RoJ Δ 9.

The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House (Thynne Papers, Vol. XXVII ff. 53v-4v)
RoJ 2

Copy.

Edited in part from this MS in Love.

A quarto volume of works almost exclusively by Rochester, in a single professional hand up to p. 208, a second, less accomplished, hand taking over (after stubs of two extracted leaves) on pp. 209-31; with a title-page (p. 13), Poem's / By The. Right Honourable/John Earle / of/Rochester, 219 pages (plus 12 preliminary blank pages and 99 blank pages at the end), in half-russia over marbled boards.

c.mid-1680s

Bookplate of The Reverend Sir George Lee. Baronet/Hartwell. Inscribed This Manuscript was found at Hartwell. March. 1829. J. Lee and another, Bound Mr. Wilson. March 1829 [i.e. the MS was in the library of the Rev. Sir George Lee, Bt (1767-1827), rector of Hartwell, etc., and of Dr John Lee, F.R.S. (1783-1866), at Hartwell House, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire]. Later sold by Charles Sawyer (No. 1467 in a sale catalogue). The MS might possibly once have been owned by Thomas Lee, Bt, M.P. (1635-91) of Hartwell, who was, incidentally, related by marriage to Sir John Suckling. His son was Sir Thomas Lee, Bt, M.P. (1661-1702). The MS was later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 18 December 1995 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 114, with facsimile examples in the sale catalogue.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Hartwell MS: RoJ Δ 17. This MS on exhibition at the Bodleian, 16-28 June 1930, and recorded in Proceedings and Papers of the Oxford Bibliographical Society, 2 (1927-30), p. 213. Subsequently discussed, and parts printed, by Harold Love and Stephen Parks in A reasonable satyr, TLS, 1 August 1997, p. 13; in Harold Love, A Tale of Two Manuscripts, Yale University Library Gazette, 72 (1999), 41-53; and in his pamphlet A Newly Discovered Burlesque by John Wilmot Earl of Rochester (New Haven, 1997).

A complete microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7982.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 334 pp. 172-4)
RoJ 3

Copy of lines 35-50, headed The Feminine Monarchy and here beginning You are Loves citadel; By you he reigns.

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

c.1682-91
Bodleian Library, Sancroft MSS (MS Sancroft 53 p. 2)
RoJ 3.5

Extracts, the first twelve lines headed Brook.

A quarto verse miscellany, largely in one hand, with additions by others, written from both ends, material at the reverse end dated 1708-9, ii + 114 leaves, in 19th-century half-calf.

Inscribed (f. [iir]), probably by the compiler, Ex Libris Georgij Wright [b.1685/6] Sti Johannis Collegis Cantabrigiensis Alumni, Decimo quarto Junij. Annoq. Domini 1703.

c.1703-9

Also inscribed (f.[iir]) Mrs Frances Wright 1708. A postal address on f. 95r (rev.) reads: Direct to Margtt Borrett att Mrs. Borretts In Kirkby=stephen Westmoorland p brough bag _ These.

Recorded in IELM, II.ii, as the Wright MS: WaE Δ 12.

Edinburgh University Library (MS Dc. 3. 76 f. 64r-v)
Against Constancy ('Tell me no more of constancy')

First published in A New Collection of the Choicest Songs (London, 1676). Vieth, pp. 83-4. Walker, pp. 42-3. Love, p. 34, as Songe of the Earle of Rochesters.

RoJ 4

Copy, headed Songe of ye Earle of Rochesters.

Edited from this MS in David M. Vieth, A New Song by Rochester, TLS (6 November 1953), p. 716 (and see also related correspondence on 19 and 26 February 1954, pp. 121, 137). Edited in part from this MS in Vieth (1968) and in Love. Collated in Walker.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. b. 8 p. 561)
RoJ 5

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

Printed from this MS in Macdonald Emslie, A New Song by Rochester, TLS (26 February 1954), p. 137; edited in part from this MS in Vieth; collated in Walker.

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).

RoJ 5.5 Late 17th century

Copy, untitled, the first of four poems on one and a half conjugate folio leaves, in a folder of unbound verse (at the top of the box).

A box of papers and commonplace books of the Cary family, including the Rev. Francis Henry Cary (1642-1712), rector of Brinkworth, Wiltshire.

National Archives, Kew (C 104/63 [unnumbered item])
RoJ 5.8

Copy.

Edited from this MS, as Inconstancy in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), pp. 143-4.

A folio verse miscellany, in vellum.

Late 17th century?

Inscribed on the front cover William Turner his booke, 1662 and, on the rear paste-down Catherine Gage's Booke: i.e. Catherine Gage, Lady Aston (d.1720). Formerly among the papers of the Aston family, of Tixall, Staffordshire.

Poems selectively edited from this MS (as his Third Division: Poems Collected by the Right Honourable Lady Aston) in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), pp. 107-205.

Untraced Tixal MSS (Tixall MS 3 [unspecified page numbers])
Against Marriage ('Out of mere love and arrant devotion')

First published in Vieth (1968), p. 159. Walker, pp. 130-1, among Poems Possibly by Rochester. Love, pp. 40-1, as Of Marriage and beginning Out of Stark Love, and arrant Devotion.

RoJ 6

Copy, here beginning Out of stark Love & Arrant devotione.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A long, narrow, ledger-size composite miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 112 pages (some misnumbered and pp. 45-6 excised), in 19th-century calf gilt.

A compendium of several separate collections of poems, each with its general heading, including nineteen poems by the Earl of Rochester, copied in a single hand, that of Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), antiquary.

c.1680s-1700s

Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker. Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Edinburgh MS: RoJ Δ 6.

Edinburgh University Library (MS Dc. 1. 3/1 p. 67)
RoJ 7

Copy, headed Of Marriage and here beginning Out of stark Love..., with four lines added in another hand.

Edited in part from this MS in Love. Collated in Hammond, Robinson and in Walker (and the additional lines edited, p. 222).

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Booke of Paragrafts, including 22 poems by Rochester, 445 pages plus stubs of extracted leaves (originally 463 numbered pages and now lacking pp. 59-68, 147-54 and parts of pp. 155-8), with a two-leaf index; in contemporary red morocco.

In professional hands: A, pp. 1-194; B, in a different style and probably a different hand, pp. 195-432; C, probably yet another hand, with additions on pp. 75, 90, 102, 125, 142, 175, 195, and pp. 433-63.

c.1680s-90s

Inscribed (on stubs and endpapers) matt Calihan, To Cpt Robinson att Capt Eloass [Elwes] near ye Watch house in Marlburhroagh street, For Capt. Robinson at his Lodginges in Charing Cross. Christie's, 27 June 1979, lot 16.

Various commissioned officers named Robinson are recorded in Charles Dalton, English Army Lists and Commission Registers, 1661-1714 (6 vols, London, 1892-1904): see esp. I, 276. The volume was most probably owned by Charles Robinson of the King's Regiment of Foot Guards, who became Captain and then Lieutenant-Colonel in 1688 and was killed at Namur in 1695. A member of the same regiment in 1684 was the purveyor of MS lampoons Captain Lenthal Warcup. The Captain Eloass mentioned in one inscription was possibly William Elwes, who served as a Lieutenant in Viscount Colchester's Regiment of Horse, c.1692-4, and as a Captain in Lord Windsor's Regiment of Horse in 1702.

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Robinson MS: RoJ Δ 8. Discussed with facsimiles of pp. 1-10 in Paul Hammond, The Robinson Manuscript Miscellany of Restoration Verse in the Brotherton Collection, Leeds, Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, 18 (1982), 275-324 [cited in entries as Hammond, Robinson]. Facsimiles of p. 1 also in Christie's sale catalogue, Plate 1, after p. 48, and in The Brotherton Collection University of Leeds: Its contents described with illustrations of fifty books and manuscripts (Leeds, 1986), p. 17. Selectively collated in Walker.

RoJ 8

Copy, headed Of Marriage, here beginning Out of stark Love and arrant Devotion, subscribed R.

An octavo miscellany of chiefly satirical poems, including at least twelve by Rochester, in a single rounded hand but for an addition at the end (pp. 141-50) in a stylish italic hand, the greater part written along the length of the page with the spine uppermost, with an Index, xii + 150 pages (lacking pp. 135-40), in contemporary calf.

Possibly associated with the court circle of James Butler (1610-88), first Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

c.1680s

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dublin MS: RoJ Δ 10.

National Library of Ireland (MS 2093 pp. 130-1)
RoJ 8.5

Copy, here beginning out of stark love and Arrant devotion.

A large octavo verse miscellany, chiefly lampoons and poems on affairs of state, including 21 poems by Rochester and various others in the Rochester apocrypha, nearly 600 pages in all, with a 14-page index.

Written in a single hand which can be identified as that of the Scottish pasquil-writer and antiquary Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), who was also responsible for RoJ Δ 6.

c.1705
Private owners in the UK (Mylne MS p. 215)
RoJ 8.8

Copy.

A commonplace book compiled by Whitelocke Bulstrode (1652-1724), administrator and writer.

1680-93

Later in the library of J. Eliot Hodgkin, FSA (1829-1912), of Richmond, Surrey, engineer and book collector.

Recorded in HMC, 15th Report, Appendix II (1897), pp. 3 and 18 (where the poems by Rochester at the reverse end are erroneously attributed to Lord Rosebery).

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Bulstrode MS] [unspecified page numbers])
RoJ 9

Copy, untitled, here beginning Out of stark love, & kindnes, & arrant devotion, ascribed to some libertine, I know not whether T. Brown, dated 23 March 1700/1, the text followed by Joshua Barnes's parody beginning Out of stark love and kindness, with zeal and devotion.

An autograph diary of Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), Oxford antiquary, 252 octavo pages, in contemporary calf.

24 June-16 September 1706
Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Hearne's diaries 11 p. 96)
RoJ 10

Copy, headed By ye E. of Rochester.

Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single neat hand, 79 leaves (plus an index), in modern black leather gilt.

Including eleven poems in the Marvell canon (plus further apocryphal poems).

c.1680

Later owned by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist and antiquary. Puttick & Simpson's, 9 June 1859 (Turner sale), lot 389. Purchased from Boone, 9 June 1860.

Recorded in IELM, II.ii, as the Turner MS: MaA Δ 4. The Marvell poems recorded and selectively collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I and II.

RoJ 11

Copy of a version headed On Marriage and beginning Out of stark Love & errant Devotion.

Ten MS poems, in the hand of Pepys's secretary Paul Lorrain, on leaves bound, together with another related work, in Pepys's printed exemplum of Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680).

Late 17th century
An Allusion ('The freeborn English Generous and wise')

First published in The Genius of True English-men (London, 1680). Love, p. 55 (21-line version) and pp. 257-8 (30-line version, among Disputed Works). Also attributed to Robert Wolseley.

RoJ 11.1

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Love.

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and papers.

Papers of the Rev. George Harbin (c.1665-1744), historical writer and librarian to Sir Thomas Thynne (1640-1714), first Viscount Weymouth, at Longleat House, including (ff. 38r-60v) 23 quarto leaves of poems and letters by Rochester in a single hand.

Early 18th century

Inscribed (several times) Alex: Malet: i.e. the Rev Alexander Malet, Harbin's nephew and executor, a later note stating that the Marquess of Bath purchased part of the papers from Malet's descendant, Sir Alexander Malet, in 1873. Another inscription (f. 37r) reads: Some of Dr Harbin's Papers obtained from Mr. Waller of Fleet St by J.E. Jackson, after the sale of the Papers by Puttick & Simpson April 1874.

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Harbin MS: RoJ Δ 9.

The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House (Thynne Papers, Vol. XXVII [unspecified page numbers])
RoJ 11.2

Copy.

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and papers.

Papers of the Rev. George Harbin (c.1665-1744), historical writer and librarian to Sir Thomas Thynne (1640-1714), first Viscount Weymouth, at Longleat House, including (ff. 38r-60v) 23 quarto leaves of poems and letters by Rochester in a single hand.

Early 18th century

Inscribed (several times) Alex: Malet: i.e. the Rev Alexander Malet, Harbin's nephew and executor, a later note stating that the Marquess of Bath purchased part of the papers from Malet's descendant, Sir Alexander Malet, in 1873. Another inscription (f. 37r) reads: Some of Dr Harbin's Papers obtained from Mr. Waller of Fleet St by J.E. Jackson, after the sale of the Papers by Puttick & Simpson April 1874.

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Harbin MS: RoJ Δ 9.

The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House (Thynne Papers, Vol. XXVII f. 57v et seq.)
RoJ 11.3

Copy.

A miscellany of verse and prose, mainly on affairs of state, 176 pages, in Middle Hill boards.

c.1700

Formerly Phillipps MS 10984. Sotheby's, 5 June 1899, lot 995. Then owned by F.W. Cock. Sotheby's, 8 May 1944 (Cock sale), lot 235. P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue 97 (1947), item 179.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. d. 53 p. 23 et seq.)
RoJ 11.4

Copy.

A folio verse miscellany, entitled The Muse's Magazine, or Poeticall Miscelanies, in two parts, in a single hand, 189 leaves.

Including 27 poems by Cowley; eleven poems by Katherine Philips, evidently derived from printed sources; 10 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items; twelve poems by Sedley, plus one of doubtful authorship; and 15 poems by Waller, evidently derived from printed sources.

A note on a flyleaf relating to the bookseller John Dunton (1659-1733): John Dunton His Book, for which Mr. Corbet at ye Addisons Head, accepted One Half Guinea in full Payment for it, as Witness my Hand, Hannah Rakley. A note on f. 1: Since I had transcrib'd this whole Book, I met with some state Poems of these later times, mostly since K. George's Accession to the Crown [1714] which I have here inserted, as a supplement to these state Poems which make a part of this Collection by themselves. Date at the end of the volume: 1718, and some notes on a flyleaf dated 1724.

Early 18th century

The Mr. Corbet from whom Dunton purchased this MS was evidently the bookseller Thomas Corbett (fl. 1705-43), who ran his business at the Addison's Head, next to the Rose Tavern, without Temple Bar, from 1719 until his death in 1743. Neither Dunton nor Corbett are known to have used this MS for publication purposes.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dunton MS: PsK Δ 8; RoJ Δ 4; SeC Δ 1; WaE Δ 10.

For John Dunton's career, see Stephen Parks, John Dunton and the English Book Trade: A Study of His Career with a Checklist of His Publications (New York & London, 1970).

RoJ 11.5

Copy.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, largely in a single neat hand, with later hands at the end, 114 leaves (some leaves excised), wth an index (f. 114r-v), in 19th-century half black morocco.

c.1700

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

RoJ 11.7

Copy.

A folio volume comprising two apparently independent miscellanies of poems on affairs of state, each in probably more than one professional hand, in variant styles, 199 pages, in modern cloth.

Part I, ff. 1r-110v (poems dated 1667-83); Part II, ff. 111r-99r, on larger paper (poems dated 1680-7).

c.1680s

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Advocates MS: MaA Δ 8. Works by Marvell recorded and some poems collated in POAS, I.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 19.1.12 f. 97v et seq.)
RoJ 11.8

Copy.

A formal folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, including eleven by Rochester and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items, probably in a single professional hand, 444 leaves (including a six-leaf index).

c.1690s

Cited in IELM, II.ii as the Vienna MS: RoJ Δ 12. Discussed in Rudolf Brotanek, Beschreibung der Handschrift 14090 (Supplement 1776) der Nationalbibliothek in Wien, in Festschrift der Nationalbibliothek in Wien (Vienna, 1926), 145-62. Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker.

Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna (Cod. 14090 f. 183r et seq.)
RoJ 11.9

Copy.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, largely in a single hand, 304 pages (plus an Index and blanks), in contemporary calf.

c.1680s-90s

Sotheby's, 21-22 April 1958, lot 397, to Seven Gables bookshop. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Formerly Restoration poetry MS 3.

A microfilm of this volume is in the British Library, M/546.

Princeton (RTC01 No. 36 p. 150 et seq.)
RoJ 11.91

Copy.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional hand, in two volumes: Vol. I, including twelve poems by Rochester and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items, pp. 1-461 (plus index); Vol. II, pp. 462-842 (with irregularities of pagination).

This MS is closely related to Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Cod. 14090.

c.1690s-1700

Later owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor, who records that £50 was given by Perry, for these 2 volumes.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dyce MS: RoJ Δ 15.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 43 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.37-38) p. 343)
RoJ 11.92

Copy.

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

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

c.1681

Formerly Osborn MS Chest II, Number 14.

Yale, Osborn MS b 50 through Osborn MS b 99 (Osborn MS b 54 p. 1196 et seq.)
RoJ 11.93

Copy of the 21-line version, cited in To the Reader.

Edited from this MS in Love, p. 55.

A quarto volume of works almost exclusively by Rochester, in a single professional hand up to p. 208, a second, less accomplished, hand taking over (after stubs of two extracted leaves) on pp. 209-31; with a title-page (p. 13), Poem's / By The. Right Honourable/John Earle / of/Rochester, 219 pages (plus 12 preliminary blank pages and 99 blank pages at the end), in half-russia over marbled boards.

c.mid-1680s

Bookplate of The Reverend Sir George Lee. Baronet/Hartwell. Inscribed This Manuscript was found at Hartwell. March. 1829. J. Lee and another, Bound Mr. Wilson. March 1829 [i.e. the MS was in the library of the Rev. Sir George Lee, Bt (1767-1827), rector of Hartwell, etc., and of Dr John Lee, F.R.S. (1783-1866), at Hartwell House, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire]. Later sold by Charles Sawyer (No. 1467 in a sale catalogue). The MS might possibly once have been owned by Thomas Lee, Bt, M.P. (1635-91) of Hartwell, who was, incidentally, related by marriage to Sir John Suckling. His son was Sir Thomas Lee, Bt, M.P. (1661-1702). The MS was later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 18 December 1995 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 114, with facsimile examples in the sale catalogue.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Hartwell MS: RoJ Δ 17. This MS on exhibition at the Bodleian, 16-28 June 1930, and recorded in Proceedings and Papers of the Oxford Bibliographical Society, 2 (1927-30), p. 213. Subsequently discussed, and parts printed, by Harold Love and Stephen Parks in A reasonable satyr, TLS, 1 August 1997, p. 13; in Harold Love, A Tale of Two Manuscripts, Yale University Library Gazette, 72 (1999), 41-53; and in his pamphlet A Newly Discovered Burlesque by John Wilmot Earl of Rochester (New Haven, 1997).

A complete microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7982.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 334 p. 148)
RoJ 11.94

Copy, headed The Charrecter of the English by Mr Wolseley.

This MS recorded in Nicholas Fisher, Rochester's An Allusion to Tacitus, N&Q, 255, No. 4 (December 2010), 503-6.

A folio verse miscellany, in a single hand, compiled by Nathaniel Hamby, of Wymondham, Norfolk, 648 pages, in morocco gilt.

c.1729
Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS c 244 pp. 290-1)
RoJ 11.95

Copy.

A folio composite volume of separate copies of poems, in various hands and paper sizes, c.257 pages, now disbound.

Late 17th century

Sotheby's, 14 March 1961, lot 573. Formerly at Yale Box 89, No. 3.

Microfilm in the British Library, M/608.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS fb 108 p. 367)
An Allusion to Horace, the Tenth Satyr of the First Book ('Well, sir, 'tis granted I said Dryden's rhymes')

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 120-6. Walker, pp. 99-102. Love, pp. 71-4.

RoJ 12

Copy.

A large folio miscellany of verse and prose, in a single accomplished professional hand, 756 pages (including over 200 blank leaves).

Including (pp. 217-429) 87 poems, chiefly on affairs of state, of which thirty are by Rochester; other contents comprising (pp. 1-71) a transcript of a Royal Household Establishment Book of William and Mary (1689-97); (pp. 75-212) a collection of legal precedents; and (pp. 442-543) copies of documents relating to the New Forest.

c.1698-1700s

Evidently compiled either for Henry Somerset (1629-1700), first Duke of Beaufort, Privy Councillor, or for his son Henry (1661-98), Marquess of Worcester, or else for his grandson, Henry Somerset (1684-1714), second Duke of Beaufort, who was Warden of the New Forest.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Badminton MS: RoJ Δ 1. Discussed and contents listed, with facsimile examples, in Michael Brennan and Paul Hammond, The Badminton Manuscript: A New Miscellany of Restoration Verse, EMS, 5 (1995), 171-207.

The Duke of Beaufort, Badminton (FmE 3/12 pp. 292-6)
RoJ 13

This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.

A quarto composite miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 137 pages (plus eight pages of later additions and eight blank pages), in modern cloth.

In a single hand, including sixteen poems by Rochester, pp. 139-46 occupied by charges of the Grand Jury added after 1714.

c.1680s

Recorded in IELM II.ii as the Gilpin MS: RoJ Δ 3.

Bodleian Library, Eng. misc. MSS (MS Eng. misc. e. 536 pp. 91-4)
RoJ 14

Copy, headed In Imitation of the 10th Satire Hor: 1th Lib.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems chiefly on affairs of state, entitled A Collection of Poems, including 27 poems by Rochester (all ascribed to him), xii + 299 pages (plus a number of blanks), including a table of contents, in contemporary calf (rebacked).

In a single professional hand but for a few later additions at the very end (pp. 295-8, with some pages tipped-in).

c.1690s

Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Harvard MS: RoJ Δ 7.

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 636 pp. 40-6)
RoJ 15

Copy.

This MS collated in Hammond, Robinson and in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Booke of Paragrafts, including 22 poems by Rochester, 445 pages plus stubs of extracted leaves (originally 463 numbered pages and now lacking pp. 59-68, 147-54 and parts of pp. 155-8), with a two-leaf index; in contemporary red morocco.

In professional hands: A, pp. 1-194; B, in a different style and probably a different hand, pp. 195-432; C, probably yet another hand, with additions on pp. 75, 90, 102, 125, 142, 175, 195, and pp. 433-63.

c.1680s-90s

Inscribed (on stubs and endpapers) matt Calihan, To Cpt Robinson att Capt Eloass [Elwes] near ye Watch house in Marlburhroagh street, For Capt. Robinson at his Lodginges in Charing Cross. Christie's, 27 June 1979, lot 16.

Various commissioned officers named Robinson are recorded in Charles Dalton, English Army Lists and Commission Registers, 1661-1714 (6 vols, London, 1892-1904): see esp. I, 276. The volume was most probably owned by Charles Robinson of the King's Regiment of Foot Guards, who became Captain and then Lieutenant-Colonel in 1688 and was killed at Namur in 1695. A member of the same regiment in 1684 was the purveyor of MS lampoons Captain Lenthal Warcup. The Captain Eloass mentioned in one inscription was possibly William Elwes, who served as a Lieutenant in Viscount Colchester's Regiment of Horse, c.1692-4, and as a Captain in Lord Windsor's Regiment of Horse in 1702.

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Robinson MS: RoJ Δ 8. Discussed with facsimiles of pp. 1-10 in Paul Hammond, The Robinson Manuscript Miscellany of Restoration Verse in the Brotherton Collection, Leeds, Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, 18 (1982), 275-324 [cited in entries as Hammond, Robinson]. Facsimiles of p. 1 also in Christie's sale catalogue, Plate 1, after p. 48, and in The Brotherton Collection University of Leeds: Its contents described with illustrations of fifty books and manuscripts (Leeds, 1986), p. 17. Selectively collated in Walker.

RoJ 16

Copy, subscribed Rochester.

An octavo miscellany of chiefly satirical poems, including at least twelve by Rochester, in a single rounded hand but for an addition at the end (pp. 141-50) in a stylish italic hand, the greater part written along the length of the page with the spine uppermost, with an Index, xii + 150 pages (lacking pp. 135-40), in contemporary calf.

Possibly associated with the court circle of James Butler (1610-88), first Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

c.1680s

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dublin MS: RoJ Δ 10.

National Library of Ireland (MS 2093 pp. 120-8)
RoJ 17

Copy, headed An Allusion to Horace.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in several hands, one professional stylish hand predominating, with (ff. 1r, 2r) a Table of contents, 213 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf.

Including 29 poems by Rochester (plus a second copy of one) and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items.

c.1680s

Once owned by Thomas Fermor (1698-1753), first Earl of Pomfret, of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire. Also used by one James Parks.

Recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, and selectively collated in Walker.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 40 ff. 37v-9v)
RoJ 18

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A formal quarto miscellany, of poems on affairs of state, including 29 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items, in three professional hands (A, pp. 1-278; B, pp. 279-84; C, pp. 285-314), 314 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary red morocco.

c.1680

Once owned by Count Carl Edward Gyldenstolpe (1770-1852) and perhaps originally acquired by Count Nils Gyldenstolpe (1642-1709), Swedish Ambassador at The Hague (in 1679-87).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Gyldenstolpe MS: RoJ Δ 14. A complete facsimile edition in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe (1967).

Royal Library, Stockholm (MS Vu. 69 pp. 145-52)
RoJ 18.5

Quotation, lines 54-6 (here beginning Waller by nature for ye bays design'd), ascribed to Roch, in an unidentified hand.

Exemplum of the Third printed edition of Waller's Poems (8°: London, 1668) extensively annotated by Francis Atterbury (1662-1732), Bishop of Rochester, including his rewriting of many poems, a blank page at the beginning annotated in an unidentified hand; pages 49-51 with a note on the irregularities of Waller's verse; the last blank page with other notes on Waller by Atterbury (Waller commends no Poet of his times that was in any degree a Rival to him...) and by an unidentified hand (?Neve).

c.1721

The volume briefly described in H.C. Beeching, Francis Atterbury (1909), pp. 227-31.

Westminster Abbey (CB 67 blank page facing p. 1)
RoJ 19

Copy of lines 5-124, here beginning What e're you write; that wth a flowing Tyde, imperfect, lacking the opening.

Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled Songs & Verses - Upon severall occasions, 406 pages (but pp. 35-44, 63-6, 77-86, 115-32, 153-8, 161-84, and 195-212 excised).

Including 30 poems by Rochester (and probably others by him on missing leaves); pp. 1-392 in a single professional hand (that also responsible for Princeton, RTC01 No. 34); pp. 392-406 in a second hand.

c.1680

Inscribed on the title-page Hansen: i.e. very probably the diplomat Friedrich Adolphus Hansen, who visited England in September 1680 in the entourage of Charles, electoral Prince Palatine. Owned, in 1951 by Dr A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952), Philadelphia book dealer, collector and scholar.

Cited in IELM, II as the Yale MS: RoJ Δ 16. The MS was identified by David M. Vieth as an independent scribal transcript of the copy-text used for the first edition of Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R— (Antwerp [i.e. London], 1680): see Attribution, pp. 56-100, and The Text of Rochester and the Editions of 1680, PBSA, 50 (1956), 243-63. Discussed extensively, and Hansen identified, in Harold Love, Scribal Texts and Literary Communities: The Rochester Circle and Osborn b. 105, SB, 42 (1989), 219-35. Facsimile of p. 62 in Vieth (1968), frontispiece. Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth (1968) and in Walker.

Yale, Osborn MS b 100 through Osborn MS b 149 (Osborn MS b 105 pp. 87-94)
RoJ 20

Copy, headed Satyr, on the modern poets, An allusion to Horace, The 10th. Satyr of the 1st book. Nempe incomposito dixi pede &c..

A quarto volume of works almost exclusively by Rochester, in a single professional hand up to p. 208, a second, less accomplished, hand taking over (after stubs of two extracted leaves) on pp. 209-31; with a title-page (p. 13), Poem's / By The. Right Honourable/John Earle / of/Rochester, 219 pages (plus 12 preliminary blank pages and 99 blank pages at the end), in half-russia over marbled boards.

c.mid-1680s

Bookplate of The Reverend Sir George Lee. Baronet/Hartwell. Inscribed This Manuscript was found at Hartwell. March. 1829. J. Lee and another, Bound Mr. Wilson. March 1829 [i.e. the MS was in the library of the Rev. Sir George Lee, Bt (1767-1827), rector of Hartwell, etc., and of Dr John Lee, F.R.S. (1783-1866), at Hartwell House, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire]. Later sold by Charles Sawyer (No. 1467 in a sale catalogue). The MS might possibly once have been owned by Thomas Lee, Bt, M.P. (1635-91) of Hartwell, who was, incidentally, related by marriage to Sir John Suckling. His son was Sir Thomas Lee, Bt, M.P. (1661-1702). The MS was later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 18 December 1995 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 114, with facsimile examples in the sale catalogue.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Hartwell MS: RoJ Δ 17. This MS on exhibition at the Bodleian, 16-28 June 1930, and recorded in Proceedings and Papers of the Oxford Bibliographical Society, 2 (1927-30), p. 213. Subsequently discussed, and parts printed, by Harold Love and Stephen Parks in A reasonable satyr, TLS, 1 August 1997, p. 13; in Harold Love, A Tale of Two Manuscripts, Yale University Library Gazette, 72 (1999), 41-53; and in his pamphlet A Newly Discovered Burlesque by John Wilmot Earl of Rochester (New Haven, 1997).

A complete microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7982.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 334 pp. 209-15)
RoJ 21

Copy in two hands, headed By the E. of Rochester In imitation of the tenth Satye of the first booke of Horace's Sermons.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, in English and Latin, in several hands, ii + 53 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf.

c.1690

J. Salkeld, sale catalogue No. 222 (17 June 1885), item 273.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Add. B. 106 ff. 5r-7r)
RoJ 23

Copy, in an unidentified cursive secretary hand, untitled (but for the Latin quotation), subscribed Ld Rochester.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

An octavo miscellany of English and Latin verse and some prose, largely in one mixed hand, 123 leaves, with (ff. 2r-4r) an index, in calf gilt.

Compiled by John Watson (d. c.1707), of Queens' College, Cambridge, vicar of Mildenhall, Suffolk.

c.1667-73

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ex dono Drs Barb: Rhodes ...Mri Joan: Rhodes Decemb: 5 1667; Janawary ye 2 day 1726; Wm faildham London to ye Land of maderah & from thence to Jamaca. Purchased from Lilly, 13 July 1850.

RoJ 24

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of poems chiefly on affairs of state, ff. 4r-153v in a single neat predominantly italic hand, ff. 154r-63 in another hand dated 1687, with (ff. 2r-3v, 165r-6r) a table of contents, 166 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half morocco.

Including eight poems in the Marvell canon and his mock-speech by the King (plus apocryphal poems).

c.1680s

Inscribed (f. 1r) Samll. Danvers. 1664; and (f. 164v) F Danvers, Samuel Danvers his book, and W D'anvers: i.e. probably the family of Sir Samuel Danvers, Bt. (d.1683) of Culworth, Northamptonshire (though not in his hand).

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Danvers MS: MaA Δ 5. Marvell contents recorded and selectively collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I and II.

RoJ 24.5 Late 17th century

Copy, in a neat hand, headed In imitation of ye 10 Satyr of Horace by my Ld Rochester, on a fragment of two quarto leaves, partly torn away.

A collection of unbound verse manuscripts, in various hands and paper sizes (chiefly folio), 142 leaves.

Partly compiled by Sir Richard Browne and his father Christopher Browne (1577-1646), of Saye's Court, Deptford.

Volume LXVII of the Evelyn Papers, of John Evelyn (1620-1706), diarist and writer, of Wootton House, Surrey, and his family, also incorporating papers of his father-in-law, Sir Richard Browne, Bt (1605-83), diplomat, and his family. Formerly preserved at Christ Church, Oxford. Acquired March 1995.

RoJ 25

Copy of two folio leaves (misplaced).

This MS recorded in Vieth; lines 1-62 only collated in Walker.

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

RoJ 26

Copy on two probably once conjugate folio leaves.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

A folio composite volume of poems, chiefly on affairs of state, in various hands, 67 leaves, in modern quarter crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

Late 17th century
The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 655 ff. 51r-2v)
RoJ 27

Copy, subscribed Amsterdam. Oct: 8/79 Capt: Stead gave ye Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

An octavo journal and memorandum book, chiefly relating to a journey to the Netherlands and France, 73 leaves.

Compiled by one Latimer Ridley.

1679
The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1504 ff. 69r-70v)
RoJ 28

Copy, headed A Satyr in Imitation of Horaces Sat. 10. B. 1 and here beginning Well Sr 'tis granted I say Dryden's Rymes, subscribed Rochester.

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

c.1680s-1702
RoJ 29

Copy, in a cursive hand, headed An Alusion to Horace: Sermon: lib: ye session of the poetes, on two conjugate quarto leaves. Late 17th century.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

A collection of unbound verse, in various hands.

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

RoJ 30

Copy, headed The Session of Poets by Ld Rochester.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

A quarto miscellany, in several hands, 66 leaves (plus 70 blanks), in contemporary calf.

Compiled at least in part by George Stanhope (1660-1728), Dean of Canterbury, chiefly while he was at King's College, Cambridge.

c.1678-80s

Inscribed Mrs Denham Cookes 1922 March 10.

RoJ 30.5

Copy, headed In Imitation of ye. 10th Satyr of ye 1st. Book of Horace By my Ld. Rochester, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

c.1670s

Later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 27 May 2004 (John Brett-Smith sale), lot 492.

Facsimile of one page in Sotheby's sale catalogue.

Nicholas Fisher ([Rochester Imitation MS])
RoJ 31

Copy, headed A Satyr on the Poets, subscribed Rochester, in a professional hand, on pp. 28-32, in a disbound fragment of a folio miscellany of poems paginated 1-34. Late 17th century

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A folio composite miscellany of verse MSS, chiefly poems on affairs of state, in various hands and paper sizes, now disbound in folders.

Among papers of the Hastings family, Earls of Huntingdon.

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 623 Folder 14, pp. 28-32)
RoJ 32

Copy, headed A Poem on the Poets.

A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands, one cursive hand predominating, entitled at one end Poems Collected at several Times from the year 1670 and at the other end Collections of several things out of History. begun about the year 1670, written over a period, 336 largely unnumbered pages (plus blanks), 205 pages from one end and 131 pages from the reverse end, in contemporary vellum boards.

Compiled chiefly by Sarah Cowper (née Holled, 1644-1720), Lady Cowper, wife of Sir William Cowper, MP (1639-1706), possibly in part from texts supplied by Martin Clifford (c.1624-77), erstwhile secretary of the Duke of Buckingham and Master of the Charterhouse. Including (pp. [91-116]) 26 poems by Sir Charles Sedley as a single group (and copies of a poem of doubtful authorship on pp. [165] and [179]).

c.1670-1705

Recorded in IELM, II.ii, as the Cowper MS: SeC Δ 2. Discussed in Allan Pritchard, Editing from Manuscript: Cowley and the Cowper Papers, in Editing Poetry from Spenser to Dryden, ed. A.H. De Quehen (New York & London, 1981), pp. 47-76, esp. pp. 62-5, and in Harold Love, Two Rochester Manuscripts Circulated from the Charterhouse, The Library, 6th Ser. 16/3 (September 1994), 225-9.

Hertfordshire Record Office (DE/P F36 pp. [148-52])
RoJ 33

Copy, headed Rotchestrs censures of the poets.

This MS recorded, as Illinois MS. 30 Je 45 Stonehill, in Vieth; collated in Walker.

Fragment of a verse miscellany, possibly of Scottish provenance.

Late 17th century

Acquired from Stonehill, 30 June 1945. Formerly Uncat. MSS. Rochester's Censures.

University of Illinois (Post-1650 MS 0191 pp. 209-12)
RoJ 33.5 Late 17th century

Copy, headed Writ Anno 1677. An allusion to Horace 10 Satyr 1o booke, on all four pages of two conjugate folio leaves (followed by DoC 251.5), in a folder of unbound verse (at the top of the box).

A box of papers and commonplace books of the Cary family, including the Rev. Francis Henry Cary (1642-1712), rector of Brinkworth, Wiltshire.

National Archives, Kew (C 104/63 [unnumbered item])
RoJ 34

Copy, in a cursive hand, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet, the heading cropped by the binder.

A folio composite volume of manuscript and printed verse and prose, in various hands, 59 items, in old reversed calf.

Assembled and indexed by Thomas Price (d.1704), a Roman Catholic, of Llanfyllin, Powys.

Later owned by one Prue Haerley and by one Henry Parry. Sotheby's, 20 June 1928, lot 539, to Pickering. Pickering and Chatto's sale catalogue No. 651 (1983).

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 22676 D item 12)
RoJ 35

Copy, in the hand of one of Edmund Waller's daughters.

A quarto miscellany of chiefly verse, with some prose and French exercises, including at least seventeen poems by or attributed to Waller, as well as a complete transcript of The Maid's Tragedy Altered, in more than one hand, the predominant hand that of one of Waller's daughters, written from both ends, some of the ascriptions to Mr Waller added later in a different hand, 100 unnumbered leaves (including stubs of some extracted leaves [ff. 9-13v, 7r-v rev., 27r-v rev., 35-6v rev.]), in calf.

Including such association texts as An Epistle to my father Ox: Sep: ye 17: 1667 (f. [2v]), On ye Wallers arms (f. [15v]), a letter [by Waller] to my Dearest Neece (ff. [20-1]) followed by a letter to her Honrd Uncle ascribed in another hand to Lady Speake (f. 21r-v), and The ffollowing line my ffather write… dated from Hallbarn Aprill ye 11 1685 (f. [33v]).

c.1680s [-1700s]

Scribbling inside the covers and on the flyleaves including (several times) the name Edmond Waller and Edmund Waller his Bookes: i.e. very probably the poet's son, Edmund Waller the Younger (1651-99). Pinned inside the cover is a receipt dated 29 September 1645 for money received from Anne Waller, the poet's mother (d.1653), signed by Anne Darell and witnessed by John Ford and John Pepys.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Younger Waller MS: WaE Δ 7. Briefly recorded in Thorn-Drury and in Wikelund (1970), pp. 77-8.

Mr Richard Waller ([no shelfmark] f. [27r-v])
RoJ 36

Copy, headed A Satyr against the present poetts Being an Allusion to Horrace Satyr: X: Booke: 1:...Written by the Earle of Rochester 1677.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

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

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

c.1681

Formerly Osborn MS Chest II, Number 14.

Yale, Osborn MS b 50 through Osborn MS b 99 (Osborn MS b 54 pp. 974-7)
RoJ 37

Copy, headed Rochesters censure of the poets, on four folio pages.

Copy, headed Rochesters censure of the poets, on four folio pages, formerly in a composite volume of MS verse and prose collected by Richard Frank (c.1698-1762), of Campsall Hall, Yorkshire.

Late 17th century

Chiefly comprising papers of the Yorkshire antiquary Nathaniel Johnston (1627-1705).

This volume recorded (as Bacon Frank Vol. 21) in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, pp. 457-8. The rest of the volume, lacking this poem, is now Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. c. 25.

Answer to a Paper of Verses Sent Him by Lady Betty Felton and Taken out of the Translation of Ovid's Epistles, 1680 ('What strange surprise to meet such words as these')

First published in A Collection of Poems by Several Hands (London, 1693). Vieth, p. 149. Walker, pp. 123-4. Love, p. 43.

RoJ 38

Copy, headed The Earl of Rochester's answer to a paper of verses sent him by L B Felton taken out of ye translation of Ovid's Epistles 1680.

A quarto verse miscellany, largely in one hand, with additions by others, written from both ends, material at the reverse end dated 1708-9, ii + 114 leaves, in 19th-century half-calf.

Inscribed (f. [iir]), probably by the compiler, Ex Libris Georgij Wright [b.1685/6] Sti Johannis Collegis Cantabrigiensis Alumni, Decimo quarto Junij. Annoq. Domini 1703.

c.1703-9

Also inscribed (f.[iir]) Mrs Frances Wright 1708. A postal address on f. 95r (rev.) reads: Direct to Margtt Borrett att Mrs. Borretts In Kirkby=stephen Westmoorland p brough bag _ These.

Recorded in IELM, II.ii, as the Wright MS: WaE Δ 12.

Edinburgh University Library (MS Dc. 3. 76 f. 79v)
'Could I but make my wishes insolent'

See RoJ 71-3.

Dialogue ('When to the King I bid good morrow')

First published in Vieth, pp. 129-30. Walker, pp. 102-3. Love, p. 91, as Dialogue L: R.

RoJ 39

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.

A formal folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, including eleven by Rochester and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items, probably in a single professional hand, 444 leaves (including a six-leaf index).

c.1690s

Cited in IELM, II.ii as the Vienna MS: RoJ Δ 12. Discussed in Rudolf Brotanek, Beschreibung der Handschrift 14090 (Supplement 1776) der Nationalbibliothek in Wien, in Festschrift der Nationalbibliothek in Wien (Vienna, 1926), 145-62. Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker.

RoJ 40

Copy.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional hand, in two volumes: Vol. I, including twelve poems by Rochester and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items, pp. 1-461 (plus index); Vol. II, pp. 462-842 (with irregularities of pagination).

This MS is closely related to Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Cod. 14090.

c.1690s-1700

Later owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor, who records that £50 was given by Perry, for these 2 volumes.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dyce MS: RoJ Δ 15.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 43 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.37-38) p. 26)
RoJ 40.5

Copy.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in several hands, one professional stylish hand predominating, with (ff. 1r, 2r) a Table of contents, 213 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf.

Including 29 poems by Rochester (plus a second copy of one) and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items.

c.1680s

Once owned by Thomas Fermor (1698-1753), first Earl of Pomfret, of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire. Also used by one James Parks.

Recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, and selectively collated in Walker.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 40 f. 78v)
RoJ 41

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution; collated in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled Songs & Verses - Upon severall occasions, 406 pages (but pp. 35-44, 63-6, 77-86, 115-32, 153-8, 161-84, and 195-212 excised).

Including 30 poems by Rochester (and probably others by him on missing leaves); pp. 1-392 in a single professional hand (that also responsible for Princeton, RTC01 No. 34); pp. 392-406 in a second hand.

c.1680

Inscribed on the title-page Hansen: i.e. very probably the diplomat Friedrich Adolphus Hansen, who visited England in September 1680 in the entourage of Charles, electoral Prince Palatine. Owned, in 1951 by Dr A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952), Philadelphia book dealer, collector and scholar.

Cited in IELM, II as the Yale MS: RoJ Δ 16. The MS was identified by David M. Vieth as an independent scribal transcript of the copy-text used for the first edition of Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R— (Antwerp [i.e. London], 1680): see Attribution, pp. 56-100, and The Text of Rochester and the Editions of 1680, PBSA, 50 (1956), 243-63. Discussed extensively, and Hansen identified, in Harold Love, Scribal Texts and Literary Communities: The Rochester Circle and Osborn b. 105, SB, 42 (1989), 219-35. Facsimile of p. 62 in Vieth (1968), frontispiece. Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth (1968) and in Walker.

RoJ 42

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in at least three professional hands, ii + 124 leaves, in half-calf marbled boards.

c.1680s

Owned by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732), annalist and book collector.

All Souls College, Oxford (MS 116 f. 22r)
RoJ 43

Copy, headed A Dialogue between Nell Gwyn, & Dutchess of Portsmouth. By E: Rochester.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state entitled A Choice Collection of Poems, Lampoons, Satyrs &ca, xx + 412 pages (339-411 blank).

c.1700

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

This MS collated in POAS, I.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Firth c. 15 pp. 25-6)
RoJ 44

Copy, headed Dialogue by Ld Rochester.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution; collated in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in six chiefly professional hands, 124 leaves (plus numerous blanks) and including, ff. 123r-4r, two tipped-in octavo leaves, in modern half red crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

c.1710
RoJ 44.5

Copy, headed On A Rareshow by ye Ld Rochester and here beginning When first I bid King Charles good morrow.

An unbound collection of poems chiefly of a bawdy nature or on affairs of state (including a number in the Rochester and apocryphal Rochester canon), in a non-professional hand, possibly derived at least in part from printed sources, 29 folio leaves.

c.1700

Among the papers of the Turner family of Kirkleatham.

A Dialogue between Strephon and Daphne ('Prithee now, fond fool, give o'er')

First published in Poems, &c. on Several Occasions (London, 1691). Vieth, pp. 7-9. Walker, pp. 12-14. Love (two versions), pp. 300-1, as [Epigram on Samuel Pordage], among Impromptus.

RoJ 45

Copy, headed Song / Strephon. Daphny, set out as eighteen four-line stanzas and numbered in darker ink 1.

Edited from this MS in Love.

A quarto volume of works almost exclusively by Rochester, in a single professional hand up to p. 208, a second, less accomplished, hand taking over (after stubs of two extracted leaves) on pp. 209-31; with a title-page (p. 13), Poem's / By The. Right Honourable/John Earle / of/Rochester, 219 pages (plus 12 preliminary blank pages and 99 blank pages at the end), in half-russia over marbled boards.

c.mid-1680s

Bookplate of The Reverend Sir George Lee. Baronet/Hartwell. Inscribed This Manuscript was found at Hartwell. March. 1829. J. Lee and another, Bound Mr. Wilson. March 1829 [i.e. the MS was in the library of the Rev. Sir George Lee, Bt (1767-1827), rector of Hartwell, etc., and of Dr John Lee, F.R.S. (1783-1866), at Hartwell House, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire]. Later sold by Charles Sawyer (No. 1467 in a sale catalogue). The MS might possibly once have been owned by Thomas Lee, Bt, M.P. (1635-91) of Hartwell, who was, incidentally, related by marriage to Sir John Suckling. His son was Sir Thomas Lee, Bt, M.P. (1661-1702). The MS was later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 18 December 1995 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 114, with facsimile examples in the sale catalogue.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Hartwell MS: RoJ Δ 17. This MS on exhibition at the Bodleian, 16-28 June 1930, and recorded in Proceedings and Papers of the Oxford Bibliographical Society, 2 (1927-30), p. 213. Subsequently discussed, and parts printed, by Harold Love and Stephen Parks in A reasonable satyr, TLS, 1 August 1997, p. 13; in Harold Love, A Tale of Two Manuscripts, Yale University Library Gazette, 72 (1999), 41-53; and in his pamphlet A Newly Discovered Burlesque by John Wilmot Earl of Rochester (New Haven, 1997).

A complete microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7982.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 334 pp. 178-82)
RoJ 45.5

Copy, incomplete, beginning at stanza 5 (Love like other little boys).

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and papers.

Papers of the Rev. George Harbin (c.1665-1744), historical writer and librarian to Sir Thomas Thynne (1640-1714), first Viscount Weymouth, at Longleat House, including (ff. 38r-60v) 23 quarto leaves of poems and letters by Rochester in a single hand.

Early 18th century

Inscribed (several times) Alex: Malet: i.e. the Rev Alexander Malet, Harbin's nephew and executor, a later note stating that the Marquess of Bath purchased part of the papers from Malet's descendant, Sir Alexander Malet, in 1873. Another inscription (f. 37r) reads: Some of Dr Harbin's Papers obtained from Mr. Waller of Fleet St by J.E. Jackson, after the sale of the Papers by Puttick & Simpson April 1874.

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Harbin MS: RoJ Δ 9.

The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House (Thynne Papers, Vol. XXVII ff. 56r-7r)
RoJ 45.8

Copy of stanzas 4-7 (lines 13-28), beginning Tell me then the reason why, subscribed Sr John Suckling.

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, chiefly in one cursive hand, written from both ends, 271 leaves (including numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum boards.

c.1700
The Disabled Debauchee ('As some brave admiral, in former war')

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 116-17. Walker, pp. 97-9. Love, pp. 44-5.

RoJ 46

Copy, headed The Maim'd Drunkard and here beginning As some old Admiral in former war.

A large folio miscellany of verse and prose, in a single accomplished professional hand, 756 pages (including over 200 blank leaves).

Including (pp. 217-429) 87 poems, chiefly on affairs of state, of which thirty are by Rochester; other contents comprising (pp. 1-71) a transcript of a Royal Household Establishment Book of William and Mary (1689-97); (pp. 75-212) a collection of legal precedents; and (pp. 442-543) copies of documents relating to the New Forest.

c.1698-1700s

Evidently compiled either for Henry Somerset (1629-1700), first Duke of Beaufort, Privy Councillor, or for his son Henry (1661-98), Marquess of Worcester, or else for his grandson, Henry Somerset (1684-1714), second Duke of Beaufort, who was Warden of the New Forest.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Badminton MS: RoJ Δ 1. Discussed and contents listed, with facsimile examples, in Michael Brennan and Paul Hammond, The Badminton Manuscript: A New Miscellany of Restoration Verse, EMS, 5 (1995), 171-207.

The Duke of Beaufort, Badminton (FmE 3/12 pp. 241-3)
RoJ 47

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. b. 8 pp. 409-11)
RoJ 48

Copy, headed The Maim'd Debauchee.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.

A quarto composite miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 137 pages (plus eight pages of later additions and eight blank pages), in modern cloth.

In a single hand, including sixteen poems by Rochester, pp. 139-46 occupied by charges of the Grand Jury added after 1714.

c.1680s

Recorded in IELM II.ii as the Gilpin MS: RoJ Δ 3.

Bodleian Library, Eng. misc. MSS (MS Eng. misc. e. 536 pp. 89-90)
RoJ 48.5

Copy, headed The Maymed Drunkard.

An octavo miscellany of Restoration poems, chiefly upon affairs of state, ii + 89 octavo leaves, in 19th-century red morocco.

Predominantly in a single professional hand, with subsequent corrections or annotations in other hands or inks, and (f. 89v) with a pencil note after a table of contents This Book is written by Brown.

Late 17th century

Bookplate of Edward Vernon Utterson (1776?-1856), of the Isle of Wight, artist, book collector and literary antiquary. Sotheby's, 19 April 1852, lot 1318. Owned after 1911 by Robert Ashburton Milnes, afterwards Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, politician. Christie's, 26 November 1997, lot 75.

RoJ 49

Copy, headed Thee Disabled Debauch.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A long, narrow, ledger-size composite miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 112 pages (some misnumbered and pp. 45-6 excised), in 19th-century calf gilt.

A compendium of several separate collections of poems, each with its general heading, including nineteen poems by the Earl of Rochester, copied in a single hand, that of Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), antiquary.

c.1680s-1700s

Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker. Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Edinburgh MS: RoJ Δ 6.

Edinburgh University Library (MS Dc. 1. 3/1 pp. 77-8)
RoJ 50

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems chiefly on affairs of state, entitled A Collection of Poems, including 27 poems by Rochester (all ascribed to him), xii + 299 pages (plus a number of blanks), including a table of contents, in contemporary calf (rebacked).

In a single professional hand but for a few later additions at the very end (pp. 295-8, with some pages tipped-in).

c.1690s

Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Harvard MS: RoJ Δ 7.

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 636 pp. 1-3)
RoJ 51

Copy.

Edited in part from this MS in Love. Collated in Hammond, Robinson and in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Booke of Paragrafts, including 22 poems by Rochester, 445 pages plus stubs of extracted leaves (originally 463 numbered pages and now lacking pp. 59-68, 147-54 and parts of pp. 155-8), with a two-leaf index; in contemporary red morocco.

In professional hands: A, pp. 1-194; B, in a different style and probably a different hand, pp. 195-432; C, probably yet another hand, with additions on pp. 75, 90, 102, 125, 142, 175, 195, and pp. 433-63.

c.1680s-90s

Inscribed (on stubs and endpapers) matt Calihan, To Cpt Robinson att Capt Eloass [Elwes] near ye Watch house in Marlburhroagh street, For Capt. Robinson at his Lodginges in Charing Cross. Christie's, 27 June 1979, lot 16.

Various commissioned officers named Robinson are recorded in Charles Dalton, English Army Lists and Commission Registers, 1661-1714 (6 vols, London, 1892-1904): see esp. I, 276. The volume was most probably owned by Charles Robinson of the King's Regiment of Foot Guards, who became Captain and then Lieutenant-Colonel in 1688 and was killed at Namur in 1695. A member of the same regiment in 1684 was the purveyor of MS lampoons Captain Lenthal Warcup. The Captain Eloass mentioned in one inscription was possibly William Elwes, who served as a Lieutenant in Viscount Colchester's Regiment of Horse, c.1692-4, and as a Captain in Lord Windsor's Regiment of Horse in 1702.

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Robinson MS: RoJ Δ 8. Discussed with facsimiles of pp. 1-10 in Paul Hammond, The Robinson Manuscript Miscellany of Restoration Verse in the Brotherton Collection, Leeds, Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, 18 (1982), 275-324 [cited in entries as Hammond, Robinson]. Facsimiles of p. 1 also in Christie's sale catalogue, Plate 1, after p. 48, and in The Brotherton Collection University of Leeds: Its contents described with illustrations of fifty books and manuscripts (Leeds, 1986), p. 17. Selectively collated in Walker.

RoJ 52

Copy, in double columns, here beginning As some old Admirall in former war, subscribed Rochester.

An octavo miscellany of chiefly satirical poems, including at least twelve by Rochester, in a single rounded hand but for an addition at the end (pp. 141-50) in a stylish italic hand, the greater part written along the length of the page with the spine uppermost, with an Index, xii + 150 pages (lacking pp. 135-40), in contemporary calf.

Possibly associated with the court circle of James Butler (1610-88), first Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

c.1680s

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dublin MS: RoJ Δ 10.

National Library of Ireland (MS 2093 pp. 129-30)
RoJ 53

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in several hands, one professional stylish hand predominating, with (ff. 1r, 2r) a Table of contents, 213 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf.

Including 29 poems by Rochester (plus a second copy of one) and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items.

c.1680s

Once owned by Thomas Fermor (1698-1753), first Earl of Pomfret, of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire. Also used by one James Parks.

Recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, and selectively collated in Walker.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 40 f. 123r-v)
RoJ 54

Copy, headed The maim'd Debauchee / The E. of Rochester to his Companions when he lay sick, subscribed Rochester.

An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, chiefly on affairs of state, including nine poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items, in a single small hand, 356 pages (misnumbered in pencil 1-344 and lacking the first few original leaves), in contemporary boards.

Probably compiled by an Anglican cleric (or student before taking orders) associated with Cambridge University.

c.late 1690s-1704

Later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Formerly Restoration poetry MS 5.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Cambridge Miscellany MS: RoJ Δ 13.

Princeton (RTC01 No. 38 pp. 128-30)
RoJ 55

Copy, headed The Maim'd Drunkard.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A formal quarto miscellany, of poems on affairs of state, including 29 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items, in three professional hands (A, pp. 1-278; B, pp. 279-84; C, pp. 285-314), 314 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary red morocco.

c.1680

Once owned by Count Carl Edward Gyldenstolpe (1770-1852) and perhaps originally acquired by Count Nils Gyldenstolpe (1642-1709), Swedish Ambassador at The Hague (in 1679-87).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Gyldenstolpe MS: RoJ Δ 14. A complete facsimile edition in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe (1967).

Royal Library, Stockholm (MS Vu. 69 pp. 47-50)
RoJ 56

Copy, headed Upon his lyeing in & cou'd not drinke By ye E: of R:.

Edited from this MS in Vieth; collated in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled Songs & Verses - Upon severall occasions, 406 pages (but pp. 35-44, 63-6, 77-86, 115-32, 153-8, 161-84, and 195-212 excised).

Including 30 poems by Rochester (and probably others by him on missing leaves); pp. 1-392 in a single professional hand (that also responsible for Princeton, RTC01 No. 34); pp. 392-406 in a second hand.

c.1680

Inscribed on the title-page Hansen: i.e. very probably the diplomat Friedrich Adolphus Hansen, who visited England in September 1680 in the entourage of Charles, electoral Prince Palatine. Owned, in 1951 by Dr A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952), Philadelphia book dealer, collector and scholar.

Cited in IELM, II as the Yale MS: RoJ Δ 16. The MS was identified by David M. Vieth as an independent scribal transcript of the copy-text used for the first edition of Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R— (Antwerp [i.e. London], 1680): see Attribution, pp. 56-100, and The Text of Rochester and the Editions of 1680, PBSA, 50 (1956), 243-63. Discussed extensively, and Hansen identified, in Harold Love, Scribal Texts and Literary Communities: The Rochester Circle and Osborn b. 105, SB, 42 (1989), 219-35. Facsimile of p. 62 in Vieth (1968), frontispiece. Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth (1968) and in Walker.

RoJ 56.5

Copy, headed The Disable'd Debauch.

A large octavo verse miscellany, chiefly lampoons and poems on affairs of state, including 21 poems by Rochester and various others in the Rochester apocrypha, nearly 600 pages in all, with a 14-page index.

Written in a single hand which can be identified as that of the Scottish pasquil-writer and antiquary Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), who was also responsible for RoJ Δ 6.

c.1705
Private owners in the UK (Mylne MS pp. 253-5)
RoJ 57

Copy, headed The Debauch disabled, on a single leaf.

A folio composite volume of verse MSS, in various hands.

c.1612-20

In collections of the Manners family, Dukes of Rutland.

Recorded (erroneously as Volume XXIV) in HMC, 12th Report, Appendix V, Rutland II (1889), pp. 316-31.

The Duke of Rutland, Belvoir Castle (Letters & Papers, Verses, Vol. XXV f. 66r)
RoJ 58

Copy, lacking the last three stanzas.

This MS reproduced in facsimile, transcribed and discussed in Clive T. Probyn, A New Draft of Rochester's Disabled Debauchee, The Scriblerian, 8 (1975), 1-4, and see also David Vieth's corrections to Probyn's transcript in Errata, The Scriblerian, 9 (1977), 147-8; collated in Walker.

A miscellany of academic orations, verse, satires, etc., in Latin and English, iv + 111 leaves, in limp vellum.

Compiled by William Doble (1649/50-75), of Trinity College, Oxford.

c.1669-74

R.C. Hatchwell, sale catalogue No. 23 (1973), item 50.

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. f. 29 fols 24v, 23v rev.)
RoJ 59

Copy, omitting stanza 10, subscribed John E Rochester.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single neat hand, iv + 248 pages, imperfect at the end, in contemporary calf.

Compiled by an Oxford University man.

End of 17th century

Sold by J.W. Jarvis & Sons, 5 December 1888.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 4 pp. 187-8)
RoJ 60

Copy, headed My Ld Rochestrs. The text followed by a Latin translation.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, i + 66 leaves.

c.early 1700s

Inscribed name (f. ir) Nathaniell Spinxs.

RoJ 61

Copy, headed By my Ld Buckhurst:.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of plays (by George Wilde, of St John's College, Oxford) and English and Latin verse, in several hands, probably associated with Oxford, written over a period from both ends, 158 leaves, in 19th-century half black morocco.

c.late 1630s-late 17th century
RoJ 62

Copy, the poem here dated 1675.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single neat hand, 79 leaves (plus an index), in modern black leather gilt.

Including eleven poems in the Marvell canon (plus further apocryphal poems).

c.1680

Later owned by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist and antiquary. Puttick & Simpson's, 9 June 1859 (Turner sale), lot 389. Purchased from Boone, 9 June 1860.

Recorded in IELM, II.ii, as the Turner MS: MaA Δ 4. The Marvell poems recorded and selectively collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I and II.

RoJ 63

Copy, untitled.

An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in a single predominantly italic hand, 102 leaves (plus sixteen blanks), in contemporary calf.

Compiled probably by one Thomas Martin (inscribed on the first page Thomæ Martin Lib and including correspondence of T M).

c.1674-6

Inscribed at the beginning and end For Mr John Souter at Mr John Merttins at Cushione Court in Broadstreet London, For Mr John Sowter at Mr John Merttins at his hous on Garlick hil next door to yeGreyhound Taverne, and Mr Nicholas Holoway at ye golden Ball in Nicholas lane London.

Clark Library, Los Angeles (M3835M3 L651 [1674-6] Bound f. [33v])
RoJ 64

Copy, untitled, the poem dated 15 February 1673.

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English, Latin and French, in several hands, written from both ends, 360 pages (the majority blank), in old calf.

Inscribed (p. [41 rev.]) J. Tyrell and compiled at least in part by James Tyrrell (1642-1718), historical writer and friend of the philosopher John Locke (1632-1704), a poem by whom (ff. [16v-17r]) he dockets as By my dear Friend Mr J. Lock.

c.1670s-80s

Later in the library of Richard Monckton Milnes (1809-85), first Baron Houghton, author and politician, and his son Robert Offley Ashburton Milnes, afterwards Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, politician.

Nicholas Fisher ([Tyrrell MS] f. [4r-v])
RoJ 65

Copy, in an accomplished rounded hand, headed The Lord Rochester uppon himselfe, on one side of a single folio leaf, later endorsed very spirited but, very licentious!. Late 17th-early 18th century.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

A bundle of unbound verse MSS, in various hands.

Among papers of the Sackville and Cranfield families, Earls of Dorset and of De la Warr, of Knole Park, Kent.

RoJ 66 Late 17th century

Copy, headed The Maim'd Debauchee By ye same Author, on pp. [4-5] of a small quarto booklet of poems by or relating to Rochester.

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

Among papers formerly at Pitchford Hall, Shropshire.

National Library of Wales (Pitchford Hall (Ottley) English Literary MSS (uncatalogued), A A7)
RoJ 66.5

Copy, headed The Maimed Debauchee by ye Ld R--r.

An unbound collection of poems chiefly of a bawdy nature or on affairs of state (including a number in the Rochester and apocryphal Rochester canon), in a non-professional hand, possibly derived at least in part from printed sources, 29 folio leaves.

c.1700

Among the papers of the Turner family of Kirkleatham.

North Yorkshire Record Office, Northallerton (ZK MIC 1275/9785 f. [6r-v])
RoJ 67

Copy, headed Lo: R:s Ghost, imperfect, lacking the last six stanzas.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state entitled A Collection of Poems Sayters and Lampoones, 4178 pages (but a number excised).

Late 17th century

Front endpaper inscribed Latchington 2 March 1787. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (Phillipps MS 8303). At Yale formerly Chest II, Number 3.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS fb 140 p. 178)
The Discovery ('Celia, the faithful servant you disown')

First published in A Collection of Poems, Written upon several Occasions, By several Persons (London, 1672). Poems, &c. on Several Occasions (London, 1691). Vieth, pp. 17-18. Walker, pp. 15-16. Love, pp. 10-11.

RoJ 68

Copy, here beginning Caelia yt faithfull servant you disown.

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and papers.

Papers of the Rev. George Harbin (c.1665-1744), historical writer and librarian to Sir Thomas Thynne (1640-1714), first Viscount Weymouth, at Longleat House, including (ff. 38r-60v) 23 quarto leaves of poems and letters by Rochester in a single hand.

Early 18th century

Inscribed (several times) Alex: Malet: i.e. the Rev Alexander Malet, Harbin's nephew and executor, a later note stating that the Marquess of Bath purchased part of the papers from Malet's descendant, Sir Alexander Malet, in 1873. Another inscription (f. 37r) reads: Some of Dr Harbin's Papers obtained from Mr. Waller of Fleet St by J.E. Jackson, after the sale of the Papers by Puttick & Simpson April 1874.

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Harbin MS: RoJ Δ 9.

The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House (Thynne Papers, Vol. XXVII ff. 54v-5r)
RoJ 69

Copy, here beginning Caelia that faithfull Servant you disowne

A quarto volume of works almost exclusively by Rochester, in a single professional hand up to p. 208, a second, less accomplished, hand taking over (after stubs of two extracted leaves) on pp. 209-31; with a title-page (p. 13), Poem's / By The. Right Honourable/John Earle / of/Rochester, 219 pages (plus 12 preliminary blank pages and 99 blank pages at the end), in half-russia over marbled boards.

c.mid-1680s

Bookplate of The Reverend Sir George Lee. Baronet/Hartwell. Inscribed This Manuscript was found at Hartwell. March. 1829. J. Lee and another, Bound Mr. Wilson. March 1829 [i.e. the MS was in the library of the Rev. Sir George Lee, Bt (1767-1827), rector of Hartwell, etc., and of Dr John Lee, F.R.S. (1783-1866), at Hartwell House, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire]. Later sold by Charles Sawyer (No. 1467 in a sale catalogue). The MS might possibly once have been owned by Thomas Lee, Bt, M.P. (1635-91) of Hartwell, who was, incidentally, related by marriage to Sir John Suckling. His son was Sir Thomas Lee, Bt, M.P. (1661-1702). The MS was later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 18 December 1995 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 114, with facsimile examples in the sale catalogue.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Hartwell MS: RoJ Δ 17. This MS on exhibition at the Bodleian, 16-28 June 1930, and recorded in Proceedings and Papers of the Oxford Bibliographical Society, 2 (1927-30), p. 213. Subsequently discussed, and parts printed, by Harold Love and Stephen Parks in A reasonable satyr, TLS, 1 August 1997, p. 13; in Harold Love, A Tale of Two Manuscripts, Yale University Library Gazette, 72 (1999), 41-53; and in his pamphlet A Newly Discovered Burlesque by John Wilmot Earl of Rochester (New Haven, 1997).

A complete microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7982.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 334 pp. 174-5)
The Earl of Rochester's Answer, to a Paper of Verses, sent him by L.B. Felton, and taken out of the Translation of Ovid's Epistles, 1680 ('What strange Surprise to meet such Words as these?')

See RoJ 38.

Epigram on Thomas Otway ('To form a plot')

First published in Poems by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed. Vivian de Sola Pinto (London, 1953), p. 118. Vieth, p. 148. Walker, p. 123, untitled. Love, p. 91, as [Lines].

*RoJ 70
Autograph

Autograph, untitled, on one side of part of a folio leaf, the verso with an address panel to the Earle, once folded as a letter.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

A folio composite volume of papers of Rochester and his immediate circle, on various paper sizes, 25 leaves, all mounted on guards, in modern black leather gilt.

Small collection of nineteen undated leaves of poetical drafts by Rochester and his immediate circle, on single sheets and scraps of paper of various size (folio, quarto, octavo), now inserted in a modern album, comprising: i: ff. 1-11v, autograph drafts of nine poems and a fragment of a prose comedy by Rochester. ii: ff. 12-14, 15-19v, eight autograph poetical drafts (including two versions of the same poem by the poet's wife, Elizabeth (née Mallet), Countess of Rochester (d.1698)). iii: f. 14v, a brief lyric (Your glory Phillis is in being lov'd) in an unidentified hand.

c.1660s-80

Formerly in the library of Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741), and quite possibly inherited from his father, the statesman Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Portland MS. First recorded by Francis Needham in 1934 (see RoJ 71, RoJ 435); recorded and printed in part in various of Vivian de Sola Pinto's publications (1935-62); discussed and analysed in Vieth, Attribution, pp. 204-30; the poems by Rochester edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker (and see also RoJ 633). Facsimile examples in Greene, pp. 71 and 128 (see RoJ 396, RoJ 406); Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 57-8 (see RoJ 396); IELM, II.ii (1993), Facsimile IX.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 31 f. 11r)
Epilogue to Circe ('Some few from Wit have this true Maxime got')

First published, as By the Earl of Rochester, in Charles D'Avenant, Circe, a Tragedy (London, 1677). Vieth, p. 140. Walker, p. 58. Love, p. 122.

RoJ 70.5

Copy.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in several hands, one professional stylish hand predominating, with (ff. 1r, 2r) a Table of contents, 213 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf.

Including 29 poems by Rochester (plus a second copy of one) and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items.

c.1680s

Once owned by Thomas Fermor (1698-1753), first Earl of Pomfret, of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire. Also used by one James Parks.

Recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, and selectively collated in Walker.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 40 f. 225r)
Epistle ('Could I but make my wishes insolent')

First published in Welbeck Miscellany No. 2: A Collection of Poems by Several Hands, never before published, ed. Francis Needham (Bungay, Suffolk, 1934), p. 52. Vieth, p. 33. Walker, pp. 17-18. Love, p. 11, as [Draft of a love poem].

*RoJ 71
Autograph

Autograph draft, with revisions, untitled, on two pages of two conjugate sextodecimo leaves.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

A folio composite volume of papers of Rochester and his immediate circle, on various paper sizes, 25 leaves, all mounted on guards, in modern black leather gilt.

Small collection of nineteen undated leaves of poetical drafts by Rochester and his immediate circle, on single sheets and scraps of paper of various size (folio, quarto, octavo), now inserted in a modern album, comprising: i: ff. 1-11v, autograph drafts of nine poems and a fragment of a prose comedy by Rochester. ii: ff. 12-14, 15-19v, eight autograph poetical drafts (including two versions of the same poem by the poet's wife, Elizabeth (née Mallet), Countess of Rochester (d.1698)). iii: f. 14v, a brief lyric (Your glory Phillis is in being lov'd) in an unidentified hand.

c.1660s-80

Formerly in the library of Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741), and quite possibly inherited from his father, the statesman Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Portland MS. First recorded by Francis Needham in 1934 (see RoJ 71, RoJ 435); recorded and printed in part in various of Vivian de Sola Pinto's publications (1935-62); discussed and analysed in Vieth, Attribution, pp. 204-30; the poems by Rochester edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker (and see also RoJ 633). Facsimile examples in Greene, pp. 71 and 128 (see RoJ 396, RoJ 406); Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 57-8 (see RoJ 396); IELM, II.ii (1993), Facsimile IX.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 31 f. 9r-v)
RoJ 73

Copy, in a bold italic hand, untitled, on pp. 1-2 of an unbound pair of conjugate quarto leaves.

