Sir Henry Wotton

1568–1639

Introduction

Sir Henry Wotton, diplomat and later Provost of Eton College, is known as a writer chiefly on account of a small number of poems, some of which were extremely popular in their own time and remain standard anthology pieces. He also conducted a very extensive correspondence and wrote several prose tracts.

The Verse Canon

The Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), a posthumous collection of Wotton's verse and prose edited by Izaak Walton, includes various poems allegedly found among his papers, fourteen of which are specifically ascribed to him. These poems were reprinted in Dyce (1843) and in Hannah (1845). New editions of Hannah appeared under variant titles in 1870, 1875, and 1892. Hannah's own annotated exemplum of his 1845 edition is in the Bodleian (13. θ. 132).

Two poems were added to the canon in Pearsall Smith (1907), II, 415-16. One, To the rarely accomplished, and worthy of best employment, Master Howel, upon his Vocall Forrest (beginning Believe it, Sir, you happily have hit), is printed in Hannah (1845), pp. xii-xiii, but no manuscript copies are known. The other, A Dialogue between Sir Henry Wotton and Mr. Donne (beginning If her disdaine least change in you can move), was printed in Donne's Poems, 2nd edition (London, 1635), p. 195, and was included in H.J.C. Grierson's edition of Donne (Oxford, 1912), I, 430-2. It appears in numerous manuscripts but is more generally assigned to William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke (see PeW 30-53). In an article in Modern Language Review, 6 (1911), 154-5, Grierson added one more poem to the canon: the verses addressed to Donne, 'Tis not a coate of gray or Shepherds life (WoH 168-173).

The entries below include two poems which both Hannah and Pearsall Smith classified as of doubtful authorship. One, A Description of the Country's Recreations (WoH 216-218), appeared anonymously in Reliquiae Wottonianae. The other, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World (WoH 219-257.5) was ascribed to Wotton in Izaak Walton's Compleat Angler, 3rd edition (London, 1661), p. 251, but is also ascribed in various sources to Donne, to Henry King, and to Sir Kenelm Digby. In most manuscript copies the poem is anonymous. Also generally anonymous is perhaps the most frequently copied of all the poems associated with Wotton — the touching couplet usually beginning He first deceased, she for a little tried, which was recycled and re-cast over the course of many years (WoH 175-198). The authorship of this couplet was complicated by the discovery that it is actually part of a longer poem, beginning Here lye two Bodyes happy in their kinds, which has also been attributed to George Herbert (see HrG 290.5-290.8).

Manuscript Copies and the Burley MS

No poem is preserved in Wotton's own handwriting, but a remarkably large number of early manuscript copies of his poems have survived, sometimes representing widely different versions. One copy is of particular interest because written by his fellow poet and admirer Ben Jonson (WoH 2). A fairly close connection with the author can be argued for at least two items (WoH 63, WoH 134), belonging to the Wyatt family with whom Wotton was acquainted. Above all, though, is the special connection with Wotton attached to what Pearsall Smith called the Burley MS. In the hundred years since Alfred J. Horwood first recorded this manuscript, in HMC, 7th Report (1879), Appendix, p. 516, it has had a curious history, which can be briefly summarized. The manuscript belonged to the Finch family at Burley-on-the-Hill House, Rutland, where Pearsall Smith examined it some time before 1907. He described it (II, 489-90) as a commonplace book which belonged to [Wotton], or to someone connected with him, a manuscript in which were copied various documents relating to Wotton, as well as miscellaneous state papers. None was in Wotton's own hand, but some appeared to be in the hand of William Parkhurst, one of his secretaries. The manuscript was again examined by H.J.C. Grierson, who noted in his edition of Donne's poems (1912), II, cxi, that since his visit the house at Burley-on-the-Hill had been burned down and the manuscript volume had perished. In his account of the manuscript in Unforgotten Years (London, 1938), pp. 218-23 — an account which has now found a place in The Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes — Pearsall Smith repeated that shortly after the volume was returned to the place where I had found it, the house was burnt down and the manuscript destroyed, a statement which serves neatly to point his anecdote about the manuscript. A partial transcript made for Pearsall Smith was, however, preserved by the Clarendon Press (who also owned the copyright of the volume), and has been occasionally used by editors of Donne, though curiously this too went astray before eventually recovered (it is now Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. c. 80). The statements of Grierson and Pearsall Smith seemed to be confirmed by the absence of the manuscript from the huge collection of Finch MSS transferred to the Leicestershire Record Office in the 1960s. Nevertheless an inventory of the Finch MSS made at some time in this century for the HMC still included the Burley MS. After various enquiries it emerged that the manuscript had been discovered, almost by accident, at the National Register of Archives in 1960 by I.A. Shapiro, of the University of Birmingham, who had then been given temporary custody of it. Mr Shapiro believed that it was subsequently returned to the HMC, but it was only after further investigations that the Burley MS was finally rediscovered, in January 1976, in a safe in the University Library at Birmingham where it had been lying for thirteen years. It has since rejoined the main Finch Collection now in the Leicestershire Record Office, DG. 7/Lit. 2.

The Burley MS proves upon examination to be a large folio of numerous independent documents bound together. By comparing it with relevant letters in the public records, Shapiro was able to establish that at least half the volume is indeed in the hand of William Parkhurst, who was in Wotton's employment as early as 1604 (see Pearsall Smith, II, 476-8) and who died in 1667. The volume was almost certainly Parkhurst's personal compilation. Those documents not in his own hand may reasonably be assumed of have belonged to him, the very last item (f. 360r) being a poem on the death of Strafford (1641), and perhaps indicating approximately when the volume was bound. A number of the earlier documents were evidently copied from Wotton's papers while Parkhurst was his secretary in Venice (1604-10). It is difficult to date particular pages with exactness, but the two poems by Wotton (WoH 1, WoH 62) appear in the volume among later poems and could have been transcribed by Parkhurst in the 1620s or even 1630s, long after he had left Wotton's employment.

On the matter of lost manuscripts, one manuscript containing copies of two poems by Wotton is denied an entry below because, frustratingly, neither its provenance nor whereabouts are known, except that, for some reason, Peter Beal is in possession of undocketed photocopies of several pages. It would seem to be a small oblong octavo miscellany, in English and Latin, including probably coloured illustrations, somewhat in the style of a liber amicorum, one page of which is dated 17 September 1623. On two pages is a copy in a cursive italic hand of The Hymn of S^r Hen Wotton (Oh thou great power, in whom i moue) and on three other pages, in the same hand, Tears wept at y^e graue of by Hen. Wot: (Silence in truth would Speake my sorrow best), subscribed H W. There is also a poem, which lies outside the Wotton canon, beginning The day of Death is iudge of all our other dayes superscribed S^r H: V:, the V here possibly being a hastily formed W.

The Prose Canon

Wotton's various prose works are listed in Pearsall Smith (II, 413-14). The items that Pearsall Smith calls Table Talk (WoH 303-304) and edits from the Burley MS in his Appendix IV (II, 489-500) require explanation. His Numbers 35-145 (Burley MS, ff. 82r-6r) seem to be a series of remarks and anecdotes recorded by Parkhurst from Wotton's conversation in Venice in 1610. The list was clearly a constantly growing one, compiled over a period of time, and various marginal dashes, crosses, and pointers perhaps indicate those items that Parkhurst, or other readers, thought were particularly interesting. On the other hand, Numbers 1-34 (MS, ff. 255v-6), which are a completely separate list, are simply a selection of aphorisms copied out by Parkhurst from Sir Thomas Overbury's Characters (London, 1614; see OvT 26-36), and have no evident connection with Wotton. Pearsall Smith rightly excludes from the canon (II, 414) the essay Concerning Duellos in Spain, which is ascribed to Wotton in British Library Stowe MS 569, ff. 70r-2v, but which was evidently written by a resident in Spain; another copy is in the British Library (Harley MS 4176, ff. 37r-8r). An essay which should be similarly excluded from the canon is The Character of Robert, Late Earl of Salisbury, which Pearsall Smith found in the Burley MS and thus identified with a character of Salisbury that Wotton was reported of have intended writing in 1613 (see Pearsall Smith, II, 487-9). In other manuscript sources this essay is specifically ascribed to Cyril Tourneur (see ToC 2-6.5). Parkhurst's copy-text probably had no connection with Wotton, but if the essay had come to Wotton's attention this would help to explain why he never bothered to write a character of his own.

As with his verse, none of the recorded manuscripts of Wotton's prose works is in his own hand, although it is possible that certain items — including, perhaps, several scribal copies of The State of Christendom (WoH 296-302), if indeed this work is by Wotton — are transcripts of his autograph or at least authorized texts. On the other hand, several printed exempla of The Elements of Architecture (London, 1624) bear his autograph presentation inscriptions (WoH 259.1, WoH 259.4-259.8).

A copy of Wotton's widely circulated A Parallel between Robert Earl of Essex and George Duke of Buckingham was also recorded by Edward Bernard in Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ [by Humphrey Wanley] (Oxford, 1697), as item 5 in a volume owned by Thomas Brotherton of Hey, Lancashire. Whether this corresponds to any of the manuscripts recorded below (WoH 262-295) cannot be determined.

Documents

No doubt many other diplomatic and state documents written, signed or owned by Wotton survive. These would include much in the National Archives, Kew, as well as items in the British Library, such as papers relating to his and Clement Edmondes's mission to the Hague in 1614-15 (British Library, Add. MS 48155, ff. 19r-42v), copies of which are also in Yale, Osborn MS fb 22. Perhaps the most extensive collection (not given entries here) is the hundreds of unpublished verbatim reports of Wotton's speeches now in the State Archives of Venice (see the Calendar of State Papers, Venetian, Vols X and XI).

Wotton's Library

Wotton clearly owned a substantial library, from which a relatively few of his books and manuscripts can be recorded today (WoH 305-310) — although no doubt others will come to light in due course. The biggest single extant collection of his books and manuscripts, not given entries here, is at Eton College, although they are mixed indiscrimately with other books and manuscripts in the college library and none bears any personal inscription. In Montague Rhodes James's Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Eton College (Cambridge, 1895; Eton's annotated exemplum) he associates nearly forty volumes with Wotton, his degree of certainty of ownership ranging from very likely to doubtless. The volumes include works by ancient Roman and Greek authors, medieval and Renaissance Italian authors, lives of saints, and other miscellaneous treatises in Latin. James notes that no. 149, a Cicero, is uniform with a Horace once belonging to Wotton and now at King's College, Cambridge (Montague Rhodes James, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts other than Oriental in the Library of King's College, Cambridge (Cambridge, 1895), no. 34). Wotton is known to have donated other books to the University of Oxford, including a Koran (see Pearsall Smith, II, 347).

Miscellaneous

An inscription by Wotton in the autograph album of Captain Francis Segar is recorded below (*WoH 311). Wotton wrote a much more famous inscription, at Augsburg in 1604, in the album of the merchant Christopher Flecamore or Fleckmore. Wotton's Latin joke to the effect that an ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country (see Pearsall Smith, I, 49) would cost him his post. The album with the original inscription is not known to have survived, but no doubt numerous seventeenth-century copies of the inscription are to be found, including one in the Bodleian (MS Sancroft 98, p. 173), one in the Folger (MS V.a.306, f. 77r); and one made by William Camden, now at Trinity College, Cambridge (MS R. 5. 20 (James 715)).

A few other miscellaneous items may be mentioned. A letter by Sir Henry Mainwaring (1587-1653), to Lord Zouche, dated 12 June 1620, concerning Wotton's best-known poem, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia, is in the National Archives, Kew (SP 14/115/69). A Latin version of that poem is in the British Library, Add. MS 47111, f. 24v. Wotton's system of cypher, which is mentioned in a letter of 1623 (Pearsall Smith, II, 265), can be found in copies in the British Library (Add. MS 4277, f. 200r, and Add. MS 39853, f. 15r). The Latin epitaph on Wotton's tomb at Eton, commanded by his will, was copied by Sir Francis Fane (c.1612-80) in a miscellany now in the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust (ER/93/1, p. 141), and in a compilation by Robert Davies in Cardiff Central Library (MS 5.50, f. 14r).

Letters

It remains to note the most substantial body of Wotton manuscripts: his correspondence. Wotton's letters abound, particularly those written while he was Ambassador in Venice, letters which throw considerable light on the politics of early-seventeenth-century Europe. Pearsall Smith, who with some justification considered Wotton the best letter-writer of his time, knew of nearly one thousand of Wotton's letters and dispatches (I, v-vi), and he printed the text of 511 of them. The main collections are in the National Archives, Kew; the British Library (including Add. MSS 12504, f. 260r; 22592, f. 80r-v; 34727, and 44848; Burney MS 369; Lansdowne MS 238;and Stowe MSS 168-175 passim); Eton College (MS 188); and in the State Archives of Venice, Florence, and Lucca (see Pearsall Smith's inventory, I, xxi-xxii, and II, 417-54). A number of previously unedited letters in the State Archives of Florence were printed by Anna Maria Crinò in Fatti e Figure del Seicento Anglo-Toscano, Biblioteca dell Archivum Romanicum, Ser. I, 48 (Florence, 1957), 7-40. Letters which Pearsall Smith cites as being in the Hofbibliothek are in what is today the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna (Cod. 9737 z, 14-18; 6686, 4, fol. 56-7v, 59v). The Clifton Hall letters are now at the University of Nottingham (Clifton MSS, Cl C 568-70); the Alfred Morrison letter, of 30 May 1617, is now at Eton College (MS 398, added to MS 188); and the Knole MS is among the Cranfield papers in the Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone.

Yet other letters of Wotton, chiefly originals, some in copies (such as his widely circulated letter to the Earl of Portland), are to be found in All Souls College, Oxford (MS 218, f. 95r); Cambridge University Library (in MS Add 9276, item 9); Corpus Christi College, Oxford; archives of the Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth House (in the Boyle Papers); Folger (MS G.b.10, f. 72r); Huntington Library; Lambeth Palace (MS 595, pp. 59-65); National Library of Scotland (Adv. MS 34.2.10, ff. 83r-5r); Pierpont Morgan Library (MA 2734); The Queen's College, Oxford (MSS 36, 37, 154); Rosenbach Museum & Library (MS 239/18); Sheffield Archives (WWM Str P); Trinity College, Cambridge (MS R. 5. 5 (James 699), No. 68); and Trinity College, Dublin (MS 734, ff. 264r-5v); as well as some ninety-five letters by Wotton among the Trumbull Papers acquired by the British Library in 1989 (Add. MS 72333).

Facsimile examples of letters by Wotton appear in Pearsall Smith, II, facing p. 224; Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate LXXXI(a); in IELM, I.ii (1980), Facsimile XXXIV (p. 564); in British Literary Manuscripts: Series I, ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (New York, 1981), No. 26; in Sotheby's catalogue The Trumbull Papers (14 December, 1989), lot 40 (p. 88); and in Dictionary of Literary Biography vol. 21, Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, First Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1992), p. 289.

No doubt there are many more letters of Wotton in existence: for instance, an item once owned by R.B. Adam and later in the Hyde Collection, owned by Viscountess Eccles (Life, II, 2, 170, of which there is a microfilm at Princeton); letters which were among the papers bound in an interleaved volume of Henry King's Poems (1842) sold at Sotheby's, 9 December 1929, Lot 152, to Dobell (though Wotton's letters are not specifically mentioned in the sale catalogue); and a letter of 5 June 1604 sold at Parke-Bernet Galleries, 22 October 1963, lot 408.

Abbreviations

Dyce: Poems by Sir Henry Wootton, ed. Alexander Dyce, Percy Society (London, 1843).
Hannah: Poems by Sir Henry Wotton, Sir Walter Raleigh, and others, ed. John Hannah (London, 1845).
Pearsall Smith: Logan Pearsall Smith, The Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton, 2 vols (Oxford, 1907).

Verse

(1) Poems by Wotton

The Character of a Happy Life ('How happy is he born and taught')

First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 5th impression (London, 1614). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), pp. 522-3. Hannah (1845), pp. 28-31. Some texts of this poem discussed in C.F. Main, Wotton's The Character of a Happy Life, The Library, 5th Ser. 10 (1955), 270-4, and in Ted-Larry Pebworth, New Light on Sir Henry Wotton's The Character of a Happy Life, The Library, 5th Ser. 33 (1978), 223-6 (plus plates).

WoH 1

Copy, in the hand of William Parkhurst, untitled.

This MS recorded in Pearsall Smith, II, 490.

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

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

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

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

Leicestershire Record Office (DG. 7/Lit. 2 f. 278r)

WoH 2

Copy, in the hand of Ben Jonson, on a folio leaf also containing JnB 319.

Edited (inaccurately) from this MS in John Payne Collier, Memoirs of Edward Alleyn (London, 1841), p. 53. Edited, with a facsimile, in Pebworth. Also collated in Hannah and recorded in Main. Other facsimiles in The Henslowe Papers, ed. R.A. Foakes (London, 1977), II, 136; in The Henslowe Papers Supplement: The Theatre Papers, ed. Masayuki Yamagishi (Kyoto, 1992), article 136, p. 135 and plates.

A collection of papers of the actor Edward Alleyn (1566-1626).

Dulwich College (MSS 1 article 136)

WoH 3

Copy of parts of the first stanza, alleged by J.P. Collier to be in the hand of the actor Edward Alleyn (1566-1626), upon a scrap of paper on the back of which is a memorandum respecting some agricultural implements bought by him, bearing date in 1616.

1616?

This MS allegedly found by Collier among the Alleyn Papers in Dulwich College: see Collier, Memoirs of Alleyn (1841), p. 54. Its authenticity cannot be verified.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Alleyn MS])

WoH 4

Copy, headed Sir He: Wotton, of happinesse.

Edited from this MS, with a facsimile, in Pebworth.

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

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

c.1612-24

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

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

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

University of Texas at Austin (HRC 79 pp. 78-9)

WoH 5

Copy, headed True ffelicitye.

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

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

c.1630s-40s

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 47 f. 29v)

WoH 6

Copy of two stanzas, untitled, in a musical setting.

This MS collated in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 205).

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

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

c.1640s-60s

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

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

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. c. 57 f. 51v)

WoH 7

Copy, untitled and subscribed S^r H: Wotton.

This MS collated in Hannah; recorded in Main.

A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands, ii + 318 pages (pp. 103-290 largely blank).

Including many poems by Sidney Godolphin (1610-43), poet and courtier, and associated with the circle of Lucius Cary (1609/10-1643), second Viscount Falkland, politician and author, of Great Tew, Oxfordshire.

c.late 1630s-early 1640s

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 13 p. 11)

WoH 8

Copy, headed S^r Hen. Wootton.

This MS collated in Hannah; recorded in Main.

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

c.1620s-30s

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

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 19 pp. 146-7)

WoH 9

Copy, untitled and subscribed Q^t S^r. Henr. Wotton.

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in various secretary and italic hands, 90 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum.

c.1625

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. D. 1048 f. 58r)

WoH 10

Copy, untitled, subscribed s^r Henry Wootton <GREEK>.

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

Scribbling on f. ii^r including ffor m^r William Rabey in New=market..., ffor my Louing ffriend in G John westhropp at m^r Rogers Reringe house Bury in S[uffolk], ffor m^r John fford at his house in Newmarket in the countey of cambridge; notes on f. iii^v-iv^r, one Recd 22 July 1669, subscribed John Cooke and including, on f. vi^r, ffor m^r John Cocke at his howse neere the white harte in Thetford.... Later owned, in the 1730s, by Charles Barlow, of Emmanuel College, Cambridge (his bookplate f. ii^v).

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 1 through 49 (MS Rawl. poet. 26 f. 1v)

WoH 11

Copy, untitled.

A folio verse miscellany, entirely in the professional secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe, containing some 76 poems, including eleven by Donne, later inscribed (erroneously) Sir John Haringtons Poems Written in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, 56 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

c.1620s-33

From the library of Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755), nonjuring bishop and topographer.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Rawlinson MS: DnJ Δ 38. Also briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 277 (No. 94), with facsimile examples on pp. 102-3.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 1 through 49 (MS Rawl. poet. 31 f. 5r-v)

WoH 12

Copy.

A quarto miscellany of verse and anecdotes, i + 93 leaves.

c.1650-75

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 50 through 99 (MS Rawl. poet. 66 f. 55r)

WoH 13

Copy.

A quarto verse miscellany, i + 23 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

compiled by one John Hooper of Devon.

c.1665

The binding is a recycled vellum legal document between Christopher and Katherine Mason.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 200 through end (MS Rawl. poet. 208 f. 1r)

WoH 14

Copy, untitled.