Late 17th century

Edited from this MS in Love.

An Epistolary Essay from M.G. to O.B. upon Their Mutual Poems ('Dear friend, I hear this town does so abound')

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 144-7. Walker, pp. 107-9. Love, pp. 98-101.

RoJ 74

Copy, headed From E.R. to E.M..

A large folio miscellany of verse and prose, in a single accomplished professional hand, 756 pages (including over 200 blank leaves).

Including (pp. 217-429) 87 poems, chiefly on affairs of state, of which thirty are by Rochester; other contents comprising (pp. 1-71) a transcript of a Royal Household Establishment Book of William and Mary (1689-97); (pp. 75-212) a collection of legal precedents; and (pp. 442-543) copies of documents relating to the New Forest.

c.1698-1700s

Evidently compiled either for Henry Somerset (1629-1700), first Duke of Beaufort, Privy Councillor, or for his son Henry (1661-98), Marquess of Worcester, or else for his grandson, Henry Somerset (1684-1714), second Duke of Beaufort, who was Warden of the New Forest.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Badminton MS: RoJ Δ 1. Discussed and contents listed, with facsimile examples, in Michael Brennan and Paul Hammond, The Badminton Manuscript: A New Miscellany of Restoration Verse, EMS, 5 (1995), 171-207.

The Duke of Beaufort, Badminton (FmE 3/12 pp. 251-4)
RoJ 75

This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.

A quarto composite miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 137 pages (plus eight pages of later additions and eight blank pages), in modern cloth.

In a single hand, including sixteen poems by Rochester, pp. 139-46 occupied by charges of the Grand Jury added after 1714.

c.1680s

Recorded in IELM II.ii as the Gilpin MS: RoJ Δ 3.

Bodleian Library, Eng. misc. MSS (MS Eng. misc. e. 536 pp. 41a-42b)
RoJ 76

Copy of (i) lines 30-43, headed A Fragment out of Ld Rochester, which may serve as an apology for the whole collection and here beginning Perhaps Ill verses ought to be confin'd, and (ii) lines 89-98, headed Upon Fame — by the same and here beginning There's not a thing on Earth that I can name.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

A folio verse miscellany, entitled The Muse's Magazine, or Poeticall Miscelanies, in two parts, in a single hand, 189 leaves.

Including 27 poems by Cowley; eleven poems by Katherine Philips, evidently derived from printed sources; 10 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items; twelve poems by Sedley, plus one of doubtful authorship; and 15 poems by Waller, evidently derived from printed sources.

A note on a flyleaf relating to the bookseller John Dunton (1659-1733): John Dunton His Book, for which Mr. Corbet at ye Addisons Head, accepted One Half Guinea in full Payment for it, as Witness my Hand, Hannah Rakley. A note on f. 1: Since I had transcrib'd this whole Book, I met with some state Poems of these later times, mostly since K. George's Accession to the Crown [1714] which I have here inserted, as a supplement to these state Poems which make a part of this Collection by themselves. Date at the end of the volume: 1718, and some notes on a flyleaf dated 1724.

Early 18th century

The Mr. Corbet from whom Dunton purchased this MS was evidently the bookseller Thomas Corbett (fl. 1705-43), who ran his business at the Addison's Head, next to the Rose Tavern, without Temple Bar, from 1719 until his death in 1743. Neither Dunton nor Corbett are known to have used this MS for publication purposes.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dunton MS: PsK Δ 8; RoJ Δ 4; SeC Δ 1; WaE Δ 10.

For John Dunton's career, see Stephen Parks, John Dunton and the English Book Trade: A Study of His Career with a Checklist of His Publications (New York & London, 1970).

RoJ 76.3

Copy of lines 89-100, headed Upon Comon Fame, here beginning There's not a thing on Earth yt I can name.

An octavo miscellany of Restoration poems, chiefly upon affairs of state, ii + 89 octavo leaves, in 19th-century red morocco.

Predominantly in a single professional hand, with subsequent corrections or annotations in other hands or inks, and (f. 89v) with a pencil note after a table of contents This Book is written by Brown.

Late 17th century

Bookplate of Edward Vernon Utterson (1776?-1856), of the Isle of Wight, artist, book collector and literary antiquary. Sotheby's, 19 April 1852, lot 1318. Owned after 1911 by Robert Ashburton Milnes, afterwards Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, politician. Christie's, 26 November 1997, lot 75.

RoJ 76.5

Copy, in double columns.

A folio volume of transcripts of state papers and parliamentary speeches, chiefly from 1618 to 1679, largely in a single mixed hand, written from both ends, 161 leaves, in old marbled boards.

Late 17th century
The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 182 f. 35r-v)
RoJ 76.8

Copy of lines 89-96, beginning To ev'ry Rule their mustie Customers spawn?.

A quarto volume entitled Miscellany Poems, By Severall Hands. Collected by B. Cumberlege, in various hands or styles of script, with occasional pen-and-ink drawings and use of coloured inks, xiv + 195 pages, including a table of contents, in later calf.

c.1703

Bookplate of Frederick Lewis Gay, of Brookline, Massachusetts, 1916.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 584 p. 147)
RoJ 77

Copy, headed To My Lord Mulgrave, from Rochester. An Epistolary Essay From M.G. to O.B. Upon their Mutuall Poems.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems chiefly on affairs of state, entitled A Collection of Poems, including 27 poems by Rochester (all ascribed to him), xii + 299 pages (plus a number of blanks), including a table of contents, in contemporary calf (rebacked).

In a single professional hand but for a few later additions at the very end (pp. 295-8, with some pages tipped-in).

c.1690s

Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Harvard MS: RoJ Δ 7.

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 636 pp. 4-8)
RoJ 78

Copy, headed A Letter from the E. of R: to my Lord O.B..

This MS collated in Hammond, Robinson and in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Booke of Paragrafts, including 22 poems by Rochester, 445 pages plus stubs of extracted leaves (originally 463 numbered pages and now lacking pp. 59-68, 147-54 and parts of pp. 155-8), with a two-leaf index; in contemporary red morocco.

In professional hands: A, pp. 1-194; B, in a different style and probably a different hand, pp. 195-432; C, probably yet another hand, with additions on pp. 75, 90, 102, 125, 142, 175, 195, and pp. 433-63.

c.1680s-90s

Inscribed (on stubs and endpapers) matt Calihan, To Cpt Robinson att Capt Eloass [Elwes] near ye Watch house in Marlburhroagh street, For Capt. Robinson at his Lodginges in Charing Cross. Christie's, 27 June 1979, lot 16.

Various commissioned officers named Robinson are recorded in Charles Dalton, English Army Lists and Commission Registers, 1661-1714 (6 vols, London, 1892-1904): see esp. I, 276. The volume was most probably owned by Charles Robinson of the King's Regiment of Foot Guards, who became Captain and then Lieutenant-Colonel in 1688 and was killed at Namur in 1695. A member of the same regiment in 1684 was the purveyor of MS lampoons Captain Lenthal Warcup. The Captain Eloass mentioned in one inscription was possibly William Elwes, who served as a Lieutenant in Viscount Colchester's Regiment of Horse, c.1692-4, and as a Captain in Lord Windsor's Regiment of Horse in 1702.

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Robinson MS: RoJ Δ 8. Discussed with facsimiles of pp. 1-10 in Paul Hammond, The Robinson Manuscript Miscellany of Restoration Verse in the Brotherton Collection, Leeds, Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, 18 (1982), 275-324 [cited in entries as Hammond, Robinson]. Facsimiles of p. 1 also in Christie's sale catalogue, Plate 1, after p. 48, and in The Brotherton Collection University of Leeds: Its contents described with illustrations of fifty books and manuscripts (Leeds, 1986), p. 17. Selectively collated in Walker.

RoJ 79

Copy, headed Part of an Epistolary Essay from M:G: to G:B: upon ye Mutuall poems and here beginning Dr Friend, It seems ys town does so abound.

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and papers.

Papers of the Rev. George Harbin (c.1665-1744), historical writer and librarian to Sir Thomas Thynne (1640-1714), first Viscount Weymouth, at Longleat House, including (ff. 38r-60v) 23 quarto leaves of poems and letters by Rochester in a single hand.

Early 18th century

Inscribed (several times) Alex: Malet: i.e. the Rev Alexander Malet, Harbin's nephew and executor, a later note stating that the Marquess of Bath purchased part of the papers from Malet's descendant, Sir Alexander Malet, in 1873. Another inscription (f. 37r) reads: Some of Dr Harbin's Papers obtained from Mr. Waller of Fleet St by J.E. Jackson, after the sale of the Papers by Puttick & Simpson April 1874.

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Harbin MS: RoJ Δ 9.

The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House (Thynne Papers, Vol. XXVII ff. 58v-9r)
RoJ 80

Copy, headed An Epistolary Essay from J.N. to J.S. upon their mutuall poems. by. E. Rochestr for liberty of writeing.

An octavo miscellany of chiefly satirical poems, including at least twelve by Rochester, in a single rounded hand but for an addition at the end (pp. 141-50) in a stylish italic hand, the greater part written along the length of the page with the spine uppermost, with an Index, xii + 150 pages (lacking pp. 135-40), in contemporary calf.

Possibly associated with the court circle of James Butler (1610-88), first Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

c.1680s

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dublin MS: RoJ Δ 10.

National Library of Ireland (MS 2093 pp. 1-8)
RoJ 81

Copy, headed From E:R: to E:M:.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in several hands, one professional stylish hand predominating, with (ff. 1r, 2r) a Table of contents, 213 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf.

Including 29 poems by Rochester (plus a second copy of one) and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items.

c.1680s

Once owned by Thomas Fermor (1698-1753), first Earl of Pomfret, of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire. Also used by one James Parks.

Recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, and selectively collated in Walker.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 40 ff. 16r-17v)
RoJ 82

Copy, headed An Epistolary Essay from M.B. to O.G. upon their mutuall Poems, subscribed Rochester.

Edited in part from this MS in Love.

An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, chiefly on affairs of state, including nine poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items, in a single small hand, 356 pages (misnumbered in pencil 1-344 and lacking the first few original leaves), in contemporary boards.

Probably compiled by an Anglican cleric (or student before taking orders) associated with Cambridge University.

c.late 1690s-1704

Later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Formerly Restoration poetry MS 5.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Cambridge Miscellany MS: RoJ Δ 13.

Princeton (RTC01 No. 38 pp. 117-20)
RoJ 82.5 Late 17th century

Copy of lines 1-45, on one side of a folio leaf, lacking the rest, in the hand of Sir John Molyneux, third Baronet, headed An Epistolary Essay.

A folio composite volume of over thirty verse manuscripts, in various hands, including that of Sir John Molyneux, third Baronet (1623-91).

Among the papers of the Molyneux family of Teversall, Nottinghamshire. Donated in 1977 by the eighth Lord Carnarvon.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Paul Davis, An Unrecorded Collection of Restoration Scribal Verse Including Three New Rochester Manuscripts, EMS 18 (2013), 139-172.

University of Nottingham (Molyneux Papers, Vol. II MOL 237)
RoJ 83

Copy, headed From E:R: to E:M..

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A formal quarto miscellany, of poems on affairs of state, including 29 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items, in three professional hands (A, pp. 1-278; B, pp. 279-84; C, pp. 285-314), 314 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary red morocco.

c.1680

Once owned by Count Carl Edward Gyldenstolpe (1770-1852) and perhaps originally acquired by Count Nils Gyldenstolpe (1642-1709), Swedish Ambassador at The Hague (in 1679-87).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Gyldenstolpe MS: RoJ Δ 14. A complete facsimile edition in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe (1967).

Royal Library, Stockholm (MS Vu. 69 pp. 71-6)
RoJ 84

Copy, headed An Epistolary Essay very delightfull and solid from ye Ld: R: to ye Ld: M: upon their mutuall Poems.

Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled Songs & Verses - Upon severall occasions, 406 pages (but pp. 35-44, 63-6, 77-86, 115-32, 153-8, 161-84, and 195-212 excised).

Including 30 poems by Rochester (and probably others by him on missing leaves); pp. 1-392 in a single professional hand (that also responsible for Princeton, RTC01 No. 34); pp. 392-406 in a second hand.

c.1680

Inscribed on the title-page Hansen: i.e. very probably the diplomat Friedrich Adolphus Hansen, who visited England in September 1680 in the entourage of Charles, electoral Prince Palatine. Owned, in 1951 by Dr A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952), Philadelphia book dealer, collector and scholar.

Cited in IELM, II as the Yale MS: RoJ Δ 16. The MS was identified by David M. Vieth as an independent scribal transcript of the copy-text used for the first edition of Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R— (Antwerp [i.e. London], 1680): see Attribution, pp. 56-100, and The Text of Rochester and the Editions of 1680, PBSA, 50 (1956), 243-63. Discussed extensively, and Hansen identified, in Harold Love, Scribal Texts and Literary Communities: The Rochester Circle and Osborn b. 105, SB, 42 (1989), 219-35. Facsimile of p. 62 in Vieth (1968), frontispiece. Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth (1968) and in Walker.

RoJ 85

Copy, headed An Epistolary Essay Very delightfull and Sollid from M:G: to O:B: Vpon their mutuall Poems and here beginning Dear friend / It seemes this Towne does soe abound.

A quarto volume of works almost exclusively by Rochester, in a single professional hand up to p. 208, a second, less accomplished, hand taking over (after stubs of two extracted leaves) on pp. 209-31; with a title-page (p. 13), Poem's / By The. Right Honourable/John Earle / of/Rochester, 219 pages (plus 12 preliminary blank pages and 99 blank pages at the end), in half-russia over marbled boards.

c.mid-1680s

Bookplate of The Reverend Sir George Lee. Baronet/Hartwell. Inscribed This Manuscript was found at Hartwell. March. 1829. J. Lee and another, Bound Mr. Wilson. March 1829 [i.e. the MS was in the library of the Rev. Sir George Lee, Bt (1767-1827), rector of Hartwell, etc., and of Dr John Lee, F.R.S. (1783-1866), at Hartwell House, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire]. Later sold by Charles Sawyer (No. 1467 in a sale catalogue). The MS might possibly once have been owned by Thomas Lee, Bt, M.P. (1635-91) of Hartwell, who was, incidentally, related by marriage to Sir John Suckling. His son was Sir Thomas Lee, Bt, M.P. (1661-1702). The MS was later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 18 December 1995 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 114, with facsimile examples in the sale catalogue.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Hartwell MS: RoJ Δ 17. This MS on exhibition at the Bodleian, 16-28 June 1930, and recorded in Proceedings and Papers of the Oxford Bibliographical Society, 2 (1927-30), p. 213. Subsequently discussed, and parts printed, by Harold Love and Stephen Parks in A reasonable satyr, TLS, 1 August 1997, p. 13; in Harold Love, A Tale of Two Manuscripts, Yale University Library Gazette, 72 (1999), 41-53; and in his pamphlet A Newly Discovered Burlesque by John Wilmot Earl of Rochester (New Haven, 1997).

A complete microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7982.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 334 pp. 163-7)
RoJ 86

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

A folio volume principally of poems, the majority (at least 20) by Edmund Waller, some probably by members of his family, 73 unnumbered leaves, in calf gilt.

Including copies of various drafts, fragments and extracts, as well as poems by other writers such as Anne Wharton, Sir Charles Berkeley, Sir Thomas Higgons (including part of a play by him), Elizabeth Taylor (Lady Wythens, afterwards Lady Colepeper), Ephelia, George Granville, the Duke of Buckingham, Sir George Etherege, the Earl of Rochester, James Shirley, and Thomas Rymer, also extracts from Dryden and Davenant; almost entirely in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, with considerable variation of style; an apparently second, unidentified, hand copying verse and prose (Memoire…par le Sieur Lycelot…Le 9me de Decembre 1687 and Instructions to the Judges of Assize &c Lent 1687/8) on ff. [23r, 62r-7v, 70v]; two of these leaves ([65r and 70v]) docketed in a later hand (after 1713) The Handwriting of Dr Atterbury and Bishp Atterbury [meaning perhaps copied from Atterbury's writing (see WaE Δ 15)]; a draft letter addressed (as is clear from the content) to Catherine, Lady Ranelagh (1614-91), sister of the noble and learned…Mr [Robert] Boyle, on f. [16v], enclosing ffathers last verses [not specified], noting his reluctance to write anything for the forthcoming marriage of Princess Anne and Prince George of Denmark [which took place on 28 July 1684], and observing that he has now consecrated his remayning facullty in vers to devotion; a poem Of his voyage vp the river to vissett (beginning In my breast Eternall flames) on f. [71r] ascribed to Mrs M Waller (presumably Waller's second wife, Mary Bresse or Breaux, d. 1677); some scribbling and calculations on ff. 3r, 71v, 72v, 73v, a label on the spine erroneously identifying the volume as a compilation by Brian Fairfax (1637-1711).

c.1693-8

Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1798-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9096.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Harvard MS: WaE Δ 6.

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 602 ff. [58r-9v])
RoJ 87

Copy, in a professional hand, headed A Letter To My Lord Musgraue, subscribed Rochester, in a disbound fragment of a folio miscellany of poems. Late 17th century.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A folio composite miscellany of verse MSS, chiefly poems on affairs of state, in various hands and paper sizes, now disbound in folders.

Among papers of the Hastings family, Earls of Huntingdon.

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 623 Folder 12, pp. 39-42)
RoJ 88

Copy, untitled.

An octavo verse miscellany.

End of 17th century

Once owned by Henry Bracegirdle of Merton College, Oxford, who gave it to Hugh Massey in 1674. Dobell's catalogue Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1274. Colbeck, Radford & Co., The Ingatherer No. 38 (1934), item 224.

King's College, Cambridge (Hayward Collection, H. 11. 14 pp. 7-11)
RoJ 89

Copy, headed My Ld R. to my Ld M; imperfect, lacking p. 113.

An octavo verse miscellany, 148 pages (lacking pp. 55-8, 117-26).

Late 17th century

Dobell's sale catalogue The Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1284. Afterwards owned by John Sparrow (1906-92), literary scholar and book collector.

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. e. 176 pp. 109-12)
RoJ 89.5

Copy of lines 89-100, headed Fame and here beginning There's not a thing on Earth that I can Name.

An octavo verse miscellany, entitled Poems & Verses on Several Occasions, MDCCXXVI, in a mainly single hand, 66 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary green vellum boards.

1726-c.1768

The title-page inscribed Anna. Rogers. Junr: 1768.

Discussed in Paul Hammond, Some Eighteenth-Century Texts and Adaptations of Rochester in Leeds MS Lt 110, EMS 18 (2013), 173-179.

RoJ 90

Copy, headed A Letter from My Lord Rochester to the Earl of M., on three pages of two conjugate quarto leaves.

Late 17th century

Formerly Osborn MS. Chest II. Number 28.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn Poetry Box VI/58)
The Fall ('How blest was the created state')

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 86. Walker, p. 26. Love, p. 26.

RoJ 91

Copy.

A large folio miscellany of verse and prose, in a single accomplished professional hand, 756 pages (including over 200 blank leaves).

Including (pp. 217-429) 87 poems, chiefly on affairs of state, of which thirty are by Rochester; other contents comprising (pp. 1-71) a transcript of a Royal Household Establishment Book of William and Mary (1689-97); (pp. 75-212) a collection of legal precedents; and (pp. 442-543) copies of documents relating to the New Forest.

c.1698-1700s

Evidently compiled either for Henry Somerset (1629-1700), first Duke of Beaufort, Privy Councillor, or for his son Henry (1661-98), Marquess of Worcester, or else for his grandson, Henry Somerset (1684-1714), second Duke of Beaufort, who was Warden of the New Forest.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Badminton MS: RoJ Δ 1. Discussed and contents listed, with facsimile examples, in Michael Brennan and Paul Hammond, The Badminton Manuscript: A New Miscellany of Restoration Verse, EMS, 5 (1995), 171-207.

RoJ 92

Copy.

Fragment of a quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state.

Originally 90 leaves, but many excised and now comprising 24 leaves (plus blanks), ff. 4r-22r in a single professional hand; ff. 22v-6v (first stanza) in a later, less tidy, hand of the early 18th century; ff. 26v [after first stanza]-27r apparently in a third hand.

Late 17th-early 18th century

Inscribed twice on the front paste-down Richard Ashley and a deleted inscription possibly reading Lowes Park. Purchased c.1960 from a bookstall in Paris.

A complete facsimile edition of this MS, with discussion of the texts, in Pierre Danchin, A Late Seventeenth-Century Miscellany, Cahiers Élisabéthains, 22 (Université Paul Valéry-Montpellier, October 1982), 51-86. Recorded in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Ashley MS: RoJ Δ 5.

RoJ 93

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems chiefly on affairs of state, entitled A Collection of Poems, including 27 poems by Rochester (all ascribed to him), xii + 299 pages (plus a number of blanks), including a table of contents, in contemporary calf (rebacked).

In a single professional hand but for a few later additions at the very end (pp. 295-8, with some pages tipped-in).

c.1690s

Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Harvard MS: RoJ Δ 7.

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 636 pp. 66-7)
RoJ 94

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Walker. Collated in Hammond, Robinson.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Booke of Paragrafts, including 22 poems by Rochester, 445 pages plus stubs of extracted leaves (originally 463 numbered pages and now lacking pp. 59-68, 147-54 and parts of pp. 155-8), with a two-leaf index; in contemporary red morocco.

In professional hands: A, pp. 1-194; B, in a different style and probably a different hand, pp. 195-432; C, probably yet another hand, with additions on pp. 75, 90, 102, 125, 142, 175, 195, and pp. 433-63.

c.1680s-90s

Inscribed (on stubs and endpapers) matt Calihan, To Cpt Robinson att Capt Eloass [Elwes] near ye Watch house in Marlburhroagh street, For Capt. Robinson at his Lodginges in Charing Cross. Christie's, 27 June 1979, lot 16.

Various commissioned officers named Robinson are recorded in Charles Dalton, English Army Lists and Commission Registers, 1661-1714 (6 vols, London, 1892-1904): see esp. I, 276. The volume was most probably owned by Charles Robinson of the King's Regiment of Foot Guards, who became Captain and then Lieutenant-Colonel in 1688 and was killed at Namur in 1695. A member of the same regiment in 1684 was the purveyor of MS lampoons Captain Lenthal Warcup. The Captain Eloass mentioned in one inscription was possibly William Elwes, who served as a Lieutenant in Viscount Colchester's Regiment of Horse, c.1692-4, and as a Captain in Lord Windsor's Regiment of Horse in 1702.

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Robinson MS: RoJ Δ 8. Discussed with facsimiles of pp. 1-10 in Paul Hammond, The Robinson Manuscript Miscellany of Restoration Verse in the Brotherton Collection, Leeds, Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, 18 (1982), 275-324 [cited in entries as Hammond, Robinson]. Facsimiles of p. 1 also in Christie's sale catalogue, Plate 1, after p. 48, and in The Brotherton Collection University of Leeds: Its contents described with illustrations of fifty books and manuscripts (Leeds, 1986), p. 17. Selectively collated in Walker.

RoJ 95

Copy, headed Song The Fall.

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and papers.

Papers of the Rev. George Harbin (c.1665-1744), historical writer and librarian to Sir Thomas Thynne (1640-1714), first Viscount Weymouth, at Longleat House, including (ff. 38r-60v) 23 quarto leaves of poems and letters by Rochester in a single hand.

Early 18th century

Inscribed (several times) Alex: Malet: i.e. the Rev Alexander Malet, Harbin's nephew and executor, a later note stating that the Marquess of Bath purchased part of the papers from Malet's descendant, Sir Alexander Malet, in 1873. Another inscription (f. 37r) reads: Some of Dr Harbin's Papers obtained from Mr. Waller of Fleet St by J.E. Jackson, after the sale of the Papers by Puttick & Simpson April 1874.

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Harbin MS: RoJ Δ 9.

The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House (Thynne Papers, Vol. XXVII ff. 51v-2r)
RoJ 96

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in several hands, one professional stylish hand predominating, with (ff. 1r, 2r) a Table of contents, 213 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf.

Including 29 poems by Rochester (plus a second copy of one) and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items.

c.1680s

Once owned by Thomas Fermor (1698-1753), first Earl of Pomfret, of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire. Also used by one James Parks.

Recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, and selectively collated in Walker.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 40 ff. 49v-50r)
RoJ 97

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker. Facsimile in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.

A formal quarto miscellany, of poems on affairs of state, including 29 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items, in three professional hands (A, pp. 1-278; B, pp. 279-84; C, pp. 285-314), 314 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary red morocco.

c.1680

Once owned by Count Carl Edward Gyldenstolpe (1770-1852) and perhaps originally acquired by Count Nils Gyldenstolpe (1642-1709), Swedish Ambassador at The Hague (in 1679-87).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Gyldenstolpe MS: RoJ Δ 14. A complete facsimile edition in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe (1967).

Royal Library, Stockholm (MS Vu. 69 p. 175)
RoJ 98

Copy, headed The Fall a Song.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled Songs & Verses - Upon severall occasions, 406 pages (but pp. 35-44, 63-6, 77-86, 115-32, 153-8, 161-84, and 195-212 excised).

Including 30 poems by Rochester (and probably others by him on missing leaves); pp. 1-392 in a single professional hand (that also responsible for Princeton, RTC01 No. 34); pp. 392-406 in a second hand.

c.1680

Inscribed on the title-page Hansen: i.e. very probably the diplomat Friedrich Adolphus Hansen, who visited England in September 1680 in the entourage of Charles, electoral Prince Palatine. Owned, in 1951 by Dr A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952), Philadelphia book dealer, collector and scholar.

Cited in IELM, II as the Yale MS: RoJ Δ 16. The MS was identified by David M. Vieth as an independent scribal transcript of the copy-text used for the first edition of Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R— (Antwerp [i.e. London], 1680): see Attribution, pp. 56-100, and The Text of Rochester and the Editions of 1680, PBSA, 50 (1956), 243-63. Discussed extensively, and Hansen identified, in Harold Love, Scribal Texts and Literary Communities: The Rochester Circle and Osborn b. 105, SB, 42 (1989), 219-35. Facsimile of p. 62 in Vieth (1968), frontispiece. Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth (1968) and in Walker.

Yale, Osborn MS b 100 through Osborn MS b 149 (Osborn MS b 105 pp. 149-50)
RoJ 99

Copy, headed Song. The Fall, numbered in a darker ink 10.

A quarto volume of works almost exclusively by Rochester, in a single professional hand up to p. 208, a second, less accomplished, hand taking over (after stubs of two extracted leaves) on pp. 209-31; with a title-page (p. 13), Poem's / By The. Right Honourable/John Earle / of/Rochester, 219 pages (plus 12 preliminary blank pages and 99 blank pages at the end), in half-russia over marbled boards.

c.mid-1680s

Bookplate of The Reverend Sir George Lee. Baronet/Hartwell. Inscribed This Manuscript was found at Hartwell. March. 1829. J. Lee and another, Bound Mr. Wilson. March 1829 [i.e. the MS was in the library of the Rev. Sir George Lee, Bt (1767-1827), rector of Hartwell, etc., and of Dr John Lee, F.R.S. (1783-1866), at Hartwell House, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire]. Later sold by Charles Sawyer (No. 1467 in a sale catalogue). The MS might possibly once have been owned by Thomas Lee, Bt, M.P. (1635-91) of Hartwell, who was, incidentally, related by marriage to Sir John Suckling. His son was Sir Thomas Lee, Bt, M.P. (1661-1702). The MS was later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 18 December 1995 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 114, with facsimile examples in the sale catalogue.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Hartwell MS: RoJ Δ 17. This MS on exhibition at the Bodleian, 16-28 June 1930, and recorded in Proceedings and Papers of the Oxford Bibliographical Society, 2 (1927-30), p. 213. Subsequently discussed, and parts printed, by Harold Love and Stephen Parks in A reasonable satyr, TLS, 1 August 1997, p. 13; in Harold Love, A Tale of Two Manuscripts, Yale University Library Gazette, 72 (1999), 41-53; and in his pamphlet A Newly Discovered Burlesque by John Wilmot Earl of Rochester (New Haven, 1997).

A complete microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7982.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 334 pp. 190-1)
RoJ 100 Late 17th century

Copy, headed The ffall of Man, with other verses, on one side of a single folio leaf.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

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.

<Fragment> ('What vain, unnecessary things are men!')

First published in Poems by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed. Vivian de Sola Pinto (London, 1953), p. 118. Vieth, pp. 102-3. Walker, p. 90-1, as [Fragment of a Satire on Men]. Love, pp. 74-6, as [Satire].

*RoJ 101
Autograph

Autograph draft with revisions, untitled, on three pages of a pair of conjugate octavo leaves.

Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.

A folio composite volume of papers of Rochester and his immediate circle, on various paper sizes, 25 leaves, all mounted on guards, in modern black leather gilt.

Small collection of nineteen undated leaves of poetical drafts by Rochester and his immediate circle, on single sheets and scraps of paper of various size (folio, quarto, octavo), now inserted in a modern album, comprising: i: ff. 1-11v, autograph drafts of nine poems and a fragment of a prose comedy by Rochester. ii: ff. 12-14, 15-19v, eight autograph poetical drafts (including two versions of the same poem by the poet's wife, Elizabeth (née Mallet), Countess of Rochester (d.1698)). iii: f. 14v, a brief lyric (Your glory Phillis is in being lov'd) in an unidentified hand.

c.1660s-80

Formerly in the library of Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741), and quite possibly inherited from his father, the statesman Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Portland MS. First recorded by Francis Needham in 1934 (see RoJ 71, RoJ 435); recorded and printed in part in various of Vivian de Sola Pinto's publications (1935-62); discussed and analysed in Vieth, Attribution, pp. 204-30; the poems by Rochester edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker (and see also RoJ 633). Facsimile examples in Greene, pp. 71 and 128 (see RoJ 396, RoJ 406); Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 57-8 (see RoJ 396); IELM, II.ii (1993), Facsimile IX.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 31 f. 12r-v)
RoJ 102

Copy, in a bold italic hand, untitled, on both sides of a single quarto leaf, imperfect.

Late 17th century
'Great Mother of Aeneas, and of Love'

First published in Poems by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed. Vivian de Sola Pinto (London, 1953), p. 50. Vieth, pp. 34-5. Walker, p. 50. Love, p. 109, as [Translation of Lucretius, De rerum natura, i. 1-4].

*RoJ 103
Autograph

Autograph draft, with revisions, untitled, on one side of a single folio leaf.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

A folio composite volume of papers of Rochester and his immediate circle, on various paper sizes, 25 leaves, all mounted on guards, in modern black leather gilt.

Small collection of nineteen undated leaves of poetical drafts by Rochester and his immediate circle, on single sheets and scraps of paper of various size (folio, quarto, octavo), now inserted in a modern album, comprising: i: ff. 1-11v, autograph drafts of nine poems and a fragment of a prose comedy by Rochester. ii: ff. 12-14, 15-19v, eight autograph poetical drafts (including two versions of the same poem by the poet's wife, Elizabeth (née Mallet), Countess of Rochester (d.1698)). iii: f. 14v, a brief lyric (Your glory Phillis is in being lov'd) in an unidentified hand.

c.1660s-80

Formerly in the library of Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741), and quite possibly inherited from his father, the statesman Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Portland MS. First recorded by Francis Needham in 1934 (see RoJ 71, RoJ 435); recorded and printed in part in various of Vivian de Sola Pinto's publications (1935-62); discussed and analysed in Vieth, Attribution, pp. 204-30; the poems by Rochester edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker (and see also RoJ 633). Facsimile examples in Greene, pp. 71 and 128 (see RoJ 396, RoJ 406); Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 57-8 (see RoJ 396); IELM, II.ii (1993), Facsimile IX.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 31 f. 7r)
Grecian Kindness ('The utmost grace the Greeks could show')

First published in Poems, &c. on Several Occasions (London, 1691). Vieth, p. 53. Walker, p. 19. Love, p. 17.

RoJ 104

Copy, untitled but numbered (1).

Edited in part from this MS in Love.

A quarto volume of works almost exclusively by Rochester, in a single professional hand up to p. 208, a second, less accomplished, hand taking over (after stubs of two extracted leaves) on pp. 209-31; with a title-page (p. 13), Poem's / By The. Right Honourable/John Earle / of/Rochester, 219 pages (plus 12 preliminary blank pages and 99 blank pages at the end), in half-russia over marbled boards.

c.mid-1680s

Bookplate of The Reverend Sir George Lee. Baronet/Hartwell. Inscribed This Manuscript was found at Hartwell. March. 1829. J. Lee and another, Bound Mr. Wilson. March 1829 [i.e. the MS was in the library of the Rev. Sir George Lee, Bt (1767-1827), rector of Hartwell, etc., and of Dr John Lee, F.R.S. (1783-1866), at Hartwell House, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire]. Later sold by Charles Sawyer (No. 1467 in a sale catalogue). The MS might possibly once have been owned by Thomas Lee, Bt, M.P. (1635-91) of Hartwell, who was, incidentally, related by marriage to Sir John Suckling. His son was Sir Thomas Lee, Bt, M.P. (1661-1702). The MS was later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 18 December 1995 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 114, with facsimile examples in the sale catalogue.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Hartwell MS: RoJ Δ 17. This MS on exhibition at the Bodleian, 16-28 June 1930, and recorded in Proceedings and Papers of the Oxford Bibliographical Society, 2 (1927-30), p. 213. Subsequently discussed, and parts printed, by Harold Love and Stephen Parks in A reasonable satyr, TLS, 1 August 1997, p. 13; in Harold Love, A Tale of Two Manuscripts, Yale University Library Gazette, 72 (1999), 41-53; and in his pamphlet A Newly Discovered Burlesque by John Wilmot Earl of Rochester (New Haven, 1997).

A complete microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7982.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 334 p. 177)
RoJ 104.1

Copy of lines 1-4, headed Song / A young Lady to her Antient Lover.

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and papers.

Papers of the Rev. George Harbin (c.1665-1744), historical writer and librarian to Sir Thomas Thynne (1640-1714), first Viscount Weymouth, at Longleat House, including (ff. 38r-60v) 23 quarto leaves of poems and letters by Rochester in a single hand.

Early 18th century

Inscribed (several times) Alex: Malet: i.e. the Rev Alexander Malet, Harbin's nephew and executor, a later note stating that the Marquess of Bath purchased part of the papers from Malet's descendant, Sir Alexander Malet, in 1873. Another inscription (f. 37r) reads: Some of Dr Harbin's Papers obtained from Mr. Waller of Fleet St by J.E. Jackson, after the sale of the Papers by Puttick & Simpson April 1874.

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Harbin MS: RoJ Δ 9.

The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House (Thynne Papers, Vol. XXVII f. 60v)
The History of Insipids ('Chaste, pious, prudent, Charles the Second')

See Vivian de Sola Pinto in The History of Insipids: Rochester, Freke, and Marvell, MLR, 65 (1970), 11-15 (and see also Walker, p. xvii). Rejected by Vieth, by Walker, and by Love.

RoJ 104.2

Copy.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in at least three professional hands, ii + 124 leaves, in half-calf marbled boards.

c.1680s

Owned by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732), annalist and book collector.

All Souls College, Oxford (MS 116 ff. 18r-21v)
RoJ 104.25

Copy.

See Vivian de Sola Pinto in The History of Insipids: Rochester, Freke, and Marvell, MLR, 65 (1970), 11-15 (and see also Walker, p. xvii).

An octavo miscellany of Restoration poems, chiefly upon affairs of state, ii + 89 octavo leaves, in 19th-century red morocco.

Predominantly in a single professional hand, with subsequent corrections or annotations in other hands or inks, and (f. 89v) with a pencil note after a table of contents This Book is written by Brown.

Late 17th century

Bookplate of Edward Vernon Utterson (1776?-1856), of the Isle of Wight, artist, book collector and literary antiquary. Sotheby's, 19 April 1852, lot 1318. Owned after 1911 by Robert Ashburton Milnes, afterwards Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, politician. Christie's, 26 November 1997, lot 75.

RoJ 104.26

Copy.

An octavo miscellany of Restoration poems, chiefly upon affairs of state, ii + 89 octavo leaves, in 19th-century red morocco.

Predominantly in a single professional hand, with subsequent corrections or annotations in other hands or inks, and (f. 89v) with a pencil note after a table of contents This Book is written by Brown.

Late 17th century

Bookplate of Edward Vernon Utterson (1776?-1856), of the Isle of Wight, artist, book collector and literary antiquary. Sotheby's, 19 April 1852, lot 1318. Owned after 1911 by Robert Ashburton Milnes, afterwards Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, politician. Christie's, 26 November 1997, lot 75.

RoJ 104.28

Copy.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in two or more professional hands, 303 leaves, in modern black morocco gilt.

In two parts: Part I on ff. 1r-149r (followed by blanks and then an index on ff. 150-1); Part II, on ff. 152-302 (with an addition in another hand on f. 303), entitled A Collection of the most choice and Private Poems, Lampoons &c from the withdrawing of the late King James 1688 to the year 1701 Collected by a Person of Quality.

c.1703

A note of payment (f. 1r) for purchase on 25 March 1703. Owned by Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724).

Cited in IELM, II.i, as the Harley MS: MaA Δ 6. Marvell recorded and selectively collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I and II.

RoJ 104.3

Copy.

See Vivian de Sola Pinto in The History of Insipids: Rochester, Freke, and Marvell, MLR, 65 (1970), 11-15 (and see also Walker, p. xvii).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. b. 8 pp. 527-9)
RoJ 104.31

Copy.

A folio composite volume of poems, chiefly on affairs of state, in various hands, 67 leaves, in modern quarter crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

Late 17th century
The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 655 ff. 49r-50v)
RoJ 104.32

Copy.

An unbound bundle of verse MSS, in various hands.

Late 17th century

Among archives of the Copped (or Copt) Hall estate, chiefly relating to the Conyers family.

Essex Record Office, Chelmsford (D/DW Z3 [unnumbered item])
RoJ 104.38 Late 17th century

Copy, in a professional italic hand, in double columns, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.

A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous papers, in various hands, 296 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

Among the collections of Thomas Tenison (1636-1715), Archbishop of Canterbury.

Lambeth Palace Library (MS 711 ff. 151r-2r)
RoJ 104.4

Copy.

A folio verse miscellany, entitled The Muse's Magazine, or Poeticall Miscelanies, in two parts, in a single hand, 189 leaves.

Including 27 poems by Cowley; eleven poems by Katherine Philips, evidently derived from printed sources; 10 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items; twelve poems by Sedley, plus one of doubtful authorship; and 15 poems by Waller, evidently derived from printed sources.

A note on a flyleaf relating to the bookseller John Dunton (1659-1733): John Dunton His Book, for which Mr. Corbet at ye Addisons Head, accepted One Half Guinea in full Payment for it, as Witness my Hand, Hannah Rakley. A note on f. 1: Since I had transcrib'd this whole Book, I met with some state Poems of these later times, mostly since K. George's Accession to the Crown [1714] which I have here inserted, as a supplement to these state Poems which make a part of this Collection by themselves. Date at the end of the volume: 1718, and some notes on a flyleaf dated 1724.

Early 18th century

The Mr. Corbet from whom Dunton purchased this MS was evidently the bookseller Thomas Corbett (fl. 1705-43), who ran his business at the Addison's Head, next to the Rose Tavern, without Temple Bar, from 1719 until his death in 1743. Neither Dunton nor Corbett are known to have used this MS for publication purposes.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dunton MS: PsK Δ 8; RoJ Δ 4; SeC Δ 1; WaE Δ 10.

For John Dunton's career, see Stephen Parks, John Dunton and the English Book Trade: A Study of His Career with a Checklist of His Publications (New York & London, 1970).

RoJ 104.41

Copy, headed The Chronicle.

An oblong quarto miscellany chiefly of poems on affairs of state, including ten in the Marvell canon and other works attributed to him, largely in a single hand, with later additions in other hands, written along the length of the page with the spine upwards, i + 92 leaves, in contemporary calf.

Used from the reverse end, for a 79-page catalogue of c.1400 books dating from 1519 to the mid-18th century, in two hands, headed Catalogue of Mr. Okeover's Library taken Septr: 1760 with a supplement headed Found in London in Feby 1764 by Mr. Walhouse — after Mr. Leeke Okeover's death in Mr. Okeover's house in John Street, Gray's Inn Lane, London.

c.late 1670s [-1764]

Inscribed (f. ir) tho may. Sotheby's, 22 July 1980, lot 541.

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Okeover MS: MaA Δ 7.

RoJ 104.42

Copy.

A folio volume comprising two apparently independent miscellanies of poems on affairs of state, each in probably more than one professional hand, in variant styles, 199 pages, in modern cloth.

Part I, ff. 1r-110v (poems dated 1667-83); Part II, ff. 111r-99r, on larger paper (poems dated 1680-7).

c.1680s

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Advocates MS: MaA Δ 8. Works by Marvell recorded and some poems collated in POAS, I.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 19.1.12 ff. 44v-6v)
RoJ 104.43

Copy, in double columns, on both sides of a single folio leaf.

Two poems, in a professional cursive hand, on three folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.

Late 17th century
National Library of Wales (Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers M 1/1/22 pp. [5-6])
RoJ 104.44

Copy, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

MSS.

Among papers of the Herbert family, Barons Herbert of Cherbury. Formerly Powis MSS (1990 deposit).

National Library of Wales (Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers, [uncatalogued box containing verse] [unnumbered item])
RoJ 104.45

Copy.

A formal folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, including eleven by Rochester and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items, probably in a single professional hand, 444 leaves (including a six-leaf index).

c.1690s

Cited in IELM, II.ii as the Vienna MS: RoJ Δ 12. Discussed in Rudolf Brotanek, Beschreibung der Handschrift 14090 (Supplement 1776) der Nationalbibliothek in Wien, in Festschrift der Nationalbibliothek in Wien (Vienna, 1926), 145-62. Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker.

RoJ 104.46

Copy, headed The History of the Tymes.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, including twelve poems in the Marvell canon (plus prose and apocryphal poems), in probably a single professional hand with variations of style (but for another hand on pp. 189-92), 192 pages (plus over 90 blank leaves and an Index), in modern red morocco.

The predominant hand in the MS is the same as that in Yale Osborn MS b 105.

c.1680s

In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Formerly Restoration poetry MS 1.

Cited in IELM as the Taylor MS: MaA Δ 9. Marvell items recorded and some poems collated in POAS, I.

Princeton (RTC01 No. 34 pp. 94-100)
RoJ 104.48

Copy, headed The Cronicle.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, largely in a single hand, 304 pages (plus an Index and blanks), in contemporary calf.

c.1680s-90s

Sotheby's, 21-22 April 1958, lot 397, to Seven Gables bookshop. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Formerly Restoration poetry MS 3.

A microfilm of this volume is in the British Library, M/546.

Princeton (RTC01 No. 36 pp. 79-88)
RoJ 104.5

Copy.

See Vivian de Sola Pinto in The History of Insipids: Rochester, Freke, and Marvell, MLR, 65 (1970), 11-15 (and see also Walker, p. xvii).

A folio composite volume of state letters, speeches and other papers, in various largely professional hands, folio- and quarto-size leaves, 577 leaves.

RoJ 104.51

See Vivian de Sola Pinto in The History of Insipids: Rochester, Freke, and Marvell, MLR, 65 (1970), 11-15 (and see also Walker, p. xvii).

An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, chiefly on affairs of state, including nine poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items, in a single small hand, 356 pages (misnumbered in pencil 1-344 and lacking the first few original leaves), in contemporary boards.

Probably compiled by an Anglican cleric (or student before taking orders) associated with Cambridge University.

c.late 1690s-1704

Later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Formerly Restoration poetry MS 5.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Cambridge Miscellany MS: RoJ Δ 13.

Princeton (RTC01 No. 38 ff. 76-81)
RoJ 104.52

Copy.

A quarto volume of Poems upon Affairs of State, 170 pages (plus 80 blanks), in contemporary black morocco gilt.

Predominantly in a single professional hand, with a table of contents at the end, the volume produced under the auspices of the manuscript purveyor Captain Robert Julian (fl. c.1650-90), Secretary of the Muses, with a few additions in two other professional hands and by subsequent owners.

c.1680s

Inscribed by William Stanley (c.1655-1702), ninth Earl of Derby, I bought this booke of Julian not so much for my own use as to prevent others reading of it. Inscribed later by his brother James Stanley (1664-1736), tenth Earl of Derby, When Knowsley House was puled doune (for else it would soon haue faln of it self) this Book was found hid in one of ye Chimneys, to be sure by my Brother Derby.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 20-30.

Private owners in the UK ([Lord Derby MS] pp. 21-30)
RoJ 104.53

Copy, subscribed Rochester.

A folio verse miscellany, in possibly two neat rounded hands, 366 pages plus a five-page index, dated at the end Finis August ye. 6th 1717.

1715-17
University of Chicago (MS 553 pp. 88-92)
RoJ 104.54

Copy, writt...att Wyclyff August ye 9 Anno domini 1676.

1676
University of Hull (DDEV/68/107)
RoJ 104.55

Copy.

An octavo verse miscellany, 22 leaves plus numerous blanks, in calf.

Late 17th century

P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue, The Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1280. Acquired from Quaritch, 23 July 1959. Formerly Uncat. MSS. Rochester, Commonplace book and 821 R58c.

A microfilm of the MS volume is in the British Library, M/573.

University of Illinois (Post-1650 MS 0001 ff. [17r-19r])
RoJ 104.56

Copy, headed The Chronicle.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in several hands, one professional stylish hand predominating, with (ff. 1r, 2r) a Table of contents, 213 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf.

Including 29 poems by Rochester (plus a second copy of one) and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items.

c.1680s

Once owned by Thomas Fermor (1698-1753), first Earl of Pomfret, of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire. Also used by one James Parks.

Recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, and selectively collated in Walker.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 40 ff. 113r-15v)
RoJ 104.58

Copy, in a mixed hand, in double columns, on pages 1 and 3 of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.

Late 17th century

Facsimile page in Greene, p. 84.

RoJ 104.6

Copy.

A composite quarto verse miscellany, 199 leaves, in calf.

Compiled (and ff. 2-39 written) by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop Canterbury; the rest in other hands.

Mid-17th century
Bodleian Library, Tanner Collection (MS Tanner 466 f. 82r et seq.)
RoJ 104.62

Copy.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional hand, in two volumes: Vol. I, including twelve poems by Rochester and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items, pp. 1-461 (plus index); Vol. II, pp. 462-842 (with irregularities of pagination).

This MS is closely related to Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Cod. 14090.

c.1690s-1700

Later owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor, who records that £50 was given by Perry, for these 2 volumes.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dyce MS: RoJ Δ 15.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 43 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.37-38) pp. 76-81)
RoJ 104.63 1677

Copy, from Ra: Gregge iunr. 8o. March 77.

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

Late 17th century

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

Yale, Osborn MS b 50 through Osborn MS b 99 (Osborn MS b 52/2 pp. 170-3)
RoJ 104.65

Copy.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state entitled A Collection of Poems Sayters and Lampoones, 4178 pages (but a number excised).

Late 17th century

Front endpaper inscribed Latchington 2 March 1787. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (Phillipps MS 8303). At Yale formerly Chest II, Number 3.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS fb 140 pp. 130-5)
RoJ 104.7

Copy.

See Vivian de Sola Pinto in The History of Insipids: Rochester, Freke, and Marvell, MLR, 65 (1970), 11-15 (and see also Walker, p. xvii).

A folio volume of poems chiefly on affairs of state, in professional hands, ff. 1-49 comprising poems of the 1640s, ff. 49v onwards Restoration poems up to 1681, 174 leaves (including twelve blanks), in contemporary calf, both covers stamped 1642, with remains of clasps.

Including nine poems in the Marvell canon (plus apocryphal poems); ff. 1-157 a single unit in variant styles of hand; ff. 158-62 in yet another hand on a smaller tipped-in quire of paper.

Mid-late 17th century

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

Cited in IELM, II.i (1993) as the Douce MS: MaA Δ 3. Marvell contents recorded and selectively collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I and II.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Douce 357 ff. 64r-8v)
RoJ 104.8

Copy, headed The History of the times, in double columns.

A folio volume of poems chiefly on affairs of state, in professional hands, ff. 1-49 comprising poems of the 1640s, ff. 49v onwards Restoration poems up to 1681, 174 leaves (including twelve blanks), in contemporary calf, both covers stamped 1642, with remains of clasps.

Including nine poems in the Marvell canon (plus apocryphal poems); ff. 1-157 a single unit in variant styles of hand; ff. 158-62 in yet another hand on a smaller tipped-in quire of paper.

Mid-late 17th century

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

Cited in IELM, II.i (1993) as the Douce MS: MaA Δ 3. Marvell contents recorded and selectively collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I and II.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Douce 357 ff. 103r-4r)
RoJ 104.9

Copy.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single neat hand, 79 leaves (plus an index), in modern black leather gilt.

Including eleven poems in the Marvell canon (plus further apocryphal poems).

c.1680

Later owned by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist and antiquary. Puttick & Simpson's, 9 June 1859 (Turner sale), lot 389. Purchased from Boone, 9 June 1860.

Recorded in IELM, II.ii, as the Turner MS: MaA Δ 4. The Marvell poems recorded and selectively collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I and II.

The Imperfect Enjoyment ('Naked she lay, clasped in my longing arms')

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 37-40. Walker, pp. 30-2. Love, pp. 13-15.

RoJ 105

Copy, headed The Disappointment and here beginning Naked she clasp'd me in her longing arms.

A large folio miscellany of verse and prose, in a single accomplished professional hand, 756 pages (including over 200 blank leaves).

Including (pp. 217-429) 87 poems, chiefly on affairs of state, of which thirty are by Rochester; other contents comprising (pp. 1-71) a transcript of a Royal Household Establishment Book of William and Mary (1689-97); (pp. 75-212) a collection of legal precedents; and (pp. 442-543) copies of documents relating to the New Forest.

c.1698-1700s

Evidently compiled either for Henry Somerset (1629-1700), first Duke of Beaufort, Privy Councillor, or for his son Henry (1661-98), Marquess of Worcester, or else for his grandson, Henry Somerset (1684-1714), second Duke of Beaufort, who was Warden of the New Forest.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Badminton MS: RoJ Δ 1. Discussed and contents listed, with facsimile examples, in Michael Brennan and Paul Hammond, The Badminton Manuscript: A New Miscellany of Restoration Verse, EMS, 5 (1995), 171-207.

The Duke of Beaufort, Badminton (FmE 3/12 pp. 244-6)
RoJ 106

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A long, narrow, ledger-size composite miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 112 pages (some misnumbered and pp. 45-6 excised), in 19th-century calf gilt.

A compendium of several separate collections of poems, each with its general heading, including nineteen poems by the Earl of Rochester, copied in a single hand, that of Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), antiquary.

c.1680s-1700s

Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker. Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Edinburgh MS: RoJ Δ 6.

Edinburgh University Library (MS Dc. 1. 3/1 p. 16)
RoJ 107

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems chiefly on affairs of state, entitled A Collection of Poems, including 27 poems by Rochester (all ascribed to him), xii + 299 pages (plus a number of blanks), including a table of contents, in contemporary calf (rebacked).

In a single professional hand but for a few later additions at the very end (pp. 295-8, with some pages tipped-in).

c.1690s

Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Harvard MS: RoJ Δ 7.

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 636 pp. 114-17)
RoJ 108

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in several hands, one professional stylish hand predominating, with (ff. 1r, 2r) a Table of contents, 213 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf.

Including 29 poems by Rochester (plus a second copy of one) and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items.

c.1680s

Once owned by Thomas Fermor (1698-1753), first Earl of Pomfret, of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire. Also used by one James Parks.

Recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, and selectively collated in Walker.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 40 ff. 119r-20r)
RoJ 109

Copy, headed The Disappointment.

Edited in part from this MS in Love. Recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A formal quarto miscellany, of poems on affairs of state, including 29 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items, in three professional hands (A, pp. 1-278; B, pp. 279-84; C, pp. 285-314), 314 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary red morocco.

c.1680

Once owned by Count Carl Edward Gyldenstolpe (1770-1852) and perhaps originally acquired by Count Nils Gyldenstolpe (1642-1709), Swedish Ambassador at The Hague (in 1679-87).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Gyldenstolpe MS: RoJ Δ 14. A complete facsimile edition in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe (1967).

Royal Library, Stockholm (MS Vu. 69 pp. 53-7)
RoJ 110

Copy, of lines 1-12, ascribed to ye E: of R:, imperfect, lacking the remainder.

This MS recorded in Vieth, with a facsimile as frontispiece; collated in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled Songs & Verses - Upon severall occasions, 406 pages (but pp. 35-44, 63-6, 77-86, 115-32, 153-8, 161-84, and 195-212 excised).

Including 30 poems by Rochester (and probably others by him on missing leaves); pp. 1-392 in a single professional hand (that also responsible for Princeton, RTC01 No. 34); pp. 392-406 in a second hand.

c.1680

Inscribed on the title-page Hansen: i.e. very probably the diplomat Friedrich Adolphus Hansen, who visited England in September 1680 in the entourage of Charles, electoral Prince Palatine. Owned, in 1951 by Dr A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952), Philadelphia book dealer, collector and scholar.

Cited in IELM, II as the Yale MS: RoJ Δ 16. The MS was identified by David M. Vieth as an independent scribal transcript of the copy-text used for the first edition of Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R— (Antwerp [i.e. London], 1680): see Attribution, pp. 56-100, and The Text of Rochester and the Editions of 1680, PBSA, 50 (1956), 243-63. Discussed extensively, and Hansen identified, in Harold Love, Scribal Texts and Literary Communities: The Rochester Circle and Osborn b. 105, SB, 42 (1989), 219-35. Facsimile of p. 62 in Vieth (1968), frontispiece. Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth (1968) and in Walker.

RoJ 110.5

A large octavo verse miscellany, chiefly lampoons and poems on affairs of state, including 21 poems by Rochester and various others in the Rochester apocrypha, nearly 600 pages in all, with a 14-page index.

Written in a single hand which can be identified as that of the Scottish pasquil-writer and antiquary Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), who was also responsible for RoJ Δ 6.

c.1705
Private owners in the UK (Mylne MS pp. 42-3)
RoJ 111

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, in English and Latin, in several hands, ii + 53 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf.

c.1690

J. Salkeld, sale catalogue No. 222 (17 June 1885), item 273.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Add. B. 106 ff. 39r-40r)
RoJ 112

Copy, headed The imperfect enjoyment by E: R--r.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional hand, 151 pages (plus 128 blank pages), with a table of contents (f. 1*r), in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

End of 17th century
Impromptu on Charles II ('God bless our good and gracious King')

First published, in a version headed Posted on White-Hall-Gate and beginning Here lives a Great and Mighty Monarch, in The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable the Late Earls of Rochester and Roscommon (London, 1707). Vieth, p. 134. Walker, p. 122, as [On King Charles].

RoJ 113

Copy, headed The King Praising the Translation of the Psalms, Says my Lord Rochester....

Edited in part from this MS in Vieth. Recorded in Walker.

A formal folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, including eleven by Rochester and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items, probably in a single professional hand, 444 leaves (including a six-leaf index).

c.1690s

Cited in IELM, II.ii as the Vienna MS: RoJ Δ 12. Discussed in Rudolf Brotanek, Beschreibung der Handschrift 14090 (Supplement 1776) der Nationalbibliothek in Wien, in Festschrift der Nationalbibliothek in Wien (Vienna, 1926), 145-62. Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker.

RoJ 114

Copy of a version headed An Epitaph on K. Ch: 2d by Ld Rochester and beginning Here lies our prettie wittie King.

An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, chiefly on affairs of state, including nine poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items, in a single small hand, 356 pages (misnumbered in pencil 1-344 and lacking the first few original leaves), in contemporary boards.

Probably compiled by an Anglican cleric (or student before taking orders) associated with Cambridge University.

c.late 1690s-1704

Later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Formerly Restoration poetry MS 5.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Cambridge Miscellany MS: RoJ Δ 13.

Princeton (RTC01 No. 38 p. 46)
RoJ 115

Copy, headed One Tyme the King was a prayseing the Translation of the Psalmes, And my Lord Rocheter being by (Says he) 'an't please Your Maty Ile show you presently how they Run, And thus begun.

Edited in part from this MS in Vieth; recorded in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional hand, in two volumes: Vol. I, including twelve poems by Rochester and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items, pp. 1-461 (plus index); Vol. II, pp. 462-842 (with irregularities of pagination).

This MS is closely related to Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Cod. 14090.

c.1690s-1700

Later owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor, who records that £50 was given by Perry, for these 2 volumes.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dyce MS: RoJ Δ 15.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 43 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.37-38) pp. 59-60)
RoJ 116

Copy of a version headed The Ld Rochesters verses vpo the King an occasion of His Majestys saying he would leave everyone to his liberty in lathing when Himself was in company, & would not take wt was said, at all amiss, viz:, beginning We have a pretty witty king, subscribed These verses were put in one of the windows of the Room. 17 November 1706.

Edited from this MS in Reliquiae Hearnianae, ed. Philip Bliss, 2 vols (Oxford, 1857), I, 114 and in Remarks and Collections of Thomas Hearne, Vol. I, ed. C.E. Doble (Oxford Historical Society, 2, 1885), p. 308.

An autograph diary of Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), Oxford antiquary, 256 octavo pages, in contemporary calf.

23 September 1706-18 February 1706/7
Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Hearne's diaries 12 p. 94)
RoJ 116.5

Copy of a version, headed On the King, beginning Farewell my witty witty king.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in at least three professional hands, ii + 124 leaves, in half-calf marbled boards.

c.1680s

Owned by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732), annalist and book collector.

All Souls College, Oxford (MS 116 f. 23r)
RoJ 117

Copy, headed Writte on ye Glass, the verses in a different order and here beginning And now God bless our Gratious king, on a single folio leaf. End of 17th century.

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

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

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS North b. 24 f. 146v)
RoJ 118

Copy, headed King Cha: praiseing the Translation of the Psalmes, Ld Rochester said Ile show you how they run.

Edited in part from this MS in Vieth; edited in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in six chiefly professional hands, 124 leaves (plus numerous blanks) and including, ff. 123r-4r, two tipped-in octavo leaves, in modern half red crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

c.1710
RoJ 119

Copy of a version headed King Charles 2ds: Epitaph and beginning Here lies our Sovereign the King, subscribed Earl of Rochester.

This MS recorded in Vieth.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single neat hand, with a title-page A collection of Poems by Several Hands,118 pages (plus many blanks), in modern calf gilt.

c.1728

Inscribed on front free endpaper C. Plumptre Sepr. 7th 1728: i.e. Charles Plumptre (1712-99), the probable compiler. Bookplate of John Plumptre. Item 183 in an un identified sale catalogue.

RoJ 120

Copy of a version headed E. of Rochester's Character of K. Ch. 2nd and beginning Here lives a great & mighty King.

This MS recorded in Vieth.

A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands, a neat mixed hand predominating up to f. 55r, 151 leaves (including a few blanks), in contemporary calf.

c.1730

Inscribed (in another hand) on the front pastedown Thomas Boydell. Formerly Folger MS 4108.

RoJ 121

Copy of a version headed King Charles's Epitaph. By the E: of Roch: and beginning Here Lyes our Sovereign the King.

An octavo verse miscellany, 186 pages, in contemporary calf.

c.1728
Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS c 176 p. 180)
RoJ 122

Copy of a version headed Posted on Whitehall gate pr: my Ld. Rochester and here beginning Here lives a great & mighty Monarch.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, in a largely secretary hand, 222 pages, in calf.

c.1705
Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS c 189 p. 1)
Impromptu on Louis XIV ('Lorraine you stole. by fraud you got Burgundy')

First published in The Agreeable Companion (London, 1745). Vieth, p. 21. Walker, p. 121, as [On Louis XIV]. See also A.S.G. Edwards, Rochester's Impromptu on Louis XIV, N&Q, 219 (November 1974), 418-19.

RoJ 123

Copy, following the Latin version and here beginning You Loraine stole; by fraud you got Burgundy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. b. 8 p. 475)
RoJ 123.5

Copy, headed On the French King.

A quarto notebook of English and Latin verse and prose, in two or more cursive hands, ii + 100 leaves, in later black morocco.

Late 17th century

Armorial bookplate of Henry Ellison, of University College, Oxford, and his inscription (f. 43r) dated March 14th 1841. Donated in 1951 by Mrs G.L. Barstow.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Eng. e. 3381 f. 53v)
RoJ 124

Copy, untitled and following the Latin version, with other verses on a folio leaf.

A composite volume of verse and prose, iii + 155 leaves.

Collected by Richard Frank (c.1698-1762), of Campsall Hall, Yorkshire, and chiefly comprising papers of the Yorkshire antiquary Nathaniel Johnston (1629-1705).

Late 17th century

W.H. Robinson, sale catalogue No. 74 (1944), items 21 and 271.

This volume recorded (as Bacon Frank Vol. 21) in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, pp. 457-8.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 25 f. 75r)
RoJ 125

Copy, two Latin verses headed On ye French Kgs Conquests, then Turn'd thus by ye E. of Rochester and here beginning Lorrain he stole; by Fraud he got Burgundie.

This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.

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

c.1682-91
Bodleian Library, Sancroft MSS (MS Sancroft 53 p. 39)
RoJ 126

Copy, in a cursive hand, headed E of Rochester and here beginning Lorrain he stole by fraud he got Burgundy, with other texts on one side of a single octavo leaf.

This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.

A folio guardbook of separate state papers, in various hands, 271 leaves (but some removed to MS Tanner 89*).

Bodleian Library, Tanner Collection (MS Tanner 89 f. 261v)
RoJ 126.3

Copy.

Cited in Kelliher, p. 14.

A quarto notebook of verse and prose, in English, Latin and French, in several hands over a period, much in a small cursive hand, 50 leaves, in quarter-morocco gilt.

Probably compiled in part by Edmund Killingworth (of Winchester College and New College, Oxford).

Late 17th-early 18th century

Discussed in Hilton Kelliher, Dryden Attributions and Texts from Harley MS. 6054, BLJ, 25.1 (Spring 1999), pp. 1-22, with facsimiles of ff. 20r and 27r on pp. 4 and 10.

RoJ 126.5

Copy of a version headed Thus [Englished deleted] Paraphras'd by an English gen and beginning Lorain hee stole; by fraud hee gott Burgundy, following a Latin version headed in the margin Sett in some remarkable places att Paris, all under the general heading To the French King 1684.

A quarto volume of works by or relating to Sir Walter Ralegh, largely in a single stylish hand, with later additions after f. 106v probably in another hand, 113 leaves (ff. 29v-106v blanks), in contemporary calf.

Probably chiefly in the hand of Andrew Card, who inscribes f. 5r Ex libris Andreæ Card 1674.

c.1674-84

Bookplate of Richard Cranmer [i.e. Richard Dixon (d.1828), of the manor of Mitcham, Surrey, who claimed descent from Archbishop Cranmer.

University of Chicago (MS 824 f. 107r)
RoJ 126.8

Copy, headed Eng-, following the Latin version.

A formal folio miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, chiefly on affairs of state, in a single professional hand, individual items dated as late as 1697, 286 pages.

c.late 1690s
University of Minnesota (MS 690235f p. 190)
RoJ 127

Copy, here beginning Lorrain he Stole, by Fraud he got Burgundy, following the Latin text.

Edited from this MS in Walker.

An octavo miscellany chiefly of verse, in several hands, with two tables of contents, 207 leaves (lacking ff. 1-4), in calf.

c.1725

Inscribed (f. 207v) James Dyson and James Thompson.

RoJ 128

Copy, headed Anglice and following a Latin version.

An oblong quarto miscellany chiefly of poems on affairs of state, including ten in the Marvell canon and other works attributed to him, largely in a single hand, with later additions in other hands, written along the length of the page with the spine upwards, i + 92 leaves, in contemporary calf.

Used from the reverse end, for a 79-page catalogue of c.1400 books dating from 1519 to the mid-18th century, in two hands, headed Catalogue of Mr. Okeover's Library taken Septr: 1760 with a supplement headed Found in London in Feby 1764 by Mr. Walhouse — after Mr. Leeke Okeover's death in Mr. Okeover's house in John Street, Gray's Inn Lane, London.

c.late 1670s [-1764]

Inscribed (f. ir) tho may. Sotheby's, 22 July 1980, lot 541.

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Okeover MS: MaA Δ 7.

RoJ 129

Copy, headed Thus English'd, here beginning Lorain Thou stole, by Fraud Thou got Burgundy, following two Latin distichs under the heading On the French King.

A quarto formal verse anthology entitled The Whimsical Medley or A Miscellaneous Collection of severall Pieces in Prose & Verse [etc.], in a single stylish italic hand, with a tipped-in six-leaf table of contents, bound in three volumes, also incorporating printed pamphlets, 217 + 232 + 216 leaves (plus blanks), each volume in contemporary calf gilt.

Compiled by Theophilus Butler (1669-1723), first Baron Newtown of Newtown-Butler, book collector.

c.1720

Old pressmark I. 5. 1-3.

Impromptu on the English Court ('Here's Monmouth the witty')

First published in The Agreeable Companion (London, 1745). Vieth, p. 135. Walker, p. 123, as A Lampoon upon the English Grandees.

RoJ 129.5

Copy of a version beginning Monmouth's Witty.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. b. 8 p. 568)
RoJ 129.8

Copy, headed The following lines spoke ex tempore by the late Lord Rochester, at the Dutchess of Portsmouths and here beginning Monmouth the witty Lauderdale the pretty.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Booke of Paragrafts, including 22 poems by Rochester, 445 pages plus stubs of extracted leaves (originally 463 numbered pages and now lacking pp. 59-68, 147-54 and parts of pp. 155-8), with a two-leaf index; in contemporary red morocco.

In professional hands: A, pp. 1-194; B, in a different style and probably a different hand, pp. 195-432; C, probably yet another hand, with additions on pp. 75, 90, 102, 125, 142, 175, 195, and pp. 433-63.

c.1680s-90s

Inscribed (on stubs and endpapers) matt Calihan, To Cpt Robinson att Capt Eloass [Elwes] near ye Watch house in Marlburhroagh street, For Capt. Robinson at his Lodginges in Charing Cross. Christie's, 27 June 1979, lot 16.

Various commissioned officers named Robinson are recorded in Charles Dalton, English Army Lists and Commission Registers, 1661-1714 (6 vols, London, 1892-1904): see esp. I, 276. The volume was most probably owned by Charles Robinson of the King's Regiment of Foot Guards, who became Captain and then Lieutenant-Colonel in 1688 and was killed at Namur in 1695. A member of the same regiment in 1684 was the purveyor of MS lampoons Captain Lenthal Warcup. The Captain Eloass mentioned in one inscription was possibly William Elwes, who served as a Lieutenant in Viscount Colchester's Regiment of Horse, c.1692-4, and as a Captain in Lord Windsor's Regiment of Horse in 1702.

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Robinson MS: RoJ Δ 8. Discussed with facsimiles of pp. 1-10 in Paul Hammond, The Robinson Manuscript Miscellany of Restoration Verse in the Brotherton Collection, Leeds, Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, 18 (1982), 275-324 [cited in entries as Hammond, Robinson]. Facsimiles of p. 1 also in Christie's sale catalogue, Plate 1, after p. 48, and in The Brotherton Collection University of Leeds: Its contents described with illustrations of fifty books and manuscripts (Leeds, 1986), p. 17. Selectively collated in Walker.

RoJ 130

Copy, with introductory preamble …my Ld Rochester vpo the Kings Request made ye following verses. 17 November 1706.

Edited from this MS in Reliquiae Hearnianae, ed. Philip Bliss, 2 vols (Oxford, 1857), I, 113-14; in Remarks and Collections of Thomas Hearne, Vol. I, ed. C.E. Doble (Oxford Historical Society, 2, 1885), p. 308; and in Walker, p. 220.

An autograph diary of Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), Oxford antiquary, 256 octavo pages, in contemporary calf.

23 September 1706-18 February 1706/7
Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Hearne's diaries 12 pp. 93-4)
RoJ 131

Copy of an untitled version beginning Here's Lauderdale ye pretty, with an anecdotal introduction: The same E. of Roch. coming in another time when ye K. & others were drinking Lisbon, They had bin trying to make a Rhime to Lisbon, Now saies ye K. here's One will do it. Rocheste takes a glass & saies, subscribed He drinks & ran away.