Printed from this MS in Norman Ault, Elizabethan Lyrics, 4th edition (London, 1966), pp. 459-60; recorded in Main.

A small octavo miscellany of verse and prose, written from both ends, i + 155 leaves (including numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum.

Compiled by an Oxford University man.

Early 17th century

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 200 through end (MS Rawl. poet. 212 f. 150r rev.)

WoH 14.5

Copy, transcribed from a printed source (p. 497).

A duodecimo notebook and miscellany, entitled (f. [1^r]) Vade mecum or A Pocket-Booke, ii + 84 leaves, in contemporary calf.

Compiled by John Gibson (1630-1711), of Welburn, near Kirkby Moorside, North Yorkshire, and in his minute hand throughout.

c.1665-78

Inscribed (f. [ii^r]) Joseph King / Lewes Sussex / Sept 30 1834 to Mr S.B. Williams.

Formerly Broxbourne R 359.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (Broxbourne 85.18 f. [37v.])

WoH 14.8

Copy, untitled.

A duodecimo Vade mecum or A Pocket-Book of verse, compiled by John Gibson the Younger (1630-1711), of Welburne, Yorkshire, 86 unnumbered leaves, in contemporary calf, with traces of clasps.

c.1666-78

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MSS Broxbourne R 359 f. [38v])

WoH 15

Copy, headed S^r Henry wootton on Mr Roger Askam.

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

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

c.1670

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

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

Bradford Archives (32D86/17 f. 123r)

WoH 16

Copy, headed vpon a priuate life.

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

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

Mid-late 17th century

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

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

Bradford Archives (32D86/34 p. 44)

WoH 16.5

Copy, transcribed from a printed exemplum of Reliquiae Wottonianae.

An oblong octavo miscellany of largely devotional verse and some prose, including (ff. 7v-22r) twelve poems by Crashaw, probably transcribed from Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652), in a single italic hand, written across the width of the pages with the spine upwards, with (ff. 181r-8r) a table of contents, 188 leaves, in calf gilt.

Entitled Collections out of seuerall Authors by Marmaduke Raudon Eboracensis 1662: i.e. compiled by Marmaduke Rawdon (1610-69), traveller and antiquary, of Guiseley, Yorkshire, who later lived with his cousin, also named Marmaduke Rawdon, at Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, the MS including elegies on yet another (Sir) Marmaduke Rawdon (1582-1646), Governor of Basing House.

c.1662

Later owned by Thomas Rodd (1796-1849). Rodd's sale catalogue, February 1850, item 764.

Cited in IELM, II.i, as the Rawdon MS: CrR Δ 2. Crashaw's work collated in Martin (cited as A1) and discussed pp. lxxx-lxxxi.

For other Rawdon miscellanies, see Yale, Osborn MS fb 150; York Minster, MS Add. 122; and a MS sold at Puttick and Simpson's, 3 March 1870, lot 552, to Nicholls. For the Rawdon family, see H.F. Hayllar, The Chronicles of Hoddesdon (1948), pp. 52-4.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 18000 through 19999 (Add. MS 18044 f. 148r)

WoH 17

Copy of a five-stanza version, untitled, transcribed from WoH 18, with a marginal note in a later hand after line 6 saying 4 lines omitted here.

This MS the Pickering MS collated in Hannah.

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

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

c.1620s-30s

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

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

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999 (Add. MS 21433 ff. 115v-16r)

WoH 18

Copy of a five-stanza version, untitled.

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

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

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

c.1620s

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

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

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 25000 through 29999 (Add. MS 25303 f. 121r)

WoH 19

Copy, untitled, subscribed H W.

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

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

c.1620-50

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

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

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

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 25000 through 29999 (Add. MS 25707 f. 34v)

WoH 19.5

Copy, headed The Character of a Happy Life.

A quarto volume of Divine and Morall Observations, in verse and prose, in a neat roman hand varying in style, with later additions at the end, 61 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half black leather.

Inscribed by the compiler, on an elaborate title-page (f. 1r), Abygall Guilford her Booke 1672.

c.1672 [-1714]

Inscribed (top of f. 1r) This Book was I conclude my Grandmother Hoopers before her Marriage. Acquired from the Rev. H. Hooper, 9 December 1874.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 25000 through 29999 (Add. MS 28839 ff. 37r, 38r)

WoH 20

Copy, as by S^r H W.

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 M^r. 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.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 25000 through 29999 (Add. MS 29921 f. 42r-v)

WoH 21

Copy, headed Song. Hen: Wotton.

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

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

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

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

c.1633 [-late 17th century]

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

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

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

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 30000 through 34999 (Add. MS 30982 f. 160r rev.)

WoH 22

Copy, untitled.

A folio volume of tracts and papers chiefly on state matters, largely in one hand, 72 leaves (plus blanks).

c.1635

Inscribed (f. 10r) with names of Stephen Foster of Wrexham, Buckinghamshire (possibly the principal compiler) and Robert Drake of Topsham, Devon. Bookplate (f. 11r) of Berkeley Seymour of Queens's College, Cambridge. Purchased from the Rev. John C. Jackson 8 December 1866.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2026 f. 11v)

WoH 23

Copy, untitled.

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

c.1630s [-1777]

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

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

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2230 f. 20v)

WoH 24 c.1620s

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled.

A folio composite volume of state and legal tracts, papers and speeches, in several hands, with (f. 4r) an Index of contents, 338 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco gilt.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 1000 through 1999 (Harley MS 1576 f. 2r)

WoH 25

Copy, untitled.

An independent quarto verse miscellany, including 47 poems by Donne, in two secretary hands.

Constituting ff. 230r-99v in a quarto composite volume of verse and prose, in various hands, 308 leaves, in modern half green morocco gilt.

c.1620-33

Among the collections of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724), and his son, Edward, second Earl of Oxford (1681-1741), and acquired in 1722 from the bookseller Nathaniel Noel (fl.1681-c.1753).

Cited in IELM I.i as the Harley Noel MS: DnJ Δ 2.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 4000 through 4999 (Harley MS 4064 f. 234v)

WoH 26

Copy, untitled.

NO NOT HERE DELETE

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

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

c.1630s [-1670s]

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6057 f. 18r)

WoH 27

Copy, headed On a Priuate life and subscribed S^r Henry Wotton.

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

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

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

c.1637-50

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

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 777 f. 65r)

WoH 28

Copy.

A duodecimo miscellany chiefly of verse, in one or more secretary hands, with a few later additions in other hands, 29 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt.

c.1665

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 3769 f. 2r)

WoH 29

Copy, headed Of a happie life, here beginning How happie is he borne or taught.

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

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

c.1637

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

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

The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 962 f. 176r-v)

WoH 29.5

Copy, headed S^r Henry Wotton, on Contentment, here beginning How happy is He, born or taught.

A quarto verse miscellany, predominantly in one hand, written from both ends, 32 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco.

c.1630s

The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 972 f. 8r)

WoH 29.8

Copy.

Copy, in an italic hand, of a version headed Beatus ille and beginning That man is happy borne or taught, subscribed H: W:, in some pages of MS verse bound with an octavo printed exemplum of Henry More, Psychodia Platonica (1642).

Mid-17th century

The British Library: Rare Books Room (8^o P. Angl. 5346)

WoH 30

Copy, untitled.

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

c.1620-33

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

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

Cambridge University Library, shelfmarks E through F (MS Ee. 4. 14 f. 76r)

WoH 30.5

Copy, untitled.

A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, predominantly in one female roman hand, written from both ends, 174 pages, in contemporary calf.

Compiled by members of Sir Thomas Browne's family, chiefly his daughter Elizabeth Lyttelton (b. c.1648), containing various works in verse and prose including copies of a passage by Sir Thomas on consumptions (p. 43), a list of books which he had Elizabeth read out to him (pp. 44-5), copies of notes by him (pp. 77-76 rev.), his poem Upon a Tempest at Sea (pp. 94-93 rev.) and verses beginning the Almond flourisheth ye Birch trees flowe (p. 72); some of the verses in other hands including poems by Donne, Corbett, Wotton, Cartwright, William Browne, Ralegh, Katherine Phillips and others.

Late 17th century

Inscriptions (p. 1) Mary Browne (who d.1676) and James Dodsley and (p. 174) Mar. 11^th 1713/4 The gift of M^rs Lyttelton to Edward Tenison. Percy Dobell's sale catalogue The Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1240. Bookplate of the Royal College of Medicine, London. Owned by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (Bibliotheca Bibliographici, No. 1301).

This MS volume described in [Geoffrey Keynes], A Daughter of Sir Thomas Browne, TLS (4 September 1919), p. 420. Discussed in Victoria E. Burke, Contexts for Women's Manuscript Miscellanies: The Case of Elizabeth Lyttelton and Sir Thomas Browne, Yearbook of English Studies, 33 (2003), 316-28. Edited selectively by Geoffrey Keynes as The Commonplace Book of Elizabeth Lyttelton, Daughter of Sir Thomas Browne (Cambridge, 1919). The passages by Browne also edited in Keynes, I, 120-1, and III, 236-7, 331-2.

Cambridge University Library, Additional MSS 7000 through end (MS Add. 8460 pp. 84-83 rev.)

WoH 31

Copy.

MS poems, in several hands, on 28 octavo pages, at the end of a composite volume of three printed works, two dated 1659, the third Sir William Davenant's Two Excellent Plays (London, 1665), in contemporary calf.

Late 17th century

Inscribed (on the front free endpaper) E libris Johanis Harding ex Aede X^ti Oxon 1672.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, Printed books (D347 pp. 5-6)

WoH 32

Copy, headed A Contented Life, inscribed at the side S^r. Henry Wotton.

A quarto verse miscellany, arranged (Part I) as an anthology, under genre headings, the reverse end (Part II) largely occupied by a later series of Latin verses, epistles, and other exercises, 168 leaves, in old calf (rebacked).

Part I probably in several hands, the predominant italic hand that also responsible for the Welbeck MS: DnJ Δ 57), and including 21 poems by Donne.

c.1630 [-1677]

Part I inscribed (f. 1r) John Smyth his Book 1640, Charles Smyth 1674, Hugh Smyth 1676; (f. 23v) J Smyth 1677 / 1676. Part II inscribed several times Thomas Smith, on f. 19r also Die: Maij 12^o Ano 1659, with a reference on f. 58v to Balliol College, Oxford, 1659/60. Later inscribed (f. [i^r]) by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), who records buying this very curious and interesting MS. of Mess^rs Boone. Afterwards in the library at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1. 28.

Cited in IELM, I.i, as the Thomas Smyth MS: DnJ Δ 48.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 100 through 199 (MS V.a.103 Part I, f. 77r)

WoH 33

Copy, untitled.

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

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

c.1637-51

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

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

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 200 through 299 (MS V.a.262 pp. 89-90)

WoH 34

Copy, headed S^r Hen: wootton on a pvate life.

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

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

c.1630s

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

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

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 300 through end (MS V.a.345 p. 63)

WoH 35

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, subscribed H. W.

A folio memorandum book, in English and Latin, entitled (p. 1) A book of Divers necessary remembraunces, in various hands, 376 pages (including many blanks, a few leaves detached), in a wallet binding of embossed leather, straps and one remaining buckle.

Compiled over a period by Richard Dering (d.1612), of Surrenden, Kent, his son Anthony (1558-1635), and his grandson Sir Edward Dering (1598-1644).

c.1603-44

Formerly Folger MS Add. 450.

The Folger Shakespeare Library: V.b. series (MS V.b.296 p. 342)

WoH 36

Copy, headed S^r Henry Wooton and here beginning How happy is he borne or taught.

This MS recorded in Main.

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

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

c.1630s

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

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

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 686 ff. 15v-16r)

WoH 37

Copy, headed S^r Henry Wotton.

This MS recorded in Main.

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

c.late 1620s

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

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

Harvard University, MS Eng 966.7 (MS Eng 966.7 f. 17v)

WoH 37.5

Copy, ascribed to S^r Henry Wootten.

A quarto verse miscellany, in two neat hands, 14 leaves (plus blanks), in modern quarter-calf cloth.

A (misapplied) title-page (f. 1r) possibly in another hand: Copy of Verses upon y^e Government under the Protectour Cromwel -- By Edmund Waller 1650.

Late 17th century

Inscribed (f. [ir]) C F[?].

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 1035 f. [10r])

WoH 38

Extracts.

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

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

1657

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

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 93 pp. 183-4)

WoH 38.5

Copy.

A quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat hand, 369 pages, in contemporary vellum boards.

Mid-18th century

Variously inscribed R B and Robert Beere fecit, probably by the compiler. Also inscribed inside the upper cover Ann Beere Her Book.

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 106 p. 89)

WoH 39

Copy, headed S^ir Henry Wotto[n], imperfect.

An octavo miscellany of English and Latin verse and prose, in a small secretary hand, 79 leaves (largely blank), disbound.

Early 17th century

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt 25 f. 7r)

WoH 40

Copy of a five-stanza version, headed A Caracter of a happy man.

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

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt 48 f. 49r)

WoH 40.2 Mid-17th century

Copy, in an italic hand, untitled, written, with the page reversed, in a copy of Ralegh's Apology.

A collection of state tracts and verse, in various professional hands (including the Feathery Scribe), now bound in two volumes, Vol. I comprising 249 leaves (plus blanks), Vol. II 247 leaves (plus blanks), each in modern half-morocco gilt.

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

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 349 (No. 75).

Lambeth Palace Library (MS 806 Vol. II, f. 24v)

WoH 40.5

Copy, headed A Perfect happy man described by Sir H. W.

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

c.late 1640s

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

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

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

WoH 40.8

Copy, headed Vita Beata....

A quarto verse miscellany, in Latin and English, written from both ends, 181 pages.

Compiled by, and principally in the hand of, William Burton (1609-57), antiquary.

c.1637-46

The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House (MS 261 pp. 8-9 rev.)

WoH 41

Copy, untitled, subscribed H W:.

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

c.1620[-76]

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

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

National Library of Scotland, MS 6504 (MS 6504 f. 85v)

WoH 42

Copy, headed S^r Henry Wotton / A contented life.

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

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

c.1630s

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

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

University of Nottingham (Pw V 37 p. 169)

WoH 43

Copy, untitled, ascribed in the margin to S^r. Henry Wotton.

A quarto verse miscellany, including seventeen poems by Donne and fifteen by Strode, the main part in a single hand, 334 pages (but pp. 3-4 extracted, and including a later index).

Possibly compiled by one W: H:: i.e. probably William Holgate (1618-46), of Queens' College, Cambridge, with late 17th-century additions apparently made by other members of the Holgate family, of Saffron Walden and Great Bardfield, Essex.

c.1630s [-late 17th-century]

Owned in the early 18th century by John Wale, who supplied the index on pp. 330-3. Owned before 1927 by Col. W.G. Carwardine-Probert, of Bures, Suffolk (descendant of the Holgate family).

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Holgate MS: DnJ Δ 58 and StW Δ 22. Briefly discussed in W.G.P., Verses by Francis Beaumont, TLS (15 September 1921), p. 596, and in E.K. Chambers, William Shakespeare, 2 vols (Oxford, 1930), II, 222-4. Also discussed, with facsimiles on pp. 68 and 70 of pp. 181 and 13, in Michael Roy Denbo, Editing a Renaissance Commonplace Book: The Holgate Miscellany, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, III, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2004). pp. 65-73. For facsimile pages see DnJ 2931 and ShW 25. Complete microfilm in the Essex Record Office (T/A 98).

The Pierpont Morgan Library (MA 1057 p. 137)

WoH 43.5

Copy, headed The Happy Man.

Edited from this MS in Hazard, pp. 123-4.

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])

WoH 44

Copy, subscribed H: Wotton.

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

c.1713

Afterwards owned by Charles de Beaumont, the Chevalière d'Éon (1728-1810). Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872): Phillipps MS 9500. In the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, and art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936.

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1 through 239 (MS 239/16 p. 18)

WoH 45

Copy, headed S^r Henry Wotton on a private life.

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

Including thirteen poems by Strode and three of doubtful authorship.

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

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

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

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1 through 239 (MS 239/22 f. 25v)

WoH 46

Copy, untitled.

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

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

c.1620-5

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

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

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

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

Texas Tech University, Lubbock (PR 1171 D14 f. 11r)

WoH 47

Copy, untitled, subscribed H Watton.

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

c.1630s

Formerly MS G. 2.21.

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

Trinity College, Dublin, numbers 800 through end (MS 877, [Part II] ff. 165v-6r)

WoH 47.5

Copy, headed The prayse of a priuate life, subscribed S^r Henry Wotton.

c.1630s

Formerly MS G. 2.21.

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

Trinity College, Dublin, numbers 800 through end (MS 877, [Part II] ff. 261v-2r)

WoH 48

Copy, untitled and subscribed S^r Hen: Wootten.

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

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

c.1639 [-c.1728]

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

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

Yale, Osborn MS b 150 through Osborn MS b 199 (Osborn MS b 197 p. 49)

WoH 48.5

Copy, headed A Priuate contented Life.

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

c.late 1630s

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

A microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7698.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 356 pp. 135-6)

A Dialogue between Sir Henry Wotton and Mr. Donne ('If her disdaine least change in you can move')

See PeW 30-53.

A Hymn to my God, in a night of my late sickness ('Oh Thou great power! in whom I move')

First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 515. Hannah (1845), pp. 49-51.

WoH 49

Copy, headed A shorte Hymne by S Hen: Wotton In a nyght of his present sicknes.

This MS collated in Hannah.

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

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

c.1638

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

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

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 38 p. 132)

WoH 50

Copy, headed A Meditation, subscribed S^r Henry Wotton.

This MS collated in Hannah.

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

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

c.1640s-60s

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

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 100 through 149 (MS Rawl. poet. 147 p. 101)

WoH 51

Copy.

This MS collated in Hannah; facsimile in the appendix of the Scolar Press facsimile edition of Richard Crashaw, Steps to the Temple < 1646 > (menston, 1970).

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

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

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

c.1640s [and later]

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

Bodleian Library, Tanner Collection (MS Tanner 465 f. 41r)

WoH 52

Copy, subscribed H. Wotton oper p. 515.

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. 4v)

WoH 53

Copy, transcribed from a printed exemplum of Reliquiae Wottonianae.

c.1662

Later owned by Thomas Rodd (1796-1849). Rodd's sale catalogue, February 1850, item 764.

Cited in IELM, II.i, as the Rawdon MS: CrR Δ 2. Crashaw's work collated in Martin (cited as A1) and discussed pp. lxxx-lxxxi.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 18000 through 19999 (Add. MS 18044 ff. 147v-8r)

WoH 53.5

Copy, untitled.

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

c.1719-50

Purchased from Peter Murray Hill, January 1963.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt 13 f. 44r)

WoH 54

Copy, headed A Hymn made by S^r H: Wotton in y^e time of is sickness.

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

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1 through 239 (MS 239/16 p. 11)

WoH 55

Copy, untitled.

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

c.1640

Yale, Osborn MS b 50 through Osborn MS b 99 (Osborn MS b 62 p. 115)

An Ode to the King, at his returning from Scotand to the Queen after his coronation there ('Rouse up thyself, my gentle Muse')

First published in Ben Jonson's Vnder-wood in his Workes (London, 1640). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 521. Hannah (1845), pp. 21-4. Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy and Evelyn Simpson, VIII (Oxford, 1947), p. 267.

WoH 56

Copy of the first stanza, untitled, in a musical setting.

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

c.1640s-60s

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

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. c. 57 f. 29v)

WoH 57

Copy, headed An Ode Vpon Kg Charles's returne to y^e Queene from his Coronacon in Scotland, subscribed S^r Henry Wotton.

This MS collated in Hannah.

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

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

c.1640s-60s

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 100 through 149 (MS Rawl. poet. 147 pp. 96-7)

WoH 57.5

Copy of a Latin rendition of the poem, headed Ad Regem e Scotia reducem Henrici Wottonj Plausus, & Vota.

An octavo volume of university Latin orations compiled by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, xiv + 204 pages (pp. 110-94 blank).

Late 17th century

Bodleian Library, Sancroft MSS (MS Sancroft 89 pp. 57-8)

WoH 58

Copy, in double columns.

This MS collated in Hannah.

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

c.1640s [and later]

Bodleian Library, Tanner Collection (MS Tanner 465 f. 61v)

WoH 58.2

Copy, headed An Ode made upon the Kings speedy returne to the Queene from his coronation in Scotland.