This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.

An oblong duodecimo verse miscellany, perhaps largely in one hand, with later additions by others, generally written across the page with the spine turned upwards, 136 leaves, with (f. 2r-v) a table of contents, in half green morocco.

Including ten poems by Cowley (on ff. 113r-v, 124r-9v).

c.1668-1713

Inscribed (f. 2r) Several Divine poems out of a Mss. of Mr. Hanserd Knolly's (thô [I suppose deleted] not of his composing); (f. 36r) Finis Manuscript, H. K.; (f. 1r and elsewhere) H Packwood Anno 1668 and George Gaynor, 1681. Item 988 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Purchased on 12 February 1876 from William Carew Hazlitt (1834-1913), bibliographer and writer.

RoJ 132

Copy of a version headed Lord Rochesters Character of the Court of K: Ch: IId and beginning Lauderdale the pretty.

This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.

A folio miscellany of largely poems on affairs of state, in two professional hands, with others on six tipped-in leaves at the end, 205 leaves (plus blanks), in black morocco gilt.

c.1730
RoJ 133

Copy of a version headed opon ye K—g. D: of Y—k. &c:, beginning Lauderdale the witty, and subscribed Ld Rochester.

This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.

A quarto verse miscellany, inscribed (f. 1r) Poems & Satires in the Time of Charles the 2d. &c. Collected & written by Oliver Le Neve Esqr., in a single rounded hand, 80 leaves, in 19th-century half brown calf.

Compiled by Oliver Le Neve (d.1711), younger brother of Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King of Arms and antiquary.

c.1690

Bookplate of the Rev. Richard Farmer, FSA (1735-97), Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, literary scholar. Lot 8055 in the sale of his library by Thomas King, 7 May to 16 June 1798. Formerly Chetham's MS 8013.

Chetham's Library, Manchester (Mun. A.4.14 f. 64v)
RoJ 134

Copy of a version headed A Lampoon upon the English Grandees. 1676 and beginning Monmouth ye wittiest.

This MS recorded in Vieth; edited in Walker.

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

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

c.1681

Formerly Osborn MS Chest II, Number 14.

Lampoone ('To longe the Wise Commons have been in debate')

See RoJ 260-270.

A Lampoon upon the English Grandees ('Monmouth the wittiest!')

See RoJ 130-134.

'Leave this gawdy guilded Stage'

See RoJ 406.

A Letter from Artemisia in the Town to Chloe in the Country ('Chloe, In verse by your command I write')

First published, as a broadside, in London, 1679. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 104-12. Walker, pp. 83-90. Love, pp. 63-70.

RoJ 135

Copy, headed A Letter from Artemiza.

A large folio miscellany of verse and prose, in a single accomplished professional hand, 756 pages (including over 200 blank leaves).

Including (pp. 217-429) 87 poems, chiefly on affairs of state, of which thirty are by Rochester; other contents comprising (pp. 1-71) a transcript of a Royal Household Establishment Book of William and Mary (1689-97); (pp. 75-212) a collection of legal precedents; and (pp. 442-543) copies of documents relating to the New Forest.

c.1698-1700s

Evidently compiled either for Henry Somerset (1629-1700), first Duke of Beaufort, Privy Councillor, or for his son Henry (1661-98), Marquess of Worcester, or else for his grandson, Henry Somerset (1684-1714), second Duke of Beaufort, who was Warden of the New Forest.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Badminton MS: RoJ Δ 1. Discussed and contents listed, with facsimile examples, in Michael Brennan and Paul Hammond, The Badminton Manuscript: A New Miscellany of Restoration Verse, EMS, 5 (1995), 171-207.

The Duke of Beaufort, Badminton (FmE 3/12 pp. 218-26)
RoJ 136

Copy, with a sidenote This poeme is supposed, to bee made by ye Earle of Rochester, or Mr Wolseley [i.e. Robert....who wrote the Preface to Valentinian].

Edited from this MS by all editors.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. b. 8 pp. 490-4)
RoJ 137

This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.

A quarto composite miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 137 pages (plus eight pages of later additions and eight blank pages), in modern cloth.

In a single hand, including sixteen poems by Rochester, pp. 139-46 occupied by charges of the Grand Jury added after 1714.

c.1680s

Recorded in IELM II.ii as the Gilpin MS: RoJ Δ 3.

Bodleian Library, Eng. misc. MSS (MS Eng. misc. e. 536 pp. 103-10)
RoJ 138

Copy of lines 177-255, headed The Cheating Whore. or, a Caveat to young Fops. Out of Ld Roch:'s Poems and here beginning This in my time was an observed Rule, and lines 147-68, headed On a Witty Whore and here beginning I took this time to think, what nature meant.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

A folio verse miscellany, entitled The Muse's Magazine, or Poeticall Miscelanies, in two parts, in a single hand, 189 leaves.

Including 27 poems by Cowley; eleven poems by Katherine Philips, evidently derived from printed sources; 10 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items; twelve poems by Sedley, plus one of doubtful authorship; and 15 poems by Waller, evidently derived from printed sources.

A note on a flyleaf relating to the bookseller John Dunton (1659-1733): John Dunton His Book, for which Mr. Corbet at ye Addisons Head, accepted One Half Guinea in full Payment for it, as Witness my Hand, Hannah Rakley. A note on f. 1: Since I had transcrib'd this whole Book, I met with some state Poems of these later times, mostly since K. George's Accession to the Crown [1714] which I have here inserted, as a supplement to these state Poems which make a part of this Collection by themselves. Date at the end of the volume: 1718, and some notes on a flyleaf dated 1724.

Early 18th century

The Mr. Corbet from whom Dunton purchased this MS was evidently the bookseller Thomas Corbett (fl. 1705-43), who ran his business at the Addison's Head, next to the Rose Tavern, without Temple Bar, from 1719 until his death in 1743. Neither Dunton nor Corbett are known to have used this MS for publication purposes.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dunton MS: PsK Δ 8; RoJ Δ 4; SeC Δ 1; WaE Δ 10.

For John Dunton's career, see Stephen Parks, John Dunton and the English Book Trade: A Study of His Career with a Checklist of His Publications (New York & London, 1970).

RoJ 138.5

Copy, as per E R.

An octavo miscellany of Restoration poems, chiefly upon affairs of state, ii + 89 octavo leaves, in 19th-century red morocco.

Predominantly in a single professional hand, with subsequent corrections or annotations in other hands or inks, and (f. 89v) with a pencil note after a table of contents This Book is written by Brown.

Late 17th century

Bookplate of Edward Vernon Utterson (1776?-1856), of the Isle of Wight, artist, book collector and literary antiquary. Sotheby's, 19 April 1852, lot 1318. Owned after 1911 by Robert Ashburton Milnes, afterwards Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, politician. Christie's, 26 November 1997, lot 75.

RoJ 139

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A long, narrow, ledger-size composite miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 112 pages (some misnumbered and pp. 45-6 excised), in 19th-century calf gilt.

A compendium of several separate collections of poems, each with its general heading, including nineteen poems by the Earl of Rochester, copied in a single hand, that of Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), antiquary.

c.1680s-1700s

Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker. Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Edinburgh MS: RoJ Δ 6.

Edinburgh University Library (MS Dc. 1. 3/1 pp. 60-3)
RoJ 140

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems chiefly on affairs of state, entitled A Collection of Poems, including 27 poems by Rochester (all ascribed to him), xii + 299 pages (plus a number of blanks), including a table of contents, in contemporary calf (rebacked).

In a single professional hand but for a few later additions at the very end (pp. 295-8, with some pages tipped-in).

c.1690s

Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Harvard MS: RoJ Δ 7.

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 636 pp. 20-32)
RoJ 141

Copy.

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and papers.

Papers of the Rev. George Harbin (c.1665-1744), historical writer and librarian to Sir Thomas Thynne (1640-1714), first Viscount Weymouth, at Longleat House, including (ff. 38r-60v) 23 quarto leaves of poems and letters by Rochester in a single hand.

Early 18th century

Inscribed (several times) Alex: Malet: i.e. the Rev Alexander Malet, Harbin's nephew and executor, a later note stating that the Marquess of Bath purchased part of the papers from Malet's descendant, Sir Alexander Malet, in 1873. Another inscription (f. 37r) reads: Some of Dr Harbin's Papers obtained from Mr. Waller of Fleet St by J.E. Jackson, after the sale of the Papers by Puttick & Simpson April 1874.

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Harbin MS: RoJ Δ 9.

The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House (Thynne Papers, Vol. XXVII ff. 38r-43r)
RoJ 142

Copy, headed Artemiza to Chloe, subscribed Rochester.

An octavo miscellany of chiefly satirical poems, including at least twelve by Rochester, in a single rounded hand but for an addition at the end (pp. 141-50) in a stylish italic hand, the greater part written along the length of the page with the spine uppermost, with an Index, xii + 150 pages (lacking pp. 135-40), in contemporary calf.

Possibly associated with the court circle of James Butler (1610-88), first Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

c.1680s

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dublin MS: RoJ Δ 10.

National Library of Ireland (MS 2093 pp. 91-108)
RoJ 143

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in several hands, one professional stylish hand predominating, with (ff. 1r, 2r) a Table of contents, 213 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf.

Including 29 poems by Rochester (plus a second copy of one) and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items.

c.1680s

Once owned by Thomas Fermor (1698-1753), first Earl of Pomfret, of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire. Also used by one James Parks.

Recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, and selectively collated in Walker.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 40 ff. 145r-9r)
RoJ 144

Copy of lines 171-264, headed Satyr and here beginning You smile to see me (whom ye world pchance.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A formal folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, including eleven by Rochester and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items, probably in a single professional hand, 444 leaves (including a six-leaf index).

c.1690s

Cited in IELM, II.ii as the Vienna MS: RoJ Δ 12. Discussed in Rudolf Brotanek, Beschreibung der Handschrift 14090 (Supplement 1776) der Nationalbibliothek in Wien, in Festschrift der Nationalbibliothek in Wien (Vienna, 1926), 145-62. Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker.

RoJ 145

Copy, headed A Letter fancyd from Artemisia in ye Town to Cloe in the Country.

An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, chiefly on affairs of state, including nine poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items, in a single small hand, 356 pages (misnumbered in pencil 1-344 and lacking the first few original leaves), in contemporary boards.

Probably compiled by an Anglican cleric (or student before taking orders) associated with Cambridge University.

c.late 1690s-1704

Later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Formerly Restoration poetry MS 5.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Cambridge Miscellany MS: RoJ Δ 13.

Princeton (RTC01 No. 38 pp. 109-15)
RoJ 146

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A formal quarto miscellany, of poems on affairs of state, including 29 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items, in three professional hands (A, pp. 1-278; B, pp. 279-84; C, pp. 285-314), 314 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary red morocco.

c.1680

Once owned by Count Carl Edward Gyldenstolpe (1770-1852) and perhaps originally acquired by Count Nils Gyldenstolpe (1642-1709), Swedish Ambassador at The Hague (in 1679-87).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Gyldenstolpe MS: RoJ Δ 14. A complete facsimile edition in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe (1967).

Royal Library, Stockholm (MS Vu. 69 pp. 5-19)
RoJ 147

Copy of lines 171-264, headed Satyr and here beginning You smile to see me (whom the world perchance.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional hand, in two volumes: Vol. I, including twelve poems by Rochester and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items, pp. 1-461 (plus index); Vol. II, pp. 462-842 (with irregularities of pagination).

This MS is closely related to Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Cod. 14090.

c.1690s-1700

Later owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor, who records that £50 was given by Perry, for these 2 volumes.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dyce MS: RoJ Δ 15.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 43 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.37-38) pp. 61-4)
RoJ 148

Copy, headed A Letter fancyd from Artemisa in ye Towne to Cloe in ye Countrey. By ye E: of R:.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled Songs & Verses - Upon severall occasions, 406 pages (but pp. 35-44, 63-6, 77-86, 115-32, 153-8, 161-84, and 195-212 excised).

Including 30 poems by Rochester (and probably others by him on missing leaves); pp. 1-392 in a single professional hand (that also responsible for Princeton, RTC01 No. 34); pp. 392-406 in a second hand.

c.1680

Inscribed on the title-page Hansen: i.e. very probably the diplomat Friedrich Adolphus Hansen, who visited England in September 1680 in the entourage of Charles, electoral Prince Palatine. Owned, in 1951 by Dr A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952), Philadelphia book dealer, collector and scholar.

Cited in IELM, II as the Yale MS: RoJ Δ 16. The MS was identified by David M. Vieth as an independent scribal transcript of the copy-text used for the first edition of Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R— (Antwerp [i.e. London], 1680): see Attribution, pp. 56-100, and The Text of Rochester and the Editions of 1680, PBSA, 50 (1956), 243-63. Discussed extensively, and Hansen identified, in Harold Love, Scribal Texts and Literary Communities: The Rochester Circle and Osborn b. 105, SB, 42 (1989), 219-35. Facsimile of p. 62 in Vieth (1968), frontispiece. Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth (1968) and in Walker.

Yale, Osborn MS b 100 through Osborn MS b 149 (Osborn MS b 105 pp. 45-61)
RoJ 149

Copy of a 254-line version.

A quarto volume of works almost exclusively by Rochester, in a single professional hand up to p. 208, a second, less accomplished, hand taking over (after stubs of two extracted leaves) on pp. 209-31; with a title-page (p. 13), Poem's / By The. Right Honourable/John Earle / of/Rochester, 219 pages (plus 12 preliminary blank pages and 99 blank pages at the end), in half-russia over marbled boards.

c.mid-1680s

Bookplate of The Reverend Sir George Lee. Baronet/Hartwell. Inscribed This Manuscript was found at Hartwell. March. 1829. J. Lee and another, Bound Mr. Wilson. March 1829 [i.e. the MS was in the library of the Rev. Sir George Lee, Bt (1767-1827), rector of Hartwell, etc., and of Dr John Lee, F.R.S. (1783-1866), at Hartwell House, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire]. Later sold by Charles Sawyer (No. 1467 in a sale catalogue). The MS might possibly once have been owned by Thomas Lee, Bt, M.P. (1635-91) of Hartwell, who was, incidentally, related by marriage to Sir John Suckling. His son was Sir Thomas Lee, Bt, M.P. (1661-1702). The MS was later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 18 December 1995 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 114, with facsimile examples in the sale catalogue.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Hartwell MS: RoJ Δ 17. This MS on exhibition at the Bodleian, 16-28 June 1930, and recorded in Proceedings and Papers of the Oxford Bibliographical Society, 2 (1927-30), p. 213. Subsequently discussed, and parts printed, by Harold Love and Stephen Parks in A reasonable satyr, TLS, 1 August 1997, p. 13; in Harold Love, A Tale of Two Manuscripts, Yale University Library Gazette, 72 (1999), 41-53; and in his pamphlet A Newly Discovered Burlesque by John Wilmot Earl of Rochester (New Haven, 1997).

A complete microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7982.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 334 pp. 196-208)
RoJ 149.5

Copy.

A large octavo verse miscellany, chiefly lampoons and poems on affairs of state, including 21 poems by Rochester and various others in the Rochester apocrypha, nearly 600 pages in all, with a 14-page index.

Written in a single hand which can be identified as that of the Scottish pasquil-writer and antiquary Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), who was also responsible for RoJ Δ 6.

c.1705
Private owners in the UK (Mylne MS pp. 194-201)
RoJ 150

Copy of lines 171-260, headed Satyr by E Rochstr: and here beginning You Smile to see me (whom the World perchance).

This MS collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, largely in a single professional hand (up to f. 372r), with later additions on ff. 372r-203r(c.1738-45), 203 leaves, in contemporary speckled calf (rebacked).

c.1700 [-1745]

Once owned by C. Stuteville (inscribed f. 2r) and later, c.1880, by the Grimston family and by the Byrom family, of Kilnwick Hall, East Yorkshire. Bought from E.L.G. Byrom in 1921.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 18 ff. 13r-14v)
RoJ 151

Copy of lines 1-176, in a professional hand, on two conjugate folio leaves, imperfect, lacking the remainder. Late 17th century.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

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

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

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS North b. 24 ff. 60r-1v)
RoJ 152

Copy in the hand of the poet John Oldham (1653-83), misbound out of sequence.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

A quarto volume of poems and letters in the hand of the poet John Oldham (1653-83), vi + 310 pages.

c.1675-82
RoJ 153

Copy on eight quarto leaves.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

A folio composite volume of verse, in various hands, i + 250 leaves.

Collected by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729). Some pages in the hand of Richard Rawlinson.

RoJ 154 Late 17th century

Copy of lines 75-163, here beginning Who had prevaild on her through her own skill, on two folio pages.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

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.

RoJ 154.5

Extract, lines 40-3, here beginning Love ye most generous passion of the mind, headed E: of Rochestr.

A quarto notebook of verse and prose, in English, Latin and French, in several hands over a period, much in a small cursive hand, 50 leaves, in quarter-morocco gilt.

Probably compiled in part by Edmund Killingworth (of Winchester College and New College, Oxford).

Late 17th-early 18th century

Discussed in Hilton Kelliher, Dryden Attributions and Texts from Harley MS. 6054, BLJ, 25.1 (Spring 1999), pp. 1-22, with facsimiles of ff. 20r and 27r on pp. 4 and 10.

RoJ 155

Two extracts, headed On a young Heir: (i) eighteen lines beginning at line 56 (here The female sex, 'tho born like monarcks free): (ii) ten lines, headed On Love, beginning at line 40 (here, Love the most generous passion of the mind), transcribed from a printed source.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.

A quarto composite volume of verse, in several (possibly female) rounded hands, 79 leaves, in 19th-cntury half-morocco.

c.1730
The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 970 ff. 35r, 39r)
RoJ 156

Copy, headed Artemissa to Cloë and here beginning Cloe! by yor comand in verse I write, subscribed Rochester.

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

c.1680s-1702
RoJ 157

Copy of lines 140-264, here beginning ye Lady of y[e house], on a single mutilated long ledger-size leaf tipped-in. Late 17th century.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

A folio verse miscellany, including 35 poems by Donne, in several hands, written from both ends, 30 leaves (plus stubs of ten extracted leaves), damp-stained, in modern boards.

The text related to the Skipwith MS (DnJ Δ 21).

c.1620-33

Inscribed name (f. 8r) of Edward Smyth and (along margin of f. 11v) in Mr Templers. Among the collections of John Patrick (1632-95), religious controversialist.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Edward Smyth MS: DnJ Δ 45.

RoJ 158

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

A quarto miscellany, in several hands, 66 leaves (plus 70 blanks), in contemporary calf.

Compiled at least in part by George Stanhope (1660-1728), Dean of Canterbury, chiefly while he was at King's College, Cambridge.

c.1678-80s

Inscribed Mrs Denham Cookes 1922 March 10.

RoJ 159

Exemplum of the printed broadside A Letter from Artemiza in the Town, to Chloe in the Country. By a Person of Honour ([London, 1679]).

Copy with a total of ten lines inserted in MS (corresponding to lines 20-3, 34-5, 183-4 and 203-4 in Vieth's text).

Late 17th century

This item in a large collection of Popish Plot pamphlets sold at Sotheby's, 24 July 1987, lot 262, to Quaritch.

RoJ 159.5

Copy, headed A letter fancyed from Artemisa in the Town To Cloe in the Country, on nine quarto pages, endorsed on the blank tenth page Richard Willughby bound to Willm Hun[t?] 7. May 21, Car: 2. [i.e. 1669] to pay 18li upon the 24th of June, once folded as a letter or packet.

c.1669

Sotheby's, 17 July 1997, part of lot 20.

This MS discussed, with facsimile pages, in Nicholas Fisher, A new dating of Rochester's Artemiza to Chlöe, EMS, 8 (2000), 300-19.

Nicholas Fisher ([Artemisa MS])
RoJ 160

Copy of lines 171-264, headed Satyr By Ld: Rochester and here beginning You smile to see me (whom the World perchance

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

A tall folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in professional hands, 257 leaves, in modern calf gilt.

In three sections each with its own title-page.

First section: A Collection of Poems and Lampoons &ca Not yet Printed.

Second section (f. 102r): A Collection of Choice Poems, Satyrs, & Lampoons From 1672 to 1688 Never printed.

Third section (f. 146r): A Collection of Poems. From 1688 to 1699. 1703/4.

Early 1700s
RoJ 161

Copy, subscribed Rochester, in a professional hand, on pp. 1-9, in a disbound fragment of a folio miscellany of poems paginated 1-34. Late 17th century.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A folio composite miscellany of verse MSS, chiefly poems on affairs of state, in various hands and paper sizes, now disbound in folders.

Among papers of the Hastings family, Earls of Huntingdon.

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 623 Folder 14, pp. 1-9)
RoJ 163

Copy, headed A letter fancyed from Artemise in Town to Cloe in ye Country, lines 197-200 added in the margins of p. 29.

An octavo verse miscellany.

End of 17th century

Once owned by Henry Bracegirdle of Merton College, Oxford, who gave it to Hugh Massey in 1674. Dobell's catalogue Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1274. Colbeck, Radford & Co., The Ingatherer No. 38 (1934), item 224.

King's College, Cambridge (Hayward Collection, H. 11. 14 pp. 11-20, 29)
RoJ 163.5

Copy of lines 40-49.

An octavo verse miscellany, entitled Poems & Verses on Several Occasions, MDCCXXVI, in a mainly single hand, 66 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary green vellum boards.

1726-c.1768

The title-page inscribed Anna. Rogers. Junr: 1768.

Discussed in Paul Hammond, Some Eighteenth-Century Texts and Adaptations of Rochester in Leeds MS Lt 110, EMS 18 (2013), 173-179.

RoJ 164

Copy of lines 171-260, headed Satyr: On The Country Squire (by L Rochester) and here beginning You smile to me (whom the world perchance.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A large folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, probably in several hands, one professional hand predominating, with (ff. 1r-2r) a Table of contents, 200 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf.

c.1695

Bookplate of William, Earl of Craven (1608-97), soldier and Privy Counsellor, of Hampstead Marshall, Berkshire.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 46 ff. 8r-9v)
RoJ 165

An octavo verse miscellany, 148 pages (lacking pp. 55-8, 117-26).

Late 17th century

Dobell's sale catalogue The Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1284. Afterwards owned by John Sparrow (1906-92), literary scholar and book collector.

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. e. 176 pp. 87-97)
RoJ 166

Copy in the hand of one of Edmund Waller's daughters, imperfect, lacking lines 1-61 and here beginning To an exact perfection they have wrought.

A quarto miscellany of chiefly verse, with some prose and French exercises, including at least seventeen poems by or attributed to Waller, as well as a complete transcript of The Maid's Tragedy Altered, in more than one hand, the predominant hand that of one of Waller's daughters, written from both ends, some of the ascriptions to Mr Waller added later in a different hand, 100 unnumbered leaves (including stubs of some extracted leaves [ff. 9-13v, 7r-v rev., 27r-v rev., 35-6v rev.]), in calf.

Including such association texts as An Epistle to my father Ox: Sep: ye 17: 1667 (f. [2v]), On ye Wallers arms (f. [15v]), a letter [by Waller] to my Dearest Neece (ff. [20-1]) followed by a letter to her Honrd Uncle ascribed in another hand to Lady Speake (f. 21r-v), and The ffollowing line my ffather write… dated from Hallbarn Aprill ye 11 1685 (f. [33v]).

c.1680s [-1700s]

Scribbling inside the covers and on the flyleaves including (several times) the name Edmond Waller and Edmund Waller his Bookes: i.e. very probably the poet's son, Edmund Waller the Younger (1651-99). Pinned inside the cover is a receipt dated 29 September 1645 for money received from Anne Waller, the poet's mother (d.1653), signed by Anne Darell and witnessed by John Ford and John Pepys.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Younger Waller MS: WaE Δ 7. Briefly recorded in Thorn-Drury and in Wikelund (1970), pp. 77-8.

Mr Richard Waller ([no shelfmark] ff. [27r-28v rev.])
Letter from Miss Price to Lord Chesterfield ('My Lord, / These are the gloves that I did mention')

First published in Letters of Philip, second Earl of Chesterfield (London, 1829). Vieth, p. 24. Walker, pp. 61-2. Love, pp. 92-3, as [Lines from Chesterfield's letterbook] From Mistress Prise Maid of honour to her Majesty who sent mee a pair of Itallian Gloves.

RoJ 167

Copy, headed From Mrs: Prise [i.e. Henrietta Maria Price] Maid of honour to her Majesty who sent me a pair of Itallian Gloves, subscribed I had a mind you should see these inclosed papers which were writ by the Lord Rochester, and that hath occationd you this trouble from your humble servant.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

A large folio letterbook of Philip Stanhope (1633-1713), second Earl of Chesterfield, in a single neat hand, written from both ends, 211 leaves, in modern half red morocco.

Early 18th century

Sale of Charles K. Sharpe, 7 January 1852, lot 2330. Purchased from Boone 11 December 1852.

Lord Moulgrave's character. By Lord Rochester ('With Equall grace and force he walks and writes')

Love, pp. 92-3.

RoJ 167.5

Copy, ascribed to Rochester.

Edited from this MS in Love.

An octavo miscellany of chiefly satirical poems, including at least twelve by Rochester, in a single rounded hand but for an addition at the end (pp. 141-50) in a stylish italic hand, the greater part written along the length of the page with the spine uppermost, with an Index, xii + 150 pages (lacking pp. 135-40), in contemporary calf.

Possibly associated with the court circle of James Butler (1610-88), first Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

c.1680s

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dublin MS: RoJ Δ 10.

National Library of Ireland (MS 2093 p. 78)
RoJ 167.8

Copy, headed Character of E: M.

A quarto volume of Poems upon Affairs of State, 170 pages (plus 80 blanks), in contemporary black morocco gilt.

Predominantly in a single professional hand, with a table of contents at the end, the volume produced under the auspices of the manuscript purveyor Captain Robert Julian (fl. c.1650-90), Secretary of the Muses, with a few additions in two other professional hands and by subsequent owners.

c.1680s

Inscribed by William Stanley (c.1655-1702), ninth Earl of Derby, I bought this booke of Julian not so much for my own use as to prevent others reading of it. Inscribed later by his brother James Stanley (1664-1736), tenth Earl of Derby, When Knowsley House was puled doune (for else it would soon haue faln of it self) this Book was found hid in one of ye Chimneys, to be sure by my Brother Derby.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 20-30.

Private owners in the UK ([Lord Derby MS] p. 116)
Love and Life ('All my past life is mine no more')

First published in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman [London, 1677]. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 90. Walker, p. 44. Love, pp. 25-6.

RoJ 168

Copy.

A large folio miscellany of verse and prose, in a single accomplished professional hand, 756 pages (including over 200 blank leaves).

Including (pp. 217-429) 87 poems, chiefly on affairs of state, of which thirty are by Rochester; other contents comprising (pp. 1-71) a transcript of a Royal Household Establishment Book of William and Mary (1689-97); (pp. 75-212) a collection of legal precedents; and (pp. 442-543) copies of documents relating to the New Forest.

c.1698-1700s

Evidently compiled either for Henry Somerset (1629-1700), first Duke of Beaufort, Privy Councillor, or for his son Henry (1661-98), Marquess of Worcester, or else for his grandson, Henry Somerset (1684-1714), second Duke of Beaufort, who was Warden of the New Forest.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Badminton MS: RoJ Δ 1. Discussed and contents listed, with facsimile examples, in Michael Brennan and Paul Hammond, The Badminton Manuscript: A New Miscellany of Restoration Verse, EMS, 5 (1995), 171-207.

RoJ 169

This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.

A quarto composite miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 137 pages (plus eight pages of later additions and eight blank pages), in modern cloth.

In a single hand, including sixteen poems by Rochester, pp. 139-46 occupied by charges of the Grand Jury added after 1714.

c.1680s

Recorded in IELM II.ii as the Gilpin MS: RoJ Δ 3.

Bodleian Library, Eng. misc. MSS (MS Eng. misc. e. 536 p. 61)
RoJ 169.5

Copy, headed Song / Love and Life, inscribed E R.

An octavo miscellany of Restoration poems, chiefly upon affairs of state, ii + 89 octavo leaves, in 19th-century red morocco.

Predominantly in a single professional hand, with subsequent corrections or annotations in other hands or inks, and (f. 89v) with a pencil note after a table of contents This Book is written by Brown.

Late 17th century

Bookplate of Edward Vernon Utterson (1776?-1856), of the Isle of Wight, artist, book collector and literary antiquary. Sotheby's, 19 April 1852, lot 1318. Owned after 1911 by Robert Ashburton Milnes, afterwards Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, politician. Christie's, 26 November 1997, lot 75.

RoJ 170

Copy, headed Song.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.

A long, narrow, ledger-size composite miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 112 pages (some misnumbered and pp. 45-6 excised), in 19th-century calf gilt.

A compendium of several separate collections of poems, each with its general heading, including nineteen poems by the Earl of Rochester, copied in a single hand, that of Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), antiquary.

c.1680s-1700s

Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker. Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Edinburgh MS: RoJ Δ 6.

Edinburgh University Library (MS Dc. 1. 3/1 p. 52)
RoJ 171

Copy, headed Song.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems chiefly on affairs of state, entitled A Collection of Poems, including 27 poems by Rochester (all ascribed to him), xii + 299 pages (plus a number of blanks), including a table of contents, in contemporary calf (rebacked).

In a single professional hand but for a few later additions at the very end (pp. 295-8, with some pages tipped-in).

c.1690s

Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Harvard MS: RoJ Δ 7.

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 636 pp. 246-7)
RoJ 172

Copy.

This MS collated in Hammond, Robinson and in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Booke of Paragrafts, including 22 poems by Rochester, 445 pages plus stubs of extracted leaves (originally 463 numbered pages and now lacking pp. 59-68, 147-54 and parts of pp. 155-8), with a two-leaf index; in contemporary red morocco.

In professional hands: A, pp. 1-194; B, in a different style and probably a different hand, pp. 195-432; C, probably yet another hand, with additions on pp. 75, 90, 102, 125, 142, 175, 195, and pp. 433-63.

c.1680s-90s

Inscribed (on stubs and endpapers) matt Calihan, To Cpt Robinson att Capt Eloass [Elwes] near ye Watch house in Marlburhroagh street, For Capt. Robinson at his Lodginges in Charing Cross. Christie's, 27 June 1979, lot 16.

Various commissioned officers named Robinson are recorded in Charles Dalton, English Army Lists and Commission Registers, 1661-1714 (6 vols, London, 1892-1904): see esp. I, 276. The volume was most probably owned by Charles Robinson of the King's Regiment of Foot Guards, who became Captain and then Lieutenant-Colonel in 1688 and was killed at Namur in 1695. A member of the same regiment in 1684 was the purveyor of MS lampoons Captain Lenthal Warcup. The Captain Eloass mentioned in one inscription was possibly William Elwes, who served as a Lieutenant in Viscount Colchester's Regiment of Horse, c.1692-4, and as a Captain in Lord Windsor's Regiment of Horse in 1702.

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Robinson MS: RoJ Δ 8. Discussed with facsimiles of pp. 1-10 in Paul Hammond, The Robinson Manuscript Miscellany of Restoration Verse in the Brotherton Collection, Leeds, Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, 18 (1982), 275-324 [cited in entries as Hammond, Robinson]. Facsimiles of p. 1 also in Christie's sale catalogue, Plate 1, after p. 48, and in The Brotherton Collection University of Leeds: Its contents described with illustrations of fifty books and manuscripts (Leeds, 1986), p. 17. Selectively collated in Walker.

RoJ 173

Copy, headed Song Love & Life.

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and papers.

Papers of the Rev. George Harbin (c.1665-1744), historical writer and librarian to Sir Thomas Thynne (1640-1714), first Viscount Weymouth, at Longleat House, including (ff. 38r-60v) 23 quarto leaves of poems and letters by Rochester in a single hand.

Early 18th century

Inscribed (several times) Alex: Malet: i.e. the Rev Alexander Malet, Harbin's nephew and executor, a later note stating that the Marquess of Bath purchased part of the papers from Malet's descendant, Sir Alexander Malet, in 1873. Another inscription (f. 37r) reads: Some of Dr Harbin's Papers obtained from Mr. Waller of Fleet St by J.E. Jackson, after the sale of the Papers by Puttick & Simpson April 1874.

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Harbin MS: RoJ Δ 9.

The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House (Thynne Papers, Vol. XXVII f. 51v)
RoJ 174

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in several hands, one professional stylish hand predominating, with (ff. 1r, 2r) a Table of contents, 213 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf.

Including 29 poems by Rochester (plus a second copy of one) and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items.

c.1680s

Once owned by Thomas Fermor (1698-1753), first Earl of Pomfret, of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire. Also used by one James Parks.

Recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, and selectively collated in Walker.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 40 f. 49r)
RoJ 175

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Vieth and in part in Love. Collated in Walker.

A formal quarto miscellany, of poems on affairs of state, including 29 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items, in three professional hands (A, pp. 1-278; B, pp. 279-84; C, pp. 285-314), 314 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary red morocco.

c.1680

Once owned by Count Carl Edward Gyldenstolpe (1770-1852) and perhaps originally acquired by Count Nils Gyldenstolpe (1642-1709), Swedish Ambassador at The Hague (in 1679-87).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Gyldenstolpe MS: RoJ Δ 14. A complete facsimile edition in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe (1967).

Royal Library, Stockholm (MS Vu. 69 p. 173)
RoJ 176

Copy, headed Love & Life a Song.

Edited from this MS in Walker; recorded in Vieth.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled Songs & Verses - Upon severall occasions, 406 pages (but pp. 35-44, 63-6, 77-86, 115-32, 153-8, 161-84, and 195-212 excised).

Including 30 poems by Rochester (and probably others by him on missing leaves); pp. 1-392 in a single professional hand (that also responsible for Princeton, RTC01 No. 34); pp. 392-406 in a second hand.

c.1680

Inscribed on the title-page Hansen: i.e. very probably the diplomat Friedrich Adolphus Hansen, who visited England in September 1680 in the entourage of Charles, electoral Prince Palatine. Owned, in 1951 by Dr A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952), Philadelphia book dealer, collector and scholar.

Cited in IELM, II as the Yale MS: RoJ Δ 16. The MS was identified by David M. Vieth as an independent scribal transcript of the copy-text used for the first edition of Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R— (Antwerp [i.e. London], 1680): see Attribution, pp. 56-100, and The Text of Rochester and the Editions of 1680, PBSA, 50 (1956), 243-63. Discussed extensively, and Hansen identified, in Harold Love, Scribal Texts and Literary Communities: The Rochester Circle and Osborn b. 105, SB, 42 (1989), 219-35. Facsimile of p. 62 in Vieth (1968), frontispiece. Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth (1968) and in Walker.

Yale, Osborn MS b 100 through Osborn MS b 149 (Osborn MS b 105 pp. 148-9)
RoJ 177

Copy, headed Song. Love and life, numbered in darker ink 9.

A quarto volume of works almost exclusively by Rochester, in a single professional hand up to p. 208, a second, less accomplished, hand taking over (after stubs of two extracted leaves) on pp. 209-31; with a title-page (p. 13), Poem's / By The. Right Honourable/John Earle / of/Rochester, 219 pages (plus 12 preliminary blank pages and 99 blank pages at the end), in half-russia over marbled boards.

c.mid-1680s

Bookplate of The Reverend Sir George Lee. Baronet/Hartwell. Inscribed This Manuscript was found at Hartwell. March. 1829. J. Lee and another, Bound Mr. Wilson. March 1829 [i.e. the MS was in the library of the Rev. Sir George Lee, Bt (1767-1827), rector of Hartwell, etc., and of Dr John Lee, F.R.S. (1783-1866), at Hartwell House, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire]. Later sold by Charles Sawyer (No. 1467 in a sale catalogue). The MS might possibly once have been owned by Thomas Lee, Bt, M.P. (1635-91) of Hartwell, who was, incidentally, related by marriage to Sir John Suckling. His son was Sir Thomas Lee, Bt, M.P. (1661-1702). The MS was later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 18 December 1995 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 114, with facsimile examples in the sale catalogue.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Hartwell MS: RoJ Δ 17. This MS on exhibition at the Bodleian, 16-28 June 1930, and recorded in Proceedings and Papers of the Oxford Bibliographical Society, 2 (1927-30), p. 213. Subsequently discussed, and parts printed, by Harold Love and Stephen Parks in A reasonable satyr, TLS, 1 August 1997, p. 13; in Harold Love, A Tale of Two Manuscripts, Yale University Library Gazette, 72 (1999), 41-53; and in his pamphlet A Newly Discovered Burlesque by John Wilmot Earl of Rochester (New Haven, 1997).

A complete microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7982.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 334 pp. 189-90)
RoJ 177.5

Copy, headed Song.

A large octavo verse miscellany, chiefly lampoons and poems on affairs of state, including 21 poems by Rochester and various others in the Rochester apocrypha, nearly 600 pages in all, with a 14-page index.

Written in a single hand which can be identified as that of the Scottish pasquil-writer and antiquary Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), who was also responsible for RoJ Δ 6.

c.1705
Private owners in the UK (Mylne MS p. 167)
RoJ 178

Copy, headed Roch: Love & Life. a Song.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, in English and Latin, in several hands, ii + 53 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf.

c.1690

J. Salkeld, sale catalogue No. 222 (17 June 1885), item 273.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Add. B. 106 f. 45v)
RoJ 179

Copy, headed (Joyes Past), lacking the last stanza.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution; collated in Walker.

A quarto verse miscellany entitled A Collection of Verses Fancyes and Poems, Morrall and Devine, in a single hand, i + 180 leaves, (including index), in contemporary calf.

Including 15 poems (and a second copy of one poem) by Cowley and 15 poems by Katherine Philips transcribed from a edited source.

Early 18th century

Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as Rawlinson MS II: PsK Δ 7.

RoJ 180

Copy, headed An Other, with other verses, on the reverse side of a single folio leaf.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

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.

RoJ 181

Copy, in double columns, untitled.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands, a neat mixed hand predominating up to f. 55r, 151 leaves (including a few blanks), in contemporary calf.

c.1730

Inscribed (in another hand) on the front pastedown Thomas Boydell. Formerly Folger MS 4108.

RoJ 182

Copy, untitled.

An octavo verse miscellany.

End of 17th century

Once owned by Henry Bracegirdle of Merton College, Oxford, who gave it to Hugh Massey in 1674. Dobell's catalogue Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1274. Colbeck, Radford & Co., The Ingatherer No. 38 (1934), item 224.

King's College, Cambridge (Hayward Collection, H. 11. 14 p. 29)
RoJ 183

Copy, headed To Phillis.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe; collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Collection of Poems and Lampoons &ca Not yet Edited, in a single professional rounded hand (the same as in University of Nottingham, Pw V 42 and University of Nottingham, Pw V 44), 463 pages plus a twelve-page index, in contemporary blind-stamped calf.

c.1705
University of Nottingham (Pw V 43 p. 378)
RoJ 184

Copy, headed To Phillis.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution; collated in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional hand, with some rubrication and decoration, 358 pages (including over 60 blanks), with a table of contents, in contemporary black morocco gilt bearing a coronet.

c.1680s

Formerly Phillipps MS 7740 and Osborn MS. Box XXII, Number 3.

Yale, Osborn MS b 100 through Osborn MS b 149 (Osborn MS b 113 pp. 29-30)
The Mistress ('An age in her embraces passed')

First published in Poems, &c. on Several Occasions (London, 1691). Vieth, pp. 87-8. Walker, pp. 29-30. Love, pp. 27-9, as Song.

RoJ 185

Copy, headed Song.

Edited in part from this MS in Love.

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and papers.

Papers of the Rev. George Harbin (c.1665-1744), historical writer and librarian to Sir Thomas Thynne (1640-1714), first Viscount Weymouth, at Longleat House, including (ff. 38r-60v) 23 quarto leaves of poems and letters by Rochester in a single hand.

Early 18th century

Inscribed (several times) Alex: Malet: i.e. the Rev Alexander Malet, Harbin's nephew and executor, a later note stating that the Marquess of Bath purchased part of the papers from Malet's descendant, Sir Alexander Malet, in 1873. Another inscription (f. 37r) reads: Some of Dr Harbin's Papers obtained from Mr. Waller of Fleet St by J.E. Jackson, after the sale of the Papers by Puttick & Simpson April 1874.

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Harbin MS: RoJ Δ 9.

The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House (Thynne Papers, Vol. XXVII ff. 52v-3v)
RoJ 186

Copy, headed Song, numbered in a darker ink 12.

A quarto volume of works almost exclusively by Rochester, in a single professional hand up to p. 208, a second, less accomplished, hand taking over (after stubs of two extracted leaves) on pp. 209-31; with a title-page (p. 13), Poem's / By The. Right Honourable/John Earle / of/Rochester, 219 pages (plus 12 preliminary blank pages and 99 blank pages at the end), in half-russia over marbled boards.

c.mid-1680s

Bookplate of The Reverend Sir George Lee. Baronet/Hartwell. Inscribed This Manuscript was found at Hartwell. March. 1829. J. Lee and another, Bound Mr. Wilson. March 1829 [i.e. the MS was in the library of the Rev. Sir George Lee, Bt (1767-1827), rector of Hartwell, etc., and of Dr John Lee, F.R.S. (1783-1866), at Hartwell House, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire]. Later sold by Charles Sawyer (No. 1467 in a sale catalogue). The MS might possibly once have been owned by Thomas Lee, Bt, M.P. (1635-91) of Hartwell, who was, incidentally, related by marriage to Sir John Suckling. His son was Sir Thomas Lee, Bt, M.P. (1661-1702). The MS was later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 18 December 1995 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 114, with facsimile examples in the sale catalogue.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Hartwell MS: RoJ Δ 17. This MS on exhibition at the Bodleian, 16-28 June 1930, and recorded in Proceedings and Papers of the Oxford Bibliographical Society, 2 (1927-30), p. 213. Subsequently discussed, and parts printed, by Harold Love and Stephen Parks in A reasonable satyr, TLS, 1 August 1997, p. 13; in Harold Love, A Tale of Two Manuscripts, Yale University Library Gazette, 72 (1999), 41-53; and in his pamphlet A Newly Discovered Burlesque by John Wilmot Earl of Rochester (New Haven, 1997).

A complete microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7982.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 334 pp. 192-4)
Mistress Knights Advice to the Dutchess of Cleavland in Distress For a Prick ('Quoth the Dutchess of Cleavland to Councillor Knight')

See RoJ 431-434.

The Mock Song ('I swive as well as others do')

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 136-7. Walker, p. 110. Love, p. 102, as Answer beginning I Fuck no more then others doe.

Texts usually accompanied by Sir Carr Scroope's song I cannot change as others do (Love, pp. 101-2) of which Rochester's poem is a burlesque.

RoJ 187

Copy, headed Answer and here beginning I F—k no more than others do.

A large folio miscellany of verse and prose, in a single accomplished professional hand, 756 pages (including over 200 blank leaves).

Including (pp. 217-429) 87 poems, chiefly on affairs of state, of which thirty are by Rochester; other contents comprising (pp. 1-71) a transcript of a Royal Household Establishment Book of William and Mary (1689-97); (pp. 75-212) a collection of legal precedents; and (pp. 442-543) copies of documents relating to the New Forest.

c.1698-1700s

Evidently compiled either for Henry Somerset (1629-1700), first Duke of Beaufort, Privy Councillor, or for his son Henry (1661-98), Marquess of Worcester, or else for his grandson, Henry Somerset (1684-1714), second Duke of Beaufort, who was Warden of the New Forest.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Badminton MS: RoJ Δ 1. Discussed and contents listed, with facsimile examples, in Michael Brennan and Paul Hammond, The Badminton Manuscript: A New Miscellany of Restoration Verse, EMS, 5 (1995), 171-207.

RoJ 188

Copy, headed Answar and here beginning I ffuck no more then others do.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe; collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in several hands, one professional stylish hand predominating, with (ff. 1r, 2r) a Table of contents, 213 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf.

Including 29 poems by Rochester (plus a second copy of one) and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items.

c.1680s

Once owned by Thomas Fermor (1698-1753), first Earl of Pomfret, of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire. Also used by one James Parks.

Recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, and selectively collated in Walker.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 40 f. 37r)
RoJ 189

Copy, headed Answer and here beginning I ffuck no more then others doe.

Edited in part from this MS in Love. Recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A formal quarto miscellany, of poems on affairs of state, including 29 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items, in three professional hands (A, pp. 1-278; B, pp. 279-84; C, pp. 285-314), 314 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary red morocco.

c.1680

Once owned by Count Carl Edward Gyldenstolpe (1770-1852) and perhaps originally acquired by Count Nils Gyldenstolpe (1642-1709), Swedish Ambassador at The Hague (in 1679-87).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Gyldenstolpe MS: RoJ Δ 14. A complete facsimile edition in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe (1967).

Royal Library, Stockholm (MS Vu. 69 p. 132)
RoJ 190

Copy of lines 1-4, imperfect, lacking the remainder.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution; collated in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled Songs & Verses - Upon severall occasions, 406 pages (but pp. 35-44, 63-6, 77-86, 115-32, 153-8, 161-84, and 195-212 excised).

Including 30 poems by Rochester (and probably others by him on missing leaves); pp. 1-392 in a single professional hand (that also responsible for Princeton, RTC01 No. 34); pp. 392-406 in a second hand.

c.1680

Inscribed on the title-page Hansen: i.e. very probably the diplomat Friedrich Adolphus Hansen, who visited England in September 1680 in the entourage of Charles, electoral Prince Palatine. Owned, in 1951 by Dr A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952), Philadelphia book dealer, collector and scholar.

Cited in IELM, II as the Yale MS: RoJ Δ 16. The MS was identified by David M. Vieth as an independent scribal transcript of the copy-text used for the first edition of Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R— (Antwerp [i.e. London], 1680): see Attribution, pp. 56-100, and The Text of Rochester and the Editions of 1680, PBSA, 50 (1956), 243-63. Discussed extensively, and Hansen identified, in Harold Love, Scribal Texts and Literary Communities: The Rochester Circle and Osborn b. 105, SB, 42 (1989), 219-35. Facsimile of p. 62 in Vieth (1968), frontispiece. Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth (1968) and in Walker.

RoJ 190.5

Copy, headed The mock to it By Ld. Rochester.

A large octavo verse miscellany, chiefly lampoons and poems on affairs of state, including 21 poems by Rochester and various others in the Rochester apocrypha, nearly 600 pages in all, with a 14-page index.

Written in a single hand which can be identified as that of the Scottish pasquil-writer and antiquary Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), who was also responsible for RoJ Δ 6.

c.1705
Private owners in the UK (Mylne MS p. 245)
My Lord All-Pride ('Bursting with pride, the loathed impostume swells')

First published, as Epigram upon my Lord All-pride, in the broadside A Very Heroical Epistle from My Lord All-Pride to Dol-Common (London, 1679). Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 142-3. Walker, pp. 116-17. Love, pp. 93-4.

RoJ 191

Copy.

A large folio miscellany of verse and prose, in a single accomplished professional hand, 756 pages (including over 200 blank leaves).

Including (pp. 217-429) 87 poems, chiefly on affairs of state, of which thirty are by Rochester; other contents comprising (pp. 1-71) a transcript of a Royal Household Establishment Book of William and Mary (1689-97); (pp. 75-212) a collection of legal precedents; and (pp. 442-543) copies of documents relating to the New Forest.

c.1698-1700s

Evidently compiled either for Henry Somerset (1629-1700), first Duke of Beaufort, Privy Councillor, or for his son Henry (1661-98), Marquess of Worcester, or else for his grandson, Henry Somerset (1684-1714), second Duke of Beaufort, who was Warden of the New Forest.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Badminton MS: RoJ Δ 1. Discussed and contents listed, with facsimile examples, in Michael Brennan and Paul Hammond, The Badminton Manuscript: A New Miscellany of Restoration Verse, EMS, 5 (1995), 171-207.

The Duke of Beaufort, Badminton (FmE 3/12 pp. 289-90)
RoJ 192

This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.

A quarto composite miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 137 pages (plus eight pages of later additions and eight blank pages), in modern cloth.

In a single hand, including sixteen poems by Rochester, pp. 139-46 occupied by charges of the Grand Jury added after 1714.

c.1680s

Recorded in IELM II.ii as the Gilpin MS: RoJ Δ 3.

Bodleian Library, Eng. misc. MSS (MS Eng. misc. e. 536 p. 62)
RoJ 193

Copy, headed Ansuerd againe by Sr. CR: Scroope on ye. 1d. Alpride.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A long, narrow, ledger-size composite miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 112 pages (some misnumbered and pp. 45-6 excised), in 19th-century calf gilt.

A compendium of several separate collections of poems, each with its general heading, including nineteen poems by the Earl of Rochester, copied in a single hand, that of Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), antiquary.

c.1680s-1700s

Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker. Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Edinburgh MS: RoJ Δ 6.

Edinburgh University Library (MS Dc. 1. 3/1 p. 24)
RoJ 194

Copy, headed in the margin Ld al Pride.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in several hands, one professional stylish hand predominating, with (ff. 1r, 2r) a Table of contents, 213 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf.

Including 29 poems by Rochester (plus a second copy of one) and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items.

c.1680s

Once owned by Thomas Fermor (1698-1753), first Earl of Pomfret, of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire. Also used by one James Parks.

Recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, and selectively collated in Walker.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 40 f. 36r-v)
RoJ 195

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A formal quarto miscellany, of poems on affairs of state, including 29 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items, in three professional hands (A, pp. 1-278; B, pp. 279-84; C, pp. 285-314), 314 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary red morocco.

c.1680

Once owned by Count Carl Edward Gyldenstolpe (1770-1852) and perhaps originally acquired by Count Nils Gyldenstolpe (1642-1709), Swedish Ambassador at The Hague (in 1679-87).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Gyldenstolpe MS: RoJ Δ 14. A complete facsimile edition in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe (1967).

Royal Library, Stockholm (MS Vu. 69 pp. 129-30)
RoJ 196

Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled Songs & Verses - Upon severall occasions, 406 pages (but pp. 35-44, 63-6, 77-86, 115-32, 153-8, 161-84, and 195-212 excised).

Including 30 poems by Rochester (and probably others by him on missing leaves); pp. 1-392 in a single professional hand (that also responsible for Princeton, RTC01 No. 34); pp. 392-406 in a second hand.

c.1680

Inscribed on the title-page Hansen: i.e. very probably the diplomat Friedrich Adolphus Hansen, who visited England in September 1680 in the entourage of Charles, electoral Prince Palatine. Owned, in 1951 by Dr A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952), Philadelphia book dealer, collector and scholar.

Cited in IELM, II as the Yale MS: RoJ Δ 16. The MS was identified by David M. Vieth as an independent scribal transcript of the copy-text used for the first edition of Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R— (Antwerp [i.e. London], 1680): see Attribution, pp. 56-100, and The Text of Rochester and the Editions of 1680, PBSA, 50 (1956), 243-63. Discussed extensively, and Hansen identified, in Harold Love, Scribal Texts and Literary Communities: The Rochester Circle and Osborn b. 105, SB, 42 (1989), 219-35. Facsimile of p. 62 in Vieth (1968), frontispiece. Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth (1968) and in Walker.

Yale, Osborn MS b 100 through Osborn MS b 149 (Osborn MS b 105 pp. 350-2)
RoJ 196.5

Copy, headed Ansuer'd againe by Sr char: Scroop on ye Ld Alpride.

A large octavo verse miscellany, chiefly lampoons and poems on affairs of state, including 21 poems by Rochester and various others in the Rochester apocrypha, nearly 600 pages in all, with a 14-page index.

Written in a single hand which can be identified as that of the Scottish pasquil-writer and antiquary Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), who was also responsible for RoJ Δ 6.

c.1705
Private owners in the UK (Mylne MS pp. 64-5)
RoJ 197

Copy in a small quarto verse miscellany (ff. 78r-82v).

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

A folio guard book of miscellaneous MSS, 95 leaves, in 19th-century black morocco gilt.

Collected by John Payne Collier (1789-1883).

Sotheby's, 16-28 November 1885 (Ellis sale).

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2623 ff. 80v-1r)
RoJ 198

This entry separately classified as EL 8738.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A quarto booklet of poems, in a single probably professional hand, on eight leaves, foliated 59-63 (64r-6v blank), unbound.

Late 17th century
RoJ 199

Copy, in an accomplished italic hand, on one side of a single folio leaf.

c.1700

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

RoJ 200

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

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

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

c.1681

Formerly Osborn MS Chest II, Number 14.

Yale, Osborn MS b 50 through Osborn MS b 99 (Osborn MS b 54 pp. 1183-4)
On Cary Frazier ('Her father gave her dildoes six')

First published in Vieth, Attribution (1963), p. 237. Vieth (1968), p. 137. Walker, p. 123, as Upon Cary Frazer. Love, p. 294, in his Appendix Roffensis.

RoJ 201

Copy, headed Upon Betty Frazer 1677 and subscribed Rochester.

Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.

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

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

c.1681

Formerly Osborn MS Chest II, Number 14.

On King Charles ('God bless our good and gracious King')

See RoJ 113-122.

On Louis XIV ('Lorrain he Stole, by Fraud he got Burgundy')

See RoJ 123-129.

On Mrs. Willis ('Against the charms our ballocks have')

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 137-8. Walker, pp. 44-5. Love, p. 37.

RoJ 202

Copy.

A large folio miscellany of verse and prose, in a single accomplished professional hand, 756 pages (including over 200 blank leaves).

Including (pp. 217-429) 87 poems, chiefly on affairs of state, of which thirty are by Rochester; other contents comprising (pp. 1-71) a transcript of a Royal Household Establishment Book of William and Mary (1689-97); (pp. 75-212) a collection of legal precedents; and (pp. 442-543) copies of documents relating to the New Forest.

c.1698-1700s

Evidently compiled either for Henry Somerset (1629-1700), first Duke of Beaufort, Privy Councillor, or for his son Henry (1661-98), Marquess of Worcester, or else for his grandson, Henry Somerset (1684-1714), second Duke of Beaufort, who was Warden of the New Forest.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Badminton MS: RoJ Δ 1. Discussed and contents listed, with facsimile examples, in Michael Brennan and Paul Hammond, The Badminton Manuscript: A New Miscellany of Restoration Verse, EMS, 5 (1995), 171-207.

RoJ 203

Copy, headed Song.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems chiefly on affairs of state, entitled A Collection of Poems, including 27 poems by Rochester (all ascribed to him), xii + 299 pages (plus a number of blanks), including a table of contents, in contemporary calf (rebacked).

In a single professional hand but for a few later additions at the very end (pp. 295-8, with some pages tipped-in).

c.1690s

Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Harvard MS: RoJ Δ 7.

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 636 pp. 68-9)
RoJ 204

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe; collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in several hands, one professional stylish hand predominating, with (ff. 1r, 2r) a Table of contents, 213 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf.

Including 29 poems by Rochester (plus a second copy of one) and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items.

c.1680s

Once owned by Thomas Fermor (1698-1753), first Earl of Pomfret, of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire. Also used by one James Parks.

Recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, and selectively collated in Walker.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 40 f. 42v)
RoJ 205

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Vieth, in Walker, and in part in Love.

A formal quarto miscellany, of poems on affairs of state, including 29 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items, in three professional hands (A, pp. 1-278; B, pp. 279-84; C, pp. 285-314), 314 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary red morocco.

c.1680

Once owned by Count Carl Edward Gyldenstolpe (1770-1852) and perhaps originally acquired by Count Nils Gyldenstolpe (1642-1709), Swedish Ambassador at The Hague (in 1679-87).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Gyldenstolpe MS: RoJ Δ 14. A complete facsimile edition in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe (1967).

Royal Library, Stockholm (MS Vu. 69 pp. 157-8)
RoJ 206

Copy of lines 1-4 only, headed Song, imperfect, lacking the remainder.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution; collated in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled Songs & Verses - Upon severall occasions, 406 pages (but pp. 35-44, 63-6, 77-86, 115-32, 153-8, 161-84, and 195-212 excised).

Including 30 poems by Rochester (and probably others by him on missing leaves); pp. 1-392 in a single professional hand (that also responsible for Princeton, RTC01 No. 34); pp. 392-406 in a second hand.

c.1680

Inscribed on the title-page Hansen: i.e. very probably the diplomat Friedrich Adolphus Hansen, who visited England in September 1680 in the entourage of Charles, electoral Prince Palatine. Owned, in 1951 by Dr A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952), Philadelphia book dealer, collector and scholar.

Cited in IELM, II as the Yale MS: RoJ Δ 16. The MS was identified by David M. Vieth as an independent scribal transcript of the copy-text used for the first edition of Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R— (Antwerp [i.e. London], 1680): see Attribution, pp. 56-100, and The Text of Rochester and the Editions of 1680, PBSA, 50 (1956), 243-63. Discussed extensively, and Hansen identified, in Harold Love, Scribal Texts and Literary Communities: The Rochester Circle and Osborn b. 105, SB, 42 (1989), 219-35. Facsimile of p. 62 in Vieth (1968), frontispiece. Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth (1968) and in Walker.

On Poet Ninny ('Crushed by that just contempt his follies bring')

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 141-2. Walker, pp. 115-16. Love, pp. 107-8.

RoJ 207

Copy, headed Poet Ninny.

A large folio miscellany of verse and prose, in a single accomplished professional hand, 756 pages (including over 200 blank leaves).

Including (pp. 217-429) 87 poems, chiefly on affairs of state, of which thirty are by Rochester; other contents comprising (pp. 1-71) a transcript of a Royal Household Establishment Book of William and Mary (1689-97); (pp. 75-212) a collection of legal precedents; and (pp. 442-543) copies of documents relating to the New Forest.

c.1698-1700s

Evidently compiled either for Henry Somerset (1629-1700), first Duke of Beaufort, Privy Councillor, or for his son Henry (1661-98), Marquess of Worcester, or else for his grandson, Henry Somerset (1684-1714), second Duke of Beaufort, who was Warden of the New Forest.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Badminton MS: RoJ Δ 1. Discussed and contents listed, with facsimile examples, in Michael Brennan and Paul Hammond, The Badminton Manuscript: A New Miscellany of Restoration Verse, EMS, 5 (1995), 171-207.

The Duke of Beaufort, Badminton (FmE 3/12 pp. 288-9)
RoJ 208

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.

A quarto composite miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 137 pages (plus eight pages of later additions and eight blank pages), in modern cloth.

In a single hand, including sixteen poems by Rochester, pp. 139-46 occupied by charges of the Grand Jury added after 1714.

c.1680s

Recorded in IELM II.ii as the Gilpin MS: RoJ Δ 3.

Bodleian Library, Eng. misc. MSS (MS Eng. misc. e. 536 p. 56)
RoJ 209

Copy, headed On S.C.S. For Answering Ephelia To Bajazett.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.

A long, narrow, ledger-size composite miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 112 pages (some misnumbered and pp. 45-6 excised), in 19th-century calf gilt.

A compendium of several separate collections of poems, each with its general heading, including nineteen poems by the Earl of Rochester, copied in a single hand, that of Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), antiquary.

c.1680s-1700s

Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker. Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Edinburgh MS: RoJ Δ 6.

Edinburgh University Library (MS Dc. 1. 3/1 p. 24)
RoJ 210

Copy, headed Poet Ninny.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe; collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in several hands, one professional stylish hand predominating, with (ff. 1r, 2r) a Table of contents, 213 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf.

Including 29 poems by Rochester (plus a second copy of one) and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items.

c.1680s

Once owned by Thomas Fermor (1698-1753), first Earl of Pomfret, of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire. Also used by one James Parks.

Recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, and selectively collated in Walker.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 40 ff. 35v-6v)
RoJ 211

Copy, headed Poet Ninny.

This MS collated in Walker.

A formal quarto miscellany, of poems on affairs of state, including 29 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items, in three professional hands (A, pp. 1-278; B, pp. 279-84; C, pp. 285-314), 314 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary red morocco.

c.1680

Once owned by Count Carl Edward Gyldenstolpe (1770-1852) and perhaps originally acquired by Count Nils Gyldenstolpe (1642-1709), Swedish Ambassador at The Hague (in 1679-87).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Gyldenstolpe MS: RoJ Δ 14. A complete facsimile edition in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe (1967).

Royal Library, Stockholm (MS Vu. 69 pp. 127-8)
RoJ 212

Edited from this MS in Walker and in part in Love, Recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled Songs & Verses - Upon severall occasions, 406 pages (but pp. 35-44, 63-6, 77-86, 115-32, 153-8, 161-84, and 195-212 excised).

Including 30 poems by Rochester (and probably others by him on missing leaves); pp. 1-392 in a single professional hand (that also responsible for Princeton, RTC01 No. 34); pp. 392-406 in a second hand.

c.1680

Inscribed on the title-page Hansen: i.e. very probably the diplomat Friedrich Adolphus Hansen, who visited England in September 1680 in the entourage of Charles, electoral Prince Palatine. Owned, in 1951 by Dr A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952), Philadelphia book dealer, collector and scholar.

Cited in IELM, II as the Yale MS: RoJ Δ 16. The MS was identified by David M. Vieth as an independent scribal transcript of the copy-text used for the first edition of Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R— (Antwerp [i.e. London], 1680): see Attribution, pp. 56-100, and The Text of Rochester and the Editions of 1680, PBSA, 50 (1956), 243-63. Discussed extensively, and Hansen identified, in Harold Love, Scribal Texts and Literary Communities: The Rochester Circle and Osborn b. 105, SB, 42 (1989), 219-35. Facsimile of p. 62 in Vieth (1968), frontispiece. Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth (1968) and in Walker.

Yale, Osborn MS b 100 through Osborn MS b 149 (Osborn MS b 105 pp. 348-9)
RoJ 212.5

Copy, headed On Sr cha: Scroop for Answering Ephelia To Bajazet.

A large octavo verse miscellany, chiefly lampoons and poems on affairs of state, including 21 poems by Rochester and various others in the Rochester apocrypha, nearly 600 pages in all, with a 14-page index.

Written in a single hand which can be identified as that of the Scottish pasquil-writer and antiquary Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), who was also responsible for RoJ Δ 6.

c.1705
Private owners in the UK (Mylne MS pp. 63-4)
RoJ 213

Copy in a small quarto verse miscellany (ff. 78r-82v).

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution; collated in Walker.

A folio guard book of miscellaneous MSS, 95 leaves, in 19th-century black morocco gilt.

Collected by John Payne Collier (1789-1883).

Sotheby's, 16-28 November 1885 (Ellis sale).

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2623 f. 80r)
RoJ 214

This MS separately classified as EL 8737.

Edited in part from this MS in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A quarto booklet of poems, in a single probably professional hand, on eight leaves, foliated 59-63 (64r-6v blank), unbound.

Late 17th century
RoJ 215

Edited in part from this MS in Vieth; collated in Walker.

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

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

c.1681

Formerly Osborn MS Chest II, Number 14.

Yale, Osborn MS b 50 through Osborn MS b 99 (Osborn MS b 54 pp. 1182-3)
On Rome's pardons ('If Rome can pardon sins, as Romans hold')

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 161-2. Walker, pp. 127-8, among Poems Possibly by Rochester. Love, p. 247, among Disputed Works.

RoJ 216

Copy.

A quarto composite miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 137 pages (plus eight pages of later additions and eight blank pages), in modern cloth.

In a single hand, including sixteen poems by Rochester, pp. 139-46 occupied by charges of the Grand Jury added after 1714.

c.1680s

Recorded in IELM II.ii as the Gilpin MS: RoJ Δ 3.

Bodleian Library, Eng. misc. MSS (MS Eng. misc. e. 536 p. 57)
RoJ 217

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

A folio verse miscellany, entitled The Muse's Magazine, or Poeticall Miscelanies, in two parts, in a single hand, 189 leaves.

Including 27 poems by Cowley; eleven poems by Katherine Philips, evidently derived from printed sources; 10 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items; twelve poems by Sedley, plus one of doubtful authorship; and 15 poems by Waller, evidently derived from printed sources.

A note on a flyleaf relating to the bookseller John Dunton (1659-1733): John Dunton His Book, for which Mr. Corbet at ye Addisons Head, accepted One Half Guinea in full Payment for it, as Witness my Hand, Hannah Rakley. A note on f. 1: Since I had transcrib'd this whole Book, I met with some state Poems of these later times, mostly since K. George's Accession to the Crown [1714] which I have here inserted, as a supplement to these state Poems which make a part of this Collection by themselves. Date at the end of the volume: 1718, and some notes on a flyleaf dated 1724.

Early 18th century

The Mr. Corbet from whom Dunton purchased this MS was evidently the bookseller Thomas Corbett (fl. 1705-43), who ran his business at the Addison's Head, next to the Rose Tavern, without Temple Bar, from 1719 until his death in 1743. Neither Dunton nor Corbett are known to have used this MS for publication purposes.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dunton MS: PsK Δ 8; RoJ Δ 4; SeC Δ 1; WaE Δ 10.

For John Dunton's career, see Stephen Parks, John Dunton and the English Book Trade: A Study of His Career with a Checklist of His Publications (New York & London, 1970).

RoJ 217.2

Copy, headed E. Rochester. On Romes Pardon.

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

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

c.1712-27

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

The University of Manchester Library (English MS 521 p. 46)
RoJ 217.4 Late 17th century

Copy, in a mixed hand, headed On Romes pardons by the E. of Rochester, endorsed 32 / 1679 / Rochester / Rymes on poperie.

A quarto composite volume of papers relating to Presbyterian dissent, in various hands and paper sizes, 268 leaves., in modern half-calf marbled boards.

c.1717

Among the working papers and collections of Robert Wodrow (1679-1734), ecclesiastical historian.

National Library of Scotland, other MSS (MS Wod. Qu. XXXVI f. 260r)
RoJ 217.6

Copy, headed On Rooms Pardons, here beginning If room can Pardon sins as papists hold.

A small pocket notebook (11.5 x 5.5 cm.), largely in one small hand, unpaginated, in contemporary calf.

Probably compiled by Patrick Senhouse (fl.1712-34): his inscription Patricious Senhouse 1722.

c.1720s

Also inscribed Humphray Senhouse. Together with another commonplace book probably compiled by Patrick Senhouse (Patt Senhouse 1720), an octavo in contemporary limp vellum, also inscribed John Senhouse.

University of Chicago (MS 690 [unnumbered page])
RoJ 217.8

Extracts.

A quarto miscellany of principally religious verse, in several hands, 213 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary calf.

Late 17th century

Inscribed (f. i) Anthony Search his most excellent booke Janry 6th Anno Dom: 1695.

RoJ 218

Copy.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in several hands, one professional stylish hand predominating, with (ff. 1r, 2r) a Table of contents, 213 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf.

Including 29 poems by Rochester (plus a second copy of one) and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items.

c.1680s

Once owned by Thomas Fermor (1698-1753), first Earl of Pomfret, of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire. Also used by one James Parks.

Recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, and selectively collated in Walker.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 40 f. 141r)
RoJ 219

Copy.

An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, chiefly on affairs of state, including nine poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items, in a single small hand, 356 pages (misnumbered in pencil 1-344 and lacking the first few original leaves), in contemporary boards.

Probably compiled by an Anglican cleric (or student before taking orders) associated with Cambridge University.

c.late 1690s-1704

Later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Formerly Restoration poetry MS 5.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Cambridge Miscellany MS: RoJ Δ 13.

Princeton (RTC01 No. 38 pp. 333-4)
RoJ 219.5

Copy.

A large octavo verse miscellany, chiefly lampoons and poems on affairs of state, including 21 poems by Rochester and various others in the Rochester apocrypha, nearly 600 pages in all, with a 14-page index.

Written in a single hand which can be identified as that of the Scottish pasquil-writer and antiquary Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), who was also responsible for RoJ Δ 6.

c.1705
Private owners in the UK (Mylne MS p. 246)
RoJ 220

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, in English and Latin, in several hands, ii + 53 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf.

c.1690

J. Salkeld, sale catalogue No. 222 (17 June 1885), item 273.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Add. B. 106 f. 33v)
RoJ 221

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, chiefly Advice to Painter poems, 82 leaves, in quarter-brown morocco.

Late 17th century

Sold by P.J. & A.E. Dobell, 1938.

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. e. 23 f. 29v)
RoJ 223

Copy, headed On Rome's pardons and here subscribed Ea of Rochr.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

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

c.1682-91
Bodleian Library, Sancroft MSS (MS Sancroft 53 p. 69)
RoJ 224

Copy, untitled, endorsed Verses about Roman pardons and indulgences, on a single half-folio leaf. Late 17th century.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous antiquarian papers, in prose and verse, in various hands and sizes, viii + 108 pages, in early 18th-century half-calf.