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

c.late 1640s

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

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

Landesbibliothek und Murhardsche Bibliothek der Stadt Kassel (2^o Ms. poet. et roman. 4 pp. 40-1)

WoH 58.5

Copy, headed An ode to the King, at his return, subscribed J R.

A duodecimo miscellany, closely written in a minute hand from both ends, 152 pages, in modern brown morocco gilt.

Compiled by T. E., a member of St John's College, Oxford

c.1655

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Bright sale, June 1844. MS 40 in the library of the Shirley family at Ettington Hall, Warwickshire, and with notes by E.Ph. Shirley.

Recorded in HMC, 5th Report, Part I (1876), Appendix, p. 365.

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1 through 239 (MS 232/14 pp. 78-77 rev.)

On a Bank as I sat a-Fishing. A Description of the Spring ('And now all nature seemed in love')

First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 524. Hannah (1845), pp. 32-5.

WoH 59

Copy, headed On the Spring, subscribed S^r H. Wotton.

This MS collated in Hannah.

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

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

c.1640s-60s

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 100 through 149 (MS Rawl. poet. 147 pp. 47-8)

WoH 59.5

Copy, headed S^r Hen Wottons Description of y^e spring, here beginning This day dame Nature….

A duodecimo Vade mecum or A Pocket-Book of verse, compiled by John Gibson the Younger (1630-1711), of Welburne, Yorkshire, 86 unnumbered leaves, in contemporary calf, with traces of clasps.

c.1666-78

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MSS Broxbourne R 359 f. [43r])

WoH 60

Copy, in double columns, headed On the Spring.

This MS collated in Hannah.

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

c.1640s [and later]

Bodleian Library, Tanner Collection (MS Tanner 465 f. 61v)

WoH 60.5

Copy, headed S^r Hen: Wotton's Description of y^e Spring and here beginning This day dame Nature seemd in Love.

A duodecimo notebook and miscellany, entitled (f. [1^r]) Vade mecum or A Pocket-Booke, ii + 84 leaves, in contemporary calf.

Compiled by John Gibson (1630-1711), of Welburn, near Kirkby Moorside, North Yorkshire, and in his minute hand throughout.

c.1665-78

Inscribed (f. [ii^r]) Joseph King / Lewes Sussex / Sept 30 1834 to Mr S.B. Williams.

Formerly Broxbourne R 359.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (Broxbourne 85.18 f. [42r])

WoH 61

Copy, headed Of y^e Springe: S: Hen: Wotton and here beginning This day Dame nature seem'd in loue, later subscribed Iz: W., on one side of an octavo leaf.

c.1620s-30s

A later note on this MS incorrectly claims that it is in the hand of Izaak Walton.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 886)

WoH 61.5

Copy, headed A Copy of Verses of S^r. H. Wottons. who made this description of that pleasantness that possess'd him, as he sat quietly in a summers evening on a Bank a Fishing: it is a Description of the Spring and here beginning This Day Dame nature seem'd in love.

An octavo composite miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, relating to angling, 284 pages (lacking pp. 161-84), in quarter-calf marbled boards.

In several neat, small, chiefly italic hands, one on pp. 1-203 that of Nathaniel Bridges, of Magdalen College, Oxford, whose inscription on f. [iii^r] is dated 1694.

c.1691-early 18th century

Bookplate of George Weare Braikenridge, Broomwell House. A flyleaf is inscribed by him, November 1834, The Book belonged to the late D^r. Nath^l. Bridges Lecturer of S^t Mary Radcliffe & S^t Nicholas in the City of Bristol & purchased out of a private sale of his library at his decease. Other names inscribed after p. 212 including William Trumbu[ll], Joseph Brampton 1691, and Hen Sacheverell / Coll. Magd.. A later bookplate inside the lower cover: Gift of Daniel B. Fearing of Newport, 1915.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 1490 p. 198)

On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia ('You meaner beauties of the night')

First published (in a musical setting) in Michael East, Sixt Set of Bookes (London, 1624). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 518. Hannah (1845), pp. 12-15. Some texts of this poem discussed in J.B. Leishman, You Meaner Beauties of the Night A Study in Transmission and Transmogrification, The Library, 4th Ser. 26 (1945-6), 99-121. Some musical versions edited in English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), Nos. 66, 122.

WoH 62

Copy of a four-stanza version, in the hand of William Parkhurst, headed The Lady Eliza: Queene of Bohemia.

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

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

Leicestershire Record Office (DG. 7/Lit. 2 f. 336v)

WoH 62.5

Copy, headed S^r Henry Wotton on Q: Eliz: and here beginning In glorious Trifles of y^e East.

An octavo miscellany of Oxford University orations and of miscellaneous verse, in English and Latin, predominantly in one hand, written from both ends, 141 unnumbered leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum boards.

Compiled by Thomas Lessey (1649/50-1724), of Wadham College, Oxford, later Canon of Sarum, with his inscription Tho: Lessey or le levre est à Thomas Lessey L'An de Grace 1670.

c.1668-83

Cardiff Central Library (MS 1.482 ff. [21v-22r rev.])

WoH 62.8

Copy, headed Sir Henry Wottons verses of the Queen of Bohemia, here beginning Yee meaner beautyes of the night.

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

c.late 1640s

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

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

Landesbibliothek und Murhardsche Bibliothek der Stadt Kassel (2^o Ms. poet. et roman. 4 pp. 24-5)

WoH 63

Copy of a five-stanza version, untitled, here beginning You glorious trifles of the East, subscribed S^r H. W..

Edited from this MS in Agnes Conway, A New Stanza to You Meaner Beauties of the Night, TLS (4 September 1924), p. 540. Also discussed by her in TLS (30 October 1924), p. 686. Recorded in Leishman.

A composite collection of miscellaneous papers, now divided into two folio volumes (Part 1, ff. 1-199; Part 2, ff. 200-487), in various hands and paper sizes, originally in vellum, now each part in modern half-morocco.

Volume I of the papers of the Wyatt family, of Allington Castle, Boxley, and Quex, Kent, including (ff. 332r-58v) quarto booklets of verse, in a rounded italic hand, possibly compiled, c.1630, by Sir Francis Wyatt (1575-1644), Governor of Virginia (although according to an uncertain note on f. 358v all the hand writing of S^r H Wiat).

Later owned by Bradford Denne Hawkins, vicar of Rivenhall, Essex; by Lionel Oliver, of Hencham, King's Lynn; and then in 1872, by Charles Marsham (1808-74), third Earl of Romney. Formerly Loan MS 15/Part 2 (Wyatt Commonplace Book).

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 62135 Part 2, ff. 356v-7r)

WoH 64

Copy of a five-stanza version, headed the 13 songe.

This MS recorded in Leishman.

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

c.1638

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

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

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 38 p. 118)

WoH 65

Copy of a six-stanza version.

This MS recorded in Leishman. The text followed on f. 22 by a parodied version, beginning Ladies that guild the glittering moone, on the fall of Charles I.

A folio miscellany of tracts, letters and verse, written over a period, 210 leaves.

Compiled by one Philip Kynder (b.1597).

c.1620s-50s

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 788 f. 21v)

WoH 66

Copy of a six-stanza version, headed To y^e Lady Elizabeth.

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

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

c.late 1630s

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

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

Corpus Christi College, Oxford (MS 328 f. 79v)

WoH 67

Copy of an untitled six-stanza version, in a musical setting.

This MS collated in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 202-3).

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

c.1640s-60s

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

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. c. 57 f. 39r)

WoH 68

Copy of a five-stanza version, headed An Ode vpon the Quene of Bohemia.

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

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

1647

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

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. d. 58 f. 21r)

WoH 69

Copy, here beginning Ye glorious trifles of the east, accompanied by a Latin version by one T. L..

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 f. 19r)

WoH 70

Copy, untitled and here beginning You glorious trifles of the East.

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

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

c.1630s-40s

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

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

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 50 f. 77r)

WoH 71

Copy of a six-stanza version, headed S^r Henry Wotton vpon y^e La: Elizab: Que: of Bohemia (the last two stanzas headed Two other Staves added by Another) and here beginning Yee violetts w^ch first appear.

An octavo verse miscellany, including 13 poems by Donne and 14 poems by Corbett, in several hands, probably associated with Oxford University, written from both ends, 102 leaves, in 17th-century calf.

c.1630s

Inscribed (f. 101v) Henry Lawson (or just possibly Lamson). Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1836), item 1185. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9257. Sotheby's, 15 June 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 862. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 164 (1896), item 64.

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

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 14 f. 68v)

WoH 72

Copy, headed On his M^rs.

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

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

c.1638

Acquired from Blackwell's, 1962.

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

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, f through end (MS Eng. poet. f. 27 p. 198)

WoH 73

Copy, headed To the Spanish Lady, By S^r H. Wotton added in a later hand.

This MS collated in Hannah; recorded in Leishman.

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

c.1620s-30s

Bodleian Library, Malone Collection (MS Malone 19 pp. 37-8)

WoH 74

Copy of a six-stanza version, untitled.

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

Probably compiled principally by an Oxford University man.

c.1630s-40s

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

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 100 through 149 (MS Rawl. poet. 142 f. 46r)

WoH 75

Copy, in a professional hand, headed S^r. Hen: Wooton on his Mistress, The Queen of Bohemia and here beginning You meanest Beautyes of the Night, on one side of a quarto leaf. Late 17th century.

A quarto composite volume chiefly of poems on affairs of state, largely in professional hands, iii + 242 leaves, in vellum boards.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199 (MS Rawl. poet. 159 f. 142r)

WoH 76

Copy, headed On my Princesse and M^rs. the Lady Elisabeth elected Queene of Bohemia and here beginning Yow violets y^t doe first appeare, subscribed S^r: Hen: Wotton.

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

c.1630s

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

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

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199 (MS Rawl. poet. 160 f. 109r-v)

WoH 77

Copy, headed On the L: Eliz., here beginning Ye glorious trifles of the East, and docketed in another hand S^r H: W:.

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

c.1620s-30s

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

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199 (MS Rawl. poet. 199 pp. 2-3)

WoH 78

Copy of a six-stanza version, headed A Song [by S^r H Wotton added in a later hand].

This MS collated in Hannah; recorded in Leishman.

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

c.1640s [and later]

Bodleian Library, Tanner Collection (MS Tanner 465 f. 43r)

WoH 79

Copy of a five-stanza version, headed An Ode upon this mariage [i.e. of the Prince Elector with the Princess Elizabeth].

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

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

1674

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

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

Bradford Archives (32D86/27 ff. 122v-3)

WoH 80

Copy, in a musical setting by John Hilton, untitled and here beginning Yee violetts, y^t first appeare.

A folio songbook, in two or more predominantly italic hands, written from both ends, 87 leaves, in remains of contemporary vellum within modern half red morocco.

Possibly compiled in part by one T. C.

c.1641-59

Inscribed (f. 1v) R. Guise [of Abbey] Feb: 12. 1760. Purchased from Thomas Thorpe, bookseller, 17 June 1839.

A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 4 (New York & London, 1986).

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 11608 ff. 51v-2r)

WoH 81

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled and here beginning Yee meaner beauties of the night, subscribed Bassus per T: C:.

A folio songbook, in two or more predominantly italic hands, written from both ends, 87 leaves, in remains of contemporary vellum within modern half red morocco.

Possibly compiled in part by one T. C.

c.1641-59

Inscribed (f. 1v) R. Guise [of Abbey] Feb: 12. 1760. Purchased from Thomas Thorpe, bookseller, 17 June 1839.

A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 4 (New York & London, 1986).

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 11608 ff. 52v, 51v)

WoH 82

Copy, headed An ode upon y^e Lady Elizab: Qu: of Bohemia, subscribed S^r Hen: Wotton.

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

Probably compiled by a Cambridge University man.

c.1630s

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

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 15000 through 16999 (Add. MS 15227 f. 76r)

WoH 83

Copy of a six-stanza version, headed On y^e Queene of Bohemia, subscribed S^r Henry wootton.

This MS recorded in Leishman.

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

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

c.1630s

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

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

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999 (Add. MS 22118 f. 37r)

WoH 84 c.1630s

Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, headed Vpon the Queene of Bohemia, one one page of three folio leaves of verse.

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

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

Early-mid-17th century

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

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

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999 (Add. MS 23229 f. 62v)

WoH 85

Copy, headed On S^r Henery Wootton to Qu. Anne.

c.1633 [-late 17th century]

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

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 30000 through 34999 (Add. MS 30982 f. 145v rev.)

WoH 86

Copy, headed To y^e Q of Bohemia and here beginning Ye meaner Beauties of y^e night.

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

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

c.1632-40

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

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 40000 through 44999 (Add. MS 44963 ff. 21v-2r)

WoH 87

Copy of a six-stanza version, headed S^r H. Wootton on the Lady crownd Q of Bohemia and here beginning Yee glorious trifles of the East. A Latin version appears on f. 24v.

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

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

c.1646-9

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 45000 through 49999 (Add. MS 47111 f. 7r-v)

WoH 88

Copy of a six-stanza version, untitled.

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

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

c.1625-46

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

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

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 55000 through 59999 (Add. MS 58215 f. 103r-v)

WoH 88.4

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed An ode vppon the Lady Elizab my Princesse and M^rs elected Queene of Bohemia, on one side of a folio leaf of verse once folded as a letter or packet, imperfect. c.1620s.

A folio composite volume of state, literary and family papers and speeches, in various hands and paper sizes, 93 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half red morocco.

Papers principally of the Boteler family, of Biddenham, Bedfordshire, and of the family of John Hampden, MP (1595-1643), politician, of Great Hampden, Buckinghamshire.

Volume DLXXXIII of the Blenheim Papers, papers principally of John Churchill (1650-1722), first Duke of Marlborough, army commander and politician, his wife Sarah (née Jenyns) (1660-1744), and the related Spencer and Trevor families.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 61683 f. 63r)

WoH 88.6

Copy, in a musical setting by Pietro Reggio, untitled.

A tall folio songbook, in two or more cursive hands, written from both ends, with (f. iii^r) an index, iv + 99 leaves (including indexes), in 19th-century half green morocco gilt on marbled boards.

A formal compilation, ff. 2r-44v in the hand of Henry Bowman (fl.1674-80), composer and copyist; ff. 44v-53v in a second hand; ff. 54r-65r in a third hand; with additions in one or more hands on ff. 99v-66v rev.

Late 17th century

Booklabel of William Hayman Cummings, FSA (1831-1915), singer and musical antiquary. Sotheby's, 17-24 May 1917 (Cummings sale), lot 487.

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Egerton MS 2960 ff. 44v-5r)

WoH 88.8

Copy, headed S^r Hen: Wootton on his Mistress The Queen of Bohemia.

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) p^d - 6 - 9 -/ April 24 1703.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 7000 through end (Harley MS 7319 f. 3r-v)

WoH 89

Copy of a six-stanza version, headed On Ladie Eliz: Queene of Bohemia by S^r H: Wotton.

This MS recorded by Agnes Conway in TLS (4 September 1924), p. 540.

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

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

c.1633

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

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

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1446 ff. 43v-4r)

WoH 90

Copy of a six-stanza version, headed Sir H. Wotton. on the Lady Elizabeth when she was first crowned Que. of Bohemia and here beginning Ye glorious trifles of the East.

This MS recorded by Agnes Conway in TLS (4 September 1924), p. 540.

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

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

c.early 1630s

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

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

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1792 f. 2r-v)

WoH 91

Copy of a six-stanza version, untitled.

An octavo notebook of extracts, chiefly verse, compiled by one or two University of Cambridge men, 69 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf.

c.1653-60s

Cambridge University Library, Additional MSS 1 through 4999 (MS Add. 79 f. 11r-v)

WoH 92

Copy, in a musical setting, here beginning Yow minor beauties of the night.

A quarto songbook, in a secretary and italic hand, 193 leaves (including ten blanks).

Compiled by Robert Taitt, schoolmaster and precenter in the Church of Lauder, Berwickshire.

c.1676-90

Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist and book collector. Formerly T 135Z. B724 1677-89 Bound.

Discussed in Walter H. Rubsamen, Scottish and English Music in the Renaissance in a Newly-Discovered Manuscript, Festschrift Heinrich Besseler (Leipzig, 1961), 259-84.

Clark Library, Los Angeles (MS. 1959. 003 Cantus 3: ff. 35, 52)

WoH 93

Copy, headed in the margin On y^e Queen of Bohemia.

A folio commonplace book of verse and prose, in a single neat hand.

c.1666

Among papers of the Sheridan family, of Frampton Court, Dorset.

Dorset History Centre (D51/5 p. 211)

WoH 94

Copy of a version headed in another hand Alterations of Sir Henry Wotton's Verses,Bal. 2. 312, here beginning Yow minor beautyes of the night.

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

c.1630s-40s

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

Edinburgh University Library, Laing Collection (MS La. III. 436 pp. 24-5)

WoH 95

Copies of the incipit only, here You meaner beauties: &c., in a musical setting, untitled.

Three small quarto musical part books of the St Andrews Psalter (the Scottish Metrical Psalter of 1566 etc. by Thomas Wode, afterwards Vicar of St Andrews), copied c.1575-8, in formal angular roman hands, with rubrication and colour decoration, and with a series of secular songs added later in secretary and italic hands at the end, comprising (i) Treble part: iv + 214 pages (including blanks; (ii) Tenor part: iv + 200 pages; and (iii) Bassus part: 214 pages, all in 19th-century black morocco (iii incorporating an original vellum board).

c.1575-early 17th century

For a fourth (Counter-tenor) part book of this Psalter, see British Library, Add. MS 33933.

Edinburgh University Library, Laing Collection (MS La. III. 483 (ii) p. 185; (i) pp. 192-3; (iii) pp. 194, 202)

WoH 96

Copy of an untitled version in eight three-line stanzas, here beginning Yow minor beawties of the night, in a musical setting, subscribed finis Coronet opus Joannes Squyer.

An oblong quarto book of mainly vocal music, the lyrics in several largely secretary hands, one predominating, 90 pages (including blanks), in contemporary brown calf, both covers stamped in gilt I S.

Inscribed several times John Squyer, probably the compiler.

Mid-17th century

Also inscribed (p. 1) Ane Cattologue of books 1700, and (p. 25) Joanne Squier. Owned by David Laing in June 1855.

Edinburgh University Library, Laing Collection (MS La. III. 490 pp. 63-4)

WoH 97

Copy of a six-stanza version, headed On the Lady Elizabeth, when shee was first crowned Queene of Bohemia and here beginning Yee glorious trifles of y^e East. The text followed on ff. 53v-4 by a Latin version.

Part I probably in several hands, the predominant italic hand that also responsible for the Welbeck MS: DnJ Δ 57), and including 21 poems by Donne.

c.1630 [-1677]

Cited in IELM, I.i, as the Thomas Smyth MS: DnJ Δ 48.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 100 through 199 (MS V.a.103 Part I, f. 53r-v)

WoH 98

Copy, untitled.

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

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

c.1650s

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

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

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 100 through 199 (MS V.a.148 f. 48r)

WoH 99

Copy of a version headed On the Spanish Lady w^ch the prince should marry and beginning You meaner beauty to the sight.

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

Mid-17th century

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

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

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 100 through 199 (MS V.a.162 f. 79r-v)

WoH 100

Copy of lines 1-7, untitled, deleted.

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

c.1650s-60s

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

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

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 100 through 199 (MS V.a.169 Part II, f. 16r)

WoH 101

Copy of a four-stanza version, untitled.

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

c.1650s-60s

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

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 100 through 199 (MS V.a.169 Part II, f. 19v)

WoH 102

Copy, headed On Q: Anne. By S^r. H: W..

A quarto verse miscellany, pp. 13-244 in a single largely roman hand, the remainder in varying styles in one or more other hands (up to c.1655), probably associated with Oxford University, 541 pages (of which pp. 1-12, 87-8 have been extracted and pp. 251-68, 334, 400, 410-540 are blank, with stubs of other extracted leaves at the end), in contemporary brown calf.

Including 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 57 poems (plus a second copy of one poem and four poems of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1630s[-55]

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: possibly his MS 18123. Owned c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914), literary scholar and bookseller. Formerly MS 646.4.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Dobell MS: CoR Δ 8 and StW Δ 18. Discussed in Bertram Dobell in The Athenaeum, No. 4475 (2 August 1913), p. 112. A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 100 through 199 (MS V.a.170 p. 43)

WoH 103

Copy of a six-stanza version, headed Vpon the La: Elizabeth: By S^r. H: Wootton and here beginning You glorious trifles of the East.