Among collections of Thomas Smith (1638-1710), Oxford scholar and editor. Owned on 16 March 1710/11 by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), antiquary, who records (p. v) Smith's bequest of the volume to him.

Bodleian Library, Smith MSS (MS Smith 27 p. 7)
RoJ 225

Copy, headed To the Romanists on a single folio leaf.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

A folio composite volume of papers, 171 leaves.

Assembled by Dr W. Wall.

c.1700
The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1731 A., f. 171r)
RoJ 226

Copy.

A folio verse miscellany, in possibly two neat rounded hands, 366 pages plus a five-page index, dated at the end Finis August ye. 6th 1717.

1715-17
University of Chicago (MS 553 p. 241)
RoJ 227 c.1694

Copy, headed Verses made by the Earle of Rotchester against the Popish Indulgences, subscribed For My Lord ffountan hall These, on one side of a single folio leaf, the verso inscribed in another hand with a message to My Lord signed Ja. Nicolson and dated from Edinburgh 28 April 1694.

An unbound folder of MSS of verse and prose, on affairs of state and other matters, in various hands.

Papers of the Lauder family of Fountainhall.

RoJ 228

Copy, in double columns, headed E: Rotchester on Romes pardons.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

A quarto verse miscellany of Scottish provenance, in a single largely italic hand, vii + 224 leaves, including an Index, one of what was once two volumes, in quarter vellum on marbled boards.

c.1740

Phillipps MS 9616 (vol. 2).

RoJ 229

Copy, headed I remember to haVe seen a Copy of Verses written by the Earl of Rochester (who had read and seen all the Fopperies and Idolatries of the Church of Rome, as they are practis'd abroad) to which our poor deluded English Papists are utter Strangers; I think they are very pathetick as follows.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

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

c.1672-1715 [plus later additions]

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

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 586 pp. 188-9)
RoJ 230

Copy, headed The Earl of Rochester on Romes pardons.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

A quarto miscellany entitled Poems, tracts & memoirs Collected by J Rolf beginning Anno 1700, in several neat hands, written over a period from both ends, 195 pages, with a tipped-in index, in contemporary green vellum.

c.1700-5 [with additions to 1777]

Inscribed inside the front cover N.H.W. Tytheridge, St James's Square, Notting Hill, W. Bookplate of G. Davies. Bequeathed by Susan Greene Dexter.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 606 p. 8)
RoJ 231

Copy, written sideways down the length of the page.

MS poems on otherwise blank leaves (pp. 25-[28]) at the end of a printed exemplum of The Speeches of the Lord Digby (London, 1641), heavily cropped by a binder, now disbound.

c.1690
RoJ 231.5

Copy, headed Romes Pardons.

An octavo verse miscellany, entitled Poems & Verses on Several Occasions, MDCCXXVI, in a mainly single hand, 66 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary green vellum boards.

1726-c.1768

The title-page inscribed Anna. Rogers. Junr: 1768.

Discussed in Paul Hammond, Some Eighteenth-Century Texts and Adaptations of Rochester in Leeds MS Lt 110, EMS 18 (2013), 173-179.

RoJ 232

Copy, on a single folio leaf, split in two.

A collection of unbound papers, including verse MSS.

Papers of John Salvio, tutor to the Ward family, of Hooton Pagnell Hall, near Doncaster, Yorkshire, and mostly written or composed by him.

c.1730s

Sotheby's, 22 July 1980, lot 0.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt q 46 Folder B17589, f. 1r)
RoJ 232.5

Copy, headed Ld Rocheter verss, f. [iiir] inscribed E: Rochesters boack.

MS verses on front and rear endpapers of a printed exemplum of The Works of Mr Abraham Cowley (London, 1684), a folio in contemporary calf gilt (repaired).

End of 17th century
RoJ 233 c.1685

Copy.

A quarto composite volume of verse and prose manuscripts, in several hands, 165 leaves.

Including (ff. 104-35) a late 17th-century quarto verse miscellany in a small mixed hand, possibly compiled by an Oxford University man.

RoJ 234

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. 80r)
RoJ 235

Copy, in a cursive hand, subscribed Rochester, on one side of a single folio leaf, inscribed ffor Hod: Cor: Robert H: Esqr., once folded as a letter.

Late 17th century
RoJ 236

Copy, headed Romes Delusions, on a single quarto leaf.

Late 17th century
National Archives, Kew (SP 29/435 PT 2, item 112)
RoJ 237

Copy.

A quarto account book of George Downing relating to legal matters, subsequently used as a commonplace book by a member of the Willes or Lovell families, 80 pages.

1785-9 [-c.1800]
RoJ 238

Copy.

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, ix + 484 pages, in contemporary vellum.

Entitled (p. iv) A Miscellany of various things Being A Collection of rarities / In two Books / the First Book is cheifly Composed of Ænigma's Dialogue Epigrams Epitaphs Fragments of Dr. Latimers Sermons Poems Satyra, songs, Love verces & other accations &c...Collected from ye year 1697 to ye year 1728 per: Jer: Cliff Apoth; at Tenterden In Kent.

c.1728

Inscribed (p. 484) Sarah Cliff Her Book July ye 18 1741 Given her By her father.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS c 158 p. ix)
RoJ 239

Copy, headed On ye E of Ro—r and endorsed On ye Church of Rome by ye E of Ro:.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

A folio verse miscellany, 91 pages, in vellum.

c.1760

Formerly Osborn MS. Box III, Number 27.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS c 188 p. 68)
RoJ 240

Copy, headed On ye Popes Indulgencies by ye Earle of Rochester Ld: Willmote.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

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

Early 18th century

Formerly Osborn MS. Chest II, Number 4.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS fb 142 p. 25)
RoJ 240.5

A three-line extract, subscribed Rochester, as preliminary to a long poem headed Rome's Pardon -- a Tale (It happen'd on a certain Time), occupying three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

Early 18th century
Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn Poetry Box IV/9)
On the Lady Mary Stewart who Eateing a honeycomb a Bee flew out and stung her neck ('This Bee alone of all his race')

First published in Love (1999), pp. 282-4.

RoJ 240.8

Copy, in double columns, subscribed Rochester (and indexed as by Ld Ro.).

Edited from this MS in Love.

An octavo miscellany of chiefly satirical poems, including at least twelve by Rochester, in a single rounded hand but for an addition at the end (pp. 141-50) in a stylish italic hand, the greater part written along the length of the page with the spine uppermost, with an Index, xii + 150 pages (lacking pp. 135-40), in contemporary calf.

Possibly associated with the court circle of James Butler (1610-88), first Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

c.1680s

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dublin MS: RoJ Δ 10.

National Library of Ireland (MS 2093 pp. 109-11)
On the Supposed Author of a Late Poem in Defence of Satyr ('To rack and torture thy unmeaning brain')

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 132-3. Walker, pp. 114-15. Love, pp. 106-7. Texts are often followed by Sir Car Scroope's Answer (Raile on poor feeble Scribbler, speake of me: Walker, p. 115. Love, p. 107).

RoJ 241

Copy.

A large folio miscellany of verse and prose, in a single accomplished professional hand, 756 pages (including over 200 blank leaves).

Including (pp. 217-429) 87 poems, chiefly on affairs of state, of which thirty are by Rochester; other contents comprising (pp. 1-71) a transcript of a Royal Household Establishment Book of William and Mary (1689-97); (pp. 75-212) a collection of legal precedents; and (pp. 442-543) copies of documents relating to the New Forest.

c.1698-1700s

Evidently compiled either for Henry Somerset (1629-1700), first Duke of Beaufort, Privy Councillor, or for his son Henry (1661-98), Marquess of Worcester, or else for his grandson, Henry Somerset (1684-1714), second Duke of Beaufort, who was Warden of the New Forest.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Badminton MS: RoJ Δ 1. Discussed and contents listed, with facsimile examples, in Michael Brennan and Paul Hammond, The Badminton Manuscript: A New Miscellany of Restoration Verse, EMS, 5 (1995), 171-207.

The Duke of Beaufort, Badminton (FmE 3/12 pp. 300-1)
RoJ 242

Copy, followed (p. 55) by The Answr.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.

A quarto composite miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 137 pages (plus eight pages of later additions and eight blank pages), in modern cloth.

In a single hand, including sixteen poems by Rochester, pp. 139-46 occupied by charges of the Grand Jury added after 1714.

c.1680s

Recorded in IELM II.ii as the Gilpin MS: RoJ Δ 3.

Bodleian Library, Eng. misc. MSS (MS Eng. misc. e. 536 pp. 54-5)
RoJ 242.5

Copy, headed My Lord Rochester on Sr. C. S., followed (f. 80r) by His Answer (Raile on poor feeble Scribbler).

An octavo miscellany of Restoration poems, chiefly upon affairs of state, ii + 89 octavo leaves, in 19th-century red morocco.

Predominantly in a single professional hand, with subsequent corrections or annotations in other hands or inks, and (f. 89v) with a pencil note after a table of contents This Book is written by Brown.

Late 17th century

Bookplate of Edward Vernon Utterson (1776?-1856), of the Isle of Wight, artist, book collector and literary antiquary. Sotheby's, 19 April 1852, lot 1318. Owned after 1911 by Robert Ashburton Milnes, afterwards Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, politician. Christie's, 26 November 1997, lot 75.

RoJ 243

Copy, headed Answer to the Defence of Satyr, subscribed Rochester.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

A long, narrow, ledger-size composite miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 112 pages (some misnumbered and pp. 45-6 excised), in 19th-century calf gilt.

A compendium of several separate collections of poems, each with its general heading, including nineteen poems by the Earl of Rochester, copied in a single hand, that of Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), antiquary.

c.1680s-1700s

Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker. Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Edinburgh MS: RoJ Δ 6.

Edinburgh University Library (MS Dc. 1. 3/1 p. 13)
RoJ 244

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems chiefly on affairs of state, entitled A Collection of Poems, including 27 poems by Rochester (all ascribed to him), xii + 299 pages (plus a number of blanks), including a table of contents, in contemporary calf (rebacked).

In a single professional hand but for a few later additions at the very end (pp. 295-8, with some pages tipped-in).

c.1690s

Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Harvard MS: RoJ Δ 7.

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 636 pp. 51-3)
RoJ 245

Copy.

This MS collated in Hammond, Robinson and in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Booke of Paragrafts, including 22 poems by Rochester, 445 pages plus stubs of extracted leaves (originally 463 numbered pages and now lacking pp. 59-68, 147-54 and parts of pp. 155-8), with a two-leaf index; in contemporary red morocco.

In professional hands: A, pp. 1-194; B, in a different style and probably a different hand, pp. 195-432; C, probably yet another hand, with additions on pp. 75, 90, 102, 125, 142, 175, 195, and pp. 433-63.

c.1680s-90s

Inscribed (on stubs and endpapers) matt Calihan, To Cpt Robinson att Capt Eloass [Elwes] near ye Watch house in Marlburhroagh street, For Capt. Robinson at his Lodginges in Charing Cross. Christie's, 27 June 1979, lot 16.

Various commissioned officers named Robinson are recorded in Charles Dalton, English Army Lists and Commission Registers, 1661-1714 (6 vols, London, 1892-1904): see esp. I, 276. The volume was most probably owned by Charles Robinson of the King's Regiment of Foot Guards, who became Captain and then Lieutenant-Colonel in 1688 and was killed at Namur in 1695. A member of the same regiment in 1684 was the purveyor of MS lampoons Captain Lenthal Warcup. The Captain Eloass mentioned in one inscription was possibly William Elwes, who served as a Lieutenant in Viscount Colchester's Regiment of Horse, c.1692-4, and as a Captain in Lord Windsor's Regiment of Horse in 1702.

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Robinson MS: RoJ Δ 8. Discussed with facsimiles of pp. 1-10 in Paul Hammond, The Robinson Manuscript Miscellany of Restoration Verse in the Brotherton Collection, Leeds, Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, 18 (1982), 275-324 [cited in entries as Hammond, Robinson]. Facsimiles of p. 1 also in Christie's sale catalogue, Plate 1, after p. 48, and in The Brotherton Collection University of Leeds: Its contents described with illustrations of fifty books and manuscripts (Leeds, 1986), p. 17. Selectively collated in Walker.

RoJ 246

Copy, headed My Ld. Rochesters answr to ye defence of satyr.

An octavo miscellany of chiefly satirical poems, including at least twelve by Rochester, in a single rounded hand but for an addition at the end (pp. 141-50) in a stylish italic hand, the greater part written along the length of the page with the spine uppermost, with an Index, xii + 150 pages (lacking pp. 135-40), in contemporary calf.

Possibly associated with the court circle of James Butler (1610-88), first Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

c.1680s

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dublin MS: RoJ Δ 10.

National Library of Ireland (MS 2093 pp. 33-5)
RoJ 247

Copy, subscribed Rochester.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in several hands, one professional stylish hand predominating, with (ff. 1r, 2r) a Table of contents, 213 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf.

Including 29 poems by Rochester (plus a second copy of one) and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items.

c.1680s

Once owned by Thomas Fermor (1698-1753), first Earl of Pomfret, of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire. Also used by one James Parks.

Recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, and selectively collated in Walker.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 40 f. 41v)
RoJ 248

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in several hands, one professional stylish hand predominating, with (ff. 1r, 2r) a Table of contents, 213 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf.

Including 29 poems by Rochester (plus a second copy of one) and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items.

c.1680s

Once owned by Thomas Fermor (1698-1753), first Earl of Pomfret, of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire. Also used by one James Parks.

Recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, and selectively collated in Walker.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 40 f. 124r-v)
RoJ 249

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A formal quarto miscellany, of poems on affairs of state, including 29 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items, in three professional hands (A, pp. 1-278; B, pp. 279-84; C, pp. 285-314), 314 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary red morocco.

c.1680

Once owned by Count Carl Edward Gyldenstolpe (1770-1852) and perhaps originally acquired by Count Nils Gyldenstolpe (1642-1709), Swedish Ambassador at The Hague (in 1679-87).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Gyldenstolpe MS: RoJ Δ 14. A complete facsimile edition in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe (1967).

Royal Library, Stockholm (MS Vu. 69 pp. 141-3)
RoJ 250

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled Songs & Verses - Upon severall occasions, 406 pages (but pp. 35-44, 63-6, 77-86, 115-32, 153-8, 161-84, and 195-212 excised).

Including 30 poems by Rochester (and probably others by him on missing leaves); pp. 1-392 in a single professional hand (that also responsible for Princeton, RTC01 No. 34); pp. 392-406 in a second hand.

c.1680

Inscribed on the title-page Hansen: i.e. very probably the diplomat Friedrich Adolphus Hansen, who visited England in September 1680 in the entourage of Charles, electoral Prince Palatine. Owned, in 1951 by Dr A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952), Philadelphia book dealer, collector and scholar.

Cited in IELM, II as the Yale MS: RoJ Δ 16. The MS was identified by David M. Vieth as an independent scribal transcript of the copy-text used for the first edition of Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R— (Antwerp [i.e. London], 1680): see Attribution, pp. 56-100, and The Text of Rochester and the Editions of 1680, PBSA, 50 (1956), 243-63. Discussed extensively, and Hansen identified, in Harold Love, Scribal Texts and Literary Communities: The Rochester Circle and Osborn b. 105, SB, 42 (1989), 219-35. Facsimile of p. 62 in Vieth (1968), frontispiece. Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth (1968) and in Walker.

Yale, Osborn MS b 100 through Osborn MS b 149 (Osborn MS b 105 pp. 102-4)
RoJ 251

Copy, headed A Poet who writ in the praise of Satyr and here beginning To vex and torture thy Vnmeaning Braine.

A quarto volume of works almost exclusively by Rochester, in a single professional hand up to p. 208, a second, less accomplished, hand taking over (after stubs of two extracted leaves) on pp. 209-31; with a title-page (p. 13), Poem's / By The. Right Honourable/John Earle / of/Rochester, 219 pages (plus 12 preliminary blank pages and 99 blank pages at the end), in half-russia over marbled boards.

c.mid-1680s

Bookplate of The Reverend Sir George Lee. Baronet/Hartwell. Inscribed This Manuscript was found at Hartwell. March. 1829. J. Lee and another, Bound Mr. Wilson. March 1829 [i.e. the MS was in the library of the Rev. Sir George Lee, Bt (1767-1827), rector of Hartwell, etc., and of Dr John Lee, F.R.S. (1783-1866), at Hartwell House, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire]. Later sold by Charles Sawyer (No. 1467 in a sale catalogue). The MS might possibly once have been owned by Thomas Lee, Bt, M.P. (1635-91) of Hartwell, who was, incidentally, related by marriage to Sir John Suckling. His son was Sir Thomas Lee, Bt, M.P. (1661-1702). The MS was later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 18 December 1995 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 114, with facsimile examples in the sale catalogue.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Hartwell MS: RoJ Δ 17. This MS on exhibition at the Bodleian, 16-28 June 1930, and recorded in Proceedings and Papers of the Oxford Bibliographical Society, 2 (1927-30), p. 213. Subsequently discussed, and parts printed, by Harold Love and Stephen Parks in A reasonable satyr, TLS, 1 August 1997, p. 13; in Harold Love, A Tale of Two Manuscripts, Yale University Library Gazette, 72 (1999), 41-53; and in his pamphlet A Newly Discovered Burlesque by John Wilmot Earl of Rochester (New Haven, 1997).

A complete microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7982.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 334 pp. 167-9)
RoJ 251.5

Copy, headed Ansuer to the defence of Satyr.

A large octavo verse miscellany, chiefly lampoons and poems on affairs of state, including 21 poems by Rochester and various others in the Rochester apocrypha, nearly 600 pages in all, with a 14-page index.

Written in a single hand which can be identified as that of the Scottish pasquil-writer and antiquary Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), who was also responsible for RoJ Δ 6.

c.1705
Private owners in the UK (Mylne MS pp. 34-5)
RoJ 252

Copy, headed On a Poet who writ in Praise of Satyr, by ye Earl of Roches. and here beginning To vex & torture thy unmeaning Brain, on p. [2] of a pair of conjugate quarto leaves.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

A quarto composite volume of letters, historical and heraldic collections, 103 leaves, in 18th-century quarter-vellum boards.

Owned on 21 August 1709 by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), antiquary.

RoJ 253 Late 17th century

Copy, in a professional hand, inscribed as by Ld Rochester, on one side of a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet.

On the verso The Answer Sir Carr Scroope (Raile on poore feeble Scribler speak of me)

A large folio guardbook of letters and verse, in Latin, English and French, in various hands and paper sizes, 224 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco.

Late 17th century
RoJ 254

Copy, headed On a poet who writt in ye praise of Satyr by ye. Earl of Rochester and here beginning To vex & Torture thy unmeaning Brain.

A quarto verse miscellany, largely in one hand, with additions by others, written from both ends, material at the reverse end dated 1708-9, ii + 114 leaves, in 19th-century half-calf.

Inscribed (f. [iir]), probably by the compiler, Ex Libris Georgij Wright [b.1685/6] Sti Johannis Collegis Cantabrigiensis Alumni, Decimo quarto Junij. Annoq. Domini 1703.

c.1703-9

Also inscribed (f.[iir]) Mrs Frances Wright 1708. A postal address on f. 95r (rev.) reads: Direct to Margtt Borrett att Mrs. Borretts In Kirkby=stephen Westmoorland p brough bag _ These.

Recorded in IELM, II.ii, as the Wright MS: WaE Δ 12.

Edinburgh University Library (MS Dc. 3. 76 ff. 78v-9r)
RoJ 255

Copy, headed On the Author of the Defence of Satyr, in a professional hand, on pp. 37-8, in a disbound fragment of a folio miscellany of poems paginated 35-8. Late 17th century

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A folio composite miscellany of verse MSS, chiefly poems on affairs of state, in various hands and paper sizes, now disbound in folders.

Among papers of the Hastings family, Earls of Huntingdon.

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 623 Folder 13, pp. 37-8)
RoJ 256

Copy.

A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands, one cursive hand predominating, entitled at one end Poems Collected at several Times from the year 1670 and at the other end Collections of several things out of History. begun about the year 1670, written over a period, 336 largely unnumbered pages (plus blanks), 205 pages from one end and 131 pages from the reverse end, in contemporary vellum boards.

Compiled chiefly by Sarah Cowper (née Holled, 1644-1720), Lady Cowper, wife of Sir William Cowper, MP (1639-1706), possibly in part from texts supplied by Martin Clifford (c.1624-77), erstwhile secretary of the Duke of Buckingham and Master of the Charterhouse. Including (pp. [91-116]) 26 poems by Sir Charles Sedley as a single group (and copies of a poem of doubtful authorship on pp. [165] and [179]).

c.1670-1705

Recorded in IELM, II.ii, as the Cowper MS: SeC Δ 2. Discussed in Allan Pritchard, Editing from Manuscript: Cowley and the Cowper Papers, in Editing Poetry from Spenser to Dryden, ed. A.H. De Quehen (New York & London, 1981), pp. 47-76, esp. pp. 62-5, and in Harold Love, Two Rochester Manuscripts Circulated from the Charterhouse, The Library, 6th Ser. 16/3 (September 1994), 225-9.

Hertfordshire Record Office (DE/P F36 pp. [152-3])
RoJ 257

Copy, in a mixed hand, headed On the supposed Author of the Defence of Satyre, on one side of a single folio leaf.

Late 17th century

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

RoJ 258

Copy, here ascribed to Ld Dorsett.

An octavo verse miscellany, 148 pages (lacking pp. 55-8, 117-26).

Late 17th century

Dobell's sale catalogue The Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1284. Afterwards owned by John Sparrow (1906-92), literary scholar and book collector.

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. e. 176 pp. 132-3)
RoJ 259

Copy, headed On the Supposed Author of the Defence off Satyr: vid: pag: 1012: 1677 and subscribed Writt by the Lord Rochester.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

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

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

c.1681

Formerly Osborn MS Chest II, Number 14.

Yale, Osborn MS b 50 through Osborn MS b 99 (Osborn MS b 54 pp. 1021-2)
On the Women about Town ('Too long the wise Commons have been in debate')

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 46-7. Walker, pp. 68-9, as Lampoone. Love, p. 42, as Lampoone by the Earle of Rochester.

RoJ 260

Copy, headed Lampoone by ye Earl of Rochester.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. b. 8 p. 409)
RoJ 261

Copy, headed Clanbrazill & Fox.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A long, narrow, ledger-size composite miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 112 pages (some misnumbered and pp. 45-6 excised), in 19th-century calf gilt.

A compendium of several separate collections of poems, each with its general heading, including nineteen poems by the Earl of Rochester, copied in a single hand, that of Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), antiquary.

c.1680s-1700s

Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker. Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Edinburgh MS: RoJ Δ 6.

Edinburgh University Library (MS Dc. 1. 3/1 p. 77)
RoJ 262

Copy, headed Satyr.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A long, narrow, ledger-size composite miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 112 pages (some misnumbered and pp. 45-6 excised), in 19th-century calf gilt.

A compendium of several separate collections of poems, each with its general heading, including nineteen poems by the Earl of Rochester, copied in a single hand, that of Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), antiquary.

c.1680s-1700s

Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker. Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Edinburgh MS: RoJ Δ 6.

Edinburgh University Library (MS Dc. 1. 3/1 p. 98)
RoJ 263

Copy, headed Essay.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A formal folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, including eleven by Rochester and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items, probably in a single professional hand, 444 leaves (including a six-leaf index).

c.1690s

Cited in IELM, II.ii as the Vienna MS: RoJ Δ 12. Discussed in Rudolf Brotanek, Beschreibung der Handschrift 14090 (Supplement 1776) der Nationalbibliothek in Wien, in Festschrift der Nationalbibliothek in Wien (Vienna, 1926), 145-62. Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker.

RoJ 264

Copy, headed Essay.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional hand, in two volumes: Vol. I, including twelve poems by Rochester and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items, pp. 1-461 (plus index); Vol. II, pp. 462-842 (with irregularities of pagination).

This MS is closely related to Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Cod. 14090.

c.1690s-1700

Later owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor, who records that £50 was given by Perry, for these 2 volumes.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dyce MS: RoJ Δ 15.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 43 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.37-38) pp. 223-4)
RoJ 265

Copy of an eighteen-line version, headed I send your Ld shipp a copy of verses of my Ld Rochers makeing though inferiour to those of St James his Parke.

Edited from this MS in Hook (p. 481). Recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

Autograph letter by the London solicitor Godfrey Thacker to his cousin Theophilus Hastings, seventh Earl of Huntingdon, including verses.

20 March 1672/3

Edited in Lucyle Hook, Something More About Rochester, MLN, 75 (1960), 478-85.

RoJ 266

Copy, headed Satyr.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, including twelve poems in the Marvell canon (plus prose and apocryphal poems), in probably a single professional hand with variations of style (but for another hand on pp. 189-92), 192 pages (plus over 90 blank leaves and an Index), in modern red morocco.

The predominant hand in the MS is the same as that in Yale Osborn MS b 105.

c.1680s

In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Formerly Restoration poetry MS 1.

Cited in IELM as the Taylor MS: MaA Δ 9. Marvell items recorded and some poems collated in POAS, I.

Princeton (RTC01 No. 34 p. 112)
RoJ 267

Copy, headed Essay.

This MS recorded in Vieth.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, largely in a single hand, 304 pages (plus an Index and blanks), in contemporary calf.

c.1680s-90s

Sotheby's, 21-22 April 1958, lot 397, to Seven Gables bookshop. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Formerly Restoration poetry MS 3.

A microfilm of this volume is in the British Library, M/546.

Princeton (RTC01 No. 36 p. 103)
RoJ 268

Copy, headed Essay. Ld R.

An octavo verse miscellany, 148 pages (lacking pp. 55-8, 117-26).

Late 17th century

Dobell's sale catalogue The Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1284. Afterwards owned by John Sparrow (1906-92), literary scholar and book collector.

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. e. 176 p. 54)
RoJ 269

Copy, headed A Satyr.

This MS recorded in Vieth; erroneously cited as Osborn MS fb 54 and collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state entitled A Collection of Poems Sayters and Lampoones, 4178 pages (but a number excised).

Late 17th century

Front endpaper inscribed Latchington 2 March 1787. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (Phillipps MS 8303). At Yale formerly Chest II, Number 3.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS fb 140 p. 167)
RoJ 269.5

Copy.

A small pocket notebook (11.5 x 5.5 cm.), largely in one small hand, unpaginated, in contemporary calf.

Probably compiled by Patrick Senhouse (fl.1712-34): his inscription Patricious Senhouse 1722.

c.1720s

Also inscribed Humphray Senhouse. Together with another commonplace book probably compiled by Patrick Senhouse (Patt Senhouse 1720), an octavo in contemporary limp vellum, also inscribed John Senhouse.

University of Chicago (MS 690 [unnumbered pages])
RoJ 269.8

Copy, headed Satyr.

A large octavo verse miscellany, chiefly lampoons and poems on affairs of state, including 21 poems by Rochester and various others in the Rochester apocrypha, nearly 600 pages in all, with a 14-page index.

Written in a single hand which can be identified as that of the Scottish pasquil-writer and antiquary Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), who was also responsible for RoJ Δ 6.

c.1705
Private owners in the UK (Mylne MS p. 320)
RoJ 270

Copy, headed A Satyr on women about Towne.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a non-professional hand, with subsequent index, 34 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt.

Late 17th century

Bookplates of The Rt. Hon. John, Lord Brownlowe, Baron Charleville and Viscount Tyrconnel and of Belton House, Lincolnshire (seat of the Earls Brownlow). and possibly once owned by Sir John Brownlow, third Baronet (1659-97). Myers sale catalogue No. 348 (1947), item 344.

Set of photocopies in British Library, RP 5106.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 327 ff. 11v-13r)
A Pastoral Dialogue between Alexis and Stephan ('There sighs not on the plain')

First published, as a broadside, in London, 1682. Vieth, pp. 4-6. Walker, pp. 9-11. Love, pp. 3-8.

RoJ 271

Copy of a 35-line version, headed Dialogue / Alexis & Strephon and here beginning Strephon there sighs not on this plain.

A quarto volume of works almost exclusively by Rochester, in a single professional hand up to p. 208, a second, less accomplished, hand taking over (after stubs of two extracted leaves) on pp. 209-31; with a title-page (p. 13), Poem's / By The. Right Honourable/John Earle / of/Rochester, 219 pages (plus 12 preliminary blank pages and 99 blank pages at the end), in half-russia over marbled boards.

c.mid-1680s

Bookplate of The Reverend Sir George Lee. Baronet/Hartwell. Inscribed This Manuscript was found at Hartwell. March. 1829. J. Lee and another, Bound Mr. Wilson. March 1829 [i.e. the MS was in the library of the Rev. Sir George Lee, Bt (1767-1827), rector of Hartwell, etc., and of Dr John Lee, F.R.S. (1783-1866), at Hartwell House, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire]. Later sold by Charles Sawyer (No. 1467 in a sale catalogue). The MS might possibly once have been owned by Thomas Lee, Bt, M.P. (1635-91) of Hartwell, who was, incidentally, related by marriage to Sir John Suckling. His son was Sir Thomas Lee, Bt, M.P. (1661-1702). The MS was later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 18 December 1995 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 114, with facsimile examples in the sale catalogue.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Hartwell MS: RoJ Δ 17. This MS on exhibition at the Bodleian, 16-28 June 1930, and recorded in Proceedings and Papers of the Oxford Bibliographical Society, 2 (1927-30), p. 213. Subsequently discussed, and parts printed, by Harold Love and Stephen Parks in A reasonable satyr, TLS, 1 August 1997, p. 13; in Harold Love, A Tale of Two Manuscripts, Yale University Library Gazette, 72 (1999), 41-53; and in his pamphlet A Newly Discovered Burlesque by John Wilmot Earl of Rochester (New Haven, 1997).

A complete microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7982.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 334 pp. 215-16)
RoJ 271.3

Copy.

A large octavo verse miscellany, chiefly lampoons and poems on affairs of state, including 21 poems by Rochester and various others in the Rochester apocrypha, nearly 600 pages in all, with a 14-page index.

Written in a single hand which can be identified as that of the Scottish pasquil-writer and antiquary Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), who was also responsible for RoJ Δ 6.

c.1705
Private owners in the UK (Mylne MS pp. 246-8)
Plain Dealings Downfall ('Long time plain dealing in the Hauty Town')

First published in Poems on several occasions. Written by a late person of honour (London, 1685), p. 54. Love, pp. 277-8, in his Appendix Roffensis.

RoJ 271.5

Copy.

This MS recorded in Love.

A folio verse miscellany, entitled The Muse's Magazine, or Poeticall Miscelanies, in two parts, in a single hand, 189 leaves.

Including 27 poems by Cowley; eleven poems by Katherine Philips, evidently derived from printed sources; 10 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items; twelve poems by Sedley, plus one of doubtful authorship; and 15 poems by Waller, evidently derived from printed sources.

A note on a flyleaf relating to the bookseller John Dunton (1659-1733): John Dunton His Book, for which Mr. Corbet at ye Addisons Head, accepted One Half Guinea in full Payment for it, as Witness my Hand, Hannah Rakley. A note on f. 1: Since I had transcrib'd this whole Book, I met with some state Poems of these later times, mostly since K. George's Accession to the Crown [1714] which I have here inserted, as a supplement to these state Poems which make a part of this Collection by themselves. Date at the end of the volume: 1718, and some notes on a flyleaf dated 1724.

Early 18th century

The Mr. Corbet from whom Dunton purchased this MS was evidently the bookseller Thomas Corbett (fl. 1705-43), who ran his business at the Addison's Head, next to the Rose Tavern, without Temple Bar, from 1719 until his death in 1743. Neither Dunton nor Corbett are known to have used this MS for publication purposes.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dunton MS: PsK Δ 8; RoJ Δ 4; SeC Δ 1; WaE Δ 10.

For John Dunton's career, see Stephen Parks, John Dunton and the English Book Trade: A Study of His Career with a Checklist of His Publications (New York & London, 1970).

RoJ 271.8

Copy.

An octavo verse miscellany, entitled Poems & Verses on Several Occasions, MDCCXXVI, in a mainly single hand, 66 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary green vellum boards.

1726-c.1768

The title-page inscribed Anna. Rogers. Junr: 1768.

Discussed in Paul Hammond, Some Eighteenth-Century Texts and Adaptations of Rochester in Leeds MS Lt 110, EMS 18 (2013), 173-179.

The Platonic Lady ('I could love thee till I die')

First published in Collected Works of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed. John Hayward (London, 1926). Vieth, pp. 25-6. Walker, pp. 23-4. Love, p. 35.

RoJ 272

Copy, subscribed Lord Rochester.

Edited from this MS in Hayward, in Vieth, and in Walker.

A quarto miscellany, principally of poems on affairs of state, xvi + 130 leaves.

Entitled Horæ subsecivæ, or Misselanies in Prose & Verse and arranged in four books.

Early 18th century

Given by J. Cater in 1756 to the Rev. William Cole (1714-82). In the Dalrymple sale. Afterwards owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary. Haslewood sale (16 December 1833), lot 1386. Evans, 1834. Owned in 1836 by Reginald Peacock (his bookplate). Bought from George A. Johnston, Edinburgh bookseller, 18 March 1885.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Add. A. 301 f. xr-v)
RoJ 273

Copy.

Edited in part from this MS in Love. Recorded in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems on ye Governmt. of ye Passions, in six books, 373 leaves, in contemporary calf (rebacked).

In a non-professional hand with amateur engrossing and decoration, compiled by someone with a daughter named Cater.

Early 18th century
A Ramble in St. James's Park ('Much wine had passed, with grave discourse')

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 40-6. Walker, pp. 64-8. Love, pp. 76-80.

RoJ 274

Copy.

A large folio miscellany of verse and prose, in a single accomplished professional hand, 756 pages (including over 200 blank leaves).

Including (pp. 217-429) 87 poems, chiefly on affairs of state, of which thirty are by Rochester; other contents comprising (pp. 1-71) a transcript of a Royal Household Establishment Book of William and Mary (1689-97); (pp. 75-212) a collection of legal precedents; and (pp. 442-543) copies of documents relating to the New Forest.

c.1698-1700s

Evidently compiled either for Henry Somerset (1629-1700), first Duke of Beaufort, Privy Councillor, or for his son Henry (1661-98), Marquess of Worcester, or else for his grandson, Henry Somerset (1684-1714), second Duke of Beaufort, who was Warden of the New Forest.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Badminton MS: RoJ Δ 1. Discussed and contents listed, with facsimile examples, in Michael Brennan and Paul Hammond, The Badminton Manuscript: A New Miscellany of Restoration Verse, EMS, 5 (1995), 171-207.

The Duke of Beaufort, Badminton (FmE 3/12 pp. 255-60)
RoJ 275

Copy, incomplete.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.

A quarto composite miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 137 pages (plus eight pages of later additions and eight blank pages), in modern cloth.

In a single hand, including sixteen poems by Rochester, pp. 139-46 occupied by charges of the Grand Jury added after 1714.

c.1680s

Recorded in IELM II.ii as the Gilpin MS: RoJ Δ 3.

Bodleian Library, Eng. misc. MSS (MS Eng. misc. e. 536 pp. 113-14)
RoJ 275.5

Extracts.

A quarto verse miscellany, nine leaves.

Compiled by the botanist James Petiver (1663-1718).

End of 17th century
RoJ 276

Copy, headed L. Rochester on St James's Park.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.

A long, narrow, ledger-size composite miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 112 pages (some misnumbered and pp. 45-6 excised), in 19th-century calf gilt.

A compendium of several separate collections of poems, each with its general heading, including nineteen poems by the Earl of Rochester, copied in a single hand, that of Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), antiquary.

c.1680s-1700s

Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker. Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Edinburgh MS: RoJ Δ 6.

Edinburgh University Library (MS Dc. 1. 3/1 pp. 90-2)
RoJ 277

Copy, headed Upon ye Nightwalkers in St. James Parke.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems chiefly on affairs of state, entitled A Collection of Poems, including 27 poems by Rochester (all ascribed to him), xii + 299 pages (plus a number of blanks), including a table of contents, in contemporary calf (rebacked).

In a single professional hand but for a few later additions at the very end (pp. 295-8, with some pages tipped-in).

c.1690s

Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Harvard MS: RoJ Δ 7.

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 636 pp. 12-20)
RoJ 278

Copy.

This MS collated in Hammond, Robinson and in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Booke of Paragrafts, including 22 poems by Rochester, 445 pages plus stubs of extracted leaves (originally 463 numbered pages and now lacking pp. 59-68, 147-54 and parts of pp. 155-8), with a two-leaf index; in contemporary red morocco.

In professional hands: A, pp. 1-194; B, in a different style and probably a different hand, pp. 195-432; C, probably yet another hand, with additions on pp. 75, 90, 102, 125, 142, 175, 195, and pp. 433-63.

c.1680s-90s

Inscribed (on stubs and endpapers) matt Calihan, To Cpt Robinson att Capt Eloass [Elwes] near ye Watch house in Marlburhroagh street, For Capt. Robinson at his Lodginges in Charing Cross. Christie's, 27 June 1979, lot 16.

Various commissioned officers named Robinson are recorded in Charles Dalton, English Army Lists and Commission Registers, 1661-1714 (6 vols, London, 1892-1904): see esp. I, 276. The volume was most probably owned by Charles Robinson of the King's Regiment of Foot Guards, who became Captain and then Lieutenant-Colonel in 1688 and was killed at Namur in 1695. A member of the same regiment in 1684 was the purveyor of MS lampoons Captain Lenthal Warcup. The Captain Eloass mentioned in one inscription was possibly William Elwes, who served as a Lieutenant in Viscount Colchester's Regiment of Horse, c.1692-4, and as a Captain in Lord Windsor's Regiment of Horse in 1702.

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Robinson MS: RoJ Δ 8. Discussed with facsimiles of pp. 1-10 in Paul Hammond, The Robinson Manuscript Miscellany of Restoration Verse in the Brotherton Collection, Leeds, Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, 18 (1982), 275-324 [cited in entries as Hammond, Robinson]. Facsimiles of p. 1 also in Christie's sale catalogue, Plate 1, after p. 48, and in The Brotherton Collection University of Leeds: Its contents described with illustrations of fifty books and manuscripts (Leeds, 1986), p. 17. Selectively collated in Walker.

RoJ 279

Copy, headed in the margin A Ramble in ye Parke.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe; collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in several hands, one professional stylish hand predominating, with (ff. 1r, 2r) a Table of contents, 213 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf.

Including 29 poems by Rochester (plus a second copy of one) and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items.

c.1680s

Once owned by Thomas Fermor (1698-1753), first Earl of Pomfret, of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire. Also used by one James Parks.

Recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, and selectively collated in Walker.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 40 ff. 18r-20v)
RoJ 280

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.

A formal quarto miscellany, of poems on affairs of state, including 29 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items, in three professional hands (A, pp. 1-278; B, pp. 279-84; C, pp. 285-314), 314 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary red morocco.

c.1680

Once owned by Count Carl Edward Gyldenstolpe (1770-1852) and perhaps originally acquired by Count Nils Gyldenstolpe (1642-1709), Swedish Ambassador at The Hague (in 1679-87).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Gyldenstolpe MS: RoJ Δ 14. A complete facsimile edition in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe (1967).

Royal Library, Stockholm (MS Vu. 69 pp. 77-86)
RoJ 281

Copy of lines 1-13, headed A Ramble in St James's Parke. By ye E: of R:, imperfect, lacking the remainder.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution; collated in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled Songs & Verses - Upon severall occasions, 406 pages (but pp. 35-44, 63-6, 77-86, 115-32, 153-8, 161-84, and 195-212 excised).

Including 30 poems by Rochester (and probably others by him on missing leaves); pp. 1-392 in a single professional hand (that also responsible for Princeton, RTC01 No. 34); pp. 392-406 in a second hand.

c.1680

Inscribed on the title-page Hansen: i.e. very probably the diplomat Friedrich Adolphus Hansen, who visited England in September 1680 in the entourage of Charles, electoral Prince Palatine. Owned, in 1951 by Dr A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952), Philadelphia book dealer, collector and scholar.

Cited in IELM, II as the Yale MS: RoJ Δ 16. The MS was identified by David M. Vieth as an independent scribal transcript of the copy-text used for the first edition of Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R— (Antwerp [i.e. London], 1680): see Attribution, pp. 56-100, and The Text of Rochester and the Editions of 1680, PBSA, 50 (1956), 243-63. Discussed extensively, and Hansen identified, in Harold Love, Scribal Texts and Literary Communities: The Rochester Circle and Osborn b. 105, SB, 42 (1989), 219-35. Facsimile of p. 62 in Vieth (1968), frontispiece. Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth (1968) and in Walker.

RoJ 281.5

Copy, headed The Lord Rochester on St James's Park.

A large octavo verse miscellany, chiefly lampoons and poems on affairs of state, including 21 poems by Rochester and various others in the Rochester apocrypha, nearly 600 pages in all, with a 14-page index.

Written in a single hand which can be identified as that of the Scottish pasquil-writer and antiquary Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), who was also responsible for RoJ Δ 6.

c.1705
Private owners in the UK (Mylne MS pp. 295-300)
RoJ 282

Copy of lines 1-138 in two hands, headed in a third hand Lord Rochester. c.1670s.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution; collated in Walker.

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]
Regime d'viver ('I rise at Eleven, I Dine about Two')

See DoC 314-318.5.

Rhyme to Lisbon ('A health to Kate!')

First published in A Choice Collection of Poetry (London, 1738). Vieth, p. 20. Walker, p. 122.

RoJ 283

Copy, ascribed to Rochester.

Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.

An oblong duodecimo verse miscellany, perhaps largely in one hand, with later additions by others, generally written across the page with the spine turned upwards, 136 leaves, with (f. 2r-v) a table of contents, in half green morocco.

Including ten poems by Cowley (on ff. 113r-v, 124r-9v).

c.1668-1713

Inscribed (f. 2r) Several Divine poems out of a Mss. of Mr. Hanserd Knolly's (thô [I suppose deleted] not of his composing); (f. 36r) Finis Manuscript, H. K.; (f. 1r and elsewhere) H Packwood Anno 1668 and George Gaynor, 1681. Item 988 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Purchased on 12 February 1876 from William Carew Hazlitt (1834-1913), bibliographer and writer.

Rochester Extempore ('And after singing Psalm the Twelfth')

First published in Vieth (1968), p. 22. Walker, p. 122.

RoJ 284

Copy, headed Rochester extempore 1670.

Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.

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

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

c.1681

Formerly Osborn MS Chest II, Number 14.

A Rodomontade on his Cruel Mistress ('Trust not that thing called woman: she is worse')

See JnB 425-430.

Sab: Lost ('She yields, she yields! Pale Envy said amen')

First published in Vivian de Sola Pinto, Rochester: Portrait of a Restoration Poet (London, 1935), p. 49. Vieth, p. 34. Walker, p. 26. Love, p. 123.

*RoJ 285
Autograph

Autograph draft, on one side of a single quarto leaf.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

A folio composite volume of papers of Rochester and his immediate circle, on various paper sizes, 25 leaves, all mounted on guards, in modern black leather gilt.

Small collection of nineteen undated leaves of poetical drafts by Rochester and his immediate circle, on single sheets and scraps of paper of various size (folio, quarto, octavo), now inserted in a modern album, comprising: i: ff. 1-11v, autograph drafts of nine poems and a fragment of a prose comedy by Rochester. ii: ff. 12-14, 15-19v, eight autograph poetical drafts (including two versions of the same poem by the poet's wife, Elizabeth (née Mallet), Countess of Rochester (d.1698)). iii: f. 14v, a brief lyric (Your glory Phillis is in being lov'd) in an unidentified hand.

c.1660s-80

Formerly in the library of Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741), and quite possibly inherited from his father, the statesman Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Portland MS. First recorded by Francis Needham in 1934 (see RoJ 71, RoJ 435); recorded and printed in part in various of Vivian de Sola Pinto's publications (1935-62); discussed and analysed in Vieth, Attribution, pp. 204-30; the poems by Rochester edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker (and see also RoJ 633). Facsimile examples in Greene, pp. 71 and 128 (see RoJ 396, RoJ 406); Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 57-8 (see RoJ 396); IELM, II.ii (1993), Facsimile IX.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 31 f. 8r)
Satyr ('Say Heav'n-born Muse, for only thou can'st tell')

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Love, pp. 81-5.

RoJ 285.5

Copy.

This MS collated in Love.

A folio miscellany of poems chiefly on affairs of state, entitled A Collection of Poems, including 27 poems by Rochester (all ascribed to him), xii + 299 pages (plus a number of blanks), including a table of contents, in contemporary calf (rebacked).

In a single professional hand but for a few later additions at the very end (pp. 295-8, with some pages tipped-in).

c.1690s

Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Harvard MS: RoJ Δ 7.

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 636 p. 220-7)
A Satyr against Reason and Mankind ('Were I (who to my cost already am)')

First published (lines 1-173) as a broadside, A Satyr against Mankind [London, 1679]. Complete, with supplementary lines 174-221 (beginning All this with indignation have I hurled) in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 94-101. Walker, pp. 91-7, as Satyr. Love, pp. 57-63.

The text also briefly discussed in Kristoffer F. Paulson, A Question of Copy-Text: Rochester's A Satyr against Reason and Mankind, N&Q, 217 (May 1972), 177-8. Some texts followed by one or other of three different Answer poems (two sometimes ascribed to Edward Pococke or Mr Griffith and Thomas Lessey: see Vieth, Attribution, pp. 178-9).

RoJ 286

Copy, headed Satyr on Man.

A large folio miscellany of verse and prose, in a single accomplished professional hand, 756 pages (including over 200 blank leaves).

Including (pp. 217-429) 87 poems, chiefly on affairs of state, of which thirty are by Rochester; other contents comprising (pp. 1-71) a transcript of a Royal Household Establishment Book of William and Mary (1689-97); (pp. 75-212) a collection of legal precedents; and (pp. 442-543) copies of documents relating to the New Forest.

c.1698-1700s

Evidently compiled either for Henry Somerset (1629-1700), first Duke of Beaufort, Privy Councillor, or for his son Henry (1661-98), Marquess of Worcester, or else for his grandson, Henry Somerset (1684-1714), second Duke of Beaufort, who was Warden of the New Forest.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Badminton MS: RoJ Δ 1. Discussed and contents listed, with facsimile examples, in Michael Brennan and Paul Hammond, The Badminton Manuscript: A New Miscellany of Restoration Verse, EMS, 5 (1995), 171-207.

The Duke of Beaufort, Badminton (FmE 3/12 pp. 227-34)
RoJ 287

Copy of lines 1-173, headed A Satyr, with a side-note This satyre is supposed to be a Translation of ye Earle of Rochesters out of Italian.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. b. 8 pp. 495-8)
RoJ 287.5

Copy of lines 174-221, headed A Supplemt to my Ld Rochesters Satyr agt Man not Edited, beginning All this wth Indignation have I hurld.

An octavo miscellany of Restoration poems, chiefly upon affairs of state, ii + 89 octavo leaves, in 19th-century red morocco.

Predominantly in a single professional hand, with subsequent corrections or annotations in other hands or inks, and (f. 89v) with a pencil note after a table of contents This Book is written by Brown.

Late 17th century

Bookplate of Edward Vernon Utterson (1776?-1856), of the Isle of Wight, artist, book collector and literary antiquary. Sotheby's, 19 April 1852, lot 1318. Owned after 1911 by Robert Ashburton Milnes, afterwards Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, politician. Christie's, 26 November 1997, lot 75.

RoJ 288

Copy, headed A Satyr on Man.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.

A quarto composite miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 137 pages (plus eight pages of later additions and eight blank pages), in modern cloth.

In a single hand, including sixteen poems by Rochester, pp. 139-46 occupied by charges of the Grand Jury added after 1714.

c.1680s

Recorded in IELM II.ii as the Gilpin MS: RoJ Δ 3.

Bodleian Library, Eng. misc. MSS (MS Eng. misc. e. 536 pp. 43-9)
RoJ 289

Copy, headed A Satyr against Mankind, the epilogue separately headed The Apology.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A long, narrow, ledger-size composite miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 112 pages (some misnumbered and pp. 45-6 excised), in 19th-century calf gilt.

A compendium of several separate collections of poems, each with its general heading, including nineteen poems by the Earl of Rochester, copied in a single hand, that of Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), antiquary.

c.1680s-1700s

Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker. Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Edinburgh MS: RoJ Δ 6.

Edinburgh University Library (MS Dc. 1. 3/1 pp. 25bis-27)
RoJ 290

Copy of the epilogue (lines 174-221), headed Apologie and here beginning All this with Indignation have I hurld

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.

A long, narrow, ledger-size composite miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 112 pages (some misnumbered and pp. 45-6 excised), in 19th-century calf gilt.

A compendium of several separate collections of poems, each with its general heading, including nineteen poems by the Earl of Rochester, copied in a single hand, that of Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), antiquary.

c.1680s-1700s

Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker. Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Edinburgh MS: RoJ Δ 6.

Edinburgh University Library (MS Dc. 1. 3/1 p. 19)
RoJ 290.5

Extracts.

A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands, a neat mixed hand predominating up to f. 55r, 151 leaves (including a few blanks), in contemporary calf.

c.1730

Inscribed (in another hand) on the front pastedown Thomas Boydell. Formerly Folger MS 4108.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 300 through end (MS V.a.308 [unspecified page numbers])
RoJ 291

Copy, headed A Satyre Agst: Man, lines 174-221 separately headed An Addition to the Satyr Against Man.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems chiefly on affairs of state, entitled A Collection of Poems, including 27 poems by Rochester (all ascribed to him), xii + 299 pages (plus a number of blanks), including a table of contents, in contemporary calf (rebacked).

In a single professional hand but for a few later additions at the very end (pp. 295-8, with some pages tipped-in).

c.1690s

Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Harvard MS: RoJ Δ 7.

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 636 pp. 80-90)
RoJ 291.5

Copy.

Index volume to DE/P F37 compiled by Sarah Cowper (née Holled, 1644-1720), Lady Cowper, wife of Sir William Cowper, MP (1639-1706).

Hertfordshire Record Office (DE/P F42 [unspecified page numbers])
RoJ 291.8

Copy, headed A Satyr on Man.

A tall folio verse miscellany, compiled by George Weller (1710-78) of Tonbridge, Kent, 157 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum boards.

c.1750

Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1132 (1990), item 128, with a facsimile example.

RoJ 292

Copy, headed A Satyr against man, lines 174-221 separately headed A supplement to ye satyr Against Man. by ye E. of Rochestr.

An octavo miscellany of chiefly satirical poems, including at least twelve by Rochester, in a single rounded hand but for an addition at the end (pp. 141-50) in a stylish italic hand, the greater part written along the length of the page with the spine uppermost, with an Index, xii + 150 pages (lacking pp. 135-40), in contemporary calf.

Possibly associated with the court circle of James Butler (1610-88), first Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

c.1680s

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dublin MS: RoJ Δ 10.

National Library of Ireland (MS 2093 pp. 9-24)
RoJ 293

Copy, headed Satyr.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in several hands, one professional stylish hand predominating, with (ff. 1r, 2r) a Table of contents, 213 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf.

Including 29 poems by Rochester (plus a second copy of one) and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items.

c.1680s

Once owned by Thomas Fermor (1698-1753), first Earl of Pomfret, of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire. Also used by one James Parks.

Recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, and selectively collated in Walker.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 40 ff. 141v-5r)
RoJ 294

Copy, headed A Satyr on Man, subscribed Rochester.

An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, chiefly on affairs of state, including nine poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items, in a single small hand, 356 pages (misnumbered in pencil 1-344 and lacking the first few original leaves), in contemporary boards.

Probably compiled by an Anglican cleric (or student before taking orders) associated with Cambridge University.

c.late 1690s-1704

Later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Formerly Restoration poetry MS 5.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Cambridge Miscellany MS: RoJ Δ 13.

Princeton (RTC01 No. 38 pp. 122, 122bis, 123-8)
RoJ 295

Copy, headed Satyr.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A formal quarto miscellany, of poems on affairs of state, including 29 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items, in three professional hands (A, pp. 1-278; B, pp. 279-84; C, pp. 285-314), 314 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary red morocco.

c.1680

Once owned by Count Carl Edward Gyldenstolpe (1770-1852) and perhaps originally acquired by Count Nils Gyldenstolpe (1642-1709), Swedish Ambassador at The Hague (in 1679-87).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Gyldenstolpe MS: RoJ Δ 14. A complete facsimile edition in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe (1967).

Royal Library, Stockholm (MS Vu. 69 pp. 21-34)
RoJ 296

Copy, headed A Satyr Against Man, By ye E: of R:.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled Songs & Verses - Upon severall occasions, 406 pages (but pp. 35-44, 63-6, 77-86, 115-32, 153-8, 161-84, and 195-212 excised).

Including 30 poems by Rochester (and probably others by him on missing leaves); pp. 1-392 in a single professional hand (that also responsible for Princeton, RTC01 No. 34); pp. 392-406 in a second hand.

c.1680

Inscribed on the title-page Hansen: i.e. very probably the diplomat Friedrich Adolphus Hansen, who visited England in September 1680 in the entourage of Charles, electoral Prince Palatine. Owned, in 1951 by Dr A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952), Philadelphia book dealer, collector and scholar.

Cited in IELM, II as the Yale MS: RoJ Δ 16. The MS was identified by David M. Vieth as an independent scribal transcript of the copy-text used for the first edition of Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R— (Antwerp [i.e. London], 1680): see Attribution, pp. 56-100, and The Text of Rochester and the Editions of 1680, PBSA, 50 (1956), 243-63. Discussed extensively, and Hansen identified, in Harold Love, Scribal Texts and Literary Communities: The Rochester Circle and Osborn b. 105, SB, 42 (1989), 219-35. Facsimile of p. 62 in Vieth (1968), frontispiece. Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth (1968) and in Walker.

RoJ 297

Copy, headed Satyr.

A quarto volume of works almost exclusively by Rochester, in a single professional hand up to p. 208, a second, less accomplished, hand taking over (after stubs of two extracted leaves) on pp. 209-31; with a title-page (p. 13), Poem's / By The. Right Honourable/John Earle / of/Rochester, 219 pages (plus 12 preliminary blank pages and 99 blank pages at the end), in half-russia over marbled boards.

c.mid-1680s

Bookplate of The Reverend Sir George Lee. Baronet/Hartwell. Inscribed This Manuscript was found at Hartwell. March. 1829. J. Lee and another, Bound Mr. Wilson. March 1829 [i.e. the MS was in the library of the Rev. Sir George Lee, Bt (1767-1827), rector of Hartwell, etc., and of Dr John Lee, F.R.S. (1783-1866), at Hartwell House, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire]. Later sold by Charles Sawyer (No. 1467 in a sale catalogue). The MS might possibly once have been owned by Thomas Lee, Bt, M.P. (1635-91) of Hartwell, who was, incidentally, related by marriage to Sir John Suckling. His son was Sir Thomas Lee, Bt, M.P. (1661-1702). The MS was later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 18 December 1995 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 114, with facsimile examples in the sale catalogue.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Hartwell MS: RoJ Δ 17. This MS on exhibition at the Bodleian, 16-28 June 1930, and recorded in Proceedings and Papers of the Oxford Bibliographical Society, 2 (1927-30), p. 213. Subsequently discussed, and parts printed, by Harold Love and Stephen Parks in A reasonable satyr, TLS, 1 August 1997, p. 13; in Harold Love, A Tale of Two Manuscripts, Yale University Library Gazette, 72 (1999), 41-53; and in his pamphlet A Newly Discovered Burlesque by John Wilmot Earl of Rochester (New Haven, 1997).

A complete microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7982.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 334 pp. 153-62)
RoJ 297.5

Copy, headed A-satyr-Agst. Mankind, lines 174-221 separately headed The Appology, subscribed By the Earle of Rochester..

A large octavo verse miscellany, chiefly lampoons and poems on affairs of state, including 21 poems by Rochester and various others in the Rochester apocrypha, nearly 600 pages in all, with a 14-page index.

Written in a single hand which can be identified as that of the Scottish pasquil-writer and antiquary Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), who was also responsible for RoJ Δ 6.

c.1705
Private owners in the UK (Mylne MS pp. 107-14)
RoJ 297.8

Copy of lines 174-221 only, headed Apologie.

A large octavo verse miscellany, chiefly lampoons and poems on affairs of state, including 21 poems by Rochester and various others in the Rochester apocrypha, nearly 600 pages in all, with a 14-page index.

Written in a single hand which can be identified as that of the Scottish pasquil-writer and antiquary Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), who was also responsible for RoJ Δ 6.

c.1705
Private owners in the UK (Mylne MS pp. 49-50)
RoJ 298

Lines 174-221 edited from this MS in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, in English and Latin, in several hands, ii + 53 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf.

c.1690

J. Salkeld, sale catalogue No. 222 (17 June 1885), item 273.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Add. B. 106 ff. 20v-5r)
RoJ 299

Copy, headed Satyr on Man.

A miscellany of academic orations, verse, satires, etc., in Latin and English, iv + 111 leaves, in limp vellum.

Compiled by William Doble (1649/50-75), of Trinity College, Oxford.

c.1669-74

R.C. Hatchwell, sale catalogue No. 23 (1973), item 50.

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. f. 29 fols 61r, 62r, 63r, 64r, 65r, 66r)
RoJ 300

Copy of lines 1-28, headed A satyr on man, deleted.

A miscellany of academic orations, verse, satires, etc., in Latin and English, iv + 111 leaves, in limp vellum.

Compiled by William Doble (1649/50-75), of Trinity College, Oxford.

c.1669-74

R.C. Hatchwell, sale catalogue No. 23 (1973), item 50.

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. f. 29 fols 23r, 24r)
RoJ 301

Copy of lines 1-95, headed Satyre agst Mankind, in a portion of a quarto miscellany.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

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 ff. 70r-1r)
RoJ 302

Copy, headed A Satyr against Mankind, the epilogue separately headed Addition, subscribed John E. Rochester.

Edited in part from this MS in Love. Recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single neat hand, iv + 248 pages, imperfect at the end, in contemporary calf.

Compiled by an Oxford University man.

End of 17th century

Sold by J.W. Jarvis & Sons, 5 December 1888.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 4 pp. 181-6)
RoJ 304

Copy of lines 1-165 in the hand of the poet John Oldham (1653-83), headed Satyr upon Man.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

A quarto volume of poems and letters in the hand of the poet John Oldham (1653-83), vi + 310 pages.

c.1675-82
RoJ 305

Copy of lines 1-173, with alterations in another hand, headed A Satyr on Man. Anno. 74, subscribed By Ld of Rochester and docketed underneath Of Man, on two long ledger-size leaves. Late 17th century.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

A guardbook of separate verse items extracted from the bound volumes MSS Tanner 306/1 and 306/2.

Bodleian Library, Tanner Collection (MS Tanner 306* ff. 414r-15v)
RoJ 306 Late 17th century

Copy of lines 1-173, headed Satyr, on three quarto leaves (of a six-leaf gathering).

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A folio composite volume of verse MSS, in various hands, 215 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco.

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

Early-mid-18th century
RoJ 307

Copy, headed A Satyr on Man: By ye Ld Roch:.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of plays (by George Wilde, of St John's College, Oxford) and English and Latin verse, in several hands, probably associated with Oxford, written over a period from both ends, 158 leaves, in 19th-century half black morocco.

c.late 1630s-late 17th century
RoJ 308

Copy of lines 1-173, headed a Satyr against Man, & Reason.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

A quarto verse miscellany probably associated with Oxford.

Late 17th century
The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 390 ff. 6r-7r)
RoJ 309

Copy, headed A Satyr against Man by the E— of R—r.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional hand, 151 pages (plus 128 blank pages), with a table of contents (f. 1*r), in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

End of 17th century
RoJ 310 c.1680

Copy, headed A Satyr against man by ye Earl of Rochester.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

An oblong octavo miscellany, in English and Latin, chiefly in one hand, 231 leaves, in modern calf gilt.

Inscribed (f. 1r) White Kennett ex aulâ Scti Edmundi apud Oxonienses: Octobris 18mo 1678, being Volume II of the collections of White Kennett (1660-1728), Bishop of Peterborough, historian.

c.1678
The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 936 ff. 63r-8v)
RoJ 311

Copy of lines 1-173.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, including material relating to Oxford University, probably in several hands, 55 leaves, in mottled leather gilt.

c.1677

Inscribed (f. 1r) Richard Enock [b.1657/8] e coll: Trin: Oxon, possibly the principal compiler.

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1458 ff. 16r-18r)
RoJ 312

Copy, headed A Satyr on man, subscribed Rochester, followed (pp. 52-62) by A Satyr for man in answer to that against man (beginning Were I a Spiritt to choose for mine own share).

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

c.1680s-1702
RoJ 313

Copy of lines 121-73, untitled and here beginning Though one's a Statesman, t'other but a Hound.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

A quarto miscellany, in several hands, 66 leaves (plus 70 blanks), in contemporary calf.

Compiled at least in part by George Stanhope (1660-1728), Dean of Canterbury, chiefly while he was at King's College, Cambridge.

c.1678-80s

Inscribed Mrs Denham Cookes 1922 March 10.

RoJ 314

Exemplum of the printed broadside A Satyr against Mankind. Written by a Person of Honour ([London, 1679]).

Exemplum of the printed broadside A Satyr against Mankind. Written by a Person of Honour ([London, 1679]) with at least nine substantive alterations in MS.

Late 17th century

This item in a large collection of Popish Plot pamphlets (the Verney Collection) sold at Sotheby's, 24 July 1987, lot 262, to Quaritch.

RoJ 315

Copy of lines 1-173, headed Satyr against Mankind.

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English, Latin and French, in several hands, written from both ends, 360 pages (the majority blank), in old calf.

Inscribed (p. [41 rev.]) J. Tyrell and compiled at least in part by James Tyrrell (1642-1718), historical writer and friend of the philosopher John Locke (1632-1704), a poem by whom (ff. [16v-17r]) he dockets as By my dear Friend Mr J. Lock.

c.1670s-80s

Later in the library of Richard Monckton Milnes (1809-85), first Baron Houghton, author and politician, and his son Robert Offley Ashburton Milnes, afterwards Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, politician.

Nicholas Fisher ([Tyrrell MS] ff. [9v-11v])
RoJ 316

Copy of lines 1-13, untitled, this text quoted after the title-page (p. 151) Corinna. or Human Frailty. A Poem. Also An Answer to ye Earl of Rochesters Satyr. against Man, which begins thus, An Answer to the Satyr Against Man (beginning Were I a Spirit free (which thought's as vain) occurring on pp. 162-4.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

A quarto volume entitled Miscellany Poems, By Severall Hands. Collected by B. Cumberlege, in various hands or styles of script, with occasional pen-and-ink drawings and use of coloured inks, xiv + 195 pages, including a table of contents, in later calf.

c.1703

Bookplate of Frederick Lewis Gay, of Brookline, Massachusetts, 1916.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 584 p. 152)
RoJ 317

Copy, headed Satyr On Man, subscribed Rochester, in a professional hand, on pp. 12-19, in a disbound fragment of a folio miscellany of poems paginated 1-34. Late 17th century

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A folio composite miscellany of verse MSS, chiefly poems on affairs of state, in various hands and paper sizes, now disbound in folders.

Among papers of the Hastings family, Earls of Huntingdon.

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 623 Folder 14, pp. 12-19)
RoJ 318

Copy of lines 1-173, headed A Satyr Ld Roches-..

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in a single cursive hand, 376 pages (including blanks), in contemporary calf.

Compiled almost entirely by Sarah Cowper (née Holled, 1644-1720), Lady Cowper, wife of Sir William Cowper, MP (1639-1706), and inscribed by her inside the front cover Sarah Cowper 1673. Possibly compiled in part from texts supplied by Martin Clifford (c.1624-77), erstwhile secretary of the Duke of Buckingham and Master of the Charterhouse.

c.1673-1700s

Discussed in Harold Love, Two Rochester Manuscripts Circulated from the Charterhouse, The Library, 6th Ser. 16/3 (September 1994), 225-9.

Hertfordshire Record Office (DE/P F37 pp. 331-8)
RoJ 319

Copy, headed A Satyr against man by the Earl of Rochester.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

An octavo verse miscellany, 22 leaves plus numerous blanks, in calf.

Late 17th century

P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue, The Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1280. Acquired from Quaritch, 23 July 1959. Formerly Uncat. MSS. Rochester, Commonplace book and 821 R58c.

A microfilm of the MS volume is in the British Library, M/573.

University of Illinois (Post-1650 MS 0001 ff. [9r-12r])
RoJ 320

Copy, headed A Satyr agst man — by Ld Rochester, on two pairs of conjugate folio leaves.

Late 17th century
King's College, Cambridge (Hayward Collection, H. 10. 82)
RoJ 321

Copy, headed Satyr agt. reason and mankind by ye Earle of Rochester Copied for and by ye desire of ye Right Honorable ye Lady Anne Somerset by Arthur Somerset 1689.....

A folio booklet of verse chiefly by Rochester, nine leaves.

1689
King's College, Cambridge (Hayward Collection, H. 10. 10 ff. [1r-6r])
RoJ 322

Copy of lines 1-10, written with the page turned sideways.

A folio booklet of verse chiefly by Rochester, nine leaves.

1689
King's College, Cambridge (Hayward Collection, H. 10. 10 f. [1r rev.])
RoJ 323

Copy, headed A Satyr: & Com: Roffens. June 1674.

A verse miscellany.

c.1674

Owned by Henry Bracegirdle, of Merton College, Oxford, and in 1674 by one Hugh Massey.

King's College, Cambridge (Hayward Collection, H. 11. 13 ff. [7v-9v])
RoJ 324

Copy, headed A Sater against Man.

An octavo verse miscellany.

End of 17th century

Once owned by Henry Bracegirdle of Merton College, Oxford, who gave it to Hugh Massey in 1674. Dobell's catalogue Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1274. Colbeck, Radford & Co., The Ingatherer No. 38 (1934), item 224.

King's College, Cambridge (Hayward Collection, H. 11. 14 pp. 1-7)
RoJ 325

Copy of lines 1-24, headed Earl Rochestr.

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, chiefly in one cursive hand, written from both ends, 271 leaves (including numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum boards.

c.1700
RoJ 325.5

Copy of a 198-line version, headed A Satire on Man, as by L--R, written lengthways down the pages on versos only.

An octavo verse miscellany, entitled Poems & Verses on Several Occasions, MDCCXXVI, in a mainly single hand, 66 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary green vellum boards.

1726-c.1768

The title-page inscribed Anna. Rogers. Junr: 1768.

Discussed in Paul Hammond, Some Eighteenth-Century Texts and Adaptations of Rochester in Leeds MS Lt 110, EMS 18 (2013), 173-179.

RoJ 325.8

Copy of lines 60-71, headed Man, here beginning Bless'd glorious Man, to whom alone kind heaven, incorporated (as lines 1-12) in a poem made up of extracts from several writers' verses.

Edited from this MS in Hammond's EMS article.

An octavo verse miscellany, entitled Poems & Verses on Several Occasions, MDCCXXVI, in a mainly single hand, 66 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary green vellum boards.

1726-c.1768

The title-page inscribed Anna. Rogers. Junr: 1768.

Discussed in Paul Hammond, Some Eighteenth-Century Texts and Adaptations of Rochester in Leeds MS Lt 110, EMS 18 (2013), 173-179.

RoJ 326

Copy of lines 1-55, 60-158, 168-9, 179-82, 222-5, headed in the margin A Satyr on Man.

A folio verse miscellany, 225 pages (including blanks), in contemporary vellum boards.

Compiled, and partly composed, by George Weller (1710-78), lawyer, of Tonbridge, Kent.

c.1745

Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1132 (December 1990), item 128.

RoJ 327

Copy of the epilogue lines (174-201), here beginning All this wth. indignation have I hurl'd.

Ten MS poems, in the hand of Pepys's secretary Paul Lorrain, on leaves bound, together with another related work, in Pepys's printed exemplum of Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680).

Late 17th century
RoJ 328 c.1685

Copy of lines 1-173, headed A Satyr agt. Mankind. By the E. of Rochester.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A quarto composite volume of verse and prose manuscripts, in several hands, 165 leaves.

Including (ff. 104-35) a late 17th-century quarto verse miscellany in a small mixed hand, possibly compiled by an Oxford University man.

RoJ 329 Late 17th century

Copy of a 96-line version, headed A Satyr against Mankind By the late E. of Rochester, on pp. [1-4] of a small quarto booklet of poems by or relating to Rochester.