Including 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 57 poems (plus a second copy of one poem and four poems of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1630s[-55]

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 100 through 199 (MS V.a.170 pp. 100-1)

WoH 104

Copy, headed S^r Henr: Wotton on Queene Anne.

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

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

c.1630s

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

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

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 200 through 299 (MS V.a.245 f. 42v)

WoH 105

Copy, headed Sir Henry Wotton on the Lady Elizabeth Queene of Bohemia.

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

c.1637-51

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

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

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 200 through 299 (MS V.a.262 pp. 88-9)

WoH 106

Copy, headed Song, subscribed By S^r: Hen: Wotton.

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

c.1640

Formerly MS 2073.3.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 300 through end (MS V.a.319 f. 32r)

WoH 107

Copy, headed Song, subscribed S^r Hen: Wotton.

A quarto verse miscellany, with later accounts on the last page dated June 1658, 1* + 238 pages (including stubs of extracted pages 191-6, plus numerous blanks), in old calf (rebacked).

Including 11 poems by Carew and 14 poems by Randolph.

c.1630s-40s

Inscribed Jane Wheeler and Tho: Oliver Busfield. Francis Quarles's poem (pp. 209-11) To y^e two partners of my heart M^r John Wheeler, and M^r Symon Tue. Item 96 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Formerly Folger MS 2071.6.

A Jo. Wheeler signed the Christ Church, Oxford, disbursement books for 1641-3 (xii, b.85 and 86).

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Wheeler MS: CwT Δ 25 and RnT Δ 7.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 300 through end (MS V.a.322 p. 56)

WoH 108

Copy, headed On y^e Queen of Bohemia S^r Hen: Wootton.

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

c.1630s

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 300 through end (MS V.a.345 pp. 148-9)

WoH 108.5

Copy, headed Sir Henry Wottons beautiful Poem on Elizabeth Princess Royal, Princess palatine, & Queen of Bohemia: 1620.

Inscribed in May 1782 by one James Bisset, Jr, of Montrose, in a quarto printed exemplum of Tasso's La Gierusalemme liberata (Ferrara, 1581), in contemporary limp vellum.

1782

Bought by Bisset in Aberdeen in 1781.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, Printed books (PQ 4638 A881b Cage)

WoH 109

Copy of a five-stanza version, untitled and here beginning You glorious trifles of the East.

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

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

c. late 1630s

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

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

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 626 f. 8r-v)

WoH 110

Copy of a five-stanza version, headed To the Spanish Lady and beginning Yee meaner beauties of the night.

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

c.1630s

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

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 686 ff. 9v-10r)

WoH 111

Copy of a four-stanza version, headed In reginam Bohemiæ per Henricum Wotton: milite:.

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

c.1630s

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

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 686 f. 84r)

WoH 112

Copy of a five-stanza version, untitled and here beginning You glorious trifles of the Easte.

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

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

c.1624-41

Later bookplate of Henry B. Humphrey.

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

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 703 ff. 32v-3r)

WoH 113

Copy, headed On the Q. of Bohemia.

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

c.1630s-40s

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

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

Cambridge University Library, Additional MSS 7000 through end (MS Add. 8470 f. 2v)

WoH 114

Copy, headed Upon the Queen of Bohemia, by Sir John Harrington and afterwards inscribed By Sir H. Wotton, here beginning Ye twinckling starrs that in the night, transcribed from a text in a small MS. Collection in M^r. Bouchers possession [i.e. Jonathan Boucher of Epsom].

This MS recorded in Neilson, A Bundle of Ballads, p. 112.

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

c.1800

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

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

Mitchell Library, Glasgow (SR 241 308897 pp. 21-2)

WoH 115

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled and here beginning Youe twinkling stars that in the night.

Edited from this MS in Nelly Diem, Beiträge zur Geschichte der Schottischen Musik im XVII. Jahrhundert (Zürich & Leipzig, 1919), pp. 83-4.

An oblong quarto songbook, the lyrics in two or more secretary and italic hands, iv + 43 leaves, in modern quarter-calf.

Inscribed (f. 31r) MAY 1639 and Williane Stirling. A long note (f. ii^r) in the hand of John Leyden (1775-1811), linguist and poet, dated 5 March 1800, recording his purchase of the MS in 1788 from the library of the Rev. Mr Cranstow, minister of Ancrum; his lending it to Alexander Campbell in 1795 and retrieving it in December 1799; and his now consigning it to Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector.

c.1639

A complete facsimile of this volume is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 11 (New York & London, 1987).

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 5.2.14 f. 10r)

WoH 116

Copy, in a neat mixed hand, headed Upon y^e queene of Bohemia.

A folio composite volume of verse, prose and dramatic works, in various hands, written over a period from both ends, 543 pages (including blanks), in contemporary panelled calf with remains of metal clasps.

Compiled by members of the Salusbury family of Llewenni, Denbighshire, including works by Sir Thomas Salusbury, second Baronet (1612-43), poet and politician.

Early-mid 17th century

Later owned by J. Baskerville-Glegg, of Withington Hall, Chelford. Sotheby's, 14-16 March 1921, lot 421.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 5390 D p. 152)

WoH 117

Originally a copy in a musical setting, listed in the table of contents (as You meaner bewties) but now lacking.

A folio songbook, largely in a single secretary hand, with poems and (reversed) culinary and medical receipts in later hands at the end, imperfect or incomplete, now 27 leaves, lacking half the songs listed in a Table at the end.

c.1620s-30s

The original cover inscribed Ann Twice her booke. Inscribed on the first page My Cosen Twice Leftte this Booke with me...which is to be returne to her AGhaine.... Later owned by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author.

A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 11 (New York & London, 1987). Discussed in John P. Cutts, Songs Vnto the Violl and Lute—Drexel Ms. 4175, Musica Disciplina, 16 (1962), 73-92.

New York Public Library, Music Division (Drexel MS 4175 No. i)

WoH 118

Copy of a five-stanza version, in a musical setting.

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

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

c.1630s-50s

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

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

New York Public Library, Music Division (Drexel MS 4257 No. 98)

WoH 119

Copy of a six-stanza version, headed S^r H. Wotton / On the Lady Elizabeth, when shee was first crowned Queene of Bohemia, here beginning Yee glorious trifles of the East.

The text followed on p. 111 by a Latin version.

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

c.1630s

University of Nottingham (Pw V 37 p. 110)

WoH 120

Copy, headed Uppon the Queene of Bohemia.

A quarto verse miscellany, including seventeen poems by Donne and fifteen by Strode, the main part in a single hand, 334 pages (but pp. 3-4 extracted, and including a later index).

c.1630s [-late 17th-century]

Owned in the early 18th century by John Wale, who supplied the index on pp. 330-3. Owned before 1927 by Col. W.G. Carwardine-Probert, of Bures, Suffolk (descendant of the Holgate family).

The Pierpont Morgan Library (MA 1057 p. 72)

WoH 121

Copy, headed On the Lady Elizabeth.

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

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

c.1634

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

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

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1 through 239 (MS 239/27 p. 42)

WoH 122

Copy of a five-stanza version, headed S^r H. Wotton on y^e L. Elizabeth when she was first crown'd Q: of Bohemia and here beginning Yee glorious trifles of y^e East.

The text followed on pp. 34-5 by a Latin version.

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

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

c.1635

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

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

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 240 through 999 (MS 240/7 pp. 33-4)

WoH 123

Copy, headed Vpon the Queene of Bohemya, here beginning Ye twinckling Starrrs, that in the night and ascribed to S^r John Harrington.

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

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

c.1634

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

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

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

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 240 through 999 (MS 243/4 p. 48)

WoH 124

Copy, headed An Ode upon y^e Lady Elizabeth.

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

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

c.1638-42

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

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

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1000 through end (MS 1083/17 f. 136r-v)

WoH 125

Copy, in a musical setting, here beginning You minor beauties of the night.

MS transcript of the first printed edition (Aberdeen, 1662) of John Forbes, Cantus, Songs and Fancies.

c.1662

In the Atholl Collection of Music, assembled by Lady Dorothea Stewart-Murray (1866-1937), daughter of John Stewart-Murray (1840-1917), seventh Duke of Atholl. Formerly in the Sandeman Library, Perth.

A K Bell Library, Perth (N16 No. liv)

WoH 126

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

A quarto musical part book, in several neat secretary and italic hands, with some initial-letter decoration, headed (f. 5r) This is the fyrst Buke addit to the four psalme Bukkes, for songis of four or fyue partis, meit and apt for musitians, to recreat..., with (ff. 2r-4r) a table of contents, 63 leaves, in old blind-stamped calf.

One of the part books of the St Andrews Psalter.

Early 17th century

Trinity College, Dublin, numbers 200 through 799 (MS 412 ff. 46v-7r)

WoH 127

Copy, in a roman hand, headed S^r Henry Wottons verse of the Queene of Bohemya.

c.1630s

Formerly MS G. 2.21.

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

Trinity College, Dublin, numbers 800 through end (MS 877, [Part II] f. 162v)

WoH 128

Copy, untitled.

c.1630s

Formerly MS G. 2.21.

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

Trinity College, Dublin, numbers 800 through end (MS 877, [Part II] f. 192r)

WoH 129

Copy, untitled, subscribed Finis. i6i.

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

c.1620-40s

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

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

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

Westminster Abbey (MS 41 f. 48r)

WoH 129.5

Copy, followed (p. 4) by a Latin version.

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

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

c.1635

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

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

The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania ([Wolf MS] p. 3)

WoH 130

Copy, headed Song 49 and here beginning Your meaner bewties of the night.

A quarto verse miscellany, 54 leaves, imperfect (chewed by rodents), lacking covers.

Compiled by Herbert Aston (1613-88/9), poet, son of Walter Aston, Baron Aston of Forfar (1584-1639), of Tixall, Staffordshire, diplomat.

c.1634

Inscribed on f. i^v Her: Aston [monogram] the 29 of July an: D: 1634.

Yale, Osborn MS b 1 through Osborn MS b 49 (Osborn MS b 4 f. 39r-v)

WoH 131

Copy, headed On His Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia By Sir Henry Wootton. Kt, in a 19th-century hand.

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

c.1644 (and later)

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

Yale, Osborn MS b 150 through Osborn MS b 199 (Osborn MS b 150 pp. 205-6)

WoH 132

Copy, here beginning You violetts that doe first appeare and subscribed S^r Hen: Wotton.

c.1639 [-c.1728]

Yale, Osborn MS b 150 through Osborn MS b 199 (Osborn MS b 197 p. 44-5)

WoH 133

Copy, untitled.

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

Late 17th century

Formerly Chest II, No. 21.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 213 pp. 28-9)

WoH 133.5

Copy of a five-stanza version, headed An Ode on y^e Queen of Bohemia by S^r Henry Wotton.

An octavo miscellany, comprising Instructions for Justices of the Peace in a roman hand at one end and, from the other end a collection of poems in a secretary hand, much of the MS written in double columns in oblong format, 92 leaves, in calf.

c.1623-30s

Probably compiled by two members of the Calverley family (f. 1r contains a poem headed A new years giuft presented to my father and Mother by my Brother Thomas Calverly).

Later in the library od Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9624. Owned before 1947 by N.M. Broadbent. Later owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1906-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 13 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 135, to Maggs.

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 46323 f. 4v)

A Poem written by Sir Henry Wotton in his Youth ('O faithless world, and thy most faithless part')

First published in Francis Davison, Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602), p. 157. As A poem written by Sir Henry Wotton, in his youth, in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 517. Hannah (1845), pp. 3-5. Edited and texts discussed in Ted-Larry Pebworth, Sir Henry Wotton's O Faithless World: The Transmission of a Coterie Poem and a Critical Old-Spelling Edition, Analytical & Enumerative Bibliography, 5/4 (1981), 205-31.

WoH 134

Copy, untitled, subscribed S^r H. W..

This MS collated in Dyce (1843), pp. 1-2, and in Hannah.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 62135 Part 2, ff. 350v-1r)

WoH 135

Copy in Fulman's hand, untitled, subscribed H. W.

A large folio composite volume of tracts and miscellaneous papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 229 leaves, in reversed calf.

Second volume of the miscellaneous collections of Richard Davis of Sandford.

Owned by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.

Corpus Christi College, Oxford (MS 318 f. 43r)

WoH 136

Copy, untitled.

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

1623

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

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

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, f through end (MS Eng. poet. f. 9 pp. 193-4)

WoH 137

Copy, untitled.

c.1620s-33

From the library of Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755), nonjuring bishop and topographer.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 1 through 49 (MS Rawl. poet. 31 f. 5v-6r)

WoH 138

Copy, subscribed H. Wotton.

This MS collated in Hannah.

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

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

c.1640s-60s

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 100 through 149 (MS Rawl. poet. 147 pp. 74-5)

WoH 139

Copy, headed His M^rs Constancie, subscribed S^r Hen Wotton.

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

c.1630s [-1733]

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

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

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 10000 through 14999 (Add. MS 11811 ff. 31v-2)

WoH 140

Copy, headed On his Mistris falshood.

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

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

c.1636

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

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

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 30000 through 34999 (Add. MS 33998 f. 31v)

WoH 141

Copy, untitled.

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

c.1630s-40s

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 923 f. 17r)

WoH 142

Copy, headed On his loues unconstancy, subscribed in a later hand s^r. H. W.

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

c.1640s

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

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2725 f. 102r-v)

WoH 143

Copy, untitled.

An independent quarto verse miscellany, including 47 poems by Donne, in two secretary hands.

Constituting ff. 230r-99v in a quarto composite volume of verse and prose, in various hands, 308 leaves, in modern half green morocco gilt.

c.1620-33

Cited in IELM I.i as the Harley Noel MS: DnJ Δ 2.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 4000 through 4999 (Harley MS 4064 f. 235r-v)

WoH 144

Copy, untitled, subscribed H: W:.

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

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

c.1637

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

The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 962 f. 170r)

WoH 145

Copy, headed On his loues Inconstancy.

A folio volume; ff. 5r-80v constituting a collection of 97 poems by Donne, in a neat mixed hand; the text possibly derived from the same source as Leconfield MS (DnJ Δ 5); ff. 81r-7r containing poems by various writers (including three by Donne) in two other 17th-century hands, 133 leaves in all, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1620-33

The volume later used extensively as a notebook by Dr William Balam (1651-1726), of Ely, Cambridgeshire, filling up ff. 87v-134 (and compare Balam's annotated MSS DnJ Δ 16, DnJ Δ 57, and a miscellany of Robert Stonehouse, dated 10 March 1681/2: Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 5779).

Inscribed on the cover in a 17th-century hand [Thes?] for [M^r Coote?] Att his legeinge in bow street next to bull Couent garden. Donated to the library in 1916 by Geoffrey Keynes.

Cited in IELM as Cambridge Balam MS: DnJ Δ 4. Discussed in H.J.L. Robbie, An Undescribed MS of Donne's Poems, RES, 3 (1927), 415-19.

Cambridge University Library, Additional MSS 5000 through 6999 (MS Add. 5778 f. 85r)

WoH 146

Copy, untitled.

A quarto verse miscellany, in a neat secretary hand, fourteen pages.

c.1620s

Among the papers of the Gell family, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, including those of the Parliamentary commander and MP Sir John Gell, first Baronet (1593-1671). Formerly D258/31/16.

Derbyshire Record Office (D258/10/15 p. 12)

WoH 147

Copy, headed in the margin On Women.

A folio commonplace book of verse and prose, in a single neat hand.

c.1666

Among papers of the Sheridan family, of Frampton Court, Dorset.

Dorset History Centre (D51/5 p. 211)

WoH 148

Copy, subscribed H: W:.

Late 17th century

Inscribed (on the front free endpaper) E libris Johanis Harding ex Aede X^ti Oxon 1672.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, Printed books (D347 pp. 4-5)

WoH 149

Copy, headed oPart II, f loues inconstance by: S^r: H: Wotton.

A large quarto verse miscellany, 76 leaves, in old vellum wrappers within modern quarter red morocco on marbled boards.

Part I, including some Welsh, comprises sixteen leaves, all (but for f. 15r-v) in the cursive hand of William Jordan, schoolmaster of Denbigh or Caernarvon, whose name (Gulielmus Jordan) is inscribed, the dates 1680-83 occurring.

Part II comprises 60 leaves, ff. 1-50v in a neat italic hand, ff. 51r-60r in several other cursive hands.

c.1674-84

The vellum wrapper on Part II bears notes on a debt by William Jordan in 1674 relating to Evan Thomas and M^r Richard Wilkin^sn in pepper street. Formerly Folger MS 1669.2.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 200 through 299 (MS V.a.276 Part II, ff. 15v-16r)

WoH 150

Copy, untitled, subscribed by S^r Hen: Wotton.

Facsimile of this page in Pebworth's AEB article, p. 221.

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

c.1624-41

Later bookplate of Henry B. Humphrey.

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

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

WoH 151

Copy, untitled and here beginning ffaithlesse world & thy most faythles parte.

A folio verse miscellany, 148 leaves (foliated 161-206), once bound (reversed) with an independent miscellany (Huntington, HM 198, Part I), rebound with this MS (in continuous form without inversion) in 1832 (by Charles Lewis).

Including 59 poems by Donne (and second copies of six poems), in probably six professional secretary hands: A (ff. 1r-25v, 82r-129r); B (ff. 26r, 42v-7v, 49r-63r, 63v-79r, 130r-48r); C (ff. 27r-36v, 41r-2v; with occasional corrections possibly in hand B); D (ff. 37r-40v); E (ff. 63r-v); and F (f. 129v).

c.1620-33

Scribbling includes the name Meriall Tracy (on f. 148v). Later owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary; by Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough, antiquary; and by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector (his library, lot 624). Sotheby's, 17 July 1917 (Huth sale), lot 5873.

Recorded in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Haslewood-Kingsborough MS (II): DnJ Δ 26. Discussed in C.M. Armitage, Donne's Poems in Huntington Manuscript 198: New Light on The Funerall, SP, 63 (1966), 697-707.

A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 15). Betagraph of the watermark in f. 43 in Ted-Larry Pebworth, Towards a Taxonomy of Watermarks, in Puzzles in Paper: Concepts in Historical Watermarks, ed. Daniel W. Mosser, Michael Saffle and Ernest W. Sullivan, II (London, 2000), pp. 229-42 (p. 240).

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 198, Part II f. 46r-v)

WoH 152

Copy, untitled.

c.1620[-76]

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

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

National Library of Scotland, MS 6504 (MS 6504 f. 85r)

WoH 153

Copy of lines 7-26, headed Verses made by S^r Henry Wotton and here beginning Why was shee borne to please, or I to trust.

A quarto formal verse miscellany, in a single professional secretary hand, 83 pages, in modern quarter-calf.

c.1630s

National Library of Wales (Peniarth MS 500 B pp. 18-20)

WoH 154

Copy, untitled.

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

c.1630s

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

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 12443 A Part II, pp. 52-3)

WoH 155

Copy, headed On his Mistris Inconstancie.

A quarto verse miscellany, including seventeen poems by Donne and fifteen by Strode, the main part in a single hand, 334 pages (but pp. 3-4 extracted, and including a later index).

c.1630s [-late 17th-century]

Owned in the early 18th century by John Wale, who supplied the index on pp. 330-3. Owned before 1927 by Col. W.G. Carwardine-Probert, of Bures, Suffolk (descendant of the Holgate family).

The Pierpont Morgan Library (MA 1057 p. 63)

WoH 156

Copy, headed On his M^rs proouing false to his affections, subscribed Robert Wisedom.

c.1630s

Formerly MS G. 2.21.

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

Trinity College, Dublin, numbers 800 through end (MS 877, [Part II] f. 232r-v)

WoH 157

Copy, untitled.

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

c.1622-33

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

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

Yale, Osborn MS b 100 through Osborn MS b 149 (Osborn MS b 148 pp. 142-3)

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

See HoJ 230.

Tears at the Grave of Sir Albertus Morton who was buried at Southampton ('Silence in truth would speak my sorrow best')

First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 528. Hannah (1845), pp. 40-3.

WoH 158

Copy, headed At the tombe of S^r Albertus Morton The teares of a friende.

c.1638

Acquired from Blackwell's, 1962.

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

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, f through end (MS Eng. poet. f. 27 pp. 20-1)

WoH 159

Copy, headed On the Death of S^r Albertus Morton, subscribed S^r Henry Wotton.

This MS collated in Hannah.

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

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

c.1640s-60s

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 100 through 149 (MS Rawl. poet. 147 p. 107)

WoH 160

Copy, headed Teares at the graue of S^r Albert morton by S^r Henry Wootton K^t.

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

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

c.1670

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

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

Bradford Archives (32D86/17 f. 121r-v)

WoH 160.2

Copy, in an italic hand, headed At the Tombe of S^r Albertus Morton the Teares of a friend.

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

Probably compiled by university or inns of court men.

c.1620s-30s

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 3000 through 3999 (Harley MS 3910 f. 65r-v)

WoH 160.5

Copy, headed Tears wept at the Graue of S^r Albertus Morton by Henry Wotton.

A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, predominantly in one female roman hand, written from both ends, 174 pages, in contemporary calf.

Late 17th century

Cambridge University Library, Additional MSS 7000 through end (MS Add. 8460 pp. 55-54 rev.)

WoH 160.8

Copy, headed Att the tombe of Sir. Albertus Morton by Sir H. W. one of his nearest freinds.

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

c.late 1640s

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

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

Landesbibliothek und Murhardsche Bibliothek der Stadt Kassel (2^o Ms. poet. et roman. 4 pp. 42-4)

This Hymn was made by Sir H. Wotton, when he was an Ambassador at Venice, in the time of a great sickness there ('Eternal mover, whose diffused glory')

First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 529. Hannah (1845), pp. 45-8.

WoH 161

Copy, headed A Hymne made by S^r Hen Wootton In y^e vnquiet nights of his late Sicknes.

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

c.1630s-40s

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 50 f. 53r-v)

WoH 162

Copy, headed A Hyme By S^r Henry Wotton In tyme of his Sicknes.

c.1630s

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

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199 (MS Rawl. poet. 160 f. 85r)

WoH 163

Copy, subscribed H. Wotton. oper p. 529.

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. 4v-5r)

WoH 163.5

Copy, transcribed from Reliquiae Wottonianae.

c.1662

Later owned by Thomas Rodd (1796-1849). Rodd's sale catalogue, February 1850, item 764.

Cited in IELM, II.i, as the Rawdon MS: CrR Δ 2. Crashaw's work collated in Martin (cited as A1) and discussed pp. lxxx-lxxxi.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 18000 through 19999 (Add. MS 18044 ff. 150r-1r)

WoH 164 c.1620s-30s

Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, headed A Hymne made by S^r Henry Wotton in an unquiet night at the tyme of his late sicknes, on the first page of a trimmed pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed (f. 190v) A Hymne made by S^r He: Wotton att Venice.

A large folio composite volume of state latters, tracts and verse, in various hands, 282 leaves, in modern morocco gilt.

Largely Burghley papers, with some later additions.

Bookplate of Shelburne.

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 98 f. 189r)

WoH 165

Copy, headed S^r Walter Raleigh in the vnquiett rest of his last sickness.

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

c.1633

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1446 f. 41r-v)

WoH 165.5

Copy, headed A hymne or meditation by the same Author at Venice in y^e time of a languishinge Feaver.

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

c.late 1640s

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

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

Landesbibliothek und Murhardsche Bibliothek der Stadt Kassel (2^o Ms. poet. et roman. 4 pp. 48-9)

WoH 165.8

Copy, headed A Himne made by S^r. H. W. in the nights of a painfull sicknes.

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

c.1630s

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

London Metropolitan Archives (ACC/1360/528 f. [19r-v])

WoH 166

Copy, headed An other Hymn made by him on the same occasion.

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

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1 through 239 (MS 239/16 pp. 11-13)

To a Noble Friend in his Sickness ('Untimely fever, rude insulting guest')

First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 519. Hannah (1845), pp. 16-17.

WoH 167

Copy, headed On the Duke of Buckingham sicke of a feaver, subscribed S^r Henry Wotton.

This MS collated in Hannah.

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

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

c.1640s-60s

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 100 through 149 (MS Rawl. poet. 147 p. 101)

To J: D: from Mr H: W: (''Tis not a coate of gray or Shepherds life')

First published in Herbert J.C. Grierson, Bacon's Poem, The World: Its Date and Relation to Certain other Poems, MLR, 6 (1911), 145-56 (p. 155).

WoH 168

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

This MS probably one of the two unspecified MSS known to Grierson.

1623

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

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, f through end (MS Eng. poet. f. 9 pp. 10-11)

WoH 169

Copy, headed Agaynst Solitarines.

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

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

Mid-17th century

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

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

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 100 through 149 (MS Rawl. poet. 117 f. 29r)

WoH 170

Copy, headed A Letter Against Solitarines.

Part I probably in several hands, the predominant italic hand that also responsible for the Welbeck MS: DnJ Δ 57), and including 21 poems by Donne.

c.1630 [-1677]

Cited in IELM, I.i, as the Thomas Smyth MS: DnJ Δ 48.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 100 through 199 (MS V.a.103 Part I, f. 69r-v)

WoH 171

Copy, headed in another hand To JH fro M^r H: W.

Printed probably from this MS in Grierson.

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

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

c.1622-32

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

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

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks A through E (EL 6893 f. 74r-v)

WoH 172

Copy, headed To his freind on solitarines.

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

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

c.1634

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

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 240 through 999 (MS 243/4 pp. 112-13)

WoH 173

Copy, untitled.

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

c.1622-33

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

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

Yale, Osborn MS b 100 through Osborn MS b 149 (Osborn MS b 148 p. 1)

A Translation of the CIV. Psalm to the original sense ('My soul exalt the Lord with hymns of praise')

First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 525. Hannah (1845), pp. 36-9.

WoH 174

Copy, subscribed H. Wotton. oper. p. 525.&c.

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. 16r-v)

WoH 174.5

Copy, as by Sir. H. Wotton.

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

c.late 1640s

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

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

Landesbibliothek und Murhardsche Bibliothek der Stadt Kassel (2^o Ms. poet. et roman. 4 pp. 44-7)

Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife ('He first deceased. she for a little tried')

First published as an independent couplet in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 529. Hannah (1845), p. 44. The authorship is uncertain.

This couplet, which was subject to different versions over the years, is in fact lines 5-6 of a twelve-line poem beginning Here lye two Bodyes happy in their kinds, which has also been attributed to George Herbert: see HrG 290.5-290.8.

WoH 175

Copy, untitled.

A quarto miscellany, in several hands, written from both ends, 77 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

Compiled by members of the Cartwright family, of Aynho, Northamptonshire, including (ff. 4r-7v) verse by William Cartwright (1634-76).

Mid-17th century

Inscribed names including Will: Cartwright, Jo: Cartwright, and Katherin Cartwright. Myers, sale catalogue No. 291 (1933), item 120.

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. e. 6 f. 16r)

WoH 176

Second copy, headed Altero p Hen: Wootton K^t.

A quarto miscellany, in several hands, written from both ends, 77 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

Compiled by members of the Cartwright family, of Aynho, Northamptonshire, including (ff. 4r-7v) verse by William Cartwright (1634-76).

Mid-17th century

Inscribed names including Will: Cartwright, Jo: Cartwright, and Katherin Cartwright. Myers, sale catalogue No. 291 (1933), item 120.

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. e. 6 f. 17r)

WoH 176.5

Copy, untitled, here beginning She first deceased, he for a little tried.

A folio composite volume of verse in Latin and English, some relating to Oxford, in various hands, 215 leaves, in contemporary quarter-calf gilt vellum boards.

Early-mid-18th century

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Ballard 50 f. 196r)

WoH 176.8

Copy, untitled, here beginning She first deceased, he for a little tried.

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

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

c.1748-50s

Donated in 1938 by F.F. Madan.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 40 f. 108r)

WoH 177

Copy, headed On a Gent.- dying soon after his wife and here beginning His Wife deceas'd hee after liu'd & try'de.

A quarto verse miscellany of c.150 poems, in several hands; associated with Oxford, probably Christ Church, 279 pages (plus index and blanks).

Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 32 poems (plus four of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

c.1630s-40s

Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue (1836), item 1044. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9561. Sotheby's, 19 June 1893 (Phillipps sale), lot 628, and 21 March 1895, lot 903. Hodgson's, 23 April 1959, lot 528.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the English Poetry MS: CoR Δ 3 and StW Δ 6.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 97 p. 153)

WoH 178

Copy, headed Vpon y^e death of a new married couple, here beginning She first deceased, he for a little tried.

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

c.1635-44

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

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

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

WoH 179

Copy, headed Vpon a Man who dyed w^th greife For his wife deceased and here beginning The first deceased, he for a little tryed.

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

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

c.1640

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

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

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Firth e. 4 p. 6)

WoH 180

Copy, headed on S^r Henry Wottons [wife deleted] Lady and here beginning He first deseast She liv'd & tryd.

A duodecimo notebook, in Latin and English, in several hands, written from both ends, 88 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

Owned and probably compiled at least in part by John Gandye (b.1604/5), of Oriel College, Oxford, who has inscribed f. 2r Si quis me quærat, præsto est / Jo: Gandye.

c.1620s

Name inscribed (f. 1v rev.) Thomas Keen.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. D. 947 f. 80r rev.)

WoH 181

Copy.

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

Mid-late 17th century

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

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 50 through 99 (MS Rawl. poet. 84 f. 46r)

WoH 182

Copy, headed A Lady dy'd soon after her husbd and here beginning He first deceased. She a little try'd.

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. 44)

WoH 183

Copy.

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

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

c.1670

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

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

Bradford Archives (32D86/17 f. 121v)

WoH 184

Copy, headed An Epitaph.

c.1630s [-1733]

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

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 10000 through 14999 (Add. MS 11811 f. 2r)

WoH 184.5

Copy.

c.1662

Later owned by Thomas Rodd (1796-1849). Rodd's sale catalogue, February 1850, item 764.

Cited in IELM, II.i, as the Rawdon MS: CrR Δ 2. Crashaw's work collated in Martin (cited as A1) and discussed pp. lxxx-lxxxi.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 18000 through 19999 (Add. MS 18044 ff. 148v-9r)

WoH 184.8

Copy, headed On a gentleman dyeinge soone after his wife and here beginning She first deceased he after liu'd, & tryde.

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

c.1630s

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

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

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 18000 through 19999 (Add. MS 19268 f. 12r)

WoH 185

Copy, headed An epitaph of two louers, here beginning She first deceas'd: hee for a little try'd.

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

c.1620-50

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 25000 through 29999 (Add. MS 25707 f. 100v)

WoH 185.5

Copy, untitled.

A quarto volume of Divine and Morall Observations, in verse and prose, in a neat roman hand varying in style, with later additions at the end, 61 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half black leather.

Inscribed by the compiler, on an elaborate title-page (f. 1r), Abygall Guilford her Booke 1672.

c.1672 [-1714]

Inscribed (top of f. 1r) This Book was I conclude my Grandmother Hoopers before her Marriage. Acquired from the Rev. H. Hooper, 9 December 1874.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 25000 through 29999 (Add. MS 28839 f. 46r)

WoH 186

Copy, headed On a gentleman dying presently after his wife and here beginning She first deceased, he after liv'd, & tried.

c.1633 [-late 17th century]

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

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 30000 through 34999 (Add. MS 30982 f. 37r)

WoH 187

Copy, here beginning Shee first deceas'd hee after liv'd & tried.

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

c.1630s

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

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 542 f. 56r)

WoH 188

Copy, untitled, subscribed H. W.

An oblong octavo pocket commonplace book, comprising (f. 1r) Poems / Characters / Proverbs / Sentences / Historicall Remarques / Tales, in Latin, English and Greek, in perhaps two or more hands, probably associated with Cambridge University, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

Including (on ff. 17-27, rectos only) portions of 17 English poems by Crashaw.

Mid-17th century

Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753).

Recorded in IELM as Sloane MS: CrR Δ 5. Crashaw's work collated in Martin (cited as S) and discussed p. lxxix.

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1925 f. 30v)

WoH 188.5

Copy, headed On the Death of S^r: Albert Morton's Wife.

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 &c^a 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

The Folger Shakespeare Library, Miscellaneous manuscripts (MS M.b.12 f. 15r)

WoH 189

Copy, untitled, here beginning First she deceased / Hee a little tryd.

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

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

c.1630s

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

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 100 through 199 (MS V.a.125 Part I, f. 9v)

WoH 190

Copy, headed By Sir Henry Wotton, on a Lady who died p^rsently after her husband and here beginning The first deceas'd, she for a little tri'd.

An octavo miscellany of verse and some prose, in various secretary and italic hands, iv + 119 leaves, in modern quarter green crushed morocco.

A flyleaf inscribed Th: Ayle 6^o. Dec 1679^o.

c.1678-1718

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 100 through 199 (MS V.a.147 f. 5r)

WoH 190.2

Copy, headed On one who died the next day after his wife, here beginning She first deceased, he after liv'd and tried.

A quarto miscellany principally of English and Latin verse, drama, and jests, perhaps largely in a single hand, written from both ends, iv + 181 pages, in contemporary calf.

Inscribed by, and the MS most likely compiled by, the Rev. Henry Newcome (1650-1713), of St Edmund's Hall, Oxford, in 1669, rector at Middleton, Manchester.

c.1669

A pencil note (f. [i^v]) refers to Original MSS otherwise from Hockwold Hall.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 200 through 299 (MS V.a.232 Part I, p. 36)

WoH 190.4

Copy, headed On Two Lovers who dy'd before they were marry'd, here beginning She first deceas'd He for a little try'd.

A folio volume comprising a collection of epitaphs, in a single neat italic hand, entitled Delectus Epitaphiorum Anglo-Latinorum Tam Veterum quam Recentiu, 74 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf.

c.1664-1705

Pencil inscription on front pastedown: Charles A. Cole[?] June 26 '64. The rear cover stamped R. S. 1705.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, Miscellaneous manuscripts (MS W.b.455 p. 67)

WoH 190.8 August 1630

Copy, in English, in an unidentified hand, accompanied by a translation into Dutch.

Autograph drafts by Constantijn Huygens (1596-87), poet and statesman, of his translations into Dutch of poems by John Donne, on folio and quarto leaves.

1630

These MSS discussed, with facsimile examples, in Richard Todd, The Manuscript Sources for Constantijn Huygens's Translation of Four Poems by John Donne, 1630, EMS, 11 (2002), 154-80.

Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague (MS KA XL^a f. 3r)

WoH 191

Copy, headed Of a gentlewoman y^t dyed within a few dayes after her Husband.

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

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

c.1630s

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

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

Leeds Archives (WYL156/237 f. 30v)

WoH 191.5

Copy, headed Epitaph on two Lovers, who were contracted, both dying before Marriage.

A large octavo miscellany of verse and prose, the greater part in a single probably female hand, with additions into the 19th century, 111 leaves (including blanks), in quarter-calf on marbled boards.

Inscribed (f. 111v) with the name Sarah Bignell, possibly the principal compiler.

c.1750-70 [plus later additions]

Bookplate of The Pacific Union Club, San Francisco.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt 93 f. 15v)

WoH 192

Copy, headed on one dying p^rsently after her husband and here beginning He first deceasts, she after liv'd & tryed.

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

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

c.1638

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

New York Public Library, Arents Collection (Cat. No. S 288 (Acc. No. 5442) p. 23)

WoH 192.5

Copy, headed Upon two Lovers that died before they were married. 1600 and here beginning She first deceas'd, he for a little try'd.

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 f. 44r)

WoH 193

Copy, headed Vpon 2 Lovers who being espoused, dyed both before they were married, added in a late 17th-century hand.

A quarto verse miscellany, including seventeen poems by Donne and fifteen by Strode, the main part in a single hand, 334 pages (but pp. 3-4 extracted, and including a later index).

c.1630s [-late 17th-century]

Owned in the early 18th century by John Wale, who supplied the index on pp. 330-3. Owned before 1927 by Col. W.G. Carwardine-Probert, of Bures, Suffolk (descendant of the Holgate family).

The Pierpont Morgan Library (MA 1057 p. 169)

WoH 194

Copy, headed Epitaph and here beginning The man dy'd first, shee livd a while & try'd.

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

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

c.1630s

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

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

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1 through 239 (MS 239/23 p. 166)

WoH 195

Copy, headed An Epitaph on a Gentlewoman who died for greife within a few daies after her husband.

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

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

c.1635

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 240 through 999 (MS 240/7 p. 36)

WoH 195.5

Copy, headed on a man and his wife and here beginning Shee first deseased, he after liued and try'd.

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

c.1630s-40s

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

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

St John's College, Cambridge (MS S. 23 (James 416) f. 65r)

WoH 195.8

Copy, headed Vpon tow louers contracted but dyed both before marriage.

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.

Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office (ER 93/2 f. 190v)

WoH 196

Copy, headed On a Lady y^t dyd soon after her husband and here beginning He first deceased she liv'd, and try'd.

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. 135)

WoH 196.3

Copy, headed On a gentleman dyinge soone after his wife and here beginning She first deceased, he after lived and dyed.

An octavo verse miscellany, of English and Welsh verse and prose, in probably several hands, the English verse (on pages 9-70, 93-104) including eleven poems by Strode and two of doubtful authorship, 110 pages (plus stubs of extracted leaves).

Compiled by members of the Griffith family, of Llanddyfnan, the verse probably entered by one or more of the various members of that family who studied in this period at the University of Oxford.

Mid-17th century

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Griffith MS: StW Δ 26.

Bangor University (MS 422 p. 22)

WoH 196.5

Copy, headed On the death of Sir Albert Morton's wife.

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. 70)

WoH 197

Copy.

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

c.1635

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

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

The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania ([Wolf MS] p. 52)

WoH 197.5

Copy, headed An Epitaph on two louers who beinge Espoused dyed before they were marryed and here beginning She first deceased; he for a little tryde.

c.1639 [-c.1728]

Yale, Osborn MS b 150 through Osborn MS b 199 (Osborn MS b 197 p. 57)

WoH 197.6

Copy, headed on a Gentleman who died y^e next Day after his Lady and here beginning She first Departed: He for one Day try'd.

Three quarto volumes of verse, 164, 155 and 145 leaves respectively, in later vellum.

Compiled by Colonel Gabriel Lepipre.

c.1753

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS c 360 Vol. I, p. 33, No. XXXIII)

WoH 197.8

Copy, headed On two Louers who di'd before they were Married, here beginning She ffirst deceas'd, he for a Little tryed.

A folio miscellany entitled Epitaphs Collected 1694, 42 pages.

c.1695

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS fb 143 p. 43)

WoH 198

Copy, here beginning She first deceas'd, he after liv'd, and try'd and ascribed to W. S.

Edited from this MS in HMC volume (1879) p. 691.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, including poems by Corbett, Jonson and Strode.

c.1630s?

Formerly among collections of the Rev. Thomas William Webb, of Hardwick Vicarage, Herefordshire.

Recorded in HMC, 7th Report, Part I (1879), Appendix, p. 691.

Untraced, miscellaneous (Webb MS (III) [unspecified page numbers])

Upon the Sudden Restraint of the Earl of Somerset then falling from favour ('Dazzled thus with the height of place')

First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 522. Hannah (1845), pp. 25-7. Some texts of this poem discussed in Ted-Larry Pebworth, Sir Henry Wotton's Dazel'd Thus, with Height of Place and the Appropriation of Political Poetry in the Earlier Seventeenth Century, PBSA, 71 (1977), 151-69.

WoH 199

Copy, originally headed S^r H.W. (on y^e Duke of Somer.) and headed in another hand On the suddaine restraint of a Favorite. Impressa, subscribed S^r H: W.

This MS collated in Hannah and in Pebworth, p. 161 et seq.

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

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

c.1640s-60s

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 100 through 149 (MS Rawl. poet. 147 pp. 97-8)

WoH 200

Copy, headed By y^e moste Illustrious Prince George Duke of Buckingham &c. and here beginning Dazeled w^th y^e height of place.

Printed from this MS in Pebworth, pp. 154-5. On p. 82 of the MS are three Latin versions added later by one James Harvey.

A folio volume of largely amatory verse, iv + 92 pages, in a recycled vellum deed between John and Thomas Godfrey relating to land in Bury St Edmunds, 1567.

Possibly compiled and written in part by one Alphonso Mervall. The front cover is inscribed, however, English verse by J. Cobbes, and some notes and Latin poems are added by one James Harvey.

c.1629

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199 (MS Rawl. poet. 166 p. 83)

WoH 200.5 Early 17th century

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled and here beginning Thus dazeled with the height of place.

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. 71v)

WoH 201

Copy, in double columns, headed On the suddaine restraint of a Favourite and here beginning Thus dazel'd w^th y^e height of place.

This MS collated in Hannah and in Pebworth, p. 161 et seq.

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

c.1640s [and later]

Bodleian Library, Tanner Collection (MS Tanner 465 f. 61v)

WoH 201.5

Copy, headed On Somersets Fall. S^r H.W.