This MS collated in Walker.

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

Among papers formerly at Pitchford Hall, Shropshire.

National Library of Wales (Pitchford Hall (Ottley) English Literary MSS (uncatalogued), A A7)
RoJ 329.5

Copy of the epilogue (lines 174-201), headed The Appology, here beginning All this with Indignation have I hurld.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Suplement to some of my Lord Rochesters Poems, in two neat rounded hands, 47 pages, in modern quarter-morocco.

Late 17th century
University of Nottingham (Pw V 32 pp. 45-7)
RoJ 330

Copy, headed A Satyre. Ld Rot:.

An octavo verse miscellany, 148 pages (lacking pp. 55-8, 117-26).

Late 17th century

Dobell's sale catalogue The Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1284. Afterwards owned by John Sparrow (1906-92), literary scholar and book collector.

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. e. 176 pp. 98-107)
RoJ 331

Copy of lines 1-73, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed Rochester.

A sheaf of sixteen folio leaves of verse, in a single hand, disbound.

Among the papers of the Waller family.

Mr Richard Waller ([no shelfmark] ff. [9v-10r])
RoJ 332

Copy of lines 1-73, in the hand of one of Edmund Waller's daughters, headed Satyre.

A quarto miscellany of chiefly verse, with some prose and French exercises, including at least seventeen poems by or attributed to Waller, as well as a complete transcript of The Maid's Tragedy Altered, in more than one hand, the predominant hand that of one of Waller's daughters, written from both ends, some of the ascriptions to Mr Waller added later in a different hand, 100 unnumbered leaves (including stubs of some extracted leaves [ff. 9-13v, 7r-v rev., 27r-v rev., 35-6v rev.]), in calf.

Including such association texts as An Epistle to my father Ox: Sep: ye 17: 1667 (f. [2v]), On ye Wallers arms (f. [15v]), a letter [by Waller] to my Dearest Neece (ff. [20-1]) followed by a letter to her Honrd Uncle ascribed in another hand to Lady Speake (f. 21r-v), and The ffollowing line my ffather write… dated from Hallbarn Aprill ye 11 1685 (f. [33v]).

c.1680s [-1700s]

Scribbling inside the covers and on the flyleaves including (several times) the name Edmond Waller and Edmund Waller his Bookes: i.e. very probably the poet's son, Edmund Waller the Younger (1651-99). Pinned inside the cover is a receipt dated 29 September 1645 for money received from Anne Waller, the poet's mother (d.1653), signed by Anne Darell and witnessed by John Ford and John Pepys.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Younger Waller MS: WaE Δ 7. Briefly recorded in Thorn-Drury and in Wikelund (1970), pp. 77-8.

Mr Richard Waller ([no shelfmark] ff. [17r-18v])
RoJ 332.5

Copy, headed Verses made by the Ld Rochester on Man: 1.

A quarto commonplace book, in three sections, each in a different non-professional hand, iii + 47 leaves, in 19th-century half-calf and marbled boards.

c.1687

A 19th-century title-page (f. iir) claims this is the Manuscript Common-Place Book of Tho. Hunt. November 1687 (possibly author of the first item, on numeration, dated 30 November 1687). Owned in 1869 by Frederick William Cosens (1819-89), and in 1881 by J. Eliot Hodgkin. FSA (1829-1912), of Hitchin, Hertfordshire, solicitor.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 369 ff. 43r-6r)
RoJ 333

Copy of lines 1-173, untitled, inscribed Satira del Conte di Rochester, on five pages of four folio leaves.

This MS collated in Walker.

A composite collection of separate copies of English verse, 64 folio and quarto pages.

Assembled by the traveller Lorenzo Magalotti (1637-1712).

Late 17th century

Sotheby's, 19 July 1966, lot 518.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS fb 66 No. 42)
RoJ 334

Copy of lines 1-173, headed A Satyr against Mankind by the Ld R:.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state entitled A Collection of Poems Sayters and Lampoones, 4178 pages (but a number excised).

Late 17th century

Front endpaper inscribed Latchington 2 March 1787. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (Phillipps MS 8303). At Yale formerly Chest II, Number 3.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS fb 140 pp. 124-9)
RoJ 335

Copy of the epilogue (lines 174-84, 187-221), headed An Addition to ye Satyr agt Man and here beginning All this wth indignation I have hurld, on two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

Late 17th century

Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (part of Phillipps MS 17818). Sotheby's, 29 October 1975, lot 154.

Photocopy in the British Library, RP 686 (4). Mentioned in YULG, 52 (1978), 108-9; collated in Walker.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osb MSS File 12757)
RoJ 336 Late 17th century

Copy of lines 1-173, headed A satyr, on two conjugate ledger-size folio leaves.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

Two conjugate ledger-size folio leaves.

Late 17th century

Formerly Osborn MS. Chest II, Number 28.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn Poetry Box VI/68 pp. [1-3])
RoJ 337

Copy of lines 1-173, untitled.

A quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat mixed hand, inscribed on p. 44 'march 24 Finis 1673', ii + 51 pages, in modern morocco gilt.

c.1673

Sotheby's, 26 June 1986 (Lionel Robinson sale), lot 110, to Maggs. Subsequently sold to Zeitlin & Verbrugge, Los Angeles. Formerly Temp MSS. Bound.

Complete photocopies of this MS in the British Library, RP 3341.

Clark Library, Los Angeles (MS. 1986. 004 pp. [45-51])
RoJ 337.5

Copy.

A small quarto commonplace book in English and Latin, in three hands, including 30 pages of proverbs, one item dated 1687, 57 pages, in 19th-century half-calf.

Late 17th century

Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 21 June 2001, lot 20.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Bloomsbury MS] [unspecified page numbers])
A Satyr on Charles II ('I' th' isle of Britain long since famous grown')

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 60-1. Walker, pp. 74-5. Love (five versions), pp. 85-6, 86-7, 88, 89-90, 90. The manuscript texts discussed, with detailed collations, in Harold Love, Rochester's I' th' isle of Britain: Decoding a Textual Tradition, EMS, 6 (1997), 175-223.

RoJ 338

Copy, headed A base copy.

Edited from this MS in Love. Recorded in Vieth and in Walker.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. b. 8 pp. 585-6)
RoJ 339

Copy, headed Ld. Roch:'s Lampoon on K. Ch: for which he was banishd the Court, and turn'd Mountebank.

A folio verse miscellany, entitled The Muse's Magazine, or Poeticall Miscelanies, in two parts, in a single hand, 189 leaves.

Including 27 poems by Cowley; eleven poems by Katherine Philips, evidently derived from printed sources; 10 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items; twelve poems by Sedley, plus one of doubtful authorship; and 15 poems by Waller, evidently derived from printed sources.

A note on a flyleaf relating to the bookseller John Dunton (1659-1733): John Dunton His Book, for which Mr. Corbet at ye Addisons Head, accepted One Half Guinea in full Payment for it, as Witness my Hand, Hannah Rakley. A note on f. 1: Since I had transcrib'd this whole Book, I met with some state Poems of these later times, mostly since K. George's Accession to the Crown [1714] which I have here inserted, as a supplement to these state Poems which make a part of this Collection by themselves. Date at the end of the volume: 1718, and some notes on a flyleaf dated 1724.

Early 18th century

The Mr. Corbet from whom Dunton purchased this MS was evidently the bookseller Thomas Corbett (fl. 1705-43), who ran his business at the Addison's Head, next to the Rose Tavern, without Temple Bar, from 1719 until his death in 1743. Neither Dunton nor Corbett are known to have used this MS for publication purposes.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dunton MS: PsK Δ 8; RoJ Δ 4; SeC Δ 1; WaE Δ 10.

For John Dunton's career, see Stephen Parks, John Dunton and the English Book Trade: A Study of His Career with a Checklist of His Publications (New York & London, 1970).

RoJ 340

Copy, headed L. Rochester on the King and here beginning There is A monarch in an Isle say some.

This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.

A long, narrow, ledger-size composite miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 112 pages (some misnumbered and pp. 45-6 excised), in 19th-century calf gilt.

A compendium of several separate collections of poems, each with its general heading, including nineteen poems by the Earl of Rochester, copied in a single hand, that of Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), antiquary.

c.1680s-1700s

Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker. Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Edinburgh MS: RoJ Δ 6.

Edinburgh University Library (MS Dc. 1. 3/1 pp. 71-2)
RoJ 341

Copy, headed Verses By Ld: Roc. and here beginning There is a Monarch in an Isle say som.

This MS recorded in Vieth.

A folio miscellany of poems chiefly on affairs of state, entitled A Collection of Poems, including 27 poems by Rochester (all ascribed to him), xii + 299 pages (plus a number of blanks), including a table of contents, in contemporary calf (rebacked).

In a single professional hand but for a few later additions at the very end (pp. 295-8, with some pages tipped-in).

c.1690s

Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Harvard MS: RoJ Δ 7.

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 636 pp. 293-5)
RoJ 342

Copy, headed Satyr.

This MS collated in Hammond, Robinson. Recorded in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Booke of Paragrafts, including 22 poems by Rochester, 445 pages plus stubs of extracted leaves (originally 463 numbered pages and now lacking pp. 59-68, 147-54 and parts of pp. 155-8), with a two-leaf index; in contemporary red morocco.

In professional hands: A, pp. 1-194; B, in a different style and probably a different hand, pp. 195-432; C, probably yet another hand, with additions on pp. 75, 90, 102, 125, 142, 175, 195, and pp. 433-63.

c.1680s-90s

Inscribed (on stubs and endpapers) matt Calihan, To Cpt Robinson att Capt Eloass [Elwes] near ye Watch house in Marlburhroagh street, For Capt. Robinson at his Lodginges in Charing Cross. Christie's, 27 June 1979, lot 16.

Various commissioned officers named Robinson are recorded in Charles Dalton, English Army Lists and Commission Registers, 1661-1714 (6 vols, London, 1892-1904): see esp. I, 276. The volume was most probably owned by Charles Robinson of the King's Regiment of Foot Guards, who became Captain and then Lieutenant-Colonel in 1688 and was killed at Namur in 1695. A member of the same regiment in 1684 was the purveyor of MS lampoons Captain Lenthal Warcup. The Captain Eloass mentioned in one inscription was possibly William Elwes, who served as a Lieutenant in Viscount Colchester's Regiment of Horse, c.1692-4, and as a Captain in Lord Windsor's Regiment of Horse in 1702.

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Robinson MS: RoJ Δ 8. Discussed with facsimiles of pp. 1-10 in Paul Hammond, The Robinson Manuscript Miscellany of Restoration Verse in the Brotherton Collection, Leeds, Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, 18 (1982), 275-324 [cited in entries as Hammond, Robinson]. Facsimiles of p. 1 also in Christie's sale catalogue, Plate 1, after p. 48, and in The Brotherton Collection University of Leeds: Its contents described with illustrations of fifty books and manuscripts (Leeds, 1986), p. 17. Selectively collated in Walker.

RoJ 342.5

Copy of a version headed My Lord R. verses and beginning There is a Monarch in an Isle say some.

Edited from this MS in Love, pp. 89-90.

An oblong quarto miscellany chiefly of poems on affairs of state, including ten in the Marvell canon and other works attributed to him, largely in a single hand, with later additions in other hands, written along the length of the page with the spine upwards, i + 92 leaves, in contemporary calf.

Used from the reverse end, for a 79-page catalogue of c.1400 books dating from 1519 to the mid-18th century, in two hands, headed Catalogue of Mr. Okeover's Library taken Septr: 1760 with a supplement headed Found in London in Feby 1764 by Mr. Walhouse — after Mr. Leeke Okeover's death in Mr. Okeover's house in John Street, Gray's Inn Lane, London.

c.late 1670s [-1764]

Inscribed (f. ir) tho may. Sotheby's, 22 July 1980, lot 541.

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Okeover MS: MaA Δ 7.

RoJ 343

Copy, headed The Earle of Rochrs Verses for which he was Banished.

This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.

A formal folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, including eleven by Rochester and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items, probably in a single professional hand, 444 leaves (including a six-leaf index).

c.1690s

Cited in IELM, II.ii as the Vienna MS: RoJ Δ 12. Discussed in Rudolf Brotanek, Beschreibung der Handschrift 14090 (Supplement 1776) der Nationalbibliothek in Wien, in Festschrift der Nationalbibliothek in Wien (Vienna, 1926), 145-62. Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker.

RoJ 344

Copy, headed The Earle of Rochesters verses For which he was Banish'd.

This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional hand, in two volumes: Vol. I, including twelve poems by Rochester and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items, pp. 1-461 (plus index); Vol. II, pp. 462-842 (with irregularities of pagination).

This MS is closely related to Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Cod. 14090.

c.1690s-1700

Later owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor, who records that £50 was given by Perry, for these 2 volumes.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dyce MS: RoJ Δ 15.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 43 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.37-38) pp. 110-12)
RoJ 344.5

Copy of a four-line extracted version, beginning Wee have a Very Gratious K:.

Edited from this MS in Love, p. 90.

A small quarto miscellany of anecdotes, aphorisms, verses, etc., in two hands, compiled by Sir Francis Fane (c.1612-80), 193 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

Inscribed by Fane on f. 1r Aug: 24: 1629 / Franciscus Fane and, later, as a bequest to his three grandsons to be read by them when aged 21, dated from Fulbeck, 5 May 1672.

c.1629-72

Sold by Maggs, 29 May 1930.

RoJ 345

Copy, headed On The King, here beginning There is a Monarch in an Isle (say some).

This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in at least three professional hands, ii + 124 leaves, in half-calf marbled boards.

c.1680s

Owned by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732), annalist and book collector.

All Souls College, Oxford (MS 116 ff. 12v-13r)
RoJ 346

Copy, headed Giuen By a Mistake to his Majty, subscribed Rochester 1673, in a quarto miscellany of verse and prose on affairs of state (ff. 297r-318v, originally paginated 1-44) in a single professional hand. Late 17th century.

Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.

A folio composite volume of state letters, speeches and other papers, in various largely professional hands, folio- and quarto-size leaves, 577 leaves.

RoJ 347

Copy, headed By ye Lord Rochester 1675.

This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single neat hand, 79 leaves (plus an index), in modern black leather gilt.

Including eleven poems in the Marvell canon (plus further apocryphal poems).

c.1680

Later owned by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist and antiquary. Puttick & Simpson's, 9 June 1859 (Turner sale), lot 389. Purchased from Boone, 9 June 1860.

Recorded in IELM, II.ii, as the Turner MS: MaA Δ 4. The Marvell poems recorded and selectively collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I and II.

RoJ 347.5 Late 17th century

4 lines, docketed these were writen in Kg Charles ye 2ds Window by ye late Ld Rochester.

A collection of unbound verse manuscripts, in various hands and paper sizes (chiefly folio), 142 leaves.

Partly compiled by Sir Richard Browne and his father Christopher Browne (1577-1646), of Saye's Court, Deptford.

Volume LXVII of the Evelyn Papers, of John Evelyn (1620-1706), diarist and writer, of Wootton House, Surrey, and his family, also incorporating papers of his father-in-law, Sir Richard Browne, Bt (1605-83), diplomat, and his family. Formerly preserved at Christ Church, Oxford. Acquired March 1995.

RoJ 348

Copy, headed Satyr.

Edited from this MS in Love. Recorded in Vieth and in Walker. Facsimiles of both pages in Harold Love, Rochester's I' th' isle of Britain: Decoding a Textual Tradition, EMS, 6 (1997), 175-223. (pp. 176-7).

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in two or more professional hands, 303 leaves, in modern black morocco gilt.

In two parts: Part I on ff. 1r-149r (followed by blanks and then an index on ff. 150-1); Part II, on ff. 152-302 (with an addition in another hand on f. 303), entitled A Collection of the most choice and Private Poems, Lampoons &c from the withdrawing of the late King James 1688 to the year 1701 Collected by a Person of Quality.

c.1703

A note of payment (f. 1r) for purchase on 25 March 1703. Owned by Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724).

Cited in IELM, II.i, as the Harley MS: MaA Δ 6. Marvell recorded and selectively collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I and II.

RoJ 349

Copy, headed A Satyr.

This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled Satyrs & Lampoons, in a single neat hand, i + 130 leaves, subscribed (f. 130v) Finis. 25, March 1691-2., in modern black morocco gilt.

c.1692
RoJ 350

Copy, headed In CR.

This MS recorded in Vieth.

A quarto verse miscellany, inscribed (f. 1r) Poems & Satires in the Time of Charles the 2d. &c. Collected & written by Oliver Le Neve Esqr., in a single rounded hand, 80 leaves, in 19th-century half brown calf.

Compiled by Oliver Le Neve (d.1711), younger brother of Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King of Arms and antiquary.

c.1690

Bookplate of the Rev. Richard Farmer, FSA (1735-97), Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, literary scholar. Lot 8055 in the sale of his library by Thomas King, 7 May to 16 June 1798. Formerly Chetham's MS 8013.

Chetham's Library, Manchester (Mun. A.4.14 f. 13r-v)
RoJ 351

Copy, headed On K: C: IId: by ye: E of Roch—r; For wch he was banish'd ye. Court, & turn'd Mountebank.

This MS recorded in Walker.

An octavo miscellany chiefly of verse, in several hands, with two tables of contents, 207 leaves (lacking ff. 1-4), in calf.

c.1725

Inscribed (f. 207v) James Dyson and James Thompson.

RoJ 352

Copy, headed My Ld. R. verses and here beginning There was a Monarch in all Isle say some.

An oblong quarto miscellany chiefly of poems on affairs of state, including ten in the Marvell canon and other works attributed to him, largely in a single hand, with later additions in other hands, written along the length of the page with the spine upwards, i + 92 leaves, in contemporary calf.

Used from the reverse end, for a 79-page catalogue of c.1400 books dating from 1519 to the mid-18th century, in two hands, headed Catalogue of Mr. Okeover's Library taken Septr: 1760 with a supplement headed Found in London in Feby 1764 by Mr. Walhouse — after Mr. Leeke Okeover's death in Mr. Okeover's house in John Street, Gray's Inn Lane, London.

c.late 1670s [-1764]

Inscribed (f. ir) tho may. Sotheby's, 22 July 1980, lot 541.

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Okeover MS: MaA Δ 7.

RoJ 353

Copy, headed On King Charles.

This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.

A folio volume comprising two apparently independent miscellanies of poems on affairs of state, each in probably more than one professional hand, in variant styles, 199 pages, in modern cloth.

Part I, ff. 1r-110v (poems dated 1667-83); Part II, ff. 111r-99r, on larger paper (poems dated 1680-7).

c.1680s

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Advocates MS: MaA Δ 8. Works by Marvell recorded and some poems collated in POAS, I.

RoJ 353.5

Copy, headed Vpon the King by ye Late Ld Rochester.

An unbound collection of poems chiefly of a bawdy nature or on affairs of state (including a number in the Rochester and apocryphal Rochester canon), in a non-professional hand, possibly derived at least in part from printed sources, 29 folio leaves.

c.1700

Among the papers of the Turner family of Kirkleatham.

North Yorkshire Record Office, Northallerton (ZK MIC 1275/9785 ff. [1r-2r])
RoJ 354

Copy, headed A copy of verses presented to ye K:.

Edited from this MS in Love. Recorded in Vieth and in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of Restoration verse, prose and dramatic works, in a single cursive predominantly italic hand, 417 pages.

c.1670s-80s

Formerly Princeton General MSS Misc AM 14401.

This MS discussed in A.S.G. Edwards, Libertine Literature in Restoration England: Princeton MS AM 14401, BC, 25 (Autumn 1976), 354-68, and in PBSA (1977).

Princeton (CO199 No. 895 pp. 319-23)
RoJ 355

Copy, headed Satyr.

This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, including twelve poems in the Marvell canon (plus prose and apocryphal poems), in probably a single professional hand with variations of style (but for another hand on pp. 189-92), 192 pages (plus over 90 blank leaves and an Index), in modern red morocco.

The predominant hand in the MS is the same as that in Yale Osborn MS b 105.

c.1680s

In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Formerly Restoration poetry MS 1.

Cited in IELM as the Taylor MS: MaA Δ 9. Marvell items recorded and some poems collated in POAS, I.

Princeton (RTC01 No. 34 pp. 107-8)
RoJ 356

Copy, headed A Poem made by ye E— R for wch ye K. banisht him.

This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, largely in a single hand, 304 pages (plus an Index and blanks), in contemporary calf.

c.1680s-90s

Sotheby's, 21-22 April 1958, lot 397, to Seven Gables bookshop. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Formerly Restoration poetry MS 3.

A microfilm of this volume is in the British Library, M/546.

Princeton (RTC01 No. 36 pp. 241-2)
RoJ 357

Copy, headed On C. S—.

An octavo miscellany of poems on affairs of state, largely in one small neat hand, with additions (pp. 71-5 plus 20 pages at the reverse end) in later hands c.1709, 95 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum gilt.

c.1680-1700s

A label: Sold by Robert Paske Stationer in the Piatza on ye North side of the Royal Exchange London.

This volume is probably that sold at Sotheby's, 1 March 1871 (Sir John Simeon sale, 7th day), lot 1675, to Quaritch, and probably item 1279 in Dobell's sale catalogue The Literature of the Restoration (1918). In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Restoration poetry MS 4.

Princeton (RTC01 No. 167 pp. 25-6)
RoJ 358

Copy, untitled, on the second page of two conjugate folio leaves.

Edited from this MS in David M. Vieth, Rochester's Scepter Lampoon on Charles II, PQ, 37 (1958), 424-32 (p. 424); recorded in Vieth (1968) and in Walker.

A folio composite volume of poems on affairs of state, 319 pages, disbound.

Late 17th century

This MS owned in 1682 by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732). Later Phillipps MS 8301 and Osborn MS. Chest II, Number 52.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS fb 70 p. 28)
Satyr. [Timon] ('What Timon does old Age begin t'approach')

See RoJ 472-481.

Senecas Troas Act 2d Chor: ('After Death, nothing is, and nothing Death')

See RoJ 511-525.

A Session of the Poets ('Since the Sons of the Muses, grow num'rous and lowd')
Signior Dildo ('You ladies all of merry England')

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 54-9. Walker, pp. 75-8.

The poem discussed, texts collated, and the attribution to Rochester questioned, in Harold Love, A Restoration Lampoon in Transmission and Revision: Rochester's(?) Signior Dildo, SB, 46 (1993), 250-62. Love (two versions and added stanzas), pp. 248-9, 250-2, 252-3, 253-7, among Disputed Works.

RoJ 359

Copy, headed To the Tune of Peggy's gone to Sea with a Souldier, together with (pp. 480-2) Additions to Seigneur Dildoe.

This MS recorded in Vieth; recorded and the Additions printed in Walker, pp. 186-8.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. b. 8 pp. 477-8, 480-2)
RoJ 359.5

Copy, headed Upon Seignor Dildo p Rochester.

An octavo miscellany of Restoration poems, chiefly upon affairs of state, ii + 89 octavo leaves, in 19th-century red morocco.

Predominantly in a single professional hand, with subsequent corrections or annotations in other hands or inks, and (f. 89v) with a pencil note after a table of contents This Book is written by Brown.

Late 17th century

Bookplate of Edward Vernon Utterson (1776?-1856), of the Isle of Wight, artist, book collector and literary antiquary. Sotheby's, 19 April 1852, lot 1318. Owned after 1911 by Robert Ashburton Milnes, afterwards Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, politician. Christie's, 26 November 1997, lot 75.

RoJ 360

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.

A formal folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, including eleven by Rochester and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items, probably in a single professional hand, 444 leaves (including a six-leaf index).

c.1690s

Cited in IELM, II.ii as the Vienna MS: RoJ Δ 12. Discussed in Rudolf Brotanek, Beschreibung der Handschrift 14090 (Supplement 1776) der Nationalbibliothek in Wien, in Festschrift der Nationalbibliothek in Wien (Vienna, 1926), 145-62. Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker.

RoJ 361

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional hand, in two volumes: Vol. I, including twelve poems by Rochester and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items, pp. 1-461 (plus index); Vol. II, pp. 462-842 (with irregularities of pagination).

This MS is closely related to Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Cod. 14090.

c.1690s-1700

Later owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor, who records that £50 was given by Perry, for these 2 volumes.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dyce MS: RoJ Δ 15.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 43 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.37-38) pp. 119-24)
RoJ 362

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state entitled A Choice Collection of Poems, Lampoons, Satyrs &ca, xx + 412 pages (339-411 blank).

c.1700

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

This MS collated in POAS, I.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Firth c. 15 pp. 10-14)
RoJ 363

Copy, here beginning Oh all ye fair Ladies of merry England.

This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled Satyrs & Lampoons, in a single neat hand, i + 130 leaves, subscribed (f. 130v) Finis. 25, March 1691-2., in modern black morocco gilt.

c.1692
RoJ 364

Copy, the poem here dated 1674.

Edited from this MS in Court Satires of the Restoration, ed. John Harold Wilson (Columbus, 1976), pp. 15-18; recorded in Vieth and in Walker.

A large quarto miscellany of poems chiefly on affairs of state, entitled Collection of Choice Poemes, in a single neat hand, with a Catalogue of contents (ff. 382v-6v), 387 leaves, in half brown morocco gilt.

c.1703

Note of purchase (f. 1r) pd - 6 - 9 -/ April 24 1703.

RoJ 364.5

Copy, headed To ye Tune that Peg's gone ouer ye Sea with a Soldr, here beginning O all yee young ladies of merry England, on five pages of two pairs of conjugate folio leaves.

Edited from this MS and discussed in Harold Love, A New A Text of Signior Dildo, SB, 49 (1996), 169-75.

MSS.

Among papers of the Herbert family, Barons Herbert of Cherbury. Formerly Powis MSS (1990 deposit).

National Library of Wales (Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers, [uncatalogued box containing verse] [unnumbered item])
RoJ 365

Copy, as By Lord Dorset & Mr: [Fleetwood] Shepperd, the poem dated in the margin 1673.

This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.

A large folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Collection of Poems and Lampoons &ca Not yet Edited, in a single professional rounded hand (the same as in University of Nottingham, Pw V 43 and University of Nottingham, Pw V 44), 461 pages plus an eight-page Table of contents, in contemporary blind-stamped calf.

c.1705
University of Nottingham (Pw V 42 pp. 13-20)
RoJ 366

Copy, the poem here dated 1673.

This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Choyce Collection of Poems. &c., 325 pages, the verse on pp. 324-5 added c.1762.

c.1700

Owned in 1712 by Thomas Wentworth (1672-1739), Baron Raby and third Earl of Strafford.

RoJ 367

Copy, as By E: of Rochester. 1673.

This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional rounded hand, entitled A Collection of Choyce Poems, Lampoons, and Satyrs from 1673 to 1689. Never Extant in Print, 335 pages (plus a Table of contents and blanks), in modern red morocco.

c.1690s

In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Formerly Restoration poetry MS 2.

This MS collated in POAS, I.

Princeton (RTC01 No. 35 pp. 9-13)
A Song ('Absent from thee, I languish still')

First published in Poems, &c. on Several Occasions (London, 1691). Vieth, pp. 88-9. Walker, pp. 38-9. Love, p. 29.

RoJ 368

Copy.

Edited in part from this MS in Love.

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and papers.

Papers of the Rev. George Harbin (c.1665-1744), historical writer and librarian to Sir Thomas Thynne (1640-1714), first Viscount Weymouth, at Longleat House, including (ff. 38r-60v) 23 quarto leaves of poems and letters by Rochester in a single hand.

Early 18th century

Inscribed (several times) Alex: Malet: i.e. the Rev Alexander Malet, Harbin's nephew and executor, a later note stating that the Marquess of Bath purchased part of the papers from Malet's descendant, Sir Alexander Malet, in 1873. Another inscription (f. 37r) reads: Some of Dr Harbin's Papers obtained from Mr. Waller of Fleet St by J.E. Jackson, after the sale of the Papers by Puttick & Simpson April 1874.

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Harbin MS: RoJ Δ 9.

The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House (Thynne Papers, Vol. XXVII f. 55v)
RoJ 369

Copy, numbered in darker ink 13.

A quarto volume of works almost exclusively by Rochester, in a single professional hand up to p. 208, a second, less accomplished, hand taking over (after stubs of two extracted leaves) on pp. 209-31; with a title-page (p. 13), Poem's / By The. Right Honourable/John Earle / of/Rochester, 219 pages (plus 12 preliminary blank pages and 99 blank pages at the end), in half-russia over marbled boards.

c.mid-1680s

Bookplate of The Reverend Sir George Lee. Baronet/Hartwell. Inscribed This Manuscript was found at Hartwell. March. 1829. J. Lee and another, Bound Mr. Wilson. March 1829 [i.e. the MS was in the library of the Rev. Sir George Lee, Bt (1767-1827), rector of Hartwell, etc., and of Dr John Lee, F.R.S. (1783-1866), at Hartwell House, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire]. Later sold by Charles Sawyer (No. 1467 in a sale catalogue). The MS might possibly once have been owned by Thomas Lee, Bt, M.P. (1635-91) of Hartwell, who was, incidentally, related by marriage to Sir John Suckling. His son was Sir Thomas Lee, Bt, M.P. (1661-1702). The MS was later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 18 December 1995 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 114, with facsimile examples in the sale catalogue.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Hartwell MS: RoJ Δ 17. This MS on exhibition at the Bodleian, 16-28 June 1930, and recorded in Proceedings and Papers of the Oxford Bibliographical Society, 2 (1927-30), p. 213. Subsequently discussed, and parts printed, by Harold Love and Stephen Parks in A reasonable satyr, TLS, 1 August 1997, p. 13; in Harold Love, A Tale of Two Manuscripts, Yale University Library Gazette, 72 (1999), 41-53; and in his pamphlet A Newly Discovered Burlesque by John Wilmot Earl of Rochester (New Haven, 1997).

A complete microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7982.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 334 pp. 194-5)
Song ('As Chloris full of harmless thought')

First published as a broadside, Croydon and Cloris or, The Wanton Sheepherdess [?London, ?1676]. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 26-7. Walker, p. 35. Love, p. 36.

RoJ 370

Copy, headed The Yielding Nymph.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

A folio verse miscellany, entitled The Muse's Magazine, or Poeticall Miscelanies, in two parts, in a single hand, 189 leaves.

Including 27 poems by Cowley; eleven poems by Katherine Philips, evidently derived from printed sources; 10 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items; twelve poems by Sedley, plus one of doubtful authorship; and 15 poems by Waller, evidently derived from printed sources.

A note on a flyleaf relating to the bookseller John Dunton (1659-1733): John Dunton His Book, for which Mr. Corbet at ye Addisons Head, accepted One Half Guinea in full Payment for it, as Witness my Hand, Hannah Rakley. A note on f. 1: Since I had transcrib'd this whole Book, I met with some state Poems of these later times, mostly since K. George's Accession to the Crown [1714] which I have here inserted, as a supplement to these state Poems which make a part of this Collection by themselves. Date at the end of the volume: 1718, and some notes on a flyleaf dated 1724.

Early 18th century

The Mr. Corbet from whom Dunton purchased this MS was evidently the bookseller Thomas Corbett (fl. 1705-43), who ran his business at the Addison's Head, next to the Rose Tavern, without Temple Bar, from 1719 until his death in 1743. Neither Dunton nor Corbett are known to have used this MS for publication purposes.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dunton MS: PsK Δ 8; RoJ Δ 4; SeC Δ 1; WaE Δ 10.

For John Dunton's career, see Stephen Parks, John Dunton and the English Book Trade: A Study of His Career with a Checklist of His Publications (New York & London, 1970).

RoJ 371

Copy of lines 1-8, untitled, on a single quarto leaf. Late 17th century.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

A large folio guard-book of miscellaneous MSS, in various hands, 434 leaves.

Collected, and partly written, by Lieutenant Gideon Bonnivert (fl.1670s-90s), French Huguenot soldier and author, of Oxnead Hall, Norfolk.

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1009 f. 389v)
Song ('At last you'll force me to confess')

First published, as an additional stanza to the song While on those lovely looks I gaze, in A New Collection of the Choicest Songs (London, 1676). Vieth, p. 13. Walker, p. 22. Love, p. 32. An eight-line version beginning Too late, alas! I must confess published in Examen Poeticum (London, 1693), in Vieth, p. 174, and in Walker, p. 22.

*RoJ 372
Autograph

Autograph, with minor revisions, on one side of a single quarto leaf, once folded as a letter or packet.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

A folio composite volume of papers of Rochester and his immediate circle, on various paper sizes, 25 leaves, all mounted on guards, in modern black leather gilt.

Small collection of nineteen undated leaves of poetical drafts by Rochester and his immediate circle, on single sheets and scraps of paper of various size (folio, quarto, octavo), now inserted in a modern album, comprising: i: ff. 1-11v, autograph drafts of nine poems and a fragment of a prose comedy by Rochester. ii: ff. 12-14, 15-19v, eight autograph poetical drafts (including two versions of the same poem by the poet's wife, Elizabeth (née Mallet), Countess of Rochester (d.1698)). iii: f. 14v, a brief lyric (Your glory Phillis is in being lov'd) in an unidentified hand.

c.1660s-80

Formerly in the library of Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741), and quite possibly inherited from his father, the statesman Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Portland MS. First recorded by Francis Needham in 1934 (see RoJ 71, RoJ 435); recorded and printed in part in various of Vivian de Sola Pinto's publications (1935-62); discussed and analysed in Vieth, Attribution, pp. 204-30; the poems by Rochester edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker (and see also RoJ 633). Facsimile examples in Greene, pp. 71 and 128 (see RoJ 396, RoJ 406); Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 57-8 (see RoJ 396); IELM, II.ii (1993), Facsimile IX.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 31 f. 5r)
RoJ 374

Copy.

An unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves of verse, in a neat italic hand.

Late 17th century
University of Nottingham (Pw V 512 f. [1v])
RoJ 374.5

Copy of an untitled version beginning Too late alas I must confess.

A quarto verse miscellany.

Compiled by Lady Henrietta Harley.

Mid-18th century
University of Nottingham (Pw V 1066 f. 36v rev.)
RoJ 375

Copy of an eight-line version headed A song, beginning Too late alas! I must confess, and ascribed to Rochester.

A folio verse miscellany, in possibly two neat rounded hands, 366 pages plus a five-page index, dated at the end Finis August ye. 6th 1717.

1715-17
University of Chicago (MS 553 p. 229)
Song ('By all love's soft, yet mighty powers')

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 139. Walker, pp. 45-6. Love, pp. 37-8.

RoJ 376

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems chiefly on affairs of state, entitled A Collection of Poems, including 27 poems by Rochester (all ascribed to him), xii + 299 pages (plus a number of blanks), including a table of contents, in contemporary calf (rebacked).

In a single professional hand but for a few later additions at the very end (pp. 295-8, with some pages tipped-in).

c.1690s

Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Harvard MS: RoJ Δ 7.

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 636 pp. 69-70)
RoJ 376.5

Copy of the Song.

A large octavo verse miscellany, chiefly lampoons and poems on affairs of state, including 21 poems by Rochester and various others in the Rochester apocrypha, nearly 600 pages in all, with a 14-page index.

Written in a single hand which can be identified as that of the Scottish pasquil-writer and antiquary Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), who was also responsible for RoJ Δ 6.

c.1705
Private owners in the UK (Mylne MS pp. 243-4)
RoJ 376.8

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in several hands, one professional stylish hand predominating, with (ff. 1r, 2r) a Table of contents, 213 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf.

Including 29 poems by Rochester (plus a second copy of one) and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items.

c.1680s

Once owned by Thomas Fermor (1698-1753), first Earl of Pomfret, of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire. Also used by one James Parks.

Recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, and selectively collated in Walker.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 40 [unnumbered page])
Song ('Fair Chloris in a pigsty lay')

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 27-8. Walker, pp. 33-4. Love, pp. 39-40.

RoJ 377

Copy.

A large folio miscellany of verse and prose, in a single accomplished professional hand, 756 pages (including over 200 blank leaves).

Including (pp. 217-429) 87 poems, chiefly on affairs of state, of which thirty are by Rochester; other contents comprising (pp. 1-71) a transcript of a Royal Household Establishment Book of William and Mary (1689-97); (pp. 75-212) a collection of legal precedents; and (pp. 442-543) copies of documents relating to the New Forest.

c.1698-1700s

Evidently compiled either for Henry Somerset (1629-1700), first Duke of Beaufort, Privy Councillor, or for his son Henry (1661-98), Marquess of Worcester, or else for his grandson, Henry Somerset (1684-1714), second Duke of Beaufort, who was Warden of the New Forest.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Badminton MS: RoJ Δ 1. Discussed and contents listed, with facsimile examples, in Michael Brennan and Paul Hammond, The Badminton Manuscript: A New Miscellany of Restoration Verse, EMS, 5 (1995), 171-207.

The Duke of Beaufort, Badminton (FmE 3/12 pp. 311-12)
RoJ 378

Copy.

Edited in part from this MS in Love. Recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems chiefly on affairs of state, entitled A Collection of Poems, including 27 poems by Rochester (all ascribed to him), xii + 299 pages (plus a number of blanks), including a table of contents, in contemporary calf (rebacked).

In a single professional hand but for a few later additions at the very end (pp. 295-8, with some pages tipped-in).

c.1690s

Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Harvard MS: RoJ Δ 7.

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 636 pp. 77-9)
RoJ 379

Copy.

This MS collated in Hammond, Robinson and in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Booke of Paragrafts, including 22 poems by Rochester, 445 pages plus stubs of extracted leaves (originally 463 numbered pages and now lacking pp. 59-68, 147-54 and parts of pp. 155-8), with a two-leaf index; in contemporary red morocco.

In professional hands: A, pp. 1-194; B, in a different style and probably a different hand, pp. 195-432; C, probably yet another hand, with additions on pp. 75, 90, 102, 125, 142, 175, 195, and pp. 433-63.

c.1680s-90s

Inscribed (on stubs and endpapers) matt Calihan, To Cpt Robinson att Capt Eloass [Elwes] near ye Watch house in Marlburhroagh street, For Capt. Robinson at his Lodginges in Charing Cross. Christie's, 27 June 1979, lot 16.

Various commissioned officers named Robinson are recorded in Charles Dalton, English Army Lists and Commission Registers, 1661-1714 (6 vols, London, 1892-1904): see esp. I, 276. The volume was most probably owned by Charles Robinson of the King's Regiment of Foot Guards, who became Captain and then Lieutenant-Colonel in 1688 and was killed at Namur in 1695. A member of the same regiment in 1684 was the purveyor of MS lampoons Captain Lenthal Warcup. The Captain Eloass mentioned in one inscription was possibly William Elwes, who served as a Lieutenant in Viscount Colchester's Regiment of Horse, c.1692-4, and as a Captain in Lord Windsor's Regiment of Horse in 1702.

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Robinson MS: RoJ Δ 8. Discussed with facsimiles of pp. 1-10 in Paul Hammond, The Robinson Manuscript Miscellany of Restoration Verse in the Brotherton Collection, Leeds, Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, 18 (1982), 275-324 [cited in entries as Hammond, Robinson]. Facsimiles of p. 1 also in Christie's sale catalogue, Plate 1, after p. 48, and in The Brotherton Collection University of Leeds: Its contents described with illustrations of fifty books and manuscripts (Leeds, 1986), p. 17. Selectively collated in Walker.

RoJ 380

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in several hands, one professional stylish hand predominating, with (ff. 1r, 2r) a Table of contents, 213 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf.

Including 29 poems by Rochester (plus a second copy of one) and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items.

c.1680s

Once owned by Thomas Fermor (1698-1753), first Earl of Pomfret, of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire. Also used by one James Parks.

Recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, and selectively collated in Walker.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 40 ff. 47v-8v)
RoJ 381

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.

A formal quarto miscellany, of poems on affairs of state, including 29 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items, in three professional hands (A, pp. 1-278; B, pp. 279-84; C, pp. 285-314), 314 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary red morocco.

c.1680

Once owned by Count Carl Edward Gyldenstolpe (1770-1852) and perhaps originally acquired by Count Nils Gyldenstolpe (1642-1709), Swedish Ambassador at The Hague (in 1679-87).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Gyldenstolpe MS: RoJ Δ 14. A complete facsimile edition in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe (1967).

Royal Library, Stockholm (MS Vu. 69 pp. 169-71)
RoJ 382

Copy, headed Song to Cloris.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled Songs & Verses - Upon severall occasions, 406 pages (but pp. 35-44, 63-6, 77-86, 115-32, 153-8, 161-84, and 195-212 excised).

Including 30 poems by Rochester (and probably others by him on missing leaves); pp. 1-392 in a single professional hand (that also responsible for Princeton, RTC01 No. 34); pp. 392-406 in a second hand.

c.1680

Inscribed on the title-page Hansen: i.e. very probably the diplomat Friedrich Adolphus Hansen, who visited England in September 1680 in the entourage of Charles, electoral Prince Palatine. Owned, in 1951 by Dr A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952), Philadelphia book dealer, collector and scholar.

Cited in IELM, II as the Yale MS: RoJ Δ 16. The MS was identified by David M. Vieth as an independent scribal transcript of the copy-text used for the first edition of Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R— (Antwerp [i.e. London], 1680): see Attribution, pp. 56-100, and The Text of Rochester and the Editions of 1680, PBSA, 50 (1956), 243-63. Discussed extensively, and Hansen identified, in Harold Love, Scribal Texts and Literary Communities: The Rochester Circle and Osborn b. 105, SB, 42 (1989), 219-35. Facsimile of p. 62 in Vieth (1968), frontispiece. Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth (1968) and in Walker.

Yale, Osborn MS b 100 through Osborn MS b 149 (Osborn MS b 105 pp. 133-5)
RoJ 383

Copy, untitled, lacking the last three stanzas, on a single folded leaf.

Late 17th century

Formerly Osborn MS. Chest II, Number 32.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn Poetry Box VI/88)
Song ('Give me leave to rail at you')

First published (first stanza only) in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman [London, 1677]. Both stanzas in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). The second stanza only (beginning Kindness has resistless Charms) also in Valentinian (London, 1685). Vieth, pp. 10-11. Walker, pp. 20-1. Love, p. 18.

Some texts accompanied by Lady Rochester's Answer to the poem (beginning Nothing adds to love's fond fire), her autograph of which is in University of Nottingham, Pw V 31, f. 15r. It is edited in Vieth, p. 10; in Walker, pp. 21-2, 154; in Kissing the Rod, ed. Germaine Greer et al. (London, 1988), pp. 230-2; and in Love, pp. 18-19.

RoJ 384

Copy, headed Thirsis.

A large folio miscellany of verse and prose, in a single accomplished professional hand, 756 pages (including over 200 blank leaves).

Including (pp. 217-429) 87 poems, chiefly on affairs of state, of which thirty are by Rochester; other contents comprising (pp. 1-71) a transcript of a Royal Household Establishment Book of William and Mary (1689-97); (pp. 75-212) a collection of legal precedents; and (pp. 442-543) copies of documents relating to the New Forest.

c.1698-1700s

Evidently compiled either for Henry Somerset (1629-1700), first Duke of Beaufort, Privy Councillor, or for his son Henry (1661-98), Marquess of Worcester, or else for his grandson, Henry Somerset (1684-1714), second Duke of Beaufort, who was Warden of the New Forest.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Badminton MS: RoJ Δ 1. Discussed and contents listed, with facsimile examples, in Michael Brennan and Paul Hammond, The Badminton Manuscript: A New Miscellany of Restoration Verse, EMS, 5 (1995), 171-207.

RoJ 384.5

Copy, immediately followed (on ff. 78v-9r) by Elizabeth Wilmot's answer (Nothing adds to your fond fire).

An octavo miscellany of Restoration poems, chiefly upon affairs of state, ii + 89 octavo leaves, in 19th-century red morocco.

Predominantly in a single professional hand, with subsequent corrections or annotations in other hands or inks, and (f. 89v) with a pencil note after a table of contents This Book is written by Brown.

Late 17th century

Bookplate of Edward Vernon Utterson (1776?-1856), of the Isle of Wight, artist, book collector and literary antiquary. Sotheby's, 19 April 1852, lot 1318. Owned after 1911 by Robert Ashburton Milnes, afterwards Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, politician. Christie's, 26 November 1997, lot 75.

RoJ 385

Copy, headed To Thirsis.

Fragment of a quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state.

Originally 90 leaves, but many excised and now comprising 24 leaves (plus blanks), ff. 4r-22r in a single professional hand; ff. 22v-6v (first stanza) in a later, less tidy, hand of the early 18th century; ff. 26v [after first stanza]-27r apparently in a third hand.

Late 17th-early 18th century

Inscribed twice on the front paste-down Richard Ashley and a deleted inscription possibly reading Lowes Park. Purchased c.1960 from a bookstall in Paris.

A complete facsimile edition of this MS, with discussion of the texts, in Pierre Danchin, A Late Seventeenth-Century Miscellany, Cahiers Élisabéthains, 22 (Université Paul Valéry-Montpellier, October 1982), 51-86. Recorded in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Ashley MS: RoJ Δ 5.

RoJ 386

Copy, headed To Thirsis; the text followed (pp. 121-2) by Lady Rochester's answer.

This MS collated in Hammond, Robinson and in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Booke of Paragrafts, including 22 poems by Rochester, 445 pages plus stubs of extracted leaves (originally 463 numbered pages and now lacking pp. 59-68, 147-54 and parts of pp. 155-8), with a two-leaf index; in contemporary red morocco.

In professional hands: A, pp. 1-194; B, in a different style and probably a different hand, pp. 195-432; C, probably yet another hand, with additions on pp. 75, 90, 102, 125, 142, 175, 195, and pp. 433-63.

c.1680s-90s

Inscribed (on stubs and endpapers) matt Calihan, To Cpt Robinson att Capt Eloass [Elwes] near ye Watch house in Marlburhroagh street, For Capt. Robinson at his Lodginges in Charing Cross. Christie's, 27 June 1979, lot 16.

Various commissioned officers named Robinson are recorded in Charles Dalton, English Army Lists and Commission Registers, 1661-1714 (6 vols, London, 1892-1904): see esp. I, 276. The volume was most probably owned by Charles Robinson of the King's Regiment of Foot Guards, who became Captain and then Lieutenant-Colonel in 1688 and was killed at Namur in 1695. A member of the same regiment in 1684 was the purveyor of MS lampoons Captain Lenthal Warcup. The Captain Eloass mentioned in one inscription was possibly William Elwes, who served as a Lieutenant in Viscount Colchester's Regiment of Horse, c.1692-4, and as a Captain in Lord Windsor's Regiment of Horse in 1702.

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Robinson MS: RoJ Δ 8. Discussed with facsimiles of pp. 1-10 in Paul Hammond, The Robinson Manuscript Miscellany of Restoration Verse in the Brotherton Collection, Leeds, Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, 18 (1982), 275-324 [cited in entries as Hammond, Robinson]. Facsimiles of p. 1 also in Christie's sale catalogue, Plate 1, after p. 48, and in The Brotherton Collection University of Leeds: Its contents described with illustrations of fifty books and manuscripts (Leeds, 1986), p. 17. Selectively collated in Walker.

RoJ 387

Copy, headed Song by severall Hands / Mrs Whorton; the text followed (f. 45r-v) by Lady Rochester's answer.

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and papers.

Papers of the Rev. George Harbin (c.1665-1744), historical writer and librarian to Sir Thomas Thynne (1640-1714), first Viscount Weymouth, at Longleat House, including (ff. 38r-60v) 23 quarto leaves of poems and letters by Rochester in a single hand.

Early 18th century

Inscribed (several times) Alex: Malet: i.e. the Rev Alexander Malet, Harbin's nephew and executor, a later note stating that the Marquess of Bath purchased part of the papers from Malet's descendant, Sir Alexander Malet, in 1873. Another inscription (f. 37r) reads: Some of Dr Harbin's Papers obtained from Mr. Waller of Fleet St by J.E. Jackson, after the sale of the Papers by Puttick & Simpson April 1874.

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Harbin MS: RoJ Δ 9.

The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House (Thynne Papers, Vol. XXVII f. 45r)
RoJ 388

Copy, headed To Thirsis; the text followed (pp. 59-60) by Lady Rochester's answer.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe; collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in several hands, one professional stylish hand predominating, with (ff. 1r, 2r) a Table of contents, 213 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf.

Including 29 poems by Rochester (plus a second copy of one) and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items.

c.1680s

Once owned by Thomas Fermor (1698-1753), first Earl of Pomfret, of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire. Also used by one James Parks.

Recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, and selectively collated in Walker.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 40 f. 47r-v)
RoJ 389

Copy, headed To Thirsis, followed (p. 168) by Lady Rochester's answer.

This MS collated in Walker.

A formal quarto miscellany, of poems on affairs of state, including 29 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items, in three professional hands (A, pp. 1-278; B, pp. 279-84; C, pp. 285-314), 314 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary red morocco.

c.1680

Once owned by Count Carl Edward Gyldenstolpe (1770-1852) and perhaps originally acquired by Count Nils Gyldenstolpe (1642-1709), Swedish Ambassador at The Hague (in 1679-87).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Gyldenstolpe MS: RoJ Δ 14. A complete facsimile edition in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe (1967).

Royal Library, Stockholm (MS Vu. 69 p. 167)
RoJ 390

Copy, followed (pp. 106-7) by Lady Rochester's answer.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional hand, in two volumes: Vol. I, including twelve poems by Rochester and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items, pp. 1-461 (plus index); Vol. II, pp. 462-842 (with irregularities of pagination).

This MS is closely related to Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Cod. 14090.

c.1690s-1700

Later owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor, who records that £50 was given by Perry, for these 2 volumes.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dyce MS: RoJ Δ 15.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 43 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.37-38) pp. 105-6)
RoJ 391

The text followed (pp. 137-8) by followed (pp. 137-8) by Elizabeth Wilmot's The Answer (Nothing adds to your fond fire).

Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled Songs & Verses - Upon severall occasions, 406 pages (but pp. 35-44, 63-6, 77-86, 115-32, 153-8, 161-84, and 195-212 excised).

Including 30 poems by Rochester (and probably others by him on missing leaves); pp. 1-392 in a single professional hand (that also responsible for Princeton, RTC01 No. 34); pp. 392-406 in a second hand.

c.1680

Inscribed on the title-page Hansen: i.e. very probably the diplomat Friedrich Adolphus Hansen, who visited England in September 1680 in the entourage of Charles, electoral Prince Palatine. Owned, in 1951 by Dr A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952), Philadelphia book dealer, collector and scholar.

Cited in IELM, II as the Yale MS: RoJ Δ 16. The MS was identified by David M. Vieth as an independent scribal transcript of the copy-text used for the first edition of Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R— (Antwerp [i.e. London], 1680): see Attribution, pp. 56-100, and The Text of Rochester and the Editions of 1680, PBSA, 50 (1956), 243-63. Discussed extensively, and Hansen identified, in Harold Love, Scribal Texts and Literary Communities: The Rochester Circle and Osborn b. 105, SB, 42 (1989), 219-35. Facsimile of p. 62 in Vieth (1968), frontispiece. Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth (1968) and in Walker.

Yale, Osborn MS b 100 through Osborn MS b 149 (Osborn MS b 105 pp. 136-7)
RoJ 392

Copy of the second stanza only, headed Song and here beginning Kindnesse has resistlesse charmes, numbered in a darker ink 3.

A quarto volume of works almost exclusively by Rochester, in a single professional hand up to p. 208, a second, less accomplished, hand taking over (after stubs of two extracted leaves) on pp. 209-31; with a title-page (p. 13), Poem's / By The. Right Honourable/John Earle / of/Rochester, 219 pages (plus 12 preliminary blank pages and 99 blank pages at the end), in half-russia over marbled boards.

c.mid-1680s

Bookplate of The Reverend Sir George Lee. Baronet/Hartwell. Inscribed This Manuscript was found at Hartwell. March. 1829. J. Lee and another, Bound Mr. Wilson. March 1829 [i.e. the MS was in the library of the Rev. Sir George Lee, Bt (1767-1827), rector of Hartwell, etc., and of Dr John Lee, F.R.S. (1783-1866), at Hartwell House, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire]. Later sold by Charles Sawyer (No. 1467 in a sale catalogue). The MS might possibly once have been owned by Thomas Lee, Bt, M.P. (1635-91) of Hartwell, who was, incidentally, related by marriage to Sir John Suckling. His son was Sir Thomas Lee, Bt, M.P. (1661-1702). The MS was later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 18 December 1995 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 114, with facsimile examples in the sale catalogue.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Hartwell MS: RoJ Δ 17. This MS on exhibition at the Bodleian, 16-28 June 1930, and recorded in Proceedings and Papers of the Oxford Bibliographical Society, 2 (1927-30), p. 213. Subsequently discussed, and parts printed, by Harold Love and Stephen Parks in A reasonable satyr, TLS, 1 August 1997, p. 13; in Harold Love, A Tale of Two Manuscripts, Yale University Library Gazette, 72 (1999), 41-53; and in his pamphlet A Newly Discovered Burlesque by John Wilmot Earl of Rochester (New Haven, 1997).

A complete microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7982.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 334 p. 183)
RoJ 393

Copy of part of the poem, headed Kindness.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.

A folio verse miscellany, in possibly two neat rounded hands, 366 pages plus a five-page index, dated at the end Finis August ye. 6th 1717.

1715-17
University of Chicago (MS 553 p. 208)
RoJ 394

Copy. The text followed (f. 32r-v) by Lady Rochester's answer.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.

A tall folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in professional hands, 257 leaves, in modern calf gilt.

In three sections each with its own title-page.

First section: A Collection of Poems and Lampoons &ca Not yet Printed.

Second section (f. 102r): A Collection of Choice Poems, Satyrs, & Lampoons From 1672 to 1688 Never printed.

Third section (f. 146r): A Collection of Poems. From 1688 to 1699. 1703/4.

Early 1700s
RoJ 395

Copy, in a musical setting as By Jo: Blundevile.

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

c.1720

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

Song ('How happy, Chloris, were they free')

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 83-4. Walker, pp. 39-40, and the version How perfect Cloris, and how free on pp. 40-1, and in Love, pp. 23-4. See also David Vieth, A Textual Paradox: Rochester's To a Lady in a Letter, PBSA, 54 (1960), 147-62 (and sequel in Vol. 55 (1961), 130-3).

For the even later version of this lyric, see RoJ 482.

*RoJ 396
Autograph

Autograph draft of an untitled 32-line version beginning How [happy deleted] perfect Cloris, & how free, on the first of two conjugate quarto leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.

Edited from this MS and discussed (as text B1) in Vieth, art. cit. Edited in Walker, pp. 40-1, and in Love. Facsimile in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 57-8. Facsimile example in Greene, p. 71.

A folio composite volume of papers of Rochester and his immediate circle, on various paper sizes, 25 leaves, all mounted on guards, in modern black leather gilt.

Small collection of nineteen undated leaves of poetical drafts by Rochester and his immediate circle, on single sheets and scraps of paper of various size (folio, quarto, octavo), now inserted in a modern album, comprising: i: ff. 1-11v, autograph drafts of nine poems and a fragment of a prose comedy by Rochester. ii: ff. 12-14, 15-19v, eight autograph poetical drafts (including two versions of the same poem by the poet's wife, Elizabeth (née Mallet), Countess of Rochester (d.1698)). iii: f. 14v, a brief lyric (Your glory Phillis is in being lov'd) in an unidentified hand.

c.1660s-80

Formerly in the library of Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741), and quite possibly inherited from his father, the statesman Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Portland MS. First recorded by Francis Needham in 1934 (see RoJ 71, RoJ 435); recorded and printed in part in various of Vivian de Sola Pinto's publications (1935-62); discussed and analysed in Vieth, Attribution, pp. 204-30; the poems by Rochester edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker (and see also RoJ 633). Facsimile examples in Greene, pp. 71 and 128 (see RoJ 396, RoJ 406); Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 57-8 (see RoJ 396); IELM, II.ii (1993), Facsimile IX.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 31 f. 1r-v)
RoJ 396.5

Copy.

An octavo miscellany of Restoration poems, chiefly upon affairs of state, ii + 89 octavo leaves, in 19th-century red morocco.

Predominantly in a single professional hand, with subsequent corrections or annotations in other hands or inks, and (f. 89v) with a pencil note after a table of contents This Book is written by Brown.

Late 17th century

Bookplate of Edward Vernon Utterson (1776?-1856), of the Isle of Wight, artist, book collector and literary antiquary. Sotheby's, 19 April 1852, lot 1318. Owned after 1911 by Robert Ashburton Milnes, afterwards Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, politician. Christie's, 26 November 1997, lot 75.

RoJ 397

Copy.

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and papers.

Papers of the Rev. George Harbin (c.1665-1744), historical writer and librarian to Sir Thomas Thynne (1640-1714), first Viscount Weymouth, at Longleat House, including (ff. 38r-60v) 23 quarto leaves of poems and letters by Rochester in a single hand.

Early 18th century

Inscribed (several times) Alex: Malet: i.e. the Rev Alexander Malet, Harbin's nephew and executor, a later note stating that the Marquess of Bath purchased part of the papers from Malet's descendant, Sir Alexander Malet, in 1873. Another inscription (f. 37r) reads: Some of Dr Harbin's Papers obtained from Mr. Waller of Fleet St by J.E. Jackson, after the sale of the Papers by Puttick & Simpson April 1874.

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Harbin MS: RoJ Δ 9.

The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House (Thynne Papers, Vol. XXVII f. 51r)
RoJ 398

Printed from this MS (as text A1) in Vieth, art. cit., pp. 149-50; edited in Walker, pp. 39-40.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled Songs & Verses - Upon severall occasions, 406 pages (but pp. 35-44, 63-6, 77-86, 115-32, 153-8, 161-84, and 195-212 excised).

Including 30 poems by Rochester (and probably others by him on missing leaves); pp. 1-392 in a single professional hand (that also responsible for Princeton, RTC01 No. 34); pp. 392-406 in a second hand.

c.1680

Inscribed on the title-page Hansen: i.e. very probably the diplomat Friedrich Adolphus Hansen, who visited England in September 1680 in the entourage of Charles, electoral Prince Palatine. Owned, in 1951 by Dr A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952), Philadelphia book dealer, collector and scholar.

Cited in IELM, II as the Yale MS: RoJ Δ 16. The MS was identified by David M. Vieth as an independent scribal transcript of the copy-text used for the first edition of Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R— (Antwerp [i.e. London], 1680): see Attribution, pp. 56-100, and The Text of Rochester and the Editions of 1680, PBSA, 50 (1956), 243-63. Discussed extensively, and Hansen identified, in Harold Love, Scribal Texts and Literary Communities: The Rochester Circle and Osborn b. 105, SB, 42 (1989), 219-35. Facsimile of p. 62 in Vieth (1968), frontispiece. Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth (1968) and in Walker.

Yale, Osborn MS b 100 through Osborn MS b 149 (Osborn MS b 105 pp. 146-7)
RoJ 399

Copy, numbered in a darker ink 8.

A quarto volume of works almost exclusively by Rochester, in a single professional hand up to p. 208, a second, less accomplished, hand taking over (after stubs of two extracted leaves) on pp. 209-31; with a title-page (p. 13), Poem's / By The. Right Honourable/John Earle / of/Rochester, 219 pages (plus 12 preliminary blank pages and 99 blank pages at the end), in half-russia over marbled boards.

c.mid-1680s

Bookplate of The Reverend Sir George Lee. Baronet/Hartwell. Inscribed This Manuscript was found at Hartwell. March. 1829. J. Lee and another, Bound Mr. Wilson. March 1829 [i.e. the MS was in the library of the Rev. Sir George Lee, Bt (1767-1827), rector of Hartwell, etc., and of Dr John Lee, F.R.S. (1783-1866), at Hartwell House, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire]. Later sold by Charles Sawyer (No. 1467 in a sale catalogue). The MS might possibly once have been owned by Thomas Lee, Bt, M.P. (1635-91) of Hartwell, who was, incidentally, related by marriage to Sir John Suckling. His son was Sir Thomas Lee, Bt, M.P. (1661-1702). The MS was later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 18 December 1995 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 114, with facsimile examples in the sale catalogue.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Hartwell MS: RoJ Δ 17. This MS on exhibition at the Bodleian, 16-28 June 1930, and recorded in Proceedings and Papers of the Oxford Bibliographical Society, 2 (1927-30), p. 213. Subsequently discussed, and parts printed, by Harold Love and Stephen Parks in A reasonable satyr, TLS, 1 August 1997, p. 13; in Harold Love, A Tale of Two Manuscripts, Yale University Library Gazette, 72 (1999), 41-53; and in his pamphlet A Newly Discovered Burlesque by John Wilmot Earl of Rochester (New Haven, 1997).

A complete microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7982.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 334 pp. 188-9)
RoJ 400

Copy, untitled and here beginning How perfect Cloris & how free.

This MS recorded (as text B1) in Vieth, art. cit., pp. 151-2; recorded in Walker as a copy of RoJ 396.

A folio miscellany of largely poems on affairs of state, in two professional hands, with others on six tipped-in leaves at the end, 205 leaves (plus blanks), in black morocco gilt.

c.1730
RoJ 401

Copy, untitled and here beginning How perfect Cloris, and how free.

An unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves of verse, in a neat italic hand.

Late 17th century
University of Nottingham (Pw V 512 f. [1r])
Song ('Injurious charmer of my vanquished heart')

First published, in a truncated version headed The Expostulation, in Female Poems On Several Occasions. Written by Ephelia, 2nd edition (London, 1682). Valentinian (London, 1685), Act IV, scene ii, p. 42. Vieth, p. 160. Walker, p. 28. Love, p. 16.

RoJ 402

Copy.

This MS collated in Hammond, Robinson and in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Booke of Paragrafts, including 22 poems by Rochester, 445 pages plus stubs of extracted leaves (originally 463 numbered pages and now lacking pp. 59-68, 147-54 and parts of pp. 155-8), with a two-leaf index; in contemporary red morocco.

In professional hands: A, pp. 1-194; B, in a different style and probably a different hand, pp. 195-432; C, probably yet another hand, with additions on pp. 75, 90, 102, 125, 142, 175, 195, and pp. 433-63.

c.1680s-90s

Inscribed (on stubs and endpapers) matt Calihan, To Cpt Robinson att Capt Eloass [Elwes] near ye Watch house in Marlburhroagh street, For Capt. Robinson at his Lodginges in Charing Cross. Christie's, 27 June 1979, lot 16.

Various commissioned officers named Robinson are recorded in Charles Dalton, English Army Lists and Commission Registers, 1661-1714 (6 vols, London, 1892-1904): see esp. I, 276. The volume was most probably owned by Charles Robinson of the King's Regiment of Foot Guards, who became Captain and then Lieutenant-Colonel in 1688 and was killed at Namur in 1695. A member of the same regiment in 1684 was the purveyor of MS lampoons Captain Lenthal Warcup. The Captain Eloass mentioned in one inscription was possibly William Elwes, who served as a Lieutenant in Viscount Colchester's Regiment of Horse, c.1692-4, and as a Captain in Lord Windsor's Regiment of Horse in 1702.

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Robinson MS: RoJ Δ 8. Discussed with facsimiles of pp. 1-10 in Paul Hammond, The Robinson Manuscript Miscellany of Restoration Verse in the Brotherton Collection, Leeds, Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, 18 (1982), 275-324 [cited in entries as Hammond, Robinson]. Facsimiles of p. 1 also in Christie's sale catalogue, Plate 1, after p. 48, and in The Brotherton Collection University of Leeds: Its contents described with illustrations of fifty books and manuscripts (Leeds, 1986), p. 17. Selectively collated in Walker.

RoJ 403

Copy.

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and papers.

Papers of the Rev. George Harbin (c.1665-1744), historical writer and librarian to Sir Thomas Thynne (1640-1714), first Viscount Weymouth, at Longleat House, including (ff. 38r-60v) 23 quarto leaves of poems and letters by Rochester in a single hand.

Early 18th century

Inscribed (several times) Alex: Malet: i.e. the Rev Alexander Malet, Harbin's nephew and executor, a later note stating that the Marquess of Bath purchased part of the papers from Malet's descendant, Sir Alexander Malet, in 1873. Another inscription (f. 37r) reads: Some of Dr Harbin's Papers obtained from Mr. Waller of Fleet St by J.E. Jackson, after the sale of the Papers by Puttick & Simpson April 1874.

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Harbin MS: RoJ Δ 9.

The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House (Thynne Papers, Vol. XXVII f. 60r)
RoJ 404

Copy, headed Dialogue / Nimph Sheppard.

Edited in paer from this MS in Love.

A quarto volume of works almost exclusively by Rochester, in a single professional hand up to p. 208, a second, less accomplished, hand taking over (after stubs of two extracted leaves) on pp. 209-31; with a title-page (p. 13), Poem's / By The. Right Honourable/John Earle / of/Rochester, 219 pages (plus 12 preliminary blank pages and 99 blank pages at the end), in half-russia over marbled boards.

c.mid-1680s

Bookplate of The Reverend Sir George Lee. Baronet/Hartwell. Inscribed This Manuscript was found at Hartwell. March. 1829. J. Lee and another, Bound Mr. Wilson. March 1829 [i.e. the MS was in the library of the Rev. Sir George Lee, Bt (1767-1827), rector of Hartwell, etc., and of Dr John Lee, F.R.S. (1783-1866), at Hartwell House, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire]. Later sold by Charles Sawyer (No. 1467 in a sale catalogue). The MS might possibly once have been owned by Thomas Lee, Bt, M.P. (1635-91) of Hartwell, who was, incidentally, related by marriage to Sir John Suckling. His son was Sir Thomas Lee, Bt, M.P. (1661-1702). The MS was later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 18 December 1995 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 114, with facsimile examples in the sale catalogue.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Hartwell MS: RoJ Δ 17. This MS on exhibition at the Bodleian, 16-28 June 1930, and recorded in Proceedings and Papers of the Oxford Bibliographical Society, 2 (1927-30), p. 213. Subsequently discussed, and parts printed, by Harold Love and Stephen Parks in A reasonable satyr, TLS, 1 August 1997, p. 13; in Harold Love, A Tale of Two Manuscripts, Yale University Library Gazette, 72 (1999), 41-53; and in his pamphlet A Newly Discovered Burlesque by John Wilmot Earl of Rochester (New Haven, 1997).

A complete microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7982.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 334 pp. 176-7)
A Song ('Insulting beauty, you misspend')

First published in Examen Poeticum (London, 1693). Vieth, p. 11. Walker, pp. 27-8. Love, pp. 33-4. See also David Vieth, Two Rochester Songs, N&Q, 201 (1956), 338-9.

RoJ 405

Copy, headed By My Lord Rochester.

A quarto verse miscellany.

Compiled by Lady Henrietta Harley.

Mid-18th century
University of Nottingham (Pw V 1066 ff. 39v, 38v rev.)
Song ('Leave this gaudy gilded stage')

First published in Vivian de Sola Pinto, Rochester: Portrait of a Restoration Poet (London, 1935), p. 120. Vieth, pp. 85-6. Walker, p. 25. Love, p. 32.

*RoJ 406
Autograph

Autograph, untitled, on one side of a single octavo leaf.

Edited from this MS by all editors. Facsimile in Greene, p. 128.

A folio composite volume of papers of Rochester and his immediate circle, on various paper sizes, 25 leaves, all mounted on guards, in modern black leather gilt.

Small collection of nineteen undated leaves of poetical drafts by Rochester and his immediate circle, on single sheets and scraps of paper of various size (folio, quarto, octavo), now inserted in a modern album, comprising: i: ff. 1-11v, autograph drafts of nine poems and a fragment of a prose comedy by Rochester. ii: ff. 12-14, 15-19v, eight autograph poetical drafts (including two versions of the same poem by the poet's wife, Elizabeth (née Mallet), Countess of Rochester (d.1698)). iii: f. 14v, a brief lyric (Your glory Phillis is in being lov'd) in an unidentified hand.

c.1660s-80

Formerly in the library of Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741), and quite possibly inherited from his father, the statesman Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Portland MS. First recorded by Francis Needham in 1934 (see RoJ 71, RoJ 435); recorded and printed in part in various of Vivian de Sola Pinto's publications (1935-62); discussed and analysed in Vieth, Attribution, pp. 204-30; the poems by Rochester edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker (and see also RoJ 633). Facsimile examples in Greene, pp. 71 and 128 (see RoJ 396, RoJ 406); Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 57-8 (see RoJ 396); IELM, II.ii (1993), Facsimile IX.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 31 f. 6r)
Song ('Love a woman? You're an ass!')

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 51. Walker, p. 25. Love, p. 38, as Love to a Woman.

RoJ 407

Copy, headed Love to a Woman.