A duodecimo notebook and miscellany, entitled (f. [1^r]) Vade mecum or A Pocket-Booke, ii + 84 leaves, in contemporary calf.

Compiled by John Gibson (1630-1711), of Welburn, near Kirkby Moorside, North Yorkshire, and in his minute hand throughout.

c.1665-78

Inscribed (f. [ii^r]) Joseph King / Lewes Sussex / Sept 30 1834 to Mr S.B. Williams.

Formerly Broxbourne R 359.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (Broxbourne 85.18 f. [38r])

WoH 201.8

Copy, headed On Somersets fall. Sr H. W.

A duodecimo Vade mecum or A Pocket-Book of verse, compiled by John Gibson the Younger (1630-1711), of Welburne, Yorkshire, 86 unnumbered leaves, in contemporary calf, with traces of clasps.

c.1666-78

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MSS Broxbourne R 359 f. [39r])

WoH 202

Copy, headed Vpon Secretarye Da: fall, subscribed ff. B..

Edited from this MS (or from the second copy: WoH 203) in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 295.

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

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

c.1670

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

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

Bradford Archives (32D86/17 f. 26v)

WoH 203

Copy, headed On Secretarye Dauison fall and subscribed F. B..

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

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

c.1670

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

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

Bradford Archives (32D86/17 f. 124v)

WoH 204

Copy, headed Vpon the sudden restraint of a Fauorite, subscribed Hen: Wotten.

This MS collated in Pebworth, p. 161 seq.

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

c.1620-50

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 25000 through 29999 (Add. MS 25707 f. 185v)

WoH 204.5

Copy.

A large folio composite volume of verse MSS, in various hands and paper sizes, 160 leaves, mounted on guards.

Volume XXXIIIA (Series III) of the papers of Sir John Coke (1563-1644), Secretary of State, and his family.

Purchased from the Marquess of Lothian, of Melbourne Hall, Derbyshire, 14 July 1987.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 69968A f. 30v)

WoH 204.8

Copy, headed On the sudden restraint of a favourite, followed by two Latin versions.

A folio composite volume of largely official letters and papers of Georg Rudolph Weckherlin (1584-1653), German poet, secretary to Charles I, and afterwards parliamentary Secretary for the Foreign Tongues, c.180 leaves.

c.1615-51

Volume CXCVIII of the Trumbull Papers, of the Trumbull family, including chiefly William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), diplomat and government official. Later belonging to the Marquess of Downshire, of Easthampstead Park

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 72439 f. 148r)

WoH 205

Copy, untitled, the English text set out flanked by a different Latin version on each side.

This MS collated in Pebworth, p. 161 seq. The text accompanied by two Latin versions.

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

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 1000 through 1999 (Harley MS 1221 f. 110r)

WoH 206

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Pebworth, p. 161 seq. The text accompanied by two Latin versions.

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

Mid-17th century

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6038 f. 44r-v)

WoH 207

Copy, headed To a Favorite.

This MS collated in Pebworth, p. 161 seq.

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

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

c.1637-50

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

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 777 f. 64v)

WoH 208

Copy, headed Of ffauorites.

This MS collated in Pebworth, p. 161 seq.

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

c.1633

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1446 f. 76r)

WoH 209

Copy, headed Vpon Somersets fall, subscribed H. W.

This MS collated in Pebworth, p. 160 et seq. Edited in the online Early Stuart Libels website.

Including (on ff. 17-27, rectos only) portions of 17 English poems by Crashaw.

Mid-17th century

Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753).

Recorded in IELM as Sloane MS: CrR Δ 5. Crashaw's work collated in Martin (cited as S) and discussed p. lxxix.

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1925 ff. 30v, 29v)

WoH 209.5

Copy, untitled, docketed F B.

A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, predominantly in one female roman hand, written from both ends, 174 pages, in contemporary calf.

Late 17th century

Cambridge University Library, Additional MSS 7000 through end (MS Add. 8460 p. 82 rev.)

WoH 210

Copy, headed To the Lord Bacon then falling from favour.

A quarto verse miscellany, largely in two neat mixed hands, with subsequent additions in other hands, 32 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco.

Probably compiled in Scotland by members of the Rutherford family.

c.1680-1710

Inscribed (f. 1r) M^r Gideon Rutherford and Jean Rutherford, and (ff. 11v-13v) including a poem on John Reutherfoord. Acquired in 1924 from Maggs Bros.

Briefly discussed in Marcia Allentuck, An Unpublished Commonplace Book of Scottish Interest in the Folger Shakespeare Library, SSL, 7, No. 4 (April 1970), 270-1.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 200 through 299 (MS V.a.255 f. 17v)

WoH 211

Copy, untitled, here beginning Thus dazelled with height of place, subscribed S^r: Hen: Wotton.

A quarto verse miscellany, with later accounts on the last page dated June 1658, 1* + 238 pages (including stubs of extracted pages 191-6, plus numerous blanks), in old calf (rebacked).

Including 11 poems by Carew and 14 poems by Randolph.

c.1630s-40s

A Jo. Wheeler signed the Christ Church, Oxford, disbursement books for 1641-3 (xii, b.85 and 86).

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Wheeler MS: CwT Δ 25 and RnT Δ 7.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 300 through end (MS V.a.322 p. 182)

WoH 211.5

Copy, headed A chorus upon the suddaine restraint of a great favourite, here beginning Thus dazle'd with height of place.

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

c.late 1640s

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

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

Landesbibliothek und Murhardsche Bibliothek der Stadt Kassel (2^o Ms. poet. et roman. 4 pp. 3-4)

WoH 212

Copy, headed Of Fauorites, subscribed in different ink S^r Water Ralegh.

Edited from this MS in The Poems of Sir Walter Ralegh, ed. Michael Rudick (Tempe, Arizona, 1999), No. 49, p. 122.

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

c.1630s

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

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

Leeds Archives (WYL156/237 f. 56v)

WoH 213

Copy, in a neat italic hand, untitled and here beginning Dazled with the height of Place, with an alternating version in Latin verse, on the first page of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves.

Early-mid-17th century

University of Nottingham (Pw V 518)

WoH 214

Copy, untitled and here beginning Thus dazelled with height of place, subscribed S^r Hen: Wootton.

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

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

c.1630s

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1 through 239 (MS 239/23 pp. 202-3)

WoH 215

Copy, in the hand of Johs. Rasbrick vic. de Kirkton, headed To the Lord Bacon when Falling from Favour, written on the flyleaf of an Old Music Book.

17th century

Owned in 1850 by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist, author and antiquary. Its authenticity cannot be verified.

Edited from this MS by Edward F. Rimbault in Ten Queries concerning Poets and Poetry, N&Q, 1 (9 March 1850), 302. This source recorded in Pebworth, p. 161.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Rasbrick MS])

(2) Poems of Uncertain Authorship

A Description of the Country's Recreations ('Quivering fears, heart-tearing cares')

First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), pp. 531-3, subscribed Ignoto, among Poems Found among the Papers of S. H. Wotton. Described in Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler (London, 1653), pp. 239-40, as a Copy printed amongst Sir Henry Wottons Verses, and doubtless made either by him, or by a lover of Angling. Hannah (1845), pp. 55-9.

WoH 216

Copy.

Late 17th century

Inscribed (on the front free endpaper) E libris Johanis Harding ex Aede X^ti Oxon 1672.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, Printed books (D347 pp. 6-8)

WoH 216.5

Copy, untitled.

A duodecimo Vade mecum or A Pocket-Book of verse, compiled by John Gibson the Younger (1630-1711), of Welburne, Yorkshire, 86 unnumbered leaves, in contemporary calf, with traces of clasps.

c.1666-78

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MSS Broxbourne R 359 f. [39v])

WoH 216.8

Copy, untitled, transcribed from Walton's Compleat Angler, p. 348.

A duodecimo notebook and miscellany, entitled (f. [1^r]) Vade mecum or A Pocket-Booke, ii + 84 leaves, in contemporary calf.

Compiled by John Gibson (1630-1711), of Welburn, near Kirkby Moorside, North Yorkshire, and in his minute hand throughout.

c.1665-78

Inscribed (f. [ii^r]) Joseph King / Lewes Sussex / Sept 30 1834 to Mr S.B. Williams.

Formerly Broxbourne R 359.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (Broxbourne 85.18 ff. [38v-9r])

WoH 217

Copy, untitled.

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

c.1650s-60s

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

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 100 through 199 (MS V.a.169 Part II, f. 4r-5r)

WoH 217.5

Copy, headed A Copy of Verses, thought to be of S^r. H. Wottons composing, in which is an elegat description of the Recreations & pleasures of the Country.

An octavo composite miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, relating to angling, 284 pages (lacking pp. 161-84), in quarter-calf marbled boards.

In several neat, small, chiefly italic hands, one on pp. 1-203 that of Nathaniel Bridges, of Magdalen College, Oxford, whose inscription on f. [iii^r] is dated 1694.

c.1691-early 18th century

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 1490 pp. 201-2)

WoH 217.8

Copy, headed Of the Country life, transcribed from Reliquiae Wottoniana.

c.1662

Later owned by Thomas Rodd (1796-1849). Rodd's sale catalogue, February 1850, item 764.

Cited in IELM, II.i, as the Rawdon MS: CrR Δ 2. Crashaw's work collated in Martin (cited as A1) and discussed pp. lxxx-lxxxi.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 18000 through 19999 (Add. MS 18044 ff. 151r-2r)

WoH 218

Copy.

Edited from this MS, as Rusticatio Religiosi in Vacantiis, in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), pp. 297-300, whence collated in Hannah.

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])

Epigram ('If breath was made for every man to buy')

First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 540, among Poems Found among the Papers of S. H. Wotton.

WoH 218.5

A miscellany of verse and prose, in English, Latin and Greek, in various hands, including tipped-in printed matter.

Mid-late 18th century

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection (MS Lt 106 f. 144r)

A Farewell to the Vanities of the World ('Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!')

First published, as a farewell to the vanities of the world, and some say written by D^r. D[onne], but let them bee writ by whom they will, in Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler (London, 1653), pp. 243-5. Hannah (1845), pp. 109-13. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 465-7.

WoH 219

Copy, headed Doctor Donn's valadiction to the worlde.

This MS recorded in Hannah.

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

c.1638

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

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

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 38 p. 1a)

WoH 219.2

Copy, untitled.

A duodecimo Vade mecum or A Pocket-Book of verse, compiled by John Gibson the Younger (1630-1711), of Welburne, Yorkshire, 86 unnumbered leaves, in contemporary calf, with traces of clasps.

c.1666-78

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MSS Broxbourne R 359 ff. [40v-41r])

WoH 219.5

Copy, in a musical setting, in an italic hand (?Kremberg's), headed A Farewell to the World. The Words made by the Honourable Sir H. W. Compos'd for one Voice with a Flute allemande or violin and a Harpsichord, by James Kremberg [i.e. the Polish composer Jacob Kremberg, member of the Chapel Royal, on eight folio pages.

c.1700s

Item 132 in an un identified sale catalogue. Purchased in 1967 from Otto Haas.

Clark Library, Los Angeles (MS K92 M4 F 222 [c.1710] Bound)

WoH 219.8

Copy.

Possibly the MS cited in Grierson, p. 465, as C.C.C. Oxon. MS. 324.

c.late 1630s

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

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

Corpus Christi College, Oxford (MS 328 f. 20r)

WoH 220

Copy, headed A Hermitts meditation in the Grote.

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

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

c.1640s

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

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

Corpus Christi College, Oxford (MS 176 f. 30r)

WoH 221

Copy, headed D^r Donnes farewell to y^e world.

This MS (erroneously cited as MS. 324) collated in Grierson.

c.late 1630s

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

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

Corpus Christi College, Oxford (MS 328 f. 20r-v)

WoH 222

Copy, headed S^r Kellam Digbyes farewell to the World.

A quarto miscellany, in several hands, written from both ends, 77 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

Compiled by members of the Cartwright family, of Aynho, Northamptonshire, including (ff. 4r-7v) verse by William Cartwright (1634-76).

Mid-17th century

Inscribed names including Will: Cartwright, Jo: Cartwright, and Katherin Cartwright. Myers, sale catalogue No. 291 (1933), item 120.

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. e. 6 f. 7r-v)

WoH 223

Copy, headed An Invention for an Arbour, with a lengthy prose introduction describing a devise with an emblem of a man with his foot on a globe &c.

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in several hands, written from both ends (ff. 1-19, then ff. 82-20 rev.), the forty-three sonnets on ff. 1r-11r in a single neat secretary hand and headed Sonetts by Alablaster vppo y^e ensignes of Christes Crucifyinge, iii + 82 leaves (plus three blanks), in contemporary vellum.

Early-mid-17th century

Discovered c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914), book dealer and literary scholar. Dobell's sale catalogue No. 106 (1949), item 1.

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS (MS Eng. poet. e. 57 ff. 15v-16v)

WoH 224

Copy, headed D^r Dunne's farrewell to the world.

c.1638

Acquired from Blackwell's, 1962.

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

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, f through end (MS Eng. poet. f. 27 pp. 79-80)

WoH 225

Copy, untitled, on a folio page at the end of a folding pedigree by Dugdale of Lord Crew's family. Mid-17th century.

A large double-folio guardbook of genealogical papers, in various hands, 136 leaves.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. B. 144 f. 68r)

WoH 225.5

Copy, headed S^r Kenelm Digby's farewell to England, in a small octavo booklet of verse in English and Latin chiefly in one hand (ff. 23r-42v) probably associated with Cambridge University.

An octavo composite miscellany, with extracts in verse and prose, in various hands, 213 leaves, in quarter-vellum boards.

Late 17th century

A flyleaf inscribed Tho: Hearne. Sept. 1^o. M: DCC: IX: i.e. Collected by 1709 by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), Oxford antiquary.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. D. 260 f. 38r-v)

WoH 225.8

Copy, headed A Farewell to ffollye.

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.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 50 through 99 (MS Rawl. poet. 90 ff. 1r, 2r)

WoH 226

Copy, headed A Poeme made by D^r: Donne a little befor his death.

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

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

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199 (MS Rawl. poet. 153 f. 16r)

WoH 226.5 Eighteenth-century

Copy.

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

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

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199 (MS Rawl. poet. 153 ff. 45v-6r)

WoH 227

Copy, on one side of a half-folio leaf.

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

With a few additions in Rawlinson's hand.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199 (MS Rawl. poet. 172 f. 106r)

WoH 228

Copy, headed An Hermite in an Arbour, w^th a prayer booke in his hand, his foote spurning a globe, thus speaketh.

This MS recorded in Hannah.

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

c.1640s [and later]

Bodleian Library, Tanner Collection (MS Tanner 465 f. 59r-v)

WoH 228.5

Copy, untitled, transcribed from Walton's Compleat Angler, p. 351.

A duodecimo notebook and miscellany, entitled (f. [1^r]) Vade mecum or A Pocket-Booke, ii + 84 leaves, in contemporary calf.

Compiled by John Gibson (1630-1711), of Welburn, near Kirkby Moorside, North Yorkshire, and in his minute hand throughout.

c.1665-78

Inscribed (f. [ii^r]) Joseph King / Lewes Sussex / Sept 30 1834 to Mr S.B. Williams.

Formerly Broxbourne R 359.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (Broxbourne 85.18 ff. [39v-40r])

WoH 229

Copy, headed S^r Kenelm Digby's Farewell to England, subscribed ex chastis M^ri Joan. Nitingale B. M. Jan. 20. 1658/9.

This MS collated in Grierson.

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 D^rs Barb: Rhodes ...M^ri Joan: Rhodes Decemb: 5 1667; Janawary y^e 2 day 1726; W^m faildham London to y^e Land of maderah & from thence to Jamaca. Purchased from Lilly, 13 July 1850.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 18000 through 19999 (Add. MS 18220 f. 69r-v)

WoH 229.5

Copy of the last twelve lines.

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in a cursive predominantly secretary hand, i + 284 leaves, in contemporary calf.

Compiled by Sir John Gibson (1606-65), of Welburn, near Kirkby Moorside, Yorkshire, when he was a Royalist prisoner in Durham Castle. The name Penelope Gibson on f. 174r.

c.1653-60

Bookplate of William Ward Jackson.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 35000 through 39999 (Add. MS 37719 f. 174v)

WoH 230

Copy of lines 1-25, headed D^r. Donne his farewell to the world.

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

Mid-17th century

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

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2421 f. 42v rev.)

WoH 231

Copy, headed A ffarewell to the world by S^r. Kenelme Digby, on two pages of two conjugate folio leaves.

This MS collated in Grierson.

A double-folio guardbook of miscellaneous historical documents, in various hands, 70 leaves of various sizes.

Later owned by Frederic Ouvry (1814-81), antiquary and lawyer.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2603 f. 63r-v)

WoH 232

Copy, headed Docto^r King his Farewell to the World.

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

c.1640s

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2725 f. 61r-v)

WoH 233

Copy, headed A Good night to the world, subscribed H: Kinge.

This MS collated in Grierson.

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

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

c.1630s [-1670s]

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6057 f. 14r-v)

WoH 234

Copy, headed A far well to y^e world, in a folio booklet of verse (ff. 133r-8r), in double columns, in several hands. Late 17th century.

A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous papers, in various professional hands, 138 leaves, in red mottled leather gilt.

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

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 223 f. 134v)

WoH 235

Copy, headed A Farwell to y^e world. May y^e 16 transcribed by Francis Mortoft.

This MS recorded in Francis Mortoft: His Book, ed. Malcom Letts, Hakluyt Society, 2nd Ser. 57 (London, 1925), p. xiii.

Francis Mortoft's MS Journal of a Voyage through France and Italy in 1658-59.

16 May [1659]

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 2142 f. 87r)

WoH 236

Copy, headed A farewell to y^e world, p Sir Kell Digby. 1635.

This MS collated in Krueger.

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

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

c.1637

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

The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 962 ff. 33r-4r)

WoH 236.3

Copy, headed A Farewell to the Vanities of the World, said to be written by S^r Henry Wotton.

A quarto verse miscellany, predominantly in one hand, written from both ends, 32 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco.

c.1630s

The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 972 ff. 5r-6r)

WoH 236.5

Copy.

Written on the end-leaf of a printed exemplum of Wits Recreations (London, 1641).

Mid-17th century

The British Library: Rare Books Room (G.16448)

WoH 236.8

Copy, headed A Farewell to the world, subscribed H. Wooton's.

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

University of California at Los Angeles (170/68 pp. 16-17)

WoH 237

Copy, headed D^r Donne's farewell to y^e world.

Printed from this MS in The Complete Poems of John Donne, ed. A.B. Grosart, 2 vols (privately printed, 1871-2), II, 248-9. Recorded in Grierson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in a single cursive hand, 30 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half-calf.

Compiled by a royalist.

Mid-late 17th century

Inscribed (f. 1r) W^m Godolphin Serv^t to M^r Savile and Hen: Savile Serv^t: to M^r Godolphin.

Cambridge University Library, shelfmarks A through D (MS Dd. 6. 43 ff. 18v-19v)

WoH 237.5 Mid-17th century

Copy, untitled, on two pages of an pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed Verses of the tragedye of this life.

A bundle of unbound papers, chiefly verse, of Sir William Dugdale (1605-86), antiquary and herald.

Sir William Dugdale, Merevale Hall (Bundle XVI, Part ii, in Horse-hair trunk [unnumbered item])

WoH 237.8

Copy, headed Verses on y^e frailty of this Life.

A series of quarto leaves of devotional poems, apparently copied by William Dugdale Jr, bound with a printed Book of Common Prayer (1679).

c.1700

Sir William Dugdale, Merevale Hall ([no shelfmark] pp. 185-7)

WoH 238

Copy, headed D: Dun's fairrweell.

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

c.1630s-40s

Edinburgh University Library, Laing Collection (MS La. III. 436 pp. 115-16)

WoH 239

Copy headed D^r Dunn's farewell to y^e world.

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

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

c.late 1630s [-1789]

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

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

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 1 through 99 (MS V.a.97 pp. 66-7)

WoH 240

Copy, here ascribed to D^r Don.

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

c.1650s-60s

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

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 100 through 199 (MS V.a.169 Part II, ff. 6r-7r)

WoH 241

Copy, headed Upon Solitud & the vanity of other things, by Sir Kenelm Digby added in another hand.

A quarto verse miscellany, largely in two neat mixed hands, with subsequent additions in other hands, 32 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco.

Probably compiled in Scotland by members of the Rutherford family.

c.1680-1710

Inscribed (f. 1r) M^r Gideon Rutherford and Jean Rutherford, and (ff. 11v-13v) including a poem on John Reutherfoord. Acquired in 1924 from Maggs Bros.

Briefly discussed in Marcia Allentuck, An Unpublished Commonplace Book of Scottish Interest in the Folger Shakespeare Library, SSL, 7, No. 4 (April 1970), 270-1.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 200 through 299 (MS V.a.255 f. 6r-v)

WoH 242

Copy, headed A Hermitt in an Arbor w^th a prayer booke in his hand spurning the Globe.

A large quarto verse miscellany, 76 leaves, in old vellum wrappers within modern quarter red morocco on marbled boards.

Part II comprises 60 leaves, ff. 1-50v in a neat italic hand, ff. 51r-60r in several other cursive hands.

c.1674-84

The vellum wrapper on Part II bears notes on a debt by William Jordan in 1674 relating to Evan Thomas and M^r Richard Wilkin^sn in pepper street. Formerly Folger MS 1669.2.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 200 through 299 (MS V.a.276 Part II, f. 32r-v)

WoH 243

Copy, headed A ffarewell to folly.

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 ff. 41v-2v)

WoH 244

Copy, untitled, inscribed as a heading D^r. Dunn.

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

c.1640

Formerly MS 2073.3.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 300 through end (MS V.a.319 f. 34r-v)

WoH 245

Copy, untitled, inscribed at the top D^r Dunn.

A quarto verse miscellany, with later accounts on the last page dated June 1658, 1* + 238 pages (including stubs of extracted pages 191-6, plus numerous blanks), in old calf (rebacked).

Including 11 poems by Carew and 14 poems by Randolph.

c.1630s-40s

A Jo. Wheeler signed the Christ Church, Oxford, disbursement books for 1641-3 (xii, b.85 and 86).

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Wheeler MS: CwT Δ 25 and RnT Δ 7.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 300 through end (MS V.a.322 pp. 36-7)

WoH 245.5

Copy, headed A farwell to the world.

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. 15 rev.)

WoH 246

Copy, headed D^r Donns good night to y^e World.

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

c.late 1630s

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

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 116 p. 78)

WoH 247

Copy, headed A contempt of y^e world.

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

c.1650

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

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

University of Illinois (Pre-1650 MS 0177 pp. 20-1)

WoH 248

Copy, untitled, subscribed H W.

c.1620[-76]

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

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

National Library of Scotland, MS 6504 (MS 6504 f. 85r)

WoH 249 c.1640

Copy, in a cursive mixed hand, headed S^r Kenellam Digbies farwell to the Worlde.

Compiled by members of the Salusbury family of Llewenni, Denbighshire, including works by Sir Thomas Salusbury, second Baronet (1612-43), poet and politician.

Early-mid 17th century

Later owned by J. Baskerville-Glegg, of Withington Hall, Chelford. Sotheby's, 14-16 March 1921, lot 421.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 5390 D pp. 318-19)

WoH 250

Copy, headed Contempt of y^e World, subscribed By S^r Kenelme Digby.

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

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1 through 239 (MS 239/16 pp. 41-2)

WoH 251

Copy, headed His last goodnight. D^r Don.

A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, in probably two or more secretary hands, 108 pages, in half brown morocco.

Mid-17th century

Later owned by F.W. Cosens (1819-89). Bookplate of James W. Ellsworth.

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1 through 239 (MS 239/18 pp. 50-1)

WoH 252

Copy, headed To the world D^r: Dunne.

An octavo verse miscellany, in several hands, 89 leaves, in old calf gilt.

Partly compiled (pp. 75-99) by one Robert Berkeley, who has inscribed the first page Rob Berkeley his booke An^o. 1640.

c.1640s

Formerly owned by Henry Huth (1815-78). Formerly Rosenbach 195.

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 240 through 999 (MS 240/2 pp. 85, 87)

WoH 253

Copy, headed D^r Dons last verses.

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

c.1636-40s

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

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

St John's College, Cambridge (MS S. 32 (James 423) f. 26r-v)

WoH 254

Copy, headed S^r Kellam Digbie's Farewell to the World.

A duodecimo commonplace book, in several hands, in English and Latin, probably associated with Oxford, written from both ends, 147 leaves, in contemporary calf.

The original blanks later filled with texts with headings including (f. 116v rev.)By my cousen Stansfild oct 2 87 and (f. 102v rev.) By M^r Band of Stroud oct 1687.

c.1636-89

St John's College, Cambridge (MS S. 44 (James 434) ff. 142v-142r rev.)

WoH 255

Copy, headed A hermite in an arboure, w^th a prayer booke in his hand, his foote spurninge A Globe.

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

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

c.1630s

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

St John's College, Cambridge (MS U. 26 (James 548) pp. 84-6)

WoH 255.5 Late 17th century

Copy, in an unidentified hand, of a somewhat garbled version, headed Poem by Sir Kelham Digby, 1686.

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 221)

WoH 256

Copy, headed D^r Duns Goodnight to the world.

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

c.1640

Yale, Osborn MS b 50 through Osborn MS b 99 (Osborn MS b 62 pp. 20-2)

WoH 257

Copy, headed On an Hermite in A grove w^th A prayer booke in his hand.

A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands (one predominating up to p. 167), probably associated with Oxford, 436 pages (pp. 198-9 and 269-70 skipped in the pagination, and including many blanks and an index) and numerous further blank leaves at the end, in modern black morocco gilt.

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

c.1650

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

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

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 200 pp. 110-12)

WoH 257.2

Copy, headed The Pilgrim.

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

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

c.1637

Sotheby's, 21 July 1988, lot 18.

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

Cambridge University Library, Additional MSS 7000 through end (MS Add. 8684 ff. 27v-8r)

WoH 257.4

Copy in Alice Thornton's hand, headed A faire=well to the World.

Presumably edited from this MS in Jackson, p. 178-9.

Autograph MS of the Autobiography of Alice Thornton, including some verses, 303 duodecimo pages, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1668

Inscribed on a flyfeaf Ex Libris Tho. Comber De Creech St. Michael in Comitatu Somerset 1789. 1800. The Contents of this Book are written by the hand of Mrs Alice Thornton, the Great Great Grandmother of me Thomas Comber 1789. Owned in 1875 by a descendant of Alice Thornton, the Rev. Henry George Wandesford Comber, MA, Rector of Oswaldkirk. Sotheby's, 21 July 1980, lot 63, unsold. Sotheby's, 29 June 1982, lot 17, to Quaritch, with a facsimile example in the sale catalogue. Then owned by Paula Peyraud, New York State. Bloomsbury Auctions, New York, 6 May 2009, lot 464.

A microfilm of this MS is also in the British Library, RP 2346.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 88897/1 pp. 282-3)

'Rise oh my soul w^th: thy desires to heauen'

First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 537, subscribed Ignoto, among Poems Found among the Papers of S. H. Wotton.

WoH 257.5

Copy, headed Sursum Corda.

An octavo miscellany of religious poems, hymns and some prose, in English, French and Latin, ii + 129 leaves, in contemporary half-calf.

Early 18th century

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 200 through end (MS Rawl. poet. 200 f. 126r)

WoH 257.6

Copy.

A quarto volume of religious verse and prose, in a single predominantly italic hand, 33 leaves, in modern half black morocco.

The first item (ff. 1r-25v) a sermon (on the authority of kings) with a dedicatory epistle to Charles I signed by the probable compiler of the volume, Thomas Lenthall (b.1610/11), Fellow of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, and dated July 1642.

c.1642

Presented by Edward J.L. Scott, 14 October 1894.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 30000 through 34999 (Add. MS 34692 f. 30r-v)

WoH 257.7

Copy, in a 17th-century hand, subscribed S^r: Henery Wotton, on a single page laid-down.

c.1644 (and later)

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

Yale, Osborn MS b 150 through Osborn MS b 199 (Osborn MS b 150 p. 263)

A short hymn upon the birth of Prince Charles ('You that on stars do look')

First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 519.

WoH 257.8

Copy.

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

c.late 1640s

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

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

Landesbibliothek und Murhardsche Bibliothek der Stadt Kassel (2^o Ms. poet. et roman. 4 pp. 85-92)

Prose

A Brief Discourse concerning the Emperor's Election, the Netherlands, and the Low Countries' Greatness, with some other affairs of State

Unpublished?

WoH 258

Copy in the professional secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe and ascribed to S^r Henrye Wootton.

This MS recorded in Pearsall Smith, II, 414. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 255 (No. 91.1).

A folio composite volume of state tracts, 79 leaves, in vellum covered boards.

In various professional hands, including that of the Feathery Scribe.

Once owned by James Brydges (1674-1744), first Fuke of Chandos, politician and music patron, of Cannons, Middlesex (lot 1426 in the house sale there in 1747). Among collections of Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755), nonjuring bishop and topographer.

Described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 255-6 (No. 91).

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. A. 141 ff. 65r-70r)

Character of Robert, late Earl of Salisbury

See ToC 2-6.

A Concept of some Observations intended upon Things most Remarkable in the Civil History of this Kingdom

First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), pp. 163-74.

WoH 259

Copy of The preface to my sayd discourse which is cited as A taste of some observacons intended upon things most remarkeable in y^e history of this Kingdome, on three quarto leaves (the first misplaced).

This preface first published (from this MS) in John Gutch, Collectanea Curiosa, 2 vols (Oxford, 1781), I, 215-22.

A quarto composite volume of state letters and tracts, in various hands, 180 leaves, in 17th-century calf.

Compiled, and partly written, by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury.

Bodleian Library, Tanner Collection (MS Tanner 461 ff. 51r-2v, 50r)

The Elements of Architecture

First published in London, 1624.

*WoH 259.1

Autograph

An autograph dedicatory epistle to Prince Charles and, on page 88, an autograph Note omitted in the Presse, in a printed exemplum of the 1624 edition.

1624

The epistle edited in Pearsall Smith, II, 284-5. A facsimile in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate LXXXI(b).

The British Library: Rare Books Room (C.45.c.6)

WoH 259.2

Extracts.

A quarto miscellany, in several hands, written from both ends, 77 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

Compiled by members of the Cartwright family, of Aynho, Northamptonshire, including (ff. 4r-7v) verse by William Cartwright (1634-76).

Mid-17th century

Inscribed names including Will: Cartwright, Jo: Cartwright, and Katherin Cartwright. Myers, sale catalogue No. 291 (1933), item 120.

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. e. 6 ff. 42r-40v rev.)

*WoH 259.4

Autograph

Autograph inscription to William Boswell, in a presentation exemplum of the printed edition of 1624.

c.1624

New York Public Library, Berg Collection ([no shelfmark])

*WoH 259.5

Autograph

An autograph inscription to M^r Doctor Goslin, the most worthie Master of Caies Colledge, in a presentation exemplum of the 1624 printed edition. Dedicatory epistle to Hannah (1845), pp. xv-xvi, prints the text of the dedicatory epistle to the Earl of Middlesex written in an exemplum owned by Mr. [William] Pickering.

Recorded in Hannah (1845).

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Goslin volume])

*WoH 259.6

Autograph

An autograph inscription to William Juxon (1582-1663), Archbishop of Canterbury, while he was Lord High Treasurer (from 1636), in a presentation exemplum of the 1624 printed edition.

1636-9

Recorded in Hannah (1845), pp. xv-xvi.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Juxon volume])

WoH 259.7

An autograph dedicatory epistle to the Earl of Middlesex, in a presentation exemplum of the 1624 printed edition.

Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher.

The epistle edited in Hannah (1845), pp. xv-xvi.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Middlesex volume])

*WoH 259.8

Autograph

Inscribed presentation volume.

Exemplum of the printed edition of 1624 inscribed by Wotton to George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury, on the blank page facing the title-page, To the Most Reverend Father in God / the ArchBishop of Caunterburie / his Grace &c / I humbly present this poore / pamphlet with the Authors / long and true deuotion. / Henry Wotton; also with the errata on p. 123 crossed out and the relevant corrections made in ink in the text, including on p. 88 a twelve-line Note omitted in the presse added in the margin in a small neat hand.

c.1624

Lambeth Palace Library (ZZ 1624.5)

Italian Authors selected and censured by Sir Hen. Wotton

First published in Pearsall Smith (1907), II, 484-6.

WoH 260

Copy of Wotton's list and comments, in an unidentified hand, on two folio leaves. Early 17th century.

Edited from this MS in Pearsall Smith.

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers, in various hands, 254 leaves, in contemporary calf.

Compiled in part by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury.

Bodleian Library, Tanner Collection (MS Tanner 88 ff. 142r-3r)

A Meditation upon the XXII^th Chapter of Genesis. By H. W.

First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), pp. 343-50.

WoH 261

Copy in the hand of William Sancroft, ascribed to S^r H. Wotton. Mid-17th century.

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers, in various hands, 254 leaves, in contemporary calf.

Compiled in part by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury.

Bodleian Library, Tanner Collection (MS Tanner 88 ff. 11v-12r)

A Parallel between Robert Earl of Essex and George Duke of Buckingham

First published in London, 1641. Edited by Sir Robert Egerton Brydges (Lee Priory Press, Ickham, 1814).

WoH 262

Copy, in a professional hand, with a title-page, on 41 quarto pages, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1634-41

Purchased from the Rev. John C. Jackson on 11 October 1870.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Add. A. 104)

WoH 262.2 c.1630s

Copy, in a professional predominantly secretary hand, on twenty folio leaves.

A tall folio composite volume of state letters and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 81 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half red morocco.

Presented by the Rt Hon. Godfrey L. T. Locker-Lampson, PC, MP (1875-1946), politician, 13 October 1934.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 40000 through 44999 (Add. MS 43772 ff. 3r-22v)

WoH 262.4 c.1630s

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with (f. 46r) a general title-page, damp-stained and imperfect.

Two unbound manuscripts relating to the first Duke of Buckingham, in professional hands, 61 folio leaves.

Volume CCCCLXXXVII 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. Purchased March 1995.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78654 Item 2, ff. 1r-21r)

WoH 262.5

Copy of the last part, imperfect, lacking all the rest (now National Library of Wales, Carreglwyd MS II. 595).

A folio booklet of discourses, in a single secretary hand, 42 pages, in modern stiff paper wrapper.

Lacking pages after p. 26 and p. 32, some of which are now National Library of Wales, Carreglwyd II. 595.

c.1640

Among papers of the Griffith family of Carreglwyd, Anglesey, including papers of John Griffith of Gray's Inn, private secretary to Henry Howard (1540-1614), Earl of Northampton.

National Library of Wales (Carreglwyd MS I. 9 pp. 33-5)

WoH 262.6

Copy of the first part of the work, including title, twelve folio pages, unbound, imperfect, lacking the last part (which is now National Library of Wales, Carreglwyd MS I. 9, pp. 33-5).

c.1630s

Among papers of the Griffith family of Carreglwyd, Anglesey, including papers of John Griffith of Gray's Inn, private secretary to Henry Howard (1540-1614), Earl of Northampton.

National Library of Wales (Carreglwyd MS II. 595)

WoH 262.7

Copy, in a professional secretary hand.

A folio volume of state tracts and speeches, in several professional hands, 586 leaves, in old calf.

c.late 1620s-30s

Bequeathed by Sir Jerome Alexander (c.1600-70), Justice of the Irish Common Pleas. Former pressmark G. 4. 9.

Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 222-3 (No. 17A).

Trinity College, Dublin, numbers 200 through 799 (MS 731 ff. 337r-60r)

WoH 262.8 c.1630

Copy, in a professional hand, on 21 folio leaves, numbered 5.

A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, in 19th-century calf.

The spine labelled Monson Mss. CCXIII.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS fb 220/2 item 1)

WoH 263

Copy, endorsed for M^r hide.

Miscellany compiled by Edward Hyde, first Earl of Clarendon (1609-74).

c.1634-41

Bodleian Library, Clarendon MSS (MS Clarendon 127 ff. 5r-10r)

WoH 264 c.1630s

Copy, in a professional predominantly secretary hand.

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers, in various hands, ix + 121 leaves, in modern cloth.

Among collections of Roger Dodsworth (1585-1654), antiquary, passed on to Lord Fairfax, who donated them to the Bodleian.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Dodsw. 49 ff. 120r-5r)

WoH 265

Copy, headed The Comparer, or, Observations concerning Robert Earle of Essex, & George Duke of Buckingham by way of parallel. By S^r Henry Wotton.

A quarto volume of letters, tracts and speeches, 208 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf.

All in the hand of William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury.

Mid-late 17th century

Bodleian Library, Tanner Collection (MS Tanner 299 ff. 76r-83v)

WoH 266 c.1620s-30s

Copy, subscribed H. W.

A large folio composite volume of state tracts, in English and Latin, in various professional hands, i + 488 leaves, in modern calf.

Among the collections of Browne Willis (1682-1760), antiquary, of Whaddon Hall, near Winslow, Buckinghamshire.

This volume discussed, with a facsimile of f. 92r (Plate IV after p. 272) in H.R. Woudhuysen, Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts 1558-1640 (Oxford, 1996), pp. 176-8.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Willis 58 ff. 426r-60v)

WoH 267 c.1630s

Copy, in a cursive predominantly secretary hand, unascribed.

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

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

Early 17th century-1630s

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

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 4101 through 4999 (Add. MS 4130 ff. 121r-59v)

WoH 268

Copy.

A square-shaped folio volume of antiquarian and state tracts, with a table of contents (ff. 374r-7v) and occasional engraved borders by John Sudbury and George Humble, 377 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

In a single calligraphic hand, employing various scripts, a scribe identified or associated with one Henry Feilde.

c.1640s

Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 21 August 1858 (Bliss sale), lot 140.

This MS discussed in Van Strien.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999 (Add. MS 22591 ff. 306r-11r)

WoH 268.5

Copy, unascribed.

A copy of two tracts, the second about the Earl of Essex's voyage in 1597, in a single professional secretary hand, 15 folio leaves, bound with two other independant MSS (Harley MSS 4302 and 6029), in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

c.1620s-30s

Bookplate (f. 1*^v) of John Holles (1662-1711), Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne, politician.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 4000 through 4999 (Harley MS 4287 ff. 1r-8r)

WoH 269

Copy.

A folio volume of ten state tracts, in a single professional hand, 437 leaves, in modern quarter-vellum.

c.1620s-30s

In the collection of Francis Hargrave (1740/1-1821), legal writer. Inscribed by him on f. i^v A present to me from my friend Charles Butler Esq^r. Fra: Hargrave 15 Jan. 1792. Inscribed on f. 1r in a different hand, Given me by M^r: S. Baker, Bookseller, Whit-. May 26. 74 in XII. f. 1. my way home from Woodf^d. Church, with another Fol. Ms. Half^d:.

The British Library: other MSS (Hargrave MS 168 ff. 414r-37r)

WoH 270 c.1620s-30s

Copy, in two professional secretary hands.

A folio composite volume of state papers, tracts and verse, 242 leaves (plus some blanks), in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

In professional hands, including those of the Feathery Scribe, Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), merchant and antiquary, and John Stow (1524/5-1605), historian.

Later owned, and annotated, by Sir Simonds D'Ewes.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 238-9 (No. 50).

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 1 through 999 (Harley MS 293 ff. 132r-51v)

WoH 270.5 c.1634-41

Copy, in a professional secretary hand.

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous tracts and verse, in several hands, 97 leaves, in panelled mottled calf.

Folios 62r-78v comprise an independent verse miscellany in the hand of the Feathery Scribe, with his title-page A: Booke;, Off, verses &c.

Later owned by Edward Stillingfleet (1635-99), Bishop of Worcester. Bought by Robert Harley in 1707.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 242 (No. 56).

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 1 through 999 (Harley MS 837 ff. 79r-96r)

WoH 271 c.1620s-30s

Copy, in a professional secretary hand.

A folio composite volume of tracts, in various hands, 158 leaves, in modern green half crushed morocco gilt.

Inscribed on the last page Bought of M^rs G: Pauls landlady.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 4000 through 4999 (Harley MS 4685 ff. 31r-49v)

WoH 272

Copy, in a professional secretary hand. c.1620s-30s.

A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various hands, 122 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

In various professional hands, including that of the Feathery Scribe.

Inscribed by Wanley (f. 1r and elsewhere) with date of accession into the Harley library 16 October 1725. In the Harley Library, formed by the politician and book collector Robert Harley (1661-1724), first Earl of Oxford, and his son Edward (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford; the volume docketed 16 October 1725, a year after the library was moved from Brampton Bryan to London.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 244-5 (No. 59).