A large folio miscellany of verse and prose, in a single accomplished professional hand, 756 pages (including over 200 blank leaves).

Including (pp. 217-429) 87 poems, chiefly on affairs of state, of which thirty are by Rochester; other contents comprising (pp. 1-71) a transcript of a Royal Household Establishment Book of William and Mary (1689-97); (pp. 75-212) a collection of legal precedents; and (pp. 442-543) copies of documents relating to the New Forest.

c.1698-1700s

Evidently compiled either for Henry Somerset (1629-1700), first Duke of Beaufort, Privy Councillor, or for his son Henry (1661-98), Marquess of Worcester, or else for his grandson, Henry Somerset (1684-1714), second Duke of Beaufort, who was Warden of the New Forest.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Badminton MS: RoJ Δ 1. Discussed and contents listed, with facsimile examples, in Michael Brennan and Paul Hammond, The Badminton Manuscript: A New Miscellany of Restoration Verse, EMS, 5 (1995), 171-207.

RoJ 407.5

Copy, subscribed E R.

An octavo miscellany of Restoration poems, chiefly upon affairs of state, ii + 89 octavo leaves, in 19th-century red morocco.

Predominantly in a single professional hand, with subsequent corrections or annotations in other hands or inks, and (f. 89v) with a pencil note after a table of contents This Book is written by Brown.

Late 17th century

Bookplate of Edward Vernon Utterson (1776?-1856), of the Isle of Wight, artist, book collector and literary antiquary. Sotheby's, 19 April 1852, lot 1318. Owned after 1911 by Robert Ashburton Milnes, afterwards Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, politician. Christie's, 26 November 1997, lot 75.

RoJ 408

Copy, headed Love to a Woman, heavily deleted.

Fragment of a quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state.

Originally 90 leaves, but many excised and now comprising 24 leaves (plus blanks), ff. 4r-22r in a single professional hand; ff. 22v-6v (first stanza) in a later, less tidy, hand of the early 18th century; ff. 26v [after first stanza]-27r apparently in a third hand.

Late 17th-early 18th century

Inscribed twice on the front paste-down Richard Ashley and a deleted inscription possibly reading Lowes Park. Purchased c.1960 from a bookstall in Paris.

A complete facsimile edition of this MS, with discussion of the texts, in Pierre Danchin, A Late Seventeenth-Century Miscellany, Cahiers Élisabéthains, 22 (Université Paul Valéry-Montpellier, October 1982), 51-86. Recorded in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Ashley MS: RoJ Δ 5.

RoJ 409

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems chiefly on affairs of state, entitled A Collection of Poems, including 27 poems by Rochester (all ascribed to him), xii + 299 pages (plus a number of blanks), including a table of contents, in contemporary calf (rebacked).

In a single professional hand but for a few later additions at the very end (pp. 295-8, with some pages tipped-in).

c.1690s

Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Harvard MS: RoJ Δ 7.

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 636 pp. 247-8)
RoJ 409.5

Copy, headed Satyr upon Women by ye Earl of Rochester.

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

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

c.1712-27

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

The University of Manchester Library (English MS 521 p. 69)
RoJ 410

Copy, headed Love a Woman.

This MS collated in Hammond, Robinson and in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Booke of Paragrafts, including 22 poems by Rochester, 445 pages plus stubs of extracted leaves (originally 463 numbered pages and now lacking pp. 59-68, 147-54 and parts of pp. 155-8), with a two-leaf index; in contemporary red morocco.

In professional hands: A, pp. 1-194; B, in a different style and probably a different hand, pp. 195-432; C, probably yet another hand, with additions on pp. 75, 90, 102, 125, 142, 175, 195, and pp. 433-63.

c.1680s-90s

Inscribed (on stubs and endpapers) matt Calihan, To Cpt Robinson att Capt Eloass [Elwes] near ye Watch house in Marlburhroagh street, For Capt. Robinson at his Lodginges in Charing Cross. Christie's, 27 June 1979, lot 16.

Various commissioned officers named Robinson are recorded in Charles Dalton, English Army Lists and Commission Registers, 1661-1714 (6 vols, London, 1892-1904): see esp. I, 276. The volume was most probably owned by Charles Robinson of the King's Regiment of Foot Guards, who became Captain and then Lieutenant-Colonel in 1688 and was killed at Namur in 1695. A member of the same regiment in 1684 was the purveyor of MS lampoons Captain Lenthal Warcup. The Captain Eloass mentioned in one inscription was possibly William Elwes, who served as a Lieutenant in Viscount Colchester's Regiment of Horse, c.1692-4, and as a Captain in Lord Windsor's Regiment of Horse in 1702.

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Robinson MS: RoJ Δ 8. Discussed with facsimiles of pp. 1-10 in Paul Hammond, The Robinson Manuscript Miscellany of Restoration Verse in the Brotherton Collection, Leeds, Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, 18 (1982), 275-324 [cited in entries as Hammond, Robinson]. Facsimiles of p. 1 also in Christie's sale catalogue, Plate 1, after p. 48, and in The Brotherton Collection University of Leeds: Its contents described with illustrations of fifty books and manuscripts (Leeds, 1986), p. 17. Selectively collated in Walker.

RoJ 411

Copy, headed Love to a Woman.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in several hands, one professional stylish hand predominating, with (ff. 1r, 2r) a Table of contents, 213 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf.

Including 29 poems by Rochester (plus a second copy of one) and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items.

c.1680s

Once owned by Thomas Fermor (1698-1753), first Earl of Pomfret, of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire. Also used by one James Parks.

Recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, and selectively collated in Walker.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 40 f. 50v)
RoJ 412

Copy, headed Love to a Woman.

Edited in part from this MS in Love. Recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A formal quarto miscellany, of poems on affairs of state, including 29 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items, in three professional hands (A, pp. 1-278; B, pp. 279-84; C, pp. 285-314), 314 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary red morocco.

c.1680

Once owned by Count Carl Edward Gyldenstolpe (1770-1852) and perhaps originally acquired by Count Nils Gyldenstolpe (1642-1709), Swedish Ambassador at The Hague (in 1679-87).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Gyldenstolpe MS: RoJ Δ 14. A complete facsimile edition in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe (1967).

Royal Library, Stockholm (MS Vu. 69 p. 182)
Song ('Phyllis, be gentler, I advise')

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 32. Walker, p. 36. Love, pp. 19-20.

RoJ 413

Copy, headed To Phillis.

A large folio miscellany of verse and prose, in a single accomplished professional hand, 756 pages (including over 200 blank leaves).

Including (pp. 217-429) 87 poems, chiefly on affairs of state, of which thirty are by Rochester; other contents comprising (pp. 1-71) a transcript of a Royal Household Establishment Book of William and Mary (1689-97); (pp. 75-212) a collection of legal precedents; and (pp. 442-543) copies of documents relating to the New Forest.

c.1698-1700s

Evidently compiled either for Henry Somerset (1629-1700), first Duke of Beaufort, Privy Councillor, or for his son Henry (1661-98), Marquess of Worcester, or else for his grandson, Henry Somerset (1684-1714), second Duke of Beaufort, who was Warden of the New Forest.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Badminton MS: RoJ Δ 1. Discussed and contents listed, with facsimile examples, in Michael Brennan and Paul Hammond, The Badminton Manuscript: A New Miscellany of Restoration Verse, EMS, 5 (1995), 171-207.

RoJ 413.5

Copy, subscribed E R.

An octavo miscellany of Restoration poems, chiefly upon affairs of state, ii + 89 octavo leaves, in 19th-century red morocco.

Predominantly in a single professional hand, with subsequent corrections or annotations in other hands or inks, and (f. 89v) with a pencil note after a table of contents This Book is written by Brown.

Late 17th century

Bookplate of Edward Vernon Utterson (1776?-1856), of the Isle of Wight, artist, book collector and literary antiquary. Sotheby's, 19 April 1852, lot 1318. Owned after 1911 by Robert Ashburton Milnes, afterwards Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, politician. Christie's, 26 November 1997, lot 75.

RoJ 414

Copy, headed Song By the L: Rochester.

Edited in part from this MS in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A long, narrow, ledger-size composite miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 112 pages (some misnumbered and pp. 45-6 excised), in 19th-century calf gilt.

A compendium of several separate collections of poems, each with its general heading, including nineteen poems by the Earl of Rochester, copied in a single hand, that of Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), antiquary.

c.1680s-1700s

Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker. Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Edinburgh MS: RoJ Δ 6.

Edinburgh University Library (MS Dc. 1. 3/1 p. 67)
RoJ 415

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems chiefly on affairs of state, entitled A Collection of Poems, including 27 poems by Rochester (all ascribed to him), xii + 299 pages (plus a number of blanks), including a table of contents, in contemporary calf (rebacked).

In a single professional hand but for a few later additions at the very end (pp. 295-8, with some pages tipped-in).

c.1690s

Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Harvard MS: RoJ Δ 7.

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 636 pp. 64-5)
RoJ 416

Copy, headed To Phillis.

This MS collated in Hammond, Robinson and in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Booke of Paragrafts, including 22 poems by Rochester, 445 pages plus stubs of extracted leaves (originally 463 numbered pages and now lacking pp. 59-68, 147-54 and parts of pp. 155-8), with a two-leaf index; in contemporary red morocco.

In professional hands: A, pp. 1-194; B, in a different style and probably a different hand, pp. 195-432; C, probably yet another hand, with additions on pp. 75, 90, 102, 125, 142, 175, 195, and pp. 433-63.

c.1680s-90s

Inscribed (on stubs and endpapers) matt Calihan, To Cpt Robinson att Capt Eloass [Elwes] near ye Watch house in Marlburhroagh street, For Capt. Robinson at his Lodginges in Charing Cross. Christie's, 27 June 1979, lot 16.

Various commissioned officers named Robinson are recorded in Charles Dalton, English Army Lists and Commission Registers, 1661-1714 (6 vols, London, 1892-1904): see esp. I, 276. The volume was most probably owned by Charles Robinson of the King's Regiment of Foot Guards, who became Captain and then Lieutenant-Colonel in 1688 and was killed at Namur in 1695. A member of the same regiment in 1684 was the purveyor of MS lampoons Captain Lenthal Warcup. The Captain Eloass mentioned in one inscription was possibly William Elwes, who served as a Lieutenant in Viscount Colchester's Regiment of Horse, c.1692-4, and as a Captain in Lord Windsor's Regiment of Horse in 1702.

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Robinson MS: RoJ Δ 8. Discussed with facsimiles of pp. 1-10 in Paul Hammond, The Robinson Manuscript Miscellany of Restoration Verse in the Brotherton Collection, Leeds, Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, 18 (1982), 275-324 [cited in entries as Hammond, Robinson]. Facsimiles of p. 1 also in Christie's sale catalogue, Plate 1, after p. 48, and in The Brotherton Collection University of Leeds: Its contents described with illustrations of fifty books and manuscripts (Leeds, 1986), p. 17. Selectively collated in Walker.

RoJ 417

Copy.

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and papers.

Papers of the Rev. George Harbin (c.1665-1744), historical writer and librarian to Sir Thomas Thynne (1640-1714), first Viscount Weymouth, at Longleat House, including (ff. 38r-60v) 23 quarto leaves of poems and letters by Rochester in a single hand.

Early 18th century

Inscribed (several times) Alex: Malet: i.e. the Rev Alexander Malet, Harbin's nephew and executor, a later note stating that the Marquess of Bath purchased part of the papers from Malet's descendant, Sir Alexander Malet, in 1873. Another inscription (f. 37r) reads: Some of Dr Harbin's Papers obtained from Mr. Waller of Fleet St by J.E. Jackson, after the sale of the Papers by Puttick & Simpson April 1874.

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Harbin MS: RoJ Δ 9.

The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House (Thynne Papers, Vol. XXVII f. 45v)
RoJ 418

Copy, headed To Phillis.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in several hands, one professional stylish hand predominating, with (ff. 1r, 2r) a Table of contents, 213 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf.

Including 29 poems by Rochester (plus a second copy of one) and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items.

c.1680s

Once owned by Thomas Fermor (1698-1753), first Earl of Pomfret, of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire. Also used by one James Parks.

Recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, and selectively collated in Walker.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 40 ff. 48v-9r)
RoJ 419

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution; collated in Walker.

A formal folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, including eleven by Rochester and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items, probably in a single professional hand, 444 leaves (including a six-leaf index).

c.1690s

Cited in IELM, II.ii as the Vienna MS: RoJ Δ 12. Discussed in Rudolf Brotanek, Beschreibung der Handschrift 14090 (Supplement 1776) der Nationalbibliothek in Wien, in Festschrift der Nationalbibliothek in Wien (Vienna, 1926), 145-62. Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker.

RoJ 420

Copy, headed Phillis.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A formal quarto miscellany, of poems on affairs of state, including 29 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items, in three professional hands (A, pp. 1-278; B, pp. 279-84; C, pp. 285-314), 314 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary red morocco.

c.1680

Once owned by Count Carl Edward Gyldenstolpe (1770-1852) and perhaps originally acquired by Count Nils Gyldenstolpe (1642-1709), Swedish Ambassador at The Hague (in 1679-87).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Gyldenstolpe MS: RoJ Δ 14. A complete facsimile edition in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe (1967).

Royal Library, Stockholm (MS Vu. 69 p. 176)
RoJ 421

Copy.

Edited in part from this MS in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional hand, in two volumes: Vol. I, including twelve poems by Rochester and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items, pp. 1-461 (plus index); Vol. II, pp. 462-842 (with irregularities of pagination).

This MS is closely related to Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Cod. 14090.

c.1690s-1700

Later owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor, who records that £50 was given by Perry, for these 2 volumes.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dyce MS: RoJ Δ 15.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 43 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.37-38) pp. 107-8)
RoJ 422

Edited in part from this MS in Vieth and in Love. Collated in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled Songs & Verses - Upon severall occasions, 406 pages (but pp. 35-44, 63-6, 77-86, 115-32, 153-8, 161-84, and 195-212 excised).

Including 30 poems by Rochester (and probably others by him on missing leaves); pp. 1-392 in a single professional hand (that also responsible for Princeton, RTC01 No. 34); pp. 392-406 in a second hand.

c.1680

Inscribed on the title-page Hansen: i.e. very probably the diplomat Friedrich Adolphus Hansen, who visited England in September 1680 in the entourage of Charles, electoral Prince Palatine. Owned, in 1951 by Dr A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952), Philadelphia book dealer, collector and scholar.

Cited in IELM, II as the Yale MS: RoJ Δ 16. The MS was identified by David M. Vieth as an independent scribal transcript of the copy-text used for the first edition of Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R— (Antwerp [i.e. London], 1680): see Attribution, pp. 56-100, and The Text of Rochester and the Editions of 1680, PBSA, 50 (1956), 243-63. Discussed extensively, and Hansen identified, in Harold Love, Scribal Texts and Literary Communities: The Rochester Circle and Osborn b. 105, SB, 42 (1989), 219-35. Facsimile of p. 62 in Vieth (1968), frontispiece. Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth (1968) and in Walker.

Yale, Osborn MS b 100 through Osborn MS b 149 (Osborn MS b 105 pp. 139-40)
RoJ 423

Copy, numbered in darker ink 4.

A quarto volume of works almost exclusively by Rochester, in a single professional hand up to p. 208, a second, less accomplished, hand taking over (after stubs of two extracted leaves) on pp. 209-31; with a title-page (p. 13), Poem's / By The. Right Honourable/John Earle / of/Rochester, 219 pages (plus 12 preliminary blank pages and 99 blank pages at the end), in half-russia over marbled boards.

c.mid-1680s

Bookplate of The Reverend Sir George Lee. Baronet/Hartwell. Inscribed This Manuscript was found at Hartwell. March. 1829. J. Lee and another, Bound Mr. Wilson. March 1829 [i.e. the MS was in the library of the Rev. Sir George Lee, Bt (1767-1827), rector of Hartwell, etc., and of Dr John Lee, F.R.S. (1783-1866), at Hartwell House, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire]. Later sold by Charles Sawyer (No. 1467 in a sale catalogue). The MS might possibly once have been owned by Thomas Lee, Bt, M.P. (1635-91) of Hartwell, who was, incidentally, related by marriage to Sir John Suckling. His son was Sir Thomas Lee, Bt, M.P. (1661-1702). The MS was later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 18 December 1995 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 114, with facsimile examples in the sale catalogue.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Hartwell MS: RoJ Δ 17. This MS on exhibition at the Bodleian, 16-28 June 1930, and recorded in Proceedings and Papers of the Oxford Bibliographical Society, 2 (1927-30), p. 213. Subsequently discussed, and parts printed, by Harold Love and Stephen Parks in A reasonable satyr, TLS, 1 August 1997, p. 13; in Harold Love, A Tale of Two Manuscripts, Yale University Library Gazette, 72 (1999), 41-53; and in his pamphlet A Newly Discovered Burlesque by John Wilmot Earl of Rochester (New Haven, 1997).

A complete microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7982.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 334 p. 184)
RoJ 423.5

Copy, headed Song By ye Ld Rochester.

A large octavo verse miscellany, chiefly lampoons and poems on affairs of state, including 21 poems by Rochester and various others in the Rochester apocrypha, nearly 600 pages in all, with a 14-page index.

Written in a single hand which can be identified as that of the Scottish pasquil-writer and antiquary Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), who was also responsible for RoJ Δ 6.

c.1705
Private owners in the UK (Mylne MS pp. 215-16)
RoJ 424

Copy, with a musical setting, untitled.

An oblong quarto music book, 156 pages (some leaves excised).

Late 17th century
Bodleian Library, Music MSS (MS Mus. Sch. F. 572 p. 76)
RoJ 425 Late 17th century

Copy, headed To Phillis, with other poems on the second page of two conjugate folio leaves.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

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.

RoJ 426

Copy, in a musical setting by T. Judway, untitled.

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

c.1682-90

Bookplate of Ralph Sympsun Esqr. Puttick & Simpson's, 24 April 1873.

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 29397 f. 54v-r rev.)
RoJ 427

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution; collated in Walker.

A tall folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in professional hands, 257 leaves, in modern calf gilt.

In three sections each with its own title-page.

First section: A Collection of Poems and Lampoons &ca Not yet Printed.

Second section (f. 102r): A Collection of Choice Poems, Satyrs, & Lampoons From 1672 to 1688 Never printed.

Third section (f. 146r): A Collection of Poems. From 1688 to 1699. 1703/4.

Early 1700s
RoJ 428

Copy, untitled.

An octavo verse miscellany.

End of 17th century

Once owned by Henry Bracegirdle of Merton College, Oxford, who gave it to Hugh Massey in 1674. Dobell's catalogue Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1274. Colbeck, Radford & Co., The Ingatherer No. 38 (1934), item 224.

King's College, Cambridge (Hayward Collection, H. 11. 14 p. 29)
RoJ 429

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

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.

RoJ 430

Copy, headed By Sr. P. P, written in a left-hand column, with a Latin version (beginning Blanda sis o a crudelis Phyllis) written in the right-hand column.

A folio miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, in a single neat hand but for additions in other hands on pp. 183-226, 226 pages (including numerous blanks), in modern cloth.

Compiled by Sir George Ent (1604-89), physician, a founding member of the Royal Society, to whom is addressed an inscription, sending the last item in the volume, on p. 226.

c.1674-80
Royal Society, London (MS 83 p. 94)
Song ('Quoth the Duchess of Cleveland to counselor Knight')

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 48. Walker, p. 61. Love, p. 90.

RoJ 431

Copy, headed Song by ye Dts. of Cleavland & Mrs Knight.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A long, narrow, ledger-size composite miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 112 pages (some misnumbered and pp. 45-6 excised), in 19th-century calf gilt.

A compendium of several separate collections of poems, each with its general heading, including nineteen poems by the Earl of Rochester, copied in a single hand, that of Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), antiquary.

c.1680s-1700s

Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker. Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Edinburgh MS: RoJ Δ 6.

Edinburgh University Library (MS Dc. 1. 3/1 p. 110)
RoJ 432

Copy, headed Mis: Knights Advice to the Dutchess, of Cleavland, in Distress For A Prick.

Edited from this MS in Walker. Recorded in Vieth.

A folio miscellany of poems chiefly on affairs of state, entitled A Collection of Poems, including 27 poems by Rochester (all ascribed to him), xii + 299 pages (plus a number of blanks), including a table of contents, in contemporary calf (rebacked).

In a single professional hand but for a few later additions at the very end (pp. 295-8, with some pages tipped-in).

c.1690s

Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Harvard MS: RoJ Δ 7.

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 636 p. 277)
RoJ 433 Late 17th-early 18th century

Copy, untitled, among other verse on the second leaf of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

An unbound folder of MSS of verse and prose, on affairs of state and other matters, in various hands.

Papers of the Lauder family of Fountainhall.

RoJ 433.5

Copy.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in several hands, one professional stylish hand predominating, with (ff. 1r, 2r) a Table of contents, 213 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf.

Including 29 poems by Rochester (plus a second copy of one) and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items.

c.1680s

Once owned by Thomas Fermor (1698-1753), first Earl of Pomfret, of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire. Also used by one James Parks.

Recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, and selectively collated in Walker.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 40 f. 213r)
RoJ 434

Copy of lines 1-3 only, headed A Dialogue between Mall: Knight and the Dutchess of Cleaveland, imperfect, lacking the remainder.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state entitled A Collection of Poems Sayters and Lampoones, 4178 pages (but a number excised).

Late 17th century

Front endpaper inscribed Latchington 2 March 1787. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (Phillipps MS 8303). At Yale formerly Chest II, Number 3.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS fb 140 p. 110 (pinned to 108))
Song (''Twas a dispute 'twixt heaven and earth')

First published in Welbeck Miscellany No. 2: A Collection of Poems by Several Hands, never before published, ed. Francis Needham (Bungay, Suffolk, 1934), p. 51. Vieth, p. 3. Walker, p. 27. Love, p. 31, as [Love poem].

*RoJ 435
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions, untitled, on two pages of two conjugate octavo leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

A folio composite volume of papers of Rochester and his immediate circle, on various paper sizes, 25 leaves, all mounted on guards, in modern black leather gilt.

Small collection of nineteen undated leaves of poetical drafts by Rochester and his immediate circle, on single sheets and scraps of paper of various size (folio, quarto, octavo), now inserted in a modern album, comprising: i: ff. 1-11v, autograph drafts of nine poems and a fragment of a prose comedy by Rochester. ii: ff. 12-14, 15-19v, eight autograph poetical drafts (including two versions of the same poem by the poet's wife, Elizabeth (née Mallet), Countess of Rochester (d.1698)). iii: f. 14v, a brief lyric (Your glory Phillis is in being lov'd) in an unidentified hand.

c.1660s-80

Formerly in the library of Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741), and quite possibly inherited from his father, the statesman Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Portland MS. First recorded by Francis Needham in 1934 (see RoJ 71, RoJ 435); recorded and printed in part in various of Vivian de Sola Pinto's publications (1935-62); discussed and analysed in Vieth, Attribution, pp. 204-30; the poems by Rochester edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker (and see also RoJ 633). Facsimile examples in Greene, pp. 71 and 128 (see RoJ 396, RoJ 406); Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 57-8 (see RoJ 396); IELM, II.ii (1993), Facsimile IX.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 31 f. 3r-v)
RoJ 437

Copy, untitlrd.

An unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves of verse, in a neat italic hand.

Late 17th century
University of Nottingham (Pw V 512 f. [1v])
Song ('What cruel pains Corinna takes')

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 31. Walker, p. 20, as To Corinna. A Song. Love, p. 20, as To Corinna.

RoJ 438

Copy, headed To Corinna.

A large folio miscellany of verse and prose, in a single accomplished professional hand, 756 pages (including over 200 blank leaves).

Including (pp. 217-429) 87 poems, chiefly on affairs of state, of which thirty are by Rochester; other contents comprising (pp. 1-71) a transcript of a Royal Household Establishment Book of William and Mary (1689-97); (pp. 75-212) a collection of legal precedents; and (pp. 442-543) copies of documents relating to the New Forest.

c.1698-1700s

Evidently compiled either for Henry Somerset (1629-1700), first Duke of Beaufort, Privy Councillor, or for his son Henry (1661-98), Marquess of Worcester, or else for his grandson, Henry Somerset (1684-1714), second Duke of Beaufort, who was Warden of the New Forest.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Badminton MS: RoJ Δ 1. Discussed and contents listed, with facsimile examples, in Michael Brennan and Paul Hammond, The Badminton Manuscript: A New Miscellany of Restoration Verse, EMS, 5 (1995), 171-207.

RoJ 439

Copy, headed Woman's Frailty. A Song. by Ld. Ro:.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

A folio verse miscellany, entitled The Muse's Magazine, or Poeticall Miscelanies, in two parts, in a single hand, 189 leaves.

Including 27 poems by Cowley; eleven poems by Katherine Philips, evidently derived from printed sources; 10 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items; twelve poems by Sedley, plus one of doubtful authorship; and 15 poems by Waller, evidently derived from printed sources.

A note on a flyleaf relating to the bookseller John Dunton (1659-1733): John Dunton His Book, for which Mr. Corbet at ye Addisons Head, accepted One Half Guinea in full Payment for it, as Witness my Hand, Hannah Rakley. A note on f. 1: Since I had transcrib'd this whole Book, I met with some state Poems of these later times, mostly since K. George's Accession to the Crown [1714] which I have here inserted, as a supplement to these state Poems which make a part of this Collection by themselves. Date at the end of the volume: 1718, and some notes on a flyleaf dated 1724.

Early 18th century

The Mr. Corbet from whom Dunton purchased this MS was evidently the bookseller Thomas Corbett (fl. 1705-43), who ran his business at the Addison's Head, next to the Rose Tavern, without Temple Bar, from 1719 until his death in 1743. Neither Dunton nor Corbett are known to have used this MS for publication purposes.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dunton MS: PsK Δ 8; RoJ Δ 4; SeC Δ 1; WaE Δ 10.

For John Dunton's career, see Stephen Parks, John Dunton and the English Book Trade: A Study of His Career with a Checklist of His Publications (New York & London, 1970).

RoJ 439.5

Copy, subscribed E R.

An octavo miscellany of Restoration poems, chiefly upon affairs of state, ii + 89 octavo leaves, in 19th-century red morocco.

Predominantly in a single professional hand, with subsequent corrections or annotations in other hands or inks, and (f. 89v) with a pencil note after a table of contents This Book is written by Brown.

Late 17th century

Bookplate of Edward Vernon Utterson (1776?-1856), of the Isle of Wight, artist, book collector and literary antiquary. Sotheby's, 19 April 1852, lot 1318. Owned after 1911 by Robert Ashburton Milnes, afterwards Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, politician. Christie's, 26 November 1997, lot 75.

RoJ 440

Copy, headed Song.

Fragment of a quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state.

Originally 90 leaves, but many excised and now comprising 24 leaves (plus blanks), ff. 4r-22r in a single professional hand; ff. 22v-6v (first stanza) in a later, less tidy, hand of the early 18th century; ff. 26v [after first stanza]-27r apparently in a third hand.

Late 17th-early 18th century

Inscribed twice on the front paste-down Richard Ashley and a deleted inscription possibly reading Lowes Park. Purchased c.1960 from a bookstall in Paris.

A complete facsimile edition of this MS, with discussion of the texts, in Pierre Danchin, A Late Seventeenth-Century Miscellany, Cahiers Élisabéthains, 22 (Université Paul Valéry-Montpellier, October 1982), 51-86. Recorded in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Ashley MS: RoJ Δ 5.

RoJ 441

Copy of stanzas 1, 2 and 4, headed To Corinna.

This MS collated in Hammond, Robinson and in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Booke of Paragrafts, including 22 poems by Rochester, 445 pages plus stubs of extracted leaves (originally 463 numbered pages and now lacking pp. 59-68, 147-54 and parts of pp. 155-8), with a two-leaf index; in contemporary red morocco.

In professional hands: A, pp. 1-194; B, in a different style and probably a different hand, pp. 195-432; C, probably yet another hand, with additions on pp. 75, 90, 102, 125, 142, 175, 195, and pp. 433-63.

c.1680s-90s

Inscribed (on stubs and endpapers) matt Calihan, To Cpt Robinson att Capt Eloass [Elwes] near ye Watch house in Marlburhroagh street, For Capt. Robinson at his Lodginges in Charing Cross. Christie's, 27 June 1979, lot 16.

Various commissioned officers named Robinson are recorded in Charles Dalton, English Army Lists and Commission Registers, 1661-1714 (6 vols, London, 1892-1904): see esp. I, 276. The volume was most probably owned by Charles Robinson of the King's Regiment of Foot Guards, who became Captain and then Lieutenant-Colonel in 1688 and was killed at Namur in 1695. A member of the same regiment in 1684 was the purveyor of MS lampoons Captain Lenthal Warcup. The Captain Eloass mentioned in one inscription was possibly William Elwes, who served as a Lieutenant in Viscount Colchester's Regiment of Horse, c.1692-4, and as a Captain in Lord Windsor's Regiment of Horse in 1702.

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Robinson MS: RoJ Δ 8. Discussed with facsimiles of pp. 1-10 in Paul Hammond, The Robinson Manuscript Miscellany of Restoration Verse in the Brotherton Collection, Leeds, Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, 18 (1982), 275-324 [cited in entries as Hammond, Robinson]. Facsimiles of p. 1 also in Christie's sale catalogue, Plate 1, after p. 48, and in The Brotherton Collection University of Leeds: Its contents described with illustrations of fifty books and manuscripts (Leeds, 1986), p. 17. Selectively collated in Walker.

RoJ 442

Copy, headed Song.

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and papers.

Papers of the Rev. George Harbin (c.1665-1744), historical writer and librarian to Sir Thomas Thynne (1640-1714), first Viscount Weymouth, at Longleat House, including (ff. 38r-60v) 23 quarto leaves of poems and letters by Rochester in a single hand.

Early 18th century

Inscribed (several times) Alex: Malet: i.e. the Rev Alexander Malet, Harbin's nephew and executor, a later note stating that the Marquess of Bath purchased part of the papers from Malet's descendant, Sir Alexander Malet, in 1873. Another inscription (f. 37r) reads: Some of Dr Harbin's Papers obtained from Mr. Waller of Fleet St by J.E. Jackson, after the sale of the Papers by Puttick & Simpson April 1874.

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Harbin MS: RoJ Δ 9.

The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House (Thynne Papers, Vol. XXVII f. 49v)
RoJ 443

Copy of stanzas 1, 2 and 4, headed To Corinna.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in several hands, one professional stylish hand predominating, with (ff. 1r, 2r) a Table of contents, 213 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf.

Including 29 poems by Rochester (plus a second copy of one) and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items.

c.1680s

Once owned by Thomas Fermor (1698-1753), first Earl of Pomfret, of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire. Also used by one James Parks.

Recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, and selectively collated in Walker.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 40 f. 45v)
RoJ 444

Copy of stanzas 1, 2 and 4, headed To Corinna.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A formal quarto miscellany, of poems on affairs of state, including 29 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items, in three professional hands (A, pp. 1-278; B, pp. 279-84; C, pp. 285-314), 314 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary red morocco.

c.1680

Once owned by Count Carl Edward Gyldenstolpe (1770-1852) and perhaps originally acquired by Count Nils Gyldenstolpe (1642-1709), Swedish Ambassador at The Hague (in 1679-87).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Gyldenstolpe MS: RoJ Δ 14. A complete facsimile edition in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe (1967).

Royal Library, Stockholm (MS Vu. 69 p. 174)
RoJ 445

Copy, headed Song.

Edited in part from this MS in Vieth; collated in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled Songs & Verses - Upon severall occasions, 406 pages (but pp. 35-44, 63-6, 77-86, 115-32, 153-8, 161-84, and 195-212 excised).

Including 30 poems by Rochester (and probably others by him on missing leaves); pp. 1-392 in a single professional hand (that also responsible for Princeton, RTC01 No. 34); pp. 392-406 in a second hand.

c.1680

Inscribed on the title-page Hansen: i.e. very probably the diplomat Friedrich Adolphus Hansen, who visited England in September 1680 in the entourage of Charles, electoral Prince Palatine. Owned, in 1951 by Dr A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952), Philadelphia book dealer, collector and scholar.

Cited in IELM, II as the Yale MS: RoJ Δ 16. The MS was identified by David M. Vieth as an independent scribal transcript of the copy-text used for the first edition of Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R— (Antwerp [i.e. London], 1680): see Attribution, pp. 56-100, and The Text of Rochester and the Editions of 1680, PBSA, 50 (1956), 243-63. Discussed extensively, and Hansen identified, in Harold Love, Scribal Texts and Literary Communities: The Rochester Circle and Osborn b. 105, SB, 42 (1989), 219-35. Facsimile of p. 62 in Vieth (1968), frontispiece. Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth (1968) and in Walker.

Yale, Osborn MS b 100 through Osborn MS b 149 (Osborn MS b 105 pp. 140-1)
RoJ 446

Copy, headed Song, numbered in a darker ink 5.

Edited in part from this MS in Love.

A quarto volume of works almost exclusively by Rochester, in a single professional hand up to p. 208, a second, less accomplished, hand taking over (after stubs of two extracted leaves) on pp. 209-31; with a title-page (p. 13), Poem's / By The. Right Honourable/John Earle / of/Rochester, 219 pages (plus 12 preliminary blank pages and 99 blank pages at the end), in half-russia over marbled boards.

c.mid-1680s

Bookplate of The Reverend Sir George Lee. Baronet/Hartwell. Inscribed This Manuscript was found at Hartwell. March. 1829. J. Lee and another, Bound Mr. Wilson. March 1829 [i.e. the MS was in the library of the Rev. Sir George Lee, Bt (1767-1827), rector of Hartwell, etc., and of Dr John Lee, F.R.S. (1783-1866), at Hartwell House, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire]. Later sold by Charles Sawyer (No. 1467 in a sale catalogue). The MS might possibly once have been owned by Thomas Lee, Bt, M.P. (1635-91) of Hartwell, who was, incidentally, related by marriage to Sir John Suckling. His son was Sir Thomas Lee, Bt, M.P. (1661-1702). The MS was later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 18 December 1995 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 114, with facsimile examples in the sale catalogue.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Hartwell MS: RoJ Δ 17. This MS on exhibition at the Bodleian, 16-28 June 1930, and recorded in Proceedings and Papers of the Oxford Bibliographical Society, 2 (1927-30), p. 213. Subsequently discussed, and parts printed, by Harold Love and Stephen Parks in A reasonable satyr, TLS, 1 August 1997, p. 13; in Harold Love, A Tale of Two Manuscripts, Yale University Library Gazette, 72 (1999), 41-53; and in his pamphlet A Newly Discovered Burlesque by John Wilmot Earl of Rochester (New Haven, 1997).

A complete microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7982.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 334 p. 185)
RoJ 447

Copy, in the hand of one of Edmund Waller's daughters.

A sheaf of sixteen folio leaves of verse, in a single hand, disbound.

Among the papers of the Waller family.

Mr Richard Waller ([no shelfmark] f. [16r])
Song ('While on those lovely looks I gaze')

First published in A New Collection of the Choicest Songs (London, 1676). Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 12-13. Walker, pp. 43-4. Love, pp. 26-7.

RoJ 448

Copy.

A large folio miscellany of verse and prose, in a single accomplished professional hand, 756 pages (including over 200 blank leaves).

Including (pp. 217-429) 87 poems, chiefly on affairs of state, of which thirty are by Rochester; other contents comprising (pp. 1-71) a transcript of a Royal Household Establishment Book of William and Mary (1689-97); (pp. 75-212) a collection of legal precedents; and (pp. 442-543) copies of documents relating to the New Forest.

c.1698-1700s

Evidently compiled either for Henry Somerset (1629-1700), first Duke of Beaufort, Privy Councillor, or for his son Henry (1661-98), Marquess of Worcester, or else for his grandson, Henry Somerset (1684-1714), second Duke of Beaufort, who was Warden of the New Forest.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Badminton MS: RoJ Δ 1. Discussed and contents listed, with facsimile examples, in Michael Brennan and Paul Hammond, The Badminton Manuscript: A New Miscellany of Restoration Verse, EMS, 5 (1995), 171-207.

The Duke of Beaufort, Badminton (FmE 3/12 pp. 314-5)
RoJ 449

Copy.

Fragment of a quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state.

Originally 90 leaves, but many excised and now comprising 24 leaves (plus blanks), ff. 4r-22r in a single professional hand; ff. 22v-6v (first stanza) in a later, less tidy, hand of the early 18th century; ff. 26v [after first stanza]-27r apparently in a third hand.

Late 17th-early 18th century

Inscribed twice on the front paste-down Richard Ashley and a deleted inscription possibly reading Lowes Park. Purchased c.1960 from a bookstall in Paris.

A complete facsimile edition of this MS, with discussion of the texts, in Pierre Danchin, A Late Seventeenth-Century Miscellany, Cahiers Élisabéthains, 22 (Université Paul Valéry-Montpellier, October 1982), 51-86. Recorded in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Ashley MS: RoJ Δ 5.

RoJ 450

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems chiefly on affairs of state, entitled A Collection of Poems, including 27 poems by Rochester (all ascribed to him), xii + 299 pages (plus a number of blanks), including a table of contents, in contemporary calf (rebacked).

In a single professional hand but for a few later additions at the very end (pp. 295-8, with some pages tipped-in).

c.1690s

Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Harvard MS: RoJ Δ 7.

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 636 pp. 67-8)
RoJ 451

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Walker. Collated in Hammond, Robinson.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Booke of Paragrafts, including 22 poems by Rochester, 445 pages plus stubs of extracted leaves (originally 463 numbered pages and now lacking pp. 59-68, 147-54 and parts of pp. 155-8), with a two-leaf index; in contemporary red morocco.

In professional hands: A, pp. 1-194; B, in a different style and probably a different hand, pp. 195-432; C, probably yet another hand, with additions on pp. 75, 90, 102, 125, 142, 175, 195, and pp. 433-63.

c.1680s-90s

Inscribed (on stubs and endpapers) matt Calihan, To Cpt Robinson att Capt Eloass [Elwes] near ye Watch house in Marlburhroagh street, For Capt. Robinson at his Lodginges in Charing Cross. Christie's, 27 June 1979, lot 16.

Various commissioned officers named Robinson are recorded in Charles Dalton, English Army Lists and Commission Registers, 1661-1714 (6 vols, London, 1892-1904): see esp. I, 276. The volume was most probably owned by Charles Robinson of the King's Regiment of Foot Guards, who became Captain and then Lieutenant-Colonel in 1688 and was killed at Namur in 1695. A member of the same regiment in 1684 was the purveyor of MS lampoons Captain Lenthal Warcup. The Captain Eloass mentioned in one inscription was possibly William Elwes, who served as a Lieutenant in Viscount Colchester's Regiment of Horse, c.1692-4, and as a Captain in Lord Windsor's Regiment of Horse in 1702.

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Robinson MS: RoJ Δ 8. Discussed with facsimiles of pp. 1-10 in Paul Hammond, The Robinson Manuscript Miscellany of Restoration Verse in the Brotherton Collection, Leeds, Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, 18 (1982), 275-324 [cited in entries as Hammond, Robinson]. Facsimiles of p. 1 also in Christie's sale catalogue, Plate 1, after p. 48, and in The Brotherton Collection University of Leeds: Its contents described with illustrations of fifty books and manuscripts (Leeds, 1986), p. 17. Selectively collated in Walker.

RoJ 452

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and papers.

Papers of the Rev. George Harbin (c.1665-1744), historical writer and librarian to Sir Thomas Thynne (1640-1714), first Viscount Weymouth, at Longleat House, including (ff. 38r-60v) 23 quarto leaves of poems and letters by Rochester in a single hand.

Early 18th century

Inscribed (several times) Alex: Malet: i.e. the Rev Alexander Malet, Harbin's nephew and executor, a later note stating that the Marquess of Bath purchased part of the papers from Malet's descendant, Sir Alexander Malet, in 1873. Another inscription (f. 37r) reads: Some of Dr Harbin's Papers obtained from Mr. Waller of Fleet St by J.E. Jackson, after the sale of the Papers by Puttick & Simpson April 1874.

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Harbin MS: RoJ Δ 9.

The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House (Thynne Papers, Vol. XXVII f. 52r-v)
RoJ 453

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in several hands, one professional stylish hand predominating, with (ff. 1r, 2r) a Table of contents, 213 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf.

Including 29 poems by Rochester (plus a second copy of one) and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items.

c.1680s

Once owned by Thomas Fermor (1698-1753), first Earl of Pomfret, of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire. Also used by one James Parks.

Recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, and selectively collated in Walker.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 40 f. 49v)
RoJ 454

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A formal quarto miscellany, of poems on affairs of state, including 29 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items, in three professional hands (A, pp. 1-278; B, pp. 279-84; C, pp. 285-314), 314 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary red morocco.

c.1680

Once owned by Count Carl Edward Gyldenstolpe (1770-1852) and perhaps originally acquired by Count Nils Gyldenstolpe (1642-1709), Swedish Ambassador at The Hague (in 1679-87).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Gyldenstolpe MS: RoJ Δ 14. A complete facsimile edition in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe (1967).

Royal Library, Stockholm (MS Vu. 69 p. 177)
RoJ 455

Edited from this MS in Vieth; collated in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled Songs & Verses - Upon severall occasions, 406 pages (but pp. 35-44, 63-6, 77-86, 115-32, 153-8, 161-84, and 195-212 excised).

Including 30 poems by Rochester (and probably others by him on missing leaves); pp. 1-392 in a single professional hand (that also responsible for Princeton, RTC01 No. 34); pp. 392-406 in a second hand.

c.1680

Inscribed on the title-page Hansen: i.e. very probably the diplomat Friedrich Adolphus Hansen, who visited England in September 1680 in the entourage of Charles, electoral Prince Palatine. Owned, in 1951 by Dr A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952), Philadelphia book dealer, collector and scholar.

Cited in IELM, II as the Yale MS: RoJ Δ 16. The MS was identified by David M. Vieth as an independent scribal transcript of the copy-text used for the first edition of Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R— (Antwerp [i.e. London], 1680): see Attribution, pp. 56-100, and The Text of Rochester and the Editions of 1680, PBSA, 50 (1956), 243-63. Discussed extensively, and Hansen identified, in Harold Love, Scribal Texts and Literary Communities: The Rochester Circle and Osborn b. 105, SB, 42 (1989), 219-35. Facsimile of p. 62 in Vieth (1968), frontispiece. Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth (1968) and in Walker.

Yale, Osborn MS b 100 through Osborn MS b 149 (Osborn MS b 105 pp. 151-2)
RoJ 456

Copy, here set out as four quatrains, numbered in a darker ink 11.

Edited in part from this MS in Love.

A quarto volume of works almost exclusively by Rochester, in a single professional hand up to p. 208, a second, less accomplished, hand taking over (after stubs of two extracted leaves) on pp. 209-31; with a title-page (p. 13), Poem's / By The. Right Honourable/John Earle / of/Rochester, 219 pages (plus 12 preliminary blank pages and 99 blank pages at the end), in half-russia over marbled boards.

c.mid-1680s

Bookplate of The Reverend Sir George Lee. Baronet/Hartwell. Inscribed This Manuscript was found at Hartwell. March. 1829. J. Lee and another, Bound Mr. Wilson. March 1829 [i.e. the MS was in the library of the Rev. Sir George Lee, Bt (1767-1827), rector of Hartwell, etc., and of Dr John Lee, F.R.S. (1783-1866), at Hartwell House, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire]. Later sold by Charles Sawyer (No. 1467 in a sale catalogue). The MS might possibly once have been owned by Thomas Lee, Bt, M.P. (1635-91) of Hartwell, who was, incidentally, related by marriage to Sir John Suckling. His son was Sir Thomas Lee, Bt, M.P. (1661-1702). The MS was later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 18 December 1995 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 114, with facsimile examples in the sale catalogue.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Hartwell MS: RoJ Δ 17. This MS on exhibition at the Bodleian, 16-28 June 1930, and recorded in Proceedings and Papers of the Oxford Bibliographical Society, 2 (1927-30), p. 213. Subsequently discussed, and parts printed, by Harold Love and Stephen Parks in A reasonable satyr, TLS, 1 August 1997, p. 13; in Harold Love, A Tale of Two Manuscripts, Yale University Library Gazette, 72 (1999), 41-53; and in his pamphlet A Newly Discovered Burlesque by John Wilmot Earl of Rochester (New Haven, 1997).

A complete microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7982.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 334 pp. 191-2)
RoJ 457 Late 17th century

Copy, headed A Songe of MLR, with other verses, on one side of a single folio leaf.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

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.

A Song of a Young Lady to Her Ancient Lover ('Ancient person, for whom I')

First published in Poems, &c. on Several Occasions (London, 1691). Vieth, pp. 89-90. Walker, pp. 32-3. Love, p. 30.

RoJ 458

Copy, headed Song A Young Lady to her Antient Lover, here set out as four stanzas of 6, 8, 6 and 6 lines respectively, and numbered afterwards, in a darker ink, 14.

Edited in part from this MS in Love.

A quarto volume of works almost exclusively by Rochester, in a single professional hand up to p. 208, a second, less accomplished, hand taking over (after stubs of two extracted leaves) on pp. 209-31; with a title-page (p. 13), Poem's / By The. Right Honourable/John Earle / of/Rochester, 219 pages (plus 12 preliminary blank pages and 99 blank pages at the end), in half-russia over marbled boards.

c.mid-1680s

Bookplate of The Reverend Sir George Lee. Baronet/Hartwell. Inscribed This Manuscript was found at Hartwell. March. 1829. J. Lee and another, Bound Mr. Wilson. March 1829 [i.e. the MS was in the library of the Rev. Sir George Lee, Bt (1767-1827), rector of Hartwell, etc., and of Dr John Lee, F.R.S. (1783-1866), at Hartwell House, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire]. Later sold by Charles Sawyer (No. 1467 in a sale catalogue). The MS might possibly once have been owned by Thomas Lee, Bt, M.P. (1635-91) of Hartwell, who was, incidentally, related by marriage to Sir John Suckling. His son was Sir Thomas Lee, Bt, M.P. (1661-1702). The MS was later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 18 December 1995 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 114, with facsimile examples in the sale catalogue.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Hartwell MS: RoJ Δ 17. This MS on exhibition at the Bodleian, 16-28 June 1930, and recorded in Proceedings and Papers of the Oxford Bibliographical Society, 2 (1927-30), p. 213. Subsequently discussed, and parts printed, by Harold Love and Stephen Parks in A reasonable satyr, TLS, 1 August 1997, p. 13; in Harold Love, A Tale of Two Manuscripts, Yale University Library Gazette, 72 (1999), 41-53; and in his pamphlet A Newly Discovered Burlesque by John Wilmot Earl of Rochester (New Haven, 1997).

A complete microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7982.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 334 pp. 195-6)
RoJ 458.5

Copy of lines 1-4, headed Song / A young Lady to her Antient Lover.

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and papers.

Papers of the Rev. George Harbin (c.1665-1744), historical writer and librarian to Sir Thomas Thynne (1640-1714), first Viscount Weymouth, at Longleat House, including (ff. 38r-60v) 23 quarto leaves of poems and letters by Rochester in a single hand.

Early 18th century

Inscribed (several times) Alex: Malet: i.e. the Rev Alexander Malet, Harbin's nephew and executor, a later note stating that the Marquess of Bath purchased part of the papers from Malet's descendant, Sir Alexander Malet, in 1873. Another inscription (f. 37r) reads: Some of Dr Harbin's Papers obtained from Mr. Waller of Fleet St by J.E. Jackson, after the sale of the Papers by Puttick & Simpson April 1874.

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Harbin MS: RoJ Δ 9.

The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House (Thynne Papers, Vol. XXVII f. 60v)
Spoken Extempore to a Country Clerk after Having Heard Him Sing Psalms ('Sternhold and Hopkins had great qualms')

First published in The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable the Late Earls of Rochester and Roscommon, 3rd edition (London, 1709). Vieth, p. 22. Walker, p. 122. Love, p. 301, as Lord Rochester upon hearing the singing in a Country Church, among Impromptus.

RoJ 459

Copy, headed As the late Earl of Rochester went by a Country Church, where the People were singing Sternhold, and Hopkins's Version of ye Psalms, he spake the following Verses, Ex Tempore.

This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.

A quarto composite miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, in several hands, 11 + 109 leaves.

Early-mid-18th century

Owned in 1812 by Miss Elizabeth Mansel. Given to Henry Gough, of Redhill, who presented it to the Bodleian in December 1884.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Add. B. 105 f. 32r-v)
RoJ 460

Copy, headed Lord Rochester upon hearing ye singing in a Country Church.

This MS recorded in Vieth; edited in Walker, p. 219.

A folio miscellany of largely poems on affairs of state, in two professional hands, with others on six tipped-in leaves at the end, 205 leaves (plus blanks), in black morocco gilt.

c.1730
RoJ 460.5

Copy.

A quarto miscellany of poems and plays by Corbet Owen (1645/6-71) and others, a Catalogus Librorum at the reverse end, in probably several cursive predominantly italic hands, possibly associated with Oxford University, 166 leaves, in contemporary calf.

c.1671

Owned in 1671 by one J. H.. P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue The Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1253. Purchased from Dobell in 1935.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 30 f. 155r)
The Submission ('To this moment a rebel, I throw down my arms')

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 15. Walker, pp. 18-19. Love, p. 22, as Song.

RoJ 461

Copy.

A large folio miscellany of verse and prose, in a single accomplished professional hand, 756 pages (including over 200 blank leaves).

Including (pp. 217-429) 87 poems, chiefly on affairs of state, of which thirty are by Rochester; other contents comprising (pp. 1-71) a transcript of a Royal Household Establishment Book of William and Mary (1689-97); (pp. 75-212) a collection of legal precedents; and (pp. 442-543) copies of documents relating to the New Forest.

c.1698-1700s

Evidently compiled either for Henry Somerset (1629-1700), first Duke of Beaufort, Privy Councillor, or for his son Henry (1661-98), Marquess of Worcester, or else for his grandson, Henry Somerset (1684-1714), second Duke of Beaufort, who was Warden of the New Forest.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Badminton MS: RoJ Δ 1. Discussed and contents listed, with facsimile examples, in Michael Brennan and Paul Hammond, The Badminton Manuscript: A New Miscellany of Restoration Verse, EMS, 5 (1995), 171-207.

RoJ 462

Copy, headed Song, imperfect, lacking the last three stanzas.

Fragment of a quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state.

Originally 90 leaves, but many excised and now comprising 24 leaves (plus blanks), ff. 4r-22r in a single professional hand; ff. 22v-6v (first stanza) in a later, less tidy, hand of the early 18th century; ff. 26v [after first stanza]-27r apparently in a third hand.

Late 17th-early 18th century

Inscribed twice on the front paste-down Richard Ashley and a deleted inscription possibly reading Lowes Park. Purchased c.1960 from a bookstall in Paris.

A complete facsimile edition of this MS, with discussion of the texts, in Pierre Danchin, A Late Seventeenth-Century Miscellany, Cahiers Élisabéthains, 22 (Université Paul Valéry-Montpellier, October 1982), 51-86. Recorded in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Ashley MS: RoJ Δ 5.

RoJ 463

Copy.

This MS collated in Hammond, Robinson and in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Booke of Paragrafts, including 22 poems by Rochester, 445 pages plus stubs of extracted leaves (originally 463 numbered pages and now lacking pp. 59-68, 147-54 and parts of pp. 155-8), with a two-leaf index; in contemporary red morocco.

In professional hands: A, pp. 1-194; B, in a different style and probably a different hand, pp. 195-432; C, probably yet another hand, with additions on pp. 75, 90, 102, 125, 142, 175, 195, and pp. 433-63.

c.1680s-90s

Inscribed (on stubs and endpapers) matt Calihan, To Cpt Robinson att Capt Eloass [Elwes] near ye Watch house in Marlburhroagh street, For Capt. Robinson at his Lodginges in Charing Cross. Christie's, 27 June 1979, lot 16.

Various commissioned officers named Robinson are recorded in Charles Dalton, English Army Lists and Commission Registers, 1661-1714 (6 vols, London, 1892-1904): see esp. I, 276. The volume was most probably owned by Charles Robinson of the King's Regiment of Foot Guards, who became Captain and then Lieutenant-Colonel in 1688 and was killed at Namur in 1695. A member of the same regiment in 1684 was the purveyor of MS lampoons Captain Lenthal Warcup. The Captain Eloass mentioned in one inscription was possibly William Elwes, who served as a Lieutenant in Viscount Colchester's Regiment of Horse, c.1692-4, and as a Captain in Lord Windsor's Regiment of Horse in 1702.

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Robinson MS: RoJ Δ 8. Discussed with facsimiles of pp. 1-10 in Paul Hammond, The Robinson Manuscript Miscellany of Restoration Verse in the Brotherton Collection, Leeds, Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, 18 (1982), 275-324 [cited in entries as Hammond, Robinson]. Facsimiles of p. 1 also in Christie's sale catalogue, Plate 1, after p. 48, and in The Brotherton Collection University of Leeds: Its contents described with illustrations of fifty books and manuscripts (Leeds, 1986), p. 17. Selectively collated in Walker.

RoJ 464

Copy, headed Song.

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and papers.

Papers of the Rev. George Harbin (c.1665-1744), historical writer and librarian to Sir Thomas Thynne (1640-1714), first Viscount Weymouth, at Longleat House, including (ff. 38r-60v) 23 quarto leaves of poems and letters by Rochester in a single hand.

Early 18th century

Inscribed (several times) Alex: Malet: i.e. the Rev Alexander Malet, Harbin's nephew and executor, a later note stating that the Marquess of Bath purchased part of the papers from Malet's descendant, Sir Alexander Malet, in 1873. Another inscription (f. 37r) reads: Some of Dr Harbin's Papers obtained from Mr. Waller of Fleet St by J.E. Jackson, after the sale of the Papers by Puttick & Simpson April 1874.

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Harbin MS: RoJ Δ 9.

The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House (Thynne Papers, Vol. XXVII f. 50v)
RoJ 465

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe; collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in several hands, one professional stylish hand predominating, with (ff. 1r, 2r) a Table of contents, 213 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf.

Including 29 poems by Rochester (plus a second copy of one) and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items.

c.1680s

Once owned by Thomas Fermor (1698-1753), first Earl of Pomfret, of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire. Also used by one James Parks.

Recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, and selectively collated in Walker.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 40 f. 46r-v)
RoJ 466

Copy, headed Song.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.

A formal folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, including eleven by Rochester and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items, probably in a single professional hand, 444 leaves (including a six-leaf index).

c.1690s

Cited in IELM, II.ii as the Vienna MS: RoJ Δ 12. Discussed in Rudolf Brotanek, Beschreibung der Handschrift 14090 (Supplement 1776) der Nationalbibliothek in Wien, in Festschrift der Nationalbibliothek in Wien (Vienna, 1926), 145-62. Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker.

RoJ 467

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.

A formal quarto miscellany, of poems on affairs of state, including 29 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items, in three professional hands (A, pp. 1-278; B, pp. 279-84; C, pp. 285-314), 314 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary red morocco.

c.1680

Once owned by Count Carl Edward Gyldenstolpe (1770-1852) and perhaps originally acquired by Count Nils Gyldenstolpe (1642-1709), Swedish Ambassador at The Hague (in 1679-87).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Gyldenstolpe MS: RoJ Δ 14. A complete facsimile edition in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe (1967).

Royal Library, Stockholm (MS Vu. 69 pp. 165-6)
RoJ 468

Copy, headed Song.

Edited in part from this MS in Love. Recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional hand, in two volumes: Vol. I, including twelve poems by Rochester and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items, pp. 1-461 (plus index); Vol. II, pp. 462-842 (with irregularities of pagination).

This MS is closely related to Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Cod. 14090.

c.1690s-1700

Later owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor, who records that £50 was given by Perry, for these 2 volumes.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dyce MS: RoJ Δ 15.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 43 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.37-38) pp. 109-10)
RoJ 469

Copy, headed Song.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled Songs & Verses - Upon severall occasions, 406 pages (but pp. 35-44, 63-6, 77-86, 115-32, 153-8, 161-84, and 195-212 excised).

Including 30 poems by Rochester (and probably others by him on missing leaves); pp. 1-392 in a single professional hand (that also responsible for Princeton, RTC01 No. 34); pp. 392-406 in a second hand.

c.1680

Inscribed on the title-page Hansen: i.e. very probably the diplomat Friedrich Adolphus Hansen, who visited England in September 1680 in the entourage of Charles, electoral Prince Palatine. Owned, in 1951 by Dr A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952), Philadelphia book dealer, collector and scholar.

Cited in IELM, II as the Yale MS: RoJ Δ 16. The MS was identified by David M. Vieth as an independent scribal transcript of the copy-text used for the first edition of Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R— (Antwerp [i.e. London], 1680): see Attribution, pp. 56-100, and The Text of Rochester and the Editions of 1680, PBSA, 50 (1956), 243-63. Discussed extensively, and Hansen identified, in Harold Love, Scribal Texts and Literary Communities: The Rochester Circle and Osborn b. 105, SB, 42 (1989), 219-35. Facsimile of p. 62 in Vieth (1968), frontispiece. Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth (1968) and in Walker.

Yale, Osborn MS b 100 through Osborn MS b 149 (Osborn MS b 105 pp. 144-5)
RoJ 470

Copy, headed Song, numbered in a darker ink 7.

A quarto volume of works almost exclusively by Rochester, in a single professional hand up to p. 208, a second, less accomplished, hand taking over (after stubs of two extracted leaves) on pp. 209-31; with a title-page (p. 13), Poem's / By The. Right Honourable/John Earle / of/Rochester, 219 pages (plus 12 preliminary blank pages and 99 blank pages at the end), in half-russia over marbled boards.

c.mid-1680s

Bookplate of The Reverend Sir George Lee. Baronet/Hartwell. Inscribed This Manuscript was found at Hartwell. March. 1829. J. Lee and another, Bound Mr. Wilson. March 1829 [i.e. the MS was in the library of the Rev. Sir George Lee, Bt (1767-1827), rector of Hartwell, etc., and of Dr John Lee, F.R.S. (1783-1866), at Hartwell House, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire]. Later sold by Charles Sawyer (No. 1467 in a sale catalogue). The MS might possibly once have been owned by Thomas Lee, Bt, M.P. (1635-91) of Hartwell, who was, incidentally, related by marriage to Sir John Suckling. His son was Sir Thomas Lee, Bt, M.P. (1661-1702). The MS was later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 18 December 1995 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 114, with facsimile examples in the sale catalogue.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Hartwell MS: RoJ Δ 17. This MS on exhibition at the Bodleian, 16-28 June 1930, and recorded in Proceedings and Papers of the Oxford Bibliographical Society, 2 (1927-30), p. 213. Subsequently discussed, and parts printed, by Harold Love and Stephen Parks in A reasonable satyr, TLS, 1 August 1997, p. 13; in Harold Love, A Tale of Two Manuscripts, Yale University Library Gazette, 72 (1999), 41-53; and in his pamphlet A Newly Discovered Burlesque by John Wilmot Earl of Rochester (New Haven, 1997).

A complete microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7982.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 334 pp. 187-8)
RoJ 471 Late 17th century

Copy of a four-stanza version, untitled, on a folded portion of a folio leaf, endorsed A Songe.

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

Among papers formerly at Pitchford Hall, Shropshire.

National Library of Wales (Pitchford Hall (Ottley) English Literary MSS (uncatalogued), A A8)
Timon ('What, Timon! does old age begin t'approach')

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 65-72. Walker, pp. 78-82, as Satyr. [Timon]. Harold Love, The Text of Timon. A Satyr, Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin, 6 (1982), 113-40. Love, pp. 258-63, as Satyr. [Timon], among Disputed Works.

RoJ 472

Copy, headed Satyr.

A large folio miscellany of verse and prose, in a single accomplished professional hand, 756 pages (including over 200 blank leaves).

Including (pp. 217-429) 87 poems, chiefly on affairs of state, of which thirty are by Rochester; other contents comprising (pp. 1-71) a transcript of a Royal Household Establishment Book of William and Mary (1689-97); (pp. 75-212) a collection of legal precedents; and (pp. 442-543) copies of documents relating to the New Forest.

c.1698-1700s

Evidently compiled either for Henry Somerset (1629-1700), first Duke of Beaufort, Privy Councillor, or for his son Henry (1661-98), Marquess of Worcester, or else for his grandson, Henry Somerset (1684-1714), second Duke of Beaufort, who was Warden of the New Forest.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Badminton MS: RoJ Δ 1. Discussed and contents listed, with facsimile examples, in Michael Brennan and Paul Hammond, The Badminton Manuscript: A New Miscellany of Restoration Verse, EMS, 5 (1995), 171-207.

The Duke of Beaufort, Badminton (FmE 3/12 pp. 235-41)
RoJ 473

Copy, headed A Satyr.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe; collated in Love, Text of Timon.

A quarto composite miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 137 pages (plus eight pages of later additions and eight blank pages), in modern cloth.

In a single hand, including sixteen poems by Rochester, pp. 139-46 occupied by charges of the Grand Jury added after 1714.

c.1680s

Recorded in IELM II.ii as the Gilpin MS: RoJ Δ 3.

Bodleian Library, Eng. misc. MSS (MS Eng. misc. e. 536 pp. 83-8)
RoJ 474

Copy, headed A Satyre.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker and in Love, Text of Timon.

A long, narrow, ledger-size composite miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 112 pages (some misnumbered and pp. 45-6 excised), in 19th-century calf gilt.

A compendium of several separate collections of poems, each with its general heading, including nineteen poems by the Earl of Rochester, copied in a single hand, that of Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), antiquary.

c.1680s-1700s

Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker. Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Edinburgh MS: RoJ Δ 6.

Edinburgh University Library (MS Dc. 1. 3/1 pp. 56-7)
RoJ 475

Copy, headed Satyr Bye Sr Charles Sidley.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker and in Love, Text of Timon.

A folio miscellany of poems chiefly on affairs of state, entitled A Collection of Poems, including 27 poems by Rochester (all ascribed to him), xii + 299 pages (plus a number of blanks), including a table of contents, in contemporary calf (rebacked).

In a single professional hand but for a few later additions at the very end (pp. 295-8, with some pages tipped-in).

c.1690s

Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Harvard MS: RoJ Δ 7.

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 636 pp. 228-36)
RoJ 476

Copy, headed Timon, A Satyr.

This MS collated in Hammond, Robinson, in Walker, and in Love, Text of Timon.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Booke of Paragrafts, including 22 poems by Rochester, 445 pages plus stubs of extracted leaves (originally 463 numbered pages and now lacking pp. 59-68, 147-54 and parts of pp. 155-8), with a two-leaf index; in contemporary red morocco.

In professional hands: A, pp. 1-194; B, in a different style and probably a different hand, pp. 195-432; C, probably yet another hand, with additions on pp. 75, 90, 102, 125, 142, 175, 195, and pp. 433-63.

c.1680s-90s

Inscribed (on stubs and endpapers) matt Calihan, To Cpt Robinson att Capt Eloass [Elwes] near ye Watch house in Marlburhroagh street, For Capt. Robinson at his Lodginges in Charing Cross. Christie's, 27 June 1979, lot 16.

Various commissioned officers named Robinson are recorded in Charles Dalton, English Army Lists and Commission Registers, 1661-1714 (6 vols, London, 1892-1904): see esp. I, 276. The volume was most probably owned by Charles Robinson of the King's Regiment of Foot Guards, who became Captain and then Lieutenant-Colonel in 1688 and was killed at Namur in 1695. A member of the same regiment in 1684 was the purveyor of MS lampoons Captain Lenthal Warcup. The Captain Eloass mentioned in one inscription was possibly William Elwes, who served as a Lieutenant in Viscount Colchester's Regiment of Horse, c.1692-4, and as a Captain in Lord Windsor's Regiment of Horse in 1702.

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Robinson MS: RoJ Δ 8. Discussed with facsimiles of pp. 1-10 in Paul Hammond, The Robinson Manuscript Miscellany of Restoration Verse in the Brotherton Collection, Leeds, Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, 18 (1982), 275-324 [cited in entries as Hammond, Robinson]. Facsimiles of p. 1 also in Christie's sale catalogue, Plate 1, after p. 48, and in The Brotherton Collection University of Leeds: Its contents described with illustrations of fifty books and manuscripts (Leeds, 1986), p. 17. Selectively collated in Walker.

RoJ 477

Copy, headed A Satyr, the subscription Rochester crossed out and Sr Ch: Sidley written above in faint ink.

An octavo miscellany of chiefly satirical poems, including at least twelve by Rochester, in a single rounded hand but for an addition at the end (pp. 141-50) in a stylish italic hand, the greater part written along the length of the page with the spine uppermost, with an Index, xii + 150 pages (lacking pp. 135-40), in contemporary calf.

Possibly associated with the court circle of James Butler (1610-88), first Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

c.1680s

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dublin MS: RoJ Δ 10.

National Library of Ireland (MS 2093 pp. 79-90)
RoJ 478

Copy, headed Satyr.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe; collated in Love, Text of Timon.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in several hands, one professional stylish hand predominating, with (ff. 1r, 2r) a Table of contents, 213 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf.

Including 29 poems by Rochester (plus a second copy of one) and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items.

c.1680s

Once owned by Thomas Fermor (1698-1753), first Earl of Pomfret, of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire. Also used by one James Parks.

Recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, and selectively collated in Walker.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 40 ff. 130r-1v, 137r-8r)
RoJ 479

Copy, headed Satyr.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker and in Love, Text of Timon.

A formal quarto miscellany, of poems on affairs of state, including 29 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items, in three professional hands (A, pp. 1-278; B, pp. 279-84; C, pp. 285-314), 314 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary red morocco.

c.1680

Once owned by Count Carl Edward Gyldenstolpe (1770-1852) and perhaps originally acquired by Count Nils Gyldenstolpe (1642-1709), Swedish Ambassador at The Hague (in 1679-87).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Gyldenstolpe MS: RoJ Δ 14. A complete facsimile edition in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe (1967).

Royal Library, Stockholm (MS Vu. 69 pp. 37-46)
RoJ 480

Copy, headed Satyr. By Sr Char: Sidley.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker and in Love, Text of Timon.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled Songs & Verses - Upon severall occasions, 406 pages (but pp. 35-44, 63-6, 77-86, 115-32, 153-8, 161-84, and 195-212 excised).

Including 30 poems by Rochester (and probably others by him on missing leaves); pp. 1-392 in a single professional hand (that also responsible for Princeton, RTC01 No. 34); pp. 392-406 in a second hand.

c.1680

Inscribed on the title-page Hansen: i.e. very probably the diplomat Friedrich Adolphus Hansen, who visited England in September 1680 in the entourage of Charles, electoral Prince Palatine. Owned, in 1951 by Dr A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952), Philadelphia book dealer, collector and scholar.

Cited in IELM, II as the Yale MS: RoJ Δ 16. The MS was identified by David M. Vieth as an independent scribal transcript of the copy-text used for the first edition of Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R— (Antwerp [i.e. London], 1680): see Attribution, pp. 56-100, and The Text of Rochester and the Editions of 1680, PBSA, 50 (1956), 243-63. Discussed extensively, and Hansen identified, in Harold Love, Scribal Texts and Literary Communities: The Rochester Circle and Osborn b. 105, SB, 42 (1989), 219-35. Facsimile of p. 62 in Vieth (1968), frontispiece. Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth (1968) and in Walker.

Yale, Osborn MS b 100 through Osborn MS b 149 (Osborn MS b 105 pp. 227-38)
RoJ 480.5

Copy, headed A Satyr.

A large octavo verse miscellany, chiefly lampoons and poems on affairs of state, including 21 poems by Rochester and various others in the Rochester apocrypha, nearly 600 pages in all, with a 14-page index.

Written in a single hand which can be identified as that of the Scottish pasquil-writer and antiquary Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), who was also responsible for RoJ Δ 6.

c.1705
Private owners in the UK (Mylne MS pp. 178-83)
RoJ 481

Copy, headed Satyr vpon a Siner, in two hands, in a disbound fragment of a folio miscellany of poems.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker and in Love, Text of Timon (the heading misread by all editors as Diner).

A folio composite miscellany of verse MSS, chiefly poems on affairs of state, in various hands and paper sizes, now disbound in folders.

Among papers of the Hastings family, Earls of Huntingdon.

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 623 Folder 12, pp. 52-7)
To a Lady in a Letter ('Such perfect bliss fair Chloris, we')

First published, as Against jealousie, in A New Collection of the Choicest Songs (London, 1676). Vieth, pp. 84-5. Walker, pp. 41-2. See also David Vieth, A Textual Paradox: Rochester's To a Lady in a Letter, PBSA, 54 (1960), 147-62 (and sequel in Vol. 55 (1961), 130-3). Love, pp. 24-5.

For the earlier versions of this lyric, see RoJ 396-401.

RoJ 482

Copy.

Edited from this MS and discussed (as text C) in Vieth, art. cit., pp. 153-4. Edited in part from this MS in Love.

A folio miscellany of poems chiefly on affairs of state, entitled A Collection of Poems, including 27 poems by Rochester (all ascribed to him), xii + 299 pages (plus a number of blanks), including a table of contents, in contemporary calf (rebacked).

In a single professional hand but for a few later additions at the very end (pp. 295-8, with some pages tipped-in).

c.1690s

Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Harvard MS: RoJ Δ 7.

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 636 pp. 8-10)
To Corinna. A Song ('What Cruel pains Corinna takes')

See RoJ 438-447.

'To forme a Plott'

See RoJ 70.

To Love ('O Love! how cold and slow to take my part')

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 35-7. Walker, pp. 49-50. Love, pp. 12-13.

RoJ 483

Copy, headed Ovid...To Love and here beginning Oh Love hou cold art thou to take my part.

A large folio miscellany of verse and prose, in a single accomplished professional hand, 756 pages (including over 200 blank leaves).

Including (pp. 217-429) 87 poems, chiefly on affairs of state, of which thirty are by Rochester; other contents comprising (pp. 1-71) a transcript of a Royal Household Establishment Book of William and Mary (1689-97); (pp. 75-212) a collection of legal precedents; and (pp. 442-543) copies of documents relating to the New Forest.

c.1698-1700s

Evidently compiled either for Henry Somerset (1629-1700), first Duke of Beaufort, Privy Councillor, or for his son Henry (1661-98), Marquess of Worcester, or else for his grandson, Henry Somerset (1684-1714), second Duke of Beaufort, who was Warden of the New Forest.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Badminton MS: RoJ Δ 1. Discussed and contents listed, with facsimile examples, in Michael Brennan and Paul Hammond, The Badminton Manuscript: A New Miscellany of Restoration Verse, EMS, 5 (1995), 171-207.

The Duke of Beaufort, Badminton (FmE 3/12 pp. 305-7)
RoJ 484

Copy, headed Lib: 2. Eleg: 9th. To Love. By Ld. Rochester.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

A folio verse miscellany, entitled The Muse's Magazine, or Poeticall Miscelanies, in two parts, in a single hand, 189 leaves.

Including 27 poems by Cowley; eleven poems by Katherine Philips, evidently derived from printed sources; 10 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items; twelve poems by Sedley, plus one of doubtful authorship; and 15 poems by Waller, evidently derived from printed sources.

A note on a flyleaf relating to the bookseller John Dunton (1659-1733): John Dunton His Book, for which Mr. Corbet at ye Addisons Head, accepted One Half Guinea in full Payment for it, as Witness my Hand, Hannah Rakley. A note on f. 1: Since I had transcrib'd this whole Book, I met with some state Poems of these later times, mostly since K. George's Accession to the Crown [1714] which I have here inserted, as a supplement to these state Poems which make a part of this Collection by themselves. Date at the end of the volume: 1718, and some notes on a flyleaf dated 1724.

Early 18th century

The Mr. Corbet from whom Dunton purchased this MS was evidently the bookseller Thomas Corbett (fl. 1705-43), who ran his business at the Addison's Head, next to the Rose Tavern, without Temple Bar, from 1719 until his death in 1743. Neither Dunton nor Corbett are known to have used this MS for publication purposes.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dunton MS: PsK Δ 8; RoJ Δ 4; SeC Δ 1; WaE Δ 10.

For John Dunton's career, see Stephen Parks, John Dunton and the English Book Trade: A Study of His Career with a Checklist of His Publications (New York & London, 1970).

RoJ 484.5

An octavo miscellany of Restoration poems, chiefly upon affairs of state, ii + 89 octavo leaves, in 19th-century red morocco.

Predominantly in a single professional hand, with subsequent corrections or annotations in other hands or inks, and (f. 89v) with a pencil note after a table of contents This Book is written by Brown.

Late 17th century

Bookplate of Edward Vernon Utterson (1776?-1856), of the Isle of Wight, artist, book collector and literary antiquary. Sotheby's, 19 April 1852, lot 1318. Owned after 1911 by Robert Ashburton Milnes, afterwards Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, politician. Christie's, 26 November 1997, lot 75.

RoJ 485

Copy, headed O nunquam pro me satis indignate Cupido / To Love.

Fragment of a quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state.

Originally 90 leaves, but many excised and now comprising 24 leaves (plus blanks), ff. 4r-22r in a single professional hand; ff. 22v-6v (first stanza) in a later, less tidy, hand of the early 18th century; ff. 26v [after first stanza]-27r apparently in a third hand.

Late 17th-early 18th century

Inscribed twice on the front paste-down Richard Ashley and a deleted inscription possibly reading Lowes Park. Purchased c.1960 from a bookstall in Paris.

A complete facsimile edition of this MS, with discussion of the texts, in Pierre Danchin, A Late Seventeenth-Century Miscellany, Cahiers Élisabéthains, 22 (Université Paul Valéry-Montpellier, October 1982), 51-86. Recorded in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Ashley MS: RoJ Δ 5.

Professor Pierre Danchin, Nancy, France ([Ashley MS] ff. 11r-12v)
RoJ 486

Copy, headed Love.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems chiefly on affairs of state, entitled A Collection of Poems, including 27 poems by Rochester (all ascribed to him), xii + 299 pages (plus a number of blanks), including a table of contents, in contemporary calf (rebacked).

In a single professional hand but for a few later additions at the very end (pp. 295-8, with some pages tipped-in).

c.1690s

Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Harvard MS: RoJ Δ 7.

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 636 pp. 58-61)
RoJ 487

Copy.

This MS collated in Hammond, Robinson and in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Booke of Paragrafts, including 22 poems by Rochester, 445 pages plus stubs of extracted leaves (originally 463 numbered pages and now lacking pp. 59-68, 147-54 and parts of pp. 155-8), with a two-leaf index; in contemporary red morocco.

In professional hands: A, pp. 1-194; B, in a different style and probably a different hand, pp. 195-432; C, probably yet another hand, with additions on pp. 75, 90, 102, 125, 142, 175, 195, and pp. 433-63.

c.1680s-90s

Inscribed (on stubs and endpapers) matt Calihan, To Cpt Robinson att Capt Eloass [Elwes] near ye Watch house in Marlburhroagh street, For Capt. Robinson at his Lodginges in Charing Cross. Christie's, 27 June 1979, lot 16.

Various commissioned officers named Robinson are recorded in Charles Dalton, English Army Lists and Commission Registers, 1661-1714 (6 vols, London, 1892-1904): see esp. I, 276. The volume was most probably owned by Charles Robinson of the King's Regiment of Foot Guards, who became Captain and then Lieutenant-Colonel in 1688 and was killed at Namur in 1695. A member of the same regiment in 1684 was the purveyor of MS lampoons Captain Lenthal Warcup. The Captain Eloass mentioned in one inscription was possibly William Elwes, who served as a Lieutenant in Viscount Colchester's Regiment of Horse, c.1692-4, and as a Captain in Lord Windsor's Regiment of Horse in 1702.

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Robinson MS: RoJ Δ 8. Discussed with facsimiles of pp. 1-10 in Paul Hammond, The Robinson Manuscript Miscellany of Restoration Verse in the Brotherton Collection, Leeds, Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, 18 (1982), 275-324 [cited in entries as Hammond, Robinson]. Facsimiles of p. 1 also in Christie's sale catalogue, Plate 1, after p. 48, and in The Brotherton Collection University of Leeds: Its contents described with illustrations of fifty books and manuscripts (Leeds, 1986), p. 17. Selectively collated in Walker.

RoJ 488

Copy.

Edited in part from this MS in Love.

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and papers.

Papers of the Rev. George Harbin (c.1665-1744), historical writer and librarian to Sir Thomas Thynne (1640-1714), first Viscount Weymouth, at Longleat House, including (ff. 38r-60v) 23 quarto leaves of poems and letters by Rochester in a single hand.

Early 18th century

Inscribed (several times) Alex: Malet: i.e. the Rev Alexander Malet, Harbin's nephew and executor, a later note stating that the Marquess of Bath purchased part of the papers from Malet's descendant, Sir Alexander Malet, in 1873. Another inscription (f. 37r) reads: Some of Dr Harbin's Papers obtained from Mr. Waller of Fleet St by J.E. Jackson, after the sale of the Papers by Puttick & Simpson April 1874.

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Harbin MS: RoJ Δ 9.

The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House (Thynne Papers, Vol. XXVII ff. 43r-4v)
RoJ 489

Copy, headed Ovid...To Love

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in several hands, one professional stylish hand predominating, with (ff. 1r, 2r) a Table of contents, 213 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf.

Including 29 poems by Rochester (plus a second copy of one) and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items.

c.1680s

Once owned by Thomas Fermor (1698-1753), first Earl of Pomfret, of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire. Also used by one James Parks.

Recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, and selectively collated in Walker.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 40 ff. 44r-5r)
RoJ 490

Copy, headed Ovid...To Love.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A formal quarto miscellany, of poems on affairs of state, including 29 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items, in three professional hands (A, pp. 1-278; B, pp. 279-84; C, pp. 285-314), 314 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary red morocco.

c.1680

Once owned by Count Carl Edward Gyldenstolpe (1770-1852) and perhaps originally acquired by Count Nils Gyldenstolpe (1642-1709), Swedish Ambassador at The Hague (in 1679-87).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Gyldenstolpe MS: RoJ Δ 14. A complete facsimile edition in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe (1967).

Royal Library, Stockholm (MS Vu. 69 pp. 159-62)
RoJ 491

Copy, ascribed to ye E: of R.

Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled Songs & Verses - Upon severall occasions, 406 pages (but pp. 35-44, 63-6, 77-86, 115-32, 153-8, 161-84, and 195-212 excised).

Including 30 poems by Rochester (and probably others by him on missing leaves); pp. 1-392 in a single professional hand (that also responsible for Princeton, RTC01 No. 34); pp. 392-406 in a second hand.

c.1680

Inscribed on the title-page Hansen: i.e. very probably the diplomat Friedrich Adolphus Hansen, who visited England in September 1680 in the entourage of Charles, electoral Prince Palatine. Owned, in 1951 by Dr A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952), Philadelphia book dealer, collector and scholar.

Cited in IELM, II as the Yale MS: RoJ Δ 16. The MS was identified by David M. Vieth as an independent scribal transcript of the copy-text used for the first edition of Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R— (Antwerp [i.e. London], 1680): see Attribution, pp. 56-100, and The Text of Rochester and the Editions of 1680, PBSA, 50 (1956), 243-63. Discussed extensively, and Hansen identified, in Harold Love, Scribal Texts and Literary Communities: The Rochester Circle and Osborn b. 105, SB, 42 (1989), 219-35. Facsimile of p. 62 in Vieth (1968), frontispiece. Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth (1968) and in Walker.

Yale, Osborn MS b 100 through Osborn MS b 149 (Osborn MS b 105 pp. 67-71)
RoJ 492

Copy, headed Ovid: Amor: LiOsborn MS b =2dus= Eleg: 9m: O nunquam prome Satis indignate Cupido To Love.

A quarto volume of works almost exclusively by Rochester, in a single professional hand up to p. 208, a second, less accomplished, hand taking over (after stubs of two extracted leaves) on pp. 209-31; with a title-page (p. 13), Poem's / By The. Right Honourable/John Earle / of/Rochester, 219 pages (plus 12 preliminary blank pages and 99 blank pages at the end), in half-russia over marbled boards.

c.mid-1680s

Bookplate of The Reverend Sir George Lee. Baronet/Hartwell. Inscribed This Manuscript was found at Hartwell. March. 1829. J. Lee and another, Bound Mr. Wilson. March 1829 [i.e. the MS was in the library of the Rev. Sir George Lee, Bt (1767-1827), rector of Hartwell, etc., and of Dr John Lee, F.R.S. (1783-1866), at Hartwell House, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire]. Later sold by Charles Sawyer (No. 1467 in a sale catalogue). The MS might possibly once have been owned by Thomas Lee, Bt, M.P. (1635-91) of Hartwell, who was, incidentally, related by marriage to Sir John Suckling. His son was Sir Thomas Lee, Bt, M.P. (1661-1702). The MS was later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 18 December 1995 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 114, with facsimile examples in the sale catalogue.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Hartwell MS: RoJ Δ 17. This MS on exhibition at the Bodleian, 16-28 June 1930, and recorded in Proceedings and Papers of the Oxford Bibliographical Society, 2 (1927-30), p. 213. Subsequently discussed, and parts printed, by Harold Love and Stephen Parks in A reasonable satyr, TLS, 1 August 1997, p. 13; in Harold Love, A Tale of Two Manuscripts, Yale University Library Gazette, 72 (1999), 41-53; and in his pamphlet A Newly Discovered Burlesque by John Wilmot Earl of Rochester (New Haven, 1997).

A complete microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7982.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 334 pp. 169-72)
RoJ 493 c.1700

Copy, headed Ovid B: 2: Eleg: 9. By ye E: of Rhochester.

A tall folio composite volume of verse and some prose, chiefly translations from Latin, in various hands and paper sizes, 133 leaves, mounted on guards, in half red morocco.

Volume XVIII of papers of the families of Browne, Mariett and West, of the manor of Alscot, in Preston-on-Stour, Gloucestershire.

Portions once owned by Henry Jackson (1586-1662), Hooker's first editor; by Anthony Wood (1632-95), Oxford antiquary; by Thomas Coxeter (1689-1747); and probably by James West, FRS, FSA, MP (1703-72), politician and antiquary.

RoJ 494

Copy, headed A Translation of the 9th Elegye of Ovids 2d Book of Amorum…by Ld Rochester.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

A quarto miscellany, in several hands, 66 leaves (plus 70 blanks), in contemporary calf.

Compiled at least in part by George Stanhope (1660-1728), Dean of Canterbury, chiefly while he was at King's College, Cambridge.

c.1678-80s

Inscribed Mrs Denham Cookes 1922 March 10.

RoJ 495

Copy, headed Ovid: Amor: lib. 2d. Eleg: 9.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

An octavo verse miscellany, 22 leaves plus numerous blanks, in calf.

Late 17th century

P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue, The Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1280. Acquired from Quaritch, 23 July 1959. Formerly Uncat. MSS. Rochester, Commonplace book and 821 R58c.

A microfilm of the MS volume is in the British Library, M/573.

University of Illinois (Post-1650 MS 0001 ff. [19r-20r])
To My More than Meritorious Wife ('I am, by fate, slave to your will')

First published in The Museum: or, The Literary and Historical Register, Vol. III, No. 31 (23 May 1747), p. 156. Vieth, p. 23. Walker, p. 121. Love, p. 31.

RoJ 496

Copy.

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and papers.

Papers of the Rev. George Harbin (c.1665-1744), historical writer and librarian to Sir Thomas Thynne (1640-1714), first Viscount Weymouth, at Longleat House, including (ff. 38r-60v) 23 quarto leaves of poems and letters by Rochester in a single hand.

Early 18th century

Inscribed (several times) Alex: Malet: i.e. the Rev Alexander Malet, Harbin's nephew and executor, a later note stating that the Marquess of Bath purchased part of the papers from Malet's descendant, Sir Alexander Malet, in 1873. Another inscription (f. 37r) reads: Some of Dr Harbin's Papers obtained from Mr. Waller of Fleet St by J.E. Jackson, after the sale of the Papers by Puttick & Simpson April 1874.

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Harbin MS: RoJ Δ 9.

The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House (Thynne Papers, Vol. XXVII f. 46r)
RoJ 497

Copy, headed To his more than meritorious Wife, as By Wilmot E. of Rochester.

Edited from this MS in Walker and in Love. Recorded in Vieth.

A folio miscellany of largely poems on affairs of state, in two professional hands, with others on six tipped-in leaves at the end, 205 leaves (plus blanks), in black morocco gilt.

c.1730
RoJ 498

Copy, on one page of two conjugate folio leaves. Early-mid-18th century.

A folio composite volume of verse MSS, in various hands, 185 leaves.

The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House (Portland Papers, Vol. XVII f. 13r)
To the Postboy ('Son of a whore, God damn you! can you tell')

First published, in shortened form, in Johannes Prinz, Rochesteriana (Leipzig, 1926), p. 56. Vieth, pp. 130-1. Walker, p. 103. Love, pp. 42-3.

RoJ 499

Copy.

Edited in part from this MS in Vieth and in Love. Collated in Walker.

A formal folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, including eleven by Rochester and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items, probably in a single professional hand, 444 leaves (including a six-leaf index).

c.1690s

Cited in IELM, II.ii as the Vienna MS: RoJ Δ 12. Discussed in Rudolf Brotanek, Beschreibung der Handschrift 14090 (Supplement 1776) der Nationalbibliothek in Wien, in Festschrift der Nationalbibliothek in Wien (Vienna, 1926), 145-62. Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker.

RoJ 500

Copy, untitled, subscribed By Rochester.

An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, chiefly on affairs of state, including nine poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items, in a single small hand, 356 pages (misnumbered in pencil 1-344 and lacking the first few original leaves), in contemporary boards.

Probably compiled by an Anglican cleric (or student before taking orders) associated with Cambridge University.

c.late 1690s-1704

Later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Formerly Restoration poetry MS 5.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Cambridge Miscellany MS: RoJ Δ 13.

Princeton (RTC01 No. 38 p. 154)
RoJ 501

Copy, headed Verses to the Post Boy.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional hand, in two volumes: Vol. I, including twelve poems by Rochester and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items, pp. 1-461 (plus index); Vol. II, pp. 462-842 (with irregularities of pagination).

This MS is closely related to Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Cod. 14090.

c.1690s-1700

Later owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor, who records that £50 was given by Perry, for these 2 volumes.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dyce MS: RoJ Δ 15.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 43 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.37-38) pp. 241-2)
RoJ 502

Copy, headed E; of Rochesters Conference With a Post Boy. 1674.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state entitled A Choice Collection of Poems, Lampoons, Satyrs &ca, xx + 412 pages (339-411 blank).

c.1700

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

This MS collated in POAS, I.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Firth c. 15 p. 15)
RoJ 503

Copy, as by Ld: Rochester, the date 1674 added afterwards.

Edited in part from this MS in Vieth; edited in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in six chiefly professional hands, 124 leaves (plus numerous blanks) and including, ff. 123r-4r, two tipped-in octavo leaves, in modern half red crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

c.1710
RoJ 504

Copy.

Edited from this MS in John D. Patterson, Another Text of Rochester's To the Post Boy, Restoration, 4 (1980), 14-16; collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional hand, 151 pages (plus 128 blank pages), with a table of contents (f. 1*r), in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

End of 17th century
RoJ 505

Copy, headed A Dialogue wth a Post by ye Ld Rotchester.

This MS recorded in Patterson, loc. cit.

A quarto verse miscellany, inscribed (f. 1r) Poems & Satires in the Time of Charles the 2d. &c. Collected & written by Oliver Le Neve Esqr., in a single rounded hand, 80 leaves, in 19th-century half brown calf.

Compiled by Oliver Le Neve (d.1711), younger brother of Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King of Arms and antiquary.

c.1690

Bookplate of the Rev. Richard Farmer, FSA (1735-97), Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, literary scholar. Lot 8055 in the sale of his library by Thomas King, 7 May to 16 June 1798. Formerly Chetham's MS 8013.

Chetham's Library, Manchester (Mun. A.4.14 f. 29r)
RoJ 506

Copy, headed To A Postboy: E: of R:.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution; collated in Walker.

An octavo verse miscellany, 22 leaves plus numerous blanks, in calf.

Late 17th century

P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue, The Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1280. Acquired from Quaritch, 23 July 1959. Formerly Uncat. MSS. Rochester, Commonplace book and 821 R58c.

A microfilm of the MS volume is in the British Library, M/573.

University of Illinois (Post-1650 MS 0001 f. [16v])
RoJ 507

Copy, headed the Earle of Rochesters Conference with the Post Boy and the poem dated 1674.

This MS recorded in Patterson, loc. cit.; collated in Walker.

A large folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Collection of Poems and Lampoons &ca Not yet Edited, in a single professional rounded hand (the same as in University of Nottingham, Pw V 43 and University of Nottingham, Pw V 44), 461 pages plus an eight-page Table of contents, in contemporary blind-stamped calf.

c.1705
University of Nottingham (Pw V 42 pp. 20-1)
RoJ 508

Copy, headed Earle of Rochester's Conference with a Post Boy. 1674.

Edited from this MS in John Harold Wilson, Rochester's Buffoon Conceit, MLN, 56 (1941), 372-3. Recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Choyce Collection of Poems. &c., 325 pages, the verse on pp. 324-5 added c.1762.

c.1700

Owned in 1712 by Thomas Wentworth (1672-1739), Baron Raby and third Earl of Strafford.

RoJ 509

Copy, headed Earle of Rochesters Conference with a Post Boy. This MS in the same hand as RoJ 502 and RoJ 508.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution; collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional rounded hand, entitled A Collection of Choyce Poems, Lampoons, and Satyrs from 1673 to 1689. Never Extant in Print, 335 pages (plus a Table of contents and blanks), in modern red morocco.

c.1690s

In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Formerly Restoration poetry MS 2.

This MS collated in POAS, I.

Princeton (RTC01 No. 35 p. 8)
RoJ 510

Copy, headed Roch: to a Post boy.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution, and in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, largely in a single hand, 304 pages (plus an Index and blanks), in contemporary calf.

c.1680s-90s

Sotheby's, 21-22 April 1958, lot 397, to Seven Gables bookshop. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Formerly Restoration poetry MS 3.

A microfilm of this volume is in the British Library, M/546.

Princeton (RTC01 No. 36 p. 254)
A Translation from Seneca's Troades, Act II, Chorus ('After death nothing is, and nothing, death')

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 150-1. Walker, p. 51. Love, pp. 45-5, as Senec. Troas. Act. 2. Chor. Thus English'd by a Person of Honour.

RoJ 511

Copy, headed Seneca Troas.

A large folio miscellany of verse and prose, in a single accomplished professional hand, 756 pages (including over 200 blank leaves).

Including (pp. 217-429) 87 poems, chiefly on affairs of state, of which thirty are by Rochester; other contents comprising (pp. 1-71) a transcript of a Royal Household Establishment Book of William and Mary (1689-97); (pp. 75-212) a collection of legal precedents; and (pp. 442-543) copies of documents relating to the New Forest.

c.1698-1700s

Evidently compiled either for Henry Somerset (1629-1700), first Duke of Beaufort, Privy Councillor, or for his son Henry (1661-98), Marquess of Worcester, or else for his grandson, Henry Somerset (1684-1714), second Duke of Beaufort, who was Warden of the New Forest.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Badminton MS: RoJ Δ 1. Discussed and contents listed, with facsimile examples, in Michael Brennan and Paul Hammond, The Badminton Manuscript: A New Miscellany of Restoration Verse, EMS, 5 (1995), 171-207.

RoJ 512

Copy, headed Seneca's Troas Act 2. Chorus.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution; collated in Walker.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. b. 8 p. 498)
RoJ 512.5

Copy, untitled.

An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in a single predominantly italic hand, 102 leaves (plus sixteen blanks), in contemporary calf.

Compiled probably by one Thomas Martin (inscribed on the first page Thomæ Martin Lib and including correspondence of T M).

c.1674-6

Inscribed at the beginning and end For Mr John Souter at Mr John Merttins at Cushione Court in Broadstreet London, For Mr John Sowter at Mr John Merttins at his hous on Garlick hil next door to yeGreyhound Taverne, and Mr Nicholas Holoway at ye golden Ball in Nicholas lane London.

Clark Library, Los Angeles (M3835M3 L651 [1674-6] Bound f. [34r])
RoJ 513

Copy, headed Post nihil Mortem &c.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.

A long, narrow, ledger-size composite miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 112 pages (some misnumbered and pp. 45-6 excised), in 19th-century calf gilt.

A compendium of several separate collections of poems, each with its general heading, including nineteen poems by the Earl of Rochester, copied in a single hand, that of Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), antiquary.

c.1680s-1700s

Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker. Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Edinburgh MS: RoJ Δ 6.

Edinburgh University Library (MS Dc. 1. 3/1 p. 17)
RoJ 514

Copy, headed A Paraphrase upon Seneca Trag. Act: 2d Chorus….

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems chiefly on affairs of state, entitled A Collection of Poems, including 27 poems by Rochester (all ascribed to him), xii + 299 pages (plus a number of blanks), including a table of contents, in contemporary calf (rebacked).

In a single professional hand but for a few later additions at the very end (pp. 295-8, with some pages tipped-in).

c.1690s

Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Harvard MS: RoJ Δ 7.

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 636 pp. 79-80)
RoJ 515

Copy, headed Seneca Troas.

This MS collated in Hammond, Robinson and in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Booke of Paragrafts, including 22 poems by Rochester, 445 pages plus stubs of extracted leaves (originally 463 numbered pages and now lacking pp. 59-68, 147-54 and parts of pp. 155-8), with a two-leaf index; in contemporary red morocco.

In professional hands: A, pp. 1-194; B, in a different style and probably a different hand, pp. 195-432; C, probably yet another hand, with additions on pp. 75, 90, 102, 125, 142, 175, 195, and pp. 433-63.

c.1680s-90s

Inscribed (on stubs and endpapers) matt Calihan, To Cpt Robinson att Capt Eloass [Elwes] near ye Watch house in Marlburhroagh street, For Capt. Robinson at his Lodginges in Charing Cross. Christie's, 27 June 1979, lot 16.

Various commissioned officers named Robinson are recorded in Charles Dalton, English Army Lists and Commission Registers, 1661-1714 (6 vols, London, 1892-1904): see esp. I, 276. The volume was most probably owned by Charles Robinson of the King's Regiment of Foot Guards, who became Captain and then Lieutenant-Colonel in 1688 and was killed at Namur in 1695. A member of the same regiment in 1684 was the purveyor of MS lampoons Captain Lenthal Warcup. The Captain Eloass mentioned in one inscription was possibly William Elwes, who served as a Lieutenant in Viscount Colchester's Regiment of Horse, c.1692-4, and as a Captain in Lord Windsor's Regiment of Horse in 1702.

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Robinson MS: RoJ Δ 8. Discussed with facsimiles of pp. 1-10 in Paul Hammond, The Robinson Manuscript Miscellany of Restoration Verse in the Brotherton Collection, Leeds, Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, 18 (1982), 275-324 [cited in entries as Hammond, Robinson]. Facsimiles of p. 1 also in Christie's sale catalogue, Plate 1, after p. 48, and in The Brotherton Collection University of Leeds: Its contents described with illustrations of fifty books and manuscripts (Leeds, 1986), p. 17. Selectively collated in Walker.

RoJ 516

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in several hands, one professional stylish hand predominating, with (ff. 1r, 2r) a Table of contents, 213 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf.

Including 29 poems by Rochester (plus a second copy of one) and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items.

c.1680s

Once owned by Thomas Fermor (1698-1753), first Earl of Pomfret, of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire. Also used by one James Parks.

Recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, and selectively collated in Walker.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 40 ff. 124v-5r)
RoJ 517

Copy, headed Rochesters Translation of part of the Chorus of the 2d Act of Seneca's Troas; post Mortem &c.

An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, chiefly on affairs of state, including nine poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items, in a single small hand, 356 pages (misnumbered in pencil 1-344 and lacking the first few original leaves), in contemporary boards.

Probably compiled by an Anglican cleric (or student before taking orders) associated with Cambridge University.

c.late 1690s-1704

Later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Formerly Restoration poetry MS 5.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Cambridge Miscellany MS: RoJ Δ 13.

Princeton (RTC01 No. 38 p. 147)
RoJ 518

Copy, headed Seneca Troas.

This MS collated in Walker.

A formal quarto miscellany, of poems on affairs of state, including 29 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items, in three professional hands (A, pp. 1-278; B, pp. 279-84; C, pp. 285-314), 314 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary red morocco.

c.1680

Once owned by Count Carl Edward Gyldenstolpe (1770-1852) and perhaps originally acquired by Count Nils Gyldenstolpe (1642-1709), Swedish Ambassador at The Hague (in 1679-87).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Gyldenstolpe MS: RoJ Δ 14. A complete facsimile edition in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe (1967).

Royal Library, Stockholm (MS Vu. 69 pp. 51-2)
RoJ 519

Copy, headed Seneca Troas Act 2d Chor:.

Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled Songs & Verses - Upon severall occasions, 406 pages (but pp. 35-44, 63-6, 77-86, 115-32, 153-8, 161-84, and 195-212 excised).

Including 30 poems by Rochester (and probably others by him on missing leaves); pp. 1-392 in a single professional hand (that also responsible for Princeton, RTC01 No. 34); pp. 392-406 in a second hand.

c.1680

Inscribed on the title-page Hansen: i.e. very probably the diplomat Friedrich Adolphus Hansen, who visited England in September 1680 in the entourage of Charles, electoral Prince Palatine. Owned, in 1951 by Dr A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952), Philadelphia book dealer, collector and scholar.

Cited in IELM, II as the Yale MS: RoJ Δ 16. The MS was identified by David M. Vieth as an independent scribal transcript of the copy-text used for the first edition of Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R— (Antwerp [i.e. London], 1680): see Attribution, pp. 56-100, and The Text of Rochester and the Editions of 1680, PBSA, 50 (1956), 243-63. Discussed extensively, and Hansen identified, in Harold Love, Scribal Texts and Literary Communities: The Rochester Circle and Osborn b. 105, SB, 42 (1989), 219-35. Facsimile of p. 62 in Vieth (1968), frontispiece. Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth (1968) and in Walker.

Yale, Osborn MS b 100 through Osborn MS b 149 (Osborn MS b 105 pp. 106-7)
RoJ 520

Copy, headed Thus Englished by the same Lord Rochester, following the Latin text (twelve lines) headed Seneca Troades Act. 2 Chorus.

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English, Latin and French, in several hands, written from both ends, 360 pages (the majority blank), in old calf.

Inscribed (p. [41 rev.]) J. Tyrell and compiled at least in part by James Tyrrell (1642-1718), historical writer and friend of the philosopher John Locke (1632-1704), a poem by whom (ff. [16v-17r]) he dockets as By my dear Friend Mr J. Lock.

c.1670s-80s

Later in the library of Richard Monckton Milnes (1809-85), first Baron Houghton, author and politician, and his son Robert Offley Ashburton Milnes, afterwards Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, politician.

Nicholas Fisher ([Tyrrell MS] f. [5r-v])
RoJ 521

Copy, headed in another hand Seneca's Troas. Chorus of the 2d Act ... Translated by ye Earl of Rochester.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

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

c.1672-1715 [plus later additions]

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

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 586 p. [629])
RoJ 522

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.

A folio volume of Miscellanies Collected in the Yeare 1683 at Kingstone upon Thames May the 11th, in verse and prose, predominantly in one neat hand, c.141 pages (usually on rectos only), gilt-edged, in contemporary calf gilt.

Compiled between 11 May and 25 June 1683 by someone whose monogram is possibly (?) JMD.

1683

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 652 f. 61r)
RoJ 523

Copy, with the original Latin verses, headed Senec. Tragoed. in Troade. Act 2. Chor...Translated by the E. of Rochester thus.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe. Collated in Walker.

A quarto composite volume of verse and prose manuscripts, in several hands, 165 leaves.

Including (ff. 104-35) a late 17th-century quarto verse miscellany in a small mixed hand, possibly compiled by an Oxford University man.

RoJ 524

Copy, headed On Death by my Lord Rochester.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution; collated in Walker.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, in a largely secretary hand, 222 pages, in calf.

c.1705
Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS c 189 pp. 10-11)
RoJ 525

Copy, headed Seneca: Tros: Act 2: Chorus.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution; collated in Walker.

Two conjugate ledger-size folio leaves.

Late 17th century

Formerly Osborn MS. Chest II, Number 28.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn Poetry Box VI/68 p. [3])
Tunbridge Wells ('At five this morn, when Phoebus raised his head')

First published in Richard Head, Proteus Redivivus: or the Art of Wheedling (London, 1675). Vieth, pp. 73-80. Walker, pp. 69-74. Love, pp. 49-54.

RoJ 526

Copy, headed Observations on Tunbridge Wells.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A long, narrow, ledger-size composite miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 112 pages (some misnumbered and pp. 45-6 excised), in 19th-century calf gilt.

A compendium of several separate collections of poems, each with its general heading, including nineteen poems by the Earl of Rochester, copied in a single hand, that of Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), antiquary.

c.1680s-1700s

Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker. Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Edinburgh MS: RoJ Δ 6.

Edinburgh University Library (MS Dc. 1. 3/1 pp. 66-7)
RoJ 527

Copy, headed A Satyre upon Tunbridge Wells.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems chiefly on affairs of state, entitled A Collection of Poems, including 27 poems by Rochester (all ascribed to him), xii + 299 pages (plus a number of blanks), including a table of contents, in contemporary calf (rebacked).

In a single professional hand but for a few later additions at the very end (pp. 295-8, with some pages tipped-in).

c.1690s

Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Harvard MS: RoJ Δ 7.

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 636 pp. 131-40)
RoJ 528

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A formal folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, including eleven by Rochester and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items, probably in a single professional hand, 444 leaves (including a six-leaf index).

c.1690s

Cited in IELM, II.ii as the Vienna MS: RoJ Δ 12. Discussed in Rudolf Brotanek, Beschreibung der Handschrift 14090 (Supplement 1776) der Nationalbibliothek in Wien, in Festschrift der Nationalbibliothek in Wien (Vienna, 1926), 145-62. Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker.

RoJ 529

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional hand, in two volumes: Vol. I, including twelve poems by Rochester and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items, pp. 1-461 (plus index); Vol. II, pp. 462-842 (with irregularities of pagination).

This MS is closely related to Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Cod. 14090.

c.1690s-1700

Later owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor, who records that £50 was given by Perry, for these 2 volumes.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dyce MS: RoJ Δ 15.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 43 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.37-38) pp. 234-40)
RoJ 530

Copy, headed Tunbridge Wells A Satyr.

Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled Songs & Verses - Upon severall occasions, 406 pages (but pp. 35-44, 63-6, 77-86, 115-32, 153-8, 161-84, and 195-212 excised).

Including 30 poems by Rochester (and probably others by him on missing leaves); pp. 1-392 in a single professional hand (that also responsible for Princeton, RTC01 No. 34); pp. 392-406 in a second hand.

c.1680

Inscribed on the title-page Hansen: i.e. very probably the diplomat Friedrich Adolphus Hansen, who visited England in September 1680 in the entourage of Charles, electoral Prince Palatine. Owned, in 1951 by Dr A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952), Philadelphia book dealer, collector and scholar.

Cited in IELM, II as the Yale MS: RoJ Δ 16. The MS was identified by David M. Vieth as an independent scribal transcript of the copy-text used for the first edition of Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R— (Antwerp [i.e. London], 1680): see Attribution, pp. 56-100, and The Text of Rochester and the Editions of 1680, PBSA, 50 (1956), 243-63. Discussed extensively, and Hansen identified, in Harold Love, Scribal Texts and Literary Communities: The Rochester Circle and Osborn b. 105, SB, 42 (1989), 219-35. Facsimile of p. 62 in Vieth (1968), frontispiece. Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth (1968) and in Walker.

Yale, Osborn MS b 100 through Osborn MS b 149 (Osborn MS b 105 pp. 251-63)
RoJ 530.5

Copy, headed Post Nihill Mortem &c..

A large octavo verse miscellany, chiefly lampoons and poems on affairs of state, including 21 poems by Rochester and various others in the Rochester apocrypha, nearly 600 pages in all, with a 14-page index.

Written in a single hand which can be identified as that of the Scottish pasquil-writer and antiquary Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), who was also responsible for RoJ Δ 6.

c.1705
Private owners in the UK (Mylne MS p. 44)
RoJ 530.8

Copy, headed observations on Tunbridge wells.

A large octavo verse miscellany, chiefly lampoons and poems on affairs of state, including 21 poems by Rochester and various others in the Rochester apocrypha, nearly 600 pages in all, with a 14-page index.

Written in a single hand which can be identified as that of the Scottish pasquil-writer and antiquary Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), who was also responsible for RoJ Δ 6.

c.1705
Private owners in the UK (Mylne MS pp. 211-15)
RoJ 531

Copy, headed Upon ye Wells by my Ld Rocheseter.

This MS collated in Walker.

A miscellany of academic orations, verse, satires, etc., in Latin and English, iv + 111 leaves, in limp vellum.

Compiled by William Doble (1649/50-75), of Trinity College, Oxford.

c.1669-74

R.C. Hatchwell, sale catalogue No. 23 (1973), item 50.

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. f. 29 fols 69r, 70r, 71r, 72r, 73r, 74r, 75r)
RoJ 532

Copy, subscribed Ld R: fecit Sept 20: 81.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A folio volume of poems chiefly on affairs of state, in professional hands, ff. 1-49 comprising poems of the 1640s, ff. 49v onwards Restoration poems up to 1681, 174 leaves (including twelve blanks), in contemporary calf, both covers stamped 1642, with remains of clasps.

Including nine poems in the Marvell canon (plus apocryphal poems); ff. 1-157 a single unit in variant styles of hand; ff. 158-62 in yet another hand on a smaller tipped-in quire of paper.

Mid-late 17th century

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

Cited in IELM, II.i (1993) as the Douce MS: MaA Δ 3. Marvell contents recorded and selectively collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I and II.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Douce 357 ff. 136v-8v)
RoJ 533 Late 17th century

Copy, headed On Tunbridge-wells a Satyre of L.R., on three quarto leaves (of a six-leaf gathering).

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A folio composite volume of verse MSS, in various hands, 215 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco.

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

Early-mid-18th century
RoJ 534

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution; collated in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of poems chiefly on affairs of state, ff. 4r-153v in a single neat predominantly italic hand, ff. 154r-63 in another hand dated 1687, with (ff. 2r-3v, 165r-6r) a table of contents, 166 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half morocco.

Including eight poems in the Marvell canon and his mock-speech by the King (plus apocryphal poems).

c.1680s

Inscribed (f. 1r) Samll. Danvers. 1664; and (f. 164v) F Danvers, Samuel Danvers his book, and W D'anvers: i.e. probably the family of Sir Samuel Danvers, Bt. (d.1683) of Culworth, Northamptonshire (though not in his hand).

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Danvers MS: MaA Δ 5. Marvell contents recorded and selectively collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I and II.

RoJ 535

Copy, headed Observacons on Tunbridge Wells.

Edited in part from this MS in Love. Recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional hand, 151 pages (plus 128 blank pages), with a table of contents (f. 1*r), in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

End of 17th century
RoJ 536 c.1680

Copy of lines 1-175, headed Epsom Wells: By ye Earl of Rochester.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

An oblong octavo miscellany, in English and Latin, chiefly in one hand, 231 leaves, in modern calf gilt.

Inscribed (f. 1r) White Kennett ex aulâ Scti Edmundi apud Oxonienses: Octobris 18mo 1678, being Volume II of the collections of White Kennett (1660-1728), Bishop of Peterborough, historian.

c.1678
The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 936 ff. 50r-4v)
RoJ 537

Copy, subscribed Rochester.

A folio verse miscellany, in possibly two neat rounded hands, 366 pages plus a five-page index, dated at the end Finis August ye. 6th 1717.

1715-17
University of Chicago (MS 553 pp. 114-18)
RoJ 538

Copy, headed Ann. 1670 A Poem at Tunbridg by Robert West / The Evidence.

A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands, one cursive hand predominating, entitled at one end Poems Collected at several Times from the year 1670 and at the other end Collections of several things out of History. begun about the year 1670, written over a period, 336 largely unnumbered pages (plus blanks), 205 pages from one end and 131 pages from the reverse end, in contemporary vellum boards.

Compiled chiefly by Sarah Cowper (née Holled, 1644-1720), Lady Cowper, wife of Sir William Cowper, MP (1639-1706), possibly in part from texts supplied by Martin Clifford (c.1624-77), erstwhile secretary of the Duke of Buckingham and Master of the Charterhouse. Including (pp. [91-116]) 26 poems by Sir Charles Sedley as a single group (and copies of a poem of doubtful authorship on pp. [165] and [179]).

c.1670-1705

Recorded in IELM, II.ii, as the Cowper MS: SeC Δ 2. Discussed in Allan Pritchard, Editing from Manuscript: Cowley and the Cowper Papers, in Editing Poetry from Spenser to Dryden, ed. A.H. De Quehen (New York & London, 1981), pp. 47-76, esp. pp. 62-5, and in Harold Love, Two Rochester Manuscripts Circulated from the Charterhouse, The Library, 6th Ser. 16/3 (September 1994), 225-9.

Hertfordshire Record Office (DE/P F36 pp. [142-7])
RoJ 539 Late 17th century

Copy, in a probably professional hand, headed Tunbridg waters, on all four pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A tall folio composite volume of state and ecclesiastical letters and papers, in various hands, 185 itemns, unfoliated, in later black morocco gilt.

Volume XIII of the collections of Edmund Gibson (1669-1748), Bishop of London.

Lambeth Palace Library (MS 941 No 115)
RoJ 539.5

Copy, headed Tunbridge Wells by ye Ld R--r.

An unbound collection of poems chiefly of a bawdy nature or on affairs of state (including a number in the Rochester and apocryphal Rochester canon), in a non-professional hand, possibly derived at least in part from printed sources, 29 folio leaves.

c.1700

Among the papers of the Turner family of Kirkleatham.

North Yorkshire Record Office, Northallerton (ZK MIC 1275/9785 ff. [9v-11v])
RoJ 540

Copy, as by ye E: of R. June 30. 75.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, largely in a single hand, 304 pages (plus an Index and blanks), in contemporary calf.

c.1680s-90s

Sotheby's, 21-22 April 1958, lot 397, to Seven Gables bookshop. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Formerly Restoration poetry MS 3.

A microfilm of this volume is in the British Library, M/546.

Princeton (RTC01 No. 36 pp. 213-21)
RoJ 541

Copy, headed A Satyr vpon Tunbridge Wells by ye E. of Rochester An°. 1673, largely written sideways the length of the page.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

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

Late 17th century

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

Yale, Osborn MS b 50 through Osborn MS b 99 (Osborn MS b 52/2 pp. 164-7)
RoJ 542

Copy, headed Observations on Tunbridge Wells.

This MS recorded in Vieth, collated in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional hand, with some rubrication and decoration, 358 pages (including over 60 blanks), with a table of contents, in contemporary black morocco gilt bearing a coronet.

c.1680s

Formerly Phillipps MS 7740 and Osborn MS. Box XXII, Number 3.

Yale, Osborn MS b 100 through Osborn MS b 149 (Osborn MS b 113 pp. 17-28)
RoJ 542.5

Copy.

A commonplace book compiled by Whitelocke Bulstrode (1652-1724), administrator and writer.

1680-93

Later in the library of J. Eliot Hodgkin, FSA (1829-1912), of Richmond, Surrey, engineer and book collector.

Recorded in HMC, 15th Report, Appendix II (1897), pp. 3 and 18 (where the poems by Rochester at the reverse end are erroneously attributed to Lord Rosebery).

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Bulstrode MS] [unspecified page numbers])
RoJ 543

Copy of lines 146-75, here beginning And on her halfe dead wom bestow new Life, imperfect, lacking the previous portion.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state entitled A Collection of Poems Sayters and Lampoones, 4178 pages (but a number excised).

Late 17th century

Front endpaper inscribed Latchington 2 March 1787. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (Phillipps MS 8303). At Yale formerly Chest II, Number 3.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS fb 140 p. 123)
''Twas a dispute 'twixt heav'n and Earth'

See RoJ 435-437.

Two Translations from Lucretius

See RoJ 103.

Under King Charles II's Picture ('I, John Roberts, writ this same')

First published in Poems by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed. Vivian de Sola Pinto (London, 1953), p. xlv. Vieth, p. 20. Walker, p. 121.

RoJ 544

Copy.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

A folio miscellany of largely poems on affairs of state, in two professional hands, with others on six tipped-in leaves at the end, 205 leaves (plus blanks), in black morocco gilt.

c.1730
Upon Cary Frazer ('Her Father gave her Dildoes six')

See RoJ 201.

Upon His Drinking a Bowl ('Vulcan, contrive me such a cup')

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 52-3. Walker, pp. 37-8. Love, pp. 41-2, as Nestor.

RoJ 545

Copy, headed Nestor.

A large folio miscellany of verse and prose, in a single accomplished professional hand, 756 pages (including over 200 blank leaves).

Including (pp. 217-429) 87 poems, chiefly on affairs of state, of which thirty are by Rochester; other contents comprising (pp. 1-71) a transcript of a Royal Household Establishment Book of William and Mary (1689-97); (pp. 75-212) a collection of legal precedents; and (pp. 442-543) copies of documents relating to the New Forest.

c.1698-1700s

Evidently compiled either for Henry Somerset (1629-1700), first Duke of Beaufort, Privy Councillor, or for his son Henry (1661-98), Marquess of Worcester, or else for his grandson, Henry Somerset (1684-1714), second Duke of Beaufort, who was Warden of the New Forest.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Badminton MS: RoJ Δ 1. Discussed and contents listed, with facsimile examples, in Michael Brennan and Paul Hammond, The Badminton Manuscript: A New Miscellany of Restoration Verse, EMS, 5 (1995), 171-207.

RoJ 546

This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.

A quarto composite miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 137 pages (plus eight pages of later additions and eight blank pages), in modern cloth.

In a single hand, including sixteen poems by Rochester, pp. 139-46 occupied by charges of the Grand Jury added after 1714.

c.1680s

Recorded in IELM II.ii as the Gilpin MS: RoJ Δ 3.

Bodleian Library, Eng. misc. MSS (MS Eng. misc. e. 536 p. 60)
RoJ 547

Copy, headed Upon drinking in a Bowl.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

A folio verse miscellany, entitled The Muse's Magazine, or Poeticall Miscelanies, in two parts, in a single hand, 189 leaves.

Including 27 poems by Cowley; eleven poems by Katherine Philips, evidently derived from printed sources; 10 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items; twelve poems by Sedley, plus one of doubtful authorship; and 15 poems by Waller, evidently derived from printed sources.

A note on a flyleaf relating to the bookseller John Dunton (1659-1733): John Dunton His Book, for which Mr. Corbet at ye Addisons Head, accepted One Half Guinea in full Payment for it, as Witness my Hand, Hannah Rakley. A note on f. 1: Since I had transcrib'd this whole Book, I met with some state Poems of these later times, mostly since K. George's Accession to the Crown [1714] which I have here inserted, as a supplement to these state Poems which make a part of this Collection by themselves. Date at the end of the volume: 1718, and some notes on a flyleaf dated 1724.

Early 18th century

The Mr. Corbet from whom Dunton purchased this MS was evidently the bookseller Thomas Corbett (fl. 1705-43), who ran his business at the Addison's Head, next to the Rose Tavern, without Temple Bar, from 1719 until his death in 1743. Neither Dunton nor Corbett are known to have used this MS for publication purposes.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dunton MS: PsK Δ 8; RoJ Δ 4; SeC Δ 1; WaE Δ 10.

For John Dunton's career, see Stephen Parks, John Dunton and the English Book Trade: A Study of His Career with a Checklist of His Publications (New York & London, 1970).

RoJ 548

Copy, headed Upon drinking of A Bowle.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems chiefly on affairs of state, entitled A Collection of Poems, including 27 poems by Rochester (all ascribed to him), xii + 299 pages (plus a number of blanks), including a table of contents, in contemporary calf (rebacked).

In a single professional hand but for a few later additions at the very end (pp. 295-8, with some pages tipped-in).

c.1690s

Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Harvard MS: RoJ Δ 7.

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 636 pp. 62-4)
RoJ 549

Copy, headed Nestor.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in several hands, one professional stylish hand predominating, with (ff. 1r, 2r) a Table of contents, 213 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf.

Including 29 poems by Rochester (plus a second copy of one) and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items.

c.1680s

Once owned by Thomas Fermor (1698-1753), first Earl of Pomfret, of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire. Also used by one James Parks.

Recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, and selectively collated in Walker.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 40 ff. 21v-2r)
RoJ 550

Copy, headed Nestor.

Edited in part from this MS in Love. Recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A formal quarto miscellany, of poems on affairs of state, including 29 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items, in three professional hands (A, pp. 1-278; B, pp. 279-84; C, pp. 285-314), 314 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary red morocco.

c.1680

Once owned by Count Carl Edward Gyldenstolpe (1770-1852) and perhaps originally acquired by Count Nils Gyldenstolpe (1642-1709), Swedish Ambassador at The Hague (in 1679-87).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Gyldenstolpe MS: RoJ Δ 14. A complete facsimile edition in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe (1967).

Royal Library, Stockholm (MS Vu. 69 pp. 87-8)
RoJ 551

Copy, headed Upon his drinking bowl.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, in English and Latin, in several hands, ii + 53 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf.

c.1690

J. Salkeld, sale catalogue No. 222 (17 June 1885), item 273.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Add. B. 106 f. 42r-v)
RoJ 552

Copy of lines 1-8, 17-24, in a musical setting, headed An Adress to Vulcan.

An oblong quarto songbook, in two or more hands, 68 leaves, in modern half brown morocco.

c.1724

Inscribed (f. 34r) Challis Mather 1742. Acquired from R.N. James, 6 April 1888.

RoJ 553

Copy of lines 1-8, 17-24, headed An Address to Vulcan, with a musical setting.

Late 17th century

This MS cannot now be located, unless Vieth's reference to it is mistaken. It appears to be identical with RoJ 552.

This MS recorded (as Illinois MS. 20 D 43 Ellis) in Vieth, Attribution.

University of Illinois ([no shelfmark])
Upon His Leaving His Mistress ('Tis not that I am weary grown')

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 81. Walker, p. 37. Love, pp. 17-18.

RoJ 554

Copy.

A large folio miscellany of verse and prose, in a single accomplished professional hand, 756 pages (including over 200 blank leaves).

Including (pp. 217-429) 87 poems, chiefly on affairs of state, of which thirty are by Rochester; other contents comprising (pp. 1-71) a transcript of a Royal Household Establishment Book of William and Mary (1689-97); (pp. 75-212) a collection of legal precedents; and (pp. 442-543) copies of documents relating to the New Forest.

c.1698-1700s

Evidently compiled either for Henry Somerset (1629-1700), first Duke of Beaufort, Privy Councillor, or for his son Henry (1661-98), Marquess of Worcester, or else for his grandson, Henry Somerset (1684-1714), second Duke of Beaufort, who was Warden of the New Forest.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Badminton MS: RoJ Δ 1. Discussed and contents listed, with facsimile examples, in Michael Brennan and Paul Hammond, The Badminton Manuscript: A New Miscellany of Restoration Verse, EMS, 5 (1995), 171-207.

RoJ 555

This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.

A quarto composite miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 137 pages (plus eight pages of later additions and eight blank pages), in modern cloth.

In a single hand, including sixteen poems by Rochester, pp. 139-46 occupied by charges of the Grand Jury added after 1714.

c.1680s

Recorded in IELM II.ii as the Gilpin MS: RoJ Δ 3.

Bodleian Library, Eng. misc. MSS (MS Eng. misc. e. 536 p. 59)
RoJ 555.5

Copy, headed To Celia for Inconstancy, subscribed E R.

An octavo miscellany of Restoration poems, chiefly upon affairs of state, ii + 89 octavo leaves, in 19th-century red morocco.

Predominantly in a single professional hand, with subsequent corrections or annotations in other hands or inks, and (f. 89v) with a pencil note after a table of contents This Book is written by Brown.

Late 17th century

Bookplate of Edward Vernon Utterson (1776?-1856), of the Isle of Wight, artist, book collector and literary antiquary. Sotheby's, 19 April 1852, lot 1318. Owned after 1911 by Robert Ashburton Milnes, afterwards Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, politician. Christie's, 26 November 1997, lot 75.

RoJ 556

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems chiefly on affairs of state, entitled A Collection of Poems, including 27 poems by Rochester (all ascribed to him), xii + 299 pages (plus a number of blanks), including a table of contents, in contemporary calf (rebacked).

In a single professional hand but for a few later additions at the very end (pp. 295-8, with some pages tipped-in).

c.1690s

Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Harvard MS: RoJ Δ 7.

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 636 pp. 61-2)
RoJ 557

Copy.

This MS collated in Hammond, Robinson and in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Booke of Paragrafts, including 22 poems by Rochester, 445 pages plus stubs of extracted leaves (originally 463 numbered pages and now lacking pp. 59-68, 147-54 and parts of pp. 155-8), with a two-leaf index; in contemporary red morocco.

In professional hands: A, pp. 1-194; B, in a different style and probably a different hand, pp. 195-432; C, probably yet another hand, with additions on pp. 75, 90, 102, 125, 142, 175, 195, and pp. 433-63.

c.1680s-90s

Inscribed (on stubs and endpapers) matt Calihan, To Cpt Robinson att Capt Eloass [Elwes] near ye Watch house in Marlburhroagh street, For Capt. Robinson at his Lodginges in Charing Cross. Christie's, 27 June 1979, lot 16.

Various commissioned officers named Robinson are recorded in Charles Dalton, English Army Lists and Commission Registers, 1661-1714 (6 vols, London, 1892-1904): see esp. I, 276. The volume was most probably owned by Charles Robinson of the King's Regiment of Foot Guards, who became Captain and then Lieutenant-Colonel in 1688 and was killed at Namur in 1695. A member of the same regiment in 1684 was the purveyor of MS lampoons Captain Lenthal Warcup. The Captain Eloass mentioned in one inscription was possibly William Elwes, who served as a Lieutenant in Viscount Colchester's Regiment of Horse, c.1692-4, and as a Captain in Lord Windsor's Regiment of Horse in 1702.

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Robinson MS: RoJ Δ 8. Discussed with facsimiles of pp. 1-10 in Paul Hammond, The Robinson Manuscript Miscellany of Restoration Verse in the Brotherton Collection, Leeds, Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, 18 (1982), 275-324 [cited in entries as Hammond, Robinson]. Facsimiles of p. 1 also in Christie's sale catalogue, Plate 1, after p. 48, and in The Brotherton Collection University of Leeds: Its contents described with illustrations of fifty books and manuscripts (Leeds, 1986), p. 17. Selectively collated in Walker.

RoJ 558

Copy, headed To Cælia for Inconstancy. Song.

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and papers.

Papers of the Rev. George Harbin (c.1665-1744), historical writer and librarian to Sir Thomas Thynne (1640-1714), first Viscount Weymouth, at Longleat House, including (ff. 38r-60v) 23 quarto leaves of poems and letters by Rochester in a single hand.

Early 18th century

Inscribed (several times) Alex: Malet: i.e. the Rev Alexander Malet, Harbin's nephew and executor, a later note stating that the Marquess of Bath purchased part of the papers from Malet's descendant, Sir Alexander Malet, in 1873. Another inscription (f. 37r) reads: Some of Dr Harbin's Papers obtained from Mr. Waller of Fleet St by J.E. Jackson, after the sale of the Papers by Puttick & Simpson April 1874.

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Harbin MS: RoJ Δ 9.

The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House (Thynne Papers, Vol. XXVII f. 44v)
RoJ 559

Copy.

This MS collated in Walker.

A formal quarto miscellany, of poems on affairs of state, including 29 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items, in three professional hands (A, pp. 1-278; B, pp. 279-84; C, pp. 285-314), 314 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary red morocco.

c.1680

Once owned by Count Carl Edward Gyldenstolpe (1770-1852) and perhaps originally acquired by Count Nils Gyldenstolpe (1642-1709), Swedish Ambassador at The Hague (in 1679-87).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Gyldenstolpe MS: RoJ Δ 14. A complete facsimile edition in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe (1967).

Royal Library, Stockholm (MS Vu. 69 pp. 61-2)
RoJ 560

Edited in part from this MS in Vieth; collated in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled Songs & Verses - Upon severall occasions, 406 pages (but pp. 35-44, 63-6, 77-86, 115-32, 153-8, 161-84, and 195-212 excised).

Including 30 poems by Rochester (and probably others by him on missing leaves); pp. 1-392 in a single professional hand (that also responsible for Princeton, RTC01 No. 34); pp. 392-406 in a second hand.

c.1680

Inscribed on the title-page Hansen: i.e. very probably the diplomat Friedrich Adolphus Hansen, who visited England in September 1680 in the entourage of Charles, electoral Prince Palatine. Owned, in 1951 by Dr A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952), Philadelphia book dealer, collector and scholar.

Cited in IELM, II as the Yale MS: RoJ Δ 16. The MS was identified by David M. Vieth as an independent scribal transcript of the copy-text used for the first edition of Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R— (Antwerp [i.e. London], 1680): see Attribution, pp. 56-100, and The Text of Rochester and the Editions of 1680, PBSA, 50 (1956), 243-63. Discussed extensively, and Hansen identified, in Harold Love, Scribal Texts and Literary Communities: The Rochester Circle and Osborn b. 105, SB, 42 (1989), 219-35. Facsimile of p. 62 in Vieth (1968), frontispiece. Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth (1968) and in Walker.

Yale, Osborn MS b 100 through Osborn MS b 149 (Osborn MS b 105 pp. 113-14)
RoJ 561

Copy, headed To Caelia for Inconstancy / Song, numbered in a darker ink 2.

A quarto volume of works almost exclusively by Rochester, in a single professional hand up to p. 208, a second, less accomplished, hand taking over (after stubs of two extracted leaves) on pp. 209-31; with a title-page (p. 13), Poem's / By The. Right Honourable/John Earle / of/Rochester, 219 pages (plus 12 preliminary blank pages and 99 blank pages at the end), in half-russia over marbled boards.

c.mid-1680s

Bookplate of The Reverend Sir George Lee. Baronet/Hartwell. Inscribed This Manuscript was found at Hartwell. March. 1829. J. Lee and another, Bound Mr. Wilson. March 1829 [i.e. the MS was in the library of the Rev. Sir George Lee, Bt (1767-1827), rector of Hartwell, etc., and of Dr John Lee, F.R.S. (1783-1866), at Hartwell House, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire]. Later sold by Charles Sawyer (No. 1467 in a sale catalogue). The MS might possibly once have been owned by Thomas Lee, Bt, M.P. (1635-91) of Hartwell, who was, incidentally, related by marriage to Sir John Suckling. His son was Sir Thomas Lee, Bt, M.P. (1661-1702). The MS was later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 18 December 1995 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 114, with facsimile examples in the sale catalogue.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Hartwell MS: RoJ Δ 17. This MS on exhibition at the Bodleian, 16-28 June 1930, and recorded in Proceedings and Papers of the Oxford Bibliographical Society, 2 (1927-30), p. 213. Subsequently discussed, and parts printed, by Harold Love and Stephen Parks in A reasonable satyr, TLS, 1 August 1997, p. 13; in Harold Love, A Tale of Two Manuscripts, Yale University Library Gazette, 72 (1999), 41-53; and in his pamphlet A Newly Discovered Burlesque by John Wilmot Earl of Rochester (New Haven, 1997).

A complete microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7982.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 334 pp. 182-3)
RoJ 562

Copy, untitled.

An octavo verse miscellany.

End of 17th century

Once owned by Henry Bracegirdle of Merton College, Oxford, who gave it to Hugh Massey in 1674. Dobell's catalogue Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1274. Colbeck, Radford & Co., The Ingatherer No. 38 (1934), item 224.

King's College, Cambridge (Hayward Collection, H. 11. 14 p. 29)
RoJ 563

Copy, headed My Ld Rochester to his mistresse, when he put her away.

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

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

c.1662[-1730s]

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

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

Upon Nothing ('Nothing! thou elder brother even to Shade')

First published, as a broadside, [in London, 1679]. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 118-20. Walker, pp. 62-4. Harold Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing, Centre for Bibliographical and Textual Studies, Monash University, Occasional Papers 1 (1985). Love, pp. 46-8.

RoJ 564

Copy, headed Nothing and here beginning Nothing thou Elder Brother unto Shade.

A large folio miscellany of verse and prose, in a single accomplished professional hand, 756 pages (including over 200 blank leaves).

Including (pp. 217-429) 87 poems, chiefly on affairs of state, of which thirty are by Rochester; other contents comprising (pp. 1-71) a transcript of a Royal Household Establishment Book of William and Mary (1689-97); (pp. 75-212) a collection of legal precedents; and (pp. 442-543) copies of documents relating to the New Forest.

c.1698-1700s

Evidently compiled either for Henry Somerset (1629-1700), first Duke of Beaufort, Privy Councillor, or for his son Henry (1661-98), Marquess of Worcester, or else for his grandson, Henry Somerset (1684-1714), second Duke of Beaufort, who was Warden of the New Forest.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Badminton MS: RoJ Δ 1. Discussed and contents listed, with facsimile examples, in Michael Brennan and Paul Hammond, The Badminton Manuscript: A New Miscellany of Restoration Verse, EMS, 5 (1995), 171-207.

The Duke of Beaufort, Badminton (FmE 3/12 pp. 303-4)
RoJ 565

Copy, headed Rochesters Verses upon Nothing.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker and in Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. b. 8 pp. 654-5)
RoJ 566

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing.

A quarto composite miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 137 pages (plus eight pages of later additions and eight blank pages), in modern cloth.

In a single hand, including sixteen poems by Rochester, pp. 139-46 occupied by charges of the Grand Jury added after 1714.

c.1680s

Recorded in IELM II.ii as the Gilpin MS: RoJ Δ 3.

Bodleian Library, Eng. misc. MSS (MS Eng. misc. e. 536 pp. 67-9)
RoJ 567

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution; collated in Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing.

A folio verse miscellany, entitled The Muse's Magazine, or Poeticall Miscelanies, in two parts, in a single hand, 189 leaves.

Including 27 poems by Cowley; eleven poems by Katherine Philips, evidently derived from printed sources; 10 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items; twelve poems by Sedley, plus one of doubtful authorship; and 15 poems by Waller, evidently derived from printed sources.

A note on a flyleaf relating to the bookseller John Dunton (1659-1733): John Dunton His Book, for which Mr. Corbet at ye Addisons Head, accepted One Half Guinea in full Payment for it, as Witness my Hand, Hannah Rakley. A note on f. 1: Since I had transcrib'd this whole Book, I met with some state Poems of these later times, mostly since K. George's Accession to the Crown [1714] which I have here inserted, as a supplement to these state Poems which make a part of this Collection by themselves. Date at the end of the volume: 1718, and some notes on a flyleaf dated 1724.

Early 18th century

The Mr. Corbet from whom Dunton purchased this MS was evidently the bookseller Thomas Corbett (fl. 1705-43), who ran his business at the Addison's Head, next to the Rose Tavern, without Temple Bar, from 1719 until his death in 1743. Neither Dunton nor Corbett are known to have used this MS for publication purposes.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dunton MS: PsK Δ 8; RoJ Δ 4; SeC Δ 1; WaE Δ 10.

For John Dunton's career, see Stephen Parks, John Dunton and the English Book Trade: A Study of His Career with a Checklist of His Publications (New York & London, 1970).

RoJ 567.2

Copy of the last six lines.

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

c.1682-91
Bodleian Library, Sancroft MSS (MS Sancroft 53 p. 68)
RoJ 567.5

An octavo miscellany of Restoration poems, chiefly upon affairs of state, ii + 89 octavo leaves, in 19th-century red morocco.

Predominantly in a single professional hand, with subsequent corrections or annotations in other hands or inks, and (f. 89v) with a pencil note after a table of contents This Book is written by Brown.

Late 17th century

Bookplate of Edward Vernon Utterson (1776?-1856), of the Isle of Wight, artist, book collector and literary antiquary. Sotheby's, 19 April 1852, lot 1318. Owned after 1911 by Robert Ashburton Milnes, afterwards Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, politician. Christie's, 26 November 1997, lot 75.

RoJ 568

Copy, headed On Nothing.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker and in Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing.

A long, narrow, ledger-size composite miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 112 pages (some misnumbered and pp. 45-6 excised), in 19th-century calf gilt.

A compendium of several separate collections of poems, each with its general heading, including nineteen poems by the Earl of Rochester, copied in a single hand, that of Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), antiquary.

c.1680s-1700s

Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker. Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Edinburgh MS: RoJ Δ 6.

Edinburgh University Library (MS Dc. 1. 3/1 p. 11)
RoJ 569

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker and in Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing.

A folio miscellany of poems chiefly on affairs of state, entitled A Collection of Poems, including 27 poems by Rochester (all ascribed to him), xii + 299 pages (plus a number of blanks), including a table of contents, in contemporary calf (rebacked).

In a single professional hand but for a few later additions at the very end (pp. 295-8, with some pages tipped-in).

c.1690s

Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Harvard MS: RoJ Δ 7.

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 636 pp. 55-8)
RoJ 569.5

Copy.

Index volume to DE/P F37 compiled by Sarah Cowper (née Holled, 1644-1720), Lady Cowper, wife of Sir William Cowper, MP (1639-1706).

Hertfordshire Record Office (DE/P F42 [unspecified page numbers])
RoJ 570

Copy, headed Nothing.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker and in Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in several hands, one professional stylish hand predominating, with (ff. 1r, 2r) a Table of contents, 213 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf.

Including 29 poems by Rochester (plus a second copy of one) and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items.

c.1680s

Once owned by Thomas Fermor (1698-1753), first Earl of Pomfret, of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire. Also used by one James Parks.

Recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, and selectively collated in Walker.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 40 ff. 43r-4r)
RoJ 570.5 Late 17th century

Copy, in a professional hand, folded as a letter and addressed to the poet Thomas Shipman (1632-80).

A folio composite volume of over thirty verse manuscripts, in various hands, including that of Sir John Molyneux, third Baronet (1623-91).

Among the papers of the Molyneux family of Teversall, Nottinghamshire. Donated in 1977 by the eighth Lord Carnarvon.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Paul Davis, An Unrecorded Collection of Restoration Scribal Verse Including Three New Rochester Manuscripts, EMS 18 (2013), 139-172.

University of Nottingham (Molyneux Papers, Vol. II MOL 224a)
RoJ 570.8 Late 17th century

Copy, in the hand of Sir John Molyneux, third Baronet.

A folio composite volume of over thirty verse manuscripts, in various hands, including that of Sir John Molyneux, third Baronet (1623-91).

Among the papers of the Molyneux family of Teversall, Nottinghamshire. Donated in 1977 by the eighth Lord Carnarvon.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Paul Davis, An Unrecorded Collection of Restoration Scribal Verse Including Three New Rochester Manuscripts, EMS 18 (2013), 139-172.

University of Nottingham (Molyneux Papers, Vol. II MOL 224b)
RoJ 571

Copy, as By Rochester.

An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, chiefly on affairs of state, including nine poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items, in a single small hand, 356 pages (misnumbered in pencil 1-344 and lacking the first few original leaves), in contemporary boards.

Probably compiled by an Anglican cleric (or student before taking orders) associated with Cambridge University.

c.late 1690s-1704

Later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Formerly Restoration poetry MS 5.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Cambridge Miscellany MS: RoJ Δ 13.

Princeton (RTC01 No. 38 pp. 151-3)
RoJ 572

Copy, headed On Nothing.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker and in Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing.

A formal quarto miscellany, of poems on affairs of state, including 29 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items, in three professional hands (A, pp. 1-278; B, pp. 279-84; C, pp. 285-314), 314 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary red morocco.

c.1680

Once owned by Count Carl Edward Gyldenstolpe (1770-1852) and perhaps originally acquired by Count Nils Gyldenstolpe (1642-1709), Swedish Ambassador at The Hague (in 1679-87).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Gyldenstolpe MS: RoJ Δ 14. A complete facsimile edition in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe (1967).

Royal Library, Stockholm (MS Vu. 69 pp. 153-6)
RoJ 573

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker and in Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled Songs & Verses - Upon severall occasions, 406 pages (but pp. 35-44, 63-6, 77-86, 115-32, 153-8, 161-84, and 195-212 excised).

Including 30 poems by Rochester (and probably others by him on missing leaves); pp. 1-392 in a single professional hand (that also responsible for Princeton, RTC01 No. 34); pp. 392-406 in a second hand.

c.1680

Inscribed on the title-page Hansen: i.e. very probably the diplomat Friedrich Adolphus Hansen, who visited England in September 1680 in the entourage of Charles, electoral Prince Palatine. Owned, in 1951 by Dr A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952), Philadelphia book dealer, collector and scholar.