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 5000 through 5999 (Harley MS 5111 ff. 94r-116v)

WoH 272.5

Copy, in a single mixed hand, ten quarto leaves, in modern half morocco gilt.

c.1620s-30s

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6377)

WoH 273

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with a title-page in engrossed lettering. c.1620s-30s.

A folio composite volume of state papers, in various professional hands, 380 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6854 ff. 129r-41r)

WoH 274

Copy, as Written by S^r Henry Wotton, k^t.

A folio volume of state tracts and papers, dating up to 1663, in a single semi-calligraphic hand, except for ff. 224r-95r in two other professional hands, 445 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco gilt.

The principal scribe associated with Henry Feilde.

c.1660s

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 213 ff. 203r-13v)

WoH 275

Copy, untitled.

A folio volume of largely parliamentary and state tracts, predominantly in three secretary hands, 137 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

c.1637-43

Owned in 1643 by one Charles Cheyney.

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 489 ff. 111r-18v)

WoH 276

Copy, on twenty small folio leaves.

1634-41

The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 289)

WoH 277

Copy, in a mixed hand, imperfect, consisting of only one quarto leaf and fragments of two excised others. c. 1620s-30s.

A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, 182 leaves, in half-calf on marbled boards.

Collected by the pamphleteer John Nalson (1638?-86).

1634-41

Inscribed inside the front cover in pencil D W^ms Papers w^ch we brought from Barrow.

Cambridge University Library, Additional MSS 5000 through 6999 (MS Add. 5872 ff. 157r-9v)

WoH 277.5 c.1620s-30s

Copy, on 24 folio leaves.

Reduced fasimile of the title-page in Sotheby's Fairfax sale catalogue.

A folio volume of state tracts, in a single professional predominantly secretary hand, with a few later annotations in an 18th-century hand, 213 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

Sotheby's, 16 February 1938 (Clumber Library sale), lot 1341. Sotheby's, 14 December 1994 (Lord Fairfax of Cameron sale), lot 29, unsold; 13 December 1994, lot 539, sold to Quaritch.

Cambridge University Library, Additional MSS 7000 through end (MS Add. 9277 Item 1)

WoH 278 c.1630s

Copy, in a mixed hand.

A composite volume of four tracts, each in a different hand, in quarter-calf.

Cambridge University Library, shelfmarks A through D (MS Dd. 6. 8 ff. 1r-17v)

WoH 279 c.1620s-30s

Copy, in an accomplished rounded hand, subscribed finis Henry Wotton.

A folio composite volume of state tracts and speeches, in various professional hands (including that of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), antiquary), 257 leaves, in old calf (rebacked).

c.1634-41

Cambridge University Library, shelfmarks G through L (MS Ii. 5. 9 ff. 60r-8v)

WoH 280

A small quarto volume of state tracts, in a single secretary hand, i + 17 leaves (plus fourteen blanks), with much seepage of ink, in contemporary limp vellum gilt.

c.1634-41

Bookplate of William Bateman. Item 231 in an unidentified sale catalogue and lot 1770 in a sale of 1893. Inscribed by E.L. Vaughan, assistant master, 1899.

Eton College (MS 194)

WoH 281

Copy, in a closely written secretary hand, subscribed Si^r Henry Wotton, seven quarto leaves (plus blanks), in modern half green morocco.

c.1634-41

MS 22 in the library of the Shirley family, Ettington Park, Stratford-upon-Avon. Sotheby's, 29 April 1947, lot 346. Presented in September 1847 by John Hely-Hutchinson, of Chippenham Lodge, Ely.

Eton College (MS 251)

WoH 282

Copy, in a professional secretary hand.

As written by the honorable Kn^it: S^r: Henry Wotton Prouost of Eaton Colledge, 18 tall folio leaves, in modern boards.

c.1634-41

Phillipps MS 19020. No. 1340 in an unidentified sale.

The Folger Shakespeare Library: V.b. series (MS V.b.82)

WoH 283

Copy, including a prefatory letter by Wotton to the Earl of Portland (late Lord Treasurer) presenting him with a New Year's gift, in a professional predominantly secretary hand, entitled A Parralell betweene the Earle of Essex, and the Duke of Buckingham, 25 folio leaves, in a paper wrapper.

c.1634-41

The Folger Shakespeare Library, Miscellaneous manuscripts (MS X.d.244)

WoH 284 c.1630

Copy, in a neat predominantly italic hand.

A quarto composite volume of state and ecclesiastical tracts, speeches and letters, in several professional hands, 653 pages (including blanks), in contemporary vellum boards.

Inscribed names of John Paman (p. 57), Rob Hare (p. 81), Rob Toynton (p. 294), and Henry Myrielle (p. 656). Donated by William Moore by 1681.

Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (MS 389/609 pp. 423-43)

WoH 285

Copy.

Copy, in a single cursive hand, i + 18 quarto leaves, the last leaf imperfect, in remains of paper wrappers.

c.1634-41

This MS sold at Sotheby's, 5 July 1955 (André De Coppet sale), lot 1019.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 979)

WoH 285.5

Copy, headed Of Robert Devoreux Earle of Essex, And Of George Villiers Duke of Buckingham / Some obseruations by way of Parallell in the tyme of their Estates of ffortune.

A folio volume of state tracts and political proceedings, in several professional hands, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1630s

The cover stamped in gilt with the badge of Henry Percy (1564-1632), ninth Earl of Northumberland, the wizard earl. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 8262. Sotheby's, 25 April 1911 (Phillipps sale), lot 348, and 18 July 1973, lot 180, to Maggs.

This MS cited in Sutton.

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 41952 ff. 127r-48r)

WoH 285.8

Copy, headed Of Robert Deuerux Earle of Essex and George Villers Duke of Buckingham, 63 small quarto pages, in contemporary calf.

c.1634-41

Acquired from King, 2 September 1943. Formerly Uncat. MSS. Wotton.

University of Illinois (Pre-1650 MS 0183)

WoH 286 c.1630s

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with (f. 60r) a later note in the margin See an Answer to this in this Vo: fo: 188. JB / 1721: i.e. by Joshua Blew, librarian, referring to an Answer to Wotton's tract on ff. 188r-208r.

A folio composite volume of state tracts and miscellaneous papers, in various largely professional hands, 480 leaves, in red morocco gilt.

Inner Temple Library (Petyt MS 538, Vol. 43 ff. 60r-81r)

WoH 287 c.1628-30s

Copy, in a mixed hand, closely written, unascribed.

A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several professional secretary hands, with (ff. 4r-6r) a table of contents, 222 leaves, in old half-calf.

Stamped (f. 1r) with name of Sir Richard Betenson, Bt (? the first Baronet, d.1679, of Hatton Garden, Holborn). Thomas Thorpe, Catalogue of books, ancient and modern...[and] manuscripts, Part 2 (1823), item 5903. In the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 2519. Sotheby's, 21 March 1895 (Phillipps sale), lot 301. Among the collections of Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence, MP (1837-1914), Baconian scholar and book collector.

University of London, Senate House Library (MS 309 ff. 179r-83r)

WoH 288 c.1635-40

Copy, in a mixed hand, the tract dated 1634.

A folio composite volume of state tracts, letters and speeches, in various hands, 614 pages (including blanks), in contemporary vellum.

The Queen's College, Oxford (MS 121 pp. 173-82)

WoH 288.5

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, entitled (f. 1r) A parley betweene Robert Deuoreux Earle of Essex & George Villers Duke of Buckingham, headed (f. 2r) Of Robert Devoreux Earle of Essex And Of George Villers Duke of Buckingham, 23 folio leaves, in marbled paper wrappers within modern cloth.

c.1634-41

Society of Antiquaries (MS 247)

WoH 288.8 c.1630s

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed Of Robert Devoreux Earl of Essex And George Villiers Duke of Buckham.

A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several professional hands, iv +130 leaves, in reversed calf.

Presented by Philip Henry, fifth Earl Stanhope, President of the Society of Antiquaries, 22 January 1863.

Society of Antiquaries (MS 258 ff. 111r-30v)

WoH 289 c.1625

Copy, in a professional secretary hand.

A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several professional secretary hand, with a table of contents, i + 221 pages (including some blanks), in old vellum boards.

Early-mid-17th century

Old pressmark E. 1. 36.

Trinity College, Dublin, numbers 200 through 799 (MS 545 pp. 173-87)

WoH 290

Copy, in a non-professional secretary hand.

A folio volume of state tracts, sermons and other texts, in at least four hands, 89 leaves (including some blanks), in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1640

Probably associated with Oxford. Armorial stamp on the cover of a Duke (?of Devonshire). Sotheby's, 5 July 1955 (André De Coppet sale), lot 952.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS fb 41 ff. 84r-9r)

WoH 291

Copy, on 18 folio pages, incomplete, inscribed on the final blank Fragment of a Comparison between the Earle of Essex, and Duke of Buckingham, which I judge to be writ about the reign of king Charles the first.

A folio composite volume of state and historical papers, once in marbled boards, now disbound.

Inscribed on front paste-down S^r George Ness. Once owned by John Perceval (1683-1748), first Earl of Egmont. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 13964. Sotheby's, 15 June 1971, lot 16.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MSS 22 Folder 7)

WoH 292

Copy, headed A discourse of Robert Deuereux Earle of Essex. And George Villers Duke of Buckingham. by way of Paralell: by S^r Ed: Wootten K^t., on ten folio leaves (plus two blanks), unbound.

c.1634-41

Among papers of the Middletons, a Yorkshire recusant family. Formerly MD59/22/E/15.

Yorkshire Archaeological Society, Leeds (MD59/5/6/97)

WoH 293

Copy, in a cursive mixed hand, on the rectos only of 32 leaves.

A quarto miscellany, containing eleven texts in verse and prose, in several hands, including seven poems by Donne in a single hand, 114 pages (plus blanks), in a vellum wrapper.

Early 17th century

Inscribed on the cover Mich: Heneage: A Paris: i.e. probably either the son (fl.1640) or the grandson (1632-c.1707) of Michael Heneage (1540-1600), antiquary. Formerly Somerset Record Office DD/WHb/3086, among the Button-Walker-Heneage MSS.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) as the Heneage MS: DnJ Δ 34.

Private owners in the UK (Heneage MS [item 11])

WoH 294

A quarto volume containing at least two tracts.

Early-mid-17th century?

Formerly among the papers of the Isham family, of Lamport Hall, Northamptonshire. (Not among the Isham papers in the Northamptonshire Record Office.)

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix p. 253.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Isham MS] [unspecified page numbers])

WoH 295

Copy, in a professional hand, on 30 small quarto pages, in vellum gilt.

c.1634-41

Among the papers of Sir Richard Grosvenor, first Baronet (1585-1645).

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 215.

Duke of Westminster, Eaton Estate Office (Personal Papers 2/29)

Philosophical Survey of Education

First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (1651), pp. 309-35.

WoH 295.5

An Abstract of Wotton on Education.

1706

Massachusetts Historical Society ([no shelfmark])

WoH 295.8

Extracts.

An octavo commonplace book, in a single cursive italic hand, 101 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1630s

Owned by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.

Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the Bacon-Tottel Commonplace Books, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).

University College London (MS Ogden 7/28 passim)

The State of Christendom

A lengthy treatise, beginning After that I had lived many years in voluntary exile and banishment.... First published in London, 1657. Wotton's authorship is not certain.

WoH 296

Copy, in probably a single professional small secretary hand, 387 quarto leaves, lacking a title but inscribed in a later hand (f. 1r) The argum^ts & obiections for the laws salick...wherby Englands right to fra is confirmed...42. Eliz.

1st half 17th century

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 3000 through 3999 (Harley MS 3499)

WoH 296.5

Copy, lacking title-page, in two volumes, on 581 folio leaves.

In a single, predominantly secretary professional hand.

1st half 17th century

Once in the library of Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725), Yorkshire antiquary and topographer. Later in the collection of Francis Hargrave (1740/1-1821), legal write and book collector.

The British Library: other MSS (Hargrave MS 173)

WoH 297

Copy, on 554 folio leaves, entitled A large and excellent discourse of the Estate of Christiandome Written by An vnknowne Author about the years of our Lord 1594…, with a table of contents in another hand.

1st half 17th century

The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 274)

WoH 298

Copy, in a single secretary hand, imperfect at the beginning, lacking a title-page and first leaf of text, with a ten-page table of contents, 427 quarto leaves, disbound.

Early 17th century

Clark Library, Los Angeles (W 937M3/5797)

WoH 299

Copy, the text in a single professional cursive secretary hand, with (f. iv^r) a title-page in the hand of another cursive secretary hand, iv + 340 folio leaves, in contemporary limp vellum.

Entitled A large and excellent discourse of the Estate of Christendome Written by an unknowne Author about the yeare of o^r Lord 1594. and 35^th of the Raigne of Queen Elizab. Contayning many secrett Passages and hidden Histories of the time both past and present, With much Varietie of other good matter both historicall and Politicall.

c.1620s-30s

Bookplates of Sheppard Frere, of John Frere, and of J. Eliot Hodgkin, FSA (1829-1912), of Richmond Surrey, engineer and book collector. Loosely inserted autograph note signed by Logan Pearsall Smith (who thought the MS was Wotton's original manuscript), presenting it to Eton College, 24 March 1941.

Eton College (MS 247)

WoH 300

Copy, in a small professional secretary hand, v + 457 + iii quarto leaves, in contemporary vellum.

Including dedication To the Reader, a list of authors, and at the end a table of contents, lacking a title-page but inscribed by the second Earl of Bridgewater S^r: Henry Wotton, of y^e State of Christendome.

1st half 17th century

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks A through E (EL 8378)

WoH 301

Copy, in two professional secretary hands (changing over on p. 180), 292 small folio leaves, in contemporary vellum with remains of ties.

Ascribed to Wotton in a title-page added in a later hand.

c.1620s-30s

Owned in the 18th century by the Marquess of Lothian. Anderson Galleries, 27 January 1932, lot 30. Booklabel of Donald S. Stralem, New York collector.

Facsimile page in Anderson Galleries sale catalogue.

Estate of Robert S Pirie, New York ([Wotton MS])

WoH 301.5 Mid-17th century

A brief synopsis, in a cursive mixed hand, headed The Author of the State of Christendome supposed to be Sir Hen Wotton in the sixteenth and following pages....

A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various professional hands, 248 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 1000 through 1999 (Harley MS 1220 ff. 53r-62v)

WoH 302

A brief synopsis of part of the work, in Drake's hand, headed notes from a Discourse of the State of Christendom in y^e yeare 1589, inscribed in the margin Lent me by M^r Stansby August the 10^th 1633.

An octavo commonplace book, in several hands, 198 leaves, in contemporary calf with traces of ties.

Compiled in part by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire.

c.1630s-48

Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.

University College London (MS Ogden 7/21 ff. 4r-10v)

Table Talk

First published in Pearsall Smith (1907), II, 489-500 (his Nos. 35-145).

WoH 303

Copy of a series of anecdotes and sayings, evidently by Wotton, in the hand of William Parkhurst, with pencil markings in the margin, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Pearsall Smith. His Nos. 1-34, on ff. 255v-6r, are not by Wotton.

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

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

Leicestershire Record Office (DG. 7/Lit. 2 ff. 82r-6r)

WoH 304 c.1610

A series of untitled notes, anecdotes and sayings, similar in nature to WoH 303 (including references to Venice and to Sr H: W.), also in the hand of William Parkhurst.

Unpublished.

A quarto composite volume of chiefly ecclesiastical tracts and papers, in various hands, 218 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

Various contents inscribed by Wanley with dates of accession to the Harley Library from 16 October 1725 (including f. 154r) to 20 October 1725.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 3000 through 3999 (Harley MS 3998 ff. 63r-7v)

Books and Manuscripts Owned or Inscribed by Wotton

Brahe, Tycho. Astronomiae instauratae mechanica (Wandesburg, 1598)

*WoH 305

Autograph

Autograph formal inscription in a hand-coloured printed exemplum once owned by Brahe himself and presented by Wotton to the Bodleian Library.

1633

Originally owned by Tycho Brahe (1546-1601), Danish astronomer, and inscribed by him to Marino Grimani (1532-1605), Doge of Venice.

Wotton's inscription edited in Pearsall Smith, II, 347.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (Arch B. c. 3)

Cartwright, Thomas. Confutation of the Rhemish Translation...of the New Testament (1618)

*WoH 306

Autograph

Signed by Wotton on the title-page.

c.1620

The British Library: Rare Books Room (3205.c.16)

Casaubon, Isaac. Ad Polybii historiarum (Paris, 1617)

*WoH 307

Autograph

Wotton's inscribed and signed exemplum of the printed edition.

Later in the Oxford library of John Sparrow (1906-92), literary scholar and book collector.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Casaubon volume])

De' Fonti della Lingva Toscana Ragionamento d'Orazio Lombardelli senese, Tranqvillo Vmoroso

A treatise by Lombardelli on the Tuscan language, addressed to Wotton and written for him in 1592 when he was in Italy. Later published as I Fonti Toscani (1598).

*WoH 308

Autograph

A MS treatise in Italian, in a professional italic hand, v + 80 quarto leaves, in contemporary calf gilt (rebacked).

An autograph letter signed by Wotton (f. 1v) presenting the MS to Sir Maurice Barkley, MP, 19 April 1597, explaining that the MS had been written for him in Siena and left in the hands of a gentleman of Naples in Geneva from whom he had just received it.

c.1592-4

Bookplate of Dr Thomas Morell, FRS, FSA (d.1784), who presented it 31 May 1781.

Society of Antiquaries (MS 46)

Eutichius. Ecclesiæ suæ origines (London, 1642)

Lotichius, J. P. Musæ Admirantes

WoH 309

A possibly autograph MS, in an angular italic hand, of a series of nine Latin poems by J. P. Lotichius (1598-1669), German physician, i i + 17 folio leaves, in contemporary vellum gilt with traces of green silk ties.

Lotichius's presentation copy to Wotton, all the poems concerning Wotton (with whom he stayed in Venice in 1618), and with a dedication to Illustriss^mum et Excellentiss^mum. virum DN. ON. Henricum Wottonium Anglo-Cantianum.

c.1620s

With a tipped-in letter by Logan Pearsall Smith, from Oxford, 10 March 1914.

One of the poems published in Lotichius's Poemata (Frankfurt, 1620).

Eton College (MS 174)

Portus, Franciscus. Rhetorici Græci (Geneva, 1570)

*WoH 310

Autograph

Wotton's signed and inscribed exemplum of the printed edition.

Later owned by the Rev. John Mitford (1781-1859), literary scholar. Sotheby's, 17 December 1859 (Mitford sale), lot 1611, to MacPherson.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Portus volume])

Wotton, Sir Henry. The Elements of Architecture (London, 1624)

See WoH 259.1-259.8.

Miscellaneous

Document(s)

*WoH 311 1602

Autograph

A full-page autograph inscription in a roman script, addressed to My auncient frend, signed Henry Wotton and dated At Cassels 26.of January. 1602.

The liber amicorum of Captain Francis Segar, brother of Sir William Segar (c.1564-1633), Garter King of Arms, including signed inscriptions in numerous English and continental hands and various arms emblazoned in colours, 121 quarto leaves, in contemporary calf.

c.1599-1611

Later owned by James Bindley, FSA (1737-1818), book collector. His sale, London, 7 December 1818, I, item 362, to Triphook. Thorpe's sale catalogue, 1836, item 14. Sale in London 1865 of the library of Dr Henry Wellesley (1794-1866), Oxford College head and connoisseur, sold to Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector. A.H. Huth sale, London, 1918, VII, item 6680, to Sabin. Then owned by G. Wells and sold at Anderson's Galleries, New York, 17 February 1919, lot 894, to G.D. Smith.

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 743 f. 56r)

Will

WoH 312

Copy of Wotton's last will and testament, dated 1 October 1637.

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers, in various hands, 254 leaves, in contemporary calf.

Compiled in part by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury.

Bodleian Library, Tanner Collection (MS Tanner 88 ff. 10v-11r)

WoH 313

Copy of Wotton's last will and testament, dated 1 October 1637.

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

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

Mid-late 17th century

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

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

Bradford Archives (32D86/34 pp. 178-81)

WoH 314

Copy of Wotton's last will and testament, in in a professional secretary hand, undated.

A folio composite volume of state and legal tracts, papers and speeches, in several hands, with (f. 4r) an Index of contents, 338 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco gilt.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 1000 through 1999 (Harley MS 1576 f. 138v)