Cited in IELM, II as the Yale MS: RoJ Δ 16. The MS was identified by David M. Vieth as an independent scribal transcript of the copy-text used for the first edition of Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R— (Antwerp [i.e. London], 1680): see Attribution, pp. 56-100, and The Text of Rochester and the Editions of 1680, PBSA, 50 (1956), 243-63. Discussed extensively, and Hansen identified, in Harold Love, Scribal Texts and Literary Communities: The Rochester Circle and Osborn b. 105, SB, 42 (1989), 219-35. Facsimile of p. 62 in Vieth (1968), frontispiece. Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth (1968) and in Walker.

Yale, Osborn MS b 100 through Osborn MS b 149 (Osborn MS b 105 pp. 108-12)
RoJ 574

Copy, headed Upon Nothing by Wilmot Earle of Rochester.

A miscellany, chiefly relating to religion and moral precepts, in Latin and English.

c.1700

Bookplate of John Newdegate, of the Inner Temple, 1702. Among papers of the Newdegate family, Viscounts Daventry, of Arbury Hall, Nuneaton.

Viscount Daventry, Arbury Hall (MS 185 ff. [3r, 4v rev.])
RoJ 575

Copy, headed Rochester Upon Nothing, or Somewhat of Nothing.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker and in Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, in English and Latin, in several hands, ii + 53 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf.

c.1690

J. Salkeld, sale catalogue No. 222 (17 June 1885), item 273.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Add. B. 106 ff. 19v-20v)
RoJ 576

Copy, on a single folio leaf.

This MS collated in Walker.

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 f. 12r-v)
RoJ 577

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker and in Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing.

A quarto verse miscellany entitled A Collection of Verses Fancyes and Poems, Morrall and Devine, in a single hand, i + 180 leaves, (including index), in contemporary calf.

Including 15 poems (and a second copy of one poem) by Cowley and 15 poems by Katherine Philips transcribed from a edited source.

Early 18th century

Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as Rawlinson MS II: PsK Δ 7.

RoJ 578

Copy on both sides of a single folio leaf.

Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker; collated in Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing.

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

Partly compiled by Archbishop Sancroft.

Bodleian Library, Tanner Collection (MS Tanner 306 Vol. II, f. 410r-v)
RoJ 579 Late 17th century

Copy, headed On Nothing, subscribed Rochester, on both sides of a single quarto leaf, inscribed by Thomas Birch This Autograph of the eminent Dr. John Nalson [1637-86, rector and author, prebendary of Ely] was given me by his Son the Revrd. & Ingenious Mr. Val: Nalson Preb: of York 1710.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker and in Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing.

A folio composite volume of verse MSS, in various hands and paper sizes, 231 leaves, in 19th-century half black morocco.

Including items once owned by Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725), Yorkshire antiquary and topographer. Collected by Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian.

Presumably from item 47 among the folio MSS recorded in Thoresby's Ducatus Leodiensis, 2nd edition (Leeds, 1816), Appendix, p. 77.

RoJ 580 Late 17th century

Copy, with alterations, in a professional hand, on a single folio leaf, once folded horizontally.

This MS collated in Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing.

A large folio guardbook of letters and verse, in Latin, English and French, in various hands and paper sizes, 224 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco.

Late 17th century
RoJ 581

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker and in Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, largely in a single neat hand, with later hands at the end, 114 leaves (some leaves excised), wth an index (f. 114r-v), in 19th-century half black morocco.

c.1700

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

RoJ 582

Copy, as by Lord Rochester.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker and in Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing.

A small octavo verse miscellany, in English and Latin, all but five pages in a single hand, 78 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half morocco.

Early 18th century

Inscribed (f. 78r) A. Brooke May 21st. 1718.

RoJ 583

Copy, headed Of Nothing, subscribed Rochester.

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

c.1680s-1702
RoJ 584

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker and in Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing.

A quarto miscellany, in several hands, 66 leaves (plus 70 blanks), in contemporary calf.

Compiled at least in part by George Stanhope (1660-1728), Dean of Canterbury, chiefly while he was at King's College, Cambridge.

c.1678-80s

Inscribed Mrs Denham Cookes 1922 March 10.

RoJ 585

Copy, headed Vpon Nothing by my Lord Rochester.

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English, Latin and French, in several hands, written from both ends, 360 pages (the majority blank), in old calf.

Inscribed (p. [41 rev.]) J. Tyrell and compiled at least in part by James Tyrrell (1642-1718), historical writer and friend of the philosopher John Locke (1632-1704), a poem by whom (ff. [16v-17r]) he dockets as By my dear Friend Mr J. Lock.

c.1670s-80s

Later in the library of Richard Monckton Milnes (1809-85), first Baron Houghton, author and politician, and his son Robert Offley Ashburton Milnes, afterwards Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, politician.

Nicholas Fisher ([Tyrrell MS] ff. [12r-13r])
RoJ 586

Copy, subscribed Rochester, in a professional hand, on pp. 10-11, in a disbound fragment of a folio miscellany of poems paginated 1-34. Late 17th century.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker and in Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing.

A folio composite miscellany of verse MSS, chiefly poems on affairs of state, in various hands and paper sizes, now disbound in folders.

Among papers of the Hastings family, Earls of Huntingdon.

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 623 Folder 14, pp. 10-11)
RoJ 587

Copy, in a professional hand, on a single folio leaf. Late 17th century.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker and in Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing.

A folio composite miscellany of verse MSS, chiefly poems on affairs of state, in various hands and paper sizes, now disbound in folders.

Among papers of the Hastings family, Earls of Huntingdon.

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 623 Folder 15)
RoJ 588

Copy.

This MS collated in Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing.

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in a single cursive hand, 376 pages (including blanks), in contemporary calf.

Compiled almost entirely by Sarah Cowper (née Holled, 1644-1720), Lady Cowper, wife of Sir William Cowper, MP (1639-1706), and inscribed by her inside the front cover Sarah Cowper 1673. Possibly compiled in part from texts supplied by Martin Clifford (c.1624-77), erstwhile secretary of the Duke of Buckingham and Master of the Charterhouse.

c.1673-1700s

Discussed in Harold Love, Two Rochester Manuscripts Circulated from the Charterhouse, The Library, 6th Ser. 16/3 (September 1994), 225-9.

Hertfordshire Record Office (DE/P F37 pp. 180-2)
RoJ 589

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker and in Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing.

An octavo verse miscellany, 22 leaves plus numerous blanks, in calf.

Late 17th century

P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue, The Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1280. Acquired from Quaritch, 23 July 1959. Formerly Uncat. MSS. Rochester, Commonplace book and 821 R58c.

A microfilm of the MS volume is in the British Library, M/573.

University of Illinois (Post-1650 MS 0001 ff. [12v-13v])
RoJ 590 Late 17th century

Copy, in a probably professional hand, on the first two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker and in Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing.

A tall folio composite volume of state and ecclesiastical letters and papers, in various hands, 185 itemns, unfoliated, in later black morocco gilt.

Volume XIII of the collections of Edmund Gibson (1669-1748), Bishop of London.

Lambeth Palace Library (MS 941 No 116)
RoJ 591

Copy.

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

c.1719-50

Purchased from Peter Murray Hill, January 1963.

RoJ 591.5

Copy, headed Upon Nothing. A Poem by D B: [Duke of Buckingham] & E Roc, written lengthways down the page.

An octavo verse miscellany, entitled Poems & Verses on Several Occasions, MDCCXXVI, in a mainly single hand, 66 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary green vellum boards.

1726-c.1768

The title-page inscribed Anna. Rogers. Junr: 1768.

Discussed in Paul Hammond, Some Eighteenth-Century Texts and Adaptations of Rochester in Leeds MS Lt 110, EMS 18 (2013), 173-179.

RoJ 592 Late 17th century

Copy, arranged as a dialogue between the Duke of Buckingham (lines 1-18), Rochester (lines 19-45), and Mr. [Fleetwood] Sheph[er]d (lines 46-51), on three pages of two conjugate quarto leaves.

Facsimile of f. 25r in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 18 June 1991, lot 164, and in The Brotherton Collection Review 1988-92 (Leeds, 1992), p. 10.

A collection of unbound verse MSS.

Assembled by John Gibson (1630-1711), of Welburn, near Kirkby Moorside, North Yorkshire.

Sotheby's, 18 July 1991, lot 164, to Quaritch.

RoJ 593 Early 18th century

Copy, in a cursive italic hand, subscribed By ye E--R--, on the first two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed on f. 78v R. upon Nothing.

A folio composite volume of verse MSS, in various hands, 185 leaves.

The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House (Portland Papers, Vol. XVII f. 77r-v)
RoJ 594

Copy on a single folio leaf.

Late 17th century

Formerly owned by Harold Love (1937-2007), literary scholar and editor.

Edited in part from this MS in Love. Collated in Walker and, with a facsimile, in Harold Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing. Photocopy in the British Library, RP 833.

Professor Harold Love, Melbourne ([Rochester MS poem])
RoJ 595

Copy, here in an arrangement beginning with lines 46-51, headed On Nothing p Shepheard (here beginning French truth, Dutch Prowess, Brittish policy), then lines 37-45, headed On Ditto p Buckingham (here beginning But nothing why does some thing still permit). then lines 1-36 headed On Ditto p E: Roch:.

A formal folio miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, chiefly on affairs of state, in a single professional hand, individual items dated as late as 1697, 286 pages.

c.late 1690s
University of Minnesota (MS 690235f pp. 29-31)
RoJ 595.5 Late 17th century

Copy, in a version divided between speakers D: B:, E: R: and F: B:, in a professional hand, with emendations in the hand of the poet's mother, Anne, Countess of Rochester, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed Lord Rochester On Nothing.

Discovered and identified by Germaine Greer.

Muniments principally of Anne (née St John: 1614-96), Countess of Rochester, and the associated Lee and Cary families.

National Archives, Kew (C 104/110/Part 1 [unnumbered item])
RoJ 595.8 Late 17th century

Copy, in the mixed hand of John Cary, steward of the poet's mother, Anne, Countess of Rochester, on both pages of a single folio leaf, endorsed Upon nothing.

Muniments principally of Anne (née St John: 1614-96), Countess of Rochester, and the associated Lee and Cary families.

National Archives, Kew (C 104/110/Part 1 [unnumbered item])
RoJ 596 Late 17th century

Copy, on two pages of two conjugate folio leaves.

This MS collated in Walker and in Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing.

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

Among papers formerly at Pitchford Hall, Shropshire.

National Library of Wales (Pitchford Hall (Ottley) English Literary MSS (uncatalogued), A A6)
RoJ 597 Late 17th century

Copy of a nine-stanza version, headed Upon Nothing. By the same and here beginning Nothing, now elder Brother ev'n to shade, on pp. [5-6] of a small quarto booklet of poems by or relating to Rochester.

This MS collated in Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing.

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

Among papers formerly at Pitchford Hall, Shropshire.

National Library of Wales (Pitchford Hall (Ottley) English Literary MSS (uncatalogued), A A7)
RoJ 598

Copy of lines 1-2, 44-51, headed A Poeme upon Nothing.

Edited from this MS in Hazard, p. 45, and also in Norman S. Grabo, The Profligate and the Puritan, N&Q, 207 (October 1962), 392-3.

A memorandum book of miscellaneous verse and prose, compiled by Judge John Saffin (1632-1710), of New England, originally in blue velvet.

c.1665-1708

Donated in December 1894 by Laura H. and Mary Carpenter, of Wakefield, Rhode Island.

This volume edited as John Saffin his Book (1665-1708), ed. Caroline Hazard (New York, 1928).

Rhode Island Historical Society (MSS 696 [unspecified page numbers])
RoJ 599

An octavo verse miscellany, 148 pages (lacking pp. 55-8, 117-26).

Late 17th century

Dobell's sale catalogue The Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1284. Afterwards owned by John Sparrow (1906-92), literary scholar and book collector.

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. e. 176 pp. 41-3)
RoJ 599.5

Copy, apparently in the hand of Sir John Bridgeman (1667-1747), headed On nothing by the Earl of Rochester, on three quarto pages.

c.1700

Among archives of the Bridgeman family, Earls of Bradford.

Staffordshire Record Office (D 1287/19/6, [uncatalogued MS])
RoJ 600

Copy of stanzas 13-17, beginning But Nothing, why does something still permit, in the hand of one of Edmund Waller's daughters, lacking the first twelve stanzas.

A sheaf of sixteen folio leaves of verse, in a single hand, disbound.

Among the papers of the Waller family.

Mr Richard Waller ([no shelfmark] f. [15v])
RoJ 601

Copy, headed vpon Nothing Composed by ye Earle of Roshester.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker and in Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing.

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

Late 17th century

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

Yale, Osborn MS b 50 through Osborn MS b 99 (Osborn MS b 52/2 pp. 173-4)
RoJ 602

Copy.

Collated in Walker and in Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing.

Verse miscellany.

Early 18th century

Previously owned by John Wilson (1719-83) of Broomhead Hall. Later Phillipps MS 17695. Later owned by C.K. Ogden (1887-1957) and sold at Sotheby's, 31 July 1962, lot 619, to Dobell.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS c 160 ff. 95r-94v rev.)
RoJ 603

Copy, headed Upon Nothing, by ye Earl of Rochester.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker and in Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing.

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

Early 18th century

Formerly Osborn MS. Chest II, Number 4.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS fb 142 pp. 25-6)
RoJ 604

Copy, subscribed Rotchester.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a non-professional hand, with subsequent index, 34 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt.

Late 17th century

Bookplates of The Rt. Hon. John, Lord Brownlowe, Baron Charleville and Viscount Tyrconnel and of Belton House, Lincolnshire (seat of the Earls Brownlow). and possibly once owned by Sir John Brownlow, third Baronet (1659-97). Myers sale catalogue No. 348 (1947), item 344.

Set of photocopies in British Library, RP 5106.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 327 ff. 9v-10r)
RoJ 604.5

Copy, headed On Nothing: by Ld Rochester.

A quarto commonplace book, in three sections, each in a different non-professional hand, iii + 47 leaves, in 19th-century half-calf and marbled boards.

c.1687

A 19th-century title-page (f. iir) claims this is the Manuscript Common-Place Book of Tho. Hunt. November 1687 (possibly author of the first item, on numeration, dated 30 November 1687). Owned in 1869 by Frederick William Cosens (1819-89), and in 1881 by J. Eliot Hodgkin. FSA (1829-1912), of Hitchin, Hertfordshire, solicitor.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 369 f. 47r-v)
RoJ 604.6

Copy.

A small quarto commonplace book in English and Latin, in three hands, including 30 pages of proverbs, one item dated 1687, 57 pages, in 19th-century half-calf.

Late 17th century

Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 21 June 2001, lot 20.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Bloomsbury MS] [unspecified page numbers])
RoJ 604.8

Copy.

A commonplace book compiled by Whitelocke Bulstrode (1652-1724), administrator and writer.

1680-93

Later in the library of J. Eliot Hodgkin, FSA (1829-1912), of Richmond, Surrey, engineer and book collector.

Recorded in HMC, 15th Report, Appendix II (1897), pp. 3 and 18 (where the poems by Rochester at the reverse end are erroneously attributed to Lord Rosebery).

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Bulstrode MS] [unspecified page numbers])
A Very Heroical Epistle in Answer to Ephelia ('Madam. / If you're deceived, it is not by my cheat')

First published in the broadside A Very Heroical Epistle from My Lord All-Pride to Dol-Common (London, 1679). Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 113-15. Walker, pp. 112-14. Love, pp. 95-7.

RoJ 605

Copy, here beginning Madam / If you're deceiv'd 'tis not by my heart.

A large folio miscellany of verse and prose, in a single accomplished professional hand, 756 pages (including over 200 blank leaves).

Including (pp. 217-429) 87 poems, chiefly on affairs of state, of which thirty are by Rochester; other contents comprising (pp. 1-71) a transcript of a Royal Household Establishment Book of William and Mary (1689-97); (pp. 75-212) a collection of legal precedents; and (pp. 442-543) copies of documents relating to the New Forest.

c.1698-1700s

Evidently compiled either for Henry Somerset (1629-1700), first Duke of Beaufort, Privy Councillor, or for his son Henry (1661-98), Marquess of Worcester, or else for his grandson, Henry Somerset (1684-1714), second Duke of Beaufort, who was Warden of the New Forest.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Badminton MS: RoJ Δ 1. Discussed and contents listed, with facsimile examples, in Michael Brennan and Paul Hammond, The Badminton Manuscript: A New Miscellany of Restoration Verse, EMS, 5 (1995), 171-207.

The Duke of Beaufort, Badminton (FmE 3/12 pp. 286-7)
RoJ 606

Copy, headed An Heroicall Epistle in answer to Ephelia by Rochester.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. b. 8 pp. 602-3)
RoJ 607

This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.

A quarto composite miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 137 pages (plus eight pages of later additions and eight blank pages), in modern cloth.

In a single hand, including sixteen poems by Rochester, pp. 139-46 occupied by charges of the Grand Jury added after 1714.

c.1680s

Recorded in IELM II.ii as the Gilpin MS: RoJ Δ 3.

Bodleian Library, Eng. misc. MSS (MS Eng. misc. e. 536 pp. 117-18)
RoJ 608

Copy, headed His answer.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

A folio verse miscellany, entitled The Muse's Magazine, or Poeticall Miscelanies, in two parts, in a single hand, 189 leaves.

Including 27 poems by Cowley; eleven poems by Katherine Philips, evidently derived from printed sources; 10 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items; twelve poems by Sedley, plus one of doubtful authorship; and 15 poems by Waller, evidently derived from printed sources.

A note on a flyleaf relating to the bookseller John Dunton (1659-1733): John Dunton His Book, for which Mr. Corbet at ye Addisons Head, accepted One Half Guinea in full Payment for it, as Witness my Hand, Hannah Rakley. A note on f. 1: Since I had transcrib'd this whole Book, I met with some state Poems of these later times, mostly since K. George's Accession to the Crown [1714] which I have here inserted, as a supplement to these state Poems which make a part of this Collection by themselves. Date at the end of the volume: 1718, and some notes on a flyleaf dated 1724.

Early 18th century

The Mr. Corbet from whom Dunton purchased this MS was evidently the bookseller Thomas Corbett (fl. 1705-43), who ran his business at the Addison's Head, next to the Rose Tavern, without Temple Bar, from 1719 until his death in 1743. Neither Dunton nor Corbett are known to have used this MS for publication purposes.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dunton MS: PsK Δ 8; RoJ Δ 4; SeC Δ 1; WaE Δ 10.

For John Dunton's career, see Stephen Parks, John Dunton and the English Book Trade: A Study of His Career with a Checklist of His Publications (New York & London, 1970).

RoJ 609

Copy, headed The answer by Sr. Charles Scroope.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A long, narrow, ledger-size composite miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 112 pages (some misnumbered and pp. 45-6 excised), in 19th-century calf gilt.

A compendium of several separate collections of poems, each with its general heading, including nineteen poems by the Earl of Rochester, copied in a single hand, that of Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), antiquary.

c.1680s-1700s

Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker. Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Edinburgh MS: RoJ Δ 6.

Edinburgh University Library (MS Dc. 1. 3/1 p. 23)
RoJ 609.5

Copy.

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

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

c.1712-27

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

The University of Manchester Library (English MS 521 pp. 238-40)
RoJ 610

Copy, headed An heroicall Epistle in answer to Ephelia, subscribed in a different ink Rochester.

An octavo miscellany of chiefly satirical poems, including at least twelve by Rochester, in a single rounded hand but for an addition at the end (pp. 141-50) in a stylish italic hand, the greater part written along the length of the page with the spine uppermost, with an Index, xii + 150 pages (lacking pp. 135-40), in contemporary calf.

Possibly associated with the court circle of James Butler (1610-88), first Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

c.1680s

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dublin MS: RoJ Δ 10.

National Library of Ireland (MS 2093 pp. 74-7)
RoJ 611

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in several hands, one professional stylish hand predominating, with (ff. 1r, 2r) a Table of contents, 213 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf.

Including 29 poems by Rochester (plus a second copy of one) and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items.

c.1680s

Once owned by Thomas Fermor (1698-1753), first Earl of Pomfret, of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire. Also used by one James Parks.

Recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, and selectively collated in Walker.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 40 ff. 34v-5r)
RoJ 612

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A formal quarto miscellany, of poems on affairs of state, including 29 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items, in three professional hands (A, pp. 1-278; B, pp. 279-84; C, pp. 285-314), 314 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary red morocco.

c.1680

Once owned by Count Carl Edward Gyldenstolpe (1770-1852) and perhaps originally acquired by Count Nils Gyldenstolpe (1642-1709), Swedish Ambassador at The Hague (in 1679-87).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Gyldenstolpe MS: RoJ Δ 14. A complete facsimile edition in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe (1967).

Royal Library, Stockholm (MS Vu. 69 pp. 123-6)
RoJ 613

Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled Songs & Verses - Upon severall occasions, 406 pages (but pp. 35-44, 63-6, 77-86, 115-32, 153-8, 161-84, and 195-212 excised).

Including 30 poems by Rochester (and probably others by him on missing leaves); pp. 1-392 in a single professional hand (that also responsible for Princeton, RTC01 No. 34); pp. 392-406 in a second hand.

c.1680

Inscribed on the title-page Hansen: i.e. very probably the diplomat Friedrich Adolphus Hansen, who visited England in September 1680 in the entourage of Charles, electoral Prince Palatine. Owned, in 1951 by Dr A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952), Philadelphia book dealer, collector and scholar.

Cited in IELM, II as the Yale MS: RoJ Δ 16. The MS was identified by David M. Vieth as an independent scribal transcript of the copy-text used for the first edition of Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R— (Antwerp [i.e. London], 1680): see Attribution, pp. 56-100, and The Text of Rochester and the Editions of 1680, PBSA, 50 (1956), 243-63. Discussed extensively, and Hansen identified, in Harold Love, Scribal Texts and Literary Communities: The Rochester Circle and Osborn b. 105, SB, 42 (1989), 219-35. Facsimile of p. 62 in Vieth (1968), frontispiece. Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth (1968) and in Walker.

Yale, Osborn MS b 100 through Osborn MS b 149 (Osborn MS b 105 pp. 344-7)
RoJ 614

Copy in a small quarto verse miscellany (ff. 78r-82v).

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

A folio guard book of miscellaneous MSS, 95 leaves, in 19th-century black morocco gilt.

Collected by John Payne Collier (1789-1883).

Sotheby's, 16-28 November 1885 (Ellis sale).

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2623 f. 79r-v)
RoJ 615

Copy, headed Bajazet to Ephelia.

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

c.1680s-1702
RoJ 616

Copy, headed Answere.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

A folio volume principally of poems, the majority (at least 20) by Edmund Waller, some probably by members of his family, 73 unnumbered leaves, in calf gilt.

Including copies of various drafts, fragments and extracts, as well as poems by other writers such as Anne Wharton, Sir Charles Berkeley, Sir Thomas Higgons (including part of a play by him), Elizabeth Taylor (Lady Wythens, afterwards Lady Colepeper), Ephelia, George Granville, the Duke of Buckingham, Sir George Etherege, the Earl of Rochester, James Shirley, and Thomas Rymer, also extracts from Dryden and Davenant; almost entirely in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, with considerable variation of style; an apparently second, unidentified, hand copying verse and prose (Memoire…par le Sieur Lycelot…Le 9me de Decembre 1687 and Instructions to the Judges of Assize &c Lent 1687/8) on ff. [23r, 62r-7v, 70v]; two of these leaves ([65r and 70v]) docketed in a later hand (after 1713) The Handwriting of Dr Atterbury and Bishp Atterbury [meaning perhaps copied from Atterbury's writing (see WaE Δ 15)]; a draft letter addressed (as is clear from the content) to Catherine, Lady Ranelagh (1614-91), sister of the noble and learned…Mr [Robert] Boyle, on f. [16v], enclosing ffathers last verses [not specified], noting his reluctance to write anything for the forthcoming marriage of Princess Anne and Prince George of Denmark [which took place on 28 July 1684], and observing that he has now consecrated his remayning facullty in vers to devotion; a poem Of his voyage vp the river to vissett (beginning In my breast Eternall flames) on f. [71r] ascribed to Mrs M Waller (presumably Waller's second wife, Mary Bresse or Breaux, d. 1677); some scribbling and calculations on ff. 3r, 71v, 72v, 73v, a label on the spine erroneously identifying the volume as a compilation by Brian Fairfax (1637-1711).

c.1693-8

Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1798-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9096.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Harvard MS: WaE Δ 6.

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 602 f. [57r-v])
RoJ 617

Copy.

This entry separately classified as EL 8736B. This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A quarto booklet of poems, in a single probably professional hand, on eight leaves, foliated 59-63 (64r-6v blank), unbound.

Late 17th century
RoJ 618

Copy, headed An Epistle in Answer of Ephelia.

A large quarto miscellany of poems chiefly on affairs of state, in a single neat italic hand, 81 leaves (including blanks), unbound.

Mid-late 18th century
University of Nottingham (Pw 2 V 7 ff. 64v-5v)
RoJ 619

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

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

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

c.1681

Formerly Osborn MS Chest II, Number 14.

Yale, Osborn MS b 50 through Osborn MS b 99 (Osborn MS b 54 pp. 1181-2)
RoJ 620

Copy.

Edited from this MS, as An Epistle in Answer to Ephelia, in Clifford, Tixall Poetry (1813), pp. 223-5.

A miscellaneous collection of MS verse, totally unconnected with each other, and written on backs of letters, or other scraps of paper.

17th century

Formerly among the papers of the Aston family, of Tixall, Staffordshire.

Selectively edited (as his Fourth Division: Miscellaneous Poems) in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), pp. 207-324.

Untraced Tixal MSS (Tixall MS 4 [unspecified item number])
Woman's Honor ('Love bade me hope, and I obeyed')

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 14. Walker, pp. 22-3. Love, p. 21.

RoJ 621

Copy.

A large folio miscellany of verse and prose, in a single accomplished professional hand, 756 pages (including over 200 blank leaves).

Including (pp. 217-429) 87 poems, chiefly on affairs of state, of which thirty are by Rochester; other contents comprising (pp. 1-71) a transcript of a Royal Household Establishment Book of William and Mary (1689-97); (pp. 75-212) a collection of legal precedents; and (pp. 442-543) copies of documents relating to the New Forest.

c.1698-1700s

Evidently compiled either for Henry Somerset (1629-1700), first Duke of Beaufort, Privy Councillor, or for his son Henry (1661-98), Marquess of Worcester, or else for his grandson, Henry Somerset (1684-1714), second Duke of Beaufort, who was Warden of the New Forest.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Badminton MS: RoJ Δ 1. Discussed and contents listed, with facsimile examples, in Michael Brennan and Paul Hammond, The Badminton Manuscript: A New Miscellany of Restoration Verse, EMS, 5 (1995), 171-207.

RoJ 621.5

Copy, subscribed E R.

An octavo miscellany of Restoration poems, chiefly upon affairs of state, ii + 89 octavo leaves, in 19th-century red morocco.

Predominantly in a single professional hand, with subsequent corrections or annotations in other hands or inks, and (f. 89v) with a pencil note after a table of contents This Book is written by Brown.

Late 17th century

Bookplate of Edward Vernon Utterson (1776?-1856), of the Isle of Wight, artist, book collector and literary antiquary. Sotheby's, 19 April 1852, lot 1318. Owned after 1911 by Robert Ashburton Milnes, afterwards Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, politician. Christie's, 26 November 1997, lot 75.

RoJ 622

Copy.

Fragment of a quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state.

Originally 90 leaves, but many excised and now comprising 24 leaves (plus blanks), ff. 4r-22r in a single professional hand; ff. 22v-6v (first stanza) in a later, less tidy, hand of the early 18th century; ff. 26v [after first stanza]-27r apparently in a third hand.

Late 17th-early 18th century

Inscribed twice on the front paste-down Richard Ashley and a deleted inscription possibly reading Lowes Park. Purchased c.1960 from a bookstall in Paris.

A complete facsimile edition of this MS, with discussion of the texts, in Pierre Danchin, A Late Seventeenth-Century Miscellany, Cahiers Élisabéthains, 22 (Université Paul Valéry-Montpellier, October 1982), 51-86. Recorded in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Ashley MS: RoJ Δ 5.

Professor Pierre Danchin, Nancy, France ([Ashley MS] ff. 14v-15r)
RoJ 623

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems chiefly on affairs of state, entitled A Collection of Poems, including 27 poems by Rochester (all ascribed to him), xii + 299 pages (plus a number of blanks), including a table of contents, in contemporary calf (rebacked).

In a single professional hand but for a few later additions at the very end (pp. 295-8, with some pages tipped-in).

c.1690s

Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Harvard MS: RoJ Δ 7.

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 636 pp. 65-6)
RoJ 624

Copy.

This MS collated in Hammond, Robinson and in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Booke of Paragrafts, including 22 poems by Rochester, 445 pages plus stubs of extracted leaves (originally 463 numbered pages and now lacking pp. 59-68, 147-54 and parts of pp. 155-8), with a two-leaf index; in contemporary red morocco.

In professional hands: A, pp. 1-194; B, in a different style and probably a different hand, pp. 195-432; C, probably yet another hand, with additions on pp. 75, 90, 102, 125, 142, 175, 195, and pp. 433-63.

c.1680s-90s

Inscribed (on stubs and endpapers) matt Calihan, To Cpt Robinson att Capt Eloass [Elwes] near ye Watch house in Marlburhroagh street, For Capt. Robinson at his Lodginges in Charing Cross. Christie's, 27 June 1979, lot 16.

Various commissioned officers named Robinson are recorded in Charles Dalton, English Army Lists and Commission Registers, 1661-1714 (6 vols, London, 1892-1904): see esp. I, 276. The volume was most probably owned by Charles Robinson of the King's Regiment of Foot Guards, who became Captain and then Lieutenant-Colonel in 1688 and was killed at Namur in 1695. A member of the same regiment in 1684 was the purveyor of MS lampoons Captain Lenthal Warcup. The Captain Eloass mentioned in one inscription was possibly William Elwes, who served as a Lieutenant in Viscount Colchester's Regiment of Horse, c.1692-4, and as a Captain in Lord Windsor's Regiment of Horse in 1702.

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Robinson MS: RoJ Δ 8. Discussed with facsimiles of pp. 1-10 in Paul Hammond, The Robinson Manuscript Miscellany of Restoration Verse in the Brotherton Collection, Leeds, Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, 18 (1982), 275-324 [cited in entries as Hammond, Robinson]. Facsimiles of p. 1 also in Christie's sale catalogue, Plate 1, after p. 48, and in The Brotherton Collection University of Leeds: Its contents described with illustrations of fifty books and manuscripts (Leeds, 1986), p. 17. Selectively collated in Walker.

RoJ 625

Copy, headed Woman Honour. Song.

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and papers.

Papers of the Rev. George Harbin (c.1665-1744), historical writer and librarian to Sir Thomas Thynne (1640-1714), first Viscount Weymouth, at Longleat House, including (ff. 38r-60v) 23 quarto leaves of poems and letters by Rochester in a single hand.

Early 18th century

Inscribed (several times) Alex: Malet: i.e. the Rev Alexander Malet, Harbin's nephew and executor, a later note stating that the Marquess of Bath purchased part of the papers from Malet's descendant, Sir Alexander Malet, in 1873. Another inscription (f. 37r) reads: Some of Dr Harbin's Papers obtained from Mr. Waller of Fleet St by J.E. Jackson, after the sale of the Papers by Puttick & Simpson April 1874.

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Harbin MS: RoJ Δ 9.

The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House (Thynne Papers, Vol. XXVII f. 50r)
RoJ 626

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in several hands, one professional stylish hand predominating, with (ff. 1r, 2r) a Table of contents, 213 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf.

Including 29 poems by Rochester (plus a second copy of one) and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items.

c.1680s

Once owned by Thomas Fermor (1698-1753), first Earl of Pomfret, of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire. Also used by one James Parks.

Recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, and selectively collated in Walker.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 40 ff. 45v-6r)
RoJ 627

Copy, headed Womans Honour a Song.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.

A formal folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, including eleven by Rochester and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items, probably in a single professional hand, 444 leaves (including a six-leaf index).

c.1690s

Cited in IELM, II.ii as the Vienna MS: RoJ Δ 12. Discussed in Rudolf Brotanek, Beschreibung der Handschrift 14090 (Supplement 1776) der Nationalbibliothek in Wien, in Festschrift der Nationalbibliothek in Wien (Vienna, 1926), 145-62. Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker.

RoJ 628

Copy.

This MS collated in Walker.

A formal quarto miscellany, of poems on affairs of state, including 29 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items, in three professional hands (A, pp. 1-278; B, pp. 279-84; C, pp. 285-314), 314 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary red morocco.

c.1680

Once owned by Count Carl Edward Gyldenstolpe (1770-1852) and perhaps originally acquired by Count Nils Gyldenstolpe (1642-1709), Swedish Ambassador at The Hague (in 1679-87).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Gyldenstolpe MS: RoJ Δ 14. A complete facsimile edition in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe (1967).

Royal Library, Stockholm (MS Vu. 69 pp. 163-4)
RoJ 629

Copy, headed Womans Honour a Song

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional hand, in two volumes: Vol. I, including twelve poems by Rochester and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items, pp. 1-461 (plus index); Vol. II, pp. 462-842 (with irregularities of pagination).

This MS is closely related to Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Cod. 14090.

c.1690s-1700

Later owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor, who records that £50 was given by Perry, for these 2 volumes.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dyce MS: RoJ Δ 15.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 43 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.37-38) pp. 108-9)
RoJ 630

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution; collated in Walker.

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled Songs & Verses - Upon severall occasions, 406 pages (but pp. 35-44, 63-6, 77-86, 115-32, 153-8, 161-84, and 195-212 excised).

Including 30 poems by Rochester (and probably others by him on missing leaves); pp. 1-392 in a single professional hand (that also responsible for Princeton, RTC01 No. 34); pp. 392-406 in a second hand.

c.1680

Inscribed on the title-page Hansen: i.e. very probably the diplomat Friedrich Adolphus Hansen, who visited England in September 1680 in the entourage of Charles, electoral Prince Palatine. Owned, in 1951 by Dr A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952), Philadelphia book dealer, collector and scholar.

Cited in IELM, II as the Yale MS: RoJ Δ 16. The MS was identified by David M. Vieth as an independent scribal transcript of the copy-text used for the first edition of Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R— (Antwerp [i.e. London], 1680): see Attribution, pp. 56-100, and The Text of Rochester and the Editions of 1680, PBSA, 50 (1956), 243-63. Discussed extensively, and Hansen identified, in Harold Love, Scribal Texts and Literary Communities: The Rochester Circle and Osborn b. 105, SB, 42 (1989), 219-35. Facsimile of p. 62 in Vieth (1968), frontispiece. Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth (1968) and in Walker.

Yale, Osborn MS b 100 through Osborn MS b 149 (Osborn MS b 105 pp. 142-3)
RoJ 631

Copy, headed Womans Honour Song, numbered in darker ink 6.

Edited in part from this MS in Love.

A quarto volume of works almost exclusively by Rochester, in a single professional hand up to p. 208, a second, less accomplished, hand taking over (after stubs of two extracted leaves) on pp. 209-31; with a title-page (p. 13), Poem's / By The. Right Honourable/John Earle / of/Rochester, 219 pages (plus 12 preliminary blank pages and 99 blank pages at the end), in half-russia over marbled boards.

c.mid-1680s

Bookplate of The Reverend Sir George Lee. Baronet/Hartwell. Inscribed This Manuscript was found at Hartwell. March. 1829. J. Lee and another, Bound Mr. Wilson. March 1829 [i.e. the MS was in the library of the Rev. Sir George Lee, Bt (1767-1827), rector of Hartwell, etc., and of Dr John Lee, F.R.S. (1783-1866), at Hartwell House, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire]. Later sold by Charles Sawyer (No. 1467 in a sale catalogue). The MS might possibly once have been owned by Thomas Lee, Bt, M.P. (1635-91) of Hartwell, who was, incidentally, related by marriage to Sir John Suckling. His son was Sir Thomas Lee, Bt, M.P. (1661-1702). The MS was later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 18 December 1995 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 114, with facsimile examples in the sale catalogue.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Hartwell MS: RoJ Δ 17. This MS on exhibition at the Bodleian, 16-28 June 1930, and recorded in Proceedings and Papers of the Oxford Bibliographical Society, 2 (1927-30), p. 213. Subsequently discussed, and parts printed, by Harold Love and Stephen Parks in A reasonable satyr, TLS, 1 August 1997, p. 13; in Harold Love, A Tale of Two Manuscripts, Yale University Library Gazette, 72 (1999), 41-53; and in his pamphlet A Newly Discovered Burlesque by John Wilmot Earl of Rochester (New Haven, 1997).

A complete microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7982.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 334 pp. 186-7)

Prose

The Famous Pathologist or the Noble Mountebank

An account of Rochester's prank in 1676 when he disguised himself as an Italian mountebank, Dr Alexander Bendo, and set up practice on Tower Hill. First published in this form, as a work by Rochester (Doctr. Alexandr. Bendo) and Thomas Alcock, in an edition by Vivian de Sola Pinto (Nottingham, 1961). Rochester's mock-bill, Alexander Bendo's Bill, apparently printed and circulated by him as an advertisement in 1676 (no exemplum known). A version published in Poems, &c. on Several Occasions (London, 1691), pp. 138-54. Reprinted in Collected Works of John Wilmot Earl of Rochester, ed. John Hayward (London, 1926), pp. 153-60. Love, pp. 112-17.

RoJ 632

A formal copy, with a frontispiece sketch, a title-page, an imprimatur, and a dedicatory epistle to Lady Ann Baynton, followed by Rochester's mock-advertisement, The Noble Mountebank's ingenious Bill, subscribed Transcribed at Mallets=Court in Shierhampton Decr. the 13th: 1687. by Me Thos. Alcock, 53 octavo leaves (on rectos only), in black leather gilt.

Made by Thomas Alcock, a former servant of Rochester's, for presentation as a New Year's gift to Rochester's daughter Ann (1667-1703) and her husband Henry Baynton (1664-91).

13 December 1687

The MS later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (MS 17730). Formerly Misc. MS 1489.

Edited from this MS in Sola Pinto's edition. See also [? Gerald P. Mander], Rochester and Dr Bendo, TLS (13 June 1942), p. 300. Facsimile examples in Sola Pinto and in Greene, p. 107.

To the Reader

Love (1999), pp. 54-7.

RoJ 632.5

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Love.

A quarto volume of works almost exclusively by Rochester, in a single professional hand up to p. 208, a second, less accomplished, hand taking over (after stubs of two extracted leaves) on pp. 209-31; with a title-page (p. 13), Poem's / By The. Right Honourable/John Earle / of/Rochester, 219 pages (plus 12 preliminary blank pages and 99 blank pages at the end), in half-russia over marbled boards.

c.mid-1680s

Bookplate of The Reverend Sir George Lee. Baronet/Hartwell. Inscribed This Manuscript was found at Hartwell. March. 1829. J. Lee and another, Bound Mr. Wilson. March 1829 [i.e. the MS was in the library of the Rev. Sir George Lee, Bt (1767-1827), rector of Hartwell, etc., and of Dr John Lee, F.R.S. (1783-1866), at Hartwell House, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire]. Later sold by Charles Sawyer (No. 1467 in a sale catalogue). The MS might possibly once have been owned by Thomas Lee, Bt, M.P. (1635-91) of Hartwell, who was, incidentally, related by marriage to Sir John Suckling. His son was Sir Thomas Lee, Bt, M.P. (1661-1702). The MS was later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 18 December 1995 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 114, with facsimile examples in the sale catalogue.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Hartwell MS: RoJ Δ 17. This MS on exhibition at the Bodleian, 16-28 June 1930, and recorded in Proceedings and Papers of the Oxford Bibliographical Society, 2 (1927-30), p. 213. Subsequently discussed, and parts printed, by Harold Love and Stephen Parks in A reasonable satyr, TLS, 1 August 1997, p. 13; in Harold Love, A Tale of Two Manuscripts, Yale University Library Gazette, 72 (1999), 41-53; and in his pamphlet A Newly Discovered Burlesque by John Wilmot Earl of Rochester (New Haven, 1997).

A complete microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7982.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 334 pp. 147-52)

Dramatic Works

Scaene 1st. Mr. Daynty's chamber

First published in Vivian de Sola Pinto, Rochester: Portrait of a Restoration Poet (London, 1935), pp. 125-6. The revised edition, Enthusiast in Wit: A Portrait of John Wilmot Earl of Rochester 1647-1680 (London, 1962), pp. 111-12. Love, pp. 123-4.

*RoJ 633
Autograph

Autograph draft, with revisions, of part of the first scene of an untitled prose comedy, beginning Scaene 1st. Mr. Daynty's chamber — Enter Daynty in his Night gown singing…, on both sides of a single quarto leaf.

Edited from this MS in Sola Pinto. Facsimile of the first page in IELM, II.ii, Facsimile IX.

A folio composite volume of papers of Rochester and his immediate circle, on various paper sizes, 25 leaves, all mounted on guards, in modern black leather gilt.

Small collection of nineteen undated leaves of poetical drafts by Rochester and his immediate circle, on single sheets and scraps of paper of various size (folio, quarto, octavo), now inserted in a modern album, comprising: i: ff. 1-11v, autograph drafts of nine poems and a fragment of a prose comedy by Rochester. ii: ff. 12-14, 15-19v, eight autograph poetical drafts (including two versions of the same poem by the poet's wife, Elizabeth (née Mallet), Countess of Rochester (d.1698)). iii: f. 14v, a brief lyric (Your glory Phillis is in being lov'd) in an unidentified hand.

c.1660s-80

Formerly in the library of Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741), and quite possibly inherited from his father, the statesman Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Portland MS. First recorded by Francis Needham in 1934 (see RoJ 71, RoJ 435); recorded and printed in part in various of Vivian de Sola Pinto's publications (1935-62); discussed and analysed in Vieth, Attribution, pp. 204-30; the poems by Rochester edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker (and see also RoJ 633). Facsimile examples in Greene, pp. 71 and 128 (see RoJ 396, RoJ 406); Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 57-8 (see RoJ 396); IELM, II.ii (1993), Facsimile IX.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 31 f. 14r-v)
A Scaen of Sir Robert Howard's Play

A scene for Howard's play The Conquest of China by the Tartars. First published in Collected Works of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed. John Hayward (London, 1926), pp. 239-47. Poems by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed. Vivian de Sola Pinto (London, 1964), pp. 61-9. Love, pp. 124-32. See also Allardyce Nicoll, Dryden, Howard and Rochester, TLS (13 January 1921), 27; J. Harold Wilson, The Dating of Rochester's Scaen, RES, 13 (1937), 455-8; and Jeremy Treglown, The Dating of Rochester's Scaen, RES, NS 30 (1979), 434-6.

RoJ 634

Copy of a Scaen as written by the Earl of Rochester.

This MS apparently that mentioned by one J. Mt as being in his library in N&Q, Ser. I, No. 5 (6 March 1852), 225. Discussed in Nicoll. Edited in Sola Pinto, loc. cit. Facsimile of f. 70 in Prinz, after p. 390.

A folio volume containing two works by the Earl of Rochester, in one accomplished professional hand, 75 leaves, in 19th-century half green morocco.

c.1680s

Possibly this MS or RoJ 646 the MS of Lord Rochester's Lucina's Rape, or the Tragedy of Valentinian offered in Thomas and John Egerton's Catalogue of Books comprising Several Libraries lately purchased, Military Library, Whitehall (1792), item 1421. Similarly either this volume or Folger MS V.b.233 offered in Thomas Rodd's sale catalogue of books, manuscripts and autograph letters [June 1848], p. 34.

RoJ 635

Copy, headed A Scæn of Sr Robert Howards Play, Written by the Earle of Rochester.

This MS recorded in Sola Pinto, loc. cit., pp. 183-4.

A tall folio comprising dramatic works by the Earl of Rochester, in a cursive rounded hand, with occasional corrections possibly in another hand, ii + 56 folio leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

Late 17th century

Inscribed (f. [iir] M Portman. Bookplate of Henry Seymour Esqr. Possibly this MS or RoJ 645 the MS of Lord Rochester's Lucina's Rape, or the Tragedy of Valentinian offered in Thomas and John Egerton's Catalogue of Books comprising Several Libraries lately purchased, Military Library, Whitehall (1792), item 1421. Similarly either this volume or British Library Add. MS 28692 offered in Thomas Rodd's sale catalogue of books, manuscripts and autograph letters [June 1848], p. 34.

Sodom and Gomorah

First published (?) at Antwerp [i.e. London], (?)1684. The only known extant early printed exemplum is a probably early 18th-century octavo entitled Sodom, or the Gentleman Instructed. A Comedy. By the E. of R., sold at Sotheby's 16 December 2004, lot 54 (with facsimile pages in the sale catalogue), now in private ownership; reprinted in colour facsimile (Berlin: Antiquariat Ars Amandi, [2005]).

Edited from MS copies as Rochester's Sodom, ed. L.S.A.M. von Römer (Paris, 1904), and as Sodom (Olympia Press, Paris, [1957]). Love, pp. 302-33, in his Appendix Roffensis.

Of uncertain authorship. For discussions of authorship and texts, see notably Rodney M. Blaine, Rochester or Fishbourne: A Question of Authorship, RES, 22 (1946), 201-6; James Thorpe, New Manuscripts of Sodom, Princeton University Library Chronicle, 13 (Autumn 1951), 40-1; A.S.G. Edwards, Libertine Literature in Restoration England: Princeton MS AM 14401, BC, 25 (Autumn 1976), 354-68, and The Authorship of Sodom, PBSA, 71 (1977), 208-12; Larry Carver, The Texts and The Text of Sodom, PBSA, 73 (1979), 19-40; John D. Patterson, Does Otway ascribe Sodom to Rochester?, N&Q, 225 (August 1980), 349-51; J.W. Johnson, Did Lord Rochester Write Sodom?, PBSA, 81 (1987), 101-53; and Nicholas D. Nace, Some New Light on Sodom, BC, 63 (Winter 2014), 557-67.

RoJ 636

Copy, lacking a title-page, a prologue and an epilogue, here ending after scene 5.

This MS discussed in Edwards, BC (1976) and PBSA (1977).

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in several hands, one professional stylish hand predominating, with (ff. 1r, 2r) a Table of contents, 213 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf.

Including 29 poems by Rochester (plus a second copy of one) and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items.

c.1680s

Once owned by Thomas Fermor (1698-1753), first Earl of Pomfret, of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire. Also used by one James Parks.

Recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, and selectively collated in Walker.

University of Nottingham (Pw V 40 ff. 4r-15r)
RoJ 637

Copy, headed The Farce of Sodom.

This MS discussed, with a facsimile of f. 81r, in Edwards, BC (1976).

A formal folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, including eleven by Rochester and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items, probably in a single professional hand, 444 leaves (including a six-leaf index).

c.1690s

Cited in IELM, II.ii as the Vienna MS: RoJ Δ 12. Discussed in Rudolf Brotanek, Beschreibung der Handschrift 14090 (Supplement 1776) der Nationalbibliothek in Wien, in Festschrift der Nationalbibliothek in Wien (Vienna, 1926), 145-62. Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker.

RoJ 638

Copy, entitled The Farce of Sodom.

This MS discussed, with a facsimile of p. 148, in Edwards, BC (1976).

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional hand, in two volumes: Vol. I, including twelve poems by Rochester and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items, pp. 1-461 (plus index); Vol. II, pp. 462-842 (with irregularities of pagination).

This MS is closely related to Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Cod. 14090.

c.1690s-1700

Later owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor, who records that £50 was given by Perry, for these 2 volumes.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dyce MS: RoJ Δ 15.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce MS 43 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.37-38) pp. 133-62)
RoJ 639

Copy, entitled Sodom, a play by the Earl of Rochester, apparently transcried from the Antwerp edition of 1684, on eighteen leaves.

Early 18th century

This MS discussed, with a facsimile of f. 10, in Edwards, BC (1976). The two prologues, two epilogues and final speech edited from this MS in Danchin, Prologues & Epilogues, II, 475-86.

Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (fonds anglais n° 101)
RoJ 640

Copy, with a title-page Sodom or The Quintessence of Debauchery By E of R Written for the Royall Company of Whore masters, in five Acts with the various prologues and epilogues.

This MS discussed, with a facsimile of p. 134 in Edwards, BC (1976). Text of the two prologues, two epilogues and final speech in this MS collated in Danchin, Prologues & Epilogues, II, 475-86.

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional hand, 151 pages (plus 128 blank pages), with a table of contents (f. 1*r), in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

End of 17th century
RoJ 641

Copy, entitled Sodom A Play By The Earl of Rochester, apparently transcribed from the Antwerp edition of 1684, on 39 quarto pages, bound with a MS of Beverlandia Otia Oxoniensa.

c.1710

Once owned by Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach (1683-1735), Frankfurt bibliographer and traveller.

Edited from this MS in Römer (1905). Discussed, with a facsimile of the title-page, in Prinz, pp. 393-4, and, with a facsimile of p. 22, in Edwards, BC (1976).

RoJ 641.5

Copy of a five-act version, without any prologues or epilogues, headed The farce of Sodome, cited in the table of contents as Bolloximion A play.

A folio volume of poems chiefly on affairs of state, in a non-professional hand, with a table of contents (listing some 125 poems), once containing upwards of 240 pages, but all of which after p. 22 have been excised.

Late 17th century
Suffolk Record Office, Lowestoft (194/F1/1 pp. [2*] and 1-13)
RoJ 642

Copy, without a title-page but with a prologue headed Prologue To Sodom & Gomorah by Bolloxinian.

A quarto miscellany of Restoration verse, prose and dramatic works, in a single cursive predominantly italic hand, 417 pages.

c.1670s-80s

Formerly Princeton General MSS Misc AM 14401.

This MS discussed in A.S.G. Edwards, Libertine Literature in Restoration England: Princeton MS AM 14401, BC, 25 (Autumn 1976), 354-68, and in PBSA (1977).

Princeton (CO199 No. 895 pp. 1-36)
RoJ 643

Copy of a variant version, with an epilogue.

A quarto miscellany of Restoration verse, prose and dramatic works, in a single cursive predominantly italic hand, 417 pages.

c.1670s-80s

Formerly Princeton General MSS Misc AM 14401.

This MS discussed in A.S.G. Edwards, Libertine Literature in Restoration England: Princeton MS AM 14401, BC, 25 (Autumn 1976), 354-68, and in PBSA (1977).

Princeton (CO199 No. 895 pp. 37-108)
RoJ 643.5

Copy of the full five-act version, headed The Farce of Sodom. or The Amours of Bolloximion.

A large octavo verse miscellany, chiefly lampoons and poems on affairs of state, including 21 poems by Rochester and various others in the Rochester apocrypha, nearly 600 pages in all, with a 14-page index.

Written in a single hand which can be identified as that of the Scottish pasquil-writer and antiquary Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), who was also responsible for RoJ Δ 6.

c.1705
Private owners in the UK (Mylne MS pp. 72m-100)
Valentinian, or Lucina's Rape

The first recorded performance was at Court, 11 February 1683/4. First published in London, 1685. Collected Works of John Wilmot Earl of Rochester, ed. John Hayward (London, 1926), pp. 161-238. Love, pp. 133-231, as Lucina's Rape Or The Tragedy of Vallentinian, with (pp. 232-40) [A Mask for the Tragedy of Valentinian] [by Sir Francis Fane].

RoJ 644

Copy of the complete play, entitled Lucinas Rape Or The Tragedy of Valentinian. A text of the masque introduced by Sir Francis Fane in Act III, headed A Masque Representing Lucina's dream in the third Act of the Tragedie of Valentinian (beginning Haile sacred Cynthia mutable and chast), is on pp. 219-31.

This masque was published as A Mask. Made at the Request of the late Earl of Rochester, for the Tragedy of Valentinian, in Nahum Tate, Poems by Several Hands, and on Several Occasions (London, 1685), pp. 17-32.

A quarto volume of works almost exclusively by Rochester, in a single professional hand up to p. 208, a second, less accomplished, hand taking over (after stubs of two extracted leaves) on pp. 209-31; with a title-page (p. 13), Poem's / By The. Right Honourable/John Earle / of/Rochester, 219 pages (plus 12 preliminary blank pages and 99 blank pages at the end), in half-russia over marbled boards.

c.mid-1680s

Bookplate of The Reverend Sir George Lee. Baronet/Hartwell. Inscribed This Manuscript was found at Hartwell. March. 1829. J. Lee and another, Bound Mr. Wilson. March 1829 [i.e. the MS was in the library of the Rev. Sir George Lee, Bt (1767-1827), rector of Hartwell, etc., and of Dr John Lee, F.R.S. (1783-1866), at Hartwell House, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire]. Later sold by Charles Sawyer (No. 1467 in a sale catalogue). The MS might possibly once have been owned by Thomas Lee, Bt, M.P. (1635-91) of Hartwell, who was, incidentally, related by marriage to Sir John Suckling. His son was Sir Thomas Lee, Bt, M.P. (1661-1702). The MS was later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 18 December 1995 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 114, with facsimile examples in the sale catalogue.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Hartwell MS: RoJ Δ 17. This MS on exhibition at the Bodleian, 16-28 June 1930, and recorded in Proceedings and Papers of the Oxford Bibliographical Society, 2 (1927-30), p. 213. Subsequently discussed, and parts printed, by Harold Love and Stephen Parks in A reasonable satyr, TLS, 1 August 1997, p. 13; in Harold Love, A Tale of Two Manuscripts, Yale University Library Gazette, 72 (1999), 41-53; and in his pamphlet A Newly Discovered Burlesque by John Wilmot Earl of Rochester (New Haven, 1997).

A complete microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7982.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 334 pp. 15-146)
RoJ 645

Copy of an early version, with a title-page Lucina's Rape, Or The Tragedy of Vallentinian, a list of dramatis personae (ff. 3r, 4r) including actors' names.

This MS discussed in Allardyce Nicoll, Dryden, Howard and Rochester, TLS (13 January 1921), p. 27. Facsimiles of the title-page in Prinz, before p. 389, and in Greene, p. 186. Extracts edited from this MS in Poems by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed. Vivian de Sola Pinto (London, 1964), pp. 70-2; collated in Hayward, pp. 340-8.

A folio volume containing two works by the Earl of Rochester, in one accomplished professional hand, 75 leaves, in 19th-century half green morocco.

c.1680s

Possibly this MS or RoJ 646 the MS of Lord Rochester's Lucina's Rape, or the Tragedy of Valentinian offered in Thomas and John Egerton's Catalogue of Books comprising Several Libraries lately purchased, Military Library, Whitehall (1792), item 1421. Similarly either this volume or Folger MS V.b.233 offered in Thomas Rodd's sale catalogue of books, manuscripts and autograph letters [June 1848], p. 34.

RoJ 646

Copy of an early version, with a title-page Lucina's Rape Or The Tragedy of Valentinian, By the Earle of Rochester added afterwards.

This MS recorded in Sola Pinto, loc. cit., pp. 183-4.

A tall folio comprising dramatic works by the Earl of Rochester, in a cursive rounded hand, with occasional corrections possibly in another hand, ii + 56 folio leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

Late 17th century

Inscribed (f. [iir] M Portman. Bookplate of Henry Seymour Esqr. Possibly this MS or RoJ 645 the MS of Lord Rochester's Lucina's Rape, or the Tragedy of Valentinian offered in Thomas and John Egerton's Catalogue of Books comprising Several Libraries lately purchased, Military Library, Whitehall (1792), item 1421. Similarly either this volume or British Library Add. MS 28692 offered in Thomas Rodd's sale catalogue of books, manuscripts and autograph letters [June 1848], p. 34.

RoJ 647 Late 17th century

A twelve-line extract, from Act IV, scene iv, beginning At this she fell - choakt with a thousand sighs.

Sheaf of unbound letters (some of a later date) and a few copies of verse.

Mr Richard Waller ([no shelfmark] passim)

Letters

Letter(s)
*RoJ 648 Late 17th century
Autograph

Forty autograph letters by Rochester--addressed chiefly to his wife, some to his mother, son, and father-in-law, and to his friend Henry Savile.

Facsimiles of various of these letters appear in Lawrence B. Phillips, The Autographic Album (London, 1866), p. 231; in Prinz (1927), after pp. 252, 262 and 272; in Vivian de Sola Pinto, Rochester: Portrait of a Restoration Poet (London, 1935), after p. 52; in The Rochester-Savile Letters 1671-1680, ed. John Harold Wilson (Columbus, 1941), frontispiece; in Greene, pp. 51, 151; and in Treglown (two on the endpapers of the 1980 edition).

A large folio composite volume of original state and miscellaneous letters, in various hands, 391 leaves, in modern brown morocco gilt.

Inscribed by Wanley with date of acquisition 27 August, 1724.

RoJ 649

Copies of a series of c.80 letters From, and To The Earl of Rochester. 1670 &ca., largely in a single professional hand (possibly that of Harley's secretary William Thomas, fl. 1685-1740), with a loosely inserted memorandum at the end humbly Submitted to My Lord Harley, 188 pages (including blanks), in half-leather marbled boards.

The majority of the copies are of the original letters in British Library, Harley MS 7003 (RoJ 648), and twelve letters to Rochester chiefly by Henry Savile are copied from the originals in the Marquess of Bath, Longleat, Thynne Papers, Vol. XXVII (RoJ 650). Included (p. 39) is a copy of an otherwise unknown letter to Rochester by his wife.

Discussed, and the letter by Rochester's wife edited, in Nicholas Fisher, Copies of Letters From, and To the Earl of Rochester: An Unexpected Assemblage Commissioned by Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741), EMS, 17 (forthcoming).

Copies of letters by Rochester.

Early 18th century

Bonham's, 27 June 2006, lot 383.

Nicholas Fisher (Rochester Letters The MS as a whole)
RoJ 649.5 c.1680

Copy of Rochester's letter of repentance on his death-bed, to Gilbert Burnet, 25 June 1680.

A large folio composite volume of original state and miscellaneous letters, in various hands, 391 leaves, in modern brown morocco gilt.

Inscribed by Wanley with date of acquisition 27 August, 1724.

RoJ 649.8 c.1677

Copy of a letter by Rochester, to his nephew, the Earl of Lichfield, 23 December 1677.

Treglown, pp. 176-7 (not signaled as a copy).

A large folio composite volume of original state and miscellaneous letters, in various hands, 391 leaves, in modern brown morocco gilt.

Inscribed by Wanley with date of acquisition 27 August, 1724.

RoJ 650 Early-mid-18th century

Copy of twelve letters by Rochester, on two pairs of conjugate small folio leaves.

A folio composite volume of verse MSS, in various hands, 185 leaves.

The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House (Portland Papers, Vol. XVII ff. 13r-15v)
RoJ 651

Copy of eight letters by Rochester.

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and papers.

Papers of the Rev. George Harbin (c.1665-1744), historical writer and librarian to Sir Thomas Thynne (1640-1714), first Viscount Weymouth, at Longleat House, including (ff. 38r-60v) 23 quarto leaves of poems and letters by Rochester in a single hand.

Early 18th century

Inscribed (several times) Alex: Malet: i.e. the Rev Alexander Malet, Harbin's nephew and executor, a later note stating that the Marquess of Bath purchased part of the papers from Malet's descendant, Sir Alexander Malet, in 1873. Another inscription (f. 37r) reads: Some of Dr Harbin's Papers obtained from Mr. Waller of Fleet St by J.E. Jackson, after the sale of the Papers by Puttick & Simpson April 1874.

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Harbin MS: RoJ Δ 9.

The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House (Thynne Papers, Vol. XXVII ff. 46r-9r)
RoJ 652

Copy of five letters by Rochester, Transcribed by the Earl of Winchilsea from the Originals then in the Possession of the Revd Mr: Harbin and now in Ld Oxford's Library given me by Crete.

A quarto letterbook, in several neat hands, 191 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in red morocco gilt.

c.1745
Northamptonshire Record Office (FH 281 ff. 127v-30r)
RoJ 653 Late 17th- or 18th-century

Copies by Birch of various letters by Rochester.

A large quarto volume of letters etc., in various hands, 280 leaves.

Volume III of the collection of state letters etc. by Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian.

RoJ 654

A petition by Rochester begging the King's pardon, entirely in the hand of a professional scrivener, probably in May 1665.

Treglown, p. 247.

1665
National Archives, Kew (SP 29/122/55)
*RoJ 655
Autograph

Autograph note of assignation signed by Rochester, to an unnamed Lady [possibly Lady Southesk (d.1698), daughter of William, second Duke of Hamilton], evidently folded so small as to be capable of being confidentially palmed to her, undated.

Late 17th century

Among the muniments of the Hamilton family, Dukes of Hamilton, formerly at Lennoxlove. These muniments were acquired in 1982.

Recorded by Peter Beal in IELM, II.ii (1993), pp. 226-7. Subsequently edited and discussed, with a facsimile, in Keith Walker, Not the Worst part of my wretched life: Three New Letters by Rochester, and How to Read Them, EMS, 8 (2000), 293-9.

*RoJ 656
Autograph

Autograph note of assignation signed by Rochester, to an unnamed Lady [possibly Lady Southesk (d.1698), daughter of William, second Duke of Hamilton], evidently folded so small as to be capable of being confidentially palmed to her, undated.

Late 17th century

Among the muniments of the Hamilton family, Dukes of Hamilton, formerly at Lennoxlove. These muniments were acquired in 1982.

Recorded by Peter Beal in IELM, II.ii (1993), pp. 226-7. Subsequently edited and discussed, with a facsimile, in Keith Walker, Not the Worst part of my wretched life: Three New Letters by Rochester, and How to Read Them, EMS, 8 (2000), 293-9.

*RoJ 657
Autograph

Autograph letter signed by Rochester, to Joseph Williamson, [1671].

1671

Treglown, p. 65.

National Archives, Kew (SP 29/281A/231)
*RoJ 659
Autograph

A valedictory letter by Rochester virtually on his death-bed, to Lady Southesk's cousin, James Hamilton (1658-1712), Lord Arran, in the hand of an amanuensis and signed by Rochester, 8 June 1680.

1680

Recorded by Peter Beal in IELM, II.ii (1993), pp. 226-7. Subsequently edited and discussed, with a facsimile, in Keith Walker, Not the Worst part of my wretched life: Three New Letters by Rochester, and How to Read Them, EMS, 8 (2000), 293-9.

*RoJ 660
Autograph

A valedictory letter by Rochester on his death-bed, to Gilbert Burnet, expressing his repentance, in the hand of his mother and falteringly signed by Rochester, 25 June 1680.

1680

Treglown, p. 244. Facsimile in The Houghton Library 1942-1967 (Cambridge, Mass., 1967), p. 52.

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 1063)
RoJ 661 c.1680

Copy of A letter to Dr. Burney from the Earle of Rochester, as he lay on his death Bed wrote wth his own Hand. 25 June 1680 at 12. at night.

A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, c.543 pages (including blanks), in contemporary vellum.

Formerly among the Braye Manuscripts, descending from John Browne (1608-91), Clerk of the Parliaments, whose daughter Martha married Sir Roger Cave, Bt, of Stanford Hall, Rugby, seat of successive Lords Braye. Christie's, 23 June 1954, lot 108.

Recorded in HMC 15, 10th Report, Appendix VI (1887), Appendix, Part VI, p. 122. A complete set of photocopies is in the Parliamentary Archives, BRY/96.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS fb 155 p. 492)
RoJ 662 c.1680

Copy of Rochester's letter on his death-bed to Dr Thomas Pierce, President of Magdalen College, Oxford, July 1680.

Rochester's last known letter. Edited from this MS in Treglown, pp. 245-6. See also RoJ 663 and RoJ 664.

A folio composite volume of letters by English noblemen, chiefly to Dr Arthur Charlett (d.1622), Master of University College, Oxford, 207 leaves.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Ballard 10 f. 28r)
*RoJ 663
Autograph

Allegedly autograph letter by Rochester to Dr Thomas Pierce, President of Magdalen College, Oxford, described as A.L. 1 p., oblong small folio, n.p., n.d..

See copies of this or another letter to Pierce, RoJ 662 and RoJ 664.

1680?

Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 1 November 1950 (Oliver R. Barrett sale), lot 973.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Rochester letter])
RoJ 664 c.1680

Copy of Rochester's letter on his death-bed to Dr Thomas Pierce, President of Magdalen College, Oxford, July 1680.

See also RoJ 662 and RoJ 663.

A volume of estate and household accounts of Anne Freke at Hannington, Hampshire, i + 101 leaves (ff. 77-101 blank), in vellum.

1737-46
Bodleian Library, Eng. misc. MSS (MS Eng. misc. c. 339 f. 30r)

Documents

Document(s)
*RoJ 665
Autograph

A document signed by Rochester, appointing William Fanshawe to receive his annuity of £1,000, 16 September 1670.

1670

Sotheby's, 15 July 1957, lot 440.

Columbia University, New York (Spec Ms Coll Samuels, JH)
*RoJ 666
Autograph

An indenture signed by both Rochester and his wife Elizabeth, leasing lands in Bishop's Lydeard, Somerset, to John Winter, 29 July 1672.

1672

Sotheby's, 18 July 1973, lot 163.

Photograph in the British Library, RP 989 (2). Formerly Gen. MSS. Misc. No. AM 21597.

Princeton (CO677)
*RoJ 667
Autograph

An indenture signed by both Rochester and his wife Elizabeth, 21 August 1672.

With other family documents.

1672

Formerly DD/SF 990.

Somerset Heritage Centre (DD/SF/12/43/3)
*RoJ 668
Autograph

Power of Attorney signed by Rochester, appointing Richard Blancourt to receive £1,000 from the Treasury, 9 December 1674.

1674

Puttick & Simpson's, 4 June 1878, lot 312, to Waller. Later owned by J. Eliot Hodgkin, FSA (1829-1912), of Richmond, Surrey, engineer and book collector. Sotheby's, 24 April 1914 (Hodgkin sale), lot 321, to Barnard. Formerly Osborn Files/Rochester.

Recorded in HMC, 15th Report, Appendix Part II (1897), p. 315.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osb MSS File 12756)
*RoJ 669
Autograph

Letter of Attorney signed by Rochester, 2 July 1675.

1675

Puttick & Simpson's, 21 June 1850 (Burton sale), lot 206, to Montagu.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Rochester document])
*RoJ 670
Autograph

Power of Attorney signed by Rochester, in favour of Richard Blancourt, 14 July 1679.

1679

Sotheby's, 15 March 1876 (W.T.B. Ashley sale), lot 391, to Naylor.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Rochester document])
*RoJ 671
Autograph

Document(s).

Indenture signed by Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, and by Arthur Capel, Earl of Essex, countersigned by Rochester, 16 July 1679.

1679

Puttick & Simpson's, 28 April 1891 (Lionel Oliver sale), lot 121, to Barker.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Rochester document])
Will
*RoJ 672
Autograph

Rochester's last will and testament, with codicil dated 22 June 1680.

1680

Sotheby's, 3 July 1908, lot 245, to Maggs.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Rochester document])

Miscellaneous Extracts from Works by Rochester

Extracts
RoJ 673

A quarto verse miscellany, largely in one hand, with additions by others, written from both ends, material at the reverse end dated 1708-9, ii + 114 leaves, in 19th-century half-calf.

Inscribed (f. [iir]), probably by the compiler, Ex Libris Georgij Wright [b.1685/6] Sti Johannis Collegis Cantabrigiensis Alumni, Decimo quarto Junij. Annoq. Domini 1703.

c.1703-9

Also inscribed (f.[iir]) Mrs Frances Wright 1708. A postal address on f. 95r (rev.) reads: Direct to Margtt Borrett att Mrs. Borretts In Kirkby=stephen Westmoorland p brough bag _ These.

Recorded in IELM, II.ii, as the Wright MS: WaE Δ 12.

Edinburgh University Library (MS Dc. 3. 76 passim)
RoJ 674

A quarto volume, in two hands.

274 leaves, unnumbered.

Comprising:

[Part I, ff. 12r-168r], five sermons, the first four by Donne, in the hand of Knightley Chetwode, son of Richard Chetwode, of Chetwode, Buckinghamshire, and Oakley, Staffordshire. 1625/6.

[Part II, ff. 1r-78r rev.], a verse miscellany, produced when the original blank pages were later filled from the reverse end, probably by one Katherine Butler. 1696.

1626-96

The volume inscribed as having been given to Katherine Butler by her father in May 1693.

Described in Potter & Simpson, I, 41-2.

St Paul's Cathedral (MS 52. D. 14 passim)

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